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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TestOps | TestOps (or test operations) refers to the discipline of managing the operational aspects of testing within the software delivery lifecycle.
Software testing is an evolving discipline that includes both functional and non-functional testing. Increasingly, software testing, especially in agile development processes is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Research%20Institute%20of%20Molecular%20Pathology | The Research Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP) is a biomedical research center, which conducts curiosity-driven basic research in the molecular life sciences.
The IMP is located at the Vienna Biocenter in Vienna, Austria. The institute employs around 270 people from 40 countries, of which over 200 are scientists.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farming/language%20dispersal%20hypothesis | The farming/language dispersal hypothesis proposes that many of the largest language families in the world dispersed along with the expansion of agriculture. This hypothesis was proposed by archaeologists Peter Bellwood and Colin Renfrew. It has been widely debated and archaeologists, linguists, and geneticists often d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel%20DeLanda | Manuel DeLanda (born 1952) is a Mexican-American writer, artist and philosopher who has lived in New York since 1975. He is a lecturer in architecture at the Princeton University School of Architecture and the University of Pennsylvania School of Design, where he teaches courses on the philosophy of urban history and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20draughts | International draughts (also called international checkers or Polish draughts) is a strategy board game for two players, one of the variants of draughts. The gameboard comprises 10×10 squares in alternating dark and light colours, of which only the 50 dark squares are used. Each player has 20 pieces, light for one pla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenCell | OpenCell is a laboratory in London.
Laboratories
OpenCell is primarily used for work related to biochemical and biomolecular activities such as DNA sequencing. It opened to the public in June 2018. The space uses shipping containers to house biotechnology laboratories. The laboratories contain biotechnology equipment ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding%20potential | In pharmacokinetics and receptor-ligand kinetics the binding potential (BP) is a combined measure of the density of "available" neuroreceptors and the affinity of a drug to that neuroreceptor.
Description
Consider a ligand receptor binding system. Ligand with a concentration L associates with a receptor of concentrat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarian%20and%20vegan%20symbolism | Multiple symbols have been developed to represent lacto-vegetarianism and veganism. Several are used on food packaging, including voluntary labels such as the Vegan Society trademark or the V-Label (with support of the European Vegetarian Union) as well as the vegetarian and non-vegetarian marks mandated by the Indian ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahlbericht | In mathematics, the Zahlbericht (number report) was a report on algebraic number theory by .
History
In 1893 the German Mathematical Society invited Hilbert and Minkowski to write reports on the theory of numbers. They agreed that Minkowski would cover the more elementary parts of number theory while Hilbert would cov... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teller%20assist%20unit | Teller Assist Units (TAU), also known as Automatic Teller Safes (ATS) or Teller Cash Dispensers (TCD), are devices used in retail banking for the disbursement of money at a bank teller wicket or a centralized area. Other areas of application of TAU include the automation of starting and reconciling teller or cashier d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lung%20bud | The lung bud sometimes referred to as the respiratory bud forms from the respiratory diverticulum, an embryological endodermal structure that develops into the respiratory tract organs such as the larynx, trachea, bronchi and lungs. It arises from part of the laryngotracheal tube.
Early stage
In the fourth week of de... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20V.%20Eleftheriades | George V. Eleftheriades is a researcher in the field of metamaterials. He has been endowed with a Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto and is a professor in the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering there. He has received notable awards for his achievements, is a fellow of the IEEE and the Ro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martian%20Monkey | The Martian Monkey is the name given to the monkey used by Edward Watters, Tom Wilson and Arnold Payne to perpetrate a hoax in Atlanta, Georgia in 1953.
The hoax
In 1953, young Atlanta barbers Edward Watters and Tom Wilson, along with butcher Arnold Payne, took a dead rhesus monkey and removed its tail, applied large... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno%20Pontecorvo%20Prize | The Bruno Pontecorvo Prize () is an award for elementary particle physics, established in 1995 by the JINR in Dubna to commemorate Bruno Pontecorvo. The prize is mainly given for neutrino physics, which was Pontecorvo's principal research field, and usually to a single scientist. It is offered internationally every yea... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic%20web%20service | A semantic web service, like conventional web services, is the server end of a client–server system for machine-to-machine interaction via the World Wide Web. Semantic services are a component of the semantic web because they use markup which makes data machine-readable in a detailed and sophisticated way (as compared ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charakt%C3%AAres | Charaktêres (singular: charaktêr) are letter-shaped signs lacking both semantic and phonetic correlations, which were used as magic signs in ancient literary documents.
Forms and use
In her 2013 thesis Kirsten Dzwiza studied 94 magical texts and recorded 699 different charaktêres occurring over 943 times. The characte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside%20hydrolase%20family%2033 | In molecular biology, glycoside hydrolase family 33 is a family of glycoside hydrolases.
Glycoside hydrolases are a widespread group of enzymes that hydrolyse the glycosidic bond between two or more carbohydrates, or between a carbohydrate and a non-carbohydrate moiety. A classification system for glycoside hydrolase... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Twitter%20features | Twitter, currently rebranding to X, is an American microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets" (currently rebranding to "posts"). Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, and read those that are publicly available.
Twitter structure
Posts
P... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan%20Transverse%20Mercator | Jordan Transverse Mercator (JTM) (Arabic: نظام تربيع ميركاتور الأردني المستعرض) is a grid system created by the Royal Jordan Geographic Center (RJGC). This system is based on 6° belts with a Central Meridian of 37° East and a Scale Factor at Origin (mo) = 0.9998. The JTM is based on the Hayford ellipsoid adopted by the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EXOC3L2 | Exocyst complex component 3-like 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the EXOC3L2 gene.
The EXOC3L2 protein has been shown to interact with EXOC4 that is a component of the exocyst complex involved exocytosis and more specifically in the targeting of exocytic vesicles to the cell membrane.
The exocyst complex ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s%E2%80%93Ko%E2%80%93Rado%20theorem | In mathematics, the Erdős–Ko–Rado theorem limits the number of sets in a family of sets for which every two sets have at least one element in common. Paul Erdős, Chao Ko, and Richard Rado proved the theorem in 1938, but did not publish it until 1961. It is part of the field of combinatorics, and one of the central resu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shape%20resonance | A shape resonance is a metastable state in which an electron is trapped due to the shape of a potential barrier.
Altunata describes a state as being a shape resonance if, "the internal state of the system remains unchanged upon disintegration of the quasi-bound level."
A more general discussion of resonances and their ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncinate%20process%20of%20ethmoid%20bone | In the ethmoid bone, a sickle shaped projection, the uncinate process, projects posteroinferiorly from the ethmoid labyrinth.
Between the posterior edge of this process and the anterior surface of the ethmoid bulla, there is a two-dimensional space, resembling a crescent shape. This space continues laterally as a three... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNA%20spiking | DNA spiking, also known as custom spiking, is the differing ratio of bases at a single degenerate position when synthesizing oligonucleotides. DNA spiking is a unequal proportions of bases at a given position (for example, 10% Adenine, 75% Guanine, 5% Cytosine & 10% Thymine). As an example, with the degenerate code R ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20requirements | Business requirements, also known as stakeholder requirements specifications (StRS), describe the characteristics of a proposed system from the viewpoint of the system's end user like a CONOPS. Products, systems, software, and processes are ways of how to deliver, satisfy, or meet business requirements. Consequently, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephrozoa | Nephrozoa is a major clade of bilaterians, divided into the protostomes and the deuterostomes, containing almost all animal phyla and over a million extant species. Its sister clade is the Xenacoelomorpha. The Ambulacraria (conventionally deuterostomes) are occasionally thought to be sister to the Xenacoelomorpha, form... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catecholaminergic | Catecholaminergic means "related to catecholamines". The catecholamine neurotransmitters include dopamine, epinephrine (adrenaline), and norepinephrine (noradrenaline).
A catecholaminergic agent (or drug) is a chemical which functions to directly modulate the catecholamine systems in the body or brain. Examples includ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synapto-pHluorin | Synapto-pHluorin is a genetically encoded optical indicator of vesicle release and recycling. It is used in neuroscience to study transmitter release. It consists of a pH-sensitive form of green fluorescent protein (GFP) fused to the luminal side of a vesicle-associated membrane protein (VAMP). At the acidic pH inside ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioelectrochemistry%20%28journal%29 | Bioelectrochemistry is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on the electrochemistry of biological systems. The current editor-in-chief is E. Neumann (Bielefeld University). It was established in 1974 as Bioelectrochemistry and Bioenergetics () and obtained its current title in 2000.
Impact fa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Splenius%20cervicis%20muscle | The splenius cervicis () (also known as the splenius colli, ) is a muscle in the back of the neck. It arises by a narrow tendinous band from the spinous processes of the third to the sixth thoracic vertebrae; it is inserted, by tendinous fasciculi, into the posterior tubercles of the transverse processes of the upper t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algae%20bioreactor | An algae bioreactor is used for cultivating micro or macroalgae. Algae may be cultivated for the purposes of biomass production (as in a seaweed cultivator), wastewater treatment, CO2 fixation, or aquarium/pond filtration in the form of an algae scrubber. Algae bioreactors vary widely in design, falling broadly into tw... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operative%20Media | Operative is an American advertising company, founded and with headquarters in New York City in 2000 and offices in Denver, Atlanta, London, India, Brazil, Israel, Romania, Australia and the Netherlands. It provides media companies with ad management technology, ad trafficking services, and business process management ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torque%20converter | A torque converter is a device, usually implemented as a type of fluid coupling, that transfers rotating power from a prime mover, like an internal combustion engine, to a rotating driven load. In a vehicle with an automatic transmission, the torque converter connects the prime mover to the automatic gear train, which... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teiji%20Takagi | Teiji Takagi (高木 貞治 Takagi Teiji, April 21, 1875 – February 28, 1960) was a Japanese mathematician, best known for proving the Takagi existence theorem in class field theory. The Blancmange curve, the graph of a nowhere-differentiable but uniformly continuous function, is also called the Takagi curve after his work on ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justo%20Gonzalo | Justo Gonzalo Rodríguez-Leal (Barcelona, Spain, March 2, 1910 – Madrid, Spain, September 28, 1986),
Spanish neuroscientist, after obtaining his bachelor's degree in medicine, he specialized in Austria and Germany (1933–35) with a grant from the Junta para Ampliación de Estudios e Investigaciones Científicas (Council fo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7000%20%28number%29 | 7000 (seven thousand) is the natural number following 6999 and preceding 7001.
Selected numbers in the range 7001–7999
7001 to 7099
7021 – triangular number
7043 – Sophie Germain prime
7056 = 842
7057 – cuban prime of the form x = y + 1, super-prime
7073 – Leyland number
7079 – Sophie Germain prime, safe prime
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler%20conjecture | The Kepler conjecture, named after the 17th-century mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler, is a mathematical theorem about sphere packing in three-dimensional Euclidean space. It states that no arrangement of equally sized spheres filling space has a greater average density than that of the cubic close packing (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%201164 | The IEEE 1164 standard (Multivalue Logic System for VHDL Model Interoperability) is a technical standard published by the IEEE in 1993. It describes the definitions of logic values to be used in electronic design automation, for the VHDL hardware description language. It was sponsored by the Design Automation Standards... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20M.%20Scanlon | Thomas Michael "Tim" Scanlon (; born 1940), usually cited as T. M. Scanlon, is an American philosopher. At the time of his retirement in 2016, he was the Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity in Harvard University's Department of Philosophy, where he had taught since 1984. He was ele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aiken%20tube | The Aiken tube was the first successful flat panel black and white television. Originally designed in the early 1950s, a small number of tubes were built in 1958 for military use in a collaboration with Kaiser Industries. An extended patent battle followed with a similar technology developed in the United Kingdom and p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%20360%20%282006%E2%80%932014%29 | Norton 360 was an "all-in-one" security suite for the consumer market developed by Symantec (now Gen Digital). Originally released in 2006, it was discontinued in 2014; its features were carried over to its successor, Norton Security. However, in 2019, Symantec (under former corporate name Norton LifeLock) released a "... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbilical%20region | The umbilical region is one of the nine regions of the abdomen. It is the region that surrounds the area around the umbilicus and is placed approximately half way between the xiphoid process and the pubic symphysis. This region of the abdomen contains part of the stomach, the head of the pancreas, the duodenum, a sect... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCune%E2%80%93Albright%20syndrome | McCune–Albright syndrome is a complex genetic disorder affecting the bone, skin and endocrine systems. It is a mosaic disease arising from somatic activating mutations in GNAS, which encodes the alpha-subunit of the Gs heterotrimeric G protein.
It was first described in 1937 by American pediatrician Donovan James McCu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Ann%20Horton | Mary Ann Horton (born Mark R. Horton, on November 21, 1955), is a Usenet and Internet pioneer. Horton contributed to Berkeley UNIX (BSD), including the vi editor and terminfo database, created the first email binary attachment tool uuencode, and led the growth of Usenet in the 1980s.
Horton successfully requested the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20structure%20diagram | A data structure diagram (DSD) is the visual representation of a certain kind of data model that contains entities, their relationships, and the constraints that are placed on them. It is an older alternative to the entity–relationship model.
The basic graphic notation elements of DSDs are boxes which represent entiti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumor-homing%20bacteria | Tumor-homing bacteria are facultative or obligate anaerobic bacteria (capable of producing ATP when oxygen is absent or is destroyed in normal oxygen levels) that are able to target cancerous cells in the body, suppress tumor growth and survive in the body for a long time even after the infection. When this type of bac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimally%20manipulated%20cells | Minimally manipulated cells are non-cultured (non-expanded) cells isolated from the biological material by its grinding, homogenization or selective collection of cells, which undergo minimal manipulation. Minimally manipulated cells are usually using for the treatment of skin ulceration, alopecia, and arthritis. Minim... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid%20tooling | Rapid tooling (RT) in the plastic injection molding industry refers to molds that are manufactured in a very short period of time, also known as prototype tooling. Some of the main advantages to rapid tooling trades is that it decreases the time and cost of the product. With rapid tools being fast and easily reproducib... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuum%20robot | A continuum robot is a type of robot that is characterised by infinite degrees of freedom and number of joints. These characteristics allow continuum manipulators to adjust and modify their shape at any point along their length, granting them the possibility to work in confined spaces and complex environments where sta... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Un-24 | un-24 is a gene in fungus such as Neurospora crassa, encode Ribonucleoside-diphosphate reductase large chain, involved in their heterokaryon incompatibility.
See also
Un-25 |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifunctional%20antibody | A trifunctional antibody is a monoclonal antibody with binding sites for two different antigens, typically CD3 and a tumor antigen, making it a type of bispecific monoclonal antibody. In addition, its intact Fc-part can bind to an Fc receptor on accessory cells like conventional monospecific antibodies. The net effect ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanada%20effect | The Tanada effect refers to the adhesion of root tips to glass surfaces. It is believed to involve electric potentials. It is named for the scientist who first described the effect, Takuma Tanada.
The phenomenon was observed while Dr. Tanada was rinsing glassware and noticed that excised root tips occasionally stuck t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MouseText | MouseText is a set of 32 graphical characters designed by Bruce Tognazzini and first implemented in the Apple IIc. They were then retrofitted to the Apple IIe forming part of the Enhanced IIe upgrade. A slightly revised version was then released with the Apple IIGS.
By including box-drawing characters, MouseText made ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incompatible%20with%20life | The term incompatible with life is used in circumstances of injury or developmental disorder that are considered to render life impossible.
Injury and death
Examples of the former include injuries such as decapitation or gross dismemberment. Other circumstances that are regarded as self-evidently incompatible with li... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACTR1A | Alpha-centractin (yeast) or ARP1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ACTR1A gene.
Function
This gene encodes a 42.6 kD subunit of dynactin, a macromolecular complex consisting of 10-11 subunits ranging in size from 22 to 150 kD. Dynactin binds to both microtubules and cytoplasmic dynein. It is involved in ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protective%20colloid | A protective colloid is a lyophilic colloid that when present in small quantities keeps lyophobic colloids from precipitating under the coagulating action of electrolytes.
Need for protective colloids
When a small amount of hydrophilic colloid is added to hydrophobic colloids it may coagulate the latter. This is du... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morchella%20punctipes | Morchella punctipes is a species of morel fungus in the family Morchellaceae. It is native to North America, found widely distributed east of the Rocky Mountains. It was first found in Michigan and described scientifically by American mycologist Charles Horton Peck in 1903.
Morchella punctipes is one of three species ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20on%20a%20chip | A network on a chip or network-on-chip (NoC or ) is a network-based communications subsystem on an integrated circuit ("microchip"), most typically between modules in a system on a chip (SoC). The modules on the IC are typically semiconductor IP cores schematizing various functions of the computer system, and are d... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Marine%20Observation%20and%20Data%20Network | The European Marine Observation and Data Network (EMODnet) is a web portal that brings together marine data, data products and metadata from diverse sources within Europe in a uniform way. It was initiated by the European Commission in response to the EU Green Paper on Future Maritime Policy, launched in June 2006. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience%20Research%20Program | The Neuroscience Research Program (NRP) is an inter-university and international organisation founded during 1962 by Francis Otto Schmitt and others, which marked a key moment in the foundation of neuroscience as a discipline.
A primary activity of the NRP was in making links between neural and behavioural sciences. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystallographic%20disorder | In X-ray crystallography, crystallographic disorder describes the cocrystallization of more than one rotamer, conformer, or isomer where the center of mass of each form is identical or unresolvable. As a consequence of disorder, the crystallographic solution is the sum of the various forms. In many cases, the compone... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KARMA%20attack | In information security, KARMA is an attack that exploits a behaviour of some Wi-Fi devices, combined with the lack of access point authentication in numerous WiFi protocols. It is a variant of the evil twin attack. Details of the attack were first published in 2004 by Dino dai Zovi and Shaun Macaulay.
Vulnerable clie... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bijection | A bijection is a function that is both injective (one-to-one) and surjective (onto). In other words, every element in the codomain of the function is mapped to by exactly one element in the domain of the function.
Equivalently, a bijection is a binary relation between two sets, such that each element of one set is pai... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knockout%20moss | A knockout moss is one kind of genetically modified moss, which are GM plants. One or more of the moss's specific genes are deleted or inactivated ("knocked out"), for example by gene targeting or other methods. After the deletion of a gene, the knockout moss has lost the trait encoded by this gene. Thus, the function ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricentis | Tricentis is a software testing company founded in 2007 and headquartered in Austin, Texas. It provides software testing automation and software quality assurance products for enterprise software.
History
Tricentis was founded in 2007 by Wolfgang Platz and Franz Fuchsberger, extending their previous consulting busines... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar | The Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Specification (iCalendar) is a media type which allows users to store and exchange calendaring and scheduling information such as events, to-dos, journal entries, and free/busy information, and together with its associated standards has been a cornerstone of the stand... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia%20Chuzhoy | Julia Chuzhoy is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, known for her research on approximation algorithms and graph theory.
Education and career
Chuzhoy earned bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 19... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-mount%20technology | Surface-mount technology (SMT), originally called planar mounting, is a method in which the electrical components are mounted directly onto the surface of a printed circuit board (PCB). An electrical component mounted in this manner is referred to as a surface-mount device (SMD). In industry, this approach has largely ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripheral%20ulcerative%20keratitis | Peripheral Ulcerative Keratitis (PUK) is a group of destructive inflammatory diseases involving the peripheral cornea in human eyes. The symptoms of PUK include pain, redness of the eyeball, photophobia, and decreased vision accompanied by distinctive signs of crescent-shaped damage of the cornea. The causes of this di... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanystropheus | Tanystropheus (~ 'long' + 'hinged') is an extinct genus of archosauromorph reptile which lived during the Triassic Period in Europe, Asia, and North America. It is recognisable by its extremely elongated neck, longer than the torso and tail combined. The neck was composed of 13 vertebrae strengthened by extensive cerv... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CII%20Iris%2050 | The Iris 50 computer is one of the computers marketed by the French company CII as part of plan Calcul at the end of the 1960s. Designed for the civilian market, it was produced from 1968 to 1975 and was the successor to the CII 10070 (SDS Sigma 7). Its main competitor in Europe was the IBM 360/50, which, like the Iri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franssen%20effect | The Franssen effect is an auditory illusion where the listener incorrectly localizes a sound. It was found in 1960 by Nico Valentinus Franssen (1926–1979), a Dutch physicist and inventor. There are two classical experiments, which are related to the Franssen effect, called Franssen effect F1 and Franssen effect F2.
Fr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burst%20mode%20%28computing%29 | Burst mode is a generic electronics term referring to any situation in which a device is transmitting data repeatedly without going through all the steps required to transmit each piece of data in a separate transaction.
Advantages
The main advantage of burst mode over single mode is that the burst mode typically incr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beneficial%20weed | A beneficial weed is an invasive plant that has some companion plant effect, is edible, contributes to soil health, adds ornamental value, or is otherwise beneficial. These plants are normally not domesticated. However, some invasive plants, such as dandelions, are commercially cultivated, in addition to growing in the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate | Histidine-tryptophan-ketoglutarate, or Custodiol HTK solution, is a high-flow, low-potassium preservation solution used for organ transplantation. The solution was initially developed by Hans-Jürgen Bretschneider.
HTK solution is intended for perfusion and flushing of donor liver, kidney, heart, lung and pancreas prio... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%27Arcy%20Thompson%20Zoology%20Museum | The D'Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum is a museum of zoology at the University of Dundee in Scotland.
The museum is named after the Scottish biologist and mathematician D'Arcy Thompson (1860–1948), who founded it in the 1880s. Thompson began acquiring specimens for a museum immediately on taking up the post of Professor ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphenoid%20bone | The sphenoid bone is an unpaired bone of the neurocranium. It is situated in the middle of the skull towards the front, in front of the basilar part of the occipital bone. The sphenoid bone is one of the seven bones that articulate to form the orbit. Its shape somewhat resembles that of a butterfly or bat with its wing... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barber%27s%20pole | A barber's pole is a type of sign used by barbers to signify the place or shop where they perform their craft. The trade sign is, by a tradition dating back to the Middle Ages, a staff or pole with a helix of colored stripes (often red and white in many countries, but usually red, white and blue in Japan and the United... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native-language%20identification | Native-language identification (NLI) is the task of determining an author's native language (L1) based only on their writings in a second language (L2). NLI works through identifying language-usage patterns that are common to specific L1 groups and then applying this knowledge to predict the native language of previous... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Eeghen%20Group | Van Eeghen Group is one of the oldest still functioning food producing companies in Amsterdam, Netherlands, founded in 1662.
It is a family business older than 200 years and is a member of the Henokiens association. The trading company Van Eeghen is also active under other names such as Van Eeghen International and Bel... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nielsen%27s%20theorem | Nielsen's theorem is a result in quantum information concerning transformations between bipartite states due to Michael Nielsen. It makes use of majorization.
Statement
A bipartite state transforms to another using local operations and classical communication if and only if is majorized by where the are the Schm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signoff%20%28electronic%20design%20automation%29 | In the automated design of integrated circuits, signoff (also written as sign-off) checks is the collective name given to a series of verification steps that the design must pass before it can be taped out. This implies an iterative process involving incremental fixes across the board using one or more check types, and... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MathFest | MathFest is a mathematics conference hosted annually in late summer by the Mathematical Association of America. It is known for its dual focus on teaching and research in mathematics, as well as for student participation.
MathFest Locations
The 2015 meeting in Washington, D.C. was an extra day long in order to inclu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food%20drying | Food drying is a method of food preservation in which food is dried (dehydrated or desiccated). Drying inhibits the growth of bacteria, yeasts, and mold through the removal of water. Dehydration has been used widely for this purpose since ancient times; the earliest known practice is 12,000 B.C. by inhabitants of the m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Proton%20Synchrotron%20experiments | This is a list of past and current experiments at the CERN Proton Synchrotron (PS) facility since its commissioning in 1959. The PS was CERN's first synchrotron and the world's highest energy particle accelerator at the time. It served as the flagship of CERN until the 1980s when its main role became to provide injecti... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmosome | A desmosome (; "binding body"), also known as a macula adherens (plural: maculae adherentes) (Latin for adhering spot), is a cell structure specialized for cell-to-cell adhesion. A type of junctional complex, they are localized spot-like adhesions randomly arranged on the lateral sides of plasma membranes. Desmosomes a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brenke%E2%80%93Chihara%20polynomials | In mathematics, Brenke polynomials are special cases of generalized Appell polynomials, and Brenke–Chihara polynomials are the Brenke polynomials that are also orthogonal polynomials.
introduced sequences of Brenke polynomials Pn, which are special cases of generalized Appell polynomials with generating function of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air%20data%20inertial%20reference%20unit | An Air Data Inertial Reference Unit (ADIRU) is a key component of the integrated Air Data Inertial Reference System (ADIRS), which supplies air data (airspeed, angle of attack and altitude) and inertial reference (position and attitude) information to the pilots' electronic flight instrument system displays as well as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzzle%20ring | A puzzle ring is a jewelry ring made up of multiple interconnected bands, which is a type of mechanical puzzle most likely developed as an elaboration of the European gimmal ring.
The puzzle ring is also sometimes called a "Turkish wedding ring" or "harem ring." According to popular legend, the ring would be given by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20lobule | The central lobule is a small square lobule, situated in the anterior cerebellar notch. It overlaps the lingula, from which it is separated by the precentral fissure; laterally, it extends along the upper and anterior part of each hemisphere, where it forms a wing-like prolongation (ala), on each side, as the alae of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kervaire%20invariant | In mathematics, the Kervaire invariant is an invariant of a framed -dimensional manifold that measures whether the manifold could be surgically converted into a sphere. This invariant evaluates to 0 if the manifold can be converted to a sphere, and 1 otherwise. This invariant was named after Michel Kervaire who built o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20edible%20cacti | This is a list of edible plants in the family Cactaceae.
Acanthocereus tetragonus, the sword pear,
Browningia candelaris,
Carnegiea gigantea, the Saguaro,
Cereus repandus - California and Florida
genus Corryocactus (also known as Erdisia), the tasty berrylike
C. brevistylis, C. pulquiensis, and C. erectus
Coryp... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside%20hydrolase%20family%207 | In molecular biology, glycoside hydrolase family 7 is a family of glycoside hydrolases , which are a widespread group of enzymes that hydrolyse the glycosidic bond between two or more carbohydrates, or between a carbohydrate and a non-carbohydrate moiety. A classification system for glycoside hydrolases, based on seque... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytoplasmic%20hybrid | A cytoplasmic hybrid (or cybrid, a portmanteau of the two words) is a eukaryotic cell line produced by the fusion of a whole cell with a cytoplast. Cytoplasts are enucleated cells. This enucleation can be effected by simultaneous application of centrifugal force and treatment of the cell with an agent that disrupts the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20tools%20to%20create%20bootable%20USB | This is a list of utilities for creating a live USB. Only those listed on Wikipedia are included.
Overview
"Multiboot" means that the tool allows multiple systems on the USB stick, as well as a bootloader on the USB flash drive to choose which system to load at boot time. Multiboot is environmental technology since ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derailment%20%28thought%20disorder%29 |
In psychiatry, derailment (aka loosening of association, asyndesis, asyndetic thinking, knight's move thinking, entgleisen, disorganised thinking) categorises any speech that sequences of unrelated or barely related ideas compose; the topic often changes from one sentence to another.
In a mild manifestation, this tho... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNA%20immunoprecipitation%20chip | RIP-chip (RNA immunoprecipitation chip) is a molecular biology technique which combines RNA immunoprecipitation with a microarray. The purpose of this technique is to identify which RNA sequences interact with a particular RNA binding protein of interest in vivo. It can also be used to determine relative levels of gene... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situs%20ambiguus | Situs ambiguus is a rare congenital defect in which the major visceral organs are distributed abnormally within the chest and abdomen. Clinically heterotaxy spectrum generally refers to any defect of Left-right asymmetry and arrangement of the visceral organs; however, classical heterotaxy requires multiple organs to b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet%20cleaner | Toilet cleaners are chemical solutions designed specifically for cleaning a toilet bowl, usually in conjunction with a toilet brush.
Usage
Toilet cleaner is sprayed around the rim and into the bowl of the toilet prior to the use of the toilet brush. The toilet brush is used to scrub the toilet, removing stubborn stain... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%20Tracking%20Network | The Ocean Tracking Network (OTN) is a global network research and monitoring effort using implanted acoustic transmitters to study fish migration patterns. It is based at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. The technology used by the Ocean Tracking Network comes from the Pacific Ocean Shelf Tracking Project (POST) and... |
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