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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl%20heptanoate | Ethyl heptanoate is the ester resulting from the condensation of heptanoic acid and ethanol. It is used in the flavor industry because of its odor that is similar to grape. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAF%20604 | HAF 604 is the certification for components for nuclear power plants in China that have been manufactured outside of China. Exporters of these safety-relevant components need this certification for importing the components into China. The responsible authority for the certification of these components for nuclear power... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cram%20%28game%29 | Cram is a mathematical game played on a sheet of graph paper. It is the impartial version of Domineering and the only difference in the rules is that players may place their dominoes in either orientation, but it results in a very different game. It has been called by many names, including "plugg" by Geoffrey Mott-Smit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chitika | Chitika, Inc. (pronounced CHIH-tih-ka) was a search-targeted advertising company. It was located in Westborough, Massachusetts, United States. The name Chitika means "in a snap" in Telugu language.
On April 17, 2019, Chitika announced that they were shutting down their business.
History
In 2003, co-founders Venkat Ko... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion%20mechanism | A fusion mechanism is any mechanism by which cell fusion or virus–cell fusion takes place, as well as the machinery that facilitates these processes. Cell fusion is the formation of a hybrid cell from two separate cells. There are three major actions taken in both virus–cell fusion and cell–cell fusion: the dehydration... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microoxygenation | Micro-oxygenation is a process used in winemaking to introduce oxygen into wine in a controlled manner. Developed in 1991 by Patrick DuCournau, working with the exceptionally tannic grape Tannat in Madiran, the process gained usage in modern winemaking following the 1996 authorization by the European Commission. Today,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camassa%E2%80%93Holm%20equation | In fluid dynamics, the Camassa–Holm equation is the integrable, dimensionless and non-linear partial differential equation
The equation was introduced by Roberto Camassa and Darryl Holm as a bi-Hamiltonian model for waves in shallow water, and in this context the parameter κ is positive and the solitary wave solutions... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaiculture | Mosaiculture is the horticultural art of creating giant topiary-like sculptures using thousands of annual bedding plants to carpet steel armature forms. It is different from classical topiary.
Mosaïcultures Internationales® is the name of an international competition governed by the International Mosaiculture Committe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20operating%20systems | Two major families of Mac operating systems were developed by Apple Inc.
In 1984, Apple debuted the operating system that is now known as the "Classic" Mac OS with its release of the original Macintosh System Software. The system, rebranded "Mac OS" in 1997, was pre-installed on every Macintosh until 2002 and offered ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House%20call | A house call is medical consultation performed by a doctor or other healthcare professionals visiting the home of a patient or client, instead of the patient visiting the doctor's clinic or hospital. In some locations, families used to pay dues to a particular practice to underwrite house calls.
History
In the early... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reid%20vapor%20pressure | Reid vapor pressure (RVP) is a common measure of the volatility of gasoline and other petroleum products. It is defined as the
absolute vapor pressure exerted by the vapor of the liquid and any dissolved gases/moisture at 37.8 °C (100 °F) as determined by the test method ASTM-D-323, which was first developed in 1930 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crackpot%20index | The Crackpot Index is a number that rates scientific claims or the individuals that make them, in conjunction with a method for computing that number. It was proposed by John C. Baez in 1992, and updated in 1998.
While the index was created for its humorous value, the general concepts can be applied in other fields li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presentation%20%28medical%29 | In medicine, a presentation is the appearance in a patient of illness or disease—or signs or symptoms thereof—before a medical professional. In practice, one usually speaks of a patient as presenting with this or that. Examples include:
"...Many depressed patients present with medical rather than psychiatric complain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birla%20Industrial%20%26%20Technological%20Museum | Birla Industrial & Technological Museum (BITM) is a science museum in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. It is a unit under National Council of Science Museums (NCSM), Ministry of Culture, Government of India. Under the governmental jurisdiction of the Council of Scientific & Industrial Research (CSIR), BITM is commonly reco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20integrator | The Water Integrator ( Gidravlicheskiy integrator) was an early analog computer built in the Soviet Union in 1936 by Vladimir Sergeevich Lukyanov. It functioned by careful manipulation of water through a room full of interconnected pipes and pumps. The water level in various chambers (with precision to fractions of a m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hut%203 | Hut 3 was a section of the Government Code and Cypher School (GC&CS) at Bletchley Park during World War II. It retained the name for its functions when it moved into Block D. It produced military intelligence codenamed ULTRA from the decrypts of Enigma, Tunny and multiple other sources. Hut 3 thus became an intelligenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary%20sensory%20endings | Within the sensory nervous system, Secondary sensory endings of the muscle spindle are composed of type II sensory fibers that terminate on nuclear chain fibers and static nuclear bag fibers, but not dynamic nuclear bag fibers. Whereas primary endings respond mostly to rate of change, secondary endings respond mostly t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boolean%20algebra%20%28structure%29 | In abstract algebra, a Boolean algebra or Boolean lattice is a complemented distributive lattice. This type of algebraic structure captures essential properties of both set operations and logic operations. A Boolean algebra can be seen as a generalization of a power set algebra or a field of sets, or its elements can b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20List%20of%20Notified%20Chemical%20Substances | The European List of Notified Chemical Substances (ELINCS) provides an EINECS number. The system was used by the European Union to identify commercially available chemical substances. Since 1 June 2007 EU Members, Liechtenstein, Iceland and Norway apply the REACH protocol (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation of Che... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burns%20Archive | The Burns Archive is the world’s largest private collection of early medical photography and historic photographs, housing over one million photographs. While it primarily contains images related to medical practises, it is also famous for photographs depicting 'the darker side of life'. Other themes prevalent througho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric%20model | In atmospheric science, an atmospheric model is a mathematical model constructed around the full set of primitive, dynamical equations which govern atmospheric motions. It can supplement these equations with parameterizations for turbulent diffusion, radiation, moist processes (clouds and precipitation), heat exchange,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20entropy%20spectral%20estimation | Maximum entropy spectral estimation is a method of spectral density estimation. The goal is to improve the spectral quality based on the principle of maximum entropy. The method is based on choosing the spectrum which corresponds to the most random or the most unpredictable time series whose autocorrelation function ag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl%E2%80%93von%20Neumann%20theorem | In mathematics, the Weyl–von Neumann theorem is a result in operator theory due to Hermann Weyl and John von Neumann. It states that, after the addition of a compact operator () or Hilbert–Schmidt operator () of arbitrarily small norm, a bounded self-adjoint operator or unitary operator on a Hilbert space is conjugate ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufficient%20statistic | In statistics, a statistic is sufficient with respect to a statistical model and its associated unknown parameter if "no other statistic that can be calculated from the same sample provides any additional information as to the value of the parameter". In particular, a statistic is sufficient for a family of probability... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Zoology | The Institute of Zoology (IoZ) is the research division of the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) in England. It is a government-funded research institute specialising in scientific issues relevant to the conservation of animal species and their habitats. The Institute is based alongside London Zoo at ZSL's Regent's Pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermally%20activated%20delayed%20fluorescence | Thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) is a process through which a molecular species in a non-emitting excited state can incorporate surrounding thermal energy to change states and only then undergo light emission. The TADF process involves an excited molecular species in a triplet state, which commonly has a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun%20outage | A Sun outage, Sun transit, or Sun fade is an interruption in or distortion of geostationary satellite signals caused by interference (background noise) of the Sun when it falls directly behind a satellite which an Earth station is trying to receive data from or transmit data to. It usually occurs briefly to such satel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urysohn%27s%20lemma | In topology, Urysohn's lemma is a lemma that states that a topological space is normal if and only if any two disjoint closed subsets can be separated by a continuous function.
Urysohn's lemma is commonly used to construct continuous functions with various properties on normal spaces. It is widely applicable since all... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UL%20%28safety%20organization%29 | The UL enterprise is a global safety science company headquartered in Northbrook, Illinois, composed of three organizations, UL Research Institutes, UL Standards & Engagement and UL Solutions.
Established in 1894, the UL enterprise was founded as the Underwriters' Electrical Bureau (a bureau of the National Board of F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin%20Mathematical%20School | The Berlin Mathematical School (BMS) is a joint graduate school of the three renowned mathematics departments of the public research universities in Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and Technische Universität Berlin.
In October 2006, the BMS was awarded one of the 18 prestigious gradua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Planck%20Institute%20for%20Brain%20Research | The Max Planck Institute for Brain Research is located in Frankfurt, Germany. It was founded as Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Brain Research in Berlin 1914, moved to Frankfurt-Niederrad in 1962 and more recently in a new building in Frankfurt-Riedberg. It is one of 83 institutes in the Max Planck Society (Max Planck Ges... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmaria%20%28alga%29 | Palmaria is a genus of algae. One of its most notable members is dulse, Palmaria palmata. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock%20gating | In computer architecture, clock gating is a popular power management technique used in many synchronous circuits for reducing dynamic power dissipation, by removing the clock signal when the circuit is not in use or ignores clock signal. Clock gating saves power by pruning the clock tree, at the cost of adding more log... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavaksha | In Indian architecture, gavaksha or chandrashala (kudu in Tamil, also nāsī) are the terms most often used to describe the motif centred on an ogee, circular or horseshoe arch that decorates many examples of Indian rock-cut architecture and later Indian structural temples and other buildings. In its original form, the a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaden%20models | Kaden Nachod (and the later name, KOVAP Náchod) is the somewhat anglicized name for the Kovodružstvo Náchod toy factory in the town of Nový Hrádek in the Czech Republic. The factory, however, started making toys about 1950 when the country was still communist united Czechoslovakia.
History
The state factory, started a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary%20sclerosing%20cholangitis | Secondary sclerosing cholangitis (SSC) is a chronic cholestatic liver disease. SSC is a sclerosing cholangitis with a known cause. Alternatively, if no cause can be identified, then primary sclerosing cholangitis is diagnosed. SSC is an aggressive and rare disease with complex and multiple causes. It is characterized b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armorial%20of%20Italy | This article presents the coats of arms of Italy.
National
Historical
Emilia-Romagna
Friuli Venezia Giulia
Campania
Lazio
Liguria
Lombardia
Marche
Piedmont
Sardinia
Sicily
Tuscany
Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol
Umbria
Veneto
President
Many of the Presidents of Italy have borne arms; either through inher... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization%20of%20Biological%20Field%20Stations | The Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS) is a nonprofit multinational organization representing the field stations and research centers across Canada, United States, and Central America.
While it has no administrative or management control over its member stations, it helps to improve their effectiveness i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScripTalk | ScripTalk is an audible medication label technology designed to give access to individuals who are blind, visually impaired, or print impaired. It consists of a device and a microchip attached to the bottom of a prescription drug bottle. The label information is encoded on a Radio-frequency identification (RFID) electr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary%20mass | In astronomy, planetary mass is a measure of the mass of a planet-like astronomical object. Within the Solar System, planets are usually measured in the astronomical system of units, where the unit of mass is the solar mass (), the mass of the Sun. In the study of extrasolar planets, the unit of measure is typically th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thysania%20zenobia | Thysania zenobia, the owl moth, is a species of moth in the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1776, and is native to North and South America and the Caribbean.
Description
Upperside: Antennae setaceous and dark brown. Head the same. Thorax and abdomen grey: having a tuft of black hai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream%20Reservation%20Protocol | Stream Reservation Protocol (SRP) is an enhancement to Ethernet that implements admission control. In September 2010 SRP was standardized as IEEE 802.1Qat which has subsequently been incorporated into IEEE 802.1Q-2011. SRP defines the concept of streams at layer 2 of the OSI model. Also provided is a mechanism for end-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H4K5ac | H4K5ac is an epigenetic modification to the DNA packaging protein histone H4. It is a mark that indicates the acetylation at the 5th lysine residue of the histone H4 protein. H4K5 is the closest lysine residue to the N-terminal tail of histone H4. It is enriched at the transcription start site (TSS) and along gene bodi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.O.L.%3A%20Lack%20of%20Love | L.O.L: Lack Of Love is an evolutionary life simulation game developed by Love-de-Lic and published by ASCII Corporation for the Sega Dreamcast. The game was released only in Japan on November 2, 2000. The game was never exported to the West but it received a fan translation in 2020.
Gameplay
The gameplay of L.O.L.: L... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial%20epicondyle%20of%20the%20humerus | The medial epicondyle of the humerus is an epicondyle of the humerus bone of the upper arm in humans. It is larger and more prominent than the lateral epicondyle and is directed slightly more posteriorly in the anatomical position. In birds, where the arm is somewhat rotated compared to other tetrapods, it is called t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motifs%20in%20the%20James%20Bond%20film%20series | The James Bond series of films contain a number of repeating, distinctive motifs which date from the series' inception with Dr. No in 1962. The series consists of twenty five films produced by Eon Productions featuring the James Bond character, a fictional British Secret Service agent. The most recent instalment is No ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphyllophyte | The euphyllophytes are a clade of plants within the tracheophytes (the vascular plants). The group may be treated as an unranked clade, a division under the name Euphyllophyta or a subdivision under the name Euphyllophytina. The euphyllophytes are characterized by the possession of true leaves ("megaphylls"), and compr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAML%202.0 | Security Assertion Markup Language 2.0 (SAML 2.0) is a version of the SAML standard for exchanging authentication and authorization identities between security domains. SAML 2.0 is an XML-based protocol that uses security tokens containing assertions to pass information about a principal (usually an end user) between ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAT%20RNA-binding%20domain | In molecular biology, the CAT RNA-binding domain (Co-AntiTerminator RNA-binding domain) is a protein domain found at the amino terminus of a family of transcriptional antiterminator proteins. This domain forms a dimer in the crystal structure. Transcriptional antiterminators of the BglG/SacY family are regulatory prote... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence%20Nuclear%20Material | Defence Nuclear Material within the UK is defined as:
Nuclear weapons (warheads)
Special Nuclear Materials (SNM)
New and used reactor fuel from Royal Navy submarines.
Nuclear materials |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-legged%20Soldiers | Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War is a nonfiction scientific warfare book written by author and University of Wyoming professor, Jeffrey A. Lockwood. Published in 2008 by Oxford University Press, the book explores the history of bioterrorism, entomological warfare, biological warfare, and the prevent... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CER-11 | CER-11 was a digital military computer, developed at Institute Mihajlo Pupin, located in Serbia, in a period between 1965 and 1966.
Overview
CER-11 was designed by prof.dr Tihomir Aleksic and prof.dr Nedeljko Parezanovic, along with their sci.associates ( M.Momcilovic, D.Hristovic, M.Maric, M.Hruska, P.Vrbavac et al.)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighbour-sensing%20model | The Neighbour-Sensing mathematical model of hyphal growth is a set of interactive computer models that simulate the way fungi hyphae grow in three-dimensional space. The three-dimensional simulation is an experimental tool which can be used to study the morphogenesis of fungal hyphal networks.
The modelling process s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasystem%20transition | A metasystem transition is the emergence, through evolution, of a higher level of organization or control.
A metasystem is formed by the integration of a number of initially independent components, such as molecules (as theorized for instance by hypercycles), cells, or individuals, and the emergence of a system steeri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room%20641A | Room 641A is a telecommunication interception facility operated by AT&T for the U.S. National Security Agency, as part of its warrantless surveillance program as authorized by the Patriot Act. The facility commenced operations in 2003 and its purpose was publicly revealed in 2006.
Description
Room 641A is located in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribonomics | Ribonomics is the study of ribonucleic acids (RNAs) associated with RNA-binding proteins (RBPs). The term was introduced by Robert Cedergren and colleagues who used a bioinformatic search tool to discover novel ribozymes and RNA motifs originally found in HIV.
Ribonomics, like genomics or proteomics, is the large-scale... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclin-dependent%20kinase%209 | Cyclin-dependent kinase 9 or CDK9 is a cyclin-dependent kinase associated with P-TEFb.
Function
The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) family. CDK family members are highly similar to the gene products of S. cerevisiae cdc28, and S. pombe cdc2, and known as important cell c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analysis%20on%20fractals | Analysis on fractals or calculus on fractals is a generalization of calculus on smooth manifolds to calculus on fractals.
The theory describes dynamical phenomena which occur on objects modelled by fractals.
It studies questions such as "how does heat diffuse in a fractal?" and "How does a fractal vibrate?"
In the sm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20working%20model%20of%20attachment | Internal working model of attachment is a psychological approach that attempts to describe the development of mental representations, specifically the worthiness of the self and expectations of others' reactions to the self. This model is a result of interactions with primary caregivers which become internalized, and i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free-air%20concentration%20enrichment | Free-Air Carbon dioxide Enrichment (FACE) is a method used by ecologists and plant biologists that raises the concentration of in a specified area and allows the response of plant growth to be measured. Experiments using FACE are required because most studies looking at the effect of elevated concentrations have been... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpathogenic%20organisms | Nonpathogenic organisms are those that do not cause disease, harm or death to another organism. The term is usually used to describe bacteria. It describes a property of a bacterium – its inability to cause disease. Most bacteria are nonpathogenic. It can describe the presence of non-disease causing bacteria that norma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasegawa%E2%80%93Mima%20equation | In plasma physics, the Hasegawa–Mima equation, named after Akira Hasegawa and Kunioki Mima, is an equation that describes a certain regime of plasma, where the time scales are very fast, and the distance scale in the direction of the magnetic field is long. In particular the equation is useful for describing turbulence... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pultenaea%20sp.%20Genowlan%20Point | {{Automatic taxobox
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}}Pultenaea'' sp. Genowlan Point''' is a critically endangered undescribed species of flowering ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypotenuse | In geometry, a hypotenuse is the longest side of a right-angled triangle, the side opposite the right angle. The length of the hypotenuse can be found using the Pythagorean theorem, which states that the square of the length of the hypotenuse equals the sum of the squares of the lengths of the other two sides. For exam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catoptrics | Catoptrics (from katoptrikós, "specular", from katoptron "mirror") deals with the phenomena of reflected light and image-forming optical systems using mirrors. A catoptric system is also called a catopter (catoptre).
Ancient texts
Catoptrics is the title of two texts from ancient Greece:
The Pseudo-Euclidean Catoptr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%20finger%20protein%20780b | Zinc finger protein 780B is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF780B gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starvation%20response | Starvation response in animals (including humans) is a set of adaptive biochemical and physiological changes, triggered by lack of food or extreme weight loss, in which the body seeks to conserve energy by reducing the amount of food energy it consumes.
Equivalent or closely related terms include famine response, star... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piecewise%20linear%20continuation | Simplicial continuation, or piecewise linear continuation (Allgower and Georg), is a one-parameter continuation method which is well suited to small to medium embedding spaces. The algorithm has been generalized to compute higher-dimensional manifolds by (Allgower and Gnutzman) and (Allgower and Schmidt).
The algorith... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conformal%20prediction | Conformal prediction (CP) is a machine learning framework for uncertainty quantification that can produce prediction regions (prediction intervals) for any underlying point predictor (where statistical, machine or deep learning) only assuming exchangeability of the data. CP works by computing nonconformity scores on pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20Stain%20Commission | The Biological Stain Commission (BSC) is an organization that provides third-party testing and certification of dyes and a few other compounds that are used to enhance contrast in specimens examined in biological and medical laboratories.
The BSC is a century-old organization well known to many thousands of scientists... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trochleitis | Trochleitis is inflammation of the superior oblique tendon trochlea apparatus characterized by localized swelling, tenderness, and severe pain. This condition is an uncommon but treatable cause of periorbital pain. The trochlea is a ring-like apparatus of cartilage through which passes the tendon of the superior obliqu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject%20reduction | In type theory, a type system has the property of subject reduction (also subject evaluation, type preservation or simply preservation) if evaluation of expressions does not cause their type to change. Formally, if ⊢ e1 : τ and e1 → e2 then ⊢ e2 : τ. Intuitively, this means one would not like to write a expression, in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mathematics-based%20methods | This is a list of mathematics-based methods.
Adams' method (differential equations)
Akra–Bazzi method (asymptotic analysis)
Bisection method (root finding)
Brent's method (root finding)
Condorcet method (voting systems)
Coombs' method (voting systems)
Copeland's method (voting systems)
Crank–Nicolson method (numerical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variant%20of%20uncertain%20significance | A variant of uncertain (or unknown) significance (VUS) is a genetic variant that has been identified through genetic testing but whose significance to the function or health of an organism is not known. Two related terms are "gene of uncertain significance" (GUS), which refers to a gene that has been identified through... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NextWave%20Wireless | NextWave Wireless Inc. is a wireless technology company that produces mobile multimedia solutions and speculates in the wireless spectrum market. The company consists principally of various wireless spectrum holdings.
The company is most notable for successfully suing the U.S. government for improperly seizing its as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelch%20motif | The Kelch motif is a region of protein sequence found widely in proteins from bacteria and eukaryotes. This sequence motif is composed of about 50 amino acid residues which form a structure of a four stranded beta-sheet "blade". This sequence motif is found in between five and eight tandem copies per protein which fold... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Telecoms%20Exploitation | Global Telecoms Exploitation is reportedly a secret British telephonic mass surveillance programme run by the British signals intelligence and computer security agency, the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ). Its existence was revealed along with its sister programme, Mastering the Internet, in June 2013 as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Clem | Mary A. Clem (née Mary A. McLaughlin; 19051979) was an American mathematician, and a human computer. She was a staff member at Iowa State University, and was recognized for inventing the “zero check” technique for detecting errors.
Biography
Clem was born on October 19, 1905 in the small town of Nevada, in Story Coun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piriform%20aperture | The piriform aperture, pyriform aperture, or anterior nasal aperture, is a pear-shaped opening in the human skull.
Its long axis is vertical, and narrow end upward; in the recent state it is much contracted by the lateral nasal cartilage and the greater and lesser alar cartilages of the nose.
It is bounded above by th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport%20%28botany%29 | In botany, a sport or bud sport, traditionally called lusus, is a part of a plant that shows morphological differences from the rest of the plant. Sports may differ by foliage shape or color, flowers, fruit, or branch structure. The cause is generally thought to be a chance genetic mutation.
Sports with desirable char... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20plant | Physical plant, mechanical plant or industrial plant (and where context is given, often just plant) refers to the necessary infrastructure used in operation and maintenance of a given facility. The operation of these facilities, or the department of an organization which does so, is called "plant operations" or facilit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feedback%20with%20Carry%20Shift%20Registers | In sequence design, a Feedback with Carry Shift Register (or FCSR) is the arithmetic or with carry analog of a linear-feedback shift register (LFSR). If is an integer, then an N-ary FCSR of length is a finite state device with a state consisting of a vector of elements in and an integer . The state change operat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest%20increasing%20subsequence | In computer science, the longest increasing subsequence problem aims to find a subsequence of a given sequence in which the subsequence's elements are sorted in an ascending order and in which the subsequence is as long as possible. This subsequence is not necessarily contiguous or unique. The longest increasing subseq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooling%20bath | A cooling bath or ice bath, in laboratory chemistry practice, is a liquid mixture which is used to maintain low temperatures, typically between 13 °C and −196 °C. These low temperatures are used to collect liquids after distillation, to remove solvents using a rotary evaporator, or to perform a chemical reaction below... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflex%20bradycardia | Reflex bradycardia is a bradycardia (decrease in heart rate) in response to the baroreceptor reflex, one of the body's homeostatic mechanisms for preventing abnormal increases in blood pressure. In the presence of high mean arterial pressure, the baroreceptor reflex produces a reflex bradycardia as a method of decreasi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico%20Fermi%20Prize | The Enrico Fermi Prize, first awarded in 2001, is given by the Italian Physical Society (Società Italiana di Fisica). It is a yearly award of €30,000 honoring one or more Members of the Society who have "particularly honoured physics with their discoveries."
Recipients
See also
List of physics awards |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amorphous%20carbonia | Amorphous carbonia, also called a-carbonia or a-CO2, is an exotic amorphous solid form of carbon dioxide that is analogous to amorphous silica glass. It was first made in the laboratory in 2006 by subjecting dry ice to high pressures (40-48 gigapascal, or 400,000 to 480,000 atmospheres), in a diamond anvil cell. Amorph... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog%20device | Analog devices are a combination of both analog machine and analog media that can together measure, record, reproduce, receive or broadcast continuous information, for example, the almost infinite number of grades of transparency, voltage, resistance, rotation, or pressure. In theory, the continuous information in an a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photopolymerization-based%20signal%20amplification | Photopolymerization-based signal amplification (PBA) is a method of amplifying detection signals from molecular recognition events in an immunoassay by utilizing a radical polymerization initiated through illumination by light. To contrast between a negative and a positive result, PBA is linked to a colorimetric method... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microphone%20preamplifier | The term microphone preamplifier can either refer to the electronic circuitry within a microphone, or to a separate device or circuit that the microphone is connected to. In either instance, the purpose of the microphone preamplifier is the same.
A microphone preamplifier is a sound engineering device that prepares a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPXE | gPXE is an open-source Preboot eXecution Environment (PXE) client firmware implementation and bootloader derived from Etherboot. It can be used to enable computers without built-in PXE support to boot from the network, or to extend an existing client PXE implementation with support for additional protocols. While stan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRPM6 | TRPM6 is a transient receptor potential ion channel associated with hypomagnesemia with secondary hypocalcemia.
See also
TRPM
Ruthenium red |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circumscriptional%20name | In biological classification, circumscriptional names are taxon names that are not ruled by ICZN and are defined by the particular set of members included. Circumscriptional names are used mainly for taxa above family-group level (e. g. order or class), but can be also used for taxa of any ranks, as well as for rank-le... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priming%20%28immunology%29 | Priming is the first contact that antigen-specific T helper cell precursors have with an antigen. It is essential to the T helper cells' subsequent interaction with B cells to produce antibodies. Priming of antigen-specific naive lymphocytes occurs when antigen is presented to them in immunogenic form (capable of induc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octanol-water%20partition%20coefficient | The n-octanol-water partition coefficient, Kow is a partition coefficient for the two-phase system consisting of n-octanol and water. Kow is also frequently referred to by the symbol P, especially in the English literature. It is also called n-octanol-water partition ratio.
Kow serves as a measure of the relationship... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4x4%20Evo | 4x4 Evo (also re-released as 4x4 Evolution) is a video game developed by Terminal Reality for the Windows, Macintosh, Sega Dreamcast, and PlayStation 2 platforms. It is one of the first console games to have cross-platform online play where Dreamcast, Macintosh, and Windows versions of the game appear online at the sam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yupana | A yupana (from Quechua: yupay 'count') is a counting board used to perform arithmetic operations, dating back to the time of the Incas. Very little documentation exists concerning its precise physical form or how it was used.
Types
The term yupana refers to two distinct classes of objects:
Table Yupana (or archaeol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuzick%E2%80%93Edwards%20test | In statistics, the Cuzick–Edwards test is a significance test whose aim is to detect the possible clustering of sub-populations within a clustered or non-uniformly-spread overall population. Possible applications of the test include examining the spatial clustering of childhood leukemia and lymphoma within the general ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presenilin | Presenilins are a family of related multi-pass transmembrane proteins which constitute the catalytic subunits of the gamma-secretase intramembrane protease protein complex. They were first identified in screens for mutations causing early onset forms of familial Alzheimer's disease by Peter St George-Hyslop. Vertebrate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access%20network%20discovery%20and%20selection%20function | Access network discovery and selection function (ANDSF) is an entity within an evolved packet core (EPC) of the system architecture evolution (SAE) for 3GPP compliant mobile networks. The purpose of the ANDSF is to assist user equipment (UE) to discover non-3GPP access networks – such as Wi-Fi or WIMAX – that can be us... |
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