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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20II%20peripheral%20cards
The Apple II line of computers supported a number of Apple II peripheral cards. In an era before plug and play USB or Bluetooth connections, these were expansion cards that plugged into slots on the motherboard. They added to and extended the functionality of the base motherboard when paired with specialized software t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Huggins
Robert Alan Huggins is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the School of Engineering at Stanford University and Honorary Professor at the University of Kiel and the University of Ulm. He was previously Chief Scientist at the Center for Solar Energy and Hydrogen Research in Ulm. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEPR1%20and%20PEPR2
PEPR 1 and PEPR2 (Perception of the Arabidopsis Danger Signal Peptide 1 or 2) are homolog kinases that act as enzymes on other proteins. They attach a phosphate group to specific proteins, called phosphorylation. These reactions can cause the function of the phosphorylated proteins to change. Both PEPR 1 and PEPR 2 c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Care%20farming
Care farming is the use of farming practices for the stated purpose of providing or promoting healing, mental health, social, or educational care services. Convicts may also be required to spend time at care farms. Care farms may provide supervised, structured programs of farming-related activities, including animal hu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Le%20Vaillant
Le Vaillant (French: The Valiant) (died 4 June 1916) was a pigeon used by the French Army in the First World War. The bird was the last held at Fort Vaux before it was overrun in the Battle of Verdun. Le Vaillant carried a message from the fort's commander Sylvain Reynal to his senior officers requesting reinforcement...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hispania%20%28personification%29
Hispania is the national personification of Spain. The antecedent of this representation were some coins on which there was a horseman holding a lance and the legend HISPANORVM. These coins corresponded to the first half of the 2nd century BC and were minted in Morgantina (Sicily). These coins were carried out by the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomic%20convergence
Genomic convergence is a multifactor approach used in genetic research that combines different kinds of genetic data analysis to identify and prioritize susceptibility genes for a complex disease. Early applications In January 2003, Michael Hauser along with fellow researchers at the Duke Center for Human Genetics (C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9%20plot
A Poincaré plot, named after Henri Poincaré, is a type of recurrence plot used to quantify self-similarity in processes, usually periodic functions. It is also known as a return map. Poincaré plots can be used to distinguish chaos from randomness by embedding a data set in a higher-dimensional state space. Given a t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignitron
An ignitron is a type of gas-filled tube used as a controlled rectifier and dating from the 1930s. Invented by Joseph Slepian while employed by Westinghouse, Westinghouse was the original manufacturer and owned trademark rights to the name "Ignitron". Ignitrons are closely related to mercury-arc valves but differ in th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachyonic%20antitelephone
A tachyonic antitelephone is a hypothetical device in theoretical physics that could be used to send signals into one's own past. Albert Einstein in 1907 presented a thought experiment of how faster-than-light signals can lead to a paradox of causality, which was described by Einstein and Arnold Sommerfeld in 1910 as a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20finance
Mathematical finance, also known as quantitative finance and financial mathematics, is a field of applied mathematics, concerned with mathematical modeling of financial markets. In general, there exist two separate branches of finance that require advanced quantitative techniques: derivatives pricing on the one hand, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhloesus
Typhloesus wellsi is an extinct species of enigmatic bilaterian animals from the Bear Gulch Limestone. It was once thought to be the first body fossil of a conodont, based on what turned out to be its gut contents; it is now thought to exhibit a radula, which would make it a mollusc, although different types of animal ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud
In botany, a bud is an undeveloped or embryonic shoot and normally occurs in the axil of a leaf or at the tip of a stem. Once formed, a bud may remain for some time in a dormant condition, or it may form a shoot immediately. Buds may be specialized to develop flowers or short shoots or may have the potential for genera...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Megatrends
American Megatrends International, LLC, doing business as AMI, is an international hardware and software company, specializing in PC hardware and firmware. The company was founded in 1985 by Pat Sarma and Subramonian Shankar. It is headquartered in Building 800 at 3095 Satellite Boulevard in unincorporated Gwinnett Cou...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkannin
Alkannin is a natural dye that is obtained from the extracts of plants from the borage family Alkanna tinctoria that are found in the south of France. The dye is used as a food colouring and in cosmetics. It is used as a red-brown food additive in regions such as Australia. Alkannin is deep red in an acid and blue in a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YadA%20bacterial%20adhesin%20protein%20domain
In molecular biology, YadA is a protein domain which is short for Yersinia adhesin A. These proteins have strong sequence and structural homology, particularly at their C-terminal end. The function is to promote their pathogenicity and virulence in host cells, though cell adhesion. YadA is found in three pathogenic spe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eremobiotus
Eremobiotus is a genus of tardigrade in the class Eutardigrada. Species Eremobiotus alicatai (Binda 1969) Eremobiotus ovezovae Biserov, 1992
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulard
The mulard (or moulard) is a hybrid between two different genera of domestic duck: the domestic Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata domestica) and the domestic duck (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus), derived from the wild mallard. American Pekins and other domestic ducks are most commonly used to breed mulards due to the bree...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortonella
Hortonella is a fossil genus of alga that has been placed deep in the coralline stem group on the basis of its scarcely differentiated thallus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AArch64
AArch64 or ARM64 is the 64-bit extension of the ARM architecture family. It was first introduced with the Armv8-A architecture. Arm releases a new extension every year. ARMv8.x and ARMv9.x extensions and features Announced in October 2011, ARMv8-A represents a fundamental change to the ARM architecture. It adds an o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Inheritance%20%282014%20film%29
The Inheritance is a 2014 documentary feature film about Huntington's disease written by Bridget Lyon and directed by Jeffrey McDonald. Based in New Zealand and telling the story of Lyon's family, it features interviews with prominent researchers and advocates in the Huntington's disease field including Charles Sabine,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20host
A smart host or smarthost is an email server via which third parties can send emails and have them forwarded on to the email recipients' email servers. Smarthosts were originally open mail relays, but most providers now require authentication from the sender, to verify that the sender is authorised – for example, an I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DF-1%20Protocol
DF-1 / DF1 protocol is an asynchronous byte-oriented protocol that is used to communicate with most Allen Bradley RS-232 interface modules. DF1 protocol consists of link layer and application layer formats. DF1 works over half duplex and full duplex modes of communication. Application layer messages Application layer ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanosclerite
The Melanosclerites are a group of problematic microfossils obtained by palynological processing. Morphology The form-taxon contains a wide array of rod-like fossils, 100 µm to some mm long, that culminate in a broad bulbous 'head', often separated from the stalk by a constriction. The bulbous end may bear broad 'pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-top%20media%20service
An over-the-top (OTT) media service (also known as streaming platforms) is a media service offered directly to viewers via the Internet. OTT bypasses cable, broadcast, and satellite television platforms—the types of companies that have traditionally acted as controllers or distributors of such content. It has also been...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desoxyribonucleate
"Desoxyribonucleic acid" and "desoxyribonucleate" are archaic terms for DNA, deoxyribonucleic acid, and its salts, respectively. The terms are used in this sense in various classic papers in genetics, such as Avery, MacLeod, and McCarty (1944).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florin%20sign
The florin sign (ƒ) is a symbol that is used for the currencies named florin, also called guilder. The Dutch name for the currency is gulden. The symbol "ƒ" is the lowercase version of Ƒ of the Latin alphabet. In many serif typefaces, it can often be substituted with a normal italic small-letter f ( ). It is used in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%E2%80%93Fowler%20method
In statistical mechanics, the Darwin–Fowler method is used for deriving the distribution functions with mean probability. It was developed by Charles Galton Darwin and Ralph H. Fowler in 1922–1923. Distribution functions are used in statistical physics to estimate the mean number of particles occupying an energy level...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacommunity
An ecological metacommunity is a set of interacting communities which are linked by the dispersal of multiple, potentially interacting species. The term is derived from the field of community ecology, which is primarily concerned with patterns of species distribution, abundance and interactions. Metacommunity ecology ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WICB%20Junior%20and%20Senior%20Awards
The Women In Cell Biology Committee of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) recognizes outstanding achievements by women in cell biology by presenting three (previously only two) Career Recognition Awards at the ASCB Annual Meeting. The Junior Award is given to a woman in an early stage of her career (generally...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chip%20creep
Chip creep refers to the problem of an integrated circuit (chip) working its way out of its socket over time. This was mainly an issue in early PCs. Chip creep occurs due to thermal expansion, which is expansion and contraction as the system heats up and cools down. It can also occur due to vibration. While chip creep...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20expansion%20solution
In probability theory, the spectral expansion solution method is a technique for computing the stationary probability distribution of a continuous-time Markov chain whose state space is a semi-infinite lattice strip. For example, an M/M/c queue where service nodes can breakdown and be repaired has a two-dimensional sta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alec%20Fraser-Brunner
Alec Frederick Fraser-Brunner (6 April 1906—17 Sept 1986) was a British ichthyologist. His career included work with the Colonial Office, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and as the curator of the Van Kleef Aquarium in Singapore and the aquarium at Edinburgh Zoo. Amongst his written works is Cussons Book of Tropi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphatidylinositol
Phosphatidylinositol (or Inositol Phospholipid, abbreviation PtdIns) consists of a family of lipids made of a phosphate group, two fatty acid chains, and one inositol molecule. They represent a class of the phosphatidylglycerides. Typically phosphatidylinositols form a minor component on the cytosolic side of eukaryoti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20to%20quality
Critical to quality is an attribute of a part, assembly, sub-assembly, product, or process that is literally critical to quality or more precisely, has a direct and significant impact on its actual or perceived quality. See also Business process CTQ tree Design for Six Sigma Total quality management Total product...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20performance%20modeling
Human performance modeling (HPM) is a method of quantifying human behavior, cognition, and processes. It is a tool used by human factors researchers and practitioners for both the analysis of human function and for the development of systems designed for optimal user experience and interaction . It is a complementary a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronization
Micronization is the process of reducing the average diameter of a solid material's particles. Traditional techniques for micronization focus on mechanical means, such as milling and grinding. Modern techniques make use of the properties of supercritical fluids and manipulate the principles of solubility. The term mic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20JavaScript%20charting%20libraries
There are different JavaScript charting libraries available. Below is a comparison of which features are available in each. See also Ext JS JavaScript graphics library JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequestrant
A sequestrant is a food additive which improves the quality and stability of foods. A sequestrant forms chelate complexes with polyvalent metal ions, especially copper, iron and nickel. This can prevent the oxidation of the fats in the food. Sequestrants are therefore a type of preservative. The name comes from Latin ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xoroshiro128%2B
xoroshiro128+ (named after its operations: XOR, rotate, shift, rotate) is a pseudorandom number generator intended as a successor to xorshift+. Instead of perpetuating Marsaglia's tradition of xorshift as a basic operation, xoroshiro128+ uses a shift/rotate-based linear transformation designed by Sebastiano Vigna in co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4OR
4OR - A Quarterly Journal of Operations Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that was established in 2003 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media. It is a joint official journal of the Belgian, French, and Italian Operations Research Societies. The journal publishes research papers and surveys ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shope%20papilloma%20virus
The Shope papilloma virus (SPV), also known as cottontail rabbit papilloma virus (CRPV) or Kappapapillomavirus 2, is a papillomavirus which infects certain leporids, causing keratinous carcinomas resembling horns, typically on or near the animal's head. The carcinomas can metastasize or become large enough to interfere...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow%E2%80%93Debreu%20model
In mathematical economics, the Arrow–Debreu model is a theoretical general equilibrium model. It posits that under certain economic assumptions (convex preferences, perfect competition, and demand independence) there must be a set of prices such that aggregate supplies will equal aggregate demands for every commodity i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LOCC
LOCC, or local operations and classical communication, is a method in quantum information theory where a local (product) operation is performed on part of the system, and where the result of that operation is "communicated" classically to another part where usually another local operation is performed conditioned on th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phycobiliprotein
Phycobiliproteins are water-soluble proteins present in cyanobacteria and certain algae (rhodophytes, cryptomonads, glaucocystophytes). They capture light energy, which is then passed on to chlorophylls during photosynthesis. Phycobiliproteins are formed of a complex between proteins and covalently bound phycobilins t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felice%20Casorati%20%28mathematician%29
Felice Casorati (17 December 1835 – 11 September 1890) was an Italian mathematician who studied at the University of Pavia. He was born in Pavia and died in Casteggio. He is best known for the Casorati–Weierstrass theorem in complex analysis. The theorem, named for Casorati and Karl Theodor Wilhelm Weierstrass, descri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pungency
Pungency () refers to the taste of food commonly referred to as spiciness, hotness or heat, found in foods such as chili peppers. Highly pungent tastes may be experienced as unpleasant. The term piquancy () is sometimes applied to foods with a lower degree of pungency that are "agreeably stimulating to the palate". Exa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine%20anion%20gap
The urine anion gap is calculated using measured ions found in the urine. It is used to aid in the differential diagnosis of metabolic acidosis. The term "anion gap" without qualification usually implies serum anion gap. The "urine anion gap" is a different measure, principally used to determine whether the kidneys ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rokhlin%27s%20theorem
In 4-dimensional topology, a branch of mathematics, Rokhlin's theorem states that if a smooth, orientable, closed 4-manifold M has a spin structure (or, equivalently, the second Stiefel–Whitney class vanishes), then the signature of its intersection form, a quadratic form on the second cohomology group , is divisible ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperaccumulators%20table%20%E2%80%93%203
This list covers hyperaccumulators, plant species which accumulate, or are tolerant of radionuclides (Cd, Cs-137, Co, Pu-238, Ra, Sr, U-234, 235, 238), hydrocarbons and organic solvents (Benzene, BTEX, DDT, Dieldrin, Endosulfan, Fluoranthene, MTBE, PCB, PCNB, TCE and by-products), and inorganic solvents (Potassium ferr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehmer%20sequence
In mathematics, a Lehmer sequence is a generalization of a Lucas sequence. Algebraic relations If a and b are complex numbers with under the following conditions: Q and R are relatively prime nonzero integers is not a root of unity. Then, the corresponding Lehmer numbers are: for n odd, and for n even. Their...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Mullenweg
Matthew Charles Mullenweg (born January 11, 1984) is an American entrepreneur and web developer living in Houston. He is known for developing and founding the free and open-source web software WordPress, and its parent company Automattic. After dropping out of the University of Houston, he worked at CNET Networks from...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20arch%20syndrome
First arch syndromes are congenital defects caused by a failure of neural crest cells to migrate into the first pharyngeal arch. They can produce facial anomalies. Examples of first arch syndromes include Treacher Collins syndrome and Pierre Robin syndrome.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operator%20%28physics%29
In physics, an operator is a function over a space of physical states onto another space of physical states. The simplest example of the utility of operators is the study of symmetry (which makes the concept of a group useful in this context). Because of this, they are useful tools in classical mechanics. Operators are...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indalo
The Indalo is a Bronze Age magical symbol found in the cave of "Los Letreros" ("The Signboards") in Sierra de María-Los Vélez Natural Park in Vélez Blanco, Almería, Andalusia, Spain. It has been customary to paint the Indalo symbol on the front of houses and businesses to protect them from evil and is considered to be ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatine-alpha%20ketoglutarate
Creatine-alpha-ketoglutarate is a salt formed from alpha-ketoglutaric acid (AKG) and creatine. Creatine is a mass-produced fitness supplement that is supposed to increase the user's muscle mass, strength and power. Creatine requires a delivery system for cell uptake. An example is arginine alpha-ketoglutarate. Arginin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAFASP
CAFASP, or the Critical Assessment of Fully Automated Structure Prediction, is a large-scale blind experiment in protein structure prediction that studies the performance of automated structure prediction webservers in homology modeling, fold recognition, and ab initio prediction of protein tertiary structures based on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flipper%20%28anatomy%29
A flipper is a broad, flattened limb adapted for aquatic locomotion. It refers to the fully webbed, swimming appendages of aquatic vertebrates that are not fish. In animals with two flippers, such as whales, the flipper refers solely to the forelimbs. In animals with four flippers, such as pinnipeds and sea turtles, o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%20formula
In quantified modal logic, the Buridan formula and the converse Buridan formula (more accurately, schemata rather than formulas) (i) syntactically state principles of interchange between quantifiers and modalities; (ii) semantically state a relation between domains of possible worlds. The formulas are named in honor of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RoboWar
RoboWar is an open-source video game in which the player programs onscreen icon-like robots to battle each other with animation and sound effects. The syntax of the language in which the robots are programmed is a relatively simple stack-based one, based largely on IF, THEN, and simply-defined variables. 25 RoboWar to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Biodefense%20Analysis%20and%20Countermeasures%20Center
The National Biodefense Analysis and Countermeasures Center (NBACC) is a government biodefense research laboratory created by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and located at the sprawling biodefense campus at Fort Detrick in Frederick, MD, USA. The NBACC (pronounced EN-back) is the principal U.S. biodefen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VHDL-AMS
VHDL-AMS is a derivative of the hardware description language VHDL (IEEE standard 1076-1993). It includes analog and mixed-signal extensions (AMS) in order to define the behavior of analog and mixed-signal systems (IEEE 1076.1-1999). The VHDL-AMS standard was created with the intent of enabling designers of analog and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20S.%20B.%20Mitchell
Joseph S. B. Mitchell is an American computer scientist and mathematician. He is Distinguished Professor and Department Chair of Applied Mathematics and Statistics and Research Professor of Computer Science at Stony Brook University. Biography Mitchell received a BS (1981, Physics and Applied Mathematics), and an MS (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature%E2%80%93culture%20divide
The nature–culture divide is the notion of a dichotomy between humans and the environment. It is a theoretical foundation of contemporary anthropology that considers whether nature and culture function separately from one another, or if they are in a continuous biotic relationship with each other. In East Asian socie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuch%C3%A2tel%20gas%20turbine
The Neuchâtel gas turbine is the world's first electric power-generating gas turbine to go into commercial operation. It was designed and constructed by Brown, Boveri & Cie and installed in 1939 at the municipal power station in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The gas turbine was in-service as a standby unit from 1940 till its...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C1%20domain
C1 domain (also known as phorbol esters/diacylglycerol binding domain) binds an important secondary messenger diacylglycerol (DAG), as well as the analogous phorbol esters. Phorbol esters can directly stimulate protein kinase C, PKC. Phorbol esters (such as PMA) are analogues of DAG and potent tumor promoters that cau...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substructural%20logic
In logic, a substructural logic is a logic lacking one of the usual structural rules (e.g. of classical and intuitionistic logic), such as weakening, contraction, exchange or associativity. Two of the more significant substructural logics are relevance logic and linear logic. Examples In a sequent calculus, one write...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Flag%20Anthem%20of%20the%20Republic%20of%20China
The National Flag Anthem of the Republic of China () is a patriotic song typically played during the raising and lowering of the flag of the Republic of China. Domestically, the flag anthem is typically played immediately following the national anthem during flag ceremonies. It is also played at international sporting ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.M.C.%3A%20Astro%20Marine%20Corps
A.M.C.: Astro Marine Corps is a 1989 platform shooter video game developed by Creepsoft and published by Dinamic Software. It was released for the Amiga, Atari ST, Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, MSX, and Amstrad CPC. The program as written by Pablo Ariza with music by José A. Martín. Gameplay The player controls a member ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitemporal%20modeling
Bitemporal modeling is a specific case of temporal database information modeling technique designed to handle historical data along two different timelines. This makes it possible to rewind the information to "as it actually was" in combination with "as it was recorded" at some point in time. In order to be able to do ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surotomycin
Surotomycin was an investigational oral antibiotic. This macrolide antibiotic was under investigation by Merck & Co (who acquired Cubist Pharmaceuticals) for the treatment of life-threatening Diarrhea, commonly caused by the bacterium Clostridium difficile. After reaching phase III in clinical trials, its production wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stave%20Puzzles
Stave Puzzles is an American jigsaw puzzle company located in Norwich, Vermont. The company was started in 1974 by Steve Richardson and Dave Tibbetts and was called Stave—a portmanteau of their first names. They manufacture hand cut jigsaw puzzles made from cherry-backed, 5-layered, wood. Stave produces several diffe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instruction-level%20parallelism
Instruction-level parallelism (ILP) is the parallel or simultaneous execution of a sequence of instructions in a computer program. More specifically ILP refers to the average number of instructions run per step of this parallel execution. Discussion ILP must not be confused with concurrency. In ILP there is a single...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech%20shadowing
Speech shadowing is a psycholinguistic experimental technique in which subjects repeat speech at a delay to the onset of hearing the phrase. The time between hearing the speech and responding, is how long the brain takes to process and produce speech. The task instructs participants to shadow speech, which generates in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standardization%20in%20Lab%20Automation
gRPC The consortium for Standardization in Lab Automation (SiLA) is a not-for-profit membership organization formed by software suppliers, system integrators and pharma/biotech companies. It develops and introduces new device and data interface standards allowing rapid integration of lab automation hardware and data m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20copper%20carrier
Small copper carrier or SCC is a small molecule that transports copper in urine. It is excreted in the kidneys in humans or mice where the liver is unable to excrete excess copper in bile. This happens in Wilson’s disease where the presence of copper in urine is a diagnostic. It was discovered by Lawrence Wilson Gray...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Journal%20of%20Probability
The Electronic Journal of Probability is a peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Bernoulli Society. It covers all aspects of probability theory and the current editor-in-chief is Bénédicte Haas (Université Sorbonne Paris Nord). Electronic Communicatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20prefix
A binary prefix is a unit prefix that indicates a multiple of a unit of measurement by an integer power of two. The most commonly used binary prefixes are kibi (symbol Ki, meaning 210= 1024), mebi (Mi, 220 = ), and gibi (Gi, 230 = ). They are most often used in information technology as multipliers of bit and byte, wh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Shestakov
Victor Ivanovich Shestakov (Russian: ) (1907–1987) was a Russian/Soviet logician and theoretician of electrical engineering. In 1935 he discovered the possible interpretation of Boolean algebra of logic in electro-mechanical relay circuits. He graduated from Moscow State University (1934) and worked there in the Genera...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infundibulicybe%20mediterranea
Infundibulicybe mediterranea is a species of agaric fungus in the family Tricholomataceae. Found in Mediterranean Europe, it was described as new to science in 2011. It is closely related to Infundibulicybe gibba, but can be distinguished from that species by its darker colored fruitbody and smaller spores, which measu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect%20fluid
In physics, a perfect fluid or ideal fluid is a fluid that can be completely characterized by its rest frame mass density and isotropic pressure p. Real fluids are "sticky" and contain (and conduct) heat. Perfect fluids are idealized models in which these possibilities are neglected. Specifically, perfect fluids have...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutraceutical
A nutraceutical is a pharmaceutical alternative which claims physiological benefits. In the US, nutraceuticals are largely unregulated, as they exist in the same category as dietary supplements and food additives by the FDA, under the authority of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The word "nutraceutical" is a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mil%C3%BC
Milü (; "close ratio"), also known as Zulü (Zu's ratio), is the name given to an approximation to (pi) found by Chinese mathematician and astronomer Zu Chongzhi in the 5th century. Using Liu Hui's algorithm (which is based on the areas of regular polygons approximating a circle), Zu famously computed to be between 3....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced%20residue%20system
In mathematics, a subset R of the integers is called a reduced residue system modulo n if: gcd(r, n) = 1 for each r in R, R contains φ(n) elements, no two elements of R are congruent modulo n. Here φ denotes Euler's totient function. A reduced residue system modulo n can be formed from a complete residue system modu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral%20reef%20restoration
Coral reef restoration strategies use natural and anthropogenic processes to restore damaged coral reefs. Reefs suffer damage from a number of natural and man-made causes, and efforts are being made to rectify the damage and restore the reefs. This involves the fragmentation of mature corals, the placing of the living ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band%20I
Band I is a range of radio frequencies within the very high frequency (VHF) part of the electromagnetic spectrum. The first time there was defined "for simplicity" in Annex 1 of "Final acts of the European Broadcasting Conference in the VHF and UHF bands - Stockholm, 1961". Band I ranges from 47 to 68 MHz for the Europ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novy%E2%80%93MacNeal%E2%80%93Nicolle%20medium
Novy–MacNeal–Nicolle medium (NNN) in microbiology is a culture medium used to grow Leishmania – needed when the amastigotes are not found in sufficient quantities by scraping the growth substrate. It consists of 0.6% sodium chloride (NaCl) added to a simple blood agar slope. NNN can also be used to grow ''Trypanosoma ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number%20sentence
In mathematics education, a number sentence is an equation or inequality expressed using numbers and mathematical symbols. The term is used in primary level mathematics teaching in the US, Canada, UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. Usage The term is used as means of asking students to write down equations us...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiomatic%20system
In mathematics and logic, an axiomatic system is any set of axioms from which some or all axioms can be used in conjunction to logically derive theorems. A theory is a consistent, relatively-self-contained body of knowledge which usually contains an axiomatic system and all its derived theorems. An axiomatic system tha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ars%20Mathematica%20Contemporanea
Ars Mathematica Contemporanea is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering discrete mathematics in connection with other branches of mathematics. It is published by the University of Primorska together with the Society of Mathematicians, Physicists and Astronomers of Slovenia, the Institute of Mathematics, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty%20acid%20synthesis
In biochemistry, fatty acid synthesis is the creation of fatty acids from acetyl-CoA and NADPH through the action of enzymes called fatty acid synthases. This process takes place in the cytoplasm of the cell. Most of the acetyl-CoA which is converted into fatty acids is derived from carbohydrates via the glycolytic pat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20connection
A reverse connection is usually used to bypass firewall restrictions on open ports. A firewall usually blocks incoming connections on open ports, but does not block outgoing traffic. In a normal forward connection, a client connects to a server through the server's open port, but in the case of a reverse connection, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pray%20As%20You%20Go
Pray As You Go is a daily prayer website, podcast and application that was created in 2006 by the Jesuits in the United Kingdom. Since its founding it has been adapted into nine other languages and as of 2020, it is used 30 million times a year. Format Based on Ignatian spirituality, the website and its application ha...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PrivateCore
PrivateCore is a venture-backed startup located in Palo Alto, California that develops software to secure server data through server attestation and memory encryption. The company's attestation and memory encryption technology fills a gap that exists between “data in motion” encryption (TLS, email encryption) and “data...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTRON
BTRON (Business TRON) is one of the subprojects of the TRON Project proposed by Ken Sakamura, which is responsible for the business phase. It refers to the operating systems (OS), keyboards, peripheral interface specifications, and other items related to personal computers (PCs) that were developed there. Originally, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccheri%20quadrilateral
A Saccheri quadrilateral is a quadrilateral with two equal sides perpendicular to the base. It is named after Giovanni Gerolamo Saccheri, who used it extensively in his 1733 book (Euclid freed of every flaw), an attempt to prove the parallel postulate using the method reductio ad absurdum. Such a quadrilateral is some...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cells%20%28journal%29
Cells is a monthly peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal that covers all aspects of cell and molecular biology, and biophysics. It was established in 2012 and is published by MDPI. The founding editor-in-chief is Alexander E. Kalyuzhny (University of Minnesota) who was joined by Cord Brakebusch (University of Co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycomb%20repressive%20complex%201
Polycomb repressive complex 1 (PRC1) is one of the two classes of Polycomb Repressive complexes, the other being PRC2. Polycomb-group proteins play a major role in transcriptional regulation during development. Polycomb Repressive Complexes PRC1 and PRC2 function in the silencing of expression of the Hox gene network ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturm%E2%80%93Liouville%20theory
In mathematics and its applications, a Sturm–Liouville problem is a second-order linear ordinary differential equation of the form: for given functions , and , together with some boundary conditions at extreme values of . The goals of a given Sturm–Liouville problem are: To find the for which there exists a non-t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/153%20%28number%29
153 (one hundred [and] fifty-three) is the natural number following 152 and preceding 154. In mathematics The number 153 is associated with the geometric shape known as the Vesica Piscis or Mandorla. Archimedes, in his Measurement of a Circle, referred to this ratio (153/265), as constituting the "measure of the fish...