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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familial%20natural%20short%20sleep | Familial natural short sleep is a rare, genetic, typically inherited trait where an individual sleeps for fewer hours than average without suffering from daytime sleepiness or other consequences of sleep deprivation. This process is entirely natural in this kind of individual, and it is caused by certain genetic mutati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asparagopsis%20taxiformis | Asparagopsis taxiformis (red sea plume or limu kohu), formerly A. sanfordiana, is a species of red algae, with cosmopolitan distribution in tropical to warm temperate waters. Researchers have demonstrated that feeding ruminants a diet containing 0.2% A. taxiformis seaweed reduced their methane emissions by nearly 99 p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/County%20Herb%20Committee | The County Herb Committees were a nationwide medicinal plant collecting scheme, established by the British Ministry of Health during the Second World War.
History
The County Herb Committees were set up at a time when the German occupation of France and the disruption of shipping lanes interfered with drug supplies. A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.%20M.%20Devienne | Fernand Marcel Devienne (20 February 1913 (Marseille)–19 April 2003 (Cannes)) was a French physicist who developed research on molecular beams and spectrum analysis in rarefied gas environment.
Life
A Doctor of physics, F. Marcel Devienne was director of a research laboratory (Laboratoire de physique moléculaire des ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistical%20fluctuations | Statistical fluctuations are fluctuations in quantities derived from many identical random processes. They are fundamental and unavoidable. It can be proved that the relative fluctuations reduce as the square root of the number of identical processes.
Statistical fluctuations are responsible for many results of statis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synechocystis%20sp.%20PCC%206803 | Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 is a strain of unicellular, freshwater cyanobacteria. Synechocystis sp. PCC6803 is capable of both phototrophic growth by oxygenic photosynthesis during light periods and heterotrophic growth by glycolysis and oxidative phosphorylation during dark periods. Gene expression is regulated by a c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population%20equivalent | Population equivalent (PE) or unit per capita loading, or equivalent person (EP), is a parameter for characterizing industrial wastewaters. It essentially compares the polluting potential of an industry (in terms of biodegradable organic matter) with a population (or certain number of people), which would produce the s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riparian-zone%20restoration | Riparian-zone restoration is the ecological restoration of riparian-zone habitats of streams, rivers, springs, lakes, floodplains, and other hydrologic ecologies. A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream. Riparian is also the proper nomenclature for one of the fifteen terrest... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation%20clustering | Clustering is the problem of partitioning data points into groups based on their similarity. Correlation clustering provides a method for clustering a set of objects into the optimum number of clusters without specifying that number in advance.
Description of the problem
In machine learning, correlation clustering o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medial%20inferior%20genicular%20artery | The medial inferior genicular is an artery of the leg.
Course
It first descends along the upper margin of the popliteus, to which it gives branches; it then passes below the medial condyle of the tibia, beneath the tibial collateral ligament, at the anterior border of which it ascends to the front and medial side of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambobactin | Ambobactin is an depsipeptide antibiotic with the molecular formula C59H77N13O19. Ambobactin is produced by the bacterium Streptomyces ambofaciens. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy%20%28journal%29 | Entropy is a monthly open access scientific journal covering research on all aspects of entropy and information theory. It was established in 1999 and is published by MDPI. The journal occasionally publishes special issues compiled by guest editors. The editor-in-chief is Kevin H. Knuth (University at Albany, SUNY).
S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five%20safes | The Five Safes is a framework for helping make decisions about making effective use of data which is confidential or sensitive. It is mainly used to describe or design research access to statistical data held by government agencies, and by data archives such as the UK Data Service.
Two of the Five Safes refer to stati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multitaper | In signal processing, multitaper is a spectral density estimation technique developed by David J. Thomson. It can estimate the power spectrum SX of a stationary ergodic finite-variance random process X, given a finite contiguous realization of X as data.
Motivation
The multitaper method overcomes some of the limitati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCARI | OCARI (Open Communication protocol for Ad hoc Reliable industrial Instrumentation) is a low-rate wireless personal area networks (LR-WPAN) communication protocol that derives from the IEEE 802.15.4 standard. It was developed by the following consortium during the OCARI project that is funded by the French National Rese... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-segment%20display | An eight-segment display is a type of display based on eight segments that can be turned on or off according to the font pattern to be produced.
It is similar to a nine-segment display whose middle vertical bars are vertical, except that on an eight-segment display, the bars F and G are merged.
Applications
One appli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortal%20wound | A mortal wound is an injury that will ultimately lead to a person's death. Mortal refers to the mortality of a human: whether they are going to live or die. Wound is another term for injury. The expression can also be used figuratively, for example when it was used in the 2017 Times article Being Frightened is not a Mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Goldflam | Samuel Wulfowicz Goldflam (15 February 1852 – 26 August 1932) was a Polish-Jewish neurologist best known for his brilliant 1893 analysis of myasthenia gravis (Erb-Goldflam syndrome).
Biography
Goldflam received his education in his native city of Warsaw. He graduated from secondary school in 1869, then studied medicin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aulographina | Aulographina is a genus of fungi. It was placed in the Asterinaceae family. then later placed in the Teratosphaeriaceae family.
Species
As accepted by Species Fungorum;
Aulographina eucalypti
Aulographina pinorum |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered%20trademark%20symbol | The registered trademark symbol, , is a typographic symbol that provides notice that the preceding word or symbol is a trademark or service mark that has been registered with a national trademark office. A trademark is a symbol, word, or words legally registered or established by use as representing a company, product ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite%20difference%20methods%20for%20option%20pricing | Finite difference methods for option pricing are numerical methods used in mathematical finance for the valuation of options. Finite difference methods were first applied to option pricing by Eduardo Schwartz in 1977.
In general, finite difference methods are used to price options by approximating the (continuous-ti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden%20Gate%20Cloning | Golden Gate Cloning or Golden Gate assembly is a molecular cloning method that allows a researcher to simultaneously and directionally assemble multiple DNA fragments into a single piece using Type IIS restriction enzymes and T4 DNA ligase. This assembly is performed in vitro. Most commonly used Type IIS enzymes inclu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Print%20Gallery%20%28M.%20C.%20Escher%29 | Print Gallery () is a lithograph printed in 1956 by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher. It depicts a man in a gallery viewing a print of a seaport, and among the buildings in the seaport is the very gallery in which he is standing, making use of the Droste effect with visual recursion. The lithograph has attracted discussio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-188%20microRNA%20precursor%20family | Expandable. We make separate entries for proteins, etc. Why not these?
In molecular biology mir-188 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/List%20of%20tools%20for%20code%20review | This is a list of collaborative code review software that supports the software development practice of software peer review. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initialization%20%28programming%29 | In computer programming, initialization (or initialisation) is the assignment of an initial value for a data object or variable. The manner in which initialization is performed depends on the programming language, as well as the type, storage class, etc., of an object to be initialized. Programming constructs which per... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat%20extenders | Meat extenders are non-meat substances with substantial protein content. Extenders are distinguished from fillers by their high protein content, compared to the high carbohydrate content of fillers.
Extenders were originally used to reduce costs but they were later used to make meat products more healthy by adding die... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entry%20point | In computer programming, an entry point is the place in a program where the execution of a program begins, and where the program has access to command line arguments.
To start a program's execution, the loader or operating system passes control to its entry point. (During booting, the operating system itself is the pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developer%21%20Developer%21%20Developer%21 | Developer! Developer! Developer!, more commonly known as DDD, is a series of community conferences aimed at software developers.
History
DDD conferences started in 2005, as a community conference organised by software developers for software developers. The first was held at Microsoft's TVP campus in Reading, United ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hetzner | Hetzner Online GmbH is a company and data center operator based in Gunzenhausen, Bavaria, in Germany.
History
Hetzner Online GmbH (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung) began operations in Germany in 1997 under the name Hetzner Online Services. Between 2000 and 2015, Hetzner Online in Germany operated under the legal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPV%20vaccine | Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines are vaccines that prevent infection by certain types of human papillomavirus (HPV). Available HPV vaccines protect against either two, four, or nine types of HPV. All HPV vaccines protect against at least HPV types 16 and 18, which cause the greatest risk of cervical cancer. It is es... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Privacy%20Commission | The National Privacy Commission, or NPC, is an independent body created under Republic Act No. 10173 or the Data Privacy Act of 2012, mandated to administer and implement the provisions of the Act, and to monitor and ensure compliance of the country with international standards set for data protection. It is attached t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%E2%80%93Yang%20theory | In statistical mechanics, Lee–Yang theory, sometimes also known as Yang–Lee theory, is a scientific theory which seeks to describe phase transitions in large physical systems in the thermodynamic limit based on the properties of small, finite-size systems. The theory revolves around the complex zeros of partition funct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20books%20on%20popular%20physics%20concepts | This is a list of books which talk about things related to current day physics or physics as it would be in the future.
There a number of books that have been penned about specific physics concepts, e.g. quantum mechanics or kinematics, and many other books which discuss physics in general, i.e. not focussing on a sing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20integer | In algebraic number theory, an algebraic integer is a complex number which is integral over the integers. That is, an algebraic integer is a complex root of some monic polynomial (a polynomial whose leading coefficient is 1) whose coefficients are integers. The set of all algebraic integers is closed under addition, s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Archive%20of%20Literacy%20Narratives | The Digital Archive of Literacy Narratives (DALN) is an online public archive of personal literacy narratives. The DALN collects narratives ranging in formats and composition styles to include traditional and unconventional self-exploratory mediums such as video essays, drawings and written narratives. In 2005, Cynthia... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louisa%20Gross%20Horwitz%20Prize | The Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize for Biology or Biochemistry is an annual prize awarded by Columbia University to a researcher or group of researchers who have made an outstanding contribution in basic research in the fields of biology or biochemistry.
The prize was established at the bequest of S. Gross Horwitz and is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitome%20%28data%20processing%29 | An epitome, in data processing, is a condensed digital representation of the essential statistical properties of ordered datasets such as matrices that represent images, audio signals, videos or genetic sequences. Although much smaller than the data, the epitome contains many of its smaller overlapping parts with much ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feller%27s%20coin-tossing%20constants | Feller's coin-tossing constants are a set of numerical constants which describe asymptotic probabilities that in n independent tosses of a fair coin, no run of k consecutive heads (or, equally, tails) appears.
William Feller showed that if this probability is written as p(n,k) then
where αk is the smallest positive r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felted | A felted material is a hairy or filamentous (hairy-like) fibre that is densely packed or tangled, forming felt or felt-like structures.
Advantages of felted tissue
The dermis is described in Gray's Anatomy as "felted connective tissue, with a varying amount of elastic fibers and numerous blood vessels, lymphatics, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancozeb | Mancozeb is a dithiocarbamate non-systemic agricultural fungicide with multi-site, protective action on contact. It is a combination of two other dithiocarbamates: maneb and zineb. The mixture controls many fungal diseases in a wide range of field crops, fruits, nuts, vegetables, and ornamentals. It is marketed as Penn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft%20state | In computer science, soft state is state which is useful for efficiency, but not essential, as it can be regenerated or replaced if needed. The term is often used in network protocol engineering.
It is a term that is used for information that times out (goes away) unless refreshed, which allows protocols to recover fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20causal%20modeling | Dynamic causal modeling (DCM) is a framework for specifying models, fitting them to data and comparing their evidence using Bayesian model comparison. It uses nonlinear state-space models in continuous time, specified using stochastic or ordinary differential equations. DCM was initially developed for testing hypothese... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNB2 | Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily B member 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNB2 gene. The protein encoded by this gene is a voltage-gated potassium channel subunit. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Injo-gogi-bap | Injo-gogi-bap, which means rice with artificial meat, is a North Korean dish, made of rice, kimchi, soy bean paste and soy bean oil. It is made by wrapping steamed rice in a light skin made from leftover soybean paste and dressed with a chili sauce. This creates a meat-like texture.
Injo-gogi-bap was created during th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Korean%20flags | This is a list of flags used by South Korea, North Korea, and their predecessor states.
Korean reunification flag
National
Political flags
North Korean government
South Korean government
Military
Korea
North Korea
South Korea
See also
List of North Korean flags
List of South Korean flags |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%20%28verification%20language%29 | e is a hardware verification language (HVL) which is tailored to implementing highly flexible and reusable verification testbenches.
History
e was first developed in 1992 in Israel by Yoav Hollander for his Specman software. In 1995 he founded a company, InSpec (later renamed Verisity), to commercialize the software... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20mismatch | Evolutionary mismatch (also "mismatch theory" or "evolutionary trap") is the evolutionary biology concept that a previously advantageous trait may become maladaptive due to change in the environment, especially when change is rapid. It is said this can take place in humans as well as other animals.
Environmental chang... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugar%20phosphates | Sugar phosphates (sugars that have added or substituted phosphate groups) are often used in biological systems to store or transfer energy. They also form the backbone for DNA and RNA. Sugar phosphate backbone geometry is altered in the vicinity of the modified nucleotides.
Examples include:
Dihydroxyacetonephosphate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MI8 | MI8, or Military Intelligence, Section 8 was a British Military Intelligence group responsible for signals intelligence and was created in 1914. It originally consisted of four sections: MI8(a), which dealt with wireless policy; MI8(b), based at the General Post Office, dealt with commercial and trade cables; MI8(c) de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaplygin%20sleigh | The Chaplygin sleigh is a simple pedagogical example of a nonholonomic system in mechanics, described by Sergey Chaplygin. It consists of a body that slides frictionlessly on a horizontal plane, with a knife edge that constrains its motion so that the knife slides only longitudinally. Because this constraint is nonholo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ERB1 | Erb1 also known as the eukaryotic ribosome biogenesis protein 1 is a yeast protein required for maturation of the 25S and 5.8S ribosomal RNAs. It is a component of 66S pre-ribosomal particles and is homologous to the human protein BOP1. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computing%20%28journal%29 | Computing, subtitled Archives for Scientific Computing, is a scientific journal published by Springer, which publishes research in computer science and numerical computation. Its ISSN is 0010-485X for the print version and 1436-5057 for the electronic version. , the editors of the journal are Hermann Brunner, Rainer Bu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piz%20Daint%20%28supercomputer%29 | Piz Daint is a supercomputer in the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, named after the mountain Piz Daint in the Swiss Alps.
It was ranked 8th on the TOP500 ranking of supercomputers until the end of 2015, higher than any other supercomputer in Europe.
At the end of 2016, the computing performance of Piz Daint was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Object%20Spectrometer | A multi-object spectrometer is a type of optical spectrometer capable of simultaneously acquiring the spectra of multiple separate objects in its field of view. It is used in astronomical spectroscopy and is related to long-slit spectroscopy. This technique became available in the 1980s.
Description
The term multi-ob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po%20%28food%29 | () is thin strips or sheets of dried meat and fish used in Korean cuisine. Po, which is made from meats including beef, pork, venison and poultry; and seafoods including whitefish, eel, squid, octopus, shrimp and crab; is eaten as snack food, banchan (food accompanying bap) or anju (food accompanying sul). Po is prepa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%20Sizhong%20%28ichthyologist%29 | Li Sizhong (; February 19, 1921 – January 11, 2009) was an ichthyologist with the Institute of Zoology () at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Throughout his research career, he made numerous discoveries of new fish species (or subspecies), and published many books and research papers describing the fauna and geographic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopscotch%20hashing | Hopscotch hashing is a scheme in computer programming for resolving hash collisions of values of hash functions in a table using open addressing. It is also well suited for implementing a concurrent hash table. Hopscotch hashing was introduced by Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit and Moran Tzafrir in 2008. The name is derive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Myhill | John R. Myhill Sr. (11 August 1923 – 15 February 1987) was a British mathematician.
Education
Myhill received his Ph.D. from Harvard University under Willard Van Orman Quine in 1949. He was professor at SUNY Buffalo from 1966 until his death in 1987. He also taught at several other universities.
His son, also calle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Zames | George Zames (January 7, 1934 – August 10, 1997) was a Polish-Canadian control theorist and professor at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Zames is known for his fundamental contributions to the theory of robust control, and was credited for the development of various well-known results such as small-gain th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20Compiled%20HTML%20Help | Microsoft Compiled HTML Help is a Microsoft proprietary online help format, consisting of a collection of HTML pages, an index and other navigation tools. The files are compressed and deployed in a binary format with the extension .CHM, for Compiled HTML. The format is often used for software documentation.
It was int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Malian%20flags | The Following is a list of flags used in Mali.
National Flag
Azawad Flags
Separatist Flags
Flags of Armed Groups and Political Organizations
Historical Flags
Mali Empire
Under Moroccan Rule
Local Kingdoms
Under French Rule
Independence
See also
Flag of Mali
Coat of arms of Mali |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retromammary%20space | Retromammary space is a loose areolar tissue that separates the breast from the pectoralis major muscle. The retromammary space is often the site of breast implantation due to its location away from key nerves and structures that support the breast. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode%20bridge | A diode bridge is a bridge rectifier circuit of four diodes that is used in the process of converting alternating current (AC) from the input terminals to direct current (DC, i.e. fixed polarity) on the output terminals. Its function is to convert the negative voltage portions of the AC waveform to positive voltage, af... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diadochokinesia | Diadochokinesia or diadochokinesis is the ability to make antagonistic movements in quick succession, alternately bringing a limb into opposite positions, as of flexion and extension or of pronation and supination. Speech-language pathology defines it as the speed necessary to stop a determined motor impulse and substi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat%20treating | Heat treating (or heat treatment) is a group of industrial, thermal and metalworking processes used to alter the physical, and sometimes chemical, properties of a material. The most common application is metallurgical. Heat treatments are also used in the manufacture of many other materials, such as glass. Heat treatme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimension%20W | Dimension W is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yūji Iwahara. It was published in Square Enix's seinen manga magazine Young Gangan from September 2011 to November 2015 and later in Monthly Big Gangan from December 2015 to June 2019. It is licensed in North America by Yen Press. The series follows an a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takahashi%20Meijin | , real name , is a former executive of Hudson Soft.
Biography
Joining Hudson Soft
While Toshiyuki Takahashi worked at a supermarket, he decided to invest in a Sharp brand computer. Since the investment was substantial, Toshiyuki decided to learn programming with the BASIC language. At the same time, a friend of his w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma%20McCoy | Emma Joan McCoy is the Vice President and Pro-Vice Chancellor for Education and a Professor of Statistics at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has acted as a mathematics subject expert for discussions on reform of the National Curriculum, and is a member of the Royal Statistical Society council... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20and%20the%20Search%20for%20Knowledge | Mathematics and the Search for Knowledge is a 1985 book by Morris Kline about the role of mathematics when understanding of the physical world. It is preceded by Kline's work, Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty.
In the book, Kline gives an outline of the development of physics, from ancient Greek astronomy to modern p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MT-ATP8 | MT-ATP8 (or ATP8) is a mitochondrial gene with the full name 'mitochondrially encoded ATP synthase membrane subunit 8' that encodes a subunit of mitochondrial ATP synthase, ATP synthase Fo subunit 8 (or subunit A6L). This subunit belongs to the Fo complex of the large, transmembrane F-type ATP synthase. This enzyme, wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septum%20primum | During heart development of a human embryo, the single primitive atrium becomes divided into right and left by a , the septum primum. The septum primum () grows downward into the single atrium.
Development
The gap below it is known as the ostium primum (), and becomes increasingly small. The septum primum eventually ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luebering%E2%80%93Rapoport%20pathway | In biochemistry, the Luebering–Rapoport pathway (also called the Luebering–Rapoport shunt) is a metabolic pathway in mature erythrocytes involving the formation of 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate (2,3-BPG), which regulates oxygen release from hemoglobin and delivery to tissues. 2,3-BPG, the reaction product of the Luebering–Ra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Linux-supported%20computer%20architectures | The basic components of the Linux family of operating systems, which are based on the Linux kernel, the GNU C Library, BusyBox or forks thereof like μClinux and uClibc, have been programmed with a certain level of abstraction in mind. Also, there are distinct code paths in the assembly language or C source code which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20Security%20Assessor | Internal Security Assessor (ISA) is a designation given by the PCI Security Standards Council to eligible internal security audit professionals working for a qualifying organization. The intent of this qualification is for these individuals to receive PCI DSS training so that their qualifying organization has a better... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunstone%20%28medieval%29 | The sunstone () is a type of mineral attested in several 13th–14th-century written sources in Iceland, one of which describes its use to locate the Sun in a completely overcast sky. Sunstones are also mentioned in the inventories of several churches and one monastery in 14th–15th-century Iceland and Germany.
A theory ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro%20Electronics%2C%20Inc. | Micro Electronics, Inc. (MEI) is an American privately owned corporation headquartered in Hilliard, Ohio. Founded in 1979 by John Baker, it serves as the parent company of the computer retailer Micro Center, its online division Micro Center Online, and its brand iPSG, which houses PowerSpec PC, WinBook, and Inland(incl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPS%20domain | In molecular biology, the BPS domain (Between PH and SH2) domain is a protein domain of approximately 45 amino acids found in the adaptor proteins Grb7/|Grb10/Grb14. It mediates inhibition of the tyrosine kinase domain of the insulin receptor by binding of the N-terminal portion of the BPS domain to the substrate pepti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapour%20density | Vapour density is the density of a vapour in relation to that of hydrogen. It may be defined as mass of a certain volume of a substance divided by mass of same volume of hydrogen.
vapour density = mass of n molecules of gas / mass of n molecules of hydrogen gas .
vapour density = molar mass of gas / molar mass of H2
v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakley%20protocol | The Oakley Key Determination Protocol is a key-agreement protocol that allows authenticated parties to exchange keying material across an insecure connection using the Diffie–Hellman key exchange algorithm. The protocol was proposed by Hilarie K. Orman in 1998, and formed the basis for the more widely used Internet Key... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rariglobus | Rariglobus is a genus of bacteria from the family of Opitutaceae with one known species Rariglobus hedericola. Rariglobus hederico has been isolated from a freshwater ditch in Eugendorf. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor%20P.%20Cushing | Eleanor Philbrook Cushing (December 27, 1856 – April 21, 1925) was an American mathematics professor, on the faculty of Smith College from 1881 to 1922.
Early life and education
Cushing was born in Bath, Maine, the daughter of Samuel Woodward Cushing and Mary Ann Mereen Cushing. Her father was a merchant. Her brother... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20flatness | In topology, a branch of mathematics, local flatness is a smoothness condition that can be imposed on topological submanifolds. In the category of topological manifolds, locally flat submanifolds play a role similar to that of embedded submanifolds in the category of smooth manifolds. Violations of local flatness descr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyroglutamyl-histidyl-glycine | Pyroglutamyl-histidyl-glycine (pEHG) is an endogenous tripeptide that acts as a tissue-specific antimitotic and selectively inhibits the proliferation of colon epithelial cells. Early research indicated that pEHG had anorectic effects in mice and was possibly involved in the pathophysiology of anorexia nervosa. However... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminal%20RNase | Bovine seminal RNase (BS-RNase) is a member of the ribonuclease superfamily produced by the bovine seminal vesicles. This enzyme can not be differentiated from its members distinctly since there are more features that this enzyme shares with its family members than features that it possess alone. The research on the qu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squirrel%20Systems | Squirrel Systems is a Burnaby-based point of sale vendor specializing in hospitality management systems. Squirrel is based in Burnaby, Canada.
History
Squirrel Systems was founded in 1984, and released the first restaurant point of sale system to use an integrated diskless touchscreen terminal for order management. Or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sito%20Pons%20500cc%20Grand%20Prix | Sito Pons 500cc Grand Prix is a 1990 racing video game developed and published by the Spanish company Zigurat Software (previously known as Made in Spain) for Amstrad CPC, MS-DOS, MSX and ZX Spectrum. Featuring former Spanish racer Sito Pons and themed around motorcycle racing, the game pit players driving the Honda NS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollinium | A pollinium (plural pollinia) is a coherent mass of pollen grains in a plant that are the product of only one anther, but are transferred, during pollination, as a single unit. This is regularly seen in plants such as orchids and many species of milkweeds (Asclepiadoideae). Usage of the term differs: in some orchids tw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Observationes%20Medicae%20%28Tulp%29 | Observationes Medicae is a 1641 book by Nicolaes Tulp. Tulp is primarily famous today for his central role in the 1632 group portrait by Rembrandt of the Amsterdam Guild of Surgeons, which commemorates his appointment as praelector in 1628.
"Observationes Medicae" is also the title commonly used by early Dutch doctor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nemytskii%20operator | In mathematics, Nemytskii operators are a class of nonlinear operators on Lp spaces with good continuity and boundedness properties. They take their name from the mathematician Viktor Vladimirovich Nemytskii.
Definition
Let Ω be a domain (an open and connected set) in n-dimensional Euclidean space. A function f : Ω ×... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-focus%20image%20fusion | Multi-focus image fusion is a multiple image compression technique using input images with different focus depths to make one output image that preserves all information.
Overview
In recent years, image fusion has been used in many applications such as remote sensing, surveillance, medical diagnosis, and photography ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JurisPedia | JurisPedia is a wiki-based online encyclopedia of academic law in many languages, currently available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Spanish and Dutch. It was started in October 2004, inspired in part by Wikipedia and the Enciclopedia Libre (University of Seville). JurisPedia runs on the MediaWiki softwa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SEC%20TV | SEC TV (formerly SEC Network) was a syndicated package featuring live broadcasts of college football and basketball events from the Southeastern Conference. It was owned and operated by ESPN Regional Television and shown in more than 50 percent of households in the United States, mostly Southeastern United States marke... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vukajlija | Vukajlija is a popular Serbia-based web site very similar to Urban Dictionary in content. As such, the site mainly consists of often humorous definitions, observations and (not rarely vulgar) explanations of slang terms from a more local point of view that the one on Urban Dictionary.
The name Vukajlija is itself a wo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacing%20%28drugs%29 | Lacing or cutting, in drug culture, refer to the act of using a substance (referred to as the lacing agent or cutting agent) to adulterate substances independent of the reason. The resulting substance is laced or cut.
Some street drugs are commonly laced with other chemicals for various reasons, but it is most commonl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xgrid | Xgrid is a proprietary grid computing program and protocol developed by the Advanced Computation Group subdivision of Apple Inc.
It provides network administrators a method of creating a computing cluster, which allows them to exploit previously unused computational power for calculations that can be divided easily in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20cooling | Algorithmic cooling is an algorithmic method for transferring heat (or entropy) from some qubits to others or outside the system and into the environment, which results in a cooling effect. This method uses regular quantum operations on ensembles of qubits, and it can be shown that it can succeed beyond Shannon's bound... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20PAM | Linux Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) is a suite of libraries that allow a Linux system administrator to configure methods to authenticate users. It provides a flexible and centralized way to switch authentication methods for secured applications by using configuration files instead of changing application code.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotechnology%20Regulatory%20Authority%20of%20India | The Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) is a proposed regulatory body in India for uses of biotechnology products including genetically modified organisms (GMOs). The institute was first suggested under the Biotechnology Regulatory Authority of India (BRAI) draft bill prepared by the Department of Biotec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGSOFT | The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Software Engineering provides a forum for computing professionals from industry, government and academia to examine principles, practices, and new research results in software engineering.
SIGSOFT focuses on issues related to all aspects of software... |
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