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Kintarô Okamura He is the author of important studies about seaweeds. He's also well known for his educational books collection, the "Ohraimono". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15713239 |
Eduard Honrath Eduard Gustav Honrath (11 August 1837, Coblenz – 19 April 1893, Berlin) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera, particularly "Parnassius". Honrath was a well-known art dealer in Berlin. Among his entomological achievements, he described "Parnassius graeseri" (1885) (now "Parnassius brem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15718387 |
FLASH FLASH, acronym of "Free Electron LASer in Hamburg", a particle accelerator-based soft X-ray laser located at the DESY accelerator facilities in Hamburg, Germany. It can generate very powerful, ultrashort pulses (~10 s) of coherent radiation in the energy range 10 eV (electronvolt) to 200 eV. It started operation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15727524 |
Stratospheric Processes And their Role in Climate Stratosphere-troposphere Processes and their Role in Climate (SPARC) is a core project of the World Climate Research Programme. Founded in 1992, SPARC has coordinated high-level research activities related to understanding Earth system processes for over two decades. Mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15730540 |
Stibiopalladinite is a mineral containing the chemical elements palladium and antimony. Its chemical formula is PdSb. It is a silvery white to steel grey opaque mineral crystallizing in the hexagonal crystal system. It was first described in 1929 for an occurrence in the Bushveld igneous complex of South Africa. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15730749 |
Cadmoselite is a rare cadmium selenide mineral with chemical formula CdSe. crystallizes in the hexagonal system and occurs as black to pale grey opaque crystals and grains. It was first described in 1957 for an occurrence in Tuva. The mineral occurs as interstitial grains in sandstone formed under reducing alkaline dia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15731442 |
Shōnen Matsumura Born in Akashi, Hyōgo, Dr. established Japan’s first course on entomology at Hokkaido University. The courses were both applied (on insects of importance in forestry and agriculture) and theoretical. He named over 1,200 species of Japanese insects and in 1926 he founded the entomological journal "Insec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15734774 |
Takashi Shirozu He wrote "Butterflies of Formosa in Colour" Osaka, Hoikusha (1960), "Early Stages of Japanese Butterflies in Colour" Hoikusha (with Akira Hara, 1960) and "Butterflies of Japan Illustrated in Colour" Tokyo, Hokuryu-kan (1964) all of which took advantage of Japanese advanced (optical) and colour printing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15736604 |
Arginine alpha-ketoglutarate Arginine "alpha"-ketoglutarate (AAKG) is a salt of the amino acid arginine and "alpha"-ketoglutaric acid. It is marketed as a bodybuilding supplement. Peer-reviewed studies have found no increase in muscle protein synthesis or improvement in muscle strength from use of AAKG as a dietary sup... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15741707 |
Thomas Melvill Thomas Melvill(e) (1726 – December 1753) was a Scottish natural philosopher, who was active in the fields of spectroscopy and astronomy. The son of Helen Whytt and the Rev Andrew Melville, minister of Monimail (d. 29 July 1736), Thomas was a student at Glasgow University. In 1749, with Alexander Wilson, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15743250 |
Thomas Melvill Melvill died in Geneva in 1753, aged 27. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15743250 |
Tsunamitsu Adachi A soldier from 1921-1922, entered the faculty of agriculture of the University of Tokyo in 1925. Here he became an assistant in 1932 then an associate professor in 1948. In 1954, he accepted the post of professor at Toyo University. He retired in 1976. Adachi was the author 75 scientific papers, princ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15751595 |
Flaminio Baudi di Selve (7 July 1821, Savigliano – 26 June 1901, Genoa) was an Italian entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera but also Heteroptera. He wrote Europae et circummediterraneae Faunae Tenebrionidum specierum, quae Comes Dejean in suo Catalogo, editio 3, consignavit, ejusdem collectione in R. Taurinensi M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15753039 |
Phi Sigma (ΦΣ) is an honor society for students of biological sciences. is also the name of a local greek life organization at Trine University, in Angola Indiana, that branched from Sigma. The honor society was founded on March 17, 1915 at Ohio State University. It became a member of the Association of College Honor S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15758021 |
Niall McNeill Niall MacNeill (1899–1969) was an Irish army officer and entomologist who specialised in Odonata and Heteroptera. He was the son of Eoin MacNeill founder of the Irish Volunteers which Niall MacNeill joined later becoming an officer in the Irish Army. With the rank of Colonel he specialised in surveying, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15767494 |
Biological cost In biology, the "biological cost" or "metabolic price" is a measure of the increased energy metabolism that is required to achieve a function. Drug resistance in microbiology, for instance, has a very high metabolic price, especially for antibiotic resistance. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15769677 |
Rudolf Püngeler (15 February 1857 in Burtscheid – 1 February 1927 in Aachen) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He was a district court lawyer in Aachen. Püngeler described very many new species and named ten new genera of moths mainly in "Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, Iris. Dresden". His ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15783332 |
2 base encoding 2 Base Encoding, also called SOLiD (sequencing by oligonucleotide ligation and detection), is a next-generation sequencing technology developed by Applied Biosystems and has been commercially available since 2008. These technologies generate hundreds of thousands of small sequence reads at one time. Wel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15791844 |
2 base encoding In 2003, Dressman "et al." demonstrated the use of emulsion PCR to generate millions of clonally amplified beads which one could perform these repeated ligation assays on. In 2005, Shendure "et al." performed a sequencing procedure which combined Whiteley and Dressman techniques performing ligation of f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15791844 |
2 base encoding make dilution from DNA library to maximize the droplet that contain one DNA fragment and one bead into a single emulsion droplet. In each droplet, DNA template anneals to the P1-coupled bead from its A1 side. Then DNA polymerase will extend from P1 to make the complementary sequence, which eventually re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15791844 |
2 base encoding - Step 5, Sequencing Reaction: As mentioned earlier, unlike other next-generation methods which perform sequencing through synthesis, 2-base encoding is based on sequencing by ligation. The ligation is performed using specific 8-mer probes: These probes are eight bases in length with a free hydroxyl gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15791844 |
2 base encoding Then, the remaining unbound probes are washed out, the fluorescent signal from the bound probe is measured, and the bound probe is cleaved between its fifth and sixth nucleotide. Finally the primer and probes are all reset for the next round. In the next round a new universal primer anneals the position... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15791844 |
2 base encoding To best leverage the "error correction" properties of two base encoding it is best to convert your base reference sequence into color-space. There is one unambiguous conversion of a base reference sequence into color-space and while the reverse is also true the conversion can be wildly inaccurate if the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15791844 |
2 base encoding In addition, only one third of the adjacent errors can be valid errors according to the known labeling of the probes thus delivering only 16 out of 1225 errors which can be candidates for SNPs. This is particularly useful for low coverage SNP detection as it reduces false positives at low coverage, Smit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15791844 |
Manipulation of atoms by optical field When a group of atoms is super-cooled to temperatures near absolute zero, they form a Bose–Einstein condensate, a state of matter where quantum effects can be observed in the macroscopic system. In this state, the trajectories of the atoms can be manipulated using light. If a supe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15795860 |
Rhondda Jones Rhondda Elizabeth Jones (born 1945) was the first Professor of Zoology and the first female professor at James Cook University, and served as Deputy Vice-Chancellor from 1997 to 2000. Professor Jones was previously the Chair of the Academic Board of James Cook University. In 2019 she is Director, Research... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15796061 |
HCM-6A is an LAE galaxy that was found in 2002 by a team led by Esther Hu from the University of Hawaii, using the Keck II Telescope in Hawaii. is located behind the Abell 370 galactic cluster, near M77 in the constellation Cetus, which enabled the astronomers to use Abell 370 as a gravitational lens to get a clearer i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15796200 |
Informative site In phylogenetics, informative site is a term used in the context of maximum parsimony, to refer to a characteristic that can usefully distinguish between samples at a genetic level (for example samples from different species or sub-species). The informative site is a position in the relevant set of seq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15806009 |
Raymond R. Rogers Raymond Robert Rogers is a professor and chair of geology at Macalester College. He earned his B.S. in geology from Northern Arizona University in 1985, his M.S. from the University of Montana in 1989, and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1995 Rogers' specializations are as a sedimentary ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15816225 |
Christian von Steven (; 19 January 1781, in Fredrikshamn, Finland – 30 April 1863, in Simferopol, Crimea) was a Finnish-born Russian botanist and entomologist. Steven studied medicine at Saint Petersburg University before working at a centre for silk production in the Caucasus where he commenced as an assistant, progre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15840184 |
John Nugent Fitch (24 October 1840–11 January 1927) was a British botanical illustrator and lithographer, best known for his contribution of 528 plates to "The Orchid Album", a landmark work of eleven volumes published between 1872 and 1897. Fitch was the nephew of botanical artist Walter Hood Fitch (1817-1892). Fitch ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15840962 |
Hoelite is a mineral, discovered in 1922 at Mt. Pyramide, Spitsbergen, Norway and named after Norwegian geologist Adolf Hoel (1879–1964). Its chemical formula is CHO (9,10-anthraquinone). It is a very rare organic mineral which occurs in coal fire environments in association with sal ammoniac and native sulfur. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15843784 |
Tohru Fukuyama Fukuyama studied chemistry at Nagoya University with degrees Bachelor's (1971) and Master's (1973) degrees. As a graduate student, he then worked at Harvard University, where he received his doctorate in 1977 as an academic student of Yoshito Kishi. Until 1978, he continued his research as a postdoc in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15848953 |
Kenkichi Sonogashira Kenkichi Sonogashira | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15857645 |
Makoto Kumada Makoto Kumada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15857750 |
Hideki Sakurai He discovered the Sakurai reaction in 1976. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15858294 |
Kurimoto Masayoshi He was physician to the 11th Tokugawa shōgun Tokugawa Ienari lectured on Materia Medica. In 1811 he wrote "Kurimoto’s Iconographia Insectorum" which records 500 Japanese insects. In 1826 he met Philipp Franz von Siebold and they worked together. gave him drawings of Crustacea. One of these Squilla ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15858961 |
Fauna Japonica is a series of monographs on the zoology of Japan. It was the first book written in a European language (French) on the Japanese fauna, and published serially in five volumes between 1833 and 1850. The full title is . Based on the collections made by Philipp Franz von Siebold (who edited the text) and hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15860399 |
Fauna Japonica Herklots studied the other invertebrates in von Siebold's collection, no volume of his was published in this series. The publication of the each volume was done in the form of several fascicles called "Decades" over many years. This process poses many problems for modern scientists trying to keep track o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15860399 |
Maximon (particle) Maximon – an hypothetical elementary particle of maximum mass in the mass spectrum of elementary particles having mass of 5 × 10 eV. Maximons can be electrically charged or neutral, they can have internal temperature of maximum or absolute zero, spin. They can look like black holes also. Existence of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15864430 |
Specific force is defined as the non-gravitational force per unit mass. (also called g-force and mass-specific force) is measured in meters/second² (m·s) which is the units for acceleration. Thus, specific force is not actually a force, but a type of acceleration. However, the (mass-)specific force is not a coordinate-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15868806 |
Specific force Accelerometers measure specific force (proper acceleration), which is the acceleration relative to free-fall, not the "standard" acceleration that is relative to a coordinate system. In open channel hydraulics, specific force (formula_2) has a different meaning: where Q is the discharge, g is the acceler... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15868806 |
Iwasaki Tsunemasa also Kan-en ( or , 1786–1842) was a Japanese botanist, zoologist and entomologist. He was also a samurai in the service of the Tokugawa shogunate. He wrote: Ueno Masuzo (year?) Japanese entomology in the first half of the nineteenth century "Japanese journal of entomology" Vol.27, No.1(19590315) pp. 4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15875824 |
Maeda Toshiyasu (Toyama) Toshiyasu was born in Edo as Keitaro (啓太郎), the second son of Maeda Toshinori, but was still underage on his father’s death, so the domain was assigned to Maeda Toshitsuyo instead. In 1811, he was adopted by Toshitsuyo to restore the line of succession and became "daimyō" in 1835 when Toshitsuy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15877412 |
Maeda Toshiyasu (Toyama) Maede learned the Dutch language (the Japanese naturalists followed Philipp Franz von Siebold and also learned the French language Siebold's choice for Fauna Japonica and Flora Japonica) and translated the Dutch language Systema Naturae into Japanese. He is also noted for authoring the "Honzō T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15877412 |
Twistor correspondence In mathematical physics, the twistor correspondence is a natural isomorphism between massless Yang-Mills fields on Minkowski space and sheaf cohomology classes on a real hypersurface of CP. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15890221 |
George Laurence George Craig Laurence (21 January 1905 – 6 November 1987) was a Canadian nuclear physicist. He was educated at Dalhousie University, and at Cambridge University under Ernest Rutherford. He was appointed as Radium and X-ray physicist to the Canadian National Research Council in 1930. In 1939-40 he attemp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15892739 |
Karst fenster is a geomorphic feature formed from the dissolution of carbonate bedrock. In this feature, a spring emerges, then the discharge abruptly disappears into a sinkhole. The word "fenster" is German for 'window', as these features are windows into the karst landscape. The term is used to denote an unroofed por... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15899225 |
Szczepan Szczeniowski Professor Szczepan Eugeniusz Szczeniowski (1898–1979), was a Polish physicist, and author of numerous papers on cosmic rays, electron diffraction and ferromagnetism. In early 1930s, he taught at the Jan Kazimierz University in Lwow, in 1937 moving to the Stefan Batory University in Wilno. After Wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15899436 |
Cyril Callister Cyril Percy Callister (16 February 1893 – 5 October 1949) was an Australian chemist and food technologist who developed the Vegemite yeast spread. The son of a teacher and postmaster, and one of seven children, he attended the Ballarat School of Mines and later won a scholarship to the University of Mel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15906222 |
Cyril Callister Callister was appointed chief scientist and production superintendent of the new company. Between 1919 and 1927 he had 3 children (two boys and a girl) named Ian, Bill and Jean. They were the original vegemite kids. During World War II Ian unfortunately died. Callister got his Doctorate from the Univers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15906222 |
Dale Clayton Dale Hartwell Clayton (born October 23, 1957), a parasitologist and professor of evolution at the University of Utah. Clayton is the taxonomist of "Strigiphilus garylarsoni". named the new species of feather louse after his favorite cartoonist, Gary Larson. Clayton has been interested in the relationships ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15911980 |
Magnetogastrography is the science of recording magnetogastrograms (MGGs). Magnetogastrograms are recordings of magnetic fields resulting from electrical currents in the stomach. The magnetic fields are typically recorded using SQUIDs. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15970289 |
Protonosphere The protonosphere is a layer of the Earth's atmosphere (or any planet with a similar atmosphere) where the dominant components are atomic hydrogen and ionic hydrogen (protons). It is the outer part of the ionosphere, and extends to the interplanetary medium. Hydrogen dominates in the outermost layers beca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15985775 |
In vitro compartmentalization "In vitro" compartmentalization (IVC) is an emulsion-based technology that generates cell-like compartments "in vitro". These compartments are designed such that each contains no more than one gene. When the gene is transcribed and/or translated, its products (RNAs and/or proteins) become ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15991162 |
In vitro compartmentalization found there was enrichment for the M.HaeIII genes, i.e. 1000 fold in the first round of selection. Water-in-oil (w/o) emulsions are created by mixing aqueous and oil phases with the help of surfactants. A typical IVC emulsion is formed by first generating oil-surfactant mixture by stirring... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15991162 |
In vitro compartmentalization The ratio of genes to droplets is designed such that most of the droplets contains no more than a single gene statistically. IVC enables the miniaturization of large-scale techniques that can now be done on the micro scale including coupled "in vitro" transcription and translation (IVTT) e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15991162 |
In vitro compartmentalization Instead, a novel emulsion formulation: 4% Abil EM90 / light mineral oil was developed and demonstrated to be functional in expressing luciferase and human telomerase. Once transcription and/or translation has completed in the droplets, emulsion will be broken by successive steps of removin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15991162 |
In vitro compartmentalization The second strategy is to use monomeric mutant of VirD2 enzyme. When a protein/peptide is expressed in fusion with Agrobacterium protein VirD2, it will bind to its DNA coding sequence that has a single-stranded overhang comprising VirD2 T-border recognition sequences. The third method is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15991162 |
In vitro compartmentalization Comparing to other "in vitro" display technologies, IVC has two major advantages. The first advantage is its ability to control reactions within the droplets. Hydrophobic and hydrophilic components can be delivered to each droplet in a step-wise fashion without compromising the chemical in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15991162 |
Membrane stabilizing effect Membrane stabilizing effects involve the inhibition or total abolishing of action potentials from being propagated across the membrane. This phenomenon is common in nerve tissues as they are the carrier of impulses from the periphery to the central nervous system. Membrane stabilization is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15995335 |
Friedrich Wilhelm Konow (11 July 1842, in Mechow – 18 March 1908, in Teschendorf) was a German entomologist who specialised in Hymenoptera especially Tenthredinidae. Konow was a vicar studying entomology in his spare time. He wrote "Familie Tenthredinidae" in Wytsman's, "Genera Insectorum" ( Fascicle 29) 176 pp. 1905) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15998628 |
Jan Łopuszański (physicist) Jan Łopuszański (21 October 1923 – 30 April 2008) was a Polish theoretical physicist and author of several textbooks about classical, statistical and quantum physics. In the field of quantum field theory, he is most famous as co-author of the Haag-Lopuszanski-Sohnius theorem concerning the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16018591 |
Jan Łopuszański (physicist) He was also member of the editor board of Reports on Mathematical Physics and Fortschritte der Physik. He wrote about 80 original professional papers, 40 review articles and 5 major textbooks. J. Łopuszański had a son named Maciej with Halina Pidek, and after divorcing her, was married to Ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16018591 |
Guelfo Cavanna (27 February 1850, Ferrara – 18 December 1920, Florence) was an Italian entomologist. Cavanna was a teacher at the University of Florence and secretary of the Società Entomologica Italiana from 1875 to 1892. In 1880 he worked on the insect fauna of the then unexplored regions of Vulture and Pollino in so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16018818 |
Geology of Canada The geology of Canada is a subject of regional geology and covers the country of Canada, which is the second-largest country in the world. Geologic units and processes are investigated on a large scale to reach a synthesized picture of the geological development of the country. Geologically, Canada is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16024718 |
Theodor Franz Wilhelm Kirsch (29 September 1818, Düben, Torgau - 8 July 1889, Dresden) was a German entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. Kirsch was curator of entomology at the Staatliches Museum für Tierkunde Dresden in Dresden. His collection is shared between Upper Silesian Museum (Muzeum Górnośląskie w Bytom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16036966 |
Nojima Fault Nojima Fault | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16059617 |
Theodor Emil Schummel (23 May 1786, Breslau—24 February 1848) was a German entomologist who specialised in Diptera. Schummel was a private tutor in Breslau. He was a member of Schlesische Gesellschaft für vaterländische Cultur (Silesian Society for Patriotic Culture) a largely scientific society which received royal ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16068464 |
Sborgite is a sodium borate mineral with formula Na[BO(OH)]·3HO. The formula can be written as the oxide formulation, NaO.5BO.10HO. Sometimes called sodium pentaborate pentahydrate it contains the pentaborate anion, (BO(OH)). is colorless with monoclinic crystals. It was named for Umberto Sborgi, (1883–1955), Professor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16070689 |
Longinos Navás (7 March 1858 Cabacés, Tarragona – 31 December 1938 Girona) was a Spanish entomologist who specialised in Plecoptera and Neuropteroidea. Father was a Jesuit priest. He published extensively on the Neuroptera fauna of Spain in "Memorias de la Real. Academia Ciencias y Artes de Barcelona".His papers on wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16075689 |
Independent electron approximation The independent electron approximation is used in both the free electron model and the nearly-free electron model. In this approximation we do not consider electron-electron interaction in a crystal. It is more difficult to treat electron-electron interactions than ion-electron intera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16086895 |
Otto Zdansky Otto Karl Josef Zdansky (28 November 1894, Vienna – 26 December 1988, Uppsala) was an Austrian paleontologist. He graduated from the Philosophical School at the University of Vienna in Paleontology on March 21, 1921 with the academic degree 'Dr. phil.' (dissertation: 'Über die Temporalregion des Schildkröt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16089297 |
Chemical similarity (or molecular similarity) refers to the similarity of chemical elements, molecules or chemical compounds with respect to either structural or functional qualities, i.e. the effect that the chemical compound has on reaction partners in inorganic or biological settings. Biological effects and thus als... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16090759 |
Chemical similarity Although this hypothesis is not always valid, quite often the set of retrieved compounds is considerably enriched with actives. To achieve high efficacy of similarity-based screening of databases containing millions of compounds, molecular structures are usually represented by "molecular screens" (s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16090759 |
Chemical similarity Recently, 3D chemical similarity networks based on 3D ligand conformation have also been developed, which can be used to identify scaffold hopping ligands. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16090759 |
Syngas fermentation Syngas fermentation, also known as synthesis gas fermentation, is a microbial process. In this process, a mixture of hydrogen, carbon monoxide, and carbon dioxide, known as syngas, is used as carbon and energy sources, and then converted into fuel and chemicals by microorganisms. The main products o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16091349 |
Earth ellipsoid An is a mathematical figure approximating the Earth's form, used as a reference frame for computations in geodesy, astronomy, and the geosciences. Various different ellipsoids have been used as approximations. It is an ellipsoid of revolution whose minor axis (shorter diameter), which connects the geogr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16112368 |
Earth ellipsoid While the mean is the ideal basis of global geodesy, for regional networks a so-called "reference ellipsoid" may be the better choice. When geodetic measurements have to be computed on a mathematical reference surface, this surface should have a similar curvature as the regional geoid - otherwise, reduc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16112368 |
Earth ellipsoid The intermediate distances to points on the meridian at the same latitudes as other stations of the survey may also be calculated. The geographic latitudes of both end points, φ (standpoint) and φ (forepoint) and possibly at other points are determined by astrogeodesy, observing the zenith distances of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16112368 |
Earth ellipsoid The international ellipsoid was developed by John Fillmore Hayford in 1910 and adopted by the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) in 1924, which recommended it for international use. At the 1967 meeting of the IUGG held in Lucerne, Switzerland, the ellipsoid called GRS-67 (Geodetic Refe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16112368 |
Earth ellipsoid The minute difference in formula_3 seen between GRS-80 and WGS-84 results from an unintentional truncation in the latter's defining constants: while the WGS-84 was designed to adhere closely to the GRS-80, incidentally the WGS-84 derived flattening turned out to be slightly different than the GRS-80 fla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16112368 |
Chloracidobacterium In taxonomy, is a genus of the Acidobacteria. This is a group of photosynthetic bacteria were discovered in 2007 and their identification extends the number of bacterial phyla that can carry out chlorophyll-based photosynthesis from five to six. The organism "Candidatus thermophilum" was initially d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16124500 |
Magnetic isotope effect Magnetic isotope effects arise when a chemical reaction involves spin-selective processes, such as the radical pair mechanism. The result is that some isotopes react preferentially, depending on their nuclear spin quantum number I. This is in contrast to more familiar mass-dependent isotope effe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16135470 |
DENIS-P J020529.0−115925 is a brown dwarf system in the constellation of Cetus. It is located 64 light-years (19.8 parsecs) away, based on the system's parallax. It was first found in the Deep Near Infrared Survey of the Southern Sky. This is a triple brown dwarf system: objects that do not have enough mass to fuse hyd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16144332 |
August Bischler (April 29, 1865 – May 26, 1957) was a Russian Empire-born ethnic Crimea German chemist who later emigrated to Switzerland. He discovered the Bischler–Möhlau indole synthesis reaction in 1892 and, together with Bernard Napieralski, discovered the Bischler–Napieralski reaction in 1893. He received his Ph.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16164453 |
Zdenko Hans Skraup (March 3, 1850 – September 10, 1910) was a Czech-Austrian chemist who discovered the Skraup reaction, the first quinoline synthesis. Skraup was born in Prague, where he attended the Oberrealschule from 1860 till 1866 and subsequently studied (1866–1871) at the Technical University of Prague. After be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16178277 |
Halley's Comet Opal The is the largest uncut black opal in the world, according to the Guinness Book of World Records. It is so named because it was unearthed in 1986, a year when Halley's Comet could be seen from Earth. It is the third largest gem grade black opal ever recorded, the largest one extant, and the largest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16181619 |
Henry Hurd Swinnerton (1875–1966) was a British geologist (Not to be confused with American geologist A.C. Swinnerton). He was professor of geology at University College Nottingham from 1910 to 1946. Swinnerton was educated at the Royal College of Science, and earned a doctorate in zoology (D.Sc) from the University of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16182302 |
Fission Product Pilot Plant The Fission Product Pilot Plant, building 3515 at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), was built in 1948 to extract radioactive isotopes from liquid radioactive waste. It was formerly known as the 'ruthenium-106 tank arrangement'. It is a relatively small facility; the task of extracting ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16188434 |
Electric field NMR (EFNMR) spectroscopy differs from conventional NMR spectroscopy in that a sample containing suitable nuclei is polarised by a strong dc electric field instead of a constant magnetic field. The nuclei are stimulated (perturbed) by means of an alternating magnetic field, generated by passing an alterna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16204605 |
Chancey Juday (May 5, 1871 – March 29, 1944) together with G. Evelyn Hutchinson, and his close collaborator, Edward A. Birge were pioneers of North American limnology. Birge and Juday founded an influential school of limnology on Lake Mendota at the University of Wisconsin. Edward Birge hired through this program to he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16208756 |
Johann Christian Mikan (born December 5, 1769 in Teplitz, died December 28, 1844 in Prague) was an Austrian-Czech botanist, zoologist and entomologist. He was the son of Joseph Gottfried Mikan. Mikan was a professor of natural history at the University of Prague. He was one of three leading naturalists on the Austrian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16210362 |
Marine band (geology) Marine band is a geological term for a bed of rock, commonly black or dark grey shale, containing an abundance of fossils of marine organisms. These strata represent episodes of flooding by seawater and are important in enabling the comparison or correlation of rock sequences in different localiti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16217120 |
Nimrod (synchrotron) Nimrod (National Institute Machine Radiating on Downs,"the Mighty Hunter" Nimrod; name attrib. W. Galbraith) was a 7 GeV proton synchrotron operating in the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in the United Kingdom between 1964 and 1978. Nimrod delivered its last particles at 17:00 hrs on 6 June 1978. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16239927 |
Vacuum Rabi oscillation A vacuum Rabi oscillation is a damped oscillation of an initially excited atom coupled to an electromagnetic resonator or cavity in which the atom alternately emits photon(s) into a single-mode electromagnetic cavity and reabsorbs them. The atom interacts with a single-mode field confined to a l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16265577 |
Annals of the Former World is a book on geology written by John McPhee and published in 1998 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The book presents a geological history of North America, and was researched and written over the course of two decades beginning in 1978. It c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16267127 |
Ageostrophy is the real condition that works against geostrophic wind or geostrophic currents in the ocean, and works against an exact balance between the Coriolis force and the pressure gradient force. While geostrophic currents or winds come from an equilibrium of a particular system, ageostrophy is more often observ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16296529 |
Gottlieb Kirchhoff Gottlieb Sigismund Constantin Kirchhoff (19 February 1764 – 14 February 1833) was a Russian chemist of German origin. In 1792–1802, Assistant Director and then Director of the Head Pharmacy at Saint Petersburg. Corresponding member (1807–1812) and since 1812 Full member of the Petersburg Academy of S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16337604 |
Naresh Dadhich (physicist) "For the humanities professor of the same name, see Naresh Dadhich (humanities professor)." Naresh Dadhich (born September 1, 1944) is a theoretical physicist, formerly at Inter-University Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (IUCAA). He was also the director of IUCAA until August 31, 2009. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16362670 |
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