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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacral%20lymph%20nodes | The sacral lymph nodes are placed in the concavity of the sacrum, in relation to the middle and lateral sacral arteries; they receive lymphatics from the rectum and posterior wall of the pelvis. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoBack | Norton GoBack (previously WildFile GoBack, Adaptec GoBack, and Roxio GoBack) is a disk utility for Microsoft Windows that can record up to 8 GB of disk changes. When the filesystem is idle for a few seconds, it marks these as "safe points". The product allows the disk drive to be restored to any point within the availa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synteny | In genetics, the term synteny refers to two related concepts:
In classical genetics, synteny describes the physical co-localization of genetic loci on the same chromosome within an individual or species.
In current biology, synteny more commonly refers to colinearity, i.e. conservation of blocks of order within two ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/71st%20meridian%20west | The meridian 71° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Atlantic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, South America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 71st meridian west forms a great circle with the 109th me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACTA2 | ACTA2 (actin alpha 2) is an actin protein with several aliases including alpha-actin, alpha-actin-2, aortic smooth muscle or alpha smooth muscle actin (α-SMA, SMactin, alpha-SM-actin, ASMA). Actins are a family of globular multi-functional proteins that form microfilaments. ACTA2 is one of 6 different actin isoforms an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20security%20awareness | Internet security awareness or Cyber security awareness refers to how much end-users know about the cyber security threats their networks face, the risks they introduce and mitigating security best practices to guide their behavior. End users are considered the weakest link and the primary vulnerability within a netwo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum%20Remediation%20Product | Petroleum Remediation Product (PRP) is a registered trade name of United Remediation Technology for a line of biodegradable wax-based hydrocarbon adsorbents and bioremediation agents. PRP was created in the 1990s by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and has been used to assist in remediating oil spills such as the 2010 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankyrin-1 | Ankyrin 1, also known as ANK-1, and erythrocyte ankyrin, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ANK1 gene.
Tissue distribution
The protein encoded by this gene, Ankyrin 1, is the prototype of the ankyrin family, was first discovered in erythrocytes, but since has also been found in brain and muscles.
Genetics
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hughes%E2%80%93Stovin%20syndrome | Hughes–Stovin Syndrome (HSS) is a rare autoimmune disorder often described as inflammation in relation to blood vessels, a form of vasculitis. It is not associated with any known cause and is typically characterized by multiple aneurysms in pulmonary arteries and deep vein thromboses. It is named after the two British ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wasting | In medicine, wasting, also known as wasting syndrome, refers to the process by which a debilitating disease causes muscle and fat tissue to "waste" away. Wasting is sometimes referred to as "acute malnutrition" because it is believed that episodes of wasting have a short duration, in contrast to stunting, which is rega... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artin%E2%80%93Mazur%20zeta%20function | In mathematics, the Artin–Mazur zeta function, named after Michael Artin and Barry Mazur, is a function that is used for studying the iterated functions that occur in dynamical systems and fractals.
It is defined from a given function as the formal power series
where is the set of fixed points of the th iterate of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Mosses | Peter David Mosses (born 1948) is a British computer scientist.
Peter Mosses studied mathematics as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Oxford, and went on to undertake a DPhil supervised by Christopher Strachey in the Programming Research Group while at Wolfson College, Oxford in the early 1970s. He was the last stu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20National%20Calibration%20Reference%20Centre | The National Calibration Reference Centre for Bioassay and In Vivo Monitoring (NCRC) is administered by the Radiation Protection Bureau of the Canadian Federal Department of Health. It was created in 1982 through a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed between the regulator of the nuclear industry, the Canadian Nucl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20analysis%20pattern | Software analysis patterns or analysis patterns in software engineering are conceptual models, which capture an abstraction of a situation that can often be encountered in modelling. An analysis pattern can be represented as "a group of related, generic objects (meta-classes) with stereotypical attributes (data definit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisset%20Hawkins%20Medal | The Bisset Hawkins Medal is a triennial award made by the Royal College of Physicians of London to acknowledge work done in the preceding ten years in advancing sanitary science or promoting public health. It is named after Francis Bisset Hawkins (1796–1884), a distinguished London physician and is presented after the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartic%20interaction | In quantum field theory, a quartic interaction is a type of self-interaction in a scalar field. Other types of quartic interactions may be found under the topic of four-fermion interactions. A classical free scalar field satisfies the Klein–Gordon equation. If a scalar field is denoted , a quartic interaction is repr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable%20data%20terminal | A portable data terminal, or shortly PDT, is an electronic device that is used to enter or retrieve data via wireless transmission (WLAN or WWAN). They have also been called enterprise digital assistants (EDA), data capture mobile devices, batch terminals or just portables.
They can also serve as barcode readers, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers%20against%20decapentaplegic | Mothers against decapentaplegic is a protein from the SMAD family that was discovered in Drosophila. During Drosophila research, it was found that a mutation in the gene in the mother repressed the gene decapentaplegic in the embryo. The phrase "Mothers against" was added as a humorous take-off on organizations opposin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersil%20ICL8038 | The ICL8038 waveform generator was an Integrated circuit by Intersil designed to generate sine, square and triangular waveforms, based on bipolar monolithic technology involving Schottky barrier diodes. ICL8038 was a voltage-controlled oscillator capable of producing frequencies between a millihertz and 100 kHz., some ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Ranger%20Federation | The International Ranger Federation is an organisation which represents Park Rangers and Park Wardens across the world.
Many countries have agencies that undertake the protection and management of natural areas. The rangers within these organisations are represented at the international level by the International Rang... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20A.%20Hartford%20Foundation | The John A. Hartford Foundation (JAHF or the Hartford Foundation) is a private United States-based philanthropy whose current mission is to improve the care of older adults. For many years, it made grants for research and education in geriatric medicine, nursing and social work. It now focuses on three priority areas: ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fencing%20%28computing%29 | Fencing is the process of isolating a node of a computer cluster or protecting shared resources when a node appears to be malfunctioning.
As the number of nodes in a cluster increases, so does the likelihood that one of them may fail at some point. The failed node may have control over shared resources that need to b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected%20procedure | In computer science, the concept of protected procedure, first introduced as protected service routine in 1965, is necessary when two computations A and B use the same routine S; a protected procedure is such if makes not possible for a malfunction of one of the two computation to cause incorrect execution to the other... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumentation%20amplifier | An instrumentation amplifier (sometimes shorthanded as in-amp or InAmp) is a type of differential amplifier that has been outfitted with input buffer amplifiers, which eliminate the need for input impedance matching and thus make the amplifier particularly suitable for use in measurement and test equipment. Additional ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Williams%20%28robot%20fatality%29 | Robert Nicholas Williams (May 2, 1953 – January 25, 1979) was an American factory worker who was the first known human to be killed by a robot. While working at the Ford Motor Company's Michigan Casting Center, Williams was killed by an industrial robot arm on January 25, 1979.
Death and litigation
Williams was one o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine-associated%20sarcoma | A vaccine-associated sarcoma (VAS) or feline injection-site sarcoma (FISS) is a type of malignant tumor found in cats (and, often, dogs and ferrets) which has been linked to certain vaccines. VAS has become a concern for veterinarians and cat owners alike and has resulted in changes in recommended vaccine protocols. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-difference-free%20set | In mathematics, a square-difference-free set is a set of natural numbers, no two of which differ by a square number. Hillel Furstenberg and András Sárközy proved in the late 1970s the Furstenberg–Sárközy theorem of additive number theory showing that, in a certain sense, these sets cannot be very large. In the game of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octadecanoid%20pathway | The octadecanoid pathway is a biosynthetic pathway for the production of the phytohormone jasmonic acid (JA), an important hormone for induction of defense genes. JA is synthesized from alpha-linolenic acid, which can be released from the plasma membrane by certain lipase enzymes. For example, in the wound defense resp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haploidisation | Haploidisation is the process of halving the chromosomal content of a cell, producing a haploid cell. Within the normal reproductive cycle, haploidisation is one of the major functional consequences of meiosis, the other being a process of chromosomal crossover that mingles the genetic content of the parental chromosom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core%20electron | Core electrons are the electrons in an atom that are not valence electrons and do not participate in chemical bonding. The nucleus and the core electrons of an atom form the atomic core. Core electrons are tightly bound to the nucleus. Therefore, unlike valence electrons, core electrons play a secondary role in chemica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20Boltzmann%20equation | The quantum Boltzmann equation, also known as the Uehling-Uhlenbeck equation, is the quantum mechanical modification of the Boltzmann equation, which gives the nonequilibrium time evolution of a gas of quantum-mechanically interacting particles. Typically, the quantum Boltzmann equation is given as only the “collision ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20wasting | Mass wasting, also known as mass movement, is a general term for the movement of rock or soil down slopes under the force of gravity. It differs from other processes of erosion in that the debris transported by mass wasting is not entrained in a moving medium, such as water, wind, or ice. Types of mass wasting include ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-organized%20criticality%20control | In applied physics, the concept of controlling self-organized criticality refers to the control of processes by which a self-organized system dissipates energy. The objective of the control is to reduce the probability of occurrence of and size of energy dissipation bursts, often called avalanches, of self-organized sy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudorandom%20binary%20sequence | A pseudorandom binary sequence (PRBS), pseudorandom binary code or pseudorandom bitstream is a binary sequence that, while generated with a deterministic algorithm, is difficult to predict and exhibits statistical behavior similar to a truly random sequence. PRBS generators are used in telecommunication, such as in ana... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoke%20inhalation | Smoke inhalation is the breathing in of harmful fumes (produced as by-products of combusting substances) through the respiratory tract. This can cause smoke inhalation injury (subtype of acute inhalation injury) which is damage to the respiratory tract caused by chemical and/or heat exposure, as well as possible system... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethmoidal%20nerves | The ethmoidal nerves, which arise from the nasociliary nerve, supply the ethmoidal cells; the posterior branch leaves the orbital cavity through the posterior ethmoidal foramen and gives some filaments to the sphenoidal sinus. There are two ethmoidal nerves on each side of the face:
posterior ethmoidal nerve
anterior... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain%20of%20trust | In computer security, a chain of trust is established by validating each component of hardware and software from the end entity up to the root certificate. It is intended to ensure that only trusted software and hardware can be used while still retaining flexibility.
Introduction
A chain of trust is designed to allow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown%20measure | In mathematics, the Brown measure of an operator in a finite factor is a probability measure on the complex plane which may be viewed as an analog of the spectral counting measure (based on algebraic multiplicity) of matrices.
It is named after Lawrence G. Brown.
Definition
Let be a finite factor with the canonical... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Life%20of%20Birds | The Life of Birds is a BBC nature documentary series written and presented by David Attenborough, first transmitted in the United Kingdom from 21 October 1998.
A study of the evolution and habits of birds, it was the third of Attenborough's specialised surveys following his major trilogy that began with Life on Earth.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation%20property%20%28finance%29 | A separation property is a crucial element of modern portfolio theory that gives a portfolio manager the ability to separate the process of satisfying investing clients' assets into two separate parts.
The first part is the determination of the "optimum risky portfolio". This portfolio is the same for all clients. In ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interdigital%20transducer | An interdigital transducer (IDT) is a device that consists of two interlocking comb-shaped arrays of metallic electrodes (in the fashion of a zipper). These metallic electrodes are deposited on the surface of a piezoelectric substrate, such as quartz or lithium niobate, to form a periodic structure.
Function
IDTs prim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20key%20issuing%20cryptography | Secure key issuing is variant of ID-based cryptography that reduces the level of trust that needs to be placed in a trusted third party by spreading the trust across multiple third parties. In addition to the normally transmitted information the user supplies what is known as "blinding" information
which can be used to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorption%20cross%20section | In physics, absorption cross section is a measure for the probability of an absorption process. More generally, the term cross section is used in physics to quantify the probability of a certain particle-particle interaction, e.g., scattering, electromagnetic absorption, etc. (Note that light in this context is describ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RecLOH | RecLOH is a term in genetics that is an abbreviation for "Recombinant Loss of Heterozygosity".
This is a type of mutation which occurs with DNA by recombination. From a pair of equivalent ("homologous"), but slightly different (heterozygous) genes, a pair of identical genes results. In this case there is a non-recipro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avoided%20crossing | In quantum physics and quantum chemistry, an avoided crossing (sometimes called intended crossing, non-crossing or anticrossing) is the phenomenon where two eigenvalues of a Hermitian matrix representing a quantum observable and depending on N continuous real parameters cannot become equal in value ("cross") except on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pathogenic%20microorganisms%20in%20frozen%20environments | On Earth, frozen environments such as permafrost and glaciers are known for their ability to preserve items, as they are too cold for ordinary decomposition to take place. This makes them a valuable source of archeological artefacts and prehistoric fossils, yet it also means that there are certain risks once ancient or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestral%20relation | In mathematical logic, the ancestral relation (often shortened to ancestral) of a binary relation R is its transitive closure, however defined in a different way, see below.
Ancestral relations make their first appearance in Frege's Begriffsschrift. Frege later employed them in his Grundgesetze as part of his definit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Software%20Engineering | The International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE), is one of the largest annual software engineering conferences. It has an 'A*' rating in the Rankings of the Computing Research and Education Association of Australasia (CORE) and an 'A1' rating from the Brazilian ministry of education. Furthermore, it is the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor%20operator | In pure and applied mathematics, quantum mechanics and computer graphics, a tensor operator generalizes the notion of operators which are scalars and vectors. A special class of these are spherical tensor operators which apply the notion of the spherical basis and spherical harmonics. The spherical basis closely relate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann%E2%80%93Hilbert%20correspondence | In mathematics, the term Riemann–Hilbert correspondence refers to the correspondence between regular singular flat connections on algebraic vector bundles and representations of the fundamental group, and more generally to one of several generalizations of this.
The original setting appearing in Hilbert's twenty-first ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wound%20ballistics | The field of wound ballistics largely comprises the study of the physical and physiological effects of ballistic trauma by projectiles (primarily, but not exclusively, bullets) on living humans or animals. It can be considered the interdisciplinary intersection of trauma medicine and terminal ballistics.
See also
Bu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monodromy%20theorem | In complex analysis, the monodromy theorem is an important result about analytic continuation of a complex-analytic function to a larger set. The idea is that one can extend a complex-analytic function (from here on called simply analytic function) along curves starting in the original domain of the function and endin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annulus%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, an annulus (: annuli or annuluses) is the region between two concentric circles. Informally, it is shaped like a ring or a hardware washer. The word "annulus" is borrowed from the Latin word anulus or annulus meaning 'little ring'. The adjectival form is annular (as in annular eclipse).
The open annulu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAF-TE | In computer storage, SAF-TE (abbreviated from SCSI Accessed Fault-Tolerant Enclosure) is an industry standard to interface an enclosure in-band to a (parallel) SCSI subsystem in order to gain access to information or control for various elements and parameters. These include temperature, fan status, slot status (popul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20hole%20%28networking%29 | In networking, a black hole, also known as a block hole, refers to a place in the network where incoming or outgoing traffic is silently discarded (or "dropped"), without informing the source that the data did not reach its intended recipient.
When examining the topology of the network, the black holes themselves are ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic%20Health%20Science%20Networks | Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) are membership organisations within the NHS in England. They were created in May 2013 with the aim of bringing together health services, and academic and industry members. Their stated purpose is to improve patient outcomes and generate economic benefits by promoting and encoura... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20linear%20algebra | This is a glossary of linear algebra.
See also: glossary of module theory.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paresis | In medicine, paresis () is a condition typified by a weakness of voluntary movement, or by partial loss of voluntary movement or by impaired movement. When used without qualifiers, it usually refers to the limbs, but it can also be used to describe the muscles of the eyes (ophthalmoparesis), the stomach (gastroparesis)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rank%20factorization | In mathematics, given a field , nonnegative integers , and a matrix , a rank decomposition or rank factorization of is a factorization of of the form , where and , where is the rank of .
Existence
Every finite-dimensional matrix has a rank decomposition: Let be an matrix whose column rank is . Therefore, there ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Default%20route | In computer networking, the default route is a configuration of the Internet Protocol (IP) that establishes a forwarding rule for packets when no specific address of a next-hop host is available from the routing table or other routing mechanisms.
The default route is generally the address of another router, which trea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20data%20offloading | Mobile data offloading is the use of complementary network technologies for delivering data originally targeted for cellular networks. Offloading reduces the amount of data being carried on the cellular bands, freeing bandwidth for other users. It is also used in situations where local cell reception may be poor, allow... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subclade | In genetics, a subclade is a subgroup of a haplogroup.
Naming convention
Although human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and Y chromosome DNA (Y-DNA) haplogroups and subclades are named in a similar manner, their names belong to completely separate systems.
mtDNA
mtDNA haplogroups are defined by the presence of a series of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe%20%28platform%29 | Universe (stylized as UNIVERSE; ) was a Korean mobile app and web platform created by the video game developer NCSoft and operated by its entertainment subsidiary Klap.
The global K-pop entertainment platform revealed all 38 participating artists individually from November 12, 2020, to August 29, 2022. The platform of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moor%27s%20head | A Moor's head, since the 11th century, is a symbol depicting the head of a black moor.
Origin
The precise origin of the Moor's head is a subject of controversy. The most likely explanation is that it is derived from the heraldic war flag of the Reconquista depicting the Cross of Alcoraz, symbolizing Peter I of Aragon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biostrophin | Biostrophin is a drug which may serve as a vehicle for gene therapy, in the treatment of Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy.
As mutations in the gene which codes for the protein dystrophin is the underlying defect responsible for both
disorders, biostrophin will deliver a genetically-engineered, functional copy o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regius%20Professor%20of%20Zoology | The Regius Chair of Zoology is a Regius Professorship at the University of Glasgow. It was founded in 1807 by George III of the United Kingdom as the Regius Chair of Natural History. In 1903, when the Chair of Geology was founded at Glasgow University, the title was changed to Zoology.
Regius Professors of Natural Hi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counting | Counting is the process of determining the number of elements of a finite set of objects; that is, determining the size of a set. The traditional way of counting consists of continually increasing a (mental or spoken) counter by a unit for every element of the set, in some order, while marking (or displacing) those ele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven%20management%20and%20planning%20tools | The seven management and planning tools have their roots in operations research work done after World War II and the Japanese total quality control (TQC) research.
The New seven tools
Affinity Diagram [KJ method]
Affinity diagrams are a special kind of brainstorming tool that organize large amount of disorganized d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placentation | Placentation refers to the formation, type and structure, or arrangement of the placenta. The function of placentation is to transfer nutrients, respiratory gases, and water from maternal tissue to a growing embryo, and in some instances to remove waste from the embryo. Placentation is best known in live-bearing mammal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorial%20moment%20generating%20function | In probability theory and statistics, the factorial moment generating function (FMGF) of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable X is defined as
for all complex numbers t for which this expected value exists. This is the case at least for all t on the unit circle , see characteristic function. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C14orf102 | Chromosome 14 open reading frame 102 (accession: AK294958; alias: C14orf102, FLJ14051, FLJ10008, FLJ52106) is a 3810bp protein-encoding gene that is highly conserved among its non-distant orthologs. It contains 20 introns and 8 different RNAs - 7 splice variants and 1 unspliced form - and is located on the reverse str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molybdenum%20disulfide | Molybdenum disulfide (or moly) is an inorganic compound composed of molybdenum and sulfur. Its chemical formula is .
The compound is classified as a transition metal dichalcogenide. It is a silvery black solid that occurs as the mineral molybdenite, the principal ore for molybdenum. is relatively unreactive. It is un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong%20and%20weak%20typing | In computer programming, one of the many ways that programming languages are colloquially classified is whether the language's type system makes it strongly typed or weakly typed (loosely typed). However, there is no precise technical definition of what the terms mean and different authors disagree about the implied me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slime%20Rancher%202 | Slime Rancher 2 is a first-person life simulation adventure video game developed and published by American indie studio Monomi Park. Slime Rancher 2 is the direct sequel to its predecessor Slime Rancher (2017). It features the playable character and main protagonist of Slime Rancher, Beatrix LeBeau, exploring a new lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20elephant | In algebraic geometry, general elephant is an idiosyncratic name for a general element of the anticanonical system of a variety, introduced by Miles Reid. For 3-folds the general elephant problem (or conjecture) asks whether general elephants have at most du Val singularities; this has been proved in several cases. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown-brown | Brown-brown is a purported form of cocaine or amphetamine insufflation mixed with smokeless gunpowder. This powder often contains nitroglycerin, a drug prescribed for heart conditions, which might cause vasodilation, permitting the cocaine or amphetamine insufflation to move more freely through the body. This, in turn... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet%20Burns | Harriet Burns (August 20, 1928 – July 25, 2008) was an American artist and designer. Burns was the first woman hired in the Walt Disney Imagineering department within the Walt Disney Company.
Biography
Early life
Burns was born Harriet Tapp in San Antonio, Texas, on August 20, 1928, and raised in Seguin, Texas. She ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primordial%20black%20hole | In cosmology, primordial black holes (PBHs) are hypothetical black holes that formed soon after the Big Bang. In the inflationary era and early radiation-dominated universe, extremely dense pockets of subatomic matter may have been tightly packed to the point of gravitational collapse, creating primordial black holes w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezhil%20%28programming%20language%29 | Ezhil, in Tamil language script (, ), is a compact, open source, interpreted, programming language, originally designed to enable native-Tamil speaking students, K-12 age-group to learn computer programming, and enable learning numeracy and computing, outside of linguistic expertise in predominately English language-ba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shubnikov%E2%80%93de%20Haas%20effect | An oscillation in the conductivity of a material that occurs at low temperatures in the presence of very intense magnetic fields, the Shubnikov–de Haas effect (SdH) is a macroscopic manifestation of the inherent quantum mechanical nature of matter. It is often used to determine the effective mass of charge carriers (el... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving%20door | A revolving door typically consists of three or four doors that hang on a central shaft and rotate around a vertical axis within a cylindrical enclosure. To use a revolving door, a person enters the enclosure between two of the doors and then moves continuously to the desired exit while keeping pace with the doors.
R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANNOVAR | ANNOVAR (ANNOtate VARiation) is a bioinformatics software tool for the interpretation and prioritization of single nucleotide variants (SNVs), insertions, deletions, and copy number variants (CNVs) of a given genome.
It has the ability to annotate human genomes hg18, hg19, hg38, and model organisms genomes such as: mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete%20numbering | In computability theory complete numberings are generalizations of Gödel numbering first introduced by A.I. Mal'tsev in 1963. They are studied because several important results like the Kleene's recursion theorem and Rice's theorem, which were originally proven for the Gödel-numbered set of computable functions, still ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enlightenment%20Foundation%20Libraries | The Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) are a set of graphics libraries that grew out of the development of Enlightenment, a window manager and Wayland compositor. The project's focus is to make the EFL a flexible yet powerful and easy to use set of tools to extend the capabilities of both the Enlightenment window... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy%20of%20atomization | In chemistry, the enthalpy of atomization (also atomisation in British English) is the enthalpy change that accompanies the total separation of all atoms in a chemical substance (either an element or a compound). This is often represented by the symbol or All bonds in the compound are broken in atomization and none a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regenerative%20circuit | A regenerative circuit is an amplifier circuit that employs positive feedback (also known as regeneration or reaction). Some of the output of the amplifying device is applied back to its input to add to the input signal, increasing the amplification. One example is the Schmitt trigger (which is also known as a regenera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf%20of%20St.%20Lawrence%20lowland%20forests | The Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests are a temperate broadleaf and mixed forest ecoregion of Eastern Canada, as defined by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) categorization system.
Setting
Located on the Gulf of Saint Lawrence, the world's largest estuary, this ecoregion covers all of Prince Edward Island, the Les Îles... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical%20game%20theory | In game theory, the common ways to describe a game are the normal form and the extensive form. The graphical form is an alternate compact representation of a game using the interaction among participants.
Consider a game with players with strategies each. We will represent the players as nodes in a graph in which ea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BTZ%20black%20hole | The BTZ black hole, named after Máximo Bañados, Claudio Teitelboim, and Jorge Zanelli, is a black hole solution for (2+1)-dimensional topological gravity with a negative cosmological constant.
History
In 1992 Bañados, Teitelboim and Zanelli discovered the BTZ black hole solution . This came as a surprise, because whe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmesis | Cosmesis is the preservation, restoration, or bestowing of bodily beauty. In the medical context, it usually refers to the surgical correction of a disfiguring defect, or the cosmetic improvements made by a surgeon following incisions. Its use is generally limited to the additional, usually minor, steps that the surgeo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Message%20queuing%20service | A message queueing service is a message-oriented middleware or MOM deployed in a compute cloud using software as a service model. Service subscribers access queues and or topics to exchange data using point-to-point or publish and subscribe patterns.
Goals
A message queueing service aims to eliminate the traditional o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitali%20set | In mathematics, a Vitali set is an elementary example of a set of real numbers that is not Lebesgue measurable, found by Giuseppe Vitali in 1905. The Vitali theorem is the existence theorem that there are such sets. There are uncountably many Vitali sets, and their existence depends on the axiom of choice. In 1970, Rob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function%20approximation | In general, a function approximation problem asks us to select a function among a that closely matches ("approximates") a in a task-specific way. The need for function approximations arises in many branches of applied mathematics, and computer science in particular , such as predicting the growth of microbes in micro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.%20Blaine%20Lawson | Herbert Blaine Lawson, Jr. is a mathematician best known for his work in minimal surfaces, calibrated geometry, and algebraic cycles. He is currently a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Stony Brook University. He received his PhD from Stanford University in 1969 for work carried out under the supervision of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pugmark | Pugmark is the term used to refer to the footprint of most animals (especially megafauna). "Pug" means foot in Hindi (Sanskrit पद् "pad"; Greek πούς "poús"). Every individual animal species has a distinct pugmark and as such this is used for identification.
Wildlife conservationists are known to catalogue pugmarks in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexel | The term Dexel has two common uses:
Dexel ("depth pixel") is a concept used for a discretized representation of functions defined on surfaces used in geometrical modeling and physical simulation, sometimes also referred to as multilevel Z-map. Dexel is a nodal value of a scalar or vector field on a meshed surface. Dexe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNF%20receptor%20superfamily | The tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily (TNFRSF) is a protein superfamily of cytokine receptors characterized by the ability to bind tumor necrosis factors (TNFs) via an extracellular cysteine-rich domain. With the exception of nerve growth factor (NGF), all TNFs are homologous to the archetypal TNF-alpha. In th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds%20Tiger | The Leeds Tiger is a taxidermy-mounted 19th-century Bengal tiger, displayed at Leeds City Museum in West Yorkshire, England. It has been a local visitor attraction for over 150 years.
The tiger was shot and killed by Charles Reid in the Dehrah Dhoon valley near Dehradun, India, in 1860. It was displayed as a tiger sk... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disulfur%20monoxide | Disulfur monoxide or sulfur suboxide is an inorganic compound with the formula S2O, one of the lower sulfur oxides. It is a colourless gas and condenses to give a roughly dark red coloured solid that is unstable at room temperature.
occurs rarely in natural atmospheres, but can be made by a variety of laboratory proc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dbx%20Model%20700%20Digital%20Audio%20Processor | The dbx Model 700 Digital Audio Processor was a professional audio ADC/DAC combination unit, which digitized a stereo analog audio input into a bitstream, which was then encoded and encapsulated in an analog composite video signal, for recording to tape using a VCR as a transport. Unlike other similar pieces of equipme... |
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