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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SVE
SVE may refer to: Scalable Vector Extension, a feature of microprocessor ARM architecture Société de Véhicules Electriques, a joint venture for the development of hybrid vehicles Soil vapor extraction, an in situ process for soil remediation Sharon Van Etten, American singer-songwriter and actress Special viscer...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peirce%27s%20criterion
In robust statistics, Peirce's criterion is a rule for eliminating outliers from data sets, which was devised by Benjamin Peirce. Outliers removed by Peirce's criterion The problem of outliers In data sets containing real-numbered measurements, the suspected outliers are the measured values that appear to lie outsi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Irvine%20%28footballer%2C%20born%201958%29
James Alan Irvine (born 12 July 1958) is a Scottish former professional footballer and coach. Irvine played as a winger for Queen's Park, Everton, Crystal Palace, Dundee United and Blackburn Rovers. As a coach, Irvine worked in various roles at Blackburn Rovers, Preston North End, Newcastle United and Everton before ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20plant%20systematics
The history of plant systematics—the biological classification of plants—stretches from the work of ancient Greek to modern evolutionary biologists. As a field of science, plant systematics came into being only slowly, early plant lore usually being treated as part of the study of medicine. Later, classification and de...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint%20learning
In constraint satisfaction backtracking algorithms, constraint learning is a technique for improving efficiency. It works by recording new constraints whenever an inconsistency is found. This new constraint may reduce the search space, as future partial evaluations may be found inconsistent without further search. Clau...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystals%20of%20Zong
Crystals of Zong is a maze-chase game written by Sean McKinnon for the Commodore 64 and published by Cymbal Software in 1983. Gameplay Each level consists of nine single-screen rooms arranged in a 3×3 grid. At the centre of each room is a locked treasure area. The treasure areas in eight of the rooms contain different...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GDB%20Human%20Genome%20Database
The GDB Human Genome Database was a community curated collection of human genomic data. It was a key database in the Human Genome Project and was in service from 1989 to 2008. History In 1989 the Howard Hughes Medical Institute provided funding to establish a central repository for human genetic mapping data. This pr...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinic%20for%20Special%20Children
The Clinic for Special Children (CSC) is a primary pediatric care and gene research clinic located in Strasburg, Pennsylvania. The facility specializes in genetic problems of the plain sects, such as the Amish and Old Order Mennonites. It was founded in 1989. The most common genetic disorders treated by the Clinic are...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20thyrohyoid%20ligament
The lateral thyrohyoid ligament (lateral hyothyroid ligament) is a round elastic cord, which forms the posterior border of the thyrohyoid membrane and passes between the tip of the superior cornu of the thyroid cartilage and the extremity of the greater cornu of the hyoid bone. The internal branch of the superior lary...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thyrohyoid%20membrane
The thyrohyoid membrane (or hyothyroid membrane) is a broad, fibro-elastic sheet of the larynx. It connects the upper border of the thyroid cartilage to the hyoid bone. Structure The thyrohyoid membrane is attached below to the upper border of the thyroid cartilage and to the front of its superior cornu, and above to...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensen%E2%80%93Shannon%20divergence
In probability theory and statistics, the Jensen–Shannon divergence is a method of measuring the similarity between two probability distributions. It is also known as information radius (IRad) or total divergence to the average. It is based on the Kullback–Leibler divergence, with some notable (and useful) differences...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20giant%20interneuron
The lateral giant interneuron (LG) is an interneuron in the abdominal nerve cord of crayfish, lobsters, shrimp of the order Decapoda and their relatives in the crustacean class Malacostraca. It is part of the system that controls a special kind of escape reflex of these organisms known as the "caridoid escape reaction....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Life%20Equation
The Anti-Life Equation is a fictional concept appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. In Jack Kirby's Fourth World setting, the Anti-Life Equation is a formula for total control over the minds of sentient beings that is sought by Darkseid, who, for this reason, sends his forces to Earth, as he believe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysis%20%28disambiguation%29
Lysis is the breaking down of the membrane of a cell. Lysis may also refer to: Lysis (dialogue), a dialogue of Plato about friendship (philia) Lysis of Taras ( 5th century BCE), Greek philosopher Lysis, one of the stages of the lytic cycle, one of the two cycles of viral reproduction Alkaline lysis, a method used...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Scott%20%28mathematician%29
Elizabeth Leonard Scott (November 23, 1917 – December 20, 1988) was an American mathematician specializing in statistics. Scott was born in Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Her family moved to Berkeley, California when she was 4 years old. She attended the University of California, Berkeley where she studied astronomy. She earn...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin%20population%20statistics
Berlin is the most populous city in the European Union, as calculated by city-proper population (not metropolitan area). Demographics Population by borough Historical development of Berlin's population The spike in population in 1920 is a result of the Greater Berlin Act. Population by nationality On 31 December ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome%20microdissection
Chromosome microdissection is a technique that physically removes a large section of DNA from a complete chromosome. The smallest portion of DNA that can be isolated using this method comprises 10 million base pairs - hundreds or thousands of individual genes. Scientists who study chromosomes are known as cytogenetici...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription%20factor%20II%20D
Transcription factor II D (TFIID) is one of several general transcription factors that make up the RNA polymerase II preinitiation complex. RNA polymerase II holoenzyme is a form of eukaryotic RNA polymerase II that is recruited to the promoters of protein-coding genes in living cells. It consists of RNA polymerase II,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cho%20Hyun
Cho Hyun is a football player from South Korea. He was a member of the South Korea U-20 team in early 1990s and went on to play as a professional in the K-League. Club career statistics External links 1974 births Living people Men's association football midfielders South Korean men's footballers Suwon Samsung B...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular%20economy
A regular economy is an economy characterized by an excess demand function which has the property that its slope at any equilibrium price vector is non-zero. In other words, if we graph the excess demand function against prices, then the excess demand function "cuts" the x-axis assuring that each equilibrium is locally...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coactivator%20%28genetics%29
A coactivator is a type of transcriptional coregulator that binds to an activator (a transcription factor) to increase the rate of transcription of a gene or set of genes. The activator contains a DNA binding domain that binds either to a DNA promoter site or a specific DNA regulatory sequence called an enhancer. Bindi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-dimensional%20nuclear%20magnetic%20resonance%20spectroscopy
Two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (2D NMR) is a set of nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) methods which give data plotted in a space defined by two frequency axes rather than one. Types of 2D NMR include correlation spectroscopy (COSY), J-spectroscopy, exchange spectroscopy (EXSY), and ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Level%20sensor
Level sensors detect the level of liquids and other fluids and fluidized solids, including slurries, granular materials, and powders that exhibit an upper free surface. Substances that flow become essentially horizontal in their containers (or other physical boundaries) because of gravity whereas most bulk solids pile ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20efficiency
In thermodynamics, the thermal efficiency () is a dimensionless performance measure of a device that uses thermal energy, such as an internal combustion engine, steam turbine, steam engine, boiler, furnace, refrigerator, ACs etc. For a heat engine, thermal efficiency is the ratio of the net work output to the heat inp...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin%20telluride
Tin telluride is a compound of tin and tellurium (SnTe); is a IV-VI narrow band gap semiconductor and has direct band gap of 0.18 eV. It is often alloyed with lead to make lead tin telluride, which is used as an infrared detector material. Tin telluride normally forms p-type semiconductor (Extrinsic semiconductor) due...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair%20queuing
Fair queuing is a family of scheduling algorithms used in some process and network schedulers. The algorithm is designed to achieve fairness when a limited resource is shared, for example to prevent flows with large packets or processes that generate small jobs from consuming more throughput or CPU time than other flow...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal%20hashing
In mathematics and computing, universal hashing (in a randomized algorithm or data structure) refers to selecting a hash function at random from a family of hash functions with a certain mathematical property (see definition below). This guarantees a low number of collisions in expectation, even if the data is chosen b...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substomatal%20cavity
In plants, the substomatal cavity is the cavity located immediately proximal to the stoma. It acts as a diffusion chamber connected with intercellular air spaces and allows rapid diffusion of carbon dioxide and other gases (such as plant pheromones) in and out of plant cells. References Graham LE, Graham JM, Wilcox LW...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflection%20formula
In mathematics, a reflection formula or reflection relation for a function f is a relationship between f(a − x) and f(x). It is a special case of a functional equation, and it is very common in the literature to use the term "functional equation" when "reflection formula" is meant. Reflection formulas are useful for ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carath%C3%A9odory%27s%20extension%20theorem
In measure theory, Carathéodory's extension theorem (named after the mathematician Constantin Carathéodory) states that any pre-measure defined on a given ring of subsets R of a given set Ω can be extended to a measure on the σ-ring generated by R, and this extension is unique if the pre-measure is σ-finite. Conseque...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putting%20Biodiversity%20on%20the%20Map
Putting biodiversity on the map: priority areas for global conservation by C. J. Bibby, N. J. Collar, M. J. Crosby, M.F. Heath, Ch. Imboden, T. H. Johnson, A. J. Long, A. J. Stattersfield and S. J. Thirgood () is a 1992 book published by the International Council for Bird Preservation. The book introduced the Endemic ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cis-regulatory%20element
Cis-regulatory elements (CREs) or Cis''-regulatory modules (CRMs) are regions of non-coding DNA which regulate the transcription of neighboring genes. CREs are vital components of genetic regulatory networks, which in turn control morphogenesis, the development of anatomy, and other aspects of embryonic development, st...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Sunderland%20A.F.C.%20records%20and%20statistics
Sunderland Association Football Club, are a professional football club based in Sunderland, North East England. They were announced to the world by the local newspaper, The Sunderland Daily Echo and Shipping Gazette on 27 September 1880 as Sunderland & District Teachers Association Football Club following a meeting of...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQP
SQP may refer to: Sequential quadratic programming, an iterative method for constrained nonlinear optimization South Quay Plaza, a residential-led development under construction in Canary Wharf on the Isle of Dogs, London SQP, the ICAO code for SkyUp, Kyiv, Ukraine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%E2%80%93Q%20plot
In statistics, a Q–Q plot (quantile–quantile plot) is a probability plot, a graphical method for comparing two probability distributions by plotting their quantiles against each other. A point on the plot corresponds to one of the quantiles of the second distribution (-coordinate) plotted against the same quantile of ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence%20B.%20Seibert
Florence Barbara Seibert (October 6, 1897 – August 23, 1991) was an American biochemist. She is best known for identifying the active agent in the antigen tuberculin as a protein, and subsequently for isolating a pure form of tuberculin, purified protein derivative (PPD), enabling the development and use of a reliable ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary%20search
A ternary search algorithm is a technique in computer science for finding the minimum or maximum of a unimodal function. The function Assume we are looking for a maximum of and that we know the maximum lies somewhere between and . For the algorithm to be applicable, there must be some value such that for all wi...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigma%20receptor
Sigma receptors (σ-receptors) are protein cell surface receptors that bind ligands such as 4-PPBP (4-phenyl-1-(4-phenylbutyl) piperidine), SA 4503 (cutamesine), ditolylguanidine, dimethyltryptamine, and siramesine. There are two subtypes, sigma-1 receptors (σ1) and sigma-2 receptors (σ2), which are classified as sigma...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fumarase
Fumarase (or fumarate hydratase) is an enzyme () that catalyzes the reversible hydration/dehydration of fumarate to malate. Fumarase comes in two forms: mitochondrial and cytosolic. The mitochondrial isoenzyme is involved in the Krebs cycle and the cytosolic isoenzyme is involved in the metabolism of amino acids and fu...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huang%27s%20algorithm
Huang's algorithm is an algorithm for detecting termination in a distributed system. The algorithm was proposed by Shing-Tsaan Huang in 1989 in the Journal of Computers. Termination detection The basis of termination detection is in the concept of a distributed system process' state. At any time, a process in a distri...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dijkstra%E2%80%93Scholten%20algorithm
The Dijkstra–Scholten algorithm (named after Edsger W. Dijkstra and Carel S. Scholten) is an algorithm for detecting termination in a distributed system. The algorithm was proposed by Dijkstra and Scholten in 1980. First, consider the case of a simple process graph which is a tree. A distributed computation which is t...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawsonite
Lawsonite is a hydrous calcium aluminium sorosilicate mineral with formula CaAl2Si2O7(OH)2·H2O. Lawsonite crystallizes in the orthorhombic system in prismatic, often tabular crystals. Crystal twinning is common. It forms transparent to translucent colorless, white, and bluish to pinkish grey glassy to greasy crystals. ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diode%20logic
Diode logic (or diode-resistor logic) constructs AND and OR logic gates with diodes and resistors. An active device (vacuum tubes in early computers, then transistors in diode–transistor logic) is additionally required to provide logical inversion (NOT) for functional completeness and amplification for voltage level r...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrombomodulin
Thrombomodulin (TM), CD141 or BDCA-3 is an integral membrane protein expressed on the surface of endothelial cells and serves as a cofactor for thrombin. It reduces blood coagulation by converting thrombin to an anticoagulant enzyme from a procoagulant enzyme. Thrombomodulin is also expressed on human mesothelial cell,...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prazepam
Prazepam is a benzodiazepine derivative drug developed by Warner-Lambert in the 1960s. It possesses anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, sedative and skeletal muscle relaxant properties. Prazepam is a prodrug for desmethyldiazepam which is responsible for the therapeutic effects of prazepam. Indications Prazepam is indicated ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genotyping
Genotyping is the process of determining differences in the genetic make-up (genotype) of an individual by examining the individual's DNA sequence using biological assays and comparing it to another individual's sequence or a reference sequence. It reveals the alleles an individual has inherited from their parents. Tra...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal%20%28Crystal%20Gayle%20album%29
Crystal is the third studio album by American country music artist Crystal Gayle. The album rose to the number 7 spot on the Billboard Country Albums chart. It was released on August 6, 1976. It contained four charting singles, including two number 1 hits: "You Never Miss a Real Good Thing (Till He Says Goodbye)" and "...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodynamic%20Diagnostic%20Manual
The Psychodynamic Diagnostic Manual (PDM) is a diagnostic handbook similar to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) or the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The PDM was published on May 28, 2006. The information contained in the PDM was co...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatine%20aponeurosis
The palatine aponeurosis a thin, firm, fibrous lamella which gives strength and support to soft palate. It serves as the insertion for the tensor veli palatini and levator veli palatini, and the origin for the musculus uvulae, palatopharyngeus, and palatoglossus. The palatine aponeurosis is attached to the posterior m...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geldanamycin
Geldanamycin is a 1,4-benzoquinone ansamycin antitumor antibiotic that inhibits the function of Hsp90 (Heat Shock Protein 90) by binding to the unusual ADP/ATP-binding pocket of the protein. HSP90 client proteins play important roles in the regulation of the cell cycle, cell growth, cell survival, apoptosis, angiogenes...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclooctadiene
A cyclooctadiene (sometimes abbreviated COD) is any of several cyclic diene with the formula (CH2)4(C2H2)2. Focusing only on cis derivatives, four isomers are possible: 1,2-, which is an allene, 1,3-, 1,4-, and 1,5-. Commonly encountered isomers are the conjugated isomer 1,3-cyclooctadiene and 1,5-cyclooctadiene, which...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio%20Alice
Radio Alice was an Italian free radio broadcasting from Bologna at the end of the 1970s. It started transmitting on 9 February 1976 using an ex-military transmitter on a frequency of 100.6 MHz. The station founders were associated with the Italian counter-culture movement of 1977 and drew inspiration from the Situation...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lossen%20rearrangement
The Lossen rearrangement is the conversion of a hydroxamate ester to an isocyanate. Typically O-acyl, sulfonyl, or phosphoryl O-derivative are employed. The isocyanate can be used further to generate ureas in the presence of amines or generate amines in the presence of H2O. Reaction mechanism The mechanism below beg...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.723
G.723 is an ITU-T standard speech codec using extensions of G.721 providing voice quality covering 300 Hz to 3400 Hz using Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation (ADPCM) to 24 and 40 kbit/s for digital circuit multiplication equipment (DCME) applications. The standard G.723 is obsolete and has been superseded by G...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike%20Botts
Michael Gene Botts (December 8, 1944 – December 9, 2005) was an American drummer, best known for his work with 1970s soft rock band Bread, and as a session musician. During his career, he recorded with Linda Ronstadt, Karla Bonoff, Andrew Gold, Olivia Newton-John, Peter Cetera, Anne Murray, Warren Zevon and Dan Fogelbe...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20process%20variation
Natural process variation, sometimes just called process variation, is the statistical description of natural fluctuations in process outputs. Equations The following equations are used for an x-bar-control chart: In the example, with n = 10 samples, the targeted mean, , and standard error of the mean, are: Th...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss%20the%20Mississippi
Miss the Mississippi is the seventh studio album by American country music singer Crystal Gayle. Released in September 1979, it peaked at #3 on the Billboard Country Albums chart. The album was her first album for Columbia Records, and contained three Country top ten hits; "Half the Way" (#2), "It's Like We Never Said...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We%20Should%20Be%20Together%20%28album%29
We Should Be Together is the sixth studio album by American country music singer Crystal Gayle. Allen Reynolds returned to produce this album, and released on June 19, 1979, it was her sixth and final album for United Artists Records. It peaked at #9 on the Billboard Country Albums chart, with two of its tracks reachin...