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Jalkr is a bright crater on Jupiter's moon Callisto measuring 74 km across (in the lower part of the image). This an example of a central dome impact crater. A smaller degraded crater in the upper part of the image is called Audr. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10848731 |
Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstaecker (30 August 1828 – 20 June 1895) was a German zoologist and entomologist. He was born in Berlin, where he studied medicine and natural sciences, receiving his PhD in 1855 as a student of Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug. In 1856 he obtained his habilitation for zoology, and soon afterwards,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10849479 |
Valley exit jet A valley exit jet is a strong, down-valley, elevated air current that emerges above the intersection of the valley and its adjacent plain. These winds frequently reach a maximum of at a height of above the ground. Surface winds below the jet may sway vegetation but are significantly weaker. The presence... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10857373 |
Valley exit jet Deep valleys that terminate abruptly at a plain are more impacted by these factors than are those that gradually become shallower as downvalley distance increases. Valley exit jets can play a major role in the mitigation of air pollution: Methods of examining exit jets include remote sensing and direct ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10857373 |
NOAA-17 was a weather forecasting satellite operated by NOAA. It was launched on June 24, 2002, in a sun-synchronous orbit, 824 km above the Earth, orbiting every 101 minutes. It hosted the AMSU, AVHRR and High Resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder (HRIS) instruments. The satellite was retired in 2013. Automatic Pictur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10859332 |
NOAA-16 NOAA-16, designated NOAA-L before launch, is one of the NASA-provided TIROS series of weather forecasting satellites operated by NOAA. It was launched on September 21, 2000, in a sun-synchronous orbit, 849 km above the Earth, orbiting every 102 minutes. It hosts the AMSU, AVHRR and High Resolution Infrared Radi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10859405 |
NOAA-18 NOAA-18, known before launch as NOAA-N, is a weather forecasting satellite run by NOAA. NOAA-N (18) was launched on May 20, 2005, into a sun-synchronous orbit at an altitude of 854 km above the Earth, with an orbital period of 102 minutes. It hosts the AMSU-A, MHS, AVHRR, Space Environment Monitor SEM/2 instrum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10859435 |
NOAA-15 (designated NOAA-K before launch) is one of the NASA-provided TIROS series of weather forecasting satellite run by NOAA. It was launched on May 13, 1998, and is currently semi-operational, in a sun-synchronous orbit, 807 km above the Earth, orbiting every 101 minutes. It hosts the AMSU-A and AMSU-B instruments,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10859460 |
NOAA-15 The instrument is once again no longer producing data and may be stalled. The current plan is to leave the instrument powered as this issue may be intermittent. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10859460 |
Emil von Brück Emil vom Brück (1807 in Krefeld – 1884 in Krefeld) was a German dealer and entomologist mainly interested in Coleoptera. Brück led an extensive correspondence with the coleopterists of his time, especially Ernst Gustav Kraatz, Lucas von Heyden, Ernest August Hellmuth von Kiesenwetter and Alexander Henry ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10867950 |
Achille Deyrolle (2 October 1813 in Lille – 31 December 1865) was a French entomologist mainly interested in Coleoptera. Born in Lille Deyrolle eventually settled in Brussels where he worked with his father in the City Museum. He went on a scientific mission to Brazil. This lasted five months. During his lifetime Deyro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10868279 |
Supercompensation In sports science theory, supercompensation is the post training period during which the trained function/parameter has a higher performance capacity than it did prior to the training period. The fitness level of a human body in training can be broken down into four periods: initial fitness, parietal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10869371 |
Supercompensation If the next workout takes place during the recovery period, overtraining may occur. If the next workout takes place during the supercompensation period, the body will advance to a higher level of fitness. If the next workout takes place after the supercompensation period, the body will remain at the b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10869371 |
Supercompensation In classical sport science, the yearly (sometimes multi-yearly) period is divided to micro and macro cycles, where each microcycle is responsible for the development of a specific (sometimes several) basic training function and parameter, whereas macrocycles are responsible for the development of comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10869371 |
Jean Baptiste Lucien Buquet (4 March 1807, Deinze –14 December 1889, Paris) was a French entomologist and insect dealer mainly interested in Coleoptera. He described many new genera and species. Buquet’s business dealt in exotic Coleoptera, especially Dynastidae, Buprestidae, Lucanidae, Scarabeidae and Cerambycidae. He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10869558 |
Rope caulk or caulking cord is a type of pliable putty or caulking formed into a rope-like shape. It is typically off-white in color, relatively odorless, and stays pliable for an extended period of time. can be used as caulking or weatherstripping around conventional windows installed in conventional wooden or metal f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10874478 |
Particle physics in cosmology Particle physics is the study of the interactions of elementary particles at high energies, whilst physical cosmology studies the universe as a single physical entity. The interface between these two fields is sometimes referred to as particle cosmology. Particle physics must be taken into... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10875676 |
Particle physics in cosmology Conversely, phenomena discovered through cosmological observations, such as dark matter and baryon asymmetry, suggest the presence of physics that goes beyond the Standard Model. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10875676 |
Fusobacterium polymorphum is a bacterium that has been isolated from the gingival crevice in humans, and has been implicated in the immunopathology of periodontal disease. It has also been isolated in guinea pigs in research studies. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10882960 |
PEGylation (often styled pegylation) is the process of both covalent and non-covalent attachment or amalgamation of polyethylene glycol (PEG, in pharmacy called macrogol) polymer chains to molecules and macrostructures, such as a drug, therapeutic protein or vesicle, which is then described as PEGylated (pegylated). is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10931846 |
PEGylation PEGylation, by increasing the molecular weight of a molecule, can impart several significant pharmacological advantages over the unmodified form, such as improved drug solubility, reduced dosage frequency, without diminished efficacy with potentially reduced toxicity, extended circulating life, increased dru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10931846 |
PEGylation All commercially available PEGylated pharmaceuticals contain methoxypoly(ethylene glycol) or mPEG. PEGylated pharmaceuticals on the market (in reverse chronology by FDA approval year) have included: has practical uses in biotechnology for protein delivery, cell transfection, and gene editing in non-human cel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10931846 |
PEGylation The choice of the suitable functional group for the PEG derivative is based on the type of available reactive group on the molecule that will be coupled to the PEG. For proteins, typical reactive amino acids include lysine, cysteine, histidine, arginine, aspartic acid, glutamic acid, serine, threonine and ty... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10931846 |
PEGylation Unpredictability in clearance times for PEGylated compounds may lead to the accumulation of large molecular weight compounds in the liver leading to inclusion bodies with no known toxicologic consequences. Furthermore, alteration in the chain length may lead to unexpected clearance times "in vivo". Moreover,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10931846 |
Gilavar is a name of the warm southern wind which blows across eastern Azerbaijan throughout the year, particularly in Baku and Shamakhi. is one of the two main winds that dominates Baku, along with Khazri, the cold northern wind. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10939879 |
Émile Dottrens (21 July 1900 – 29 September 1990) was a Swiss zoologist and nature conservationist. He became a scientific assistant for zoology at the Natural History Museum of Geneva in 1942 and was the director of that museum from 1953 to 1969. He wrote several articles about the Swiss freshwater fish species from t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10955428 |
International Geoscience Programme The International Geoscience and Geoparks Programme (IGCP) is a cooperative enterprise of UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) and the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS). It was launched in 1972 and originally termed the "Interna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10958224 |
Photobiotin is a derivative of biotin used as a biochemical tool. It is composed of a biotin group, a linker group, and a photoactivatable aryl azide group. The photoactivatable group provides nonspecific labeling of proteins, DNA and RNA probes or other molecules. Biotinylation of DNA and RNA with photoactivatable bio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10977940 |
Rotational modulation collimator Rotational modulation collimators (or RMCs) are a specialization of the modulation collimator, an imaging device invented by Minoru Oda. Devices of this type create images of high energy X-rays (or other radiations that cast shadows). Since high energy X-rays are not easily focused, suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11005376 |
Multiplicity (chemistry) In spectroscopy and quantum chemistry, the multiplicity of an energy level is defined as "2S+1", where "S" is the total spin angular momentum. States with multiplicity 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 are respectively called singlets, doublets, triplets, quartets and quintets. The multiplicity is also equal to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11020249 |
Multiplicity (chemistry) For an S state, L = 0 so that J can only be 3/2 and there is only one level even though the multiplicity is 4. Most stable organic molecules have complete electron shells with no unpaired electrons and therefore have singlet ground states. This is true also for inorganic molecules containing on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11020249 |
Multiplicity (chemistry) Both have two non-bonding electrons; in singlet carbenes these exist as a lone pair and have opposite spins so that there is no net spin, while in triplet carbenes these electrons have parallel spins. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11020249 |
Slitless spectroscopy is astronomical spectroscopy done without a small slit to allow only light from a small region to be diffracted. It works best in sparsely populated fields, as it spreads each point source out into its spectrum, and crowded fields will be too confused to be useful. It also faces the problem that f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11024738 |
Evolved gas analysis (EGA) is a method used to study the gas evolved from a heated sample that undergoes decomposition or desorption. It is either possible just to detect evolved gases using evolved gas detection (EGD) or to analyse explicitly which gases evolved using evolved gas analysis (EGA). Therefore different an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11026728 |
Evolved gas analysis An EGA instrument named the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer was flown on the Phoenix Lander probe that reached Mars in May 2008. Its purpose was to study Martian soil samples. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11026728 |
Fluvioglacial landform Fluvioglacial landforms are landforms molded by glacial meltwater. This discharge of glacial streams, both over the surface (supraglacial) and beneath the ice sheet (subglacial), is higher in the warmer summer months. As subglacial water often flows under pressure, it has a high velocity and is v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11034502 |
Fluvioglacial landform The Shonkin Sag along the northern edge of the Highwood Mountains, Montana, is a channel formed by the Missouri River and glacial meltwater pouring from Glacial Lake Great Falls; it is one of the most famous prehistoric meltwater channels in the world. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11034502 |
Procell ProCell — Programmable cell chip: culturing and manipulation of living cells with real-time reaction monitoring is a research project at DTU Nanotech and DTU Informatics funded by the Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation under the Programme Commission on Strategic Growth Technologies with co-fun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11040192 |
Hopi Buttes volcanic field is a monogenetic volcanic field located on the Colorado Plateau mostly on the Navajo Reservation around the town of Dilkon in northeastern Arizona north of Holbrook. The volcanic field covers an area of approximately and contains about 300 maars and diatremes. The erosional exposure of the de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11045360 |
Belgian marble is the name given to limestone extracted in Wallonia, southern Belgium. It is quarried around the cities of Namur, Dinant, Tournai, Basecles, Theux, and Mazy/Golzinne. The rock is actually not a true marble (a metamorphic rock), but a type of limestone (a calcareous sedimentary rock). Belgian marbles are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11045543 |
Encyclopedia of Analytical Chemistry The is an English-language multivolume encyclopedia published by John Wiley & Sons. It is a comprehensive analytical chemistry reference, covering all aspects from theory and instrumentation through applications and techniques. Containing over 600 articles and over 6500 illustration... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11051981 |
Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis The is published in print and online by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. The online version is also known as e-EROS. The encyclopedia contains a description of the use of reagents used in organic chemistry. The eight-volume print version includes 3500 alphabetically arranged article... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11052312 |
Cap carbonate Cap carbonates are layers of distinctively textured carbonate rocks (either limestone or dolomite) that occur at the uppermost layer of sedimentary sequences reflecting major glaciations in the geological record. Cap carbonates are found on most continents. They are typically 3–30 meters thick, laminated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11052882 |
Cap carbonate A third theory for cap carbonate formation is that methane hydrate destabilization results in the formation of cap carbonate and strongly negative carbon anomalies The unusual fabrics within the cap carbonate is similar to carbonate fabrics as from cold methane seeps. Experiments have been performed to se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11052882 |
Rudolf Wegscheider (October 18, 1859 – January 8, 1935) was an Austrian chemist. Wegscheider studied chemistry and was the founder of the Austrian School of Chemistry. He taught at the University of Vienna, and from 1902 to 1931 he was departmental Chair. He was the chairman of the association of Austrian chemists from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11061801 |
Multispectral Scanner The (MSS) is one of the Earth's observing sensors introduced in the Landsat program. A was placed aboard each of the first five Landsat satellites. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11065056 |
Cancer Minor (constellation) Cancer Minor (Latin for "lesser crab") was a constellation composed from a few stars in Gemini adjacent to Cancer. The constellation was introduced in 1612 (or 1613) by Petrus Plancius. The 5th-magnitude stars constituting Cancer Minor were HIP 36616, and 68, 74, 81 and 85 Geminorum, formin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11071105 |
Type II sensory fiber (group Aβ) is a type of sensory fiber, the second of the two main groups of touch receptors. The responses of different type Aβ fibers to these stimuli can be subdivided based on their adaptation properties, traditionally into rapidly adapting (RA) or slowly adapting (SA) neurons. Type II sensory ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11078164 |
Type II sensory fiber The type Ia fiber has "anulospiral" endings around the middle parts of the intrafusal fibers compared to type II fibers that have "flower spray" endings which may be spray shaped or anular, spreading in narrow bands on both sides of the chain or bag fiber. It is thought that the Ia fibers signal t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11078164 |
Qiudong Wang is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics, the University of Arizona. In 1982 he received a B.S. at Nanjing University and in 1994 a Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati. Wang is best known for his 1991 paper "The global solution of the n-body problem", in which he generalised Karl F. Sundman's resu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11084814 |
The central science Chemistry is often called the central science because of its role in connecting the physical sciences, which include chemistry, with the life sciences and applied sciences such as medicine and engineering. The nature of this relationship is one of the main topics in the philosophy of chemistry and i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11092324 |
The central science Concepts such as the periodicity of the elements and chemical bonds in chemistry are emergent in that they are more than the underlying forces that are defined by physics. In the same way, biology cannot be fully reduced to chemistry despite the fact that the machinery that is responsible for life i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11092324 |
Asymmetric bacterium Asymmetric bacteria are bacteria that undergo "non-symmetrical" life cycles. This especially includes those that differentiate temporally, such as prosthecate bacteria. Cell division asymmetries have appeared alongside the evolution of complex developmental processes. While bacteria were historical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11094525 |
Asymmetric bacterium Morphological asymmetry is classified by polar elongation. In this type of asymmetrical growth, the daughter cell receives most of the new cell wall material. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11094525 |
Ligand dependent pathway There are two types of pathway for substitution of ligands in a complex. The ligand dependent pathway is the one whereby the chemical properties of the ligand affect the rate of substitution. Alternatively, there is the ligand independent pathway, which is where the ligand does not have an effe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11103761 |
Condosity is a comparative measurement of electrical conductivity of a solution. The condosity of any given solution is defined as the molar concentration of a sodium chloride (NaCl) solution that has the same specific electrical conductance as the solution under test. By way of example, for a 2 Molar potassium chlorid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11105645 |
Arsenical Arsenicals are chemical compounds that contain arsenic. In a military context, the term arsenical refer to toxic arsenic compounds that are used as chemical warfare agents. This include blister agents, blood agents and vomiting agents. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11106681 |
Division on Dynamical Astronomy The (DDA) is a branch of the American Astronomical Society that focuses on the advancement of all aspects of dynamical astronomy, including celestial mechanics, solar system dynamics, stellar dynamics, as well as the dynamics of the interstellar medium and galactic dynamics, and coordina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11111551 |
NGC 1260 is a spiral or lenticular galaxy in the constellation Perseus. It was discovered by astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan on October 19, 1884. is a member of the Perseus Cluster and forms a tight pair with the galaxy PGC 12230. In 2006, it was home to the second brightest supernova in the observable universe, superno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11112810 |
Jet noise In aeroacoustics, jet noise is the field that focuses on the noise generation caused by high-velocity jets and the turbulent eddies generated by shearing flow. Such noise is known as broadband noise and extends well beyond the range of human hearing (100 kHz and higher). is also responsible for some of the lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11121146 |
Jet noise Several of these "shock cells" can be seen extending up to ten jet diameters from the nozzle and are responsible for two additional components of jet noise, screech tones, and broadband shock associated noises. Screech is produced by a feedback mechanism in which a disturbance convecting in the shear layer ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11121146 |
Direct methods (crystallography) "This article is about direct methods in x-ray crystallography. For electron diffraction direct methods, see Direct methods (electron microscopy)."In crystallography, direct methods are a family of methods for estimating the phases of the Fourier transform of the scattering density from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11125044 |
Christian Hee Hwass (1731–1803) was a Danish malacologist who is remembered for his work in conchology. Although born in Denmark, Hwass did most of his important work in France. He moved to Paris in 1780, and later Auteuil (1794). In France, he collaborated with famous scientists Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829) and H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11131531 |
Polarization spectroscopy comprises a set of spectroscopic techniques based on polarization properties of light (not necessarily visible one; UV, X-ray, infrared, or in any other frequency range of the electromagnetic radiation). By analyzing the polarization properties of light, decisions can be made about the media t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11133153 |
Acousto-optic deflector An acousto-optic deflector (AOD) spatially controls the optical beam. In the operation of an acousto-optic deflector the power driving the acoustic transducer is kept on, at a constant level, while the acoustic frequency is varied to deflect the beam to different angular positions. The acousto-o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11146921 |
Purple Earth hypothesis The "Purple Earth hypothesis" is an astrobiological hypothesis that life forms of early Earth were retinal-based rather than chlorophyll-based, making Earth appear purple rather than green. An example of retinal-based organisms that exist today are the photosynthetic microbes collectively called... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11147646 |
Purple Earth hypothesis The simplicity of haloarchaeal retinal pigments in comparison to the more complex chlorophyll-based photosynthetic membrane, their association with isoprenoid lipids in the cell membrane, as well as the discovery of archaeal membrane components in ancient sediments on the early Earth are consist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11147646 |
FLUKA (FLUktuierende KAskade) is a closed-source semi-integrated Monte Carlo simulation package for the interaction and transport of particles and nuclei in matter with limited scalability. has many applications in particle physics, high energy experimental physics and engineering, shielding, detector and telescope des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11157848 |
Quantum instrument In physics, a quantum instrument is a mathematical abstraction of a quantum measurement, capturing both the classical and quantum outputs. It combines the concepts of measurement and quantum operation. It can be equivalently understood as a quantum channel that takes as input a quantum system and has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11158400 |
Quantum instrument A quantum instrument is an example of a quantum operation in which an "outcome" formula_9 indicating which operator acted on the state is recorded in a classical register. An expanded development of quantum instruments is given in quantum channel. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11158400 |
RADOM-7 RADOM is a Bulgarian Liulin-type spectrometry-dosimetry instrument, designed to precisely measure cosmic radiation around the Moon. It is installed on the Indian satellite Chandrayaan-1. Another three instruments were deployed on the International Space Station. All Liulin-type instruments are designed and buil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11191703 |
Julius Wilhelm Gintl (November 12, 1804 – December 22, 1883) was an Austrian physicist. He was notable as the developer of an early form of duplex electrical telegraph, which allowed two messages to be transmitted on a single wire, in opposite directions. This "duplex" communication was an early specific case of the ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11193275 |
Anindya Sinha Anindya (Rana) Sinha is an Indian primatologist. He is a professor at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), India. After obtaining an undergraduate degree in botany from the University of Calcutta in 1983, he went on to earn a postgraduate degree in the same university in 1985, specializing i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11199808 |
Speleogenesis is the origin and development of caves, the primary process that determines essential features of the hydrogeology of karst and guides its evolution. It often deals with the development of caves through limestone, caused by the presence of water with carbon dioxide dissolved within it, producing carbonic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11214534 |
Speleogenesis It is common to see a younger canyon entrenched in the floor of a phreatic passage, signifying a lowering of the water table. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11214534 |
Appetein or APC-is a processed granulated plasma and serum blend ingredient for animal feeds, mostly used for young animals. The appetein name is a patented, belongs to the company APC. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11217735 |
National Institute of Agricultural Botany The (NIAB) is a plant science research company based in Cambridge, UK. The NIAB group consists of: NIAB was founded in 1919 by Sir Lawrence Weaver, celebrating its centenary in 2019. The original Huntingdon Road HQ was opened in 1921, by King George V and Queen Mary. NIAB opera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11235396 |
Pedicel (botany) A pedicel is a stem that attaches a single flower to the inflorescence. Such inflorescences are described as pedicellate. Pedicel refers to a structure connecting a single flower to its inflorescence. In the absence of a pedicel, the flowers are described as sessile. Pedicel is also applied to the stem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11235593 |
North American Mesoscale Model The (NAM) refers to a numerical weather prediction model run by National Centers for Environmental Prediction for short-term weather forecasting. Currently, the Weather Research and Forecasting Non-hydrostatic Mesoscale Model (WRF-NMM) model is run as the NAM, thus, three names (NAM, WRF,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11238257 |
NGC 3344 is a relatively isolated barred spiral galaxy located 22.5 million light years away in the constellation Leo Minor. This galaxy belongs to the group known as the Leo spur, which is a branch of the Virgo Supercluster. has the morphological classification (R)SAB(r)bc, which indicates it is a weakly barred spiral... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11250389 |
Offshore survey is a specific discipline of hydrographic survey primarily concerned with the description of the condition of the seabed and the condition of the subsea oilfield infrastructure that interacts with it. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11251777 |
Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg The Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg (CDS; English translation: "Strasbourg Astronomical Data Center") is a data hub which collects and distributes astronomical information. It was established in 1972 under the name "Centre de Données Stellaires". The on-line s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11268399 |
Dynamic aperture In acoustics, dynamic aperture is analogous to aperture in photography. The arrays in side-scan sonar can be programmed to transmit just a few elements at a time or all the elements at once. The more elements transmitting, the narrower the beam and the better the resolution. The ratio of the imaging de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11277734 |
Cryophorus A cryophorus is a glass container containing liquid water and water vapor. It is used in physics courses to demonstrate rapid freezing by evaporation. A typical cryophorus has a bulb at one end connected to a tube of the same material. When the liquid water is manipulated into the bulbed end and the other en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11282791 |
Hamburg/ESO Survey The is an astrometric star catalogue published by the University of Hamburg. The catalog contains stars between magnitudes 13 and 18 covering the Southern extragalactic sky. The stated goals of the catalog are | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11293812 |
Frederic Rousseau is a Flemish Belgian molecular biologist and researcher at the KU Leuven (Leuven, Belgium). Together with Joost Schymkowitz he is group leader at the VIB Switch Laboratory, KU Leuven. His research interest is on essential cellular processes where functional regulation is governed by protein conformati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11305204 |
Joost Schymkowitz is a Belgian molecular biologist and researcher at the KU Leuven (Brussels, Leuven). Together with Frederic Rousseau he is group leader at the VIB Switch Laboratory, KU Leuven. His research interest is on essential cellular processes where functional regulation is governed by protein conformational sw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11305248 |
Biobased economy Biobased economy, bioeconomy or biotechonomy refers to economic activity involving the use of biotechnology in the production of (bio-based) goods, services, or energy from biological material (or biomass) as the primary resource base. An important aspect of the bioeconomy is understanding mechanisms a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11339988 |
Biobased economy The authors then hypothesized about the economic impact that such data flows might have on patent creation, evolution of biotech startups and licensing fees. An adaptation of this paper was published in "Wired" magazine in 2003. The term 'bioeconomy' became popular from the mid-2000s with its adoption ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11339988 |
Biobased economy Several methods of processing are then used (in biorefineries) to gather the most out of the biomass. This includes techniques such as Anaerobic digestion is generally used to produce biogas, fermentation of sugars produces ethanol, pyrolysis is used to produce pyrolysis-oil (which is solidified biogas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11339988 |
Biobased economy coli bacteria so as to allow them to consume CO2, the bacterium may provide the infrastructure for the future renewable production of food and green fuels. One of the organisms (Ideonella S-sakaiensis) that is able to break down PET (a plastic) into other substances has been genetically modified to bre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11339988 |
Microturbulence is a form of turbulence that varies over small distance scales. (Large-scale turbulence is called macroturbulence.) is one of several mechanisms that can cause broadening of the absorption lines in the stellar spectrum. Stellar microturbulence varies with the effective temperature and the surface gravit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11341364 |
Biomolecular engineering is the application of engineering principles and practices to the purposeful manipulation of molecules of biological origin. Biomolecular engineers integrate knowledge of biological processes with the core knowledge of chemical engineering in order to focus on molecular level solutions to issue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11344743 |
Biomolecular engineering was first defined in 1992 by the U.S. National Institutes of Health as research at the interface of chemical engineering and biology with an emphasis at the molecular level". Although first defined as research, biomolecular engineering has since become an academic discipline and a field of engi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11344743 |
Biomolecular engineering will produce new designs for therapeutic drugs and high-value biomolecules for treatment or prevention of cancers, genetic diseases, and other types of metabolic diseases. Also, there is anticipation of industrial enzymes that are engineered to have desirable properties for process improvement ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11344743 |
Biomolecular engineering However, if the majority of the orientation contains intramolecular hydrogen bonds, then the protein is referred to as globular and mostly consists of alpha helices. There are also conformations that consist of a mix of alpha helices and beta sheets as well as a beta helixes with an alpha sheet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11344743 |
Biomolecular engineering These monosaccharides consist of a five to six carbon ring that contains carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen - typically in a 1:2:1 ratio, respectively. Common monosaccharides are glucose, fructose, and ribose. When linked together monosaccharides can form disaccharides, oligosaccharides, and polysacc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11344743 |
Biomolecular engineering Nucleic acids are macromolecules that consist of DNA and RNA which are biopolymers consisting of chains of biomolecules. These two molecules are the genetic code and template that make life possible. Manipulation of these molecules and structures causes major changes in function and expression ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11344743 |
Biomolecular engineering Cellular membranes and other biological membranes typically consist of a phospholipid bilayer membrane, or a derivative thereof. Along with the study of cellular membranes, lipids are also important molecules for energy storage. By utilizing encapsulation properties and thermodynamic characteri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11344743 |
Biomolecular engineering Advances in genetic engineering have made the modification of genes in microbes quite efficient allowing constructs to be made in about a weeks worth of time. It has also made it possible to modify the organism's genome itself. Specifically, use of the genes from the bacteriophage lambda are us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11344743 |
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