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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl%20methylphenylglycidate | Ethyl methylphenylglycidate, commonly known as strawberry aldehyde, is an organic compound used in the flavor industry in artificial fruit flavors, in particular strawberry.
Uses
Because of its pleasant taste and aroma, ethyl methylphenylglycidate finds use in the fragrance industry, in artificial flavors, and in cosm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Kryder | Mark Howard Kryder (born October 7, 1943 in Portland, Oregon) was Seagate Corp.'s senior vice president of research and chief technology officer. Kryder holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering and physics from the California Institute o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified%20Chee%27s%20medium | In cellular biology and microbiology, modified Chee's medium (otherwise known as "MCM") is used to cultivate cells and bacteria. It uses various additives (fat acids, albumins and selenium) to facilitate cellular and bacterial growth. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental%20arch | The dental arches are the two arches (crescent arrangements) of teeth, one on each jaw, that together constitute the dentition. In humans and many other species; the superior (maxillary or upper) dental arch is a little larger than the inferior (mandibular or lower) arch, so that in the normal condition the teeth in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vizing%27s%20theorem | In graph theory, Vizing's theorem states that every simple undirected graph may be edge colored using a number of colors that is at most one larger than the maximum degree of the graph. At least colors are always necessary, so the undirected graphs may be partitioned into two classes: "class one" graphs for which co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Maibaum | Thomas Stephen Edward Maibaum Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) is a computer scientist.
Maibaum has a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) undergraduate degree in pure mathematics from the University of Toronto, Canada (1970), and a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in computer science from Queen Mary and Royal Holloway C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20credential | Digital credentials are the digital equivalent of paper-based credentials. Just as a paper-based credential could be a passport, a driver's license, a membership certificate or some kind of ticket to obtain some service, such as a cinema ticket or a public transport ticket, a digital credential is a proof of qualificat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Front%20Line%20%28video%20game%29 | is a military-themed run and gun video game released by Taito for arcades in November 1982. It was one of the first overhead run and gun games, a precursor to many similarly-themed games of the mid-to-late 1980s. Front Line is controlled with a joystick, a single button, and a rotary dial that can be pushed in like a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dember%20effect | In physics, the Dember effect is when the electron current from a cathode subjected to both illumination and a simultaneous electron bombardment is greater than the sum of the photoelectric current and the secondary emission current .
History
Discovered by Harry Dember (1882–1943) in 1925, this effect is due to the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial%20fuel%20cell | Microbial fuel cell (MFC) is a type of bioelectrochemical fuel cell system also known as micro fuel cell that
generates electric current by diverting electrons produced from the microbial oxidation of reduced compounds (also known as fuel or electron donor) on the anode to oxidized compounds such as oxygen (also known... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20of%20attraction%20%28New%20Thought%29 | The law of attraction is the New Thought spiritual belief that positive or negative thoughts bring positive or negative experiences into a person's life. The belief is based on the idea that people and their thoughts are made from "pure energy" and that like energy can attract like energy, thereby allowing people to im... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylighting%20%28streams%29 | Daylighting is the opening up and restoration of a previously buried watercourse, one which had at some point been diverted below ground. Typically, the rationale behind returning the riparian environment of a stream, wash, or river to a more natural above-ground state is to reduce runoff, create habitat for species in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xybernaut | Xybernaut Corporation was a maker of wearable mobile computing hardware, software, and services. Its products included the Atigo tablet PC, Poma wearable computer, and the MA-V wearable computer.
The company was headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, until 2006, when it moved to Chantilly, Virginia.
Although its first w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat%20substitute | A fat substitute is a food product with the same functions, stability, physical, and chemical characteristics as regular fat, with fewer calories per gram than fat. They are utilized in the production of low fat and low calorie foods.
Background
Fat is present in most foods. It provides a unique texture, flavor, and a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem%20of%20future%20contingents | Future contingent propositions (or simply, future contingents) are statements about states of affairs in the future that are contingent: neither necessarily true nor necessarily false.
The problem of future contingents seems to have been first discussed by Aristotle in chapter 9 of his On Interpretation (De Interpreta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axilrod%E2%80%93Teller%20potential | The Axilrod–Teller potential in molecular physics, is a three-body potential that results from a third-order perturbation correction to the attractive London dispersion interactions (instantaneous induced dipole-induced dipole)
where is the distance between atoms and , and is the angle between the vectors
and . T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitney%20extension%20theorem | In mathematics, in particular in mathematical analysis, the Whitney extension theorem is a partial converse to Taylor's theorem. Roughly speaking, the theorem asserts that if A is a closed subset of a Euclidean space, then it is possible to extend a given function of A in such a way as to have prescribed derivatives a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20of%20moments%20%28probability%20theory%29 | In probability theory, the method of moments is a way of proving convergence in distribution by proving convergence of a sequence of moment sequences. Suppose X is a random variable and that all of the moments
exist. Further suppose the probability distribution of X is completely determined by its moments, i.e., the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Java%20APIs | There are two types of Java programming language application programming interfaces (APIs):
The official core Java API, contained in the Android (Google), SE (OpenJDK and Oracle), MicroEJ. These packages (java.* packages) are the core Java language packages, meaning that programmers using the Java language had to use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCVP | The Server-based Certificate Validation Protocol (SCVP) is an Internet protocol for determining the path between an X.509 digital certificate and a trusted root (Delegated Path Discovery) and the validation of that path (Delegated Path Validation) according to a particular validation policy.
Overview
When a relying p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka/Ks%20ratio | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Ka/Ks ratio}}
In genetics, the Ka/Ks ratio, also known as ω or dN/dS ratio, is used to estimate the balance between neutral mutations, purifying selection and beneficial mutations acting on a set of homologous protein-coding genes. It is calculated as the ratio of the number of nonsynonymous substitution... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomagnetism | Biomagnetism is the phenomenon of magnetic fields produced by living organisms; it is a subset of bioelectromagnetism. In contrast, organisms' use of magnetism in navigation is magnetoception and the study of the magnetic fields' effects on organisms is magnetobiology. (The word biomagnetism has also been used loosely ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirigami | is a variation of origami, the Japanese art of folding paper. In , the paper is cut as well as being folded, resulting in a three-dimensional design that stands away from the page. typically does not use glue.
Overview
In the United States, the term was coined by Florence Temko from Japanese , , and , , in the title... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20thermal%20properties | The thermal properties of soil are a component of soil physics that has found important uses in engineering, climatology and agriculture. These properties influence how energy is partitioned in the soil profile. While related to soil temperature, it is more accurately associated with the transfer of energy (mostly in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teva%20Pharmaceuticals | Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (also known as Teva Pharmaceuticals) is an Israeli multinational pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel. It specializes primarily in generic drugs, but other business interests include active pharmaceutical ingredients and, to a lesser extent, proprietary pharm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycarpic | Polycarpic plants are those that flower and set seeds many times before dying. A term of identical meaning is pleonanthic and iteroparous. Polycarpic plants are able to reproduce multiple times due to at least some portion of its meristems being able to maintain a vegetative state in some fashion so that it may reprodu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear%20JJ1 | Bear JJ1 (2004 – 26 June 2006) was a brown bear whose travels and exploits in Austria and Germany in the first half of 2006 drew international attention. JJ1, also known as Bruno in the German press (some newspapers also gave the bear different names, such as Beppo or Petzi), is believed to have been the first brown be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suture%20%28geology%29 | In structural geology, a suture is a joining together along a major fault zone, of separate terranes, tectonic units that have different plate tectonic, metamorphic and paleogeographic histories. The suture is often represented on the surface by an orogen or mountain range.
Overview
In plate tectonics, sutures are the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision%20tree%20pruning | Pruning is a data compression technique in machine learning and search algorithms that reduces the size of decision trees by removing sections of the tree that are non-critical and redundant to classify instances. Pruning reduces the complexity of the final classifier, and hence improves predictive accuracy by the redu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histone%20code | The histone code is a hypothesis that the transcription of genetic information encoded in DNA is in part regulated by chemical modifications (known as histone marks) to histone proteins, primarily on their unstructured ends. Together with similar modifications such as DNA methylation it is part of the epigenetic code.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsung | Tsung (formerly known as idx-Tsunami) is a stress testing tool written in the Erlang language and distributed under the GPL license. It can currently stress test HTTP, WebDAV, LDAP, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SOAP and XMPP servers. Tsung can simulate hundreds of simultaneous users on a single system. It can also function in a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow%20%28OS/2%29 | In the graphical Workplace Shell (WPS) of the OS/2 operating system, a shadow is an object that represents another object.
A shadow is a stand-in for any other object on the desktop, such as a document, an application, a folder, a hard disk, a network share or removable medium, or a printer. A target object can have ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20military%20clothing%20camouflage%20patterns | This is a list of military clothing camouflage patterns used for battledress. Military camouflage is the use of camouflage by armed forces to protect personnel and equipment from observation by enemy forces. Textile patterns for uniforms have multiple functions, including camouflage, identifying friend from foe, and es... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20program%20analysis | Dynamic program analysis is analysis of computer software that involves executing the program in question (as opposed to static program analysis, which does not). Dynamic program analysis includes familiar techniques from software engineering such as unit testing, debugging, and measuring code coverage, but also includ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20entropy | In mathematics, the topological entropy of a topological dynamical system is a nonnegative extended real number that is a measure of the complexity of the system. Topological entropy was first introduced in 1965 by Adler, Konheim and McAndrew. Their definition was modelled after the definition of the Kolmogorov–Sinai, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal%20date | An ordinal date is a calendar date typically consisting of a year and an ordinal number, ranging between 1 and 366 (starting on January 1), representing the multiples of a day, called day of the year or ordinal day number (also known as ordinal day or day number). The two parts of the date can be formatted as "YYYY-DDD... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tioguanine | Tioguanine, also known as thioguanine or 6-thioguanine (6-TG) is a medication used to treat acute myeloid leukemia (AML), acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL), and chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). Long-term use is not recommended. It is given by mouth.
Common side effects include bone marrow suppression, liver problems and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme%20inhibitor | An enzyme inhibitor is a molecule that binds to an enzyme and blocks its activity. Enzymes are proteins that speed up chemical reactions necessary for life, in which substrate molecules are converted into products. An enzyme facilitates a specific chemical reaction by binding the substrate to its active site, a special... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phycologia%20Australica | Phycologia Australica, written by William Henry Harvey, is one of the most important works on phycology of the 19th century. (Phycology is the study of algae.)
The work, published in five separate volumes between 1858 and 1863, is the result of Harvey’s extensive collecting along the Australian shores during a three y... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental%20environment | The mental environment refers to the sum of all societal influences upon mental health.
The term is often used in a context critical of the mental environment in industrialized societies. It is argued that just as industrial societies produce physical toxins and pollutants which harm humans physical health, they also ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C5%91nig%27s%20theorem%20%28graph%20theory%29 | In the mathematical area of graph theory, Kőnig's theorem, proved by , describes an equivalence between the maximum matching problem and the minimum vertex cover problem in bipartite graphs. It was discovered independently, also in 1931, by Jenő Egerváry in the more general case of weighted graphs.
Setting
A vertex c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient%20diagram%20method | In control theory, the coefficient diagram method (CDM) is an algebraic approach applied to a polynomial loop in the parameter space, where a special diagram called a "coefficient diagram" is used as the vehicle to carry the necessary information, and as the criterion of good design. The performance of the closed loop ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylan | Xylan (; ) (CAS number: 9014-63-5) is a type of hemicellulose, a polysaccharide consisting mainly of xylose residues. It is found in plants, in the secondary cell walls of dicots and all cell walls of grasses. Xylan is the third most abundant biopolymer on Earth, after cellulose and chitin.
Composition
Xylans are po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable%20manifold | In mathematics, and in particular the study of dynamical systems, the idea of stable and unstable sets or stable and unstable manifolds give a formal mathematical definition to the general notions embodied in the idea of an attractor or repellor. In the case of hyperbolic dynamics, the corresponding notion is that of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating%20%28biology%29 | Cheating is a term used in behavioral ecology and ethology to describe behavior whereby organisms receive a benefit at the cost of other organisms. Cheating is common in many mutualistic and altruistic relationships. A cheater is an individual who does not cooperate (or cooperates less than their fair share) but can po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyoplasia | Amyoplasia is a condition characterized by a generalized lack in the newborn of muscular development and growth, with contracture and deformity that affect at least two joints. It is the most common form of arthrogryposis.
It is characterized by the four limbs being involved, and by the replacement of skeletal muscle ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weitzenb%C3%B6ck%20identity | In mathematics, in particular in differential geometry, mathematical physics, and representation theory a Weitzenböck identity, named after Roland Weitzenböck, expresses a relationship between two second-order elliptic operators on a manifold with the same principal symbol. Usually Weitzenböck formulae are implemented ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20NT%20processor%20scheduling | Windows NT processor scheduling refers to the process by which Windows NT determines which job (task) should be run on the computer processor at which time. Without scheduling, the processor would give attention to jobs based on when they arrived in the queue, which is usually not optimal. As part of the scheduling, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral%20enrichment | Behavioral enrichment is an animal husbandry principle that seeks to enhance the quality of captive animal care by identifying and providing the environmental stimuli necessary for optimal psychological and physiological well-being. Enrichment can either be active or passive, depending on whether it requires direct con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire%20by%20Night | The Vampire by Night (Nina Price) is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Marvel Comics. She is the niece to Jack Russell and has the ability to shapeshift into either a werewolf or a vampiress between dusk and dawn.
Publication history
She first appeared in Amazing Fantasy #10 (September 20... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20astrophysics | Nuclear astrophysics is an interdisciplinary part of both nuclear physics and astrophysics, involving close collaboration among researchers in various subfields of each of these fields. This includes, notably, nuclear reactions and their rates as they occur in cosmic environments, and modeling of astrophysical objects ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WMBQ-CD | WMBQ-CD (channel 46) is a class A television station in New York City, affiliated with First Nations Experience. Owned by The WNET Group, it is sister to the city's two PBS member stations, Newark, New Jersey–licensed WNET (channel 13) and Garden City, New York–licensed WLIW (channel 21), as well as WNDT-CD (channel 14... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiologia%20Plantarum | Physiologia Plantarum is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society. The journal publishes papers on all aspects of all organizational levels of experimental plant biology ranging from biophysics, biochemistry, molecular and cell biology to eco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92-Pinene | β-Pinene is a monoterpene, an organic compound found in plants. It is one of the two isomers of pinene, the other being α-pinene. It is colorless liquid soluble in alcohol, but not water. It has a woody-green pine-like smell.
This is one of the most abundant compounds released by forest trees. If oxidized in air, the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhabited%20set | In mathematics, a set is inhabited if there exists an element .
In classical mathematics, the property of being inhabited is equivalent to being non-empty. However, this equivalence is not valid in constructive or intuitionistic logic, and so this separate terminology is mostly used in the set theory of constructive ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroconstructivism | Neuroconstructivism is a theory that states that phylogenetic developmental processes such as gene–gene interaction, gene–environment interaction and, crucially, ontogeny all play a vital role in how the brain progressively sculpts itself and how it gradually becomes specialized over developmental time.
Supporters of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair%20distribution%20function | The pair distribution function describes the distribution of distances between pairs of particles contained within a given volume. Mathematically, if a and b are two particles, the pair distribution function of b with respect to a, denoted by is the probability of finding the particle b at distance from a, with a tak... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alstr%C3%B6m%20syndrome | Alström syndrome (AS), also called Alström–Hallgren syndrome, is a very rare autosomal recessive genetic disorder characterised by childhood obesity and multiple organ dysfunction. Symptoms include early-onset type 2 diabetes, cone-rod dystrophy resulting in blindness, sensorineural hearing loss and dilated cardiomyopa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachlamydiaceae | Parachlamydiaceae is a family of bacteria in the order Chlamydiales. Species in this family have a Chlamydia–like cycle of replication and their ribosomal RNA genes are 80–90% identical to ribosomal genes in the Chlamydiaceae. The Parachlamydiaceae naturally infect amoebae and can be grown in cultured Vero cells. The P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary-field%20Monte%20Carlo | Auxiliary-field Monte Carlo is a method that allows the calculation, by use of Monte Carlo techniques, of averages of operators in many-body quantum mechanical (Blankenbecler 1981, Ceperley 1977) or classical problems (Baeurle 2004, Baeurle 2003, Baeurle 2002a).
Reweighting procedure and numerical sign problem
The dis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EnergyGuide | The EnergyGuide provides consumers in the United States information about the energy consumption, efficiency, and operating costs of appliances and consumer products.
Clothes washers, dishwashers, refrigerators, freezers, televisions, water heaters, window air conditioners, mini split air conditioners, central air co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20design%20patterns | In software engineering, a distributed design pattern is a design pattern focused on distributed computing problems.
Classification
Distributed design patterns can be divided into several groups:
Distributed communication patterns
Security and reliability patterns
Event driven patterns
Examples
MapReduce
Bulk sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Bureau | The Central Bureau was one of two Allied signals intelligence (SIGINT) organisations in the South West Pacific area (SWPA) during World War II. Central Bureau was attached to the headquarters of the Supreme Commander, Southwest Pacific Area, General Douglas MacArthur. The role of the Bureau was to research and decrypt ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waddlia | Waddlia is a genus of bacteria in its own family, Waddliaceae. Species in this genus have a Chlamydia-like cycle of replication and their ribosomal RNA genes are 80–90% identical to ribosomal genes in the Chlamydiaceae.
The type species is Waddlia chondrophila strain WSU 86-1044T, which was isolated from the tissues o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Instruments%20DaVinci | The Texas Instruments DaVinci is a family of system on a chip processors that are primarily used in embedded video and vision applications. Many processors in the family combine a DSP core based on the TMS320 C6000 VLIW DSP family and an ARM CPU core into a single system on chip. By using both a general-purpose process... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGPIO | Serial general purpose input/output (SGPIO) is a four-signal (or four-wire) bus used between a host bus adapter (HBA) and a backplane. Of the four signals, three are driven by the HBA and one by the backplane. Typically, the HBA is a storage controller located inside a server, desktop, rack or workstation computer that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora%20Brasiliensis | Flora Brasiliensis is a book published between 1840 and 1906 by the editors Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, August Wilhelm Eichler, Ignatz Urban and many others. It contains taxonomic treatments of 22,767 species, mostly Brazilian angiosperms.
The work was begun by Stephan Endlicher and Martius.
Von Martius comple... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergy%20to%20cats | Allergies to cats are one of the most common allergies among human individuals. Among the eight known cat allergens, the most prominent allergen is secretoglobin Fel d 1, which is produced in the anal glands, salivary glands, and, mainly, in sebaceous glands of cats, and is ubiquitous in the United States, even in hous... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale%20space%20implementation | In the areas of computer vision, image analysis and signal processing, the notion of scale-space representation is used for processing measurement data at multiple scales, and specifically enhance or suppress image features over different ranges of scale (see the article on scale space). A special type of scale-space r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone%20exercise%20monitor | A bone exercise monitor is an instrument which is used to measure and analyze the bone strengthening qualities of physical activity and to help in prevention of osteoporosis with physical activity and exercise.
The bone strengthening quality of physical exercise is very difficult to assess and monitor due to the great... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymelia | Polymelia is a birth defect in which an affected individual has more than the usual number of limbs. It is a type of dysmelia. In humans and most land-dwelling vertebrates, this means having five or more limbs. The extra limb is most commonly shrunken and/or deformed. The term is from Greek πολυ- "many", μέλεα "limbs".... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DCMU | DCMU (3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea) is an algicide and herbicide of the arylurea class that inhibits photosynthesis. It was introduced by Bayer in 1954 under the trade name of Diuron.
History
In 1952, chemists at E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company patented a series of aryl urea derivatives as herbicides. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20interatrial%20foramen | In the developing heart, the atria are initially open to each other, with the opening known as the primary interatrial foramen or ostium primum (or interatrial foramen primum). The foramen lies beneath the edge of septum primum and the endocardial cushions. It progressively decreases in size as the septum grows downwar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septum%20spurium | During development of the heart, the orifice of the sinus venosus lies obliquely, and is guarded by two valves, the right and left venous valves; above the opening these unite with each other and are continuous with a fold named the septum spurium. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spina%20vestibuli | Spina vestibuli, or vestibular spine, is a bony structure, in anatomical terms a 'mesenchymal condensation', which extends from the mediastinum of the heart and covers the leading edge of the primary atrial septum; its origin is outside of the heart. Below the opening of the orifice of the coronary sinus they fuse to f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve%20of%20inferior%20vena%20cava | The valve of the inferior vena cava (eustachian valve) is a venous valve that lies at the junction of the inferior vena cava and right atrium.
Development
In prenatal development, the eustachian valve helps direct the flow of oxygen-rich blood through the right atrium into the left atrium and away from the right vent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%20atrioventricular%20orifice | The left atrioventricular orifice (left atrioventricular opening or mitral orifice) is placed below and to the left of the aortic orifice.
It is a little smaller than the corresponding aperture of the opposite side.
It is surrounded by a dense fibrous ring, covered by the lining membrane of the heart, and is reguarde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aortic%20orifice | The aortic orifice, (aortic opening) is a circular opening, in front and to the right of the left atrioventricular orifice, from which it is separated by the anterior cusp of the bicuspid valve.
It is guarded by the aortic semilunar valve.
The portion of the ventricle immediately below the aortic orifice is termed th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid%20modes%20of%20evolution | Rapid modes of evolution have been proposed by several notable biologists after Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolutionary descent by natural selection. In his book On the Origin of Species (1859), Darwin stressed the gradual nature of descent, writing:
It may be said that natural selection is daily and hourly... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right%20atrioventricular%20orifice | The right atrioventricular orifice (right atrioventricular opening) is the large oval aperture of communication between the right atrium and ventricle in the heart.
Situated at the base of the atrium, it measures about 3.8 to 4 cm. in diameter and is surrounded by a fibrous ring, covered by the lining membrane of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20quadratic%20form | In mathematics, a universal quadratic form is a quadratic form over a ring that represents every element of the ring. A non-singular form over a field which represents zero non-trivially is universal.
Examples
Over the real numbers, the form x2 in one variable is not universal, as it cannot represent negative number... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunochemistry | Immunochemistry is the study of the chemistry of the immune system. This involves the study of the properties, functions, interactions and production of the chemical components (antibodies/immunoglobulins, toxin, epitopes of proteins like CD4, antitoxins, cytokines/chemokines, antigens) of the immune system. It also ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differentiation%20in%20Fr%C3%A9chet%20spaces | In mathematics, in particular in functional analysis and nonlinear analysis, it is possible to define the derivative of a function between two Fréchet spaces. This notion of differentiation, as it is Gateaux derivative between Fréchet spaces, is significantly weaker than the derivative in a Banach space, even between ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intervenous%20tubercle | The intervenous tubercle (tubercle of Lower) is a small projection on the posterior wall of the right atrium, above the fossa ovalis.
It is distinct in the hearts of quadrupeds, but in man is scarcely visible.
It was supposed by Lower to direct the blood from the superior vena cava toward the atrioventricular opening... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%BApin | Revista Lúpin (Lúpin Magazine) was a monthly Argentine comics magazine. Guillermo Guerrero and Héctor Mario Sidoli launched it on February 1, 1966. It was discontinued in 2007.
The comic takes its name from the popular Argentine comic strip hero Lúpin el Piloto, which debuted in 1959.
Concept
The comic featured the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain%20loading | Chain loading is a method used by computer programs to replace the currently executing program with a new program, using a common data area to pass information from the current program to the new program. It occurs in several areas of computing.
Chain loading is similar to the use of overlays. Unlike overlays, howev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core%20common%20area | The core common area is that .
Named after magnetic core memory, the term has persisted into the modern era and is commonly used by both the Fortran and BASIC languages.
See also
Chain loading
Operating system technology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated%20binary%20operation | In mathematics, an iterated binary operation is an extension of a binary operation on a set S to a function on finite sequences of elements of S through repeated application. Common examples include the extension of the addition operation to the summation operation, and the extension of the multiplication operation to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-space%20axioms | In image processing and computer vision, a scale space framework can be used to represent an image as a family of gradually smoothed images. This framework is very general and a variety of scale space representations exist. A typical approach for choosing a particular type of scale space representation is to establis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Z%20Supernova%20Search%20Team | The High-Z Supernova Search Team was an international cosmology collaboration which used Type Ia supernovae to chart the expansion of the universe. The team was formed in 1994 by Brian P. Schmidt, then a post-doctoral research associate at Harvard University, and Nicholas B. Suntzeff, a staff astronomer at the Cerro To... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%20baryon | The Xi baryons or cascade particles are a family of subatomic hadron particles which have the symbol and may have an electric charge () of +2 , +1 , 0, or −1 , where is the elementary charge.
Like all conventional baryons, particles contain three quarks. baryons, in particular, contain either one up or one down qu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indole%20test | The indole test is a biochemical test performed on bacterial species to determine the ability of the organism to convert tryptophan into indole. This division is performed by a chain of a number of different intracellular enzymes, a system generally referred to as "tryptophanase."
Biochemistry
Indole is generated by r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refactorable%20number | A refactorable number or tau number is an integer n that is divisible by the count of its divisors, or to put it algebraically, n is such that . The first few refactorable numbers are listed in as
1, 2, 8, 9, 12, 18, 24, 36, 40, 56, 60, 72, 80, 84, 88, 96, 104, 108, 128, 132, 136, 152, 156, 180, 184, 204, 225, 228, 23... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gardasil | Gardasil is an HPV vaccine for use in the prevention of certain strains of human papillomavirus (HPV). It was developed by Merck & Co. High-risk human papilloma virus (hr-HPV) genital infection is the most common sexually transmitted infection among women. The HPV strains that Gardasil protects against are sexually tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisia%20monetary%20aggregates%20index | In econometrics and official statistics, and particularly in banking, the Divisia monetary aggregates index is an index of money supply. It uses Divisia index methods.
Background
The monetary aggregates used by most central banks (notably the US Federal Reserve) are simple-sum indexes in which all monetary components ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laughter%20in%20the%20Rain | "Laughter in the Rain" is a song composed and recorded by Neil Sedaka, with lyrics by Phil Cody. It includes a 20-second saxophone solo by Jim Horn.
Background
The song was released on Elton John's Rocket Records.
After hearing a version of "Laughter in the Rain" by singer Lea Roberts on the radio several weeks befor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick%20Lonsdale | Derrick Lonsdale (born April 22, 1924) is an American pediatrician and researcher into the benefits of certain nutrients in preventing disease and psychotic behavior. He is a Fellow of the American College of Nutrition (FACN), and also a Fellow of the American College for Advancement in Medicine (FACAM)
Lonsdale is kn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insular%20dwarfism | Insular dwarfism, a form of phyletic dwarfism, is the process and condition of large animals evolving or having a reduced body size when their population's range is limited to a small environment, primarily islands. This natural process is distinct from the intentional creation of dwarf breeds, called dwarfing. This pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20flags%20of%20Bosnia%20and%20Herzegovina | This is a list of flags used in Bosnia and Herzegovina. For more information about the national flag, visit the article Flag of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
National flag
Subnational flags
Entities
Districts
Military flags
Cantons of the Federation
Former flags of the Cantons of the Federation
Political flags
Ethni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall%20prevention | Fall prevention includes any action taken to help reduce the number of accidental falls suffered by susceptible individuals, such as the elderly (idiopathic) and people with neurological (Parkinson's, Multiple sclerosis, stroke survivors, Guillain-Barre, traumatic brain injury, incomplete spinal cord injury) or orthope... |
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