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Woyie River (Diamond) The Woyie River Diamond was recovered on 6 January 1945 from the Woyie River near Koidu in eastern Sierra Leone. The uncut stone weighed , and at that time it was the largest alluvial diamond ever found, and the third largest diamond discovered in Africa, after the Cullinan Diamond and the Excelsi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33254668 |
John Gibson (cartographer) John Gibson (flourished in London 1750 to his death in 1792) was an English cartographer, geographer, draughtsman and engraver. Recognized as an important late eighteenth-century British cartographer, a contemporary of Jacques-Nicolas Bellin and skilled engraver, spent most of his life in pri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33277613 |
Clas Alströmer Baron (9 August 1736 – 5 March 1794) was a Swedish naturalist who was a student of Carl Linnaeus at Uppsala University. From 1760 to 1764 he traveled throughout Southern Europe, collecting plants for Linnaeus. He established a botanical garden and natural museum near Gothenburg which was managed by the n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33286412 |
Onyx Pharmaceuticals Initial funding for the formation of Onyx came from biotechnology firm Chiron Corporation (granted a 43% stake in the new company) and venture capital investors: Avalon Ventures, Institutional Venture Partners, J. H. Whitney & Company, and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. McCormick had been workin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33293566 |
Onyx Pharmaceuticals The most commonly reported adverse reactions (incidence ≥ 30%) are fatigue, anemia, nausea, thrombocytopenia, dyspnea, diarrhea, and pyrexia. Regorafenib (marketed under the trade name Stivarga), is currently being studied as a potential treatment option in multiple tumor types. On 27 September 201... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33293566 |
Onyx Pharmaceuticals Onyx announced on June 30, 2013, that it rejected the unsolicited proposal from Amgen. The Onyx board has authorized its financial adviser to contact potential suitors. The acquisition was formally announced on 25 August 2013. In July 2014 the company announced the phase III failure of a Sorafenib-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33293566 |
Black hole cosmology A black hole cosmology (also called Schwarzschild cosmology or black hole cosmological model) is a cosmological model in which the observable universe is the interior of a black hole. Such models were originally proposed by theoretical physicist Raj Pathria, and concurrently by mathematician I. J. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33324714 |
Black hole cosmology The minimal coupling between torsion and Dirac spinors generates a repulsive spin-spin interaction which is significant in fermionic matter at extremely high densities. Such an interaction prevents the formation of a gravitational singularity. Instead, the collapsing matter reaches an enormous but ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33324714 |
Mycoplasma meleagridis Also known as: Mycoplasma air sacculitis − Mycoplasma infectious stunting − Mycoplasmosis is a small bacteria responsible for air sacculitis and disorders of the musculoskeletal and reproductive systems in turkeys. The disease is more severe in young birds and occurs globally wherever turkeys are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33331852 |
Duocarmycin The duocarmycins are members of a series of related natural products first isolated from "Streptomyces" bacteria in 1978. They are notable for their extreme cytotoxicity and thus represent a class of exceptionally potent antitumour antibiotics. As small-molecule, synthetic, DNA minor groove binding alkylati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33334030 |
Duocarmycin The duocarmycin analogues are able to exert their mode of action at any phase in the cellular cycle, whereas tubulin binders will only attack tumor cells when they are in a mitotic state. Growing evidence suggests that DNA damaging agents, such as duocarmycins, are more efficacious in tumor cell killing tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33334030 |
Duocarmycin Using this technology scientists aims to create ADCs having an optimal therapeutic window, balancing the effect of potent cell-killing agents on tumor cells versus healthy cells. The synthetic analogs of duocarmycins include adozelesin, bizelesin, and carzelesin. As members of the cyclopropylpyrroloindole f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33334030 |
Duocarmycin Adozelesin induces single-strand DNA lesions, whereas bizelesin induces both single-strand lesions and double-strand DNA cross-links. At equivalent cytotoxic concentrations, these agents caused different biological responses. Low adozelesin concentrations (e.g., 0.5 nM) induced a transient S-phase block and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33334030 |
Duocarmycin The formation of the DNA-reactive U-76074, via U-76073, from carzelesin was shown to proceed very slowly in phosphate-buffered saline (t1/2 greater than 24 h) but to occur rapidly in plasma from mouse, rat, dog, and human (initial t1/2 values ranging from 18 min for mouse to 52 min for rat) and in cell cult... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33334030 |
Duocarmycin Carzelesin treatment produced 100% complete remissions (no palpable tumor mass at the termination of the experiment) in mice bearing early-stage human ovarian 2780. Pharmacologically, carzelesin proved to be relatively schedule and route independent and was highly active against i.p. implanted L1210 leukemi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33334030 |
Arseniosiderite is a rare arsenate mineral formed by the oxidation of other arsenic-containing minerals, such as scorodite or arsenopyrite. It occurs in association with beudantite, carminite, dussertite, pharmacolite, pitticite, adamite and erythrite. The name arseniosiderite reflects two major elements of the mineral... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33353300 |
Porcine epidemic diarrhoea Porcine epidemic diarrhea is a condition caused by the porcine epidemic diarrhea virus that leads to severe gastrointestinal disease in pigs. It is closely related to the agent responsible for transmissible gastroenteritis in pigs. Piglets are most susceptible to the disease, as are young adu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33354427 |
Water year A water year (also called "hydrological year", "discharge year" or "flow year") is a term commonly used in hydrology to describe a time period of 12 months for which precipitation totals are measured. Its beginning differs from the calendar year because part of the precipitation that falls in late autumn and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33365528 |
Radiation effect is the physical and chemical property changes of materials induced by radiation. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33373776 |
Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al‐Farisi Muhammad ibn Abi Bakr al-Farisi (d. 1278/1279), an Iranian Islamic astronomer and astrologer born in Aden. He is the author of "al-Tuḥfa", which includes a treatise containing important information for the history of Islamic astronomy and its connection with the religion of Islam. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33383114 |
Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Abstracts (CEABA-VTB) is an abstracting and indexing service that is published by DECHEMA, BASF, and Bayer Technology Services, all based in Germany. This is a bibliographic database that covers multiple disciplines. Subject coverage includes engineering, management, manufacturing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33383655 |
Eugène Penard was a Swiss biologist and pioneer in systematics of the amoebae. Penard was born on the 16 September 1855 in Geneva, and lived until 1954. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33386318 |
Lapworth Medal The is the highest award of the Palaeontological Association, given to those who have made a significant contribution to the science by means of a substantial body of research. Source: Palaeontological Association | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33386436 |
Keith Christian Dr. is Professor of Zoology at Charles Darwin University where he teaches in the School of Environmental & Life Sciences. He is a specialist in the physiology of amphibians and reptiles. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33392899 |
Nipigon (crater) Nipigon is an impact crater on Mars, located in the Arcadia quadrangle just North-East of the volcano Uranius Patera. It measures in diameter. The crater was named after the Canadian town of Nipigon, Ontario, by IAU's Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature in 1991. The location of Nipigon crat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33400046 |
Mesohigh A mesohigh (sometimes called a "bubble high") is a mesoscale high-pressure area that forms beneath thunderstorms. While not always the case, it is usually associated with a mesoscale convective system. In the early stages of research on the subject, the mesohigh was often referred to as a "thunderstorm high". ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33403873 |
Hydrometeor loading is the induced drag effects on the atmosphere from a falling hydrometeor. When falling at terminal velocity, the value of this drag is equal to "gr", where "g" is the acceleration due to gravity and "r" is the mixing ratio of the hydrometeors. has a net-negative effect on the atmospheric buoyancy eq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33432143 |
Esdat ESdat is environmental data management, analysis and reporting software for environmental and groundwater data. It is developed by Earth Science Information Systems (EScIS) based in Australia. Data is imported from a range of systems or data sources into a central environmental database, for data comparison, anal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33443721 |
New Enterprise Associates (NEA) is an American-based venture capital firm. NEA focuses investment stages ranging from seed stage through growth stage across an array of industry sectors. With over $20 billion in assets under management, NEA was the world's largest venture capital firm in 2007. The firm is headquartered... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33457394 |
New Enterprise Associates The firm continued to grow steadily throughout the 1980s and early 1990s raising $900 million from 1987 through 1996 across NEA's next four funds. Beginning with NEA-8 in 1998, the firm greatly increased the size of its investment funds. NEA's tenth fund had $2.3 billion of investor commitment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33457394 |
New Enterprise Associates com, Drop, Duolingo, Enigma, Fetchr, Forter, Fusion-io, Groupon, Gilt Groupe, Global Savings Group, HealthSouth, Houzz, Jet.com, Juniper Networks, The Learning Company, Lot18, Macromedia, MapD Technologies, MongoDB, MuleSoft, Nicira, Opower, Pentaho, Raise Marketplace, Robinhood Markets, Sales... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33457394 |
Colorado low A is a low-pressure area that forms in southeastern Colorado or northeastern New Mexico, typically in the winter. After forming, the system moves across the Great Plains. Colorado lows can produce heavy wintry precipitation, and have a general east to northeast movement, impacting regions as far north as W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33483364 |
AAPG Bulletin The is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering geosciences and associated technologies relating to the energy industry. It is an official journal of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. This journal is abstracted and/or indexed in: GeoRef, GEOBASE, Scopus, PubMed, Current Contents... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33486274 |
Gen-ichi Koidzumi Gen-ichi Koidzumi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33487881 |
Richard Hart Brown (June 15, 1941 – June 23, 2005) was a founder of Interoperative Neurophysiological Monitoring and a leading expert on amusement ride and roller coaster safety. He was a founder of the American Society of Neurophysiologic Monitoring and a charter member of the American Board of Neurophysiologic Monito... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33492223 |
Olympic Australis The opal is the largest and most valuable opal yet found () and was valued at in 1997. It was found in 1956 at the 'Eight Mile' opal field near the town of Coober Pedy in South Australia. The opal was found at a depth of . The opal was named in honor of the Olympic Games, which were being held in Melb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33494423 |
Boris Sket (born 30 July 1936 in Ljubljana) is a Slovenian zoologist and speleobiologist. Sket obtained his doctorate at the University of Ljubljana in 1961 and became a research assistant at the former Natural sciences faculty. In 1965, he became an invertebrate zoology professor at the Biotechnical faculty in Ljublja... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33498061 |
Boris Sket He also serves in editorial boards of several scholarly journals and is a subject field editor of the 'megajournal' "Zootaxa". In 2011, Sket became a member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts. Additionally, he is a foreign member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Holde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33498061 |
UGPS J0521+3640 is a nearby brown dwarf of spectral class T8.5, located in constellation Auriga. It was discovered in 2011 using United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT), UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS), UGPS (UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey) component, 6th data release. Its photometric distance estimate is 8.2 p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33503356 |
Organic Lake virophage (OLV) is a double-stranded DNA virophage (a virus that requires the presence of another virus to replicate itself and in so doing limits the ability of the other virus to replicate). It was detected metagenomically in samples from Organic Lake, Antarctica. The virus appears to be ~100 nanometers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33525651 |
Mavirus is a genus of double stranded DNA virus that infects the marine phagotrophic flagellate "Cafeteria roenbergensis" in the presence of a second virus — "Cafeteria roenbergensis virus". The genus contains only one species, Cafeteriavirus-dependent mavirus. "Mavirus" can integrate into the genome of cells of "C. ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33526961 |
Phytotechnology (; ) is an emerging field that implements solutions to scientific and engineering problems in the form of plants. It is distinct from ecotechnology and biotechnology as these fields encompass the use and study of ecosystems and living beings, respectively. Current study of this field has mostly been dir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33533216 |
Phytotechnology Most phytotechnology has been focused on the abilities of plants to remove pollutants from the environment. Other technologies such as green roofs, green walls and bioswales are generally considered phytotechnology. Taking a broad view: even parks and landscaping could be viewed as phytotechnology. Howe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33533216 |
Phytotechnology The diversity of plants also gives versatility to the phytotechnologic system. Plants from the native environment capable to handle many applications and non-natives for more specific projects (such as hyperaccumulators for heavy metal removal). Ancillary benefits are a factor. Community use, education ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33533216 |
Phytotechnology There are many physiological properties of plants which can be used in phytotechnology. The mechanisms work synergistically to achieve the goals set by a project. Phytosequestration is the ability of plants to sequester certain contaminants in root zone. This is accomplished through several of the plant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33533216 |
Phytotechnology "see also" Rhizofiltration Rhizofiltration is the adsorption onto plant roots or absorption into plant roots of contaminants that are in solution surrounding the root zone. "see also" Phytoextraction process Phytoextraction is the ability to take contaminants into the plant. The plant material is then r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33533216 |
Vasilis Kanatas Vasilis A. Kanatas (Greek: Βασίλης Κανάτας; born 3 January 1967) is a Greek physicist. Kanatas was born in Amfissa, part of the Municipality of Delphi. He wrote his dissertation in Astronomy & Uranography, entitled "Concerning Constellations", at the Department of Physics of Patras University. He is an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33536413 |
IRIS (biosensor) Interferometric reflectance imaging sensor (IRIS), formerly known as the spectral reflectance imaging biosensor (SRIB), is a system that can be used as a biosensing platform capable of high-throughput multiplexing of protein–protein, protein–DNA, and DNA–DNA interactions without the use of any fluoresc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33548237 |
Wave setup In fluid dynamics, wave setup is the increase in mean water level due to the presence of breaking waves. Similarly, wave setdown is a wave-induced decrease of the mean water level before the waves break (during the shoaling process). For short, the whole phenomenon is often denoted as wave setup, including b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33555016 |
Wave setup is particularly of concern during storm events, when the effects of big waves generated by wind from the storm are able to increase the mean sea level (by wave setup), enhancing the risks of damage to coastal infrastructure. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33555016 |
NGC 3223 is a faint barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Antlia. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33586576 |
NGC 3271 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Antlia. At magnitude 11.7, it is the brightest spiral galaxy in the Antlia Cluster, which lies about away. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33586884 |
NGC 3267 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Antlia. It is a member of the Antlia Cluster, which lies about away. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33587415 |
NGC 3268 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Antlia. It is a member of the Antlia Cluster, which lies about away. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33587530 |
NGC 3269 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Antlia. It is a member of the Antlia Cluster, which lies about away. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33587688 |
NGC 3258 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Antlia. It is a member of the Antlia Cluster, which lies about away. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33587711 |
NGC 3260 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Antlia. It is a member of the Antlia Cluster, which lies about away. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33587724 |
NGC 3281 is a large unbarred spiral galaxy in the southern constellation of Antlia, located at a distance of from the Milky Way. The galaxy is inclined by an angle of 64° to the line-of-sight from the Earth, with the major axis aligned with a position angle of 137°. It is a luminous infrared galaxy and a type II Seyfer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33587737 |
Journal of the Geological Society The is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the Geological Society of London. It covers research in all aspects of the Earth sciences. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33605550 |
Comparison of chemistry and physics Chemistry and physics are branches of science that both study matter. The difference between the two lies in their scope and approach. Chemists and physicists are trained differently, and they have different professional roles, even when working in a team. The division between chemis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33615960 |
Comparison of chemistry and physics Physics also deals with the basic principles that explain matter and energy, and may study aspects of atomic matter by following concepts derived from the most fundamental principles. Chemistry focuses on how substances interact with each other and with energy (for example heat and l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33615960 |
Comparison of chemistry and physics The two sciences differ in the role that theory plays within the discipline. Physics can be divided into experimental and theoretical physics. Historically, theoretical physics has correctly predicted phenomena that were out of experimental reach at the time, and could be verified on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33615960 |
Comparison of chemistry and physics Between the two programs of study, there is a large area of overlap (calculus, introductory physics, quantum mechanics, thermodynamics). However, physics places a larger emphasis on fundamental theory (with its deep mathematical treatment) while chemistry places more emphasis in comb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33615960 |
Comparison of chemistry and physics While there is no industry named after physics, many industries have grown out of physics research, most notably the semiconductor and electronics industry. Physicists are also employed outside of science, for example in finance, because of their training in modeling complex systems.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33615960 |
Per Karl Hjalmar Dusén (1855–1926) was a Swedish civil engineer, botanist and explorer. As a botanist his interests included pteridology, bryology and paleobotany. He made botanical expeditions to Africa, Greenland and South America. During his expeditions to Greenland, he visited Disko Island to catalogue the variety ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33623644 |
Ottmar Hofmann (20 September 1835 in Frankfurt am Main – 22 February 1900 in Regensburg) was a German entomologist.He is not to be confused with Ernst Hofmann also an entomologist specialising in Lepidoptera. was a physician. As an entomologist, he worked on Microlepidoptera. His collection was sold to Thomas de Grey, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33636200 |
Hugo Theodor Christoph (16 April 1831 – 5 November 1894) was a German and Russian entomologist. Born in Herrnhut in Saxony, moved to Russia in 1858. He became a member of the Russian Entomological Society in 1861. From 1880, he was curator of the Lepidoptera collection of Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovich of Russia. His... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33636318 |
John Henry Wood (April 14, 1841 – August 29, 1914) was an English entomologist. Wood was a physician (M.B.C.S), practising in Tarrington, Herefordshire. He wrote 45 scientific papers on Microlepidoptera and, later Diptera and described several new species including "Coleophora glaucicolella", "Coleophora sylvaticella" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33639250 |
Treble (sound) The term "treble" derives from the Latin "triplum", used in 13th century motets to indicate the third and highest range. The "treble control" is used in sound reproduction to change the volume of treble notes relative to those of the middle and bass frequency ranges. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33663777 |
Liquid color The term liquid color or liquid color concentrate describes to a system consisting of a liquid binder (carrier), dyes or pigments and other additives such as process additives, stabilisers or similar. The liquid colors are mixed into the plastic (raw polymer or recyclat) for coloring or changing the proper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33665439 |
Liquid color In order to prevent migration of the carrier liquid as far as possible, well-tolerated liquid carriers are used which interact with the polymer. The typical components are: Different mixtures of the components are also used. The pigment preparations are produced in batches. For this the formulation compone... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33665439 |
Liquid color Each batch can be controlled in terms of colour, viscosity and particle size distribution and, if necessary, corrected as a whole. If the liquid colorant is added to the main hopper together with the raw polymer, the distribution of the liquid colorant is statistically better than that of masterbatch even ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33665439 |
Liquid color The coloring of bio-based plastics with liquid colors leads to an increase in characteristic values in the notched bar impact test. The disadvantages are the high cleaning effort without using suitable dosing equipment. When dosing in the feed zone, very high colouring concentrations are not possible, sinc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33665439 |
Mayer's reagent is an alkaloidal precipitating reagent used for the detection of alkaloids in natural products. Mayer’s reagent is freshly prepared by dissolving a mixture of mercuric chloride (1.36 g) and of potassium iodide (5.00 g) in water (100.0 ml). Most alkaloids are precipitated from neutral or slightly acidic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33678989 |
Purpureocillium lilacinum is a species of filamentous fungus in the family Ophiocordycipitaceae. It has been isolated from a wide range of habitats, including cultivated and uncultivated soils, forests, grassland, deserts, estuarine sediments and sewage sludge, and insects. It has also been found in nematode eggs, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33691299 |
Purpureocillium lilacinum These bear phialides from the ends of which spores are formed in long chains. Spores germinate when suitable moisture and nutrients are available. Colonies on malt agar grow rather fast, attaining a diameter of 5–7 cm within 14 days at , consisting of a basal felt with a floccose overgrowth of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33691299 |
Purpureocillium lilacinum Chemical control is a widely used option for plant-parasitic nematode management. However, chemical nematicides are now being reappraised in respect of environmental hazard, high costs, limited availability in many developing countries or their diminished effectiveness following repeated appli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33691299 |
Purpureocillium lilacinum A basic serine protease with biological activity against "Meloidogyne hapla" eggs has been identified. One strain of "P. lilacinum" has been shown to produce proteases and a chitinase, enzymes that could weaken a nematode egg shell so as to enable a narrow infection peg to push through. Before... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33691299 |
Raluca Ripan (27 June 1894, Iași - 5 December 1972, Cluj) was a Romanian chemist, and a member of the Romanian Academy. She wrote many treatises, especially in the field of analytical chemistry. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33712831 |
Hall Sapphire and Diamond Necklace The has 36 matched sapphires from Sri Lanka which total 195 carats. These sapphires are surrounded by 435 brilliant-cut diamonds that total 83.75 carats. The sapphires are cushion-cut, some of the diamonds are pear-shaped and the others are round cut. The setting is platinum. It was d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33730339 |
Manus Trench is an oceanic trench in the Bismarck Sea north of Papua New Guinea delineating the plate tectonic boundary between the Caroline and North Bismarck plates. There very moderate seismic activity along both these trenches, and their status as an active subduction zone has been challenged. A relative motion of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33774041 |
Kilinailai Trench is a trench delineating the oceanic boundary between the Pacific Plate and North Bismarck Plates, in Papua New Guinea. The Manus Trench, which looks as if it is a western continuation of the Kilinailai Trench, marks the boundary between the Caroline Plate and North Bismarck Plates. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33774057 |
SrnB-SrnC toxin-antitoxin system The of the F plasmid is homologous to the hok/sok system of R1. Like the hok/sok system, it performs a post-segregational killing function, ensuring that all surviving daughter cells inherit the F plasmid. The system consists of "srnB' " mRNA which is relatively stable and codes for the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33784766 |
SrnB-SrnC toxin-antitoxin system In a plasmid free cell, "srnC" degrades rapidly and remaining "srnB' " mRNA is processed into translationally active 3'-truncated mRNA which yields the SrnB toxic protein, killing the cell. The mechanism by which SrnB causes toxicity is not known, however similarity between the SrnB tox... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33784766 |
Johan Emil Aro (1874–1928) was a Finnish entomologist. Aro was a school teacher in Viborg . He worked mainly on Ephemeroptera. Partial list | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33789760 |
Francisco de Paula Martínez y Sáez (March 30, 1835 – 1908) was a Spanish zoologist. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33798412 |
List of natural history dealers Natural history specimen dealers had an important role in the development of science in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. They supplied the rapidly growing, both in size and number, museums and educational establishments and private collectors whose collections, either in entirety... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33802674 |
Stratigraphy and Geological Correlation is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering fundamental and applied aspects of stratigraphy. It was established in 1993 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media on behalf of MAIK Nauka/Interperiodica. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33805625 |
Yevgeny Korotkevich Yevgeny Sergeyevich Korotkevich (; 1918 – 1 February 1994) was a Soviet scientist and polar explorer, Hero of Socialist Labor, and Doctor of Geographical Sciences. He was one of the leading scientists of the Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute (AARI) in the field of glaciology and geography of p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33809236 |
Yevgeny Korotkevich was a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, Meritorious Worker of Science and Technology of the RSFSR, and twice recipient of the USSR State Prize. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33809236 |
Identity channel In quantum information theory, the identity channel is a noise-free quantum channel. That is, the channel outputs exactly what was put in. The identity channel is commonly denoted as formula_1, formula_2 or formula_3. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33849734 |
NGC 2397 is a classic spiral galaxy, located in the Volans constellation. It is about 60 million light-years from Earth. The nucleus consists of older yellow and red stars; more recent stars have formed within the outer blue spiral arms, which also feature protrusions of dust. John Herschel discovered the galaxy on Feb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33850228 |
Cambium A cambium (plural cambia or cambiums), in plants, is a tissue layer that provides partially undifferentiated cells for plant growth. It is found in the area between xylem and phloem. It forms parallel rows of cells, which result in secondary tissues. There are several distinct kinds of cambium found in plant st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33850941 |
Luigi Luciani ForMemRS (23 November 1842, in Ascoli Piceno – 23 June 1919) was an Italian neuroscientist. He also contributed to Karel Frederik Wenckebach's work on what is now known as second-degree atrioventricular block of the heart in which Wenckebach described the periodicity of this block as "Luciani periodicity.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33861886 |
Iñaki Antigüedad Auzmendi (born 1955, Bilbao) is a Basque geologist and politician. He is professor of hydrogeology at the University of the Basque Country, and leader of Amaiur. Following the strong performance of Amaiur in the 2011 Spanish general election, Antigüedad is leading a campaign to hold a referendum on Bas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33878168 |
Bacilloviridae "Bacilloviridae" are a suggested family of double stranded DNA viruses that infect species belonging to the archaeal genera "Sulfolobus" and "Thermoproteus". The virions are rod-shaped and inflexible. At the ends of the virion are structures involved in adherence to the host cell. The genome is linear. S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33881639 |
Interference ripples Interference Ripples are a type of sedimentary structure made up of two sets of ripples formed at right-angles to each other as a result of there being two dominant paleocurrents. These ripples may be formed in the beds of intermittent streams. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33904947 |
Nascent state (chemistry) Nascent state or in statu nascendi (Lat. newly formed moiety: "in the state of being born" or "just emerging"), is an obsolete theory in chemistry. It refers to the form of a chemical element (or sometimes compound) in the instance of their liberation or formation. Often encountered are atomic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33907840 |
Juan Manuel Lozano Mejía (1929–2007) was a Mexican physicist whose area of specialty was classical mechanics. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33915884 |
Mountain leather Mountain leathers are flexible, sheet-like formations of asbestiform minerals, resembling leather. Minerals known to form mountain leather include: Mindat.org | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33925047 |
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