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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POWER2 | The POWER2, originally named RIOS2, is a processor designed by IBM that implemented the POWER instruction set architecture. The POWER2 was the successor of the POWER1, debuting in September 1993 within IBM's RS/6000 systems. When introduced, the POWER2 was the fastest microprocessor, surpassing the Alpha 21064. When th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Society%20for%20Cell%20Biology | The American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) is a professional society that was founded in 1960.
History
On 6 April 1959 the United States National Academy of Sciences passed a resolution for the establishment of a "national society of cell biology to act as a national representative to the International Federation f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20M.%20R.%20Parrondo | Juan Manuel Rodríguez Parrondo (born 9 January 1964) is a Spanish physicist. He is mostly popular for the invention of the Parrondo's paradox and his contributions in the thermodynamical study of information.
Biography
Juan Parrondo received his bachelors degree in 1987 and defended his Ph.D at Complutense University... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relational%20quantum%20mechanics | Relational quantum mechanics (RQM) is an interpretation of quantum mechanics which treats the state of a quantum system as being observer-dependent, that is, the state is the relation between the observer and the system. This interpretation was first delineated by Carlo Rovelli in a 1994 preprint, and has since been ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrococcygeal%20membrane | The sacrococcygeal membrane is a tough fibrous membrane about 10mm long which extends from the inferior tip of the sacrum to the body of the coccyx in humans. It covers the inferior limit of the epidural space and is analogous to the ligamentum flavum found at other levels in the spine.
It can be found at the apex of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20ligament%20of%20elbow | The posterior ligament is thin and membranous, and consists of transverse and oblique fibers.
Above, it is attached to the humerus immediately behind the capitulum and close to the medial margin of the trochlea, to the margins of the olecranon fossa, and to the back of the lateral epicondyle some little distance from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior%20ligament%20of%20elbow | The anterior ligament of the elbow is a broad and thin fibrous layer covering the anterior surface of the joint.
It is attached to the front of the medial epicondyle and to the front of the humerus immediately above the coronoid and radial fossae below, to the anterior surface of the coronoid process of the ulna and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitulum%20of%20the%20humerus | In human anatomy of the arm, the capitulum of the humerus is a smooth, rounded eminence on the lateral portion of the distal articular surface of the humerus. It articulates with the cup-shaped depression on the head of the radius, and is limited to the front and lower part of the bone.
In non-human tetrapods, the nam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic%20bioweapon | An ethnic bioweapon (or a biogenetic weapon) is a hypothetical type of bioweapon which could preferentially target people of specific ethnicities or people with specific genotypes.
History
One of the first modern fictional discussions of ethnic weapons is in Robert A. Heinlein's 1942 novel Sixth Column (republished a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular%20control | In optimal control, problems of singular control are problems that are difficult to solve because a straightforward application of Pontryagin's minimum principle fails to yield a complete solution. Only a few such problems have been solved, such as Merton's portfolio problem in financial economics or trajectory optimi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20iteration | In mathematics, power iteration (also known as the power method) is an eigenvalue algorithm: given a diagonalizable matrix , the algorithm will produce a number , which is the greatest (in absolute value) eigenvalue of , and a nonzero vector , which is a corresponding eigenvector of , that is, .
The algorithm is also k... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%20Agroforestry%20Centre | World Agroforestry (a brand name used by the International Centre for Research in Agroforestry, ICRAF) is an international institute headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, and founded in 1978 as "International Council for Research in Agroforestry". The centre specializes in the sustainable management, protection and regulati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-source%20video%20game | An open-source video game, or simply an open-source game, is a video game whose source code is open-source. They are often freely distributable and sometimes cross-platform compatible.
Definition and differentiation
Not all open-source games are free software; some open-source games contain proprietary non-free cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiegelman%27s%20Monster | Spiegelman's Monster is an RNA chain of only 218 nucleotides that is able to be reproduced by the RNA replication enzyme RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, also called RNA replicase. It is named after its creator, Sol Spiegelman, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign who first described it in 1965.
Description... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automaton%20clock | An automaton clock or automata clock is a type of striking clock featuring automatons. Clocks like these were built from the 1st century BC through to Victorian times in Europe. A Cuckoo clock is a simple form of this type of clock.
The first known mention is of those created by the Roman engineer Vitruvius, describin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Information%20Processing%20in%20Sensor%20Networks | IPSN, the IEEE/ACM International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, is an academic conference on sensor networks with its main focus on information processing aspects of sensor networks. IPSN draws upon many disciplines including signal and image processing, information and coding theory, networki... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel%20principal%20component%20analysis | In the field of multivariate statistics, kernel principal component analysis (kernel PCA)
is an extension of principal component analysis (PCA) using techniques of kernel methods. Using a kernel, the originally linear operations of PCA are performed in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space.
Background: Linear PCA
Recall ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-evolving%20block%20decimation | The time-evolving block decimation (TEBD) algorithm is a numerical scheme used to simulate one-dimensional quantum many-body systems, characterized by at most nearest-neighbour interactions. It is dubbed Time-evolving Block Decimation because it dynamically identifies the relevant low-dimensional Hilbert subspaces of a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvus%20Systems | Corvus Systems was a computer technology company that offered, at various points in its history, computer hardware, software, and complete PC systems.
History
Corvus was founded by Michael D'Addio and Mark Hahn in 1979. This San Jose, Silicon Valley company pioneered in the early days of personal computers, producing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic%20unit | In mathematics, elliptic units are certain units of abelian extensions of imaginary quadratic fields constructed using singular values of modular functions, or division values of elliptic functions. They were introduced by Gilles Robert in 1973, and were used by John Coates and Andrew Wiles in their work on the Birch a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics%20of%20Down%20syndrome | Down syndrome is a chromosomal abnormality characterized by the presence of an extra copy of genetic material on chromosome 21, either in whole (trisomy 21) or part (such as due to translocations). The effects of the extra copy varies greatly from individual to individual, depending on the extent of the extra copy, gen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.B.%20Wilson%20Medal | The E.B. Wilson Medal is the American Society for Cell Biology's highest honor for science and is presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for significant and far-reaching contributions to cell biology over the course of a career. It is named after Edmund Beecher Wilson.
Medalists
Source : ASCB
See also
Lis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20R.%20Porter%20Lecture | This lecture, named in memory of Keith R. Porter, is presented to an eminent cell biologist each year at the ASCB Annual Meeting. The ASCB Program Committee and the ASCB President recommend the Porter Lecturer to the Porter Endowment each year.
Lecturers
Source: ASCB
See also
List of biology awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WICB%20Junior%20and%20Senior%20Awards | The Women In Cell Biology Committee of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) recognizes outstanding achievements by women in cell biology by presenting three (previously only two) Career Recognition Awards at the ASCB Annual Meeting. The Junior Award is given to a woman in an early stage of her career (generally... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Career%20Life%20Scientist%20Award | The ASCB Early Career Life Scientist Award is awarded by the American Society for Cell Biology to an outstanding scientist who earned his doctorate no more than 12 years earlier and who has served as an independent investigator for no more than seven years. The winner speaks at the ASCB Annual Meeting and receives a mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claire%20Voisin | Claire Voisin (born 4 March 1962) is a French mathematician known for her work in algebraic geometry. She is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and holds the chair of algebraic geometry at the Collège de France.
Work
She is noted for her work in algebraic geometry particularly as it pertains to variations of H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Bruijn%20torus | In combinatorial mathematics, a De Bruijn torus, named after Dutch mathematician Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, is an array of symbols from an alphabet (often just 0 and 1) that contains every possible matrix of given dimensions exactly once. It is a torus because the edges are considered wraparound for the purpose of fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravi%20Vakil | Ravi D. Vakil (born February 22, 1970) is a Canadian-American mathematician working in algebraic geometry.
Education and career
Vakil attended high school at Martingrove Collegiate Institute in Etobicoke, Ontario, where he won several mathematical contests and olympiads. After earning a BSc and MSc from the University... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Cannery%2C%20Agricultural%2C%20Packing%2C%20and%20Allied%20Workers%20of%20America | The United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) was a labor union formed in 1937 and incorporated large numbers of Mexican, black, Asian, and Anglo food processing workers under its banner. The founders envisioned a national decentralized labor organization with power flowing from the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%2C%20Tobacco%2C%20Agricultural%2C%20and%20Allied%20Workers | The United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America union (UCAPAWA) changed its name to Food, Tobacco, Agricultural, and Allied Workers (FTA) in 1944.
History
The FTA sought to further organize cannery units and realized the best way to do this would be through organizing women and immigrant worke... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft%20photon | In particle physics, soft photons are photons having photon energies much smaller than the energies of the particles participating in a particular scattering process, and they are not energetic enough to be detected. Such photons can be emitted from (or absorbed by) the external (incoming and outgoing) lines of charged... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLOS%20Computational%20Biology | PLOS Computational Biology is a monthly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering computational biology. It was established in 2005 by the Public Library of Science in association with the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) in the same format as the previously established PLOS Biology a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTeV%20experiment | The BTeV experiment — for B meson TeV (teraelectronvolt) — was an experiment in high-energy particle physics designed to challenge the Standard Model explanation of CP violation, mixing and rare decays of bottom and charm quark states. The Standard Model has been the baseline particle physics theory for several decades... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20domain | In geometry, a set in the Euclidean space is called a star domain (or star-convex set, star-shaped set or radially convex set) if there exists an such that for all the line segment from to lies in This definition is immediately generalizable to any real, or complex, vector space.
Intuitively, if one thinks of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandoricum%20koetjape | Sandoricum koetjape, the santol, sentul or cotton fruit, is a tropical fruit native to maritime Southeast Asia (Malesia).
Origin and distribution
The santol is native to the Malesian floristic region, but have been introduced to Indochina, Sri Lanka, India, northern Australia, Mauritius, and Seychelles. It is commonly... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho%E2%80%93Kaufman%E2%80%93Mcalister%20syndrome | Ho–Kaufman–Mcalister syndrome is a rare congenital malformation syndrome where infants are born with a cleft palate, micrognathia, Wormian bones, congenital heart disease, dislocated hips, bowed fibulae, preaxial polydactyly of the feet, abnormal skin patterns, and most prominently, missing tibia. The etiology is unkno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohn%27s%20irreducibility%20criterion | Arthur Cohn's irreducibility criterion is a sufficient condition for a polynomial to be irreducible in —that is, for it to be unfactorable into the product of lower-degree polynomials with integer coefficients.
The criterion is often stated as follows:
If a prime number is expressed in base 10 as (where ) then the p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallic%20rooster | The Gallic rooster () is a national symbol of France as a nation, as opposed to Marianne representing France as a state and its values: the Republic. The rooster is also the symbol of the Wallonia region and the French Community of Belgium.
France
During the times of Ancient Rome, Suetonius, in The Twelve Caesars, no... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign-value%20notation | A sign-value notation represents numbers using a sequence of numerals which each represent a distinct quantity, regardless of their position in the sequence. Sign-value notations are typically additive, subtractive, or multiplicative depending on their conventions for grouping signs together to collectively represent n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion%20of%20the%20universe | The expansion of the universe is the increase in distance between gravitationally unbound parts of the observable universe with time. It is an intrinsic expansion; the universe does not expand "into" anything and does not require space to exist "outside" it. To any observer in the universe, it appears that all but the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmitoylcarnitine | Palmitoylcarnitine is an ester derivative of carnitine involved in the metabolism of fatty acids. During the tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA), fatty acids undergo a process known as β-oxidation to produce energy in the form of ATP. β-oxidation occurs primarily within mitochondria, however the mitochondrial membrane preve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive%20function | Recursive function may refer to:
Recursive function (programming), a function which references itself
General recursive function, a computable partial function from natural numbers to natural numbers
Primitive recursive function, a function which can be computed with loops of bounded length
Another name for computable ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xybots | Xybots is a 1987 third-person shooter arcade game by Atari Games. In Xybots, up to two players control "Major Rock Hardy" and "Captain Ace Gunn", who must travel through a 3D maze and fight against a series of robots known as the Xybots whose mission is to destroy all mankind. The game features a split screen display s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian%20%28control%20theory%29 | The Hamiltonian is a function used to solve a problem of optimal control for a dynamical system. It can be understood as an instantaneous increment of the Lagrangian expression of the problem that is to be optimized over a certain time period. Inspired by—but distinct from—the Hamiltonian of classical mechanics, the Ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertainty%20quantification | Uncertainty quantification (UQ) is the science of quantitative characterization and estimation of uncertainties in both computational and real world applications. It tries to determine how likely certain outcomes are if some aspects of the system are not exactly known. An example would be to predict the acceleration of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solute%20carrier%20family | The solute carrier (SLC) group of membrane transport proteins include over 400 members organized into 66 families. Most members of the SLC group are located in the cell membrane. The SLC gene nomenclature system was originally proposed by the HUGO Gene Nomenclature Committee (HGNC) and is the basis for the official HGN... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secalin | Secalin is a prolamin glycoprotein found in the grain rye, Secale cereale.
Secalin is one of the forms of gluten proteins that people with coeliac disease cannot tolerate, and thus rye should be avoided by people with this disease. It is generally recommended that such people follow a gluten free diet. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calmodulin-binding%20proteins | Calmodulin-binding proteins are, as their name implies, proteins which bind calmodulin. Calmodulin can bind to a variety of proteins through a two-step binding mechanism, namely "conformational and mutually induced fit", where typically two domains of calmodulin wrap around an emerging helical calmodulin binding domain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overconvergent%20modular%20form | In mathematics, overconvergent modular forms are special p-adic modular forms that are elements of certain p-adic Banach spaces (usually infinite dimensional)
containing classical spaces of modular forms as subspaces. They were introduced by Nicholas M. Katz in 1972. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyroxine-binding%20proteins | A thyroxine-binding protein is any of several transport proteins that bind thyroid hormone and carry it around the bloodstream. Examples include:
Thyroxine-binding globulin
Transthyretin
Serum albumin
External links
Human proteins
Blood proteins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20machine | A logical machine or logical abacus is a tool containing a set of parts that uses energy to perform formal logic operations through the use of truth tables. Early logical machines were mechanical devices that performed basic operations in Boolean logic. The principal examples of such machines are those of William Stan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complement%20component%209 | Complement component 9 (C9) is a MACPF protein involved in the complement system, which is part of the innate immune system. Once activated, about 12-18 molecules of C9 polymerize to form pores in target cell membranes, causing lysis and cell death. C9 is one member of the complement membrane attack complex (MAC), whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20weight%20matching | In computer science and graph theory, the maximum weight matching problem is the problem of finding, in a weighted graph, a matching in which the sum of weights is maximized.
A special case of it is the assignment problem, in which the input is restricted to be a bipartite graph, and the matching constrained to be hav... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One%20woodland%20terminal%20model | The ITU terrestrial model for one terminal in woodland is a radio propagation model belonging to the class of foliage models. This model is a successor of the early ITU model.
Applicable to/under conditions
Applicable to the scenario where one terminal of a link is inside foliage and the other end is free.
Coverage
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earcon | An earcon is a brief, distinctive sound that represents a specific event or conveys other information. Earcons are a common feature of computer operating systems and applications, ranging from a simple beep to indicate an error, to the customizable sound schemes of modern operating systems that indicate startup, shutdo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ain%20al-Yaqeen | Ain al Yaqeen (Heart of the Matter in English) is an Arabic news magazine published weekly, focusing on political topics.
Profile
Ain al Yaqeen also has an English edition. It is published online. The magazine is seen as a government publication or as a semi-official weekly political magazine.
Contents
After it was r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclotomic%20unit | In mathematics, a cyclotomic unit (or circular unit) is a unit of an algebraic number field which is the product of numbers of the form (ζ − 1) for ζ an nth root of unity and 0 < a < n.
Properties
The cyclotomic units form a subgroup of finite index in the group of units of a cyclotomic field. The index of this subgr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20rice%20fish | The Japanese rice fish (Oryzias latipes), also known as the medaka, is a member of genus Oryzias (ricefish), the only genus in the subfamily Oryziinae. This small (up to about ) native of Japan is a denizen of rice paddies, marshes, ponds, slow-moving streams and tide pools. It is euryhaline, occurring in both brackish... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Shadow%20%281994%20film%29 | The Shadow is a 1994 American superhero film from Universal Pictures, produced by Martin Bregman, Willi Bear, and Michael Scott Bregman, and directed by Russell Mulcahy. It stars Alec Baldwin, supported by John Lone, Penelope Ann Miller, Peter Boyle, Ian McKellen, Jonathan Winters, and Tim Curry. The film is based on t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bondi%20k-calculus | Bondi k-calculus is a method of teaching special relativity popularised by Sir Hermann Bondi, that has been used in university-level physics classes (e.g. at the University of Oxford), and in some relativity textbooks.
The usefulness of the k-calculus is its simplicity. Many introductions to relativity begin with the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koide%20formula | The Koide formula is an unexplained empirical equation discovered by Yoshio Koide in 1981. In its original form, it is not fully empirical but a set of guesses for a model for masses of quarks and leptons, as well as CKM angles. From this model it survives the observation about the masses of the three charged leptons; ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20relative%20entropy | In quantum information theory, quantum relative entropy is a measure of distinguishability between two quantum states. It is the quantum mechanical analog of relative entropy.
Motivation
For simplicity, it will be assumed that all objects in the article are finite-dimensional.
We first discuss the classical case. S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy%20Ray | Wilford Jones (January 22, 1931 – March 17, 2007), better known as Crazy Ray, was the unofficial mascot of the Dallas Cowboys. By some accounts, he was also the team's original mascot, who attended almost every home game since the team's inception.
History
He started selling pennants at games in 1962 and quickly endea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussing%20chamber | An Ussing chamber is an apparatus for measuring epithelial membrane properties. It can detect and quantify transport and barrier functions of living tissue. The Ussing chamber was invented by the Danish zoologist and physiologist Hans Henriksen Ussing in 1946.
The technique is used to measure the short-circuit current... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MBC%20Paper%20of%20the%20Year | Chosen by Molecular Biology of the Cell Associate Editors, the MBoC Paper of the Year is awarded to the first author of the paper judged to be the best of the year in the field of molecular biology, from June to May.
Awardees
Source: MBoC
See also
List of biology awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20Biology%20of%20the%20Cell | Molecular Biology of the Cell is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Society for Cell Biology. It covers research on the molecular basis of cell structure and function. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2012 impact factor of 4.803. It was originally establish... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merton%20Bernfield%20Memorial%20Award | The Merton Bernfield Memorial Award, formerly known as the Member Memorial Award
For Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows, was established in memory of deceased colleagues donations from members of the American Society for Cell Biology. The winner is selected on merit and is invited to speak in Minisymposium at t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCB%20Public%20Service%20Award | The American Society for Cell Biology's highest honor for Public Service, the ASCB Public Service Award is for outstanding national leadership in support of biomedical research. The awardees are selected by the ASCB Public Policy Committee.
Awardees
Source: ASCB
2022 George Langford
2021 Raynard Kington and Donna Gint... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20content%20of%20biofuel | The energy content of biofuel is the chemical energy contained in a given biofuel, measured per unit mass of that fuel, as specific energy, or per unit of volume of the fuel, as energy density.
A biofuel is a fuel produced from recently living organisms. Biofuels include bioethanol, an alcohol made by fermentation—ofte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Nechvatal | Joseph Nechvatal (born January 15, 1951) is an American post-conceptual digital artist and art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses.
Life and work
Joseph Nechvatal was born in Chicago. He studied fine art and philosophy at Southern ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurturin | Neurturin (NRTN) is a protein that is encoded in humans by the NRTN gene. Neurturin belongs to the glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) family of neurotrophic factors, which regulate the survival and function of neurons. Neurturin’s role as a growth factor places it in the transforming growth factor bet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin%20transform | The Kelvin transform is a device used in classical potential theory to extend the concept of a harmonic function, by allowing the definition of a function which is 'harmonic at infinity'. This technique is also used in the study of subharmonic and superharmonic functions.
In order to define the Kelvin transform f* of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tisserand%27s%20parameter | Tisserand's parameter (or Tisserand's invariant) is a value calculated from several orbital elements (semi-major axis, orbital eccentricity and inclination) of a relatively small object and a larger "perturbing body". It is used to distinguish different kinds of orbits. The term is named after French astronomer Félix T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elmer%20McCollum | Elmer Verner McCollum (March 3, 1879 – November 15, 1967) was an American biochemist known for his work on the influence of diet on health. McCollum is also remembered for starting the first rat colony in the United States to be used for nutrition research. His reputation has suffered from posthumous controversy. Time ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh%20Supercomputing%20Center | The Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC) is a high performance computing and networking center founded in 1986 and one of the original five NSF Supercomputing Centers. PSC is a joint effort of Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States.
In addition to prov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes%20of%20gender%20incongruence | Gender incongruence is the state of having a gender identity that does not correspond to one's sex assigned at birth. This is experienced by people who identify as transgender or transsexual, and often results in gender dysphoria. The causes of gender incongruence have been studied for decades.
Transgender brain studi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent%20temperature | Apparent temperature, also known as "feels like", is the temperature equivalent perceived by humans, caused by the combined effects of air temperature, relative humidity and wind speed. The measure is most commonly applied to the perceived outdoor temperature. Apparent temperature was invented by Robert Steadman who pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sleuth%20Kit | The Sleuth Kit (TSK) is a library and collection of Unix- and Windows-based utilities for extracting data from disk drives and other storage so as to facilitate the forensic analysis of computer systems. It forms the foundation for Autopsy, a better known tool that is essentially a graphical user interface to the comma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag%20SNP | A tag SNP is a representative single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) in a region of the genome with high linkage disequilibrium that represents a group of SNPs called a haplotype. It is possible to identify genetic variation and association to phenotypes without genotyping every SNP in a chromosomal region. This reduces ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20string%20theory | The history of string theory spans several decades of intense research including two superstring revolutions. Through the combined efforts of many researchers, string theory has developed into a broad and varied subject with connections to quantum gravity, particle and condensed matter physics, cosmology, and pure math... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-factor%20%28crystallography%29 | In crystallography, the R-factor (sometimes called residual factor or reliability factor or the R-value or RWork) is a measure of the agreement between the crystallographic model and the experimental X-ray diffraction data. In other words, it is a measure of how well the refined structure predicts the observed data. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS%20Advisory%20Board | The RSS Advisory Board is a group founded in July 2003 that publishes the RSS 0.9, RSS 0.91 and RSS 2.0 specifications and helps developers create RSS applications.
Dave Winer, the lead author of several RSS specifications and a longtime evangelist of syndication, created the board to maintain the RSS 2.0 specificatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helimagnetism | Helimagnetism is a form of magnetic ordering where spins of neighbouring magnetic moments arrange themselves in a spiral or helical pattern, with a characteristic turn angle of somewhere between 0 and 180 degrees. It results from the competition between ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic exchange interactions. It is p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mictomagnetism | Mictomagnetism is a spin system in which various exchange interactions are mixed. It is observed in several kinds of alloys, including Cu-Mn, Fe-Al and Ni-Mn alloys. Cooled in zero magnetic field, these materials have low remanence and coercivity. Cooled in a magnetic field, they have much larger remanence and the hyst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOAC%20International | AOAC International is a 501(c) non-profit scientific association with headquarters in Rockville, Maryland. It was founded in 1884 as the Association of Official Agricultural Chemists (AOAC) and became AOAC International in 1991. It publishes standardized, chemical analysis methods designed to increase confidence in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setcontext | setcontext is one of a family of C library functions (the others being getcontext, makecontext and swapcontext) used for context control. The setcontext family allows the implementation in C of advanced control flow patterns such as iterators, fibers, and coroutines. They may be viewed as an advanced version of setjmp/... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TuVox | TuVox is a company that produces VXML-based telephone speech-recognition applications to replace DTMF touch-tone systems for their clients.
History
TuVox was founded in 2001 by Steven S. Pollock and Ashok Khosla, formerly of Apple Computer Corporation and Claris Corporation. Since then, TuVox has grown to over 150 emp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable%20isotope%20labeling%20by%20amino%20acids%20in%20cell%20culture | Stable Isotope Labeling by/with Amino acids in Cell culture (SILAC) is a technique based on mass spectrometry that detects differences in protein abundance among samples using non-radioactive isotopic labeling. It is a popular method for quantitative proteomics.
Procedure
Two populations of cells are cultivated in cel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuphar%20advena | Nuphar advena (spatterdock or cow lily or yellow pond-lily) is a species of Nuphar native throughout the eastern United States and in some parts of Canada, such as Nova Scotia. It is similar to the Eurasian species N. lutea, and is treated as a subspecies of it by some botanists, though differing significantly in genet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pro-simplicial%20set | In mathematics, a pro-simplicial set is an inverse system of simplicial sets.
A pro-simplicial set is called pro-finite if each term of the inverse system of simplicial sets has finite homotopy groups.
Pro-simplicial sets show up in shape theory, in the study of localization and completion in homotopy theory, and in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salicin | Salicin is an alcoholic β-glucoside. Salicin is produced in (and named after) willow (Salix) bark. It is a biosynthetic precursor to salicylaldehyde.
Medicinal aspects
Salicin is found in the bark of and leaves of willows, poplars and various other plants. Derivates are found in castoreum. Salicin from meadowsweet ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar%20%28film%29 | Interstellar is a 2014 epic science fiction film co-written, directed, and produced by Christopher Nolan. It stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain, Bill Irwin, Ellen Burstyn, Matt Damon, and Michael Caine. Set in a dystopian future where humanity is embroiled in a catastrophic blight and famine, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware%20Workstation%20Player | VMware Workstation Player, formerly VMware Player, is a virtualization software package for x64 computers running Microsoft Windows or Linux, supplied free of charge by VMware, Inc. VMware Player can run existing virtual appliances and create its own virtual machines (which require that an operating system be installed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioreactor%20landfill | Landfills are the primary method of waste disposal in many parts of the world, including United States and Canada. Bioreactor landfills are expected to reduce the amount of and costs associated with management of leachate, to increase the rate of production of methane (natural gas) for commercial purposes and reduce th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-cost%20multi-path%20routing | Equal-cost multi-path routing (ECMP) is a routing strategy where packet forwarding to a single destination can occur over multiple best paths with equal routing priority. Multi-path routing can be used in conjunction with most routing protocols because it is a per-hop local decision made independently at each router. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20mutual%20information | In quantum information theory, quantum mutual information, or von Neumann mutual information, after John von Neumann, is a measure of correlation between subsystems of quantum state. It is the quantum mechanical analog of Shannon mutual information.
Motivation
For simplicity, it will be assumed that all objects in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20biotechnology | Biotechnology is the application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by biological agents to provide goods and services. From its inception, biotechnology has maintained a close relationship with society. Although now most often associated with the development of drugs, historically ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20photo%20frame | A digital photo frame (also called a digital media frame) is a picture frame that displays digital photos without the need of a computer or printer. The introduction of digital photo frames predates tablet computers, which can serve the same purpose in some situations; however, digital photo frames are generally design... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20homotopy | In the mathematical field of topology, a regular homotopy refers to a special kind of homotopy between immersions of one manifold in another. The homotopy must be a 1-parameter family of immersions.
Similar to homotopy classes, one defines two immersions to be in the same regular homotopy class if there exists a regul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre%20Robin%20sequence | Pierre Robin sequence (; abbreviated PRS) is a congenital defect observed in humans which is characterized by facial abnormalities. The three main features are micrognathia (abnormally small mandible), which causes glossoptosis (downwardly displaced or retracted tongue), which in turn causes breathing problems due to o... |
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