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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langer%E2%80%93Giedion%20syndrome | Langer–Giedion syndrome (LGS) is a very uncommon autosomal dominant genetic disorder caused by a deletion of a small section of material on chromosome 8. It is named after the two doctors who undertook the main research into the condition in the 1960s. Diagnosis is usually made at birth or in early childhood.
Signs an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezio%20Auditore%20da%20Firenze | Ezio Auditore da Firenze () is a fictional character in the video game series Assassin's Creed, an Italian Master Assassin who serves as the protagonist of the series' games set during the Italian Renaissance. His life and career as an Assassin are chronicled in Assassin's Creed II, II: Discovery (both 2009), Brotherho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoology%20Building | The Zoology Building is a facility owned by the University of Aberdeen. It is situated in Tillydrone.
History
During construction, the building collapsed on 1 November 1966. It had been expected to be completed by summer 1967. Eight people were trapped, of which five died. Clearing of the site started in February 1967... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertriton | A hypertriton is a type of hypernucleus, formed of a proton, a neutron and any hyperon. The name comes from hyperon, which refers to baryons containing strange quarks, and triton, which refers to the nucleus of tritium. Because low-mass hyperons are longer-lived and easier to create than high-mass hyperons, the most co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDMOS | LDMOS (laterally-diffused metal-oxide semiconductor) is a planar double-diffused MOSFET (metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor) used in amplifiers, including microwave power amplifiers, RF power amplifiers and audio power amplifiers. These transistors are often fabricated on p/p+ silicon epitaxial layers. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basement | A basement or cellar is one or more floors of a building that are completely or partly below the ground floor. It generally is used as a utility space for a building, where such items as the furnace, water heater, breaker panel or fuse box, car park, and air-conditioning system are located; so also are amenities such a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TreapDB | TreapDB is a kind of NoSQL data store, and it is based on Treap data structure. Treap is a randomized balanced search tree, which has O(log(n)) complexity to insert or find a key. TreapDB supports many operations besides "get" and "set". For example, "prefix foo" fetch all the pairs whose key startswith "foo". TreapD... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom | An axiom, postulate, or assumption is a statement that is taken to be true, to serve as a premise or starting point for further reasoning and arguments. The word comes from the Ancient Greek word (), meaning 'that which is thought worthy or fit' or 'that which commends itself as evident'.
The precise definition varie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutation%20breeding | Mutation breeding, sometimes referred to as "variation breeding", is the process of exposing seeds to chemicals, radiation, or enzymes in order to generate mutants with desirable traits to be bred with other cultivars. Plants created using mutagenesis are sometimes called mutagenic plants or mutagenic seeds.
From 193... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propositional%20function | In propositional calculus, a propositional function or a predicate is a sentence expressed in a way that would assume the value of true or false, except that within the sentence there is a variable (x) that is not defined or specified (thus being a free variable), which leaves the statement undetermined. The sentence m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxaloacetic%20acid | Oxaloacetic acid (also known as oxalacetic acid or OAA) is a crystalline organic compound with the chemical formula HO2CC(O)CH2CO2H. Oxaloacetic acid, in the form of its conjugate base oxaloacetate, is a metabolic intermediate in many processes that occur in animals. It takes part in gluconeogenesis, the urea cycle, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progress%20in%20Biophysics%20and%20Molecular%20Biology | Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing review articles in the fields of biophysics and molecular biology. It was established in 1950 as Progress in Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, obtaining its current title in 1963.
It is published by Elsevier and the edito... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcomere | A sarcomere (Greek σάρξ sarx "flesh", μέρος meros "part") is the smallest functional unit of striated muscle tissue. It is the repeating unit between two Z-lines. Skeletal muscles are composed of tubular muscle cells (called muscle fibers or myofibers) which are formed during embryonic myogenesis. Muscle fibers contai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta%20hairpin | The beta hairpin (sometimes also called beta-ribbon or beta-beta unit) is a simple protein structural motif involving two beta strands that look like a hairpin. The motif consists of two strands that are adjacent in primary structure, oriented in an antiparallel direction (the N-terminus of one sheet is adjacent to the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20encoding%20of%20APL%20symbols | The programming language APL uses a number of symbols, rather than words from natural language, to identify operations, similarly to mathematical symbols. Prior to the wide adoption of Unicode, a number of special-purpose EBCDIC and non-EBCDIC code pages were used to represent the symbols required for writing APL.
Cha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large%20deformation%20diffeomorphic%20metric%20mapping | Large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping (LDDMM) is a specific suite of algorithms used for diffeomorphic mapping and manipulating dense imagery based on diffeomorphic metric mapping within the academic discipline of computational anatomy, to be distinguished from its precursor based on diffeomorphic mapping. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20Coast%20Reserve%20Long-Term%20Ecological%20Research | The Virginia Coast Reserve Long-Term Ecological Research (VCR/LTER) project is funded by the National Science Foundation. The VCR/LTER project's research activities focus on the mosaic of transitions and steady-state systems that comprise the barrier-island/lagoon/mainland landscape of the Eastern Shore of Virginia. Re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic%20Fourier%20transform | In mathematical physics and harmonic analysis, the quadratic Fourier transform is an integral transform that generalizes the fractional Fourier transform, which in turn generalizes the Fourier transform.
Roughly speaking, the Fourier transform corresponds to a change of variables from time to frequency (in the context... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumcenter%20of%20mass | In geometry, the circumcenter of mass is a center associated with a polygon which shares many of the properties of the center of mass. More generally, the circumcenter of mass may be defined for simplicial polytopes and also in the spherical and hyperbolic geometries.
In the special case when the polytope is a quadril... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridium%20botulinum%20C3%20toxin | Clostridium botulinum C3 exoenzyme is a toxin that causes the addition of one or more ADP-ribose moieties to Rho-like proteins. Many bacterial toxins nucleotide-binding modify by ADP-ribosylation proteins involved in essential cell functions, leading to their toxic effects.
Action
The molecular basis of the action of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sougwen%20Chung | Sougwen Chung (鍾愫君) is a Chinese-born, Canadian-raised artist residing in London. Chung's artistic practices are based on performance, drawing, still image, sculpture, and installation. Chung's work investigates mark-made-by-machine and mark-made-by-hand for understanding the encounter of computers and humans.
Early l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IL36G | Interleukin-36 gamma previously known as interleukin-1 family member 9 (IL1F9) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IL36G gene.
Expression
IL36G is well-expressed in the epithelium of the skin, gut, and lung. In the skin IL36G is predominantly expressed in epidermal granular layer keratinocytes with little t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petromarula | Petromarula is a genus of plants in the family Campanulaceae. There is only one known species, Petromarula pinnata, endemic to the island of Crete in the Mediterranean. The name "Petromarula" means "rock lettuce" in Greek, a reference to the plant's traditional use in salads.
Description
Petromarula pinnata is a robu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrestin%20beta%202 | Beta-arrestin-2, also known as arrestin beta-2, is an intracellular protein that in humans is encoded by the ARRB2 gene.
Members of arrestin/beta-arrestin protein family are thought to participate in agonist-mediated desensitization of G protein-coupled receptors and cause specific dampening of cellular responses to s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crysis%202 | Crysis 2 is a first-person shooter video game developed by Crytek, published by Electronic Arts and released in North America, Australia and Europe in March 2011 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360. Officially announced on June 1, 2009, the game is the second main installment of the Crysis series, and a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fimbrial%20usher%20protein | The fimbrial usher protein is involved in biogenesis of the pilus in Gram-negative bacteria. The biogenesis of some fimbriae (or pili) requires a two-component assembly and transport system which is composed of a periplasmic chaperone and a pore-forming outer membrane protein which has been termed a molecular 'usher'; ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20hole%20thermodynamics | In physics, black hole thermodynamics is the area of study that seeks to reconcile the laws of thermodynamics with the existence of black hole event horizons. As the study of the statistical mechanics of black-body radiation led to the development of the theory of quantum mechanics, the effort to understand the statis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunford%E2%80%93Schwartz%20theorem | In mathematics, particularly functional analysis, the Dunford–Schwartz theorem, named after Nelson Dunford and Jacob T. Schwartz, states that the averages of powers of certain norm-bounded operators on L1 converge in a suitable sense.
Statement of the theorem
The statement is no longer true when the boundedness co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math%20Blaster%20Mystery | Math Blaster Mystery is a 1989 educational video game within the Blaster Learning System franchise, developed by Davidson & Associates. It was the second title after the original Math Blaster! and available on Apple II, Apple IIGS and Macintosh computers.
In May 1993, the game was added to all 15 IBM-compatible comput... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change%20ringing | Change ringing is the art of ringing a set of tuned bells in a tightly controlled manner to produce precise variations in their successive striking sequences, known as "changes". This can be by method ringing in which the ringers commit to memory the rules for generating each change, or by call changes, where the ringe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VDAC2 | Voltage-dependent anion-selective channel protein 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the VDAC2 gene on chromosome 10. This protein is a voltage-dependent anion channel and shares high structural homology with the other VDAC isoforms. VDACs are generally involved in the regulation of cell metabolism, mitochondr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Journal%20of%20AIDS%20Research | The African Journal of AIDS Research is a peer-reviewed medical journal published in 2002 by the National Inquiry Services Centre (Grahamstown, South Africa) on topics related related to understanding the social dimensions to AIDS in Africa. Launched to address the lack of an African-managed journal focussed on social-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-statistic | V-statistics are a class of statistics named for Richard von Mises who developed their asymptotic distribution theory in a fundamental paper in 1947. V-statistics are closely related to U-statistics (U for "unbiased") introduced by Wassily Hoeffding in 1948. A V-statistic is a statistical function (of a sample) define... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenation | In formal language theory and computer programming, string concatenation is the operation of joining character strings end-to-end. For example, the concatenation of "snow" and "ball" is "snowball". In certain formalisations of concatenation theory, also called string theory, string concatenation is a primitive notion... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source-code%20editor | A source-code editor is a text editor program designed specifically for editing source code of computer programs. It may be a standalone application or it may be built into an integrated development environment (IDE).
Characteristics
Source-code editors have characteristics specifically designed to simplify and speed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Stammering%20Association | The British Stammering Association (BSA), trading as STAMMA since 2019, is a national membership organisation in the United Kingdom for adults and children who stammer, their friends and families, speech and language therapists and other professionals. It became a charity in 1978 and is based in London. The mission of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforestation%20in%20Costa%20Rica | Reforestation efforts are being made in Costa Rica to recondition its biodiversity and ecosystems that were affected by heavy deforestation in the 1900s.
History
Costa Rica has six different ecosystems, and is considered a biodiversity hotspot– having 5% of the world's total biodiversity within 0.1% of its landmass. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic%203-manifold | In mathematics, more precisely in topology and differential geometry, a hyperbolic 3-manifold is a manifold of dimension 3 equipped with a hyperbolic metric, that is a Riemannian metric which has all its sectional curvatures equal to −1. It is generally required that this metric be also complete: in this case the manif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20and%20Mechanics%20of%20Complex%20Systems | Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems (MEMOCS) is a half-yearly peer-reviewed scientific journal founded by the International Research Center for the Mathematics and Mechanics of Complex Systems (M&MoCS) from Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, in Italy. It is published by Mathematical Sciences Publishers, and f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiseat%20configuration | A multiseat, multi-station or multiterminal system is a single computer which supports multiple independent local users at the same time.
A "seat" consists of all hardware devices assigned to a specific workplace at which one user sits at and interacts with the computer. It consists of at least one graphics device (g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supergroup%20%28biology%29 | A supergroup, in evolutionary biology, is a large group of organisms that share one common ancestor and have important defining characteristics. It is an informal, mostly arbitrary rank in biological taxonomy that is often greater than phylum or kingdom, although some supergroups are also treated as phyla.
Eukaryotic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical%20model | A canonical model is a design pattern used to communicate between different data formats. Essentially: create a data model which is a superset of all the others ("canonical"), and create a "translator" module or layer to/from which all existing modules exchange data with other modules. The canonical model acts as a m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bias%20in%20the%20introduction%20of%20variation | Bias in the introduction of variation ("arrival bias") refers to a theory in the domain of evolutionary biology that asserts biases in the introduction of heritable variation are reflected in the outcome of evolution. It is relevant to topics in molecular evolution, evo-devo, and self-organization. In the context of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy99 | Happy99 (also termed Ska or I-Worm) is a computer worm for Microsoft Windows. It first appeared in mid-January 1999, spreading through email and usenet. The worm installs itself and runs in the background of a victim's machine, without their knowledge. It is generally considered the first virus to propagate by email, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arden%27s%20rule | In theoretical computer science, Arden's rule, also known as Arden's lemma, is a mathematical statement about a certain form of language equations.
Background
A (formal) language is simply a set of strings. Such sets can be specified by means of some language equation, which in turn is based on operations on languages... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical%20of%20an%20integer | In number theory, the radical of a positive integer n is defined as the product of the distinct prime numbers dividing n. Each prime factor of n occurs exactly once as a factor of this product:
The radical plays a central role in the statement of the abc conjecture.
Examples
Radical numbers for the first few positi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanterelle | Chanterelle is the common name of several species of fungi in the genera Cantharellus, Craterellus, Gomphus, and Polyozellus. They are among the most popular of wild edible mushrooms. They are orange, yellow or white, meaty and funnel-shaped. On the lower surface, underneath the smooth cap, most species have rounded, f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20logic%20spectroscopy | Quantum logic spectroscopy (QLS) is an ion control scheme that maps quantum information between two co-trapped ion species. Quantum logic operations allow desirable properties of each ion species to be utilized simultaneously. This enables work with ions and molecular ions that have complex internal energy level struct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized%20web | The decentralized web is a research program which proposes to reorganize the Internet using peer-to-peer or federated infrastructure rather than centralized data hosting services. Interest in the decentralized web arose due to the lack of trust in network maintenance organizations, due to scandals involving widespread ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant%20routine%20protocol | A constant routine protocol is a common method used in human circadian rhythm research to study internally generated, or endogenous, circadian rhythms without the effect of external, or exogenous, influences. In the method, subjects are kept in constant conditions for at least 24 hours. These include constant light and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-body%20problem%20in%20general%20relativity | The two-body problem in general relativity (or relativistic two-body problem) is the determination of the motion and gravitational field of two bodies as described by the field equations of general relativity. Solving the Kepler problem is essential to calculate the bending of light by gravity and the motion of a plane... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic%20production%20in%20China | Garlic production in China is significant to the worldwide garlic industry, as China provides 80% of the total world production and is the leading exporter. Following China, other significant garlic producers include India (5% of world production) and Bangladesh (1%). As of 2019, China produced 23 million tonnes annual... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20of%20care%20medical%20information%20summary | Point of care medical information summaries are defined as "web-based medical compendia specifically designed to deliver predigested, rapidly accessible, comprehensive, periodically updated, and evidence-based information" to healthcare providers.
Products
BMJ Best Practice
DynaMed
UpToDate
See also
Clinical decisi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20lithography | In semiconductor device fabrication, the inverse lithography technology (ILT) is an approach to photomask design. This is basically an approach to solve an inverse imaging problem: to calculate the shapes of the openings in a photomask ("source") so that the passing light produces a good approximation of the desired pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drainage%20equation | A drainage equation is an equation describing the relation between depth and spacing of parallel subsurface drains, depth of the watertable, depth and hydraulic conductivity of the soils. It is used in drainage design.
A well known steady-state drainage equation is the Hooghoudt drain spacing equation. Its original pu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal%20and%20flag%20of%20the%20Panama%20Canal%20Zone | The seal and flag were the symbols of the Panama Canal Zone, an unincorporated territory of the United States, that existed from 1903 to 1979. The seal was adopted in 1906, and the flag in 1915. They were used until October 1, 1979, when the territory ceased to exist.
Design
Seal
The 1906 design of the seal had cent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALESS%20073.1 | ALESS 073.1 is an old spiral galaxy 12 billion light years away from Earth. The discovery was published in February 2021 in the journal Science. It has challenged the way astronomers understand galaxies and galaxy formation.
Observation
The galaxy was reported in a study conducted by a team of astronomers led by Dr.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20seed%20oil | Apple seed oil is a vegetable oil obtained by pressing apple seeds. It is used in manufacturing cosmetics.
Apple seed oil contains protein (about 34%). Apple seed oil may be used as an edible oil, with the oil cake being used to supplement animal feed.
Apple seed oil has a relatively high iodine value and because of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIDI%20beat%20clock | MIDI beat clock, or simply MIDI clock, is a clock signal that is broadcast via MIDI to ensure that several MIDI-enabled devices such as a synthesizer or music sequencer stay in synchronization. Clock events are sent at a rate of 24 pulses per quarter note. Those pulses are used to maintain a synchronized tempo for synt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester%20Dubins | Lester Dubins (April 27, 1920 – February 11, 2010) was an American mathematician noted primarily for his research in probability theory. He was a faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley from 1962 through 2004, and in retirement was Professor Emeritus of Mathematics and Statistics.
It has been thoug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acervulus | An acervulus (pl. acervuli) is a small asexual fruiting body that erupts through the epidermis of host plants parasitised by mitosporic fungi of the form order Melanconiales (Deuteromycota, Coelomycetes). It has the form of a small cushion at the bottom of which short crowded conidiophores are formed. The spores escape... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XHTML%20Friends%20Network | XHTML Friends Network (XFN) is an HTML microformat developed by Global Multimedia Protocols Group that provides a simple way to represent human relationships using links. XFN enables web authors to indicate relationships to the people in their blogrolls by adding one or more keywords as the rel attribute to their links... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search/Retrieve%20Web%20Service | Search/Retrieve Web service (SRW) is a web service for search and retrieval. SRW provides a SOAP interface to queries, to augment the URL interface provided by its companion protocol Search/Retrieve via URL (SRU). Queries in SRU and SRW are expressed using the Contextual Query Language (CQL).
Standards for SRW, SRU, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netocracy | Netocracy was a term invented by the editorial board of the American technology magazine Wired in the early 1990s. A portmanteau of Internet and aristocracy, netocracy refers to a perceived global upper-class that bases its power on a technological advantage and networking skills, in comparison to what is portrayed as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMP%20%28computer%20algebra%20system%29 | Symbolic Manipulation Program, usually called SMP, was a computer algebra system designed by Chris A. Cole and Stephen Wolfram at Caltech circa 1979. It was initially developed in the Caltech physics department with contributions from Geoffrey C. Fox, Jeffrey M. Greif, Eric D. Mjolsness, Larry J. Romans, Timothy Shaw, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas%20Blass | Andreas Raphael Blass (born October 27, 1947) is a mathematician, currently a professor at the University of Michigan. He works in mathematical logic, particularly set theory, and theoretical computer science.
Blass graduated from the University of Detroit, where he was a Putnam Fellow in 1965, in 1966 with a B.S. in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon%20ElastiCache | Amazon ElastiCache is a fully managed in-memory data store and cache service by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The service improves the performance of web applications by retrieving information from managed in-memory caches, instead of relying entirely on slower disk-based databases. ElastiCache supports two open-source in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnocomputing | Ethnocomputing is the study of the interactions between computing and culture. It is carried out through theoretical analysis, empirical investigation, and design implementation. It includes research on the impact of computing on society, as well as the reverse: how cultural, historical, personal, and societal origins ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity%20capture | Affinity capture is a technique in molecular biology used to isolate desired compounds based on their chemical properties and a solid substrate. Commonly, plates out of solid materials such as glass are coated with various reagents to allow for covalent bonding of a capturing molecule such as an antibody. Afterwards, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutant%20protein | A mutant protein is the protein product encoded by a gene with mutation. Mutated protein can have single amino acid change (minor, but still in many cases significant change leading to disease) or wide-range amino acid changes by e.g. truncation of C-terminus after introducing premature stop codon.
See also
Site-dir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombenzielanlage | The Bombenzielanlage ("Bomb Target System"), sometimes referred to as the Bomb Ziel Automat (BZA), was a German World War II bombsight analog computer designed to calculate the precise release of bombs during dive-bombing. It was fitted to a number of aircraft types, including the Junkers Ju 88 and the Arado Ar 234. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiologia%20Plantarum | Physiologia Plantarum is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Scandinavian Plant Physiology Society. The journal publishes papers on all aspects of all organizational levels of experimental plant biology ranging from biophysics, biochemistry, molecular and cell biology to eco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulkan | Vulkan is a low-overhead, cross-platform API and open standard for 3D graphics and computing. It was originally developed as Mantle by AMD, but was later given to Khronos Group. It was intended to address the shortcomings of OpenGL, and allow developers more control over the GPU.
Overview
Vulkan targets high-performa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a variable (from Latin variabilis, "changeable") is a symbol that represents a mathematical object. A variable may represent a number, a vector, a matrix, a function, the argument of a function, a set, or an element of a set.
Algebraic computations with variables as if they were explicit numbers solve ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquiherbosa | An aquiherbosa is a plant community of herbaceous plants that exists in abundantly wet areas. This can refer to plant communities in wetlands, ponds, or other bodies of water. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmoconformer | Osmoconformers are marine organisms that maintain an internal environment which is isotonic to their external environment. This means that the osmotic pressure of the organism's cells is equal to the osmotic pressure of their surrounding environment. By minimizing the osmotic gradient, this subsequently minimizes the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaak%20Khalatnikov | Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov (, ; 17 October 1919 – 9 January 2021) was a leading Soviet theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to many areas of theoretical physics, including general relativity, quantum field theory, as well as the theory of quantum liquids. He is well known for his role in developin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyphomicrobiales | The Hyphomicrobiales (synonom Rhizobiales) are an order of Gram-negative Alphaproteobacteria.
The rhizobia, which fix nitrogen and are symbiotic with plant roots, appear in several different families. The four families Nitrobacteraceae, Hyphomicrobiaceae, Phyllobacteriaceae, and Rhizobiaceae contain at least several g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirius%20%28synchrotron%20light%20source%29 | Sirius is a diffraction-limited storage ring synchrotron light source at the Laboratório Nacional de Luz Síncrotron in Campinas, São Paulo State, Brazil. It has a circumference of , a diameter of , and an electron energy of 3 GeV. The produced synchrotron radiation covers the range of infrared, optical, ultraviolet and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Current%20solar%20income | The current solar income of the Earth, or any ecoregion of the earth, is the amount of solar energy that falls on it as sunlight. This is thought important in some branches of green economics, as the ultimate measure of renewable energy.
Buckminster Fuller first described the concept in his 1970 paper Cosmic Costing,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20jacking | Flag-jacking () is the act of travelers wearing a foreign flag on their clothing or backpack in an attempt to disguise the country they are visiting from; this occurs most prominently in cases where American tourists wear Canadian flags in an attempt to pass as Canadians. The intention is that by showing the flag of a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete%20linkage | In genetics, complete (or absolute) linkage is defined as the state in which two loci are so close together that alleles of these loci are virtually never separated by crossing over. The closer the physical location of two genes on the DNA, the less likely they are to be separated by a crossing-over event. In the case ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectopic%20pancreas | An ectopic pancreas is an anatomical abnormality in which pancreatic tissue has grown outside its normal location and without vascular or other anatomical connections to the pancreas. It is a congenital disease and is also known as heterotopic, accessory, or aberrant pancreas.
Signs and symptoms
Often, heterotopic pan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodecahedral%20conjecture | The dodecahedral conjecture in geometry is intimately related to sphere packing.
László Fejes Tóth, a 20th-century Hungarian geometer, considered the Voronoi decomposition of any given packing of unit spheres. He conjectured in 1943 that the minimal volume of any cell in the resulting Voronoi decomposition was at lea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AgcXML | agcXML is a set of extensible markup language (XML) schemas designed to automate and streamline the exchange of information during the building design and construction process. agcXML facilitates the electronic exchange of typical business information between different programs that would otherwise be exchanged in unst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keysmash | A keysmash (alternatively key smash or keyboard smash) is internet slang for the typing out of a random sequence of letters on a computer keyboard or touchscreen, often to express intense emotion. Gaining popularity since 2019, the term is often used to convey intense or indescribable emotions (such as frustration or e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivic%20integration | Motivic integration is a notion in algebraic geometry that was introduced by Maxim Kontsevich in 1995 and was developed by Jan Denef and François Loeser. Since its introduction it has proved to be quite useful in various branches of algebraic geometry, most notably birational geometry and singularity theory. Roughly s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic%20Bridges%20and%20Tails | Galactic Bridges and Tails is a computer animation film created in 1972 by astrophysicists Alar Toomre and Juri Toomre. The brothers created the film as a teaching aid to accompany their 1972 landmark research paper of the same name, published in The Astrophysical Journal, which described galaxy collisions and galaxy m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moseley%27s%20law | Moseley's law is an empirical law concerning the characteristic X-rays emitted by atoms. The law had been discovered and published by the English physicist Henry Moseley in 1913–1914. Until Moseley's work, "atomic number" was merely an element's place in the periodic table and was not known to be associated with any m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THEOS | THEOS, which translates from Greek as "God", is an operating system which started out as OASIS, a microcomputer operating system for small computers that use the Z80 processor. When the operating system was launched for the IBM Personal Computer/AT in 1982, the decision was taken to change the name from OASIS to THEOS,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parenthesome | Within the cells of some members of basidiomycetes fungi are found microscopic structures called parenthesomes or septal pore caps. They are shaped like parentheses and found on either side of pores in the dolipore septum which separates cells within a hypha. Their function has not been established, and their composi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ODE-CDV | ODE-CDV (octadecyloxyethyl-cidofovir) is a cidofovir derivative with antiviral activity. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenuazonic%20acid | Tenuazonic acid is a mycotoxin produced by Alternaria species. It is a powerful eukaryotic protein synthesis inhibitor. It is a tetrameric acid that is ubiquitous in biological environments and prevents the release of newly synthesized protein from the ribosome. Its toxicity is the highest among all Alternaria mycotoxi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golgi%20tendon%20organ | The Golgi tendon organ (GTO) (also called Golgi organ, tendon organ, neurotendinous organ or neurotendinous spindle) is a proprioceptor – a type of sensory receptor that senses changes in muscle tension. It lies at the interface between a muscle and its tendon known as the musculotendinous junction also known as the my... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon%20Even | Shimon Even (; June 15, 1935 – May 1, 2004) was an Israeli computer science researcher. His main topics of interest included algorithms, graph theory and cryptography. He was a member of the Computer Science Department at the Technion since 1974. Shimon Even was the PhD advisor of Oded Goldreich, a prominent cryptogra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torus-based%20cryptography | Torus-based cryptography involves using algebraic tori to construct a group for use in ciphers based on the discrete logarithm problem. This idea was first introduced by Alice Silverberg and Karl Rubin in 2003 in the form of a public key algorithm by the name of CEILIDH. It improves on conventional cryptosystems by re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock%20Origin | uBlock Origin (; "" ) is a free and open-source browser extension for content filtering, including ad blocking. The extension is available for Chrome, Chromium, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Pale Moon, as well as versions of Safari prior to 13. uBlock Origin has received praise from technology websites and is reported to be mu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace%2C%20extend%2C%20and%20extinguish | "Embrace, extend, and extinguish" (EEE), also known as "embrace, extend, and exterminate", is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20variable | In control theory, a process variable (PV; also process value or process parameter) is the current measured value of a particular part of a process which is being monitored or controlled. An example of this would be the temperature of a furnace. The current temperature is the process variable, while the desired tempera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENI%20number | An ENI number (European Number of Identification or European Vessel Identification Number) is a registration for ships capable of navigating on inland European waters. It is a unique, eight-digit identifier that is attached to a hull for its entire lifetime, independent of the vessel's current name or flag.
ENI was in... |
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