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Red Castle Museum The Red Castle Museum, also known as Assaraya Alhamra Museum () or the Archaeological Museum of Tripoli, is a national museum in Libya. It is located in the historic building known as the , or "Red Saraya". Designed in conjunction with UNESCO, the museum covers 5,000 years from prehistory to the indep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22879569 |
Hose barb Hose barbs are cylindrical pieces or parts for attaching and securing of hoses (tubing). The barb-like rings on the cylindrical piece allow for an easy push-connection of flexible-plastic or rubber tubing that is not so easily disconnected. Hose barbs are used in machine perfusion and chemistry laboratory equ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22943237 |
Lockyer (Martian crater) Lockyer is a crater in the Elysium quadrangle of Mars, located at 28° North and 199.5° West. It is 71 km in diameter and was named after Norman Lockyer, a British astronomer (1836-1920). Lockyer is fairly easy to spot on Mars maps because it sits in the relatively young northern hemisphere, whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22945653 |
Dilly (crater) Dilly Crater is a crater in the Elysium quadrangle of Mars, located at 13.24° North and 202.9° West. It is only 1.3 km in diameter and was named after Dilly, a town in Mali. Impact craters generally have a rim with ejecta around them, in contrast volcanic craters usually do not have a rim or ejecta depos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22946021 |
Fenagh (crater) Fenagh Crater is an impact crater in the Cebrenia quadrangle of Mars, located at 34.67° N and 215.77° W. It is 6.2 km in diameter and was named after a town in Ireland. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22946444 |
Grindavik (crater) Grindavik is an impact crater in the Oxia Palus quadrangle of Mars, located at 25.39° North and 39.07° West. It is 12 km in diameter and was named after Grindavík, a town in Iceland. Impact craters generally have a rim with ejecta around them, in contrast volcanic craters usually do not have a rim or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22946604 |
Competitions and prizes in biotechnology There exist a number of competitions and prizes to reward distinguished contributions and to encourage developments in biotechnology. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22947583 |
Adolf Martin Pleischl (born 10 October 1787, in Hossenreith, Bohemia; died 31 July 1867, in Dorf an der Enns) was a chemist and medical doctor. In 1815 he obtained his medical doctorate from the University of Prague, where he later served as a professor of general and pharmaceutical chemistry (1821–38). At Prague he is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22948278 |
Adolf Martin Pleischl His daughter Mary, was married to physician Johann von Oppolzer (1808-1871). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22948278 |
Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics The is an informative but tongue-in-cheek website designed to be instructive in semiconductor physics. Centered on the popularity and sex appeal of American pop singer Britney Spears, it offers a humorous play on the teaching of physics. It was created by Carl Hepburn whil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22950086 |
Bacolor (crater) Bacolor Crater is a crater in the Casius quadrangle of Mars, located at 33 North and 241.4 West. It is 20.8 km in diameter and was named after the town of Bacolor in the Philippines. The crater shows a double layer of ejecta. The inner layer came first. The impact's heat vaporized the ground and of cou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22951942 |
Bonestell (crater) Bonestell is an impact crater in the Northern hemisphere in the Mare Acidalium quadrangle of Mars, located at 42.37° North and 30.57° West. It is 42.4 km in diameter and was named after Chesley Bonestell, a famous American space artist (1888-1986), whose drawings inspired many young people to study s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22952112 |
Streptamer The technology allows the reversible isolation and staining of antigen-specific T cells. This technology combines a current T cell isolation method with the Strep-tag technology. In principle, the T cells are separated by establishing a specific interaction between the T cell of interest and a molecule that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22977267 |
Streptamer The MHC interacts with the TCR, which in turn is expressed on the T cells. Because TCR-MHC interactions have only a very weak affinity towards each other, monomeric MHC-epitope complexes cannot provide stable binding. This problem can be solved by using multimerized MHC-epitopes, which increases the binding ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22977267 |
Streptamer Therefore, a MHC multimer based on the interaction of Strep-tag with Strep-Tactin is easily disrupted in the presence of relatively low concentrations of d-biotin. Without the Strep-Tactin backbone, the single MHC-Strep-tag fusion proteins spontaneously detach from the TCR of the T cell, because of weak bind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22977267 |
Torkel Lillefosse Torkel Knutsen Lillefosse (5 July 1868 – 9 January 1946) was a Norwegian botanist. He was born at Strandebarm in Hordaland, Norway. After working as a wood carver and gardener, he turned to botany. From 1921 he received an annual state grant for his research. He only researched the flora of Western No... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22981309 |
Nimbostratus virga is a form of Nimbostratus cloud in which the precipitation never reaches the ground. It retains the same features as a normal nimbostratus cloud; dark in appearance, low to medium level cloud of moderate vertical development and made up of sheets. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22981911 |
Robert Hoffstetter Robert Julien Hoffstetter (11 June 1908 – 29 December 1999) was a taxonomist who was influential in categorizing reptiles. He labeled the Bolyeriidae and Madtsoiidae family of snakes. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22991648 |
Complementary cells are a mass of cells in plants, formed from the cork cambium at the position of the lenticels. It is a group of loosely arranged cells that aid in gaseous exchange through cork. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23011904 |
Osmotic dehydration is an operation used for the partial removal of water from plant tissues by immersion in a hypertonic (osmotic) solution. Sugar or salt solutions are used to reduce the moisture content of foods before actual drying process. This technique is used to give the product quality improvement over convent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23021180 |
Osmotic dehydration The rate of diffusion of water from any material made up of such tissues depends upon factors such as temperature and concentration of the osmotic solution, the size and geometry of the material, the solution-to-material mass ratio and, to a certain level, agitation of the solution. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23021180 |
Berthold Ribbentrop was a pioneering forester from Germany who worked in India with Sir Dietrich Brandis and others. He is said to have inspired Rudyard Kipling's character of Muller in "In the Rukh" (1893), one of the earliest of his "Jungle Book" stories. was Inspector-general of Forests to the Government of India fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23045765 |
Nicking enzyme A nicking enzyme (or nicking endonuclease) is an enzyme that cuts one strand of a double-stranded DNA at a specific recognition nucleotide sequences known as a restriction site. Such enzymes hydrolyse (cut) only one strand of the DNA duplex, to produce DNA molecules that are “nicked”, rather than cleaved... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23048210 |
Ureaplasma parvum is a species of "Ureaplasma", a genus of bacteria belonging to the family Mycoplasmataceae. "Ureaplasma parvum" was formerly known as "Ureaplasma urealyticum biovar" 1. "Ureaplasma parvum" has been identified as being a commensal in the uterus as part of the microbiome in healthy women of reproductive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23056675 |
Carlos E.M. Wagner Carlos Wagner is a particle physicist. He specializes in theoretical physics, elementary particles and supersymmetric theories. He currently works for the High Energy Physics (HEP) division of the Argonne National Laboratory and is also a professor at the Physics Department of the University of Chica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23057848 |
Standard sea-level conditions (SSL), also known as sea-level standard (SLS), defines a set of atmospheric conditions for physical calculations. The term "standard sea level" is used to indicate that values of properties are to be taken to be the same as those standard at sea level, and is done to define values for use ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23065547 |
Lammas growth Lammas growth, also called Lammas leaves, Lammas flush, second shoots, or summer shoots, is a season of renewed growth in some trees in temperate regions put on in July and August (if in the northern hemisphere, January and February if in the southern), that is around Lammas day, August 1, which is the Ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23080169 |
Saheki (crater) Saheki is a crater on Mars, located in the Iapygia quadrangle at 21.75° S and 286.97° W. It measures approximately 82 kilometers in diameter and was named after Tsuneo Saheki, a Japanese amateur astronomer (1916–1996). The naming was adopted by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature in 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23087355 |
Jezža (crater) Jezža is a crater on Mars, located at in the Argyre quadrangle. It measures approximately 9.1 kilometers in diameter and was named after a town in Russia. Jezža is on the floor of Argyre Planitia between the craters Hooke and Galle. Impact craters generally have a rim with ejecta around them, in contrast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23087426 |
Echelmeyer Ice Stream The (), formerly known as Ice Stream F, is a glaciological feature of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. It is an ice stream flowing west to the Shirase Coast to the north of the MacAyeal Ice Stream, and is one of several major ice streams draining from Marie Byrd Land into the Ross Ice Shelf. The ice ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23096443 |
Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information The (CGI), usually referred to by the unofficial "Commission for Geoscience Information" is subcommittee grade scientific organization that concerns itself with geological standard, information management and interoperability matters on a global sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23101990 |
Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information The goal was to enable the global exchange of geoscience information by establishing a common multilingual core vocabulary by developing and expanding the Multilingual Thesaurus of Geosciences. In 2012, vocabulary development activities of the Inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23101990 |
Dimorphic root system A dimorphic root system is a plant root system with two distinct root forms, which are adapted to perform different functions. One of the most common manifestations is in plants with both a taproot, which grows straight down to the water table, from which it obtains water for the plant; and a syst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23103356 |
Alexander Selligue Alexander François Selligue (1784-1845) was a French engineer. In 1832, he together with David Blum patented an application of shale oil for direct illumination. In 1838, he patented "the employment of mineral oils for lighting". His process of distilling bituminous shales (oil shale) was first descr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23106631 |
South Atlantic Convergence Zone The South Atlantic convergence zone, or SACZ, is an elongated axis of clouds, precipitation, and convergent winds oriented in a northwest-southeast manner across southeast Brazil into the southwest Atlantic Ocean. By definition, the feature is a monsoon trough. It is strongest in the war... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23112262 |
Gauge principle In physics, a gauge principle specifies a procedure for obtaining an interaction term from a free Lagrangian which is symmetric with respect to a continuous symmetry—the results of localizing (or gauging) the global symmetry group must be accompanied by the inclusion of additional fields (such as the el... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23122856 |
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals is an American biopharmaceutical company. The company is located in Irvine, California. Spectrum develops and markets drugs for treatments in oncology. A number of drugs are currently investigated in clinical trials. Spectrum terminated the development of Ozarelix, a luteinizing hormone releasi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23149582 |
Gold universe A is a cosmological model of the universe. In these models, the universe starts with a Big Bang and expands for some time, with increasing entropy and a thermodynamic arrow of time pointing in the direction of the expansion. After the universe reaches a low-density state, it recontracts, but entropy now d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23149866 |
Lindgren oxidation is a selective method for oxidizing aldehydes to carboxylic acids. The reaction is named after Bengt O. Lindgren. The oxidation takes place in water containing solvent mixtures under slightly acidic conditions (pH 3–5) with sodium chlorite as oxidizer. To avoid complicated oxidation reactions the hyp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23153191 |
Franz Anton Voegeli (1825–1874) was a Swiss chemist who was the first to synthesize triethyl phosphate (TEP) while he was working in Gustav Magnus's laboratory in Berlin. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23157584 |
Thermal dissolution is a method of liquefaction of solid fossil fuels. It is a hydrogen-donor solvent refining process. It may be used for the shale oil extraction and coal liquefaction. Other liquids extraction processes from solid fuels are pyrolysis and hydrogenation. Compared to hydrogenation, the process of therma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23157899 |
Hartmann mask is a tool to help focusing telescopes, mainly used by amateur astronomers. It is named after the German astronomer Johannes Franz Hartmann (1865–1936), who developed it around 1900. Every part of a mirror or lens produces the same image as the whole optical element. The light is focused in the focal point... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23166476 |
Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz Marie Beatrice "Bea" Schol-Schwarz (12 July 1898 – 27 July 1969) was the Dutch phytopathologist who discovered the causal fungus of Dutch elm disease. She first studied pathogens afflicting peanuts and later the fungus "Phialophora". Marie Beatrice Schwarz was born on 12 July 1898 in Batavi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23167778 |
Marie Beatrice Schol-Schwarz Shortly before her death in 1969, she was made an Officer in the Order of Orange Nassau in recognition of her contribution to phytopathology Schwarz died on 27 July 1969, at the age of 71, in Baarn. The elm cultivar 'Bea Schwarz' was named for Dr. Schwarz. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23167778 |
Sisyphus effect In ultra-low temperature physics, the involves the use of specially selected laser light, hitting atoms from various angles to both cool and trap them in a potential well, effectively rolling the atom down a hill of potential energy until it has lost its kinetic energy. It is named in reference to the G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23171647 |
The Cult of the Atom The Cult of the Atom: The Secret Papers of the Atomic Energy Commission is a 1982 book by Daniel Ford. Ford is an economist and former director of the Union of Concerned Scientists, who used the Freedom of Information Act to access thousands of Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) documents. The AEC was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23176824 |
Three Mile Island: Thirty Minutes to Meltdown is a 1982 book by Daniel Ford. Ford presents a "meticulous post-mortem of the events that nearly led to a meltdown" at the Metropolitan Edison station near Harrisburg in March 1979. He analyses the complex of people, technology, customs and regulations involved. Ford identi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23177001 |
Nukespeak Nukespeak: Nuclear Language, Visions and Mindset is a 1982 book by Stephen Hilgartner, Richard C. Bell and Rory O'Connor. This book is a concise history of nuclear weapons and nuclear power in the United States, with special emphasis on the language of the "nuclear mindset". The National Council of Teachers o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23177673 |
Lamb–Mössbauer factor In physics, the (LMF, after Willis Lamb and Rudolf Mössbauer) or elastic incoherent structure factor (EISF) is the ratio of elastic to total incoherent neutron scattering, or the ratio of recoil-free to total nuclear resonant absorption in Mössbauer spectroscopy. The corresponding factor for coher... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23183287 |
Alan Cheetham Alan H. Cheetham is a paleobiologist and retired senior scientist and curator of invertebrate paleontology at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History. Born in El Paso, Texas, January 30, 1928, Cheetham grew up in Taos, New Mexico, received B.S. (New Mexico Institute of Mining and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23185014 |
Alan Cheetham In April 1997 Cheetham was awarded the Raymond C. Moore Medal for Excellence in Paleontology by the Society for Sedimentary Geology. In November 2001 he received the Paleontological Society Medal; he was, during the same year, honored with a festschrift titled "Evolutionary Patterns", edited by Jeremy Jac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23185014 |
Sea air has traditionally been thought to offer health benefits associated with its unique odor, which Victorians attributed to ozone. More recently, it has been determined that the chemical responsible for much of the odor in air along certain seashores is dimethyl sulfide, released by microbes. Salts generally do not... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23202425 |
Chaplygin gas Chaplygin gas, which occurs in certain theories of cosmology, is a hypothetical substance that satisfies an exotic equation of state in the form formula_1, where formula_2 is the pressure, formula_3 is the density, with formula_4 and formula_5 a positive constant. The substance is named after Sergey Chapl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23206350 |
Amaral (crater) Amaral is a crater on the planet Mercury. With its smooth floor, surrounding ejecta, and small secondary craters, it appears noticeably younger than the heavily cratered surface around it. Along with a smooth crater floor, Amaral also has a central peak. Bright material on this peak is of particular int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23211150 |
Chemical leasing "Chemical Leasing" is a business model that intends to shift the focus from increasing sales volume of chemicals towards a value-added approach. It leads to the more efficient use of chemicals, and to the improved health and safety, environmental, and economic benefits. Find the definition and the exam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23211852 |
Chemical leasing The chemical company supplies chemicals for a specific service, such as coatings, adhesives, washing agents, solvents, and also advises the user on its best use. Built on strong cooperation between partners and based on mutual trust, it increases the efficient use of chemicals, reduces the risks to hum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23211852 |
Chemical leasing The Federal Environment Agency (UBA) of Germany proposed to promote chemical leasing in its "Sustainable Chemicals" paper. In 2004, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) and the Austrian Ministry of Environment decided to jointly support chemical leasing through a number of glo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23211852 |
Chemical leasing Environmental benefits are said to include recycling of powder waste, compliance with environmental regulations, and enhancement of supply chain management. Find more successful Chemical Leasing examples here: http://chemicalleasing-toolkit.org/node/8 The reversal of the burden of proof is a key compon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23211852 |
Chemical leasing The planning stage consists of a preparatory phase, a process optimisation phase and a design phase. In this stage, discussions around the leasing model, its cost implications versus quality and environmental benefits, commercial terms, and conditions begin. A baseline audit is performed, and a report ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23211852 |
Chemical leasing It will be part of the Green Chemistry Conference 2018 within the Trio Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU) programme, “Smart and Sustainable Europe”, held during Austria's EU Presidency. Companies and individuals are invited to submit applications for the award in three categories: cas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23211852 |
Stage (hydrology) In hydrology, stage refers to the water level in a river or stream with respect to a chosen reference height. Stage is important because direct measurements of river discharge are very difficult while water surface elevation measurements are comparatively easy. In order to convert stage into discharge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23213003 |
Cross-recurrence quantification (CRQ) is a non-linear method that quantifies how similarly two observed data series unfold over time. CRQ produces measures reflecting coordination, such as how often two data series have similar values or reflect similar system states (called percentage recurrence, or %REC), among other... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23238482 |
Serein (meteorology) Serein (; ) refers to rain falling from a cloudless sky. This sort of rain is said to take on the form of a fine, light drizzle, typically after dusk. The name derives from French "serein", meaning "serene", or "clear" (as in unclouded). An alternative etymology is from Old French "serain", evening... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23269584 |
Latvian Museum of Natural History The Natural History Museum of Latvia is a natural history museum in Riga, Latvia. It was founded in 1845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23276232 |
Guatemalan National Natural History Museum The or Museo de Historia Natural is a national natural history museum in Guatemala City, Guatemala. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23276824 |
Zeev Reiss Zeev Reiss, (April 2, 1917 - July 11, 1996) was an Israeli micropaleontologist and geologist, whose career included positions in government service and academia. He studied biology and medical sciences at the University of Cernăuţi, Bukovina, which was then part of Romania. He could not finish his studies at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23284520 |
Black storm Black storms, locally called Kali Andhi in South Asia (, , literal meaning: "Black Storm") are violent dust squalls that occur in the late-spring in the northwestern parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain region of the Indian Subcontinent. They are usually brief, but can block out the sun, drastically reduce visi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23308871 |
Oolitic aragonite sand forms in tropical waters. Most of the topography of the Bahama Banks is composed of calcium carbonate oolitic aragonite sand material. The natural formation through precipitation, sedimentation and possibly microbial activity of aragonite sand in the Bahamas surpasses anyplace else in the world. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23324564 |
Superoscillation is a phenomenon in which a signal which is globally band-limited can contain local segments that oscillate faster than its fastest Fourier components. The idea is originally attributed to Yakir Aharonov, and has been made more popularly known through the work of Michael Berry, who also notes that a sim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23376006 |
Superoscillation Kempf and Ferreira proved that superoscillations come at the expense of a dynamical range that has to increase exponentially with the number of superoscillations and polynomially with the frequency of the superoscillations. Superoscillatory wave forms are being considered as a possible practical tool f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23376006 |
ULAS J133553.45+113005.2 ULAS J133553.45+113005.2 (also called ULAS1335) is a T-type brown dwarf in the constellation of Virgo. It was discovered in data from the UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) Large Area Survey (LAS). Its discovery was reported June 2008. After identification, ULAS1335... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23379410 |
The Fate of the Earth is a 1982 book by Jonathan Schell. This "seminal" description of the consequences of nuclear war "forces even the most reluctant person to confront the unthinkable: the destruction of humanity and possibly most life on Earth". The book is regarded as a key document in the nuclear disarmament movem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23380471 |
The Fate of the Earth )More generally, Schell's analysis of the effects of a full-scale nuclear exchange proceeds from a stance of cognitive modesty:"In weighing the fate of the earth and, with it, our own fate, we stand before a mystery, and in tampering with the earth we tamper with a mystery. We are in deep ignoranc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23380471 |
ULAS J003402.77−005206.7 ULAS J003402.77-005206.7 (also ULAS J0034-00) is a Y-type brown dwarf in the constellation of Cetus. ULAS J0034-00 is one of the coolest brown dwarfs known. It was first identified in data from the UK Infrared Telescope (UKIRT) Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS). Infrared spectra subsequently ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23380499 |
Messina Chasmata The are the largest canyon or system of canyons on the surface of the Uranian moon Titania, named after a location in William Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing. The 1492 km long feature includes two normal faults running NW–SE, which bound a down-dropped crustal block forming a structure call... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23384228 |
Fischler–Susskind mechanism The Fischler–Susskind mechanism, first proposed by Willy Fischler and Leonard Susskind in 1998, is a holographic prescription based on the particle horizon. The Fischler–Susskind prescription is used to obtain the maximum number of degrees of freedom per Planck volume at the Planck era, comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23387994 |
Canopy seed bank A canopy seed bank or aerial seed bank is the aggregate of viable seed stored by a plant in its canopy. Canopy seed banks occur in plants that postpone seed release for some reason. It is often associated with serotiny, the tendency of some plants to store seed in a cone (e.g. in the genus "Pinus") or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23395169 |
Ursula (crater) Ursula is a large crater on Uranus's moon Titania. It is about 135 km across, and is cut by Belmont Chasma. It is named after Hero's attendant in William Shakespeare's comedy Much Ado About Nothing. Ursula has a central pit with diameter of about 20 km. It is probably one of the youngest large impact cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23397356 |
Microbial electrolysis cell A microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) is a technology related to Microbial fuel cells (MFC). Whilst MFCs produce an electric current from the microbial decomposition of organic compounds, MECs partially reverse the process to generate hydrogen or methane from organic material by applying an el... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23400395 |
Microbial electrolysis cell In a MEC, an additional voltage is supplied to the cell from an outside source. The combined voltage is sufficient to reduce protons, producing hydrogen gas. As part of the energy for this reduction is derived from bacterial activity, the total electrical energy that has to be supplied is le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23400395 |
Microbial electrolysis cell Hydrogen yield ("Y") was calculated as "Y" = "n" /"n", where "n" is substrate removal calculated on the basis of chemical oxygen demand (22). Hydrogen and methane can both be used as alternatives to fossil fuels in internal combustion engines or for power generation. Like MFCs or bioethanol ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23400395 |
Wetware (biology) The term wetware is used to describe the protocols and molecular devices used in molecular biology and synthetic biology. Where biological components and systems are treated in a similar manner to software, and similar development models and methodologies are applied, the term 'wetware' can be used to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23402198 |
Cryogenic engineering is a sub stream of mechanical engineering dealing with cryogenics, and related very low temperature processes such as air liquefaction, cryogenic engines (for rocket propulsion), cryosurgery. Generally, temperatures below cold come under the purview of cryogenic engineering. Cryogenics may be cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23406255 |
Macrobiology is the branch of biology that studies large living organisms (termed Macro organisms) that can be seen by the naked eye. is the opposite of Microbiology. Macrocosm and Microcosm Macrocosm and Microcosm is an important concept in Macrobiology. It refers to a vision of cosmos where the part reflects the whol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23420193 |
Associated reproductive pattern An associated reproductive pattern is a seasonal change in reproduction which is highly correlated with a change in gonad and associated hormone. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23428770 |
Michael Ashley (astronomer) Michael C. B. Ashley is an Australian astronomer and professor at the University of New South Wales, in Sydney. He is most famous for his work in Antarctica, with the study of the seeing capability at Dome C. In September 2004, "Nature" published a report written by Jon Lawrence, Michael Ash... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23448158 |
Lipik (crater) Lipik Crater is a crater in the Hellas quadrangle of Mars, located at 38.42° S and 248.43° W. It is 56 km in diameter and was named after Lipik, a town in Croatia. Close-up pictures of the crater show glacial features. The crater is not very deep, so much ice and dust may have accumulated over the years.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23467315 |
Montevallo (crater) Montevallo is a crater on Mars, located in the Lunae Palus quadrangle at 15.4° N and 54.4° W. It measures 51.9 kilometers in diameter and was named after the town Montevallo in Alabama, United States. The name was approved by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature in 1988. Impact crat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23470606 |
Arkhangelsky (crater) Arkhangelsky Crater is a crater in the Argyre quadrangle of Mars, located at 41.4° S and 24.8° W. It is 117 km across and was named after the Russian geologist A.D. Arkhangelsky. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23470663 |
Atomic spacing refers to the distance between the nuclei of atoms in a material. This space is extremely large compared to the size of the atomic nucleus, and is related to the chemical bonds which bind atoms together. In solid materials, the atomic spacing is described by the bond lengths of its atoms. In ordered soli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23478179 |
Atomic spacing Although both bonds are between the same pair of elements they can still have different bond length. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23478179 |
Tongbaite is a rare mineral that has the chemical formula CrC, or chromium carbide. It was first described in 1983 for an occurrence in Liu village, Tongbai County (桐柏县), Henan Province, China and named for the locality. It occurs in an ultramafic rock deposit. It has also been reported from the Tibet Autonomous Region... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23485980 |
Pyotr Gannushkin Pyotr Borisovich Gannushkin (; March 8, 1875 – February 23, 1933) was a Russian psychiatrist who developed one of the first theories of psychopathies known today as personality disorders. He was a student of Sergei Korsakoff and Vladimir Serbsky. Not only did he manage to delineate certain organization... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23500505 |
Pyotr Gannushkin His sister, Maria Borisovna, noted in her memoirs that her brother never told anyone which profession he wanted to choose, but when he turned 13 years old, his keen interest in "personology" and human mentality became apparent. At the same time Gannushkin read Sechenov's monograph "Brain Reflexes," whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23500505 |
Pyotr Gannushkin He spent those years in the outpatient clinic and wrote a variety of scholarly works. For example, in 1901 in the French journal "Medico Psychological Annals" () he published a monograph subsequently banned in Russia. It was called "Voluptuousness, cruelty and religion" (). In this work, Gannushkin emp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23500505 |
Pyotr Gannushkin In collaboration with Sukhanov, Gannushkin has published six research papers. They preferred to study particular mental disorders taken by themselves rather than their mixed types, because they thought that it would contribute to the study of acknowledged diseases, discovery of new mental disorders, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23500505 |
Pyotr Gannushkin After that he became a proponent of Kraepelin's theory. In 1906 Gannushkin visited St. Anne's Psychiatric Hospital () in Paris, where he familiarized himself with the work of an influential figure in French psychiatry, Valentin Magnan. In 1908 and 1911 Gannushkin repeatedly visited postgraduate psychia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23500505 |
Pyotr Gannushkin Moreover, in 1927 he discovered the so-called epileptoid reaction type, which is usually characterized by repeated temporary reactions caused by the influence of psychogenic factors and unfavorable situations. This reaction type is expressed by symptoms of dysphoria, i.e. maliciousness combined with an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23500505 |
Pyotr Gannushkin He helped organize a system of nonhospital psychiatric assistance in the USSR and worked out questions dealing with teaching in psychiatry and prevention of mental illness. Pyotr Borisovich Gannushkin married Sofia Vladimirovna Gannuskina (née Klumova). They had a son, Alexey Petrovich Gannushkin (1920... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23500505 |
Pyotr Gannushkin His lectures and clinical vignettes were indicative of the fact that he carefully scrutinized and systematized all the research data he was working with. L.A. Prozorov pointed out that "Gannushkin was able to interest young people in research, even if it was rough, search for people, and select researc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23500505 |
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