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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multicellular%20tumor%20spheroids | Multicellular tumor spheroids are scaffold-free spherical self-assembled aggregates of cancer cells. It is a 3 dimensional culture model which closely models oxygen gradients in small avascular tumors. They are cellular model used in cancer research to assess drug response. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFootball | eFootball is a series of association football simulation video games developed and published by Konami. It has been completely rebranded from the original Pro Evolution Soccer (known as Winning Eleven in Japan) series. The game's first year, entitled eFootball 2022, was released on 30 September 2021. It was later chang... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applicability%20domain | The applicability domain (AD) (for both chemistry and machine learning) of a QSAR model is the physico-chemical, structural or biological space, knowledge or information on which the training set of the model has been developed, and for which it is applicable to make predictions for new compounds.
The purpose of AD is... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Society%20for%20NeuroVirology | The International Society for NeuroVirology (ISNV) was founded to promote research into disease-causing viruses that infect the human brain and nervous system. The ISNV membership includes scientists and clinicians from around the world who work in the fields of basic, translational, and clinical neurovirology.
Histor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CMV423 | CMV423 (2-chloro-3-pyridin-3-yl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydroindolizine-1-carboxamide) is an experimental antiviral drug that has been studied for the treatment of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection and human herpesvirus 6 (HHV-6) infection. The drug was investigated by Sanofi-Aventis, but its development was discontinued by 2018 be... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20analyst | In a software development team, a software analyst is the person who monitors the software development process, performs configuration management, identifies safety, performance, and compliance issues, and prepares software requirements and specification (Software Requirements Specification) documents. The software an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Mycielski | Jan Mycielski (born February 7, 1932 in Wiśniowa, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland) is a Polish-American mathematician, a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Academic career
Mycielski received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Wrocław in 1957 under the supervision ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrite | The mineral pyrite ( ), or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron (II) disulfide). Pyrite is the most abundant sulfide mineral.
Pyrite's metallic luster and pale brass-yellow hue give it a superficial resemblance to gold, hence the well-known nickname of fool's ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geriatric%20neurology | Geriatric neurology is the branch of medicine that studies neurologic disorders in elderly.
Origin
In 1991 Advanced Fellowship Program in Geriatric Neurology was started by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Many veterans suffered from neurodegenerative changes such as Alzheimer's disease, Lewy Body dementia, Parkin... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectin | Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins that are highly specific for sugar groups that are part of other molecules, so cause agglutination of particular cells or precipitation of glycoconjugates and polysaccharides. Lectins have a role in recognition at the cellular and molecular level and play numerous roles in biol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbral%20moonshine | In mathematics, umbral moonshine is a mysterious connection between Niemeier lattices and Ramanujan's mock theta functions. It is a generalization of the Mathieu moonshine phenomenon connecting representations of the Mathieu group M24 with K3 surfaces.
Mathieu moonshine
The prehistory of Mathieu moonshine starts w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet%20seat | A toilet seat is a hinged unit consisting of a round or oval open seat, and usually a lid, which is bolted onto the bowl of a toilet used in a sitting position (as opposed to a squat toilet). The seat can be either for a flush toilet or a dry toilet. A toilet seat consists of the seat itself, which may be contoured for... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caridoid%20escape%20reaction | The caridoid escape reaction, also known as lobstering or tail-flipping, refers to an innate escape mechanism in marine and freshwater crustaceans such as lobsters, krill, shrimp and crayfish.
The reaction, most extensively researched in crayfish, allows crustaceans to escape predators through rapid abdominal flexions... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variation%20potential | A variation potential (VP) (also called slow wave potential) is a hydraulically propagating electrical signal occurring exclusively in plant cells. It is one of three propagating signals in plants, the other two being action potential (AP) and wound potential (WP) (also unique to plants). Variation potentials are respo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delvotest | Delvotest is a broad spectrum microbial inhibition test used in dairy for testing antibiotic residue in milk and milk products. It is used to ensure milk safety and is produced by the global company DSM.
The dairy sector has a responsibility to prevent the presence of antibiotic residues in milk for health reasons, pr... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enduring%20Quests%20and%20Daring%20Visions | Enduring Quests and Daring Visions is a vision for astrophysics programs chartered by then-Director of NASA's Astrophysics Division, Paul Hertz, and released in late 2013. It lays out plans over 30 years as long-term goals and missions. Goals include mapping the Cosmic Microwave Background and finding Earth like exopla... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymath%20Project | The Polymath Project is a collaboration among mathematicians to solve important and difficult mathematical problems by coordinating many mathematicians to communicate with each other on finding the best route to the solution. The project began in January 2009 on Timothy Gowers's blog when he posted a problem and asked ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-assisted%20proof | A computer-assisted proof is a mathematical proof that has been at least partially generated by computer.
Most computer-aided proofs to date have been implementations of large proofs-by-exhaustion of a mathematical theorem. The idea is to use a computer program to perform lengthy computations, and to provide a proof t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatophora%20%28alga%29 | Grammatophora is a genus of Chromista belonging to the family Grammatophoraceae.
The genus was first described by C. G. Ehrenberg in 1840.
Species:
Grammatophora marina
Grammatophora oceanica |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20entomology%20since%201900 | 1900
Walter Reed, a United States Army major, was appointed president of a board "to study infectious diseases in Cuba paying particular attention to yellow fever." He concurred with Carlos Finlay in identifying mosquitoes as the agent.
Ignacio Bolívar y Urrutia publishes Catálogo sinóptico de los ortópteros de la fa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20developmental%20psychology | Evolutionary developmental psychology (EDP) is a research paradigm that applies the basic principles of evolution by natural selection, to understand the development of human behavior and cognition. It involves the study of both the genetic and environmental mechanisms that underlie the development of social and cognit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black%20rat | The black rat (Rattus rattus), also known as the roof rat, ship rat, or house rat, is a common long-tailed rodent of the stereotypical rat genus Rattus, in the subfamily Murinae. It likely originated in the Indian subcontinent, but is now found worldwide.
The black rat is black to light brown in colour with a lighter ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coupling%20%28computer%20programming%29 | In software engineering, coupling is the degree of interdependence between software modules; a measure of how closely connected two routines or modules are; the strength of the relationships between modules.
Coupling is usually contrasted with cohesion. Low coupling often correlates with high cohesion, and vice versa.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratio%20distribution | A ratio distribution (also known as a quotient distribution) is a probability distribution constructed as the distribution of the ratio of random variables having two other known distributions.
Given two (usually independent) random variables X and Y, the distribution of the random variable Z that is formed as the rati... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow%20process | The region of space enclosed by open system boundaries is usually called a control volume. It may or may not correspond to physical walls. It is convenient to define the shape of the control volume so that all flow of matter, in or out, occurs perpendicular to its surface. One may consider a process in which the matte... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluid%20limit | In queueing theory, a discipline within the mathematical theory of probability, a fluid limit, fluid approximation or fluid analysis of a stochastic model is a deterministic real-valued process which approximates the evolution of a given stochastic process, usually subject to some scaling or limiting criteria.
Fluid l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iliac%20tuberosity | Behind the iliac fossa is a rough surface, divided into two portions, an anterior and a posterior. The posterior portion, known as the iliac tuberosity, is elevated and rough, for the attachment of the posterior sacroiliac ligaments and for the origins of the sacrospinalis and multifidus. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotin%20carboxyl%20carrier%20protein | Biotin carboxyl carrier protein (BCCP) refers to proteins containing a biotin attachment domain that carry biotin and carboxybiotin throughout the ATP-dependent carboxylation by biotin-dependent carboxylases. The biotin carboxyl carrier protein is an Acetyl CoA subunit that allows for Acetyl CoA to be catalyzed and con... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triniscope | The Triniscope was an early color television system developed by RCA. It used three separate video tubes with colored phosphors producing the primary colors, combining the images through dichroic mirrors onto a screen for viewing.
As a consumer system it was enormous, expensive, impractical, and dropped as soon as the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disorders%20of%20sex%20development | Disorders of sex development (DSDs), also known as differences in sex development, diverse sex development and variations in sex characteristics (VSC), are congenital conditions affecting the reproductive system, in which development of chromosomal, gonadal, or anatomical sex is atypical.
DSDs are subdivided into grou... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinate%20system | In geometry, a coordinate system is a system that uses one or more numbers, or coordinates, to uniquely determine the position of the points or other geometric elements on a manifold such as Euclidean space. The order of the coordinates is significant, and they are sometimes identified by their position in an ordered t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LMHOSTS | The LMHOSTS (LAN Manager Hosts) file is used to enable Domain Name Resolution under Windows when other methods, such as WINS, fail. It is used in conjunction with workgroups and domains. If you are looking for a simple, general mechanism for the local specification of IP addresses for specific hostnames (server names),... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor%20pressure%20osmometry | Vapor phase osmometry (VPO), also known as vapor-pressure osmometry, is an experimental technique for the determination of a polymer's number average molecular weight, Mn. It works by taking advantage of the decrease in vapor pressure that occurs when solutes are added to pure solvent. This technique can be used for po... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web-to-TV | A Web-to-TV installation provides a way to show streaming television or other over-the-top content from the Internet, to a television set. Various technologies to do this include Home theater PCs (desktop computers running more user-friendly software for TV viewing), digital media receivers (also known as "media exten... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube%20sound | Tube sound (or valve sound) is the characteristic sound associated with a vacuum tube amplifier (valve amplifier in British English), a vacuum tube-based audio amplifier. At first, the concept of tube sound did not exist, because practically all electronic amplification of audio signals was done with vacuum tubes and o... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetostriction | Magnetostriction is a property of magnetic materials that causes them to change their shape or dimensions during the process of magnetization. The variation of materials' magnetization due to the applied magnetic field changes the magnetostrictive strain until reaching its saturation value, λ. The effect was first iden... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20differential%20analyzer | A digital differential analyzer (DDA), also sometimes called a digital integrating computer, is a digital implementation of a differential analyzer. The integrators in a DDA are implemented as accumulators, with the numeric result converted back to a pulse rate by the overflow of the accumulator.
The primary advantage... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri%20Darmon | Henri Rene Darmon (born 22 October 1965) is a French-Canadian mathematician. He is a number theorist who works on Hilbert's 12th problem and its relation with the Birch–Swinnerton-Dyer conjecture. He is currently a James McGill Professor of Mathematics at McGill University.
Career
Darmon received his BSc from McGill U... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tucson%20Gay%20Museum | The Tucson Gay Museum maintains an extensive collection of archival materials, artifacts and graphic arts relating to the history of LGBT people in the United States, with a focus on the LGBT communities of Tucson, Arizona and Phoenix, Arizona.
It became a member of the Arizona LGBTQIA+ Archives in 2020.
History
Estab... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chirurgia%20magna | Chirurgia magna (Latin for "Great [work on] Surgery"), fully titled the Inventarium sive chirurgia magna (Latin for "The Inventory, or the Great [work on] Surgery"), is a guide to surgery and practical medicine completed in 1363. Guy de Chauliac, Pope Clement VI's attending physician, compiled the information from his... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI%20StarterWare | StarterWare was initially developed by TI as a free software package catering to their arm A8 and A9 microprocessors. Its primary purpose was to offer drivers and libraries with a consistent API tailored for processors within these microprocessor families. The package encompassed utilities and illustrative use cases ac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undefined%20variable | An undefined variable in the source code of a computer program is a variable that is accessed in the code but has not been declared by that code.
In some programming languages, an implicit declaration is provided the first time such a variable is encountered at compile time. In other languages such a usage is conside... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20account | A Microsoft account or MSA (previously known as Microsoft Passport, .NET Passport, and Windows Live ID) is a single sign-on personal user account for Microsoft customers to log in to consumer Microsoft services (like Outlook.com), devices running on one of Microsoft's current operating systems (e.g. Microsoft Windows c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walther%20Ritz | Walther Heinrich Wilhelm Ritz (22 February 1878 – 7 July 1909) was a Swiss theoretical physicist. He is most famous for his work with Johannes Rydberg on the Rydberg–Ritz combination principle. Ritz is also known for the variational method named after him, the Ritz method.
Life
Walter Ritz's father Raphael Ritz was b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauli%20equation | In quantum mechanics, the Pauli equation or Schrödinger–Pauli equation is the formulation of the Schrödinger equation for spin-½ particles, which takes into account the interaction of the particle's spin with an external electromagnetic field. It is the non-relativistic limit of the Dirac equation and can be used where... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval%20Security%20Group | The Naval Security Group (NAVSECGRU) was an organization within the United States Navy, tasked with intelligence gathering and denial of intelligence to adversaries. A large part of this is signals intelligence gathering, cryptology and information assurance. The NAVSECGRU organization was active from March 1935 to Se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durability%20%28database%20systems%29 | In database systems, durability is the ACID property that guarantees that the effects of transactions that have been committed will survive permanently, even in case of failures, including incidents and catastrophic events. For example, if a flight booking reports that a seat has successfully been booked, then the seat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brucellosis | Brucellosis is a zoonosis caused by ingestion of unpasteurized milk from infected animals, or close contact with their secretions. It is also known as undulant fever, Malta fever, and Mediterranean fever.
The bacteria causing this disease, Brucella, are small, Gram-negative, nonmotile, nonspore-forming, rod-shaped (co... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus%20as%20a%20symbol%20of%20medicine | The caduceus is the traditional symbol of Hermes and features two snakes winding around an often winged staff. It is often used as a symbol of medicine, especially in the United States, despite its ancient and consistent associations with trade, liars, thieves, eloquence, negotiation, alchemy, and wisdom.
The modern u... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant%20centre%20of%20rotation | The instant center of rotation (also known as instantaneous velocity center, instantaneous center, or pole of planar displacement) of a body undergoing planar movement is a point that has zero velocity at a particular instant of time. At this instant, the velocity vectors of the other points in the body generate a cir... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian%20Sommelier%20Association | Italian Sommelier Association, 'AIS' (, sometimes also as known as ) is an Italian non-profit organization founded in Milan on July 7, 1965, officially recognised and legally acknowledged by the Italian government on April 6, 1973, with formal President of the Republic decree #539 in 1973. Its founding members were Pro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford%27s%20theorem%20on%20special%20divisors | In mathematics, Clifford's theorem on special divisors is a result of on algebraic curves, showing the constraints on special linear systems on a curve C.
Statement
A divisor on a Riemann surface C is a formal sum of points P on C with integer coefficients. One considers a divisor as a set of constraints on meromor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lighthill%27s%20eighth%20power%20law | In aeroacoustics, Lighthill's eighth power law states that power of the sound created by a turbulent motion, far from the turbulence, is proportional to eighth power of the characteristic turbulent velocity, derived by Sir James Lighthill in 1952. This is used to calculate the total acoustic power of the jet noise. The... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borlaug%20Global%20Rust%20Initiative | The Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI - originally named the Global Rust Initiative) was founded in response to recommendations of a committee of international experts who met to consider a response to the threat the global food supply posed by the Ug99 strain of wheat rust. The BGRI was renamed the Borlaug Global R... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlog | A vlog (), also known as a video blog or video log, is a form of blog for which the medium is video. Vlog entries often combine embedded video (or a video link) with supporting text, images, and other metadata. Entries can be recorded in one take or cut into multiple parts. The vlog category is popular on the video-sha... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phased-array%20optics | Phased-array optics is the technology of controlling the phase and amplitude of light waves transmitting, reflecting, or captured (received) by a two-dimensional surface using adjustable surface elements. An optical phased array (OPA) is the optical analog of a radio-wave phased array. By dynamically controlling the op... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20plant%20communities%20in%20the%20British%20National%20Vegetation%20Classification | The following is the list of the 286 plant communities which comprise the British National Vegetation Classification (NVC). These are grouped by major habitat category, as used in the five volumes of British Plant Communities, the standard work describing the NVC.
Woodland and scrub communities
The following 25 comm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance%20poppy | A remembrance poppy is an artificial flower worn in some countries to commemorate their military personnel who died in war. Remembrance poppies are produced by veterans' associations, who exchange the poppies for charitable donations used to give financial, social and emotional support to members and veterans of the ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciphertext%20indistinguishability | Ciphertext indistinguishability is a property of many encryption schemes. Intuitively, if a cryptosystem possesses the property of indistinguishability, then an adversary will be unable to distinguish pairs of ciphertexts based on the message they encrypt. The property of indistinguishability under chosen plaintext att... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffuse%20reflectance%20spectroscopy | Diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, or diffuse reflection spectroscopy, is a subset of absorption spectroscopy. It is sometimes called remission spectroscopy. Remission is the reflection or back-scattering of light by a material, while transmission is the passage of light through a material. The word remission implies ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacquet%E2%80%93Langlands%20correspondence | In mathematics, the Jacquet–Langlands correspondence is a correspondence between automorphic forms on GL2 and its twisted forms, proved by in their book Automorphic Forms on GL(2) using the Selberg trace formula. It was one of the first examples of the Langlands philosophy that maps between L-groups should induce map... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycrase | Polycrase or polycrase-(Y) is a black or brown metallic complex uranium yttrium oxide mineral with the chemical formula . It is amorphous. It has a Mohs hardness of 5 to 6 and a specific gravity of 5. It is radioactive due to its uranium content (around 6%). It occurs in granitic pegmatites.
Polycrase forms a continuo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farabeuf%27s%20triangle | Farabeuf's triangle is the triangular space in the upper portion of the neck where the bifurcation of the carotid artery can be seen. It is limited: the rear: the jugular vein; internal below and beyond: the facial vein; above and beyond: the hypoglossal nerve. This triangle serves as a reference to locate surgery elem... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%20finger%20protein%20121 | Zinc finger protein 121 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF121 gene. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trax%20Models | Trax Models is a range of diecast model cars and buses in the scales of 1:24, 1:43 and 1:76 produced by Trax Corporation Pty Ltd. The line consists of vehicles made in China for the Australian market. The company is controlled by the Australian firm Top Gear, but the Top Gear name does not appear on Trax vehicles nor b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoroideae | Microsoroideae is a subfamily in the fern family Polypodiaceae in the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I). The subfamily is also treated as the tribe Microsoreae within a very broadly defined family Polypodiaceae sensu lato. In either treatment, it includes the previously separated tribe Lepisor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson%20scheme | In mathematics, the Johnson scheme, named after Selmer M. Johnson, is also known as the triangular association scheme. It consists of the set of all binary vectors X of length ℓ and weight n, such that . Two vectors x, y ∈ X are called ith associates if dist(x, y) = 2i for i = 0, 1, ..., n. The eigenvalues are given b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeong%20Han%20Kim | Jeong Han Kim (; born July 20, 1962) is a South Korean mathematician.
He studied physics and mathematical physics at Yonsei University, and earned his Ph.D. in mathematics at Rutgers University. He was a researcher at AT&T Bell Labs and at Microsoft Research, and was Underwood Chair Professor of Mathematics at Yonsei ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loop%20integral | In quantum field theory and statistical mechanics, loop integrals are the integrals which appear when evaluating the Feynman diagrams with one or more loops by integrating over the internal momenta. These integrals are used to determine counterterms, which in turn allow evaluation of the beta function, which encodes th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statistics%20and%20Its%20Interface | Statistics and Its Interface is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal covering the interface between the field of statistics and other disciplines. The journal was established in 2008 and is published by International Press. The editor-in-chief is Heping Zhang (Yale University). The journal is abstra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucagon-like%20peptide-2 | Glucagon-like peptide-2 (GLP-2) is a 33 amino acid peptide with the sequence HADGSFSDEMNTILDNLAARDFINWLIQTKITD (see Proteinogenic amino acid) in humans. GLP-2 is created by specific post-translational proteolytic cleavage of proglucagon in a process that also liberates the related glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1). GLP-2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet | A bookmarklet is a bookmark stored in a web browser that contains JavaScript commands that add new features to the browser. They are stored as the URL of a bookmark in a web browser or as a hyperlink on a web page. Bookmarklets are usually small snippets of JavaScript executed when user clicks on them. When clicked, bo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choix%20des%20plus%20belles%20fleurs | Choix des plus belles fleurs (The most beautiful flowers) is a book of watercolors by the Belgian artist Pierre-Joseph Redouté. It has 144 color pictures reproduced by copperplates.
Description
The full title in French is Choix des plus belles fleurs et de quelques branches des plus beaux fruits: Dédié à LL. AA. RR. l... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20Enterprise%20Defense%20Infrastructure | The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract was a large United States Department of Defense cloud computing contract which has been reported as being worth $10 billion over ten years. JEDI was meant to be a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) implementation of existing technology, while providing economies ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apical%20dominance | In botany, apical dominance is the phenomenon whereby the main, central stem of the plant is dominant over (i.e., grows more strongly than) other side stems; on a branch the main stem of the branch is further dominant over its own side twigs.
Plant physiology describes apical dominance as the control exerted by the te... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jervine | Jervine is a steroidal alkaloid with molecular formula C27H39NO3 which is derived from the plant genus Veratrum. Similar to cyclopamine, which also occurs in the genus Veratrum, it is a teratogen implicated in birth defects when consumed by animals during a certain period of their gestation.
Physiological effects
Jer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arboreal%20locomotion | Arboreal locomotion is the locomotion of animals in trees. In habitats in which trees are present, animals have evolved to move in them. Some animals may scale trees only occasionally, but others are exclusively arboreal. The habitats pose numerous mechanical challenges to animals moving through them and lead to a vari... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microstructure | Microstructure is the very small scale structure of a material, defined as the structure of a prepared surface of material as revealed by an optical microscope above 25× magnification. The microstructure of a material (such as metals, polymers, ceramics or composites) can strongly influence physical properties such as ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20transmittance | Thermal transmittance is the rate of transfer of heat through matter. The thermal transmittance of a material (such as insulation or concrete) or an assembly (such as a wall or window) is expressed as a U-value. The thermal insulance of a structure is the reciprocal of its thermal transmittance.
U-value
Although the c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytic%20acid | Phytic acid is a six-fold dihydrogenphosphate ester of inositol (specifically, of the myo isomer), also called inositol hexaphosphate, inositol hexakisphosphate (IP6) or inositol polyphosphate. At physiological pH, the phosphates are partially ionized, resulting in the phytate anion.
The (myo) phytate anion is a color... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonholonomic%20system | A nonholonomic system in physics and mathematics is a physical system whose state depends on the path taken in order to achieve it. Such a system is described by a set of parameters subject to differential constraints and non-linear constraints, such that when the system evolves along a path in its parameter space (the... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale%20model | A scale model is a physical model which is geometrically similar to an object (known as the prototype). Scale models are generally smaller than large prototypes such as vehicles, buildings, or people; but may be larger than small prototypes such as anatomical structures or subatomic particles. Models built to the same ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Json2Ldap | Json2Ldap is a JSON-to-LDAP gateway software, written in Java and developed by Nimbus Directory Services. It provides a JSON-RPC 2.0 interface for web clients to access one or more LDAP v3 - compatible directories. The Json2Ldap web API supports the standard LDAP directory requests as well as several extended operation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subgenus | In biology, a subgenus (plural: subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.
In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between the generic name and the specific epithet: e.g. the tiger cowry of the Ind... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISFET | An ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET) is a field-effect transistor used for measuring ion concentrations in solution; when the ion concentration (such as H+, see pH scale) changes, the current through the transistor will change accordingly. Here, the solution is used as the gate electrode. A voltage between ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generator%20interlock%20kit | A generator interlock kit (or just interlock kit) is a device designed to allow safe powering of a home by a portable generator during a power outage. It is a less-expensive alternative to purchasing and installing a dedicated transfer switch. The kit achieves the same function by adding an external interlock onto an e... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colostrum | Colostrum, or first milk, is the first form of milk produced by the mammary glands of humans and other mammals immediately following delivery of the newborn. It may be called beestings when referring to the first milk of a cow or similar animal. Most species will begin to generate colostrum just prior to giving birth.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fimbriation | In heraldry and vexillology, fimbriation is the placement of small stripes of contrasting colour around common charges or ordinaries, usually in order for them to stand out from the background, but often simply due to the designer's subjective aesthetic preferences, or for a more technical reason (in heraldry only) to ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian%20vector%20field | In mathematics and physics, a Hamiltonian vector field on a symplectic manifold is a vector field defined for any energy function or Hamiltonian. Named after the physicist and mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton, a Hamiltonian vector field is a geometric manifestation of Hamilton's equations in classical mechanics... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gretchen%20Daily | Gretchen C. Daily (born October 19, 1964) is an American environmental scientist and tropical ecologist. She has contributed to understanding humanity's dependence and impacts on nature, and to advancing a systematic approach for valuing nature in policy, finance, management, and practice around the world. Daily is co-... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy%20of%20sublimation | In thermodynamics, the enthalpy of sublimation, or heat of sublimation, is the heat required to sublimate (change from solid to gas) one mole of a substance at a given combination of temperature and pressure, usually standard temperature and pressure (STP). It is equal to the cohesive energy of the solid. For elemental... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permutation%20pattern | In combinatorial mathematics and theoretical computer science, a permutation pattern is a sub-permutation of a longer permutation. Any permutation may be written in one-line notation as a sequence of digits representing the result of applying the permutation to the digit sequence 123...; for instance the digit sequence... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint%20Abb%27s%20Head%20virus | St. Abbs Head virus (SAHV) is a virus in the genus Phlebovirus, order Bunyavirales. It is named after St Abb's Head, Scotland, where it was isolated from its vector, the tick Ixodes uriae. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceTV | IceTV is an Australian company providing an independently curated Electronic Program Guide (EPG) for digital free-to-air television. It also produces Smart Recording Software.
IceTV offers a TiVo-like service that provides series recording, keyword recording and advanced searching for compatible devices. It is a premi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptide%20plane%20flipping | Peptide plane flipping is a type of conformational change that can occur in proteins by which the dihedral angles of adjacent amino acids undergo large-scale rotations with little displacement of the side chains. The plane flip is defined as a rotation of the dihedral angles φ,ψ at amino acids i and i+1 such that the r... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances%20Haugen | Frances Haugen (born 1983 or 1984) is an American product manager, data engineer and scientist, and whistleblower. She disclosed tens of thousands of Facebook's internal documents to the Securities and Exchange Commission and The Wall Street Journal in 2021.
Haugen has also testified before the United States Senate C... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STRO-1 | STRO-1 (Stro-1 in mouse, rat, etc.) is a gene for a protein marker of mesenchymal stem cells (MSC). Molecular mass of Stro-1 is 75kD. The name STRO-1 is firstly proposed in the 1990s' as the name of an anti-CD34+-mesenchymal-stem-cell monoclonal antibody. The name "STRO-1" consists of STRO, which means mesenchyme, and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screwdriver | A screwdriver is a tool, manual or powered, used for turning screws.
Description
A typical simple screwdriver has a handle and a shaft, ending in a tip the user puts into the screw head before turning the handle. This form of the screwdriver has been replaced in many workplaces and homes with a more modern and versat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Dhuey | Michael Joseph Dhuey (born July 20, 1958, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States) is an electrical and computer engineer.
Information
He is chiefly known as the co-creator (with Ron Hochsprung) of the Macintosh II computer in 1987, the first Macintosh computer with expansion slots. He was also one of the two hardware ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20A.%20Wolf | Joseph Albert Wolf (October 18, 1936 – August 14, 2023) was an American mathematician at the University of California, Berkeley.
Life and career
Wolf graduated from at the University of Chicago with a bachelor's degree in 1956 and with his master's degree in 1957 and his Ph.D. under the supervision of Shiing-Shen Che... |
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