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ChaHα8 (also written ChaHa8 when Greek letters are unavailable) is a brown dwarf 522 light years from Earth discovered in 2000. It was found in 2007 to have a low-mass substellar companion in orbit around it. The companion has a mass of 25–31 Jupiter masses and orbits with a period of 5.2 years and an eccentricity of 0... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12948848 |
Crometeo is a non-profit association of Croatian amateur meteorologists. It was founded in November 2005 and its headquarters are in Zagreb, Croatia. monitors and forecasts weather, perusing a network of automatic weather stations in Croatia. The data from the stations is made available on-line. also maintains a web po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12957952 |
Fallstreak hole A fallstreak hole (also known as a cavum, hole punch cloud, punch hole cloud, skypunch, cloud canal or cloud hole) is a large gap, usually circular or elliptical, that can appear in cirrocumulus or altocumulus clouds. Such holes are formed when the water temperature in the clouds is below freezing, but ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12963827 |
Fallstreak hole The articles by Westbrook and Davies (2010) and Heymsfield et al. (2010) explain the processes behind the formation of fallstreak holes in greater detail, and show some observations of their microphysics and dynamics. Such clouds are not unique to any one geographic area and have been photographed from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12963827 |
Haines Index (also known as Lower Atmosphere Severity Index) is a weather index developed by meteorologist Donald Haines in 1988 that measures the potential for dry, unstable air to contribute to the development of large or erratic wildland fires. The index is derived from the stability (temperature difference between ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12964058 |
Wigner–Seitz radius The formula_1, named after Eugene Wigner and Frederick Seitz, is the radius of a sphere whose volume is equal to the mean volume per atom in a solid (for first group metals). In the more general case of metals having more valence electrons, formula_1 is the radius of a sphere whose volume is equal t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12965053 |
Hydrosis Hidrosis is the process of activating the sweat glands via M3 receptors. Hyperhidrosis is a disorder marked by excessive sweating. It usually begins at puberty and affects the palms, soles, and armpits. Sweating is the body's way of cooling itself and is a normal response to a hot environment or intense exerci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12983320 |
Pennsylvania Geological Survey The or Bureau of Topographic and Geologic Survey (BTGS), is a geological survey enacted by the Pennsylvania General Assembly "to serve the citizens of Pennsylvania by collecting, preserving, and disseminating impartial information on the Commonwealth's geology, geologic resources, and top... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12987683 |
New Research Building "New Research Building" or NRB for short, is the largest building ever built by Harvard University, and was dedicated on September 24, 2003 by the then president of Harvard University, Lawrence H. Summers and the dean of the Harvard Medical School, Joseph Martin. It is an integrated biomedical res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12993572 |
Alexander John Nicholson (25 March 1895 – 28 October 1969) was an Irish Australian entomologist who specialised in insect population dynamics. He was Chief of the CSIR / CSIRO Division of Economic Entomology for 24 years and is credited with initiating the professional era in Australian entomology. He was a Foundation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12995486 |
Tomlinson model The Tomlinson model, also known as the Prandtl–Tomlinson Model, is one of the most popular models in nanotribology widely used as the basis for many investigations of frictional mechanisms on the atomic scale. Essentially, a nanotip is dragged by a spring over a corrugated energy landscape. A "frictiona... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13007524 |
Tomlinson model Their theory, now known as the Frenkel–Kontorova model, is important in the study of dislocations. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13007524 |
Küssner effect In fluid dynamics, the describes the unsteady aerodynamic forces on an airfoil or hydrofoil caused by encountering a transverse gust. This is directly related to the Küssner function, used in describing the effect. Both the effect and function are named after Hans Georg Küssner (1900–1984), a German aero... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13016351 |
Temagamite is a bright white palladium mercury telluride mineral with a hardness of on the Mohs scale. Its chemical formula is PdHgTe. It was discovered at the Temagami Mine on Temagami Island, Lake Temagami in 1973, and it represents a rare mineral in the Temagami Greenstone Belt. It occurs as microscopic inclusions w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13024408 |
Merck Millipore was the brand used for Merck's global life science business until 2015 when the company re-branded. It was originally formed when Merck acquired the Millipore Corporation in 2010. Merck is a supplier to the life science industry. The Millipore Corporation was founded in 1954, and listed among the S&P 50... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13025479 |
Merck Millipore In 2010, Merck KGaA the world's oldest chemical and pharmaceutical company- acquired Millipore Corporation to form EMD Millipore. By 1959, Millipore made porous membrane filters of cellulose esters or other materials which resembled paper in sheet form, and were brittle when dry but friable when wet. Fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13025479 |
Merck Millipore Millipore Corporation was on the S&P 500 list of the biggest publicly traded companies in the United States until it was acquired by Merck kGaA in 2010. The deal was valued at approximately EUR 5.3 billion (US$7.2 billion). Merck KGaA is not associated with Merck & Co., although the two companies stem f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13025479 |
Joseph Franz von Jacquin Joseph "Krystel" Franz Freiherr von Jacquin or Baron Joseph von Jacquin (7 February 1766 in Schemnitz (now Banská Štiavnica) – 26 October 1839 in Vienna) was an Austrian scientist who studied medicine, chemistry, zoology and botany. The son of Nikolaus von Jacquin, he graduated from the Univers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13026324 |
Joseph Franz von Jacquin "Eclogae graminum rariorum aut minus cognitarum : quae ad vivum descripsit et iconibus coloratis illustravit". A. Strauss et Sommer, Wien, 1813–1844. Jacquin, J. F. "Ueber den Ginkgo", Carl Gerold, Wien, 1819. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13026324 |
Platyclade Platyclades are flattened, photosynthetic shoots, branches or stems that resemble or perform the function of leaves, as in "Homalocladium platycladum" and some cactus genera like "Opuntia" and "Schlumbergera". New Latin "platycladium"; from Greek "platy", flat + "klados", branch. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13049433 |
Jack A. Wolfe Jack Albert Wolfe (1936–2005) was a United States Geological Survey paleobotanist and paleoclimatologist best known for his studies of Tertiary climate in western North America through analysis of fossil angiosperm leaves. http://mcintosh.botany.org/plantsciencebulletin/psb-2006-52-2.php#Jack | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13053800 |
LabCorp Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, more commonly known as LabCorp, is an American S&P 500 company headquartered in Burlington, North Carolina. It operates one of the largest clinical laboratory networks in the world, with a United States network of 36 primary laboratories. Before a merger with National... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13072917 |
LabCorp The company was a national blood and pathology laboratory owned by the Revlon Health Care Group, and managed by Michael E. Lillig for seven years. Lillig had earlier been with Becton, Dickinson and Company. At National Health Laboratories, Inc. he grew annual sales of the company each year by 43%, with revenue ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13072917 |
LabCorp Up until that time the company had performed very well, including through the 1990-1991 recession. Its earnings peaked that year at almost US$90 million, and its stock price had risen from its low within the prior few years by several-fold. However, beginning in 1991 the company became embroiled in Operation "L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13072917 |
LabCorp On March 8, 1994 National Health Laboratories Inc. reorganized as a holding company, National Health Laboratories Holdings Inc. By 1994, MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Inc. then owned the Revlon Holdings Group's former 24 percent of National Health Laboratories Holdings. That company was a distributor of licorice... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13072917 |
LabCorp and changed its name to Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings. It began trading under its new ticker symbol LH. Shareholders of National Health Laboratories received 0.72 shares of the new company, plus $5.60 in cash, for a 50.1 percent interest in the new company. At the time, James R. Maher was President... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13072917 |
LabCorp 5 million in 1982 and then merged it with all of its laboratories, and incorporated the merged company that year as Roche Biomedical Laboratories, Inc. in Burlington. By the early 1990s, Roche Biomedical had become one of the largest clinical laboratory networks in the United States, with US$600 million in sale... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13072917 |
LabCorp In June 2000, completed the acquisition of San Diego-based "Pathology Medical Laboratories" for an undisclosed amount. In 2000, generated revenues of US$1.9 billion with over 18,000 employees. In May 2001, completed its acquisition of "Path Lab Holdings Inc.", the largest regional laboratory in New England, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13072917 |
LabCorp In December 2007, acquired "Tandem Labs", a Contract research organization specializing in advanced mass spectrometry, immunoanalytical support, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics, headquartered in Salt Lake City, UT for an undisclosed amount. In June 2009, acquired Monogram Biosciences, a diagnostic lab sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13072917 |
LabCorp In May 2012, Clinical Trials sold its European biological sampling kit building operation located in Hamburg to clinical supply chain solutions provider "Marken". In August 2012, completed the acquisition of rival testing lab "Medtox Scientific" for $241 million. In September 2013, acquired "MuirLab", the clini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13072917 |
LabCorp ", a provider of expertise in reproductive FDA donor testing as well as anatomic, molecular and digital pathology services, for an undisclosed amount. In August 2016, announced it would acquire Sequenom for $371 million including debt, thus expanding its reach overseas, especially in Europe and Asia. In October... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13072917 |
LabCorp , the Board of Directors includes Garheng Kong. In 1997 Roche owned 49.7% of but sold all of their stock until 2002. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13072917 |
Reversible charge injection limit For an electrode in a solution with a particular size and geometry, the reversible charge injection limit is the amount of charge that can move from the electrode to the surroundings without causing a chemical reaction that is irreversible. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13092163 |
Supreme Palace enclosure Tai Wei Yuan, the Supreme Palace Enclosure (太微垣), is one of the San Yuan or Three enclosures. Stars and constellations of this group are visible during spring in the Northern Hemisphere (autumn in the Southern). The asterisms are : | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13095934 |
Heavenly Market enclosure The Heavenly Market Enclosure (天市垣, "Tian Shi Yuan"), is one of the "San Yuan" or Three enclosures. Stars and constellations of this group are visible during late summer and early autumn in the Northern Hemisphere (late winter and early spring in the Southern). The Summer Triangle lies directl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13096070 |
Purple Forbidden enclosure The ( Zǐ wēi yuán) is one of the San Yuan ( Sān yuán) or Three Enclosures. Stars and constellations of this group lie near the north celestial pole and are visible all year from temperate latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere. The asterisms are : | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13096236 |
Discovery District The is one of the commercial districts in Downtown Toronto, Ontario, Canada. It has a high concentration of hospitals and research institutions, particularly those related to biotechnology. The district is roughly bounded by Bloor Street on the north, Bay Street on the east, Dundas Street on the sout... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13097619 |
Discovery District Elmsley estate is closely tied with the history of both the University of Toronto and the commercial district on Yonge Street) and the Powell Estate (became the 'University Park' now the University of Toronto) A short stretch of Gerrard Street West from Bay Street to LaPlante Avenue was referred to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13097619 |
Discovery District The 'park lots' along Lot St (Queen) were given to many of York's (Toronto's) most prominent families who had professions and sometimes even a separate house in the Town and generally did not farm; therefore they often did not clear their lots of the natural forest. As each 'park lot' extended in a r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13097619 |
Discovery District By the time Toronto became a city in 1834, the area south of Lot St (Queen) from the Garrison Creek to the Don River had all been subdivided and the four 'park lots' north of Lot St (Queen) were subdivided by their owners with the eastern lot (Macaulay's estate) becoming the first residential distric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13097619 |
Discovery District At this time some of Toronto's oldest and most important institutions south of Queen were replaced with larger buildings north of Queen St such as Old City Hall (called 'New' City Hall at this time) at the top of Bay Street and the Ontario Parliament Building; Queen's Park on the University grounds a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13097619 |
Discovery District In the 1960s with the City of Toronto annexing the last independent municipalities, 'The Ward' was demolished and a new City Hall was built on the north side of Queen Street between what became Old City Hall and Osgoode Hall. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13097619 |
Mahmoud Behzad Professor (, b. 1913 - d. 2007), born in Rasht, the capital city of Gilan province, is known as the father of modern biology in Iran. He wrote more than 100 books in Persian and participated in the authorship of more than 200 books in Iran. The son of a lapidary, Behzad completed his initial education in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13114237 |
Stanko Karaman Stanko Luka Karaman (8 December 1889 – 17 May 1959) was a Yugoslav biologist of Bosnian Serb ancestry, researcher on amphipod and isopod crustaceans. In 1926 he founded the Museum of South Serbia (later - Macedonian Museum of Natural History) in Skopje and in 1928, the Zoological Garden of Skopje. Severa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13128936 |
Hassan Farsam (September 27, 1932 in Tehran – February 5, 2016) was an Iranian pharmacist and medical chemist. He studied pharmacy at Tehran University and became a medical chemistry specialist in 1960. Farsam received post doctorate in Pharmaceutical Chemistry from Paris University (1964) and University of California ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13138678 |
Julius Victor Carus (July 25, 1823 – March 10, 1903) was a German zoologist, comparative anatomist and entomologist. Carus was born in Leipzig. He served as curator of the Museum of Comparative Anatomy at Oxford University from 1849 to 1851, and as professor of comparative anatomy and director of the Zoological Museum ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13139979 |
Thorbergur Thorvaldson M.Sc., PhD. (August 24, 1883 – October 4, 1965) was an Icelandic-Canadian chemist. He was the head of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Saskatchewan. Thorvaldson and his team at the National Research Council developed a sulphate-resistant cement in 1919 which prevented decay and de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13147689 |
Submersion (coastal management) Submersion is the sustainable cyclic portion of coastal erosion where coastal sediments move from the visible portion of a beach to the submerged nearshore region, and later return to the original visible portion of the beach. The recovery portion of the sustainable cycle of sediment beh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13167602 |
Accretion (coastal management) Accretion is the process of coastal sediment returning to the visible portion of a beach or foreshore following a submersion event. A sustainable beach or foreshore often goes through a cycle of submersion during rough weather then accretion during calmer periods. If a coastline is not in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13167630 |
Roman Ulrich Sexl (19 October 1939 – 10 July 1986) was one of the leading Austrian theoretical physicists. He is famous for his textbooks on Special relativity. His most cited work is "On the gravitational field of a massless particle" together with Peter C. Aichelburg. Since 1972 he was professor for Cosmology and Gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13177394 |
Satellite Analysis Branch The United States Satellite Analysis Branch, part of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service's Satellite Services Division, is the operational focal point for real-time imagery products within NESDIS. It is also r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13178508 |
Molecular Spectra and Molecular Structure IV. Constants of Diatomic Molecules Molecular Spectra and Molecular Structure IV. Constants of Diatomic Molecules, by K. P. Huber and Gerhard Herzberg (Van nostrand Reinhold company, New York, 1979, ), is a classic comprehensive multidisciplinary reference text contains a criti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13182486 |
Janusz Andrzej Zakrzewski (July 23, 1932 in Kraków – October 26, 2008 in Warsaw) was a Polish physicist. He was a professor of the University of Warsaw (since 1971), member of the Warsaw Scientific Society (since 1984), Polish Academy of Sciences (1986), Polish Academy of Learning. He served as President of the Polish ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13195729 |
Konstanty Zakrzewski (14 January 1876 in Warsaw – 19 January 1948 in Kraków) was a Polish physicist. He was a professor of the Jagiellonian University (1911–1913 and since 1917) and professor of the Lviv University (1913–1917), member of the Polish Academy of Learning (since 1920). Zakrzewski was a researcher of electr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13195957 |
Carlo Emery (25 October 1848, Naples – 11 May 1925) was an Italian entomologist. He is remembered for Emery's rule, which states that insect social parasites are often closely related to their hosts. Early in his career pursued a course in general medicine, and in 1872 narrowed his interests to ophthalmology. In 1878 h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13195996 |
Leonello Picco (1876–1921) was an Italian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and Hemiptera. His main work was Contributo allo studio della fauna entomologica Italiano. Elenco sistematico degli Emitteri finora raccolti nella Provincia di Roma. (1908). This treatise is a catalogue in systematic order of 423 speci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13197423 |
Paolo Luigioni (9 February 1873, Rome – 6 May 1937, Rome) was an Italian entomologist. Luigioni was a Rome University professor and Curator of the Museo Civico di Zoologia di Roma where the main his collection is kept. Other parts are in the Natural History Museum in Pescasseroli. He specialised in the Coleoptera, Hemi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13197541 |
Gustavo Leonardi (27 February 1869, Civezzano, County of Tyrol – 25 August 1918, Vintimille) was an Italian entomologist. Leonardi was an entomology assistant in the universities of Padua and Portici before becoming a plant disease inspector at Vintimille. He wrote 45 publications on pest insects, such as "Monografia d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13198054 |
Snow pillow A snow pillow is a device for measuring snowpack, especially for automated reporting stations such as SNOTEL. The snow pillow measures the water equivalent of the snow pack based on hydrostatic pressure created by overlying snow.. Any discrepancy due to bridging is minimized by the large dimension of the pi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13207749 |
Stephen Parke (born 1950) is a New Zealand physicist. He is a Distinguished Scientist and former Head of the Theoretical Physics Department at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Batavia, Illinois). Born in Gisborne, New Zealand, Parke attended St Peter's College, Auckland and the University of Auckland in New Z... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13221438 |
Paul Mackenzie Paul B. Mackenzie (born 1950) is a theoretical physicist at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. He did graduate work in physics at Cornell University where he was a student of G. Peter Lepage. He is an expert on Lattice Gauge Theory. He is the chair of the Executive Committee of USQCD, the US coll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13221513 |
NGC 7315 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Pegasus. It was discovered on 11 September 1872 by Édouard Stephan. It was described as "very faint, extremely small, round, brighter middle" by John Louis Emil Dreyer, the compiler of the New General Catalogue. SN 2007B, a type Ia supernova, was discovered in in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13223329 |
RA-1 Enrico Fermi is a research reactor in Argentina and the first nuclear reactor to be built in that country. Construction started April 1957, with first criticality 17 January 1958. It produced the first medical and industrial radioisotopes made in Argentina, and was used to train staff for the first two nuclear pow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13227535 |
Charles A. Alluaud (4 May 1861, Limoges – 12 December 1949, Crozant) was a French entomologist. The Alluaud family had owned porcelain factories since the 18th century. His great grandfather had been chairman of the "" and his grandfather, François Alluaud (1778–1866), was a porcelain manufacturer, archaeologist, and g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13231567 |
Arnold Pagenstecher Arnold Andreas Friedrich Pagenstecher (25 December 1837, Dillenburg – 11 June 1913, Wiesbaden) was a German doctor and entomologist. He was especially interested in Lepidoptera, especially Papilionidae. He wrote "Die geographische Verbreitung der Schmetterlinge". Jena: Gustav Fischer 451 p. Maps (19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13246070 |
NUCLEP Nuclep is Nuclebrás Equipamentos Pesados SA, and Nuclebrás is Empresas Nucleares Brasileiras SA, part of Nuclep. Nuclep (Brazil) was founded in December 1975 to design and fabricate heavy components for nuclear power plants. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13247256 |
Tropospheric ozone depletion events During springtime in the polar regions, unique photochemistry converts inert halide salt ions (e.g. Br) into reactive halogen species (e.g. Br atoms and BrO) that episodically deplete ozone in the atmospheric boundary layer to near zero levels. Since their discovery in the late 1980s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13248494 |
Filippo Silvestri (22 June 1873 – 10 June 1949) was an Italian entomologist. He specialised in world Protura, Thysanura, Diplura and Isoptera, but also worked on Hymenoptera, Myriapoda and Italian Diptera. He is also noted for describing and naming the previously unknown order Zoraptera. In 1938 he was nominated to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13262159 |
Forebulge In geology, a forebulge is a flexural bulge in front of a load on the lithosphere. The load causes the lithosphere to flex by depressing the plate beneath it. Because of the flexural rigidity of the lithosphere, the area around the load is uplifted by a height that is 4% of that of the depression under the lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13263438 |
Forebulge Collisions between tectonic plates and island arcs lead to loading and flexure of the lithosphere. The flexure produces a significant forebulge, which divides a forearc basin and a back arc basin. The existence of a forebulge is predicted by the solution to the equations for the flexure of a thin elastic beam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13263438 |
Alternate-Phase Return-to-Zero (APRZ) is an optical line code. In APRZ the field intensity drops to zero between consecutive bits, and the field phase alternates between neighbouring bits, so that if the phase of the signal is, for example, 0 in even bits (bit number 2"n"), the phase in odd bit slots (bit number 2"n"+1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13293216 |
Seed nucleus A seed nucleus is an isotope that is the starting point for any of a variety of fusion chain reactions. The mix of nuclei produced at the conclusion of the chain reaction generally depends strongly on the relative availability of the seed nucleus or nuclei and the component being fused--whether neutrons as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13301535 |
Wuxian (Shang dynasty) Wuxian (Chinese: 巫咸) was a Chinese Shaman, or Wu (Chinese: 巫; pinyin: wū; Wade–Giles: wu; literally means "shaman") who have practiced divination, prayer, sacrifice, rainmaking, and healing in Chinese traditions dating back over 3,000 years. Wuxian lived in the Shang dynasty (c. 1600–1046 BC) of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13302135 |
Convective momentum transport usually describes a vertical flux of the momentum of horizontal winds or currents. That momentum is carried like a non-conserved flow tracer by vertical air motions in convection. In the atmosphere, convective momentum transport by small but vigorous (cumulus type) cloudy updrafts can be u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13310687 |
Speleoseismite A speleoseismite is a damaged speleothem (cave deposit) argued to have been deformed by a seismic event (an earthquake). Speleoseismites can include severed stalagmites (those growing from the floor), fallen stalactites (those growing from the ceiling of caves), collapsed cave ceilings, tilted speleothem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13315749 |
Ozsváth–Schücking metric The Ozsváth–Schücking metric, or the Ozsváth–Schücking solution, is a vacuum solution of the Einstein field equations. The metric was published by István Ozsváth and Engelbert Schücking in 1962. It is noteworthy among vacuum solutions for being the first known solution that is stationary, globa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13320316 |
Whinstone is a term used in the quarrying industry to describe any hard dark-coloured rock. Examples include the igneous rocks, basalt and dolerite, as well as the sedimentary rock, chert. Massive outcrops of whinstone occur include the Pentland Hills, Scotland and the Whin Sills, England. The name 'whin' derives from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13337703 |
Virtual black hole In quantum gravity, a virtual black hole is a black hole that exists temporarily as a result of a quantum fluctuation of spacetime. It is an example of quantum foam and is the gravitational analog of the virtual electron–positron pairs found in quantum electrodynamics. Theoretical arguments suggest t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13345968 |
Virtual black hole Last uncertainty relation allows make us some estimates of the equations of general relativity at the Planck scale. For example, the equation for the invariant interval formula_18 в in the Schwarzschild solution has the form Substitute according to the uncertainty relations formula_20. We obtain It i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13345968 |
Virtual black hole The existence of virtual black holes aggravates the black hole information loss paradox, as any physical process may potentially be disrupted by interaction with a virtual black hole. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13345968 |
Nature center A nature center (or nature centre) is an organization with a visitor center or interpretive center designed to educate people about nature and the environment. Usually located within a protected open space, nature centers often have trails through their property. Some are located within a state or city pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13360851 |
Snow bridge A snow bridge is an arc across a crevasse, a crack in rock, a creek, or some other opening in terrain. It is typically formed by snow drift, which first creates a cornice, which may gradually grow to reach the other side of the opening. A snow bridge may completely cover the opening and thus presents danger... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13363496 |
Triol A triol is a chemical compound containing three hydroxyl groups (−OH functional groups), such as glycerol. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13364159 |
Pseudo-cold front In meteorology, a pseudo-cold front is a boundary between a supercell's inflow region and the rear flank downdraft. It usually extends outward from a mesocyclone center, usually toward the south or southwest, and is characterized by advancing of the downdraft air toward the inflow region. It is a part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13367644 |
William Pinch William "Bill" Wallace Pinch (August 15, 1940 – April 1, 2017) was a mineralogist from Rochester, New York. The Mineralogical Association of Canada has an award named after him, the Pinch Medal, "to recognize major and sustained contributions to the advancement of mineralogy by members of the collector-de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13390541 |
Medicon Valley is a leading international life-sciences cluster in Europe, spanning the Greater Copenhagen region of eastern Denmark and southern Sweden. It is one of Europe's strongest life science clusters, with many life science companies and research institutions located within a relatively small geographical area.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13402281 |
Medicon Valley Companies within account for more than 20% of the total GDP of Denmark and Sweden combined. is promoted by Invest in Skåne and Copenhagen Capacity. Many of the region's universities have a strong heritage in biological and medical research and have produced several Nobel Prize winners. The almost century... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13402281 |
Homogeneous alignment In liquid crystals homogeneous alignment, sometimes called planar alignment, is the state of alignment where molecules align in parallel to a substrate. The opposite method is homeotropic alignment. For planar alignment - polyimides can be used. One of the popular ones is PI-2555. The surface has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13409270 |
Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine is a subsidiary of Astellas Pharma located in Marlborough, Massachusetts, US, developing stem cell therapies with a focus on diseases that cause blindness. It was formed in 1994 as a company named Advanced Cell Technology, Incorporated (ACT), which was renamed to Ocata Thera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13411300 |
Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine Wotton, previously of Antares Pharma Inc (ATRS:NASDAQ CM), became President and Chief Executive Officer. On August 27, 2014, Ocata announced a 1-100 reverse stock split of its common stock. Ocata was listed on NASDAQ in February 2015. On November 30, 2010, Ocata filed an Inv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13411300 |
Bolaamphiphile Bolaamphiphiles (also known as "bolaform surfactants", "bolaphiles", or "alpha-omega-type surfactants") are amphiphilic molecules that have hydrophilic groups at both ends of a sufficiently long hydrophobic hydrocarbon chain. Compared to single-headed amphiphiles, the introduction of a second head-group ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13415486 |
Bolaamphiphile CAN 150:475745 AN 2008:763292 Chen, Senlin; Song, Bo; Wang, Zhiqiang; Zhang, Xi. Self-Organization of Bearing Biphenyl Mesogen and Aspartic-Acid Headgroups. Journal of Physical Chemistry C (2008), 112(9), 3308-3313. CODEN: JPCCCK . CAN 148:372219 AN 2008:176360 Feng Qiu, Chengkang Tang, Yongzhu Chen Amyl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13415486 |
Marta Grandi (3 July 1915, Bologna – Bologna, 6 October 2005, Bologna ) was an Italian entomologist who specialised in Ephemeroptera. See Bibliography of Ephemeroptera | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13428834 |
Giuseppe Saverio Poli (26 October 1746 – 7 April 1825) was an Italian physicist, biologist and natural historian. His collections, together with those stored in the Royal Bourbon Museum, were the foundation of the Zoological Museum of Naples. The specimens were from locations all over the world, and included, especiall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13429531 |
Full spectral imaging (FSI) is a form of imaging spectroscopy and is the successor to hyperspectral imaging. was developed to improve the capabilities of remote sensing including Earth remote sensing. Whereas hyperspectral imaging acquires data as many contiguous spectral bands, full spectral imaging acquires data as s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13432264 |
Universal conductance fluctuations (UCF) in mesoscopic physics is a phenomenon encountered in electrical transport experiments in mesoscopic species. The measured electrical conductance will vary from sample to sample, mainly due to inhomogeneous scattering sites. Fluctuations originate from coherence effects for elect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13439882 |
Giuseppe Sigismondo Ala Ponzone (21 March 1761 – 2 May 1842) was an Italian collector and entomologist. Born in Cremona, Ponzone assembled large collections of art and natural history. These are now in the Museo Civico Ala Ponzone of his native city. He bequeathed his library to Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan. In 1789 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13443752 |
Rudolf van Eecke Rudolf (or Rudolph) van Eecke (23 October 1886, Buitenzorg, Java - 24 December 1975, Leiden) was a Dutch entomologist. He attended the gymnasium in Leiden. In 1912 he married Wilhelmina Henriëtte Petré then in 1927 Margaretha Emma Julia Hettyey. In 1916 (Leidsch Jaarboekje 1917) he became a conservator... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13445330 |
Hans Bischoff (30 November 1889 – 18 March 1960) was a German entomologist from Berlin. He was Kustos or curator of Hymenoptera (and Neuropterida) at Museum für Naturkunde (Berlin) from 1921 until 1955. He ventured to Italy to obtain ants in order to return them to Germany's museum. with Stadler H., "Die Hautflügler de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13460292 |
Bittern (salt) Bittern (pl. bitterns), or nigari, is the salt solution formed when halite (table salt) precipitates from seawater or brines. Bitterns contain magnesium, calcium, and potassium ions as well as chloride, sulfate, iodide, and other ions. Bittern is commonly formed in salt ponds where the evaporation of wat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13464959 |
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