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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski%27s%20first%20inequality%20for%20convex%20bodies | In mathematics, Minkowski's first inequality for convex bodies is a geometrical result due to the German mathematician Hermann Minkowski. The inequality is closely related to the Brunn–Minkowski inequality and the isoperimetric inequality.
Statement of the inequality
Let K and L be two n-dimensional convex bodies in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation%20and%20Public%20Health%20Project | Radiation and Public Health Project (RPHP) is a nonprofit educational and scientific organization founded in 1985 by Jay M. Gould, a statistician and epidemiologist, Benjamin A. Goldman, and Ernest Sternglass. The "shoestring organization" with "offices mainly on [Joseph J. Mangano's] kitchen table" was established to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Biochemistry%20and%20Biophysics | The Institute of Biochemistry and Biophysics (IBB)
is a pioneering Iranian research institute founded in 1976 to conduct world class research in cellular and molecular biology. It is affiliated with University of Tehran and is located in the university campus.
IBB is an educational and research oriented center for tr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Probabilistic%20Data%20Association%20Filter | The joint probabilistic data-association filter (JPDAF) is a statistical approach to the problem of plot association (target-measurement assignment) in a target tracking algorithm. Like the probabilistic data association filter (PDAF), rather than choosing the most likely assignment of measurements to a target (or dec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20and%20British%20English%20spelling%20differences | Despite the various English dialects spoken from country to country and within different regions of the same country, there are only slight regional variations in English orthography, the two most notable variations being British and American spelling. Many of the differences between American and British/Commonwealth E... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitocybe%20rivulosa | Clitocybe rivulosa, commonly known as the false champignon or fool's funnel, is a poisonous basidiomycete fungus of the large genus Clitocybe. One of several species similar in appearance, it is a small white funnel-shaped toadstool widely found in lawns, meadows and other grassy areas in Europe and North America. Als... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20National%20Irish%20American%20Museum%20of%20Washington%2C%20D.C. | The National Irish American Museum Of Washington, D.C. is a proposed museum to honor Ireland’s legacy in America.
History
The museum was proposed in 2008, but active fundraising was deferred due to the Financial crisis of 2007–08, and in 2015 the Washington Post deemed the museum unlikely to ever open.
Objective
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA%20polymerase%20III | In eukaryote cells, RNA polymerase III (also called Pol III) is a protein that transcribes DNA to synthesize 5S ribosomal RNA, tRNA and other small RNAs.
The genes transcribed by RNA Pol III fall in the category of "housekeeping" genes whose expression is required in all cell types and most environmental conditions. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20injection | Audio injection is the exploitation of digital assistants such as Amazon Echo, Google Home or Apple SIRI by unwanted instructions from a third party. These services lack authentication when reacting to user commands, making it possible for attackers to issue activation words and commands and trigger the execution of de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebellar%20veins | The cerebellar veins are veins which drain the cerebellum. They consist of the superior cerebellar veins and the inferior cerebellar veins (dorsal cerebellar veins). The superior cerebellar veins drain to the straight sinus and the internal cerebral veins. The inferior cerebellar veins drain to the transverse sinus, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borututu | Borotutu is traditional medicine made from the African tree Cochlospermum angolense. As the name indicates, it is widespread in parts of Angola, where it is known as mburututu in the Chokwe and Kimbundu languages.
Uses
Borututu bark is claimed to have hepatic healing properties and a general cleansing effect. Borotutu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subcostalis%20muscle | The Subcostales (singular: subcostalis) (Infracostales) consist of muscular and aponeurotic fasciculi, which are usually well-developed only in the lower part of the thorax; each originates from the inner surface of one rib, and is inserted into the inner surface of the second or third rib below, near its angle.
Their... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20size%20expansion | The system size expansion, also known as van Kampen's expansion or the Ω-expansion, is a technique pioneered by Nico van Kampen used in the analysis of stochastic processes. Specifically, it allows one to find an approximation to the solution of a master equation with nonlinear transition rates. The leading order term ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crocin | Crocin is a carotenoid chemical compound that is found in the flowers of crocus and gardenia. Its oxygen content also chemically makes it a xanthene. Crocin is the chemical primarily responsible for the color of saffron.
Chemically, crocin is the diester formed from the disaccharide gentiobiose and the dicarboxylic ac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRRC8C | Leucine-rich repeat-containing protein 8C is a protein that in humans is encoded by the LRRC8C gene. Researchers have found out that this protein, along with the other LRRC8 proteins LRRC8A, LRRC8B, LRRC8D, and LRRC8E, is sometimes a subunit of the heteromer protein Volume-Regulated Anion Channel. Volume-Regulated Anio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptron | In machine learning, the perceptron (or McCulloch-Pitts neuron) is an algorithm for supervised learning of binary classifiers. A binary classifier is a function which can decide whether or not an input, represented by a vector of numbers, belongs to some specific class. It is a type of linear classifier, i.e. a class... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomikuj.pl | chomikuj.pl, or Chomik (), is a Polish file hosting service founded in 2006. As of February 2013, it was the 15th most popular website in Poland.
Any type of file can be published on the website. Unregistered users can instantly retrieve file sizes of 1 MB. After registration, a user is not subject to any limit when d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autologous%20lymphocyte | In transplantation, autologous lymphocytes refers to a person's own white blood cells. Lymphocytes have a number of roles in the immune system, including the production of antibodies and other substances that fight infections and other diseases. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bodo%20saltans%20virus | The Bodo saltans virus is a giant virus of the Mimiviridae family that infects the protozoa Bodo saltans. It has a genome of 1.39 megabases, one of the largest known viral genomes. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxalis%20violacea | Oxalis violacea, the violet wood-sorrel, is a perennial plant and herb in the family Oxalidaceae. It is native to the eastern and central United States.
Description
Oxalis violacea emerges in early spring from an underground bulb and produces leaf stems tall and flower umbels, or clusters, with up to 19 flowers on st... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diskless%20Remote%20Boot%20in%20Linux | DRBL (Diskless Remote Boot in Linux) is a NFS-/NIS server providing a diskless or systemless environment for client machines.
It could be used for
cloning machines with Clonezilla software inbuilt,
providing for a network installation of Linux distributions like Fedora, Debian, etc.,
providing machines via PXE boot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluconasturtiin | Gluconasturtiin or phenethyl glucosinolate is one of the most widely distributed glucosinolates in the cruciferous vegetables, mainly in the roots, and is probably one of the plant compounds responsible for the natural pest-inhibiting properties of growing crucifers, such as cabbage, mustard or rape, in rotation with o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madagascar%20henipavirus | Madagascar henipavirus (MadV) is a poorly characterized henipavirus type. Currently it has only been detected serologically among Madagascan rousettes. High cross reactivity was observed with Hendra and Nipah henipaviruses. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MatC%20family | The Malonate Uptake (MatC) family (TC# 2.A.101) is a constituent of the ion transporter (IT) superfamily. It consists of proteins from Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria (e.g., Xanthomonas, Rhizobium and Streptomyces species), simple eukaryotes (e.g., Chlamydomonas reinhardtii) and archaea (e.g., Methanococcus ja... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presence%20%28amplification%29 | In an amplifier, a presence control boosts the upper mid-range frequencies to make the sounds of voices and instruments with similar tonal ranges seem more "present".
On television production studio's sound desk, there can be several presence controls, for several different, switchable, frequencies. There is a limit ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method%20of%20steepest%20descent | In mathematics, the method of steepest descent or saddle-point method is an extension of Laplace's method for approximating an integral, where one deforms a contour integral in the complex plane to pass near a stationary point (saddle point), in roughly the direction of steepest descent or stationary phase. The saddle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seiberg%E2%80%93Witten%20map | The Seiberg–Witten map is a map used in gauge theory and string theory introduced by Nathan Seiberg and Edward Witten which relates non-commutative degrees of freedom of a gauge theory to their commutative counterparts. It was argued by Seiberg and Witten that certain non-commutative gauge theories are equivalent to co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sample%20entropy | Sample entropy (SampEn) is a modification of approximate entropy (ApEn), used for assessing the complexity of physiological time-series signals, diagnosing diseased states. SampEn has two advantages over ApEn: data length independence and a relatively trouble-free implementation. Also, there is a small computational di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalamic%20fasciculus | The thalamic fasciculus is a component of the subthalamus. It is synonymous with field H1 of Forel. Nerve fibres form a tract containing cerebellothalamic (crossed) and pallidothalamic (uncrossed) fibres, that is situated between the thalamus and the zona incerta.
The thalamic fasciculus consists of fibers from the an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiviral%20drug | Antiviral drugs are a class of medication used for treating viral infections. Most antivirals target specific viruses, while a broad-spectrum antiviral is effective against a wide range of viruses. Antiviral drugs are one class of antimicrobials, a larger group which also includes antibiotic (also termed antibacterial)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dielectric%20breakdown%20model | Dielectric breakdown model (DBM) is a macroscopic mathematical model combining the diffusion-limited aggregation model with electric field. It was developed by Niemeyer, Pietronero, and Weismann in 1984. It describes the patterns of dielectric breakdown of solids, liquids, and even gases, explaining the formation of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIN%20%28software%20process%29 | A Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN) is an organization of professionals who are interested in software and systems process improvement. As of a few years ago, there were 116 SPINs in 37 countries worldwide in their individual geographical areas.
Each SPIN is a completely independent organization. The Softwar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oat%20milk | Oat milk is a plant milk derived from whole oat (Avena spp.) grains by extracting the plant material with water. Oat milk has a creamy texture and mild oatmeal-like flavor, and is manufactured in various flavors, such as sweetened, unsweetened, vanilla, and chocolate.
Unlike other plant milks having origins as early a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panderichthys | Panderichthys is a genus of extinct sarcopterygian (lobe-finned fish) from the late Devonian period, about 380 Mya. Panderichthys, which was recovered from Frasnian (early Late Devonian) deposits in Latvia, is represented by two species. P. stolbovi is known only from some snout fragments and an incomplete lower jaw. P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brent%27s%20method | In numerical analysis, Brent's method is a hybrid root-finding algorithm combining the bisection method, the secant method and inverse quadratic interpolation. It has the reliability of bisection but it can be as quick as some of the less-reliable methods. The algorithm tries to use the potentially fast-converging seca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice%20%28module%29 | In mathematics, in the field of ring theory, a lattice is a module over a ring that is embedded in a vector space over a field, giving an algebraic generalisation of the way a lattice group is embedded in a real vector space.
Formal definition
Let R be an integral domain with field of fractions K. An R-submodule M o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equivariant%20topology | In mathematics, equivariant topology is the study of topological spaces that possess certain symmetries. In studying topological spaces, one often considers continuous maps , and while equivariant topology also considers such maps, there is the additional constraint that each map "respects symmetry" in both its domain ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickover%20stalk | Pickover stalks are certain kinds of details to be found empirically in the Mandelbrot set, in the study of fractal geometry. They are so named after the researcher Clifford Pickover, whose "epsilon cross" method was instrumental in their discovery. An "epsilon cross" is a cross-shaped orbit trap.
According to Vepstas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointr | Pointr is a startup company based in London specialized in indoor positioning and navigation utilising iBeacons, which are Bluetooth Low Energy devices formalised by Apple Inc. Pointr have created a GPS-like experience with true position and turn-by-turn navigation that is supported by most modern smartphones operating... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trophic%20species | Trophic species are a scientific grouping of organisms according to their shared trophic (feeding) positions in a food web or food chain. Trophic species have identical prey and a shared set of predators in the food web. This means that members of a trophic species share many of the same kinds of ecological functions. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-1027 | C-1027 or lidamycin is an antitumor antibiotic consisting of a complex of an enediyne chromophore and an apoprotein.
It shows antibiotic activity against most Gram-positive bacteria. It is one of the most potent cytotoxic molecules known, due to its induction of a higher ratio of DNA double-strand breaks than single-s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essentially%20unique | In mathematics, the term essentially unique is used to describe a weaker form of uniqueness, where an object satisfying a property is "unique" only in the sense that all objects satisfying the property are equivalent to each other. The notion of essential uniqueness presupposes some form of "sameness", which is often f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samantha%20Payne | Samantha Joanne Payne MBE is an English entrepreneur. The co-founder of Open Bionics, a bionics company developing affordable prosthetics for children, Payne has won a number of international awards for her work. These include the MIT Technology Review 'Innovators under 35' in 2018, James Dyson gong for innovative engi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%E2%80%93Fricke%20equation | The Maxwell–Fricke equation relates the resistivity of blood to hematocrit. This relationship has been shown to hold for humans, and a variety on non-human warm-blooded species, including canines.
Equation
The Maxwell–Fricke equation is written as:
where ρ is the resistivity of blood, ρ1 is the resistivity of plasma,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89riu | In Irish mythology, Ériu (; modern ), daughter of Delbáeth and Ernmas of the Tuatha Dé Danann, was the eponymous matron goddess of Ireland.
The English name for Ireland comes from the name Ériu and the Germanic (Old Norse or Old English) word land.
Since Ériu is represented as goddess of Ireland, she is often interp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%20outbreak%20of%20Salmonella | The 2012 outbreak of Salmonella took place in 15 places worldwide with over 2,300 strains identified.
In general, the United States alone experiences 1 million cases of salmonellosis per year. In Europe, although there are around 100,000 incidents of salmonellosis reported annually, there has been a steady decrease in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise%20Slade | Louise Slade was a food scientist known for her work on food polymer science. She was an elected fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists and of the American Association of Cereal Chemists.
Education and career
Slade was born in South Carolina in 1946 and was a dancer who briefly attended the Juilliard School. S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radula%20visianica | Radula visianica is a species of liverwort in the Radulaceae family. It is European Alps endemic. It was thought to be extinct since 1938 but was rediscovered in 2014 in Austria. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikee | Ikee was a worm that spread by Secure Shell connections between jailbroken iPhones. It was discovered in 2009 and changed wallpapers to a photo of Rick Astley. The code from Ikee was later used to make a more malicious iPhone malware, called Duh.
History
iPhone owners of Australia reported that smart phones had been i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varsity%20letter | A varsity letter (or monogram) is an award earned in the United States for excellence in school activities. A varsity letter signifies that its recipient was a qualified varsity team member, awarded after a certain standard was met.
Description
The award letter is usually made in the colors and initials representing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saurophthirus | Saurophthirus is an extinct genus of giant stem-group flea, and the only member of the family Saurophthiridae. The type species, S. longipes is found in early Cretaceous strata of Baissa, Siberia. Two other species S. exquisitus and S. laevigatus are from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation of China.
Description
Bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invisible%20Sister | Invisible Sister is a 2015 Disney Channel Original Movie, based on the book My Invisible Sister by Beatrice Colin and Sara Pinto. The film is directed by Paul Hoen, and stars Rowan Blanchard and Paris Berelc. It focuses on a student who turns her older sister invisible due to a failed science project. It premiered on O... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20General%20RDOS | The Data General RDOS (Real-time Disk Operating System) is a real-time operating system released in 1970. The software was bundled with the company's popular Nova and Eclipse minicomputers.
Overview
RDOS is capable of multitasking, with the ability to run up to 32 tasks (similar to the current term threads) simultane... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frontier%20Fiber | Frontier Fiber (formerly known as Frontier FiOS or FiOS from Frontier) is a bundled Internet access, telephone, and (until 2021) television service that operates over a fiber-optic communications network in California, Texas, Florida, Indiana, and South Carolina. Service is offered in some areas of the United States by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical%20space%20form%20conjecture | In geometric topology, the spherical space form conjecture (now a theorem) states that a finite group acting on the 3-sphere is conjugate to a group of isometries of the 3-sphere.
History
The conjecture was posed by Heinz Hopf in 1926 after determining the fundamental groups of three-dimensional spherical space forms ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey%20theory | Ramsey theory, named after the British mathematician and philosopher Frank P. Ramsey, is a branch of the mathematical field of combinatorics that focuses on the appearance of order in a substructure given a structure of a known size. Problems in Ramsey theory typically ask a question of the form: "how big must some str... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taenia%20saginata | Taenia saginata (synonym Taeniarhynchus saginatus), commonly known as the beef tapeworm, is a zoonotic tapeworm belonging to the order Cyclophyllidea and genus Taenia. It is an intestinal parasite in humans causing taeniasis (a type of helminthiasis) and cysticercosis in cattle. Cattle are the intermediate hosts, where... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptide%20nucleic%20acid | Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is an artificially synthesized polymer similar to DNA or RNA.
Synthetic peptide nucleic acid oligomers have been used in recent years in molecular biology procedures, diagnostic assays, and antisense therapies. Due to their higher binding strength, it is not necessary to design long PNA olig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummia | Mummia, mumia, or originally mummy referred to several different preparations in the history of medicine, from "mineral pitch" to "powdered human mummies". It originated from Arabic mūmiyā "a type of resinous bitumen found in Western Asia and used curatively" in traditional Islamic medicine, which was translated as pis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20function | A direct function (dfn, pronounced "dee fun") is an alternative way to define a function and operator (a higher-order function) in the programming language APL. A direct operator can also be called a dop (pronounced "dee op"). They were invented by John Scholes in 1996. They are a unique combination of array programmin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward%20chaining | Backward chaining (or backward reasoning) is an inference method described colloquially as working backward from the goal. It is used in automated theorem provers, inference engines, proof assistants, and other artificial intelligence applications.
In game theory, researchers apply it to (simpler) subgames to find a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stueckelberg%20action | In field theory, the Stueckelberg action (named after Ernst Stueckelberg) describes a massive spin-1 field as an R (the real numbers are the Lie algebra of U(1)) Yang–Mills theory coupled to a real scalar field . This scalar field takes on values in a real 1D affine representation of R with as the coupling strength.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Hong%20Kong%20flags | This is a list of flags used in Hong Kong.
Official flag
Police flags
Corrections Service Department flags
Customs and Excise Department flags
Fire Services Department flags
Immigration Department flags
Medical Service flags
Civil Aid Service flags
Vexillology Association flags
Political flags
Hong Kong prot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20Pashtunistan | The flag of Pashtunistan is an unofficial flag representing the land of Pashtunistan, divided by the Durand Line between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Background
The mountainous landscape with the sun shining over the Hindu Kush was chosen a symbol of the birth of free Pashtunistan. The Arabic inscriptions mean "God is t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooperative%20Human%20Linkage%20Center | CHLC (or Cooperative Human Linkage Center) was a National Institutes of Health project to map a large number of human genome markers, prior to the completion of the Human Genome Project. The project was stopped in 1999.
National Institutes of Health
Genetic mapping |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggoty%20Mutai | Peggoty Mutai is a Kenyan chemist. Born in Kericho, her interests include medicinal chemistry, in particular working with the search for new treatments against parasitic worms.
After studying at the Univers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernormal%20stimulus | A supernormal stimulus or superstimulus is an exaggerated version of a stimulus to which there is an existing response tendency, or any stimulus that elicits a response more strongly than the stimulus for which it evolved.
For example, it is possible to create artificial bird eggs which certain birds will prefer over ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyewire | Eyewire is a citizen science game from Sebastian Seung's Lab at Princeton University. It is a human-based computation game that uses players to map retinal neurons. Eyewire launched on December 10, 2012. The game utilizes data generated by the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research.
Eyewire gameplay is used for neu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache%20Storm | Apache Storm is a distributed stream processing computation framework written predominantly in the Clojure programming language. Originally created by Nathan Marz and team at BackType, the project was open sourced after being acquired by Twitter. It uses custom created "spouts" and "bolts" to define information sources... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coats%20of%20arms%20of%20the%20Holy%20Roman%20Empire | Over its long history, the Holy Roman Empire used many different heraldic forms, representing its numerous internal divisions.
Imperial coat of arms
Coats of arms of Holy Roman Emperors
The Reichsadler ("Imperial Eagle") was the heraldic eagle, derived from the Roman eagle standard, used by the Holy Roman Emperors... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutional%20model%20theory | This page is about the concept in mathematical logic. For the concepts in sociology, see Institutional theory and Institutional logic.
In mathematical logic, institutional model theory generalizes a large portion of first-order model theory to an arbitrary logical system.
Overview
The notion of "logical system" here... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Ferber | Richard Ferber is a physician and the director of The Center for Pediatric Sleep Disorders, at Children's Hospital Boston. He has been researching sleep and sleep disorders in children for over 30 years. He is best known for his methods—popularly called Ferberization—that purports to teach infants to learn how to fall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambient%20IoT | Ambient IoT, from ambient and Internet of things, is a concept originally coined by 3GPP that is used in the technology industry referring to an ecosystem of a large number of objects in which every item is connected into a wireless sensor network using low-cost self-powered sensor nodes. Bluetooth SIG has assessed the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virulence-related%20outer%20membrane%20protein%20family | Virulence-related outer membrane proteins, or outer surface proteins (Osp) in some contexts, are expressed in the outer membrane of gram-negative bacteria and are essential to bacterial survival within macrophages and for eukaryotic cell invasion.
This family consists of several bacterial and phage Ail/Lom-like protei... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hair%20clipper | A hair clipper, often individually called the apparent plurale tantum hair clippers (in a similar way to scissors), is a specialised tool used to cut human head hair. Hair clippers work on the same principle as scissors, but are distinct from scissors themselves and razors. Similar but heavier-duty implements are used ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20ratio | The Texas ratio is a measure of a bank's credit troubles. The higher the Texas ratio, the more severe the credit troubles.
Developed by Gerard Cassidy and others at RBC Capital Markets, it is calculated by dividing the value of the lender's non-performing assets (NPL + Real Estate Owned) by the sum of its tangible co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bytemark | Bytemark is a UK-based server hosting and datacentre provider, headquartered in York, United Kingdom. It was founded in 2002, and was the first provider of virtual machines and cloud hosting through User-mode Linux in 2003.
In 2012, the company launched BigV, a public cloud platform designed in-house using open source... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh%27s%20equation%20%28fluid%20dynamics%29 | In fluid dynamics, Rayleigh's equation or Rayleigh stability equation is a linear ordinary differential equation to study the hydrodynamic stability of a parallel, incompressible and inviscid shear flow. The equation is:
with the flow velocity of the steady base flow whose stability is to be studied and is the cross... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20%28geometry%29 | In geometry, a centre (British English) or center (American English) () of an object is a point in some sense in the middle of the object. According to the specific definition of centre taken into consideration, an object might have no centre. If geometry is regarded as the study of isometry groups, then a centre is a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAN%20translation | Repeat Associated Non-AUG translation, or RAN translation, is an irregular mode of mRNA translation that can occur in eukaryotic cells.
Mechanism
For the majority of eukaryotic messenger RNAs (mRNAs), translation initiates from a methionine-encoding AUG start codon following the molecular processes of 'cap-binding' a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauce%20bourguignonne | Sauce bourguignonne (; ) is a French sauce with a base of red wine with onions or shallots, a bouquet garni (parsley, thyme and bay leaf), reduced, strained, and mixed with some espagnole sauce. Just before serving it is mounted with butter and seasoned lightly with cayenne pepper. Like all red wine sauces, it may hav... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gempack | GEMPACK (General Equilibrium Modelling PACKage) is a modeling system for CGE economic models, used at the Centre of Policy Studies (CoPS) in Melbourne, Australia, and sold to other CGE modellers.
Some of the more well-known CGE models solved using GEMPACK are the GTAP model of world trade, and the MONASH, MMRF, ORANI-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Majestet%20Pinnsvinet | Hans Majestet Pinnsvinet (eng. His Majesty the Hedgehog), or Erinaceus europaeus minor, Rex et Inspirator, is the high protector of Studentersamfunnet i Bergen (eng. Bergen Student Society). The Majesty appeared in 1935, one year after the Student Society was founded. To appoint an animal as protector is a tradition in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysbiosis | Dysbiosis (also called dysbacteriosis) is characterized by a disruption to the microbiome resulting in an imbalance in the microbiota, changes in their functional composition and metabolic activities, or a shift in their local distribution. For example, a part of the human microbiota such as the skin flora, gut flora, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straintronics | Straintronics (from strain and electronics) is the study of how folds and mechanically induced stresses in a layer of two-dimensional materials can change their electrical properties. It is distinct from twistronics in that the latter involves changes in the angle between two layers of 2D material. However, in such mul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlapping%20generations | In population genetics overlapping generations refers to mating systems where more than one breeding generation is present at any one time. In systems where this is not the case there are non-overlapping generations (or discrete generations) in which every breeding generation lasts just one breeding season. If the adul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worm%20bagging | Worm bagging (also referred to as facultative vivipary or endotokia matricida) is a form of vivipary observed in nematodes, namely Caenorhabditis elegans. The process is characterized by eggs hatching within the parent and the larvae proceeding to consume and emerge from the parent.
History
While the phenomenon was me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podvig%20naroda | Database "Movement of the people in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945" () is an electronic database of documents related to the period of the Great Patriotic War. The content of the bank is formed by the documents of the Central Archives of the Russian Ministry of Defence (TsAMO), specifically award files and documents... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil%20drawing | A civil drawing, or site drawing, is a type of technical drawing that shows information about grading, landscaping, or other site details. These drawings are intended to give a clear picture of all things in a construction site to a civil engineer.
Civil drafters work with civil engineers and other industry profession... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sport%20auto%20%28Germany%29 | sport auto is a German automobile magazine, established in 1969, published monthly by Motor Presse Stuttgart, based in Stuttgart.
The magazine publishes its "Supertest" of cars, featuring the laptime at the Nordschleife. Until 2015 almost all supertest were done by Horst von Saurma, from 2015 laptimes are recorder by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bot%20prevention | Bot prevention refers to the methods used by web services to prevent access by automated processes.
Types of bots
Studies suggest that over half of the traffic on the internet is bot activity, of which over half is further classified as 'bad bots'.
Bots are used for various purposes online. Some bots are used passiv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterinary%20Pathology%20%28journal%29 | Veterinary Pathology is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of veterinary pathology. As of 2017, the journal's editor is Jeff L. Caswell, Pathology Professor at the University of Guelph. It has been in publication since 1964 and is currently published by SAGE Publications, in associatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20restriction%20enzyme%20cutting%20sites%3A%20O%E2%80%93R | This article contains a list of the most studied restriction enzymes whose names start with O to R inclusive. It contains approximately 130 enzymes.
The following information is given:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary%20contamination | Interplanetary contamination refers to biological contamination of a planetary body by a space probe or spacecraft, either deliberate or unintentional.
There are two types of interplanetary contamination:
Forward contamination is the transfer of life and other forms of contamination from Earth to another celestial bod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taping%20knife | A taping knife or joint knife is a drywall tool with a wide blade for spreading joint compound, also known as "mud". It can be used to spread mud over nail and screw indents in new drywall applications and is also used when using paper or fiberglass drywall tape to cover seams. Other common uses include patching holes,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-burning%20process | The carbon-burning process or carbon fusion is a set of nuclear fusion reactions that take place in the cores of massive stars (at least 8 at birth) that combines carbon into other elements. It requires high temperatures (> 5×108 K or 50 keV) and densities (> 3×109 kg/m3).
These figures for temperature and density ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloride%20channel | Chloride channels are a superfamily of poorly understood ion channels specific for chloride. These channels may conduct many different ions, but are named for chloride because its concentration in vivo is much higher than other anions. Several families of voltage-gated channels and ligand-gated channels (e.g., the CaCC... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurisazvirus | Thurisazvirus is a genus of viruses in the realm Ribozyviria, containing the single species Thurisazvirus myis. Tome's spiny rat (Proechimys semispinosus) serves as its host. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS%207 | iOS 7 is the seventh major release of the iOS mobile operating system developed by Apple Inc., being the successor to iOS 6. It was announced at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference on June 10, 2013, and was released on September 18 of that year. It was succeeded by iOS 8 on September 17, 2014.
iOS 7 introduc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SparkleShare | SparkleShare is an open-source cloud storage and file synchronization client app. By default, it uses Git as a storage backend. SparkleShare is comparable to Dropbox, but the cloud storage can be provided by the user's own server, or a hosted solution such as GitHub. Advantage of self-hosting is that the user retains... |
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