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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon%27s%20problem | Napoleon's problem is a compass construction problem. In it, a circle and its center are given. The challenge is to divide the circle into four equal arcs using only a compass. Napoleon was known to be an amateur mathematician, but it is not known if he either created or solved the problem. Napoleon's friend the Ita... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction%20fragment | A restriction fragment is a DNA fragment resulting from the cutting of a DNA strand by a restriction enzyme (restriction endonucleases), a process called restriction. Each restriction enzyme is highly specific, recognising a particular short DNA sequence, or restriction site, and cutting both DNA strands at specific po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hex%20sign | Hex signs are a form of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art, related to fraktur, found in the Fancy Dutch tradition in Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Barn paintings, usually in the form of "stars in circles", began to appear on the landscape in the early 19th century and became widespread decades later when commercial ready-mixed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20World%20Series%20broadcasters | The following is a list of national American television and radio networks and announcers that have broadcast World Series games over the years, as well as local flagship radio stations that have aired them since 1982.
Television
Television coverage of the World Series began in 1947. Since that time, eight different m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inositol%20phosphate | Inositol phosphates are a group of mono- to hexaphosphorylated inositols. Each form of inositol phosphate is distinguished by the number and position of the phosphate group on the inositol ring.
inositol monophosphate (IP)
inositol bisphosphate (IP2)
inositol trisphosphate (IP3)
inositol tetraphosphate (IP4)
inosi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methionine%20synthase | Methionine synthase also known as MS, MeSe, MTR is responsible for the regeneration of methionine from homocysteine. In humans it is encoded by the MTR gene (5-methyltetrahydrofolate-homocysteine methyltransferase). Methionine synthase forms part of the S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe) biosynthesis and regeneration cycle, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carus%20Mathematical%20Monographs | The Carus Mathematical Monographs is a monograph series published by the Mathematical Association of America. Books in this series are intended to appeal to a wide range of readers in mathematics and science.
Scope and audience
While the books are intended to cover nontrivial material, the emphasis is on exposition an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maladaptation | In evolution, a maladaptation () is a trait that is (or has become) more harmful than helpful, in contrast with an adaptation, which is more helpful than harmful. All organisms, from bacteria to humans, display maladaptive and adaptive traits. In animals (including humans), adaptive behaviors contrast with maladaptive ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloss%20%28optics%29 | Gloss is an optical property which indicates how well a surface reflects light in a specular (mirror-like) direction. It is one of the important parameters that are used to describe the visual appearance of an object. Other categories of visual appearance related to the perception of regular or diffuse reflection and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20incident%20technique | The critical incident technique (or CIT) is a set of procedures used for collecting direct observations of human behavior that have critical significance and meet methodically defined criteria. These observations are then kept track of as incidents, which are then used to solve practical problems and develop broad psyc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email%20hub | The term Mail Hub is used to denote an MTA (message transfer agent) or system of MTAs used to route email but not act as a mail server (having no end-user email store) since there is no MUA (mail user agent) access. Examples could include dedicated anti-SPAM appliances, anti-virus engines running on dedicated hardware,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic%20sensitivity%20testing | Antibiotic sensitivity testing or antibiotic susceptibility testing is the measurement of the susceptibility of bacteria to antibiotics. It is used because bacteria may have resistance to some antibiotics. Sensitivity testing results can allow a clinician to change the choice of antibiotics from empiric therapy, which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4104 | 4104 (four thousand one hundred [and] four) is the natural number following 4103 and preceding 4105. It is the second positive integer which can be expressed as the sum of two positive cubes in two different ways. The first such number, 1729, is called the "Ramanujan–Hardy number".
4104 is the sum of 4096 + 8 (that is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20entomology%20%E2%80%93%20prior%20to%201800 | Entomology, the scientific study of insects and closely related terrestrial arthropods, has been impelled by the necessity of societies to protect themselves from insect-borne diseases, crop losses to pest insects, and insect-related discomfort, as well as by people's natural curiosity. Though many significant developm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20entomology%20%E2%80%93%201800%E2%80%931850 |
19th century
1800 – an arbitrary date but it was around this time that systematists began to specialise. There remained entomological polyhistors – those who continued to work on the insect fauna as a whole.
From the beginning of the century, however, the specialist began to predominate, harbingered by Johann Wilhe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Entomological%20Society | The American Entomological Society was founded on March 1, 1859. It is the oldest continuously operating entomology society in the Western Hemisphere, and one of the oldest scientific societies in the United States. It is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The society publishes Entomological News, Transacti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heckscher%E2%80%93Ohlin%20theorem | The Heckscher–Ohlin theorem is one of the four critical theorems of the Heckscher–Ohlin model, developed by Swedish economist Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin (his student). In the two-factor case, it states: "A capital-abundant country will export the capital-intensive good, while the labor-abundant country will export ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Authentication%20Service | Internet Authentication Service (IAS) is a component of Windows Server operating systems that provides centralized user authentication, authorization and accounting.
Overview
While Routing and Remote Access Service (RRAS) security is sufficient for small networks, larger companies often need a dedicated infrastructur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak%20sauce | Steak sauce is a tangy sauce commonly served as a condiment for beef in the United States. Two of its major producers are British companies, and the sauce is similar to the "brown sauce" of British cuisine.
Overview
Steak sauce is normally brown in color, and often made from tomatoes, spices, vinegar, and raisins, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofascism | Ecofascism is a term used to describe individuals and groups which combine environmentalism with fascism.
Philosopher André Gorz characterized forms of totalitarianism based on an ecological orientation of politics. These individuals and groups synthesise radical far-right politics with environmentalism, and will typi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age%20adjustment | In epidemiology and demography, age adjustment, also called age standardization, is a technique used to allow statistical populations to be compared when the age profiles of the populations are quite different.
Example
For example, in 2004/5, two Australian health surveys investigated rates of long-term circulatory sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefschetz%20zeta%20function | In mathematics, the Lefschetz zeta-function is a tool used in topological periodic and fixed point theory, and dynamical systems. Given a continuous map , the zeta-function is defined as the formal series
where is the Lefschetz number of the -th iterate of . This zeta-function is of note in topological periodic point... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amateur%20rocketry | Amateur rocketry, sometimes known as experimental rocketry or amateur experimental rocketry, is a hobby in which participants experiment with fuels and make their own rocket motors, launching a wide variety of types and sizes of rockets. Amateur rocketeers have been responsible for significant research into hybrid rock... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalar%20boson | A scalar boson is a boson whose spin equals zero. A boson is a particle whose wave function is symmetric under particle exchange and therefore follows Bose–Einstein statistics. The spin–statistics theorem implies that all bosons have an integer-valued spin. Scalar bosons are the subset of bosons with zero-valued spin.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemicontinuity | In mathematics, the notion of the continuity of functions is not immediately extensible to set-valued functions between two sets A and B.
The dual concepts of upper hemicontinuity and lower hemicontinuity facilitate such an extension.
A set-valued function that has both properties is said to be continuous in an analo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical%20text%20mining | Biomedical text mining (including biomedical natural language processing or BioNLP) refers to the methods and study of how text mining may be applied to texts and literature of the biomedical domain. As a field of research, biomedical text mining incorporates ideas from natural language processing, bioinformatics, medi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioCreative | BioCreAtIvE (A critical assessment of text mining methods in molecular biology) consists in a community-wide effort for evaluating information extraction and text mining developments in the biological domain.
It was preceded by the Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD) Challenge Cup for detection of gene mentions... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%20National%20Bioinformatics%20Institute | The Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB-ISCIII; Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Bioinformática) is an academic service institution tasked with the coordination, integration and development of bioinformatics resources in Spain. Created in 2003, the INB is—since 2015—the main node through which the Carlos III H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Sloan%20Wilson | David Sloan Wilson (born 1949) is an American evolutionary biologist and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biological Sciences and Anthropology at Binghamton University. He is a son of author Sloan Wilson, and co-founder of the Evolution Institute, and co-founder of the spinoff nonprofit Prosocial World.
Early lif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisymmetry | In linguistics, antisymmetry is a syntactic theory presented in Richard S. Kayne's 1994 monograph The Antisymmetry of Syntax. It asserts that grammatical hierarchies in natural language follow a universal order, namely specifier-head-complement branching order. The theory builds on the foundation of the X-bar theory. K... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket%20candy | Rocket Candy, or R-Candy, is a type of rocket propellant for model rockets made with a form of sugar as a fuel, and containing an oxidizer. The propellant can be divided into three groups of components: the fuel, the oxidizer, and the additive(s). In the past, sucrose was most commonly used as fuel. Modern formulations... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precordium | In anatomy, the precordium or praecordium is the portion of the body over the heart and lower chest.
Defined anatomically, it is the area of the anterior chest wall over the heart. It is therefore usually on the left side, except in conditions like dextrocardia, where the individual's heart is on the right side. In su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20computing | Physical computing involves interactive systems that can sense and respond to the world around them. While this definition is broad enough to encompass systems such as smart automotive traffic control systems or factory automation processes, it is not commonly used to describe them. In a broader sense, physical computi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%20graph | Johnson graphs are a special class of undirected graphs defined from systems of sets. The vertices of the Johnson graph are the -element subsets of an -element set; two vertices are adjacent when the intersection of the two vertices (subsets) contains -elements. Both Johnson graphs and the closely related Johnson sche... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauge%20covariant%20derivative | In physics, the gauge covariant derivative is a means of expressing how fields vary from place to place, in a way that respects how the coordinate systems used to describe a physical phenomenon can themselves change from place to place. The gauge covariant derivative is used in many areas of physics, including quantum ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutton%27s%20law | Sutton's law states that when diagnosing, one should first consider the obvious. It suggests that one should first conduct those tests which could confirm (or rule out) the most likely diagnosis. It is taught in medical schools to suggest to medical students that they might best order tests in that sequence which is mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalene%20muscles | The scalene muscles are a group of three muscles on each side of the neck, identified as the anterior, the middle, and the posterior. They are innervated by the third to the eighth cervical spinal nerves (C3-C8).
The anterior and middle scalene muscles lift the first rib and bend the neck to the side they are on. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parotid%20duct | The parotid duct, or Stensen duct, is a salivary duct. It is the route that saliva takes from the major salivary gland, the parotid gland, into the mouth. It opens into the mouth opposite the second upper molar tooth.
Structure
The parotid duct is formed when several interlobular ducts, the largest ducts inside the pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythema%20nodosum | Erythema nodosum (EN) is an inflammatory condition characterized by inflammation of the fat cells under the skin, resulting in tender red nodules or lumps that are usually seen on both shins. It can be caused by a variety of conditions, and typically resolves spontaneously within 30 days. It is common in young people a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20access%20control | In computers, logical access controls are tools and protocols used for identification, authentication, authorization, and accountability in computer information systems. Logical access is often needed for remote access of hardware and is often contrasted with the term "physical access", which refers to interactions (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackDog | The BlackDog is a pocket-sized, self-contained computer with a built-in biometric fingerprint reader which was developed in 2005 by Realm Systems, which is plugged into and powered by the USB port of a host computer using its peripheral devices for input and output.
It is a mobile personal server which allows a user t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accession%20number%20%28bioinformatics%29 | An accession number, in bioinformatics, is a unique identifier given to a DNA or protein sequence record to allow for tracking of different versions of that sequence record and the associated sequence over time in a single data repository. Because of its relative stability, accession numbers can be utilized as foreign... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealMagic | RealMagic (or ReelMagic), from Sigma Designs, was one of the first fully compliant MPEG playback boards on the market in the mid-1990s.
RealMagic is a hardware-accelerated MPEG decoder that mixes its video stream into a computer video card's output through the video card's feature connector. It is also a SoundBlaster-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20circuit%20design | Integrated circuit design, or IC design, is a sub-field of electronics engineering, encompassing the particular logic and circuit design techniques required to design integrated circuits, or ICs. ICs consist of miniaturized electronic components built into an electrical network on a monolithic semiconductor substrate ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towed%20array%20sonar | A towed array sonar is a system of hydrophones towed behind a submarine or a surface ship on a cable. Trailing the hydrophones behind the vessel, on a cable that can be kilometers long, keeps the array's sensors away from the ship's own noise sources, greatly improving its signal-to-noise ratio, and hence the effective... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caf%C3%A9%20Central | Café Central is a traditional Viennese café located at Herrengasse 14 in the Innere Stadt first district of Vienna, Austria. The café occupies the ground floor of the former Bank and Stockmarket Building, today called the Palais Ferstel after its architect Heinrich von Ferstel.
History
The café was opened in 1876, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session-based%20testing | Session-based testing is a software test method that aims to combine accountability and exploratory testing to provide rapid defect discovery, creative on-the-fly test design, management control and metrics reporting. The method can also be used in conjunction with scenario testing. Session-based testing was developed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cram%C3%A9r%E2%80%93Wold%20theorem | In mathematics, the Cramér–Wold theorem in measure theory states that a Borel probability measure on is uniquely determined by the totality of its one-dimensional projections. It is used as a method for proving joint convergence results. The theorem is named after Harald Cramér and Herman Ole Andreas Wold.
Let
and
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploratory%20testing | Exploratory testing is an approach to software testing that is concisely described as simultaneous learning, test design and test execution. Cem Kaner, who coined the term in 1984, defines exploratory testing as "a style of software testing that emphasizes the personal freedom and responsibility of the individual teste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notarikon | Notarikon ( Noṭriqōn) is a Talmudic and Kabbalistic method of deriving a word, by using each of its initial (Hebrew: ) or final letters () to stand for another, to form a sentence or idea out of the words. Another variation uses the first and last letters, or the two middle letters of a word, in order to form another... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption%20%28acoustics%29 | In acoustics, absorption refers to the process by which a material, structure, or object takes in sound energy when sound waves are encountered, as opposed to reflecting the energy. Part of the absorbed energy is transformed into heat and part is transmitted through the absorbing body. The energy transformed into heat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-weight%20process | In computer operating systems, a light-weight process (LWP) is a means of achieving multitasking. In the traditional meaning of the term, as used in Unix System V and Solaris, a LWP runs in user space on top of a single kernel thread and shares its address space and system resources with other LWPs within the same proc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novobiocin | Novobiocin, also known as albamycin or cathomycin, is an aminocoumarin antibiotic that is produced by the actinomycete Streptomyces niveus, which has recently been identified as a subjective synonym for S. spheroides a member of the class Actinomycetia. Other aminocoumarin antibiotics include clorobiocin and coumermyci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustically%20Navigated%20Geological%20Underwater%20Survey | The Acoustically Navigated Geological Underwater Survey (ANGUS) was a deep-towed still-camera sled operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute (WHOI) in the early 1970s. It was the first unmanned research vehicle made by WHOI. ANGUS was encased in a large steel frame designed to explore rugged volcanic terrain ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton%20effect | The Cotton effect in physics, is the characteristic change in optical rotatory dispersion and/or circular dichroism in the vicinity of an absorption band of a substance.
In a wavelength region where the light is absorbed, the absolute magnitude of the optical rotation at first varies rapidly with wavelength, crosses ze... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20rotatory%20dispersion | Optical rotatory dispersion is the variation in the optical rotation of a substance with a change in the wavelength of light. Optical rotatory dispersion can be used to find the absolute configuration of metal complexes. For example, when plane-polarized white light from an overhead projector is passed through a cylind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan%20Ivanovich%20%28Vostok%20programme%29 | Ivan Ivanovich (Иван Иванович, the Russian equivalent of "John Doe") was the name given to a mannequin used in testing the Soviet Vostok spacecraft in preparation for its crewed missions.
Ivan Ivanovich was made to look as lifelike as possible, with eyes, eyebrows, eyelashes, and a mouth. He was dressed in a cosmonaut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20entomology%20%E2%80%93%201850%E2%80%931900 | 1850
Edmond de Sélys Longchamps . 6:1–408.
Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky . I. Insecta Carabica. Russian beetles, Carabidae, Moscow: Gautier, published.
1851
Johann Fischer von Waldheim and Eduard Friedrich Eversmann publish (vol.5 of Johann Fischer von Waldheim. . Seminal work on Russian Lepidoptera.
Louis Agassiz.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer%202%20MPLS%20VPN | A Layer 2 MPLS VPN is a term in computer networking. It is a method that Internet service providers use to segregate their network for their customers, to allow them to transmit data over an IP network. This is often sold as a service to businesses.
Layer 2 VPNs are a type of Virtual Private Network (VPN) that uses MP... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retene | Retene, methyl isopropyl phenanthrene or 1-methyl-7-isopropyl phenanthrene, C18H18, is a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon present in the coal tar fraction, boiling above 360 °C. It occurs naturally in the tars obtained by the distillation of resinous woods. It crystallizes in large plates, which melt at 98.5 °C and boil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipfirewall | ipfirewall or ipfw is a FreeBSD IP, stateful firewall, packet filter and traffic accounting facility. Its ruleset logic is similar to many other packet filters except IPFilter. ipfw is authored and maintained by FreeBSD volunteer staff members. Its syntax enables use of sophisticated filtering capabilities and thus ena... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hooking | In computer programming, the term hooking covers a range of techniques used to alter or augment the behaviour of an operating system, of applications, or of other software components by intercepting function calls or messages or events passed between software components. Code that handles such intercepted function call... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopy%20%28biology%29 | In biology, the canopy is the aboveground portion of a plant cropping or crop, formed by the collection of individual plant crowns. In forest ecology, canopy refers to the upper layer or habitat zone, formed by mature tree crowns and including other biological organisms (epiphytes, lianas, arboreal animals, etc.). The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20Directory%20Rights%20Management%20Services | Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS, known as Rights Management Services or RMS before Windows Server 2008) is a server software for information rights management shipped with Windows Server. It uses encryption and a form of selective functionality denial for limiting access to documents such as corpora... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talus%20bone | The talus (; Latin for ankle or ankle bone; : tali), talus bone, astragalus (), or ankle bone is one of the group of foot bones known as the tarsus. The tarsus forms the lower part of the ankle joint. It transmits the entire weight of the body from the lower legs to the foot.
The talus has joints with the two bones of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterative%20learning%20control | Iterative Learning Control (ILC) is a method of tracking control for systems that work in a repetitive mode. Examples of systems that operate in a repetitive manner include robot arm manipulators, chemical batch processes and reliability testing rigs. In each of these tasks the system is required to perform the same ac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary%20malignant%20neoplasm | Secondary malignant neoplasm is a malignant tumor whose cause is the treatment (usually radiation or chemotherapy) which was used for a prior tumor. It must be distinguished from Metastasis from the prior tumor or a relapse from it since a secondary malignant neoplasm is a different tumor. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali%20%28software%29 | Kali is an IPX network emulator for DOS and Windows, enabling legacy multiplayer games to work over a modern TCP/IP network such as the Internet. Later versions of the software also functioned as a server browser for games that natively supported TCP/IP. Versions were also created for OS2 and Mac, but neither version w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acceptance%20and%20commitment%20therapy | Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT, typically pronounced as the word "act") is a form of psychotherapy, as well as a branch of clinical behavior analysis. It is an empirically based psychological intervention that uses acceptance and mindfulness strategies along with commitment and behavior-change strategies to inc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysogenic%20cycle | Lysogeny, or the lysogenic cycle, is one of two cycles of viral reproduction (the lytic cycle being the other). Lysogeny is characterized by integration of the bacteriophage nucleic acid into the host bacterium's genome or formation of a circular replicon in the bacterial cytoplasm. In this condition the bacterium cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomeromycota | Glomeromycota (often referred to as glomeromycetes, as they include only one class, Glomeromycetes) are one of eight currently recognized divisions within the kingdom Fungi, with approximately 230 described species. Members of the Glomeromycota form arbuscular mycorrhizas (AMs) with the thalli of bryophytes and the roo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satplan | Satplan (better known as Planning as Satisfiability) is a method for automated planning. It converts the planning problem instance into an instance of the Boolean satisfiability problem, which is then solved using a method for establishing satisfiability such as the DPLL algorithm or WalkSAT.
Given a problem instance ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid-leak%20detector | A grid leak detector is an electronic circuit that demodulates an amplitude modulated alternating current and amplifies the recovered modulating voltage. The circuit utilizes the non-linear cathode to control grid conduction characteristic and the amplification factor of a vacuum tube. Invented by Lee De Forest around ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social-desirability%20bias | In social science research, social-desirability bias is a type of response bias that is the tendency of survey respondents to answer questions in a manner that will be viewed favorably by others. It can take the form of over-reporting "good behavior" or under-reporting "bad", or undesirable behavior. The tendency poses... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vascular%20bundle | A vascular bundle is a part of the transport system in vascular plants. The transport itself happens in the stem, which exists in two forms: xylem and phloem. Both these tissues are present in a vascular bundle, which in addition will include supporting and protective tissues. In addition, there is also a tissue betwee... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alloplant | Alloplant is a biomaterial made from cartilage used for eye surgery in some clinics in Russia. Experts warn that claims about its alleged regenerative properties by its inventor have not been documented in medical literature.
Origin
The compound has been developed by Russian ophthalmologist and mystic Ernst Muldashev ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman%20paradox | The Sherman paradox was a term used to describe the anomalous pattern of inheritance found in fragile X syndrome. The phenomenon is also referred to as anticipation or dynamic mutation.
Background
The paradox was named in the late 1980s after American geneticist Stephanie Sherman, who studied the inheritance patterns... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace%20character | In computer programming, whitespace is any character or series of characters that represent horizontal or vertical space in typography. When rendered, a whitespace character does not correspond to a visible mark, but typically does occupy an area on a page. For example, the common whitespace symbol (also ASCII 32) rep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibATA | libATA is a library used inside the Linux kernel to support ATA host controllers and devices. libATA provides an ATA driver API, class transports for ATA and ATAPI devices, and SCSI / ATA Translation for ATA devices according to the T10 SAT specification. Features include power management, Self-Monitoring, Analysis, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axonal%20transport | Axonal transport, also called axoplasmic transport or axoplasmic flow, is a cellular process responsible for movement of mitochondria, lipids, synaptic vesicles, proteins, and other organelles to and from a neuron's cell body, through the cytoplasm of its axon called the axoplasm. Since some axons are on the order of m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascending%20colon | In the anatomy of humans and homologous primates, the ascending colon is the part of the colon located between the cecum and the transverse colon.
Characteristics and structure
The ascending colon is smaller in calibre than the cecum from where it starts. It passes upward, opposite the colic valve, to the under surfac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/233%20%28number%29 | 233 (two hundred [and] thirty-three) is the natural number following 232 and preceding 234.
Additionally:
233 is a prime number,
233 is a Sophie Germain prime, a Pillai prime, and a Ramanujan prime.
It is a Fibonacci number, one of the Fibonacci primes.
There are exactly 233 maximal planar graphs with ten vertices, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidermis%20%28botany%29 | The epidermis (from the Greek ἐπιδερμίς, meaning "over-skin") is a single layer of cells that covers the leaves, flowers, roots and stems of plants. It forms a boundary between the plant and the external environment. The epidermis serves several functions: it protects against water loss, regulates gas exchange, secrete... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20simulation%20Monte%20Carlo | Direct simulation Monte Carlo (DSMC) method uses probabilistic Monte Carlo simulation to solve the Boltzmann equation for finite Knudsen number fluid flows.
The DSMC method was proposed by Graeme Bird, emeritus professor of aeronautics, University of Sydney. DSMC is a numerical method for modeling rarefied gas flows, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forward%20declaration | In computer programming, a forward declaration is a declaration of an identifier (denoting an entity such as a type, a variable, a constant, or a function) for which the programmer has not yet given a complete definition.
It is required for a compiler to know certain properties of an identifier (size for memory alloca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinning | Tinning is the process of thinly coating sheets of wrought iron or steel with tin, and the resulting product is known as tinplate. The term is also widely used for the different process of coating a metal with solder before soldering.
It is most often used to prevent rust, but is also commonly applied to the ends of s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20chaos | In the kinetic theory of gases in physics, the molecular chaos hypothesis (also called Stosszahlansatz in the writings of Paul Ehrenfest) is the assumption that the velocities of colliding particles are uncorrelated, and independent of position. This means the probability that a pair of particles with given velocities ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsden%20square | Marsden square mapping or Marsden squares is a system that divides a world map with latitude-longitude gridlines (e.g. plate carrée projection, Mercator or other) between 80°N and 70°S latitudes (or 90°N and 80°S: refer chart at Ocean Teacher’s Ocean Geography page) into grid cells of 10° latitude by 10° longitude, eac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluent%20calculus | The fluent calculus is a formalism for expressing dynamical domains in first-order logic. It is a variant of the situation calculus; the main difference is that situations are considered representations of states. A binary function symbol is used to concatenate the terms that represent facts that hold in a situation. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%20reference%20system | A spatial reference system (SRS) or coordinate reference system (CRS) is a framework used to precisely measure locations on the surface of Earth as coordinates. It is thus the application of the abstract mathematics of coordinate systems and analytic geometry to geographic space. A particular SRS specification (for exa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20operations%20center | A security operations center (SOC) is responsible for protecting an organization against cyber threats. SOC analysts perform round-the-clock monitoring of an organization’s network and investigate any potential security incidents. If a cyberattack is detected, the SOC analysts are responsible for taking any steps neces... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic%20electromagnetism | Relativistic electromagnetism is a physical phenomenon explained in electromagnetic field theory due to Coulomb's law and Lorentz transformations.
Electromechanics
After Maxwell proposed the differential equation model of the electromagnetic field in 1873, the mechanism of action of fields came into question, for inst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blattner%27s%20conjecture | In mathematics, Blattner's conjecture or Blattner's formula is a description of the discrete series representations of a general semisimple group G in terms of their restricted representations to a maximal compact subgroup K (their so-called K-types). It is named after Robert James Blattner, despite not being formulate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutacin%201140 | Mutacin 1140 is a bacteriocin produced by Streptococcus mutans. It has activity against a broad spectrum of Gram-positive bacteria. It is a member of the class of compounds known as lantibiotics.
Mutacin 1140 belongs to the epidermin subset of type Al lantibiotics. Molecules belonging to this family bind to lipid II... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barracuda%20Networks | Barracuda Networks, Inc. is a company providing security, networking and storage products based on network appliances and cloud services. The company's security products include products for protection against email, web surfing, web hackers and instant messaging threats such as spam, spyware, trojans, and viruses. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive%20breeding | Captive breeding, also known as captive propagation, is the process of keeping plants or animals in controlled environments, such as wildlife reserves, zoos, botanic gardens, and other conservation facilities. It is sometimes employed to help species that are being threatened by the effects of human activities such as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20reversal%20signal%20processing | Time reversal signal processing is a signal processing technique that has three main uses: creating an optimal carrier signal for communication, reconstructing a source event, and focusing high-energy waves to a point in space. A Time Reversal Mirror (TRM) is a device that can focus waves using the time reversal metho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFront | eFront was an affiliate marketing network which purchased successful websites, such as Penny Arcade, SquareGamer, and BetaNews, and pooled traffic to those sites to command higher prices for advertising during an industrywide ad revenue slowdown. In 2001, there was a scandal when ICQ instant messaging logs between the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov%20number | A Markov number or Markoff number is a positive integer x, y or z that is part of a solution to the Markov Diophantine equation
studied by .
The first few Markov numbers are
1, 2, 5, 13, 29, 34, 89, 169, 194, 233, 433, 610, 985, 1325, ...
appearing as coordinates of the Markov triples
(1, 1, 1), (1, 1, 2), (1, 2,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teardrop%20tattoo | The teardrop tattoo or tear tattoo is a symbolic tattoo of a tear that is placed underneath the eye. The teardrop is one of the most widely recognised prison tattoos and has various meanings.
It can signify that the wearer has spent time in prison, or more specifically that the wearer was raped while incarcerated and ... |
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