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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emolument.com | Emolument is a crowdsourced salary comparison website created in 2012 by Thomas Drewry, Olivier Beau de Loménie and Alice Leguay. It allows its contributors to compare their salary to aggregated entries of other Emolument users, in order to help them negotiate a salary raise, evaluate an offer of employment or change l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20trigonometric%20identities | In trigonometry, trigonometric identities are equalities that involve trigonometric functions and are true for every value of the occurring variables for which both sides of the equality are defined. Geometrically, these are identities involving certain functions of one or more angles. They are distinct from triangle i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive%20robotics | Cognitive Robotics or Cognitive Technology is a subfield of robotics concerned with endowing a robot with intelligent behavior by providing it with a processing architecture that will allow it to learn and reason about how to behave in response to complex goals in a complex world. Cognitive robotics may be considered ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range%20restriction%20mapping | Long-range restriction mapping is an alternative genomic mapping technique to short-range, also called fine-scale mapping. Both forms utilize restriction enzymes in order to decipher the previously unknown order of DNA segments; the main difference between the two being the amount of DNA that comprises the final map. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round%202%20%28company%29 | Round 2 is an American manufacturing company which produces scale models including die-cast, plastic, slot cars, and other hobby products. The company is based in South Bend, Indiana. The company was founded in 2005 by Thomas E. Lowe who previously owned toy company Playing Mantis. Round 2 holds several hobby brands, m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Progressive%20disease | Progressive disease or progressive illness is a disease or physical ailment whose course in most cases is the worsening, growth, or spread of the disease. This may happen until death, serious debility, or organ failure occurs. Some progressive diseases can be halted and reversed by treatment (surgical, dietary, or life... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orchestration | Orchestration is the study or practice of writing music for an orchestra (or, more loosely, for any musical ensemble, such as a concert band) or of adapting music composed for another medium for an orchestra. Also called "instrumentation", orchestration is the assignment of different instruments to play the different p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Association%20of%20Mathematical%20Physics | The International Association of Mathematical Physics (IAMP) was founded in 1976 to promote research in mathematical physics. It brings together research mathematicians and theoretical physicists, including students. The association's ordinary members are individual researchers, although associate membership is availab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipeline%20Pilot | Pipeline Pilot is a desktop software program sold by Dassault Systèmes for processing and analyzing data. Originally used in the natural sciences, the product's basic ETL (Extract, transform, load) and analytics capabilities have broadened over time. The product is now used for data science, ETL, reporting, prediction,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Indian%20state%20mottos | India is a country in South Asia. It is made up of 28 states and 8 union territories. 6 states have adopted their own state mottos, while 20 states and 6 union territories use national motto of India as their state mottos. 2 states (Bihar and Uttar Pradesh) and 2 union territories (Chandigarh and Lakshadweep) have no o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS%20app%20approvals | Submissions for mobile apps for iOS are subject to approval by Apple's App Review team, as outlined in the SDK agreement, for basic reliability testing and other analysis, before being published on the App Store. Applications may still be distributed ad hoc if they are rejected, by the author manually submitting a requ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Animals | History of Animals (, Ton peri ta zoia historion, "Inquiries on Animals"; , "History of Animals") is one of the major texts on biology by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, who had studied at Plato's Academy in Athens. It was written in the fourth century BC; Aristotle died in 322 BC.
Generally seen as a pioneer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldman%20equation | The Goldman–Hodgkin–Katz voltage equation, sometimes called the Goldman equation, is used in cell membrane physiology to determine the reversal potential across a cell's membrane, taking into account all of the ions that are permeant through that membrane.
The discoverers of this are David E. Goldman of Columbia Unive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machinery%27s%20Handbook | Machinery's Handbook for machine shop and drafting-room; a reference book on machine design and shop practice for the mechanical engineer, draftsman, toolmaker, and machinist (the full title of the 1st edition) is a classic reference work in mechanical engineering and practical workshop mechanics in one volume publishe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying%20syringe | Flying syringe is a phrase that is used to refer to proposed, but not yet created, genetically modified mosquitoes that inject vaccines into people when they bite them.
History
In the 1990s, Bob Sinden of Imperial College, London, and Julian Crampton of the University of Liverpool, developed this idea and filled three... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20property | Molecular properties include the chemical properties, physical properties, and structural properties of molecules, including drugs. Molecular properties typically do not include pharmacological or biological properties of a chemical compound.
See also
Biological activity
Chemical property
Chemical structure
Lipin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRPV2 | Transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V member 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TRPV2 gene. TRPV2 is a nonspecific cation channel that is a part of the TRP channel family. This channel allows the cell to communicate with its extracellular environment through the transfer of ions, and resp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malacology | Malacology is the branch of invertebrate zoology that deals with the study of the Mollusca (mollusks or molluscs), the second-largest phylum of animals in terms of described species after the arthropods. Mollusks include snails and slugs, clams, and cephalopods, along with numerous other kinds, many of which have shell... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recurrent%20point | In mathematics, a recurrent point for a function f is a point that is in its own limit set by f. Any neighborhood containing the recurrent point will also contain (a countable number of) iterates of it as well.
Definition
Let be a Hausdorff space and a function. A point is said to be recurrent (for ) if , i.e. if... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malapterurus%20melanochir | Malapterurus melanochir is a species of electric catfish endemic to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it occurs in the upper and middle Congo River basin. This species grows to a length of SL. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphaguttavirus | Alphaguttavirus is a genus of viruses, in the family Guttaviridae. Sulfolobus newzealandicus serve as natural hosts. There is only one species in this genus: Sulfolobus newzealandicus droplet-shaped virus.
Removal
Alphaguttavirus is no longer in the ICTV. It was removed from ICTV in the 2021 version.
Structure
Virus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper%20coulometer | The copper coulometer is a one application for the copper-copper(II) sulfate electrode. Such a coulometer consists of two identical copper electrodes immersed in slightly acidic pH-buffered solution of copper(II) sulfate. Passing of current through the element leads to the anodic dissolution of the metal on anode and s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goal%20difference | Goal difference, goal differential or points difference is a form of tiebreaker used to rank sport teams which finish on equal points in a league competition. Either "goal difference" or "points difference" is used, depending on whether matches are scored by goals (as in ice hockey and association football) or by point... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20SEAL | Simple Encrypted Arithmetic Library or SEAL is a free and open-source cross platform software library developed by Microsoft Research that implements various forms of homomorphic encryption.
History
Development originally came out of the Cryptonets paper, demonstrating that artificial intelligence algorithms could be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20coordinate%20descent | Adaptive coordinate descent is an improvement of the coordinate descent algorithm to non-separable optimization by the use of adaptive encoding. The adaptive coordinate descent approach gradually builds a transformation of the coordinate system such that the new coordinates are as decorrelated as possible with respect ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20flow%20%28information%20theory%29 | Information flow in an information theoretical context is the transfer of information from a variable to a variable in a given process. Not all flows may be desirable; for example, a system should not leak any confidential information (partially or not) to public observers—as it is a violation of privacy on an indivi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make%20Something%20Unreal | Make Something Unreal, also known as $1,000,000 Make Something Unreal Contest and Make Something Unreal Live, was a series of video game development competitions organised by Epic Games which began in 2004, with subsequent competitions in 2008, 2012, and 2013. The contests aimed to reward developers who created mods us... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickering%20emulsion | A Ramsden emulsion, sometimes named Pickering emulsion, is an emulsion that is stabilized by solid particles (for example colloidal silica) which adsorb onto the interface between the water and oil phases. Typically, the emulsions are either water-in-oil or oil-in-water emulsions, but other more complex systems such as... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noether%27s%20theorem | Noether's theorem or Noether's first theorem states that every differentiable symmetry of the action of a physical system with conservative forces has a corresponding conservation law. The theorem was proven by mathematician Emmy Noether in 1915 and published in 1918. The action of a physical system is the integral ove... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BESM-6 | BESM-6 (, short for Большая электронно-счётная машина, i.e. 'Large Electronic Calculating Machine') was a Soviet electronic computer of the BESM series. It was the first Soviet second-generation, transistor-based computer.
Overview
The BESM-6 was the most well-known and influential model of the series designed at the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hdparm | hdparm is a command line program for Linux to set and view ATA hard disk drive hardware parameters and test performance. It can set parameters such as drive caches, sleep mode, power management, acoustic management, and DMA settings. GParted and Parted Magic both include hdparm.
Changing hardware parameters from subo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAXELN | VAXELN (typically pronounced "VAX-elan") is a discontinued real-time operating system for the VAX family of computers produced by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) of Maynard, Massachusetts.
As with RSX-11 and VMS, Dave Cutler was the principal force behind the development of this operating system. Cutler's team... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timetree | A timetree is a phylogenetic tree scaled to time. It shows the evolutionary relationships of a group of organisms in a temporal framework.
Therefore, if living organisms are represented, the branch length between the base of the tree and all leafs (e.g., species) is identical because the same time has elapsed, altho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planar%20process | The planar process is a manufacturing process used in the semiconductor industry to build individual components of a transistor, and in turn, connect those transistors together. It is the primary process by which silicon integrated circuit chips are built, and it is the most commonly used method of producing junctions ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphingomonas%20aliaeris | Sphingomonas aliaeris is a rod-shaped, strictly aerobic, Gram-negative, non-spore-forming, red-orange-pigmented species of bacteria, which has been isolated primarily from pork steak packed under CO2-enriched modified atmosphere. Its name derives from Latin alius (for “other”) and aer (for “air” or “atmosphere”). It wa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantifier%20variance | The term quantifier variance refers to claims that there is no uniquely best ontological language with which to describe the world. The term "quantifier variance" rests upon the philosophical term 'quantifier', more precisely existential quantifier. A 'quantifier' is an expression like "there exists at least one ‘such-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20matroid | In mathematics, the free matroid over a given ground-set E is the matroid in which the independent sets are all subsets of E. It is a special case of a uniform matroid. The unique basis of this matroid is the ground-set itself, E. Among matroids on E, the free matroid on E has the most independent sets, the highest ran... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20minor-planet%20groups | A minor-planet group is a population of minor planets that share broadly similar orbits. Members are generally unrelated to each other, unlike in an asteroid family, which often results from the break-up of a single asteroid. It is customary to name a group of asteroids after the first member of that group to be discov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20Gicumbi | Strengthening climate resilience of rural communities in Northern Rwanda, commonly known as the Green Gicumbi Project, is a six-year governmental project, launched on 26 October 2019 by the Government of Rwanda, through the Ministry of the Environment and the Rwanda Green Fund (FONERWA) with target of strengthening cli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20protein-induced%20enterocolitis%20syndrome | Food protein-induced enterocolitis syndrome (FPIES) is a systemic, non IgE-mediated response to a specific trigger within food - most likely food protein. FPIES presents in two different forms: an acute form and a chronic form. In its acute form, FPIES presents with vomiting that usually begins 1 to 4 hours after tri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligamenvirales | Ligamenvirales is an order of linear viruses that infect archaea of the phylum Thermoproteota (formerly Crenarchaeota) and have double-stranded DNA genomes. The order was proposed by David Prangishvili and Mart Krupovic in 2012 and subsequently created by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV).
Name... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony%20NEWS | The Sony NEWS ("Network Engineering Workstation", later "NetWorkStation") is a series of Unix workstations sold during the late 1980s and 1990s. The first NEWS machine was the NWS-800, which originally appeared in Japan in January 1987 and was conceived as a desktop replacement for the VAX series of minicomputers.
His... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound%20limiter | A sound limiter or noise limiter is a digital device fitted with a microphone to measure the sound pressure level of environmental noise, expressed by the decibel logarithmic unit (dB). If the environmental noise level as measured by the microphone exceeds a pre-set level for a certain amount of time (e.g. 5 seconds), ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crandall%20syndrome | Crandall syndrome is a very rare congenital disorder characterised by progressive sensorineural hearing loss, hair loss associated with pili torti, and hypogonadism demonstrated through low levels of luteinising hormone and growth hormone. It is thought to be an autosomal recessive disorder closely related to Björnstad... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla%20Sunbird | Mozilla Sunbird is a discontinued free and open-source, cross-platform calendar application that was developed by the Mozilla Foundation, Sun Microsystems and many volunteers. Mozilla Sunbird was described as "a cross platform standalone calendar application based on Mozilla's XUL user interface language". Announced in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycophycobiosis | A mycophycobiosis (composed of myco-, from the Ancient Greek: (mukês , "mushroom"), phyco-, from Ancient Greek: , (phûkos, fucus, used for algae), and -biose, from ancient Greek: (bióô, "to spend one's life") is a symbiotic organism made up of a multicellular algae and an ascomycete fungus housed inside the algae (in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Littlewood%E2%80%93Offord%20problem | In mathematical field of combinatorial geometry, the Littlewood–Offord problem is the problem of determining the number of subsums of a set of vectors that fall in a given convex set. More formally, if V is a vector space of dimension d, the problem is to determine, given a finite subset of vectors S and a convex subse... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macro-haplogroup%20L | In human mitochondrial genetics, L is the mitochondrial DNA macro-haplogroup that is at the root of the anatomically modern human (Homo sapiens) mtDNA phylogenetic tree. As such, it represents the most ancestral mitochondrial lineage of all currently living modern humans, also dubbed "Mitochondrial Eve".
Its two sub-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level%20set%20%28data%20structures%29 | In computer science a level set data structure is designed to represent discretely sampled dynamic level sets functions.
A common use of this form of data structure is in efficient image rendering. The underlying method constructs a signed distance field that extends from the boundary, and can be used to solve the mot... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergravity | Hypergravity is defined as the condition where the force of gravity exceeds that on the surface of the Earth. This is expressed as being greater than 1 g. Hypergravity conditions are created on Earth for research on human physiology in aerial combat and space flight, as well as testing of materials and equipment for sp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von%20Mises%20yield%20criterion | In continuum mechanics, the maximum distortion energy criterion (also von Mises yield criterion) states that yielding of a ductile material begins when the second invariant of deviatoric stress reaches a critical value. It is a part of plasticity theory that mostly applies to ductile materials, such as some metals. Pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleep%20and%20creativity | The majority of studies on sleep creativity have shown that sleep can facilitate insightful behavior and flexible reasoning, and there are several hypotheses about the creative function of dreams. On the other hand, a few recent studies have supported a theory of creative insomnia, in which creativity is significantly ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20fundamental%20physics%20discoveries | This timeline lists significant discoveries in physics and the laws of nature, including experimental discoveries, theoretical proposals that were confirmed experimentally, and theories that have significantly influenced current thinking in modern physics. Such discoveries are often a multi-step, multi-person process. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20bacterial%20porin%20family | General bacterial porins are a family of porin proteins from the outer membranes of Gram-negative bacteria. The porins act as molecular filters for hydrophilic compounds. They are responsible for the 'molecular sieve' properties of the outer membrane. Porins form large water-filled channels which allow the diffusion of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20and%20indirect%20band%20gaps | In semiconductor physics, the band gap of a semiconductor can be of two basic types, a direct band gap or an indirect band gap. The minimal-energy state in the conduction band and the maximal-energy state in the valence band are each characterized by a certain crystal momentum (k-vector) in the Brillouin zone. If the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dance%20notation | Dance notation is the symbolic representation of human dance movement and form, using methods such as graphic symbols and figures, path mapping, numerical systems, and letter and word notations. Several dance notation systems have been invented, many of which are designed to document specific types of dance while other... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational%20mirage | A gravitational mirage or cosmic mirage is an optical phenomenon affecting the appearance of a distant star or galaxy, seen only through a telescope. It can take the form of a ring or rings partially or completely surrounding the object, a duplicate image adjacent to the object, or multiple duplicate images surrounding... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vast%20%28novel%29 | Vast is a science fiction novel by Linda Nagata, part of her loosely connected "Nanotech Succession" sequence.
Background
The main characters of Vast are the crew and passengers of the Null Boundary, who are fleeing from the alien Chenzeme. The Chenzeme, using the "cult virus" and other, more conventional, weapons hav... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuelle%20Charpentier | Emmanuelle Marie Charpentier (; born 11 December 1968) is a French professor and researcher in microbiology, genetics, and biochemistry. As of 2015, she has been a director at the Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology in Berlin. In 2018, she founded an independent research institute, the Max Planck Unit for the Sc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higher%20category%20theory | In mathematics, higher category theory is the part of category theory at a higher order, which means that some equalities are replaced by explicit arrows in order to be able to explicitly study the structure behind those equalities. Higher category theory is often applied in algebraic topology (especially in homotopy t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square-free%20word | In combinatorics, a squarefree word is a word (a sequence of symbols) that does not contain any squares. A square is a word of the form , where is not empty. Thus, a squarefree word can also be defined as a word that avoids the pattern .
Finite squarefree words
Binary alphabet
Over a binary alphabet , the only squa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kervaire%20manifold | In mathematics, specifically in differential topology, a Kervaire manifold is a piecewise-linear manifold of dimension constructed by by plumbing together the tangent bundles of two -spheres, and then gluing a ball to the result. In 10 dimensions this gives a piecewise-linear manifold with no smooth structure.
See ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20ecosystem | Software Ecosystem is a book written by David G. Messerschmitt and Clemens Szyperski that explains the essence and effects of a "software ecosystem", defined as a set of businesses functioning as a unit and interacting with a shared market for software and services, together with relationships among them. These relatio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20A.%20Loeb | Peter Albert Loeb (born July 3, 1937) is a mathematician at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He co-authored a basic reference text on nonstandard analysis (Hurd–Loeb 1985). Reviewer Perry Smith for MathSciNet wrote:
This book is a welcome addition to the literature on nonstandard analysis.
The notion of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20liquidator | A computer liquidator buys computer technology and related equipment that is no longer required by one company, and resells ("flips") it to another company. Computer liquidators are agents that act in the computer recycling, or electronic recycling, business.
There are several reasons why companies will sell, or liqu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChucK | ChucK is a concurrent, strongly timed audio programming language for real-time synthesis, composition, and performance,
which runs on Linux, Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and iOS. It is designed to favor readability and flexibility for the programmer over other considerations such as raw performance. It natively support... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20protein%20structure%20prediction%20software | This list of protein structure prediction software summarizes notable used software tools in protein structure prediction, including homology modeling, protein threading, ab initio methods, secondary structure prediction, and transmembrane helix and signal peptide prediction.
Software list
Below is a list which sepa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-sorted%20sequence | In computer science, a nearly-sorted sequence, also known as roughly-sorted sequence and as -sorted sequence is a sequence which is almost ordered. By almost ordered, it is meant that no element of the sequence is very far away from where it would be if the sequence were perfectly ordered. It is still possible that no ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%20ribbon%20badge | The blue ribbon badge was a symbol of the temperance movement in 19th century North America.
The badge was created by Francis Murphy, 1836–1907, who was a chief advocate of the temperance movement in the United States and abroad in his generation. It was inspired by a Bible verse, Numbers 15:38-39, which says: "Speak ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phototaxis | Phototaxis is a kind of taxis, or locomotory movement, that occurs when a whole organism moves towards or away from a stimulus of light. This is advantageous for phototrophic organisms as they can orient themselves most efficiently to receive light for photosynthesis. Phototaxis is called positive if the movement is in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier%E2%80%93Stokes%20existence%20and%20smoothness | The Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem concerns the mathematical properties of solutions to the Navier–Stokes equations, a system of partial differential equations that describe the motion of a fluid in space. Solutions to the Navier–Stokes equations are used in many practical applications. However, theor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image%20compression | Image compression is a type of data compression applied to digital images, to reduce their cost for storage or transmission. Algorithms may take advantage of visual perception and the statistical properties of image data to provide superior results compared with generic data compression methods which are used for other... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick%20Michael%20Grundy | Patrick Michael Grundy (16 November 1917, Yarmouth, Isle of Wight – 4 November 1959) was an English mathematician and statistician. He was one of the eponymous co-discoverers of the Sprague–Grundy function and its application to the analysis of a wide class of combinatorial games.
Biography
Grundy received his secon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-predator%20adaptation | Anti-predator adaptations are mechanisms developed through evolution that assist prey organisms in their constant struggle against predators. Throughout the animal kingdom, adaptations have evolved for every stage of this struggle, namely by avoiding detection, warding off attack, fighting back, or escaping when caught... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torricelli%27s%20law | Torricelli's law, also known as Torricelli's theorem, is a theorem in fluid dynamics relating the speed of fluid flowing from an orifice to the height of fluid above the opening. The law states that the speed of efflux of a fluid through a sharp-edged hole at the bottom of the tank filled to a depth is the same as th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platelet | Platelets or thrombocytes (from Greek θρόμβος, "clot" and κύτος, "cell") are a component of blood whose function (along with the coagulation factors) is to react to bleeding from blood vessel injury by clumping, thereby initiating a blood clot. Platelets have no cell nucleus; they are fragments of cytoplasm derived fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardy%27s%20paradox | Hardy's paradox is a thought experiment in quantum mechanics devised by Lucien Hardy in 1992–1993 in which a particle and its antiparticle may interact without annihilating each other.
Experiments using the technique of weak measurement have studied an interaction of polarized photons, and these have demonstrated that... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention%20over%20configuration | Convention over configuration (also known as coding by convention) is a software design paradigm used by software frameworks that attempts to decrease the number of decisions that a developer using the framework is required to make without necessarily losing flexibility and don't repeat yourself (DRY) principles.
The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Carter%20%28ornithologist%29 | Thomas Carter (1863–1931) was an English ornithologist active in Australia. He made large collections of bird specimens while living and working in remote regions of Western Australia.
Biography
Born in the town of Masham in Yorkshire, England, to Amelia Mary Carter, née Rhodes on the 6 April 1863. His merchant fathe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wetware%20%28biology%29 | The term wetware is used to describe the protocols and molecular devices used in molecular biology and synthetic biology.
Where biological components and systems are treated in a similar manner to software, and similar development models and methodologies are applied, the term 'wetware' can be used to imply an approac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethe%20ansatz | In physics, the Bethe ansatz is an ansatz for finding the exact wavefunctions of certain quantum many-body models, most commonly for one-dimensional lattice models. It was first used by Hans Bethe in 1931 to find the exact eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the one-dimensional antiferromagnetic isotropic (XXX) Heisenberg ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandat%20International | Mandat International, also known as the International Cooperation Foundation, is an international non-governmental organization based in Geneva, Switzerland with consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council, the UNDPI, and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.
History
Manda... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLOT3D%20file%20format | In computational fluid dynamics, the PLOT3D file format is a standard file format used for storing grid and results data. PLOT3D was created by NASA Ames Research Center in 1982 by Pieter Buning and remains an often used file format. It can only store a structured grid. The structured grid allows random access, that ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competitive%20Carriers%20Association | The Competitive Carriers Association (commonly the CCA) was founded in 1992 by nine small wireless carriers in the United States as a 501(c)(6) non-profit trade association to promote the common interests of competitive, regional, and rural wireless services providers. Its counterpart, particularly for non-regional wi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ore%27s%20theorem | Ore's theorem is a result in graph theory proved in 1960 by Norwegian mathematician Øystein Ore. It gives a sufficient condition for a graph to be Hamiltonian, essentially stating that a graph with sufficiently many edges must contain a Hamilton cycle. Specifically, the theorem considers the sum of the degrees of pairs... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border%20town | A border town is a town or city close to the boundary between two countries, states, or regions. Usually the term implies that the nearness to the border is one of the things the place is most famous for. With close proximities to a different country, diverse cultural traditions can have certain influence to the place.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autodisplay | Autodisplay is a genetic engineering technique which is used to insert a protein of interest on the outer surface of gram-negative bacteria. This is accomplished by attaching the protein of interest to a protein which is known to localize to the surface of the bacterial outer membrane. First introduced in the 1990s, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stationary%20wavelet%20transform | The Stationary wavelet transform (SWT) is a wavelet transform algorithm designed to overcome the lack of translation-invariance of the discrete wavelet transform (DWT). Translation-invariance is achieved by removing the downsamplers and upsamplers in the DWT and upsampling the filter coefficients by a factor of in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direction%20cosine | In analytic geometry, the direction cosines (or directional cosines) of a vector are the cosines of the angles between the vector and the three positive coordinate axes. Equivalently, they are the contributions of each component of the basis to a unit vector in that direction.
Three-dimensional Cartesian coordinates
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20analytic%20function | In the mathematical field of complex analysis, a global analytic function is a generalization of the notion of an analytic function which allows for functions to have multiple branches. Global analytic functions arise naturally in considering the possible analytic continuations of an analytic function, since analytic ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Himalayan%20Bioresource%20Technology | C.S.I.R - Institute of Himalayan Bioresource Technology or CSIR-IHBT established in 1983 is a constituent laboratory of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research. This institute located in Palampur, Kangra, Himachal Pradesh, India is engaged in various advanced research aspects of Himalayan Bio-resources and modern... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAMAS6%20%28gene%29 | Vitiligo-associated multiple autoimmune disease susceptibility 6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the VAMAS6 gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%2021464 | The Alpha 21464 is an unfinished microprocessor that implements the Alpha instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Digital Equipment Corporation and later by Compaq after it acquired Digital. The microprocessor was also known as EV8 (codenamed Araña). Slated for a 2004 release, it was canceled on 25 June 2001 wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer%20P2 | Buffer P2 is a lysis buffer solution produced by Qiagen. It contains 1% sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) (w/v) to puncture holes in cellular membranes, and 200mM NaOH. It is used in conjunction with other resuspension buffers and lysis buffers to release DNA from cells, often as part of the alkaline lysis method of purifyi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAPZA2 | F-actin-capping protein subunit alpha-2 also known as CapZ-alpha2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CAPZA2 gene.
Structure
CapZ-alpha2 is a 33.0 kDa protein composed of 286 amino acids. CAPZA2 is located on human chromosome 7, position q31.2-q31.3. The primary sequence of CapZ-alpha2 contains three C-ter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C1orf109 | Chromosome 1 open reading frame 109 is a protein in humans that is encoded by the C1orf109 gene.
Clinical significance
This gene may play a role in cancer cell proliferation. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIP-8 | BIP-8 (alternatively, BIP8) is an abbreviation for bit-interleaved parity 8. BIP-8 consists of a parity byte calculated bit-wise across a large number of bytes in a transmission transport frame. BIP-8 bits are set such that the overall data stream, including the BIP-8 byte, has even parity. BIP-8 is used in the SONET/S... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-Methyltetrahydropteroyltriglutamate%E2%80%94homocysteine%20S-methyltransferase | In enzymology, a 5-methyltetrahydropteroyltriglutamate—homocysteine S-methyltransferase () is an enzyme that catalyzes the chemical reaction
5-methyltetrahydropteroyltri-L-glutamate + L-homocysteine tetrahydropteroyltri-L-glutamate + L-methionine
Thus, the two substrates of this enzyme are 5-methyltetrahydropteroylt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical%20text%20mining | Biomedical text mining (including biomedical natural language processing or BioNLP) refers to the methods and study of how text mining may be applied to texts and literature of the biomedical domain. As a field of research, biomedical text mining incorporates ideas from natural language processing, bioinformatics, medi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIST1H4D | Histone H4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HIST1H4D gene.
Histones are basic nuclear proteins that are responsible for the nucleosome structure of the chromosomal fiber in eukaryotes. Two molecules of each of the four core histones (H2A, H2B, H3, and H4) form an octamer, around which approximately 146 bp... |
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