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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicus%20curat%2C%20natura%20sanat | is an old aphorism in Latin which means that the physician cures while nature heals.
Variations in Latin include natura sanat, medicus curat morbus and there are equivalents in other languages such as Benjamin Franklin's sarcastic "God heals, and the Doctor takes the Fees" and Ambroise Paré's "Je le pansai, Dieu le gu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improved-definition%20television | Improved-definition television (IDTV) or enhanced-quality television transmitters and receivers exceed the performance requirements of the NTSC standard, while remaining within the general parameters of NTSC emissions standards.
IDTV improvements may be made at the television transmitter or receiver. Improvements inc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Thissen | David Michael Thissen (born c. 1950) is an emeritus professor of quantitative psychology at the University of North Carolina and former President of the Psychometric Society. He is a fellow at the American Statistical Association and the American Psychological Society. He is known for his contributions to item response... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%27s%20function%20%28many-body%20theory%29 | In many-body theory, the term Green's function (or Green function) is sometimes used interchangeably with correlation function, but refers specifically to correlators of field operators or creation and annihilation operators.
The name comes from the Green's functions used to solve inhomogeneous differential equations,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine%20deflector | A urine deflector is a device for deflecting the stream of urine during urination. These may be part of a chamber pot, latrine or toilet intended for the purpose, or they may be deterrents, installed in the sides or corners of buildings to discourage their casual use as urinals by passers-by. They may be constructed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unsharp%20masking | Unsharp masking (USM) is an image sharpening technique, first implemented in darkroom photography, but now commonly used in digital image processing software. Its name derives from the fact that the technique uses a blurred, or "unsharp", negative image to create a mask of the original image. The unsharp mask is then c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic%20capillary%20electrophoresis | Kinetic capillary electrophoresis or KCE is capillary electrophoresis of molecules that interact during electrophoresis.
KCE was introduced and developed by Professor Sergey Krylov and his research group at York University, Toronto, Canada. It serves as a conceptual platform for development of homogeneous chemical aff... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20inverse%20of%20a%20matrix | In linear algebra and statistics, the partial inverse of a matrix is an operation related to Gaussian elimination which has applications in numerical analysis and statistics. It is also known by various authors as the principal pivot transform, or as the sweep, gyration, or exchange operator.
Given an matrix over a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emojipedia | Emojipedia is an emoji reference website which documents the meaning and common usage of emoji characters in the Unicode Standard. Most commonly described as an emoji encyclopedia or emoji dictionary, Emojipedia also publishes articles and provides tools for tracking new emoji characters, design changes and usage trend... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stein%E2%80%93Str%C3%B6mberg%20theorem | In mathematics, the Stein–Strömberg theorem or Stein–Strömberg inequality is a result in measure theory concerning the Hardy–Littlewood maximal operator. The result is foundational in the study of the problem of differentiation of integrals. The result is named after the mathematicians Elias M. Stein and Jan-Olov Str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20divergence | Genetic divergence is the process in which two or more populations of an ancestral species accumulate independent genetic changes (mutations) through time, often leading to reproductive isolation and continued mutation even after the populations have become reproductively isolated for some period of time, as there isn’... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat%20SARS-like%20coronavirus%20WIV1 | Bat SARS-like coronavirus WIV1 (Bat SL-CoV-WIV1), also sometimes called SARS-like coronavirus WIV1, is a strain of severe acute respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus (SARSr-CoV) isolated from Chinese rufous horseshoe bats in 2013 (Rhinolophus sinicus). Like all coronaviruses, virions consist of single-stranded posit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myticin | Myticin is a cysteine-rich peptide produced in three isoforms, A, B and C, by Mytilus galloprovincialis (Mediterranean mussel), which are found primarily in marine habitats. Myticin is also produced in other species of Mytilus (Mytilus spp.), though the properties of Myticin in Mytilus galloprovincialis is understood ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipped%20strand%20mispairing | Slipped strand mispairing (SSM, also known as replication slippage) is a mutation process which occurs during DNA replication. It involves denaturation and displacement of the DNA strands, resulting in mispairing of the complementary bases. Slipped strand mispairing is one explanation for the origin and evolution of re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%282%2B1%29-dimensional%20topological%20gravity | In two spatial and one time dimensions, general relativity turns out to have no propagating gravitational degrees of freedom. In fact, it can be shown that in a vacuum, spacetime will always be locally flat (or de Sitter or anti-de Sitter depending upon the cosmological constant). This makes (2+1)-dimensional topologic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/49th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 49° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Indian Ocean, Madagascar, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 49th meridian east forms a great circle with the 131st meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Star... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerometer | An accelerometer is a tool that measures proper acceleration. Proper acceleration is the acceleration (the rate of change of velocity) of a body in its own instantaneous rest frame; this is different from coordinate acceleration, which is acceleration in a fixed coordinate system. For example, an accelerometer at rest ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munin%20%28satellite%29 | Munin was a Swedish nanosatellite. It was launched on November 21, 2000 on a Delta II rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, together with two other satellites. Munin was developed by the Swedish Institute of Space Physics in cooperation with students from Luleå University of Technology and Umeå Unive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20Advanced%20Peer-to-Peer%20Networking | IBM Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking (APPN) is an extension to the Systems Network Architecture (SNA) "that allows large and small computers to communicate as peers across local and wide-area networks."
Goals and features
The goals of APPN were:
Provide effective routing for SNA traffic
Allow sessions to be establis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor%20model | Transistors are simple devices with complicated behavior. In order to ensure the reliable operation of circuits employing transistors, it is necessary to scientifically model the physical phenomena observed in their operation using transistor models. There exists a variety of different models that range in complexity a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubling%20the%20cube | Doubling the cube, also known as the Delian problem, is an ancient geometric problem. Given the edge of a cube, the problem requires the construction of the edge of a second cube whose volume is double that of the first. As with the related problems of squaring the circle and trisecting the angle, doubling the cube is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker%20clamp | Baker clamp is a generic name for a class of electronic circuits that reduce the storage time of a switching bipolar junction transistor (BJT) by applying a nonlinear negative feedback through various kinds of diodes. The reason for slow turn-off times of saturated BJTs is the stored charge in the base. It must be re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNIP4 | Kv channel-interacting protein 4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNIP4 gene.
This gene encodes a member of the family of voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channel-interacting proteins (KCNIPs), which belong to the recoverin branch of the EF-hand superfamily. Members of the KCNIP family are small calcium bind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20type | A soil type is a taxonomic unit in soil science. All soils that share a certain set of well-defined properties form a distinctive soil type. Soil type is a technical term of soil classification, the science that deals with the systematic categorization of soils. Every soil of the world belongs to a certain soil type. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carctol | Carctol is an ineffective cancer treatment made by mixing eight Indian herbs. First promoted in 1968 by Nandlal Tiwari, it gained widespread popularity in United Kingdom.
Carctol has been aggressively marketed as being able to treat cancer and reduce the side-effects of chemotherapy. However, there is no medical evide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uchronia%3A%20The%20Alternate%20History%20List | Uchronia: The Alternate History List is an online general-interest book database containing a bibliography of alternate history novels, stories, essays and other printed material. It is owned and operated by Robert B. Schmunk. Uchronia was twice selected as the Sci Fi Channel's "Sci Fi Site of the Week."
Background
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Amiga%20Architecture%20chipset | The AAA chipset (Advanced Amiga Architecture) was intended to be the next-generation Amiga multimedia system designed by Commodore International. Initially begun as a secret project, the first design discussions were started in 1988, and after many revisions and redesigns the first silicon versions were fabricated in 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillus%20viscidus | Suillus viscidus (commonly known as the sticky bolete) is an edible, uncommon mushroom in the genus Suillus. It associates with larch and is found throughout Europe and in Japan.
Description
The cap is hemispherical when young, later convex to flat, whitish grey or darker. It is up to 12 cm in diameter. It is slimy, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tur%C3%A1n%27s%20brick%20factory%20problem | In the mathematics of graph drawing, Turán's brick factory problem asks for the minimum number of crossings in a drawing of a complete bipartite graph. The problem is named after Pál Turán, who formulated it while being forced to work in a brick factory during World War II.
A drawing method found by Kazimierz Zarankie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasiowa%E2%80%93Sikorski%20lemma | In axiomatic set theory, the Rasiowa–Sikorski lemma (named after Helena Rasiowa and Roman Sikorski) is one of the most fundamental facts used in the technique of forcing. In the area of forcing, a subset E of a poset (P, ≤) is called dense in P if for any p ∈ P there is e ∈ E with e ≤ p. If D is a family of dense subse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20coffee%20extract | Green coffee extract is an extract of unroasted, green coffee beans. It is used in the Swiss water process for decaffeinating coffee. It has also been used as a weight-loss supplement and as an ingredient in other weight-loss products, although there is insufficient clinical evidence that it is effective or safe for su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulaman | Gulaman, in Filipino cuisine, is a bar, or powdered form, of dried agar or carrageenan used to make jelly-like desserts. In common usage, it also usually refers to the refreshment sago't gulaman, sometimes referred to as samalamig, sold at roadside stalls and vendors.
History
Gracilaria, which produces agar, is known ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelagic%20zone | The pelagic zone consists of the water column of the open ocean and can be further divided into regions by depth. The word pelagic is derived . The pelagic zone can be thought of as an imaginary cylinder or water column between the surface of the sea and the bottom. Conditions in the water column change with depth: pre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yusnier%20Viera | Yusnier Viera (born April 26, 1982) is a Cuban American mental calculator. He is well known as "The Human Calendar" for his world record on calendar dates. On October 31, 2005 he broke for first time the World Record for calendar calculations. At the Mental Calculation World Cup in 2010 he won the calendar category. Hi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress%20functions | In linear elasticity, the equations describing the deformation of an elastic body subject only to surface forces (or body forces that could be expressed as potentials) on the boundary are (using index notation) the equilibrium equation:
where is the stress tensor, and the Beltrami-Michell compatibility equations:
A ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraphExeter | GraphExeter is a material consisting of a few graphene sheets with a layer of ferric chloride molecules in between each graphene sheet. It was created by The Centre for Graphene Science at the University of Exeter in collaboration with the University of Bath.
See also
Carbon nanotubes
Graphene nanoribbons
Graphene oxi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20plant%20genus%20names%20with%20etymologies%20%28A%E2%80%93C%29 | Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. Many of these plants are listed in Stearn's Dictionary of Plant Names for Gardeners. William Stearn (1911–2001) was one of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20bonding%20model | A chemical bonding model is a theoretical model used to explain atomic bonding structure, molecular geometry, properties, and reactivity of physical matter. This can refer to:
VSEPR theory, a model of molecular geometry.
Valence bond theory, which describes molecular electronic structure with localized bonds and lone... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudix%20hydrolase | NUDIX hydrolases are a superfamily of hydrolytic enzymes capable of cleaving nucleoside diphosphates linked to x (any moiety), hence their name. The reaction yields nucleoside monophosphate (NMP) plus X-P. Substrates hydrolysed by nudix enzymes comprise a wide range of organic pyrophosphates, including nucleoside di- a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic%20habitable%20zone | In astrobiology and planetary astrophysics, the galactic habitable zone is the region of a galaxy in which life might most likely develop. The concept of a galactic habitable zone analyzes various factors, such as metallicity (the presence of elements heavier than hydrogen and helium) and the rate and density of major ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageing%20Research%20Reviews | Ageing Research Reviews is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing review articles covering research on ageing, aging-associated diseases, and human life expectancy. The editor-in-chief is Claudio Franceschi (University of Bologna).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
BIOSIS
Chemi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomarker | In biomedical contexts, a biomarker, or biological marker, is a measurable indicator of some biological state or condition. Biomarkers are often measured and evaluated using blood, urine, or soft tissues to examine normal biological processes, pathogenic processes, or pharmacologic responses to a therapeutic intervent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophosphination | Hydrophosphination is the insertion of a carbon-carbon multiple bond into a phosphorus-hydrogen bond forming a new phosphorus-carbon bond. Like other hydrofunctionalizations, the rate and regiochemistry of the insertion reaction is influenced by the catalyst. Catalysts take many forms, but most prevalent are bases an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flettner%20rotor%20bomblet | The Flettner rotor bomblet was a U.S. biological sub-munition that was never mass-produced. Based on the vertical Flettner rotor which takes advantage of the Magnus effect, a force acting on a spinning body in a moving airstream, it was developed toward the end of the U.S. biological weapons program in the 1960s.
Hist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurance%20score | An insurance score – also called an insurance credit score – is a numerical point system based on select credit report characteristics. There is no direct relationship to financial credit scores used in lending decisions, as insurance scores are not intended to measure creditworthiness, but rather to predict risk. Insu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20video%20production%20companies | This incomplete list covers the ever-expanding field of video production, and the companies which produce video products, whether for private or commercial purposes. It includes both well-known companies as well as smaller, local companies that have made notable contributions to the field of video production.
Video pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orosomucoid | Orosomucoid (ORM) or alpha-1-acid glycoprotein (α1AGp, AGP or AAG) is an acute phase protein found in plasma. It is an alpha-globulin glycoprotein and is modulated by two polymorphic genes. It is synthesized primarily in hepatocytes and has a normal plasma concentration between 0.6–1.2 mg/mL (1–3% plasma protein). Pla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals%20in%20ancient%20Greece%20and%20Rome | Animals had a variety of roles and functions in ancient Greece and Rome. Fish and birds were served as food. Species such as donkeys and horses served as work animals. The military used elephants. It was common to keep animals such as parrots, cats, or dogs as pets. Many animals held important places in the Graeco-Roma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine-preventable%20disease | A vaccine-preventable disease is an infectious disease for which an effective preventive vaccine exists. If a person acquires a vaccine-preventable disease and dies from it, the death is considered a vaccine-preventable death.
The most common and serious vaccine-preventable diseases tracked by the World Health Organiz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replicon%20%28genetics%29 | A replicon is a region of an organism's genome that is independently replicated from a single origin of replication. A bacterial chromosome contains a single origin, and therefore the whole bacterial chromosome is a replicon. The chromosomes of archaea and eukaryotes can have multiple origins of replication, and so the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical%20prefix | A musical prefix is a numeral or other prefix used in music theory, specifically musical tuning.
See also
Limit (music)
List of pitch intervals
Musical terminology
Musical tuning
Prefixes |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriology | Bacteriology is the branch and specialty of biology that studies the morphology, ecology, genetics and biochemistry of bacteria as well as many other aspects related to them. This subdivision of microbiology involves the identification, classification, and characterization of bacterial species. Because of the similarit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abask | Abask is an e-commerce platform focused on homeware and gifting products with headquarters in London.
It was founded in 2022 by Nicolas Pickaerts and Tom Chapman, the founders of the retailer Matches Fashion.
Abask's selection is focused on crafts and hand-made designs for the home, that can be shopped by room or style... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCP4%20%28file%20format%29 | The CCP4 file format is file generated by the Collaborative Computational Project Number 4 in 1979. The file format for electron density has become industry standard in X-ray crystallography and Cryo-electron microscopy where the result of the technique is a three-dimensional grid of voxels each with a value correspond... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur%20coloration | Dinosaur coloration is generally one of the unknowns in the field of paleontology, as skin pigmentation is nearly always lost during the fossilization process. However, recent studies of feathered dinosaurs and skin impressions have shown the colour of some species can be inferred through the use of melanosomes, the co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20network%20positioning | Global network positioning is a coordinates-based mechanism in a peer-to-peer network architecture which predicts Internet network distance (i.e. round-trip propagation and transmission delay). The mechanism is based on absolute coordinates computed from modeling the Internet as a geometric space. Since end hosts maint... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitogen-activated%20protein%20kinase | A mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK or MAP kinase) is a type of protein kinase that is specific to the amino acids serine and threonine (i.e., a serine/threonine-specific protein kinase). MAPKs are involved in directing cellular responses to a diverse array of stimuli, such as mitogens, osmotic stress, heat shock ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic%20Models | Stochastic Models is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes papers on stochastic models. It is published by Taylor & Francis. It was established in 1985 under the title Communications in Statistics. Stochastic Models and obtained its current name in 2001. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selenosulfide | In chemistry, a selenosulfide refers to distinct classes of inorganic and organic compounds containing sulfur and selenium. The organic derivatives contain Se-S bonds, whereas the inorganic derivatives are more variable.
Organic selenosulfides
These species are classified as both organosulfur and organoselenium compo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah%20A.%20Nolan | Deborah A. Nolan is an American statistician and statistics educator. She is a professor of statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where she chairs the department of statistics.
Education and career
Nolan graduated from Vassar College in 1977; she gained her first experience in statistics in a summer j... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfiz | The alfiz (, from Andalusi Arabic alḥíz, from Standard Arabic alḥáyyiz, meaning 'the container';) is an architectural adornment, consisting of a moulding, usually a rectangular panel, which encloses the outward side of an arch. It is an architectonic ornament of Etruscan origin, used in Visigothic, Asturian, Moorish,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loss%20of%20United%20Kingdom%20child%20benefit%20data%20%282007%29 | The loss of United Kingdom child benefit data was a data breach incident in October 2007, when two computer discs owned by HM Revenue and Customs containing data relating to child benefit went missing. The incident was announced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, on 20 November 2007. The two discs ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction%20topography | Diffraction topography (short: "topography") is a imaging technique based on Bragg diffraction.
Diffraction topographic images ("topographies") record the intensity profile of a beam of X-rays (or, sometimes, neutrons) diffracted by a crystal.
A topography thus represents a two-dimensional spatial intensity mapping of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzyme%20repressor | An enzyme repressor is a substance that negatively regulates the amount of an enzyme by decreasing the rate of its biosynthesis. It is the opposite of an enzyme inducer.
See also
Enzyme activator
Enzyme inhibitor
Regulation of gene expression |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosted%20desktop | A hosted desktop is a product set within the larger cloud-computing sphere generally delivered using a combination of technologies including hardware virtualization and some form of remote connection software, Citrix XenApp or Microsoft Remote Desktop Services being two of the most common. Processing takes place within... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20finite-state%20machine | A virtual finite-state machine (VFSM) is a finite-state machine (FSM) defined in a Virtual Environment. The VFSM concept provides a software specification method to describe the behaviour of a control system using assigned names of input control properties and output actions.
The VFSM method introduces an execution mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monatin | Monatin, commonly known as arruva, is a naturally occurring, high intensity sweetener isolated from the plant Sclerochiton ilicifolius, found in the Transvaal region of South Africa. Monatin contains no carbohydrate or sugar, and nearly no food energy, unlike sucrose or other nutritive sweeteners.
The name "monatin" i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gendered%20sexuality | Gendered sexuality is the way in which gender and sexuality are often viewed as likened constructs, whereby the role of gender in an individual's life is informed by and impacts others' perceptions of their sexuality. For example, both the male and female genders are subject to assumptions of heterosexuality. If a man... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungal%20prion | A fungal prion is a prion that infects hosts which are fungi. Fungal prions are naturally occurring proteins that can switch between multiple, structurally distinct conformations, at least one of which is self-propagating and transmissible to other prions. This transmission of protein state represents an epigenetic phe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture.pl | Culture.pl is a large web portal devoted to Polish culture. It was founded by the Adam Mickiewicz Institute in March 2001. Written in Polish, English and Russian, the site promotes the work of Polish artists around the world and is a popular information database on all artistic aspects of Polish culture. Its ISSN numbe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oryza%20longistaminata | Oryza longistaminata is a perennial species of grass from the same genus as cultivated rice (O. sativa). It is native to most of sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar. It has been introduced into the United States, where it is often regarded as a noxious weed. Its common names are longstamen rice and red rice.
The host re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halorhabdus | Halorhabdus is a genus of halophilic archaea in the Haloarculaceae. With an extremely high salinity optimum of 27% NaCl, Halorhabdus has one of the highest reported salinity optima of any living organism. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical%20timeline%20of%20prehistoric%20life |
Timeline
Paleontology
Paleontology timelines |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Windows%20SDK | Microsoft Windows SDK, and its predecessors Platform SDK, and .NET Framework SDK, are software development kits (SDKs) from Microsoft that contain documentation, header files, libraries, samples and tools required to develop applications for Microsoft Windows and .NET Framework. Platform SDK specializes in developing a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Winkler | Peter Mann Winkler is a research mathematician, author of more than 125 research papers in mathematics and patent holder in a broad range of applications, ranging from cryptography to marine navigation. His research areas include discrete mathematics, theory of computation and probability theory.
He is currently a prof... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucokinase%20regulatory%20protein | The glucokinase regulatory protein (GKRP) also known as glucokinase (hexokinase 4) regulator (GCKR) is a protein produced in hepatocytes (liver cells). GKRP binds and moves glucokinase (GK), thereby controlling both activity and intracellular location of this key enzyme of glucose metabolism.
GKRP is a 68 kD protein o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homothorax | Homothorax (HTH or HTX) is a transcriptional co-factor to Hox genes that is closely connected with extradenticle. It may play a role in the identification of segments during panarthropod development. The gene acts in a similar way across the panarthropod phyla, although its expression pattern is reversed in the millipe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/74%20%28number%29 | 74 (seventy-four) is the natural number following 73 and preceding 75.
In mathematics
74 is:
the twenty-first distinct semiprime and the eleventh of the form (2.q), where q is a higher prime.
with an aliquot sum of 40, within an aliquot sequence of three composite numbers (74,40,50,43,1,0) to the Prime in the 43-al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum%20%28Unix%29 | is a legacy utility available on some Unix and Unix-like operating systems. This utility outputs a 16-bit checksum of each argument file, as well as the number of blocks they take on disk. Two different checksum algorithms are in use. POSIX abandoned sum in favor of cksum.
Overview
The program is generally only usefu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellate%20veins | The stellate veins are veins that lie beneath the fibrous tunic of the kidney. They are stellate in arrangement and are derived from the capillary network, into which the terminal branches of the interlobular arteries break up. These join to form the interlobular veins, which pass inward between the rays.
See also
re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfriendly%20partition | In the mathematics of infinite graphs, an unfriendly partition or majority coloring is a partition of the vertices of the graph into disjoint subsets, so that every vertex has at least as many neighbors in other sets as it has in its own set. It is a generalization of the concept of a maximum cut for finite graphs, whi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersion%20%28materials%20science%29 | In materials science, dispersion is the fraction of atoms of a material exposed to the surface. In general, D = NS/N, where D is the dispersion, NS is the number of surface atoms and NT is the total number of atoms of the material. It is an important concept in heterogeneous catalysis, since only atoms exposed to the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegro%20%28software%20library%29 | Allegro is a software library for video game development. The functionality of the library includes support for basic 2D graphics, image manipulation, text output, audio output, MIDI music, input and timers, as well as additional routines for fixed-point and floating-point matrix arithmetic, Unicode strings, file syste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tardive%20dysmentia | Tardive dysmentia is a rarely used term introduced in a 1983 paper to describe "changes in affect, activation level, and interpersonal interaction", and hypothesized to be caused by long-term exposure to neuroleptic drugs in the same way as the much better-known syndrome of tardive dyskinesia. Several papers in the fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exokernel | Exokernel is an operating system kernel developed by the MIT Parallel and Distributed Operating Systems group, and also a class of similar operating systems.
Operating systems generally present hardware resources to applications through high-level abstractions such as (virtual) file systems. The idea behind exokernels... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clesh | Clesh (clip load edit share) is a cloud-based video editing platform designed for the consumers, prosumers, and online communities to integrate user-generated content. The core technology is based on FORscene which is geared towards professionals working for example in broadcasting, news media, post production.
Video,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20der%20Meer%20formula | The Van der Meer formula is a formula for calculating the required stone weight for armourstone under the influence of (wind) waves. This is necessary for the design of breakwaters and shoreline protection. Around 1985 it was found that the Hudson formula in use at that time had considerable limitations (only valid for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenitis | Adenitis is a general term for an inflammation of a gland. Often it is used to refer to lymphadenitis which is the inflammation of a lymph node.
Classification
Lymph node adenitis
Lymph adenitis or lymph node adenitis is caused by infection in lymph nodes. The infected lymph nodes typically become enlarged, warm and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20locomotive%20classification | The different railway companies in Germany have used various schemes to classify their rolling stock.
From the beginning
As widely known the first few locomotives had names. The first locomotive in public service in Germany from 1835 was named Adler. The first railway lines were built by privately owned companies. Tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypercycle%20%28geometry%29 | In hyperbolic geometry, a hypercycle, hypercircle or equidistant curve is a curve whose points have the same orthogonal distance from a given straight line (its axis).
Given a straight line and a point not on , one can construct a hypercycle by taking all points on the same side of as , with perpendicular distance... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20search%20appliance%20vendors | A search appliance is a type of computer which is attached to a corporate network for the purpose of indexing the content shared across that network in a way that is similar to a web search engine. It may be made accessible through a public web interface or restricted to users of that network. A search appliance is usu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasicircle | In mathematics, a quasicircle is a Jordan curve in the complex plane that is the image of a circle under a quasiconformal mapping of the plane onto itself. Originally introduced independently by and , in the older literature (in German) they were referred to as quasiconformal curves, a terminology which also applied t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olfactometer | An olfactometer is an instrument used to detect and measure odor dilution. Olfactometers are used in conjunction with human subjects in laboratory settings, most often in market research, to quantify and qualify human olfaction. Olfactometers are used to gauge the odor detection threshold of substances. To measure int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermiform | Vermiform (ˈvərməˌfôrm) describes something shaped like a worm. The expression is often employed in biology and anatomy to describe usually soft body parts or animals that are more or less tubular or cylindrical. The word root is Latin, vermes (worms) and formes (shaped). A well known example is the vermiform appendix... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry%20Leinweber | Harry C. Leinweber (January 6, 1907 – March 19, 1992) was a politician from Alberta, Canada. He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1961 to 1971 as a member of the Social Credit Party.
Political career
Leinweber served as a municipal Alderman for the city of Medicine Hat from 1944 to 1950. He ran for m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Foods%20Limited | National Foods Limited () is a Pakistani multinational food products company founded in 1970, which started out as a spice company, and is based in Karachi, Pakistan. It is a major food products company in Pakistan.
History
The company was incorporated in Pakistan on 19 February 1970 as a private limited company unde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Symposium%20on%20Power%20Semiconductor%20Devices%20and%20ICs | ISPSD (International Symposium on Power Semiconductor Devices and ICs) is an annual conference established in 1988 by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) on a wide range of power technologies. Host to over 500 experts from across the world, ISPSD is the premier forum for technical discussions ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Write-ahead%20logging | In computer science, write-ahead logging (WAL) is a family of techniques for providing atomicity and durability (two of the ACID properties) in database systems.
It can be seen as an implementation of the "Event Sourcing" architecture, in which the state of a system is the result of the evolution of incoming events fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merit%20Network | Merit Network, Inc., is a nonprofit member-governed organization providing high-performance computer networking and related services to educational, government, health care, and nonprofit organizations, primarily in Michigan. Created in 1966, Merit operates the longest running regional computer network in the United St... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA%20silencing | RNA silencing or RNA interference refers to a family of gene silencing effects by which gene expression is negatively regulated by non-coding RNAs such as microRNAs. RNA silencing may also be defined as sequence-specific regulation of gene expression triggered by double-stranded RNA (dsRNA). RNA silencing mechanisms ar... |
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