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Horlick Ice Stream () is a large ice stream on the featureless ice surface to the north of the main mass of the Horlick Mountains of Antarctica, draining west-southwestward, parallel to these mountains, to enter the lower portion of the Reedy Glacier. It was mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey from surveys and U.S. Na...
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Anton Menge Franz (15 February 1808 in Arnsberg – 27 January 1880 in Danzig) was a German entomologist. Menge was a student of Physics, Chemistry and Natural History at the University of Bonn He became Professor at the Petrischule in Danzig. Menge published "Preussische Spinnen" or "Spiders of Prussia" between 1866 and...
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Hydrogenoxalate or hydrogen oxalate is an anion with chemical formula or , derived from oxalic acid by the loss of a single proton; or, alternatively, from the oxalate anion by addition of a proton. The name is also used for any salt containing this anion, such as NaHCO, KHCO, or NHHCO. Hydrogenoxalates may also be cal...
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Cloud species are a set of fourteen terms used to describe the shape and structure of clouds. Each one has its name abbreviated to a three letter term.
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Polarization (electrochemistry) In electrochemistry, polarization is a collective term for certain mechanical side-effects (of an electrochemical process) by which isolating barriers develop at the interface between electrode and electrolyte. These side-effects influence the reaction mechanisms, as well as the chemical...
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Polarization (electrochemistry) In time, as more electrochemical processes were invented, the term 'polarization' evolved to denote any (potentially undesirable) mechanical side-effects that occur at the interface between electrolyte and electrodes. These mechanical side-effects are: Both effects isolate the electrode ...
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Sally P. Horn is a professor at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Her work in Costa Rica and other tropical regions has been featured in a number of publications, including "National Geographic". She has published over 100 articles relating to paleolimnology and biogeography. She is director of the University of ...
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Elizabeth Morris Elizabeth Mary Morris, OBE (born 7 September 1946), also known as Liz Morris, is a glaciologist and Senior Associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. She has been a visiting professor at the University of Reading since 1995. Formerly head of the ice and climate division a...
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Vijay Kumar Raina is an Indian geologist and glaciologist, and author of a controversial discussion paper from India's Ministry of Environment and Forests regarding Himalayan glaciers. He was formerly deputy director-general of the Geological Survey of India, and led two scientific expeditions conducted by the Indian A...
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Kenneth N. Beers was an American medical doctor who served as a NASA flight surgeon during the Project Gemini and Apollo Program eras. Beers died on September 20, 2017. Beers did his undergraduate work at Muhlenberg College. In 1956, Dr. Beers graduated from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. On ...
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Hammer paint (or hammered paint) is a special lacquer with a surface that looks like hammered metal when dried. It is also known as hammertone. The slightly iridescent areas are caused by the different orientation of very small shiny particles, which are suspended in the lacquer. These particles are often made of the m...
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Dynamic hydrogen electrode A dynamic hydrogen electrode (DHE) is a reference electrode, more specific a subtype of the standard hydrogen electrodes for electrochemical processes by simulating a reversible hydrogen electrode with an approximately 20 to 40 mV more negative potential. A separator in a glass tube connects ...
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Proton-enhanced nuclear induction spectroscopy Proton-enhanced nuclear induction spectroscopy, also called Cross Polarisation (CP), is a nuclear magnetic resonance technique invented by Michael Gibby and Alexander Pines while they were graduate students in the lab of Professor John S. Waugh at the Massachusetts Institu...
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Kaiser (Martian crater) Kaiser is a crater in the Noachis quadrangle of Mars, located at 46.6° S and 340.9° W. It is 207 km wide and was named after Frederik Kaiser, a Dutch astronomer (1808–1872). Debris flows have been observed on some of the dunes in this crater. Some researchers believe that they may be caused by l...
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Staffane A staffane or [n]staffane is an organic compound, a polycyclic hydrocarbon with molecular structure H-[-C≡(-CH-)≡C-]-H, for some integer "n" ≥ 1. The chemical formula is therefore CH Staffanes were first obtained in 1988 by P. Kazynski and J. Michl, by spontaneous polymerization of [1.1.1]-propellane CH or C(=...
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MTZ black hole The MTZ black hole, named after Cristian Martinez, Ricardo Troncoso and Jorge Zanelli, is a black hole solution for (3+1)-dimensional gravity with a minimally coupled self-interacting scalar field. The event horizon is a surface of constant negative curvature, and the spacetime is asymptotically locally ...
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Grus (geology) Grus is an accumulation of angular, coarse-grained fragments (particles of sand and gravel) resulting from the granular disintegration by the processes of chemical and mechanical weathering of crystalline rocks (most notably granitoids) generally in an arid or semiarid region. Grus sand, when cemented in...
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Catalytic oxidation are processes that oxidize compounds using catalysts. Common applications involve oxidation of organic compounds by the oxygen in air. Such processes are conducted on a large scale for the remediation of pollutants, production of valuable chemicals, and the production of energy. In petrochemistry, h...
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Catalytic oxidation Industrially important examples include both inorganic and organic substrates. Oxidation catalysis is conducted by both heterogeneous catalysis and homogeneous catalysis. In the heterogeneous processes, gaseous substrate and oxygen (or air) are passed over solid catalysts. Typical catalysts are plat...
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Catalytic oxidation In contrast to the industrial processes, which are optimized for producing chemical compounds, energy-producing biological oxidations are optimized to produce energy. Many metalloenzymes mediate these reactions. Fuel cells rely on oxidation of organic compounds (or hydrogen) using catalysts. Catalyt...
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Gyula Sáringer (December 2, 1928 – February 17, 2009) was a Hungarian agronomist and entomologist. He was a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA). For some time he was a Professor at the Institute for Plant Protection and Department of Entomology in the Georgikon Faculty of the University of Pannonia in Kes...
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Peter von Glehn (; in Jelgimeggi Manor – in Saint Petersburg) was a Baltic German botanist. was born in the Jelgimeggi manor () in 1835, to a Baltic German landowner, member of the Glehn family, (1796–1843) and Auguste Caroline Marie Burchart von Bellavary, member of the Burchardt family who took care of the Town Hall ...
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Jiří Baum (20 September 1900 – 1944, Warsaw) was a Czech zoologist, museum curator, explorer and writer. He served as the director of the zoological department of the National Museum in Prague and is best known in his field for his 1933 book "Through the African Wilderness" and his 1935 zoological expedition in the Aus...
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HD 5388 b (also known as HIP 4311 b) was thought to be an extrasolar planet orbiting the F-type main sequence star HD 5388, located approximately 175 light years away in the constellation Phoenix. It takes over two years to orbit the star at a semimajor axis of 1.76 AU with an eccentricity of 0.40. It was announced on ...
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N band In infrared astronomy, the refers to an atmospheric transmission window centred on 10 micrometres (in the mid-infrared).
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Chemical free or chemical-free is a term used in marketing to imply that a product is safe, healthy or environmentally friendly because it only contains natural ingredients. From a chemist's perspective, the term is a misnomer, as all substances and objects are composed entirely of chemicals and energy. The term "chemi...
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Hořava–Lifshitz gravity (or Hořava gravity) is a theory of quantum gravity proposed by Petr Hořava in 2009. It solves the problem of different concepts of time in quantum field theory and general relativity by treating the quantum concept as the more fundamental so that space and time are not equivalent (anisotropic) a...
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Peroxydicarbonate In chemistry, peroxydicarbonate (sometimes peroxodicarbonate) is a divalent anion with formula . It is one of the oxocarbon anions, which consist solely of carbon and oxygen. Its molecular structure can be viewed as two carbonate anions joined so as to form a peroxide bridge –O–O–. The anion is formed...
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Peroxydicarbonate It is a light blue crystalline solid that decomposes at 141 °C, releasing oxygen and carbon dioxide, and decomposes slowly at lower temperatures. Rubidium peroxodicarbonate is a light blue crystalline solid that decomposes at . Its structure was published in 2003. In both salts, each of the two carbon...
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Peroxycarbonate In chemistry, peroxycarbonate (sometimes peroxocarbonate) is a divalent anion with formula . It is an oxocarbon anion that consists solely of carbon and oxygen. It would be the anion of a hypothetical peroxocarbonic acid HO–CO–O–OH. or the real hydroperoxyformic acid, HO-O-CO-OH (a.k.a. percarbonic acid...
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Geological Strength Index The (GSI) system, proposed in 1994 by Evert Hoek, is used for the estimation of the rock mass strength and the rock mass deformation modulus. The GSI system concentrates on the description of two factors, rock structure and block surface conditions. The guidelines given by the GSI system are f...
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Tricarbonate In organic chemistry, a tricarbonate is a compound containing the divalent [–O–(C=O)–O–(C=O)–O–(C=O)–O–] functional group, which consists of three carbonate groups in tandem, sharing two oxygen atoms. These compounds can be viewed as double esters of a hypothetical tricarbonic acid, HO–(C=O)–O–(C=O)–O–(C=O...
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Escherichia virus T5 Escherichia virus T5, sometimes called Bacteriophage T5 is a caudal virus within the family "Siphoviridae". This bacteriophage specifically infects "E. coli" bacterial cells and follows a lytic life cycle. The T5 virion includes a 90 nanometer icosahedral capsid (head) and a 250 nanometer-long flex...
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Chinese lantern structure In chemistry, the is a coordination complex where two metal atoms are bridged by four bidentate ligands. An example is copper (II) acetate dihydrate. The name reflects a resemblance between ball-and-stick models of the structure and a Chinese paper lantern.
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Wilhelm Möllenkamp (2 April 1858, Aurich -29 November 1917, Nordern) was a German entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera especially Lucanidae. Möllenkamp was an insect dealer in Dortmund. He wrote many short scientific papers describing new taxa, many in "Insekten-Börse" a part scientific part trade entomological j...
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Base modifying agent Base Modifying Agent is one which directly modifies the structure or chemical properties of bases. An example of this is nitrous oxide which is a deaminating agent.
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Iron(II) In chemistry, iron(II) refers to the element iron in its +2 oxidation state. In ionic compounds (salts), such an atom may occur as a separate cation (positive ion) denoted by Fe. The adjective ferrous or the prefix ferro- is often used to specify such compounds — as in "ferrous chloride" for iron(II) chloride,...
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Iron(II) Insufficient iron in the human diet causes anemia. Animals and humans can obtain the necessary iron from foods that contain it in assimilable form, such as meat. Other organisms must obtain their iron from the environment. However, iron tends to form highly insoluble iron(III) oxides/hydroxides in aerobic (oxy...
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Iron(II) Unlike their iron(III) counterparts, these salts dissolve in pure water without significant hydrolysis, and without affecting the pH When metallic iron (oxidation state 0) is placed in a solution of hydrochloric acid, iron(II) chloride is formed,with release of hydrogen gas, by the reaction Iron metal is more ...
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Jan Dembowski (biologist) Jan Bohdan Dembowski (26 December 1889 - 22 September 1963) was a Polish biologist and academic. Dembowski was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He became the first president of the Polish Academy of Sciences (1952-1956), marshal of the Sejm (1952-1957) and Deputy Chairman of the Polish Counci...
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Registry of Standard Biological Parts The is a collection of genetic parts that are used in the assembly of systems and devices in synthetic biology. The registry was founded in 2003 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The registry, as of 2018, contains over 20,000 parts. Recipients of the genetic parts inclu...
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Registry of Standard Biological Parts The registry has previously received external funding through grants from the National Science Foundation, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the National Institutes of Health.
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Knockout moss A knockout moss is a moss plant in which one or more specific genes are deleted or inactivated ("knocked out") by gene targeting. After deletion of a gene, the knockout moss has lost the trait encoded by this gene. Thus, the function of this gene can be inferred. This scientific approach is called reverse...
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Knockout moss As mosses are haploid organisms, the regenerating moss filaments (protonemata) can be directly assayed for gene targeting within 6 weeks when utilizing PCR-methods. The first scientific publication about identification of the function of a hitherto unknown gene utilizing knockout moss appeared 1998 and wa...
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Electric dipole transition is the dominant effect of an interaction of an electron in an atom with the electromagnetic field. Following, consider an electron in an atom with quantum Hamiltonian formula_1, interacting with a plane electromagnetic wave Write the Hamiltonian of the electron in this electromagnetic field a...
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Magnetic dipole transition The interaction of an electromagnetic wave with an electron bound in an atom or molecule can be described by time-dependent perturbation theory. Magnetic dipole transitions describe the dominant effect of the coupling to the magnetic part of the electromagnetic wave. They can be divided into ...
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Magnetic dipole transition The time-dependent part can be Taylor expanded in terms belonging to electric dipole(from the first term), magnetic dipole(from the second term), and higher order terms, such as electric quadropole and so on. The term belonging to the magnetic dipole transitions is: formula_5 The selection ru...
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Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (), originally written in Latin, is the first scientific work on the natural history of Brazil, written by Dutch naturalist Willem Piso and research by German scientist Georg Marcgraf, published in 1648. The work includes observations made by the German naturalist H. Gralitzio, in addition ...
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Historia Naturalis Brasiliae : in qua non tantum plantae et animalia, sed et indigenarum morbi, ingenia et mores describuntur et iconibus supra quingentas illustrantur " ". The Brazilian physician and researcher Juliano Moreira said of the work: This clearly masterful work, when carefully reexamined, shows, at each per...
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Historia Naturalis Brasiliae Diverse writers referred to the text, including Miguel Venegas, author of "Noticia de la California" (1757), Anglo-American Protestant theologian Cotton Mather, who saw in the text evidence of divine planning; and amateur American naturalist Thomas Jefferson, who mentioned Marcgraf in his "...
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Cumulonimbus velum (Cb vel) (from the Latin "cumulonimbus", "column-rain" + "velum", "veil") is a cumulonimbus cloud with an accessory cloud veil wrapped around its mid area, representing an area of humid stable air created as a result of the growth of the parent cumulonimbus. The altostratus velum cloud appears dark i...
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Deltatorquevirus is a genus in the family of "Anelloviridae", in group . It encompasses the single type species of the "Torque teno tupaia virus".
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Epsilontorquevirus is a genus in the family of "Anelloviridae", in group . It encompasses the single type species of the "Torque teno tamarin virus".
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Etatorquevirus is a recently discovered genus in the new family of "Anelloviridae", in group . It encompasses the type species "Torque teno felis virus" and "Torque teno felis virus 2".
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Iotatorquevirus is a genus in the new family of "Anelloviridae", in group . It encompasses two species of the Torque teno sus virus. The virons are small and non enveloped. The viruses are usually acquired soon after birth and may invade virtually any tissue in the body. They are widespread in the pig population The ge...
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Thetatorquevirus is a genus in the family of "Anelloviridae", in group . It encompasses the single type species of the "Torque teno canis virus".
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Zetatorquevirus is a genus in the family of "Anelloviridae", in group . It encompasses the single type species of the "Torque teno douroucouli virus".
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Impedance pump An impedance pump is a valveless pump consisting of an elastic tube connected on both ends to an inelastic tube. Tapping the end of a tube will cause flow of liquid inside the system. Very small versions of an impedance pump -- a micro impedance pump -- can be used as a micropump for lab-on-a-chip active...
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Chester Baker Slawson (April 12, 1898—March 12, 1964) was a professor of mineralogy at the University of Michigan. After his death, the Slawson Memorial fund was created at the University of Michigan and in 2004 the first Slawson Fellowship was awarded to a student of the Department of Geological Sciences. The mineral ...
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Alexander Ivanovich Yakovlev (spelled "Jakowlew", "Jakowleff", "Jakovlev" in German and French), (1863–1909) was a Russian entomologist and painter. He is not to be confused with Wassily Ewgrafowitsch Jakowlew (1839–1908) also an entomologist who lived in St. Petersburg. Jakovlev was of German origin. He lived in Saint...
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Vasily Evgrafovich Yakovlev (; also transliterated Vasiliy Ewgrafowitsch Jakovlev or Vasiliy Yevgrafovich Yakovlev; 9 February 1839 – 15 August 1908) was a Russian Russian zoologist who studied fishes, molluscs and insects. He is not to be confused with Alexander Ivanovich Yakovlev, another entomologist. His name was s...
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Silvano Canzoneri (4 February 1941 in Corleone – 5 October 1995 in Venice) was an Italian entomologist. Canzoneri specialized in Coleoptera, especially Tenebrionidae, Diptera and Ephydridae.
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Ribosomal intergenic spacer analysis Ribosomal RNA (rRNA) intergenic spacer analysis (RISA) is a method of microbial community analysis that provides a means of comparing differing environments or treatment impacts without the bias imposed by culture- dependent approaches. This type of analysis is often referred to as ...
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Dromore (crater) Dromore is a crater on Mars, located within the outflow channel Maja Valles in the Lunae Palus quadrangle at 20.1 N and 49.7 W. It measures 14.8 kilometers in diameter and was named after a town in Northern Ireland. Dromore is famous for showing clear evidence that it was affected by floods of water wh...
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Lod (crater) Lod is a crater in the Oxia Palus quadrangle of Mars, located at 21.2° N and 31.6° W. It is 7.5 km in diameter and was named after the city of Lod in Israel. Lod is famous for showing clear evidence that it was affected by floods of water from Maja Valles on Mars.
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Bok (Martian crater) Bok is a crater in the Oxia Palus quadrangle of Mars, located at 20.8° N and 31.7° W. It is 7.1 km in diameter and was named after a town in New Guinea. Bok is famous for showing clear evidence that it was affected by floods of water from Maja Valles on Mars.
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Gold (crater) Gold is a crater in the Oxia Palus quadrangle of Mars, located at 20.2° N and 31.3° W. It is 9.0 km in diameter and was named after a town in Pennsylvania, USA. Gold is famous as being one of several craters showing clear evidence that it was affected by floods of water from Maja Valles on Mars.
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Bukovite is a rare selenide mineral with formula TlCuFeSe. It is a brown to black metallic mineral which crystallizes in the tetragonal system. It was first described in 1971 for an occurrence in the Bukov uranium mine, Rožná deposit, Vysočina Region, Moravia, Czech Republic. It has also been reported in Skrikerum, nea...
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Estavelle In karst geology, estavelle or inversac is a ground orifice which, depending on weather conditions and season, can serve either as a sink or as a source of fresh water. It is a type of sinkhole.
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Carlo Bassi (1807, in Amsterdam – 1856, in Milano) was an Italian entomologist. He was honorary curator of entomology in the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milan from 1841 to his death in 1856. He was a specialist in Coleoptera. Bassi wrote Description du genre "Malacogaster" in Guérin-Méneville's "Magasin de Zoolo...
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Gliese 758 B (often shortened to GJ 758 B) is a brown dwarf orbiting the G-type main sequence star Gliese 758, located approximately 50 light years away, in the constellation Lyra. was detected by direct imaging using the HiCIAO instrument of the Subaru Telescope. The parameters have subsequently been revised in a foll...
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Curvaton The curvaton is a hypothetical elementary particle which mediates a scalar field in early universe cosmology. It can generate fluctuations during inflation, but does not itself drive inflation, instead it generates curvature perturbations at late times after the inflaton field has decayed and the decay product...
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Hans-Werner Wanzlick was a German chemist. A Professor of chemistry at the Berlin Technical University he is notable for work on persistent carbenes and for proposing the Wanzlick equilibrium between saturated imidazolin-2-ylidenes and their dimers — which he called ""das doppelte Lottchen"", after a 1949 novel by Eric...
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Cirrus spissatus cloud Cirrus spissatus clouds are the highest of the main cloud genera, and may sometimes even occur in the lower stratosphere. The characteristic features of cirrus clouds are fine threads or wisps of ice crystals, generally white, but appearing grey when dense and seen against the light. There is no ...
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Louis Bourguet (23 April 1678, Nîmes – 31 December 1742, Neuchâtel) was a polymath and correspondent of Leibniz who wrote on archaeology, geology, philosophy, Biblical scholarship and mathematics. Bourguet entered the College of Zurich in 1688. He became Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at Neuchâtel in 1731. He ...
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Sulphobes A sulphobe is a film composed of formaldehyde and thiocyanates alleged to have lifelike properties. were a subject in the researches of Alfonso L. Herrera, a biologist who studied the origin of life.
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Spin-polarized electron energy loss spectroscopy or SPEELS is a technique that is mainly used to measure the dispersion relation of the collective excitations, over the whole Brillouin zone. Spin waves are collective perturbations in a magnetic solid. Their properties depend on their wavelength (or wave vector). For lo...
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Spin-polarized electron energy loss spectroscopy Later, with a better momentum resolution, the spin wave dispersion was fully measured in 8 ML fcc Co film on Cu(001) and 8 ML hcp Co on W(110), respectively. Those spin waves were obtained up to the surface Brillouin zone (SBZ) at the energy range about few hundreds of m...
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Quokkapox virus (QPV), also known as quokka poxvirus, marsupial papillomavirus, or marsupialpox virus is a which is the cause of quokkapox. It is unclear whether this virus is its own species or a member of another species. It primarily infects the quokka, which is one of only four macropodid marsupials to get pox lesi...
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Peres metric In mathematical physics, the is defined by the proper time for any arbitrary function "f". If "f" is a harmonic function with respect to "x" and "y", then the corresponding satisfies the Einstein field equations in vacuum. Such a metric is often studied in the context of gravitational waves. The metric is ...
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Vague torus In classical mechanics, a vague torus is a region in phase space that is characterized by approximate constants of motion, as opposed to an actual torus defined by exact constants of motion. The concept of vague tori is used to describe regular (quasiperiodic) segments of otherwise chaotic trajectories.
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Cascades Volcano Observatory The David A. Johnston (CVO) is a volcano observatory that monitors volcanoes in the northern Cascade Range. It was established in the summer of 1980, after the eruption of Mount St. Helens. The observatory is named for United States Geological Survey (USGS) volcanologist David A. Johnston, ...
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California Volcano Observatory The (CalVO) is the volcano observatory that monitors the volcanic and geologic activity of California and Nevada. It is a part of the Volcano Hazards Program of the United States Geological Survey, a scientific agency of the United States government. Originally, the volcano observatory wa...
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Yellowstone Volcano Observatory The (YVO) is a volcano observatory that primarily monitors the Yellowstone Caldera in Yellowstone National Park in the United States. The observatory's jurisdiction also includes volcanic centers in the states of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico. As with other U.S. volcano observa...
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Yellowstone Volcano Observatory Staff from the various observatory partner agencies form several monitoring and information teams that assess geological and geophysical data. The document also outlines how the observatory would interact with the incident command system. YVO provides a monthly update through its website...
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Hotspot Ecosystems Research on the Margins of European Seas Hotspot Ecosystems Research on the Margins of European Seas, or HERMES, was an international multidisciplinary project, from April 2005 to March 2009, that studied deep-sea ecosystems along Europe's deep-ocean margin. The HERMES project was funded by the Europ...
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Orgel diagram Orgel diagrams are correlation diagrams which show the relative energies of electronic terms in transition metal complexes, much like Tanabe–Sugano diagrams. They are named after their creator, Leslie Orgel. Orgel diagrams are restricted to only show weak field (i.e. high spin) cases, and offer no informa...
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Orgel diagram The right side contains d and d tetrahedral and d and high spin d octahedral complexes.
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Institute for Nuclear Research and Nuclear Energy (INRNE) of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences is the leading center for research and application of the nuclear physics in Bulgaria. The research areas include: The Institute's staff of about 320 (150 of them are scientific researchers) works in 16 laboratories, 2 scient...
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Wilhelm Schlüter (1828– 25 April 1919) was a German natural history dealer. was the proprietor of "das Naturwissenschaftliche Institut - Naturalien und Lehrmittelhandlung" in Halle an der Saale. He sold many important bird and insect collections to museums and private collections. He also supplied specimens, equipment ...
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Electrically scanning microwave radiometer The electrically scanning microwave radiometer (ESMR) was an instrument carried by the Nimbus-5 satellite, precursor to the scanning multichannel microwave radiometer (SMMR) and special sensor microwave/imager (SSM/I) instruments. The ESMR instrument only senses horizontally p...
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Alexander Filippou Alexander C. Filippou (born 19 August 1958, Thessaloniki, Greece) has been a Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn since 2005. He studied chemistry at the Technical University of Munich from 1976 to 1982, receiving his diploma in 1982 with the thesis "S...
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Nanichi is a crater found the Magellian region on the planet Venus. It measures 19 km in diameter, and is located at +East, 0 - 360 using the planetocentric coordinate system. Its name is derived from the original Taino language of the Greater Antilles and means "My Love or My Heart". The name, given in 2000 by the Int...
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Antigen retrieval Tissues that have been preserved with formaldehyde, a highly reactive compound, contain a variety of chemical modifications that can reduce the detectability of proteins in biomedical procedures such as immunohistochemistry. is an approach to reducing or eliminating these chemical modifications. The t...
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Qalyub orthonairovirus Qalyub orthonairovirus, also known as Qalyub nairovirus or simply Qalyub virus, is a negative-sense single-stranded RNA virus discovered in a rat's nest in a tomb wall in the Egyptian town of Qalyub ( ) in 1952. The primary vector for transmission is the "Carios erraticus" tick, and thus it is an...
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Yoshito Kishi Kishi was born in Nagoya, Japan and attended Nagoya University, where he obtained both his BS and PhD degrees. He was a postdoctoral research fellow at Harvard University where he worked with Robert Burns Woodward. From 1966 through 1974, he was a professor of chemistry at Nagoya University. Since 1974, K...
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International Mars Exploration Working Group The (IMEWG) is an organization of all major space agencies and institutions participating in the exploration of the planet Mars. Conceived in 1993, the working group meets twice per year to discuss an international strategy for the exploration of Mars.
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Reliance Institute of Life Sciences (RILS), established by Dhirubhai Ambani Foundation, is an institution of higher education in various fields of life sciences and related technologies. The (RILS) is an educational institution offering higher learning in various domains of life sciences and related technologies. Estab...
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Reliance Institute of Life Sciences As the name suggests, RILS’s 'Competency Development Program' focuses on training aspirants in the domain of life sciences by developing their competencies in life sciences and allied areas. A three-month classroom training stint is followed by nine months of on-field training in whi...
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Reliance Institute of Life Sciences The symposium conducted in 2006 focused on Preventive and Predictive Molecular Diagnostics and Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine and, in 2007, on Evidence-Based Practices in Reproductive and Fetal Medicine. RILS also conducts specialized workshops to impart training on the various...
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