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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLEX%20%28satellite%29
The FLuorescence EXplorer (FLEX) is a planned mission by the European Space Agency to launch a satellite to monitor the global steady-state chlorophyll fluorescence in terrestrial vegetation. FLEX was selected for funding on 19 November 2015 and will be launched on a Vega C rocket from Guiana Space Centre in mid-2025....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fillet%20%28mechanics%29
In mechanical engineering, a fillet is a rounding of an interior or exterior corner of a part designed in CAD. An interior or exterior corner, with an angle or type of bevel, is called a "chamfer". Fillet geometry, when on an interior corner is a line of concave function, whereas a fillet on an exterior corner is a lin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita%20sphaerobulbosa
Amanita sphaerobulbosa, commonly known as the Asian abrupt-bulbed Lepidella, is a species of agaric fungus in the family Amanitaceae. First described by mycologist Tsuguo Hongo in 1969, it is found in Southern Asia. The species was formerly consider synonymous with the North American lookalike Amanita abrupta, but that...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregroup%20grammar
Pregroup grammar (PG) is a grammar formalism intimately related to categorial grammars. Much like categorial grammar (CG), PG is a kind of type logical grammar. Unlike CG, however, PG does not have a distinguished function type. Rather, PG uses inverse types combined with its monoidal operation. Definition of a pregro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-factor
In nuclear physics, the astrophysical S-factor is a rescaling of a nuclear reaction's total cross section to account for the Coulomb repulsion between the charged reactants. It determines the rates of nuclear fusion reactions that occur in the cores of stars. Definition The quantity is defined as , where is th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-equivalence
In mathematics, -equivalence, sometimes called right-left equivalence, is an equivalence relation between map germs. Let and be two manifolds, and let be two smooth map germs. We say that and are -equivalent if there exist diffeomorphism germs and such that In other words, two map germs are -equivalent if on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seroprevalence
Seroprevalence is the number of persons in a population who test positive for a specific disease based on serology (blood serum) specimens; often presented as a percent of the total specimens tested or as a proportion per 100,000 persons tested. As positively identifying the occurrence of disease is usually based upon ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid-pi%20model
Hybrid-Pi is a popular circuit model used for analyzing the small signal behavior of bipolar junction and field effect transistors. Sometimes it is also called Giacoletto model because it was introduced by L.J. Giacoletto in 1969. The model can be quite accurate for low-frequency circuits and can easily be adapted for ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best%20node%20search
Best node search (BNS), originally known as fuzzified game tree search, is a minimax search algorithm, developed in 2011. The idea is that the knowledge that one subtree is relatively better than some (or all) other(s) may be propagated sooner than the absolute value of minimax for that subtree. Then a repetitive searc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron%20star%20spin-up
Neutron star spin up is the name given to the increase in rotational speed over time first noted in Cen X-3 and Her X-1 but now observed in other X-ray pulsars. In the case of Cen X-3, the pulse period is decreasing over a timescale of 3400 years (defined as , where is the rotation period and is the rate of change in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auction%20algorithm
The term "auction algorithm" applies to several variations of a combinatorial optimization algorithm which solves assignment problems, and network optimization problems with linear and convex/nonlinear cost. An auction algorithm has been used in a business setting to determine the best prices on a set of products offe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wingate%20test
The ergonometer test (also known as the ergonometer Anaerobic Test (WAnT)) is an anaerobic exercise test, most often performed on a stationary bicycle, that measures peak anaerobic power and anaerobic capacity. The test, which can also be performed on an arm crank ergometer, consists of a set time pedalling at maximum ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioeffector
A bioeffector is a viable microorganism or active natural compound which directly or indirectly affects plant performance (biofertilizer), and thus has the potential to reduce fertilizer and pesticide use in crop production. Types Bioeffectors have a direct or indirect effect on plant performance by influencing the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hin%20recombinase
Hin recombinase is a 21kD protein composed of 198 amino acids that is found in the bacteria Salmonella. Hin belongs to the serine recombinase family (B2) of DNA invertases in which it relies on the active site serine to initiate DNA cleavage and recombination. The related protein, gamma-delta resolvase shares high simi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous%20peripheral%20operation
In computing, autonomous peripheral operation is a hardware feature found in some microcontroller architectures to off-load certain tasks into embedded autonomous peripherals in order to minimize latencies and improve throughput in hard real-time applications as well as to save energy in ultra-low-power designs. Overv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20benzoate
Calcium benzoate refers to the calcium salt of benzoic acid. When used in the food industry as a preservative, its E number is E213 (INS number 213); it is approved for use as a food additive in the EU, USA and Australia and New Zealand. The formulas and structures of calcium carboxylate derivatives of calcium and rel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speech%20Processing%20Solutions
Speech Processing Solutions is an international electronics company headquartered in Vienna, Austria. The company designs, develops, manufactures and markets speech processing devices, such as those used in digital dictation and speech recognition. Speech Processing Solutions was formed on 1 July 2012. Philips Speech P...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/170th%20meridian%20west
The meridian 170° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 170th meridian west forms a great circle with the 10th meridian east. From Pole to Pole Starting at the North Pole and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locally%20integrable%20function
In mathematics, a locally integrable function (sometimes also called locally summable function) is a function which is integrable (so its integral is finite) on every compact subset of its domain of definition. The importance of such functions lies in the fact that their function space is similar to spaces, but its me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Femoral%20nerve
The femoral nerve is a nerve in the thigh that supplies skin on the upper thigh and inner leg, and the muscles that extend the knee. It is the largest branch of the lumbar plexus. Structure The femoral nerve is the major nerve supplying the anterior compartment of the thigh. It is the largest branch of the lumbar plex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repetition%20code
In coding theory, the repetition code is one of the most basic linear error-correcting codes. In order to transmit a message over a noisy channel that may corrupt the transmission in a few places, the idea of the repetition code is to just repeat the message several times. The hope is that the channel corrupts only a m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BharOS
BharOS (formerly IndOS) is a mobile operating system allegedly designed by IIT Madras. It is an Indian government-funded project to develop a free and open-source operating system (OS) for use in government and public systems. The Indian Express Android. History Google is facing a crackdown from the Competition Commis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Moser%20equation
In number theory, the Erdős–Moser equation is where and are positive integers. The only known solution is 11 + 21 = 31, and Paul Erdős conjectured that no further solutions exist. Constraints on solutions Leo Moser in 1953 proved that, in any further solutions, 2 must divide k and that m ≥ 101,000,000. In 1966,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oldstone%20Conference
The Oldstone Conference of 11 to 14 April 1949 was the third of three postwar conferences held to discuss quantum physics; arranged for the National Academy of Sciences by J. Robert Oppenheimer, who was again chairman. It followed the Shelter Island Conference of 1947 and the Pocono Conference of 1948. There were 24 pa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxation%20%28iterative%20method%29
In numerical mathematics, relaxation methods are iterative methods for solving systems of equations, including nonlinear systems. Relaxation methods were developed for solving large sparse linear systems, which arose as finite-difference discretizations of differential equations. They are also used for the solution of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marantz%202600
The Model 2600 was the most powerful stereo receiver made by Marantz, and one of the most powerful receivers of the "monster receiver" era of the 1970s, among the Technics SA-1000, rated at 330 watts per channel is #1[ref. technics sa-1000 official user manual]. tied for 2nd at 300 wpc with the Sansui G-33000 [ref. g-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacral%20dimple
A sacral dimple (also termed pilonidal dimple or spinal dimple) is a small depression in the skin, located just above the buttocks. The name comes from the sacrum, the bone at the end of the spine, over which the dimples are found. A sacral dimple is defined as a midline dimple less than 5 mm in diameter and no furthe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Brother%20Watch
Big Brother Watch is a non-party British civil liberties and privacy campaigning organisation. It was launched in 2009 by founding director Alex Deane to campaign against state surveillance and threats to civil liberties. It was founded by Matthew Elliott. Since January 2018, Silkie Carlo is the Director. The organis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Msh%20homeobox%202
Homeobox protein MSX-2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MSX2 gene. Function This gene encodes a member of the muscle segment homeobox gene family. The encoded protein is a transcriptional repressor whose normal activity may establish a balance between survival and apoptosis of neural crest-derived cells...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security-Enhanced%20Linux
Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux) is a Linux kernel security module that provides a mechanism for supporting access control security policies, including mandatory access controls (MAC). SELinux is a set of kernel modifications and user-space tools that have been added to various Linux distributions. Its architecture s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRMT8
Protein arginine methyltransferase 8 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the PRMT8 gene. Arginine methylation is a posttranslational modification involved in a number of cellular processes, including DNA repair, RNA transcription, signal transduction and protein compartmentalization. PRMT8 binds and dimethylates ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20module
A power module or power electronic module provides the physical containment for several power components, usually power semiconductor devices. These power semiconductors (so-called dies) are typically soldered or sintered on a power electronic substrate that carries the power semiconductors, provides electrical and the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Blind%20Watchmaker%20%28film%29
The Blind Watchmaker is a documentary where Richard Dawkins challenges William Paley's theories on creationism and takes on Paley's descendants. It was produced in 1987 by Jeremy Taylor and Richard Dawkins for BBC Horizon series and won the Sci-Tech Award for Best Science Documentary of the year. It was based on a book...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iroquois%20homeobox%20factor
Iroquois homeobox factors are a family of homeodomain transcription factors that play a role in many developmental processes. The loci were named for the flies carrying mutations in one of these genes, which are devoid of all bristles in the lateral part of the notum, leaving only a median stripe of bristles, similar t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigenetics%20in%20forensic%20science
Epigenetics in forensic science is the application of epigenetics to solving crimes. Forensic science has been using DNA as evidence since 1984, however this does not give information about any changes in the individual since birth and will not be useful in distinguishing identical siblings. The focus of epigenetics ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20mimetic
A protein mimetic is a molecule such as a peptide, a modified peptide or any other molecule that biologically mimics the action or activity of some other protein. Protein mimetics are commonly used in drug design and discovery. Types of mimetics There are a number of different distinct classes of protein mimetics. An...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20virtualization%20platform
A network virtualization platform decouples the hardware plane from the software plane such that the host hardware plane can be administratively programmed to assign its resources to the software plane. This allows for the virtualization of CPU, memory, disk and most importantly network IO. Upon such virtualization of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic%20language
In computer science, more particularly in formal language theory, a cyclic language is a set of strings that is closed with respect to repetition, root, and cyclic shift. Definition If A is a set of symbols, and A* is the set of all strings built from symbols in A, then a string set L ⊆ A* is called a formal language ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine-induced%20seropositivity
Vaccine-induced seropositivity (VISP) is the phenomenon wherein a person who has received a vaccine against a disease would thereafter give a positive or reactive test result for having that disease when tested for it, despite not actually having the disease. This happens because many vaccines encourage the body to pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo%20%28computing%29
In telecommunications, echo is the local display of data, either initially as it is locally sourced and sent, or finally as a copy of it is received back from a remote destination. Local echo is where the local sending equipment displays the outgoing sent data. Remote echo is where the display is a return copy of data ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senckenberg%20German%20Entomological%20Institute
The Senckenberg German Entomological Institute (, SDEI or DEI) is a German entomological research institute devoted to the study of insects. Founded in 1886, the institute has an extraordinary insect collection and a world-class entomological library. Since 2009, the SDEI has been part of the Senckenberg Nature Researc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr%20model%20of%20the%20chemical%20bond
In addition to the model of the atom, Niels Bohr also proposed a model of the chemical bond. He propose this model first in the article "Systems containing several nuclei" - the third and last of the classic series of articles by Bohr, published in November 1913 in Philosophical Magazine. According to his model for a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DatalogZ
DatalogZ (stylized as ) is an extension of Datalog with integer arithmetic and comparisons. The decision problem of whether or not a given ground atom (fact) is entailed by a DatalogZ program is RE-complete (hence, undecidable), which can be shown by a reduction to diophantine equations. Syntax The syntax of DatalogZ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics%20of%20Life%20Reviews
Physics of Life Reviews is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on living systems. It was established in 2004 and is published by Elsevier. The editor-in-chief is Leonid Perlovsky. The scope of the journal includes living systems, complex phenomena in biological systems, and related fields of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V1%20Saliency%20Hypothesis
The V1 Saliency Hypothesis, or V1SH (pronounced ‘vish’) is a theory about V1, the primary visual cortex (V1). It proposes that the V1 in primates creates a saliency map of the visual field to guide visual attention or gaze shifts exogenously. Importance V1SH is the only theory so far to not only endow V1 a very impor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obligate
As an adjective, obligate means "by necessity" (antonym facultative) and is used mainly in biology in phrases such as: Obligate aerobe, an organism that cannot survive without oxygen Obligate anaerobe, an organism that cannot survive in the presence of oxygen Obligate air-breather, a term used in fish physiology to ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian%20interlace
The Croatian interlace or Croatian wattle, known as the or in Croatian, is a type of interlace, most characteristic for its three-ribbon pattern. It is one of the most often used patterns of pre-romanesque Croatian art. It is found on and within churches as well as monasteries built in early medieval Kingdom of Croat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prandial
Prandial relates to a meal. Postprandial (from post prandium) means after eating a meal, while preprandial is before a meal. Usages of postprandial The term postprandial is used in many contexts. Gastronomic or social Refers to activities performed after a meal, such as drinking cocktails or smoking. Medical A comm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akeno%20Giant%20Air%20Shower%20Array
The Akeno Giant Air Shower Array (AGASA) was an array of particle detectors designed to study the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays. It was deployed from 1987 to 1991 and decommissioned in 2004. It consisted of 111 scintillation detectors and 27 muon detectors spread over an area of 100 km2. It was operated by t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperfine%20structure
In atomic physics, hyperfine structure is defined by small shifts in otherwise degenerate energy levels and the resulting splittings in those energy levels of atoms, molecules, and ions, due to electromagnetic multipole interaction between the nucleus and electron clouds. In atoms, hyperfine structure arises from the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dendrology
Dendrology (, dendron, "tree"; and , -logia, science of or study of) or xylology (, ksulon, "wood") is the science and study of woody plants (trees, shrubs, and lianas), specifically, their taxonomic classifications. There is no sharp boundary between plant taxonomy and dendrology; woody plants not only belong to many ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID%20Quantique
ID Quantique (IDQ) is a Swiss company, based in Geneva, Switzerland, and provides quantum key distribution (QKD) systems, quantum safe network encryption, single photon counters, and hardware random number generators. It was founded in 2001 as a spin-off of the Group of Applied Physics at the University of Geneva. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20seed
In agriculture and gardening, hybrid seed is produced by deliberately cross-pollinated plants which are genetically diverse. Hybrid seed is common in industrial agriculture and home gardening. It is one of the main contributors to the dramatic rise in agricultural output during the last half of the 20th century. Altern...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TTCN-3
TTCN-3 (Testing and Test Control Notation version 3) is a strongly typed testing language used in conformance testing of communicating systems. TTCN-3 is written by ETSI in the ES 201 873 series, and standardized by ITU-T in the Z.160 Series. TTCN-3 has its own data types and can be combined with ASN.1, IDL and XML typ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20oxygen
Liquid oxygen is the liquid form of molecular oxygen. It is abbreviated as LOX or less frequently LOXygen in the aerospace, submarine and gas industries. It was used as the oxidizer in the first liquid-fueled rocket invented in 1926 by Robert H. Goddard, an application which has continued to the present. Physical prop...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albomycin
Albomycins are a group of naturally occurring antibiotics belonging to the class of sideromycins, which are "compounds composed of iron carriers called siderophores linked to antibiotic moieties". They are particularly effective against Gram-negative bacteria of the family Enterobacteriaceae and few Gram-positive bact...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Malin%20Rodgers
Thomas Malin Rodgers (August 1, 1943 — April 12, 2012) was an Atlanta-based businessman and puzzle collector who is remembered as the originator of the Gathering 4 Gardner (G4G) educational foundation, first conceived in 1992. He co-founded G4G with magician and toy inventor Mark Setteducati and UC Berkeley professor E...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20finite%20simple%20groups
In mathematics, the classification of finite simple groups states that every finite simple group is cyclic, or alternating, or in one of 16 families of groups of Lie type, or one of 26 sporadic groups. The list below gives all finite simple groups, together with their order, the size of the Schur multiplier, the size ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slutsky%27s%20theorem
In probability theory, Slutsky’s theorem extends some properties of algebraic operations on convergent sequences of real numbers to sequences of random variables. The theorem was named after Eugen Slutsky. Slutsky's theorem is also attributed to Harald Cramér. Statement Let be sequences of scalar/vector/matrix rando...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interacting%20particle%20system
In probability theory, an interacting particle system (IPS) is a stochastic process on some configuration space given by a site space, a countably-infinite-order graph and a local state space, a compact metric space . More precisely IPS are continuous-time Markov jump processes describing the collective behavior of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20angle%20%28astronomy%29
In observational astronomy, phase angle is the angle between the light incident onto an observed object and the light reflected from the object. In the context of astronomical observations, this is usually the angle Sun-object-observer. For terrestrial observations, "Sun–object–Earth" is often nearly the same thing as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/103%20%28number%29
103 (one hundred [and] three) is the natural number following 102 and preceding 104. In mathematics 103 is a prime number, the largest prime factor of . The previous prime is 101, making them both twin primes. It is the fifth irregular prime, because it divides the numerator of the Bernoulli number The equation ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pita%20skate
The pita skate (Raja pita) is a medium-sized skate in the family Rajidae. The holotype and only known specimen was found in the northern Persian Gulf, in Iraqi waters. It was collected at a depth of less than . It is around in length, and the coloration pattern (described from a specimen preserved in alcohol) is ligh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime%20k-tuple
In number theory, a prime -tuple is a finite collection of values representing a repeatable pattern of differences between prime numbers. For a -tuple , the positions where the -tuple matches a pattern in the prime numbers are given by the set of integers such that all of the values are prime. Typically the first va...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMX
The MDMX (MIPS Digital Media eXtension), also known as MaDMaX, is an extension to the MIPS architecture released in October 1996 at the Microprocessor Forum. History MDMX was developed to accelerate multimedia applications that were becoming more popular and common in the 1990s on RISC and CISC systems. Functionalit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20user%20features%20of%20operating%20systems
Comparison of user features of operating systems refers to a comparison of the general user features of major operating systems in a narrative format. It does not encompass a full exhaustive comparison or description of all technical details of all operating systems. It is a comparison of basic roles and the most promi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel%20Cramer
Gabriel Cramer (; 31 July 1704 – 4 January 1752) was a Genevan mathematician. He was the son of physician Jean Cramer and Anne Mallet Cramer. Biography Cramer showed promise in mathematics from an early age. At 18 he received his doctorate and at 20 he was co-chair of mathematics at the University of Geneva. In 1728...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund%20Harriss
Edmund Orme Harriss (born 1976 in Worcester, UK) is a British mathematician, writer and artist. Since 2010 he has been at the Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences at The University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, Arkansas where he is an Assistant Professor of Arts & Sciences (ARSC) and Mathematical Sciences (MASC). He doe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kasenna
Kasenna was a video on demand company based in California that was spun off of Silicon Graphics in 2000. It was acquired by Espial in 2008. Products MediaBase: Video On Demand and NPVR server vFusion: manage clusters of MediaBase video servers, and content distribution LivingRoom: IPTV middleware CWM: CDN server,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinema%20platysomum
The flagellated alga Dinema platysomum, synonym Anisonema platysomum, is the first eukaryote in which magnetotactic structures have been discovered. Monje & Baran (2004) describe how this euglenoid alga stores magnetite in a similar way that already discovered magnetotactic bacteria do. It has been shown that the cells...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane%20of%20rotation
In geometry, a plane of rotation is an abstract object used to describe or visualize rotations in space. The main use for planes of rotation is in describing more complex rotations in four-dimensional space and higher dimensions, where they can be used to break down the rotations into simpler parts. This can be done ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navarre%20Beach%20Sea%20Turtle%20Conservation%20Center
The Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center is a sea turtle study and rehabilitation center located in Navarre, Florida. Specifically, it is located within the Navarre Beach Marine Park. The facility opened in 2013, using the building of an old ranger station that had been used by the state park service when the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here%20document
In computing, a here document (here-document, here-text, heredoc, hereis, here-string or here-script) is a file literal or input stream literal: it is a section of a source code file that is treated as if it were a separate file. The term is also used for a form of multiline string literals that use similar syntax, pre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular%20diameter%20distance
In astronomy, angular diameter distance is a distance defined in terms of an object's physical size, , and its angular size, , as viewed from Earth: Cosmology dependence The angular diameter distance depends on the assumed cosmology of the universe. The angular diameter distance to an object at redshift, , is express...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-432%20microRNA%20precursor%20family
In molecular biology mir-432 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms. See also MicroRNA
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomina%20Anatomica
Nomina Anatomica (NA) was the international standard on human anatomic terminology from 1895 until it was replaced by Terminologia Anatomica in 1998. In the late nineteenth century some 30,000 terms for various body parts were in use. The same structures were described by different names, depending (among other things...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latexin%20family
In molecular biology, the latexin family is a family of proteins which family consists of several animal specific latexin and proteins related to latexin that belong to MEROPS proteinase inhibitor family I47, clan IH. Latexin, a protein possessing inhibitory activity against rat carboxypeptidase A1 (CPA1) and CPA2 (ME...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitting%20the%20wall
In endurance sports such as road cycling and long-distance running, hitting the wall or the bonk is a condition of sudden fatigue and loss of energy which is caused by the depletion of glycogen stores in the liver and muscles. Milder instances can be remedied by brief rest and the ingestion of food or drinks containing...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside%20hydrolase%20family%2038
In molecular biology, glycoside hydrolase family 38 is a family of glycoside hydrolases. Glycoside hydrolases are a widespread group of enzymes that hydrolyse the glycosidic bond between two or more carbohydrates, or between a carbohydrate and a non-carbohydrate moiety. A classification system for glycoside hydrolase...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleus%20basalis
In the human brain, the nucleus basalis, also known as the nucleus basalis of Meynert or nucleus basalis magnocellularis, is a group of neurons located mainly in the substantia innominata of the basal forebrain. Most neurons of the nucleus basalis are rich in the neurotransmitter acetylcholine, and they have widespread...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoid%20adware
Typhoid adware is a type of computer security threat that uses a Man-in-the-middle attack to inject advertising into web pages a user visits when using a public network, like a Wi-Fi hotspot. Researchers from the University of Calgary identified the issue, which does not require the affected computer to have adware ins...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipedalism
Bipedalism is a form of terrestrial locomotion where a tetrapod moves by means of its two rear (or lower) limbs or legs. An animal or machine that usually moves in a bipedal manner is known as a biped , meaning 'two feet' (from Latin bis 'double' and pes 'foot'). Types of bipedal movement include walking or running (a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantou%27s%20riflebird
Mantou's riflebird, also known as Bruijn's riflebird, is a bird in the family Paradisaeidae that is presumed to be an intergeneric hybrid between a twelve-wired bird-of-paradise and magnificent riflebird. History At least 12 adult male specimens are known of this hybrid, held in various museums and of unknown provenan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensions%20CM
Dimensions CM is a software change and configuration management product developed by Micro Focus. It includes revision control, change, build and release management capabilities. Since 2014 (v14.1) Dimensions CM includes PulseUno module providing Code review and Continuous integration capabilities. Starting with the v...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20protected%20area
Marine protected areas (MPA) are protected areas of seas, oceans, estuaries or in the US, the Great Lakes. These marine areas can come in many forms ranging from wildlife refuges to research facilities. MPAs restrict human activity for a conservation purpose, typically to protect natural or cultural resources. Such mar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20knowledge%20management
Mathematical knowledge management (MKM) is the study of how society can effectively make use of the vast and growing literature on mathematics. It studies approaches such as databases of mathematical knowledge, automated processing of formulae and the use of semantic information, and artificial intelligence. Mathematic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libquantum
Libquantum is a C library quantum mechanics simulator originally focused on virtual quantum computers. It is licensed under the GNU GPL. It was a part of SPEC 2006. The latest version is stated to be v1.1.1 (Jan 2013) on the mailing list, but on the website there is only v0.9.1 from 2007. An author of libquantum, Hend...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifragile%20%28book%29
Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder is a book by Nassim Nicholas Taleb published on November 27, 2012, by Random House in the United States and Penguin in the United Kingdom. This book builds upon ideas from his previous works including Fooled by Randomness (2001), The Black Swan (2007–2010), and The Bed of Pro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Womb%20veil
The womb veil was a 19th-century American form of barrier contraception consisting of an occlusive pessary, i.e. a device inserted into the vagina to block access of the sperm into the uterus. Made of rubber, it was a forerunner to the modern diaphragm and cervical cap. The name was first used by Edward Bliss Foote in ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garmin%20iQue
iQue ( ; like "IQ") was a line of personal digital assistants (PDA) with integrated Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers sold by Garmin. It was introduced in 2003 and discontinued in mid-2008. Description The Garmin iQue 3600 was among the first devices to integrate GPS technology into a PDA. The line included d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UML%20state%20machine
UML state machine, also known as UML statechart, is an extension of the mathematical concept of a finite automaton in computer science applications as expressed in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) notation. The concepts behind it are about organizing the way a device, computer program, or other (often technical) p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boombox
A boombox is a transistorized portable music player featuring one or two cassette tape recorder/players and AM/FM radio, generally with a carrying handle. Beginning in the mid 1980s, a CD player was often included. Sound is delivered through an amplifier and two or more integrated loudspeakers. A boombox is a device ty...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brother%20Industries
is a Japanese multinational electronics and electrical equipment company headquartered in Nagoya, Japan. Its products include printers, multifunction printers, desktop computers, consumer and industrial sewing machines, large machine tools, label printers, typewriters, fax machines, and other computer-related electroni...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bokashi%20%28horticulture%29
Bokashi is a process that converts food waste and similar organic matter into a soil amendment which adds nutrients and improves soil texture. It differs from traditional composting methods in several respects. The most important are: The input matter is fermented by specialist bacteria, not decomposed. The fermented...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%E2%80%93cement%20ratio
The water–cement ratio (w/c ratio, or water-to-cement ratio, sometimes also called the Water-Cement Factor, ) is the ratio of the mass of water () to the mass of cement () used in a concrete mix: The typical values of this ratio = are generally comprised in the interval 0.40 and 0.60. The water-cement ratio of th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodchuck%20hepatitis%20virus
Woodchuck hepatitis virus (WHV) is a species of the genus Orthohepadnavirus. It was first discovered in 1977 in a captive population of Marmota monax, but has since been discovered in wild populations in the Eastern United States. Infected woodchucks which are unable to clear the infection inevitably develop hepatocel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columns%20%28video%20game%29
is a match-three puzzle video game released by Sega in 1990. Designed by Jay Geertsen, it was released by Sega for arcades and then ported to several Sega consoles. The game was subsequently ported to home computer platforms, including the Atari ST. Gameplay Columns was one of the many tile-matching puzzle games to ap...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%B3zsef%20Solymosi
József Solymosi is a Hungarian-Canadian mathematician and a professor of mathematics at the University of British Columbia. His main research interests are arithmetic combinatorics, discrete geometry, graph theory, and combinatorial number theory. Education and career Solymosi earned his master's degree in 1999 under ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAP%20kinase%20kinase%20kinase%20kinase
Mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase kinase (MAP4K) is a family of proteins involved in cellular signal transduction. MAP4K1 (aka HPK1) MAP4K2 (aka GCK) MAP4K3 (aka GLK) MAP4K4 (aka HGK) MAP4K5 (aka KHS) MAP4K6 (aka MINK) Images See also Signal transduction MAP kinase MAP kinase kinase MAP kinase kin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendship%20knot
The friendship knot is a decorative knot which is used to tie neckerchieves, lanyards and in Chinese knotting. History and use This is one of the eleven basic knots of traditional Chinese knotting, a craft which began in the Tang and Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD) in China. The Chinese and Japanese names for this knot are...