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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild%20geodesics | In general relativity, Schwarzschild geodesics describe the motion of test particles in the gravitational field of a central fixed mass that is, motion in the Schwarzschild metric. Schwarzschild geodesics have been pivotal in the validation of Einstein's theory of general relativity. For example, they provide accurate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHR2%20domain | DHR2 (DOCK homology region 2), also known as CZH2 or Docker2, is a protein domain of approximately 450-550 amino acids that is present in the DOCK family of proteins. This domain functions as a guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) domain for small G proteins of the Rho family. DHR2 domains bear no significant simil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20black%20hole%20physics | Timeline of black hole physics
Pre-20th century
1640 — Ismaël Bullialdus suggests an inverse-square gravitational force law
1676 — Ole Rømer demonstrates that light has a finite speed
1684 — Isaac Newton writes down his inverse-square law of universal gravitation
1758 — Rudjer Josip Boscovich develops his theory o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pristine%20%28company%29 | Pristine is a VC funded startup that develops software for hands-free smartglasses and smart mobile devices, enabling video collaboration and remote support in industrial and manufacturing environments, field service management and healthcare. Pristine is based in Austin, Texas.
History
Pristine was founded by Kyle Sa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RL02 | RL01 and RL02 drives are moving head magnetic disk drives manufactured by Digital Equipment Corporation for the PDP-8 and PDP-11 microcomputers. The RL01 and RL02 drives stored approximate 5MB and 10MB respectively, utilizing a removable data cartridge. The drives are typically mounted in a standard 19" rack and weigh ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supertree | A supertree is a single phylogenetic tree assembled from a combination of smaller phylogenetic trees, which may have been assembled using different datasets (e.g. morphological and molecular) or a different selection of taxa. Supertree algorithms can highlight areas where additional data would most usefully resolve an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edimax | Edimax Technology Co., Ltd. () is a Taiwanese manufacturer of data networking products. It also operates in the telephone and telegraph apparatus sector. The company was founded in 1986 and has been listed at the Taiwan Stock Exchange since 2001.
See also
List of companies of Taiwan |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20imaging | Dynamic imaging is the amalgamation of digital imaging, image editing, and workflow automation. It is used to automate the creation of images by zooming, panning, colorize and performing other image processing and color management operations on a copy of a digital master.
Categories
Dynamic imaging technology falls in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrence%20plot | In descriptive statistics and chaos theory, a recurrence plot (RP) is a plot showing, for each moment in time, the times at which the state of a dynamical system returns to the previous state at ,
i.e., when the phase space trajectory visits roughly the same area in the phase space as at time . In other words, it is a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teylers%20Instrument%20Room | The Instrument Room is a room in Teylers Museum which houses a part of the museum's Cabinet of Physics: a collection of scientific instruments from the 18th and 19th centuries. The instruments in the collection were used for research as well as for educational public demonstrations. Most of them are demonstration model... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20ConnectSafe | Norton ConnectSafe was a free public DNS service offered by Symantec Corporation that claimed to offer a faster and more reliable web browsing experience while blocking undesirable websites. The service was retired on November 15, 2018.
History
The service was opened to the public in June 2010. Norton ConnectSafe reti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentium%20II | The Pentium II brand refers to Intel's sixth-generation microarchitecture ("P6") and x86-compatible microprocessors introduced on May 7, 1997. Containing 7.5 million transistors (27.4 million in the case of the mobile Dixon with 256 KB L2 cache), the Pentium II featured an improved version of the first P6-generation co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Automated%20Software%20Engineering | The International Conference on Automated Software Engineering (ASE) is a large annual software engineering conference. The first conference in the series was held in 1986. Between 1986 and 1990 the conference was known as Knowledge-Based Software Assistant (KBSA), between 1991 and 1996 the conference was known as Know... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetyl-CoA | Acetyl-CoA (acetyl coenzyme A) is a molecule that participates in many biochemical reactions in protein, carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. Its main function is to deliver the acetyl group to the citric acid cycle (Krebs cycle) to be oxidized for energy production. Coenzyme A (CoASH or CoA) consists of a β-mercaptoethy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burkholderia%20virus%20phiE202 | Burkholderia virus phiE202 is a bacteriophage (a virus that infects bacteria) of the family Myoviridae, genus Tigrvirus. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar%20Wessel | Caspar Wessel (8 June 1745, Vestby – 25 March 1818, Copenhagen) was a Danish–Norwegian mathematician and cartographer. In 1799, Wessel was the first person to describe the geometrical interpretation of complex numbers as points in the complex plane and vectors.
Biography
Wessel was born in Jonsrud, Vestby, Akershus i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klasies%20River%20Caves | The Klasies River Caves are a series of caves located east of the Klasies River Mouth on the Tsitsikamma coast in the Humansdorp district of Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. The Klasies River Main (KRM) site consists of 3 main caves and 2 shelters located within a cliff on the southern coast of the Eastern Cape. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion%20funnel | in mass spectrometry, an ion funnel is a device used to focus a beam of ions using a series of stacked ring electrodes with decreasing inner diameter. A combined radio frequency and fixed electrical potential is applied to the grids. In electrospray ionization-mass spectrometry (ESI-MS), ions are created at atmospheric... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autolycus%20of%20Pitane | Autolycus of Pitane (; c. 360 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, and geographer. He is known today for his two surviving works On the Moving Sphere and On Risings and Settings, both about spherical geometry.
Life
Autolycus was born in Pitane, a town of Aeolis within Ionia, Asia Minor. Of his personal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ersatz%20good | An ersatz good () is a substitute good, especially one that is considered inferior to the good it replaces. It has particular connotations of wartime usage.
Etymology
Ersatz is a German word literally meaning substitute or replacement. Although it is used as an adjective in English, it is a noun in German. In German o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popliteal%20lymph%20nodes | The popliteal lymph nodes, small in size and some six or seven in number, are embedded in the fat contained in the popliteal fossa, sometimes referred to as the 'knee pit'. One lies immediately beneath the popliteal fascia, near the terminal part of the small saphenous vein, and drains the region from which this vein d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20A.%20Guggenheim | Edward Armand Guggenheim FRS (11 August 1901 – 9 August 1970) was an English physical chemist, noted for his contributions to thermodynamics.
Life
Guggenheim was born in Manchester 11 August 1901, the son of Armand Guggenheim and Marguerite Bertha Simon. His father was Swiss, a naturalised British citizen. Guggenheim ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batok | Batok, batek, patik, or batik, among other names, are general terms for indigenous tattoos of the Philippines. Tattooing on both sexes was practiced by almost all ethnic groups of the Philippine Islands during the pre-colonial era. Like in other Austronesian groups, these tattoos were made traditionally with hafted too... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radeon%20500%20series | The Radeon 500 series is a series of graphics processors developed by AMD. These cards are based on the fourth iteration of the Graphics Core Next architecture, featuring GPUs based on Polaris 30, Polaris 20, Polaris 11, and Polaris 12 chips. Thus the RX 500 series uses the same microarchitecture and instruction set as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valence%20electron | In chemistry and physics, valence electrons are electrons in the outermost shell of an atom, and that can participate in the formation of a chemical bond if the outermost shell is not closed. In a single covalent bond, a shared pair forms with both atoms in the bond each contributing one valence electron.
The presence... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrational%20partition%20function | The vibrational partition function traditionally refers to the component of the canonical partition function resulting from the vibrational degrees of freedom of a system. The vibrational partition function is only well-defined in model systems where the vibrational motion is relatively uncoupled with the system's othe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Food%20Quality | The Journal of Food Quality is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that publishes research "on the handling of food from a quality and sensory perspective." It was established in 1977 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell. The journal moved to online-only publication in 2011. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide%20synthase | In molecular biology, the protein domain SAICAR synthase is an enzyme which catalyses a reaction to create SAICAR. In enzymology, this enzyme is also known as phosphoribosylaminoimidazolesuccinocarboxamide synthase (). It is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction
ATP + 5-amino-1-(5-phospho-D-ribosyl)imidazole... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuliya%20Mishura | Yuliya Stepanivna Mishura () is a Ukrainian mathematician specializing in probability theory and mathematical finance. She is a professor at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
Education and career
Mishura earned a Ph.D. in 1978 from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv with a dissertation on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role%20of%20cell%20adhesions%20in%20neural%20development | Cellular adhesions can be defined as proteins or protein aggregates that form mechanical and chemical linkages between the intracellular and extracellular space. Adhesions serve several critical processes including cell migration, signal transduction, tissue development and repair. Due to this functionality, adhesions ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papillary%20fibroelastoma | A papillary fibroelastoma is a primary tumor of the heart that typically involves one of the valves of the heart. Papillary fibroelastomas, while considered uncommon, make up about 10 percent of all primary tumors of the heart. They are the third most common type of primary tumor of the heart, behind cardiac myxomas an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Center%20for%20Biotechnology%20Information | The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is approved and funded by the government of the United States. The NCBI is located in Bethesda, Maryland, and was founded in 1988 through legi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerber%20multitool | A Gerber multitool is a compact Multi-tool made by Gerber Legendary Blades, part of the Fiskars Corporation.
There are similarities and differences between the Gerber multitool and tools made by Leatherman. Some of the Gerber tools are accessed by opening the handles, but no longer unique to Gerber is a system in whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSTS/E | RSTS () is a multi-user time-sharing operating system developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC, now part of Hewlett-Packard) for the PDP-11 series of 16-bit minicomputers. The first version of RSTS (RSTS-11, Version 1) was implemented in 1970 by DEC software engineers that developed the TSS-8 time-sharing operat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaney%E2%80%93Criddle%20equation | The Blaney–Criddle equation (named after H. F. Blaney and W. D. Criddle) is a method for estimating reference crop evapotranspiration.
Usage
The Blaney–Criddle equation is a relatively simplistic method for calculating evapotranspiration. When sufficient meteorological data is available the Penman–Monteith equation i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brackish%20marsh | Brackish marshes develop from salt marshes where a significant freshwater influx dilutes the seawater to brackish levels of salinity. This commonly happens upstream from salt marshes by estuaries of coastal rivers or near the mouths of coastal rivers with heavy freshwater discharges in the conditions of low tidal range... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20speciation | Hybrid speciation is a form of speciation where hybridization between two different species leads to a new species, reproductively isolated from the parent species. Previously, reproductive isolation between two species and their parents was thought to be particularly difficult to achieve, and thus hybrid species were ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITkit%20%28hardware%29 | FITkit is a hardware platform used for educational purposes at the Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic.
FITkit
The FITkit contains a low-power microcontroller, a field programmable gate array chip (FPGA) and a set of peripherals.
Utilizing advanced reconfigurable hardware, the FITkit may be modified to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoaling%20and%20schooling | In biology, any group of fish that stay together for social reasons are shoaling, and if the group is swimming in the same direction in a coordinated manner, they are schooling. In common usage, the terms are sometimes used rather loosely. About one quarter of fish species shoal all their lives, and about one half shoa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stripe%2C%20Inc. | Stripe, Inc. is an Irish-American multinational financial services and software as a service (SaaS) company dual-headquartered in South San Francisco, California, United States and Dublin, Ireland. The company primarily offers payment-processing software and application programming interfaces for e-commerce websites an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulnaria%20ulna | Ulnaria ulna is a species of diatom belonging to the family Ulnariaceae.
Synonym:
Synedra ulna (Nitzsch) Ehrenberg 1832 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiVo%20digital%20video%20recorders | TiVo digital video recorders encompass a number of digital video recorder (DVR) models that TiVo Corporation designed. Features may vary, but a common feature is that all of the units listed here require TiVo service and use its operating system.
TiVo units have been manufactured by various OEMs, including Philips, S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20der%20Nachrichtenaufkl%C3%A4rung | General der Nachrichtenaufklärung was the signals intelligence agency of the Heer (German Army), before and during World War II. It was the successor to the former cipher bureau known as Inspectorate 7/VI in operation between 1940 and 1942, when it was further reorganised into the Headquarters for Signal Intelligence (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycentric%20Coordinate%20Time | Barycentric Coordinate Time (TCB, from the French Temps-coordonnée barycentrique) is a coordinate time standard intended to be used as the independent variable of time for all calculations pertaining to orbits of planets, asteroids, comets, and interplanetary spacecraft in the Solar System. It is equivalent to the pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desulfovibrio%20sulfodismutans | Desulfovibrio sulfodismutans is a bacterium. It grows under strictly anaerobic conditions by disproportionation of thiosulfate or sulfite to sulfate and sulfide. ThAc01 is its type strain. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Ocean%20Observing%20System | The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) is a global system for sustained observations of the ocean comprising the oceanographic component of the Global Earth Observing System of Systems (GEOSS). GOOS is administrated by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), and joins the Global Climate Observing Syste... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai%20tou | Tai tou () is a typographical East Asian expression of honor that can be divided into two forms, Nuo tai and Ping tai.
Nuo tai
Nuo tai (, literally "move and shift") is a typographical device used in written Chinese to denote respect for the person being mentioned. It leaves a full-width (1 character wide) space befo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biff%20%28Unix%29 | is a mail notification system for Unix.
Usage
When a new mail message is delivered, the program alerts the recipient so they can read it immediately. The alert is sent to the tty where the recipient is logged in, and contains the Subject, From line, and first few lines of the body of the new message. The alert also ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroinformatics | Hydroinformatics is a branch of informatics which concentrates on the application of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in addressing the increasingly serious problems of the equitable and efficient use of water for many different purposes. Growing out of the earlier discipline of computational hydrauli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born%20rigidity | Born rigidity is a concept in special relativity. It is one answer to the question of what, in special relativity, corresponds to the rigid body of non-relativistic classical mechanics.
The concept was introduced by Max Born (1909), who gave a detailed description of the case of constant proper acceleration which he c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryopreservation%20of%20testicular%20tissue | Cryopreservation of testicular tissue is an experimental method being used to preserve fertility in pre-pubescent males, or males who cannot produce sperm, to allow them the option of having biological children.
Current first line treatment for fertility maintenance in men undergoing treatment which damages testicula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollerball%20%28video%20game%29 | is a video game produced by HAL Laboratory in 1984 for the MSX. A Nintendo Entertainment System version of the game was released in 1988. It is designed to be played by one to four players, in turn. It is an emulation of a pinball machine.
The pinball machine rendered in Rollerball is composed of four screens, which, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20charge | A surface charge is an electric charge present on a two-dimensional surface. These electric charges are constrained on this 2-D surface, and surface charge density, measured in coulombs per square meter (C•m−2), is used to describe the charge distribution on the surface. The electric potential is continuous across a su... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ihering%27s%20snake | Ihering's snake (Lioheterophis iheringi) is a snake endemic to Brazil. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Lioheterophis. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living%20fossil | A living fossil is an extant taxon that cosmetically resembles related species known only from the fossil record. To be considered a living fossil, the fossil species must be old relative to the time of origin of the extant clade. Living fossils commonly are of species-poor lineages, but they need not be. While the bod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yush%C5%8D%20disease | was a mass poisoning by polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) which occurred in northern Kyūshū, Japan, in 1968. In January 1968, rice bran oil produced by Kanemi Company in Kyushu was contaminated with PCBs and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) during production. For deodorization, the oil was heated using PCB as the h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracema | Piracema (from tupi "pirá", fish + "sema", exit) is the name given to the period of the year when fish within the Paraguay River drainage basin―which includes the Pantanal region in the Brazilian states of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul―reproduce.
The season lasts from October to March, during which the fish swim ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junction-mediating%20and%20regulatory%20protein | Junction-mediating and regulatory protein, or JMY, is a 110 kDa protein that interacts with p300 and has a role in regulating p53 activity. Additionally, JMY is a member of the WASp family of actin nucleators. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson%20scatter%20theorem | In probability theory, The Poisson scatter theorem describes a probability model of random scattering. It implies that the number of points in a fixed region will follow a Poisson distribution.
Statement
Let there exist a chance process realized by a set of points (called hits) over a bounded region such that:
1) ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo%20Baeza%20Rodr%C3%ADguez | Ricardo Baeza Rodríguez is a Chilean mathematician who works as a professor at the University of Talca. He earned his Ph.D. in 1970 from Saarland University, under the joint supervision of Robert W. Berger and Manfred Knebusch. His research interest is in number theory.
Baeza became a member of the Chilean Academy of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20domain | In data management and database analysis, a data domain is the collection of values that a data element may contain. The rule for determining the domain boundary may be as simple as a data type with an enumerated list of values.
For example, a database table that has information about people, with one record per perso... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace%20amine | Trace amines are an endogenous group of trace amine-associated receptor 1 (TAAR1) agonists – and hence, monoaminergic neuromodulators – that are structurally and metabolically related to classical monoamine neurotransmitters. Compared to the classical monoamines, they are present in trace concentrations. They are dist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vern%20Poythress | Vern Sheridan Poythress (born 1946) is an American philosopher, theologian, New Testament scholar and mathematician, who is currently the New Testament chair of the ESV Oversight Committee. He is also the Distinguished Professor of New Testament, Biblical Interpretation, and Systematic Theology at Westminster Theologic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%2015489 | ISO 15489 Information and documentation—Records management is an international standard for the management of business records, consisting of two (2) parts: Part 1: Concepts and principles and Part 2: Guidelines. ISO 15489 is the first standard devoted specifically to records management; providing an outline for compr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creatinine | Creatinine (; from Ancient Greek: κρέας (kréas) 'flesh') is a breakdown product of creatine phosphate from muscle and protein metabolism. It is released at a constant rate by the body (depending on muscle mass).
Biological relevance
Serum creatinine (a blood measurement) is an important indicator of kidney health, bec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20inequalities | Quantum inequalities are local constraints on the magnitude and extent of distributions of negative energy density in space-time. Initially conceived to clear up a long-standing problem in quantum field theory (namely, the potential for unconstrained negative energy density at a point), quantum inequalities have proven... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus%20%28video%20game%29 | is a graphic adventure game developed and published by Enix. It was first released in 1987 on the PC-8801, FM-77AV, X1, and the MSX2 and was later ported to the Famicom in 1989 as (Jesus: Terror of Bio Monster). A sequel, Jesus II, was released on the PC-8801, PC-9801, and X68000 in 1991.
The game's name refers to a ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sterimol%20parameter | A sterimol parameter is a set of vectors which describes the steric occupancy of a molecule. First developed by Verloop in the 1970s. Sterimol parameters found extensive application in quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) studies for drug discovery. Introduction of Sterimol parameters into organic synthe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%20%26%20E%20Hall | J & E Hall is an English manufacturer of refrigeration equipment (today part of the Daikin group). It was originally established as an iron works in Dartford, Kent in 1785, with products including papermaking machines, steam engines and gun carriages, before it started producing refrigeration machinery in the 1880s. Du... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VzRoom | vzRoom is a software system developed by Manipeer Limited for multi-party video conferencing, media sharing and VoIP phone integration. It was launched in July 2008.
Features
Multi-party videoconferencing
Each conference room supports up to 63 concurrent users. Each user has an own room to host individual videoconfer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross%20processing | Gross processing, "grossing" or "gross pathology" is the process by which pathology specimens undergo examination with the bare eye to obtain diagnostic information, as well as cutting and tissue sampling in order to prepare material for subsequent microscopic examination.
Responsibility
Gross examination of surgical ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasciation | Fasciation (pronounced , from the Latin root meaning "band" or "stripe"), also known as cresting, is a relatively rare condition of abnormal growth in vascular plants in which the apical meristem (growing tip), which normally is concentrated around a single point and produces approximately cylindrical tissue, instead b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMLAC | IMLAC Corporation was an American electronics company in Needham, Massachusetts, that manufactured graphical display systems, mainly the PDS-1 and PDS-4, in the 1970s.
The PDS-1 debuted in 1970. It was the first low-cost commercial realization of Ivan Sutherland's Sketchpad system of a highly interactive computer grap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20generation%20%28compiler%29 | In computing, code generation is part of the process chain of a compiler and converts intermediate representation of source code into a form (e.g., machine code) that can be readily executed by the target system.
Sophisticated compilers typically perform multiple passes over various intermediate forms. This multi-stag... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper%20memory%20area | In DOS memory management, the upper memory area (UMA) is the memory between the addresses of 640 KB and 1024 KB (0xA0000–0xFFFFF) in an IBM PC or compatible. IBM reserved the uppermost 384 KB of the 8088 CPU's 1024 KB address space for BIOS ROM, Video BIOS, Option ROMs, video RAM, RAM on peripherals, memory-mapped I/O,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Mobile%20Equipment%20Identity | The International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) is a numeric identifier, usually unique, for 3GPP and iDEN mobile phones, as well as some satellite phones. It is usually found printed inside the battery compartment of the phone but can also be displayed on-screen on most phones by entering the MMI Supplementary Serv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial%20circadian%20rhythm | Bacterial circadian rhythms, like other circadian rhythms, are endogenous "biological clocks" that have the following three characteristics: (a) in constant conditions (i.e. constant temperature and either constant light {LL} or constant darkness {DD}) they oscillate with a period that is close to, but not exactly, 24 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transplanting | In agriculture and gardening, transplanting or replanting is the technique of moving a plant from one location to another. Most often this takes the form of starting a plant from seed in optimal conditions, such as in a greenhouse or protected nursery bed, then replanting it in another, usually outdoor, growing locatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppImage | AppImage (formerly known as klik and PortableLinuxApps) is a format for distributing portable software on Linux without needing superuser permissions to install the application. It aims to enable application developers to deploy binary software without being restricted to specific Linux distributions, a concept often r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimatter%20weapon | An antimatter weapon is a theoretically possible device using antimatter as a power source, a propellant, or an explosive for a weapon. Antimatter weapons are currently too costly and unreliable to be viable in warfare, as producing antimatter is enormously expensive (estimated at $6 billion for every 100 nanograms), t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LisH%20domain | In molecular biology, the LisH domain (lis homology domain) is a protein domain found in a large number of eukaryotic proteins, from metazoa, fungi and plants that have a wide range of functions. The recently solved structure of the LisH domain in the N-terminal region of LIS1 depicted it as a novel dimerisation motif,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodontics | Orthodontics is a dentistry specialty that addresses the diagnosis, prevention, management, and correction of mal-positioned teeth and jaws, as well as misaligned bite patterns. It may also address the modification of facial growth, known as dentofacial orthopedics.
Abnormal alignment of the teeth and jaws is very com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atovaquone/proguanil | Atovaquone/proguanil, sold under the brand name Malarone among others, is a fixed-dose combination medication used to treat and prevent malaria, including chloroquine-resistant malaria. It contains atovaquone and proguanil. It is not recommended for severe or complicated malaria. It is taken by mouth.
Common side effe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotachophoresis | Isotachophoresis (ITP) is a technique in analytical chemistry used for selective separation and concentration of ionic analytes. It is a form of electrophoresis; charged analytes are separated based on ionic mobility, a quantity which tells how fast an ion migrates through an electric field.
Overview
In conventional I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20arthropod%20cuticle | This is a glossary of terms used in the description of arthropod cuticle, including that of insects such as ants. These animals can have surface textures spanning and combining cracks, excavations, imbrications, mealiness, punctures, reticulations, roughness, scratches, spots, wrinkles, and more. As such, hundred of te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgueil%20%28meteorite%29 | Orgueil is a scientifically important carbonaceous chondrite meteorite that fell in southwestern France in 1864.
History
The Orgueil meteorite fell on May 14, 1864, a few minutes after 20:00 local time, near Orgueil in southern France. About 20 stones fell over an area of 5-10 square kilometres. A specimen of the mete... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio%20Verd%C3%BA | Sergio Verdú (born Barcelona, Spain, August 15, 1958) is a former professor of electrical engineering and specialist in information theory. Until September 22, 2018, he was the Eugene Higgins Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he taught and conducted research on information theory in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortunate%20number | A Fortunate number, named after Reo Fortune, is the smallest integer m > 1 such that, for a given positive integer n, pn# + m is a prime number, where the primorial pn# is the product of the first n prime numbers.
For example, to find the seventh Fortunate number, one would first calculate the product of the first sev... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propamidine | Propamidine is an antiseptic and disinfectant.
Propamidine isethionate, the salt of propamidine with isethionic acid, is used in the treatment of Acanthamoeba infection.
Propamidine is a member of the aromatic diamidine group of compounds which possess bacteriostatic properties against a wide range of organisms. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion%20of%20anyons | Anyon fusion is the process by which multiple anyons behave as one larger composite anyon. Anyon fusion is essential to understanding the physics of non-abelian anyons and how they can be used in quantum information.
Abelian anyons
If identical abelian anyons each with individual statistics (that is, the system pick... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-factor%20%28astrophysics%29 | The X-factor in astrophysics, often labeled XCO, is an empirically determined proportionality constant which converts carbon monoxide (CO) emission line brightness to molecular hydrogen (H2) mass.
Origin
The term X-factor was coined in a 1983 paper titled "Gamma-rays from atomic and molecular gas in the first galactic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interference%20fit | An interference fit, also known as a pressed fit or friction fit, is a form of fastening between two tightfitting mating parts that produces a joint which is held together by friction after the parts are pushed together.
Depending on the amount of interference, parts may be joined using a tap from a hammer or forced... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20dried%20foods | This is a list of dried foods. Food drying is a method of food preservation that works by removing water from the food, which inhibits the growth of bacteria and has been practiced worldwide since ancient times to preserve food. Where or when dehydration as a food preservation technique was invented has been lost to ti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exact%20trigonometric%20values | In mathematics, the values of the trigonometric functions can be expressed approximately, as in , or exactly, as in . While trigonometric tables contain many approximate values, the exact values for certain angles can be expressed by a combination of arithmetic operations and square roots.
Common angles
The trigono... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maemo | Maemo is a software platform originally developed by Nokia, now developed by the community, for smartphones and Internet tablets. The platform comprises both the Maemo operating system and SDK. Maemo played a key role in Nokia's strategy to compete with Apple and Android, and that strategy failed for complex, instituti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans%C3%A9n%E2%80%93Robinson%20constant | The Fransén–Robinson constant, sometimes denoted F, is the mathematical constant that represents the area between the graph of the reciprocal Gamma function, , and the positive x axis. That is,
Other expressions
The Fransén–Robinson constant has numerical value , and continued fraction representation [2; 1, 4, 4, 1, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow%20Ribbon%20Campaign%20of%20Myanmar | The Yellow Ribbon Campaign of Myanmar is a movement of lawyers against the appointment of retired military officers to positions in Judiciary Practice in Myanmar (Burma) in September 2015. Yellow ribbon refers to the yellow badge of civil servants in Judiciary.
Background
In August 2015, about 20 military officers wer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entosis | Entosis (from Greek ἐντός entos, "within" and -ωσις -osis, "development process") is the invasion of a living cell into another cell's cytoplasm. The process was discovered by Overholtzer et al. as reported in Cell.
Entotic cells, also referred to as cell-in-cell structures, are triggered by loss of attachment to the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prompt%20gamma%20neutron%20activation%20analysis | Prompt-gamma neutron activation analysis (PGAA) is a very widely applicable technique for determining the presence and amount of many elements simultaneously in samples ranging in size from micrograms to many grams. It is a non-destructive method, and the chemical form and shape of the sample are relatively unimportant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon%20%28mathematician%29 | Leon () was an Ancient Greek mathematician and pupil of Neocleides, who was active from around 370 to 340 BCE. His book Elements was overshadowed by Euclid's work of the same name.
Proclus states the following in his Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements:But Neoclides was junior to Leodamas, and his discip... |
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