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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20flags%20of%20Vietnam
The following is a list of flags of Vietnam. National flag Current Official Diasporic Historical Imperial standards Personal standards of emperors Presidential standards Political flags Religious flags Military flags Police flags Ensigns Flags of Vietnamese subjects Provinces of the Nguyễn dynasty Areas...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytotoxicity
Phytotoxicity describes any adverse effects on plant growth, physiology, or metabolism caused by a chemical substance, such as high levels of fertilizers, herbicides, heavy metals, or nanoparticles. General phytotoxic effects include altered plant metabolism, growth inhibition, or plant death. Changes to plant metabol...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuRiNet
The Quail Ridge Wireless Mesh Network project is an effort to provide a wireless communications infrastructure to the Quail Ridge Reserve, a wildlife reserve in California in the United States. The network is intended to benefit on-site ecological research and provide a wireless mesh network tested for development and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatamibari
Tatamibari () is a type of logic puzzle designed and published by Nikoli. The puzzle is based on Japanese tatami mats. Rules A Tatamibari puzzle is played on a rectangular grid with three different kinds of symbols in it: +, -. and |. The solver must partition the grid into rectangular or square regions according to t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon%20Gosling
Simon "Goose" Gosling (born 9 April 1969) is a British designer and builder of special effects models and props. He is best known for his work on the Millennium Falcon cockpit for Star Wars: The Force Awakens in 2014. Also his work on commercials featuring stop-frame animation for Brisk, Apple Jacks and Chips Ahoy in A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Significant%20Figures%20%28book%29
Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians is a 2017 nonfiction book by British mathematician Ian Stewart , published by Basic Books. In the work, Stewart discusses the lives and contributions of 25 figures who are prominent in the history of mathematics. The 25 mathematicians selected are: Archim...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional%20residual%20capacity
Functional residual capacity (FRC) is the volume of air present in the lungs at the end of passive expiration. At FRC, the opposing elastic recoil forces of the lungs and chest wall are in equilibrium and there is no exertion by the diaphragm or other respiratory muscles. Measurement FRC is the sum of expiratory reser...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devocalization
Devocalization (also known as ventriculocordectomy or vocal cordectomy; when performed on a dog debarking or bark softening; when performed on a cat demeowing or meow softening) is a surgical procedure where tissue is removed from the vocal cords. Indications and contraindications Devocalization is usually performed a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC%2062379
IEC 62379 is a control engineering standard for the common control interface for networked digital audio and video products. IEC 62379 uses Simple Network Management Protocol to communicate control and monitoring information. It is a family of standards that specifies a control framework for networked audio and video ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20SAN%20Volume%20Controller
The IBM SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is a block storage virtualization appliance that belongs to the IBM System Storage product family. SVC implements an indirection, or "virtualization", layer in a Fibre Channel storage area network (SAN). Architecture The IBM 2145 SAN Volume Controller (SVC) is an inline virtualizat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product%20rule
In calculus, the product rule (or Leibniz rule or Leibniz product rule) is a formula used to find the derivatives of products of two or more functions. For two functions, it may be stated in Lagrange's notation as or in Leibniz's notation as The rule may be extended or generalized to products of three or more functi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIMMON
SIMMON (Simulation Monitor) was a proprietary software testing system developed in the late 1960s in the IBM Product Test Laboratory, then at Poughkeepsie, New York It was designed for the then-new line of System/360 computers as a vehicle for testing the software that IBM was developing for that architecture. SIMMON w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G-VPR%20model
The g-VPR model is a model of human intelligence published in 2005 by psychology professors Wendy Johnson and Thomas J. Bouchard Jr. (Johnson & Bouchard, 2005) They developed the model by analyzing Gf-Gc theory, John Carroll’s Three-stratum theory and Vernon’s verbal-perceptual model. The g-VPR model is a four stratum...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radu%20Grigorovici
Radu Grigorovici (November 20, 1911 – August 2, 2008) was a Romanian physicist. Biography Radu Grigorovici was born on November 20, 1911 in Chernivtsi, being the only son of the Bucovina Social Democrats Gheorghe and Tatiana Grigorovici. After graduating from Aron Pumnul High School (1928) he studied at the Chernivtsi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20connection
In differential geometry and mathematical physics, a spin connection is a connection on a spinor bundle. It is induced, in a canonical manner, from the affine connection. It can also be regarded as the gauge field generated by local Lorentz transformations. In some canonical formulations of general relativity, a spin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combinatorics%20of%20Experimental%20Design
Combinatorics of Experimental Design is a textbook on the design of experiments, a subject that connects applications in statistics to the theory of combinatorial mathematics. It was written by mathematician Anne Penfold Street and her daughter, statistician Deborah Street, and published in 1987 by the Oxford Universit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%20Knight%20II
Dragon Knight II (ドラゴンナイトII) is a fantasy-themed eroge role-playing video game in the Dragon Knight franchise that was originally developed and published by ELF Corporation in 1990-1991 only in Japan as the first sequel to the original Dragon Knight game from 1989. The game is an erotic dungeon crawler in which a young...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interface%20bloat
In software design, interface bloat (also called fat interfaces by Bjarne Stroustrup and Refused Bequests by Martin Fowler) is when an interface incorporates too many operations on some data into an interface, only to find that most of the objects cannot perform the given operations. Interface bloat is an example of a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed%20area
In mathematics, the signed area or oriented area of a region of an affine plane is its area with orientation specified by the positive or negative sign, that is "plus" or "minus" . More generally, the signed area of an arbitrary surface region is its surface area with specified orientation. When the boundary of the re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyorochan
is a fictional bird that serves as a mascot for a Japanese brand of Morinaga chocolate, known as ChocoBall. He first appeared in 1967 in the anime television series Uchuu-shonen Soran (Space Boy Soran). Kyorochan also replaced the character Chappy in 1967, a space-themed squirrel who was the original mascot, first appe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla%20Persona
Mozilla Persona was a decentralized authentication system for the web, based on the open BrowserID protocol prototyped by Mozilla and standardized by IETF. It was launched in July 2011, but after failing to achieve traction, Mozilla announced in January 2016 plans to decommission the service by the end of the year. Hi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%20in%20paleobotany
This article records new taxa of fossil plants that are scheduled to be described during the year 2019, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleobotany that are scheduled to occur in the year 2019. Mosses Liverworts Ferns and fern allies Lycophytes Conifers Araucariaceae Cupressaceae ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MARIACHI
MARIACHI, the Mixed Apparatus for Radar Investigation of Cosmic-rays of High Ionization, is an apparatus for the detection of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) via bi-static radar interferometry using VHF transmitters. MARIACHI is also the name of the research project created and directed by Brookhaven National Lab...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifastin
Pacifastin is a family of serine proteinase inhibitors found in arthropods. Pacifastin inhibits the serine peptidases trypsin and chymotrypsin. All pacifastin members that have been characterized at the molecular level are precursor peptides composed of an N-terminal signal sequence followed by a precursor domain and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novartis
Novartis AG is a Swiss multinational pharmaceutical corporation based in Basel, Switzerland. Consistently ranked in the global top five, Novartis is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world and was the fourth largest by revenue in 2022. Novartis manufactures the drugs clozapine (Clozaril), diclofenac (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rho%20factor
A ρ factor (Rho factor) is a bacterial protein involved in the termination of transcription. Rho factor binds to the transcription terminator pause site, an exposed region of single stranded RNA (a stretch of 72 nucleotides) after the open reading frame at C-rich/G-poor sequences that lack obvious secondary structure. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20Theatre%20Database
The Internet Theatre Database (ITDb) is an online database with information about plays, playwrights, actors, legitimate theatre, musical theatre, Broadway shows, and similar theatrical information. The website is run by several volunteer theatre aficionados, each contributing material as time permits. Somewhat simila...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba%20Pasopia%20IQ
The Toshiba Pasopia IQ are a series of MSX compatible machines released by Toshiba between 1983 and 1985. This is not to be confused with a different computer line (unrelated to MSX) with the similar name of Toshiba Pasopia. HX-10 series The HX-10 was released in the fall of 1983. There is only one ROM cartridge slot,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbicide%20Trials%20Network
The Microbicide Trials Network (MTN) is the leading United States government-funded research organization working in the field of microbicides for sexually transmitted diseases. The MTN particularly focuses on research into microbicides which would prevent HIV infection. The MTN is a member of HANC. Clinical trials Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20A.%20Ough
Norman Arthur Ough (10 November 1898 – 3 August 1965) was a marine model maker whose models of Royal Navy warships are regarded as among the very finest of warship models. Family and early life Ough was born in Leytonstone, London. His father, Arthur Ough (1863–1946), was an architect, surveyor and civil engineer. At ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRKAR1A
cAMP-dependent protein kinase type I-alpha regulatory subunit is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PRKAR1A gene. Function cAMP is a signaling molecule important for a variety of cellular functions. cAMP exerts its effects by activating the cAMP-dependent protein kinase A (PKA), which transduces the signal t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Hydromechanics%20Research%20Association
The British Hydromechanics Research Association is a former government research association that supplies consulting engineering over fluid dynamics. History It was formed on 20 September 1947 in Essex, under the Companies Act 1929 It had moved to Bedfordshire by the 1960s. In the 1970s it was known as BHRA Fluid Eng...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blain%20%28animal%20disease%29
Blain was an animal disease of unknown etiology that was well known in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is unclear whether it is still extant, or what modern disease it corresponds to. According to Ephraim Chambers' 18th-century Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, blain was "a distemper" (in t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frege%27s%20theorem
In metalogic and metamathematics, Frege's theorem is a metatheorem that states that the Peano axioms of arithmetic can be derived in second-order logic from Hume's principle. It was first proven, informally, by Gottlob Frege in his 1884 Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik (The Foundations of Arithmetic) and proven more forma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steiner%20point%20%28computational%20geometry%29
In computational geometry, a Steiner point is a point that is not part of the input to a geometric optimization problem but is added during the solution of the problem, to create a better solution than would be possible from the original points alone. The name of these points comes from the Steiner tree problem, named...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homoscedasticity%20and%20heteroscedasticity
In statistics, a sequence (or a vector) of random variables is homoscedastic () if all its random variables have the same finite variance; this is also known as homogeneity of variance. The complementary notion is called heteroscedasticity, also known as heterogeneity of variance. The spellings homoskedasticity and het...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion%20and%20memory
Emotion can have a powerful effect on humans and animals. Numerous studies have shown that the most vivid autobiographical memories tend to be of emotional events, which are likely to be recalled more often and with more clarity and detail than neutral events. The activity of emotionally enhanced memory retention can ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foveated%20imaging
Foveated imaging is a digital image processing technique in which the image resolution, or amount of detail, varies across the image according to one or more "fixation points". A fixation point indicates the highest resolution region of the image and corresponds to the center of the eye's retina, the fovea. The locati...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animals%20in%20space
Animals in space originally served to test the survivability of spaceflight, before human spaceflights were attempted. Later, other non-human animals were flown to investigate various biological processes and the effects microgravity and space flight might have on them. Bioastronautics is an area of bioengineering rese...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain%20rule%20for%20Kolmogorov%20complexity
The chain rule for Kolmogorov complexity is an analogue of the chain rule for information entropy, which states: That is, the combined randomness of two sequences X and Y is the sum of the randomness of X plus whatever randomness is left in Y once we know X. This follows immediately from the definitions of conditional...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%20Ivanov%20%28mathematician%29
Sergei Vladimirovich Ivanov (Сергей Владимирович Иванов; born 31 May 1972) is a leading Russian mathematician working in differential geometry and mathematical physics. Education and career For each of the three years, 1987, 1988, and 1989, Ivanov won a gold medal in the International Mathematical Olympiad. He studied...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg%20substitutes
Egg substitutes are food products which can be used to replace eggs in cooking and baking. Common reasons a cook may choose to use an egg substitute instead of egg(s) include having an egg allergy, adhering to a vegan diet or a vegetarian diet of a type that omits eggs, having concerns about the level of animal welfare...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical%20incident%20technique
The critical incident technique (or CIT) is a set of procedures used for collecting direct observations of human behavior that have critical significance and meet methodically defined criteria. These observations are then kept track of as incidents, which are then used to solve practical problems and develop broad psyc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niels%20Bohr%20International%20Gold%20Medal
The Niels Bohr International Gold Medal is an international engineering award. It has been awarded since 1955 for "outstanding work by an engineer or physicist for the peaceful utilization of atomic energy". The medal is administered by the Danish Society of Engineers (Denmark) in collaboration with the Niels Bohr Inst...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket%20features
Racket has been under active development as a vehicle for programming language research since the mid-1990s, and has accumulated many features over the years. This article describes and demonstrates some of these features. Note that one of Racket's main design goals is to accommodate creating new languages, both doma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Crunchers
Super Crunchers: Why Thinking-by-Numbers Is the New Way to be Smart is a book written by Ian Ayres, a law professor at Yale Law School, about how quantitative analysis of social behaviour and natural experiment can be creatively deployed to reveal insights in all areas of life, often in unexpected ways. With examples ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-IgM%20syndrome%20type%203
Hyper-IgM syndrome type 3 is a form of hyper IgM syndrome characterized by mutations of the CD40 gene. In this type, Immature B cells cannot receive signal 2 from helper T cells which is necessary to mature into mature B cells. Hyper IgM syndromes Hyper IgM syndromes is a group of primary immune deficiency disorders...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20hiding
In computer science, information hiding is the principle of segregation of the design decisions in a computer program that are most likely to change, thus protecting other parts of the program from extensive modification if the design decision is changed. The protection involves providing a stable interface which prote...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20subgroup%20confinement%20attack
In cryptography, a subgroup confinement attack, or small subgroup confinement attack, on a cryptographic method that operates in a large finite group is where an attacker attempts to compromise the method by forcing a key to be confined to an unexpectedly small subgroup of the desired group. Several methods have been ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eoxin%20A4
Eoxin A4, also known as 14,15-leukotriene A4, is an eoxin. Cells make eoxins by metabolizing arachidonic acid with a 15-lipoxygenase enzyme to form 15(S)-hydroperoxyeicosapentaenoic acid (i.e. 15(S)-HpETE). This product is then converted serially to eoxin A4 (i.e. EXA4), EXC4, EXD4, and EXE4 by LTC4 synthase, an uniden...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PerfKitBenchmarker
PerfKit Benchmarker is an open source benchmarking tool used to measure and compare cloud offerings. PerfKit Benchmarker is licensed under the Apache 2 license terms. PerfKit Benchmarker is a community effort involving over 500 participants including researchers, academic institutions and companies together with the or...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varadhan%27s%20lemma
In mathematics, Varadhan's lemma is a result from the large deviations theory named after S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan. The result gives information on the asymptotic distribution of a statistic φ(Zε) of a family of random variables Zε as ε becomes small in terms of a rate function for the variables. Statement of the lem...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tribometer
A tribometer is an instrument that measures tribological quantities, such as coefficient of friction, friction force, and wear volume, between two surfaces in contact. It was invented by the 18th century Dutch scientist Musschenbroek A tribotester is the general name given to a machine or device used to perform tests ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%20Blade%202
Joe Blade 2 is the second game in the Joe Blade series. Gameplay Joe Blade 2 took a rather different approach to the first game. Instead of being a soldier, Blade was this time a vigilante taking to the city to rid the streets of criminals, rescuing old-age pensioners along the way. Blade was no longer armed with a g...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnits%20standards
The Gnits standards are a collection of standards and recommendations for programming, maintaining, and distributing software. They are published by a group of GNU project maintainers who call themselves "Gnits", which is short for "GNU nit-pickers". As such, they represent advice, not Free Software Foundation or GNU...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20validation
In computer science, data validation is the process of ensuring data has undergone data cleansing to confirm they have data quality, that is, that they are both correct and useful. It uses routines, often called "validation rules", "validation constraints", or "check routines", that check for correctness, meaningfulnes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20condyle%20of%20tibia
The lateral condyle is the lateral portion of the upper extremity of tibia. It serves as the insertion for the biceps femoris muscle (small slip). Most of the tendon of the biceps femoris inserts on the fibula. See also Gerdy's tubercle Medial condyle of tibia Additional images
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohn%20anomaly
In the field of physics concerning condensed matter, a Kohn anomaly (also called the Kohn effect) is an anomaly in the dispersion relation of a phonon branch in a metal. It is named for Walter Kohn. For a specific wavevector, the frequency (and thus the energy) of the associated phonon is considerably lowered, and ther...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20transcription
Medical transcription, also known as MT, is an allied health profession dealing with the process of transcribing voice-recorded medical reports that are dictated by physicians, nurses and other healthcare practitioners. Medical reports can be voice files, notes taken during a lecture, or other spoken material. These ar...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anagyrine
Anagyrine is a teratogenic alkaloid first isolated from (and named for) Anagyris foetida in the year 1885 by French biologists Hardy and Gallois. A. foetida (family Fabaceae), the Stinking Bean Trefoil, is a highly toxic shrub native to the Mediterranean region, with a long history of use in folk medicine. In the year ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20digestion
Artificial digestion is a laboratory technique that reduces food to protein, fat, carbohydrates, fiber, minerals, vitamins, and non-nutrient compounds for analytical or research purposes. Digestive agents such as pepsin and hydrochloric acid are typically used to accomplish artificial digestion. Meat inspection Artif...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability%20studies
Disability studies is an academic discipline that examines the meaning, nature, and consequences of disability. Initially, the field focused on the division between "impairment" and "disability", where impairment was an impairment of an individual's mind or body, while disability was considered a social construct. This...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libreswan
Libreswan is a fork of the Openswan IPsec VPN implementation. Libreswan is created by almost all of the Openswan developers after a lawsuit about the ownership of the Openswan name was filed against Paul Wouters, the release manager of Openswan, in December 2012. The lawsuit was later settled out of court. Libreswan ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Ocean%20Ecosystem%20Dynamics
Global Ocean Ecosystem Dynamics (GLOBEC) is the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP) core project responsible for understanding how global change will affect the abundance, diversity and productivity of marine populations. The programme was initiated by SCOR and the IOC of UNESCO in 1991, to understand ho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weighted%20Micro%20Function%20Points
Weighted Micro Function Points (WMFP) is a modern software sizing algorithm which is a successor to solid ancestor scientific methods as COCOMO, COSYSMO, maintainability index, cyclomatic complexity, function points, and Halstead complexity. It produces more accurate results than traditional software sizing methodologi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic%20mutation%20and%20recombination%20tests
The somatic mutation and recombination tests (SMARTs) are in vivo genotoxicity tests performed in Drosophila melanogaster (Fruit fly). These fruit fly tests are a short-term test and a non-mammalian approach for in vivo testing of putative genotoxins found in the environment. D. melanogaster has a short lifespan, which...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid%20raft
The plasma membranes of cells contain combinations of glycosphingolipids, cholesterol and protein receptors organised in glycolipoprotein lipid microdomains termed lipid rafts. Their existence in cellular membranes remains somewhat controversial. It has been proposed that they are specialized membrane microdomains whi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubling%20time
The doubling time is the time it takes for a population to double in size/value. It is applied to population growth, inflation, resource extraction, consumption of goods, compound interest, the volume of malignant tumours, and many other things that tend to grow over time. When the relative growth rate (not the absolu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20service-oriented%20architecture
A Semantic Service Oriented Architecture (SSOA) is an architecture that allows for scalable and controlled Enterprise Application Integration solutions. SSOA describes an approach to enterprise-scale IT infrastructure. It leverages rich, machine-interpretable descriptions of data, services, and processes to enable soft...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientation%20of%20a%20vector%20bundle
In mathematics, an orientation of a real vector bundle is a generalization of an orientation of a vector space; thus, given a real vector bundle π: E →B, an orientation of E means: for each fiber Ex, there is an orientation of the vector space Ex and one demands that each trivialization map (which is a bundle map) is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordered%20topological%20vector%20space
In mathematics, specifically in functional analysis and order theory, an ordered topological vector space, also called an ordered TVS, is a topological vector space (TVS) X that has a partial order ≤ making it into an ordered vector space whose positive cone is a closed subset of X. Ordered TVS have important applica...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbols%20of%20Nova%20Scotia
Nova Scotia is one of Canada's provinces, and has established several provincial symbols. Symbols
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rootkit
A rootkit is a collection of computer software, typically malicious, designed to enable access to a computer or an area of its software that is not otherwise allowed (for example, to an unauthorized user) and often masks its existence or the existence of other software. The term rootkit is a compound of "root" (the tr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layer%20four%20traceroute
Layer Four Traceroute (LFT) is a fast, multi-protocol traceroute engine, that also implements numerous other features including AS number lookups through regional Internet registries and other reliable sources, Loose Source Routing, firewall and load balancer detection, etc. LFT is best known for its use by network sec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20Single%20Board%20Computers
Motorola Single Board Computers is Motorola's production line of computer boards for embedded systems. There are three different lines : mvme68k, mvmeppc and mvme88k. The first version of the board appeared in 1988. Motorola still makes those boards and the last one is MVME3100. NetBSD supports the MVME147, MVME162, M...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartreusin
Chartreusin is an antibiotic originally isolated from the bacteria Streptomyces Chartreusis. The crystalline compound itself has a yellow-green colour, as per its name, and is stable at room temperature for several hours. Chartreusin is chemically related to elsamitrucin, as the two share an aglycone chartarin structur...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superstition%20in%20India
Superstition refers to any belief or practice that is caused by supernatural causality, and which contradicts modern science. Superstitious beliefs and practices often vary from one person to another or from one culture to another. Common examples of superstitious beliefs in India include: a black cat crossing the ro...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam%20propagation%20method
The beam propagation method (BPM) is an approximation technique for simulating the propagation of light in slowly varying optical waveguides. It is essentially the same as the so-called parabolic equation (PE) method in underwater acoustics. Both BPM and the PE were first introduced in the 1970s. When a wave propagates...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movim
Movim (My Open Virtual Identity Manager) is a distributed social network built on top of XMPP, a popular open standards communication protocol. Movim is a free and open source software licensed under the AGPL-3.0-or-later license. It can be accessed using existing XMPP clients and Jabber accounts. The project was foun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histatin
Histatins are histidine-rich (cationic) antimicrobial proteins found in saliva. Histatin's involvement in antimicrobial activities makes histatin part of the innate immune system. Histatin was first discovered (isolated) in 1988, with functions that's responsible in keeping homeostasis inside the oral cavity, helping ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmembrane%20protein%20150b
Transmembrane protein 150B is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TMEM150B gene. Function The protein belongs to the DRAM (damage-regulated autophagy modulator) family of membrane-spanning proteins. Alternate splicing results in multiple transcript variants. [provided by RefSeq, Aug 2013].
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmpliChip%20CYP450%20Test
AmpliChip CYP450 Test is a clinical test from Roche. The test aims to find the specific gene types (a genotype) of the patient that will determine how he or she metabolizes certain medicines, therefore guides the doctors to prescribe medicine for best effectiveness and least side effects. The AmpliChip CYP450 Test us...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow%20manifold
In mathematics, the slow manifold of an equilibrium point of a dynamical system occurs as the most common example of a center manifold. One of the main methods of simplifying dynamical systems, is to reduce the dimension of the system to that of the slow manifold—center manifold theory rigorously justifies the modelli...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington%27s%20disease-like%20syndrome
Huntington's disease-like syndromes (HD-like syndromes, or HDL syndromes) are a family of inherited neurodegenerative diseases that closely resemble Huntington's disease (HD) in that they typically produce a combination of chorea, cognitive decline or dementia and behavioural or psychiatric problems. Types HDL1 HDL1...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spray%20drying
Spray drying is a method of forming a dry powder from a liquid or slurry by rapidly drying with a hot gas. This is the preferred method of drying of many thermally-sensitive materials such as foods and pharmaceuticals, or materials which may require extremely consistent, fine particle size. Air is the heated drying med...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog%20behaviourist
A dog behaviourist is a person who works in modifying or changing behaviour in dogs. They can be experienced dog handlers, who have developed their experience over many years of hands-on experience, or have formal training up to degree level. Some have backgrounds in veterinary science, animal science, zoology, sociolo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-homogeneous%20B%C3%A9zout%20theorem
In algebra and algebraic geometry, the multi-homogeneous Bézout theorem is a generalization to multi-homogeneous polynomials of Bézout's theorem, which counts the number of isolated common zeros of a set of homogeneous polynomials. This generalization is due to Igor Shafarevich. Motivation Given a polynomial equation ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSeven
pSeven is a DSE (Design Space Exploration) software platform that was developed by DATADVANCE that features design, simulation and analysis capabilities and assists in design decisions. It provides integration with third party CAD and CAE software tools, multi-objective and robust optimization algorithms, data analysis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-convex%20function
K-convex functions, first introduced by Scarf, are a special weakening of the concept of convex function which is crucial in the proof of the optimality of the policy in inventory control theory. The policy is characterized by two numbers and , , such that when the inventory level falls below level , an order is issu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20U.S.%20state%20mushrooms
Five U.S. states, California, Minnesota, Oregon, Texas, and Utah, have officially declared a state mushroom. Minnesota was the first to declare a species; Morchella esculenta was chosen as its state mushroom in 1984, and codified into Statute in 2010. Four other states, Missouri, Washington, Massachusetts, and New York...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociated%20press
Dissociated press is a parody generator (a computer program that generates nonsensical text). The generated text is based on another text using the Markov chain technique. The name is a play on "Associated Press" and the psychological term dissociation (although word salad is more typical of conditions like aphasia and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russula%20atropurpurea
Russula atropurpurea is an edible member of the genus Russula. It is dark vinaceous (red wine-coloured) or purple, and grows with deciduous, or occasionally coniferous trees. It is commonly called the blackish purple Russula, or the purple brittlegill. Taxonomy Initially described as Agaricus atropurpureus by German n...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long%20code%20%28mathematics%29
In theoretical computer science and coding theory, the long code is an error-correcting code that is locally decodable. Long codes have an extremely poor rate, but play a fundamental role in the theory of hardness of approximation. Definition Let for be the list of all functions from . Then the long code encoding of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace%20rule%20of%20nines
The Wallace rule of nines is a tool used in pre-hospital and emergency medicine to estimate the total body surface area (BSA) affected by a burn. In addition to determining burn severity, the measurement of burn surface area is important for estimating patients' fluid requirements and determining hospital admission cri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pixel%20Qi
Pixel Qi Corporation (pronounced Pixel "Chi") was an American company involved in the research of low-power computer display technology, based in San Bruno, California. It was founded by Mary Lou Jepsen, who was previously the chief technical officer of the One Laptop per Child project. The company designed liquid cry...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20types%20of%20seafood
The following is a list of types of seafood. Seafood is any form of sea life regarded as food by humans. It prominently includes shellfish, and roe. Shellfish include various species of molluscs, crustaceans, and echinoderms. In most parts of the world, fish are generally not considered seafood even if they are from th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosophila%20melanogaster
Drosophila melanogaster is a species of fly (the taxonomic order Diptera) in the family Drosophilidae. The species is often referred to as the fruit fly or lesser fruit fly, or less commonly the "vinegar fly", "pomace fly", or "banana fly". Starting with Charles W. Woodworth's 1901 proposal of the use of this species a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry%20Mazur
Barry Charles Mazur (; born December 19, 1937) is an American mathematician and the Gerhard Gade University Professor at Harvard University. His contributions to mathematics include his contributions to Wiles's proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in number theory, Mazur's torsion theorem in arithmetic geometry, the Mazur sw...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20for%20Condensed%20Matter%20Theory
The Institute for Condensed Matter Theory (ICMT) is an institute for the research of condensed matter theory hosted by and located at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ICMT was founded in 2007. The first director of the institute was Paul Goldbart who was followed by Eduardo Fradkin. The chief scientist...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic%20flow
In mathematics and transportation engineering, traffic flow is the study of interactions between travellers (including pedestrians, cyclists, drivers, and their vehicles) and infrastructure (including highways, signage, and traffic control devices), with the aim of understanding and developing an optimal transport netw...