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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhancer%20RNA | Enhancer RNAs (eRNAs) represent a class of relatively long non-coding RNA molecules (50-2000 nucleotides) transcribed from the DNA sequence of enhancer regions. They were first detected in 2010 through the use of genome-wide techniques such as RNA-seq and ChIP-seq. eRNAs can be subdivided into two main classes: 1D eRNA... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shear%20modulus | In materials science, shear modulus or modulus of rigidity, denoted by G, or sometimes S or μ, is a measure of the elastic shear stiffness of a material and is defined as the ratio of shear stress to the shear strain:
where
= shear stress
is the force which acts
is the area on which the force acts
= shear strain.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral%20geometry | In mathematics, integral geometry is the theory of measures on a geometrical space invariant under the symmetry group of that space. In more recent times, the meaning has been broadened to include a view of invariant (or equivariant) transformations from the space of functions on one geometrical space to the space of ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero%20bias%20transform | The zero-bias transform is a transform from one probability distribution to another. The transform arises in applications of Stein's method in probability and statistics.
Formal definition
The zero bias transform may be applied to both discrete and continuous random variables. The zero bias transform of a density fu... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Union%20of%20Growers | The General Union of Growers (, UGC) is a trade union representing self-employed farmers and smallholders in Italy.
The union was founded in 1983, through a merger involving the Italian Federation of Sharecroppers and Smallholders. Like that union, it affiliated to the Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamical%20reduction | A dynamical reduction theory (DRT) is an extension of quantum mechanics (QM) that attempts to account for the collapse of the wave function. It is necessary because QM does not account for the specific measurements of observable quantities or events, in the familiar realm of Newtonian or classical physics, that we make... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%C3%A9vy%27s%20modulus%20of%20continuity%20theorem | Lévy's modulus of continuity theorem is a theorem that gives a result about an almost sure behaviour of an estimate of the modulus of continuity for Wiener process, that is used to model what's known as Brownian motion.
Lévy's modulus of continuity theorem is named after the French mathematician Paul Lévy.
Statement ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20column | The (oceanic) water column is a concept used in oceanography to describe the physical (temperature, salinity, light penetration) and chemical (pH, dissolved oxygen, nutrient salts) characteristics of seawater at different depths for a defined geographical point. Generally, vertical profiles are made of temperature, sal... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrothermal%20carbonization | Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) (also referred to as "aqueous carbonization at elevated temperature and pressure") is a chemical process for the conversion of organic compounds to structured carbons. It can be used to make a wide variety of nanostructured carbons, simple production of brown coal substitute, synthesis ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EncFS | EncFS is a Free (LGPL) FUSE-based cryptographic filesystem. It transparently encrypts files, using an arbitrary directory as storage for the encrypted files.
Two directories are involved in mounting an EncFS filesystem: the source directory, and the mountpoint. Each file in the mountpoint has a specific file in the so... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector%20bornology | In mathematics, especially functional analysis, a bornology on a vector space over a field where has a bornology ℬ, is called a vector bornology if makes the vector space operations into bounded maps.
Definitions
Prerequisits
A on a set is a collection of subsets of that satisfy all the following condition... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hauppauge%20MediaMVP | The Hauppauge MediaMVP is a network media player. It consists of a hardware unit with remote control, along with software for a Windows PC. Out of the box, it is capable of playing video and audio, displaying pictures, and "tuning in" to Internet radio stations. Alternative software is also available to extend its c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20K%20%28calculator%29 | The Model K was an early 2-bit binary adder built in 1937 by Bell Labs scientist George Stibitz as a proof of concept, using scrap relays and metal strips from a tin can. The "K" in "Model K" came from "kitchen table", upon which he assembled it. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Majumdar%E2%80%93Ghosh%20model | The Majumdar–Ghosh model is a one-dimensional quantum Heisenberg spin model in which the nearest-neighbour antiferromagnetic exchange interaction is twice as strong as the next-nearest-neighbour interaction. It is a special case of the more general - model, with . The model is named after Indian physicists Chanchal Kum... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sperm%20Chromatin%20Structure%20Assay | Sperm Chromatin Structure Assay (SCSA) is a diagnostic approach that detects sperm abnormality with a large extent of DNA fragmentation. First described by Evenson in 1980, the assay is a flow cytometric test that detects the vulnerability of sperm DNA to acid-induced denaturation DNA in situ. SCSA measures sperm DNA f... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Boy%20who%20Talked%20to%20Trees | The Boy who Talked to Trees is a collection of short stories by Yashwant V. Chittal who received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 1983. The book was translated into English by Ramachandra Shrama and Padma Ramachandra in 1994 published by Penguin Books. The book includes 13 stories, all set in his birthplace, the village of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packaging%20gas | A packaging gas is used to pack sensitive materials such as food into a modified atmosphere environment. The gas used is usually inert, or of a nature that protects the integrity of the packaged goods, inhibiting unwanted chemical reactions such as food spoilage or oxidation. Some may also serve as a propellant for aer... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerasicoccus%20arenae | Cerasicoccus arenae is a Gram-negative, obligately aerobic and non-spore-forming bacterium from the genus of Cerasicoccus which has been isolated from marine sand from Kamaishi. Cerasicoccus arenae can produce carotenoid. |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-perturbative | In mathematics and physics, a non-perturbative function or process is one that cannot be described by perturbation theory. An example is the function
which does not have a Taylor series at x = 0. Every coefficient of the Taylor expansion around x = 0 is exactly zero, but the function is non-zero if x ≠ 0.
In physi... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segal%27s%20conjecture | Segal's Burnside ring conjecture, or, more briefly, the Segal conjecture, is a theorem in homotopy theory, a branch of mathematics. The theorem relates the Burnside ring of a finite group G to the stable cohomotopy of the classifying space BG. The conjecture was made in the mid 1970s by Graeme Segal and proved in 1984 ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radial%20velocity | The radial velocity or line-of-sight velocity of a target with respect to an observer is the rate of change of the vector displacement between the two points. It is formulated as the vector projection of the target-observer relative velocity onto the relative direction or line-of-sight (LOS) connecting the two points. ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20dial%20code | A mobile dial code (MDC) is a grouping of 3 to 10 numbers following either a "#" "##" "*" "**" used to create a short, easy to remember phone number. Historically MDCs were used for repair related purposes by landline and wireless carriers. More recently MDCs have been made available for commercial use. MDCs are dialed... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresenius%20%28company%29 | Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA is a European multinational health care company based in Bad Homburg vor der Höhe, Germany. It provides products and services for dialysis in hospitals, as well as inpatient and outpatient medical care. The company is involved in hospital management and in engineering and services for medical c... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoplankton | Phytoplankton () are the autotrophic (self-feeding) components of the plankton community and a key part of ocean and freshwater ecosystems. The name comes from the Greek words (), meaning 'plant', and (), meaning 'wanderer' or 'drifter'.
Phytoplankton obtain their energy through photosynthesis, as do trees and other... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal%20branches%20of%20the%20facial%20nerve | The temporal branches of the facial nerve (frontal branch of the facial nerve) crosses the zygomatic arch to the temporal region, supplying the auriculares anterior and superior, and joining with the zygomaticotemporal branch of the maxillary nerve, and with the auriculotemporal branch of the mandibular nerve.
The mor... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-pesticide%20management | Non-pesticidal Management (NPM) describes various pest-control techniques which do not rely on pesticides. It is used in organic production of foodstuff, as well as in other situations in which the introduction of toxins is undesirable. Instead of the use of synthetic toxins, pest control is achieved by biological mean... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thidiazuron | Thidiazuron (TDZ) is a plant growth regulator.
Applications
Plant growth regulator
The synthesis routes and their use as plant growth regulating agent were patented in the early 1980s by the German company Schering AG. Thidiazuron is taken up by the leaves and has a cytokinin-like behavior. It causes leaves to lose w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atiyah%E2%80%93Jones%20conjecture | In mathematics, the Atiyah–Jones conjecture is a conjecture about the homology of the moduli spaces of instantons. The original form of the conjecture considered instantons over a 4-dimensional sphere. It was introduced by and proved by . The more general version of the Atiyah–Jones conjecture is a question about the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hi%20no%20Tori%20Hououhen%20%28MSX%29 | is a 1987 video game for the MSX2 developed by Konami, produced alongside a similarly named game for the Famicom. Both games are based on the series and story arc with the same names.
It is in essence a Knightmare-like vertical scrolling shooter with the player viewing his character on the back and enemies and obstacl... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernoulli%20number | In mathematics, the Bernoulli numbers are a sequence of rational numbers which occur frequently in analysis. The Bernoulli numbers appear in (and can be defined by) the Taylor series expansions of the tangent and hyperbolic tangent functions, in Faulhaber's formula for the sum of m-th powers of the first n positive in... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomoyo%20Linux | Tomoyo Linux (stylised as TOMOYO Linux) is a Linux kernel security module which implements mandatory access control (MAC).
Overview
Tomoyo Linux is a MAC implementation for Linux that can be used to increase the security of a system, while also being useful purely as a systems analysis tool. It was launched in March 2... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20studies | Software studies is an emerging interdisciplinary research field, which studies software systems and their social and cultural effects. The implementation and use of software has been studied in recent fields such as cyberculture, Internet studies, new media studies, and digital culture, yet prior to software studies, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AN/UYQ-70 | AN/UYQ-70 (Q-70) is the specification for a family of United States Navy display workstations.
Starting in 1991, it replaced the AN/UYA-4 and AN/UYQ-21 (series) displays and various submarine combat system displays: AN/BQQ-5(V) Control Display Console (CDC), Improved Control Display Console (ICDC), Mk 81 Mod(v) Comba... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meliandou | Meliandou is a village in Guéckédou Prefecture, in the Nzérékoré Region of southern Guinea. Medical researchers believe that the village was the location of the first known case of Ebola virus disease in the epidemic in West Africa. The patient zero of Ebola was a two-year-old boy who died in 2013. The boy's pregnant m... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20map | The standard map (also known as the Chirikov–Taylor map or as the Chirikov standard map) is an area-preserving chaotic map from a square with side onto itself. It is constructed by a Poincaré's surface of section of the kicked rotator, and is defined by:
where and are taken modulo .
The properties of chaos of the ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan%20%28drawing%29 | Plans are a set of drawings or two-dimensional diagrams used to describe a place or object, or to communicate building or fabrication instructions. Usually plans are drawn or printed on paper, but they can take the form of a digital file.
Plans are used in a range of fields: architecture, urban planning, landscape ar... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatic%20epitype | A somatic epitype is a non-heritable epigenetic alteration in a gene. It is similar to conventional epigenetics in that it does not involve changes in the DNA primary sequence. Physically, the somatic epitype corresponds to changes in DNA methylation, oxidative damage (replacement of GTP with oxo-8-dGTP), or changes ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GreenButton | GreenButton was a NewZealand–based software firm. The company specialized in moving independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprises to cloud computing. Founded in 2006, GreenButton was based in Wellington, New Zealand, with additional offices in Palo Alto, California, and Seattle.
GreenButton was acquired by Micro... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equid%20alphaherpesvirus%203 | Equid alphaherpesvirus 3, formerly Equine herpesvirus 3 (EHV-3), is a virus of the family Herpesviridae that affects horses.
Pathology
It causes a disease known as equine coital exanthema. The disease is spread through direct and sexual contact, contaminated handlers and equipment, and possibly through flies carrying... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychrometric%20constant | The psychrometric constant relates the partial pressure of water in air to the air temperature. This lets one interpolate actual vapor pressure from paired dry and wet thermometer bulb temperature readings.
psychrometric constant [kPa °C−1],
P = atmospheric pressure [kPa],
latent heat of water vaporization, 2.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation%20mesh | A navigation mesh, or navmesh, is an abstract data structure used in artificial intelligence applications to aid agents in pathfinding through complicated spaces. This approach has been known since at least the mid-1980s in robotics, where it has been called a meadow map, and was popularized in video game AI in 2000.
... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sariel%20Har-Peled | Sariel Har-Peled (born July 14, 1971, in Jerusalem) is an Israeli–American computer scientist known for his research in computational geometry. He is a Donald Biggar Willett Professor in Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
Har-Peled was a student at Tel Aviv University, where he earned a bac... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit%20tree%20propagation | Fruit tree propagation is usually carried out vegetatively (non-sexually) by grafting or budding a desired variety onto a suitable rootstock.
Perennial plants can be propagated either by sexual or vegetative means. Sexual reproduction begins when a male germ cell (pollen) from one flower fertilises a female germ cell ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillus%20sibiricus | Suillus sibiricus is a fungus of the genus Suillus in the family Suillaceae. It is found in mountains of Europe, North America, and Siberia, strictly associated with several species of pine tree. Due to its specific habitat and rarity in Europe, it has been selected for inclusion in several regional Red Lists. Its frui... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxed%20intersection | The relaxed intersection of m sets corresponds to the classical
intersection between sets except that it is allowed to relax few sets in order to avoid an empty intersection.
This notion can be used to solve constraints satisfaction problems
that are inconsistent by relaxing a small number of constraints.
When a bounde... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Euclidean%20space | In mathematics and theoretical physics, a pseudo-Euclidean space is a finite-dimensional real -space together with a non-degenerate quadratic form . Such a quadratic form can, given a suitable choice of basis , be applied to a vector , giving
which is called the scalar square of the vector .
For Euclidean spaces, , i... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-view%20bistable%20storage%20tube | Direct-view bistable storage tube (DVBST) was an acronym used by Tektronix to describe their line of storage tubes. These were cathode ray tubes (CRT) that stored information written to them using an analog technique inherent in the CRT and based upon the secondary emission of electrons from the phosphor screen itself.... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armorial%20of%20Venezuela | Venezuela is a federation made up of twenty-three states, and each has a separate coat of arms. Federal Dependencies of Venezuela are only using a flag.
Gallery
Coat of arms of Caracas
See also
Coat of arms of Venezuela |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20wave%20model | In fluid dynamics, wind wave modeling describes the effort to depict the sea state and predict the evolution of the energy of wind waves using numerical techniques. These simulations consider atmospheric wind forcing, nonlinear wave interactions, and frictional dissipation, and they output statistics describing wave he... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo%20cancer | Turbo cancer is an anti-vaccination myth centred on the idea that people vaccinated against COVID-19, especially with mRNA vaccines, are suffering from a high incidence of fast-developing cancers. The myth, spread by a number of vaccine opponents and related influencers including doctors, has no factual basis.
In late... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree%20matrix | In the mathematical field of algebraic graph theory, the degree matrix of an undirected graph is a diagonal matrix which contains information about the degree of each vertex—that is, the number of edges attached to each vertex. It is used together with the adjacency matrix to construct the Laplacian matrix of a graph: ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20S.%20Kechris | Alexander Sotirios Kechris (; born March 23, 1946) is a set theorist and logician at the California Institute of Technology.
Contributions
Kechris has made contributions to the theory of Borel equivalence relations and the theory of automorphism groups of uncountable structures. His research interests cover foundation... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth%20Century%20Collections%20Online | Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) is a digital collection of books published in Great Britain during the 18th century.
Gale, an education publishing company in the United States, assembled the collection by digitally scanning microfilm reproductions of 136,291 titles. Documents scanned after 2002 are added ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MT-RNR2 | Mitochondrially encoded 16S RNA (often abbreviated as 16S) is the mitochondrial large subunit ribosomal RNA that in humans is encoded by the MT-RNR2 gene. The MT-RNR2 gene also encodes the Humanin polypeptide that has been the target of Alzheimer's disease research.
The 16S rRNA is the mitochondrial homologue of the p... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNK2 | Potassium channel subfamily K member 2, also known as TREK-1, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KCNK2 gene.
This gene encodes K2P2.1, a lipid-gated ion channel belonging to the two-pore-domain background potassium channel protein family. This type of potassium channel is formed by two homodimers that creat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinning%20points | In a crystalline material, a dislocation is capable of traveling throughout the lattice when relatively small stresses are applied. This movement of dislocations results in the material plastically deforming. Pinning points in the material act to halt a dislocation's movement, requiring a greater amount of force to be ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interruptible%20foldback | Interruptible foldback (IFB), also known as interrupted foldback, interruptible feedback, or interrupt for broadcast, is a monitoring and cueing system used in television, filmmaking, video production, and radio broadcast for one-way communication from the director or assistant director to on-air talent or a remote lo... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZygoteBody | ZygoteBody, formerly Google Body, is a web application by Zygote Media Group that renders manipulable 3D anatomical models of the human body. Several layers, from muscle tissues down to blood vessels, can be removed or made transparent to allow better study of individual body parts. Most of the body parts are labelled ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich%20Hirzebruch | Friedrich Ernst Peter Hirzebruch ForMemRS (17 October 1927 – 27 May 2012) was a German mathematician, working in the fields of topology, complex manifolds and algebraic geometry, and a leading figure in his generation. He has been described as "the most important mathematician in Germany of the postwar period."
Educat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20independence | In abstract algebra, a subset of a field is algebraically independent over a subfield if the elements of do not satisfy any non-trivial polynomial equation with coefficients in .
In particular, a one element set is algebraically independent over if and only if is transcendental over . In general, all the elemen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair%20potential | In physics, a pair potential is a function that describes the potential energy of two interacting objects solely as a function of the distance between them.
Some interactions, like Coulomb's law in electrodynamics or Newton's law of universal gravitation in mechanics naturally have this form for simple spherical objec... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic%20Apples | Arctic apple is the trademark for a group of patented apples that contain a nonbrowning trait (when the apples are subjected to mechanical damage, such as slicing or bruising, the apple flesh remains as its original color) introduced through biotechnology. They were developed through a process of genetic engineering by... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phaser%20%28effect%29 | A phaser is an electronic sound processor used to filter a signal by creating a series of peaks and troughs in the frequency spectrum. The position of the peaks and troughs of the waveform being affected is typically modulated by an internal low-frequency oscillator so that they vary over time, creating a sweeping effe... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perspective%20%28graphical%29 | Linear or point-projection perspective () is one of two types of graphical projection perspective in the graphic arts; the other is parallel projection. Linear perspective is an approximate representation, generally on a flat surface, of an image as it is seen by the eye. Perspective drawing is useful for representing ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Year%20of%20Basic%20Sciences%20for%20Sustainable%20Development | The International Year of Basic Sciences for Sustainable Development was proclaimed by the 76th session of the United Nations General Assembly 2 December 2021 for 2022, stressing that the applications of basic sciences are vital for advances in medicine, industry, agriculture, water resources, energy planning, environm... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyosmia | Presbyosmia is the gradual degeneration of sense of smell due to ageing process, which occurs especially in those who are 70 years old or more. It is possibly due to loss of nerve endings in the nose, as well as reduced mucus production. Prebyosmia is less prevalent among elderly who are healthy, and who lack the risk ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20M.%20Habirshaw%20Award | The William M. Habirshaw Award was an award given by the IEEE and, prior to the formation of the IEEE in 1963, by its predecessor the AIEE, from 1959 through 1986 for outstanding contributions to the field of electric transmission and distribution. Starting in 1987, the award was renamed as the IEEE Herman Halperin Ele... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propamocarb | Propamocarb is a systemic fungicide used for control of soil, root and leaf disease caused by oomycetes. It is used by watering or spraying. Propamocarb is absorbed and distributed through the plant's tissue.
Use
Propamocarb has fungicidal activity only against oomycetes.
Safety
Propamocarb has low general toxicity, ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy%20lift | In transportation, heavy lift refers to the handling and installation of heavy items which are indivisible, and of weights generally accepted to be over 100 tons and of widths/heights of more than 100 meters. These oversized items are transported from one place to another (sometimes across country borders), then lifted... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Driver%20%28software%29 | A driver in software provides a programming interface to control and manage specific lower-level interfaces that are often linked to a specific type of hardware, or other low-level service. In the case of hardware, the specific subclass of drivers controlling physical or virtual hardware devices are known as device dri... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20algebraic%20data%20type | In functional programming, a generalized algebraic data type (GADT, also first-class phantom type, guarded recursive datatype, or equality-qualified type) is a generalization of parametric algebraic data types.
Overview
In a GADT, the product constructors (called data constructors in Haskell) can provide an explicit ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einasto%20profile | The Einasto profile (or Einasto model) is a mathematical function that describes how the density of a spherical stellar system varies with distance from its center. Jaan Einasto introduced his model at a 1963 conference in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan.
The Einasto profile possesses a power law logarithmic slope of the form:... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lefty%20%28protein%29 | Lefty (left-right determination factors) are a class of proteins that are closely related members of the TGF-beta superfamily of growth factors. These proteins are secreted and play a role in left-right asymmetry determination of organ systems during development. Mutations of the genes encoding these proteins have been... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-cell%20vaccination | T-cell vaccination is immunization with inactivated autoreactive T cells. The concept of T-cell vaccination is, at least partially, analogous to classical vaccination against infectious disease. However, the agents to be eliminated or neutralized are not foreign microbial agents but a pathogenic autoreactive T-cell pop... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitelline%20membrane%20outer%20layer%20protein%20I%20%28VMO-I%29 | In molecular biology, this entry refers to a protein domain called, the Vitelline membrane outer layer protein I (VMO-I). It is a structure found on the outside of an egg, in the vitelline membrane.
Function
The major role of the vitelline membrane is to prevent the mixing of the yolk and albumen and also act as an im... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox%20Engineering | Paradox Engineering SA is a Swiss technology company that designs and markets solutions and services enabling smart cities and Industry 4.0 applications. The company's mission is to offer technologies to unlock the value of data. Its solutions are ready for the Internet of things, and enable cities and companies to col... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominance%20%28genetics%29 | In genetics, dominance is the phenomenon of one variant (allele) of a gene on a chromosome masking or overriding the effect of a different variant of the same gene on the other copy of the chromosome. The first variant is termed dominant and the second is called recessive. This state of having two different variants of... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin%20transporter | The serotonin transporter (SERT or 5-HTT) also known as the sodium-dependent serotonin transporter and solute carrier family 6 member 4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the SLC6A4 gene. SERT is a type of monoamine transporter protein that transports the neurotransmitter serotonin from the synaptic cleft back t... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria%20Powers | Victoria Ann Powers is an American mathematician specializing in algebraic geometry and known for her work on positive polynomials and on the mathematics of electoral systems. She is a professor in the department of mathematics at Emory University.
She is the author of the book Certificates of Positivity for Real Poly... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry%20D.%20Nichols | Larry D. Nichols, born 1939 in the United States, is a puzzle designer. He grew up in Xenia, Ohio, and studied chemistry at DePauw University in Greencastle, Indiana, before moving to Massachusetts to attend Harvard Graduate School. He is best known for the invention of mechanical puzzles including 'The Nichols Cube ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme%20Networks | Extreme Networks is an American networking company based in Morrisville, North Carolina. Extreme Networks designs, develops, and manufactures wired and wireless network infrastructure equipment and develops the software for network management, policy, analytics, security and access controls.
History
Extreme Networks w... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misfit%20%28short%20story%29 | "Misfit" is a science fiction short story by American writer Robert A. Heinlein. It was originally titled "Cosmic Construction Corps" before being renamed by the editor John W. Campbell and published in the November 1939 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. "Misfit" was Heinlein's second published story. One of the ear... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron-cloud%20effect | The electron-cloud effect is a phenomenon that occurs in particle accelerators and reduces the quality of the particle beam.
Explanation
Electron clouds are created when accelerated charged particles disturb stray electrons already floating in the tube, and bounce or slingshot the electrons into the wall. These stra... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NDRG4 | Protein NDRG4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NDRG4 gene.
This gene is a member of the N-myc downregulated gene family which belongs to the alpha/beta hydrolase superfamily. The protein encoded by this gene is a cytoplasmic protein that may be involved in the regulation of mitogenic signalling in vascula... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermotolerance | Thermotolerance is the ability of an organism to survive high temperatures. An organism's natural tolerance of heat is their basal thermotolerance. Meanwhile, acquired thermotolerance is defined as an enhanced level of thermotolerance after exposure to a heat stress.
In plants
Multiple factors contribute to thermotol... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chkrootkit | Chkrootkit (Check Rootkit) is a widely used Unix-based utility designed to aid system administrators in examining their systems for rootkits. Operating as a shell script, it leverages common Unix/Linux tools such as the strings and grep command. The primary purpose is to scan core system programs for identifying signat... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotobiology | Scotobiology is the study of biology as directly and specifically affected by darkness, as opposed to photobiology, which describes the biological effects of light.
Overview
The science of scotobiology gathers together under a single descriptive heading a wide range of approaches to the study of the biology of darknes... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Output%20power%20of%20an%20analog%20TV%20transmitter | The output power of a TV transmitter is the electric power applied to antenna system.
There are two definitions: nominal (or peak) and thermal. Analogue television systems put about 70% to 90% of the transmitters power into the sync pulses. The remainder of the transmitter's power goes into transmitting the video's hig... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normal%20pressure%20hydrocephalus | Normal-pressure hydrocephalus (NPH), also called malresorptive hydrocephalus, is a form of communicating hydrocephalus in which excess cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) occurs in the ventricles, and with normal or slightly elevated cerebrospinal fluid pressure. As the fluid builds up, it causes the ventricles to enlarge and th... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seminal%20fluid%20protein | Seminal fluid proteins (SFPs) or accessory gland proteins (Acps) are one of the non-sperm components of semen. In many animals with internal fertilization, males transfer a complex cocktail of proteins in their semen to females during copulation. These seminal fluid proteins often have diverse, potent effects on female... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification%20of%20objects%20of%20the%20administrative-territorial%20system%20of%20Ukraine | Classification of objects of the administrative-territorial system of Ukraine (KOATUU) (, КОАТУУ), was a national standardization system established by the State Committee for Technical Regulation and Consumer Policy on October 31, 1997, and went into effect on January 1, 1998.
KOATUU was directly inherited from and ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvilization | Silvilization is a conceptual framework or a vision of the world whereby the forest, a metaphor for primordial living, is the best place for human development and fulfilment. It is a portmanteau of the Latin word silva, meaning forest, and civilization.
History
The term was first coined by Pierre-Doris Maltais, leade... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cucumis%20prophetarum | Cucumis prophetarum is a dioecious and prostrate or climbing perennial vine in the family Cucurbitaceae. The specific epithet (prophetarum) comes from Latin propheta, meaning "prophet".
Distribution
Cucumis prophetarum is native to Africa and the Middle East, from Mauritania east to the Horn of Africa and southwest to... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellular%20space | A cellular space is a Hausdorff space that has the structure of a CW complex.
Compactness (mathematics)
General topology
Properties of topological spaces
Topology |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20Password%20%28algorithm%29 | Master Password is a type of algorithm first implemented by Maarten Billemont for creating unique passwords in a reproducible manner. It differs from traditional password managers in that the passwords are not stored on disk or in the cloud, but are regenerated every time from information entered by the user: Their nam... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016%20in%20paleobotany | This article contains papers in paleobotany that were published in 2016.
Bryophytes
Ferns and fern allies
Conifers
Cycads
Gingkophytes
"Pteridospermatophytes"
Glossopteridales
Medullosales
Other pteridospermatophytes
Other seed plants
Flowering plants
Other plants
Research
Extensive plant traces preserved... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical%20mechanics | In theoretical physics and mathematical physics, analytical mechanics, or theoretical mechanics is a collection of closely related alternative formulations of classical mechanics. It was developed by many scientists and mathematicians during the 18th century and onward, after Newtonian mechanics. Since Newtonian mechan... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FFTW | The Fastest Fourier Transform in the West (FFTW) is a software library for computing discrete Fourier transforms (DFTs) developed by Matteo Frigo and Steven G. Johnson at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
FFTW is one of the fastest free software implementations of the fast Fourier transform (FFT). It implemen... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet%20mill | A jet mill grinds materials by using a high speed jet of compressed air or inert gas to impact particles into each other. Jet mills can be designed to output particles below a certain size while continuing to mill particles above that size, resulting in a narrow size distribution of the resulting product. Particles ... |
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter%20Whittle%20%28mathematician%29 | Peter Whittle (27 February 1927 – 10 August 2021) was a mathematician and statistician from New Zealand, working in the fields of stochastic nets, optimal control, time series analysis, stochastic optimisation and stochastic dynamics. From 1967 to 1994, he was the Churchill Professor of Mathematics for Operational Rese... |
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