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Animal Coloration (book) The examples are mainly from Beddard's own observation of "animals that may be usually seen in the Zoological Society's Gardens", though he also introduces and quotes the work of other scientists, including Henry Walter Bates and Alfred Russel Wallace. The book has four colour plates by Peter S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38398925 |
Animal Coloration (book) The American zoologist and ornithologist Joel Asaph Allen reviewed "Animal Coloration" in "The Auk" in 1893. Allen notes Beddard's remark that the book contains hardly anything novel, so that it is mainly a review of previous theories, but welcomes it as a review of the state of knowledge toget... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38398925 |
Animal Coloration (book) Finally, reviewing the chapter on sexual selection, Allen writes (knowing that Wallace largely rejected sexual selection) Allen then makes some remarks, praising Beddard for the "fine vein of irony" that he uses of The zoologist Edward Bagnall Poulton, whose work is referred to throughout Bedda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38398925 |
Animal Coloration (book) " On protective coloration, "he raises the question whether as a matter of fact animals are concealed from their foes by their protective resemblances, and shows that there is much evidence on the negative side", and further that such colours are sometimes produced "more simply and directly tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38398925 |
Animal Coloration (book) Beddard, writes Yost, explained some problems in the theory of mimicry including that, given how many insect species there are, resemblances between species could arise by chance, and that mimicry was sometimes either useless or actually harmful. In Yost's view, Beddard wanted more evidence tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38398925 |
Animal Coloration (book) The ornithologist Geoffrey Edward Hill, writing in 2002, notes that both Poulton and Beddard discuss sexual selection, and both agreed that "sexual selection by female choice is a likely explanation for the bright coloration of at least some species of birds". In contrast, Hill observes, Cott's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38398925 |
Animal Coloration (book) 94) on how difficult the question of animal coloration seemed in the 1890s. Thayer — an artist, not a scientist — had dived head-first into the debate. One of the protagonists, notes Kingsland, was Joel Asaph Allen, who had reviewed Beddard's book, and who believed that the environment directly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38398925 |
Congener (chemistry) In chemistry, congeners are related chemical substances "related to each other by origin, structure, or function". Any significant quantity of a polyhalogenated compound is by default a blend of multiple molecule types because each molecule forms independently, and chlorine and bromine do not stron... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38403118 |
Methylidyne group In chemistry, a methylidyne group or just methylidyne is a neutral part of a molecule (a substituent or functional group) with formula ≡CH, consisting of a carbon atom bonded to a hydrogen atom by one single bond and to the rest of the molecule by one triple bond. For example, a methylidyne group is p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38438690 |
D. A. Webb David Allardice Webb or (12 August 1912 – 26 September 1994) was an Irish botanist and chair of botany at Trinity College, Dublin from 1949 to 1966. He was son of George and Dr Ella Webb. In Ireland he had studied under Henry Horatio Dixon and also studied in the United Kingdom. In addition to botany he edit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38459540 |
IC 2233 IC 2233, also known as UGC 4278, is a spiral galaxy lying in the constellation of Lynx. is located between 26 and 40 million light-years away from Earth. A comparatively quiet galaxy with a low rate of star formation (less than one solar mass every twenty years), it was long thought to be possibly interacting w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38505332 |
Vinylene group In chemistry, vinylene (also ethenylene or 1,2-ethenediyl) is a divalent functional group (a part of a molecule) with formula −CH=CH−; namely, two carbons, each connected to the other by a double bond, to an hydrogen atom by a single bond, and to the rest of the molecule by another single bond. This grou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38511168 |
Unconventional protein secretion (known as ER/Golgi-independent protein secretion or nonclassical protein export ) represents a manner in which the proteins are delivered to the surface of plasma membrane or extracellular matrix independent of the endoplasmic reticulum or Golgi apparatus. This includes cytokines and mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38523023 |
Unconventional protein secretion Non-vesicular mechanisms use a carrier to get proteins into extracellular space (for example phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate). Vesicular mechanisms can use the lysosome-dependent pathway, microvesicle shedding or biogenesis of multivesicular bodies. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38523023 |
Inherent viscosity is the ratio of the natural logarithm of the relative viscosity to the mass concentration of the polymer. is defined as formula_1 where c is the mass concentration of the polymer (g/dL) and formula_2 is the relative viscosity, which is defined as formula_3 where formula_4 is the viscosity of the solu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38532467 |
Crater of eternal darkness A crater of eternal darkness is a depression on a body in the Solar System within which lies a point that is always in darkness. A related term is "permanently shadowed regions". As of 2019, there are 324 known permanently shadowed regions on the Moon. Such a crater must be located at high la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38533535 |
Crater of eternal darkness Lunar Flashlight is planned to launch in 2021 as a secondary payload for the Artemis 1 mission. A camera called ShadowCam is being built that will be able to take high-resolution images of Permanently Shadowed Regions. It is a NASA instrument that will fly on board the Korea Pathfinder Lunar ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38533535 |
HTVC010P is a virus which was discovered by Stephen Giovannoni and colleagues at Oregon State University. "The Economist" reports that a February 2013 paper in "Nature" says that "it probably really is the commonest organism on the planet". It is a bacteriophage that infects the extremely abundant bacteria "Pelagibacte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38540441 |
Erwin Janchen Emil Erwin Alfred Ritter von Janchen-Michel (born 15 May 1882 in Vöcklabruck; died 10 July 1970 in Vienna) was an Austrian botanist. He earned his doctorate in 1923 at the University of Vienna. He was scientifically active at the Botanical Institute of the University. He made several research trips. Among... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38554875 |
NGC 784 is a barred spiral galaxy about 16.0 Mly away in the constellation Triangulum. is located within the Virgo Supercluster. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38560899 |
Pencil cleavage in geology refers to a cleavage in rock such that long, slender, pencil-shaped fragments of rock are created by fracturing during the weathering of a sedimentary rock. is usually associated with rock units that contain high angle of intersection between cleavages, such as a diagenetic cleavage and a lat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38581503 |
Lag deposit A lag deposit is the deposition of material winnowed by physical action. Aeolian processes, fluvial processes, and tidal processes can remove the finer portion of a sedimentary deposit leaving the coarser material behind. Lag deposits are found in processes such as central island formation in streams and ri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38591225 |
Telescopium in Chinese astronomy The modern constellation Telescopium lies across one of the quadrants symbolized by the Black Tortoise of the North (北方玄武, "Běi Fāng Xuán Wǔ"), and The Southern Asterisms (近南極星區, "Jìnnánjíxīngōu"), that divide the sky in traditional Chinese uranography. The name of the western constella... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38602922 |
Western Livestock Journal The is a weekly livestock industry newspaper. Originally called the "Farm and Ranch Market Journal", it was started by Nelson R. Crow in 1922 and is published by Crow Publications. The "Farm and Ranch Market Journal" became "Western Livestock Journal" in the early 1930s. In 1952, Nelson purcha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38608010 |
MALBAC Multiple Annealing and Looping Based Amplification Cycles (MALBAC) is a quasilinear whole genome amplification method. Unlike conventional DNA amplification methods that are non-linear or exponential (in each cycle, DNA copied can serve as template for subsequent cycles), utilizes special primers that allow ampl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38610814 |
MALBAC After one extension, semi-amplicon, an amplicon containing the common nucleotide sequence on only the 5’ end, is made. This semi-amplicon is used as a template for another round of extension, which then results in a full-amplicon, an amplicon where the 3’ end is complementary to the sequence on the 5’ end. prime... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38610814 |
MALBAC Moreover, it permits the detection of chromosomal abnormalities and gene copy number variations (CNVs) within and between cells, and further facilitates the detection of uncommon mutations that result in single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). In the field of cancer research, has many applications. It may be use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38610814 |
MALBAC Additionally, within an individual sperm, identified duplicated or missing chromosomes, as well as SNPs or CNVs which could negatively affect fertility. has resulted in many significant advances over other single cell sequencing techniques, foremost that it can report 93% of the genome of a single human cell. So... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38610814 |
MALBAC Accordingly, the amplification bias associated with other single cell sequencing methods results in low coverage of the genome. The reduced bias associated with has generated better genome sequence coverage than other single cell sequencing methods. can be used to amplify and subsequently sequence DNA when only ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38610814 |
MALBAC In contrast to MDA which has been shown to have a 41% SNP detection efficiency in comparison with bulk sequencing, has been reported to have SNP detection deficiency of 76%. has also been reported to have a low false positive rate. False positive mutations generated by largely result from errors introduced by DN... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38610814 |
Stochastic quantization In theoretical physics, stochastic quantization is a method for modelling quantum mechanics, introduced by Edward Nelson in 1966, and streamlined by Parisi and Wu. serves to quantize Euclidean field theories, and is used for numerical applications, such as numerical simulations of gauge theories... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38624698 |
Dijet event In particle physics, a dijet event is a collision between subatomic particles that produces two particle jets. Dijet events are measured at LHC to constrain QCD models, in particular the parton evolution equations and parton distribution functions. This is accomplished by measuring the azimuthal correlation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38635705 |
Zachary Sharp Zachary D. Sharp is an American stable isotope geochemist. He is credited with the development of laser-based technology for measuring oxygen isotopes in silicates and oxides. His contributions include laser analyses of meteorites, paleoclimate reconstruction by oxygen and hydrogen isotope ratios, and ana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38653280 |
Cryotank or cryogenic tank is a tank that is used to store frozen biological material. The term “cryotank” refers to storage of super-cold fuels, such as liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen. Cryotanks and cryogenics can be seen in many sci-fi movies, but they are still currently undeveloped. All that needs to be done is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38657573 |
Plaque-forming unit A plaque-forming unit (PFU) is a measure used in virology to describe the number of virus particles capable of forming plaques per unit volume. It is a proxy measurement rather than a measurement of the absolute quantity of particles: viral particles that are defective or which fail to infect their ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38667482 |
Michał Hieronim Leszczyc-Sumiński Michal Hieronim Leszczyc-Suminski (Born September 30, 1820 in Ośno - Died 26 May 1898 in Tharandt) was a Polish botanist, painter and art collector. He is an alumnus of Humboldt University of Berlin. He married Anne Hudson (1830–1874), the daughter of George Hudson, the so-called Railw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38669883 |
Talimogene laherparepvec is a biopharmaceutical drug to treat melanoma that cannot be operated on; it is injected directly into a subset of lesions which generates a systemic immune response against the patient's cancer. The final four year analysis from the pivotal phase 3 study upon which TVEC was approved by the FDA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38686504 |
Talimogene laherparepvec The drug works by replicating in cancer cells, causing them to burst; it was also designed to stimulate an immune response against the patient's cancer, which has been demonstrated by multiple pieces of data, including regression of tumors which have not been injected with talimogene laherparep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38686504 |
Talimogene laherparepvec More than 10% of people had edema, headache, cough, vomiting, diarrhea, constipation, muscle pain, or joint pain. Between 1% and 10% developed cold sores, pain or infection in the lesion, anemia, immune mediated events (like vasculitis, pneumonia, worsening psoriasis, glomerulonephritis and vit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38686504 |
Talimogene laherparepvec After the virus has replicated many times, the cell swells and finally bursts, killing the cell and releasing the copies of the virus, which can then infect nearby cells. While is using the cells's translation machinery to replicate, it also uses it make the cell create GM-CSF. GM-CSF is secret... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38686504 |
Talimogene laherparepvec it was also designed to provide systemic anti-tumor effects through the induction of an anti-tumor immune response. was created and initially developed by BioVex, Inc. under the brand OncoVEX. Development was continued by Amgen, which acquired BioVex in 2011. BioVex was founded in 1999, based o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38686504 |
Quantitative biology is an umbrella term encompassing the use of mathematical, statistical or computational techniques to study life and living organisms. The central theme and goal of quantitative biology is the creation of predictive models based on fundamental principles governing living systems. The subfields of bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38710316 |
Indian Ocean Experiment The (INDOEX) was a 1999 multinational scientific study designed to measure the transport of air pollution from Southeast Asia into the Indian Ocean. The project was led by Veerabhadran Ramanathan. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38717496 |
Ferrimolybdite is a hydrous iron molybdate mineral with formula: Fe(MoO)·8(HO) or Fe(MoO)·n(HO). It forms coatings and radial aggregates of soft yellow needles which crystallize in the orthorhombic system. It was first described in 1914 for an occurrence in the Alekseevskii Mine in the Karysh River Basin, Khakassia Rep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38742706 |
Heavy liquid A heavy liquid is a solution or liquid chemical substance with a high density and a relatively low viscosity. Heavy liquids are often used for determination of density in mineralogy, for density gradient centrifugation and for separating mixtures. Common applications of heavy liquids include: The classical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38784238 |
Bojite is a variety of gabbro characterized by the presence of plagioclase feldspar and primary hornblende and absence of clinopyroxene typically associated with gabbroic rocks. It was initially defined by geologist E. Weinschenk in 1898. The term "bojite" has been superseded by the usage of "hornblende gabbro" as defi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38785523 |
NGC 5223 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Canes Venatici. It was discovered on 1 May 1785 by William Herschel. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38792428 |
Marco Antonio Serna Díaz Hermano (11 July 1936 - 31 December 1991) was a herpetologist, ornithologist, and naturalist from Colombia. Serna was born to Marco Antonio Serna and Anna Judith Díaz in San Vicente Ferrer in Antioquia, Colombia. On 20 June 1950 he entered the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38792761 |
Anatoliy Koroteyev Anatoliy Sazonovich Koroteyev (; born July 22, 1936) is a Soviet and Russian theoretical physicist and academic who contributed to the field of rocket engine physics. Koroteyev was born in Baranovo, Moscow Oblast. In 1959, he graduated from S. Ordzhonikidze Moscow Aviation Institute. Anatoliy Korotee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38793329 |
Electron-hole droplets are a condensed phase of excitons in semiconductors. The droplets are formed at low temperatures and high exciton densities, the latter of which can be created with intense optical excitation or electronic excitation in a p-n junction. Evidence for electron-hole droplets was first observed by J. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38799183 |
Trans,polycis-decaprenyl diphosphate synthase (, "Rv2361c", "(2Z,6Z,10Z,14Z,18Z,22Z,26Z,30Z,34E)-decaprenyl diphosphate synthase") is an enzyme with systematic name "(2Z,6E)-farnesyl-diphosphate:isopentenyl-diphosphate farnesylcistransferase (adding 7 isopentenyl units) ". This enzyme catalyses the following chemical r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38852036 |
Jacobus Boomsma Jacobus Jan "Koos" Boomsma (born 1951) is a Dutch evolutionary biologist in Denmark who studies social evolution and the evolution of mating systems. Boomsma obtained an MSc and PhD degree in Biology in 1976 and 1982 at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He currently directs the Centre of Social Evolutio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38856867 |
Astrology and science Astrology consists of a number of belief systems that hold that there is a relationship between astronomical phenomena and events or descriptions of personality in the human world. Astrology has been rejected by the scientific community as having no explanatory power for describing the universe. S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38862610 |
Astrology and science There is no proposed mechanism of action by which the positions and motions of stars and planets could affect people and events on Earth in the way astrologers say they do that does not contradict well-understood, basic aspects of biology and physics. The majority of professional astrologers rely ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38862610 |
Astrology and science The exact demarcation of what a constellation is, is cultural, and varied between civilisations. Ptolemy's work on astronomy was driven to some extent by the desire, like all astrologers of the time, to easily calculate the planetary movements. Early western astrology operated under the ancient Gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38862610 |
Astrology and science Unlike the west, in Iran, the rejection of heliocentrism continued up towards the start of the 20th century, in part motivated by a fear that this would undermine the widespread belief in astrology and Islamic cosmology in Iran. The first work, Falak al-sa'ada by Ictizad al-Saltana, aimed at under... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38862610 |
Astrology and science Popper regarded astrology as "pseudo-empirical" in that "it appeals to observation and experiment", but "nevertheless does not come up to scientific standards". In contrast to scientific disciplines, astrology does not respond to falsification through experiment. According to Professor of neurolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38862610 |
Astrology and science As such, to Kuhn, even if the stars could influence the path of humans through life astrology is not scientific. Philosopher Paul Thagard believed that astrology can not be regarded as falsified in this sense until it has been replaced with a successor. In the case of predicting behaviour, psychol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38862610 |
Astrology and science Rather, his demarcation of science requires three distinct foci; "theory, community [and] historical context". While verification and falsifiability focused on the theory, Kuhn's work focused on the historical context, but the astrological community should also be considered. Whether or not they: ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38862610 |
Astrology and science Further, James noted that response to criticism also relies on faulty logic, an example of which was a response to twin studies with the statement that coincidences in twins are due to astrology, but any differences are due to "heredity and environment", while for other astrologers the issues are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38862610 |
Astrology and science Shawn Carlson's now renowned experiment was performed by 28 astrologers matching over 100 natal charts to psychological profiles generated by the California Psychological Inventory (CPI) test using double blind methods. The experimental protocol used in Carlson's study was agreed to by a group of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38862610 |
Astrology and science The astrologers performed much worse than merely basing decisions off the individuals' ages, and much worse than 45 control subjects who did not use birth charts at all. A meta-analysis was conducted, pooling 40 studies consisting of 700 astrologers and over 1,000 birth charts. Ten of the tests, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38862610 |
Astrology and science In 1955, astrologer and psychologist Michel Gauquelin stated that although he had failed to find evidence to support such indicators as the zodiacal signs and planetary aspects in astrology, he had found positive correlations between the diurnal positions of some of the planets and success in prof... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38862610 |
Astrology and science The number of births under astrologically undesirable conditions was also lower, indicating more evidence that parents choose dates and times to suit their beliefs. Beyond the scientific tests astrology has failed, proposals for astrology face a number of other obstacles due to the many theoretica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38862610 |
Astrology and science They commented on the example of Elizabeth Teissier who claimed that "the sun ends up in the same place in the sky on the same date each year" as the basis for claims that two people with the same birthday but a number of years apart should be under the same planetary influence. Charpak and Broch ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38862610 |
Astrology and science Philosopher of science, Massimo Pigliucci commenting on the movement, opined "Well then, which sign should I look up when I open my Sunday paper, I wonder?" The tropical zodiac has no connection to the stars, and as long as no claims are made that the constellations themselves are in the associate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38862610 |
Astrology and science In a lecture in 2001, Stephen Hawking stated "The reason most scientists don't believe in astrology is because it is not consistent with our theories that have been tested by experiment." In 1975, amid increasing popular interest in astrology, "The Humanist" magazine presented a rebuttal of astrol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38862610 |
Astrology and science The use of poetic imagery based on the concepts of the macrocosm and microcosm, "as above so below" to decide meaning such as Edward W. James' example of "Mars above is red, so Mars below means blood and war", is a false cause fallacy. Many astrologers claim that astrology is scientific. If one we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38862610 |
Astrology and science Carl Jung sought to invoke synchronicity, the claim that two events have some sort of acausal connection, to explain the lack of statistically significant results on astrology from a single study he conducted. However, synchronicity itself is considered neither testable nor falsifiable. The study ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38862610 |
Astrology and science Each student was given a supposedly individual assessment but actually all students received the same assessment. The personality descriptions were taken from a book on astrology. When the students were asked to comment on the accuracy of the test, more than 40% gave it the top mark of 5 out of 5,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38862610 |
Astrology and science Adorno believed that popular astrology, as a device, invariably led to statements that encouraged conformity—and that astrologers who went against conformity with statements that discouraged performance at work etc. risked losing their jobs. Adorno concluded that astrology was a large-scale manife... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38862610 |
Astrology and science " In the programme "Stargazing Live", Cox further commented by saying: "in the interests of balance on the BBC, yes astrology is nonsense." In an editorial in the medical journal "BMJ", editor Trevor Jackson cited this incident showing where false balance could occur. Studies and polling has shown... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38862610 |
Astrology and science In particular, belief that astrology was very scientific was 26% while that of horoscopes was 7%. This appeared to indicate that the high level of apparent polling support for astrology in the EU was indeed due to confusion over terminology. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38862610 |
IAU (1976) System of Astronomical Constants The International Astronomical Union at its XVIth General Assembly in Grenoble in 1976, accepted (Resolution No. 1 a whole new consistent set of astronomical constants recommended for reduction of astronomical observations, and for computation of ephemerides. It superseded th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38869556 |
IAU (1976) System of Astronomical Constants There were no reliable rotation elements for most planets, but a joint working group on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements was installed to compile recommended values The IAU(1976) system is based on the astronomical system of units: IAU commission 4: , | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38869556 |
Reviews in Mineralogy and Geochemistry is the official review journal of the Mineralogical Society of America and The Geochemical Society. It was established in 1974 as "Mineralogical Society of America Short Course Notes" and renamed to "Reviews in Mineralogy" in 1980. It obtained its present name in 2000. The journal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38869930 |
Iron ring (laboratory) An iron ring or ring clamp is an item of laboratory equipment which comprises a conjoined metal ring and radially-extending rod. In some cases, the rod terminates in a screw clamp for attachment to a retort stand or other support; in others, the rod may be attached to a stand by means of a labora... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38872033 |
Adelmar Faria Coimbra-Filho (June 4, 1924 – June 27, 2016) was a Brazilian biologist and primatologist. He is a pioneer in studies of and conservation of lion tamarins. He is founder and Former Director of the Rio de Janeiro Primate Centre. Coimbra Filho's titi is named after him. Coimbra-Filho was born in Fortaleza. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38882666 |
Vibroscope ( 'vibrate' + scope) is an instrument for observing and tracing (and sometimes recording) vibration. For example, a primitive mechanical vibroscope consists of a vibrating object with a pointy end which leaves a wave trace on a smoked surface of a rotating cylinder. Vibroscopes are used to study properties o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38885073 |
Ignaz Friedrich Tausch (29 January 1793, in Theusing – 8 September 1848) was a Bohemian botanist. He studied philosophy, medicine and natural sciences at the University of Prague, becoming an associate professor of economic and technical botany in 1815. He discovered at least eleven species of plants, including "Rhizob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38886111 |
George Francis Scott Elliot George Francis Scott-Elliot FRGS FLS FRSE (1862–1934) was a botanist and academic author of Franco-Scots descent. He was a personal friend of Patrick Geddes. Scott-Elliot was born in Calcutta in India of Franco-Scots parentage. His father, James Scott Elliot (d.1880) was a merchant in Calcut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38891573 |
George Francis Scott Elliot Although "over-age" he volunteered almost immediately at the onset of the First World War and joined the King's Own Scottish Borderers and saw active duty under fire in Egypt as a Captain and was awarded the Order of the Nile. In 1917, whilst returning home on leave, his ship was torpedoed o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38891573 |
Terradynamics is the study of forces and movement during terrestrial locomotion (particularly that using legs) on ground that can flow such as sand and soil. The term "terradynamics" is used in analogy to aerodynamics for flying in the air and hydrodynamics for swimming in water. has been used "to predict a small legge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38899475 |
MAXI J1659-152 is a rapidly rotating black-hole/star system, discovered by NASA's Swift space telescope on September 25, 2010. On March 19, 2013, ESA's XMM-Newton space telescope has helped to identify a star and a black hole that orbit each other at the rate of once every 2.4 hours. The black hole and the star orbit t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38917745 |
Neutron–proton ratio The neutron–proton ratio (N/Z ratio or nuclear ratio) of an atomic nucleus is the ratio of its number of neutrons to its number of protons. Among stable nuclei and naturally occurring nuclei, this ratio generally increases with increasing atomic number. This is because electrical repulsive forces b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38919712 |
Neutron–proton ratio If the "N"/"Z" ratio is greater than 1, alpha decay increases the "N"/"Z" ratio, and hence provides a common pathway towards stability for decays involving large nuclei with too few neutrons. Positron emission and electron capture also increase the ratio, while beta decay decreases the ratio. Nucle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38919712 |
John C. Tully is a theoretical chemist, a researcher and Sterling Professor emeritus of Chemistry at Yale University. He is known for his development of surface hopping, a method for including excited states in molecular dynamics calculations. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the International Aca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38921208 |
Sklodowska (Martian crater) Sklodowska is a crater on Mars, located in the Mare Acidalium quadrangle at 33.7°N and 2.9°W. It measures in diameter and was named after Polish chemist and first female Nobel Laureate Marie Skłodowska Curie (1867–1934). The naming was approved in 1973, by the International Astronomical Unio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38921527 |
Meiothermus is a genus of Deinococcus–Thermus bacteria. The phylogeny is based on 16S rRNA-based LTP release 132 by 'The All-Species Living Tree' Project. The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LSPN) and the National Center for Biotechnology Information.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38928903 |
Microraft A (Isoraft) is an arrays of microwells for cell sorting, isolating cells, analyzing cells over time, and generating clonal populations. This platform provides biomedical scientists with access to diverse cell culture surfaces with integrated, easy-to-use cell separating capabilities at low cost. The microraft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38939487 |
List of parson-naturalists Parson-naturalists were ministers of religion who also studied natural history. The archetypical parson-naturalist was a priest in the Church of England in charge of a country parish, who saw the study of science as an extension of his religious work. The philosophy entailed the belief that G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38973180 |
Oncolytic herpes virus Many variants of herpes simplex virus have been considered for viral therapy of cancer; the early development of these was thoroughly reviewed in the journal "Cancer Gene Therapy" in 2002. This page describes (in the order of development) the most notable variants—those tested in clinical trials:... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38975888 |
Oncolytic herpes virus 5 gene, the HSV-1716 variant is unable to overcome normal defences of healthy differentiated cells (mediated by PKR) to replicate efficiently. However, tumour cells have much weaker PKR-linked defences, which may be the reason why HSV1716 effectively kills a wide range of tumour cell lines in tis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38975888 |
Oncolytic herpes virus The results of the first trial were published simultaneously with the first trial of HSV1716 in 2000, with commentators praising the demonstration of safety of these viruses when injected into brain tumours but also expressing disappointment that viral replication could not be demonstrated due to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38975888 |
Oncolytic herpes virus It also has a deletion of the gene encoding ICP47, a protein that inhibits antigen presentation, and an insertion of a gene encoding GM-CSF, an immune stimulatory cytokine. Deletion of the gene encoding ICP47 also puts the US11 gene (a late gene) under control of the immediate early ICP47 promote... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38975888 |
Karoo (crater) Karoo is an impact crater on the asteroid 253 Mathilde, named for the Great Karoo Basin, a coal basin in South Africa. It is 33.4 kilometers in diameter and was the most prominent crater seen during NEAR Shoemaker's flyby of the asteroid. The critical crater diameter is the scale at which cratering “goes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38985603 |
Karoo (crater) Indeed, if Karoo, at 33 km diameter, represents D and resurfaced the asteroid, then the 5 or more other giant impacts must have happened subsequently, which is highly unusual given that they are in fact almost just as large. Thus α = 1.33 from Fig. 2a is likely a lower limit on Mathilde's attenuation. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38985603 |
Indium gallium arsenide phosphide () is a quaternary compound semiconductor material, an alloy of gallium arsenide and indium phosphide. This compound has applications in photonic devices, due to the ability to tailor its band gap via changes in the alloy mole ratios, "x" and "y". Indium phosphide-based photonic integr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38986349 |
NCBioImpact is a partnership of North Carolina organizations created to enhance the trained workforce for biotechnology and other life science employers by educating students and retraining incumbent workers. The partnership works to promote economic development in North Carolina while offering comprehensive biomanufac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38999618 |
NCBioImpact A 2010 Battelle report commissioned by the North Carolina Biotechnology Center found that almost 47,000 biotechnology-related (direct and indirect) jobs were added during the period of 2008-2010, bringing the total jobs in North Carolina to almost 227,000 and annual compensation and benefits increased nearl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38999618 |
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