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Vaupés Arch The is a hydrographic feature in the geology of Colombia. The forms the major drainage divide in the southern extent of the "llanos" region of eastern Colombia and the western slopes of the Guiana Shield in Venezuela. The is the result of an episode of tectonic uplift that occurred approximately 8 to 10 Ma.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36817758 |
Franklin Sibly Thomas K.B.E. (25 October 1883 – 13 April 1948) was a British geologist who had a distinguished career in University administration, being first Principal of University College, Swansea (1920), and later Vice-Chancellor of the University of Wales, Principal of the University of London and from 1929 to 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36827569 |
Moaning sandbar Moaning sandbars are harbor shoals that are known for tidal noises. Water flowing over a sandbar, typically around low tide, can coincide with both low, sustained noises and turbulence dangerous for smaller boats. In English-speaking culture, phrases such as "moaning of the bar" connect these sounds wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36828359 |
Jean-Christophe Balouet (born 12 November 1956) is a French palaeontologist. He has collaborated extensively with Storrs Olson of the Smithsonian Institution on palaeornithological research on the extinct birds of New Caledonia in the south-west Pacific region. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36829250 |
3D cell culturing by magnetic levitation 3D cell culture by the magnetic levitation method (MLM) is the application of growing 3D tissue by inducing cells treated with magnetic nanoparticle assemblies in spatially varying magnetic fields using neodymium magnetic drivers and promoting cell to cell interactions by levita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36845407 |
3D cell culturing by magnetic levitation Many schemes for 3D culturing are being developed or marketed, such as bio-reactors or protein-based gel environments. A 3D cell culturing system known as the Bio-Assembler™ uses biocompatible polymer-based reagents to deliver magnetic nanoparticles to individual cells so that a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36845407 |
3D cell culturing by magnetic levitation (E) Human umbilical vein endothelial cells (HUVEC) levitated for 60 minutes (left images) and 4 hours (right images) (Scale bar, 50 μm). The onset of cell-cell interaction takes place as soon as cells levitate, and 3D structures start to form. At 1 hour, the cells are still rela... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36845407 |
3D cell culturing by magnetic levitation One of the challenges in generating in vivo like cultures or tissue in vitro is the difficulty in co-culturing different cell types. Because of the ability of to bring cells together, co-culturing different cell types is possible. Co-culturing of different cell types can be achi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36845407 |
3D cell culturing by magnetic levitation 3 cells creates a vascular-like network assembly with concomitant lipogenesis in perivascular cells. See figure below. In addition to cell lines, WAT organogenesis can be simulated from primary cells. Adipocyte-depleted stromal vascular fraction (SVF) containing adipose stromal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36845407 |
3D cell culturing by magnetic levitation Endothelial cells (PEC), smooth muscle cells (SMC), fibroblasts (PF), and epithelial cells (EpiC) cultured with the Bio-Assembler™ can be sequentially layered in a drag-and-drop manner to create bronchioles that maintain phenotype and induce extracellular matrix formation. Liste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36845407 |
Gu Yidong (; also known as Yih-Tong Ku, 1903–1996) was a Chinese chemist, considered a founder of inorganic chemistry in China. He was an academician and founding member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Gu received his Ph.D in organic chemistry from University of Chicago in 1935. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36877348 |
Malcolm Steinberg (June 1, 1930 - February 7, 2012) was an American biologist who proposed the differential adhesion hypothesis as a mechanism explaining cell sorting during embryogenesis and cancer. Steinberg proposed that when cells form distinct tissues, specific cell-cell adhesion between cells from the same tissue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36899008 |
Willow water is a biological method to extract the rooting hormones indolebutyric acid (IBA) and salicylic acid (SA), that are present in sufficient quantities in the willow ("Salix") trees to extract as a liquid that stimulates root growth. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36907131 |
Flux (biology) In general, flux in biology relates to movement of a substance between compartments. There are several cases where the concept of flux is important. Flux is the net movement of particles across a specified area in a specified period of time. The particles may be ions or molecules, or they may be larger, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36911458 |
August Wilhelm Malm (23 July 1821 in Gothenburg – 5 March 1882) was a Swedish zoologist. was the first Director of Göteborgs Naturhistoriska Museum. Partial list | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36948649 |
Kaigas The glaciation was a hypothesized snowball earth event in the Neoproterozoic Era, preceding the Sturtian glaciation. Its occurrence was inferred based on the interpretation of Formation conglomerates in the stratigraphy overlying the Kalahari Craton as correlative with pre-Sturtian Numees formation glacial diami... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36951734 |
Hiroshige Koyama (1937–2016) was a Japanese botanist specialist of Asteraceae. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36953004 |
MinutePhysics Minute Physics is an educational YouTube channel created by Henry Reich in 2011. The channel's videos use whiteboard animation to explain physics-related topics in approximately one minute. , the channel has more than 4 million subscribers. Videos from Minute Physics have been featured on "PBS NewsHour", ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36970075 |
MinutePhysics The channel features a similar style to his Minute Physics videos, with a focus on the physical properties and phenomena that make up and occur on Earth. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36970075 |
Egide Fologne (1830-1919) was a Belgian entomologist who specialised in microlepidoptera. He was a Member of Société entomolologique de Belgique. Partial list | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36974389 |
Carl Julius Meyer von Klinggräff (26 March 1809 in Klein Watkowitz in Kreis Stuhm – 1879) was a German botanist. He was an older brother to bryologist Hugo Erich Meyer von Klinggräff (1820–1902, H.Klinggr.). From 1828 to 1832, he studied medicine and botany at the University of Königsberg, where he was influenced by Er... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36976124 |
Hugo Erich Meyer von Klinggräff (7 June 1820 in Klein Watkowitz, Stuhm – 3 April 1902 in Paleschken, Stuhm) was a German botanist specialist of bryophytes. He was the brother of botanist Carl Julius Meyer von Klinggräff, with whom he often collaborated. In 1826, he moved with his parents to a homestead located not far ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36981985 |
Johan Martin Jakob von Tengström (1821 in Åbo – 1890) was a Finnish entomologist. Tengström specialised in Lepidoptera. Tengström visited Java in 1849 where he discovered several new species of Lepidoptera. He made shorter trips within Europe. His collection is held by the Natural History Museum of Helsinki. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36984983 |
Josef Wilhelm Klimesch (1902 in Budweis – 1997 in Linz) was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. Partial list | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36987987 |
Rockwatch is the junior club of the Geologists' Association, and has been established under its auspices in November 2001. It is, however, run independently from the parent body. "If you are looking for the collectible timepiece RockWatch, click here." publishes a full colour magazine three times a year. Each issue is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37003370 |
Saint Abb's Head virus St. Abbs Head virus (SAHV) is a strain of "Uukuniemi phlebovirus", in the genus "Phlebovirus", order "Bunyavirales". It is named after St Abb's Head, Scotland, where it was isolated from its vector, the tick "Ixodes uriae". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37006299 |
San Jose BioCenter The is a business incubator formed as a university foundation in 2004 and focused on the initiation and development of technology companies, with an emphasis on the life sciences industry. The BioCenter emerged from San Jose State University in an effort to revitalize an industrial area of San Jose, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37011797 |
Claudia (crater) Claudia is a small (700 meter) crater that defines the prime meridian of asteroid 4 Vesta in the coordinate system used by the "Dawn" mission team, NASA, and the IAU "Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature", though it is not accepted by the IAU as a whole. It is located at 1.6°S and 4.0°W. Claudia was cho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37026545 |
Óscar Denis Oscar Denis Sánchez (born 2 October 1946, in Concepción) is a Paraguayan politician and former Vice President. He was elected in June 2012. Upon his election he was Senator in the Senate of Paraguay. Previously he was the governor of Concepción Department 1993-1998 and a member of the Chamber of Deputies 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37029685 |
Geologic overpressure in stratigraphic layers is caused by the inability of connate pore fluids to escape as the surrounding mineral matrix compacts under the lithostatic pressure caused by overlying layers. Fluid escape may be impeded by sealing of the compacting rock by surrounding impermeable layers (such as evapori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37039369 |
SeaDataNet is an international project of oceanography. Its main goal is to enable the scientific community to access historical datasets owned by national data centers. This project aims to provide a web service permitting to retrieve validated datasets (temperature, oxygen, salinity, nutrients, etc.) from 45 differen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37060172 |
SeaDataNet They can provide many details such as the type of platform wanted, the parameter wanted, the rate of sampling, the position, the originator country, etc. Then users send their request, the request is analysed and split into as much request as there are data centers concerned. At the end the user receive an e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37060172 |
Rydberg–Klein–Rees method The is a procedure used in the analysis of rotational-vibrational spectra of diatomic molecules to obtain a potential energy curve from the experimentally-known line positions. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37079339 |
Chemically induced dimerization Chemically Induced Dimerization (CID) is a biological mechanism in which two proteins bind only in the presence of a certain small molecule, enzyme or other dimerizing agent. Genetically engineered CID systems are used in biological research to control protein localization, to manipulate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37102865 |
Chemically induced dimerization Each set of proteins can be induced to dimerize by the addition of a separate chemical. By creating fusion proteins with the dimerizing proteins, membrane bound proteins and proteins that activate cell ruffling an AND gate and OR gate can be created that take chemical dimerizing agents a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37102865 |
Bowers Basebed Portland is a type of limestone from Bowers Quarry at the Isle of Portland in Dorset, southern England, on the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. The stone is clear of fossils and is the cleanest of the Portland stone types. Bowers Basebed, which is quarried by Albion Stone, has a maximum bed height ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37105058 |
NGC 7090 is a spiral galaxy lying in the southern constellation of Indus and located about thirty million light-years from the Sun. Astronomer John Herschel first observed this galaxy on 4 October 1834. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37107524 |
Estimated maximum possible concentration (EMPC) is a term used in dioxin concentration determination for a concentration between limit of quantification and limit of detection. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37125569 |
Jacques Sébastien François Léonce Marie Paul Fagot (1842–1908) was a French malacologist who often published under the name Paul Fagot. Fagot was part of a "New School" of naturalists, which included Jules-René Bourguignat, Aristide-Horace Letourneux, Jules François Mabille, and Étienne Alexandre Arnould Locard. Specie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37131939 |
Process study is the phenomenological approach used in climatology. Process studies are used "to develop the parameterizations [e.g. of circulation models], and observations [are] used to calibrate [the latter]". A parametrization is a set of fitted equations to represent physical phenomena instead of deducing them fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37133937 |
NGC 4183 is a spiral galaxy with a faint core and an open spiral structure located about 55 million light-years from the Sun. Spanning about eighty thousand light-years, it appears in the constellation of Canes Venatici. was observed for the first time by British astronomer William Herschel on 14 January 1788. The gala... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37136427 |
NGC 4634 is an edge-on barred spiral galaxy located about 70 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices. was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on January 14, 1787. It is interacting with the spiral galaxy NGC 4633. Both galaxies are members of the Virgo Cluster. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37136670 |
Walter Forster (entomologist) Walter Forster (12 July 1910 – 25 December 1986) was a German entomologist. He worked at the Bavarian State Collection of Zoology ("Zoologische Staatssammlung München") and led two scientific collecting trips to South America. Forster is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37153758 |
Ian Affleck Ian Keith Affleck is a Canadian physicist specializing in condensed matter physics. He is (in 2013) Killam University Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia. Affleck holds numerous awards including the 2006 CAP Medal for Lifetime Achievement and the 2014 DCMMP Brockho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37158040 |
Harald Kylin Johan (5 February 1879 – 16 December 1949) was a Swedish botanist specializing in phycology and a professor at Lund University. He was also editor of the Botaniska Notiser, a Swedish scientific periodical from 1922 to 1928. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37160709 |
Capped octahedral molecular geometry In chemistry, the capped octahedral molecular geometry describes the shape of compounds where seven atoms , or groups of atoms or ligands are arranged around a central atom defining the vertices of a gyroelongated triangular pyramid. This shape has C symmetry and is one of the three... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37191231 |
NGC 6166 is an elliptical galaxy in the Abell 2199 cluster. It lies 490 million light years away in the constellation Hercules. The primary galaxy in the cluster, it is one of the most luminous galaxies known in terms of X-ray emissions. is a supermassive, type cD galaxy, with several smaller galaxies within its envelo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37200986 |
Rotatum In physics, rotatum is the derivative of torque with respect to time. Expressed as an equation, rotatum Ρ is: where τ is torque and formula_2 is the derivative with respect to time formula_3. The term "rotatum" is not universally recognized but is commonly used. This word is derived from the Latin word "rotātus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37202680 |
Thermus igniterrae is a bacterium belonging to the Deinococcus–Thermus phylum, known to be present in hazardous conditions. This species was identified in Iceland, together with "Thermus antranikianii". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37208459 |
Thermus antranikianii is a bacterium belonging to the Deinococcus–Thermus phylum, known to be present in hazardous conditions. This species was identified in Iceland, together with "Thermus igniterrae". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37208491 |
Givi Maisuradze is a Georgian geologist, Professor, Dr.Sc. He and his spouse Nina Klopotovskaia (paleontologist) were part of the research team that discovered early hominin skulls and later skeletons dating 1.8 million years old in Dmanisi, Georgia. He was born on February 11, 1934 in the capital of Georgia, Tbilisi. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37214162 |
Givi Maisuradze III, Reid Ferring, Antje Justus, Medea Nioradze, Merab Tvalchrelidze, Susan C. Antón, Gerhard Bosinski, Olaf Jöris, Marie-A.-de Lumley, Givi Majsuradze, Aleksander Mouskhelishvili, 2000. Earliest Pleistocene Hominid Cranial Remains from Dmanisi, Republic of Georgia: Taxonomy, Geological Setting, and Age... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37214162 |
Nuclear transparency is the ratio of cross-sections for exclusive processes from the nuclei to those of the nucleons. If a nuclear cross-section is denoted as formula_1 and free nucleon cross-section as formula_2, then nuclear transparency can be defined as formula_3, where formula_1 can be parameterized in terms of fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37237547 |
Swift J1745-26 is a stellar-mass black hole located a few degrees from the center of the Milky Way galaxy toward the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by NASA's Swift satellite on September 16, 2012 due to the detection of an X-ray nova. The pattern of X-rays from the nova indicated that the central object w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37259281 |
Metakaryota The superkingdom was defined by Thomas Cavalier-Smith as advanced eukaryotes resulting from the endosymbiosis of a proteobacterium, giving rise to the mitochondrion, by an archezoan eukaryote. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37294302 |
Ethanimine is an organonitrogen compound classified as an imine. It is formed by reacting acetaldehyde and ammonia but rapidly polymerizes to acetaldehyde ammonia trimer. It is not well known terrestrially, but has been detected in abundance towards Sagittarius B2 (Sgr B2), a dense interstellar cloud in between stars t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37303513 |
Station P (ocean measurement site) Station P is an ocean measurement site, located at 50 degrees north latitude, 145 degrees west longitude (water depth, 4220 meters). The site was established by the US Navy in 1943. In 1951, US funding to maintain continual presence ran out and observational responsibility was passed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37308162 |
Gadgets Gully virus (GGYV) is an arbovirus, a member of the flavivirus family first isolated from the hard tick Ixodes uriae, and named after Gadget's Gully on Macquarie Island in the southwest Pacific Ocean. The virus antibodies were found in several species of penguin and antibodies were found in humans. It is believ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37324888 |
Louis Eugène Robert (6 December 1806 – 28 May 1882) was a French naturalist, geologist and entomologist. wrote numerous works on forest insects. He was a friend of Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville. He made scientific voyages to Central America, Iceland, Greenland, Scandinavia and Lapland and was one of the naturalists on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37328694 |
Thermales is an order of bacteria belonging to the Deinococcus–Thermus phylum. They are particularly resistant to heat, and live in the benthic zone of the Gulf of Mexico. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37329515 |
Christoph Friedrich Richter Christoph, or Christian, Friedrich Richter (5 October 1676 – 5 October 1711) was a German hymnwriter and entomologist. Christoph Richter was born in Sorau and was an evangelical clergyman, hymn writer and physician. He died in Halle. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37333367 |
Mathematical physiology is an interdisciplinary science. Primarily, it investigates ways in which mathematics may be used to give insight into physiological questions. In turn, it also describes how physiological questions can lead to new mathematical problems. The field may be broadly grouped into two physiological ap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37338762 |
Portland Bowers Roach is a type of limestone from the Isle of Portland in Dorset, southern England, on the Jurassic Coast, a World Heritage Site. Bowers Roach was used to construct parts of Broadcasting House, situated in Portland Place, London. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37355773 |
Portland Grove Whitbed is a type of stone from the Isle of Portland used to construct the "New London Stock Exchange", which is situated in Paternoster Square, in the city of London. The stone contains large, white shell fragments, and large grey shells. Grove Whitbed has a maximum bed height of 2.2 metres and is the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37355826 |
Portland Jordans Roach is a type of stone from the Isle of Portland used to construct parts of the refurbished "Green Park Tube Station", which is situated in London. The stone is a shelly roach. Jordans Roach has a maximum bed height of 2 metres and is a roach in which the shelliest parts seem to be towards the middle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37356160 |
Piola transformation The maps vectors between Eulerian and Lagrangian coordinates in continuum mechanics. It is named after Gabrio Piola. Let formula_1 with formula_2 an affine transformation. Let formula_3 with formula_4 a domain with Lipschitz boundary. The mapping formula_5 is called Piola transformation. The usual ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37358308 |
Antonina Pojarkova Antonina Ivanovna Pojarkova (1897 – 1980) was a Russian expert on the flora of the Caucasus, with a particular interest in ferns and seed plants. Pojarkova authored 230 land plant species names, the eighth-highest number of such names authored by any female scientist. Pojarkova was a principal editor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37364533 |
Corby (crater) Corby is a crater approximately 6.6 km in diameter on the planet Mars, located at 42.88°N 137.56°E. The crater was named after the town of Corby, Northamptonshire, England, referred to in an Apollo 11 conversation. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37377717 |
Hyperconcentrated flow A hyperconcentrated flow is a two-phase flowing mixture of water and sediment in a channel which has properties intermediate between fluvial flow and debris flow. Large quantities of sand may be transported throughout the flow column, but the transport of suspended and bedload sediment along the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37396309 |
Suncup (snow) Suncups are bowl-shaped open depressions into a snow surface, normally wider than they are deep. They form closely packed, honeycomb, often hexagonal patterns with sharp narrow ridges separating smoothly concave hollows. For a given set of suncups, the hollows are normally all around the same size, meanin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37396683 |
NGC 3738 is a dwarf galaxy in the constellation of Ursa Major and belongs to the M81 Group of galaxies. is 12 million light-years from the sun. The galaxy was first discovered by astronomer William Herschel in 1789. is a blue compact dwarf, which is small compared to large spiral galaxies. The galaxy is about 10,000 li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37419951 |
Minchinbury Sandstone is a component of the Wianammatta Group of sedimentary rocks in the Sydney Basin of eastern Australia. Formed in the middle triassic period, this sandstone was structured by marine deposition as a set of sandy barrier islands at a coastal shoreline. The type locality of the formation is near the G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37427195 |
Rezső Soó Károly von Bere (1 August 1903, Székelyudvarhely (now Odorheiu Secuiesc, Romania) – 10 February 1980, Budapest) was a Hungarian botanist and professor at the University of Budapest. He is best known for his work on: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37427343 |
Parachlamydia Parachlamydia, is a genus of bacteriae belonging to the Chlamydiae. Species include "P. acanthamoeba". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37462986 |
Simkania Simkania, is a genus of bacteria belonging to the Chlamydiae. The only species of this genus is "negevensis". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37463002 |
Snowden (physics) A Snowden is a unit of soft X-ray emissivity, equivalent to formula_1 ROSAT counts formula_2. These units were chosen by S. L. Snowden when working with the ROSAT mission to create the ROSAT All-Sky Survey in order to make the surface brightness values fit into a two byte integer. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37495763 |
Terreneuvian The is the lowermost and oldest series of the Cambrian geological system. Its base is defined by the first appearance datum of the trace fossil "Treptichnus pedum" around million years ago. Its top is defined as the first appearance of trilobites in the stratigraphic record around million years ago. This s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37496577 |
Terreneuvian The first trilobites appear 1400 m above the boundary, which corresponds to the beginning of the Branchian Series. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37496577 |
Foot per second squared The foot per second squared (plural "feet per second squared") is a unit of acceleration. It expresses change in velocity expressed in units of feet per second (ft/s) divided by time in seconds (s) (or the distance in feet (ft) traveled or displaced, divided by the time in seconds (s) squared). ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37498558 |
Circumpolar deep water Circumpolar Deep Water (CDW) is a designation given to the water mass in the Pacific and Indian oceans that essentially characterizes a mixing of other water masses in the region. A distinguishing characteristic is the water is not formed at the surface, but rather by a blending of other water ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37516041 |
Circumpolar deep water A strong correspondence has been discovered between mid-depth ocean temperatures and glacier-front changes along the approximately 1000-kilometer western coastline. In the south, glaciers that terminate in warm CDW have undergone considerable retreat, whereas those in the far northwest, which ter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37516041 |
Animals Are Like That Animals Are Like That! was Frank Buck’s sixth book, which continued his stories of capturing exotic animals. If you should find yourself with a monkey or ape on your hands and no knowledge of what to do with it, Buck tells co-author Carol Weld, just treat it like a child. And the elephant, like a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37517661 |
Helicos single molecule fluorescent sequencing The Helicos Genetic Analysis System platform was the first commercial NGS (Next Generation Sequencing) implementation to use the principle of single molecule fluorescent sequencing, a method of identifying the exact sequence of a piece of DNA. It was marketed by the now de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37518608 |
Helicos single molecule fluorescent sequencing DNA samples are hybridized to a primer immobilized on a flow cell for sequencing, so it is usually necessary to generate a nucleic acid with an end compatible for hybridization to those surfaces. The target sequence attached to the flow cell surface could, in theory, be an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37518608 |
Helicos single molecule fluorescent sequencing Thus, prior to sequencing, it is also necessary to block the 3’ ends of the molecules to be sequenced. Any 3’ end treatment that makes the molecule unsuitable for extension can be used. Typically, tailed molecules are blocked using terminal transferase and a dideoxynucleot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37518608 |
Helicos single molecule fluorescent sequencing Virtual terminator nucleotides incorporate opposite the complementary base and prevent further incorporation because of the chemical structure appended to the nucleotide. Thus, all of the unpaired dAs present in the poly(A) tail are filled in with TTP. The hybridized molec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37518608 |
Helicos single molecule fluorescent sequencing During a standard run, two 25-channel flow cells are used, with each flow cell alternating between the chemistry cycle and the imaging cycle. During the imaging process, four lasers illuminate 1100 Fields of View (FOV) per channel with pictures taken by four CCD (Charge-co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37518608 |
Homoiohydry is the capacity of plants to regulate, or achieve homeostasis of, cell and tissue water content. evolved in land plants to a lesser or greater degree during their transition to land more than 500 million years ago, and is most highly developed in the vascular plants. It is the consequence of a suite of morp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37521969 |
Scalindua brodae "Candidatus Scalindua brodae" is a bacterial member of the order Planctomycetes and therefore lacks peptidoglycan in its cell wall, has a compartmentalized cytoplasm. It is an ammonium oxidising bacteria. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37521998 |
Fortunian The age marks the beginning of the Phanerozoic eon, the Paleozoic era, and the Cambrian period. It is the first of the two stages of the Terreneuvian series. Its base is defined as the first appearance of the trace fossil "Treptichnus pedum" million years ago. The top of the which is the base of the Stage 2 o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37526413 |
Fortunian The first trilobites appear 1400 m above the boundary which corresponds to the beginning of the Branchian Series. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37526413 |
Plebanski tensor The is an order 4 tensor in general relativity constructed from the trace-free Ricci tensor. It was first defined by Jerzy Plebański in 1964. Let formula_1 be the trace-free Ricci tensor: Then the is defined as The advantage of the is that it shares the same symmetries as the Weyl tensor. It therefore ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37528165 |
Amalgamated zinc is zinc that has been surface treated with mercury to form a surface amalgam containing little contamination from other elements. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37532121 |
Big Brake The is a theoretical scientific model suggested as one of the possibilities for ultimate fate of the universe. In this model the effect of dark energy reverses, stopping the accelerating expansion of the Universe, and causing an infinite rate of deceleration. All cosmic matter would be subjected to extreme ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37541861 |
Metallicity distribution function The metallicity distribution function is an important concept in stellar and galactic evolution. It is a curve of what proportion of stars have a particular metallicity ([Fe/H], the relative abundance of iron and hydrogen) of a population of stars such as in a cluster or galaxy. MDFs a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37555875 |
Ájtte Ájtte, the Swedish Mountain and Sami Museum (), is a cultural and natural history museum in Jokkmokk in Lapland, Sweden. is a museum, which specializes in the culture and nature of the mountainous area of Northern Sweden, and which is also the main museum and archive for the Sami culture of Sweden. is also an inf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37564976 |
Ájtte Since 1995 has established an alpine botanical garden at the valley of Kvarnbäcken in Jokkmokk with plants from different environments of the mountain range of Northern Scandinavia. One of the century-old researcher cottages from Sarek National Park, designed and used by the pioneering scientist Axel Hamberg, has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37564976 |
Protein Local Optimization Program (PLOP) is computer software, a molecular dynamics simulation package written in the programming language Fortran. It was developed originally by Matthew P. Jacobson and Richard A. Friesner of the Friesner lab at Columbia University, and then moved to the Jacobson lab at University of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37572978 |
Ladeana Hillier is a biomedical engineer and computational biologist. She was one of the earliest scientists involved in the Human Genome Project and is noted for her work in various branches of DNA sequencing, as well as for having co-developed Phred, a widely used DNA trace analyzer. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37573969 |
Aphlebia Aphlebiae are the imperfect or irregular leaf endings commonly found on ferns and fossils of ferns from the Carboniferous Period, but seem to have disappeared by the beginning of the Mesozoic. According to the United States Geological Survey in 1983, “The discovery in recent years of Aplebiæ attached to the ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37575385 |
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