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Sarepta Therapeutics These results are similar to those in previous studies when the drug was given by intravenous injection. In December 2019 golodirsen (Vyondys 53) received FDA approval for the treatment of cases that can benefit from skipping exon 53 of the dystrophin transcript. In addition to development of Morph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2796300 |
Chlamydiales The bacterial order includes only obligately intracellular bacteria that have a chlamydia-like developmental cycle of replication and at least 80% 16S rRNA or 23S rRNA gene sequence identity with other members of Chlamydiales. live in animals, insects, and protozoa. The order belongs to the class Chlamydia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2797244 |
Takeda Oncology Takeda Oncology, (originally Millennium Pharmaceuticals), is a biopharmaceutical company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is a fully owned subsidiary of Takeda Pharmaceutical. Takeda Oncology's research, development and commercialization activities focused in two therapeutic areas: oncology and inf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2797422 |
Takeda Oncology These alliances provided Millennium with close to $2 billion of committed funding that was used to develop and enhance its pipeline. A merger with Leukosite in 1999 brought the company its first drug close-to-market, Campath (alemtuzumab) Injection, and additional investigational drugs in clinical trial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2797422 |
Takeda Oncology Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted approval for the treatment of multiple myeloma for patients who had not responded to at least two other therapies for the disease. Velcade — the first FDA-approved proteasome inhibitor — reached the market in record time and represented the first treatment in m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2797422 |
Takeda Oncology In addition to Cambridge, MA, oncology resources include facilities in San Diego, San Francisco, Tsukuba and Osaka with Millennium as the global hub for this critical and rapidly expanding therapeutic area. In summer 2013 the decision was made by Takeda to drop the "Millennium" brand effectively renamin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2797422 |
Takeda Oncology Approved in 85 countries, at least 85,000 patients have been treated with Velcade globally. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2797422 |
Bailey Ice Stream () is an ice stream on the northern margin of the Theron Mountains, flowing west-southwest to the Filchner Ice Shelf. It was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Jeremy Thomas Bailey (1941–65), a British Antarctic Survey glaciologist, who with two companions died in a crevasse acciden... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2802232 |
Foundation Ice Stream is a major ice stream in Antarctica's Pensacola Mountains. The ice stream drains northward for along the west side of the Patuxent Range and the Neptune Range to enter the Ronne Ice Shelf westward of Dufek Massif. The United States Geological Survey mapped the stream from surveys and U.S. Navy air... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2802337 |
Behzad Ghorbani (born March 26, 1971 in Tehran) is an Iranian zoologist and the first Iranian planarialogist. He graduated from the University of Tehran and Shahid Beheshti University (The National University of Iran). In 1997, he identified two new species ("Dugesia iranica" and "Dugesia persica"), that were found in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2803006 |
Evans Ice Stream The is a large ice stream draining from Ellsworth Land, between Cape Zumberge and Fowler Ice Rise, into the western part of the Ronne Ice Shelf. Mills Glacier flows adjacently into the ice stream from the southwest side. The feature was recorded on February 5, 1974 in Landsat imagery. It was named by t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2803243 |
Zero spacing flux In interferometry, the zero spacing flux is the integrated flux density of the sources in the field of view. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2803726 |
Cassianus Bassus Cassianus Bassus, called Scholasticus (lawyer) was one of the "geoponici" — the group of writers on agricultural subjects. He lived at the end of the 6th or the beginning of the 7th century. He compiled from earlier writers a collection of agricultural literature; the principal source was Vindonius Ana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2807448 |
AdS black hole In theoretical physics, an anti-de Sitter (AdS) black hole is a black hole solution of general relativity or its extensions which represents an isolated massive object, but with a negative cosmological constant. Such a solution asymptotically approaches anti-de Sitter space at spatial infinity, and is a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2808307 |
Blood meal is a dry, inert powder made from blood, used as a high-nitrogen organic fertilizer and a high protein animal feed. N = 13.25%, P = 1.0%, K = 0.6%. It is one of the highest non-synthetic sources of nitrogen. It usually comes from cattle or hogs as a slaughterhouse by-product. can be used as a livestock dietar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2811711 |
Charles R. Bentley Charles Raymond Bentley (December 23, 1929 – August 19, 2017) was an American glaciologist and geophysicist, born in Rochester, New York. He was a professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Mount Bentley and the Bentley Subglacial Trench in Antarctica are named after him. In 1957, he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2819788 |
Coccobacillus A coccobacillus (plural coccobacilli) is a type of bacterium with a shape intermediate between cocci (spherical bacteria) and bacilli (rod-shaped bacteria). Coccobacilli, then, are very short rods which may be mistaken for cocci. "Haemophilus influenzae", "Gardnerella vaginalis", and "Chlamydia trachomati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2820241 |
Office of Technology Assessment The (OTA) was an office of the United States Congress from 1972 to 1995. OTA's purpose was to provide Congressional members and committees with objective and authoritative analysis of the complex scientific and technical issues of the late 20th century, i.e. technology assessment. It was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2820412 |
Office of Technology Assessment Criticism of the agency was fueled by "Fat City", a 1980 book by "Washington Times" journalist Donald Lambro that was regarded favorably by the Reagan administration; it called OTA an "unnecessary agency" that duplicated government work done elsewhere. OTA was abolished (technically "de-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2820412 |
Office of Technology Assessment While campaigning in the 2008 US presidential election, Hillary Clinton pledged to work to restore the OTA if elected President. On April 29, 2009, House of Representatives member Rush Holt of New Jersey wrote an op-ed piece articulating the argument for restoring the OTA. In April 2010 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2820412 |
Magomed Tolboyev Magomed Tolboev (Магомед Толбоев, born 20 January 1951) is a former high-profile Soviet-era test pilot who initially came to public attention as a test pilot for the Buran space shuttle. He is from Dagestan. He continued his career after the collapse of the Soviet Union, working on both civilian and mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2822702 |
Photosensitizer A photosensitizer is a molecule that produces a chemical change in another molecule in a photochemical process. Photosensitizers are commonly used in polymer chemistry in reactions such as photopolymerization, photocrosslinking, and photodegradation. Photosensitizers are also used to generate triplet ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2825553 |
Fuel fleas are microscopic hot particles of new or spent nuclear fuel. While small, they tend to be intensely radioactive. The fuel particles, the size about 10 micrometers, are a strong source of beta and gamma radiation and a weaker source of alpha radiation. The disparity between alpha and beta radiation (alpha acti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2829400 |
Fuel fleas In water-cooled reactors, this can be due to the reaction of the zirconium alloy cladding with the cooling water, which produces hydrogen. The hydrogen can be absorbed into the cladding material, resulting in hydrogen embrittlement. Embrittled cladding is less ductile and more susceptible to cracking. This p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2829400 |
Andean-Saharan glaciation The occurred during the Paleozoic from 450 Ma to 420 Ma, during the late Ordovician and the Silurian period. For the Ordovician/Saharan part, see the more extensive article on the Late Ordovician glaciation. According to Eyles and Young, "A major glacial episode at c. 440 Ma, is recorded in La... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2830096 |
Protonema A protonema (plural: protonemata) is a thread-like chain of cells that forms the earliest stage (the haploid phase) of the life cycle of mosses. When a moss first grows from the spore, it start as a "germ tube" which lengthens and branches into a filamentous complex known as a "protonema", which develops into... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2830619 |
Cryptogam A cryptogam (scientific name Cryptogamae) is a plant (in the wide sense of the word) that reproduces by spores, without flowers or seeds. "Cryptogamae" (Greek ', "hidden" + , ', "to marry") means "hidden reproduction", referring to the fact that no seed is produced, thus cryptogams represent the non-seed bear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2830966 |
Cryptogam Therefore, in contemporary plant systematics, "Cryptogamae" is not a taxonomically coherent group, but is cladistically polyphyletic. However, all organisms known as cryptogams belong to the field traditionally studied by botanists and the names of all cryptogams are regulated by the "International Code of No... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2830966 |
Signal velocity The signal velocity is the speed at which a wave carries information. It describes how quickly a message can be communicated (using any particular method) between two separated parties. No signal velocity can exceed the speed of a light pulse in a vacuum (by Special Relativity). is usually equal to grou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2835834 |
Signal velocity In a transmission line, signal velocity is the reciprocal of the square root of the capacitance-inductance product, where inductance and capacitance are typically expressed as per-unit length. In circuit boards made of FR-4 material, the signal velocity is typically about six inches (15 cm) per nanoseco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2835834 |
Nastic movements Nastic movement are directional responses to stimuli (e.g. temperature, humidity, light irradiance), and are usually associated with plants. The movement can be due to changes in turgor or changes in growth. Decrease in turgor pressure causes shrinkage while increase in turgor pressure brings about swe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2837719 |
Isochoic wave This is a term used in ultrasound. Substances of a different medium are called isochoic if waves travel through them at the same speed. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2838476 |
Polar front In meteorology, the polar front is the boundary between the polar cell and the Ferrel cell around the 60° latitude in each hemisphere. At this boundary a sharp gradient in temperature occurs between these two air masses, each at very different temperatures. The polar front arises as a result of cold polar a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2839326 |
Hans Strøm (25 January 1726 – 1 February 1797) was a Norwegian clergyman. He also became a prominent zoologist and naturalist. He is best associated with his topographical description of the traditional district of Sunnmøre. was born at Borgund in Møre og Romsdal, Norway. His father was a clergyman and many other relat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2847754 |
Nitrate reductase test The nitrate reductase test is a test to differentiate between bacteria based on their ability or inability to reduce nitrate (NO) to nitrite (NO) using anaerobic respiration. Various assays for detecting nitrate reduction have been described. One method is performed as follows: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2847819 |
Rudolf Signer (17 March 1903, Herisau, Switzerland – 1 December 1990, Gümlingen, Switzerland) contributed to the discovery of the DNA double helix. He was a Professor for organic chemistry at the University of Bern from 1935 until 1972. Signer was the son of Jakob Signer, a chemical scientist working in the textile ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2848286 |
Rudolf Signer The analysis of X ray images of these DNA samples in Wilkins' laboratory allowed James Watson and Francis Crick to discover the double-helix structure of DNA. Rests of the DNA which Signer brought to England, survive today in the collection of King's College, London. Over 250 of Signer's scientific writin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2848286 |
Siriometer The siriometer is an obsolete astronomical unit of length, defined to be equal to one million astronomical units (au). One siriometer is approximately . The distance from Earth to the star Sirius is then approximately 0.54 siriometers. The unit was proposed in 1911 by Carl V. L. Charlier who used the symbol ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2849571 |
Jiao Bingzhen Jiāo Bǐngzhēn (), 1689–1726) was a native of Jining, Shandong who became a noted painter and astronomer. In painting he is noteworthy as one of the first Qing dynasty painters to be influenced by the West. He is also among the more significant portrait and miniature painters in the early Qing. He was skil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2851077 |
Q value (nuclear science) In nuclear physics and chemistry, the "Q" value for a reaction is the amount of energy absorbed or released during the nuclear reaction. The value relates to the enthalpy of a chemical reaction or the energy of radioactive decay products. It can be determined from the masses of reactants and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2860674 |
Q value (nuclear science) The "Q" value can also be expressed in terms of the binding energies of the nuclear species as: formula_6 Proof: Note that the count of nucleons is conserved in a nuclear reaction. Hence, total reactant protons = total product protons and total reactant neutrons = total product neutrons. Hence... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2860674 |
Q value (nuclear science) Experiments are studying emission spectrums to search for neutrinoless decay and neutrino mass; this is the principle of the ongoing KATRIN experiment. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2860674 |
Variational methods in general relativity refers to various mathematical techniques that employ the use of variational calculus in Einstein's theory of general relativity. The most commonly used tools are Lagrangians and Hamiltonians and are used to derive the Einstein field equations. The equations of motion in physic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2861047 |
Incubous The term incubous describes the way in which the leaves of a liverwort are attached to the stem. If one were to look down from above (dorsal side) on a plant where the leaf attachment is "incubous", the upper edge of each leaf would overlap the next higher leaf along the stem. Because of this, the upper edge o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2866348 |
Oslo Graben The or Oslo Rift is a graben formed during a geologic rifting event in Permian time, the last phase of the Variscan orogeny. The main graben forming period began in the late Carboniferous, which culminated with rift formation and volcanism, with associated rhomb porphyry lava flows. This activity was follow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2870736 |
Oslo Graben The Särna alkaline complex in western Sweden, also of Late Carboniferous age, is thought to be related to the as it is aligned to it. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2870736 |
Pohlmeyer charge In theoretical physics Pohlmeyer charge, named for , is a conserved charge invariant under the Virasoro algebra or its generalization. It can be obtained by expanding the holonomies (generating functions) with respect to the constant matrices "T". The gauge field formula_2 is defined as a combination o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2871908 |
Tsegihi is a bright region in Titan's southern mid-latitudes. It is centered at . It is thought to be brighter than the surrounding areas because dark organic haze particles which settle elsewhere on Titan are washed from by methane storms. is named for a sacred place of the Navajo. The first line in the Navajo Nightso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2875713 |
Temperateness (virology) In virology, temperate refers to the ability of some bacteriophages (notably coliphage λ) to display a lysogenic life cycle. Many (but not all) temperate phages can integrate their genomes into their host bacterium's chromosome, together becoming a lysogen as the phage genome becomes a prophage... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2877515 |
Émile Argand (6 January 1879 – 14 September 1940) was a Swiss geologist. He was born in Eaux-Vives near Geneva. He attended vocational school in Geneva then worked as a draftsman. He studied anatomy in Paris, but gave up medicine to pursue his interest in geology. He was an early proponent of Alfred Wegener's theory of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2878185 |
Daisuke Enomoto However, on August 21, 2006, a Russian Federal Space Agency spokesman announced that Enomoto was "deemed not ready to fly for exclusively medical reasons", although he hinted that Enomoto might recover and join a later mission. His replacement on this particular flight was Iranian-American businesswoman... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2880968 |
Monandrous In botanical terms, monandrous simply means to have a single stamen. A distinction between monandrous and other flowers is particularly relevant in the classification of orchids. The monandrous orchids form a clade consisting of the subfamilies Orchidoideae, Vanilloideae, and Epidendroideae. The other subfam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2881071 |
König's theorem (kinetics) In kinetics, König's theorem or König's decomposition is a mathematical relation derived by Johann Samuel König that assists with the calculations of angular momentum and kinetic energy of bodies and systems of particles. The theorem is divided in two parts. The first part expresses the angul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2882536 |
König's theorem (kinetics) formula_10 The total kinetic energy of the system is: formula_11 Like we did in the first part, we substitute the velocity: We know that formula_14 so if we define: formula_15 formula_16 we're left with: formula_17 The theorem can also be applied to rigid bodies, stating that the kinetic ener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2882536 |
Celgene Corporation, incorporated in Delaware and headquartered in Summit, New Jersey, discovers, develops and commercializes medicines for cancer and inflammatory disorders. It is a subsidiary of Bristol-Myers Squibb. The company's major product is Revlimid (lenalidomide), in combination with dexamethasone for the tre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2887610 |
Celgene Anthrogenesis was rebranded as Cellular Therapeutics. In 2006, certified McKesson Specialty, a specialty pharmacy, as one of a group of pharmacies contracted to launch lenalidomide (Revlimid). As a specialty drug, lenalidomide is only available through the a distribution network consisting of specialty pharmaci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2887610 |
Celgene In April 2015, announced a collaboration with AstraZeneca, worth $450 million, to study their Phase III immuno-oncology drug candidate MEDI4736. That same month, announced it would acquire Quanticel for up to $485 million in order to enhance its cancer drug pipeline. had invested in Quanticel in April 2011. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2887610 |
Celgene shareholders would receive one BMY share as well as $50 in cash for each share held, valuing at $102.43 a share; representing a 54% premium to the previous days closing price. The activist investor Starboard Value LP opposed the deal, nominating five alternative potential directors on the Bristol-Myers board. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2887610 |
Celgene Celgene's shares traded at over $74 per share, and its market capitalization was valued at over US$51.8 billion in November 2018. As of 2019, focused on oncology and immunology. Cancer drugs include Revlimid (lenalidomide) and Pomalyst (pomalidomide) and the immunology drug Otezla (apremilast) accounted for aro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2887610 |
Celgene Reddy's Laboratories requested, and refused to provide, a samples of Celgene's anticancer drug THALOMID (thalidomide). Dr. Reddy's Laboratories sought the material for bioequivalency studies required to bring its own, generic, version of thalidomide to market. In response to the refusal, Dr. Reddy's Laboratorie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2887610 |
Celgene The case was set for trial beginning in February 2012, but the parties settled before the trial began, thereby postponing further judicial review of antitrust claims premised on alleged abuse of REMS distribution restrictions. In July 2017, agreed to pay $280 million to government agencies to settle allegations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2887610 |
Hyporheic zone The hyporheic zone is the region of sediment and porous space beneath and alongside a stream bed, where there is mixing of shallow groundwater and surface water. The flow dynamics and behavior in this zone (termed hyporheic flow or underflow) is recognized to be important for surface water/groundwater in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2890246 |
Hyporheic zone Water residence times influence nutrient and carbon processing rates. Longer residence times promote dissolved solute retention, which can be later released back into the channel, delaying or attenuating the signals produced by the stream channel . The other key concept is that of hyporheic exchange , or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2890246 |
Hyporheic zone Because the hyporheic zone lies underneath the surface water, it can be difficult to identify, quantify, and observe. However, the hyporheic zone is a zone of biological and physical activity, and therefore has functional significance for stream and river ecosystems . Research scientists use tools such a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2890246 |
Assise An assise (from the Fr., derived from Latin "assidere", "to sit beside"), is a geological term for two or more beds or strata of rock united by the occurrence of the same characteristic species or genera. In the hierarchy of stratigraphic units, an assise lies between a stage (or sub-stage) and a stratum. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2895307 |
Plastochron As the tip of a plant shoot grows, new leaves are produced at regular time intervals if temperature is held constant. This time interval is termed the plastochron (or plastochrone). The plastochrone index and the leaf plastochron index are ways of measuring the age of a plant dependent on morphological trai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2897809 |
Dippel's oil (sometimes known as bone oil) is a nitrogenous by-product of the destructive distillation of bones. A dark, viscous, tar-like liquid with an unpleasant smell, it is named after its inventor, Johann Conrad Dippel. The oil consists mostly of aliphatic chains, with nitrogen functionalities and includes specie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2900811 |
Carl Reinhold Sahlberg (January 22, 1779, Eura – October 18, 1860, Yläne) was a Finnish naturalist, primarily an entomologist specializing in beetles. In 1818 succeeded Carl Niclas Hellenius as professor of economy and natural history at Finland’s then only University in Turku (Åbo), the Academy of Åbo. In 1827 the tow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2904615 |
Ammoniacum Ammoniacum, or gum ammoniac, is a gum-resin exuded from the stem of the perennial herb "Dorema ammoniacum" of the umbel family (Apiaceae). The plant grows to the height of 2½ or 3 meters (8 or 9 ft.) and its whole stem is pervaded with a milky juice, which oozes out on an incision being made at any part. Thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2904678 |
Ammoniacum African ammoniacum is the product of a plant said to be "Ferula tingitana", which grows in North Africa; it is a dark colored gum-resin, possessed of a very weak odor and a persistent acrid taste. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2904678 |
Araroba powder is a drug occurring in the form of a yellowish-brown powder, varying considerably in tint, which derives an alternative name, Goa powder, from the Portuguese colony of Goa, where it appears to have been introduced about the year 1852, and is also known as Bahia powder. The tree which yields it is the "An... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2904730 |
Araroba powder The British pharmacopoeia had an ointment containing one part of chrysarobin and 24 of benzoated lard. Both internally and externally the drug is a powerful irritant. The general practice amongst modern dermatologists is to use only chrysophanic acid, which may be applied externally and given by the mout... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2904730 |
Cajeput oil Cajuput oil is a volatile oil obtained by distillation from the leaves of the myrtaceous trees "Melaleuca leucadendra", "Melaleuca cajuputi", and probably other "Melaleuca" species. The trees yielding the oil are found throughout Maritime Southeast Asia and over the hotter parts of the Australian continent.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2904845 |
Cajeput oil Melafix is a stronger concentration and Bettafix is a lower concentration that makes it harder to overdose smaller fish, especially bettas. It is most commonly used to promote fin and tissue regrowth, but is also effective in treating other conditions, such as fin rot or velvet. The remedy is used mostly on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2904845 |
Comet seeker A comet seeker is a type of small telescope adapted especially to searching for comets: commonly of short focal length and large aperture, in order to secure the greatest brilliancy of light. This style of telescope was used to discover the asteroid 9 Metis in the 1848. A comet seeker telescope is a type o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2906487 |
Cystolith (Gr. "cavity" and "stone") is a botanical term for outgrowths of the epidermal cell wall, usually of calcium carbonate, formed in a cellulose matrix in special cells called lithocysts, generally in the leaf of plants. Cystoliths are present in certain families, including in many genera of Acanthaceae. Plants ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2906541 |
Air current Air currents are concentrated areas of winds. They are mainly due to differences in pressure or temperature. They are divided into horizontal and vertical currents; both are present at mesoscale while horizontal ones dominate at synoptic scale. Air currents are not only found in the troposphere, but extend ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2906879 |
Air current Thus, a more turbulent wind in the atmospheric boundary layer. This wind can be channeled through narrows, like valleys. The wind will also be raised along the slopes of the mountains to give local air currents. In an air mass moving, vertical movements occur when there is convergence and divergence at diff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2906879 |
Prime vertical In astronomy and astrology, the prime vertical is the vertical circle passing east and west through the zenith of a specific location, and intersecting the horizon in its east and west points. It is also known as the first vertical. It is the vertical circle which is perpendicular to the meridian, and pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2909015 |
Upjohn The Company was a pharmaceutical manufacturing firm founded in 1886 in Kalamazoo, Michigan, by Dr. William E. Upjohn, an 1875 graduate of the University of Michigan medical school. The company was originally formed to make "friable pills", which were specifically designed to be easily digested. These could be "r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2909281 |
Upjohn VanRheenen, R. C. Kelly and D. Y. Cha in 1976. Upjohn's most well-known drugs before the acquisition by Pfizer were Xanax, Halcion, Motrin, Lincocin, and Rogaine. In 2015, Pfizer resurrected the name for a division which manufactures and licenses drugs for which patents have expired; as of 2019 it plans to dives... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2909281 |
Sarmentose (botany) Sarmentose is a term describing plants which have long slender stolons, or "runners". An example of sarmentose plant is the strawberry. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2909406 |
Secund (Lat. "secundus", "following") is a botanical term used of plants when similar parts are directed to one side only, as flowers on an axis. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2909422 |
Xie Shengwu (; born November 22, 1943) is a Chinese physicist who served as President of Shanghai Jiao Tong University from 1997 to 2006. Xie was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province. From 1960 to 1966, he studied in the department of engineering physics at SJTU, majoring in nuclear reactors. From 1966 to 1970, he was a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2911128 |
Precipitable water is the depth of water in a column of the atmosphere, if all the water in that column were precipitated as rain. As a depth, the precipitable water is measured in millimeters or inches. Often abbreviated as "TPW" = total precipitable water. There are different measurement techniques: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2912664 |
Bronzing is a process by which a bronze-like surface is applied to other materials (metallic or non-metallic). Some bronzing processes are merely simulated finishes (patinas) applied to existing metal surfaces, or coatings of powdered metal that give the appearance of a solid metal surface. In other cases, an actual la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2913560 |
Alexander Barchenko Alexander Vasilyevich Barchenko (; 1881, Yelets — April, 1938) was a Russian biologist and researcher of anomalous phenomena from St. Petersburg. In 1904 Barchenko attended the medical faculty of Kazan University, and subsequently entered Yuryev University (today Tartu University). He is known first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2920417 |
Snow field A snow field, snowfield or neve is an accumulation of permanent snow and ice, typically found above the snow line, normally in mountainous and glacial terrain. Glaciers originate in snowfields. The lower end of a glacier is usually free from snow and névé in summer. In the upper end and above the upper bound... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2921967 |
Helium line ratio The brightness of an atomic spectral line emitted by atoms in a gas (or plasma) can be proportional to the gas's temperature, pressure or a weighted sum of both. Due to the completeness and accuracy of collisional radiative models for helium the temperature and density of plasmas which have helium pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2923377 |
Bathvillite is a naturally occurring organic substance. It is an amorphous, opaque, and very friable material of fawn-brown color, filling cavities in the torbanite or Boghead coal of Bathville, Lothian, Scotland. It has a specific gravity of 1.01, and is insoluble in benzene. It may resemble wood in its final stage of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2924276 |
Elaterite (also known as Aeonite, 'elastic bitumen' , 'mineral caoutchouc' or Wurtzilite) is a brown hydrocarbon varying somewhat in consistency, being sometimes soft, elastic and sticky, like India rubber, and occasionally hard and brittle. It is usually dark brown in color and slightly translucent. A substance of sim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2927081 |
Geomechanics (from the Greek prefix "geo-" meaning "earth"; and "mechanics") involves the study of the mechanics of soil and rock. The two main disciplines of geomechanics are soil mechanics and rock mechanics. The former deals with the behaviour of soil from a small scale to a landslide scale. The latter deals with is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2931691 |
Conditioner (chemistry) A conditioner is a substance or process that improves the quality of another material. Conditioning agents used in cosmetic products are also known as moisturizers in skincare products and usually are composed of various oils and lubricants. One method of their use is as a coating of the substra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2931717 |
Gaussian polar coordinates In the theory of Lorentzian manifolds, spherically symmetric spacetimes admit a family of nested round spheres. In each of these spheres, every point can be carried to any other by an appropriate rotation about the center of symmetry. There are several different types of coordinate chart whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2934261 |
Gaussian polar coordinates Alternatively, we can plug in specific functions (possibly depending on some parameters) to obtain an isotropic coordinate chart on a specific Lorentzian spacetime. Gaussian charts are often less convenient than Schwarzschild or isotropic charts. However, they have found occasional applicatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2934261 |
Moon dog A moon dog, moondog, or mock moon, (scientific name paraselene, plural "paraselenae", meaning "beside the moon") is a relatively rare bright circular spot on a lunar halo caused by the refraction of moonlight by hexagonal-plate-shaped ice crystals in cirrus or cirrostratus clouds. Moon dogs appear as part of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2936643 |
Cold water extraction (also called CWE) is the process whereby a substance is extracted from a mixture via cold water. It is a type of fractional crystallization. The process generally involves taking a mixture of substances, dissolving them in warm water, and then rapidly cooling the mixture. The insoluble compounds p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2937493 |
Erich Obst Karl August (13 September 1886 – 9 June 1981) was a German geographer and geopolitician. Between 1924 and 1944 he was the editor of the German geopolitical magazine ""Zeitschrift fur Geopolitik"". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2942770 |
Superplasticizer Superplasticizers (SP's), also known as high range water reducers, are additives used in making high strength concrete. Plasticizers are chemical compounds that enable the production of concrete with ca. 15% less water content. Superplasticizers allow reduction in water content by 30% or more. These ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2945180 |
Superplasticizer Compounds used as superplasticizers include sulfonated naphthalene formaldehyde condensate, sulfonated melamine formaldehyde condensate, acetone formaldehyde condensate and polycarboxylate ethers. Cross-linked melamine- or naphthalene-sulfonates, referred to as PMS (polymelamine sulfonate) and PNS (pol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2945180 |
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