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Australian Integrated Forecast System The (AIFS) is a UNIX and Linux -based processing, display, analysis and communications system for meteorological data. It incorporates facilities for the ingest and storage of meteorological and hydrological observations, which can be displayed, analysed and manipulated on screen. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21697612 |
Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database The (LEDA) was a database of galaxies, created in 1983 at the Lyon Observatory. Each galaxy had a number assigned to it, which is now known as its PGC number. The Principal Galaxies Catalogue (PGC), published in 1989, was based on the and contained cross-identifications for it. LEDA w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21718106 |
N'aschi Nashi or "n'aschi" is a northeastern wind that occurs in winter on the Iranian coast of the Persian Gulf, especially near the entrance to the gulf, and also on the Makran coast. It is probably associated with an outflow from the central Asiatic anticyclone, which extends over the high land of Iran. It is simila... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21718164 |
Desmond H. Collins is a Canadian paleontologist, associate professor of zoology at the University of Toronto and retired curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21720273 |
P3M Particle–Particle–Particle–Mesh (PM) is a Fourier-based Ewald summation method to calculate potentials in N-body simulations. The potential could be the electrostatic potential among N point charges i.e. molecular dynamics, the gravitational potential among N gas particles in e.g. smoothed particle hydrodynamics, o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21737233 |
Double scaling limit In theoretical physics, a double scaling limit is a limit in which the coupling constant is sent to zero while another quantity is sent to zero or infinity at the same moment. The adjective "double" is a kind of misnomer because the procedure represents an ordinary scaling. However, the adjective i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21743174 |
Dressed particle In theoretical physics, the term dressed particle refers to a bare particle together with some excitations of other quantum fields that are physically inseparable from the bare particle. For example, a dressed electron includes the chaotic dynamics of electron–positron pairs and photons surrounding the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21743661 |
Bare particle In theoretical physics, a bare particle is an excitation of an elementary quantum field. Such a particle is not identical to the particles observed in the experiments: the real particles are dressed particles that also include additional particles surrounding the bare one. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21743669 |
Back-reaction In theoretical physics, back-reaction (or backreaction) is often necessary to calculate the self-consistent behaviour of a particle or an object in an external field. When a particle is considered to have no mass or to have an infinitesimal charge, this can be described as saying that we deal with a probe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21743687 |
Flowering Locus C ("FLC") is a MADS-box gene that in late-flowering ecotypes of the plant "Arabidopsis thaliana" is responsible for vernalization. In a new seedling "FLC" is expressed, which prevents flowering. Upon exposure to cold, less "FLC" is expressed (to a degree depending on the amount of cold), and flowering b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21746104 |
Vagal escape The Sympathetic nervous system and Parasympathetic nervous system can offset each other. One of the most classical example is called Vagal Escape. is characterized by a reduction in blood pressure due to muscarinic stimulation which is then compensated for stimulation from the sympathetic system to increas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21748884 |
Sandip Trivedi (; born 1963) is an Indian theoretical physicist working at Tata Institute for Fundamental Research (TIFR) at Mumbai, India, while he is its current Director. He is well known for his contributions to string theory, in particular finding (along with Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde, and Shamit Kachru) the fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21759262 |
Lyman limit The is the short-wavelength end of the hydrogen Lyman series, at . It corresponds to the energy required for an electron in the hydrogen ground state to escape from the electric potential barrier that originally confined it, thus creating a hydrogen ion. This energy is equivalent to the Rydberg constant. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21761715 |
Artificially Expanded Genetic Information System (AEGIS) is a synthetic DNA analog experiment that uses some unnatural base pairs from the laboratories of the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, Florida. AEGIS is a NASA-funded project to try to understand how extraterrestrial life may have develo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21781351 |
Gregory–Laflamme instability The (after Ruth Gregory and Raymond Laflamme) is a result in theoretical physics which states that certain black strings and branes are unstable in dimensions higher than four. In their seminal papers in 1993 and 1994, Gregory and Laflamme showed that certain branes and Higher-dimensional E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21788835 |
Biraco is the acronym of Bismuth, Radium, and Cobalt. It was the name of a now-defunct subsidiary company of Union Minière du Haut Katanga (UMHK) and Société Générale de Belgique created to refine these elements from the copper and uranium ores coming from the Katanga province in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Radiu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21796566 |
Downie bodies Downie bodies, also known as a type of A-type inclusion, are a type of inclusion body associated with cowpox. They are named for Allan Watt Downie. It should not be confused with the term "Downey bodies", which refers to a type of T cell observed in infectious mononucleosis. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21799935 |
NGC 5229 is an edge-on spiral galaxy located in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is a member of the M51 Group although in reality it is relatively isolated from other galaxies. The galaxy's disc is somewhat warped and appears to consist of a series of interconnected clusters of stars from our vantage point on Earth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21805606 |
Advanced Radar Research Center The (ARRC) is a University Strategic Organization of the University of Oklahoma (OU) located at the Radar Innovation Lab (RIL) in Norman, Oklahoma. The Executive Director of ARRC is Dr. Robert D. Palmer. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21807139 |
Sykia (Voula) Sykia (, "Sykia") is a small doline in Athens, Greece. The doline, which has a depth of about , has been known since the mid-1940s and is located near the Hymettan peak of Korakovouni at an altitude of approximately 300 m above sea level. It takes its name from the fig tree growing in the debris cone on t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21825130 |
Philippe A. Guye FRS (12 June 1862 – 27 March 1922) was a Swiss chemist who was awarded the Davy Medal in 1921 "for his researches in physical chemistry". Guye earned his Ph.D. at the University of Geneva, with research under the direction of Carl Gräbe. In 1892, Guye was elected to the “Chaire extraordinaire de chimie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21836799 |
Mommur Chasma is the largest 'canyon' on the known part of the surface of Uranus' moon Oberon. This feature probably formed during crustal extension at the early stages of moon's evolution, when the interior of Oberon expanded and its ice crust cracked as a result. The canyon is an example of graben (rift valley) or sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21843547 |
Otto Laporte Award The (1972–2003) was an annual award by the American Physical Society (APS) to ""recognize outstanding contributions to fluid dynamics"" and to honour Otto Laporte (1902–1971). It was established as the Otto Laporte Memorial Lectureship by the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics in 1972, and became an APS ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21847877 |
Absorption hardening In the field of nuclear engineering, absorption hardening is the increase in average energy of neutrons in a population by preferential absorption of lower-energy neutrons. This occurs because absorption cross-sections typically increase for lower neutron energies. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21848654 |
Bogolyubov Prize (NASU) The Bogoliubov Prize is an award offered by the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine for scientists with outstanding contribution to theoretical physics and applied mathematics. The award is issued in the memory of theoretical physicist and mathematician Nikolay Bogoliubov. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21855599 |
Epstein–Barr virus nuclear antigen 3 The (EBNA-3) is a family of viral proteins associated with the Epstein–Barr virus. A typical EBV genome contains three such proteins: These genes also bind the host RBP-Jκ protein. EBNA-3C can recruit a ubiquitin ligase and has been shown to target cell-cycle regulators such as reti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21859719 |
Isomorphism (crystallography) In crystallography crystals are described as isomorphous if they are closely similar in shape. Historically crystal shape was defined by measuring the angles between crystal faces with a goniometer. In modern usage isomorphous crystals belong to the same space group. Double sulfates, such ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21862537 |
Julius Roger (23 February 1819 – 7 January 1865) was a German medical doctor, entomologist, and folklorist who worked in Ratibor, in Upper Silesia, most notable for having arranged (and raised the necessary monies) to build hospitals in Groß Rauden, Pilchowitz, and the current public hospital in Rybnik. He is also nota... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21867180 |
Electron equivalent is a concept commonly used in redox chemistry, reactions involving electron transfer, to define a quantity (e.g. energy or moles) relative to one electron. Energies of formation are often given as kilojoules per electron equivalent to enable calculation of specific reaction energies on a "per electr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21884530 |
Wolff algorithm The Wolff algorithm, named after Ulli Wolff, is an algorithm for Monte Carlo simulation of the Ising model in which the unit to be flipped is not a single spin, as in the heat bath or Metropolis algorithms, but a cluster of them. This cluster is defined as the set of neighbouring spins sharing the same ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21888260 |
Cornelis de Jode (1568 – 17 October 1600) was a cartographer, engraver and publisher from Antwerp. He was the son of Gerard de Jode, also a cartographer. Cornelis studied science at Academy of Douai When his father died in 1591, took over the work on his father's uncompleted atlas, which he eventually published in 1593... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21888481 |
NGC 37 is a lenticular galaxy located in the Phoenix constellation. It is approximately 42 kiloparsecs (137,000 light-years) in diameter and about 12.9 billion years old. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21895112 |
Upper critical solution temperature The upper critical solution temperature (UCST) or upper consolute temperature is the critical temperature above which the components of a mixture are miscible in all proportions. The word "upper" indicates that the UCST is an upper bound to a temperature range of partial miscibility,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21929924 |
Upper critical solution temperature As shown in the diagram, for polymer solutions the LCST is higher than the UCST, so that there is a temperature interval of complete miscibility, with partial miscibility at both higher and lower temperatures. The UCST and LCST of polymer mixtures in general depend on polymer degree ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21929924 |
Alberta Hail Project The was a research project sponsored by the Alberta Research Council and Environment Canada to study hailstorm physics and dynamics in order to design and test means for suppressing hail. It ran from 1956 until 1985. The main instrument in this research was an S-band circularly polarized weather ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21950576 |
Alberta Hail Project As a result, it is believed that only a very small percentage of hail reaching the surface went undetected. For the duration of the project, six categories were specified to size the observed hailstones conveniently: diameters less than 0.4 cm, 0.4–1.2 cm, 1.3–2.0 cm; 2.1–3.2 cm, 3.3–5.2 cm, and la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21950576 |
Alberta Hail Project They were directed into suspected thunderstorm hail regions by a controller at the radar site. The controller communicated with the vehicles by radio. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21950576 |
Arne Bjørlykke (born 3 October 1943) is a Norwegian geologist. He took an education in mining engineering at the Norwegian Institute of Technology, graduating in 1967. He worked at the Norwegian Geological Survey from 1968 to 1984, and was then a professor at the University of Oslo from 1984 to 1994. He then returned t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21951950 |
Semeykin (crater) Semeykin is a crater in the Ismenius Lacus quadrangle on Mars. It is located at 41.8° north latitude and 351.4° west longitude. The crater measures approximately 74 kilometers in diameter and was named after Boris Semeykin, a Soviet astronomer (1900–1937). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21954786 |
Wirtz (crater) Wirtz is a crater on Mars, located in Argyre quadrangle at 48.6° south latitude and 26° west longitude. It measures approximately 120 kilometers in diameter and was named after Carl Wilhelm Wirtz, a German astronomer (1886–1956). The name was adopted by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclatu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21960329 |
Eddie (crater) Eddie Crater is a crater in the Elysium quadrangle of Mars at 12.3° north latitude and 217.9° west longitude. It is 89 km in diameter and was named after Lindsay Eddie, a South African astronomer (1845–1913). Impact craters generally have a rim with ejecta around them, in contrast volcanic craters usuall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21960613 |
FDU materials FDU Materials are a class of regularly structured mesoporous organic materials first synthesized at Fudan University in Shanghai, China (hence FDU). FDU-14 -15 and -16 are formed by polymerizing resol around a lyotropic liquid crystal template and then removing the template by calcination. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21968037 |
Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry Nomenclature of Organic Chemistry, commonly referred to by chemists as the Blue Book, is a collection of recommendations on organic chemical nomenclature published at irregular intervals by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC). A full edition was published in 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21971994 |
Retrogradation (starch) Retrogradation is a reaction that takes place when the amylose and amylopectin chains in cooked, gelatinized starch realign themselves as the cooked starch cools. When native starch is heated and dissolved in water, the crystalline structure of amylose and amylopectin molecules is lost and they ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21980048 |
Retrogradation (starch) Retrogradation can expel water from the polymer network. This is a process known as syneresis. A small amount of water can be seen on top of the gel. Retrogradation is directly related to the staling or aging of bread. Retrograded starch is less digestible (see resistant starch). Chemical modifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21980048 |
Physiological condition or, more often "physiological conditions" is a term used in biology, biochemistry, and medicine. It refers to conditions of the external or internal milieu that may occur in nature for that organism or cell system, in contrast to artificial laboratory conditions. A temperature range of 20-40 deg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21983464 |
Gastre Fault The Zone (GFZ) is a NW-SE striking dextral Jurassic System (cf. Rapela & Pankhurst, 1992) in Central Patagonia, Argentina. From a tentative correlation of the fault zone with the similarly NW-SE trend, it was termed ‘Zone’ or ‘Gastre-Purén Fault Zone’ to the Lanalhue Fault Zone in Chile by early works. How... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22002887 |
Elsa van Dien (July 12, 1914 – 2007) was an astronomer. She received her Ph.D. from Harvard University. She married Gale Bruno van Albada who was also an astronomer. <br> was born in Paramaribo (Surinam) July 12, 1914 as the daughter of Rebecca da Silva and Gerrit van Dien. The family moved to the Netherlands in 1923. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22013260 |
International Census of Marine Microbes The is a field project of the Census of Marine Life that inventories microbial diversity by cataloging all known diversity of single-cell organisms including bacteria, Archaea, Protista, and associated viruses, exploring and discovering unknown microbial diversity, and placing th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22022775 |
Census of Marine Zooplankton The is a field project of the Census of Marine Life that has aimed to produce a global assessment of the species diversity, biomass, biogeographic distribution, and genetic diversity of more than 7,000 described species of zooplankton that drift the ocean currents throughout their lives. CM... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22034606 |
Gary S. Grest is a computational physicist at Sandia National Laboratories. He received the Aneesur Rahman Prize for Computational Physics from the American Physical Society for his work in computational physics. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2008. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22034657 |
Steven Gwon Sheng Louie (26 March 1949, Taishan, Guangdong, China) is a computational condensed-matter physicist. He is a professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley and senior faculty scientist in the Materials Sciences Division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where his research focuses on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22034828 |
AM 1316-241 is a pair of overlapping galaxies in the constellation Hydra. Notable for having revealed visible dust by the back light from the more distant galaxy of the two, the dust was previously unknown to astronomers. It is believed the pair are interacting. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22037382 |
Discovery image In astronomy, a discovery image is typically a drawing, film base photograph, photographic plate, or digital image in which a celestial object or phenomenon was first found. This can include planets, dwarf planets, small solar system bodies (asteroids, comets, etc.) or features found on or near those ob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22039057 |
Anion exchange membrane An anion exchange membrane (AEM) is a semipermeable membrane generally made from ionomers and designed to conduct anions while being impermeable to gases such as oxygen or hydrogen. Anion exchange membranes are used in electrolytic cells and fuel cells to separate reactants present around the tw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22055207 |
Unwin Radar The is a scientific radar array at Awarua, near Invercargill, New Zealand . Unwin is part of the Super Dual Auroral Radar Network (SuperDARN), an international radar network for studying the upper atmosphere and ionosphere that operates in the High Frequency (HF) bands between 8 and 22 MHz. The radar and as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22055741 |
Unwin Radar This frequency hopping is done by ongoing scanning the frequency band to determine automatically which channels are free of interference and provide the best coverage. The data from Unwin is transmitted back to La Trobe University where it is made available over the Internet to users. The and its counterpar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22055741 |
Aleksei Turovski (born 4 August 1946 in Moscow) is an Estonian zoologist and ethologist, specialising in parasitology and zoosemiotics. In 1973, he graduated from Tartu University with a degree in zoology; since 1972 he's been working in the Tallinn Zoo. In 1976–2001, Turovski worked in the Estonian Marine Institute. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22066482 |
Eugenia Wang Eugenia Wang, Ph.D., (born February 26, 1945) is a professor at the University of Louisville whose primary focus is researching the genetic aspect of aging in humans. She was among the first researchers who discovered the parts of the human genome that could either accelerate or slow the process of apoptos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22072197 |
Johann Gottlieb Schaller (1734–1814) was a German zoologist and entomologist. He wrote Fortgesesste Beitrage zur Geschichte exotischer Papilions in "Der Naturforscher" 23: 49–53 in which he described many new species of butterflies. Germar, E. F. 1815: [Schaller, J. G.] "Magazin der Entomologie". (Herausgegeben von E. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22076973 |
George Sherwood Hume (March 1, 1893 – November 24, 1965) was a Canadian geologist. Born in Milton, Ontario, Hume was a graduate of the University of Toronto. After serving in World War I, he received a PhD from Yale University in 1920. He joined the Geological Survey of Canada and became its Chief in 1947. He was later... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22092687 |
Tokyo District Meteorological Observatory , abbreviated as TDMO, is one of the five District Meteorological Observatories of the Japan Meteorological Agency. It also fills the role of for Kantō region and is based inside the JMA headquarters building located in Ōtemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo. Bold-faced LMOs are the Region C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22099485 |
Seed separator A seed separator is a structure found in the follicles of some Proteaceae. These follicles typically contain two seeds, with a seed separator between them. The seed separator is nothing but a little chip of wood, but in some cases it serves an important function: in serotinous species, the follicles open... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22144337 |
Julian Simashko Julian Ivanovich Simashko (; 1821–1893) was a Russian zoologist and entomologist. He wrote "Russkaya Fauna" published in Saint Petersburg in 1850, the first work on Russian fauna to include the Caucasus. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22146521 |
Compton–Getting effect The is an apparent anisotropy in the intensity of radiation or particles due to the relative motion between the observer and the source. This effect was first identified in the intensity of cosmic rays by Arthur Compton and Ivan A. Getting in 1935. Gleeson and Axford provide a full derivation of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22155040 |
Kunowsky (Martian crater) Kunowsky is a crater in the Mare Acidalium quadrangle of Mars, located at 57.1° north latitude and 9.7° west longitude. It is 67.4 km in diameter and was named after Georg Karl Friedrich Kunowsky, a German astronomer (1786–1846). Because it lies on a large flat plain, Kunowsky is easy to spot ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22160702 |
Boeddicker (crater) Boeddicker is a crater in the Aeolis quadrangle of Mars, located at 15° south latitude and 197.7° west longitude. It is 109 km in diameter and was named after Otto Boeddicker, a German astronomer (1853–1937). Boeddicker Crater was discussed as a landing site for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers. It ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22162864 |
Reuyl (crater) Reuyl is a crater in the Aeolis quadrangle of Mars, located at 9.8° south latitude and 193.2° west longitude. It measures 85.9 kilometers in diameter and was named after Dirk Reuyl, a Dutch-American physicist and astronomer (1906–1972) who made astronomical measurements of the diameter of Mars in the 194... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22163025 |
Bond (crater) Bond is a crater in the Argyre quadrangle on Mars, located at 33.2° south latitude and 36° west longitude. It is 105 km in diameter and was named after George P. Bond, an American astronomer (1825–1865). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22163165 |
Hartwig (Martian crater) Hartwig Crater is an impact crater in the Argyre quadrangle of Mars, located at 39° south latitude and 16° west longitude. It is 105 km in diameter and was named after Ernst Hartwig, a German astronomer (1851–1923). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22163285 |
Hutton (Martian crater) Hutton is a crater in the Mare Australe quadrangle of Mars, located at 71.8° south latitude and 255.4° west longitude. It is 99 km in diameter and was named after James Hutton, a British geologist (1726-1797). Many areas of Mars show patterned ground. Sometimes the ground has the shape of polygo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22163367 |
Secchi (Martian crater) Secchi is a crater in the Hellas quadrangle of Mars, located at 58.3° south latitude and 258.1° west longitude. it is 223 km in diameter and was named after Angelo Secchi, an Italian astronomer (1818–1878). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22163504 |
Korolev (Martian crater) Korolev is an ice-filled impact crater in the Mare Boreum quadrangle of Mars, located at 73° north latitude and 165° east longitude. It is in diameter and contains about of water ice, comparable in volume to Great Bear Lake in northern Canada. The crater was named after Sergei Korolev (1907–196... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22163827 |
David George Stead (6 March 1877 – 2 August 1957) was an Australian marine biologist, ichthyologist, oceanographer, conservationist and writer. He was born at St Leonards in Sydney, and educated at public schools and the Sydney Technical College. In 1909 he was a founder of, and during its early years the main driving ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22198654 |
Field of Streams The is a patch of sky where several stellar streams are visible and crisscross. It was discovered by Vasily Belokurov and Daniel Zucker's team in 2006 by analyzing the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS-II) data. The team named the area "Field of Streams" because of so many crisscrossing trails of stars... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22205229 |
Charged-particle equilibrium In radiological physics, charged-particle equilibrium (CPE) occurs when the number of charged particles leaving a volume is equal to the number entering, for each energy and type of particle. When CPE exists in an irradiated medium, the absorbed dose in the volume is equal to the collision ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22221404 |
Tikhonravov (crater) Tikhonravov is a large, eroded crater in the Arabia quadrangle of Mars. It is in diameter and was named after Mikhail Tikhonravov, a Russian rocket scientist. Tikhonravov is believed to have once held a giant lake that drained into the 4500 km long Naktong-Scamander-Mamers lake-chain system. An inf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22223878 |
Pasteur (Martian crater) Pasteur Crater is a crater in the Arabia quadrangle of Mars, located at 19.4° north latitude and 335.5° west longitude. It is approximately in diameter and was named after renowned French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur. Dark sand dunes are clustered in the southwest of the crater. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22223973 |
Kodama state In loop quantum gravity, the is a zero energy solution to the Schrödinger equation. In 1988, Hideo Kodama wrote down the equations of the Kodama state, but as it described a positive (de Sitter universe) spacetime, which was believed to be inconsistent with observation, it was largely ignored. In 2002, Lee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22245489 |
Kodama state The physical inner product may resemble the MacDowell–Mansouri action formulation of gravity. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22245489 |
Environment (systems) In science and engineering, a system is the part of the universe that is being studied, while the environment is the remainder of the universe that lies outside the boundaries of the system. It is also known as the surroundings or neighborhood, and in thermodynamics, as the reservoir. Depending on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22247762 |
Bindschadler Ice Stream () is an ice stream between Siple Dome and MacAyeal Ice Stream. It is one of several major ice streams draining from Marie Byrd Land into the Ross Ice Shelf. The ice streams were investigated and mapped by U.S. Antarctic Research Program personnel in a number of field seasons from 1983–84 and na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22256826 |
Spar buoy A spar buoy is a tall, thin buoy that floats upright in the water and is characterized by a small water plane area and a large mass. Because they tend to be stable ocean platforms, spar buoys are popular for making oceanographic measurements. Adjustment of the water plane area and the mass allows spar buoys t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22261876 |
Memphis Facula is a palimpsest, or "ghost crater", on Ganymede, the largest of the Jovian satellites. About 360 km across, it is situated in the southwestern part of Galileo Regio, a huge almost circular dark region in Ganymede's northern hemisphere. Although almost level today, it is a relic of a massive impact and on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22287993 |
György Gömöri (also George Gömöri or George Gomori; 1904–1957) was a Hungarian-American physician who became famous as a histochemist. Gömöri was born in Budapest on 16 July 1904. He received a degree from the medical faculty of the Pázmány Péter University (today the medical faculty of the Semmelweis University) in 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22305422 |
Paramoudra Paramoudras, flints, Pot stones or Potstones are flint nodules found mainly in parts of north-west Europe: Norfolk (United Kingdom), Ireland, Denmark, Spain and Germany. In Norfolk they are known as Pot Stones and can be found on the beach below Beeston Bump just outside Beeston Regis. In Ireland they are kn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22310055 |
Electromethanogenesis is a form of electrofuel production where methane is produced by direct biological conversion from electrical current and carbon dioxide. The reduction process is carried out in a microbial electrolysis cell. A 2009 article by Cheng and Logan reports that a current capture efficiency of 96% can be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22315224 |
Dejnev (Martian crater) Dejnev is a crater on Mars, located in the Memnonia quadrangle at 25.1° south latitude and 164.8° west longitude. It was named after Russian geographer, explorer, and navigator Semyon Dezhnev (1605–1673). The name was adopted by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature in 1985. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22318759 |
Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies The (MCG) or Morfologiceskij Katalog Galaktik, is a Russian catalogue of 30,642 galaxies compiled by Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov and V. P. Arkhipova. It is based on scrutiny of prints of the Palomar Sky Survey plates, and putatively complete to a photographic magnitude of 15. Includin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22320247 |
Blandford–Znajek process The is a mechanism for the extraction of energy from a rotating black hole, introduced by Roger Blandford and Roman Znajek in 1977. It is one of the best explanations for the way quasars are powered. As in the Penrose process, the ergosphere plays an important role in the Blandford–Znajek proce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22324819 |
HadGEM1 (abbreviation for "Hadley Centre Global Environmental Model, version 1") is a coupled climate model developed at the Met Office’s Hadley Centre in 2006 and used in IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on climate change. It represents a significant scientific advance on its predecessor, HadCM3. also provides a basis fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22331167 |
NGC 7049 is a lenticular galaxy that spans about 150,000 light-years and lies about 100 million light-years away from Earth in the inconspicuous southern constellation of Indus. NGC 7049's unusual appearance is largely due to a prominent rope-like dust ring which stands out against the starlight behind it. These dust l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22342102 |
PyQuante is an open-source (BSD) suite of programs for developing quantum chemistry methods using Gaussian type orbital (GTO) basis sets. The program is written in the Python programming language, but has "rate-determining" modules written in C for speed, and also uses and requires the NumPy linear algebra extensions t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22344920 |
Eduction (geology) In geology, eduction is a process in which the Earth's crust spreads sideways, exposing deep-seated rocks. It is prominent in the middle layers of the Himalayas, where gravity pushes the mountains down. Together with a high grade of erosion, this activity brings deep rocks to the surface, many from m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22380479 |
Jisaburo Ohwi Jisaburo Ohwi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22392990 |
Buskam The Buskam, also Buhskam or Buskamen is a large glacial erratic boulder, 325 metres off the coast of Göhren, Rügen, northern Germany. Erratics () have been scattered all over northern Germany by the glaciers of the Ice Age, but are usually much smaller. The has a volume of about 600 m, a circumference of about 4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22403762 |
Passive binding In complexation catalysis, the term passive binding refers to any stabilizing interaction that is equally strong at the transition state level and in the reactant-catalyst complex. Having the same effect on the stability of the transition state and the reactant-catalyst complex, passive binding contribu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22404484 |
Ryōzō Kanehira Ryōzō Kanehira | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22406489 |
Health technology assessment (HTA) is the systematic evaluation of the properties and effects of a health technology, addressing the direct and intended effects of this technology, as well as its indirect and unintended consequences, and aimed mainly at informing decision making regarding health technologies. It has ot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22406877 |
Health technology assessment It has also been advanced by the evolution of evaluative methods in the social and applied sciences, including clinical epidemiology and health economics. Health policy decisions are becoming increasingly important as the opportunity costs from making wrong decisions continue to grow. HTA i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22406877 |
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