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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diastasis%20%28physiology%29
In physiology, diastasis is the middle stage of diastole during the cycle of a heartbeat, where the initial passive filling of the heart's ventricles has slowed, but before the atria contract to complete the active filling. Diastasis is the longest phase of cardiac cycle. See also Compare diastasis (pathology)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA%20spike-in
An RNA spike-in is an RNA transcript of known sequence and quantity used to calibrate measurements in RNA hybridization assays, such as DNA microarray experiments, RT-qPCR, and RNA-Seq. A spike-in is designed to bind to a DNA molecule with a matching sequence, known as a control probe. This process of specific binding...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marjorie%20Guthrie
Marjorie Guthrie ( Greenblatt; October 6, 1917 – March 13, 1983), who used Marjorie Mazia as her professional name, was a dancer, dance teacher, and health science activist. She was married to folk musician Woody Guthrie. Her children with him include folk musician Arlo Guthrie and Woody Guthrie Publications president ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20chiropractic
The history of chiropractic began in 1895 when Daniel David Palmer of Iowa performed the first chiropractic adjustment on a partially deaf janitor, Harvey Lillard. Palmer claims to have had principles of chiropractic treatment passed along to him during a seance by a long-dead doctor named Dr. Jim Atkinson. While Lilla...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan-Virgil%20Voiculescu
Dan-Virgil Voiculescu (born 14 June 1949) is a Romanian professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has worked in single operator theory, operator K-theory and von Neumann algebras. More recently, he developed free probability theory. Education and career Voiculescu studied at the University...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proxim%20Wireless
Proxim Wireless Corporation is a San Jose, California-based company that builds scalable broadband wireless networking systems for communities, enterprises, governments, and service providers. It offers wireless LAN, point-to-multipoint and point-to-point products through a channel network. The company is a product of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerent%20Corporation
Cerent Corporation was an optical equipment maker based in Petaluma, California. It was founded in 1997 as Fiberlane Communications with funding from Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and Vinod Khosla as the managing VC. The company was founded with three divisions: Systems in Petaluma, Chip Design in Mountain View, Ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MICAD
The Molecular Imaging and Contrast Agent Database or MICAD is a freely accessible online source of information on in vivo molecular imaging agents. It was established as a key component of the "Molecular Libraries and Imaging" program of the NIH Roadmap, a set of major inter-agency initiatives accelerating medical rese...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sun%20and%20the%20Rain
"The Sun and the Rain" is a single by Madness. It was released in 1983 as a stand-alone single and in 1984 it was included on the American/Canadian version of their album Keep Moving. The single spent 10 weeks on the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 5. The song was also their last to ever enter the USA Billboard Hot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disgregation
In the history of thermodynamics, disgregation is an early formulation of the concept of entropy. It was defined in 1862 by Rudolf Clausius as the magnitude of the degree in which the molecules of a body are separated from each other. Disgregation was the stepping stone for Clausius to create the mathematical expressio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillium%20Model
The Trillium Model, created by a collaborative team from Bell Canada, Northern Telecom and Bell Northern Research (Northern Telecom and Bell Northern Research later merged into Nortel Networks) combines requirements from the ISO 9000 series, the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) for software, and the Baldrige Criteria fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20effort
In software development, test effort refers to the expenses for (still to come) tests. There is a relation with test costs and failure costs (direct, indirect, costs for fault correction). Some factors which influence test effort are: maturity of the software development process, quality and testability of the testobje...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amino%20acid%20synthesis
Amino acid synthesis is the set of biochemical processes (metabolic pathways) by which the amino acids are produced. The substrates for these processes are various compounds in the organism's diet or growth media. Not all organisms are able to synthesize all amino acids. For example, humans can synthesize 11 of the 20 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20Maxwell%20model
The Generalized Maxwell model also known as the Maxwell–Wiechert model (after James Clerk Maxwell and E Wiechert) is the most general form of the linear model for viscoelasticity. In this model several Maxwell elements are assembled in parallel. It takes into account that the relaxation does not occur at a single time,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Management%20of%20multiple%20sclerosis
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory demyelinating disease that affects the central nervous system (CNS). Several therapies for it exist, although there is no known cure. The most common initial course of the disease is the relapsing-remitting subtype, which is characterized by unpredictable attacks (rela...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brace%27s%20emerald
Brace's emerald (Riccordia bracei) is an extinct species of hummingbird which was endemic to the main island of the Bahamas, New Providence. Description Its size was 9.5 cm, the wing length 11.4 cm and length of the tail 2.7 cm. The black bill was slightly curved and conical pointed. The feet were black. The back exh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movable%20singularity
In the theory of ordinary differential equations, a movable singularity is a point where the solution of the equation behaves badly and which is "movable" in the sense that its location depends on the initial conditions of the differential equation. Suppose we have an ordinary differential equation in the complex domai...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fosmid
Fosmids are similar to cosmids but are based on the bacterial F-plasmid. The cloning vector is limited, as a host (usually E. coli) can only contain one fosmid molecule. Fosmids can hold DNA inserts of up to 40 kb in size; often the source of the insert is random genomic DNA. A fosmid library is prepared by extracting ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-domain%20solution
A cross-domain solution (CDS) is an integrated information assurance system composed of specialized software, and sometimes hardware, that provides a controlled interface to manually or automatically enable and/or restrict the access or transfer of information between two or more security domains based on a predetermin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20high%20mode
System high mode, or simply system high, is a security mode of using an automated information system (AIS) that pertains to an environment that contains restricted data that is classified in a hierarchical scheme, such as Top Secret, Secret and Unclassified. System high pertains to the IA features of information proce...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based%20operating%20system
Capability-based operating system generally refers to an operating system that uses capability-based security. Examples include: Hydra KeyKOS EROS CapROS Midori seL4 Genode Fuchsia Control Program Facility Capability systems Operating system security
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean%20Bioinformation%20Center
The Korean Bioinformation Center (KOBIC) is the Korean national research centre in bioinformatics, based in Daejeon, South Korea. The centre is comparable to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) in the United States and the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) in Europe and plays a key role in v...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20suspension
An active suspension is a type of automotive suspension that uses an onboard control system to control the vertical movement of the vehicle's wheels and axles relative to the chassis or vehicle frame, rather than the conventional passive suspension that relies solely on large springs to maintain static support and damp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared%20resource
In computing, a shared resource, or network share, is a computer resource made available from one host to other hosts on a computer network. It is a device or piece of information on a computer that can be remotely accessed from another computer transparently as if it were a resource in the local machine. Network shari...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthy%20Formalism
In computer science and recursion theory the McCarthy Formalism (1963) of computer scientist John McCarthy clarifies the notion of recursive functions by use of the IF-THEN-ELSE construction common to computer science, together with four of the operators of primitive recursive functions: zero, successor, equality of nu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Indian%20Picture%20Opera
The Indian Picture Opera is a magic lantern slide show by photographer Edward S. Curtis. In the early 1900s, Curtis published the renowned 20-volume book subscription entitled The North American Indian. He compiled about 2400 photographs with detailed ethnological and language studies of tribes of the American West. I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog%20models%20of%20gravity
Analog models of gravity are attempts to model various phenomena of general relativity (e.g., black holes or cosmological geometries) using other physical systems such as acoustics in a moving fluid, superfluid helium, or Bose–Einstein condensate; gravity waves in water; and propagation of electromagnetic waves in a di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytolysin
Cytolysin refers to the substance secreted by microorganisms, plants or animals that is specifically toxic to individual cells, in many cases causing their dissolution through lysis. Cytolysins that have a specific action for certain cells are named accordingly. For instance, the cytolysins responsible for the destruct...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20protein%20structure%20prediction%20software
This list of protein structure prediction software summarizes notable used software tools in protein structure prediction, including homology modeling, protein threading, ab initio methods, secondary structure prediction, and transmembrane helix and signal peptide prediction. Software list Below is a list which sepa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean%20quadruple
A Pythagorean quadruple is a tuple of integers , , , and , such that . They are solutions of a Diophantine equation and often only positive integer values are considered. However, to provide a more complete geometric interpretation, the integer values can be allowed to be negative and zero (thus allowing Pythagorean tr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orb%20%28software%29
Orb was a freeware streaming software that enabled users to remotely access all their personal digital media files including pictures, music, videos and television. It could be used from any Internet-enabled device, including laptops, pocket PC, smartphones, PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii video game consoles. In 2013, Orb Netw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery
jQuery is a JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, as well as event handling, CSS animation, and Ajax. It is free, open-source software using the permissive MIT License. , jQuery is used by 77% of the 10 million most popular websites. Web analysis indicates that it is the most...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20P.%20Robbins
David Peter Robbins (12 August 1942 in Brooklyn – 4 September 2003 in Princeton) was an American mathematician. He is most famous for introducing alternating sign matrices. He is also known for his work on generalizations of Heron's formula on the area of polygons, due to which Robbins pentagons (cyclic pentagons with...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee%20monitoring%20software
Employee monitoring software is a means of employee monitoring, and allows company administrators to monitor and supervise all their employee computers from a central location. It is normally deployed over a business network and allows for easy centralized log viewing via one central networked PC. Sometimes, companies ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20E.%20M.%20Pearce
Charles Edward Miller Pearce (29 March 1940 – 8 June 2012) was a New Zealand/Australian mathematician. At the time of his death on 8 June 2012 he was the (Sir Thomas) Elder Professor of Mathematics at the University of Adelaide. Early life Pearce was born in Wellington. His early schooling was in Wellington and he wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20tomography
Network tomography is the study of a network's internal characteristics using information derived from end point data. The word tomography is used to link the field, in concept, to other processes that infer the internal characteristics of an object from external observation, as is done in MRI or PET scanning (even tho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyathium
A cyathium (plural: cyathia) is one of the specialised pseudanthia ("false flowers") forming the inflorescence of plants in the genus Euphorbia (Euphorbiaceae). A cyathium consists of: Five (rarely four) bracteoles. These are small, united bracts, which form a cup-like involucre. Their upper tips are free and in the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catabiosis
Catabiosis is the process of growing older, aging and physical degradation. The word comes from Greek "kata"—down, against, reverse and "biosis"—way of life and is generally used to describe senescence and degeneration in living organisms and biophysics of aging in general. One of the popular catabiotic theories is t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudanthium
A pseudanthium (; ) is an inflorescence that resembles a flower. The word is sometimes used for other structures that are neither a true flower nor a true inflorescence. Examples of pseudanthia include flower heads, composite flowers, or capitula, which are special types of inflorescences in which anything from a small...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Committee%20for%20Traceability%20in%20Laboratory%20Medicine
The Joint Committee for Traceability in Laboratory Medicine or JCTLM is collaboration between the International Committee for Weights and Measures (CIPM), the International Federation for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC), and the International Laboratory Accreditation Cooperation (ILAC). The goal of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20Langlands%20conjectures
In mathematics, the local Langlands conjectures, introduced by , are part of the Langlands program. They describe a correspondence between the complex representations of a reductive algebraic group G over a local field F, and representations of the Langlands group of F into the L-group of G. This correspondence is not...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scleronomous
A mechanical system is scleronomous if the equations of constraints do not contain the time as an explicit variable and the equation of constraints can be described by generalized coordinates. Such constraints are called scleronomic constraints. The opposite of scleronomous is rheonomous. Application In 3-D space, a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rheonomous
A mechanical system is rheonomous if its equations of constraints contain the time as an explicit variable. Such constraints are called rheonomic constraints. The opposite of rheonomous is scleronomous. Example: simple 2D pendulum As shown at right, a simple pendulum is a system composed of a weight and a string. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary%20equilibrium%20method
The temporary equilibrium method has been devised by Alfred Marshall for analyzing economic systems that comprise interdependent variables of different speed. Sometimes it is referred to as the moving equilibrium method. For example, assume an industry with a certain capacity that produces a certain commodity. Given t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Herbert%20Medal
The Herbert Medal is awarded by the International Bulb Society to those whose achievements in advancing knowledge of ornamental bulbous plants is considered to be outstanding. The medal is named for William Herbert, a noted 19th-century botanist. He published many articles in the Botanical Register and the Botanical M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving%20equilibrium%20theorem
Consider a dynamical system (1).......... (2).......... with the state variables and . Assume that is fast and is slow. Assume that the system (1) gives, for any fixed , an asymptotically stable solution . Substituting this for in (2) yields (3).......... Here has been replaced by to indicate that the solut...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinate-induced%20basis
In mathematics, a coordinate-induced basis is a basis for the tangent space or cotangent space of a manifold that is induced by a certain coordinate system. Given the coordinate system , the coordinate-induced basis of the tangent space is given by and the dual basis of the cotangent space is
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas%20Shepherd-Barron
Nicholas Ian Shepherd-Barron, FRS (born 17 March 1955), is a British mathematician working in algebraic geometry. He is a professor of mathematics at King's College London. Education and career Shepherd-Barron was a scholar of Winchester College. He obtained his B.A. at Jesus College, Cambridge in 1976, and received...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma%20Lehmer
Emma Markovna Lehmer (née Trotskaia) (November 6, 1906 – May 7, 2007) was a mathematician known for her work on reciprocity laws in algebraic number theory. She preferred to deal with complex number fields and integers, rather than the more abstract aspects of the theory. Biography She was born in Samara, Russian Em...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric%20Warfare%20Group
The Asymmetric Warfare Group was a United States Army unit created during the War on Terrorism to mitigate various threats with regard to asymmetric warfare. The unit was headquartered at Fort Meade, Maryland and had a training facility at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. The unit provided the linkage between Training and Doc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donaldson%20theory
In mathematics, and especially gauge theory, Donaldson theory is the study of the topology of smooth 4-manifolds using moduli spaces of anti-self-dual instantons. It was started by Simon Donaldson (1983) who proved Donaldson's theorem restricting the possible quadratic forms on the second cohomology group of a compact ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot%20filtration
C0t filtration, or CF, is a technique that uses the principles of DNA renaturation kinetics (i.e. Cot analysis) to separate the repetitive DNA sequences that dominate many eukaryotic genomes from "gene-rich" single/low-copy sequences. This allows DNA sequencing to concentrate on the parts of the genome that are most in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesper%20mouse
Vesper mice are rodents belonging to the genus Calomys. They are widely distributed in South America. Some species are notable as the vectors of Argentinian hemorrhagic fever and Bolivian hemorrhagic fever. The genus was originally named Hesperomys, but was changed to Calomys in 1962. History Hesperomys was introduce...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLHEP
CLHEP (short for A Class Library for High Energy Physics) is a C++ library that provides utility classes for general numerical programming, vector arithmetic, geometry, pseudorandom number generation, and linear algebra, specifically targeted for high energy physics simulation and analysis software. The project is host...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisp%20%27n%20Dry
Crisp 'n Dry is a brand of rapeseed oil manufactured by Edible Oils Limited and marketed by Princes Group. The manufacturer claims this vegetable oil leaves food dry after frying (hence its name Crisp 'n Dry), compared to other vegetable oils which require the fried food to be dried with kitchen paper to absorb excess...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot%20analysis
C0t analysis, a technique based on the principles of DNA reassociation kinetics, is a biochemical technique that measures how much repetitive DNA is in a DNA sample such as a genome. It is used to study genome structure and organization and has also been used to simplify the sequencing of genomes that contain large am...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutter%20Prize
The Hutter Prize is a cash prize funded by Marcus Hutter which rewards data compression improvements on a specific 1 GB English text file, with the goal of encouraging research in artificial intelligence (AI). Launched in 2006, the prize awards 5000 euros for each one percent improvement (with 500,000 euros total fund...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20Updater
In several Linux operating systems, the Software Updater program updates installed software and their associated packages with important software updates for security or with recommended patches. It also informs users when updates are available, listing them in alphabetical order for users to choose which updates to in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesic%20grid
A geodesic grid is a spatial grid based on a geodesic polyhedron or Goldberg polyhedron. History The earliest use of the (icosahedral) geodesic grid in geophysical modeling dates back to 1968 and the work by Sadourny, Arakawa, and Mintz and Williamson. Later work expanded on this base. Construction A geodesic grid is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal%20and%20nonterminal%20symbols
In formal languages, terminal and nonterminal symbols are the lexical elements used in specifying the production rules constituting a formal grammar. Terminal symbols are the elementary symbols of the language defined as part of a formal grammar. Nonterminal symbols (or syntactic variables) are replaced by groups of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAMDAR
TAMDAR (Tropospheric Airborne Meteorological Data Reporting) is a weather monitoring system that consists of an in situ atmospheric sensor mounted on commercial aircraft for data gathering. It collects information similar to that collected by radiosondes carried aloft by weather balloons. It was developed by AirDat LLC...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonidas%20Alaoglu
Leonidas (Leon) Alaoglu (; March 19, 1914 – August 1981) was a mathematician, known for his result, called Alaoglu's theorem on the weak-star compactness of the closed unit ball in the dual of a normed space, also known as the Banach–Alaoglu theorem. Life and work Alaoglu was born in Red Deer, Alberta to Greek paren...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA-dependent%20RNA%20polymerase
RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) or RNA replicase is an enzyme that catalyzes the replication of RNA from an RNA template. Specifically, it catalyzes synthesis of the RNA strand complementary to a given RNA template. This is in contrast to typical DNA-dependent RNA polymerases, which all organisms use to catalyze th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006%20Missouri%20Amendment%202
Missouri Constitutional Amendment 2 (The Missouri Stem Cell Research and Cures Initiative) was a state constitutional amendment initiative that concerned stem cell research and human cloning. It allows any stem cell research and therapy in the U.S. state of Missouri that is legal under federal law, including somatic ce...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Ranger%20Federation
The International Ranger Federation is an organisation which represents Park Rangers and Park Wardens across the world. Many countries have agencies that undertake the protection and management of natural areas. The rangers within these organisations are represented at the international level by the International Rang...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-aware%20pervasive%20systems
Context-aware computing refers to a general class of mobile systems that can sense their physical environment, and adapt their behavior accordingly. Three important aspects of context are: where you are; who you are with; and what resources are nearby. Although location is a primary capability, location-aware does not...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20hull
A visual hull is a geometric entity created by shape-from-silhouette 3D reconstruction technique introduced by A. Laurentini. This technique assumes the foreground object in an image can be separated from the background. Under this assumption, the original image can be thresholded into a foreground/background binary im...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20amplifier%20%28electronics%29
An error amplifier is most commonly encountered in feedback unidirectional voltage control circuits, where the sampled output voltage of the circuit under control, is fed back and compared to a stable reference voltage. Any difference between the two generates a compensating error voltage which tends to move the outpu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulated%20power%20supply
A regulated power supply is an embedded circuit; it converts unregulated AC (alternating current) into a constant DC. With the help of a rectifier it converts AC supply into DC. Its function is to supply a stable voltage (or less often current), to a circuit or device that must be operated within certain power supply l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NavPix
NavPix is the proprietary name applied by Navman to its technology that combines an image with geographical data. The "NavPix" name is used for both the software and the geo-referenced image that results from that software. NavPix software The NavPix technology enables users to take a JPEG image using the integrated ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S4%20Index
The Index is a standard index used to measure ionospheric disturbances. It is defined as the ratio of the standard deviation of signal intensity to the average signal intensity. Real Time data This parameter is displayed in real time by many institutions: at Arecibo Observatory at Cornell University at INPE, in Brasi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teaching%20clinic
A teaching clinic is an outpatient clinic that provides health care for ambulatory patients - as opposed to inpatients treated in a hospital. Teaching clinics traditionally are operated by educational facilities and provide free or low-cost services to patients. Teaching clinics differ from standard health clinics in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooking%20base
Cooking base, sometimes called soup base, is a concentrated flavoring compound used in place of stock for the creation of soups, sauces, and gravies. Since it can be purchased rather than prepared fresh, it is commonly used in restaurants where cost is a more important factor than achieving haute cuisine. Veal and chic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femlin
The Femlin is a character used on the Party Jokes page of Playboy magazine. Created in 1955 by LeRoy Neiman, Femlins became a mainstay of the magazine for more than five decades. Some Femlin figurines produced in the 1960s have become much sought-after by collectors. History Femlins were created by sport illustrator...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sympetrum
Sympetrum is a genus of small to medium-sized skimmer dragonflies, known as darters in the UK and as meadowhawks in North America. The more than 50 species predominantly live in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere; no Sympetrum species is native to Australia. Most North American darters fly in late summer an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20protein-related%20articles
Proteins are a class of biomolecules composed of amino acid chains. Biochemistry Antifreeze protein, class of polypeptides produced by certain fish, vertebrates, plants, fungi and bacteria Conjugated protein, protein that functions in interaction with other chemical groups attached by covalent bonds Denatured prote...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured%20analysis
In software engineering, structured analysis (SA) and structured design (SD) are methods for analyzing business requirements and developing specifications for converting practices into computer programs, hardware configurations, and related manual procedures. Structured analysis and design techniques are fundamental t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather%20buoy
Weather buoys are instruments which collect weather and ocean data within the world's oceans, as well as aid during emergency response to chemical spills, legal proceedings, and engineering design. Moored buoys have been in use since 1951, while drifting buoys have been used since 1979. Moored buoys are connected wit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottobock
Ottobock SE & Co. KGaA, formerly Otto Bock, is a company based in Duderstadt Germany, that operates in the field of orthopedic technology. It is considered the world market leader in the field of prosthetics and one of the leading suppliers in orthotics, wheelchairs and exoskeletons. In 2019, the Ottobock Group as a w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug-induced%20lupus%20erythematosus
Drug-induced lupus erythematosus is an autoimmune disorder caused by chronic use of certain drugs. These drugs cause an autoimmune response (the body attacks its own cells) producing symptoms similar to those of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). There are 38 known medications to cause DIL but there are three that rep...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerin
Emerin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EMD gene, also known as the STA gene. Emerin, together with LEMD3, is a LEM domain-containing integral protein of the inner nuclear membrane in vertebrates. Emerin is highly expressed in cardiac and skeletal muscle. In cardiac muscle, emerin localizes to adherens jun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source%20routing
In computer networking, source routing, also called path addressing, allows a sender of a packet to partially or completely specify the route the packet takes through the network. In contrast, in conventional routing, routers in the network determine the path incrementally based on the packet's destination. Another rou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%E2%80%93Tamm%20formula
The Frank–Tamm formula yields the amount of Cherenkov radiation emitted on a given frequency as a charged particle moves through a medium at superluminal velocity. It is named for Russian physicists Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm who developed the theory of the Cherenkov effect in 1937, for which they were awarded a Nobel Pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20programming%20languages%20%28strings%29
This comparison of programming languages (strings) compares the features of string data structures or text-string processing for over 52 various computer programming languages. Concatenation Different languages use different symbols for the concatenation operator. Many languages use the "+" symbol, though several dev...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Abramovich%20Rokhlin
Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin (Russian: Влади́мир Абра́мович Ро́хлин) (23 August 1919 – 3 December 1984) was a Soviet mathematician, who made numerous contributions in algebraic topology, geometry, measure theory, probability theory, ergodic theory and entropy theory. Life Vladimir Abramovich Rokhlin was born in Baku, A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK%20channel
SK channels (small conductance calcium-activated potassium channels) are a subfamily of calcium-activated potassium channels. They are so called because of their small single channel conductance in the order of 10 pS. SK channels are a type of ion channel allowing potassium cations to cross the cell membrane and are ac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20Data%20Bank%20of%20Japan
The DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) is a biological database that collects DNA sequences. It is located at the National Institute of Genetics (NIG) in the Shizuoka prefecture of Japan. It is also a member of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration or INSDC. It exchanges its data with European Molecul...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile-device%20testing
Mobile-device testing functions to assure the quality of mobile devices, like mobile phones, PDAs, etc. It is conducted on both hardware and software, and from the view of different procedures, the testing comprises R&D testing, factory testing and certificate testing. It involves a set of activities from monitoring...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20tic-tac-toe
Quantum tic-tac-toe is a "quantum generalization" of tic-tac-toe in which the players' moves are "superpositions" of plays in the classical game. The game was invented by Allan Goff of Novatia Labs, who describes it as "a way of introducing quantum physics without mathematics", and offering "a conceptual foundation for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressor%20mutation
A suppressor mutation is a second mutation that alleviates or reverts the phenotypic effects of an already existing mutation in a process defined synthetic rescue. Genetic suppression therefore restores the phenotype seen prior to the original background mutation. Suppressor mutations are useful for identifying new g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packaging%20engineering
Packaging engineering, also package engineering, packaging technology and packaging science, is a broad topic ranging from design conceptualization to product placement. All steps along the manufacturing process, and more, must be taken into account in the design of the package for any given product. Package engineer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Assisted%20Conception%20Consortium
The European Assisted Conception Consortium (EACC) is an organization whose aim is to bring together national ART regulators and practitioners within the European Union for professional cooperation and joint action. Its inaugural meeting was in Copenhagen in 2005, under the chairmanship of Angela McNab. See also Euro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workflow%20engine
A workflow engine is a software application that manages business processes. It is a key component in workflow technology and typically makes use of a database server. A workflow engine manages and monitors the state of activities in a workflow, such as the processing and approval of a loan application form, and deter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclamation%20mark
The exclamation mark (also known as exclamation point in American English) is a punctuation mark usually used after an interjection or exclamation to indicate strong feelings or to show emphasis. The exclamation mark often marks the end of a sentence, for example: "Watch out!". Similarly, a bare exclamation mark (with...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20transmission
Acoustic transmission is the transmission of sounds through and between materials, including air, wall, and musical instruments. The degree to which sound is transferred between two materials depends on how well their acoustical impedances match. In musical instrument design Musical instruments are generally designed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senicide
Senicide, also known as geronticide, is the practice of killing the elderly. This killing of the elderly can be characterized by both active and passive methods as senio-euthanasia or altruistic self-sacrifice. The aim of active senio-euthanasia is to relieve the clan, family, or society from the burden of a “useles...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuse%20element%20method
In numerical analysis the diffuse element method (DEM) or simply diffuse approximation is a meshfree method. The diffuse element method was developed by B. Nayroles, G. Touzot and Pierre Villon at the Universite de Technologie de Compiegne, in 1992. It is in concept rather similar to the much older smoothed particle h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Federation%20of%20Clinical%20Chemistry%20and%20Laboratory%20Medicine
The International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine or IFCC is a global organization that promotes the fields of clinical chemistry and laboratory medicine. It was established in 1952 as the International Association of Clinical Biochemists to organize the various national societies of these fiel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20cognitive%20theory
Social cognitive theory (SCT), used in psychology, education, and communication, holds that portions of an individual's knowledge acquisition can be directly related to observing others within the context of social interactions, experiences, and outside media influences. This theory was advanced by Albert Bandura as an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkaline%20tide
Alkaline tide (mal del puerco) refers to a condition, normally encountered after eating a meal, where during the production of hydrochloric acid by the parietal cells in the stomach, the parietal cells secrete bicarbonate ions across their basolateral membranes and into the blood, causing a temporary increase in blood ...