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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Worthington | Brian Worthington (9 June 1938 – 9 December 2007) was the first radiologist to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and is acknowledged as a pioneer in clinical magnetic resonance imaging. He was born in Oldham, England and was educated at Hulme Grammar School, training at Guy's Hospital after graduating in physio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20Sector | Dark Sector, stylized as darkSector is a third-person shooter video game developed by Digital Extremes for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Microsoft Windows.
The game is set in the fictional Eastern Bloc country of Lasria, and centers on protagonist Hayden Tenno (voiced by Michael Rosenbaum), a morally ambivalent CIA ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F1000%20%28publisher%29 | F1000 (formerly "Faculty of 1000") is an open research publisher for scientists, scholars, and clinical researchers. F1000 offers a different research evaluation service from standard academic journals by offering peer-review after, rather than before, publishing a research article. Initially, F1000 was named after the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qibla%20observation%20by%20shadows | Twice every year, the Sun culminates at the zenith of the Kaaba in Mecca, the holiest site in Islam, at local solar noon, allowing the qibla (the direction towards the Kaaba) to be ascertained in other parts of the world by observing the shadows cast by vertical objects. This phenomenon occurs at 12:18 Saudi Arabia Sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Similitude%20of%20ship%20models |
Manned models
Many research workers, hydraulics specialists and engineers have used scale models for over a century, in particular in towing tanks. Manned models are small scale models that can carry and be handled by at least one person on an open expanse of water. They must behave just like real ships, giving the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homochirality | Homochirality is a uniformity of chirality, or handedness. Objects are chiral when they cannot be superposed on their mirror images. For example, the left and right hands of a human are approximately mirror images of each other but are not their own mirror images, so they are chiral. In biology, 19 of the 20 natural am... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartels%E2%80%93Stewart%20algorithm | In numerical linear algebra, the Bartels–Stewart algorithm is used to numerically solve the Sylvester matrix equation . Developed by R.H. Bartels and G.W. Stewart in 1971, it was the first numerically stable method that could be systematically applied to solve such equations. The algorithm works by using the real Schur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive%20isolation | The mechanisms of reproductive isolation are a collection of evolutionary mechanisms, behaviors and physiological processes critical for speciation. They prevent members of different species from producing offspring, or ensure that any offspring are sterile. These barriers maintain the integrity of a species by reducin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe%20Swiss%20Cloud | Safe Swiss Cloud is a Swiss-based cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) company. The company provides computing power (CPU, RAM, data storage), object storage and managed services.
History
Founded in 2013 by Prodosh Banerjee and Gerald Dürr.
In 2015, cloud services expanded to several data centres, while inves... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah%20statistical%20areas | The U.S. currently has eleven statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On July , 2023, the OMB delineated one combined statistical area, five metropolitan statistical areas, and six micropolitan statistical areas in Utah.
Statistical areas
The Office of Management and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loline%20alkaloid | A loline alkaloid is a member of the 1-aminopyrrolizidines (often referred to as lolines), which are bioactive natural products with several distinct biological and chemical features. The lolines are insecticidal and insect-deterrent compounds that are produced in grasses infected by endophytic fungal symbionts of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaching%20definition | In compiler theory, a reaching definition for a given instruction is an earlier instruction whose target variable can reach (be assigned to) the given one without an intervening assignment. For example, in the following code:
d1 : y := 3
d2 : x := y
d1 is a reaching definition for d2. In the following, example, how... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal%20scan%20rate | Horizontal scan rate, or horizontal frequency, usually expressed in kilohertz, is the number of times per second that a raster-scan video system transmits or displays a complete horizontal line, as opposed to vertical scan rate, the number of times per second that an entire screenful of image data is transmitted or dis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HRS-100 | HRS-100, ХРС-100, GVS-100 or ГВС-100, (see Ref.#1, #2, #3 and #4) (, , ) was a third generation hybrid computer developed by Mihajlo Pupin Institute (Serbia, then SFR Yugoslavia) and engineers from USSR in the period from 1968 to 1971. Three systems HRS-100 were deployed in Academy of Sciences of USSR in Moscow and Nov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich%20Pinkall | Ulrich Pinkall (born 1955) is a German mathematician, specializing in differential geometry and computer graphics.
Pinkall studied mathematics at the University of Freiburg with a Diplom in 1979 and a doctorate in 1982 with thesis Dupin'sche Hyperflächen (Dupin's hypersurfaces) under the supervision of Martin Barner. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic%20medicine | Graphic medicine connotes the use of comics in medical education and patient care.
Overview
The phrase graphic medicine was coined by Dr. Ian Williams, founder of GraphicMedicine.org, to denote "the intersection between the medium of comics and the discourse of healthcare". Comics offer an engaging, powerful, and acce... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regulatory%20macrophages | Regulatory macrophages (Mregs) represent a subset of anti-inflammatory macrophages. In general, macrophages are a very dynamic and plastic cell type and can be divided into two main groups: classically activated macrophages (M1) and alternatively activated macrophages (M2). M2 group can further be divided into sub-grou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shashlik%20%28physics%29 | In high energy physics detectors, shashlik is a layout for a sampling calorimeter. It refers to a stack of alternating slices of absorber (e.g. lead, brass) and scintillator materials (crystal or plastic), which is penetrated by a wavelength shifting fiber running perpendicular to the absorber and scintillator tiles.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley%20sequence | In mathematics, a Stanley sequence is an integer sequence generated by a greedy algorithm that chooses the sequence members to avoid arithmetic progressions. If is a finite set of non-negative integers on which no three elements form an arithmetic progression (that is, a Salem–Spencer set), then the Stanley sequence g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosford%20yield%20criterion | The Hosford yield criterion is a function that is used to determine whether a material has undergone plastic yielding under the action of stress.
Hosford yield criterion for isotropic plasticity
The Hosford yield criterion for isotropic materials is a generalization of the von Mises yield criterion. It has the form... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminished%20rhombicosidodecahedron | In geometry, the diminished rhombicosidodecahedron is one of the Johnson solids (). It can be constructed as a rhombicosidodecahedron with one pentagonal cupola removed.
Related Johnson solids are:
: parabidiminished rhombicosidodecahedron with two opposing cupolae removed, and
: metabidiminished rhombicosidodecahed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonovoltaic | A phonovoltaic (pV) cell converts vibrational (phonons) energy into a direct current much like the photovoltaic effect in a photovoltaic (PV) cell converts light (photon) into power. That is, it uses a p-n junction to separate the electrons and holes generated as valence electrons absorb optical phonons more energetic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20Game%20Developers%20Conference |
The Australian Game Developers Conference (AGDC) was an annual conference held from 1999 to 2005 that brought together Australian and overseas game developers, publishers, programmers, artists, production staff, computer graphics companies, audio companies, software tool developers, buyers and suppliers to the game de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subdivision%20%28simplicial%20complex%29 | A subdivision (also called refinement) of a simplicial complex is another simplicial complex in which, intuitively, one or more simplices of the original complex have been partitioned into smaller simplices. The most commonly used subdivision is the barycentric subdivision, but the term is more general. The subdivision... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20instruction%2C%20multiple%20threads | Single instruction, multiple threads (SIMT) is an execution model used in parallel computing where single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) is combined with multithreading. It is different from SPMD in that all instructions in all "threads" are executed in lock-step. The SIMT execution model has been implemented on sev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocode | A geocode is a code that represents a geographic entity (location or object). It is a unique identifier of the entity, to distinguish it from others in a finite set of geographic entities. In general the geocode is a human-readable and short identifier.
Typical geocodes and entities represented by it:
Country code... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boustrophedon%20cell%20decomposition | The boustrophedon cell decomposition (BCD) is a method used in artificial intelligence and robotics for configuration space solutions. Like other cellular decomposition methods, this method transforms the configuration space into cell regions that can be used for path planning.
A strength of the boustrophedon cell de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remote%20plasma | A remote plasma (also downstream plasma or afterglow plasma) is a plasma processing method in which the plasma and material interaction occurs at a location remote from the plasma in the plasma afterglow.
See also
Chemical vapor deposition
Corona treatment
List of plasma (physics) applications articles
Physical vapor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pluriharmonic%20function | In mathematics, precisely in the theory of functions of several complex variables, a pluriharmonic function is a real valued function which is locally the real part of a holomorphic function of several complex variables. Sometimes such a function is referred to as n-harmonic function, where n ≥ 2 is the dimension of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conical%20mill | A conical mill (or conical screen mill) is a machine used to reduce the size of material in a uniform manner. It is an alternative to the hammermill or other forms of grinding mills. As the name implies, the conical mill varies in diameter from where the feed enters to where the product exits.
The conical mill opera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOMS | VOMS is an acronym used for Virtual Organization Membership Service in grid computing. It is structured as a simple account database with fixed formats for the information exchange and features single login, expiration time, backward compatibility, and multiple virtual organizations.
The database is manipulated by au... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Besicovitch%20inequality | In mathematics, the Besicovitch inequality is a geometric inequality relating volume of a set and distances between certain subsets of its boundary. The inequality was first formulated by Abram Besicovitch.
Consider the n-dimensional cube with a Riemannian metric . Let
denote the distance between opposite faces of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteus%20syndrome | Proteus syndrome is a rare disorder with a genetic background that can cause tissue overgrowth involving all three embryonic lineages. Patients with Proteus syndrome tend to have an increased risk of embryonic tumor development. The clinical and radiographic symptoms of Proteus syndrome are highly variable, as are its ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Sears%20McCulloh | Richard Sears McCulloh (18 March 1818 – 1894) was an American civil engineer and professor of mechanics and thermodynamics at the Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia.
Career
McCulloh was born on 18 March 1818 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States.
He graduated from the College of New Jersey in 1836, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DcuC%20family | The C4-dicarboxylate uptake C family or DcuC family (TC# 2.A.61) is a family of transmembrane ion transporters found in bacteria. A representative list of proteins belonging to the DcuC family can be found in the Transporter Classification Database.
An anaerobic C4-dicarboxylate transporter (DcuC) of E. coli (TC# 2.A.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NYC%20Mesh | NYC Mesh is a physical network of interconnected routers and a group of enthusiasts working to support the expansion of the project as a freely accessible, open, wireless community network. NYC Mesh is not an internet service provider (ISP), although it does connect to the internet and offer internet access as a servi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20engineering | Thermal engineering is a specialized sub-discipline of mechanical engineering that deals with the movement of heat energy and transfer. The energy can be transferred between two mediums or transformed into other forms of energy. A thermal engineer will have knowledge of thermodynamics and the process to convert generat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyporus%20tuberaster | Polyporus tuberaster is a species of fungus in the genus Polyporus.
The yellow-brown cap is 4–15 cm wide, and ranges from convex to flat and even funnel-shaped. The whitish stalks can grow upwards of 10 cm high and 2–4 cm wide. The spores are white.
The species is edible but also tough. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wii%20system%20software | The Wii system software is a discontinued set of updatable firmware versions and a software frontend on the Wii home video game console. Updates, which could be downloaded over the Internet or read from a game disc, allowed Nintendo to add additional features and software, as well as to patch security vulnerabilities u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser%20Focus%20World | Laser Focus World is a monthly magazine published by Endeavor Business Media covering laser, photonics and optoelectronics technologies, applications, and markets. Many qualified professionals in those fields receive it free of charge; it is also possible to subscribe to the magazine.
History and profile
Laser Focus W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox%20Character%20Code%20Standard | The Xerox Character Code Standard (XCCS) is a historical 16-bit character encoding that was created by Xerox in 1980 for the exchange of information between elements of the Xerox Network Systems Architecture. It encodes the characters required for languages using the Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek and Cyrillic scripts, t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thymus%20citriodorus | Thymus citriodorus, the lemon thyme or citrus thyme, is a lemon-scented evergreen mat-forming perennial plant in the family Lamiaceae. There has been a great amount of confusion over the plant's correct name and origin. Recent DNA analysis suggests that it is not a hybrid or cross, but a distinct species as it was firs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia-Pacific%20Journal%20of%20Operational%20Research | The Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research (APJOR) aims to provide a "forum for practitioners, academics and researchers in Operational Research and related fields, within and beyond the Asia-Pacific region". It is also the official journal of the Association of Asian-Pacific Operational Research Societies within... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click-through%20rate | Click-through rate (CTR) is the ratio of clicks on a specific link to the number of times a page, email, or advertisement is shown. It is commonly used to measure the success of an online advertising campaign for a particular website, as well as the effectiveness of email campaigns.
Click-through rates for ad campaign... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lesser%20palatine%20foramina | Behind the greater palatine foramen is the pyramidal process of the palatine bone, perforated by one or more lesser palatine foramina which carry the lesser palatine nerve, and marked by the commencement of a transverse ridge, for the attachment of the tendinous expansion of the tensor veli palatini.
See also
Greater... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20DOS%20operating%20systems | This article details versions of MS-DOS, IBM PC DOS, and at least partially compatible disk operating systems. It does not include the many other operating systems called "DOS" which are unrelated to IBM PC compatibles.
Historical and licensing information
Originally MS-DOS was designed to be an operating system that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ure2 | Ure2, or Ure2p, is a yeast protein encoded by a gene known as URE2 (systematic designation YNL229C). The Ure2 protein can also form a yeast prion known as [URE3]. When Ura2p is expressed at high levels in yeast, it will readily convert from its native protein conformation into an aggregate known as an amyloid. [URE3]... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Proteolysis%20Map | The Proteolysis MAP (PMAP) was an integrated web resource focused on proteases. Its domain now links to a scam/spam browser extender.
Rationale
PMAP was designed to aid the protease researchers in reasoning about proteolytic networks and metabolic pathways.
History and funding
PMAP was originally created at the Burnh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice%20pruning | Ice pruning is the natural process of selective vegetative pruning on the windward side of a plant, executed by the impact of ice and snow particles driven by wind. The process is sometimes termed snow pruning. The time scale required for this phenomenon is typically over several growing seasons. The characteristic asy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TetTag | The TetTag mouse is a bi-transgenic mutant used in neuroscience research that expresses a persistent marker (e.g. beta-galactosidase) under control of the immediate early gene fos. This mouse strain allows the stable labeling of activated neurons in mice in a defined time window of several hours.
Description
Two indep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotinamide%20adenine%20dinucleotide%20phosphate | Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate, abbreviated NADP or, in older notation, TPN (triphosphopyridine nucleotide), is a cofactor used in anabolic reactions, such as the Calvin cycle and lipid and nucleic acid syntheses, which require NADPH as a reducing agent ('hydrogen source'). NADPH is the reduced form of NAD... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscle%20memory%20%28strength%20training%29 | Muscle memory has been used to describe the observation that various muscle-related tasks seem to be easier to perform after previous practice, even if the task has not been performed in a while. It is as if the muscles “remember”. The term could relate to tasks as disparate as playing the clarinet and weight-lifting, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runt%20pulse | In digital circuits, a runt pulse is a narrow pulse that,
due to non-zero rise and fall times of the signal, does not reach a valid
high or low level. A runt pulse may occur when switching between
asynchronous clocks; or as the result of a race condition in which a signal takes two separate paths through a circuit,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QN%20Signals | The QN Signals are Morse code operating signals that were introduced for Amateur radio net operation in 1939 on the Michigan QMN Net to lighten the burdens of net control operators. Originally created by a committee of the Detroit Amateur Radio Association led by Ralph Thetreat, W8FX. Ev Battey W1UE (W4IA-SK), then AR... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droidcon | droidcon is the franchise name for a series of community conferences in Europe, focused on software development for Google's Android smartphone framework. The droidcon conferences are the largest Android developer conferences held outside the USA.
droidcon started in 2009 in Berlin, as a grassroots effort organized by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Algae%20Biomass%20Association | The European Algae Biomass Association (EABA), established on 2 June 2009, is the European association representing both research and industry in the field of algae technologies.
EABA was founded during its inaugural conference on 1–2 June 2009 at Villa La Pietra in Florence. The association is headquartered in Floren... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholecystitis | Cholecystitis is inflammation of the gallbladder. Symptoms include right upper abdominal pain, pain in the right shoulder, nausea, vomiting, and occasionally fever. Often gallbladder attacks (biliary colic) precede acute cholecystitis. The pain lasts longer in cholecystitis than in a typical gallbladder attack. Without... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursor%20%28databases%29 | In computer science, a database cursor is a mechanism that enables traversal over the records in a database. Cursors facilitate subsequent processing in conjunction with the traversal, such as retrieval, addition and removal of database records. The database cursor characteristic of traversal makes cursors akin to the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reed%E2%80%93Muller%20code | Reed–Muller codes are error-correcting codes that are used in wireless communications applications, particularly in deep-space communication. Moreover, the proposed 5G standard relies on the closely related polar codes for error correction in the control channel. Due to their favorable theoretical and mathematical prop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classes%20Plantarum | Classes Plantarum ('Classes of plants', Leiden, Oct. 1738) is a book that was written by Carl Linnaeus, a Swedish botanist, physician, zoologist and naturalist.
The Latin-language book is an elaboration of aphorisms 53–77 of his Fundamenta Botanica and a complementary volume to his Species Plantarum, Genera Plantarum,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamshidian%27s%20trick | Jamshidian's trick is a technique for one-factor asset price models, which re-expresses an option on a portfolio of assets as a portfolio of options. It was developed by Farshid Jamshidian in 1989.
The trick relies on the following simple, but very useful mathematical observation. Consider a sequence of monotone (incr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pons | The pons (: pontes; from Latin , "bridge") is part of the brainstem that in humans and other bipeds lies inferior to the midbrain, superior to the medulla oblongata and anterior to the cerebellum.
The pons is also called the pons Varolii ("bridge of Varolius"), after the Italian anatomist and surgeon Costanzo Varolio ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesics%20in%20general%20relativity | In general relativity, a geodesic generalizes the notion of a "straight line" to curved spacetime. Importantly, the world line of a particle free from all external, non-gravitational forces is a particular type of geodesic. In other words, a freely moving or falling particle always moves along a geodesic.
In general r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayleigh%20distance | Rayleigh distance in optics is the axial distance from a radiating aperture to a point at which the path difference between the axial ray and an edge ray is λ / 4.
An approximation of the Rayleigh Distance is , in which Z is the Rayleigh distance, D is the aperture of radiation, λ the wavelength.
This approximation ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagel%E2%80%93Schreckenberg%20model | The Nagel–Schreckenberg model is a theoretical model for the simulation of freeway traffic. The model was developed in the early 1990s by the German physicists Kai Nagel and Michael Schreckenberg. It is essentially a simple cellular automaton model for road traffic flow that can reproduce traffic jams, i.e., show a slo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rsyslog | Rsyslog is an open-source software utility used on UNIX and Unix-like computer systems for forwarding log messages in an IP network. It implements the basic syslog protocol, extends it with content-based filtering, rich filtering capabilities, queued operations to handle offline outputs,
support for different module o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinitaly | Vinitaly is an international wine competition and exposition that is held annually in April in Verona city, region of Veneto, in northeast Italy. The event is exclusively for wine professionals featuring an average of 3000 wines from several dozen countries. First held in 1967, VinItaly has been called the "most import... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixing%20Sex | Fixing Sex: Intersex, Medical Authority, and Lived Experience, a book by Stanford anthropologist and bioethicist Katrina Karkazis, was published in 2008. Described as "thoughtful", "meticulous", and an "authoritative treatise on intersex", the book examines the perspectives of intersex people, their families, and clini... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuberculinic%20acid | Tuberculinic acid is a noncanonical nucleic acid initially identified as the poison of Tubercle bacillus (=Mycobacterium tuberculosis), the principal causative bacterium of tuberculosis. Its discovery was one of the most important landmarks in understanding tuberculosis and in molecular biology. It is regarded as the m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akshuat%20dendropark | Akshuat dendropark (Russian: Акшуатский дендропарк) is a natural monument (Protected areas of Ulyanovsk Oblast)
Basic special features
There are a lot of exotic rocks of trees in this Protected Area (above 70 nowadays). All trees are fertile. Examples of the species-exotics: the larch of Sukachev, the pine tree of Ve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline%20forwarding | Pipeline forwarding (PF) applies to packet forwarding in computer networks the basic concept of pipelining, which has been widely and successfully used in computing — specifically, in the architecture of all major central processing units (CPUs) — and manufacturing — specifically in assembly lines of various industrie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20moonlighting | Protein moonlighting is a phenomenon by which a protein can perform more than one function. It is an excellent example of gene sharing.
Ancestral moonlighting proteins originally possessed a single function but, through evolution, acquired additional functions. Many proteins that moonlight are enzymes; others are rece... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%20Clone | King Clone is thought to be the oldest creosote bush ring in the Mojave Desert. The ring is estimated to be 11,700 years old, making it one of the oldest living organisms on Earth. This single clonal colony plant of Larrea tridentata reaches up to in diameter, with an average diameter of .
Geography
The King Clone r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack-sortable%20permutation | In mathematics and computer science, a stack-sortable permutation (also called a tree permutation) is a permutation whose elements may be sorted by an algorithm whose internal storage is limited to a single stack data structure. The stack-sortable permutations are exactly the permutations that do not contain the permut... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induction%20of%20regular%20languages | In computational learning theory, induction of regular languages refers to the task of learning a formal description (e.g. grammar) of a regular language from a given set of example strings. Although E. Mark Gold has shown that not every regular language can be learned this way (see language identification in the limit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie%20Lamport | Leslie B. Lamport (born February 7, 1941) is an American computer scientist and mathematician. Lamport is best known for his seminal work in distributed systems, and as the initial developer of the document preparation system LaTeX and the author of its first manual.
Lamport was the winner of the 2013 Turing Award for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tilde | The tilde () or , is a grapheme with a number of uses . The name of the character came into English from Spanish, which in turn came from the Latin titulus, meaning "title" or "superscription". Its primary use is as a diacritic (accent) in combination with a base letter but, for historical reasons, it is also used in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOP%20flippase | The multidrug/oligosaccharidyl-lipid/polysaccharide (MOP) flippase superfamily (TC# 2.A.66) is a group of integral membrane protein families. The MOP flippase superfamily includes twelve distantly related families, six for which functional data are available:
One ubiquitous family (MATE) specific for drugs - (TC# 2.A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome%20segregation | Chromosome segregation is the process in eukaryotes by which two sister chromatids formed as a consequence of DNA replication, or paired homologous chromosomes, separate from each other and migrate to opposite poles of the nucleus. This segregation process occurs during both mitosis and meiosis. Chromosome segregation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/87th%20meridian%20west | The meridian 87° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Gulf of Mexico, the Caribbean Sea, Central America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 87th meridian west forms a great circle with the 93rd m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%20resistance | The term vertical resistance, used commonly in context of plant selection, was first used by J.E. Vanderplank to describe single-gene resistance. This contrasted the term horizontal resistance which was used to describe many-gene resistance. Raoul A. Robinson further refined the definition of vertical resistance, empha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianhe-1 | Tianhe-I, Tianhe-1, or TH-1 (, ; Sky River Number One) is a supercomputer capable of an Rmax (maximum range) of 2.5 peta FLOPS. Located at the National Supercomputing Center of Tianjin, China, it was the fastest computer in the world from October 2010 to June 2011 and was one of the few petascale supercomputers in the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical%20dimensional%20reduction | Dynamical dimensional reduction or spontaneous dimensional reduction is the apparent reduction in the number of spacetime dimensions as a function of the distance scale, or conversely the energy scale, with which spacetime is probed. At least within the current level of experimental precision, our universe has three di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pteris%20ensiformis | Pteris ensiformis, the slender brake, silver lace fern, sword brake fern, or slender brake fern, is a plant species of the genus Pteris in the family Pteridaceae. It is found in Asia and the Pacific.
Uses
Beverages
It is the most common ingredient of traditional herbal drinks in Taiwan containing different phenolic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20transposon | A simple transposon also called "conservative transposon" is an insertion sequence (IS element) that contains its own coding transposase between the short, inverted, repeated sequences that flank (present) its gene coding region. Transposase is responsible for excision and transfer while resolvase is responsible for re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switchover | Switchover is the manual switch from one system to a redundant or standby computer server, system, or network upon the failure or abnormal termination of the previously active server, system, or network, or to perform system maintenance, such as installing patches, and upgrading software or hardware.
Automatic switcho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-425%20microRNA%20precursor%20family | In molecular biology mir-425 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms.
See also
MicroRNA |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putrefying%20bacteria | Putrefying/decay bacteria are bacteria involved in putrefaction of living matter. Along with other decomposers, they play a critical role in recycling nitrogen from dead organisms. Putrefying bacteria also play a role in putrefaction and fermentation of proteins in the human gastrointestinal tract.
Putrefying bacteri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20correlation | In multivariate quantitative genetics, a genetic correlation (denoted or ) is the proportion of variance that two traits share due to genetic causes, the correlation between the genetic influences on a trait and the genetic influences on a different trait estimating the degree of pleiotropy or causal overlap. A geneti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad%20infinitum | Ad infinitum is a Latin phrase meaning "to infinity" or "forevermore".
Description
In context, it usually means "continue forever, without limit" and this can be used to describe a non-terminating process, a non-terminating repeating process, or a set of instructions to be repeated "forever," among other uses. It may ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorismus%20%28Norse%20text%29 | Algorismus is a short treatise on mathematics, written in Old Icelandic. It is the oldest text on mathematics in a Scandinavian language and survives in the early fourteenth-century manuscript Hauksbók, a large book written and compiled by Icelanders and taken to Norway during the later part of the 13th century by Hauk... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20resource%20partitioning | Virtual resource partitioning (VRP) is an operating system-level virtualization technology that allocates computing resources (such as CPU & I/O) to transactions. Conventional virtualization technologies allocate resources on an operating system (Windows, Linux...) wide basis. VRP works 2 levels deeper by allowing regu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20sequence%20alignment | Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) may refer to the process or the result of sequence alignment of three or more biological sequences, generally protein, DNA, or RNA. In many cases, the input set of query sequences are assumed to have an evolutionary relationship by which they share a linkage and are descended from a co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitivism%20%28ethics%29 | Cognitivism is the meta-ethical view that ethical sentences express propositions and can therefore be true or false (they are truth-apt), which noncognitivists deny. Cognitivism is so broad a thesis that it encompasses (among other views) moral realism (which claims that ethical sentences express propositions about min... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptococcus%20neoformans | Cryptococcus neoformans is an encapsulated yeast belonging to the class Tremellomycetes and an obligate aerobe that can live in both plants and animals. Its teleomorph is a filamentous fungus, formerly referred to Filobasidiella neoformans. In its yeast state, it is often found in bird excrement. Cryptococcus neoforman... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI%20Song%20Contest%202020 | The AI Song Contest 2020 was the inaugural edition of the AI Song Contest, organised by the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO, in collaboration with NPO 3FM and NPO Innovation. It was held on 12 May 2020 in the Netherlands and was presented by Lieven Scheire. Thirteen teams from eight countries participated in the contest.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20tide | Internal tides are generated as the surface tides move stratified water up and down sloping topography, which produces a wave in the ocean interior. So internal tides are internal waves at a tidal frequency. The other major source of internal waves is the wind which produces internal waves near the inertial frequency... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternary%20ammonium%20cation | In organic chemistry, quaternary ammonium cations, also known as quats, are positively-charged polyatomic ions of the structure , where R is an alkyl group, an aryl group or organyl group. Unlike the ammonium ion () and the primary, secondary, or tertiary ammonium cations, the quaternary ammonium cations are permanentl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/90th%20meridian%20east | The meridian 90° east of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Asia, the Indian Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
It is the border between two tropical cyclone basins: the Australian region, and the Southwest Indian Ocean basin.
The Ninet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%20current | An ocean current is a continuous, directed movement of seawater generated by a number of forces acting upon the water, including wind, the Coriolis effect, breaking waves, cabbeling, and temperature and salinity differences. Depth contours, shoreline configurations, and interactions with other currents influence a curr... |
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