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Colostrum There is currently much interest in the potential value of colostrum for the prevention and treatment of these conditions as it is derived from natural sources and can influence damaging factors through multiple pathways including nutritional support, immunological intervention (through its immunoglobulin and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=525722 |
Colostrum Although IGF-1 is not absorbed intact by the body, some studies suggest it stimulates the production of IGF-1 when taken as a supplement whereas others do not also has antioxidant components, such as lactoferrin and hemopexin, which binds free heme in the body. The Isle of Man had a local delicacy called "Gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=525722 |
Colostrum Clinical trials have shown that if the immunization is by surface antigens of the bacteria, the Bovine Powder can be used to make tablets capable of binding to the bacteria so that they are excreted in stools. This prevents the successful colonization of the gut, which would otherwise lead to bacteria releasi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=525722 |
Vladimir Kovalyonok Vladimir Vasiliyevich Kovalyonok (; ; born March 3, 1942 in Beloye, Minsk Oblast, Belorussian SSR) is a retired Soviet cosmonaut. He entered the Soviet space programme on July 5, 1967 and was commander of three missions. He retired from the cosmonaut team on June 23, 1984. From 1990 to 1992 he was a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=526903 |
Episodes (journal) Episodes is the quarterly journal of the International Union of Geological Sciences, published in Seoul, Korea. In circulation since 1978, Episodes is an international and interdisciplinary open access and free, both to submit and download, publication journal that covers all geoscience disciplines, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=529843 |
T-type asteroid T-type asteroids are rare inner-belt asteroids of unknown composition with dark, featureless and moderately red spectra, and a moderate absorption feature shortwards of 0.85 μm. No direct meteorite analog has been found to date. Thought to be anhydrous, they are considered to be related to P-types or D-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=532285 |
R-type asteroid R-type asteroids are moderately bright, relatively uncommon inner-belt asteroids that are spectrally intermediate between the V and A-type asteroids. The spectrum shows distinct olivine and pyroxene features at 1 and 2 micrometres, with a possibility of plagioclase. Shortwards of 0.7 μm the spectrum is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=532301 |
Q-type asteroid Q-type asteroids are relatively uncommon inner-belt asteroids with a strong, broad 1 micrometre olivine and pyroxene feature, and a spectral slope that indicates the presence of metal. There are absorption features shortwards and longwards of 0.7 μm, and the spectrum is generally intermediate between th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=532309 |
D-type asteroid D-type asteroids have a very low albedo and a featureless reddish spectrum. It has been suggested that they have a composition of organic-rich silicates, carbon and anhydrous silicates, possibly with water ice in their interiors. D-type asteroids are found in the outer asteroid belt and beyond; examples... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=532322 |
G-type asteroid G-type asteroids are a relatively uncommon type of carbonaceous asteroid that makes up approximately 5% of asteroids. The most notable asteroid in this class is 1 Ceres. Generally similar to the C-type objects, but contain a strong ultraviolet absorption feature below 0.5 μm. An absorption feature aroun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=532323 |
F-type asteroid F-type asteroids are a relatively uncommon type of carbonaceous asteroid, falling into the wider C-group. F-type asteroids have spectra generally similar to those of the B-type asteroids, but lack the "water" absorption feature around 3 μm indicative of hydrated minerals, and differ in the low wavelengt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=532325 |
Place theory (hearing) Place theory is a theory of hearing that states that our perception of sound depends on where each component frequency produces vibrations along the basilar membrane. By this theory, the pitch of a sound, such as a human voice or a musical tone, is determined by the places where the membrane vibr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=533206 |
Place theory (hearing) The two can be controlled independently using cochlear implants: pulses with a range of rates can be applied via electrodes distributed along the membrane. Experiments using implant recipients showed that, at low stimulation rates, ratings of pitch on a pitch scale were proportional to the log of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=533206 |
Sedna Planitia is a large lowland area of Venus, south of Ishtar Terra. It is thought to be lava-covered and similar to a lunar mare. Its name is derived from the Inuit sea goddess. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=538459 |
Emanuel Kayser Friedrich Heinrich (March 26, 1845November 29, 1927) was a German geologist and palaeontologist, born in Königsberg. He was educated at the universities of Halle, Heidelberg and Berlin, where in 1871 he qualified as a lecturer in geology. From 1873 he worked as a state geologist for the "Preußischen Geol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=538671 |
Cloud formation and climate change Nephology (; from the Greek word "nephos" for 'cloud') is the study of clouds and cloud formation. British meteorologist Luke Howard was a major researcher within this field, establishing a cloud classification system. While this branch of meteorology still exists today, the term neph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=538820 |
Pol Duwez (11 December 1907 – 31 December 1984) was a Belgian-born materials scientist. While working at Caltech in 1960, he first introduced metallic glasses made through rapid liquid cooling using a technique known as Splat quenching. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=541658 |
Visconte Maggiolo (1478 – after 1549), also spelled "Maiollo" and "Maiolo", was a Genoese cartographer. He was born in Genoa and maybe he was a fellow sailor of explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano. In 1511 he moved to Naples, where he produced three extant nautical atlases. Some historians say that he died of malaria in 15... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542652 |
Protein purification is a series of processes intended to isolate one or a few proteins from a complex mixture, usually cells, tissues or whole organisms. is vital for the characterization of the function, structure and interactions of the protein of interest. The purification process may separate the protein and non-p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542744 |
Protein purification If the protein of interest is not secreted by the organism into the surrounding solution, the first step of each purification process is the disruption of the cells containing the protein. Depending on how fragile the protein is and how stable the cells are, one could, for instance, use one of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542744 |
Protein purification During the ammonium sulfate precipitation step, hydrophobic groups present on the proteins are exposed to the atmosphere, attracting other hydrophobic groups; the result is formation of an aggregate of hydrophobic components. In this case, the protein precipitate will typically be visible to the na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542744 |
Protein purification When a vessel (typically a tube or bottle) containing a mixture of proteins or other particulate matter, such as bacterial cells, is rotated at high speeds, the inertia of each particle yields a force in the direction of the particles velocity that is proportional to its mass. The tendency of a giv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542744 |
Protein purification Sucrose gradient centrifugation — a linear concentration gradient of sugar (typically sucrose, glycerol, or a silica based density gradient media, like Percoll) is generated in a tube such that the highest concentration is on the bottom and lowest on top. Percoll is a trademark owned by GE Healthca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542744 |
Protein purification Choice of a starting material is key to the design of a purification process. In a plant or animal, a particular protein usually isn't distributed homogeneously throughout the body; different organs or tissues have higher or lower concentrations of the protein. Use of only the tissues or organs wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542744 |
Protein purification Thirdly, proteins may be separated by polarity/hydrophobicity via high performance liquid chromatography or reversed-phase chromatography. Usually a protein purification protocol contains one or more chromatographic steps. The basic procedure in chromatography is to flow the solution containing the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542744 |
Protein purification HIC media is amphiphilic, with both hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions, allowing for separation of proteins based on their surface hydrophobicity. Target proteins and their product aggregate species tend to have different hydrophobic properties and removing them via HIC further purifies the protei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542744 |
Protein purification The length of retention for each solute depends upon the strength of its charge. The most weakly charged compounds will elute first, followed by those with successively stronger charges. Because of the nature of the separating mechanism, pH, buffer type, buffer concentration, and temperature all pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542744 |
Protein purification Detergent-solubilized proteins can be allowed to bind to a chromatography resin that has been modified to have a covalently attached lectin. Proteins that do not bind to the lectin are washed away and then specifically bound glycoproteins can be eluted by adding a high concentration of a sugar that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542744 |
Protein purification Immunoprecipitation is quite capable of generating an extremely specific interaction which usually results in binding only the desired protein. The purified tagged proteins can then easily be separated from the other proteins in solution and later eluted back into clean solution. When the tags are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542744 |
Protein purification This simply removes all volatile components, leaving the proteins behind. Ultrafiltration concentrates a protein solution using selective permeable membranes. The function of the membrane is to let the water and small molecules pass through while retaining the protein. The solution is forced agains... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542744 |
Protein purification For example, imidazole (commonly used for purification of polyhistidine-tagged recombinant proteins) is an amino acid analogue and at low concentrations will interfere with the bicinchoninic acid (BCA) assay for total protein quantification. Impurities in low-grade imidazole will also absorb at 280... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542744 |
Protein purification Preparative methods to purify large amounts of protein, require the extraction of the protein from the electrophoretic gel. This extraction may involve excision of the gel containing a band, or eluting the band directly off the gel as it runs off the end of the gel. In the context of a purification... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542744 |
Eadie–Hofstee diagram In biochemistry, an (also Woolf–Eadie–Augustinsson–Hofstee or Eadie–Augustinsson plot) is a graphical representation of enzyme kinetics. In the diagram the reaction rate is plotted as a function of the ratio between rate and substrate concentration: where "v" represents reaction rate, "K" is the M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=544919 |
Eadie–Hofstee diagram Also, experimental error or uncertainty will propagate unevenly and become larger over the abscissa thereby giving more weight to smaller values of "v"/[S]. Therefore, the typical measure of goodness of fit for linear regression, the correlation coefficient "R", is not applicable. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=544919 |
Hoffmann-La Roche F. AG is a Swiss multinational healthcare company that operates worldwide under two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics. Its holding company, Roche Holding AG, has bearer shares listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange. The company headquarters are located in Basel. The company controls the American bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=548739 |
Hoffmann-La Roche It manufactures and sells several cancer drugs and is a leader in this field. In 1956, the first antidepressant, iproniazid, was accidentally created during an experiment while synthesizing isoniazid. Originally, it had been intended to create a more efficient drug at combatting Tuberculosis. Iproniaz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=548739 |
Hoffmann-La Roche Within 2 years of its approval (and that of ritonavir 4 months later) annual deaths from AIDS in the United States fell from over 50,000 to approximately 18,000 On 28 April 1995 sold Roche Biomedical Laboratories, Inc. to National Health Laboratories Holdings Inc. (which then changed its name to Labor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=548739 |
Hoffmann-La Roche On 12 March 2009 Roche agreed to fully acquire Genentech, which it had held a majority stake since 1990, after eight months of negotiations. As a result of the Genentech acquisition, Roche moved its Palo Alto based research facilities to their campus that straddles the border between Clifton, New Jers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=548739 |
Hoffmann-La Roche Later, in September, Genentech announced it would acquire Arrayit Corporation. On 7 April 2014, Roche announced its intention to acquire IQuum for up to $450 million, as well as the rights to an experimental drug (ORY-1001) from Spanish company Oryzon Genomics for $21 million and up to $500 million in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=548739 |
Hoffmann-La Roche for $445M, focussing on next generation sequencing and polymerase chain reaction applications. In October 2015, the company acquired Adheron Therapeutics for $105 million (plus up to $475 million in milestone payments). In January 2016, the company announced it would acquire Tensha Therapeutics for $1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=548739 |
Hoffmann-La Roche In February 2019, the business announced it would acquire gene therapy company, Spark Therapeutics, for ($114.50 per share) adding Spark's gene therapy portfolio to its previous acquired assets. Spark has an already approved treatment for Leber’s congenital amaurosis, Luxturna - priced at per patient ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=548739 |
Hoffmann-La Roche Drugs produced by Roche include: Diabetes management products produced by Roche under the Accu-Chek brand include Accu-Chek Mobile, Accu-Chek Aviva, Accu-Chek Compact Plus, Accu-Chek Aviva Expert, Accu-Chek Active, Accu-Chek Advantage, Accu-Chek Performa, Accu-Chek Aviva Nano, Accu-Chek Performa Nano ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=548739 |
Hoffmann-La Roche The company is expanding its activities in joint research projects within the framework of the Innovative Medicines Initiative of EFPIA and the European Commission. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=548739 |
Bioship A bioship is a type of spacecraft or starship described in science fiction. Bioships differ from other types of spacecraft in that they are composed, either predominantly or totally, of biological components, rather than being constructed from manufactured materials. Because of this, they nearly always have a d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=551450 |
Bioship The Dolans are powerful bioengineered combat spaceships that are grown from the same synthetic genetic material as their extraterrestrial commanders. Different types of bioships are a recurrent feature in later stages of the Perry Rhodan universe. "The Night's Dawn Trilogy": the Edenist Voidhawk and Mercenary B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=551450 |
Bioship Use of organic technology by these races signified their significant advancement over the younger races since their ships are very resilient, generate their own power, very maneuverable, have devastatingly powerful weapons (including variants that are capable of destroying planets), regenerate, and have a measu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=551450 |
F-center An F-center, Farbe center or color center (from the original German "Farbzentrum", where "Farbe" means "color" and "zentrum" means center) is a type of crystallographic defect in which an anionic vacancy in a crystal lattice is occupied by one or more unpaired electrons. Electrons in such a vacancy tend to abs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=552965 |
F-center This trapping of the electrons by anion vacancies results in the formation of F-centers; that is, the electrons released in this process diffuse to the vacant sites where negatively charged ions (i.e., anions) normally reside. Ionizing radiation can also produce F-centers. An H-center (a halogen interstitial) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=552965 |
Immunofluorescence is a technique used for light microscopy with a fluorescence microscope and is used primarily on microbiological samples. This technique uses the specificity of antibodies to their antigen to target fluorescent dyes to specific biomolecule targets within a cell, and therefore allows visualization of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=553628 |
Immunofluorescence can also be used as a "semi-quantitative" method to gain insight into the levels and localization patterns of DNA methylation since it is a more time-consuming method than true quantitative methods and there is some subjectivity in the analysis of the levels of methylation. can be used in combination... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=553628 |
Immunofluorescence There are two classes of immunofluorescence techniques, primary (or direct) and secondary (or indirect). Primary (direct) immunofluorescence uses a single, primary antibody, chemically linked to a fluorophore. The primary antibody recognizes the target molecule (antigen) and binds to a specific regio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=553628 |
Immunofluorescence Secondary (indirect) immunofluorescence uses two antibodies; the unlabeled first (primary) antibody specifically binds the target molecule, and the secondary antibody, which carries the fluorophore, recognizes the primary antibody and binds to it. Multiple secondary antibodies can bind a single prima... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=553628 |
Immunofluorescence For example, a researcher might create primary antibodies in a goat that recognize several antigens, and then employ dye-coupled rabbit secondary antibodies that recognize the goat antibody constant region ("rabbit anti-goat" antibodies). The researcher may then create a second set of primary antibod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=553628 |
Immunofluorescence , dead) cells when structures within the cell are to be visualized because antibodies do not penetrate the cell membrane when reacting with fluorescent labels. Antigenic material must be fixed firmly on the site of its natural localization inside the cell. Intact antibodies can also be too large to d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=553628 |
Immunofluorescence Super-resolution methods generally refer to a microscope's ability to produce resolution below the Abbe limit (a limit placed on light due to its wavelength). This diffraction limit is about 200-300 nm in the lateral direction and 500-700 nm in the axial direction. This limit is comparable or larger ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=553628 |
Poling (metallurgy) Poling is a metallurgical method employed in the purification of copper which contains copper oxide as an impurity and also in the purification of tin ("Sn") which contains tin oxide (stannic oxide or "SnO") as an impurity. The impure metal, usually in the form of molten blister copper, is placed in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=553679 |
Poling (metallurgy) Also upper surface can be covered with coke to prevent reoxidation of metal. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=553679 |
Pierre Berthier (; 3 July 1782, Nemours, Seine-et-Marne – 24 August 1861) was a French geologist and mining engineer. was born in Nemours. After studying at the École Polytechnique, he went to the École des Mines, where he became chief of the laboratory in 1816. In 1821, while working in the village of Les Baux-de-Prov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=555120 |
Potential evaporation (PE) or potential evapotranspiration (PET) is defined as the amount of evaporation that would occur if a sufficient water source were available. If the actual evapotranspiration is considered the net result of atmospheric demand for moisture from a surface and the ability of the surface to supply ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=557896 |
Potential evaporation The Penman–Monteith equation equation refines weather based potential evapotranspiration (PET) estimates of vegetated land areas. It is widely regarded as one of the most accurate models, in terms of estimates. The Priestley–Taylor equation equation was developed as a substitute to the Penman–Mont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=557896 |
Potential evaporation The lowest and turbulent part of the atmosphere, the atmospheric boundary layer, is not a closed box, but constantly brings in dry air from higher up in the atmosphere towards the surface. As water evaporates more easily into a dry atmosphere, evapotranspiration is enhanced. This explains the larg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=557896 |
Lactococcus virus P008 is a phage specific to "Lactococcus lactis", a lactic acid bacteria used in the first stage of making cheese. P008 and related species are responsible for important loss each year in cheese factories. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=559368 |
Earth pigment Earth pigments are naturally occurring minerals containing metal oxides, principally iron oxides and manganese oxides, that have been used since prehistoric times as pigments. The primary types are ochre, sienna and umber. Earth pigments are known for their fast drying time in oil painting, relative inexp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=561873 |
Biogenic substance A biogenic substance is a product made by or of life forms. The term encompasses constituents, secretions, and metabolites of plants or animals. In context of molecular biology, biogenic substances are referred to as biomolecules. An abiogenic substance or process does not result from the present or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=563239 |
Crystalloluminescence is the effect of luminescence produced during crystallization. The phenomena was first reported in the 1800s from the rapid crystallization of potassium sulfate from an aqueous solution. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=563728 |
Expression vector An expression vector, otherwise known as an expression construct, is usually a plasmid or virus designed for gene expression in cells. The vector is used to introduce a specific gene into a target cell, and can commandeer the cell's mechanism for protein synthesis to produce the protein encoded by the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564380 |
Expression vector The cloned gene may be transferred from a specialized cloning vector to an expression vector, although it is possible to clone directly into an expression vector. The cloning process is normally performed in "Escherichia coli". Vectors used for protein production in organisms other than "E.coli" may h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564380 |
Expression vector Gene expression however may also be constitutive (i.e. protein is constantly expressed) in some expression vectors. Low level of constitutive protein synthesis may occur even in expression vectors with tightly controlled promoters. After the expression of the gene product, it is usually necessary to p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564380 |
Expression vector Different organisms may be used to express a gene's target protein, and the expression vector used will therefore have elements specific for use in the particular organism. The most commonly used organism for protein production is the bacterium "Escherichia coli". However, not all proteins can be succ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564380 |
Expression vector Another possibility is to manipulate the redox environment of the cytoplasm. Other more sophisticated systems are also being developed; such systems may allow for the expression of proteins previously thought impossible in "E. coli", such as glycosylated proteins. The promoters used for these vector a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564380 |
Expression vector However, when 2 or more plasmids are used, each plasmid needs to use a different antibiotic selection as well as a different origin of replication, otherwise one of the plasmids may not be stably maintained. Many commonly used plasmids are based on the ColE1 replicon and are therefore incompatible wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564380 |
Expression vector The vectors used in yeast two-hybrid system contain fusion partners for two cloned genes that allow the transcription of a reporter gene when there is interaction between the two proteins expressed from the cloned genes. Baculovirus, a rod-shaped virus which infects insect cells, is used as the expres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564380 |
Expression vector The "Agrobacterium" provides a mechanism for transformation, integration of into the plant genome, and the promoters for its "vir" genes may also be used for the cloned genes. Concerns over the transfer of bacterial or viral genetic material into the plant however have led to the development of vector... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564380 |
Expression vector It is of particular use in producing membrane-associating proteins that require chaperones for proper folding and stability as well as containing numerous post-translational modifications. The downside, however, is the low yield of product in comparison to prokaryotic vectors as well as the costly nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564380 |
Expression vector The advantage of such system is that protein may be produced much faster than those produced "in vivo" since it does not require time to culture the cells, but it is also more expensive. Vectors used for "E. coli" expression can be used in this system although specifically designed vectors for this sy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564380 |
Expression vector Examples from the past include prion contamination in growth hormone extracted from pituitary glands harvested from human cadavers, which caused Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in patients receiving treatment for dwarfism, and viral contaminants in clotting factor VIII isolated from human blood that resulte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564380 |
Expression vector Transgenic animals have also been produced to study animal biochemical processes and human diseases, or used to produce pharmaceuticals and other proteins. They may also be engineered to have advantageous or useful traits. Green fluorescent protein is sometimes used as tags which results in animal tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564380 |
Brian Heap Sir Robert Brian Heap, (born 27 February 1935) is a British biological scientist. He was educated at New Mills Grammar School in the Peak District, Derbyshire, and the University of Nottingham (where he earned his BSc and PhD). He also has an MA and a ScD from the University of Cambridge and Honorary DScs fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=566872 |
Brian Heap was President of the Institute of Biology (now Royal Society of Biology) 1996-1998, UK Representative on the European Science Foundation Strasbourg, 1994–97, a member of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics 1996-2001, UK Representative on the NATO Science Committee 1998-2005, member of the Scientific Advisory P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=566872 |
Kale (moon) Kale , also known as ', is a retrograde irregular satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered in 2001 by astronomers Scott S. Sheppard, D. Jewitt, and J. Kleyna, and was originally designated as '. Kale is about 2 kilometres in diameter, and orbits Jupiter at an average distance of 22,409 Mm in 685.324 days, at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=571107 |
Celestial event A celestial event is an astronomical phenomenon of interest that involves one or more celestial objects. Some examples of celestial events are the cyclical phases of the Moon, solar and lunar eclipses, transits and occultations, planetary oppositions and conjunctions, meteor showers, and comet flybys, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573924 |
Jean Bricmont (; born 12 April 1952) is a Belgian theoretical physicist and philosopher of science. Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain (UCLouvain), he works on renormalization group and nonlinear differential equations. Since 2004, He is a member of the Division of Sciences of the Royal Academy of Belgium.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=574226 |
MIRACL MIRACL, or Mid-Infrared Advanced Chemical Laser, is a directed energy weapon developed by the US Navy. It is a deuterium fluoride laser, a type of chemical laser. The laser first became operational in 1980. It can produce over a megawatt of output for up to 70 seconds, making it the most powerful continuous wave... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=578365 |
Cosmography is the science that maps the general features of the cosmos or universe, describing both heaven and Earth (but without encroaching on geography or astronomy). The 14th-century work "'Aja'ib al-makhluqat wa-ghara'ib al-mawjudat" by Persian physician Zakariya al-Qazwini is considered to be an early work of co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=585226 |
Cosmography In 1659, Thomas Porter published a smaller, but extensive "Compendious Description of the Whole World", which also included a chronology of world events from Creation forward. These were all part of a major trend in the European Renaissance to explore (and perhaps comprehend) the known world. The word was a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=585226 |
Cosmography To legitimate the expansion at high redshift, they introduced an improved redshift parametrization y = z/(1 + z) cosmography in the y-based expansion is mathematically safe and useful, because of 0 < y < 1, even for the high redshift. Later, some other methods of redshift were also proposed There are also o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=585226 |
Cosmography The image shown in this painting is one that represents a world that is beyond the period's urban reality's framework. However, the architectural forms found in the painting and the placement in the painted city were an accurate representation of what was the order of things at the time. The perceived order... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=585226 |
Capillary number In fluid dynamics, the capillary number (Ca) is a dimensionless quantity representing the relative effect of viscous drag forces versus surface tension forces acting across an interface between a liquid and a gas, or between two immiscible liquids. For example, an air bubble in a liquid flow tends to b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=585453 |
Carl Jakob Sundevall (22 October 1801, Högestad – 2 February 1875) was a Swedish zoologist. Sundevall studied at Lund University, where he became a Ph.D. in 1823. After traveling to East Asia, he studied medicine, graduating as Doctor of Medicine in 1830. He was employed at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=588214 |
Trinculo (moon) Trinculo is a retrograde irregular satellite of Uranus. It was discovered by a group of astronomers led by Holman, "et al." on 13 August 2001, and given the temporary designation S/2001 U 1. Confirmed as Uranus XXI, it was named after the drunken jester Trinculo in William Shakespeare's play "The Tempes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=589883 |
Alpine garden An alpine garden (or alpinarium, alpinum) is a domestic or botanical garden specialising in the collection and cultivation of alpine plants growing naturally at high altitudes around the world, such as in the Caucasus, Pyrenees, Rocky Mountains, Alps, Himalayas and Andes. An alpine garden tries to imitate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=594717 |
Dry distillation is the heating of solid materials to produce gaseous products (which may condense into liquids or solids). The method may involve pyrolysis or thermolysis, or it may not (for instance, a simple mixture of ice and glass could be separated without breaking any chemical bonds, but organic matter contains ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=595145 |
Dry distillation If coal is gasified to make coal gas or carbonized to make coke then Coal tar is among the by-products. When wood is heated above 270°C it begins to carbonize. If air is absent, the final product (since there is no oxygen present to react with the wood) is charcoal. If air (which contains oxygen) is pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=595145 |
Dry distillation The by-products can be recovered by passing the off-gases through a series of water to yield so-called wood vinegar (pyroligneous acid) and the non-condensible wood gas passes on through the condenser and may be burned to provide heat. The wood gas is only usable as fuel and consists typically of 17% m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=595145 |
Rudolf Trümpy (16 August 1921 – 30 January 2009) was a Swiss geologist, who was born in the small Swiss town of Glarus. He graduated from the ETH Zürich in the late 1940s with a thesis titled: “Der Lias der Glarner Alpen”. From 1947 to 1953 he spent his post-doctoral years in Lausanne before being appointed professor a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=598258 |
BD (company) Becton, Dickinson and Company, commonly known as BD, is an American medical technology company that manufactures and sells medical devices, instrument systems, and reagents. BD also provides consulting and analytics services in certain geographies. Founded in 1897 and headquartered in Franklin Lakes, New J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=598704 |
BD (company) In 1904, BD acquired the Philadelphia Surgical Company. This very first acquisition and other early acquisitions significantly expanded the company's manufacturing ability and product offering. Two years later, BD incorporated in the state of New Jersey and built a manufacturing facility in East Rutherford... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=598704 |
BD (company) Dickinson, Jr. and Henry P. Becton was also a time of significant product innovation. In 1950, BD's first sterile disposable product, a blood collection set, was developed and sold to the American Red Cross. In 1954, BD introduced the first completely disposable syringe made of glass: BD Hypak. This innova... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=598704 |
BD (company) Five years later BD moved its corporate headquarters to Franklin Lakes, New Jersey (current HQ location.) Also in 1986, BD acquired Fabersanitas Industrial, a major Spanish syringe manufacturer as well as Deseret Medical, a vascular access devices manufacturer. The last three years of the 1980s also showed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=598704 |
BD (company) On December 20, 2000, BD signed an agreement to acquire Gentest Corporation, a privately held company serving the life sciences market in the areas of drug metabolism and toxicology testing of pharmaceutical candidates. During that time, BD also got heavily involved in global health issues announcing a fiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=598704 |
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