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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror%20symmetry%20conjecture
In mathematics, mirror symmetry is a conjectural relationship between certain Calabi–Yau manifolds and a constructed "mirror manifold". The conjecture allows one to relate the number of rational curves on a Calabi-Yau manifold (encoded as Gromov–Witten invariants) to integrals from a family of varieties (encoded as pe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20amateur%20radio%20repeater%20sites
This is a list of repeater sites for amateur radio in Germany. It includes towers (e.g. CN Tower and Bremen TV tower), hills, mountains and other locations. List See also Deutscher Amateur-Radio-Club
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entoloma%20albidum
Entoloma albidum is a poisonous mushroom found in North America. See also List of Entoloma species
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinatuzumab%20vedotin
Pinatuzumab vedotin (INN; development codes DCDT2980S and FCU2703) is a monoclonal antibody designed for the treatment of B-cell malignancies. This drug was developed by Genentech/Roche.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20bacterial%20vaginosis%20microbiota
Bacterial vaginosis is caused by an imbalance of the naturally occurring bacteria in the vagina. The normally predominant species of Lactobacilli are markedly reduced. This is the list of organisms that are found in the vagina that are associated with bacterial vaginosis, an infectious disease of the vagina caused by ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagnac%20effect
The Sagnac effect, also called Sagnac interference, named after French physicist Georges Sagnac, is a phenomenon encountered in interferometry that is elicited by rotation. The Sagnac effect manifests itself in a setup called a ring interferometer or Sagnac interferometer. A beam of light is split and the two beams are...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printed%20circuit%20board%20milling
Printed circuit board milling (also: isolation milling) is the milling process used for removing areas of copper from a sheet of printed circuit board (PCB) material to recreate the pads, signal traces and structures according to patterns from a digital circuit board plan known as a layout file. Similar to the more com...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After%20the%20Storm%20%28Ai%20song%29
"After the Storm" is a song recorded by Japanese-American singer-songwriter Ai featuring Malaysian-Australian singer Che'Nelle. The song is produced by Fifty1 Fifty and Ai, was released as a promotional single on May 22, 2013, by EMI Records Japan from her tenth studio album, Moriagaro. The song was used for the Japane...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vital%20rates
Vital rates refer to how fast vital statistics change in a population (usually measured per 1000 individuals). There are 2 categories within vital rates: crude rates and refined rates. Crude rates measure vital statistics in a general population (overall change in births and deaths per 1000). Refined rates measure th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section%20%28biology%29
In biology a section () is a taxonomic rank that is applied differently in botany and zoology. In botany Within flora (plants), 'section' refers to a botanical rank below the genus, but above the species: Domain > Kingdom > Division > Class > Order > Family > Tribe > Genus > Subgenus > Section > Subsection > Species...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rose%20Rand
Rose Rand (June 14, 1903 – July 28, 1980) was an Austrian-American logician and philosopher. She was a member of the Vienna Circle. Life and work Rose (Rozalia) Rand was born in Lemberg in the Austrian crown land of Galicia (today, Lviv, Ukraine). After her family moved to Austria she studied at the Polish Gymnasium...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensory%20neuroscience
Sensory neuroscience is a subfield of neuroscience which explores the anatomy and physiology of neurons that are part of sensory systems such as vision, hearing, and olfaction. Neurons in sensory regions of the brain respond to stimuli by firing one or more nerve impulses (action potentials) following stimulus presenta...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank%20Wilson%20Warner
Frank Wilson Warner III (born March 2 1938 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts) is an American mathematician, specializing in differential geometry. Education and career Warner graduated in 1959 with a bachelor's degree from Pennsylvania State University and in 1963 with a Ph.D. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institut...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape%20recorder
An audio tape recorder, also known as a tape deck, tape player or tape machine or simply a tape recorder, is a sound recording and reproduction device that records and plays back sounds usually using magnetic tape for storage. In its present-day form, it records a fluctuating signal by moving the tape across a tape he...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit%20cognition
Implicit cognition refers to cognitive processes that occur outside conscious awareness or conscious control. This includes domains such as learning, perception, or memory which may influence a person's behavior without their conscious awareness of those influences. Overview Implicit cognition is everything one does a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-nRNP
Anti-nRNP is a type of antibody. They are autoantibodies against some ribonucleoproteins. Anti-nRNP antibodies can be elevated in mixed connective tissue disease. See also snRNP70
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mast%20cell%20activation%20syndrome
Mast cell activation syndrome (MCAS) is a term referring to one of two types of mast cell activation disorder (MCAD); the other type is idiopathic MCAD. MCAS is an immunological condition in which mast cells inappropriately and excessively release chemical mediators, resulting in a range of chronic symptoms, sometimes ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillitium
Capillitium (pl. capillitia) is a mass of sterile fibers within a fruit body interspersed among spores. It is found in Mycetozoa (slime molds) and gasteroid fungi of the fungal subdivision Agaricomycotina. In the fungi, the form of the capillitia, including shape, size, branching patterns, presence or absence of slits ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser%20capture%20microdissection
Laser capture microdissection (LCM), also called microdissection, laser microdissection (LMD), or laser-assisted microdissection (LMD or LAM), is a method for isolating specific cells of interest from microscopic regions of tissue/cells/organisms (dissection on a microscopic scale with the help of a laser). Principle ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television%20station
A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth's surface to any number of tuned receivers simultaneously. Overview Most o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allocative%20efficiency
Allocative efficiency is a state of the economy in which production is aligned with consumer preferences; in particular, the set of outputs is chosen so as to maximize the wellbeing of society. This is achieved if every good or service is produced up until the last unit provides a marginal benefit to consumers equal to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud9%20IDE
Cloud9 IDE is an Online IDE (integrated development environment), published as open source from version 2.0, until version 3.0. It supports multiple programming languages, including C, C++, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Python, JavaScript with Node.js, and Go. It is written almost entirely in JavaScript, and uses Node.js on the ba...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osgood%27s%20lemma
In mathematics, Osgood's lemma, introduced by , is a proposition in complex analysis. It states that a continuous function of several complex variables that is holomorphic in each variable separately is holomorphic. The assumption that the function is continuous can be dropped, but that form of the lemma is much harde...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilar%20part%20of%20pons
The basilar part of pons, also known as basis pontis, is the ventral part of the pons; the dorsal part is known as the pontine tegmentum. The basilar pons makes up two thirds of the pons within the brainstem. It has a ridged appearance with a shallow groove at the midline. This groove is called the basilar sulcus and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damerau%E2%80%93Levenshtein%20distance
In information theory and computer science, the Damerau–Levenshtein distance (named after Frederick J. Damerau and Vladimir I. Levenshtein) is a string metric for measuring the edit distance between two sequences. Informally, the Damerau–Levenshtein distance between two words is the minimum number of operations (consis...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dislocation%20creep
Dislocation creep is a deformation mechanism in crystalline materials. Dislocation creep involves the movement of dislocations through the crystal lattice of the material, in contrast to diffusion creep, in which diffusion (of vacancies) is the dominant creep mechanism. It causes plastic deformation of the individual c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20Stewardship%20Council
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) is a non-profit organisation which aims to set standards for sustainable fishing. Fisheries that wish to demonstrate they are well-managed and sustainable compared to the MSC's standards are assessed by a team of Conformity Assessment Bodies (CABs). The mission of the MSC is to us...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmel%20AVR%20instruction%20set
The Atmel AVR instruction set is the machine language for the Atmel AVR, a modified Harvard architecture 8-bit RISC single chip microcontroller which was developed by Atmel in 1996. The AVR was one of the first microcontroller families to use on-chip flash memory for program storage. Processor registers There are ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA%20Enhanced%20Video%20Connector
The VESA Enhanced Video Connector (EVC) is a VESA standard that was intended to reduce the number of cables around a computer by incorporating video, audio, FireWire and USB into a single cable system, terminating in a 35-pin Molex MicroCross connector. The intent was to make the monitor the central point of connection...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-flow%20interference
In wireless routing, inter-flow interference refers to the interference between neighboring routers competing for the same busy channel. The inter-flow interference routing metric is incorporated in MIC and iAWARE wireless routing protocol. See also Collision domain Interference (communication) Intra-flow interfe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A8V
A8V is point mutation on Troponin C (cTNC) that leads to a hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. The coordinated cardiac muscle contraction is regulated by the troponin complex on thin filament (troponin C which is calcium binding, troponin T that plays the role with tropomyosin, and troponin I which has an inhibitory action an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacterin
Cyanobacterin is a chemical compound produced by the cyanobacteria Scytonema hofmanni. It is a photosynthesis inhibitor with algaecidal and herbicidal effects.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSCW-DT
KSCW-DT (channel 33) is a television station in Wichita, Kansas, United States, affiliated with The CW. It is owned by Gray Television alongside Hutchinson-licensed CBS affiliate KWCH-DT (channel 12). Both stations share studios on 37th Street in northeast Wichita, while KSCW-DT's transmitter is located in rural northe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Conference%20on%20Wireless%20Sensor%20Networks
The European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN) is an annual academic conference on wireless sensor networks. Although there is no official ranking of academic conferences on wireless sensor networks, EWSN is widely regarded as the top European event in sensor networks. EWSN Events EWSN started in year 20...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release%20notes
Release notes are documents that are distributed with software products or hardware products, sometimes when the product is still in the development or test state (e.g., a beta release). For products that have already been in use by clients, the release note is delivered to the customer when an update is released. Anot...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carboxypeptidase
A carboxypeptidase (EC number 3.4.16 - 3.4.18) is a protease enzyme that hydrolyzes (cleaves) a peptide bond at the carboxy-terminal (C-terminal) end of a protein or peptide. This is in contrast to an aminopeptidases, which cleave peptide bonds at the N-terminus of proteins. Humans, animals, bacteria and plants contain...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elsagate
Elsagate was a controversy surrounding videos on YouTube and YouTube Kids that were categorized as child-friendly, but contained themes inappropriate for children. These videos often featured fictional characters from family-oriented media, sometimes via crossovers, used without legal permission. The term itself is a p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gowdy%20solution
Gowdy universes or, alternatively, Gowdy solutions of Einstein's equations are simple model spacetimes in general relativity which represent an expanding universe filled with a regular pattern of gravitational waves. External links – a description of the different types of Gowdy universes suitable for a general audi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susac%27s%20syndrome
Susac's syndrome (retinocochleocerebral vasculopathy) is a very rare form of microangiopathy characterized by encephalopathy, branch retinal artery occlusions and hearing loss. The cause is unknown but it is theorized that antibodies are produced against endothelial cells in tiny arteries which leads to damage and the...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core%20Multiplexing%20Technology
Core Multiplexing Technology is a term that appeared in some BIOSes. Details A subset of traditional applications are often difficult to parallelize and make use of additional CPU hardware available on the platform, restraining applications to use only one CPU. Core Multiplexing Technology would allow for a process to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siris%208
Siris 8 is a discontinued operating system developed by the French company CII for its Iris 80 and Mitra 15 computers. It was later replaced by Honeywell DPS 7. Jean Ichbiah worked at CII on the rewrite of the Siris 7 operating system of the Iris 80 to create a more successful version, used to operate a three processo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17-Dimethylaminoethylamino-17-demethoxygeldanamycin
17-Dimethylaminoethylamino-17-demethoxygeldanamycin (17-DMAG) is a chemical compound which is a semi-synthetic derivative of the antibiotic geldanamycin. It is being studied for the possibility of treating cancer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inbox%20and%20outbox%20pattern
The inbox pattern and outbox pattern are two related patterns used by applications to persist data (usually in a database) to be used for operations with guaranteed delivery. The inbox and outbox concepts are used in the ActivityPub protocol and in email. The inbox pattern The application receives data which it persi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP%20%28complexity%29
In computational complexity theory, the class IP (interactive proof) is the class of problems solvable by an interactive proof system. It is equal to the class PSPACE. The result was established in a series of papers: the first by Lund, Karloff, Fortnow, and Nisan showed that co-NP had multiple prover interactive proof...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadou
Amadou is a spongy material derived from Fomes fomentarius and similar fungi that grow on the bark of coniferous and angiosperm trees, and have the appearance of a horse's hoof (thus the name "hoof fungus"). It is also known as the "tinder fungus" and is useful for starting slow-burning fires. The fungus must be remove...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular%20law
In probability theory, more specifically the study of random matrices, the circular law concerns the distribution of eigenvalues of an random matrix with independent and identically distributed entries in the limit . It asserts that for any sequence of random matrices whose entries are independent and identically di...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good%20Clinical%20Practice%20Directive
The Good Clinical Practice Directive (Directive 2005/28/EC of 8 April 2005 of the European Parliament and of the Council) lays down principles and detailed guidelines for good clinical practice as regards conducting clinical trials of medicinal products for human use, as well as the requirements for authorisation of th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZW%20sex-determination%20system
The ZW sex-determination system is a chromosomal system that determines the sex of offspring in birds, some fish and crustaceans such as the giant river prawn, some insects (including butterflies and moths), the schistosome family of flatworms, and some reptiles, e.g. majority of snakes, lacertid lizards and monitors i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytoneme
Cytonemes are thin, cellular projections that are specialized for exchange of signaling proteins between cells. Cytonemes emanate from cells that make signaling proteins, extending directly to cells that receive signaling proteins. Cytonemes also extend directly from cells that receive signaling proteins to cells that ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six-dimensional%20holomorphic%20Chern%E2%80%93Simons%20theory
In mathematical physics, six-dimensional holomorphic Chern–Simons theory or sometimes holomorphic Chern–Simons theory is a gauge theory on a three-dimensional complex manifold. It is a complex analogue of Chern–Simons theory, named after Shiing-Shen Chern and James Simons who first studied Chern–Simons forms which appe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strongly%20compact%20cardinal
In set theory, a branch of mathematics, a strongly compact cardinal is a certain kind of large cardinal. A cardinal κ is strongly compact if and only if every κ-complete filter can be extended to a κ-complete ultrafilter. Strongly compact cardinals were originally defined in terms of infinitary logic, where logical o...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate%20Bellingham
Katherine Bellingham (born 1963) is an English engineer and television presenter known for her role presenting the BBC1 science show Tomorrow's World from 1990–1994. Following a period pursuing other interests and raising children, she resumed her broadcasting career in 2010. Early life Bellingham was born in Buckrose...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retroactive%20data%20structure
In computer science a retroactive data structure is a data structure which supports efficient modifications to a sequence of operations that have been performed on the structure. These modifications can take the form of retroactive insertion, deletion or updating an operation that was performed at some time in the past...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesel%20number
In mathematics, a Riesel number is an odd natural number k for which is composite for all natural numbers n . In other words, when k is a Riesel number, all members of the following set are composite: If the form is instead , then k is a Sierpinski number. Riesel problem In 1956, Hans Riesel showed that there are ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moisture%20expansion
Moisture expansion is the tendency of matter to change in volume in response to a change in moisture content. The macroscopic effect is similar to that of thermal expansion but the microscopic causes are very different. Moisture expansion is caused by hygroscopy. Matter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20amplifier%20%28electronics%29
An error amplifier is most commonly encountered in feedback unidirectional voltage control circuits, where the sampled output voltage of the circuit under control, is fed back and compared to a stable reference voltage. Any difference between the two generates a compensating error voltage which tends to move the outpu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-entropy%20benchmarking
Cross-entropy benchmarking (also referred to as XEB) is quantum benchmarking protocol which can be used to demonstrate quantum supremacy. In XEB, a random quantum circuit is executed on a quantum computer multiple times in order to collect a set of samples in the form of bitstrings . The bitstrings are then used to c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwpaw
PWPAW A Projector Augmented Wave (PAW) code for electronic structure calculation. It is a free software package, distributed under the copyleft GNU General Public License. It is a plane wave implementation of the projector augmented wave (PAW) method developed by Peter E. Blöchl for electronic structure calculations wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COPII
The Coat Protein Complex II, or COPII, is a group of proteins that facilitate the formation of vesicles to transport proteins from the endoplasmic reticulum to the Golgi apparatus or endoplasmic-reticulum–Golgi intermediate compartment. This process is termed anterograde transport, in contrast to the retrograde transpo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van%20Cittert%E2%80%93Zernike%20theorem
The van Cittert–Zernike theorem, named after physicists Pieter Hendrik van Cittert and Frits Zernike, is a formula in coherence theory that states that under certain conditions the Fourier transform of the intensity distribution function of a distant, incoherent source is equal to its complex visibility. This implies ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrio
Vibrio is a genus of Gram-negative bacteria, possessing a curved-rod (comma) shape, several species of which can cause foodborne infection, usually associated with eating undercooked seafood. Being highly salt tolerant and unable to survive in fresh water, Vibrio spp. are commonly found in various salt water environmen...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-Formamidoimidazole-4-carboxamide%20ribotide
5-Formamidoimidazole-4-carboxamide ribotide (or FAICAR) is an intermediate in the formation of purines. It is formed by the enzyme AICAR transformylase from AICAR and 10-formyltetrahydrofolate.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orofaciodigital%20syndrome%201
Orofaciodigital syndrome 1 (OFD1), also called Papillon-League and Psaume syndrome, is an X-linked congenital disorder characterized by malformations of the face, oral cavity, and digits with polycystic kidney disease and variable involvement of the central nervous system. Cause Orofaciodigital syndrome type 1 is caus...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azanidazole
Azanidazole is a nitroimidazole derivative used in gynecology for the treatment of trichomonal infections.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery%20indicator
A battery indicator (also known as a battery gauge) is a device which gives information about a battery. This will usually be a visual indication of the battery's state of charge. It is particularly important in the case of a battery electric vehicle. Automobiles Some automobiles are fitted with a battery condition...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concern%20%28computer%20science%29
In computer science, a concern is a particular set of information that has an effect on the code of a computer program. A concern can be as general as the details of database interaction or as specific as performing a primitive calculation, depending on the level of conversation between developers and the program being...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rongo%C4%81
refers to the traditional Māori medicinal practices in New Zealand. Rongoā was one of the Māori cultural practices targeted by the Tohunga Suppression Act 1907, until lifted by the Maori Welfare Act 1962. In the later part of the 20th century there was renewed interest in Rongoā as part of a broader Māori renaissance. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prevx
Prevx is a discontinued anti-malware utility. There are separate real-time and on-demand versions. It can remove low-risk adware for free, but the user has to purchase and enter a license key if it is more serious. Scanning can take anywhere from less than two minutes to five minutes. Reception Tony Zaitoun, of About....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable%20sushi
Sustainable sushi is sushi made from fished or farmed sources that can be maintained or whose future production does not significantly jeopardize the ecosystems from which it is acquired. Concerns over the sustainability of sushi ingredients arise from greater concerns over environmental, economic and social stability,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetric%20cone
In mathematics, symmetric cones, sometimes called domains of positivity, are open convex self-dual cones in Euclidean space which have a transitive group of symmetries, i.e. invertible operators that take the cone onto itself. By the Koecher–Vinberg theorem these correspond to the cone of squares in finite-dimensional ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refresh%20rate
The refresh rate, also known as vertical refresh rate or vertical scan rate in reference to terminology originating with the cathode-ray tubes (CRTs), is the number of times per second that a raster-based display device displays a new image. This is independent from frame rate, which describes how many images are store...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topographical%20code
In medicine, "topographical codes" (or "topography codes") are codes that indicate a specific location in the body. Examples Only the first of these is a system dedicated only to topography. The others are more generalized systems that contain topographic axes. Nomina Anatomica (updated to Terminologia Anatomica) I...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MAXI%20J1659-152
MAXI J1659-152 is a rapidly rotating black hole/star system, discovered by NASA's Swift space telescope on September 25, 2010. On March 19, 2013, ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope helped to identify a star and a black hole that orbit each other at the rate of once every 2.4 hours. The black hole and the star orbit thei...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20source-code-hosting%20facilities
A source-code-hosting facility (also known as forge) is a file archive and web hosting facility for source code of software, documentation, web pages, and other works, accessible either publicly or privately. They are often used by open-source software projects and other multi-developer projects to maintain revision an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20leaf%20morphology
The following terms are used to describe leaf morphology in the description and taxonomy of plants. Leaves may be simple (a single leaf blade or lamina) or compound (with several leaflets). The edge of the leaf may be regular or irregular, may be smooth or bearing hair, bristles or spines. For more terms describing oth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microbarom
In acoustics, microbaroms, also known as the "voice of the sea", are a class of atmospheric infrasonic waves generated in marine storms by a non-linear interaction of ocean surface waves with the atmosphere. They typically have narrow-band, nearly sinusoidal waveforms with amplitudes up to a few microbars, and wave per...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reproductive%20toxicity
Reproductive toxicity refers to the potential risk from a given chemical, physical or biologic agent to adversely affect both male and female fertility as well as offspring development. Reproductive toxicants may adversely affect sexual function, ovarian failure, fertility as well as causing developmental toxicity in...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-fostering
Cross-fostering is a technique used in animal husbandry, animal science, genetic and nature versus nurture studies, and conservation, whereby offspring are removed from their biological parents at birth and raised by surrogates, typically of a different species, hence 'cross.' This can also occasionally occur in nature...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmholtz%20reciprocity
The Helmholtz reciprocity principle describes how a ray of light and its reverse ray encounter matched optical adventures, such as reflections, refractions, and absorptions in a passive medium, or at an interface. It does not apply to moving, non-linear, or magnetic media. For example, incoming and outgoing light can ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20awards%20in%20bioinformatics%20and%20computational%20biology
The following is a list of awards in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology. Awards ASBMB DeLano Award for Computational Biosciences - "to a scientist for the most accessible and innovative development or application of computer technology to enhance research in the life sciences at the molecular lev...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynne%20Butler
Lynne Marie Butler (born 1959) is an American mathematician whose research interests include algebraic combinatorics, group theory, and mathematical statistics. She is a professor of mathematics at Haverford College. Early life and education Butler's parents were both medical professionals. She is the identical twin s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partial%20volume%20%28imaging%29
The partial volume effect can be defined as the loss of apparent activity in small objects or regions because of the limited resolution of the imaging system. It occurs in medical imaging and more generally in biological imaging such as positron emission tomography (PET) and single-photon emission computed tomography ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20breach
A data breach is a security violation, in which sensitive, protected or confidential data is copied, transmitted, viewed, stolen, altered or used by an individual unauthorized to do so. Other terms are unintentional information disclosure, data leak, information leakage and data spill. Incidents range from concerted at...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraction
A fraction (from , "broken") represents a part of a whole or, more generally, any number of equal parts. When spoken in everyday English, a fraction describes how many parts of a certain size there are, for example, one-half, eight-fifths, three-quarters. A common, vulgar, or simple fraction (examples: and ) consists ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparent%20Anatomical%20Manikin
The Transparent Anatomical Manikin (TAM) is a three-dimensional, transparent anatomical model of a human being, created for medical instructional purposes. TAM was created by designer – Richard Rush, in 1968. It consisted of a see-through reproduction of a female human body, with various organs being wired so specific ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection%20pursuit%20regression
In statistics, projection pursuit regression (PPR) is a statistical model developed by Jerome H. Friedman and Werner Stuetzle which is an extension of additive models. This model adapts the additive models in that it first projects the data matrix of explanatory variables in the optimal direction before applying smooth...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20liquor%20tank
Cold liquor tanks, cold water tanks as they called in the brewery. Cold liquor tank is a buffer vessel and it carries cold water that will be used to cool the bitter wort down to a fermentable temperature field after boiling. Two stage heat exchanger The first stage is ground water and it running back to HLT to next...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naive%20set%20theory
Naive set theory is any of several theories of sets used in the discussion of the foundations of mathematics. Unlike axiomatic set theories, which are defined using formal logic, naive set theory is defined informally, in natural language. It describes the aspects of mathematical sets familiar in discrete mathematics (...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonicera%20%C3%97%20purpusii
Lonicera × purpusii, the Purpus honeysuckle, is a hybrid species of flowering plant in the family Caprifoliaceae. It originated as a cross of garden origin between two Chinese species, L. fragrantissima and L. standishii. Growing to tall and broad, it is a somewhat untidy shrub with ovate leaves and small paired crea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sham%20surgery
Sham surgery (placebo surgery) is a faked surgical intervention that omits the step thought to be therapeutically necessary. In clinical trials of surgical interventions, sham surgery is an important scientific control. This is because it isolates the specific effects of the treatment as opposed to the incidental effe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock%20rate
In computing, the clock rate or clock speed typically refers to the frequency at which the clock generator of a processor can generate pulses, which are used to synchronize the operations of its components, and is used as an indicator of the processor's speed. It is measured in the SI unit of frequency hertz (Hz). The...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edison%20Volta%20Prize
The Edison Volta Prize is awarded biennially by the European Physical Society (EPS) to individuals or groups of up to three people in recognition of outstanding achievements in physics. The award consists of a diploma, a medal, and 10,000 euros in prize money. The award has been established in 2012 by the Centro di Cul...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted%20bamboo
Spotted bamboo refers to several types of bamboo with stems that are mottled by dark spots, sometimes considered to be within the genus Phyllostachys and forms of Phyllostachys bambusoides, also known as teardrop bamboo and as mottled bamboo. Phyllostachys bambusoides forma. lacrima-deae is widely encountered. Distri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somos%20sequence
In mathematics, a Somos sequence is a sequence of numbers defined by a certain recurrence relation, described below. They were discovered by mathematician Michael Somos. From the form of their defining recurrence (which involves division), one would expect the terms of the sequence to be fractions, but nevertheless ma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags%20of%20regions%20of%20Egypt
This list of flags of regions of Egypt shows the flags of the 27 governorates of Egypt. Historical See also Flag of Egypt List of Egyptian flags External links Egypt geography-related lists Flags of Egypt Egypt Egypt
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glide%20OS
Glide OS was a cross-platform web desktop developed by Jumptuit. It was notable for operating on both desktop operating systems, like Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and its contemporary mobile operating systems like Apple iOS, Google Android and Honeycomb, BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry Tablet OS (QNX), webOS, Sym...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical%20and%20recursive%20queries%20in%20SQL
A hierarchical query is a type of SQL query that handles hierarchical model data. They are special cases of more general recursive fixpoint queries, which compute transitive closures. In standard SQL:1999 hierarchical queries are implemented by way of recursive common table expressions (CTEs). Unlike Oracle's earlier ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-gate%20process
A phase-gate process (also referred to as a waterfall process) is a project management technique in which an initiative or project (e.g., new product development, software development, process improvement, business change) is divided into distinct stages or phases, separated by decision points (known as gates). At eac...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ischiopagi
Ischiopagi comes from the Greek word ischio- meaning hip (ilium) and -pagus meaning fixed or united. It is the medical term used for conjoined twins (Class V) who are united at the pelvis. The twins are classically joined with the vertebral axis at 180°. The conjoined twins usually have four arms; two, three or four le...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geek
The word geek is a slang term originally used to describe eccentric or non-mainstream people; in current use, the word typically connotes an expert or enthusiast obsessed with a hobby or intellectual pursuit. In the past, it had a generally pejorative meaning of a "peculiar person, especially one who is perceived to be...