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Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative...

The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA or US FDA) is a federal agency of the Department of Health and Human Services. The FDA is responsible...

Acetylcholine (ACh) is an organic compound that functions in the brain and body of many types of animals (including humans) as a neurotransmitter. Its...

Ozone depletion consists of two related events observed since the late 1970s: a steady lowering of about four percent in the total amount of ozone in Earth's...

The term antelope refers to numerous extant or recently extinct species of the ruminant artiodactyl family Bovidae that are indigenous to most of Africa...

A mongrel, mutt, or mixed-breed dog is a dog that does not belong to one officially recognized breed, including those that result from intentional breeding...

A lubricant (sometimes shortened to lube) is a substance that helps to reduce friction between surfaces in mutual contact, which ultimately reduces the...

Polygamy (called plural marriage by Latter-day Saints in the 19th century or the Principle by modern fundamentalist practitioners of polygamy) was practiced...

Jasmine (botanical name: Jasminum; /ˈjæsmɪnəm/ YAS-mih-nəm) is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family of Oleaceae.: 193  It contains around 200...

In computability theory, the halting problem is the problem of determining, from a description of an arbitrary computer program and an input, whether the...

Specific impulse (usually abbreviated Isp) is a measure of how efficiently a reaction mass engine, such as a rocket using propellant or a jet engine using...

A hangar is a building or structure designed to hold aircraft or spacecraft. Hangars are built of metal, wood, or concrete. The word hangar comes from...

Scholia has a profile for Louis de Broglie (Q83331). Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie (/də ˈbroʊɡli/, also US: /də broʊˈɡliː, də ˈbrɔɪ/;...

Vector calculus or vector analysis is a branch of mathematics concerned with the differentiation and integration of vector fields, primarily in three-dimensional...

The Toyota Auris (Japanese: トヨタ・オーリス, Hepburn: Toyota Ōrisu) is a compact car derived from the Corolla, manufactured and sold by Toyota. Introduced in...

The Samsung Galaxy S7, Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge and Samsung Galaxy S7 Active are Android-based smartphones manufactured, released and marketed by Samsung...

An HTML editor is a program used for editing HTML, the markup of a web page. Although the HTML markup in a web page can be controlled with any text editor...

West is one of the four cardinal directions or points of the compass. It is the opposite direction from east and is the direction in which the Sun sets...

In computer networking, a wireless access point (WAP) (also just access point (AP)) is a networking hardware device that allows other Wi-Fi devices to...

A chief physician, also called a head physician, physician in chief, senior consultant, or chief of medicine, is a physician in a senior management position...

Nozomi (Japanese: のぞみ, lit. "Wish" or "Hope", and known before launch as Planet-B) was a Japanese Mars orbiter that failed to reach Mars due to electrical...

SECAM, also written SÉCAM (French pronunciation: [sekam], Séquentiel de couleur à mémoire, French for color sequential with memory), is an analog color...

In computability theory and computational complexity theory, an undecidable problem is a decision problem for which it is proved to be impossible to construct...

The southern red muntjac (Muntiacus muntjak) is a deer species native to Southeast Asia. It was formerly known as the Indian muntjac or the common muntjac...

In telecommunication and data transmission, serial communication is the process of sending data one bit at a time, sequentially, over a communication channel...

The March equinox or northward equinox is the equinox on the Earth when the subsolar point appears to leave the Southern Hemisphere and cross the celestial...

The Heinkel He 178 was an experimental aircraft designed and produced by the German aircraft manufacturer Heinkel. It was the world's first aircraft to...

The Feynman Lectures on Physics is a physics textbook based on a great number of lectures by Richard Feynman, a Nobel laureate who has sometimes been called...

FAW Toyota Motor Co., Ltd. (FTMC) (simplified Chinese: 一汽丰田汽车有限公司; traditional Chinese: 一汽豐田汽車有限公司; pinyin: Yīqì fēngtián qìchē yǒuxiàn gōngsī), previously...

Asymbescaline (3,4-diethoxy-5-methoxyphenethylamine) is a lesser-known psychedelic drug. It is a homolog of mescaline. Asymbescaline was first synthesized...

Buscaline (3,5-dimethoxy-4-butoxyphenethylamine) is a chemical compound prepared as a possible psychedelic drug. It is an analog of mescaline. Buscaline...

The Ford Windstar (later the Ford Freestar and Mercury Monterey) is a minivan that was produced and sold by Ford. The replacement for the Ford Aerostar...

The Volkswagen Type 181 is a two-wheel drive, four-door convertible, manufactured and marketed by Volkswagen from 1968 until 1983. Originally developed...

Tribology is the science and engineering of understanding friction, lubrication and wear phenomena for interacting surfaces in relative motion. It is highly...

Cytokeratins are keratin proteins found in the intracytoplasmic cytoskeleton of epithelial tissue. They are an important component of intermediate filaments...

Hillman was a British automobile marque created by the Hillman-Coatalen Company, founded in 1907, renamed the Hillman Motor Car Company in 1910. The company...

The Samsung Galaxy Folder is a smartphone released in 2015 exclusively to the Korean market. The phone is considered unusual for being both a smartphone...

ISO 22300:2021, Security and resilience – Vocabulary, is an international standard developed by ISO/TC 292 Security and resilience. This document defines...

A calculation is a deliberate mathematical process that transforms one or more inputs into one or more outputs or results. The term is used in a variety...

The inflaton field is a hypothetical scalar field which is conjectured to have driven cosmic inflation in the very early universe. The field, originally...

Muirpur Airport also spelled as Myorpur Airport is an upcoming airport, situated at Myorpur approx 12 km (7.5 mi) from the Renukut in the Sonbhadra district...

63P/Wild is a periodic comet in the Solar System with a current orbital period of 13.21 years. It was first detected by Paul Wild at the Zimmerwald Observatory...

Vision (formerly nWeb) was a mobile browser developed by Novarra Inc. that ran on Java Platform, Micro Edition. It was first released in 2002, and the...

A pollen tube is a tubular structure produced by the male gametophyte of seed plants when it germinates. Pollen tube elongation is an integral stage in...

Platycladus is a monotypic genus of evergreen coniferous trees in the cypress family Cupressaceae, containing only one species, Platycladus orientalis...

Mental health professionals often distinguish between generalized social phobia and specific social phobia. People with generalized social phobia have...

In the arts, bricolage (French for "DIY" or "do-it-yourself projects"; French pronunciation: [bʁikɔlaʒ]) is the construction or creation of a work from...

The Orbital Piloted Assembly and Experiment Complex (Russian: Орбитальный Пилотируемый Сборочно-Экспериментальный Комплекс, Orbital'nyj Pilotirujemyj ...

Fascia (/ˈfeɪʃə/) is an architectural term for a vertical frieze or band under a roof edge, or which forms the outer surface of a cornice, visible to an...

The Nanjing Fiat Automobile Co., Ltd. (simplified Chinese: 南京菲亚特汽车有限公司; traditional Chinese: 南京菲亞特汽車有限公司; pinyin: Nánjīng fēiyàtè qìchē yǒuxiàn gōngsī)...

Stone paper products, also referred to as bio-plastic paper, mineral paper or rich mineral paper, are strong and durable paper-like materials manufactured...

A pack or packet of cigarettes (also informally called fag packet in British slang; as in the idiom "back of a fag packet" or "fag-packet calculation")...

The Ramstein air show disaster occurred on Sunday, 28 August 1988 during the Flugtag '88 airshow at USAF Ramstein Air Base near Kaiserslautern, West Germany...

Sertoli–Leydig cell tumour is a group of tumors composed of variable proportions of Sertoli cells, Leydig cells, and in the case of intermediate and poorly...

The Mazda Millenia (officially written as millenia) was an automobile manufactured by Mazda in Japan from 1993 to 2002. The Millenia was originally planned...

Siple Station was a research station in Antarctica (75°55′00″S 83°55′00″W / 75.916667°S 83.916667°W / -75.916667; -83.916667), established in 1973 by...

Think C (stylized as THINK C), originally known as LightSpeed C, is an extension of the C programming language for the classic Mac OS developed by THINK...

Grayson Thermal Systems (part of the Grayson group) is a UK manufacturer based in Birmingham. The firm is based in Tyseley and designs, manufactures, and...

In category theory, a branch of mathematics, an enriched category generalizes the idea of a category by replacing hom-sets with objects from a general...

In algebraic geometry, a moduli space of (algebraic) curves is a geometric space (typically a scheme or an algebraic stack) whose points represent isomorphism...

Consumerist (also known as The Consumerist) was a non-profit consumer affairs website owned by Consumer Media LLC, a subsidiary of Consumer Reports, with...

Soar Automotive (officially Qingdao SOAR Automotive Group, Ltd.) (青岛索尔汽车集团) is a Chinese motor vehicle manufacturing company headquartered in Qingdao....

The Naglo D.II was a German single seat quadruplane fighter, flown late in World War I. It took part in one of the fighter competitions but did not reach...

This is a list of limits for common functions such as elementary functions. In this article, the terms a, b and c are constants with respect to x. lim...

Neoclassical compounds are compound words composed from combining forms (which act as affixes or stems) derived from classical languages (classical Latin...

Legazpi Airport (IATA: LGP, ICAO: RPLP) was a major airport in the Bicol Region, served the vicinity of Legazpi, the capital city of Albay in the Philippines...

Transport in Monaco is facilitated with road, air (helicopter), rail, and water networks. Rail transport is operated by SNCF with only Monaco Monte Carlo...

Mandurriao Airport (IATA: ILO, ICAO: RPVI), also known as Iloilo Airport during its operation, was an airport that served the area of Iloilo City and the...

SCO Group, Inc. v. International Business Machines Corp., commonly abbreviated as SCO v. IBM, is a civil lawsuit in the United States District Court of...

The IWI Tavor 7 is an Israeli bullpup battle rifle chambered in 7.62×51mm NATO cartridge designed and produced by Israel Weapon Industries (IWI) as part...

The Porsche 64, also known as the Type 64 and Type 60K10, is considered by many to be the first automobile from what was to become the Porsche company...

Security testing is a process intended to detect flaws in the security mechanisms of an information system and as such help enable it to protect data and...

Cheat Engine (CE) is a proprietary, source available freeware memory scanner/debugger created by Eric Heijnen ("Byte, Darke") for the Windows operating...

In computing, a docking station, port replicator (hub), or dock provides a simplified way to plug-in a mobile device, such as connect common peripherals...

Sayak Airport (IATA: IAO, ICAO: RPNS), commonly known as Siargao Airport, is the main airport serving Siargao Island located in Del Carmen, Surigao del...

Catarman National Airport (IATA: CRM, ICAO: RPVF), otherwise known as Catarman Airport, is an airport serving the general area of Catarman, located in...

Serious Magic Incorporated is a software company based in Folsom, California, founded in 2001. It was targeted towards making of video software and communications...

Camiguin Airport (IATA: CGM, ICAO: RPMH) is an airport serving the general area of Mambajao, located in the province of Camiguin in the Philippines. It...

Amongst the lay public of non-mathematicians and non-scientists, trigonometry is known chiefly for its application to measurement problems, yet is also...

Central Mindanao Airport, formerly North Cotabato Rural Airport and also known as the M'lang Airport, is an airport serving the general area of M'lang...

The history of animal testing goes back to the writings of the Ancient Greeks in the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE, with Aristotle (384–322 BCE) and Erasistratus...

The black-tufted marmoset (Callithrix penicillata) is a species of New World monkey that lives primarily in the Neotropical gallery forests of the Brazilian...

45°02′05″N 9°42′16″E / 45.0346072°N 9.7044338°E / 45.0346072; 9.7044338 Casalini (founded in 1939 by Giovanni Casalini) is an Italian company that designs...

In quantum mechanics, a two-state system (also known as a two-level system) is a quantum system that can exist in any quantum superposition of two independent...

The Centre hospitalier universitaire Sainte-Justine (CHU Sainte-Justine) is the largest mother and child centre in Canada and one of the four most important[according...

The 1st Czechoslovak Composite Air Division (Czech: 1. československá smíšená letecká divize; Slovak: 1. česko-slovenská zmiešaná letecká divízia) was...

The International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB) is a software testing certification board that operates internationally. Founded in Edinburgh...

In taxonomy, the Thermococci are a class of microbes within the Euryarchaeota. They live in extremely hot environments, such as hydrothermal vents, and...

Arctostaphylos nevadensis, with the common name pinemat manzanita, is a species of manzanita native to western North America. Arctostaphylos nevadensis...

CORONA is a single-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle capable of performing vertical takeoff and landing. It was developed by OAO GRTs Makeyev from 1992 to...

Eyelash yarn is a type of novelty yarn. It has a thread base, with several long strands spaced at even intervals that jut out at an angle from the main...

In general, a function approximation problem asks us to select a function among a well-defined class[citation needed][clarification needed] that closely...

In engineering, a corner case (or pathological case) involves a problem or situation that occurs only outside normal operating parameters—specifically...

Microcar is a French microcar manufacturer. The company was founded in 1984 as a division of Bénéteau group, a major sailboat manufacturer. Production...

The Great Colonial Hurricane of 1635 was an extraordinarily powerful and devastating Atlantic hurricane that brushed Colonial Virginia and struck the New...

Non-road engines (or non-road mobile machinery in the European union) are engines that are used for other purposes than a motor vehicle that is used on...

An alkylation unit (alky) is one of the conversion processes used in petroleum refineries. It is used to convert isobutane and low-molecular-weight alkenes...

The Faint Object Spectrograph (FOS) was a spectrograph installed on the Hubble Space Telescope. It was replaced by the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph...

Syangboche Airport (Nepali: स्याङ्बोचे हवाइ-मैदान) (IATA: SYH, ICAO: VNSB) is a domestic airport located in Namche Bazaar serving Solukhumbu District,...

Carrosserie Ghia S.A., Aigle (established 1948 in Aigle, Switzerland, closed 1988) was a Swiss automobile design and manufacturing company, commonly referred...