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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genomic%20phylostratigraphy
Genomic phylostratigraphy is a novel genetic statistical method developed in order to date the origin of specific genes by looking at its homologs across species. It was first developed by Ruđer Bošković Institute in Zagreb, Croatia. The system links genes to their founder gene, allowing us to then determine their age....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pairing
In mathematics, a pairing is an R-bilinear map from the Cartesian product of two R-modules, where the underlying ring R is commutative. Definition Let R be a commutative ring with unit, and let M, N and L be R-modules. A pairing is any R-bilinear map . That is, it satisfies , and for any and any and any . Equi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded%20Java
Embedded Java refers to versions of the Java program language that are designed for embedded systems. Since 2010 embedded Java implementations have come closer to standard Java, and are now virtually identical to the Java Standard Edition. Since Java 9 customization of the Java Runtime through modularization removes th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombinase%20polymerase%20amplification
Recombinase polymerase amplification (RPA) is a single tube, isothermal alternative to the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). By adding a reverse transcriptase enzyme to an RPA reaction it can detect RNA as well as DNA, without the need for a separate step to produce cDNA,. Because it is isothermal, RPA can use much simp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste%20confusion%20matrix
Taste Confusion Matrix (TCM) is a method in which many compounds are tested at the same time. It is a study of human taste perception. It characterizes the quality of taste with identification patterns of some 10 stimuli which are analyzed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Devlin
Keith James Devlin (born 16 March 1947) is a British mathematician and popular science writer. Since 1987 he has lived in the United States. He has dual British-American citizenship. Biography He was born and grew up in England, in Kingston upon Hull. There he attended a local primary school followed by Greatfield Hi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLUB%20%28software%29
SLUB (the unqueued slab allocator) is a memory management mechanism intended for the efficient memory allocation of kernel objects which displays the desirable property of eliminating fragmentation caused by allocations and deallocations. The technique is used to retain allocated memory that contains a data object of a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWRC-results.com
eWRC-results.com is a Czech online database website founded in 2006. The website features data and statistics in the motorsport of rallying that ranges from World Rally Championship to national rally events dating back to 1911. Shutdown In early 2022, the website was once forced to shut down due to financial issue. P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin%20Thomas%20%28mathematician%29
Robin Thomas (August 22, 1962 – March 26, 2020) was a mathematician working in graph theory at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Thomas received his doctorate in 1985 from Charles University in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic), under the supervision of Jaroslav Nešetřil. He joined the faculty at Geor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%20B.%20Kuksin
Sergei Borisovich Kuksin (Сергей Борисович Куксин, born 2 March 1955) is a French and Russian mathematician, specializing in partial differential equations (PDEs). Kuksin received his doctorate under the supervision of Mark Vishik at Moscow State University in 1981. He was at the Steklov Institute in Moscow and at the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%20ecosystem
A vertical ecosystem is an architectural gardening system developed by Ignacio Solano from the mur vegetal created by Patrick Blanc. This new approach enhances the previous archetype of mur vegetal and considers the relationship that exists between a set of living organisms, biocenosis, inhabiting a physical component,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxodipine
Oxodipine is a calcium channel blocker. Calcium channel blockers Dihydropyridines Carboxylate esters Benzodioxoles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby
Dolby Laboratories, Inc. (often shortened to Dolby Labs and known simply as Dolby) is a company specializing in audio noise reduction, audio encoding/compression, spatial audio, and HDR imaging. Dolby licenses its technologies to consumer electronics manufacturers. History Dolby Labs was founded by Ray Dolby (1933–201...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20Sickness%20Bag%20Virtual%20Museum
The Air Sickness Bag Virtual Museum is a collection of 3,112 air sickness bags collected by museum curator Steven J. Silberberg. The museum is entirely online, with photographs of the various air sickness bags; however, the actual collection is stored at Silberberg's residence. Silberberg himself has stated that he has...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engel%20expansion
The Engel expansion of a positive real number x is the unique non-decreasing sequence of positive integers such that For instance, Euler's number e has the Engel expansion 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, ... corresponding to the infinite series Rational numbers have a finite Engel expansion, while irrational numbers have...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20acoustics
Structural acoustics is the study of the mechanical waves in structures and how they interact with and radiate into adjacent media. The field of structural acoustics is often referred to as vibroacoustics in Europe and Asia. People that work in the field of structural acoustics are known as structural acousticians. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz%20Semmelweis
Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis (; ; 1 July 1818 – 13 August 1865) was a Hungarian physician and scientist of German descent, who was an early pioneer of antiseptic procedures, and was described as the "saviour of mothers". Postpartum infection, also known as puerperal fever or childbed fever, consists of any bacterial infec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain%20rule%20%28probability%29
In probability theory, the chain rule (also called the general product rule) describes how to calculate the probability of the intersection of, not necessarily independent, events or the joint distribution of random variables respectively, using conditional probabilities. The rule is notably used in the context of disc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position%20angle
In astronomy, position angle (usually abbreviated PA) is the convention for measuring angles on the sky. The International Astronomical Union defines it as the angle measured relative to the north celestial pole (NCP), turning positive into the direction of the right ascension. In the standard (non-flipped) images, thi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical%2072
Radical 72 or radical sun () meaning "sun" or "day" is one of the 34 Kangxi radicals (214 radicals in total) composed of 4 strokes. In the Kangxi Dictionary, there are 453 characters (out of 49,030) to be found under this radical. is also the 75th indexing component in the Table of Indexing Chinese Character Compone...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burusho%20people
The Burusho, or Brusho, also known as the Hunzukuch, are an ethnolinguistic group indigenous to the Yasin, Hunza, Nagar, and other valleys of Gilgit–Baltistan in northern Pakistan, with a tiny minority of around 350 Burusho people residing in Jammu and Kashmir, India. Their language, Burushaski, has been classified as ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-object
In mathematics, specifically homotopical algebra, an H-object is a categorical generalization of an H-space, which can be defined in any category with a product and an initial object . These are useful constructions because they help export some of the ideas from algebraic topology and homotopy theory into other doma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest%20of%20Pangea
Conquest of Pangea is a strategy board game, where players control evolving species battling to control sections of the mega-continent Pangea. It was released by Winning Moves Games USA in 2006 as the second game in its Immortal Eyes line. It has one expansion, Conquest of Pangea: Atlantis, which adds a new piece to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinician
A clinician is a health care professional typically employed at a skilled nursing facility or clinic. Clinicians work directly with patients rather than in a laboratory, community health setting or in research. A clinician may diagnose, treat and care for patients as a psychologist, clinical pharmacist, clinical scient...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELFV%20dehydrogenase
In molecular biology, the ELFV dehydrogenase family of enzymes include glutamate, leucine, phenylalanine and valine dehydrogenases. These enzymes are structurally and functionally related. They contain a Gly-rich region containing a conserved Lys residue, which has been implicated in the catalytic activity, in each cas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spinmechatronics
Spinmechatronics is neologism referring to an emerging field of research concerned with the exploitation of spin-dependent phenomena and established spintronic methodologies and technologies in conjunction with electro-mechanical, magno-mechanical, acousto-mechanical and opto-mechanical systems. Most especially, spinm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20killer%20cell
Natural killer cells, also known as NK cells or large granular lymphocytes (LGL), are a type of cytotoxic lymphocyte critical to the innate immune system that belong to the rapidly expanding family of known innate lymphoid cells (ILC) and represent 5–20% of all circulating lymphocytes in humans. The role of NK cells is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomistix%20ToolKit
Atomistix ToolKit (ATK) is a commercial software for atomic-scale modeling and simulation of nanosystems. The software was originally developed by Atomistix A/S, and was later acquired by QuantumWise following the Atomistix bankruptcy. QuantumWise was then acquired by Synopsys in 2017. Atomistix ToolKit is a further d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitudinal%20redundancy%20check
In telecommunication, a longitudinal redundancy check (LRC), or horizontal redundancy check, is a form of redundancy check that is applied independently to each of a parallel group of bit streams. The data must be divided into transmission blocks, to which the additional check data is added. The term usually applies ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20wolf
The Japanese wolf (, , or , [see below]; Canis lupus hodophilax), also known as the Honshū wolf, is an extinct subspecies of the gray wolf that was once endemic to the islands of Honshū, Shikoku and Kyūshū in the Japanese archipelago. It was one of two subspecies that were once found in the Japanese archipelago, the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics%20Surveys
Statistics Surveys is an open-access electronic journal, founded in 2007, that is jointly sponsored by the American Statistical Association, the Bernoulli Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Statistical Society of Canada. It publishes review articles on topics of interest in statistics. Wendy L. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioactive%20%28film%29
Radioactive is a 2019 British biographical drama film written by Jack Thorne, directed by Marjane Satrapi and starring Rosamund Pike as Marie Curie. The film is based on the 2010 graphic novel Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout by the American artist Lauren Redniss. The film premiered as the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective%20field%20goal%20percentage
In basketball, effective field goal percentage (abbreviated eFG%) is a statistic that adjusts field goal percentage to account for the fact that three-point field goals count for three points while field goals only count for two points. Its goal is to show what field goal percentage a two-point shooter would have to sh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan%20Zenneck
Jonathan Adolf Wilhelm Zenneck (15 April 1871 – 8 April 1959) was a German physicist and electrical engineer who contributed to researches in radio circuit performance and to the scientific and educational contributions to the literature of the pioneer radio art. Zenneck improved the Braun cathode ray tube by adding a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Greenly
Henry Greenly (1876–1947) was amongst the foremost miniature railway engineers of the 20th century, remembered as a master of engineering design. Miniature railways Greenly is perhaps best remembered for his miniature locomotive designs. He worked closely with many engineering companies, including Bassett-Lowke and it...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDYL2
Chromodomain protein, Y-like 2 is a protein in humans that is encoded by the CDYL2 gene. It localizes to the nucleus, where it acts as a chromatin reader recognizing trimethylation of Histone H3 lysine 9 and repressing transcription.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional%20Atmospheric%20Modeling%20System
The Regional Atmospheric Modeling System (RAMS) is a set of computer programs that simulate the atmosphere for weather and climate research and for numerical weather prediction (NWP). Other components include a data analysis and a visualization package. RAMS was developed in the 1980s at Colorado State University (CSU...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-test%20of%20equality%20of%20variances
In statistics, an F-test of equality of variances is a test for the null hypothesis that two normal populations have the same variance. Notionally, any F-test can be regarded as a comparison of two variances, but the specific case being discussed in this article is that of two populations, where the test statistic use...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learner-generated%20context
The term learner-generated context originated in the suggestion that an educational context might be described as a learner-centric ecology of resources and that a learner generated context is one in which a group of users collaboratively marshall available resources to create an ecology that meets their needs. There ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giganten%20%28board%20game%29
Giganten , also named as "Dinosaures Giganti" is a 2-player board game designed by Herbert Pinthus and first published in 1981 by Carlit. Gameplay is inspired by another game "Stratego" and created in prehistoric setting. There were two editions. Small edition, added variable terrain (land, swamp, lakes). Lakes were...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffix%20automaton
In computer science, a suffix automaton is an efficient data structure for representing the substring index of a given string which allows the storage, processing, and retrieval of compressed information about all its substrings. The suffix automaton of a string is the smallest directed acyclic graph with a dedicated ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosthetic%20testicle
A prosthetic testicle is an artificial replacement for a testicle lost through surgery or injury. Consisting of a plastic ovoid manufactured from silicone rubber, and either solid, or filled with a salt solution and implanted in the scrotum, a prosthetic testicle provides the appearance and feel of a testis and preven...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20f%C3%BCr%20Rundfunktechnik
The GmbH (IRT) (Institute for Broadcasting Technology Ltd.) was a research centre of German broadcasters (ARD / ZDF / DLR), Austria's broadcaster (ORF) and the Swiss public broadcaster (SRG / SSR). It was responsible for research on broadcasting technology. It was founded in 1956 and was located in Munich, Germany. T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivestOS
DivestOS is an operating system based on the Android mobile platform. It is a soft fork of LineageOS that aims to increase security and privacy with support for end-of-life devices. As much as possible, it removes unnecessary proprietary Android components and includes only free-software. DivestOS builds are signed wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reference%20dimension
A reference dimension is a dimension on an engineering drawing provided for information only. Reference dimensions are provided for a variety of reasons and are often an accumulation of other dimensions that are defined elsewhere (e.g. on the drawing or other related documentation). These dimensions may also be used fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oncofetal%20antigen
Oncofetal antigens are proteins which are typically present only during fetal development but are found in adults with certain kinds of cancer. These proteins are often measurable in the blood of individuals with cancer and may be used to both diagnose and follow treatment of the tumors. One example of an oncofetal ant...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolis%20light%20transport
Metropolis light transport (MLT) is a global illumination application of a variant of the Monte Carlo method called the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm to the rendering equation for generating images from detailed physical descriptions of three-dimensional scenes. The procedure constructs paths from the eye to a light s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside%20hydrolase%20family%2015
In molecular biology, glycoside hydrolase family 15 is a family of glycoside hydrolases. Glycoside hydrolases are a widespread group of enzymes that hydrolyse the glycosidic bond between two or more carbohydrates, or between a carbohydrate and a non-carbohydrate moiety. A classification system for glycoside hydrolase...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkaroos
Dunkaroos are a snack food from Betty Crocker, first launched in 1990. It consists of a snack-sized package containing cookies and frosting; as the name implies, the cookies are meant to be dunked into the frosting before eating. Individual snack packages contain about ten small cookies and one cubic inch of frosting. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20meningeal%20artery
The posterior meningeal artery is one of the meningeal branches of the ascending pharyngeal artery (and is typically considered the terminal branch of said artery). It passes through the jugular foramen to enter the posterior cranial fossa. It is the largest vessel supplying the dura of the posterior cranial fossa. It...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20chaos
In the field of photonics, optical chaos is chaos generated by laser instabilities using different schemes in semiconductor and fiber lasers. Optical chaos is observed in many non-linear optical systems. One of the most common examples is an optical ring resonators. Optical computing Optical chaos was a field of resea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-second%20rule
The five-second rule, or sometimes the three-second rule, is a food hygiene myth that states a defined time window after which it is not safe to eat food (or sometimes to use cutlery) after it has been dropped on the floor or on the ground and thus exposed to contamination. There appears to be no scientific consensus ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roton
In theoretical physics, a roton is an elementary excitation, or quasiparticle, seen in superfluid helium-4 and Bose–Einstein condensates with long-range dipolar interactions or spin-orbit coupling. The dispersion relation of elementary excitations in this superfluid shows a linear increase from the origin, but exhibits...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome%20combing
Chromosome combing (also known as molecular combing or DNA combing) is a technique used to produce an array of uniformly stretched DNA that is then highly suitable for nucleic acid hybridization studies such as fluorescent in situ hybridisation (FISH) which benefit from the uniformity of stretching, the easy access to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence%20Gaffney
Terence Gaffney (born 9 March 1948) is an American mathematician who has made fundamental contributions to singularity theory – in particular, to the fields of singularities of maps and equisingularity theory. Professional career He is a Professor of Mathematics at Northeastern University. He did his undergraduate stu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Comprehensive%20Operating%20System
General Comprehensive Operating System (GCOS, ; originally GECOS, General Electric Comprehensive Operating Supervisor) is a family of operating systems oriented toward the 36-bit GE-600 series and Honeywell 6000 series mainframe computers. The original version of GCOS was developed by General Electric beginning in 196...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dethiosulfovibrio%20peptidovorans
Dethiosulfovibrio peptidovorans is an anaerobic, slightly halophilic, thiosulfate-reducing bacterium. Its genome has been sequenced. It is vibrio-shaped (3-5 by 1 µm), gram-negative and possesses lateral flagella. It is non-spore-forming. Its type strain is SEBR 4207T.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamathematics
Metamathematics is the study of mathematics itself using mathematical methods. This study produces metatheories, which are mathematical theories about other mathematical theories. Emphasis on metamathematics (and perhaps the creation of the term itself) owes itself to David Hilbert's attempt to secure the foundations o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinobacterial%20phage%20holin%20family
The Actinobacterial Phage Holin (APH) Family (TC# 1.E.57) is a fairly large family of proteins between 105 and 180 amino acyl residues in length, typically exhibiting a single transmembrane segment (TMS) near the N-terminus. A representative list of proteins belonging to the APH family can be found in the Transporter C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiac%20Pacemakers%2C%20Inc.
Cardiac Pacemakers, Inc.(CPI), doing business as Guidant Cardiac Rhythm Management, manufactured implantable cardiac rhythm management devices, such as pacemakers and defibrillators. It sold microprocessor-controlled insulin pumps and equipment to regulate heart rhythm. It developed therapies to treat irregular heartbe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lowest%20common%20ancestor
In graph theory and computer science, the lowest common ancestor (LCA) (also called least common ancestor) of two nodes and in a tree or directed acyclic graph (DAG) is the lowest (i.e. deepest) node that has both and as descendants, where we define each node to be a descendant of itself (so if has a direct conn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paneitz%20operator
In the mathematical field of differential geometry, the Paneitz operator is a fourth-order differential operator defined on a Riemannian manifold of dimension n. It is named after Stephen Paneitz, who discovered it in 1983, and whose preprint was later published posthumously in . In fact, the same operator was found ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20structure%20diagram
A control structure diagram (CSD) automatically documents the program flow within the source code and adds indentation with graphical symbols. Thereby the source code becomes visibly structured without sacrificing space. See also Data structure diagram Diagram Entity-relationship model Hierarchy diagram Unified M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clique%20complex
Clique complexes, independence complexes, flag complexes, Whitney complexes and conformal hypergraphs are closely related mathematical objects in graph theory and geometric topology that each describe the cliques (complete subgraphs) of an undirected graph. Clique complex The clique complex of an undirected graph i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagen%E2%80%93Rubens%20relation
In optics, the Hagen–Rubens relation (or Hagen–Rubens formula) is a relation between the coefficient of reflection and the conductivity for materials that are good conductors. The relation states that for solids where the contribution of the dielectric constant to the index of refraction is negligible, the reflection c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parathyroid%20hormone%20family
The parathyroid hormone family is a family of structurally and functionally related proteins. Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is a polypeptidic hormone primarily involved in calcium metabolism. The parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTH-rP) is a related protein with predominantly paracrine function and possibly an endocrin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biosurvey
A biosurvey, or biological survey, is a scientific study of organisms to assess the condition of an ecological resource, such as a water body. Overview Biosurveys are used by government agencies responsible for management of public lands, environmental planning and/or environmental regulation to assess ecological reso...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Darkest%20Hour%20%28film%29
The Darkest Hour is a 2011 science fiction action film directed by Chris Gorak from a screenplay by Jon Spaihts and produced by Timur Bekmambetov. The film stars Emile Hirsch, Max Minghella, Olivia Thirlby, Rachael Taylor, and Joel Kinnaman as a group of people caught in an alien invasion. The film was released on Dece...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amina%20Doumane
Amina Doumane (September 2, 1990) is a Moroccan computer scientist who on during 2017 won the French Giles-Kahn prize for the best doctoral thesis in France. Her thesis was on the subject On the infinitary proof theory of logics with fixed points. On January 31 2018, Doumane was presented with the award by the French c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerard%20of%20Brussels
Gerard of Brussels (, ) was an early thirteenth-century geometer and philosopher known primarily for his Latin book Liber de motu (On Motion), which was a pioneering study in kinematics, probably written between 1187 and 1260. It has been described as "the first Latin treatise that was to take the fundamental approach ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesee%20Scientific
Genesee Scientific Corporation is a global life sciences supplier. History Genesee Scientific was founded by Ken Fry in 1995 as a provider of supplies to laboratories located along Genesee Avenue in University City, San Diego. Today, Genesee Scientific serves life science laboratories around the United States and t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XtreemFS
XtreemFS is an object-based, distributed file system for wide area networks. XtreemFS' outstanding feature is full (all components) and real (all failure scenarios, including network partitions) fault tolerance, while maintaining POSIX file system semantics. Fault-tolerance is achieved by using Paxos-based lease negoti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocompact%20group%20action
In mathematics, an action of a group G on a topological space X is cocompact if the quotient space X/G is a compact space. If X is locally compact, then an equivalent condition is that there is a compact subset K of X such that the image of K under the action of G covers X. It is sometimes referred to as mpact, a tongu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinostratus
Dinostratus (; c. 390 – c. 320 BCE) was a Greek mathematician and geometer, and the brother of Menaechmus. He is known for using the quadratrix to solve the problem of squaring the circle. Life and work Dinostratus' chief contribution to mathematics was his solution to the problem of squaring the circle. To solve thi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20D-Z27276
Haplogroup D-Z27276 also known as Haplogroup D1a1 is a Y-chromosome haplogroup. It is one of two branches of Haplogroup D1, one of the descendants of Haplogroup D. The other is D-M55 which is only found in Japan. This group is found in about 46.6% Tibetan people. It branched off D-M55 35,000-40,000 years before prese...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52nd%20meridian%20east
The meridian 52° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 52nd meridian east forms a great circle with the 128th meridian west. From Pole to Pole Starting at the North Po...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edit%20conflict
An edit conflict is a computer problem that may occur when multiple editors edit the same file and cannot merge without losing part or all of their edit. The conflict occurs when an editor gets a copy of a shared document file, changes the copy, and attempts to save the changes to the original file, which has been alte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelfth%20root%20of%20two
The twelfth root of two or (or equivalently ) is an algebraic irrational number, approximately equal to 1.0594631. It is most important in Western music theory, where it represents the frequency ratio (musical interval) of a semitone () in twelve-tone equal temperament. This number was proposed for the first time in r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20filter%20topology
Electronic filter topology defines electronic filter circuits without taking note of the values of the components used but only the manner in which those components are connected. Filter design characterises filter circuits primarily by their transfer function rather than their topology. Transfer functions may be line...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barefoot%20Networks
Barefoot Networks is a computer networking company headquartered in Santa Clara, California. The company designs and produces programmable network switch silicon, systems and software. The company was acquired by Intel in 2019. Background Barefoot Networks was founded in 2013. The company is backed by Andreessen Horo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michigan%20Mathematics%20Prize%20Competition
The Michigan Mathematics Prize Competition (MMPC) is an annual high school mathematics competition held in Michigan. First founded in 1958, the competition has grown to include over 10,000 high school participants (although middle-schoolers may also participate through a high school). The director and host of this comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far-Play
Far-Play (stylized fAR-Play, from augmented reality) is a software platform developed at the University of Alberta, for creating location-based, scavenger-hunt style games which use the GPS and web-connectivity features of a player's smartphone. According to the development team, "our long-term objective is to develop ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConSentry%20Networks
ConSentry Networks provides intelligent switching, providing user and application control for enterprises. ConSentry access layer LAN switches understand the username, device, role, application at Layer 7, and destination for each flow and apply policy dynamically. The company's patented multi-core CPU hardware enables...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haynsworth%20inertia%20additivity%20formula
In mathematics, the Haynsworth inertia additivity formula, discovered by Emilie Virginia Haynsworth (1916–1985), concerns the number of positive, negative, and zero eigenvalues of a Hermitian matrix and of block matrices into which it is partitioned. The inertia of a Hermitian matrix H is defined as the ordered triple...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debasisa%20Mohanty
Debasisa Mohanty (born 30 November 1966) is an Indian computational biologist, bioinformatician and a staff scientists at the National Institute of Immunology, India. Known for his studies on structure and function prediction of proteins, genome analysis and computer simulation of biomolecular systems, Mohanty is an el...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20damage%20theory%20of%20aging
The DNA damage theory of aging proposes that aging is a consequence of unrepaired accumulation of naturally occurring DNA damage. Damage in this context is a DNA alteration that has an abnormal structure. Although both mitochondrial and nuclear DNA damage can contribute to aging, nuclear DNA is the main subject of this...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inhalation
Inhalation (or inspiration) is the process of drawing air or other gases into the respiratory tract, primarily for the purpose of breathing and oxygen exchange within the body. It is a fundamental physiological function in humans and many other organisms, essential for sustaining life. Inhalation is the first phase of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimersen
Casimersen, sold under the brand name Amondys 45, is an antisense oligonucleotide medication used for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) in people who have a confirmed mutation of the dystrophin gene that is amenable to exon 45 skipping. It is an antisense oligonucleotide of phosphorodiamidate morpholin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%27s%20dome
Norton's dome is a thought experiment that exhibits a non-deterministic system within the bounds of Newtonian mechanics. It was devised by John D. Norton in 2003. It is a special limiting case of a more general class of examples from 1997 due to Sanjay Bhat and Dennis Bernstein. The Norton's dome problem can be regarde...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talairach%20coordinates
Talairach coordinates, also known as Talairach space, is a 3-dimensional coordinate system (known as an 'atlas') of the human brain, which is used to map the location of brain structures independent from individual differences in the size and overall shape of the brain. It is still common to use Talairach coordinates i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUTS%20statistical%20regions%20of%20Romania
In the NUTS (Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics) codes of Romania (RO), the three levels are: NUTS codes RO1 Macroregion one (Macroregiunea Unu) RO11 Nord-Vest RO111 Bihor County RO112 Bistrița-Năsăud County RO113 Cluj County RO114 Maramureș County RO115 Satu Mare County RO116 Sălaj County RO12 Centru R...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perineal%20artery
The perineal artery (superficial perineal artery) arises from the internal pudendal artery, and turns upward, crossing either over or under the superficial transverse perineal muscle, and runs forward, parallel to the pubic arch, in the interspace between the bulbospongiosus and ischiocavernosus muscles, both of which ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphonogelia
Aphonogelia is a rare neuropsychological condition with which a person cannot laugh audibly.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serum%20chloride
Chloride is an anion in the human body needed for metabolism (the process of turning food into energy). It also helps keep the body's acid-base balance. The amount of serum chloride is carefully controlled by the kidneys. Chloride ions have important physiological roles. For instance, in the central nervous system, th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPC-W
TPC-W was a web server and database performance benchmark, proposed by Transaction Processing Performance Council. This benchmark defined the complete Web-based shop for searching, browsing and ordering books. The system under testing needed to provide the implementation of this shop. TPC-W standard describes all page...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoidance%20reaction
Avoidance reaction is a term used in the description of the movement of paramecium. This helps the cell avoid obstacles and causes other objects to bounce off of the cell's outer membrane. The paramecium does this by reversing the direction in which its cilia beat. This results in stopping, spinning or turning, after w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incertae%20sedis
or is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Alternatively, such groups are frequently referred to as "enigmatic taxa". In the system of open nomenclature, uncertainty at specific taxonomic levels is indicated by (of uncertain family), (of uncertain suborder), (o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Randell
Brian Randell DSc FBCS FLSW (born 1936) is a British computer scientist, and emeritus professor at the School of Computing, Newcastle University, United Kingdom. He specialises in research into software fault tolerance and dependability, and is a noted authority on the early pre-1950 history of computing hardware. Bio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agata%20Ciabattoni
Agata Ciabattoni is an Italian mathematical logician specializing in non-classical logic. She is a full professor at the Institute of Logic and Computation of the Faculty of Informatics at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), and a co-chair of the Vienna Center for Logic and Algorithms of TU Wien (VCLA). Edu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wax%20thermostatic%20element
The wax thermostatic element was invented in 1934 by Sergius Vernet (1899–1968). Its principal application is in automotive thermostats used in the engine cooling system. The first applications in the plumbing and heating industries were in Sweden (1970) and in Switzerland (1971). Wax thermostatic elements transform h...