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Acervulus An acervulus (pl. acervuli) is a small asexual fruiting body that erupts through the epidermis of host plants parasitised by mitosporic fungi of the form order Melanconiales (Deuteromycota, Coelomycetes). It has the form of a small cushion at the bottom of which short crowded conidiophores are formed. The spo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18692328 |
Sporodochium A sporodochium (pl. sporodochia) is a small, compact stroma (mass of hyphae) usually formed on host plants parasitised by mitosporic fungi of the form order Tuberculariales (subdivision Deuteromycota, class Hyphomycetes). This stroma bears the conidiophores on which the asexual spores or conidia are formed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18692401 |
Cerro Toro is a Cretaceous landform of the Magallanes Foreland in the Patagonian region of southeastern Chile. The is an element of the southern Andes and a product of the Andean orogeny, caused by the subduction of the Nazca Plate beneath the South American Plate. The formation of the began in the Jurassic. The Cueva ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18697277 |
Kunio Yamazaki Dr. was a biologist who worked at the Monell Chemical Senses Center from 1980 until his death. Yamazaki is most notable for his extensive work with the major histocompatibility complex. He has worked with Dr. Gary Beauchamp, also of Monell, before. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18733535 |
Chen Hang (Traditional Chinese: 陳杭; Simplified Chinese: 陈杭) was born in 1931. She is a botanist and horticulturist. Chen was born in Guangde County, Anhui Province. In 1949, she studied in the Department of Horticulture, Zhejiang University. In 1953, she graduated from the Department of Horticulture, Zhejiang Agricultu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18735389 |
Agustín Fernández Mallo (A Coruña, 1967) is a physicist and Spanish writer. He lives in Palma de Mallorca. He is a member of the so-called Nocilla Generation. Although he works as a physicist, he also collaborates with cultural magazines such as "Lateral", "Contrastes", "La Bolsa de Pipas", "La fábrica" and "Anónima". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18737402 |
Gliese 22 Gliese 22, also catalogued V547 Cassiopeiae, is a hierarchical star system approximately 33 light-years away in the constellation of Cassiopeia. The system consists of two red dwarf stars, Gliese 22A and Gliese 22B in an outer orbit of about 320 years, and a brown dwarf, Gliese 22C, which orbits Gliese 22A in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18740252 |
Total fatty matter (TFM) is one of the most important characteristics describing the quality of soap and it is always specified in commercial transactions. It is defined as the total amount of fatty matter, mostly fatty acids, that can be separated from a sample after splitting with mineral acid, usually hydrochloric a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18740337 |
OneGeology is an international collaborative project in the field of geology supported by 113 countries, UNESCO and major global geoscience bodies. It is an International Year of Planet Earth flagship initiative that aims to enable online access to dynamic digital geological map of the world for everyone. The project u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18741849 |
Johan Lundström Dr. Johan N. Lundström (born 1973) is a Swedish biologist and psychologist. He was awarded his Ph.D. in 2005 from Uppsala University and is most notable for his chemosensory work, and currently works at the Monell Chemical Senses Center. His experiments involve the use of neuroimaging and testing of hum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18744801 |
Pockmark (geology) PockmarkAccording to the 'Glossary of Geology' (Bates and Jackson, 1987): "A concave crater-like depression of the type that occurs in profusion on mud bottoms across Scotian Shelf (King & McLean, 1970). They range in diameter from 15 to 45 meters and in depth from 5 to 10 meters. Pockmarks have also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18773514 |
Pockmark (geology) The craters off Nova Scotia are up to in diameter and deep. Pockmarks have been found worldwide. Discovery was aided by the use of high-resolution multibeam acoustic systems for bathymetric mapping. In these cases, pockmarks have been interpreted as the morphological expression of gas or oil leakage ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18773514 |
Seismic vibrator A seismic vibrator is a truck-mounted or buggy-mounted device that is capable of injecting low-frequency vibrations into the earth. It is one of a number of seismic sources used in reflection seismology. The ‘Vibroseis’ exploration technique (performed with vibrators) was developed by the Continental O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18773592 |
Lyons Groups of Galaxies (or LGG) is an astronomical catalog of nearby groups of galaxies complete to a limiting apparent magnitude B0=14.0 with a recession velocity smaller than 5,500 km/s. Two methods were used in group construction: a percolation method derived from Huchra and Geller and a hierarchical method initia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18786805 |
NOAA-13 NOAA-13, also known as NOAA-I, was a U.S. weather satellite operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NOAA-I continues the third-generation operational, polar orbiting, meteorological satellite series operated by the National Environmental Satellite Service (NESS) of the NOAA. cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18787228 |
Sohan Lal Jain is an Indian paleontologist, who worked for many years at the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata. The large herbivorous sauropod dinosaur genus "Jainosaurus", was named in his honour after it was identified as a distinct genus although initially thought to be a species of "Antarctosaurus". His other m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18793433 |
Bernard de Wit Bernard Quirinus Petrus Joseph de Wit (born 1945 in Bergen op Zoom) is a Dutch theoretical physicist specializing in supergravity and particle physics. studied theoretical physics at Utrecht University, where he got his PhD under supervision of Nobel Prize laureate Martinus Veltman in 1973. After postdoc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18795607 |
Aggregate Spend is the process used in the United States to aggregate and monitor the total amount spent by healthcare manufacturers on individual healthcare professionals and organizations (HCP/O) through payments, gifts, honoraria, travel and other means. Also often referred to as the Physician Payments Sunshine Act,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18797385 |
Aggregate Spend The bills would amend the Social Security Act "to provide for transparency in the relationship between physicians and manufacturers of drugs, devices, or medical supplies for which payment is made under Medicare, Medicaid, or SCHIP." The bill proposed that each quarter, beginning on January 1, 2008, com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18797385 |
Aggregate Spend The proposed federal law would undermine a stronger Vermont law if passed, according to state officials and advocacy groups. The reporting threshold under the proposed federal law is $500 - much higher than the $25 threshold found in a similar Vermont law passed five years ago. If passed, the federal bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18797385 |
Aggregate Spend The penalties range from $10,000 to $100,000 for each violation, and can go up to $1 million. In February 2013 the planned dates for implementation were changed to: earliest reports to cover August - December 2013; submission by March 31, 2014. In February 2014 CMS (The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18797385 |
Aggregate Spend After Phase 2 submission is complete, physicians and teaching hospitals will have the opportunity to register with OpenPayments and view the transactions reported under their name, prior to it being made available to the public. During this review period, any reported transactions may be disputed by the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18797385 |
Fluid extract is a type of fluid-solid extraction, that usually employs Soxhlet Apparatus to extract certain compound with known solubility in a solvent. Some applications include extracting lipids from a plant (solid) using ethanol (liquid). In recent years this has expanded to include specialized extraction methodolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18822050 |
Mirror furnace In a mirror furnace, material is heated by the lamps whose radiation is focused by mirrors. They are widely used for growing single crystals for scientific purposes, using the "floating zone" method. Solar furnace | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18848251 |
Stephan Swanson came to prominence as a marine researcher when he successfully placed the satellite transmitter on the famous Great white shark Nicole, the first great white shark ever to be tracked on a 20,000 kilometer migration from South Africa to Australia and back. Due to his ability to handle large marine predat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18877204 |
Mount Aka (Yatsugatake) Mount Aka is a stratovolcano. This mountain is a center of the Yatsugatake-Chūshin Kōgen Quasi-National Park. There are several routes to reach to the top of Mount Aka. The most popular route is from Minoto. It takes about four and half hours. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18899092 |
GrADS The Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) is an interactive desktop tool that is used for easy access, manipulation, and visualization of earth science data. The format of the data may be either binary, GRIB, NetCDF, or HDF-SDS (Scientific Data Sets). has been implemented worldwide on a variety of commonly use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18899704 |
GrADS has a programmable interface (scripting language) that allows for sophisticated analysis and display applications. Scripts can display buttons and drop menus as well as graphics, and then take action based on user point-and-clicks. can be run in batch mode, and the scripting language facilitates using to do long ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18899704 |
Bionta is a defunct taxon created by Lee Barker Walton in 1930, to denominate all the living beings. It was divided up into three subkingdoms; Protistodeae, Metaphytodeae (multicellular plants), and Zoodeae (multicellular animals). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18913335 |
Fischer assay The is a standardized laboratory test for determining the oil yield from oil shale to be expected from a conventional shale oil extraction. A 100 gram oil shale sample crushed to <2.38 mm is heated in a small aluminum retort to at a rate of 12°C/min (22°F/min), and held at that temperature for 40 minutes.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18915587 |
NGC 6263 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Hercules. It was discovered by Albert Marth on June 28, 1864. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18928599 |
Primordial isocurvature baryon model A primordial isocurvature baryon model (PIB model) is a theoretical model describing the development of the early universe. It may be contrasted with the cold dark matter model (CDM model). The PIB model was proposed in 1987 by Jim Peebles as an alternative to the CDM model, which d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18930968 |
Pomeranchuk cooling (named after Isaak Pomeranchuk) is the phenomenon in which liquid helium-3 will cool if it is compressed isentropically when it is below 0.3 K. This occurs because helium-3 has the unique property that solidification below 0.3 K requires pressure. This can be used to construct a cryogenic cooler. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18932382 |
Bad Science (Taubes book) Bad Science: The Short Life and Weird Times of Cold Fusion is book of science history by Gary Taubes about the early years (1989–1991) of the cold fusion controversy. This text is not a scholarly work, but a popular retelling of the events, based on interviews with over 260 people. The book pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18949111 |
LBLRTM - The Line-By-Line Radiative Transfer Model is an accurate, efficient and highly flexible model for calculating spectral transmittance and radiance. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18950062 |
Geography (from Greek: , "geographia", literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, and phenomena of the Earth and planets. The first person to use the word γεωγραφία was Eratosthenes (276–194 BCE). is an all-encompassing discipline that seeks an underst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18963910 |
Geography Geographers study the space and the temporal database distribution of phenomena, processes, and features as well as the interaction of humans and their environment. Because space and place affect a variety of topics, such as economics, health, climate, plants and animals, geography is highly interdisciplinary... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18963910 |
Geography It encompasses the human, political, cultural, social, and economic aspects. Various approaches to the study of human geography have also arisen through time and include: Integrated geography is concerned with the description of the spatial interactions between humans and the natural world. It requires an und... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18963910 |
Geography Regional geography is concerned with the description of the unique characteristics of a particular region such as its natural or human elements. The main aim is to understand, or define the uniqueness, or character of a particular region that consists of natural as well as human elements. Attention is paid al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18963910 |
Geography It can be said, without much controversy, that cartography is the seed from which the larger field of geography grew. Most geographers will cite a childhood fascination with maps as an early sign they would end up in the field. Geographic information systems (GIS) deal with the storage of information about th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18963910 |
Geography Geographers increasingly use remotely sensed data to obtain information about the Earth's land surface, ocean, and atmosphere, because it: (a) supplies objective information at a variety of spatial scales (local to global), (b) provides a synoptic view of the area of interest, (c) allows access to distant and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18963910 |
Geography In cultural geography there is a tradition of employing qualitative research techniques, also used in anthropology and sociology. Participant observation and in-depth interviews provide human geographers with qualitative data. The oldest known world maps date back to ancient Babylon from the 9th century BC. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18963910 |
Geography The Greeks, who were the first to explore geography as both art and science, achieved this through Cartography, Philosophy, and Literature, or through Mathematics. There is some debate about who was the first person to assert that the Earth is spherical in shape, with the credit going either to Parmenides or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18963910 |
Geography Chinese geographers such as Liu An, Pei Xiu, Jia Dan, Shen Kuo, Fan Chengda, Zhou Daguan, and Xu Xiake wrote important treatises, yet by the 17th century advanced ideas and methods of Western-style geography were adopted in China. During the Middle Ages, the fall of the Roman empire led to a shift in the evol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18963910 |
Geography He was regarded as the most skilled when it came to mapping cities and measuring the distances between them, which he did for many cities in the Middle East and the Indian subcontinent. He often combined astronomical readings and mathematical equations, in order to develop methods of pin-pointing locations by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18963910 |
Geography The European Age of Discovery during the 16th and the 17th centuries, where many new lands were discovered and accounts by European explorers such as Christopher Columbus, Marco Polo, and James Cook revived a desire for both accurate geographic detail, and more solid theoretical foundations in Europe. The pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18963910 |
Geography Over the past two centuries, the advancements in technology with computers have led to the development of geomatics and new practices such as participant observation and geostatistics being incorporated into geography's portfolio of tools. In the West during the 20th century, the discipline of geography went ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18963910 |
Alan S. Kornacki Alan Stanley Kornacki (born May 4, 1952, in Bayonne, New Jersey) is an American geologist and retired Army colonel, currently the Senior Staff Geochemist at Shell International Exploration and Production Inc. He received a B.S. in Geology from University of Missouri–Rolla in 1974, before completing his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18971312 |
JULES (Joint UK Land Environment Simulator) is a land-surface parameterisation model scheme describing soil-vegetation-atmosphere interactions. is a community lead project which is based on MOSES the Met Office Surface Exchange Scheme. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18992839 |
Phytomer Phytomers are functional units of a plant, continually produced by root and shoot meristems throughout a plant's vegetative life-cycle. The phytomer unit originates at the shoot (or root) apex, and a typical phytomer consists of a node to which a leaf is attached, a subtending internode, and an axillary bud at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19002387 |
IHS Markit Ltd is a London–based global information provider formed in 2016 with the merger of IHS Inc. and Markit Ltd. Some parts of this company are pre-1800. One part of this conglomerate originally was a firm that assigns IMO identification numbers for ships, companies and registered owners. It has since grown to i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19035615 |
Dühring's rule The is a scientific rule developed by Eugen Dühring which states that a linear relationship exists between the temperatures at which two solutions exert the same vapour pressure. The rule is often used to compare a pure liquid and a solution at a given concentration. Dühring's plot is a graphical represe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19047741 |
NGC 1134 is a spiral galaxy in the Aries constellation. It has a highly inclined disk, with respect to the line of sight from Earth. There is a weak outer extension of the spiral structure in this galaxy. It has been listed in the Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (Arp number 200), under the "Galaxies with material ejecte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19063394 |
NGC 935 and IC 1801 are a pair of interacting galaxies within the Aries constellation. NGC 935 is the northern member of the pair and IC 1801 is the southern. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19065175 |
UGC 2140 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Aries. It was thought to be a compact group of galaxies, catalogued as HCG 18, but in 1999 the object was found to be a single galaxy with multiple star-forming regions. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19065354 |
Niklaus Gerber (8 June 1850 – 9 February 1914) was a Swiss dairy chemist and industrialist. He was born in 1850 in Thun, Switzerland. He attended the University of Bern and University of Zurich, studied chemistry in Paris and Munich and spent 2 years at the Swiss-American Milk Co. in Little Falls, New York. In 1887, Ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19077833 |
2XMM J083026+524133 (2XMM J0830) is a very large galaxy cluster that lies 7.7 billion light-years away. It was discovered by chance by ESA's XMM Newton and the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) in Arizona in 2008 while it was looking at the quasar APM 08279+5255. As of 2008, it was the largest known galaxy cluster at red... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19079366 |
Kyriakos Tamvakis (; born in 1950) is a Greek theoretical physicist and professor at the University of Ioannina. studied at the University of Athens and gained his Ph.D. at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA in 1978. His thesis title was "Induced Boson Selfcouplings In Four Fermion And Yukawa Theories". Si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19079639 |
Licensed to Kill? The Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Shoreham Power Plant, a 1998 book by Joan Aron, presents the first detailed case study of how an activist public and elected officials of New York state opposed the Shoreham Nuclear Power Plant on Long Island. The book explains that nuclear power faltered when... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19082332 |
John Loveday (physicist) Dr. John Stephen Loveday is an experimental physicist working in high pressure research. He was educated at Coopers School in Chislehurst and at the University of Bristol, from where he took his PhD in Physics. He currently works as a Reader in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the Univers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19090834 |
Critical Masses Critical Masses: Opposition to Nuclear Power in California, 1958–1978 is the first detailed history of the anti-nuclear movement in the United States, written by Thomas Wellock. It is also the first state-level research on the subject with a focus on California. Reviewer Paula Garb has said: The book is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19101081 |
Alfred Kohn (22 February 1867 – 15 January 1959) was the head of the Institute of Histology at the Medical Faculty of German University in Prague for 26 years. He entered the history of medicine by discovery of the nature and origin of parathyroid glands and by pioneering research into chromaffin cells and sympathetic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19105502 |
Paul Hahnel (17 April 1843, Schlegenburg in Leobsanütz, Silesia - 12 May 1887, Manicore) He collected Lepidoptera and Coleoptera in Venezuela (1877/79) and made two Amazon expeditions the first 1879-1884) and the second, with Otto Michael 1885/87). His collection was sold to Otto Staudinger and Andreas Bang-Haas Based ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19119392 |
Otto Michael (1859 - 1934) was a German explorer, zoologist and entomologist. He made three expeditions to the Amazon, 1885-1888 (until 1887 accompanied by Paul Hahnel ), 1889–1893 and 1894-1921, collecting mainly Lepidoptera for the dealership Otto Staudinger Andreas Bang-Haas. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19119498 |
Silylium ion A silylium ion is a reactive silyl-containing cation with the formula . With three rather than the usual four bonds to Si, silylium ions are the silicon analogues of carbenium ions. They can be viewed as protonated silylenes. Early efforts to generate these cations produced salts of the pyridine complex [(... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19128515 |
Potato yellow vein virus The (PYVV) is a plant pathogen of the "Closteroviridae" family. It is a whitefly-transmitted closterovirus vectored by "Trialeurodes vaporariorum", which is known to cause a yellowing disease in potato crops in South America. PYVV RNA have a conserved 3'-terminal secondary structure, which incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19132471 |
Nuclear Politics in America is a 1997 book by Robert J. Duffy. According to Duffy, the "promise and peril of nuclear power have been a preoccupation of the modern age", who was then an assistant professor of political science at Rider University. The book discusses the controversy over radioactive waste disposal, licen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19140623 |
Winter rest (from the German term "Winterruhe") is a state of reduced activity of plants and warm-blooded animals living in extratropical regions of the world during the more hostile environmental conditions of winter. In this state, they save energy during cold weather while they have limited access to food sources. D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19151199 |
On Nuclear Terrorism In his 2007 book On Nuclear Terrorism, author Michael A. Levi surveys the issue of nuclear terrorism and explores the decisions a terrorist leader might take in pursuing a nuclear plot. Levi points out the many obstacles that such a terrorist scheme may encounter, which in turn leads to a host of p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19156682 |
The Gift of Time: The Case for Abolishing Nuclear Weapons Now is a 1998 book by Jonathan Schell. The book is based on interviews with individuals who had responsibility for nuclear weapons policy in the United States, Russia and Europe, and who came to advocate the global elimination of nuclear weapons. Schell addresse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19170098 |
Siemens cycle The is a technique used to cool or liquefy gases. A gas is compressed, leading to an increase in its temperature due to the directly proportional relationship between temperature and pressure (as stated by Gay-Lussac's law). The compressed gas is then cooled by a heat exchanger and decompressed, resulting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19173393 |
United Kingdom Chemistry and Aerosols model The United Kingdom Chemistry and Aerosols (UKCA) is a community Chemistry-Aerosol-Climate model which are research runs of the Met Office's operational Unified Model. It runs within the Hadley Centre example with multiple flavours of varying horizontal resolutions and vertica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19173632 |
Nuclear Weapons: The Road to Zero is a 1998 book edited by Joseph Rotblat. The book is based on the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, and in particular on a detailed international study published in 1993 on the importance of, and practical mechanisms to, eliminate nuclear weapons. This monograph is a se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19179639 |
The Seventh Decade The Seventh Decade: The New Shape of Nuclear Danger is a 2007 book by Jonathan Schell. It is described as a provocative book which explores the threat posed by some new nuclear policies of the United States. Schell argues that "a revolution in nuclear affairs has occurred under the watch of the Bush ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19184708 |
Megawatts and Megatons is a 2001 book by Richard L. Garwin and Georges Charpak. The book is said to be a good primer on nuclear power and also a detailed discussion of nuclear weapons and potential paths for weapons reduction. The book presents detailed information about nuclear reactors and provides useful information... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19198243 |
The Unfinished Twentieth Century In the 2001 book The Unfinished Twentieth Century, author Jonathan Schell suggests that an essential feature of the twentieth century was the development of humankind's capacity for self-destruction, with the rise in many forms of "policies of extermination". Schell goes on to suggest t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19214894 |
Subhelic arc A subhelic arc is a rare halo, formed by internal reflection through ice crystals, that curves upwards from the horizon and touches the tricker arc above the anthelic point. Subhelic arcs are a result of ray entrance and exit through prism end faces with two intermediate internal reflections. A subhelic ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19221718 |
Tropical Easterly Jet The is the meteorological term referring to an upper level easterly wind that starts in late June and continues until early September. This strong flow of air that develops in the upper atmosphere during the Asian monsoon is centred on 15°N, 50-80°E and extends from South-East Asia to Africa. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19228318 |
The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism is a 2004 book by Charles D. Ferguson and William C. Potter (with Amy Sands, Leonard S. Spector and Fred L. Wehling) which explores the motivations and capabilities of terrorist organizations to carry out significant attacks using stolen nuclear weapons, to construct and detonate cru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19228597 |
Rutherford cable A is a way of forming a superconducting electrical cable, often used to generate magnetic fields in particle accelerators. The superconducting strands are arranged as a many-stranded helix that has been flattened into a rectangular cable, it can typically only be applied to flexible superconductors tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19232924 |
NGC 1664 is an open cluster in the constellation of Auriga. It contains stars with a total of around 640 solar masses with a tidal radius of . | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19241715 |
Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe is a 2004 book by Harvard scholar Graham Allison. Allison explains that terrorists have been striving to acquire and then use nuclear weapons against the United States. During the 2004 U.S. Presidential election, President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry fea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19257629 |
Membranome is the set of biological membranes existing in a specific organism. The term was proposed by British biologist Thomas Cavalier-Smith to discuss epigenetics of biological membranes. The term was also used to define the entire set of membrane proteins in an organism or a combination of membrane proteome and li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19268700 |
Voices from Chernobyl Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster (titled Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future in the UK) is a book about the Chernobyl disaster by the Belarusian Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich. At the time of the disaster (April 1986), Alexievich was a journalist living in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19270903 |
Clearing factor In centrifugation the clearing factor or k factor represents the relative pelleting efficiency of a given centrifuge rotor at maximum rotation speed. It can be used to estimate the time formula_1 (in hours) required for sedimentation of a fraction with a known sedimentation coefficient formula_2 (in sve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19276893 |
Clearing factor Many online calculators are available to perform the calculations for common rotors. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19276893 |
Samuel C. Lind Samuel Colville Lind (June 15, 1879, McMinnville, Tennessee – February 12, 1965) was a radiation chemist, referred to as "the father of modern radiation chemistry". He was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1930. He served as president of the American Electrochemical So... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19277655 |
Van Krevelen diagram Van Krevelen diagrams are graphical plots developed by Dirk Willem van Krevelen (chemist and professor of fuel technology at the TU Delft) and used to assess the origin and maturity of kerogen and petroleum. The diagram cross-plots the hydrogen:carbon atomic ratio as a function of the oxygen:carbon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19281502 |
Haloplasma contractile is a halophilic, cell wall-less bacterium. It is the only known representative of a deep lineage, and is classified in its own family (Haloplasmataceae) and order (Haloplasmatales), in the class Mollicutes. In terms of genetics, the bacterium contractile contains a dcwgene cluster is responsible ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19282025 |
The Truth About Chernobyl is a 1991 book by Grigori Medvedev. Medvedev served as deputy chief engineer at the No. 1 reactor unit of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the 1970s. At the time of the Chernobyl disaster in 1986, Medvedev was deputy director of the main industrial department in the Soviet Ministry of Ener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19283801 |
Carlo Vidano (1923, in Caluso – 1989, in Turin) was an Italian entomologist who specialised in Auchenorrhyncha. Vidano attended the University of Turin, graduating from the Faculty of Agriculture in 1949. He was immediately appointed assistant professor to the chair of Agricultural Entomology in Turin. In 1968, he beca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19284302 |
Jan Hendrik de Boer (19 March 1899 – 25 April 1971) was a Dutch physicist and chemist. De Boer was born in Ruinen, now De Wolden, and died in The Hague. He studied at the University of Groningen and was later employed in industry. Together with Anton Eduard van Arkel, de Boer developed a chemical transport reaction for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19284762 |
Get (animal) The get of an animal are the offspring of a particular individual male animal. It is derived from the term "begat", meaning to father offspring. The term is frequently used in livestock raising and informal animal husbandry, notably horse breeding to describe the offspring of a stallion. In show competitio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19288064 |
Inyoite Inyoite, named after Inyo County, California, where it was discovered in 1914, is a colourless monoclinic mineral. It turns white on dehydration. Its chemical formula is Ca(HBO)(OH)·4HO or CaBO(OH)·4HO. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19325934 |
PKS 2155-304 is one of the active galaxies in the sky. It is a strong emitter from radio to high-energy frequencies. is at redshift z = 0.116 (Falomo, Pesce & Treves 1993) and it is one of the brightest and most studied BL Lacs and is often considered the prototype of X-ray selected BL Lacs. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19334077 |
PKS 0521-365 is an active galactic nucleus in the constellation Columba. The source (BL Lac object) is a strong emitter from radio to gamma frequencies. The object is at z = 0.055. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19334416 |
Antoine Joseph Jean Solier (8 February 1792, in Marseille – 27 November 1851, in Marseille) was a French naturalist, entomologist and plant collector. Captain of engineers in the French army, he made collections in France, Algeria and the Mediterranean area and on an expedition to Oceania especially of Coleoptera. Soli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19344158 |
Osialfecanakmg is an acronym made up of the chemical symbols of the 8 most abundant elements in the Earth's crust. Because they are so important, geologists sometimes refer to the elements named below as the BIG 8. Element Volume proportions are: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19346963 |
Ernst Pfeiffer (20 December 1893, Munich – 28 May 1955, Munich) was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera He was a publisher and bookseller. Pfeiffer made numerous collecting trips to Hungary, Dalmatia, Bulgaria, and Persia. He published many scientific papers on Rhopalocera in "Mitteilungen der Münchner... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19357171 |
Collisional family In astronomy, a collisional family is a group of objects that are thought to have a common origin in an impact (collision). They have similar compositions and most share similar orbital elements. Known or suspected collisional families include numerous asteroid families, most of the irregular moons o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19363963 |
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