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- Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is a morphinan opioid substance synthesized from the dried latex of the Papaver...117 KB (11,959 words) - 02:02, 28 June 2024
- The following are examples of orders of magnitude for different lengths. To help compare different orders of magnitude, the following list describes various...177 KB (16,805 words) - 16:21, 14 July 2024
- Friction is the force resisting the relative motion of solid surfaces, fluid layers, and material elements sliding against each other. Types of friction...74 KB (8,805 words) - 12:34, 12 May 2024
- Parsing, syntax analysis, or syntactic analysis is the process of analyzing a string of symbols, either in natural language, computer languages or data...37 KB (4,856 words) - 16:24, 10 June 2024
- Network neutrality, often referred to as net neutrality, is the principle that Internet service providers (ISPs) must treat all Internet communications...186 KB (19,053 words) - 18:04, 12 July 2024
- A generic drug (or simply generic) is a pharmaceutical drug that contains the same chemical substance as a drug that was originally protected by chemical...50 KB (5,201 words) - 09:01, 20 June 2024
- Traffic lights, traffic signals, or stoplights – also known as robots in South Africa and Namibia – are signaling devices positioned at road intersections...98 KB (10,706 words) - 09:51, 1 July 2024
- A prior probability distribution of an uncertain quantity, often simply called the prior, is its assumed probability distribution before some evidence...43 KB (6,690 words) - 10:31, 24 April 2024
- A dendritic cell (DC) is an antigen-presenting cell (also known as an accessory cell) of the mammalian immune system. A DC's main function is to process...34 KB (3,972 words) - 19:54, 25 May 2024
- A geomagnetic storm, also known as a magnetic storm, is a temporary disturbance of the Earth's magnetosphere caused by a solar wind shock wave. The disturbance...48 KB (5,594 words) - 10:38, 1 July 2024
- The Subaru Forester (Japanese: スバル・フォレスター, Hepburn: Subaru Foresutā) is a compact crossover SUV that has been manufactured by Subaru since 1997. The first...81 KB (8,381 words) - 03:21, 13 July 2024
- Mannitol is a type of sugar alcohol used as a sweetener and medication. It is used as a low calorie sweetener as it is poorly absorbed by the intestines...28 KB (3,002 words) - 00:47, 21 March 2024
- Computational science, also known as scientific computing, technical computing or scientific computation (SC), is a division of science that uses advanced...32 KB (3,373 words) - 18:29, 29 April 2024
- Secrecy is the practice of hiding information from certain individuals or groups who do not have the "need to know", perhaps while sharing it with other...20 KB (2,078 words) - 11:09, 10 July 2024
- Tacrolimus, sold under the brand name Prograf among others, is an immunosuppressive drug. After allogenic organ transplant, the risk of organ rejection...43 KB (4,357 words) - 07:40, 28 March 2024
- In statistics, the k-nearest neighbors algorithm (k-NN) is a non-parametric supervised learning method first developed by Evelyn Fix and Joseph Hodges...31 KB (4,245 words) - 14:22, 23 June 2024
- An erogenous zone (from Greek ἔρως, érōs "love"; and English -genous "producing", from Greek -γενής, -genḗs "born") is an area of the human body that has...17 KB (2,000 words) - 16:20, 9 July 2024
- Focal seizures (also called partial seizures and localized seizures) are seizures that affect initially only one hemisphere of the brain. The brain is...14 KB (1,476 words) - 18:53, 7 June 2024
- Corn smut is a plant disease caused by the pathogenic fungus Mycosarcoma maydis. One of several cereal crop pathogens called smut, the fungus forms galls...27 KB (3,106 words) - 12:39, 8 July 2024
- Cadherin-1 or Epithelial cadherin (E-cadherin), (not to be confused with the APC/C activator protein CDH1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the...55 KB (6,434 words) - 22:24, 2 May 2024