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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20barcoding%20in%20diet%20assessment | DNA barcoding in diet assessment is the use of DNA barcoding to analyse the diet of organisms. and further detect and describe their trophic interactions. This approach is based on the identification of consumed species by characterization of DNA present in dietary samples, e.g. individual food remains, regurgitates, g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM-index | In computer science, an FM-index is a compressed full-text substring index based on the Burrows–Wheeler transform, with some similarities to the suffix array. It was created by Paolo Ferragina and Giovanni Manzini, who describe it as an opportunistic data structure as it allows compression of the input text while still... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convex%20polytope | A convex polytope is a special case of a polytope, having the additional property that it is also a convex set contained in the -dimensional Euclidean space . Most texts use the term "polytope" for a bounded convex polytope, and the word "polyhedron" for the more general, possibly unbounded object. Others (including th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20United%20States%20regional%20mathematics%20competitions | Many math competitions in the United States have regional restrictions. Of these, most are statewide.
For a more complete list, please visit here .
The contests include:
Alabama
Alabama Statewide High School Mathematics Contest
Virgil Grissom High School Math Tournament
Vestavia Hills High School Math Tournament... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall%21 | Pitfall! is a video game developed by David Crane for the Atari Video Computer System (later renamed Atari 2600) and released in 1982 by Activision. The player controls Pitfall Harry, who has a time limit of 20 minutes to seek treasure in a jungle. The game world is populated by enemies and hazards that variously cause... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Busulfan | Busulfan (Myleran, GlaxoSmithKline, Busulfex IV, Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc.) is a chemotherapy drug in use since 1959. It is a cell cycle non-specific alkylating antineoplastic agent, in the class of alkyl sulfonates. Its chemical designation is 1,4-butanediol dimethanesulfonate.
History
Busulfan was approved... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic%20analysis | Heuristic analysis is a method employed by many computer antivirus programs designed to detect previously unknown computer viruses, as well as new variants of viruses already in the "wild".
Heuristic analysis is an expert based analysis that determines the susceptibility of a system towards particular threat/risk usin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procerus%20muscle | The procerus muscle (or pyramidalis nasi) is a small pyramidal slip of muscle deep to the superior orbital nerve, artery and vein. Procerus is Latin, meaning tall or extended.
Structure
The procerus muscle arises by tendinous fibers from the fascia covering the lower part of the nasal bone and upper part of the latera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinoma | Carcinoma is a malignancy that develops from epithelial cells. Specifically, a carcinoma is a cancer that begins in a tissue that lines the inner or outer surfaces of the body, and that arises from cells originating in the endodermal, mesodermal or ectodermal germ layer during embryogenesis.
Carcinomas occur when the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reticulation%20%28single-access%20key%29 | In biology, a reticulation of a single-access identification key connects different branches of the identification tree to improve error tolerance and identification success. In a reticulated key, multiple paths lead to the same result; the tree data structure thus changes from a simple tree to a directed acyclic graph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebTorrent | WebTorrent is a peer-to-peer (P2P) streaming torrent client written in JavaScript, from the same author, Feross Aboukhadijeh, of YouTube Instant, and the team at WebTorrent and on GitHub, for use in web browsers, as well as a WebTorrent Desktop stand alone version able to bridge WebTorrent and BitTorrent serverless net... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorquette | The jorquette (horqueta; molinillo) is the point at which the vertical stem changes to fan growth on the cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao).
The whorl of lateral branches which grow out at an angle of approximately 45 degrees is called the jorquette.
For mostly of Theobroma sp, one of the two kinds of branch grows vertical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%20%E2%80%93%20Shih%20Liu | I – Shih Liu (1943) is a Taiwanese civil engineer. He teaches at the Institute of Mathematics of Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
Education
I – Shih Liu studied at the National Taiwan University and graduated with a diploma in 1972. He continued his studies at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) where he receive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapse%20rate | The lapse rate is the rate at which an atmospheric variable, normally temperature in Earth's atmosphere, falls with altitude. Lapse rate arises from the word lapse, in the sense of a gradual fall. In dry air, the adiabatic lapse rate (i.e., decrease in temperature of a parcel of air that rises in the atmosphere withou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP1%20holin%20family | The HP1 Holin (HP1 Holin) Family (TC# 1.E.7 ) is a member of the Holin Superfamily II. Proteins in this family are typically found to contain two transmembrane segments (TMSs) and range between 70 and 80 amino acyl residues (aas) in length. A representative list of proteins belonging to the HP1 holin family can be foun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proline-rich%20protein%2030 | Proline-rich protein 30 (PRR30 or C2orf53) is a protein in humans that is encoded for by the PRR30 gene. PRR30 is a member in the family of Proline-rich proteins characterized by their intrinsic lack of structure. Copy number variations in the PRR30 gene have been associated with an increased risk for neurofibromatosis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harish-Chandra%20isomorphism | In mathematics, the Harish-Chandra isomorphism, introduced by ,
is an isomorphism of commutative rings constructed in the theory of Lie algebras. The isomorphism maps the center of the universal enveloping algebra of a reductive Lie algebra to the elements of the symmetric algebra of a Cartan subalgebra that are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum-distance%20estimation | Minimum-distance estimation (MDE) is a conceptual method for fitting a statistical model to data, usually the empirical distribution. Often-used estimators such as ordinary least squares can be thought of as special cases of minimum-distance estimation.
While consistent and asymptotically normal, minimum-distance esti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El-Fish | El-Fish is a fish and fish-tank simulator and software toy developed by Russian game developer AnimaTek, with Maxis providing development advice. The game was published by Mindscape (v1.1) and later by Maxis (v1.1 + v1.2) in 1993 on 5 diskettes.
Each fish in El-Fish has a unique Roe, similar to the genome. This allows... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20impacts%20of%20animal%20agriculture | The environmental impacts of animal agriculture vary because of the wide variety of agricultural practices employed around the world. Despite this, all agricultural practices have been found to have a variety of effects on the environment to some extent. Animal agriculture, in particular meat production, can cause poll... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kummer%E2%80%93Vandiver%20conjecture | In mathematics, the Kummer–Vandiver conjecture, or Vandiver conjecture, states that a prime p does not divide the class number hK of the maximal real subfield of the p-th cyclotomic field.
The conjecture was first made by Ernst Kummer on 28 December 1849 and 24 April 1853 in letters to Leopold Kronecker, reprinte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosystem | Photosystems are functional and structural units of protein complexes involved in photosynthesis. Together they carry out the primary photochemistry of photosynthesis: the absorption of light and the transfer of energy and electrons. Photosystems are found in the thylakoid membranes of plants, algae, and cyanobacteria.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DGLUCY | DGLUCY (D-glutamate cyclase) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the DGLUCY gene.
Orthologs
The human gene, DGLUCY, is highly conserved in mammals and birds. Orthologs gathered from BLAST and BLAT searches reveal that the human DGLUCY mRNA sequence is conserved with a sequence identity of 98% in chimpanzees, 8... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20Polytopes%20%28book%29 | Regular Polytopes is a geometry book on regular polytopes written by Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter. It was originally published by Methuen in 1947 and by Pitman Publishing in 1948, with a second edition published by Macmillan in 1963 and a third edition by Dover Publications in 1973.
The Basic Library List Committee o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MATSim | MATSim (the Multi-Agent Transport Simulation Toolkit) is an open source software development project developing agent-based software modules intended for use with transportation planning models.
History
"The MATSim project started with Kai Nagel, then at ETH Zurich, and his interest in
improving his work with, and for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methyl%20cinnamate | Methyl cinnamate is the methyl ester of cinnamic acid and is a white or transparent solid with a strong, aromatic odor. It is found naturally in a variety of plants, including in fruits, like strawberry, and some culinary spices, such as Sichuan pepper and some varieties of basil. Eucalyptus olida has the highest known... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevational%20diversity%20gradient | Elevational diversity gradient (EDG) is an ecological pattern where biodiversity changes with elevation. The EDG states that species richness tends to decrease as elevation increases, up to a certain point, creating a "diversity bulge" at middle elevations. There have been multiple hypotheses proposed for explaining th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WS-CAF | Web Services Composite Application Framework (WS-CAF) is an open framework developed by OASIS. Its purpose is to define a generic and open framework for applications that contain multiple services used together, which are sometimes referred to as composite applications. WS-CAF characteristics include interoperability, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20Interchange%20Protocol | The Standard Interchange Protocol is a proprietary standard for communication between library computer systems and self-service circulation terminals. Although owned and controlled by 3M, the protocol is published and is widely used by other vendors. Version 2.0 of the protocol, known as "SIP2", is a de facto standard ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%2090003 | ISO/IEC 90003 Software engineering -- Guidelines for the application of ISO 9001:2008 to computer software is a guidelines developed for organizations in the application of ISO 9001 to the acquisition, supply, development, operation and maintenance of computer software and related support services.
This standard was d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bearer-Independent%20Call%20Control | The Bearer-Independent Call Control (BICC) is a signaling protocol based on N-ISUP that is used for supporting narrowband Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) service over a broadband backbone network. BICC is designed to interwork with existing transport technologies. BICC is specified in ITU-T recommendation Q... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session%20key | A session key is a single-use symmetric key used for encrypting all messages in one communication session. A closely related term is content encryption key (CEK), traffic encryption key (TEK), or multicast key which refers to any key used for encrypting messages, contrary to other uses like encrypting other keys (key ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiratory%20burst | Respiratory burst (or oxidative burst) is the rapid release of the reactive oxygen species (ROS), superoxide anion () and hydrogen peroxide (), from different cell types.
This is usually utilised for mammalian immunological defence, but also plays a role in cell signalling. Respiratory burst is also implicated in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%E2%80%93carbon%20bond | A carbon–carbon bond is a covalent bond between two carbon atoms. The most common form is the single bond: a bond composed of two electrons, one from each of the two atoms. The carbon–carbon single bond is a sigma bond and is formed between one hybridized orbital from each of the carbon atoms. In ethane, the orbitals a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20body | A black body or blackbody is an idealized physical body that absorbs all incident electromagnetic radiation, regardless of frequency or angle of incidence. The radiation emitted by a black body in thermal equilibrium with its environment is called black-body radiation. The name "black body" is given because it absorbs ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernar%20Venet | Bernar Venet (born 20 April 1941) is a French conceptual artist.
Early life
Bernar Venet was born to Jean-Marie Venet, a school teacher and chemist, and Adeline Gilly and was the youngest of four boys. He was brought up in Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban and had a religious upbringing, aspiring to become a missionary. He h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20channel%20election | A digital channel election was the process by which television stations in the United States chose which physical radio-frequency TV channel they would permanently use after the analog shutdown in 2009. The process was managed and mandated by the Federal Communications Commission for all full-power TV stations. Low-p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burroughs%20MCP | The MCP (Master Control Program) is the operating system of the Burroughs B5000/B5500/B5700 and the B6500 and successors, including the Unisys Clearpath/MCP systems.
MCP was originally written in 1961 in ESPOL (Executive Systems Problem Oriented Language). In the 1970s, MCP was converted to NEWP which was a better str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superficial%20perineal%20pouch | The superficial perineal pouch (also superficial perineal compartment/space/sac) is a compartment of the perineum.
Structure
The superficial perineal pouch is an open compartment, due to the fact that anteriorly, the space communicates freely with the potential space lying between the superficial fascia of the anterio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure%20Storage | Pure Storage, Inc. is an American publicly traded technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States. It develops all-flash data storage hardware and software products. Pure Storage was founded in 2009 and developed its products in stealth mode until 2011. Afterwards, the company grew in revenue... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterism%20%28gemology%29 | An asterism () is a star-shaped concentration of light reflected or refracted from a gemstone. It can appear when a suitable stone is cut en cabochon (i.e. shaped and polished, not faceted).
A gemstone that exhibits this effect is called a star stone or asteria. The best known is star sapphire, but many other minerals... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser%20sniffing | Browser sniffing (also known as browser detection) is a set of techniques used in websites and web applications in order to determine the web browser a visitor is using, and to serve browser-appropriate content to the visitor. It is also used to detect mobile browsers and send them mobile-optimized websites. This pract... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Henson%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Professor Martin C. Henson FBCS FRSA (born 14 October 1954) is an English computer scientist based at the University of Essex. He is dean for international affairs and is affiliated to the School of Computer Science & Electronic Engineering.
Henson was head of the department of computer science from 2000 to 2006.
Educ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miti%20hue | Miti hue is a traditional sauce in Polyneisan cuisine made from the flesh of the coconut and salt water mixed together and fermented.
Preparation
is prepared from the young coconut known as , a stage where the flesh of the green coconut starts to harden and begins losing its water. The flesh of the is cut into piec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinoptychus | Actinoptychus is a genus of diatoms belonging to the family Heliopeltaceae.
The genus was described in 1843 by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg.
Species:
Actinoptychus octodenarius Ehrenberg
Actinoptychus senarius (Ehrenberg) Ehrenberg, 1843 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phasevarion | In bacteria, phasevarions (also known as phase variable regulons) mediate a coordinated change in the expression of multiple genes or proteins. This occurs via phase variation of a single DNA methyltransferase. Phase variation of methyltransferase expression results in differential methylation throughout the bacterial ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoblast | Mesoblast Limited is an Australian regenerative medicine company. It seeks to provide treatments for inflammatory ailments, cardiovascular disease, and back pain. The company is led by Silviu Itescu, who founded the company in 2004.
History
In Mesoblast's annual report from August 2010, the company first announced p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley%E2%80%93Terry%20model | The Bradley–Terry model is a probability model for the outcome of pairwise comparisons between individuals, teams, or objects. Given a pair of individuals and drawn from some population, it estimates the probability that the pairwise comparison turns out true, as
where is a positive real-valued score assigned to i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient%20safety%20organization | A Patient Safety Organization (PSO) is a group, institution, or association that improves medical care by reducing medical errors. Common functions of patient safety organizations are data collection, analysis, reporting, education, funding, and advocacy. A PSO differs from a Federally designed Patient Safety Organiza... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndallization | Tyndallization is a process from the nineteenth century for sterilizing substances, usually food, named after its inventor John Tyndall, that can be used to kill heat-resistant endospores. Although now considered dated, it is still occasionally used.
A simple and effective sterilizing method commonly used today is aut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%20map | In theoretical physics, the Jordan map, often also called the Jordan–Schwinger map is a map from matrices to bilinear expressions of quantum oscillators which expedites computation of representations of Lie algebras occurring in physics. It was introduced by Pascual Jordan in 1935 and was utilized by Julian Schwinge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew%20Wiles | Sir Andrew John Wiles (born 11 April 1953) is an English mathematician and a Royal Society Research Professor at the University of Oxford, specialising in number theory. He is best known for proving Fermat's Last Theorem, for which he was awarded the 2016 Abel Prize and the 2017 Copley Medal by the Royal Society. He w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial%20capsule | The bacterial capsule is a large structure common to many bacteria. It is a polysaccharide layer that lies outside the cell envelope, and is thus deemed part of the outer envelope of a bacterial cell. It is a well-organized layer, not easily washed off, and it can be the cause of various diseases.
The capsule—which ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclin%20E | Cyclin E is a member of the cyclin family.
Cyclin E binds to G1 phase Cdk2, which is required for the transition from G1 to S phase of the cell cycle that determines initiation of DNA duplication. The Cyclin E/CDK2 complex phosphorylates p27Kip1 (an inhibitor of Cyclin D), tagging it for degradation, thus promoting e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algenol | Algenol, founded in 2009, headquartered in Fort Myers, Florida, Algenol is an industrial biotechnology company that is commercializing patented algae technology for production of ethanol and other fuels. The technology enables production four of the most important fuels (ethanol, gasoline, jet, and diesel fuel) using a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Failures%20of%20water%20supply%20and%20sanitation%20systems | Failures of water supply and sanitation systems describe situations where water supply and sanitation systems (also called WASH systems) have been put in place (for example by the government or by non-government organizations (NGOs) but have failed to meet the expected outcomes. Often this is due to poor planning, lack... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmes%E2%80%93Thompson%20volume | In geometry of normed spaces, the Holmes–Thompson volume is a notion of volume that allows to compare sets contained in different normed spaces (of the same dimension). It was introduced by Raymond D. Holmes and Anthony Charles Thompson.
Definition
The Holmes–Thompson volume of a measurable set in a normed space i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoreboarding | Scoreboarding is a centralized method, first used in the CDC 6600 computer, for dynamically scheduling instructions so that they can execute out of order when there are no conflicts and the hardware is available.
In a scoreboard, the data dependencies of every instruction are logged, tracked and strictly observed at ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beacon%20Institute%20for%20Rivers%20%26%20Estuaries | Beacon Institute for Rivers and Estuaries, Clarkson University, with offices in City of Beacon and Troy, New York, is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit environmental research organization focusing on real-time monitoring of river ecosystems. The institute's mission is to "create and maintain a global center for scientific and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diophantine%20quintuple | In number theory, a diophantine -tuple is a set of positive integers such that is a perfect square for any A set of positive rational numbers with the similar property that the product of any two is one less than a rational square is known as a rational diophantine -tuple.
Diophantine m-tuples
The first diophant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20of%20Saint%20Victor | Hugh of Saint Victor ( 1096 – 11 February 1141) was a Saxon canon regular and a leading theologian and writer on mystical theology.
Life
As with many medieval figures, little is known about Hugh's early life. He was probably born in the 1090s. His homeland may have been Lorraine, Ypres in Flanders, or the Duchy of Sax... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABHD2 | Abhydrolase domain-containing protein 2 is a serine hydrolase enzyme that is strongly expressed in human spermatozoa. It is a key controller of sperm hyperactivation, which is a necessary step in allowing sperm to fertilize an egg. It is encoded by the ABHD2 gene.
Function
In the presence of Progesterone (or Pregnen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 16° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Atlantic Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 16th meridian east forms a great circle with the 164th meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the Nort... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spacetime%20topology | Spacetime topology is the topological structure of spacetime, a topic studied primarily in general relativity. This physical theory models gravitation as the curvature of a four dimensional Lorentzian manifold (a spacetime) and the concepts of topology thus become important in analysing local as well as global aspects ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proboscis | A proboscis () is an elongated appendage from the head of an animal, either a vertebrate or an invertebrate. In invertebrates, the term usually refers to tubular mouthparts used for feeding and sucking. In vertebrates, a proboscis is an elongated nose or snout.
Etymology
First attested in English in 1609 from Latin , ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deployment%20of%20COVID-19%20vaccines | , 13.4billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered worldwide, with 67.9 percent of the global population having received at least one dose. While 4.19million vaccines were then being administered daily, only 22.3 percent of people in low-income countries had received at least a first vaccine by September 2022,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/160%20%28number%29 | 160 (one hundred [and] sixty) is the natural number following 159 and preceding 161.
In mathematics
160 is the sum of the first 11 primes, as well as the sum of the cubes of the first three primes.
Given 160, the Mertens function returns 0. 160 is the smallest number n with exactly 12 solutions to the equation φ(x) =... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accent%20kernel | Accent is an operating system kernel, most notable for being the predecessor to the Mach kernel. Originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Accent was influenced by the Aleph kernel developed at the University of Rochester. Accent improves upon the older kernel, fixing several problems and re-targeting... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-domain%20solution | A cross-domain solution (CDS) is an integrated information assurance system composed of specialized software, and sometimes hardware, that provides a controlled interface to manually or automatically enable and/or restrict the access or transfer of information between two or more security domains based on a predetermin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20ancient%20numeral%20systems | Number systems have progressed from the use of fingers and tally marks, perhaps more than 40,000 years ago, to the use of sets of glyphs able to represent any conceivable number efficiently. The earliest known unambiguous notations for numbers emerged in Mesopotamia about 5000 or 6000 years ago.
Prehistory
Counting ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20of%20Darkness%20%28film%29 | Prince of Darkness is a 1987 American supernatural horror film, written and directed by John Carpenter, and starring Donald Pleasence, Victor Wong, Jameson Parker, and Lisa Blount. The second installment in what Carpenter calls his "Apocalypse Trilogy"—which began with The Thing (1982) and concludes with In the Mouth o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZNF548 | Zinc Finger Protein 548 (ZNF548) is a human protein encoded by the ZNF548 gene which is located on chromosome 19. It is found in the nucleus and is hypothesized to play a role in the regulation of transcription by RNA Polymerase II. It belongs to the Krüppel C2H2-type zinc-finger protein family as it contains many zinc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRV%20Communications | MRV Communications is a communications equipment and services company based in Chatsworth, California. Through its business units, the company is a provider of optical communications network infrastructure equipment and services to a broad range of telecom concerns, including multi-national telecommunications operators... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20botanists%20by%20author%20abbreviation%20%28S%29 |
A–R
To find entries for A–R, use the table of contents above.
S
Sabine – Joseph Sabine (1770–1837)
Sabourin – Lucien Sabourin (1904–1987)
Sacc. – Pier Andrea Saccardo (1845–1920)
Sachet – Marie-Hélène Sachet (1922–1986)
Sachs – Julius von Sachs (1832–1897)
S.A.Cain – Stanley Adair Cain (1902–1995)
Sacleu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20White%20Sea%20biota%20species%20by%20phylum | This is a List of White Sea species, ordered by suspected phylum.
?Incertae sedis
3 species
Phylum ?Arthropoda
1 species
Phylum ?Cnidaria
1 species
Erniettomorphs
1 species
Phylum ?Mollusca
1 species
Phylum ?Porifera
1 species.
Phylum Proarticulata
3 species
Phylum Rangeomorpha
3 species
Phylum Trilobozoa
1 sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postman%20%28software%29 | Postman is an API platform for developers. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and maintains an office in Bangalore, where it was founded. As of February 2023, Postman reports having more than 25 million registered users and 75,000 open APIs, which it says constitutes the world's largest public API hub.
His... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TO-220 | The TO-220 is a style of electronic package used for high-powered, through-hole components with pin spacing. The "TO" designation stands for "transistor outline". TO-220 packages have three leads. Similar packages with two, four, five or seven leads are also manufactured. A notable characteristic is a metal tab with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonesoft%20Corporation | Stonesoft Corporation was a public company that developed and sold network security solutions based in Helsinki, Finland. It was publicly owned until 2013 when it was acquired by Intel's subsidiary McAfee.
Stonesoft does business globally, with a regional headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, and sales offi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vortex%20tube | The vortex tube, also known as the Ranque-Hilsch vortex tube, is a mechanical device that separates a compressed gas into hot and cold streams. The gas emerging from the hot end can reach temperatures of , and the gas emerging from the cold end can reach . It has no moving parts and is considered an environmentally fri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft%20tissue%20injury | A soft tissue injury is the damage of muscles, ligaments and tendons throughout the body. Common soft tissue injuries usually occur from a sprain, strain, a one-off blow resulting in a contusion or overuse of a particular part of the body. Soft tissue injuries can result in pain, swelling, bruising and loss of function... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flavor%20masker | In the beverage, food, and pharmaceutical industries, a flavor masker is a chemical interaction that causes the absence of taste. This is known as the Farish effect, a phenomenon noted by 18th-century chemist William Farish. Contrary to popular belief, a flavor masker is not one chemical component; rather, it is two co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannaka%E2%80%93Krein%20duality | In mathematics, Tannaka–Krein duality theory concerns the interaction of a compact topological group and its category of linear representations. It is a natural extension of Pontryagin duality, between compact and discrete commutative topological groups, to groups that are compact but noncommutative. The theory is name... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypograph%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, the hypograph or subgraph of a function is the set of points lying on or below its graph.
A related definition is that of such a function's epigraph, which is the set of points on or above the function's graph.
The domain (rather than the codomain) of the function is not particularly important for t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 100° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 100th meridian east forms a great circle with the 80th meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2R%20hypothesis | The 2R hypothesis or Ohno's hypothesis, first proposed by Susumu Ohno in 1970, is a hypothesis that the genomes of the early vertebrate lineage underwent two complete genome duplications, and thus modern vertebrate genomes reflect paleopolyploidy. The name derives from the 2 rounds of duplication originally hypothesiz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Federation%20of%20Parasitologists | The European Federation of Parasitologists (EFP) is a non-profit scientific international organization, founded in November 1966 by Witold Stefański who was its first president. It gathers around 30 national societies of parasitology of European countries. The original bylaws were published in the International Journal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moedomo%20Soedigdomarto | Moedomo Soedigdomarto, also spelled Mudomo Sudigdomarto, (29 November 1927, Magetan – 5 November 2005, Bandung) was an Indonesian mathematician, educator and professor at the Bandung Institute of Technology, of which he was rektor.
Soedigdomarto was one of the first Indonesians to obtain a Ph.D. in mathematics, which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RegulonDB | RegulonDB is a database of the regulatory network of gene expression in Escherichia coli K-12. RegulonDB also models the organization of the genes in transcription units, operons and regulons. A total of 120 sRNAs with 231 total interactions which all together regulate 192 genes are also included. RegulonDB was found... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramaria%20rasilispora | Ramaria rasilispora, commonly known as the yellow coral, is a coral mushroom in the family Gomphaceae. Described as new to science in 1974, it is found in western North America south to Mexico, and in the eastern Himalaya.
Taxonomy
The species was first described scientifically in 1974 by American mycologists Currie M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brevifollis | Brevifollis is a Gram-negative genus of bacteria from the family of Verrucomicrobiaceae with one known species (Brevifollis gellanilyticus). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak%20operator%20topology | In functional analysis, the weak operator topology, often abbreviated WOT, is the weakest topology on the set of bounded operators on a Hilbert space , such that the functional sending an operator to the complex number is continuous for any vectors and in the Hilbert space.
Explicitly, for an operator there is ba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validator | A validator is a computer program used to check the validity or syntactical correctness of a fragment of code or document. The term is commonly used in the context of validating HTML, CSS, and XML documents like RSS feeds, though it can be used for any defined format or language.
Accessibility validators are automated... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale%E2%80%93Shapley%20algorithm | In mathematics, economics, and computer science, the Gale–Shapley algorithm (also known as the deferred acceptance algorithm or propose-and-reject algorithm) is an algorithm for finding a solution to the stable matching problem, named for David Gale and Lloyd Shapley. It takes polynomial time, and the time is linear in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV-out | The term TV-out is commonly used to label the connector of equipment providing an analog video signal acceptable for a television AV input. TV-out is different from AV-out in that it only provides video, no audio.
Types of signals and their respective connectors include:
Composite video
S-video
Component video
See AV... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed%20milestone | A delayed milestone, which is also known as a developmental delay, refers to a situation where a child does not reach a particular developmental milestone at the expected age. Developmental milestones refer to a collection of indicators that a child is anticipated to reach as they grow older.
Each age group has its di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operations%20security | Operations security (OPSEC) or operational security is a process that identifies critical information to determine whether friendly actions can be observed by enemy intelligence, determines if information obtained by adversaries could be interpreted to be useful to them, and then executes selected measures that elimina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafont | Metafont is a description language used to define raster fonts. It is also the name of the interpreter that executes Metafont code, generating the bitmap fonts that can be embedded into e.g. PostScript. Metafont was devised by Donald Knuth as a companion to his TeX typesetting system.
One of the characteristics of Met... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%20communication | Ant communication involves pheromones, which is a method using chemical trails for other ants or insects to find and follow.
Background
Ants have many different pheromones, depending on the species. When an ant finds something interesting, whether it is food or an enemy, it excretes a chemical substance from it and d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OmniPeek | Omnipeek is a packet analyzer software tool from Savvius, a LiveAction company, for network troubleshooting and protocol analysis. It supports an application programming interface (API) for plugins.
History
Savvius (formerly WildPackets) was founded in 1990 as The AG Group by Mahboud Zabetian and Tim McCreery. In 200... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingrid%20Hornef | Ingrid Hornef (born August 12, 1940) is a German sculptor, installation artist, curator and painter. She is a representative of Concrete art and became best known for using a dice as a random number generator in her series of works Alea iacta est (Latin for the die is cast).
Life
Ingrid Hornef acquired her profession... |
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