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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxis
A taxis (; : taxes ) is the movement of an organism in response to a stimulus such as light or the presence of food. Taxes are innate behavioural responses. A taxis differs from a tropism (turning response, often growth towards or away from a stimulus) in that in the case of taxis, the organism has motility and demonst...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%20balls
In Irish history and legend, brain balls () are small stone-like balls claimed to have been made from the heads or brains of enemies. No examples that modern analysis confirms as human have survived. Description In literature and legend In Geoffrey Keating's 17th century Foras Feasa ar Éirinn (or 'History of Irelan...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiing-Shen%20Chern
Shiing-Shen Chern (; , ; October 28, 1911 – December 3, 2004) was a Chinese-American mathematician and poet. He made fundamental contributions to differential geometry and topology. He has been called the "father of modern differential geometry" and is widely regarded as a leader in geometry and one of the greatest mat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shell%20shoveling
Shell shoveling, in network security, is the act of redirecting the input and output of a shell to a service so that it can be remotely accessed, a reverse shell. In computing, the most basic method of interfacing with the operating system is the shell. On Microsoft Windows based systems, this is a program called cmd....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish%20Operations%20Research%20Society
The Finnish Operations Research Society (FORS) (in Finnish, Suomen Operaatiotutkimusseura ry) is a professional non-profit society for the scientific field of Operations Research in Finland. The society is recognized by the International Federation of Operational Research Societies and its subgrouping, the Association ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolper%E2%80%93Samuelson%20theorem
The Stolper–Samuelson theorem is a basic theorem in Heckscher–Ohlin trade theory. It describes the relationship between relative prices of output and relative factor rewards—specifically, real wages and real returns to capital. The theorem states that—under specific economic assumptions (constant returns to scale, per...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunkunshi
Kunkunshi ( ) is the traditional notation system by which music is recorded in the Ryukyu Islands. The term kunkunshi originally referred to the first three notes of a widely known Chinese melody, although today it is used almost exclusively in reference to the sheet music. Kunkunshi is believed to have been first dev...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron%20moderator
In nuclear engineering, a neutron moderator is a medium that reduces the speed of fast neutrons, ideally without capturing any, leaving them as thermal neutrons with only minimal (thermal) kinetic energy. These thermal neutrons are immensely more susceptible than fast neutrons to propagate a nuclear chain reaction of u...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitrionics
Mitrionics was a Swedish company manufacturing softcore reconfigurable processors. It has been mentioned as one of EETimes "60 Emerging startups". The company was founded in 2001 by Stefan Möhl and Pontus Borg to commercialize a massively parallel reconfigurable processor implemented on FPGAs. It can be described as t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamon%20basil
Cinnamon basil is a type of basil (Ocimum basilicum). The term "cinnamon basil" can refer to a number of different varieties of basil, including as a synonym for Thai basil (O. basilicum var. thyrsiflora), as a particular cultivar of Thai basil, and as a separate cultivar in its own right (i.e., O. basilicum 'Cinnamon'...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasisymmetric%20map
In mathematics, a quasisymmetric homeomorphism between metric spaces is a map that generalizes bi-Lipschitz maps. While bi-Lipschitz maps shrink or expand the diameter of a set by no more than a multiplicative factor, quasisymmetric maps satisfy the weaker geometric property that they preserve the relative sizes of set...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20equations%20in%20nuclear%20and%20particle%20physics
This article summarizes equations in the theory of nuclear physics and particle physics. Definitions Equations Nuclear structure {| class="wikitable" |- ! scope="col" width="100" | Physical situation ! scope="col" width="250" | Nomenclature ! scope="col" width="10" | Equations |- !Mass number | A = (Relative) atomi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Army%20Analysis
The Center for Army Analysis (CAA), formerly US Army's Center for Strategy and Force Evaluation, is a US Army organization under the Deputy Chief of Staff G-8 (DCS G-8) which is responsible for analyses that impact the Army at the strategic or institutional level. Mission CAA conducts analyses across the spectrum o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infineon%20Technologies
Infineon Technologies AG is Germany's largest semiconductor manufacturer. The company was spun-off from Siemens AG in 1999. Infineon has about 50,280 employees and is one of the ten largest semiconductor manufacturers worldwide. In 2021 the company achieved sales of €11.06 billion. Markets Infineon markets semicond...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLIP4
CAP-Gly Domain Containing Linker Protein Family Member 4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CLIP4 gene. In terms of conserved domains, the CLIP4 gene contains primarily ankyrin repeats and the eponymous CAP-Gly domains. The structure of the CLIP4 protein is largely made up of coil, with alpha helices dominat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biopolymers%20%28journal%29
Biopolymers is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the study of biopolymers from a biochemical and biophysical perspective. It was established in 1963 and is published by John Wiley & Sons. The editor-in-chief is Hilary J. Crichton. The journal has three sections: Peptide Science (established in 1995, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miquel%20configuration
In geometry, the Miquel configuration is a configuration of eight points and six circles in the Euclidean plane, with four points per circle and three circles through each point. Its Levi graph is the Rhombic dodecahedral graph, the skeleton of both Rhombic dodecahedron and Bilinski dodecahedron. The configuration is r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spheniscid%20alphaherpesvirus%201
Spheniscid alphaherpesvirus 1 (SpAHV-1) is a species of virus in the genus Mardivirus, subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluon%20condensate
In quantum chromodynamics (QCD), the gluon condensate is a non-perturbative property of the QCD vacuum which could be partly responsible for giving masses to light mesons. If the gluon field tensor is represented as Gμν, then the gluon condensate is the vacuum expectation value . It is not clear yet whether this conde...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%E2%80%93Bernays%20provability%20conditions
In mathematical logic, the Hilbert–Bernays provability conditions, named after David Hilbert and Paul Bernays, are a set of requirements for formalized provability predicates in formal theories of arithmetic (Smith 2007:224). These conditions are used in many proofs of Kurt Gödel's second incompleteness theorem. They ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreachable%20code
In computer programming, unreachable code is part of the source code of a program which can never be executed because there exists no control flow path to the code from the rest of the program. Unreachable code is sometimes also called dead code, although dead code may also refer to code that is executed but has no ef...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichler%E2%80%93Shimura%20isomorphism
In mathematics, Eichler cohomology (also called parabolic cohomology or cuspidal cohomology) is a cohomology theory for Fuchsian groups, introduced by , that is a variation of group cohomology analogous to the image of the cohomology with compact support in the ordinary cohomology group. The Eichler–Shimura isomorphism...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thoracic%20vertebrae
In vertebrates, thoracic vertebrae compose the middle segment of the vertebral column, between the cervical vertebrae and the lumbar vertebrae. In humans, there are twelve thoracic vertebrae and they are intermediate in size between the cervical and lumbar vertebrae; they increase in size going towards the lumbar verte...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toponomics
Toponomics is a discipline in systems biology, molecular cell biology, and histology concerning the study of the toponome of organisms. It is the field of study that purposes to decode the complete toponome in health and disease (the human toponome project)—which is the next big challenge in human biotechnology after h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrastive%20Hebbian%20learning
Contrastive Hebbian learning is a biologically plausible form of Hebbian learning. It is based on the contrastive divergence algorithm, which has been used to train a variety of energy-based latent variable models. In 2003, contrastive Hebbian learning was shown to be equivalent in power to the backpropagation algori...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation%20protection
Radiation protection, also known as radiological protection, is defined by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) as "The protection of people from harmful effects of exposure to ionizing radiation, and the means for achieving this". Exposure can be from a source of radiation external to the human body or due to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescent%20glucose%20biosensor
Fluorescent glucose biosensors are devices that measure the concentration of glucose in diabetic patients by means of sensitive protein that relays the concentration by means of fluorescence, an alternative to amperometric sension of glucose. Due to the prevalence of diabetes, it is the prime drive in the construction ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nature%20deficit%20disorder
Nature-deficit disorder is the idea that human beings, especially children, are spending less time outdoors than they have in the past, and the belief that this change results in a wide range of behavioral problems. This disorder is not recognized in any of the medical manuals for mental disorders, such as the ICD-10 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stellated%20octahedron
The stellated octahedron is the only stellation of the octahedron. It is also called the stella octangula (Latin for "eight-pointed star"), a name given to it by Johannes Kepler in 1609, though it was known to earlier geometers. It was depicted in Pacioli's De Divina Proportione, 1509. It is the simplest of five reg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Lake%20%28Alberta%29
Frank Lake is a restored wetland located east of High River, Alberta, south of Calgary, near Blackie. The lake is controlled by Ducks Unlimited Canada for wildlife management purposes, and is an Important Bird Area and Key Biodiversity Area. It is one of four Alberta lakes with the same name. History Survey reports...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophthalmia
Ophthalmia (also called ophthalmitis) is inflammation of the eye. It results in congestion of the eyeball, often eye-watering, redness and swelling, itching and burning, and a general feeling of irritation under the eyelids. Ophthalmia can have different causes, such as infection from bacteria, viruses, fungi, or may r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuphophyllus%20pratensis
Cuphophyllus pratensis is a species of agaric (gilled mushroom) in the family Hygrophoraceae. It has been given the recommended English name of meadow waxcap in the UK and in North America has variously been called the meadow waxy cap, salmon waxy cap, and butter meadowcap. The species has a widespread, mainly temperat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Ireland%20stingaree
The New Ireland stingaree (Spinilophus armatus) or black-spotted stingaree, is a species of stingray in the family Urolophidae, known only from a single juvenile male long, collected in the Bismarck Archipelago. This species has an oval pectoral fin disc with tiny eyes and a rectangular curtain of skin between the nos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quillen%20adjunction
In homotopy theory, a branch of mathematics, a Quillen adjunction between two closed model categories C and D is a special kind of adjunction between categories that induces an adjunction between the homotopy categories Ho(C) and Ho(D) via the total derived functor construction. Quillen adjunctions are named in honor o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Columbia%20Shore%20Station%20Oceanographic%20Program
The British Columbia Shore Station Oceanographic Program is a sea surface temperature and salinity monitoring program on the Canadian coast of the northeast Pacific Ocean. The program is administered by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, and regroups 12 lighthouse stations in British Columbia. Most lighthouses are staffed by...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SYNJ2
Synaptojanin 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SYNJ2 gene. Function The gene is a member of the inositol-polyphosphate 5-phosphatase family. The encoded protein interacts with the ras-related C3 botulinum toxin substrate 1, which causes translocation of the encoded protein to the plasma membrane where ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early%20Indians
Early Indians: The Story of Our Ancestors and Where We Came From is a 2018 nonfiction book written by Indian journalist Tony Joseph, that focuses on the ancestors of people living in South Asia today. Joseph goes 65,000 years into the past—when anatomically modern humans, first made their way from Africa into the India...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted%20average%20cost%20of%20capital
The weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is the rate that a company is expected to pay on average to all its security holders to finance its assets. The WACC is commonly referred to as the firm's cost of capital. Importantly, it is dictated by the external market and not by management. The WACC represents the minimu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keio%20Medical%20Science%20Prize
The Keio Medical Science Prize (Japanese: 慶應医学賞) is a Japanese prize in medical sciences. Introduction The prize is awarded to scientists who made significant contributions to the field of medical sciences or life sciences. And these contributions can further promote the peace and prosperity of mankind and human socie...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeArc
FreeArc is a free and open-source high-performance file archiver developed by Bulat Ziganshin. The project is presumably discontinued no information has been released by developers since 2016 and the official website is down. A "FreeArc Next" version is under development, with version FA 0.11 released in October 2016....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser-based%20computing
Browser-based computing is the use of the web browsers to perform computing tasks. Opportunities for computing on the Web have been noted as far back as 1997. Computing over the web was described in 2000. Applications include distributed computing for web workers as illustrated by James (formerly CrowdProcess) and HASH...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroRNA%204521
MicroRNA 4521 is a micro RNA that in humans is encoded by the MIR4521 gene. Function microRNAs (miRNAs) are short (20-24 nt) non-coding RNAs that are involved in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in multicellular organisms by affecting both the stability and translation of mRNAs. miRNAs are transcri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20Star%20Yeast
Red Star Yeast Company, LLC is a joint-venture of Lesaffre, and Archer Daniels Midland Company. Red Star operates two plants in the United States—a plant in Headland, AL, and a new plant built in 2006 in Cedar Rapids, IA. Lesaffre Yeast Corporation (prior to the joint-venture) used to operate plants in Milwaukee, WI;...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse%20of%2039
The curse of 39, also referred to as triakontenneaphobia, is the fear of the number 39. In some parts of Afghanistan, the number is considered to be cursed or a badge of shame as it is purportedly linked with prostitution. Origin The origin of the superstition is unclear, but it has widely been claimed to have been ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TNFSF9
Tumor necrosis factor ligand superfamily member 9 also known as 4-1BB ligand or 4-1BBL or CD137L is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TNFSF9 gene. 4-1BBL is a type 2 transmembrane glycoprotein receptor that is found on APCs (antigen presenting cells) and binds to 4-1BB (also known as CD137). The 4-1BB/4-1BBL ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera%20Nikolaevna%20Maslennikova
Vera Nikolaevna Maslennikova (; 29 April 1926 – 14 August 2000) was a Russian Mathematician known for her contributions to the theory of partial differential equations. Early life and war service Maslennikova was born on 29 April 1926 in the village of Priluki near Vologda in the former USSR. Little is known about her...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mi-Pay
Mi-Pay is a contactless NFC-based mobile payment system that supports credit, debit and public transportation cards in China. The service was launched by Xiaomi in partnership with UnionPay. In December 2018 Xiaomi launched Mi Pay in India with partnership with ICICI Bank. Apart from sending and receiving money, one c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaitin%27s%20algorithm
Chaitin's algorithm is a bottom-up, graph coloring register allocation algorithm that uses cost/degree as its spill metric. It is named after its designer, Gregory Chaitin. Chaitin's algorithm was the first register allocation algorithm that made use of coloring of the interference graph for both register allocations a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Food%20Policy%20Research%20Institute
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) is an international agricultural research center founded in 1975 to improve the understanding of national agricultural and food policies to promote the adoption of innovations in agricultural technology. Additionally, IFPRI was meant to shed more light on the rol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baranyai%27s%20theorem
In combinatorial mathematics, Baranyai's theorem (proved by and named after Zsolt Baranyai) deals with the decompositions of complete hypergraphs. Statement of the theorem The statement of the result is that if are integers and r divides k, then the complete hypergraph decomposes into 1-factors. is a hypergraph wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoplasmy
Homoplasmy is a term used in genetics to describe a eukaryotic cell whose copies of mitochondrial DNA are all identical. In normal and healthy tissues, all cells are homoplasmic. Homoplasmic mitochondrial DNA copies may be normal or mutated; however, most mutations are heteroplasmic (only occurring in some copies of mi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma%20channel
A plasma channel is a conductive channel of plasma. A plasma channel can be formed in the following ways. With a high-powered laser that operates at a certain frequency that will provide enough energy for an atmospheric gas to break into its ions, or form a plasma, such as in a Laser-Induced Plasma Channel, for exampl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flajolet%E2%80%93Martin%20algorithm
The Flajolet–Martin algorithm is an algorithm for approximating the number of distinct elements in a stream with a single pass and space-consumption logarithmic in the maximal number of possible distinct elements in the stream (the count-distinct problem). The algorithm was introduced by Philippe Flajolet and G. Nigel ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20Java%20virtual%20machines
Version information Technical information Supported CPU architectures Supported operating systems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermannviridae
Ackermannviridae is a family of viruses in the order Caudovirales. Gammaproteobacteria in the phylum Pseudomonadota serve as natural hosts. There are 2 subfamilies, 10 genera, and 63 species in the family. Etymology The family's name, Ackermann is in honor of Hans-Wolfgang Ackermann (1936-2017), a German microbiologis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zygomatic%20bone
In the human skull, the zygomatic bone (from ), also called cheekbone or malar bone, is a paired irregular bone which articulates with the maxilla, the temporal bone, the sphenoid bone and the frontal bone. It is situated at the upper and lateral part of the face and forms the prominence of the cheek, part of the later...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blastulation
Blastulation is the stage in early animal embryonic development that produces the blastula. In mammalian development the blastula develops into the blastocyst with a differentiated inner cell mass and an outer trophectoderm. The blastula (from Greek βλαστός ( meaning sprout)) is a hollow sphere of cells known as blasto...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannahatta%20Project
The Mannahatta Project is a Wildlife Conservation Society research project in historical ecology led by landscape ecologist Eric W. Sanderson that principally ran for 10 years, from 1999-2009, reconstructing the island at the point of first contact between the Dutch ship Halve Maen and the Lenape in 1609. The work culm...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20quantum%20field%20theory
In gauge theory and mathematical physics, a topological quantum field theory (or topological field theory or TQFT) is a quantum field theory which computes topological invariants. Although TQFTs were invented by physicists, they are also of mathematical interest, being related to, among other things, knot theory and t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost%20note
In music, notably in jazz, a ghost note (or a dead, muted, silenced or false note) is a musical note with a rhythmic value, but no discernible pitch when played. In musical notation, this is represented by an "X" for a note head instead of an oval, or parentheses around the note head. It should not be confused with t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voronoi%20pole
In geometry, the positive and negative Voronoi poles of a cell in a Voronoi diagram are certain vertices of the diagram. Definition Let be the Voronoi diagram for a set of sites , and let be the Voronoi cell of corresponding to a site . If is bounded, then its positive pole is the vertex of the boundary of that ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solute%20carrier%20family%2017%20%28vesicular%20glutamate%20transporter%29%2C%20member%206
Solute carrier family 17 (vesicular glutamate transporter), member 6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC17A6 gene.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FNR%20regulon
The fnr (fumarate and nitrate reductase) gene of Escherichia coli encodes a transcriptional activator (FNR) which is required for the expression of a number of genes involved in anaerobic respiratory pathways. The FNR (defective in fumarate and nitrate reduction) protein of E. coli is an oxygen – responsive transcripti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elastic%20scoring
Elastic scoring is a style of orchestration or music arrangement that was first used by the Australian composer Percy Grainger. Purpose This technique of orchestration is used to provide composers with the option of allowing a diverse group of voices or instrumentalists the ability to perform their music. An example ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bimaximal%20mixing
Bimaximal mixing refers to a proposed form of the lepton mixing matrix. It is characterized by the neutrino being a bimaximal mixture of and and being completely decoupled from the , i.e. a uniform mixture of and . The is consequently a uniform mixture of and . Other notable properties are the symmetries between ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread%20spectrum
In telecommunication, especially radio communication, spread spectrum designates techniques by which a signal (e.g., an electrical, electromagnetic, or acoustic) generated with a particular bandwidth is deliberately spread in the frequency domain, resulting in a signal with a wider bandwidth. Spread-spectrum technique...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARL6IP4
ADP-ribosylation-like factor 6 interacting protein 4 (ARL6IP4), also called SRp25 is the product of the ARL6IP4 gene located on chromosome 12q24. 31. Its function is unknown. Structure It is 360 amino acids in length. It is expressed ubiquitously but only in G1/S phase of the cell cycle. The human and mouse mRNAs of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitinol%20biocompatibility
Nitinol biocompatibility is an important factor in biomedical applications. Nitinol (NiTi), which is formed by alloying nickel and titanium (~ 50% Ni), is a shape-memory alloy with superelastic properties more similar to that of bone, when compared to stainless steel, another commonly used biomaterial. Biomedical appli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor%20program
A motor program is an abstract metaphor of the central organization of movement and control of the many degrees of freedom involved in performing an action.p. 182 Signals transmitted through efferent and afferent pathways allow the central nervous system to anticipate, plan or guide movement. Evidence for the concept ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am%20Fear%20Liath%20M%C3%B2r
In Scottish folklore, ; ; also known as the Big Grey Man of Ben MacDhui or simply the Greyman) is the name for a presence or creature which is said to haunt the summit and passes of Ben Macdui, the highest peak of the Cairngorms and the second highest peak in British Isles after Ben Nevis. Description Although there ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20game
In combinatorial game theory, a branch of mathematics, a hot game is one in which each player can improve their position by making the next move. By contrast, a cold game is one where each player can only worsen their position by making the next move. Cold games have values in the surreal numbers and so can be ord...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandin%20Image%20Processor
The Sandin Image Processor is a video synthesizer, usually introduced as invented by Dan Sandin and designed between 1971 and 1974. Some called it the "video equivalent of a Moog audio synthesizer." It accepted basic video signals and mixed and modified them in a fashion similar to what a Moog synthesizer did with aud...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eotheroides
Eotheroides is an extinct genus of Eocene sirenian. It is an early member of the family Dugongidae, which includes the extant dugong. Fossils have been found from Egypt, India, and Madagascar. Eotheroides was first described by Richard Owen in 1875 under the name Eotherium, which was replaced by the current name in 189...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumford%20vanishing%20theorem
In algebraic geometry, the Mumford vanishing theorem proved by Mumford in 1967 states that if L is a semi-ample invertible sheaf with Iitaka dimension at least 2 on a complex projective manifold, then The Mumford vanishing theorem is related to the Ramanujam vanishing theorem, and is generalized by the Kawamata–Viehwe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunogenetics
Immunogenetics or immungenetics is the branch of Medical Immunology and Medical Genetics that explores the relationship between the immune system and genetics. Autoimmune diseases, such as type 1 diabetes, are complex genetic traits which result from defects in the immune system. Identification of genes defining the i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish%20mutation
The Swedish mutation, or familial Alzheimer's disease genetic mutation, is one of the most well known genetic variations that causes early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease. History The mutation was found in 1992 in Florida by Dr. Michael Mullan and Dr. Fiona Crawford working on DNA samples supplied by a group of Swe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%20%28biology%29
In DNA sequencing, a read is an inferred sequence of base pairs (or base pair probabilities) corresponding to all or part of a single DNA fragment. A typical sequencing experiment involves fragmentation of the genome into millions of molecules, which are size-selected and ligated to adapters. The set of fragments is r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20Zealand%20Microbiology%20Network
The New Zealand Microbiology Network (NZMN) is an advisory group to the Ministry of Health in New Zealand. It was established in 2014 through a contract from the Ministry of Health to the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR). Purpose The group's stated purpose is "to enable a timely and consistent re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20threat
A web threat is any threat that uses the World Wide Web to facilitate cybercrime. Web threats use multiple types of malware and fraud, all of which utilize HTTP or HTTPS protocols, but may also employ other protocols and components, such as links in email or IM, or malware attachments or on servers that access the We...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20approaches%20to%20schizophrenia
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by persistent hallucinations, delusions, paranoia, and thought disorder. These experiences are evident in multiple sensory modalities and include deviation in all facets of thought, cognition, and emotion. Compared to other psychological disorders like major depressive d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20compatibility
A family of computer models is said to be compatible if certain software that runs on one of the models can also be run on all other models of the family. The computer models may differ in performance, reliability or some other characteristic. These differences may affect the outcome of the running of the software. So...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20numerical%20analysis%20after%201945
The following is a timeline of numerical analysis after 1945, and deals with developments after the invention of the modern electronic computer, which began during Second World War. For a fuller history of the subject before this period, see timeline and history of mathematics. 1940s Monte Carlo simulation (voted on...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katrina%20Karkazis
Katrina Alicia Karkazis (born 1970) is an American anthropologist and bioethicist. She is a professor of Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College. She was previously the Carol Zicklin Endowed Chair in the Honors Academy at Brooklyn College, City University of New York and a senior research fellow with t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction%20by%20partial%20matching
Prediction by partial matching (PPM) is an adaptive statistical data compression technique based on context modeling and prediction. PPM models use a set of previous symbols in the uncompressed symbol stream to predict the next symbol in the stream. PPM algorithms can also be used to cluster data into predicted groupi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secchi%20disk
The Secchi disk (or Secchi disc), as created in 1865 by Angelo Secchi, is a plain white, circular disk in diameter used to measure water transparency or turbidity in bodies of water. The disc is mounted on a pole or line and lowered slowly down in the water. The depth at which the disk is no longer visible is taken as...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antibiotic%20use%20in%20livestock
Antibiotic use in livestock is the use of antibiotics for any purpose in the husbandry of livestock, which includes treatment when ill (therapeutic), treatment of a group of animals when at least one is diagnosed with clinical infection (metaphylaxis), and preventative treatment (prophylaxis). Antibiotics are an import...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Backrooms
The Backrooms are an online fiction originating from a creepypasta posted on a 2019 4chan thread. One of the best-known examples of the Internet aesthetic of liminal spaces, which depicts usually busy locations as unnaturally empty, the Backrooms was first described as a maze of empty office rooms that can only be ente...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%20tris%28diethyldithiocarbamate%29
Iron tris(diethyldithiocarbamate) is the coordination complex of iron with diethyldithiocarbamate with the formula Fe(S2CNEt2)3 (Et = ethyl). It is a black solid that is soluble in organic solvents. Synthesis, structure, bonding Iron tris(dithiocarbamate)s are typically are prepared by salt metathesis reactions. Iro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyan
Tyan Computer Corporation (泰安電腦科技股份有限公司; also known as Tyan Business Unit, or TBU) is a subsidiary of MiTAC International, and a manufacturer of computer motherboards, including models for both AMD and Intel processors. They develop and produce high-end server, SMP, and desktop barebones systems as well as provide desi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/52nd%20meridian%20west
The meridian 52° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, the Atlantic Ocean, South America, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 52nd meridian west forms a great circle with the 128th meridian east. From Pole to Pole Starting a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaeoceros%20carolinianus
Phaeoceros carolinianus is a cosmopolitan species of hornwort. Often seen near streams or moist situations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KAME%20project
The KAME project, a sub-project of the WIDE Project, was a joint effort of six organizations in Japan which aimed to provide a free IPv6 and IPsec (for both IPv4 and IPv6) protocol stack implementation for variants of the BSD Unix computer operating-system. The project began in 1998 and on November 7, 2005 it was anno...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net%20%28command%29
In computing, net is a command in IBM OS/2 (including eComStation and ArcaOS), Microsoft Windows, ReactOS and Greentea OS used to manage and configure the operating system from the command-line. It is also part of the IBM PC Network Program for DOS. Overview The command is primarily used to manage network resources. I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redundancy%20%28engineering%29
In engineering and systems theory, redundancy is the intentional duplication of critical components or functions of a system with the goal of increasing reliability of the system, usually in the form of a backup or fail-safe, or to improve actual system performance, such as in the case of GNSS receivers, or multi-threa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial%20colony%20optimization
The bacterial colony optimization algorithm is an optimization algorithm which is based on a lifecycle model that simulates some typical behaviors of E. coli bacteria during their whole lifecycle, including chemotaxis, communication, elimination, reproduction, and migration. The bacterial foraging algorithm (BFA) is a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engels%20Maps
Engels Maps is a map company in the Ohio Valley with particular concentration on the Cincinnati-Dayton region. It also produces chamber of commerce maps. Publications It has three semi-annual publications that form its foundation: Cincinnati Engels Guide Dayton Engels Guide Indianapolis Engels Guide Their maps are al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20Address%20Resolution%20Protocol
The Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) is an obsolete computer communication protocol used by a client computer to request its Internet Protocol (IPv4) address from a computer network, when all it has available is its link layer or hardware address, such as a MAC address. The client broadcasts the request and d...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20activity%20monitoring
Business activity monitoring (BAM) is software that aids the monitoring of business activities that are implemented in computer systems. The term was originally coined by analysts at Gartner, Inc. and refers to the aggregation, analysis, and presentation of real-time information about activities inside organizations, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widom%E2%80%93Larsen%20theory
The Widom–Larsen theory is a proposed explanation for supposed Low Energy Nuclear Reactions (LENR) developed in 2005 by Allan Widom and Lewis Larsen. In the paper describing the idea, they claim that ultra low momentum neutrons are produced in the cold fusion apparatuses during weak interactions when protons capture "h...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBoss%20Tools
JBoss Tools is a set of Eclipse plugins and features designed to help JBoss and JavaEE developers develop applications. It is an umbrella project for the JBoss developed plugins that will make it into JBoss Developer Studio. Modules JBoss Tools includes the following modules: Visual Page Editor (VPE). The visual edi...