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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation%20implosion | Radiation implosion is the compression of a target by the use of high levels of electromagnetic radiation. The major use for this technology is in fusion bombs and inertial confinement fusion research.
History
Radiation implosion was first developed by Klaus Fuchs and John von Neumann in the United States, as part o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9%20Seminars | The Poincaré Seminars, named for the mathematician and theoretical physicist Henri Poincaré, were founded in 2001. They are nicknamed Bourbaphy for their inspiration by the Bourbaki Seminars.
The goal of this seminar is to provide information on topics of current interest in physics. Its way of working is directly ins... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmologia | Arithmologia, sive De Abditis Numerorum Mysteriis is a 1665 work by the Jesuit scholar Athanasius Kircher. It was published by Varese, the main printing house for the Jesuit order in Rome in the mid-17th century. It was dedicated to Franz III. Nádasdy, a convert to Catholicism to whom Kircher had previously co-dedicate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrobiopterin | Dihydrobiopterin (BH2) is a pteridine compound produced in the synthesis of L-DOPA, dopamine, serotonin, norepinephrine and epinephrine. It is restored to the required cofactor tetrahydrobiopterin by dihydrobiopterin reductase.
See also
Pteridine
Tetrahydrobiopterin
Biomolecules |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression%20problem | The expression problem is a challenging problem in programming languages that concerns the extensibility and modularity of statically typed data abstractions. The goal is to define a data abstraction that is extensible both in its representations and its behaviors, where one can add new representations and new behavior... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Photonics%20Society | The IEEE Photonics Society, formerly the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society (LEOS), is a society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), focused on the scientific and engineering knowledge about the field of quantum electronics.
In the hierarchy of IEEE, the Photonics Society is one of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylallyl%20pyrophosphate | Dimethylallyl pyrophosphate (DMAPP; or alternatively, dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMADP); also isoprenyl pyrophosphate) is an isoprenoid precursor. It is a product of both the mevalonate pathway and the MEP pathway of isoprenoid precursor biosynthesis. It is an isomer of isopentenyl pyrophosphate (IPP) and exists in vi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAESAR%20%28spacecraft%29 | CAESAR (Comet Astrobiology Exploration Sample Return) is a sample-return mission concept to comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. The mission was proposed in 2017 to NASA's New Frontiers program mission 4, and on 20 December 2017 it was one of two finalists selected for further concept development. On 27 June 2019, the othe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isospectral | In mathematics, two linear operators are called isospectral or cospectral if they have the same spectrum. Roughly speaking, they are supposed to have the same sets of eigenvalues, when those are counted with multiplicity.
The theory of isospectral operators is markedly different depending on whether the space is finit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTS%20Glucitol%20Family | The PTS Glucitol (Gut) Family (TC# 4.A.4)consists only of glucitol-specific porters, but these occur both in Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria. It is part of the PTS-GFL superfamily.
Structure
IIGut of Escherichia coli consists of three proteins, a IIA protein, a putative 4 TMS IIC2 protein and a putative 4 TM... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Math%20Blaster%20Jr. | Math Blaster Jr. is a 1996 educational video game, aimed at ages 4–8. The game was re-released as Math Blaster: Ages 4 - 6 in 1997.
Production
The game was officially announced by Davidson & Associates in February 1996 as a spin-off to the 1982 title Math Blaster! intended to "introduce young learners to essential mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean%20B.%20Carroll | Sean B. Carroll (born September 17, 1960) is an American evolutionary developmental biologist, author, educator and executive producer. He is a distinguished university professor at the University of Maryland and professor emeritus of molecular biology and genetics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. His studies fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20skyrmion | In physics, magnetic skyrmions (occasionally described as 'vortices,' or 'vortex-like'
configurations) are statically stable soliton which have been predicted theoretically and observed experimentally in condensed matter systems. Magnetic skyrmions can be formed in magnetic materials in their 'bulk' such as in manganes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquefaction | In materials science, liquefaction is a process that generates a liquid from a solid or a gas or that generates a non-liquid phase which behaves in accordance with fluid dynamics.
It occurs both naturally and artificially. As an example of the latter, a "major commercial application of liquefaction is the liquefaction... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium/potassium/calcium%20exchanger%204 | Sodium/potassium/calcium exchanger 4 also known as solute carrier family 24 member 4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC24A4 gene.
Clinical effects
Mutations in SLC24A4 cause amelogenesis imperfecta. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orostachys%20japonica | Orostachys japonica (Japanese：爪蓮華、昭和、秀女）also known as rock pine is a species of flowering plant in the family Crassulaceae. Native to East Asia. Its main habitat is on the surface of mountain rocks in Korea, Japan and China.
Ecology
Orostachys japonica is a biennial/perennial plant growing to . It is in flower from ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray%20S.%20Klamkin | Murray Seymour Klamkin (March 5, 1921 – August 6, 2004) was an American mathematician, known as prolific proposer and editor of professionally-challenging mathematical problems.
Life
Klamkin was born on March 5, 1921, in Brooklyn, New York. He received a bachelor's degree from the Cooper Union in 1942 and, after four ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbs%20state | In probability theory and statistical mechanics, a Gibbs state is an equilibrium probability distribution which remains invariant under future evolution of the system. For example, a stationary or steady-state distribution of a Markov chain, such as that achieved by running a Markov chain Monte Carlo iteration for a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRC%20Human%20Nutrition%20Research | MRC Human Nutrition Research was the largest research institute in the UK for human nutrition, and was based in Cambridge.
History
In 1998 MRC Human Nutrition Research (HNR) was formed as a result of the restructuring of the Dunn Human Nutrition Unit following the resignation of Professor Roger Whitehead. The Medical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopiazonic%20acid | Cyclopiazonic acid (α-CPA), a mycotoxin and a fungal neurotoxin, is made by the molds Aspergillus and Penicillium. It is an indole-tetramic acid that serves as a toxin due to its ability to inhibit calcium-dependent ATPases found in the endoplasmic and sarcoplasmic reticulum. This inhibition disrupts the muscle contrac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yocasta%20Brugal | Yocasta Clara Brugal Mena is a Puerto Rican forensic pathologist and academic administrator. She is the president and dean of San Juan Bautista School of Medicine. Brugal leads the department of clinical pathology.
Brugal completed a M.D. at the University of Barcelona's in 1971. She specializes in pathology and fore... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartan%E2%80%93K%C3%A4hler%20theorem | In mathematics, the Cartan–Kähler theorem is a major result on the integrability conditions for differential systems, in the case of analytic functions, for differential ideals . It is named for Élie Cartan and Erich Kähler.
Meaning
It is not true that merely having contained in is sufficient for integrability. Ther... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagram | A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha, pentangle, or star pentagon) is a regular five-pointed star polygon, formed from the diagonal line segments of a convex (or simple, or non-self-intersecting) regular pentagon. Drawing a circle around the five points creates a similar symbol referred to as the pentacle, which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside%20hydrolase%20family%2089 | In molecular biology, glycoside hydrolase family 89 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/Adelic%20algebraic%20group | In abstract algebra, an adelic algebraic group is a semitopological group defined by an algebraic group G over a number field K, and the adele ring A = A(K) of K. It consists of the points of G having values in A; the definition of the appropriate topology is straightforward only in case G is a linear algebraic group. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%20Data%20Happened | How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms is a 2023 non-fiction book written by Columbia University professors Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones. The book explores the history of data and statistics from the end of the 18th century to the present day.
Publication
It has 336 pages a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant%20Wars%20%28board%20game%29 | Ant Wars is a 1982 board game published by Jason McAllister Games.
Gameplay
Ant Wars is a game in which tribes of ants battle each other for control of the back yard.
Reception
Steve Jackson reviewed Ant Wars in Space Gamer No. 66. Jackson commented that "On the whole [...] it's fun. I can't help it . . . I have to s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obstack | In the C programming language, Obstack is a memory-management GNU extension to the C standard library. An "obstack" is a "stack" of "objects" (data items) which is dynamically managed. It implements a region-based memory management scheme.
Obstack code typically provides C macros which take care of memory allocation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip%20Thorne | Kip Stephen Thorne (born June 1, 1940) is an American theoretical physicist known for his contributions in gravitational physics and astrophysics.
A longtime friend and colleague of Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan, he was the Richard P. Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at the California Institute of Technology ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strictly%20singular%20operator | In functional analysis, a branch of mathematics, a strictly singular operator is a bounded linear operator between normed spaces which is not bounded below on any infinite-dimensional subspace.
Definitions.
Let X and Y be normed linear spaces, and denote by B(X,Y) the space of bounded operators of the form . Let ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoplasy | Homoplasy, in biology and phylogenetics, is the term used to describe a feature that has been gained or lost independently in separate lineages over the course of evolution. This is different from homology, which is the term used to characterize the similarity of features that can be parsimoniously explained by common ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gameheads | Gameheads is an Oakland, California-based video game design education program for low-income youth and youth of color.
History
Technology writer Damon Packwood co-founded Gameheads in 2014 to improve diversity in the video games industry and other STEAM fields. Packwood noticed that students in low-income neighborhoo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plating%20efficiency | Plating efficiency ("PE") is a measure of the number of colonies originating from single cells. It is a very sensitive test and is often used for determining the nutritional requirements of cells, testing serum lots, measuring the effects of growth factors, and for toxicity testing.
Plating Efficiency is the number of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diameter%20Credit-Control%20Application | Diameter Credit-Control Application is a networking protocol for Diameter application used to
implement real-time credit-control for a variety of end user services.
It is an IETF standard first defined in RFC 4006, and updated in RFC 8506.
Purpose
The purpose of the diameter credit control application is to provide ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMOS | A VMOS () (vertical metal oxide semiconductor or V-groove MOS) transistor is a type of metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET). VMOS is also used to describe the V-groove shape vertically cut into the substrate material.
The "V" shape of the MOSFET's gate allows the device to deliver a higher amount... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20field%20approximation | In atomic physics, the central field approximation for many-electron atoms takes the combined electric fields of the nucleus and all the electrons acting on any of the electrons to be radial and to be the same for all the electrons in the atom. That is, every electron sees an identical potential that is only a functio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphasatellite | Alphasatellites are a single-stranded DNA family of satellite viruses that depend on the presence of another virus (helper viruses) to replicate their genomes. As such, they have minimal genomes with very low genomic redundancy. The genome is a single circular single strand DNA molecule. The first alphasatellites were ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yau%27s%20conjecture%20on%20the%20first%20eigenvalue | In mathematics, Yau's conjecture on the first eigenvalue is, as of 2018, an unsolved conjecture proposed by Shing-Tung Yau in 1982. It asks:
Is it true that the first eigenvalue for the Laplace–Beltrami operator on an embedded minimal hypersurface of is ?
If true, it will imply that the area of embedded minimal hype... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torsten%20Carleman | Torsten Carleman (8 July 1892, Visseltofta, Osby Municipality – 11 January 1949, Stockholm), born Tage Gillis Torsten Carleman, was a Swedish mathematician, known for his results in classical analysis and its applications. As the director of the Mittag-Leffler Institute for more than two decades, Carleman was the most ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-circuit%20television | Closed-circuit television (CCTV), also known as video surveillance, is the use of video cameras to transmit a signal to a specific place, on a limited set of monitors. It differs from broadcast television in that the signal is not openly transmitted, though it may employ point-to-point (P2P), point-to-multipoint (P2MP)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metisazone | Methisazone (USAN) or metisazone (INN) is an antiviral drug that works by inhibiting mRNA and protein synthesis, especially in pox viruses. During trials in the 1960s it showed promising results against smallpox infection, but widespread use was considered logistically impractical in the developing countries facing sma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Elephant | Project Elephant was launched in 1992 by the Government of India Ministry of Environment and Forests to provide financial and technical support to wildlife management efforts by states for their free-ranging populations of wild Asian Elephants. The project aims to ensure the long-term survival of the population of ele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape%20Communicator | Netscape Communicator (or Netscape 4) is a discontinued Internet suite produced by Netscape Communications Corporation, and was the fourth major release in the Netscape line of browsers. It was first in beta in 1996 and was released in June 1997. Netscape Communicator addressed the problem of Netscape Navigator 3.x bei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typestate%20analysis | Typestate analysis, sometimes called protocol analysis, is a form of program analysis employed in programming languages. It is most commonly applied to object-oriented languages. Typestates define valid sequences of operations that can be performed upon an instance of a given type. Typestates, as the name suggests, ass... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%20dynamics | The term file dynamics is the motion of many particles in a narrow channel.
In science: in chemistry, physics, mathematics and related fields, file dynamics (sometimes called, single file dynamics) is the diffusion of N (N → ∞) identical Brownian hard spheres in a quasi-one-dimensional channel of length L (L → ∞), suc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camera%20Link | Camera Link is a serial communication protocol standard designed for camera interface applications based on the National Semiconductor interface Channel-link. It was designed for the purpose of standardizing scientific and industrial video products including cameras, cables and frame grabbers. The standard is maintaine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weight%20function | A weight function is a mathematical device used when performing a sum, integral, or average to give some elements more "weight" or influence on the result than other elements in the same set. The result of this application of a weight function is a weighted sum or weighted average. Weight functions occur frequently in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelog%20strain | In organic chemistry, transannular strain (also called Prelog strain after chemist Vladimir Prelog) is the unfavorable interactions of ring substituents on non-adjacent carbons. These interactions, called transannular interactions, arise from a lack of space in the interior of the ring, which forces substituents into c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair%20distribution%20function | The pair distribution function describes the distribution of distances between pairs of particles contained within a given volume. Mathematically, if a and b are two particles, the pair distribution function of b with respect to a, denoted by is the probability of finding the particle b at distance from a, with a tak... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring%20modulation | In electronics, ring modulation is a signal processing function, an implementation of frequency mixing, in which two signals are combined to yield an output signal. One signal, called the carrier, is typically a sine wave or another simple waveform; the other signal is typically more complicated and is called the input... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scintillon | Scintillons are small structures in cytoplasm that produce light. Among bioluminescent organisms, only dinoflagellates have scintillons.
Description
Dinoflagellate light production
Marine dinoflagellates at night can emit blue light by bioluminescence, a process also called "the phosphorescence of the seas". Light pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpe%27s%20rail | Sharpe's rail (Gallirallus sharpei) is a species of bird in the family Rallidae. It is known only from the type specimen of unknown origin, but it has been speculated that it originated from Indonesia. Due to the lack of recent records, it has been considered extinct, but new evidence suggests it is possibly better reg... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20Weak%20Meat | The Operation Carne Fraca (Operation Weak Meat in Brazilian media in English) is an operation started on March 17, 2017, and enforced by the Federal Police of Brazil, that country's federal police force, which investigated some of the country's largest meat processing companies. The name is a pun between the operation'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20diffusive%20convection | Double diffusive convection is a fluid dynamics phenomenon that describes a form of convection driven by two different density gradients, which have different rates of diffusion.
Convection in fluids is driven by density variations within them under the influence of gravity. These density variations may be caused by g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%E2%80%93liquid%20critical%20point | A liquid–liquid critical point (or LLCP) is the endpoint of a liquid–liquid phase transition line (LLPT); it is a critical point where two types of local structures coexist at the exact ratio of unity. This hypothesis was first developed by Peter Poole, Francesco Sciortino, Uli Essmann and H. Eugene Stanley in Boston ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Drinfeld | Vladimir Gershonovich Drinfeld (; ; born February 14, 1954), surname also romanized as Drinfel'd, is a renowned mathematician from the former USSR, who emigrated to the United States and is currently working at the University of Chicago.
Drinfeld's work connected algebraic geometry over finite fields with number theor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%E2%80%93lattice%20relaxation | During nuclear magnetic resonance observations, spin–lattice relaxation is the mechanism by which the longitudinal component of the total nuclear magnetic moment vector (parallel to the constant magnetic field) exponentially relaxes from a higher energy, non-equilibrium state to thermodynamic equilibrium with its surro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MamL-1%20domain | In molecular biology there are a number of neurogenic proteins referred to as mastermind-like proteins (MAMLs) of which this domain is the N-terminal region. Mastermind-like proteins act as critical transcriptional co-activators for Notch signaling.
The N-terminal domain of MAML proteins, MAML1, MAML2, MAML3, is a po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated%20aging | Accelerated aging is testing that uses aggravated conditions of heat, humidity, oxygen, sunlight, vibration, etc. to speed up the normal aging processes of items. It is used to help determine the long-term effects of expected levels of stress within a shorter time, usually in a laboratory by controlled standard test me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda-connectedness | In applied mathematics, lambda-connectedness (or λ-connectedness) deals with partial connectivity for a discrete space.
Assume that a function on a discrete space (usually a graph) is given. A degree of connectivity (connectedness) will be defined to measure the connectedness of the space with respect to the function... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminaphtharhodafluor | Seminaphtharhodafluor or SNARF is a fluorescent dye that changes color with pH.
It can be used to construct optical biosensors that use enzymes that change pH.
The absorption peak of the derivative carboxy-SNARF at pH 6.0 is at wavelength (515 and) 550 nm, while that at pH 9.0 is at 575 nm.
The emission peak of carbo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germinal%20epithelium%20%28male%29 | The germinal epithelium is the epithelial layer of the seminiferous tubules of the testicles. It is also known as the wall of the seminiferous tubules. The cells in the epithelium are connected via tight junctions.
There are two types of cells in the germinal epithelium. The large Sertoli cells (which are not dividing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNS2 | Potassium voltage-gated channel subfamily S member 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNS2 gene. The protein encoded by this gene is a voltage-gated potassium channel subunit. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomography | Anatomography is an interactive website which supports generating anatomical diagrams and animations of the human body. The Anatomography website is maintained by the DBCLS (Database Center for Life Science) non-profit research institute located at the University of Tokyo. Anatomical diagrams generated by Anatomography... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard%20University%20Herbaria | The Harvard University Herbaria and Botanical Museum are institutions located on the grounds of Harvard University at 22 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Botanical Museum is one of three which comprise the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
The Herbaria, founded in 1842 by Asa Gray, are one of the 10 la... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20PC%20Series | The Personal Computer Series, or PC Series, was IBM's follow-up to the Personal System/2 and PS/ValuePoint. Announced in October 1994 and withdrawn in October 2000, it was replaced by the IBM NetVista, apart from the Pentium Pro-based PC360 and PC365, which were replaced by the IBM IntelliStation.
Models
x86-based
P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-gamete%20test | In population genetics, the four-gamete test is a method for detecting historical recombination events.
Description
Given a set of four or more sampled haploid chromosomes, the four-gamete test (FGT) detects recombination events by locating pairs of segregating sites that cannot have arisen without either recombina... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tandem%20mass%20tag | A tandem mass tag (TMT) is a chemical label that facilitates sample multiplexing in mass spectrometry (MS)-based quantification and identification of biological macromolecules such as proteins, peptides and nucleic acids. TMT belongs to a family of reagents referred to as isobaric mass tags which are a set of molecules... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Data%20Repository | A National Data Repository (NDR) is a data bank that seeks to preserve and promote a country's natural resources data, particularly data related to the petroleum exploration and production (E&P) sector.
A National Data Repository is normally established by an entity that governs, controls and supports the exchange, ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platinum-195%20nuclear%20magnetic%20resonance | Platinum-195 nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (platinum NMR or 195Pt NMR) is a spectroscopic technique which is used for the detection and characterisation of platinum compounds. The sensitivity of the technique and therefore its diagnostic utility have increased significantly starting from the 1970s, with 195Pt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADCIRC | The ADCIRC model is a high-performance, cross-platform numerical ocean circulation model popular in simulating storm surge, tides, and coastal circulation problems.
Originally developed by Drs. Rick Luettich and Joannes Westerink,
the model is developed and maintained by a combination of academic, governmental, and cor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swain%20equation | The Swain equation relates the kinetic isotope effect for the protium/tritium combination with that of the protium/deuterium combination according to:
where kH,D,T are the reaction rate constants for the protonated, deuterated and tritiated reactants respectively.
External links
Applied Swain equation |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anshel%E2%80%93Anshel%E2%80%93Goldfeld%20key%20exchange | Anshel–Anshel–Goldfeld protocol, also known as a commutator key exchange, is a key-exchange protocol using nonabelian groups. It was invented by Drs. Michael Anshel, Iris Anshel, and Dorian Goldfeld. Unlike other group-based protocols, it does not employ any commuting or commutative subgroups of a given platform group ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grid%20Security%20Infrastructure | The Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI), formerly called the Globus Security Infrastructure, is a specification for secret, tamper-proof, delegatable communication between software in a grid computing environment. Secure, authenticatable communication is enabled using asymmetric encryption.
Authentication
Authenticati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAV2 | Neuron navigator 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NAV2 gene. The vitamin A metabolite, all-trans retinoic acid (atRA), plays an important role in neuronal development, including neurite outgrowth. NAV2 is an atRA-responsive gene.
The neuron navigator, Is also theorized to play a role in cellular growth ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brauer%E2%80%93Wall%20group | In mathematics, the Brauer–Wall group or super Brauer group or graded Brauer group for a field F is a group BW(F) classifying finite-dimensional graded central division algebras over the field. It was first defined by as a generalization of the Brauer group.
The Brauer group of a field F is the set of the similarity... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20content%20development | Web content development is the process of researching, writing, gathering, organizing, and editing information for publication on websites. Website content may consist of prose, graphics, pictures, recordings, movies, or other digital assets that could be distributed by a hypertext transfer protocol server, and viewed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC%20JTC%201/SC%2025 | ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 25 Interconnection of information technology equipment is a standardization subcommittee of the Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), which develops and facilitates standards within t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ileana%20Streinu | Ileana Streinu is a Romanian-American computer scientist and mathematician, the Charles N. Clark Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at Smith College in Massachusetts. She is known for her research in computational geometry, and in particular for her work on kinematics and structural rigidity.
Biography
Stre... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin%20Butter%20Fire | The Wisconsin butter fire, also known as the butter flood, great cheese fire, and great butter fire, was a fire and flood of processed meat and dairy that began on May 3, 1991, at a large storage facility in Madison, Wisconsin. The fire continued for eight days; there were no fatalities, but it caused millions of dolla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank%20%28unit%20of%20measure%29 | In the textile industry, a hank is a coiled or wrapped unit of yarn or twine, as opposed to other materials like thread or rope, as well as other forms such as ball, cone, bobbin (cylinder-like structure) spool, etc. This is often the best form for use with hand looms, compared to the cone form needed for power looms. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stereotactic%20biopsy | Stereotactic biopsy, also known as stereotactic core biopsy, is a biopsy procedure that uses a computer and imaging performed in at least two planes to localize a target lesion (such as a tumor or microcalcifications in the breast) in three-dimensional space and guide the removal of tissue for examination by a patholog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrance%20facility | In telecommunications, Entrance facility refers to the entrance to a building for both public and private network service cables (including antenna transmission lines, where applicable), including the entrance point at the building wall or floor, and continuing to the entrance room or entrance space.
Entrance faciliti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum%20of%20two%20squares%20theorem | In number theory, the sum of two squares theorem relates the prime decomposition of any integer to whether it can be written as a sum of two squares, such that for some integers , .
An integer greater than one can be written as a sum of two squares if and only if its prime decomposition contains no factor , where pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armstrong%27s%20axioms | Armstrong's axioms are a set of references (or, more precisely, inference rules) used to infer all the functional dependencies on a relational database. They were developed by William W. Armstrong in his 1974 paper. The axioms are sound in generating only functional dependencies in the closure of a set of functional de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOCNESS | MOCNESS is the acronym for Multiple Opening/Closing Net and Environmental Sensing System and is a net system for plankton in the ocean. The system is towed behind a research vessel with a speed of up to 2.5 knots and consists of five to twenty nets with a mesh size from 64 μm to 3 mm and an area of 0.25 to 20 m2 (altho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity%20of%20identity | In modal logic, the necessity of identity is the thesis that for every object x and object y, if x and y are the same object, it is necessary that x and y are the same object. The thesis is best known for its association with Saul Kripke, who published it in 1971, although it was first derived by the logician Ruth Barc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan%20Roughgarden | Joan Roughgarden (born 13 March 1946) is an American ecologist and evolutionary biologist. She has engaged in theory and observation of coevolution and competition in Anolis lizards of the Caribbean, and recruitment limitation in the rocky intertidal zones of California and Oregon. She has more recently become known fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von%20Willebrand%20factor%20type%20C%20domain | Von Willebrand factor, type C (VWFC or VWC)is a protein domain is found in various blood plasma proteins: complement factors B, C2, CR3 and CR4; the integrins (I-domains); collagen types VI, VII, XII and XIV; and other extracellular proteins.
Function
Although the majority of VWA-containing proteins are extracellular,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9ron%20model | In algebraic geometry, the Néron model (or Néron minimal model, or minimal model)
for an abelian variety AK defined over the field of fractions K of a Dedekind domain R is the "push-forward" of AK from Spec(K) to Spec(R), in other words the "best possible" group scheme AR defined over R corresponding to AK.
They wer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophagy | Autophagy (or autophagocytosis; from the Ancient Greek , , meaning "self-devouring" and , , meaning "hollow") is the natural, conserved degradation of the cell that removes unnecessary or dysfunctional components through a lysosome-dependent regulated mechanism. It allows the orderly degradation and recycling of cellul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iddq%20testing | Iddq testing is a method for testing CMOS integrated circuits for the presence of manufacturing faults. It relies on measuring the supply current (Idd) in the quiescent state (when the circuit is not switching and inputs are held at static values). The current consumed in the state is commonly called Iddq for Idd (qu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20ligand | Smart ligands are affinity ligands selected with pre-defined equilibrium (), kinetic (, ) and thermodynamic (ΔH, ΔS) parameters of biomolecular interaction.
Ligands with desired parameters can be selected from large combinatorial libraries of biopolymers using instrumental separation techniques with well-described kin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/141st%20meridian%20east | The 141st meridian east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Australasia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 141st meridian east forms a great circle with the 39th meridian west.
As a border
On t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vidalia%20%28software%29 | Vidalia is a discontinued cross-platform GUI for controlling Tor, built using Qt. The name comes from the Vidalia onion since Tor uses onion routing. It allows the user to start, stop or view the status of Tor, view, filter or search log messages, monitor bandwidth usage, and configure some aspects of Tor. Vidalia also... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Mortality%20Database | The Human Mortality Database (HMD) is a joint initiative of the Department of Demographics at the University of California, Berkeley in the United States and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany that provides detailed mortality and population data to researchers, students, journalists, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips%20NMS-1205 | The Philips NMS-1205 was a MSX AUDIO cartridge (without BIOS) using the Yamaha Y8950 chip (released in 1984).
NMS-1205 was only sold in Europe for the MSX Personal Computer.
This cartridge featured FM sound synthesizer, Sound sampler (ADPCM with 32 kB sample RAM), MIDI interface, audio & MIDI I/O connectors, and also ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community%20Cyberinfrastructure%20for%20Advanced%20Microbial%20Ecology%20Research%20and%20Analysis | CAMERA, or the Community Cyberinfrastructure for Advanced Microbial Ecology Research and Analysis, is an online cloud computing service that provides hosted software tools and a high-performance computing infrastructure for the analysis of metagenomic data. The project was announced in January 2006, becoming Calit2's f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramidal%20number | A pyramidal number is the number of points in a pyramid with a polygonal base and triangular sides. The term often refers to square pyramidal numbers, which have a square base with four sides, but it can also refer to a pyramid with any number of sides. The numbers of points in the base and in layers parallel to the ba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative%20medicine | Alternative medicine is any practice that aims to achieve the healing effects of medicine despite lacking biological plausibility, testability, repeatability or evidence of effectiveness. Unlike modern medicine, which employs the scientific method to test plausible therapies by way of responsible and ethical clinical t... |
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