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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billiard-ball%20computer | A billiard-ball computer, a type of conservative logic circuit, is an idealized model of a reversible mechanical computer based on Newtonian dynamics, proposed in 1982 by Edward Fredkin and Tommaso Toffoli. Instead of using electronic signals like a conventional computer, it relies on the motion of spherical billiard b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortical%20reaction | The cortical reaction is a process initiated during fertilization that prevents polyspermy, the fusion of multiple sperm with one egg. In contrast to the fast block of polyspermy which immediately but temporarily blocks additional sperm from fertilizing the egg, the cortical reaction gradually establishes a permanent b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginkgo%20biloba | Ginkgo biloba, commonly known as ginkgo or gingko ( ), also known as the maidenhair tree, is a species of gymnosperm tree native to East Asia. It is the last living species in the order Ginkgoales, which first appeared over 290 million years ago. Fossils very similar to the living species, belonging to the genus Ginkgo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20center%20%28geometry%29 | In geometry, the power center of three circles, also called the radical center, is the intersection point of the three radical axes of the pairs of circles. If the radical center lies outside of all three circles, then it is the center of the unique circle (the radical circle) that intersects the three given circles ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strachey%20method%20for%20magic%20squares | The Strachey method for magic squares is an algorithm for generating magic squares of singly even order 4k + 2. An example of magic square of order 6 constructed with the Strachey method:
Strachey's method of construction of singly even magic square of order n = 4k + 2.
1. Divide the grid into 4 quarters each having ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20lattice | In mathematics, in the area of order theory, a free lattice is the free object corresponding to a lattice. As free objects, they have the universal property.
Formal definition
Because the concept of a lattice can be axiomatised in terms of two operations and satisfying certain identities, the category of all lattice... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marburg%20virus | Marburg virus (MARV) is a hemorrhagic fever virus of the Filoviridae family of viruses and a member of the species Marburg marburgvirus, genus Marburgvirus. It causes Marburg virus disease in primates, a form of viral hemorrhagic fever. The virus is considered to be extremely dangerous. The World Health Organization (W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiprimitive%20ring | In algebra, a semiprimitive ring or Jacobson semisimple ring or J-semisimple ring is a ring whose Jacobson radical is zero. This is a type of ring more general than a semisimple ring, but where simple modules still provide enough information about the ring. Rings such as the ring of integers are semiprimitive, and an ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EURO%20Journal%20on%20Decision%20Processes | The EURO Journal on Decision Processes (EJDP) is a peer-reviewed academic journal that was established in 2012 and originally published by Springer Science+Business Media. In 2021, the journal will instead be published by Elsevier.
It is an official journal of the Association of European Operational Research Societie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ssh-keygen | ssh-keygen is a standard component of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol suite found on Unix, Unix-like and Microsoft Windows computer systems used to establish secure shell sessions between remote computers over insecure networks, through the use of various cryptographic techniques. The ssh-keygen utility is used to gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WPNT | WPNT (channel 22) is a television station in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, affiliated with The CW and MyNetworkTV. It is owned by Sinclair Broadcast Group alongside Fox affiliate WPGH-TV (channel 53). Both stations share studios on Ivory Avenue in the city's Summer Hill section, where WPNT's transmitter is a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badge%20of%20honour | The term badge of honour may refer to a variety of awards and accolades, including:
Badge of Honour or Queen's Certificate and Badge of Honour, a civil award presented by the governments of British Overseas Territories.
Order of the Badge of Honour, a civilian award of the Soviet Union.
Badge of Honour of the Bunde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circulating%20tumor%20cell | A circulating tumor cell (CTC) is a cell that has shed into the vasculature or lymphatics from a primary tumor and is carried around the body in the blood circulation. CTCs can extravasate and become seeds for the subsequent growth of additional tumors (metastases) in distant organs, a mechanism that is responsible for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superficial%20branch%20of%20medial%20circumflex%20femoral%20artery | The superficial branch of medial circumflex femoral artery appears between the quadratus femoris and upper border of the adductor magnus, and anastomoses with the inferior gluteal artery, lateral femoral circumflex artery, and first of the perforating arteries of the deep femoral artery (crucial anastomosis). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WLBT%20Tower | The WLBT Tower was a guy-wired aerial mast for the transmission of FM radio and TV-programs in Raymond, Mississippi, United States, for the Jackson metro area. The mast was constructed in 1966. On October 23, 1997, the mast, which was property of Cosmos Broadcasting (WLBT a local NBC affiliate), collapsed during the r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular%20stress%20response | Cellular stress response is the wide range of molecular changes that cells undergo in response to environmental stressors, including extremes of temperature, exposure to toxins, and mechanical damage. Cellular stress responses can also be caused by some viral infections. The various processes involved in cellular stres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F%2A%20%28programming%20language%29 | F* (pronounced F star) is a functional programming language inspired by ML and aimed at program verification. Its type system includes dependent types, monadic effects, and refinement types. This allows expressing precise specifications for programs, including functional correctness and security properties. The F* type... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20pack | In computing, a service pack comprises a collection of updates, fixes, or enhancements to a software program delivered in the form of a single installable package. Companies often release a service pack when the number of individual patches to a given program reaches a certain (arbitrary) limit, or the software release... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNIP1 | Kv channel-interacting protein 1 also known as KChIP1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNIP1 gene.
Function
This gene encodes a member of the family of voltage-gated potassium (Kv) channel-interacting proteins (KCNIPs, also frequently called "KChIP"), which belong to the recoverin branch of the EF-hand... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20silico%20PCR | In silico PCR refers to computational tools used to calculate theoretical polymerase chain reaction (PCR) results using a given set of primers (probes) to amplify DNA sequences from a sequenced genome or transcriptome.
These tools are used to optimize the design of primers for target DNA or cDNA sequences. Primer opti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tideline | A tideline refers to where two currents in the ocean converge. Driftwood, floating seaweed, foam, and other floating debris may accumulate, forming sinuous lines called tidelines (although they generally have nothing to do with the tide).
There are four mechanisms that can cause tidelines to form:
Where one body of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talking%20Glossary%20of%20Genetic%20Terms | The Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms is an audio/visual glossary of 256 terms prepared and hosted by the National Human Genome Research Institute in the United States.
The first version was published in English online in September 1998 by the NHGRI Office of Science Education under the title of "Talking Glossary of G... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension%20zone | A tension zone is a transitional zone between two distinctive zones, the zones may be influenced by climatic factors, and geological variation. creating a floristic tension zone. A marine tension zone may be affected by variables such as depth, climate or salinity. In a tension zone there is the increased probability ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avagraha | Avagraha () is a symbol used to indicate prodelision of an () in many Indian languages like Sanskrit as shown below. It is usually transliterated with an apostrophe in Roman script and, in case of Devanagari, as in the Sanskrit philosophical expression (), which is a sandhi of ( + ) ‘I am Shiva’. The avagraha is als... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dephasing%20rate%20SP%20formula | The SP formula for the dephasing rate of a particle that moves in a fluctuating environment unifies various results that have been obtained, notably in condensed matter physics, with regard to the motion of electrons in a metal. The general case requires to take into account not only the temporal correlations but also... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr.%20Game%20%26%20Watch | is a 2D generic stick figure-styled silhouette character, created by Nintendo and an amalgamation of the Game & Watch handheld consoles. He was created by Gunpei Yokoi, with an intention of representing the Game & Watch collection, as the consoles had no main mascot, rather characters designed for the minigames. He de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20Leach%20%28botanist%29 | Leslie Charles "Larry" Leach (18 November 1909 Southend – 18 July 1996 Pietersburg) was a Rhodesian taxonomic botanist.
Leach arrived in Rhodesia in 1938 and carried on business in Salisbury as an electrical engineer. He developed an interest in succulent plants, particularly Stapelieae, Euphorbieae and the genus Aloe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness%20testing | Robustness testing is any quality assurance methodology focused on testing the robustness of software. Robustness testing has also been used to describe the process of verifying the robustness (i.e. correctness) of test cases in a test process. ANSI and IEEE have defined robustness as the degree to which a system or co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibley%E2%80%93Ahlquist%20taxonomy%20of%20birds | The Sibley–Ahlquist taxonomy is a bird taxonomy proposed by Charles Sibley and Jon E. Ahlquist. It is based on DNA–DNA hybridization studies conducted in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s.
DNA–DNA hybridization is among a class of comparative techniques in molecular biology that produce distance data (versus ch... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20transformation | A model transformation, in model-driven engineering, is an automated way of modifying and creating platform-specific model from platform-independent ones. An example use of model transformation is ensuring that a family of models is consistent, in a precise sense which the software engineer can define. The aim of using... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoelectromechanical%20systems%20mass%20spectrometer | A nanoelectromechanical systems mass spectrometer (NEMS-MS) is an instrument measuring the mass of analyte particles by detecting the frequency shift caused by the adsorption of the particles on a NEMS resonator.
NEMS-MS was invented by Prof. Michael Roukes and Dr. Kamil Ekinci at the California Institute of Technolog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unwired%20enterprise | An unwired enterprise is an organization that extends and supports the use of traditional thick client enterprise applications to a variety of mobile devices and their users throughout the organization. The abiding characteristic is seamless universal mobile access to critical applications and business data.
Use
By s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media-embedded%20processor | A media-embedded processor (MeP) is a configurable 32-bit processor design from Toshiba Semiconductor for embedded media processing applications. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duncan%20Sommerville | Duncan MacLaren Young Sommerville (1879–1934) was a Scottish mathematician and astronomer. He compiled a bibliography on non-Euclidean geometry and also wrote a leading textbook in that field. He also wrote Introduction to the Geometry of N Dimensions, advancing the study of polytopes. He was a co-founder and the firs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oozlefinch | The Oozlefinch is the unofficial historic mascot of the Air Defense Artillery – and formerly of the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps. The Oozlefinch is portrayed as a featherless bird that flies backwards (at supersonic speeds) and carries weapons of the Air Defense and Coast Artillery, most often a Nike-Hercules Missi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiyuki%20Kobayashi | is a Japanese mathematician
known for his original work in the field of Lie theory, and in
particular for the
theory of discontinuous groups
(lattice in Lie groups)
and the application of geometric analysis to representation theory. He was a major developer in
particular of the theory of discontinuous groups for
non-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%20LANSpool | LANSPool was network printer administration software developed by Intel. The package was designed specifically for the Novell NetWare network operating system. The software allowed users to share printers and faxes and for administrators to modify LAN printing operations. The software takes its name from the acronym ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xsolla | Xsolla is a global video game commerce company headquartered in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California. It was founded in 2005 by Aleksandr Agapitov, and is incorporated as a California Corporation (US company) with subsidiaries globally.
Xsolla’s products include digital tools which help with in-game payments and enab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape%20note | Shape notes are a musical notation designed to facilitate congregational and social singing. The notation, introduced in late 18th century England, became a popular teaching device in American singing schools. Shapes were added to the noteheads in written music to help singers find pitches within major and minor scale... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal%20sexual%20behaviour | Animal sexual behaviour takes many different forms, including within the same species. Common mating or reproductively motivated systems include monogamy, polygyny, polyandry, polygamy and promiscuity. Other sexual behaviour may be reproductively motivated (e.g. sex apparently due to duress or coercion and situational ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%95-Viniferin | ε-Viniferin is a naturally occurring phenol, belonging to the stilbenoids family. It is a resveratrol dimer.
It is found in Vitis vinifera grapevines, in wines, in the Oriental medicinal plant Vitis coignetiae and in the stem bark of Dryobalanops aromatica.
Cis-epsilon-viniferin can be found in Paeonia lactiflora.
It... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCB%20Public%20Service%20Award | The American Society for Cell Biology's highest honor for Public Service, the ASCB Public Service Award is for outstanding national leadership in support of biomedical research. The awardees are selected by the ASCB Public Policy Committee.
Awardees
Source: ASCB
2022 George Langford
2021 Raynard Kington and Donna Gint... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20photo%20frame | A digital photo frame (also called a digital media frame) is a picture frame that displays digital photos without the need of a computer or printer. The introduction of digital photo frames predates tablet computers, which can serve the same purpose in some situations; however, digital photo frames are generally design... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaisi%20Takeuti | was a Japanese mathematician, known for his work in proof theory.
After graduating from Tokyo University, he went to Princeton to study under Kurt Gödel.
He later became a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Takeuti was president (2003–2009) of the Kurt Gödel Society, having worked on the b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenotypic%20response%20surfaces | Phenotypic response surfaces (PRS) is an artificial intelligence-guided personalized medicine platform that relies on combinatorial optimization principles to quantify drug interactions and efficacies to develop optimized combination therapies to treat a broad spectrum of illnesses.
Phenotypic response surfaces fit a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geocast | Geocast refers to the delivery of information to a subset of destinations in a wireless peer-to-peer network identified by their geographical locations. It is used by some mobile ad hoc network routing protocols, but not applicable to Internet routing.
Geographic addressing
A geographic destination address is expres... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groundwater | Groundwater is the water present beneath Earth's surface in rock and soil pore spaces and in the fractures of rock formations. About 30 percent of all readily available freshwater in the world is groundwater. A unit of rock or an unconsolidated deposit is called an aquifer when it can yield a usable quantity of water. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illinois%20Soil%20Nitrogen%20Test | The Illinois Soil Nitrogen Test ("ISNT") is a method for measuring the amount of Nitrogen in soil that is available for use by plants as a nutrient. The test predicts whether the addition of nitrogen fertilizer to agricultural land will result in increased crop yields.
Nitrogen is essential for plant development. Inde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virophysics | Virophysics is a branch of biophysics in which the theoretical concepts and experimental techniques of physics are applied to study the mechanics and dynamics driving the interactions between virions and cells.
Overview
Research in virophysics typically focuses on resolving the physical structure and structural prope... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log%20amplifier | A log amplifier, also known as logarithmic amplifier or logarithm amplifier or log amp, is an amplifier for which the output voltage Vout is K times the natural log of the input voltage Vin. This can be expressed as,
where Vref is the normalization constant in volts and K is the scale factor.
The log amplifier gives... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient%20receptor%20potential%20channel | Transient receptor potential channels (TRP channels) are a group of ion channels located mostly on the plasma membrane of numerous animal cell types. Most of these are grouped into two broad groups: Group 1 includes TRPC ( "C" for canonical), TRPV ("V" for vanilloid), TRPVL ("VL" for vanilloid-like), TRPM ("M" for mela... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph%20Henstock | Ralph Henstock (2 June 1923 – 17 January 2007) was an English mathematician and author. As an Integration theorist, he is notable for Henstock–Kurzweil integral. Henstock brought the theory to a highly developed stage without ever having encountered Jaroslav Kurzweil's 1957 paper on the subject.
Early life
He was born... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downlink%20CNR | Downlink CNR (Carrier to noise ratio in satellite reception) is an important figure in system TVRO design. Below are certain parameters used in CNR computation.
Figure of merit
Figure of merit is given as
Where t is the temperature and g is the gain of the receiver antenna.
For lossless case
and
where n is the no... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof%20of%20the%20Euler%20product%20formula%20for%20the%20Riemann%20zeta%20function | Leonhard Euler proved the Euler product formula for the Riemann zeta function in his thesis Variae observationes circa series infinitas (Various Observations about Infinite Series), published by St Petersburg Academy in 1737.
The Euler product formula
The Euler product formula for the Riemann zeta function reads
whe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric%20variety | In algebraic geometry, a symmetric variety is an algebraic analogue of a symmetric space in differential geometry, given by a quotient G/H of a reductive algebraic group G by the subgroup H fixed by some involution of G.
See also
Wonderful compactification
Homogeneous variety
Spherical variety |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slim%20Devices | Slim Devices, Inc. was a consumer electronics company based in Mountain View, California, United States. Their main product was the Squeezebox network music player which connects to a home ethernet or Wi-Fi network, and allows the owner to stream digital audio over the network to a stereo. The company, founded in 2000... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musical%20acoustics | Musical acoustics or music acoustics is a multidisciplinary field that combines knowledge from physics, psychophysics, organology (classification of the instruments), physiology, music theory, ethnomusicology, signal processing and instrument building, among other disciplines. As a branch of acoustics, it is concerne... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20brane | In general relativity, a black brane is a solution of the equations that generalizes a black hole solution but it is also extended—and translationally symmetric—in p additional spatial dimensions. That type of solution would be called a black p-brane.
In string theory, the term black brane describes a group of D1-bran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correlation%20dimension | In chaos theory, the correlation dimension (denoted by ν) is a measure of the dimensionality of the space occupied by a set of random points, often referred to as a type of fractal dimension.
For example, if we have a set of random points on the real number line between 0 and 1, the correlation dimension will be ν = 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converse%20%28logic%29 | In logic and mathematics, the converse of a categorical or implicational statement is the result of reversing its two constituent statements. For the implication P → Q, the converse is Q → P. For the categorical proposition All S are P, the converse is All P are S. Either way, the truth of the converse is generally ind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic%20matrix%20ring | In algebra, a generic matrix ring is a sort of a universal matrix ring.
Definition
We denote by a generic matrix ring of size n with variables . It is characterized by the universal property: given a commutative ring R and n-by-n matrices over R, any mapping extends to the ring homomorphism (called evaluation) .
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopography%20of%20Anglo-Saxon%20England | The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) is a database and associated website that aims to construct a prosopography of individuals within Anglo-Saxon England. The PASE online database presents details (which it calls factoids) of the lives of every recorded individual who lived in, or was closely connected with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECC%20memory | Error correction code memory (ECC memory) is a type of computer data storage that uses an error correction code (ECC) to detect and correct n-bit data corruption which occurs in memory. ECC memory is used in most computers where data corruption cannot be tolerated, like industrial control applications, critical databas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanketing%20effect | The blanketing effect (also referred to as line blanketing or the line-blanketing effect) is the enhancement of the red or infrared regions of a stellar spectrum at the expense of the other regions, with an overall diminishing effect on the whole spectrum. The term originates in a 1928 article by astrophysicist Edward ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma%20factor | A sigma factor (σ factor or specificity factor) is a protein needed for initiation of transcription in bacteria. It is a bacterial transcription initiation factor that enables specific binding of RNA polymerase (RNAP) to gene promoters. It is homologous to archaeal transcription factor B and to eukaryotic factor TFIIB.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Allyn%20Taylor%20International%20Prize%20in%20Medicine | The Robarts Research Institute at the University of Western Ontario awards the annual J. Allyn Taylor International Prize in Medicine to an individual or individuals who have made significant contributions to a field of basic or clinical research in one of the Institute's principal areas of research.
See also
List o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/168%20%28number%29 | 168 (one hundred [and] sixty-eight) is the natural number following 167 and preceding 169.
In mathematics
168 is an even number, a composite number, an abundant number, and an idoneal number.
There are 168 primes less than 1000. 168 is the product of the first two perfect numbers.
168 is the order of the group PSL(2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-Cast | C-Cast is a software developed by the Belgian company EVS Broadcast Equipment which allows broadcasters to stream live content, such as clips or alternative angles, from their video servers XT3, to the audience's second screen or smart TV while watching the event on the television (main screen).
The final application ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%20finger%20protein%20804A | Zinc finger protein 804A is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF804A gene. The human gene maps to chromosome 2 q32.1 and consists of 4 exons that code for a protein of 1210 amino acids (137 kDa).
Little is known about the characteristics and function of the encoded protein. However, the protein sequence code... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20big%20data%20companies | This is an alphabetical list of notable IT companies using the marketing term big data:
Alpine Data Labs, an analytics interface working with Apache Hadoop and big data
Azure Data Lake is a highly scalable data storage and analytics service. The service is hosted in Azure, Microsoft's public cloud
Big Data Partner... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDF3 | Growth differentiation factor-3 (GDF3), also known as Vg-related gene 2 (Vgr-2) is protein that in humans is encoded by the GDF3 gene. GDF3 belongs to the transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) superfamily. It has high similarity to other TGF-β superfamily members including Vg1 (found in frogs) and GDF1.
Tissue distr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20learning | Reverse learning is a neurobiological theory of dreams. In 1983, in a paper published in the science journal Nature, Crick and Mitchison's reverse learning model likened the process of dreaming to a computer in that it was "off-line" during dreaming or the REM phase of sleep. During this phase, the brain sifts throug... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RustDesk | RustDesk is a remote access and remote control software, allowing maintenance of computers and other devices. The RustDesk client is available for different operating systems. RustDesk has the aspiration to be an open source alternative for Remote desktop software like TeamViewer or AnyDesk. Therefore, RustDesk is able... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Cloud%20Platform | Oracle Cloud Platform refers to a Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings by Oracle Corporation as part of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. These offerings are used to build, deploy, integrate and extend applications in the cloud. The offerings support a variety of programming languages, databases, tools and frameworks incl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supermassive%20black%20hole | A supermassive black hole (SMBH or sometimes SBH) is the largest type of black hole, with its mass being on the order of hundreds of thousands, or millions to billions, of times the mass of the Sun (). Black holes are a class of astronomical objects that have undergone gravitational collapse, leaving behind spheroidal ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botanical%20expeditions | Botanical expeditions (sometimes called "Plant hunting") are scientific voyages designed to explore the flora of a particular region, either as a specific design or part of a larger expedition. A naturalist or botanist would be responsible for identification, description and collection of specimens. In some cases the p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory%20hierarchy | In computer organisation, the memory hierarchy separates computer storage into a hierarchy based on response time. Since response time, complexity, and capacity are related, the levels may also be distinguished by their performance and controlling technologies. Memory hierarchy affects performance in computer architect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMPTE%202059 | SMPTE 2059 is a standard from the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) that describes how to synchronize video equipment over an IP network. The standard is based on IEEE 1588-2008. SMPTE 2059 is published in two parts on 9 April 2015:
SMPTE 2059-1Defines signal generation based on time informatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20random%20circuits | Quantum random circuits (QRC) is a concept of incorporating an element of randomness into the local unitary operations and measurements of a quantum circuit. The idea is similar to that of random matrix theory which is to use the QRC to obtain almost exact results of non-integrable, hard-to-solve problems by averaging ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whirlwind%20I | Whirlwind I was a Cold War-era vacuum tube computer developed by the MIT Servomechanisms Laboratory for the U.S. Navy. Operational in 1951, it was among the first digital electronic computers that operated in real-time for output, and the first that was not simply an electronic replacement of older mechanical systems.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-prism%20dispersion%20theory | The first description of multiple-prism arrays, and multiple-prism dispersion, was given by Newton in his book Opticks. Prism pair expanders were introduced by Brewster in 1813. A modern mathematical description of the single-prism dispersion was given by Born and Wolf in 1959. The generalized multiple-prism dispersi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbormide | Norbormide (Raticate, Shoxin) is a toxic compound used as a rodenticide. It has several mechanisms of action, acting as a vasoconstrictor and calcium channel blocker, but is selectively toxic to rats and has relatively low toxicity to other species, due to a species specific action of opening the permeability transitio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ky%20Fan%20lemma | In mathematics, Ky Fan's lemma (KFL) is a combinatorial lemma about labellings of triangulations. It is a generalization of Tucker's lemma. It was proved by Ky Fan in 1952.
Definitions
KFL uses the following concepts.
: the closed n-dimensional ball.
: its boundary sphere.
T: a triangulation of .
T is called boun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRRC3B | LRRC3B is a gene frequently epigenetically inactivated in several epithelial malignancies and inhibits cell growth and replication. Data suggest that the LRRC3B gene could be involved in the process of carcinogenesis as a tumor suppressor gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South%20Pacific%20convergence%20zone | The South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ), a reverse-oriented monsoon trough, is a band of low-level convergence, cloudiness and precipitation extending from the Western Pacific Warm Pool at the maritime continent south-eastwards towards French Polynesia and as far as the Cook Islands (160W, 20S). The SPCZ is a portion... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine%20redundancy | Cytokine redundancy is a term in immunology referring to the phenomenon in which, and the ability of, multiple cytokines to exert similar actions. This phenomenon is largely due to multiple cytokines utilizing common receptor subunits and common intracellular cell signalling molecules/pathways. For instance, a pair of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleckstrin | Pleckstrin is a protein found in platelets. The name derives from platelet and leukocyte C kinase substrate and the KSTR string of amino acids.
It is the source of the name pleckstrin homology domain.
External links
Proteins |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E61%20anthrax%20bomblet | The E61 anthrax bomblet was an American biological sub-munition for the E133 cluster bomb. This anti-personnel weapon was developed in the early 1950s and carried 35 milliliters of anthrax spores or another pathogen.
History
Around October 1953 the United States Air Force reoriented its biological warfare program. One... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self%20defined%20ethnicity | Self defined ethnicity (SDE) codes are a set of codes used by the Home Office in the United Kingdom to classify an individual's ethnicity according to that person's self-definition.
The codes are also called "18 + 1" codes, as there are 18 of them, plus one code (NS) for "not stated". In addition to the previously use... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spillover%20%28experiment%29 | In experiments, a spillover is an indirect effect on a subject not directly treated by the experiment. These effects are useful for policy analysis but complicate the statistical analysis of experiments.
Analysis of spillover effects involves relaxing the non-interference assumption, or SUTVA (Stable Unit Treatment V... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maldivian%20writing%20systems | Several Dhivehi scripts have been used by Maldivians during their history. The early Dhivehi scripts fell into the abugida category, while the more recent Thaana has characteristics of both an abugida and a true alphabet. An ancient form of Nagari script, as well as the Arabic and Devanagari scripts, have also been ext... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze%20theorem | In calculus, the squeeze theorem (also known as the sandwich theorem, among other names) is a theorem regarding the limit of a function that is trapped between two other functions.
The squeeze theorem is used in calculus and mathematical analysis, typically to confirm the limit of a function via comparison with two ot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-phase%20generator | Single-phase generator (also known as single-phase alternator) is an alternating current electrical generator that produces a single, continuously alternating voltage. Single-phase generators can be used to generate power in single-phase electric power systems. However, polyphase generators are generally used to delive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus%20nobilis | Boletus nobilis, the noble bolete, is a species of edible basidiomycete mushroom of the genus Boletus found in eastern United States. Morphologically close to Boletus edulis, it is distinguished by an elongated stem, a beige skin and white pores, even when old.
Taxonomy
The species was described as Boletus nobilis by ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20American%20Indian%20childhood%20cirrhosis | North American Indian childhood cirrhosis (NAIC) is a disease in humans that can affect Ojibway-Cree children in northwestern Quebec, Canada. The disease is due to an autosomal recessive abnormality of the UTP4 gene, which codes for cirhin, a nucleolar protein.
NAIC is a ribosomopathy. An R565W mutation of UTP4 leads ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homology%20%28biology%29 | In biology, homology is similarity due to shared ancestry between a pair of structures or genes in different taxa. A common example of homologous structures is the forelimbs of vertebrates, where the wings of bats and birds, the arms of primates, the front flippers of whales, and the forelegs of four-legged vertebrates... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vedantu | Vedantu is an Indian multinational online tutoring platform launched in 2014 based in Bengaluru, India. It primarily provides services to students from grades 4 to 12.
History
The company was launched in 2014. Its name Vedantu is derivative Sanskrit words Veda (knowledge) and Tantu (network). The organization is run ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Stand%20%281994%20miniseries%29 | The Stand (also known as Stephen King's The Stand) is a 1994 American post-apocalyptic television miniseries based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Stephen King. King also wrote the teleplay and has a minor role in the series. It was directed by Mick Garris, who previously directed the original King screenplay/fil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/236%20%28number%29 | 236 (two hundred [and] thirty-six) is the natural number following 235 and preceding 237.
236 is a happy number.
There are 236 different connected graphs with eight vertices and nine edges, and 236 different degree sequences of six-vertex graphs.
There are 236 possible different phylogenetic trees representing the h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display%20lag | Display lag is a phenomenon associated with most types of liquid crystal displays (LCDs) like smartphones and computers and nearly all types of high-definition televisions (HDTVs). It refers to latency, or lag between when the signal is sent to the display and when the display starts to show that signal. This lag time ... |
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