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Rodent cocktail is an anesthetic mixture used for rodents in research. The injectable, clear liquid is a mixture of ketamine, xylazine, and acepromazine. The ratio used depends on the species of rodent. This mixture is often preferred by researchers because of its low mortality in rodents, its relatively quick recovery... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2947580 |
North American International Livestock Exposition (NAILE) is a livestock show held each November in Louisville, Kentucky and lasts for two weeks. It is billed as the "world's largest all-breed, purebred livestock exposition", with nine major livestock divisions with competitors from the 48 contiguous states. These divi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2948405 |
Argo (ROV) Argo is an unmanned deep-towed undersea video camera sled developed by Dr. Robert Ballard through Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute's Deep Submergence Laboratory. "Argo" is most famous for its role in the discovery of the wreck of the RMS "Titanic" in 1985. Argo would also play the key role in Ballard's dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2951953 |
Stokes (Martian crater) Stokes is an impact crater on Mars, located on the Martian Northern plains at 55.9°N latitude and 188.8°W longitude. It measures approximately 63 kilometers in diameter and was named after Irish-born physicist George Gabriel Stokes (1819–1903). The crater's name was officially adopted by IAU's W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2954181 |
Foot per second The foot per second (plural feet per second) is a unit of both speed (scalar) and velocity (vector quantity, which includes direction). It expresses the distance in feet (ft) traveled or displaced, divided by the time in seconds (s). The corresponding unit in the International System of Units (SI) is th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2956372 |
Aphrodite Terra is a highland region on Venus, near the equator. is named after the goddess of love, the Greek equivalent of the Roman goddess Venus. It is about the same size as Africa, and much rougher than Ishtar Terra. The surface appears buckled and fractured which suggests large compressive forces. There are also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2958235 |
Molecular chaos In the kinetic theory of gases in physics, the molecular chaos hypothesis (also called Stosszahlansatz in the writings of Paul Ehrenfest) is the assumption that the velocities of colliding particles are uncorrelated, and independent of position. This means the probability that a pair of particles with g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2960796 |
Molecular chaos The resolution (1895) of this paradox is that the velocities of two particles "after a collision" are no longer truly uncorrelated. By asserting that it was acceptable to ignore these correlations in the population at times after the initial time, Boltzmann had introduced an element of time asymmetry th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2960796 |
Peter Wyse Jackson Dr. Peter Sherlock Wyse Jackson was born (1955) in Kilkenny, Ireland, and is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin in Biology, with whose botanic gardens he was associated. His father, Robert Wyse Jackson, was Bishop of Limerick and Dean of Cashel. His brother Patrick, born 1960 in Cashel, Tipperary, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2965672 |
Mesoscale meteorology is the study of weather systems smaller than synoptic scale systems but larger than microscale and storm-scale cumulus systems. Horizontal dimensions generally range from around 5 kilometers to several hundred kilometers. Examples of mesoscale weather systems are sea breezes, squall lines, and mes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2966001 |
Tunnel injection is a field electron emission effect; specifically a quantum process called Fowler–Nordheim tunneling, whereby charge carriers are injected to an electric conductor through a thin layer of an electric insulator. It is used to program NAND flash memory. The process used for erasing is called tunnel relea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2973881 |
Cyanocarbon Cyanocarbons are a group of chemical compounds that contain several cyanide functional groups. Such substances generally are classified as organic compounds, since they are formally derived from hydrocarbons by replacing one or more hydrogen atoms with a cyanide group. The parent member is C(CN) (tetracyano... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2977958 |
Mohammed Naseeb Qureshy (MN Qureshy) (4 January 1933 – 2005) was a prominent geologist from India. His main field of study was Exploration geophysics. He graduated from Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) and earned his Dsc degree in Exploration geophysics from Colorado School of Mines. During the early 1970s, MN Qureshy d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2982395 |
Mohammed Naseeb Qureshy Warsi, "A Bouguer anomaly map of India and its relation to broad tectonic elements of the sub-continent" 4. M. N QURESHY, "Relation of gravity to elevation and rejuvenation of blocks in India" 5.QURESHY, M.N. and IQBALLUDIN (1992) A review of geophysical constraints in modelling of the Gondwana ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2982395 |
Condurrite is a name given to a mixture of cuprite, domeykite and tenorite. It takes its name from the Great Condurrow Mine at Troon, Cornwall in the United Kingdom, which is regarded as the type locality. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2985627 |
Auroral kilometric radiation (AKR) is the intense radio radiation emitted in the acceleration zone (at a height of three times the radius of the Earth) of the polar lights. The radiation mainly comes from cyclotron radiation from electrons orbiting around the magnetic field lines of the Earth. The radiation has a frequ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2992945 |
Seeligerite is a rare complex lead chlorate iodate mineral with formula: PbCl(IO)O. It is a yellow mineral crystallizing in the orthorhombic system. It has perfect to good cleavage in two directions and a quite high specific gravity of 6.83 due to the lead content. It is translucent to transparent with refractive indic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2995450 |
Hans Stille Hans Wilhelm Stille (October 8, 1876 – December 26, 1966) was an influential German geologist working primarily on tectonics and the collation of tectonic events during the Phanerozoic. Stille adhered to the contracting Earth hypothesis and together with Leopold Kober he worked on the geosyncline theory to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2997272 |
Hans Stille Also named for him is the mineral stilleite (ZnSe) and the wrinkle ridge Dorsa Stille on the Moon. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2997272 |
Astronomical Observatory of Trieste ( or OAT) is an astronomical center of studies located in the city of Trieste in northern Italy. The observatory traces its origins from the Nautical School founded in Trieste by the Empress Maria Theresa of Austria in 1753. Following the dissolution of Austria-Hungary after World Wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3000093 |
Astronomical Observatory of Trieste Of special importance is the participation in the projects of the European Southern Observatory (ESO): the Very Large Telescope (VLT) operated by ESO in Chile; the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) in Arizona, the "Planck" spacecraft operated by the European Space Agency (ESA) from 200... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3000093 |
Ionochromism Ionochromic materials, similar to photochromic, thermochromic and other chromic materials, alter colour in the presence of a factor and reverse to their initial state when the factor is removed. The factor which causes colour change in ionochromic substances are ions. A flow of ions through an ionochromic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3000978 |
Halochromism A halochromic material is a material which changes color when pH changes occur. The term ‘chromic’ is defined as materials that can change colour reversibly with the presence of a factor. In this case, the factor is pH. The pH indicators have this property. Halochromic substances are suited for use in envi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3000988 |
Halochromism The various shades result from different concentrations of halochromic molecules with different conjugated systems. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3000988 |
Toxicophore A toxicophore is a chemical structure or a portion of a structure (e.g., a functional group) that is related to the toxic properties of a chemical. Toxicophores can act directly (e.g., dioxins) or can require metabolic activation (e.g., tobacco-specific nitrosamines). Most toxic substances exert their toxic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3001891 |
Toxicophore For example, in the United States, the EPA's National Center for Computational Toxicology sponsors several toxicity databases based on predictive modeling as well as high-throughput screening experimental methods. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3001891 |
Kálmán Kittenberger (Léva, 10 October 1881 - Nagymaros, 4 January 1958) was a Hungarian traveller, natural historian, biologist and collector. He was born in Léva, now in Slovakia ("Levice"). He made six travels to Africa, the first time in 1902, where he was sent by the Hungarian Royal Society in Budapest. He spent al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3007856 |
Nitratine or nitratite, also known as cubic niter (UK: nitre), soda niter or Chile saltpeter (UK: Chile saltpetre), is a mineral, the naturally occurring form of sodium nitrate, NaNO. Chemically it is the sodium analogue of saltpeter. crystallizes in the trigonal system, but rarely occurs as well formed crystals. It is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3009810 |
Richard Levins Richard "Dick" Levins (June 1, 1930 – January 19, 2016) was an ex-tropical farmer turned ecologist, a population geneticist, biomathematician, mathematical ecologist, and philosopher of science who had researched diversity in human populations. Until his death, Levins was a university professor at the Ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3010875 |
Richard Levins With the evolutionary geneticist Richard Lewontin, Levins had written a number of articles on methodology, philosophy, and social implications of biology. Many of these are collected in "The Dialectical Biologist". In 2007, the duo published a second thematic collection of essays titled "Biology Under th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3010875 |
Richard Levins Blacklisted on his graduation from Cornell, he and Rosario moved to Puerto Rico, where they farmed and did rural organizing. They returned to New York in 1956, where he earned his PhD at Columbia University (awarded 1965). Levins taught at the University of Puerto Rico from 1961 to 1967 and was a promine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3010875 |
Richard Levins In the early 1990s, Levins and others formed the Harvard Working Group on New and Resurgent Diseases. Their work showed that alarming new infections had sprung from changes in the environment, either natural or caused by humans (Wilson et al. 1994). During his final two decades, Levins had concentrated o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3010875 |
Richard Levins One of the surprising consequences of his model is that selection need not maximize adaptation, and that species can select themselves to extinction. He encapsulated his major early results in "Evolution in Changing Environments", a book based on lectures he delivered in Cuba in the early 1960s. Levins m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3010875 |
Entropy of vaporization The entropy of vaporization is the increase in entropy upon vaporization of a liquid. This is always positive, since the degree of disorder increases in the transition from a liquid in a relatively small volume to a vapor or gas occupying a much larger space. At standard pressure "P" = 1 bar, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3011538 |
Flying serpent (asterism) Flying Serpent ("Tengshe" 螣蛇) is an asterism in the Chinese constellation Encampment ("Shixiu" 室宿). The "Jin Shu" describes this asterism as: "Flying/Ascending Serpent, 22 stars north of the Ying "Camp" constellation, [a.k.a.] Heavenly Snake, chief of the water reptiles." (腾蛇二十二星，在营室北，天蛇也，主水虫。... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3011979 |
Lucien Cayeux (26 March 1864–1 November 1944) was a French sedimentary petrographer. In 1902, he joined the "l'Ecole des Mines" and become a professor of geology. In 1912, he was named as professor of geology at the Collège de France. He was admitted to the Académie des Sciences in 1928. He is noted for his study of se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3012803 |
List of recombinant proteins The following is a list of notable proteins that are produced from recombinant DNA, using biomolecular engineering. In many cases, recombinant human proteins have replaced the original animal-derived version used in medicine. The prefix "rh" for "recombinant human" appears less and less in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3016399 |
Oldřich Pelčák (born November 2, 1943 in Zlín, Czechoslovakia) was a Czech cosmonaut and engineer. He graduated from Gagarin Air Force Military Academy. In 1976, Pelčák was selected as backup of Vladimír Remek for the Soyuz 28 mission. They were the first cosmonauts who were neither Americans nor Soviets. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3018033 |
Jørgen Matthias Christian Schiødte (20 April 1815 – 22 April 1884), or Jørgen Christian Matthias Schiødte, was a Danish entomologist. He was Professor at University of Copenhagen Zoological Museum. His work was widely read "for, as Schiodte remarks: "'We accordingly look upon the subterranean faunas as small ramificati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3018881 |
NMG (radio station) NMG is the callsign of the National Hurricane Center's Atlantic basin radiofax radio station. It broadcasts from the United States Coast Guard station in New Orleans, Louisiana with 4 kilowatts of power. TAFB weather forecasts are transmitted full-time on the following frequencies: NMG also broadcas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3019450 |
Hydathode A hydathode is a type of pore, commonly found in angiosperms, that secretes water through pores in the epidermis or leaf margin, typically at the tip of a marginal tooth or serration. Hydathodes occur in the leaves of submerged aquatic plants such as "Ranunculus fluitans" as well as herbaceous plants of drier... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3023266 |
Stephan Angeloff () (1878–1964) was a Bulgarian microbiologist. He was a member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and served as rector of Sofia University from 1941 to 1942. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3025570 |
Exoelectron emission In atomic physics, exoelectron emission (EE) is a weak electron emission, appearing only from pretreated (irradiated, deformed etc.) objects. The pretreatment ("excitation") turns the objects into an unequilibrial state. EE accompanies the relaxation of these unequilibria. The relaxation can be sti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3025604 |
Georgi Bliznakov ( (14 November 1920 – April 2004) was an eminent Bulgarian chemist. He was head of the Department of Inorganic Chemistry and rector at Sofia University, director of the Institute of Inorganic Chemistry of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and vice-chairman of the academy. Bliznakov was born in 1920 in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3025648 |
Asen Zlatarov () (4 February 1885 – 22 December 1936) was a Bulgarian biochemist, writer and social activist. He was born in Haskovo on 4 February 1885. He studied chemistry at the University of Geneva (1904-07). In 1908 he became a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Physics at Grenoble University. He taught in Plovdiv, and in Mun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3025668 |
Georgi Manev () (15 January 1884 – 15 July 1965) was a Bulgarian physicist, founder of the Sofia University Department of Theoretical Physics, rector of Sofia University (1936–37) and education minister of Bulgaria (1938). His work, mostly known as the Manev field, is used today in aerospace science. The articles he pu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3025692 |
Georgi Nadjakov (also spelled Georgi Nadzhakov) () (26 December 1896 – 24 February 1981) was a Bulgarian physicist. He became a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences (1940) in Germany, member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1945) and member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (1958). Sofia Univ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3025722 |
Thermotropic crystal A liquid crystal (LC) is thermotropic if the is determined or changed by temperature. If temperature is too high, the rise in energy and therefore in motion of the components will induce a phase transition: the LC will become an isotropic liquid. If, on the contrary, temperature is too low to suppo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3028112 |
Dumitru Dediu (12 May 1942 in Galaţi – July 2013) was pilot in the Romanian Air Force and cosmonaut candidate that was assigned as the backup for Dumitru Prunariu. In 1978, Dediu was selected as the backup for Dumitru Prunariu for the Soyuz 40 mission. He served in the Romanian Army and lived in Bucharest. He died in e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3030113 |
Q0906+6930 is the most distant known blazar (redshift 5.47 / 12.2 billion light years), discovered in July, 2004. The engine of the blazar is a supermassive black hole (SMBH) approximately 2 billion times the mass of the Sun (the mass of the Milky Way Galaxy is around 1.5 trillion solar masses). The event horizon volum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3031317 |
Anatoly Babko (15 October 1905 in Sudzhenskoye, Tomsk Governorate – 7 January 1968) was a famous Ukrainian chemist, specializing in analytical chemistry and in the chemistry of complex compounds. Babko was a student of Professor N. Tananaev, a Member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet Republic (since 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3031629 |
Glaciokarst Examples of glaciokarst landscapes are found in the Dinaric Alps especially at Orjen, and in the Alps (e.g. the Kanin Plateau with the Vrtiglavica shaft). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3037677 |
José Antonio Balseiro (March 29, 1919 in Córdoba – March 26, 1962 in Bariloche) was an Argentine physicist. Balseiro studied at the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba in his home city, before moving to La Plata to study and research, obtaining a doctorate in physics at the Universidad Nacional de La Plata. His doctoral di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3037911 |
José Antonio Balseiro In 1955, using part of the old installations of the Huemul Project, the National Atomic Energy Commission created the "Instituto de Física de Bariloche". Balseiro played an important role in this decision and served as the first director of the new institution. Upon his untimely death from leukemi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3037911 |
Cascading gauge theory In theoretical physics, a cascading gauge theory is a gauge theory whose coupling rapidly changes with the scale in such a way that Seiberg duality must be applied many times. Igor Klebanov and Matthew Strassler studied this kind of N=1 gauge theory in the context of the AdS-CFT correspondence, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3037964 |
Composite gravity In theoretical physics, composite gravity refers to models that attempted to derive general relativity in a framework where the graviton is constructed as a composite bound state of more elementary particles, usually fermions. A theorem by Steven Weinberg and Edward Witten shows that this is not possi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3038539 |
Camanchaca Camanchacas are marine stratocumulus cloud banks that form on the Chilean coast, by the Earth's driest desert, the Atacama Desert, and move inland. (In Peru, camanchaca is called garúa) On the side of the mountains where these cloud banks form, the camanchaca is a dense fog that does not produce rain. The mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3038633 |
Johann Gottlieb Kugelann (2 January 1753 – 8 September 1815) was a German entomologist. A pharmacist by profession, Kugelann worked on Coleoptera. He published (with Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger and Johann Christian Ludwig Hellwig) in 1798 "Verzeichniss der Käfer Preussens". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3045056 |
James Nathaniel Halbert was an Irish entomologist. He was born 30 August 1872 and died 7 May 1948 in Dalkey, Dublin, Ireland. In 1892, Halbert began work at the Science and Art Museum, in Dublin (now the National Museum of Ireland). He was appointed Technical Assistant in 1904 and then Assistant Naturalist, in place of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3046263 |
Leo Palatnik Leo Samoylovich Palatnik (); (1909–1994) was an outstanding Ukrainian physicist known for his contributions in the field of thin film physics and film material. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3052162 |
Caspar Erasmus Duftschmid properly Kaspar was an Austrian naturalist and physician who made significant contributions to entomology, especially Coleoptera. He was born in Gmunden 19 November 1767 and died in Linz 17 December 1821. His best-known work, introducing many new genera and species is "Fauna Austriaca. Oder Be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3052962 |
MINDO MINDO, or Modified Intermediate Neglect of Differential Overlap is a semi-empirical method for the quantum calculation of molecular electronic structure in computational chemistry. It is based on the Intermediate Neglect of Differential Overlap (INDO) method of John Pople. It was developed by the group of Michael... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3052975 |
Johann Nepomuk von Laicharting was an Austrian entomologist. He was born in Innsbruck on 4 February 1754 and died in the same city on 7 May 1797, and was a Professor of Natural Science (Naturgeschichte) in Innsbruck. He described new species and genera,of Coleoptera in "Verzeichniss und Beschreibung der Tyroler-Insecte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3054054 |
Valence bond programs Valence bond (VB) computer programs for modern valence bond calculations:- Note that several other programs, as well as some of those above, can do Goddard's Generalized Valence Bond (GVB) methods. GAMESS (US) does this either without the VB2000 interface or with it. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3059333 |
Lehmann discontinuity The is an abrupt increase of "P"-wave and "S"-wave velocities at the depth of , discovered by seismologist Inge Lehmann. The thickness is 220 km . It appears beneath continents, but not usually beneath oceans, and does not readily appear in globally averaged studies. Several explanations have been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3066768 |
Section (botany) In botany, a section () is a taxonomic rank below the genus, but above the species. The subgenus, if present, is higher than the section, and the rank of series, if present, is below the section. Sections may in turn be divided into subsections. Sections are typically used to help organise very large g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3069014 |
Formula unit A formula unit in chemistry is the empirical formula of any ionic or covalent network solid compound used as an independent entity for stoichiometric calculations. It is the lowest whole number ratio of ions represented in an ionic compound. Examples include ionic NaCl and KO and covalent networks such as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3069929 |
Orthometric height The orthometric height of a point is the distance H along a plumb line from the point to a reference height. When the reference height is a geoid model, orthometric height is for practical purposes "height above sea level". In the US, the current NAVD88 datum is tied to a defined elevation at one poi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3073134 |
Orthometric height , the Helmert Orthometric heights of NAVD88). GPS measurements give earth-centered coordinates, usually displayed as height above the reference ellipsoid, which cannot be related accurately to orthometric height above the geoid without accurate gravity data for that location. In the US, NGS has under... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3073134 |
Planar array radar The planar array radar is a type of radar that uses a high-gain planar array antenna. A fixed delay is established between horizontal arrays in the elevation plane. As the frequency is changed, the phase front across the aperture tends to tilt, with the result that the beam is moved in elevation. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3077866 |
Riad Higazy Riad Abdel-Magid Higazy (1919–1967) was an Egyptian earth scientist. The wrinkle ridge Dorsum Higazy on the Moon is named after him. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3079616 |
Microstate continuum A microstate continuum is the fluctuation spectrum of a thermodynamic system in the classical limit of high temperatures. Classical here is to be understood in opposition to quantum statistical mechanics. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3080682 |
Alkermes (company) Alkermes plc is a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on central nervous system (CNS) diseases such as such as schizophrenia, depression, addiction and multiple sclerosis. The company was founded in 1987 by Michael Wall. In September 2011 Alkermes, Inc. merged with Elan Drug Technologies (EDT), th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3086375 |
Alkermes (company) It is approved in Europe and the U.S. Buprenorphine/samidorphan (ALKS-5461), a κ-opioid receptor antagonist, is a next-generation, novel antidepressant which is under development by Alkermes for treatment-resistant depression. Olanzapine/samidorphan (ALKS-3831) is an atypical antipsychotic and opioid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3086375 |
Shangri-La (Titan) Shangri-La is a large, dark region of Saturn's moon Titan at . It is named after Shangri-La, the mythical paradise in Tibet. It is thought to be an immense plain of dark material. It is thought that these regions of Titan were seas, but that they are now dry. Shangri-La is studded with bright 'island... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3087788 |
Global Forecast System The (GFS) is a global numerical weather prediction system containing a global computer model and variational analysis run by the United States' National Weather Service (NWS). The mathematical model is run four times a day, and produces forecasts for up to 16 days in advance, but with decreased s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3093634 |
Global Forecast System As with most works of the U.S. government, GFS data is not copyrighted and is available for free in the public domain under provisions of U.S. law. Because of this, the model serves as the basis for the forecasts of numerous private, commercial, and foreign weather companies. By 2015 the GFS mode... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3093634 |
Global Forecast System Unlike the recently upgraded ECMWF, the new GFS behaves a bit differently in the tropics and in other regions compared to the previous version. This version accounts more accurately for variables such as the Madden–Julian oscillation and the Saharan Air Layer. On June 12, 2019, after several year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3093634 |
Vishniac (crater) Vishniac is the larger crater of the Martian surface feature called the Giant's Footprint. It was named after Wolf V. Vishniac, a microbiologist who died on an expedition to Antarctica. Fittingly, the crater lies in the Antarctic of Mars. The feature was originally observed by Mariner 7 in 1969. In 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3094227 |
Pavol Adami (Slovak), Adámi Pál (Hungarian), Paul Adami (German) (9 July 1739, in Beluša – 21 September 1795) was a Slovak scientist and scholar, considered one of the world's first veterinarians. He was one of the first recorded experts in the infectious diseases of animals. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3094392 |
Pacific Cordillera (Canada) The is a top-level physiographic region of Canada. This cordillera is part of the North American Cordillera. The mountain ranges in this region were covered during the Pleistocene by the Cordilleran Ice Sheet. The extent of the Cordilleran ice sheet gives perspective on the geographic extent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3097643 |
Aerodynamic force An aerodynamic force is a force exerted on a body by the air (or other gas) in which the body is immersed, and is due to the relative motion between the body and the gas. There are two causes of aerodynamic force: Pressure acts normal to the surface, and shear force acts parallel to the surface. Both ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3100319 |
Relic particles are superheavy particles hypothesized to be remnants of early cosmological expansion. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3104334 |
Vladimír Zoubek (21 September 1903 in Heřmanův Městec – 24 May 1995 in Prague) was a Czech geologist. He won the Lomonosov Prize for his contributions to geology. The mineral Zoubekite is named after him. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3104923 |
Piezochromism describes the tendency of certain materials to change color with the application of pressure. This effect is closely related to the electronic band gap change, which can be found in plastics, semiconductors (e.g. hybrid perovskites) and hydrocarbons. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3105510 |
Corrected fuel flow is the fuel flow that is required by an engine if the freestream total head conditions are equivalent to ambient conditions at Sea Level on a Standard Day (i.e. 14.696 lb/in², 288.15K ). Corrected Fuel Flow can be calculated as follows, assuming Imperial units: So-called Non-Dimensional Fuel Flow fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3109122 |
Colure Colure, in astronomy, is either of the two principal meridians of the celestial sphere. The "equinoctial colure" is the meridian or great circle of the celestial sphere which passes through the celestial poles and the two equinoxes: the first point of Aries and the first point of Libra. The "solstitial colure" i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3116066 |
Moulin (geomorphology) A moulin (or glacier mill) is a roughly circular, vertical (or nearly vertical) well-like shaft within a glacier or ice sheet which water enters from the surface. The term is derived from the French word for mill. They can be up to 10 meters wide and are typically found on ice sheets and flat are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3123653 |
Haidingerite is a calcium arsenate mineral with formula Ca(AsOOH)·HO. It crystallizes in the orthorhombic crystal system as short prismatic to equant crystals. It typically occurs as scaly, botryoidal or fibrous coatings. It is soft, Mohs hardness of 2 to 2.5, and has a specific gravity of 2.95. It has refractive indic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3124147 |
Per Andersen Per Oskar Andersen (12 January 1930 – 17 February 2020) was a Norwegian brain researcher at the University of Oslo. Research by his lab, specifically by Terje Lømo (and Timothy Bliss, who helped characterize the phenomenon years later), led to the discovery of long-term potentiation in 1966. He was a fello... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3133192 |
Lakshmi Planum is a plateau feature approximately 2 million sq km ringed by rugged mountains, the surface of Venus on the Western Ishtar Terra. It is named after Lakshmi, the Hindu goddess of wealth. It is roughly above the mean planetary radius. is ringed by intensely deformed terrain, some of which is shown in the so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3134521 |
Richard Scott Perkin Richard "Dick" Scott Perkin (1906 – 1969) was an American entrepreneur. At an early age he developed an interest in astronomy, and began making telescopes and grinding lenses and mirrors. He only spent a year in college studying chemical engineering before he began working at a brokerage firm on Wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3135403 |
Alexander Tropsha is a chemist and professor at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. Tropsha is Associate Dean for Pharmacoinformatics and Data Science at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy. His primary fields of research are cheminformatics and quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) modeling i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3136342 |
Thermal velocity The velocity or thermal speed is a typical velocity of the thermal motion of particles that make up a gas, liquid, etc. Thus, indirectly, thermal velocity is a measure of temperature. Technically speaking, it is a measure of the width of the peak in the Maxwell–Boltzmann particle velocity distribution.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3136883 |
Batchelor vortex In fluid dynamics, Batchelor vortices, first described by George Batchelor in a 1964 article, have been found useful in analyses of airplane vortex wake hazard problems. The is an approximate solution to the Navier-Stokes equations obtained using a boundary layer approximation. The physical reasoning b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3139737 |
Kaufmann (Scully) vortex The Kaufmann vortex, also known as the Scully model, is a mathematical model for a vortex taking account of viscosity. It uses an algebraic velocity profile. Kaufmann and Scully's model for the velocity in the Θ direction is: The model was suggested by Scully and Sullivan in 1972 at Massachuset... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3139954 |
Dielectric breakdown model (DBM) is a macroscopic mathematical model combining the diffusion-limited aggregation model with electric field. It was developed by Niemeyer, Pietronero, and Weismann in 1984. It describes the patterns of dielectric breakdown of solids, liquids, and even gases, explaining the formation of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3140673 |
J-type asteroid J-type asteroids are asteroids with spectra similar to that of diogenite meteorites and so, presumably, to the deeper layers of the crust of 4 Vesta. Their spectra are rather similar to that of the V-type asteroids but have a particularly strong 1 μm absorption band. Examples are 2442 Corbett, 3869 Nort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3142071 |
Major actinide Major actinides is a term used in the nuclear power industry that refers to the plutonium and uranium present in used nuclear fuel, as opposed to the minor actinides neptunium, americium, curium, berkelium, and californium. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3148927 |
Cacholong Cacholong, also known as Kalmuck agate, is a form of common opal, although it is often mistaken for agate or chalcedony. A milky white colour with a Mohs hardness of about 6, it is used for carving, cameos, etc. Found in Austria, Czech Republic, Mongolia and Uzbekistan, its name possibly comes from a river in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3156395 |
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