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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palate%20cleanser | A palate cleanser is a serving of food or drink that removes food residue from the tongue allowing one to more accurately assess a new flavor.
Palate cleansers are often used between tasting wine or cheese or other strong flavors. Pickled ginger is used as a palate cleanser between sushi pieces.
Traditional French pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBName | NBName (note capitalization) is a computer program that can be used to carry out denial-of-service attacks that can disable NetBIOS services on Windows machines. It was written by Sir Dystic of CULT OF THE DEAD COW (cDc) and released July 29, 2000 at the DEF CON 8 convention in Las Vegas.
The program decodes and prov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoy%20effect | In marketing, the decoy effect (or attraction effect or asymmetric dominance effect) is the phenomenon whereby consumers will tend to have a specific change in preference between two options when also presented with a third option that is asymmetrically dominated. An option is asymmetrically dominated when it is inferi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature%20engineering | Feature engineering or feature extraction or feature discovery is the process of extracting features (characteristics, properties, attributes) from raw data. Due to deep learning networks, such as convolutional neural networks, that are able to learn it by itself, domain-specific- based feature engineering has become ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20tracheal%20intubation | Tracheal intubation (usually simply referred to as intubation), an invasive medical procedure, is the placement of a flexible plastic catheter into the trachea. For millennia, tracheotomy was considered the most reliable (and most risky) method of tracheal intubation. By the late 19th century, advances in the sciences ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20operating%20systems | These tables provide a comparison of operating systems, of computer devices, as listing general and technical information for a number of widely used and currently available PC or handheld (including smartphone and tablet computer) operating systems. The article "Usage share of operating systems" provides a broader, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43%20%28number%29 | 43 (forty-three) is the natural number following 42 and preceding 44.
In mathematics
Forty-three is the 14th smallest prime number. The previous is forty-one, with which it comprises a twin prime, and the next is 47. 43 is the smallest prime that is not a Chen prime. It is also the third Wagstaff prime.
43 is the fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellana%20%28company%29 | Cellana, Inc. is an American company which develops of algae-based bioproducts for high-value nutrition, ink, and bioenergy applications, including Omega-3 nutraceutical applications, sustainable ink, aquaculture and animal feeds, human food ingredients, pigments, specialty chemicals, and biofuels. The company, with of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20cell%20membrane%20theory | Cell theory has its origins in seventeenth century microscopy observations, but it was nearly two hundred years before a complete cell membrane theory was developed to explain what separates cells from the outside world. By the 19th century it was accepted that some form of semi-permeable barrier must exist around a ce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric%20scale | In music, a symmetric scale is a music scale which equally divides the octave. The concept and term appears to have been introduced by Joseph Schillinger and further developed by Nicolas Slonimsky as part of his famous Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns. In twelve-tone equal temperament, the octave can only be eq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhodopsin-like%20receptors | Rhodopsin-like receptors are a family of proteins that comprise the largest group of G protein-coupled receptors.
Scope
G-protein-coupled receptors, GPCRs, constitute a vast protein family that encompasses a wide range of functions (including various autocrine, paracrine, and endocrine processes). They show considera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium%20Pro | The Pentium Pro is a sixth-generation x86 microprocessor developed and manufactured by Intel and introduced on November 1, 1995. It introduced the P6 microarchitecture (sometimes termed i686) and was originally intended to replace the original Pentium in a full range of applications. While the Pentium and Pentium MMX h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin-concentrating%20hormone%20receptor%202 | Melanin-concentrating hormone receptor 2 (MCH2) also known as G-protein coupled receptor 145 (GPR145) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MCHR2 gene.
MCH2 is also found in dogs, ferrets, and some other primates and carnivores, but is not found in mice or rats. This has delayed research into the receptor as a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methylamide | In biochemistry, an N-methylamide (NME) is a blocking group for the C-terminus end of peptides. When the carboxyl group of the C-terminus is replaced with a methylamide, further elongation of the peptide chain is prevented. C-Terminal modified peptides are also useful for the modulation of structure-activity relation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20time%20dimensions | The possibility that there might be more than one dimension of time has occasionally been discussed in physics and philosophy. Similar ideas appear in folklore and fantasy literature.
Physics
Speculative theories with more than one time dimension have been explored in physics. The additional dimensions may be simila... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AsteroidOS | AsteroidOS is an open source operating system designed for smartwatches. It is available as a firmware replacement for some Android Wear devices. The motto for the AsteroidOS project is "Free your wrist."
Wareable.com reviewed version 1.0 and gave it 3.5 out of 5 stars.
Software Architecture
AsteroidOS is built like... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Stapp | Henry Pierce Stapp (born March 23, 1928 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American mathematical physicist, known for his work in quantum mechanics, particularly the development of axiomatic S-matrix theory, the proofs of strong nonlocality properties, and the place of free will in the "orthodox" quantum mechanics of John von N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary%20inflammatory%20index | The Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII) is a numerical score that assesses a diet for its effect on several biomarkers linked to inflammation. Its theoretical bounds are −8.87 to +7.98, and it is oriented such that negative scores are more anti-inflammatory and more positive scores are pro-inflammatory. The DII has been l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoprobing | Nanoprobing is method of extracting device electrical parameters through the use of nanoscale tungsten wires, used primarily in the semiconductor industry. The characterization of individual devices is instrumental to engineers and integrated circuit designers during initial product development and debug. It is commonl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pidgeon%20process | The Pidgeon process is a practical method for smelting magnesium. The most common method involves the raw material, dolomite being fed into an externally heated reduction tank and then thermally reduced to metallic magnesium using 75% ferrosilicon as a reducing agent in a vacuum. Overall the processes in magnesium smel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Focal%20molography | Focal molography (“molography” in short) is a biophysical method for robust and sensitive detection of biomolecular interactions in a label-free manner. The new method enables biomolecular interaction analysis in complex biological samples without the use of additional fluorescent labels. Molography widens the analytic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corelis | Corelis, Inc, a subsidiary of Electronic Warfare Associates, is a private American company categorized under Electronic Equipment & Supplies and based in Cerritos, California.
History
Corelis was incorporated in 1991 and initially provided engineering services primarily to the aerospace and defense industries. Corel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Radiation%20Belt%20and%20Magnetosphere | The Radiation Belt and Magnetosphere is a book written by Wilmot Hess in 1968. The intention of the book is to amalgamate and sift through some 2500 articles, written since 1960, on this topic.
See also
Magnetosphere
Van Allen radiation belt
Notes
1968 non-fiction books
Physics books |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20enrichment | Environmental enrichment is the stimulation of the brain by its physical and social surroundings. Brains in richer, more stimulating environments have higher rates of synaptogenesis and more complex dendrite arbors, leading to increased brain activity. This effect takes place primarily during neurodevelopment, but also... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20loading | Dynamic loading is a mechanism by which a computer program can, at run time, load a library (or other binary) into memory, retrieve the addresses of functions and variables contained in the library, execute those functions or access those variables, and unload the library from memory. It is one of the 3 mechanisms by w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20CE%205.0 | Windows CE 5.0 (codenamed "Macallan") is a successor to Windows CE 4.2, the third release in the Windows CE .NET family. It was first released on July 9, 2004. Like its predecessors, Windows CE 5.0 is marketed towards the embedded device market and independent device vendors. Windows CE 5.0 is billed as a low-cost, com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20cluster%20software | The following tables compare general and technical information for notable computer cluster software. This software can be grossly separated in four categories: Job scheduler, nodes management, nodes installation and integrated stack (all the above).
General information
Table explanation
Software: The name of the a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airway%20resistance | In respiratory physiology, airway resistance is the resistance of the respiratory tract to airflow during inhalation and exhalation. Airway resistance can be measured using plethysmography.
Definition
Analogously to Ohm's law:
Where:
So:
Where:
= Airway Resistance
= Pressure Difference driving airflow
= Atmosphe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/29th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 29° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 29th meridian east forms a great circle with the 151st meridian west.
The meridian defines the eastern border ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoghman%20Mebkhout | Zoghman Mebkhout (born 1949 ) (زغمان مبخوت) is a French-Algerian mathematician. He is known for his work in algebraic analysis, geometry and representation theory, more precisely on the theory of D-modules.
Career
Mebkhout is currently a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research and in 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEAP%20%28software%29 | Distributed Evolutionary Algorithms in Python (DEAP) is an evolutionary computation framework for rapid prototyping and testing of ideas. It incorporates the data structures and tools required to implement most common evolutionary computation techniques such as genetic algorithm, genetic programming, evolution strategi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcanisaeta | In taxonomy, Vulcanisaeta is a genus of the Thermoproteaceae.
Description and significance
Vulcanisaeta is an anaerobic, heterotrophic, hyperthermophilic archaeon that grows optimally at 85–90 °C and at pH 4.0–4.5. The organism is isolated from samples collected directly from solfataric fields or piped hot spring wat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterinary%20anesthesia | Veterinary anesthesia is anesthesia performed on non-human animals by a veterinarian or a Registered Veterinary Technician. Anesthesia is used for a wider range of circumstances in animals than in people, due to animals' inability to cooperate with certain diagnostic or therapeutic procedures. Veterinary anesthesia i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%E2%80%93Bouwkamp%20constant | In plane geometry, the Kepler–Bouwkamp constant (or polygon inscribing constant) is obtained as a limit of the following sequence. Take a circle of radius 1. Inscribe a regular triangle in this circle. Inscribe a circle in this triangle. Inscribe a square in it. Inscribe a circle, regular pentagon, circle, regular hexa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Anthony%20Micchelli | Charles Anthony Micchelli (born December 22, 1942) is an American mathematician, with an international reputation in numerical analysis, approximation theory, and machine learning.
Biography
As the youngest of four children, he was born into an Italian-American family in Newark, New Jersey. After graduating from Newar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20metal%20dioxygen%20complex | Dioxygen complexes are coordination compounds that contain O2 as a ligand. The study of these compounds is inspired by oxygen-carrying proteins such as myoglobin, hemoglobin, hemerythrin, and hemocyanin. Several transition metals form complexes with O2, and many of these complexes form reversibly. The binding of O2 i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AWM/MAA%20Falconer%20Lecture | The Etta Z. Falconer Lecture is an award and lecture series which honors "women who have made distinguished contributions to the mathematical sciences or mathematics education". It is sponsored by the Association for Women in Mathematics and the Mathematical Association of America. The lectures began in 1996 and were n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rob%20Eastaway | Rob Eastaway is an English author. He is active in the popularisation of mathematics and was awarded the Zeeman medal in 2017 for excellence in the promotion of maths. He is best known for his books, including the bestselling Why Do Buses Come in Threes? and Maths for Mums and Dads. His first book was What is a Googl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromoxynil | Bromoxynil is an organic compound with the formula HOBr2C6H2CN. It is classified as a nitrile herbicide, and as such sold under many trade names. It is a white solid. It works by inhibiting photosynthesis. It is moderately toxic to mammals.
Production and use
It is produced by bromination of 4-hydroxybenzonitrile.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furfural | Furfural is an organic compound with the formula C4H3OCHO. It is a colorless liquid, although commercial samples are often brown. It has an aldehyde group attached to the 2-position of furan. It is a product of the dehydration of sugars, as occurs in a variety of agricultural byproducts, including corncobs, oat, wheat ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPLAB | MPLAB is a proprietary freeware integrated development environment for the development of embedded applications on PIC and dsPIC microcontrollers, and is developed by Microchip Technology.
MPLAB X is the latest edition of MPLAB, and is developed on the NetBeans platform. MPLAB and MPLAB X support project management, c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeneDx | GeneDx is a genetic testing company that was founded in 2000 by two scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Sherri Bale and John Compton. They started the company to provide clinical diagnostic services for patients and families with rare and ultra-rare disorders, for which no such commercial testing w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20substitution | In computing, process substitution is a form of inter-process communication that allows the input or output of a command to appear as a file. The command is substituted in-line, where a file name would normally occur, by the command shell. This allows programs that normally only accept files to directly read from or wr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mcrypt | mcrypt is a replacement for the popular Unix crypt command. crypt was a file encryption tool that used an algorithm very close to the World War II Enigma cipher. Mcrypt provides the same functionality but uses several modern algorithms such as AES. Libmcrypt, Mcrypt's companion, is a library of code that contains the a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cylindrification | In computability theory a cylindrification is a construction that associates a cylindric numbering to each numbering. The concept was first introduced by Yuri L. Ershov in 1973.
Definition
Given a numbering , the cylindrification is defined as
where is the Cantor pairing function.
Note that the cylindrification ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elusimicrobium%20minutum | Elusimicrobium minutum is an ultramicrobacterium and first accepted member to be cultured of a major bacterial lineage previously known only as candidate phylum Termite Gut 1 (TG1), which has accordingly been renamed phylum Elusimicrobiota.
It was isolated in the laboratory of Andreas Brune at the Max Planck Institute ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telecentre | A telecentre is a public place where people can access computers, the Internet, and other digital technologies that enable them to gather information, create, learn, and communicate with others while they develop essential digital skills. Telecentres exist in almost every country, although they sometimes go by a differ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20inflammatory%20disorders |
Nervous system
CNS
Encephalitis
Myelitis
Meningitis
Arachnoiditis
PNS
Neuritis
eye
Dacryoadenitis
Scleritis
Episcleritis
Keratitis
Retinitis
Chorioretinitis
Blepharitis
Conjunctivitis
Uveitis
ear
Otitis externa
Otitis media
Labyrinthitis
Mastoiditis
Cardiovascular system
Carditis
Endocarditis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-valued%20logic | In logic, a four-valued logic is any logic with four truth values. Several types of four-valued logic have been advanced.
Belnap
Nuel Belnap considered the challenge of question answering by computer in 1975. Noting human fallibility, he was concerned with the case where two contradictory facts were loaded into memory... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YgbB%20N%20terminal%20protein%20domain | In molecular biology, YgbB is a protein domain. This entry makes reference to a number of proteins from eukaryotes and prokaryotes which share this common N-terminal signature and appear to be involved in terpenoid biosynthesis. The YgbB protein is a putative enzyme thought to aid terpenoid and isoprenoid biosynthesis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language%20model | A language model is a probabilistic model of a natural language that can generate probabilities of a series of words, based on text corpora in one or multiple languages it was trained on. In 1980, the first significant statistical language model was proposed, and during the decade IBM performed ‘Shannon-style’ experime... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H-Y%20antigen | H-Y antigen is a male tissue specific antigen. Originally thought to trigger the formation of testes (via loci, an autosomal gene that generates the antigen and one that generates the receptor) it is now known that it does not trigger the formation of testes but may be activated by the formation of testes.
There are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nearest%20neighbor%20search | Nearest neighbor search (NNS), as a form of proximity search, is the optimization problem of finding the point in a given set that is closest (or most similar) to a given point. Closeness is typically expressed in terms of a dissimilarity function: the less similar the objects, the larger the function values.
Formall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Globo%20H | Globo H (globohexaosylceramide) is a globo-series glycosphingolipid antigen that is present on the outer membrane of some cancer cells. Globo H is not expressed in normal tissue cells, but is expressed in a number of types of cancers, including cancers of the breast, prostate, and pancreas. Globo H's exclusivity for ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20game%20publisher | A video game publisher is a company that publishes video games that have been developed either internally by the publisher or externally by a video game developer.
They often finance the development, sometimes by paying a video game developer (the publisher calls this external development) and sometimes by paying an i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geophysical%20fluid%20dynamics | Geophysical fluid dynamics, in its broadest meaning, refers to the fluid dynamics of naturally occurring flows, such as lava flows, oceans, and planetary atmospheres, on Earth and other planets.
Two physical features that are common to many of the phenomena studied in geophysical fluid dynamics are rotation of the flu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarimetry | Polarimetry is the measurement and interpretation of the polarization of transverse waves, most notably electromagnetic waves, such as radio or light waves. Typically polarimetry is done on electromagnetic waves that have traveled through or have been reflected, refracted or diffracted by some material in order to char... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lander%2C%20Parkin%2C%20and%20Selfridge%20conjecture | The Lander, Parkin, and Selfridge conjecture concerns the integer solutions of equations which contain sums of like powers. The equations are generalisations of those considered in Fermat's Last Theorem. The conjecture is that if the sum of some k-th powers equals the sum of some other k-th powers, then the total numb... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planner%20%28programming%20language%29 | Planner (often seen in publications as "PLANNER" although it is not an acronym) is a programming language designed by Carl Hewitt at MIT, and first published in 1969. First, subsets such as Micro-Planner and Pico-Planner were implemented, and then essentially the whole language was implemented as Popler by Julian Davi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14%20%28number%29 | 14 (fourteen) is a natural number following 13 and preceding 15.
In relation to the word "four" (4), 14 is spelled "fourteen".
In mathematics
Fourteen is the seventh composite number. It is specifically, the third distinct Semiprime, it also being the 3rd of the form (2.q) , where q is a higher prime.
It has an al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGMA%20%28verification%20service%29 | SIGMA is an electronic verification service offered by Nielsen Media Research and is generally used for commercials, infomercials, video news releases, public service announcements, satellite media tours, and electronic press kits.
It operates by encoding the SIGMA encoder ID, date of encoding, and time of encoding i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysomerophyceae | Chrysomerophyceae is a monotypic class of photosynthetic heterokont eukaryotes.
Taxonomy
Class Chrysomerophyceae Cavalier-Smith 1995
Order Chrysomeridales O'Kelly & Billard ex Preisig
Family Chrysomeridaceae Bourrelly 1957
Genus Antarctosaccion Delépine 1970
Genus Chrysomeris Carter 1937
Genus Chrysowaernella G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berberis%20fendleri | Berberis fendleri, commonly known as Colorado barberry, is a shrub native to canyons and mountain slopes in the western United States (Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah).
Description
Berberis fendleri is up to 2 m (7 feet) tall, and has simple deciduous leaves up to 4.6 cm (1.8 inches) long. Flowers are borne in racemes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syringodium%20filiforme | Syringodium filiforme, commonly known as manatee grass, is a species of marine seagrass. It forms meadows in shallow sandy or muddy locations in the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico, and is also found in the Bahamas and Bermuda. It occurs to a depth of about , and even deeper where water is very clear.
Climate Cha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circadian%20rhythm%20sleep%20disorder | Circadian rhythm sleep disorders (CRSD), also known as circadian rhythm sleep-wake disorders (CRSWD), are a family of sleep disorders which affect the timing of sleep. CRSDs arise from a persistent pattern of sleep/wake disturbances that can be caused either by dysfunction in one's biological clock system, or by misali... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtuner | A microtuner or microtonal tuner is an electronic device or software program designed to modify and test the tuning of musical instruments (in particular synthesizers) with microtonal precision, allowing for the design and construction of microtonal scales and just intonation scales, and for tuning intervals that may d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20acidic%20protein | Small acidic protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SMAP gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperplane%20section | In mathematics, a hyperplane section of a subset X of projective space Pn is the intersection of X with some hyperplane H. In other words, we look at the subset XH of those elements x of X that satisfy the single linear condition L = 0 defining H as a linear subspace. Here L or H can range over the dual projective spac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris%20Tofts | Chris M. N. Tofts (born 1964) is an English computer scientist.
Education
Chris Tofts studied mathematics as an undergraduate at Clare College, Cambridge, followed by a Diploma in Computer Science from the same college. He went on to do a PhD supervised by Robin Milner in the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Sci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organoleptic | Organoleptic properties are the aspects of food, water or other substances that create an individual experience via the senses—including taste, sight, smell, and touch.
USDA uses
In traditional U.S. Department of Agriculture meat and poultry inspections, inspectors perform various organoleptic procedures to detect d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt%20pork | Salt pork is salt-cured pork. It is usually prepared from pork belly, or, more rarely, fatback. Salt pork typically resembles uncut side bacon, but is fattier, being made from the lowest part of the belly, and saltier, as the cure is stronger and performed for longer, and never smoked. The fat on the meat is necessary ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presymplectic%20form | In geometric mechanics a presymplectic form is a closed differential 2-form of constant rank on a manifold. However, some authors use different definitions. Recently, Hajduk and Walczak defined a presymplectic form as a closed differential 2-form of maximal rank on a manifold of odd dimension. A symplectic form is a p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Time-Shared%20BASIC | HP Time-Shared BASIC (HP TSB) is a BASIC programming language interpreter for Hewlett-Packard's HP 2000 line of minicomputer-based time-sharing computer systems. TSB is historically notable as the platform that released the first public versions of the game Star Trek.
The system implements a dialect of BASIC as well ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomadix | Nomadix is a Woodland Hills, CA-based developer of network gateway equipment (which includes access gateways and traffic optimizers), used by hotels and other businesses to deliver Internet access to end users.
HistoryNomadix was founded in 1998 by UCLA Computer Science Professor Dr. Leonard Kleinrock, one of the foun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%20curve | The Z curve (or Z-curve) method is a bioinformatics algorithm for genome analysis. The Z-curve is a three-dimensional curve that constitutes a unique representation of a DNA sequence, i.e., for the Z-curve and the given DNA sequence each can be uniquely reconstructed from the other.
The resulting curve has a zigzag sha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlamydospore | A chlamydospore is the thick-walled large resting spore of several kinds of fungi, including Ascomycota such as Candida, Basidiomycota such as Panus, and various Mortierellales species. It is the life-stage which survives in unfavourable conditions, such as dry or hot seasons. Fusarium oxysporum which causes the plant ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material%20requirements%20planning | Material requirements planning (MRP) is a production planning, scheduling, and inventory control system used to manage manufacturing processes. Most MRP systems are software-based, but it is possible to conduct MRP by hand as well.
An MRP system is intended to simultaneously meet three objectives:
Ensure raw materi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetCologne | NetCologne is a regional telecommunications, cable television and Internet service provider in the Cologne region of Germany. It operates its own copper, coaxial, FTTB and CDMA2000 networks. It serves 518.000 customers and is owned by the city of Cologne. The company has around 900 employees. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20blanket | A space blanket (also known as a Mylar blanket, emergency blanket, first aid blanket, safety blanket, thermal blanket, weather blanket, heat sheet, foil blanket, or shock blanket) is an especially low-weight, low-bulk blanket made of heat-reflective, thin, plastic sheeting. They are used on the exterior surfaces of sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed%E2%80%93mobile%20convergence | Fixed–mobile convergence (FMC) is a change in telecommunications that removes differences between fixed and mobile networks.
In the 2004 press release announcing its formation, the Fixed-Mobile Convergence Alliance (FMCA) said:
Fixed Mobile Convergence is a transition point in the telecommunications industry that wil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaii-Y%C5%8Dkai%20Densh%C5%8D%20Database | The is a database of yōkai and mystery stories which have been collected from Japanese folklore. The database is published by International Research Center for Japanese Studies. The prototype was created on March 19, 2002, and the first live version was released on June 20, 2002. the project supervisor is Kazuhiko Ko... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20combinatorial%20computational%20geometry%20topics | List of combinatorial computational geometry topics enumerates the topics of computational geometry that states problems in terms of geometric objects as discrete entities and hence the methods of their solution are mostly theories and algorithms of combinatorial character.
See List of numerical computational geometry... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniloc | Uniloc Corporation is a company founded in Australia in 1992.
History
The Uniloc technology is based on a patent granted to the inventor Ric Richardson who was also the founder of the Uniloc Company. The original patent application was dated late 1992 in Australia and granted in the US in 1996 and covers a technology... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith%20Klein-Seetharaman | Judith Klein-Seetharaman (born May 30, 1971) is an American-German biochemist who is a professor at the Arizona State University. Her research considers the structure-function properties of proteins using computational bio-linguistics. She was supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to identify novel therapies... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideyo%20Noguchi%20Africa%20Prize | The honors men and women "with outstanding achievements in the fields of medical research and medical services to combat infectious and other diseases in Africa, thus contributing to the health and welfare of the African people and of all humankind." The prize, officially named "The Prize in Recognition of Outstandin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamber%20pot | A chamber pot is a portable toilet, meant for nocturnal use in the bedroom. It was common in many cultures before the advent of indoor plumbing and flushing toilets.
Names and etymology
"Chamber" is an older term for bedroom. The chamber pot is also known as a , a jerry, a guzunder, a po (possibly from ), a potty pot,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floor%20and%20ceiling%20functions | In mathematics and computer science, the floor function is the function that takes as input a real number , and gives as output the greatest integer less than or equal to , denoted or . Similarly, the ceiling function maps to the least integer greater than or equal to , denoted or .
For example, for floor: , , an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citarum%20River | The Citarum River () is the longest and largest river in West Java, Indonesia. It is the third longest river in Java, after Bengawan Solo and Brantas. It plays an important role in the life of the people of West Java. It has been noted for being considered one of the most polluted rivers in the world.
History
In Indon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix%20%28spacecraft%29 | Phoenix was an uncrewed space probe that landed on the surface of Mars on May 25, 2008, and operated until November 2, 2008. Phoenix was operational on Mars for sols ( days). Its instruments were used to assess the local habitability and to research the history of water on Mars. The mission was part of the Mars Scout ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wimpole%20Street | Wimpole Street is a street in Marylebone, central London. Located in the City of Westminster, it is associated with private medical practice and medical associations.
No. 1 Wimpole Street is an example of Edwardian baroque architecture, completed in 1912 by architect architects John Belcher and J. J. Joass as the hom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill%20Tarter | Jill Cornell Tarter (born January 16, 1944) is an American astronomer best known for her work on the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI). Tarter is the former director of the Center for SETI Research, holding the Bernard M. Oliver Chair for SETI at the SETI Institute.
In 2002, Discover magazine recognized h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmotubule | A desmotubule is an endomembrane derived structure of the plasmodesmata that connects the endoplasmic reticulum of two adjacent plant cells. The desmotubule is not actually a tubule, but a compact, cylindrical segment of ER that is found within the larger tubule structure of the plasmodesmata pore. Some, but not all, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Y-%CE%94%20transform | In electrical engineering, the Y-Δ transform, also written wye-delta and also known by many other names, is a mathematical technique to simplify the analysis of an electrical network. The name derives from the shapes of the circuit diagrams, which look respectively like the letter Y and the Greek capital letter Δ. This... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren%20Alpert%20Foundation%20Prize | The Warren Alpert Foundation Prize is awarded annually to scientist(s) whose scientific achievements have led to the prevention, cure or treatment of human diseases or disorders, and/or whose research constitutes a seminal scientific finding that holds great promise of ultimately changing our understanding of or abilit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial%20module | In abstract algebra, a uniserial module M is a module over a ring R, whose submodules are totally ordered by inclusion. This means simply that for any two submodules N1 and N2 of M, either or . A module is called a serial module if it is a direct sum of uniserial modules. A ring R is called a right uniserial ring i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ornatin | In molecular biology, ornatin is a potent glycoprotein IIb-IIIa (GP IIb-IIIa) antagonist and platelet aggregation inhibitor isolated from Placobdella ornata (Turtle leech). The protein is 41-52 amino acids in length and contains the RGD recognition motif common in adhesion proteins, and 6 conserved cysteine residues. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Description%20error | A description error or selection error is an error, or more specifically a human error, that occurs when a person performs the correct action on the wrong object due to insufficient specification of an action which would have led to a desired result. This commonly happens when similar actions lead to different results.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherium | The "spherium" model consists of two electrons trapped on the surface of a sphere of radius . It has been used by Berry and collaborators to understand both weakly and strongly correlated systems and to suggest an "alternating" version of Hund's rule. Seidl studies this system in the context of density functional theo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fieldbus | A fieldbus is a member of a family of industrial digital communication networks used for real-time distributed control. Fieldbus profiles are standardized by the
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as IEC 61784/61158.
A complex automated industrial system is typically structured in hierarchical levels as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotoxicity | Ecotoxicity, the subject of study in the field of ecotoxicology (a portmanteau of ecology and toxicology), refers to the biological, chemical or physical stressors that affect ecosystems. Such stressors could occur in the natural environment at densities, concentrations, or levels high enough to disrupt natural biochem... |
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