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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Society%20for%20Reproductive%20Immunology | The American Society for Reproductive Immunology, or ASRI, is a US-based organization of scientists from around the world interested in reproductive immunology. It was founded in 1981 and is the oldest society of its kind. Its official scientific journal is the American Journal of Reproductive Immunology.
ASRI encompa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%20Mathematics%20Study%20Group | The School Mathematics Study Group (SMSG) was an American academic think tank focused on the subject of reform in mathematics education. Directed by Edward G. Begle and financed by the National Science Foundation, the group was created in the wake of the Sputnik crisis in 1958 and tasked with creating and implementing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvel%20%28food%29 | Marvel is a United Kingdom brand of dried milk powder, now marketed by Premier Foods.
History, packaging and Brit Miller
The product was launched in 1964 and is sold in foil-coated cardboard drums with the contents sealed under a tear off foil lid and in sachets.
To make milk from the powder it is necessary to put... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brining | In food processing, brining is treating food with brine or coarse salt which preserves and seasons the food while enhancing tenderness and flavor with additions such as herbs, spices, sugar, caramel or vinegar. Meat and fish are typically brined for less than twenty-four hours while vegetables, cheeses and fruit are br... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20New%20Era%20of%20Thought | A New Era of Thought is a non-fiction work written by Charles Howard Hinton, published in 1888 and reprinted in 1900 by Swan Sonnenschein & Co. Ltd., London. A New Era of Thought is about the fourth dimension and its implications on human thinking. It influenced the work of P.D. Ouspensky, particularly his book Tertium... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppressor-inducer%20T%20cell | Suppressor-inducer T cells are a specific subset of CD4+ T helper cells that "induce" CD8+ cytotoxic T cells to become "suppressor" cells. Suppressor T cells are also known as CD25+–Foxp3+ regulatory T cells (nTregs), and reduce inflammation. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asilomar%20Conference%20on%20Recombinant%20DNA | The Asilomar Conference on Recombinant DNA was an influential conference organized by Paul Berg, Maxine Singer, and colleagues to discuss the potential biohazards and regulation of biotechnology, held in February 1975 at a conference center at Asilomar State Beach, California. A group of about 140 professionals (primar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithm%20characterizations | Algorithm characterizations are attempts to formalize the word algorithm. Algorithm does not have a generally accepted formal definition. Researchers are actively working on this problem. This article will present some of the "characterizations" of the notion of "algorithm" in more detail.
The problem of definition
O... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%20machine%20replication | In computer science, state machine replication (SMR) or state machine approach is a general method for implementing a fault-tolerant service by replicating servers and coordinating client interactions with server replicas. The approach also provides a framework for understanding and designing replication management pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Gravitational%20Wave%20Astronomy | The Center for Gravitational Wave Astronomy (CGWA) is a research center at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV). Its core mission is "to further scientific research and education in gravitational wave astronomy". It was founded in 2003 at the UTRGV's predecessor institution UT Brownsville, through a grant ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity%20Commissioner | The Identity Commissioner (officially known as the National Identity Scheme Commissioner) was an independent regulator in the United Kingdom appointed under the Identity Cards Act 2006 based in London.
Following the formation of the Conservative – Liberal Democrat Coalition after the 2010 General Election, it was anno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Conlon | David Conlon (born 1982) is an Irish mathematician who is a Professor of Mathematics at the California Institute of Technology. His research interests are in Hungarian-style combinatorics, particularly Ramsey theory, extremal graph theory, combinatorial number theory, and probabilistic methods in combinatorics. He prov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-35 | The HP-35 was Hewlett-Packard's first pocket calculator and the world's first scientific pocket calculator: a calculator with trigonometric and exponential functions. It was introduced in 1972.
History
In about 1970 HP co-founder Bill Hewlett challenged his co-workers to create a "shirt-pocket sized HP-9100". At the t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge%20computing | Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm that brings computation and data storage closer to the sources of data. This is expected to improve response times and save bandwidth. Edge computing is an architecture rather than a specific technology, and a topology- and location-sensitive form of distributed comput... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-state%20modeling%20of%20biomolecules | Multi-state modeling of biomolecules refers to a series of techniques used to represent and compute the behaviour of biological molecules or complexes that can adopt a large number of possible functional states.
Biological signaling systems often rely on complexes of biological macromolecules that can undergo several ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyproconazole | Cyproconazole is an agricultural fungicide of the class of azoles, used on cereal crops, coffee, sugar beet, fruit trees and grapes, on sod farms and golf courses and on wood as a preservative. It was introduced to the market by then Sandoz in 1994 (which is Syngenta as of 2000).
Mechanism of action
Cyproconazole inhi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Related-key%20attack | In cryptography, a related-key attack is any form of cryptanalysis where the attacker can observe the operation of a cipher under several different keys whose values are initially unknown, but where some mathematical relationship connecting the keys is known to the attacker. For example, the attacker might know that th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folkewall | The Folkewall is a construction with the dual functions of growing plants and purifying greywater. It was designed by Folke Günther in Sweden.
Inspired by the "Sanitas wall" at Dr Gösta Nilsson's Sanitas farm project in Botswana, this technique makes an efficient use of space by fulfilling two essential functions: ve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20delivery%20platform | A content delivery platform (CDP) is a software as a service (SaaS) content service, similar to a content management system (CMS), that utilizes embedded software code to deliver web content. Instead of the installation of software on client servers, a CDP feeds content through embedded code snippets, typically via Jav... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow%20stack | In computer security, a shadow stack is a mechanism for protecting a procedure's stored return address, such as from a stack buffer overflow. The shadow stack itself is a second, separate stack that "shadows" the program call stack. In the function prologue, a function stores its return address to both the call stack a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletus%20nobilissimus | Boletus nobilissimus is an edible basidiomycete mushroom, of the genus Boletus in the family Boletaceae. Long considered a variety of European Boletus edulis, it has become a species on its own in 2000, with 2010 molecular study finding that it is most closely related to B. atkinsonii, B. quercophilus of Costa Rica and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tinc%20%28protocol%29 | Tinc is an open-source, self-routing, mesh networking protocol and software implementation used for compressed and encrypted virtual private networks. It was started in 1998 by Guus Sliepen, Ivo Timmermans, and Wessel Dankers, and released as a GPL-licensed project.
Platforms
Tinc is available on Linux, FreeBSD, OpenB... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20cardiopulmonary%20resuscitation | The history of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can be traced as far back as the literary works of ancient Egypt (c. 2686 – c. 2181 BCE). However, it was not until the 18th century that credible reports of cardiopulmonary resuscitation began to appear in the medical literature.
Mouth-to-mouth ventilation has been u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldicellulosiruptor%20bescii | Caldicellulosiruptor bescii is a species of thermophilic, anaerobic cellulolytic bacteria. It was isolated from a geothermally heated freshwater pool in the Valley of Geysers on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia in 1990. The species was originally named Anaerocellum thermophilum, but reclassified in 2010, based on geno... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dream | A dream is a succession of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations that usually occur involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep. Humans spend about two hours dreaming per night, and each dream lasts around 5 to 20 minutes, although the dreamer may perceive the dream as being much longer than this.
The c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyology | Ichthyology is the branch of zoology devoted to the study of fish, including bony fish (Osteichthyes), cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes), and jawless fish (Agnatha). According to FishBase, 33,400 species of fish had been described as of October 2016, with approximately 250 new species described each year.
Etymology
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union%20of%20Agricultural%2C%20Food%20Processing%20and%20Tobacco%20Workers%20of%20Yugoslavia | The Union of Agricultural, Food Processing and Tobacco Workers of Yugoslavia () was a trade union representing workers in several related industries in Yugoslavia.
The union was founded in 1959, when the Union of Agricultural Workers and Employees merged with the Union of Food and Tobacco Workers. Like both its prede... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPIKES | The SPIKES protocol is a method used in clinical medicine to break bad news to patients and families. As receiving bad news can cause distress and anxiety, clinicians need to deliver the news carefully. By using the SPIKES method for introducing and communicating information to patients and their families, it can aid i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryptoBuddy | CryptoBuddy is a simple software application for the encryption and compression of computer files to make them safe and secure. The application uses a 64-bit block cipher algorithm for encryption and a proprietary compression algorithm. The CryptoBuddy software is also used as part of the CryptoStick encryption device ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20automation%20protocols | This is a list of communication protocols used for the automation of processes (industrial or otherwise), such as for building automation, power-system automation, automatic meter reading, and vehicular automation.
Process automation protocols
AS-i – Actuator-sensor interface, a low level 2-wire bus establishing powe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbol%20group | A symbol group is a form of franchise of convenience shops, found primarily in the United Kingdom and Ireland. They do not own or operate shops, but act as suppliers to independent shops which then trade under a common banner.
Unlike other forms of franchise, they have expanded primarily by selling their services to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20natural%20phenomena | A natural phenomenon is an observable event which is not man-made. Examples include: sunrise, weather, fog, thunder, tornadoes; biological processes, decomposition, germination; physical processes, wave propagation, erosion; tidal flow, and natural disasters such as electromagnetic pulses, volcanic eruptions, hurricane... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antenna%20rotator | An antenna rotator (or antenna rotor) is a device used to change the orientation, within the horizontal plane, of a directional antenna. Most antenna rotators have two parts, the rotator unit and the controller. The controller is normally placed near the equipment which the antenna is connected to, while the rotator is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lufotrelvir | Lufotrelvir (PF-07304814) is an antiviral drug developed by Pfizer which acts as a 3CL protease inhibitor. It is a prodrug with the phosphate group being cleaved in vivo to yield the active agent PF-00835231. Lufotrelvir is in human clinical trials for the treatment of COVID-19, and shows good activity against COVID-19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%20Winogradsky | Sergei Nikolaievich Winogradsky (or Vinohradsky; published under the name of Sergius Winogradsky or M. S. Winogradsky from Ukrainian: Сергій Миколайович Виноградський Russian: Сергей Николаевич Виноградский 1 September 1856 – 25 February 1953) was a Ukrainian and Russian microbiologist, ecologist and soil scientist wh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronom%C3%A8tre%20of%20Louli%C3%A9 | The chronomètre is a precursor of the metronome. It was invented circa 1694 by Étienne Loulié to record the preferred tempo of pieces of music.
The Device
Musician Étienne Loulié collaborated with mathematician Joseph Sauveur on the education of Philippe, Duke of Chartres, who subsequently asked the pair to work toget... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicoid%203%E2%80%B2-UTR%20regulatory%20element | The bicoid 3′-UTR regulatory element is an mRNA regulatory element that controls the gene expression of the bicoid protein in fruitfly Drosophila melanogaster.
The structured RNA element consists of four domains (denoted as II, III, IV and V) in the 3′UTR of the mRNA. It is essential for the correct transport and loc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Mathematics%20Enthusiast | The Mathematics Enthusiast is a triannual peer-reviewed open access academic journal covering undergraduate mathematics, mathematics education, including historical, philosophical, and cross-cultural perspectives on mathematics. It is hosted by ScholarWorks at the University of Montana. The journal was established in 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20d%27immunologie%20de%20Marseille-Luminy | The Centre d’Immunologie de Marseille-Luminy (CIML) was founded in 1976 and has been described by AERES, an independent evaluation agency, as "without doubt one of the best immunology centers of excellence in Europe". The CIML addresses all areas of contemporary immunology; it is located in Marseille in the South of Fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20intestinal%20bacterial%20overgrowth | Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), also termed bacterial overgrowth, or small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome (SBBOS), is a disorder of excessive bacterial growth in the small intestine. Unlike the colon (or large bowel), which is rich with bacteria, the small bowel usually has fewer than 100,000 organis... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda%20U3-X | The Honda U3-X is an experimental self-balancing one-wheeled personal transporter shown in 2009.
History
It was unveiled by Honda's CEO on September 24, 2009, and it was announced that it would be shown at the 2009 Tokyo Motor Show. Time magazine called it one of the 50 best inventions of 2009.
In April 2010, Honda e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reststrahlen%20effect | The reststrahlen effect (German: “residual rays”) is a reflectance phenomenon in which electromagnetic radiation within a narrow energy band cannot propagate within a given medium due to a change in refractive index concurrent with the specific absorbance band of the medium in question; this narrow energy band is terme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extract | An extract (essence) is a substance made by extracting a part of a raw material, often by using a solvent such as ethanol, oil or water. Extracts may be sold as tinctures, absolutes or in powder form.
The aromatic principles of many spices, nuts, herbs, fruits, etc., and some flowers, are marketed as extracts, among ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20UNIX | Ancient UNIX is any early release of the Unix code base prior to Unix System III, particularly the Research Unix releases prior to and including Version 7 (the base for UNIX/32V as well as later developments of AT&T Unix).
After the publication of the Lions' book, work was undertaken to release earlier versions of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20energy%20system%20models | Open energy system models are energy system models that are open source. However, some of them may use third party proprietary software as part of their workflows to input, process, or output data. Preferably, these models use open data, which facilitates open science.
Energy system models are used to explore future e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlei | A vlei () is a shallow minor lake, mostly of a seasonal or intermittent nature. It even might refer to seasonal ponds or marshy patches where frogs and similar marsh dwellers breed. Commonly, vleis vary in their extent, or even in the presence or absence of water, according to the fall of rain or dryness of the season... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain-ladder%20method | The chain-ladder or development method is a prominent actuarial loss reserving technique.
The chain-ladder method is used in both the property and casualty and health insurance fields. Its intent is to estimate incurred but not reported claims and project ultimate loss amounts.
The primary underlying assumption of th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LivePerson | LivePerson is a global technology company that develops conversational commerce and AI software.
Headquartered in New York City, LivePerson is best known as the developer of the Conversational Cloud, a software platform that allows consumers to message with brands.
In 2018, the company announced its AI offering, allo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETen%20Chinese%20System | ETen Chinese System (倚天中文系統) was the most popular DOS-compatible traditional Chinese operating system before Chinese Windows 95.
DOS did not support Chinese characters, which are not in Extended ASCII. Many companies in Taiwan developed their own IBM PC compatible traditional Chinese operating system running on DOS, w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic%20disk | In general relativity, the relativistic disk expression refers to a class of axi-symmetric self-consistent solutions to Einstein's field equations corresponding to the gravitational field generated by axi-symmetric isolated sources. To find such solutions, one has to pose correctly and solve together the ‘outer’ prob... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio%20Focardi | Sergio Focardi (1932 – 22 June 2013) was an Italian physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Bologna.
He led the Department of Bologna of the (Italian) National Institute for Nuclear Physics and the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences at the University of Bologna.
In the early 1960s Foc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma%20Previato | Emma Previato (November 29, 1952 – June 29, 2022) was a professor of mathematics at Boston University. Her research concerned algebraic geometry and partial differential equations.
Career
Previato received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1983 under David Mumford. She was a faculty member at Boston University.
Pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAC%20times | MAC times are pieces of file system metadata which record when certain events pertaining to a computer file occurred most recently. The events are usually described as "modification" (the data in the file was modified), "access" (some part of the file was read), and "metadata change" (the file's permissions or ownershi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20migration%20%28immunology%29 | Within molecular and cell biology, reverse migration is the phenomenon in which some neutrophils migrate away from the inflammation site, against the chemokine gradient, during inflammation resolution. The activation of in vivo inflammatory pathways (such as hypoxia-inducible factor, HIF), altered this behavior of reve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20materialization | Digital materialization (DM)
can loosely be defined as two-way direct communication or conversion between matter and information that enables people to exactly describe, monitor, manipulate and create any arbitrary real object. DM is a general paradigm alongside a specified framework that is suitable for computer pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvinyl%20alcohol | Poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVOH, PVA, or PVAl) is a water-soluble synthetic polymer. It has the idealized formula [CH2CH(OH)]n. It is used in papermaking, textile warp sizing, as a thickener and emulsion stabilizer in polyvinyl acetate (PVAc) adhesive formulations, in a variety of coatings, and 3D printing. It is colourless ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20box%20group | In computational group theory, a black box group (black-box group) is a group G whose elements are encoded by bit strings of length N, and group operations are performed by an oracle (the "black box"). These operations include:
taking a product g·h of elements g and h,
taking an inverse g−1 of element g,
deciding w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virivore | Virivore (equivalently virovore) comes from the English prefix viro- meaning virus, derived from the Latin word for poison, and the suffix -vore from the Latin word vorare, meaning to eat, or to devour; therefore, a virivore is an organism that consumes viruses. Virivory is a well-described process in which organisms, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminous%20efficiency%20function | A luminous efficiency function or luminosity function represents the average spectral sensitivity of human visual perception of light. It is based on subjective judgements of which of a pair of different-colored lights is brighter, to describe relative sensitivity to light of different wavelengths. It is not an absolu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FHIPEP%20protein%20family | In molecular biology, the FHIPEP protein family (Flagellar/Hr/Invasion Proteins Export Pore family)consists of a number of proteins that constitute the type III secretion (or signal peptide-independent) pathway apparatus. This mechanism translocates proteins lacking an N-terminal signal peptide across the cell membrane... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grunsky%20matrix | In complex analysis and geometric function theory, the Grunsky matrices, or Grunsky operators, are infinite matrices introduced in 1939 by Helmut Grunsky. The matrices correspond to either a single holomorphic function on the unit disk or a pair of holomorphic functions on the unit disk and its complement. The Grunsky ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-lipoxygenase-activating%20protein | Arachidonate 5-lipoxygenase-activating protein also known as 5-lipoxygenase activating protein, or FLAP, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ALOX5AP gene.
Function
FLAP is necessary for the activation of 5-lipoxygenase and therefore for the production of leukotrienes, 5-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid, 5-oxo-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark0de | dark0de, also known as Darkode, is a cybercrime forum and black marketplace described by Europol as "the most prolific English-speaking cybercriminal forum to date". The site, which was launched in 2007, serves as a venue for the sale and trade of hacking services, botnets, malware, stolen personally identifiable infor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Endler | John Arthur Endler (born 1947) is a Canadian ethologist and evolutionary biologist noted for his work on the adaptation of vertebrates to their unique perceptual environments, and the ways in which animal sensory capacities and colour patterns co-evolve.
Education and early life
Born in Canada, Endler took his PhD de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals%20of%20Physics | Annals of Physics is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of physics. It was established in 1957 and is published by Elsevier. The editor-in-chief is Neil Turok (University of Edinburgh School of Physics and Astronomy).
Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in:
Acc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartogs%27s%20theorem%20on%20separate%20holomorphicity | In mathematics, Hartogs's theorem is a fundamental result of Friedrich Hartogs in the theory of several complex variables. Roughly speaking, it states that a 'separately analytic' function is continuous. More precisely, if is a function which is analytic in each variable zi, 1 ≤ i ≤ n, while the other variables are h... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blagger%20%28video%20game%29 | Blagger is a platform game created by Antony Crowther for the Commodore 64 and released by Alligata in 1983. A BBC Micro port was released the same year, Acorn Electron, Amstrad CPC (through Amsoft) and MSX in 1984, Commodore 16 and Plus/4 in 1985 and Amstrad PCW in 1987. In some countries this game was released under ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egalitarian%20item%20allocation | Egalitarian item allocation, also called max-min item allocation is a fair item allocation problem, in which the fairness criterion follows the egalitarian rule. The goal is to maximize the minimum value of an agent. That is, among all possible allocations, the goal is to find an allocation in which the smallest value ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennadii%20Rubinstein | Gennadii Shlemovich Rubinstein (rus: Геннадий Шлемович Рубинштейн) was a Russian mathematician. His research focused on mathematical programming and operations research. His name is associated to the Kantorovich–Rubinstein metric, also commonly known as the Wasserstein distance, used in optimal transport.
Gennadii Rub... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physisorption | Physisorption, also called physical adsorption, is a process in which the electronic structure of the atom or molecule is barely perturbed upon adsorption.
Overview
The fundamental interacting force of physisorption is Van der Waals force. Even though the interaction energy is very weak (~10–100 meV), physisorption p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2-Methylfuran | 2-Methylfuran, also known with the older name of sylvane, is a flammable, water-insoluble liquid with a chocolate odor, found naturally in Myrtle and Dutch Lavender
used as a FEMA GRAS flavoring substance, with the potential for use in alternative fuels.
Manufacture
2-Methylfuran is an article of commerce (chemical in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20temperature%20sensing | Distributed temperature sensing systems (DTS) are optoelectronic devices which measure temperatures by means of optical fibres functioning as linear sensors. Temperatures are recorded along the optical sensor cable, thus not at points, but as a continuous profile. A high accuracy of temperature determination is achieve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rohit%20Pappu | Rohit Pappu is an Indian-born computational and theoretical biophysicist. He is the Gene K. Beare Distinguished Professor of Engineering and the director of the Center for Science & Engineering of Living Systems (CSELS) at Washington University in St. Louis.
Education and career
Pappu did his undergraduate work in phy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provider-independent%20address%20space | A provider-independent address space (PI) is a block of IP addresses assigned by a regional Internet registry (RIR) directly to an end-user organization. The user must contract with a local Internet registry (LIR) through an Internet service provider to obtain routing of the address block within the Internet.
Provide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut%20Gr%C3%B6ttrup | Helmut Gröttrup (12 February 1916 – 4 July 1981) was a German engineer, rocket scientist and inventor of the smart card. During World War II, he worked in the German V-2 rocket program under Wernher von Braun. From 1946 to 1950 he headed a group of 170 German scientists who were forced to work for the Soviet rocketry p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microdot | A microdot is text or an image substantially reduced in size to prevent detection by unintended recipients. Microdots are normally circular and around in diameter but can be made into different shapes and sizes and made from various materials such as polyester or metal. The name comes from the fact that the microdots ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20number | The West number is an empirical parameter used to characterize the performance of Stirling engines and other Stirling systems. It is very similar to the Beale number where a larger number indicates higher performance; however, the West number includes temperature compensation. The West number is often used to approxima... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20biochemists | This is a list of biochemists. It should include those who have been important to the development or practice of biochemistry. Their research or applications have made significant contributions in the area of basic or applied biochemistry.
A
John Jacob Abel (1857–1938). American biochemist and pharmacologist. He fou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline%20%28construction%20set%29 | American Skyline was a construction set sold in the late 1950s and early 1960s by Elgo Plastics/Halsam Products Company from Chicago, Illinois. With an American Skyline set, its owner could piece together models of high-rise city buildings.
Set contents
The set consisted of a collection of three different types of pla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almgren%E2%80%93Pitts%20min-max%20theory | In mathematics, the Almgren–Pitts min-max theory (named after Frederick J. Almgren, Jr. and his student Jon T. Pitts) is an analogue of Morse theory for hypersurfaces.
The theory started with the efforts for generalizing George David Birkhoff's method for the construction of simple closed geodesics on the sphere, to a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosemary%20Roberts | Rosemary A. Roberts is a statistics educator who led the creation of the AP Statistics course and exam for US secondary school students, and who later chaired the Statistical Education Section of the American Statistical Association.
Educated in England and Canada, she spent many years working in the US before her 2013... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Societ%C3%A0%20Entomologica%20Italiana | La Società Entomologica Italiana, the Italian Entomological Society, is Italy’s foremost society devoted to the study of insects. The society is famous for promoting applied entomology and many of its past members have saved millions from deadly diseases such as malaria.
History
The society was founded on 31 October 1... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpetosiphon | Herpetosiphon is a genus of bacteria in the family Herpetosiphonaceae.
Phylogeny |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-FEN | X-FEN (formerly FRC-FEN) is an extension of Forsyth–Edwards Notation (FEN) introduced by Reinhard Scharnagl in 2003. It was designed to be able to represent all possible positions in Fischer random chess (FRC) and Capablanca random chess (CRC). It is fully backward compatible with FEN.
X-FEN definition
X-FEN is based... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/81%20%28number%29 | 81 (eighty-one) is the natural number following 80 and preceding 82.
In mathematics
81 is:
the square of 9 and the second fourth-power of a prime; 34.
with an aliquot sum of 40; within an aliquot sequence of three composite numbers (81,40,50,43,1,0) to the Prime in the 43-aliquot tree.
a perfect totient number lik... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counterexample | A counterexample is any exception to a generalization. In logic a counterexample disproves the generalization, and does so rigorously in the fields of mathematics and philosophy. For example, the fact that "student John Smith is not lazy" is a counterexample to the generalization "students are lazy", and both a counte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mega-telomere | A mega-telomere (also known as an ultra-long telomere or a class III telomere), is an extremely long telomere sequence that sits on the end of chromosomes and prevents the loss of genetic information during cell replication. Like regular telomeres, mega-telomeres are made of a repetitive sequence of DNA and associated ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayliss%20and%20Starling%20Society | The Bayliss and Starling Society was founded in 1979 as a forum for research scientists with specific interests in the chemistry, physiology and function of central and autonomic peptides.
The society was named in honour of William Bayliss and Ernest Starling, who discovered the gastrointestinal peptide secretin in 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transduction%20%28physiology%29 | In physiology, transduction is the translation of arriving stimulus into an action potential by a sensory receptor. It begins when stimulus changes the membrane potential of a receptor cell.
A receptor cell converts the energy in a stimulus into an electrical signal. Receptors are broadly split into two main categorie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20of%20Martinique | The flag of Martinique consists of a red triangle at the hoist, with two horizontal bands, the upper green and the lower black. It was adopted on 2 February 2023. The flag of France, its parent country, is also flown with official standing due to Martinique's status as a French overseas department/region. The assembly ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ljubljana%20graph | In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Ljubljana graph is an undirected bipartite graph with 112 vertices and 168 edges, rediscovered in 2002 and named after Ljubljana (the capital of Slovenia).
It is a cubic graph with diameter 8, radius 7, chromatic number 2 and chromatic index 3. Its girth is 10 and there ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro%20Faedo | Alessandro Faedo (18 November 1913 – 15 June 2001) (also known as Alessandro Carlo Faedo or Sandro Faedo) was an Italian mathematician and politician, born in Chiampo. He is known for his work in numerical analysis, leading to the Faedo–Galerkin method: he was one of the pupils of Leonida Tonelli and, after his death, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Bridges%20Organization | The Bridges Organization is an organization that was founded in Kansas, United States, in 1998 with the goal of promoting interdisciplinary work in mathematics and art. The Bridges Conference is an annual conference on connections between art and mathematics. The conference features papers, educational workshops, an ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20weapons%20in%20popular%20culture | Since their public debut in August 1945, nuclear weapons and their potential effects have been a recurring motif in popular culture, to the extent that the decades of the Cold War are often referred to as the "atomic age".
Images of nuclear weapons
The atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki ushered in the "atomic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalking | Stalking is unwanted and/or repeated surveillance by an individual or group toward another person. Stalking behaviors are interrelated to harassment and intimidation and may include following the victim in person or monitoring them. The term stalking is used with some differing definitions in psychiatry and psychology,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics%20education%20in%20the%20United%20States | Mathematics education in the United States varies considerably from one state to the next, and even within a single state. However, with the adoption of the Common Core Standards in most states and the District of Columbia beginning in 2010, mathematics content across the country has moved into closer agreement for eac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemic%20disease | A systemic disease is one that affects a number of organs and tissues, or affects the body as a whole.
Examples
Mastocytosis, including mast cell activation syndrome and eosinophilic esophagitis
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Systemic vasculitis e.g. SLE, PAN
Sarcoidosis – a disease that mainly affects the lungs, brain,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%20permutation | In combinatorial mathematics, a Stirling permutation of order k is a permutation of the multiset 1, 1, 2, 2, ..., k, k (with two copies of each value from 1 to k) with the additional property that, for each value i appearing in the permutation, the values between the two copies of i are larger than i. For instance, the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cockade | A cockade is a knot of ribbons, or other circular- or oval-shaped symbol of distinctive colours which is usually worn on a hat or cap.
The word cockade derives from the French cocarde, from Old French coquarde, feminine of coquard (vain, arrogant), from coc (cock), of imitative origin. The earliest documented use was ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting%20ratio | The shooting ratio or "Bertolo code" in filmmaking and television production is the ratio between the total duration of its footage created for possible use in a project and that which appears in its final cut.
A film with a shooting ratio of 2:1 would have shot twice the amount of footage than was used in the film. I... |
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