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David Parry (biophysicist) David Anthony Dougall Parry, CNZM is a New Zealand biophysicist known for his work within the area of ultrastructure scleroprotein analysis. He is the former President of the International Union for Pure and Applied Biophysics and former Vice President of the International Council for Science... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26176503 |
Synthetic substance A "synthetic substance" or "synthetic compound" refers to a substance that is man-made by synthesis, rather than being produced by nature. It also refers to a substance or compound formed under human control by any chemical reaction, either by chemical synthesis or by biosynthesis. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26184087 |
Ludovico di Caporiacco (22 January 1900, in Udine – 18 July 1951, in Parma) was an Italian arachnologist. Caporiacco took part in an expedition to the Jebel Uweinat, a mountain massif in the boundary region of Sudan, Libya, and Egypt. On the mission, he, together with Hungarian explorer László Almásy, discovered the pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26184207 |
National Weather Service State College, Pennsylvania The is a local office of the National Weather Service responsible for monitoring weather conditions in central Pennsylvania. Open since May 1993, the office serves 33 counties and has about 25 employees. The Weather Forecast Office (WFO) is located in State College i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26187625 |
National Weather Service Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The is a local office of the National Weather Service responsible for monitoring weather conditions in western Pennsylvania, east-central Ohio, northern West Virginia and Garrett County in extreme western Maryland, encompassing 36 counties. The Pittsburgh Weather Foreca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26187670 |
Flip angle The flip angle is the rotation of the net magnetization vector by a radiofrequency pulse relative to the main magnetic field. To improve the signal when Magnetic Resonance imaging, the flip angle needs to be chosen using the Ernst angle. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26195367 |
Dicke effect Dicke effect, also known as Dicke narrowing (or sometimes collisional narrowing) in spectroscopy, named after Robert H. Dicke, refers to narrowing of the Doppler broadening of a spectral line due to collisions the emitting species (usually an atom or a molecule) experiences with other particles. When the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26205878 |
Drakonjina špilja (meaning "Dragon's cave"), also known as Zmajeva pećina ("Wurm's cave"), is called so because of the mysterious relief of a dragon found inside. It is located immediately above Murvica, on the island of Brač, in Croatia. The dragon was carved by unknown monk in the 15th century, when the monks lived i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26214641 |
Pyrogenic flowering is the fire-stimulated flowering of plants in heathland and other fire-prone habitats. It is associated with species which have transient seed banks, as opposed to canopy or persistent soil seed banks. These species are mostly monocots, but it is also observed in several species of woody dicots. One... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26230760 |
Lawrence Witmer Lawrence M. Witmer (born October 10, 1959 at Rochester, New York) is an American paleontologist and paleobiologist. He is a Professor of Anatomy and a Chang Ying-Chien Professor of Paleontology at the Department of Biomedical Sciences at the Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine in Ohio University. W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26233382 |
Pseudo-oxocarbon anion In chemistry, the term pseudo-oxocarbon anion is used to refer to a negative ion that is conceptually derived from an oxocarbon anion through replacement of one or more of the basic oxygen atoms by chemically similar elements or functional groups, such as sulfur (S), selenium (Se), or dicyanometh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26237210 |
Imperial College Faculty of Natural Sciences The Faculty of Natural Sciences is one of the three main faculties of Imperial College London in London, England. It was formed in 2001 from the former Royal College of Science, a constituent college of Imperial College which dated back to 1848, and the faculty largely consi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26242611 |
Imperial College Faculty of Natural Sciences These faculties were later re-merged over the course of 2005-2006 to form the Faculty of Natural Sciences, which comprises the same departments as the original Royal College of Science. The faculty includes five academic departments: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26242611 |
Mohamed H.A. Hassan Mohamed H. A. Hassan (محمد حاج علي حاج الحسن ) is co-chair of IAP, the Global Network of Science Academies, and chairman of the Council of the United Nations University (UNU). He also serves on a number of Boards of international organizations worldwide, including the Board of Trustees of Bibliothec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26252591 |
Mohamed H.A. Hassan Among his honours: Comendator, Grand Cross, and National Order of Scientific Merit, Brazil; and Officer, Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. He is a member of several merit-based academies of science, including TWAS; the African Academy of Sciences; Islamic World Academy of Sciences; Academia Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26252591 |
Group field theory (GFT) is a quantum field theory in which the base manifold is taken to be a Lie group. It is closely related to background independent quantum gravity approaches such as loop quantum gravity, the spin foam formalism and causal dynamical triangulation. It can be shown that its perturbative expansion c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26254718 |
Alston Block The is a term used by geologists to describe the geological structure of the North Pennines of northern England and which forms a part of the Pennine Block & Basin Province which originated during the Carboniferous period. It is defined by the Stublick and Ninety Fathom faults to the north, the Pennine Fau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26255432 |
Askrigg Block The is the name applied by geologists to the crustal block forming a part of the Pennines of northern England and which is essentially coincident with the Yorkshire Dales. It is defined by the Dent Fault to the west and the Craven Fault System to the south whilst to the north it is separated from the Alst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26255448 |
Josef Finger (1 January 1841 – 6 May 1925) was an Austrian physicist and mathematician. Joseph Finger was born the son of a baker in Pilsen. He attended high school in Pilsen. He studied mathematics and physics at Charles University in Prague from 1859 to 1862. In 1865 and for financial reason he acquired the qualifica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26255748 |
Sven Ludvig Lovén Prof (6 January 1809 – 3 September 1895), was a Swedish marine zoologist and malacologist. The Sven Loven Centre for Marine Sciences at both and are named in his honour. He was born in Stockholm on 6 January 1809. He was first Keeper then Director of the Swedish National Museum in Stockholm. He was al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26259261 |
Medsafe Medsafe, the New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority, is the medical regulatory body run by the New Zealand Ministry of Health, administering the Medicines Act 1981 and Medicines Regulations 1984. employs approximately 60 staff members in two offices. The head office, based in Wellington, New... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26279603 |
Coefficient of fractional parentage In physics, coefficients of fractional parentage (cfp's) can be used to obtain anti-symmetric many-body states for like particles. In a jj-coupling scheme they are defined by the following relation. The state formula_2 is normalized and totally anti-symmetric with respect to permutat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26288139 |
Parabiosis Parabiosis, meaning "living beside", is a technical term in various contexts in fields of study related to ecology and physiology. It accordingly has been defined independently in at least three disciplines, namely experimental or medical physiology, the ecology of inactive physiological states, and the ecol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26305461 |
Parabiosis He postulated that surgically connected animals could share a circulatory system. Bert was awarded the Prize of Experimental Physiology of the French Academy of Science in 1866 for his discoveries. Parabiotic experiments were scarcely revisited until the 20th century. Many of the parabiotic experiments since... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26305461 |
Parabiosis In order to prove that the two animals were sharing blood, researchers injected dye into the veins of one rat and the pigment would show up in the conjoined rat. The scientists refined the lesion placement by practicing the procedure on other rats. The rats were killed with ether and weighed at the conclusio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26305461 |
Parabiosis Many hormones and metabolites were proven to not be the satiety factor that caused one rat to starve in the experiments. Leptin seemed like a viable candidate. Starting in 1977, Ruth B.S. Harris, a graduate student under Hervey, repeated previous studies about parabiosis in rats and mice. Due to the discover... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26305461 |
Parabiosis The gene also correlated to the severe onset of diabetes (db/db gene). The experimenters used parabiosis to conjoin a db/db mouse to a normal mouse, and the normal mouse would starve to death after one week. The db/db mouse would still have a high blood sugar and food in its system. The db/db mouse was deter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26305461 |
Parabiosis This result matched previous studies of single rats. Since Friedell’s experiment, other parabiotic experiments have been useful in researching many types of cancer. Chronic diseases of age have been saluted as prime candidates for parabiotic research because of the potential to conjoin an older animal with a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26305461 |
Parabiosis The ability of the young mouse’s cells was unaffected. Enhanced immunity from the younger mouse also promoted the general health of the older mouse in each pair. The results of this experiment could lead to therapy processes for people with demyelinating diseases like multiple sclerosis. Parabiotic research ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26305461 |
Parabiosis Without the attachment of males to a female, the endocrine functions cannot mature, the individuals fail to develop properly and die young and without reproducing. Similarly, in plants growing closely together roots or stems in intimate contact sometimes form natural grafts. More commonly, in parasitic plant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26305461 |
Parabiosis They did not obviously share anything beyond the upkeep of the nests, even segregating their brood, so these were very surprising observations; most ants are radically intolerant of intruders, usually including even intruders of their own species. In the early 20th century Auguste-Henri Forel coined the term... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26305461 |
Parabiosis Early reports that parabiotic ant colonies forage and feed together peacefully also have been qualified by observations that revealed ants of one species in such an association aggressively displacing members of the other species from artificially provided food, while also profiting by following their recrui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26305461 |
A.C. Redfield Lifetime Achievement Award The Lifetime Achievement Award was first presented in 1994 to honor major long-term achievements in the fields of limnology and oceanography, including research, education and service to the community and society. In 2004, the American Society of Limnology and Oceanography Board... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26306022 |
Carl Mears is a Senior Scientist, at Remote Sensing Systems, since 1998. He has worked on validation of SSM/I derived winds, and rain-flagging algorithm for the QuikScat scatterometer. He is best known for his work with Frank Wentz in developing a satellite temperature record from MSU and AMSU. Intercomparison of this ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26326955 |
Microwave sounding unit The was the predecessor to the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU). The MSU was first launched aboard the TIROS-N satellite in late 1978 and provided global coverage (from Pole to Pole). It carries a 4-channel microwave radiometer, operating between 50 and 60 GHz. Spatial resolution on the g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26327139 |
Alberto Cobos Periañez is a Spanish paleontologist. He works in Fundación Conjunto Paleontológico de Teruel-Dinópolis, in Teruel, Spain. He is one of the discoverers of "Turiasaurus riodevensis", together with Rafael Royo-Torres and Luis Alcalá. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26334098 |
Barents–Kara Ice Sheet The was an ice sheet which existed during the Weichselian Glaciation. It is named after the seas it was centred upon: Barents Sea and Kara Sea. The ice sheet covered the Pechora Sea, the southeastern part of the Barents Sea, Novaya Zemlya and the Kara Sea, likely reaching up to Svalbard and Franz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26340834 |
Special core analysis In the petroleum industry, special core analysis, often abbreviated SCAL or SPCAN, is a laboratory procedure for conducting flow experiments on core plugs taken from a petroleum reservoir. is distinguished from "routine or conventional core analysis" by adding more experiments, in particular inclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26356967 |
NOAA-6 NOAA-6, designated NOAA-A before launch, was a weather satellite operated by NOAA as part of its National Operational Environmental Satellite System. It was launched into a Sun-synchronous orbit by NASA aboard an Atlas F launch vehicle on 27 June 1979 from Vandenberg Air Force Base SLC-3W. Based on the experimen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26370132 |
Mars Rafikov Mars Zakirovich Rafikov (, 29 September 1933 – 23 July 2000) was a Soviet cosmonaut who was dismissed from the Soviet space program for disciplinary reasons. Senior Lieutenant Rafikov, age 26, was selected as one of the original 20 cosmonauts on 7 March 1960 along with Yuri Gagarin. On 24 March 1962, Rafik... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26386980 |
Cave of Reveillon The (French: Gouffre de Réveillon) is a French cave located near Alvignac, Lot department. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26388214 |
Henry Stommel Research Award The is awarded by the American Meteorological Society to researchers in recognition of outstanding contributions to the advancement of the understanding of the dynamics and physics of the ocean. The award is in the form of a medallion and was named for Henry Stommel. A. The information in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26391771 |
Ludwik Sitowski (born 1880 - 1947) was a Polish zoologist. In 1925-1926 he was rector of the University of Poznań during an economic crisis. Of his notable works, "On the Inheritance of Aniline Dye" is amongst them and was published on 3 September 1909. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26400762 |
Radioscope The electronic production of a visual image by ionising radiation on a radiation detector and displayed on a monitor or similar screen. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26408840 |
COLD-PCR (co-amplification at lower denaturation temperature-PCR) is a modified Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) protocol that enriches variant alleles from a mixture of wildtype and mutation-containing DNA. The ability to preferentially amplify and identify minority alleles and low-level somatic DNA mutations in the pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26415811 |
COLD-PCR Replacing traditional PCR with for these downstream assays will increase the reliability in detecting mutations from mixed samples, including tumors and body fluids. The underlying principle of is that single nucleotide mismatches will slightly alter the melting temperature (Tm) of the double-stranded DNA. Dep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26415811 |
COLD-PCR However, it is important to note that Full is essential for amplification of all possible mutations in the starting mixture of DNA. Two-round is a modified version of Fast COLD-PCR. During the second round of Fast nested primers are used. This improves the sensitivity of mutation detection compared to one-roun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26415811 |
COLD-PCR The study was able to detect 8 low level (under 20% abundance) mutations that would likely have been missed using conventional methods that don't enrich for variant sequence DNA . Similar to its use in direct Sanger sequencing, with pyrosequencing was shown to be capable of detecting mutations that had a preva... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26415811 |
COLD-PCR Recently, the technology has been licensed by Transgenomic, Inc. The licensing terms include the exclusive rights to commercialize the technology combined with Sanger sequencing. The plans are to develop commercial applications that will allow for rapid high-sensitivity detection of low-level somatic and mitoc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26415811 |
ESO 306-17 is a fossil group giant elliptical galaxy in the Columba constellation, about 1 million light-years in diameter, and 493 million light-years away. The galaxy is situated alone in a volume of space about it. It is theorized that the galaxy cannibalized its nearest companions, hence, being a fossil group. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26434080 |
Arctic studies may include: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26446535 |
Geneva Rules The are the rules established by the International Chemistry Committee in 1892. These rules were the beginning of international cooperation for organic chemistry nomenclature. They were decided upon by a group of 34 of leading chemists from 9 different European nations. Their goal was to provide rules for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26448837 |
Light valve A light valve (LV) is a device for varying the quantity of light, from a source, which reaches a target. Examples of targets are computer screen surfaces, or a wall screen in the case of a light projector. There are two basic principles of achieving this. One is by deflecting the light on its way to the tar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26459697 |
Light valve Should this happen at too low a frequency, the human eye and brain would perceive it as flickering, but due to sufficiently high frequency, a human will be "tricked" into viewing it as a continuum, a smooth shift in brightness. Examples of the reflective LV type are the Digital Micromirror Device (DMD), Eid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26459697 |
Chemical Society of Mexico The (Spanish: "Sociedad Química de México"; SQM) is a learned society (professional association) based in Mexico which supports scientific inquiry and education in the field of chemistry. The Society organizes two annual congresses, one for general chemistry and the other for chemical educati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26461296 |
Fredericus Anna Jentink (20 August 1844, Wymbritseradeel – 4 November 1913, Leiden) was a Dutch zoologist. In 1875, he became curator at the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie (today Naturalis) in Leiden. In 1884 he followed Hermann Schlegel as director of the museum and as editor of the journal "Notes from the Leyde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26462262 |
Wind-induced surface heat exchange The wind-induced surface heat exchange (WISHE) is a positive feedback mechanism between the ocean and atmosphere in which a stronger ocean-to-atmosphere heat flux results in a stronger atmospheric circulation, which results in a strong heat flux. It has been hypothesized that this is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26464848 |
Anthony Bean Anthony R. Bean (born 1957) is an Australian botanist who works at the Queensland Herbarium and Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26466424 |
Parabola of safety In classical mechanics and ballistics, the parabola of safety or safety parabola is the envelope of the parabolic trajectories of projectiles shot from a certain point with a given speed at different angles to horizon in a fixed vertical plane. The fact that this envelope is a parabola had been first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26481832 |
National Adhering Organizations in chemistry are the organizations that work as the authoritative power over chemistry in an individual country. Their importance can be seen by their involvement in IUPAC. There are currently fifty-seven IUPAC National Adhering Organizations. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26488545 |
Gozo Nature Museum The Gozo Nature Museum, formerly known as the Natural Science Museum, is a museum in Victoria, on the island of Gozo, Malta. It has been open to public since 1991. It is housed in a group of houses within the Cittadella, the oldest part of the city. These houses date back to various ages: the older o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26525006 |
Ludwig Haberlandt (1 February 1885 – 22 July 1932) is known as a father of hormonal contraception. In 1921 he carried out experiments on rabbits and he demonstrated a temporary hormonal contraception in a female by transplanting ovaries from a second, pregnant, animal. His father was the eminent botanist, Gottlieb Habe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26526088 |
Hilbert spectroscopy Hilbert Spectroscopy uses Hilbert transforms to analyze broad spectrum signals from gigahertz to terahertz frequency radio. One suggested use is to quickly analyze liquids inside airport passenger luggage. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26527624 |
Goddard problem In rocketry, the is to optimize the altitude of a rocket, ascending vertically, and taking into account atmospheric drag and the gravitational field. This was first posed by Robert H. Goddard in his 1919 publication, "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26530540 |
Citrate test The citrate test detects the ability of an organism to use citrate as the sole source of carbon and energy. Bacteria are inoculated on a medium containing sodium citrate and a pH indicator such as bromothymol blue. The medium also contains inorganic ammonium salts, which are utilized as sole source of nitr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26530729 |
National Museum of Natural History, Malta The National Museum of Natural History () is a natural history museum in the mediaeval walled city of Mdina, Malta. It is housed in Palazzo Vilhena, a French Baroque palace rebuilt in 1726 by Grand Master Antonio Manoel de Vilhena to designs of Charles François de Mondion. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26562028 |
National Weather Service Tampa, Florida The is a local office of the National Weather Service responsible for monitoring weather conditions in west-central Florida, United States. The office is located in Ruskin, and currently has 26 employees. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26580188 |
Santa Fe (Martian crater) Santa Fe is an impact crater in the Lunae Palus quadrangle of Mars, located at 19.5° North and 48.0° W. It is 20.5 km in diameter and was named after Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. Impact craters generally have a rim with ejecta around them, in contrast volcanic craters usually do not have a rim o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26583231 |
Mariko (crater) Mariko is an impact crater on Venus. In 1997 it was named for a common female Japanese first name, in accordance with planetary nomenclature rules for Venusian craters under 20 km in diameter. The crater is located in the V-36 quadrangle of Venus. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26585290 |
Nanoknife A nanoknife is a carbon nanotube-based prototype compression cutting tool intended for sectioning of biological cells. Working principle is similar to that of a 'cheese slicer', a nanometer-thin individual carbon nanotube strung between two tungsten needles would allow sectioning of very thin slices of biolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26616241 |
Nanoknife Most patients don’t feel anything at all during the procedure. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26616241 |
Charles Rabot (26 June 1856 in Nevers − 1 February 1944 in Martigné-Ferchaud) was a French geographer, glaciologist, traveler, journalist, lecturer, translator, and explorer. He was also the first person to climb Kebnekaise, the tallest mountain in Sweden, which he accomplished in 1883. He led his first expedition to S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26636907 |
Eobacterium is an extinct genus of bacteria from the Fig Tree Formation in Africa. It is about 3 billion years old, one of the oldest known living organisms. The discovery of "Eobacterium" and other Fig Tree organisms in the 1960s helped prove that life existed over three billion years ago. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26658925 |
Lanalhue Fault is a northwest-striking fault that marks the contact between two distinct units of continental basement, the Eastern and Western Series in south-central Chile, separating the Nahuelbuta Range Cordillera de Nahuelbuta at the east and the Arauco Peninsula and Basin to the west. The fault takes name from La... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26659131 |
Lanalhue Fault Since the lake ‘Lago Lanalhue’, is located on the fault trace and shows a NW-SE-elongated shape, ‘Zone (LFZ)’ stands as appropriate name for the here discussed fault zone. It was speculated that the inferred Gastre Fault Zone aligned Villarrica, Quetrupillán and Lanín volcanoes, until the Mocha-Villarric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26659131 |
Chōzaburō Tanaka Chōzaburō Tanaka | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26679155 |
Gembone is mineralized bone, often dinosaur bone, which has had the individual cells fossilized with precious minerals. It is one of four gemstones created from organisms (the others being Pearl, Ammolite, and Amber). Many minerals can be found in including hematite, iron, pyrite, jasper, marcasite, agate, quartz or ot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26681607 |
Gold(III) hydroxide Gold(III) hydroxide, gold trihydroxide, or gold hydroxide is an inorganic compound, a hydroxide of gold, with formula Au(OH). It is also called auric acid with formula HAuO. It is easily dehydrated above 140 °C to gold(III) oxide. Salts of auric acid are termed aurates. Gold hydroxide is used in med... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26684903 |
Hypertriton A hypertriton is a type of hypernucleus, formed of a proton, a neutron and any hyperon. The name comes from "hyperon", which refers to baryons containing strange quarks, and "triton", which refers to the nucleus of tritium. Because low-mass hyperons are longer-lived and easier to create than high-mass hyper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26730261 |
Dust lane A dust lane is a relatively dense obscuring band of interstellar dust, observed as a dark swath against the background of a brighter object, especially a galaxy. These dust lanes can usually be seen in spiral galaxies (e.g., the Milky Way) when viewed from the edge. Due to the dense and relatively thick natur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26749292 |
Phage typing is a method used for detecting single strains of bacteria. It is used to trace the source of outbreaks of infections. The viruses that infect bacteria are called bacteriophages ("phages" for short) and some of these can only infect a single strain of bacteria. These phages are used to identify different st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26777607 |
Black hole bomb A black hole bomb is the name given to a physical effect utilizing how a bosonic field impinging on a rotating black hole can be amplified through superradiant scattering. If the amplified field is reflected back towards the black hole, the amplification can be repeated, leading to a run-away growth of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26779825 |
3C 66A is a blazar located in the constellation Andromeda. The "distance" of a far away galaxy depends on what distance measurement you use. With a redshift of 0.444, light from this active galaxy is estimated to have taken around 4.5 billion years to reach us. But as a result of the expansion of the Universe, the pres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26784889 |
Enrico Clerici (15 October 1862 – 26 August 1938) was an Italian mineralogist and geologist. From 1903 on he worked at the University of Rome. He published in 1907 the composition of a solution with a density of 4.25 g/cm at 20 °C, to determine the density of minerals. The Clerici solution is a mixture of thallium form... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26786141 |
Soft chemistry (also known as chimie douce) is a type of chemistry that uses reactions at ambient temperature in open reaction vessels with reactions similar to those occurring in biological systems. The aim of the soft chemistry is to synthesize materials, drawing capacity of living beings - more or less basic - such ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26786438 |
Soft chemistry These different structures are more or less composite mobilized a wide range of applications ranging from health to the needs of the conquest of space. Beyond its mode of synthesis, a compound with the label "soft chemistry" combines the advantages of the mineral (resistance, transparency, repetition pat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26786438 |
Nikolay Zograf Nikolay Yuryevich Zograf (; 1851–1919) was a Russian zoologist and anthropologist, Chevalier of the Order of Légion d'honneur. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26806322 |
Meker–Fisher burner A Meker–Fisher burner, or Meker burner, is a laboratory burner that produces multiple open gas flames, used for heating, sterilization, and combustion. It is used when laboratory work requires a hotter flame than attainable using a Bunsen burner, or used when a larger-diameter flame is desired, such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26833159 |
Species inquirenda In biological classification, a species inquirenda is a species of doubtful identity requiring further investigation. The use of the term in English-language biological literature dates back to at least the early nineteenth century. The term taxon inquirendum is broader in meaning and refers to an in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26858533 |
Kraken Catena is a crater chain ("catena") on Triton, the largest natural satellite of Neptune. It is named after the Kraken of Norse mythology; the name was approved by the International Astronomical Union in 1991. It is located at 14°N, 35.5°E. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26889747 |
Carl-Bertil Laurell (born 28 June 1919 in Uppsala, dead 18 September 2001 in Malmö) was a Swedish medical doctor and researcher. Laurell was Professor of clinical chemistry at Lund University. He named the blood plasma protein Transferrin, and discovered that an inherited lack of Alpha 1-antitrypsin could lead to emphy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26891697 |
Cardinal gem Cardinal gems are gemstones which have traditionally been considered precious above all others. The classification of the cardinal gems dates back to antiquity, and was largely determined by ceremonial or religious use and rarity. The term has largely fallen out of use. The five traditional cardinal gems a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26919900 |
Renpet Mons is a large shield volcano, located on the eastern portion of a ridge-belt province on Venus. It has a diameter of and is the source for massive lava flows overlying the Snegurochka Planitia plain. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26920274 |
Jaszai Patera is a to wide volcanic caldera on Venus containing steep sided lava domes. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26923041 |
Resprouter Resprouters are plant species that are able to survive fire by the activation of dormant vegetative buds to produce regrowth. Plants may resprout from a bud bank that can be located in different places, including in the trunk or major branches (epicormic buds) or in belowground structures like lignotubers, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26926253 |
American Institute of Chemists The (AIC) is an organization founded in 1923 with the goal of advancing the chemistry profession in the United States. The institute is known for its yearly awards recognizing contributions of individuals in this field of work. The Gold Medal, given since 1926, is the institute's highest ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26933129 |
Quantitative precipitation estimation or QPE is a method of approximating the amount of precipitation that has fallen at a location or across a region. Maps of the estimated amount of precipitation to have fallen over a certain area and time span are compiled using several different data sources including manual and au... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26960936 |
Botaniska trädgården (Lund) Botaniska trädgården () is a botanical garden in central Lund, Sweden, open to the public daily without charge. The 8 hectares site contains 7000 species of plants, of which 200 are found in the greenhouses representing nine different climate zones. It is owned and operated by Lund Universit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26982624 |
Bear Valley Strip Mine The is an abandoned coal strip mine located in Coal Township, Northumberland County, to the southwest of the town of Shamokin, Pennsylvania. It lies in the Western Middle Field of the Anthracite belt in the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, where the Pennsylvanian Llewellyn Formation is exposed. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26995550 |
Stochastic roadmap simulation is inspired by probabilistic roadmap methods (PRM) developed for robot motion planning. The main idea of these methods is to capture the connectivity of a geometrically complex high-dimensional space by constructing a graph of local paths connecting points randomly sampled from that space.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27005434 |
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