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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mammalian%20Genome
Mammalian Genome is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes research and review articles in the fields of genetics and genomics in mouse, human and related organisms. As of July 2009 its editors-in-chief are Joseph H. Nadeau and Stephen D. M. Brown. Mammalian Genome has been published by Springer since the journal was l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pairwise%20summation
In numerical analysis, pairwise summation, also called cascade summation, is a technique to sum a sequence of finite-precision floating-point numbers that substantially reduces the accumulated round-off error compared to naively accumulating the sum in sequence. Although there are other techniques such as Kahan summat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-graph
In mathematics, a two-graph is a set of (unordered) triples chosen from a finite vertex set X, such that every (unordered) quadruple from X contains an even number of triples of the two-graph. A regular two-graph has the property that every pair of vertices lies in the same number of triples of the two-graph. Two-gra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chern%E2%80%93Weil%20homomorphism
In mathematics, the Chern–Weil homomorphism is a basic construction in Chern–Weil theory that computes topological invariants of vector bundles and principal bundles on a smooth manifold M in terms of connections and curvature representing classes in the de Rham cohomology rings of M. That is, the theory forms a bridge...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure%204D%20N%20%3D%201%20supergravity
In supersymmetry, pure 4D supergravity describes the simplest four-dimensional supergravity, with a single supercharge and a supermultiplet containing a graviton and gravitino. The action consists of the Einstein–Hilbert action and the Rarita–Schwinger action. The theory was first formulated by Daniel Z. Freedman, Pet...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InterBase
InterBase is a relational database management system (RDBMS) currently developed and marketed by Embarcadero Technologies. InterBase is distinguished from other RDBMSs by its small footprint, close to zero administration requirements, and multi-generational architecture. InterBase runs on the Microsoft Windows, macOS, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Microsoft%20software
Microsoft is a developer of personal computer software. It is best known for its Windows operating system, the Internet Explorer and subsequent Microsoft Edge web browsers, the Microsoft Office family of productivity software plus services, and the Visual Studio IDE. The company also publishes books (through Microsoft ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20transducer
A wind transducer is a device used by sailors to receive a real-time measurement of wind speed and direction. A wind transducer is usually mounted on the masthead of a sailing boat and is occasionally used by power boats too. The wind speed and direction measurements are more critical to sailing boats than to power boa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authbind
authbind is an open-source system utility written by Ian Jackson and is distributed under the GNU General Public License. The authbind software allows a program that would normally require superuser privileges to access privileged network services to run as a non-privileged user. authbind allows the system administrato...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20conservation
Soil conservation is the prevention of loss of the topmost layer of the soil from erosion or prevention of reduced fertility caused by over usage, acidification, salinization or other chemical soil contamination. Slash-and-burn and other unsustainable methods of subsistence farming are practiced in some lesser develop...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proth%20prime
A Proth number is a natural number N of the form where k and n are positive integers, k is odd and . A Proth prime is a Proth number that is prime. They are named after the French mathematician François Proth. The first few Proth primes are 3, 5, 13, 17, 41, 97, 113, 193, 241, 257, 353, 449, 577, 641, 673, 769, 92...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morchella%20snyderi
Morchella snyderi is a species of fungus in the family Morchellaceae. Described as new to science in 2012, it occurs in the montane forests of western North America, including California, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. It produces fruit bodies up to tall with ridged and pitted conical caps, and stipes that bec...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottom%20type
In type theory, a theory within mathematical logic, the bottom type of a type system is the type that is a subtype of all other types. Where such a type exists, it is often represented with the up tack (⊥) symbol. When the bottom type is empty, a function whose return type is bottom cannot return any value, not even ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th%20meridian%20west
The meridian 12° west of Greenwich is a line of longitude that extends from the North Pole across the Arctic Ocean, Greenland, the Atlantic Ocean, Africa, the Southern Ocean, and Antarctica to the South Pole. The 12th meridian west forms a great circle with the 168th meridian east. Part of the border between Western ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper%20composite%20panels
Paper composite panels are a phenolic resin/cellulose composite material made from partially recycled paper and phenolic resin. Multiple layers of paper are soaked in phenolic resin, then molded and baked into net shape in a heated form or press. Originally distributed as a commercial kitchen surface in the 1950s, it ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karloff%E2%80%93Zwick%20algorithm
The Karloff–Zwick algorithm, in computational complexity theory, is a randomised approximation algorithm taking an instance of MAX-3SAT Boolean satisfiability problem as input. If the instance is satisfiable, then the expected weight of the assignment found is at least 7/8 of optimal. There is strong evidence (but no...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False%20sharing
In computer science, false sharing is a performance-degrading usage pattern that can arise in systems with distributed, coherent caches at the size of the smallest resource block managed by the caching mechanism. When a system participant attempts to periodically access data that is not being altered by another party, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-automated%20design
Design Automation usually refers to electronic design automation, or Design Automation which is a Product Configurator. Extending Computer-Aided Design (CAD), automated design and Computer-Automated Design (CAutoD) are more concerned with a broader range of applications, such as automotive engineering, civil engineeri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic%20Curve%20Digital%20Signature%20Algorithm
In cryptography, the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) offers a variant of the Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA) which uses elliptic-curve cryptography. Key and signature-size As with elliptic-curve cryptography in general, the bit size of the private key believed to be needed for ECDSA is about twice...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant%20Olney
Grant Olney Passmore (born October 18, 1983) is a singer-songwriter who has recorded on the Asian Man Records label. He is considered part of the New Weird America movement along with David Dondero, Devendra Banhart, Bright Eyes, and CocoRosie. His latest full-length album, Hypnosis for Happiness, was released in July...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive%20element%20theorem
In field theory, the primitive element theorem is a result characterizing the finite degree field extensions that can be generated by a single element. Such a generating element is called a primitive element of the field extension, and the extension is called a simple extension in this case. The theorem states that a ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elette%20Boyle
Elette Boyle is an American and Israeli computer scientist and cryptographer, known for her research on secret sharing, digital signatures, and obfuscation. She is a professor of computer science at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya, where she directs the Center for Foundations and Applications of Cryptographic The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20Dispersal
In the context of the recent African origin of modern humans, the Southern Dispersal scenario (also the coastal migration or great coastal migration hypothesis) refers to the early migration along the southern coast of Asia, from the Arabian Peninsula via Persia and India to Southeast Asia and Oceania. Alternative name...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidamycin
Kidamycin is an anthracycline antibiotic with anticancer activity. It was first synthesized from a strain of streptomyces bacteria isolated from a soil sample. In clinical trials, Kindamycin showed high effect against gram positive bacteria as well as multiple cancer models including Ehrlich ascites carcinoma, Sarcoma ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miklos%20Udvardy
Miklos Dezso Ferenc Udvardy (March 23, 1919–January 27, 1998) was a Hungarian-American biologist and university instructor. He made significant contributions to various fields, including biogeography, evolutionary biology, ornithology, and vegetation classification. Throughout his career, Udvardy published 191 papers, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20military%20flags
This is a list of currently flags flown by military powers worldwide. All flags in this list are for specific use for a branch of or the whole national military of a given state. Albania Algeria Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Australia Bangladesh Belarus Belgium Brazil Canada Former flags Colombia People’...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition%20operator
In mathematics, the composition operator with symbol is a linear operator defined by the rule where denotes function composition. The study of composition operators is covered by AMS category 47B33. In physics In physics, and especially the area of dynamical systems, the composition operator is usually referred t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/When%20the%20Weather%20Is%20Fine%20%28song%29
"When the Weather Is Fine" is the fourth and final single released from Australian pop rock band Thirsty Merc's debut album, Thirsty Merc (2004). The song only appears on the 2005 re-packaged version of the album. Music video The music video features Thirsty Merc playing the song in a theatre and there's water shallow...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20veil
In mycology, a partial veil (also called an inner veil, to differentiate it from the "outer", or universal veil) is a temporary structure of tissue found on the fruiting bodies of some basidiomycete fungi, typically agarics. Its role is to isolate and protect the developing spore-producing surface, represented by gills...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Function%20series
In calculus, a function series is a series, where the summands are not just real or complex numbers but functions. Examples Examples of function series include power series, Laurent series, Fourier series, etc. Convergence There exist many types of convergence for a function series, such as uniform convergence, point...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilinear%20transform
The bilinear transform (also known as Tustin's method, after Arnold Tustin) is used in digital signal processing and discrete-time control theory to transform continuous-time system representations to discrete-time and vice versa. The bilinear transform is a special case of a conformal mapping (namely, a Möbius transf...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anochetus%20intermedius
Anochetus intermedius is an extinct species of ant in the subfamily Ponerinae known from two possibly Miocene fossils found on Hispaniola. A. intermedius is one of eight species in the ant genus Anochetus to have been described from fossils found in Dominican amber and is one of a number of Anochetus species found in t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20Essentials
Cyber Essentials is a United Kingdom certification scheme designed to show an organisation has a minimum level of protection in cyber security through annual assessments to maintain certification. Backed by the UK government and overseen by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). It encourages organisations to ado...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley%20RISC
Berkeley RISC is one of two seminal research projects into reduced instruction set computer (RISC) based microprocessor design taking place under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency VLSI Project. RISC was led by David Patterson (who coined the term RISC) at the University of California, Berkeley between 1980 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20Revel
The Port Revel Shiphandling Training Centre is a French maritime pilotage school that trains pilots, masters, and officers on large ships like supertankers, container ships, LNG carriers and cruise ships . The facility uses manned models at a 1:25 scale on a man-made lake designed to simulate natural conditions includi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynx%20Software%20Technologies
Lynx Software Technologies, Inc. (formerly LynuxWorks) is a San Jose, California software company founded in 1988. Lynx specializes in secure virtualization and open, reliable, certifiable real-time operating systems (RTOSes). Originally known as Lynx Real-Time Systems, the company changed its name to LynuxWorks in 200...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer%20Bummer
"Summer Bummer" is a song by American singer and songwriter Lana Del Rey featuring American rappers ASAP Rocky and Playboi Carti featured on her fifth studio album Lust For Life. The song was released for digital download on July 12, 2017, alongside "Groupie Love" featuring ASAP Rocky, as a promotional single with the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordana%20Jovanovic%20Dolecek
Gordana Jovanovic Dolecek is an electronics engineer specializing in digital filters. Originally from Yugoslavia, she works in Mexico as a professor and researcher at the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics (INAOE) in Puebla. Education and career Dolecek earned a bachelor's degree in electrical ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numerical%20range
In the mathematical field of linear algebra and convex analysis, the numerical range or field of values of a complex matrix A is the set where denotes the conjugate transpose of the vector . The numerical range includes, in particular, the diagonal entries of the matrix (obtained by choosing x equal to the unit vect...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenylyl%20cyclase
Adenylate cyclase (EC 4.6.1.1, also commonly known as adenyl cyclase and adenylyl cyclase, abbreviated AC) is an enzyme with systematic name ATP diphosphate-lyase (cyclizing; 3′,5′-cyclic-AMP-forming). It catalyzes the following reaction: ATP = 3′,5′-cyclic AMP + diphosphate It has key regulatory roles in essentially...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperharmonic%20number
In mathematics, the n-th hyperharmonic number of order r, denoted by , is recursively defined by the relations: and In particular, is the n-th harmonic number. The hyperharmonic numbers were discussed by J. H. Conway and R. K. Guy in their 1995 book The Book of Numbers. Identities involving hyperharmonic num...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple%20Pascal
Apple Pascal is an implementation of Pascal for the Apple II and Apple III computer series. It is based on UCSD Pascal. Just like other UCSD Pascal implementations, it ran on its own operating system (Apple Pascal Operating System, a derivative of UCSD p-System with graphical extensions). Originally released for the A...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uterine%20artery%20embolization
Uterine artery embolization (UAE) is a procedure in which an interventional radiologist uses a catheter to deliver small particles that block the blood supply to the uterine body. The procedure is primarily done for the treatment of uterine fibroids and adenomyosis. However, it may also be used to treat postpartum hemo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midas%20XL8
The Midas XL8 was the first digital mixing console produced by Midas, previously a leading manufacturer of analogue mixing consoles for live sound. The introduction of the console came after years of digital console competition by Yamaha, Digidesign, and DiGiCo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computed%20tomography%20of%20the%20head
Computed tomography of the head uses a series of X-rays in a CT scan of the head taken from many different directions; the resulting data is transformed into a series of cross sections of the brain using a computer program. CT images of the head are used to investigate and diagnose brain injuries and other neurological...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breaking%20the%20Spell%20%28Stork%20book%29
Breaking the Spell: My Life as a Rajneeshee and the Long Journey Back to Freedom is a non-fiction book by Catherine Jane Stork about her experiences as a Rajneeshee, a follower of Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (now known as Osho). It was published in April 2009 by Pan Macmillan. Stork was raised in Western Austral...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo%20of%20Argentina
The logo of Argentina refers to the official logo of the Marca País (MP), a State policy of nation branding that aims to promote tourism, boost exports, attract investments and spread Argentine culture. The first logo came from the Contest for the Visual Identity of the Argentina Brand, which took place in 2006 and in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Automated%20Reasoning
The Journal of Automated Reasoning was established in 1983 by Larry Wos, who was its editor in chief until 1992. It covers research and advances in automated reasoning, mechanical verification of theorems, and other deductions in classical and non-classical logic. The journal is published by Springer Science+Business ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ten15
Ten15 is an algebraically specified abstract machine. It was developed by Foster, Currie et al. at the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment at Malvern, Worcestershire, during the 1980s. It arose from earlier work on the Flex machine, which was a capability computer implemented via microcode. Ten15 was intended to offe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Measurable%20Riemann%20mapping%20theorem
In mathematics, the measurable Riemann mapping theorem is a theorem proved in 1960 by Lars Ahlfors and Lipman Bers in complex analysis and geometric function theory. Contrary to its name, it is not a direct generalization of the Riemann mapping theorem, but instead a result concerning quasiconformal mappings and soluti...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level%20shifter
In digital electronics, a level shifter, also called level converter or logic level shifter, or voltage level translator, is a circuit used to translate signals from one logic level or voltage domain to another, allowing compatibility between integrated circuits with different voltage requirements, such as TTL and CMO...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9434S
{{DISPLAYTITLE:δ34S}} The δ34S (pronounced delta 34 S) value is a standardized method for reporting measurements of the ratio of two stable isotopes of sulfur, 34S:32S, in a sample against the equivalent ratio in a known reference standard. Presently, the most commonly used standard is Vienna-Canyon Diablo Troilite (VC...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolstenholme%20number
A Wolstenholme number is a number that is the numerator of the generalized harmonic number Hn,2. The first such numbers are 1, 5, 49, 205, 5269, 5369, 266681, 1077749, ... . These numbers are named after Joseph Wolstenholme, who proved Wolstenholme's theorem on modular relations of the generalized harmonic numbers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromechanics
Neuromechanics is an interdisciplinary field that combines biomechanics and neuroscience to understand how the nervous system interacts with the skeletal and muscular systems to enable animals to move. In a motor task, like reaching for an object, neural commands are sent to motor neurons to activate a set of muscles, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sampled%20data%20system
In systems science, a sampled-data system is a control system in which a continuous-time plant is controlled with a digital device. Under periodic sampling, the sampled-data system is time-varying but also periodic; thus, it may be modeled by a simplified discrete-time system obtained by discretizing the plant. Howeve...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State%E2%80%93action%E2%80%93reward%E2%80%93state%E2%80%93action
State–action–reward–state–action (SARSA) is an algorithm for learning a Markov decision process policy, used in the reinforcement learning area of machine learning. It was proposed by Rummery and Niranjan in a technical note with the name "Modified Connectionist Q-Learning" (MCQ-L). The alternative name SARSA, proposed...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atransferrinemia
Atransferrinemia is an autosomal recessive metabolic disorder in which there is an absence of transferrin, a plasma protein that transports iron through the blood. Atransferrinemia is characterized by anemia and hemosiderosis in the heart and liver. The iron damage to the heart can lead to heart failure. The anemia is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triphalangeal%20thumb
Triphalangeal thumb (TPT) is a congenital malformation where the thumb has three phalanges instead of two. The extra phalangeal bone can vary in size from that of a small pebble to a size comparable to the phalanges in non-thumb digits. The true incidence of the condition is unknown, but is estimated at 1:25,000 live b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crataegus%20pinnatifida
Crataegus pinnatifida, also known as mountain hawthorn, Chinese haw, Chinese hawthorn or Chinese hawberry, refers to a small to medium-sized tree, as well as the fruit of the tree. The fruit is bright red, in diameter. Use Culinary use In northern Chinese cuisine, ripe C. pinnatifida fruits are used in the desserts ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno%20Murari
Bruno Murari is an Italian inventor. During his career he has patented about 200 inventions in the field of circuit design, power technologies and MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) devices. He is the only Italian to have received the Elmer A. Sperry Award., which is awarded to those who have distinguished themsel...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freivalds%27%20algorithm
Freivalds' algorithm (named after Rūsiņš Mārtiņš Freivalds) is a probabilistic randomized algorithm used to verify matrix multiplication. Given three n × n matrices , , and , a general problem is to verify whether . A naïve algorithm would compute the product explicitly and compare term by term whether this product eq...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pullulan%20bioconjugate
Pullulan bioconjugates are systems that use pullulan as a scaffold to attach biological materials to, such as drugs. These systems can be used to enhance the delivery of drugs to specific environments or the mechanism of delivery. These systems can be used in order to deliver drugs in response to stimuli, create a more...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria%20Colombo%20%28mathematician%29
Maria Colombo (born 25 May 1989) is an Italian mathematician specializing in mathematical analysis. She is a professor at the EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) in Switzerland, where she holds the chair for mathematical analysis, calculus of variations and partial differential equations. Education and car...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic%20function%20of%20a%20matrix
In mathematics, every analytic function can be used for defining a matrix function that maps square matrices with complex entries to square matrices of the same size. This is used for defining the exponential of a matrix, which is involved in the closed-form solution of systems of linear differential equations. Exten...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel%208237
Intel 8237 is a direct memory access (DMA) controller, a part of the MCS 85 microprocessor family. It enables data transfer between memory and the I/O with reduced load on the system's main processor by providing the memory with control signals and memory address information during the DMA transfer. The 8237 is a four...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HDMI
High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) is a proprietary audio/video interface for transmitting uncompressed video data and compressed or uncompressed digital audio data from an HDMI-compliant source device, such as a display controller, to a compatible computer monitor, video projector, digital television, or digi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20center%20bridging
Data center bridging (DCB) is a set of enhancements to the Ethernet local area network communication protocol for use in data center environments, in particular for use with clustering and storage area networks. Motivation Ethernet is the primary network protocol in data centers for computer-to-computer communications...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetry%20in%20Mechanics
Symmetry in Mechanics: A Gentle, Modern Introduction is an undergraduate textbook on mathematics and mathematical physics, centered on the use of symplectic geometry to solve the Kepler problem. It was written by Stephanie Singer, and published by Birkhäuser in 2001. Topics The Kepler problem in classical mechanics is...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoSpy
GeoSpy was an outdoor recreational activity which combines geographic locations and maps with photography in a location-based game. To play the game requires a camera and a mobile Global Positioning System (GPS) device. There are several goals in the game, but the primary one is to find and create objects through pict...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulnerability%20index
A vulnerability index is a measure of the exposure of a population to some hazard. Typically, the index is a composite of multiple quantitative indicators that via some formula, delivers a single numerical result. Through such an index "diverse issues can be combined into a standardised framework...making comparisons p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edyth%20May%20Sliffe%20Award
The Edyth May Sliffe Award is given annually to (roughly) 20 teachers in the United States by the Mathematical Association of America (MAA). The awards are funded by a bequest from a retired high school mathematics teacher named Edyth May Sliffe, of Emeryville, California. Her purpose was to award high school teachers ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber%20manufacturing
Cyber manufacturing is a concept derived from cyber-physical systems (CPS) that refers to a modern manufacturing system that offers an information-transparent environment to facilitate asset management, provide reconfigurability, and maintain productivity. Compared with conventional experience-based management systems,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Science%20CTA
The Network Science Collaborative Technology Alliance (NS CTA) is a collaborative research alliance funded by the US Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and focused on fundamental research on the critical scientific and technical challenges that emerge from the close interdependence of several genres of networks such as soc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20resource%20management
Radio resource management (RRM) is the system level management of co-channel interference, radio resources, and other radio transmission characteristics in wireless communication systems, for example cellular networks, wireless local area networks, wireless sensor systems, and radio broadcasting networks. RRM involves ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective%20stress
The effective stress can be defined as the stress, depending on the applied tension and pore pressure , which controls the strain or strength behaviour of soil and rock (or a generic porous body) for whatever pore pressure value or, in other terms, the stress which applied over a dry porous body (i.e. at ) provides th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20pitch%20notation
Scientific pitch notation (SPN), also known as American standard pitch notation (ASPN) and international pitch notation (IPN), is a method of specifying musical pitch by combining a musical note name (with accidental if needed) and a number identifying the pitch's octave. Although scientific pitch notation was origina...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ydc2%20protein%20domain
In molecular biology, the protein domain, Ydc2 (also known as SpCce1), is a Holliday junction resolvase from the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe that is involved in the maintenance of mitochondrial DNA. Function In molecular biology, the Ydc2 domains are enzymes, or in other words biological catalysts, capable...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grip%20%28raven%29
Grip was a talking raven kept as a pet by Charles Dickens. She was the basis for a character of the same name in Dickens's novel Barnaby Rudge and is generally considered to have inspired the eponymous bird from Edgar Allan Poe's poem "The Raven". Grip lived with the Dickens family in their home at 1 Devonshire Terrac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/169%20%28number%29
169 (one hundred [and] sixty-nine) is the natural number following 168 and preceding 170. In mathematics 169 is an odd number, a composite number, and a deficient number. 169 is a square number: 13 × 13 = 169, and if each number is reversed the equation is still true: 31 × 31 = 961. 144 shares this property: 12 × 12 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leading%20zero
A leading zero is any 0 digit that comes before the first nonzero digit in a number string in positional notation. For example, James Bond's famous identifier, 007, has two leading zeros. Any zeroes appearing to the left of the first non-zero digit (of any integer or decimal) do not affect its value, and can be omitted...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvage%20enzyme
Salvage enzymes are enzymes, nucleoside kinases, required during cell division to "salvage" nucleotides, present in body fluids, for the manufacture of DNA. They catalyze the phosphorylation of nucleosides to nucleoside - 5'-phosphates, that are further phosphorylated to triphosphates, that can be built into the growin...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwdump
pwdump is the name of various Windows programs that outputs the LM and NTLM password hashes of local user accounts from the Security Account Manager (SAM) database and from the Active Directory domain's users cache on the operating system. It is widely used, to perform both the famous pass-the-hash attack, or also ca...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification%20of%20electromagnetic%20fields
In differential geometry and theoretical physics, the classification of electromagnetic fields is a pointwise classification of bivectors at each point of a Lorentzian manifold. It is used in the study of solutions of Maxwell's equations and has applications in Einstein's theory of relativity. The classification theor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Not%20evaluated
A not evaluated (NE) species is one which has been categorized under the IUCN Red List of threatened species as not yet having been assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. This conservation category is one of nine IUCN threat assessment categories for species to indicate their risk of global ex...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIX%20System%20III
UNIX System III (or System 3) is a discontinued version of the Unix operating system released by AT&T's Unix Support Group (USG). AT&T announced System III in late 1981, and it was first released outside of Bell Labs in 1982. UNIX System III was a mix of various AT&T Unix systems: Version 7 Unix, PWB/UNIX 2.0, CB UNIX...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congruence%20lattice%20problem
In mathematics, the congruence lattice problem asks whether every algebraic distributive lattice is isomorphic to the congruence lattice of some other lattice. The problem was posed by Robert P. Dilworth, and for many years it was one of the most famous and long-standing open problems in lattice theory; it had a deep i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20de%20Graaff%20generator
A Van de Graaff generator is an electrostatic generator which uses a moving belt to accumulate electric charge on a hollow metal globe on the top of an insulated column, creating very high electric potentials. It produces very high voltage direct current (DC) electricity at low current levels. It was invented by Americ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantization%20%28music%29
In digital music processing technology, quantization is the studio-software process of transforming performed musical notes, which may have some imprecision due to expressive performance, to an underlying musical representation that eliminates the imprecision. The process results in notes being set on beats and on exac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chasing%20Shadows%3A%20My%20Life%20Tracking%20the%20Great%20White%20Shark
Chasing Shadows: My Life Tracking the Great White Shark is a memoir written by Greg Skomal that chronicles his decades long career as an Atlantic shark researcher. It was published in July 2023 by William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins. Ret Talbot, a science writer and independent journalist, co-authored this book...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inorganic%20phosphate%20transporter%20family
The inorganic phosphate transporter (PiT) family is a group of carrier proteins derived from Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes. Function Functionally-characterized members of the family appear to catalyze inorganic phosphate (Pi) or inorganic sulfate uptake either by H+ or Na+ symport....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood%20Green%20ricin%20plot
The Wood Green ricin plot was an alleged bioterrorism plot to attack the London Underground with ricin poison. The Metropolitan Police Service arrested six suspects on 5 January 2003, with one more arrested two days later. Within two days, the Biological Weapon Identification Group at the Defence Science and Technolog...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona%20radiata%20%28embryology%29
The corona radiata is the innermost layer of the cells of the cumulus oophorus and is directly adjacent to the zona pellucida, the inner protective glycoprotein layer of the ovum. Cumulus oophorus are the cells surrounding corona radiata, and are the cells between corona radiata and follicular antrum. Its main purpose ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger%20of%20Mathematics
The Messenger of Mathematics is a defunct British mathematics journal. The founding editor-in-chief was William Allen Whitworth with Charles Taylor and volumes 1–58 were published between 1872 and 1929. James Whitbread Lee Glaisher was the editor-in-chief after Whitworth. In the nineteenth century, foreign contribution...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemocline
A chemocline is a type of cline, a layer of fluid with different properties, characterized by a strong, vertical chemistry gradient within a body of water. In bodies of water where chemoclines occur, the cline separates the upper and lower layers, resulting in different properties for those layers. The lower layer show...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bistorta%20vivipara
Bistorta vivipara (synonym Persicaria vivipara) is a perennial herbaceous flowering plant in the knotweed and buckwheat family Polygonaceae, commonly known as alpine bistort. Scientific synonyms include Bistorta vivipara and Polygonum viviparum. It is common all over the high Arctic through Europe, North America, incl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B8mer%27s%20determination%20of%20the%20speed%20of%20light
Rømer's determination of the speed of light was the demonstration in 1676 that light has an apprehensible, measurable speed and so does not travel instantaneously. The discovery is usually attributed to Danish astronomer Ole Rømer, who was working at the Royal Observatory in Paris at the time. By timing the eclipses o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morgan%20Holmes
Morgan Holmes is a Canadian sociologist, author, and a professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario. She is also an intersex activist and writer, and former member of Intersex Society of North America. Holmes participated in the first public demonstration by intersex people, now marked by Intersex Awareness Day. E...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy%20policy
A privacy policy is a statement or legal document (in privacy law) that discloses some or all of the ways a party gathers, uses, discloses, and manages a customer or client's data. Personal information can be anything that can be used to identify an individual, not limited to the person's name, address, date of birth, ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adnan%20Abdallat
Adnan Al Abdallat (1943 – 9 March 2021) was a Jordanian neurologist. He participated in the discovery of Abdallat Davis Farrage syndrome in 1980. Dr. Adnan Al Abdallat served in King Hussein Medical Center, a military hospital in Amman, Jordan. Abdallat held the position of head of the Neurologist Department in the ho...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20York%20Pathological%20Society
The New York Pathological Society is a professional organization for pathologists in New York State. It was organized in 1844 and incorporated in 1886. In 1908, its membership was approximately 215. It published the journal Proceedings of the New York Pathological Society at various times from 1875 until 1955. Presid...