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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiktaalik | Tiktaalik (; Inuktitut ) is a monospecific genus of extinct sarcopterygian (lobe-finned fish) from the Late Devonian Period, about 375 Mya (million years ago), having many features akin to those of tetrapods (four-legged animals). Tiktaalik is estimated to have had a total length of based on various specimens.
Unear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glan%E2%80%93Thompson%20prism | A Glan–Thompson prism is a type of polarizing prism similar to the Nicol prism and Glan–Foucault prism.
Design
A Glan–Thompson prism consists of two right-angled calcite prisms that are cemented together by their long faces. The optical axes of the calcite crystals are parallel and aligned perpendicular to the plane o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown%20sprouting | Crown sprouting is the ability of a plant to regenerate its shoot system after destruction (usually by fire) by activating dormant vegetative structures to produce regrowth from the root crown (the junction between the root and shoot portions of a plant). These dormant structures take the form of lignotubers or basal e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20expenditure | Energy expenditure, often estimated as the total daily energy expenditure (TDEE), is the amount of energy burned by the human body.
Causes of energy expenditure
Resting metabolic rate
Resting metabolic rate generally composes 60 to 75 percent of TDEE. Because adipose tissue does not use much energy to maintain, fat ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Broglie%E2%80%93Bohm%20theory | The de Broglie–Bohm theory, also known as the pilot wave theory, Bohmian mechanics, Bohm's interpretation, and the causal interpretation, is an interpretation of quantum mechanics. It postulates that in addition to the wavefunction, an actual configuration of particles exists, even when unobserved. The evolution over t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRP36 | PRP36 (Proline Rich Protein 36) is an extracellular protein in Homo sapiens that is encoded by the PRR36 (Proline Rich Region 36) gene that contains a domain of unknown function, DUF4596, towards the C terminus of the protein. The function of PRP36 is unknown, but high gene expression has been observed in various regio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapiro%20inequality | In mathematics, the Shapiro inequality is an inequality proposed by Harold S. Shapiro in 1954.
Statement of the inequality
Suppose is a natural number and are positive numbers and:
is even and less than or equal to , or
is odd and less than or equal to .
Then the Shapiro inequality states that
where .
For g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20objects | Social objects are objects that gain meaning through processes of reification (e.g. ritual). Studies of this phenomenon have its origins in classical cognitive sociology, the historical traditions of the sociology of knowledge and phenomenology. A prominent work in this regard is The Rules of the Sociological Method, i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiphase%20particle-in-cell%20method | The multiphase particle-in-cell method (MP-PIC) is a numerical method for modeling particle-fluid and particle-particle interactions in a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) calculation. The MP-PIC method achieves greater stability than its particle-in-cell predecessor by simultaneously treating the solid particles as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve%20Jackson%20%28mathematician%29 | Steve Jackson (full name: Stephen Craig Jackson) is an American set theorist at the University of North Texas. Much of his most notable work has involved the descriptive set-theoretic consequences of the axiom of determinacy. In particular he is known for having calculated the values of all the projective ordinals (the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geum%20%C3%97%20catlingii | Geum × catlingii, or Catling's avens, is a plant in the rose family, Rosaceae. It is known from eastern Canada, where it arises from natural hybridization between the native G. canadense Jacq. and the introduced G. urbanum L. It is named after Paul M. Catling, the botanist who first observed the hybrid.
Description
Ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etalon%20%28satellite%29 | Etalon-1 and Etalon-2 are geodetic satellites. They are designed to determine, with high accuracy, terrestrial reference frame and Earth rotation parameters, to improve the gravity field, and to improve the gravitational constant. Each satellite is a high-density passive laser reflector in a very stable medium Earth o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entomoplasma%20freundtii | Entomoplasma freundtii is a mollicute bacteria species that can be isolated from the green tiger beetle (Cicindela campestris, Coleoptera: Cicindelidae). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuronal%20ceroid%20lipofuscinosis | Neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis is the general name for a family of at least eight genetically separate neurodegenerative lysosomal storage diseases that result from excessive accumulation of lipopigments (lipofuscin) in the body's tissues. These lipopigments are made up of fats and proteins. Their name comes from the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bendix%20Electrojector | The Bendix Electrojector is an electronically controlled manifold injection (EFI) system developed and made by Bendix Corporation. In 1957, American Motors (AMC) offered the Electrojector as an option in some of their cars; Chrysler followed in 1958. However, it proved to be an unreliable system that was soon replaced ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive%20attack | A passive attack on a cryptosystem is one in which the cryptanalyst cannot interact with any of the parties involved, attempting to break the system solely based upon observed data (i.e. the ciphertext). This can also include known plaintext attacks where both the plaintext and its corresponding ciphertext are known.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sky%20Tower%20%28Auckland%29 | The Sky Tower is a telecommunications and observation tower in Auckland, New Zealand. Located at the corner of Victoria and Federal Streets within the city's CBD, it is tall, as measured from ground level to the top of the mast, making it the second tallest freestanding structure in the Southern Hemisphere, surpassed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow%20line%20%28road%20marking%29 | Yellow lines are road markings used in various territories.
Single yellow lines
Parking restrictions
UK & Ireland
A single yellow line is a road marking that is present on the side of the carriageway across the British Isles.
In the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man and Ireland, it indicates that parking or waitin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESP8266 | The ESP8266 is a low-cost Wi-Fi microchip, with built-in TCP/IP networking software, and microcontroller capability, produced by Espressif Systems in Shanghai, China.
The chip was popularized in the English-speaking maker community in August 2014 via the ESP-01 module, made by a third-party manufacturer Ai-Thinker. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zfp69%20zinc%20finger%20protein | ZFP69 zinc finger protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZFP69 gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jib%20%28crane%29 | A jib or jib arm is the horizontal or near-horizontal beam used in many types of crane to support the load clear of the main support. An archaic spelling is gib.
Usually jib arms are attached to a vertical mast or tower or sometimes to an inclined boom. In other jib-less designs such as derricks, the load is hung di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phison | Phison Electronics Corporation () is a Taiwanese public electronics company that primarily designs, manufactures and sells controllers for NAND flash memory chips. These are integrated into flash-based products such as USB flash drives, memory cards, and solid-state drives (SSDs).
Phison is a member of the Open NAND F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20response%20curve | A phase response curve (PRC) illustrates the transient change (phase response) in the cycle period of an oscillation induced by a perturbation as a function of the phase at which it is received. PRCs are used in various fields; examples of biological oscillations are the heartbeat, circadian rhythms, and the regular, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie%20Wall | Melanie Marie Wall (born October 21, 1971) is an American psychiatric biostatistician, psychometrician, and mental health data scientist who works at Columbia University as a professor in the departments of biostatistics and psychiatry, and as director of Mental Health Data Science, a joint project of the Columbia Univ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedof.me | SpeedOf.Me is an internet speed test service which uses browser capabilities such as HTML5 and JavaScript to test the internet speed of the user. SpeedOf.Me utilizes multiple servers around the world, with the server used being chosen automatically based on location. It is financed through it's paid API as well as a ad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexus%20for%20Exoplanet%20System%20Science | The Nexus for Exoplanet System Science (NExSS) initiative is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) virtual institute designed to foster interdisciplinary collaboration in the search for life on exoplanets. Led by the Ames Research Center, the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, and the Goddard Institute... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber-security%20regulation | A cybersecurity regulation comprises directives that safeguard information technology and computer systems with the purpose of forcing companies and organizations to protect their systems and information from cyberattacks like viruses, worms, Trojan horses, phishing, denial of service (DOS) attacks, unauthorized access... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alloplastic%20adaptation | Alloplastic adaptation (from the Greek word "allos", meaning "other") is a form of adaptation where the subject attempts to change the environment when faced with a difficult situation. Criminality, mental illness, and activism can all be classified as categories of alloplastic adaptation.
The concept of alloplastic a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resin%20identification%20code | The ASTM International Resin Identification Coding System, often abbreviated RIC, is a set of symbols appearing on plastic products that identify the plastic resin out of which the product is made. It was developed in 1988 by the Society of the Plastics Industry (now the Plastics Industry Association) in the United Sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stearyl%20palmityl%20tartrate | Stearyl palmityl tartrate is a derivative of tartaric acid used as an emulsifier. It is produced by esterification of tartaric acid with commercial grade stearyl alcohol, which generally consists of a mixture of the fatty alcohols stearyl and palmityl alcohol. Stearyl palmityl tartrate consists mainly of diesters, with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friederich%20Wilhelm%20Eurich | Dr. Friederich Eurich (1867–1945) was a German bacteriologist.
Early life and education
He was born in Chemnitz, Saxony of German Jewish descent, he came to England at the age of seven. His father moved to the branch of a German yarn firm in Little Germany, Bradford, where there was a substantial German community. Fri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICME%20cyberinfrastructure | Integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) involves the integration of experimental results, design models, simulations, and other computational data related to a variety of materials used in multiscale engineering and design. Central to the achievement of ICME goals has been the creation of a cyberinfrastru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California%20State%20Summer%20School%20for%20Mathematics%20and%20Science | The California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS) is a summer program for high school students in California for the purpose of preparing them for careers in mathematics and sciences. It is often abbreviated COSMOS, although COSMOS does not contain the correct letters to create an accurate abbrev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20differential%20pulse-code%20modulation | Adaptive differential pulse-code modulation (ADPCM) is a variant of differential pulse-code modulation (DPCM) that varies the size of the quantization step, to allow further reduction of the required data bandwidth for a given signal-to-noise ratio.
Typically, the adaptation to signal statistics in ADPCM consists simp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TB8Cs4H1%20snoRNA | TB8Cs4H1 is a member of the H/ACA-like class of non-coding RNA (ncRNA) molecule that guide the sites of modification of uridines to pseudouridines of substrate RNAs. It is known as a small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA) thus named because of its cellular localization in the nucleolus of the eukaryotic cell. TB8Cs4H1 is predic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket%20forest | A pocket forest or Miyawaki forest is created by planting native trees, shrubs and groundcover plants to form a canopy layer of tall trees, a shrub layer, and ground cover in small urban areas. The concept was pioneered by Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki as a means of restoring native plant species in damaged ecosyst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flore%20de%20la%20Nouvelle-Cal%C3%A9donie | Flore de la Nouvelle-Calédonie is an ongoing multi-volume flora describing the vascular plants of New Caledonia (including the Loyalty Islands, Isles of Pines and Belep islands) in the South-West Pacific. published by the National Museum of Natural History in Paris since 1967. Each species treatment typically includes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse%20behavior | Horse behavior is best understood from the view that horses are prey animals with a well-developed fight-or-flight response. Their first reaction to a threat is often to flee, although sometimes they stand their ground and defend themselves or their offspring in cases where flight is untenable, such as when a foal wou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transepithelial%20potential%20difference | Transepithelial potential difference (TEPD) is the voltage across an epithelium, and is the sum of the membrane potentials for the outer and inner cell membranes.
TEPD in the nose
The diagnosis of cystic fibrosis (CF) is usually based on high chloride concentrations in sweat, characteristic clinical findings (includi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testware | Generally speaking, Testware is a sub-set of software with a special purpose, that is, for software testing, especially for software testing automation. Automation testware for example is designed to be executed on automation frameworks. Testware is an umbrella term for all utilities and application software that serve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noncontracting%20grammar | In formal language theory, a grammar is noncontracting (or monotonic) if for all of its production rules,
α → β (where α and β are strings of nonterminal and terminal symbols), it holds that
|α| ≤ |β|, that is β has at least as many symbols as α.
A grammar is essentially noncontracting if there may be one exception, n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireplane | Fireplane is a computer internal interconnect created by Sun Microsystems.
The Fireplane interconnect architecture is an evolutionary development of Sun's previous Ultra Port Architecture (UPA). It was introduced in October 2000 as the processor I/O interconnect in the Sun Blade 1000 workstation, followed in early 200... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monochromatic%20radiation | In physics, monochromatic radiation is electromagnetic radiation with a single constant frequency. When that frequency is part of the visible spectrum (or near it) the term monochromatic light is often used. Monochromatic light is perceived by the human eye as a spectral color.
When monochromatic radiation propagate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biased%20graph | In mathematics, a biased graph is a graph with a list of distinguished circles (edge sets of simple cycles), such that if two circles in the list are contained in a theta graph, then the third circle of the theta graph is also in the list. A biased graph is a generalization of the combinatorial essentials of a gain gr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/El%20Nombre | El Nombre is a children's educational programme about an anthropomorphic Mexican gerbil character, originally from a series of educational sketches on Numbertime, the BBC schools programme about mathematics. He was also the only character to appear in all Numbertime episodes. His voice was provided by Steve Steen, whil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ski%20complex | The Ski complex is a multi-protein complex involved in the 3' end degradation of messenger RNAs in yeast.
Structure
The complex consists of three main proteins, the RNA helicase Ski2 and the proteins Ski3 and Ski8. This tetramer contains a 370 kDa core complex, containing N-terminal arms and C-terminal arms from Ski... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald%20Ernest%20Aitchison | Ronald Ernest Aitchison (29 December 1921 – 9 March 1996) was an Australian physicist and electronics engineer who contributed to a range of fields and technologies from solid-state devices to satellite imaging. He was born in Hurstville, New South Wales, Australia on 29 December 1921.
Career
From 1942 to 1945 Aitch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer%27s%20conjecture | In the mathematical field of spectral graph theory, Brouwer's conjecture is a conjecture by Andries Brouwer on upper bounds for the intermediate sums of the eigenvalues of the Laplacian of a graph in term of its number of edges.
The conjecture states that if G is a simple undirected graph and L(G) its Laplacian matrix... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biocide | A biocide is defined in the European legislation as a chemical substance or microorganism intended to destroy, deter, render harmless, or exert a controlling effect on any harmful organism. The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) uses a slightly different definition for biocides as "a diverse group of poisonous su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atom%20%28order%20theory%29 | In the mathematical field of order theory, an element a of a partially ordered set with least element 0 is an atom if 0 < a and there is no x such that 0 < x < a.
Equivalently, one may define an atom to be an element that is minimal among the non-zero elements, or alternatively an element that covers the least elemen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edubuntu | Edubuntu, previously known as Ubuntu Education Edition, is an official derivative of the Ubuntu operating system designed for use in classrooms inside schools, homes and communities.
Edubuntu is developed in collaboration with teachers and technologists in several countries. Edubuntu is built on top of the Ubuntu base... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculative%20execution | Speculative execution is an optimization technique where a computer system performs some task that may not be needed. Work is done before it is known whether it is actually needed, so as to prevent a delay that would have to be incurred by doing the work after it is known that it is needed. If it turns out the work was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoshana%20Kamin | Shoshana Kamin (, ) (born December 24, 1930), born Susanna L'vovna Kamenomostskaya (), is a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician, working on the theory of parabolic partial differential equations and related mathematical physics problems.
Biography
Shoshana Kamin graduated from Moscow University in 1953 and earned her "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989%20Chilean%20grape%20scare | The Chilean grape scare was a 1989 incident involving two grapes from Chile allegedly found tainted with cyanide after a threat was supposedly made by phone to the US Embassy in Santiago. No additional contaminated fruit was found, but the United States Food and Drug Administration banned the import of Chilean fruit an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perineal%20nerve | The perineal nerve is a nerve of the pelvis. It arises from the pudendal nerve in the pudendal canal. It gives superficial branches to the skin, and a deep branch to muscles. It supplies the skin and muscles of the perineum. Its latency is tested with electrodes.
Structure
The perineal nerve is a branch of the pudend... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-unit | In mathematics, in the field of algebraic number theory, an S-unit generalises the idea of unit of the ring of integers of the field. Many of the results which hold for units are also valid for S-units.
Definition
Let K be a number field with ring of integers R. Let S be a finite set of prime ideals of R. An element... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20Problems | Inverse Problems is a peer-reviewed, broad-based interdisciplinary journal for pure and applied mathematicians and physicists produced by IOP Publishing. It combines theoretical, experimental and mathematical papers on inverse problems with numerical and practical approaches to their solution. The journal has a special... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMBO%20Molecular%20Medicine | EMBO Molecular Medicine is an open-access peer-reviewed medical journal covering research in molecular medicine.
The journal was published by Wiley-Blackwell together with the European Molecular Biology Organization since its launch in 2009, until December 2013, when EMBO Press was started.
According to the Journal Ci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal%20septum%20deviation | Nasal septum deviation is a physical disorder of the nose, involving a displacement of the nasal septum. Some displacement is common, affecting 80% of people, mostly without their knowledge.
Signs and symptoms
The nasal septum is the bone and cartilage in the nose that separates the nasal cavity into the two nostrils... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notobasis%20syriaca | Notobasis syriaca, the Syrian thistle, is a species of flowering plant in the tribe Cardueae within the family Asteraceae. It is native to the Mediterranean region and the Middle East, from Madeira, the Canary Islands, Morocco and Portugal east to Egypt, Iran and Azerbaijan.
It is an annual plant belonging to the semi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufenuron | Lufenuron is the active ingredient in the veterinary flea control medication Program, and one of the two active ingredients in the flea, heartworm, ringworm and anthelmintic medicine milbemycin oxime/lufenuron (Sentinel).
Lufenuron is stored in the animal's body fat and transferred to adult fleas through the host's bl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix%20Labs%20%28software%29 | Phoenix Labs (formerly Methlabs) was a software developing community founded by Tim Leonard and Ken McClelland and best known for PeerGuardian, an open-source software program optimized for use as a personal firewall on file sharing networks.
History
The group was originally organized to work on PeerGuardian, a progra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Nathiagali%20Summer%20College%20on%20Physics | The International Nathiagali Summer College on Physics and Contemporary Needs (INSC), was founded by Nobel laureate in Physics Dr. Abdus Salam (then-Science Advisor to the Prime minister) to promote physics and scientific research activities in Pakistan. Having suggested by Professor Abdus Salam to the Government of Pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splicing%20factor | A splicing factor is a protein involved in the removal of introns from strings of messenger RNA, so that the exons can bind together; the process takes place in particles known as spliceosomes. Genes are progressively switched off as we age, and splicing factors can reverse this trend. Splicing factors regulate the bi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavalier-Smith%27s%20system%20of%20classification | The initial version of a classification system of life by British zoologist Thomas Cavalier-Smith appeared in 1978. This initial system continued to be modified in subsequent versions that were published until he died in 2021. As with classifications of others, such as Carl Linnaeus, Ernst Haeckel, Robert Whittaker, an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-byte%20character%20set | A double-byte character set (DBCS) is a character encoding in which either all characters (including control characters) are encoded in two bytes, or merely every graphic character not representable by an accompanying single-byte character set (SBCS) is encoded in two bytes (Han characters would generally comprise most... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyson%E2%80%93Harrop%20satellite | A Dyson–Harrop satellite is a hypothetical megastructure intended for power generation using the solar wind. It is inspired by the Dyson sphere, but much harder to detect from another star system.
The concept for the so-called Dyson–Harrop satellite begins with a long metal wire loop pointed at the sun. This wire is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfright | Gunfright is an action-adventure game developed by Ultimate Play the Game and published by U.S. Gold. It was first released for the ZX Spectrum in December 1985, then released for Amstrad CPC and the MSX the following year. The player takes the role of a sheriff in the town of Black Rock and is tasked with eliminating ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plants%20for%20Human%20Health%20Institute | The Plants for Human Health Institute (PHHI) is a North Carolina State University research and education organization located at the North Carolina Research Campus in Kannapolis, North Carolina, United States. The institute researches food crops, like fruits and vegetables, and the potential health-promoting properties... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleiodes%20gaga | Aleiodes gaga is a species of parasitoid wasp belonging to the family Braconidae. It was first described by Donald Quicke and Buntika Butcher in 2012 after a single individual was discovered in the Chae Son National Park in Thailand. The species is named after Lady Gaga. This species is one of 179 species identified b... |
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geriatric%20nephrology | Geriatric nephrology is the branch of internal medicine and geriatric medicine that deals with diseases of the kidney.
It is a growing subspecialty of geriatrics. Patients who are living longer may acquire diseases that accelerate chronic kidney disease, which often remains undetected until patients are confronted wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocardiography | Electrocardiography is the process of producing an electrocardiogram (ECG or EKG), a recording of the heart's electrical activity through repeated cardiac cycles. It is an electrogram of the heart which is a graph of voltage versus time of the electrical activity of the heart using electrodes placed on the skin. These ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centered%20nonagonal%20number | A centered nonagonal number (or centered enneagonal number) is a centered figurate number that represents a nonagon with a dot in the center and all other dots surrounding the center dot in successive nonagonal layers. The centered nonagonal number for n layers is given by the formula
Multiplying the (n - 1)th triangu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peduncle%20%28botany%29 | In botany, a peduncle is a stalk supporting an inflorescence or a solitary flower, or, after fecundation, an infructescence or a solitary fruit. The peduncle sometimes has bracts (a type of cataphylls) at nodes. The main axis of an inflorescence above the peduncle is the rachis. There are no flowers on the peduncle but... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/82nd%20meridian%20east | The meridian 82° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 82nd meridian east forms a great circle with the 98th meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North Pole and he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beale%20number | In mechanical engineering, the Beale number is a parameter that characterizes the performance of Stirling engines. It is often used to estimate the power output of a Stirling engine design. For engines operating with a high temperature differential, typical values for the Beale number are in the range 0.11−0.15; wher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmotic%20dehydration | Osmotic dehydration is an operation used for the partial removal of water from plant tissues by immersion in a hypertonic (osmotic) solution.
Sugar or salt solutions are used to reduce the moisture content of foods before actual drying process. This technique is used to give the product quality improvement over conven... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entex%20Industries | Entex Industries, Inc. was an American toy and electronic game manufacturer based in Compton, California. The company was active during the 1970s and 1980s.
Background
The company was formed in 1970 by G.A. (Tony) Clowes, Nicholas Carlozzi and Nick Underhill. It was based at 303 West Artesia Blvd, Compton. Its name wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91-Galactosylceramide | α-Galactosylceramide (α-GalCer, KRN7000) is a synthetic glycolipid derived from structure-activity relationship studies of galactosylceramides isolated from the marine sponge Agelas mauritianus. α-GalCer is a strong immunostimulant and shows potent anti-tumour activity in many in vivo models.
Immunostimulatory propert... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20power | Electric power is the rate at which electrical energy is transferred by an electric circuit. The SI unit of power is the watt, one joule per second. Standard prefixes apply to watts as with other SI units: thousands, millions and billions of watts are called kilowatts, megawatts and gigawatts respectively.
A common mi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neovascularization | Neovascularization is the natural formation of new blood vessels (neo- + vascular + -ization), usually in the form of functional microvascular networks, capable of perfusion by red blood cells, that form to serve as collateral circulation in response to local poor perfusion or ischemia.
Growth factors that inhibit neo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Veen%20grab%20sampler | The Van Veen grab sampler is an instrument to sample sediment in water environments. Usually it is a clamshell bucket made of stainless steel. Up to 20 cm deep samples of roughly 0.1 m2 can be extracted with this instrument. It can be light-weight (roughly 5 kg) and low-tech. The smallest version even fits into hand lu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20RT%20PC | The IBM RT PC (RISC Technology Personal Computer) is a family of workstation computers from IBM introduced in 1986. These were the first commercial computers from IBM that were based on a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) architecture. The RT PC uses IBM's proprietary ROMP microprocessor, which commercialized tec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects%20of%20climate%20change%20on%20plant%20biodiversity | The history of life on Earth is closely associated with environmental change on multiple spatial and temporal scales. Climate change is a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional and global climates. These changes have a broad range of observed effects that are s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs%20measure | In mathematics, the Gibbs measure, named after Josiah Willard Gibbs, is a probability measure frequently seen in many problems of probability theory and statistical mechanics. It is a generalization of the canonical ensemble to infinite systems.
The canonical ensemble gives the probability of the system X being in sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20cloud | A point cloud is a discrete set of data points in space. The points may represent a 3D shape or object. Each point position has its set of Cartesian coordinates (X, Y, Z). Point clouds are generally produced by 3D scanners or by photogrammetry software, which measure many points on the external surfaces of objects arou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logicworks | Logicworks is a platform driven cloud modernization, migration, and operations provider headquartered in New York City. Logicworks provides platform driven cloud modernization, migration, and operations solutions for Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure cloud infrastructures.
History
Logicworks provides end-to-end... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dividing%20a%20square%20into%20similar%20rectangles | Dividing a square into similar rectangles (or, equivalently, tiling a square with similar rectangles) is a problem in mathematics.
Three rectangles
There is only one way (up to rotation and reflection) to divide a square into two similar rectangles.
However, there are three distinct ways of partitioning a square in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUICK%20scheme | In computational fluid dynamics QUICK, which stands for Quadratic Upstream Interpolation for Convective Kinematics, is a higher-order differencing scheme that considers a three-point upstream weighted by quadratic interpolation for the cell face values.
In computational fluid dynamics there are many solution methods fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance-based%20rough%20set%20approach | The dominance-based rough set approach (DRSA) is an extension of rough set theory for multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA), introduced by Greco, Matarazzo and Słowiński. The main change compared to the classical rough sets is the substitution for the indiscernibility relation by a dominance relation, which permits o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20polymorphism | A gene is said to be polymorphic if more than one allele occupies that gene's locus within a population. In addition to having more than one allele at a specific locus, each allele must also occur in the population at a rate of at least 1% to generally be considered polymorphic.
Gene polymorphisms can occur in any reg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volition%20%28psychology%29 | Volition, also known as will or conation, is the cognitive process by which an individual decides on and commits to a particular course of action. It is defined as purposive striving and is one of the primary human psychological functions. Others include affect (feeling or emotion), motivation (goals and expectations),... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic%20sauce | Garlic sauce is a sauce prepared using garlic as a primary ingredient. It is typically a pungent sauce, with the depth of garlic flavor determined by the amount of garlic used. The garlic is typically crushed or finely diced. Simple garlic sauce is composed of garlic and another ingredient to suspend the bulb via emuls... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief%20Choc | Chief Choc is the former mascot of Mississippi College, a private Christian university located in Clinton, Mississippi.
In August 2005, the NCAA announced that schools with "hostile and abusive racial/ethnic/national origin mascots, nicknames or imagery" would be banned from championship events.
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The origina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RK2%20plasmid | The RK2 Plasmid is a broad-host-range plasmid belonging to the incP incompatibility group It is notable for its ability to replicate in a wide variety of single-celled organisms, which makes it suitable as a genetic engineering tool. It is capable of transfer, replication, and maintenance in most genera of Gram-negati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost%20accrual%20ratio | The Cost Accrual Ratio for a business is the total average cost per person per unit time, e.g. average cost per day per person. It is only useful for risk assessment in small projects where average wages are roughly equal. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hortus%20Cantabrigiensis | Hortus Cantabrigiensis is a catalogue of plants grown in the Walkerian Botanic Garden, a forerunner of the present Botanic Garden of Cambridge University, originally compiled by its first curator James Donn and published in 1796. A further 12 editions were published, the last in 1845, long after Donn's death. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lady%20Tasting%20Tea | The Lady Tasting Tea: How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century () is a book by David Salsburg about the history of modern statistics and the role it played in the development of science and industry.
The title comes from the "lady tasting tea", an example from the famous book, The Design of Exper... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interior%20product | In mathematics, the interior product (also known as interior derivative, interior multiplication, inner multiplication, inner derivative, insertion operator, or inner derivation) is a degree −1 (anti)derivation on the exterior algebra of differential forms on a smooth manifold. The interior product, named in opposition... |
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