text stringlengths 11 1.65k | source stringlengths 38 44 |
|---|---|
Hambergite (BeBOOH) is a beryllium borate mineral named after Swedish explorer and mineralogist Axel Hamberg (1863–1933). The mineral occurs as white or colorless orthorhombic crystals. occurs in beryllium bearing granite pegmatites as a rare accessory phase. It occurs associated with beryl, danburite, apatite, spodume... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34301321 |
Mont Ongley Montague Ongley (10 December 1888 – 6 March 1976) was a New Zealand geologist and scientific administrator. He was born in Oamaru, Otago, New Zealand in 1888 and received his education at Waitaki Boys' High School, where the rector pioneered the teaching of geology at secondary school level. Ongley studied ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34312705 |
Robert Owen Page (1897–1957) was a New Zealand pacifist and industrial chemist. Page was born in Christchurch, New Zealand on 23 November 1897. His father, Samuel Page, taught chemistry at Canterbury College, while his mother, Sarah Saunders, was a feminist who promoted social reforms. Robert's friends knew him as Robi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34314861 |
Ashok Captain is an Indian herpetologist who has authored books and papers on Indian snakes. He was also a competing cyclist from 1977 to 1989. Captain's wood snake ("Xylophis captaini" ) and Ashok's bronzeback tree snake ("Dendrelaphis ashoki" ) have been named after him. Works by include: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34323937 |
Theodor Magnus Fries (28 October 1832 – 29 March 1913), the son of Elias Magnus Fries, was a Swedish botanist and lichenologist. Following in his father's footsteps, Fries studied botany, obtaining his doctoral degree in 1857 at Uppsala. He became a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1865 and professor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34338342 |
Consorms A bacterial consorm or bacterial community is a group of different types of bacterial strains which cluster in a place, they shared might common food and help each other for defence by doing horizontal gene transfer - within a biomass - that summatively act as a unit, with each type of bacteria contributing to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34344022 |
George V. Eleftheriades is a researcher in the field of metamaterials. He has been endowed with a Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto and is a professor in the Department of Computer and Electrical Engineering there. He has received notable awards for his achievements, is a fellow of the IEEE and the Roy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34355881 |
Bacillus phage AP50 (formerly Phage AP50) is a species of bacteriophage that infects "Bacillus anthracis" bacteria. Originally thought to be an RNA phage, it contains a DNA genome of about 14,000 base pairs in an icosahedral capsid with a two-layer capsid shell. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34359107 |
James Alexander Pond (1846–1941) was a New Zealand analytical chemist and homoeopathic pharmacist. He was born in London, England, in 1846. He is the Son of Frances Sophia Beacon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34365526 |
NGC 3259 is a barred spiral galaxy located approximately 90 million light-years from Earth, in the Ursa Major constellation. It has the morphological classification SAB(rs)bc, which indicates that it is a spiral galaxy with a weak bar across the nucleus (SAB), an incomplete inner ring structure circling the bar (rs), a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34367319 |
Kattendijk Sands is a five million years old marine geological formation north of Antwerp, Belgium. including the north-western parts of the Campine region. The area was named by De Heuter and Laga in 1976. The sands range from medium fine to coarse and contain a large proportion of shell grit. The clay of the Rupelian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34368243 |
Theodore Rigg Sir (6 April 1888 – 22 October 1972) was a New Zealand agricultural chemist and scientific administrator. He was born in Settle, Yorkshire, England in 1888. He was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1938 New Year Honours. He died in Nelson on 22 October 1972, survived b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34373918 |
Mattauch isobar rule The Mattauch isobar rule, formulated by Josef Mattauch in 1934, states that if two adjacent elements on the periodic table have isotopes of the same mass number, one of these isotopes must be radioactive. Two nuclides that have the same mass number (isobars) can both be stable only if their atomic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34375922 |
Mattauch isobar rule Thus no stable nuclides have proton number 43 or 61, and by the same reasoning no stable nuclides have neutron number 19, 21, 35, 39, 45, 61, 71, 89, 115, or 123. The only known exceptions to the are the cases of antimony-123 and tellurium-123 and of hafnium-180 and tantalum-180m, where both nuclei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34375922 |
Phases of clinical research The phases of clinical research are the steps in which scientists conduct experiments with a health intervention in an attempt to obtain sufficient evidence for a process which would be useful as a medical treatment. In the case of pharmaceutical study, the phases start with drug design and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34382035 |
Phases of clinical research Such tests assist pharmaceutical companies to decide whether a drug candidate has scientific merit for further development as an investigational new drug. Phase 0 is a recent designation for optional exploratory trials conducted in accordance with the United States Food and Drug Administrati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34382035 |
Phases of clinical research Phase I trials were formerly referred to as “first-in-man studies” but the field generally moved to the gender-neutral language phrase "first-in-humans" in the 1990s; these trials are the first stage of testing in human subjects. They are designed to test the safety, side effects, best dose,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34382035 |
Phases of clinical research These studies are usually conducted in tightly controlled clinics called CPUs (Central Pharmacological Units), where participants receive 24-hour medical attention and oversight. In addition to the previously mentioned unhealthy individuals, “patients who have typically already tried and fai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34382035 |
Phases of clinical research There is no formal definition for these 2 sub-categories, but generally: Some trials combine Phase I and Phase II, and test both efficacy and toxicity. Some researchers argue that phase II studies are generally smaller than they ought to be. Phase II clinical programs historically have exper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34382035 |
Phases of clinical research It is common practice that certain Phase III trials will continue while the regulatory submission is pending at the appropriate regulatory agency. This allows patients to continue to receive possibly lifesaving drugs until the drug can be obtained by purchase. Other reasons for performing tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34382035 |
Phases of clinical research Most drugs undergoing Phase III clinical trials can be marketed under FDA norms with proper recommendations and guidelines through a New Drug Application (NDA) containing all manufacturing, preclinical, and clinical data. In case of any adverse effects being reported anywhere, the drugs need... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34382035 |
Phases of clinical research Phase IV studies may be required by regulatory authorities or may be undertaken by the sponsoring company for competitive (finding a new market for the drug) or other reasons (for example, the drug may not have been tested for interactions with other drugs, or on certain population groups su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34382035 |
Sarah Salmond (7 August 1864 in Abbey St Bathans, Berwickshire, Scotland – 18 October 1956 in Dunedin, New Zealand) was a notable New Zealand governess and astronomer. In 1874, at age 10 years, Sarah Cockburn (who would become upon her marriage) had a passion for astronomy, and was present in Queenstown during a visit ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34382650 |
Frederick Thomas Seelye (1879–1962) was a notable New Zealand analytical chemist and lecturer. He was born in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand in 1879. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34383003 |
William Skey (April 8, 1835 – October 4, 1900) was a New Zealand chemist and poet. He was born in London, England in 1835. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34384462 |
List of weather services This is a list of notable weather services. Criteria for inclusion: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34406826 |
List of chemistry mnemonics A mnemonic is a memory aid used to improve long term memory and make the process of consolidation easier. Many chemistry aspects, rules, names of compounds, sequences of elements, their reactivity, etc., can be easily and efficiently memorized with the help of mnemonics. This article contain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34410870 |
List of chemistry mnemonics An atom (or ion) whose oxidation number increases in a redox reaction is said to be oxidized (and is called a reducing agent). It is accomplished by loss of one or more electrons. The atom whose oxidation number decreases gains (receives) one or more electrons and is said to be reduced. This... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34410870 |
List of chemistry mnemonics Molecules exhibiting diatomic structures can be remembered through the following mnemonics. Hydrogen forms hydrogen bonds with three elements which are nitrogen (N), oxygen (O) and fluorine (F). The names of these elements can be remembered by the following mnemonic. Number of consonants den... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34410870 |
Oswold Stephens Oswold Counsell Stephens (11 December 1896 – 8 May 1980) was a notable New Zealand teacher, chemist and potter. He was born in Dunedin, New Zealand in 1896. He was elected a life member of the New Zealand Society of Potters in 1965, together with Elizabeth Matheson and Olive Jones. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34419000 |
Heinrich Zollinger (March 22, 1818 – May 19, 1859) was a Swiss botanist. Zollinger was born in Feuerthalen, Switzerland. From 1837-1838 he studied botany at the University of Geneva under Augustin and Alphonse Pyramus de Candolle, but had to interrupt his studies due to financial problems. In 1842 he moved to Java, wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34437331 |
Donald Sandys Wunsch Donald Frederick Sandys Wunsch (16 January 1887 – 23 August 1973) was a notable New Zealand chemical engineer and factory manager. He was born in Manchester, England, in 1887. In the 1957 New Year Honours, he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire, in recognition of his role as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34437940 |
Walter George Whittlestone (1914–1985) was a notable New Zealand agricultural chemist, dairy researcher, community worker and peace activist. He was born in Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand in 1914. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34441322 |
Joseph Ward (astronomer) Joseph Thomas Ward (25 January 1862 – 4 January 1927) was a New Zealand farmworker, bookseller and stationer, astronomer. He was born in London, England in 1862. He was the driving force behind the establishment of the Ward Observatory in Whanganui. He died in Wairoa while visiting his daughter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34442159 |
Arnold Wall (15 November 1869 – 29 March 1966) was a notable New Zealand university professor, philologist, poet, mountaineer, botanist, writer and radio broadcaster. He was born in Nuwara Eliya, Ceylon in 1869; his father was George Wall. His daughter Hilary married the adult educator Norman Richmond in 1926. Wall was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34442233 |
Princess Bubblegum Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum (also called Bonnie or PB), is a fictional character in the American animated television series "Adventure Time", created by Pendleton Ward. She is voiced by Hynden Walch. is a "Gum Golem", a being composed of both human and candy DNA, and rules the Candy Kingdom, which is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34445482 |
Princess Bubblegum Following the miniseries "Stakes", Bubblegum is reinstated as ruler and becomes less overprotective. Bubblegum has light pink skin and long magenta "hair", which is actually bubblegum. Her usual outfit is a puffy-sleeved pink gown with purple trim. Among many other outfits, she often wears a lab coat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34445482 |
Princess Bubblegum In early episodes and the pilot, Finn has a crush on Bubblegum, often saving her from Ice King, though he eventually realizes she is too old for him. Finn still has feelings for Bubblegum afterward, as he becomes angry when she tries to intervene in his relationship with Flame Princess, believing her... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34445482 |
Princess Bubblegum Gumbald originated the idea of a Candy Kingdom but became tyrannical, forcing Bubblegum to turn him into an average, unintelligent Candy Person using "dum-dum juice". Bubblegum also created an "Aunt" Lolly and a "Cousin" Chicle, who were also turned into Candy People for assisting Gumbald. Near the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34445482 |
Princess Bubblegum "Bitch" magazine saw Frederator's action as detrimental toward the acceptance of homosexuality in children's television. Executive producer Fred Seibert later admitted that "we got wrapped up by both fan conjecture and spicy fanart and went a little too far" in making the video, which was meant to pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34445482 |
George Henry Frederick Ulrich FGS (born as Georg Heinrich Friedrich Ulrich) (7 July 1830 – 26 May 1900) was a notable New Zealand mineralogist, university professor and director of the school of mines. He was born in Zellerfeld, Germany in 1830. Ulrich arrived in Melbourne, Australia in 1853 where he worked as a geolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34447697 |
Mecke reagent The is used as a simple spot-test to presumptively identify alkaloids as well as other compounds. It is composed of a mixture of selenous acid and concentrated sulfuric acid, which is dripped onto the substance being tested. The United States Department of Justice method for producing the reagent is the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34508173 |
Tendex line A tendex line (from the Latin "tendere": To stretch) is a traversal line describing the path matter takes through the accretion disc of a black hole. A tendex line typically follows a spiral around the black hole descending to the event horizon. Matter on this line experiences a stretching effect, while vor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34508316 |
Mandelin reagent The is used as a simple spot-test to presumptively identify alkaloids as well as other compounds. It is composed of a mixture of ammonium metavanadate and concentrated sulfuric acid. Its primary use is for the detection of ketamine and PMA It is unusual among reagent tests that it has a very strong yel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34508365 |
Birmingham Natural History Society is a learned society for the study of the natural history of Birmingham, England, and in the surrounding midlands region, and beyond. It was founded in 1858, and is a registered charity. The Society has had various names, e.g. in the 1870s it was called the Birmingham Natural History ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34524359 |
Birmingham Natural History Society The current title of the Society was first used in its "Proceedings" in 1964. Important early members of the society included the botanist James Eustace Bagnall (1830-1918), who produced the first Flora of Sutton Park (now a national nature reserve) and later the first "Flora of Warwi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34524359 |
Amenthes Fossae The are a system of troughs in the Amenthes quadrangle of Mars centered at 9.07°N and 102.68°E. They are 850 km across and were named after a classical albedo feature. The classical albedo feature name was based on the Egyptian name for a place where souls of the dead go (Amenthes or Duat). The name was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34525900 |
Percy Gates Morgan (2 September 1867 – 26 November 1927) was a notable New Zealand geologist and science administrator. He was born in Richmond, Tasmania, Australia, on 2 September 1867. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34542194 |
Nucleus incertus The nucleus incertus is a region of the rodent pontine brainstem just ventral to the 4th ventricle. The nucleus incertus has a bilateral structure which sits near the brainstem, and is often also called 'nucleus O'. It consists of mostly ascending GABAergic projection neurons and glutamatergic neurons ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34543558 |
Froehde reagent The is used as a simple spot-test to presumptively identify alkaloids, especially opioids, as well as other compounds. It is composed of a mixture of molybdic acid or a molybdate salt dissolved in hot, concentrated sulfuric acid, which is then dripped onto the substance being tested. The United States D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34543976 |
David Miller (entomologist) David Miller (21 February 1890 – 28 April 1973) was a notable New Zealand entomologist, university lecturer and scientific administrator. He was born in Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Scotland, on 21 February 1890. Miller's career in entomology started at the Biological Laboratory in Levin, New Zeala... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34553847 |
Charles G. Overberger Charles Gilbert Overberger (October 12, 1920 – March 17, 1997) was an American chemist, specialising in polymer research and education. Overberger was born in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania on October 12, 1920. In 1941, he was awarded a B.Sc. at the Pennsylvania State University, and Ph.D. at the Univer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34555862 |
Tasman Joseph McKee (7 May 1911 – 7 February 1973) was a New Zealand industrial and agricultural chemist, geologist, company director. He was born in Nelson, New Zealand, on 7 May 1911 and was educated at Tasman and Mapua Schools, Wellington’s St Patrick’s College, Motueka District High School and Nelson College. In th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34564655 |
Alexander McKay (geologist) Alexander McKay (11 April 1841 – 8 July 1917) was a New Zealand geologist. He was born in Carsphairn, Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland on 11 April 1841. McKay reached New Zealand in 1863 where he spent a number of years prospected for gold. A meeting with Julius von Haast saw a change of directi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34564691 |
Ronald Alexander McIntosh (21 January 1904 – 17 May 1977) was a New Zealand journalist who was most famous for his contributions to astronomy. He was born in Auckland, New Zealand on 21 January 1904 and left school at the age of 14. In 1926 he began a long career in journalism when he started work at The New Zealand He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34564906 |
Ronald Alexander McIntosh Over a 30-year period he studied various lunar features and published papers based on his observations. He studied the crater Aristarchus for a long period, beginning in the early 1950s. His main planetary focus was Jupiter and he made many observations from 1927 to the 1960s. He also observed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34564906 |
Ruth Mason (7 November 1913 – 14 May 1990) was a New Zealand botanist specialising in the taxonomy and ecology of freshwater plants. Mason was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1913. She was educated at the University of Auckland (then known as Auckland University College, part of the University of New Zealand) where s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34575812 |
Cumbrian Coast Group The is a Permian lithostratigraphic group (a sequence of rock strata) which occurs in the western part of Cumbria in northern England. The group outcrops near Whitehaven on the Cumbrian coast and beneath the Vale of Eden. It comprises the St Bees Evaporite and the overlying St Bees Shale Formation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34575952 |
James Scott Maclaurin (8 November 1864 – 19 January 1939) was a New Zealand analytical chemist. He was born in Unst, Shetland, Scotland on 8 November 1864. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34576538 |
Protective Action Criteria In the United States, the Emergency Management Issues Special Interest Group (EMI SIG) state that "(PACs) are essential components for planning and response to uncontrolled releases of hazardous chemicals. These criteria, combined with estimates of exposure, provide the information necessary ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34588794 |
Charles Knight (doctor) Charles Knight ( 1808 – 3 September 1891) was a New Zealand doctor, public servant and botanist. He was born in Rye, Sussex, England in 1808. Knight was the country's inaugural auditor-general. In New Zealand, he first lived in Auckland and when the government moved to Wellington, he also reloca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34591865 |
Thomas Whitelock Kempthorne (c.1834–3 November 1915) was a New Zealand manufacturing chemist and businessman who co-founded Kempthorne Prosser in 1870 in Dunedin. He was born in Cornwall, England c.1834. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34592460 |
Aurora Max The AuroraMax project is an outreach and education initiative carried out by the combined effort of The Canadian Space Agency, Astronomy North, University of Calgary and The city of Yellowknife in Yellowknife Northwest Territories. The AuroraMax provides a place to explore and discover the wonder and science... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34599886 |
Aurora Max The AuroraMax, also, has a website where everyone and anyone can view, admire the lights and the other wonders explored in the project in real time, as well as follow up on solar activities. Auroras are a product of the sun's activity; therefore the beautiful colorful lights seen at night are often caused by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34599886 |
Aurora Max Blue and purple lights are also produced by the collision with hydrogen and helium but they are difficult for the eyes to see against the night sky. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34599886 |
John Holloway (botanist) John Ernest Holloway, FRS (12 February 1881 – 6 September 1945) was a New Zealand Anglican priest, botanist and university lecturer. He was born in Christchurch, New Zealand, on 12 February 1881 and educated at Nelson College and Auckland University College, where he was awarded DSc in 1917. He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34602985 |
John Holloway (botanist) " " He died in Timaru, New Zealand, on 6 September 1945. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34602985 |
Geoffrey Michael William Hodgkins (1 May 1902–27 October 1965) was a New Zealand naturalist and character. He was born in Dunedin, New Zealand on 1 May 1902. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34603052 |
TPG Capital (abbrev. for Texas Pacific Group) is an American investment company. The private equity investment firm is focused on leveraged buyouts and growth capital. TPG manages investment funds in growth capital, venture capital, public equity, and debt investments. The firm invests in a range of industries includin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1007643 |
TPG Capital Price III, who was Vice President of Strategic Planning and Business Development for GE Capital, to complete the buyout of Continental Airlines. The plan included bringing in a new management team, improving aircraft utilization and focusing on lucrative routes. In June 1996, TPG acquired the AT&T Paradyne ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1007643 |
TPG Capital A, Bally International (including Bally Shoe), and ON Semiconductor. In 2000 TPG and Leonard Green & Partners invested $200 million to acquire Petco, the pet supplies retailer as part of a $600 million buyout. Within two years they sold most of it in a public offering that valued the company at $1 billion. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1007643 |
TPG Capital Under its new owners, Burger King underwent a brand overhaul including the use of The Burger King character in advertising. In February 2006, Burger King announced plans for an initial public offering. In November 2003, TPG provided a proposal to buy Portland General Electric from Enron. However, concerns a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1007643 |
TPG Capital The involvement of seven firms in the consortium was criticized by investors in private equity who considered cross-holdings among firms to be generally unattractive. On 15 May 2006, Smurfit-Stone reported the definitive sale for $1.04 billion in cash of its Consumer Packaging division to the Texas Pacific ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1007643 |
TPG Capital Morgenson raised questions about the circumstances in which TPG and fellow private equity investors Apax Partners of London redeemed a significant quantity of "convertible preferred equity certificates" held by them to repay their own "deeply subordinated shareholder loans" during a period in which a signif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1007643 |
TPG Capital In April 2014, it was announced that TPG had invested £200 million in Victoria Plumb after buying a majority stake. In November 2014, Prezzo Holdings agreed to a £303.7 million takeover by TPG. The company is considered a newcomer to the real-estate investment arena. In the first half of 2014, it started to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1007643 |
TPG Capital Kanwal will advise the firm on its financial services portfolio, while Chopra will direct the firm’s consumer and other related lines of business. In September 2017, acquired majority stake in Australia's largest Contract Research Organization, Novotech Clinical Research. In November 2017, acquired Mendocin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1007643 |
TPG Capital Newbridge was involved in a number of the largest and most notable private equity transactions in Asia including: In the early 2000s, TPG assumed full ownership and control over the Newbridge joint venture, renaming the firm TPG Newbridge. At the beginning of 2007, when the firm officially changed its name ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1007643 |
Callus (cell biology) Plant callus (plural "calluses" or "calli") is a growing mass of unorganized plant parenchyma cells. In living plants, callus cells are those cells that cover a plant wound. In biological research and biotechnology callus formation is induced from plant tissue samples (explants) after surface ster... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1009199 |
Callus (cell biology) The cells that give rise to callus and somatic embryos usually undergo rapid division or are partially undifferentiated such as meristematic tissue. In alfalfa, "Medicago truncatula", however callus and somatic embryos are derived from mesophyll cells that undergo dedifferentiation. Plant hormones... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1009199 |
Callus (cell biology) Nevertheless, callus cells are often considered similar enough for standard scientific analysis to be performed as if on a single subject. For example, an experiment may have half a callus undergo a treatment as the experimental group, while the other half undergoes a similar but non-active treatm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1009199 |
Callus (cell biology) Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau investigated wound-healing responses in elm trees, and was the first to report formation of callus on live plants. In 1908, E. F. Simon was able to induce callus from poplar stems that also produced roots and buds. The first reports of callus induction "in vitro" cam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1009199 |
Józef Boguski Józef Jerzy Boguski (1853–1933) was a Polish chemist and a professor at the Warsaw Polytechnic. Boguski had served as an assistant in St. Petersburg to the great Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev. From 1895 Boguski was a professor at Warsaw's Wawelberg and Rotwand School, and from 1920 at the Warsaw Polyt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1017962 |
Marian Danysz (March 17, 1909 – February 9, 1983) was a Polish physicist. Son of Jan Kazimierz Danysz. In 1952, he co-discovered with Jerzy Pniewski a new kind of matter, an atomic nucleus, which alongside a proton and neutron contains a third particle: the lambda hyperon (). Ten years later, they obtained a hypernucle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1018053 |
Jan Kazimierz Danysz Jean Danysz (11 March 1884 – 4 November 1914) born Jan Kazimierz Danysz, was a French physicist of Polish extraction. He was an assistant of Maria Skłodowska-Curie and notable in the development of beta spectrometry. Danysz made considerable advances on the magnetic deflection techniques of Baeyer,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1018068 |
Stanisław Kostanecki (born 16 April 1860 in Myszaków, now in Poland then Kingdom of Prussia – 15 November 1910 in Würzburg) was a Polish organic chemist, professor who pioneered in vegetable dye chemistry e.g. curcumin. Known for Kostanecki acylation name reactions. In 1896, he developed the theory of dyes and studied ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1018127 |
Anglo-Australian Near-Earth Asteroid Survey The (AANEAS) operated from 1990-96, becoming one of the most prolific programs of its type in the world. Apart from leading to the discovery of 38 near-Earth asteroids, 9 comets, 63 supernovae, several other astronomical phenomena and the delivery of a substantial proportion ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1018300 |
Palomar Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey The (PCAS) was an astronomical survey, initiated by American astronomers Eleanor Helin and Eugene Shoemaker at the U.S Palomar Observatory, California, in 1973. The program is responsible for the discovery of 95 near-Earth Objects including 17 comets, while the Minor Planet Cente... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1018482 |
International Near-Earth Asteroid Survey The (INAS) was an astronomical survey, organized and co-ordinated by prolific American astronomer Eleanor Helin during the 1980s. It is considered to be the international extension of the Planet-Crossing Asteroid Survey (PCAS). While PCAS operated exclusively from the U.S. Palom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1018499 |
Norma Arm The is a minor spiral arm of the Milky Way extending from and around its central hub region. The inner portion of the Arm is called the "Norma Arm" in narrow meaning. The outer part of it is identified either with the Cygnus Arm, which lies outside the Perseus Arm, or the Outer Arm, which is located farther a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1018876 |
Aleksander Jabłoński Professor (born 26 February 1898 in Woskresenówka, in Imperial Russia, died 9 September 1980 in Skierniewice, Poland) was a Polish physicist and member of the Polish Academy of Sciences. His research was in molecular spectroscopy and photophysics. He was born on 26 February 1898 in Woskresenówka ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1019659 |
Aleksander Jabłoński His thesis was "On the influence of intermolecular interactions on the absorption and emission of light", the subject to which he would devote the rest of his life. He served as President of the Polish Physical Society between 1957–1961. Jabłoński was a pioneer of molecular photophysics, creating t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1019659 |
Museum of Natural Sciences The of Belgium (, ) is a museum dedicated to natural history, located in Brussels, Belgium. The museum is a part of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. Its most important pieces are 30 fossilised "Iguanodon" skeletons, which were discovered in 1878 in Bernissart, Belgium. The din... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1021445 |
Museum of Natural Sciences At that time, the only other skeleton of a mammoth on display was in the museum of Saint Petersburg in Russia. In 1878, the largest find of Iguanodon fossils to date occurred in a coal mine at Bernissart, in Hainaut, Belgium. At least 38 Iguanodon ("Iguanodon bernissartensis") skeletons were ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1021445 |
Museum of Natural Sciences In addition to these permanent exhibitions, there are also temporary exhibitions which are always highly interactive. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1021445 |
NOAA-4 NOAA-4, also known as ITOS-G was a weather satellite operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It was part of a series of satellites called ITOS, or improved TIROS. was launched on a Delta rocket on November 15, 1974. The launch carried two other satellites: AMSAT-OSCAR 7 and Intasa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1024315 |
Pierre Chambon (born 7 February 1931 in Mulhouse, France) was the founder of the in Strasbourg, France. He was one of the leading molecular biologists who utilized gene cloning and sequencing technology to first decipher the structure of eukaryotic genes and their modes of regulation. His major contributions to science... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1025718 |
Reynolds decomposition In fluid dynamics and turbulence theory, is a mathematical technique used to separate the expectation value of a quantity from its fluctuations. For example, for a quantity formula_1 the decomposition would be where formula_3 denotes the expectation value of formula_1, (often called the steady co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1025901 |
University of Virginia Darden School of Business The Darden School of Business is the graduate business school associated with the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Darden School offers MBA, Ph.D. and Executive Education programs. The School was founded in 1955 and is named after Colgate Whitehea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1026901 |
University of Virginia Darden School of Business The full-time MBA program is located in Charlottesville, Virginia at the UVA Darden Goodwin Family Grounds, which is roughly two hours from Washington, D.C. In 2017, it was announced that Darden would establish dedicated facilities in Rosslyn, formerly introduced as the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1026901 |
University of Virginia Darden School of Business Beginning in the final term of the First Year, the curriculum is made up entirely of electives to allow students to develop more depth in chosen areas of interest. Students may choose two from among the following optional concentrations: In addition to the above academic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1026901 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.