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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artery%20to%20the%20ductus%20deferens
The artery to the ductus deferens (deferential artery) is an artery in males that provides blood to the ductus deferens. Anatomy Origin The artery arises from the superior vesical artery (usually), or from the inferior vesical artery. Course, anastomoses, and distribution It accompanies the ductus deferens into th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonym%20%28botany%29
In botanical nomenclature, autonyms are automatically created names, as regulated by the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants that are created for certain subdivisions of genera and species, those that include the type of the genus or species. An autonym might not be mentioned in the publicat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantar%20arch
The plantar arch is a circulatory anastomosis formed from: deep plantar artery, from the dorsalis pedis - a.k.a. dorsal artery of the foot lateral plantar artery The plantar arch supplies the underside, or sole, of the foot. The plantar arch runs from the 5th metatarsal and extends medially to the 1st metatarsal (o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soy%20molasses
Soy molasses is brown viscous syrup with a typical bittersweet flavor. A by-product of aqueous alcohol soy protein concentrate production, soy molasses is a concentrated, desolventized, aqueous alcohol extract of defatted soybean flakes. The term "soy molasses" was coined by Daniel Chajuss, the founder of Hayes Ashdod...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly-MVA
Poly-MVA (or Lipoic Acid Mineral Complex) is a dietary supplement created by Merrill Garnett (1931–), a former dentist turned biochemist. Poly-MVA is an ineffective alternative cancer treatment. Description The "MVA" in "Poly-MVA" means "minerals vitamins and amino acids". Poly-MVA contains lipoic acid, acetylcystein...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncacheable%20speculative%20write%20combining
Uncacheable speculative write combining (USWC), is a computer BIOS setting for memory communication between a CPU and graphics card. It allows faster communication than the "uncachable" setting (the alternative to USWC in the BIOS), as long as the graphics card supports write combining (which most modern cards do), all...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipital%20cryoneurolysis
Occipital cryoneurolysis is a procedure used to treat nerve pain generated by peripheral nerves (nerves located outside of the spinal column and skull) commonly due to the condition occipital neuralgia. A probe (no larger than a small needle) is carefully placed adjacent to the specific nerve. Once in the appropriate a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrifty%20gene%20hypothesis
The thrifty gene hypothesis, or Gianfranco's hypothesis is an attempt by geneticist James V. Neel to explain why certain populations and subpopulations in the modern day are prone to diabetes mellitus type 2. He proposed the hypothesis in 1962 to resolve a fundamental problem: diabetes is clearly a very harmful medical...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior%20phrenic%20vein
The superior phrenic vein, i.e., the vein accompanying the pericardiacophrenic artery, usually opens into the azygos vein.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasofrontal%20vein
The nasofrontal vein is a vein in the orbit around the eye. It drains into the superior ophthalmic vein. It can be used for endovascular access to the cavernous sinus. Structure The nasofrontal vein drains into the superior ophthalmic vein. Clinical significance The nasofrontal vein can be used to access the superi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20facial%20vein
The anterior facial vein receives a branch of considerable size, the deep facial vein, from the pterygoid venous plexus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20digital%20veins
On the dorsum of the foot the dorsal digital veins receive, in the clefts between the toes, the intercapitular veins from the plantar venous arch and join to form short common digital veins which unite across the distal ends of the metatarsal bones in a dorsal venous arch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topoisomerase%20inhibitor
Topoisomerase inhibitors are chemical compounds that block the action of topoisomerases, which are broken into two broad subtypes: type I topoisomerases (TopI) and type II topoisomerases (TopII). Topoisomerase plays important roles in cellular reproduction and DNA organization, as they mediate the cleavage of single an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterivore
A bacterivore is an organism which obtains energy and nutrients primarily or entirely from the consumption of bacteria. The term is most commonly used to describe free-living, heterotrophic, microscopic organisms such as nematodes as well as many species of amoeba and numerous other types of protozoans, but some macros...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mating%20connection
A mating connection is any method of assembling of two or more component parts with mutually complementing shapes that, with some imagination, resembles the way two animals, male and female, are physically connected during the act of mating. In such connections one of the two components acts as male and the other as fe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subclinical%20infection
A subclinical infection—sometimes called a preinfection or inapparent infection—is an infection by a pathogen that causes few or no signs or symptoms of infection in the host. Subclinical infections can occur in both humans and animals. Depending on the pathogen, which can be a virus or intestinal parasite, the host ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeo%2C%20Inc.
Zeo, Inc., formerly Axon Labs, was a private company founded by Brown University students. Established December 29, 2003 in Providence, Rhode Island and later headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, it developed a smart alarm clock with sleep monitor (e.g., REM). Sleep states could be used to sound a wake-up alarm only...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal%20genome%20project
The Neanderthal genome project is an effort of a group of scientists to sequence the Neanderthal genome, founded in July 2006. It was initiated by 454 Life Sciences, a biotechnology company based in Branford, Connecticut in the United States and is coordinated by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groma%20%28surveying%29
The groma (as standardized in the imperial Latin, sometimes croma, or gruma in the literature of the republican times) was a Roman surveying instrument. The groma allowed projecting right angles and straight lines and thus enabling the centuriation (setting up of a rectangular grid). It is the only Roman surveying tool...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact%20operator%20on%20Hilbert%20space
In the mathematical discipline of functional analysis, the concept of a compact operator on Hilbert space is an extension of the concept of a matrix acting on a finite-dimensional vector space; in Hilbert space, compact operators are precisely the closure of finite-rank operators (representable by finite-dimensional ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Amazing%20Transparent%20Man
The Amazing Transparent Man is a 1960 American science fiction thriller B-movie starring Marguerite Chapman in her final feature film. The plot follows an insane ex–U.S. Army major who uses an escaped criminal to steal materials to improve the invisibility machine his scientist prisoner made. It was one of two sci-fi f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20underwriting
Medical underwriting is a health insurance term referring to the use of medical or health information in the evaluation of an applicant for coverage, typically for life or health insurance. As part of the underwriting process, an individual's health information may be used in making two decisions: whether to offer or d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostages%20%28video%20game%29
Hostages is a 1988 tactical shooter video game developed and published by Infogrames for the Acorn Electron, Archimedes, Atari ST, Amiga, Apple IIGS, Amstrad CPC, BBC Micro, Commodore 64, MS-DOS, MSX, Nintendo Entertainment System, and ZX Spectrum. The game depicts a terrorist attack and hostage crisis at an embassy in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran%20%28protein%29
Ran (RAs-related Nuclear protein) also known as GTP-binding nuclear protein Ran is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RAN gene. Ran is a small 25 kDa protein that is involved in transport into and out of the cell nucleus during interphase and also involved in mitosis. It is a member of the Ras superfamily. Ran...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest-scale%20trends%20in%20evolution
The history of life on Earth seems to show a clear trend; for example, it seems intuitive that there is a trend towards increasing complexity in living organisms. More recently evolved organisms, such as mammals, appear to be much more complex than organisms, such as bacteria, which have existed for a much longer perio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fielden%20Professor%20of%20Pure%20Mathematics
The Fielden Chair of Pure Mathematics is an endowed professorial position in the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, England. History In 1870 Samuel Fielden, a wealthy mill owner from Todmorden, donated £150 to Owens College (as the Victoria University of Manchester was then called) for the teaching of ev...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersalivation
Hypersalivation or hypersialosis is the excessive production of saliva. It has also been defined as increased amount of saliva in the mouth, which may also be caused by decreased clearance of saliva. Hypersalivation can contribute to drooling if there is an inability to keep the mouth closed or difficulty in swallowi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skolem%20arithmetic
In mathematical logic, Skolem arithmetic is the first-order theory of the natural numbers with multiplication, named in honor of Thoralf Skolem. The signature of Skolem arithmetic contains only the multiplication operation and equality, omitting the addition operation entirely. Skolem arithmetic is weaker than Peano a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20spinal%20artery
The posterior spinal artery (dorsal spinal arteries) arises from the vertebral artery in 25% of humans or the posterior inferior cerebellar artery in 75% of humans, adjacent to the medulla oblongata. It is usually double, and spans the length of the spinal cord. It supplies the grey and white posterior columns of the s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20harmonic%20scale
The double harmonic major scale is a musical scale with a flattened second and sixth degree. This is also known as Mayamalavagowla, Bhairav Raga, Byzantine scale, Arabic (Hijaz Kar), and Gypsy major. It can be likened to a gypsy scale because of the diminished step between the 1st and 2nd degrees. Arabic scale may also...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meningeal%20branches%20of%20vertebral%20artery
The meningeal branches of vertebral artery (posterior meningeal branch) springs from the vertebral opposite the foramen magnum, ramifies between the bone and dura mater in the cerebellar fossa, and supplies the falx cerebelli. It is frequently represented by one or two small branches.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20misnamed%20theorems
This is a list of misnamed theorems in mathematics. It includes theorems (and lemmas, corollaries, conjectures, laws, and perhaps even the odd object) that are well known in mathematics, but which are not named for the originator. That is, these items on this list illustrate Stigler's law of eponymy (which is not, of c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop%20heat%20pipe
A loop heat pipe (LHP) is a two-phase heat transfer device that uses capillary action to remove heat from a source and passively move it to a condenser or radiator. LHPs are similar to heat pipes but have the advantage of being able to provide reliable operation over long distance and the ability to operate against gr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20battery%20types
This list is a summary of notable electric battery types composed of one or more electrochemical cells. Three lists are provided in the table. The primary (non-rechargeable) and secondary (rechargeable) cell lists are lists of battery chemistry. The third list is a list of battery applications. Battery cell types B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiprotozoal
Antiprotozoal agents (ATC code: ATC P01) is a class of pharmaceuticals used in treatment of protozoan infection. A paraphyletic group, protozoans have little in common with each other. For example, Entamoeba histolytica, a unikont eukaryotic organism, is more closely related to Homo sapiens (humans), which also belong...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Institute%20for%20Brain%20Research
The Max Planck Institute for Brain Research is located in Frankfurt, Germany. It was founded as Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research in Berlin 1914, moved to Frankfurt-Niederrad in 1962 and more recently in a new building in Frankfurt-Riedberg. It is one of 83 institutes in the Max Planck Society (Max Planck Ges...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Salzberg
Steven Lloyd Salzberg (born 1960) is an American computational biologist and computer scientist who is a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering, Computer Science, and Biostatistics at Johns Hopkins University, where he is also Director of the Center for Computational Biology. Early life and educat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storage%20Module%20Device
Storage Module Drive (SMD) is a family of storage devices (hard disk drives) that were first shipped by Control Data Corporation in December 1973 as the CDC 9760 40 MB (unformatted) storage module disk drive. The CDC 9762 80 MB variant was announced in June 1974 and the CDC 9764 150 MB and the CDC 9766 300 MB variants...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion%20%28acoustics%29
Diffusion, in architectural acoustics, is the spreading of sound energy evenly in a given environment. A perfectly diffusive sound space is one in which the reverberation time is the same at any listening position. Most interior spaces are non-diffusive; the reverberation time is considerably different around the room....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOON%20state
In quantum optics, a NOON state or N00N state is a quantum-mechanical many-body entangled state: which represents a superposition of N particles in mode a with zero particles in mode b, and vice versa. Usually, the particles are photons, but in principle any bosonic field can support NOON states. Applications NOO...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arylsulfatase
Arylsulfatase (EC 3.1.6.1, sulfatase, nitrocatechol sulfatase, phenolsulfatase, phenylsulfatase, p-nitrophenyl sulfatase, arylsulfohydrolase, 4-methylumbelliferyl sulfatase, estrogen sulfatase) is a type of sulfatase enzyme with systematic name aryl-sulfate sulfohydrolase. This enzyme catalyses the following chemical r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serodiscordant
A serodiscordant relationship, also known as mixed-status, is one where one partner is infected by HIV and the other is not. This contrasts with seroconcordant relationships, in which both partners are of the same HIV status. Serodiscordancy contributes to the spread of HIV/AIDS, particularly in Sub-Saharan nations suc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emopamil%20binding%20protein
Emopamil binding protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EBP gene, located on the X chromosome. The protein is shown to have a high-affinity reception for anti-ischemic drugs, such as Emopamil, resulting in its discovery and given name. EBP has a mass of 27.3 kDa and resembles a σ-receptor that resides in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan%27s%20congruences
In mathematics, Ramanujan's congruences are some remarkable congruences for the partition function p(n). The mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan discovered the congruences This means that: If a number is 4 more than a multiple of 5, i.e. it is in the sequence 4, 9, 14, 19, 24, 29, . . . then the number of its partit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian%20dynamics
In physics, Brownian dynamics is a mathematical approach for describing the dynamics of molecular systems in the diffusive regime. It is a simplified version of Langevin dynamics and corresponds to the limit where no average acceleration takes place. This approximation is also known as overdamped Langevin dynamics or a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasserstein%20metric
In mathematics, the Wasserstein distance or Kantorovich–Rubinstein metric is a distance function defined between probability distributions on a given metric space . It is named after Leonid Vaseršteĭn. Intuitively, if each distribution is viewed as a unit amount of earth (soil) piled on , the metric is the minimum "co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varifold
In mathematics, a varifold is, loosely speaking, a measure-theoretic generalization of the concept of a differentiable manifold, by replacing differentiability requirements with those provided by rectifiable sets, while maintaining the general algebraic structure usually seen in differential geometry. Varifolds genera...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schramm%E2%80%93Loewner%20evolution
In probability theory, the Schramm–Loewner evolution with parameter κ, also known as stochastic Loewner evolution (SLEκ), is a family of random planar curves that have been proven to be the scaling limit of a variety of two-dimensional lattice models in statistical mechanics. Given a parameter κ and a domain in the com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven%20management%20and%20planning%20tools
The seven management and planning tools have their roots in operations research work done after World War II and the Japanese total quality control (TQC) research. The New seven tools Affinity Diagram [KJ method] Affinity diagrams are a special kind of brainstorming tool that organize large amount of disorganized d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kv1.1
Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily A member 1 also known as Kv1.1 is a shaker related voltage-gated potassium channel that in humans is encoded by the KCNA1 gene. Isaacs syndrome is a result of an autoimmune reaction against the Kv1.1 ion channel. Genomics The gene is located on the Watson (plus) strand of th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercube%20graph
In graph theory, the hypercube graph is the graph formed from the vertices and edges of an -dimensional hypercube. For instance, the cube graph is the graph formed by the 8 vertices and 12 edges of a three-dimensional cube. has vertices, edges, and is a regular graph with edges touching each vertex. The hypercu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac-Mania
is a cavalier perspective maze game that was developed and released by Namco for arcades in 1987. In the game, the player controls Pac-Man as he must eat all of the dots while avoiding the colored ghosts that chase him in the maze. Eating large flashing "Power Pellets" will allow Pac-Man to eat the ghosts for bonus poi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallography%20and%20NMR%20system
CNS or Crystallography and NMR system, is a software library for computational structural biology. It is an offshoot of X-PLOR and uses much of the same syntax. It is used in the fields of X-ray crystallography and NMR spectroscopy of biological macromolecules.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss%20reserving
Loss reserving is the calculation of the required reserves for a tranche of insurance business, including outstanding claims reserves. Typically, the claims reserves represent the money which should be held by the insurer so as to be able to meet all future claims arising from policies currently in force and policies ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weakless%20universe
A weakless universe is a hypothetical universe that contains no weak interactions, but is otherwise very similar to our own universe. In particular, a weakless universe is constructed to have atomic physics and chemistry identical to standard atomic physics and chemistry. The dynamics of a weakless universe includes a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taping%20knife
A taping knife or joint knife is a drywall tool with a wide blade for spreading joint compound, also known as "mud". It can be used to spread mud over nail and screw indents in new drywall applications and is also used when using paper or fiberglass drywall tape to cover seams. Other common uses include patching holes,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20shifting
Cognitive shifting is the mental process of consciously redirecting one's attention from one fixation to another. In contrast, if this process happened unconsciously, then it is referred to as task switching. Both are forms of cognitive flexibility. In the general framework of cognitive therapy and awareness managem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Compaq%20tc1100
The HP Compaq TC1100 is a tablet PC sold by Hewlett-Packard that was the follow-up to the Compaq TC1000. The TC1100 had either an Intel Celeron or an Intel Pentium M chip set and could be upgraded up to 2 gigabytes of memory. The switch from Transmeta Crusoe processors to the Pentium M and the ability to add memory was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantitative%20computed%20tomography
Quantitative computed tomography (QCT) is a medical technique that measures bone mineral density (BMD) using a standard X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) scanner with a calibration standard to convert Hounsfield Units (HU) of the CT image to bone mineral density values. Quantitative CT scans are primarily used to evaluat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic%20probe
A logic probe is a low-cost hand-held test probe used for analyzing and troubleshooting the logical states (boolean 0 or 1) of a digital circuit. When many signals need to be observed or recorded simultaneously, a logic analyzer is used instead. Overview While most logic probes are powered by the circuit under test, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubling%20time
The doubling time is the time it takes for a population to double in size/value. It is applied to population growth, inflation, resource extraction, consumption of goods, compound interest, the volume of malignant tumours, and many other things that tend to grow over time. When the relative growth rate (not the absolu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minus%20Cube
The Minus Cube (aka BLOXBOX by Piet Hein; aka Varikon Box) is a 3D mechanical variant of the n-puzzle, which was manufactured in the Soviet Union. It consists of a bonded transparent plastic box containing seven small cubes, each glued together from two U-shape parts: one white and one coloured. The length of one side...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tian%20Gang
Tian Gang (; born November 24, 1958) is a Chinese mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at Peking University and Higgins Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He is known for contributions to the mathematical fields of Kähler geometry, Gromov-Witten theory, and geometric analysis. As of 2020, he is the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matti%20Jutila
Matti Ilmari Jutila (born 1943) is a mathematician and a professor emeritus at the University of Turku. He researches in the field of analytic number theory. Education and career Jutila completed a doctorate at the University of Turku in 1970, with a dissertation related to Linnik's constant supervised by . Jutila's ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borisova%20Gradina%20TV%20Tower
The Borisova Gradina TV Tower, or the Old TV Tower, is a TV tower (including the aerial) in the garden Borisova gradina in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria. It is known as the tower used for the first Bulgarian National Television broadcasts in 1959. History The tower was designed by architect Lyuben Podponev, engine...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20African%20National%20Bioinformatics%20Institute
The South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI) is a non-profit organisation in Cape Town, South Africa dedicated to bioinformatics, biotechnology and genomics in health research. SANBI maintains current collaborations with institutes and laboratories at Harvard University, Oxford University, Cambridge Uni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodiversity%20action%20plan
A biodiversity action plan (BAP) is an internationally recognized program addressing threatened species and habitats and is designed to protect and restore biological systems. The original impetus for these plans derives from the 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). As of 2009, 191 countries have ratified the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9la%20Sz%C5%91kefalvi-Nagy
Béla Szőkefalvi-Nagy (29 July 1913, Kolozsvár – 21 December 1998, Szeged) was a Hungarian mathematician. His father, Gyula Szőkefalvi-Nagy was also a famed mathematician. Szőkefalvi-Nagy collaborated with Alfréd Haar and Frigyes Riesz, founders of the Szegedian school of mathematics. He contributed to the theory of Fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introduction%20to%20the%20mathematics%20of%20general%20relativity
The mathematics of general relativity is complex. In Newton's theories of motion, an object's length and the rate at which time passes remain constant while the object accelerates, meaning that many problems in Newtonian mechanics may be solved by algebra alone. In relativity, however, an object's length and the rate a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powdered%20eggs
A powdered egg is a fully dehydrated egg. Most powdered eggs are made using spray drying in the same way that powdered milk is made. The major advantages of powdered eggs over fresh eggs are the reduced weight per volume of whole egg equivalent and the shelf life. Other advantages include smaller usage of storage space...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20alpha%20emitting%20materials
The following are among the principal radioactive materials known to emit alpha particles. 209Bi, 211Bi, 212Bi, 213Bi 210Po, 211Po, 212Po, 214Po, 215Po, 216Po, 218Po 215At, 217At, 218At 218Rn, 219Rn, 220Rn, 222Rn, 226Rn 221Fr 223Ra, 224Ra, 226Ra 225Ac, 227Ac 227Th, 228Th, 229Th, 230Th, 232Th 231Pa 233U, 23...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine-associated%20sarcoma
A vaccine-associated sarcoma (VAS) or feline injection-site sarcoma (FISS) is a type of malignant tumor found in cats (and, often, dogs and ferrets) which has been linked to certain vaccines. VAS has become a concern for veterinarians and cat owners alike and has resulted in changes in recommended vaccine protocols. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falsing
In telecommunications, falsing is a signaling error condition when a signal decoder detects a valid input although the implied protocol function was not intended. This is also known as a false decode. Other forms are referred to as talk-off. Signal detection Signal decoders used in communication systems, such as telep...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W.%20Roy%20Wheeler%20Medallion
The W. Roy Wheeler Medallion for excellence in field ornithology was created on the occasion of the centenary of the founding of Bird Observation & Conservation Australia (BOCA) to commemorate Roy Wheeler MBE, FRAOU, (1905-1988), an amateur ornithologist with a long association with the Club, as well as with the Royal ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature%20Medicine
Nature Medicine is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Nature Portfolio covering all aspects of medicine. It was established in 1995. The journal seeks to publish research papers that "demonstrate novel insight into disease processes, with direct evidence of the physiological relevance of the results"....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEBus
IEBus (Inter Equipment Bus) is a communication bus specification "between equipments within a vehicle or a chassis" of Renesas Electronics. It defines OSI model layer 1 and layer 2 specification. IEBus is mainly used for car audio and car navigations, which established de facto standard in Japan, though SAE J1850 is ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20offset%20modulation
Phase offset modulation works by overlaying two instances of a periodic waveform on top of each other. (In software synthesis, the waveform is usually generated by using a lookup table.) The two instances of the waveform are kept slightly out of sync with each other, as one is further ahead or further behind in its cyc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20reconstruction
Surface reconstruction refers to the process by which atoms at the surface of a crystal assume a different structure than that of the bulk. Surface reconstructions are important in that they help in the understanding of surface chemistry for various materials, especially in the case where another material is adsorbed o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20antivirus%20software
Legend The term "on-demand scan" refers to the possibility of performing a manual scan (by the user) on the entire computer/device, while "on-access scan" refers to the ability of a product to automatically scan every file at its creation or subsequent modification. The term "CloudAV" refers to the ability of a pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20Engineering%20Process%20Group
A Software Engineering Process Group (SEPG) is an organization's focal point for software process improvement activities. These individuals perform assessments of organizational capability, develop plans to implement needed improvements, coordinate the implementation of those plans, and measure the effectiveness of the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Kraitchik
Maurice Borisovich Kraitchik (21 April 1882 – 19 August 1957) was a Belgian mathematician and populariser. His main interests were the theory of numbers and recreational mathematics. He was born to a Jewish family in Minsk. He wrote several books on number theory during 1922–1930 and after the war, and from 1931 to 19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysterical%20strength
Hysterical strength refers to a display of extreme physical strength by humans, beyond what is believed to be normal, usually occurring when people are in, or perceive themselves to be in life-or-death situations. It was also reported to be present during situations of altered states of consciousness, such as trance an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Frederick%20Recher
Emeritus Professor Harry Frederick Recher RZS (NSW) AM (born 27 March 1938, New York City) is an Australian ecologist, ornithologist and advocate for conservation. Recher grew up in the United States of America. He studied at the State University of New York College of Forestry and received his B.S. in 1959 from Syrac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target-site%20overlap
In a zinc finger protein, certain sequences of amino acid residues are able to recognise and bind to an extended target-site of four or even five nucleotides When this occurs in a ZFP in which the three-nucleotide subsites are contiguous, one zinc finger interferes with the target-site of the zinc finger adjacent to it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endoglin
Endoglin (ENG) is a type I membrane glycoprotein located on cell surfaces and is part of the TGF beta receptor complex. It is also commonly referred to as CD105, END, FLJ41744, HHT1, ORW and ORW1. It has a crucial role in angiogenesis, therefore, making it an important protein for tumor growth, survival and metastasis ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs%E2%80%93Donnan%20effect
The Gibbs–Donnan effect (also known as the Donnan's effect, Donnan law, Donnan equilibrium, or Gibbs–Donnan equilibrium) is a name for the behaviour of charged particles near a semi-permeable membrane that sometimes fail to distribute evenly across the two sides of the membrane. The usual cause is the presence of a di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Institute%20for%20Biological%20Cybernetics
The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics is located in Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. It is one of 80 institutes in the Max Planck Society (Max Planck Gesellschaft). The institute is studying signal and information processing in the brain. We know that our brain is constantly processing a vast amount...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StopBadware
StopBadware was an anti-malware nonprofit organization focused on making the Web safer through the prevention, mitigation, and remediation of badware websites. It is the successor to StopBadware.org, a project started in 2006 at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. It spun off to become a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20medicine
Molecular medicine is a broad field, where physical, chemical, biological, bioinformatics and medical techniques are used to describe molecular structures and mechanisms, identify fundamental molecular and genetic errors of disease, and to develop molecular interventions to correct them. The molecular medicine perspect...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliophysics
Heliophysics (from the prefix "helio", from Attic Greek hḗlios, meaning Sun, and the noun "physics": the science of matter and energy and their interactions) is the physics of the Sun and its connection with the Solar System. NASA defines heliophysics as "(1) the comprehensive new term for the science of the Sun - Sol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photobioreactor
A photobioreactor (PBR) refers to any cultivation system designed for growing photoautotrophic organisms using artificial light sources or solar light to facilitate photosynthesis. PBRs are typically used to cultivate microalgae, cyanobacteria, and some mosses. PBRs can be open systems, such as raceway ponds, which rel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faulhaber%27s%20formula
In mathematics, Faulhaber's formula, named after the early 17th century mathematician Johann Faulhaber, expresses the sum of the p-th powers of the first n positive integers as a polynomial in n. In modern notation, Faulhaber's formula is Here, is the binomial coefficient "p + 1 choose k", and the Bj are the Bernoul...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20Rubin
Karl Cooper Rubin (born January 27, 1956) is an American mathematician at University of California, Irvine as Thorp Professor of Mathematics. Between 1997 and 2006, he was a professor at Stanford, and before that worked at Ohio State University between 1987 and 1999. His research interest is in elliptic curves. He was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helly%27s%20selection%20theorem
In mathematics, Helly's selection theorem (also called the Helly selection principle) states that a uniformly bounded sequence of monotone real functions admits a convergent subsequence. In other words, it is a sequential compactness theorem for the space of uniformly bounded monotone functions. It is named for the Aus...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Bryozoology%20Association
The International Bryozoology Association (IBA) is a professional association with international membership specialising in research of the phylum Bryozoa. History The International Bryozoology Association was founded in May 1965 in Stockholm, Sweden. The first conference was held in August 1968 in Milan, Italy. Sinc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyword-driven%20testing
Keyword-driven testing, also known as action word based testing (not to be confused with action driven testing), is a software testing methodology suitable for both manual and automated testing. This method separates the documentation of test casesincluding both the data and functionality to usefrom the prescription of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20crown
The live crown is the top part of a tree, the part that has green leaves (as opposed to the bare trunk, bare branches, and dead leaves). The ratio of the size of a tree's live crown to its total height is used in estimating its health and its level of competition with neighboring trees. Trees Biology terminology Sust...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian%20Computing%20Olympiad
The Indian Computing Olympiad is an annual computer programming competition that selects four participants to represent India at the International Olympiad in Informatics. ICO is conducted by the Indian Association for Research in Computing Science. The competition is held in three stages. For the first stage, students...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Zucker
Steven Mark Zucker (12 September 1949 – 13 September 2019) was an American mathematician who introduced the Zucker conjecture, proved in different ways by Eduard Looijenga (1988) and by Leslie Saper and Mark Stern (1990). Zucker completed his Ph.D. in 1974 at Princeton University under the supervision of Spencer Bloch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sack%E2%80%93Barabas%20syndrome
Sack–Barabas syndrome is an older name for the medical condition vascular Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (vEDS). It affects the body's blood vessels and organs, making them prone to rupture. Signs and symptoms Patients with Sack–Barabas syndrome have thin, fragile skin, especially in the chest and abdomen, that bruises easil...