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Immunoediting is a dynamic process that consists of immunosurveillance and tumor progression. It describes the relation between the tumor cells and the immune system. It is made up of three phases: elimination , equilibrium , and escape . [ 1 ] Immunoediting is characterized by changes in the immunogenicity of tumors ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunoediting
Immunoelectrophoresis is a general name for a number of biochemical methods for separation and characterization of proteins based on electrophoresis and reaction with antibodies . All variants of immunoelectrophoresis require immunoglobulins , also known as antibodies , reacting with the proteins to be separated or cha...
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Immunofixation permits the detection and typing of monoclonal antibodies or immunoglobulins in serum or urine . It is of great importance for the diagnosis and monitoring of certain blood related diseases such as myeloma . The method detects by precipitation : when a soluble antigen (Ag) is brought in contact with the...
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Immunofluorescence (IF) is a light microscopy -based technique that allows detection and localization of a wide variety of target biomolecules within a cell or tissue at a quantitative level. The technique utilizes the binding specificity of antibodies and antigens . [ 1 ] The specific region an antibody recognizes on ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunofluorescence
For the pharmaceutical company, see ImmunoGen . For other uses, see Immunogen (disambiguation) . An immunogen is any substance that generates B-cell (humoral/antibody) and/or T-cell (cellular) adaptive immune responses upon exposure to a host organism. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Immunogens that generate antibodies are called antigen...
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Immunogenetics or immungenetics is the branch of Medical Immunology and Medical Genetics that explores the relationship between the immune system and genetics . Autoimmune diseases, such as type 1 diabetes, are complex genetic traits which result from defects in the immune system. Identification of genes defining the ...
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Immunogenic cell death is any type of cell death eliciting an immune response . Both accidental cell death and regulated cell death can result in immune response. Immunogenic cell death contrasts to forms of cell death ( apoptosis , autophagy or others) that do not elicit any response or even mediate immune tolerance ....
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Immunogenicity is the ability of a foreign substance, such as an antigen , to provoke an immune response in the body of a human or other animal. It may be wanted or unwanted: A challenge in biotherapy is predicting the immunogenic potential of novel protein therapeutics. [ 3 ] For example, immunogenicity data from hig...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunogenicity
Immunoglobulin class switching , also known as isotype switching , isotypic commutation or class-switch recombination ( CSR ), is a biological mechanism that changes a B cell 's production of immunoglobulin from one type to another, such as from the isotype IgM to the isotype IgG . [ 1 ] During this process, the consta...
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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 ant...
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Immunogold labeling or immunogold staining ( IGS ) is a staining technique used in electron microscopy . [ 2 ] This staining technique is an equivalent of the indirect immunofluorescence technique for visible light. Colloidal gold particles are most often attached to secondary antibodies which are in turn attached to p...
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Immunohematology is a branch of hematology and transfusion medicine which studies antigen - antibody reactions and analogous phenomena as they relate to the pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of blood disorders . A person employed in this field is referred to as an immunohematologist or colloquially as a blood b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunohaematology
Immunohistochemistry is a form of immunostaining . It involves the process of selectively identifying antigens in cells and tissue, by exploiting the principle of antibodies binding specifically to antigens in biological tissues . Albert Hewett Coons , Ernest Berliner , Norman Jones and Hugh J Creech was the first to d...
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The immunohistochemistry (IHC) test is a laboratory method that detects antibodies of prions (mis-shapen proteins thought to transmit bovine spongiform encephalopathy , BSE or mad cow disease) by exposing a brain sample to a stain that appears as a specific color under a microscope. The IHC test is used by USDA resear...
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In general, immunoisolation is the process of protecting implanted material such as biopolymers, cells, or drug release carriers from an immune reaction . The most prominent means of accomplishing this is through the use of cell encapsulation . [ 1 ] This medical treatment –related article is a stub . You can help Wik...
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Immunolabeling is a biochemical process that enables the detection and localization of an antigen to a particular site within a cell, tissue, or organ. Antigens are organic molecules, usually proteins , capable of binding to an antibody . These antigens can be visualized using a combination of antigen-specific antibo...
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In immunology , activation is the transition of leucocytes and other cell types involved in the immune system . On the other hand, deactivation is the transition in the reverse direction. [ 1 ] This balance is tightly regulated, since a too small degree of activation causes susceptibility to infections , while, on the ...
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In immunology , an adjuvant is a substance that increases or modulates the immune response to a vaccine . [ 1 ] The word "adjuvant" comes from the Latin word adiuvare , meaning to help or aid. "An immunologic adjuvant is defined as any substance that acts to accelerate, prolong, or enhance antigen-specific immune respo...
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An immune checkpoint regulator is a modulator of the immune system, that allows initiation of a productive immune response and prevents the onset of autoimmunity. Examples of such a molecule are cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA-4 or CD152), which is an inhibitory receptor found on immune cells and programmed cell...
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The Immunologic Constant of Rejection (ICR), is a notion introduced by biologists to group a shared set of genes expressed in tissue destructive-pathogenic conditions like cancer and infection , along a diverse set of physiological circumstances of tissue damage or organ failure, including autoimmune disease or allogra...
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The Immunological Genome Project (ImmGen) is a collaborative scientific research project that is currently building a gene-expression database for all characterized immune cells in the mouse. The overarching goal of the project is to computationally reconstruct the gene regulatory network in immune cells. [ 1 ] All dat...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunological_Genome_Project
Immunology is a branch of biology and medicine [ 1 ] that covers the study of immune systems [ 2 ] in all organisms . Immunology charts, measures, and contextualizes the physiological functioning of the immune system in states of both health and diseases; malfunctions of the immune system in immunological disorders (s...
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Immunomagnetic separation ( IMS ) is a laboratory tool that can efficiently isolate cells out of body fluid or cultured cells . It can also be used as a method of quantifying the pathogenicity of food, blood or feces. DNA analysis have supported the combined use of both this technique and Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR...
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The immunome is the set of genes that code for proteins which constitute the immune system , excluding those that are widespread in other cell types, and not involved in the immune response itself. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is further defined as the set of peptides derived from the proteome that interact with the immune system. [...
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Immunometabolism is a branch of biology that studies the interplay between metabolism and immunology in all organisms . In particular, immunometabolism is the study of the molecular and biochemical underpinninngs for i) the metabolic regulation of immune function, and ii) the regulation of metabolism by molecules and c...
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Immunomics is the study of immune system regulation and response to pathogens using genome -wide approaches. With the rise of genomic and proteomic technologies, scientists have been able to visualize biological networks and infer interrelationships between genes and/or proteins; recently, these technologies have been ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunomics
Immunomodulation is modulation (regulatory adjustment) of the immune system . It has natural and human-induced forms, and thus the word can refer to the following:
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Immunopathology is a branch of medicine that deals with immune responses associated with disease . It includes the study of the pathology of an organism , organ system , or disease with respect to the immune system , immunity, and immune responses. In biology , it refers to damage caused to an organism by its own immu...
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Immunoperoxidase is a type of immunostain used in molecular biology , medical research, and clinical diagnostics. In particular, immunoperoxidase reactions refer to a sub-class of immunohistochemical or immunocytochemical procedures in which the antibodies are visualized via a peroxidase-catalyzed reaction. Immunohist...
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Immunophenotyping is a technique used to study the protein expressed by cells. This technique is commonly used in basic science research and laboratory diagnostic purpose. This can be done on tissue section (fresh or fixed tissue), cell suspension , etc. An example is the detection of tumor markers , such as in the d...
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Immunophysics is a novel interdisciplinary research field using immunological, biological, physical and chemical approaches to elucidate and modify immune-mediated mechanisms and to expand our knowledge on the pathomechanisms of chronic immune-mediated diseases such as arthritis , inflammatory bowel disease , asthma an...
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Immunoprecipitation ( IP ) is the technique of precipitating a protein antigen out of solution using an antibody that specifically binds to that particular protein. This process can be used to isolate and concentrate a particular protein from a sample containing many thousands of different proteins. Immunoprecipitatio...
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Immunoproteomics is the study of large sets of proteins ( proteomics ) involved in the immune response . Examples of common applications of immunoproteomics include: The identification of proteins in immunoproteomics is carried out by techniques including gel based, microarray based, and DNA based techniques, with ma...
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Immunoradiometric assay (IRMA) is an assay that uses radiolabeled antibodies. It differs from conventional radioimmunoassay (RIA) in that the compound to be measured combines immediately with the radiolabeled antibodies, rather than displacing another antigen by degrees over some period. Principle:- A noncompetitive a...
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Immunoscreening is a method of biotechnology used to detect a polypeptide produced from a cloned gene . The term encompasses several different techniques designed for protein identification, such as Western blotting , using recombinant DNA , and analyzing antibody-peptide interactions. [ 1 ] Clones are screened for th...
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Immunosenescence is the gradual deterioration of the immune system , brought on by natural age advancement . A 2020 review concluded that the adaptive immune system is affected more than the innate immune system . [ 1 ] Immunosenescence involves both the host's capacity to respond to infections and the development of l...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunosenescence
Immunosequencing , sometimes referred to as repertoire sequencing or Rep-Seq , is a method for analyzing the genetic makeup of an individual's immune system . In most areas of biology a single gene codes for one or a few possible proteins . Through V(D)J recombination a number of organisms take a relatively small numb...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunosequencing
In biochemistry , immunostaining is any use of an antibody -based method to detect a specific protein in a sample. The term "immunostaining" was originally used to refer to the immunohistochemical staining of tissue sections, as first described by Albert Coons in 1941. [ 1 ] However, immunostaining now encompasses a br...
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Immunostimulants , also known as immunostimulators , are substances (drugs and nutrients) that stimulate the immune system usually in a non-specific manner by inducing activation or increasing activity of any of its components. One notable example is the granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor . The goal of th...
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Immunosuppression is a reduction of the activation or efficacy of the immune system . Some portions of the immune system itself have immunosuppressive effects on other parts of the immune system, and immunosuppression may occur as an adverse reaction to treatment of other conditions. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In general, deliberate...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunosuppression
Immunosurgery is a method of selectively removing the external cell layer ( trophoblast ) of a blastocyst through a cytotoxicity procedure. The protocol for immunosurgery includes preincubation with an antiserum , rinsing it with embryonic stem cell derivation media to remove the antibodies, exposing it to complement ,...
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Immunotoxicology (sometimes abbreviated as ITOX ) is the study of the toxicity of foreign substances called xenobiotics and their effects on the immune system. [ 1 ] Some toxic agents that are known to alter the immune system include: industrial chemicals, heavy metals, agrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, drugs, ultraviole...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunotoxicology
Immunotransplant is a maneuver used to make vaccines more powerful. It refers to the process of infusing vaccine-primed T lymphocytes into lymphodepleted recipients for the purpose of enhancing the proliferation and function of those T cells and increasing immune protection induced by that vaccine. The concept takes ...
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Immuron is a biotechnology company based in Melbourne , Australia . [ 1 ] In 2008, the company changed its name to Immuron Limited, [ 2 ] having previously operated as Anadis Limited. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] Immuron is focused on antigen -primed and dairy-derived health products. Its proprietary technologies allow for rapid devel...
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In mechanics , an impact is when two bodies collide . During this collision, both bodies decelerate. The deceleration causes a high force or shock , applied over a short time period. A high force, over a short duration, usually causes more damage to both bodies than a lower force applied over a proportionally longer ...
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An impact event is a collision between astronomical objects causing measurable effects. [ 1 ] Impact events have been found to regularly occur in planetary systems , though the most frequent involve asteroids , comets or meteoroids and have minimal effect. When large objects impact terrestrial planets such as the Earth...
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Impact ionization is the process in a material by which one energetic charge carrier can lose energy by the creation of other charge carriers. For example, in semiconductors , an electron (or hole ) with enough kinetic energy can knock a bound electron out of its bound state (in the valence band ) and promote it to a s...
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Impact mills are one of two general classes of milling devices used to reduce the particle size of a material. The other class of mills are "attrition" or grinding mills. Impact mills pulverize the material upon impact. The feasibility of impact mills was greatly enhanced by the mechanization and engineering of the In...
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Agent Orange is a herbicide, classified as a defoliant , that was used most notably by the U.S. military during the Vietnam War . Its primary purpose was strategic deforestation, destroying the forest cover and food resources necessary for the implementation and sustainability of the North Vietnamese style of guerilla ...
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The impact of alcohol on aging is multifaceted. Evidence shows that alcoholism or alcohol abuse can cause both accelerated (or premature) aging – in which symptoms of aging appear earlier than normal – and exaggerated aging, in which the symptoms appear at the appropriate time but in a more exaggerated form. [ 1 ] The ...
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The impact of nanotechnology extends from its medical , ethical , mental , legal and environmental applications, to fields such as engineering, biology, chemistry, computing, materials science, and communications. Major benefits of nanotechnology include improved manufacturing methods, water purification systems, ener...
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The impact of self-driving cars is anticipated to be wide-ranging in many areas of daily life. Self-driving cars (also known as autonomous vehicles or AVs ) have been the subject of significant research on their environmental, practical, and lifestyle consequences and their impacts remain debated. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Some exp...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected innumerable scientific and technical institutions globally, resulting in lower productivity in a number of fields and programs. However, the impact of the pandemic has also led to the opening of several new research funding lines for government agencies around the world. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [...
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In physics , the impact parameter b is defined as the perpendicular distance between the path of a projectile and the center of a potential field U ( r ) created by an object that the projectile is approaching (see diagram). It is often referred to in nuclear physics (see Rutherford scattering ) and in classical mechan...
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In compressible fluid dynamics, impact pressure ( dynamic pressure ) is the difference between total pressure (also known as pitot pressure or stagnation pressure ) and static pressure . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In aerodynamics notation, this quantity is denoted as q c {\displaystyle q_{c}} or Q c {\displaystyle Q_{c}} . When inpu...
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In addition to the direct reduction in travel times the HSR project will produce, there are also economic and environmental impacts of the high-speed rail system. These were also specifically noted in Proposition 1A at the time the project sought authorization from the voters of the state in 2008. The anticipated benef...
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Impalefection is a method of gene delivery using nanomaterials , such as carbon nanofibers , carbon nanotubes , nanowires . [ 1 ] Needle-like nanostructures are synthesized perpendicular to the surface of a substrate . Plasmid DNA containing the gene, and intended for intracellular delivery , is attached to the nanostr...
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An impedance analyzer is a type of electronic test equipment used to measure complex electrical impedance as a function of test frequency. Impedance is an important parameter used to characterize electronic components , electronic circuits , and the materials used to make components. Impedance analysis can also be use...
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Impedance cardiography (ICG) is a non-invasive technology measuring total electrical conductivity of the thorax and its changes in time to process continuously a number of cardiodynamic parameters, such as stroke volume (SV), heart rate (HR), cardiac output (CO), ventricular ejection time (VET), pre-ejection period and...
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Impedance control is an approach to dynamic control relating force and position. It is often used in applications where a manipulator interacts with its environment and the force position relation is of concern. Examples of such applications include humans interacting with robots, where the force produced by the human ...
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Impedance microbiology is a microbiological technique used to measure the microbial number density (mainly bacteria but also yeasts ) of a sample by monitoring the electrical parameters of the growth medium . The ability of microbial metabolism to change the electrical conductivity of the growth medium was discovered b...
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An impeller , or impellor , [ 1 ] is a driven rotor used to increase the pressure and flow of a fluid. It is the opposite of a turbine , which extracts energy from, and reduces the pressure of, a flowing fluid. Strictly speaking, propellers are a sub-class of impellers where the flow both enters and leaves axially, bu...
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A chip log , also called common log , [ 1 ] ship log , or just log , is a navigation tool mariners use to estimate the speed of a vessel through water. The word knot , to mean nautical mile per hour , derives from this measurement method. All nautical instruments that measure the speed of a ship through water are kno...
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The imperfect induction is the process of inferring from a sample of a group to what is characteristic of the whole group. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] This psychology -related article is a stub . You can help Wikipedia by expanding it .
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Impervious surfaces are mainly artificial structures—such as pavements ( roads , sidewalks , driveways and parking lots , as well as industrial areas such as airports , ports and logistics and distribution centres , all of which use considerable paved areas) that are covered by water-resistant materials such as asphalt...
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An impingement filter can be used to purify a polluted solution, be it gas or liquid. The impingement filter acts by inducing the solution to change direction and the particles to adhere to the filter medium. In many cases this filter medium is designed to contain apertures of specific size which will absorb the impur...
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An implant is a medical device manufactured to replace a missing biological structure, support a damaged biological structure, or enhance an existing biological structure. For example, an implant may be a rod, used to strengthen weak bones . Medical implants are human-made devices, in contrast to a transplant , which i...
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Implementation is the realization of an application, execution of a plan , idea, model , design , specification , standard , algorithm , policy , or the administration or management of a process or objective . In the information technology industry, implementation refers to the post-sales process of guiding a client f...
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The Implementation Rules are regulations of the People’s Republic of China , which set the framework of the valid product standards . For each product group there is a specific implementation rule, which is set by the Chinese authorities. The Implementation Rules include 12 or 13 chapters , which determine the scope o...
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This article examines the implementation of mathematical concepts in set theory . The implementation of a number of basic mathematical concepts is carried out in parallel in ZFC (the dominant set theory) and in NFU , the version of Quine's New Foundations shown to be consistent by R. B. Jensen in 1969 (here understood ...
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Implementation theory is an area of research in game theory concerned with whether a class of mechanisms (or institutions) can be designed whose equilibrium outcomes implement a given set of normative goals or welfare criteria. [ 1 ] There are two general types of implementation problems: the economic problem of produ...
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In the study of graph algorithms , an implicit graph representation (or more simply implicit graph ) is a graph whose vertices or edges are not represented as explicit objects in a computer's memory, but rather are determined algorithmically from some other input, for example a computable function . The notion of an i...
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Implicit solvation (sometimes termed continuum solvation ) is a method to represent solvent as a continuous medium instead of individual “explicit” solvent molecules, most often used in molecular dynamics simulations and in other applications of molecular mechanics . The method is often applied to estimate free energy...
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In the United States , implied powers are powers that, although not directly stated in the Constitution, are indirectly given based on expressed powers . When George Washington asked Alexander Hamilton to defend the constitutionality of the First Bank of the United States against the protests [ 1 ] of Thomas Jefferson...
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Implied weighting describes a group of methods used in phylogenetic analysis to assign the greatest importance to characters that are most likely to be homologous . These are a posteriori methods, which include also dynamic weighting, as opposed to a priori methods, which include adaptive, independent, and chemical cat...
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Implosion is the collapse of an object into itself from a pressure differential or gravitational force. The opposite of explosion (which expands the volume ), implosion reduces the volume occupied and concentrates matter and energy . Implosion involves a difference between internal (lower) and external (higher) pressur...
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The Importance Value Index (IVI) in Ecology is the quantitative measure of how dominant a species is in a given ecosystem . It combines multiple parameters to reflect a species' overall dominance, helping to describe the structure and composition of ecosystems. [ 1 ] The IVI is calculated by summing three relative mea...
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Important ecological areas (IEAs) are habitat areas which, either by themselves or in a network, contribute significantly to an ecosystem ’s productivity, biodiversity , and resilience. Appropriate management of key ecological features delineates the management boundaries of an IEA. The identification and protection of...
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In propositional logic , import-export is a name given to the propositional form of Exportation : This already holds in minimal logic , and thus also in classical logic , where the conditional operator " → {\displaystyle \rightarrow } " is taken as material implication . In the Curry-Howard correspondence for intuitio...
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Imposex is a disorder in sea snails caused by the toxic effects of certain marine pollutants . These pollutants cause female sea snails ( marine gastropod molluscs ) to develop male sex organs such as a penis and a vas deferens . It was believed that the only inducer of imposex was tributyltin (TBT), [ 1 ] which can b...
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In mathematics , logic and philosophy of mathematics , something that is impredicative is a self-referencing definition . Roughly speaking, a definition is impredicative if it invokes (mentions or quantifies over) the set being defined, or (more commonly) another set that contains the thing being defined. There is no g...
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Imprelis is a selective herbicide created by DuPont . The active ingredient is aminocyclopyrachlor , a synthetic auxin . Imprelis is a selective herbicide created by DuPont . The active ingredient is aminocyclopyrachlor , a synthetic auxin . [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Imprelis was registered with the United States Environmental Pro...
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In mathematical analysis , an improper integral is an extension of the notion of a definite integral to cases that violate the usual assumptions for that kind of integral. [ 1 ] In the context of Riemann integrals (or, equivalently, Darboux integrals ), this typically involves unboundedness, either of the set over whic...
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Improvisation , often shortened to improv , is the activity of making or doing something not planned beforehand, using whatever can be found. [ 1 ] The origin of the word itself is in the Latin "improvisus", which literally means un-foreseen. Improvisation in the performing arts is a very spontaneous performance withou...
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Improvision is a software developer based in Coventry , England . The company is the developer of Confocal, live cell imaging and image analysis software for 2D, 3D and 4D imaging. Improvision was founded in 1990 by Ken Salisbury, Andrew Waterfall and John Zeidler. Improvision was acquired by PerkinElmer on 2 April 20...
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In classical mechanics , impulse (symbolized by J or Imp ) is the change in momentum of an object. If the initial momentum of an object is p 1 , and a subsequent momentum is p 2 , the object has received an impulse J : J = p 2 − p 1 . {\displaystyle \mathbf {J} =\mathbf {p} _{2}-\mathbf {p} _{1}.} Momentum is a vecto...
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The impulse excitation technique ( IET ) is a non-destructive material characterization technique to determine the elastic properties and internal friction of a material of interest. [ 1 ] It measures the resonant frequencies in order to calculate the Young's modulus , shear modulus , Poisson's ratio and internal frict...
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An impulse facility is a testing facility that relies on rapid release of stored energy to generate a short period of high enthalpy test conditions for testing of aerodynamic flow, aerodynamic heating and atmospheric reentry , combustion , chemical kinetics , ballistics , and other effects. The rapid release of energy...
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An impulse generator is an electrical apparatus which produces very short high- voltage or high- current surges. Such devices can be classified into two types: impulse voltage generators and impulse current generators. High impulse voltages are used to test the strength of electric power equipment against lightning and...
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Imre Bárány (Mátyásföld, Budapest , 7 December 1947) is a Hungarian mathematician , working in combinatorics and discrete geometry . He works at the Rényi Mathematical Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences , and has a part-time appointment at University College London . Bárány received the Mathematical Prize ...
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Imre Csiszár ( Hungarian: [ˈimrɛ ˈt͡ʃisaːr] ) is a Hungarian mathematician with contributions to information theory and probability theory . In 1996 he won the Claude E. Shannon Award , the highest annual award given in the field of information theory. He was born on 7 February 1938 in Miskolc , Hungary . He became in...
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Imre Lakatos ( UK : / ˈ l æ k ə t ɒ s / , [ 6 ] US : /- t oʊ s / ; Hungarian : Lakatos Imre [ˈlɒkɒtoʃ ˈimrɛ] ; 9 November 1922 – 2 February 1974) was a Hungarian philosopher of mathematics and science , known for his thesis of the fallibility of mathematics and its "methodology of proofs and refutations" in its pre-axi...
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Trimethylindium , often abbreviated to TMI or TMIn , is the organoindium compound with the formula In(CH 3 ) 3 . It is a colorless, pyrophoric solid. [ 2 ] Unlike trimethylaluminium , but akin to trimethylgallium , TMI is monomeric. [ 3 ] TMI is prepared by the reaction of indium trichloride with methyl lithium . [ 2 ...
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An in-building cellular enhancement system , commonly implemented in conjunction with a distributed antenna system (DAS), is a telecommunications solution which is used to extend and distribute the cellular signal of a given mobile network operator (hereafter abbreviated as an MNO) within a building. In the United Sta...
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In-Methylcyclophanes are organic compounds and members of a larger family of cyclophanes . These compounds are used to study how chemical bonds in molecules adapt to strain . In-methylcyclophanes in particular have a methyl group in proximity to a benzene ring. This is only possible when both methyl group and ring are ...
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In-band control is a characteristic of network protocols with which data control is regulated. In-band control passes control data on the same connection as main data. Protocols that use in-band control include HTTP and SMTP . This is as opposed to Out-of-band control used by protocols such as FTP . Here is an example...
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In-house software is computer software for business use within an organization. In-house software can be developed by the organization itself or by someone else, or it could be acquired. [ 1 ] In-house software however may later become available for commercial use upon sole discretion of the developing organization. Th...
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In-session phishing is a form of potential phishing attack which relies on one web browsing session being able to detect the presence of another session (such as a visit to an online banking website) on the same web browser , and to then launch a pop-up window that pretends to have been opened from the targeted session...
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In-situ conservation is the on-site conservation or the conservation of genetic resources in natural populations of plant or animal species, such as forest genetic resources in natural populations of tree species. [ 1 ] This process protects the inhabitants and ensures the sustainability of the environment and ecosyste...
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Indium(III) oxide ( In 2 O 3 ) is a chemical compound , an amphoteric oxide of indium . Amorphous indium oxide is insoluble in water but soluble in acids, whereas crystalline indium oxide is insoluble in both water and acids. The crystalline form exists in two phases, the cubic ( bixbyite type) [ 1 ] and rhombohedral ...
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