Everything about Switch
Electrical component that can break an electrical circuit
In electrical engineering, a switch is an electrical component that can disconnect or connect the conducting path in an electrical circuit, interrupting the electric current or diverting it from one conductor to another. The most common type of switch is an electromechanical device consisting of one or more sets of movable electrical contacts connected to external circuits. When a pair of contacts is touching, current can pass between them, while the contacts are separated no current can flow. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: SwitchA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Switch to fulvestrant and palbociclib versus no switch in advanced breast cancer with rising ESR1 mutation during aromatase inhibitor and palbociclib therapy (PADA-1): a randomised, open-label, multicentre, phase 3 trialInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead WilsonThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Patterns and Emerging Mechanisms of the Angiogenic Switch during TumorigenesisCited 5,460 times
- Go sideways: ContactorA closely related topic
- Go sideways: Electrical contactA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Noun A device to turn electric current on and off or direct its flow.
Noun A change or exchange.
Noun A movable section of railroad track which allows the train to be directed down one of two destination tracks; (set of) points.
Noun A long, slender woody plant stem or a flexible, thin rod used as a whip to administer corporal punishment in the United States.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Patterns and Emerging Mechanisms of the Angiogenic Switch during Tumorigenesis
Obesity induces a phenotypic switch in adipose tissue macrophage polarization
Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli
HIF-1-mediated expression of pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase: A metabolic switch required for cellular adaptation to hypoxia
The Bcl2 family: regulators of the cellular life-or-death switch
Class Switch Recombination and Hypermutation Require Activation-Induced Cytidine Deaminase (AID), a Potential RNA Editing Enzyme
Tumorigenesis and the angiogenic switch
Bacterial Persistence as a Phenotypic Switch
🆕 Influential since 2022
Switch to fulvestrant and palbociclib versus no switch in advanced breast cancer with rising ESR1 mutation during aromatase inhibitor and palbociclib therapy (PADA-1): a randomised, open-label, multicentre, phase 3 trial
Switch type PANI/ZnO core-shell microwire heterojunction for UV photodetection
Potential optical molecular switch: Lithium@cyclo[18]carbon complex transforming between two stable configurations
Coverage-driven selectivity switch from ethylene to acetate in high-rate CO2/CO electrolysis
Class switch toward noninflammatory, spike-specific IgG4 antibodies after repeated SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination
📚 Books worth reading
The Tragedy of Pudd'nhead WilsonMark Twain · 1758
Red bookInternational Telegraph and Telephone Consultative Committee. Plenary Assembly · 1900
GrimusSalman Rushdie · 1975
Switching and finite automata theoryZvi Kohavi · 1970
Logical design of switching circuitsDouglas Lewin · 1968- 📕On-board B-ISDN fast packet switching architecturesDong-Jye Shyy · 1993
- 📕Language mixing and code-switching in writingMark Sebba, Shahrzad Mahootian · 2012
Sliding mode control of switching power convertersSiew-Chong Tan · 2011
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