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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakthrough%20Prize%20in%20Fundamental%20Physics | The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics is one of the Breakthrough Prizes, awarded by the Breakthrough Prize Board. Initially named Fundamental Physics Prize, it was founded in July 2012 by Russia-born Israeli entrepreneur, venture capitalist and physicist Yuri Milner. The prize is awarded to physicists from theo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duffy%20antigen%20system | Duffy antigen/chemokine receptor (DARC), also known as Fy glycoprotein (FY) or CD234 (Cluster of Differentiation 234), is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ACKR1 gene.
The Duffy antigen is located on the surface of red blood cells, and is named after the patient in whom it was discovered. The protein encoded... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20walk%20search | In the context of quantum computing, the quantum walk search is a quantum algorithm for finding a marked node in a graph.
The concept of a quantum walk is inspired by classical random walks, in which a walker moves randomly through a graph or lattice. In a classical random walk, the position of the walker can be desc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xocotl | Xocotl is the generic Nahuatl language classification for sour or acidic fruit, used in the names of many species of fruit tree including atoya-xocotl (flowing stream plum), maza-xocotl (deer plum), atoya-xocotl (large plum ciruela) te-xocotl (yellow or red hawberries), xal-xocotl (sand plum or guava), and coua-xocotl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig%27s%20theorem | In mathematical logic, Craig's theorem (also known as Craig's trick) states that any recursively enumerable set of well-formed formulas of a first-order language is (primitively) recursively axiomatizable. This result is not related to the well-known Craig interpolation theorem, although both results are named after th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/77%20%28number%29 | 77 (seventy-seven) is the natural number following 76 and preceding 78. Seventy-seven is the smallest positive integer requiring five syllables in English.
In mathematics
77 is:
the 22nd discrete semiprime and the first of the (7.q) family, where q is a higher prime.
with a prime aliquot sum of 19 within an aliquot ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Aging%20Symposium%20%28Alberta%29 | The Aging Symposium in Alberta, Canada is an academic conference on aging that was first held in 1982. From 1982 until 2002, the symposium was held every ten years, and from 2002 to present, it has been held every five years. Because there are several distinct gerontology research groups in Alberta, symposium sponsorsh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trunk%20prefix | A trunk prefix is a digit sequence to be dialled before a telephone number to initiate a telephone call for the purpose of selecting an appropriate telecommunications circuit by which the call is to be routed.
Making a domestic (national) telephone call usually requires the dialling of a single or two-digit national t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bomakellia | Bomakellia kelleri is a species of poorly understood Ediacaran fossil organism represented by only one specimen discovered in the Ust'-Pinega Formation of the Syuzma River (in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia) from rocks dated 555 million years old. Bomakellia was originally interpreted as an early Arthropod. A study by B. M... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monotone%20convergence%20theorem | In the mathematical field of real analysis, the monotone convergence theorem is any of a number of related theorems proving the convergence of monotonic sequences (sequences that are non-decreasing or non-increasing) that are also bounded. Informally, the theorems state that if a sequence is increasing and bounded abov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock%20position | A clock position, or clock bearing, is the direction of an object observed from a vehicle, typically a vessel or an aircraft, relative to the orientation of the vehicle to the observer. The vehicle must be considered to have a front, a back, a left side and a right side. These quarters may have specialized names, such ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opticks | Opticks: or, A Treatise of the Reflexions, Refractions, Inflexions and Colours of Light is a book by English natural philosopher Isaac Newton that was published in English in 1704 (a scholarly Latin translation appeared in 1706). The book analyzes the fundamental nature of light by means of the refraction of light with... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRM%20114%20%28fictional%20device%29 | The CRM 114 Discriminator is a fictional piece of radio equipment in Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove (1964), the destruction of which prevents the crew of a B-52 from receiving the recall code that would stop them from dropping their hydrogen bombs on the Soviet Union. The device is one of several that malfuncti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontiki | is a construction toy for building models of unusual creatures (which are also referred to as pontiki). Pontiki are constructed from colourful plastic components of two different types: a hollow shape dotted with holes, for representing the creatures' bodies, and smaller parts which fit into the holes, for representing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20moisture%20sensor | Soil moisture sensors measure the volumetric water content in soil. Since the direct gravimetric measurement of free soil moisture requires removing, drying, and weighing of a sample, soil moisture sensors measure the volumetric water content indirectly by using some other property of the soil, such as electrical resis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anosmin-1 | Anosmin-1 is a secreted, EM associated glycoprotein found in humans and other organisms responsible for normal development, which is expressed in the brain, spinal cord and kidney. Absence or damage to the protein results in Kallmann syndrome in humans, which is characterized by loss of olfactory bulbs and GnRH secreti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saprobic%20system | The saprobic system is a tool to measure water quality, and specifically it deals with the capacity of a water body to self-regulate and degrade organic matter. The saprobic system derives from so-called saprobes — organisms that thrive through degradation of organic matter, which is called saprotrophic nutrition.
The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20Trace%20Toolkit | The Linux Trace Toolkit (LTT) is a set of tools that is designed to log program execution details from a patched Linux kernel and then perform various analyses on them, using console-based and graphical tools. LTT has been mostly superseded by its successor LTTng (Linux Trace Toolkit Next Generation).
LTT allows the u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20BASIC | The IBM Personal Computer Basic, commonly shortened to IBM BASIC, is a programming language first released by IBM with the IBM Personal Computer, Model 5150 (IBM PC) in 1981. IBM released four different versions of the Microsoft BASIC interpreter, licensed from Microsoft for the PC and PCjr. They are known as Cassette ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accumulator%20%28computing%29 | In a computer's central processing unit (CPU), the accumulator is a register in which intermediate arithmetic logic unit results are stored.
Without a register like an accumulator, it would be necessary to write the result of each calculation (addition, multiplication, shift, etc.) to main memory, perhaps only to be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20optimization | Vector optimization is a subarea of mathematical optimization where optimization problems with a vector-valued objective functions are optimized with respect to a given partial ordering and subject to certain constraints. A multi-objective optimization problem is a special case of a vector optimization problem: The ob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Swift%20Bourns | Frank Swift Bourns (1866 – 1935) was an American ornithologist and medical doctor. He was involved in two different expeditions to the Philippines with Dean Conant Worcester to gather natural history specimens. From 1887 to 1888 they participated in an expedition sponsored by Joseph Beal Steere. From 1890 to 1892 they ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HCMOS | HCMOS ("high-speed CMOS") is the set of specifications for electrical ratings and characteristics, forming the 74HC00 family, a part of the 7400 series of integrated circuits.
The 74HC00 family followed, and improved upon, the 74C00 series (which provided an alternative CMOS logic family to the 4000 series but retaine... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Shaw%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Mary Shaw (born 1943) is an American software engineer, and the Alan J. Perlis Professor of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, known for her work in the field of software architecture.
Biography
Early life
Mary M. Shaw was born in Washington D.C. in 1943. Her father (El... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal%20computing%20budget%20allocation | In computer science, optimal computing budget allocation (OCBA) is an approach to maximize the overall simulation efficiency for finding an optimal decision. It was introduced in the mid-1990s by Dr. Chun-Hung Chen.
OCBA determines the number of replications or the simulation time that is needed in order to receive ac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarizability | Polarizability usually refers to the tendency of matter, when subjected to an electric field, to acquire an electric dipole moment in proportion to that applied field. It is a property of all matter, considering that matter is made up of elementary particles which have an electric charge, namely protons and electrons. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Federation%20of%20Food%20Industry%20Workers%27%20Unions | The National Federation of Food Industry Workers' Unions (, Zenshokuhin Domei) was a trade union representing workers in the food processing industry of Japan.
The union was founded in 1947 and affiliated to the Japanese Federation of Labour, then to the Japanese Confederation of Labour. By 1967, it had 24,272 member... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPTN | Neuroplastin is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NPTN gene.
Neuroplastin is a type I transmembrane protein belonging to the Ig superfamily. The protein is believed to be involved in cell-cell interactions or cell-substrate interactions. The alpha and beta transcripts show differential localization within the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multislice | The multislice algorithm is a method for the simulation of the elastic scattering of an electron beam with matter, including all multiple scattering effects. The method is reviewed in the book by John M. Cowley, and also the work by Ishizuka. The algorithm is used in the simulation of high resolution transmission elect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato%20grafting | Tomato grafting is a horticulture technique that has been utilized in Asia and Europe for greenhouse and high tunnel production and is gaining popularity in the United States. Typically, stock or rootstock are selected for their ability to resist infection by certain soilborne pathogens or their ability to increase vig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weyl%20metrics | In general relativity, the Weyl metrics (named after the German-American mathematician Hermann Weyl) are a class of static and axisymmetric solutions to Einstein's field equation. Three members in the renowned Kerr–Newman family solutions, namely the Schwarzschild, nonextremal Reissner–Nordström and extremal Reissner–N... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular%20compartment | Cellular compartments in cell biology comprise all of the closed parts within the cytosol of a eukaryotic cell, usually surrounded by a single or double lipid layer membrane. These compartments are often, but not always, defined as membrane-bound organelles. The formation of cellular compartments is called compartmenta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunnar%20Nordstr%C3%B6m | Gunnar Nordström (12 March 1881 – 24 December 1923) was a Finnish theoretical physicist best remembered for his theory of gravitation, which was an early competitor of general relativity. Nordström is often designated by modern writers as The Einstein of Finland due to his novel work in similar fields with similar meth... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infologs | Infologs are independently designed synthetic genes derived from one or a few genes where substitutions are systematically incorporated to maximize information. Infologs are designed for perfect diversity distribution to maximize search efficiency.
Typical protein engineering methods rely on screening a high number (1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorionic%20villi | Chorionic villi are villi that sprout from the chorion to provide maximal contact area with maternal blood.
They are an essential element in pregnancy from a histomorphologic perspective, and are, by definition, a product of conception. Branches of the umbilical arteries carry embryonic blood to the villi. After circu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Treasure%20%28franchise%29 | The National Treasure franchise consists of American historical fiction action-adventures, including two released theatrical films, a prequel book series, and a television series set 20 years after the films. Future installments, notably a third film, have been under consideration for many years. The plot of the films... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20Valley | Food Valley is a region in the Netherlands where international food companies, research institutes, and Wageningen University and Research Centre are concentrated. The Food Valley area is the home of a large number of food multinationals and within the Food Valley about 15,000 professionals are active in food related s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Between%20the%20Folds | Between the Folds is a 2008 film documentary about origami. Directed by Vanessa Gould and broadcast on Independent Lens, the film received a 2010 Peabody Award.
Notable origami artists featured in the film include Erik and Martin Demaine, Tom Hull, Éric Joisel, Satoshi Kamiya, Robert J. Lang, and (using archival foota... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copurification | Copurification in a chemical or biochemical context is the physical separation by chromatography or other purification technique of two or more substances of interest from other contaminating substances. For substances to co-purify usually implies that these substances attract each other to form a non-covalent complex ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20path%20sampling | Transition path sampling (TPS) is a rare-event sampling method used in computer simulations of rare events: physical or chemical transitions of a system from one stable state to another that occur too rarely to be observed on a computer timescale. Examples include protein folding, chemical reactions and nucleation. Sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penguin%20Adventure | is a racing platform game released by Konami in 1986, and a sequel to 1983's Antarctic Adventure. The game marks the professional debut of game designer Hideo Kojima, who participated in the planning for this game.
The story follows Penta, a penguin who has to bring home a golden apple in order to cure Penguette, the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARCM | Mosaic analysis with a repressible cell marker, or MARCM, is a genetics technique for creating individually labeled homozygous cells in an otherwise heterozygous Drosophila melanogaster. It has been a crucial tool in studying the development of the Drosophila nervous system. This technique relies on recombination durin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unevenly%20spaced%20time%20series | In statistics, signal processing, and econometrics, an unevenly (or unequally or irregularly) spaced time series is a sequence of observation time and value pairs (tn, Xn) in which the spacing of observation times is not constant.
Unevenly spaced time series naturally occur in many industrial and scientific domains: ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre%20satellite%20distribution | Fibre satellite distribution is a technology that enables satellite TV signals from an antenna to be distributed using an optical fibre cable infrastructure and then converted to electrical signals for use with conventional set-top box receivers.
Particularly applicable to satellite TV distribution systems in a multi-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochemical%20gradient | An electrochemical gradient is a gradient of electrochemical potential, usually for an ion that can move across a membrane. The gradient consists of two parts:
The chemical gradient, or difference in solute concentration across a membrane.
The electrical gradient, or difference in charge across a membrane.
When th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20connection | In the mathematical field of differential geometry, the term linear connection can refer to either of the following overlapping concepts:
a connection on a vector bundle, often viewed as a differential operator (a Koszul connection or covariant derivative);
a principal connection on the frame bundle of a manifold or ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRPV1 | The transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V member 1 (TRPV1), also known as the capsaicin receptor and the vanilloid receptor 1, is a protein that, in humans, is encoded by the TRPV1 gene. It was the first isolated member of the transient receptor potential vanilloid receptor proteins that in turn are a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bousfield%20class | In algebraic topology, the Bousfield class of, say, a spectrum X is the set of all (say) spectra Y whose smash product with X is zero: . Two objects are Bousfield equivalent if their Bousfield classes are the same.
The notion applies to module spectra and in that case one usually qualifies a ring spectrum over which t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDSAC%202 | EDSAC 2 was an early computer (operational in 1958), the successor to the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC). It was the first computer to have a microprogrammed control unit and a bit-slice hardware architecture.
First calculations were performed on incomplete machine in 1957. Calculations about el... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codress%20message | In military cryptography, a codress message is an encrypted message whose address is also encrypted. This is usually done to prevent traffic analysis. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooley%E2%80%93Tukey%20FFT%20algorithm | The Cooley–Tukey algorithm, named after J. W. Cooley and John Tukey, is the most common fast Fourier transform (FFT) algorithm. It re-expresses the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of an arbitrary composite size in terms of N1 smaller DFTs of sizes N2, recursively, to reduce the computation time to O(N log N) for hig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Target%20fixation | Target fixation is an attentional phenomenon observed in humans in which an individual becomes so focused on an observed object (be it a target or hazard) that they inadvertently increase their risk of colliding with the object. It is associated with scenarios in which the operator is in control of a high-speed vehicle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chamaenerion%20angustifolium | Chamaenerion angustifolium is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant in the willowherb family Onagraceae. It is known in North America as fireweed, in some parts of Canada as great willowherb, in Britain and Ireland as rosebay willowherb. In the United Kingdom it is also known as bombweed, as a result of its rapid appe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellar%20nucleosynthesis | Stellar nucleosynthesis is the creation (nucleosynthesis) of chemical elements by nuclear fusion reactions within stars. Stellar nucleosynthesis has occurred since the original creation of hydrogen, helium and lithium during the Big Bang. As a predictive theory, it yields accurate estimates of the observed abundances o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CEGUI | Crazy Eddie's GUI (CEGUI) is a graphical user interface (GUI) library for the programming language C++. It was designed for the needs of video games, but is usable for non-game tasks, such as applications and tools. It is designed for user flexibility in look-and-feel, and to be adaptable to the user's choice in tools ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20inequivalence | In the context of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), the term magnetic inequivalence refers to the distinction between magnetically active nuclear spins by their NMR signals, owing to a difference in either chemical shift (magnetic inequivalence by the chemical shift criterion) or spin-spin coupling (J-coupling) (magnet... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20semantics | Computational semantics is the study of how to automate the process of constructing and reasoning with meaning representations of natural language expressions. It consequently plays an important role in natural-language processing and computational linguistics.
Some traditional topics of interest are: construction of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QCD%20matter | Quark matter or QCD matter (quantum chromodynamic) refers to any of a number of hypothetical phases of matter whose degrees of freedom include quarks and gluons, of which the prominent example is quark-gluon plasma. Several series of conferences in 2019, 2020, and 2021 were devoted to this topic.
Quarks are liberated ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubik%27s%20360 | Rubik's 360 is a 3D mechanical puzzle released in 2009 by Ernő Rubik, the inventor of Rubik's Cube and other puzzles. Rubik's 360 was introduced on February 5, 2009 at the Nürnberg International Toy Fair ahead of its worldwide release in August.
In contrast to most of Rubik's puzzles, Rubik's 360 is a physical challen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preload%20%28software%29 | preload is a free Linux program which runs as a daemon to record statistics about usage of files by more frequently-used programs. This information is then used to keep these files preloaded into memory. This results in faster application startup times as less data needs to be fetched from disk. preload is often paired... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained-layer%20damping | Constrained-layer damping is a mechanical engineering technique to suppress vibrations. Typically a viscoelastic or other damping material, is sandwiched between two sheets of stiff materials that lack sufficient damping by themselves. The end result is that any vibration generated on either side of the constraining m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterivore | A bacterivore is an organism which obtains energy and nutrients primarily or entirely from the consumption of bacteria. The term is most commonly used to describe free-living, heterotrophic, microscopic organisms such as nematodes as well as many species of amoeba and numerous other types of protozoans, but some macros... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine%20gammaherpesvirus%206 | Bovine gammaherpesvirus 6 (BoHV-6) is a species of virus in the genus Macavirus, subfamily Gammaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton%27s%20laws%20of%20motion | Newton's laws of motion are three basic laws of classical mechanics that describe the relationship between the motion of an object and the forces acting on it. These laws can be paraphrased as follows:
A body remains at rest, or in motion at a constant speed in a straight line, unless acted upon by a force.
When a b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyldioctadecylammonium%20bromide | Dimethyldioctadecylammonium bromide (also dioctadecyldimethylammonium bromide or DODAB) is a double-chained quaternary ammonium surfactant that forms unilamellar vesicles (ULVs) in water. Among various preparation methods, the ‘‘hot-water” method offers a simple procedure to prepare DODAB cationic vesicles by simply d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20stress | In physical oceanography and fluid dynamics, the wind stress is the shear stress exerted by the wind on the surface of large bodies of water – such as oceans, seas, estuaries and lakes. Stress is the quantity that describes the magnitude of a force that is causing a deformation of an object. Therefore, stress is define... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatine%20raphe | The palatine raphe (or median raphe or median palatine raphe) is a raphe running across the palate, from the palatine uvula to the incisive papilla.
External links
Diagram at bris.ac.uk
Diagram at ana.bris.ac.uk
Diagram at waybuilder.net
Mouth |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geroch%27s%20splitting%20theorem | In the theory of causal structure on Lorentzian manifolds, Geroch's theorem or Geroch's splitting theorem (first proved by Robert Geroch) gives a topological characterization of globally hyperbolic spacetimes.
The theorem
Let be a globally hyperbolic spacetime. Then is strongly causal and there exists a global "time... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-SCREEN | E-SCREEN is a cell proliferation assay based on the enhanced proliferation of human breast cancer cells (MCF-7) in the presence of estrogen active substances. The E-SCREEN test is a tool to easily and rapidly assess estrogenic activity of suspected xenoestrogens (singly or in combination). This bioassay measures estrog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sternocleidomastoid%20muscle | The sternocleidomastoid muscle is one of the largest and most superficial cervical muscles. The primary actions of the muscle are rotation of the head to the opposite side and flexion of the neck. The sternocleidomastoid is innervated by the accessory nerve.
Etymology and location
It is given the name sternocleidomast... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accompanying%20artery%20of%20ischiadic%20nerve | The accompanying artery of ischiadic nerve is a long, slender artery in the thigh. It branches of the inferior gluteal artery. It accompanies the sciatic nerve for a short distance. It then penetrates it, and runs in its substance to the lower part of the thigh. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter%20Hendrik%20Schoute | Pieter Hendrik Schoute (21 January 1846, Wormerveer – 18 April 1913, Groningen) was a Dutch mathematician known for his work on regular polytopes and Euclidean geometry.
He started his career as a civil engineer, but became a professor of mathematics at Groningen and published some thirty papers on polytopes between 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20Ranger%20Chipset | Amiga Ranger is an unreleased prototype personal computer by Commodore which was intended to be the second generation Amiga chipset, prior to ECS. It was designed by the original Los Gatos Amiga team including Jay Miner.
Overview
After the release of the Amiga 1000, Jay Miner began to design its intended successor, be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACACB | Acetyl-CoA carboxylase 2 also known as ACC-beta or ACC2 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the ACACB gene.
Function
Acetyl-CoA carboxylase (ACC) is a complex multifunctional enzyme system. ACC is a biotin-containing enzyme which catalyzes the carboxylation of acetyl-CoA to malonyl-CoA, the rate-limiting step ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon%20statistical%20areas | The U.S. currently has 24 statistical areas that have been delineated by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On March 6, 2020, the OMB delineated four combined statistical areas, eight metropolitan statistical areas, and 12 micropolitan statistical areas in Oregon.
Statistical areas
The Office of Management a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020%20Democratic%20Party%20presidential%20debates | Debates took place among candidates in the campaign for the Democratic Party's nomination for the president of the United States in the 2020 presidential election.
There were a total of 29 major Democratic candidates. Of these, 23 candidates participated in at least one debate. Only Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders partic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%20component%20regression | In statistics, principal component regression (PCR) is a regression analysis technique that is based on principal component analysis (PCA). More specifically, PCR is used for estimating the unknown regression coefficients in a standard linear regression model.
In PCR, instead of regressing the dependent variable on th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-axis%20optical%20system | An off-axis optical system is an optical system in which the optical axis of the aperture is not coincident with the mechanical center of the aperture. The principal applications of off-axis optical systems are to avoid obstruction of the primary aperture by secondary optical elements, instrument packages, or sensors, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArangoDB | ArangoDB is a graph database system developed by ArangoDB Inc. ArangoDB is a multi-model database system since it supports three data models (graphs, JSON documents, key/value) with one database core and a unified query language AQL (ArangoDB Query Language). AQL is mainly a declarative language and allows the combinat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blattner%27s%20conjecture | In mathematics, Blattner's conjecture or Blattner's formula is a description of the discrete series representations of a general semisimple group G in terms of their restricted representations to a maximal compact subgroup K (their so-called K-types). It is named after Robert James Blattner, despite not being formulate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclic%20vomiting%20syndrome | Cyclic vomiting syndrome (CVS) is a chronic functional condition of unknown pathogenesis. CVS is characterized as recurring episodes lasting a single day to multiple weeks. Each episode is divided into four phases: inter-episodic, prodrome, vomiting, and recovery. Inter-episodic phase (symptom free phase), is character... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteroclinic%20channels | Heteroclinic channels are ensembles of trajectories that can connect saddle equilibrium points in phase space. Dynamical systems and their associated phase spaces can be used to describe natural phenomena in mathematical terms; heteroclinic channels, and the cycles (or orbits) that they produce, are features in phase s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20input%20methods%20for%20Unix%20platforms | This is intended as a non-exhaustive list of input methods for Unix platforms. An input method is a means of entering characters and glyphs that have a corresponding encoding in a character set. See the input method page for more information.
Input methods
Unix
Computing-related lists |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotope%20electrochemistry | Isotope electrochemistry is a field within electrochemistry concerned with various topics like electrochemical separation of isotopes, electrochemical estimation of isotopic exchange equilibrium constants, electrochemical kinetic isotope effect, electrochemical isotope sensors, etc.
It is an active domain of investiga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk%20West | Gerald Glynn "Dirk" West (1930 – July 26, 1996) was an editorial cartoonist, journalist, and mayor from Lubbock, Texas, most famous for his caricatures of collegiate mascots. He was born in Littlefield, Texas, but his family moved to Lubbock soon after. He attended Texas Tech University where he drew cartoons for The U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay%20Konstantinov | Nikolay Nikolayevich Konstantinov (; 2 January 1932 – 3 July 2021) was a leading Soviet and Russian mathematical educator and organizer of numerous mathematics competitions for high school students. He is best known as the creator of the system of math schools and math classes and as the creator and chief organizer o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%20section%20paths | Earth section paths are plane curves defined by the intersection of an earth ellipsoid and a plane (ellipsoid plane sections). Common examples include the great ellipse (containing the center of the ellipsoid) and normal sections (containing an ellipsoid normal direction). Earth section paths are useful as approximate ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIAS%20Peak | Peak is a digital audio editing application for the Macintosh, used primarily for stereo/mono recording, sample editing, loop creation, and CD mastering. It is commonly used by amateur and professional audio and video editors, mastering engineers, musicians, sound designers, artists, educators, and hobbyists.
It was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tectin%20%28secretion%29 | Tectin is an organic substance secreted by certain ciliates. Tectin may form an adhesive stalk, disc or other sticky secretion. Tectin may also form a gelatinous envelope or membrane enclosing some ciliates as a protective capsule or lorica. Tectin is also called pseudochitin. Granules or rods (called protrichocysts) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Examples%20of%20in%20vivo%20transdifferentiation%20by%20lineage-instructive%20approach | A list of examples of in vivo transdifferentiation through transfection:
mouse hepatocytes → B cells (Pdx1)
exocrine cells → B cells (Pdx1, Ngn3, and v-maf musculoaponeurotic fibrosarcoma oncogene family protein A)
nonsensory cells → inner hair cells (Atoh1 and MathI)
non cardiogenic mesoderm → cardiomyocytes (Gata4, T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converse%20nonimplication | In logic, converse nonimplication is a logical connective which is the negation of converse implication (equivalently, the negation of the converse of implication).
Definition
Converse nonimplication is notated , or , and is logically equivalent to and .
Truth table
The truth table of .
Notation
Converse nonimplica... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent%20Network | The Intelligent Network (IN) is the standard network architecture specified in the ITU-T Q.1200 series recommendations. It is intended for fixed as well as mobile telecom networks. It allows operators to differentiate themselves by providing value-added services in addition to the standard telecom services such as PSTN... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiral%20auxiliary | In stereochemistry, a chiral auxiliary is a stereogenic group or unit that is temporarily incorporated into an organic compound in order to control the stereochemical outcome of the synthesis. The chirality present in the auxiliary can bias the stereoselectivity of one or more subsequent reactions. The auxiliary can th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YDG%20SRA%20protein%20domain | In molecular biology, this protein domain has been termed SRA-YDG, which is the abbreviation for SET and Ring finger Associated, YDG motif. Additional characteristics of the domain include conservation of up to 13 evenly spaced glycine residues and a VRV(I/V)RG motif. The protein domain is mainly found in plants and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address%20geocoding | Address geocoding, or simply geocoding, is the process of taking a text-based description of a location, such as an address or the name of a place, and returning geographic coordinates, frequently latitude/longitude pair, to identify a location on the Earth's surface. Reverse geocoding, on the other hand, converts geog... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent%20Network%20Substrate | Transparent Network Substrate (TNS), a proprietary Oracle computer-networking technology, supports homogeneous peer-to-peer connectivity on top of other networking technologies such as TCP/IP, SDP and named pipes. TNS operates mainly for connection to Oracle databases.
Protocol
TNS uses a proprietary protocol. Some... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Una%20virus | Una virus is a virus species in the genus Alphavirus. According to the Baltimore classification of viruses, it is a class IV virus. It has a linear single-stranded RNA genome. Una virus is an arbovirus or arthropod-borne virus, transmitted primarily by an arthropod species.
Location and distribution
The Una virus is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyMC | PyMC (formerly known as PyMC3) is a Python package for Bayesian statistical modeling and probabilistic machine learning which focuses on advanced Markov chain Monte Carlo and variational fitting algorithms.
It is a rewrite from scratch of the previous version of the PyMC software.
Unlike PyMC2, which had used Fortran ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomato%20paste | Tomato paste is a thick paste made from tomatoes, which are cooked for several hours to reduce water content, straining out seeds and skins, and cooking the liquid again to reduce the base to a thick, rich concentrate. It is used to impart an intense tomato flavour to a variety of dishes, such as pasta, soups and brais... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectatomin | Ectatomin is a protein toxin from the venom of the ant Ectatomma tuberculatum. Ectatomin can efficiently insert into the plasma membrane, where it can form channels. Ectatomin was shown to inhibit L-type calcium currents in isolated rat cardiac myocytes. In these cells, ectatomin induces a gradual, irreversible increas... |
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