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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20B.%20Hoover
Richard Brice Hoover (born January 3, 1943) is a physicist who has authored 33 volumes and 250 papers on astrobiology, extremophiles, diatoms, solar physics, X-ray/EUV optics and meteorites. He holds 11 U.S. patents and was 1992 NASA Inventor of the Year. He was employed at the United States' NASA Marshall Space Flight...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife%20disease
Disease is described as a decrease in performance of normal functions of an individual caused by many factors, which is not limited to infectious agents. Furthermore, wildlife disease is a disease when one of the hosts includes a wildlife species. In many cases, wildlife hosts can act as a reservoir of diseases that sp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagopyrin
Fagopyrin is a term used for several closely related naturally occurring substances in the buckwheat plant. Their chemical structure contains a naphthodianthrone skeleton similar to that of hypericin. Fagopyrin is located almost exclusively in the cotyledons of the buckwheat herb. When ingested, fagopyrins cause se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somite
The somites (outdated term: primitive segments) are a set of bilaterally paired blocks of paraxial mesoderm that form in the embryonic stage of somitogenesis, along the head-to-tail axis in segmented animals. In vertebrates, somites subdivide into the dermatomes, myotomes, sclerotomes and syndetomes that give rise to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basis%20pursuit%20denoising
In applied mathematics and statistics, basis pursuit denoising (BPDN) refers to a mathematical optimization problem of the form where is a parameter that controls the trade-off between sparsity and reconstruction fidelity, is an solution vector, is an vector of observations, is an transform matrix and . This...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPS-aided%20GEO%20augmented%20navigation
The GPS-aided GEO augmented navigation (GAGAN) is an implementation of a regional satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) by the Government of India. It is a system to improve the accuracy of a GNSS receiver by providing reference signals. The Airports Authority of India (AAI)'s efforts towards implementation of ope...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked%20society
A ranked society in anthropology is one that ranks individuals in terms of their genealogical distance from the chief. Another term for a "ranked society" is a chiefdom. Closer relatives of the chief have higher rank or social status than more distant ones. Societies which follow this kind of structure associate rank w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rigid%20cohomology
In mathematics, rigid cohomology is a p-adic cohomology theory introduced by . It extends crystalline cohomology to schemes that need not be proper or smooth, and extends Monsky–Washnitzer cohomology to non-affine varieties. For a scheme X of finite type over a perfect field k, there are rigid cohomology groups H(X/K) ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowflake%20schema
In computing, a snowflake schema is a logical arrangement of tables in a multidimensional database such that the entity relationship diagram resembles a snowflake shape. The snowflake schema is represented by centralized fact tables which are connected to multiple dimensions. "Snowflaking" is a method of normalizing t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stjepan%20Mohorovi%C4%8Di%C4%87
Stjepan Mohorovičić (August 20, 1890 – February 13, 1980) was a Croatian physicist, geophysicist and meteorologist. Biography Mohorovičić was born in the town of Bakar. His father is the world-famous geophysicist Andrija Mohorovičić. He studied mathematics and physics at the University of Zagreb where among others hi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No%20instruction%20set%20computing
No instruction set computing (NISC) is a computing architecture and compiler technology for designing highly efficient custom processors and hardware accelerators by allowing a compiler to have low-level control of hardware resources. Overview NISC is a statically scheduled horizontal nanocoded architecture (SSHNA). ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20methylparaben
Sodium methylparaben (sodium methyl para-hydroxybenzoate) is a compound with formula Na(CH3(C6H4COO)O). It is the sodium salt of methylparaben. It is a food additive with the E number E219 which is used as a preservative.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratio%20of%20uniforms
The ratio of uniforms is a method initially proposed by Kinderman and Monahan in 1977 for pseudo-random number sampling, that is, for drawing random samples from a statistical distribution. Like rejection sampling and inverse transform sampling, it is an exact simulation method. The basic idea of the method is to use a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Muchnik
Albert Abramovich Muchnik (2 January 1934 – 14 February 2019) was a Russian mathematician who worked in the field of foundations and mathematical logic. He received his Ph.D. from Moscow State Pedagogical Institute in 1959 under the advisorship of Pyotr Novikov. Muchnik's most significant contribution was on the subj...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning%20plasma
In plasma physics, a burning plasma is one in which most of the heating comes from fusion reactions involving thermal plasma ions. The Sun and similar stars are a burning plasma, and in 2020 the National Ignition Facility achieved burning plasma. A closely related concept is that of an ignited plasma, in which all of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%20root%20of%206
The square root of 6 is the positive real number that, when multiplied by itself, gives the natural number 6. It is more precisely called the principal square root of 6, to distinguish it from the negative number with the same property. This number appears in numerous geometric and number-theoretic contexts. It can be ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka%E2%80%93Weil%20theorem
In mathematics, especially the theory of several complex variables, the Oka–Weil theorem is a result about the uniform convergence of holomorphic functions on Stein spaces due to Kiyoshi Oka and André Weil. Statement The Oka–Weil theorem states that if X is a Stein space and K is a compact -convex subset of X, then ev...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver%20scheduling%20problem
The driver scheduling problem (DSP) is type of problem in operations research and theoretical computer science. The DSP consists of selecting a set of duties (assignments) for the drivers or pilots of vehicles (e.g., buses, trains, boats, or planes) involved in the transportation of passengers or goods, within the con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B1%20Free%20Archiver
B1 Free Archiver is a proprietary freeware multi-platform file archiver and file manager. B1 Archiver is available for Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, and Android. It has full support (compression, unpacking and encryption) for ZIP and its native B1 format. The program decompresses more than 20 popular archive formats...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/78%20%28number%29
78 (seventy-eight) is the natural number following 77 and followed by 79. In mathematics 78 is: the 4th discrete tri-prime; or also termed Sphenic number, and the 4th of the form (2.3.r). an abundant number with an aliquot sum of 90. a semiperfect number, as a multiple of a perfect number. the 12th triangular number...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Horn%20%28computer%20scientist%29
Paul M. Horn (born August 16, 1946) is an American computer scientist and solid state physicist who has made contributions to pervasive computing, pioneered the use of copper and self-assembly in chip manufacturing, and he helped manage the development of deep computing, an important tool that provides business decisio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYP14%20family
Cytochrome P450, family 14, also known as CYP14, is a nematoda cytochrome P450 monooxygenase family. The first gene identified in this family is the CYP14A1 from the Caenorhabditis elegans. The function of most genes in this family is unknown.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%20von%20Helmholtz
Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz (31 August 1821 – 8 September 1894) was a German physicist and physician who made significant contributions in several scientific fields, particularly hydrodynamic stability. The Helmholtz Association, the largest German association of research institutions, is named in his honor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%20hose
A metal hose is a flexible metal line element. There are two basic types of metal hose that differ in their design and application: stripwound hoses and corrugated hoses. Stripwound hoses have a high mechanical strength (e.g. tensile strength and tear strength). Corrugated hoses can withstand high pressure and provid...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre%20D%27op%C3%A9ra%20Spatial
Théâtre D'opéra Spatial is an image created by the generative artificial intelligence platform Midjourney, using a prompt by Jason Matthew Allen. The painting became a news story when it won the 2022 Colorado State Fair's annual fine art competition on 5 September, becoming one of the first AI generated images to win s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIST1H4E
Histone H4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HIST1H4E gene. Histones are basic nuclear proteins that are responsible for the nucleosome structure of the chromosomal fiber in eukaryotes. Two molecules of each of the four core histones (H2A, H2B, H3, and H4) form an octamer, around which approximately 146 bp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia%20%28supercomputer%29
IBM Sequoia was a petascale Blue Gene/Q supercomputer constructed by IBM for the National Nuclear Security Administration as part of the Advanced Simulation and Computing Program (ASC). It was delivered to the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 2011 and was fully deployed in June 2012. Sequoia was dismant...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic%20restructuring
Economic restructuring is used to indicate changes in the constituent parts of an economy in a very general sense. In the western world, it is usually used to refer to the phenomenon of urban areas shifting from a manufacturing to a service sector economic base. It has profound implications for productive capacities an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20amplifier%20classes
In electronics, power amplifier classes are letter symbols applied to different power amplifier types. The class gives a broad indication of an amplifier's characteristics and performance. The classes are related to the time period that the active amplifier device is passing current, expressed as a fraction of the peri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diameter%20%28protocol%29
Diameter is an authentication, authorization, and accounting protocol for computer networks. It evolved from the earlier RADIUS protocol. It belongs to the application layer protocols in the internet protocol suite. Diameter Applications extend the base protocol by adding new commands and/or attributes, such as those ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accidental%20Adversaries
Accidental Adversaries is one of the ten system archetypes used in system dynamics modelling, or systems thinking. This archetype describes the degenerative pattern that develops when two subjects cooperating for a common goal, accidentally take actions that undermine each other's success. It is similar to the escalati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleiman%27s%20theorem
In algebraic geometry, Kleiman's theorem, introduced by , concerns dimension and smoothness of scheme-theoretic intersection after some perturbation of factors in the intersection. Precisely, it states: given a connected algebraic group G acting transitively on an algebraic variety X over an algebraically closed field...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weebly
Weebly is an American web hosting and web development company headquartered in San Francisco and is a subsidiary of Block, Inc. It was founded in 2006 by Chief Executive Officer David Rusenko, Chief Technology Officer Chris Fanini, and former Chief Product Officer Dan Veltri. History The company's primary focus was to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperplastic%20polyp
A hyperplastic polyp is a type of colorectal polyp. Cancer risk Most hyperplastic polyps are found in the distal colon and rectum. They have no malignant potential, which means that they are no more likely than normal tissue to eventually become a cancer. Hyperplastic polyps on the right side of the colon do exhibit ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic%20system
In mathematics, computer science and physics, a deterministic system is a system in which no randomness is involved in the development of future states of the system. A deterministic model will thus always produce the same output from a given starting condition or initial state. In physics Physical laws that are desc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundless%20%28video%20game%29
Boundless is a massively multiplayer online sandbox game, developed by Guildford-based studio Wonderstruck Games. It was released through Early access on Steam for Microsoft Windows and OS X on November 13, 2014. It was fully released on September 11, 2018, and features online cross-play across all regions with PlaySta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosatellite%20program
NASA's Biosatellite program was a series of three uncrewed artificial satellites to assess the effects of spaceflight, especially radiation and weightlessness, on living organisms. Each was designed to reenter Earth's atmosphere and be recovered at the end of its mission. Its primary goal was to determine the effects ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualitative%20research
Qualitative research is a type of research that aims to gather and analyse non-numerical (descriptive) data in order to gain an understanding of individuals' social reality, including understanding their attitudes, beliefs, and motivation. This type of research typically involves in-depth interviews, focus groups, or o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSC
OpenSC is a set of software tools and libraries to work with smart cards, with the focus on smart cards with cryptographic capabilities. OpenSC facilitate the use of smart cards in security applications such as authentication, encryption and digital signatures. OpenSC implements the PKCS #15 standard and the PKCS #11 A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion%20%28system-on-a-chip%29
Orion is a system-on-a-chip manufactured by Marvell Technology Group and used in network-attached storage. Based on the ARMv5TE architecture, it has on-chip support for Ethernet, SATA and USB, and is used in hardware made by Hewlett-Packard and D-Link among others. It is supported by the Lenny release of Debian GNU/Li...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/163rd%20meridian%20east
The meridian 163° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 163rd meridian east forms a great circle with the 17th meridian west. From Pole to Pole Starting at the North Pole and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saha%20ionization%20equation
In physics, the Saha ionization equation is an expression that relates the ionization state of a gas in thermal equilibrium to the temperature and pressure. The equation is a result of combining ideas of quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics and is used to explain the spectral classification of stars. The express...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRAM%20consistency
PRAM consistency (pipelined random access memory) also known as FIFO consistency. All processes see memory writes from one process in the order they were issued from the process. Writes from different processes may be seen in a different order on different processes. Only the write order needs to be consistent, thu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20Cell
Molecular Cell is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that covers research on cell biology at the molecular level, with an emphasis on new mechanistic insights. It was established in 1997 and is published two times per month. Its 2021 impact factor is 19.328. Molecular Cell is a Cell Press journal (an imprint of Elsevie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwan%27s%20Company
Schwan's Company, formerly known as The Schwan Food Company, is a food company with approximately 7,500 employees. Having originated in the United States as a family-owned business, since 2019 the company has been a subsidiary of CJ CheilJedang of South Korea — with five major business units including Schwan's Consume...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WSTR-TV
WSTR-TV (channel 64), branded on-air as Star 64 (stylized as STAR64), is a television station in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Deerfield Media, which maintains a local marketing agreement (LMA) with Sinclair Broadcast Group, owner of dual CBS/CW affiliate WKRC-TV (channel ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On%20Aggression
On Aggression (, "So-called Evil: on the natural history of aggression") is a 1963 book by the ethologist Konrad Lorenz; it was translated into English in 1966. As he writes in the prologue, "the subject of this book is aggression, that is to say the fighting instinct in beast and man which is directed against members...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%27t%20Hooft%E2%80%93Polyakov%20monopole
In theoretical physics, the t Hooft–Polyakov monopole is a topological soliton similar to the Dirac monopole but without the Dirac string. It arises in the case of a Yang–Mills theory with a gauge group G, coupled to a Higgs field which spontaneously breaks it down to a smaller group H via the Higgs mechanism. It was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20convergence
In numerical analysis, an iterative method is called locally convergent if the successive approximations produced by the method are guaranteed to converge to a solution when the initial approximation is already close enough to the solution. Iterative methods for nonlinear equations and their systems, such as Newton's m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unspecified%20behavior
Unspecified behavior is behavior that may vary on different implementations of a programming language. A program can be said to contain unspecified behavior when its source code may produce an executable that exhibits different behavior when compiled on a different compiler, or on the same compiler with different setti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/20%20new%20shekel%20banknote
The twenty new shekel note (₪20) is the lowest value banknote of the Israeli new shekel, It was first issued in Series A 1988, with the Series B in 1999, and Series C in 2017. Design Security features (New Shekel Series C) LOOK at the banknote The transparent portrait: A watermark image of the portrait, identical ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20audiology
Computational audiology is a branch of audiology that employs techniques from mathematics and computer science to improve clinical treatments and scientific understanding of the auditory system. Computational audiology is closely related to computational medicine, which uses quantitative models to develop improved meth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinnation
Pinnation (also called pennation) is the arrangement of feather-like or multi-divided features arising from both sides of a common axis. Pinnation occurs in biological morphology, in crystals, such as some forms of ice or metal crystals, and in patterns of erosion or stream beds. The term derives from the Latin word p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluteome
The term gluteome is used to describe the entire set of all gluten-like proteins in grains, which consumption causes occurrence of clinical manifestations in celiac patients. These proteins include gliadins and glutenins from wheat, secalins from rye, hordeins from barley, avenins from oats and potentially homologues f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jugate
A jugate consists of two portraits side by side to suggest, to the viewer, the closeness of each to the other. The word comes from the Latin, jugatus, meaning joined. On coins, it is commonly used for married couples, brothers, or a father and son. Often this would be a presidential and vice presidential candidates al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara%20Croft
Lara Croft is a character and the main protagonist of the video game franchise Tomb Raider. She is presented as a highly intelligent and athletic British archaeologist who ventures into ancient tombs and hazardous ruins around the world. Created by a team at British developer Core Design that included Toby Gard, the ch...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanishing%20scalar%20invariant%20spacetime
In mathematical physics, vanishing scalar invariant (VSI) spacetimes are Lorentzian manifolds with all polynomial curvature invariants of all orders vanishing. Although the only Riemannian manifold with VSI property is flat space, the Lorentzian case admits nontrivial spacetimes with this property. Distinguishing the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickelberry%20Sausage%20Company%20plant%20explosion
The Mickelberry Sausage Company plant explosion was a massive explosion and fire that killed nine people in Chicago on February 7, 1968. The factory made meat products such as hot dogs, lard, and hams under the Mickleberry Old Farm brand. Mickelberry was founded in 1893. It was located near the corner of 49th Place and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minneapolis%20wireless%20internet%20network
The city of Minneapolis, Minnesota, is covered by a citywide broadband wireless internet network, sometimes called Wireless Minneapolis. The network was first proposed in 2003, at which point only a few other cities nationwide had such systems in place. Local firm US Internet beat out EarthLink to build and operate the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannabis%20strain
Cannabis strains are either pure or hybrid varieties of the plant genus Cannabis, which encompasses the species C. sativa, C. indica, and C. ruderalis. Varieties are developed to intensify specific characteristics of the plant, or to differentiate the strain for the purposes of marketing or to make it more effective a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photon%20Factory
The Photon Factory (PF) is a synchrotron located at KEK, in Tsukuba, Japan, about fifty kilometres from Tokyo. There are two major facilities, the Photon Factory itself which is a 2.5GeV synchrotron with a beam current of around 450mA, and the PF-AR 'Advanced Ring for Pulsed X-Rays', which is a 6.5GeV machine running ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasting%20lemma
In topology, the pasting or gluing lemma, and sometimes the gluing rule, is an important result which says that two continuous functions can be "glued together" to create another continuous function. The lemma is implicit in the use of piecewise functions. For example, in the book Topology and Groupoids, where the cond...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interleukin%2034
Interleukin 34 (IL-34) is a protein belonging to a group of cytokines called interleukins. It was originally identified in humans, by large scale screening of secreted proteins; chimpanzee, murine, rat and chicken interleukin 34 orthologs have also been found. The protein is composed of 241 amino acids, 39 kilodaltons ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamaker%20constant
In molecular physics, the Hamaker constant (denoted ; named for H. C. Hamaker) is a physical constant that can be defined for a van der Waals (vdW) body–body interaction: where are the number densities of the two interacting kinds of particles, and is the London coefficient in the particle–particle pair interaction....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneirology
In the field of psychology, the subfield of oneirology (; from Greek ὄνειρον, oneiron, "dream"; and -λογία, -logia, "the study of") is the scientific study of dreams. Current research seeks correlations between dreaming and current knowledge about the functions of the brain, as well as understanding of how the brain w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergeometric%20function%20of%20a%20matrix%20argument
In mathematics, the hypergeometric function of a matrix argument is a generalization of the classical hypergeometric series. It is a function defined by an infinite summation which can be used to evaluate certain multivariate integrals. Hypergeometric functions of a matrix argument have applications in random matrix t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure64%20Software
Secure64 Software Corporation is a software development company headquartered in Fort Collins, CO, USA, building server applications. History Secure64 was founded in 2002 and began full-scale development in 2005. Its founders include Bill Worley, CTO, a former chief scientist of Hewlett Packard and lead developer of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saramur%C4%83
Saramură is a Romanian "sauce" for marinating. It can be found in nature: water containing salt; salt water spring or it can be homemade by boiling water with salt and other ingredients (depending on individual taste, such as garlic, pepper, chili, etc.). The sauce is used in the home (to preserve some foods as meat, f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beltrami%E2%80%93Klein%20model
In geometry, the Beltrami–Klein model, also called the projective model, Klein disk model, and the Cayley–Klein model, is a model of hyperbolic geometry in which points are represented by the points in the interior of the unit disk (or n-dimensional unit ball) and lines are represented by the chords, straight line segm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opengear
Opengear is a global computer network technology company headquartered in Edison, New Jersey, U.S., with R&D operations in Brisbane, Qld, Australia and production in Sandy, UT. The company develops and manufactures "smart out-of-band infrastructure management" products aimed at allowing customers to securely access, c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Euclid
Project Euclid is a collaborative partnership between Cornell University Library and Duke University Press which seeks to advance scholarly communication in theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics through partnerships with independent and society publishers. It was created to provide a platform for small pub...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doppler%20parameter
The Doppler parameter, or Doppler broadening parameter, usually denoted as , is a parameter commonly used in astrophysics to characterize the width of observed spectral lines of astronomical objects. It is defined as , where is the one-dimensional velocity dispersion . Given this parameter, the velocity distribution o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean%20Mathematical%20Olympiad
The Korean Mathematical Olympiad is a mathematical olympiad held by the Korean Mathematical Society (KMS) in Republic of Korea. History In 1988, only high school students were tested and middle school students were supposed to take the 'high school exam'. From the 11th exam, the middle school students' test was intro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary%20charge
The elementary charge, usually denoted by , is a fundamental physical constant, defined as the electric charge carried by a single proton or, equivalently, the magnitude of the negative electric charge carried by a single electron, which has charge −1 . In the SI system of units, the value of the elementary charge is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATH%20domain
The MATH domain, in molecular biology, is a binding domain that was defined originally by a region of homology between otherwise functionally unrelated domains, the intracellular TRAF-C domains of TRAF proteins and a C-terminal region of extracellular meprins A and B. Although apparently functionally unrelated, intrac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Mansfield
Sir Peter Mansfield (9 October 1933 – 8 February 2017) was a British physicist who was awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Paul Lauterbur, for discoveries concerning Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Mansfield was a professor at the University of Nottingham. Early life Mansfield was bo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidermal%20growth%20factor
Epidermal growth factor (EGF) is a protein that stimulates cell growth and differentiation by binding to its receptor, EGFR. Human EGF is 6-kDa and has 53 amino acid residues and three intramolecular disulfide bonds. EGF was originally described as a secreted peptide found in the submaxillary glands of mice and in hum...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube%20lemma
In mathematics, particularly topology, the tube lemma, also called Wallace's theorem, is a useful tool in order to prove that the finite product of compact spaces is compact. Statement The lemma uses the following terminology: If and are topological spaces and is the product space, endowed with the product topo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Average%20high%20cost%20multiple
In unemployment insurance (UI) in the United States, the average high-cost multiple (AHCM) is a commonly used actuarial measure of Unemployment Trust Fund adequacy. Technically, AHCM is defined as reserve ratio (i.e., the balance of UI trust fund expressed as % of total wages paid in covered employment) divided by aver...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed%20skirt
A bed skirt, sometimes spelled bedskirt, a bed ruffle, a dust ruffle in North America, a valance, or a valance sheet in the British Isles, is a piece of decorative fabric that is placed between the mattress and the box spring of a bed. The purpose of a bed skirt is to give a stylish appearance to a bed without exposing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPIFA1
BPI fold containing family A, member 1 (BPIFA1), also known as Palate, lung, and nasal epithelium clone (PLUNC), is a protein that in humans is encoded by the BPIFA1 gene. It was also formerly known as "Secretory protein in upper respiratory tracts" (SPURT). The BPIFA1 gene sequence predicts 4 transcripts (splice varia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatitis%20C%20virus%20nonstructural%20protein%204A
Nonstructural protein 4A (NS4A) is a viral protein found in the hepatitis C virus. It acts as a cofactor for the enzyme NS3.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%20morphometry
Brain morphometry is a subfield of both morphometry and the brain sciences, concerned with the measurement of brain structures and changes thereof during development, aging, learning, disease and evolution. Since autopsy-like dissection is generally impossible on living brains, brain morphometry starts with noninvasive...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeast%20in%20winemaking
The role of yeast in winemaking is the most important element that distinguishes wine from fruit juice. In the absence of oxygen, yeast converts the sugars of the fruit into alcohol and carbon dioxide through the process of fermentation. The more sugars in the grapes, the higher the potential alcohol level of the wine ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locally%20finite%20poset
In mathematics, a locally finite poset is a partially ordered set P such that for all x, y ∈ P, the interval [x, y] consists of finitely many elements. Given a locally finite poset P we can define its incidence algebra. Elements of the incidence algebra are functions ƒ that assign to each interval [x, y] of P a real n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydnum%20repandum
Hydnum repandum, commonly known as the sweet tooth, wood hedgehog or hedgehog mushroom, is a basidiomycete fungus of the family Hydnaceae. First described by Carl Linnaeus in 1753, it is the type species of the genus Hydnum. The fungus produces fruit bodies (mushrooms) that are characterized by their spore-bearing stru...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FPG-9
The FPG-9 Foam Plate Glider is a simple, hand-launched glider made from a 9 inch () foam dinner plate, featuring a moveable rudder and elevons, allowing for an inexpensive way to teach basic flight mechanics. The model was created by Jack Reynolds, a volunteer at the Academy of Model Aeronautics' (AMA) National Model ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born%E2%80%93Infeld%20model
In theoretical physics, the Born–Infeld model is a particular example of what is usually known as a nonlinear electrodynamics. It was historically introduced in the 1930s to remove the divergence of the electron's self-energy in classical electrodynamics by introducing an upper bound of the electric field at the origin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%20heat%20content
Ocean heat content (OHC) is the energy absorbed and stored by oceans. To calculate the ocean heat content, it is necessary to measure ocean temperature at many different locations and depths. Integrating the areal density of ocean heat over an ocean basin or entire ocean gives the total ocean heat content. Between 1971...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agence%20nationale%20de%20s%C3%A9curit%C3%A9%20sanitaire%20de%20l%27alimentation%2C%20de%20l%27environnement%20et%20du%20travail
The French Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health & Safety (ANSES) is a French government agency whose main mission is to assess health risks in food, the environment and work, with the aim of enlightening public policy-making. ANSES is accountable to the French Ministries of Health, Agriculture, the En...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This%20is%20a%20magazine
This is a magazine is an experimental art publication founded in 2002 by Karen ann Donnachie, Andy Simionato & Sons. "One of the best known" flip-book style online magazines it has also published in a variety of formats including a PowerPoint edition, Animated GIF collections as well as video peep-shows and sound-objec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical%20quantum%20mechanics
Categorical quantum mechanics is the study of quantum foundations and quantum information using paradigms from mathematics and computer science, notably monoidal category theory. The primitive objects of study are physical processes, and the different ways that these can be composed. It was pioneered in 2004 by Samson ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapan%20Sarkar
Tapan Kumar Sarkar (August 2, 1948 – March 12, 2021) was an Indian-American electrical engineer and Professor Emeritus at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Syracuse University. He was best known for his contributions to computational electromagnetics and antenna theory. Sarkar was the re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazo
Amazo is a supervillain appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. The character was created by Gardner Fox and Mike Sekowsky and first appeared in The Brave and the Bold #30 (June 1960) as an adversary of the Justice League of America. Since debuting during the Silver Age of Comic Books, the character h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luca%20Pagano
Luca Pagano (born July 28, 1978 in Treviso) is an Italian-born poker player who finished third place in the Barcelona Open, a European Poker Tour (EPT) event, in 2004. Since then he has reached six more EPT final tables, finishing in the money 20 times, placing him top of the EPT All-Time Leaderboard. He has also place...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotonyl-CoA
Crotonyl-coenzyme A is an intermediate in the fermentation of butyric acid, and in the metabolism of lysine and tryptophan. It is important in the metabolism of fatty acids and amino acids. Crotonyl-coA and reductases Before a 2007 report by Alber and coworkers, crotonyl-coA carboxylases and reductases (CCRs) were kn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatine
Creatine ( or ) is an organic compound with the nominal formula . It exists in various tautomers in solutions (among which are neutral form and various zwitterionic forms). Creatine is found in vertebrates where it facilitates recycling of adenosine triphosphate (ATP), primarily in muscle and brain tissue. Recycling is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron%20emission
Neutron emission is a mode of radioactive decay in which one or more neutrons are ejected from a nucleus. It occurs in the most neutron-rich/proton-deficient nuclides, and also from excited states of other nuclides as in photoneutron emission and beta-delayed neutron emission. As only a neutron is lost by this process ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston%20Internet%20Exchange
The Boston Internet Exchange is an Internet exchange point in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. The Boston IX is owned and operated by Markley Group, hosted in Markley's One Summer Street, Boston datacenter and their Prince Avenue, Lowell datacenter. The domain bostonix.net was registered by Patrick Gilmore in 2010 and was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet%20Bergveld
Piet Bergveld (; born 26 January 1940) is a Dutch electrical engineer. He was professor of biosensors at the University of Twente between 1983 and 2003. He is the inventor of the ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET) sensor. Bergveld's work has focused on electrical engineering and biomedical technology. Caree...