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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel%20Exner | Pavel Exner (born 30 March 1946 in Prague) is a Czech mathematical physicist.
Life
Born on March 30, 1946, in Prague, his parents were Vilem Exner, economist, and Marie, born Karvankova, ophthalmologist. He graduated in 1969 in theoretical physics from the Charles University in Prague.
After working at the Charles U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Lewis%20%28mathematician%29 | Adrian Stephen Lewis (born 1962 in England) is a British-Canadian mathematician, specializing in variational analysis and nonsmooth optimization.
Education and career
At the University of Cambridge he graduated with B.A. in mathematics in 1983, M.A. in 1987, and Ph.D. in engineering in 1987. His doctoral dissertation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleofection | Nucleofection is an electroporation-based transfection method which enables transfer of nucleic acids such as DNA and RNA into cells by applying a specific voltage and reagents. Nucleofection, also referred to as nucleofector technology, was invented by the biotechnology company Amaxa. "Nucleofector" and "nucleofection... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20Namibia | The flag of Namibia was adopted on 21 March 1990 upon independence from South Africa.
Design
The National Symbols Sub-Committee received 870 entries for the national flag. Six designs were short-listed; this was reduced to three, those of three Namibians – Theo Jankowski of Rehoboth, Don Stevenson of Windhoek and Ort... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian%20Journal%20of%20Combinatorics | The Australasian Journal of Combinatorics is a triannual peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal covering combinatorics. It was established in 1990 and is published by the Centre for Discrete Mathematics and Computing (University of Queensland) on behalf of the Combinatorial Mathematics Society of Australasia. Ori... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel%20Zaks | Schmuel Zaks (born 1949) is a computer scientist and mathematician who works in the fields of distributed computing and computer networks. He is a professor at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, where he holds the Joan Callner-Miller Chair in Computer Science.
Zaks received his BSc degree from Technion in 1971... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%20curve | A dragon curve is any member of a family of self-similar fractal curves, which can be approximated by recursive methods such as Lindenmayer systems. The dragon curve is probably most commonly thought of as the shape that is generated from repeatedly folding a strip of paper in half, although there are other curves that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauremys%20pritchardi | Mauremys pritchardi is an interspecific hybrid turtle in the family Geoemydidae. M. pritchardi, described to be from Myanmar (where neither of the parental species occurs apparently), has been found in the wild in China and Japan, and is produced to some extent in Chinese turtle farms. It was listed as data deficient i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2%20mm%20scale | 2 mm scale, often 2 mm finescale is a specification used for railway modelling, largely for modelling British railway prototypes. It uses a scale of 2 mm on the model to 1 foot on the prototype, which scales out to 1:152.
The track gauge used to represent prototype standard gauge (4 feet inches) is . Track and wheels ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic%20geometry | In mathematics, analytic geometry, also known as coordinate geometry or Cartesian geometry, is the study of geometry using a coordinate system. This contrasts with synthetic geometry.
Analytic geometry is used in physics and engineering, and also in aviation, rocketry, space science, and spaceflight. It is the foundat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papeda%20%28citrus%29 | Papeda or papaeda is the common name for a group of Citrus species and varieties native to tropical Asia that are hardy and slow-growing, and produce unpalatable fruit. Walter Tennyson Swingle segregated these species into a separate subgenus, Papeda, that included the Ichang lemon, yuzu, kaffir lime, kabosu, sudachi, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Hewson%20%28surgeon%29 | William Hewson (14 November 1739 – 1 May 1774) was a British surgeon, anatomist and physiologist who has been referred to as the "father of haematology".
Biography
Born in Hexham, Northumberland, Hewson initially studied in 1753 at the Newcastle Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne (which later became the Royal Victoria Inf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallopathy | Crystallopathy is a harmful state or disease associated with the formation and aggregation of crystals in tissues or cavities, or in other words, a heterogeneous group of diseases caused by intrinsic or environmental microparticles or crystals, promoting tissue inflammation and scarring.
Composition
Crystallopathies ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20jacking | Ice jacking occurs when water permeates a confined space within a structural support or a geological formation, ultimately causing structural fracture when the water freezes and expands. The force from this expansion can damage shorelines, rock faces, and other natural environments. This has the potential to lead to pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/121st%20meridian%20east | The meridian 121° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, Australia, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 121st meridian east forms a great circle with the 59th meridian west.
From Pole to Pole
S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schaum%27s%20Outlines | Schaum's Outlines () is a series of supplementary texts for American high school, AP, and college-level courses, currently published by McGraw-Hill Education Professional, a subsidiary of McGraw-Hill Education. The outlines cover a wide variety of academic subjects including mathematics, engineering and the physical sc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live%20Aid | Live Aid was a multi-venue benefit concert held on Saturday 13 July 1985, as well as a music-based fundraising initiative. The original event was organised by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise further funds for relief of the 1983–1985 famine in Ethiopia, a movement that started with the release of the successful charit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDUFB6 | NADH dehydrogenase [ubiquinone] 1 beta subcomplex subunit 6, also known as complex I-B17, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NDUFB6 gene. NADH dehydrogenase (ubiquinone) 1 beta subcomplex subunit 6, is an accessory subunit of the NADH dehydrogenase (ubiquinone) complex, located in the mitochondrial inner mem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature%20Medicine | Nature Medicine is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal published by Nature Portfolio covering all aspects of medicine. It was established in 1995. The journal seeks to publish research papers that "demonstrate novel insight into disease processes, with direct evidence of the physiological relevance of the results".... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDUFA13 | NADH dehydrogenase [ubiquinone] 1 alpha subcomplex subunit 13 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the NDUFA13 gene. The NDUFA13 protein is a subunit of NADH dehydrogenase (ubiquinone), which is located in the mitochondrial inner membrane and is the largest of the five complexes of the electron transport chain.
S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Zealand%20Rocketry%20Association | The New Zealand Rocketry Association is a model rocketry organisation based in Auckland, New Zealand. The NZRA holds launches and meetings bi-monthly at its Taupiri launch site, an hour south of Auckland, and has an annual launch day. Launch clearance from the Civil Aviation Authority is required for all launches, to e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20Advanced%20Graphics%20Architecture | Amiga Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) is the third-generation Amiga graphic chipset, first used in the Amiga 4000 in 1992. Before release AGA was codenamed Pandora by Commodore International.
AGA was originally called AA for Advanced Architecture in the United States. The name was later changed to AGA for the Eur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumas%20method%20of%20molecular%20weight%20determination | The Dumas method of molecular weight determination was historically a procedure used to determine the molecular weight of an unknown volatile substance.
The method was designed by the French chemist Jean Baptiste André Dumas, after whom the procedure is now named. Dumas used the method to determine the vapour densiti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proggy%20programming%20fonts | The Proggy programming fonts are a set of free fixed-width typefaces designed with programming and terminal work in mind.
Fonts
The project started with the four Proggy typefaces authored by Tristan Grimmer: Proggy Clean, Square, Small, and Tiny, circa 2004. Other contributors had their fonts added to the collection w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative%20Splicing%20Annotation%20Project | Alternative Splicing Annotation Project (ASAP) in computational biology was a database for alternative splicing data maintained by the University of California from 2003 to 2013. The purpose of ASAP was to provide a source for data mining projects by consolidating the information generated by genomics and proteomics re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20Room | Game Room was a social gaming service for the Xbox 360 video game system, Microsoft Windows PCs, and Windows Phone 7. Launched on March 24, 2010, Game Room let players download classic video games and compete against each other for high scores. Players on both Xbox 360 and Windows PCs could access Game Room through the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/280%20%28number%29 | 280 (two hundred [and] eighty) is the natural number after 279 and before 281.
In mathematics
The denominator of the eighth harmonic number, 280 is an octagonal number. 280 is the smallest octagonal number that is a half of another octagonal number.
There are 280 plane trees with ten nodes.
As a consequence of this, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeobit | Zeobit LLC (stylized ZeoBIT) was a technology and software company formed in 2009 by CEO Slava Kolomiychuk and located in Sunnyvale, California. The company specialized in computer security software and internet security. As of December 2016, it is no longer in business.
Zeobit is best known for the bundled utility so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subobject%20classifier | In category theory, a subobject classifier is a special object Ω of a category such that, intuitively, the subobjects of any object X in the category correspond to the morphisms from X to Ω. In typical examples, that morphism assigns "true" to the elements of the subobject and "false" to the other elements of X. Theref... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processor%20sharing | Processor sharing or egalitarian processor sharing is a service policy where the customers, clients or jobs are all served simultaneously, each receiving an equal fraction of the service capacity available. In such a system all jobs start service immediately (there is no queueing).
The processor sharing algorithm "eme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plastid | The plastid (Greek: ; : formed, molded – plural plastids) is a membrane-bound organelle found in the cells of plants, algae, and some other eukaryotic organisms. They are considered to be intracellular endosymbiotic cyanobacteria. Examples include chloroplasts (used for photosynthesis), chromoplasts (used for pigment s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraparma | Tetraparma is a genus of unicellular algae in the family Triparmaceae in the order Parmales. They form siliceous plates on the cell surface that aid in identification. Tetraparma is distinguished by its possession of three shield plates that may have everted rims, three triradiate girdle plates, a triradiate dorsal pla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Computer%20Rank%20Examination | National Computer Rank Examination (NCRE) is a national exam held by China Education Department to test the computer proficiency and programming skill of non-computer specialized students and practitioners. The programming language can be chosen by examinees, including C, C++, Java, Visual Basic and Python 3. NCRE is w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afterhyperpolarization | Afterhyperpolarization, or AHP, is the hyperpolarizing phase of a neuron's action potential where the cell's membrane potential falls below the normal resting potential. This is also commonly referred to as an action potential's undershoot phase. AHPs have been segregated into "fast", "medium", and "slow" components t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Przybylski%27s%20Star | Przybylski's Star (pronounced or ), or HD 101065, is a rapidly oscillating Ap star at roughly from the Sun in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It has a unique spectrum showing over-abundances of most rare-earth elements, including some short-lived radioactive isotopes, but under-abundances of more common ele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice%20Boltzmann%20methods%20for%20solids | The Lattice Boltzmann methods for solids (LBMS) are a set of methods for solving partial differential equations (PDE) in solid mechanics. The methods use a discretization of the Boltzmann equation(BM), and their use is known as the lattice Boltzmann methods for solids.
LBMS methods are categorized by their reliance on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mathematical%20Gazette | The Mathematical Gazette is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Mathematical Association. It covers mathematics education with a focus on the 15–20 years age range.
The journal was established in 1894 by Edward Mann Langley as the successor to the Reports... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak%20Ridge%20School%20of%20Reactor%20Technology | Oak Ridge School of Reactor Technology (ORSORT) was the successor of the school known locally as the Clinch College of Nuclear Knowledge, later shorten to Clinch College. ORSORT was authorized and financed by the U.S. government and founded in 1950 by Admiral Hyman G. Rickover and Alvin Weinberg. During its existence, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GloFish | The GloFish is a patented and trademarked brand of fluorescently colored genetically modified fish. They have been created from several different species of fish: zebrafish (Danio rerio) were the first GloFish available in pet stores, and recently tetra (Gymnocorymbus ternetzi), tiger barbs (Puntius tetrazona), Rainbo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Book%20of%20Squares | The Book of Squares, (Liber Quadratorum in the original Latin) is a book on algebra by Leonardo Fibonacci, published in 1225. It was dedicated to Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor.
The Liber quadratorum has been passed down by a single 15th-century manuscript, the so-called ms. E 75 Sup. of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana (M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.%20W.%20H.%20T.%20Hudson | Ronald William Henry Turnbull Hudson (16 July 1876 – 20 September 1904) was a British mathematician.
Ronald W.H.T. Hudson was considered in his day to be the most gifted geometer in all of Cambridge. Hudson's life was cut short when he died in a mountaineering accident at the age of 28, but his posthumously-published... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurocristopathy | Neurocristopathy is a diverse class of pathologies that may arise from defects in the development of tissues containing cells commonly derived from the embryonic neural crest cell lineage. The term was coined by Robert P. Bolande in 1974.
After the induction of the neural crest, the newly formed neural crest cells (NC... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quickly%20%28software%29 | Quickly is a framework for creating software programs for a Linux distribution using Python, PyGTK, Glade Interface Designer and Desktop Couch. It then allows for easy publishing using bzr and Launchpad.
Quickly is designed to speed up the start of new projects with the use of templates, not only for programs but for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C.%20V.%20Durell | Clement Vavasor Durell (born 6 June 1882, Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, died South Africa, 10 December 1968) was an English schoolmaster who wrote mathematical textbooks.
Background and early life
A son of John Vavasor Durell (1837–1923), Rector of Fulbourn, Cambridgeshire, and his wife Ellen Annie Carlyon, Durell had fou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material%20Exchange%20Format | Material Exchange Format (MXF) is a container format for professional digital video and audio media defined by a set of SMPTE standards. A typical example of its use is for delivering advertisements to TV stations and tapeless archiving of broadcast TV programs. It is also used as part of the Digital Cinema Package for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20reduction%20for%20low%20power | Operation Reduction for Low Power is an ASIC program transformation technique used to reduce the power consumed by a specific application. A program transformation is any operation that changes the computational structure such as nature and type of computational models, their interconnections, sequencing of operations ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCF4 | Transcription factor 4 (TCF-4) also known as immunoglobulin transcription factor 2 (ITF-2) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TCF4 gene located on chromosome 18q21.2.
Function
TCF4 proteins act as transcription factors which will bind to the immunoglobulin enhancer mu-E5/kappa-E2 motif. TCF4 activates tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable%20yield%20in%20fisheries | The sustainable yield of natural capital is the ecological yield that can be extracted without reducing the base of capital itself, i.e. the surplus required to maintain ecosystem services at the same or increasing level over time. This yield usually varies over time with the needs of the ecosystem to maintain itself,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroPort | MicroPort is a multinational medical technology developer and manufacturer that is primarily headquartered in Shanghai, China. It mainly designs and produces medical devices for a range of fields including cardiology, interventional radiology, orthopedics, electrophysiology, and surgical management. MicroPort is consid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsic%20parity | In quantum mechanics, the intrinsic parity is a phase factor that arises as an eigenvalue of the parity operation (a reflection about the origin). To see that the parity's eigenvalues are phase factors, we assume an eigenstate of the parity operation (this is realized because the intrinsic parity is a property of a pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal%20Pareto%20efficiency | Ordinal Pareto efficiency refers to several adaptations of the concept of Pareto-efficiency to settings in which the agents only express ordinal utilities over items, but not over bundles. That is, agents rank the items from best to worst, but they do not rank the subsets of items. In particular, they do not specify a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1952%20in%20paleobotany | This paleobotany list records new fossil plant taxa that were to be described during the year 1952, as well as notes other significant paleobotany discoveries and events which occurred during 1952.
Mosses
Ferns
Cycadophytes
Conifers
Cupressaceae
Flowering plants
Nymphales
Magnoliids
Monocots
Basal eudicots
C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-ionizing%20radiation | Non-ionizing (or non-ionising) radiation refers to any type of electromagnetic radiation that does not carry enough energy per quantum (photon energy) to ionize atoms or molecules—that is, to completely remove an electron from an atom or molecule. Instead of producing charged ions when passing through matter, non-ioniz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geriatric%20care%20management | Geriatric care management is the process of planning and coordinating care of the elderly and others with physical and/or mental impairments to meet their long term care needs, improve their quality of life, and maintain their independence for as long as possible. It entails working with persons of old age and their fa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash%20chain | A hash chain is the successive application of a cryptographic hash function to a piece of data. In computer security, a hash chain is a method used to produce many one-time keys from a single key or password. For non-repudiation, a hash function can be applied successively to additional pieces of data in order to reco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forcing%20%28mathematics%29 | In the mathematical discipline of set theory, forcing is a technique for proving consistency and independence results. Intuitively, forcing can be thought of as a technique to expand the set theoretical universe to a larger universe by introducing a new "generic" object .
Forcing was first used by Paul Cohen in 1963... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nod%20factor | Nod factors (nodulation factors or NF), are signaling molecules produced by soil bacteria known as rhizobia in response to flavonoid exudation from plants under nitrogen limited conditions. Nod factors initiate the establishment of a symbiotic relationship between legumes and rhizobia by inducing nodulation. Nod factor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau%E2%80%93Placzek%20ratio | Landau–Placzek ratio is a ratio of the integrated intensity of Rayleigh scattering to the combined integrated intensity of Brillouin scattering of a triplet frequency spectrum of light scattered by homogenous liquids or gases. The triplet consists of two frequency shifted Brillouin scattering and a central unshifted Ra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steroid%2011%CE%B2-hydroxylase | Steroid 11β-hydroxylase, also known as steroid 11β-monooxygenase, is a steroid hydroxylase found in the zona glomerulosa and zona fasciculata of the adrenal cortex. Named officially the cytochrome P450 11B1, mitochondrial, it is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CYP11B1 gene. The enzyme is involved in the bios... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venous%20return | Venous return is the rate of blood flow back to the heart. It normally limits cardiac output.
Superposition of the cardiac function curve and venous return curve is used in one hemodynamic model.
Physiology
Venous return (VR) is the flow of blood back to the heart. Under steady-state conditions, venous return must e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural%20gas | Neural gas is an artificial neural network, inspired by the self-organizing map and introduced in 1991 by Thomas Martinetz and Klaus Schulten. The neural gas is a simple algorithm for finding optimal data representations based on feature vectors. The algorithm was coined "neural gas" because of the dynamics of the feat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong%20monad | In category theory, a strong monad over a monoidal category (C, ⊗, I) is a monad (T, η, μ) together with a natural transformation tA,B : A ⊗ TB → T(A ⊗ B), called (tensorial) strength, such that the diagrams
, ,
, and
commute for every object A, B and C (see Definition 3.2 in ).
If the monoidal category (C, ⊗, I) is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic%20water | Metabolic water refers to water created inside a living organism through metabolism, by oxidizing energy-containing substances in food and adipose tissue. Animal metabolism produces about 107–110 grams of water per 100 grams of fat, 41–42 grams of water per 100 g of protein, and 60 grams of water per 100 g of carbohyd... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Paul%20Grass%C3%A9 | Pierre-Paul Grassé (November 27, 1895 in Périgueux (Dordogne) – July 9, 1985) was a French zoologist, writer of over 300 publications including the influential 52-volume Traité de Zoologie. He was an expert on termites and one of the last proponents of neo-Lamarckian evolution.
Biography
Education
Grassé began his s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiberg%E2%80%93Witten%20theory | In theoretical physics, Seiberg–Witten theory is an supersymmetric gauge theory with an exact low-energy effective action (for massless degrees of freedom), of which the kinetic part coincides with the Kähler potential of the moduli space of vacua. Before taking the low-energy effective action, the theory is known as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Space%20Between%20Our%20Ears | The Space Between Our Ears: How the Brain Represents Visual Space is a 2001 non-fiction book by Michael J. Morgan, which explores the workings of vision.
Reception
The Space Between Our Ears won the Wellcome Trust Book Prize for science writing.
In the Guardian, Steven Rose lauded Morgan's explanations of binoculari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulisse%20Dini | Ulisse Dini (14 November 1845 – 28 October 1918) was an Italian mathematician and politician, born in Pisa. He is known for his contribution to real analysis, partly collected in his book "Fondamenti per la teorica delle funzioni di variabili reali".
Life and academic career
Dini attended the Scuola Normale Superiore... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Croatian%20Language%20Corpus | The Croatian Language Corpus (CLC) (, HJK) is a corpus of Croatian compiled at the Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics (IHJJ).
Background
The CLC was initially funded as a sub-project of the research program Riznica (Croatian Language Repository) by the Ministry of Science, Education, and Sports of the Rep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underclocking | Underclocking, also known as downclocking, is modifying a computer or electronic circuit's timing settings to run at a lower clock rate than is specified. Underclocking is used to reduce a computer's power consumption, increase battery life, reduce heat emission, and it may also increase the system's stability, lifespa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confr%C3%A9rie%20des%20Chevaliers%20du%20Tastevin | The Confrérie des Chevaliers du Tastevin (English: Fraternity of Knights of the Wine-Tasters' Cup) is an exclusive Bacchanalian fraternity of Burgundy wine connoisseurs.
Originally formed under the Ancien Régime and re-established in 1934, the Chevaliers du Tastevin are based at the 12th-century château of the Clos de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactoid | Tactoids are liquid crystal microdomains nucleated in isotropic phases, which can be distinguished as spherical or spindle-shaped birefringent microdroplets under polarized light microscopy. Tactoids are a transition state between isotropic and macroscopic liquid crystalline phases. The first observation of tactoids wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OrthoDB | OrthoDB presents a catalog of orthologous protein-coding genes across vertebrates, arthropods, fungi, plants, and bacteria. Orthology refers to the last common ancestor of the species under consideration, and thus OrthoDB explicitly delineates orthologs at each major radiation along the species phylogeny. The database... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission%20and%20Spacecraft%20Library | Mission and Spacecraft Library (MSL) is a reference web site, maintained by NASA, containing information about satellites. It contains a catalog of several hundreds of satellites from different countries. The site was founded by Jet Propulsion Laboratory employee Mike Evans, who had a vision of building a database that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here%20Comes%20the%20Sun | "Here Comes the Sun" is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1969 album Abbey Road. It was written by George Harrison and is one of his best-known compositions. Harrison wrote the song in early 1969 at the country house of his friend Eric Clapton, where Harrison had chosen to play truant for the day t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypogeal | Hypogeal, hypogean, hypogeic and hypogeous (; ) are biological terms describing an organism's activity below the soil surface.
In botany, a seed is described as showing hypogeal germination when the cotyledons of the germinating seed remain non-photosynthetic, inside the seed shell, and below ground. The converse, whe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillus%20acidus | Suillus acidus is an edible species of mushroom in the genus Suillus. The species was first described by Charles Horton Peck as Boletus acidus in 1905. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song%20Sun | Song Sun (, born in 1987) is a Chinese mathematician whose research concerns geometry and topology. A Sloan Research Fellow, he is a professor at the Department of Mathematics of the University of California, Berkeley, where he has been since 2018. In 2019, he was awarded the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry.
Biography... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CITIC%20Guoan%20Information%20Industry | CITIC Guoan Information Industry Co., Ltd. is a Chinese publicly traded company in the computer network infrastructure and information service industries. It includes the construction and operation of cable television networks and satellite information networks, the network system integration, software development and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museo%20de%20Mujeres%20Artistas%20Mexicanas | The Museo de Mujeres Artistas Mexicanas or MUMA (The Museum of Mexican Women Artists) is a virtual museum exhibiting the work of Mexican women artists, founded by the photographer Lucero González in 2008 to show the work of Mexican women in distinct fields of the arts. The museum's advisory board both curates the work... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometric%20combinatorics | Geometric combinatorics is a branch of mathematics in general and combinatorics in particular. It includes a number of subareas such as polyhedral combinatorics (the study of faces of convex polyhedra), convex geometry (the study of convex sets, in particular combinatorics of their intersections), and discrete geometr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescription%20cascade | Prescription cascade is the process whereby the side effects of drugs are misdiagnosed as symptoms of another problem, resulting in further prescriptions and further side effects and unanticipated drug interactions, which itself may lead to further symptoms and further misdiagnoses. This is a pharmacological example of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping%20translocation%20breakpoint | The jumping translocation breakpoint protein (JTB), also known as prostate androgen-regulated protein (PAR), is a protein that in humans is encoded by the JTB gene. It is an orphan receptor with unknown function.
The JTB family of proteins contains several jumping translocation breakpoint proteins or JTBs. Jumping tra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Time%20Protocol | The Network Time Protocol (NTP) is a networking protocol for clock synchronization between computer systems over packet-switched, variable-latency data networks. In operation since before 1985, NTP is one of the oldest Internet protocols in current use. NTP was designed by David L. Mills of the University of Delaware.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudflare | Cloudflare, Inc., is an American company that provides content delivery network services, cloud cybersecurity, DDoS mitigation, and ICANN-accredited domain registration services. Cloudflare's headquarters are located in San Francisco, California. According to The Hill, it is used by more than 20 percent of the Internet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Mechanism%20of%20Scientific%20Expertise%20on%20Biodiversity | The consultative process towards an IMoSEB (International Mechanism of Scientific Expertise on Biodiversity) was a multidisciplinary effort from 2005 to 2008 that involved a large number of stakeholders and had a considerable political and media audience. Its aim was the creation of a value-added process by taking in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified%20frequency%20modulation | Modified frequency modulation (MFM) is a run-length limited (RLL) line code used to encode data on most floppy disks and some hard disk drives. It was first introduced on hard disks in 1970 with the IBM 3330 and then in floppy disk drives beginning with the IBM 53FD in 1976.
MFM is a modification to the original freq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jardines%20de%20la%20Reina | Jardines de la Reina () is an archipelago in the southern part of Cuba, in the provinces of Camagüey and Ciego de Ávila.
It was named by Christopher Columbus to honour the Queen of Spain, Isabella I of Castile. Since 1996 a marine reserve was established covering a large swath of the archipelago. In 2010, Jardines de ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIFF%20%28Usenet%29 | BIFF, later sometimes B1FF, was a pseudonym on, and the prototypical newbie of, Usenet. BIFF was created as and taken up as a satire of a partly amusing, partly annoying, mostly unwelcome intrusion into a then fairly rarefied community. BIFF had a VIC-20 at first and a Commodore 64 later (as these were both computers ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20and%20test-and-set | In computer architecture, the test-and-set CPU instruction (or instruction sequence) is designed to implement
mutual exclusion in multiprocessor environments. Although a correct lock can be implemented with test-and-set, the test and test-and-set optimization lowers resource contention caused by bus locking, especiall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FUJIC | FUJIC was the first electronic digital computer in operation in Japan. It was finished in March 1956, the project having been effectively started in 1949, and was built almost entirely by Dr. Okazaki Bunji. Originally designed to perform calculations for lens design by Fuji, the ultimate goal of FUJIC's construction wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilum%20%28biology%29 | In botany, a hilum (pronounced ) is a scar or mark left on a seed coat by the former attachment to the ovary wall or to the funiculus (which in turn attaches to the ovary wall). On a bean seed, the hilum is called the "eye".
For some species of fungus, the hilum is the microscopic indentation left on a spore when it s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genghis%20Khan%20II%3A%20Clan%20of%20the%20Gray%20Wolf | Genghis Khan II: Clan of the Gray Wolf, originally released as , is a 1992 video game developed by Koei. It is part of Koei's Historical Simulation Series of games, and is the sequel to Genghis Khan, though this is the third game in the series. Genghis Khan II was developed and published for MSX2, Nintendo Entertainmen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BotSeer | BotSeer was a Web-based information system and search tool used for research on Web robots and trends in Robot Exclusion Protocol deployment and adherence. It was created and designed by Yang Sun, Isaac G. Councill, Ziming Zhuang and C. Lee Giles. BotSeer was in operation from 2007 to 2010, approximately.
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BotS... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Laboratory | The online project Virtual Laboratory. Essays and Resources on the Experimentalization of Life, 1830-1930, located at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, is dedicated to research in the history of the experimentalization of life. The term experimentalization describes the interaction between the life s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locky | Locky is ransomware malware released in 2016. It is delivered by email (that is allegedly an invoice requiring payment) with an attached Microsoft Word document that contains malicious macros. When the user opens the document, it appears to be full of gibberish, and includes the phrase "Enable macro if data encoding is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire%20Mycological%20Committee | The Yorkshire Mycological Committee is a committee within the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. First formed in 1892, it was the first permanent organisation dedicated to the study of fungi in Great Britain. It was the principal founding organisation of the British Mycological Society.
History
The Mycological Committee w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimney%20sweep | A chimney sweep is a person who clears soot and creosote from chimneys. The chimney uses the pressure difference caused by a hot column of gas to create a draught and draw air over the hot coals or wood enabling continued combustion. Chimneys may be straight or contain many changes of direction. During normal operation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale%20Global%20Tic%20Severity%20Scale | The Yale Global Tic Severity Scale (YGTSS) is a psychological measure designed to assess the severity and frequency of symptoms of disorders such as tic disorder, Tourette syndrome, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, in children and adolescents between ages 6 and 17.
The questionnaire is divided into three parts over ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurmarin | Gurmarin is a 35-residue polypeptide from the Asclepiad vine Gymnema sylvestre (Gurmar). It has been utilized as a pharmacological tool in the study of sweet-taste transduction because of its ability to selectively inhibit the neural response to sweet taste in rats. This rat inhibition appears to have high specificity ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilottone | Pilottone (or Pilotone) and the related neo-pilotone are special synchronization signals recorded by analog audio recorders designed for use in motion picture production, to keep sound and film recorded on separate media (otherwise known as double system recording) synchronised. Before the adoption of timecode by the m... |
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