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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triclosan | Triclosan (sometimes abbreviated as TCS) is an antibacterial and antifungal agent present in some consumer products, including toothpaste, soaps, detergents, toys, and surgical cleaning treatments. It is similar in its uses and mechanism of action to triclocarban. Its efficacy as an antimicrobial agent, the risk of ant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20of%20the%20instrument | The law of the instrument, law of the hammer, Maslow's hammer (or gavel), or golden hammer is a cognitive bias that involves an over-reliance on a familiar tool. Abraham Maslow wrote in 1966, "If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail."
The concept is attributed bot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mississippi%20River%20Basin%20Model | The Mississippi River Basin Model Waterways Experiment Station, located near Clinton, Mississippi, was a large-scale hydraulic model of the entire Mississippi River basin, covering an area of 200 acres. The model was built from 1943 to 1966 and in operation from 1949 until 1973. By comparison, the better known San ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20nose | The human nose is the most protruding part of the face. It bears the nostrils and is the first organ of the respiratory system. It is also the principal organ in the olfactory system. The shape of the nose is determined by the nasal bones and the nasal cartilages, including the nasal septum which separates the nostr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner%20angle | The Turner angle Tu, introduced by Ruddick(1983) and named after J. Stewart Turner, is a parameter used to describe the local stability of an inviscid water column as it undergoes double-diffusive convection. The temperature and salinity attributes, which generally determine the water density, both respond to the wate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean%20transverse%20energy | In accelerator physics, the mean transverse energy (MTE) is a quantity that describes the variance of the transverse momentum of a beam. While the quantity has a defined value for any particle beam, it is generally used in the context of photoinjectors for electron beams.
Definition
For a beam consisting of particles... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth-value%20semantics | In formal semantics, truth-value semantics is an alternative to Tarskian semantics. It has been primarily championed by Ruth Barcan Marcus, H. Leblanc, and J. Michael Dunn and Nuel Belnap. It is also called the substitution interpretation (of the quantifiers) or substitutional quantification.
The idea of these semanti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramicidin%20S | Gramicidin S or Gramicidin Soviet is an antibiotic that is effective against some gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria as well as some fungi.
It is a derivative of gramicidin, produced by the gram-positive bacterium Brevibacillus brevis. Gramicidin S is a cyclodecapeptide, constructed as two identical pentapeptide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niles%20Eldredge | Niles Eldredge (; born August 25, 1943) is an American biologist and paleontologist, who, along with Stephen Jay Gould, proposed the theory of punctuated equilibrium in 1972.
Education
Eldredge began his undergraduate studies in Latin at Columbia University. Before completing his degree he switched to the study of ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20fluid | Classical fluids are systems of particles which retain a definite volume, and are at sufficiently high temperatures (compared to their Fermi energy) that quantum effects can be neglected. A system of hard spheres, interacting only by hard collisions (e.g., billiards, marbles), is a model classical fluid. Such a system ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper%20Carniola%20Statistical%20Region | The Upper Carniola Statistical Region () is a statistical region in northwest Slovenia. It is a region with high mountains, including Mount Triglav, and is almost entirely Alpine. A large part of this statistical region is protected as a national park. The relief and climate are good bases for tourism. In 2013, the reg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20the%20Arab%20Revolt | The flag of the Arab Revolt, also known as the flag of Hejaz, was a flag used by Hussein bin Ali and his allies, the Arab nationalists, during the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire during World War I, and as the first flag of the Kingdom of Hejaz.
It later became widespread in the Arab world and has been reused i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Session-based%20testing | Session-based testing is a software test method that aims to combine accountability and exploratory testing to provide rapid defect discovery, creative on-the-fly test design, management control and metrics reporting. The method can also be used in conjunction with scenario testing. Session-based testing was developed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20seal | An electronic seal is a piece of data attached to an electronic document or other data, which ensures data origin and integrity.
The term is used in the EU Regulation No 910/2014 (eIDAS Regulation) for electronic transactions within the internal European market.
Description
Conceptually similar to electronic signatu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthroposystem | The term anthroposystem is used to describe the anthropological analogue to the ecosystem. In other words, the anthroposystem model serves to compare the flow of materials through human systems to those in naturally occurring systems. As defined by Santos, an anthroposystem is "the orderly combination or arrangement o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartagena%20Protocol%20on%20Biosafety | The Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity is an international agreement on biosafety as a supplement to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) effective since 2003. The Biosafety Protocol seeks to protect biological diversity from the potential risks posed by genetically modifi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Institute%20of%20Geophysics%20and%20Volcanology | The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (, INGV) is a research institute for geophysics and volcanology in Italy.
INGV is funded by the Italian Ministry of Education, Universities and Research. Its main responsibilities within the Italian civil protection system are the maintenance and monitoring of the n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20combinatorics | Combinatorics is a branch of mathematics concerning the study of finite or countable discrete structures.
Essence of combinatorics
Matroid
Greedoid
Ramsey theory
Van der Waerden's theorem
Hales–Jewett theorem
Umbral calculus, binomial type polynomial sequences
Combinatorial species
Branches of combinatorics ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas%20Tallamy | Douglas Tallamy is an American entomologist, ecologist and conservationist. He is a professor in the Department of Entomology and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Delaware. He has written and co-authored several books, as well as many papers.
Tallamy advocates for home gardens and landscaping that bridge the gaps... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoplankton | Pseudoplanktonic organisms are those that attach themselves to planktonic organisms or other floating objects, such as drifting wood, buoyant shells of organisms such as Spirula, or man-made flotsam. Examples include goose barnacles and the bryozoan Jellyella. By themselves these animals cannot float, which contrasts t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20test%20theory | Classical test theory (CTT) is a body of related psychometric theory that predicts outcomes of psychological testing such as the difficulty of items or the ability of test-takers. It is a theory of testing based on the idea that a person's observed or obtained score on a test is the sum of a true score (error-free scor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatiotemporal%20pattern | Spatiotemporal patterns are patterns that occur in a wide range of natural phenoma and are characterized by a spatial and temporal patterning. The general rules of pattern formation hold. In contrast to "static", pure spatial patterns, the full complexity of spatiotemporal patterns can only be recognized over time. An... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Cell%20Biology | The Journal of Cell Biology is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Rockefeller University Press.
History
In the early 1950s, a small group of biologists began to explore intracellular anatomy using the emerging technology of electron microscopy. Many of these researchers were at The Rockefeller Institute ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabeculae%20carneae | The trabeculae carneae (columnae carneae, or meaty ridges) are rounded or irregular muscular columns which project from the inner surface of the right and left ventricle of the heart. These are different from the pectinate muscles, which are present in the atria of the heart. In development, trabeculae carneae are amo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal%20sauce | Cardinal sauce is a classic French sauce, with a distinctive red colour coming from lobster butter and cayenne pepper.
In Le Guide Culinaire, Auguste Escoffier listed its main ingredients: béchamel sauce, fish stock, truffle reduction, cream, lobster butter and cayenne pepper. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prickle%20%28protein%29 | Prickle is also known as REST/NRSF-interacting LIM domain protein, which is a putative nuclear translocation receptor. Prickle is part of the non-canonical Wnt signaling pathway that establishes planar cell polarity. A gain or loss of function of Prickle1 causes defects in the convergent extension movements of gastrula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen%20noodles | Frozen noodles and chilled noodles are types of instantly prepared Asian (or European) noodles that are sold frozen or chilled. These products differ from prepackaged dehydrated noodles in a number of ways: in flavor, in texture, and in that they normally come packaged with ingredients besides the noodles, such as vege... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless%20Leiden | Wireless Leiden is a wireless community network in Leiden, Netherlands.
History
The Wireless Leiden Foundation (founded in 2002) set up a Wi-Fi wireless network in Leiden, the Netherlands, only with the help of volunteers, with some financial support by sponsors. The network is maintained completely by volunteers.
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20High%20Speed%20Electronics%20and%20Systems | The International Journal of High Speed Electronics and Systems was established in 1990 and is published quarterly by World Scientific. It aims to "promote engineering education by advancing interdisciplinary science between electronics and systems and to explore high speed technology in photonics and electronics".
Ab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot-carrier%20injection | Hot carrier injection (HCI) is a phenomenon in solid-state electronic devices where an electron or a “hole” gains sufficient kinetic energy to overcome a potential barrier necessary to break an interface state. The term "hot" refers to the effective temperature used to model carrier density, not to the overall tempera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s%20College%20London%20Mathematics%20School | King's College London Mathematics School, also known as King's Maths School or KCLMS, is a maths school located in the Lambeth area of London, England. King's College London Mathematics School is run in partnership with King's College London to provide high quality mathematics education in London. The school was inspir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix%E2%80%93coil%20transition%20model | Helix–coil transition models are formalized techniques in statistical mechanics developed to describe conformations of linear polymers in solution. The models are usually but not exclusively applied to polypeptides as a measure of the relative fraction of the molecule in an alpha helix conformation versus turn or rando... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20V.%20Tucker | John Vivian Tucker (born 4 February 1952) is a British computer scientist and expert on computability theory, also known as recursion theory. Computability theory is about what can and cannot be computed by people and machines. His work has focused on generalising the classical theory to deal with all forms of discrete... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%20of%20Gennari | The line of Gennari (also called the "band" or "stria" of Gennari) is a band of myelinated axons that runs parallel to the surface of the cerebral cortex on the banks of the calcarine fissure in the occipital lobe. This formation is visible to the naked eye as a white strip running through the cortical grey matter, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford%20Memorial%20Medal | The Rutherford Memorial Medal is an award for research in the fields of physics and chemistry by the Royal Society of Canada. It was dedicated to the memory of Ernest Rutherford. It is awarded once for physics and once for chemistry each year, "for outstanding research", when there is a suitable candidate.
Recipients
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASC%20Purple | ASC Purple was a supercomputer installed at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. The computer was a collaboration between IBM Corporation and Lawrence Livermore Lab. Announced November 19, 2002, it was installed in July 2005 and decommissioned on November 10th, 2010. The contract for th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamate-sensitive%20fluorescent%20reporter | A genetically engineered fluorescent protein that changes its fluorescence when bound to the neurotransmitter glutamate. Glutamate-sensitive fluorescent reporters (iGluSnFR, colloquially pronounced 'glue sniffer') are used to monitor the activity of presynaptic terminals by fluorescence microscopy. GluSnFRs are a class... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wochenend%20und%20Sonnenschein | "Wochenend und Sonnenschein" ("Weekend and Sunshine") is a song with German lyrics that was copyrighted in 1930 by Charles Amberg (lyrics) and Milton Ager (music). The music is based on the famed American song "Happy Days Are Here Again" that was copyrighted in 1929 by Ager and Jack Yellen (English lyrics). The German ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ST%20motif | The ST motif is a commonly occurring feature in proteins and polypeptides. It consists of four or five amino acid residues with either serine or threonine as the first residue (residue i). It is defined by two internal hydrogen bonds. One is between the side chain oxygen of residue i and the main chain NH of residue i ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Heep-Altiner | Maria Heep-Altiner (born 29 December 1959 in Niederzeuzheim) is a German mathematician, actuary and university lecturer.
Life
After graduating from the Prince Johann Ludwig School in Hadamar in 1978, Heep-Altiner studied mathematics and economics at the University of Bonn. In 1989 she earned her doctorate in mathema... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longevity%20fruit | Longevity fruit may refer to the fruit of:
Siraitia grosvenorii
Lycium species:
Lycium barbarum
Lycium chinense
Arachis hypogaea
Longevity |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither | Dither is an intentionally applied form of noise used to randomize quantization error, preventing large-scale patterns such as color banding in images. Dither is routinely used in processing of both digital audio and video data, and is often one of the last stages of mastering audio to a CD.
A common use of dither is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina%20Holden | Nina Holden is a Norwegian mathematician interested in probability theory and stochastic processes, including graphons, random planar maps, the Schramm–Loewner evolution, and their applications to quantum gravity. She is a Junior Fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Studies at ETH Zurich, and has accepted a position... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Szemer%C3%A9di%20theorem | In arithmetic combinatorics, the Erdős–Szemerédi theorem states that for every finite set of integers, at least one of , the set of pairwise sums or , the set of pairwise products form a significantly larger set. More precisely, the Erdős–Szemerédi theorem states that there exist positive constants c and such that fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20group | In mathematics the spin group Spin(n) is a Lie group whose underlying manifold is the double cover of the special orthogonal group , such that there exists a short exact sequence of Lie groups (when )
The group multiplication law on the double cover is given by lifting the multiplication on .
As a Lie group, Spin(n) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levent%20G%C3%BCrel | Levent Gürel (born 1964 in Izmir, Turkey; transliterated as Levent Gurel) is a Turkish scientist and electrical engineer. He was the director of Computational Electromagnetics Research Center (BiLCEM) and a professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the Bilkent University, Turkey until Nov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neonatal%20line | The neonatal line is a particular band of incremental growth lines seen in histologic sections of both enamel and dentin of primary teeth. It belongs to a series of a growth lines in tooth enamel known as the Striae of Retzius denoting the prolonged rest period of enamel formation that occurs at the time of birth. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Start%20codon | The start codon is the first codon of a messenger RNA (mRNA) transcript translated by a ribosome. The start codon always codes for methionine in eukaryotes and archaea and a N-formylmethionine (fMet) in bacteria, mitochondria and plastids.
The start codon is often preceded by a 5' untranslated region (5' UTR). In prok... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chow%27s%20lemma | Chow's lemma, named after Wei-Liang Chow, is one of the foundational results in algebraic geometry. It roughly says that a proper morphism is fairly close to being a projective morphism. More precisely, a version of it states the following:
If is a scheme that is proper over a noetherian base , then there exists a pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin%20Grohe | Martin Grohe (born 1967) is a German mathematician and computer scientist known for his research on parameterized complexity, mathematical logic, finite model theory, the logic of graphs, database theory, and descriptive complexity theory. He is a University Professor of Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University, wher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Adelaide%20Sneider | Maria Adelaide Sneider (6 December 1937 – 1 May 1989) (also known as Maria Adelaide Sneider Ludovici, her second surname being "Ludovici") was an Italian mathematician working on numerical and mathematical analysis. She is known for her work on the theory of electrostatic capacities of non-smooth closed hypersurfaces: ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hematopathology | Hematopathology or hemopathology (both also spelled haem-, see spelling differences) is the study of diseases and disorders affecting and found in blood cells, their production, and any organs and tissues involved in hematopoiesis, such as bone marrow, the spleen, and the thymus. Diagnoses and treatment of diseases suc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotary%20Cell%20Culture%20System | The Rotary Cell Culture System (RCCS) is a device designed to grow three-dimensional cell clusters in microgravity. In the early 1990s, NASA researchers began developing hardware that would let them study the cell tissues of mammals—including humans—in microgravity. They also needed it to protect the fragile cultures ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft%20Foot | Soft foot is a common term used for machine frame distortion. The distortion is caused when one or more foot of a machine differ in height from the others. This in turn may be due to differences when the machine was manufactured, a squishy footage with oil film etc. between foot and base, a bent foot, or it may be indu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20Scuttlebutt | Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB) is a peer-to peer communication protocol, mesh network, and self-hosted social media ecosystem. Each user hosts their own content and the content of the peers they follow, which provides fault tolerance and eventual consistency. Messages are digitally signed and added to an append-only list of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodromic | An orthodromic impulse runs along an axon in its anterograde direction, away from the soma.
In the heart, orthodromic may also refer to an impulse going in the correct direction from the dendrites to axon terminal (from the atria to the ventricles) in contrast to some impulses in re-entry.
See also
Antidromic
Action ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20Wikipedia | Most criticism of Wikipedia has been directed toward its content, community of established users, and processes. Critics have questioned its factual reliability, the readability and organization of the articles, the lack of methodical fact-checking, and its political bias. Concerns have also been raised about systemic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Swann%20Lull | Richard Swann Lull (November 6, 1867 – April 22, 1957) was an American paleontologist and Sterling Professor at Yale University who is largely remembered now for championing a non-Darwinian view of evolution, whereby mutation(s) could unlock presumed "genetic drives" that, over time, would lead populations to increasin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xx%20messenger | xx messenger is a cross-platform decentralized encrypted instant messaging service developed by PrivaTegrity Corporation. Messages are delivered over a variety of mix network first described in 2016. Users can send one-to-one and group messages, which can include voice notes and images.
xx messenger uses usernames as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Token%20Binding | Token Binding is a proposed standard for a Transport Layer Security (TLS) extension that aims to increase TLS security by using cryptographic certificates on both ends of the TLS connection. Current practice often depends on bearer tokens, which may be lost or stolen. Bearer tokens are also vulnerable to man-in-the-mid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intercepting%20filter%20pattern | Intercepting Filter is a JavaEE pattern which creates pluggable filters to process common services in a standard manner without requiring changes to core request processing code. The filters intercept incoming requests and outgoing responses, allowing preprocessing and post-processing, and these filters can be added o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distal%20promoter | Distal promoter elements are regulatory DNA sequences that can be many kilobases distant from the gene that they regulate.
They can either be enhancers (increasing expression) or silencers (decreasing expression). They act by binding activator or repressor proteins (transcription factors) and the intervening DNA bends... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phabricator | Phabricator is a suite of web-based development collaboration tools, which includes a code review tool called Differential, a repository browser called Diffusion, a change monitoring tool called Herald, a bug tracker called Maniphest, and a wiki called Phriction.
Phabricator integrates with Git, Mercurial, and Subver... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notch%20proteins |
Notch proteins are a family of type-1 transmembrane proteins that form a core component of the Notch signaling pathway, which is highly conserved in metazoans. The Notch extracellular domain mediates interactions with DSL family ligands, allowing it to participate in juxtacrine signaling. The Notch intracellular dom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita%20basii | Amanita basii is a mushroom of the family Amanitaceae.
Description
Its cap is at around 67–152 mm wide, with a brown reddish color to "cadmium orange" becoming very intense red, "lake red" or brownish red in the center part of the cap, which is somewhat faded by the sun, in spots it's red-orange, orange-yellow to de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.248 | The Gateway Control Protocol (Megaco, H.248) is an implementation of the media gateway control protocol architecture for providing telecommunication services across a converged internetwork consisting of the traditional public switched telephone network (PSTN) and modern packet networks, such as the Internet. H.248 is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%20Finland%20Award | The Maxwell Finland Award for Scientific Achievement is an award given annually by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases to a scientist who has made "outstanding contributions to the understanding of infectious diseases or public health," based on criteria that include "excellence in clinical and/or research ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleovirology | Paleovirology is the study of viruses that existed in the past but are now extinct. In general, viruses cannot leave behind physical fossils, therefore indirect evidence is used to reconstruct the past. For example, viruses can cause evolution of their hosts, and the signatures of that evolution can be found and interp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heeii | Heeii, formerly known as Elkoog B.V., is a company based in Groningen, Netherlands that provides a recommendation service for web browsers by means of a plug-in. Website visitors that use Heeii recommendations are able to get the most appropriate content links that result in reaching their online objectives.
Technolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hysteresis | Hysteresis is the dependence of the state of a system on its history. For example, a magnet may have more than one possible magnetic moment in a given magnetic field, depending on how the field changed in the past. Plots of a single component of the moment often form a loop or hysteresis curve, where there are differen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20life-form | Plant life-form schemes constitute a way of classifying plants alternatively to the ordinary species-genus-family scientific classification. In colloquial speech, plants may be classified as trees, shrubs, herbs (forbs and graminoids), etc. The scientific use of life-form schemes emphasizes plant function in the ecosys... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorescence | Phosphorescence is a type of photoluminescence related to fluorescence. When exposed to light (radiation) of a shorter wavelength, a phosphorescent substance will glow, absorbing the light and reemitting it at a longer wavelength. Unlike fluorescence, a phosphorescent material does not immediately reemit the radiation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone%20remodeling%20period | In bone physiology, the bone remodeling period describes the temporal duration (i.e. lifespan) of the basic multicellular unit (BMU) that is responsible for bone turnover. Historically, this was referred to as the sigma (σ) or sigma period, but the terminology is now outdated.
Bone remodeling
Although bone may appear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemonomycin | Lemonomycin is an antibiotic with the molecular formula C27H41N3O9 which is produced by the bacterium Streptomyces candidus. Lemonomycin was first isolated in 1964 Lemonomycin has also shown activity against human colon tumor cells. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Institute%20of%20Food%20Science%20and%20Technology | The Australian Institute of Food Science and Technology Incorporated (AIFST) is a national, not-for-profit industry body representing individuals from all sectors of the food science and technology industry.
Originally established as an overseas section of the US-based Institute of Food Technologists (IFT), the AIFST ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geriatric%20intensive-care%20unit | Geriatric intensive care unit is a special intensive care unit dedicated to management of critically ill elderly.
Origin
Geriatric intensive care units began because the world population is aging. Geriatric medicine is distinct from adult or pediatric medicine, especially if they are critically ill. Geriatric medicin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future%20predator | The future predator is a fictional future apex predator in the British science fiction television programme Primeval. The future predator was conceived by producers Tim Haines and Adrian Hodges and were designed by Daren Horley. Giant and flightless future descendants of bats, the predators are ruthless creatures that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset%20turnover | Asset turnover (ATO), total asset turnover, or asset turns is a financial ratio that measures the efficiency of a company's use of its assets in generating sales revenue or sales income to the company. Asset turnover is considered to be a Profitability Ratio, which is a group of financial ratios that measure how effici... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herelleviridae | Herelleviridae is a family of bacterial viruses of the order Caudovirales infecting members of the phylum Firmicutes. The family has five subfamilies, 33 genera and 92 species.
Etymology
The family's name, Herelle is in honor of Félix d'Hérelle, a French-Canadian microbiologist, the suffix -viridae is the standard s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20hole%20electron | In physics, there is a speculative hypothesis that, if there were a black hole with the same mass, charge and angular momentum as an electron, it would share other properties of the electron. Most notably, Brandon Carter showed in 1968 that the magnetic moment of such an object would match that of an electron. This is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC%20SX-6 | The SX-6 is a NEC SX supercomputer built by NEC Corporation that debuted in 2001; the SX-6 was sold under license by Cray Inc. in the U.S. Each SX-6 single-node system contains up to eight vector processors, which share up to 64 GB of computer memory. The SX-6 processor is a single chip implementation containing a vect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental%20chronometry | Mental chronometry is the scientific study of processing speed or reaction time on cognitive tasks to infer the content, duration, and temporal sequencing of mental operations. Reaction time (RT; sometimes incorrectly referred to as "response time") is measured by the elapsed time between stimulus onset and an individu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux%20pumping | Flux pumping is a method for magnetising superconductors to fields in excess of 15 teslas. The method can be applied to any type II superconductor and exploits a fundamental property of superconductors, namely their ability to support and maintain currents on the length scale of the superconductor. Conventional magneti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips%20Code | The Phillips Code is a brevity code (shorthand) created in 1879 by Walter P. Phillips (then of the Associated Press) for the rapid transmission of press reports by telegraph.
Overview
It was created in 1879 by Walter P. Phillips. It defined hundreds of abbreviations and initialisms for commonly used words that news a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our%20World%20in%20Data | Our World in Data (OWID) is a scientific online publication that focuses on large global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality.
It is a project of the Global Change Data Lab, a registered charity in England and Wales, and was founded by Max Roser, a social hi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RG9MTD2 | RNA (guanine-9-) methyltransferase domain containing 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RG9MTD2 gene. The gene is also known as TRM10.
Model organisms
Model organisms have been used in the study of RG9MTD2 function. A conditional knockout mouse line, called Rg9mtd2tm1a(EUCOMM)Wtsi was generated as part o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%A0indel%20sequence | In additive combinatorics, a Šindel sequence is a periodic sequence of integers with the property that its partial sums include all of the triangular numbers. For instance, the sequence that begins 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2 is a Šindel sequence, with the triangular partial sums
etc. Another way of describing such a sequence is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insertion%20sequence | Insertion element (also known as an IS, an insertion sequence element, or an IS element) is a short DNA sequence that acts as a simple transposable element. Insertion sequences have two major characteristics: they are small relative to other transposable elements (generally around 700 to 2500 bp in length) and only cod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macron%20below | Macron below is a combining diacritical mark that is used in various orthographies.
A non-combining form is . It is not to be confused with , and . The difference between "macron below" and "low line" is that the latter results in an unbroken underline when it is run together: compare a̱ḇc̱ and a̲b̲c̲ (only the latte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barwin%20domain | In molecular biology, the barwin domain is a protein domain found in barwin ("barley wound-induced"), a basic protein isolated from aqueous extracts of barley seeds. Barwin is 125 amino acids in length, and contains six cysteine residues that combine to form three disulphide bridges. In the pathogenesis-related protein... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungivore | Fungivory or mycophagy is the process of organisms consuming fungi. Many different organisms have been recorded to gain their energy from consuming fungi, including birds, mammals, insects, plants, amoebas, gastropods, nematodes, bacteria and other fungi. Some of these, which only eat fungi, are called fungivores where... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxeter%20matroid | In mathematics, Coxeter matroids are generalization of matroids depending on a choice of a Coxeter group W and a parabolic subgroup P. Ordinary matroids correspond to the case when P is a maximal parabolic subgroup of a symmetric group W. They were introduced by , who named them after H. S. M. Coxeter.
give a detai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20mechanics | Classical mechanics is a physical theory describing the motion of macroscopic objects, from projectiles to parts of machinery and astronomical objects, such as spacecraft, planets, stars, and galaxies. For objects governed by classical mechanics, if the present state is known, it is possible to predict how it will move... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans%20fat%20regulation | Trans fat regulation, that aims to limit the amount of "trans fat" — fat containing trans fatty acids — in industrial food products, has been enacted in many countries. These regulations were motivated by numerous studies that pointed to significant negative health effects of trans fat. It is generally accepted that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20biotechnology | The historical application of biotechnology throughout time is provided below in chronological order.
These discoveries, inventions and modifications are evidence of the application of biotechnology since before the common era and describe notable events in the research, development and regulation of biotechnology.
B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory%20Investigation | Laboratory Investigation is a peer-reviewed medical journal of pathology published by the Nature Publishing Group. It is the official journal of the United States and Canadian Academy of Pathology. The journal is published monthly, with one supplemental issue per year.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, Labora... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Vy%C5%A1kovsk%C3%BD | Richard Vyškovský (13 July 1929 – 1 August 2019) was a Czech architect and creator of paper models.
In 1960s Vyškovský worked for the State institute for reconstruction of historic towns and monuments (SÚRPMO) in Prague. After a discussion with
colleagues, complaining about the limited availability of die-cast Matchbo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom%20tooth | The third molar, commonly called wisdom tooth, is the most posterior of the three molars in each quadrant of the human dentition. The age at which wisdom teeth come through (erupt) is variable, but this generally occurs between late teens and early twenties. Most adults have four wisdom teeth, one in each of the four q... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced%20Encryption%20Standard | The Advanced Encryption Standard (AES), also known by its original name Rijndael (), is a specification for the encryption of electronic data established by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 2001.
AES is a variant of the Rijndael block cipher developed by two Belgian cryptographers, Joa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%20%283D%20figure%29 | Victoria is an articulated 3D female figure developed and sold by Daz 3D. There have been several "generations" of the figure, all bearing the same name.
The figure was originally created as one of two standard characters which also included the male character "Michael" ("Stephanie" being a full body female morph of M... |
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