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Charles Alexander Shain (6 February 1922 – 11 February 1960) was an Australian pioneer in the field of radio astronomy. Shain entered the University of Melbourne in 1940, studying physics, where he won a non-resident Exhibition to Trinity College. In 1942, for his final year, he moved into residence at Trinity on a Cou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31167341 |
Herluf Winge Adolf (19 March 1857 – 10 November 1923) was a Danish zoologist. As a young student, along with his brother Oluf, Winge was interested in small mammals, particularly moles, shrews and insectivora. He studied mammalian dentition and produced a comparison of cusp similarities. He worked at the Zoological Mus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31170737 |
Marine Exhibition Center of Punta Culebra The Punta Culebra Nature Center is a visitor center located in Panama City, on one of the islands connected by the Amador Causeway. It is operated by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, also located in Panamá. The center focuses mainly on [[marine and terrestrial scien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31193071 |
Society for the History of Natural History The (SHNH) is an international society for everyone who is interested in natural history in the broadest sense. This includes botany, zoology and geology as well as natural history collections, exploration, art and bibliography. Everyone with an interest in these subjects – pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31202547 |
Society for the History of Natural History Bibliographical papers concerned with the study of rare books, manuscripts and illustrative material, and analytical and enumerative bibliographies are also published. From time to time, the Society also publishes other works of interest, the most recent being "Darwin in the A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31202547 |
Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain (BNP) Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain (born 1 October 1946) is a Bangladeshi politician and geologist. Hossain was born in Goyeshpur village, in the Bengal Presidency, British India. His parents were Khandaker Ashraf Ali and Hosne Ara Hasna Hena. Hossain earned an MSc degree from University of D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31208630 |
Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain (BNP) They have two sons Khandaker Mahbub Hossain and Khandaker Maruf Hossain, and one daughter Mahzabin Khandaker. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31208630 |
Subglacial stream Subglacial streams are streams which flow in a channel at the bottom of an ice-sheet or a glacier, and are usually close to the glacier terminus or snout. These are fed by streams on top of the glacier which descend through ducts in the ice called moulins. The pressures are very high in these streams ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31213939 |
DART radiative transfer model DART (Discrete anisotropic radiative transfer) is a 3D radiative transfer model, designed for scientific research, in particular remote sensing. Developed at CESBIO since 1992, DART model was patented in 2003. It is freeware for scientific activities. DART model simulates, simultaneously i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31251910 |
DART radiative transfer model For the models known as homogeneous (Idso and of Wit, 1970; Ross, 1981; Verhoef, 1984; Myneni et al., 1989), the landscape is represented by a constant horizontal distribution of absorbing and scattering elements (sheets, branches, etc...). On the other hand, for the models known as hetero... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31251910 |
DART radiative transfer model , space remote sensing) is an indispensable tool, due to its unique potential to provide synoptic and continuous surveys of the Earth, at different time and space scales. The difficulty in studying continental surfaces arises from the complexity of the energetic and physiologic processes i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31251910 |
PANDA experiment The is a planned particle physics experiment at the Facility for Antiproton and Ion Research in Darmstadt. PANDA will use proton–antiproton annihilation to study strong interaction physics including charmonium spectroscopy and exotic states such as charmed hybrids and glueballs. A description of the ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31254087 |
N-body choreography An "n"-body choreography is a periodic solution to the n-body problem in which all the bodies are equally spread out along a single orbit. The term was originated in 2000 by Chenciner and Montgomery. One such orbit is a circular orbit, with equal masses at the corners of an equilateral triangle; ano... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31254895 |
Henri Tournier (1834 – 27 August 1904) was a Swiss entomologist. He was a dealer in Peney-le-Jorat. Tournier described many new species of Hymenoptera and Coleoptera. This is a partial list of works: Coleoptera Hymenoptera | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31260585 |
NGC 5584 is a barred spiral galaxy, more than 50,000 light-years across, that resides 72 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The blue areas the Hubble Space Telescope image are young stars, the darker areas are dust lanes, while the reddish spots and splotches are galaxies in the background. 250 Cephei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31262563 |
Raymond Effect is a flow effect in ice sheets, occurring at flow divides, which gives rise to disturbances in the stratigraphy, showing unusual arches or anticlines called "Raymond Arches". The stratigraphy is detected by radio-echo sounding. The Raymond effect arises from the unusual flow properties of ice. It is of i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31263185 |
Francis Archer (1803–1875) was an Irish physician and naturalist. Archer was one of the founder members of the Belfast Natural History Society and later President of the Liverpool Natural History Society. He had two sons, (1839–92), a shell collector, and Samuel Archer, (1836–1902), who collected shells in Singapore. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31282842 |
Free element In chemistry, a free element is a chemical element that is not combined with or chemically bonded to other elements. Examples of elements which can occur as free elements include the oxygen molecule (O) and carbon. All atoms of free elements have an oxidation number of 0. They hardly ever bond with other a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31295654 |
Atmospheric temperature is a measure of temperature at different levels of the Earth's atmosphere. It is governed by many factors, including incoming solar radiation, humidity and altitude. When discussing surface air temperature, the annual atmospheric temperature range at any geographical location depends largely upo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31313352 |
Atmospheric temperature This layer extends from the tropopause to the stratopause which is located at an altitude of about 50 Km. Temperatures remain constant with height from the tropopause to an altitude of 20 Km, after which they start to increase with height. This happening is referred to as an inversion and It is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31313352 |
Atmospheric temperature The size of ground-level atmospheric temperature ranges depends on several factors, such as: The figure at below-left shows an example of monthly temperatures recorded at one of such locations, the city of Campinas, state of São Paulo, Brazil, which lies approximately 60 km north of the Capricor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31313352 |
Atmospheric temperature Temperature variation along the year in Aracaju is very damped (standard deviation of 1.93 for the maximum temperature and 2.72 for the minimum temperature). A location which combines an average temperature of 19 degrees Celsius, 60% average humidity and a temperature range of about 10 degrees C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31313352 |
Atmospheric temperature Long-term global temperatures in paleoclimate are discerned using proxy data. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31313352 |
Spring horizon A spring horizon is an impervious layer of rock reaching the surface, along which springs emerge. Since aquifers and impervious strata often lie on top of one another in horizontal layers, adjacent contact springs often emerge at the same height along a line called the spring horizon. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31314192 |
Holtfreter's solution (Holtfreter's medium) is a balanced salt solution that was developed by the developmental biologist Johannes Holtfreter for studying amphibian embryos and to reduce bacterial infections. As a specialised aqueous solution, it finds use in aquaria to prevent infections for early stage amphibians, wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31332741 |
Stephen Hui Geological Museum The () is the first and only geological museum in Hong Kong. It is located on the ground and first floors of the James Hsioung Lee Building (), in the University of Hong Kong Main Campus. The museum is part of the Department of Earth Sciences, the only earth sciences department in Hong Kon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31339564 |
When Technology Fails When Technology Fails, edited by Neil Schlager, is a collection of 103 case studies about significant technological disasters, accidents, and failures of the 20th century. It was published in 1994 by Gale Research, Inc. It was one of the top referenced books in the New York Public Library in 1995.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31341292 |
Pulsatile flow In fluid dynamics, a flow with periodic variations is known as pulsatile flow, or as Womersley flow. The flow profiles was first derived by John R. Womersley (1907–1958) in his work with blood flow in arteries. The cardiovascular system of chordate animals is a very good example where pulsatile flow is f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31351275 |
Pulsatile flow On the surface formula_10, but the exponential term becomes negligible once formula_11 becomes large, the velocity profile becomes almost constant and independent of the viscosity. Thus, the flow simply oscillates as a plug profile in time according to the pressure gradient, However, close to the walls, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31351275 |
Pulsatile flow Similarly, the velocity profile is also decomposed in Fourier series in phase with the pressure gradient, because the fluid is incompressible, where formula_25 are the amplitudes of each harmonic of the periodic function, and the steady component (formula_23) is simply Poiseuille flow Thus, the Navier-St... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31351275 |
Pulsatile flow The velocity profile approximates a parabolic profile or a plug profile, for low or high Womersley numbers, respectively. For straight pipes, wall shear stress is The derivative of a Bessel function is Hence, If the pressure gradient formula_20 is not measured, it can still be obtained by measuring the v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31351275 |
St. Genevieve marble St. Genevieve marble, also known as Ste. Genevieve marble, is an oolitic limestone (or "marble") found in Sainte Genevieve County, Missouri. It is part of the Archimedes Limestone formation. It generally comes in two different types. "St. Genevieve Rose" is the name for the marble which comes in de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31353031 |
John Frederick Perkins FRES (5 May 1910 in Paignton, Devon – 14 May 1983) was an English entomologist. He was the son of Zoë Lucy Sherrard Alatau and Robert Cyril Layton Perkins, also a hymenopterist. He was first educated at Newton College (Devon) and graduated with a First class Honours degree from the Imperial Colle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31353329 |
Jim Kosek is an American television meteorologist currently working as the chief meteorologist at WAND in Decatur, Illinois. Kosek is best known for his presentation style, which includes loud exclamations, exaggerated motions, tie-ins to popular culture, and screaming comparable to that popularized by comedian Sam Kin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31364239 |
Claudius Rey (2 September 1817, in Lille – 31 January 1895, in Lille) was a French entomologist . Rey’s family owned a prosperous printing works which went bankrupt in 1847. One of his uncles, the owner of a vineyard producing Morgon, offered him employment. Impassioned by entomology, he began a collaboration with Etie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31367992 |
Sagaing Fault The is a major fault in Burma, a continental transform fault between the Indian plate and Sunda Plate that connects spreading centers in the Andaman Sea and the continental convergence zone along the Himalayan front. It passes through populated cities of Mandalay, Yamethin, Pyinmana, the capital Naypyidaw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31383898 |
Red River Fault The or Song Hong Fault () is a major fault in Yunnan, China and Vietnam which accommodates continental China's (Yangtze Plate) southward movement It is coupled with that of the Sagaing Fault in Burma, which accommodates the Indian plate's northward movement, with the land (Indochina) in between faulted ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31384371 |
NGC 4444 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Centaurus. The morphological classification places it midway on the continuum between a barred spiral (SB) and an unbarred spiral (SA), with an inner region that lies between a ring-like ("r") and a purely spiral form ("s"), and medium- ("b") to loosely wou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31405403 |
Intraclasts are irregularly shaped grains that form by syndepositional erosion of partially lithified sediment. Gravel grade material is generally composed of whole disarticulated or broken skeletal fragments together with sand grade material of whole, disaggregated and broken skeletal debris. Such sediments can contai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31420766 |
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc. is an American pharmaceutical company best known for its development of Soliris, a drug used to treat the rare disorders atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) and paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH). The company is also involved in immune system research related to autoimmune dise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31443674 |
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Soliris was considered a treatment option because of its effectiveness in treating Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, an illness similar to the one caused by the EHEC infection. In April 2011, Alexion was added to the NASDAQ-100, a group composed of the 100 largest non-financial stocks traded o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31443674 |
Alexion Pharmaceuticals In December 2011, Alexion acquired Montreal-based Enobia Pharma Corp, the developer of asfotase alfa, a drug used to treat the genetic disorder hypophosphatasia. In May 2015, Alexion announced plans to purchase the Lexington firm Synageva BioPharma, a maker of rare disease treatments, in a $8.4 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31443674 |
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Insurance companies have generally been willing to pay high prices for such drugs; since few of their customers need the drugs, a high price does not significantly impact the insurance companies' outlays. "The success of specialty drugs for rare diseases comes at a time when the traditional drug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31443674 |
Alexion Pharmaceuticals There is an ethical question as to the pricing of the drug and the ethics of the drug manufacturer. Alexion is well on the way to developing a second very high price and high margined drug. In September 2011, the FDA officially approved the use of Soliris as a treatment for atypical hemolytic-ur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31443674 |
Alexion Pharmaceuticals " Alexion started selling Soliris in 2008 making $295 million in 2007 with its stock price rising to 130% in 2010. In April and May 2013, a controversy arose in Belgium when the media revealed that the government had refused to pay for a seven-year-old boy's treatment because Soliris was too exp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31443674 |
Alexion Pharmaceuticals In November 2017 the company received a patent for Soliris from the Japanese Patent Office. In October 2015, Alexion's second drug, Strensiq (asfotase alfa), was approved by the US FDA. It is used to treat hypophosphatasia, a rare metabolic disorder. Kanuma, which Alexion acquired in its acquisi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31443674 |
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Due to the niche nature of its market and the high cost of Soliris, the company has enjoyed a high profit margin. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31443674 |
Scopulus In planetary geology, a scopulus (pl. "scopuli" , from Greek "σκόπελος" "peak") is a lobate or irregular escarpment. In the early 1970s, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) adopted "scopulus" as one of a number of official descriptor terms for topographic features on Mars and other planets and satellite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31446603 |
Jan Daniel Preysler Jan Daniel Preysler, also known as Johan Daniel Preyssler or Johann Daniel Preyßler (1768, Prague – 23 April 1839) was a Czech entomologist. In 1789 he became an adjunct to the Imperial administrative office in Prague, where he was in 1801 promoted to Administrator, and in 1805 became a Counselor. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31448647 |
Cesare Maria Tapparone-Canefri (1838- 6 August 1891, Quattordio, Italy) was an Italian malacologist. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31454437 |
Sven Kullander (physicist) Sven Kullander (9 March 1936 – 28 January 2014) was a Swedish physicist. He was professor of High Energy Physics at Uppsala University. Kullander received his doctorate from Uppsala University in 1971. He took part in experiments on measurements of nuclear shell structure from meson scatterin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31458385 |
Divaricate means branching, or separation, or a degree of separation. The angle between branches is wide. In botany, the term is often used to describe the branching pattern of plants. branching is roughly horizontal, usually only diverging about 15 degrees upward or downward. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31461966 |
Rational design In chemical biology and biomolecular engineering, rational design is the strategy of creating new molecules with a certain functionality, based upon the ability to predict how the molecule's structure will affect its behavior through physical models. This can be done either from scratch or by making cal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31462586 |
Albrecht effect The describes how cloud condensation nuclei (CCN), possibly from anthropogenic pollution, may increase cloud lifetime and hence increase the amount of solar radiation reflected from clouds. Because it does not directly interact with incoming or outgoing radiation, it has an indirect effect on climate. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31464039 |
Paczyński–Wiita potential The is an approximation of the gravitational potential around a non-rotating black hole. It was introduced by Bohdan Paczyński and Paul Wiita in 1980. The article is one of the 40 most-cited from the first 40 years of the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics. The mathematical form of the potential... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31475901 |
Strong gravity 'Strong gravity' is a non-mainstream theoretical approach to particle confinement having both a cosmological scale and a particle scale gravity. In the 1960s, it was taken up as an alternative to the then young QCD theory by several theorists, including Abdus Salam, who showed that the particle level gra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31478651 |
SPT-CL J2106-5844 SPT-CLJ2106-5844 is the galaxy cluster located 7.5 billion light years from Earth. It was discovered by scientists from the South Pole Telescope Collaboration, using the South Pole Telescope. With a weight of about 1.27 × 10 solar masses, it's the most massive distant object known. It is about 60% hea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31480135 |
Kelly Jemison is an American academic geologist specializing in Antarctic diatoms. She studied at Florida State University. She has participated in the ANDRILL (ANtarctic geological DRILLing) project. In 2011, she was awarded the Antarctica Service Medal. The Antarctica Service Medal; awarded by the United States Gover... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31494112 |
Hyperhydricity (previously known as vitrification) is a physiological malformation that results in excessive hydration, low lignification, impaired stomatal function and reduced mechanical strength of tissue culture-generated plants. The consequence is poor regeneration of such plants without intensive greenhouse accli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31529144 |
Hyperhydricity can be monitored by modifying the atmosphere of the culture vessels. Adjusting the relative humidity in the vessel is one of the most important parameters to be controlled. Use of gas-permeable membranes may help in this regard as this allows increased exchange of water vapor and other gases such as ethy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31529144 |
Arp 273 is a pair of interacting galaxies, 300 million light years away in the constellation Andromeda. It was first described in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, compiled by Halton Arp in 1966. The larger of the spiral galaxies, known as UGC 1810, is about five times more massive than the smaller galaxy. It has a disc ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31549048 |
Willy Adolf Theodor Ramme (28 February 1887 – 24 August 1953) was a German entomologist. Ramme was born in Berlin and was a Curator in the Berlin's Natural History Museum. He specialised in Orthoptera. Partial list | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31550271 |
Mutation breeding Mutation breeding, sometimes referred to as "variation breeding", is the process of exposing seeds to chemicals or radiation in order to generate mutants with desirable traits to be bred with other cultivars. Plants created using mutagenesis are sometimes called mutagenic plants or mutagenic seeds. Fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31552410 |
Mutation breeding In the case of barley, the resulting plants were white, yellow, pale yellow and some had white stripes. In 1928, Stadler first published his findings on radiation-induced mutagenesis in plants. During the period 1930–2004, radiation-induced mutant varieties were developed primarily using gamma rays (6... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31552410 |
Mutation breeding According to garden historian Paige Johnson In the debate over genetically modified foods, the use of transgenic processes is often compared and contrasted with mutagenic processes. While the abundance and variation of transgenic organisms in human food systems, and their effect on agricultural biodiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31552410 |
Mutation breeding Reports from the US National Academy of Sciences state that there is no scientific justification for regulating genetic engineered crops while not doing so for mutation breeding crops. Several organic food and seed companies promote and sell certified organic products that were developed using both ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31552410 |
Mutation breeding While the connection of REs to chromosomal aberrations is mostly limited to research on mammalian DNA, success in mammalian studies caused scientists to conduct more studies of RE-induced chromosomal and DNA damaged on barley genomes. Due to restriction endonucleases' ability to facilitate damage in c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31552410 |
Mutation breeding Compared to traditional mutagenic techniques, space-bred mutations have greater efficacy in that they experience positive effects on their first generation of mutation, whereas irradiated crops often see no advantageous mutations in their first generations. Though multiple experiments have shown the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31552410 |
Mutation breeding In 2011, during the National Lotus Flowers Exhibition in China, a mutant lotus, called the "Outer Space Sun", was shown at the flower show. Ion beams mutate DNA by deleting multiple bases from its code. Compared to traditional sources of radiation, like gamma rays and X-rays, ion beams have been shown... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31552410 |
Mutation breeding These plants had the characteristics of being ultraviolet light-B resistant, disease resistant, and chlorophyll-deficient. Ion beam technology has been used in the discovery of new genes responsible for the creation of more robust plants, but its most prevalent use is commercially for producing new fl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31552410 |
Mutation breeding The mutations produced by this technique vary with each generation, meaning further breeding of these mutated plants could produce new mutations. Traditionally, gamma radiation is used on solely adult plants, and not on pollen. The irradiation of mature pollen allows mutant plants to grow without bein... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31552410 |
Spiridon Brusina (11 December 1845 – 21 May 1909) was a Croatian malacologist. Together with Oton Kučera and Gjuro Pilar, he founded the Croatian Society of Natural Sciences in Zagreb in the late 1885. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31552805 |
Somatic embryogenesis is an artificial process in which a plant or embryo is derived from a single somatic cell. Somatic embryos are formed from plant cells that are not normally involved in the development of embryos, i.e. ordinary plant tissue. No endosperm or seed coat is formed around a somatic embryo. Cells derive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31570900 |
Somatic embryogenesis occurs when embryos are started directly from explant tissue creating an identical clone. occurs when explants produced undifferentiated, or partially differentiated, cells (often referred to as callus) which then is maintained or differentiated into plant tissues such as leaf, stem, or roots. 2,4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31570900 |
Somatic embryogenesis as various polysaccharides, amino acids, growth regulators, vitamins, low molecular weight compounds and polypeptides. Several signaling molecules known to influence or control the formation of somatic embryos have been found and include extracellular proteins, arabinogalactan proteins and lipochi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31570900 |
Somatic embryogenesis Seedling shoot height, root collar diameter, and dry weight increased at a greater rate in seedlings than in emblings during the first half of the first growing season, but thereafter shoot growth was similar among all plants. By the end of the growing season, seedlings were 70% taller than emblin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31570900 |
Somatic embryogenesis For both seedlings and emblings, osmotic potential at saturation (ψ) and turgor loss point (ψ) increased from a low of -1.82 and -2.22 MPa, respectively, just prior to planting to a seasonal high of -1.09 and -1.21 MPa, respectively, during active shoot elongation. Thereafter, seedlings and emblin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31570900 |
Somatic embryogenesis Seedlings also had greater root development than emblings through the growing season, but root:shoot ratios for the 2 stock types were similar at the end of the growing season, when the survival rates for seedlings and emblings were 96% and 99%, respectively. Understanding the formation of a somat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31570900 |
Somatic embryogenesis In monocots, embryogenic capability is usually restricted to tissues with embryogenic or meristematic origin. Somatic cells of monocots differentiate quickly and then lose mitotic and morphogenic capability. Differences of auxin sensitivity in embryogenic callus growth between different genotypes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31570900 |
Somatic embryogenesis Proembryogenic masses (PEMs), an intermediate between unorganized cells and an embryo composed of cytoplasmic-rich cells next to a vacuolated cell, are stimulated with auxin and cytokinin. Gradual removal of auxin and cytokinin and introduction of abscisic acid (ABA) will allow an embryo to form. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31570900 |
Victor Sterki (1846 in Solothurn, Switzerland – 1933) was a malacologist from Switzerland who lived in the United States. He worked as an assistant in the Section of Invertebrates in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History from 1909 to 1933. Malacological collections by Sterki of Pupillidae has 4000 lots and of Sphaerii... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31574662 |
Elitzur's theorem is a theorem in quantum and statistical field theory stating that local gauge symmetries cannot be spontaneously broken. The theorem was proposed in 1975 by Shmuel Elitzur, who proved it for Abelian gauge fields on a lattice. It is nonetheless possible to spontaneously break a global symmetry within a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31583410 |
Quaternary Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal of Quaternary science. The journal was established in 1970, is now published by Cambridge University Press, and is edited by Derek B. Booth, Nicholas Lancaster and Lewis A. Owen. Previous editors included A. Lincoln Washburn, Estella B. Leopold, Stephen C. Porte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31585431 |
Franz Ocskay von Ocskö (1775–1851) was a Hungarian entomologist. Freiherr Franz L. B. Ocskay was the son of Major-General Joseph Ocskay von Ocsko (1740- 1805). He lived in Sopron (Ödenburg). described several new species of grasshoppers. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31590459 |
Katarzyna Chałasińska-Macukow (born 20 March 1946 in Łódź, Poland) is Polish physicist and professor at the University of Warsaw. In 2005 and again in 2008 elected for the post of the rector of the University of Warsaw. Fellow and from 2008 Chairman of the Science Board in Collegium Invisibile. She is a daughter of Józ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31592030 |
Katarzyna Chałasińska-Macukow In 2002 she was designated a vice-rector of finances and cadre politics. In 2005 she was elected for the pose of the rector of University of Warsaw. In 2008 she was elected for a second four-year cadency. She is also a member of Polish Physical Society. She held the positions of vice-presi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31592030 |
Relative apparent synapomorphy analysis Relative apparent synapomorphy analysis, or RASA, is a method that aims to determine whether a given character is shared between taxa due to shared ancestry or due to convergence. A synapomorphy is a shared trait found among two or more taxa and their most recent common ancestor,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31611166 |
Glorious Jubilee is the world's largest black opal from Lightning Ridge of Australia; the opal weights 775 carats with Gray base multi colors. Other notable individual opals: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31619267 |
Alexander Yersin (entomologist) Alexander Yersin (5 April 1825, in Morges – 2 September 1863, in Lavaux) was a Swiss entomologist. Alexander Yersin was a teacher. His entomological interests included Dermaptera, Mantodea and Orthoptera. His collection is conserved in the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien (Vienna) and in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31627106 |
Andreas Albrecht (cosmologist) Andreas J. Albrecht is a theoretical physicist and cosmologist who is a professor and chair of the Physics Department at the University of California, Davis. He is one of the founders of inflationary cosmology and studies the formation of the early universe, cosmic structure, and dark ene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31636552 |
Evgeny Tarelkin Evgeny Igorevich Tarelkin (; born December 29, 1974) is a Russian cosmonaut. He was selected as part of the TsPK-13 group in 2003. Tarelkin graduated from the Yeysk Air Force School in 1996 and the Gagarin Air Force Academy in 1998 before rising to the rank of Captain in the Russian Air Force. He served... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31637158 |
FIND Technology FIND® technology is a directed evolution technology that uses DNA recombination to improve properties of proteins. It eliminates unimportant and deleterious mutations while maintaining and combining beneficial mutations that would enhance protein function. For the relevant gene, a library of single stra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31643950 |
NGC 3669 (other designations - UGC 6431, MCG 10-16-135, ZWG 291.67, IRAS11226+5759, PGC 35113) is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered by William Herschel on March 18, 1790. The galaxy is seen edge-on and appears to be slightly warped. It has a small bulge. It is a member of the NGC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31644293 |
Star of New Zealand The is a 19 carat diamond which was the first million dollar diamond to be sold in New Zealand, by the Auckland-based jewellery retailer The Diamond Shop The diamond was mined in South Africa and was cut from a 52 carat raw diamond in Israel before being sent to Auckland, New Zealand. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31678346 |
Eduard Brückner (29 July 1862 – 20 May 1927) was a geographer, glaciologist and climatologist. He was born in Jena, the son of the Baltic-German historian Alexander Brückner and Lucie Schiele. After an education at the Karlsruhe gymnasium, beginning in 1881 he studied meteorology and physics at the University of Dorpat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31686556 |
Eduard Brückner The GKSS Research Centre's "Prize", for outstanding achievement in interdisciplinary climate research, is named after him. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31686556 |
Pierre Joseph Michel Lorquin (2 July 1797, Valenciennes – 8 February 1873, Paris) was a French entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera and Lepidoptera. In 1847/48 he collected for Charles Oberthur and Jean Baptiste Boisduval in Andalusia and Algeria, between 1849 and 1858 in California and Oregon, from 1859-1860 in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31693616 |
Russell Gray Russell David Gray is an evolutionary biologist and psychologist working on applying quantitative methods to the study of cultural evolution and human prehistory. He worked as a professor at the University of Auckland, located in New Zealand. Although originally trained in biology and psychology, Gray has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31697885 |
Mott–Bethe formula The is used to calculate electron scattering form factors, formula_1, from X-ray scattering form factors, formula_2. Following the first Born approximation, formula_3 Here, formula_4 is the magnitude of the scattering vector of momentum transfer cross section in reciprocal space (in units of inverse ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31703828 |
National Weather Service Tulsa, Oklahoma National Weather Service - Tulsa, Oklahoma (TSA) is a local weather forecast office responsible for monitoring weather conditions for 7 counties in Northwestern Arkansas, and 25 counties in Eastern Oklahoma. The current office in Tulsa maintains a WSR-88D (NEXRAD) radar system, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31709167 |
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