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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenio%20Berr%C3%ADos | Eugenio Berríos Sagredo (November 14, 1947 – November 15, 1992) was a Chilean biochemist who worked for the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA).
Berríos was charged with carrying out Proyecto Andrea in which Pinochet ordered the production of sarin, a nerve agent used by the DINA. Sarin gas leaves no trace and v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Possible%20Worlds%20%28play%29 | Possible Worlds is a play written in 1990 by John Mighton. The author, Mighton, is a mathematician and philosopher. His plays tend to meld science, drama and math into one cohesive piece. It is part murder mystery, part science-fiction, and part mathematical philosophy and follows the multiple parallel lives of the mai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibrillarin | rRNA 2'-O-methyltransferase fibrillarin is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the FBL gene.
Function
This gene product is a component of a nucleolar small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (snRNP) particle thought to participate in the first step in processing pre-ribosomal (r)RNA. It is associated with the U3, U8, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake%20news%20website | Fake news websites (also referred to as hoax news websites) are websites on the Internet that deliberately publish fake news—hoaxes, propaganda, and disinformation purporting to be real news—often using social media to drive web traffic and amplify their effect. Unlike news satire, fake news websites deliberately seek ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-core | A single-core processor is a microprocessor with a single core on its die. It performs the fetch-decode-execute cycle once per clock-cycle, as it only runs on one thread. A computer using a single core CPU is generally slower than a multi-core system.
Single core processors used to be widespread in desktop computers,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condensed%20matter%20physics | Condensed matter physics is the field of physics that deals with the macroscopic and microscopic physical properties of matter, especially the solid and liquid phases which arise from electromagnetic forces between atoms. More generally, the subject deals with condensed phases of matter: systems of many constituents wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive%20gravity | In theoretical physics, massive gravity is a theory of gravity that modifies general relativity by endowing the graviton with a nonzero mass. In the classical theory, this means that gravitational waves obey a massive wave equation and hence travel at speeds below the speed of light.
Background
Massive gravity has a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRC%20Human%20Genetics%20Unit | The Medical Research Council (UK) Human Genetics Unit is situated at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh. It is one of the largest MRC research establishments, housing over two hundred scientists, support staff, research fellows, PhD students, and visiting workers.
Staff
current and former staff at the MRC HGU ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychotomous%20key | Polychotomous key refers to the number of alternatives which a decision point may have in a non-temporal hierarchy of independent variables. The number of alternatives are equivalent to the root or nth root of a mathematical or logical variable. Decision points or independent variables with two states have a binary roo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasman%20Outflow | The Tasman Outflow is a water pathway connecting water from the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean. The existence of the outflow was published by scientists of the Australian CSIRO's Division of Marine and Atmospheric Research team in August 2007, interpreting salinity and temperature data captured from 1950 to 2002. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20commissure | The posterior commissure (also known as the epithalamic commissure) is a rounded band of white fibers crossing the middle line on the dorsal aspect of the rostral end of the cerebral aqueduct. It is important in the bilateral pupillary light reflex. It constitutes part of the epithalamus.
Its fibers acquire their medu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cricetid%20gammaherpesvirus%202 | Cricetid gammaherpesvirus 2 (CrHV-2) is a species of virus in the genus Rhadinovirus, subfamily Gammaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neanderthal%20behavior | Almost everything about Neanderthal behaviour remains controversial. From their physiology, Neanderthals are presumed to have been omnivores, but animal protein formed the majority of their dietary protein, showing them to have been carnivorous apex predators and not scavengers. Although very little is known of their s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilinear%20coordinates | In geometry, the trilinear coordinates of a point relative to a given triangle describe the relative directed distances from the three sidelines of the triangle. Trilinear coordinates are an example of homogeneous coordinates. The ratio is the ratio of the perpendicular distances from the point to the sides (extend... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teliospore | Teliospore (sometimes called teleutospore) is the thick-walled resting spore of some fungi (rusts and smuts), from which the basidium arises.
Development
They develop in telia (sing. telium or teliosorus).
The telial host is the primary host in heteroecious rusts. The aecial host is the alternate host (look for pycn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VA%20conduction | VA conduction, also named Ventriculoatrial conduction and sometimes referred to as Retrograde conduction, is the conduction backward phenomena in the heart, where the conduction comes from the ventricles or from the AV node into and through the atria.
Retrograde VA conduction results in many different symptoms, primar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prototype%20filter | Prototype filters are electronic filter designs that are used as a template to produce a modified filter design for a particular application. They are an example of a nondimensionalised design from which the desired filter can be scaled or transformed. They are most often seen in regard to electronic filters and espe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marionette%20lines | Marionette lines (melomental folds) are long vertical lines that laterally circumscribe the chin. They are important landmarks for the general impression of the face. Marionette lines appear with advancing age, but some people never get them, depending on facial structure and anatomy. They tend to appear as the ligamen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaf%20sensor | A leaf sensor is a phytometric device (measurement of plant physiological processes) that measures water loss or the water deficit stress (WDS) in plants by real-time monitoring the moisture level in plant leaves. The first leaf sensor was developed by LeafSens, an Israeli company granted a US patent for a mechanical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compuverde | Compuverde AB is an information technology company that specializes in computer data storage and cloud computing.
Description
Compuverde was founded by Stefan Bernbo, Christian Melander, and Roger Persson in 2008. It is headquartered in Karlskrona; in the southeastern part of Sweden.
It markets software-defined storag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vocal%20tract | The vocal tract is the cavity in human bodies and in animals where the sound produced at the sound source (larynx in mammals; syrinx in birds) is filtered.
In birds it consists of the trachea, the syrinx, the oral cavity, the upper part of the esophagus, and the beak. In mammals it consists of the laryngeal cavity, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butyl%20acetate | n-Butyl acetate is an organic compound with the formula . A colorless, flammable liquid, it is the ester derived from n-butanol and acetic acid. It is found in many types of fruit, where it imparts characteristic flavors and has a sweet smell of banana or apple. It is used as an industrial solvent.
The other three iso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic%20secret%20sharing | In cryptography, homomorphic secret sharing is a type of secret sharing algorithm in which the secret is encrypted via homomorphic encryption. A homomorphism is a transformation from one algebraic structure into another of the same type so that the structure is preserved. Importantly, this means that for every kind of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colm%20Mulcahy | Colm Mulcahy (born September 1958) is an Irish mathematician, academic, columnist, book author, public outreach speaker, and amateur magician. He is Professor Emeritus at Spelman College, where he was on the faculty from 1988 to 2020. In addition to algebra, number theory, and geometry, his interests include mathemagic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clausena%20lansium | Clausena lansium, also known as wampee or wampi (from Cantonese ), is a species of strongly scented evergreen trees 3–8 m tall, in the family Rutaceae, native to southeast Asia.
Its leaves are smooth and dark green. White flowers in late March are white, with four or five petals, about 3–4 mm in diameter. The fruit is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken%20shit | "Chicken shit", or more commonly "chickenshit", is a slang term, usually regarded as vulgar. The online Merriam-Webster dictionary defines chickenshit (one word) as a vulgar adjective with two possible meanings: "petty, insignificant" or "lacking courage, manliness, or effectiveness".
Coward
The term has been used fig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoophily | Zoophily, or zoogamy, is a form of pollination whereby pollen is transferred by animals, usually by invertebrates but in some cases vertebrates, particularly birds and bats, but also by other animals. Zoophilous species frequently have evolved mechanisms to make themselves more appealing to the particular type of polli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animality%20studies | Animality studies is an emerging interdisciplinary academic field focused on the cultural study of animals and animality. It can be distinguished from animal studies and critical animal studies by its resistance to animal rights or animal welfare as an explicit justification for work in this field. According to Micha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20of%20Denial%20%28film%29 | State of Denial is a 2003 documentary film about AIDS in Africa, produced and directed by Elaine Epstein. The film highlights the errors of President Mbeki's government, which insists that there isn't enough evidence to show that HIV causes AIDS and refuses vital life-saving drugs to their people because of unknown lon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role-taking%20theory | Role-taking theory (or social perspective taking) is the social-psychological concept that one of the most important factors in facilitating social cognition in children is the growing ability to understand others’ feelings and perspectives, an ability that emerges as a result of general cognitive growth. Part of this ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check%20Point | Check Point is an American-Israeli multinational provider of software and combined hardware and software products for IT security, including network security, endpoint security, cloud security, mobile security, data security and security management.
, the company has approximately 6,000 employees worldwide. Headquarte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-orientable%20wormhole | In wormhole theory, a non-orientable wormhole is a wormhole connection that appears to reverse the chirality of anything passed through it. It is related to the "twisted" connections normally used to construct a Möbius strip or Klein bottle.
In topology, this sort of connection is referred to as an Alice handle.
Theo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application%20permissions | Permissions are a means of controlling and regulating access to specific system- and device-level functions by software. Typically, types of permissions cover functions that may have privacy implications, such as the ability to access a device's hardware features (including the camera and microphone), and personal data... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superposition%20calculus | The superposition calculus is a calculus for reasoning in equational logic. It was developed in the early 1990s and combines concepts from first-order resolution with ordering-based equality handling as developed in the context of (unfailing) Knuth–Bendix completion. It can be seen as a generalization of either resolu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomagnetic%20pole | The geomagnetic poles are antipodal points where the axis of a best-fitting dipole intersects the surface of Earth. This theoretical dipole is equivalent to a powerful bar magnet at the center of Earth, and comes closer than any other point dipole model to describing the magnetic field observed at Earth's surface. In c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20networking | Active networking is a communication pattern that allows packets flowing through a telecommunications network to dynamically modify the operation of the network.
Active network architecture is composed of execution environments (similar to a unix shell that can execute active packets), a node operating system capable ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant-weight%20code | In coding theory, a constant-weight code, also called an m-of-n code, is an error detection and correction code where all codewords share the same Hamming weight.
The one-hot code and the balanced code are two widely used kinds of constant-weight code.
The theory is closely connected to that of designs (such as t-desi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20Communications%20Act%202000 | The Electronic Communications Act 2000 (c.7) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that:
Had provisions to regulate the provision of cryptographic services in the UK (ss.1-6); and
Confirms the legal status of electronic signatures (ss.7-10).
The United Kingdom government had come to the conclusion that enc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-IV%20%28specification%20language%29 | The Meta-IV (pronounced like "metaphor") was an early version of the specification language of the Vienna Development Method formal method for the development of computer-based systems.
History
One of the first occurrences of Meta-IV in print appears to be
"Programming in the Meta-language: A Tutorial".
Dines Bjørner ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMPLE%20%28military%20communications%20protocol%29 | The Standard Interface for Multiple Platform Link Evaluation (SIMPLE) is a military communications protocol defined in NATO's Standardization Agreement STANAG 5602.
Purpose
SIMPLE defines a communications protocol to provide the means for geographically (national and international) separated Tactical Data Link (TDL... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAP1a | SAP1A is one of a family of proteins that contains a unique DNA binding domain termed the ETS domain.
Transcription
The transcriptional activation domain of SAP1a resides within the C-terminal region, the function of which may be impeded by the N-terminus. Several potential ERK consensus sites within the C-terminal re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confidentiality | Confidentiality involves a set of rules or a promise usually executed through confidentiality agreements that limits the access or places restrictions on certain types of information.
Legal confidentiality
By law, lawyers are often required to keep confidential anything pertaining to the representation of a client. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lekkerbekje | Lekkerbekje is a Dutch fish dish. It is sometimes called the Dutch version of fish and chips.
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Etymology
Lekkerbekje is a diminuitive of Lekkerbek meaning Gourmand.
Origin
Lekkerbekje originated in IJmuiden.
Composition
Lekkerbekje consists of a fish fried in batter and deep fried similar to Fish and chips.
Ori... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E2open | e2open, LLC is a business-to-business provider of cloud-based, on-demand software for supply chains for computer, telecom and electronics systems, components and services. The company was founded in 2000 as a joint project of 8 major companies: Hitachi, IBM, LG Electronics, Matsushita, Nortel, Seagate, Solectron, and T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20Stueckelberg | Ernst Carl Gerlach Stueckelberg (baptised as Johann Melchior Ernst Karl Gerlach Stückelberg, full name after 1911: Baron Ernst Carl Gerlach Stueckelberg von Breidenbach zu Breidenstein und Melsbach; 1 February 1905 – 4 September 1984) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist, regarded as one of the most eminent physicis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20adsorption%20in%20the%20food%20industry | Protein adsorption refers to the adhesion of proteins to solid surfaces. This phenomenon is an important issue in the food processing industry, particularly in milk processing and wine and beer making. Excessive adsorption, or protein fouling, can lead to health and sanitation issues, as the adsorbed protein is very ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMCHD1 | Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes flexible Hinge Domain Containing 1 (SMCHD1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SMCHD1 gene. Mutations in SMCHD1 are causative for development of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy type 2 (FSHD2) and Bosma arhinia microphthalmia syndrome (BAMS).
Without maternal SMCH... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques%20Monod | Jacques Lucien Monod (February 9, 1910 – May 31, 1976) was a French biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965, sharing it with François Jacob and André Lwoff "for their discoveries concerning genetic control of enzyme and virus synthesis".
Monod and Jacob became famous for their work on the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuckoo%20clock | A cuckoo clock is a type of clock, typically pendulum driven, that strikes the hours with a sound like a common cuckoo call and has an automated cuckoo bird that moves with each note. Some move their wings and open and close their beaks while leaning forwards, whereas others have only the bird's body leaning forward. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biology%20of%20the%20Cell | Biology of the Cell is a peer-reviewed scientific journal in the field of cell biology, cell physiology, and molecular biology of animal and plant cells, microorganisms and protists. Topics covered include development, neurobiology, and immunology, as well as theoretical or biophysical modelling.
The journal is curren... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers%20in%20Egyptian%20mythology | Certain numbers were considered sacred, holy, or magical by the ancient Egyptians, particularly 2, 3, 4, 7, and their multiples and sums.
Three: symbol of plurality
The basic symbol for plurality among the ancient Egyptians was the number three: even the way they wrote the word for "plurality" in hieroglyphics consist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascorbyl%20palmitate | Ascorbyl palmitate is an ester formed from ascorbic acid and palmitic acid creating a fat-soluble form of vitamin C. In addition to its use as a source of vitamin C, it is also used as an antioxidant food additive (E number E304). It is approved for use as a food additive in the EU, the U.S., Canada, Australia, and Ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperTransport%20Consortium | The HyperTransport Consortium is an industry consortium responsible for specifying and promoting the computer bus technology called HyperTransport.
Organizational form
The Technical Working Group along with several Task Forces manage the HyperTransport specification and drive new developments. A Marketing Working Gro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-side%20encryption | Client-side encryption is the cryptographic technique of encrypting data on the sender's side, before it is transmitted to a server such as a cloud storage service. Client-side encryption features an encryption key that is not available to the service provider, making it difficult or impossible for service providers to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladonia%20botrytes | Cladonia botrytes or the wooden soldiers cup lichen is a species of cup lichen in the family Cladoniaceae. Its habitat includes secondary xylem. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium%20transporter | Magnesium transporters are proteins that transport magnesium across the cell membrane. All forms of life require magnesium, yet the molecular mechanisms of Mg2+ uptake from the environment and the distribution of this vital element within the organism are only slowly being elucidated.
The ATPase function of MgtA is hi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOSH%20%28software%29 | BOSH is an open-source software project that offers a toolchain for release engineering, software deployment and application lifecycle management of large-scale distributed services. The toolchain is made up of a server (the BOSH Director) and a command line tool. BOSH is typically used to package, deploy and manage cl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy-tailed%20distribution | In probability theory, heavy-tailed distributions are probability distributions whose tails are not exponentially bounded: that is, they have heavier tails than the exponential distribution. In many applications it is the right tail of the distribution that is of interest, but a distribution may have a heavy left tail... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphoroscope | A phosphoroscope is piece of experimental equipment devised in 1857 by physicist A. E. Becquerel to measure how long it takes a phosphorescent material to stop glowing after it has been excited.
It consists of two rotating disks with holes in them. The holes are arranged on each disk at equal angular intervals and a c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication%20source | A source or sender is one of the basic concepts of communication and information processing. Sources are objects which encode message data and transmit the information, via a channel, to one or more observers (or receivers).
In the strictest sense of the word, particularly in information theory, a source is a process... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short%20gastric%20veins | The short gastric veins, four or five in number, drain the fundus and left part of the greater curvature of the stomach, and pass between the two layers of the gastrolienal ligament to end in the splenic vein or in one of its large tributaries. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation-induced%20extinction | Efforts to save endangered species may, paradoxically, lead to conservation-induced extinction of other species. This mostly threatens the parasite and pathogen species that are highly host-specific to critically endangered hosts. When the last individuals of a host species are captured for the purpose of captive breed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat%20network | A flat network is a computer network design approach that aims to reduce cost, maintenance and administration. Flat networks are designed to reduce the number of routers and switches on a computer network by connecting the devices to a single switch instead of separate switches. Unlike a hierarchical network design, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore%20Hero | Spore Hero is the Nintendo Wii spin-off of Spore, developed by Maxis, in which the players focus on creativity and evolution using the unique controls of the Wii. The game was released on October 6, 2009.
Development
A Wii spinoff of the game had been mentioned by Will Wright several times, such as in his October 26, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleoprotein | Nucleoproteins are proteins conjugated with nucleic acids (either DNA or RNA). Typical nucleoproteins include ribosomes, nucleosomes and viral nucleocapsid proteins.
Structures
Nucleoproteins tend to be positively charged, facilitating interaction with the negatively charged nucleic acid chains. The tertiary struct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtron | A microtron is a type of particle accelerator concept originating from the cyclotron in which the accelerating field is not applied through large D-shaped electrodes, but through a linear accelerator structure. The classic microtron was invented by Vladimir Veksler around 1944.
The kinetic energy of the particles is i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic%20absolute%20risk%20aversion | In finance, economics, and decision theory, hyperbolic absolute risk aversion (HARA) refers to a type of risk aversion that is particularly convenient to model mathematically and to obtain empirical predictions from. It refers specifically to a property of von Neumann–Morgenstern utility functions, which are typical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20Copy%20%28software%29 | Carbon Copy was "a remote control/communications program" with for-its-day advanced features for remote screen sharing, background file transfer, and "movable chat windows".
Overview
The New York Times described it thus: "you can sit at the console of either machine and call up
the programs and files stored on the oth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate%20signing%20request | In public key infrastructure (PKI) systems, a certificate signing request (CSR or certification request) is a message sent from an applicant to a certificate authority of the public key infrastructure (PKI) in order to apply for a digital identity certificate. The CSR usually contains the public key for which the certi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architectural%20state | Architectural state is the collection of information in a computer system that defines the state of a program during execution. Architectural state includes main memory, architectural registers, and the program counter. Architectural state is defined by the instruction set architecture and can be manipulated by the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lar1 | LAR1 ('Lichen-Associated Rhizobiales 1') refers to a specific bacterial lineage in the order Hyphomicrobiales (formerly Rhizobiales) that has most frequently been found directly in association with lichens.
This lineage is currently known to associate with lichens that have a green-algal photosynthetic partner (as opp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subcostal%20plane | The subcostal plane is a transverse plane which bisects the body at the level of the 10th costal margin and the vertebra body L3. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/145th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 145° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Australasia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 145th meridian east forms a great circle with the 35th meridian west.
From Pole to Pole... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elater | An elater is a cell (or structure attached to a cell) that is hygroscopic, and therefore will change shape in response to changes in moisture in the environment. Elaters come in a variety of forms, but are always associated with plant spores. In many plants that do not have seeds, they function in dispersing the spores... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemon%20%28geometry%29 | In geometry, a lemon is a geometric shape that is constructed as the surface of revolution of a circular arc of angle less than half of a full circle rotated about an axis passing through the endpoints of the lens (or arc). The surface of revolution of the complementary arc of the same circle, through the same axis, is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhizome | In botany and dendrology, a rhizome (; , ) is a modified subterranean plant stem that sends out roots and shoots from its nodes. Rhizomes are also called creeping rootstalks or just rootstalks. Rhizomes develop from axillary buds and grow horizontally. The rhizome also retains the ability to allow new shoots to grow up... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20coating | Coating is a process that consists of applying a liquid or a powder into the surface of an edible product to convey new (usually sensory) properties. Coating designates an operation as much as the result of it: the application of a layer and the layer itself. Coating takes different meanings depending on the industry ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20tartrate | Calcium tartrate, exactly calcium L-tartrate, is a byproduct of the wine industry, prepared from wine fermentation dregs. It is the calcium salt of L-tartaric acid, an acid most commonly found in grapes. Its solubility decreases with lower temperature, which results in the forming of whitish (in red wine often reddish... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20Biomolecular%20Resource%20Facilities | The Association of Biomolecular Resource Facilities (ABRF) is dedicated to advancing core and research biotechnology laboratories through research, communication, and education. ABRF members include over 2000 scientists representing 340 different core laboratories in 41 countries, including those in industry, governmen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Period%20%28algebraic%20geometry%29 | In algebraic geometry, a period is a number that can be expressed as an integral of an algebraic function over an algebraic domain. Sums and products of periods remain periods, such that the periods form a ring.
Maxim Kontsevich and Don Zagier gave a survey of periods and introduced some conjectures about them. Peri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petro%20Chernyaha | Petro Hervaziyovych Chernyaha (24 October 1946 – 12 May 2014) was a Ukrainian scientist and public figure, professor, PhD (Technical Sciences), a member of the Construction Academy of Ukraine and the Academy of Higher Education Sciences of Ukraine, the Honoured Educator of Ukraine and the Honoured Land Surveyor of Ukra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20microcomputers | For an overview of microcomputers of different kinds, see the following lists of microcomputers:
List of early microcomputers
List of home computers
List of home computers by video hardware
Lists of computer hardware |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynode | A dynode is an electrode in a vacuum tube that serves as an electron multiplier through secondary emission. The first tube to incorporate a dynode was the dynatron, an ancestor of the magnetron, which used a single dynode. Photomultiplier and video camera tubes generally include a series of dynodes, each at a more po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text%20mode | Text mode is a computer display mode in which content is internally represented on a computer screen in terms of characters rather than individual pixels. Typically, the screen consists of a uniform rectangular grid of character cells, each of which contains one of the characters of a character set; at the same time, c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/500%20kHz | From early in the 20th century, the radio frequency of 500 kilohertz (500 kHz) was an international calling and distress frequency for Morse code maritime communication. For much of its early history, this frequency was referred to by its equivalent wavelength, 600 meters, or, using the earlier frequency unit name, 500... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisenaire%20rods | Cuisenaire rods are mathematics learning aids for students that provide an interactive, hands-on way to explore mathematics and learn mathematical concepts, such as the four basic arithmetical operations, working with fractions and finding divisors. In the early 1950s, Caleb Gattegno popularised this set of coloured nu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graded%20vector%20space | In mathematics, a graded vector space is a vector space that has the extra structure of a grading or gradation, which is a decomposition of the vector space into a direct sum of vector subspaces, generally indexed by the integers.
For "pure" vector spaces, the concept has been introduced in homological algebra, and it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cis%20%28mathematics%29 | is a mathematical notation defined by , where is the cosine function, is the imaginary unit and is the sine function. is the argument of the complex number (angle between line to point and x-axis in polar form). The notation is less commonly used in mathematics than Euler's formula, which offers an even shorter no... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isograft | An Isograft is a graft of tissue between two individuals who are genetically identical (i.e. monozygotic twins). Transplant rejection between two such individuals virtually never occurs, making isografts particularly relevant to organ transplanations; patients with organs from their identical twins are incredibly likel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soundwalk | A soundwalk is a walk with a focus on listening to the environment. The term was first used by members of the World Soundscape Project under the leadership of composer R. Murray Schafer in Vancouver in the 1970s. Hildegard Westerkamp, from the same group of artists and founder of the World Forum of Acoustic Ecology, de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hymenium | The hymenium is the tissue layer on the hymenophore of a fungal fruiting body where the cells develop into basidia or asci, which produce spores. In some species all of the cells of the hymenium develop into basidia or asci, while in others some cells develop into sterile cells called cystidia (basidiomycetes) or para... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirp%20mass | In astrophysics the chirp mass of a compact binary system determines the leading-order orbital evolution of the system as a result of energy loss from emitting gravitational waves. Because the gravitational wave frequency is determined by orbital frequency, the chirp mass also determines the frequency evolution of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponential%20type | In complex analysis, a branch of mathematics, a holomorphic function is said to be of exponential type C if its growth is bounded by the exponential function for some real-valued constant as . When a function is bounded in this way, it is then possible to express it as certain kinds of convergent summations over a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HostGator | HostGator is a Houston-based provider of shared, reseller, virtual private server, and dedicated web hosting with an additional presence in Austin, Texas.
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HostGator was founded in October 2002 by Brent Oxley, who was then a student at Florida Atlantic University. In 2006, the company moved from the original o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-ended%20priority%20queue | In computer science, a double-ended priority queue (DEPQ) or double-ended heap is a data structure similar to a priority queue or heap, but allows for efficient removal of both the maximum and minimum, according to some ordering on the keys (items) stored in the structure. Every element in a DEPQ has a priority or valu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENaira | eNaira is a Central bank digital currency issued and regulated by the Central Bank of Nigeria. Denominated in naira, the eNaira serves as both a medium of exchange and a store of value and claims to offer better payment prospects in retail transactions when compared to cash.
The eNaira was launched and activated on 25... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HLA-B27 | Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) B27 (subtypes B*2701-2759) is a class I surface antigen encoded by the B locus in the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) on chromosome 6 and presents antigenic peptides (derived from self and non-self antigens) to T cells. HLA-B27 is strongly associated with ankylosing spondylitis and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teva%20Pharmaceuticals | Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (also known as Teva Pharmaceuticals) is an Israeli multinational pharmaceutical company with headquarters in Tel Aviv, Israel. It specializes primarily in generic drugs, but other business interests include active pharmaceutical ingredients and, to a lesser extent, proprietary pharm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthetic%20picoplankton | Photosynthetic picoplankton or picophytoplankton is the fraction of the phytoplankton performing photosynthesis composed of cells between 0.2 and 2 µm in size (picoplankton). It is especially important in the central oligotrophic regions of the world oceans that have very low concentration of nutrients.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/93rd%20meridian%20west | The meridian 93° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Gulf of Mexico, Central America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 93rd meridian west forms a great circle with the 87th meridian east.
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