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Beach ridge A beach ridge is a wave-swept or wave-deposited ridge running parallel to a shoreline. It is commonly composed of sand as well as sediment worked from underlying beach material. The movement of sediment by wave action is called "littoral transport". Movement of material parallel to the shoreline is called "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4654699 |
Jean Pierre Mégnin (18 January 1828 – 30 December 1905) was a French army veterinarian and entomologist. He is best known for his work with dogs and forensic entomology. Mégnin, born in Herimoncourt (Doubs), went to school at the Ecole d'Alfort from 1849 until his graduation in 1853. In 1855, he became an army veterina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4658483 |
Föhn cloud A is any cloud associated with a föhn, usually an orographic cloud, a mountain wave cloud, or a lenticular cloud. Föhn is a regional term referring to winds in the Alps. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4662308 |
Georgiaite is a form or type of tektite. They are found in part of the 34-million-year-old North American strewnfield coming from the Chesapeake Bay impact crater. Two strewnfields and tektite groups are associated with this impact: the black Bediasites in Texas and the green Georgiaites in Georgia. Georgiaites occur i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4666698 |
Kaye effect The is a property of complex liquids which was first described by the British engineer Alan Kaye in 1963. While pouring one viscous mixture of an organic liquid onto a surface, the surface suddenly spouted an upcoming jet of liquid which merged with the downgoing one. This phenomenon has since been discover... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4672204 |
Danilova (crater) Maria Danilova, Russian ballet dancer, (b. 1793) is honored by the impact crater Danilova on Venus. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4672978 |
De Lalande (crater) De Lalande is a multiring impact crater on Venus. It has a diameter of and wall width of . The crater has an outer rim but no peak and is in close proximity to the volcano Gula Mons. The de Lalande crater is named after the French astronomer Marie-Jeanne de Lalande (1768-1832), illegitimate daughter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4673091 |
Addams (crater) Addams is a crater on Venus. It was named after Jane Addams. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4674162 |
Alcott (crater) Alcott is an impact crater on Venus. Lava produced by a volcano at one point filled the crater and altered its rim. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4674242 |
Yablochkina (crater) Yablochkina is an impact crater on Venus. It was named after Aleksandra Yablochkina. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4674276 |
NGC 1156 is a dwarf irregular galaxy in the Aries constellation of the type . It is considered a "Magellanic"-type irregular. The galaxy has a larger than average core, and contains zones of contra-rotating gas. The counter-rotation is thought to be the result of tidal interactions with another gas rich galaxy some tim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4674381 |
Mead (crater) Mead is an impact crater on Venus named in honor of the cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead. Mead crater is the largest impact crater on Venus, with a diameter of 280 km (174miles). The crater has an inner and an outer ring and a small ejecta blanket surrounding the outer ring. Mead crater is relatively... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4674388 |
Golubkina (crater) Golubkina is a crater on Venus. Golubkina is characterized by terraced inner walls and a central peak, typical of large impact craters on the Earth, Moon, and Mars. The terraced inner walls form at late stages in the formation of an impact crater, due to collapse of the initial cavity formed by the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4674510 |
Guilbert (crater) Guilbert is an impact crater on Venus. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4674539 |
Proper frame A proper frame, or comoving frame, is a frame of reference that is attached to an object. The object in this frame is stationary within the frame, which is useful for many types of calculations. For example, a freely falling elevator is a proper frame for a free-falling object in the elevator, while the su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4674852 |
Proper frame In quantum field theory and many fields of physics, such as electromagnetism, it is often referred to as the "comoving frame" of a particle. 𝜕 can be thought of as the unique set of frames that are conserved under gravity, allowing that the particles of gravitation do not collapse on an object after the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4674852 |
Proper frame Consider what this means; if I place the object at x = +V there exists a vector of velocities in the plane parallel to that line; I add a vector to the vertical line that points in that direction; and then I continue moving down the same line and point my object on that horizontal line a distance T? This p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4674852 |
Computational chemical methods in solid-state physics follow the same approach as they do for molecules, but with two differences. First, the translational symmetry of the solid has to be utilised, and second, it is possible to use completely delocalised basis functions such as plane waves as an alternative to the mole... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4682019 |
Statistical field theory A statistical field theory is any model in statistical mechanics where the degrees of freedom comprise a field or fields. In other words, the microstates of the system are expressed through field configurations. It is closely related to quantum field theory, which describes the quantum mechanic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4686460 |
Bragg–Gray cavity theory Bragg-Gray cavity theory relates the radiation dose in a cavity volume of material formula_1 to the dose that would exist in a surrounding medium formula_2 in the absence of the cavity volume. It was developed in 1936 by British scientists Louis Harold Gray, William Henry Bragg, and William Law... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4688460 |
Alfred C. Redfield Alfred Clarence Redfield (November 15, 1890 – March 17, 1983) was an American oceanographer known for having discovered the Redfield ratio, which describes the ratio between nutrients in plankton and ocean water. In 1966, he received the Eminent Ecologist Award from the Ecological Society of America.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4690548 |
Alfred C. Redfield " In the 1940, when World War II was taking place, there were some changes that occurred to the Oceanographic. Redfield was selected as the assistant director. At this time he focused on studying how to protect submarines that were submerged from surface ships and aircraft and the issue of polluting ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4690548 |
Abell 400 is a galaxy cluster which contains the galaxy NGC 1128 with two supermassive black holes (3C 75) spiraling towards merger. These two supermassive black holes are contained in NGC 1128. The galaxy, microwave radio jets, multi-million degree X-ray producing gas and resultant radio source is known as 3C 75. X-ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4698226 |
Gametangium A gametangium (plural: gametangia) is an organ or cell in which gametes are produced that is found in many multicellular protists, algae, fungi, and the gametophytes of plants. In contrast to gametogenesis in animals, a gametangium is a haploid structure and formation of gametes does not involve meiosis. De... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4709473 |
Gametangium " For example, in zygomycetes, two gametangia (single multinucleate cells at the end of hyphae) form good contact with each other and fuse into a zygosporangium. Inside the zygosporangium, the nuclei from each of the original two gametangia pair up. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4709473 |
Arend Joan Rutgers (October 20, 1903 in Almelo, Netherlands – September 2, 1998 in Almen) was a Dutch-Belgian physical chemist. went to high school in Almelo, after which he studied chemistry at the University of Amsterdam. He later obtained his master's degree in 1926 he went to Leiden, where he studied theoretical ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4710382 |
NGC 3953 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy is known to exhibit an inner ring structure that encircles the bar. Two supernovae have been identified within NGC 3953: the type Ia supernova SN 2001dp and SN 2006bp. is a member of the M109 Group, a large group of galaxies located ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4712536 |
3C 75 3C75 (a.k.a. 3C 75) is a binary black hole system in the Abell 400 cluster of galaxies. It has four radio jets (two from each accreting black hole). It is travelling at 1200 kilometers per second through the cluster plasma, causing the jets to be swept back. The binary supermassive black holes are themselves cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4716700 |
NGC 1128 is a dumbbell galaxy in the Abell 400 galaxy cluster. At the center of the galaxy is 3C 75, a radio source, and contains two orbiting supermassive black holes that may be merging. Computer simulations indicate that these two black holes will gradually spiral in toward each other until they merge. Lewis Swift i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4726983 |
Dumbbell Galaxy is a "name" given to galaxies with a double appearance. Examples are: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4727094 |
Ligand isomerism is a type of structural isomerism which arises from the presence of ligands which can adopt different isomeric forms. An example is provided by diaminopropane, which may have or surely have amine groups in terminal(1,3)positions or in the 1,2 positions. The position isomer of ligand gives ligand isomer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4732308 |
Francesco Selmi (7 April 1817 – 13 August 1881) was an Italian chemist and patriot, one of the founders of colloid chemistry. Selmi was born in Vignola, then part of the Duchy of Modena and Reggio. He became head of a chemistry laboratory in Modena in 1840, and a professor of chemical pharmacology and toxicology at the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4733223 |
Adivar (crater) Adivar is an impact crater on Venus, named in honor of Turkish writer and pilot Halide Edip Adıvar. The crater is located just north of the western Aphrodite highland (9 degrees north latitude, 76 degrees east longitude). Surrounding the crater rim is ejected material which appears bright in the radar i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4733927 |
Ruth (Venusian crater) Ruth is an impact crater on Venus. The crater, based on data provided by the "Magellan" spacecraft, has an estimated diameter of and an elevation (measured as local planetary radius in kilometers) of . | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4734149 |
NGC 5090 and NGC 5091 are a set of galaxies approximately away in the constellation Centaurus. They are in the process of colliding and merging with some evidence of tidal disruption of NGC 5091. NGC 5090 is an elliptical galaxy while NGC 5091 is a barred spiral galaxy. The radial velocity of the nucleus of NGC 5090 ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4737856 |
Density contrast The Density Contrast is a parameter used in galaxy formation to indicate where there are local enhancements in matter density. It is believed that after inflation, although the universe was mostly uniform, some regions were slightly denser than others with contrast densities on the order of 1 trilliont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4740982 |
Peter Galton Peter Malcolm Galton (born 14 March 1942 in London, England) is an American vertebrate paleontologist who has to date written or co-written about 190 papers in scientific journals or chapters in paleontology textbooks, especially on ornithischian and prosauropod dinosaurs. With Robert Bakker in a joint art... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4741936 |
Dynamical Theory of Crystal Lattices is a book in solid state physics, authored collaboratively by Max Born and Kun Huang. The book was originally started by Born in c. 1940, and was finished in the 1950s by Huang in consultation with Born. The text is considered a classical treatise on the subject of lattice dynamics,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4745968 |
Isenthalpic process An isenthalpic process or isoenthalpic process is a process that proceeds without any change in enthalpy, "H"; or specific enthalpy, "h". In a steady-state, steady-flow process, significant changes in pressure and temperature can occur to the fluid, and yet the process will be isenthalpic if there i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4752147 |
Quantum solid In physics, a quantum solid is a type of solid that is "intrinsically restless", in the sense that atoms continuously vibrate about their position and exchange places even at absolute zero. The archetypal quantum solid is low density solid helium. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4759327 |
Museum of Natural History, Lima The Natural History Museum (Museo de Historia Natural) in Lima, is Peru's most important museum of natural history. It was established in 1918 and belongs to the National University of San Marcos. The museum was founded in 1918 by the Faculty of Sciences of the Universidad Nacional Mayor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4760263 |
Museum of Natural History, Lima The museum is repository of representative specimens of Peruvian fauna, flora and minerals, including exhibitions of mammals, primates, invertebrates, reptiles, amphibians, birds, plants, fossils, dinosaurs, fish and minerals. Highlights of the collections include: The first publication ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4760263 |
NOAA's Environmental Real-time Observation Network The NOAA Environmental Real-time Observation Network (NERON) is a project to establish a nationwide network of high quality near real-time weather monitoring stations across the United States. A 20-mile by 20-mile grid has been established, with the hopes of having one... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4761644 |
Joost Tinbergen Joost M. Tinbergen (born 1950 in Groningen) is a Dutch ecologist. Tinbergen is the son of the ornithologist Luuk Tinbergen, and nephew of Nobel Prize–winning brothers Jan and Niko Tinbergen. His older brother is the film-maker Tijs Tinbergen. Tinbergen gained his PhD from the University of Groningen in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4762209 |
Bovine alphaherpesvirus 2 (BoHV2) is a virus of the family "Herpesviridae" that causes two diseases in cattle, bovine mammillitis and pseudo-lumpy skin disease. BoHV2 is similar in structure to human herpes simplex virus. Pseudo-lumpy skin disease was originally discovered in South Africa where a similar but more serio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4765289 |
Vertical circle In astronomy, a vertical circle is a great circle on the celestial sphere that is perpendicular to the horizon. Therefore, it contains the vertical direction, passing through the zenith and the nadir. There is a vertical circle for any given azimuth, where azimuth is the angle measured east from the nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4792744 |
Index of biotechnology articles This page provides an alphabetical list of articles and other pages (including categories, lists, etc.) about biotechnology. Agrobacterium -- Affymetrix -- Alcoholic beverages -- -- Amgen -- Antibiotic -- Artificial selection Biochemical engineering -- Biochip -- Biodiesel -- Bioengineer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4797745 |
Index of biotechnology articles -- Cloning -- Compost -- Composting -- Convention on Biological Diversity -- Chromatography Directive on the patentability of biotechnological inventions -- DNA microarray -- Dwarfing Enzymes -- Electroporation -- Environmental biotechnology -- Eugenics Fermentation -- Gene knockout -- G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4797745 |
Index of biotechnology articles -- Phage therapy -- Pharmacogenomics -- Pharming (genetics) -- Plant-made pharmaceuticals -- Plantibody -- Proteomics Recombinant DNA -- Regulation of the release of genetic modified organisms -- Reporter gene Selective breeding -- Serono -- Shotgun sequencing -- Stem cell -- STR multipl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4797745 |
Rheoscopic fluid means "current showing" fluid. Such liquids are effective in visualizing dynamic currents in fluids, such as convection and laminar flow. They are microscopic crystalline platelets such as mica, metallic flakes, or fish scales in suspension in a fluid such as water or glycol stearate. When the fluid is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4802556 |
Anastasio Alfaro (February 16, 1865 – January 20, 1951) was a Costa Rican zoologist, geologist and explorer. Alfaro was director of the National Museum of Costa Rica, and whilst holding this position arranged the Costa Rican display at the Historical American Exposition in Madrid. Limon worm salamander "Oedipina alfaro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4814673 |
Elysium Mons is a volcano on Mars located in the volcanic province Elysium, at , in the Martian eastern hemisphere. It stands about above its base, and about above the Martian "datum", making it the third tallest Martian mountain in terms of relief and the fourth highest in elevation. Its diameter is about , with a sum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4814724 |
Microinjection is the use of a glass micropipette to inject a liquid substance at a microscopic or borderline macroscopic level. The target is often a living cell but may also include intercellular space. is a simple mechanical process usually involving an inverted microscope with a magnification power of around 200x (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4817599 |
Microinjection There are two basic types of microinjection systems. The first is called a "constant flow system" and the second is called a "pulsed flow system". In a constant flow system, which is relatively simple and inexpensive though clumsy and outdated, a constant flow of a sample is delivered from a micropipette... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4817599 |
Microinjection Pronuclear injection is a technique used to create transgenic organisms by injecting genetic material into the nucleus of a fertilized oocyte. This technique is commonly used to study the role of genes using mouse animal models. The pronuclear injection of mouse sperm is one of the two most common method... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4817599 |
John Hunt (oceanographer) John M. Hunt (1 December 1918 – 23 July 2005) was a geologist, chemist, and oceanographer. He worked at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution beginning in 1968. His specialty was petroleum geochemistry, and he wrote the standard textbook "Petroleum Geochemistry and Geology". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4820695 |
PEG-150 hydrogenated jojoba is an ethoxylated version of fully hydrogenated jojoba wax and the most water soluble form of jojoba available. This versatile emollient functions as a secondary emulsifier and provides viscosity adjustments in hair care formulas and fragrance oil solubilization in aqueous solutions. PEG-150... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4831412 |
Joachim Nerz Dr. (born 1964) is a taxonomist and botanist specialising in the carnivorous plant genera "Heliamphora" and "Nepenthes". Nerz has described several new species, mostly with Andreas Wistuba. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4853308 |
Aluminosilicate minerals are minerals composed of aluminium, silicon, and oxygen, plus countercations. They are a major component of kaolin and other clay minerals. Andalusite, kyanite, and sillimanite are naturally occurring aluminosilicate minerals that have the composition AlSiO. The triple point of the three polymo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4857087 |
Aluminosilicate Characteristically, these glasses are free of alkali oxides and contain 15-25% AlO, 52-60% SiO and about 15% alkaline earths. Very high transformation temperatures and softening points are typical features. Main fields of application are glass bulbs for halogen lamps, high-temperature thermometers and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4857087 |
Urchin barren An urchin barren is an area of the shallow part of the ocean where the population growth of sea urchins has gone unchecked, causing destructive grazing of kelp forests. Sea urchins eat kelp holdfasts. This can be caused by a lack of sea otters or other predators in the area, which makes it extremely impor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4858223 |
Urchin barren The transition from kelp forest to barren is defined by phase shifts in which one stable community state is shifted to another. The continuous phase shift is widely accepted. This describes a transition from one ecosystem state to another where the threshold for the forward shift is at the same level as t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4858223 |
Drag area In mechanics and aerodynamics, the drag area of an object represents the effective size of the object as it is "seen" by the fluid flow around it. The drag area is usually expressed as a product formula_1 where formula_2 is a representative area of the object, and formula_3 is the drag coefficient, which repr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4859035 |
Sándor Gaál Gaál Sándor, born October 8, 1885 in Gogánváralja, Hungary, died July 28, 1972 was a Hungarian accelerator physicist and an alleged co-inventor of the cyclotron. Most credible international sources give the credit of the invention of the cyclotron to American physicist and Nobel Laureate Ernest Orlando Lawr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4863400 |
Mauri S. Pelto is a professor of environmental science at Nichols College in Dudley, Massachusetts and director of the North Cascades Glacier Climate Project. Mauri Pelto has been studying the glaciers in the North Cascades located in the U.S. state of Washington since 1984. Pelto's research team has recorded the mass ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4863615 |
Dimensional reduction is the limit of a compactified theory where the size of the compact dimension goes to zero. In physics, a theory in "D" spacetime dimensions can be redefined in a lower number of dimensions "d", by taking all the fields to be independent of the location in the extra "D" − "d" dimensions. For examp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4869700 |
Dimensional reduction Therefore, at this limit, with finite energy, zero is the only possible eigenvalue under gradient along the compact dimension, meaning that nothing depends on this dimension. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4869700 |
Champagne flow model A champagne flow is an astrophysical event whereby an HII region created inside a molecular cloud from ionization due to a recently formed star (usually an O-star) expands outward until it reaches the interstellar medium, at which point the ionized hydrogen gas bursts outward like an uncorked champ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4870777 |
Champagne flow model The streaming of matter out of the cloud allows for the ionisation of a larger portion of the original cloud sustaining in this way the pressure imbalance which eventually leads to the complete disruption of the parent cloud. The terms champagne model and champagne flow were coined by Mexican astro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4870777 |
Professor of Natural Philosophy (Glasgow) The Chair of Natural Philosophy is a professorship at the University of Glasgow, in Scotland, which was established in 1727 The Nova Erectio of King James VI of Scotland shared the teaching of moral philosophy, logic and natural philosophy among the regents. In 1727 separate ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4870845 |
Equid alphaherpesvirus 3 Equid alphaherpesvirus 3, formerly Equine herpesvirus 3 (EHV-3), is a virus of the family "Herpesviridae" that affects horses. It causes a disease known as equine coital exanthema. The disease is spread through direct and sexual contact and possibly through flies carrying infected vaginal disch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4870889 |
Equid gammaherpesvirus 2 Equid gammaherpesvirus 2, formerly Equine herpesvirus 2 (EHV-2), is a virus of the family "Herpesviridae", originally known as equine cytomegalovirus due to its slow replication in tissue culture. However, complete sequencing of the EHV-2 genome has demonstrated that it is a member of the subfa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4871848 |
Polycide is a silicide formed over polysilicon. Widely used in DRAMs. In a polycide MOSFET transistor process, the silicide is formed only over the polysilicon film as formation occurs prior to any polysilicon etch. processes contrast with salicide processes in which silicide is formed after the polysilicon etch. Thus,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4872137 |
Dissociative recombination is a process where a positive molecular ion recombines with an electron, and as a result, the neutral molecule dissociates. This reaction is important for extraterrestrial and atmospheric chemistry. On Earth, dissociative recombination rarely occurs naturally, as free electrons react with any... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4873511 |
Ultrafast molecular process An ultrafast molecular process is any technology that relies on properties of molecules that are only extant for a very short period of time (less than 1e-9 seconds). Such processes are very important in areas such as combustion chemistry and in the study of proteins. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4876423 |
Fisheries Research Services Marine Laboratory The Fisheries Research Services (FRS) Marine Laboratory is situated in Aberdeen, Scotland. It was formerly an agency of the Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department and is now part of the Scottish Government. FRS provides advice to the Scottish Government... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4877755 |
Minh Quang Tran Minh-Quảng Trần (born in Saigon (Vietnam) on 30 May 1951) is a professor at the EPFL. He graduated in physics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in 1973, where he did his doctoral thesis in 1977, and where he has worked as a professor since 1980. He works at the Swiss Plasma Center (SPC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4878843 |
Phoswich detector Phoswich detectors were developed to detect low-intensity, low-energy gamma rays, X-rays, as well as alpha and beta particles efficiently in a higher-energy ambient background. Some detector designs can measure and separately identify all energies simultaneously. A phoswich ("phosphor sandwich") is a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4879503 |
Wetted perimeter The wetted perimeter is the perimeter of the cross sectional area that is "wet". The term wetted perimeter is common in civil engineering, environmental engineering, hydrology, geomorphology, and heat transfer applications; it is associated with the hydraulic diameter or hydraulic radius. Engineers com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4886627 |
Henri Poincaré Prize The sponsored by the Daniel Iagolnitzer Foundation was created in 1997 to recognize outstanding contributions in mathematical physics, and contributions which lay the groundwork for novel developments in this broad field. The Prize is also created to recognize and support young people of exceptiona... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4890712 |
Coil (chemistry) A coil, in chemistry, is a tube, frequently in spiral form, used commonly to cool steam originating from a distillation and thus to condense it in liquid form. Usually it is of copper or another material that conducts heat easily. Coils are often used in chemical processes in batch reaction or mixing t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4897934 |
Johannes Herman Frederik Umbgrove Prof HFRSE (February 5, 1899 Hulsberg (Limburg) – June 14, 1954 Wassenaar), called in short Jan Umbgrove, was a Dutch geologist and Earth scientist. Umbgrove studied geology at Leiden University, he finished his studies in 1926. He then became employed as a paleontologist for the (Geol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4901481 |
Ernst Josef Fittkau (22 July 1927 – 12 May 2012) was a German entomologist and herpetologist. In entomology he specialized in the Diptera, especially the family Chironomidae. In herpetology he specialized in crocodiles. He collected natural history specimens on every continent except Antarctica, beginning with South Am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4902113 |
Kiev Planetarium Kyiv Planetarium (previously "Republican Planetarium"; ) in Kyiv, Ukraine is one of the largest planetaria in former Soviet states. Opened on January 1, 1952 by the initiative of the scientist-astronomer Serhiy Vsekhsviatskiy (1905–1984), the planetarium has a dome of 23.5 meters in diameter, and seats... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4912107 |
Kiev Planetarium Event Horizon is a real-time 3D fulldome environment that visualizes and simulates the known Universe according to accurate, up-to-date scientific data. The software is based on the latest Unreal Engine technology and provides up to 4K resolution graphics which, combined with a beautiful soundtrack, gi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4912107 |
IDRO Group The Industrial Development & Renovation Organization of Iran (IDRO) known as was established in 1967 in Iran. is one of the largest companies in Iran. It is also one of the largest conglomerates in Asia. IDRO's objective is to develop Iran's industry sector and to accelerate the industrialization process of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4915128 |
Mandora (crater) Mandora is a crater on Mars at 12.3N 53.7W. It is 59.4 km in diameter, and is named after the locality of Mandora in Western Australia. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4915255 |
Discharge ionization detector A discharge ionization detector (DID) is a type of detector used in gas chromatography. A DID is an ion detector which uses a high-voltage electric discharge to produce ions. The detector uses an electrical discharge in helium to generate high energy UV photons and metastable helium which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4917179 |
Renate Loll (born 19 June 1962, Aachen) is a Professor in Theoretical Physics at the Institute for Mathematics, Astrophysics and Particle Physics of the Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands. She previously worked at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of Utrecht University. She received her Ph.D. from Imperial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4918119 |
James A. Murray (zoologist) James A. Murray was a British 19th century zoologist and museum curator in Karachi. He was a Member of the Bombay Natural History Society and Anthropological Society of Bombay, a manager at the Victoria Natural History Institute and curator at the Kurrachee Municipal Library and Museum. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4924563 |
Ceiling level In audio equipment the ceiling level, also known as the "point of distortion", is the maximum input signal amplitude above which output distortion exceeds an acceptable level. The Ceiling Level or Ceiling Value is the maximum permissible concentration of a hazardous material in the working environment. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4932769 |
Cirrocumulus undulatus is a variety of cirrocumulus cloud. The name "cirrocumulus undulatus" is derived from Latin, meaning "diversified as with waves". They have a rippled appearance due to wind shear and usually cover only a small portion of the sky. They appear in bands as small patches or layers. Occasionally, they... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4934568 |
Membrane biology is the study of the biological and physiochemical characteristics of membranes, with applications in the study of cellular physiology. Membrane bioelectrical impulses are described by the Hodgkin cycle. Membrane biophysics is the study of biological membrane structure and function using physical, compu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4954001 |
Mamers Valles The are a set of channels in a long, winding canyon in the north of Mars. They cover 1000 km, cutting through the cratered uplands of the Arabia Terra, from the Cerulli Crater to the Deuteronilus Mensae near the edge of Mars' vast northern lowlands. Through their midsection, they average a width of 25 km ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4957414 |
Hubble–Reynolds law The models the surface brightness of elliptical galaxies as Where formula_2 is the surface brightness at radius formula_3, formula_4 is the central brightness, and formula_5 is the radius at which the surface brightness is diminished by a factor of 1/4. It is asymptotically similar to the De Vaucoul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4957558 |
Octatomic element An octatomic element is a chemical element that, when standard conditions for temperature and pressure is stable, is in a configuration of eight atoms grouped together. The canonical example is sulfur, S, but red selenium is also an octatomic element stable at room temperature. Octaoxygen is also know... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4968235 |
State of the Climate The is an annual report that is primarily led by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Climatic Data Center (NOAA/NCDC), located in Asheville, North Carolina, but whose leadership and authorship spans roughly 100 institutions in about 50 countries. The report appears as a sup... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4972467 |
State of the Climate East African drought is not atypical of La Nina episodes. The 2012 edition contained submissions from 394 authors from 54 nations/territories. It cover featured an Arctic scene, reflecting major events in that region during the year. Major findings in the 2012 report were: The 2013 edition has been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4972467 |
Cauchy–Born rule The or Cauchy-Born approximation is a basic hypothesis used in the mathematical formulation of solid mechanics which relates the movement of atoms in a crystal to the overall deformation of the bulk solid. It states that in a crystalline solid subject to a small strain, the positions of the atoms withi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4985628 |
Roger A. Beaver is a biologist who has worked at University College of North Wales, Chiang Mai University, the University of Zambia and the University of the South Pacific. He has published several important papers on "Nepenthes" infauna, including "Fauna and food webs of pitcher plants in West Malaysia" (1979), "The c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4985946 |
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