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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGALEN | OpenGALEN is a not-for-profit organisation that provides an open source medical terminology. This terminology is written in a formal language called GRAIL (GALEN Representation And Integration Language) and also distributed in OWL.
Background
The GALEN technologies were developed with research funding provided by t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionophore | In chemistry, an ionophore () is a chemical species that reversibly binds ions. Many ionophores are lipid-soluble entities that transport ions across the cell membrane. Ionophores catalyze ion transport across hydrophobic membranes, such as liquid polymeric membranes (carrier-based ion selective electrodes) or lipid bi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexicographically%20minimal%20string%20rotation | In computer science, the lexicographically minimal string rotation or lexicographically least circular substring is the problem of finding the rotation of a string possessing the lowest lexicographical order of all such rotations. For example, the lexicographically minimal rotation of "bbaaccaadd" would be "aaccaaddbb"... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%20code | The Q-code is a standardised collection of three-letter codes that each start with the letter "Q". It is an operating signal initially developed for commercial radiotelegraph communication and later adopted by other radio services, especially amateur radio. To distinguish the use of a Q-code transmitted as a question f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feasible%20region | In mathematical optimization and computer science, a feasible region, feasible set, or solution space is the set of all possible points (sets of values of the choice variables) of an optimization problem that satisfy the problem's constraints, potentially including inequalities, equalities, and integer constraints. Thi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conidial%20anastomosis%20tubes | Conidial anastomosis tubes (CATs) are cells formed from the conidia (a type of fungal asexual spores) of many filamentous fungi. These cells have a tubular shape and form an anastomosis (bridge) that allows fusion between conidia.
CATs and germ tubes (germination tubes) are some of the specialized hyphae (long cells f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeriu%20Rudic | Valeriu Rudic (born 18 February 1947) is a Moldovan microbiologist, chemist, biochemist and pharmacist who was selected member of Academy of Sciences of Moldova.
External links
http://www.asm.md/?go=detalii-membri&n=62&new_language=0
1947 births
Living people
Moldovan pharmacists
Titular members of the Academy of Sci... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncharted%20Waters%20%28video%20game%29 | Uncharted Waters is a 1990 video game published by Koei.
Gameplay
Uncharted Waters is a game in which player captains seek great trade wind routes and the major currents. The story is set in the early 16th century. It was released on the PC-88 in May, 1990.
Reception
Dave Arneson reviewed the game for Computer Gaming... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic%20setae | Synthetic setae emulate the setae found on the toes of a gecko and scientific research in this area is driven towards the development of dry adhesives. Geckos have no difficulty mastering vertical walls and are apparently capable of adhering themselves to just about any surface. The five-toed feet of a gecko are covere... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porting | In software engineering, porting is the process of adapting software for the purpose of achieving some form of execution in a computing environment that is different from the one that a given program (meant for such execution) was originally designed for (e.g., different CPU, operating system, or third party library). ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HUMARA%20assay | HUMARA Assay is one of the most widely used methods to determine the clonal origin of a tumor. The method is based on X chromosome inactivation and it takes the advantage of having different methylation status of a gene called HUMARA (short for human androgen receptor) that is located on X chromosome. Considering the f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culm%20%28botany%29 | A culm is the aerial (above-ground) stem of a grass or sedge. It is derived from Latin 'stalk', and it originally referred to the stem of any type of plant.
In horticulture or agriculture, it is especially used to describe the stalk or woody stems of bamboo, cane or grain grasses.
Malting
In the production of mal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrocution | Electrocution is death or severe injury caused by electric shock from electric current passing through the body. The word is derived from "electro" and "execution", but it is also used for accidental death.
The term "electrocution" was coined in 1889 in the US just before the first use of the electric chair and origi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronism | Synchronism may refer to:
Synchronism (Davidovsky), compositions by Argentine-American composer Mario Davidovsky incorporating acoustic instruments and electroacoustic sounds
Chronological synchronism, an event that links two chronologies such as historical and datable astronomical events
Synchronization, the coord... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAO%20206462 | SAO 206462 is a young star, surrounded by a circumstellar disc of gas and clearly defined spiral arms. It is situated about 440 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Lupus. The presence of these spiral arms seems to be related to the existence of planets inside the disk of gas surrounding the star. The disk'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prospects%20Course%20Exchange | Prospects Course Exchange is a system that manages XCRI-CAP feeds, enabling course data from higher education providers to be visible through Prospects' postgraduate course search.
It is run and operated by Graduate Prospects.
Prospects Course Check is a free course validation checker also provided by the service.
S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deimatic%20behaviour | Deimatic behaviour or startle display means any pattern of bluffing behaviour in an animal that lacks strong defences, such as suddenly displaying conspicuous eyespots, to scare off or momentarily distract a predator, thus giving the prey animal an opportunity to escape. The term deimatic or dymantic originates from th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleic%20acid%20test | A nucleic acid test (NAT) is a technique used to detect a particular nucleic acid sequence and thus usually to detect and identify a particular species or subspecies of organism, often a virus or bacterium that acts as a pathogen in blood, tissue, urine, etc. NATs differ from other tests in that they detect genetic mat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baiting%20crowd | Baiting crowd is a form of collective aggression; this is a situation where a group of individuals unify their aggression, while they may not even know each other, towards another individual or group.
Deindividuation
It is a typical situation where a person is about to jump from a high building while there are people ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yota | Yota () is a Russian mobile phone brand and mobile broadband manufacturer. Yota is a trademark of Skartel LLC.
On May 9, 2012, Yota's WiMAX was replaced by its LTE network. In September 2012, 4G networks were launched in the Russian cities of Novosibirsk, Krasnodar, Moscow, Sochi, Samara, Vladivostok, Ufa, Kazan and S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-way%20satellite%20time%20and%20frequency%20transfer | Two-way satellite time and frequency transfer (TWSTFT) is a high-precision long distance time and frequency transfer mechanism used between time bureaux to determine and distribute time and frequency standards.
TWSTFT is being evaluated as an alternative to be used by the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20update | A delta update is a software update that requires the user to download only those parts of the software's code that are new, or have been changed from their previous state, in contrast to having to download the entire program. The use of delta updates can save significant amounts of time and computing bandwidth. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operative%20temperature | Operative temperature () is defined as a uniform temperature of an imaginary black enclosure in which an occupant would exchange the same amount of heat by radiation plus convection as in the actual nonuniform environment. Some references also use the terms 'equivalent temperature" or 'effective temperature' to describ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miniature%20Inverted-repeat%20Transposable%20Elements | Miniature Inverted-repeat Transposable Elements (MITEs) are a group of non-autonomous Class II transposable elements (DNA sequences). Being non-autonomous, MITEs cannot code for their own transposase. They exist within the genomes of animals, plants, fungi, bacteria and even viruses. MITEs are generally short (50 to 50... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SystemC%20AMS | SystemC AMS is an extension to SystemC for analog, mixed-signal and RF functionality. The SystemC AMS 2.0 standard was released on April 6, 2016 as IEEE Std 1666.1-2016.
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A model of computation (MoC) is a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmann%27s%20law | Richmann's law, sometimes referred to as Richmann's rule, Richmann's mixing rule, Richmann's rule of mixture or Richmann's law of mixture, is a physical law for calculating the mixing temperature when pooling multiple bodies. It is named after the Baltic German physicist Georg Wilhelm Richmann, who published the relati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-box%20transcription%20factor%20T | T-box transcription factor T, also known as Brachyury protein, is encoded for in humans by the TBXT gene. Brachyury functions as a transcription factor within the T-box family of genes. Brachyury homologs have been found in all bilaterian animals that have been screened, as well as the freshwater cnidarian Hydra.
His... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baited%20remote%20underwater%20video | Baited remote underwater video (BRUV) is a system used in marine biology research. By attracting fish into the field of view of a remotely controlled camera, the technique records fish diversity, abundance and behaviour of species. Sites are sampled by video recording the region surrounding a baited canister which is l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bastiaan%20Quast | Bastiaan Quast is a Dutch Machine learning researcher. He is the author and lead maintainer of the open-source rnn and transformer deep-learning frameworks in the R programming language, and the datasets.load GUI package, as well as R packages on Global Value Chain decomposition & WIOD and on Regression Discontinuity D... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blom%27s%20scheme | Blom's scheme is a symmetric threshold key exchange protocol in cryptography. The scheme was proposed by the Swedish cryptographer Rolf Blom in a series of articles in the early 1980s.
A trusted party gives each participant a secret key and a public identifier, which enables any two participants to independently crea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma%20haemocanis | Mycoplasma haemocanis (formerly Haemobartonella canis) is a species of bacteria in the genus Mycoplasma. It rarely causes anemia in dogs with normal spleens and normal immune systems. Clinical anemia can develop when a carrier dog is splenectomized, or when a splenectomized dog is transfused with blood from a carrier d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curve%20of%20growth | In astronomy, the curve of growth describes the equivalent width of a spectral line as a function of the column density of the material from which the spectral line is observed. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cofinal%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a subset of a preordered set is said to be cofinal or frequent in if for every it is possible to find an element in that is "larger than " (explicitly, "larger than " means ).
Cofinal subsets are very important in the theory of directed sets and nets, where “cofinal subnet” is the appropriate ge... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearcey%20integral | In mathematics, the Pearcey integral is defined as
The Pearcey integral is a class of canonical diffraction integrals, often used in wave propagation and optical diffraction problems The first numerical evaluation of this integral was performed by Trevor Pearcey using the quadrature formula.
In optics, the Pearcey... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulina | Cumulina (October 3, 1997 - May 5, 2000), a mouse, was the first animal cloned from adult cells that survived to adulthood. She was cloned using the Honolulu technique developed by "Team Yana", the Ryuzo Yanagimachi research group at the former campus of the John A. Burns School of Medicine located at the University o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emery%27s%20rule | In 1909, the entomologist Carlo Emery noted that social parasites among insects (e.g., kleptoparasites) tend to be parasites of species or genera to which they are closely related. Over time, this pattern has been recognized in many additional cases, and generalized to what is now known as Emery's rule. The pattern is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ericsson%20Radio%20Systems | Ericsson Radio Systems AB was the name of a wholly owned subsidiary in the Ericsson sphere, founded on 1 January 1983 by buying out all former owners of Svenska Radioaktiebolaget (SRA). The company was well known in Scandinavia and elsewhere in the 1980s, as it was deploying NMT systems and developing a line of mobile ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanolinux | NanoLinux
is an open source, free and very lightweight Linux distribution that requires only 14 MB of disk space including tiny versions of the most common desktop applications and several games. It is based on the Core version of the Tiny Core Linux
distribution and uses Busybox, Nano-X instead of X.Org, FLTK 1.3.x as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20specification | A field specification or fspec defines a portion of a word in some programming language. It has the form "(L:R)" where "L" is the leftmost byte and "R" is the rightmost byte, and counting begins at zero. For example, the first three bytes of a word would have the fspec (0:2) for bytes numbered 0, 1, and 2.
Units of in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20clay | Marine clay is a type of clay found in coastal regions around the world. In the northern, deglaciated regions, it can sometimes be quick clay, which is notorious for being involved in landslides.
Marine clay is a particle of soil that is dedicated to a particle size class, this is usually associated with USDA's class... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptide%20transporter%201 | Peptide transporter 1 (PepT 1) also known as solute carrier family 15 member 1 (SLC15A1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by SLC15A1 gene. PepT 1 is a solute carrier for oligopeptides. It functions in renal oligopeptide reabsorption and in the intestines in a proton dependent way, hence acting like a cotransport... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf | In information retrieval, tf–idf (also TF*IDF, TFIDF, TF–IDF, or Tf–idf), short for term frequency–inverse document frequency, is a measure of importance of a word to a document in a collection or corpus, adjusted for the fact that some words appear more frequently in general. It was often used as a weighting factor i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mantel%20test | The Mantel test, named after Nathan Mantel, is a statistical test of the correlation between two matrices. The matrices must be of the same dimension; in most applications, they are matrices of interrelations between the same vectors of objects. The test was first published by Nathan Mantel, a biostatistician at the Na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%20aromaticity | Metal aromaticity or metalloaromaticity is the concept of aromaticity, found in many organic compounds, extended to metals and metal-containing compounds. The first experimental evidence for the existence of aromaticity in metals was found in aluminium cluster compounds of the type where M stands for lithium, sodium o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018%20in%20paleobotany | This article records new taxa of plants that are scheduled to be described during the year 2018, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleobotany that occurred in the year 2018.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom%20Frog | Freedom Frog is a frog mascot character of Intervention Helpline, an Alaska counseling nonprofit organization. It is used in school animations and can be seen during Iditarod races.
Intervention Helpline
Intervention Helpline is an Alaska counseling nonprofit organization helping people to quit drugs and alcohol.
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collisional%20excitation | Collisional excitation is a process in which the kinetic energy of a collision partner is converted into the internal energy of a reactant species.
Astronomy
In astronomy, collisional excitation gives rise to spectral lines in the spectra of astronomical objects such as planetary nebulae and H II regions.
In these ob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strep-tag | The Strep-tag system is a method which allows the purification and detection of proteins by affinity chromatography. The Strep-tag II is a synthetic peptide consisting of eight amino acids (Trp-Ser-His-Pro-Gln-Phe-Glu-Lys). This peptide sequence exhibits intrinsic affinity towards Strep-Tactin, a specifically engineere... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapterurus%20minjiriya | Malapterurus minjiriya is a species of electric catfish native to Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria and Togo. This species grows to a length of SL. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial%20Input/Output%20eXchange | SIOX is an asynchronous serial communication bus that uses (default 4800) datarates. Specified by in Sweden, it is widely used in factories, plants, ships and district heating systems.
The bus can use point-to-point, bus, tree, star and ring topologies and uses a level, with a short-circuit current of . It is also... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-504%20microRNA%20precursor%20family | In molecular biology mir-504 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms.
See also
MicroRNA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JQuery | jQuery is a JavaScript library designed to simplify HTML DOM tree traversal and manipulation, as well as event handling, CSS animation, and Ajax. It is free, open-source software using the permissive MIT License. , jQuery is used by 77% of the 10 million most popular websites. Web analysis indicates that it is the most... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balt%20%28company%29 | Balt is a medical equipment manufacturer specializing in medical devices designed to treat stroke and other neurovascular diseases.
Presentation
Balt was founded as a small family business in 1977 by Leopold Płowiecki, in France. His son, Nicolas, grew the company until 2018. Bridgepoint Advisers took a stake in 2015... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge%20proof | In cryptography, a zero-knowledge proof or zero-knowledge protocol is a method by which one party (the prover) can prove to another party (the verifier) that a given statement is true, while avoiding conveying to the verifier any information beyond the mere fact of the statement's truth. The intuition underlying zero-k... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacrimal%20tubercle | The lateral margin of the groove of the frontal process of the maxilla is named the anterior lacrimal crest, and is continuous below with the orbital margin; at its junction with the orbital surface is a small tubercle, the lacrimal tubercle, which serves as a guide to the position of the lacrimal sac. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycobiome | The mycobiome, mycobiota, or fungal microbiome, is the fungal community in and on an organism.
The word “mycobiome” comes from the ancient Greek μύκης (mukēs), meaning "fungus" with the suffix “biome” derived from the Greek βίος (bíos), meaning “life.” The term was first coined in the 2009 paper by Gillevet et al.
Mo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birkeland%20current | A Birkeland current (also known as field-aligned current) is a set of electrical currents that flow along geomagnetic field lines connecting the Earth's magnetosphere to the Earth's high latitude ionosphere. In the Earth's magnetosphere, the currents are driven by the solar wind and interplanetary magnetic field and by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forensic%20Architecture | Forensic Architecture is a multidisciplinary research group based at Goldsmiths, University of London that uses architectural techniques and technologies to investigate cases of state violence and violations of human rights around the world. The group is led by architect Eyal Weizman. He received a Peabody Award in 202... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KLJN%20Secure%20Key%20Exchange | Random-resistor-random-temperature Kirchhoff-law-Johnson-noise key exchange, also known as RRRT-KLJN or simply KLJN, is an approach for distributing cryptographic keys between two parties that claims to offer unconditional security. This claim, which has been contested, is significant, as the only other key exchange ap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiyoshi%20Oka | was a Japanese mathematician who did fundamental work in the theory of several complex variables.
Biography
Oka was born in Osaka. He went to Kyoto Imperial University in 1919, turning to mathematics in 1923 and graduating in 1924.
He was in Paris for three years from 1929, returning to Hiroshima University. He pub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus%20langei | Agaricus langei is a species of fungus in the genus Agaricus.
See also
List of Agaricus species |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium%20chloride | Ammonium chloride is an inorganic compound with the formula NH4Cl and a white crystalline salt that is highly soluble in water. Solutions of ammonium chloride are mildly acidic. In its naturally occurring mineralogic form, it is known as sal ammoniac. The mineral is commonly formed on burning coal dumps from condensati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dedekind%20domain | In abstract algebra, a Dedekind domain or Dedekind ring, named after Richard Dedekind, is an integral domain in which every nonzero proper ideal factors into a product of prime ideals. It can be shown that such a factorization is then necessarily unique up to the order of the factors. There are at least three other c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremiah%20Day | Jeremiah Day (August 3, 1773 – August 22, 1867) was an American academic, a Congregational minister and President of Yale College (1817–1846).
Early life
Day was the son of Rev. Jeremiah and Abigail (Noble) Osborn Day, who were descendants of Robert Day, who came from Ipswich, England in 1634, settled in Newtown Cambr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis%20Su | Francis Edward Su is an American mathematician. He joined the Harvey Mudd College faculty in 1996, and is currently Benediktsson-Karwa Professor of Mathematics. Su served as president of the Mathematical Association of America from 2015–2017 and is serving as a Vice President of the American Mathematical Society from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stotting | Stotting (also called pronking or pronging) is a behavior of quadrupeds, particularly gazelles, in which they spring into the air, lifting all four feet off the ground simultaneously. Usually, the legs are held in a relatively stiff position. Many explanations of stotting have been proposed, though for several of them ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20tolerance | In immunology, central tolerance (also known as negative selection) is the process of eliminating any developing T or B lymphocytes that are autoreactive, i.e. reactive to the body itself. Through elimination of autoreactive lymphocytes, tolerance ensures that the immune system does not attack self peptides. Lymphocyte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20Neuroscience%20Prize | The Mathematical Neuroscience Prize is a prize awarded biennially since 2013 by the nonprofit organization Israel Brain Technologies (IBT). It is endowed with $100,000 for each laureate and honors researchers who have significantly advanced the understanding of the neural mechanisms of perception, behavior and thought ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Application%20binary%20interface | In computer software, an application binary interface (ABI) is an interface between two binary program modules. Often, one of these modules is a library or operating system facility, and the other is a program that is being run by a user.
An ABI defines how data structures or computational routines are accessed in mac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andr%C3%A1s%20Hajnal | András Hajnal (May 13, 1931 – July 30, 2016) was a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University and a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences known for his work in set theory and combinatorics.
Biography
Hajnal was born on 13 May 1931, in Budapest, Hungary.
He received his university diploma (M.Sc. degree) in 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-bin%20encoding | Time-bin encoding is a technique used in quantum information science to encode a qubit of information on a photon. Quantum information science makes use of qubits as a basic resource similar to bits in classical computing. Qubits are any two-level quantum mechanical system; there are many different physical implementa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint%20%28computational%20chemistry%29 | In computational chemistry, a constraint algorithm is a method for satisfying the Newtonian motion of a rigid body which consists of mass points. A restraint algorithm is used to ensure that the distance between mass points is maintained. The general steps involved are: (i) choose novel unconstrained coordinates (inte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20circuit%20layout%20design%20protection | Layout designs (topographies) of integrated circuits are a field in the protection of intellectual property.
In United States intellectual property law, a "mask work" is a two or three-dimensional layout or topography of an integrated circuit (IC or "chip"), i.e. the arrangement on a chip of semiconductor devices such... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von%20Neumann%20paradox | In mathematics, the von Neumann paradox, named after John von Neumann, is the idea that one can break a planar figure such as the unit square into sets of points and subject each set to an area-preserving affine transformation such that the result is two planar figures of the same size as the original. This was proved ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auranthine | Auranthine is an antimicrobial chemical compound isolated from a nephrotoxic strain of Penicillium fungus, Penicillium aurantiogriseum.
A total synthesis of auranthine has been reported. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligoflexia | The Oligoflexia are a class of the phylum Bdellovibrionota. All species of this group are all Gram-negative. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population%20pyramid | A population pyramid (age structure diagram) or "age-sex pyramid" is a graphical illustration of the distribution of a population (typically that of a country or region of the world) by age groups and sex; it typically takes the shape of a pyramid when the population is growing. Males are usually shown on the left and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRCT%20domain | BRCA1 C Terminus (BRCT) domain is a family of evolutionarily related proteins. It is named after the C-terminal domain of BRCA1, a DNA-repair protein that serves as a marker of breast cancer susceptibility.
The BRCT domain is found predominantly in proteins involved in cell cycle checkpoint functions responsive to DN... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2nd%20meridian%20west | The meridian 2° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, Europe, Africa, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 2nd meridian west forms a great circle with the 178th meridian east.
From Pole to Pole
Starting at the North ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARK%20%28programming%20language%29 | SPARK is a formally defined computer programming language based on the Ada programming language, intended for the development of high integrity software used in systems where predictable and highly reliable operation is essential. It facilitates the development of applications that demand safety, security, or business ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprite%20%28lightning%29 | Sprites or red sprites are large-scale electric discharges that occur in the mesosphere, high above thunderstorm clouds, or cumulonimbus, giving rise to a varied range of visual shapes flickering in the night sky. They are usually triggered by the discharges of positive lightning between an underlying thundercloud and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolonged%20sine | The law of the prolonged sine was observed when measuring strength of the reaction of the plant stems and roots in response to turning from their usual vertical orientation. Such organisms maintained their usual vertical growth, and, if turned, start bending back toward the vertical. The prolonged sine law was observed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%20finger%20protein%20502 | Zinc finger protein 502 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF502 gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental%20abscess | A dental abscess is a localized collection of pus associated with a tooth. The most common type of dental abscess is a periapical abscess, and the second most common is a periodontal abscess. In a periapical abscess, usually the origin is a bacterial infection that has accumulated in the soft, often dead, pulp of the t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerstin%20Nordstrom | Kerstin N. Nordstrom is an American physicist who is the Clare Boothe Luce Assistant Professor of Physics in the Department of Physics at Mount Holyoke College. Her research focuses on soft matter physics; her work has been featured in the LA Times and in the BBC News.
Early life and education
Nordstrom completed a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quality%20control | Quality control (QC) is a process by which entities review the quality of all factors involved in production. ISO 9000 defines quality control as "a part of quality management focused on fulfilling quality requirements".
This approach places emphasis on three aspects (enshrined in standards such as ISO 9001):
Elemen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20physics%20articles%20%28W%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.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No-teleportation%20theorem | In quantum information theory, the no-teleportation theorem states that an arbitrary quantum state cannot be converted into a sequence of classical bits (or even an infinite number of such bits); nor can such bits be used to reconstruct the original state, thus "teleporting" it by merely moving classical bits around. P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Food%20and%20Drug%20Analysis | The Journal of Food and Drug Analysis is a quarterly peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal published by the Taiwanese Food and Drug Administration. It contains review and research articles covering food science, pharmacology, and chemical analysis. The journal was established in 1993 and the editor-in-chief is G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic%20realm | The Arctic realm is one of the planet's twelve marine realms, as designated by the WWF and Nature Conservancy. It includes the coastal regions and continental shelves of the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas, including the Arctic Archipelago, Hudson Bay, and the Labrador Sea of northern Canada, the seas surrounding Greenl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxing%20barcode | Boxing is high-capacity 2D barcode. The flexible barcode format is fully customizable in terms of frame geometry, number of symbols per pixel and forward-error-correction (FEC) method. This makes it a suitable choice for storing large amounts of any kind of digital data on storage mediums such paper, photographic film ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximal%20information%20coefficient | In statistics, the maximal information coefficient (MIC) is a measure of the strength of the linear or non-linear association between two variables X and Y.
The MIC belongs to the maximal information-based nonparametric exploration (MINE) class of statistics. In a simulation study, MIC outperformed some selected low ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial%20digital%20interface | Serial digital interface (SDI) is a family of digital video interfaces first standardized by SMPTE (The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) in 1989. For example, ITU-R BT.656 and SMPTE 259M define digital video interfaces used for broadcast-grade video. A related standard, known as high-definition seri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gland%20of%20Zeis | Glands of Zeis are unilobar sebaceous glands located on the margin of the eyelid. The glands of Zeis service the eyelash. These glands produce an oily substance that is issued through the excretory ducts of the sebaceous lobule into the middle portion of the hair follicle. In the same area of the eyelid, near the base ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%E2%80%93Cartan%20theory | In theoretical physics, the Einstein–Cartan theory, also known as the Einstein–Cartan–Sciama–Kibble theory, is a classical theory of gravitation similar to general relativity. The theory was first proposed by Élie Cartan in 1922. Einstein–Cartan theory is the simplest Poincaré gauge theory.
Overview
Einstein–Cartan t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20targeting | Gene targeting is a biotechnological tool used to change the DNA sequence of an organism (hence it is a form of Genome Editing). It is based on the natural DNA-repair mechanism of Homology Directed Repair (HDR), including Homologous Recombination. Gene targeting can be used to make a range of sizes of DNA edits, from l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decorative%20knot | A decorative or ornamental knot (also fancy knot) is an often complex knot exhibiting repeating patterns. A decorative knot is generally a knot that not only has practical use but is also known for its aesthetic or ornamental qualities. Often originating from maritime use, "decorative knots are not only serviceable and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20Biology%20%28journal%29 | Molecular Biology is a scientific journal which covers a wide scope of problems related to molecular, cell, and computational biology including genomics, proteomics, bioinformatics, molecular virology and immunology, molecular development biology, and molecular evolution. Molecular Biology publishes reviews, mini-revie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STXBP5 | Syntaxin-binding protein 5 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the STXBP5 gene. It is also known as tomosyn, after , "friend" in Japanese, for its role as a binding protein.
Function
Syntaxin 1 is a component of the 7S and 20S SNARE complexes which are involved in docking and fusion of synaptic vesicles with t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramification%20%28mathematics%29 | In geometry, ramification is 'branching out', in the way that the square root function, for complex numbers, can be seen to have two branches differing in sign. The term is also used from the opposite perspective (branches coming together) as when a covering map degenerates at a point of a space, with some collapsing o... |
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