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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial%20coefficient
In mathematics, the binomial coefficients are the positive integers that occur as coefficients in the binomial theorem. Commonly, a binomial coefficient is indexed by a pair of integers and is written It is the coefficient of the term in the polynomial expansion of the binomial power ; this coefficient can be comput...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouth
The mouth is the body orifice through which many animals ingest food and vocalize. The body cavity immediately behind the mouth opening, known as the oral cavity (or in Latin), is also the first part of the alimentary canal which leads to the pharynx and the gullet. In tetrapod vertebrates, the mouth is bounded on the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptochirality
In stereochemistry, cryptochirality is a special case of chirality in which a molecule is chiral but its specific rotation is non-measurable. The underlying reason for the lack of rotation is the specific electronic properties of the molecule. The term was introduced by Kurt Mislow in 1977. For example, the alkane 5-e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawsonia%20campanulata
Dawsonia campanulata is an organic-walled Palaeozoic organism of unknown affinity. It resembles a shell or purse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tylopilus%20alboater
Tylopilus alboater, called the black velvet bolete, by some, is a bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae. The species is found in North America east of the Rocky Mountains, and in eastern Asia, including China, Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand. A mycorrhizal species, it grows solitarily, scattered, or in groups on the gro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilish
Pilish is a style of constrained writing in which the lengths of consecutive words or sentences match the digits of the number (pi). The shortest example is any three-letter word, such as "pie", but many longer examples have been constructed, including sentences, poems, and stories. Examples The following sentence...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20OLED%20Technology%20LLC
Global OLED Technology LLC develops and administers intellectual property purchased by Korea's LG Group from the Eastman Kodak Company for US$100 million in December 2009. Comprising some 2,200 patents, its portfolio of technologies arises from Kodak's research into organic light emitting diodes which stretches back to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobo%20eReader
The Kobo eReader is an e-reader produced by Toronto-based Kobo Inc (a subsidiary of Rakuten). The company's name is an anagram of "book". The original version was released in May 2010 and was marketed as a minimalist alternative to the more expensive e-book readers available at the time. Like most e-readers, the Kobo u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectrophoresis
Dielectrophoresis (DEP) is a phenomenon in which a force is exerted on a dielectric particle when it is subjected to a non-uniform electric field. This force does not require the particle to be charged. All particles exhibit dielectrophoretic activity in the presence of electric fields. However, the strength of the for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combined%20forced%20and%20natural%20convection
In fluid thermodynamics, combined forced convection and natural convection, or mixed convection, occurs when natural convection and forced convection mechanisms act together to transfer heat. This is also defined as situations where both pressure forces and buoyant forces interact. How much each form of convection cont...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambert%20summation
In mathematical analysis and analytic number theory, Lambert summation is a summability method for summing infinite series related to Lambert series specially relevant in analytic number theory. Definition Define the Lambert kernel by with . Note that is decreasing as a function of when . A sum is Lambert summable...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20CHAOS
Operation CHAOS or Operation MHCHAOS was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) domestic espionage project targeting American citizens operating from 1967 to 1974, established by President Lyndon B. Johnson and expanded under President Richard Nixon, whose mission was to uncover possible foreign influence on domestic race...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptidoglycan%20binding%20domain
Peptidoglycan binding domains have a general peptidoglycan binding function and a common core structure consisting of a closed, three-helical bundle with a left-handed twist. It is found at the N or C terminus of a variety of enzymes involved in bacterial cell wall degradation.<ref name="PUB00003115"></ref> Examples ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonogram
Nonograms, also known as Hanjie, Paint by Numbers, Picross, Griddlers, and Pic-a-Pix, and by various other names, are picture logic puzzles in which cells in a grid must be colored or left blank according to numbers at the side of the grid to reveal a hidden pixel art-like picture. In this puzzle type, the numbers are ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truffle%20oil
Truffle oil is a modern culinary ingredient used to impart the flavor and aroma of truffles to a dish. The ingredient is commonly used as a finishing oil in a variety of dishes, including truffle fries, pasta dishes, pizzas, and puréed foods such as mashed potatoes and deviled eggs. Truffle oil is available in all seas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure%20communication
Secure communication is when two entities are communicating and do not want a third party to listen in. For this to be the case, the entities need to communicate in a way that is unsusceptible to eavesdropping or interception. Secure communication includes means by which people can share information with varying degree...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAMER%20Manpack
Saab’s GAMER Manpack is used in smaller military exercises when the instructor wants to have control of the exercise and at the same time be able to be near the action. The actual GAMER Manpack consists of a miniaturised radio base station and a laptop with an exercise-command-and-control system. These are small enough...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artemisia%20absinthium
Artemisia absinthium, otherwise known as common wormwood, is a species of Artemisia native to North Africa and temperate regions of Eurasia, and widely naturalized in Canada and the northern United States. It is grown as an ornamental plant and is used as an ingredient in the spirit absinthe and some other alcoholic be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad%20Science%20%28Taubes%20book%29
Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion is book of science history by Gary Taubes about the early years (1989–1991) of the cold fusion controversy. Overview This text is not a scholarly work, but a popular retelling of the events, based on interviews with over 260 people. The book presents a timelin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enola%20Gay%20%28song%29
"Enola Gay" is an anti-war song by the English electronic band Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD), and the only single taken from their second studio album Organisation (1980). Written by lead vocalist and bassist Andy McCluskey, it addresses the atomic bombing of Hiroshima by the aircraft Enola Gay on 6 August 19...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia%20Ragsdale
Virginia Ragsdale (December 13, 1870 – June 4, 1945) was a teacher and mathematician specializing in algebraic curves. She is most known as the creator of the Ragsdale conjecture. Early life Ragsdale was born on a farm in Jamestown, North Carolina the third child of John Sinclair Ragsdale and Emily Jane Idol. John wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrahymena
Tetrahymena, a unicellular eukaryote, is a genus of free-living ciliates. The genus Tetrahymena is the most widely studied member of its phylum. It can produce, store and react with different types of hormones. Tetrahymena cells can recognize both related and hostile cells. They can also switch from commensalistic t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conjugate%20beam%20method
The conjugate-beam methods is an engineering method to derive the slope and displacement of a beam. A conjugate beam is defined as an imaginary beam with the same dimensions (length) as that of the original beam but load at any point on the conjugate beam is equal to the bending moment at that point divided by EI. The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20flower%20water
Orange flower water, or orange blossom water, is a clear aromatic by-product of the distillation of fresh bitter-orange blossoms for their essential oil. Uses This essential water has traditionally been used as an aromatizer in many Mediterranean traditional dessert dishes, such as in France for the gibassier and pom...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stem%20succulent
Stem succulents are fleshy succulent columnar shaped plants which conduct photosynthesis mainly through their stems rather than their leaves. These plants are defined by their succulent stems and have evolved to have similar forms by convergent evolution to occupy similar niches. Description Stem succulents are succu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell-free%20system
A cell-free system is an in vitro tool widely used to study biological reactions that happen within cells apart from a full cell system, thus reducing the complex interactions typically found when working in a whole cell. Subcellular fractions can be isolated by ultracentrifugation to provide molecular machinery that c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith%20Critchlow
Keith Barry Critchlow (16 March 1933 – 8 April 2020) was a British artist, lecturer, author, Sacred Geometer, professor of architecture, and a co-founder of the Temenos Academy in the UK. Biography Critchlow was educated at the Summerhill School, St Martins School of Art, and the Royal College of Art. He performed na...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo%20Galilei%20Institute%20for%20Theoretical%20Physics
The Galileo Galilei Institute for Theoretical Physics (GGI) is a research institute near Florence, Italy. It "organizes and hosts small-size advanced workshops in theoretical particle physics in its broadest sense." Each workshop is devoted to a specific topic at the forefront of current research. During its typical ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periapical%20granuloma
Periapical granuloma, also sometimes referred to as a radicular granuloma or apical granuloma, is an inflammation at the tip of a dead (nonvital) tooth. It is a lesion or mass that typically starts out as an epithelial lined cyst, and undergoes an inward curvature that results in inflammation of granulation tissue at t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berman%E2%80%93Hartmanis%20conjecture
In structural complexity theory, the Berman–Hartmanis conjecture is an unsolved conjecture named after Leonard C. Berman and Juris Hartmanis that states that all NP-complete languages look alike, in the sense that they can be related to each other by polynomial time isomorphisms. Statement An isomorphism between forma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four%20Core%20Genotypes%20mouse%20model
Four Core Genotypes (FCG) mice are laboratory mice produced by genetic engineering that allow biomedical researchers to determine if a sex difference in phenotype is caused by effects of gonadal hormones or sex chromosome genes. The four genotypes include XX and XY mice with ovaries, and XX and XY mice with testes. Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy%20traffic%20approximation
In queueing theory, a discipline within the mathematical theory of probability, a heavy traffic approximation (sometimes heavy traffic limit theorem or diffusion approximation) is the matching of a queueing model with a diffusion process under some limiting conditions on the model's parameters. The first such result wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arly-Singou
Arly-Singou is a large ecosystem in Burkina Faso. It encompasses the Arli National Park and the Singou Reserve. It is considered to comprise part of the most significant and important savanna woodland wildlife areas still existing in West Africa. Fauna and history In 1980, aerial counts revealed that the largest ant...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alina%20%28malware%29
Alina is a Point of Sale Malware or POS RAM Scraper that is used by cybercriminals to scrape credit card and debit card information from the point of sale system. It first started to scrape information in late 2012. It resembles JackPOS Malware. Process of Alina POS RAM Scraper Once executed, it gets installed on the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutral%20particle%20oscillation
In particle physics, neutral particle oscillation is the transmutation of a particle with zero electric charge into another neutral particle due to a change of a non-zero internal quantum number, via an interaction that does not conserve that quantum number. Neutral particle oscillations were first investigated in 1954...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%20Weyl
Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, (; 9 November 1885 – 8 December 1955) was a German mathematician, theoretical physicist, logician and philosopher. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich, Switzerland, and then Princeton, New Jersey, he is associated with the University of Göttingen tradition of mathematics, rep...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/148th%20meridian%20east
The meridian 148° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, Australasia, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 148th meridian east forms a great circle with the 32nd meridian west. From Pole to Pole Starting at the N...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr%20Solomon%27s%20Antivirus
Dr Solomon's Antivirus Toolkit is an antivirus suite which incorporates prevention, detection and repair for Microsoft MS-DOS, Microsoft Windows (up to 98), Novell, SCO Unix, Sun Solaris and OS/2. It was written by Alan Solomon of S&S International. History Dr. Solomon's Anti-Virus Toolkit was first created in 1988 a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reductionism
Reductionism is any of several related philosophical ideas regarding the associations between phenomena which can be described in terms of other simpler or more fundamental phenomena. It is also described as an intellectual and philosophical position that interprets a complex system as the sum of its parts. Definition...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schweigger-Seidel%20sheath
Schweigger-Seidel sheath is a phagocytic sleeve that is part of a sheathed arteriole of the spleen, and is sometimes referred to as a splenic ellipsoid. It is a spindle-shaped thickening in the walls of the second part of the arterial branches forming the penicilli in the spleen. It is named after German physiologist F...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gut%20microbiota
Gut microbiota, gut microbiome, or gut flora, are the microorganisms, including bacteria, archaea, fungi, and viruses, that live in the digestive tracts of animals. The gastrointestinal metagenome is the aggregate of all the genomes of the gut microbiota. The gut is the main location of the human microbiome. The gut mi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knot%20DNS
Knot DNS is an open-source authoritative-only server for the Domain Name System. It was created from scratch and is actively developed by CZ.NIC, the .CZ domain registry. The purpose of this project is to supply an alternative open-source implementation of an authoritative DNS server suitable for TLD operators to incre...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPG80
hPG80 refers to the extracellular and oncogenic version of progastrin. This name first appeared in a scientific publication in January 2020. Until that date, scientific publications only mention 'progastrin', without necessarily explicitly specifying whether it is intracellular (in the context of digestion) or extracel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20Memory%20Cube
Hybrid Memory Cube (HMC) is a high-performance computer random-access memory (RAM) interface for through-silicon vias (TSV)-based stacked DRAM memory competing with the incompatible rival interface High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). Overview Hybrid Memory Cube was co-developed by Samsung Electronics and Micron Technology i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acta%20Applicandae%20Mathematicae
Acta Applicandae Mathematicae is a peer-reviewed mathematics journal published by Springer. Founded in 1983, the journal publishes articles on applied mathematics. The journal is indexed by Mathematical Reviews and Zentralblatt MATH. According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tale%20topology
In algebraic geometry, the étale topology is a Grothendieck topology on the category of schemes which has properties similar to the Euclidean topology, but unlike the Euclidean topology, it is also defined in positive characteristic. The étale topology was originally introduced by Alexander Grothendieck to define étal...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empirical%20orthogonal%20functions
In statistics and signal processing, the method of empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis is a decomposition of a signal or data set in terms of orthogonal basis functions which are determined from the data. The term is also interchangeable with the geographically weighted Principal components analysis in geophy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrotum
The scrotum (: scrotums or scrota; possibly from Latin scortum, meaning "hide" or "skin") or scrotal sac is an anatomical male reproductive structure located at the base of the penis that consists of a suspended dual-chambered sac of skin and smooth muscle. It is present in most terrestrial male mammals. The scrotum co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spontaneous%20process
In thermodynamics, a spontaneous process is a process which occurs without any external input to the system. A more technical definition is the time-evolution of a system in which it releases free energy and it moves to a lower, more thermodynamically stable energy state (closer to thermodynamic equilibrium). The sign ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZZ%20diboson
ZZ dibosons are rare pairs of Z bosons. They were first observed by the experiments at the Large Electron–Positron Collider (ALEPH, DELPHI, L3 and OPAL). The first observation in a hadron collider was made by the scientists of DØ collaboration at Fermilab. Discussion ZZ dibosons are force-carrying particles observed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabernaemontana%20parviflora
Tabernaemontana parviflora is a taxonomic synonym that may refer to: Tabernaemontana parviflora = Tabernaemontana pandacaqui Tabernaemontana parviflora = Tabernaemontana persicariifolia Tabernaemontana parviflora = Tabernaemontana rostrata Tabernaemontana parviflora = Ichnocarpus frutescens
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myocyte-specific%20enhancer%20factor%202A
Myocyte-specific enhancer factor 2A is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MEF2A gene. MEF2A is a transcription factor in the Mef2 family. In humans it is located on chromosome 15q26. Certain mutations in MEF2A cause an autosomal dominant form of coronary artery disease and myocardial infarction. Function ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submental%20artery
The submental artery is the largest branch of the facial artery in the neck. It first runs forward under the mouth, then turns upward upon reaching the chin. Anatomy Origin The submental artery is the largest branch of the facial artery in the neck. It arises from the facial artery just as the facial artery splits ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Fire%20Upon%20the%20Deep
A Fire Upon the Deep is a 1992 science fiction novel by American writer Vernor Vinge. It is a space opera involving superhuman intelligences, aliens, variable physics, space battles, love, betrayal, genocide, and a communication medium resembling Usenet. A Fire Upon the Deep won the Hugo Award in 1993, sharing it with ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20fine%20TFT
Super fine TFT (SFT) is a NEC display technology that is claimed to provide better viewing angles and pixel response speed than other technologies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randles%20circuit
In electrochemistry, a Randles circuit is an equivalent electrical circuit that consists of an active electrolyte resistance in series with the parallel combination of the double-layer capacitance and an impedance () of a faradaic reaction. It is commonly used in electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) for inter...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigraph%20%28mathematics%29
In mathematics, the epigraph or supergraph of a function valued in the extended real numbers is the set, denoted by of all points in the Cartesian product lying on or above its graph. The strict epigraph is the set of points in lying strictly above its graph. Importantly, although both the graph and epigraph of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wintergreen
Wintergreen is a group of aromatic plants. The term "wintergreen" once commonly referred to plants that remain green (continue photosynthesis) throughout the winter. The term "evergreen" is now more commonly used for this characteristic. Most species of the shrub genus Gaultheria demonstrate this characteristic and ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon%20Drive
Amazon Drive, formerly known as Amazon Cloud Drive, is a cloud storage application managed by Amazon. The service offers secure cloud storage, file backup, file sharing, and Photo printing. Using an Amazon account, the files and folders can be transferred and managed from multiple devices, including web browsers, deskt...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20engineering
Cell engineering is the purposeful process of adding, deleting, or modifying genetic sequences in living cells to achieve biological engineering goals such as altering cell production, changing cell growth and proliferation requirements, adding or removing cell functions, and many more. Cell engineering often makes use...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague%20Time%3A%20The%20New%20Germ%20Theory%20of%20Disease
Plague Time: The New Germ Theory of Disease is a non-fiction book by evolutionary biologist Paul W. Ewald. It argues that the role of pathogens has been overlooked in medicine, as a primary cause of many chronic diseases. It is his second book, following Evolution of Infectious Disease in 1994. Collecting accounts ove...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auricular%20branch%20of%20vagus%20nerve
The auricular branch of the vagus nerve is often termed the Alderman's nerve or Arnold's nerve. The latter name is an eponym for Friedrich Arnold. The auricular branch of the vagus nerve supplies sensory innervation to the skin of the ear canal, tragus, and auricle. Path It arises from the superior ganglion of the vag...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20flux
In physics, specifically electromagnetism, the magnetic flux through a surface is the surface integral of the normal component of the magnetic field B over that surface. It is usually denoted or . The SI unit of magnetic flux is the weber (Wb; in derived units, volt–seconds), and the CGS unit is the maxwell. Magnetic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Association%20of%20Biology%20Teachers
The National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT) is an incorporated association of biology educators in the United States. It was initially founded in response to the poor understanding of biology and the decline in the teaching of the subject in the 1930s. It has grown to become a national representative organisati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sociable%20number
In mathematics, sociable numbers are numbers whose aliquot sums form a periodic sequence. They are generalizations of the concepts of perfect numbers and amicable numbers. The first two sociable sequences, or sociable chains, were discovered and named by the Belgian mathematician Paul Poulet in 1918. In a sociable sequ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzel%20%28computer%29
Uzel was the Soviet Union's first digital computer used on submarines, to assist in tracking multiple targets and calculate torpedo solutions. Uzel's design team was headed by two American defectors to the Soviet Union, Alfred Sarant (a.k.a. Philip Staros) and Joel Barr (a.k.a. Joseph Berg). An upgraded version of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical%20desert
Tropical deserts are located in regions between 15 and 30 degrees latitude. The environment is very extreme, and they have the highest average monthly temperature on Earth. Rainfall is sporadic; precipitation may not be observed at all in a few years. In addition to these extreme environmental and climate conditions, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesicouterine%20pouch
In human female anatomy, the vesicouterine pouch, also uterovesicle pouch, is a fold of peritoneum over the uterus and the bladder. Like the rectouterine pouch, it is a female pelvic recess, but shallower and closer to the anterior fornix of the vagina. Structure The vesicouterine pouch is a fold of peritoneum over t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opto-isolator
An opto-isolator (also called an optocoupler, photocoupler, or optical isolator) is an electronic component that transfers electrical signals between two isolated circuits by using light. Opto-isolators prevent high voltages from affecting the system receiving the signal. Commercially available opto-isolators withstand...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular%20coloring
In graph theory, circular coloring is a kind of coloring that may be viewed as a refinement of the usual graph coloring. The circular chromatic number of a graph , denoted can be given by any of the following definitions, all of which are equivalent (for finite graphs). is the infimum over all real numbers so that ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20College%20of%20Pathologists%20of%20Australasia
The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia, more commonly known by its acronym RCPA, is a medical organization that promotes the science and practice of pathology. The RCPA is a leading organisation representing pathologists and other senior scientists in Australasia. History The College of Pathologists of Aust...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative%20pedal%20curve
In geometry, a negative pedal curve is a plane curve that can be constructed from another plane curve C and a fixed point P on that curve. For each point X ≠ P on the curve C, the negative pedal curve has a tangent that passes through X and is perpendicular to line XP. Constructing the negative pedal curve is the inve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value%20noise
Value noise is a type of noise commonly used as a procedural texture primitive in computer graphics. It is conceptually different from, and often confused with gradient noise, examples of which are Perlin noise and Simplex noise. This method consists of the creation of a lattice of points which are assigned random valu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20Magnete
De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure (On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on That Great Magnet the Earth) is a scientific work published in 1600 by the English physician and scientist William Gilbert. A highly influential and successful book, it exerted an immediate influence on many con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehmer%20pair
In the study of the Riemann hypothesis, a Lehmer pair is a pair of zeros of the Riemann zeta function that are unusually close to each other. They are named after Derrick Henry Lehmer, who discovered the pair of zeros (the 6709th and 6710th zeros of the zeta function). More precisely, a Lehmer pair can be defined a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MECOM
MDS1 and EVI1 complex locus protein EVI1 (MECOM) also known as ecotropic virus integration site 1 protein homolog (EVI-1) or positive regulatory domain zinc finger protein 3 (PRDM3) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MECOM gene. EVI1 was first identified as a common retroviral integration site in AKXD murine...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutetrabenazine
Deutetrabenazine (trade name Austedo) is a vesicular monoamine transporter 2 inhibitor which is used for the treatment of chorea associated with Huntington's disease and tardive dyskinesia. Chemically, deutetrabenazine is an isotopic isomer of tetrabenazine in which six hydrogen atoms have been replaced by deuterium a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20junction%20interface
In mass spectrometry, liquid junction interface is an ion source or set-up that couples peripheric devices, such as capillary electrophoresis, to mass spectrometry. See the IUPAC recommendation definition as a means of coupling capillary electrophoresis to mass spectrometry in which a liquid reservoir surrounds the se...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenic%20particle%20detector
Cryogenic particle detectors operate at very low temperature, typically only a few degrees above absolute zero. These sensors interact with an energetic elementary particle (such as a photon) and deliver a signal that can be related to the type of particle and the nature of the interaction. While many types of particle...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20cylinder
A hydraulic cylinder (also called a linear hydraulic motor) is a mechanical actuator that is used to give a unidirectional force through a unidirectional stroke. It has many applications, notably in construction equipment (engineering vehicles), manufacturing machinery, elevators, and civil engineering. A hydraulic cy...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smaato
Smaato is a platform for digital advertising technology and ad serving. Smaato's self-serve omnichannel monetization solution allows publishers to manage their complete advertising stack in a single location. Monetization technology for advertising enables publishers to maintain free content. Smaato was established in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External%20variable
In the C programming language, an external variable is a variable defined outside any function block. On the other hand, a local (automatic) variable is a variable defined inside a function block. Definition, declaration and the extern keyword To understand how external variables relate to the extern keyword, it is n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrophage
Macrophages (abbreviated as Mφ, MΦ or MP) (, from Greek μακρός () = large, φαγεῖν () = to eat) are a type of white blood cell of the innate immune system that engulf and digest pathogens, such as cancer cells, microbes, cellular debris, and foreign substances, which do not have proteins that are specific to healthy bod...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20computer
Hybrid computers are computers that exhibit features of analog computers and digital computers. The digital component normally serves as the controller and provides logical and numerical operations, while the analog component often serves as a solver of differential equations and other mathematically complex problems. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LST%201564
LST 1564:2000 is a character encoding used to write the Lithuanian language. It is a modification of ISO/IEC 8859-13 to support the accented Lithuanian letters. Codepage layout The following table shows LST 1564. Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point. Only the second half of the table (code po...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-Doppler%20cooling
Sub-Doppler cooling is a class of laser cooling techniques that reduce the temperature of atoms and molecules below the Doppler cooling limit. Doppler cooling processes have a cooling limit that is characterized by the momentum recoil from the emission of a photon from the particle. Some methods of sub-Doppler cooling...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublinear%20function
In linear algebra, a sublinear function (or functional as is more often used in functional analysis), also called a quasi-seminorm or a Banach functional, on a vector space is a real-valued function with only some of the properties of a seminorm. Unlike seminorms, a sublinear function does not have to be nonnegative-v...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum%20hypothesis
In mathematics, specifically set theory, the continuum hypothesis (abbreviated CH) is a hypothesis about the possible sizes of infinite sets. It states that or equivalently, that In Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of choice (ZFC), this is equivalent to the following equation in aleph numbers: , or even sho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transposon%20tagging
In genetic engineering, transposon tagging is a process where transposons (transposable elements) are amplified inside a biological cell by a tagging technique. Transposon tagging has been used with several species to isolate genes. Even without knowing the nature of the specific genes, the process can still be used. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20704
The IBM 704 is a large digital mainframe computer introduced by IBM in 1954. It was the first mass-produced computer with hardware for floating-point arithmetic. The IBM 704 Manual of operation states: The type 704 Electronic Data-Processing Machine is a large-scale, high-speed electronic calculator controlled by an ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20physics%20articles%20%28T%29
The index of physics articles is split into multiple pages due to its size. To navigate by individual letter use the table of contents below. T Τ–θ puzzle T-15 (reactor) T-J model T-duality T-symmetry T. H. Laby T. Neil Davis T. V. Ramakrishnan T2K experiment TAMA 300 TASSO TEA laser Terahertz radiation TINKER TORRO...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban%20medical%20internationalism
After the 1959 Cuban Revolution, Cuba established a program to send its medical personnel overseas, particularly to Latin America, Africa, and Oceania, and to bring medical students and patients to Cuba for training and treatment respectively. In 2007, Cuba had 42,000 workers in international collaborations in 103 coun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polypharmacy
Polypharmacy (polypragmasia) is an umbrella term to describe the simultaneous use of multiple medicines by a patient for their conditions. The term polypharmacy is often defined as regularly taking five or more medicines but there is no standard definition and the term has also been used in the context of when a person...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycylpeptide%20N-tetradecanoyltransferase%201
Glycylpeptide N-tetradecanoyltransferase 1 also known as myristoyl-CoA:protein N-myristoyltransferase 1 (NMT-1) is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NMT1 gene. It belongs to the protein N-terminal methyltransferase and glycylpeptide N-tetradecanoyltransferase family of enzymes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20beliefs%20about%20the%20human%20body
The human body has been subject of much debate. How people are defined, and what defined them – be it their anatomy or their energy or both – depends on culture and time. Culture not only defines how sex is perceived but also how gender is defined. Today gender, sex, and identity continue to be of much debate and chan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher%20Harman
Christopher Gill Harman is a British insurance broker and underwriter who is a name at Lloyd's of London. Harman is a philatelist who was formerly president of the Royal Philatelic Society London. He signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 2003.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quiet%20area
"Quiet area" or "quiet areas" is a concept used in landscape planning to highlight areas with good sound quality and limited noise disturbance. The concept is typically used in nature and nature-like areas with high experiential values and/or high accessibility. Despite the name, quiet areas are not "quiet" in the stri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminaria%20digitata
Laminaria digitata is a large brown alga in the family Laminariaceae, also known by the common name oarweed. It is found in the sublittoral zone of the northern Atlantic Ocean. Description Laminaria digitata is a tough, leathery, dark brown seaweed that grows to two or three metres. The holdfast which anchors it to t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcoma
A sarcoma is a malignant tumor, a type of cancer that arises from transformed cells of mesenchymal (connective tissue) origin. Connective tissue is a broad term that includes bone, cartilage, fat, vascular, or hematopoietic tissues, and sarcomas can arise in any of these types of tissues. As a result, there are many su...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain%20engineering
Domain engineering, is the entire process of reusing domain knowledge in the production of new software systems. It is a key concept in systematic software reuse and product line engineering. A key idea in systematic software reuse is the domain. Most organizations work in only a few domains. They repeatedly build simi...