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Quasar Equatorial Survey Team The (QUEST) is a joint venture between Yale University, Indiana University, and Centro de Investigaciones de Astronomia (CIDA) to photographically survey the sky using a digital camera, an array of 112 charge-coupled devices. Since 2009, it has used the 1 m ESO Schmidt Telescope in Chile. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3718083 |
COLUMBUS The PROGRAMS are a computational chemistry software suite for calculating ab initio molecular electronic structures, designed as a collection of individual programs communicating through files. The programs focus on extended multi-reference calculations of atomic and molecular ground and excited states. Beside... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3718320 |
COLUMBUS Perl scripts are provided to prepare input files and to link these programs together to perform common tasks such as single point energy calculation, geometry optimization, normal mode analysis, etc. This style provides very high degree of flexibility which is embraced by advanced users. The open style allows ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3718320 |
Boundary conformal field theory In theoretical physics, boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) is a conformal field theory defined on a spacetime with a boundary (or boundaries). Different kinds of boundary conditions for the fields may be imposed on the fundamental fields; for example, Neumann boundary condition or Di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3720236 |
Twisted sector In theoretical physics, a twisted sector is a subspace of the full Hilbert space of closed string states in a particular theory over a (good) orbifold. In the first quantized formalism of string theory (or in two-dimensional conformal field theory) the target space is an orbifold M/G if the observables o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3720344 |
Perseus-Pisces Supercluster The (SCl 40) is one of the largest known structures in the universe. Even at a distance of 250 million light-years, this chain of galaxy clusters extends more than 40° across the northern winter sky. The is one of two dominant concentrations of galaxies (the other being the Local supercluste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3720577 |
Euxanthic acid is a xanthonoid glycoside, a conjugate of the aglycone euxanthone with glucuronic acid. Its magnesium salt is the primary colourant of the pigment Indian Yellow. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3725403 |
NGC 1512 is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 38 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Horologium. The galaxy displays a double ring structure, with one ring around the galactic nucleus and another further out in the main disk. The galaxy hosts an extended UV disc with at least 200 clusters with r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3727660 |
NGC 1637 is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. A supernova (SN 1999em) was observed in NGC 1637. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3727706 |
NGC 2442 and NGC 2443 are two parts of a single intermediate spiral galaxy, commonly known as the Meathook Galaxy. It is about 50 million light-years away in the constellation Volans, and was discovered by Sir John Herschel on December 23, 1834. Associated with this galaxy is HIPASS J0731-69, a cloud of gas devoid of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3727758 |
NGC 2541 is an unbarred spiral galaxy located about 40 million light-years away. It is in the NGC 2841 group of galaxies with NGC 2500, NGC 2537, and NGC 2552. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3727786 |
NGC 2683 is a field spiral galaxy discovered by William Herschel on February 5, 1788. It was nicknamed the "UFO Galaxy" by the Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory. It is viewed nearly edge-on from Earth's location in space and is located between 16 and 25 million light-years away. is receding from Earth at ,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3727811 |
NGC 2715 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis. It was discovered in 1871 by Alphonse Borrelly. It is an intermediate spiral galaxy that is 4.9 arcminutes wide. SN 1987M, a supernova was discovered in NGC 2715. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3727824 |
NGC 2787 is a barred lenticular galaxy approximately 24 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. In 1999, the Hubble Space Telescope took a look at NGC 2787. The supermassive black hole at the core has a mass of . contains a low-ionization nuclear emission-line region (LINER), a type of region that is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3727851 |
NGC 2841 is an inclined, unbarred, spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major that exhibits a prominent inner ring structure. It was discovered on 9 March 1788 by William Herschel. Initially thought to be about 30 million light-years distant, a 2001 Hubble Space Telescope survey of the galaxy's Cepheid variables det... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3727868 |
NGC 2903 is a field barred spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. It was discovered by William Herschel who cataloged it on November 16, 1784. has a very high rate of star formation in its central region. NGC 2905 is a bright star cloud within this galaxy. is part of the Virgo Supercl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3727887 |
NGC 2997 is a face-on unbarred spiral galaxy about 25 million light-years away in the constellation Antlia. It is the brightest galaxy of the group of galaxies. is particularly notable for a nucleus surrounded by a chain of hot giant clouds of ionized hydrogen. It is featured on the cover of the first edition of "Galac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3727914 |
NGC 3079 is a barred spiral galaxy about 50 million light-years away, and located in the constellation Ursa Major. A prominent feature of this galaxy is the "bubble" forming in the very center (see picture below). The Supermassive black hole at the core has a mass of . The bubble forming in the center of is believed to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3727941 |
Robert Fiske Griggs (22 August 1881 in Brooklyn, Connecticut – 10 June 1962), was a botanist who led a 1915 National Geographic Society expedition to observe the aftermath of the Katmai volcanic eruption. In June 1917, Griggs and the eager NGS explorers rushed to the Katmai coast with the express goal of exploring the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3729332 |
Robert Fiske Griggs The mysterious volcanic valley seemed an ideal candidate for protection. Griggs and the chiefs of the National Geographic Society campaigned persistently to preserve the area, and in 1918, President Woodrow Wilson declared of land as Katmai National Monument. He holds degrees from Ohio State Univers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3729332 |
NGC 3486 is an intermediate barred spiral galaxy located about 27.4 million light years away in the constellation of Leo Minor. It has a morphological classification of SAB(r)c, which indicates it is a weakly barred spiral with an inner ring and loosely wound arms. This is a borderline, low-luminosity Seyfert galaxy wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3735222 |
NGC 3521 is a flocculent intermediate spiral galaxy located around 26 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Leo. It has a morphological classification of SAB(rs)bc, which indicates that it is a spiral galaxy with a trace of a bar structure (SAB), a weak inner ring (rs), and moderate to loosely wound ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3735269 |
NGC 3596 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo. It was discovered by William Herschel 1784. It is located below the star Theta Leonis (Chertan). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3735320 |
NGC 3877 is a type Sc spiral galaxy that was discovered by William Herschel on February 5, 1788. It is located below the magnitude 3.7 star Chi Ursae Majoris in Ursa Major. The Type IIn supernova SN 1998S is the only supernova that has been observed within NGC 3877. is a member of the M109 Group, a group of galaxies lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3736745 |
NGC 3949 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It is believed to be approximately 50 million light-years away from the Earth. The type II supernova SN 2000db is the only supernova that has been observed within NGC 3949. is a member of the M109 Group, a group of galaxies located in the constellat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3736787 |
NGC 4013 is an edge-on barred spiral galaxy about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The disk of shows a distinct "peanut"-shaped bulge in long exposure photographs that N-body computer simulations suggest is consistent with a stellar bar seen perpendicular to the line of sight. A recent deep ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3736837 |
NGC 4216 is a metal-rich intermediate spiral galaxy located not far from the center of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies, roughly 55 million light-years away. It is seen nearly edge-on. is one of the largest and brightest spiral galaxies of the Virgo Cluster, with an absolute magnitude that has been estimated to be −22 (i.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3736917 |
NGC 772 (also known as Arp 78) is an unbarred spiral galaxy approximately 130 million light-years away in the constellation Aries. Around 200,000 light years in diameter, is twice the size of the Milky Way Galaxy, and is surrounded by several satellite galaxies – including the dwarf elliptical, NGC 770 – whose tidal fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3737285 |
NGC 7814 (also known as UGC 8 or Caldwell 43) is a spiral galaxy about 40 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. The galaxy is seen edge-on from Earth. It is sometimes referred to as "the little sombrero", a miniature version of Messier 104. The star field behind is known for its density of faint, remot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3737347 |
NGC 1427 is an low-luminosity elliptical galaxy approximately 71 million light-years away from Earth. It is currently traveling toward the Fornax cluster. It was discovered by John Frederick William Herschel on November 28, 1837. is E5 galaxy. It has a diameter of 70 000 light-years. There is 510 globular clusters arou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3748337 |
NASA Tech Briefs The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is required by its charter to report to industry any new, commercially significant technologies developed in the course of their R&D. For more than three decades, this has been accomplished primarily through the publication of NASA Tech Briefs. Original... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3754352 |
Molecular configuration The molecular configuration of a molecule is the "permanent" geometry that results from the spatial arrangement of its bonds. The ability of the same set of atoms to form two or more molecules with different configurations is stereoisomerism. Used as drugs, compounds with different configuration... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3758700 |
Detlef Quadfasel Detlef Rudolf Quadfasel is a professor of Geophysics at Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics at Copenhagen University and Oceanography at the Institut für Meereskunde, Hamburg. He is joint editor of "Progress in Oceanography". He is involved in a number of projects, including Clim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3776242 |
Bediasite is a form or type of tektite. It originates in an area in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Texas centered on the small town of Bedias which is north west of Houston. They are found in about nine Texas Counties in an area of over . The largest specimen ever found is just over 200 grams. Virgil Barnes was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3779103 |
Relative viscosity (formula_1) (a synonym of "viscosity ratio") is the ratio of the viscosity of a solution (formula_2) to the viscosity of the solvent used (formula_3), | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3782592 |
Jack Garrick John Andrew Frank "Jack" Garrick (1928 – August 30, 2018) was a New Zealand ichthyologist. He specialized in elasmobranchs and published many books and articles about shark and ray biology. In 1982, he published a thorough taxonomy on sharks of the genus "Carcharhinus", where he identified the smoothtooth ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3787460 |
Model building (particle physics) In particle physics, the term model building refers to a construction of new quantum field theories beyond the Standard Model that have certain features making them attractive theoretically or for possible observations in the near future. If the model building physicist uses the tools ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3791131 |
Model building (particle physics) Model building is speculative because current particle accelerators can only probe up to a few TeV, where physics is well described by the Standard Model. One result of renormalization group theory is that at low energies, models flow toward universality classes and different models ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3791131 |
Little hierarchy problem In particle physics the little hierarchy problem in the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model (MSSM) is a refinement of the hierarchy problem. According to quantum field theory, the mass of the Higgs boson must be rather light for the electroweak theory to work. However, the loop corrections to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3791224 |
DGP model The is a model of gravity proposed by Gia Dvali, Gregory Gabadadze, and Massimo Porrati in 2000. The model is popular among some model builders, but has resisted being embedded into string theory. The assumes the existence of a 4+1-dimensional Minkowski space, within which ordinary 3+1-dimensional Minkowski s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3791271 |
DGP model " argued that recent cosmological observations (including measurements of baryon acoustic oscillations by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and measurements of the cosmic microwave background and type 1a supernovae) is in direct conflict with the DGP cosmology unless a cosmological constant or some other form of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3791271 |
Overlayer An overlayer is a layer of adatoms adsorbed onto a surface, for instance onto the surface of a single crystal. Adsorbed species on single crystal surfaces are frequently found to exhibit long-range ordering; that is to say that the adsorbed species form a well-defined overlayer structure. Each particular stru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3799847 |
Overlayer Wood's notation takes the form where M is the chemical symbol of the substrate, A is the chemical symbol of the overlayer, formula_2 are the Miller indices of the surface plane, R and formula_3 correspond to the rotational difference between the substrate and overlayer vectors, and the vector magnitudes shown... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3799847 |
Gaea (crater) Gaea is an impact crater on Amalthea, one of the small moons of Jupiter. The crater is 75 km wide and at least 10–20 km deep. Its center coordinates are 50°S, 95°W. Gaea is one of two named craters on Amalthea, the other being Pan. It is named after the Greek goddess Gaia. Third of Gaea's interior is cove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3800394 |
Lyctos Facula is a bright mountain on one of Jupiter's smallest moons Amalthea. It is believed to have a width of 25 kilometers . It is one of two named faculae that appear on Amalthea, the other being Ida Facula. It was discovered by "Voyager 1" in 1979 and in the same year named for the region of Crete in which Zeus ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3800726 |
Ida Facula is a bright mountain on Amalthea, one of Jupiter's smallest moons. It is known to be about 15 kilometers in width, somewhat smaller than the neighboring mountain Lyctos Facula. It was discovered by "Voyager 1" in 1979 and in the same year named for Mount Ida, a mountain in Crete where Zeus played as a child.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3800795 |
Shigeo Kurata Kurata has described a number of new "Nepenthes" species, including "N. campanulata", "N. eymae", "N. mindanaoensis", "N. peltata", "N. rhombicaulis", and "N. saranganiensis". He also described "N. pyriformis", which was subsequently recognised as a natural hybrid by Charles Clarke. Other natural hybrids ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3803380 |
Bioculture is the combination of biological and cultural factors that affect human behavior. is an area of study bounded by the medical sciences, social sciences, landscape ecology, cultural anthropology, biotechnology, disability studies, the humanities, and the economic and global environment. Along these lines, one ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3809916 |
Glasser effect The describes the creation of singularities in the flow field of a magnetically confined plasma when small resonant perturbations modify the gradient of the pressure field. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3810122 |
NGC 953 (also PGC 9586, UGC 1991, MCG 5-7-1, GWT GWT 504 104 or 505.1) is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Triangulum. It has an apparent magnitude of 14.5. It was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Louis d'Arrest on September 26, 1865. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3810269 |
Tyrocinium Chymicum was a published set of chemistry lecture notes started by Jean Beguin in 1610 in Paris, France. It has been cited as the first chemistry textbook (as opposed to that for alchemy). Many of the preparations were pharmaceutical in nature. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3811007 |
John Gater Dr is a British archaeological geophysicist who featured regularly on the Channel 4 archaeological television series "Time Team". He was educated at the University of Bradford and graduated with a BSc Archaeological Sciences in 1979. He worked with British Gas (for five years), the Ancient Monuments Laborato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3812997 |
Ignaz Venetz Ignaz (Ignace) Venetz (1788 — 1859) was a Swiss engineer, naturalist, and glaciologist; as one of the first scientists to recognize glaciers as a major force in shaping the earth, he played a leading role in the foundation of glaciology. Venetz was of a family long settled in the Valais, where he worked as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3820409 |
Colored fire is a common pyrotechnic effect used in stage productions, fireworks and by fire performers the world over. Generally, the color of a flame may be red, orange, blue, yellow, or white, and is dominated by blackbody radiation from soot and steam. When additional chemicals are added to the fuel burning, their ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3821864 |
Colored fire Scouts and other outdoor "enthusiasts" have placed sections of copper pipe with holes drilled throughout and stuffed with garden hose onto campfires to create a variety of flame colors. An easier method of coloring campfires has been fueled by commercial products. These packages of flame colorants are toss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3821864 |
Stilleite is a selenide mineral, zinc selenide, with the formula ZnSe. It has been found only as microscopic gray crystals occurring as inclusions in linnaeite associated with other selenide and sulfides. It was originally discovered in Katanga Province, Zaire in 1956 and is named for the German geologist, Hans Stille ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3828080 |
Howard Alper , (born October 17, 1941) is a Canadian chemist. He is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Ottawa. He is best known for his research of catalysis in chemistry. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he received a Bachelor of Science from Sir George Williams University in 1963 and a Ph.D. from McGill Universit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3831752 |
Howard Alper In 1998, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2000, he was awarded the first Gerhard Herzberg Canada Gold Medal for Science and Engineering, Canada's highest research honour in the field. In 2014, he was made a Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3831752 |
Clinton A. J. Duffy (born c.1966) is a New Zealand marine scientist, who works in the Marine Conservation Unit of the Department of Conservation. Duffy is a shark expert, whose work includes the taxonomy and conservation status of New Zealand's deepwater dogfishes, attaching GPS wildlife tracking devices to great white... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3840032 |
Fermentek Ltd. is a biotechnological company in the Atarot industrial zone of Jerusalem, Israel. It specializes in the research, development and manufacture of biologically active, natural products isolated from microorganisms as well as from other natural sources such as plants and algae. The main microorganisms used ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3840121 |
Fermentek was founded by Dr Yosef Behrend in 1994. It moved in 2004 to its new building, quadrupling its working space and greatly enlarging its manufacturing capacities. operates fermentors from 10 to 15000 liters, filter presses and centrifuges of matching capacity. According to the company policy as declared at its ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3840121 |
Vladimir Jurko Glaser (April 21, 1924 – January 22, 1984) was a Croatian theoretical physicist working on quantum field theory and the canonization of the analytic S-matrix. Glaser was born in Gorizia, Italy. He graduated physics from the University of Zagreb in 1949 and later was attending seminar of Werner Heisenberg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3842913 |
Vladimir Jurko Glaser Together with Henri Epstein, he found a new approach to renormalization theory called causal perturbation theory, where ultraviolet divergences are avoided in the calculation of Feynman diagrams by using mathematically well-defined quantities only. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3842913 |
NGC 2976 NGC 2976, located 1° 20′ southwest of M81, is an unbarred spiral galaxy, part of the M81 group. The inner structure contains many dark lanes and stellar condensations in its disk. The galaxy is sometimes classified as Sdp because its spiral arms are difficult to be traced. The bright inner part of this disk ap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3842957 |
Stolzite is a mineral, a lead tungstate; with the formula PbWO. It is similar to, and often associated with, wulfenite which is the same chemical formula except that the tungsten is replaced by molybdenum. crystallizes in the tetragonal crystal system and is dimorphous with the monoclinic form raspite. Lead tungstate c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3850301 |
Acoustic holography is a method for estimating the sound field near a source by measuring acoustic parameters away from the source by means of an array of pressure and/or particle velocity transducers. The Measuring techniques included in acoustic holography are becoming increasingly popular in various fields, most not... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3852404 |
Robert Collett (2 December 1842 – 27 January 1913) was a Norwegian zoologist. Collett was director and curator of the Zoological Museum at University of Oslo. was born at Christiania (now Oslo), Norway. He was the eldest child of Professor Peter Jonas Collett (1813–51) and Camilla Collett (1813–95). His maternal uncles... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3855453 |
CADPAC CADPAC, the Cambridge Analytic Derivatives Package, is a suite of programs for ab initio computational chemistry calculations. It has been developed by R. D. Amos with contributions from I. L. Alberts, J. S. Andrews, S. M. Colwell, N. C. Handy, D. Jayatilaka, P. J. Knowles, R. Kobayashi, K. E. Laidig, G. Laming,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3859517 |
Tiemannite is a mineral, mercury selenide, formula HgSe. It occurs in hydrothermal veins associated with other selenides, or other mercury minerals such as cinnabar, and often with calcite. Discovered in 1855 in Germany, it is named after Johann Carl Wilhelm Tiemann (1848–1899). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3862341 |
Allochem is a term introduced by Folk to describe the recognisable "grains" in carbonate rocks. Any fragment from around 0.5 mm upwards in size may be considered an allochem. Examples would include ooids, peloids, oncolites, pellets, fossil or pre-existing carbonate fragments. Fragments are still termed allochems if th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3865060 |
TORRO The Tornado and Storm Research Organisation (TORRO) was founded by Terence Meaden in 1974. Originally called the Tornado Research Organisation it was expanded in 1982 following the inclusion of the Thunderstorm Census Organisation (TCO) after the death of its founder Morris Bower and his wife. The current Head of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3865206 |
TORRO In the Spring conference, the staff present annual reviews of the previous year's severe weather, and severe weather forecasts. These are also published in the IJMet. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3865206 |
Ice shove An ice shove, ice surge, ice heave, ivu, or shoreline ice pileup is a surge of ice from an ocean or large lake onto the shore. Ice shoves are caused by ocean currents, strong winds, or temperature differences pushing ice onto the shore, creating piles up to 12 metres (40 feet) high. Some have described them a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3870948 |
Tellurobismuthite is a telluride mineral: bismuth telluride (BiTe). It crystallizes in the trigonal system. There are natural cleavage planes in the (0001) direction as the crystal is effectively lamellar (layered) in that plane. The Mohs hardness is 1.5 - 2 and the specific gravity is 7.815. It is a dull grey color, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3872482 |
NGC 3077 is a small disrupted elliptical galaxy, a member of the M81 Group, which is located in the northern constellation Ursa Major. Despite looking much like an elliptical galaxy, it is peculiar for two reasons. First, it shows wispy edges and scattered dust clouds that are probably a result of gravitational interac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3876919 |
NGC 3077 2 Mly (3.82 ± 0.38 Mpc). Averaged together, these distance measurements give a distance estimate of 12.8 ± 0.7 Mly (3.9 ± 0.3 Mpc). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3876919 |
Physical coefficient A physical coefficient is an important number that characterizes some physical property of a technical or scientific object. A coefficient also has a scientific reference which is the reliance on force. To find the coefficient of a chemical compound, you must balance the elements involved in it. Fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3880390 |
Eicosameric refers to biological polymers or multimers having exactly twenty 'monomers' (or 20 repeating components). Protein complexes having exactly 20 subunits are referred to as eicosameric (or sometimes 20-Meric). Examples of eicosameric protein complexes include; | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3884618 |
Etar Snowfield (, ) is a roughly crescent-shaped snowfield on western Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica situated west of Urdoviza, Medven and Berkovitsa Glaciers, northwest of Verila Glacier, east of Ivanov Beach and south of Gerlovo Beach. It drains the west slopes of Oryahovo Heights and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3890148 |
Dewcell Dewcells, dewcels or dew cell are instruments used for determining the dew point. They consist of a small heating element surrounded by a solution of lithium chloride. As the LiCl absorbs moisture from the air, conduction across the heating element increases, current in it increases, and heat increases, evapora... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3893638 |
Ruen Icefall The (, ) on Rozhen Peninsula in eastern Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands in Antarctica is situated south of Huntress Glacier, northwest of Prespa Glacier and northeast of Peshtera and Charity Glaciers. It descends towards False Bay from the circus overlooked by Simeon Peak, St. Cyril Peak and St. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3897751 |
Saedinenie Snowfield (, ) on Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is situated southwest of Rose Valley Glacier, west of Panega Glacier, northwest of Kaliakra Glacier, north of lower Perunika Glacier and east-northeast of Tundzha Glacier. It is bounded by Teres Ridge to the west, the glacial divid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3897785 |
Frostwork In geology, frostwork is a type of speleothem (cave formation) with acicular ("needle-like") growths almost always composed of aragonite (a polymorph of calcite) or calcite replaced aragonite. It is a variety of anthodite. In some caves frostwork may grow on top of cave popcorn or boxwork. In architecture fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3898328 |
Tarnovo Ice Piedmont (, ) is an ice piedmont on Rozhen Peninsula, Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica is situated southeast of Charity Glacier and west-southwest of Prespa Glacier. It extends 3.5 km in east-west direction and 2.5 km in north-south direction, is bounded to the west by Veleka Ridg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3899159 |
Animal (book) Animal is a non-fiction coffee table book edited by David Burnie, who was the main-editor, and several co-authors. The full title of the book is: Animal: The Definitive Visual Guide to The World's WildLife. The 624-page book was published by Dorling Kindersley in 2001. The book is printed in full gloss pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3902606 |
Ishikawa Chiyomatsu Ishikawa Chiyomatsu | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3903789 |
Radiation flux is a measure of the amount of radiation received by an object from a given source. This can be any type of radiation, including electromagnetic, sound, and particles from a radioactive source. Φ = is the radiation flux, L is the luminosity, or total power output of the source, and r is the distance from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3909371 |
David White (geologist) Charles David White (July 1, 1862 – February 7, 1935), who normally went by his middle name, was an American geologist, born in Palmyra, New York. He graduated from Cornell University in 1886, and in 1889 became a member of the United States Geological Survey. Eventually, he rose to be chief geo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3912555 |
Zhanghengite is a mineral consisting of 80% copper and zinc, 10% iron with the balance made up of chromium and aluminium. Its color is golden yellow. It was discovered in 1986 during the analysis of the Bo Xian meteorite and is named after Zhang Heng, an ancient Chinese astronomer. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3918423 |
Zhemchuzhnikovite is an oxalate mineral of organic origin; formula NaMg(FeAl)CO·8HO. It forms smokey green crystals with a vitreous lustre and is found in Russian coal mines. It is named after Yury Zhemchuzhnikov (1885–1957), a Russian clay mineralogist. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3918543 |
National Weather Digest is a scientific journal published quarterly by the National Weather Association and is devoted to peer-reviewed articles, technical notes, correspondence, and official news of the Association. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3928903 |
Balkan Snowfield (Plato Balkan \'pla-to bal-'kan\) is an ice-covered plateau of elevation ranging from 150 to 280 m in eastern Livingston Island in the South Shetland Islands, Antarctica, situated south of lower Perunika Glacier, northwest of Huntress Glacier and north of Contell Glacier. It is 3 km long in southwest-n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3931657 |
SETI@home beta SETI@home beta, using the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) platform, is a test environment for the following future projects: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3932501 |
S. Cofré is or was a Chilean astronomer of the University of Chile, and co-discoverer of 11 minor planets together with Chilean astronomer Carlos Torres from the Cerro El Roble astronomical observatory, Chile, in 1968. One of her co-discoveries is the 10-kilometer sized inner main-belt asteroid and member of the Eos fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3933830 |
Ziesite is a copper vanadate mineral with formula: β-CuVO. It was discovered in 1980 as monoclinic crystals occurring as volcanic sublimates around fumaroles in the crater of the Izalco Volcano, El Salvador. It is named after Emanuel George Zies (1883–1981), an American geochemist who studied Izalco in the 1930s. Close... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3942812 |
Polycyclic compound In the field of organic chemistry, a polycyclic compound is an organic compound featuring several closed rings of atoms, primarily carbon. These ring substructures include cycloalkanes, aromatics, and other ring types. They come in sizes of three atoms and upward, and in combinations of linkages tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3949132 |
Peixoto's theorem In the theory of dynamical systems, Peixoto theorem, proved by Maurício Peixoto, states that among all smooth flows on surfaces, i.e. compact two-dimensional manifolds, structurally stable systems may be characterized by the following properties: Moreover, they form an open set in the space of all flo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3949356 |
A. Morley Davies Arthur Morley Davies (1869-1959) was a British palaeontologist and author or co-author of a number of books on the subject. He was an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, and Reader in Palaeontology at the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London. Awarded the Lyell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3950475 |
Mount Lemmon Survey (MLS) is a part of the Catalina Sky Survey with observatory code G96. MLS uses a cassegrain reflector telescope (with 10560x10560-pixel camera at the f/1.6 prime focus, for a five square degree field of view) operated by the Steward Observatory at Mount Lemmon Observatory, which is located at in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3953598 |
Weather warfare is the use of weather modification techniques such as cloud seeding for military purposes. Prior to the Environmental Modification Convention signed in Geneva in 1977, the United States used weather warfare in the Vietnam War. Under the auspices of the Air Weather Service, the United States' Operation P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3955475 |
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