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Urstrom The is a geologists' name for a great glacial age river of the Polish and north German plain, which drained the combined melt-waters from the northern headwaters of the Alps and the southern part of the Scandinavian ice during the Devensian ice age.
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North Pacific Oscillation The (NPO) is a teleconnection pattern first described by Walker and Bliss and characterized by a north-south seesaw in sea level pressure over the North Pacific.<br> Rogers, using surface atmospheric temperature from St. Paul, Alaska, and Edmonton, identified two phases of the NPO, an Aleutian...
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Tumba Ice Cap (, ) is the ice cap covering the western half of Chavdar Peninsula on the west side of Graham Land, Antarctic Peninsula. It is situated west of Samodiva Glacier, extending 7.7 km in east-west direction and 4 km in north-south direction, and draining both northwards into Curtiss Bay and southwards into Hug...
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LNAPL transmissivity is the discharge of light non-aqueous phase liquid (LNAPL) through a unit width of aquifer for a unit gradient. Scholars Alex Mayer and S. Majid Hassanizadeh define as the "product of the porous medium permeability and the LNAPL relative permeability, which in turn is a function of saturation, and ...
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Isoplanetic patch Angular size of patch in atmosphere over which electromagnetic waves in the same plane stay parallel. The patch size inversely affects the Fried Parameter and the resolution of optical telescopes. Adaptive optical telescopes uses a bright light source to identify the properties of the patch in the lin...
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SPT-CL J0546-5345 is one of the most massive galaxy clusters ever found in the early universe. It is thought to be 7 billion light years away. It was discovered at the South Pole Telescope in 2008 by the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich-Effect. The cluster has a redshift of z=1.067. Follow-up studies using the Spitzer, Chandra and o...
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Fluorescent glucose biosensor Fluorescent glucose biosensors are devices that measure the concentration of glucose in diabetic patients by means of sensitive protein that relays the concentration by means of fluorescence, an alternative to amperometric sension of glucose. Due to the prevalence of diabetes, it is the pr...
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Fluorescent glucose biosensor Over the years, using a combination of rational design and screening approaches, many possible combinations of fluorescent sensor for glucose have been studied with varying degrees of success: In most approaches, the glucose concentration is translated into a change in fluorescence either ...
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Fluorescent glucose biosensor This state is short-lived, and the electron returns to the ground-level orbital, losing the energy either as heat or in the case of fluorophores by emitting a photon, which, due to the loss of the difference between the energy of the absorbed photon and the excitation energy required, will...
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Fluorescent glucose biosensor These can be positioned on specific residues that either change their spatial arrangement due to a conformational change induced by glucose or reside in the glucose-binding pocket whereby the displacement of the water present by glucose decreases the polarity. An additional property of flu...
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Fluorescent glucose biosensor Over the years, using a combination of rational design and screening procedures, many possible typologies of fluorescent sensors for glucose have been created with varying degrees of success. In general, these sensors rely either on or on sensitivity to polarity changes to translate the gl...
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Fluorescent glucose biosensor An exception to this group of sensors is the Biocapacitor A Sode's group, which relies on glucose dehydrogenase instead. The activity of glucose oxidase has also been used to make lifetime-based fluorescent/phosphorescent sensors, taking advantage of the fact that the protein oxidises gluc...
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Fluorescent glucose biosensor The sensor was constructed by functionalizing an oxygen sensor with glucose oxidase and inserting it into the external part of a catheter used for monitoring. Apoenzymes can still bind glucose but, due to the lack of cofactors (in vitro), cannot catalyse their reaction so are less likely t...
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Fluorescent glucose biosensor Fluorescence is not the only type of luminescence achievable in biological systems: Chemiluminescence, the generation of light by means of chemical reactions, is produced by some proteins, such as Aqueorin from symbiont in jellyfish and luciferase from symbiont in fireflies. These have bee...
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Fluorescent glucose biosensor An alternative approach is by photo-induced electron transfer (PET), a mechanism of fluorescence-quenching due to the electron-rich tertiary amino group near the fluorophore, which is affected by the change in charge of the nearby boronate group when glucose is bound. This has been used in...
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Fluorescent glucose biosensor Some studies with and solvatochromic dyes work not to create a sensor, but to elucidate the chemistry behind the conformational change of . Examples of this include a study utilizing L255C with acrylodan and ruthenium at the N-terminus revealing three conformational states closed and twist...
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Fluorescent glucose biosensor In the first (2002) they made of a series (320 constructs) of labelled mutants of 11 bacterial periplasmic binding protein including for which they made nine mutants introducing a cysteine in a specific spot (Y10C, N15C, E93C, E149C, H152C, W183C, L255C, D257C, V296C) and tested the respon...
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Fluorescent glucose biosensor Independently another group (J Pickup) tested two mutants (H152C and M182C) labelled with (6-bromoacetyl-2-dimethylaminonaphtalene), bound to the thiol group of the cisteine introduced at site 152 (H152C mutant). This showed a threefold increase (200% change) upon saturating glucose bindin...
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Fluorescent glucose biosensor The construction of the fluorescent protein is only one subsystem of a clinically viable monitoring device: the sensing protein has to be immobilized and its fluorescence has to be read by a detecting subsystem that, in turn, informs the user. In the ideal situation, the detector could be ...
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Fluorescent glucose biosensor Nevertheless, several studies with NIR dyes have been done. Pickup and Birch made a NIR sensor measuring both the time-resolved counts or by nanotomography of allophycocyanin-ConA/malachite green-Dextran, where allophycocyanin is a NIR fluorescent protein. In another study, the autofluores...
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Fluorescent glucose biosensor The majority of the sensors mentioned in the previous sections consisted of labelled proteins in solution. The only sensors to progress towards an implantable sensor have been either GOx–ruthenium oxygen-quenching assay sensors or competition assay sensors; to date, no environment sensitiv...
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Fluorescent glucose biosensor Regarding its application in fluorescent sensing of glucose, the first glucose biosensor by fluorescence, which, as mentioned, was made in 1982 by means of a competition assay for the binding site of ConA, was entrapped in a sealed microdialysis tube, in the same lab, namely of J Schultz, ...
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Fluorescent glucose biosensor The majority of these sensors, however, rely on entrapping the protein in hydrogels, as these are more sturdy and protect the protein more than a simple coating or membrane. A hydrogel is a porous crosslinked polymer matrix filled with water. Several types of hydrogel exist and have been u...
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Fluorescent glucose biosensor Hydrogels can be classified according to their polymers constituents, which can be natural (Hyaluronan, alginic acid, pectin, , chondroitin sulfate, dextran and dextran sulphate, chitosan, polylysine, collagen, carboxymethyl chitin, fibrin, agarose, pullulan), or synthetic (PEG, PLA, PLGA,...
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Fluorescent glucose biosensor In the case of acetylcholinesterase, the target of many pesticides, a sensors has been made chemically linking the enzyme to an acrylate hydrogel or physically entrapping the enzyme in solgel. An optic-fibre-based hydrogel-entrapped biosensor for glucose was made in the lab of Loeb (Liao a...
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Fluorescent glucose biosensor The majority of hydrogels are attached to the fibre, one exception being the fibre optic-based sensor made by Itsubayashi's group to measure glucose in fish (health indicator), which used a dialysis membrane as the support for the hydrogel. To be more specific, it relied on a GOx oxygen-ru...
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Fluorescent glucose biosensor An exception to the usage of placing the optic fibre transdermally is seen in the previously mentioned fibre from Ingo Klimant's group (ruthenium-quenching by oxygen released by glucose-catalysed GOx): The sensor, in fact, was constructed by functionalizing a premade oxygen sensor with Glu...
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Short supermultiplet In theoretical physics, a short supermultiplet is a supermultiplet i.e. a representation of the supersymmetry algebra whose dimension is smaller than formula_1 where formula_2 is the number of real supercharges. The representations that saturate the bound are known as the long supermultiplets. The ...
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Spurion In theoretical physics, a spurion is a fictitious, auxiliary field in a quantum field theory that can be used to parameterize any symmetry breaking and to determine all operators invariant under the symmetry. The procedure begins with finding a parameter that measures the amount of symmetry breaking. This param...
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Spurion those based on Technicolor, the spurion techniques are important to derive the physical predictions.
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Radiative Auger effect is a decay channel of an inner-shell atomic vacancy state, in which an x-ray photon is emitted accompanying simultaneous promotion of an electron into either a bound or a continuum state. Thus the transition energy is shared between the photon and the electron. The effect was first observed by F....
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Karl Kessler Karl Fedorovich Kessler (19 November 1815 – 3 March 1881) was a German-Russian zoologist and author of zoological taxa signed "Kessler", who was mostly active in Kiev, Ukraine and conducted most of his studies of birds in Ukrainian regions of the Russian Empire - Kiev Governorate, Volyn Governorate, Kherso...
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Grasshopper (robot weather station) The Grasshopper was a project by the United States Air Force and United States Navy to develop portable robot weather station deployed by parachute from long range aircraft in the early 1950s. The Grasshopper was designed to be deployed by parachute into enemy territory and radio bac...
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Cleanliness suitability describes the suitability of operating materials and ventilation and air conditioning components for use in cleanrooms where the air cleanliness and other parameters are controlled by way of technical regulations. Tests are carried out to determine this. Trends such as the miniaturization of str...
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Shimoni bat lyssavirus is a "Lyssavirus" which was discovered in Kenya in 2009. It is bears significant similarities to the "Lyssavirus" "Lagos bat virus". The virus was isolated from the brain of a dead Commerson's leaf-nosed bat ("Hipposideros commersoni"). There have been no reported cases of human infection to date...
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Lambertus Johannes Toxopeus (1894 - April 21, 1951) was a Java-born, Dutch nationality lepidopterist. He mainly worked in Indonesia then known as the Dutch East Indies and specialised in the families Lycaenidae and Hesperiidae. Wikispecies provides a list of key works online here He died in Bandung, Java.
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Antonio della Valle (1850, Naples-1935) was an Italian zoologist who specialised in Amphipoda and Ascidiacea. He held positions in the University of Modena and was later professor of Comparative Anatomy at the University of Naples and was a member of the research team at Stazione Zoologica in Naples. Partial list
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Paolo Enriques (17 August 1878 in Leghorn – 26 December 1932 in Rome) was an Italian zoologist. Enriques taught Zoology and Comparative Anatomy at the University of Sassari (1917 to 1921), then in 1922 he became Professor of Zoology in the University of Padua University, and Director of the Institute of Zoology and Com...
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Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) is a joint mission between JAXA and NASA as well as other international space agencies to make frequent (every 2–3 hours) observations of Earth's precipitation. It is part of NASA's Earth Systematic Missions program and works with a satellite constellation to provide full global c...
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Global Precipitation Measurement GPM has five broad science objectives: The DPR is a spaceborne radar, providing three-dimensional maps of storm structure across its swath, including the intensity of rainfall and snowfall at the surface. The DPR has two frequencies, allowing researchers to estimate the sizes of precipi...
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Global Precipitation Measurement Data is provided at multiple "levels" of processing, from raw satellite measurements to best-estimate global precipitation maps using combinations of all the constellation observations and other meteorological data. All data from the mission is made freely available to the public on NAS...
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Global Precipitation Measurement The main character Mohan Bharghav (Shahrukh Khan) in 2004 Indian film "Swades: We, the People" is a Project Manager in NASA's GPM project. Movie starts from NASA's GPM project analysis. Bharghav discuss the importance of GPM and its positive impact on Earth. In the movie the GPM satelli...
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Equatorial room An equatorial room, in astronomical observatories, is the room which contains an equatorial mounted telescope. It is usually referred to in observatory buildings that contain more than one type of instrument: for example buildings with an "equatorial room" containing an equatorial telescope and a "trans...
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Carl Bovallius Carl Erik Alexander Bovallius (or Bowallius) (31 July 1849 – 8 November 1907) was a Swedish biologist and archaeologist. Bovallius became a student in Uppsala in 1868, and received a Ph.D. in 1875. Bovallius undertook, for scientific purposes, travel along the Swedish and Norwegian coasts. In 1881-83, he...
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REG1 is an anticoagulation system. It involves inhibition of Factor IXa.
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Bastiaan Jacob Dirk Meeuse (9 May 1916 – 27 July 1999) was a botanist and naturalist.
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Konstantin Valkov Konstantin Anatolyevich Valkov (; November 11, 1971- ) is a Russian former Cosmonaut. He was selected as part of the TsPK-12 Cosmonaut group in 1997. Valkov was born in Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia on November 11, 1971. In 1994, he graduated from Barnaul Higher Military Air School of Pil...
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Gunter Faure is a geochemist who currently holds the position of Professor Emeritus in the School of Earth Science of Ohio State University. He obtained his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1961.
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Seston are the organisms (bioseston) and non-living matter (abioseston or tripton) swimming or floating in a water body. Bioseston can be often regarded as plankton, although it includes nekton as well. Abioseston comprises detritus as well.
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Orientational glass In solid-state physics, an orientational glass is a molecular solid in which crystalline long-range order coexists with quenched disorder in some rotational degree of freedom. An orientational glass is either obtained by quenching a plastic crystal, e.g. cyclohexane, or it is a mixed crystal in whic...
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Hop stunt viroid The hop stunt viroid (abbreviated HSVd) is a viroid species that infects the common hop plant, citrus plants and grapevines, among others. It is a member of the Pospiviroidae family and the Hostuviroid genus. There are quite a few different sub-species of the hop stunt viroid. The hop stunt viroid has ...
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UDF 423 is the Hubble Ultra Deep Field (UDF) identifier for a distant spiral galaxy. With an apparent magnitude of 20, is one of the brightest galaxies in the HUDF and also has one of the largest apparent sizes in the HUDF. The "distance" of a far away galaxy depends on how it is measured. With a redshift of 1, light f...
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Lentisphaerae is a phylum of bacteria closely related to Chlamydiae and Verrucomicrobia. It includes two monotypic orders Lentisphaerales and Victivallales. Phylum members can be aerobic or anaerobic and fall under two distinct phenotypes. One consists of terrestrial gut microbiota from mammals and birds. The other phe...
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Usk Inlier The is a domed outcrop of rock strata of Silurian age in Monmouthshire in south-eastern Wales. It is located in the countryside between the towns of Caerleon and Pontypool and the village of Raglan. The longer axis of the dome or 'pericline', often referred to as the Usk Anticline, is aligned north-south. Th...
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Wave–current interaction In fluid dynamics, wave–current interaction is the interaction between surface gravity waves and a mean flow. The interaction implies an exchange of energy, so after the start of the interaction both the waves and the mean flow are affected. For depth-integrated and phase-averaged flows, the qu...
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N-group (finite group theory) In mathematical finite group theory, an N-group is a group all of whose local subgroups (that is, the normalizers of nontrivial "p"-subgroups) are solvable groups. The non-solvable ones were classified by Thompson during his work on finding all the minimal finite simple groups. The simple ...
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N-group (finite group theory) The complete list of minimal finite simple groups is given as follows In other words a non-cyclic finite simple group must have a subquotient isomorphic to one of these groups.
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Citrus gummy bark viroid The citrus gummy bark viroid (abbreviated CGBVd) is a strain of "Hop stunt viroid", and thus is a member of the genus "Hostuviroid". As the name suggests, the citrus gummy bark viroid causes problems in the bark of the sweet orange tree. Scraping the bark exposes localized spots or a line of re...
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Austen Angell Charles (born Canberra 1933) is an Australian chemist known for his prolific and highly cited research on the physics of glasses and glass-forming liquids. His most cited contribution is probably the "strong–fragile" classification of viscous liquids. The representation of log viscosity vs reduced inverse...
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NGC 7714 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered by John Herschel on 18 September 1830. and NGC 7715 are interacting galaxies. The pair are also known as Arp 284. appears to be a highly distorted spiral, possibly a barred spiral galaxy. NGC 7715 is of uncertain type, probably an edge-on spiral...
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Sutton Bonington weather station The is a functioning weather station located in Sutton Bonington, Nottinghamshire in England. The weather station is located from the city centre of Nottingham and from the town centre of Loughborough. The Sutton Bonington station was formerly Nottingham's main weather station. The weat...
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Hostuviroid is a genus of viroids that includes "Hop stunt viroid", a species of viroids that infects many different types of plants, including the common hop plant.
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NGC 4452 is an edge-on lenticular galaxy that is part of the Virgo Cluster. is located approximately 60 million light-years distant and is 35,000 light-years in width. This galaxy was first seen by William Herschel in 1784 with his 47 cm telescope. is so thin that it is actually difficult to determine what type of disk...
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George Althofer George William Francis Althofer (1903–1993) was an Australian botanist, nurseryman, author and poet, with a special interest in the mint-bush genus "Prostanthera" as well as other Australian native plants, who founded the Burrendong Botanic Garden and Arboretum. Althofer was born at Dripstone in the Wel...
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Seishi Kikuchi was born and grew up in Tokyo. He graduated in 1926 from Tokyo Imperial University. In 1928, Kikuchi and Shoji Nishikawa observed and gave a theoretical explanation of the electron backscatter diffraction pattern from a calcite cleavage face. In 1929, he went to Germany as a student. In 1934, he was appo...
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Foregut fermentation is a form of digestion that occurs in the foregut of some animals. It has evolved independently in several groups of mammals, and also in the hoatzin bird. is employed by ruminants and pseudoruminants, some rodents and some marsupials. It has also evolved in colobine monkeys and in sloths.
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Talos Dome () (sometimes spelled Thalos Dome) is a large ice dome rising to 2,300 m to the southwest of the Usarp Mountains in Antarctica. The dome overlies the east margin of the Wilkes Subglacial Basin. The feature was delineated by the Scott Polar Research Institute (SPRI)-National Science Foundation (NSF)-Technical...
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Hiroshi Hara (botanist) He specialised in mosses, but described other plants as well.
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Arctic front The is the semipermanent, semi-continuous weather front between the cold arctic air mass and the warmer air of the polar cell. It can also be defined as the southern boundary of the Arctic air mass. Mesoscale cyclones known as polar lows can form along the arctic front in the wake of extratropical cyclones...
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Kanesuke Hara Kanesuke Hara
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R-407C is a mixture of hydrofluorocarbons used as a refrigerant. It is a zeotropic blend of difluoromethane (R-32), pentafluoroethane (R-125), and 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane (R-134a). Difluoromethane serves to provide the heat capacity, pentafluoroethane decreases flammability, tetrafluoroethane reduces pressure. cylind...
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Sericitic alteration is a process of mineral alteration caused by hydrothermal fluids invading permeable country rock. Plagioclase feldspar within the rock is converted to the mineral sericite (sericite is not a mineral; it is a term that is used to describe any fine-grained white phyllosilicate when a distinction cann...
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Ferdinand Johann Wiedemann ( in Hapsal (now Haapsalu) – in Saint Petersburg) was an Estonian linguist who researched Uralic languages, mostly Estonian. Wiedemann was also a botanist. Wiedemann was of German-Swedish origin. In 1869 he published an Estonian-German dictionary ("Ehstnisch-deutsches Wörterbuch"), which was ...
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Frano Kršinić (biologist) Frano Kršinić (born 23 August 1947) is a Croatian marine biologist. Kršinić was born in Lumbarda, on the island of Korčula. He obtained his B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb. Since 1972 he was employed at the Institute of Oceanography and Fisherie...
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Compact toroid Compact toroids are a class of toroidal plasma configurations that are self-stable, and whose configuration does not require magnet coils running through the center of the toroid. They are studied primarily in the field of fusion energy, where the lack of complex magnets and a simple geometry may allow t...
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Compact toroid Compact toroids are also similar to the spherical tokamak, and many spherical tokamak machines were converted from earlier spheromak reactors.
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Neophyte (botany) In botany, a neophyte (from Greek νέος ("néos") "new" and φυτόν ("phutón") "plant") is a plant species which is not native to a geographical region, and was introduced in recent history. Plants that are long-established in an area are called archaeophytes. In Britain, "neophytes" are defined as plant ...
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Fraser Lowland The is a landform and physiographic region of the Pacific Northwest, in the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. state of Washington. It includes much of the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia and a portion of Whatcom County, south of the Canada–US border. The region lies adjacent to...
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Blithfield meteorite The was found by Mr. Joseph Legree in Blithfield Township, Renfrew County, Ontario and measured about x x . The main mass is now in the Canadian National collection, Ottawa. Blithfield is an enstatite chondrite, a group of very unusual meteorites that were formed in a very reducing atmosphere. It i...
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Myrsini Malakou is a Greek biologist. She was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2001, for her contributions to the protection of the wetlands of Préspa, jointly with fellow biologist Giorgos Catsadorakis.
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Giorgos Catsadorakis is a Greek biologist. He was awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2001, for his contributions to the protection of the wetlands of Préspa, jointly with fellow biologist Myrsini Malakou. Their efforts resulted in an agreement between Greece, Macedonia and Albania on establishing the Préspa Par...
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Edinburgh BioQuarter The is a bioscience community based near the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh and the Queen's Medical Research Centre in Edinburgh, close to the Roslin Institute for Animal Biology. It is Scotland's key initiative in the development of its life sciences industry, which employs more than 30,000 people i...
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Edinburgh BioQuarter Over the last three years, Edinburgh has attracted 53% of all Wellcome Trust grants in Scotland and 62% of Medical Research Council (MRC) funding in Scotland, making it a major centre of research income. In November 2011, a new bioincubator building will come on stream offering of office and labora...
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Edinburgh BioQuarter Companies currently located at or associated with the BioQuarter community include: Further companies are expected to join the BioQuarter community over the next twelve months as the process of company formation gathers pace. In addition, licensing deals and other partnerships with major internatio...
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Verdete is a type of slate rock found in Brazil. Major deposits are found in the state of Minas Gerais. The term "verdete" is the local name for occurrences of a greenish rock that is high in both potassium and iron. The main potassium bearing minerals are glauconite and muscovite.
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Bancroft point A is the temperature where an azeotrope occurs in a binary system. Although vapor liquid azeotropy is impossible for binary systems which are rigorously described by Raoult's law, for real systems, azeotropy is inevitable at temperatures where the saturation vapor pressure of the components are equal. Su...
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Fossil hash Hash fossils are not actually one fossil, they are many fossils in the same rock. The term hash fossil describes the fossil formed when all the organic material in an environment falls to the ocean floor and fossilizes, hence the name "hash". When you look at a hash fossil, you actually are looking at a pie...
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Hector (cloud) Hector is the name given to a cumulonimbus, or thundercloud, that forms regularly nearly every afternoon on the Tiwi Islands in the Northern Territory of Australia, from approximately September to March each year. Hector, or sometimes "Hector the Convector", is known as one of the world's most consistent...
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Helmi stream The Helmi Stream is a stellar stream of the Milky Way galaxy. It started as a dwarf galaxy, now absorbed by the Milky Way as a stream. It was discovered in 1999, is formed of old stars deficient in heavy elements, and has a mass of 10 to 100 million solar masses. It was absorbed by the Milky Way some 6 to ...
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NGC 6503 is a field dwarf spiral galaxy located at the edge of a region of space called the Local Void. The dwarf galaxy spans 30,000 light-years and lies approximately 17 million light-years away in the constellation of Draco (the Dragon). The spiral galaxy is especially colorful where bright red regions of gas can be...
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Matthiessen's ratio In optics, is the ratio between the distance from the centre of the lens to the retina, versus the lens radius. This is of particular importance in fish, where the value may decrease from as high as 3.6 to 2.3, decreasing the focal ratio of the lens. A higher focal ratio is thought to compensate for...
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Sphingobacteria (phylum) The FCB group is a superphylum of bacteria named after the main member phyla Fibrobacteres, Chlorobi, and Bacteroidetes. The members are considered to form a clade due to a number of conserved signature indels. Cavalier-Smith calls the equivalent grouping a phylum by the name of Sphingobacteria...
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Stützite or stuetzite is a silver telluride mineral with formula: AgTe (with x = 0.24 to 0.36) or AgTe. It was first described in 1951 from a museum specimen from Sacarimb, Romania. It was named for Austrian mineralogist Xavier Stütz (1747–1806). It occurs with other sulfide and telluride minerals in hydrothermal ore o...
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Depurative Depuratives are herbs that are considered to have purifying and detoxifying effects. Herbs that are considered depurative include Lingonberry, Ukshi, the four-leaf clover, Paris polyphylla, and some species of Elderberry.
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Andrzej Kajetan Wróblewski (Polish pronunciation: "Vrooblevski", born 7 August 1933 in Warsaw) – Polish experimental physicist, ordinary professor doctor habilitatus (since 1971), dean of the Physics Department Warsaw University (1986–1989), Rector of the Warsaw University (1989–1993), President of the Academic Council...
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Biofunctionalisation In the field of bioengineering, biofunctionalisation (or biofunctionalization) is the modification of a material to have biological function and/or stimulus, whether permanent or temporary while at the same time being biologically compatible. Various types of medical implants are designed to biofun...
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Kachina Chasmata The are the longest canyon or system of canyons on the surface of the Uranian moon Ariel. The name comes from a spirit in Hopi mythology. The 622 km long and 50 km wide chasmata arise from a system of normal faults running from the north-west to south-east. The faults bound down-dropped crustal blocks ...
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Gerhard Haszprunar (born 25 February 1957 in Vienna) is Austrian zoologist and malacologist. He is credited with the invention of the modern species naming patronage model and is a founder of the BIOPAT non-profit organization.
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Gender typing is the process by which a child becomes aware of their gender and thus behaves accordingly by adopting values and attributes of members of the sex that they identify as their own. This process is important for a child's social and personality development because it largely impacts the child's understandin...
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Gender typing For boys, during the “phallic” stage, they are at the height of childhood sexuality. During this the Oedipus complex occurs, where the boy feels erotic love for his mother (Electra complex in girls where love is directed towards the father). As time progresses and the boy matures, he is slowly able to let...
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