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Heel effect This results in a much less apparent anode heel effect, though the effective focal spot size is increased. Almost all modern diagnostic x-ray machines exhibit the heel effect to some degree. Its effect on images is mostly avoided through consideration of patient positioning. For example, when imaging a foot...
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Ana Maria Rey is a Colombian theoretical physicist, professor at University of Colorado at Boulder and a JILA fellow. Rey was the first Hispanic woman to win the Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in 2019. Rey earned a bachelor's degree in physics at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá in 1999. On July 29, 2000, Rey ...
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Brocadia fulgida "Candidatus Brocadia fulgida" is a bacterial species that performs the anammox process. Fatty acids constitute an enrichment culture for "B. fulgida". The species' 16S ribosomal RNA sequence has been determined. During the anammox process, it oxidizes acetate at the highest rate and out-competes other ...
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World Cell Race The is a competition among labs to see which cell type can travel 600 microns the fastest. The idea is to promote research into how to make cells move faster to aid immune system response or slow metastatic cancers. A fork with a dead end was added to the course in 2013 to assess responses to growth-fac...
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Simian-T-lymphotropic virus Simian-T-lymphotropic viruses, also Simian T-cell leukemia viruses (STLVs), are retroviruses closely related to the human sexually and breastfeeding transmissible viruses HTLV. They have subtypes 1 through 4 as compared to HTLV 1 through 4, and each subtype has its own serovars. Together the...
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Charles Prévost was a French chemist. He was born on 20 March 1899 at Champlitte, Haute-Saône and died in 1983. Prévost was the son of Georges Prévost (1873–1959) and Marie Zimmermann (1873–1932). He married Eléonore Fumée (1899–1966), with whom he had two children. After studying at Lycée Louis-le-Grand he was a stude...
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Fervidobacterium islandicum is a species of extremely thermophilic anaerobic bacteria, first isolated from an Icelandic hot spring. Its cells are Gram-negative motile rods, about 1.8 μm in length, and 0.6 μm in width.
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Edward Pigott (1753–1825) was an English astronomer notable for being one of the founders of the study of variable stars . Son of the astronomer Nathaniel Pigott, Pigott's work focused on variable stars. Educated in France with a mother from Louvain, the family moved to York in 1781. Despite their significant age diffe...
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Infrared Science Archive The (IRSA) is the primary archive for the infrared and submillimeter astronomical projects of NASA, the space agency of the United States. IRSA curates the science products of over 15 missions, including the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE), the Infrared A...
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BioMotiv is an accelerator company associated with The Harrington Project, a $340 million initiative centered at University Hospitals of Cleveland. Therapeutic opportunities are identified through relationships with The Harrington Discovery Institute, university and research institutions, disease foundations, and indus...
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BioMotiv Ron Harrington, BioMotiv's Board of Managers Chairman and The Harrington Project's lead, led Edgepark Medical Supplies and after growing the business successfully, sold the company in 2011 to Goldman Sachs and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (which renamed the company AssuraMed and sold it again in 2014 to Cardinal H...
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BioMotiv Today, BioMotiv's subsidiary portfolio includes ten companies across five indication areas: BioMotiv's strategic partners include leaders in the drug development and pharmaceutical industries, as well as disease foundations. In September 2014, entered into its first strategic partnership with Takeda Pharmaceut...
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List of recorded icebergs by area This is a list of icebergs by total area. In 1956, an iceberg in the Antarctic was reported to be an estimated long and wide. Recorded before the era of satellite photography, the 1956 iceberg's estimated dimensions are less reliable.
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National Institute of Biotechnology (NIB)() is a governmental institute in Bangladesh under the Ministry of Science and Technology. It was established in 1999 by the government as part of an ADP( agricultural development project )project to intensify the biotechnological research in the country. Dr. Naiyyum Choudhury w...
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Putnisite is a mineral composed of strontium, calcium, chromium, sulfur, carbon, oxygen and hydrogen. It was discovered on the Polar Bear Peninsula in Shire of Dundas, Western Australia in 2007 during mining activity. Following identification and recognition by the IMA in 2012 the mineral was named after mineralogists ...
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Hemihelix A hemihelix is a quasi-helical curved geometric shape characterized by repeated tendril perversions.
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Tarsus (crater) Tarsus is an impact crater in the Oxia Palus quadrangle of Mars, located at 23.12° N and 40.26° W. It is 18.55 kilometers in diameter and was named after the city of Tarsus, Turkey.
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Poona (crater) Poona is an impact crater in Chryse Planitia in the Lunae Palus quadrangle of Mars, located at 23.93° N and 52.32° W. It measures 19.87 kilometers in diameter and was named after the city of Pune, Maharashtra, India.
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Belz (crater) Belz Crater is an impact crater in the Oxia Palus quadrangle of Mars, located at 23.93° N and 43.23° W. It is 10.21 km in diameter and was named after the city of Belz, Lviv Oblast, Ukraine.
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Emil Hermann Zeck (16 November 1891 – 3 September 1963) was an Australian entomologist and biological illustrator. He was highly respected for his beautiful and scientifically accurate illustrations, especially of insects. Zeck was born in Sydney. His artistic talent was recognised early and from 1908 to 1923 he worked...
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Lela Viola Barton (1901–1967) was an American botanist who specialized in seed germination and storage. Lela Barton was born in Farmington, Washington County, Arkansas, on 14 November 1901, the third of five children born to Gaston Reuben and Mary Fannie (née Miller) Barton. Barton worked at the Boyce Thompson Institut...
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Fermi ball In cosmology, Fermi balls are hypothetical objects that may have been created in the early history of the universe by spontaneous symmetry breaking. One paper has described them as "charged SLAC-bag type structures".
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SLAC bag model The is a simple theoretical model for a possible structure for hadrons. The MIT bag model is another similar model. The "SLAC" in the name stands for Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.
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Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum The (LKCNHM) (Chinese: 李光前自然历史博物馆) is a museum of natural history at the Kent Ridge Campus of the National University of Singapore. Officially opened on 18 April 2015, it houses the Raffles Natural History Collection. The idea for a natural history collection was first mooted by Si...
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Maxwell Sydney Moulds is an Australian entomologist. The majority of his books are written about Cicadas. led a morphological analysis of the genus and discovered the cicadas separation naturally into clades according to biogeographical area.
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Iceberg A-38 The A-38 was a large iceberg that split from the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 1998. The iceberg, more than 144 km long and 48 km wide, was the largest iceberg that had been observed in a decade. By October 22, 1998, A-38B had started to break off the original iceberg. The pieces drifted about ...
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Theodor Otto Thieme Theodor Alexander Otto Thieme ( 24 January 1857, Oldisleben – 1 July 1907, Berlin?) was a German entomologist. Thieme was a teacher (oberlehrer). He specialised in the Coleoptera and Satyrinae of the neotropics. His work on Pronophilina is especially important. His collections are variously held by ...
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Falk Herwig (born 1969) is a Canadian astrophysicist who is known for his researches at the University of Victoria. He has over 200 peer-reviewed articles which brought him an h-index of 37. In 1998 he and another astrophysicist, Thomas Driebe, described the evolution of helium white dwarfs and two years later publishe...
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2014 Ontario fireball On 4 May 2014 around 4:17pm (EDT) a daylight bolide occurred near Ontario. The meteoroid was estimated to be roughly in diameter. The air burst was estimated to be equivalent to approximately 10–20 tons of TNT. The meteor was first seen in Peterborough and traveled on a southwest-to-northeast traj...
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Anaerolinea thermolimosa is a thermophilic, non-spore-forming, non-motile, Gram-negative, filamentous bacteria with type strain IMO-1 (=JCM 12577 =DSM 16554).
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Levilinea saccharolytica is a mesophilic, non-spore-forming, non-motile, Gram-negative, filamentous bacteria with type strain KIBI-1 (=JCM 12578 =DSM 16555), the type species of its genus.
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Leptolinea tardivitalis is a mesophilic, non-spore-forming, non-motile, Gram-negative, filamentous bacteria with type strain YMTK-2 (=JCM 12579 =DSM 16556), the type species of its genus.
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Multi-messenger astronomy is astronomy based on the coordinated observation and interpretation of disparate "messenger" signals. Interplanetary probes can visit objects within the Solar System, but beyond that, information must rely on "extrasolar messengers". The four extrasolar messengers are electromagnetic radiatio...
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10924 virus The is a strain of "Latino mammarenavirus", of family "Arenaviridae". It's host is "Calomys callosus" and it was isolated in Bolivia.
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3076 virus The is a strain of "Mobala virus" in the genus "Arenavirus". It was isolated from a species of "Praomys" in the Central African Republic.
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NGC 4485 is an irregular galaxy located in the constellation of Canes Venatici. It is interacting with the spiral galaxy NGC 4490 and as a result both galaxies are distorted and are undergoing intense star formation.
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Amidicity The amidicity scale is a computational method for calculating the strength of an amide bond in an organic compound on a linear scale. It is analogous to aromaticity. It is based on the computed enthalpy of hydrogenation when compared to the reference compounds dimethylacetamide and azaadamantane-2-one. If an ...
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Climatological normal is a 30-year average of a weather variable. Climatological normals are used as an average or baseline to evaluate climate events and provide context for year-to-year variability. Normals can be calculated for a variety of weather variables including temperature and precipitation and rely on data f...
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Pump inducer An inducer is the axial inlet portion of a centrifugal pump rotor, the function of which is to raise the inlet head by an amount sufficient to prevent significant cavitation in the following pump stage. It is used in applications in which the inlet pressure of a pump is close to the vapor pressure of the p...
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3099 virus The is a strain of "Mobala mammarenavirus" in the genus "Mammarenavirus".
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3739 virus The or Pichinde virus - 3739 is a strain of "Cali mammarenavirus" in the genus "Mammarenavirus".
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63U-11 virus The (63UV) is a strain of Marituba virus in the genus Orthobunyavirus.
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75V 2621 virus The (V2621V) is a strain of Gamboa virus in the genus Bunyavirus.
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Human echovirus 9 Echovirus 9 (also known as E-9, E.C.H.O. 9, and formerly Coxsackie A23 or A23 virus) is a serotype of echovirus. When first discovered, it was labelled as a coxsackie A virus, A23. It was later discovered that A23 was an echovirus antigenically identical to the already-known echovirus 9. Echovirus 9 i...
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Abadina virus The (ABAV) is a serotype of "Palyam virus" in the genus "Orbivirus" belonging to the Palyam serogroup. It was considered a distinct species of virus until 1984. The virus is isolated from "Culicoides" sp.
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Abney virus The is a virus, isolated from an anal swab of a child named Abney with upper respiratory illness, which became a prototype strain of Orthoreovirus type 3.
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Above Maiden virus The (ABMV) is a serotype of "Great Island virus" in the genus "Orbivirus". It should not be confused with Maiden virus (MDNV) which is a different strain of "Great Island virus".
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Absettarov virus The (ABSV) is a strain of tick-borne encephalitis virus (Far Eastern subtype) in the genus "Flavivirus". It was isolated in 1951 in Leningrad from the blood of a 3-year-old boy with biphasic fever and signs of meningitis. It can be found in Sweden, Finland, Poland, former Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Austr...
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Abu Hammad virus The (AHV) is a strain in the genus "Orthonairovirus" belonging to the Dera Ghazi Khan serogroup. It was isolated from a tick, "Argas hermanni", in Egypt. This virus doesn't cause disease in humans.
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Abu Mina virus The (ABMV) is a strain in the genus "Orthonairovirus" belonging to the Dera Ghazi Khan serogroup. This virus has not been reported to cause disease in humans.
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Acado virus The (ACDV) is a serotype of "Corriparta virus" in the genus "Orbivirus" in the Corriparta serogroup. Isolated from "Culex antennatus" and "C. univittatus neavi" in Ethiopia. Not reported to cause disease in humans.
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Acara orthobunyavirus (ACAV) is a species in the genus "Orthobunyavirus", belonging to the Capim serogroup. It is isolated from sentinel mice, Culex species, and the rodent "Nectomys squamipes" in Pará, Brazil and in Panama. The symptoms of the Acará virus is death. Sometimes reported to cause disease in humans.
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Acatinga virus The (ACTV) is a probable species in the genus "Orbivirus", isolated from phlebotomine sandflies in the Amazon region of Brazil. Antigenically related to Changuinola virus. This virus have not reported to cause disease in humans.
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Acciptrid herpesvirus 1 (AcHV-1) is an unaccepted species of virus suggested to belong to the order "Herpesvirales" and family "Herpesviridae". It was isolated from a bald eagle ("Haliaeetus leucocephalus").
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Acid-stable equine picornavirus (EqPV) is a member virus of "Erbovirus A" in the family "Picornaviridae".
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Deinococcus saxicola is a species of low temperature and drought-tolerating, UV-resistant bacteria from Antarctica. It is Gram-positive, non-motile and coccoid-shaped. Its type strain is AA-1444 (DSM 15974).
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De materia medica (Latin name for the Greek work Περὶ ὕλης ἰατρικῆς, "Peri hulēs iatrikēs", both meaning "On Medical Material") is a pharmacopoeia of medicinal plants and the medicines that can be obtained from them. The five-volume work was written between 50 and 70 CE by Pedanius Dioscorides, a Greek physician in the...
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De materia medica Several manuscripts and early printed versions of "De materia medica" survive, including the illustrated Vienna Dioscurides manuscript written in the original Greek in sixth-century Constantinople; it was used there by the Byzantines as a hospital text for just over a thousand years. Sir Arthur Hill s...
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De materia medica While being reproduced in manuscript form through the centuries, the text was often supplemented with commentary and minor additions from Arabic and Indian sources. Several illustrated manuscripts of "De materia medica" survive. The most famous is the lavishly illustrated Vienna Dioscurides (the "Juli...
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De materia medica The work presents about 600 medicinal plants in all, along with some animals and mineral substances, and around 1000 medicines made from these sources. Botanists have not always found Dioscorides' plants easy to identify from his short descriptions, partly because he had naturally described plants and...
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De materia medica Its effects are summarized, accompanied by a caution: Dioscorides then describes how to tell a good from a counterfeit preparation. He mentions the recommendations of other physicians, Diagoras (according to Eristratus), Andreas, and Mnesidemus, only to dismiss them as false and not borne out by exper...
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De materia medica They include what are probably cardamom, nard, valerian, cassia or senna, cinnamon, balm of Gilead, hops, mastic, turpentine, pine resin, bitumen, heather, quince, apple, peach, apricot, lemon, pear, medlar, plum and many others. Volume II covers an assortment of topics: animals including sea creature...
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De materia medica It was translated first into Syriac and then into Arabic in 9th century Baghdad. Writing in "The Great Naturalists", the historian of science David Sutton describes "De materia medica" as "one of the most enduring works of natural history ever written" and that "it formed the basis for Western knowled...
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De materia medica The historian of medicine Vivian Nutton, in "Ancient Medicine", writes that Dioscorides's "five books in Greek On Materia medica attained canonical status in Late Antiquity." The historian of science Brian Ogilvie calls Dioscorides "the greatest ancient herbalist", and "De materia medica" "the "summa"...
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De materia medica Many other substances that Dioscorides describes remain in modern pharmacopoeias as "minor drugs, diluents, flavouring agents, and emollients ... [such as] ammoniacum, anise, cardamoms, catechu, cinnamon, colocynth, coriander, crocus, dill, fennel, galbanum, gentian, hemlock, hyoscyamus, lavender, lin...
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De materia medica In the view of the historian Paula De Vos, "De materia medica" formed the core of the European pharmacopoeia until the end of the 19th century, suggesting that "the timelessness of Dioscorides' work resulted from an empirical tradition based on trial and error; that it worked for generation after gene...
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Pulse vaccination strategy The pulse vaccination strategy is a method used to eradicate an epidemic by repeatedly vaccinating a group at risk, over a defined age range, until the spread of the pathogen has been stopped. It is most commonly used during measles and polio epidemics to quickly stop the spread and contain t...
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Sheena Radford Sheena Elizabeth Radford FRS FMedSci is a British biophysicist, and Astbury Professor of Biophysics in the Astbury Centre for Structural Molecular Biology, School of Molecular and Cellular Biology at the University of Leeds. Radford was educated at the University of Birmingham, and the University of Camb...
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Heliothrix oregonensis is a phototrophic filamentous, gliding bacterium containing bacteriochlorophyll a that is aerotolerant and photoheterotrophic.
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Desulfurobacterium thermolithotrophum is a species of autotrophic, sulphur-reducing bacterium isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent. It is the type species of its genus, being thermophilic, anaerobic, Gram-negative, motile and rod-shaped, with type strain BSA (= DSM 11699).
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Brian John Marples FRSNZ (31 March 1907 – 1997) was a British zoologist who spent most of his career in New Zealand. Marples was born in Hessle, Yorkshire, in north-eastern England. He was educated at Kingsmead in Cheshire, and St Bees in Cumberland before attending Exeter College at Oxford University. He graduated as ...
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Equilibrant force An equilibrant force is a force which brings a body into mechanical equilibrium. According to Newton's second law, a body has zero acceleration when the vector sum of all the forces acting upon it is zero. Therefore, an equilibrant force is equal in magnitude and opposite in direction to the resultant...
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Simband is a research platform announced by Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center in 2014. It was announced on May 28, 2014, in San Francisco, in partnership with UCSF Digital Health Innovation Lab. is an open developer platform consisting of a watch unit running Tizen and a wristband connector that holds a custom sen...
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Chloroflexales is one of two orders of bacteria in the class Chloroflexi.
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Lake Chippewa was a prehistoric proglacial lake. The basin is now Lake Michigan. It formed about 10,600 years before present (YBP). The lake occupied the depression left by the Michigan Lobe of the Laurentide Ice Sheet. The lake formed from glacial Lake Algonquin as water levels dropped, occupying only the deepest part...
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Total position spread In physics, the total position-spread (TPS) tensor is a quantity originally introduced in the modern theory of electrical conductivity. In the case of molecular systems, this tensor measures the fluctuation of the electrons around their mean positions, which corresponds to the delocalization of th...
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Total position spread The interesting outcome of this theory is: "i)" it relates the classical idea of localized electrons as a cause of insulating state; "ii)" the needed information can be recovered from the ground state wave function because in the insulated regime the wave function breaks down as a sum of disconnec...
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Total position spread The expectation values of the position components are the first moments of the electrons' position. Now we consider the tensorial square (second moment). In this sense, there are two types of them: The second moment of the position becomes then the sum of the one- and two-electron operators alread...
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Total position spread The spin-summed total position-spread is very sensitive to these changes, because it increases faster than linearly when electrons start to present mobility (0.0 to 0.5 range of "-t/U"). The total position-spread is a powerful tool to monitor the wave function. In Figure 3 is shown the longitudina...
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Total position spread The horizontal line at 0 bohr divides the same spin (positive values) and different spin (negative values) contributions of the spin partitioned total position-spread. Unlike the spin-summed total position-spread that saturates to the atomic value for R>5, the spin-partitioned total position-sprea...
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Cirque du Bout du Monde A fluvial cirque is a steephead valley formed in a Karst landscape
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Gerald Mayr is a German palaeontologist who is Curator of Ornithology at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse. He has published extensively on fossil birds, especially the Paleogene avifauna of Europe. He is an expert on the Eocene fauna of the Messel pit.
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Richard A. Thulborn Richard Anthony (Tony) Thulborn is a British paleontologist. He is recognized as an expert in dinosaur tracks, and as one of the most productive paleontologists of his time. In 1982, Thulborn debunked the purported plesiosaur embryos discovered by Harry Govier Seeley. Thulborn concluded that Seeley'...
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NGC 988 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus. It lies at a distance of 50 million light years from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that is about 75,000 light years across. Magnitude 7.1 HD 16152 is superposed 52" northwest of the center of NGC 988. The galaxy was discovered by Édouar...
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Grapevine leafroll-associated virus (GLRaV) is a name for a group of viruses infecting grapevine in the genus "Closterovirus". Obscure mealybugs ("Pseudococcus viburni") feed on the phloem of vines and woody-stemmed plants, especially pear and apple trees and grape vines. Some individuals are vectors for infectious pat...
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Mega-Earth A mega-Earth is a massive terrestrial exoplanet that is at least ten times the mass of Earth. Mega-Earths are substantially more massive than super-Earths (terrestrial and ocean planets with masses around 5–10 Earths). The term "mega-Earth" was coined in 2014, when Kepler-10c was revealed to be a Neptune-mas...
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Mega-Earth 65 , so large that it could belong to a sub-category of Mega-Earths known as Supermassive Terrestrial Planets (SMTP). It likely has an Earth-like composition of rock and iron without any volatiles. A similar Mega-Earth, K2-66b, is about 21.3 times the mass and 2.49 times the radius of Earth, and orbits a sub...
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NGC 4217 is an edge-on spiral galaxy which lies approximately 60 million light-years ( 18 million parsecs ) away in the constellation of Canes Venatici. It is a possible companion galaxy to M106 (also known as NGC 4258).
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Grapevine virus A Grape vine virus A (GVA) is a plant virus and the type species in the genus "Vitivirus".
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Grapevine virus F (GVF) is a plant virus species in the genus "Vitivirus".
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Grapevine virus B is plant virus species in the genus "Vitivirus". It is associated with rugose wood (corky bark) symptoms in grapevine.
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Grapevine virus D (GVB) is a plant virus species in the genus "Vitivirus", associated with rugose wood condition of grapevine.
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Grapevine leafroll-associated virus 2 (GRLaV2) is a virus infecting grapevine in the genus "Closterovirus". It is associated with rugose wood condition of grapevine. According to Bosciai, 1995, "grapevine corky bark-associated virus" (GCBaV) is a variant of GRLaV2.
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Nestor Ivanovich Novozhilov was a Soviet paleontologist. In 1948, Novozhilov described a pliosaur specimen discovered on the banks of Russia's Volga Riveras a new species, "Pliosaurus rossicus". The specimen, while large, was damaged during the excavation and only the skull and chest region were successfully extracted ...
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Judith Massare is a paleontologist specializing in Mesozoic marine reptile research. In 1987, Massare published an analysis of plesiosaur feeding habits. She concluded that the long-necked plesiosauroids ate soft prey. "Liopleurodon" and its relatives, on the other hand, had teeth resembling those of killer whales and ...
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Grapevine virus E (GVE) is a plant virus species in the genus "Vitivirus".
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Grapevine leafroll-associated virus 1 (GRLaV-1) is a virus infecting grapevine in the genus "Ampelovirus".
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Grapevine leafroll-associated virus 3 (GLRaV-3) is a grapevine infecting virus in the family "Closteroviridae", genus "Ampelovirus". GLRaV-3 is an economically important virus causing Grapevine leafroll disease in grapevine worldwide.
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Grapevine leafroll-associated virus 4 (GRLaV-4) is a virus infecting grapevine in the genus "Ampelovirus".
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Australian grapevine viroid The (abbreviated AGV) is a type of grapevine viroid.
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