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gene therapy
genetic modification of a patient's cells to produce a therapeutic effect
paywall
thumb|upright=1.3|Mock-up of a "hard" paywall on a fictional news website
gift card
prepaid-stored-value money card
OpenType Font
OpenType is a format for scalable computer fonts. Derived from TrueType, it retains TrueType's basic structure but adds many intricate data structures for describing typographic behavior. OpenType is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation.
Brithenig
Brithenig, or also known as Comroig, is an invented language, or constructed language ("conlang"). It was created as a hobby in 1996 by Andrew Smith from New Zealand, who also invented the alternate history of Ill Bethisad to "explain" it. Officially according to the Ill Bethisad Wiki, Brithenig is classified as a Britanno-Romance language, along with other Romance languages that displaced Celtic.
media type
two-part identifier for file formats and format contents transmitted on the Internet
Europanto
Europanto is a macaronic language concept with a fluid vocabulary from European languages of the user's choice or need. It was conceived in 1996 by Diego Marani (a journalist, author and translator for the European Council of Ministers in Brussels) based on the common practice of word-borrowing usage of many European languages. Marani used it in response to the perceived dominance of the English language; it is an emulation of the effect that non-native speakers struggling to learn a language typically add words and phrases from their native language to express their meanings clearly.
sRGB
sRGB (standard RGB) is a color space, for use on monitors, printers, and the World Wide Web. It was initially proposed by HP and Microsoft in 1996 and became an official standard of the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) as IEC 61966-2-1:1999. It is the current standard colorspace for the web, and it is usually the assumed colorspace for images that do not have an embedded color profile.
Scunthorpe problem
problem caused by profanity filters on the Internet
Great Filter
whatever prevents non-living matter from undergoing abiogenesis and later becoming spacefaring.
107% rule
Formula One rule
Mega Millions
American multi-jurisdictional lottery game
Ten stages of genocide
Theory that genocide occurs in 8 stages of order
mitochondrial replacement therapy
special form of in vitro fertilisation
Atlantean
fictional language in Disney's Atlantis
Day of Silence
International LGBT supporting day
Parrondo's paradox
paradox in game theory in which a combination of losing strategies becomes a winning strategy
Montreal Cognitive Assessment
screening assessment for detecting cognitive impairment
angel problem
game-theoretic game on an endless chessboard: a devil hinders an angel’s movement, and the angel tries to escape; each turn the angel jumps ≤k squares, and the devil adds a block on an empty square
Honda J engine
motor vehicle engine
NTRU
NTRU is an open-source public-key cryptosystem that uses lattice-based cryptography to encrypt and decrypt data. It consists of two algorithms: NTRUEncrypt, which is used for encryption, and NTRUSign, which is used for digital signatures. Unlike other popular public-key cryptosystems, it is resistant to attacks using Shor's algorithm. NTRUEncrypt was patented, but it was placed in the public domain in 2017. NTRUSign is patented, but it can be used by software under the GPL.
Robocasting
Robocasting (also known as robotic material extrusion) is an additive manufacturing technique analogous to Direct Ink Writing and other extrusion-based 3D-printing techniques in which a filament of a paste-like material is extruded from a small nozzle while the nozzle is moved across a platform. The object is thus built by printing the required shape layer by layer. The technique was first developed in the United States in 1996 as a method to allow geometrically complex ceramic green bodies to be produced by additive manufacturing. In robocasting, a 3D CAD model is divided up into layers in a
Karlsruher Virtueller Katalog
library catalog
revenue stamps of Ukraine