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Nintendo 64
The (officially abbreviated as N64, hardware model number pre-term: NUS, stylized as NINTENDO64) is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. Named for its 64-bit central processing unit, it was released in June 1996 in Japan, September 1996 in North America, and March 1997 in Europe an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21849 |
GNU nano
GNU nano is a text editor for Unix-like computing systems or operating environments using a command line interface. It emulates the Pico text editor, part of the Pine email client, and also provides additional functionality.
Unlike Pico, nano is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Released as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21850 |
Nieuwe Waterweg
The Nieuwe Waterweg ("New Waterway") is a ship canal in the Netherlands from het Scheur (a branch of the Rhine-Meuse-Scheldt delta) west of the town of Maassluis to the North Sea at Hook of Holland: the Maasmond, where the Nieuwe Waterweg connects to the Maasgeul. It is the artificial mouth of the rive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21851 |
Neijia
Neijia (内家) is a term in Chinese martial arts, grouping those styles that practice "neijing", usually translated as internal martial arts, occupied with spiritual, mental or qi-related aspects, as opposed to an "external" approach focused on physiological aspects. The distinction dates to the 17th century, but ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21853 |
Navigation
Navigation is a field of study that focuses on the process of monitoring and controlling the movement of a craft or vehicle from one place to another. The field of navigation includes four general categories: land navigation, marine navigation, aeronautic navigation, and space navigation.
It is also the te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21854 |
Cryptonomicon
Cryptonomicon is a 1999 novel by American author Neal Stephenson, set in two different time periods. One group of characters are World War II-era Allied codebreakers and tactical-deception operatives affiliated with the Government Code and Cypher School at Bletchley Park (UK), and disillusioned Axis mili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21861 |
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
In the Beginning... Was the Command Line is an essay by Neal Stephenson which was originally published online in 1999 and later made available in book form (November 1999, ). The essay is a commentary on why the proprietary operating systems business is unlikely to remain profi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21862 |
Netscape Navigator
Netscape Navigator was a proprietary web browser, and the original browser of the Netscape line, from versions 1 to 4.08, and 9.x. It was the flagship product of the Netscape Communications Corp and was the dominant web browser in terms of usage share in the 1990s, but by around 2003 its use had alm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21863 |
Neurotransmitter
Neurotransmitters are endogenous chemicals acting as signaling molecules that enable neurotransmission. They are a type of chemical messenger which transmits signals across a chemical synapse from one neuron (nerve cell) to another 'target' neuron, to a muscle cell, or to a gland cell. Neurotransmitte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21865 |
Neutronium
Neutronium (sometimes shortened to neutrium, also referred to as neutrite) is a hypothetical substance composed purely of neutrons. The word was coined by scientist Andreas von Antropoff in 1926 (before the discovery of the neutron) for the hypothetical "element of atomic number zero" (with zero protons in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21868 |
Neutron star
A neutron star is the collapsed core of a giant star, which before collapse had a total mass of between 10 and 29 solar masses. Neutron stars are the smallest and densest stars, excluding black holes and hypothetical white holes, quark stars, and strange stars. Neutron stars have a radius on the order of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21869 |
Nassau, Bahamas
Nassau () is the capital and largest city of The Bahamas. With a population of 274,400 as of 2016, or just over 70% of the entire population of the Bahamas (≈391,000), Nassau is commonly defined as a primate city, dwarfing all other towns in the country. It is the centre of commerce, education, law, ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21871 |
Nastassja Kinski
Nastassja Aglaia Kinski (née Nakszynski; born 24 January 1961) is a German actress and former model who has appeared in more than 60 films in Europe and the United States. Her worldwide breakthrough was with "Stay as You Are" (1978). She then came to global prominence with her Golden Globe Award-winni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21873 |
Nuremberg trials
The Nuremberg trials () were a series of military tribunals held after World War II by the Allied forces under international law and the laws of war. The trials were most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, judicial, and economic leadership of Nazi Germany, who... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21875 |
Natasha Stott Despoja
Natasha Jessica Stott Despoja AO (born 9 September 1969) is an Australian politician, diplomat, advocate and author. She is the founding Chair of the Board of Our Watch, the national foundation to prevent violence against women and their children, and was previously the Australian Ambassador for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21876 |
Nuremberg Code
The Nuremberg Code () is a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation created as a result of the Nuremberg trials at the end of the Second World War.
The origin of the Nuremberg Code began in pre–World War II German politics, particularly during the 1930s and 1940s. The pre-war German ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21881 |
Nim
Nim is a mathematical game of strategy in which two players take turns removing (or "nimming") objects from distinct heaps or piles. On each turn, a player must remove at least one object, and may remove any number of objects provided they all come from the same heap or pile. Depending on the version being played,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21885 |
National Institute of Standards and Technology
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a physical sciences laboratory and a non-regulatory agency of the United States Department of Commerce. Its mission is to promote innovation and industrial competitiveness. NIST's activities are organized into l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21888 |
NATO reporting name
NATO reporting names are code names for military equipment from Russia, China, and historically, the Eastern Bloc (Soviet Union and other nations of the Warsaw Pact). They provide unambiguous and easily understood English words in a uniform manner in place of the original designations, which either... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21891 |
List of NATO reporting names for surface-to-surface missiles
NATO reporting name for SS series surface-to-surface missiles, with Soviet designations:
US DoD designations for SS-N series naval surface-to-surface missiles (fired from ships and submarines), with Soviet designations:
"See also": NATO reporting name | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21892 |
List of NATO reporting names for air-to-air missiles
NATO reporting name for AA series air-to-air missiles, with Soviet designations:
"See also": NATO reporting name | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21893 |
List of NATO reporting names for air-to-surface missiles
NATO reporting name for AS series air-to-surface missiles, with Soviet designations:
Note: the Soviet / Russian designation is a Cyrillic letter "Х", which is translated as "Kh" or "H". Also, sometimes a combination ("complex") of a missile with its aircraft is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21894 |
List of NATO reporting names for anti-tank missiles
NATO reporting name for AT series anti-tank guided missiles, with Soviet designations:
"See also:" NATO reporting name, List of anti-tank guided missiles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21895 |
List of NATO reporting names for surface-to-air missiles
NATO reporting name for SA series surface-to-air missiles, with Soviet designations:
U.S. DoD designations for SA-N series naval surface-to-air missiles, with Soviet designations. Note that these are not standard NATO names, NATO uses the regular SA series for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21896 |
Naturism
Naturism, or nudism, is a cultural movement practising, advocating, and defending personal and social nudity, most but not all of which takes place on private property. The term also refers to a lifestyle based on personal, family, or social nudity. Naturism may be practiced individually, within a familial or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21911 |
Nordea
Nordea Bank Abp (), commonly referred to as Nordea, is a European financial services group operating in northern Europe and based in Helsinki, Finland. The bank is the result of the successive mergers and acquisitions of the Finnish, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish banks of Merita Bank, Unibank, Kreditkassen (Chr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21916 |
Normal subgroup
In abstract algebra, a normal subgroup is a subgroup that is invariant under conjugation by members of the group of which it is a part. In other words, a subgroup of the group is normal in if and only if for all and . The usual notation for this relation is formula_1.
Normal subgroups are important be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21918 |
Napalm
Napalm is an incendiary mixture of a gelling agent and a volatile petrochemical (usually gasoline (petrol) or diesel fuel). The title is a portmanteau of the names of two of the constituents of the original thickening and gelling agents: co-precipitated aluminium salts of naphthenic acid and palmitic acid. Napa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21920 |
Northern Crusades
The Northern Crusades or Baltic Crusades were Christian colonization and Christianization campaigns undertaken by Catholic Christian military orders and kingdoms, primarily against the pagan Baltic, Finnic and West Slavic peoples around the southern and eastern shores of the Baltic Sea, and to a less... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21921 |
Neoteny
Neoteny (), also called juvenilization, is the delaying or slowing of the physiological (or somatic) development of an organism, typically an animal. Neoteny is found in modern humans. In progenesis (also called paedogenesis), sexual development is accelerated.
Both neoteny and progenesis result in paedomorphi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21922 |
National Rail
National Rail (NR) in the United Kingdom is the trading name licensed for use by the Rail Delivery Group, an unincorporated association whose membership consists of the passenger train operating companies (TOCs) of England, Scotland, and Wales. The TOCs run the passenger services previously provided by t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21923 |
Naked singularity
In general relativity, a naked singularity is a hypothetical gravitational singularity without an event horizon. In a black hole, the singularity is completely enclosed by a boundary known as the event horizon, inside which the gravitational force of the singularity is so strong that light cannot esc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21926 |
National Party of Australia
The National Party of Australia, also known as The Nationals or The Nats, is an Australian political party. Traditionally representing graziers, farmers, and rural voters generally, it began as the Australian Country Party in 1920 at a federal level. It later adopted the name National Count... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21927 |
Northern blot
The northern blot, or RNA blot, is a technique used in molecular biology research to study gene expression by detection of RNA (or isolated mRNA) in a sample.
With northern blotting it is possible to observe cellular control over structure and function by determining the particular gene expression rates... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21930 |
Narrow-gauge railway
A narrow-gauge railway (narrow-gauge railroad in the US) is a railway with a track gauge narrower than standard . Most narrow-gauge railways are between and .
Since narrow-gauge railways are usually built with tighter curves, smaller structure gauges, and lighter rails, they can be less costly to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21932 |
Surfing
Surfing is a surface water pastime in which the wave rider, referred to as a surfer, rides on the forward part, or face, of a moving wave, which usually carries the surfer towards the shore. Waves suitable for surfing are primarily found in the ocean, but can also be found in lakes or rivers in the form of a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28198 |
SMS
SMS (short message service) is a text messaging service component of most telephone, Internet, and mobile device systems. It uses standardized communication protocols to enable mobile devices to exchange short text messages. An intermediary service can facilitate a text-to-voice conversion to be sent to landlines.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28207 |
Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica () is a beachfront city in western Los Angeles County, California, United States. Situated on Santa Monica Bay, it is bordered on three sides by different neighborhoods of the city of Los Angeles: Pacific Palisades to the north, Brentwood on the northeast, West Los Angeles on the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28208 |
Shot put
The shot put is a track and field event involving "putting" (pushing rather than throwing) a heavy spherical ball—the "shot"—as far as possible. The shot put competition for men has been a part of the modern Olympics since their revival in 1896, and women's competition began in 1948.
Homer mentions competiti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28209 |
Stan Kelly-Bootle
Stanley Bootle, known as Stan Kelly-Bootle (15 September 1929 – 16 April 2014), was a British author, academic, singer-songwriter and computer scientist.
He took his stage name Stan Kelly (he was not known as Stan Kelly-Bootle in folk music circles) from the Irish folk song "Kelly, the boy from Ki... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28211 |
Skewness
In probability theory and statistics, skewness is a measure of the asymmetry of the probability distribution of a real-valued random variable about its mean. The skewness value can be positive, zero, negative, or undefined.
For a unimodal distribution, negative skew commonly indicates that the "tail" is on t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28212 |
Serial Experiments Lain
The series focuses on Lain Iwakura, an adolescent middle school girl living in suburban Japan, and her introduction to the Wired, a global communications network which is similar to the Internet. Lain lives with her middle-class family, which consists of her inexpressive older sister Mika, her ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28217 |
Spontaneous emission
Spontaneous emission is the process in which a quantum mechanical system (such as a molecule, an atom or a subatomic particle) transits from an excited energy state to a lower energy state (e.g., its ground state) and emits a quantized amount of energy in the form of a photon. Spontaneous emission... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28219 |
Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot
"Sous-lieutenant" Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (; 1 June 1796 – 24 August 1832) was a French mechanical engineer in the French Army, military scientist and physicist, often described as the "father of thermodynamics." Like Copernicus, he published only one book, the "Reflections on the Motiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28220 |
Sydney Opera House
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre at Sydney Harbour in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. It is one of the 20th century's most famous and distinctive buildings.
Designed by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, but completed by an Australian architectural team headed up by Pete... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28222 |
Selim II
Selim II (Ottoman Turkish: سليم ثانى "Selīm-i sānī", Turkish: "II.Selim"; 28 May 1524 – 15 December 1574), also known as "Sarı Selim" ("Selim the Blond") or "Sarhoş Selim" ("Selim the Drunk"), was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1566 until his death in 1574. He was a son of Suleiman the Magnificent and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28223 |
Speaker for the Dead
Speaker for the Dead is a 1986 science fiction novel by American writer Orson Scott Card, an indirect sequel to the novel "Ender's Game". The book takes place around the year 5270, some 3,000 years after the events in "Ender's Game". However, because of relativistic space travel at near-light spee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28230 |
Star catalogue
A star catalogue (Commonwealth English) or star catalog (American English), is an astronomical catalogue that lists stars. In astronomy, many stars are referred to simply by catalogue numbers. There are a great many different star catalogues which have been produced for different purposes over the years... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28232 |
Stellar designations and names
In astronomy, stars have a variety of different stellar designations and names, including catalogue designations, current and historical proper names, and foreign language names.
Only a tiny minority of known stars have proper names; all others have only designations from various catalo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28233 |
Space Shuttle Challenger
Space Shuttle "Challenger" (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-099) was the second orbiter of NASA's Space Shuttle program to be put into service, after "Columbia". "Challenger" was built by Rockwell International's Space Transportation Systems Division, in Downey, California. Its maiden flight, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28235 |
Space Shuttle Enterprise
Space Shuttle "Enterprise" (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-101) was the first orbiter of the Space Shuttle system. Rolled out on September 17, 1976, it was built for NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program to perform atmospheric test flights after being launched from a modified Boeing 747. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28236 |
Space Shuttle Columbia
The Space Shuttle "Columbia" (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-102) was the first space-rated orbiter in NASA's Space Shuttle fleet. It launched for the first time on mission STS-1 on April 12, 1981, the first flight of the Space Shuttle program. Serving for over 22 years, it completed 27 mission... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28237 |
Space Shuttle Discovery
Space Shuttle "Discovery" (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is one of the orbiters from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the third of five fully operational orbiters to be built. Its first mission, STS-41-D, flew from August 30 to September 5, 1984. Over 27 years of service it launched and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28238 |
Space Shuttle Atlantis
Space Shuttle "Atlantis" (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV‑104) is a Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the spaceflight and space exploration agency of the United States. Manufactured by the Rockwell International company in Southe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28239 |
Space Shuttle Endeavour
Space Shuttle "Endeavour" (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-105) is a retired orbiter from NASA's Space Shuttle program and the fifth and final operational Shuttle built. It embarked on its first mission, STS-49, in May 1992 and its 25th and final mission, STS-134, in May 2011. STS-134 was expec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28240 |
Sports Car Club of America
The Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) is a non-profit American automobile club and sanctioning body supporting road racing, rallying, and autocross in the United States. Formed in 1944, it runs many programs for both amateur and professional racers.
The SCCA traces its roots to the Automobi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28242 |
Star network
A star network is an implementation of a spoke–hub distribution paradigm in computer networks. In a star network, every host is connected to a central hub. In its simplest form, one central hub acts as a conduit to transmit messages. The star network is one of the most common computer network topologies.
... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28244 |
Sufism
Sufism or Taṣawwuf (), variously defined as "Islamic mysticism", "the inward dimension of Islam" or "the phenomenon of mysticism within Islam", is mysticism in Islam, "characterized ... [by particular] values, ritual practices, doctrines and institutions" which began very early in Islamic history and represents... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28246 |
Search algorithm
In computer science, a search algorithm is any algorithm which solves the search problem, namely, to retrieve information stored within some data structure, or calculated in the search space of a problem domain, either with discrete or continuous values. Specific applications of search algorithms incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28249 |
Software package
Software package may refer to: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28251 |
Safe semantics
Safe semantics is a computer hardware consistency model. It describes one type of guarantee that a data register provides when it is shared by several processors in a parallel computer or in a network of computers working together.
Safe semantics was first defined by Leslie Lamport in 1985. It was form... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28254 |
Sarawak
Sarawak (; ) is a state of Malaysia. The largest among the 13 states, with an area almost equal to that of Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak is located in northwest Borneo Island, and is bordered by the Malaysian state of Sabah to the northeast, Kalimantan (the Indonesian portion of Borneo) to the south, and Brunei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28258 |
Sonnet
A sonnet is a poetic form which originated at the Court of the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in Palermo, Sicily. The 13th-century poet and notary Giacomo da Lentini is credited with the sonnet's invention and the Sicilian School of poets who surrounded him is credited with its spread. The earliest sonnets, ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28260 |
Samba
Samba () is a Brazilian music genre and dance style, with its roots in Africa via the West African slave trade and African religious traditions, particularly of Congo, through the samba de roda genre of the northeastern Brazilian state of Bahia, from which it derived. Although there were various forms of samba i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28261 |
Snowboard
Snowboards are boards where both feet are secured to the same board, which are wider than skis, with the ability to glide on snow. Snowboards widths are between 6 and 12 inches or 15 to 30 centimeters. Snowboards are differentiated from monoskis by the stance of the user. In monoskiing, the user stands with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28262 |
Stanza
In poetry, a stanza (; from Italian "stanza" , "room") is a grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line or indentation. Stanzas can have regular rhyme and metrical schemes, though stanzas are not strictly required to have either. There are many unique . Some stanzaic f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28263 |
Spanish–American War
The Spanish–American War (; ) was an armed conflict between Spain and the United States in 1898. Hostilities began in the aftermath of the internal explosion of in Havana Harbor in Cuba, leading to U.S. intervention in the Cuban War of Independence. The war led to emergence of U.S. predominance in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28265 |
Scurvy
Scurvy is a disease resulting from a lack of vitamin C (ascorbic acid). Early symptoms of deficiency include weakness, feeling tired and sore arms and legs. Without treatment, decreased red blood cells, gum disease, changes to hair, and bleeding from the skin may occur. As scurvy worsens there can be poor wound... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28266 |
Sydney Harbour Bridge
The Sydney Harbour Bridge is an Australian heritage-listed steel through arch bridge across Sydney Harbour that carries rail, vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian traffic between the Sydney central business district (CBD) and the North Shore. The view of the bridge, the harbour, and the nearby Sydn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28267 |
Saving Private Ryan
Saving Private Ryan is a 1998 American epic war film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Robert Rodat. Set during the Invasion of Normandy in World War II, the film is known for its graphic portrayal of war and for the intensity of its second scene of 23 minutes, a depiction of the Omaha Be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28269 |
Shaggy dog story
In its original sense, a shaggy dog story or yarn is an extremely long-winded anecdote characterized by extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents and terminated by an anticlimax.
Shaggy dog stories play upon the audience's preconceptions of joke-telling. The audience listens to the story ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28270 |
Sushi
Sushi is traditionally made with medium-grain white rice, though it can be prepared with brown rice or short-grain rice. It is very often prepared with seafood, such as squid, eel, yellowtail, salmon, tuna or imitation crab meat. Many types of sushi are vegetarian. It is often served with pickled ginger ("gari")... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28271 |
Shinto
Shinto, also known as kami-no-michi, is a religion originating in Japan. Classified as an East Asian religion by scholars of religion, its practitioners often regard it as Japan's indigenous religion and as a nature religion. Scholars sometimes call its practitioners "Shintoists", although adherents rarely use ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28272 |
Scottish Rite
The Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction in the United States often omits the "and", while the English Constitution in the United Kingdom omits the "Scottish"), commonly known as simply the Scottish Rite (or, in England and Australia, as the Rose Croix alth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28278 |
Switch
In electrical engineering, a switch is an electrical component that can disconnect or connect the conducting path in an electrical circuit, interrupting the electric current or diverting it from one conductor to another. The most common type of switch is an electromechanical device consisting of one or more set... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28284 |
Sutra
Sutra () in Indian literary traditions refers to an aphorism or a collection of aphorisms in the form of a manual or, more broadly, a condensed manual or text. Sutras are a genre of ancient and medieval Indian texts found in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism.
In Hinduism, sutras are a distinct type of literary com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28287 |
RNA
Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a polymeric molecule essential in various biological roles in coding, decoding, regulation and expression of genes. RNA and DNA are nucleic acids. Along with lipids, proteins, and carbohydrates, nucleic acids constitute one of the four major macromolecules essential for all known forms of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25758 |
Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social revolution across the territory of the Russian Empire, commencing with the abolition of the monarchy in 1917, and concluding in 1923 after the Bolshevik establishment of the Soviet Union at the end of the Civil War.
It began during the Fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25762 |
Raven Software
Raven Software is an American video game developer based in Wisconsin and founded in 1990. In 1997, Raven made an exclusive publishing deal with Activision and was subsequently acquired by them. After the acquisition, many of the studio's original developers, largely responsible for creating the "Hereti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25764 |
RNA world
The RNA world is a hypothetical stage in the evolutionary history of life on Earth, in which self-replicating RNA molecules proliferated before the evolution of DNA and proteins. The term also refers to the hypothesis that posits the existence of this stage.
Alexander Rich first proposed the concept of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25765 |
Ribosome
Ribosomes () are macromolecular machines, found within all living cells, that perform biological protein synthesis (mRNA translation). Ribosomes link amino acids together in the order specified by the codons of messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules to form polypeptide chains. Ribosomes consist of two major component... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25766 |
Real-time computing
Real-time computing (RTC), or reactive computing is the computer science term for hardware and software systems subject to a "real-time constraint", for example from event to system response. Real-time programs must guarantee response within specified time constraints, often referred to as "deadlin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25767 |
Ruby (programming language)
Ruby is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. It was designed and developed in the mid-1990s by Yukihiro "Matz" Matsumoto in Japan.
Ruby is dynamically typed and uses garbage collection. It supports multiple programming paradigms, including procedural, object-or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25768 |
Render farm
A render farm is a high-performance computer system, e.g. a computer cluster, built to render computer-generated imagery (CGI), typically for film and television visual effects.
The term "render farm" was born during the production of the Autodesk 3D Studio animated short "The Bored Room" in July 1990 whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25774 |
Robert Borden
Sir Robert Laird Borden, (June 26, 1854 – June 10, 1937) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Canada, in office from 1911 to 1920. He is best known for his leadership of Canada during World War I.
Borden was born in Grand-Pré, Nova Scotia. He worked as a school... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25776 |
Robot
A robot is a machine—especially one programmable by a computer— capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. Robots can be guided by an external control device or the control may be embedded within. Robots may be constructed on the lines of human form, but most robots are machines designed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25781 |
R. B. Bennett
Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett (July 3, 1870 – June 26, 1947), was a Canadian lawyer, businessman and politician. He served as the 11th prime minister of Canada, in office from 1930 to 1935. He led the Conservative Party from 1927 to 1938.
Bennett's premiership was marked primarily by the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25783 |
Renewable energy
Renewable energy is energy that is collected from renewable resources, which are naturally replenished on a human timescale, such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves, and geothermal heat. Renewable energy often provides energy in four important areas: electricity generation, air and water heating/co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25784 |
List of Roman emperors
The Roman emperors were the rulers of the Roman Empire dating from the granting of the title of to Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus by the Roman Senate in 27 BC, after major roles played by the populist dictator and military leader Julius Caesar. Augustus maintained a facade of Republican rule, re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25791 |
Roman calendar
The Roman calendar was the calendar used by the Roman kingdom and republic. The term often includes the Julian calendar established by the reforms of the dictator Julius Caesar and emperor Augustus in the late 1stcentury and sometimes includes any system dated by inclusive counting towards months' kalen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25792 |
Revolver
A revolver (also called a wheel gun) is a repeating handgun that has a revolving cylinder containing multiple chambers (each holding a single cartridge) and at least one barrel for firing. Before firing a round, the hammer is cocked and the cylinder rotates partially, indexing one of the cylinder chambers int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25794 |
Robert Freitas
Robert A. Freitas Jr. (born 1952) is a nanotechnology scientist.
Freitas holds a 1974 Bachelor's degree majoring in both physics and psychology from Harvey Mudd College, and a 1978 Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from Santa Clara University School of Law. He has written more than 150 technical papers, book ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25795 |
Reykjavík
Reykjavík ( ; ) is the capital and largest city of Iceland. It is located in southwestern Iceland, on the southern shore of Faxaflói bay. Its latitude is 64°08' N, making it the world's northernmost capital of a sovereign state. With a population of around 131,136 (and 233,034 in the Capital Region), it is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25798 |
Retrovirus
A retrovirus is a type of RNA virus that inserts a copy of its genome into the DNA of a host cell that it invades, thus changing the genome of that cell. Once inside the host cell's cytoplasm, the virus uses its own reverse transcriptase enzyme to produce DNA from its RNA genome, the reverse of the usual pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25799 |
Reincarnation
Reincarnation is the philosophical or religious belief that the non-physical essence of a living being starts a new life in a different physical form or body after biological death. It is also called rebirth or transmigration.
Reincarnation is a central tenet of Indian religions, namely Jainism, Buddhis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25806 |
Robert Noyce
Robert Norton Noyce (December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990), nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley," was an American physicist who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968. He is also credited with the realization of the first monolithic integrated circuit or microchip, which f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25808 |
Riemann zeta function
The Riemann zeta function or Euler–Riemann zeta function, , is a function of a complex variable "s" that analytically continues the sum of the Dirichlet series
which converges when the real part of is greater than 1. More general representations of for all are given below. The Riemann zeta func... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25809 |
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University, commonly known as Rice University, is a private research university in Houston, Texas. The university is situated on a 300-acre (121 ha) campus near the Houston Museum District and is adjacent to the Texas Medical Center.
Opened in 1912 after the murder of its namesake W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25813 |
Richard Smalley
Richard Errett Smalley (June 6, 1943 – October 28, 2005) was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry and a Professor of Physics and Astronomy at Rice University. In 1996, along with Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, a professor at the University of Susse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25814 |
Robert Curl
Robert Floyd Curl Jr. (born August 23, 1933) is a University Professor Emeritus, Pitzer–Schlumberger Professor of Natural Sciences Emeritus, and Professor of Chemistry Emeritus at Rice University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1996 for the discovery of the nanomaterial buckminsterfullerene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25815 |
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