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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snell%27s%20window
Snell's window (also called Snell's circle or optical man-hole) is a phenomenon by which an underwater viewer sees everything above the surface through a cone of light of width of about 96 degrees. This phenomenon is caused by refraction of light entering water, and is governed by Snell's Law. The area outside Snell's ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point%20combinator
In mathematics and computer science in general, a fixed point of a function is a value that is mapped to itself by the function. In combinatory logic for computer science, a fixed-point combinator (or fixpoint combinator) is a higher-order function that returns some fixed point of its argument function, if one exists...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirchberger%27s%20theorem
Kirchberger's theorem is a theorem in discrete geometry, on linear separability. The two-dimensional version of the theorem states that, if a finite set of red and blue points in the Euclidean plane has the property that, for every four points, there exists a line separating the red and blue points within those four, t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%E2%80%93Magenis%20syndrome
Smith–Magenis Syndrome (SMS), also known as 17p- syndrome, is a microdeletion syndrome characterized by an abnormality in the short (p) arm of chromosome 17. It has features including intellectual disability, facial abnormalities, difficulty sleeping, and numerous behavioral problems such as self-harm. Smith–Magenis sy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toi%20%28programming%20language%29
Toi is an imperative, type-sensitive language that provides the basic functionality of a programming language. The language was designed and developed from the ground-up by Paul Longtine. Written in C, Toi was created with the intent to be an educational experience and serves as a learning tool (or toy, hence the name)...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbarsone
Carbarsone is an organoarsenic compound used as an antiprotozoal drug for treatment of amebiasis and other infections. It was available for amebiasis in the United States as late as 1991. Thereafter, it remained available as a turkey feed additive for increasing weight gain and controlling histomoniasis (blackhead di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sum%20activity%20of%20peripheral%20deiodinases
The sum activity of peripheral deiodinases (GD, also referred to as deiodination capacity, total deiodinase activity or, if calculated from levels of thyroid hormones, as SPINA-GD) is the maximum amount of triiodothyronine produced per time-unit under conditions of substrate saturation. It is assumed to reflect the act...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strings%20%28Unix%29
In computer software, strings is a program in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems that finds and prints the strings of printable characters in files. The files can be of regular text files or binary files such as executables. It can be used on object files and core dumps. strings is mainly useful for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestDisk
TestDisk is a free and open-source data recovery utility that helps users recover lost partitions or repair corrupted filesystems. TestDisk can collect detailed information about a corrupted drive, which can then be sent to a technician for further analysis. TestDisk supports DOS, Microsoft Windows (i.e. NT 4.0, 2000, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octenylsuccinic%20acid
Octenylsuccinic acid is a manufactured ingredient in foods. It is used to treat gum arabic, and also in waxy maize production and for rice starch production. See also Octenyl succinic acid modified gum arabic
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.hn
Gigabit Home Networking (G.hn) is a specification for wired home networking that supports speeds up to 2 Gbit/s and operates over four types of legacy wires: telephone wiring, coaxial cables, power lines and plastic optical fiber. Some benefits of a multi-wire standard are lower equipment development costs and lower de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicast%20Listener%20Discovery
Multicast Listener Discovery (MLD) is a component of the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) suite. MLD is used by IPv6 routers for discovering multicast listeners on a directly attached link, much like Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is used in IPv4. The protocol is embedded in ICMPv6 instead of using a separ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20object
In mathematics, the idea of a free object is one of the basic concepts of abstract algebra. Informally, a free object over a set A can be thought of as being a "generic" algebraic structure over A: the only equations that hold between elements of the free object are those that follow from the defining axioms of the alg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunoproteasome
An immunoproteasome is a type of proteasome that degrades ubiquitin-labeled proteins found in the cytoplasm in cells exposed to oxidative stress and proinflammatory stimuli. In general, proteasomes consist of a regulatory and a catalytic part. Immunoproteasomes are induced by interferon gamma (but also by other proinfl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hose
A hose is a flexible hollow tube designed to carry fluids from one location to another. Hoses are also sometimes called pipes (the word pipe usually refers to a rigid tube, whereas a hose is usually a flexible one), or more generally tubing. The shape of a hose is usually cylindrical (having a circular cross section). ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtraction
Subtraction (which is signified by the minus sign ) is one of the four arithmetic operations along with addition, multiplication and division. Subtraction is an operation that represents removal of objects from a collection. For example, in the adjacent picture, there are peaches—meaning 5 peaches with 2 taken away, r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant%20retinal%20ganglion%20cells
Giant retinal ganglion cells are photosensitive ganglion cells with large dendritic trees discovered in the human and macaque retina by Dacey et al. (2005). Giant retinal ganglion cells contain a photo-pigment, melanopsin, allowing them to respond directly to light. They also receive connections from rods and cones, a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glandular%20branches%20of%20facial%20artery
The glandular branches of the facial artery (submaxillary branches) consist of three or four large vessels, which supply the submandibular gland, some being prolonged to the neighboring muscles, lymph glands, and integument.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squalene/phytoene%20synthase%20family
The squalene/phytoene synthase family represents proteins that catalyze the head-to-head condensation of C15 and C20 prenyl units (i.e. farnesyl diphosphate and genranylgeranyl diphosphate). This enzymatic step constitutes part of steroid and carotenoid biosynthesis pathway. Squalene synthase EC (SQS) and Phytoene synt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divekick
Divekick is a 2D competitive fighting game originally developed by One True Game Studios, an independent collective of competitive gamers. A demo of the game was showcased at several competitive events, and after a positive reaction, the group created a Kickstarter campaign to fund the creation of a full version for re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism%20of%20Google
Criticism of Google includes concern for tax avoidance, misuse and manipulation of search results, its use of others' intellectual property, concerns that its compilation of data may violate people's privacy and collaboration with the US military on Google Earth to spy on users, censorship of search results and content...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameSoundCon
GameSoundCon is a conference and seminar on videogame music and video game sound design. GameSoundCon began as a multi-city conference providing seminars occurring 2-4 times per year in various cities in the US on creating music and sound effects for videogames. Speakers and panelists from throughout the industry cov...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snell%20Limited
Snell Limited, branded as Snell Advanced Media or SAM, was a British company that designed and developed solutions for the media production market including applications for central operations, live production, post production, playout and media management. They were headquartered in Newbury, UK. SAM delivers agile te...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic%20toxicology%20databases
Toxicological databases are large compilations of data derived from aquatic and environmental toxicity studies. Data is aggregated from a large number of individual studies in which toxic effects upon aquatic and terrestrial organisms have been determined for different chemicals. These databases are then used by toxico...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AKARI%20Project
The AKARI Architecture Design Project was a project for designing a new generation computer network architecture supported by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) of Japan. The name "AKARI" indicates "A small light in the dark pointing to the future" and it comes from the Japanese ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millicode
In computer architecture, millicode is a higher level of microcode used to implement part of the instruction set of a computer. The instruction set for millicode is a subset of the machine's native instruction set, omitting those instructions that are implemented using millicode, plus instructions that provide access ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-alpha-trypsin%20inhibitor
Inter-alpha-trypsin inhibitors (IαI) are plasma proteins consisting of three of four heavy chains selected from the group ITIH1, ITIH2, ITIH3, ITIH4 and one light chain selected from the group AMBP or SPINT2. They function as protease inhibitors. IαI form complexes with hyaluronan (HA), generating a serum-derived hya...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Build-on-demand
Build-on-demand or manufacturing on demand (MOD) refers to a manufacturing process where goods are produced only when or as they are required. This allows scalability and adjustable assemblies depending on the current needs of the part requestor or client. Manufacturing on demand has the potential to markedly affect t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiological%20Reports
Physiological Reports is a peer-reviewed open access online-only scientific journal covering original research in all areas of physiology. It is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of The Physiological Society and the American Physiological Society. The journal was established in 2013. Susan Wray (University of Li...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOS%20%28operating%20system%29
NOS (Network Operating System) is a discontinued operating system with time-sharing capabilities, written by Control Data Corporation in 1975. NOS ran on the 60-bit CDC 6000 series of mainframe computers and their successors. NOS replaced the earlier CDC Kronos operating system of the 1970s. NOS was intended to be the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle%20Data%20Group
The Particle Data Group (PDG) is an international collaboration of particle physicists that compiles and reanalyzes published results related to the properties of particles and fundamental interactions. It also publishes reviews of theoretical results that are phenomenologically relevant, including those in related fi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneous%20coordinates
In mathematics, homogeneous coordinates or projective coordinates, introduced by August Ferdinand Möbius in his 1827 work , are a system of coordinates used in projective geometry, just as Cartesian coordinates are used in Euclidean geometry. They have the advantage that the coordinates of points, including points at i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narumi%20polynomials
In mathematics, the Narumi polynomials sn(x) are polynomials introduced by given by the generating function , See also Umbral calculus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/43rd%20meridian%20west
The meridian 43° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, the Atlantic Ocean, South America, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 43rd meridian west forms a great circle with the 137th meridian east. From Pole to Pole Starting a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlap%E2%80%93add%20method
In signal processing, the overlap–add method is an efficient way to evaluate the discrete convolution of a very long signal with a finite impulse response (FIR) filter : where for m outside the region . This article uses common abstract notations, such as or in which it is understood that the functions should be t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytopathology
Cytopathology (from Greek , kytos, "a hollow"; , pathos, "fate, harm"; and , -logia) is a branch of pathology that studies and diagnoses diseases on the cellular level. The discipline was founded by George Nicolas Papanicolaou in 1928. Cytopathology is generally used on samples of free cells or tissue fragments, in con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-Hydroxypropionate%20bicycle
The 3-hydroxypropionate bicycle, also known as the 3-hydroxypropionate pathway, is a process that allows some bacteria to generate 3-hydroxypropionate using carbon dioxide. In this pathway CO2 is fixed (i.e. incorporated) by the action of two enzymes, acetyl-CoA carboxylase and propionyl-CoA carboxylase. These enzymes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANU%20Research%20School%20of%20Physics
The Research School of Physics (RSPhys) was established with the creation of the Australian National University (ANU) in 1947. Located at the ANU's main campus in Canberra, the school is one of the four founding research schools in the ANU's Institute of Advanced Studies. As part of the Institute of Advanced Studies i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray-tracing%20hardware
Ray-tracing hardware is special-purpose computer hardware designed for accelerating ray tracing calculations. Introduction: Ray tracing and rasterization The problem of rendering 3D graphics can be conceptually presented as finding all intersections between a set of "primitives" (typically triangles or polygons) and a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swift%20J1745-26
Swift J1745-26 is a stellar-mass black hole located a few degrees from the center of the Milky Way galaxy toward the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by NASA's Swift satellite on September 16, 2012 due to the detection of an X-ray nova. The pattern of X-rays from the nova indicated that the central object w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroinguinal%20space
The retroinguinal space (or Bogros' space) is the extraperitoneal space situated deep to the inguinal ligament. It's limited by the fascia transversalis anteriorly, the peritoneum posteriorly and the iliac fascia laterally. This preperitoneal space communicates with prevesical space of Retzius. It is divided into two...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium%20aluminide
Titanium aluminide (chemical formula TiAl), commonly gamma titanium, is an intermetallic chemical compound. It is lightweight and resistant to oxidation and heat, but has low ductility. The density of γ-TiAl is about 4.0 g/cm3. It finds use in several applications including aircraft, jet engines, sporting equipment an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws%20of%20robotics
Laws of robotics are any set of laws, rules, or principles, which are intended as a fundamental framework to underpin the behavior of robots designed to have a degree of autonomy. Robots of this degree of complexity do not yet exist, but they have been widely anticipated in science fiction, films and are a topic of act...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed-choice%20quantum%20eraser
A delayed-choice quantum eraser experiment, first performed by Yoon-Ho Kim, R. Yu, S. P. Kulik, Y. H. Shih and Marlan O. Scully, and reported in early 1998, is an elaboration on the quantum eraser experiment that incorporates concepts considered in John Archibald Wheeler's delayed-choice experiment. The experiment was ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elfster
Elfster is a proprietary software application providing social networking features related to "secret Santa" style gift exchanges. It is available, without charge, as software as a service, via a website and via mobile apps for iOS and Android. The website's features include a universal wishlist, an anonymous Q&A sect...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20motion
Biological motion is motion that comes from actions of a biological organism. Humans and animals are able to understand those actions through experience, identification, and higher level neural processing. Humans use biological motion to identify and understand familiar actions, which is involved in the neural processe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20theories%20of%20special%20relativity
Test theories of special relativity give a mathematical framework for analyzing results of experiments to verify special relativity. An experiment to test the theory of relativity cannot assume the theory is true, and therefore needs some other framework of assumptions that are wider than those of relativity. For exam...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albetovirus
Albetovirus is a plant satellite virus genus. As a member of realm Riboviria without assigned family or order it contains just three species, Tobacco albetovirus 1, 2, and 3 (alias Satellite tobacco necrosis virus 1, 2, respectively C). The three virus species included in this genus represent satellite viruses that dep...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commuting%20matrices
In linear algebra, two matrices and are said to commute if , or equivalently if their commutator is zero. A set of matrices is said to commute if they commute pairwise, meaning that every pair of matrices in the set commute with each other. Characterizations and properties Commuting matrices preserve each other'...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Displacement%20field%20%28mechanics%29
In mechanics, a displacement field is the assignment of displacement vectors for all points in a region or body that are displaced from one state to another. A displacement vector specifies the position of a point or a particle in reference to an origin or to a previous position. For example, a displacement field may b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIND%20Technology
FIND® technology is a directed evolution technology that uses DNA recombination to improve properties of proteins. It eliminates unimportant and deleterious mutations while maintaining and combining beneficial mutations that would enhance protein function. Procedures For the relevant gene, a library of single stranded...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagorean%20means
In mathematics, the three classical Pythagorean means are the arithmetic mean (AM), the geometric mean (GM), and the harmonic mean (HM). These means were studied with proportions by Pythagoreans and later generations of Greek mathematicians because of their importance in geometry and music. Definition They are defined...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionone
The ionones, from greek ἴον ion "violet", are a series of closely related chemical substances that are part of a group of compounds known as rose ketones, which also includes damascones and damascenones. Ionones are aroma compounds found in a variety of essential oils, including rose oil. β-Ionone is a significant con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email%20agent
Email agent may refer to: An email client Email agent (infrastructure) various components of email infrastructure Email
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LENA%20Foundation
LENA is a developer of advanced technology and programs to accelerate language development of children 0–3 and to close opportunity gaps. The nonprofit organization uses a technology system that comprises a LENA device, patented processing software, and secure, cloud-based data access. The technology is used as the co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border%20trade
Border trade, in general, refers to the flow of goods and services across the border between different jurisdictions. In this sense, border trade is a part of the normal trade that flows through the ordinary export/import legal and logistical frameworks of nations and smaller jurisdictions. However border trade specifi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transversal%20plane
In geometry, a transversal plane is a plane that intersects (not contains) two or more lines or planes. A transversal plane may also form dihedral angles. Theorems Transversal plane theorem for lines: Lines that intersect a transversal plane are parallel if and only if their alternate interior angles formed by the poi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20operator
In quantum field theory, an order operator or an order field is a quantum field version of Landau's order parameter whose expectation value characterizes phase transitions. There exists a dual version of it, the disorder operator or disorder field, whose expectation value characterizes a phase transition by indicating ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat%20capacity%20rate
The heat capacity rate is heat transfer terminology used in thermodynamics and different forms of engineering denoting the quantity of heat a flowing fluid of a certain mass flow rate is able to absorb or release per unit temperature change per unit time. It is typically denoted as C, listed from empirical data experim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static%20spherically%20symmetric%20perfect%20fluid
In metric theories of gravitation, particularly general relativity, a static spherically symmetric perfect fluid solution (a term which is often abbreviated as ssspf) is a spacetime equipped with suitable tensor fields which models a static round ball of a fluid with isotropic pressure. Such solutions are often used a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%E2%80%93Z%20notation
E–Z configuration, or the E–Z convention, is the IUPAC preferred method of describing the absolute stereochemistry of double bonds in organic chemistry. It is an extension of cis–trans isomer notation (which only describes relative stereochemistry) that can be used to describe double bonds having two, three or four sub...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioUML
BioUML is an open-source software platform for the analysis of data from omics sciences research and other advanced computational biology developed by scientists from the Institute of Systems Biology in Novosibirsk, Russia. The platform is freely available online and used in research labs for the discovery of disease o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auricularia%20cornea
Auricularia cornea (毛木耳, maomuer or cloud ear) is a species of fungus in the order Auriculariales. It is commercially cultivated for food in China. The species was previously referred to Auricularia polytricha, but the latter species is probably a later synonym. Auricularia cornea is a popular ingredient in many Chines...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean-field%20particle%20methods
Mean-field particle methods are a broad class of interacting type Monte Carlo algorithms for simulating from a sequence of probability distributions satisfying a nonlinear evolution equation. These flows of probability measures can always be interpreted as the distributions of the random states of a Markov process whos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20disk%20operating%20systems%20called%20DOS
This is a list of disk operating systems in which the acronym DOS is used to form their names. Many of these are simply referred to as "DOS" within their respective communities. MS-DOS / IBM PC DOS compatible systems MS-DOS (since 1981), Microsoft operating system based on 86-DOS for x86-based personal computers ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20rotatory%20dispersion
Optical rotatory dispersion is the variation in the optical rotation of a substance with a change in the wavelength of light. Optical rotatory dispersion can be used to find the absolute configuration of metal complexes. For example, when plane-polarized white light from an overhead projector is passed through a cylind...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age%20stratification
In sociology, age stratification refers to the hierarchical ranking of people into age groups within a society. Age stratification could also be defined as a system of inequalities linked to age. In Western societies, for example, both the old and the young are perceived and treated as relatively incompetent and exclud...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics%20outreach
Physics outreach encompasses facets of science outreach and physics education, and a variety of activities by schools, research institutes, universities, clubs and institutions such as science museums aimed at broadening the audience for and awareness and understanding of physics. While the general public may sometimes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixtilinear%20incircles%20of%20a%20triangle
In plane geometry, a mixtilinear incircle of a triangle is a circle which is tangent to two of its sides and internally tangent to its circumcircle. The mixtilinear incircle of a triangle tangent to the two sides containing vertex is called the -mixtilinear incircle. Every triangle has three unique mixtilinear incircl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI%20Crimson
The IRIS Crimson (code-named Diehard2) is a Silicon Graphics (SGI) computer released in 1992. It is the world's first 64-bit workstation. Crimson is a member of Silicon Graphics's SGI IRIS 4D series of deskside systems; it is also known as the 4D/510 workstation. It is similar to other SGI IRIS 4D deskside workstation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polypyrimidine%20tract
The polypyrimidine tract is a region of pre-messenger RNA (mRNA) that promotes the assembly of the spliceosome, the protein complex specialized for carrying out RNA splicing during the process of post-transcriptional modification. The region is rich with pyrimidine nucleotides, especially uracil, and is usually 15–20 b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juniperus%20communis
Juniperus communis, the common juniper, is a species of small tree or shrub in the cypress family Cupressaceae. An evergreen conifer, it has the largest geographical range of any woody plant, with a circumpolar distribution throughout the cool temperate Northern Hemisphere. Description Juniperus communis is highly var...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20Biological%20Laboratory
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is an international center for research and education in biological and environmental science. Founded in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, in 1888, the MBL is a private, nonprofit institution that was independent for most of its history, but became officially affiliated with the Univers...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic%20dimension
The intrinsic dimension for a data set can be thought of as the number of variables needed in a minimal representation of the data. Similarly, in signal processing of multidimensional signals, the intrinsic dimension of the signal describes how many variables are needed to generate a good approximation of the signal. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locally%20finite%20collection
A collection of subsets of a topological space is said to be locally finite if each point in the space has a neighbourhood that intersects only finitely many of the sets in the collection. In the mathematical field of topology, local finiteness is a property of collections of subsets of a topological space. It is fu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wafer%20testing
Wafer testing is a step performed during semiconductor device fabrication after BEOL process is finished. During this step, performed before a wafer is sent to die preparation, all individual integrated circuits that are present on the wafer are tested for functional defects by applying special test patterns to them. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leech%20embryogenesis
Leech embryogenesis is the process by which the embryo of the leech forms and develops. The embryonic development of the larva occurs as a series of stages. During stage 1, the first cleavage occurs, which gives rise to an AB and a CD blastomere, and is in the interphase of this cell division when a yolk-free cytoplasm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%E2%80%93frequency%20analysis%20for%20music%20signals
Time–frequency analysis for music signals is one of the applications of time–frequency analysis. Musical sound can be more complicated than human vocal sound, occupying a wider band of frequency. Music signals are time-varying signals; while the classic Fourier transform is not sufficient to analyze them, time–frequenc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allosteric%20regulation
In biochemistry, allosteric regulation (or allosteric control) is the regulation of an enzyme by binding an effector molecule at a site other than the enzyme's active site. The site to which the effector binds is termed the allosteric site or regulatory site. Allosteric sites allow effectors to bind to the protein, of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects%20of%20nuclear%20explosions
The effects of a nuclear explosion on its immediate vicinity are typically much more destructive and multifaceted than those caused by conventional explosives. In most cases, the energy released from a nuclear weapon detonated within the lower atmosphere can be approximately divided into four basic categories: the blas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptery
Aptery is the anatomical condition of an animal completely lacking any kind of wings. An animal with this condition is said to be apterous. Most animal species belong to and are phylogenetic descendants of apterous taxa. These groups are said to be primarily apterous. Insects that are primarily apterous belong to the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court%20jester%20hypothesis
The court jester hypothesis is used in reference to the idea that abiotic forces (including climate), rather than biotic competition between species, function as a major driving force behind the processes in evolution which produce speciation. In evolutionary theory, the court-jester hypothesis contrasts the Red Queen ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPECint
SPECint is a computer benchmark specification for CPU integer processing power. It is maintained by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC). SPECint is the integer performance testing component of the SPEC test suite. The first SPEC test suite, CPU92, was announced in 1992. It was followed by CPU95, CPU2...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drum%20memory
Drum memory was a magnetic data storage device invented by Gustav Tauschek in 1932 in Austria. Drums were widely used in the 1950s and into the 1960s as computer memory. Many early computers, called drum computers or drum machines, used drum memory as the main working memory of the computer. Some drums were also use...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20insolation
Direct insolation is the insolation measured at a given location on Earth with a surface element perpendicular to the Sun's rays, excluding diffuse insolation (the solar radiation that is scattered or reflected by atmospheric components in the sky). Direct insolation is equal to the solar irradiance above the atmospher...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20supercomputer
A personal supercomputer (PSC) is a marketing ploy used by computer manufacturers for high-performance computer systems and was a popular term in the mid 2000s to early 2010s. There is no exact definition for what a personal supercomputer is. Many systems have had that label put on them like the Cray CX1 and the Apple ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S3%20Graphics%20Chrome%20400
S3 Graphics Chrome 400 is a computer graphics chip made by VIA. It was the successor of S3 Chrome S20 series. History VIA planned the production of two new graphics chips, Chrome 440 and 430, by the end of 2007. The Chrome 460 supported DirectX 10 and adopted a 90 nanometer process, while the Chrome 430 was to support...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleene%20fixed-point%20theorem
In the mathematical areas of order and lattice theory, the Kleene fixed-point theorem, named after American mathematician Stephen Cole Kleene, states the following: Kleene Fixed-Point Theorem. Suppose is a directed-complete partial order (dcpo) with a least element, and let be a Scott-continuous (and therefore monot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesta%20%28rocket%29
The Vesta sounding rocket, conceived in 1962 by the Laboratoire de recherches balistiques et aérodynamiques (LRBA), a specialized French Army research facility focused on liquid-propelled rocket development. The initial letter "V" in its name is derived from the city of Vernon. It was the outcome of an initiative by C...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarski%27s%20exponential%20function%20problem
In model theory, Tarski's exponential function problem asks whether the theory of the real numbers together with the exponential function is decidable. Alfred Tarski had previously shown that the theory of the real numbers (without the exponential function) is decidable. The problem The ordered real field R is a stru...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etiocholanolone%20glucuronide
Etiocholanolone glucuronide (ETIO-G) is an endogenous, naturally occurring metabolite of testosterone. It is formed in the liver from etiocholanolone by UDP-glucuronyltransferases. ETIO-G has much higher water solubility than etiocholanolone and is eventually excreted in the urine via the kidneys. Along with androstero...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function%20application
In mathematics, function application is the act of applying a function to an argument from its domain so as to obtain the corresponding value from its range. In this sense, function application can be thought of as the opposite of function abstraction. Representation Function application is usually depicted by juxtapo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva%20%28social%20network%29
eva is a video social network that allows users to record and post short, spontaneous videos from their mobile phones. Overview eva is a mobile app and social networking service that was launched by Forbidden Technologies plc - creator of cloud-based video editing software FORscene - in summer 2015. Its co-founders i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing%20jump
In computability theory, the Turing jump or Turing jump operator, named for Alan Turing, is an operation that assigns to each decision problem a successively harder decision problem with the property that is not decidable by an oracle machine with an oracle for . The operator is called a jump operator because it in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DU%20Ad%20Platform
DU Ad Platform is a mobile advertising platform developed by the Chinese web services company and search engine operator Baidu, Inc. Whereas the majority of Baidu's products and services are targeted at the domestic China market, DU Ad Platform's stated goal is to help developers in China and elsewhere increase their m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenosine%20monophosphate
Adenosine monophosphate (AMP), also known as 5'-adenylic acid, is a nucleotide. AMP consists of a phosphate group, the sugar ribose, and the nucleobase adenine. It is an ester of phosphoric acid and the nucleoside adenosine. As a substituent it takes the form of the prefix adenylyl-. AMP plays an important role in man...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Services%20Conversation%20Language
The Web Service Conversation Language (WSCL) proposal defines the overall input and output message sequences for one web service using a finite state automaton FSA over the alphabet of message types. External links Web Service Conversation Language (WSCL) proposal Web service specifications World Wide Web Consortium...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruo%20Hosoya
is a Japanese chemist and emeritus professor of Ochanomizu University, Tokyo, Japan. He is the namesake of the Hosoya index used in discrete mathematics and computational chemistry. Hosoya was born in Kamakura, Japan to a family of an office worker. During 1955-1959 he studied at the University of Tokyo. In 1964 he wr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTCS%20scheme
In numerical analysis, the FTCS (forward time-centered space) method is a finite difference method used for numerically solving the heat equation and similar parabolic partial differential equations. It is a first-order method in time, explicit in time, and is conditionally stable when applied to the heat equation. Wh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20element
A secure element (SE) is a secure operating system (OS) in a tamper-resistant processor chip or secure component. It can protect assets (root of trust, sensitive data, keys, certificates, applications) against high level software and hardware attacks. Applications that process this sensitive data on an SE are isolated ...