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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary%20converter
A rotary converter is a type of electrical machine which acts as a mechanical rectifier, inverter or frequency converter. Rotary converters were used to convert alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC), or DC to AC power, before the advent of chemical or solid state power rectification and inverting. They were...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibroblast%20growth%20factor
Fibroblast growth factors (FGF) are a family of cell signalling proteins produced by macrophages; they are involved in a wide variety of processes, most notably as crucial elements for normal development in animal cells. Any irregularities in their function lead to a range of developmental defects. These growth factor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20Pons
Bobby Stanley Pons (born August 23, 1943) is an American electrochemist known for his work with Martin Fleischmann on cold fusion in the 1980s and 1990s. Early life Pons was born in Valdese, North Carolina. He attended Valdese High School, then Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he studied ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-carrier
The T-carrier is a member of the series of carrier systems developed by AT&T Bell Laboratories for digital transmission of multiplexed telephone calls. The first version, the Transmission System 1 (T1), was introduced in 1962 in the Bell System, and could transmit up to 24 telephone calls simultaneously over a single ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Analyst
The Analyst (subtitled A Discourse Addressed to an Infidel Mathematician: Wherein It Is Examined Whether the Object, Principles, and Inferences of the Modern Analysis Are More Distinctly Conceived, or More Evidently Deduced, Than Religious Mysteries and Points of Faith) is a book by George Berkeley. It was first publi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strapwork
In the history of art and design, strapwork is the use of stylised representations in ornament of ribbon-like forms. These may loosely imitate leather straps, parchment or metal cut into elaborate shapes, with piercings, and often interwoven in a geometric pattern. In early examples there may or may not be three-dime...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum%20%28measurement%29
Continuum (: continua or continuums) theories or models explain variation as involving gradual quantitative transitions without abrupt changes or discontinuities. In contrast, categorical theories or models explain variation using qualitatively different states. In physics In physics, for example, the space-time cont...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Charles%20Golumbic
Martin Charles Golumbic (born 1948) is a mathematician and computer scientist known for his research on perfect graphs, graph sandwich problems, compiler optimization, and spatial-temporal reasoning. He is a professor emeritus of computer science at the University of Haifa, and was the founder of the journal Annals of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte%20del%20Diavolo
(Italian for "Devil's bridge") by Martin Ebel is a territorial game (with connective elements similar to Go), in which two players create islands and then add bridges to connect them. It was created by Martin Ebel and published by Hans im Glück in 2007 and by Rio Grande Games in 2008. Games magazine named Ponte del Dia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRGAP2
SLIT-ROBO Rho GTPase-activating protein 2 (srGAP2), also known as formin-binding protein 2 (FNBP2), is a mammalian protein that in humans is encoded by the SRGAP2 gene. It is involved in neuronal migration and differentiation and plays a critical role in synaptic development, brain mass and number of cortical neurons. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object%E2%80%93relational%20mapping
Object–relational mapping (ORM, O/RM, and O/R mapping tool) in computer science is a programming technique for converting data between a relational database and the heap of an object-oriented programming language. This creates, in effect, a virtual object database that can be used from within the programming language. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FishEye%20%28software%29
Fisheye is a revision-control browser and search engine owned by Atlassian, Inc. Although Fisheye is a commercial product, it is freely available to open source projects and non-profit institutions. In addition to the advanced search and diff capabilities, it provides: the notion of changelog and changesets - even if ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syringomycin%20E
Syringomycin E is a member of a class of lipodepsinonapeptide molecules that are secreted by the plant pathogen Pseudomonas syringae. Lipodepsinonapeptides comprise a closed ring of nine nonribosomally synthesized amino acids bonded to a fatty acid hydrocarbon tail. A commonly encountered pathovar (pv) of P. syringae...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20H.%20Barrett
Richard Howard Barrett (June 10, 1915 – December 24, 1994), was an American speech-language pathologist and co-author of two early textbooks on the subject of orofacial myology: Oral Myofunctional Disorders, and Fundamentals of Orofacial Myology. Barrett was a founding father of the professional association that would...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral%20immune%20system
The behavioral immune system is a phrase coined by the psychological scientist Mark Schaller to refer to a suite of psychological mechanisms that allow individual organisms to detect the potential presence of infectious parasites or pathogens in their immediate environment, and to engage in behaviors that prevent conta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MaxCliqueDyn%20algorithm
The MaxCliqueDyn algorithm is an algorithm for finding a maximum clique in an undirected graph. It is based on a basic algorithm (MaxClique algorithm) which finds a maximum clique of bounded size. The bound is found using an improved coloring algorithm. The MaxCliqueDyn extends MaxClique algorithm to include dynamical...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor%20%28linear%20algebra%29
In linear algebra, a minor of a matrix A is the determinant of some smaller square matrix, cut down from A by removing one or more of its rows and columns. Minors obtained by removing just one row and one column from square matrices (first minors) are required for calculating matrix cofactors, which in turn are useful ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sverdrup%20wave
A Sverdrup wave (also known as Poincaré wave, or rotational gravity wave ) is a wave in the ocean, or large lakes, which is affected by gravity and Earth's rotation (see Coriolis effect). For a non-rotating fluid, shallow water waves are affected only by gravity (see Gravity wave), where the phase velocity of shallow ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic%20index
A hedonic index is any price index which uses information from hedonic regression, which describes how product price could be explained by the product's characteristics. Hedonic price indexes have proved to be very useful when applied to calculate price indices for information and communication products (e.g. personal ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic%20generation%20model
A traffic generation model is a stochastic model of the traffic flows or data sources in a communication network, for example a cellular network or a computer network. A packet generation model is a traffic generation model of the packet flows or data sources in a packet-switched network. For example, a web traffic mod...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesopredator
A Mesopredator is a predator that occupies a mid-ranking trophic level in a food web. There is no standard definition of a mesopredator, but mesopredators are usually medium-sized carnivorous or omnivorous animals, such as raccoons, foxes, or coyotes. They are often defined by contrast from apex predators or prey in a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synizesis%20%28biology%29
Synizesis refers to a phenomenon sometimes observed in one of the subphases of meiosis. This phenomenon, sometimes referred to as a "synizetic knot", and contrasted with the chromosome "bouquet" more typically observed, is characterized by the localization of the meiotic chromosomes in a tight clump on one side of the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIT%20Program%20Tumor%20Identity%20Cards
The "Cartes d'Identité des Tumeurs (CIT)" program, launched and funded by the French charity "Ligue Nationale contre le Cancer," aims to improve or develop better targeted therapeutic approaches by refining molecular knowledge of multiple types of tumors. The CIT program mainly relies on the large-scale and systematic ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolmer%20Lecture
The Woolmer lecture is the flagship lecture of the Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine. It takes place annually during the Institute's Medical Physics and Engineering Conference. Dedication The lecture is dedicated to Professor Ronald Woolmer (1908–1962) who was the first Director of the Research Departm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VyOS
VyOS is an open source network operating system based on Debian. VyOS provides a free routing platform that competes directly with other commercially available solutions from well-known network providers. Because VyOS is run on standard amd64 systems, it can be used as a router and firewall platform for cloud deployme...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20as%20a%20service
Security as a service (SECaaS) is a business model in which a service provider integrates their security services into a corporate infrastructure on a subscription basis more cost-effectively than most individuals or corporations can provide on their own when the total cost of ownership is considered. SECaaS is inspire...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional%20Pareto%20efficiency
In economics and computer science, Fractional Pareto efficiency or Fractional Pareto optimality (fPO) is a variant of Pareto efficiency used in the setting of fair allocation of discrete objects. An allocation of objects is called discrete if each item is wholly allocated to a single agent; it is called fractional if s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Call%20super
Call super is a code smell or anti-pattern of some object-oriented programming languages. Call super is a design pattern in which a particular class stipulates that in a derived subclass, the user is required to override a method and call back the overridden function itself at a particular point. The overridden method ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%20identities
In mathematics, Noether identities characterize the degeneracy of a Lagrangian system. Given a Lagrangian system and its Lagrangian L, Noether identities can be defined as a differential operator whose kernel contains a range of the Euler–Lagrange operator of L. Any Euler–Lagrange operator obeys Noether identities whi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tepidanaerobacter
Tepidanaerobacter is a genus of anaerobic, moderately thermophilic, syntrophic bacteria from the family Tepidanaerobacteraceae.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20Monte%20Carlo%20method
In chemistry, dynamic Monte Carlo (DMC) is a Monte Carlo method for modeling the dynamic behaviors of molecules by comparing the rates of individual steps with random numbers. It is essentially the same as Kinetic Monte Carlo. Unlike the Metropolis Monte Carlo method, which has been employed to study systems at equilib...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Society%20for%20Evolutionary%20Biology
The European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) was founded in 1987 in Basel (Switzerland) with around 450 evolutionary biologists attending the inaugural congress. It is an academic society that brings together more than 1500 evolutionary biologists from across Europe and beyond. The founding of the society was c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union%20Medal%20of%20the%20British%20Ornithological%20Union
The Union Medal is a medal of the British Ornithologists' Union, given "in recognition of eminent services to ornithology and to the Union and ornithology." From 2019 it is to be known as the "Janet Kear Union Medal", after Janet Kear, with a new medal design. In his history of the BOU, History of the Union, Guy Mont...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent%20speech%20interface
Silent speech interface is a device that allows speech communication without using the sound made when people vocalize their speech sounds. As such it is a type of electronic lip reading. It works by the computer identifying the phonemes that an individual pronounces from nonauditory sources of information about their ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenworld
Greenworld (Japanese: グリーンワールド Hepburn: Gurīn wārudo) is a 2010 speculative evolution and science fiction book written by Scottish geologist and paleontologist Dougal Dixon and primarily illustrated by Dixon himself, alongside a few images by other artists. Greenworld features a fictional alien planet of the same name ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crithidia%20luciliae
Crithidia luciliae is a flagellate parasite that uses the housefly, Musca domestica, as a host. As part of the family of Trypanosomatidae, it is characterised by the presence of a kinetoplast, a complex network of interlocking circular double-stranded DNA (dsDNA) molecules. The presence of the kinetoplast makes this or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20%28API%29
Carbon was one of two primary C-based application programming interfaces (APIs) developed by Apple for the macOS (formerly Mac OS X and OS X) operating system. Carbon provided a good degree of backward compatibility for programs that ran on Mac OS 8 and 9. Developers could use the Carbon APIs to port (“carbonize”) thei...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive%20energy%20theorem
The positive energy theorem (also known as the positive mass theorem) refers to a collection of foundational results in general relativity and differential geometry. Its standard form, broadly speaking, asserts that the gravitational energy of an isolated system is nonnegative, and can only be zero when the system has ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified%20Chee%27s%20medium
In cellular biology and microbiology, modified Chee's medium (otherwise known as "MCM") is used to cultivate cells and bacteria. It uses various additives (fat acids, albumins and selenium) to facilitate cellular and bacterial growth.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado%20Time%20Systems
Colorado Time Systems (CTS) is an American company based in Loveland, Colorado that designs, manufactures, sells, and services aquatic timing systems, scoreboards, LED video displays, and related products. History Colorado Time Systems was born in the Test & Measurement division of Hewlett-Packard (HP). HP wanted to e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep%20cervical%20fascia
The deep cervical fascia (or fascia colli in older texts) lies under cover of the platysma, and invests the muscles of the neck; it also forms sheaths for the carotid vessels, and for the structures situated in front of the vertebral column. Its attachment to the hyoid bone prevents the formation of a dewlap. The inve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petkau%20effect
The Petkau effect is an early counterexample to linear-effect assumptions usually made about radiation exposure. It was found by Dr. Abram Petkau at the Atomic Energy of Canada Whiteshell Nuclear Research Establishment, Manitoba and published in Health Physics March 1972. The Petkau effect was coined by Swiss nuclear h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20non-coding%20RNA
Long non-coding RNAs (long ncRNAs, lncRNA) are a type of RNA, generally defined as transcripts more than 200 nucleotides that are not translated into protein. This arbitrary limit distinguishes long ncRNAs from small non-coding RNAs, such as microRNAs (miRNAs), small interfering RNAs (siRNAs), Piwi-interacting RNAs (p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal%20to%20motive
Appeal to motive is a pattern of argument which consists in challenging a thesis by calling into question the motives of its proposer. It can be considered as a special case of the ad hominem circumstantial argument. As such, this type of argument may be an informal fallacy. A common feature of appeals to motive is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDA%20framework
In game design the Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics (MDA) framework is a tool used to analyze games. It formalizes the consumption of games by breaking them down into three components: Mechanics, Dynamics and Aesthetics. These three words have been used informally for many years to describe various aspects of games, but t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20geography
Animal geography is a subfield of the nature–society/human–environment branch of geography as well as a part of the larger, interdisciplinary umbrella of human–animal studies (HAS). Animal geography is defined as the study of "the complex entanglings of human–animal relations with space, place, location, environment an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V0-morph
A V0-morph is an organism whose surface area remains constant as the organism grows. The reason why the concept is important in the context of the Dynamic Energy Budget theory is that food (substrate) uptake is proportional to surface area, and maintenance to volume. The surface area that is of importance is that part...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycosubtilin
Mycosubtilin is a natural lipopeptide with antifungal and hemolytic activities and isolated from Bacillus species. It belongs to the iturin lipopeptide family. Definition Mycosubtilin is a natural lipopeptide. It is produced by the strains of Bacillus spp mainly by Bacillus subtilis. It was discovered due to its anti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainsbury%20Laboratory
The Sainsbury Laboratory (TSL) is a research institute located at the Norwich Research Park in Norwich, Norfolk, England, that carries out fundamental biological research and technology development on aspects of plant disease, plant disease resistance and microbial symbiosis in plants. History In 1987, an agreement w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunting%20%28neurophysiology%29
Shunting is an event in the neuron which occurs when an excitatory postsynaptic potential and an inhibitory postsynaptic potential are occurring close to each other on a dendrite, or are both on the soma of the cell. According to temporal summation one would expect the inhibitory and excitatory currents to be summed l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star%20Trek%20-%20The%20Wrath%20of%20Khan%20%28miniatures%29
Star Trek - The Wrath of Khan is a set of miniatures for Star Trek: The Role Playing Game published by FASA. Contents Star Trek - The Wrath of Khan is a series of blister-packed 25mm miniature figures modeled on the crew of the original starship Enterprise. Reception Ed Andrews reviewed Star Trek - The Wrath of Khan ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAPG
Gamma-soluble NSF attachment protein is a SNAP protein that in humans is encoded by the NAPG gene. Function NSF and SNAPs (NSF attachment proteins) are general elements of the cellular membrane transport apparatus. The sequence of the predicted 312-amino acid human protein encoded by NAPG is 95% identical to that of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Wilson%20%28English%20judge%29
Sir John Wilson (6 August 1741, Applethwaite, Westmorland – 18 October 1793, Kendal, Westmorland) was an English mathematician and judge. Wilson's theorem is named after him. Wilson attended school in Staveley, Cumbria before going up to Peterhouse, Cambridge in 1757, where he was a student of Edward Waring. He was...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avicide
An avicide is any substance (normally a chemical) used to kill birds. Commonly used avicides include strychnine (also used as rodenticide and predacide), DRC-1339 (3-chloro-4-methylaniline hydrochloride, Starlicide) and CPTH (3-chloro-p-toluidine, the free base of Starlicide), Avitrol (4-aminopyridine) and chloralos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shunt%20regulated%20push-pull%20amplifier
A shunt regulated push-pull amplifier is a Class A amplifier whose output drivers (transistors or more commonly vacuum tubes) operate in antiphase. The key design element is the output stage also serves as the phase splitter. The acronym SRPP is also used to describe a series regulated push-pull amplifier. History T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artisanal%20food
Artisanal food encompasses breads, cheeses, fruit preserves, cured meats, beverages, oils, and vinegars that are made by hand using traditional methods by skilled craftworkers, known as food artisans. The foodstuff material from farmers and backyard growers can include fruit, grains and flours, milks for cheese, cured ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Denver
Project Denver is the codename of a central processing unit designed by Nvidia that implements the ARMv8-A 64/32-bit instruction sets using a combination of simple hardware decoder and software-based binary translation (dynamic recompilation) where "Denver's binary translation layer runs in software, at a lower level t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang%E2%80%93Mills%20equations
In physics and mathematics, and especially differential geometry and gauge theory, the Yang–Mills equations are a system of partial differential equations for a connection on a vector bundle or principal bundle. They arise in physics as the Euler–Lagrange equations of the Yang–Mills action functional. They have also fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20server%20benchmarking
Web server benchmarking is the process of estimating a web server performance in order to find if the server can serve sufficiently high workload. Key parameters The performance is usually measured in terms of: Number of requests that can be served per second (depending on the type of request, etc.); Latency response ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs%20rotational%20ensemble
The Gibbs rotational ensemble represents the possible states of a mechanical system in thermal and rotational equilibrium at temperature and angular velocity . The Jaynes procedure can be used to obtain this ensemble. An ensemble is the set of microstates corresponding to a given macrostate. The Gibbs rotational ense...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young%27s%20interference%20experiment
Young's interference experiment, also called Young's double-slit interferometer, was the original version of the modern double-slit experiment, performed at the beginning of the nineteenth century by Thomas Young. This experiment played a major role in the general acceptance of the wave theory of light. In Young's own ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle%20of%20distributivity
The principle of distributivity states that the algebraic distributive law is valid, where both logical conjunction and logical disjunction are distributive over each other so that for any propositions A, B and C the equivalences and hold. The principle of distributivity is valid in classical logic, but both valid a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer%20physics
Polymer physics is the field of physics that studies polymers, their fluctuations, mechanical properties, as well as the kinetics of reactions involving degradation and polymerisation of polymers and monomers respectively. While it focuses on the perspective of condensed matter physics, polymer physics is originally a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median%20cut
Median cut is an algorithm to sort data of an arbitrary number of dimensions into series of sets by recursively cutting each set of data at the median point along the longest dimension. Median cut is typically used for color quantization. For example, to reduce a 64k-colour image to 256 colours, median cut is used to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangloids
Tangloids is a mathematical game for two players created by Piet Hein to model the calculus of spinors. A description of the game appeared in the book "Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American" by Martin Gardner from 1996 in a section on the mathematics of braiding. Two flat blocks of woo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OrCam%20device
OrCam devices such as OrCam MyEye are portable, artificial vision devices that allow visually impaired people to understand text and identify objects through audio feedback, describing what they are unable to see. Reuters described an important part of how it works as "a wireless smartcamera" which, when attached outs...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rated%20R%26B
Rated R&B is an independent online magazine based in the United States, which is dedicated and devoted to news, topics and almost all things related to rhythm and blues (R&B) and soul music. It publishes independent music reviews, features, interview, and media. Founded and currently edited by Keithan Samuels in August...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anterior%20branch%20of%20obturator%20nerve
The anterior branch of the obturator nerve is a branch of the obturator nerve found in the pelvis and leg. It leaves the pelvis in front of the obturator externus and descends anterior to the adductor brevis, and posterior to the pectineus and adductor longus; at the lower border of the latter muscle it communicates w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INK4
INK4 is a family of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors (CKIs). The members of this family (p16INK4a, p15INK4b, p18INK4c, p19INK4d) are inhibitors of CDK4 (hence their name INhibitors of CDK4), and of CDK6. The other family of CKIs, CIP/KIP proteins are capable of inhibiting all CDKs. Enforced expression of INK4 protein...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest%20typing
In computer science, manifest typing is explicit identification by the software programmer of the type of each variable being declared. For example: if variable X is going to store integers then its type must be declared as integer. The term "manifest typing" is often used with the term latent typing to describe the di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC-to-AC%20converter
A solid-state AC-to-AC converter converts an AC waveform to another AC waveform, where the output voltage and frequency can be set arbitrarily. Categories Referring to Fig 1, AC-AC converters can be categorized as follows: Indirect AC-AC (or AC/DC-AC) converters (i.e., with rectifier, DC link and inverter), such as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola%20Fusco
Nicola Fusco (born August 14, 1956 in Napoli) is an Italian mathematician mainly known for his contributions to the fields of calculus of variations, regularity theory of partial differential equations, and the theory of symmetrization. He is currently professor at the Università di Napoli "Federico II". Fusco also tau...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomical%20plane
An anatomical plane is a hypothetical plane used to transect the body, in order to describe the location of structures or the direction of movements. In human and animal anatomy, three principal planes are used: The sagittal plane or lateral plane (longitudinal, anteroposterior) is a plane parallel to the sagittal su...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe%20Meat%20and%20Poultry%20Inspection%20Panel
The Safe Meat and Poultry Inspection Panel is an advisory panel to review and evaluate meat inspection policies and proposed changes that the 1996 farm bill (P.L. 104–127, Sec. 918) permanently authorized by amendment to the federal meat and poultry inspection statutes. Provisions in annual USDA appropriations laws sin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20page%201106
Code page 1106 (CCSID 1106), also known as CP1106 or S7DEC, is an IBM code page number assigned to the Swedish variant of DEC's National Replacement Character Set (NRCS). The 7-bit character set was introduced for DEC's computer terminal systems, starting with the VT200 series in 1983, but is also used by IBM for their...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tc1/mariner
Tc1/mariner is a class and superfamily of interspersed repeats DNA (Class II) transposons. The elements of this class are found in all animals, including humans. They can also be found in protists and bacteria. The class is named after its two best-studied members, the Tc1 transposon of Caenorhabditis elegans and the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanac
is a shoot 'em up video game developed by Compile and published in Japan by Pony Canyon and in North America by FCI. It was released for the MSX computer, the Family Computer Disk System, the Nintendo Entertainment System, and for the Virtual Console. It was reworked for the MSX2 computer as Zanac EX and for the PlaySt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesz%E2%80%93Thorin%20theorem
In mathematics, the Riesz–Thorin theorem, often referred to as the Riesz–Thorin interpolation theorem or the Riesz–Thorin convexity theorem, is a result about interpolation of operators. It is named after Marcel Riesz and his student G. Olof Thorin. This theorem bounds the norms of linear maps acting between spaces....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D%20ultrasound
3D ultrasound is a medical ultrasound technique, often used in fetal, cardiac, trans-rectal and intra-vascular applications. 3D ultrasound refers specifically to the volume rendering of ultrasound data. When involving a series of 3D volumes collected over time, it can also be referred to as 4D ultrasound (three spatial...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/180%20%28number%29
180 (one hundred [and] eighty) is the natural number following 179 and preceding 181. In mathematics 180 is an abundant number, with its proper divisors summing up to 366. 180 is also a highly composite number, a positive integer with more divisors than any smaller positive integer. One of the consequences of 180 havi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happened-before
In computer science, the happened-before relation (denoted: ) is a relation between the result of two events, such that if one event should happen before another event, the result must reflect that, even if those events are in reality executed out of order (usually to optimize program flow). This involves ordering even...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damovo
Damovo is a provider of information and communication technology services. The company, owned by Global Growth, has a regional presence across Europe, the Americas and APAC, with a global support capability spanning over 150 countries. History Damovo was formerly a division of the Swedish telecoms group Ericsson. In ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinus%20Beijerinck
) | death_place = Gorssel, Netherlands | field = Microbiology | work_institutions = Wageningen UniversityDelft School of Microbiology (founder) | alma_mater = Leiden University | known_for = One of the founders of virology, environmental microbiology and general microbiologyConceptual d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark%20epoch
In physical cosmology, the quark epoch was the period in the evolution of the early universe when the fundamental interactions of gravitation, electromagnetism, the strong interaction and the weak interaction had taken their present forms, but the temperature of the universe was still too high to allow quarks to bind t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-ary%20group
In mathematics, and in particular universal algebra, the concept of an n-ary group (also called n-group or multiary group) is a generalization of the concept of a group to a set G with an n-ary operation instead of a binary operation. By an operation is meant any map f: Gn → G from the n-th Cartesian power of G to G...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama%20rot
Alabama rot or cutaneous and renal glomerular vasculopathy (CRGV) is an often fatal condition in dogs. It was first identified in the US in the 1980s in greyhounds. The initial symptoms are skin lesions on the legs, chest and abdomen followed by renal involvement. In November 2012 the first cases were suspected in the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bentazon
Bentazon (Bentazone, Basagran, Herbatox, Leader, Laddock) is a chemical manufactured by BASF Chemicals for use in herbicides. It is categorized under the thiadiazine group of chemicals. Sodium bentazon is available commercially and appears slightly brown in colour. Usage Bentazon is a selective herbicide as it only d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandwidth-limited%20pulse
A bandwidth-limited pulse (also known as Fourier-transform-limited pulse, or more commonly, transform-limited pulse) is a pulse of a wave that has the minimum possible duration for a given spectral bandwidth. Bandwidth-limited pulses have a constant phase across all frequencies making up the pulse. Optical pulses of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obturator%20veins
The obturator vein begins in the upper portion of the adductor region of the thigh and enters the pelvis through the upper part of the obturator foramen, in the obturator canal. It runs backward and upward on the lateral wall of the pelvis below the obturator artery, and then passes between the ureter and the hypogast...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SECG
In cryptography, the Standards for Efficient Cryptography Group (SECG) is an international consortium founded by Certicom in 1998. The group exists to develop commercial standards for efficient and interoperable cryptography based on elliptic curve cryptography (ECC). Links and documents SECG home page SEC 1: Ellipt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radwin
Radwin is a wireless broadband hardware manufacturing company headquartered in Tel Aviv, Israel. It specializes in wireless telecoms systems and manufactures products used by telecoms carriers, city and town councils, remote communities, ISPs, WISPs, and private networks. It also provides hardware for moving applicatio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kostka%20number
In mathematics, the Kostka number (depending on two integer partitions and ) is a non-negative integer that is equal to the number of semistandard Young tableaux of shape and weight . They were introduced by the mathematician Carl Kostka in his study of symmetric functions (). For example, if and , the Kostka num...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape%20limnology
Landscape limnology is the spatially explicit study of lakes, streams, and wetlands as they interact with freshwater, terrestrial, and human landscapes to determine the effects of pattern on ecosystem processes across temporal and spatial scales. Limnology is the study of inland water bodies inclusive of rivers, lakes,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix%20Guzman
The Prix Pierre Guzman (Pierre Guzman Prize) was the name given to two prizes, one astronomical and one medical. Both were established by the will of Anne Emilie Clara Goguet (died June 30, 1891), wife of Marc Guzman, and named after her son Pierre Guzman. Astronomical This prize was a sum of 100,000 francs, to be gi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature%20connector
The feature connector was an internal connector found mostly in some older ISA, VESA Local Bus, and PCI graphics cards, but also on some early AGP ones. It was intended for use by devices which needed to exchange large amounts of data with the graphics card without hogging a computer system's CPU or data bus, such as T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIF3C
Kinesin-like protein KIF3C is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KIF3C gene. It is part of the kinesin family of motor proteins.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit%20%28mascot%29
Orbit is the name given to Major League Baseball's Houston Astros mascot, a lime-green alien wearing an Astros jersey with antennae extending into baseballs. Orbit was the team's official mascot from the 1990 through the 1999 seasons until the 2000 season, where Junction Jack was introduced as the team's mascot with th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WIN-35428
(–)-2-β-Carbomethoxy-3-β-(4-fluorophenyl)tropane (β-CFT, WIN 35,428) is a stimulant drug used in scientific research. CFT is a phenyltropane based dopamine reuptake inhibitor and is structurally derived from cocaine. It is around 3-10x more potent than cocaine and lasts around 7 times longer based on animal studies. Wh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NELL2
Protein kinase C-binding protein NELL2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NELL2 gene. This gene encodes a cytoplasmic protein that contains epidermal growth factor (EGF) -like repeats. The encoded heterotrimeric protein may be involved in cell growth regulation and differentiation. A similar protein in rode...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20matrix
Active matrix is a type of addressing scheme used in flat panel displays. In this method of switching individual elements (pixels), each pixel is attached to a transistor and capacitor actively maintaining the pixel state while other pixels are being addressed, in contrast with the older passive matrix technology in wh...