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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shugoshin%20N%20terminal%20protein%20domain | In molecular biology, the protein domain named the Shugoshin N-terminal coiled-coil region is a domain found on the N-terminal region of the Shugoshin protein in eukaryotes. It has a role in attaching to the kinetochores, structures on the chromatids where microtubules attach. Shugoshin has a conserved coiled-coil N-te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jury%20selection | Jury selection is the selection of the people who will serve on a jury during a jury trial. The group of potential jurors (the "jury pool,” also known as the venire) is first selected from among the community using a reasonably random method. Jury lists are compiled from voter registrations and driver license or ID ren... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Advanced%202D%20Materials | The Centre for Advanced 2D Materials (CA2DM), at the National University of Singapore (NUS), is the first centre in Asia dedicated to graphene research. The centre was established under the scientific advice of two Nobel Laureates in physics – Prof Andre Geim and Prof Konstantin Novoselov - who won the 2010 Nobel Prize... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online%20shaming | Online shaming is a form of public shaming in which targets are publicly humiliated on the internet, via social media platforms (e.g. Twitter or Facebook), or more localized media (e.g. email groups). As online shaming frequently involves exposing private information on the Internet, the ethics of public humiliation ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinusoidal%20plane-wave%20solutions%20of%20the%20electromagnetic%20wave%20equation | Sinusoidal plane-wave solutions are particular solutions to the electromagnetic wave equation.
The general solution of the electromagnetic wave equation in homogeneous, linear, time-independent media can be written as a linear superposition of plane-waves of different frequencies and polarizations.
The treatment in t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20minimum%20spanning%20tree | The distributed minimum spanning tree (MST) problem involves the construction of a minimum spanning tree by a distributed algorithm, in a network where nodes communicate by message passing. It is radically different from the classical sequential problem, although the most basic approach resembles Borůvka's algorithm. O... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radius%20%28bone%29 | The radius or radial bone (: radii or radiuses) is one of the two large bones of the forearm, the other being the ulna. It extends from the lateral side of the elbow to the thumb side of the wrist and runs parallel to the ulna. The ulna is longer than the radius, but the radius is thicker. The radius is a long bone, pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative%20Computational%20Project%20Number%204 | The Collaborative Computational Project Number 4 in protein crystallography (CCP4) was set up in 1979 in the United Kingdom to support collaboration between researchers working in software development and assemble a comprehensive collection of software for structural biology. The CCP4 core team is located at the Resear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthotropic%20material | In material science and solid mechanics, orthotropic materials have material properties at a particular point which differ along three orthogonal axes, where each axis has twofold rotational symmetry. These directional differences in strength can be quantified with Hankinson's equation.
They are a subset of anisotropi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aureoboletus%20innixus | Aureoboletus innixus is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae. Found in eastern North America, it was first described scientifically by Charles Christopher Frost in 1874, from collections made in New England. An edible mushroom, the convex cap grows to wide and is dull reddish brown to yellow brown. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scar%20free%20healing | Scar free healing is the process by which significant injuries can heal without permanent damage to the tissue the injury has affected. In most healing, scars form due to the fibrosis and wound contraction, however in scar free healing, tissue is completely regenerated. During the 1990s, published research on the subje... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TORCH%20report | The TORCH report (The Other Report on Chernobyl) was a health impacts report requested by the European Greens in 2006, for the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, in reply to the 2006 report of the Chernobyl Forum which was criticized by some advocacy organizations opposed to nuclear energy such as Greenpe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiology%20%26%20Behavior | Physiology & Behavior is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier. It covers the fields of behavioral neuroendocrinology, psychoneuroimmunology, learning and memory, ingestion, social behavior, and studies related to the mechanisms of psychopathology. It was established in 1966 with Matthew J. Wayner as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benzethonium%20chloride | Benzethonium chloride, also known as hyamine is a synthetic quaternary ammonium salt. This compound is an odorless white solid, soluble in water. It has surfactant, antiseptic, and anti-infective properties, and it is used as a topical antimicrobial agent in first aid antiseptics. It is also found in cosmetics and toi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teleomorph%2C%20anamorph%20and%20holomorph | In mycology, the terms teleomorph, anamorph, and holomorph apply to portions of the life cycles of fungi in the phyla Ascomycota and Basidiomycota:
Teleomorph: the sexual reproductive stage (morph), typically a fruiting body.
Anamorph: an asexual reproductive stage (morph), often mold-like. When a single fungus produc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronal%20mass%20ejection | A coronal mass ejection (CME) is a significant ejection of magnetic field and accompanying plasma mass from the Sun's corona into the heliosphere. CMEs are often associated with solar flares and other forms of solar activity, but a broadly accepted theoretical understanding of these relationships has not been establish... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-order%20cone%20programming | A second-order cone program (SOCP) is a convex optimization problem of the form
minimize
subject to
where the problem parameters are , and . is the optimization variable.
is the Euclidean norm and indicates transpose. The "second-order cone" in SOCP arises from the constraints, which are equivalent to requiring... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20anachronism | Evolutionary anachronism, also known as "ecological anachronism", is a term initially referring to attributes of native plant species (primarily fruit, but also thorns) that seemed best explained as having been favorably selected in the past due to their coevolution with plant-eating megafauna that are now extinct. Dim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodynamic%20instruments | A thermodynamic instrument is any device which facilitates the quantitative measurement of thermodynamic systems. In order for a thermodynamic parameter to be truly defined, a technique for its measurement must be specified. For example, the ultimate definition of temperature is "what a thermometer reads". The question... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatically%20Tuned%20Linear%20Algebra%20Software | Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software (ATLAS) is a software library for linear algebra. It provides a mature open source implementation of BLAS APIs for C and Fortran77.
ATLAS is often recommended as a way to automatically generate an optimized BLAS library. While its performance often trails that of specialized... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFATC3 | Nuclear factor of activated T-cells, cytoplasmic 3 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NFATC3 gene.
Function
The product of this gene is a member of the nuclear factors of activated T cells DNA-binding transcription complex. This complex consists of at least two components: a preexisting cytosolic componen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condyloid%20process | The condyloid process or condylar process is the process on the human and other mammalian species' mandibles that ends in a condyle, the mandibular condyle. It is thicker than the coronoid process of the mandible and consists of two portions: the condyle and the constricted portion which supports it, the neck.
Condyle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desulfovibrio%20burkinensis | Desulfovibrio burkinensis is a Gram-negative, non-spore-forming and sulfate-reducing bacterium from the genus of Desulfovibrio which has been isolated from soil from a ricefield in Burkina Faso in Africa. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A.%20O.%20L.%20Atkin | Arthur Oliver Lonsdale Atkin (31 July 1925 – 28 December 2008), who published under the name A. O. L. Atkin, was a British mathematician.
As an undergraduate during World War II, Atkin worked at Bletchley Park cracking German codes. He received his Ph.D. in 1952 from the University of Cambridge, where he was one of Jo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monogastric | A monogastric organism has a simple single-chambered stomach (one stomach). Examples of monogastric herbivores are horses and rabbits. Examples of monogastric omnivores include humans, pigs, hamsters and rats. Furthermore, there are monogastric carnivores such as cats. A monogastric organism is comparable to ruminant o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3%20Kalm%C3%A1r | László Kalmár (27 March 1905, Edde – 2 August 1976, Mátraháza) was a Hungarian mathematician and Professor at the University of Szeged. Kalmár is considered the founder of mathematical logic and theoretical computer science in Hungary.
Biography
Kalmár was of Jewish ancestry. His early life mixed promise and tragedy. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallol%20%28hydrothermal%20system%29 | Dallol is a unique, terrestrial hydrothermal system around a cinder cone volcano in the Danakil Depression, northeast of the Erta Ale Range in Ethiopia. It is known for its unearthly colors and mineral patterns, and the very acidic fluids that discharge from its hydrothermal springs.
Etymology
The term Dallol was coin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parental%20care | Parental care is a behavioural and evolutionary strategy adopted by some animals, involving a parental investment being made to the evolutionary fitness of offspring. Patterns of parental care are widespread and highly diverse across the animal kingdom. There is great variation in different animal groups in terms of ho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil%20Gordon | Basil Gordon (December 23, 1931 – January 12, 2012) was a mathematician at UCLA, specializing in number theory and combinatorics. He obtained his Ph.D. at California Institute of Technology under the supervision of Tom Apostol. Ken Ono was one of his students.
Gordon is well known for Göllnitz–Gordon identities, gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVS%20Health | CVS Health Corporation (previously CVS Corporation and CVS Caremark Corporation) is an American healthcare company that owns CVS Pharmacy, a retail pharmacy chain; CVS Caremark, a pharmacy benefits manager; and Aetna, a health insurance provider, among many other brands. The company is the world's largest healthcare co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProClarity | ProClarity Corporation was a software company specializing in business intelligence and data analysis applications.
The company was founded in 1995 as Knosys Inc. in Boise, Idaho. The company was renamed ProClarity after its primary commercial software product, "ProClarity", in 2001.
ProClarity's software products i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autophagosome | An autophagosome is a spherical structure with double layer membranes. It is the key structure in macroautophagy, the intracellular degradation system for cytoplasmic contents (e.g., abnormal intracellular proteins, excess or damaged organelles, invading microorganisms). After formation, autophagosomes deliver cytoplas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALPHAD | CALPHAD stands for CALculation of PHAse Diagrams, a methodology introduced in 1970 by Larry Kaufman. An equilibrium phase diagram is usually a diagram with axes for temperature and composition of a chemical system. It shows the regions where substances or solutions (i.e. phases) are stable and regions where two or more... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20flags%20of%20Kosovo | The following is a list of flags used in Kosovo.
Republic of Kosovo
State flag
Government flags
Ethnic flags
Municipal flags
The "Law on use of State Symbols of Kosovo" grants the municipalities of Kosovo the right to adopt and use their own distinctive flags.
Political parties' flags
Historical flags
Flags of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NaGISA | NaGISA (Natural Geography in Shore Areas or Natural Geography of In-Shore Areas) is an international collaborative effort aimed at inventorying, cataloguing, and monitoring biodiversity of the in-shore area. So named for the Japanese word "nagisa" ("where the land meets the sea"), it is an Apronym. NaGISA is the first ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizuna | , kyouna (京菜), Japanese mustard greens, or spider mustard, is a cultivar of Brassica rapa var. niposinica.
Description and use
Possessing dark green, serrated leaves, mizuna is described as having, when raw, a "piquant, mild peppery flavor...slightly spicy, but less so than arugula." It is also used in stir-fries, so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRGs | Immunity Related Guanosine Triphosphatases or IRGs are proteins activated as part of an early immune response. IRGs have been described in various mammals but are most well characterized in mice. IRG activation in most cases is induced by an immune response and leads to clearance of certain pathogens.
Background
Int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residue%20at%20infinity | In complex analysis, a branch of mathematics, the residue at infinity is a residue of a holomorphic function on an annulus having an infinite external radius. The infinity is a point added to the local space in order to render it compact (in this case it is a one-point compactification). This space denoted is isomo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogeochemical%20cycle | A biogeochemical cycle, or more generally a cycle of matter, is the movement and transformation of chemical elements and compounds between living organisms, the atmosphere, and the Earth's crust. Major biogeochemical cycles include the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle and the water cycle. In each cycle, the chemical el... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LilyPond | LilyPond is a computer program and file format for music engraving. One of LilyPond's major goals is to produce scores that are engraved with traditional layout rules, reflecting the era when scores were engraved by hand.
LilyPond is cross-platform, and is available for several common operating systems; released under... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBuilder | PowerBuilder is an integrated development environment owned by SAP since the acquisition of Sybase in 2010. On July 5, 2016, SAP and Appeon entered into an agreement whereby Appeon, an independent company, would be responsible for developing, selling, and supporting PowerBuilder.
Over the years, PowerBuilder has been... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropometry | Anthropometry () refers to the measurement of the human individual. An early tool of physical anthropology, it has been used for identification, for the purposes of understanding human physical variation, in paleoanthropology and in various attempts to correlate physical with racial and psychological traits. Anthropome... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuckle-walking | Knuckle-walking is a form of quadrupedal walking in which the forelimbs hold the fingers in a partially flexed posture that allows body weight to press down on the ground through the knuckles. Gorillas and chimpanzees use this style of locomotion, as do anteaters and platypuses.
Knuckle-walking helps with actions othe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-point%20ocean%20observatory | A fixed-point ocean observatory is an ocean observing autonomous system of automatic sensors and samplers that continuously gathers data from deep sea, water column and lower atmosphere, and transmits the data to shore in real or near real-time.
Infrastructure
Fixed-point ocean observatories are typically composed of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cubic%20foot | The cubic foot (symbol ft3 or cu ft) is an imperial and US customary (non-metric) unit of volume, used in the United States and the United Kingdom. It is defined as the volume of a cube with sides of one foot () in length. Its volume is (about of a cubic metre).
Conversions
Symbols and abbreviations
The IEEE symbo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanamide | Cyanamide is an organic compound with the formula CN2H2. This white solid is widely used in agriculture and the production of pharmaceuticals and other organic compounds. It is also used as an alcohol-deterrent drug. The molecule features a nitrile group attached to an amino group. Derivatives of this compound are also... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20interrupt%20request | Fast interrupt request (FIQ) is a specialized type of interrupt request, which is a standard technique used in computer CPUs to deal with events that need to be processed as they occur, such as receiving data from a network card, or keyboard or mouse actions. FIQs are specific to the ARM architecture, which supports tw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerkish | Yerkish is an artificial language developed for use by non-human primates. It employs a keyboard whose keys contain lexigrams, symbols corresponding to objects or ideas.
Lexigrams were notably used by the Georgia State University Language Research Center to communicate with bonobos and chimpanzees. Researchers and pri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heerfordt%20syndrome | Heerfordt syndrome is a rare manifestation of sarcoidosis. The symptoms include inflammation of the eye (uveitis), swelling of the parotid gland, chronic fever, and in some cases, palsy of the facial nerves.
Causes
The exact cause of Heerfordt syndrome has not yet been definitively determined. Of those patients who ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veritas%20Storage%20Foundation | Veritas Storage Foundation (VSF), previously known as Veritas Foundation Suite, is a computer software product made by Veritas Software that combines Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM) and Veritas File System (VxFS) to provide online-storage management. Symantec Corporation developed and maintained VSF until January 29, 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faug%C3%A8re%27s%20F4%20and%20F5%20algorithms | In computer algebra, the Faugère F4 algorithm, by Jean-Charles Faugère, computes the Gröbner basis of an ideal of a multivariate polynomial ring. The algorithm uses the same mathematical principles as the Buchberger algorithm, but computes many normal forms in one go by forming a generally sparse matrix and using fast... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Astronomy%20and%20Astrophysics%20Review | The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that is published quarterly by Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature. The editor-in-chief is Francesca Matteucci. The first issue was published in April 1989.
Scope
The journal publishes invited reviews on all areas of astronom... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenEXR | OpenEXR is a high-dynamic range, multi-channel raster file format, released as an open standard along with a set of software tools created by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), under a free software license similar to the BSD license.
It is notable for supporting multiple channels of potentially different pixel sizes, i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Background%20selection | Background selection describes the loss of genetic diversity at a non-deleterious locus due to negative selection against linked deleterious alleles. It is one form of linked selection, where the maintenance or removal of an allele from a population is dependent upon the alleles in its linkage group. The name emphasize... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relation%20between%20Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s%20equation%20and%20the%20path%20integral%20formulation%20of%20quantum%20mechanics | This article relates the Schrödinger equation with the path integral formulation of quantum mechanics using a simple nonrelativistic one-dimensional single-particle Hamiltonian composed of kinetic and potential energy.
Background
Schrödinger's equation
Schrödinger's equation, in bra–ket notation, is
where is the Ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20dynamics | In physics, quantum dynamics is the quantum version of classical dynamics. Quantum dynamics deals with the motions, and energy and momentum exchanges of systems whose behavior is governed by the laws of quantum mechanics. Quantum dynamics is relevant for burgeoning fields, such as quantum computing and atomic optics.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homing%20endonuclease | The homing endonucleases are a collection of endonucleases encoded either as freestanding genes within introns, as fusions with host proteins, or as self-splicing inteins. They catalyze the hydrolysis of genomic DNA within the cells that synthesize them, but do so at very few, or even singular, locations. Repair of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rathjen%27s%20psi%20function | In mathematics, Rathjen's psi function is an ordinal collapsing function developed by Michael Rathjen. It collapses weakly Mahlo cardinals to generate large countable ordinals. A weakly Mahlo cardinal is a cardinal such that the set of regular cardinals below is closed under (i.e. all normal functions closed in ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie%20Hall%20vs.%20Haf%C3%BE%C3%B3r%20Bj%C3%B6rnsson | Eddie Hall vs. Hafþór Björnsson, known as "The Heaviest Boxing Match in History" at its time, was a boxing match between strongmen Eddie Hall and Hafþór Björnsson that took place on 19 March 2022. Both have won the strongman competition "World's Strongest Man" owned by IMG Worldwide. Prior to Hall's injury, the match w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem%20management | Ecosystem management is an approach to natural resource management that aims to ensure the long-term sustainability and persistence of an ecosystem's function and services while meeting socioeconomic, political, and cultural needs. Although indigenous communities have employed sustainable ecosystem management approache... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Code%20of%20Area%20Nomenclature | The International Code of Area Nomenclature (ICAN) was proposed by a group of few biogeographers to provide a universal naming system or nomenclature for areas of endemism used in contemporary biogeography. There are other proposals to palaeobiogeographic areas. The ICAN also serves as the international standard rules ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible%20Application%20Markup%20Language | Extensible Application Markup Language (XAML ) is a declarative XML-based language developed by Microsoft for initializing structured values and objects. It is available under Microsoft's Open Specification Promise.
XAML is used extensively in Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), Silverlight, Workflow Foundation (W... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects%20loop | An effects loop is a series of audio effects units, connected between two points of a signal path (the route that a signal would travel from the input to the output); usually between the pre-amp and power amp stages of an amplifier circuit, although occasionally between two pre-amp stages. The two principal uses of eff... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invariant%20factor | The invariant factors of a module over a principal ideal domain (PID) occur in one form of the structure theorem for finitely generated modules over a principal ideal domain.
If is a PID and a finitely generated -module, then
for some integer and a (possibly empty) list of nonzero elements for which . The nonnega... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recombinant%20Immunotoxin%20Collaborative%20Group | The Recombinant Immunotoxin Collaborative Group (RICG) is a group of scientists specialising in immunology, biochemistry and molecular biology from the United Kingdom and Italy. The group is working toward the development of genetically engineered immunotoxins made from monoclonal antibody fragments genetically fused ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Journey%20of%20Man | The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey is a 2002 book by Spencer Wells, an American geneticist and anthropologist, in which he uses techniques and theories of genetics and evolutionary biology to trace the geographical dispersal of early human migrations out of Africa. The book was made into a TV documentary in 2003.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPSoverIP | GPSoverIP is a proprietary protocol for transmitting geocoordinates of moving objects to the internet. It is a very lean and narrow technology which can be used even in areas where the GSM network bandwidth is no longer sufficient for other transmission paths. The only requirement is a functioning GSM mobile phone netw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20impact%20theory | Partial impact theory is an astronomical theory describing the partial collision of two stars and the temporary creation of a bright third star as a consequence. The theory was explained in Alexander William Bickerton's book The Romance of the Heavens published in 1901.
It is not part of contemporary astrophysics.
In... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADHM%20construction | In mathematical physics and gauge theory, the ADHM construction or monad construction is the construction of all instantons using methods of linear algebra by Michael Atiyah, Vladimir Drinfeld, Nigel Hitchin, Yuri I. Manin in their paper "Construction of Instantons."
ADHM data
The ADHM construction uses the following... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal%20overspill | Signal overspill is the receiving of a broadcast signal outside of its geographical target area. Radio frequencies have no way of obeying geographical borders and licensing arrangements, and the extent of overspill depends on where broadcast transmitters are sited and their power. In addition to traditional transmitter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C3%20carbon%20fixation | {{DISPLAYTITLE: C3 carbon fixation}}
carbon fixation is the most common of three metabolic pathways for carbon fixation in photosynthesis, the other two being and CAM. This process converts carbon dioxide and ribulose bisphosphate (RuBP, a 5-carbon sugar) into two molecules of 3-phosphoglycerate through the followin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s%20device | In the C programming language, Duff's device is a way of manually implementing loop unrolling by interleaving two syntactic constructs of C: the - loop and a switch statement. Its discovery is credited to Tom Duff in November 1983, when Duff was working for Lucasfilm and used it to speed up a real-time animation progra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroreflectance | Electroreflectance (also: electromodulated reflectance) is the change of reflectivity of a solid due to the influence of an electric field close to, or at the interface of the solid with a liquid. The change in reflectivity is most noticeable at very specific ranges of photon energy, corresponding to the band gaps at c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dermatophyte%20test%20medium | Dermatophyte test medium (DTM) is a specialized agar used in medical mycology. It is based on Sabouraud's dextrose agar with added cycloheximide to inhibit saprotrophic growth, antibiotic to inhibit bacterial growth, and phenol red a pH indicator. The pH indicator is useful in distinguishing a dermatophyte fungus, whic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replica%20plating | Replica plating is a microbiological technique in which one or more secondary Petri plates containing different solid (agar-based) selective growth media (lacking nutrients or containing chemical growth inhibitors such as antibiotics) are inoculated with the same colonies of microorganisms from a primary plate (or mast... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20object%20%28algebra%29 | In algebra, the zero object of a given algebraic structure is, in the sense explained below, the simplest object of such structure. As a set it is a singleton, and as a magma has a trivial structure, which is also an abelian group. The aforementioned abelian group structure is usually identified as addition, and the on... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cysteine-rich%20protein | Cysteine-rich proteins (also cysteine-rich peptide, CRP, disulphide-rich peptide) are small proteins that contain a large number of cysteines. These cysteines either cross-link to form disulphide bonds, or bind metal ions by chelation, stabilising the protein's tertiary structure. CRPs include a highly conserved secret... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIY%20audio | DIY Audio, do it yourself audio. Rather than buying a piece of possibly expensive audio equipment, such as a high-end audio amplifier or speaker, the person practicing DIY Audio will make it themselves. Alternatively, a DIYer may take an existing manufactured item of vintage era and update or modify it. The benefits o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slub%20%28band%29 | Slub is an algorave group formed in 2000 by Adrian Ward and Alex McLean, joined by Dave Griffiths in 2005 and Alexandra Cardenas in 2017. They are known for making their music exclusively from their own generative software, projecting their screens so their
audience can see their handmade interfaces. Their music is i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffe%20profile | The Jaffe profile (or Jaffe model) is a mathematical function that is used to describe the distribution of mass or light in elliptical galaxies and the bulges of spiral galaxies. It was proposed by the astronomer Walter Jaffe in 1983. Its usefulness derives from the fact that it accurately reproduces a de Vaucouleurs ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive%20islands%20and%20lakes | A recursive island or lake, also known as a nested island or lake, is an island or a lake that lies within a lake or an island.
For the purposes of defining recursion, small continental land masses such as Madagascar and New Zealand count as islands, while large continental land masses do not. Islands found within lake... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pubovaginal%20muscle | The pubovaginal muscle is a pelvic floor muscle that attaches to the muscles of lateral walls of the midsection of the vagina and the pubis. It is relatively short compared to the other levator ani muscles and extends between the pubic bones and the vagina. Other muscles that are part of the levator ani are: the puboc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid%20plasmonic%20waveguide | A hybrid plasmonic waveguide is an optical waveguide that achieves strong light confinement by coupling the light guided by a dielectric waveguide and a plasmonic waveguide. It is formed by separating a medium of high refractive index (usually silicon) from a metal surface (usually gold or silver) by a small gap.
Hist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermat%27s%20Last%20Theorem | In number theory, Fermat's Last Theorem (sometimes called Fermat's conjecture, especially in older texts) states that no three positive integers , , and satisfy the equation for any integer value of greater than 2. The cases and have been known since antiquity to have infinitely many solutions.
The proposition wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20Criteria%20Testing%20Laboratory | The Common Criteria model provides for the separation of the roles of evaluator and certifier. Product certificates are awarded by national schemes on the basis of evaluations carried by independent testing laboratories.
A Common Criteria testing laboratory is a third-party commercial security testing facility that is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smooth%20structure | In mathematics, a smooth structure on a manifold allows for an unambiguous notion of smooth function. In particular, a smooth structure allows one to perform mathematical analysis on the manifold.
Definition
A smooth structure on a manifold is a collection of smoothly equivalent smooth atlases. Here, a smooth atlas... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi%20gas | A Fermi gas is an idealized model, an ensemble of many non-interacting fermions. Fermions are particles that obey Fermi–Dirac statistics, like electrons, protons, and neutrons, and, in general, particles with half-integer spin. These statistics determine the energy distribution of fermions in a Fermi gas in thermal equ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rental%20harmony | Rental harmony is a kind of a fair division problem in which indivisible items and a fixed monetary cost have to be divided simultaneously. The housemates problem and room-assignment-rent-division are alternative names to the same problem.
In the typical setting, there are partners who rent together an -room house fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pore%20water%20pressure | Pore water pressure (sometimes abbreviated to pwp) refers to the pressure of groundwater held within a soil or rock, in gaps between particles (pores). Pore water pressures below the phreatic level of the groundwater are measured with piezometers. The vertical pore water pressure distribution in aquifers can generally ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20Power%20Adapter%20for%20Mobile%20Devices | The Universal Power Adapter for Mobile Devices (UPAMD), codename IEEE 1823-2015 (before approval P1823), is an IEEE standard for power supply design intended to cater to the power range of (optionally for mobile devices like laptop computers.
The power supply was required to have an output capacitive energy of less ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komenda%20Sugar%20Factory | Komenda Sugar Development Company Limited (also known as Komenda Sugar Factory) is a Ghanaian factory established in 1964 and its operations ground to a halt in the early 1990s. This was due to poor management and technical issues.
Revival
The sugar factory collapsed and it was inaugurated by the erstwhile John Maham... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avian%20ecology%20field%20methods | There are many field methods available for conducting avian ecological research. They can be divided into three types: counts, nest monitoring, and capturing and marking.
Basic counts
Basic bird counts are a good way to estimate population size, detect changes in population size or species diversity, and determine th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporathylacium | Sporathylacium was a genus of land plant known from its bivalved sporangia. It is known from charcoalified Early Devonian deposits, its type locality being the Brown Clee Hill lagerstätten. It was listed as a rhyniophyte by Hao and Xue in 2013. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chernobyl%20%28miniseries%29 | Chernobyl is a 2019 historical drama television miniseries that revolves around the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 and the cleanup efforts that followed. The series was created and written by Craig Mazin and directed by Johan Renck. It features an ensemble cast led by Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Emily Watson, and Paul... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmar%20crease | A palmar crease is a type of crease on the palm. A single transverse palmar crease also called simian crease is sometimes associated with Down syndrome. Other types of creases include the Sydney crease and the Suwon, or double transverse palmar crease.
Analysis of palmar creases is not very objective on the contrary ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Sykes | Colonel Sir Tatton Benvenuto Mark Sykes, 6th Baronet (16 March 1879 – 16 February 1919) was an English traveller, Conservative Party politician, and diplomatic advisor, particularly with regard to the Middle East at the time of the First World War.
He is associated with the Sykes–Picot Agreement, drawn up while the wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fault%20Simulator | DevPartner Fault Simulator is a software development tool used to simulate application errors. It helps developers and quality assurance engineers write, test and debug those parts of the software responsible for handling fault situations which can occur within applications. The target application, where faults are sim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript%20paper | Manuscript paper (sometimes staff paper in U.S. English, or just music paper) is paper preprinted with staves ready for musical notation. A manuscript is made up of lines and spaces, and these lines and space have their names depending on the staves (bass or treble). Manuscript paper is also available for drum notation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WISDOM%20%28radar%29 | WISDOM (Water Ice and Subsurface Deposit Observation on Mars) is a ground-penetrating radar that is part of the science payload on board the European Space Agency Rosalind Franklin rover, tasked to search for biosignatures and biomarkers on Mars. The rover is planned to be launched in August–October 2022 and land on Ma... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20unsolved%20problems%20in%20physics | The following is a list of notable unsolved problems grouped into broad areas of physics.
Some of the major unsolved problems in physics are theoretical, meaning that existing theories seem incapable of explaining a certain observed phenomenon or experimental result. The others are experimental, meaning that there is ... |
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