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Robert's Quartet is a compact galaxy group approximately 160 million light-years away in the constellation Phoenix. It is a family of four very different galaxies whose proximity to each other has caused the creation of about 200 star-forming regions and pulled out a stream of gas and dust 100,000 light years long. Its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1470424 |
Sectility is the ability of a mineral to be cut into thin pieces with a knife. Minerals that are not sectile will be broken into rougher pieces when cut. Metals and paper are sectile. can be used to distinguish minerals of similar appearance, and is a form of tenacity. For example, gold is sectile but pyrite ("fool's g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1474649 |
Plant virus Plant viruses are viruses that affect plants. Like all other viruses, plant viruses are obligate intracellular parasites that do not have the molecular machinery to replicate without a host. Plant viruses can be pathogenic to higher plants. Most plant viruses are rod-shaped, with protein discs forming a tub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1475873 |
Plant virus Plant cells are surrounded by solid cell walls, therefore transport through plasmodesmata is the preferred path for virions to move between plant cells. Plants have specialized mechanisms for transporting mRNAs through plasmodesmata, and these mechanisms are thought to be used by RNA viruses to spread from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1475873 |
Plant virus After the initial discovery of the 'viral concept' there was need to classify any other known viral diseases based on the mode of transmission even though microscopic observation proved fruitless. In 1939 Holmes published a classification list of 129 plant viruses. This was expanded and in 1999 there were 9... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1475873 |
Plant virus Viruses are extremely small and can only be observed under an electron microscope. The structure of a virus is given by its coat of proteins, which surround the viral genome. Assembly of viral particles takes place spontaneously. Over 50% of known plant viruses are rod-shaped (flexuous or rigid). The length... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1475873 |
Plant virus Generally TMV, potato viruses and cucumber mosaic viruses are transmitted via sap. Plant viruses need to be transmitted by a vector, most often insects such as leafhoppers. One class of viruses, the Rhabdoviridae, has been proposed to actually be insect viruses that have evolved to replicate in plants. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1475873 |
Plant virus Many plant viruses encode within their genome polypeptides with domains essential for transmission by insects. In non-persistent and semi-persistent viruses, these domains are in the coat protein and another protein known as the helper component. A bridging hypothesis has been proposed to explain how these ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1475873 |
Plant virus A number of virus genera are transmitted, both persistently and non-persistently, by soil borne zoosporic protozoa. These protozoa are not phytopathogenic themselves, but parasitic. Transmission of the virus takes place when they become associated with the plant roots. Examples include "Polymyxa graminis", ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1475873 |
Plant virus It is unknown how the virus is able to directly invade and cross the embryo and boundary between the parental and progeny generations in the ovule. Many plants species can be infected through seeds including but not limited to the families Leguminosae, Solanaceae, Compositae, Rosaceae, Cucurbitaceae, Gramin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1475873 |
Plant virus 3% require a reverse transcriptase enzyme to convert between RNA and DNA. 17% of plant viruses are ssDNA and very few are dsDNA, in contrast a quarter of animal viruses are dsDNA and three-quarters of bacteriophage are dsDNA. Viruses use the plant ribosomes to produce the 4-10 proteins encoded by their geno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1475873 |
Plant virus In TMV 95% of the time the host ribosome will terminate the synthesis of the polypeptide at this codon but the rest of the time it continues past it. This means that 5% of the proteins produced are larger than and different from the others normally produced, which is a form of translational regulation. In T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1475873 |
Plant virus Within the polyprotein is an enzyme (or enzymes) with proteinase function that is able to cleave the polyprotein into the various single proteins or just cleave away the protease, which can then cleave other polypeptides producing the mature proteins. Tobacco mosaic virus (TMV) and Cauliflower mosaic virus ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1475873 |
Atmospheric focusing is a phenomenon occurring when a large shock wave is produced in the atmosphere, as in a nuclear explosion or large extraterrestrial object impact. The shock wave is refracted horizontally by density variations in the atmosphere so that it can have impacts in localized areas much further away than ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1484457 |
Quest Diagnostics is an American clinical laboratory. A Fortune 500 company, Quest operates in the United States, (including Puerto Rico), United Kingdom, Mexico, and Brazil. Quest also maintains collaborative agreements with various hospitals and clinics across the globe. As of 2017 the company had approximately 45,00... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1496757 |
Quest Diagnostics In 2007 Quest acquired diagnostic testing equipment company AmeriPath. In response to Mohapatra's resignation after eight years with Quest, former Philips Healthcare CEO Stephen Rusckowski was appointed. Under Rusckowski, teamed up with central New England's largest health care system, UMass Memorial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1496757 |
Quest Diagnostics In 2018, was among a number of US based labs linked to inaccuracies of over 200 women's cervical smear tests for CervicalCheck, Ireland's national screening programme. On June 3, 2019 Quest announced that American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA), a billing collections service provider, had informed t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1496757 |
Sillar is a variety of rhyolite, which is a type of volcanic rock. Although sillar is of rhyolitic composition, it has been erupted from volcanoes which mostly erupt andesite lava, and sillar contains small fragments of andesite. A pink variety of sillar owes its colour to crystals of hematite within the rock. A white ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1499550 |
On a New Organic Base in the Coca Leaves is an 1860 dissertation written by Dr. Albert Niemann. Its title in German is "Über eine neue organische Base in den Cocablättern". The piece describes, in detail, how Niemann isolated cocaine, a crystalline alkaloid. It also earned Niemann his Ph.D. and is now in the British Li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1505000 |
RRS James Clark Ross RRS "James Clark Ross" is a supply and research ship operated by the British Antarctic Survey. RRS "James Clark Ross" is named after the British explorer James Clark Ross. She replaced the in 1991. In March 2018, RRS "James Clark Ross" was due to sample the marine life around the world's biggest ic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1505956 |
Royal Museum for Central Africa The or RMCA ( or KMMA; or MRAC; or KMZA), colloquially known as the Africa Museum, is an ethnography and natural history museum situated in Tervuren in Flemish Brabant, Belgium, just outside Brussels. It was built to showcase King Leopold II's Congo Free State in the 1897 World Exhibitio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1506332 |
Royal Museum for Central Africa When the 1897 International Exposition was held in Brussels, a colonial section was built in Tervuren, connected to the city centre by the monumental Avenue de Tervueren. The Brussels-Tervuren tram line 44 was built at the same time as the original museum by King Leopold II to bring the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1506332 |
Royal Museum for Central Africa The new museum started construction in 1904 and was designed by the French architect Charles Girault in neoclassical "palace" architecture, reminiscent of "Petit Palais" in Paris, with large gardens extending into the Tervuren Forest (a part of the Sonian Forest). It was officially opene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1506332 |
Royal Museum for Central Africa As of 2018, online finding aids exist for archives of , musicologist Paul Collaer, geologist , Francis Dhanis, Félix Fuchs, Cyriaque Gillain, Josué Henry de la Lindi, , American Richard Mohun, Emmanuel Muller, German explorer Paul Reichard, Albert Sillye, British explorer Henry Morton St... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1506332 |
Royal Museum for Central Africa The resulting more modern exhibition "The Memory of Congo" (February–October 2005), tried to tell the story of the Congo Free State before it became a Belgian colony and a less one-sided view of the Belgian colonial era. The exhibition was praised by the international press, with French ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1506332 |
Moraine-dammed lake A moraine-dammed lake occurs when the terminal moraine has prevented some meltwater from leaving the valley. Its most common shape is that of a long ribbon (ribbon lake). Example of moraine dammed lakes include: In the 19th century the Argentine explorer Francisco Perito Moreno suggested that many P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1506434 |
Interdecadal Pacific Oscillation The Interdecadal Pacific oscillation (IPO) is an oceanographic/meteorological phenomenon similar to the Pacific decadal oscillation (PDO), but occurring in a wider area of the Pacific. While the PDO occurs in mid-latitudes of the Pacific Ocean in the northern hemisphere, the IPO stretch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1507559 |
Cave popcorn Cave popcorn, or coralloids, are small nodes of calcite, aragonite or gypsum that form on surfaces in caves, especially limestone caves. They are a common type of speleothem. The individual nodules of cave popcorn range in size from 5 to 20 mm and may be decorated by other speleothems, especially aragonite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1510909 |
Cave popcorn Calthemite coralloids also occur in "artificial caves" such as mines or railway or vehicle tunnels were there is a source of lime, mortar or cement from which the calcium ions can be leached. Coralloids can form by a number of different methods in caves; however, the most common form on concrete is created... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1510909 |
Paleoclimate Modelling Intercomparison Project The is a project, somewhat along the lines of AMIP or CMIP, to coordinate and encourage the systematic study of atmospheric general circulation models (AGCMs) and to assess their ability to simulate large climate changes such as those that occurred in the distant past. Pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1514344 |
Erich von Tschermak Erich Tschermak, Edler von Seysenegg (15 November 1871 – 11 October 1962) was an Austrian agronomist who developed several new disease-resistant crops, including wheat-rye and oat hybrids. He was a son of the Moravia-born mineralogist Gustav Tschermak von Seysenegg. His maternal grandfather was the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1517443 |
Gillet de Laumont François Pierre Nicolas (28 May 1747 – 1 June 1834) was a French mineralogist. He was born in Paris, educated at a military school and served in the army from 1772 to 1784, when he was appointed inspector of mines. His attention in his leisure time was wholly given to mineralogy, and he assisted in or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1517562 |
MOATA was a 100 kW thermal Argonaut class reactor built at the Australian Atomic Energy Commission (later ANSTO) Research Establishment at Lucas Heights, Sydney. went critical at 5:50am on 10 April 1961 and ended operations on 31 May 1995. was the first reactor to be decommissioned in Australia in 2009. The design of u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1518042 |
Khareef (, autumn) is a colloquial Arabic term used in southern Oman, southeastern Yemen, southwestern Saudi Arabia and Sudan for the southeastern monsoon. The monsoon affects Dhofar and Al Mahrah Governorates from about June to early September. Towns such as Salalah depend upon the khareef for water supply. An annual ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1518981 |
Flora of the Marquesas Islands The Marquesas Islands have a diverse flora, with a high rate of endemism. They are in the floristic Polynesian subkingdom of the Oceanian realm. Most of the food plants are not endemic, and include: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1528353 |
Copper coulometer The copper coulometer is a one application for the copper-copper(II) sulfate electrode. Such a coulometer consists of two identical copper electrodes immersed in slightly acidic pH-buffered solution of copper(II) sulfate. Passing of current through the element leads to the anodic dissolution of the me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1528467 |
Rhizoid Rhizoids are protuberances that extend from the lower epidermal cells of bryophytes and algae. They are similar in structure and function to the root hairs of vascular land plants. Similar structures are formed by some fungi. Rhizoids may be unicellular or multicellular. Plants originated in aquatic environment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1531306 |
Rhizoid In certain algae, there is an extensive rhizoidal system that allows the alga to anchor itself to a sandy substrate from which it can absorb nutrients. Microscopic free-floating species, however, do not have rhizoids at all. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1531306 |
Electric form factor The electric form factor is the Fourier transform of electric charge distribution in a nucleon. Nucleons (protons and neutrons) are made of up and down quarks which have charges associated with them (2/3 & -1/3, respectively). The study of Form Factors falls within the regime of Perturbative QCD. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1531739 |
Magnetic form factor In electromagnetism, a magnetic form factor is the Fourier transform of an electric charge distribution in space. For the form factor relevant to magnetic diffraction of free neutrons by unpaired outer electrons of an atom see also: atomic form factor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1531742 |
Josephus Nicolaus Laurenti (4 December 1735, Vienna – 17 February 1805, Vienna) was an Austrian naturalist and zoologist of Italian origin. Laurenti is considered the auctor of the class Reptilia (reptiles) through his authorship of "" (1768) on the poisonous function of reptiles and amphibians. This was an important b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1532704 |
Dalton Minimum The was a period of low sunspot count, representing low solar activity, named after the English meteorologist John Dalton, lasting from about 1790 to 1830 or 1796 to 1820, corresponding to the period solar cycle 4 to solar cycle 7. Like the Maunder Minimum and Spörer Minimum, the coincided with a period ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1533140 |
NGC 4395 is a low surface brightness spiral galaxy with a halo that is about 8′ in diameter. It has several wide areas of greater brightness running northwest to southeast. The one furthest southeast is the brightest. Three of the patches have their own NGC numbers: 4401, 4400, and 4399 running east to west. The nucleu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1534136 |
Depth conversion is an important step of the seismic reflection method, which converts the acoustic wave travel time to actual depth, based on the acoustic velocity of subsurface medium (sediments, rocks, water). integrates several sources of information about the subsurface velocity to derive a three-dimensional veloc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1536286 |
Léon Fairmaire Léon Marc Herminie Fairmaire (29 June 1820 – 1 April 1906) was a French entomologist. A specialist in Coleoptera he assembled an immense collection comparable with that of Pierre François Marie Auguste Dejean (1780-1845). This is in the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle. Fairmaire wrote 450 scientific... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1539960 |
Phantom energy is a hypothetical form of dark energy satisfying the equation of state with formula_1. It possesses negative kinetic energy, and predicts expansion of the universe in excess of that predicted by a cosmological constant, which leads to a Big Rip. The idea of phantom energy is often dismissed, as it would ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1540711 |
Ernst Gustav Kraatz (13 March 1831 – 2 November 1909) was a German entomologist. He collected and described numerous beetles including Staphylinidae. Kraatz was born in Berlin on 13 March 1831. He studied law in the University of Heidelberg and at the University of Bonn. but found no interest in it and through the infl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1543774 |
Ignaz Schiffermüller (born 2 October 1727 in Hellmonsödt; died 21 June 1806 in Linz) was an Austrian naturalist mainly interested in Lepidoptera. Schiffermüller was a teacher at the Theresianum College in Vienna. His collection was presented to the old United Royal and Imperial Natural History Collections (Vereinigtes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1543867 |
Ignaz Schiffermüller Matching this table, and using the same alphabetical notation, is a 3 x 12 matrix showing a set of colour samples for blue, with some discussion of the pigments used. The work also contains an attractive full-page engraving with a colour circle, inspired by the optical theory of Father Louis Bertra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1543867 |
Franz von Paula Schrank (21 August 1747, in Vornbach – 22 December 1835) was a German priest, botanist and entomologist. He was ordained as a priest in Vienna in 1784, gaining his doctorate in theology two years later. In 1786 he was named chair of mathematics and physics at the lyceum in Amberg, and in 1784 became a p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1544061 |
Barnett effect The is the magnetization of an uncharged body when spun on its axis. It was discovered by American physicist Samuel Barnett in 1915. An uncharged object rotating with angular velocity ω tends to spontaneously magnetize, with a magnetization given by: with γ = gyromagnetic ratio for the material, χ = magn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1545079 |
Garshelis effect The is the effect wherein a circumferentially magnetized rod of ferromagnetic, magnetostrictive material generates a net axial magnetic field in response to an applied torque. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1545337 |
Heavy snow warning A was a weather warning issued by the National Weather Service of the United States during times when a high rate of snowfall was occurring or was forecast. Generally, the warning was issued for snowfall rates of or more in 12 hours, or or more in 24 hours. This warning was discontinued beginning wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1552174 |
Vostok (crater) Vostok is a crater lying situated within the Margaritifer Sinus quadrangle (MC-19) region of the planet Mars that was reached by the rover "Opportunity" on sol 399 (March 8, 2005). Vostok is located roughly 1200 meters south of Endurance in Meridiani Planum. The crater appears to have been covered up wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1555484 |
Crest and trough A crest is the point on a wave with the maximum value of upward displacement within a cycle. A crest is a point on a surface wave where the displacement of the medium is at a maximum. A trough is the opposite of a crest, so the minimum or lowest point in a cycle. When the crests and troughs of two sine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1565136 |
Elephanta (wind) The Elephanta is a strong southerly or southeasterly wind which blows on the Malabar coast of India during the months of May and June and marks the onset of the southwest monsoon. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1565410 |
Mathematical chemistry is the area of research engaged in novel applications of mathematics to chemistry; it concerns itself principally with the mathematical modeling of chemical phenomena. has also sometimes been called computer chemistry, but should not be confused with computational chemistry. Major areas of resear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1570072 |
Mathematical chemistry The Academy has 82 members (2009) from all over the world, including six scientists awarded with a Nobel Prize. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1570072 |
Don Misener (A.D. Misener) (1911-1996) was a physicist. Along with Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa and John F. Allen, Misener discovered the superfluid phase of matter in 1937. Misener was a graduate student at the University of Toronto in 1935. He joined Allen at Cambridge University in about 1937. Misener later returned to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1573063 |
James G. Wilson (1915–1987) was an embryologist and anatomist, known for his "Six Principles of Teratology". In 1960 he co-founded "The Teratology Society", and was since then one of its most active members. The "Publication Award" is annually presented in recognition of the best paper accepted or published in the jour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1578359 |
James G. Wilson Several factors affect the ability of a teratogen to contact a developing conceptus, such as the nature of the agent itself, route and degree of maternal exposure, rate of placental transfer and systemic absorption, and composition of the maternal and embryonic/fetal genotypes. There are four manifestat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1578359 |
Celatone The celatone was a device invented by Galileo Galilei to observe Jupiter's moons with the purpose of finding longitude on Earth. It took the form of a piece of headgear with a telescope taking the place of an eyehole. In 2013, Matthew Dockrey created a replica celatone, using notes from a version created by Sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1580989 |
Metaviridae are a family of viruses which exist as Ty3-gypsy LTR retrotransposons in a eukaryotic host’s genome. They are closely related to retroviruses: share many genomic elements with retroviruses, including length, organization, and genes themselves. This includes genes that encode reverse transcriptase, integrase... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1582555 |
Orthohepevirus is a genus of viruses assigned to the family "Hepeviridae". "Orthohepevirus" is a fairly isolated viral genus in which the virions are characterized by round, non-enveloped and isometric capsids with a diameter of 27–34 nm. The type species is "A", more commonly known as "Hepatitis E virus". have RNA gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1582804 |
Orthohepevirus One study has suggested that this species may have originated in birds and then spread to bats and other mammalian species. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1582804 |
Polish Institute of Physical Chemistry (Polish Instytut Chemii Fizycznej) is one of numerous institutes belonging to the Polish Academy of Sciences. As its name suggests, the institute's primary research interests are in the field of physical chemistry. The institute is subdivided into departments, including the Depart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1585092 |
Felis (constellation) Felis (Latin for "cat") was a constellation created by French astronomer Jérôme Lalande in 1799. He chose the name partly because, as a cat lover, he felt sorry that there was not yet a cat among the constellations (although there are two lions and a lynx). It was between the constellations of Ant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1585845 |
Globus Aerostaticus (Latin for "hot air balloon") or Ballon Aerostatique (the French equivalent) was a constellation created by Jérôme Lalande in 1798. It lay between the constellations Piscis Austrinus, Capricornus and Microscopium. It is no longer in use. The constellation was created to honor the invention of the Mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1585857 |
Machina Electrica (Latin for "electricity generator") was a constellation created by Johann Bode in 1800. He created it from faint stars between Fornax and Sculptor, to the south of Cetus. It represented an electrostatic generator. The constellation was somewhat popular during the 19th century and had appeared in a num... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1585869 |
Mons Maenalus (Latin for "Mount Maenalus") was a constellation created by Johannes Hevelius in 1687. It was located between the constellations of Boötes and Virgo, and depicts a mountain in Greece that the herdsman is stepping upon. It was increasingly considered obsolete by the latter half of the 19th century. Its bri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1585881 |
Psalterium Georgii (also Harpa Georgii) (Latin for "George's harp") was a constellation created by Maximilian Hell in 1789 to honor George III of Great Britain. It was created from northern stars in Eridanus and was next to the constellation Taurus, and included 10 Tauri. It is no longer in use. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1586505 |
Quadrans Muralis (Latin for "mural quadrant") was a constellation created by the French astronomer Jérôme Lalande in 1795. It depicted a wall-mounted quadrant with which he and his nephew Michel Lefrançois de Lalande had charted the celestial sphere, and was named Le Mural in the French atlas. It was between the conste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1586531 |
Robur Carolinum (Latin for "Charles' oak") was a constellation created by the English astronomer Edmond Halley in 1679. The name refers to the Royal Oak where Charles II was said to have hidden from the troops of Oliver Cromwell after the Battle of Worcester. It was between the constellations of Centaurus and Carina, e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1586565 |
Sceptrum Brandenburgicum (or "Sceptrum Brandenburgium" – Latin for "scepter of Brandenburg") was a constellation created in 1688 by Gottfried Kirch, astronomer of the Prussian Royal Society of Sciences. It represented the scepter used by the royal family of the Brandenburgs. It was west from the constellation of Lepus.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1586599 |
Rangifer (constellation) Rangifer was a small constellation between the constellations of Cassiopeia and Camelopardalis. It is also known as Tarandus. Both words mean "reindeer" in Latin. ""Rangifer"" is the generic name of the reindeer, and ""tarandus"" is the specific name. The constellation Rangifer was created by t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1586664 |
Solarium (constellation) Solarium (Latin for "sundial") was a constellation located between the constellations of Horologium, Dorado and Hydrus. It was introduced in 1822 on the "Celestial Atlas" of Alexander Jamieson, who substituted it for the constellation Reticulum invented by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille. A decade la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1586674 |
Triangulum Minus (Latin for the "Smaller Triangle") was a constellation created by Johannes Hevelius. Its name is sometimes wrongly written as Triangulum Min"or". It was formed from the southern parts of his "Triangula" (plural form of "Triangulum"), but is no longer in use. The triangle was defined by the fifth-magnit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1586724 |
Turdus Solitarius (Latin for "solitary thrush") was a constellation created by French astronomer Pierre Charles Le Monnier in 1776 from stars of Hydra's tail. It was named after the Rodrigues solitaire, an extinct flightless bird that was endemic to the island of Rodrigues East of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. It was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1586760 |
Cerberus (constellation) Cerberus is an obsolete constellation created by Hevelius, whose stars are now included in the constellation Hercules. It was depicted as a three-headed snake that Hercules is holding in his hand. The constellation is no longer in use. This constellation "figure typified the serpent ... infesti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1586839 |
Custos Messium (Latin for "harvest-keeper") was a constellation created by Jérôme Lalande in 1775 to honor Charles Messier. It was located between the constellations of Camelopardalis, Cassiopeia and Cepheus. It is no longer recognized. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1586849 |
Lochium Funis (Latin for "the log and line") was a constellation created by Johann Bode in 1801 next to the constellation Pyxis, an earlier invention of Nicolas Louis de Lacaille. It represented the log and line used by seamen for measuring a ship's speed through the water. It was never used by other astronomers. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1586871 |
Malus (constellation) Malus (Latin for "mast") was a subdivision of the ancient constellation Argo Navis proposed in 1844 by the English astronomer John Herschel. It would have replaced Pyxis, the compass, which was introduced in the 1750s by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille. Herschel's suggestion was not widely adopted and M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1586886 |
Sceptrum et Manus Iustitiae (Latin for "scepter and hand of justice") was a constellation created by Augustin Royer in 1679 to honor king Louis XIV of France. It was formed from stars of what is today the constellations Lacerta and western Andromeda. Due to the awkward name the constellation was modified and name chang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1586949 |
Lithotope A lithotope is either an environment in which a sediment was deposited or an area of uniform sedimentation. 1. Surface or area of uniform precipitation. 2. Sediment having a relatively homogeneous sedimentation environment. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1588581 |
Huchra's lens is the lensing galaxy of the Einstein Cross ("Quasar 2237+30"); it is also called "ZW 2237+030" or "QSO 2237+0305 G". It exhibits the phenomenon of gravitational lensing that was postulated by Albert Einstein when he realized that gravity would be able to bend light and thus could have lens-like effects. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1591646 |
Edward W. Berry Edward Wilber Berry (February 10, 1875 – September 20, 1945) was an American paleontologist and botanist; the principal focus of his research was paleobotany. Berry studied North and South American flora and published taxonomic studies with theoretical reconstructions of paleoecology and phytogeography.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1596852 |
Orestes Cendrero was a Spanish naturalist and professor of biology at Instituto Nacional de Segunda Enseñanza in Santander. He was a colombophilia researcher, (studied pigeons), and was editor of the pigeon scientific journal: "Boletín Colombófilo Español". vol. 4º.288. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1596917 |
Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions Directive 98/44/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 6 July 1998 on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions is a European Union directive in the field of patent law, made under the internal market provisions of the Treaty of Rom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1596974 |
Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions The drafts person of the Parliament for this second procedure was Willi Rothley and the vote with the most yes votes was Amendment 9 from the Greens which got 221 against 294 votes out of 532 members voting with 17 abstentions but 314 yes votes would have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1596974 |
Directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions The Danish Council of Bioethics in its Patenting Human Genes and Stem Cells Report noted that "In the members' view, it cannot be said with any reasonableness that a sequence or partial sequence of a gene ceases to be part of the human body merely because... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1596974 |
Size Strength classification In geology, size strength classification is a two-parameter rock classification based on the strength of intact rock and the spacing of discontinuities in the rock mass. It was developed by Louis and Franklin (1970-75). The size-strength approach to rock mass characterisation has been found... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1597212 |
Leopold Fitzinger Leopold Joseph Franz Johann Fitzinger (13 April 1802 – 20 September 1884) was an Austrian zoologist. Fitzinger was born in Vienna and studied botany at the University of Vienna under Nikolaus Joseph von Jacquin. He worked at the Vienna Naturhistorisches Museum between 1817, when he joined as a volunte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1598551 |
Astronomer Royal for Scotland was the title of the director of the Royal Observatory, Edinburgh until 1995. It has since been an honorary title. The following have served as Astronomers Royal for Scotland: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1599913 |
Steric factor The steric factor, usually denoted "ρ", is a quantity used in collision theory. Also called the "probability factor", the steric factor is defined as the ratio between the experimental value of the rate constant and the one predicted by collision theory. It can also be defined as the ratio between the pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1604816 |
Dow process The is the electrolytic method of bromine extraction from brine, and was Herbert Henry Dow's second revolutionary process for generating bromine commercially. This process was patented in 1891. In the original invention, bromide-containing brines are treated with sulfuric acid and bleaching powder to oxidiz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1606222 |
Dow process When 1-[C]-1-chlorobenzene was subjected to aqueous NaOH at 395 °C, "ipso" substitution product 1-[C]-phenol was formed in 54% yield, while "cine" substitution product 2-[C]-phenol was formed in 43% yield, indicating that an elimination-addition (benzyne) mechanism is predominant, with perhaps a small amoun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1606222 |
Hunter process The was the first industrial process to produce pure ductile metallic titanium. It was invented in 1910 by Matthew A. Hunter, a chemist born in New Zealand, who worked in the US. The process involves reducing titanium tetrachloride (TiCl) with sodium (Na) in a batch reactor with an inert atmosphere at a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1606301 |
Proton conductor A proton conductor is an electrolyte, typically a solid electrolyte, in which H are the primary charge carriers. Acid solutions exhibit proton-conductivity, while pure Proton Conductors are usually dry solids. Typical materials are polymers or ceramic. Typically, the pores in practical materials are sm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1607154 |
Proton conductor Relatively high proton conductivity has also been found in rare-earth ortho-niobates and ortho-tantalates as well as rare-earth tungstates. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1607154 |
Alex Grossmann Alexander Grossmann (5 August 1930 – 12 February 2019) was a French-American physicist of Croatian origin at the Université de la Méditerranée Aix-Marseille II in Luminy campus who did pioneering work on wavelet analysis with Jean Morlet in 1984. In effet, Grossmann and Morlet rediscovered Alberto Calder... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1608605 |
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