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CSIRO Larry Marshall, who is responsible for management of the organisation. is structured into Research Business Units, National Facilities and Collections, and Services. As at 2019, CSIRO's research areas are identified as "Impact science" and organised into the following Business Units: manages national research fac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288262 |
CSIRO In 1926 the Australian Parliament modified the principal Act for national scientific research (the "Institute of Science and Industry Act 1920") by passing "The Science and Industry Research Act 1926". The new Act replaced the Institute with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). With encourag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288262 |
CSIRO Since 1949 has expanded its activities to almost every field of primary, secondary and tertiary industry, including the environment, human nutrition, conservation, urban and rural planning, and water. It works with leading organisations around the world and maintains more than 50 sites across Australia and in Fra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288262 |
CSIRO Bornemissza, upon settling in Australia from Hungary in 1951, noticed that the pastureland was covered in dry cattle dung pads which did not seem to be recycled into the soil and caused areas of rank pasture which were unpalatable to the cattle. He proposed that the reason for this was that native Australian dung... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288262 |
CSIRO From 1927 to 1986 the head of CSIR (and from 1949, CSIRO) was the Chairman, who was responsible for the management of the organisation, supported by the Chief Executive. From 1 July 1959 to 4 December 1986 had no Chief Executive; the Chairman undertook both functions. In 1986, when the Australian Government chang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288262 |
CSIRO In the early 1990s, radio astronomy scientists John O'Sullivan, Graham Daniels, Terence Percival, Diethelm Ostry and John Deane undertook research directed to finding a way to make wireless networks work as fast as wired networks within confined spaces such as office buildings. The technique they developed, invol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288262 |
CSIRO and Broadcom Corporation each invested A$4 million in Radiata, representing an 11% stake for each investor and valuing the company at around A$36 million. In September 2000, Radiata demonstrated a chip set complying with the recently finalised IEEE 802.11a Wi-Fi standard, and capable of handling transmission rate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288262 |
CSIRO 11n-compliant devices, while at the same time continuing to defend legal challenges to the validity of the patent brought by Intel, Dell, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Netgear. In April 2009, Hewlett-Packard broke ranks with the rest of the industry becoming the first to reach a settlement of its dispute with CS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288262 |
CSIRO Total income to from the patent is currently estimated at nearly $430 million. On 14 June 2012, the inventors received the European Patent Office (EPO) European Inventor Award (EIA), in the category of "Non-European Countries". On 14 July 2011, Greenpeace activists vandalised a crop of GM wheat, circumventing the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288262 |
CSIRO After the debate, the Science Minister, Kim Carr, was forced to release the paper, but when doing so in the Senate he also delivered a letter from the CEO of the CSIRO, Megan Clark, which attacked the report's author and threatened him with unspecified punishment. The author of the paper, Clive Spash, was cited i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288262 |
CSIRO After these events, the "Sydney Morning Herald" reported that "Questions are being raised about the closeness of BHP Billiton and the under its chief executive, Megan Clark". After his resignation, an unedited version of the paper was released by Spash as a discussion paper, and later published as an academic jou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288262 |
CSIRO The shadow minister for innovation, industry, science and research, Sophie Mirabella, wrote to the government requesting it establish an inquiry. Mirabella said she is aware of as many as 100 cases of alleged workplace harassment. On 20 July 2012 Comcare issued with an Improvement Notice with regard to handling a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288262 |
CSIRO In August 2015 the discontinued its annual July and August survey, conducted over the previous five years, polling to create a long-term view of how Australians viewed global warming and their support for action. In the previous 2013 poll, 86 per cent agreed with the statement that climate change was occurring an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288262 |
Alignments of random points in a plane can be demonstrated by statistics to be counter-intuitively easy to find when a large number of random points are marked on a bounded flat surface. This has been put forward as a demonstration that ley lines and other similar mysterious alignments believed by some to be phenomena ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=289860 |
Alignments of random points One way of understanding this phenomenon is to see that the increase in the number of possible combinations of sets of points in that area overwhelms the decrease in the probability that any given set of points in that area line up. One definition which expresses the generally accepted meani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=289860 |
Alignments of random points Consider all the unordered sets of "k" points from the "n" points, of which there are: (see factorial and binomial coefficient for notation). To make a rough estimate of the probability that any given subset of "k" points is approximately collinear in the way defined above, consider the line... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=289860 |
Alignments of random points A more precise expression for the number of 3-point alignments of maximum width "w" and maximum length "d" expected by chance among "n" points placed randomly on a square of side "L" is If edge effects (alignments lost over the boundaries of the square) are included, then the expression beco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=289860 |
Lattice model (physics) In physics, a lattice model is a physical model that is defined on a lattice, as opposed to the continuum of space or spacetime. Lattice models originally occurred in the context of condensed matter physics, where the atoms of a crystal automatically form a lattice. Currently, lattice models are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=291472 |
Lattice model (physics) An example of a continuum theory that is widely studied by lattice models is the QCD lattice model, a discretization of quantum chromodynamics. However, digital physics considers nature fundamentally discrete at the Planck scale, which imposes , aka Holographic principle. More generally, lattice... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=291472 |
Flavr Savr (also known as CGN-89564-2; pronounced "flavor saver"), a genetically modified tomato, was the first commercially grown genetically engineered food to be granted a license for human consumption. It was produced by the Californian company Calgene, and submitted to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=293676 |
Flavr Savr The downside to this approach is that the tomato does not complete its natural growing process, and the final flavor suffers as a result. Through genetic engineering, Calgene hoped to slow down the ripening process of the tomato and thus prevent it from softening, while still allowing the tomato to retain it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=293676 |
Flavr Savr In the UK, Zeneca produced a tomato paste that used technology similar to the Flavr Savr. Don Grierson was involved in the research to make the genetically modified tomato. Due to the characteristics of the tomato, it was cheaper to produce than conventional tomato paste, resulting in the product being 20% c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=293676 |
Flavr Savr " In the intervening period, Sainsbury's and Safeway both pledged that none of their house brand products would contain genetically modified ingredients. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=293676 |
Helimagnetism is an incommensurate form of magnetic ordering that results from the competition between ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic exchange interactions, and is typically only observed at liquid helium temperatures. Spins of neighbouring magnetic moments arrange themselves in a spiral or helical pattern, with a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6005413 |
Stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture Stable Isotope Labeling by/with Amino acids in Cell culture (SILAC) is a technique based on mass spectrometry that detects differences in protein abundance among samples using non-radioactive isotopic labeling. It is a popular method for quantitative proteomics. Tw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6006708 |
Stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture SILAC has emerged as a very powerful method to study cell signaling, post translation modifications such as phosphorylation, protein–protein interaction and regulation of gene expression. In addition, SILAC has become an important method in secretomics, the global ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6006708 |
Stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture The use of only heavy amino acids eliminates the need for 100% incorporation of amino acids needed for SILAC. The increased multiplexing capability of NeuCode amino acids is from the use of mass defects from extra neutrons in the stable isotopes. These small mass d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6006708 |
Telechelic polymer A telechelic polymer or oligomer is a prepolymer capable of entering into further polymerization or other reactions through its reactive end-groups. It can be used for example to synthesize block copolymers. By definition, a telechelic polymer is a di-end-functional polymer where both ends possess th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012260 |
History of biotechnology Biotechnology is the application of scientific and engineering principles to the processing of materials by biological agents to provide goods and services. From its inception, biotechnology has maintained a close relationship with society. Although now most often associated with the developmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012335 |
History of biotechnology Each new scientific advance became a media event designed to capture public support, and by the 1980s, biotechnology grew into a promising real industry. In 1988, only five proteins from genetically engineered cells had been approved as drugs by the United States Food and Drug Administration (F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012335 |
History of biotechnology One of these, the Zymotechnic Institute, was established in Chicago by the German-born chemist John Ewald Siebel. The heyday and expansion of zymotechnology came in World War I in response to industrial needs to support the war. Max Delbrück grew yeast on an immense scale during the war to meet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012335 |
History of biotechnology For Ereky, the term "biotechnologie" indicated the process by which raw materials could be biologically upgraded into socially useful products. This catchword spread quickly after the First World War, as "biotechnology" entered German dictionaries and was taken up abroad by business-hungry priv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012335 |
History of biotechnology Doctors used the phrase "miracle drug", and the historian of its wartime use, David Adams, has suggested that to the public penicillin represented the perfect health that went together with the car and the dream house of wartime American advertising. Beginning in the 1950s, fermentation technol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012335 |
History of biotechnology As there was no well-accepted term to describe the new foods, in 1966 the term "single-cell protein" (SCP) was coined at MIT to provide an acceptable and exciting new title, avoiding the unpleasant connotations of microbial or bacterial. The "food from oil" idea became quite popular by the 1970... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012335 |
History of biotechnology For all their enthusiasm for innovation and traditional interest in microbiologically produced foods, the Japanese were the first to ban the production of single-cell proteins. The Japanese ultimately were unable to separate the idea of their new "natural" foods from the far from natural connot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012335 |
History of biotechnology Before the new direction could be taken, however, the political wind changed again: the Reagan administration came to power in January 1981 and, with the declining oil prices of the 1980s, ended support for the gasohol industry before it was born. Biotechnology seemed to be the solution for maj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012335 |
History of biotechnology This approach could, in principle, enable bacteria to adopt the genes and produce proteins of other organisms, including humans. Popularly referred to as "genetic engineering," it came to be defined as the basis of new biotechnology. Genetic engineering proved to be a topic that thrust biotechn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012335 |
History of biotechnology The author's preface saw Kornberg's discovery of replicating a viral gene as a route to lethal doomsday bugs. The publisher's blurb for the book warned that within ten years, "You may marry a semi-artificial man or woman…choose your children's sex…tune out pain…change your memories…and live to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012335 |
History of biotechnology Lederberg's 1963 paper, "Biological Future of Man" suggested that, while molecular biology might one day make it possible to change the human genotype, "what we have overlooked is euphenics, the engineering of human development." Lederberg constructed the word "euphenics" to emphasize changing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012335 |
History of biotechnology He described "an early chance for a technology of untold importance for diagnostic and therapeutic medicine: the ready production of an unlimited variety of human proteins. Analogous applications may be foreseen in fermentation process for cheaply manufacturing essential nutrients, and in the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012335 |
History of biotechnology Yet, if one could produce synthetic human insulin, one could meet an existing demand with a product whose approval would be relatively easy to obtain from regulators. In the period 1975 to 1977, synthetic "human" insulin represented the aspirations for new products that could be made with the n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012335 |
History of biotechnology The MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor, or MOS transistor) was invented by Mohamed M. Atalla and Dawon Kahng in 1959, and demonstrated in 1960. Two years later, L.C. Clark and C. Lyons invented the biosensor in 1962. Biosensor MOSFETs (BioFETs) were later developed, and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012335 |
History of biotechnology By the early 2000s, BioFETs such as the DNA field-effect transistor (DNAFET), gene-modified FET (GenFET) and cell-potential BioFET (CPFET) had been developed. With ancestral roots in industrial microbiology that date back centuries, the new biotechnology industry grew rapidly beginning in the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012335 |
History of biotechnology Moreover, to the 1970s plight of cancer was added AIDS in the 1980s, offering an enormous potential market for a successful therapy, and more immediately, a market for diagnostic tests based on monoclonal antibodies. By 1988, only five proteins from genetically engineered cells had been approve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012335 |
History of biotechnology In 1998, about 30% of the US cotton and corn crops were also expected to be products of genetic engineering. Genetic engineering in biotechnology stimulated hopes for both therapeutic proteins, drugs and biological organisms themselves, such as seeds, pesticides, engineered yeasts, and modified... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012335 |
Pressure drop is defined as the difference in total pressure between two points of a fluid carrying network. A pressure drop occurs when frictional forces, caused by the resistance to flow, act on a fluid as it flows through the tube. The main determinants of resistance to fluid flow are fluid velocity through the pipe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6014225 |
Hannay angle In classical mechanics, the is a mechanics analogue of the whirling geometric phase (or Berry phase). It was named after John Hannay of the University of Bristol, UK. Hannay first described the angle in 1985, extending the ideas of the recently formalized Berry phase to classical mechanics. The Foucault pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6020635 |
Keyhole problem The keyhole problem, in the context of astronomy, refers to the difficulty that azimuth-elevation type telescopes or antenna gimbal systems encounter in crossing the zenith. To track celestial objects as they move across the sky, these systems usually rotate on two axes. Often, a tilting mechanism (elev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6036832 |
Barouh Berkovits (May 7, 1926 – October 23, 2012) was one of the pioneers of bio-engineering, particularly the cardiac defibrillator and artificial cardiac pacemaker. In particular, Berkovits invented the "demand pacemaker" and the DC defibrillator. Berkovits was born in Czechoslovakia. His parents and sister died at A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6038692 |
Occulting disk An occulting disk is a small disk used in a telescope to block the view of a bright object in order to allow observation of a fainter one. The coronagraph, at its simplest, is an occulting disk in the focal plane of a telescope, or in front of the entrance aperture, that blocks out the image of the solar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6044113 |
Jan Smit (physicist) Jan Smit (born 16 September 1943, Amsterdam) is a Dutch theoretical physicist. During his PhD at UCLA with professor Robert Finkelstein he made some early contributions to lattice formulation of quantum field theory around 1972, which was a year before Kenneth Wilson, and two years before Alexander... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6044199 |
Breithauptite is a nickel antimonide mineral with the simple formula NiSb. is a metallic opaque copper-red mineral crystallizing in the hexagonal - dihexagonal dipyramidal crystal system. It is typically massive to reniform in habit, but is observed as tabular crystals. It has a Mohs hardness of 3.5 to 4 and a specific... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6044501 |
Leon Knopoff (July 1, 1925 – January 20, 2011) was a geophysicist and musicologist. He received his education at Caltech, graduating in 1949 with a PhD in physics, and came to UCLA the following year. He served on the UCLA faculty for 60 years. His research interests spanned a wide variety of fields and included the ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6053337 |
Crude oil assay A crude oil assay is the chemical evaluation of crude oil feedstocks by petroleum testing laboratories. Each crude oil type has unique molecular and chemical characteristics. No two crude oil types are identical and there are crucial differences in crude oil quality. The results of crude oil assay testi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6060943 |
Nanofoam Nanofoams are a class of nanostructured, porous materials (foams) containing a significant population of pores with diameters less than 100 nm. Aerogels are one example of nanofoam. In 2006, researchers produced metal nanofoams by igniting pellets of energetic metal bis(tetrazolato)amine complexes. Nanofoams o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6064049 |
David Hodgson (chemist) Professor David Michael Hodgson is the Todd Fellow and Tutor in Chemistry at Oriel College, Oxford. Hodgson achieved his Bachelor of Science at the University of Bath and gained his Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Southampton. His research interests are in synthesis, broadly encompas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6067807 |
Gilbert (Martian crater) Gilbert is a large Martian crater located in the south of the planet in the Mare Australe quadrangle. It is one of several large craters in the heavily pock-marked upland region. It was named in 1973 in honour of American geologist Grove K. Gilbert. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6069148 |
DeepWorker 2000 is a submarine vehicle developed by Nuytco Research, Ltd. It is capable of descending to a depth of 610 m (2001 ft) and remaining submerged for 12 hours. In 1999, it was deployed to the continental shelf and upper continental slope on a five-year mission in association with the National Geographic Socie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6071883 |
Joseph Altman (1925 – 2016) was an American biologist who worked in the field of neurobiology. Born in Hungary to a Jewish family, he survived the Holocaust and migrated with his family via Germany and Australia to the United States. In these places, he sought employment as a librarian and used the opportunity to infor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6076253 |
Joseph Altman The fact that the brain can create new neurons even into adulthood was rediscovered by Elizabeth Gould in 1999, leading it to be one of the hottest fields in neuroscience. Adult neurogenesis has recently been proven to occur in the dentate gyrus, olfactory bulb and striatum through the measurement of Carb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6076253 |
Jon Claerbout Jon F. Claerbout (born 1938) is an American geophysicist and seismologist. He is the Cecil Green Professor Emeritus of Geophysics at Stanford University. Since the later half of the 20th century, he has been a leading researcher and pioneered the use of computers in processing and filtering seismic explor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6079718 |
Jon Claerbout The term and concept of exploding reflectors in reflection seismology is often attributed to Jon Claerbout. However, Claerbout claims that the term was coined by John Sherwood, a geophysicist from Chevron who introduced him to exploration geophysics. John Sherwood has said that he only used the term to re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6079718 |
Thomas R. Holtz Jr. Thomas Richard Holtz Jr., Ph.D. (born September 13, 1965) is an American vertebrate palaeontologist, author, and principal lecturer at the University of Maryland's Department of Geology. He has published extensively on the phylogeny, morphology, ecomorphology, and locomotion of terrestrial predators... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6091321 |
Thomas R. Holtz Jr. In this proposed classification system, the tyrannosauroids were supposedly basal to a clade known as Bullatosauria, which was made up of the Troodontidae and the Ornithomimosauria. These two groups were purported to form a clade, because they both shared a common characteristic; which was a skull c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6091321 |
SEG-Y The (sometimes SEG Y) file format is one of several standards developed by the Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG) for storing geophysical data. It is an open standard, and is controlled by the SEG Technical Standards Committee, a non-profit organization. The format was originally developed in 1973 to stor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6092968 |
SEG-Y PASSCAL files contain a single trace, and therefore consist of solely a 240-byte trace header and a variable-length stream of binary integers (which can be much longer than the 32767-sample limit in shot-gather files). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6092968 |
Peter Dayan is director at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, Germany. He is co-author of "Theoretical Neuroscience", an influential textbook on computational neuroscience. He is known for applying bayesian methods from machine learning and artificial intelligence to understand neural func... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6097857 |
Peter Dayan Dayan was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018. He was awarded the Rumelhart Prize in 2012 and The Brain Prize in 2017. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6097857 |
Italian Amateur Astronomers Union The (; UAI) is an Italian organization active in astronomy research and outreach that was founded in 1967. Its members are both professional and amateur astronomers. The UAI claims more than two thousands members from the whole Italy and is one of the most important amateur astronomica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6100068 |
Zhao Xijin (赵喜进; born c. 1935 died July 21, 2012) was a Chinese paleontologist notable for having named numerous dinosaurs. He was a professor at Beijing's Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology. Paul Sereno and Zhao went on a dinosaur fossil hunt in 2005 to Tibet to look for a site that Zhao had fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6102836 |
Gothenburg International Bioscience Business School Gothenburg International Bioscience Business School, GIBBS, is an educational platform with a focus on business creation within the bio- and life sciences in Gothenburg, Sweden. As a student at the school you are studying intellectual property, management, economics a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6104628 |
Gothenburg International Bioscience Business School The University of Gothenburg an education geared towards life science students who become entrepreneurial project leaders ready to deal uncertainties and distinct dynamics that life science industry and start-ups. The graduates from the programme are not only well ver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6104628 |
Gyula Farkas (natural scientist) Farkas Gyula, or Julius Farkas (March 28, 1847 – December 27, 1930) was a Hungarian mathematician and physicist. He attended the gymnasium at Győr (Raab), and studied law and physics at Pest. After teaching in a secondary school at Székesfehérvár (Stuhlweissenburg), Farkas became in suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6107158 |
Witold Milewski (1817–1889) was a , , and pedagogue. In 1853 he became director of the Gymnasium in Trzemeszno. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6112007 |
Cirque glacier A "cirque glacier" is formed in a cirque, a bowl-shaped depression on the side of or near mountains. Snow and ice accumulation in corries often occurs as the result of avalanching from higher surrounding slopes. If a cirque glacier advances far enough, it may become a valley glacier. Additionally, if a v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6121014 |
Emilio Cornalia (25 August 1824 – 8 June 1882) was an Italian naturalist. He was born in Milan and died in the same city. He was conservator from 1851 to 1866, and director from 1866 till his death, of the Milan Museum of Natural History, and was interested in all areas of biology. He was one of the group of leading sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6122794 |
Natural design is an approach to psychology and biology that holds that concepts such as "motivation", "emotion", "inner feeling", "development", "adaptation" refer not to down-reductive explanations of things but to up-reductive descriptions of patterns of which those things are part. It has its roots in philosophical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6126807 |
Oak Investment Partners is a private equity firm focusing on venture capital investments in companies developing communications systems, information technology, new Internet media, healthcare services and retail. The firm, founded in 1978, is based in Greenwich, Connecticut with offices in Norwalk, Connecticut, Minneap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6128122 |
Oak Investment Partners Chang's China Bistro, Photobucket, Polycom, nLIGHT, Sandisk, Seagate, SmartDrive Systems, Sovrn Holdings, Tikona Infinet Limited, Wonga.com. and Zumobi. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6128122 |
Arctic Lowlands The 'Canadian Shield and the Innuitian region are located to the south of the Arctic Lowland plains. This is a region of tundra, a treeless plain, with a cold, dry climate and poorly drained soil. The region is located in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories. The are plains located in Canada. Plains ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6130928 |
ISO 31-9 gives name, symbol and definition for 51 quantities and units of atomic and nuclear physics. Where appropriate, conversion factors are also given. Annex A includes names of symbols of the chemical elements, Annex B the notation of symbols for chemical elements and nuclides, Annex C the original names and symbo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6141463 |
Weather house A weather house is a folk art device in the shape of a small German or Alpine chalet that indicates the weather. A typical weather house has two doors side by side. The left side has a girl or woman, the right side a boy or man. The female figure comes out of the house when the weather is sunny and dry, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6141469 |
Weather house A one-act English comic opera called "Weather or No", about the male and female figures in a weather house falling in love, became popular when it was played as a companion piece to "The Mikado" in 1896-97. "The Brollys" is an animated television series about a boy who is magically transported every night... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6141469 |
Peter Doran Peter Doran, Ph.D. is Professor of Geology and Geophysics and John Franks Endowed Chair at Louisiana State University. Doran specializes in polar regions, especially Antarctic climate and ecosystems. Doran was the lead author of a research paper about Antarctic temperatures that was published in the journal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6144037 |
Peter Doran He was nominated by former Apollo astronaut Harrison Schmidt to be a member of the Planetary Protection Subcommittee of the NASA Advisory Council in 2008 and served until 2017. He is a member of a Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) group that regularly meets to discuss planetary protection on human missio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6144037 |
Controlled lab reactor In chemistry, a Controlled Lab Reactor or CLR is any reaction system where there is an element of automated control. Generally these devices refers to a jacketed glass vessel where a circulating chiller unit pumps a thermal control fluid through the jacket to accurately control the temperature of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6153698 |
Controlled lab reactor Most reaction calorimeters can be used as controlled lab reactors (indeed some calorimeters are based on CLR's). Reaction Calorimeter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6153698 |
National Museum of Natural History, Bulgaria The National Museum of Natural History (, "Natsionalen prirodonauchen muzey"; abbreviated НПМ, NMNHS) of Bulgaria is a natural history museum located in Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, on "Tzar Osvoboditel" Str., next to the Russian church. Founded in 1889, it is affiliated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6157134 |
Aircraft Meteorological Data Relay (AMDAR) is a program initiated by the World Meteorological Organization. AMDAR is used to collect meteorological data worldwide by using commercial aircraft. Data is collected by the aircraft navigation systems and the onboard standard temperature and static pressure probes. The data ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6158574 |
Huayco A huaico or huayco (from the Quechua "wayqu", meaning "depth, valley") is an Andean term for the mudslide and flash flood caused by torrential rains occurring high in the mountains, especially during the weather phenomenon known as "El Niño". National forests such as the San Matías–San Carlos Protection Forest w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6160943 |
Cooperstock's energy-localization hypothesis In physics, the is a hypothesis proposed by Fred Cooperstock that in general relativity, energy only exists in regions of non-vanishing energy–momentum tensor. Since the creation of general relativity there have been questions about the energy of gravitational fields. Among ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6162261 |
TNF inhibitor A is a pharmaceutical drug that suppresses the physiologic response to tumor necrosis factor (TNF), which is part of the inflammatory response. TNF is involved in autoimmune and immune-mediated disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, inflammatory bowel disease, psoriasis, hidradeni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6173922 |
TNF inhibitor Several 5-HT agonist hallucinogens including (R)-DOI, TCB-2, LSD and LA-SS-Az have unexpectedly also been found to act as potent inhibitors of TNF, with DOI being the most active, showing TNF inhibition in the picomolar range, an order of magnitude more potent than its action as a hallucinogen. The role o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6173922 |
TNF inhibitor In cases where more conventional systemic treatments such as psoralen combined with ultraviolet A treatment (PUVA), methotrexate, and ciclosporin have failed or can not be tolerated, these newer biological agents may be prescribed. Infliximab (Remicade) may be used to treat severe plaque psoriasis if afor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6173922 |
TNF inhibitor The FDA has warned about the risk of infection from two bacterial pathogens, Legionella and Listeria. People taking TNF blockers are at increased risk for developing serious infections that may lead to hospitalization or death due to certain bacterial, mycobacterial, fungal, viral, and parasitic opportuni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6173922 |
TNF inhibitor A recent review showed that anti-TNFα agents associate with increased infection risks for both endemic and opportunistic invasive fungal infections, particularly when given late in the overall course of treatment of the underlying disease, and in young patients receiving concomitant cytotoxic or augmented... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6173922 |
TNF inhibitor Several other monoclonal antibodies like adalimumab, pembrolizumab, nivolumab and infliximab have been reported to produce MS artificially. TNF or its effects are inhibited by several natural compounds, including curcumin (a compound present in turmeric), and catechins (in green tea). Cannabidiol and Echi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6173922 |
Fissility (geology) In geology, fissility is the ability or tendency of a rock to split along flat planes of weakness (“parting surfaces”). These planes of weakness are oriented parallel to stratification in sedimentary rocks. Fissility is differentiated from scaly fabric in hand sample by the parting surfaces’ continu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6181420 |
Charles Vélain (16 May 1845 – 6 June 1925) was a French geologist and geographer. He was born in Château-Thierry. Charles Vélain's route to the field of geology was an unusual one. He was a student of pharmacy. He studied geology later at the Sorbonne. He was part of several explorations, during which he studied variou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6183649 |
Harold Cogger Harold George "Hal" Cogger (born 4 May 1935) is an Australian herpetologist. He was curator of reptiles and amphibians at the Australian Museum from 1960 to 1975, and Deputy Director of the museum from 1976 to 1995. He has written extensively on Australian herpetology, and was the first author to create a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6190989 |
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