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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trabeculae%20of%20corpora%20cavernosa%20of%20penis | From the internal surface of the fibrous envelope of the corpora cavernosa penis, as well as from the sides of the septum, numerous bands or cords are given off, which cross the interior of these corpora cavernosa in all directions, subdividing them into a number of separate compartments, and giving the entire structur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean%20Favard | Jean Favard (28 August 190221 January 1965) was a French mathematician who worked on analysis.
Favard was born in Peyrat-la-Nonière. During World War II he was a prisoner of war in Germany.
He also was a President of the French Mathematical Society in 1946. He died in La Tronche, aged 62.
See also
Favard measure ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20reduction | Phase reduction is a method used to reduce a multi-dimensional dynamical equation describing a nonlinear limit cycle oscillator into a one-dimensional phase equation. Many phenomena in our world such as chemical reactions, electric circuits, mechanical vibrations, cardiac cells, and spiking neurons are examples of rhyt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/100%20new%20shekel%20banknote | The one hundred new shekel note (₪100) is a banknote of the Israeli new shekel, It was first issued in Series A 1986, with the Series B in 1999 and Series C in 2017.
Design
Security features (New Shekel Series C)
LOOK at the banknote
The transparent portrait: A watermark image of the portrait, identical to the por... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advances%20in%20Geometry | Advances in Geometry is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal published quarterly by Walter de Gruyter.
Founded in 2001, the journal publishes articles on geometry.
The journal is indexed by Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt MATH.
Its 2016 MCQ was 0.45, and its 2021 impact factor was 0.763. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoenzyme | Pseudoenzymes are variants of enzymes (usually proteins) that are catalytically-deficient (usually inactive), meaning that they perform little or no enzyme catalysis. They are believed to be represented in all major enzyme families in the kingdoms of life, where they have important signaling and metabolic functions, m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FloraBase | FloraBase is a public access web-based database of the flora of Western Australia. It provides authoritative scientific information on 12,978 taxa, including descriptions, maps, images, conservation status and nomenclatural details. 1,272 alien taxa (naturalised weeds) are also recorded.
The system takes data from da... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20of%20structure | In mathematics, particularly in universal algebra and category theory, transport of structure refers to the process whereby a mathematical object acquires a new structure and its canonical definitions, as a result of being isomorphic to (or otherwise identified with) another object with a pre-existing structure. Defini... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudline | The baudline time-frequency browser is a signal analysis tool designed for scientific visualization. It runs on several Unix-like operating systems under the X Window System. Baudline is useful for real-time spectral monitoring, collected signals analysis, generating test signals, making distortion measurements, and pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20F.%20Moore | Edward Forrest Moore (November 23, 1925 in Baltimore, Maryland – June 14, 2003 in Madison, Wisconsin) was an American professor of mathematics and computer science, the inventor of the Moore finite state machine, and an early pioneer of artificial life.
Biography
Moore received a B.S. in chemistry from the Virginia Po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20ribbon | The white ribbon is an awareness ribbon sometimes used by political movements to signify or spread their beliefs. It is usually worn on garments or represented in information sources such as posters, leaflets, etc.
The White Ribbon has been the badge of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union founded by Frances Willard... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glacial%20refugium | A glacial refugium (plural refugia) is a geographic region which made possible the survival of flora and fauna during ice ages and allowed for post-glacial re-colonization. Different types of glacial refugia can be distinguished, namely nunatak, peripheral, and lowland. Glacial refugia have been suggested as a major ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CNS%20demyelinating%20autoimmune%20diseases | CNS demyelinating autoimmune diseases are autoimmune diseases which primarily affect the central nervous system.
Types
Examples include:
Diffuse cerebral sclerosis of Schilder
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis
Acute hemorrhagic leukoencephalitis
Multiple sclerosis (though the cause is unknown, it is sure that i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polite%20number | In number theory, a polite number is a positive integer that can be written as the sum of two or more consecutive positive integers. A positive integer which is not polite is called impolite. The impolite numbers are exactly the powers of two, and the polite numbers are the natural numbers that are not powers of two.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFU-Meg | CFU-Meg is a colony forming unit.
Haematopoiesis in the bone marrow starts off from a haematopoietic stem cell (HSC) and this can differentiate into the myeloid and lymphoid cell lineages. In order to eventually produce a megakaryocyte, the haematopoietic stem cell must generate myeloid cells, so it becomes a common my... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst%20equation | In mathematics, the Ernst equation is an integrable non-linear partial differential equation, named after the American physicist .
The Ernst equation
The equation reads:
For its Lax pair and other features see e.g. and references therein.
Usage
The Ernst equation is employed in order to produce the exact solutions... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampelography | Ampelography (ἄμπελος, "vine" + γράφος, "writing") is the field of botany concerned with the identification and classification of grapevines, Vitis spp. Traditionally this has been done by comparing the shape and colour of the vine leaves and grape berries; more recently the study of vines has been revolutionised by DN... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivalent%20weight | In chemistry, equivalent weight (also known as gram equivalent or equivalent mass) is the mass of one equivalent, that is the mass of a given substance which will combine with or displace a fixed quantity of another substance. The equivalent weight of an element is the mass which combines with or displaces 1.008 gram ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cercopithecine%20alphaherpesvirus%202 | Cercopithecine alphaherpesvirus 2 (CeHV-2) is a species of virus in the genus Simplexvirus, subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Morgan%27s%20laws | In propositional logic and Boolean algebra, De Morgan's laws, also known as De Morgan's theorem, are a pair of transformation rules that are both valid rules of inference. They are named after Augustus De Morgan, a 19th-century British mathematician. The rules allow the expression of conjunctions and disjunctions purel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Host%20card%20emulation | Host card emulation (HCE) is the software architecture that provides exact virtual representation of various electronic identity (access, transit and banking) cards using only software. Prior to the HCE architecture, near field communication (NFC) transactions were mainly carried out using hardware-based secure element... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source%20Code%20Control%20System | Source Code Control System (SCCS) is a version control system designed to track changes in source code and other text files during the development of a piece of software. This allows the user to retrieve any of the previous versions of the original source code and the changes which are stored. It was originally develop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fungi%20in%20art | Fungi are a common theme or working material in art. They appear in many different artworks around the world, starting as early as around 8000 BCE. Fungi appear in nearly all art forms, including literature, paintings, and graphic arts; and more recently, contemporary art, music, photography, comic books, sculptures, v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bondi%20accretion | In astrophysics, the Bondi accretion (also called Bondi–Hoyle–Lyttleton accretion), named after Hermann Bondi, is spherical accretion onto a compact object traveling through the interstellar medium. It is generally used in the context of neutron star and black hole accretion. To achieve an approximate form of the Bondi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20boundedness | In mathematics, a uniformly bounded family of functions is a family of bounded functions that can all be bounded by the same constant. This constant is larger than or equal to the absolute value of any value of any of the functions in the family.
Definition
Real line and complex plane
Let
be a family of function... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20Philip%20Sidney%20game | In biology and game theory, the Sir Philip Sidney game is used as a model for the evolution and maintenance of informative communication between relatives. Developed by John Maynard Smith as a model for chick begging behavior, it has been studied extensively including the development of many modified versions.
It was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree%20%28graph%20theory%29 | In graph theory, the degree (or valency) of a vertex of a graph is the number of edges that are incident to the vertex; in a multigraph, a loop contributes 2 to a vertex's degree, for the two ends of the edge. The degree of a vertex is denoted or . The maximum degree of a graph , denoted by , and the minimum degree o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncoupling%20protein | An uncoupling protein (UCP) is a mitochondrial inner membrane protein that is a regulated proton channel or transporter. An uncoupling protein is thus capable of dissipating the proton gradient generated by NADH-powered pumping of protons from the mitochondrial matrix to the mitochondrial intermembrane space. The energ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eoxin%20E4 | Eoxin E4, also known as 14,15-leukotriene E4, is an eoxin. Cells make eoxins by metabolizing arachidonic acid with a 15-lipoxygenase enzyme to form 15(S)-hydroperoxyeicosapentaenoic acid (i.e. 15(S)-HpETE). This product is then converted serially to eoxin A4 (i.e. EXA4), EXC4, EXD4, and EXE4 by LTC4 synthase, an uniden... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20software%20using%20Electron | This is a list of application software written using the Electron software framework to provide the graphical user interface.
List |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liver%20spread | Liver spread is a Filipino canned spread product made from pureed pork, beef, or chicken liver mixed with cereal and/or offal similar to the French pâté and German liverwurst. Liver spread is usually eaten as a filling for sandwich bread and an accompaniment to crackers but it is also used as an ingredient in dishes li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity%20class | In computational complexity theory, a complexity class is a set of computational problems "of related resource-based complexity". The two most commonly analyzed resources are time and memory.
In general, a complexity class is defined in terms of a type of computational problem, a model of computation, and a bounded r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forking%20lemma | The forking lemma is any of a number of related lemmas in cryptography research. The lemma states that if an adversary (typically a probabilistic Turing machine), on inputs drawn from some distribution, produces an output that has some property with non-negligible probability, then with non-negligible probability, if ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCAPG2 | Condensin-2 complex subunit G2 (CAP-G2) also known as chromosome-associated protein G2 (CAP-G2) or leucine zipper protein 5 (LUZP5) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NCAPG2 gene. CAP-G2 is a subunit of condensin II, a large protein complex involved in chromosome condensation. It interacts with PLK1 through ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial%20electrochemical%20technologies | Microbial electrochemical technologies (METs) use microorganisms as electrochemical catalyst, merging the microbial metabolism with electrochemical processes for the production of bioelectricity, biofuels, H2 and other valuable chemicals. Microbial fuel cells (MFC) and microbial electrolysis cells (MEC) are prominent e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAAL1 | Serum amyloid A-like 1 (also known as SAAL1, Synoviocyte proliferation-associated in collagen-induced arthritis 1, and SPACIA1) is a protein in humans encoded by the SAAL1 gene.
Gene
Locus
The human SAAL1 gene is located at position 11p15.1 on the minus strand spanning from base pairs 18080292-18106082 (25,790 bases... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piola%20transformation | The Piola transformation maps vectors between Eulerian and Lagrangian coordinates in continuum mechanics. It is named after Gabrio Piola.
Definition
Let with an affine transformation. Let with a domain with Lipschitz boundary. The mapping
is called Piola transformation. The usual definition takes the absolute ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz%20Baked%20Beans | Heinz Baked Beans are a brand of baked beans produced by the H.J. Heinz Company. They have been sold as "Heinz Beanz" in the United Kingdom since 2008.
History
In 1886, Heinz Baked Beans were first sold at the Fortnum & Mason department store in London. After opening its first overseas office in London in 1896, the c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20morality | Natural morality refers to morality that is based on human nature, rather than acquired from societal norms or religious teachings. Charles Darwin's theory of evolution is central to many modern conceptions of natural morality, but the concept goes back at least to naturalism.
Darwinian morality
Charles Darwin defends... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerstin%20Perez | Kerstin Perez is an Associate Professor of Particle Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is interested in physics beyond the standard model. She leads the silicon detector program for the General AntiParticle Spectrometer (GAPS) and the high-energy X-ray analysis community for the NuSTAR telescope ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoperimetric%20inequality | In mathematics, the isoperimetric inequality is a geometric inequality involving the perimeter of a set and its volume. In -dimensional space the inequality lower bounds the surface area or perimeter of a set by its volume ,
,
where is a unit sphere. The equality holds only when is a sphere in .
On a plane, i.e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathemalchemy | Mathemalchemy is a traveling art installation dedicated to a celebration of the intersection of art and mathematics. It is a collaborative work led by Duke University mathematician Ingrid Daubechies and fiber artist Dominique Ehrmann. The cross-disciplinary team of 24 people, who collectively built the installation du... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brickplayer | Brickplayer was a British construction toy with four sizes of sets (1 to 4) made by J. W. Spear of Enfield in North London, later supplementary sets like a Farmyard version were introduced. They were designed in the same scale as '0' gauge model railways (1:48 scale). The preference for 'HO' scale railways and the easy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vomocytosis | Vomocytosis (sometimes called non-lytic expulsion) is the cellular process by phagocytes expel live organisms that they have engulfed without destroying the organism. Vomocytosis is one of many methods used by cells to expel internal materials into their external environment, yet it is distinct in that both the engulfe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worknet | A worknet is the term coined to describe a group of online participants and applications to collaborate a certain cause or purpose. It is an area that is concerned with the intersection of organizational behavior and computer science. The activity is called worknetting and was described in 2007 as a new trend for 2008... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelization%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a parallelization of a manifold of dimension n is a set of n global smooth linearly independent vector fields.
Formal definition
Given a manifold of dimension n, a parallelization of is a set of n smooth vector fields defined on all of such that for every the set is a basis of , where denotes t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isothermal%20microcalorimetry | Isothermal microcalorimetry (IMC) is a laboratory method for real-time monitoring and dynamic analysis of chemical, physical and biological processes. Over a period of hours or days, IMC determines the onset, rate, extent and energetics of such processes for specimens in small ampoules (e.g. 3–20 ml) at a constant set ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20mushrooms%20of%20Hawaii | The mushroom species of Hawaii inhabit the Hawaiian archipelago in the central North Pacific Ocean, southwest of the continental United States, southeast of Japan, and northeast of Australia. The islands are part of the State of Hawaii, United States. The state encompasses nearly the entire volcanic Hawaiian Island cha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%2080000 | ISO 80000 or IEC 80000, Quantities and units, is an international standard describing the International System of Quantities (ISQ).
It was developed and promulgated jointly by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
It serves as a style guide fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%20anti-shock%20trousers | Military anti-shock trousers (MAST), or pneumatic anti-shock garments (PASG), are medical devices used to treat severe blood loss. The device is usually applied to the patient's pelvis, abdomen, and lower parts of the body and is composed of man-made inflatable air bladders. The device is designed to transfer blood ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KARZ-TV | KARZ-TV (channel 42) is a television station in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States, affiliated with MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside NBC affiliate KARK-TV (channel 4); Nexstar also provides certain services to Fox affiliate KLRT-TV (channel 16) and Pine Bluff–licensed CW affiliate KASN (chann... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune%20checkpoint | Immune checkpoints are regulators of the immune system. These pathways are crucial for self-tolerance, which prevents the immune system from attacking cells indiscriminately. However, some cancers can protect themselves from attack by stimulating immune checkpoint targets.
Inhibitory checkpoint molecules are targets f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20exponents%20in%20hypothesis%20testing | In statistical hypothesis testing, the error exponent of a hypothesis testing procedure is the rate at which the probabilities of Type I and Type II decay exponentially with the size of the sample used in the test. For example, if the probability of error of a test decays as , where is the sample size, the error expo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Res%20Jost | Res Jost (10 January 1918 – 3 October 1990) was a Swiss theoretical physicist, who worked mainly in constructive quantum field theory.
Biography
Res Jost was born on January 10, 1918, in Bern. He is the son of the physics teacher Wilhelm Jost and Hermine Spycher. In 1949 Jost married the Viennese physicist Hilde F... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IO-Link | IO-Link is a short distance, bi-directional, digital, point-to-point, wired (or wireless), industrial communications networking standard (IEC 61131-9) used for connecting digital sensors and actuators to either a type of industrial fieldbus or a type of industrial Ethernet. Its objective is to provide a technological p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biostatistics%20%28journal%29 | Biostatistics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering biostatistics, that is, statistics for biological and medical research.
The journals that had cited Biostatistics the most by 2008 were Biometrics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biometrika, Statistics in Medicine, and Journal of the Royal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-step%20floating%20catchment%20area%20method | The two-step floating catchment area (2SFCA) method is a method for combining a number of related types of information into a single, immediately meaningful, index that allows comparisons to be made across different locations. Its importance lies in the improvement over considering the individual sources of information... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comodo%20Mobile%20Security | Comodo Mobile Security (CMS) is a mobile application provided free by the Comodo Group that protects Android devices against viruses, worms and scripts. It also features SMS and call blocking, a software and process manager, data and apps backup and data traffic monitor. The anti-theft feature allows users to recover l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moorella%20mulderi | Moorella mulderi is a Gram-positive, thermophilic, homoacetogenic, anaerobic and spore-forming bacterium from the genus Moorella, which has been isolated from a sulfate reducing bioreactor in Wageningen in the Netherlands. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirtinger%27s%20inequality%20for%20functions | For other inequalities named after Wirtinger, see Wirtinger's inequality.
In the mathematical field of analysis, the Wirtinger inequality is an important inequality for functions of a single variable, named after Wilhelm Wirtinger. It was used by Adolf Hurwitz in 1901 to give a new proof of the isoperimetric inequalit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gastrointestinal%20wall | The gastrointestinal wall of the gastrointestinal tract is made up of four layers of specialised tissue. From the inner cavity of the gut (the lumen) outwards, these are:
Mucosa
Submucosa
Muscular layer
Serosa or adventitia
The mucosa is the innermost layer of the gastrointestinal tract. It surrounds the lumen of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimotope | A mimotope is often a peptide, and mimics the structure of an epitope. Because of this property it causes an antibody response similar to the one elicited by the epitope. An antibody for a given epitope antigen will recognize a mimotope which mimics that epitope. Mimotopes are commonly obtained from phage display libra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobi%E2%80%93Madden%20equation | The Jacobi–Madden equation is the Diophantine equation
proposed by the physicist Lee W. Jacobi and the mathematician Daniel J. Madden in 2008. The variables a, b, c, and d can be any integers, positive, negative or 0. Jacobi and Madden showed that there are an infinitude of solutions of this equation with all vari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYP139%20family | Cytochrome P450, family 139, also known as CYP139, is a cytochrome P450 monooxygenase family in bacteria. The first gene identified in this family is CYP139A1 from Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Most member of this family belonged to the subfamily A, and involved in the synthesis of secondary metabolites in many mycobacte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noise%20figure | Noise figure (NF) and noise factor (F) are figures of merit that indicate degradation of the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) that is caused by components in a signal chain. These figures of merit are used to evaluate the performance of an amplifier or a radio receiver, with lower values indicating better performance.
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulated%20growth%20of%20plants | The simulated growth of plants is a significant task in of systems biology and mathematical biology, which seeks to reproduce plant morphology with computer software.
Electronic trees (e-trees) usually use L-systems to simulate growth. L-systems are very important in the field of complexity science and A-life.
A unive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAT10 | N-acetyltransferase 10 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NAT10 gene.
Model organisms
Model organisms have been used in the study of NAT10 function. A conditional knockout mouse line called Nat10tm1a(KOMP)Wtsi was generated at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. Male and female animals underwent a standa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action-angle%20coordinates | In classical mechanics, action-angle variables are a set of canonical coordinates that are useful in characterizing the nature of commuting flows in integrable systems when the conserved energy level set is compact, and the commuting flows are complete. Action-angle variables are also important in obtaining the frequen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Urban%20Evolution%20Project | The Global Urban Evolution Project is an international collaborative project which was started by Marc T. J. Johnson at the Centre for Urban Environments of the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM). It includes partners from at least 5 continents, 26 countries, and 160 cities. As a field study of evolution, and a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranker | Ranker.com is a website that features polls on entertainment, brands, sports, food, and culture. Ranker claims to be one of the largest databases of opinions, with more than 1 billion votes gathered on over millions of subjective voters. Ranker has hundreds of thousands of lists of opinions.
These lists have been refe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamfer | A chamfer or is a transitional edge between two faces of an object. Sometimes defined as a form of bevel, it is often created at a 45° angle between two adjoining right-angled faces.
Chamfers are frequently used in machining, carpentry, furniture, concrete formwork, mirrors, and to facilitate assembly of many mecha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHRNA6 | Cholinergic receptor, nicotinic, alpha 6, also known as nAChRα6, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CHRNA6 gene. The CHRNA6 gene codes for the α6 nicotinic receptor subunit that is found in certain types of nicotinic acetylcholine receptors found primarily in the brain. Neural nicotinic acetylcholine recept... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20tension%20indicator | Direct tension indicators, or DTIs, are single-use mechanical load cells used to indicate when the required tension has been achieved in structural fastener assemblies.
History
The load-indicating washer was invented in England in 1962.
Specification
The standard for DTIs in North America is the ASTM International s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooster%20tail | A rooster tail is a term used in fluid dynamics, automotive gear shifting, and meteorology. It is a region of commotion or turbulence within a fluid, caused by movement. In fluid dynamics, it lies directly in the wake of an object traveling within a fluid, and is accompanied by a vertical protrusion. If it occurs in a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Universals | Human Universals is a book by Donald Brown, an American professor of anthropology (emeritus) who worked at the University of California, Santa Barbara. It was published by McGraw Hill in 1991. Brown says human universals, "comprise those features of culture, society, language, behavior, and psyche for which there are n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indirect%20self-reference | Indirect self-reference describes an object referring to itself indirectly.
For example, define the function f such that f(x) = x(x). Any function passed as an argument to f is invoked with itself as an argument, and thus in any use of that argument is indirectly referring to itself.
This example is similar to the Sc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome%20size | Genome size is the total amount of DNA contained within one copy of a single complete genome. It is typically measured in terms of mass in picograms (trillionths (10−12) of a gram, abbreviated pg) or less frequently in daltons, or as the total number of nucleotide base pairs, usually in megabases (millions of base pair... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance%20%28ecology%29 | In ecology, local abundance is the relative representation of a species in a particular ecosystem. It is usually measured as the number of individuals found per sample. The ratio of abundance of one species to one or multiple other species living in an ecosystem is referred to as relative species abundances. Both indi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20%28software%29 | Brian is an open source Python package for developing simulations of networks of spiking neurons.
Details
Brian is aimed at researchers developing models based on networks of spiking neurons. The general design is aimed at maximising flexibility, simplicity and users' development time. Users specify neuron models by g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerHouse%20%28programming%20language%29 | PowerHouse is a byte-compiled fourth-generation programming language (or 4GL) originally produced by Quasar Corporation (later renamed Cognos Incorporated) for the Hewlett-Packard HP3000 mini-computer, as well as Data General and DEC VAX/VMS systems. It was initially composed of five components:
QDD, or Quasar Data Di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin%20D%20binding%20protein%20domain%20III | In molecular biology, Vitamin D binding protein domain III protein domain is predominantly found in Vitamin D binding proteins (DBP). Vitamin D-binding protein (DBP)(also referred to as Gc-globulin) is synthesized primarily in the liver. This entry outlines the domain III of DBP. Domain III (amino acid 379–458) is G-ac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elitzur%E2%80%93Vaidman%20bomb%20tester | The Elitzur–Vaidman bomb-tester is a quantum mechanics thought experiment that uses interaction-free measurements to verify that a bomb is functional without having to detonate it. It was conceived in 1993 by Avshalom Elitzur and Lev Vaidman. Since their publication, real-world experiments have confirmed that their the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EIF2B | eIF2B is a protein complex found in eukaryotes. It is the guanine nucleotide exchange factor for the eukaryotic initiation factor 2 and therefore converts the inactive eIF2-GDP to the active eIF2-GTP. This activation is hindered by phosphorylation of the alpha subunit of eIF2, which leads to a stable eIF2α-P-GDP-eIF2B ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor%20Wagner | Viktor Vladimirovich Wagner, also Vagner () (4 November 1908 – 15 August 1981) was a Russian mathematician, best known for his work in differential geometry and on semigroups.
Wagner was born in Saratov and studied at Moscow State University, where Veniamin Kagan was his advisor. He became the first geometry chair at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonically%20enhanced%20digital%20audio | Harmonically Enhanced Digital Audio (HEDA) is a class of digital recordings created by using modern digital harmonic enhancement technology. With the proliferation of harmonic enhancement algorithms, pioneered by Crane Song's Dave Hill, a new class of harmonic enhancement algorithms have emerged.
Examples of algorithm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogomol%27nyi%E2%80%93Prasad%E2%80%93Sommerfield%20state | In theoretical physics, massive representations of an extended supersymmetry algebra called BPS states have mass equal to the supersymmetry central charge Z. Quantum mechanically, if the supersymmetry remains unbroken, exact equality to the modulus of Z exists. Their importance arises as the supermultiplets shorten for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy%20Alexander%20MacMahon | Percy Alexander MacMahon (26 September 1854 – 25 December 1929) was a mathematician, especially noted in connection with the partitions of numbers and enumerative combinatorics.
Early life
Percy MacMahon was born in Malta to a British military family. His father was a colonel at the time, retired in the rank of the b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink%20triangle | A pink triangle has been a symbol for the LGBT community, initially intended as a badge of shame, but later reclaimed as a positive symbol of self-identity. In Nazi Germany in the 1930s and 1940s, it began as one of the Nazi concentration camp badges, distinguishing those imprisoned because they had been identified by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllody | Phyllody is the abnormal development of floral parts into leafy structures. It is generally caused by phytoplasma or virus infections, though it may also be because of environmental factors that result in an imbalance in plant hormones. Phyllody causes the affected plant to become partially or entirely sterile, as it i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed%20breed | A mixed breed is a domesticated animal descended from multiple breeds of the same species, often breeding without any human intervention, recordkeeping, or selective breeding. Examples include:
Mixed-breed dog, a dog whose ancestry is complex or not known, also colloquially known as "mutt"
Grade horse, a horse whose... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20Physics%20Society | The Health Physics Society (HPS) is a nonprofit scientific professional organization whose mission is excellence in the science and practice of radiation safety. It is based in the United States and the specific purposes of the society's activities include encouraging research in radiation science, developing standard... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20the%20Physics%20of%20Semiconductors | The International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors (also known by the acronym ICPS) is a biennial conference series on semiconductor science. This biennial meeting is the premier forum for reporting all aspects of semiconductor physics including electronic, structural, optical, magnetic and transport propert... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden%20Gardens | Forbidden Gardens ( ) was an outdoor museum of Chinese culture and history located on Texas Highway 99 and Franz Road in northern Katy, Greater Houston, Texas, United States. The museum was funded and opened by businessman Ira Poon in 1996. Forbidden Gardens closed its doors in 2011.
Features and naming
Forbidden Gard... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal%20fascia | The anal fascia is the inferior layer of the diaphragmatic part of the pelvic fascia, which covers both surfaces of the levatores ani. It is attached above to the obturator fascia along the line of origin of the levator ani, while below it is continuous with the superior fascia of the urogenital diaphragm, and with the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disease%20suppressive%20soils | Disease suppressive soils function to prevent the establishment of pathogens in the rhizosphere of plants. These soils develop through the establishment of beneficial microbes, known as plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) in the rhizosphere of plant roots. These mutualistic microbes function to increase plant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantaloid | In mathematics, a quantaloid is a category enriched over the category Sup of suplattices. In other words, for any objects a and b the morphism object between them is not just a set but a complete lattice, in such a way that composition of morphisms preserves all joins:
The endomorphism lattice of any object in a qua... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-lethal | Sex-lethal (Sxl) is a gene found in Dipteran insects, named for its mutation phenotype in Drosophila melanogaster (). It is most closely related to the ELAV/HUD subfamily of splicing factors.
In fruit flies, this protein participates in alternative splicing of the transformer gene, deciding the sex of the fly. It indu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flore%20des%20Mascareignes | The Flore des Mascareignes (Fl. Mascar.) is a flora, in French, covering the three islands in the Mascarenes: Réunion, Mauritius and Rodrigues.
Project history
The project began in 1970 with the agreement signed in 1971, prepared jointly by the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), the Mauritius Sugar Ind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color%20image%20pipeline | An image pipeline or video pipeline is the set of components commonly used between an image source (such as a camera, a scanner, or the rendering engine in a computer game), and an image renderer (such as a television set, a computer screen, a computer printer or cinema screen), or for performing any intermediate digit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight%20machine | A weight machine is an exercise machine used for weight training that uses gravity as the primary source of resistance and a combination of simple machines to convey that resistance to the person using the machine. Each of the simple machines (pulley, lever, wheel, incline) changes the mechanical advantage of the overa... |
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