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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman%20Laboratory%20of%20Physics | The Lyman Laboratory of Physics (named for the physicist Theodore Lyman) is a building at Harvard University located between the Jefferson and Cruft Laboratories in the North Yard. It was built in the early 1930s, to a design by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott.
Among those who have done research at Lyman are Sh... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmoglein | The desmogleins are a family of desmosomal cadherins consisting of proteins DSG1, DSG2, DSG3, and DSG4. They play a role in the formation of desmosomes that join cells to one another.
Pathology
Desmogleins are targeted in the autoimmune disease pemphigus.
Desmoglein proteins are a type of cadherin, which is a transme... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fussballdaten.de | fussballdaten.de is a German-language website that predominantly collects comprehensive statistics on the top five tiers of German football.
The website offers statistics on every Bundesliga, 2. Bundesliga and 3. Liga match and team since the leagues' foundation in 1963, 1974 and 2008, respectively. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Flintstones%20%281988%20video%20game%29 | The Flintstones is a 1988 video game based on the 1960s television series The Flintstones. The game was developed by Teque Software Development and published by Grandslam Entertainments. The game was released in Europe in 1988, for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, Commodore 64, MSX, and ZX Spectrum. A version for the Sega... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20eponyms%20of%20Nvidia%20GPU%20microarchitectures | This is a list of eponyms of Nvidia GPU microarchitectures. The eponym in this case is the person after whom an architecture is named. Listed are the person, their portrait, their profession or areas of expertise, their birth year, their death year, their country of origin, the microarchitecture named after them, and t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic%20Maass%20form | In mathematics, a weak Maass form is a smooth function on the upper half plane, transforming like a modular form under the action of the modular group, being an eigenfunction of the corresponding hyperbolic Laplace operator, and having at most linear exponential growth at the cusps. If the eigenvalue of under the Lap... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypanocidal%20agent | A trypanocidal agent is an antiprotozoal agent that acts upon trypanosome parasites.
Examples include:
Aminoquinuride
benzonidazole
blasticidin S
DAPI
diminazene
diminazene aceturate
eflornithine
ethidium
isometamidium chloride
lonidamine
melaminylthioarsenate
melarsoprol
nifurtimox
pentamidine
posacona... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diethylene%20glycol | Diethylene glycol (DEG) is an organic compound with the formula (HOCH2CH2)2O. It is a colorless, practically odorless, and hygroscopic liquid with a sweetish taste. It is a four carbon dimer of ethylene glycol. It is miscible in water, alcohol, ether, acetone, and ethylene glycol. DEG is a widely used solvent. It can... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%20colours%2C%20standards%20and%20guidons | In military organizations, the practice of carrying colours, standards, flags, or guidons, both to act as a rallying point for troops and to mark the location of the commander, is thought to have originated in Ancient Egypt some 5,000 years ago. The Roman Empire also made battle standards, reading SPQR a part of their ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%20%28US-CERT%20program%29 | The EINSTEIN System (part of the National Cybersecurity Protection System) is an network intrusion detection and prevention system that monitors the networks of US federal government departments and agencies. The system is developed and managed by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (formerly NPPD/Unit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cangrelor | Cangrelor, sold under the brand name Kengreal among others, is a P2Y12 inhibitor FDA approved as of June 2015 as an antiplatelet drug for intravenous application. Some P2Y12 inhibitors are used clinically as effective inhibitors of adenosine diphosphate-mediated platelet activation and aggregation. Unlike clopidogrel (... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20and%20Organization%20Controls | System and Organization Controls (SOC), (also sometimes referred to as service organizations controls) as defined by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), is the name of a suite of reports produced during an audit. It is intended for use by service organizations (organizations that provide inf... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratio%20estimator | The ratio estimator is a statistical estimator for the ratio of means of two random variables. Ratio estimates are biased and corrections must be made when they are used in experimental or survey work. The ratio estimates are asymmetrical and symmetrical tests such as the t test should not be used to generate confidenc... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong%20gravity | 'Strong gravity' is a non-mainstream theoretical approach to particle confinement having both a cosmological scale and a particle scale gravity. In the 1960s, it was taken up as an alternative to the then young QCD theory by several theorists, including Abdus Salam, who showed that the particle level gravity approach c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AM-Franc | The "flag ticket" franc () was a currency issued by the United States for use in Allied-occupied France in the wake of the Battle of Normandy. With the swift take-over of sovereignty by General Charles de Gaulle, who considered the US occupation franc as "counterfeit money", the currency rapidly faded out of use in fav... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced%20cell%20cycle%20arrest | Induced cell cycle arrest is the use of a chemical or genetic manipulation to artificially halt progression through the cell cycle. Cellular processes like genome duplication and cell division stop. It can be temporary or permanent. It is an artificial activation of naturally occurring cell cycle checkpoints, induced b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20magnetic%20resonance%20imaging | The history of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) includes the work of many researchers who contributed to the discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and described the underlying physics of magnetic resonance imaging, starting early in the twentieth century. MR imaging was invented by Paul C. Lauterbur who develop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20encryption%20cracking | Network encryption cracking is the breaching of network encryptions (e.g., WEP, WPA, ...), usually through the use of a special encryption cracking software. It may be done through a range of attacks (active and passive) including injecting traffic, decrypting traffic, and dictionary-based attacks.
Methods
As mention... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library%20and%20information%20scientist | A library and information scientist, also known as a library scholar, is a researcher or academic who specializes in the field of library and information science and often participates in scholarly writing about and related to library and information science. A library and information scientist is neither limited to an... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-carry%20flag | A half-carry flag (also known as an auxiliary flag) is a condition flag bit in the status register of many CPU families, such as the Intel 8080, Zilog Z80, the x86, and the Atmel AVR series, among others. It indicates when a carry or borrow has been generated out of the least significant four bits of the accumulator re... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanabe%E2%80%93Sugano%20diagram | In coordination chemistry, Tanabe–Sugano diagrams are used to predict absorptions in the ultraviolet (UV), visible and infrared (IR) electromagnetic spectrum of coordination compounds. The results from a Tanabe–Sugano diagram analysis of a metal complex can also be compared to experimental spectroscopic data. They are... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunoglobulin%20superfamily | The immunoglobulin superfamily (IgSF) is a large protein superfamily of cell surface and soluble proteins that are involved in the recognition, binding, or adhesion processes of cells. Molecules are categorized as members of this superfamily based on shared structural features with immunoglobulins (also known as antibo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCOS%20%28computer%20sciences%29 | rCOS stands for refinement of object and component systems. It is a formal method providing component-based model-driven software development.
Overview
rCOS was originally developed by He Jifeng, Zhiming Liu and Xiaoshan Li at UNU-IIST in Macau, and consists of a unified multi-view modeling notation with a theory of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic%20key%20types | A cryptographic key is a string of data that is used to lock or unlock cryptographic functions, including authentication, authorization and encryption. Cryptographic keys are grouped into cryptographic key types according to the functions they perform.
Description
Consider a keyring that contains a variety of keys. T... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra%E2%80%93Scholten%20algorithm | The Dijkstra–Scholten algorithm (named after Edsger W. Dijkstra and Carel S. Scholten) is an algorithm for detecting termination in a distributed system. The algorithm was proposed by Dijkstra and Scholten in 1980.
First, consider the case of a simple process graph which is a tree. A distributed computation which is t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbial%20loop | The microbial loop describes a trophic pathway where, in aquatic systems, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is returned to higher trophic levels via its incorporation into bacterial biomass, and then coupled with the classic food chain formed by phytoplankton-zooplankton-nekton. In soil systems, the microbial loop refers ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclin-dependent%20kinase%208 | Cell division protein kinase 8 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the CDK8 gene.
Function
The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the cyclin-dependent protein kinase (CDK) family. CDK8 and cyclin C associate with the mediator complex and regulate transcription by several mechanisms. CDK8 binds to and/... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candidatus%20Scalindua | "Candidatus Scalindua" is a bacterial genus, and a proposed member of the order Planctomycetales. These bacteria lack peptidoglycan in their cell wall and have a compartmentalized cytoplasm. They are ammonium oxidizing bacteria found in marine environments.
Introduction
"Candidatus Scalindua" is a bacterial genus, me... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg%20drop%20competition | The egg drop contest is an experiment usually performed by college or primary school students. Competitors typically attempt to create a device that can keep a raw chicken egg intact when dropped from a height. Students are asked to build a device made from a limited or unlimited amount of materials to support an egg w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shannon%E2%80%93Fano%20coding | In the field of data compression, Shannon–Fano coding, named after Claude Shannon and Robert Fano, is a name given to two different but related techniques for constructing a prefix code based on a set of symbols and their probabilities (estimated or measured).
Shannon's method chooses a prefix code where a source sym... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shekel%20sign | The shekel sign ⟨₪⟩ is a currency sign used for the Israeli new shekel, which is the currency of Israel.
Israeli new shekel (1986–present)
The Israeli new shekel (, ), also known by the acronym NIS ( ), was announced officially on 22 September 1985, when the first new shekel banknotes and coins were introduced. It is ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucoadhesion | Mucoadhesion describes the attractive forces between a biological material and mucus or mucous membrane. Mucous membranes adhere to epithelial surfaces such as the gastrointestinal tract (GI-tract), the vagina, the lung, the eye, etc. They are generally hydrophilic as they contain many hydrogen macromolecules due to th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excerebration | Excerebration is an ancient Egyptian mummification procedure of removal of the brain from corpses prior to actual embalming. Greek writer Herodotus, a frequent visitor to Egypt, wrote in the fifth century B.C. about the process, "Having agreed on a price, the bearers go away, and the workmen, left alone in their place,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux%20for%20PlayStation%202 | Linux for PlayStation 2 (or PS2 Linux) is a kit released by Sony Computer Entertainment in 2002 that allows the PlayStation 2 console to be used as a personal computer. It included a Linux-based operating system, a USB keyboard and mouse, a VGA adapter, a PS2 network adapter (Ethernet only), and a 40 GB hard disk drive... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard%20scaling | In semiconductor electronics, Dennard scaling, also known as MOSFET scaling, is a scaling law which states roughly that, as transistors get smaller, their power density stays constant, so that the power use stays in proportion with area; both voltage and current scale (downward) with length. The law, originally formula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rich%20client | In computer networking, a rich client (also called heavy, fat or thick client) is a computer (a "client" in client–server network architecture) that typically provides rich functionality independent of the central server. This kind of computer was originally known as just a "client" or "thick client," in contrast with ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron%20dependent%20repressor | In molecular biology, the iron dependent repressors are a family of bacterial and archaeal transcriptional repressors.
At their N-terminus they contain a dtxR-type HTH domain. This is a DNA-binding, winged helix-turn-helix (wHTH) domain of about 65 amino acids present in metalloregulators of the dtxR/mntR family. The ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome%20News%20Network | The Genome News Network (abbreviated GNN) is an online magazine that publishes news articles and educational resources about genomics and medicine. It was founded in 1999, with Barbara Culliton as the founding editor-in-chief. It was originally published by Celera Genomics. In 2001, the Institute for Genomic Research b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag%20signals | Flag signals can mean any of various methods of using flags or pennants to send signals. Flags may have individual significance as signals, or two or more flags may be manipulated so that their relative positions convey symbols. Flag signals allowed communication at a distance before the invention of radio and are stil... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WDCN-LD | WDCN-LD (channel 6), branded on air as DC 87.7FM, is a low-power television station licensed to Fairfax, Virginia, United States, serving the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area. Owned by Signal Above LLC, WDCN-LD markets itself as a conventional FM radio station, broadcasting Spanish contemporary hits.
WDCN-LD has it... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational%20therapy%20in%20the%20management%20of%20seasonal%20affective%20disorder | Occupational therapy is used to manage the issues caused by seasonal affective disorder (SAD). Occupational therapists assist with the management of SAD through the incorporation of a variety of healthcare disciplines into therapeutic practice. Potential patients with SAD are assessed, treated, and evaluated primarily ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert%20Rakoto%20Ratsimamanga | Albert Rakoto Ratsimamanga (28 December 1907 – 16 September 2001) was a Malagasy physician, biochemist and diplomat. Born into a disgraced royal family; Ratsimamanga trained as a doctor of exotic medicine in French Madagascar and France, where he pioneered modern nutraceuticals. Ratsimamanga returned to Madagascar and,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/204%20%28number%29 | 204 (two hundred [and] four) is the natural number following 203 and preceding 205.
In mathematics
204 is a refactorable number. 204 is a square pyramidal number: 204 balls may be stacked in a pyramid whose base is an 8 × 8 square. Its square, 2042 = 41616, is the fourth square triangular number. As a figurate number,... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronicam | Electronicam was a television recording system that shot an image on film and television at the same time through a common lens. It was developed by James L. Caddigan for the DuMont Television Network in the 1950s, before electronic recording on videotape was available. Since the film directly captured the live scene, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25th%20meridian%20west%20from%20Washington | The 25th meridian of longitude west from Washington is a line of longitude approximately 102.05 degrees west of the Prime Meridian of Greenwich. In the United States of America, the meridian 25 degrees west of the Washington Meridian defines the eastern boundary of the State of Colorado, the western boundary of the St... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylomastoid%20foramen | The stylomastoid foramen is a foramen between the styloid and mastoid processes of the temporal bone of the skull. It is the termination of the facial canal, and transmits the facial nerve, and stylomastoid artery. Facial nerve inflammation in the stylomastoid foramen may cause Bell's palsy.
Structure
The stylomastoi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paktor | Paktor is a location-based dating and networking mobile application that connects mutually interested users and allows them to chat individually or as a group. Founded in Singapore, the app was launched in June 2013, and has over 5 billion swipes to date (October 2015). In late 2013, Paktor launched a subsidiary calle... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law%20of%20sines | In trigonometry, the law of sines, sine law, sine formula, or sine rule is an equation relating the lengths of the sides of any triangle to the sines of its angles. According to the law,
where , and are the lengths of the sides of a triangle, and , and are the opposite angles (see figure 2), while is the radius of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiobinding%20assay | A radiobinding assay is a method of detecting and quantifying antibodies targeted toward a specific antigen. As such, it can be seen as the inverse of radioimmunoassay, which quantifies an antigen by use of corresponding antibodies.
Technique
The corresponding antigen is radiolabeled and mixed with the fluid that may... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caccioppoli%20set | In mathematics, a Caccioppoli set is a set whose boundary is measurable and has (at least locally) a finite measure. A synonym is set of (locally) finite perimeter. Basically, a set is a Caccioppoli set if its characteristic function is a function of bounded variation.
History
The basic concept of a Caccioppoli set w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20installation%20software | The following is a list of applications for building installation programs, organized by platform support.
Cross-platform
Linux
Windows
macOS
AmigaOS
See also
List of software package management systems |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute%20horizon | In general relativity, an absolute horizon is a boundary in spacetime, defined with respect to the external universe, inside which events cannot affect an external observer. Light emitted inside the horizon can never reach the observer, and anything that passes through the horizon from the observer's side is never seen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.%20and%20M.%20Riesz%20theorem | In mathematics, the F. and M. Riesz theorem is a result of the brothers Frigyes Riesz and Marcel Riesz, on analytic measures. It states that for a measure μ on the circle, any part of μ that is not absolutely continuous with respect to the Lebesgue measure dθ can be detected by means of Fourier coefficients.
More prec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Listing%20number | In mathematics, a Listing number of a topological space is one of several topological invariants introduced by the 19th-century mathematician Johann Benedict Listing and later given this name by Charles Sanders Peirce. Unlike the later invariants given by Bernhard Riemann, the Listing numbers do not form a complete set... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensign%20%28flag%29 | The ensign is a maritime flag that is used for the national identification of a ship. The ensign is the largest flag, generally flown at the stern (rear) of the ship while in port. In ports, depending on the ship's origin, it is sometimes identical with a jack on the bow of the ship. Jacks are more common on warships t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20Wiener%20filter | The Wiener filter as originally proposed by Norbert Wiener is a signal processing filter which uses knowledge of the statistical properties of both the signal and the noise to reconstruct an optimal estimate of the signal from a noisy one-dimensional time-ordered data stream. The generalized Wiener filter generalizes t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu%20Unity | Ubuntu Unity is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu, using the Unity interface in place of Ubuntu's GNOME Shell. The first release was 20.04 LTS on 7 May 2020. Prior to the initial release it had the working names of Unubuntu and Ubuntu Unity Remix.
History
The Unity interface was originally developed by Canonical a... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20standard%20sizes%20for%20oil%20paintings | French standard sizes for oil paintings refers to a series of different sized canvases for use by artists. The sizes were fixed in the 19th century. Most artists—not only French—used this standard, as it was supported by the main suppliers of artist materials. Only some contemporary artist material suppliers continue t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendelian%20traits%20in%20humans | Mendelian traits in humans are human traits that are substantially influenced by Mendelian inheritance. Most – if not all – Mendelian traits are also influenced by other genes, the environment, immune responses, and chance. Therefore no trait is purely Mendelian, but many traits are almost entirely Mendelian, including... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRD9 | Bromodomain-containing protein 9 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the BRD9 gene.
Structure and interaction
BRD9 contains a bromodomain. It is closely related to BRD7. BRD9 is present in some SWI/SNF ATPase remodeling complexes.
Role in cancer
The BRD9 gene is frequently present in variable copy number in lun... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NARAM | NARAM is the Annual Meet of the National Association of Rocketry (NAR). It is the national contest culminating the rocket contest year, and also includes fun, or "sport," flying of model rockets for those who don't wish to compete. The NAR is the governing body for the sport/hobby of model rocketry in the United Stat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinforced%20concrete | Reinforced concrete, also called ferroconcrete, is a composite material in which concrete's relatively low tensile strength and ductility are compensated for by the inclusion of reinforcement having higher tensile strength or ductility. The reinforcement is usually, though not necessarily, steel bars (rebar) and is usu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma%20model | In physics, a sigma model is a field theory that describes the field as a point particle confined to move on a fixed manifold. This manifold can be taken to be any Riemannian manifold, although it is most commonly taken to be either a Lie group or a symmetric space. The model may or may not be quantized. An example of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-to-fourteen%20modulation | Eight-to-fourteen modulation (EFM) is a data encoding technique – formally, a line code – used by compact discs (CD), laserdiscs (LD) and pre-Hi-MD MiniDiscs. EFMPlus is a related code, used in DVDs and Super Audio CDs (SACDs).
EFM and EFMPlus were both invented by Kees A. Schouhamer Immink. According to European Pate... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K42 | K42 is a discontinued open-source research operating system (OS) for cache-coherent 64-bit multiprocessor systems. It was developed primarily at IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in collaboration with the University of Toronto and University of New Mexico. The main focus of this OS is to address performance and scal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superantigen | Superantigens (SAgs) are a class of antigens that result in excessive activation of the immune system. Specifically they cause non-specific activation of T-cells resulting in polyclonal T cell activation and massive cytokine release. SAgs are produced by some pathogenic viruses and bacteria most likely as a defense mec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic%20Dehn%20surgery | In mathematics, hyperbolic Dehn surgery is an operation by which one can obtain further hyperbolic 3-manifolds from a given cusped hyperbolic 3-manifold. Hyperbolic Dehn surgery exists only in dimension three and is one which distinguishes hyperbolic geometry in three dimensions from other dimensions.
Such an operat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-de%20Sitter%20space | In mathematics and physics, n-dimensional anti-de Sitter space (AdSn) is a maximally symmetric Lorentzian manifold with constant negative scalar curvature. Anti-de Sitter space and de Sitter space are named after Willem de Sitter (1872–1934), professor of astronomy at Leiden University and director of the Leiden Observ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windjammers%202 | Windjammers 2 is a 2022 sports video game developed and published by Dotemu. It is the sequel to the 1994 Neo Geo game Windjammers, co-produced by Data East and SNK. Windjammers 2 was released for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Stadia, Windows, and Xbox One on January 20, 2022. It received generally positive reviews f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplitude%20damping%20channel | In the theory of quantum communication, an amplitude damping channel is a quantum channel that models physical processes such as spontaneous emission. A natural process by which this channel can occur is a spin chain through which a number of spin states, coupled by a time independent Hamiltonian, can be used to send ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect%20biodiversity | Insect biodiversity accounts for a large proportion of all biodiversity on the planet—over half of the estimated 1.5 million organism species described are classified as insects.
Species diversity
Estimates of the total number of insect species or those within specific orders are often highly variable. Globally, avera... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20break%20picking | In seismology, first-break picking is the detecting or picking the onset arrivals of refracted signals from all the signals received by receiver arrays and produced by a particular source signal generation. It is also called first arrival picking or first break detection. First-break picking can be done automatically, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive%20antibody%20therapy | Passive antibody therapy, also called serum therapy, is a subtype of passive immunotherapy that administers antibodies (same as immunoglobin) to target and kill pathogens or cancer cells. It is designed to draw support from foreign antibodies that are donated from a person, extracted from animals, or made in the labora... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20scanner | A port scanner is an application designed to probe a server or host for open ports. Such an application may be used by administrators to verify security policies of their networks and by attackers to identify network services running on a host and exploit vulnerabilities.
A port scan or portscan is a process that send... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SETI%40home | SETI@home ("SETI at home") is a project of the Berkeley SETI Research Center to analyze radio signals with the aim of searching for signs of extraterrestrial intelligence. Until March 2020, it was run as an Internet-based public volunteer computing project that employed the BOINC software platform. It is hosted by the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breast%20milk%20jewelry | Breast milk jewelry or Breast milk jewellery (Commonwealth English) is jewellery made from pumped or expressed mother's breast milk as a keepsake often worn by the mother. Breast milk keepsakes come in various jewelry types such as rings, lockets, pendants and popular European style beads. Some pendants may be bezel se... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LexisNexis%20Risk%20Solutions | LexisNexis Risk Solutions is a global data and analytics company that provides data and technology services, analytics, predictive insights and fraud prevention for a wide range of industries. It is headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia (part of the Atlanta metropolitan area), and has offices throughout the U.S. and in:... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce%20Lee%20%28video%20game%29 | Bruce Lee is a platform game written by Ron J. Fortier for the Atari 8-bit family and published in 1984 by Datasoft. The graphics are by Kelly Day and music by John A. Fitzpatrick. The player takes the role of Bruce Lee, while a second player controls either Yamo or alternates with player one for control of Bruce Lee.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantide | Semantides (or semantophoretic molecules) are biological macromolecules that carry genetic information or a transcript thereof. Three different categories or semantides are distinguished: primary, secondary and tertiary. Primary Semantides are genes, which consist of DNA. Secondary semantides are chains of messenger RN... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharine%20Burr%20Blodgett%20Medal%20and%20Prize | The Katharine Burr Blodgett Medal and Prize is a gold medal awarded annually by the Institute of Physics to "recognise contributions to the organisation or application of physics in an industrial or commercial context." The medal is accompanied by a prize of £1000.
History
At its inception in 2008, the award was name... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeler | A reeler is a mouse mutant, so named because of its characteristic "reeling" gait. This is caused by the profound underdevelopment of the mouse's cerebellum, a segment of the brain responsible for locomotion. The mutation is autosomal and recessive, and prevents the typical cerebellar folia from forming.
Cortical neur... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homogeneously%20staining%20region | Homogeneously staining regions (HSRs) are chromosomal segments with various lengths and uniform staining intensity after G banding. This type of aberration is also known as Copy Number Gains or Amplification.
An HSR is one type of change in a chromosome's structure which is frequently observed in the nucleus of human ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilpotent | In mathematics, an element of a ring is called nilpotent if there exists some positive integer , called the index (or sometimes the degree), such that .
The term, along with its sister idempotent, was introduced by Benjamin Peirce in the context of his work on the classification of algebras.
Examples
This definit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromo%20adjacent%20homology%20domain%20containing%201 | Bromo adjacent homology domain containing 1 (BAHD1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the BAHD1 gene. BAHD1 is involved in heterochromatin formation and transcriptional repression.
Discovery
BAHD1 was first cloned from a human brain cDNA library and the coding sequence was named KIAA0945. Bierne and colleague... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farmitalia | Farmitalia was an Italian pharmaceutical company best known for its parallel discovery with Rhone-Poulenc of daunorubicin and subsequent discovery of doxorubicin.
Farmitalia had been founded in 1935 as a joint venture by Rhone-Poulenc and Montecatini. Farmitalia occupied a position of choice in the world rankings of t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shortest%20path%20problem | In graph theory, the shortest path problem is the problem of finding a path between two vertices (or nodes) in a graph such that the sum of the weights of its constituent edges is minimized.
The problem of finding the shortest path between two intersections on a road map may be modeled as a special case of the shortes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse%20kinematics | In computer animation and robotics, inverse kinematics is the mathematical process of calculating the variable joint parameters needed to place the end of a kinematic chain, such as a robot manipulator or animation character's skeleton, in a given position and orientation relative to the start of the chain. Given joint... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvidia%20PureVideo | PureVideo is Nvidia's hardware SIP core that performs video decoding. PureVideo is integrated into some of the Nvidia GPUs, and it supports hardware decoding of multiple video codec standards: MPEG-2, VC-1, H.264, HEVC, and AV1. PureVideo occupies a considerable amount of a GPU's die area and should not be confused wit... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Committee%20Against%20Racism | The International Committee Against Racism was the "mass organization" of the Progressive Labor Party in the United States. It was founded in 1973 once it had become clear that the Worker Student Alliance section of the Students for a Democratic Society could not sustain itself and that a new group with a more long-ter... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethyl%20methylphenylglycidate | Ethyl methylphenylglycidate, commonly known as strawberry aldehyde, is an organic compound used in the flavor industry in artificial fruit flavors, in particular strawberry.
Uses
Because of its pleasant taste and aroma, ethyl methylphenylglycidate finds use in the fragrance industry, in artificial flavors, and in cosm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphyllum%20hybrid | Epiphyllum hybrids, epiphyllums, epicacti, or just epis, also known as orchid cacti, which are widely grown for their flowers, are artificial hybrids derived primarily from species of the genus Disocactus. These Disocactus species are not true epiphyllum, but they used to be included in the genus Epiphyllum.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n%20Orosz | István Orosz (born 24 October 1951) is a Hungarian painter, printmaker, graphic designer and animated film director. He is known for his mathematically inspired works, impossible objects, optical illusions, double-meaning images and anamorphoses. The geometric art of István Orosz, with forced perspectives and optical i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%203767 | IBM 3767 Communication Terminal is a serial printer terminal that employed dot matrix print-head technology and, for the first time, the Synchronous Data Link Control (SDLC) communications protocol set under IBM's Systems Network Architecture (SNA). It was introduced in 1974 and was used widely during the late 1970s ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic%20oceanography | Seismic oceanography is a form of acoustic oceanography, in which sound waves are used to study the physical properties and dynamics of the ocean. It provides images of changes in the temperature and salinity of seawater. Unlike most oceanographic acoustic imaging methods, which use sound waves with frequencies greater... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic%20move | A strategic move in game theory is an action taken by a player outside the defined actions of the game in order to gain a strategic advantage and increase one's payoff. Strategic moves can either be unconditional moves or response rules. The key characteristics of a strategic move are that it involves a commitment from... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TPCN2 | Two pore segment channel 2 (TPC2) is a protein which in humans is encoded by the TPCN2 gene. TPC2 is an ion channel, however, in contrast to other calcium and sodium channels which have four homologous domains, each containing 6 transmembrane segments (S1 to S6), TPCN1 only contains two domain (each containing segment... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow%20science | Snow science addresses how snow forms, its distribution, and processes affecting how snowpacks change over time. Scientists improve storm forecasting, study global snow cover and its effect on climate, glaciers, and water supplies around the world. The study includes physical properties of the material as it changes, b... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy%20trading | Copy trading enables individuals in the financial markets to automatically copy positions opened and managed by other selected individuals.
Unlike mirror trading, a method that allows traders to copy specific strategies, copy trading links a portion of the copying trader's funds to the account of the copied investor. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Society%20for%20Psychomotor%20Learning%20and%20Sport%20Psychology | The Canadian Society for Psychomotor Learning and Sport Psychology () (SCAPPS) is a multidisciplinary association that promotes psychomotor learning and sport psychology in Canada. It was founded as a society in Banff, Alberta, in 1977. The organization encourages the exchange of ideas and scientific knowledge.
Journa... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESA%20CAVES | CAVES, an acronym for Cooperative Adventure for Valuing and Exercising human behaviour and performance Skills, is a European Space Agency astronaut training course in which international astronauts train in a space-analogue cave environment. Designed at the European Astronaut Center, the course aims to prepare astronau... |
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