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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicky%20Brago-Mitchell | Vicky Brago-Mitchell is an American fractal artist known in the 1960s as a Stanford University student who, while working as a topless dancer, ran for student body president. She won the preliminary election, but lost to eventual Earth Day national coordinator Denis Hayes in a two-person runoff election. She was born... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XTS-400 | The XTS-400 is a multilevel secure computer operating system. It is multiuser and multitasking that uses multilevel scheduling in processing data and information. It works in networked environments and supports Gigabit Ethernet and both IPv4 and IPv6.
The XTS-400 is a combination of Intel x86 hardware and the Secure T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary%20Chartrand | Gary Theodore Chartrand (born 1936) is an American-born mathematician who specializes in graph theory. He is known for his textbooks on introductory graph theory and for the concept of a
highly irregular graph.
Biography
Gary Chartrand was born in 1936. He was raised in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and attended J. W. S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobalt%20in%20biology | Cobalt is essential to the metabolism of all animals. It is a key constituent of cobalamin, also known as vitamin B, the primary biological reservoir of cobalt as an ultratrace element. Bacteria in the stomachs of ruminant animals convert cobalt salts into vitamin B, a compound which can only be produced by bacteria or... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katanin | Katanin is a microtubule-severing AAA protein. It is named after the Japanese sword called a katana. Katanin is a heterodimeric protein first discovered in sea urchins. It contains a 60 kDa ATPase subunit, encoded by KATNA1, which functions to sever microtubules. This subunit requires ATP and the presence of microtub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamb%20Dicke%20regime | In ion trapping and atomic physics experiments, the Lamb Dicke regime (or Lamb Dicke limit) is a quantum regime in which the coupling (induced by an external light field) between an ion or atom's internal qubit states and its motional states is sufficiently small so that transitions that change the motional quantum num... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-on-write | Copy-on-write (COW), sometimes referred to as implicit sharing or shadowing, is a resource-management technique used in computer programming to efficiently implement a "duplicate" or "copy" operation on modifiable resources. If a resource is duplicated but not modified, it is not necessary to create a new resource; the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edoardo%20Vesentini | Edoardo Vesentini (31 May 1928 – 28 March 2020) was an Italian mathematician and politician who introduced the Andreotti–Vesentini theorem. He was awarded the Caccioppoli Prize in 1962.
Vasentini was born in Rome, and died on 28 March 2020, aged 91. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bat%20flight | Bats are the only mammal capable of true flight. Bats use flight for capturing prey, breeding, avoiding predators, and long-distance migration. Bat wing morphology is often highly specialized to the needs of the species.
Evolution
Charles Darwin foresaw an issue with his theory of evolution by natural selection in th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLACS | FLACS (FLame ACceleration Simulator) is a commercial Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software used extensively for explosion modeling and atmospheric dispersion modeling within the field of industrial safety and risk assessment. Main application areas of FLACS are in petrochemical, process manufacturing, food proces... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annona%20nutans | Annona nutans is a species of plant in the family Annonaceae. It is native to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. Robert Elias Fries, the Swedish botanist who first formally described the species, named it after its recurved peduncles which give the flowers a nodding ( in Latin) appearance.
Description
It is a bu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photobiotin | Photobiotin is a derivative of biotin used as a biochemical tool. It is composed of a biotin group, a linker group, and a photoactivatable aryl azide group.
The photoactivatable group provides nonspecific labeling of proteins, DNA and RNA probes or other molecules. Biotinylation of DNA and RNA with photoactivatable b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%20%28programming%20game%29 | Darwin was a programming game invented in August 1961 by Victor A. Vyssotsky, Robert Morris Sr., and M. Douglas McIlroy. (Dennis Ritchie is sometimes incorrectly cited as a co-author, but was not involved.) The game was developed at Bell Labs, and played on an IBM 7090 mainframe there. The game was only played for a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinsviridae | Atkinsviridae is a family of RNA viruses, which infect prokaryotes.
Taxonomy
Atkinsviridae contains 56 genera:
Andhevirus
Apihcavirus
Arihsbuvirus
Bahdevuvirus
Bilifuvirus
Blinduvirus
Cahtebovirus
Chinihovirus
Chounavirus
Cihsnivirus
Diydovirus
Dugnivirus
Firunevirus
Gohshovirus
Hehspiviru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuity%20theory | The continuity theory of normal aging states that older adults will usually maintain the same activities, behaviors, relationships as they did in their earlier years of life. According to this theory, older adults try to maintain this continuity of lifestyle by adapting strategies that are connected to their past exper... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument%20%28complex%20analysis%29 | In mathematics (particularly in complex analysis), the argument of a complex number z, denoted arg(z), is the angle between the positive real axis and the line joining the origin and z, represented as a point in the complex plane, shown as in Figure 1.
It is a multivalued function operating on the nonzero complex num... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary%20malignant%20neoplasm | Secondary malignant neoplasm is a malignant tumor whose cause is the treatment (usually radiation or chemotherapy) which was used for a prior tumor. It must be distinguished from Metastasis from the prior tumor or a relapse from it since a secondary malignant neoplasm is a different tumor. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walk%20percentage | Walk percentage (also known as Base-on-balls percentage, BB%, or BBP) is a baseball statistic criterion.
The purpose of this offensive measurement is to gauge the percentage of a batter's plate appearances that result in the player being walked. A more recently developed statistic than batting average, it is used to d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlegmasia%20cerulea%20dolens | Phlegmasia cerulea dolens (PCD) (literally: 'painful blue inflammation'), not to be confused with preceding phlegmasia alba dolens, is an uncommon severe form of lower extremity deep venous thrombosis (DVT) that obstructs blood outflow from a vein. Upper extremity PCD is less common, occurring in under 10% of all cases... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musa%20fitzalanii | Musa fitzalanii is a species of wild banana (genus Musa), which was native to north-east Queensland, Australia, but is now believed to be extinct. The type specimen was collected in the 19th century, from the vicinity of 'Daintree's River' most likely by Eugene Fitzalan, an Irish collector who apparently worked with Fe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipomoea%20muricata | Ipomoea muricata, also called lavender moonvine, is a climbing vine in the genus Ipomoea, the same genus that contains the various morning glory species and sweet potato. It is native to Central America, but now distributed widely across the tropics and subtropics.
Morphology
Ipomoea muricata is a fast annual climber... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GS1%20DataBar%20Coupon | The GS1 Databar Coupon code has been in use in retail industry since the mid-1980s. At first, it was a UPC with system ID 5. Since UPCs cannot hold more than 12 digits, it required another bar code to hold additional information like offer code, expiration date and household ID numbers. Therefore, the code was often ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9%20F.%20Escobar | José Fernando "Chepe" Escobar (born 20 December 1954, in Manizales, Colombia) was a Colombian mathematician known for his work on differential geometry and partial differential equations. He was professor at Cornell University.
He completed his mathematical undergraduate program at Universidad del Valle, Colombia. He ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20Durr%20Moment | Virginia Durr Moment is a phrase originating in developmental psychology which refers to an experience and "triggering event" which can foster the moral development of an individual. Characteristic of the experience is a serious challenge to an individual's value system. The book Some Do Care by developmental psycholo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluctuat | Fluctuat has been developed by Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies Alternatives since 2001. Fluctuat enables the static analysis of C and Ada programs, with a special focus on floating-point operations.
Theoretical background
Fluctuat is a static analyser, based on abstract interpretation. Compared to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eberhard%20Freitag | Eberhard Freitag (born 19 May 1942, in Mühlacker) is a German mathematician, specializing in complex analysis and especially modular forms.
Education and career
Freitag studied from 1961 mathematics, physics and astronomy at Heidelberg University, where he received in 1964 his Diplom and in 1966 his Ph.D. (promotion),... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmically%20random%20sequence | Intuitively, an algorithmically random sequence (or random sequence) is a sequence of binary digits that appears random to any algorithm running on a (prefix-free or not) universal Turing machine. The notion can be applied analogously to sequences on any finite alphabet (e.g. decimal digits). Random sequences are key ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules%20Ho%C3%BCel | Guillaume-Jules Hoüel (7 April 1823 – 14 June 1886) was a French mathematician. He entered the École Normale Supérieure in 1843 and received his doctoral degree in 1855 from the Sorbonne. He was sought by Urbain Le Verrier at the Paris Observatory, but chose instead to return to Thaon to study there. In 1859 he began t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomanufacturing | Biomanufacturing is a type of manufacturing or biotechnology that utilizes biological systems to produce commercially important biomaterials and biomolecules for use in medicines, food and beverage processing, and industrial applications. Biomanufacturing products are recovered from natural sources, such as blood, or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PICRUSt | PICRUSt
is a bioinformatics software package. The name is an abbreviation for Phylogenetic Investigation of Communities by Reconstruction of Unobserved States.
The tool serves in the field of metagenomic analysis where it allows inference of the functional profile of a microbial
community based on marker gene survey a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARC%20Centre%20of%20Excellence%20in%20Population%20Ageing%20Research | The ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) is a collaboration of leading researchers in population ageing. CEPAR is an Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence. It was established in 2011. It is based at the University of New South Wales, with further nodes at the Australian National Un... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hearing%20range | Hearing range describes the range of frequencies that can be heard by humans or other animals, though it can also refer to the range of levels. The human range is commonly given as 20 to 20,000 Hz, although there is considerable variation between individuals, especially at high frequencies, and a gradual loss of sensit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quercus%20%C3%97%20morehus | Quercus × morehus, Abram's oak in Kellogg's original description (later called oracle oak by Jepson), is a named hybrid between the red oaks Quercus kelloggii (California black oak) and Quercus wislizeni (interior live oak). Originally published as the unique species Quercus morehus by Kellogg, rather than as the hybri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry%20number | The symmetry number or symmetry order of an object is the number of different but indistinguishable (or equivalent) arrangements (or views) of the object, that is, it is the order of its symmetry group. The object can be a molecule, crystal lattice, lattice, tiling, or in general any kind of mathematical object that ad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suprarenal%20veins | The suprarenal veins are two in number:
the right ends in the inferior vena cava.
the left ends in the left renal or left inferior phrenic vein.
They receive blood from the adrenal glands and will sometimes form anastomoses with the inferior phrenic veins.
Additional images |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arborio%20rice | Arborio rice is an Italian short-grain rice. It is named after the town of Arborio, in the Po Valley, which is situated in the region of Piedmont in Italy. When cooked, the rounded grains are firm, creamy and chewy compared to other varieties of rice, due to their higher amylopectin starch content. It has a starchy tas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specified%20risk%20material | Specified risk material (SRM) is any of various tissues of ruminant animals that cannot be inspected and passed for human food because scientists have determined that BSE-causing prions concentrate there. The term was referred to in the United Kingdom's Specified Risk Material Order 1997 (S.I. 1997/2964), in the United... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Brooklyn | Apache Brooklyn is an open-source framework for modeling, deploying and managing distributed applications defined using declarative YAML blueprints. The design is influenced by Autonomic computing and promise theory and implements the OASIS CAMP (Cloud Application Management for Platforms).
Apache Brooklyn blueprint
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viticulture | Viticulture (from the Latin word for vine) or winegrowing (wine growing) is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes. It is a branch of the science of horticulture. While the native territory of Vitis vinifera, the common grape vine, ranges from Western Europe to the Persian shores of the Caspian Sea, the vine has demo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagon | In geometry, a pentagon (from the Greek πέντε pente meaning five and γωνία gonia meaning angle) is any five-sided polygon or 5-gon. The sum of the internal angles in a simple pentagon is 540°.
A pentagon may be simple or self-intersecting. A self-intersecting regular pentagon (or star pentagon) is called a pentagram.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clostridioides%20difficile | Clostridioides difficile (syn. Clostridium difficile) is a bacterium that is well known for causing serious diarrheal infections, and may also cause colon cancer. It is known also as C. difficile, or C. diff (), and is a Gram-positive species of spore-forming bacteria. Clostridioides spp. are anaerobic, motile bacteri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livingston%2C%20Louisiana | Livingston is the parish seat of Livingston Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 1,769 at the 2010 census.
Livingston hosts one of the two LIGO gravitational wave detector sites, the other one being located in Hanford, Washington.
History
Like the parish, Livingston takes its name from the jurist Ed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat%20chain | Flat chain is a form of chain used chiefly in agricultural machinery. Early machinery made extensive use of flat chain. It has been gradually replaced in most applications by roller chain, which is quieter, lasts longer, and requires less frequent retensioning.
Modern flat chain is made from stamped steel. Individu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Sacred%20Armour%20of%20Antiriad | The Sacred Armour of Antiriad is an action-adventure game published by Palace Software in 1986 for Amstrad CPC, Commodore 64, DOS, TRS-80, and ZX Spectrum. In North America, the game was published by Epyx as Rad Warrior. The original game came with a 16-page comic book created by graphic artist Daniel Malone. The game ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup%20I-BY316%20/%20I-Y7626 | Haplogroup I-BY316, also known as I-Y7626 or I1a3a1a2a1b1 per the International Society of Genetic Genealogy ('ISOGG), is a Y chromosome haplogroup. It is correlated with a DYF406S1 value of 8 and a DYS617 value of 12.
I-BY316 may be classed as a Nordic haplogroup and it is most common in Finland. Its progenitor is as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal%20operator | In mathematics, especially functional analysis, a normal operator on a complex Hilbert space H is a continuous linear operator N : H → H that commutes with its hermitian adjoint N*, that is: NN* = N*N.
Normal operators are important because the spectral theorem holds for them. The class of normal operators is well und... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library%20sort | Library sort or gapped insertion sort is a sorting algorithm that uses an insertion sort, but with gaps in the array to accelerate subsequent insertions. The name comes from an analogy:
Suppose a librarian were to store their books alphabetically on a long shelf, starting with the As at the left end, and continuing to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical%20engineering%20technology | Mechanical engineering technology is the application of engineering principles and technological developments for the creation of useful products and production machinery.
Technologists
Mechanical engineering technologists are expected to apply current technologies and principles from machine and product design, produ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZNF30 | Zinc finger protein 30 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF30 gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metencephalon | The metencephalon is the embryonic part of the hindbrain that differentiates into the pons and the cerebellum. It contains a portion of the fourth ventricle and the trigeminal nerve (CN V), abducens nerve (CN VI), facial nerve (CN VII), and a portion of the vestibulocochlear nerve (CN VIII).
Embryology
The metencepha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Species%20description | A species description is a formal scientific description of a newly encountered species, usually in the form of a scientific paper. Its purpose is to give a clear description of a new species of organism and explain how it differs from species that have been described previously or are related. To be considered valid,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necklace%20problem | The necklace problem is a problem in recreational mathematics concerning the reconstruction of necklaces (cyclic arrangements of binary values) from partial information.
Formulation
The necklace problem involves the reconstruction of a necklace of beads, each of which is either black or white, from partial informati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variational%20inequality | In mathematics, a variational inequality is an inequality involving a functional, which has to be solved for all possible values of a given variable, belonging usually to a convex set. The mathematical theory of variational inequalities was initially developed to deal with equilibrium problems, precisely the Signorini ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail%20transport%20modelling%20scales | Rail transport modelling uses a variety of scales (ratio between the real world and the model) to ensure scale models look correct when placed next to each other. Model railway scales are standardized worldwide by many organizations and hobbyist groups. Some of the scales are recognized globally, while others are less ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen%20isotope%20biogeochemistry | Hydrogen isotope biogeochemistry is the scientific study of biological, geological, and chemical processes in the environment using the distribution and relative abundance of hydrogen isotopes. There are two stable isotopes of hydrogen, protium 1H and deuterium 2H, which vary in relative abundance on the order of hundr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhiming%20Liu%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Zhiming Liu (, born 10 October 1961, Hebei, China) is a computer scientist. He studied mathematics in Luoyang, Henan in China and obtained his first degree in 1982. He holds a master's degree in Computer Science from the Institute of Software of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (1988), and a PhD degree from the Universi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara%20A.%20Ambrose | Barbara Ambrose is a botanist working in the field of Plant Evolutionary Developmental Biology (Evo-Devo). As the Director of Laboratory Research at the New York Botanical Garden, Ambrose is a prolific scholar and leader and mentor in her field who is interested in patterns in plant diversity on macro and micro scales.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nima%20%28device%29 | Nima is a portable food sensor designed to enable individuals with food allergies and sensitivities to test their food for specific proteins. Nima created and leads the category of consumer food testers.
The first product, a gluten sensor, was released in for general availability in February 2017. The second product, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Protein%20Atlas | The Human Protein Atlas (HPA) is a Swedish-based program started in 2003 with the aim to map all the human proteins in cells, tissues and organs using integration of various omics technologies, including antibody-based imaging, mass spectrometry-based proteomics, transcriptomics and systems biology. All the data in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20wound%20care | The history of wound care spans from prehistory to modern medicine. Wounds naturally heal by themselves, but hunter-gatherers would have noticed several factors and certain herbal remedies would speed up or assist the process, especially if it was grievous. In ancient history, this was followed by the realisation of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transport%20network%20analysis | A transport network, or transportation network, is a network or graph in geographic space, describing an infrastructure that permits and constrains movement or flow.
Examples include but are not limited to road networks, railways, air routes, pipelines, aqueducts, and power lines. The digital representation of these ne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Year%20of%20Older%20Persons | In its Proclamation on Aging, the United Nations General Assembly decided to declare 1999 as the International Year of Older Persons (IYOP). The proclamation was launched on 1 October 1998, the International Day of Older Persons, by United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan.
Worldwide, within the next generations, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function%20model | In systems engineering, software engineering, and computer science, a function model or functional model is a structured representation of the functions (activities, actions, processes, operations) within the modeled system or subject area.
A function model, similar with the activity model or process model, is a grap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus%20licheniformis | Bacillus licheniformis is a bacterium commonly found in the soil. It is found on bird feathers, especially chest and back plumage, and most often in ground-dwelling birds (like sparrows) and aquatic species (like ducks).
It is a gram-positive, mesophilic bacterium. Its optimal growth temperature is around 50 °C, thoug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation%20surface | In mathematics a translation surface is a surface obtained from identifying the sides of a polygon in the Euclidean plane by translations. An equivalent definition is a Riemann surface together with a holomorphic 1-form.
These surfaces arise in dynamical systems where they can be used to model billiards, and in Teichm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bone%20exercise%20monitor | A bone exercise monitor is an instrument which is used to measure and analyze the bone strengthening qualities of physical activity and to help in prevention of osteoporosis with physical activity and exercise.
The bone strengthening quality of physical exercise is very difficult to assess and monitor due to the great... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenseas | Greenseas is a brand of shelf-stable fish products owned by the H. J. Heinz Company. They produce a range of popular goods, including tuna, salmon and sardines.
See also
Canned tuna |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson%20problem | The objective of the Thomson problem is to determine the minimum electrostatic potential energy configuration of electrons constrained to the surface of a unit sphere that repel each other with a force given by Coulomb's law. The physicist J. J. Thomson posed the problem in 1904 after proposing an atomic model, later ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JIS%20X%200208 | JIS X 0208 is a 2-byte character set specified as a Japanese Industrial Standard, containing 6879 graphic characters suitable for writing text, place names, personal names, and so forth in the Japanese language. The official title of the current standard is . It was originally established as JIS C 6226 in 1978, and has... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottle%20flipping | Bottle flipping was a trend that involved throwing a plastic bottle, typically partially full of liquid, into the air so that it rotates, in an attempt to land it upright on its base or cap. It became an international trend in the summer of 2016 with numerous videos of people attempting the activity being posted online... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landscape%20epidemiology | Landscape epidemiology draws some of its roots from the field of landscape ecology. Just as the discipline of landscape ecology is concerned with analyzing both pattern and process in ecosystems across time and space, landscape epidemiology can be used to analyze both risk patterns and environmental risk factors. This... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuth%27s%20Algorithm%20X | Algorithm X is an algorithm for solving the exact cover problem. It is a straightforward recursive, nondeterministic, depth-first, backtracking algorithm used by Donald Knuth to demonstrate an efficient implementation called DLX, which uses the dancing links technique.
The exact cover problem is represented in Algorit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command%E2%80%93query%20separation | Command-query separation (CQS) is a principle of imperative computer programming. It was devised by Bertrand Meyer as part of his pioneering work on the Eiffel programming language.
It states that every method should either be a command that performs an action, or a query that returns data to the caller, but not both.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%20system%20science | Earth system science (ESS) is the application of systems science to the Earth. In particular, it considers interactions and 'feedbacks', through material and energy fluxes, between the Earth's sub-systems' cycles, processes and "spheres"—atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, geosphere, pedosphere, lithosphere, biosphere... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRL-0617 | GRL-0617 is a drug which is one of the first compounds discovered that acts as a selective small-molecule inhibitor of the protease enzyme papain-like protease (PLpro) found in some pathogenic viruses, including the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. It has been shown to inhibit viral replication in silico and in vitro.
See als... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retrozyme | Retrozymes are a family of retrotransposons first discovered in the genomes of plants but now also known in genomes of animals. Retrozymes contain a hammerhead ribozyme (HHR) in their sequences (and so the name retrozyme is a combination of retrotransposon and hammerhead ribozyme), although they do not possess any codi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extinction%20probability | Extinction probability is the chance of an inherited trait becoming extinct as a function of time t. If t = ∞ this may be the complement of the chance of becoming a universal trait.
Statistical genetics
Stochastic processes
Population models |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONAP | ONAP (Open Network Automation Platform), is an open-source, orchestration and automation framework. It is hosted by The Linux Foundation.
History
On February 23, 2017, ONAP was announced as a result of a merger of the OpenECOMP and Open-Orchestrator (Open-O) projects. The goal of the project is to develop a widely us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imus%20in%20the%20Morning | Imus in the Morning was a long-running radio show hosted by Don Imus. The show originated on June 2, 1968, on various stations in the Western United States and Cleveland, Ohio, before settling on WNBC radio in New York City in 1971. In October 1988, the show moved to WFAN when that station took over WNBC's dial positio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden%20mechanism | In spectroscopy, a forbidden mechanism (forbidden transition or forbidden line) is a spectral line associated with absorption or emission of photons by atomic nuclei, atoms, or molecules which undergo a transition that is not allowed by a particular selection rule but is allowed if the approximation associated with th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGTOT | SIGTOT was a one-time tape machine for encrypting teleprinter communication that was used by the United States during World War II and after for the most sensitive message traffic. It was developed after security flaws were discovered in an earlier rotor machine for the same purpose, called SIGCUM. SIGTOT was designed ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alazopeptin | Alazopeptin is an antibiotic, with moderate anti-trypanosomal and antitumor activity. It was originally isolated from Streptacidiphilus griseoplanus, sourced from soil near Williamsburg, Iowa. It is also isolated from Kitasatospora azatica. It is still largely produced via fermentation broths of that organism. Structur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent%20ML | Concurrent ML (CML) is a concurrent extension of the Standard ML programming language characterized by its ability to allow programmers to create composable communication abstractions that are first-class rather than built into the language. The design of CML and its primitive operations have been adopted in several ot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Complexity%20of%20Songs | "The Complexity of Songs" is a scholarly article by computer scientist Donald Knuth in 1977, as an in-joke about computational complexity theory. The article capitalizes on the tendency of popular songs to devolve from long and content-rich ballads to highly repetitive texts with little or no meaningful content. The ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien%20Worlds%20%28TV%20series%29 | Alien Worlds is a British sci-fi nature docufiction narrated by Sophie Okonedo. The 4-part miniseries, depicted by using CGI techniques, blends fact with science fiction and conceptualizes what alien life might be like by applying the laws of life on Earth to imagined exoplanets. The series was released on Netflix on 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clam%20dip | Clam dip is a dipping sauce and condiment prepared with clams, sour cream or cream cheese, and seasonings as primary ingredients. Various additional ingredients can be used. It is usually served chilled, although it is sometimes served hot or at room temperature. It is used as a dip for potato chips, crackers, bread, a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target%20peptide | A target peptide is a short (3-70 amino acids long) peptide chain that directs the transport of a protein to a specific region in the cell, including the nucleus, mitochondria, endoplasmic reticulum (ER), chloroplast, apoplast, peroxisome and plasma membrane. Some target peptides are cleaved from the protein by signa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shergotty%20meteorite | The Shergotty meteorite (Named after Sherghati) is the first example of the shergottite Martian meteorite family. It was a meteorite which fell to Earth at Sherghati, in the Gaya district, Bihar, India on 25 August 1865, and was retrieved by witnesses almost immediately. Radiometric dating indicates that it solidified... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosselli%E2%80%93Gulienetti%20syndrome | Rosselli–Gulienetti syndrome, also known as Zlotogora–Ogur syndrome and Bowen–Armstrong syndrome, is a type of congenital ectodermal dysplasia syndrome. The syndrome is relatively rare and has only been described in a few cases.
Signs and symptoms
There is a range of signs and symptoms including cleft lip or palate, i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marinobacter%20hydrocarbonoclasticus | Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus is a species of bacteria found in sea water which are able to degrade hydrocarbons. The cells are rod-shaped and motile by means of a single polar flagellum.
Etymology
‘Hydrocarbonoclastic’ means ‘hydrocarbon dismantling.’ These bacteria were named as such because they can degrade th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spermatid | The spermatid is the haploid male gametid that results from division of secondary spermatocytes. As a result of meiosis, each spermatid contains only half of the genetic material present in the original primary spermatocyte.
Spermatids are connected by cytoplasmic material and have superfluous cytoplasmic material ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant%20messaging | Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat allowing real-time text transmission over the Internet or another computer network. Messages are typically transmitted between two or more parties, when each user inputs text and triggers a transmission to the recipient(s), who are all connected on a common net... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xylomannan | Xylomannan is an antifreeze molecule, found in the freeze-tolerant Alaskan beetle Upis ceramboides. Unlike antifreeze proteins, xylomannan is not a protein. Instead, it is a combination of a sugar (saccharide) and a fatty acid that is found in cell membranes. As such is expected to work in a different manner than AF... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry%20Crapo%20%28mathematician%29 | Henry Howland Crapo (; August 12, 1932 – September 3, 2019) was an American-Canadian mathematician who worked in algebraic combinatorics. Over the course of his career, he held positions at several universities and research institutes in Canada and France. He is noted for his work in matroid theory and lattice theory... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20adipate | Sodium adipate is a compound with formula Na2C6H8O4. It is the sodium salt of adipic acid.
As a food additive, it has the E number E356 as is used as an acidity regulator. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20testing | Hybrid testing is what most frameworks evolve/develop into overtime and multiple projects. The most successful automation frameworks generally accommodate both grammar and spelling, as well as information input. This allows information given to be cross-checked against existing and confirmed information. This helps to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planet%20Simulator | The Planet Simulator, also known as a Planetary Simulator, is a climate-controlled simulation chamber designed to study the origin of life. The device was announced by researchers at McMaster University on behalf of the Origins Institute on 4 October 2018. The simulator project begun in 2012 and was funded with $1 mill... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson%E2%80%93Dadson%20curves | The Robinson–Dadson curves are one of many sets of equal-loudness contours for the human ear, determined experimentally by D. W. Robinson and R. S. Dadson.
Until recently, it was common to see the term 'Fletcher–Munson' used to refer to equal-loudness contours generally, even though the re-determination carried out by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%E2%80%93Fulkerson%20algorithm | The Ford–Fulkerson method or Ford–Fulkerson algorithm (FFA) is a greedy algorithm that computes the maximum flow in a flow network. It is sometimes called a "method" instead of an "algorithm" as the approach to finding augmenting paths in a residual graph is not fully specified or it is specified in several implementat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20biological%20integrity | An index of biological integrity (IBI), also called an index of biotic integrity, is a scientific tool typically used to identify and classify water pollution problems, although there have been some efforts to apply the idea to terrestrial environments. An IBI associates anthropogenic influences on a water body with bi... |
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