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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il%20neige%20sur%20Li%C3%A8ge | Il Neige sur Liège (It snows on Liège) is a 1963 song written and performed by Jacques Brel.
Lyrics
The melancholic song describes how snow is falling on Liège, while the protagonist in the song observes the effect the weather has on the people in the city, "while the Meuse river pierces through the city." As the sno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNA%20Technology%20Investments%20Holdings | HNA Technology Investments Holdings Limited formerly known as Advanced Card Systems Holdings Limited is a Cayman Islands-incorporated offshore holding company. Its subsidiary, Advanced Card Systems Limited, was incorporated in British Hong Kong in 1995 by Denny Wong. In 2017, HNA Group, via HNA EcoTech Group and HNA Ec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astron%20Belt | Astron Belt (アストロンベルト) is a LaserDisc video game in the form of a third-person, space combat rail shooter, released in arcades in 1983 by Sega in Japan, and licensed to Bally Midway for release in North America. Developed in 1982, it was the first major arcade laserdisc video game. The game combines full-motion video (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posetal%20category | In mathematics, specifically category theory, a posetal category, or thin category, is a category whose homsets each contain at most one morphism. As such, a posetal category amounts to a preordered class (or a preordered set, if its objects form a set). As suggested by the name, the further requirement that the catego... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupiennin | Cupiennins are a group of small cytolytic peptides from the venom of the wandering spider Cupiennius salei. They are known to have high bactericidal, insecticidal and haemolytic activities. They are chemically cationic α-helical peptides. They were isolated and identified in 2002 as a family of peptides called cupienni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UN%20number | A UN number (United Nations number) is a four-digit number that identifies hazardous materials, and articles (such as explosives, flammable liquids, oxidizers, toxic liquids, etc.) in the framework of international trade and transport. Some hazardous substances have their own UN numbers (e.g. acrylamide has UN 2074), w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AS-Interface | Actuator Sensor Interface (AS-Interface or ASi) is an industrial networking solution (physical layer, data access method and protocol) used in PLC, DCS and PC-based automation systems. It is designed for connecting simple field I/O devices (e.g. binary ON/OFF devices such as actuators, sensors, rotary encoders, analog ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viral%20matrix%20protein | Viral matrix proteins are structural proteins linking the viral envelope with the virus core. They play a crucial role in virus assembly, and interact with the RNP complex as well as with the viral membrane. They are found in many enveloped viruses including paramyxoviruses, orthomyxoviruses, herpesviruses, retroviruse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackshaft%20%28locomotive%29 | A jackshaft is an intermediate shaft used to transfer power from a powered shaft such as the output shaft of an engine or motor to driven shafts such as the drive axles of a locomotive. As applied to railroad locomotives in the 19th and 20th centuries, jackshafts were typically in line with the drive axles of locomoti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasmidome | An environment's plasmidome refers to the plasmids present in it.
The term is a portmanteau of the two English words Plasmid and Kingdom.
In biological research, plasmidome may refer to the actual plasmids that were found and isolated from a certain microorganism by means of culturing isolated microorganism and investi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anemophily | Anemophily or wind pollination is a form of pollination whereby pollen is distributed by wind. Almost all gymnosperms are anemophilous, as are many plants in the order Poales, including grasses, sedges, and rushes. Other common anemophilous plants are oaks, pecans, pistachios, sweet chestnuts, alders and members of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20coefficient | A physical coefficient is an important number that characterizes some physical property of a technical or scientific object. A coefficient also has a scientific reference which is the reliance on force.
Stoichiometric coefficient of a chemical compound
To find the coefficient of a chemical compound, you must balanc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%20Reactor | The B Reactor at the Hanford Site, near Richland, Washington, was the first large-scale nuclear reactor ever built. The project was a key part of the Manhattan Project, the United States nuclear weapons development program during World War II. Its purpose was to convert natural (not isotopically enriched) uranium metal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative%20viscosity | Relative viscosity () (a synonym of "viscosity ratio") is the ratio of the viscosity of a solution () to the viscosity of the solvent used (),
.
The significance in Relative viscosity is that it can be analyzed the effect a polymer can have on a solution's viscosity such as increasing the solutions viscosity.
Lead Liq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-corps | An avant-corps ( or , plural , , ), a French term literally meaning "fore-body", is a part of a building, such as a porch or pavilion, that juts out from the corps de logis, often taller than other parts of the building. It is common in façades in French Baroque architecture.
Particularly in German architecture, a cor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic%20motion | In geometry, hyperbolic motions are isometric automorphisms of a hyperbolic space. Under composition of mappings, the hyperbolic motions form a continuous group. This group is said to characterize the hyperbolic space. Such an approach to geometry was cultivated by Felix Klein in his Erlangen program. The idea of reduc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%20recursion | In the formal language theory of computer science, left recursion is a special case of recursion where a string is recognized as part of a language by the fact that it decomposes into a string from that same language (on the left) and a suffix (on the right). For instance, can be recognized as a sum because it can be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknotting%20problem | In mathematics, the unknotting problem is the problem of algorithmically recognizing the unknot, given some representation of a knot, e.g., a knot diagram. There are several types of unknotting algorithms. A major unresolved challenge is to determine if the problem admits a polynomial time algorithm; that is, whether ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characteristic%20state%20function | The characteristic state function or Massieu's potential in statistical mechanics refers to a particular relationship between the partition function of an ensemble.
In particular, if the partition function P satisfies
or
in which Q is a thermodynamic quantity, then Q is known as the "characteristic state function"... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeast%20assimilable%20nitrogen | Yeast assimilable nitrogen or YAN is the combination of free amino nitrogen (FAN), ammonia (NH3) and ammonium (NH4+) that is available for a yeast, e.g. the wine yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, to use during fermentation. Outside of the fermentable sugars glucose and fructose, nitrogen is the most important nutrient ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geobacter%20bremensis | Geobacter bremensis is a gram-negative, metal-reducing species of bacteria. Isolates of this species were initially discovered in samples of mud from ditches in Bremen, Germany. Isolates of the related species Geobacter pelophilus were found in the same source.
Isolates of G. bremensis have been tested for their use i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/41%20%28number%29 | 41 (forty-one) is the natural number following 40 and preceding 42.
In mathematics
the 13th smallest prime number. The next is 43, making both twin primes.
the sum of the first six prime numbers (2 + 3 + 5 + 7 + 11 + 13).
the 12th supersingular prime
a Newman–Shanks–Williams prime.
the smallest Sophie Germain pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nate%20Ackerman | Nathanael Leedom Ackerman (born March 4, 1978), known as Nate Ackerman, is a British-American mathematician and wrestler. He is the son of Peter Ackerman and Joanne Leedom-Ackerman.
Ackerman competed in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games as part of the Great Britain National Team. He also competed in the 1999, 2001, 2002, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocoding | Autocoding refers to software solutions that help manufacturers, particularly those in the food industry, ensure that products have the correct packaging and correct 'sell by' date codes, thereby reducing the number of Emergency Product Withdrawals (EPW). The term was first used during an initiative between Geest PLC (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20genetic%20engineering%20software | This article provides a list of genetic engineering software.
Cloud-based freemium software
Varstation NGS variants processing and analysis tool
BaseSpace Variant Interpreter by Illumina
Closed-source software
BlueTractorSoftware DNADynamo
Agilent Technologies RFLP Decoder Software, Fish Species
Applied Biosyste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex%20allocation | Sex allocation is the allocation of resources to male versus female reproduction in sexual species. Sex allocation theory tries to explain why many species produce equal number of males and females.
In dioecious species, where individuals are either male or female for their entire lifetimes, the allocation decision li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitively%20Guided%20Instruction | Cognitively Guided Instruction is "a professional development program based on an integrated program of research on (a) the development of students' mathematical thinking; (b) instruction that influences that development; (c) teachers' knowledge and beliefs that influence their instructional practice; and (d) the way t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinotti%20cell | Martinotti cells are small multipolar neurons with short branching dendrites. They are scattered throughout various layers of the cerebral cortex, sending their axons up to the cortical layer I where they form axonal arborization. The arbors transgress multiple columns in layer VI and make contacts with the distal tuf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low%20Pin%20Count | The Low Pin Count (LPC) bus is a computer bus used on IBM-compatible personal computers to connect low-bandwidth devices to the CPU, such as the BIOS ROM (BIOS ROM was moved to the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) bus in 2006), "legacy" I/O devices (integrated into Super I/O, Embedded Controller, CPLD, and/or IPMI chi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/118th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 118° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
118°W is the Sixth Meridian of the Dominion Land Survey in Canada.
The 118th meridian west forms a great circle w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/359%20%28number%29 | 359 (three hundred [and] fifty-nine) is the natural number following 358 and preceding 360. 359 is the 72nd prime number.
In mathematics
359 is a Sophie Germain prime: (also a Sophie Germain prime).
It is also a safe prime, because subtracting 1 and halving it gives another prime number (179, itself also safe).
Si... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton%20Davidoglu | Anton Davidoglu (June 30, 1876–May 27, 1958) was a Romanian mathematician who specialized in differential equations.
He was born in 1876 in Bârlad, Vaslui County, the son of Profira Moțoc and Doctor Cleante Davidoglu. His older brother was General Cleante Davidoglu.
He studied under Jacques Hadamard at the École No... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homewrecker | A homewrecker (sometimes styled as home wrecker or home-wrecker) is a person, object or activity that causes or comes close to causing the breakup of a marriage (or similar partnership). The homewrecker is said to have taken one of the spouses away from the marriage, thus "wrecking" the marital home.
Most commonly, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20mean%20theorem | In Euclidean geometry, the right triangle altitude theorem or geometric mean theorem is a relation between the altitude on the hypotenuse in a right triangle and the two line segments it creates on the hypotenuse. It states that the geometric mean of the two segments equals the altitude.
Theorem and applications
If ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructive%20set%20theory | Axiomatic constructive set theory is an approach to mathematical constructivism following the program of axiomatic set theory.
The same first-order language with "" and "" of classical set theory is usually used, so this is not to be confused with a constructive types approach.
On the other hand, some constructive theo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skopje%20Statistical%20Region | The Skopje Statistical Region (; Albanian: Rajoni i Shkupit) is one of eight Statistical regions of North Macedonia. Skopje, located in the north of the country, borders Kosovo to the north. Internally, it borders the Vardar, Polog, Northeastern, Eastern, and Southwestern statistical regions.
Municipalities
The regio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenia%20Cheng | Eugenia Loh-Gene Cheng is a British mathematician, educator and concert pianist. Her mathematical interests include higher category theory, and as a pianist she specialises in lieder and art song. She is also known for explaining mathematics to non-mathematicians to combat math phobia, often using analogies with food a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20lattice%20%28accelerator%29 | In accelerator physics, a magnetic lattice is a composition of electromagnets at given longitudinal positions around the vacuum tube of a particle accelerator, and thus along the path of the enclosed charged particle beam. The lattice properties have a large influence on the properties of the particle beam, which is sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Professional%20Association | Established in 1991, the non-profit Network Professional Association (NPA) is a professional association for computer network professionals.
The NPA offers a Certified Network Professional CNP credential and provides advocacy for workers in the field. Members receive a certificate of membership, quarterly journal publ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taleranol | Taleranol (INN, USAN) (developmental code name P-1560), or teranol, also known as β-zearalanol, is a synthetic, nonsteroidal estrogen of the resorcylic acid lactone group related to mycoestrogens found in Fusarium spp which was never marketed. It is the β epimer of zeranol (α-zearalanol) and is a major metabolite of ze... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet%20letter%20%28COVID-19%29 | The Lancet letter (also referred to as Calisher et al. 2020) was a statement made in support of scientists and medical professionals in China fighting the outbreak of COVID-19, and condemning theories suggesting that the virus does not have a natural origin, which it referred to as "conspiracy theories". The letter was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spatial%20Archive%20and%20Interchange%20Format | The Spatial Archive and Interchange Format (SAIF, pronounced safe) was defined in the early 1990s as a self-describing, extensible format designed to support interoperability and storage of geospatial data.
SAIF dataset
SAIF has two major components that together define SAIFtalk. The first is the Class Syntax Notation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic%20probe | In process calculus a stochastic probe is a measurement device that measures the time between arbitrary start and end events over a stochastic process algebra model. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regularization%20%28physics%29 | In physics, especially quantum field theory, regularization is a method of modifying observables which have singularities in order to make them finite by the introduction of a suitable parameter called the regulator. The regulator, also known as a "cutoff", models our lack of knowledge about physics at unobserved sc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redfield%20ratio | The Redfield ratio or Redfield stoichiometry is the consistent atomic ratio of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus found in marine phytoplankton and throughout the deep oceans.
The term is named for American oceanographer Alfred C. Redfield who in 1934 first described the relatively consistent ratio of nutrients in marine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qiskit | Qiskit is an open-source software development kit (SDK) for working with quantum computers at the level of circuits, pulses, and algorithms. It provides tools for creating and manipulating quantum programs and running them on prototype quantum devices on IBM Quantum Platform or on simulators on a local computer. It fol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LHC%40home | LHC@home is a volunteer computing project researching particle physics that uses the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform. The project's computing power is utilized by physicists at CERN in support of the Large Hadron Collider and other experimental particle accelerators.
The project is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete%20market | In economics, a complete market (aka Arrow-Debreu market or complete system of markets) is a market with two conditions:
Negligible transaction costs and therefore also perfect information,
Every asset in every possible state of the world has a price.
In such a market, the complete set of possible bets on future st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moishezon%20manifold | In mathematics, a Moishezon manifold is a compact complex manifold such that the field of meromorphic functions on each component has transcendence degree equal the complex dimension of the component:
Complex algebraic varieties have this property, but the converse is not true: Hironaka's example gives a smooth 3-di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topographic%20Rossby%20waves | Topographic Rossby waves are geophysical waves that form due to bottom irregularities. For ocean dynamics, the bottom irregularities are on the ocean floor such as the mid-ocean ridge. For atmospheric dynamics, the other primary branch of geophysical fluid dynamics, the bottom irregularities are found on land, for exam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HZE%20ion | HZE ions are the high-energy nuclei component of galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) which have an electric charge of +3 or greater – that is, they must be the nuclei of elements heavier than hydrogen or helium.
The abbreviation "HZE" comes from high (H) atomic number (Z) and energy (E). HZE ions include the nuclei of all el... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parabidiminished%20rhombicosidodecahedron | In geometry, the parabidiminished rhombicosidodecahedron is one of the Johnson solids (). It is also a canonical polyhedron.
It can be constructed as a rhombicosidodecahedron with two opposing pentagonal cupolae removed. Related Johnson solids are the diminished rhombicosidodecahedron () where one cupola is removed, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%9CV%20Nord | TÜV Nord Group is a technical service provider with worldwide activities. Founded in 1869 and headquartered in Hanover, Germany, the Group employs more than 10,000 people in more than 70 countries of Europe, Asia, America and Africa. The Group is divided into the following operative brands and business units:
TÜV Nor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajeput%20tree | Cajeput tree is a common name used for certain classification of tree that has a white spongy bark that is flexible and can easily flake off the trunk. The Cajeput tree is of the genus Melaleuca, native to Australia and is commonly known in North America as the tea tree. The name "Cajeput tree" is primarily used for th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membranous%20urethra | The membranous urethra or intermediate part of male urethra is the shortest, least dilatable, and, with the exception of the urinary meatus, the narrowest part of the urethra.
It extends downward and forward, with a slight anterior concavity, between the apex of the prostate and the bulb of the urethra, perforating t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascending%20branch%20of%20medial%20circumflex%20femoral%20artery | The ascending branch of medial circumflex femoral artery is a small artery in the thigh. It branches of the medial circumflex femoral artery and is distributed to the adductor muscles of the hip. It anastomoses with the obturator artery.
It also serves as an important blood supply to the head of the femur. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiwavelength%20optical%20networking | Multiwavelength optical networking (MONET), is a method for communicating digital information using lasers over optical fiber. The method provides the next level of communication networks after SONET optical networks. MONET optical networks provide an even greater bandwidth capacity. This new method employs wavelength... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intragenomic%20and%20intrauterine%20conflict%20in%20humans | Intragenomic and intrauterine conflicts in humans arise between mothers and their offspring. Parental investment theory states that parents and their offspring will often be in conflict over the optimal amount of investment that the parent should provide. This is because the best interests of the parent do not always m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennales | The order Pennales is a traditional subdivision of the heterokont algae known as diatoms. The order is named for the shape of the cell walls (or valves or frustules) of pennate diatoms, which are elongated in valve view. The valves may be linear or oval in shape, and usually bear bilaterally symmetrical ornamental pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimascovirales | Pimascovirales is an order of viruses. The term is a portmanteau of a portmanteau of pitho-, irido-, marseille-, and ascoviruses.
Families
The following families are recognized:
Ascoviridae
Iridoviridae
Marseilleviridae |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretschneider%27s%20formula | In geometry, Bretschneider's formula is a mathematical expression for the area of a general quadrilateral.
It works on both convex and concave quadrilaterals (but not crossed ones), whether it is cyclic or not.
History
The German mathematician Carl Anton Bretschneider discovered the formula in 1842. The formula was al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riffle%20shuffle%20permutation | In the mathematics of permutations and the study of shuffling playing cards, a riffle shuffle permutation is one of the permutations of a set of items that can be obtained by a single riffle shuffle, in which a sorted deck of cards is cut into two packets and then the two packets are interleaved (e.g. by moving cards... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyapunov%20stability | Various types of stability may be discussed for the solutions of differential equations or difference equations describing dynamical systems. The most important type is that concerning the stability of solutions near to a point of equilibrium. This may be discussed by the theory of Aleksandr Lyapunov. In simple terms, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferon-induced%20transmembrane%20protein%202 | Interferon-induced transmembrane protein 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the IFITM2 gene. IFITM1 is a member of the IFITM family (Interferon-induced transmembrane protein) which is encoded by IFITM genes.
As the name implies, these genes are induced by interferon and form part of its signaling pathway. In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigoda | In Jainism cosmology, the Nigoda is a realm existing in which the lowest forms of invisible life reside in endless numbers, and without any hope of release by self-effort. Jain scriptures describe nigodas which are microorganisms living in large clusters, having only one sense, having a very short life and are said to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinca%20alkaloid | Vinca alkaloids are a set of anti-mitotic and anti-microtubule alkaloid agents originally derived from the periwinkle plant Catharanthus roseus (basionym Vinca rosea) and other vinca plants. They block beta-tubulin polymerization in a dividing cell.
Sources
The Madagascan periwinkle Catharanthus roseus L. is the sour... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life%20Quality%20Index | The Life Quality Index (LQI) is a calibrated compound social indicator of human welfare that reflects the expected length of life in good health and enhancement of the quality of life through access to income. The Life Quality Index combines two primary social indicators: the expectancy of healthy life at birth, E, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Short%20History%20of%20Medicine | A Short History of Medicine is a book by Charles Singer, published in 1928 by Oxford University Press. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoning%20home | In computing, phoning home is a term often used to refer to the behavior of security systems that report network location, username, or other such data to another computer.
Phoning home may be useful for the proprietor in tracking a missing or stolen computer. In this way, it is frequently performed by mobile computer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Aleph%20%28short%20story%29 | "The Aleph" (original Spanish title: "El Aleph") is a short story by the Argentine writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges. First published in September 1945, it was reprinted in the short story collection, The Aleph and Other Stories, in 1949, and revised by the author in 1974.
Plot summary
In Borges' story, the Aleph i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetCentrics | NetCentrics Corporation, based in Herndon, Virginia, is a contractor to the US federal government, Department of Homeland Security and Federal Civilian Agencies. NetCentrics provides enterprise IT, cloud and cybersecurity services to government and private industry.
Company headquarters are located inside the Dulles T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball%20flower | The ball-flower (also written ballflower) is an architectural ornament in the form of a ball inserted in the cup of a flower. It came into use in the latter part of the 13th century in England and became one of the chief ornaments of the 14th century, in the period known as Decorated Gothic.
Ball-flowers were generall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real%20analytic%20Eisenstein%20series | In mathematics, the simplest real analytic Eisenstein series is a special function of two variables. It is used in the representation theory of SL(2,R) and in analytic number theory. It is closely related to the Epstein zeta function.
There are many generalizations associated to more complicated groups.
Definition
Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angles%20between%20flats | The concept of angles between lines (in the plane or in space), between two planes (dihedral angle) or between a line and a plane can be generalized to arbitrary dimensions. This generalization was first discussed by Camille Jordan. For any pair of flats in a Euclidean space of arbitrary dimension one can define a set ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20security | In cryptography, a semantically secure cryptosystem is one where only negligible information about the plaintext can be feasibly extracted from the ciphertext. Specifically, any probabilistic, polynomial-time algorithm (PPTA) that is given the ciphertext of a certain message (taken from any distribution of messages), ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduation%20%28scale%29 | A graduation is a marking used to indicate points on a visual scale, which can be present on a container, a measuring device, or the axes of a line plot, usually one of many along a line or curve, each in the form of short line segments perpendicular to the line or curve. Often, some of these line segments are longer a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvis%E2%80%93Curtis%20duality | In mathematics, the Alvis–Curtis duality is a duality operation on the characters of a reductive group over a finite field, introduced by and studied by his student . introduced a similar duality operation for Lie algebras.
Alvis–Curtis duality has order 2 and is an isometry on generalized characters.
discusses Al... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20South%20African%20flags | This article lists the flags of the various colonies and states that have existed in South Africa since 1652, as well as other flags pertaining to South Africa, including governmental, military, police and provincial flags.
Overview
The following flags have been used as the national flag of the Union of South Africa ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-order | A pre-order is an order placed for an item that has not yet been released. The idea for pre-orders came because people found it hard to get popular items in stores because of their popularity. Companies then had the idea to allow customers to reserve their own personal copy before its release, which has been a huge suc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CaSNP | CaSNP is database for storing data about copy number alterations from SNP arrays for different types of cancer. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%20factor%20in%20non-humans | The g factor, or general factor, of intelligence is a psychometric construct that summarizes observed correlations between an individual’s scores on various measures of cognitive abilities. First described in humans, a g factor has since been identified in a number of non-human species.
Non-human models of g have been... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin%20E | Vitamin E is a group of eight fat soluble compounds that include four tocopherols and four tocotrienols. Vitamin E deficiency, which is rare and usually due to an underlying problem with digesting dietary fat rather than from a diet low in vitamin E, can cause nerve problems. Vitamin E is a fat-soluble antioxidant whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ought%20implies%20can | "Ought implies can" is an ethical formula ascribed to Immanuel Kant that claims an agent, if morally obliged to perform a certain action, must logically be able to perform it:
Kant believed this principle was a categorical freedom, bound only by the free will as opposed to the Humean hypothetical freedom ("Free to do... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Johnson%20%28special%20effects%20artist%29 | Brian Johnson (born 29 June 1939 or 29 June 1940) is a British designer and director of film and television special effects.
Life and career
Born Brian Johncock, he changed his surname to Johnson during the 1960s. Joining the team of special effects artist Les Bowie, Johnson started his career behind the scenes for Bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20Windows%20Vista | Windows Vista, an operating system released by Microsoft for consumers on January 30, 2007, has been widely criticized by reviewers and users. Due to issues with new security features, performance, driver support and product activation, Windows Vista has been the subject of a number of negative assessments by various g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table%20of%20standard%20reduction%20potentials%20for%20half-reactions%20important%20in%20biochemistry | The values below are standard apparent reduction potentials for electro-biochemical half-reactions measured at 25 °C, 1 atmosphere and a pH of 7 in aqueous solution.
The actual physiological potential depends on the ratio of the reduced () and oxidized () forms according to the Nernst equation and the thermal voltage... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNF%20inhibitor | A TNF inhibitor is a pharmaceutical drug that suppresses the physiologic response to tumor necrosis factor (TNF), which is part of the inflammatory response. TNF is involved in autoimmune and immune-mediated disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, inflammatory bowel disease, psoriasis, hidradeni... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stationary%20spacetime | In general relativity, specifically in the Einstein field equations, a spacetime is said to be stationary if it admits a Killing vector that is asymptotically timelike.
Description and analysis
In a stationary spacetime, the metric tensor components, , may be chosen so that they are all independent of the time coordi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHOC1 | Shortage In Chiasmata 1, also known as SHOC1, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SHOC1 gene.
Gene
The chromosomal locus of SHOC1 is 9q31.3, which it shares with at least 115 other protein encoding genes, and it is located on the negative strand. In humans it contains 34 exons, and it is 108,834 base pairs ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borax | Borax (also referred to as sodium borate, tincal () and tincar ()) is a salt (ionic compound), a hydrated or anhydrous borate of sodium, with the chemical formula . It is a colorless crystalline solid that dissolves in water to make a basic solution.
It is commonly available in powder or granular form and has many ind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedebo%20embroidery | The term Hedebo embroidery covers several forms of white embroidery which originated in the Hedebo (heathland) region of Zealand, Denmark, in the 1760s. The varied techniques which evolved over the next hundred years in the farming community were subsequently developed by the middle classes until around 1820. They were... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20copy | Before the development of photographic copiers, a carbon copy was the under-copy of a typed or written document placed over carbon paper and the under-copy sheet itself (not to be confused with the carbon print family of photographic reproduction processes). When copies of business letters were so produced, it was cust... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viltolarsen | Viltolarsen, sold under the brand name Viltepso, is a medication used for the treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). Viltolarsen is a Morpholino antisense oligonucleotide.
The most common side effects include upper respiratory tract infection, injection site reaction, cough, and pyrexia (fever).
Viltolarsen ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennessee%20Soybean%20Festival | The Tennessee Soybean Festival in Martin, Tennessee is one of several local festivals which occur each year throughout the state. Beginning the first week of September, the festival celebrates the historical impact of the soybean crop on the economics of West Tennessee and specifically the City of Martin and Weakley Co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittaria%20fasciculata | Sagittaria fasciculata, the bunched arrowhead (also known as duck potato, Indian potato, or wapato) is a plant found in wetlands. This plant produces edible tubers that were heavily collected by the Native Americans as a food source.
STATUS: Endangered, Federal Register, July 25, 1979
Description
Sagittaria fasciculat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resting%20spore | A resting spore is a resistant cell, used to survive adverse environmental conditions. Resting spore is a term commonly applied to both diatoms and fungi.
In fungi
A resting spore can be a spore created by fungi which is thickly encysted (has a thick cell wall) in order to survive through stressful times, such as dro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEVENDIP | SEVENDIP, which stands for Search for Extraterrestrial Visible Emissions from Nearby Developed Intelligent Populations, was a project developed by the Berkeley SETI Research Center at the University of California, Berkeley that used visible wavelengths to search for extraterrestrial life's intelligent signals from out... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquim%20de%20Sousa%20Andrade | Joaquim de Sousa Andrade, better known by his pseudonym Sousândrade (July 9, 1833 – April 20, 1902), was a Brazilian poet, adept of the "Condorist" movement. His poetry, exceedingly innovative for the time it was published, is now considered an early example of Symbolism and Modernism in Brazil.
He also designed the f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire%20drawing | Wire drawing is a metalworking process used to reduce the cross-section of a wire by pulling the wire through a single, or series of, drawing die(s). There are many applications for wire drawing, including electrical wiring, cables, tension-loaded structural components, springs, paper clips, spokes for wheels, and str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katapayadi%20system | Kaṭapayādi system (Devanagari: कटपयादि, also known as Paralppēru, Malayalam: പരല്പ്പേര്) of numerical notation is an ancient Indian alphasyllabic numeral system to depict letters to numerals for easy remembrance of numbers as words or verses. Assigning more than one letter to one numeral and nullifying certain other l... |
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