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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioasphalt | Bioasphalt is an asphalt alternative made from non-petroleum based renewable resources.
These sources include sugar, molasses and rice, corn and potato starches, natural tree and gum resins, natural latex rubber and vegetable oils, lignin, cellulose, palm oil waste, coconut waste, peanut oil waste, canola oil waste, d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt-and-pepper%20chromatin | In pathology, salt-and-pepper chromatin, also salt-and-pepper nuclei and stippled chromatin, refers to cell nuclei that demonstrate granular chromatin (on light microscopy).
Salt-and-pepper chromatin is typically seen in endocrine tumours such as medullary thyroid carcinoma, neuroendocrine tumours and pheochromocytoma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minus%20Space | Minus Space is an art gallery located in Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY. It specializes in abstract art and reductive art.
History
Minus Space began as an online curatorial and critical project presenting reductive and concept based art. Reductive art includes geometric abstraction, artwork that deals with repetition, monochrome... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VR%20%28nerve%20agent%29 | VR (Russian VX, VXr, Soviet V-gas, GOSNIIOKhT substance No. 33, Agent "November") is a "V-series" unitary
nerve agent closely related (it is an isomer) to the better-known VX nerve agent. It became a prototype for the series of Novichok agents. According to chemical weapons expert Jonathan Tucker, the first binary for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quick%20response%20manufacturing | Quick response manufacturing (QRM) is an approach to manufacturing which emphasizes the beneficial effect of reducing internal and external lead times.
Description
Shorter lead times improve quality, reduce cost and eliminate non-value-added waste within the organization while simultaneously increasing the organizatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False%20sharing | In computer science, false sharing is a performance-degrading usage pattern that can arise in systems with distributed, coherent caches at the size of the smallest resource block managed by the caching mechanism. When a system participant attempts to periodically access data that is not being altered by another party, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rs7997012 | In genetics, rs7997012 is a gene variation—a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)—in intron 2 of the human HTR2A gene that codes for the 5-HT2A receptor.
The SNP varies between adenine (A) and guanine (G) DNA bases with the G-allele being most frequent.
A research study found it to be related to antidepressant treatmen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quique%20Somenzini | Quique Somenzini is a professional radio controlled aircraft pilot and designer, owner of model manufacturer QuiQue's Aircraft Company and the 2007 FAI world champion.
A native of Rio Cuarto, Argentina, Somenzini has the distinction of being the youngest competitor in the history of the FAI championships, flying in co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fax%C3%A9n%27s%20law | In fluid dynamics, Faxén's laws relate a sphere's velocity and angular velocity to the forces, torque, stresslet and flow it experiences under low Reynolds number (creeping flow) conditions.
First law
Faxen's first law was introduced in 1922 by Swedish physicist Hilding Faxén, who at the time was active at Uppsala U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%CE%B4%20space | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Gδ space}}
In mathematics, particularly topology, a Gδ space is a topological space in which closed sets are in a way ‘separated’ from their complements using only countably many open sets. A Gδ space may thus be regarded as a space satisfying a different kind of separation axiom. In fact normal Gδ space... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PeekYou | PeekYou is a people search engine that indexes people and their links on the web. Founded in April 2006 by Michael Hussey, PeekYou claims that they have indexed over 250 million people, mostly in the United States and Canada. The search results consist of publicly available URLs, including Facebook, LinkedIn, Wikipedi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20global%20sustainability%20statistics | Global sustainability statistics are benchmarks for measuring the status of sustainability parameters. The following agencies provide baseline data for sustainability governance. They are just one form of data used for sustainability accounting and are valuable for assessing trends and measuring progress.
This list pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.%20coli%20long-term%20evolution%20experiment | The E. coli long-term evolution experiment (LTEE''') is an ongoing study in experimental evolution begun by Richard Lenski at the University of California, Irvine, carried on by Lenski and colleagues at Michigan State University, and currently overseen by Jeffrey E. Barrick at the University of Texas at Austin. It has ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Internet%20Policy%20and%20Public%20Interest%20Clinic | The Samuelson-Glushko Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC) is a legal clinic at the University of Ottawa focused on maintaining fair and balanced policy making in Canada related to technology. Founded in the fall of 2003 by Michael Geist, its headquarters is at the University of Ottawa Faculty o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20Rights%20Canada | Online Rights Canada was a grassroots campaign to help notify the public on technology and informational policy issues and help the public notify their MPs about controversial proposals. It was launched with the support of the US-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian%20efficiency | Bayesian efficiency is an analog of Pareto efficiency for situations in which there is incomplete information. Under Pareto efficiency, an allocation of a resource is Pareto efficient if there is no other allocation of that resource that makes no one worse off while making some agents strictly better off. A limitation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rs6314 | In genetics, rs6314, also called His452Tyr or H452Y, is a gene variation, a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), in the HTR2A gene that codes for the 5-HT2A receptor.
The SNP is located in exon 3 of the gene and the change between C and T results in a change between histidine (His) and tyrosine (Tyr) at the 452nd amin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel%20R%C3%A1dl | Emanuel Rádl (December 21, 1873 – May 12, 1942) was an original Czech biologist, historian of science, philosopher and a critical supporter of Masaryk´s pre-war democratic Czechoslovakia. He earned international renown by his works on the evolution of neural system and as historian of evolution theories.
Life and thou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindmarsh%E2%80%93Rose%20model | The Hindmarsh–Rose model of neuronal activity is aimed to study the spiking-bursting behavior of the membrane potential observed in experiments made with a single neuron. The relevant variable is the membrane potential, x(t), which is written in dimensionless units. There are two more variables, y(t) and z(t), which ta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLA%20Informatics%20Group | The HLA Informatics Group (HIG) is a research group led by Professor Steven Marsh at the Anthony Nolan Research Institute that develops, runs and maintains the IMGT (immunogenetics)/HLA (Human leukocyte antigen) Database and the IPD (immuno polymorphism database). The IMGT/HLA database originated as part of IMGT and wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autoimmune%20inner%20ear%20disease | Autoimmune inner ear disease (AIED) was first defined by Dr. Brian McCabe in a landmark paper describing an autoimmune loss of hearing. The disease results in progressive sensorineural hearing loss (SNHL) that acts bilaterally and asymmetrically, and sometimes affects an individual's vestibular system. AIED is used to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play%20%28activity%29 | Play is a range of intrinsically motivated activities done for recreational pleasure and enjoyment. Play is commonly associated with children and juvenile-level activities, but may be engaged in at any life stage, and among other higher-functioning animals as well, most notably mammals and birds.
Many prominent resear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INFORMS%20Journal%20on%20Applied%20Analytics | INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal about operations research that was established in 1970 under the title Interfaces by The Institute of Management Sciences, now part of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. The journal's has a case-study styl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%E2%80%93Wigner%20transformation | The Jordan–Wigner transformation is a transformation that maps spin operators onto fermionic creation and annihilation operators. It was proposed by Pascual Jordan and Eugene Wigner for one-dimensional lattice models, but now two-dimensional analogues of the transformation have also been created. The Jordan–Wigner tran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwater%20remediation | Groundwater remediation is the process that is used to treat polluted groundwater by removing the pollutants or converting them into harmless products. Groundwater is water present below the ground surface that saturates the pore space in the subsurface. Globally, between 25 per cent and 40 per cent of the world's drin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Society%20for%20Bone%20and%20Mineral%20Research | The American Society for Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR) is a professional, scientific and medical society established in 1977 to promote excellence in bone and mineral research and to facilitate the translation of that research into clinical practice. The ASBMR has a membership of nearly 4,000 physicians, basic rese... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov%20structure%20function | In 1973, Andrey Kolmogorov proposed a non-probabilistic approach to statistics and model selection. Let each datum be a finite binary string and a model be a finite set of binary strings. Consider model classes consisting of models of given maximal Kolmogorov complexity.
The Kolmogorov structure function of an individu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecanthus | Telecanthus, or dystopia canthorum, refers to increased distance between the inner corners of the eyelids (medial canthi), while the inter-pupillary distance is normal. This is in contrast to hypertelorism, in which the distance between the whole eyes is increased. Telecanthus and hypertelorism are each associated with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochrophyte | The ochrophytes are is a group of mostly photosynthetic stramenopiles (heterokonts), placed either in phylum Ochrophyta or subphylum Ochrophytina. Their plastid is of red algal origin.
The classification of the group is still being worked out. Originally, the ochrophytes were regarded as a phylum denominated Ochrophyt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Union%20of%20Immunological%20Societies | The International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS), a member of the International Council for Science, is an organization which serves as an umbrella organization for many national and regionally grouped immunological societies. The organization was founded in 1969. The ten founding member societies were the A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric%20convolution | In mathematics, symmetric convolution is a special subset of convolution operations in which the convolution kernel is symmetric across its zero point. Many common convolution-based processes such as Gaussian blur and taking the derivative of a signal in frequency-space are symmetric and this property can be exploited ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ModelSim | ModelSim is a multi-language environment by Siemens (previously developed by Mentor Graphics,) for simulation of hardware description languages such as VHDL, Verilog and SystemC, and includes a built-in C debugger. ModelSim can be used independently, or in conjunction with Intel Quartus Prime, PSIM, Xilinx ISE or Xilin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten%20immunochemistry | The immunochemistry of Triticeae glutens is important in several inflammatory diseases. It can be subdivided into innate responses (direct stimulation of immune system), class II mediated presentation (HLA DQ), class I mediated stimulation of killer cells, and antibody recognition. The responses to gluten proteins and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atiyah%E2%80%93Segal%20completion%20theorem | The Atiyah–Segal completion theorem is a theorem in mathematics about equivariant K-theory in homotopy theory. Let G be a compact Lie group and let X be a G-CW-complex. The theorem then states that the projection map
induces an isomorphism of prorings
Here, the induced map has as domain the completion of the G-equiva... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runahead | Runahead is a technique that allows a computer processor to speculatively pre-process instructions during cache miss cycles. The pre-processed instructions are used to generate instruction and data stream prefetches by executing instructions leading to cache misses (typically called long latency loads) before they woul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal%20grammar | A formal grammar describes how to form strings from an alphabet of a formal language that are valid according to the language's syntax. A grammar does not describe the meaning of the strings or what can be done with them in whatever context—only their form. A formal grammar is defined as a set of production rules for s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunt%20generator | A shunt generator is a type of electric generator in which field winding and armature winding are connected in parallel, and in which the armature supplies both the load current and the field current for the excitation (generator is therefore self excited).
Generator field connections
A shunt field (and any series res... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s%20second%20theorem | In mathematics and theoretical physics, Noether's second theorem relates symmetries of an action functional with a system of differential equations. The action S of a physical system is an integral of a so-called Lagrangian function L, from which the system's behavior can be determined by the principle of least action... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clandestine%20abuse | Clandestine abuse is sexual, psychological, or physical abuse "that is kept secret for a purpose, concealed, or underhanded."
Child sexual abuse is often kept secret:
Prevention
While it is not always possible to stop every case of clandestine abuse, it may be possible to prevent many incidents through policies in y... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis%20effect%20%28perception%29 | In psychophysical perception, the Coriolis effect (also referred to as the Coriolis illusion) is the misperception of body orientation and induced nausea due to the Coriolis force. This effect comes about as the head is moved in contrary or similar motion with the body during the time of a spin, this rotation of the he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coyote%20Point%20Systems | Coyote Point Systems was a manufacturer of computer networking equipment for application traffic management, also known as server load balancing. In March 2013, the company was acquired by Fortinet.
The company introduced hardware-based server load balancers nearly simultaneously with other large companies such as F5... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicMaster%20%28software%29 | MusicMaster is a music scheduling software produced by A-Ware Software (aka MusicMaster, Inc. of Dallas, Texas USA) and used by radio, Internet and television stations. Their main office is located in Dallas, Texas.
History
MusicMaster was created in 1983 by Joseph Knapp, an engineer, radio programmer and on-air perso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20message%20journaling | Electronic message journaling is the process of retaining information relating to electronic messages. In this context, electronic messages are defined as any type of electronic communication data structure. Historically this was an electronic mail, but it may also include instant messages, audio messages (such as th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolidation%20ratio | Consolidation ratio within network infrastructure for Internet hosting, is the number of virtual servers that can run on each physical host machine. Many companies arrive at that figure through trial and error by stacking virtual machines on top of each other until performance slows to a crawl. “It’s sort of capacity p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-contact%20wafer%20testing | Non contact wafer testing is a normal step in semiconductor device fabrication, used to detect defects in integrated circuits (IC) before they are assembled during the IC packaging step.
Traditional (contact) wafer testing
Probing ICs while they are still on the wafer normally requires that contact be made between the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detlef%20Gromoll | Detlef Gromoll (13 May 1938 – 31 May 2008) was a mathematician who worked in Differential geometry.
Biography
Gromoll was born in Berlin in 1938, and was a classically trained violinist.
After living and attending school in Rosdorf and graduating from high school in Bonn, he obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics at the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative%20Stencil%20Loops | Iterative Stencil Loops (ISLs) are a class of numerical data processing solution
which update array elements according to some fixed pattern, called a stencil.
They are most commonly found in computer simulations, e.g. for computational fluid dynamics in the context of scientific and engineering applications.
Other ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russula%20claroflava | Russula claroflava, commonly known as the yellow russula, yellow swamp russula or yellow swamp brittlegill, is a basidiomycete mushroom of the genus Russula. It is found in wet places under birch and aspen woodlands across Europe and North America. It has a yellow cap, white gills and stipe and bruises grey. It is mild... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOPO%20cloning | Topoisomerase-based cloning (TOPO cloning) is a molecular biology technique in which DNA fragments are cloned into specific vectors without the requirement for DNA ligases. Taq polymerase has a nontemplate-dependent terminal transferase activity that adds a single deoxyadenosine (A) to the 3'-end of the PCR products. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-inhomogeneous%20hidden%20Bernoulli%20model | Time-inhomogeneous hidden Bernoulli model (TI-HBM) is an alternative to hidden Markov model (HMM) for automatic speech recognition. Contrary to HMM, the state transition process in TI-HBM is not a Markov-dependent process, rather it is a generalized Bernoulli (an independent) process. This difference leads to eliminati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20zeta%20function | In mathematics, the multiple zeta functions are generalizations of the Riemann zeta function, defined by
and converge when Re(s1) + ... + Re(si) > i for all i. Like the Riemann zeta function, the multiple zeta functions can be analytically continued to be meromorphic functions (see, for example, Zhao (1999)). When s1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fano%20noise | Fano noise is a fluctuation of an electric charge obtained in a detector (in spite of constant value of the measured quantity, which is usually an energy), arising from processes in the detector.
It was first described by Ugo Fano in 1947, as a fluctuation of amount of ion pairs produced by a charged particle of high ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish%20Centre%20for%20High-End%20Computing | The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) is the national high-performance computing centre in Ireland. It was established in 2005 and provides supercomputing resources, support, training and related services. ICHEC is involved in education and training, including providing courses for researchers.
Kay supercomp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Applied%20Genomics | The Centre for Applied Genomics is a genome centre in the Research Institute of The Hospital for Sick Children, and is affiliated with the University of Toronto. TCAG also operates as a Science and Technology Innovation Centre of Genome Canada, with an emphasis on next-generation sequencing (NGS) and bioinformatics sup... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Article%208%20of%20the%20European%20Convention%20on%20Human%20Rights | Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides a right to respect for one's "private and family life, his home and his correspondence", subject to certain restrictions that are "in accordance with law" and "necessary in a democratic society". The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) (formally the C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%28E%2CE%29-2%2C4-Decadienal | (E,E)-2,4-Decadienal is an aromatic substance found in butter, cooked beef, fish, potato chips, roasted peanut, buckwheat and wheat bread crumb.
In an isolated state, it smells of deep fat flavor, characteristic of chicken aroma (at 10ppm). At lower concentration, it has the odor of citrus, orange or grapefruit.
It m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20without%20words | In mathematics, a proof without words (or visual proof) is an illustration of an identity or mathematical statement which can be demonstrated as self-evident by a diagram without any accompanying explanatory text. Such proofs can be considered more elegant than formal or mathematically rigorous proofs due to their self... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikulov%20Castle | Mikulov Castle (German: Nikolsburg) is a castle in the town of Mikulov in South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. The castle stands on a place of historic Slavonic settlement, where since the end of the 13th century the original stone castle was erected. Henry I, lord of Liechtenstein and Petronell (d. 1265) was g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypograph%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, the hypograph or subgraph of a function is the set of points lying on or below its graph.
A related definition is that of such a function's epigraph, which is the set of points on or above the function's graph.
The domain (rather than the codomain) of the function is not particularly important for t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20aggregation | In molecular biology, protein aggregation is a phenomenon in which intrinsically-disordered or mis-folded proteins aggregate (i.e., accumulate and clump together) either intra- or extracellularly. Protein aggregates have been implicated in a wide variety of diseases known as amyloidoses, including ALS, Alzheimer's, Pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birch%27s%20law | Birch's law, discovered by the geophysicist Francis Birch, establishes a linear relation between compressional wave velocity and density of rocks and minerals:
where is the mean atomic mass in formula units and is an empirical function determined by experiment.
Example
The mean atomic mass of forsterite (Mg2SiO4)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasanti%20N.%20Bhat-Nayak | Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak was a mathematician whose research concerned balanced incomplete block designs, bivariegated graphs, graceful graphs, graph equations and frequency partitions.
She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Mumbai in 1970 with the dissertation Some New Results in PBIBD Designs and Combinatorics. S. S. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navin%20M.%20Singhi | Navin Madhavprasad Singhi (born 1949) is an Indian mathematician and a Professor Emeritus at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, specializing in combinatorics and graph theory. He is the recipient of the prestigious Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize for Science and Technology. Singhi is known for his research i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmet-mounted%20display | A helmet-mounted display (HMD) is a headworn device that uses displays and optics to project imagery and/or symbology to the eyes. It provides visual information to the user where head protection is required—-most notably in military aircraft. The display-optics assembly can be attached to a helmet or integrated into ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleic%20acid%20notation | The nucleic acid notation currently in use was first formalized by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) in 1970. This universally accepted notation uses the Roman characters G, C, A, and T, to represent the four nucleotides commonly found in deoxyribonucleic acids (DNA).
Given the rapidly expa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cushion%20plant | A cushion plant is a compact, low-growing, mat-forming plant that is found in alpine, subalpine, arctic, or subarctic environments around the world. The term "cushion" is usually applied to woody plants that grow as spreading mats, are limited in height above the ground (a few inches at most), have relatively large and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20condoms | The history of condoms goes back at least several centuries, and perhaps beyond. For most of their history, condoms have been used both as a method of birth control, and as a protective measure against venereal (sexually transmitted) diseases such as syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia, hepatitis B and more recently HIV/AI... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20isomorphism%20problem | In abstract algebra, the group isomorphism problem is the decision problem of determining whether two given finite group presentations refer to isomorphic groups.
The isomorphism problem was formulated by Max Dehn, and together with the word problem and conjugacy problem, is one of three fundamental decision problems ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminus%20%281986%20video%20game%29 | Terminus, also known as Terminus: The Prison Planet or Terminus: Prison Planet, is a platform game by Mastertronic released in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum, MSX, and Amstrad CPC. The game is set inside a futuristic prison consisting of 512 screens. The purpose is to release Brain, the leader of a teenage gang called The Wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adiabatic%20circuit | Adiabatic circuits are low-power electronic circuits which use "reversible logic" to conserve energy. The term "adiabatic" refers to an ideal thermodynamic process in which no heat or mass is exchanged with the surrounding environment, alluding to the ability of the circuits to reduce energy loss as heat.
Unlike tradi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20Timesharing%20System | The Berkeley Timesharing System was a pioneering time-sharing operating system implemented between 1964 and 1967 at the University of California, Berkeley. It was designed as part of Project Genie and marketed by Scientific Data Systems for the SDS 940 computer system.
It was the first commercial time-sharing which all... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M4V | The M4V file format is a video container format developed by Apple and is very similar to the MP4 format. The primary difference is that M4V files may optionally be protected by DRM copy protection.
Apple uses M4V to encode video files in its iTunes Store. Unauthorized reproduction of M4V files may be prevented using ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified%20Security%20Assessor | Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) is a designation conferred by the PCI Security Standards Council to those individuals that meet specific information security education requirements, have taken the appropriate training from the PCI Security Standards Council, are employees of a Qualified Security Assessor (QSA) compan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox%20seed | Orthodox seeds are seeds which will survive drying and/or freezing during ex-situ conservation, as opposed to recalcitrant seeds, which will not. According to information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, there is variation in the ability of orthodox seeds to withstand drying and storage, with some seeds being m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preserving%20sugar | Preserving sugar is a kind of sugar used for making marmalades, jams and preserves using fruits that are naturally high in pectin (such as plums, redcurrants, blackcurrants, gooseberries, greengages, damsons and Seville oranges). The large sugar crystals dissolve more slowly than those of standard granulated sugar and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gelling%20sugar | Gelling sugar or (British) Jam sugar or (US) Jelly sugar or sugar with pectin is a kind of sugar that is used to produce preserves, and which contains pectin as a gelling agent. It also usually contains citric acid as a preservative, sometimes along with other substances, such as sorbic acid or sodium benzoate
Gelling... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogenic%20field | In mathematics, a monogenic field is an algebraic number field K for which there exists an element a such that the ring of integers OK is the subring Z[a] of K generated by a. Then OK is a quotient of the polynomial ring Z[X] and the powers of a constitute a power integral basis.
In a monogenic field K, the field disc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Principles%20of%20Mathematics | The Principles of Mathematics (PoM) is a 1903 book by Bertrand Russell, in which the author presented his famous paradox and argued his thesis that mathematics and logic are identical.
The book presents a view of the foundations of mathematics and Meinongianism and has become a classic reference. It reported on deve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyaloserositis | In pathology, hyaloserositis is the coating of an organ with a fibrous hyaline, resulting from inflammation of the serous membrane (serositis) covering the organ.
The spleen is commonly affected and often referred to as sugar-coated spleen. The liver and heart are also sometimes affected and referred to as frosted li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheild%20Professor%20of%20Pharmacology | The Sheild Professorship of Pharmacology is the senior professorship in pharmacology at the University of Cambridge. It is named in honour of Marmaduke Sheild.
The position was originally established on 7 June 1946 as a personal chair for the tenure of Ernest Basil Verney. On 11 March 1961 the professorship was re-est... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijen%20K.%20Ray-Chaudhuri | Dwijendra Kumar Ray-Chaudhuri (born November 1, 1933) is a professor emeritus at Ohio State University. He and his student R. M. Wilson together solved Kirkman's schoolgirl problem in 1968 which contributed to developments in design theory.
He received his M.Sc. (1956) in mathematics from the famous Rajabazar Science... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.%20B.%20Rao | Siddani Bhaskara Rao is a graph theorist, Professor Emeritus, and director of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) in Calcutta. Rao is the first director of the CR Rao Advanced Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science. S. B. Rao is known for his work on line graphs, frequency partitions and degree s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microcytosis | Microcytosis or microcythemia is a condition in which red blood cells are unusually small as measured by their mean corpuscular volume.
When associated with anemia, it is known as microcytic anemia.
Causes
Microcytic anemia is not caused by reduced DNA synthesis.
Thalassemia can cause microcytosis. Depending upon ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physlet | Physlets are physics applets that are free for non-commercial use and were created by the same team as the Open Source Physics Project. Since their creation at Davidson College in 1998, over 2,000 individual exercises have been created using Physlets for the teaching and learning of astronomy and physics on a variety o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramoplanin | Ramoplanin (INN) is a glycolipodepsipeptide antibiotic drug derived from strain ATCC 33076 of Actinoplanes. It is effective against Gram-positive bacteria.
Mechanism
It exerts its bacteriocidal effect by inhibiting cell wall biosynthesis, acting by inhibiting the transglycosylation step of peptidoglycan synthesis. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choice%20sequence | In intuitionistic mathematics, a choice sequence is a constructive formulation of a sequence. Since the Intuitionistic school of mathematics, as formulated by L. E. J. Brouwer, rejects the idea of a completed infinity, in order to use a sequence (which is, in classical mathematics, an infinite object), we must have a f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogenic%20semigroup | In mathematics, a monogenic semigroup is a semigroup generated by a single element. Monogenic semigroups are also called cyclic semigroups.
Structure
The monogenic semigroup generated by the singleton set {a} is denoted by . The set of elements of is {a, a2, a3, ...}. There are two possibilities for the monogenic se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylated%20distarch%20adipate | Acetylated distarch adipate (E1422) is a food additive of the thickening agent type, and more specifically a bulking agent. It is also used as a stabilizer. This is an additive belonging to the family of modified starches.
This is a starch that is treated with acetic anhydride and adipic acid anhydride to resist high ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynis | Lynis is an extensible security audit tool for computer systems running Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, OpenBSD, Solaris, and other Unix derivatives. It assists system administrators and security professionals with scanning a system and its security defenses, with the final goal being system hardening.
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The tool was cr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etofamide | Etofamide (INN, also known as eticlordifene) is an antiprotozoal drug used in the treatment of amoebiasis.
Its effect against Giardia lamblia has been described as modest. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating%20Systems%3A%20Design%20and%20Implementation | Operating Systems: Design and Implementation is a computer science textbook written by Andrew S. Tanenbaum, with help from Albert S. Woodhull. The book describes the principles of operating systems and demonstrates their application in the source code of Tanenbaum's MINIX, a free Unix-like operating system designed for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern%20Operating%20Systems | Modern Operating Systems is a book written by Andrew Tanenbaum, a version (which does not target implementation) of his book Operating Systems: Design and Implementation. It is now in its 5th edition, published October 2022 (), written together with Herbert Bos.
Modern Operating Systems (mostly known as MOS) is a popu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Units%20of%20information | In digital computing and telecommunications, a unit of information is the capacity of some standard data storage system or communication channel, used to measure the capacities of other systems and channels. In information theory, units of information are also used to measure information contained in messages and the e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SafeNet | SafeNet, Inc. was an information security company based in Belcamp, Maryland, United States, which was acquired in August 2014 by the French security company Gemalto. Gemalto was, in turn, acquired by Thales Group in 2019. The former SafeNet's products include solutions for enterprise authentication, data encryption,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20Expression%20Omnibus | Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) is a database for gene expression profiling and RNA methylation profiling managed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). These high-throughput screening genomics data are derived from microarray or RNA-Seq experimental data. These data need to conform to the minimum i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20W.%20Spong | Mark W. Spong (born November 5, 1952 in Warren, Ohio) is an American roboticist. He is a professor of systems engineering and electrical and computer engineering in the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). He served as dean of the Jonsson School and the Lars... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miroslav%20Krsti%C4%87 | Miroslav Krstić (Serbian Cyrillic: Мирослав Крстић) is an American control theorist and Distinguished Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Krstić is also the director of the Center for Control Systems and Dynamics at UCSD and a Senior Associate Vice Chance... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational%20health%20psychology | Occupational health psychology (OHP) is an interdisciplinary area of psychology that is concerned with the health and safety of workers. OHP addresses a number of major topic areas including the impact of occupational stressors on physical and mental health, the impact of involuntary unemployment on physical and mental... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSC%20buffer | In biochemistry and molecular biology, saline-sodium citrate (SSC) buffer is used as a hybridization buffer, to control stringency for washing steps in protocols for Southern blotting, in situ hybridization, DNA Microarray or Northern blotting. 20X SSC may be used to prevent drying of agarose gels during a vacuum trans... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultramicrobacteria | Ultramicrobacteria are bacteria that are smaller than 0.1 μm3 under all growth conditions. This term was coined in 1981, describing cocci in seawater that were less than 0.3 μm in diameter. Ultramicrobacteria have also been recovered from soil and appear to be a mixture of Gram-positive, Gram-negative and cell-wall-lac... |
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