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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immortalised%20cell%20line | An immortalised cell line is a population of cells from a multicellular organism which would normally not proliferate indefinitely but, due to mutation, have evaded normal cellular senescence and instead can keep undergoing division. The cells can therefore be grown for prolonged periods in vitro. The mutations require... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Base%20Station%20Architecture%20Initiative | The Open Base Station Architecture Initiative (OBSAI) was a trade association created by Hyundai, LG Electronics, Nokia, Samsung and ZTE in September 2002 with the aim of creating an open market for cellular network base stations. The hope was that an open market would reduce the development effort and costs traditiona... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperspace | In science fiction, hyperspace (also known as nulspace, subspace, overspace, jumpspace and similar terms) is a concept relating to higher dimensions as well as parallel universes and a faster-than-light (FTL) method of interstellar travel. Its use in science fiction originated in the magazine Amazing Stories Quarterly ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%20W%20B%20Stephens%20Medal | The R W B Stephens Medal is a prize from the Institute of Acoustics named after Dr Ray Stephens, the first President of the Institute of Acoustics. His main interests lay in physical acoustics but he is remembered by generations of students for his continuing work in education. The medal is awarded in odd-numbered year... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorongosa%20National%20Park | Gorongosa National Park is at the southern end of the Great African Rift Valley in the heart of central Mozambique, Southeast Africa. The more than park comprises the valley floor and parts of surrounding plateaus. Rivers originating on nearby Mount Gorongosa () water the plain.
Seasonal flooding and waterlogging of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%20Roths%20large | Murphy Roths large (MRL/MpJ) is a strain of laboratory mouse developed in 1999 at The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Originally bred for autoimmune disease research, it was discovered to have remarkable tissue regeneration abilities.
Research
The MRL/MpJ mouse strain was selectively bred by scientist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gua%20Operon | The gua operon is responsible for regulating the synthesis of guanosine mono phosphate (GMP), a purine nucleotide, from inosine monophosphate (IMP or inosinate). It consists of two structural genes guaB (encodes for IMP dehydrogenase or and guaA (encodes for GMP synthetase) apart from the promoter and operator region.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrator%20%28mechanical%29 | A vibrator is a mechanical device to generate vibrations. The vibration is often generated by an electric motor with an unbalanced mass on its driveshaft.
There are many different types of vibrator. Typically, they are components of larger products such as smartphones, pagers, or video game controllers with a "rumble"... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberous%20sclerosis%20protein | Tuberous sclerosis proteins 1 and 2, also known as TSC1 (hamartin) and TSC2 (tuberin), form a protein-complex. The encoding two genes are TSC1 and TSC2. The complex is known as a tumor suppressor. Mutations in these genes can cause tuberous sclerosis complex. Depending on the grade of the disease, intellectual disabili... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20Physics%20and%20Atomic%20Energy%20%28journal%29 | Nuclear Physics and Atomic Energy is a quarterly peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal published by Institute for Nuclear Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. It was established in 2000 and covers all aspects of nuclear physics, particle physics, atomic energy, radiation physics, plasma physi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Completeness%20of%20the%20real%20numbers | Completeness is a property of the real numbers that, intuitively, implies that there are no "gaps" (in Dedekind's terminology) or "missing points" in the real number line. This contrasts with the rational numbers, whose corresponding number line has a "gap" at each irrational value. In the decimal number system, comp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft%20selective%20sweep | In genetics, when multiple copies of a beneficial mutation become established and fix together it is called soft sweep. Depending on the origin of these copies, linked variants might then be retained and emerge as haplotype structures in the population.
There are two major forms of soft sweeps:
1) A beneficial mutat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YCSB | The Yahoo! Cloud Serving Benchmark (YCSB) is an open-source specification and program suite for evaluating retrieval and maintenance capabilities of computer programs. It is often used to compare the relative performance of NoSQL database management systems.
The original benchmark was developed by workers in the resea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurotoxic%20shellfish%20poisoning | Neurotoxic shellfish poisoning (NSP) is caused by the consumption of brevetoxins, which are marine toxins produced by the dinoflagellate Karenia brevis (among several others). These toxins can produce a series of gastrointestinal and neurological effects. Outbreaks of NSP commonly take place following harmful algal blo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%207950%20Harvest | The IBM 7950, also known as Harvest, was a one-of-a-kind adjunct to the Stretch computer which was installed at the United States National Security Agency (NSA). Built by IBM, it was delivered in 1962 and operated until 1976, when it was decommissioned. Harvest was designed to be used for cryptanalysis.
Development
In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earning%20to%20give | Earning to give involves deliberately pursuing a high-earning career for the purpose of donating a significant portion of earned income, typically because of a desire to do effective altruism. Advocates of earning to give contend that maximizing the amount one can donate to charity is an important consideration for ind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatic%20lymph%20nodes | The hepatic lymph nodes consist of the following groups:
(a) hepatic, on the stem of the hepatic artery, and extending upward along the common bile duct, between the two layers of the lesser omentum, as far as the porta hepatis; the cystic gland, a member of this group, is placed near the neck of the gall-bladder;
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode%20Media | Glam.com (formerly Mode Media, Inc. Project Y, Glam Media) was a digital lifestyle media company where content was produced by anyone but reviewed by professional editors prior to publishing. In 2013, Mode Media had a valuation of about $1 billion as the company prepped for an IPO. In 2015, Mode Media had grown to over... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speed%20of%20sound | The speed of sound is the distance travelled per unit of time by a sound wave as it propagates through an elastic medium. At , the speed of sound in air is about , or one kilometre in or one mile in . It depends strongly on temperature as well as the medium through which a sound wave is propagating. At , the speed of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recovery%20as%20a%20service | Recovery as a service (RaaS), sometimes referred to as disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS), is a category of cloud computing used for protecting an application or data from a natural or human disaster or service disruption at one location by enabling a full recovery in the cloud. RaaS differs from cloud-based backu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperopisus | The Bebe mormyrid (Hyperopisus bebe) is a species of elephantfish in the family Mormyridae. It is the only species in its genus and is divided into two subspecies. This species is known from many rivers in the northern half of Africa, ranging from the Senegal to the Nile basin. It reaches a length of .
Biology
The B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRPV4 | Transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V member 4 is an ion channel protein that in humans is encoded by the TRPV4 gene.
The TRPV4 gene encodes TRPV4, initially named "vanilloid-receptor related osmotically activated channel" (VR-OAC) and "OSM9-like transient receptor potential channel, member 4 (OTRPC4... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20Sugar%20Beet%20Auction | The Danish Sugar Beet Auction was the first large-scale and practical application of secure multi-party computation, which took place in January 2008. An electronic double auction was successfully run by a multiparty computation involving representatives of Denmark's only sugar beets processor (Danisco), the Danish sug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballistic%20limit | The ballistic limit or limit velocity is the velocity required for a particular projectile to reliably (at least 50% of the time) penetrate a particular piece of material. In other words, a given projectile will generally not pierce a given target when the projectile velocity is lower than the ballistic limit. The te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair%20division%20among%20groups | Fair division among groups (or families) is a class of fair division problems, in which the resources are allocated among groups of agents, rather than among individual agents. After the division, all members in each group consume the same share, but they may have different preferences; therefore, different members in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Francisco%20Declaration%20on%20Research%20Assessment | The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) intends to halt the practice of correlating the journal impact factor to the merits of a specific scientist's contributions. Also according to this statement, this practice creates biases and inaccuracies when appraising scientific research. It also states tha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlemm%27s%20canal | Schlemm's canal is a circular lymphatic-like vessel in the eye. It collects aqueous humor from the anterior chamber and delivers it into the episcleral blood vessels. Canaloplasty may be used to widen it.
Structure
Schlemm's canal is an endothelium-lined tube, resembling that of a lymphatic vessel. On the inside of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Much%E2%80%93Holzmann%20reaction | The Much–Holzmann reaction was an early attempt at a serological test for the diagnosis of dementia praecox, an early-twentieth century psychiatric diagnosis superseded by schizophrenia. The originators of this test, Much and Holzmann of Eppendorf, posited that sera from patients with dementia praecox protected red blo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchhoff%27s%20theorem | In the mathematical field of graph theory, Kirchhoff's theorem or Kirchhoff's matrix tree theorem named after Gustav Kirchhoff is a theorem about the number of spanning trees in a graph, showing that this number can be computed in polynomial time from the determinant of a submatrix of the Laplacian matrix of the graph;... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die%20Sendung%20mit%20der%20Maus | (The Show with the Mouse), often simply (The Mouse), is a German children's television series, popular nationwide for its educational content.<ref name="Borgeest">Bernhard Borgeest, "Von Mäusen und Machern" Focus, official website. (March 12, 2001) Retrieved November 21, 2010 </ref> The show first aired on 7 March 197... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/170%20%28number%29 | 170 (one hundred [and] seventy) is the natural number following 169 and preceding 171.
In mathematics
170 is the smallest n for which φ(n) and σ(n) are both square (64 and 324 respectively). But 170 is never a solution for φ(x), making it a nontotient. Nor is it ever a solution to x - φ(x), making it a noncototient.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongoose-V | The Mongoose-V 32-bit microprocessor for spacecraft onboard computer applications is a radiation-hardened and expanded 10–15 MHz version of the MIPS R3000 CPU. Mongoose-V was developed by Synova of Melbourne, Florida, USA, with support from the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center.
The Mongoose-V processor first flew on N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartlett%27s%20bisection%20theorem | Bartlett's bisection theorem is an electrical theorem in network analysis attributed to Albert Charles Bartlett. The theorem shows that any symmetrical two-port network can be transformed into a lattice network. The theorem often appears in filter theory where the lattice network is sometimes known as a filter X-sect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermitian%20function | In mathematical analysis, a Hermitian function is a complex function with the property that its complex conjugate is equal to the original function with the variable changed in sign:
(where the indicates the complex conjugate) for all in the domain of . In physics, this property is referred to as PT symmetry.
This... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B3zsa%20P%C3%A9ter | Rózsa Péter, born Rózsa Politzer, (17 February 1905 – 16 February 1977) was a Hungarian mathematician and logician. She is best known as the "founding mother of recursion theory".
Early life and education
Péter was born in Budapest, Hungary, as Rózsa Politzer (Hungarian: Politzer Rózsa). She attended Pázmány Péter Uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allomone | An allomone (from Ancient Greek "other" and pheromone) is a type of semiochemical produced and released by an individual of one species that affects the behaviour of a member of another species to the benefit of the originator but not the receiver. Production of allomones is a common form of defense against predators... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decoherence-free%20subspaces | A decoherence-free subspace (DFS) is a subspace of a quantum system's Hilbert space that is invariant to non-unitary dynamics. Alternatively stated, they are a small section of the system Hilbert space where the system is decoupled from the environment and thus its evolution is completely unitary. DFSs can also be char... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interior-point%20method | Interior-point methods (also referred to as barrier methods or IPMs) are a certain class of algorithms that solve linear and nonlinear convex optimization problems.
An interior point method was discovered by Soviet mathematician I. I. Dikin in 1967 and reinvented in the U.S. in the mid-1980s.
In 1984, Narendra Karmark... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetics%20of%20infertility | About 10–15% of human couples are infertile, unable to conceive. In approximately in half of these cases, the underlying cause is related to the male. The underlying causative factors in the male infertility can be attributed to environmental toxins, systemic disorders such as, hypothalamic–pituitary disease, testicula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Track%20%26%20Field%20%28video%20game%29 | Track & Field, also known as in Japan and Europe, is a 1983 Olympic-themed sports video game developed by Konami for arcades. The Japanese release sported an official license for the 1984 Summer Olympics. In Europe, the game was initially released under the Japanese title Hyper Olympic in 1983, before re-releasing und... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pararectal%20lymph%20nodes | The pararectal lymph nodes are lymph nodes that are in contact with the muscular coat of the rectum.
Structure
The pararectal lymph nodes are located on the left and right of the rectum. Their efferent lymph ducts pass to the pre-aortic lymph nodes.
Function
The pararectal lymph nodes drain the descending iliac and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF%20modulator | An RF modulator (radio frequency modulator) is an electronic device used to convert signals from devices such as media players, VCRs and game consoles to a format that can be handled by a device designed to receive a modulated RF input, such as a radio or television receiver. Its input is a baseband signal, which is us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictionary%20of%20the%20Scots%20Language | The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) (, ) is an online Scots–English dictionary, now run by Dictionaries of the Scots Language, formerly known as Scottish Language Dictionaries, a registered SCIO charity. Freely available via the Internet, the work comprises the two major dictionaries of the Scots language:
Dicti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral%20reef | A coral reef is an underwater ecosystem characterized by reef-building corals. Reefs are formed of colonies of coral polyps held together by calcium carbonate. Most coral reefs are built from stony corals, whose polyps cluster in groups.
Coral belongs to the class Anthozoa in the animal phylum Cnidaria, which includes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Numeracy%20Strategy | The National Numeracy Strategy arose out of the National Numeracy Project in 1996, led by a Numeracy Task Force in England. The strategy included an outline of expected teaching in mathematics for all pupils from Reception to Year 6.
In 2003, the strategy, including the framework for teaching, was absorbed into the br... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colanic%20acid | Colanic acid is an exopolysaccharide synthesized by bacteria in the Enterobacteriaceae family. It is excreted by the cell to form a protective bacterial capsule, and it assists in the formation of biofilms.
Structure
Colanic acid is composed of polyanionic heteropolysaccharides with hexasaccharide repeating units, co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial%20cellular%20morphologies | Bacterial cellular morphologies are morphologies that are characteristic of various types bacteria and often a key factor in identifying bacteria species. Their direct examination under the light microscope enables the classification of these bacteria and archaea.
Generally, the basic morphologies are spheres (coccus)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transduction%20%28machine%20learning%29 | In logic, statistical inference, and supervised learning,
transduction or transductive inference is reasoning from
observed, specific (training) cases to specific (test) cases. In contrast,
induction is reasoning from observed training cases
to general rules, which are then applied to the test cases. The distinction is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectral%20element%20method | In the numerical solution of partial differential equations, a topic in mathematics, the spectral element method (SEM) is a formulation of the finite element method (FEM) that uses high degree piecewise polynomials as basis functions. The spectral element method was introduced in a 1984 paper by A. T. Patera. Although ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plaque-forming%20unit | A plaque-forming unit (PFU) is a measure used in virology to describe the number of virus particles capable of forming plaques per unit volume. It is a proxy measurement rather than a measurement of the absolute quantity of particles: viral particles that are defective or which fail to infect their target cell will no... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenic%20engineering | Cryogenic engineering is a sub stream of mechanical engineering dealing with cryogenics, and related very low temperature processes such as air liquefaction, cryogenic engines (for rocket propulsion), cryosurgery. Generally, temperatures below cold come under the purview of cryogenic engineering.
Cryogenics may be cons... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Null%20model | In mathematics, for example in the study of statistical properties of graphs, a null model is a type of random object that matches one specific object in some of its features, or more generally satisfies a collection of constraints, but which is otherwise taken to be an unbiasedly random structure. The null model is us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen%20sensor | A hydrogen sensor is a gas detector that detects the presence of hydrogen. They contain micro-fabricated point-contact hydrogen sensors and are used to locate hydrogen leaks. They are considered low-cost, compact, durable, and easy to maintain as compared to conventional gas detecting instruments.
Key issues
There are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/284%20%28number%29 | 284 is the natural number following 283 and preceding 285.
In mathematics
284 is an even composite number with 2 prime factors.
284 is in the first pair of amicable numbers with 220. That means that the sum of the proper divisors are the same between the two numbers.
284 can be written as a sum of exactly 4 nonzero pe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-threshold%20spikes | Low-threshold spikes (LTS) refer to membrane depolarizations by the T-type calcium channel. LTS occur at low, negative, membrane depolarizations. They often follow a membrane hyperpolarization, which can be the result of decreased excitability or increased inhibition. LTS result in the neuron reaching the threshold for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagata%27s%20compactification%20theorem | In algebraic geometry, Nagata's compactification theorem, introduced by , implies that every abstract variety can be embedded in a complete variety, and more generally shows that a separated and finite type morphism to a Noetherian scheme S can be factored into an open immersion followed by a proper morphism.
Nagata'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occipitofrontal%20fasciculus | The occipitofrontal fasciculus, also known as the fronto-occipital fasciculus, passes backward from the frontal lobe, along the lateral border of the caudate nucleus, and on the medial aspect of the corona radiata; its fibers radiate in a fan-like manner and pass into the occipital and temporal lobes lateral to the pos... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed%20Hodge%20structure | In algebraic geometry, a mixed Hodge structure is an algebraic structure containing information about the cohomology of general algebraic varieties. It is a generalization of a Hodge structure, which is used to study smooth projective varieties.
In mixed Hodge theory, where the decomposition of a cohomology group may... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomaticotemporal%20suture | The zygomaticotemporal suture (or temporozygomatic suture) is the cranial suture between the zygomatic bone and the temporal bone. This is part of the zygomatic arch. Movement at the suture decreases with development during aging. It has a complex internal structure.
Additional images
See also
Zygomatic arch |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldanaerobius | Caldanaerobius is a genus of thermophilic, obligately anaerobic bacteria from the family of Thermoanaerobacteraceae.
Phylogeny
The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
See also
List of bacte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linksys%20WAG300N%20router | Linksys WAG300N is a Draft-N wireless gateway (router plus ADSL2+ modem) with two large captive antennae and 4 Ethernet ports. It was the smallest such device tested by MacUser, but the web interface was deemed "infuriating" and transfer rates to a MacBook "untenably slow". WAG300N is based on a Broadcom BCM63xx SoC, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSL%20filter | A DSL filter (also DSL splitter or microfilter) is an analog low-pass filter installed between analog devices (such as telephones or analog modems) and a plain old telephone service (POTS) line. The DSL filter prevents interference between such devices and a digital subscriber line (DSL) service connected to the same l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20Clarke | Isaac Clarke is a fictional character in the survival horror media franchise Dead Space, owned and published by Electronic Arts. He was introduced as the protagonist of Dead Space (2008) developed by EA subsidiary EA Redwood Shores, which later became Visceral Games. A starship systems engineer, he is initially contrac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesowear | Mesowear is a method, used in different branches and fields of biology. This method can apply to both extant and extinct animals, according to the scope of the study. Mesowear is based on studying an animal's tooth wearing fingerprint. In brief, each animal has special feeding habits, which cause unique tooth wearing. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity%20laws | The affinity laws (also known as the "Fan Laws" or "Pump Laws") for pumps/fans are used in hydraulics, hydronics and/or HVAC to express the relationship between variables involved in pump or fan performance (such as head, volumetric flow rate, shaft speed) and power. They apply to pumps, fans, and hydraulic turbines. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific%20speed | Specific speed Ns, is used to characterize turbomachinery speed. Common commercial and industrial practices use dimensioned versions which are of equal utility. Specific speed is most commonly used in pump applications to define the suction specific speed —a quasi non-dimensional number that categorizes pump impelle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace%20radioisotope | A trace radioisotope is a radioisotope that occurs naturally in trace amounts (i.e. extremely small). Generally speaking, trace radioisotopes have half-lives that are short in comparison with the age of the Earth, since primordial nuclides tend to occur in larger than trace amounts. Trace radioisotopes are therefore pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20projector | A video projector is an image projector that receives a video signal and projects the corresponding image on a projection screen using a lens system. Video projectors use a very bright ultra-high-performance lamp (a special mercury arc lamp), Xenon arc lamp, LED or solid state blue, RB, RGB or remote fiber-optic RGB la... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specific%20volume | In thermodynamics, the specific volume of a substance (symbol: , nu) is a mass-specific intrinsic property of the substance, defined as the quotient of the substance's volume () to its mass (). It is the reciprocal of density (rho) and it is also related to the molar volume and molar mass:
The standard unit of specif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20of%20Motion%20Picture%20and%20Television%20Engineers | The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) (, rarely ), founded in 1916 as the Society of Motion Picture Engineers or SMPE, is a global professional association of engineers, technologists, and executives working in the media and entertainment industry. As an internationally recognized standards org... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20by%20infinite%20descent | In mathematics, a proof by infinite descent, also known as Fermat's method of descent, is a particular kind of proof by contradiction used to show that a statement cannot possibly hold for any number, by showing that if the statement were to hold for a number, then the same would be true for a smaller number, leading t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadowing%20lemma | In the theory of dynamical systems, the shadowing lemma is a lemma describing the behaviour of pseudo-orbits near a hyperbolic invariant set. Informally, the theory states that every pseudo-orbit (which one can think of as a numerically computed trajectory with rounding errors on every step) stays uniformly close to so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparability | In mathematics, two elements x and y of a set P are said to be comparable with respect to a binary relation ≤ if at least one of x ≤ y or y ≤ x is true. They are called incomparable if they are not comparable.
Rigorous definition
A binary relation on a set is by definition any subset of Given is written if an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Kingdom%20Chemistry%20and%20Aerosols%20model | The United Kingdom Chemistry and Aerosols (UKCA) is a community Chemistry-Aerosol-Climate model which are research runs of the Met Office's operational Unified Model. It runs within the Hadley Centre example with multiple flavours of varying horizontal resolutions and vertical layers.
It is a collaboration of the Met ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fix%20and%20Foxi | Fix und Foxi was a weekly German comics magazine created by Rolf Kauka, which ran uninterrupted from 1953 until 1994. Re-christened Fix & Foxi, it was relaunched as a monthly magazine in 2000, 2005 and 2010 respectively. Since the end of 2010, publication has once again ceased. During its heyday it was one of the most ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoid%20factorisation | In mathematics, a factorisation of a free monoid is a sequence of subsets of words with the property that every word in the free monoid can be written as a concatenation of elements drawn from the subsets. The Chen–Fox–Lyndon theorem states that the Lyndon words furnish a factorisation. The Schützenberger theorem rel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male%20contraceptive | Male contraceptives, also known as male birth control, are methods of preventing pregnancy by leveraging male physiology. Globally, the most common forms of male contraceptives include condoms, vasectomy, and withdrawal. Men are largely limited to these forms of contraception, and combined, male contraceptives make up ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary%20fermentation%20%28wine%29 | Secondary fermentation is a process commonly associated with winemaking, which entails a second period of fermentation in a different vessel than the one used to start the fermentation process. An example of this would be starting fermentation in a carboy or stainless steel tank and then moving it over to oak barrels. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jansen%27s%20linkage | Jansen's linkage is a planar leg mechanism designed by the kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen to generate a smooth walking motion. Jansen has used his mechanism in a variety of kinetic sculptures which are known as (Dutch for "beach beasts"). Jansen's linkage bears artistic as well as mechanical merit for its simulation of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesi | Genesi is an international group of technology and consulting companies in the United States, Mexico and Germany. It is most widely known for designing and manufacturing ARM architecture and Power ISA-based computing devices. The Genesi Group consists of Genesi USA Inc., Genesi Americas LLC, Genesi Europe UG, Red Efika... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags%20of%20the%20autonomous%20communities%20of%20Spain | This gallery of flags of the autonomous communities of Spain shows the distinctive flags of the 17 autonomous communities (constitutionally they are the nationalities and regions in which Spain is territorially organized), plus the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.
Autonomies
Autonomous communities
See also
A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL%20shortening | URL shortening is a technique on the World Wide Web in which a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) may be made substantially shorter and still direct to the required page. This is achieved by using a redirect which links to the web page that has a long URL. For example, the URL "" can be shortened to "", and the URL "" can ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma%20speaker | Plasma speakers or ionophones are a form of loudspeaker which varies air pressure via an electrical plasma instead of a solid diaphragm. The plasma arc heats the surrounding air causing it to expand. Varying the electrical signal that drives the plasma and connected to the output of an audio amplifier, the plasma size... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20bank | A cell bank is a facility that stores cells of specific genome for the purpose of future use in a product or medicinal needs, but can also describe the entity of stored cells itself. Cell banks often contain expansive amounts of base cell material that can be utilized for various projects. Cell banks can be used to gen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/120th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 120° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 120th meridian west forms a great circle with the 60th meridian east.
In Canada the border between British Co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larch%20bolete | The name larch bolete is used to describe a number of fungi in the order Boletales which occur in association with species of larch, conifers in the genus Larix. These fungi include members of the genus Suillus:
S. cavipes
S. grevillei (larch bolete, Greville's bolete, or bovine bolete)
S. ochraceoroseus (rosy larch b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Union%20of%20Biochemistry%20and%20Molecular%20Biology | The International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (IUBMB) is an international non-governmental organisation concerned with biochemistry and molecular biology. Formed in 1955 as the International Union of Biochemistry (IUB), the union has presently 79 member countries and regions (as of 2020). The Union is d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condyle%20of%20humerus | The Condyle of humerus is the distal end of the humerus. It is made up of the capitulum and the trochlea. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAG%20promoter | The CAG promoter is a strong synthetic promoter frequently used to drive high levels of gene expression in mammalian expression vectors.
CAG promoter was constructed in the lab of Dr Jun-ichi Miyazaki from the following sequences:
(C) the cytomegalovirus (CMV) early enhancer element,
(A) the promoter, the first exon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%20layer%20etching | Atomic layer etching (ALE) is an emerging technique in semiconductor manufacture, in which a sequence alternating between self-limiting chemical modification steps which affect only the top atomic layers of the wafer, and etching steps which remove only the chemically-modified areas, allows the removal of individual at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start%20School%20Later | Start School Later, aka Healthy Hours, is a non-profit organization in the United States. Founded in 2011 after Maryland-based science writer Terra Ziporyn Snider started an online petition via We the People that brought together grassroots advocates, sleep researchers, pediatricians, social workers, and educators, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaiser%20effect%20%28material%20science%29 | The Kaiser effect is a phenomenon observed in geology and material science that describes a pattern of acoustic emission (AE) or seismicity in a body of rock or other material subjected to repeated cycles of mechanical stress.
In material that exhibits an initial seismic response under a certain load, the Kaiser effe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaspard%20Goyrand | Gaspard Goyrand (3 February 1803 – 23 June 1866) was a French general practitioner, surgeon and politician from Aix-en-Provence. He helped treat cholera from 1835 to 1854, while serving as Deputy Mayor of Aix from 1838 to 1848.
Early life
Jean-Gaspard Goyrand was born in 1803. He was the son of Gabriel-Antoine Goyrand... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/60%2C000 | 60,000 (sixty thousand) is the natural number that comes after 59,999 and before 60,001. It is a round number. It is the value of (F25).
Selected numbers in the range 60,000–69,999
60,001 to 60,999
60,049 = Leyland number
60,101 = smallest prime with period of reciprocal 100
61,000 to 61,999
62,000 to 62,999
62,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karger%27s%20algorithm | In computer science and graph theory, Karger's algorithm is a randomized algorithm to compute a minimum cut of a connected graph. It was invented by David Karger and first published in 1993.
The idea of the algorithm is based on the concept of contraction of an edge in an undirected graph . Informally speaking, the c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish%20counter | Automatic fish counters are automatic devices for measuring the number of fish passing along a particular river in a particular period of time. Usually one particular species is of interest.
One important species studied by fish counters are Atlantic salmon. This species is of interest owing to its ecologically vulner... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LifeWiki | LifeWiki is a wiki dedicated to Conway's Game of Life. It hosts over 2000 articles on the subject and a large collection of Life patterns stored in a format based on run-length encoding that it uses to interoperate with other Life software such as Golly.
LifeWiki was founded in 2009 by Nathaniel Johnston, a professor ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background%20field%20method | In theoretical physics, background field method is a useful procedure to calculate the effective action of a quantum field theory by expanding a quantum field around a classical "background" value B:
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After this is done, the Green's functions are evaluated as a function of the background. This approach has the advant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion%20rules | In mathematics and theoretical physics, fusion rules are rules that determine the exact decomposition of the tensor product of two representations of a group into a direct sum of irreducible representations. The term is often used in the context of two-dimensional conformal field theory where the relevant group is gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Food%20and%20Commercial%20Workers | The United Food and Commercial Workers International Union (UFCW) is a labor union representing approximately 1.3 million workers in the United States and Canada in industries including retail; meatpacking, food processing and manufacturing; hospitality; agriculture; cannabis; chemical trades; security; textile, and he... |
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