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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edifenphos | Edifenphos (O-ethyl-S,S-diphenyldithiophosphate, EDDP) is a systemic fungicide that inhibits phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis. It was introduced in 1966 by Bayer to combat blast fungus and Pellicularia sasakii in rice cultivation. It was never authorized for use in the EU. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winner-take-all%20%28computing%29 | Winner-take-all is a computational principle applied in computational models of neural networks by which neurons compete with each other for activation. In the classical form, only the neuron with the highest activation stays active while all other neurons shut down; however, other variations allow more than one neuron... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20immunoassay | Magnetic immunoassay (MIA) is a type of diagnostic immunoassay using magnetic beads as labels in lieu of conventional enzymes (ELISA), radioisotopes (RIA) or fluorescent moieties (fluorescent immunoassays) to detect a specified analyte. MIA involves the specific binding of an antibody to its antigen, where a magnetic l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20video%20game%20policy | French video game policy refers to the strategy and set of measures laid out by France since 2002 to maintain and develop a local video game development industry in order to preserve European market diversity.
History
Proposals for government support
The French game developer trade group, known as Association des Pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blasticidin%20S | Blasticidin S is an antibiotic that is used in biology research for selecting cells in cell culture. Cells of interest can express the blasticidin resistance genes BSD or bsr, and can then survive treatment with the antibiotic. Blasticidin S is a nucleoside analogue antibiotic, resembling the nucleoside cytidine. Blast... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle%20Enterprise%20Manager%20Ops%20Center | Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center (formerly Sun Ops Center) is a data center automation tool that simplifies discovery and management of physical and virtualized assets. Among its features it can:
Provide a single console for the management of both the physical and virtual infrastructure in a virtualized environment... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20Ramsey%20theory | In mathematics, structural Ramsey theory is a categorical generalisation of Ramsey theory, rooted in the idea that many important results of Ramsey theory have "similar" logical structures. The key observation is noting that these Ramsey-type theorems can be expressed as the assertion that a certain category (or class ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20specificity | Chemical specificity is the ability of binding site of a macromolecule (such as a protein) to bind specific ligands. The fewer ligands a protein can bind, the greater its specificity.
Specificity describes the strength of binding between a given protein and ligand. This relationship can be described by a dissociation ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne%20Wesolowski | Wayne Wesolowski is builder of miniature models.
Wesolowski's models have been exhibited at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, the Springfield, Illinois, Lincoln Home Site, the West Chicago City Museum, RailAmerican, and the National Railroad Museum.
One of his more noted works is a model of Abraham Lincoln'... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeOS | eyeOS is a web desktop following the cloud computing concept that seeks to enable collaboration and communication among users. It is mainly written in PHP, XML, and JavaScript. It is a private-cloud application platform with a web-based desktop interface. Commonly called a cloud desktop because of its unique user inter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YbBiPt | YbBiPt (ytterbium-bismuth-platinum; also named YbPtBi) is an intermetallic material which at low temperatures exhibits an extremely high value of specific heat, which is a characteristic of heavy-fermion behavior. YbBiPt has a noncentrosymmetric cubic crystal structure; in particular it belongs to the ternary half-Heus... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taste%20bud | Taste buds are clusters of taste receptor cells, which are also known as gustatory cells. The taste receptors are located around the small structures known as papillae found on the upper surface of the tongue, soft palate, upper esophagus, the cheek, and epiglottis. These structures are involved in detecting the five ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20evolution | Software evolution is the continual development of a piece of software after its initial release to address changing stakeholder and/or market requirements. Software evolution is important because organizations invest large amounts of money in their software and are completely dependent on this software. Software evolu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon%20popping | A balloon pops when the material that makes up its surface tears or shreds, creating a hole. Normally, there is a balance of the balloon skin's elastic tension in which every point on the balloon's surface is being pulled by the material surrounding it. However, if a hole is made on the balloon's surface, the force bec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological%20stress%20and%20sleep | Sleep is a naturally recurring state of mind and body, characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, reduced muscle activity, and inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, and reduced interactions with surroundings. An essential aspect of sleep is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20packaging | Food packaging is a packaging system specifically designed for food and represents one of the most important aspects among the processes involved in the food industry, as it provides protection from chemical, biological and physical alterations. The main goal of food packaging is to provide a practical means of protect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck%20typing | Duck typing in computer programming is an application of the duck test—"If it walks like a duck and it quacks like a duck, then it must be a duck"—to determine whether an object can be used for a particular purpose. With nominative typing, an object is of a given type if it is declared as such (or if a type's associati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merbecovirus | Merbecovirus is a subgenus of viruses in the genus Betacoronavirus, including the human pathogen Middle East respiratory syndrome–related coronavirus (MERS-CoV). The viruses in this subgenus were previously known as group 2c coronaviruses.
Structure
The viruses of this subgenus, like other coronaviruses, have a lipid ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20webmail%20providers | The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of notable webmail providers who offer a web interface in English.
The list does not include web hosting providers who may offer email server and/or client software as a part of hosting package, or telecommunication providers (mobile network o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorburst | Colorburst is an analog video, composite video signal generated by a video-signal generator used to keep the chrominance subcarrier synchronized in a color television signal. By synchronizing an oscillator with the colorburst at the back porch (beginning) of each scan line, a television receiver is able to restore the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expense%20ratio | The expense ratio of a stock or asset fund is the total percentage of fund assets used for administrative, management, advertising (12b-1), and all other expenses. An expense ratio of 1% per annum means that each year 1% of the fund's total assets will be used to cover expenses. The expense ratio does not include sal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sister%20chromatid%20exchange | Sister chromatid exchange (SCE) is the exchange of genetic material between two identical sister chromatids.
It was first discovered by using the Giemsa staining method on one chromatid belonging to the sister chromatid complex before anaphase in mitosis. The staining revealed that few segments were passed to the sist... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coombs%20test | The direct and indirect Coombs tests, also known as antiglobulin test (AGT), are blood tests used in immunohematology. The direct Coombs test detects antibodies that are stuck to the surface of the red blood cells. Since these antibodies sometimes destroy red blood cells they can cause anemia; this test can help clarif... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pockmark%20%28geology%29 | Pockmarks are concave, crater-like depressions on seabeds that are caused by fluids (liquids and gasses) escaping and erupting through the seafloor. They can vary in size and have been found worldwide.
Pockmarks were discovered off the coasts of Nova Scotia, Canada in the late 1960s by Lew King and Brian McLean of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifunctional%20landscape | Multifunctional landscapes are composed of lands used for multiple different purposes, including agriculture, forestry, settlements, recreation, conservation and restoration. With different parts of the landscape sustaining people and other species, multifunctional landscapes are heterogenous mosaics of lands used for ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tate%27s%20thesis | In number theory, Tate's thesis is the 1950 PhD thesis of completed under the supervision of Emil Artin at Princeton University. In it, Tate used a translation invariant integration on the locally compact group of ideles to lift the zeta function twisted by a Hecke character, i.e. a Hecke L-function, of a number fiel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dasyatis%20ushiei | Dasyatis ushiei, the cow stingray or Ushi stingray, is a species of stingray known from a single specimen. Based on the single specimen, its range includes at least Mikawa Bay, Aichi Prefecture, middle Japan. Due to the limited knowledge of its biology and extent of capture in fisheries, this species is assessed as Dat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitsquatting | Bitsquatting is a form of cybersquatting which relies on bit-flip errors that occur during the process of making a DNS request. These bit-flips may occur due to factors such as faulty hardware or cosmic rays. When such an error occurs, the user requesting the domain may be directed to a website registered under a domai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihaela%20Ignatova | Mihaela Ignatova is a Bulgarian mathematician who won the 2020 Sadosky Prize of the Association for Women in Mathematics for her research in mathematical analysis, and in particular in partial differential equations and fluid dynamics.
Education
In 2004, Ignatova earned both a bachelor's degree from Sofia University a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cointegration | Cointegration is a statistical property of a collection of time series variables. First, all of the series must be integrated of order d (see Order of integration). Next, if a linear combination of this collection is integrated of order less than d, then the collection is said to be co-integrated. Formally, if (X,Y,Z)... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20entomology%20terms | This glossary of entomology describes terms used in the formal study of insect species by entomologists.
A–C
A synthetic chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide, toxic to vertebrates. Though its phytotoxicity is low, solvents in some formulations may damage certain crops. cf. the related Dieldrin, Endrin, Isodrin
D–F
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban%20ecology | Urban ecology is the scientific study of the relation of living organisms with each other and their surroundings in an urban environment. An urban environment refers to environments dominated by high-density residential and commercial buildings, paved surfaces, and other urban-related factors that create a unique lands... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantor%27s%20first%20set%20theory%20article | Cantor's first set theory article contains Georg Cantor's first theorems of transfinite set theory, which studies infinite sets and their properties. One of these theorems is his "revolutionary discovery" that the set of all real numbers is uncountably, rather than countably, infinite. This theorem is proved using Cant... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTOPIA%20%28bioinformatics%20tools%29 | UTOPIA (User-friendly Tools for Operating Informatics Applications) is a suite of free tools for visualising and analysing bioinformatics data. Based on an ontology-driven data model, it contains applications for viewing and aligning protein sequences, rendering complex molecular structures in 3D, and for finding and u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolitubulus | Mongolitubulus is a form genus encapsulating a range of ornamented conical small shelly fossils of the Cambrian period. It is potentially synonymous with Rushtonites, Tubuterium and certain species of Rhombocorniculum, and owing to the similarity of the genera, they are all dealt with herein. Organisms that bore Mongol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory%20of%20Probability%20and%20Mathematical%20Statistics | Theory of Probability and Mathematical Statistics is a peer-reviewed international scientific journal published by Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv jointly with the American Mathematical Society two times per year in both print and electronic formats. The subjects covered by the journal are probability the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20Drugs%20Standard%20Control%20Organisation | The Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) is India's national regulatory body for cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and medical devices. It serves a similar function to the European Medicines Agency of the European Union, the PMDA of Japan, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of the United States, and the Me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laminaria%20abyssalis | Laminaria abyssalis is a species of brown kelp, notable for its connection to rhodolith beds in the Brazilian coastline.
Distribution and ecology
Laminaria abyssalis is native to the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Brazil. It resides in a habitat spanning over , from upper Espírito Santo to Mid Rio de Janeiro. It th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-constructive%20algorithm%20existence%20proofs | The vast majority of positive results about computational problems are constructive proofs, i.e., a computational problem is proved to be solvable by showing an algorithm that solves it; a computational problem is shown to be in P (complexity) by showing an algorithm that solves it in time that is polynomial in the siz... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible%20computing | Reversible computing is any model of computation where the computational process, to some extent, is time-reversible. In a model of computation that uses deterministic transitions from one state of the abstract machine to another, a necessary condition for reversibility is that the relation of the mapping from states t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Error%20Reporting | Windows Error Reporting (WER) (codenamed Watson) is a crash reporting technology introduced by Microsoft with Windows XP and included in later Windows versions and Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6.0. Not to be confused with the Dr. Watson debugging tool which left the memory dump on the user's local machine, Windows Error Repo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Librem | Librem is a line of computers manufactured by Purism, SPC featuring free (libre) software. The laptop line is designed to protect privacy and freedom by providing no non-free (proprietary) software in the operating system or kernel, avoiding the Intel Active Management Technology, and gradually freeing and securing fir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scanning%20tunneling%20spectroscopy | Scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS), an extension of scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), is used to provide information about the density of electrons in a sample as a function of their energy.
In scanning tunneling microscopy, a metal tip is moved over a conducting sample without making physical contact. A bias v... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OnlineHPC | The OnlineHPC was a free public web service that supplied tools to deal with high performance computers and online workflow editor. OnlineHPC allowed users to design and execute workflows using the online workflow designer and to work with high performance computers – clusters and clouds. Access to high performance res... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20File%20Exchange | Apple File Exchange (AFE) is a utility program for Apple Macintosh computers. It was included on the Apple "Tidbits" or "Install 2" disk in system versions 7.0 through 7.1. In System 7.5 (released in 1994), it was replaced by PC Exchange.
Apple File Exchange could read floppy disks from DOS/Windows and ProDOS (Apple I... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical%20object | In common usage and classical mechanics, a physical object or physical body (or simply an object or body) is a collection of matter within a defined contiguous boundary in three-dimensional space. The boundary surface must be defined and identified by the properties of the material, although it may change over time. Th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20switching | Double switching, double cutting, or double breaking is the practice of using a multipole switch to close or open both the positive and negative sides of a DC electrical circuit, or both the hot and neutral sides of an AC circuit. This technique is used to prevent shock hazard in electric devices connected with unpolar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamictisation | Metamictisation (sometimes called metamictization or metamiction) is a natural process resulting in the gradual and ultimately complete destruction of a mineral's crystal structure, leaving the mineral amorphous. The affected material is therefore described as metamict.
Certain minerals occasionally contain interstiti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Experimental%20Psychopathology | The Journal of Experimental Psychopathology is a continuously published open access journal covering psychopathology. It was established in 2010 and is published by SAGE Publications. It was relaunched as an open access journal in 2018, after it was combined with the pre-existing journal Psychopathology Review. The edi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ModSecurity | ModSecurity, sometimes called Modsec, is an open-source web application firewall (WAF). Originally designed as a module for the Apache HTTP Server, it has evolved to provide an array of Hypertext Transfer Protocol request and response filtering capabilities along with other security features across a number of differen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor%20control | Motor control is the regulation of movement in organisms that possess a nervous system. Motor control includes reflexes as well as directed movement.
To control movement, the nervous system must integrate multimodal sensory information (both from the external world as well as proprioception) and elicit the necessary s... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluhrer%2C%20Mantin%20and%20Shamir%20attack | In cryptography, the Fluhrer, Mantin and Shamir attack is a stream cipher attack on the widely used RC4 stream cipher. The attack allows an attacker to recover the key in an RC4 encrypted stream from a large number of messages in that stream.
The Fluhrer, Mantin and Shamir attack applies to specific key derivation met... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introgressive%20hybridization%20in%20plants | Introgressive hybridization, also known as introgression, is the flow of genetic material between divergent lineages via repeated backcrossing. In plants, this backcrossing occurs when an generation hybrid breeds with one or both of its parental species.
Source of variation
Although some genera of plants hybridize a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kreiss%20matrix%20theorem | In matrix analysis, Kreiss matrix theorem relates the so-called Kreiss constant of a matrix with the power iterates of this matrix. It was originally introduced by Heinz-Otto Kreiss to analyze the stability of finite difference methods for partial difference equations.
Kreiss constant of a matrix
Given a matrix A, th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severity%20of%20Alcohol%20Dependence%20Questionnaire | The Severity of Alcohol Dependence Questionnaire (SADQ or SAD-Q) is a 20 item clinical screening tool designed to measure the presence and level of alcohol dependence.
It is divided into five sections:
Physical withdrawal symptoms
Affective withdrawal symptoms
Craving and relief drinking
Typical daily consumption... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photofermentation | Photofermentation is the fermentative conversion of organic substrate to biohydrogen manifested by a diverse group of photosynthetic bacteria by a series of biochemical reactions involving three steps similar to anaerobic conversion. Photofermentation differs from dark fermentation because it only proceeds in the prese... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YARA | YARA is the name of a tool primarily used in malware research and detection.
It provides a rule-based approach to create descriptions of malware families based on regular expression, textual or binary patterns. A description is essentially a YARA rule name, where these rules consist of sets of strings and a boolean ex... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcard%20mask | A wildcard mask is a mask of bits that indicates which parts of an IP address are available for examination. In the Cisco IOS, they are used in several places, for example:
To indicate the size of a network or subnet for some routing protocols, such as OSPF.
To indicate what IP addresses should be permitted or denied... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryson%20of%20Heraclea | Bryson of Heraclea (, gen.: Βρύσωνος; fl. late 5th-century BCE) was an ancient Greek mathematician and sophist who studied the solving the problems of squaring the circle and calculating pi.
Life and work
Little is known about the life of Bryson; he came from Heraclea Pontica, and he may have been a pupil of Socrates.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription%20translation%20feedback%20loop | Transcription-translation feedback loop (TTFL) is a cellular model for explaining circadian rhythms in behavior and physiology. Widely conserved across species, the TTFL is auto-regulatory, in which transcription of clock genes is regulated by their own protein products.
Discovery
Circadian rhythms have been document... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Stothers%20theorem | The Mason–Stothers theorem, or simply Mason's theorem, is a mathematical theorem about polynomials, analogous to the abc conjecture for integers. It is named after Walter Wilson Stothers, who published it in 1981, and R. C. Mason, who rediscovered it shortly thereafter.
The theorem states:
Let , , and be relatively p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End%20of%20interrupt | An end of interrupt (EOI) is a computing signal sent to a programmable interrupt controller (PIC) to indicate the completion of interrupt processing for a given interrupt. Interrupts are used to facilitate hardware signals sent to the processor that temporarily stop a running program and allow a special program, an int... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppNexus | Xandr, formerly known as AppNexus, is an American multinational technology company operating a cloud-based software platform that enables and optimizes programmatic online advertising. Headquartered in the Flatiron District of New York City, the company has 23 offices in North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia and A... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Face%20and%20neck%20development%20of%20the%20human%20embryo | The face and neck development of the human embryo refers to the development of the structures from the third to eighth week that give rise to the future head and neck. They consist of three layers, the ectoderm, mesoderm and endoderm, which form the mesenchyme (derived form the lateral plate mesoderm and paraxial mesod... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multichannel%20Television%20Sound | Multichannel Television Sound, better known as MTS, is the method of encoding three additional audio channels into analog 4.5 MHz audio carriers on System M and System N. It was developed by the Broadcast Television Systems Committee, an industry group, and sometimes known as BTSC as a result.
MTS worked by adding add... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead%20on%20arrival | Dead on arrival (DOA), also dead in the field and brought in dead (BID), are terms which indicate that a patient was found to be already clinically dead upon the arrival of professional medical assistance, often in the form of first responders such as emergency medical technicians, paramedics, firefighters, or police. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-hot | In digital circuits and machine learning, a one-hot is a group of bits among which the legal combinations of values are only those with a single high (1) bit and all the others low (0). A similar implementation in which all bits are '1' except one '0' is sometimes called one-cold. In statistics, dummy variables represe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetFPGA | The NetFPGA project is an effort to develop open-source hardware and software for rapid prototyping of computer network devices. The project targeted academic researchers, industry users, and students. It was not the first platform of its kind in the networking community. NetFPGA used an FPGA-based approach to prototyp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photosynthesis%20system | Photosynthesis systems are electronic scientific instruments designed for non-destructive measurement of photosynthetic rates in the field. Photosynthesis systems are commonly used in agronomic and environmental research, as well as studies of the global carbon cycle.
How photosynthesis systems function
Photosynthesi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-Pochhammer%20symbol | In mathematical area of combinatorics, the q-Pochhammer symbol, also called the q-shifted factorial, is the product
with
It is a q-analog of the Pochhammer symbol , in the sense that
The q-Pochhammer symbol is a major building block in the construction of q-analogs; for instance, in the theory of basic hypergeometri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amylase | An amylase () is an enzyme that catalyses the hydrolysis of starch (Latin ) into sugars. Amylase is present in the saliva of humans and some other mammals, where it begins the chemical process of digestion. Foods that contain large amounts of starch but little sugar, such as rice and potatoes, may acquire a slightly sw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doob%20decomposition%20theorem | In the theory of stochastic processes in discrete time, a part of the mathematical theory of probability, the Doob decomposition theorem gives a unique decomposition of every adapted and integrable stochastic process as the sum of a martingale and a predictable process (or "drift") starting at zero. The theorem was pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing%20Dots | Dancing Dots Braille Music Technology is an American company based in Philadelphia that was founded in 1992 to develop and adapt music technology for the blind. Its founder, Bill McCann, is a blind musician. Among the products it offers are several programs that produce a musical version of Braille by converting print ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop%20attack | A drop attack is a sudden fall without loss of consciousness. Drop attacks stem from diverse mechanisms, including orthopedic causes (for example, leg weakness and knee instability), hemodynamic causes (for example, transient vertebrobasilar insufficiency, a type of interruption of blood flow to the brain), and neurolo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souring%20bag | A souring bag (also called émesesley, agiwir, or tanwart) is a hide or leather bag used for fermenting milk. It is used by Berbers, especially Touareg.
Nicolaisen (1963) describes the method of souring milk in the Ahaggar (Hoggar Mountains): "Milk of the morning yield is put into a skin bag ("émesesley")... to remain ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine%20transporter | The dopamine transporter (DAT) also (sodium-dependent dopamine transporter) is a membrane-spanning protein coded for in the human by the SLC6A3 gene, (also known as DAT1), that pumps the neurotransmitter dopamine out of the synaptic cleft back into cytosol. In the cytosol, other transporters sequester the dopamine into... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minkowski%20functional | In mathematics, in the field of functional analysis, a Minkowski functional (after Hermann Minkowski) or gauge function is a function that recovers a notion of distance on a linear space.
If is a subset of a real or complex vector space then the or of is defined to be the function valued in the extended real num... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayttm | Ayttm (pronounced "item" or "A-Y-T-T-M") is a multi-protocol instant messaging client. It is the heir of the EveryBuddy project.
Features
Services
Ayttm primarily supports one-to-one and group chatting on MSN, Yahoo!, ICQ, AIM, XMPP and IRC. It also has support for sending rudimentary emails via SMTP, which may be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution%20type | Constitution type or body type can refer to a number of attempts to classify human body shapes:
Humours (Ayurveda)
Somatotype of William Herbert Sheldon
Paul Carus's character typology
Ernst Kretschmer's character typology
Elliot Abravanel's glandular metabolism typology
Sasang typology by Je-Ma Lee
Bertil Lund... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant%20Stubby | Sergeant Stubby (1916 – March 16, 1926) was a dog and the unofficial mascot of the 102nd Infantry Regiment and was assigned to the 26th (Yankee) Division in World War I. He served for 18 months and participated in 17 battles and four offensives on the Western Front. He saved his regiment from surprise mustard gas attac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20distance | In coding theory, the Lee distance is a distance between two strings and of equal length n over the q-ary alphabet } of size . It is a metric defined as
If or the Lee distance coincides with the Hamming distance, because both distances are 0 for two single equal symbols and 1 for two single non-equal symbols. Fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20lollipop | A digital lollipop is an electronic device that synthesizes virtual tastes by stimulating the human tongue with electric currents. The device can produce four primary tastes: sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. Digital lollipops were developed through research led by Nimesha Ranasinghe at the National University of Singapo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groove%20for%20transverse%20sinus | The groove for transverse sinus is a groove which runs along the internal surface of the occipital bone, running laterally between the superior and inferior fossae of the cruciform eminence. The transverse sinuses travel along this groove.
A small or absent bony groove in the occiput in conjunction with the compressib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20semiconductor%20materials | Semiconductor materials are nominally small band gap insulators. The defining property of a semiconductor material is that it can be compromised by doping it with impurities that alter its electronic properties in a controllable way.
Because of their application in the computer and photovoltaic industry—in devices suc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse%20Mathematics%3A%20Proofs%20from%20the%20Inside%20Out | Reverse Mathematics: Proofs from the Inside Out is a book by John Stillwell on reverse mathematics, the process of examining proofs in mathematics to determine which axioms are required by the proof. It was published in 2018 by the Princeton University Press ().
Topics
The book begins with a historical overview of the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgiy%20Shilov | Georgi Evgen'evich Shilov (; 3 February 1917 – 17 January 1975) was a Soviet mathematician and expert in the field of functional analysis, who contributed to the theory of normed rings and generalized functions.
He was born in Ivanovo-Voznesensk. After graduating from Moscow State University in 1938, he served in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/269%20%28number%29 | 269 (two hundred [and] sixty-nine) is the natural number between 268 and 270. It is also a prime number.
In mathematics
269 is a twin prime,
and a Ramanujan prime.
It is the largest prime factor of 9! + 1 = 362881,
and the smallest natural number that cannot be represented as the determinant of a 10 × 10 (0,1)-matrix. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Gram's theorem states that an algebraic set in a finite-dimensional vector space invariant under some linear group can be defined by absolute invariants. . It is named after J. P. Gram, who published it in 1874. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20for%20Hematology%20and%20Stem%20Cells | The Society for Hematology and Stem Cells (formerly the International Society for Experimental Hematology) is a learned society which deals with hematology, the study of the blood system and its diseases, including those caused by exposure to nuclear radiation. It was founded in 1950, and held its first official meetin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethmoidal%20labyrinth | The ethmoidal labyrinth or lateral mass of the ethmoid bone consists of a number of thin-walled cellular cavities, the ethmoid air cells, arranged in three groups, anterior, middle, and posterior, and interposed between two vertical plates of bone; the lateral plate forms part of the orbit, the medial plate forms part ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load-link/store-conditional | In computer science, load-linked/store-conditional (LL/SC), sometimes known as load-reserved/store-conditional (LR/SC), are a pair of instructions used in multithreading to achieve synchronization. Load-link returns the current value of a memory location, while a subsequent store-conditional to the same memory location... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20vivo%20bioreactor | The in vivo bioreactor is a tissue engineering paradigm that uses bioreactor methodology to grow neotissue in vivo that augments or replaces malfunctioning native tissue. Tissue engineering principles are used to construct a confined, artificial bioreactor space in vivo that hosts a tissue scaffold and key biomolecules... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radula%20jonesii | Radula jonesii is a species of liverwort in the family Radulaceae. It is known from a few locations on Madeira and one location on Tenerife. The populations are small and vulnerable.
This liverwort forms dark green to olive green mats on rocks or on trees such as Laurus novocanariensis and Ocotea foetens. It is part o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loc%20Blocs | Loc Blocs was a plastic block construction toy set. Never reaching the popularity of Lego bricks, they were marketed in the 1970s and 1980s by Entex Industries and manufactured in Japan as Dia Block by Kawada Co. which still produces sets to this day. They were also sold by Sears under their house brand Brix Blox.
T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20anatomy%20articles | Articles related to anatomy include:
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abdomen
abdominal aorta
abducens nerve
abducens nucleus
abducent
abducent nerve
abduction
accessory bone
accessory cuneate nucleus
accessory nerve
accessory olivary nucleus
accommodation reflex
acetabulum
Achilles tendon
acoustic nerve
acromion
adenohypophysis
adenoids
adipose
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20security%20software | Computer security software or cybersecurity software is any computer program designed to influence information security. This is often taken in the context of defending computer systems or data, yet can incorporate programs designed specifically for subverting computer systems due to their significant overlap, and the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klavdija%20Kutnar | Klavdija Kutnar is a Slovene mathematician. She received her PhD at the University of Primorska (UP) in 2008. She is Rector of the University of Primorska.
Biography
Klavdija Kutnar was born 23 December 1980, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She graduated from the Faculty of Education of the University of Ljubljana in 2003, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short-rate%20model | A short-rate model, in the context of interest rate derivatives, is a mathematical model that describes the future evolution of interest rates by describing the future evolution of the short rate, usually written .
The short rate
Under a short rate model, the stochastic state variable is taken to be the instantaneous ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expression%20vector | An expression vector, otherwise known as an expression construct, is usually a plasmid or virus designed for gene expression in cells. The vector is used to introduce a specific gene into a target cell, and can commandeer the cell's mechanism for protein synthesis to produce the protein encoded by the gene. Expression... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nodule%20%28medicine%29 | In medicine, nodules are small firm lumps, usually greater than 1 cm in diameter. If filled with fluid they are referred to as cysts. Smaller (less than 0.5 cm) raised soft tissue bumps may be termed papules.
The evaluation of a skin nodule includes a description of its appearance, its location, how it feels to touch ... |
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