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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak%E2%80%93heath%20forest | An oak–heath forest is a plant community association and type of forest ecology. It is a deciduous forest type of well-drained, acidic soils, characterized by oaks (Quercus) and plants of the heath family (Ericaceae). It is commonly found in the high elevations of the eastern United States. Such forest areas typically... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebonite | Ebonite is a brand name for a material generically known as hard rubber, obtained via vulcanizing natural rubber for prolonged periods. Ebonite may contain from 25% to 80% sulfur and linseed oil. Its name comes from its intended use as an artificial substitute for ebony wood. The material has also been called vulcanite... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhores%20Alferov | Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (; ; 15 March 19301 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian physicist and academic who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. He shared the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of the semiconductor heterojunction for optoelectronics.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaibun | Kaibun () is a Japanese equivalent of the palindrome, or in other words, a sentence that reads the same from the beginning to the end or from the end to the beginning. The unit of kaibun is mora, since the Japanese language uses syllabaries, hiragana and katakana.
Single word palindromes are not uncommon in Japanese. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto%20Toeplitz | Otto Toeplitz (1 August 1881 – 15 February 1940) was a German mathematician working in functional analysis.
Life and work
Toeplitz was born to a Jewish family of mathematicians. Both his father and grandfather were Gymnasium mathematics teachers and published papers in mathematics. Toeplitz grew up in Breslau and gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20thermodynamics | The history of thermodynamics is a fundamental strand in, the history of physics, the history of chemistry, and the history of science in general. Owing in the relevance of thermodynamics in much of science and technology, its history is finely woven with the developments of classical mechanics, quantum mechanics, magn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony%20picker | A colony picker is an instrument used to automatically identify microbial colonies growing on a solid medium, pick them and duplicate them either onto solid or liquid media. It is used in research laboratories as well as in industrial environments such as food testing and in microbiological cultures.
Uses
In food saf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plexus | In neuroanatomy, a plexus (from the Latin term for "braid") is a branching network of vessels or nerves. The vessels may be blood vessels (veins, capillaries) or lymphatic vessels. The nerves are typically axons outside the central nervous system.
The standard plural form in English is plexuses. Alternatively, the La... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational%20lensing%20formalism | In general relativity, a point mass deflects a light ray with impact parameter by an angle approximately equal to
where G is the gravitational constant, M the mass of the deflecting object and c the speed of light. A naive application of Newtonian gravity can yield exactly half this value, where the light ray is ass... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski%20distance | The Minkowski distance or Minkowski metric is a metric in a normed vector space which can be considered as a generalization of both the Euclidean distance and the Manhattan distance. It is named after the German mathematician Hermann Minkowski.
Definition
The Minkowski distance of order (where is an integer) betwe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decidual%20cells | Before the fertilized ovum reaches the uterus, the mucous membrane of the body of the uterus undergoes important changes and is then known as the decidua. The thickness and vascularity of the mucous membrane are greatly increased; its glands are elongated and open on its free surface by funnel-shaped orifices, while th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Eisenbud | David Eisenbud (born 8 April 1947 in New York City) is an American mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and former director of the then Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI), now known as Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath). He served as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Indian%20state%20flags | As of 2023, there are no officially recognised flags for the individual states or union territories of India. No legal prohibitions to prevent states adopting distinctive flags exist in either the Emblems and Names (Prevention of Improper Use) Act, 1950, or the Prevention of Insults to National Honour Act, 1971. In a 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oja%27s%20rule | Oja's learning rule, or simply Oja's rule, named after Finnish computer scientist Erkki Oja, is a model of how neurons in the brain or in artificial neural networks change connection strength, or learn, over time. It is a modification of the standard Hebb's Rule (see Hebbian learning) that, through multiplicative norma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect%20ratio%20%28aeronautics%29 | In aeronautics, the aspect ratio of a wing is the ratio of its span to its mean chord. It is equal to the square of the wingspan divided by the wing area. Thus, a long, narrow wing has a high aspect ratio, whereas a short, wide wing has a low aspect ratio.
Aspect ratio and other features of the planform are often used... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merge-insertion%20sort | In computer science, merge-insertion sort or the Ford–Johnson algorithm is a comparison sorting algorithm published in 1959 by L. R. Ford Jr. and Selmer M. Johnson. It uses fewer comparisons in the worst case than the best previously known algorithms, binary insertion sort and merge sort, and for 20 years it was the so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toltrazuril | Toltrazuril is a coccidiostat. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silane | Silane (Silicane) is an inorganic compound with chemical formula . It is a colourless, pyrophoric, toxic gas with a sharp, repulsive, pungent smell, somewhat similar to that of acetic acid. Silane is of practical interest as a precursor to elemental silicon. Silane with alkyl groups are effective water repellents for m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicalization | Physicalization of computer hardware (the opposite of virtualization), is a way to place multiple physical machines in a rack unit.
It can be a way to reduce hardware costs, since in some cases, server processors cost more per core than energy efficient laptop processors, which may make up for added cost of board level... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcus%20apachensis | Deinococcus apachensis is a species of bacteria in the phylum Deinococcota. Strains of this species were isolated from soil samples from Arizona after exposure to more than 15 kGy of radiation. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice%20Burks | Alice Burks (née Rowe, August 20, 1920 – November 21, 2017) was an American author of children's books and books about the history of electronic computers.
Early life and education
Burks was born Alice Rowe in East Cleveland, Ohio, in 1920. She began her undergraduate degree at Oberlin College on a competitive mathema... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crepant%20resolution | In algebraic geometry, a crepant resolution of a singularity is a resolution that does not affect the canonical class of the manifold. The term "crepant" was coined by by removing the prefix "dis" from the word "discrepant", to indicate that the resolutions have no discrepancy in the canonical class.
The crepant res... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogenase | Nitrogenases are enzymes () that are produced by certain bacteria, such as cyanobacteria (blue-green bacteria) and rhizobacteria. These enzymes are responsible for the reduction of nitrogen (N2) to ammonia (NH3). Nitrogenases are the only family of enzymes known to catalyze this reaction, which is a step in the process... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery%20effect | The recovery effect is a phenomenon observed in battery usage where the available energy is less than the difference between energy charged and energy consumed. Intuitively, this is because the energy has been consumed from the edge of the battery and the charge has not yet diffused evenly around the battery.
When po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaginal%20branches%20of%20uterine%20artery | The uterine artery supplies branches to the cervix uteri and others which descend on the vagina; the latter anastomose with branches of the vaginal arteries and form with them two median longitudinal vessels—the vaginal branches of uterine artery (or azygos arteries of the vagina)—one of which runs down in front of and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hairless | Hairless, also known as H, is a well-characterized Drosophila gene. Since Hairless is a dominant loss of function mutation, many mutations to Hairless are embryonic lethal, but there are several viable hairless mutants. This specific Drosophila gene is involved in the Notch signaling pathway (NSP) by acting as a suppre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonner%20sphere | A Bonner sphere is a device used to determine the energy spectrum of a neutron beam. The method was first described in 1960 by Rice University's Bramblett, Ewing and Tom W. Bonner and employs thermal neutron detectors embedded in moderating spheres of different sizes. Comparison of the neutrons detected by each spher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking%20Glass%20server | Looking Glass servers (LG servers) are servers on the Internet running one of a variety of publicly available Looking Glass software implementations. They are commonly deployed by autonomous systems (AS) to offer access to their routing infrastructure in order to facilitate debugging network issues. A Looking Glass ser... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kendall%20tau%20distance | The Kendall tau rank distance is a metric (distance function) that counts the number of pairwise disagreements between two ranking lists. The larger the distance, the more dissimilar the two lists are. Kendall tau distance is also called bubble-sort distance since it is equivalent to the number of swaps that the bubble... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allium%20scorodoprasum | The sand leek (Allium scorodoprasum), also known as rocambole and Korean pickled-peel garlic, is a Eurasian species of wild onion with a native range extending across much of Europe, Middle East, and Korea. The species should not be confused with rocambole garlic, which is A. sativum var. ophioscorodon.
Description
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandar%20Totic | Aleksandar Totic is one of the original developers of the Mosaic browser. He cofounded and was a partner at Netscape Communications Corporation.
He was born in Belgrade, Serbia, on 23 September 1966. He moved to America after his degree from Kuwait was not recognized by Yugoslav government, and currently lives in Palo ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CE-ATA | Consumer Electronics ATA (CE-ATA) is an interface standard for the connection of storage devices and hosts in consumer electronic device such as mobile and handheld devices. One of the primary goals is to standardize connections for small form factor hard disk drives such as 1-inch Microdrives.
The standard is maintai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinin%E2%80%93kallikrein%20system | The kinin–kallikrein system or simply kinin system is a poorly understood hormonal system with limited available research. It consists of blood proteins that play a role in inflammation, blood pressure control, coagulation and pain. Its important mediators bradykinin and kallidin are vasodilators and act on many cell t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Elephant%20in%20the%20Brain | The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life is a 2018 nonfiction book by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson. Simler is a writer and software engineer, while Hanson is an associate professor of economics at George Mason University. The book explores self-deception and hidden motives in human behaviour. The pub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian%20Grassmannian | In mathematics, the Lagrangian Grassmannian is the smooth manifold of Lagrangian subspaces of a real symplectic vector space V. Its dimension is n(n + 1) (where the dimension of V is 2n). It may be identified with the homogeneous space
,
where is the unitary group and the orthogonal group. Following Vladimir Arnold... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-Re%20Transition%20Model | Gamma-Re (γ-Re) transition model is a two equation model used in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) to modify turbulent transport equations to simulate laminar, laminar-to-turbulent and turbulence states in a fluid flow. The Gamma-Re model does not intend to model the physics of the problem but attempts to fit a wide r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex%20Verrijn%20Stuart | Adolf Alexander (Alex or Xander) Verrijn Stuart (Rotterdam, 22 October 1923 – Haarlem, 29 October 2004) was a Dutch computer scientist, and the first Professor in computer science at the Leiden University from 1969 tot 1991.
Biography
Alex Verrijn Stuart was born in Rotterdam, where his father was professor in econom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gail%20F.%20Burrill | Gail F. Burrill is a mathematics educator who was president of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) from 1996 to 1998. She works as a specialist in the Program in Mathematics Education at Michigan State University.
Burrill worked for nearly 30 years as a high school mathematics teacher; she is also t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TS/A | TS/A is a mouse mammary adenocarcinoma cell line established in the early 1980s from a spontaneous tumor of a retired breeder BALB/c female mouse.
In the 1990s it was widely used as a recipient cell line for the transduction of cytokine genes and other genes of immunological interest, to produce recombinant experimenta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorpropham | Chlorpropham or CIPC is a plant growth regulator and herbicide used as a sprout suppressant for grass weeds, alfalfa, lima and snap beans, blueberries, cane fruit, carrots, cranberries, ladino clover, garlic, seed grass, onions, spinach, sugar beets, tomatoes, safflower, soybeans, gladioli and woody nursery stock. It i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzian%20derivative | In mathematics, the Schwarzian derivative is an operator similar to the derivative which is invariant under Möbius transformations. Thus, it occurs in the theory of the complex projective line, and in particular, in the theory of modular forms and hypergeometric functions. It plays an important role in the theory of un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meredith%20L.%20Patterson | Meredith L. Patterson (born April 30, 1977) is an American technologist, science fiction writer, and journalist. She has spoken at numerous industry conferences on a wide range of topics. She is also a blogger and software developer, and a leading figure in the biopunk movement.
Raised in Houston, she pursued an educa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandrov%20topology | In topology, an Alexandrov topology is a topology in which the intersection of every family of open sets is open. It is an axiom of topology that the intersection of every finite family of open sets is open; in Alexandrov topologies the finite restriction is dropped.
A set together with an Alexandrov topology is known... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Marioni | John Marioni is the Head of Research at the European Bioinformatics Institute and holds an appointment at the Wellcome Sanger Institute and the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute in Cambridge University. He is a computational biologist known for his research on statistical and computational methods for the analysis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diophantine%20approximation | In number theory, the study of Diophantine approximation deals with the approximation of real numbers by rational numbers. It is named after Diophantus of Alexandria.
The first problem was to know how well a real number can be approximated by rational numbers. For this problem, a rational number a/b is a "good" appro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrystal%27s%20equation | In mathematics, Chrystal's equation is a first order nonlinear ordinary differential equation, named after the mathematician George Chrystal, who discussed the singular solution of this equation in 1896. The equation reads as
where are constants, which upon solving for , gives
This equation is a generalization of Cl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclopedia%20of%20Genetics | The Encyclopedia of Genetics () is a print encyclopedia of genetics edited by Sydney Brenner and Jeffrey H. Miller. It has four volumes and 1,700 entries. It is available online at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/referenceworks/9780122270802.
Genetics
Genetics literature |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantasy%20Star%20Online%202 | is a free-to-play online action role-playing game in the Phantasy Star series, developed and published by Sega. It was created as a successor to Phantasy Star Online and Phantasy Star Universe, Phantasy Star Online 2 features gameplay elements and aesthetics reminiscent of previous Phantasy Star games while incorporati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metastasis | Metastasis is a pathogenic agent's spread from an initial or primary site to a different or secondary site within the host's body; the term is typically used when referring to metastasis by a cancerous tumor. The newly pathological sites, then, are metastases (mets). It is generally distinguished from cancer invasion,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-perpetuation | Self-perpetuation, the capability of something to cause itself to continue to exist, is one of the main characteristics of life. Organisms' capability of reproduction leads to self-perpetuation of the species, if not to the individual. Populations self-perpetuate and grow. Entire ecosystems show homeostasis, and thus p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medard%20W.%20Welch%20Award | The Medard W. Welch Award is given to scientists who demonstrated outstanding research in the fields pertinent to American Vacuum Society. It was established in 1969 in memory of Medard W. Welch, a founder of the American Vacuum Society.
List of recipients
See also
List of physics awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-cell%20charge%20control | In-Cell Charge Control or I-C3 is a method for very rapid charging of a Nickel-metal hydride battery, patented by Rayovac. Batteries using this technology are commonly sold as "15-minute rechargeables".
The charge control consists of a pressure switch built into the cell, which disconnects the charging current when th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop%20virtualization | Desktop virtualization is a software technology that separates the desktop environment and associated application software from the physical client device that is used to access it.
Desktop virtualization can be used in conjunction with application virtualization and user profile management systems, now termed user vi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin%20Kreyszig | Erwin Otto Kreyszig (January 6, 1922 in Pirna, Germany – December 12, 2008) was a German Canadian applied mathematician and the Professor of Mathematics at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. He was a pioneer in the field of applied mathematics: non-wave replicating linear systems. He was also a distinguish... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine%20learning%20in%20earth%20sciences | Applications of machine learning in earth sciences include geological mapping, gas leakage detection and geological features identification. Machine learning (ML) is a type of artificial intelligence (AI) that enables computer systems to classify, cluster, identify and analyze vast and complex sets of data while elimin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virosome | A virosome is a drug or vaccine delivery mechanism consisting of unilamellar phospholipid membrane (either a mono- or bi-layer) vesicle incorporating virus derived proteins to allow the virosomes to fuse with target cells. Viruses are infectious agents that can replicate in their host organism, however virosomes do not... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20plasmid | Hybrid plasmid is a plasmid that contains an inserted piece of foreign DNA. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epizootiology | Epizootiology, epizoology, or veterinary epidemiology is the study of disease patterns within animal populations.
See also
Epizootic
Epidemiology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten%20challenge%20test | The gluten challenge test is a medical test in which gluten-containing foods are consumed and (re-)occurrence of symptoms is observed afterwards to determine whether and how much a person reacts to these foods. The test may be performed in people with suspected gluten-related disorders in very specific occasions and un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralstonia%20virus%20RSA1 | Ralstonia virus RSA1 is a virus of the family Myoviridae, genus Aresaunavirus.
As a member of the group I of the Baltimore classification, Ralstonia virus RSA1 is a dsDNA viruses. All the family Myoviridae members share a nonenveloped morphology consisting of a head and a tail separated by a neck. Its genome is linear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Count%20On | Count On is a major mathematics education project in the United Kingdom which was announced by education secretary David Blunkett at the end of 2000. It was the follow-on to Maths Year 2000 which was the UK's contribution to UNICEF's World Mathematical Year.
Count On had two main strands:
The website www.counton.org ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weightless%20%28wireless%20communications%29 | Weightless was a set of low-power wide-area network (LPWAN) wireless technology specifications for exchanging data between a base station and many of machines around it.
History
Cambridge Wireless held an event at the Moller Centre in Cambridge, United Kingdom on September 30, 2011. Neul, Landis+Gyr, Cable & Wireless... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curie%E2%80%93Weiss%20law | In magnetism, the Curie–Weiss law describes the magnetic susceptibility of a ferromagnet in the paramagnetic region above the Curie temperature:
where is a material-specific Curie constant, is the absolute temperature, and is the Curie temperature, both measured in kelvin. The law predicts a singularity in the sus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramaria%20botrytis | Ramaria botrytis, commonly known as the clustered coral, the pink-tipped coral mushroom, or the cauliflower coral, is an edible species of coral fungus in the family Gomphaceae. Its robust fruit body can grow up to in diameter and tall, and resembles some marine coral. Its dense branches, which originate from a stout... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therminol | Therminol is a synthetic heat transfer fluid produced by Eastman Chemical Company.
Therminol fluids are used in a variety of applications, including:
Hydrocarbon processing (oil and gas, refining, asphalt, gas-to-liquid, etc.)
Alternative energy and technologies (concentrated solar power, biofuel, organic Rankine cy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacylglycerol%20oil | Diacylglycerol oil (DAG oil) is a cooking oil in which the ratio of triglycerides, also known as Triacylglycerols (TAGs), to diacylglycerols (DAGs) is shifted to contain mostly DAG, unlike conventional cooking oils, which are rich in TAGs. Vegetable DAG oil, for example, contains 80% DAG and is used as a 1:1 replacemen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20splicing | Protein splicing is an intramolecular reaction of a particular protein in which an internal protein segment (called an intein) is removed from a precursor protein with a ligation of C-terminal and N-terminal external proteins (called exteins) on both sides. The splicing junction of the precursor protein is mainly a cys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometrized%20unit%20system | A geometrized unit system, geometric unit system or geometrodynamic unit system is a system of natural units in which the base physical units are chosen so that the speed of light in vacuum, c, and the gravitational constant, G, are set equal to unity.
The geometrized unit system is not a completely defined system. S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lola%20J.%20May | Lola J. May (October 29, 1923 – March 13, 2007) was a mathematics educator, consultant, author, producer of audio-visual materials, an early proponent of the new math educational process, and a household name among mathematics.
Life
Her father was a salesman and her mother was a homemaker. Her father taught her mathem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlusCal | PlusCal (formerly called +CAL) is a formal specification language created by Leslie Lamport, which transpiles to TLA+. In contrast to TLA+'s action-oriented focus on distributed systems, PlusCal most resembles an imperative programming language and is better-suited when specifying sequential algorithms. PlusCal was des... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener%27s%20attack | The Wiener's attack, named after cryptologist Michael J. Wiener, is a type of cryptographic attack against RSA. The attack uses the continued fraction method to expose the private key d when d is small.
Background on RSA
Fictional characters Alice and Bob are people who want to communicate securely. More specificall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdc25 | Cdc25 is a dual-specificity phosphatase first isolated from the yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe as a cell cycle defective mutant. As with other cell cycle proteins or genes such as Cdc2 and Cdc4, the "cdc" in its name refers to "cell division control".
Dual-specificity phosphatases are considered a sub-class of protein... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS%2012 | iOS 12 is the twelfth major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc. Aesthetically similar to its predecessor, iOS 11, it focuses more on performance than on new features, quality improvements and security updates. Announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 4, 2018, iOS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmosoma%20fenestrata | Cosmosoma fenestrata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Dru Drury in 1773. It is found on Jamaica and Cuba.
Description
Upperside: Antennae nearly black and pectinated (comb like). Head and eyes black. Palpi small and long, and of a fine scarlet. Tongue spiral. Thorax blueish green, almost black. Ab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y%20Chromosome%20Consortium | The Y Chromosome Consortium (YCC) was a collection of scientists who worked toward the understanding of human Y chromosomal phylogenetics and evolution. The consortium had the following objectives: web resources that communicate information relating to the non-recombinant region of the Y-chromosome including new varian... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malicious%20Software%20Removal%20Tool | Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) is a freeware second-opinion malware scanner that Microsoft's Windows Update downloads and runs on Windows computers each month, independent of the install antivirus software. First released on January 13, 2005, MSRT does not offer real-time protection. It scans ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact%20driver | An impact driver is a tool that delivers a strong, sudden rotational force and forward thrust. The force can be delivered either by striking with a hammer in the case of manual impact drivers, or mechanically in the case of powered impact drivers.
It is often used by mechanics to loosen larger screws, bolts and nuts t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%E2%80%93Tamm%20formula | The Frank–Tamm formula yields the amount of Cherenkov radiation emitted on a given frequency as a charged particle moves through a medium at superluminal velocity. It is named for Russian physicists Ilya Frank and Igor Tamm who developed the theory of the Cherenkov effect in 1937, for which they were awarded a Nobel Pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamkiewicz%20reaction | The Adamkiewicz reaction is part of a biochemical test used to detect the presence of the amino acid tryptophan in proteins. When concentrated sulfuric acid is combined with a solution of protein and glyoxylic acid, a red/purple colour is produced. It was named after its discoverer, Albert Wojciech Adamkiewicz. Pure su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18%20%28number%29 | 18 (eighteen) is the natural number following 17 and preceding 19.
In mathematics
Eighteen is the tenth composite number, its divisors being 1, 2, 3, 6 and 9. Three of these divisors (3, 6 and 9) add up to 18, hence 18 is a semiperfect number. Eighteen is the first inverted square-prime of the form p·q2.
In base ten... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans%2Ccis-2%2C6-Nonadienal | trans,cis-2,6-Nonadienal is an organic compound that is classified as a doubly unsaturated derivative of nonanal. The molecule consists of a α,β-unsaturated aldehyde with an isolated alkene group. The compound has attracted attention as the essence of cucumbers, but it is also found in bread crust and freshly cut wat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSI%20Barcode | MSI (also known as Modified Plessey) is a barcode symbology developed by the MSI Data Corporation, based on the original Plessey Code symbology. It is a continuous symbology that is not self-checking. MSI is used primarily for inventory control, marking storage containers and shelves in warehouse environments.
Charact... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20semantic%20graph | In computer science, an abstract semantic graph (ASG) or term graph is a form of abstract syntax in which an expression of a formal or programming language is represented by a graph whose vertices are the expression's subterms. An ASG is at a higher level of abstraction than an abstract syntax tree (or AST), which is u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset%20%28computer%20security%29 | In information security, computer security and network security, an asset is any data, device, or other component of the environment that supports information-related activities. Assets generally include hardware (e.g. servers and switches), software (e.g. mission critical applications and support systems) and confid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ff%20phages | Ff phages (for F specific filamentous phages) is a group of almost identical filamentous phage (genus Inovirus) including phages f1, fd, M13 and ZJ/2, which infect bacteria bearing the F fertility factor. The virion (virus particle) is a flexible filament measuring about 6 by 900 nm, comprising a cylindrical protein t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%20star | A lead star is a low-metallicity star with an overabundance of lead and bismuth as compared to other products of the S-process.
See also
Barium star |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration%20ratio | In economics, concentration ratios are used to quantify market concentration and are based on companies' market shares in a given industry.
A concentration ratio (CR) is the sum of the percentage market shares of (a pre-specified number of) the largest firms in an industry. An n-firm concentration ratio is a common m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relocatable%20user%20backup | Relocatable user backup (RUB) is the ability to restore or relocate backups to another system or site. It is one of the primary ways to mitigate the threat of service-provider lock-in in a software as a service model. It also provides a backup in the event that the service-provider suffers a catastrophic failure.
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crc%20%28protein%29 | The Catabolite repression control (Crc) protein participates in suppressing expression of several genes involved in utilization of carbon sources in Pseudomonas bacteria. Presence of organic acids triggers activation of Crc and in conjunction with the Hfq protein genes that metabolize a given carbon source are downregu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvian%20Man | The Vitruvian Man (; ) is a drawing by the Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to . Inspired by the writings of the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius, the drawing depicts a nude man in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and inscribed in both a circle and square. It was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular%20cupola | In geometry, the triangular cupola is one of the Johnson solids (). It can be seen as half a cuboctahedron.
Formulae
The following formulae for the volume (), the surface area () and the height () can be used if all faces are regular, with edge length a:
Dual polyhedron
The dual of the triangular cupola has 6 tria... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20to%20Marine%20%26%20Lacustrine%20Geological%20Samples | The Index to Marine & Lacustrine Geological Samples is a collaboration between multiple institutions and agencies that operate geological sample repositories. The purpose of the database is to help researchers locate sea floor and lakebed cores, grabs, dredges, and drill samples in their collections.
Sample material i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streit%27s | Aron Streit, Inc. (sold under the name Streit's) is a kosher food company founded in Manhattan, New York City, best known for its matzo. It is the only family-owned and operated matzo company in the United States, and distributes matzo in select international markets. Streit's and its major competitor, New Jersey based... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unibus | The Unibus was the earliest of several computer bus and backplane designs used with PDP-11 and early VAX systems manufactured by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) of Maynard, Massachusetts. The Unibus was developed around 1969 by Gordon Bell and student Harold McFarland while at Carnegie Mellon University.
The n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMEM125 | Transmembrane protein 125 is a protein that, in humans, is encoded by the TMEM125 gene. It has 4 transmembrane domains and is expressed in the lungs, thyroid, pancreas, intestines, spinal cord, and brain. Though its function is currently poorly understood by the scientific community, research indicates it may be involv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actin-binding%20protein | Actin-binding proteins (also known as ABPs) are proteins that bind to actin. This may mean ability to bind actin monomers, or polymers, or both.
Many actin-binding proteins, including α-actinin, β-spectrin, dystrophin, utrophin and fimbrin, do this through the actin-binding calponin homology domain.
This is a list of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit%20Reporting%20Privacy%20Code%20%28New%20Zealand%29 | The Credit Reporting Privacy Code (CRPC) was issued by the Privacy Commissioner Marie Shroff on 6 December 2004. It is one of several Codes of Practice issued by the Privacy Commissioner under section 46 of the Privacy Act.
The Code has been amended 6 times, with a 7th amendment pending, with the amendments as follows... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%20conjecture%20on%20arithmetic%20progressions | Erdős' conjecture on arithmetic progressions, often referred to as the Erdős–Turán conjecture, is a conjecture in arithmetic combinatorics (not to be confused with the Erdős–Turán conjecture on additive bases). It states that if the sum of the reciprocals of the members of a set A of positive integers diverges, then A ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency%20allocation | Frequency allocation (or spectrum allocation or spectrum management) is the allocation and regulation of the electromagnetic spectrum into radio frequency bands, normally done by governments in most countries. Because radio propagation does not stop at national boundaries, governments have sought to harmonise the alloc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan%20Collection%20of%20Microorganisms | Japan Collection of Microorganisms (JCM) is a culture collection of microorganisms in Japan. It is a semi-governmental collection maintained by RIKEN BioResource Center and it is located in Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture. JCM was initiated in 1980 with the purpose of serving as a repository of microorganisms. As of April ... |
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