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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And%20Having%20Writ...
And Having Writ... is a 1978 science fiction/alternate history novel by American writer Donald R. Bensen. Nominated for the 1979 John W. Campbell Award, it tells the story of aliens who crash-land on Earth in 1908 and then journey around the planet, trying to jump-start World War I. Even though they fail to do this, t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrate%20reductase%20test
The nitrate reductase test is a test to differentiate between bacteria based on their ability or inability to reduce nitrate (NO3−) to nitrite (NO2−) using anaerobic respiration. Procedure Various assays for detecting nitrate reduction have been described. One method is performed as follows: Inoculate nitrate broth w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10%2C000%2C000
10,000,000 (ten million) is the natural number following 9,999,999 and preceding 10,000,001. In scientific notation, it is written as 107. In South Asia except for Sri Lanka, it is known as the crore. In Cyrillic numerals, it is known as the vran (вран — raven). Selected 8-digit numbers (10,000,001–99,999,999) 10,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%2C000%2C000
100,000,000 (one hundred million) is the natural number following 99,999,999 and preceding 100,000,001. In scientific notation, it is written as 108. East Asian languages treat 100,000,000 as a counting unit, significant as the square of a myriad, also a counting unit. In Chinese, Korean, and Japanese respectively it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxidase%20test
The oxidase test is used to determine whether an organism possesses the cytochrome c oxidase enzyme. The test is used as an aid for the differentiation of Neisseria, Moraxella, Campylobacter and Pasteurella species (oxidase positive). It is also used to differentiate pseudomonads from related species. Classification S...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit%20design
The process of circuit design can cover systems ranging from complex electronic systems down to the individual transistors within an integrated circuit. One person can often do the design process without needing a planned or structured design process for simple circuits. Still, teams of designers following a systemati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evernote
Evernote is a note-taking and task-management application developed by the Evernote Corporation. It is intended for archiving and creating notes with embedded photos, audio, and saved web content. Notes are stored in virtual "notebooks" and can be tagged, annotated, edited, searched, and exported. Evernote is availabl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20semantics%20%28mathematical%20logic%29
In mathematical logic, algebraic semantics is a formal semantics based on algebras studied as part of algebraic logic. For example, the modal logic S4 is characterized by the class of topological boolean algebras—that is, boolean algebras with an interior operator. Other modal logics are characterized by various other ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPOPT
IPOPT, short for "Interior Point OPTimizer, pronounced I-P-Opt", is a software library for large scale nonlinear optimization of continuous systems. It is written in Fortran and C and is released under the EPL (formerly CPL). IPOPT implements a primal-dual interior point method, and uses line searches based on Filter m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological%20horizon
A cosmological horizon is a measure of the distance from which one could possibly retrieve information. This observable constraint is due to various properties of general relativity, the expanding universe, and the physics of Big Bang cosmology. Cosmological horizons set the size and scale of the observable universe. T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZetaGrid
ZetaGrid was at one time the largest distributed computing project, designed to explore the non-trivial roots of the Riemann zeta function, checking over one billion roots a day. Roots of the zeta function are of particular interest in mathematics; a single root out of alignment would disprove the Riemann hypothesis, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertrust%20Technologies%20Corporation
Intertrust Technologies Corporation is a software technology company specializing in trusted distributed computing. Intertrust’s product lines consist of a DataOps platform, Application protection and Content protection solutions. Much of Intertrust's digital rights management (DRM) business is based on the Marlin DRM ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium%20scorodoprasum
The sand leek (Allium scorodoprasum), also known as rocambole and Korean pickled-peel garlic, is a Eurasian species of wild onion with a native range extending across much of Europe, Middle East, and Korea. The species should not be confused with rocambole garlic, which is A. sativum var. ophioscorodon. Description T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrococcal%20nuclease
Micrococcal nuclease (, S7 Nuclease, MNase, spleen endonuclease, thermonuclease, nuclease T, micrococcal endonuclease, nuclease T''', staphylococcal nuclease, spleen phosphodiesterase, Staphylococcus aureus nuclease, Staphylococcus aureus nuclease B, ribonucleate (deoxynucleate) 3'-nucleotidohydrolase) is an endo-exonu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oppositional%20defiant%20disorder
Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) is listed in the DSM-5 under Disruptive, impulse-control, and conduct disorders and defined as "a pattern of angry/irritable mood, argumentative/defiant behavior, or vindictiveness". This behavior is usually targeted toward peers, parents, teachers, and other authority figures. Unli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unifying%20Theories%20of%20Programming
Unifying Theories of Programming (UTP) in computer science deals with program semantics. It shows how denotational semantics, operational semantics and algebraic semantics can be combined in a unified framework for the formal specification, design and implementation of programs and computer systems. The book of this t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavoprotein
Flavoproteins are proteins that contain a nucleic acid derivative of riboflavin. These proteins are involved in a wide array of biological processes, including removal of radicals contributing to oxidative stress, photosynthesis, and DNA repair. The flavoproteins are some of the most-studied families of enzymes. Flavo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He%20Jifeng
He Jifeng (, born August 1943) is a Chinese computer scientist. He Jifeng graduated from the mathematics department of Fudan University in 1965. From 1965 to 1985, he was an instructor at East China Normal University. During 1980–81, he was a visiting scholar at Stanford University and the University of San Francisco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sessile%20drop%20technique
In materials science, the sessile drop technique is a method used for the characterization of solid surface energies, and in some cases, aspects of liquid surface energies. The main premise of the method is that by placing a droplet of liquid with a known surface energy and contact angle, the surface energy of the soli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A549%20cell
A549 cells are adenocarcinomic human alveolar basal epithelial cells, and constitute a cell line that was first developed in 1972 by D. J. Giard, et al. through the removal and culturing of cancerous lung tissue in the explanted tumor of a 58-year-old caucasian male. The cells are used as models for the study of lung c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facing%20Identification%20Mark
The Facing Identification Mark, or FIM, is a bar code designed by the United States Postal Service to assist in the automated processing of mail. The FIM is a set of vertical bars printed on the envelope or postcard near the upper edge, just to the left of the postage area (the area where the postage stamp or its equi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preputial%20gland
Preputial glands are exocrine glands that are located in the folds of skin front of the genitals of some mammals. They occur in several species, including mice, ferrets, rhinoceroses, and even-toed ungulates and produce pheromones. The glands play a role in the urine-marking behavior of canids such as gray wolves and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20flux%20parametron
A Quantum Flux Parametron (QFP) is a digital logic implementation technology based on superconducting Josephson junctions. QFP's were invented by Eiichi Goto at the University of Tokyo as an improvement over his earlier parametron based digital logic technology, which did not use superconductivity effects or Josephson ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20uniform%20polyhedra
In geometry, a uniform polyhedron is a polyhedron which has regular polygons as faces and is vertex-transitive (transitive on its vertices, isogonal, i.e. there is an isometry mapping any vertex onto any other). It follows that all vertices are congruent, and the polyhedron has a high degree of reflectional and rotatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busemann%20function
In geometric topology, Busemann functions are used to study the large-scale geometry of geodesics in Hadamard spaces and in particular Hadamard manifolds (simply connected complete Riemannian manifolds of nonpositive curvature). They are named after Herbert Busemann, who introduced them; he gave an extensive treatment ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadamard%20space
In geometry, an Hadamard space, named after Jacques Hadamard, is a non-linear generalization of a Hilbert space. In the literature they are also equivalently defined as complete CAT(0) spaces. A Hadamard space is defined to be a nonempty complete metric space such that, given any points and there exists a point suc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biceps%20femoris%20muscle
The biceps femoris () is a muscle of the thigh located to the posterior, or back. As its name implies, it consists of two heads; the long head is considered part of the hamstring muscle group, while the short head is sometimes excluded from this characterization, as it only causes knee flexion (but not hip extension) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application%20domain
An application domain is a mechanism (similar to a process in an operating system) used within the Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) to isolate executed software applications from one another so that they do not affect each other. Each application domain has its own virtual address space which scopes the resources f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertime
Hypertime is a fictional concept in DC Comics which first appeared in the 1999 The Kingdom limited series. It is a variation of the Multiverse concept that existed in DC Comics before 1985's Crisis on Infinite Earths limited series and was created by Mark Waid and Grant Morrison. Hypertime, described in The Kingdom #2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serengeti%20cat
The Serengeti is a hybrid breed of domestic cat, first developed by crossing a Bengal (domestic and wild hybrid) and an Oriental Shorthair. Created by biologist Karen Sausman of Kingsmark Cattery in California in 1994, the breed is still in the development stages, but the ultimate aim is to produce a cat that looks sim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteose
A proteose is any of various water-soluble compounds that are produced during in-vitro or in-vivo hydrolytic breakdown of proteins a little before producing amino acids. It forms after breaking down of polypeptides by proteases such as gastric pepsin. In addition to proteoses, peptones are also formed at this stage. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clonal%20selection
In immunology, clonal selection theory explains the functions of cells of the immune system (lymphocytes) in response to specific antigens invading the body. The concept was introduced by Australian doctor Frank Macfarlane Burnet in 1957, in an attempt to explain the great diversity of antibodies formed during initiati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20state%20foods
This is a list of official U.S. state foods: Notes See also List of U.S. state beverages
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-dimensional%20space
A five-dimensional space is a space with five dimensions. In mathematics, a sequence of N numbers can represent a location in an N-dimensional space. If interpreted physically, that is one more than the usual three spatial dimensions and the fourth dimension of time used in relativistic physics. Whether or not the univ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Assistance%20Markup%20Language
Microsoft Assistance Markup Language (Microsoft AML, generally referred to as MAML) is an XML-based markup language developed by the Microsoft User Assistance Platform team to provide user assistance ("online help") for the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. It makes up the Assistance Platform on Windows Vista. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple%20fringing
In photography (particularly digital photography), purple fringing (sometimes called PF) is the term for an unfocused purple or magenta "ghost" image on a photograph. This optical aberration is generally most visible as a coloring and lightening of dark edges adjacent to bright areas of broad-spectrum illumination, suc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allophycocyanin
Allophycocyanin ("other algal blue protein"; from Greek: (allos) meaning "other", (phykos) meaning “alga”, and (kyanos) meaning "blue") is a protein from the light-harvesting phycobiliprotein family, along with phycocyanin, phycoerythrin and phycoerythrocyanin. It is an accessory pigment to chlorophyll. All phycobil...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudolocalization
Pseudolocalization (or pseudo-localization) is a software testing method used for testing internationalization aspects of software. Instead of translating the text of the software into a foreign language, as in the process of localization, the textual elements of an application are replaced with an altered version of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20bisulfate
Sodium bisulfate, also known as sodium hydrogen sulfate, is the sodium salt of the bisulfate anion, with the molecular formula NaHSO4. Sodium bisulfate is an acid salt formed by partial neutralization of sulfuric acid by an equivalent of sodium base, typically in the form of either sodium hydroxide (lye) or sodium chlo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WalkSAT
In computer science, GSAT and WalkSAT are local search algorithms to solve Boolean satisfiability problems. Both algorithms work on formulae in Boolean logic that are in, or have been converted into conjunctive normal form. They start by assigning a random value to each variable in the formula. If the assignment satis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backbone%20network
A backbone or core network is a part of a computer network which interconnects networks, providing a path for the exchange of information between different LANs or subnetworks. A backbone can tie together diverse networks in the same building, in different buildings in a campus environment, or over wide areas. Normally...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-Acetylglucosamine
N-Acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) is an amide derivative of the monosaccharide glucose. It is a secondary amide between glucosamine and acetic acid. It is significant in several biological systems. It is part of a biopolymer in the bacterial cell wall, which is built from alternating units of GlcNAc and N-acetylmuramic ac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M2%20proton%20channel
The Matrix-2 (M2) protein is a proton-selective viroporin, integral in the viral envelope of the influenza A virus. The channel itself is a homotetramer (consists of four identical M2 units), where the units are helices stabilized by two disulfide bonds, and is activated by low pH. The M2 protein is encoded on the seve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient%20space%20%28mathematics%29
In mathematics, especially in geometry and topology, an ambient space is the space surrounding a mathematical object along with the object itself. For example, a 1-dimensional line may be studied in isolation —in which case the ambient space of is , or it may be studied as an object embedded in 2-dimensional Euclide...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20use%20restriction%20technology
Genetic use restriction technology (GURT), also known as terminator technology or suicide seeds, is the name given to proposed methods for restricting the use of genetically modified crops by activating (or deactivating) some genes only in response to certain stimuli, especially to cause second generation seeds to be i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-armed%20bandit
In probability theory and machine learning, the multi-armed bandit problem (sometimes called the K- or N-armed bandit problem) is a problem in which a fixed limited set of resources must be allocated between competing (alternative) choices in a way that maximizes their expected gain, when each choice's properties are o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree%20day
A degree day is a measure of heating or cooling. Total degree days from an appropriate starting date are used to plan the planting of crops and management of pests and pest control timing. Weekly or monthly degree-day figures may also be used within an energy monitoring and targeting scheme to monitor the heating and c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age%20class%20structure
Age class structure in fisheries and wildlife management is a part of population assessment. Age class structures can be used to model many populations including trees and fish. This method can be used to predict the occurrence of forest fires within a forest population. Age can be determined by counting growth rings i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaranthus%20hybridus
Amaranthus hybridus, commonly called green amaranth, slim amaranth, smooth amaranth, smooth pigweed, or red amaranth, is a species of annual flowering plant. It is a weedy species found now over much of North America and introduced into Europe and Eurasia. Description Amaranthus hybridus grows from a short taproot an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limits%20of%20computation
The limits of computation are governed by a number of different factors. In particular, there are several physical and practical limits to the amount of computation or data storage that can be performed with a given amount of mass, volume, or energy. Hardware limits or physical limits Processing and memory density ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vascularity
Vascularity, in bodybuilding, is the condition of having many highly visible, prominent, and often extensively-ramified superficial veins. The skin appears "thin"—sometimes virtually transparent—due to an extreme reduction of subcutaneous fat, allowing for maximum muscle definition. Vascularity is enhanced by extremel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depletion-load%20NMOS%20logic
In integrated circuits, depletion-load NMOS is a form of digital logic family that uses only a single power supply voltage, unlike earlier NMOS (n-type metal-oxide semiconductor) logic families that needed more than one different power supply voltage. Although manufacturing these integrated circuits required additional...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plantsman
A plantsman is an enthusiastic and knowledgeable gardener (amateur or professional), nurseryman or nurserywoman. "Plantsman" can refer to a male or female person, though the terms plantswoman, or even plantsperson, are sometimes used. The word is sometimes said to be synonymous with "botanist" or "horticulturist", but ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karp%E2%80%93Lipton%20theorem
In complexity theory, the Karp–Lipton theorem states that if the Boolean satisfiability problem (SAT) can be solved by Boolean circuits with a polynomial number of logic gates, then and therefore That is, if we assume that NP, the class of nondeterministic polynomial time problems, can be contained in the non-unif...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher-order%20programming
Higher-order programming is a style of computer programming that uses software components, like functions, modules or objects, as values. It is usually instantiated with, or borrowed from, models of computation such as lambda calculus which make heavy use of higher-order functions. A programming language can be conside...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caleb%20Gattegno
Caleb Gattegno (1911–1988) was an Egyptian educator, psychologist, and mathematician. He is considered one of the most influential and prolific mathematics educators of the twentieth century. He is best known for introducing new approaches to teaching and learning mathematics (Visible & Tangible Math), foreign language...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongly%20correlated%20material
Strongly correlated materials are a wide class of compounds that include insulators and electronic materials, and show unusual (often technologically useful) electronic and magnetic properties, such as metal-insulator transitions, heavy fermion behavior, half-metallicity, and spin-charge separation. The essential featu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now%20TV%20%28Hong%20Kong%29
Now TV (also stylised as now TV) is a pay-TV service provider in Hong Kong operated by PCCW Media Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of PCCW. Launched on 26 September 2003, its TV signal is transmitted with IPTV technology through HKT's fixed broadband network. It no N provides 197 TV channels including 176 channel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangulated%20irregular%20network
In computer graphics, a triangulated irregular network (TIN) is a representation of a continuous surface consisting entirely of triangular facets (a triangle mesh), used mainly as Discrete Global Grid in primary elevation modeling. The vertices of these triangles are created from field recorded spot elevations through...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Packard
Norman Harry Packard (born 1954 in Billings, Montana) is a chaos theory physicist and one of the founders of the Prediction Company and ProtoLife. He is an alumnus of Reed College and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Packard is known for his contributions to chaos theory, complex systems, and artificial life. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucien%20LaCoste
Lucien LaCoste (1908 – 1995) was a physicist and metrologist. He coinvented the modern gravimeter and invented the zero-length spring and vehicle-mounted gravimeters. He was also co-founder of LaCoste Romberg, a prominent company selling gravimetric instruments. Life LaCoste discovered the zero-length spring in 19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monocarpic
Monocarpic plants are those that flower and set seeds only once, and then die. The term is derived from Greek (, "single" + , "fruit" or "grain"), and was first used by Alphonse de Candolle. Other terms with the same meaning are hapaxanth and semelparous. The antonym is polycarpic, a plant that flowers and sets seeds ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demersal%20fish
Demersal fish, also known as groundfish, live and feed on or near the bottom of seas or lakes (the demersal zone). They occupy the sea floors and lake beds, which usually consist of mud, sand, gravel or rocks. In coastal waters they are found on or near the continental shelf, and in deep waters they are found on or nea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohnstamm%27s%20phenomenon
First described by German neurologist Oskar Kohnstamm (1871–1917) in 1915, Kohnstamm's phenomenon is a sustained involuntary contraction of a muscle after a prolonged voluntary contraction. The simplest demonstration, sometimes called "the floating arms experiment", is to have a subject press the arms against a door f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline%20video%20inspection
Pipeline video inspection is a form of telepresence used to visually inspect the interiors of pipelines, plumbing systems, and storm drains. A common application is for a plumber to determine the condition of small diameter sewer lines and household connection drain pipes. Older sewer lines of small diameter, typicall...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabotropic%20glutamate%20receptor
The metabotropic glutamate receptors, or mGluRs, are a type of glutamate receptor that are active through an indirect metabotropic process. They are members of the group C family of G-protein-coupled receptors, or GPCRs. Like all glutamate receptors, mGluRs bind with glutamate, an amino acid that functions as an excit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrodynamic%20tether
Electrodynamic tethers (EDTs) are long conducting wires, such as one deployed from a tether satellite, which can operate on electromagnetic principles as generators, by converting their kinetic energy to electrical energy, or as motors, converting electrical energy to kinetic energy. Electric potential is generated acr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20oscillation
Neural oscillations, or brainwaves, are rhythmic or repetitive patterns of neural activity in the central nervous system. Neural tissue can generate oscillatory activity in many ways, driven either by mechanisms within individual neurons or by interactions between neurons. In individual neurons, oscillations can appea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%20value%20%28nuclear%20science%29
In nuclear physics and chemistry, the value for a reaction is the amount of energy absorbed or released during the nuclear reaction. The value relates to the enthalpy of a chemical reaction or the energy of radioactive decay products. It can be determined from the masses of reactants and products. values affect reac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variational%20methods%20in%20general%20relativity
Variational methods in general relativity refers to various mathematical techniques that employ the use of variational calculus in Einstein's theory of general relativity. The most commonly used tools are Lagrangians and Hamiltonians and are used to derive the Einstein field equations. Lagrangian methods The equation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling%20curve
A cooling curve is a line graph that represents the change of phase of matter, typically from a gas to a solid or a liquid to a solid. The independent variable (X-axis) is time and the dependent variable (Y-axis) is temperature. Below is an example of a cooling curve used in castings. The initial point of the graph is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa%20Gross%20Horwitz%20Prize
The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry is an annual prize awarded by Columbia University to a researcher or group of researchers who have made an outstanding contribution in basic research in the fields of biology or biochemistry. The prize was established at the bequest of S. Gross Horwitz and is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall%20Division%20of%20Cell%20and%20Molecular%20Biophysics
The Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics (the Randall) is a research institute of King's College London located in London United Kingdom. It is a centre for study in allergy and asthma; muscle signalling and development; structural biology; muscle biophysics; cell motility and cytoskeleton, and cell imagin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Arnoldus%20Schouten
Jan Arnoldus Schouten (28 August 1883 – 20 January 1971) was a Dutch mathematician and Professor at the Delft University of Technology. He was an important contributor to the development of tensor calculus and Ricci calculus, and was one of the founders of the Mathematisch Centrum in Amsterdam. Biography Schouten was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linklog
A linklog is a type of blog which is meant to act as a linked list. Common practice is for the post titles to link directly to an external URLs, and the content of the post includes information to complement the associated URL. Linklogs existed as a feature of computing systems before the internet as well. In distri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometry%20%26%20Topology
Geometry & Topology is a peer-refereed, international mathematics research journal devoted to geometry and topology, and their applications. It is currently based at the University of Warwick, United Kingdom, and published by Mathematical Sciences Publishers, a nonprofit academic publishing organisation. It was foun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fouling
Fouling is the accumulation of unwanted material on solid surfaces. The fouling materials can consist of either living organisms (biofouling) or a non-living substance (inorganic or organic). Fouling is usually distinguished from other surface-growth phenomena in that it occurs on a surface of a component, system, or p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myelin%20basic%20protein
Myelin basic protein (MBP) is a protein believed to be important in the process of myelination of nerves in the nervous system. The myelin sheath is a multi-layered membrane, unique to the nervous system, that functions as an insulator to greatly increase the velocity of axonal impulse conduction. MBP maintains the co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Envelope%20%28motion%29
In mechanical engineering, an envelope is a solid representing all positions which may be occupied by an object during its normal range of motion. Another (jargon) word for this is a "flop". Wheel envelope In automobile design, a wheel envelope may be used to model all positions a wheel and tire combo may be expected...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20rare%20species%20in%20the%20British%20National%20Vegetation%20Classification
The following is a list of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens which were regarded as rare species by the authors of British Plant Communities, together with the communities in which they occur. Vascular plants Man orchid (Aceras anthropophorum) CG2, CG3, CG5 Baneberry (Actaea spicata) W9 Bristle bent (Agrosti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trembling%20hand%20perfect%20equilibrium
In game theory, trembling hand perfect equilibrium is a type of refinement of a Nash equilibrium that was first proposed by Reinhard Selten. A trembling hand perfect equilibrium is an equilibrium that takes the possibility of off-the-equilibrium play into account by assuming that the players, through a "slip of the han...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Practice%20of%20Programming
The Practice of Programming () by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike is a 1999 book about computer programming and software engineering, published by Addison-Wesley. According to the preface, the book is about "topics like testing, debugging, portability, performance, design alternatives, and style", which, according to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assembly%20modelling
Assembly modeling is a technology and method used by computer-aided design and product visualization computer software systems to handle multiple files that represent components within a product. The components within an assembly are represented as solid or surface models. Overview The designer generally has access t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20constant%20species%20in%20the%20British%20National%20Vegetation%20Classification
The following is a list of vascular plants, bryophytes and lichens which are constant species in one or more community of the British National Vegetation Classification system. Vascular plants Grasses Sedges and rushes Trees Other dicotyledons Other monocotyledons Ferns Clubmosses Bryophytes Mosses Liverwort...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique%20reflection
In Euclidean geometry, oblique reflections generalize ordinary reflections by not requiring that reflection be done using perpendiculars. If two points are oblique reflections of each other, they will still stay so under affine transformations. Consider a plane P in the three-dimensional Euclidean space. The usual re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pertussis%20toxin
Pertussis toxin (PT) is a protein-based AB5-type exotoxin produced by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis, which causes whooping cough. PT is involved in the colonization of the respiratory tract and the establishment of infection. Research suggests PT may have a therapeutic role in treating a number of common human ail...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trihexagonal%20tiling
In geometry, the trihexagonal tiling is one of 11 uniform tilings of the Euclidean plane by regular polygons. It consists of equilateral triangles and regular hexagons, arranged so that each hexagon is surrounded by triangles and vice versa. The name derives from the fact that it combines a regular hexagonal tiling and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calpain
A calpain (; , ) is a protein belonging to the family of calcium-dependent, non-lysosomal cysteine proteases (proteolytic enzymes) expressed ubiquitously in mammals and many other organisms. Calpains constitute the C2 family of protease clan CA in the MEROPS database. The calpain proteolytic system includes the calpain...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inward-rectifier%20potassium%20channel
Inward-rectifier potassium channels (Kir, IRK) are a specific lipid-gated subset of potassium channels. To date, seven subfamilies have been identified in various mammalian cell types, plants, and bacteria. They are activated by phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PIP2). The malfunction of the channels has been impl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minichamps
Minichamps is a die-cast model car brand founded as Paul's Model Art GmbH in 1990 in Aachen, Germany, best known for its 1:18, 1:43 and 1:64 scale models. The company grew out of the Danhausen trade catalog of miniature vehicles and specially made Danhausen diecast releases during the 1970s. The Danhausen legacy Danha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majorization
In mathematics, majorization is a preorder on vectors of real numbers. Let denote the -th largest element of the vector . Given , we say that weakly majorizes (or dominates) from below (or equivalently, we say that is weakly majorized (or dominated) by from below) denoted as if for all . If in addition , we say ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20cosmology
String cosmology is a relatively new field that tries to apply equations of string theory to solve the questions of early cosmology. A related area of study is brane cosmology. Overview This approach can be dated back to a paper by Gabriele Veneziano that shows how an inflationary cosmological model can be obtained f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%E2%80%93Pasta%E2%80%93Ulam%E2%80%93Tsingou%20problem
In physics, the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou (FPUT) problem or formerly the Fermi–Pasta–Ulam problem was the apparent paradox in chaos theory that many complicated enough physical systems exhibited almost exactly periodic behavior – called Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou recurrence (or Fermi–Pasta–Ulam recurrence) – instead of th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%20functional
In mathematical physics, some approaches to quantum field theory are more popular than others. For historical reasons, the Schrödinger representation is less favored than Fock space methods. In the early days of quantum field theory, maintaining symmetries such as Lorentz invariance, displaying them manifestly, and pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staggered%20fermion
In lattice field theory, staggered fermions (also known as Kogut–Susskind fermions) are a fermion discretization that reduces the number of fermion doublers from sixteen to four. They are one of the fastest lattice fermions when it comes to simulations and they also possess some nice features such as a remnant chiral s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian%20lattice%20gauge%20theory
In physics, Hamiltonian lattice gauge theory is a calculational approach to gauge theory and a special case of lattice gauge theory in which the space is discretized but time is not. The Hamiltonian is then re-expressed as a function of degrees of freedom defined on a d-dimensional lattice. Following Wilson, the spati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linearized%20gravity
In the theory of general relativity, linearized gravity is the application of perturbation theory to the metric tensor that describes the geometry of spacetime. As a consequence, linearized gravity is an effective method for modeling the effects of gravity when the gravitational field is weak. The usage of linearized g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion%20rules
In mathematics and theoretical physics, fusion rules are rules that determine the exact decomposition of the tensor product of two representations of a group into a direct sum of irreducible representations. The term is often used in the context of two-dimensional conformal field theory where the relevant group is gene...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal%20family
In theoretical physics, a conformal family is an irreducible representation of the Virasoro algebra. In most cases, it is uniquely determined by its primary field or the highest weight vector. The family contains all of its descendant fields.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ischemic%20cascade
The ischemic (ischaemic) cascade is a series of biochemical reactions that are initiated in the brain and other aerobic tissues after seconds to minutes of ischemia (inadequate blood supply). This is typically secondary to stroke, injury, or cardiac arrest due to heart attack. Most ischemic neurons that die do so due t...