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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla%20Messaging
Mozilla Messaging (abbreviated MoMo) was a wholly owned, for-profit subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation. It was broadly tasked with aspects of the Mozilla Project that focused on interpersonal communications, such as instant messaging and e-mail. Its main focus was developing Mozilla Thunderbird, the e-ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20communication
Data communication or digital communications, including data transmission and data reception, is the transfer and reception of data in the form of a digital bitstream or a digitized analog signal transmitted over a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint communication channel. Examples of such channels are copper wires, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetylated%20distarch%20adipate
Acetylated distarch adipate (E1422) is a food additive of the thickening agent type, and more specifically a bulking agent. It is also used as a stabilizer. This is an additive belonging to the family of modified starches. This is a starch that is treated with acetic anhydride and adipic acid anhydride to resist high ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email%20spam%20legislation%20by%20country
The following table represents laws in respective countries or jurisdictions which restrict the use of Email spam. Note: Countries / Jurisdictions marked with red are listed in the Spamhaus' Worst Spam Origin Countries (March 2020). See also Email spam Spamming Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email (CAUC...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Environmental%20Resources%20Evaluation%20System
The California Environmental Resources Evaluation System (CERES) is a California Resources Agency program established to coordinate and provide access to a variety of environmental and geoinformation electronic data about California. The goal of CERES is to improve environmental analysis and planning by integrating nat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20rank
A memory rank is a set of DRAM chips connected to the same chip select, which are therefore accessed simultaneously. In practice all DRAM chips share all of the other command and control signals, and only the chip select pins for each rank are separate (the data pins are shared across ranks). Details The term rank was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansible%20%28software%29
Ansible is a suite of software tools that enables infrastructure as code. It is open-source and the suite includes software provisioning, configuration management, and application deployment functionality. Originally written by Michael DeHaan and acquired by Red Hat in 2015, Ansible is designed to configure both Unix-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenomai
Xenomai is a real-time development software framework cooperating with the Linux kernel to provide pervasive, interface-agnostic, hard real-time computing support to user space application software seamlessly integrated into the Linux environment. The Xenomai project was launched in August 2001. In 2003, it merged wit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crowdfunding%20in%20video%20games
Video game development has typically been funded by large publishing companies or are alternatively paid for mostly by the developers themselves as independent titles. Other funding may come from government incentives or from private funding. Crowdfunding, where the players of the video games pay to back the developme...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client%20hypervisor
In computing, a client hypervisor is a hypervisor that is designed for use on client computers such as laptops, desktops or workstations, rather than on a server. It is a technique of host virtualization which enables the parallel execution of multiple operating systems (or virtual machines) on shared hardware. These g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20resistivities%20of%20the%20elements%20%28data%20page%29
Electrical resistivity
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary%20relation
In mathematics, a ternary relation or triadic relation is a finitary relation in which the number of places in the relation is three. Ternary relations may also be referred to as 3-adic, 3-ary, 3-dimensional, or 3-place. Just as a binary relation is formally defined as a set of pairs, i.e. a subset of the Cartesian p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20Coastal%20Conservancy
The California State Coastal Conservancy (CSCC, SCC) is a non-regulatory state agency in California established in 1976 to enhance coastal resources and public access to the coast. The CSCC is a department of the California Natural Resources Agency. The agency's work is conducted along the entirety of the California co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middleware%20%28distributed%20applications%29
Middleware in the context of distributed applications is software that provides services beyond those provided by the operating system to enable the various components of a distributed system to communicate and manage data. Middleware supports and simplifies complex distributed applications. It includes web servers, ap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discontinuous%20group
A discontinuous group is a mathematical concept relating to mappings in topological space. Definition Let be a topological space of points , and let , , be an open continuous representation of the topological group as a transitive group of homeomorphic mappings of on itself. The representation of the discrete sub...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAT%20%28model%20checker%29
PAT (Process Analysis Toolkit) is a self-contained framework for composing, simulating and reasoning of concurrent, real-time systems and other possible domains. It includes user interfaces, model editor and animated simulator. PAT implements various model checking techniques catering for different properties such as f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rot-proof
Rot-proof or rot resistant is a condition of preservation or protection, by a process or treatment of materials used in industrial manufacturing or production to prevent biodegradation and chemical decomposition. Decomposition is a factor in which organic matter breaks down over time. It is commonly caused by fungus, m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20Microsoft%20Windows
The various versions of Microsoft's desktop operating system, Windows, have received various criticisms since Microsoft's inception. Data collection Concerns were shown by advocates and other critics for Windows 10's privacy policies and its collection and use of customer data. Under the default "Express" settings, W...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malleability%20%28cryptography%29
Malleability is a property of some cryptographic algorithms. An encryption algorithm is "malleable" if it is possible to transform a ciphertext into another ciphertext which decrypts to a related plaintext. That is, given an encryption of a plaintext , it is possible to generate another ciphertext which decrypts to , f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key%20generator
A key generator is a protocol or algorithm that is used in many cryptographic protocols to generate a sequence with many pseudo-random characteristics. This sequence is used as an encryption key at one end of communication, and as a decryption key at the other. One can implement a key generator in a system that aims t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blossom
In botany, blossoms are the flowers of stone fruit trees (genus Prunus) and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely for a period of time in spring. Colloquially, flowers of orange are referred to as such as well. Peach blossoms (including nectarine), most cherry blossoms, and some almond b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd%E2%80%93even%20sort
In computing, an odd–even sort or odd–even transposition sort (also known as brick sort or parity sort) is a relatively simple sorting algorithm, developed originally for use on parallel processors with local interconnections. It is a comparison sort related to bubble sort, with which it shares many characteristics. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottaging
Cottaging is a gay slang term, originating from the United Kingdom, referring to anonymous sex between men in a public lavatory (a "cottage" or "tea-room"), or cruising for sexual partners with the intention of having sex elsewhere. The term has its roots in self-contained English toilet blocks resembling small cottage...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20manifold
In mathematics, a digital manifold is a special kind of combinatorial manifold which is defined in digital space i.e. grid cell space. A combinatorial manifold is a kind of manifold which is a discretization of a manifold. It usually means a piecewise linear manifold made by simplicial complexes. Concepts Parallel-m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Phelippes
Thomas Phelippes (1556–1625), also known as Thomas Phillips was a linguist, who was employed as a forger and intelligence gatherer. He served mainly under Sir Francis Walsingham, in the time of Elizabeth I, and most notably deciphered the coded letters of Babington Plot conspirators. Life and education Little is know...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recfiles
recfiles is a file format for human-editable, plain text databases. Databases using this file format can be edited using any text editor. recfiles allow for basic relational database operations, typing, auto-incrementing, as well as a simple join operation. Recutils is a collection of tools, like recfmt, recsel, and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93body%20interaction
Brain–body interactions are patterns of neural activity in the central nervous system to coordinate the activity between the brain and body. The nervous system consists of central and peripheral nervous systems and coordinates the actions of an animal by transmitting signals to and from different parts of its body. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genoscope
The French National Sequencing Center (Genoscope) was created in 1996 in Évry, France. It has been involved in the sequencing of the human genome. Details The Genoscope is a member of the CEA, and employs around 130 people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Xanadu
Project Xanadu ( ) was the first hypertext project, founded in 1960 by Ted Nelson. Administrators of Project Xanadu have declared it superior to the World Wide Web, with the mission statement: "Today's popular software simulates paper. The World Wide Web (another imitation of paper) trivialises our original hypertext m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large%20set%20%28Ramsey%20theory%29
In Ramsey theory, a set S of natural numbers is considered to be a large set if and only if Van der Waerden's theorem can be generalized to assert the existence of arithmetic progressions with common difference in S. That is, S is large if and only if every finite partition of the natural numbers has a cell containing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apicomplexan%20life%20cycle
Apicomplexans, a group of intracellular parasites, have life cycle stages that allow them to survive the wide variety of environments they are exposed to during their complex life cycle. Each stage in the life cycle of an apicomplexan organism is typified by a cellular variety with a distinct morphology and biochemistr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking%E2%80%93Page%20phase%20transition
In quantum gravity, the Hawking–Page phase transition is phase transition between AdS black holes with radiation and thermal AdS. Hawking and Page () showed that although AdS black holes can be in stable thermal equilibrium with radiation, they are not the preferred state below a certain critical temperature . At this...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park%20flyer
Park flyers are a class of small, primarily electric powered radio-controlled aircraft. The smallest class of park flyers are called micro planes and can be used in an enclosed area such as a gymnasium or a living room, while larger park flyers are used at park flyer sites. Models with low flying speed are more suscept...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo-Han
Jo-Han was a manufacturer of plastic scale promotional model cars and kits originally based in Detroit. The company was founded in 1947 by tool and die maker John Hanley a year before West Gallogly's competing company AMT was formed and about the same time as PMC. After changing ownership a few times, Jo-Han models wer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental%20Association%20of%20African%20Neurosurgical%20Societies
The Continental Association of African Neurosurgical Societies (CAANS) is the continental, non-governmental, learned society representing the neurosurgeons of African region. It is one of the 5 Continental Associations (AANS, AASNS, CAANS, EANS and FLANC) of the World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies (WFNS).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome%20scaffold
In biology, the chromosome scaffold is the backbone that supports the structure of the chromosomes. It is composed of a group of non-histone proteins that are essential in the structure and maintenance of eukaryotic chromosomes throughout the cell cycle. These scaffold proteins are responsible for the condensation of c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20educational%20psychology
Evolutionary educational psychology is the study of the relation between inherent folk knowledge and abilities and accompanying inferential and attributional biases as these influence academic learning in evolutionarily novel cultural contexts, such as schools and the industrial workplace. The fundamental premises and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garcinia%20cowa
Garcinia cowa, commonly known as cowa fruit or cowa mangosteen is an evergreen plant with edible fruit native to Asia, India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, and southwest China. The tree is harvested from the wild for its edible fruits and leaves, which are used locally. Flowers are yellow, mal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teres%20major%20muscle
The teres major muscle is a muscle of the upper limb. It attaches to the scapula and the humerus and is one of the seven scapulohumeral muscles. It is a thick but somewhat flattened muscle. The teres major muscle (from Latin teres, meaning "rounded") is positioned above the latissimus dorsi muscle and assists in the e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthoretrovirinae
Orthoretrovirinae is a subfamily of viruses belonging to Retroviridae, a family of enveloped viruses that replicate in a host cell through the process of reverse transcription. The subfamily currently includes six genera, of which Lentivirus contains the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). These viruses cause a variety...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20Denial%20of%20Secrets
Distributed Denial of Secrets, abbreviated DDoSecrets, is a non-profit whistleblower site for news leaks founded in 2018. Sometimes referred to as a successor to WikiLeaks, it came to international attention for its June 2020 publication of a large collection of internal police documents, known as BlueLeaks. The group ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shade%20tree
A shade tree is a large tree whose primary role is to provide shade in the surrounding environment due to its spreading canopy and crown, where it may give shelter from sunlight in the heat of the summer for people who seek recreational needs in urban parks and house yards, and thus, also protecting them from the sun's...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus%20of%20voting
Calculus of voting refers to any mathematical model which predicts voting behaviour by an electorate, including such features as participation rate. A calculus of voting represents a hypothesized decision-making process. These models are used in political science in an attempt to capture the relative importance of va...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy%20education
Astronomy education or astronomy education research (AER) refers both to the methods currently used to teach the science of astronomy and to an area of pedagogical research that seeks to improve those methods. Specifically, AER includes systematic techniques honed in science and physics education to understand what and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projective%20module
In mathematics, particularly in algebra, the class of projective modules enlarges the class of free modules (that is, modules with basis vectors) over a ring, by keeping some of the main properties of free modules. Various equivalent characterizations of these modules appear below. Every free module is a projective mo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Oesterl%C3%A9
Joseph Oesterlé (born 1954) is a French mathematician who, along with David Masser, formulated the abc conjecture which has been called "the most important unsolved problem in diophantine analysis". He is a member of Bourbaki.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dell%20Studio
Dell's Studio brand is a range of laptops and desktops targeted in the mainstream consumer market. The computers sit above Dell's Inspiron and below the XPS consumer lines in terms of price and specifications. They differ from Dell's lower-end Inspiron models by offering slot-loading optical drives, media keys, more co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-linked%20cone-rod%20dystrophy%2C%20type%201
X-linked cone-rod dystrophy, type 1 is a rare progressive genetic disorder of the vision which is characterized by progressive myopia, photophobia, abnormal color perception, lowered photopic electroretinigraphic response, and macular retinal pigment epithelium granularity. The severity of the symptoms is variable. Per...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap%20aggregating
Bootstrap aggregating, also called bagging (from bootstrap aggregating), is a machine learning ensemble meta-algorithm designed to improve the stability and accuracy of machine learning algorithms used in statistical classification and regression. It also reduces variance and helps to avoid overfitting. Although it is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20films%20about%20nuclear%20issues
This is a list of films about nuclear issues: Documentary films Ashes to Honey The Atom Strikes! The Atomic Cafe Atomic Ed and the Black Hole Atomic Power The Bomb (2015) Chernobyl Heart Command and Control Countdown to Zero Dark Circle The Day After Trinity Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Wea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissimilatory%20nitrate%20reduction%20to%20ammonium
Dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA), also known as nitrate/nitrite ammonification, is the result of anaerobic respiration by chemoorganoheterotrophic microbes using nitrate (NO3−) as an electron acceptor for respiration. In anaerobic conditions microbes which undertake DNRA oxidise organic matter and use...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal%20regeneration
In telecommunications, signal regeneration is signal processing that restores a signal, recovering its original characteristics. The signal may be electrical, as in a repeater on a T-carrier line, or optical, as in an OEO optical cross-connect. The process is used when it is necessary to change the signal type in ord...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MACS%20J0416.1-2403
MACS J0416.1-2403 is a cluster of galaxies at a redshift of z=0.397 with a mass 160 trillion times the mass of the Sun inside . Its mass extends out to a radius of and was measured as 1.15 × 1015 solar masses. The system was discovered in images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope during the Massive Cluster Survey, MA...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20flags%20with%20reverses%20that%20differ%20from%20the%20obverse
This article contains a list of flags for which the reverse (back ) is different from the obverse (front ). It includes current as well as historic flags of both nations and national subdivisions such as provinces, states, territories, cities and other administrations (including a few that are not recognized by the Un...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscillatory%20integral
In mathematical analysis an oscillatory integral is a type of distribution. Oscillatory integrals make rigorous many arguments that, on a naive level, appear to use divergent integrals. It is possible to represent approximate solution operators for many differential equations as oscillatory integrals. Definition An o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frink%20Medal
The Frink Medal for British Zoologists is awarded by the Zoological Society of London "For significant and original contributions by a professional zoologist to the development of zoology." It consists of a bronze plaque (76 by 83 millimetres), depicting a bison and carved by British sculptor Elisabeth Frink. The Frin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanczos%20tensor
The Lanczos tensor or Lanczos potential is a rank 3 tensor in general relativity that generates the Weyl tensor. It was first introduced by Cornelius Lanczos in 1949. The theoretical importance of the Lanczos tensor is that it serves as the gauge field for the gravitational field in the same way that, by analogy, the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBV%20hydrology%20model
The HBV hydrology model, or Hydrologiska Byråns Vattenbalansavdelning model, is a computer simulation used to analyze river discharge and water pollution. Developed originally for use in Scandinavia, this hydrological transport model has also been applied in a large number of catchments on most continents. Discharge ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred%20Enneper
Alfred Enneper (June 14, 1830, Barmen – March 24, 1885 Hanover) was a German mathematician. Enneper earned his PhD from the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen in 1856, under the supervision of Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, for his dissertation about functions with complex arguments. After his habilitation in 1859 in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explanatory%20gap
In the philosophy of mind and consciousness, the explanatory gap is the difficulty that physicalist philosophies have in explaining how physical properties give rise to the way things feel subjectively when they are experienced. It is a term introduced by philosopher Joseph Levine. In the 1983 paper in which he first u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Programming%20Interface%20for%20Communications
Common Programming Interface for Communications (CPI-C) is an application programming interface (API) developed by IBM in 1987 to provide a platform-independent communications interface for the IBM Systems Application Architecture-based network, and to standardise programming access to SNA LU 6.2. CPI-C was part of IBM...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphous%20solid
In condensed matter physics and materials science, an amorphous solid (or non-crystalline solid) is a solid that lacks the long-range order that is characteristic of a crystal. The terms "glass" and "glassy solid" are sometimes used synonymously with amorphous solid; however, these terms refer specifically to amorphous...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clebsch%E2%80%93Gordan%20coefficients
In physics, the Clebsch–Gordan (CG) coefficients are numbers that arise in angular momentum coupling in quantum mechanics. They appear as the expansion coefficients of total angular momentum eigenstates in an uncoupled tensor product basis. In more mathematical terms, the CG coefficients are used in representation the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32-bit%20computing
In computer architecture, 32-bit computing refers to computer systems with a processor, memory, and other major system components that operate on data in 32-bit units. Compared to smaller bit widths, 32-bit computers can perform large calculations more efficiently and process more data per clock cycle. Typical 32-bit p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20citrate
Sodium citrate may refer to any of the sodium salts of citric acid (though most commonly the third): Monosodium citrate Disodium citrate Trisodium citrate The three forms of salt are collectively known by the E number E331. Applications Food Sodium citrates are used as acidity regulators in food and drinks, and a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RushTera
RushTera is software as a service, that provides accelerated upload/download, storage, sharing and management of large media files. RushTera was first demonstrated in April 2012 at the NAB Show. The product is marketed by the New York company Attend LLC, which was founded in 2008. In 2012, RushTera was deployed on Cl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O/OREOS
The O/OREOS (Organism/Organic Exposure to Orbital Stresses) is a NASA automated CubeSat nanosatellite laboratory approximately the size of a loaf of bread that contains two separate astrobiology experiments on board. Developed by the Small Spacecraft Division at NASA Ames Research Center, the spacecraft was successfull...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Mobile%20Terminal%20Platform
The Open Mobile Terminal Platform (OMTP) was a forum created by mobile network operators to discuss standards with manufacturers of mobile phones and other mobile devices. During its lifetime, the OMTP included manufacturers such as Huawei, LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung and Sony Ericsson. Membership OMTP w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonocar
Phonocar is an Italian Company, founded in Reggio Emilia, Italy, in 1972. Phonocar started with the production of wooden car-radio consoles and gradually specialized in car hi-fi speakers, amplifiers, audio-video equipment, security systems and related accessories. Phonocar products are distributed under her trademark...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-amino-4-hydroxy-6-hydroxymethyldihydropteridine%20diphosphokinase
In enzymology, a 2-amino-4-hydroxy-6-hydroxymethyldihydropteridine diphosphokinase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction ATP + 2-amino-4-hydroxy-6-hydroxymethyl-7,8-dihydropteridine AMP + (2-amino-4-hydroxy-7,8-dihydropteridin-6-yl)methyl diphosphate Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are ATP and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20focusing
Flow focusing in fluid dynamics is a technology whose aim is the production of drops or bubbles by straightforward hydrodynamic means. The output is a dispersed liquid or gas, frequently in the form of a fine aerosol or an emulsion. No other driving force is required, apart from traditional pumping, a key difference wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broadband%20viscoelastic%20spectroscopy
Broadband viscoelastic spectroscopy (BVS) is a technique for studying viscoelastic solids in both bending and torsion. It provides the ability to measure viscoelastic behavior over eleven decades (orders of magnitude) of time and frequency: from 10−6 to 105 Hz. BVS is typically either used to investigate viscoelastic p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrared%20sensing%20in%20snakes
The ability to sense infrared thermal radiation evolved independently in two different groups of snakes, one consisting of the families Boidae (boas) and Pythonidae (pythons), the other of the family Crotalinae (pit vipers). What is commonly called a pit organ allows these animals to essentially "see" radiant heat at w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s%20head%20and%20wind%20chime
The dragon's head and wind chime is an elaborate type of gilt bronze Korean wind chime and Korean dragon sculpture of later Silla / early Goryeo art, probably serving as a roof end tile figure on a Korean Buddhist temple or Korean palace. There are two similar near-complete examples, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20attachment%20theory
Attachment theory, originating in the work of John Bowlby, is a psychological, evolutionary and ethological theory that provides a descriptive and explanatory framework for understanding interpersonal relationships between human beings. In order to formulate a comprehensive theory of the nature of early attachments, B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas%20of%20Genetics%20and%20Cytogenetics%20in%20Oncology%20and%20Haematology
The Atlas of Genetics and Cytogenetics in Oncology and Haematology, created in 1997 by Jean-Loup Huret (with bioinformatics by Philippe Dessen) is a collection of resources on genes, chromosomes anomalies, leukemias, solid tumours, and cancer-prone diseases. The project is accessible through Internet and is made of enc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myotacovirus
Myotacovirus is a subgenus of viruses in the genus Alphacoronavirus, consisting of a single species, Myotis ricketti alphacoronavirus Sax-2011.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-601%20microRNA%20precursor%20family
In molecular biology mir-601 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms. Molecular pathway regulation miR-601 has been found to affect a number of different cell signalling pathways, more specifically bringing about downregulation of Fas-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharyngeal%20apparatus
The pharyngeal apparatus is an embryological structure. It consists of: pharyngeal grooves (from ectoderm) pharyngeal arches (from mesoderm) pharyngeal pouches (from endoderm) and related membranes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientists%20for%20Global%20Responsibility
Scientists for Global Responsibility (SGR) in the United Kingdom promotes the ethical practice and use of science, design and technology. SGR is affiliated to the International Network of Engineers and Scientists for Global Responsibility (INES). It is an independent UK-based membership organisation of hundreds of nat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lou%20van%20den%20Dries
Laurentius Petrus Dignus "Lou" van den Dries (born May 26, 1951) is a Dutch mathematician working in model theory. He is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Education Van den Dries began his undergraduate studies in 1969 at Utrecht University, and in 1978 completed hi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional%20mutual%20information
In probability theory, particularly information theory, the conditional mutual information is, in its most basic form, the expected value of the mutual information of two random variables given the value of a third. Definition For random variables , , and with support sets , and , we define the conditional mutual in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLiNaK
FLiNaK is the name of the ternary eutectic alkaline metal fluoride salt mixture LiF-NaF-KF (46.5-11.5-42 mol %). It has a melting point of 454 °C and a boiling point of 1570 °C. It is used as electrolyte for the electroplating of refractory metals and compounds like titanium, tantalum, hafnium, zirconium and their bor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filling%20area%20conjecture
In differential geometry, Mikhail Gromov's filling area conjecture asserts that the hemisphere has minimum area among the orientable surfaces that fill a closed curve of given length without introducing shortcuts between its points. Definitions and statement of the conjecture Every smooth surface or curve in Euclid...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-focusing
Self-focusing is a non-linear optical process induced by the change in refractive index of materials exposed to intense electromagnetic radiation. A medium whose refractive index increases with the electric field intensity acts as a focusing lens for an electromagnetic wave characterized by an initial transverse intens...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String-net%20liquid
In condensed matter physics, a string-net is an extended object whose collective behavior has been proposed as a physical mechanism for topological order by Michael A. Levin and Xiao-Gang Wen. A particular string-net model may involve only closed loops; or networks of oriented, labeled strings obeying branching rules g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual%20%28numerical%20analysis%29
Loosely speaking, a residual is the error in a result. To be precise, suppose we want to find x such that Given an approximation x0 of x, the residual is that is, "what is left of the right hand side" after subtracting f(x0)" (thus, the name "residual": what is left, the rest). On the other hand, the error is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montel%27s%20theorem
In complex analysis, an area of mathematics, Montel's theorem refers to one of two theorems about families of holomorphic functions. These are named after French mathematician Paul Montel, and give conditions under which a family of holomorphic functions is normal. Locally uniformly bounded families are normal The fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20oddity
A medical oddity is an unusual predicament or event which takes place in a medical context. Some examples of medical oddities might include: "lost and found" surgical instruments (in the body), grotesquely oversized tumors, (human) male pregnancy, rare or "orphan" illnesses, rare allergies (such as to water), strange ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita%20pseudoporphyria
Amanita pseudoporphyria, also known as Hongo's false death cap, is a species of agaric fungus from the genus Amanita that grows solitarily or gregarious in coniferous forests. Originally described from Japan, it is now also known in Northern India, Thailand, and Nepal. It is quite a common species in southern China and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthecology
Anthecology, or pollination biology, is the study of pollination as well as the relationships between flowers and their pollinators. Floral biology is a bigger field that includes these studies. Most flowering plants, or angiosperms, are pollinated by animals, and especially by insects. The major flower-frequenting ins...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-derivative
In mathematics, in the area of combinatorics and quantum calculus, the q-derivative, or Jackson derivative, is a q-analog of the ordinary derivative, introduced by Frank Hilton Jackson. It is the inverse of Jackson's q-integration. For other forms of q-derivative, see . Definition The q-derivative of a function f(x) i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Webb%20%28naturalist%29
William Webb (1834?–1897) was a collector and trader of plants and animals, active in the region around King George Sound in Southwest Australia. Biography William Webb was born sometime around 1834 in Staffordshire, England, and emigrated to Albany, Western Australia in 1862. He is thought to have partnered with an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascicle%20%28botany%29
In botany, a fascicle is a bundle of leaves or flowers growing crowded together; alternatively the term might refer to the vascular tissues that supply such an organ with nutrients. However, vascular tissues may occur in fascicles even when the organs they supply are not fascicled. Etymology of fascicle and related te...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminosity
Luminosity is an absolute measure of radiated electromagnetic power (light), the radiant power emitted by a light-emitting object over time. In astronomy, luminosity is the total amount of electromagnetic energy emitted per unit of time by a star, galaxy, or other astronomical objects. In SI units, luminosity is measu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13
ROT13 ("rotate by 13 places", sometimes hyphenated ROT-13) is a simple letter substitution cipher that replaces a letter with the 13th letter after it in the latin alphabet. ROT13 is a special case of the Caesar cipher which was developed in ancient Rome. Because there are 26 letters (2×13) in the basic Latin alphabet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise%20Hay%20%28mathematician%29
Louise Hay (June 14, 1935 – October 28, 1989) was a French-born American mathematician. Her work focused on recursively enumerable sets and computational complexity theory, which was influential with both Soviet and US mathematicians in the 1970s. When she was appointed head of the mathematics department at the Univers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20preservation
Data preservation is the act of conserving and maintaining both the safety and integrity of data. Preservation is done through formal activities that are governed by policies, regulations and strategies directed towards protecting and prolonging the existence and authenticity of data and its metadata. Data can be descr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Derbyshire
John Derbyshire (born 3 June 1945) is a British-born American white supremacist political commentator, writer, journalist and computer programmer. He was noted for being one of the last paleoconservatives in the National Review, until he was fired in 2012 for writing an article for Taki's Magazine that was widely viewe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20Citations%20Database
The Energy Citations Database (ECD) was created in 2001 in order to make scientific literature citations, and electronic documents, publicly accessible from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), and its predecessor agencies, at no cost to the user. This database also contains all the unclassified materials from Energy Re...