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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperhydricity | Hyperhydricity (previously known as vitrification) is a physiological malformation that results in excessive hydration, low lignification, impaired stomatal function and reduced mechanical strength of tissue culture-generated plants. The consequence is poor regeneration of such plants without intensive greenhouse accli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBZ%20%28meteorology%29 | Decibel relative to Z, or dBZ, is a logarithmic dimensionless technical unit used in radar, mostly in weather radar, to compare the equivalent reflectivity factor (Z) of a remote object (in mm6 per m3) to the return of a droplet of rain with a diameter of 1 mm (1 mm6 per m3). It is proportional to the number of drops p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroflora | Macroflora is a term used for all the plants occurring in a particular area that are large enough to be seen with the naked eye. It is usually synonymous with the Flora and can be contrasted with the microflora, a term used for all the bacteria and other microorganisms in an ecosystem.
Macroflora is also an informal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woese%27s%20dogma | Woese's dogma is a principle of evolutionary biology first put forth by biophysicist Carl Woese in 1977. It states that the evolution of ribosomal RNA was a necessary precursor to the evolution of modern life forms. This led to the advancement of the phylogenetic tree of life consisting of three domains rather than the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia%20Nicki%20Washington | Alicia Nicki Washington is an American computer scientist, author, and professor at Duke University. She is the author of the book Unapologetically Dope. She was the first Black woman to earn a Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science from North Carolina State University in 2005.
Early life and education
Washington l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residue%20number%20system | A residue numeral system (RNS) is a numeral system representing integers by their values modulo several pairwise coprime integers called the moduli. This representation is allowed by the Chinese remainder theorem, which asserts that, if is the product of the moduli, there is, in an interval of length , exactly one int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death%20and%20the%20Maiden%20%28motif%29 | Death and the Maiden (Der Tod und das Mädchen in German) was a common motif in Renaissance art, especially painting and prints in Germany. The usual form shows just two figures, with a young woman being seized by a personification of Death, often shown as a skeleton. Variants may include other figures. It developed fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4C%20Entity | The 4C Entity is a digital rights management (DRM) consortium formed by IBM, Intel, Panasonic and Toshiba that has established and licensed interoperable cryptographic protection mechanisms for removable media technologies. 4C Entity was founded in 1999 when Warner Music approached the companies to develop stronger DRM... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Oxford%20Murders%20%28novel%29 | The Oxford Murders (; Imperceptible Crimes) is a novel by the Argentine author Guillermo Martínez, first published in 2003. It was translated into English in 2005 by Sonia Soto. The story tells about a professor of logic, who, along with a graduate student, investigates a series of bizarre, mathematically-based murders... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20General%20AOS | Data General AOS (an abbreviation for Advanced Operating System) was the name of a family of operating systems for Data General 16-bit Eclipse C, M, and S minicomputers, followed by AOS/VS and AOS/RT32 (1980) and later AOS/VS II (1988) for the 32-bit Eclipse MV line.
Overview
AOS/VS exploited the 8-ring protection ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Address%20List | A Global Address List (GAL) is an electronic shared address book which contains usually all people of given organization (company, school etc.). This address book is accessed over the computer network using LDAP protocol, CardDAV or some other electronic means.
The GAL is usually read-only for users. Only administrato... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpa%20Wings | Herpa Wings is a brand that identifies the die-cast model aircraft line of German company Herpa. The collection includes 250 airlines under 17 different aircraft manufacturers in 1:200 scale. The mainstay of Herpa Wings is in the 1:500 scale, while model airliners are also produced in the 1:400, 1:200, 1:1000, and 1:16... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inclusion%20bodies | Inclusion bodies are aggregates of specific types of protein found in neurons, a number of tissue cells including red blood cells, bacteria, viruses, and plants. Inclusion bodies of aggregations of multiple proteins are also found in muscle cells affected by inclusion body myositis and hereditary inclusion body myopath... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonka | Tonka is an American producer of toy trucks. The company is known for making steel toy models of construction type trucks and machinery. Maisto International, which makes diecast vehicles, acquired the rights to use the Tonka name in a line of 1:64 scale, featuring mostly trucks.
History
Tonka began as Mound Metalcr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NANS | Sialic acid synthase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NANS gene.
This gene encodes an enzyme that functions in the biosynthetic pathways of sialic acids. In vitro, the encoded protein uses N-acetylmannosamine 6-phosphate and mannose 6-phosphate as substrates to generate phosphorylated forms of N-acetylneu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IsomiR | isomiRs (from iso- + miR) are miRNA sequences that have variations with respect to the reference sequence. The term was coined by Morin et al in 2008. It has been found that isomiR expression profiles can also exhibit race, population, and gender dependencies.
There are four main variation types:
5' trimming—the 5' di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTDOS | PTDOS or Processor Technology Disk Operating System is an operating system created in the late 1970s for computers using the Intel 8080 microprocessor and the Processor Technology Helios II Disk Memory System.
Commands
The following list of commands is supported by PTDOS 1.4.
EDIT
EDT3
ASSM
DEBUG
DO
DISKCOPY
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard%20Marshall%20Gordon | Bernard Marshall Gordon (born 1927 in Springfield, Massachusetts) is an American engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. He is considered "the father of high-speed analog-to-digital conversion".
Early life, education, and career
At an early age Gordon developed an interest in electronics. Upon graduatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20G.%20Mezey | Paul G. Mezey is a Hungarian-Canadian mathematical chemist. He was the Canada Research Chair in Scientific Modeling and Simulation in the Department of Chemistry at the Memorial University of Newfoundland. He retired from Memorial University in 2018.
Biography
Mezey earned a Master's degrees in chemistry, a Ph.D. in C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioconversion | Bioconversion, also known as biotransformation, is the conversion of organic materials, such as plant or animal waste, into usable products or energy sources by biological processes or agents, such as certain microorganisms. One example is the industrial production of cortisone, which one step is the bioconversion of p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Cloud%20Computing%20Interface | The Open Cloud Computing Interface (OCCI) is a set of specifications delivered through the Open Grid Forum, for cloud computing service providers. OCCI has a set of implementations that act as proofs of concept. It builds upon World Wide Web fundamentals by using the Representational State Transfer (REST) approach for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prionosciadium%20saraviki | Prionosciadium saraviki, common name saraviki, is a plant species in the genus Prionosciadium, in the carrot family, Apiaceae. It is known only from a mountainous region of the Sierra Madre Occidental in the Mexican State of Chihuahua. Type locale is the village of Nabogame, approximately 18 km northwest of Yepachic, C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metallo-beta-lactamase%20protein%20fold | The metallo-β-lactamase (MBL) superfamily constitutes a group of proteins found in all domains of life that share a characteristic αββα fold with the ability to bind transition metal ions. Such metal binding sites may have divalent transition metal ions like Zn(II), Fe(II)/Fe(III) and Mn(II), and are located at the bot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event%20segment | A segment of a system variable in computing shows a homogenous status of system dynamics over a time period. Here, a homogenous status of a variable is a state which can be described by a set of coefficients of a formula. For example, of homogenous statuses, we can bring status of constant ('ON' of a switch) and line... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%20Human%20STR%20Allele%20Frequencies%20Database | The Earth Human STR Allele Frequencies Database is a scientific project based on a dynamic web interface and a relational database management system. Its main purpose is the management of STR populational data reported from all over the world, providing highly specialized population genetics tools and also an overview ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncertain%20data | In computer science, uncertain data is data that contains noise that makes it deviate from the correct, intended or original values. In the age of big data, uncertainty or data veracity is one of the defining characteristics of data. Data is constantly growing in volume, variety, velocity and uncertainty (1/veracity). ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nerolidol | Nerolidol, also known as peruviol and penetrol , is a naturally occurring sesquiterpene alcohol. A colorless liquid, it is found in the essential oils of many types of plants and flowers. There are four isomers of nerolidol', which differ in the geometry about the central double bond and configuration of the hydroxyl-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Barrett | Gary Barrett (January 3, 1940 – April 10, 2022) was an American ecologist.
Barrett held the Eugene P. Odum chair of Odum School of Ecology at University of Georgia; previously he taught at Miami University and Drake University. He was the Deputy Director for Research for the Institute of Environmental Sciences from 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nocodazole | Nocodazole is an antineoplastic agent which exerts its effect in cells by interfering with the polymerization of microtubules. Microtubules are one type of fibre which constitutes the cytoskeleton, and the dynamic microtubule network has several important roles in the cell, including vesicular transport, forming the mi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobecovirus | Nobecovirus is a subgenus of viruses in the genus Betacoronavirus. The viruses in the group were previously known as group 2d coronaviruses.
Structure
The viruses of this subgenus, like other coronaviruses, have a lipid bilayer envelope in which the membrane (M), envelope (E) and spike (S) structural proteins are anch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20urchin | Sea urchins () are spiny, globular echinoderms in the class Echinoidea. About 950 species of sea urchin are distributed on the seabeds of every ocean and inhabit every depth zone from the intertidal seashore down to . The spherical, hard shells (tests) of sea urchins are round and covered in spines. Most urchin spines ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20world%20framework | The virtual world framework (VWF) is a means to connect robust 3D, immersive, entities with other entities, virtual worlds, content and users via web browsers. It provides the ability for client-server programs to be delivered in a lightweight manner via web browsers, and provides synchronization for multiple users to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-584%20microRNA%20precursor%20family | In molecular biology mir-584 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms.
See also
MicroRNA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stompers%20%28toy%29 | Stompers are battery-powered toy cars that use a single AA battery and feature four-wheel drive. They are driven by a single motor that turns both axles. They were the first battery-powered, electric, true 4WD toys. Stompers were created in 1980 by A. Eddy Goldfarb and sold by Schaper Toys. Later, in the United Kingdom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sendmail%2C%20Inc. | Sendmail, Inc. is an email management business.
The company is headquartered in Emeryville, CA with offices throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia.
History
The company was founded in 1999 by Eric Allman in Emeryville, CA. Eric also created sendmail, an open source mail transfer agent while he was a student and a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollifier | In mathematics, mollifiers (also known as approximations to the identity) are smooth functions with special properties, used for example in distribution theory to create sequences of smooth functions approximating nonsmooth (generalized) functions, via convolution. Intuitively, given a function which is rather irregula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred%20Diamond | Fred Irvin Diamond (born November 19, 1964) is a mathematician, known for his role in proving the modularity theorem for elliptic curves. His research interest is in modular forms and Galois representations.
Life
Diamond received his B.A. from the University of Michigan in 1984, and received his Ph.D. in mathematics f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue%20reactivity | Cue reactivity is a type of learned response which is observed in individuals with an addiction and involves significant physiological and subjective reactions to presentations of drug-related stimuli (i.e., drug cues).
In investigations of these reactions in people with substance use disorders, changes in self-report... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True%20vapor%20pressure | True vapor pressure (TVP) is a common measure of the volatility of petroleum distillate fuels. It is defined as the
equilibrium partial pressure exerted by a volatile organic liquid as a function of temperature as determined by the test method ASTM D 2879.
The true vapor pressure (TVP) at 100 °F differs slightly from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial%20Electronic%20Engineers | Industrial Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEE; sometimes spelled Industrial Electronics Engineers) is an American electronics company based in Van Nuys, California. Founded by Donald Gumpertz in 1946, the company is best known for its electronic displays, becoming a pioneer in the field under Gumpertz's leadership.
Histo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endo%20agar | Endo agar (also called Endo's medium) is a microbiological growth medium with a faint pink colour. Originally developed for the isolation of Salmonella typhi, it is now used mostly as a coliform medium. Most gram-negative organisms grow well in this medium, while growth of gram-positive organisms is inhibited. Coliform... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20design%20sprint | A Service Design Sprint is a time-constrained Service Design project that uses Design Thinking and Service Design tools to create a new service or improve an existing one. The term Service Design Sprint was first mentioned by Tenny Pinheiro in his book The Service Startup: Design Thinking Gets Lean (Elsevier; 2014).
M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Searle%20Scholars%20Program | The Searle Scholars Program is a career development award made annually to support 15 young faculty in biomedical research and chemistry at US universities and research centers. The goal of the award is to support to exceptional young scientists who are at the beginning of their independent research careers and are wor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calkin%20correspondence | In mathematics, the Calkin correspondence, named after mathematician John Williams Calkin, is a bijective correspondence between two-sided ideals of bounded linear operators of a separable infinite-dimensional Hilbert space and Calkin sequence spaces (also called rearrangement invariant sequence spaces). The correspon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squish%20%27em | Squish'em, also known as Squish'em Sam, is a 1983 action game designed by Tony Ngo and published by Sirius Software for the Atari 8-bit family, VIC-20, Commodore 64, MSX, and ColecoVision. The ColecoVision version plays digitised speech without additional hardware and was published as Squish'em Featuring Sam. The game... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartig%20net | Hartig net is a network of inward-growing hyphae, that extends into the root, penetrating between the epidermis and cortex of ectomycorrhizal plants. This network is a site of nutrient exchange between the fungus and the host plant. The Hartig net is one of the three components required for ectomycorrhizal roots to for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multikernel | A multikernel operating system treats a multi-core machine as a network of independent cores, as if it were a distributed system. It does not assume shared memory but rather implements inter-process communications as message-passing. Barrelfish was the first operating system to be described as a multikernel.
See also... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parity%20learning | Parity learning is a problem in machine learning. An algorithm that solves this problem must find a function ƒ, given some samples (x, ƒ(x)) and the assurance that ƒ computes the parity of bits at some fixed locations. The samples are generated using some distribution over the input. The problem is easy to solve using ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20consequence | Logical consequence (also entailment) is a fundamental concept in logic which describes the relationship between statements that hold true when one statement logically follows from one or more statements. A valid logical argument is one in which the conclusion is entailed by the premises, because the conclusion is the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instituto%20Nacional%20de%20Biodiversidad | The Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad (INBio) is the national institute for biodiversity and conservation in Costa Rica. Created at the end of the 1980s, and despite having national status, it is a privately run institution that works closely with various government agencies, universities, business sector and other p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trematode%20mitochondrial%20code | The trematode mitochondrial code (translation table 21) is a genetic code found in the mitochondria of Trematoda.
Code
AAs = FFLLSSSSYY**CCWWLLLLPPPPHHQQRRRRIIMMTTTTNNNKSSSSVVVVAAAADDEEGGGG
Starts = -----------------------------------M---------------M------------
Base1 = TTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCAAAAAAAAA... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20shape%20index | A Body Shape Index (ABSI) or simply body shape index (BSI) is a metric for assessing the health implications of a given human body height, mass and waist circumference (WC). The inclusion of WC is believed to make the BSI a better indicator of risk of mortality from excess weight than the standard body mass index. ABSI... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno%20Nachtergaele | Bruno Leo Zulma Nachtergaele (24 June 1962 in Oudenaarde) is a Belgian mathematical physicist.
Nachtergaele studied physics with a licentiate degree in 1984 from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. There he was awarded in 1987 a doctorate in theoretical physics under André Verbeure with dissertation Exacte resultaten ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope%20light | A rope light is primarily used as a decorative lighting fixture, featuring small light bulbs linked together and encased in a PVC jacket to create a string of lights. Rope lights can be used in many applications both indoors and outdoors. Used in place of neon signs, it is sometimes called soft neon.
Design
The desi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolle%27s%20theorem | In calculus, Rolle's theorem or Rolle's lemma essentially states that any real-valued differentiable function that attains equal values at two distinct points must have at least one stationary point somewhere between them—that is, a point where the first derivative (the slope of the tangent line to the graph of the fun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort%20cipher | The Beaufort cipher, created by Sir Francis Beaufort, is a substitution cipher similar to the Vigenère cipher, with a slightly modified enciphering mechanism and tableau. Its most famous application was in a rotor-based cipher machine, the Hagelin M-209. The Beaufort cipher is based on the Beaufort square which is esse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual%20evolution | Spiritual evolution, also called higher evolution, is the idea that the mind or spirit, in analogy to biological evolution, collectively evolves from a simple form dominated by nature, to a higher form dominated by the Spiritual or Divine. It is differentiated from the "lower" or biological evolution, and thought to be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov%20Chains%20and%20Mixing%20Times | Markov Chains and Mixing Times is a book on Markov chain mixing times. The second edition was written by David A. Levin, and Yuval Peres. Elizabeth Wilmer was a co-author on the first edition and is credited as a contributor to the second edition. The first edition was published in 2009 by the American Mathematical Soc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cisco%20Meraki | Cisco Meraki is a cloud-managed IT company headquartered in San Francisco, California. Their products include wireless, switching, security, enterprise mobility management (EMM) and security cameras, all centrally managed from the web. Meraki was acquired by Cisco Systems in December 2012.
History
Meraki was founded b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia%20Zambryski | Patricia C. Zambryski is a plant and microbial scientist known for her work on Type IV secretion and cell-to-cell transport in plants. She is also professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
She was an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGV%20Interoperability%20Profile | UGV Interoperability Profile (UGV IOP), Robotics and Autonomous Systems – Ground IOP (RAS-G IOP) or simply IOP was originally an initiative started by the United States Department of Defense (DoD) to organize and maintain open architecture interoperability standards for Unmanned Ground Vehicles (UGV). A primary goal of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bismuth%20sulfite%20agar | Bismuth sulfite agar is a type of agar media used to isolate Salmonella species. It uses glucose as a primary source of carbon. BLBG and bismuth stop gram-positive growth. Bismuth sulfite agar tests the ability to use ferrous sulfate and convert it to hydrogen sulfide.
Bismuth sulfite agar typically contains (w/v):
1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TORQUE | The Terascale Open-source Resource and Queue Manager (TORQUE) is a distributed resource manager providing control over batch jobs and distributed compute nodes. TORQUE can integrate with the non-commercial Maui Cluster Scheduler or the commercial Moab Workload Manager to improve overall utilization, scheduling and admi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/203%20%28number%29 | 203 (two hundred [and] three) is the natural number following 202 and preceding 204.
In mathematics
203 is the seventh Bell number, giving the number of partitions of a set of size 6. 203 different triangles can be made from three rods with integer lengths of at most 12, and 203 integer squares (not necessarily of uni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrastix | In geometry, it is possible to fill 3/4 of the volume of three-dimensional Euclidean space by three sets of infinitely-long square prisms aligned with the three coordinate axes, leaving cubical voids; John Horton Conway, Heidi Burgiel and Chaim Goodman-Strauss have named this structure tetrastix.
Applications
The moti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbilical%20folds | Related to the urinary bladder, anteriorly there are the following folds:
one median umbilical fold on the median umbilical ligament (which in turn, contains the urachus)
two medial umbilical folds on the occluded umbilical artery
two lateral umbilical folds on the inferior epigastric vessels |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expressivity%20%28genetics%29 | In genetics, expressivity is the degree to which a phenotype is expressed by individuals having a particular genotype. (Alternately, it may refer to the expression of particular gene by individuals having a certain phenotype.) Expressivity is related to the intensity of a given phenotype; it differs from penetrance, wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%20and%20right%20%28algebra%29 | In algebra, the terms left and right denote the order of a binary operation (usually, but not always, called "multiplication") in non-commutative algebraic structures.
A binary operation ∗ is usually written in the infix form:
The argument is placed on the left side, and the argument is on the right side. Even if th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximite | Maximite Microcomputer is a Microchip PIC32 microcontroller-based microcomputer. Originally designed as a hobby kit, the Maximite was introduced in a three-part article in Silicon Chip magazine in autumn of 2011 by Australian designer Geoff Graham.
The project consists of two main components — a main circuit board an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ef%C3%ADgie%20da%20Rep%C3%BAblica | The (Portuguese for Effigy of the Republic) is used as a national personification, both in Brazil and in Portugal, symbolizing the Republic.
Brazil
The effigy is a representation of a young woman wearing a crown of bay leaves in Roman style and a phrygian cap. It is present in allegoric paintings and sculptures displ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copaiba | Copaiba is an oleoresin obtained from the trunk of several pinnate-leaved South American leguminous trees (genus Copaifera). The thick, transparent exudate varies in color from light gold to dark brown, depending on the ratio of resin to essential oil. Copaiba is used in making varnishes and lacquers.
The balsam may b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20ciliary%20nerves | The long ciliary nerves are 2-3 nerves that arise from the nasociliary nerve (itself a branch of the ophthalmic branch (CN V1) of the trigeminal nerve (CN V)). They enter the eyeball to provide sensory innervation to parts of the eye, and sympathetic visceral motor innervation to the dilator pupillae muscle.
Anatomy
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill%20Britton | Jill E. Britton (6 November 1944 – 29 February 2016) was a Canadian mathematics educator known for her educational books about mathematics.
Career
Britton was born on 6 November 1944. She taught for many years, at Dawson College in Westmount, Quebec, moving in the late 1980s to Camosun College in Victoria, British Col... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Veterinary%20Entry%20Document | The Common Veterinary Entry Document (CVED) is the official document used in all member states of the European Union (EU) to pre-notify the arrival of each consignment of live animals (pets not included), live animal products and products of animal origin intended for import to or transit through the EU from third coun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burst%20dimming | Burst dimming is a method to control dimming of cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) and LEDs by using pulse width modulation (PWM) at approximately 100-300 Hz which is supposed to be above the noticeable flicker limit for the human eye.
This technique is sometimes used with TFT displays to control backlighting. An ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20contact%20indicator | A liquid contact indicator (LCI) is a small indicator that turns from white into another color, typically red, after contact with water. These indicators are small adhesives that are placed on several points within electronic devices such as laptops and smartphones. In case of a defective device, service personnel can ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climacteric%20%28journal%29 | Climacteric is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal that covers all aspects of aging in women, especially during the menopause. As the official journal of the International Menopause Society, Climacteric also publishes position statements and workshop proceedings from the society.
Climacteric was established in 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spumoni | Spumone (from spuma or "foam"), plural spumoni, is a molded gelato (a lower-fat Italian form of ice cream) made with layers of different colors and flavors, usually containing candied fruits and nuts.
Typically, it is of three flavors, with a fruit/nut layer between them. The ice cream layers are often mixed with whip... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primordial%20nuclide | In geochemistry, geophysics and nuclear physics, primordial nuclides, also known as primordial isotopes, are nuclides found on Earth that have existed in their current form since before Earth was formed. Primordial nuclides were present in the interstellar medium from which the solar system was formed, and were formed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degenerate%20semiconductor | A degenerate semiconductor is a semiconductor with such a high level of doping that the material starts to act more like a metal than as a semiconductor. Unlike non-degenerate semiconductors, these kinds of semiconductor do not obey the law of mass action, which relates intrinsic carrier concentration with temperature... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeta%20function%20regularization | In mathematics and theoretical physics, zeta function regularization is a type of regularization or summability method that assigns finite values to divergent sums or products, and in particular can be used to define determinants and traces of some self-adjoint operators. The technique is now commonly applied to proble... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blame%20It%20on%20the%20Weatherman | "Blame It on the Weatherman" is a song by Irish girl group B*Witched, written by Ray "Madman" Hedges, Martin Brannigan, Tracy Ackerman, and Andy Caine. It was released as the fourth single from their self-titled debut studio album on 15 March 1999.
Like the other three singles from the album, "Blame It on the Weatherm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20calculus | In mathematics, a functional calculus is a theory allowing one to apply mathematical functions to mathematical operators. It is now a branch (more accurately, several related areas) of the field of functional analysis, connected with spectral theory. (Historically, the term was also used synonymously with calculus of v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentry%202020 | Sentry 2020 is a commercial software program for "transparent" disk encryption for PC and PDA. It has two compatible versions, one for desktop Windows XP and one for Windows Mobile 6.5.3, which allows using the same encrypted volume on both platforms.
The latest versions have been released in February 2011. Windows Vi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20without%20a%20value | In the mathematical theory of games, in particular the study of zero-sum continuous games, not every game has a minimax value. This is the expected value to one of the players when both play a perfect strategy (which is to choose from a particular PDF).
This article gives an example of a zero-sum game that has no val... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivial%20cylinder | In geometry and topology, trivial cylinders are certain pseudoholomorphic curves appearing in certain cylindrical manifolds.
In Floer homology and its variants, chain complexes or differential graded algebras are generated by certain combinations of closed orbits of vector fields. In symplectic Floer homology, one co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merise | Merise () is a general-purpose modeling methodology in the field of information systems development, software engineering and project management. First introduced in the early 1980s, it was widely used in France, and was developed and refined to the point where most large French governmental, commercial and industrial ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actifsource | Actifsource is a domain-specific modeling workbench. It is realized as plug-in for the software development environment Eclipse. Actifsource supports the creation of multiple domain models which can be linked together. It comes with a UML-like graphical editor to create domain-specific languages and a general graphical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissue%20culture | Tissue culture is the growth of tissues or cells in an artificial medium separate from the parent organism. This technique is also called micropropagation. This is typically facilitated via use of a liquid, semi-solid, or solid growth medium, such as broth or agar. Tissue culture commonly refers to the culture of anima... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Stoddart%20%28geographer%29 | David Ross Stoddart, (15 November 1937 – 23 November 2014) was a British physical geographer known for the study of coral reefs and atolls. He was also known for key works on the history and philosophy of geography as an academic discipline. He was a lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and then professor and lat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garlic%20allergy | Garlic allergy or allergic contact dermatitis to garlic is a common inflammatory skin condition caused by contact with garlic oil or dust. It mostly affects people who cut and handle fresh garlic, such as chefs, and presents on the tips of the thumb, index and middle fingers of the non-dominant hand (which typically ho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computably%20inseparable | In computability theory, two disjoint sets of natural numbers are called computably inseparable or recursively inseparable if they cannot be "separated" with a computable set. These sets arise in the study of computability theory itself, particularly in relation to classes. Computably inseparable sets also arise in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoutcast | Shoutcast (formerly SHOUTcast) is a service for streaming media over the internet to media players, using its own cross-platform proprietary software. It allows digital audio content, primarily in MP3 or High-Efficiency Advanced Audio Coding format. The most common use of Shoutcast is for creating or listening to Inter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild%20Fermentation | Wild Fermentation: The Flavor, Nutrition, and Craft of Live-Culture Foods is a 2003 book by Sandor Katz that discusses the ancient practice of fermentation. While most of the conventional literature assumes the use of modern technology, Wild Fermentation focuses more on the practice and culture of fermenting food.
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Association%20of%20Neuropathologists | American Association of Neuropathologists, Inc. was established in the 1930s as a professional and educational organization representing American neuropathologists. It was incorporated in the State of Pennsylvania in May 1960. Currently, the membership consists of 800 scientists and physicians, many of whom are interna... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisler%20chart | Heisler charts are a graphical analysis tool for the evaluation of one-dimensional transient conductive heat transfer in thermal engineering. They are a set of two charts per included geometry introduced in 1947 by M. P. Heisler which were supplemented by a third chart per geometry in 1961 by H. Gröber. Heisler charts... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven%20Zucker | Steven Mark Zucker (12 September 1949 – 13 September 2019) was an American mathematician who introduced the Zucker conjecture, proved in different ways by Eduard Looijenga (1988) and by Leslie Saper and Mark Stern (1990).
Zucker completed his Ph.D. in 1974 at Princeton University under the supervision of Spencer Bloch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signature-tagged%20mutagenesis | Signature-tagged mutagenesis (STM) is a genetic technique used to study gene function. Recent advances in genome sequencing have allowed us to catalogue a large variety of organisms' genomes, but the function of the genes they contain is still largely unknown. Using STM, the function of the product of a particular gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyposis%20registries | Polyposis registries exist for the purpose of understanding the genetic disease familial adenomatous polyposis. The registries provide a service to doctors for identification, surveillance and management of families and individuals with high colorectal cancer risk from Familial Adenomatous Polyposis (FAP) and Heredita... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence%20and%20autism | Various connections have been made between violence and autism within social narratives. According to public opinion, violent behavior is common for autistic individuals, but evidence does not support autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as a predisposition to delinquency or crime. Autistic people are likely to be victims o... |
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