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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanofountain%20probe | A nanofountain probe (NFP) is a device for 'drawing' micropatterns of liquid chemicals at extremely small resolution. An NFP contains a cantilevered micro-fluidic device terminated in a nanofountain. The embedded microfluidics facilitates rapid and continuous delivery of molecules from the on-chip reservoirs to the fou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitophagy | Mitophagy is the selective degradation of mitochondria by autophagy. It often occurs to defective mitochondria following damage or stress. The process of mitophagy was first described over a hundred years ago by Margaret Reed Lewis and Warren Harmon Lewis. Ashford and Porter used electron microscopy to observe mitochon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paragon%20Space%20Development%20Corporation | Paragon Space Development Corporation is an American company headquartered in Tucson, Arizona. Paragon is a provider of environmental controls for extreme and hazardous environments. They design, build, test and operate life-support systems and leading thermal-control products for astronauts, contaminated water divers,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourier%20algebra | Fourier and related algebras occur naturally in the harmonic analysis of locally compact groups. They play an important role in the duality theories of these groups. The Fourier–Stieltjes algebra and the Fourier–Stieltjes transform on the Fourier algebra of a locally compact group were introduced by Pierre Eymard in 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal%20numerical%20competence | In human developmental psychology or non-human primate experiments, ordinal numerical competence or ordinal numerical knowledge is the ability to count objects in order and to understand the greater than and less than relationships between numbers. It has been shown that children as young as two can make some ordinal n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VideoCore | VideoCore is a series of low-power mobile multimedia processors originally developed by Alphamosaic Ltd and now owned by Broadcom. Alphamosaic marketed its first version as a two-dimensional DSP architecture that makes it flexible and efficient enough to decode (as well as encode) a number of multimedia codecs in softw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Services%20Invocation%20Framework | The Web Services Invocation Framework (WSIF) supports a simple and flexible Java API for invoking any Web Services Description Language (WSDL)-described service.
Using WSIF, WSDL can become the centerpiece of an integration framework for accessing software running on diverse platforms which uses different protocols. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tally%20light | In a television studio, a tally light (or on air indicator) is a small signal lamp on a professional video camera or monitor. It is usually located just above the lens or on the electronic viewfinder (EVF) and communicates, for the benefit of those in front of the camera as well as the camera operator, that the camera ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfluid%20vacuum%20theory | Superfluid vacuum theory (SVT), sometimes known as the BEC vacuum theory, is an approach in theoretical physics and quantum mechanics where the fundamental physical vacuum (non-removable background) is considered as a superfluid or as a Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC).
The microscopic structure of this physical vacuum ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karolinska%20Institutet%20Prize%20for%20Research%20in%20Medical%20Education | The Karolinska Institutet Prize for Research in Medical Education is an award bestowed biennially to "recognise and stimulate high-quality research in the field and to promote long-term improvements of educational practices in medical training”. This award has been presented by the Karolinska Institute since 2004 and e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winpepi | WinPepi is a freeware package of statistical programs for epidemiologists, comprising seven programs with over 120 modules. WinPepi is not a complete compendium of statistical routines for epidemiologists but it provides a very wide range of procedures, including those most commonly used and many that are not easy to f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20response | A functional response in ecology is the intake rate of a consumer as a function of food density (the amount of food available in a given ecotope). It is associated with the numerical response, which is the reproduction rate of a consumer as a function of food density. Following C. S. Holling, functional responses are g... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%20color | Ocean color is the branch of ocean optics that specifically studies the color of the water and information that can be gained from looking at variations in color. The color of the ocean, while mainly blue, actually varies from blue to green or even yellow, brown or red in some cases. This field of study developed along... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All%20Partners%20Access%20Network | All Partners Access Network (APAN), formerly called Asia-Pacific Area Network, is a United States Department of Defense (USDOD) social networking website used for information sharing and collaboration. APAN is the premier collaboration enterprise for the USDOD. The APAN network of communities fosters multinational in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xate | Xate (pronounce: shatay) are the leaves from three Chamaedorea species of palm tree (Chamaedorea ernesti-augusti, Chamaedorea elegans, and Chamaedorea oblongata).
The fronds are popular in floristry for flower arrangements, Palm Sunday services and funeral decoration, as they can last up to 40 days after being cut. Es... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLEUR | The FLEUR code (also Fleur or fleur) is an open-source scientific software package for the simulation of material properties of crystalline solids, thin films, and surfaces. It implements Kohn-Sham density functional theory (DFT) in terms of the all-electron full-potential linearized augmented-plane-wave method. With t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screw%20axis | A screw axis (helical axis or twist axis) is a line that is simultaneously the axis of rotation and the line along which translation of a body occurs. Chasles' theorem shows that each Euclidean displacement in three-dimensional space has a screw axis, and the displacement can be decomposed into a rotation about and a s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neon%20sign | In the signage industry, neon signs are electric signs lighted by long luminous gas-discharge tubes that contain rarefied neon or other gases. They are the most common use for neon lighting, which was first demonstrated in a modern form in December 1910 by Georges Claude at the Paris Motor Show. While they are used wor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojtek%20Zbijewski | Wojciech (Wojtek) Zbijewski is an American biomedical engineering and medical physics working in the fields of Computed tomography (CT), Cone beam computed tomography (CBCT), image reconstruction in CT, and applications of CT and CBCT in orthopedics.
He is faculty at the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Johns H... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir%20Varyukhin | Vladimir Alekseevich Varyukhin (December 14, 1921 — July 8, 2007) was a Soviet and Ukrainian scientist, Professor, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Honored Scientist of the Ukrainian SSR, Major-General, founder of the theory of multichannel analysis, and creator of the scientific school on digital antenna arrays (DAAs).
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band%20%28algebra%29 | In mathematics, a band (also called idempotent semigroup) is a semigroup in which every element is idempotent (in other words equal to its own square). Bands were first studied and named by .
The lattice of varieties of bands was described independently in the early 1970s by Biryukov, Fennemore and Gerhard. Semilattic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabrice%20Bethuel | Fabrice Bethuel (born 7 June 1963) is a French mathematician. He holds a chair at Paris VI University.
Bethuel earned his doctorate at Paris-Sud 11 University in 1989, under supervision of Jean-Michel Coron. In 1998 Bethuel was an Invited Speaker of the International Congress of Mathematicians in Berlin. He won the 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse%20%28set%20theory%29 | In set theory, a mouse is a small model of (a fragment of) Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory with desirable properties. The exact definition depends on the context. In most cases, there is a technical definition of "premouse" and an added condition of iterability (referring to the existence of wellfounded iterated ultrapower... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCP5 | The gene known as HCP5 (HLA Complex P5) is a human endogenous retrovirus, meaning that it is a fossil of an ancient virus that at one time infected people, but has now become an integral part of the human genome.
One variation of HCP5 appears to provide some delay or resistance to the development of AIDS when a person... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20prokaryotes | Marine prokaryotes are marine bacteria and marine archaea. They are defined by their habitat as prokaryotes that live in marine environments, that is, in the saltwater of seas or oceans or the brackish water of coastal estuaries. All cellular life forms can be divided into prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Eukaryotes are org... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active%20vision | An area of computer vision is active vision, sometimes also called active computer vision. An active vision system is one that can manipulate the viewpoint of the camera(s) in order to investigate the environment and get better information from it.
Background
The interest in active camera system started as early as tw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otis%20King | Otis Carter Formby King (1876–1944) was an electrical engineer in London who invented and produced a cylindrical slide rule with helical scales, primarily for business uses initially. The product was named Otis King's Patent Calculator, and was manufactured and sold by Carbic Ltd. in London from about 1922 to about 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater%20sciatic%20notch | The greater sciatic notch is a notch in the ilium, one of the bones that make up the human pelvis. It lies between the posterior inferior iliac spine (above), and the ischial spine (below). The sacrospinous ligament changes this notch into an opening, the greater sciatic foramen.
The notch holds the piriformis, the su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automixis | Automixis is the fusion of (typically haploid) nuclei or gametes derived from the same individual. The term covers several reproductive mechanisms, some of which are parthenogenetic.
Diploidy might be restored by the doubling of the chromosomes without cell division before meiosis begins or after meiosis is completed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHARISSA | CHARISSA (derived from 'CHARged particle Instrumentation for a Solid State Array') is a nuclear structure research collaboration originally conceived, initiated and partially built by Dr. William Rae of the University of Oxford (retired) and now run by the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Birmingha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto%20front | In multi-objective optimization, the Pareto front (also called Pareto frontier or Pareto curve) is the set of all Pareto efficient solutions. The concept is widely used in engineering. It allows the designer to restrict attention to the set of efficient choices, and to make tradeoffs within this set, rather than consid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reye%20configuration | In geometry, the Reye configuration, introduced by , is a configuration of 12 points and 16 lines.
Each point of the configuration belongs to four lines, and each line contains three points. Therefore, in the notation of configurations, the Reye configuration is written as .
Realization
The Reye configuration can be r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mir-711%20microRNA%20precursor%20family | In molecular biology mir-711 microRNA is a short RNA molecule. MicroRNAs function to regulate the expression levels of other genes by several mechanisms.
Diagnostic use in Cutaneous T-cell Lymphoma
miR-711 is able to distinguish between malignant cutaneous T-cell lymphomas and benign skin disorders with high accuracy.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmission%20security | Transmission security (TRANSEC) is the component of communications security (COMSEC) that results from the application of measures designed to protect transmissions from interception and exploitation by means other than cryptanalysis. Goals of transmission security include:
Low probability of interception (LPI)
Low ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern%20equine%20encephalitis | Eastern equine encephalitis (EEE), commonly called Triple E or sleeping sickness (not to be confused with African trypanosomiasis), is a disease caused by a zoonotic mosquito-vectored Togavirus that is present in North, Central, and South America, and the Caribbean. EEE was first recognized in Massachusetts, United St... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tentai%20Show | Tentai Show (Japanese: 天体ショー tentai shō), also known by the names Tentaisho, Galaxies, Spiral Galaxies, or Sym-a-Pix, is a binary-determination logic puzzle published by Nikoli.
Rules
Tentai Show is played on a rectangular grid of squares. On the grid are dots representing stars, which can be found on the grid either ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volta%20Laboratory%20and%20Bureau | The Volta Laboratory (also known as the Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory, the Bell Carriage House and the Bell Laboratory) and the Volta Bureau were created in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., by Alexander Graham Bell.(19/20th-century scientist and inventor best known for his work on the telephone)
The Volta Laboratory w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20for%20additive%20manufacturing | Design for additive manufacturing (DfAM or DFAM) is design for manufacturability as applied to additive manufacturing (AM). It is a general type of design methods or tools whereby functional performance and/or other key product life-cycle considerations such as manufacturability, reliability, and cost can be optimized ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoxydocosapentaenoic%20acid | Epoxide docosapentaenoic acids (epoxydocosapentaenoic acids, EDPs, or EpDPEs) are metabolites of the 22-carbon straight-chain omega-3 fatty acid, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). Cell types that express certain cytochrome P450 (CYP) epoxygenases metabolize polyunsaturated fatty acid's (PUFAs) by converting one of their dou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupled%20map%20lattice | A coupled map lattice (CML) is a dynamical system that models the behavior of non-linear systems (especially partial differential equations). They are predominantly used to qualitatively study the chaotic dynamics of spatially extended systems. This includes the dynamics of spatiotemporal chaos where the number of effe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppSheet | AppSheet is an application that provides a no-code development platform for application software, which allows users to create mobile, tablet, and web applications using data sources like Google Drive, DropBox, Office 365, and other cloud-based spreadsheet and database platforms. The platform can be utilized for a broa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin%20Veterinary%20Research%20Institute | Harbin Veterinary Research Institute (HVRI) is a Chinese biological research institute located in Harbin, China. It is under the supervision of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS).
HVRI was created in 1948 and is the first veterinary medicine research institute in China.
In 2013 the HVRI has come to t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20microorganisms%20tested%20in%20outer%20space | The survival of some microorganisms exposed to outer space has been studied using both simulated facilities and low Earth orbit exposures. Bacteria were some of the first organisms investigated, when in 1960 a Russian satellite carried Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus, and Enterobacter aerogenes into orbit. Many kinds ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragoslav%20D.%20%C5%A0iljak | Dragoslav D. Šiljak is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Santa Clara University, where he held the title of Benjamin and Mae Swig University Professor. He is best known for developing the mathematical theory and methods for control of complex dynamic systems characterized by large-scale, information struc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF%20and%20microwave%20filter | Radio frequency (RF) and microwave filters represent a class of electronic filter, designed to operate on signals in the megahertz to gigahertz frequency ranges (medium frequency to extremely high frequency). This frequency range is the range used by most broadcast radio, television, wireless communication (cellphones,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axiom%20of%20limitation%20of%20size | In set theory, the axiom of limitation of size was proposed by John von Neumann in his 1925 axiom system for sets and classes. It formalizes the limitation of size principle, which avoids the paradoxes encountered in earlier formulations of set theory by recognizing that some classes are too big to be sets. Von Neumann... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Physics%2C%20Chinese%20Academy%20of%20Sciences | The Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOPCAS ) was the result of a merger, after the communist took control of the mainland China in 1949, between the Institute of Physics of Academia Sinica (IOPAS) founded in Shanghai in 1928 and the Institute of Physics of (IOPNAP) founded in Beiping in 1929. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine%20Piatko | Christine Diane Piatko is a computer scientist known for her heavily cited publications on k-means clustering, high-dynamic-range imaging, computer graphics, and document classification.
Piatko is a 1986 graduate of New York University. She completed her Ph.D. in 1993 at Cornell University. Her dissertation, Geometric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20finite-dimensional%20Nichols%20algebras | In mathematics, a Nichols algebra is a Hopf algebra in a braided category assigned to an object V in this category (e.g. a braided vector space). The Nichols algebra is a quotient of the tensor algebra of V enjoying a certain universal property and is typically infinite-dimensional. Nichols algebras appear naturally in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%E2%80%93oxygen%20bond | A carbon–oxygen bond is a polar covalent bond between atoms of carbon and oxygen. Carbon–oxygen bonds are found in many inorganic compounds such as carbon oxides and oxohalides, carbonates and metal carbonyls, and in organic compounds such as alcohols, ethers, carbonyl compounds and oxalates. Oxygen has 6 valence elect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20schema | Body schema is a concept used in several disciplines, including psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, sports medicine, and robotics. The neurologist Sir Henry Head originally defined it as a postural model of the body that actively organizes and modifies 'the impressions produced by incoming sensory impulses in such a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative%20force | In physics, a conservative force is a force with the property that the total work done in moving a particle between two points is independent of the path taken. Equivalently, if a particle travels in a closed loop, the total work done (the sum of the force acting along the path multiplied by the displacement) by a con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra | Zimbra Collaboration, formerly known as the Zimbra Collaboration Suite (ZCS) before 2019, is a collaborative software suite that includes an email server and a web client.
Zimbra was initially developed by LiquidSys, which changed their name to Zimbra, Inc. on 26 July 2005. The Zimbra Collaboration Suite was first rel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critters%20%28cellular%20automaton%29 | Critters is a reversible block cellular automaton with similar dynamics to Conway's Game of Life, first described by Tommaso Toffoli and Norman Margolus in 1987.
Definition
Critters is defined on a two-dimensional infinite grid of cells, which may be identified with the integer lattice. As in Conway's Game of Life, at... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical%20%28chemistry%29 | In chemistry, a radical, also known as a free radical, is an atom, molecule, or ion that has at least one unpaired valence electron.
With some exceptions, these unpaired electrons make radicals highly chemically reactive. Many radicals spontaneously dimerize. Most organic radicals have short lifetimes.
A notable exa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reindeer%20distribution | The reindeer (caribou in North America) is a widespread and numerous species in the northern Holarctic, being present in both tundra and taiga (boreal forest). Originally, the reindeer was found in Scandinavia, eastern Europe, Russia, Mongolia, and northern China north of the 50th latitude. In North America, it was fou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrast%20%28statistics%29 | In statistics, particularly in analysis of variance and linear regression, a contrast is a linear combination of variables (parameters or statistics) whose coefficients add up to zero, allowing comparison of different treatments.
Definitions
Let be a set of variables, either parameters or statistics, and be known co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta-process%20modeling | Meta-process modeling is a type of metamodeling used in software engineering and systems engineering for the analysis and construction of models applicable and useful to some predefined problems.
Meta-process modeling supports the effort of creating flexible process models. The purpose of process models is to document... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickled%20oysters | Pickled oysters are a traditional way of preserving oysters by pickling or curing. To pickle oysters, they are usually cooked for a short period after removal from the shell, cooled, and placed in glass jars with vinegar and other spices.
History
In 1646, Humphrey Mill described pickled oysters being served to custome... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%20predictor | The Smith predictor (invented by O. J. M. Smith in 1957) is a type of predictive controller designed to control systems with a significant feedback time delay. The idea can be illustrated as follows.
Suppose the plant consists of followed by a pure time delay . refers to the Z-transform of the transfer function rela... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residuated%20lattice | In abstract algebra, a residuated lattice is an algebraic structure that is simultaneously a lattice x ≤ y and a monoid x•y which admits operations x\z and z/y, loosely analogous to division or implication, when x•y is viewed as multiplication or conjunction, respectively. Called respectively right and left residuals,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam-index%20tube | The beam-index tube is a color television cathode ray tube (CRT) design, using phosphor stripes and active-feedback timing, rather than phosphor dots and a beam-shadowing mask as developed by RCA. Beam indexing offered much brighter pictures than shadow-mask CRTs, reducing power consumption, and as they used a single e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monad%20%28category%20theory%29 | In category theory, a branch of mathematics, a monad (also triple, triad, standard construction and fundamental construction) is a monoid in the category of endofunctors of some fixed category. An endofunctor is a functor mapping a category to itself, and a monad is an endofunctor together with two natural transformati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hope%20Professor%20of%20Zoology | The Hope Professor of Zoology (Entomology) is a professorship at Oxford University. The first Hope Professor was John Obadiah Westwood. The current holder is Geraldine Wright. The position is associated with a professorial fellowship at Jesus College.
List of holders
John Obadiah Westwood (1860–93)
Edward Bagnal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based%20security | Capability-based security is a concept in the design of secure computing systems, one of the existing security models. A capability (known in some systems as a key) is a communicable, unforgeable token of authority. It refers to a value that references an object along with an associated set of access rights. A user pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Internet%20Pilot%20to%20Physics | TIPTOP (fully known as The Internet Pilot to Physics) was a web site operated in collaboration between Kenneth Bodin-Holmlund at Umeå University, Mikko Karttunen at McGill University and Guenther Nowotny at the Technical University of Vienna during 1994–1998, and it was originally derived from Physics Around the World ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriques%E2%80%93Babbage%20theorem | In algebraic geometry, the Enriques–Babbage theorem states that a canonical curve is either a set-theoretic intersection of quadrics, or trigonal, or a plane quintic. It was proved by and . |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neighborhood%20operation | In computer vision and image processing a neighborhood operation is a commonly used class of computations on image data which implies that it is processed according to the following pseudo code:
Visit each point p in the image data and do {
N = a neighborhood or region of the image data around the point p
r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics%20Institute%20%28Singapore%29 | The Bioinformatics Institute (Abbreviation: BII) is one of the Biomedical Sciences Institutes of the Agency for Science, Technology and Research, (A*STAR). BII was originally founded in 2001 by Dr Rajagopal as a support unit for Bioinformatics and IT service management. However, since August 2007, it has been redefined... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle%20ensign | A battle ensign is the name given to a large war ensign (flag) hoisted on a warship's mast just before going into battle.
In what could become a very confusing situation with thick clouds of gunsmoke the ensign gave additional identification, hence their large size, which for the Royal Navy in the 17th and 18th centur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrik%20Meltzer | Fredrik Meltzer (29 September 1779 – 17 December 1855) was a Norwegian businessman and representative at the Norwegian Constitutional Assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814. He is perhaps best known for designing the flag of Norway.
Biography
Fredrik Meltzer was born in Bergen, Norway. Meltzer was from a merchant family with o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectify | Connectify () is an American software company that develops networking software for consumers, professionals and companies. Connectify Hotspot is a virtual router software for Microsoft Windows, and Speedify is a mobile VPN service with channel bonding capabilities available for individuals, families and teams.
Histor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hercules%20at%20the%20crossroads | Hercules at the crossroads, also known as the Choice of Hercules and the Judgement of Hercules, is an ancient Greek parable attributed to Prodicus and known from Xenophon. It concerns the young Heracles/Hercules who is offered a choice between Vice and Virtue—a life of pleasure or one of hardship and honour. In the ear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular-scale%20temperature | The molecular-scale temperature is the defining property of the U.S. Standard Atmosphere, 1962. It is defined by the relationship:
Tm(z) is molecular-scale temperature at altitude z;
M0 is molecular weight of air at sea level;
M(z) is molecular weight of air at altitude z;
T(z) is absolute temperature at altit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription%20factor%20II%20F | Transcription factor II F (TFIIF) is one of several general transcription factors that make up the RNA polymerase II preinitiation complex.
TFIIF is encoded by the , , and genes.
TFIIF binds to RNA polymerase II when the enzyme is already unbound to any other transcription factor, thus preventing it from contacting ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified%20Speech%20and%20Audio%20Coding | Unified Speech and Audio Coding (USAC) is an audio compression format and codec for both music and speech or any mix of speech and audio using very low bit rates between 12 and 64 kbit/s. It was developed by Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) and was published as an international standard ISO/IEC 23003-3 (a.k.a. MPEG-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Pumphrey | William Pumphrey (1817 – 1905) was an early photographer based in York.
Pumphrey was a Quaker and started out as a science teacher at Bootham School, York. He bought his licence from Samuel Walker, York's first practising photographer, in July 1849, and ran his business there until 1854. Throughout this time he freque... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotional%20selection%20%28evolution%29 | Emotional selection is a form of evolutionary selection where decisions are made based primarily on emotional factors.
The German philosopher Ferdinand Fellmann proposed in 2009 emotional selection as a third form of evolutionary selection besides natural and sexual selection. Loving, monogamous pair-bonding seems to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinucleotide%20repeat%20disorder | Trinucleotide repeat disorders, also known as microsatellite expansion diseases, are a set of over 50 genetic disorders caused by trinucleotide repeat expansion, a kind of mutation in which repeats of three nucleotides (trinucleotide repeats) increase in copy numbers until they cross a threshold above which they cause ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NA64%20experiment | NA64 experiment is one of the several experiments at Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS) particle collider searching for dark sector particles. It is a fixed target experiment in which an electron beam of energy between 100-150 GeV, strikes fixed atomic nuclei. The primary goal of NA64 is to find unknown and hypothetical pa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blinatumomab | Blinatumomab, sold under the brand name Blincyto, is a biopharmaceutical medication used as a second-line treatment for Philadelphia chromosome-negative relapsed or refractory acute lymphoblastic leukemia. It belongs to a class of constructed monoclonal antibodies, bi-specific T-cell engagers (BiTEs), that exert action... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Workspace | Google Workspace is a collection of cloud computing, productivity and collaboration tools, software and products developed and marketed by Google. It consists of Gmail, Contacts, Calendar, Meet and Chat for communication; Currents for employee engagement; Drive for storage; and the Google Docs Editors suite for conten... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encryption%20software | Encryption software is software that uses cryptography to prevent unauthorized access to digital information. Cryptography is used to protect digital information on computers as well as the digital information that is sent to other computers over the Internet.
Classification
There are many software products which prov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20plantar%20ligament | The long plantar ligament (long calcaneocuboid ligament; superficial long plantar ligament) is a long ligament on the underside of the foot that connects the calcaneus with the 2nd to 5th metatarsal.
Structure
The long plantar ligament is the longest of all the ligaments of the tarsus. It is attached behind to the pl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Test%20Studio | Progress Telerik Test Studio is a Windows-based software test automation tool for web and desktop that supports functional testing, software performance testing, load testing and RESTful API testing developed by Telerik. The tool ships with a plugin for Visual Studio and a standalone app that use the same repositories... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExtraTorrent | ExtraTorrent (commonly abbreviated ET) was an online index of digital content of entertainment media and software. Until its shut down it was among the top 5 BitTorrent indexes in the world, where visitors could search, download and contribute magnet links and torrent files, which facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diarrhea | Diarrhea, also spelled diarrhoea or diarrhœa in British English, is the condition of having at least three loose, liquid, or watery bowel movements each day. It often lasts for a few days and can result in dehydration due to fluid loss. Signs of dehydration often begin with loss of the normal stretchiness of the skin a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Same-origin%20policy | In computing, the same-origin policy (SOP) is an important concept in the web application security model. Under the policy, a web browser permits scripts contained in a first web page to access data in a second web page, but only if both web pages have the same origin. An origin is defined as a combination of URI schem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jilin%20Baoyuanfeng%20poultry%20plant%20fire | On 3 June 2013, a fire at the Jilin Baoyuanfeng () poultry processing plant in Mishazi (), a town about from Changchun, in Jilin province, People's Republic of China, killed at least 120 people. More than 60 others were hospitalised with injuries.
Plant
The poultry slaughterhouse was established by Jilin Baoyuanfeng... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod%20size | Cephalopods, which include squids and octopuses, vary enormously in size. The smallest are only about long and weigh less than at maturity, while the giant squid can exceed in length and the colossal squid weighs close to half a tonne (), making them the largest living invertebrates. Living species range in mass mor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycotoxicology | Mycotoxicology is the branch of mycology that focuses on analyzing and studying the toxins produced by fungi, known as mycotoxins. In the food industry it is important to adopt measures that keep mycotoxin levels as low as practicable, especially those that are heat-stable. These chemical compounds are the result of se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FYVE%2C%20RhoGEF%20and%20PH%20domain%20containing | FYVE, RhoGEF and PH domain containing (FGD) is a gene family consisting of:
FGD1
FGD2
FGD3
FGD4
Type 1 is associated with Aarskog-Scott syndrome.
See also
Guanine nucleotide exchange factor |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticor | An anticor, also known as anticoeur or avant-cœur, among farriers, is a dangerous swelling or inflammation in a horse's breast, of the size and shape of an apple, just opposite the heart. The term literally means anti heart or before heart.
The swelling may appear as a hard tumor, slow to develop, or as an inflammatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metabolic%20control%20analysis | Metabolic control analysis (MCA) is a mathematical framework for describing
metabolic, signaling, and genetic pathways. MCA quantifies how variables, such as fluxes and species concentrations, depend on network parameters.
In particular, it is able to describe how network-dependent properties,
called control coefficie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transponder%20%28aeronautics%29 | A transponder (short for transmitter-responder and sometimes abbreviated to XPDR, XPNDR, TPDR or TP) is an electronic device that produces a response when it receives a radio-frequency interrogation. Aircraft have transponders to assist in identifying them on air traffic control radar. Collision avoidance systems have ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowWow | PowWow (Power Optimized Hardware and Software FrameWork for Wireless Motes) is a wireless sensor network (WSN) mote developed by the Cairn team of IRISA/INRIA. The platform is currently based on IEEE 802.15.4 standard radio transceiver and on an MSP430 microprocessor. Unlike other available mote systems, PowWow offers... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locoweed | Locoweed (also crazyweed and loco) is a common name in North America for any plant that produces swainsonine, a alkaloid harmful to livestock. Worldwide, swainsonine is produced by a small number of species, most of them in three genera of the flowering plant family Fabaceae: Oxytropis and Astragalus in North America, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-rate%20picture%20transmission | The low-rate picture transmission (LRPT) is a digital transmission system, intended to deliver images and data from an orbital weather satellite directly to end users via a VHF radio signal. It is used aboard polar-orbiting, near-Earth weather satellite programs such as MetOp and NPOESS.
Purpose
LRPT provides three im... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%20ID | Bell Identification B.V., or Bell ID, was a Dutch software company that developed smart token management software, including key management, smart card management, EMV data preparation, and host card emulation-based mobile payments software. Bell ID was acquired by Rambus in 2016 and in 2019, Visa Inc. acquired Bell ID... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochemical%20equivalent | In chemistry, the electrochemical equivalent (Eq or Z) of a chemical element is the mass of that element (in grams) transported by a specific quantity of electricity, usually expressed in grams per coulomb of electric charge. The electrochemical equivalent of an element is measured with a voltameter.
Definition
The e... |
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