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Weather warfare " The Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques (Geneva: May 18, 1977, Entered into force: October 5, 1978) prohibits "widespread, long-lasting or severe effects as the means of destruction, damage or injury". However, it has been argued ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3955475 |
Ionic potential is the ratio of electric charge to the radius of an ion. As such, the proportion measures the charge density at the surface of the ion; usually the denser the charge, the stronger will be the bond that the ion forms. The ionic potential gives the sense of how strongly or weakly the ion will be attracted... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3964732 |
Royal Botanic Society The was a learned society founded in 1839 by James de Carle Sowerby under a royal charter to the Duke of Norfolk and others. Its purpose was to promote "botany in all its branches, and its applications." Soon after it was established, it leased the grounds within the Inner Circle in Regent's Park,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3966666 |
Schmidt hammer A Schmidt hammer, also known as a Swiss hammer or a rebound hammer or concrete hammer test, is a device to measure the elastic properties or strength of concrete or rock, mainly surface hardness and penetration resistance. It was invented by Ernst Schmidt, a Swiss engineer. The hammer measures the reboun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3968794 |
Schmidt hammer Twelve readings should be taken, dropping the highest and lowest, and then taking the average of the ten remaining. This method of testing is classed as indirect as it does not give a direct measurement of the strength of the material. It simply gives an indication based on surface properties, and as suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3968794 |
Isopotential map Isopotential maps are a measure of electrostatic potential in space. The spatial derivatives of an electrostatic field indicate the contours of the electrostatic field, so isopotential maps show where another charged molecule might interact, using equipotential lines (isopotentials). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3971228 |
Günther Maul Günther Edmund Maul (May 7, 1909 in Frankfurt am Main – September 28, 1997 in Funchal) was a German ichthyologist and taxidermist in Portugal. Maul came to Madeira in December 1930 to work as taxidermist at Museu Municipal do Funchal, which opened to the public in 1933. He was appointed director for the mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3972578 |
Chen Fenghuai Chen Feng Huai (, 1900–1993), also spelled Chen Feng Hwai, was a Chinese botanist. Chen was born in 1900. He was the great grandson of Chen Baozhen, governor of Hunan. He once studied at Royal Botanical Garden of Edinburgh in the 1930s. After he returned to China, he held a position at Nanchang University... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3977590 |
Exogenote An exogenote is a piece of donor DNA that is involved in the mating of prokaryotic organisms. Transferred DNA of Hfr is called exogenote and homologous part of F genophore is called endogenote. An exogenote is genetic material that is released into the environment by prokaryotic cells, usually upon their lysi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3979064 |
Meitner (Venusian crater) Meitner is a multiring impact crater on Venus. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3980636 |
Vesiculovirus is a genus of Negative-sense single-stranded RNA viruses in the family "Rhabdoviridae", within the order "Mononegavirales". Table legend: "*" denotes type species. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3981043 |
Teng Huo-tu (; 1911–1978) was an ichthyologist with the Taiwan Fisheries Research Institute (). Much of his work involved classification of chondricthyes, especially sharks. In 1959, Teng officially described the smalleye pygmy shark. While at the Fisheries Research Institute, Teng directed the construction of the "Hai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3981913 |
Convergence zone A convergence zone in meteorology is a region in the atmosphere where two prevailing flows meet and interact, usually resulting in distinctive weather conditions. This causes a mass accumulation that eventually leads to a vertical movement and to the formation of clouds and precipitation. Large-scale c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3984015 |
Convergence zone The low pressure area that is created by the movement of the trade winds, acts as a vacuum, drawing in the cooler, dry air from high pressure areas (divergence zones), creating a convection cell commonly known as the Hadley Cell. Sea surface temperature is directly related to the position of the Sun or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3984015 |
Convergence zone The rate of convergence varies daily with the intensity of solar radiation and the temperature of the water, with the most rapid convection taking place during solar noon. With the steadily rising global temperature, convection rates have increased, strengthening the Hadley Cell. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3984015 |
NGC 2207 and IC 2163 are a pair of colliding spiral galaxies about 80 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Major. Both galaxies were discovered by John Herschel in 1835. The larger spiral, NGC 2207, is classified as an intermediate spiral galaxy exhibiting a weak inner ring structure around the central b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3996146 |
CMBFAST In physical cosmology, is a computer code, written by Uros Seljak and Matias Zaldarriaga, for computing the anisotropy of the cosmic microwave background. It was the first efficient program to do so, reducing the time taken to compute the anisotropy from several days to a few minutes by using a novel semi-analy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3997493 |
Newtonian gauge In general relativity, the is a perturbed form of the Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker line element. The gauge freedom of general relativity is used to eliminate two scalar degrees of freedom of the metric, so that it can be written as: where the Latin indices "a" and "b" are summed over the "spatial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3997813 |
Lithogenic silica (LSi) is silica that originates from terrestrial sources of rock and soil, i.e. from silicate minerals and crystals. In the marine silicon cycle, LSi in the ocean is derived from rivers (5.6 Tmol Si/yr), eolian dust (0.5 Tmol Si/yr), hydrothermal vents (0.2 Tmol Si/yr), basalt weathering (0.4 Tmol Si/... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4001324 |
Electrometallurgy is a method that uses electrical energy to produce metals by electrolysis. is usually the last stage in metal production and is therefore preceded by pyrometallurgical or hydrometallurgical operations. The electrolysis can be done on a molten metal oxide (smelt electrolysis) which is used for example ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4001513 |
Huang Kun (; September 2, 1919 – July 6, 2005) was a Chinese physicist and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He was awarded the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award (the highest science award in China) by President Jiang Zemin in 2001. Born in Beijing, China, in 1919, Huang graduated from Yenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4003918 |
Raymond Jeanloz is a professor of earth and planetary science and of astronomy at the University of California, Berkeley. Educated at the California Institute of Technology, Amherst College and at Deep Springs College, he has contributed research fundamental to understanding of the composition of the Earth and the beha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4004351 |
DeLong Star Ruby The DeLong Star Ruby, a oval cabochon star ruby, was discovered in Burma in the 1930s. It was sold by Martin Ehrmann to Edith Haggin DeLong for , who then donated it to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City in 1937. On October 29, 1964, the DeLong star ruby was one of a number of prec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4006709 |
Oppenheimer Diamond The Oppenheimer Diamond, a nearly perfectly formed yellow diamond crystal, is one of the largest uncut diamonds in the world, and measures approximately 20 × 20 millimeters. It was discovered in the Dutoitspan Mine, Kimberley, South Africa, in 1964. Harry Winston acquired the stone and presented it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4011776 |
Proteomyxa is a name given by E. Ray Lankester to a group of Sarcodina. This is an obsolete group. Many of the species are endoparasites in living cells, mostly of algae or fungi, but not exclusively. At least two species of Pseudospora have been taken for reproductive stages in the life history of their hosts—whence i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4012709 |
Flying and gliding animals A number of animals have evolved aerial locomotion, either by powered flight or by gliding. ("volant" animals) have evolved separately many times, without any single ancestor. Flight has evolved at least four times, in the insects, pterosaurs, birds, and bats. Gliding has evolved on many more... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4014603 |
Flying and gliding animals Powered flight has evolved only four times: first in the insects, then in pterosaurs, next in birds, and last in bats. Powered flight uses muscles to generate aerodynamic force, which allows the animal to produce lift and thrust. The animal may ascend without the aid of rising air. Ballooning... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4014603 |
Flying and gliding animals (Despite seemingly suitable rain forest habitats, few gliders are found in India or New Guinea and none in Madagascar.) Additionally, a variety of gliding vertebrates are found in Africa, a family of hylids (flying frogs) lives in South America and several species of gliding squirrels are fou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4014603 |
Flying and gliding animals Finally, insects (most of which fly at some point in their life cycle) have more species than all other animal groups combined. The evolution of flight is one of the most striking and demanding in animal evolution, and has attracted the attention of many prominent scientists and generated man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4014603 |
Flying and gliding animals These reptiles were close relatives of the dinosaurs (and sometimes mistakenly considered dinosaurs by laymen), and reached enormous sizes, with some of the last forms being the largest flying animals ever to inhabit the Earth, having wingspans of over 9.1 m (30 ft). However, they spanned a l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4014603 |
Flying and gliding animals Powered flight is very energetically expensive for large animals, but for soaring their size is an advantage, as it allows them a low wing loading, that is a large wing areas relative to their weight, which maximizes lift. Soaring is very energetically efficient. During a free-fall with no ae... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4014603 |
Flying and gliding animals Because the animal can utilize lift and drag to generate greater aerodynamic force, it can glide at a shallower angle than parachuting animals, allowing it to cover greater horizontal distance in the same loss of altitude, and reach trees further away. Unlike most air vehicles, in which the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4014603 |
Flying and gliding animals Turbulence and vortices play a much larger role in insect flight, making it even more complex and difficult to study than the flight of vertebrates. There are two basic aerodynamic models of insect flight. Most insects use a method that creates a spiralling leading edge vortex. Some very smal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4014603 |
Winter Star Party The Winter Star Party, aka WSP, is an annual convention of amateur astronomers where the primary activity is nighttime astronomical observation. This February event is run at Camp Wesumkee located on Scout Key in the Lower Florida Keys. It is hosted by the Southern Cross Astronomical Society of Miami,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4021175 |
Sequential walking is a technique that can be used to solve various 2D NMR spectra. In a 2D experiment, cross peaks must be correlated to the correct nuclei. Using sequential walking, the correct nuclei can be assigned to their crosspeaks. The assigned crosspeaks can give valuable information such as spatial interactio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4023113 |
Sequential walking Once the first nucleotide has been found, you determine which nucleotide is next to it because it should contain the 2' and 2" protons from the previous nucleotide. This is done by "walking" across the spectrum. This process is then repeated sequentially until all nucleotides have been assigned. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4023113 |
Emagram An emagram is one of four thermodynamic diagrams used to display temperature lapse rate and moisture content profiles in the atmosphere. The emagram has axes of temperature (T) and pressure (p). In the emagram, the dry adiabats make an angle of about 45 degrees with the isobars, isotherms are vertical and isopl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4024968 |
Substomatal cavity In plants, the substomatal cavity is the cavity located immediately proximal to the stoma. It acts as a diffusion chamber connected with intercellular air spaces and allows rapid diffusion of carbon dioxide and other gases (such as plant pheromones) in and out of plant cells. Graham LE, Graham JM, Wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4025145 |
Stüve diagram A is one of four thermodynamic diagrams commonly used in weather analysis and forecasting. It was developed circa 1927 by the German meteorologist Georg Stüve (1888–1935) and quickly gained widespread acceptance in the United States to plot temperature and dew point data from radiosondes. This diagram has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4025793 |
Tornado outbreak sequence A tornado outbreak sequence, or tornado outbreak day sequence, sometimes referred to as an extended tornado outbreak, is a period of continuous or nearly continuous high tornado activity consisting of a series of tornado outbreaks over multiple days with no or very few days lacking tornado out... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4038182 |
Kristina Curry Rogers Kristina A. Curry Rogers is a vertebrate paleontologist and a Professor in geology and biology at Macalester College. She holds a B.Sc. in Biology from Montana State University, and a M.Sc. Ph.D. in Anatomical Science from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Her work focuses on questi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4045043 |
Charles Frédéric Dubois (28 May 1804 – 12 November 1867) was a Belgian naturalist. He was the author of "Planches colorées des oiseaux de l’Europe" ("Color plates of the birds of Europe") and "Catalogue systématique des Lépidoptères de la Belgique" ("Systematic catalog of the Lepidoptera of Belgium"), which was complet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4049092 |
Influenza A virus subtype H6N2 H6N2 is an avian influenza virus with two forms: one has a low and the other a high pathogenicity. Avian derived from the Latin word "avis" for "bird." It can cause a serious problem for poultry, and also infects ducks as well. H6N2 subtype is considered to be a non-pathogenic chicken vir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4051863 |
Kadowaki–Woods ratio The is the ratio of "A", the quadratic term of the resistivity and "γ", the linear term of the specific heat. This ratio is found to be a constant for transition metals, and for heavy-fermion compounds, although at different values. In 1968 M. J. Rice pointed out that the coefficient "A" should var... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4059082 |
Kadowaki–Woods ratio In 2009 Jacko, Fjaerestad, and Powell demonstrated "f""(n)A/γ" to have the same value in transition metals, heavy fermions, organics and oxides with "A" varying over 10 orders of magnitude, where "f""(n)" may be written in terms of the dimensionality of the system, the electron density and, in laye... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4059082 |
Phenomics is the systematic study of phenotypes . As such, it is a transdisciplinary area of research that involves biology, data sciences, engineering and other fields. is concerned with the measurement of phenomes where a phenome is the set of phenotypes (physical and biochemical traits) that can be produced by a giv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4062934 |
Phenomics Controlled environment systems include the Enviratron at Iowa State University, the Plant Cultivation Hall under construction at IPK, and the various LemnaTec platforms at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center, the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, and elsewhere. A Minimal Information About a Plant Phenoty... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4062934 |
Phenomics The European research infrastructure for plant phenotyping, EMPHASIS, enables researchers to use facilities, services and resources for multi-scale plant phenotyping across Europe. EMPHASIS aims to promote future food security and agricultural business in a changing climate by enabling scientists to better un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4062934 |
Particle aggregation Particle agglomeration refers to formation of assemblages in a suspension and represents a mechanism leading to the functional destabilization of colloidal systems. During this process, particles dispersed in the liquid phase stick to each other, and spontaneously form irregular particle assemblate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4062960 |
Particle aggregation Stable suspensions are often obtained at low salt concentrations or by addition of chemicals referred to as "stabilizers" or "stabilizing agents". The stability of particles, colloidal or otherwise, is most commonly evaluated in terms of zeta potential. This parameter provides a readily quantifiabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4062960 |
Particle aggregation Since absolute aggregation rates are difficult to measure, one often refers to the dimensionless stability ratio "W" = "k"/"k" where "k" is the aggregation rate coefficient in the fast regime, and "k" the coefficient at the conditions of interest. The stability ratio is close to unity in the fast r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4062960 |
Particle aggregation Since particles are frequently negatively charged, multivalent metal cations thus represent highly effective coagulants. Adsorption of oppositely charged species (e.g., protons, specifically adsorbing ions, surfactants, or polyelectrolytes) may destabilize a particle suspension by charge neutraliza... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4062960 |
Particle aggregation When particle aggregation is solely driven by diffusion, one refers to "perikinetic" aggregation. Aggregation can be enhanced through shear stress (e.g., stirring). The latter case is called "orthokinetic" aggregation. As the aggregation process continues, larger clusters form. The growth occurs ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4062960 |
Particle aggregation Such a gel is an elastic solid body, but differs from ordinary solids by having a very low elastic modulus. When aggregation occurs in a suspension composed of similar monodisperse colloidal particles, the process is called "homoaggregation" (or "homocoagulation"). When aggregation occurs in a susp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4062960 |
Particle aggregation Later stages may reflect blocking of the substrate through repulsive interactions between the particles, while attractive interactions may lead to multilayer growth, and is also referred to as ripening. These phenomena are relevant in membrane or filter fouling. Numerous experimental techniques hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4062960 |
Particle aggregation Multiple scattering effects may have to be considered, since scattering becomes increasingly important for larger particles or larger aggregates. Such effects can be neglected in weakly turbid suspensions. Aggregation processes in strongly scattering systems have been studied with transmittance, ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4062960 |
Particle aggregation While it can be difficult to obtain quantitative information on aggregation rates or cluster properties from such experiments, they can be most valuable for practical applications. Among these techniques settling tests are most relevant. When one inspects a series of test tubes with suspensions pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4062960 |
Particle aggregation In the latter medium, the particles aggregate, the larger aggregates sediment, and thus create the river delta. Papermaking. Retention aids are added to the pulp to accelerate paper formation. These aids are coagulating aids, which accelerate the aggregation between the cellulose fibers and filler ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4062960 |
Mark Norman (marine biologist) Mark Douglas Norman is a marine biologist living in southern Australia, where he works through the University of Melbourne and Museum Victoria. For over a decade, Norman has been working exclusively with cephalopods and he is one of the leading scientists in the field, having discovered o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4064464 |
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences The (until 1962 titled "Journal of Meteorology") is a scientific journal published by the American Meteorological Society. It covers basic research related to the physics, dynamics, and chemistry of the atmosphere of Earth and other planets, with emphasis on the quantitative and dedu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4072130 |
Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology The (formerly "Journal of Applied Meteorology") is a scientific journal published by the American Meteorological Society. Applied research related to the physical meteorology, cloud physics, hydrology, weather modification, satellite meteorology, boundary layer processes, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4072145 |
Weather and Forecasting is a scientific journal published by the American Meteorological Society. Articles on forecasting and analysis techniques, forecast verification studies, and case studies useful to forecasters. In addition, submissions that report on changes to the suite of operational numerical models and stati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4072161 |
Monthly Weather Review The is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the American Meteorological Society. It covers research related to analysis and prediction of observed and modeled circulations of the atmosphere, including technique development, data assimilation, model validation, and relevant case studies... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4072234 |
Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology The is a scientific publication by the American Meteorological Society. The journal includes papers describing the instrumentation and methodology used in atmospheric and oceanic research including computational techniques, methods for data acquisition, processing, and inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4072240 |
Journal of Climate The is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal published semi-monthly by the American Meteorological Society. It covers research that advances basic understanding of the dynamics and physics of the climate system on large spatial scales, including variability of the atmosphere, oceans, land surfa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4072241 |
Meteorological Monographs is a peer-reviewed monograph series published by the American Meteorological Society. The series has two parts, historical and meteorological. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4072252 |
Journal of Hydrometeorology The is a scientific journal published by the American Meteorological Society. It covers the modeling, observing, and forecasting of processes related to water and energy fluxes and storage terms, including interactions with the boundary layer and lower atmosphere, and including processes rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4072268 |
NGC 4656 and NGC 4657 NGC 4656/57 is a highly warped barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Canes Venatici and is sometimes informally called the Hockey Stick Galaxies or the Crowbar Galaxy. The galaxy is a member of the NGC 4631 Group. A Luminous Blue Variable in "super-outburst" was discovered in NGC 4656/... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4074964 |
Legrandite is a rare zinc arsenate mineral, Zn(AsO)(OH)·(HO). It is an uncommon secondary mineral in the oxidized zone of arsenic bearing zinc deposits and occurs rarely in granite pegmatite. Associated minerals include: adamite, paradamite, köttigite, scorodite, smithsonite, leiteite, renierite, pharmacosiderite, auri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4077670 |
Sassolite is a borate mineral, and is the mineral form of boric acid. It occurs in volcanic fumaroles and hot springs, as well as in bedded sedimentary evaporite deposits. Its mineral form was first described in 1800, and was named after Sasso Pisano, Castelnuovo Val di Cecina, Pisa Province, Tuscany, Italy where it wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4079234 |
NGC 5921 is a barred spiral galaxy located approximately 65 million light-years from the Solar System in the constellation Serpens Caput. It was discovered by William Herschel on 1 May 1786. In February 2001 a type II supernova (SN 2001X) was discovered in NGC 5921. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4086644 |
NGC 7217 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus. is a gas-poor system whose main features are the presence of several rings of stars concentric to its nucleus: three main ones –the outermost one being of the most prominent and the one that features most of the gas and star formation of this galaxy – ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4086759 |
NGC 7217 More recent research, however, presents a somewhat different scenario in which NGC 7217's massive bulge and halo would have been formed in a merger and the disk formed later (and is still growing) either accreting gas from the intergalactic medium or smaller gas-rich galaxies, or most likely from a previously ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4086759 |
NGC 4567 and NGC 4568 (nicknamed the Siamese Twins or the Butterfly Galaxies) are a set of unbarred spiral galaxies about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. They were both discovered by William Herschel in 1784. They are part of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. Only one supernova (SN 2004cc) was obse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4086864 |
Karl Moriz Diesing Karl (Carl) Moriz (Moritz) Diesing (16 June 1800 in Krakow – 10 January 1867 in Vienna) was an Austrian naturalist and zoologist, specializing in the study of helminthology. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna, earning his doctorate in 1826. Afterwards, he served as an assistant to botani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4106077 |
Donald MacRae (astronomer) Donald Alexander MacRae ( – ) was a Canadian astronomer. Born in Halifax, Nova Scotia he was the Chair of the Department of Astronomy (now Astronomy and Astrophysics) at the University of Toronto and Director of the David Dunlap Observatory from 1965 to 1978. He was one of a few Canadians who... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4106763 |
Colin Stanley Gum (4 June 1924 – 29 April 1960) was an Australian astronomer who catalogued emission nebulae in the southern sky at the Mount Stromlo Observatory using wide field photography. Gum published his findings in 1955 in a study entitled "A study of diffuse southern H-alpha nebulae" which presented a catalog, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4107459 |
Head shadow A head shadow or acoustic shadow is a region of reduced amplitude of a sound because it is obstructed by the head (diffracted). Sound may have to travel through and around the head in order to reach an ear. The obstruction caused by the head can account for a significant attenuation (reduced amplitude) of o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4112457 |
Hugh Auchincloss Brown (23 December 1879 – 19 November 1975) was an electrical engineer best known for advancing a theory of catastrophic pole shift. Brown claimed that massive accumulation of ice at the poles caused recurring tipping of the axis in cycles of approximately 4000–7500 years. Brown argued that because the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4121526 |
Nikolay Demyanov Nikolay Yakovlevich Demyanov (; , Tver – March 19, 1938, Moscow), also known as Demjanov and Demjanow, was a Russian organic chemist and a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1929). He is internationally known for the Demjanov rearrangement organic reaction and other discoveries. He was a recipient... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4125128 |
NGC 2915 is a blue dwarf galaxy located 12 million light-years away in the southern constellation Chamaeleon, right on the edge of the Local Group. The optical galaxy corresponds to the core of a much larger spiral galaxy traced by radio observation of neutral hydrogen. The galaxy has a short central bar, much like the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4126653 |
GHP formalism The (or Geroch–Held–Penrose formalism) is a technique used in the mathematics of general relativity that involves singling out a pair of null directions at each point of spacetime. It is a rewriting of the Newman–Penrose formalism which respects the covariance of Lorentz transformations preserving two nul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4127125 |
Dasymeter A dasymeter was meant initially as a device to demonstrate the buoyant effect of gases like air; as shown in the adjacent pictures. A dasymeter which allows weighing acts as a densimeter used to measure the density of gases. The Principle of Archimedes permits to derive a formula which does not rely on any in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4129530 |
NGC 4027 (also known as "Arp 22") is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 83 million light-years away in the constellation Corvus. It is also a peculiar galaxy because one of its spiral arms goes out more than the other. This is probably due to a galactic collision in NGC 4027's past. is part of the NGC 4038 Group, a g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4129776 |
International Society of Biometeorology The (ISB) is a professional society for scientists interested in biometeorology, specifically environmental and ecological aspects of the interaction of the atmosphere and biosphere. The organization's stated purpose is: "to provide one international organization for the promotio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4132583 |
Toshio Murashige is a professor emeritus of University of California Riverside in plant biology. He is most widely known for his efforts in creating the plant tissue culture medium known as Murashige and Skoog medium. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4134055 |
Orbital tuning refers to the process of adjusting the time scale of a geologic or climate record so that the observed fluctuations correspond to the Milankovitch cycles in the Earth's orbital motion. Because changes in the Earth's orbit affect the amount and distribution of sunlight the Earth receives, such changes are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4135363 |
BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. is an American biotechnology company headquartered in San Rafael, California. It has offices and facilities in the United States, South America, Asia, and Europe. BioMarin's core business and research is in enzyme replacement therapies (ERTs). BioMarin was the first company to provide thera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4136144 |
BioMarin Pharmaceutical (LEAD), a small private drug discovery and early stage development company with key compound LT-673, an orally available poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) inhibitor studied for the treatment of patients with rare, genetically defined cancers. This acquisition was followed by the purchase of Zy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4136144 |
BioMarin Pharmaceutical The following is an illustration of the company's major mergers and acquisitions and historical predecessors (this is not a comprehensive list): As of 2016, BioMarin has six products on the market, each of which is an orphan drug. Biomarin is working to develop several new drugs. In 2010, BioMar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4136144 |
BioMarin Pharmaceutical In 2015, there was another controversy over expanded access, concerning the supply of a drug on clinical trial to a German child who was suffering from a brain disorder but who was not part of the trial. In April 2019, the BBC reported that patients who took part in a trial treatment for the dru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4136144 |
Depensation In population dynamics, depensation is the effect on a population (such as a fish stock) whereby, due to certain causes, a decrease in the breeding population (mature individuals) leads to reduced production and survival of eggs or offspring. The causes may include predation levels rising per offspring (giv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4139830 |
Diversified Pharmaceutical Services entered the market in 1976 as the pharmacy benefit manager for United HealthCare, a leading managed care organization. It pioneered many cost containment strategies that are now core pharmacy benefit manager services and became a recognized leader in clinical programs. (DPS) grew out... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4145863 |
NlaIII "Nla"III is an endonuclease that cleaves double stranded DNA molecules into fragments: 5'- C A T G| -3' 3'-|G T A C -5' leaving 3' overhangs of four nucleotides at the ends of each fragment. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4152953 |
Cryptoregiochemistry refers to the site of initial oxidative attack in double bond formation by enzymes such as fatty acid desaturases. This is a mechanistic parameter that is usually determined through the use of kinetic isotope effect experiments, based on the premise that the initial C-H bond cleavage step should be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4153139 |
Andromeda X (And 10) is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.9 million light-years away from the Sun in the constellation Andromeda. Discovered in 2005, And X is a satellite galaxy of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4153924 |
Frank John Kerr (8 January 191815 September 2000) was an Australian astronomer and physicist who made contributions to human understanding of the galactic structure of the Milky Way. Born in St Albans to Australian parents, Kerr returned with his family to Australia after the completion of World War I. He received degr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4161892 |
Francisco J. Blanco Francisco Jose Blanco is a structural biologist working as Group Leader at the Centro de investigación Cooperativa en biociencias CIC bioGUNE, Biscay, Spain. His research utilizes Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy to characterize protein structure and protein folding. His major contributions t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4167333 |
Tiller (botany) A tiller is a stem produced by grass plants, and refers to all shoots that grow after the initial parent shoot grows from a seed. Tillers are segmented, each segment possessing its own two-part leaf. They are involved in vegetative propagation and, in some cases, also seed production. "Tillering" refers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4173609 |
Weatherwise () is a magazine founded by David M. Ludlum and was published by Heldref Publications but now is published by Taylor & Francis Group. It covers weather and climate for weather enthusiasts as well as meteorologists and climatologists and is the only popular press publication in the United States to do so. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4181328 |
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