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Ultrasonic hearing is a recognised auditory effect which allows humans to perceive sounds of a much higher frequency than would ordinarily be audible using the physical inner ear, usually by stimulation of the base of the cochlea through bone conduction. Normal human hearing is recognised as having an upper bound of 15... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4995290 |
Guabonito (crater) Guabonito is a ring of bright features on Saturn's moon Titan. Currently, the feature is thought to be a partially buried impact crater, with the bright features representing the crater's rim. Guabonito was first seen in "Cassini" images taken in October 2004 and has been observed several times since... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4996587 |
Shikoku Facula is a region of bright material on Saturn's moon Titan. Shikoku was first seen in "Cassini" images taken in October 2004 and has been observed several times since. Before it provisionally received an official name in August 2005, this feature was nicknamed "Great Britain" due to its shape. This feature, 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4996916 |
Anton Eduard van Arkel Anton Eduard van Arkel, ('s-Gravenzande Netherlands, 19 November 1893 – Leiden, 14 March 1976) was a Dutch chemist. He suggested the names "pnictogen" and "pnictide". Van Arkel became member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1962. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5007888 |
Geoff Wilson (professor) Geoffrey Victor Herbert Wilson (1938 – 9 January 2020) was an internationally distinguished nuclear physicist who made contributions to nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and low temperature physics. His research team achieved the lowest temperature ever recorded in Australia. He was Natio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5015721 |
William Francis de Vismes Kane (1840 – 1918) was an Irish entomologist Born in Exmouth, Devon Kane lived at Drumreaske Housein Monaghan. His mother was French. He was appointed Sheriff of Monaghan for 1865. Most of Kanes collecting was in Monaghan and at Favour Royal in County Tyrone but his collection contains insects... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5020722 |
National Institute of Oceanography, Pakistan The National Institute of Oceanography (NIO), (), is a department of the Government of Pakistan and a major research institute of Ministry of Science and Technology (Pakistan). The NIO is a science and research executive organization located in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5020850 |
Strand plain A strand plain or strandplain is a broad belt of sand along a shoreline with a surface exhibiting well-defined parallel or semi-parallel sand ridges separated by shallow swales. A strand plain differs from a barrier island in that it lacks either the lagoons or tidal marshes that separate a barrier island ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5021022 |
Photothermal effect is a phenomenon associated with electromagnetic radiation. It is produced by the photoexcitation of material, resulting in the production of thermal energy (heat). It is sometimes used during treatment of blood vessel lesions, laser resurfacing, laser hair removal and laser surgery. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5021237 |
4C +37.11 or Galaxy 0402+379 is a radio galaxy and elliptical galaxy featuring binary supermassive black holes with the least separation of any directly observed binaries, as of 2006. The separation between the two is 24 light-years or 7.3 parsecs, with an orbital period of 30,000 years. The two supermassive black hole... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5024517 |
Harbi al-Himyari ( ), was an Arab scholar from Yemen, who lived between the 7th and 8th century AD. He is the mentor for teaching Koran and mathematics to Jābir ibn Hayyān. According to Holmyard nothing else is known about him. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5029556 |
Type locality (geology) Type locality, also called type area, or type section, is the where a particular rock type, stratigraphic unit or mineral species is first identified. If the stratigraphic unit in a locality is layered, it is called a stratotype, whereas the standard of reference for unlayered rocks is the type ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5030515 |
Whitedamp is a noxious mixture of gases formed by the combustion of coal, usually in an enclosed environment such as a coal mine. The most toxic constituents are carbon monoxide and hydrogen sulfide. Coal frequently starts to burn slowly in mines when it is exposed to the atmosphere. Traditionally, whitedamp was detect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5030851 |
Lake Connecticut Glacial formed over what is now Long Island Sound and coastal Connecticut at the fore edge of the ice sheet of the Wisconsin glaciation, as the lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet began to retreat, some 18 to 20,000 years before present. It was dammed by the terminal moraine that now forms the spine of Lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5032955 |
Weber bar A is a device used in the detection of gravitational waves first devised and constructed by physicist Joseph Weber at the University of Maryland. The device consisted of multiple aluminium cylinders, 2 meters in length and 1 meter in diameter, antennae for detecting gravitational waves. Around 1968, Weber col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5055541 |
Weber bar Because these waves were supposed to be so weak, the cylinders had to be massive and the piezoelectric sensors had to be very sensitive, capable of detecting a change in the cylinders' lengths by about 10 meters. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5055541 |
Taufik Akbar (born January 8, 1951 in Medan) is an Indonesian engineer and former astronaut candidate. After graduating at the Bandung Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1975, he worked as a telecommunication engineer. While working for Telkom in the development of the Palap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5059719 |
Sesquioxide A sesquioxide is an oxide containing three atoms of oxygen with two atoms (or radicals) of another element. For example, aluminium oxide () is a sesquioxide. Many sesquioxides contain the metal in the +3 oxidation state and the oxide ion, e.g., AlO, LaO. The alkali metal sesquioxides are exceptions and cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5072432 |
Sesquioxide BO NO AlO PO, existing as PO ClO ScO TiO VO CrO MnO FeO CoO NiO GaO AsO BrO YO NbO InO IrO PbO SbO TbO EuO NdO SmO PrO TmO YbO | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5072432 |
Sterile male plant Sterile male plants are plants which are incapable of producing pollen. This is sometimes attributed to mutations in the mitochondrial DNA which affects the Tapetum cells in anthers which are responsible for nursing developing pollen. The mutations cause the breakdown of the mitochondria in these spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5074049 |
Level of free convection The level of free convection (LFC) is the altitude in the atmosphere where the temperature of the environment decreases faster than the moist adiabatic lapse rate of a saturated air parcel at the same level. The usual way of finding the LFC is to lift a parcel from a lower level along the dry a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5074851 |
Phase switch A phase switch is a device used to increase the discrimination and sensitivity of an interferometer, especially at radio frequencies; an extra half-wave path difference is switched in, at well defined frequency, between the two interfering signal sources. In-phase signals then become out of phase and vice ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5074961 |
Alexius Sylvius Polonus (1593 - c. 1653) was a Polish Jesuit astronomer and maker of astronomical instruments. He adopted the added name of Polonus, meaning "Pole" in Latin. Sylvius studied at the Jesuit College in Kalisz. The Belgian Jesuit Charles Malapert organized there the observations of sunspots, in which Sylviu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5076773 |
Electromechanical coupling coefficient is a numerical measure of the conversion efficiency between electrical and acoustic energy in piezoelectric materials. Qualitatively the electromechanical coupling coefficient, k, can be determined as: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5081545 |
Fleaker A is a brand of container for liquids used in the laboratory. It can be described as a cross between the Griffin beaker and the Erlenmeyer flask. Like a beaker, the bottom is flat, with the sides meeting the bottom at a 90 degree angle. The sides are vertical for most of the height; near the top, the sides curv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5086181 |
Fracton A fracton is a collective quantized vibration on a substrate with a fractal structure. Fractons are the fractal analog of phonons. Phonons are the result of applying translational symmetry to the potential in a Schrödinger equation. Fractal self-similarity can be thought of as a symmetry somewhat comparable to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5087910 |
S. A. von Rottemburg Siegmund Adrian von Rottemburg was a German entomologist in the 18th century. Little is known about him by scientific historians. In the 1770s he took over Johann Siegfried Hufnagel's lepidopterological collection and published several works about it in "Der Naturforscher". He described several spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5093746 |
Vacuum fusion is an analytical chemistry technique, used for determining the oxygen, hydrogen, and sometimes nitrogen content of metals. While ineffective when used on alkali or earth metals, vacuum fusion remains a viable means when applied to almost all other metals. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5098336 |
Paraglacial means unstable conditions caused by a significant relaxation time in processes and geomorphic patterns following glacial climates. Rates of landscape change and sediment output from the system are typically elevated during paraglacial landscape response. When a large mass of ice melts, the newly exposed lan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5100815 |
Jacchia Reference Atmosphere The is a reference atmospheric model that defines values for atmospheric temperature, density, pressure and other properties at altitudes from 90 to 2500 km. Unlike the more common US Standard Atmosphere and related models, the Jacchia model includes latitudinal, seasonal, geomagnetic, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5103597 |
Lockin effect In superconductivity, the refers to the preference of vortex phases to be positioned at certain points within cells of a crystal lattice of an organic superconductor. Studies of the Vortex Phases in an Organic Superconductor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5109980 |
Pietro Rossi (scientist) Pietro Rossi (23 January 1738 in Florence – 21 December 1804 in Pisa) was an Italian scientist and entomologist. Rossi's academic career was conducted at the University of Pisa, where he attained a doctorate in philosophy and medicine in 1759. He was then made a professor of logic in 1763, a po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5114688 |
Oleg Sushkov is a professor at the University of New South Wales and a leader in the field of high temperature super-conductors. Educated in Russia in quantum mechanics and nuclear physics, he now teaches in Australia. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5115787 |
Bloom (test) Bloom is a test to measure the strength of a gel or gelatin. The test was originally developed and patented in 1925 by Oscar T. Bloom. The test determines the weight in grams needed by a specified plunger (normally with a diameter of 0.5 inch) to depress the surface of the gel by 4 mm without breaking it a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5116600 |
Fornacite is a rare lead, copper chromate arsenate hydroxide mineral with the formula: PbCu(CrO)(AsO)(OH). It forms a series with the phosphate mineral vauquelinite. It forms variably green to yellow, translucent to transparent crystals in the monoclinic - prismatic crystal system. It has a Mohs hardness of 2.3 and a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5116954 |
Constraint algebra In theoretical physics, a constraint algebra is a linear space of all constraints and all of their polynomial functions or functionals whose action on the physical vectors of the Hilbert space should be equal to zero. For example, in electromagnetism, the equation for the Gauss' law is an equation of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5118041 |
Pseudorotation A pseudorotation is a set of intramolecular movements of attached groups (i.e., ligands) on a highly symmetric molecule, leading to a molecule indistinguishable from the initial one. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) defines a pseudorotation as a "[s]tereoisomerization resulti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5126231 |
Casimir pressure is created by the Casimir force of virtual particles. According to experiments, the Casimir force formula_1 between two closely spaced neutral parallel plate conductors is directly proportional to their surface area formula_2: formula_3 Therefore, dividing the magnitude of Casimir force by the area of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5129726 |
Karatmeter The is a scientific instrument which uses X-rays to give an exact reading of the purity of gold. Due to its very high precision and fast result, X-ray analysis has been adopted by international agencies in India as part of the certification process used to hallmark gold. It is an accurate, non-destructive me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5130190 |
Karatmeter But TouchStone and Acid are destructive testing - a tiny sample of gold is cut and then tested. The sample is rubbed on TouchStone and a drop of acid is put on it and the goldsmith observes the residue using a magnifying lens. Based on experience, gold smith can determine purity of sample. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5130190 |
Tamara Davis Tamara Davis, Ph.D, is an Australian astrophysicist. she is a Professor, and is a Vice-Chancellor's Research and Teaching Fellow, at the University of Queensland, where she has been employed since 2008. The Australian Academy of Science awarded her their Nancy Millis Medal in 2015. She was Australian Insti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5159782 |
Hand of Faith The is a nugget of fine-quality gold that was found by Kevin Hillier using a metal detector near Kingower, Victoria, Australia on 26 September 1980. Weighing 875 troy ounces (27.21 kg, or 72 troy pounds and 11 troy ounces), the gold nugget was only 12 inches below the surface, resting in a vertical positi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5163647 |
Mūsā ibn Shākir Musa bin Shakir () is the father of the Banu Musa ("Sons of Musa"), the renowned 9th-century scholars of Baghdad. Earlier in life, he had been a highwayman and astronomer in Khorasan of unknown pedigree. After befriending al-Maʾmūn, who was then a governor of Khorasan and staying in Marw, Musa was emplo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5163894 |
Undergrowth usually refers to the vegetation in the lower part of a forest, which can obstruct passage through the forest. The height of undergrowth is usually considered to be 0.3 – 3 m (1 – 9 ft.). can also refer to all vegetation in a forest which is not in the canopy. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5164744 |
Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii (1860–1917) (alternative spelling: Amalitzky) was a Russian paleontologist and professor at Warsaw University who was involved in the discovery and excavation of the famous Late Permian fossil vertebrate fauna from the North Dvina River, Arkhangelsk District, Northern European Russia. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5188717 |
Passive acoustics is the action of listening for sounds, often at specific frequencies or for purposes of specific analyses. As applied to underwater acoustics, also termed hydroacoustics or sonar, passive acoustics can be used to listen for underwater explosions, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, sounds produced by fis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5194347 |
Rovibronic coupling denotes the simultaneous interactions between rotational, vibrational, and electronic degrees of freedom in a molecule. When a rovibronic transition occurs, the rotational, vibrational, and electronic states change simultaneously, unlike in rovibrational coupling. The coupling can be observed spectr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5197381 |
Eden growth model The describes the growth of specific types of clusters such as bacterial colonies and deposition of materials. These clusters grow by random accumulation of material on their boundary. These are also an example of a surface fractal. The model, named after Murray Eden, was first described in 1961 as a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5207843 |
Ice tongue An ice tongue is a long and narrow sheet of ice projecting out from the coastline. An ice tongue forms when a valley glacier moves very rapidly out into the ocean or a lake. Two examples of ice tongues are the Erebus Ice Tongue and the Drygalski Ice Tongue. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5209084 |
Great Diamond The is an asterism. Astronomy popularizer Hans A. Rey called it the Virgin's Diamond. It is composed of the following stars: The is somewhat larger than the Big Dipper. The three southernmost stars are sometimes regarded as being their own asterism, the Spring Triangle. Lying within the is the set of star... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5214209 |
Human Genome Project The (HGP) was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the base pairs that make up human DNA, and of identifying and mapping all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and a functional standpoint. It remains the world's largest collaborative biologica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5219699 |
Human Genome Project In May 1985, Robert Sinsheimer organized a workshop at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to discuss sequencing the human genome, but for a number of reasons the NIH was uninterested in pursuing the proposal. The following March, the Santa Fe Workshop was organized by Charles DeLisi and Davi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5219699 |
Human Genome Project Congress added a comparable amount to the NIH budget, thereby beginning official funding by both agencies. Alvin Trivelpiece sought and obtained the approval of DeLisi's proposal by Deputy Secretary William Flynn Martin. This chart was used in the spring of 1986 by Trivelpiece, then Director of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5219699 |
Human Genome Project National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Human Genome Research (which would later become the National Human Genome Research Institute). A working draft of the genome was announced in 2000 and the papers describing it were published in February 2001. A more complete draft was publishe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5219699 |
Human Genome Project In May 2006, another milestone was passed on the way to completion of the project, when the sequence of the last chromosome was published in "Nature". The institutions, companies, and laboratories in Human Genome Program are listed below, according to NIH. The project was not able to sequence all t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5219699 |
Human Genome Project The Human Genome Project, through its sequencing of the DNA, can help us understand diseases including: genotyping of specific viruses to direct appropriate treatment; identification of mutations linked to different forms of cancer; the design of medication and more accurate prediction of their eff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5219699 |
Human Genome Project This means that the speeds at which whole genomes can be sequenced can increase at a similar rate, as was seen during the development of the above-mentioned Human Genome Project. The process of identifying the boundaries between genes and other features in a raw DNA sequence is called genome annota... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5219699 |
Human Genome Project Subsequent projects sequenced the genomes of multiple distinct ethnic groups, though as of today there is still only one "reference genome." Key findings of the draft (2001) and complete (2004) genome sequences include: The was started in 1990 with the goal of sequencing and identifying all three b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5219699 |
Human Genome Project These pieces were then ligated into a type of vector known as "bacterial artificial chromosomes", or BACs, which are derived from bacterial chromosomes which have been genetically engineered. The vectors containing the genes can be inserted into bacteria where they are copied by the bacterial DNA r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5219699 |
Human Genome Project Venter was a scientist at the NIH during the early 1990s when the project was initiated. The $300,000,000 Celera effort was intended to proceed at a faster pace and at a fraction of the cost of the roughly $3 billion publicly funded project. The Celera approach was able to proceed at a much more ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5219699 |
Human Genome Project On July 7, 2000, the UCSC Genome Bioinformatics Group released a first working draft on the web. The scientific community downloaded about 500 GB of information from the UCSC genome server in the first 24 hours of free and unrestricted access. In March 2000, President Clinton announced that the gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5219699 |
Human Genome Project Thus the donor identities were protected so neither donors nor scientists could know whose DNA was sequenced. DNA clones taken from many different libraries were used in the overall project, with most of those libraries being created by Pieter J. de Jong's. Much of the sequence (>70%) of the refere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5219699 |
Human Genome Project The DNA samples for the HapMap came from a total of 270 individuals; Yoruba people in Ibadan, Nigeria; Japanese people in Tokyo; Han Chinese in Beijing; and the French Centre d’Etude du Polymorphisme Humain (CEPH) resource, which consisted of residents of the United States having ancestry from West... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5219699 |
Human Genome Project Also, the etiologies for cancers, Alzheimer's disease and other areas of clinical interest are considered likely to benefit from genome information and possibly may lead in the long term to significant advances in their management. There are also many tangible benefits for biologists. For example, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5219699 |
Human Genome Project In many cases, evolutionary questions can now be framed in terms of molecular biology; indeed, many major evolutionary milestones (the emergence of the ribosome and organelles, the development of embryos with body plans, the vertebrate immune system) can be related to the molecular level. Many ques... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5219699 |
Human Genome Project One of the main concerns of most individuals was the fear that both employers and health insurance companies would refuse to hire individuals or refuse to provide insurance to people because of a health concern indicated by someone's genes. In 1996 the United States passed the Health Insurance Port... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5219699 |
Cloud height The cloud height, more commonly known as cloud thickness or depth, is the distance between the cloud base and the cloud top. It is traditionally expressed either in metres or as a pressure difference in hectopascal (hPa, equivalent to millibar). Sometimes, the expression "cloud height" is used instead of "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5220401 |
Regiment of the North Pole The Regiment of the North Pole, an outdated astronomy term, is a rule saying how to find the celestial North Pole by the stars. It was used in former centuries when, because of precession, the star Polaris was much further from the celestial North Pole than it is now. As at AD2000 precession ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5228026 |
Crustose is a habit of some types of algae and lichens in which the plant grows tightly appressed to a substrate, forming a biological layer of the adhering organism. "Crustose" adheres very closely to the substrates at all points. "Crustose" is found on rocks and tree bark. Some species of marine algae of the Rhodophy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5229661 |
Crustose lichens have learned to adapt to their environment, with the shells helping with adaptation to dry and drought resistant climates. lichens have been found in deserts, ice free parts of Antarctica, and in the Alpine and Arctic regions. can come in a variety of colors such as yellow, orange, red, gray and green.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5229661 |
Dynamics of Markovian particles (DMP) is the basis of a theory for kinetics of particles in open heterogeneous systems. It can be looked upon as an application of the notion of stochastic process conceived as a physical entity; e.g. the particle moves because there is a transition probability acting on it. Two particul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5235137 |
Merck molecular force field (MMFF) is a family of chemistry force fields developed by Merck Research Laboratories. They are based on the MM3 force field. MMFF is not optimized for one use, such as simulating proteins or small molecules, but tries to perform well for a wide range of organic chemistry calculations. The p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5238501 |
Equivalent temperature In atmospheric science, equivalent temperature is the temperature of an air parcel from which all the water vapor has been extracted by an adiabatic process. Air contains water vapor that has been evaporated into it from liquid sources (lakes, sea, etc...). The energy needed to do that has been t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5245789 |
Archibald Lang McLean (1885–1922) was an Australian bacteriologist known for his role as chief doctor on the Sir Douglas Mawson's Australasian Antarctic Expedition. Archie McLean was born in Balmain, New South Wales on 27 March 1885. He was the grandson of Scottish migrants from Balmaha on the east side of Loch Lomond.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5247034 |
Archibald Lang McLean He completed his doctorate at the University of Sydney before joining the First Australian Imperial Force in the Australian Army Medical Corps in 1917 and returning to Europe. He was awarded the Military Cross for his service. He was discharged due to a bout of tuberculosis. He returned to Austral... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5247034 |
Space Telescope Science Data Analysis System The (STSDAS) is an IRAF-based suite of astronomical software for reducing and analyzing astronomical data. It contains general purpose tools and packages for processing data from the Hubble Space Telescope. STSDAS is produced by Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI). The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5258208 |
Astrovirtel (Accessing Astronomical Archives as Virtual Telescopes, obs. code: I03) is a data archive used as virtual astronomical observatory. The project was funded from 2000 until 2003 and supported by the European Commission's Access to Research Infrastructures action of the Improving Human Potential Programme and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5258856 |
Jeremy Walsh (astronomer) Jeremy R. Walsh is an astronomer working for the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF) where he is leading the Advanced Data Products group. His background is mostly in astronomical spectroscopy and he supports slitless spectroscopy with Hubble Space Telescope (HST). His rese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5259953 |
Altostratus undulatus cloud The altostratus undulatus is a type of altostratus cloud with signature undulations within it. These undulations may be visible (usually as "wavy bases"), but frequently they are indiscernible to the naked eye. These formations will generally appear in the early stages of destabilizing retur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5269284 |
Altocumulus undulatus cloud The altocumulus undulatus is a mid-level cloud (about 8000 - 20,000 ft or 2400 - 6100 m), usually white or grey with layers or patches containing undulations that resemble "waves" or "ripples" in water. Elements within the cloud (such as the edges of the undulations) are generally darker tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5270815 |
Dersios sinkhole The (Greek: Σπηλαιοκαταβόθρα "Ο Δέρσιος" "Spilaiokatavothra "O Dhersios"") is a sinkhole in Arcadia, Greece. The sinkhole, which has a depth of , has been known since antiquity and is located towards the north end of the plateau of Palaiochora at a height of 750 m above sea level on mount Parnon. It is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5274070 |
Aufeis Aufeis, ( ), (German for "ice on top") is a sheet-like mass of layered ice that forms from successive flows of ground water during freezing temperatures. This form of ice is also called overflow, icings, or the Russian term, naled. The term was first used in 1859 by A. T. von Middendorff following his observatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5279341 |
Aufeis can present an extreme danger to recreational boaters even during summer months, who can find themselves trapped between walls of ice or pulled under aufeis by the current of the river. Breaking dams of aufeis can also cause flash floods downriver. Proper scouting and precautions when choosing campsites can mini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5279341 |
Biosciences Federation The (BSF) was a United Kingdom body formed in 2002. The Federation aimed to unite the bioscience community over issues of common interest that related to both research and teaching. These organisations are a key component of the UK's knowledge economy. It also aimed to influence the formulation o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5281480 |
Biosciences Federation It also supported the annual award for scientific communication. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5281480 |
Glacial polish is a characteristic of rock surfaces where glaciers have passed over bedrock, typically granite or other hard igneous or metamorphic rock. Moving ice will carry pebbles and sand grains removed from upper levels which in turn grind a smooth or grooved surface upon the underlying rock. The presence of such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5295330 |
Halpin–Tsai model is a mathematical model for the prediction of elasticity of composite material based on the geometry and orientation of the filler and the elastic properties of the filler and matrix. The model is based on the self-consistent field method although often consider to be empirical. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5297589 |
Nonsteroidal A nonsteroidal compound is a drug that is not a steroid nor a steroid derivative. anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are distinguished from corticosteroids as a class of anti-inflammatory agents. Examples include the following: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5312690 |
Geology (journal) Geology is a peer-reviewed publication of the Geological Society of America (GSA). GSA says that it is the most widely read scientific journal in the field of earth science. It is published monthly, with each issue containing 20 or more articles. The journal impact factor of Geology was 4.842 in 2018/... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5314004 |
Body capacitance is the physical property of the human body that has it act as a capacitor. Like any other electrically-conductive object, a human body can store electric charge if insulated. The actual amount of capacitance varies with the surroundings; it would be low when standing on top of a pole with nothing nearb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5314955 |
Body capacitance However, body capacitance is very useful in the Theremin, a musical instrument in which it causes slight frequency shifts of the instrument's internal oscillators. One of them changes pitch, and the other causes loudness (volume) to change smoothly between silence and full amount. Capacitance of a huma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5314955 |
Kunstformen der Natur (known in English as Art Forms in Nature) is a book of lithographic and halftone prints by German biologist Ernst Haeckel. Originally published in sets of ten between 1899 and 1904 and collectively in two volumes in 1904, it consists of 100 prints of various organisms, many of which were first des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5318004 |
Kunstformen der Natur The first set included "Desmonema annasethe" (now "Cyanea annasethe"), a particularly striking jellyfish that Haeckel observed and described shortly after the death of his wife Anna Sethe. "Kunstformen der Natur" was influential in early 20th-century art, architecture, and design, bridging the gap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5318004 |
Cholesteric liquid crystal A cholesteric liquid crystal display (ChLCD) is a display containing a liquid crystal with a helical structure and which is therefore chiral. Cholesteric liquid crystals are also known as "chiral nematic liquid crystals". They organize in layers with no positional ordering within layers, but ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5322156 |
Cholesteric liquid crystal In 2009, Kent demonstrated the use of a ChLCD to cover the entire surface of a mobile phone, allowing it to change colours, and keep that colour even when power is cut off. The Industrial Technology Research Institute has developed a flexible ePaper called i2R based on ChLCD technology. ITRI ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5322156 |
Buran (wind) The buran in Russian (Persian: "بوران", Russian: буран, Italian: "buriana") is a wind which blows across Iran, eastern Asia, specifically Xinjiang, Siberia, and Kazakhstan. Over the tundra, it is also known as "пурга", purga. It is a wind of cold air, sometimes very strong, characteristic of the steppes of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323154 |
Merit Ptah (crater) Merit Ptah is an impact crater on Venus named in honor of the chief physician Merit Ptah in ancient Egypt. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5325108 |
Pseudovirion Pseudovirions are synthetic viruses used to inject genetic material, including DNA and RNA, with specific and desired traits into bacterial and eukaryotic cells. Pseudoviruses are closely related to viruses in structure and behavior but lack many characterists exhibited by true viruses, including the capab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5353898 |
Yoel Rephaeli is an Israeli-American cosmologist. He is a Professor of Physics at Tel Aviv University, Israel. Rephaeli studies the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect and the astrophysics of galaxy clusters. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5376849 |
Monin–Obukhov length The Obukhov length is used to describe the effects of buoyancy on turbulent flows, particularly in the lower tenth of the atmospheric boundary layer. It was first defined by Alexander Obukhov in 1946. It is also known as the because of its important role in the similarity theory developed by Monin ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5376959 |
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