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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch%20connective%20tissue | Catch connective tissue (also called mutable collagenous tissue) is a kind of connective tissue found in echinoderms (such as starfish and sea cucumbers) which can change its mechanical properties in a few seconds or minutes through nervous control rather than by muscular means.
Connective tissue, including dermis, te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topcolor | Topcolor is a model in theoretical physics, of dynamical electroweak symmetry breaking in which the top quark and anti-top quark form a composite Higgs boson by a new force arising from massive "top gluons". The solution to composite Higgs models was actually anticipated in 1981, and found to be the Infrared fixed poin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubling%20space | In mathematics, a metric space with metric is said to be doubling if there is some doubling constant such that for any and , it is possible to cover the ball with the union of at most balls of radius . The base-2 logarithm of is called the doubling dimension of . Euclidean spaces equipped with the usual Euclide... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fornix%20%28neuroanatomy%29 | The fornix (from ; : fornices) is a C-shaped bundle of nerve fibers in the brain that acts as the major output tract of the hippocampus. The fornix also carries some afferent fibers to the hippocampus from structures in the diencephalon and basal forebrain. The fornix is part of the limbic system. While its exact funct... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice%20constant | A lattice constant or lattice parameter is one of the physical dimensions and angles that determine the geometry of the unit cells in a crystal lattice, and is proportional to the distance between atoms in the crystal. A simple cubic crystal has only one lattice constant, the distance between atoms, but in general latt... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20differential%20equation | A universal differential equation (UDE) is a non-trivial differential algebraic equation with the property that its solutions can approximate any continuous function on any interval of the real line to any desired level of accuracy.
Precisely, a (possibly implicit) differential equation is a UDE if for any continuous... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AICA%20ribonucleotide | 5-Aminoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribonucleotide (AICAR) is an intermediate in the generation of inosine monophosphate. AICAR is an analog of adenosine monophosphate (AMP) that is capable of stimulating AMP-dependent protein kinase (AMPK) activity. The drug has also been shown as a potential treatment for diabetes by incr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detached%20eddy%20simulation | Detached eddy simulation (DES) is a modification of a Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes equations (RANS) model in which the model switches to a subgrid scale formulation in regions fine enough for large eddy simulation (LES) calculations.
Details
Regions near solid boundaries and where the turbulent length scale is les... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American%20Society%20of%20Plant%20Taxonomists | The American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) is a botanical organization formed in 1935 to "foster, encourage, and promote education and research in the field of plant taxonomy, to include those areas and fields of study that contribute to and bear upon taxonomy and herbaria", according to its bylaws. It is incorpo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20life%20forms | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to life forms:
A life form (also spelled life-form or lifeform) is an entity that is living, such as plants (flora), animals (fauna), and fungi (funga). It is estimated that more than 99% of all species that ever existed on Earth, amounting to over ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic%20viability | Genetic viability is the ability of the genes present to allow a cell, organism or population to survive and reproduce. The term is generally used to mean the chance or ability of a population to avoid the problems of inbreeding. Less commonly genetic viability can also be used in respect to a single cell or on an ind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Wanlass | Frank Marion Wanlass (May 17, 1933 in Thatcher, AZ – September 9, 2010 in Santa Clara, California) was an American electrical engineer. He is best known for inventing CMOS (complementary MOS) logic with Chih-Tang Sah in 1963. CMOS has since become the standard semiconductor device fabrication process for MOSFETs (metal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serum%20protein%20electrophoresis | Serum protein electrophoresis (SPEP or SPE) is a laboratory test that examines specific proteins in the blood called globulins. The most common indications for a serum protein electrophoresis test are to diagnose or monitor multiple myeloma, a monoclonal gammopathy of uncertain significance (MGUS), or further investiga... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop%20quantum%20cosmology | Loop quantum cosmology (LQC) is a finite, symmetry-reduced model of loop quantum gravity (LQG) that predicts a "quantum bridge" between contracting and expanding cosmological branches.
The distinguishing feature of LQC is the prominent role played by the quantum geometry effects of loop quantum gravity (LQG). In parti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechatronics | Mechatronics engineering, also called mechatronics, is an interdisciplinary branch of engineering that focuses on the integration of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, electronic engineering and software engineering, and also includes a combination of robotics, computer science, telecommunications, systems... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCASE%20tool | A metaCASE tool is a type of application software that provides the possibility to create one or more modeling methods, languages or notations for use within the process of software development. Often the result is a modeling tool for that language. MetaCASE tools are thus a kind of language workbench, generally consid... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxeter%20graph | In the mathematical field of graph theory, the Coxeter graph is a 3-regular graph with 28 vertices and 42 edges. It is one of the 13 known cubic distance-regular graphs. It is named after Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter.
Properties
The Coxeter graph has chromatic number 3, chromatic index 3, radius 4, diameter 4 and gi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oded%20Schramm | Oded Schramm (; December 10, 1961 – September 1, 2008) was an Israeli-American mathematician known for the invention of the Schramm–Loewner evolution (SLE) and for working at the intersection of conformal field theory and probability theory.
Biography
Schramm was born in Jerusalem. His father, Michael Schramm, was a b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curvilinear%20perspective | Curvilinear perspective, also five-point perspective, is a graphical projection used to draw 3D objects on 2D surfaces. It was formally codified in 1968 by the artists and art historians André Barre and Albert Flocon in the book La Perspective curviligne, which was translated into English in 1987 as Curvilinear Perspec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibrahim%20ibn%20Sinan | Ibrahim ibn Sinan (Arabic: Ibrāhīm ibn Sinān ibn Thābit ibn Qurra, ; born 295296 AH/ in Baghdad, died: 334-335 AH/946 in Baghdad, aged 38) was a mathematician and astronomer who belonged to a family of scholars originally from Harran in northern Mesopotamia. He was the son of Sinan ibn Thabit (943) and the grandson of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LED%20tattoo | A light-emitting diode tattoo is a type of body modification similar to a tattoo, but specifically involves implantation of technologically based materials versus traditional ink injection into the layers of the skin. LED tattoos are accomplished by a combination of silicon-silk technology and a miniature lighting devi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic%20lethality | Synthetic lethality is defined as a type of genetic interaction where the combination of two genetic events results in cell death or death of an organism. Although the foregoing explanation is wider than this, it is common when referring to synthetic lethality to mean the situation arising by virtue of a combination of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectum | The rectum (: rectums or recta) is the final straight portion of the large intestine in humans and some other mammals, and the gut in others. The adult human rectum is about long, and begins at the rectosigmoid junction (the end of the sigmoid colon) at the level of the third sacral vertebra or the sacral promontory d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive%20algorithm | An adaptive algorithm is an algorithm that changes its behavior at the time it is run, based on information available and on a priori defined reward mechanism (or criterion). Such information could be the story of recently received data, information on the available computational resources, or other run-time acquired (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964%20PRL%20symmetry%20breaking%20papers | The 1964 PRL symmetry breaking papers were written by three teams who proposed related but different approaches to explain how mass could arise in local gauge theories. These three papers were written by: Robert Brout and François Englert; Peter Higgs; and Gerald Guralnik, C. Richard Hagen, and Tom Kibble (GHK). They a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per%20capita | Per capita is a Latin phrase literally meaning "by heads" or "for each head", and idiomatically used to mean "per person". The term is used in a wide variety of social sciences and statistical research contexts, including government statistics, economic indicators, and built environment studies.
It is commonly used i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUBIC | CUBIC (abbreviation for “clear, unobstructed brain/body imaging cocktails and computational analysis) is a histology method that allows tissues to be transparent (process called “tissue clearing”). As a result, it makes investigation of large biological samples with microscopy easier and faster.
The method was publish... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAB7L1 | RAB7, member RAS oncogene family-like 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RAB7L1 gene. The gene is also known as RAB7L. RAB7L1 encodes a small GTP-binding protein and is a member of the Ras superfamily.
Model organisms
Model organisms have been used in the study of RAB7L1 function. A conditional knockout ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Hutchison%20Stirling | James Hutchison Stirling (22 June 1820 – 19 March 1909) was a Scottish idealist philosopher and physician. His work The Secret of Hegel (1st edition, 1865, in 2 vols.; revised edition, 1898, in 1 vol.) gave great impetus to the study of Hegelian philosophy both in Britain and in the United States, and it was also accep... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aloy | Aloy is a fictional character and protagonist of the 2017 video game Horizon Zero Dawn and its sequel Horizon Forbidden West. In the games' post-apocalyptic tribal setting, she is born in 3021, raised as an outcast, and trains as a warrior in order to win a ritual competition to discover her mother's identity. After na... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clone%20%28cell%20biology%29 | A clone is a group of identical cells that share a common ancestry, meaning they are derived from the same cell.
Clonality implies the state of a cell or a substance being derived from one source or the other. Thus there are terms like polyclonal—derived from many clones; oligoclonal—derived from a few clones; and mon... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolby%20Voice | Dolby Voice is an audio communication technology developed by Dolby Laboratories since at least 2012.
This solution is aimed at improving audio quality in virtual environments such as entreprise-level videoconferencing.
It is implemented using commercially available hardware and/or software and uses the proprietary Do... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corresponding%20sides%20and%20corresponding%20angles | In geometry, the tests for congruence and similarity involve comparing corresponding sides and corresponding angles of polygons. In these tests, each side and each angle in one polygon is paired with a side or angle in the second polygon, taking care to preserve the order of adjacency.
For example, if one polygon has ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telepen | Telepen the a name of a barcode symbology designed to express all 128 ASCII characters without using shift characters for code switching, and using only two different widths for bars and spaces. (Unlike Code 128, which uses shifts and four different element widths.) The symbology was devised by George Sims of SB Electr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment%20card%20industry | The payment card industry (PCI) denotes the debit, credit, prepaid, e-purse, ATM, and POS cards and associated businesses.
Overview
The payment card industry consists of all the organizations which store, process and transmit cardholder data, most notably for debit cards and credit cards. The security standards are d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesame%20allergy | A food allergy to sesame (Sesamum indicum) seeds has prevalence estimates in the range of 0.1–0.2% of the general population, and are higher in the Middle East and other countries where sesame seeds are used in traditional foods. Reporting of sesame seed allergy has increased in the 21st century, either due to a true i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Step%20potential | In quantum mechanics and scattering theory, the one-dimensional step potential is an idealized system used to model incident, reflected and transmitted matter waves. The problem consists of solving the time-independent Schrödinger equation for a particle with a step-like potential in one dimension. Typically, the poten... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey%20Kitaev | Sergey Kitaev (Russian: Сергей Владимирович Китаев; born 1 January 1975 in Ulan-Ude) is a Professor of Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.
He obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Gothenburg in 2003 under the supervision of Einar Steingrímsson.
Kitaev's research interests... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptocurrency%20wallet | A cryptocurrency wallet is a device, physical medium, program or a service which stores the public and/or private keys for cryptocurrency transactions. In addition to this basic function of storing the keys, a cryptocurrency wallet more often offers the functionality of encrypting and/or signing information. Signing ca... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue%20Whitesides | Sue Hays Whitesides is a Canadian mathematician and computer scientist, a professor emeritus of computer science and the chair of the computer science department at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada. Her research specializations include computational geometry and graph drawing.
Education and caree... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/89th%20meridian%20west | The Meridian 89° West of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, North America, the Gulf of Mexico, Central America, the Pacific Ocean, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole.
The 89th meridian west forms a great circle with the 91st meridian east.
From... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hager%20Group | Hager Group is a manufacturer of electrical installations in residential, commercial and industrial buildings based in Blieskastel, Germany. The company has been family-run and owned ever since its foundation in 1955.
Hager Group provides products and services ranging from energy distribution and cable management to i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tail%20call | In computer science, a tail call is a subroutine call performed as the final action of a procedure. If the target of a tail is the same subroutine, the subroutine is said to be tail recursive, which is a special case of direct recursion. Tail recursion (or tail-end recursion) is particularly useful, and is often easy t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackett%20Laboratory | The Blackett Laboratory is part of the Imperial College Faculty of Natural Sciences and has housed the Department of Physics at Imperial College London since its completion in 1961. Named after experimental physicist Patrick Blackett who established a laboratory at the college, the building is located on the corner of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroecosystem | Agroecosystems are the ecosystems supporting the food production systems in farms and gardens. As the name implies, at the core of an agroecosystem lies the human activity of agriculture. As such they are the basic unit of study in Agroecology, and Regenerative Agriculture using ecological approaches.
Like other ecosy... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%88%9E-groupoid | In category theory, a branch of mathematics, an ∞-groupoid is an abstract homotopical model for topological spaces. One model uses Kan complexes which are fibrant objects in the category of simplicial sets (with the standard model structure). It is an ∞-category generalization of a groupoid, a category in which every m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STAT3 | Signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (STAT3) is a transcription factor which in humans is encoded by the STAT3 gene. It is a member of the STAT protein family.
Function
STAT3 is a member of the STAT protein family. In response to cytokines and growth factors, STAT3 is phosphorylated by receptor-associat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying%20toilet | A flying toilet is a facetious name for a plastic bag that is used as a simple collection device for human faeces when there is a lack of proper toilets and people are forced to practise open defecation. The filled and tied plastic bags are then discarded in ditches or on the roadside. Associated especially with slums,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thursday%20Night%20Football | Thursday Night Football (often abbreviated as TNF) is the branding used for broadcasts of National Football League (NFL) games that broadcast primarily on Thursday nights. Most of the games kick off at 8:15 Eastern Time (8:20 prior to 2022 and 8:25 prior to 2018).
In the past, games in the package also air occasionall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrambler%20mouse | Scrambler is a spontaneous mouse mutant lacking a functional DAB1 gene, resulting in a phenotype resembling that seen in the reeler mouse. The strain was first described by Sweet et al. in 1996.
Neuroanatomical abnormalities
The spontaneous autosomal recessive scrambler mutation on chromosome 4 causes a deficiency of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambiguous%20viewpoint | Object-oriented analysis and design (OOAD) models are often presented without clarifying the viewpoint represented by the model. By default, these models denote an implementation viewpoint that visualises the structure of a computer program. Mixed viewpoints do not support the fundamental separation of interfaces fro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronova | A micronova is a type of thermonuclear explosion on the surface of a white dwarf much smaller than the strength of a nova; being about in strength, about a millionth that of a typical nova. The phenomenon was first described in April 2022.
History
A team led by Durham University researchers announced on 20 April 202... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptogen | Adaptogens or adaptogenic substances are used in herbal medicine for the purported stabilization of physiological processes and promotion of homeostasis.
History
The term "adaptogens" was coined in 1947 by Soviet toxicologist Nikolai Lazarev to describe substances that may increase resistance to stress. The term "ada... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuboid%20bone | In the human body, the cuboid bone is one of the seven tarsal bones of the foot.
Structure
The cuboid bone is the most lateral of the bones in the distal row of the tarsus. It is roughly cubical in shape, and presents a prominence in its inferior (or plantar) surface, the tuberosity of the cuboid. The bone provides a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total%20refraction | Total refraction occurs when an incident wave on an interface between two media with opposite refractive index signs is completely transmitted. There is then no reflected wave. This can occur only when one of the two materials has a negative refractive index. Composite metamaterials with this unusual property were fabr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A1szl%C3%B3%20Lov%C3%A1sz | László Lovász (; born March 9, 1948) is a Hungarian mathematician and professor emeritus at Eötvös Loránd University, best known for his work in combinatorics, for which he was awarded the 2021 Abel Prize jointly with Avi Wigderson. He was the president of the International Mathematical Union from 2007 to 2010 and the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20Networks | Berkeley Networks was a leading startup company that built intelligent switches targeted for the enterprise computer networking market segment.
The company was established in 1996. The name of the company comes from the school University of California, Berkeley. The founder and CEO, Dr. Ravi Sethi, received his Ph.D. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C2%B7CORE | M·CORE is a low-power, RISC-based microcontroller architecture developed by Motorola (subsequently Freescale, now part of NXP), intended for use in embedded systems. Introduced in late 1997, the architecture combines a 32-bit internal data path with 16-bit instructions, and includes a four-stage instruction pipeline. I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-frequency%20approximation | A high-frequency approximation (or "high energy approximation") for scattering or other wave propagation problems, in physics or engineering, is an approximation whose accuracy increases with the size of features on the scatterer or medium relative to the wavelength of the scattered particles.
Classical mechanics and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyadic%20algebra | Polyadic algebras (more recently called Halmos algebras) are algebraic structures introduced by Paul Halmos. They are related to first-order logic analogous to the relationship between Boolean algebras and propositional logic (see Lindenbaum–Tarski algebra).
There are other ways to relate first-order logic to algebra,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijay%20Kumar%20%28roboticist%29 | Vijay Kumar (born 12 April 1962) is an Indian roboticist and UPS foundation professor in the School of Engineering & Applied Science with secondary appointments in computer and information science and electrical and systems engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, and became the new Dean of Penn Engineering on 1 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma%20laboratorium | Mycoplasma laboratorium or Synthia refers to a synthetic strain of bacterium. The project to build the new bacterium has evolved since its inception. Initially the goal was to identify a minimal set of genes that are required to sustain life from the genome of Mycoplasma genitalium, and rebuild these genes syntheticall... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20algebra | In abstract algebra, a partial algebra is a generalization of universal algebra to partial operations.
Example(s)
partial groupoid
field — the multiplicative inversion is the only proper partial operation
effect algebras
Structure
There is a "Meta Birkhoff Theorem" by Andreka, Nemeti and Sain (1982). |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamadou%20Gouro%20Sidibe | Mamadou Gouro Sidibe was born in Mali. He is an IT Engineer, computer scientist, innovator, and entrepreneur. He is the founder and developer of Lenali. Lenali is a social media application like Facebook, but uses voice-based technology in local African languages. He refers to himself as a Digital inclusive entreprene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak | Hexspeak, like leetspeak, is a novelty form of variant English spelling using the hexadecimal digits. Created by programmers as memorable magic numbers, hexspeak words can serve as a clear and unique identifier with which to mark memory or data.
Hexadecimal notation represents numbers using the 16 digits 0123456789ABC... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overconvergent%20modular%20form | In mathematics, overconvergent modular forms are special p-adic modular forms that are elements of certain p-adic Banach spaces (usually infinite dimensional)
containing classical spaces of modular forms as subspaces. They were introduced by Nicholas M. Katz in 1972. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proximity%20space | In topology, a proximity space, also called a nearness space, is an axiomatization of the intuitive notion of "nearness" that hold set-to-set, as opposed to the better known point-to-set notion that characterize topological spaces.
The concept was described by but ignored at the time. It was rediscovered and axiomati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbycusis | Presbycusis (also spelled presbyacusis, from Greek πρέσβυς presbys "old" + ἄκουσις akousis "hearing"), or age-related hearing loss, is the cumulative effect of aging on hearing. It is a progressive and irreversible bilateral symmetrical age-related sensorineural hearing loss resulting from degeneration of the cochlea o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle%20lock | A puzzle lock or puzzle padlock is a type of mechanical puzzle. It consists of a lock with unusual or hidden mechanics. Puzzle locks are reconfigurable mechanisms where the topological structure changes during the operation. Such locks are sometimes called trick locks, because there is a trick to opening them which n... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alhazen%27s%20problem | Alhazen's problem, also known as Alhazen's billiard problem, is a mathematical problem in geometrical optics first formulated by Ptolemy in 150 AD.
It is named for the 11th-century Arab mathematician Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham) who presented a geometric solution in his Book of Optics. The algebraic solution involves quart... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake%20%28microarchitecture%29 | Skylake is Intel's codename for its sixth generation Core microprocessor family that was launched on August 5, 2015, succeeding the Broadwell microarchitecture. Skylake is a microarchitecture redesign using the same 14 nm manufacturing process technology as its predecessor, serving as a tock in Intel's tick–tock manufa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solsem%20cave | The Solsem cave is a cave lying to the southwest of the island of Leka in Leka municipality in Trøndelag, Norway. The cave is well known for its cave paintings, which were discovered in 1912. For a long time, they were the only known cave paintings in Norway.
To date, over twenty figures have been found painted on the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DH5-Alpha%20Cell | DH5-Alpha Cells are E. coli cells engineered by American biologist Douglas Hanahan to maximize transformation efficiency. They are defined by three mutations: recA1, endA1 which help plasmid insertion and lacZΔM15 which enables blue white screening. The cells are competent and often used with calcium chloride transform... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granulopoiesis | Granulopoiesis (or granulocytopoiesis) is a part of haematopoiesis, that leads to the production of granulocytes. A granulocyte, also referred to as a polymorphonuclear leukocyte (PMN), is a type of white blood cell that has multi lobed nuclei, usually containing three lobes, and has a significant amount of cytoplasmic... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGTRAN | SIGTRAN is the name, derived from signaling transport, of the former Internet Task Force (I) working group that produced specifications for a family of protocols that provide reliable datagram service and user layer adaptations for Signaling System and ISDN communications protocols. The SIGTRAN protocols are an exten... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphatidic%20acid | Phosphatidic acids are anionic phospholipids important to cell signaling and direct activation of lipid-gated ion channels. Hydrolysis of phosphatidic acid gives rise to one molecule each of glycerol and phosphoric acid and two molecules of fatty acids. They constitute about 0.25% of phospholipids in the bilayer.
Stru... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Courant%E2%80%93Friedrichs%E2%80%93Lewy%20condition | In mathematics, the convergence condition by Courant–Friedrichs–Lewy is a necessary condition for convergence while solving certain partial differential equations (usually hyperbolic PDEs) numerically. It arises in the numerical analysis of explicit time integration schemes, when these are used for the numerical soluti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoestrogen | Mycoestrogens are xenoestrogens produced by fungi. They are sometimes referred to as mycotoxins. Among important mycoestrogens are zearalenone, zearalenol and zearalanol. Although all of these can be produced by various Fusarium species, zearalenol and zearalanol may also be produced endogenously in ruminants that ha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20co-expression%20network | A gene co-expression network (GCN) is an undirected graph, where each node corresponds to a gene, and a pair of nodes is connected with an edge if there is a significant co-expression relationship between them. Having gene expression profiles of a number of genes for several samples or experimental conditions, a gene c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20maximisation%20test | The Human maximisation test (HMT) is a test method for testing for contact allergens. It was first developed by Albert Kligman in 1966 and updated by Kligman and William Epstein in 1975. The first paper appeared 1966 and was a citation classic in 1985.
The test uses human medical volunteers (usually 25) and sodium lau... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium%20burning | Lithium burning is a nucleosynthetic process in which lithium is depleted in a star. Lithium is generally present in brown dwarfs and not in older low-mass stars. Stars, which by definition must achieve the high temperature (2.5 × 106 K) necessary for fusing hydrogen, rapidly deplete their lithium.
7Li
Burning of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genealogical%20numbering%20systems | Several genealogical numbering systems have been widely adopted for presenting family trees and pedigree charts in text format.
Ascending numbering systems
Ahnentafel
Ahnentafel, also known as the Eytzinger Method, Sosa Method, and Sosa-Stradonitz Method, allows for the numbering of ancestors beginning with a descen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SelectaVision | SelectaVision was a trademark name used on four classes of device by RCA:
The Holotape, a prototype video medium
Magnetic tape
VHS videocassette recorders, and
Capacitance Electronic Disc videodisc players and the discs themselves, introduced in 1981.
Capacitance Electronic Disc's competitors, Philips/Magnavox a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrite | The nitrite ion has the chemical formula . Nitrite (mostly sodium nitrite) is widely used throughout chemical and pharmaceutical industries. The nitrite anion is a pervasive intermediate in the nitrogen cycle in nature. The name nitrite also refers to organic compounds having the –ONO group, which are esters of nitrous... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20of%20differential%20equations | In mathematics, a system of differential equations is a finite set of differential equations. Such a system can be either linear or non-linear. Also, such a system can be either a system of ordinary differential equations or a system of partial differential equations.
Linear system of differential equations
Like any... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-of-flight%20detector | A time-of-flight (TOF) detector is a particle detector which can discriminate between a lighter and a heavier elementary particle of same momentum using their time of flight between two scintillators. The first of the scintillators activates a clock upon being hit while the other stops the clock upon being hit. If the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20buffer | In computer storage, disk buffer (often ambiguously called disk cache or cache buffer) is the embedded memory in a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid state drive (SSD) acting as a buffer between the rest of the computer and the physical hard disk platter or flash memory that is used for storage. Modern hard disk drives com... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallai%E2%80%93Hasse%E2%80%93Roy%E2%80%93Vitaver%20theorem | In graph theory, the Gallai–Hasse–Roy–Vitaver theorem is a form of duality between the colorings of the vertices of a given undirected graph and the orientations of its edges. It states that the minimum number of colors needed to properly color any graph equals one plus the length of a longest path in an orientation o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slit%20%28protein%29 | Slit is a family of secreted extracellular matrix proteins which play an important signalling role in the neural development of most bilaterians (animals with bilateral symmetry). While lower animal species, including insects and nematode worms, possess a single Slit gene, humans, mice and other vertebrates possess thr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GameSpy | GameSpy was an American provider of online multiplayer and matchmaking middleware for video games founded in 1999 by Mark Surfas. After the release of a multiplayer server browser for the game, QSpy, Surfas licensed the software under the GameSpy brand to other video game publishers through a newly established company... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller%20calculus | Mueller calculus is a matrix method for manipulating Stokes vectors, which represent the polarization of light. It was developed in 1943 by Hans Mueller. In this technique, the effect of a particular optical element is represented by a Mueller matrix—a 4×4 matrix that is an overlapping generalization of the Jones matri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20nonlinear%20ordinary%20differential%20equations | See also List of nonlinear partial differential equations and List of linear ordinary differential equations.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolan%20DNA%20Learning%20Center | The DNA Learning Center (DNALC) is a genetics learning center affiliated with the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, in Cold Spring Harbor, New York. It is the world's first science center devoted entirely to genetics education and offers online education, class field trips, student summer day camps, and teacher training.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20%28molecular%20biology%29 | In molecular cloning, a vector is any particle (e.g., plasmids, cosmids, Lambda phages) used as a vehicle to artificially carry a foreign nucleic sequence – usually DNA – into another cell, where it can be replicated and/or expressed. A vector containing foreign DNA is termed recombinant DNA. The four major types of ve... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-B%20database | Non-B DB is a database integrating annotations and analysis of non-B DNA-forming sequence motifs. The database provides alternative DNA structure predictions including Z-DNA motifs, quadruplex-forming motifs, inverted repeats, mirror repeats and direct repeats and their associated subsets of cruciforms, triplex and sli... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivational%20salience | Motivational salience is a cognitive process and a form of attention that motivates or propels an individual's behavior towards or away from a particular object, perceived event or outcome. Motivational salience regulates the intensity of behaviors that facilitate the attainment of a particular goal, the amount of time... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolfan%20Denny | Dolfan Denny was the name given to Denny Sym by Miami Dolphins football fans. He was known for cheering on the NFL team for 33 years as a one-man sideline show, often leading Miami crowds in cheers and chants from each corner of the field. He usually wore glittering orange and aqua hats, and did so since the Dolphins' ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L.%20E.%20J.%20Brouwer | Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (; ; 27 February 1881 – 2 December 1966), usually cited as L. E. J. Brouwer but known to his friends as Bertus, was a Dutch mathematician and philosopher who worked in topology, set theory, measure theory and complex analysis. Regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of the 20th centu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preordered%20class | In mathematics, a preordered class is a class equipped with a preorder.
Definition
When dealing with a class C, it is possible to define a class relation on C as a subclass of the power class C C . Then, it is convenient to use the language of relations on a set.
A preordered class is a class with a preorder on it. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal%20NetWare | NetWare Lite and Personal NetWare are a series of discontinued peer-to-peer local area networks developed by Novell for DOS- and Windows-based personal computers aimed at personal users and small businesses in the 1990s.
NetWare Lite
In 1991, Novell introduced a radically different and cheaper product from their cent... |
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