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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial%20metabolism | Microbial metabolism is the means by which a microbe obtains the energy and nutrients (e.g. carbon) it needs to live and reproduce. Microbes use many different types of metabolic strategies and species can often be differentiated from each other based on metabolic characteristics. The specific metabolic properties of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20nasal%20cartilage | The lateral cartilage (upper lateral cartilage, lateral process of septal nasal cartilage) is situated below the inferior margin of the nasal bone, and is flattened, and triangular in shape.
Its anterior margin is thicker than the posterior, and is continuous above with the septal nasal cartilage, but separated from i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Board%20of%20Film%20Certification | The Central Board of Film Certification (CBFC) is a statutory film-certification body in the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting of the Government of India. It is tasked with "regulating the public exhibition of films under the provisions of the Cinematograph Act 1952." The Cinematograph Act 1952 outlines a strict... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KronoScope | KronoScope. Journal for the Study of Time is a peer-reviewed academic journal dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of time, both in the humanities and in the sciences. It is published biannually under the imprint of Brill Publishers on behalf of the International Society for the Study of Time. It is indexed in Soci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hailey%E2%80%93Hailey%20disease | Hailey–Hailey disease (HHD), or familial benign chronic pemphigus or familial benign pemphigus, was originally described by the Hailey brothers (Hugh Edward and William Howard) in 1939. It is a genetic disorder that causes blisters to form on the skin.
Signs and symptoms
HHD is characterized by outbreaks of rashes an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual%20mimicry | Sexual mimicry occurs when one sex mimics the opposite sex in its behavior, appearance, or chemical signalling.
It is more commonly seen within invertebrate species, although sexual mimicry is also seen among vertebrates such as spotted hyenas.
Sexual mimicry is commonly used as a mating strategy to gain access to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairy%20riding | Fairy riding (Scottish Gaelic: marcachd shìth/a' mharcachd-shìth/na marcachd-shìth) was a term used for a kind of paralysis found in livestock in Scotland. It occurred in the spine of sheep, cows and horses, and was attributed to fairies riding on them.
It was also attributed in some places where perspiration, due to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minifloat | In computing, minifloats are floating-point values represented with very few bits. Predictably, they are not well suited for general-purpose numerical calculations. They are used for special purposes, most often in computer graphics, where iterations are small and precision has aesthetic effects. Machine learning also ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg%20Nees | Georg Nees (23 June 1926 – 3 January 2016) was a German academic who was a pioneer of computer art and generative graphics. He studied mathematics, physics and philosophy in Erlangen and Stuttgart and was scientific advisor at the SEMIOSIS, International Journal of semiotics and aesthetics. In 1977, he was appointed Ho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervertebral%20foramen | The intervertebral foramen (also neural foramen) (often abbreviated as IV foramen or IVF) is an opening between (the intervertebral notches of) two pedicles (one above and one below) of adjacent vertebra in the articulated spine. Each intervertebral foramen gives passage to a spinal nerve and spinal blood vessels, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister%20chromatid%20exchange | Sister chromatid exchange (SCE) is the exchange of genetic material between two identical sister chromatids.
It was first discovered by using the Giemsa staining method on one chromatid belonging to the sister chromatid complex before anaphase in mitosis. The staining revealed that few segments were passed to the sist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal%20mandibular%20branch%20of%20the%20facial%20nerve | The marginal mandibular branch of the facial nerve arises from the facial nerve (CN VII) in the parotid gland at the parotid plexus. It passes anterior-ward deep to the platysma and depressor anguli oris muscles. It provides motor innervation to muscles of the lower lip and chin: the depressor labii inferioris muscle, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buccal%20branches%20of%20the%20facial%20nerve | The buccal branches of the facial nerve (infraorbital branches), are of larger size than the rest of the branches, pass horizontally forward to be distributed below the orbit and around the mouth.
Branches
The superficial branches run beneath the skin and above the superficial muscles of the face, which they supply: ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20auricular%20nerve | The posterior auricular nerve is a nerve of the head. It is a branch of the facial nerve (CN VII). It communicates with branches from the vagus nerve, the great auricular nerve, and the lesser occipital nerve. Its auricular branch supplies the posterior auricular muscle, the intrinsic muscles of the auricle, and gives ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinocyst | Dinocysts or dinoflagellate cysts are typically 15 to 100 µm in diameter and produced by around 15–20% of living dinoflagellates as a dormant, zygotic stage of their lifecycle, which can accumulate in the sediments as microfossils. Organic-walled dinocysts are often resistant and made out of dinosporin. There are also ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FSU%20Young%20Scholars%20Program | FSU Young Scholars Program (YSP) is a six-week residential science and mathematics summer program for 40 high school students from Florida, USA, with significant potential for careers in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The program was developed in 1983 and is currently administered by t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gradient%20theorem | The gradient theorem, also known as the fundamental theorem of calculus for line integrals, says that a line integral through a gradient field can be evaluated by evaluating the original scalar field at the endpoints of the curve. The theorem is a generalization of the second fundamental theorem of calculus to any curv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial%20supracondylar%20ridge | The inferior third of the medial border of the humerus is raised into a slight ridge, the medial supracondylar ridge (or medial supracondylar line), which becomes very prominent below; it presents an anterior lip for the origins of the Brachialis and Pronator teres, a posterior lip for the medial head of the Triceps b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial%20epicondyle%20of%20the%20humerus | The medial epicondyle of the humerus is an epicondyle of the humerus bone of the upper arm in humans. It is larger and more prominent than the lateral epicondyle and is directed slightly more posteriorly in the anatomical position. In birds, where the arm is somewhat rotated compared to other tetrapods, it is called t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult%20wine | Cult wines are wines for which dedicated groups of committed enthusiasts will pay large sums of money.
Cult wines are often seen as trophy wines to be collected or as investment wine to be held rather than consumed. Because price is often seen as an indicator of quality, sellers may adopt a premium pricing strategy wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial%20epicondyle%20of%20the%20femur | The medial epicondyle of the femur is an epicondyle, a bony protrusion, located on the medial side of the femur at its distal end.
Located above the medial condyle, it bears an elevation, the adductor tubercle, which serves for the attachment of the superficial part, or "tendinous insertion", of the adductor magnus. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20epicondyle%20of%20the%20femur | The lateral epicondyle of the femur, smaller and less prominent than the medial epicondyle, gives attachment to the fibular collateral ligament of the knee-joint. Directly below it is a small depression from which a smooth well-marked groove curves obliquely upward and backward to the posterior extremity of the condyle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respirometry | Respirometry is a general term that encompasses a number of techniques for obtaining estimates of the rates of metabolism of vertebrates, invertebrates, plants, tissues, cells, or microorganisms via an indirect measure of heat production (calorimetry).
Whole-animal metabolic rates
The metabolism of an animal is estim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geobotanical%20prospecting | Geobotanical prospecting refers to prospecting based on indicator plants like metallophytes and the analysis of vegetation. For example, the Viscaria Mine in Sweden was named after the plant Silene suecica (syn. Viscaria alpina) that was used by prospectors to discover the ore deposits.
A "most faithful" indicator pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser%20tubercle | The lesser tubercle of the humerus, although smaller, is more prominent than the greater tubercle: it is situated in front, and is directed medially and anteriorly.
The projection of the lesser tubercle is anterior from the junction that is found between the anatomical neck and the shaft of the humerus and easily iden... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater%20tubercle | The greater tubercle of the humerus is the outward part the upper end of that bone, adjacent to the large rounded prominence of the humerus head. It provides attachment points for the supraspinatus, infraspinatus, and teres minor muscles, three of the four muscles of the rotator cuff, a muscle group that stabilizes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antebrachial%20fascia | The antebrachial fascia (antibrachial fascia or deep fascia of forearm) continuous above with the brachial fascia, is a dense, membranous investment, which forms a general sheath for the muscles in this region; it is attached, behind, to the olecranon and dorsal border of the ulna, and gives off from its deep surface n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail%20Suslin | Mikhail Yakovlevich Suslin (; , November 15, 1894 – 21 October 1919, Krasavka) (sometimes transliterated Souslin) was a Russian mathematician who made major contributions to the fields of general topology and descriptive set theory.
Biography
Mikhail Suslin was born on November 15, 1894, in the village of Krasavka, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OPIE%20Authentication%20System | OPIE is the initialism of "One time Passwords In Everything".
Opie is a mature, Unix-like login and password package
installed on the server and the client which makes untrusted networks safer against password-sniffing packet-analysis software like dSniff and safe against shoulder surfing.
It works by circumventing t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20cypher | In modern heraldry, a royal cypher is a monogram or monogram-like device of a country's reigning sovereign, typically consisting of the initials of the monarch's name and title, sometimes interwoven and often surmounted by a crown. Such a cypher as used by an emperor or empress is called an imperial cypher. In the syst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jada%20Toys | Jada Toys, Inc. is an American manufacturer of collectible scale model cars, figures, radio controlled model vehicles, and dolls. It was founded in 1999 by Jack and May Li. Jada's products are predominantly aimed at the collectible market, and are available and popular at retail outlets worldwide.
The company has or h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20engineering | Crystal engineering studies the design and synthesis of solid-state structures with desired properties through deliberate control of intermolecular interactions. It is an interdisciplinary academic field, bridging solid-state and supramolecular chemistry.
The main engineering strategies currently in use are hydroge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fujitsu%20Eagle | The M2351 "Eagle" was a hard disk drive manufactured by Fujitsu with an SMD interface that was used on many servers in the mid-1980s. It offered an unformatted capacity of 470 MB in (6U) of 19-inch rack space, at a retail price of about US$10,000.
The data density, access speed, reliability, use of a standard interf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereoscopic%20spectroscopy | Stereoscopic spectroscopy is a type of imaging spectroscopy that can extract a few spectral parameters over a complete image plane simultaneously. A stereoscopic spectrograph is similar to a normal spectrograph except that (A) it has no slit, and (B) multiple spectral orders (often including the non-dispersed zero ord... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20Simpson%27s%20method | Adaptive Simpson's method, also called adaptive Simpson's rule, is a method of numerical integration proposed by G.F. Kuncir in 1962. It is probably the first recursive adaptive algorithm for numerical integration to appear in print, although more modern adaptive methods based on Gauss–Kronrod quadrature and Clenshaw–C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asplenia%20with%20cardiovascular%20anomalies | Asplenia with cardiovascular anomalies, also known as Ivemark syndrome and right atrial isomerism, is an example of a heterotaxy syndrome. These uncommon congenital disorders are characterized by defects in the heart, spleen and paired organs such as the lungs and kidneys. Another name is "asplenia-cardiovascular defec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affectional%20bond | In psychology, an affectional bond is a type of attachment behavior one individual has for another individual, typically a caregiver for her or his child, in which the two partners tend to remain in proximity to one another. The term was coined and subsequently developed over the course of four decades, from the early ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycle%20and%20motorcycle%20dynamics | Bicycle and motorcycle dynamics is the science of the motion of bicycles and motorcycles and their components, due to the forces acting on them. Dynamics falls under a branch of physics known as classical mechanics. Bike motions of interest include balancing, steering, braking, accelerating, suspension activation, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fetch%21%20with%20Ruff%20Ruffman | Fetch! with Ruff Ruffman (sometimes shortened as Fetch!) is an American live-action/animated television series that aired on PBS Kids Go! and is largely targeted toward children ages 6–10. It is a reality-game show that is hosted by an animated anthropomorphic dog named Ruff Ruffman who dispenses challenges to the show... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exterior%20gateway%20protocol | An exterior gateway protocol is an IP routing protocol used to exchange routing information between autonomous systems. This exchange is crucial for communications across the Internet. Notable exterior gateway protocols include Exterior Gateway Protocol (EGP), now obsolete, and Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
By contra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accounting%20liquidity | In accounting, liquidity (or accounting liquidity) is a measure of the ability of a debtor to pay their debts as and when they fall due. It is usually expressed as a ratio or a percentage of current liabilities. Liquidity is the ability to pay short-term obligations.
Calculating liquidity
For a corporation with a publ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%E2%80%93quadratic%20regulator | The theory of optimal control is concerned with operating a dynamic system at minimum cost. The case where the system dynamics are described by a set of linear differential equations and the cost is described by a quadratic function is called the LQ problem. One of the main results in the theory is that the solution ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome%20S20%20series | Chrome 20 Series is a graphics accelerator by S3 Graphics, the successor of GammaChrome S18.
Overview
The Chrome 20 series was introduced on March 11, 2005, with the Chrome S25 and Chrome S27 as launch products. Similar to the GammaChrome S18 PCI Express which preceded it, S20 was marketed to the low and mid range of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posaconazole | Posaconazole, sold under the brand name Noxafil among others, is a triazole antifungal medication.
It was approved for medical use in the United States in September 2006, and is available as a generic medication.
Medical uses
Posaconazole is used to treat invasive Aspergillus and Candida infections. It is also used f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%E2%80%93quadratic%E2%80%93Gaussian%20control | In control theory, the linear–quadratic–Gaussian (LQG) control problem is one of the most fundamental optimal control problems, and it can also be operated repeatedly for model predictive control. It concerns linear systems driven by additive white Gaussian noise. The problem is to determine an output feedback law that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeromonas | Aeromonas is a genus of Gram-negative, facultative anaerobic, rod-shaped, bacteria that morphologically resemble members of the family Enterobacteriaceae. Most of the 14 described species have been associated with human diseases. The most important pathogens are A. hydrophila, A. caviae, and A. veronii biovar sobria. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controllability%20Gramian | In control theory, we may need to find out whether or not a system such as
is controllable, where , , and are, respectively, , , and matrices for a system with inputs, state variables and outputs.
One of the many ways one can achieve such goal is by the use of the Controllability Gramian.
Controllability in L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observability%20Gramian | In control theory, we may need to find out whether or not a system such as
is observable, where , , and are, respectively, , , and matrices.
One of the many ways one can achieve such goal is by the use of the Observability Gramian.
Observability in LTI Systems
Linear Time Invariant (LTI) Systems are those systems... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky%20shore | A rocky shore is an intertidal area of seacoasts where solid rock predominates. Rocky shores are biologically rich environments, and are a useful "natural laboratory" for studying intertidal ecology and other biological processes. Due to their high accessibility, they have been well studied for a long time and their sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUS%20reporter%20system | The GUS reporter system (GUS: β-glucuronidase) is a reporter gene system, particularly useful in plant molecular biology and microbiology. Several kinds of GUS reporter gene assay are available, depending on the substrate used. The term GUS staining refers to the most common of these, a histochemical technique.
Purpos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mus%C3%A9e%20du%20Vin | The Musée du Vin (in ) is a cultural venue in the 16th arrondissement located at 5, square Charles Dickens, Paris, France next to the Trocadéro and the Eiffel Tower. The nearest métro station is Passy. It opened in 1984.
Overview
The museum testifies to the richness and diversity of the French craft of winemaking, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%20of%20molluscs | The evolution of the molluscs is the way in which the Mollusca, one of the largest groups of invertebrate animals, evolved. This phylum includes gastropods, bivalves, scaphopods, cephalopods, and several other groups.
The fossil record of mollusks is relatively complete, and they are well represented in most fossil-bea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syringa%20%C3%97%20laciniata | Syringa × laciniata, the cut-leaf lilac or cutleaf lilac, is a hybrid lilac of unknown, though old origin. It is thought to be a hybrid between Syringa vulgaris from southeastern Europe and Syringa protolaciniata from western China. Although often cited as being from China, it more likely arose somewhere in southwester... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avagraha | Avagraha () is a symbol used to indicate prodelision of an () in many Indian languages like Sanskrit as shown below. It is usually transliterated with an apostrophe in Roman script and, in case of Devanagari, as in the Sanskrit philosophical expression (), which is a sandhi of ( + ) ‘I am Shiva’. The avagraha is als... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sternopericardial%20ligaments | The fibrous pericardium is attached to the posterior surface of the sternum by the superior and inferior sternopericardiac ligaments (sternopericardial ligaments); the upper passing to the manubrium, and the lower to the xiphoid process. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pectinate%20muscles | The pectinate muscles (musculi pectinati) are parallel muscular ridges in the walls of the atria of the heart.
Structure
Behind the crest (crista terminalis) of the right atrium the internal surface is smooth. Pectinate muscles make up the part of the wall in front of this, the right atrial appendage.
In the left at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs%20isotherm | The Gibbs adsorption isotherm for multicomponent systems is an equation used to relate the changes in concentration of a component in contact with a surface with changes in the surface tension, which results in a corresponding change in surface energy. For a binary system, the Gibbs adsorption equation in terms of sur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20tendon%20of%20diaphragm | The central tendon of the diaphragm is a thin but strong aponeurosis situated slightly anterior to the vault formed by the muscle, resulting in longer posterior muscle fibers.
It is inferior to the fibrous pericardium, which fuses with the central tendon of the diaphragm via the pericardiacophrenic ligament.
The cava... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right%20border%20of%20heart | The right border of the heart (right margin of heart) is a long border on the surface of the heart, and is formed by the right atrium.
The atrial portion is rounded and almost vertical; it is situated behind the third, fourth, and fifth right costal cartilages about 1.25 cm. from the margin of the sternum.
The ventri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinch%20%28plasma%20physics%29 | A pinch (or: Bennett pinch (after Willard Harrison Bennett), electromagnetic pinch, magnetic pinch, pinch effect, or plasma pinch.) is the compression of an electrically conducting filament by magnetic forces, or a device that does such. The conductor is usually a plasma, but could also be a solid or liquid metal. Pinc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbulence%20kinetic%20energy | In fluid dynamics, turbulence kinetic energy (TKE) is the mean kinetic energy per unit mass associated with eddies in turbulent flow. Physically, the turbulence kinetic energy is characterised by measured root-mean-square (RMS) velocity fluctuations. In the Reynolds-averaged Navier Stokes equations, the turbulence kine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-consistent%20mean%20field%20%28biology%29 | The self-consistent mean field (SCMF) method is an adaptation of mean field theory used in protein structure prediction to determine the optimal amino acid side chain packing given a fixed protein backbone. It is faster but less accurate than dead-end elimination and is generally used in situations where the protein of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harish-Chandra%20isomorphism | In mathematics, the Harish-Chandra isomorphism, introduced by ,
is an isomorphism of commutative rings constructed in the theory of Lie algebras. The isomorphism maps the center of the universal enveloping algebra of a reductive Lie algebra to the elements of the symmetric algebra of a Cartan subalgebra that are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20variational%20inequality | In mathematics, a differential variational inequality (DVI) is a dynamical system that incorporates ordinary differential equations and variational inequalities or complementarity problems.
DVIs are useful for representing models involving both dynamics and inequality constraints. Examples of such problems include, f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonchus%20asper | Sonchus asper, the prickly sow-thistle, rough milk thistle, spiny sowthistle, sharp-fringed sow thistle, or spiny-leaved sow thistle, is a widespread flowering plant in the tribe Cichorieae within the family Asteraceae.
Description
Sonchus asper is an annual or biennial herb sometimes reaching a height of with spiny ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithoautotroph | A lithoautotroph is an organism which derives energy from reactions of reduced compounds of mineral (inorganic) origin. Two types of lithoautotrophs are distinguished by their energy source; photolithoautotrophs derive their energy from light while chemolithoautotrophs (chemolithotrophs or chemoautotrophs) derive their... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midas%20XL8 | The Midas XL8 was the first digital mixing console produced by Midas, previously a leading manufacturer of analogue mixing consoles for live sound. The introduction of the console came after years of digital console competition by Yamaha, Digidesign, and DiGiCo. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20file%20systems | The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of file systems.
General information
Metadata
Features
File capabilities
Block capabilities
Note that in addition to the below table, block capabilities can be implemented below the file system layer in Linux (LVM, , cryptsetup) or Windows... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Fourman | Michael Paul Fourman FBCS FRSE (born 12 September 1950) is Professor of Computer Systems at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, UK, and was Head of the School of Informatics from 2001 to 2009.
Fourman is worked in applications of logic in computer science, artificial intelligence, and cognitive science – more spe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypoglycin%20A | Hypoglycin A is a naturally occurring amino acid derivative found in the unripened fruit of the Ackee tree (Blighia sapida) and in the seeds of the box elder tree (Acer negundo). It is toxic if ingested, and is the causative agent of Jamaican vomiting sickness. A 2017 Lancet report established a link between the consum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supervisory%20circuit | Supervisory circuits are electronic circuits that monitor one or more parameters of systems such as power supplies and microprocessors which must be maintained within certain limits, and take appropriate action if a parameter goes out of bounds, creating an unacceptable or dangerous situation.
Supervisory circuits are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic%20Locator%20Codes | Worldwide Geographic Location Codes (GLCs) list the number and letter codes federal agencies should use in designating geographic locations anywhere in the United States or abroad in computer programs. Use of standard codes facilitates the interchange of machine-readable data from agency to agency within the federal co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective%20sweep | In genetics, a selective sweep is the process through which a new beneficial mutation that increases its frequency and becomes fixed (i.e., reaches a frequency of 1) in the population leads to the reduction or elimination of genetic variation among nucleotide sequences that are near the mutation. In selective sweep, po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxeter%20graph | In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Coxeter graph is a 3-regular graph with 28 vertices and 42 edges. It is one of the 13 known cubic distance-regular graphs. It is named after Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter.
Properties
The Coxeter graph has chromatic number 3, chromatic index 3, radius 4, diameter 4 and gi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20paleoethnobotanists | The following is a list of paleoethnobotanists.
Amy Bogaard
Gayle J. Fritz
Dorian Fuller
Christine A. Hastorf
Andreas G. Heiss
Hans Helbaek
Gordon Hillman
Maria Hopf
Stefanie Jacomet
Glynis Jones
Mordechai Kislev
Udelgard Körber-Grohne
Naomi F. Miller
Klaus Oeggl
Deborah M. Pearsall
Dolores Piperno
Jane Renfrew
Irwin ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium%28III%29%20oxide | Titanium(III) oxide is the inorganic compound with the formula Ti2O3. A black semiconducting solid, it is prepared by reducing titanium dioxide with titanium metal at 1600 °C.
Ti2O3 adopts the Al2O3 (corundum) structure. It is reactive with oxidising agents. At around 200 °C, there is a transition from semiconducting ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tungsten%20disilicide | Tungsten silicide (WSi2) is an inorganic compound, a silicide of tungsten. It is an electrically conductive ceramic material.
Chemistry
Tungsten silicide can react violently with substances such as strong acids, fluorine, oxidizers, and interhalogens.
Applications
It is used in microelectronics as a contact material,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silversword%20alliance | The silversword alliance, also known as the tarweeds, refers to an adaptive radiation of around 30 species in the composite or sunflower family, Asteraceae. The group is endemic to Hawaii, and is derived from a single immigrant to the islands. For radiating from a common ancestor at an estimated 5.2±0.8 Ma, the clade ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20queue%20management | In routers and switches, active queue management (AQM) is the policy of dropping packets inside a buffer associated with a network interface controller (NIC) before that buffer becomes full, often with the goal of reducing network congestion or improving end-to-end latency. This task is performed by the network schedu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz%20formula%20for%20determinants | In algebra, the Leibniz formula, named in honor of Gottfried Leibniz, expresses the determinant of a square matrix in terms of permutations of the matrix elements. If is an matrix, where is the entry in the -th row and -th column of , the formula is
where is the sign function of permutations in the permutation gro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kautsky%20effect | In biophysics, the Kautsky effect (also fluorescence transient, fluorescence induction or fluorescence decay) is a phenomenon consisting of a typical variation in the behavior of a plant fluorescence when exposed to light. It was discovered in 1931 by H. Kautsky and A. Hirsch.
When dark-adapted photosynthesising cells... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLEX%20%28satellite%29 | The FLuorescence EXplorer (FLEX) is a planned mission by the European Space Agency to launch a satellite to monitor the global steady-state chlorophyll fluorescence in terrestrial vegetation. FLEX was selected for funding on 19 November 2015 and will be launched on a Vega C rocket from Guiana Space Centre in mid-2025.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XLD%20agar | Xylose Lysine Deoxycholate agar (XLD agar) is a selective growth medium used in the isolation of Salmonella and Shigella species from clinical samples and from food. The agar was developed by Welton Taylor in 1965. It has a pH of approximately 7.4, leaving it with a bright pink or red appearance due to the indicator ph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenite%20broth | Selenite broth is used as a selective medium for the isolation of Salmonella species. Selenite broth was originated by Leifson, while observing good recovery of Salmonella spp. and reduced
growth of fecal coliforms. Selenite broth is used as a selective enrichment for the cultivation of Salmonella
spp. that may be pre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rappaport%20Vassiliadis%20soya%20peptone%20broth | Rappaport-Vassiliadis soya peptone broth (RVS broth) is used as an enrichment growth medium for the isolation of Salmonella species. It is not recommended for the enrichment of Salmonella Typhi or Paratyphi, which is inhibited due to the malachite green in RVS broth. It is an alternative to selenite broth. It is not... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arsenic%20contamination%20of%20groundwater | Arsenic contamination of groundwater is a form of groundwater pollution which is often due to naturally occurring high concentrations of arsenic in deeper levels of groundwater. It is a high-profile problem due to the use of deep tube wells for water supply in the Ganges Delta, causing serious arsenic poisoning to larg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20diving | Information diving is the practice of recovering technical data, sometimes confidential or secret, from discarded material. In recent times, this has chiefly been from data storage elements in discarded computers, most notably recoverable data remaining on hard drives. Those in charge of discarding computers usually ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perron%20number | In mathematics, a Perron number is an algebraic integer α which is real and exceeds 1, but such that its conjugate elements are all less than α in absolute value. For example, the larger of the two roots of the irreducible polynomial is a Perron number.
Perron numbers are named after Oskar Perron; the Perron–Frobeni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clomazone | Clomazone is an agricultural herbicide, and has been the active ingredient of products named "Command" and "Commence". The molecule consists of a 2-chlorobenzyl group bound to a N-O heterocycle called isoxazolidinone. It is a white solid.
Clomazone was first registered by the USEPA on March 8, 1993, and was commercial... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volume%20boot%20record | A volume boot record (VBR) (also known as a volume boot sector, a partition boot record or a partition boot sector) is a type of boot sector introduced by the IBM Personal Computer. It may be found on a partitioned data storage device, such as a hard disk, or an unpartitioned device, such as a floppy disk, and contains... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutchinson%27s%20triad | Hutchinson's triad is named after Sir Jonathan Hutchinson (1828–1913). It is a common pattern of presentation for late congenital syphilis, and consists of three phenomena: interstitial keratitis, malformed teeth (Hutchinson incisors and mulberry molars), and eighth nerve deafness. There may also be a deformity on the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolliphor%20EL | Kolliphor EL, formerly known as Cremophor EL, is the registered trademark of BASF Corp. for its version of polyethoxylated castor oil. It is prepared by reacting 35 moles of ethylene oxide with each mole of castor oil. The resulting product is a mixture (CAS number 61791-12-6): the major component is the material in w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech%20perception | Speech perception is the process by which the sounds of language are heard, interpreted, and understood. The study of speech perception is closely linked to the fields of phonology and phonetics in linguistics and cognitive psychology and perception in psychology. Research in speech perception seeks to understand how h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI%20system%20partition | The EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) system partition or ESP is a partition on a data storage device (usually a hard disk drive or solid-state drive) that is used by computers having the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI). When a computer is booted, UEFI firmware loads files stored on the ESP to start ins... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Kotok | Alan Kotok (November 9, 1941 – May 26, 2006) was an American computer scientist known for his work at Digital Equipment Corporation (Digital, or DEC) and at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). Steven Levy, in his book Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, describes Kotok and his classmates at the Massachusetts I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TrueNAS | TrueNAS is the branding for a range of free and open-source network-attached storage (NAS) operating systems produced by iXsystems, and based on FreeBSD and Linux, using the OpenZFS file system. It is licensed under the terms of the BSD License and runs on commodity x86-64 hardware.
The TrueNAS range includes free pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP%20Physics%20C%3A%20Mechanics | Advanced Placement (AP) Physics C: Mechanics (also known as AP Mechanics) is an introductory physics course administered by the College Board as part of its Advanced Placement program. It is intended to proxy a one-semester calculus-based university course in mechanics. The content of Physics C: Mechanics overlaps with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Applied%20Physics%20and%20Computational%20Mathematics | The Institute of Applied Physics and Computational Mathematics (IAPCM) was established in 1958 in Beijing in the People's Republic of China. The institution conducts research on nuclear warhead design computations for the Chinese Academy of Engineering Physics (CAEP) in Mianyang, Sichuan and focuses on applied theoreti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20cervical%20artery | The deep cervical artery (Profunda cervicalis) is an artery of the neck.
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It arises, in most cases, from the costocervical trunk, and is analogous to the posterior branch of an aortic intercostal artery: occasionally it is a separate branch from the subclavian artery.
Passing backward, above the eighth cervical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Costocervical%20trunk | The costocervical trunk arises from the upper and back part of the second part of subclavian artery, behind the scalenus anterior on the right side, and medial to that muscle on the left side.
Passing backward, it splits into the deep cervical artery and the supreme intercostal artery (highest intercostal artery), whi... |
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