Mistura Scammonii is a scammony-containing mixture. A mixed liquid preparation differs from the isolated resin fraction.^[ref]

The nonnegative scalar conservation law ${\rho }_t+({\rho }^4/4{)}_x=0$ has a unit-mass source-type entropy solution with $f(\eta )={\eta }^{1/3}$ on $0<\eta <(4/3{)}^{3/4}$ and zero elsewhere. Mass conservation gives the scaling exponents $\alpha +\beta =0$, while flux balance gives $\alpha -1=4\alpha -\beta$, so $\alpha =-1/4$, $\beta =1/4$. The reduced ODE integrates to $f^4-\eta f=0$ on the positive branch adjoining vacuum. The integral ${\int }_0^{{\eta }_F}{\eta }^{1/3}d\eta =1$ fixes the front. Its speed ${\eta }_F{t}^{-3/4}/4$ equals the Rankine-Hugoniot speed ${\rho }_L^3/4$, between the two limiting characteristic speeds, so the front is compressive. The initial trace is a unit Dirac delta distribution, not a smooth finite-width density.

Suppose $a(t)>0$ for positive times. The strictly increasing new time $T(t)={\int }_0^{t}a(s)ds$ converts the scalar conservation law $u_t+a(t){\partial }_{x}F(u)=0$ into $U_T+{\partial }_{x}F(U)=0$, with $u(x,t)=U(x,T(t))$. The chain rule proves the claim for classical solutions; a change of variables in the weak formulation proves it for weak solutions and preserves the time orientation of the Kruzhkov entropy inequality. An isolated zero of $a$ at the initial endpoint does not obstruct the positive-time transformation.

The Rankine-Hugoniot condition becomes $d{x}_s/dt=a(t)[F(u)]/[u]$, while characteristic curves obey $dx/dt=a(t)F^{\prime }(u)$. Thus a straight shock in the new time may accelerate in physical time. For $a(t)=t$, a constant-speed trajectory in $T=t^2/2$ is a parabola in $(x,t)$. This separates genuine changes in wave structure from a common time-dependent speed factor.

Draw two distinct positions uniformly from a fixed population $z_1,\dots ,z_N$ with $N>1$. Let $\mu =N^{-1}{\sum }_i{z}_i$ and ${\sigma }_N^2=N^{-1}{\sum }_i(z_i-\mu {)}^2$. Each draw has expected value $\mu$, whileSubtracting the product of the expected values proves the covariance formula and explains the finite population correction. If the sampled values are coin biases and the actual tosses are conditionally independent given those biases, the law of total covariance gives the same covariance for their head indicator random variables.

The botanical source of fresh elder flowers, Sambuci flores in the 1867 standard.

A lake supplies a melt-opened subglacial channel while its changing hydrostatic head changes effective pressure and material creep closure. In the displayed scaled model the positive equilibrium is $S={\mu }^{3/4}$, $N={\mu }^{1/12}$. Its Jacobian has trace ${\mu }^{1/4}/3>0$ and determinant $4{\mu }^{7/6}$. The instability becomes oscillatory when $\mu >1/1728$. Growing linear oscillations signal departure from steady drainage; they do not prove unbounded physical lake discharge after nonlinear effects and lake depletion become important.

A rose tree is perfect when all its leaves of a rooted tree have the same depth. This permits unequal branching counts and unary branches; perfectness alone does not require every internal vertex to have the same number of children. A bottom-up certificate returns Just 0 at a leaf, Just (h+1) when all child certificates are Just h, and Nothing otherwise. Structural induction proves that a certificate exists exactly when the tree is perfect: all root-to-leaf routes acquire one edge when attached to the new root.

The source of the fresh and dried unexpanded red-rose petals specified in the 1867 standard.

The fleshy fruiting structure of a rose, distinct from its petals.

The characteristic of a rng is the least positive integer annihilating every element of its additive abelian group, or zero if no such integer exists. In a unital ring this equals the characteristic of a ring: $n1=0$ implies $nr=(n1)r=0$, and annihilating every element in particular annihilates $1$. In a finite rng it is the exponent of a finite group of the additive group.

Any abelian group becomes a nonunital ring by declaring every product zero. Associativity and the distributive property hold because both sides are zero. When the group has more than one element, no multiplicative identity element exists: an identity would have to satisfy $ex=x$, whereas every such product is zero. This differs from the zero ring, which has just one element.

Up to an operation-preserving bijection, there are two rngs with two elements. Write the elements as $0,u$. The additive abelian group must satisfy $u+u=0$. The distributive property forces all products involving zero to vanish, leaving only the choice $u^2=0$ or $u^2=u$. The first gives a zero-multiplication rng; the second gives the prime field ${\mathbb{F}}_2$, with identity $u$. Both satisfy the axioms, and they are not isomorphic because an isomorphism must send the unique nonzero element to the unique nonzero element and preserve its square. In particular, there is just one unital ring with two elements.

A right Riemann sum on a partition $a=x_0<\cdots <x_N=b$ samples each subinterval at its right endpoint. For a continuous function its limit as the mesh tends to zero is the integral, by the Riemann sum convergence theorem. On a uniform partition of width $h$, comparison of endpoint weights in the composite trapezoidal rule gives $R_N-T_N=h(f(b)-f(a))/2$. Thus $N^{-5}{\sum }_{j=1}^N{j}^4$ is a right Riemann sum for ${\int }_0^1{x}^{4}dx$, and its limit is $1/5$.

A nonidentity holomorphic automorphism of a compact connected Riemann surface of genus $g$ has at most $2g+2$ fixed points. If there were more, choose $g+1$ distinct fixed points and let $D$ be their sum. The Riemann-Roch theorem gives $\ell (D)\ge 2$, so there is a nonconstant meromorphic function with at most simple poles at these points and no other poles. The function $h=f-f\circ \phi$ has at most $g+1$ poles and at least $n-g-1$ zeros at the remaining fixed points. Since a nonzero principal divisor has degree zero, $n>2g+2$ forces $h=0$. At an actual pole fixed by $\phi$, the reciprocal $1/f$ is a local coordinate because its zero is simple. The identity $f=f\circ \phi$ therefore forces $\phi$ to be the identity near that pole, and the identity theorem on a Riemann surface makes it the identity everywhere.

On a genus-one curve, for distinct $p,q,r$, the Riemann-Roch theorem gives $\ell (p+q+r)=3$. Choose $f$ with simple poles exactly at $p,q$ and $g$ with simple poles exactly at $q,r$. Pole comparison proves $1,f,g$ independent. Multiplying these coordinates by a vanishing local parameter extends $F$ across every pole, with images $[0:1:0]$, $[0:b:c]$, $[0:0:1]$, where $bc\ne 0$. The ten homogeneous cubic monomials evaluate in $L(3p+3q+3r)$, of dimension nine, so a nonzero homogeneous cubic vanishes on the image. The three chosen points map to the line with first coordinate zero. This connects linear systems to projective plane equations by a dimension count.

Compare the displayed ordinary differential equation with $u^{\prime }=1+u^2$, $u(0)=1$, whose solution is $u=\tan (x+\pi /4)$. Their difference satisfies $w^{\prime }=(y+u)w+x^2$, $w(0)=0$. The integrating factor formula makes $w\ge 0$ on the common forward existence interval. Since $u$ diverges at $\pi /4$, the increasing solution $y$ has a maximal forward endpoint $0<x_{\ast }\le \pi /4$. If $y$ remained bounded at this finite endpoint, local existence with the smooth right side would continue it, a contradiction. Hence $y\to +\infty$. The Picard-Lindelöf theorem guarantees local existence, not existence through such a finite-time blow-up. On $|x|\le 1$, $|y|\le 10$, a bound $|1+x^2+y^2|\le 102$ and distance nine to the nearer horizontal box edge give the explicit guaranteed interval $|x|\le 3/34$.

The obex is a landmark at the Caudal tip of the fourth ventricle, near its transition toward the central canal of the spinal cord. It locates the inferior end of the ventricular floor rather than serving as a separate large cerebrospinal-fluid outlet.

The medial eminence is a longitudinal elevation on each side of the midline in the floor of the fourth ventricle. The sulcus limitans marks its lateral relation. Local elevations within it include the facial colliculus.

The sulcus limitans is a longitudinal groove associated with the developmental division between sensory and motor regions of the neural tube. In the floor of the fourth ventricle, it helps orient the medial eminence relative to lateral sensory regions.

The striae medullares of the fourth ventricle are transversely running fiber markings across the ventricular floor, associated with auditory pathways. Their visibility and arrangement vary, so a surface specimen need not display one invariant pattern.