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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20connectivity | The algebraic connectivity (also known as Fiedler value or Fiedler eigenvalue after Miroslav Fiedler) of a graph G is the second-smallest eigenvalue (counting multiple eigenvalues separately) of the Laplacian matrix of G. This eigenvalue is greater than 0 if and only if G is a connected graph. This is a corollary to th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrolyzed%20vegetable%20protein | Hydrolyzed vegetable protein (HVP) products are foodstuffs obtained by protein hydrolysis and are used as ingredients to create a bouillon (broth) taste without the vegetables, bones, simmering, or other standard elements of creating bouillon from scratch.
Regarding the production process, a distinction can be made be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NCR3 | Natural cytotoxicity triggering receptor 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NCR3 gene. NCR3 has also been designated as CD337 (cluster of differentiation 337) and as NKp30. NCR3 belongs to the family of NCR membrane receptors together with NCR1 (NKp46) and NCR2 (NKp44).
Identification
NKp30 receptor was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycosylphosphatidylinositol | Glycosylphosphatidylinositol () or glycophosphatidylinositol (GPI) is a phosphoglyceride that can be attached to the C-terminus of a protein during posttranslational modification. The resulting GPI-anchored proteins play key roles in a wide variety of biological processes. GPI is composed of a phosphatidylinositol grou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3%20Fejes%20T%C3%B3th | László Fejes Tóth (, 12 March 1915 – 17 March 2005) was a Hungarian mathematician who specialized in geometry. He proved that a lattice pattern is the most efficient way to pack centrally symmetric convex sets on the Euclidean plane (a generalization of Thue's theorem, a 2-dimensional analog of the Kepler conjecture).... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20fuel%20cycle | The nuclear fuel cycle, also called nuclear fuel chain, is the progression of nuclear fuel through a series of differing stages. It consists of steps in the front end, which are the preparation of the fuel, steps in the service period in which the fuel is used during reactor operation, and steps in the back end, which ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baik%E2%80%93Deift%E2%80%93Johansson%20theorem | The Baik–Deift–Johansson theorem is a result from probabilistic combinatorics. It deals with the subsequences of a randomly uniformly drawn permutation from the set . The theorem makes a statement about the distribution of the length of the longest increasing subsequence in the limit. The theorem was influential in pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core%20rope%20memory | Core rope memory is a form of read-only memory (ROM) for computers, first used in the 1960s by early NASA Mars space probes and then in the Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) and programmed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Instrumentation Lab and built by Raytheon.
Software written by MIT programmers was... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yandex%20Disk | Yandex.Disk () is a cloud service created by Yandex that lets users store files on “cloud” servers and share them with others online. The service is based on syncing data between different devices. Yandex.Disk was launched in English in June 2012.
Features
Storage — users can upload and save files. There are no restr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autologous%20cultured%20chondrocytes%20on%20porcine%20collagen%20membrane | Autologous cultured chondrocytes on porcine collagen membrane (Maci) is a treatment to correct cartilage defects in the knee. It is used to treat symptomatic, full-thickness cartilage defects of the knee with or without bone involvement. Autologous cultured chondrocytes on porcine collagen membrane is an autologous ce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De%20arte%20supputandi | De arte supputandi libri quattuor was the first printed work on arithmetic published in England. Published in 1522, it was written by Cuthbert Tunstall, Bishop of London, and based on Luca Pacioli's Summa de arithmetica, geometria, proportioni et proportionalità. It is dedicated to Sir Thomas More. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAFOR | GAFOR ("General Aviation Forecast") is a format for reporting weather information for aviation purposes. The GAFOR is used in many European countries. In order to easy transmit and understand GAFOR forecasts, the original (local) names are systematically replaced by a code number. There are two kinds of application:
I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crownshaft | An elongated circumferential leaf base formation present on some species of palm is called a crownshaft.
The leaf bases of some pinnate leaved palms (most notable being Roystonea regia or the royal palm but also including the genera Areca, Wodyetia and Pinanga) form a sheath at the top of the trunk surrounding the bud... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark%E2%80%93gluon%20plasma | Quark–gluon plasma (or QGP and quark soup) is an interacting localized assembly of quarks and gluons at thermal (local kinetic) and (close to) chemical (abundance) equilibrium. The word plasma signals that free color charges are allowed. In a 1987 summary, Léon van Hove pointed out the equivalence of the three terms: q... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligule | A ligule (from "strap", variant of lingula, from lingua "tongue") is a thin outgrowth at the junction of leaf and leafstalk of many grasses (Poaceae) and sedges. A ligule is also a strap-shaped extension of the corolla, such as that of a ray floret in plants in the daisy family Asteraceae.
Poaceae and Cyperaceae
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20reagent%20testing%20color%20charts | It is advised to check the references for photos of reaction results. Reagent testers might show the colour of the desired substance while not showing a different colour for a more dangerous additive. For this reason it is essential to use multiple different tests to show all adulterants.
Folin's—Mandelin
Marquis—Sim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20cancerization | Field cancerization or field effect (also termed field change, field change cancerization, field carcinogenesis, cancer field effect or premalignant field defect) is a biological process in which large areas of cells at a tissue surface or within an organ are affected by carcinogenic alterations. The process arises fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Nagle | Matthew Nagle (October 16, 1979 – July 24, 2007) was the first person to use a brain–computer interface to restore functionality lost due to paralysis. He was a C3 tetraplegic, paralyzed from the neck down after being stabbed.
Biography
Nagle attended Weymouth High School (Class of 1998). He was an exceptional athlete... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic%20design | Probabilistic design is a discipline within engineering design. It deals primarily with the consideration of the effects of random variability upon the performance of an engineering system during the design phase. Typically, these effects are related to quality and reliability. Thus, probabilistic design is a tool that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective%20calling | In a conventional, analog two-way radio system, a standard radio has noise squelch or carrier squelch, which allows a radio to receive all transmissions. Selective calling is used to address a subset of all two-way radios on a single radio frequency channel. Where more than one user is on the same channel (co-channel u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20equation | In graph theory, Graph equations are equations in which the unknowns are graphs. One of the central questions of graph theory concerns the notion of isomorphism. We ask: When are two graphs the same? (i.e., graph isomorphism) The graphs in question may be expressed differently in terms of graph equations.
What are the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Networked%20control%20system | A networked control system (NCS) is a control system wherein the control loops are closed through a communication network. The defining feature of an NCS is that control and feedback signals are exchanged among the system's components in the form of information packages through a network.
Overview
The functionality o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20cuticle | A plant cuticle is a protecting film covering the outermost skin layer (epidermis) of leaves, young shoots and other aerial plant organs (aerial here meaning all plant parts not embedded in soil or other substrate) that have no periderm. The film consists of lipid and hydrocarbon polymers infused with wax, and is synth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betweenness%20centrality | In graph theory, betweenness centrality is a measure of centrality in a graph based on shortest paths. For every pair of vertices in a connected graph, there exists at least one shortest path between the vertices such that either the number of edges that the path passes through (for unweighted graphs) or the sum of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jai%20Karnataka | Jai Karnataka is a 1989 Indian Kannada-language superhero film, directed and produced by Dwarakish. The film stars Ambareesh, Rajani, Jr Narasimharaju and Mukhyamantri Chandru in the lead roles. The film has musical score by Vijayanand. The film was a remake of the Hindi film Mr. India.
Cast
Ambareesh as Arun
Rajani ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteric%20nervous%20system | The enteric nervous system (ENS) or intrinsic nervous system is one of the main divisions of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and consists of a mesh-like system of neurons that governs the function of the gastrointestinal tract. It is capable of acting independently of the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous syst... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20gapless%20semiconductor | Spin gapless semiconductors are a novel class of materials with unique electrical band structure for different spin channels in such a way that there is no band gap (i.e., 'gapless') for one spin channel while there is a finite gap in another spin channel.
In a spin-gapless semiconductor, conduction and valence band e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20Army%20Aviation%20and%20Missile%20Center | The U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation & Missile Center (AvMC), formerly known as the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center (AMRDEC), a part of the U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM) — now DEVCOM, is primarily a civilian organi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEBS%20Open%20Bio | FEBS Open Bio is a monthly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering research and education in molecular and cellular life sciences. It was established in 2011 and is published by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the Federation of European Biochemical Societies (FEBS). According to the journal, papers are not... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermifilter%20toilet | Vermifilter toilet, also known as a primary vermifilter, vermidigester toilet, tiger toilet or tiger worm toilet, is an on-site sanitation system in which human excreta are delivered from a toilet (usually by flushing) onto a medium containing a worm-based ecosystem. Faecal solids are trapped on the surface of the verm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%20Green%20Belt | The German Green Belt (Grünes Band Deutschland in German) is a project of Bund Naturschutz (BUND), one of Germany's largest environmental groups. The project began in 1989 facing the network of inner-German border fences and guard towers formerly separating East and West Germany. It is one of the world's most unusual ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20step | Triple step is a generic term for dance step patterns that describes three steps done on two main beats of music. Usually they are two quick steps and one slow one, i.e., often they are counted as "quick-quick-slow", "one-and-two", "three-and-four", etc.
Some dances have a pattern known as such: "triple step". In some... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original%20Software | Original Software is a privately held company providing automatic software testing products and services.
History
Original Software was formed in December 1996 and started trading in May 1997. It was founded by Colin Armitage.
In the initial years, Original Software focused on the IBM i platform.
In 2007 a manual t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Day | Internet Day is an event celebrated in Mexico, Peru, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina, Spain, Colombia, Uruguay, Ecuador, Bolivia, Venezuela, and other parts of the world on May 17, promoted by the Association of Internet Users. It was celebrated for the first time on October 29, 2005. Shortly afterwards, at the World Summ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall%E2%80%93Sun%E2%80%93Sun%20prime | In number theory, a Wall–Sun–Sun prime or Fibonacci–Wieferich prime is a certain kind of prime number which is conjectured to exist, although none are known.
Definition
Let be a prime number. When each term in the sequence of Fibonacci numbers is reduced modulo , the result is a periodic sequence.
The (minimal) pe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulated%20rewriting | Regulated rewriting is a specific area of formal languages studying grammatical systems which are able to take some kind of control over the production applied in a derivation step. For this reason, the grammatical systems studied in Regulated Rewriting theory are also called "Grammars with Controlled Derivations". A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substrate%20inhibition%20in%20bioreactors | Substrate inhibition in bioreactors occurs when the concentration of substrate (such as glucose, salts, or phenols) exceeds the optimal parameters and reduces the growth rate of the cells within the bioreactor. This is often confused with substrate limitation, which describes environments in which cell growth is limite... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg%20tooth | An egg tooth is a temporary, sharp projection present on the bill or snout of an oviparous animal at hatching. It allows the hatchling to penetrate the eggshell from inside and break free. Birds, reptiles, and monotremes possess egg teeth as hatchlings. Similar structures exist in Eleutherodactyl frogs, and spiders.
B... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20diffusion | Error diffusion is a type of halftoning in which the quantization residual is distributed to neighboring pixels that have not yet been processed. Its main use is to convert a multi-level image into a binary image, though it has other applications.
Unlike many other halftoning methods, error diffusion is classified as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochlear%20implant | A cochlear implant (CI) is a surgically implanted neuroprosthesis that provides a person who has moderate-to-profound sensorineural hearing loss with sound perception. With the help of therapy, cochlear implants may allow for improved speech understanding in both quiet and noisy environments. A CI bypasses acoustic hea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versus%20Arthritis | Versus Arthritis is the UK's largest charity dedicated to supporting people with arthritis. It was launched in September 2018, following the legal merger of the two leading arthritis charities in the UK, Arthritis Research UK and Arthritis Care in November 2017.
According to research, 10 million people in the UK are a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20System%20z10 | IBM System z10 is a line of IBM mainframes. The z10 Enterprise Class (EC) was announced on February 26, 2008. On October 21, 2008, IBM announced the z10 Business Class (BC), a scaled-down version of the z10 EC. The System z10 represents the first model family powered by the z10 quad core processing engine. Its succe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/56-bit%20encryption | In computing, 56-bit encryption refers to a key size of fifty-six bits, or seven bytes, for symmetric encryption. While stronger than 40-bit encryption, this still represents a relatively low level of security in the context of a brute force attack.
Description
The US government traditionally regulated encryption for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnlakeviridae | Finnlakeviridae is a family of bacterial viruses that is not assigned to any higher taxonomic ranks. The family contains a single genus, Finnlakevirus, which contains a single species, Flavobacterium virus FLiP. This virus was isolated in 2010, with its gram-negative host bacterium, from Lake Jyväsjärvi, a boreal fresh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagamori%20Awards | The Nagamori Award is an international award given by Nagamori Foundation of Kyoto, Japan. The award is to recognize outstanding researchers and engineers working on electrical and electronics engineering, especially related to motors, power generation, actuators, and energy related topics.
History
The awarded is foun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affine%20space | In mathematics, an affine space is a geometric structure that generalizes some of the properties of Euclidean spaces in such a way that these are independent of the concepts of distance and measure of angles, keeping only the properties related to parallelism and ratio of lengths for parallel line segments. Affine spac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior%20longitudinal%20muscle%20of%20tongue | The superior longitudinal muscle of tongue or superior lingualis is a thin layer of oblique and longitudinal fibers immediately underlying the mucous membrane on the dorsum of the tongue.
Structure
The superior longitudinal muscle of the tongue is one of the intrinsic muscles of the tongue. It arises from the submuco... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transboundary%20breed | A transboundary breed is a breed which is present in several countries. Transboundary species of the five significant livestock types (cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and chickens), have been developed for a hundred years or more in intensive manufacturing systems, which has led to global availability. A relatively small n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macroglobulinemia | Macroglobulinemia is the presence of increased levels of macroglobulins in the circulating blood.
It is a plasma cell dyscrasia, resembling leukemia, with cells of lymphocytic, plasmacytic, or intermediate morphology, which secrete a monoclonal immunoglobulin M component. There is diffuse infiltration by the malignant ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulomb%20excitation | Coulomb excitation is a technique in experimental nuclear physics to probe the electromagnetic aspect of nuclear structure. In coulomb excitation, a nucleus is excited by an inelastic collision with another nucleus through the electromagnetic interaction. In order to ensure that the interaction is electromagnetic in na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ScanIP | Synopsys Simpleware ScanIP is a 3D image processing and model generation software program developed by Synopsys Inc. to visualise, analyse, quantify, segment and export 3D image data from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT), microtomography and other modalities for computer-aided design (CAD), fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dropship%20%28software%29 | Dropship was a set of API utilities for use with Dropbox accounts. The utilities used Dropbox's de-duplication facilities to allow files, identified by their Dropbox hashes, to be copied from Dropbox's servers.
According to the GitHub project, dropship is no longer functional due to the backend changes Dropbox made t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycotoxins%20in%20animal%20feed | Many species of fungi produce secondary metabolites called mycotoxins. These toxins can be very detrimental to both humans and animals. The side-effects of ingesting these toxic substances are called mycotoxicosis, which can be a variety of medical conditions. The most common fungi that produce mycotoxins include Fusar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-diagnosis | Self-diagnosis is the process of diagnosing, or identifying, medical conditions in oneself. It may be assisted by medical dictionaries, books, resources on the Internet, past personal experiences, or recognizing symptoms or medical signs of a condition that a family member previously had.
Depending on the nature of an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subgame | In game theory, a subgame is any part (a subset) of a game that meets the following criteria (the following terms allude to a game described in extensive form):
It has a single initial node that is the only member of that node's information set (i.e. the initial node is in a singleton information set).
If a node is co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Renewable%20and%20Sustainable%20Energy | The Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy is a free and rapid publishing peer-reviewed, online-only, open access, scientific journal published by the American Institute of Physics covering most areas of renewable and sustainable energy-related fields that apply to the physical science and engineering communities... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mental%20gland | A mental gland is a part of the body found in many species of amphibians and reptiles. Mental glands produce chemicals that conspecific animals use to communicate.
Location
The mental glands appear in pairs, one on each side of the head. They are located behind the end of the mandible.
Function
Mental glands produ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentoo%20Linux | Gentoo Linux (pronounced ) is a Linux distribution built using the Portage package management system. Unlike a binary software distribution, the source code is compiled locally according to the user's preferences and is often optimized for the specific type of computer. Precompiled binaries are available for some pack... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maharam%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Maharam's theorem is a deep result about the decomposability of measure spaces, which plays an important role in the theory of Banach spaces. In brief, it states that every complete measure space is decomposable into "non-atomic parts" (copies of products of the unit interval [0,1] on the reals), and "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unionopterus | Unionopterus is a genus of eurypterid, an extinct group of aquatic arthropods commonly known as "sea scorpions". Fossils have been registered from the Early Carboniferous period. The genus contains only one species, U. anastasiae, recovered from deposits of Tournaisian to Viséan stages in Kazakhstan. Known from one sin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave%20band | An octave band is a frequency band that spans one octave (). In this context an octave can be a factor of 2 or a factor of 100.3. 2/1 = 1200 cents ≈ 10.
Fractional octave bands such as or of an octave are widely used in engineering acoustics.
Analyzing a source on a frequency by frequency basis is possible but time... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteria | Bacteria (; : bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were among the first life forms to appear on Earth, and are present in most of its habitats. Bacter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density%20of%20air | The density of air or atmospheric density, denoted ρ, is the mass per unit volume of Earth's atmosphere. Air density, like air pressure, decreases with increasing altitude. It also changes with variations in atmospheric pressure, temperature and humidity. At 101.325 kPa (abs) and 20 °C (68 °F), air has a density of app... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesic%20habitat | In ecology, a mesic habitat is a type of habitat with a well-balanced supply of moisture throughout the growing season, e.g., a mesic forest, a temperate hardwood forest, or dry-mesic prairie. Mesic is one of a triad of terms used to label a habitat or area that has a moderate or well-balanced supply of water within.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enumerative%20combinatorics | Enumerative combinatorics is an area of combinatorics that deals with the number of ways that certain patterns can be formed. Two examples of this type of problem are counting combinations and counting permutations. More generally, given an infinite collection of finite sets Si indexed by the natural numbers, enumerat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaCie | LaCie (; English: "The Company") is an American-French computer hardware company specializing in external hard drives, RAID arrays, optical drives, Flash Drives, and computer monitors. The company markets several lines of hard drives with a capacity of up to many terabytes of data, with a choice of interfaces (FireWi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Ferns%20of%20Great%20Britain%20and%20Ireland | The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland was a book published in 1855 that featured 51 plates of nature printing by Henry Bradbury.
Description
The text was a scientific description of all the varieties of ferns found in the British Isles. The author of this work was the botanist Thomas Moore, the editor was John Lindle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20reproduction | Plant reproduction is the production of new offspring in plants, which can be accomplished by sexual or asexual reproduction. Sexual reproduction produces offspring by the fusion of gametes, resulting in offspring genetically different from either parent. Asexual reproduction produces new individuals without the fusion... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolated%20congenital%20asplenia | Isolated congenital asplenia is a rare disease in humans that can cause life-threatening bacterial infections in children due to primary immunodeficiency. The infections can include pneumococal sepsis and meningitis.
ICAS is a ribosomopathy, due to autosomal dominant mutation of the RPSA gene on chromosome 3p21. Unl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sural%20communicating%20branch%20of%20common%20peroneal%20nerve | The sural communicating nerve (SCN) (peroneal communicating branch of the common fibular nerve) is a separate and independent nerve from both the medial and lateral sural cutaneous nerves, often arising from a common trunk of the common fibular nerve The primary purpose of the sural communicating branch is to provide t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20semiconductor%20sequencing | Ion semiconductor sequencing is a method of DNA sequencing based on the detection of hydrogen ions that are released during the polymerization of DNA. This is a method of "sequencing by synthesis", during which a complementary strand is built based on the sequence of a template strand.
A microwell containing a templat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle%20thyroid%20vein | The middle thyroid vein () collects the blood from the lower portion of the thyroid gland. It receives tributaries that drain the larynx, and trachea. It passes anterior to the common carotid artery to reach and drain into the internal jugular vein.
Anatomy
Fate
It empties into the internal jugular vein posterior to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20set | In mathematics, a Δ-set S, often called a Δ-complex or a semi-simplicial set, is a combinatorial object that is useful in the construction and triangulation of topological spaces, and also in the computation of related algebraic invariants of such spaces. A Δ-set is somewhat more general than a simplicial complex, yet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution%20%26%20Development | Evolution & Development is a peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing material at the interface of evolutionary and developmental biology. Within evolutionary developmental biology, it has the aim of aiding a broader synthesis of biological thought in these two areas. Its scope ranges from paleontology and populatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative%20temperature | Certain systems can achieve negative thermodynamic temperature; that is, their temperature can be expressed as a negative quantity on the Kelvin or Rankine scales. This should be distinguished from temperatures expressed as negative numbers on non-thermodynamic Celsius or Fahrenheit scales, which are nevertheless highe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracic%20aorta | The thoracic aorta is a part of the aorta located in the thorax. It is a continuation of the aortic arch. It is located within the posterior mediastinal cavity, but frequently bulges into the left pleural cavity. The descending thoracic aorta begins at the lower border of the fourth thoracic vertebra and ends in front ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectus%20sheath | The rectus sheath (also called the rectus fascia) is a tough fibrous compartment formed by the aponeuroses of the transverse abdominal muscle, and the internal and external oblique muscles. It contains the rectus abdominis and pyramidalis muscles, as well as vessels and nerves.
Structure
The rectus sheath extends bet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inexact%20differential%20equation | An inexact differential equation is a differential equation of the form (see also: inexact differential)
The solution to such equations came with the invention of the integrating factor by Leonhard Euler in 1739.
Solution method
In order to solve the equation, we need to transform it into an exact differential eq... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tympanic%20cavity | The tympanic cavity is a small cavity surrounding the bones of the middle ear. Within it sit the ossicles, three small bones that transmit vibrations used in the detection of sound.
Structure
On its lateral surface, it abuts the external auditory meatus [ ear canal ] from which it is separated by the tympanic membrane... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30%2C000 | 30,000 (thirty thousand) is the natural number that comes after 29,999 and before 30,001.
Selected numbers in the range 30001–39999
30001 to 30999
30029 = primorial prime
30030 = primorial
30203 = safe prime
30240 = harmonic divisor number
30323 = Sophie Germain prime and safe prime
30420 = pentagonal pyramidal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20divergence | Functional divergence is the process by which genes, after gene duplication, shift in function from an ancestral function. Functional divergence can result in either subfunctionalization, where a paralog specializes one of several ancestral functions, or neofunctionalization, where a totally new functional capability e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterior%20branches%20of%20sacral%20nerves | The posterior divisions of the sacral nerves are small and diminish in size as they move downward; they emerge, except the last, through the posterior sacral foramina. In some rare cases these nerves break and cause the person's legs to become weak and eventually wither away under the person's weight.
The upper three ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunoglobulin%20I-set%20domain | I-set domains are found in several cell adhesion molecules, including vascular (VCAM), intercellular (ICAM), neural (NCAM) and mucosal addressin (MADCAM) cell adhesion molecules, as well as junction adhesion molecules (JAM). I-set domains are also present in several other diverse protein families, including several tyr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimal%20model%20program | In algebraic geometry, the minimal model program is part of the birational classification of algebraic varieties. Its goal is to construct a birational model of any complex projective variety which is as simple as possible. The subject has its origins in the classical birational geometry of surfaces studied by the Ital... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual%20reproduction | Sexual reproduction is a type of reproduction that involves a complex life cycle in which a gamete (haploid reproductive cells, such as a sperm or egg cell) with a single set of chromosomes combines with another gamete to produce a zygote that develops into an organism composed of cells with two sets of chromosomes (di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penning%20trap | A Penning trap is a device for the storage of charged particles using a homogeneous magnetic field and a quadrupole electric field. It is mostly found in the physical sciences and related fields of study as a tool for precision measurements of properties of ions and stable subatomic particles, like for example mass, fi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical%20probability%20density | The classical probability density is the probability density function that represents the likelihood of finding a particle in the vicinity of a certain location subject to a potential energy in a classical mechanical system. These probability densities are helpful in gaining insight into the correspondence principle an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home%20ultrasound | Home ultrasound is the provision of therapeutic ultrasound via the use of a portable or home ultrasound machine. This method of medical ultrasound therapy can be used for various types of pain relief and physical therapy.
In physics, the term "ultrasound" applies to all acoustic energy with a frequency above the audib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atribacterota | Atribacterota is a phylum of bacteria, which are common in anoxic sediments rich in methane. They are distributed worldwide and in some cases abundant in anaerobic marine sediments, geothermal springs, and oil deposits. Genetic analyzes suggest a heterotrophic metabolism that gives rise to fermentation products such as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutational%20analysis%20of%20variance | Permutational multivariate analysis of variance (PERMANOVA), is a non-parametric multivariate statistical permutation test. PERMANOVA is used to compare groups of objects and test the null hypothesis that the centroids and dispersion of the groups as defined by measure space are equivalent for all groups. A rejection o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfinite%20number | In mathematics, transfinite numbers or infinite numbers are numbers that are "infinite" in the sense that they are larger than all finite numbers. These include the transfinite cardinals, which are cardinal numbers used to quantify the size of infinite sets, and the transfinite ordinals, which are ordinal numbers used ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo%20orbit | A halo orbit is a periodic, three-dimensional orbit near one of the L1, L2 or L3 Lagrange points in the three-body problem of orbital mechanics. Although a Lagrange point is just a point in empty space, its peculiar characteristic is that it can be orbited by a Lissajous orbit or by a halo orbit. These can be thought o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical%20password | A graphical password or graphical user authentication is a form of authentication using images rather than letters, digits, or special characters. The type of images used and the ways, in which users interact with them vary between implementations.
Content types and mechanisms
Image sequence
Graphical passwords frequ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRACD-like%20protein | CRACD-like protein. previously known as KIAA1211L is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CRACDL gene. It is highly expressed in the cerebral cortex of the brain. Furthermore, it is localized to the microtubules and the centrosomes and is subcellularly located in the nucleus. Finally, CRACDL is associated with ce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bistorta%20officinalis | Bistorta officinalis (synonym Persicaria bistorta), known as bistort, common bistort, European bistort or meadow bistort, is a species of flowering plant in the dock family Polygonaceae native to Europe and northern and western Asia. Other common names include snakeroot, snake-root, snakeweed and Easter-ledges.
Descri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20features%20removed%20in%20Windows%20XP | As the next version of Windows NT after Windows 2000, as well as the successor to Windows Me, Windows XP introduced many new features but it also removed some others. Following is a list of these.
Shell
The balloon notification that warns the users when removing external flash storage devices without safe unmounting ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20thermodynamics | A timeline of events in the history of thermodynamics.
Before 1800
1650 – Otto von Guericke builds the first vacuum pump
1660 – Robert Boyle experimentally discovers Boyle's Law, relating the pressure and volume of a gas (published 1662)
1665 – Robert Hooke published his book Micrographia, which contained the stat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectus%20capitis%20posterior%20minor%20muscle | The rectus capitis posterior minor (or rectus capitis posticus minor) is a muscle in the upper back part of the neck. It is one of the suboccipital muscles. Its inferior attachment is at the posterior arch of atlas; its superior attachment is onto the occipital bone at and below the inferior nuchal line. The muscle is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotex%20character%20set | The character sets used by Videotex are based, to greater or lesser extents, on ISO/IEC 2022. Three Data Syntax systems are defined by ITU T.101, corresponding to the Videotex systems of different countries.
Data Syntax 1
Data Syntax 1 is defined in Annex B of T.101:1994. It is based on the CAPTAIN system used in Jap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rood%20Candy%20Company%20Building | The Rood Candy Company Building is a historic manufacturing plant of the Rood Candy Company in Pueblo, Colorado, United States. It was built in 1909 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
The company was founded by Aaron Rood, who was born in Windham County, Connecticut in 1845. He served ... |
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