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Law of included fragments The law of included fragments is a method of relative dating in geology. Essentially, this law states that clasts in a rock are older than the rock itself. One example of this is a xenolith, which is a fragment of country rock that fell into passing magma as a result of stoping. Another exampl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31711004 |
Pugh–Schiff precession or spin–spin precession is the Lense-Thirring precession of an orbiting spinning vector. Caused by the general relativity effect of frame-dragging on a gyroscope orbiting a spinning body. Schiff precession is the usual name for this effect. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31714046 |
Abel Ingpen (20 May 1796 in Chelsea – 14 September 1854) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He is best known as the author of "Instructions for collecting, rearing, and preserving British & foreign insects : also for collecting and preserving crustacea and shells" (published by J. Bulcock in 18... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31722570 |
NGC 5775 is a spiral galaxy, a member of the Virgo Cluster, that lies at a distance of about 70 million light-years. Although the spiral is tilted away from us, with only a thin sliver in view, such a perspective can be advantageous for astronomers. For instance, astronomers have previously used the high inclination of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31724474 |
IC 1011 is a barred spiral galaxy with apparent magnitude of 14.7, and with a redshift of z=0.02564 (SIMBAD) or 0.025703 (NASA), yielding a distance of 100 to 120 megaparsecs. Its light has taken 349.5 million years to travel to Earth. IC 1011's calculated age is approximately 12.95 billion years. The IC designation co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31728570 |
William Wood (zoologist) William Wood FRS FLS (1774–1857), was an English surgeon, zoologist and entomologist. He was born in Kendal, Cumbria and trained in surgery at St Bartholomew's Hospital. He practised for several years as a surgeon at Wingham, near Canterbury and in London, but left the medical profession to bec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31733267 |
Von Babo's law (sometimes styled Babo's law) is a scientific law formulated by German chemist Lambert Heinrich von Babo. It states that the vapor pressure of solution decreases according to the concentration of solute. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31747442 |
Thermokinetics deals with the study of thermal decomposition kinetics. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31761967 |
Mobile mapping is the process of collecting geospatial data from a mobile vehicle, typically fitted with a range of photographic, radar, laser, LiDAR or any number of remote sensing systems. Such systems are composed of an integrated array of time synchronised navigation sensors and imaging sensors mounted on a mobile ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31775293 |
Mobile mapping "Street View" type images are also an increasing market. Location aware PDA systems rely on geo-referenced features collated from mobile mapping sources. GPS combined with digital camera systems allow rapid update of road maps. The same system can be utilised to carry out efficient road condition surveys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31775293 |
Moss bioreactor A moss bioreactor is a photobioreactor used for the cultivation and propagation of mosses. It is usually used in molecular farming for the production of recombinant protein using transgenic moss. In environmental science moss bioreactors are used to multiply peat mosses e.g. by the Mossclone consortium ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31792769 |
Moss bioreactor According to the intended yield, this basic principle can be adapted to various types and sizes of bioreactors. The cultivation chamber can, for example, consist of a column, a tube, or exchangeable plastic bags. Various biopharmaceuticals have already been produced using moss bioreactors. Ideally, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31792769 |
Reaction bonded silicon carbide Reaction bonded silicon carbide, also known as siliconized silicon carbide or SiSiC, is a type of silicon carbide that is manufactured by a chemical reaction between porous carbon or graphite with molten silicon. Due to the left over traces of silicon, reaction bonded silicon carbide is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31802451 |
Forchlorfenuron is a plant growth regulator. It has been approved for use on kiwi fruit and grapes in the United States, and it has been associated with news of watermelons exploding in China. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31803896 |
Peter Grassberger (born May 17, 1940) is a professor well known for his work in statistical and particle physics. He is most famous for his contributions to chaos theory, where he introduced the idea of correlation dimension, a means of measuring a type of fractal dimension of the strange attractor. Grassberger's early... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31807261 |
Bethe–Feynman formula The Bethe–Feynman efficiency formula, a simple method for calculating the yield of a fission bomb, was first derived in 1943 after development in 1942. Aspects of the formula are speculated to be secret restricted data. formula_1 A numerical coefficient would then be included to create the Bethe–F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31808529 |
Langat virus (LGTV) is a virus of the genus "Flavivirus". The virus was first isolated in Malaysia in 1956 from a hard tick of the Ixodes genus. This virus is antigenically related to Omsk hemorrhagic fever virus, Kyasanur forest disease virus, Alkhurma virus, Louping ill virus and other viruses of the tick-borne encep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31816507 |
Temporin Temporins are a family of peptides isolated originally from the skin secretion of the European red frog, "Rana temporaria". Peptides belonging to the temporin family have been isolated also from closely related North American frogs. In elephants, temporin is secreted by temporal glands during the period of mus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31828910 |
Cubist Pharmaceuticals is an American biopharmaceutical company with activities spanning from research and development to commercialization of pharmaceutical products. Its main products target pathogens like MRSA. Cubist was one of the few firms that continued to research in antibiotics while larger pharmaceutical comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31836335 |
Cubist Pharmaceuticals In 2014, succeeding Michael Bonney as President, Robert J. Perez, was announced to take leadership on January 1, 2015. In January 2015 became a wholly owned subsidiary of Merck & Co. The company markets Cubicin (daptomycin) for injection, the first antibiotic in a class of anti-infectives called ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31836335 |
Henk Jaap Beentje (born 1951, Bakkum) is a Dutch botanist. In 1978 he obtained a masters in biology at the University of Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD at the Wageningen Agricultural University on the thesis "A monograph on Strophanthus (Apocynaceae)", prepared under the direction of Hendrik de Wit and A.J.M. Leeuwenbe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31842601 |
Luminex Corporation is a biotechnology company which develops, manufactures and markets proprietary biological testing technologies with applications in life-sciences. Luminex offers a wide range of solutions applicable in diverse markets including clinical diagnostics, pharmaceutical drug discovery, biomedical researc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31845142 |
Luminex Corporation owns 315 issued patents worldwide, including over 124 issued patents in the United States based on its multiplexing xMAP platform. Luminex's proprietary multiplex bead-based immunoassay testing platform simultaneously measures multiple analytes by exciting a sample with a laser, and subsequently ana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31845142 |
Moss–Burstein effect The Moss–Burstein effect, also known as the Burstein–Moss shift, is the phenomenon of which the apparent band gap of a semiconductor is increased as the absorption edge is pushed to higher energies as a result of some states close to the conduction band being populated. This is observed for a degen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31860373 |
Moss–Burstein effect Negative Burstein shifts can also occur. These are due to band structure changes due to doping. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31860373 |
Defense Weather Satellite System The (DWSS) was a United States Department of Defense weather satellite system to have been built by Northrop Grumman Corporation projected for launch in 2018. In January 2012, the US Air Force cancelled the program. It was replaced with the Weather System Follow-on Microwave (WSF-M). DW... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31908462 |
Deferribacter is a genus in the phylum Deferribacteres (Bacteria). The name "Deferribacter" derives from:Latin pref. "de"-, from; Latin noun "ferrum", iron; New Latin masculine gender noun, a rod"bacter", nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect meaning a bacterium, rod; New Latin masculine gender noun "Deferribacter",... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31911164 |
Deinobacterium is a genus in the Deinococcus-Thermus group (Bacteria). Not to be confused with "Deinobacter", a disused name for "Deinococcus". The name "Deinobacterium" derives from: Greek adjective "deinos (δεινός)", dreadful, strange; New Latin neuter gender noun "bacterium", nominally meaning "a rod", but in effect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31911236 |
Akkermansia is a genus in the phylum Verrucomicrobia (Bacteria). The genus was first proposed in 2004 by Muriel Derrien and others, with the type species "muciniphila" (gen. nov., sp. nov). The name "Akkermansia" derives from:New Latin feminine gender noun "Akkermansia", named after Anton DL Akkermans (28 October 1940 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31911393 |
Akkermansia Findings from an internationally collaborative human twin study reported in February 2016 indicate that a decrease in "muciniphila" c is associated with the increased risk of type 2 diabetes and obesity. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31911393 |
NGC 634 is a spiral galaxy, lying at a distance of away from the Milky Way in the northern constellation of Triangulum. This object was discovered back in the nineteenth century by French astronomer Édouard Stephan. It is inclined by an angle of 82.4° to the line of sight from the Earth, and thus is being viewed nearly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31931942 |
Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society (1839–1961) was a local society founded in Penzance in Cornwall, England, UK, whose aim was "the cultivation of the science of Natural History, and for the investigation of the Antiquities referring to the early inhabitants." The Society was established at a public meeti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31932415 |
Penzance Natural History and Antiquarian Society A new series of "Reports and Transactions" was published annually until 1890 and intermittently until 1899. The annual excursion and lectures continued into the 20th century and the 1935 AGM reported a membership of 160 and a credit balance of £55 10s 10d. The ceased to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31932415 |
Frederik Vilhelm August Meinert (1833, in Copenhagen – 1912), was a Danish entomologist and editor of the first series of "Entomologiske Meddelelser". Meinert initially studied theology . Later he was a pupil of Jørgen Matthias Christian Schiødte and he too became "Inspektor" at the Zoological Museum in Copenhagen. Mei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31945701 |
Gode Venkata Juggarow (1817–1856) was an Indian astronomer and instrument maker. He was one of the few Indians who started and operated an astronomical observatory in British India at Visakhapatnam. He started his own observatory in Visakhapatnam at his residence in Daba Gardens. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31948970 |
Biomedical sciences are a set of sciences applying portions of natural science or formal science, or both, to knowledge, interventions, or technology that are of use in healthcare or public health. Such disciplines as medical microbiology, clinical virology, clinical epidemiology, genetic epidemiology, and biomedical e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31950201 |
Biomedical sciences There are at least 45 different specialisms within healthcare science, which are traditionally grouped into three main divisions: The healthcare science workforce is an important part of the UK's National Health Service. While people working in healthcare science are only 5% of the staff of the NHS,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31950201 |
Biomedical sciences In 1928 British Scientist Alexander Flemming created the first antibiotic penicillin. This was a huge breakthrough in biomedical science because it allowed for the treatment of bacterial infections. In 1926 the first artificial pacemaker was made by Australian physician Dr. Mark C. Lidwell. This por... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31950201 |
Biomedical sciences Huggins discovered that if you remove the testicles from a man with prostate cancer, the cancer had nowhere to spread, and nothing to feed on thus putting the subject into remission. This advancement lead to the development of hormonal blocking drugs, which is less invasive and still used today. At ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31950201 |
Four Advisors The () is a traditional Chinese asterism found in the Purple Forbidden enclosure (). It consists of four stars found in the modern constellations of Ursa Minor and Camelopardalis and represents the four assistants of ancient emperors. During the Qing dynasty, a star from the constellation Draco was added ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31954954 |
Kodevirion The term kodecyte is used to describe cells with detectable Function-Spacer-Lipid (FSL) constructs, and in concert, the term kodevirion (pronounced co-da-virion), is used to describe virions with detectable FSL constructs. The method for labeling virions with FSL constructs is simple, non covalent and only i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31985560 |
Peter J. Schwendinger (born 27 April 1959 in Dornbirn, Austria) is an Austrian arachnologist. He graduated from Innsbruck University in 1985, and in 1990 with a PhD, where he studied with Konrad Thaler. He was a lecturer at Innsbruck University, from 1989 to 1999. He taught at Chiang Mai University from 1996 to 1997. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31987233 |
Nuclear energy in Kenya In 2017, the Kenya Nuclear Electrification Board (Kneb) estimated that a 1,000 MW nuclear plant could be operational by 2027 and cost Ksh500-600 billion ($5-$6 billion), to be located near a large body of water, such as the Indian Ocean, Lake Victoria or Lake Turkana. In September 2010 Former En... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31990026 |
Wilson ratio The of a metal is the dimensionless ratio of the zero-temperature magnetic susceptibility to the coefficient of the linear temperature term in the electronic specific heat. The relative value of the Wilson ratio, compared to the for the non-interacting Fermi gas, can provide insight into the types of inter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31995543 |
Wilson ratio a deviation of the experimental value of "R" from 1 may indicate strong electronic correlations. Very high Wilson ratios (above 2) indicate nearness to ferromagnetism. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31995543 |
Bariloche Atomic Centre The () is one of the research and development centres of the Argentine National Atomic Energy Commission. As its name implies, it is located in the city of San Carlos de Bariloche. is responsible for research in physics and nuclear engineering. It also hosts the Balseiro Institute, a collaborati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31997774 |
Compensatory growth (organism) Compensatory growth, known as catch-up growth and compensatory gain, is an accelerated growth of an organism following a period of slowed development, particularly as a result of nutrient deprivation. The growth may be with respect to weight or length (or height in humans). For example, o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32000094 |
Compensatory growth (organism) In 1915, Osborne and Mendel were the first to demonstrate that rats fed after growth restriction had an accelerated growth rate. In 1945, Brody developed the idea of “homoestasis of growth” in the book "Bioenergetics and Growth". In 1955, Verle Bohman was the first to use the term “compen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32000094 |
Compensatory growth (organism) Both height gain and pubertal development are dependent on the release of growth hormone and gonadotrophins (LH and FSH) from the pituitary gland. Suppression of gonadotropins in patients with anorexia nervosa has been frequently documented. In some cases, especially where onset is pre-pu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32000094 |
Compensatory growth (organism) The stage of development of the animal when the nutrient restriction occurs greatly affects its body composition. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32000094 |
Gemmatimonas aurantiaca is a Gram-negative, aerobic, polyphosphate-accumulating micro-organism. It is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped aerobe, with type strain T-27 (=JCM 11422 =DSM 14586). It replicates by budding. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32000713 |
Spin geometry In mathematics, spin geometry is the area of differential geometry and topology where objects like spin manifolds and Dirac operators, and the various associated index theorems have come to play a fundamental role both in mathematics and in mathematical physics. An important generalisation is the theory o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32013990 |
Dehalococcoidetes Dehalococcoides is a class of Chloroflexi, a phylum of Bacteria. It is also known as the DHC group. The name "Dehalococcoidetes" is a placeholder name given by Hugenholtz and Stackebrandt, 2004, after "Dehalococcoides ethenogenes", a partially described species in 1997, whereas the first species fully... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32021761 |
Theodor Seliwanoff (or Seliwanow), born as Fedor Fedorovic Selivanov (October 8, 1859 in Gorodischtsche, Pensa–1938) was a Russian chemist who invented the Seliwanoff's test in 1887 while working in Metchnikow University of Odessa in Odessa, Ukraine. de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor Seliwanoff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32038708 |
Rehbinder effect The in physics is the reduction in the hardness and ductility of a material by a surface-active molecular film. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32046774 |
DKH Degrees of carbonate hardness (dKH or °KH; the K is from the German "Karbonathärte") is a unit of water hardness, specifically for temporary or carbonate hardness. Carbonate hardness is a measure of the concentration of carbonates such as calcium carbonate (CaCO) and magnesium carbonate (MgCO) per volume of water. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32059473 |
Held–Hou Model The is a model for the Hadley circulation of the atmosphere that would exist in the absence of atmospheric turbulence. The model was developed by Isaac Held and Arthur Hou in 1980. The essence of the model is that air rising from the surface at the equator conserves its angular momentum as it moves polew... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32080258 |
Konrad Thaler (born 19 December 1940 in Innsbruck, Austria – died 11 June 2005) was an Austrian arachnologist. Peter J. Schwendinger, other Austrian arachnologist, studied with Konrad Thaler, in Innsbruck University. The specific epithet of the spider species "Palaeoperenethis thaleri" was designated by P. Selden and D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32107594 |
CalSky (sky calendar) is web-based astronomical calculator used by astronomers to plan observing. It was created by Arnold Barmettler, a researcher at the University of Zurich and formerly a scientific assistant at the European Space Agency. The website, available in English and German, features a calendar (and/or emai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32114474 |
George Henry Kendrick Thwaites (9 July 1812, Bristol – 11 September 1882, Kandy) was an English botanist and entomologist. Thwaites was initially an accountant and studied botany during his spare time. He was interested particularly in the lower plants such as the algae and the cryptogams. He became a recognised botani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32147504 |
Weak charge In the nuclear physics, and atomic physics weak charge refers to the standard model vector coupling of nucleons to the Z boson, namely formula_1, where "T" is the weak isospin, "Q" the charge, and "θ" the weak mixing angle. Thus, it is approximately -0.99 for a neutron and +0.07 for a proton. Measurements i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32153349 |
Chonosuke Okamura In the 1970s he visited Japan's paleontology conference several times and applied to present his findings. It was rumored that in 1978 an elderly paleontologist who walked into Okamura's lecture became so angry that he suffered from high blood pressure and died prematurely. Eventually the paleontology... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32157915 |
Forest floor interception is the part of the (net) precipitation or throughfall that is temporarily stored in the top layer of the forest floor and successively evaporated within a few hours or days during and after the rainfall event. The forest floor can consist of bare soil, short vegetation (like grasses, mosses, c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32159946 |
International Association for Vegetation Science The (IAVS) promotes contact between scientists and others interested in the study of vegetation ecology, promotes research and publication of research results. In 1939 the International Phytosociological Society (IPS) was founded, with its headquarters in Montpellier, Fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32190088 |
Bleb (mineralogy) In geology, mineralogy, and petrology, a bleb is a small bubble-like inclusion of one mineral within a larger mineral. An example is a bleb of sylvite within chlorite. Blebs tend to be brightly coloured. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32221625 |
Hanle effect The Hanle effect, also known as zero-field level crossing, is a reduction in the polarization of light when the atoms emitting the light are subject to a magnetic field in a particular direction, and when they have themselves been excited by polarized light. Experiments which utilize the include measuring ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32236479 |
Hanle effect The zero-field Hanle level crossings involve magnetic fields, in which the states which are degenerate at zero magnetic field are split due to the Zeeman effect. There is also the closely analogous zero-field Stark level crossings with electric fields, in which the states which are degenerate at zero elect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32236479 |
Antidynamo theorem In physics and in particular in the theory of magnetism, an antidynamo theorem is one of several results that restrict the type of magnetic fields that may be produced by dynamo action. One notable example is Thomas Cowling's antidynamo theorem which states that no axisymmetric magnetic field can be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32244084 |
Palimpsest (geology) In geology, a palimpsest is a geographical feature composed of superimposed structures created at different times. Palimpsest is beginning to be used by glaciologists to describe contradicting glacial flow indicators, usually consisting of smaller indicators (i.e., striae) overprinted upon larger f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32246369 |
Abell 2744 Abell 2744, nicknamed Pandora's Cluster, is a giant galaxy cluster resulting from the simultaneous pile-up of at least four separate, smaller galaxy clusters that took place over a span of 350 million years. The galaxies in the cluster make up less than five percent of its mass. The gas (around 20 percent) i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32263504 |
KIs-V is a DNA virus isolated from four human cases of acute hepatitis in Japan. This virus has also been isolated in France. The genome has a sequence of 9496 bases and 13 potential genes. The virus is 30–50 nanometers in diameter and is enveloped. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32284850 |
Pole piece A pole piece is a structure composed of material of high magnetic permeability that serves to direct the magnetic field produced by a magnet. A pole piece attaches to and in a sense extends a pole of the magnet, hence the name. Pole pieces are used with both permanent magnets and electromagnets. In the case ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32290760 |
Pole piece A magnet keeper is a specialised pole piece used to temporarily connect the poles of a permanent magnet, to help to preserve the magnetism, and for safety in the case of large and powerful magnets. Another specialised pole piece is the armature of an electromechanical solenoid, which produces work by being a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32290760 |
Rim Turkmani is a Syrian-born astrophysicist formerly at Imperial College London and Dorothy Hodgkin Research Fellow of the Royal Society. Turkmani gained her BSc in electrical engineering at the University of Damascus, then moved to Sweden to study for a masters in physics at Chalmers University, where she stayed on t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32298109 |
Géza Horváth (23 November 1847, Csécs – 8 September 1937, Budapest) was a Hungarian doctor and entomologist internationally recognized for his work on bugs (Hemiptera). He also contributed extensively to the study of Hungarian scale insect fauna. He published over 350 papers in his lifetime. He was made director of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32341908 |
Anthony Moffat Anthony (Tony) Lee Moffatt is an emeritus professor of astronomy at the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Dr. Moffatt was appointed as a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001. Dr. Moffatt's interests focus on massive stars (Wolf-Rayet stars in particular), stellar winds, binary ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32373441 |
Cirrus fibratus is a type of cirrus cloud. The name "cirrus fibratus" is derived from Latin, meaning "fibrous". These clouds are similar to cirrus uncinus, commonly known as "mares' tails"; however, fibratus clouds do not have tufts or hooks at the end. The filaments are usually separate from one another. Like other ci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32396927 |
Cirrus floccus is a type of cirrus cloud. The name "cirrus floccus" is derived from Latin, meaning "a lock of wool". occurs as small tufts of cloud, usually with a ragged base. The cloud can have virga falling from it, but the precipitation does not reach the ground. The individual tufts are usually isolated from each ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32397466 |
Cirrus duplicatus is a variety of cirrus cloud. The name "cirrus duplicatus" is derived from Latin, meaning "double". The duplicatus variety of cirrus clouds occurs when there are at least two layers of cirrus clouds. Most of the time, occurrences of cirrus fibratus and cirrus uncinus are in the duplicatus form. Like s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32397779 |
Cirrus radiatus is a variety of cirrus cloud. The name "cirrus radiatus" is derived from Latin, meaning "rayed, striped". This variety of cirrus clouds occurs in parallel bands that often cover the entire sky and appear to converge at a single point or two opposite points on the horizon. is often partly made up of cirr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32398029 |
Cirrus vertebratus is a type of cirrus cloud. The name "cirrus vertebratus" is derived from Latin, meaning "jointed, articulated, vertebrated". Like cirrus intortus, the vertebratus species is exclusive to the cirrus genus. gives the impression of vertebrae in a spinal column, ribs, or a fish skeleton. The species is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32398171 |
Cirrocumulus castellanus is a type of cirrocumulus cloud. The name "cirrocumulus castellanus" is derived from Latin, meaning "of a castle". These clouds appear as round turrets that are rising from either a lowered line or sheet of clouds. is an indicator of atmospheric instability at the level of the cloud. The clouds... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32398526 |
Cirrocumulus floccus is a type of cirrocumulus cloud. The name "cirrocumulus floccus" is derived from Latin, meaning "a lock of wool". appears as small tufts of cloud with rounded heads, but ragged bottoms. The cloud can produce virga, precipitation that evaporates before reaching the ground. Like cirrocumulus castella... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32404751 |
Cirrocumulus lenticularis is a type of cirrocumulus cloud. The name "cirrocumulus lenticularis" is derived from Latin, meaning "like a lentil". are smooth clouds that have the appearance of a lens or an almond. They usually form at the crests of atmospheric waves, which would otherwise be invisible. This species of cir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32404998 |
Salting in refers to the effect where increasing the ionic strength of a solution increases the solubility of a solute, such as a protein. This effect tends to be observed at lower ionic strengths. Protein solubility is a complex function of physicochemical nature of the protein, pH, temperature, and the concentration ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32406507 |
Salting in log S = B - KI where S is the solubility of the protein, B is a constant (function of protein, pH and temperature), K is the salting out constant (function of pH, mixing and salt), and I is the ionic strength of the salt. This expression is an approximation to that proposed by Long and McDevit. source ref in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32406507 |
Cirrocumulus stratiformis is a type of cirrocumulus cloud. The name "cirrocumulus stratiformis" is derived from Latin, meaning "stretched out". occurs as very small cirrocumulus clouds that cover a large part of the sky. This type of cloud always occurs in thin layers. There can be spaces or rifts between the individua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32407773 |
IC 3418 is a galaxy that is most well noted for its tidal tail, which formed after the galaxy collided with the Virgo Cluster some 54 million light years from Earth. The galaxy is home to many starburst regions. The galaxy is thought to be evolving from a dwarf irregular galaxy into a dwarf elliptical galaxy, as the ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32420215 |
Stephen Blackmore CBE FRSE FRSB FLS (born 30 July 1952) is a British botanist, who was educated at St. George's School, Hong Kong and the University of Reading where he completed his PhD in 1976. He then worked at the Royal Society of London’s Research Station on Aldabra Atoll in the Indian Ocean before being appointed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32444086 |
Lucien Hardy (born 1973) is a theoretical physicist, known for his work on the foundation of quantum physics including Hardy's paradox, a thought experiment he devised in 1992, and his widely cited 2001 axiomatic reconstruction of quantum theory that led to a surge of papers in this area. In the course of his career he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32444480 |
Teva Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Teva api is an international pharmaceutical company headquartered in Israel. teva api is a stand-alone business unit of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries limited, the largest generic drug manufacturer in the world and one of the 15 largest pharmaceutical companies worldwide. On top o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32450455 |
Teva Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Major Teva api's acquisitions: The R&D group at teva api consists of a team of over 760 top scientists located in 7 development centers worldwide: A large center in Israel (synthetic products and peptides), a large center in Hungary (fermentation and semi-synthetic products), and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32450455 |
Teva Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients Teva’s API facilities meet all applicable current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) requirements under U.S., European, Japanese, and other applicable quality standards. In some of the products that are sold in the U.S., TAPI utilizes controlled substances and therefore must meet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32450455 |
IC 755 is a spiral galaxy that lies 70 million light-years away in the Coma Berenices constellation. In 1999 a star within was seen to explode as a supernova and named SN 1999an. Supernovae like SN 1999an are classified as Type IIs and they are dramatic events that mark the end of the lives of massive stars. The supern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32451990 |
Cirrocumulus lacunosus is a type of cirrocumulus cloud. The name "cirrocumulus lacunosus" is derived from Latin, meaning "full of hollows". is a relatively rare cloud form that occurs as a layer of cloud with circular holes in it. Formation is commonly attributed to a cool layer mixing with a warmer, higher layer of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32482657 |
Fiber-optic Improved Next-generation Doppler Search for Exo-Earths The Fiber-Optic Improved Next-Generation Doppler Search for Exo-Earths (FINDS Exo-Earths) is a radial-velocity spectrograph developed by Debra Fischer. It is installed on the 3 meter telescope in Lick Observatory in Mount Hamilton. It has been in operat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32484750 |
Masterbatch (MB) is a solid additive for plastic used for coloring plastics (color masterbatch) or imparting other properties to plastics (additive masterbatch). A liquid dosage form is called liquid color. is a concentrated mixture of pigments and/or additives encapsulated during a heat process into a carrier resin wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32533522 |
Masterbatch The use of masterbatches allows the factory to keep stock of fewer grades of the polymer, and to buy cheaper natural polymer in bulk. The masterbatches can be fairly highly concentrated (in comparison with the target composition), with high "let-down ratios"; e.g. one 25 kg bag can be used for a tonne of na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32533522 |
Masterbatch The carrier can also double as a plasticizer (common for liquid masterbatches) or a processing aid. The machines are usually fed with premixed granules of the host polymer and the masterbatch. The final mixing then gets done in the screw and extrusion part of the machine. This is sometimes prone to adverse ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32533522 |
Shengwang Du is a professor in the department of physics at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. He is noted for having led a team that performed an experiment showing individual photons cannot travel faster than the speed of light ("c") in a vacuum, thus apparently removing one approach to time travel. Du c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32539705 |
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