Marie Jean Pierre Flourens was a French physician and physiologist. He was born in 1794 and died in 1867. In 1828 he was elected a. member of the Academy of Sciences, in 1832 was appointed to the chair of comparative anatomy at the Jardin des Plantes, Paris. In 1833 he became permanent secretary to the Academy of Sciences, in 1840 member of the French Academy. In 1846 he was created by Louis Philippe a peer of France. His works include Experiences sur la Systeme Nerveux, Developpement des Os, Anatomie de la Peau, Memoires d'Anatomie et de Physiologie Comparees, De l'Instinct et de 1'Intelligence des Animaux, etc. Research Marie Flourens
The cremaster is a thin layer of muscles by which the testicles are suspended. The muscles originate from the lower border of internal oblique and transversalis muscles. It loops around the spermatic cord and insert in the crest of the ospubis and the front of the rectus muscle. The cremaster is innervated by the genital branch of the genitofemoral nerve. Research Cremaster
The external os is a small, circular opening of the cervix where it projects into the vagina. It is distinguished from the internal os, which is the internal opening from the lower part of the uterus into the cervix. Research External Os
The face is the front part of the head, the seat of most of the senses. The bony basis of the face, exclusive of the thirty-two teeth (these not being in the strict sense bones), is composed of fourteen bones, called, in anatomy, the bones of the face. The anterior part of the skull (os frontis) also forms an important feature of the face. Of all these bones the lower jaw only is movable, being articulated with the base of the skull. The other bones are firmly joined together and incapable of motion. In apes the jaws project much more than in humans, and form the prominent feature of the face, while the forehead recedes. The face of birds comprehends the ophthalmic regions, cheeks, temples, forehead and vertex; the face of insects includes all between the proboscis and the prothorax.
The penis is the male genital organ which carries the duct for the emission of sperm, and ejection of urine. In mammals it is comprised mainly of erectile tissue, many mammals (including most primates, rodents and others) except humans having in addition a bone (known as the baculum bacula or os Penis) in the penis to allow instant arousal, or erection, to facilitate penetration of the female for the transference of the sperm, humans lacking this bone require to be aroused in order to be able to copulate. Research Penis
CP/M (Control Program for Microcomputers) is an early microcomputer OS written by hacker Gary Kildall for 8080 and Z80 based machines. It was very popular in the late 1970s but was virtually wiped out by MS-DOS after the release of the IBMPC in 1981. Legend has it that Kildall's company blew its chance to write the OS for the IBMPC because Kildall decided to spend a day IBM's reps wanted to meet with him enjoying the perfect flying weather in his private plane. Many of CP/M's features and conventions strongly resemble those of early DEC operating systems such as TOPS-10, OS/8, RSTS, and RSX-11. Research CP/M
The Funnel Web Analyzer by Quest Software is a freewarecomputer program for the Windows, MacOS X, Linux and Solaris operating systems that provides analysis of http server log files. The Funnel Web Analyzer provides details of visitor demographics including geographical data based upon domain name, search engine terms used to find the web site and similar reports which may be formatted in HTML, PDF and plain text formats. Funnel Web Analyzer supports incremental analysis so that subsequent analysis can be combined with earlier results and new combined reports produced. Research Funnel Web Analyzer
GCOS is a quick-and-dirty clone of System/360 DOS that emerged from GE around 1970. Originally it was called GECOS (the General Electric Comprehensive Operating System). Later it was changed to support primitive timesharing and transaction processing. After the buyout of GE's computer division by Honeywell, the name was changed to General Comprehensive Operating System (GCOS). Other OS groups at Honeywell began referring to it as `God's Chosen Operating System', allegedly in reaction to the GCOS crowd's uninformed and snotty attitude about the superiority of their product. Research GCOS
MS-DOS (Microsoft Disk Operating System) is a clone of CP/M for the 8088 put together in six weeks by hacker Tim Paterson, who is said to have regretted it ever since. It has numerous features, including vaguely UNIX-like but rather broken support for subdirectories, I/O redirection, and pipelines, were hacked into version 2. 0 and subsequent versions; as a result, there are two or more incompatible versions of many system calls, and MS-DOS programmers can never agree on basic things like what character to use as an option switch or whether to be case-sensitive. The resulting mess is now the highest-unit-volume OS in history. Often known simply as DOS, which annoys people familiar with other similarly abbreviated operating systems (the name goes back to the mid-1960s, when it was attached to IBM's first disk operating system for the 360). The name further annoys those who know what the term operating system does (or ought to) connote; DOS is more properly a set of relatively simple interrupt services. Research MS-DOS
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