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Industrial applications of nanotechnology Nanotechnology may also play a role in sports such as soccer, football, and baseball. Materials for new athletic shoes may be made in order to make the shoe lighter (and the athlete faster). Baseball bats already on the market are made with carbon nanotubes that reinforce the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7067473 | 299,339 |
Experience curve effects The well travelled road effect may lead people to overestimate the effect of the experience curve. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322332 | 452,896 |
Hezekiah W. and Sarah E. Fishell Cobb House The Hezekiah W. and Sarah E. Fishell Cobb House, also known as just the Cobb House, is a single-family home located at 115 West 2nd Street in Perry, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997. In 1874–77, the Chicago and Northeastern Railway (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59231237 | 306,368 |
P-cycle protection The p-Cycle protection scheme is a technique to protect a mesh network from a failure of a link, with the benefits of ring like recovery speed and mesh-like capacity efficiency, similar to that of a shared backup path protection (SBPP). p-Cycle protection was discovered in late 1990s, with research a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37975794 | 98,993 |
Eukaryotic initiation factor 4F The eIF4F proteins interact with a number of different binding partners, and there are multiple genetic isoforms of eIF4A, eIF4E, and eIF4G in the human genome. In mammals, eIF4F is bridged to the 40S ribosomal subunit by eIF3 via eIF4G, while budding yeast lacks this connection. Interac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49497304 | 157,887 |
Unit construction BSA produced their first four-stroke unit construction singles in 1959 when they introduced the C15 to replace the venerable c12 single. The unit construction (in contrast to the separate engine and gearbox of the C10/C11 and c12) gave the family of motorcycles started by this model its familiar name.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5958446 | 214,045 |
Mach number The obvious result is that in order to accelerate a flow to supersonic, one needs a convergent-divergent nozzle, where the converging section accelerates the flow to sonic speeds, and the diverging section continues the acceleration. Such nozzles are called de Laval nozzles and in extreme cases they are abl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20051 | 447,653 |
MOSFET This change in channel strength by application of reverse bias is called the 'body effect'. Simply put, using an nMOS example, the gate-to-body bias "V" positions the conduction-band energy levels, while the source-to-body bias V positions the electron Fermi level near the interface, deciding occupancy of these ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40345 | 114,250 |
Fotis Sotiropoulos is a Greek-born American engineering professor and researcher known for his contributions in computational fluid dynamics for river hydrodynamics, renewable energy, biomedical and biological applications. He currently serves as the dean of the College of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Stony Broo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61501119 | 445,740 |
Sylvia Rose Ashby Ashby herself later declared that she was the only woman in the British Empire conducting an independent market research bureau. She persevered against the challenges, and within five years her clients included the Australian Gas Light Company, Pick-me-up Condiment Co. Ltd, the National Bank of Austra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63314529 | 495,098 |
Sumihiko Hatusima Hatsushima was born in Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan in 1906. His tertiary studies and early lectureship was at Kyushu Imperial University, where he was awarded a doctorate in 1942. He accompanied Ryōzō Kanehira on a collecting expedition in New Guinea in 1940. Hatsushima returned to Austronesia in a col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24374551 | 10,861 |
Richard Paul Wagner Richard Felix Paul Wagner (25 August 1882 – 14 February 1953) was the Chief of Design in the design office of the Deutsche Reichsbahn in Germany from its inception in 1922 to 1942. He held the rank of "Reichsbahnoberrat". Richard Wagner was born in Berlin on 25 August 1882 and studied at the Charlot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19589579 | 424,861 |
GlaxoSmithKline An internal SmithKline Beecham document said in 1998, about withheld data from two GSK studies: "It would be commercially unacceptable to include a statement that [pediatric] efficacy had not been demonstrated, as this would undermine the profile of paroxetine." The company ghostwrote an article, publis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=192517 | 151,621 |
Demand assignment In telecommunication, a demand assignment is a method which several users share access to a communication channel on a real-time basis, "i.e.", a user needing to communicate with another user on the same network requests the required circuit, uses it, and when the call is finished, the circuit is rele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41016 | 295,675 |
Induced stem cells However, the safety of these cells remains questionable. Since lineage conversion from pre-iPSC relies on the use of iPSC reprogramming conditions, a fraction of the cells could acquire pluripotent properties if they do not stop the de-differentation process in vitro or due to further de-differentiat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 | 178,566 |
Trans-Golgi network vesicle protein 23 A There is evidence of higher expression in the brain tissue of mice. The promoter for TVP23A is GXP_91266, spanning 1403 base pairs located on the negative strand of chromosome 16. The hypothesized function of TVP23A is a transmembrane protein involved in retrograde transport of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52974301 | 8,467 |
Quantum algorithm We are required to find n n-bit strings z..., z such that for the Hadamard-Fourier transform, at least 3/4 of the strings satisfy and at least 1/4 satisfies This can be done in bounded-error quantum polynomial time (BQP). Amplitude amplification is a technique that allows the amplification of a chosen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=632489 | 278,675 |
Bicycle lock (This can thwart someone carrying a single wrench, but is trivially defeated by using a wrench on each end.) Wheels are also commonly secured by use of a wheel tether, which is basically a flexible steel cable with a noose swaged on either end. This type cable does not require its own lock. It is secured b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1483426 | 437,069 |
Coding interview If the information about the dress code of a target company is given or can be found, wear accordingly. Women are advised to avoid heavy jewelry. The question of why manhole covers are typically round (in some countries) was made famous by Microsoft when they began asking it as a job-interview question... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3740728 | 233,604 |
DocPoint is a commercial document management system. targets a wide variety of audiences ranging from corporations and government institutions, to small and medium enterprises across a broad spectrum of market verticals. is designed to meet the requirements of: simplifies regulatory compliance with the following standa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17106978 | 497,886 |
Mucoadhesion This can occur mechanically by bringing together the two surfaces, or through the bodily systems, like when particles are deposited in the nasal cavity by inhalation. The principles of initial adsorption of small molecule adsobates can be described by DLVO theory. According to DLVO theory, particles are he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21017672 | 146,507 |
Aqueduct of Segovia One of the buildings of Segovia's former mint, the "Real Casa de Moneda", houses an aqueduct interpretation centre, developed with funding from European Economic Area grants. There is a connection between the mint and the aqueduct in that coins minted in Segovia used the aqueduct as a mint mark. Ano... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4064177 | 366,202 |
Video codec This part of the process is often called "inverse quantization" or "dequantization", although quantization is an inherently non-invertible process. designs are usually standardized or eventually become standardized—i.e., specified precisely in a published document. However, only the decoding process need be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54475 | 248,244 |
Motoko Kusanagi Having lived for over a century, while being physically locked as a young adult in her mid-twenties, Kusanagi's current prosthetic body is amongst the most advanced models on the market, possessing 16²/cm² skin tactile elements, meaning she has a greatly heightened sense of touch. In every anime iterati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1691883 | 411,441 |
Korangi Industrial Area (KIA) is located in [Korangi District, in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. It is one of the largest industrial areas of Pakistan. It houses approximately 4500 industries, commercial and trading units including textile, steel, pharmaceutical, automobile, chemical, engineering and flour mills. The Korang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16909515 | 297,657 |
Strontian process One of the biggest mines, at Drensteinfurt, was named after Dr. Reichardt, the director of the Dessauer Sugar Refinery. A further place the strontian process came to be used was the Sugar Factory Rositz (in Rositz). Yet by 1883, the demand on strontianite had begun to shrink. Firstly, it was replaced ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41281214 | 487,960 |
Envelope (motion) In mechanical engineering, an envelope is a solid representing all positions which may be occupied by an object during its normal range of motion. Another (jargon) word for this is a "flop". In automobile design, a wheel envelope may be used to model all positions a wheel and tire combo may be expecte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2863149 | 425,624 |
SpaceX reusable launch system development program The company produced a computer-animated video depicting a notional view of the first stage returning tail-first for a powered descent and the second stage with a heat shield, reentering head first before rotating for a powered descent. In September 2012, SpaceX began f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34666187 | 220,518 |
Peça A (Portuguese) (also "boa peça", "peça da India", and "pieza de India" – Piece of India, Spanish) was a unit of value in the slave trade in West Africa through the Cape Verde Islands during the 16th to 18th centuries. A peca was the value of a healthy male or female slave between 15 and 25 years of age. Slaves bet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9018549 | 502,305 |
Reciprocating Chemical Muscle The reciprocating chemical muscle (RCM) is a mechanism that takes advantage of the superior energy density of chemical reactions. It is a regenerative device that converts chemical energy into motion through a direct noncombustive chemical reaction. RCM is capable of generating autonomic w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4288722 | 282,079 |
History of Italian Renaissance domes The church of Sant'Anna dei Palafrenieri (c. 1568–1575), designed by Vignola and completed by his son Giacinto Barozzi, was the first church to have an oval dome over an oval plan. The Villa Capra, also known as "La Rotunda", was built by Andrea Palladio from 1565 to 1569 near Vicen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45632842 | 361,670 |
Clark L. Wilson (August 31, 1913 – August 12, 2006 in Winchester, Virginia) was an American industrial psychologist who introduced the concept of 360 feedback surveys for management training and development applications. From 1970-1973 he developed his first 360-degree feedback survey, the "Survey of Management Practic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13636430 | 501,014 |
Die cutting (web) Die cutting is the general process of using a die to shear webs of low-strength materials, such as rubber, fibre, foil, cloth, paper, corrugated fibreboard, chipboard, paperboard, plastics, pressure-sensitive adhesive tapes, foam, and sheet metal. In the metalworking and leather industries, the proces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3283459 | 483,390 |
Pyrite Arsenopyrite has a related structure with heteroatomic As–S pairs rather than homoatomic ones. Marcasite also possesses homoatomic anion pairs, but the arrangement of the metal and diatomic anions is different from that of pyrite. Despite its name a chalcopyrite () does not contain dianion pairs, but single S su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45756 | 23,179 |
Mebendazole It kills parasites relatively slowly, and in those with very heavy infestations, it can cause some parasites to migrate out of the digestive system, leading to appendicitis, bile duct problems, or intestinal perforation. To avoid this, heavily infested patients may be treated with piperazine, either before ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2202629 | 21,342 |
Painlevé conjecture Saari proved in 1977 that for almost all (in the sense of Lebesgue measure) initial conditions in the plane or space for 2, 3 and 4-body problems there are singularity-free solutions. In 1984 Joe Gerver gave an argument for a noncollision singularity in the planar 5-body problem with no collisions. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43825561 | 431,687 |
SplitFire spark plug SplitFire was a company that manufactured a spark plug featuring a split ground electrode. SplitFire claimed that its "V" electrode design improved combustion by allowing the ignited flame to pass through the gap in the electrode, instead of around it. SplitFire spark plugs were popular and heavily... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9791532 | 265,909 |
Polychlorinated biphenyl Stewart went on to be the pioneer and lead attorney in the first and majority of cases against Monsanto and focused on residents in the immediate area known to be most polluted. Other attorneys later joined in to file suits for those outside the main immediate area around the plant; one of thes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48230 | 23,372 |
Dark current (physics) In physics and in electronic engineering, dark current is the relatively small electric current that flows through photosensitive devices such as a photomultiplier tube, photodiode, or charge-coupled device even when no photons are entering the device; it consists of the charges generated in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19805906 | 220,796 |
Eutectic bonding To prevent the melt pressed outside the bonding interface the optimization of the bonding parameter control is necessary, e.g. low force on the wafers. Otherwise, it may lead to short circuits or device malfunctions of the used components (electrical and mechanical). The heating of the wafers leads to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31336127 | 382,475 |
Cost basis Min Tax sells shares in the following order: shares with short-term losses, long-term losses, long-term gains and lastly short-term gains. Max Gain is the exact opposite of Min Tax. Shareholders are no longer required to petition the IRS to switch cost basis methods starting in 2012, however to move into or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5036061 | 454,361 |
Z-order curve Points can be sorted according to their shuffle without explicitly interleaving the bits. To do this, for each dimension, the most significant bit of the exclusive or of the coordinates of the two points for that dimension is examined. The dimension for which the most significant bit is largest is then us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1699416 | 104,343 |
Research Institute of Computer Science and Random Systems The Institut de recherche en informatique et systèmes aléatoires is a joint computer science research center of CNRS, University of Rennes 1, ENS Rennes, INSA Rennes and Inria, in Rennes in Brittany. It is one of the eight Inria research centers. Created in 1975... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2289394 | 108,166 |
Tower of London Since 1994, the Crown Jewels have been on display in the Jewel House in the Waterloo Block. Some of the pieces are used regularly by the Queen. The display includes 23,578 gemstones, the 800-year-old Coronation Spoon, St. Edward's Crown (worn during all crownings at Westminster Abbey) and the Imperial S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31165 | 330,884 |
Twin Research and Human Genetics is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published bimonthly by the Cambridge University Press. It is the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies (ISTS). The journal covers research on the biology and epidemiology of twinning as well as biomedical and behavioral twin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23574969 | 171,467 |
Thierry Deuve (born 29 August 1956) is a French entomologist. The moth "Deuveia banghaasi" is named for Deuve. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56905196 | 9,286 |
Orbital ring This means that using the Orbital Ring concept, one or many pairs of Stations can be positioned above "any" points on Earth desired or can be moved everywhere on the globe. Thus, any point on Earth can be served by a space elevator. Also a whole network of orbital rings can be built, which, by crossing ove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1945739 | 304,779 |
Wireless USB After receiving the group key of a cluster, a device must keep the connection alive by at least confirming its presence within each "trust timeout" boundary, which is set to four seconds. If it does not succeed at keeping up with this requirement, reauthentication is demanded. Following the natural asymmet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1462445 | 400,716 |
National Road Today, travelers driving east from Vandalia travel along modern U.S. 40 through south-central Illinois. The continued into Indiana along modern U.S. 40, passing by the cities of Terre Haute and Indianapolis. Within Indianapolis, the used the original alignment of U.S. 40 along West and East Washington Str... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55562 | 207,863 |
Canon EF-S 15–85mm lens The Canon EF-S 15–85mm f/3.5–5.6 IS USM is a standard zoom lens for Canon digital single-lens reflex cameras with an EF-S lens mount. The field of view has a 35 mm equivalent focal length of 24–136mm. The EF-S mount was specifically designed for APS-C cameras. It is the higher end kit lens for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24194182 | 283,901 |
Dehumidifier When water is chilled below the atmospheric dewpoint, atmospheric water will condense onto it faster than water evaporates from it. Spray dehumidifiers mix sprays of chilled water and air to capture atmospheric moisture. They also capture pollutants and contaminants like pollen, for which purpose they are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=251975 | 355,927 |
Discretization We also assume that formula_39 is constant during the integral, which in turn yields which is an exact solution to the discretization problem. Exact discretization may sometimes be intractable due to the heavy matrix exponential and integral operations involved. It is much easier to calculate an approxim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=330017 | 391,713 |
Lean product development While some basic principles and guidelines are applicable across and Lean production (such as waste reduction), many applications of lean process for development have focused more on the production approach. The purpose of production is to manufacture products reliably within margins of control... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32173564 | 219,931 |
Entrepreneurship When non-routine strategies are needed, distrusting persons perform better, while when routine strategies are needed trusting persons perform better. Gudmundsson and Lechner extended this research to entrepreneurial firms. They argued that in entrepreneurial firms the threat of failure is ever-present,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18950003 | 485,762 |
Disaster recovery Preparedness measures for all categories and types of disasters fall into the five mission areas of prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery. Recent research supports the idea that implementing a more holistic pre-disaster planning approach is more cost-effective in the long run. Eve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=640655 | 484,738 |
Talimogene laherparepvec More than 10% of people had edema, headache, cough, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, muscle pain, or joint pain. Between 1% and 10% developed cold sores, pain or infection in the lesion, anemia, immune mediated events (like vasculitis, pneumonia, worsening psoriasis, glomerulonephritis and vit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38686504 | 286,941 |
International Building Performance Simulation Association Recipients of the IBPSA Distinguished Achievement Award: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44409150 | 218,257 |
World Summit on the Information Society In such circumstance, recognizing that these challenges and opportunities require global discussion on the highest level, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), following a proposal by the government of Tunisia during ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Minneapolis in 199... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=274322 | 245,100 |
Sydney Brenner According to the late Beryl Oughton, later Rimmer, they all travelled together in two cars once Dorothy Hodgkin announced to them that they were off to Cambridge to see the model of the structure of DNA. Brenner made several seminal contributions to the emerging field of molecular biology in the 1960s (s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=379148 | 174,232 |
Librestream Technologies Inc. is a privately owned, venture capital–backed company based in Winnipeg, Canada. provides technologies that enable mobile enterprise collaboration. is notable in that its technology, consisting of unique hand-held mobile devices and accompanying software, extends traditional video conferenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31816986 | 273,071 |
Laves graph For each such pair, and each edge "uv" adjacent to "v" in "G", make an edge from ("v","w") to ("u","w" ± "ε") where "ε" is zero if "uv" belongs to the spanning tree and is otherwise the basis vector associated with "uv", and where the plus or minus sign is chosen according to the direction the edge is trave... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44557148 | 79,732 |
Holland Tunnel A bust of Holland sits outside the entrance to the westbound tube in Freeman Plaza. A business improvement district for the area, the Hudson Square Connection, was founded in 2009 with the goal of repurposing the square for pedestrian use. Hudson Square Connection and the Port Authority collaborated to c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172243 | 359,099 |
Lichen Crustose and squamulose lichens have only an upper cortex, with the "inside" of the lichen in direct contact with the surface they grow on (the "substrate"). Even if the edges peel up from the substrate and appear flat and leaf-like, they lack a lower cortex, unlike foliose lichens. Filamentous, byssoid, leprose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172396 | 36,491 |
Human nutrition However, the nutrition of children in the region as a whole has degraded for the past ten years due to the increasing portion of underweight children in three populous nations – Iraq, Sudan, and Yemen. Forty six percent of all children in Yemen are underweight, a percentage that has worsened by 4% since... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93827 | 192,723 |
Output impedance The output impedance of an electrical network is the measure of the opposition to current flow (impedance), both static (resistance) and dynamic (reactance), into the load network being connected that is "internal" to the electrical source. The output impedance is a measure of the source's propensity t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=643070 | 420,995 |
Foster Business Library During the fall, winter, and spring quarters, the library is open Mondays through Thursdays from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., on Fridays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays, and 1 to 10 p.m. on Sundays. Hours are extended during exam weeks and shortened during the summer quarter, univers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7535552 | 491,993 |
Warfarin People can be exposed to warfarin in the workplace by breathing it in, swallowing it, skin absorption, and eye contact. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has set the legal limit (permissible exposure limit) for warfarin exposure in the workplace as 0.1 mg/m over an 8-hour workday. The Na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=238097 | 25,311 |
Immunity-aware programming Parity Checks only detect odd numbers of flipped bits. The even numbers of bit errors stay undetected. A possible improvement is the usage of both VRC and LRC, called Double Parity or Optimal Rectangular Code (ORC). Some microcontrollers feature a hardware CRC unit. A specific method of data ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8008565 | 385,643 |
Alkaline earth metal The principal minerals are celestite and strontianite. Barium is slightly less common, much of it in the mineral barite. Radium, being a decay product of uranium, is found in all uranium-bearing ores. Due to its relatively short half-life, radium from the Earth's early history has decayed, and pres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37411 | 37,971 |
Emerging technologies Many medical researchers believe that stem cell treatments have the potential to change the face of human disease and alleviate suffering. The ability of stem cells to self-renew and give rise to subsequent generations with variable degrees of differentiation capacities offers significant potentia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3889704 | 234,042 |
Euprymna scolopes fischeri" cells swim on towards the antechamber, a large epithelial-lined space, and colonize the narrow epithelial crypts. The bacteria thrive on the host-derived amino acids and sugars in the antechamber and quickly fill the crypt spaces within 10 to 12 hours after hatching. Every second, a juvenile... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9547298 | 153,498 |
Artificial consciousness The emergentist multiple drafts principle proposed by Daniel Dennett in "Consciousness Explained" may be useful for prediction: it involves the evaluation and selection of the most appropriate "draft" to fit the current environment. Anticipation includes prediction of consequences of one's own ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=195552 | 138,420 |
Discovery and development of ACE inhibitors Later, the researchers compared a few mercaptoacyl amino acid inhibitors and concluded that the binding of the inhibitor to the enzyme involved a hydrogen bond between a donor site on the enzyme and the oxygen of the amide carbonyl, much like predicted for the substrates. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14257881 | 81,081 |
DO-254 A widely used industry mnemonic for the difference is: While simple electronic hardware (SEH) is within the scope of DO-254/ED-80, its guidance on the subject has been considered inadequate among applicants seeking certification of simple electronic hardware. The Certification Authorities Software Team published... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3296562 | 109,149 |
Wire wrap was invented to wire telephone crossbar switches, and later adapted to construct electronic circuit boards. Electronic components mounted on an insulating board are interconnected by lengths of insulated wire run between their terminals, with the connections made by wrapping several turns of uninsulated secti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65897 | 380,735 |
Absinthin While terpenoids like can be said to consist of isoprene "units," isoprene by itself is unstable and does not react directly. Rather, the isoprene units are transferred and reacted as diphosphates. As the nomenclature for terpenes suggests, the first precursor farnesyl diphosphate [A] contains 15 carbons, or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23189674 | 19,515 |
Master of biological sciences A Master of Science in Biological Sciences is a specific degree to a Master's Degree in the field of the Biological Sciences. This is a higher degree taken up in the Graduate School provided by a university. This degree is usually specific to those who have accomplished their undergraduate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24260834 | 10,853 |
Renix (Electronique) was a joint venture by Renault and Bendix that designed and manufactured automobile electronic ignitions, fuel injection systems, electronic automatic transmission controls, and various engine sensors. Major applications included various Renault and Volvo vehicles. The name became synonymous in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7712632 | 103,284 |
Stevens Award The is a software engineering lecture award given by the Reengineering Forum, an industry association. The international was created to recognize outstanding contributions to the literature or practice of methods for software and systems development. The first award was given in 1995. The presentations fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8881415 | 216,634 |
Facilitated variation The theory of facilitated variation is supported by computational analyses of the evolution of regulatory networks. These studies confirm that phenotypic variability can be directed towards phenotypes with high fitness even when mutations are randomly distributed, and even when challenged with nov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2998760 | 147,966 |
Brazilian packaging market PET is the second most recycled packaging material in Brazil with 54% of PET having been recycled in 2014. However, due to lower production costs this rate is yet much smaller than the percentage of recycled aluminum. Given its very low production costs as well as the more expensive processes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48650819 | 473,421 |
Activation energy In chemistry and physics, activation energy is the energy which must be provided to a chemical or nuclear system with potential reactants to result in: a chemical reaction, nuclear reaction, or various other physical phenomena. The activation energy ("E") of a reaction is measured in joules per mole (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38413 | 38,167 |
Water heating Depending on how electricity is generated, overall efficiency may be much lower. For example, in a traditional coal plant, only about 30–35% of the energy in the coal ends up as electricity on the other end of the generator. Losses on the electrical grid (including line losses and voltage transformation l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=521801 | 368,515 |
Session border controller A session border controller (SBC) is a network element deployed to protect SIP based voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) networks. Early deployments of SBCs were focused on the borders between two service provider networks in a peering environment. This role has now expanded to include signifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1491198 | 109,414 |
Open Bionics Open Bionics, founded in 2014, is a UK based company developing low-cost bionic hands. It is based inside Future Space, co-located with Bristol Robotics Laboratory. In 2015 Disney and the company announced a partnership to create superhero-themed prosthetics for young amputees. In the same year, the compan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49312388 | 214,311 |
Zinc finger protein 613 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF613 gene. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49253215 | 157,805 |
Amylolytic process The amylolytic process is used in the brewing of alcohol from grains. Since grains contain starches but little to no simple sugars, the sugar needed to produce alcohol is derived from starch via the amylolytic process. In beer brewing, this is done through malting. In sake brewing, the mold Aspergill... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5657385 | 77,681 |
Herbimycin is a benzoquinone ansamycin antibiotic that binds to Hsp90 (Heat Shock Protein 90) and alters its function. Hsp90 client proteins play important roles in the regulation of the cell cycle, cell growth, cell survival, apoptosis, angiogenesis and oncogenesis. It was originally found by its herbicidal activity, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10792481 | 182,852 |
Prophase If chromosomes do not need to re-condense, prophase II often proceeds very quickly as is seen in the model organism Arabidopsis. The most notable difference between prophase in plant cells and animal cells occurs because plant cells lack centrioles. The organization of the spindle apparatus is associated inste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145563 | 193,071 |
Motor soft starter A motor soft starter is a device used with AC electrical motors to temporarily reduce the load and torque in the power train and electric current surge of the motor during start-up. This reduces the mechanical stress on the motor and shaft, as well as the electrodynamic stresses on the attached power... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8145633 | 406,482 |
Metzler paradox In economics, the (named after the American economist Lloyd Metzler) is the theoretical possibility that the imposition of a tariff on imports may reduce the relative internal price of that good. It was proposed by Lloyd Metzler in 1949 upon examination of tariffs within the Heckscher–Ohlin model. The p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20188411 | 513,146 |
Mojette Transform In many countries, bean is a basic educational tool representing an exact unit that teaches visually additions and subtractions. Therefore, the choice of the name "Mojette" serves to emphasize the fact that the transform uses only exact unit in additions and subtractions. There is an old French saying... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35164689 | 379,102 |
Diesel generator Ships often also employ diesel generators, sometimes not only to provide auxiliary power for lights, fans, winches etc., but also indirectly for main propulsion. With electric propulsion the generators can be placed in a convenient position, to allow more cargo to be carried. Electric drives for ships ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3291660 | 427,052 |
ReAction! Chemistry in the Movies (2009, ) is a nonfiction book about movies, chemistry, and chemistry in the movies by Chemistry Professor Mark Griep and Artist Marjorie Mikasen published by Oxford University Press USA. The authors were awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant in the area of Public Understanding of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23183722 | 19,510 |
Neochromosome A neochromosome is a chromosome that is not normally found in nature. Cancer-associated neochromosomes are found in some cancer cells. Neochromosomes have also been created using genetic engineering techniques. Cancer-associated neochromosomes are giant supernumerary chromosomes. They harbor the mutations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44370851 | 225,240 |
History of AC power plugs and sockets Hubbell's catalogue of 1906 includes various three-way adaptors similar to those shown in the US 776,326 patent, but modified for use with the coplanar flat pin plugs. The Chapman receptacle must have been in general use at the time, as it was the only type of non-lampholder recept... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57592739 | 391,054 |
Dynamical pictures Transforming the Schwinger–Tomonaga equation into the language of the density matrix (or equivalently, transforming the von Neumann equation into the interaction picture) gives: The interaction picture does not always exist. In interacting quantum field theories, Haag's theorem states that the intera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40428588 | 435,669 |
Bodily integrity Methods of increasing children's sense of bodily autonomy include: The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights states the following: "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. In particular, no one shall be subjected without his free co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31601107 | 502,879 |
Western Corridor Recycled Water Scheme The system has the capacity to provide water to other industrial users, agricultural users and to supplement drinking water supplies in Wivenhoe Dam. Testing of the pipeline to Wivenhoe Dam has been conducted, however in November 2008, Premier Anna Bligh declared that recycled wat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17393733 | 313,622 |
Founder Group PKU Founder IT Group (北大方正信产集团) is a leader in China's IT industry, possessing more than a dozen technological enterprises, two of which employ 15,000 employees. Its subsidiary, Founder Technology, is the second largest personal computer distributor in China. The industry group covers a wide range of prod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3477669 | 124,787 |
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