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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sucroglyceride | Sucroglycerides are substances used in the manufacture of food. They are known in the E number scheme as E474.
Synopsis
Sucroglycerides have been known at least since 1963.
Sucroglycerides are obtained through a reaction between sucrose and an edible oil or fat, and consist of a mixture of mono- and di-esters of suc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebAssembly | WebAssembly (sometimes abbreviated Wasm) defines a portable binary-code format and a corresponding text format for executable programs as well as software interfaces for facilitating interactions between such programs and their host environment.
The main goal of WebAssembly is to enable high-performance applications o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rad%C3%B3%27s%20theorem%20%28harmonic%20functions%29 | See also Rado's theorem (Ramsey theory)
In mathematics, Radó's theorem is a result about harmonic functions, named after Tibor Radó. Informally, it says that any "nice looking" shape without holes can be smoothly deformed into a disk.
Suppose Ω is an open, connected and convex subset of the Euclidean space R2 with sm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Society%20for%20Microbiology | The American Society for Microbiology (ASM), originally the Society of American Bacteriologists, is a professional organization for scientists who study viruses, bacteria, fungi, algae, and protozoa as well as other aspects of microbiology. It was founded in 1899. The Society publishes a variety of scientific journals,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X8%20protein%20domain | In molecular biology, the X8 domain, is thought to play a role in targeting the plasmodesmata by providing it with structural support. The domain is able to do this since it contains signal sequences for a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) linkage to the extracellular face of the plasma membrane. This domain is involv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric%20M.%20Rains | Eric Michael Rains (born 23 August 1973) is an American mathematician specializing in coding theory and special functions, especially applications from and to noncommutative algebraic geometry.
Biography
Eric Rains was 14 when he began classes in 1987. He left Case Western Reserve University with bachelor's degrees ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehrling%27s%20lemma | In mathematics, Ehrling's lemma, also known as Lions' lemma, is a result concerning Banach spaces. It is often used in functional analysis to demonstrate the equivalence of certain norms on Sobolev spaces. It was named after Gunnar Ehrling.
Statement of the lemma
Let (X, ||·||X), (Y, ||·||Y) and (Z, ||·||Z) be three ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BacDive | BacDive (the Bacterial Diversity Metadatabase) is a bacterial metadatabase that provides strain-linked information about bacterial and archaeal biodiversity.
Introduction
BacDive is a resource for different kind of metadata like taxonomy, morphology, physiology, environment and molecular-biology.
The majority of dat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-y%20method | In geotechnical civil engineering, the p–y is a method of analyzing the ability of deep foundations to resist loads applied in the lateral direction. This method uses the finite difference method and p-y graphs to find a solution. P–y graphs are graphs which relate the force applied to soil to the lateral deflection of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-shift%20oscillator | A phase-shift oscillator is a linear electronic oscillator circuit that produces a sine wave output. It consists of an inverting amplifier element such as a transistor or op amp with its output fed back to its input through a phase-shift network consisting of resistors and capacitors in a ladder network. The feedback n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level%20staff | A level staff, also called levelling rod, is a graduated wooden or aluminium rod, used with a levelling instrument to determine the difference in height between points or heights of points above a vertical datum.
When used for stadiametric rangefinding, the level staff is called a stadia rod.
Rod construction and mate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinkertoy | The Tinkertoy Construction Set is a construction set toy for children. It was designed in 1914—six years after the Frank Hornby's Meccano sets—by Charles H. Pajeau, who formed the Toy Tinker Company in Evanston, Illinois to manufacture them. Pajeau, a stonemason, designed the toy after seeing children play with sticks ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisin | Nisin is a polycyclic antibacterial peptide produced by the bacterium Lactococcus lactis that is used as a food preservative. It has 34 amino acid residues, including the uncommon amino acids lanthionine (Lan), methyllanthionine (MeLan), didehydroalanine (Dha), and didehydroaminobutyric acid (Dhb). These unusual amino ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated%20Math | Accelerated Math is a daily, progress-monitoring software tool that monitors and manages mathematics skills practice, from preschool math through calculus. It is primarily used by primary and secondary schools, and it is published by Renaissance Learning, Inc. Currently, there are five versions: a desktop version and a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOTEC | The National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC) is a research center in Thailand under the umbrella of the National Science and Technology Development Agency (NSTDA), Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Research and Innovation. The center was founded on 20 September 1983 and became a member of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Featural%20writing%20system | In a featural writing system, the shapes of the symbols (such as letters) are not arbitrary but encode phonological features of the phonemes that they represent. The term featural was introduced by Geoffrey Sampson to describe the Korean alphabet and Pitman shorthand.
Joe Martin introduced the term featural notation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schick%20test | The Schick test, developed in 1913, is a skin test used to determine whether or not a person is susceptible to diphtheria. It was named after its inventor, Béla Schick (1877–1967), a Hungarian-born American pediatrician.
Procedure
The test is a simple procedure. A small amount (0.1 ml) of diluted (1/50 MLD) diphther... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal-coded%20affinity%20tag | Metal-coded affinity tag is a method used for quantitative proteomics by mass spectrometry that uses a metal chelate complex 1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-1,4,7,10-tetraacetate (DOTA) coupled to different lanthanide ions. The metal complexes attach to the cysteine residues of proteins in a sample.
Proteomic analysis
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rietdijk%E2%80%93Putnam%20argument | In philosophy, the Rietdijk–Putnam argument, named after and Hilary Putnam, uses 20th-century findings in physicsspecifically in special relativityto support the philosophical position known as four-dimensionalism.
If special relativity is true, then each observer will have their own plane of simultaneity, which cont... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayashi%20limit | The Hayashi limit is a theoretical constraint upon the maximum radius of a star for a given mass. When a star is fully within hydrostatic equilibrium—a condition where the inward force of gravity is matched by the outward pressure of the gas—the star can not exceed the radius defined by the Hayashi limit. This has impo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KOBO%20%28whale%29 | KOBO (King of the Blue Ocean) is the skeleton of a juvenile blue whale on display at the New Bedford Whaling Museum in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The whale was accidentally struck and killed by a tanker and brought ashore in Rhode Island in March 1998. It was named by New Bedford sixth-grade student Katie Hallett and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kline%20sphere%20characterization | In mathematics, a Kline sphere characterization, named after John Robert Kline, is a topological characterization of a two-dimensional sphere in terms of what sort of subset separates it. Its proof was one of the first notable accomplishments of R. H. Bing; Bing gave an alternate proof using brick partitioning in his... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics%20of%20synesthesia | The genetic mechanism of synesthesia has long been debated, with researchers previously claiming it was a single X-linked trait due to seemingly higher prevalence in women and no evidence of male-male transmission This is where the only synesthetic parent is male and the male child has synesthesia, meaning that the tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force10 | Dell Force10 (formerly nCore Networks, Force10 Networks), was a United States company that developed and marketed 10 Gigabit and 40 Gigabit Ethernet switches for computer networking to corporate, educational, and governmental customers. It had offices in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.
In August 20... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totally%20positive%20matrix | In mathematics, a totally positive matrix is a square matrix in which all the minors are positive: that is, the determinant of every square submatrix is a positive number. A totally positive matrix has all entries positive, so it is also a positive matrix; and it has all principal minors positive (and positive eigenva... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulkerson%E2%80%93Chen%E2%80%93Anstee%20theorem | The Fulkerson–Chen–Anstee theorem is a result in graph theory, a branch of combinatorics. It provides one of two known approaches solving the digraph realization problem, i.e. it gives a necessary and sufficient condition for pairs of nonnegative integers to be the indegree-outdegree pairs of a simple directed graph; ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirtris%20Pharmaceuticals | Sirtris Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was a biotechnology company based in Cambridge, MA that developed therapies for type 2 diabetes, cancer, and other diseases. Conceived in 2004 by Harvard University biologist David Sinclair and serial entrepreneur Andrew Perlman, and founded that year by Sinclair and Perlman, along with Ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent%20mutation | Silent mutations are mutations in DNA that do not have an observable effect on the organism's phenotype. They are a specific type of neutral mutation. The phrase silent mutation is often used interchangeably with the phrase synonymous mutation; however, synonymous mutations are not always silent, nor vice versa. Synon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternal%20care | In biology, paternal care is parental investment provided by a male to his own offspring. It is a complex social behaviour in vertebrates associated with animal mating systems, life history traits, and ecology. Paternal care may be provided in concert with the mother (biparental care) or, more rarely, by the male alone... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descriptive%20interpretation | According to Rudolf Carnap, in logic, an interpretation is a descriptive interpretation (also called a factual interpretation) if at least one of the undefined symbols of its formal system becomes, in the interpretation, a descriptive sign (i.e., the name of single objects, or observable properties). In his Introductio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropixels | Neuropixels probes (or "Neuropixels") are electrodes developed in 2017 to record the activity of hundreds of neurons in the brain. The probes are based on CMOS technology and have 1,000 recording sites arranged in two rows on a thin, 1-cm long shank.
The probes are used in hundreds of neuroscience laboratories includi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pediastrum | Pediastrum is a genus of green algae, in the family Hydrodictyaceae. It is a photoautotrophic, nonmotile coenobial green alga that inhabits freshwater environments.
Morphology
Pediastrum develops colonies with a fixed number of cells, termed coenobia. In this case, the coenobia are composed of between 22 and 27 cells... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripod%20%28surveying%29 | A surveyor's tripod is a device used to support any one of a number of surveying instruments, such as theodolites, total stations, levels or transits.
History
The modern sturdy, but portable, tripod stand with three leg pairs hinged to a triangular metal head was invented and first manufactured for sale by Sir Franci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norverapamil | Norverapamil is a calcium channel blocker. It is the main active metabolite of verapamil. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20P.%20Sanders | Daniel P. Sanders is an American mathematician. He is known for his 1996 efficient proof (algorithm) of proving the Four color theorem (with Neil Robertson, Paul Seymour, and Robin Thomas). He used to be a guest professor of the department of computer science at Columbia University.
Sanders received his Ph.D. in algor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDR%20coding | In computer science CDR coding is a compressed data representation for Lisp linked lists. It was developed and patented by the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, and implemented in computer hardware in a number of Lisp machines derived from the MIT CADR.
CDR coding is in fact a fairly general idea; whenever a dat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested%20stack%20automaton | In automata theory, a nested stack automaton is a finite automaton that can make use of a stack containing data which can be additional stacks.
Like a stack automaton, a nested stack automaton may step up or down in the stack, and read the current symbol; in addition, it may at any place create a new stack, operate o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20HTML%20parsers | HTML parsers are software for automated Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) parsing. They have two main purposes:
HTML traversal: offer an interface for programmers to easily access and modify the "HTML string code". Canonical example: DOM parsers.
HTML clean: to fix invalid HTML and to improve the layout and indent ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite%20impulse%20response | In signal processing, a finite impulse response (FIR) filter is a filter whose impulse response (or response to any finite length input) is of finite duration, because it settles to zero in finite time. This is in contrast to infinite impulse response (IIR) filters, which may have internal feedback and may continue to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Yanoff | Scott Yanoff (born October 20, 1969) is an IT manager and web developer who was a key person in the early days of the internet, most notably for creating and maintaining the Yanoff List, an alphabetical list of internet sites.
Career
Yanoff authored the Inter-Network Mail Guide, a text written in 1997 documenting the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applix |
Applix Inc. was a computer software company founded in 1983 based in Westborough, Massachusetts that published Applix TM1, a multi-dimensional online analytical processing (MOLAP) database server, and related presentation tools, including Applix Web and Applix Executive Viewer. Together, Applix TM1, Applix Web and App... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchromatin%20granule | An interchromatin granule is a cluster in the nucleus of a mammal cell which is enriched in pre-mRNA splicing factors. Interchromatin granules are located in the interchromatin regions of the mammalian Cell nuclei. They usually appear as irregularly shaped structures that vary in size and number. They can be observed b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulin%20glargine | Insulin glargine sold under the brand name Lantus among others is a long-acting modified form of medical insulin, used in the management of type I and type II diabetes. It is injected just under the skin. Effects generally begin an hour after use.
Common side effects include low blood sugar, problems at the site of in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FORE%20Systems | FORE Systems was a computer network switching equipment company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1990 to supply Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) cards for workstation computers, it soon branched out to become a major supplier in the ATM switch market and the extended those product lines to add Internet Pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryon%20number | In particle physics, the baryon number is a strictly conserved additive quantum number of a system. It is defined as
where is the number of quarks, and is the number of antiquarks. Baryons (three quarks) have a baryon number of +1, mesons (one quark, one antiquark) have a baryon number of 0, and antibaryons (three a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20cutaneous%20nerve%20of%20forearm | The lateral cutaneous nerve of forearm (or lateral antebrachial cutaneous nerve) is a sensory nerve representing the continuation of the musculocutaneous nerve beyond the lateral edge of the tendon of the biceps brachii muscle. The lateral cutaneous nerve provides sensory innervation to the skin of the lateral forearm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZO%20sex-determination%20system | The ZO sex-determination system is a system that determines the sex of offspring in several moths. In those species, there is one sex chromosome, Z. Males have two Z chromosomes, whereas females have one Z. Males are ZZ, while females are ZO.
See also
Y-chromosomal Adam
Sex Determination in Silene
Sex-determination ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlasov%20equation | The Vlasov equation is a differential equation describing time evolution of the distribution function of plasma consisting of charged particles with long-range interaction, such as the Coulomb interaction. The equation was first suggested for the description of plasma by Anatoly Vlasov in 1938 and later discussed by hi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20iliac%20vein | The internal iliac vein (hypogastric vein) begins near the upper part of the greater sciatic foramen, passes upward behind and slightly medial to the internal iliac artery and, at the brim of the pelvis, joins with the external iliac vein to form the common iliac vein.
Structure
Several veins unite above the greater s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decision-theoretic%20rough%20sets | In the mathematical theory of decisions, decision-theoretic rough sets (DTRS) is a probabilistic extension of rough set classification. First created in 1990 by Dr. Yiyu Yao, the extension makes use of loss functions to derive and region parameters. Like rough sets, the lower and upper approximations of a set are us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20Talkies | Water Talkies are devices which makes talking underwater possible. They were invented by Richie Stachowski, Jr. in 1995 at age 11.
It is a colorful, cone-shaped device that amplifies voices underwater for up to . What started as one product turned into a company producing water toys "made by a kid for kids" - a line o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davidson%20Seamount | Davidson Seamount is a seamount (underwater volcano) located off the coast of Central California, southwest of Monterey and west of San Simeon. At long and wide, it is one of the largest known seamounts in the world. From base to crest, the seamount is tall, yet its summit is still below the sea surface. The seam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bithionol | Bithionol is an antibacterial, anthelmintic, and algaecide. It is used to treat Anoplocephala perfoliata (tapeworms) in horses and Fasciola hepatica (liver flukes).
Mechanism of action
Bithionol has been shown to be a potent inhibitor of soluble adenylyl cyclase, an intracellular enzyme important in the catalysis o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20McKernan | James McKernan (born 1964) is a mathematician, and a professor of mathematics at the University of California, San Diego. He was a professor at MIT from 2007 until 2013.
Education
McKernan was educated at the Campion School, Hornchurch, and Trinity College, Cambridge, before going on to earn his Ph.D. from Harvard Un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetic%20acid/hydrocortisone | Acetic acid/hydrocortisone is a commonly used combination drug to treat infections of the outer ear and ear canal. Branded as Vosol HC and Acetasol HC, it combines the antibacterial and antifungal action of acetic acid with the anti-inflammatory functions of hydrocortisone. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20linker | In computing, a dynamic linker is the part of an operating system that loads and links the shared libraries needed by an executable when it is executed (at "run time"), by copying the content of libraries from persistent storage to RAM, filling jump tables and relocating pointers. The specific operating system and exec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative%20Design%20in%20Minecraft | GDMC (short for Generative Design in Minecraft) is a programming competition to create procedurally generated settlements in Minecraft. The competition is organized by academics from New York University, the University of Hertfordshire and the Queen Mary University of London.
Organisers
Michael Cerny Green (New York... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20scheduler | A network scheduler, also called packet scheduler, queueing discipline (qdisc) or queueing algorithm, is an arbiter on a node in a packet switching communication network. It manages the sequence of network packets in the transmit and receive queues of the protocol stack and network interface controller. There are sever... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbow | The Hyperbow is an electronic violin bow interface that was developed as a result of an in-depth research project by students at MIT. The instrument is intended for use only by accomplished players and was designed to amplify their gestures, which lead to supplementary sound or musical control possibilities. It offers ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP%20traceback | IP traceback is any method for reliably determining the origin of a packet on the Internet. The IP protocol does not provide for the authentication of the source IP address of an IP packet, enabling the source address to be falsified in a strategy called IP address spoofing, and creating potential internet security and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20dehydrator | A food dehydrator is a device that removes moisture from food to aid in its preservation. Food drying is a method of preserving fruit, vegetables and meats that has been practiced since antiquity.
Design
Most modern food dehydrators are low-power convection ovens that use heated air flow to reduce the water content... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borden%20Base%20Line | The Borden Base Line is a historic survey line (7.42 miles, long) running north/south through Hatfield and South Deerfield, Massachusetts. It was completed in 1831. It was designated a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark by the American Society of Civil Engineers in 1981.
The baseline measurement was the fir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziggurat%20algorithm | The ziggurat algorithm is an algorithm for pseudo-random number sampling. Belonging to the class of rejection sampling algorithms, it relies on an underlying source of uniformly-distributed random numbers, typically from a pseudo-random number generator, as well as precomputed tables. The algorithm is used to generat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnation | Adnation in angiosperms is the fusion of two or more whorls of a flower, e.g. stamens to petals". This is in contrast to connation, the fusion among a single whorl. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickardt%20syndrome | Pickardt syndrome denotes a rare form of tertiary hypothyroidism that is caused by interruption of the portal veins connecting hypothalamus and pituitary.It was characterized in 1972 and 1973 by Renate Pickardt and Rudolf Fahlbusch.
Signs and symptoms
Cause
Interruption of the portal system may be caused by tumors c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber%20duck%20debugging | In software engineering, rubber duck debugging (or rubberducking) is a method of debugging code by articulating a problem in spoken or written natural language. The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-Cymene | p-Cymene is a naturally occurring aromatic organic compound. It is classified as an alkylbenzene related to monocyclic monoterpenes. Its structure consists of a benzene ring para-substituted with a methyl group and an isopropyl group. p-Cymene is insoluble in water, but miscible with organic solvents.
Isomers and prod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production%20truck | A television production truck or OB van is a small mobile production control room to allow filming of events and video production at locations outside a regular television studio. They are used for remote broadcasts, outside broadcasting (OB), and electronic field production (EFP). Some require a crew of as many as 30 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friction%20motor | A friction motor is a simple mechanism to propel toy cars, trucks, trains, action figures and similar toys. The motor consists of a large flywheel which is connected to the drive wheels of the toy via a very low gear ratio, so that the flywheel revolves faster. The flywheel's axis is perpendicular to the direction in w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camo%20%28app%29 | Camo is a freemium webcam app by British software company Reincubate allowing phones and other mobile devices to be used as webcams and document cameras.
The app runs on macOS and Microsoft Windows and is compatible with iOS and Android phones.
The app comes in a free and Pro version. The free version uses the mobile... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur%20J.%20Krener | Arthur James Krener (born October 8, 1942) is a distinguished visiting professor in the department of applied mathematics at the Naval Postgraduate School. He has made contributions in the areas of control theory, nonlinear control, and stochastic processes.
Biography
He was born in Brooklyn, New York, on October 8, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Oceanographic%20Data%20Centre | The British Oceanographic Data Centre (BODC) is a national facility for looking after and distributing data about the marine environment. BODC is the designated marine science data centre for the United Kingdom and part of the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) — primarily at its facility in Liverpool, with small numbe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20physics%20articles%20%28I%29 | The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size.
To navigate by individual letter use the table of contents below.
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I. M. Dharmadasa
IBM Zurich Research Laboratory
ICARUS (experiment)
ICRANet
IEEE Antennas & Propagation Society
IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters
IEEE Council o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cataclysmic%20pole%20shift%20hypothesis | The cataclysmic pole shift hypothesis is a pseudo-scientific claim that there have been recent, geologically rapid shifts in the axis of rotation of Earth, causing calamities such as floods and tectonic events or relatively rapid climate changes.
There is evidence of precession and changes in axial tilt, but this chan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole-tone%20scale | In music, a whole-tone scale is a scale in which each note is separated from its neighbors by the interval of a whole tone. In twelve-tone equal temperament, there are only two complementary whole-tone scales, both six-note or hexatonic scales. A single whole-tone scale can also be thought of as a "six-tone equal tempe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Averch%E2%80%93Johnson%20effect | The Averch–Johnson effect is the tendency of regulated companies to engage in excessive amounts of capital accumulation in order to expand the volume of their profits. If companies' profits to capital ratio is regulated at a certain percentage then there is a strong incentive for companies to over-invest in order to in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neotropical%20Ornithological%20Society | The Neotropical Ornithological Society, or Sociedad de Ornitología Neotropical, is an ornithological non-profit organization, with its principal objective the study and conservation of Neotropical birds and their habitats, including both their breeding and non-breeding areas. It was founded in 1987 by Dr Mario A. Ramo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-fragment%20algorithm | The multi-fragment (MF) algorithm is a heuristic or approximation algorithm for the travelling salesman problem (TSP) (and related problems). This algorithm is also sometimes called the "greedy algorithm" for the TSP.
The algorithm builds a tour for the traveling salesman one edge at a time and thus maintains multiple... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy%20trinity%20%28cooking%29 | The "holy trinity" in Cajun cuisine and Louisiana Creole cuisine is the base for several dishes in the regional cuisines of Louisiana and consists of onions, bell peppers and celery. The preparation of Cajun/Creole dishes such as crawfish étouffée, gumbo, and jambalaya all start from this base.
Variants use garlic, pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20Sciences%20Institute | The Molecular Sciences Institute (MSI), now located in Milpitas, California was founded in Berkeley, California by Sydney Brenner in 1996. Its mission was to operate as an independent non-profit research laboratory that combined genomic experimentation with computer modeling. Current efforts include co-curricular STE... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelargonium%20%C3%97%20fragrans | Pelargonium × fragrans (or 'Fragrans') is a pelargonium hybrid between Pelargonium odoratissimum and Pelargonium exstipulatum. It is in the subgenus Reniforme along with Pelargonium sidoides and Pelargonium abrotanifolium.
Etymology
Pelargonium comes from the Greek; Pelargos which means stork. Another name for pelargo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential%20entropy | Differential entropy (also referred to as continuous entropy) is a concept in information theory that began as an attempt by Claude Shannon to extend the idea of (Shannon) entropy, a measure of average (surprisal) of a random variable, to continuous probability distributions. Unfortunately, Shannon did not derive this ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceph%20%28software%29 | Ceph (pronounced ) is a free and open-source software-defined storage platform that provides object storage, block storage, and file storage built on a common distributed cluster foundation. Ceph provides completely distributed operation without a single point of failure and scalability to the exabyte level, and is fre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferon%20alfacon-1 | Interferon alfacon-1 is a recombinant synthetic type I interferon used for the treatment of hairy cell leukemia, malignant melanoma and AIDS-related Kaposi's sarcoma. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernstein%E2%80%93von%20Mises%20theorem | In Bayesian inference, the Bernstein–von Mises theorem provides the basis for using Bayesian credible sets for confidence statements in parametric models. It states that under some conditions, a posterior distribution converges in the limit of infinite data to a multivariate normal distribution centered at the maximum ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20V.%20Hogg | Robert Vincent ("Bob") Hogg (8 November 1924 – 23 December 2014) was an American statistician and professor of statistics of the University of Iowa. Hogg is known for his widely used textbooks on statistics (with his 1963 Ph.D. student Elliot Alan Tanis) and on mathematical statistics (with his 1950 Ph.D. advisor Allen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada%20Gairdner%20Wightman%20Award | The Canada Gairdner Wightman Award is annually awarded by the Gairdner Foundation to a Canadian who has demonstrated outstanding leadership in the field of medicine and medical science.
Award winners
Source: Gairdner- Past Recipients
See also
Gairdner Foundation
Gairdner Foundation Global Health Award
Gairdner Fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20bactericidal%20concentration | The minimum bactericidal concentration (MBC) is the lowest concentration of an antibacterial agent required to kill a particular bacterium. It can be determined from broth dilution minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) tests by subculturing to agar plates that do not contain the test agent. The MBC is identified by de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MORE%20protocol | MORE, which stands for MAC independent Opportunistic Routing, is an opportunistic routing protocol designed for wireless mesh networks. The protocol removes the dependency that other opportunistic routing protocols, such as ExOR and SOAR have on the MAC layer. Both of these protocols make use of a scheduler, to co-ord... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niobium%E2%80%93germanium | Niobium-germanium (Nb3Ge) is an intermetallic chemical compound of niobium (Nb) and germanium (Ge). It has A15 phase structure.
It is a superconductor with a critical temperature of 23.2 K.
Sputtered films have been reported to have an upper critical field of 37 teslas at 4.2 K.
History
Nb3Ge was discovered to be a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20Aneesh | Aneesh Aneesh is a sociologist of globalization, labor, and technology. He is Executive Director of the School of Global Studies and Languages at the University of Oregon and a Professor of Global Studies and Sociology. Previously, he served as a professor of sociology and director of the Institute of World Affairs an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stubline%20transmitter | Stubline transmitter is a broadcasting facility for mediumwave and shortwave near Zvečka, Serbia. The mediumwave transmitter broadcast on 684 kHz and, until its destruction on May 30, 1999, it was one of the strongest in Europe having used 2000 kilowatts of power.
The station was rebuilt with a 225.5 metres tall mast,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20integrated%20development%20environment | A Game Engine (game environment) is a specialized development environment for creating video games. The features one provides depends on the type and the granularity of control allowed by the underlying framework. Some may provide diagrams, a windowing environment and debugging facilities. Users build the game with the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinity%20%28philosophy%29 | In philosophy and theology, infinity is explored in articles under headings such as the Absolute, God, and Zeno's paradoxes.
In Greek philosophy, for example in Anaximander, 'the Boundless' is the origin of all that is. He took the beginning or first principle to be an endless, unlimited primordial mass (ἄπειρον, apei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohesin | Cohesin is a protein complex that mediates sister chromatid cohesion, homologous recombination, and DNA looping. Cohesin is formed of SMC3, SMC1, SCC1 and SCC3 (SA1 or SA2 in humans). Cohesin holds sister chromatids together after DNA replication until anaphase when removal of cohesin leads to separation of sister chro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exopher | Exophers are a type of membrane-bound extracellular vesicle (EV) that are released by budding out of cells into the extracellular space. Exophers can be released by neurons and muscle in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and also from murine cardiomyocytes. Exophers are notable for their large size, averaging approxi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urethral%20bulking%20injections | A urethral bulking injection is a gynecological procedure and medical treatment used to treat involuntary leakage of urine: urinary incontinence in women. Injectional materials are used to control stress incontinence. Bulking agents are injected into the mucosa surrounding the bladder neck and proximal urethra. This re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feferman%E2%80%93Sch%C3%BCtte%20ordinal | In mathematics, the Feferman–Schütte ordinal Γ0 is a large countable ordinal.
It is the proof-theoretic ordinal of several mathematical theories, such as arithmetical transfinite recursion.
It is named after Solomon Feferman and Kurt Schütte, the former of whom suggested the name Γ0.
There is no standard notation for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengdu%20Research%20Base%20of%20Giant%20Panda%20Breeding | The Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding (or simply Chengdu Panda Base) is a public non-profit breeding and research institute for giant pandas, red pandas, and other rare animals in Chengdu, Sichuan, China.
Chengdu Panda Base was founded in 1987 by the Chengdu Municipal People's Government. It started with 6... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plectasin | Plectasin is an antibiotic protein from the mushroom Pseudoplectania nigrella. It was initially discovered in 2005 and commercialised by Novozymes. Plectasin belongs to the antimicrobial peptide class called fungal defensins, which is also present in invertebrates such as flies and mussels.
Clinical trials
Pre-clinic... |
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