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Cormophyte Cormophytes (Cormophyta) are the "plants differentiated into roots, shoots and leaves, and well adapted for life on land, comprising pteridophytes and the Spermatophyta." These plants differ from thallophytes, whose body is referred to as the thallus, i.e. a simple body not differentiated into leaf and stem,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25466113 |
Deformation bands are small faults with very small displacements. In the past, these bands have been called Luder's bands or braided shear fractures. They often precede large faults. They develop in porous rocks, such as sandstone. Material in a deformation band has a much smaller grain size, poorer sorting, and a lowe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25473531 |
Gerasimos Danilatos Gerasimos D. Danilatos (also known as Gerry D. Danilatos) (born circa 1946) is a Greek-Australian physicist and inventor of ESEM, the environmental scanning electron microscope. He was born in Cefalonia, Greece. After the 1953 Ionian earthquake, his family moved to Patras, where he attended elementa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25486564 |
Shields parameter The Shields parameter, also called the Shields criterion or Shields number, is a nondimensional number used to calculate the initiation of motion of sediment in a fluid flow. It is a nondimensionalization of a shear stress, and is typically denoted formula_1 or formula_2. It is given by: where: By mul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25486644 |
Xanthoproteic acid is a noncrystallizable yellow substance derived from proteins upon treatment with nitric acid. Nitric acid reacts with proteins to form yellow nitrated products. This reaction is known as the xanthoproteic reaction. This test is carried out by adding concentrated nitric acid to the substance being te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25505762 |
Avax Technologies Avax Technologies, Inc is a Philadelphia based biotechnology company whose most advanced product candidate is MVax for melanoma. MVax is a cancer vaccine that received a Special Protocol Assessment agreement with the FDA in October 2006, and subsequently began a Phase III registration clinical trial i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25516263 |
Avax Technologies CEO John Prendergast notes: "Recent and anticipated news by companies involved with cancer vaccines and immunotherapies has resulted in renewed interest in the sector by institutional investors, larger pharma, biotechnology companies and the medical and scientific communities at large.". Started Febru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25516263 |
David James (cell biologist) David Ernest James (born Sydney 1958) is a cell biologist who discovered the glucose transporter GLUT4. He has also been responsible for the molecular dissection of the intracellular trafficking pathways that regulate GLUT4 translocation to the cell surface, the topological mapping of the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25546376 |
Southern Uplands Fault The (or occasionally Southern Upland Fault) is a fault in Scotland that runs from Girvan (or more specifically from the Rhins of Galloway) to Dunbar on the East coast. It marks the southern boundary of the Scottish Midland Valley and the northern margin of the Southern Uplands; indeed it is recog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25556209 |
Frederik Johnstrup Professor Johannes (12 March 1818, in Christianshavn, Denmark – 31 December 1894) was a Danish geologist and paleontologist. He was the founder of Meddelelser om Grønland. Johnstrup received his Bachelor of Science in 1844. He became an associate professor of mineralogy and natural science at the Sor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25556210 |
Bahram Mashhoon is an Iranian-American physicist known for his research in General Relativity. Mashhoon is a professor at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri, where he deals with some foundational aspects of gravitational physics. Within his field of research, Mashhoon has given important contributions to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25573023 |
Shin'ichi Nojiri Shin'ichi Nojiri | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25573666 |
Life Sciences (journal) Life Sciences is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on the molecular, cellular, and physiological mechanisms of pharmacotherapy. Indexed by ISI Life Sciences received an impact factor of 2.702 as reported in the 2014 Journal Citation Reports by Thomson Reuters, ranking i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25577815 |
Discharge coefficient In a nozzle or other constriction, the discharge coefficient (also known as coefficient of discharge or efflux coefficient) is the ratio of the actual discharge to the theoretical discharge, i.e., the ratio of the mass flow rate at the discharge end of the nozzle to that of an ideal nozzle which e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25584664 |
Discharge coefficient Therefore, engineers assume that the pressure is zero at the gate opening and following equation is obtained for discharge: where: However, the pressure is not actually zero at the gate; therefore, discharge coefficient, "C" is used as follows: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25584664 |
Fallout: An American Nuclear Tragedy is a 1989 book by Philip L. Fradkin which was republished in a second edition in 2004. The book is about the radiation exposure of people and their livestock living downwind from the nuclear weapons testing at the Nevada Test Site in the 1950s. The case of "Irene Allen et al. vs. th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25587463 |
Quasiperiodicity is the property of a system that displays irregular periodicity. Periodic behavior is defined as recurring at regular intervals, such as "every 24 hours". Quasiperiodic behavior is a pattern of recurrence with a component of unpredictability that does not lend itself to precise measurement. It is diffe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25643591 |
Diurnal cycle A diurnal cycle is any pattern that recurs every 24 hours as a result of one full rotation of the Earth around its own axis. In climatology, the diurnal cycle is one of the most basic forms of climate patterns. The most familiar such pattern is the diurnal temperature variation. Such a cycle may be approx... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25643772 |
Boston Journal of Natural History The (1834-1863) was a scholarly journal published by the Boston Society of Natural History in mid-19th century Massachusetts. Contributors included Charles T. Jackson, Augustus A. Gould, and others. Each volume featured lithographic illustrations, some in color, drawn/engraved by E.W. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25646039 |
Optical force The optical force is a phenomenon whereby beams of light can attract and repel each other. The force acts along an axis which is perpendicular to the light beams. Because of this, parallel beams can be induced to converge or diverge. The optical force works on a microscopic scale, and cannot currently be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25654089 |
Biorefining is the process of "building" multiple products from biomass as a feedstock or raw material much like a petroleum refinery that is currently in use. A biorefinery is a facility like a petroleum refinery that comprises the various process steps or unit operations and related equipment to produce various biopr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25658641 |
Kyukichi Kishida Kyukichi Kishida | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25663735 |
Fried Egg structure The Fried Egg is an informal name for an underwater geomorphic structure in the North Atlantic that is a suspected impact crater. This structure is at a depth of and is about south of the Azores archipelago. It consists of a dome high and in diameter that lies within a larger and roughly circular de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25666690 |
List of restriction enzyme cutting sites A restriction enzyme or restriction endonuclease is a special type of biological macromolecule that functions as part of the "immune system" in bacteria. One special kind of restriction enzymes is the class of "homing endonucleases", these being present in all three domains of l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25672736 |
Water conditioner Water conditioners are formulations designed to be added to tap water before its use in an aquarium. If the tap water is chlorinated then a simple conditioner containing a dechlorinator may be used. These products contain sodium thiosulfate which reduces chlorine to chloride which is less harmful to f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25694074 |
Corynebacteriophage A corynebacteriophage is a DNA-containing bacteriophage specific for corynebacteria. It introduces toxigenicity into strains of "Corynebacterium diphtheriae". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25700376 |
Arp 187 is a radio galaxy and merger remnant located in the constellation Eridanus. It is an interacting galaxy pair (MCG-02-13-040). It is included in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies in the category galaxies with narrow filaments. The galaxy has two prominent radio lobes, however the emission of its AGN in X-ray is low... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25702676 |
Ard Louis Ard A. Louis is a Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Oxford, where he leads an interdisciplinary research group studying problems on the border between chemistry, physics and biology, and is also director of graduate studies in theoretical physics. From 2002 to 2010 he was a Royal Society U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25710122 |
SEPnet The South-East Physics Network, or SEPnet, is an association of physics departments at universities in the South-East of England. In 2008 it received a grant of £12.5 million from the Higher Education Funding Council for England. and in 2013 received an additional grant of £2.75m The South East Physics Network i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25722703 |
SEPnet Led by the University of Surrey, the network consisted of the Physics departments at Kent, QMUL, RHUL, Southampton, Surrey and Sussex and was granted a £12.5m grant in 2008 for five years. Phase Two from 2013 onwards is based on an expanded consortium of nine Physics Departments of Universities in the South East... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25722703 |
SEPnet research ranges from investigations into the most fundamental physics (from the smallest matter to the origins of the universe), to the physics of new materials, quantum computing, low temperature physics, nuclear medicine and space science Its research collaboration integrates resources across the region for fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25722703 |
SEPnet Further evidence of impact in undergraduate provision in the region is the establishment of the entirely new “Applied Physics” course at Portsmouth University. Due to the high numbers of students wanting to do physics in the South East region, a consequence of the outreach efforts, Portsmouth have been enabled t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25722703 |
SEPnet The majority of employers continue to take students in following years and give excellent feedback on students and on the scheme itself. The Graduate Network (GRADnet) brings together the research strengths of nine leading University Physics Departments that make up the consortium in the south east of England to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25722703 |
Yang–Mills–Higgs equations In mathematics, the are a set of non-linear partial differential equations for a Yang–Mills field, given by a connection, and a Higgs field, given by a section of a vector bundle. These equations are with a boundary condition These equations are named after Chen Ning Yang, Robert Mills, and P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25723035 |
Searle's bar method (named after George Frederick Charles Searle) is an experimental procedure to measure thermal conductivity of material. A bar of material is being heated by steam on one side and the other side cooled down by water while the length of the bar is thermally insulated. Then the heat Δ"Q" propagating th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25727818 |
Nanoneuronics is an emerging discipline involving the application of nanometer-scale methods, materials, science and technology to neurons and neural tissue in order to design and develop advanced medical applications. is a new discipline of engineering that aims to harness the collaborative power and knowledge of nano... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25731645 |
Avogadrite ((K,Cs)BF) is a potassium-caesium tetrafluoroborate in the halide class. crystallizes in the orthorhombic system (space group "Pnma") with cell parameters "a" 8.66 Å, "b" 5.48 Å and "c" Å 7.03. The mineral was discovered by the Italian mineralogist Ferruccio Zambonini in 1926. He analyzed several samples fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25739604 |
Ferruccio Zambonini (17 December 1880 – 12 January 1932) was an Italian mineralogist and geologist. Most of his time he worked on the geology and mineralogy of Mount Vesuvius. Zambonini was born in Rome and studied at the university there. From 1906 on he worked in the Mineralogical Museum at the University of Naples. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25739737 |
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society The was founded in 1853, and is one of the largest county-based archaeological societies in the United Kingdom. It runs the Wiltshire Museum in Devizes, Wiltshire which has the best Bronze Age collections in Britain, including finds from Avebury and Stonehenge. It al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25747726 |
Amelia Griffiths (1768–1858), often referred to in contemporary works as Mrs Griffiths of Torquay, was a beachcomber and amateur phycologist who made many important collections of algae specimens, including the "ceramium botryocarpum" in 1844. She corresponded with William Henry Harvey for many years, becoming a close ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25754272 |
Climograph A climograph is a graphical representation of a location's basic climate. Climographs display data for two variables: (a) monthly average temperature and (b) monthly average precipitation. These are useful tools to quickly describe a location's climate. One form of representation uses an overlapped combinati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25779100 |
Climograph For example, if precipitation is consistently low year-round, we might suggest the location reflects a desert; if there is a noticeable seasonal pattern to the precipitation, we might suggest the location experiences a monsoon season. When combining the temperature and precipitation patterns together, we hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25779100 |
Sediment trap (geology) In geology, a sediment trap is any topographic depression where sediments substantially accumulate over time. The size of a sediment trap can vary from a small lagoon to a large basin such as the Persian Gulf. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25792968 |
Silicone foam is a synthetic rubber product used in gasketing, sheets and firestops. It is available in solid, cured form as well as in individual liquid components for field installations. When the constituent components of silicone foam are mixed together, they evolve hydrogen gas, which causes bubbles to form within... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25801759 |
Charles Schnetzler Charles Carter Schnetzler (June 3, 1930 – December 15, 2009) was a planetary scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Schnetzler is best known for analyzing moon rocks brought back by the Apollo program and for studying the Earth's environment using the Landsat and the Earth Observing System.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25803468 |
Molecular weight cut-off or MWCO refers to the lowest molecular weight solute (in daltons) in which 90% of the solute is retained by the membrane, or the molecular weight of the molecule (e.g. globular protein) that is 90% retained by the membrane. This definition is not however standardized, and MWCOs can also be defi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25808423 |
South Pacific Sea Level and Climate Monitoring Project (SPSLCMP) is a project initiated by government of Australia. The primary goal of the project is to provide accurate, long term records of the variance of the sea level in the Pacific and South Pacific oceans. There are 14 Pacific islands participating in the sea le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25850586 |
Ion Atanasiu Professor Ion A. Atanasiu (25 September 1894 – 19 December 1978) was the founder of the Romanian School of Electrochemistry and the first to teach this subject in Romania. He is known as the originator of cerimetry, an analytical method based on Cerium (IV) as titration reagent. I. Atanasiu, G. Facsko Elec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25875413 |
Patch dynamics (physics) Patch dynamics is a term used in physics to bridge, using algorithms, the models describing macroscale behavior and to predict large-scale patterns in fluid flow. It uses locally averaged properties of short space-time scales to advance and predict long space-time scale dynamics. In patch dynam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25897909 |
Epicyclic frequency In astrophysics, particularly the study of accretion disks, the epicyclic frequency is the frequency at which a radially displaced fluid parcel will oscillate. It can be referred to as a "Rayleigh discriminant". When considering an astrophysical disc with differential rotation formula_1, the epicycl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25902958 |
Fixed-field alternating gradient accelerator A Fixed-Field alternating gradient Accelerator (FFA) is a circular particle accelerator concept on which development was started in the early 50s, and that can be characterized by its time-independent magnetic fields ("fixed-field", like in a cyclotron) and the use of strong... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25909457 |
Fixed-field alternating gradient accelerator Terwilliger at the University of Michigan used betatron acceleration and was operational in early 1956. That fall, the prototype was moved to the Midwestern Universities Research Association (MURA) lab at University of Wisconsin, where it was converted to a 500 keV electron ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25909457 |
Fixed-field alternating gradient accelerator In the early 1980s, it was suggested by Phil Meads that an FFA was suitable and advantageous as a proton accelerator for an intense spallation neutron source, starting off projects like the Argonne Tandem Linear Accelerator at Argonne National Laboratory and the Cooler Synch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25909457 |
Fixed-field alternating gradient accelerator The computation for the magnets used on the Michigan FFA Mark Ib, a radial sector 500 keV machine from 1956, were done by Frank Cole at the University of Illinois on a mechanical calculator built by Friden. This was at the limit of what could be reasonably done without compu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25909457 |
Fixed-field alternating gradient accelerator In that case the dipole field can be linear with radius, making the magnets smaller and simpler to construct. A proof-of-principle "linear, non-scaling" FFA called (EMMA) (Electron Machine with Many Applications) has been successfully operated at Daresbury Laboratory, UK. Ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25909457 |
Fixed-field alternating gradient accelerator FFA accelerators have potential medical applications in proton therapy for cancer, as proton sources for high intensity neutron production, for non-invasive security inspections of closed cargo containers, for the rapid acceleration of muons to high energies before they have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25909457 |
Mother plant A mother plant is a plant grown for the purpose of taking cuttings or offsets in order to grow more quantity of the same plant. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25920941 |
Acorda Therapeutics Acorda Therapeutics, Inc. is an American biotechnology company based in Ardsley, New York. The company develops therapies that improve neurological function in people with Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorders. manufactures and markets the drugs Inbrija (levodopa i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25922191 |
Acorda Therapeutics A single therapeutic area focus also has the advantage that physicians prescribing one drug might also prescribe another in Acorda's portfolio; for instance, the company planned to leverage physician access through tizanidine capsule sales to promote dalfampridine sales. An initial public offering (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25922191 |
Acorda Therapeutics The company licensed tizanidine (Zanaflex) from Élan in the early 2000s to help meeting cash flow goals. Acorda sells both capsule and tablet forms of this drug, with emphasis on the capsule form as this has patent protection through 2021, while the tablet form has many generic competitors. In Janua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25922191 |
Acorda Therapeutics Hidman (Chief Business Officer), David Lawrence (Chief, Business Operations and Principal Accounting Officer), Lauren Sabella (Chief Commercial Officer), Tierney Saccavino (Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications) and Jane Wasman (President, International and General Counsel). , founder, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25922191 |
Iceway An iceway is a linear channel eroded through bedrock by the passage of glacial ice. The term was coined by geographer Ronald Kay Gresswell in a paper in 1964 in relation to the origins of the Dee and Mersey estuaries on the boundary of northwest England and northeast Wales. Gresswell identified several such sub-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25927204 |
Epiblem In botany, is a tissue that replaces the epidermis in most roots and in stems of submerged aquatic plants. It is usually located between the epidermis and cortex in the root or stem of a plant. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25940434 |
Foundered strata is a term used by the British Geological Survey in its maps and geological memoirs, and indeed by other authors, to describe rock strata which have collapsed due, for example, to the dissolution of underlying strata. may retain original bedding more or less intact or they may assume a chaotic structure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25946936 |
Frank Winkler P. Frank Winkler, Jr. is an astronomer and noted subject-matter expert on supernova. He received his doctorate from Harvard and is currently the Gamaliel Painter Bicentennial Professor in Physics at Middlebury College located in Middlebury, Vermont. Dr. Winkler has calculated the distance for the brightes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25961892 |
Vargas diamond The Vargas Diamond, discovered in Brazil on August 13, 1938 by Joaquim Venancio Tiago and Manoel Miguel Domingues, was when pulled out of the ground. Twenty-nine smaller diamonds were carved from the larger rough Vargas Diamond including the emerald cut diamond named "President Vargas", after the former ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25962386 |
Jorge Crispim Romão is a Portuguese theoretical physicist. he is a Senior Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico working in Centro de Física Teórica de Partículas. His main research areas are supersymmetry, and the physics of neutrinos and the Higgs boson. Currently, he is teaching the course Quantum Field Theory as p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25966714 |
Flame structure A flame structure is a type of soft-sediment deformation that forms in unconsolidated sediments. The weight of an overlying bed forces an underlying bed to push up through the overlying bed, generally when both strata are saturated with water. The resulting pattern (in cross section) may resemble flames... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25976019 |
Gallic epoch The is an obsolete epoch of the Mesozoic Era's Cretaceous, the latter being a geologic period and system that spans 79 million years from the end of the Jurassic Period million years ago (mya) to the beginning of the Paleogene Period mya. The encompasses the Barremian, Aptian, Albian, Cenomanian and Turoni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26004548 |
Swedish Radiation Safety Authority The () is the Swedish government authority responsible for radiation protection. It sorts under the Ministry of the Environment. It was created on 1 July 2008 with the merging of the Swedish Nuclear Power Inspectorate and the Swedish Radiation Protection Authority. It employs 300 peop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26014806 |
Negative Volcano A negative volcano is a caldera volcano that is a lake filled with hot springs. An example of a negative volcano is Sturgeon Lake. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26019985 |
Noel Bayliss Sir Noel Stanley Bayliss (19 December 1906 – 17 February 1996) was an Australian chemist and professor of chemistry at the University of Western Australia. He was a Rhodes Scholar and graduated as dux of the academically renowned Melbourne High School. He then attended the University of Melbourne before go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26021933 |
Alfred Douglas Hardy (1870 – 1958) was an Australian amateur collector of freshwater algae specimens. He worked as a draftsman and botanical officer for the Victorian Forest Commission until his retirement in 1936. He was also an amateur naturalist, initially with wide interests but later specialising in freshwater alg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26024425 |
Felix Reader Felix Maximilian Reader (1850–1911) was a German-born Australian chemist and amateur botanist. Born in Berlin, he trained as a chemist before emigrating to New Zealand, then shortly afterwards, in the 1880s, to Australia. In the 1890s he settled at Dimboola, Victoria, where he had a chemist's shop until th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26024700 |
Francis Wilson (lichenologist) Francis Robert Muter Wilson (1832–1903), Presbyterian minister at Kew, Melbourne, was arguably Australia's first lichenologist. He came to Australia in 1862 to minister at Kew, but developed an interest in the natural world. He discovered many Australian and Pacific Island species of lich... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26024715 |
Hilbrand J. Groenewold Hilbrand Johannes "Hip" Groenewold (1910–1996) was a Dutch theoretical physicist who pioneered the largely operator-free formulation of quantum mechanics in phase space known as phase-space quantization. Groenewold was born on 29 June 1910 in Muntendam in the province of Groningen. He graduated f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26066810 |
Hilbrand J. Groenewold Significantly, this work further formulated and first appreciated the all-important star-product, the cornerstone of this formulation of the theory, ironically often also associated with Moyal's name, even though it is not featured in Moyal's papers and was not fully understood by Moyal. Moreover... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26066810 |
Selection and amplification binding assay (SAAB) is a molecular biology technique typically used to find the DNA binding site for proteins. It was developed by T. Keith Blackwell and Harold M. Weintraub in 1990. SAAB experimental procedure consists of several steps, depending upon the knowledge available about the bind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26068545 |
Selection and amplification binding assay The protein bound DNA was detected by autoradiography, and the bands representing protein–DNA complexes were excised from the gel and the eluted DNA were amplified by PCR using primers complementary to the 20 bp nonrandom flanking sequences. After 5 set of the same procedure, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26068545 |
List of homing endonuclease cutting sites The homing endonucleases are a special type of restriction enzymes encoded by introns or inteins. They act on the cellular DNA of the cell that synthesizes them; to be precise, in the opposite allele of the gene that encode them. The list includes some of the most studied examp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26080977 |
Pavonazzo marble Pavonazzetto marble also known as Docimaean marble or Synnadic marble, is a white marble originally from Docimium, or modern İscehisar, Turkey. The name derives from the Italian word for peacock (pavone). "In natural stone trade, Pavonazzo is often simply called a Marble." It is one of the many varieti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26085456 |
Power bandwidth The power bandwidth of an amplifier is sometimes taken as the frequency range (or, rarely, the upper frequency limit) for which the rated power output of an amplifier can be maintained (without excessive distortion) to at least "half" of the full rated power. (Some specifications may mandate 100% of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26088003 |
Slew-induced distortion (SID or slew-rate induced distortion) is caused when an amplifier or transducer is required to change output (or displacement), i.e. slew rate, faster than it is able to do so without error. At such times any other signals may suffer considerable gain distortion, leading to intermodulation disto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26089310 |
Herpetosiphonales is one of two orders of bacteria in the class Chloroflexi. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26091147 |
Herpetosiphonaceae is a family of bacteria in the order "Herpetosiphonales". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26091193 |
Paul Kocin (born May 6, 1955) is a meteorologist and winter weather expert. He grew up on Long Island, New York and received his B.S. from Cornell University, followed by his M.Sc. from Pennsylvania State University. After graduation, he briefly worked for NASA as a contractor then was hired by the US National Weather ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26093921 |
Sitka (crater) Sitka is an impact crater on the planet Mars. It measures in diameter and was named after the city of Sitka in Alaska, United States. The name was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1976. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26099765 |
Matanuska (crater) Matanuska is an impact crater on the minor planet 253 Mathilde. It is in diameter. It is named after a coal field in the Matanuska-Susitna Valley of Alaska; the name was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 2000. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26099912 |
Dextrose equivalent (DE) is a measure of the amount of reducing sugars present in a sugar product, expressed as a percentage on a dry basis relative to dextrose. The dextrose equivalent gives an indication of the average degree of polymerisation (DP) for starch sugars, it is another word for gelatine. As a rule of thum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26107799 |
Gravity feed is the use of earth's gravity to move something (usually a liquid) from one place to another. It is a simple means of moving a liquid without the use of a pump. A common application is the supply of fuel to an internal combustion engine by placing the fuel tank above the engine, e.g. in motorcycles, lawn m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26108124 |
Comutagen A comutagen is a substance that is not a mutagen by itself, but in the presence of a mutagen, enhances mutagenic activity. There are at least two manners by which this may occur; the comutagen may strengthen the mutagenic activity of mutagenic chemicals, or it can create a mutagenic response from nonmutagens.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26114068 |
Aderis Pharmaceuticals is a privately held pharmaceutical company based in Hopkinton, Massachusetts. It was founded in 1994 to develop and commercialize pharmaceuticals. It is best known for the development of Rotigotine, a dopamine agonist made for the treatment of Parkinson's disease. Official site | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26141336 |
National Weather Service Wichita, Kansas The (NWS Wichita) is a local weather forecast office of the National Weather Service responsible for monitoring weather conditions for 26 counties in central, south-central, and southeastern Kansas, including the Wichita Metropolitan Area and Salina, Kansas. The Army Signal Serv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26143608 |
Sandwich Fault Zone The is a fault zone that runs northwest from Oswego to Ogle County, transecting Lee County in Northern Illinois. The fault has generally not been active, although there was a minor earthquake in 2002, and another, slightly larger one, in 2010. It has a largely 400 to 600-foot vertical displacement, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26153135 |
National Weather Service Albany, New York The is a local office of the National Weather Service responsible for monitoring weather conditions for eastern New York State and portions of western New England (extreme Southern Vermont, western Massachusetts and northwestern Connecticut). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26157152 |
Acoustic dispersion is the phenomenon of a sound wave separating into its component frequencies as it passes through a material. The phase velocity of the sound wave is viewed as a function of frequency. Hence, separation of component frequencies is measured by the rate of change in phase velocities as the radiated wav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26157481 |
National Weather Service Binghamton, New York The is a local office of the National Weather Service responsible for monitoring weather conditions 17 counties in New York and 7 counties in Pennsylvania including the cities of Binghamton, Elmira, Ithaca, Rome, Scranton, Syracuse, Utica, and Wilkes-Barre. Management Senio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26162948 |
National Weather Service Buffalo, New York The is a local office of the National Weather Service responsible for monitoring weather conditions in western and north central New York State including Buffalo, Rochester, Geneva, Fulton, and Watertown. The forecast office provides programming for seven NOAA Weather Radio st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26162984 |
National Weather Service Burlington, Vermont The is a local office of the National Weather Service located at Burlington International Airport (BTV) in South Burlington, VT that is responsible for monitoring weather conditions in extreme northern New York State and the northern two-thirds of Vermont. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26163010 |
National Weather Service Caribou, Maine The is a local office of the National Weather Service responsible for monitoring weather conditions in northern Maine. It is co-located with an upper air sounding facility but the NEXRAD radar KCBW is near Houlton, Maine, further south. The National Weather Service in Caribou pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26163229 |
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