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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUnit
SUnit is a unit testing framework for the programming language Smalltalk. It is the original source of the xUnit design, originally written by one of the creators of Extreme Programming, Kent Beck. SUnit allows writing tests and checking results in Smalltalk. History SUnit was originally described by Beck in "Simple...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20boar
The White Boar was the personal device or badge of the English King Richard III of England (1452–1485, reigned from 1483), and is an early instance of the use of boars in heraldry. Livery badges were important symbols of political affiliation in the Wars of the Roses, and Richard distributed very large numbers at his ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floral%20isolation
Floral Isolation is a form of reproductive isolation found in angiosperms. Reproductive isolation is the process of species evolving mechanisms to prevent reproduction with other species. In plants, this is accomplished through the manipulation of the pollinator’s behavior (ethological isolation) or through morpholog...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20W.%20Floyd
Robert W Floyd (June 8, 1936 – September 25, 2001) was a computer scientist. His contributions include the design of the Floyd–Warshall algorithm (independently of Stephen Warshall), which efficiently finds all shortest paths in a graph and his work on parsing; Floyd's cycle-finding algorithm for detecting cycles in a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belgian%20Society%20of%20Biochemistry%20and%20Molecular%20Biology
The Belgian Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (BMB) is a Belgian non-profit organization, concerned with biochemistry and molecular biology. The BMB was created, based on an initiative of Marcel Florkin, so a Belgian society could join the new International Union of Biochemistry. The first charter of the s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre%20of%20the%20Oppressed
The Theatre of the Oppressed (TO) describes theatrical forms that the Brazilian theatre practitioner Augusto Boal first elaborated in the 1970s, initially in Brazil and later in Europe. Boal was influenced by the work of the educator and theorist Paulo Freire and his book Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Boal's techniques u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrophil%20swarming
Neutrophil swarming is a type of coordinated neutrophil movement that acts in response to acute tissue inflammation or infection. The term comes from the swarming characteristics of insects that are similar to the behavior of neutrophils in response to an infection. These processes have mostly been studied in tissues o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Need%20for%20Speed%3A%20Underground
Need for Speed: Underground is a 2003 racing video game and the seventh installment in the Need for Speed series. It was developed by EA Black Box and published by Electronic Arts. Three different versions of the game were produced: one for consoles and Microsoft Windows, and another for the Game Boy Advance. An arcade...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonia%20solution
Ammonia solution, also known as ammonia water, ammonium hydroxide, ammoniacal liquor, ammonia liquor, aqua ammonia, aqueous ammonia, or (inaccurately) ammonia, is a solution of ammonia in water. It can be denoted by the symbols NH3(aq). Although the name ammonium hydroxide suggests an alkali with the composition , it ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw%20rectifier
The Warsaw rectifier is a pulse-width modulation (PWM) rectifier, invented by Włodzimierz Koczara in 1992. Features The Warsaw Rectifier provides following features: Unity power factor Three-wire input, does not require connection to the neutral wire Ohmic behaviour Controlled output voltage Simple control sc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DVB-RCS
DVB-RCS (Digital Video Broadcasting - Return Channel via Satellite) provides a method by which the DVB-S platform (and in theory also the DVB-S2 platform) can become a bi-directional, asymmetric data path using wireless between broadcasters and customers. It is a specification for an interactive on-demand multimedia sa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%E2%80%93beta%20pruning
Alpha–beta pruning is a search algorithm that seeks to decrease the number of nodes that are evaluated by the minimax algorithm in its search tree. It is an adversarial search algorithm used commonly for machine playing of two-player combinatorial games (Tic-tac-toe, Chess, Connect 4, etc.). It stops evaluating a move ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20Hyperlinked%20over%20Proteins
Information Hyperlinked over Proteins (or iHOP) is an online text mining service that provides a gene-guided network to access PubMed abstracts. The service was established by Robert Hoffmann and Alfonso Valencia in 2004. The concept underlying iHOP is that by using genes and proteins as hyperlinks between sentences a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophagy%20%28journal%29
Autophagy is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of cell autophagy. It is published by Taylor & Francis and the editor-in-chief is Daniel J. Klionsky (University of Michigan). Abstracting and indexing The journal is abstracted and indexed in: According to the Journal Citation Reports, the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Cast
Google Cast is a proprietary protocol developed by Google for playing Internet-streamed audiovisual content on a compatible consumer device. The protocol is used to initiate and control playback of content on digital media players, high-definition televisions, and home audio systems using a mobile device, personal comp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenotypic%20testing%20of%20mycobacteria
In microbiology, the phenotypic testing of mycobacteria uses a number of methods. The most-commonly used phenotypic tests to identify and distinguish Mycobacterium strains and species from each other are described below. Tests Acetamide as sole C and N sources Media: KH2PO4 (0.5 g), MgSO>4*7H20 (0.5 g), purified agar ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ppc64
ppc64 is an identifier commonly used within the Linux, GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and LLVM open-source software communities to refer to the target architecture for applications optimized for 64-bit big-endian PowerPC and Power ISA processors. ppc64le is a pure little-endian mode that has been introduced with the PO...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20Vietnam
The national flag of Vietnam, formally the National Flag of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (), locally recognized as () and also (), was designed in 1940 and used during an uprising against the French in southern Vietnam that year. The red background symbolizes revolution and bloodshed. The golden star represents ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medullary%20thymic%20epithelial%20cells
Medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTECs) represent a unique stromal cell population of the thymus which plays an essential role in the establishment of central tolerance. Therefore, mTECs rank among cells relevant for the development of functional mammal immune system. T cell precursors rise in bone marrow and migrat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickey%E2%80%93Wicker%20Amendment
The Dickey–Wicker Amendment is the name of an appropriation bill rider attached to a bill passed by United States Congress in 1995, and signed by former President Bill Clinton, which prohibits the United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from using appropriated funds for the creation of human embryos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quillen%20determinant%20line%20bundle
In mathematics, the Quillen determinant line bundle is a line bundle over the space of Cauchy–Riemann operators of a vector bundle over a Riemann surface, introduced by . Quillen proved the existence of the Quillen metric on the determinant line bundle, a Hermitian metric defined using the analytic torsion of a family ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20garlic%20festivals
A garlic festival is a food festival focused on garlic. Examples include: United States Gilroy Garlic Festival, an annual food festival in Gilroy, California Hudson Valley Garlic Festival, in Saugerties, New York Connecticut Garlic and Harvest Festival, in Bethlehem, Connecticut Easton Garlic Fest, in Easton, Pennsylv...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soybean%20oil
Soybean oil (British English: soyabean oil) is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the soybean (Glycine max). It is one of the most widely consumed cooking oils and the second most consumed vegetable oil. As a drying oil, processed soybean oil is also used as a base for printing inks (soy ink) and oil paints. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clorobiocin
Clorobiocin is an aminocoumarin antibacterial that inhibits the enzyme DNA gyrase.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20CalDAV%20and%20CardDAV%20implementations
A comparison of CalDAV and CardDAV implementations offers two overviews of client and server computer software implementations of the CalDAV and CardDAV protocols. Client implementations There are more clients, mentioned for completeness: For the command line: Vdirsyncer (for WebDAV) + Khal (for calendaring) or + Kh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha%20Guzm%C3%A1n%20Partida
Martha Dolores Guzmán Partida is a Mexican mathematician specializing in functional analysis, including Fourier analysis, harmonic analysis, and the theory of distributions. She is a professor of mathematics at the Universidad de Sonora. Education Guzmán Partida was an undergraduate at the Meritorious Autonomous Unive...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme%20programming
Extreme programming (XP) is a software development methodology intended to improve software quality and responsiveness to changing customer requirements. As a type of agile software development, it advocates frequent releases in short development cycles, intended to improve productivity and introduce checkpoints at whi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redtail%20Telematics%20Corporation
Redtail Telematics is a provider of GPS enabled fleet tracking products. The company is based in North America with headquarters in the United Kingdom. Features Redtail's products use a technology solution known as VAM (Vehicle Asset Management) which includes features such as: 1) sensors 2) Onboard diagnostics 3) V...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf%20Berghammer
Rudolf Berghammer (born 1952 in Oberndorf, Germany) is a German mathematician who works in computer science. Life Rudolf Berghammer worked as an electrician at the Farbwerke Hoechst, Kelheim, from 1966 until 1970. He began studying Mathematics and Computer Science in 1973 at TU München. His academic teachers were Fri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BGPsec
Border Gateway Protocol Security (BGPsec) is a security extension of the Border Gateway Protocol defined in RFC 8205, published in September 2017. BGPsec provides to receivers of valid BGPsec UPDATE messages cryptographic verification of the routes they advertise. BGPsec replaces the BGP AS_PATH attribute with a new BG...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ga%C3%ABtan%20Dugas
Gaëtan Dugas (; February 19, 1952 – March 30, 1984) was a Québécois Canadian flight attendant and a relatively early patient with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), who once was widely described as "Patient Zero", accusing him of introducing HIV to the United States. This claim has since been proven incorrect. In...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern%20triangle%20geometry
In mathematics, modern triangle geometry, or new triangle geometry, is the body of knowledge relating to the properties of a triangle discovered and developed roughly since the beginning of the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Triangles and their properties were the subject of investigation since at least the ti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastic%20wrap
Plastic wrap, cling film, Saran wrap, cling wrap, Glad wrap or food wrap is a thin plastic film typically used for sealing food items in containers to keep them fresh over a longer period of time. Plastic wrap, typically sold on rolls in boxes with a cutting edge, clings to many smooth surfaces and can thus remain tigh...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification
Enshittification, also known as platform decay, is the pattern of decreasing quality of online platforms that act as two-sided markets. Enshittification can be seen as a form of rent-seeking. Examples of alleged enshittification have included Amazon, Bandcamp, Google Search, Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter. Definition ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Neurophysiology
The Journal of Neurophysiology is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal established in 1938. It is published by the American Physiological Society with Jan "Nino" Ramirez as its editor-in-chief. Ramirez is the Director for the Center for Integrative Brain Research at the University of Washington. The Journal of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cladostephaceae
Cladostephaceae is a family of brown algae belonging to the order Sphacelariales in the class Phaeophyceae. The family comprises a single genus: Cladostephus C.Agardh, 1817
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probe%20electrospray%20ionization
Probe electrospray ionization (PESI) is an electrospray-based ambient ionization technique which is coupled with mass spectrometry for sample analysis. Unlike traditional mass spectrometry ion sources which must be maintained in a vacuum, ambient ionization techniques permit sample ionization under ambient conditions, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20and%20Eastern%20Serbia
The Southern and Eastern Serbia () is one of five statistical regions of Serbia. It is also a level-2 statistical region according to the European NUTS. It was formed in 2010. As of 2022 census, the region has a total of 1,406,050 inhabitants. Formation In July 2009, the Serbian parliament adopted a law which divided ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaunay%20refinement
In mesh generation, Delaunay refinements are algorithms for mesh generation based on the principle of adding Steiner points to the geometry of an input to be meshed, in a way that causes the Delaunay triangulation or constrained Delaunay triangulation of the augmented input to meet the quality requirements of the meshi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20fissure%20of%20cerebellum
The monticulus of the cerebellum is divided by the primary fissure (or preclival fissure) into an anterior, raised part, the culmen or summit, and a posterior sloped part, the clivus; the quadrangular lobule is similarly divided. Additional images See also Anatomy of the cerebellum
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samus%20Aran
is the protagonist of the video game series Metroid by Nintendo. She was created by the Japanese video game designer Makoto Kano. She was introduced as a player character in the original 1986 game Metroid. Raised and infused with the DNA of the Chozo, Samus Aran is an ex-soldier of the Galactic Federation who became ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olfactory%20trigone
The olfactory trigone is a small triangular area in front of the anterior perforated substance. Its apex, directed forward, occupies the posterior part of the olfactory sulcus, and is brought into view by throwing back the olfactory tract. It is part of the olfactory pathway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart%20symbol
The heart symbol is an ideograph used to express the idea of the "heart" in its metaphorical or symbolic sense. Represented by an anatomically inaccurate shape, the heart symbol is often used to represent the center of emotion, including affection and love, especially romantic love. It is sometimes accompanied or super...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conductor-discriminant%20formula
In mathematics, the conductor-discriminant formula or Führerdiskriminantenproduktformel, introduced by for abelian extensions and by for Galois extensions, is a formula calculating the relative discriminant of a finite Galois extension of local or global fields from the Artin conductors of the irreducible characte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curvelet
Curvelets are a non-adaptive technique for multi-scale object representation. Being an extension of the wavelet concept, they are becoming popular in similar fields, namely in image processing and scientific computing. Wavelets generalize the Fourier transform by using a basis that represents both location and spatial...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime-counting%20function
In mathematics, the prime-counting function is the function counting the number of prime numbers less than or equal to some real number x. It is denoted by (x) (unrelated to the number ). Growth rate Of great interest in number theory is the growth rate of the prime-counting function. It was conjectured in the end of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harsh%20Vardhan%20Batra
Harsh Vardhan Batra is an Indian scientist working in animal biotechnology at the Department of Biotechnology (DBT), of the Indian Ministry of Science and Technology. He is a former director of the Defence Food Research Laboratory (DFRL), a Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) establishment at Mysore (A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20medicine%20and%20medical%20technology
This is a timeline of the history of medicine and medical technology. Antiquity 3300 BC – During the Stone Age, early doctors used very primitive forms of herbal medicine in India. 3000 BC – Ayurveda The origins of Ayurveda have been traced back to around 3,000 BCE. c. 2600 BC – Imhotep the priest-physician who wa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20genetic%20resources
Plant genetic resources describe the variability within plants that comes from human and natural selection over millennia. Their intrinsic value mainly concerns agricultural crops (crop biodiversity). According to the 1983 revised International Undertaking on Plant Genetic Resources for Food and Agriculture of the Foo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual%20computing
Visual computing is a generic term for all computer science disciplines dealing with images and 3D models, such as computer graphics, image processing, visualization, computer vision, virtual and augmented reality and video processing. Visual computing also includes aspects of pattern recognition, human computer intera...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnacon
The bonnacon (also called bonasus or bonacho) is a legendary creature described as a bull with inward-curving horns and a horse-like mane. Medieval bestiaries usually depict its fur as reddish-brown or black. Because its horns were useless for self-defense, the bonnacon was said to expel large amounts of caustic feces ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viroporin
Viroporins are small and usually hydrophobic multifunctional viral proteins that modify cellular membranes, thereby facilitating virus release from infected cells. Viroporins are capable of assembling into oligomeric ion channels or pores in the host cell's membrane, rendering it more permeable and thus facilitating th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mold
A mold () or mould () is one of the structures that certain fungi can form. The dust-like, colored appearance of molds is due to the formation of spores containing fungal secondary metabolites. The spores are the dispersal units of the fungi. Not all fungi form molds. Some fungi form mushrooms; others grow as single ce...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maltol
Maltol is a naturally occurring organic compound that is used primarily as a flavor enhancer. It is found in nature in the bark of larch trees and in the needles of pine trees, and is produced during the roasting of malt (from which it gets its name) and in the baking of bread. It has the odor of caramel and is used ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apply
In mathematics and computer science, apply is a function that applies a function to arguments. It is central to programming languages derived from lambda calculus, such as LISP and Scheme, and also in functional languages. It has a role in the study of the denotational semantics of computer programs, because it is a co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCL10
B-cell lymphoma/leukemia 10 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the BCL10 gene. Like BCL2, BCL3, BCL5, BCL6, BCL7A, and BCL9, it has clinical significance in lymphoma. Function Bcl10 was identified by its translocation in a case of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) lymphoma. The protein encoded by this ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray%20J90
The Cray J90 series (code-named Jedi during development) was an air-cooled vector processor supercomputer first sold by Cray Research in 1994. The J90 evolved from the Cray Y-MP EL minisupercomputer, and is compatible with Y-MP software, running the same UNICOS operating system. The J90 supported up to 32 CMOS processo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSIAN
OSIAN, or Open Source IPv6 Automation Network, is a free and open-source implementation of IPv6 networking for wireless sensor networks (WSNs). OSIAN extends TinyOS, which started as a collaboration between the University of California, Berkeley in co-operation with Intel Research and Crossbow Technology, and has since...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-body%20units
N-body units are a completely self-contained system of units used for N-body simulations of self-gravitating systems in astrophysics. In this system, the base physical units are chosen so that the total mass, M, the gravitational constant, G, and the virial radius, R, are normalized. The underlying assumption is that t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPO%20formalism
The history projection operator (HPO) formalism is an approach to temporal quantum logic developed by Chris Isham. It deals with the logical structure of quantum mechanical propositions asserted at different points in time. Introduction In standard quantum mechanics a physical system is associated with a Hilbert spa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copying%20network%20models
Copying network models are network generation models that use a copying mechanism to form a network, by repeatedly duplicating and mutating existing nodes of the network. Such a network model has first been proposed in 1999 to explain the network of links between web pages, but since has been used to model biological a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Const%20%28computer%20programming%29
In some programming languages, const is a type qualifier (a keyword applied to a data type) that indicates that the data is read-only. While this can be used to declare constants, in the C family of languages differs from similar constructs in other languages in being part of the type, and thus has complicated behavio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schoenberg%20hexachord
6-Z44 (012569), known as the Schoenberg hexachord, is Arnold Schoenberg's signature hexachord, as one transposition contains the pitches [A], Es, C, H, B, E, G (A. Schoenberg), E, B, and B being Es, H, and B in German. Its Z-related hexachord and complement is 6-Z19 (3478te or, in prime form, 013478). They have the i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-order%20curve
In mathematical analysis and computer science, functions which are Z-order, Lebesgue curve, Morton space-filling curve, Morton order or Morton code map multidimensional data to one dimension while preserving locality of the data points. It is named in France after Henri Lebesgue, who studied it in 1904, and named in th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennial%20pause
The millennial pause is a pause in speaking that is present at the start of some recorded videos, especially on short-form video app TikTok. The practice of including such a pause is generally ascribed to millennials, a group often defined to include people born in the 1980s or 1990s. The phenomenon is an example of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20echolocation
Echolocation, also called bio sonar, is a biological sonar used by several animal groups, both in the air and underwater. Echolocating animals emit calls and listen to the echoes of those calls that return from various objects near them. They use these echoes to locate and identify the objects. Echolocation is used for...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email%20bomb
On Internet usage, an email bomb is a form of net abuse that sends large volumes of email to an address to overflow the mailbox, overwhelm the server where the email address is hosted in a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) or as a smoke screen to distract the attention from important email messages indicating a sec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%E2%80%93DNA%20hybridization
In genomics, DNA–DNA hybridization is a molecular biology technique that measures the degree of genetic similarity between pools of DNA sequences. It is usually used to determine the genetic distance between two organisms and has been used extensively in phylogeny and taxonomy. Method The DNA of one organism is labe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCALD
The structured computer-aided logic design (SCALD) software was a computer aided design system developed for building the S-1 computer. It used the Stanford University Drawing System (SUDS), and it was developed by Thomas M. McWilliams and Lawrence Curtis Widdoes, Jr. The work led to the start of the Valid Logic System...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Son%20of%20Man%20%28novel%29
Son of Man is a science fiction novel by American writer Robert Silverberg, published in 1971. The book is about Clay, a 20th-century man, who travels billions of years into the future and meets humanity in its future forms. Some of the issues discussed in the book are sexuality, telepathic communication between people...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cabrito
Cabrito () is the name in both Spanish and Portuguese for roast goat kid in various Iberian and Latin American cuisines. Argentina Cabrito is also a regional specialty of Córdoba Province in Argentina, especially the town of Quilino, which has a festival in its honour. "Chivito" differs from "cabrito" in that chivito ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuga%20%28ice%29
Shuga is a spongy, porridgy body of ice suspended in water. It may be formed from grease ice or from anchor ice rising to the surface and typically comprises lumps of ice, a few centimeters across. Shuga is the third stage in the development of sea ice, formed as a result of snow falling on frazil ice to become grease...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isoamyl%20acetate
Isoamyl acetate, also known as isopentyl acetate, is an organic compound that is the ester formed from isoamyl alcohol and acetic acid, with the molecular formula C7H14O2. It is a colorless liquid that is only slightly soluble in water, but very soluble in most organic solvents. Isoamyl acetate has a strong odor which...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartar%20Guided%20Missile%20Fire%20Control%20System
The Tartar Guided Missile Fire Control System is an air defense system developed by the United States Navy to defend warships from air attack. Since its introduction the system has been improved and sold to several United States allies. Description The Tartar Guided Missile Fire Control System is a component of the ov...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abstract%20cell%20complex
In mathematics, an abstract cell complex is an abstract set with Alexandrov topology in which a non-negative integer number called dimension is assigned to each point. The complex is called “abstract” since its points, which are called “cells”, are not subsets of a Hausdorff space as is the case in Euclidean and CW com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20genetics
Chemical genetics is the investigation of the function of proteins and signal transduction pathways in cells by the screening of chemical libraries of small molecules. Chemical genetics is analogous to classical genetic screen where random mutations are introduced in organisms, the phenotype of these mutants is observe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematica%20Applicanda
Mathematica Applicanda is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering applied mathematics. It was established in 1973 by the Polish Mathematical Society as Series III of the Annales Societatis Mathematicae Polonae, under the name Matematyka Stosowana (ISSN 0137-2890). The first editor-in-chief was Marceli Stark. In 199...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/208%20%28number%29
208 (two hundred [and] eight) is the natural number following 207 and preceding 209. 208 is a practical number, a tetranacci number, a rhombic matchstick number, a happy number, and a member of Aronson's sequence. There are exactly 208 five-bead necklaces drawn from a set of beads with four colors, and 208 generalize...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metlife%20Foundation%20Award%20for%20Medical%20Research%20in%20Alzheimer%27s%20Disease
The Metlife Foundation Award for Medical Research in Alzheimer's Disease were awarded annually from 1986 to 2016 to recognize scientific contributions toward a better understanding of the underlying causes, prevention, and treatments of Alzheimer's disease. The awards were endowed by the Metlife Foundation and administ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rank%20%28computer%20programming%29
In computer programming, rank with no further specifications is usually a synonym for (or refers to) "number of dimensions"; thus, a two-dimensional array has rank two, a three-dimensional array has rank three and so on. Strictly, no formal definition can be provided which applies to every programming language, since e...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate%20policy
A certificate policy (CP) is a document which aims to state what are the different entities of a public key infrastructure (PKI), their roles and their duties. This document is published in the PKI perimeter. When in use with X.509 certificates, a specific field can be set to include a link to the associated certifica...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venom%20optimization%20hypothesis
Venom optimization hypothesis, also known as venom metering, is a biological hypothesis which postulates that venomous animals have physiological control over their production and use of venoms. It explains the economic use of venom because venom is a metabolically expensive product, and that there is a biological mech...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banana%20flour
Banana flour is a powder traditionally made of green bananas. Historically, banana flour has been used in Africa and Jamaica as a cheaper alternative to wheat flour. It is now often used as a gluten-free replacement for wheat flours or as a source of resistant starch, which has been promoted by certain dieting trends ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock%20%28model%20checking%29
In model checking, a subfield of computer science, a clock is a mathematical object used to model time. More precisely, a clock measures how much time passed since a particular event occurs, in this sense, a clock is more precisely an abstraction of a stopwatch. In a model of some particular program, the value of the c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enkephalinase
Enkephalinases are enzymes that degrade endogenous enkephalin opioid peptides. They include: Aminopeptidase N (APN) Neutral endopeptidase (NEP) Dipeptidyl peptidase 3 (DPP3) Carboxypeptidase A6 (CPA6) Leucyl/cystinyl aminopeptidase (LNPEP) Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) See also Enkephalinase inhibitor O...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Indian%20state%20birds
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is made up of 28 states and 8 union territories. All Indian states have their own government and union territories come under the jurisdiction of the central government. As with most of the other countries India, has a national emblem—the Lion Capi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethics%20of%20care
The ethics of care (alternatively care ethics or EoC) is a normative ethical theory that holds that moral action centers on interpersonal relationships and care or benevolence as a virtue. EoC is one of a cluster of normative ethical theories that were developed by some feminists and environmentalists since the 1980s. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heirloom%20plant
An heirloom plant, heirloom variety, heritage fruit (Australia and New Zealand), or heirloom vegetable (especially in Ireland and the UK) is an old cultivar of a plant used for food that is grown and maintained by gardeners and farmers, particularly in isolated communities of the Western world. These were commonly grow...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procyanidin
Procyanidins are members of the proanthocyanidin (or condensed tannins) class of flavonoids. They are oligomeric compounds, formed from catechin and epicatechin molecules. They yield cyanidin when depolymerized under oxidative conditions. See the box below entitled "Types of procyanidins" for links to articles on the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trustworthy%20AI
Trustworthy AI is a programme of work of the ITU (United Nations Specialized Agency for ICT) under its AI for Good programme. The programme advances the standardization of a number of Privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), including homomorphic encryption, federated learning, secure multi-party computation, differentia...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupon%20%28PWB%29
A coupon or test coupon is a printed circuit board (PCB) used to test the quality of a printed wiring board (PWB) fabrication process. Test coupons are fabricated on the same panel as the PWBs, typically at the edges. Coupons are then inspected to ensure proper layer alignment, electrical connectivity, and cross sectio...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk%20factors%20of%20schizophrenia
Risk factors of schizophrenia include many genetic and environmental phenomena. The prevailing model of schizophrenia is that of a special neurodevelopmental disorder with no precise boundary or single cause (i.e. arises from multiple mechanisms). Schizophrenia is thought to develop from very complex gene–environment i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAV1
Neuron navigator 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NAV1 gene. This gene belongs to the neuron navigator family and is expressed predominantly in the nervous system. The encoded protein contains coiled-coil domains and a conserved AAA domain characteristic for ATPases associated with a variety of cellular...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augmented%20truncated%20dodecahedron
In geometry, the augmented truncated dodecahedron is one of the Johnson solids (). As its name suggests, it is created by attaching a pentagonal cupola () onto one decagonal face of a truncated dodecahedron. External links Johnson solids
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20emittance
Thermal emittance or thermal emissivity () is the ratio of the radiant emittance of heat of a specific object or surface to that of a standard black body. Emissivity and emittivity are both dimensionless quantities given in the range of 0 to 1, representing the comparative/relative emittance with respect to a blackbody...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computability%20theory
Computability theory, also known as recursion theory, is a branch of mathematical logic, computer science, and the theory of computation that originated in the 1930s with the study of computable functions and Turing degrees. The field has since expanded to include the study of generalized computability and definability...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera%20%28software%20library%29
Chimera is a software library created as a research project at UCSB for the C programming language that implements a structured, peer-to-peer routing platform to allow the easy development of peer-to-peer applications. The project's focus is on providing a fast, lightweight implementation of a system like other prefix...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full%20state%20feedback
Full state feedback (FSF), or pole placement, is a method employed in feedback control system theory to place the closed-loop poles of a plant in pre-determined locations in the s-plane. Placing poles is desirable because the location of the poles corresponds directly to the eigenvalues of the system, which control th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraalVM
GraalVM is a Java VM and JDK based on HotSpot/OpenJDK, implemented in Java. It supports additional programming languages and execution modes, like ahead-of-time compilation of Java applications for fast startup and low memory footprint. The first production-ready version, GraalVM 19.0, was released in May 2019. The mos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibro-adipose%20vascular%20anomaly
Fibro-adipose vascular anomaly, also known as FAVA, is a type of vascular anomaly that is both rare and painful. FAVA is characterized by tough fibrofatty tissue taking over portions of muscle, most often contained within a single limb. FAVA also causes venous and/or lymphatic abnormalities. Though FAVA has only been ...