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P-wave modulus There are two kinds of seismic body waves in solids, "pressure waves" (P-waves) and "shear waves." In linear elasticity, the formula_1, also known as the longitudinal modulus, or the constrained modulus, is one of the elastic moduli available to describe isotropic homogeneous materials. It is defined as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10434600 |
NGC 5101 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Hydra. It is separated in the sky from the spiral galaxy NGC 5078 by about 0.5 degrees, and both are believed to be at the same distance from the Earth. This would mean they are approximately 800,000 light-years apart. Both galaxies are believed to be about the size ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10438638 |
NGC 5112 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. This galaxy is in close physical proximity to the edge-on dwarf spiral NGC 5107. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10438829 |
NGC 5161 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Centaurus. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10438937 |
NGC 5170 is an edge-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10439052 |
Snow flurry A snow flurry is a term for a light snowfall that results in little or no snow accumulation. The US National Weather Service specifically defines snow flurries as intermittent light snow that produces no measurable precipitation (trace amounts). In contrast, bursts of snowfall which do result in measurable ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10442110 |
Homing endonuclease The homing endonucleases are a collection of endonucleases encoded either as freestanding genes within introns, as fusions with host proteins, or as self-splicing inteins. They catalyze the hydrolysis of genomic DNA within the cells that synthesize them, but do so at very few, or even singular, loca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10443283 |
Homing endonuclease Prior to transmission, one allele carries the gene (HEG) while the other does not (HEG), and is therefore susceptible to being cut by the enzyme. Once the enzyme is synthesized, it breaks the chromosome in the HEG allele, initiating a response from the cellular DNA repair system. The damage is repai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10443283 |
Homing endonuclease Their conserved structural motifs are: The yeast homing endonuclease PI-Sce is a LAGLIDADG-type endonuclease encoded as an intein that splices itself out of another protein (). The high-resolution structure reveals two domains: an endonucleolytic centre resembling the C-terminal domain of Hedgehog p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10443283 |
Depolymerization (or depolymerisation) is the process of converting a polymer into a monomer or a mixture of monomers. This process is driven by an increase in entropy. The tendency of polymers to depolymerize is indicated by their ceiling temperature. At this temperature, the enthalpy of polymerization matches the ent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10444018 |
NGC 5247 is a face-on unbarred spiral galaxy located some 60 million light years away in the constellation Virgo. It most likely belongs to the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies; the same supercluster that hosts the Milky Way galaxy. This is a grand design spiral galaxy that displays no indications of distortion caused by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10450806 |
NGC 5291 is a system of interacting galaxies in the constellation Centaurus. It is surrounded by a collisional ring, containing a young and star-forming tidal dwarf galaxy, where dark matter has been detected. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10451079 |
Electromanipulation refers to the act or practice of manipulating materials using electric fields. In nanotechnology, nanomaterials are so small that they can hardly be directly mechanically manipulated. Hence, electric fields are applied to them to make field-induced movements or deformations. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10454913 |
NGC 5300 is a face-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10467766 |
Thermal contact In heat transfer and thermodynamics, a thermodynamic system is said to be in thermal contact with another system if it can exchange energy through the process of heat. Perfect thermal isolation is an idealization as real systems are always in thermal contact with their environment to some extent. When t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10470165 |
Yasuyoshi Shirasawa Yasuyoshi Shirasawa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10473898 |
T-J model The "t"-"J" model was first derived in 1977 from the Hubbard model by Józef Spałek. The model describes strongly-correlated electron systems. It is used to calculate high temperature superconductivity states in doped antiferromagnets. The "t"-"J" Hamiltonian is: where The Hamiltonian of the "t"-"t"-"J" model ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10477190 |
NGC 1409 is an interacting elliptical galaxy in the constellation Taurus. There appears to be a pipeline of gas being funneled from to NGC 1410. This pipeline is creating significant stellar birth in NGC 1410. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10478755 |
NGC 1410 is an interacting barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Taurus. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10478905 |
Fed-batch culture is, in the broadest sense, defined as an operational technique in biotechnological processes where one or more nutrients (substrates) are fed (supplied) to the bioreactor during cultivation and in which the product(s) remain in the bioreactor until the end of the run. An alternative description of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10482389 |
Fed-batch culture At such high concentrations, the nutrients become inhibitory, even though they have no such effect at the normal concentrations used in batch cultures. 3. Glucose effect (Crabtree effect) In the production of baker's yeast from malt wort or molasses it has been recognized since early 1900s that ethano... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10482389 |
Fed-batch culture A powerful method of overcoming the catabolite repression in the enzyme biosynthesis is a fed-batch culture in which glucose concentration in the culture liquid is kept low, where growth is restricted, and the enzyme biosynthesis is derepressed. Slow feeding of glucose in penicillin fermentation by "P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10482389 |
Fed-batch culture Expression control of a gene with a repressible promoter Transcription of a gene having a repressible promoter upstream of the open reading frame is repressed by combination of the so-called holo-repressor with the operator region on the DNA. When a specified chemical compound exists in the culture li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10482389 |
Fed-batch culture The simplest fed-batch culture is the one in which the feed rate of a growth-limiting substrate is constant, "i.e." the feed rate is invariant during the culture. This case is shown in the graph (here the culture volume is variable). This type of the fed-batch culture is named constantly-fed-batch cul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10482389 |
NGC 1808 is a Seyfert galaxy located in the constellation Columba. The Supernova 1993af appeared in NGC 1808. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10488368 |
NGC 5653 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Boötes. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10489808 |
Armstrong Nugget The is a gold nugget that was found June 19, 1913, by George Armstrong, at a placer mine near Susanville in Grant County, Oregon, United States. The nugget weighs 80.4 ounces. Today the nugget can be seen in a gold mining display at the U.S. Bank in Baker City. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10490331 |
NGC 5334 is a face-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10497767 |
NGC 5371 is a face-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. (which also seems to be known as NGC 5390) is a symmetrical face-on Sbc barred spiral galaxy at a distance of 100 million light years. This galaxy with Hickson Galaxy Group 68 makes up the Big Lick Galaxy Group. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10498440 |
NGC 5962 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Serpens Caput and is the brightest member of the Serpens galaxy cluster. Along with a populated nucleus, it has a relatively large core, but a small central bulge, in which spiral arms begin to unfurl. It appears to have three smaller, orange-hued, dwarf galaxy satellite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10498716 |
NGC 5964 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Serpens Caput. is also known by the names IC 4551 and PGC 55637. has relatively unwound spiral arms; it lacks the clear defined spiral arms the Milky Way galaxy has. The central bar is very small, long and thin. thus does not have a galactic habitable zone like th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10498756 |
Jim T. Enright J. T. Enright was a skeptic and professor of behavioral physiology at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. As a teacher, he emphasized data analysis in the critical evaluation of scientific literature. He has conducted research on biological clocks and sensory phy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10518059 |
ChemAxon () is a cheminformatics and bioinformatics software development company specializing in cloud based, end user solutions, back end platforms and consultancy services for chemical and biological research. Headquartered in Budapest, Hungary with 121 employees (as of November 2018). The company also operates busin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10526566 |
ChemAxon Emerging technologies and software languages were studied. As a result a platform independent, back end product line, relying on Java started to come together. The first software product was Marvin, a chemical editor. Its first version was released in January of 1999. Marvin was followed by the development of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10526566 |
ChemAxon A software development office opened in Prague, Czech Republic in 2006. The second half of the 2000s brought ChemAxon's desktop-based, cheminformatics product portfolio to maturity. This granted the first global contract with a top pharma, GlaxoSmithKline in late 2009. The company started to experiment with ag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10526566 |
ChemAxon More global offices were established: in 2014 a US East Coast headquarters opened its doors in Cambridge, Massachusetts, followed by an office opening in San Diego in 2018. Products include tools for visualization and drawing of molecules, chemical database searching and management, and for drug discovery. Pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10526566 |
NGC 290 is an open cluster. It lies some 200,000 light years away in the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is located in the constellation Tucana. It spans 65 light years across. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10527343 |
NGC 6027a is a spiral galaxy that is part of Seyfert's Sextet, a compact group of galaxies, which is located in the constellation Serpens. In optical wavelengths, it has a strong resemblance to Messier 104, the Sombrero Galaxy, with which it shares a near equivalent orientation to observers on Earth. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10536327 |
Dasar is an acronym for Darkness Amplification by Stimulated Absorption of Radiation. It is a little-used expression describing the anomalous interstellar formaldehyde absorption discovered by Palmer "et al." in 1969. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10536559 |
Molecular property Molecular properties include the chemical properties, physical properties, and structural properties of molecules, including drugs. Molecular properties typically do not include pharmacological or biological properties of a chemical compound. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10543014 |
Bystander effect (radiobiology) The radiation-induced bystander effect (bystander effect) is the phenomenon in which unirradiated cells exhibit irradiated effects as a result of signals received from nearby irradiated cells. In November 1992, Hatsumi Nagasawa and John B. Little first reported this radiobiological pheno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10546551 |
Bystander effect (radiobiology) The abscopal effect is a phenomenon where the response to radiation is seen in an organ/site distant to the irradiated organ/area, that is, the responding cells are not juxtaposed with the irradiated cells. T-cells and dendritic cells have been implicated to be part of the mechanism. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10546551 |
Frederick Adamson Frederick M. Adamson (born 1816, died 1860, age 44) was an early settler in Victoria, Australia. He was the first settler to make botanical collections in the Melbourne area; between 1840 and 1856, he sent to the Kew herbarium a series of what William Hooker described as "extensive and excellent colle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10569872 |
Federica Sallusto (born 27 November 1961 in Naples, Italy) is an Italian biologist and immunologist. After high school, she studied Biology at Sapienza - University of Rome where she graduated "cum laude". In 1999, Sallusto, alongside David Dombrowicz, was awarded the Pharmacia Allergy Research Foundation Award, which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10570456 |
Leonard Clarke Webster (1870 – 26 September 1942) was a botanical collector in Australia. Born in Launceston, Tasmania, his first occupation was as a pharmacist. By 1900 he was living in the vicinity of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Between 1903 and 1938, he sold plant and reptile specimens to the British Museum and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10586270 |
NGC 7673 is a disturbed spiral galaxy located in the constellation Pegasus. The galaxy has recently experienced intense star formation activity and may therefore be referred to as a starburst galaxy. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10587087 |
John Vidale John Emilio Vidale (born March 15, 1959) is an American-born seismologist who specializes in examining seismograms to explore features within the Earth. He received the American Geophysical Union's James B. Macelwane Medal in 1994. Vidale was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, studied physic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10587189 |
John Vidale Vidale also contributed an improved method of ray tracing which relied on a finite-difference approximation of the eikonal equation and which has been used widely in both earthquake and reflection seismology. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10587189 |
NGC 6340 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco. The galaxy is approximately 55 million light years away. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10595512 |
Unitarity (physics) In quantum physics, unitarity is the condition that the time evolution of a quantum state according to the Schrödinger equation is mathematically represented by a unitary operator. This is typically taken as an axiom or basic postulate of quantum mechanics, while generalizations of or departures fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10603568 |
Unitarity (physics) The optical theorem in particular implies that unphysical particles must not appear as virtual particles in intermediate states. The mathematical machinery which is used to ensure this includes gauge symmetry and sometimes also Faddeev–Popov ghosts. According to the optical theorem, the imaginary pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10603568 |
Fiber derivative In the context of Lagrangian Mechanics the fiber derivative is used to convert between the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian forms. In particular, if formula_1 is the configuration manifold then the Lagrangian formula_2 is defined on the tangent bundle formula_3 and the Hamiltonian is defined on the cotangent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10605275 |
Nonextensive entropy Entropy is considered to be an extensive property, i.e., that its value depends on the amount of material present. Constantino Tsallis has proposed a nonextensive entropy (Tsallis entropy), which is a generalization of the traditional Boltzmann–Gibbs entropy. The rationale behind the theory is that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10611092 |
NGC 5705 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo. is part of a small group of spiral galaxies that also includes NGC 5691, NGC 5713, and NGC 5719. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10622482 |
Spider (polarimeter) Spider is a balloon-borne experiment designed to search for primordial gravitational waves imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB). Measuring the strength of this signal puts limits on inflationary theory. The Spider instrument consists of six degree-resolution telescopes cooled to liqui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10623615 |
Sun valve A sun valve ("Swedish: solventil", "solar valve") is a flow control valve that automatically shuts off gas flow during daylight. It earned its inventor Gustaf Dalén the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physics. Subsequently other variants of sun valve were developed for various different uses. The valve was the key compon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10626173 |
Sun valve In 1921 Francis Everard Lamplough (an engineer with AGA's rival firm in lighthouse provision: Chance Brothers) patented an alternative 'light valve' in the hope of breaking Dalén's effective monopoly. In subsequent years it was installed on several lighthouses and beacons, but because of its dependence on liq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10626173 |
Stratigraphic section A stratigraphic section is a sequence of layers of rocks in the order they were deposited. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10630377 |
NGC 5838 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10631788 |
Chambliss Amateur Achievement Award The is awarded by the American Astronomical Society for an achievement in astronomical research made by an amateur astronomer resident in North America. The prize is named after Carlson R. Chambliss of Kutztown University, who donated the funds to support the prize. The award will co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10648303 |
Håkon Flood (25 September 1905 – 9 October 2001) was a professor of inorganic chemistry at the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim, Norway, from 1953 to 1975. He also worked as the director of the Institute of Silicate Research ("Institutt for Silikatforskning") at NTH. Professor Flood was one of the pioneer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10655528 |
C-Repeat Binding Factor C-Repeat Binding Factors (CBFs) are transcription factors in plants involved in response to low temperature. Also known as Dehydration Response Element Binding factors (DREBs), they are a subfamily of AP2 DNA binding domain transcription factors. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10669579 |
Ice divide An ice divide is the boundary on an ice sheet, ice cap or glacier separating opposing flow directions of ice, analogous to a water divide. Such ice divides are important for geochronological investigations using ice cores, because such coring is typically made at highest point of an ice sheet dome in order t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10677341 |
Ice divide They formed the WAIS project. This project is funded by the United States National Science Foundation, and is run by scientists from many organizations such as National Ice Core Laboratory, Ice Drilling Design and Operations (IDDO), and over fifty Universities. The WAIS project is located in West Antarctica,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10677341 |
NGC 7257 NGC 7260 ("NGC 7257") is a peculiar galaxy located in the constellation Aquarius. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10681806 |
Andrzej Sołtan (25 October 1897 – 10 December 1959) was a Polish nuclear physicist. He also worked on spectroscopy in the band between far ultraviolet and X-rays. During his visit to Caltech in 1932–33, together with H. Richard Crane and Charles Christian Lauritsen, he discovered a method for producing neutron beams, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10685260 |
Impact parameter The impact parameter formula_1 is defined as the perpendicular distance between the path of a projectile and the center of a potential field formula_2 created by an object that the projectile is approaching (see diagram). It is often referred to in nuclear physics (see Rutherford scattering) and in cla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10686498 |
Impact parameter This means that final-state particle multiplicity is typically greatest in the most central collisions, due to the partons involved having the greatest probability of interacting in some way. This has led to charged particle multiplicity being used as a common measure of collision centrality (charged p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10686498 |
Circumscribed halo A circumscribed halo is a type of halo, an optical phenomenon typically in the form of a more or less oval ring that circumscribes the circular 22° halo centred on the sun or moon. As the sun rises above 70° it essentially covers the 22° halo. Like many other halos, it is slightly reddish on the inne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10692807 |
Infralateral arc An infralateral arc (or lower lateral tangent arc) is a rare halo, an optical phenomenon appearing similar to a rainbow under a white parhelic circle. Together with the supralateral arc they are always located outside the seldom observable 46° halo, but in contrast to supralateral arcs, infralateral ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10696700 |
Eugène Séguy "Eugene Séguy" (21 April 1890 – 1 June 1985) was a French entomologist / artist who specialised in Diptera. He held a chair of entomology at the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle in Paris from 1956 to 1960. Also known for being responsible for founding the Diptera section in the Museum National d’Histoi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10699359 |
Reversible reference system propagation algorithm (r-RESPA) is a time stepping algorithm used in molecular dynamics. It evolves the system state over time, where the "L" is the Liouville operator. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10708900 |
Byron Barnard Lamont (born 2 January 1945) is a Western Australian botanist. He is currently a senior researcher within the Department of Environmental Biology of Curtin University of Technology. A specialist in ecology of the flora of the South West Botanic Province, he has published hundreds of papers. Born in Perth,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10721459 |
Byron Barnard Lamont Lamont was made a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in the 2010 Australia Day Honours "For service to conservation and the environment, particularly Australian flora as an educator, researcher and author". He lives in the Perth suburb of Bull Creek. He is married with two adult children. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10721459 |
Masayuki Kikuchi Masayuki Kikuchi(菊地 正幸) (January 19, 1948 – October 18, 2003) was a Japanese seismologist. He was famous for real-time seismology. Bachelor of Science (1970), Master of Science (1972), and Doctor of Science (1976), in Geophysics, University of Tokyo. Kikuchi dropped out of the Graduate School of Scienc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10724521 |
Masayuki Kikuchi He invented the method for slip distribution on the fault plane by teleseismic waveform with Hiroo Kanamori. In addition, he analysed significant earthquakes just after occurrence and distributed the results of analysis on the internet. These results were called Kikuchi Solutions. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10724521 |
NGC 7537 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Pisces. The name NGC, is the name of an astronomical catalog, with the number corresponding to this object. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10727315 |
NGC 6027b is an interacting lenticular galaxy that is part of Seyfert's Sextet, a compact group of galaxies currently in the process of colliding and merging, which is located in the constellation Serpens. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10741406 |
NGC 6027c is a barred spiral galaxy that is part of Seyfert's Sextet, a compact group of galaxies, which is located in the constellation Serpens. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10742185 |
Olof Immanuel von Fåhraeus Olof Immanuel Fåhræus (23 March 1796 in Slite – 28 May 1884 in Gotland or Stockholm), was a Swedish politician and entomologist mainly interested in Coleoptera. His collection is shared between the natural history museums of Stockholm and Gothenburg. He wrote, with Carl Henrik Boheman "Insect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10747528 |
Peter Fredrik Wahlberg (19 June 1800 in Gothenburg – 22 May 1877 in Stockholm) was a Swedish entomologist and professor at the University College of Stockholm. Wahlberg was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences from 1830, and served as the Academy's secretary from 1848 to 1866. The island Wahlbergøya, the l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10748097 |
Thermal blooming is an atmospheric effect, seen in high energy laser beams. It is the result of the nonlinear interaction of laser radiation with the propagation medium, usually air, which is heated by the absorption of a fraction of the radiation. The amount of energy absorbed is a function of the laser wavelength. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10757785 |
Molecular promiscuity indicates the ability of a molecule to bind to interact with one or more other classes and subtypes of molecules, in synergistic or antagonistic ways. These interactions may involve multiple paracrine, endocrine and autocrine features. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10758209 |
NGC 6027d is a barred spiral galaxy that is strictly a visual member of Seyfert's Sextet, a compact group of galaxies, which is located in the constellation Serpens. is not interacting with the other galaxies in the cluster, but is in the background and just happens to be in the same line of sight. The galaxy is nearly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10766062 |
Homometric structures In chemistry and crystallography, crystal structures that have the same set of interatomic distances are called homometric structures. need not be congruent (that is, related by a rigid motion or reflection). Homometric crystal structures produce identical diffraction patterns; therefore, they can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10766478 |
NGC 6027e is a tidal tail of NGC 6027, not an individual galaxy, that is part of Seyfert's Sextet, a compact group of galaxies, which is located in the constellation Serpens. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10775053 |
Per Abraham Roman Abraham Roman also was a Swedish entomologist. He specialised in Ichneumonidae, working on worldwide expedition material in the Stockholm Natural History Museum. His collection is in that institution. Roman made two expeditions to South America. Partial list | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10776117 |
Keetch–Byram drought index The (KBDI), created by John Keetch and George Byram in 1968 for the United States Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, is a measure of drought conditions. It is commonly used for the purpose of predicting the likelihood and severity of wildfire. It is calculated based on rainfall, air ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10777584 |
NGC 7052 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Vulpecula. The galaxy harbours a supermassive black hole with mass c. 220-630 million solar masses in its nucleus. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10787476 |
Blowing snow is snow lifted from the surface by the wind, at eye level () or more, that will reduce visibility. can come from falling snow or snow that already accumulated on the ground but is picked up and blown about by strong winds. It is one of the classic requirements for a blizzard. Its METAR code is BLSN. If the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10794747 |
Male egg Male eggs are the result of a process in which the eggs of a female would be emptied of their genetic contents (a technique similar to that used in the cloning process), and those contents would be replaced with male DNA. Such eggs could then be fertilized by sperm. The procedure was conceived by Calum MacKell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10813955 |
Subparhelic circle The subparhelic circle is a rare halo, an optical phenomenon located below the horizon. It passes through both the subsun, below the sun, and the antisolar point, opposite to the sun. The subparhelic circle is the subhorizon counterpart to the parhelic circle located above the horizon. Located on the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10828016 |
Liljequist parhelion A is a rare halo, an optical phenomenon in the form of a brightened spot on the parhelic circle approximately 150–160° from the sun; i.e., between the position of the 120° parhelion and the anthelion. While the sun touches the horizon, a is located approximately 160° from the sun and is about 10° l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10829022 |
Transferability (chemistry) Transferability, in chemistry, is the assumption that a chemical property that is associated with an atom or a functional group in a molecule will have a similar (but not identical) value in a variety of different circumstances. Examples of transferable properties include: Transferable prope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10833216 |
NGC 7314 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Piscis Austrinus. It is a Seyfert (active) galaxy. Since it appears to have detached spiral arm segments (either from dust lanes or bright star clusters), it was listed in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Walter Scott Houston describes its appearance in s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10834106 |
NGC 7319 is a highly distorted barred spiral galaxy that is a member of the Stephan's Quintet located in the constellation Pegasus. The galaxy's arms, dust and gas have been highly disturbed as a result of the interaction with the other members of the Quintet. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10834291 |
NGC 7320c is a galaxy member of the Stephan's Quintet located in the constellation Pegasus. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10834450 |
Gomul Catena is a chain of craters on Jupiter's moon, Callisto. It is situated in the northern part of Valhalla multi-ring structure. The craters in the catena seem to have formed from east to west. Such features are thought to originate as secondary craters or due to fragmentation of the impactor. is named after a Nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10848346 |
Keelut (crater) Keelut is a crater on Jupiter's moon Callisto. It is situated near the south pole and is an example of a central pit impact crater. It measures 47 km across. In the upper part of the image degraded Reginleif crater is visible. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10848533 |
Arcas (crater) Arcas is a crater on Jupiter's moon Callisto measuring across. It is an example of a central pit impact crater. A smaller crater near Arcas is called Ginandi. The crater is named after Arcas, the son of Callisto in Greek mythology. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10848619 |
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