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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess%20Tomato%20in%20the%20Salad%20Kingdom | is a video game by Hudson Soft originally released in 1984 for the NEC PC-8801, NEC PC-6001, FM-7 and MSX Japanese home computers.
It was ported on May 27, 1988, to the Famicom, and February 8, 1991 for the Nintendo Entertainment System in North America. It was also released on the Wii's Virtual Console in Japan on Ja... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclin%20B | Cyclin B is a member of the cyclin family. Cyclin B is a mitotic cyclin. The amount of cyclin B (which binds to Cdk1) and the activity of the cyclin B-Cdk complex rise through the cell cycle until mitosis, where they fall abruptly due to degradation of cyclin B (Cdk1 is constitutively present). The complex of Cdk and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihnea%20Popa | Mihnea Popa (born 11 August 1973) is a Romanian-American mathematician at Harvard University, specializing in algebraic geometry. He is known for his work on complex birational geometry, Hodge theory, abelian varieties, and vector bundles.
Academic career
Popa received his bachelor's degree in 1996 from the Universi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erzherzog%20Rainer-Medaille | The Erzherzog Rainer-Medaille of the Kaiserlich-königlichen zoologisch-botanischen Gesellschaft in Wien (now "Zoologisch-Botanischen Gesellschaft in Österreich") was awarded annually to a scientist in commemoration of Archduke Rainer of Austria (1827–1913).
Rainer Medalists
1912: Erwin Baur, German botanist (1875-193... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GIWS%20%28software%29 | GIWS is a wrapper generator intended to simplify calling Java from C or C++ by automatically generating the necessary JNI code.
GIWS is released under the CeCILL license.
Example
The following Java class does some simple computation.
package basic_example;
import java.lang.Math;
public class MyComplexClass{
publi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20methanol%20poisoning%20incidents | Outbreaks of methanol poisoning have occurred when methanol is used to lace moonshine (bootleg liquor).
Methanol is toxic to humans via ingestion due to metabolism. If as little as 10 ml of pure methanol is ingested, for example, it can break down into formic acid, which can cause permanent blindness by destruction of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-type%20lectin%20domain | In molecular biology the L-like lectin domain is a protein domain found in lectins which are similar to the leguminous plant lectins.
Lectins are structurally diverse proteins that bind to specific carbohydrates. This family includes the VIP36 and ERGIC-53 lectins. Although proteins containing this domain were origina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudomotor | Sudomotor function refers to the autonomic nervous system control of sweat gland activity in response to various environmental and individual factors. Sweat production is a vital thermoregulatory mechanism used by the body to prevent heat-related illness as the evaporation of sweat is the body’s most effective method o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Eells | James Eells (October 25, 1926 – February 14, 2007) was an American mathematician, who specialized in mathematical analysis.
Biography
Eells studied mathematics at Bowdoin College in Maine and earned his undergraduate degree in 1947. After graduation he spent one year teaching mathematics at Robert College in Istanbul ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20critical%20point | A quantum critical point is a point in the phase diagram of a material where a continuous phase transition takes place at absolute zero. A quantum critical point is typically achieved by a continuous suppression of a nonzero temperature phase transition to zero temperature by the application of a pressure, field, or th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archease | In molecular biology, the archease''' superfamily of proteins are represented in all three domains of life. Archease genes are generally located adjacent to genes encoding proteins involved in DNA or RNA processing and therefore been predicted to be modulators or chaperones involved in DNA or RNA metabolism. Many of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myelencephalon | The myelencephalon or afterbrain is the most posterior region of the embryonic hindbrain, from which the medulla oblongata develops.
Development
Neural tube to myelencephalon
During fetal development, divisions of the neural tube that give rise to the hindbrain (rhombencephalon) and the other primary vesicles (foreb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20resistivity%20and%20conductivity | Electrical resistivity (also called volume resistivity or specific electrical resistance) is a fundamental specific property of a material that measures its electrical resistance or how strongly it resists electric current. A low resistivity indicates a material that readily allows electric current. Resistivity is comm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscillation%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, the oscillation of a function or a sequence is a number that quantifies how much that sequence or function varies between its extreme values as it approaches infinity or a point. As is the case with limits, there are several definitions that put the intuitive concept into a form suitable for a mathemati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposition%20surge | The opposition surge (sometimes known as the opposition effect, opposition spike or Seeliger effect) is the brightening of a rough surface, or an object with many particles, when illuminated from directly behind the observer. The term is most widely used in astronomy, where generally it refers to the sudden noticeable ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilt%20%28optics%29 | In optics, tilt is a deviation in the direction a beam of light propagates.
Overview
Tilt quantifies the average slope in both the X and Y directions of a wavefront or phase profile across the pupil of an optical system. In conjunction with piston (the first Zernike polynomial term), X and Y tilt can be modeled using... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%2B%20h.c. | + h.c. is an abbreviation for "plus the H ermitian c onjugate"; it means is that there are additional terms which are the Hermitian conjugates of all of the preceding terms, and is a convenient shorthand to omit half the terms actually present.
Context and use
The notation convention "+ h.c." is common in quantum mech... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ka/Ks%20ratio | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Ka/Ks ratio}}
In genetics, the Ka/Ks ratio, also known as ω or dN/dS ratio, is used to estimate the balance between neutral mutations, purifying selection and beneficial mutations acting on a set of homologous protein-coding genes. It is calculated as the ratio of the number of nonsynonymous substitution... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20network | A home network or home area network (HAN) is a type of computer network that facilitates communication among devices within the close vicinity of a home. Devices capable of participating in this network, for example, smart devices such as network printers and handheld mobile computers, often gain enhanced emergent cap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20models%20of%20DNA | Molecular models of DNA structures are representations of the molecular geometry and topology of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules using one of several means, with the aim of simplifying and presenting the essential, physical and chemical, properties of DNA molecular structures either in vivo or in vitro. These r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal%20fissure%20of%20cerebellum | The largest and deepest fissure in the cerebellum is named the horizontal fissure (or horizontal sulcus).
It commences in front of the pons, and passes horizontally around the free margin of the hemisphere to the middle line behind, and divides the cerebellum into an upper and a lower portion.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site%20leaks | Cross-site leaks, also known as XS-Leaks, are a class of web security vulnerabilities. This class of vulnerabilities allow an attacker to gain access to sensitive information about a user's browsing session while using other websites. This is done by leveraging long-standing information leakage issues (side channels) i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicky%20Neale | Victoria Neale (1984 – 3 May 2023) was a British mathematician and writer. She was Whitehead Lecturer at Oxford's Mathematical Institute and Supernumerary Fellow at Balliol College. Her research specialty was number theory. The author of the 2017 book Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers, she was inte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False%20light | In US law, false light is a tort concerning privacy that is similar to the tort of defamation. The privacy laws in the United States include a non-public person's right to protection from publicity that creates an untrue or misleading impression about them. That right is balanced against the First Amendment right of fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenoptera%20Genome%20Database | The Hymenoptera Genome Database (HGD) is a comprehensive resource supporting genomics of Hymenoptera.
See also
BeeBase |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestry-informative%20marker | In population genetics, an ancestry-informative marker (AIM) is a single-nucleotide polymorphism that exhibits substantially different frequencies between different populations. A set of many AIMs can be used to estimate the proportion of ancestry of an individual derived from each population.
A single-nucleotide poly... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark%20%28kernel%29 | In computing, Quark is an operating system kernel used in MorphOS. It is a microkernel designed to run fully virtualized computers, called boxes (see sandbox). , only one box is available, the ABox, that lets users run extant AmigaOS software compiled for Motorola 68000 series (MC680x0 or 68k) and PowerPC central proce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Photonics | American Photonics, Inc. (API) was a very early developer of local area network technologies in the 1980s, based first in Brewster, New York, moving later to Brookfield Center, Connecticut.
History
American Photonics, Inc., was founded in 1982 by James Walyus (1938–2000) while he was employed by Exxon Optical Informat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTS%20glucose-glucoside%20%28Glc%29%20family | The PTS Glucose-Glucoside (Glc) family (TC# 4.A.1) includes porters specific for glucose, glucosamine, N-acetylglucosamine and a large variety of α- and β-glucosides, and is part of the PTS-GFL superfamily.
Homology
Not all β-glucoside PTS porters are in this class, as the PTS porter first described as the cellobiose... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycosmis%20pentaphylla | Glycosmis pentaphylla is a species of flowering plant in the family Rutaceae, known commonly as orangeberry and gin berry. It occurs in Southeast Asia and northern Australia. It is cultivated for its edible pink fruits. In temperate zones, it can be cultivated indoors as a houseplant.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20Authentication%20and%20Security%20Layer | Simple Authentication and Security Layer (SASL) is a framework for authentication and data security in Internet protocols. It decouples authentication mechanisms from application protocols, in theory allowing any authentication mechanism supported by SASL to be used in any application protocol that uses SASL. Authentic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euprymna%20scolopes |
Euprymna scolopes, also known as the Hawaiian bobtail squid, is a species of bobtail squid in the family Sepiolidae native to the central Pacific Ocean, where it occurs in shallow coastal waters off the Hawaiian Islands and Midway Island. The type specimen was collected off the Hawaiian Islands and is located at the N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitin-glucan%20complex | Chitin-glucan complex (CGC) is a copolymer (polysaccharide) that makes up fungal cell walls, consisting of covalently-bonded chitin and branched 1,3/1,6-ß-D-glucan. CGCs are alkaline-insoluble. Different species of fungi have different structural compositions of chitin and β-glucan making up the CGCs in their cell wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External%20anal%20sphincter | The external anal sphincter (or sphincter ani externus) is an oval tube skeletal muscle fibers. Distally, it is adherent to the skin surrounding the margin of the anus. The sphincter exhibits a resting state of tonical contraction.
Anatomy
The external anal sphincter is far more substantial than the internal anal sphi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronoid%20fossa%20of%20the%20humerus | Superior to the anterior portion of the trochlea is a small depression, the coronoid fossa, which receives the coronoid process of the ulna during flexion of the forearm. It is directly adjacent to the radial fossa of the humerus.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aruba%20Networks | HPE Aruba Networking, formerly known as Aruba Networks, is a Santa Clara, California-based cloud based security networking subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise company.
The company was founded in Sunnyvale, California in 2002 by Keerti Melkote and Pankaj Manglik. On March 2, 2015, Hewlett-Packard announced it woul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Immunisation%20Programme | Universal Immunisation Programme (UIP) is a vaccination programme launched by the Government of India in 1985. It became a part of Child Survival and Safe Motherhood Programme in 1992 and is currently one of the key areas under the National Health Mission since 2005. The programme now consists of vaccination for 12 dis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20Scintillator%20Neutrino%20Detector | The Liquid Scintillator Neutrino Detector (LSND) was a scintillation counter at Los Alamos National Laboratory that measured the number of neutrinos being produced by an accelerator neutrino source. The LSND project was created to look for evidence of neutrino oscillation, and its results conflict with the Standard Mod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shattering%20%28agriculture%29 | In agriculture, shattering is the dispersal of a crop's seeds upon their becoming ripe. From an agricultural perspective this is generally an undesirable process, and in the history of crop domestication several important advances have involved a mutation in a crop plant that reduced shattering—instead of the seeds bei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facial%20nerve | The facial nerve, also known as the seventh cranial nerve, cranial nerve VII, or simply CN VII, is a cranial nerve that emerges from the pons of the brainstem, controls the muscles of facial expression, and functions in the conveyance of taste sensations from the anterior two-thirds of the tongue. The nerve typically t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20cholera | Seven cholera pandemics have occurred in the past 200 years, with the first pandemic originating in India in 1817. The seventh cholera pandemic is officially a current pandemic and has been ongoing since 1961, according to a World Health Organization factsheet in March 2022. Additionally, there have been many document... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliophorus%20psittacinus | Gliophorus psittacinus, commonly known as the parrot toadstool or parrot waxcap, is a colourful member of the genus Gliophorus, found across Northern Europe. It was formerly known as Hygrocybe psittacina, but a molecular phylogenetics study found it to belong in the genus Gliophorus. It had already been placed in Gliop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadkill%20cuisine | Roadkill cuisine is preparing and eating roadkill, animals hit by vehicles and found along roads.
It is a practice engaged in by a small subculture in the United States, southern Canada, the United Kingdom, and other Western countries as well as in other parts of the world. It is also a subject of humor and urban lege... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cipher%20Department%20of%20the%20High%20Command%20of%20the%20Wehrmacht | The Cipher Department of the High Command of the Wehrmacht () (also Oberkommando der Wehrmacht Chiffrierabteilung or Chiffrierabteilung of the High Command of the Wehrmacht or Chiffrierabteilung of the OKW or OKW/Chi or Chi) was the Signal Intelligence Agency of the Supreme Command of the Armed Forces of the German Arm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Daily%20Stormer | The Daily Stormer is an American far-right, neo-Nazi, white supremacist, misogynist, Islamophobic, antisemitic, and Holocaust denial commentary and message board website that advocates for a second genocide of Jews. It is part of the alt-right movement. Its editor, Andrew Anglin, founded the outlet on July 4, 2013, as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DQS | DQS Holding GmbH based in Frankfurt am Main is the holding company of the worldwide DQS Group. The group provides assessments and certifications of management systems and processes of any type.
History
DQS was founded in 1985 in Berlin and was the first German certification body. The aim of the founding partners, DGQ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setapp | Setapp is a subscription-based service for macOS and iOS applications released by the Ukrainian software company MacPaw in 2017. It provides access to a growing collection of software from different developers for a fixed monthly fee. App categories cover productivity, lifestyle, web development, Mac maintenance, creat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymersome | In biotechnology, polymersomes are a class of artificial vesicles, tiny hollow spheres that enclose a solution. Polymersomes are made using amphiphilic synthetic block copolymers to form the vesicle membrane, and have radii ranging from 50 nm to 5 µm or more. Most reported polymersomes contain an aqueous solution in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20military%20clothing%20camouflage%20patterns | This is a list of military clothing camouflage patterns used for battledress. Military camouflage is the use of camouflage by armed forces to protect personnel and equipment from observation by enemy forces. Textile patterns for uniforms have multiple functions, including camouflage, identifying friend from foe, and es... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20music | Protein music (DNA music or genetic music) is a musical technique where music is composed by converting protein sequences or genes to musical notes. It is a theoretical method made by Joël Sternheimer, who is a physicist, composer and mathematician.
The first published references to protein music in the scientific lit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20English%20palindromic%20phrases | A palindrome is a word, number, phrase, or other sequence of symbols that reads the same backwards as forwards, such as the sentence: "A man, a plan, a canal – Panama". Following is a list of palindromic phrases of two or more words in the English language, found in multiple independent collections of palindromic phras... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet%20Bruce-Annan | Harriet Dansowaa Bruce-Annan (birth name: Grace Akosua Dansowaa Ani-Agyei; born 1965 in Accra, Ghana) is a Ghanaian programmer and humanitarian living in Düsseldorf, Germany. She has become known as the founder of African Angel, a charity organisation which supports and provides training for children from the slums of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dockerin | Dockerin is a protein domain found in the cellulosome cellular structure of anaerobic bacteria. It is found on many endoglucanase enzymes. The dockerin's binding partner is the cohesin domain, located on the scaffoldin protein. This interaction between the dockerin domains of the enzyme constituents of the cellulosome ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-letter%20acronym | A three-letter acronym (TLA), or three-letter abbreviation, is an abbreviation consisting of three letters. These are usually the initial letters of the words of the phrase abbreviated, and are written in capital letters (upper case); three-letter abbreviations such as etc. and Mrs. are not three-letter acronyms, but "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte%20%28journal%29 | GigaByte is a peer-reviewed open-science journal published by GigaScience Press since 2020. It focuses on short, focused, data-driven articles describing and sharing open research data sets and software. Using an exclusively XML-based publishing system that automates the production process to make it simple to change v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD%20publishing | CD publishing is the use of CD duplication systems to create a large number of unique discs. For instance, storing a unique serial number on each copy of a software application disc would be considered CD publishing.
The term CD publishing is believed to have been coined by the Rimage Corporation as part of a marketi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20programming%20with%20equilibrium%20constraints | Mathematical programming with equilibrium constraints (MPEC) is the study of
constrained optimization problems where the constraints include variational inequalities or complementarities. MPEC is related to the Stackelberg game.
MPEC is used in the study of engineering design, economic equilibrium, and multilevel ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ATSC%203.0%20television%20stations%20in%20the%20United%20States | This is a list of United States television stations which broadcast using the ATSC 3.0 standard, branded as "NextGen TV". |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luttinger%E2%80%93Kohn%20model | A flavor of the k·p perturbation theory used for calculating the structure of multiple, degenerate electronic bands in bulk and quantum well semiconductors. The method is a generalization of the single band k·p theory.
In this model the influence of all other bands is taken into account by using Löwdin's perturbation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molybdenite | Molybdenite is a mineral of molybdenum disulfide, MoS2. Similar in appearance and feel to graphite, molybdenite has a lubricating effect that is a consequence of its layered structure. The atomic structure consists of a sheet of molybdenum atoms sandwiched between sheets of sulfur atoms. The Mo-S bonds are strong, bu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20A.%20Cox | David Archibald Cox (born September 23, 1948 in Washington, D.C.) is a retired American mathematician, working in algebraic geometry.
Cox graduated from Rice University with a bachelor's degree in 1970 and his Ph.D. in 1975 at Princeton University, under the supervision of Eric Friedlander (Tubular Neighborhoods in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl-CpG-binding%20domain | The Methyl-CpG-binding domain (MBD) in molecular biology binds to DNA that contains one or more symmetrically methylated CpGs. MBD has negligible non-specific affinity for unmethylated DNA. In vitro foot-printing with the chromosomal protein MeCP2 showed that the MBD could protect a 12 nucleotide region surrounding a m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNA10 | Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily A member 10 also known as Kv1.8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNA10 gene. The protein encoded by this gene is a voltage-gated potassium channel subunit. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Set-theoretic%20definition%20of%20natural%20numbers | In set theory, several ways have been proposed to construct the natural numbers. These include the representation via von Neumann ordinals, commonly employed in axiomatic set theory, and a system based on equinumerosity that was proposed by Gottlob Frege and by Bertrand Russell.
Definition as von Neumann ordinals
In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urania%20Propitia | Urania Propitia () is a book of astronomical tables written by Maria Cunitz and published in 1650. As Maria Cunitz was the daughter of both a physician and mathematician, it was her ability to grasp complex mathematics quickly and transcribe her findings as a polyglot that allowed her to do what few women had done befo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupid%27s%20bow | The Cupid's bow is a facial feature where the double curve of a human upper lip is said to resemble the bow of Cupid, the Roman god of erotic love. The peaks of the bow coincide with the philtral columns giving a prominent bow appearance to the lip.
See also
Philtrum
White roll |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral%20buoyancy | Neutral buoyancy occurs when an object's average density is equal to the density of the fluid in which it is immersed, resulting in the buoyant force balancing the force of gravity that would otherwise cause the object to sink (if the body's density is greater than the density of the fluid in which it is immersed) or r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete%20set%20of%20commuting%20observables | In quantum mechanics, a complete set of commuting observables (CSCO) is a set of commuting operators whose common eigenvectors can be used as a basis to express any quantum state. In the case of operators with discrete spectra, a CSCO is a set of commuting observables whose simultaneous eigenspaces span the Hilbert spa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dueling%20Dinosaurs | The Dueling Dinosaurs or Montana Dueling Dinosaurs is a fossil specimen originating from the Hell Creek Formation of Montana. It consists of the fossilized skeletons of an adolescent Tyrannosaurus rex and a Triceratops horridus entangled with one another, and entombed in sandstone. The "dueling" inference comes from th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desulfovibrio%20acrylicus | Desulfovibrio acrylicus is a bacterium from the genus of Desulfovibrio which has been isolated from marine sediments from the Wadden Sea. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schreier%20conjecture | In finite group theory, the Schreier conjecture asserts that the outer automorphism group of every finite simple group is solvable. It was proposed by Otto Schreier in 1926, and is now known to be true as a result of the classification of finite simple groups, but no simpler proof is known. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W-algebra | In conformal field theory and representation theory, a W-algebra is an associative algebra that generalizes the Virasoro algebra. W-algebras were introduced by Alexander Zamolodchikov, and the name "W-algebra" comes from the fact that Zamolodchikov used the letter W for one of the elements of one of his examples.
Defi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiccation%20tolerance | Desiccation tolerance refers to the ability of an organism to withstand or endure extreme dryness, or drought-like conditions. Plants and animals living in arid or periodically arid environments such as temporary streams or ponds may face the challenge of desiccation, therefore physiological or behavioral adaptations t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetic%20theories%20of%20homosexuality | Epigenetic theories of homosexuality concern the studies of changes in gene expression or cellular phenotype caused by mechanisms other than changes in the underlying DNA sequence, and their role in the development of homosexuality. Epigenetics examines the set of chemical reactions that switch parts of the genome on a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachiocephalic%20artery | The brachiocephalic artery (or brachiocephalic trunk) is an artery of the mediastinum that supplies blood to the right arm and the head and neck. It was previously known as the innominate artery, meaning unnamed artery.
It is the first branch of the aortic arch. Soon after it emerges, the brachiocephalic artery divide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Void%20ratio | The void ratio of a mixture or composite is the ratio of the volume of voids to volume of solids.
It is a dimensionless quantity in materials science, and is closely related to porosity as follows:
and
where is void ratio, is porosity, VV is the volume of void-space (such as fluids), VS is the volume of solids, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%E2%80%93Campbell%E2%80%93Hausdorff%20formula | In mathematics, the Baker–Campbell–Hausdorff formula is the solution for to the equation
for possibly noncommutative and in the Lie algebra of a Lie group. There are various ways of writing the formula, but all ultimately yield an expression for in Lie algebraic terms, that is, as a formal series (not necessarily ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal%20network | A temporal network, also known as a time-varying network, is a network whose links are active only at certain points in time. Each link carries information on when it is active, along with other possible characteristics such as a weight. Time-varying networks are of particular relevance to spreading processes, like the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myopalladin | Myopalladin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MYPN gene. Myopalladin is a muscle protein responsible for tethering proteins at the Z-disc and for communicating between the sarcomere and the nucleus in cardiac and skeletal muscle
Structure
Myopalladin is a 145.2 kDa protein composed of 1320 amino acids. M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malgrange%E2%80%93Zerner%20theorem | In mathematics, Malgrange–Zerner theorem (named for Bernard Malgrange and Martin Zerner) shows that a function on allowing holomorphic extension in each variable separately can be extended, under certain conditions, to a function holomorphic in all variables jointly. This theorem can be seen as a generalization of Boc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kicker%20magnet | Kicker magnets are dipole magnets used to rapidly switch a particle beam between two paths. Conceptually similar to a railroad switch in function, a kicker magnet must switch on very rapidly, then maintain a stable magnetic field for some minimum time. Switch-off time is also important, but less critical.
An injecti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymineless%20death | Thymineless death is the phenomenon by which bacteria, yeasts and mammalian cells undergo cell death when they are starved of thymidine triphosphate (dTTP), an essential precursor for DNA replication. This phenomenon underlies the mechanism of action of several antibacterial, antimalarial and anticancer agents, such as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20profiling | DNA profiling (also called DNA fingerprinting and genetic fingerprinting) is the process of determining an individual's deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) characteristics. DNA analysis intended to identify a species, rather than an individual, is called DNA barcoding.
DNA profiling is a forensic technique in criminal investi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcto-Tertiary%20Geoflora | The Arcto-Tertiary Geoflora is a hypothesized floral assemblage that once covered the Northern Hemisphere, from roughly the late Mesozoic to mid Cenozoic Eras.
Origins
First proposed by the paleobotanists J.S. Gardner and C. Ettinghausen in 1879, the concept was intended to answer questions about the disjunct distribu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population%20proportion | In statistics, a population proportion, generally denoted by or the Greek letter , is a parameter that describes a percentage value associated with a population. For example, the 2010 United States Census showed that 83.7% of the American population was identified as not being Hispanic or Latino; the value of .837 is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renzo%20L.%20Ricca | Renzo Luigi Ricca (24 January 1960) is an Italian-born applied mathematician (naturalised British citizen), professor of mathematical physics at the University of Milano-Bicocca. His principal research interests are in classical field theory, dynamical systems (classical and quantum vortex dynamics and magnetohydrodyna... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunotransplant | Immunotransplant is a maneuver used to make vaccines more powerful. It refers to the process of infusing vaccine-primed T lymphocytes into lymphodepleted recipients for the purpose of enhancing the proliferation and function of those T cells and increasing immune protection induced by that vaccine.
The concept takes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinespace | Sinespace is a free-to-play massively multiplayer online Unity 3D-based platform created and published by Sine Wave Entertainment. It enables users to create and sell 3D content and interact with others as 3D avatars. It was beta launched in November 2016 and teamed up with Unity to make its SDK available in the Unity... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20radio%20burst | In radio astronomy, a fast radio burst (FRB) is a transient radio pulse of length ranging from a fraction of a millisecond, for a ultra-fast radio burst, to 3 seconds, caused by some high-energy astrophysical process not yet understood. Astronomers estimate the average FRB releases as much energy in a millisecond as th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technetium-99m%20generator | A technetium-99m generator, or colloquially a technetium cow or moly cow, is a device used to extract the metastable isotope 99mTc of technetium from a decaying sample of molybdenum-99. 99Mo has a half-life of 66 hours and can be easily transported over long distances to hospitals where its decay product technetium-99m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SeaLifeBase | SeaLifeBase is a global online database of information about marine life. It aims to provide key information on the taxonomy, distribution and ecology of all marine species in the world apart from finfish. SeaLifeBase is in partnership with the WorldFish Center in Malaysia and the UBC Institute for the Oceans and Fishe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformon | From a biological standpoint, the goal-directed molecular motions inside living cells are carried out by biopolymers acting like molecular machines (e.g. myosin, RNA/DNA polymerase, ion pumps, etc.). These molecular machines are driven by conformons, that is sequence-specific mechanical strains generated by free energy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streptogramin | Streptogramins are a class of antibiotics.
Streptogramins are effective in the treatment of vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (VRSA) and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE), two of the most rapidly growing strains of multidrug-resistant bacteria. They fall into two groups: streptogramin A and streptogrami... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environment%20artist | An environment artist is a professional artist who works in the video game industry or film industry as a 3D modeler, specializing in outdoor and indoor locations for a game's setting. They are responsible for creating the majority of the overall asset and visuals the player will encounter on the screen, modelling, tex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20contextualism | Functional contextualism is a modern philosophy of science rooted in philosophical pragmatism and contextualism. It is most actively developed in behavioral science in general and the field of behavior analysis and contextual behavioral science in particular (see the entry for the Association for Contextual Behavioral ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Morris | Albert Morris (13 August 1886 in Bridgetown, South Australia – 9 January 1939, Broken Hill New South Wales) was an acclaimed Australian botanist, landscaper, ecologist, conservationist and developer of arid-zone revegetation techniques that featured natural regeneration . Morris is particularly celebrated for his decis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megawatts%20and%20Megatons | Megawatts and Megatons is a 2001 book by Richard L. Garwin and Georges Charpak. The book is said to be a good primer on nuclear power and also a detailed discussion of nuclear weapons and potential paths for weapons reduction.
The book presents detailed information about nuclear reactors and provides useful informat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trillium%20Model | The Trillium Model, created by a collaborative team from Bell Canada, Northern Telecom and Bell Northern Research (Northern Telecom and Bell Northern Research later merged into Nortel Networks) combines requirements from the ISO 9000 series, the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) for software, and the Baldrige Criteria fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial%20correlation | Financial correlations measure the relationship between the changes of two or more financial variables over time. For example, the prices of equity stocks and fixed interest bonds often move in opposite directions: when investors sell stocks, they often use the proceeds to buy bonds and vice versa. In this case, stock ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viennese%20trichord | In music theory, a Viennese trichord (also Sus#4 chord, Viennese fourth chord, and tritone-fourth chord), named for the Second Viennese School, is a pitch set with prime form (0,1,6). Its Forte number is 3-5. The sets C–D–G and C–F–G are both examples of Viennese trichords, though they may be voiced in many ways.
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