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Vapochromism strongly overlaps with solvatochromism since vapochromic systems are ones in which dyes change colour in response to the vapour of an organic compound or gas. Vapochromic devices are the optical branch of electronic noses. The main applications are in sensors for detecting volatile organic compounds (VOCs)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28541067 |
Mechanochromism The change of colour which occurs when chemicals are put under stress in the solid state by mechanical grinding, crushing and milling; by friction and rubbing; or in the solid or solution state by high pressure or sonification is covered by the generic term mechanochromism. Specifically colour change un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28557957 |
Complex systems biology (CSB) is a branch or subfield of mathematical and theoretical biology concerned with complexity of both structure and function in biological organisms, as well as the emergence and evolution of organisms and species, with emphasis being placed on the complex interactions of, and within, bionetwo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28564320 |
Complex systems biology Most complex system models are often formulated in terms of concepts drawn from statistical physics, information theory and non-linear dynamics; however, such approaches are not focused on, or do not include, the conceptual part of complexity related to organization and topological attributes or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28564320 |
Complex systems biology Because of their dynamic and composition variability, intrinsic "fuzziness", autopoietic attributes, ability to self-reproduce, and so on, organisms do not fit into the 'standard' definition of general systems, and they are therefore 'super-complex' in both their function and structure; organism... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28564320 |
Complex systems biology Evolving cellular automata using genetic algorithms is also an emerging field attempting to bridge the gap between the tessellation automata and the higher level complexity approaches in CSB. The following is only a partial list of topics covered in complex systems biology: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28564320 |
ESO 137-001 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Triangulum Australe and in the cluster Abell 3627. As the galaxy moves to the center of the cluster at 7 million kilometers per hour, it is stripped by hot gas thus creating a 260,000 light-year long tail. This is called ram pressure stripping. The inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28568686 |
TN J0924-2201 is the second most distant radio galaxy known to date. It was discovered by Wil van Breugel in 1999. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28568900 |
ISOHDFS 27 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Tucana, and was discovered in the Hubble Deep Field South survey. It is the most massive spiral galaxy found in the survey, measuring in diameter. It is located approximately from Earth and has a mass of solar masses (), about four times as massive as the Milky Way. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28569410 |
Dead-ice occurs when a glacier or ice sheet ceases to move and melts in situ. After the ice has melted it leaves behind a hummocky terrain produced by the deposition of glacio-fluvial sediments and ablation till as the ice melted. Such features include kettle holes. Landscape forming Veiki moraines in northern Sweden a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28578885 |
Dilmun (Titan) Dilmun is a region of high albedo on Titan, Saturn's natural satellite. Dilmun is located near the equator, centered on 15°N and 175 ° W. The large dark area of Shangri-la is located in the south. Dilmun was discovered in the images transmitted by the "Cassini" spacecraft. It received the name of Dilmun,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28631172 |
Geoscientist (magazine) Geoscientist is a monthly magazine produced for the Fellowship of the Geological Society of London. The magazine was first published in 1990. It is editorially independent of the Geological Society's administration. It has a print run of 10,000 and is freely available to all Fellows. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28637561 |
Antibody-drug conjugate Antibody-drug conjugates or ADCs are a class of biopharmaceutical drugs designed as a targeted therapy for treating cancer. Unlike chemotherapy, ADCs are intended to target and kill tumor cells while sparing healthy cells. As of 2019, some 56 pharmaceutical companies were developing ADCs. ADCs a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28646624 |
Antibody-drug conjugate In 2001 Pfizer/Wyeth's drug Gemtuzumab ozogamicin (trade name: Mylotarg) was approved. However, after a request from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the company withdrew it in June 2010. It was re-introduced into the US market in 2017. Brentuximab vedotin (trade name: Adcetris, mark... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28646624 |
Antibody-drug conjugate In July 2018, Daiichi Sankyo Company, Limited and Glycotope GmbH have inked a pact regarding the combination of Glycotope's investigational tumor-associated TA-MUC1 antibody gatipotuzumab and Daiichi Sankyo's proprietary ADC technology for developing gatipotuzumab antibody drug conjugate. In 201... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28646624 |
Antibody-drug conjugate However, MMAE linked to an anti-CD30 monoclonal antibody (cAC10, a cell membrane protein of the tumor necrosis factor or TNF receptor) was stable in extracellular fluid. It is cleavable by cathepsin and safe for therapy. Trastuzumab emtansine is a combination of the microtubule-formation inhibit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28646624 |
Antibody-drug conjugate Also under development are site-specific conjugation (TDCs) and novel conjugation techniques to further improve stability and therapeutic index, α emitting immunoconjugates, antibody-conjugated nanoparticles and antibody-oligonucleotide conjugates. The first generation uses linking technologies ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28646624 |
Antibody-drug conjugate However, some developers are looking to expand the application to other important disease areas. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28646624 |
Scottish Meteorological Society The was founded in 1855 by David Milne-Home with private funding, particularly from wealthy landowners who wished to compile meteorological records in order to improve agriculture. The Society founded the observatory on Ben Nevis, officially opened in 1883. In 1921, the Society amalgamat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28672960 |
NGC 7840 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is the last numerical entry in the New General Catalogue. For observing from Earth's surface, it has a magnitude of 15.5 in the early 21st century. One observing guide recommended a telescope with a least 1 foot aperture for observations. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28700095 |
NGC 7777 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Pegasus. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28700903 |
Alexander Kashlinsky Alexander (Sasha) Kashlinsky (born 1957 in Riga) is an astronomer and cosmologist working at NASA Goddard-Space-Flight-Center, known for work on dark flow and the cosmic infrared background. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28706924 |
Libration (molecule) Libration (from the Latin verb "librare" "to balance, to sway"; cf. "libra" "scales") is a type of reciprocating motion in which an object with a nearly fixed orientation repeatedly rotates slightly back and forth. In physics and chemistry, a molecule (or other group of atoms) can undergo libration... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28723369 |
Yaroslav Starobogatov Yaroslav Igorevich Starobogatov (; 13 July 1932 – 3 December 2004) was a Russian zoologist, professor and chief scientist at the Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences. His research was on invertebrate zoology, particularly on molluscs (malacology) and crustaceans (carcinology). H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28738167 |
Oxalyl The oxalyl cation, also known as "oxalic", has the chemical formula [CO]. It is the cation derived from oxalic acid. Chemical compounds containing the oxalyl cation include: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28756463 |
John Lodge Cowley (1719, United Kingdom – buried 1797, United Kingdom) was an English cartographer, geologist and mathematician. John Cowley was a professor of mathematics at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, London, for a number of years between 1761 and 1773. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in April,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28758257 |
John Lodge Cowley He also published a number of introductory works on solid geometry incorporating fold-up figures: "Geometry Made Easy" (1752), "An Appendix to Euclid's Elements" (1758) and "The Theory of Perspective Demonstrated" (1765). He taught geometry to subscribers of the St. Martin's Lane Academy, a drawing sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28758257 |
Walfordite is a very rare tellurite mineral that was discovered in Chile in 1999. The mineral is described as orange with orange-yellow streak, and is determined to have a chemical formula of Fe,TeTeO with minor titanium and magnesium substitution resulting in an approximate empirical formula of (Fe,Te,Ti,Mg)(Te)O. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28763648 |
Microviscosity Microviscosity, also known as microscopic viscosity, is the friction experienced by a single particle undergoing diffusion because of its interaction with its environment at the micrometer length scale. The concept of microviscosity is intimately related to the concept of single particle diffusion and ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28775600 |
Microviscosity Both the crowding density and relative size of each co-solute in a mixture will contribute to the measured microviscosity as assessed by altered translational mobility. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28775600 |
Falanja (فلنجه) is a red seed (perhaps the seed of cubeb) used in the making of perfumes. It was used to make perfumes by women in the court of Jahangir. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28778853 |
Pyrromethene is a dye used in solid-state dye lasers. As a structural motif it is similar to the naturally occurring tetrapyrrole class of compounds. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28797488 |
Roaldite is a rare meteorite mineral containing iron, nickel and nitrogen ((Fe,Ni)N). It was first described in 1981 for an occurrence in the Youngedin meteorite, Avon, Western Australia. It was named after Roald Norbach Nielsen (born 1928), a Danish expert in electron microprobe. The mineral has also been reported fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28798298 |
Raspite is a mineral, a lead tungstate; with the formula PbWO. It forms yellow to yellowish brown monoclinic crystals. It is the low temperature monoclinic dimorph of the tetragonal stolzite. It was discovered in 1897 at Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, it was named for Charles Rasp (1846–1907), German-Australi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28799185 |
AlgaePARC Wageningen UR (University & Research centre) has constructed (Algae Production And Research Centre) at the Wageningen Campus. The goal of is to fill the gap between fundamental research on algae and full-scale algae production facilities. This will be done by setting up flexible pilot scale facilities to perf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28808092 |
AlgaePARC When fully developed this contributes to a biobased economy as algae help to reduce the emissions of carbon dioxide (CO) and make the economy less dependent on fossil fuels. research The costs of biomass produced from algae for biofuels are still ten times too high to be able to compete with today’s other fue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28808092 |
Markarian 231 (UGC 8058) is a Type-1 Seyfert galaxy that was discovered in 1969 as part of a search of galaxies with strong ultraviolet radiation. It contains the nearest known quasar, and in 2015 it was shown that the powerful active galactic nucleus present in the center of the galaxy may in fact be a supermassive bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28809921 |
LBG-2377 is the most distant galaxy merger discovered, as of 2008, at a distance of 11.4 billion light years. This galaxy merger is so distant that the universe was in its infancy when its light was emitted. It is expected that this galaxy proto-cluster will merge to form a brightest cluster galaxy, and become the core... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28811075 |
Johan Stenflo (born 1940) is a Swedish chemist and teacher. He received his M.D. in 1968 and his Ph.D. in 1973 at Lund University, where he later became a professor of clinical chemistry. In 1985, he became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28813107 |
Holographic sensor A holographic sensor is a device that comprises a hologram embedded in a smart material that detects certain molecules or metabolites. This detection is usually a chemical interaction that is transduced as a change in one of the properties of the holographic reflection (as in the Bragg reflector), ei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28822858 |
Aber Dinlle Fault The is a SW-NE trending fault in North Wales. It forms part of the Menai Strait Fault System, with the Berw and Dinorwic Faults. It lies close to the epicentre of the 1984 Llŷn Peninsula earthquake, although it is not thought to have been responsible for that event. The fault was active during deposit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28836636 |
Bala Fault The is a SW-NE trending geological fault in Wales that extends offshore into Cardigan Bay. In the offshore area it is a major normal fault and forms the bounding structure to the Cardigan Bay Basin, with a fill including about of Lias Group. At its northeastern end it links to the similarly orientated Llanel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28836751 |
Beddgelert Fault First reported in a Memoir of the British Geological Survey activity ref. Ramsay 1881. It is a SW-NE trending volcanotectonic fault in North Wales that formed part of a graben system within the collapsed Snowdon caldera structure. It was a focus for later felsic intrusions and hydrothermal activity. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28836779 |
Benton Fault The is a geological fault in southern Pembrokeshire in Wales that was active as a normal fault during the deposition of the Old Red Sandstone during the Devonian period, forming a thick half graben. During the Carboniferous, the was strongly inverted as part of the Variscan Orogeny. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28836782 |
Berw Fault The is a SW-NE trending fault in North Wales. It forms part of the Menai Strait Fault System, with the Dinorwic Fault and the Aber Dinlle Fault. It has a long history of movement with early ductile fabrics preserved from a sinistral (left lateral) strike-slip sense shear zone active at the end of the Precamb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28836785 |
Bronnant Fault The is a geological fault affecting the lower Palaeozoic rocks of the counties of Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire in West Wales. The feature is mapped over part of its length as the Zone and is closely associated with the Glandyfi Lineament, a similarly aligned zone of faulting and folding. The rocks of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28836805 |
Bryneglwys Fault is a geological fault in Wales. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28836822 |
Carmel Head Thrust The is a geological fault on the northern part of the island of Anglesey in North Wales, where rocks of the Precambrian Mona Complex are thrust over Lower Paleozoic sedimentary rocks. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28836851 |
Ceibwr Bay Fault The is a WSW-ENE trending fault zone that cuts Ordovician rocks of the Ashgill Nantmel Mudstones Formation and the Caradoc Dinas Island Formation. The fault is exposed on the south side of Cardigan Bay in Wales and forms part of the Fishguard-Cardigan Fault Zone. It extends from the coast at Ceibwr Bay... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28836864 |
Claerwen Fault The is a major SW-NE trending fault in central Wales. It was active as a normal fault during deposition of Late Ordovician to mid-Silurian sedimentary rocks, downthrowing to the northwest. The estimated throw on the fault increases from about 100 m at a shallow level to about 1000 m at depth. There is no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28836876 |
Cwm Llwyd Fault The is a fault in the west of the Black Mountain of South Wales. It runs north, parallel to the A4069 road, for over 4 km from near Brynaman to meet the Carreg Cennen Disturbance near Brest Cwm Llwyd. It moved as a sinistral (left lateral) strike-slip fault during the Variscan Orogeny. Together with the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28836923 |
Cwm Pennant Fault The is a SSW-NNE trending normal fault system in North Wales. It forms part of the structures that bound the Snowdon graben. The main faults of the Cwm Pennant fault system throw down to the east. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28836924 |
Naldrettite is a mineral with a chemical formula of PdSb. It is named after Anthony J. Naldrett (born 1933), a professor at the University of Toronto, who has made significant contributions to the International Mineralogical Association (IMA). is a new intermetallic mineral from the Mesamax Northwest deposit, Ungava re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28838195 |
BIA Separations is a biotechnology company focused on the production of methacrylate monolithic HPLC columns and developing industrial purification processes and analytical methods. was formed in 1998 by a group of scientists in Ljubljana, Slovenia to commercialize a new chromatographic resin based on monolith technolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28843311 |
BIA Separations It is these channels that account for the media separation power and flow characteristics and ability to purify large biomolecules, such as large proteins, immunoglobulins, plasmid DNA and viruses with their activity intact. Components to be separated are conveyed to the active groups located on the sur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28843311 |
BIA Separations MSS was established as there were no dedicated conferences to this technology and to bring together the top international scientists and researchers in the area of monolith chromatography to share their experiences and innovative applications. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28843311 |
2MASS 1507−1627 2MASS J15074769−1627386 (also abbreviated to 2MASS 1507−1627) is a brown dwarf in the constellation Libra, located about 23.9 light-years from Earth. It was discovered in 2000 by I. Neill Reid et al. It belongs to the spectral class L5; its surface temperature is 1300 to 2000 kelvins. As with other brow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28846445 |
ADL astronomical society ADL, Astronomsko društvo Labod (Slovenian for Cygnus Astronomical Society) is the most active Slovenian astronomical society. It organises astronomy camps, lectures for youths and similar events. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28846952 |
Bayldonite (BAIL-done-ite) is a rare secondary mineral with the chemical formula PbCu(AsO)(OH). It was first discovered in Penberthy Croft Mine, Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is named after its discoverer, John Bayldon (1837(8) – 1872). Specimens are also found in Tsumeb, Namibia, and Arizona, United States. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28847536 |
Schäferite is a rare vanadate mineral with chemical formula CaNaMg[VO]. is isometric, which means that it has three axes of equal length and 90° angles between the axes. is isotropic, meaning that the velocity of light is the same no matter which direction the light passes through. It was named after Helmut Schäfer (bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28848078 |
Roselite is a rare arsenate mineral with chemical formula: Ca(Co,Mg)[AsO]·HO. It was first described in 1825 for an occurrence in the Rappold mines of Schneeberg, Saxony, Germany and named by Armand Lévy after German mineralogist Gustav Rose. It occurs in cobalt bearing hydrothermal environments and was associated with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28850305 |
Keyite is a mineral with the chemical formula (As) · 2O. The name comes from Charles Locke Key (born 1935), an American mineral dealer who furnished its first specimens. is monoclinic-prismatic, meaning its crystal form has three unequal axes, two of which have 90° angles between them and one with an angle less than 90... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28851892 |
Sweetite has a general formula of Zn(OH). The name is given after a curator of mineral department of The British Museum, Jessie May Sweet (1901–1979). It occurs in an oxidized vein in limestone bedrock with galena, ashoverite, wülfingite, anglesite, cerussite, hydrocerussite, litharge, fluorite, palygorskite and calcit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28854252 |
SIMP J013656.5+093347 SIMP J013656.5 +093347 (SIMP0136) is a brown dwarf or planetary mass object at 19.9 light-years from Earth in the constellation Pisces. It belongs to the spectral class T2.5 and its position shifts due to its proper motion annually by about 1.24 arcsec in the right ascension. This brown dwarf prov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28855394 |
SIMP J013656.5+093347 " During the observation with the VLA only one pulse was detected for SIMP0136.The magnetic flux of SIMP0136 was estimated to be 3.2 kG. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28855394 |
2MASS 0036+1821 2MASS J00361617+1821104 (abbreviated to 2MASS 0036+1821) is a brown dwarf, located in 28.6 light-years from Earth in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered in 2000 by I. Neill Reid et al. is of spectral type L3.5, the surface temperature is 1300-2000 Kelvin. As with other brown dwarfs of spectral t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28855777 |
Welan gum is an exopolysaccharide used as a rheology modifier in industrial applications such as cement manufacturing. It is produced by fermentation of sugar by bacteria of the genus "Alcaligenes". The molecule consists of repeating tetrasaccharide units with single branches of L-mannose or L-rhamnose. In solution, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28860449 |
PGC 39058 is a dwarf galaxy located 14 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. The galaxy is faint and obscured by HD 106381, a star in the foreground making it difficult to observe. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28870123 |
Han Nijssen (1935– 2013) was a Dutch ichthyologist. Nijssen was born in Amsterdam and obtained his PhD at the University of Amsterdam in May 1970 with the dissertation "Revision of the Surinam catfishes of the genus Corydoras". Later he was a curator at Zoölogisch Museum in Amsterdam. Nijssen worked extensively with fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28883944 |
Arp 271 is a pair of similarly sized interacting spiral galaxies, NGC 5426 and NGC 5427. It is not certain whether the galaxies are going to eventually collide or not. They will continue interacting for tens of millions of years, creating new stars as a result of the mutual gravitational attraction between the galaxies... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28915306 |
Lithalsa is a frost-induced raised land form in permafrost areas with mineral-rich soils, where a perennial ice lens has developed within the soil. The term sometimes also refers to palsas and pingos. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28924376 |
Early Palaeozoic Icehouse The was a cool period that interrupted the greenhouse temperatures of the Ordovician and Silurian periods, culminating in the Hirnantian glaciation and the Ordovician extinction event. The icehouse was formerly thought only to consist of the Hirnantian glaciation itself, but has now been recog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28929736 |
Coreshine is an astronomical term for infrared light scattered by unusually large grains of dust in the denser core regions of molecular clouds and which evidently begin their growth before the start of cloud collapse. These clouds which are opaque to visible light, are a mixture of gas and dust and are the regions whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28935016 |
Coreshine The results showed that coreshine is a widespread phenomenon and was present in about half the clouds studied. Clouds in the southern constellation Vela show no coreshine and it is thought that this has been brought about by recorded supernova explosions in the region, blowing away or destroying larger dust p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28935016 |
Smoluchowski factor The Smoluchowski factor, also known as von Smoluchowski's f-factor is related to inter-particle interactions. It is named after Marian Smoluchowski. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28937040 |
Pre-stellar core Pre-stellar cores are the nurseries of new stars, and are an early phase in the formation of low-mass stars, before gravitational collapse produces a central protostar. The spatial distribution of pre-stellar cores shows the history of their formation, and their sensitivity to the physics controlling t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28945767 |
Lothar Forcart Lothar Forcart, full name Lothar Hendrich Emil Wilhelm Forcart-Müller, abbreviated as Lothar H. E. W. Forcart, (1902-1990) was a zoologist, malacologist, and herpetologist from Switzerland. He is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of snake, "Calamaria forcarti". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28947287 |
Miogeocline A miogeocline is an area of sedimentation which occurs along the passive margin of a continent. The deposits occur as typically shallow water clastic sediments which thicken seaward to form a clastic wedge parallel to a tectonically quiescent coast. Modern examples include the continental shelf of the north... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28964081 |
Annaheim meteorite Annaheim is an iron meteorite recovered in 1916 in Canada. The meteorite was discovered by a farmer, William Huiras, in his field. It was linked to a fireball reported in the area in 1914. It is a medium octahedrite, IAB-sLL. Measuring by , it is now held by the Canadian Meteorite Collection, in Otta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28987418 |
Backshore The backshore area of a beach extends from the limit of high water foam lines to dunes or extreme inland limit of the beach. It is only affected by waves during exceptional high tides or severe storms. Sediments in this area are well-sorted and well-rounded. Its grain sizes are mainly coarse sand and medium s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28994544 |
Tinaja is a term originating in the American Southwest for surface pockets (depressions) formed in bedrock that occur below waterfalls, are carved out by spring flow or seepage, or are caused by sand and gravel scouring in intermittent streams (arroyos). Tinajas are an important source of surface water storage in arid ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28997060 |
Macron (physics) In physics, macrons are microscopic (dust-sized) particles, accelerated to high speeds. The term was first used in the late 1960s, when it was believed that macrons could be accelerated cheaply in small particle accelerators as a way of achieving low-cost fusion power. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29002911 |
Whorl (biology) In biology, a whorl is a cluster of cells or tissue that surrounds another and wraps around another in an expanding circular pattern. Whorls occur at the ends of different structures or in the middle of structures. Structures of some organs are often described as whorls and used in the aid of identifica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29004985 |
Whorl (botany) In botany, a whorl or verticil is an arrangement of leaves, sepals, petals, stamens, or carpels that radiate from a single point and surround or wrap around the stem or stalk. A leaf whorl consists of at least three elements; a pair of opposite leaves is not called a whorl. The morphology of most floweri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29005044 |
Vladimirite is a rare calcium arsenate mineral with a formula of Ca(HAsO)(AsO)·5HO. It is named after the Vladimirovskoye deposit in Russia, where it was discovered in the 1950s. is monoclinic-prismatic, which means crystallographically, it contains three axes of unequal length and the angles between two of the axes ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29010776 |
GEOBASE is a database, multidisciplinary in scope, which indexes bibliographic information and abstracts for the Geographical, Earth, and Ecological sciences, published by Engineering Information, a subsidiary of Elsevier. The broad subject coverage includes earth sciences, ecology, geomechanics, human geography, physi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29013335 |
GEOBASE "Geographical Abstracts: Physical Geography", and "Fluid Abstracts: Civil Engineering" are considered to be of related interest. This database was formed by the union of the following abstracts journals: This database is published monthly, and contains abstracts from 2000 journals. It provides bibliographic cov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29013335 |
Black-oil equations The black-oil equations are a set of partial differential equations that describe fluid flow in a petroleum reservoir, constituting the mathematical framework for a black-oil reservoir simulator. The term "black-oil" refers to the fluid model, in which water is modeled explicitly together with two h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29044095 |
Black-oil equations This is characterized by the following quantities: formula_8 is an oil formation volume factor (ratio of some volume of reservoir liquid to the volume of oil at standard conditions obtained from the same volume of reservoir liquid), formula_9 is a water formation volume factor (ratio of volume of wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29044095 |
Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center The ORNL DAAC (Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center) for Biogeochemical Dynamics is a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) data center managed by the Ear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29056004 |
P ring The forms part of the basal body of the bacterial appendage known as the flagellum. It is known to be embedded in the peptidoglycan cell wall. Together with the L ring, it has the function of anchoring the flagellum to the cell surface. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29071142 |
Heterologous expression refers to the expression of a gene or part of a gene in a host organism, which does not naturally have this gene or gene fragment. Insertion of the gene in the heterologous host is performed by recombinant DNA technology. After being inserted in the host, the gene may be integrated into the host... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29071957 |
North Carolina State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences North Carolina State University's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) is the fourth largest college in the university and one of the largest colleges of its kind in the nation, with nearly 3,400 students pursuing associate, bachelor's,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29098971 |
North Carolina State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Research Campus in Kannapolis with faculty from the departments of horticultural science; food, bioprocessing and nutrition sciences; plant biology; genetics; and agricultural and resource economics. The college's Department of Plant Pathology hel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29098971 |
Peter von Bitter is an Emeritus Professor in the Department of Geology at the University of Toronto and he holds a post at the Royal Ontario Museum. His research has been wide-ranging but focused on conodonts. His most noted work was his examination of the well preserved fossil vent communities in Lower Carboniferous s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29099088 |
Comley limestone The Comley Limestone is an Early Cambrian Lagerstätte exposed in Comley, Shropshire, England. It is known for its phosphatic microfossils, which can be extracted by acid maceration and are preserved in three dimensions in a similar fashion to the Orsten fossils. It represents around 10 million years of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29119228 |
Immunosurgery is a method of selectively removing the external cell layer (trophoblast) of a blastocyst through a cytotoxicity procedure. The protocol for immunosurgery includes preincubation with an antiserum, rinsing it with hES derivation media to remove the antibodies, exposing it to complement, and then removing t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29127124 |
Immunosurgery Solter and Knowles developed the first method of immunosurgery with their 1975 paper ""of Mouse Blastocyst"". They primarily used it for studying early embryonic development. Though immunosurgery is the most prevalent method of ICM isolation, various experiments have improved the process, such as through ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29127124 |
Earth Learning Idea (ELI) provides free Earth-related teaching ideas, designed to be practical science and geography resources for secondary and primary teachers and teacher-trainers and trainees across the world. It is run on a voluntary basis by three teachers from the Earth Science Education Unit (ESEU). was set up ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29155096 |
Earth Learning Idea ELIs are popular in schools especially when earthquakes, volcanoes or tsunamis have been in the news. A rich collection of exciting and imaginative activities covering a wide range of Earth-related topics can be found on the website. Each week an activity is posted on the ELI blog. New activities ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29155096 |
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