source
stringlengths
32
209
text
stringlengths
18
1.5k
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumulative%20distribution%20function
In probability theory and statistics, the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of a real-valued random variable , or just distribution function of , evaluated at , is the probability that will take a value less than or equal to . Every probability distribution supported on the real numbers, discrete or "mixed" as w...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20tendency
In statistics, a central tendency (or measure of central tendency) is a central or typical value for a probability distribution. Colloquially, measures of central tendency are often called averages. The term central tendency dates from the late 1920s. The most common measures of central tendency are the arithmetic me...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cluster%20sampling
In statistics, cluster sampling is a sampling plan used when mutually homogeneous yet internally heterogeneous groupings are evident in a statistical population. It is often used in marketing research. In this sampling plan, the total population is divided into these groups (known as clusters) and a simple random sa...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20number
In mathematics, a complex number is an element of a number system that extends the real numbers with a specific element denoted , called the imaginary unit and satisfying the equation ; every complex number can be expressed in the form , where and are real numbers. Because no real number satisfies the above equation,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalysis
Catalysis () is the increase in rate of a chemical reaction due to an added substance known as a catalyst (). Catalysts are not consumed by the reaction and remain unchanged after it. If the reaction is rapid and the catalyst recycles quickly, very small amounts of catalyst often suffice; mixing, surface area, and temp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computation
A computation is any type of arithmetic or non-arithmetic calculation that is well-defined. Common examples of computations are mathematical equations and computer algorithms. Mechanical or electronic devices (or, historically, people) that perform computations are known as computers. The study of computation is the f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Study%20heterogeneity
In statistics, (between-) study heterogeneity is a phenomenon that commonly occurs when attempting to undertake a meta-analysis. In a simplistic scenario, studies whose results are to be combined in the meta-analysis would all be undertaken in the same way and to the same experimental protocols. Differences between out...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit104.7%20Canberra
hit104.7 (call sign: 2ROC) is a commercial FM radio station broadcasting in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia, on a frequency of 104.7 MHz, and is part of Southern Cross Austereo's Hit Network. hit104.7 and sister station MIX 106.3 broadcast from Crace in the Australian Capital Territory. History In ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gauss%E2%80%93Seidel%20method
In numerical linear algebra, the Gauss–Seidel method, also known as the Liebmann method or the method of successive displacement, is an iterative method used to solve a system of linear equations. It is named after the German mathematicians Carl Friedrich Gauss and Philipp Ludwig von Seidel, and is similar to the Jaco...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indolamines
Indolamines are a family of neurotransmitters that share a common molecular structure (namely, indolamine). Indolamines are a classification of monoamine neurotransmitter, along with catecholamines and ethylamine derivatives. A common example of an indolamine is the tryptophan derivative serotonin, a neurotransmitter i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobi%20method
In numerical linear algebra, the Jacobi method (a.k.a. the Jacobi iteration method) is an iterative algorithm for determining the solutions of a strictly diagonally dominant system of linear equations. Each diagonal element is solved for, and an approximate value is plugged in. The process is then iterated until it con...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nannophrys
Nannophrys is a genus of frogs endemic to Sri Lanka. It used to be placed in the large frog family Ranidae but a phylogenetic study was undertaken using DNA sequences and it is now included in the family Dicroglossidae. They are sometimes known under the common name streamlined frogs. Ecology Nannophrys species are fl...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirex
Mirex is an organochloride that was commercialized as an insecticide and later banned because of its impact on the environment. This white crystalline odorless solid is a derivative of cyclopentadiene. It was popularized to control fire ants but by virtue of its chemical robustness and lipophilicity it was recognized ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monoamine%20oxidase%20A
Monoamine oxidase A, also known as MAO-A, is an enzyme (E.C. 1.4.3.4) that in humans is encoded by the MAOA gene. This gene is one of two neighboring gene family members that encode mitochondrial enzymes which catalyze the oxidative deamination of amines, such as dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin. A mutation of t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plopeni
Plopeni () is a town in Prahova County, Muntenia, Romania, with a population of 6,709 as of 2021. Climate Plopeni has a humid continental climate (Cfb in the Köppen climate classification). References Towns in Romania Populated places in Prahova County Localities in Muntenia Monotowns in Romania
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartan%E2%80%93Dieudonn%C3%A9%20theorem
In mathematics, the Cartan–Dieudonné theorem, named after Élie Cartan and Jean Dieudonné, establishes that every orthogonal transformation in an n-dimensional symmetric bilinear space can be described as the composition of at most n reflections. The notion of a symmetric bilinear space is a generalization of Euclidean...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granule
A granule is a large particle or grain. It can refer to: Granule (cell biology), any of several submicroscopic structures, some with explicable origins, others noted only as cell type-specific features of unknown function Azurophilic granule, a structure characteristic of the azurophil eukaryotic cell type Chromaf...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Och
Och may refer to: Och (spirit) The ISO 639-3 language code for Old Chinese 6-oxocamphor hydrolase, an enzyme Och, alternative spelling of Uch, a city in Bahawalpur District, Pakistan John R. Oishei Children's Hospital, Buffalo, New York, United States Outram Community Hospital, a community hospital in Singapore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mineralogical%20Society%20of%20America
The Mineralogical Society of America (MSA) is a scientific membership organization. MSA was founded in 1919 for the advancement of mineralogy, crystallography, geochemistry, and petrology, and promotion of their uses in other sciences, industry, and the arts. It encourages fundamental research about natural materials; ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakravala%20method
The chakravala method () is a cyclic algorithm to solve indeterminate quadratic equations, including Pell's equation. It is commonly attributed to Bhāskara II, (c. 1114 – 1185 CE) although some attribute it to Jayadeva (c. 950 ~ 1000 CE). Jayadeva pointed out that Brahmagupta's approach to solving equations of this ty...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live-variable%20analysis
In compilers, live variable analysis (or simply liveness analysis) is a classic data-flow analysis to calculate the variables that are live at each point in the program. A variable is live at some point if it holds a value that may be needed in the future, or equivalently if its value may be read before the next time t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular%20resonance
A secular resonance is a type of orbital resonance between two bodies with synchronized precessional frequencies. In celestial mechanics, secular refers to the long-term motion of a system, and resonance is periods or frequencies being a simple numerical ratio of small integers. Typically, the synchronized precessions ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel%20%28broadcasting%29
In broadcasting, a channel or frequency channel is a designated radio frequency (or, equivalently, wavelength), assigned by a competent frequency assignment authority for the operation of a particular radio station, television station or television channel. See also Frequency allocation, ITU RR, article 1.17 Frequency...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroimmune%20system
The neuroimmune system is a system of structures and processes involving the biochemical and electrophysiological interactions between the nervous system and immune system which protect neurons from pathogens. It serves to protect neurons against disease by maintaining selectively permeable barriers (e.g., the blood–br...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphatidylserine
Phosphatidylserine (abbreviated Ptd-L-Ser or PS) is a phospholipid and is a component of the cell membrane. It plays a key role in cell cycle signaling, specifically in relation to apoptosis. It is a key pathway for viruses to enter cells via apoptotic mimicry. Its exposure on the outer surface of a membrane marks the ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E47
E47 may refer to: European route E47, a road through Denmark between Sweden and Germany , a British submarine Transcription factor 3 (TCF3), a protein A version of the Mercedes-Benz M273 engine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dopamine%20agonist
A dopamine agonist (DA) is a compound that activates dopamine receptors. There are two families of dopamine receptors, D2-like and D1-like, and they are all G protein-coupled receptors. D1- and D5-receptors belong to the D1-like family and the D2-like family includes D2, D3 and D4 receptors. Dopamine agonists are prima...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard%20Vaughan%20%28robotics%29
Richard Vaughan (born 28 July 1971) is a robotics and artificial intelligence researcher at Simon Fraser University in Canada. Since 2018, Vaughan is on leave from SFU and is working at Apple. He is the founder and director of the SFU Autonomy Laboratory. In 1998, Vaughan demonstrated the first robot to interact with ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonlocal%20Lagrangian
In field theory, a nonlocal Lagrangian is a Lagrangian, a type of functional containing terms that are nonlocal in the fields , i.e. not polynomials or functions of the fields or their derivatives evaluated at a single point in the space of dynamical parameters (e.g. space-time). Examples of such nonlocal Lagrangians ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-energy%20X-rays
High-energy X-rays or HEX-rays are very hard X-rays, with typical energies of 80–1000 keV (1 MeV), about one order of magnitude higher than conventional X-rays used for X-ray crystallography (and well into gamma-ray energies over 120 keV). They are produced at modern synchrotron radiation sources such as the beamlines ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glutamate%20transporter
Glutamate transporters are a family of neurotransmitter transporter proteins that move glutamate – the principal excitatory neurotransmitter – across a membrane. The family of glutamate transporters is composed of two primary subclasses: the excitatory amino acid transporter (EAAT) family and vesicular glutamate transp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20newspapers%20in%20Georgia%20%28U.S.%20state%29
This is a list of newspapers in Georgia, US. List of newspapers {| class="wikitable sortable" |- ! Title ! Locale ! Year est. ! Frequency ! Publisher/parent company ! Notes |- | Advance | Vidalia | | | | |- | Albany Herald | Albany | | Sunday - Friday | Southern Community Newspapers, Inc. (SCNI) | Newspaper in Al...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dihydrobenzophenanthridine%20oxidase
Dihydrobenzophenanthridine oxidase (DHBP oxidase) is an enzyme. In the IUBMB Enzyme Nomenclature, dihydrobenzophenanthridine oxidase is . Dihydrobenzophenanthridine oxidase produces oxidized forms of benzophenanthridine alkaloids: In Sanguinaria canadensis (bloodroot), dihydrobenzophenanthridine oxidase produces san...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixture%20%28probability%29
In probability theory and statistics, a mixture is a probabilistic combination of two or more probability distributions. The concept arises mostly in two contexts: A mixture defining a new probability distribution from some existing ones, as in a mixture distribution or a compound distribution. Here a major problem of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There%20Are%20Doors
There Are Doors is a speculative fiction novel by American writer Gene Wolfe, published in 1988. The narrative follows a department store salesman as he tries to track down his short-lived girlfriend. The title alludes to gateways between two worlds whose nature are explored throughout the book. There Are Doors was no...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913%20Ais%20Gill%20rail%20accident
The Ais Gill rail accident occurred on the Settle–Carlisle line in Northwest England on 2 September 1913. Two long trains were both ascending a steep gradient with some difficulty, because their engines generated barely enough power to carry the load. When the first train stopped to build-up steam pressure, the driver ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cystidium
A cystidium (: cystidia) is a relatively large cell found on the sporocarp of a basidiomycete (for example, on the surface of a mushroom gill), often between clusters of basidia. Since cystidia have highly varied and distinct shapes that are often unique to a particular species or genus, they are a useful micromorpholo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCCTS
PCCTS may refer to: Purdue Compiler Construction Tool Set, the predecessor of the ANTLR parser generator Pauperes commilitones Christi Templique Solomonici, the Knights Templar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh%20F.%20Durrant-Whyte
Hugh Francis Durrant-Whyte (born 6 February 1961) is a British-Australian engineer and academic. He is known for his pioneering work on probabilistic methods for robotics. The algorithms developed in his group since the early 1990s permit autonomous vehicles to deal with uncertainty and to localize themselves despite ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracrine
Intracrine refers to a hormone that acts inside a cell, regulating intracellular events. In simple terms it means that the cell stimulates itself by cellular production of a factor that acts within the cell. Steroid hormones act through intracellular (mostly nuclear) receptors and, thus, may be considered to be intracr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor%20bundle
In mathematics, the tensor bundle of a manifold is the direct sum of all tensor products of the tangent bundle and the cotangent bundle of that manifold. To do calculus on the tensor bundle a connection is needed, except for the special case of the exterior derivative of antisymmetric tensors. Definition A tensor bun...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higman%27s%20embedding%20theorem
In group theory, Higman's embedding theorem states that every finitely generated recursively presented group R can be embedded as a subgroup of some finitely presented group G. This is a result of Graham Higman from the 1960s. On the other hand, it is an easy theorem that every finitely generated subgroup of a finit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charge%20sharing
Charge sharing is an effect of signal degradation through transfer of charges from one electronic domain to another. Charge sharing in semiconductor radiation detectors In pixelated semiconductor radiation detectors - such as photon-counting or hybrid-pixel-detectors, charge sharing refers to the diffusion of electri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaviside%E2%80%93Lorentz%20units
Heaviside–Lorentz units (or Lorentz–Heaviside units) constitute a system of units and quantities that extends the CGS with a particular set of equations that defines electromagnetic quantities, named for Oliver Heaviside and Hendrik Antoon Lorentz. They share with the CGS-Gaussian system that the electric constant and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense-independent%20ERA
In baseball statistics, defense-independent ERA (dERA) is a statistic that projects what a pitcher's earned run average (ERA) would have been, if not for the effects of defense and luck on the actual games in which he pitched. The statistic was first devised by Voros McCracken in 1999. Method Version 2.0 of dERA uses ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20physics
Thermal physics is the combined study of thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and kinetic theory of gases. This umbrella-subject is typically designed for physics students and functions to provide a general introduction to each of three core heat-related subjects. Other authors, however, define thermal physics loos...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CountrySTAT
CountrySTAT is a Web-based information technology system for food and agriculture statistics at the national and subnational levels. It provides decision-makers access to statistics across thematic areas such as production, prices, trade and consumption. This supports analysis, informed policy-making and monitoring wit...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20entropy
A thermodynamic free entropy is an entropic thermodynamic potential analogous to the free energy. Also known as a Massieu, Planck, or Massieu–Planck potentials (or functions), or (rarely) free information. In statistical mechanics, free entropies frequently appear as the logarithm of a partition function. The Onsager r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlson%27s%20theorem
In mathematics, in the area of complex analysis, Carlson's theorem is a uniqueness theorem which was discovered by Fritz David Carlson. Informally, it states that two different analytic functions which do not grow very fast at infinity can not coincide at the integers. The theorem may be obtained from the Phragmén–Lind...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish%20curve
A fish curve is an ellipse negative pedal curve that is shaped like a fish. In a fish curve, the pedal point is at the focus for the special case of the squared eccentricity . The parametric equations for a fish curve correspond to those of the associated ellipse. Equations For an ellipse with the parametric equations...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother%20cell
The grandmother cell, sometimes called the "Jennifer Aniston neuron", is a hypothetical neuron that represents a complex but specific concept or object. It activates when a person "sees, hears, or otherwise sensibly discriminates" a specific entity, such as their grandmother. It contrasts with the concept of ensemble c...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frenkel%20defect
In crystallography, a Frenkel defect is a type of point defect in crystalline solids, named after its discoverer Yakov Frenkel. The defect forms when an atom or smaller ion (usually cation) leaves its place in the lattice, creating a vacancy and becomes an interstitial by lodging in a nearby location. In elemental syst...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling%20circle%20replication
Rolling circle replication (RCR) is a process of unidirectional nucleic acid replication that can rapidly synthesize multiple copies of circular molecules of DNA or RNA, such as plasmids, the genomes of bacteriophages, and the circular RNA genome of viroids. Some eukaryotic viruses also replicate their DNA or RNA via t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple%20sequence%20alignment
Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) may refer to the process or the result of sequence alignment of three or more biological sequences, generally protein, DNA, or RNA. In many cases, the input set of query sequences are assumed to have an evolutionary relationship by which they share a linkage and are descended from a co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetracycline-controlled%20transcriptional%20activation
Tetracycline-controlled transcriptional activation is a method of inducible gene expression where transcription is reversibly turned on or off in the presence of the antibiotic tetracycline or one of its derivatives (e.g. doxycycline). Tetracycline-controlled gene expression is based upon the mechanism of resistance t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Ling
Victor Ling, (; born 1943) is a Canadian researcher in the field of medicine. Ling's research focuses on drug resistance in cancer. He is best known for his discovery of P-glycoprotein, one of the proteins responsible for multidrug resistance. Early life Ling was born in Shanghai, China in 1943, and is of Teochew anc...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukkonen%27s%20algorithm
In computer science, Ukkonen's algorithm is a linear-time, online algorithm for constructing suffix trees, proposed by Esko Ukkonen in 1995. The algorithm begins with an implicit suffix tree containing the first character of the string. Then it steps through the string, adding successive characters until the tree is co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Light-addressable%20potentiometric%20sensor
A light-addressable potentiometric sensor (LAPS) is a sensor that uses light (e.g. LEDs) to select what will be measured. Light can activate carriers in semiconductors. History An example is the pH-sensitive LAPS (range pH4 to pH10) that uses LEDs in combination with (semi-conducting) silicon and pH-sensitive Ta2O5 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APG%20system
The APG system (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group system) of plant classification is the first version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy. Published in 1998 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group, it was replaced by the improved APG II in 2003, APG III system in 2009 and APG IV system in 2016. History T...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APG%20II%20system
The APG II system (Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II system) of plant classification is the second, now obsolete, version of a modern, mostly molecular-based, system of plant taxonomy that was published in April 2003 by the Angiosperm Phylogeny Group. It was a revision of the first APG system, published in 1998, and was s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sort%20%28C%2B%2B%29
sort is a generic function in the C++ Standard Library for doing comparison sorting. The function originated in the Standard Template Library (STL). The specific sorting algorithm is not mandated by the language standard and may vary across implementations, but the worst-case asymptotic complexity of the function is s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takhtajan%20system
A system of plant taxonomy, the Takhtajan system of plant classification was published by Armen Takhtajan, in several versions from the 1950s onwards. It is usually compared to the Cronquist system. It admits paraphyletic groups. Systems The first classification was published in Russian in 1954,and came to the atten...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%20and%20horizontal%20bundles
In mathematics, the vertical bundle and the horizontal bundle are vector bundles associated to a smooth fiber bundle. More precisely, given a smooth fiber bundle , the vertical bundle and horizontal bundle are subbundles of the tangent bundle of whose Whitney sum satisfies . This means that, over each point , the f...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tridiagonal%20matrix%20algorithm
In numerical linear algebra, the tridiagonal matrix algorithm, also known as the Thomas algorithm (named after Llewellyn Thomas), is a simplified form of Gaussian elimination that can be used to solve tridiagonal systems of equations. A tridiagonal system for n unknowns may be written as where and . For such systems...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Successive%20over-relaxation
In numerical linear algebra, the method of successive over-relaxation (SOR) is a variant of the Gauss–Seidel method for solving a linear system of equations, resulting in faster convergence. A similar method can be used for any slowly converging iterative process. It was devised simultaneously by David M. Young Jr. an...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microecosystem
Microecosystems can exist in locations which are precisely defined by critical environmental factors within small or tiny spaces. Such factors may include temperature, pH, chemical milieu, nutrient supply, presence of symbionts or solid substrates, gaseous atmosphere (aerobic or anaerobic) etc. Some examples Pond mi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confluency
In cell culture biology, confluence refers to the percentage of the surface of a culture dish that is covered by adherent cells. For example, 50 percent confluence means roughly half of the surface is covered, while 100 percent confluence means the surface is completely covered by the cells, and no more room is left fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Institute%20of%20Statistics%20and%20Geography
The National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI from its former name in ) is an autonomous agency of the Mexican Government dedicated to coordinate the National System of Statistical and Geographical Information of the country. It was created on January 25, 1983, by presidential decree of Miguel de la Madrid...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Tango
Tom Tango and "TangoTiger" are aliases used online by a baseball sabermetrics and ice hockey statistics analyst. He runs the Tango on Baseball sabermetrics website and is also a contributor to ESPN's baseball blog TMI (The Max Info). Tango is currently the Senior Database Architect of Stats for MLB Advanced Media. Bor...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thioacetamide
Thioacetamide is an organosulfur compound with the formula C2H5NS. This white crystalline solid is soluble in water and serves as a source of sulfide ions in the synthesis of organic and inorganic compounds. It is a prototypical thioamide. Research Thioacetamide is known to induce acute or chronic liver disease (fib...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Gavanti
John Gavanti is a 1980 no wave opera album by members of the bands Mars and DNA. It was written and played by Mark Cunningham (of Mars), Sumner Crane (of Mars), China Burg (of Mars), Ikue Mori (of DNA) and Arto Lindsay (of DNA). All were prominent members of New York City's short-lived No Wave music scene. The opera i...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus%20%28satellite%29
The Pegasus Project was a NASA initiative to study the frequency of micrometeoroid impacts on spacecraft by means of a constellation of three satellites launched in 1965. All three Pegasus satellites were launched by Saturn I rockets, and remained connected with their upper stages. The Pegasus satellites were named fo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosaraju%27s%20algorithm
In computer science, Kosaraju-Sharir's algorithm (also known as Kosaraju's algorithm) is a linear time algorithm to find the strongly connected components of a directed graph. Aho, Hopcroft and Ullman credit it to S. Rao Kosaraju and Micha Sharir. Kosaraju suggested it in 1978 but did not publish it, while Sharir inde...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCDMH
1-Bromo-3-chloro-5,5-dimethylhydantoin (BCDMH or bromochlorodimethylhydantoin) is a chemical structurally related to hydantoin. It is a white crystalline compound with a slight bromine and acetone odor and is insoluble in water, but soluble in acetone. BCDMH is an excellent source of both chlorine and bromine as it re...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L-reduction
In computer science, particularly the study of approximation algorithms, an L-reduction ("linear reduction") is a transformation of optimization problems which linearly preserves approximability features; it is one type of approximation-preserving reduction. L-reductions in studies of approximability of optimization p...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamellipodium
The lamellipodium (: lamellipodia) (from Latin lamella, related to , "thin sheet", and the Greek radical pod-, "foot") is a cytoskeletal protein actin projection on the leading edge of the cell. It contains a quasi-two-dimensional actin mesh; the whole structure propels the cell across a substrate. Within the lamellipo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatty%20acid%20desaturase
Fatty acid desaturases (also called unsaturases) are a family of enzymes that convert saturated fatty acids into unsaturated fatty acids and polyunsaturated fatty acids. For the common fatty acids of the C18 variety, desaturases convert stearic acid into oleic acid. Other desaturases convert oleic acid into linolenic...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LaunchBar
LaunchBar is an application launcher for macOS. It provides access to user's applications and files, by entering short abbreviations of the searched item's name. It uses an adaptive algorithm that 'learns' a user's preferred abbreviations for a particular application. For example, after training, Adobe Photoshop may be...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycyrrhizol
Glycyrrhizol A is a prenylated pterocarpan and an isoflavonoid derivative. It is a compound isolated from the root of the Chinese licorice plant (Glycyrrhiza uralensis). It may has in vitro antibacterial properties. In one study, the strongest antibacterial activity was observed against Streptococcus mutans, an organi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%20ATX%20transmission
The FLC-"Fluid Link Converter"- ATX was a 3-speed hydraulic automatic transaxle produced by Ford Motor Company from 1981 through 1994, first appearing in the North American Ford Escort, then later the European Escort in 1983. It was Ford's first automatic transmission developed for front wheel drive and transverse eng...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millwood%20Lake
Millwood Lake is a reservoir in southwestern Arkansas, United States. It is located from Ashdown and is formed from the damming of the point where Little River and Saline River meet. Statistics Lake statistics: Drainage area above the dam: Elevation above sea level of the top of flood control pool: Elevation abo...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beeman%27s%20algorithm
Beeman's algorithm is a method for numerically integrating ordinary differential equations of order 2, more specifically Newton's equations of motion . It was designed to allow high numbers of particles in simulations of molecular dynamics. There is a direct or explicit and an implicit variant of the method. The direct...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone%27s%20method
In numerical analysis, Stone's method, also known as the strongly implicit procedure or SIP, is an algorithm for solving a sparse linear system of equations. The method uses an incomplete LU decomposition, which approximates the exact LU decomposition, to get an iterative solution of the problem. The method is named af...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somebody%20Loves%20You%20%28album%29
Somebody Loves You is the second studio album by American country music artist Crystal Gayle. It was released on October 20, 1975. It peaked at #11 on the Billboard Country Albums chart, with two tracks that broke into the Top Ten Country Singles: the title song, "Somebody Loves You", peaked at #8, and Gayle scored her...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypsinization
Trypsinization is the process of cell dissociation using trypsin, a proteolytic enzyme which breaks down proteins, to dissociate adherent cells from the vessel in which they are being cultured. When added to cell culture, trypsin breaks down the proteins that enable the cells to adhere to the vessel. Trypsinization is ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi%20racial%20theories
The Nazi Party adopted and developed several pseudoscientific racial classifications as part of its ideology (Nazism) in order to justify the genocide of groups of people which it deemed racially inferior. The Nazis considered the putative "Aryan race" a superior "master race", and they considered black people, mixed-r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K252a
K252a is an alkaloid isolated from Nocardiopsis bacteria. This staurosporine analog is a highly potent cell permeable inhibitor of CaM kinase and phosphorylase kinase (IC50 = 1.8 and 1.7 nmol/L, respectively). At higher concentrations it is also an efficient inhibitor of serine/threonine protein kinases (IC50 of 10 to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable%20habitat
A Sustainable habitat is an ecosystem that produces food and shelter for people and other organisms, without resource depletion and in such a way that no external waste is produced. Thus the habitat can continue into the future tie without external infusions of resources. Such a sustainable habitat may evolve naturall...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nachbin%27s%20theorem
In mathematics, in the area of complex analysis, Nachbin's theorem (named after Leopoldo Nachbin) is commonly used to establish a bound on the growth rates for an analytic function. This article provides a brief review of growth rates, including the idea of a function of exponential type. Classification of growth rates...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitting%27s%20theorem
Fitting's theorem is a mathematical theorem proved by Hans Fitting. It can be stated as follows: If M and N are nilpotent normal subgroups of a group G, then their product MN is also a nilpotent normal subgroup of G; if, moreover, M is nilpotent of class m and N is nilpotent of class n, then MN is nilpotent of class a...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaucarnea
Beaucarnea is a genus of flowering plants native to Mexico and Central America. In the APG III classification system, it is placed in the family Asparagaceae, subfamily Nolinoideae (formerly the family Ruscaceae). Beaucarnea is sometimes treated as a synonym of the genus Nolina, with the species being then transferred ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr%20Korkin
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Korkin (; – ) was a Russian mathematician. He made contribution to the development of partial differential equations, and was second only to Chebyshev among the founders of the Saint Petersburg Mathematical School. Among others, his students included Yegor Ivanovich Zolotarev. Some publications...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHAB%20%28AM%29
CHAB is a Canadian radio station, broadcasting on an assigned frequency of 800 kHz. It is licensed to Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, and serves the southcentral portion of the province. The station first began broadcasting in 1922 at 1200 AM as 10AB before becoming CHAB on December 17, 1933, before moving to 1220 AM in 1941 ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiocyte
A meiocyte is a type of cell that differentiates into a gamete through the process of meiosis. Through meiosis, the diploid meiocyte divides into four genetically different haploid gametes. The control of the meiocyte through the meiotic cell cycle varies between different groups of organisms. Yeast The process of mei...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CHPO-FM
CHPO-FM is a radio station which broadcasts a country format on the frequency of 93.1 MHz in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. This radio station also provides local news, sports and weather to its listeners. The station is owned by Golden West Broadcasting, and is located at 2390 Sissons Drive, along with CFRY and...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katanin
Katanin is a microtubule-severing AAA protein. It is named after the Japanese sword called a katana. Katanin is a heterodimeric protein first discovered in sea urchins. It contains a 60 kDa ATPase subunit, encoded by KATNA1, which functions to sever microtubules. This subunit requires ATP and the presence of microtub...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SERC
SERC, Serc, etc. may refer to: Places Sérc, a municipality in Austria Chemistry Phosphoserine transaminase, an enzyme Medicine Serc, a brand name of the antivertigo drug betahistine Organizations State Electricity Regulatory Commissions, in India South Eastern Regional College, in Northern Ireland State Emerg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Fight%20%28The%20Office%29
"The Fight" is the sixth episode of the second season of the television series The Office and the show's twelfth episode overall. It was written by Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg and directed by Ken Kwapis. It originally aired on November 1, 2005, on NBC. "The Fight" guest starred Lance Krall, who played the part of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemoglobin%20electrophoresis
Hemoglobin electrophoresis is a blood test that can detect different types of hemoglobin. The test can detect hemoglobin S, the form associated with sickle cell disease, as well as other abnormal types of hemoglobin, such as hemoglobin C. It can also be used to investigate thalassemias, which are disorders caused by de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-way%20finite%20automaton
In computer science, in particular in automata theory, a two-way finite automaton is a finite automaton that is allowed to re-read its input. Two-way deterministic finite automaton A two-way deterministic finite automaton (2DFA) is an abstract machine, a generalized version of the deterministic finite automaton (DFA)...