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Marco Drago is an Italian post-doctoral researcher who works on the search for gravitational waves of short duration. In 2007-2010 was Ph.D. student at University of Padua. In 2010 he defended a Ph.D. thesis titled "Search for transient gravitational wave signals with a known waveform in the LIGO Virgo network of inter...
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Sanjeev Dhurandhar is Professor at IUCAA, Pune. His research interest is detection and observation of Gravitational waves. Dhurandhar was part of the Indian team which contributed to the detection of gravitational waves. He is the science advisor to the IndIGO consortium council. He was awarded one of the H K Firodia a...
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Large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping (LDDMM) is a specific suite of algorithms used for diffeomorphic mapping and manipulating dense imagery based on diffeomorphic metric mapping within the academic discipline of computational anatomy, to be distinguished from its precursor based on diffeomorphic mapping. The...
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Large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping Diffeomorphisms are by their Latin root structure preserving transformations, which are in turn differentiable and therefore smooth, allowing for the calculation of metric based quantities such as arc length and surface areas. Spatial location and extents in human anatomic...
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Large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping In a more general sense, diffeomorphic mapping is any solution that registers or builds correspondences between dense coordinate systems in medical imaging by ensuring the solutions are diffeomorphic. There are now many codes organized around diffeomorphic registration inc...
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Large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping Diffeomorphic mapping 3-dimensional coordinate systems as measured via high resolution dense imagery has a long history in 3-D beginning with Computed Axial Tomography (CAT scanning) in the early 80's by the University of Pennsylvania group led by Ruzena Bajcsy, and subseq...
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Large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping Methods based on linear or non-linear elasticity energetics which grows with distance from the identity mapping of the template, is not appropriate for cross-sectional study. Rather, in models based on Lagrangian and Eulerian flows of diffeomorphisms, the constraint is ass...
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Large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping The large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping (LDDMM) code that Faisal Beg derived and implemented for his PhD at Johns Hopkins University developed the earliest algorithmic code which solved for flows with fixed points satisfying the necessary conditions for the dens...
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Large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping The diffeomorphisms are generated via smooth flows formula_3 , with formula_4, satisfying the Lagrangian and Eulerian specification of the flow field associated to the ordinary differential equation, with formula_6 the Eulerian vector fields determining the flow. The vecto...
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Large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping The differential operator is selected so that the Green's kernel, the inverse of the operator, is continuously differentiable in each variable implying that the vector fields support 1-continuous derivative; see for the necessary conditions on the norm for existence of sol...
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Large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping Update until convergence, formula_20 each iteration, with formula_21: This implies that the fixed point satisfy with The Calculus of variations was used in Beg to derive the iterative algorithm as a solution which when it converges satisfies the necessary maximizer conditi...
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Ichnusaite is a very rarely found mineral. is a natural compound of thorium and molybdenum with the formula Th(MoO)·3HO. It was discovered in Su Seinargiu, Sarroch, Cagliari, Sardegna, Italy in 2013. This locality is also a place of discovery of the second natural thorium molybdate - nuragheite. Muscovite, nuragheite, ...
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Rodney John Francis Henderson (born 1938) is an Australian botanist, specialising in taxonomy who worked for more than 48 years for the Queensland Public Service, 41 of those years at the Queensland Herbarium until he retired in 2002. The families he studied included the Solanaceae, Liliaceae, Euphorbiaceae and Rubiace...
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List of genetically modified crops Genetically modified crops are plants used in agriculture, the DNA of which has been modified using genetic engineering techniques. In most cases, the aim is to introduce a new trait to the plant which does not occur naturally in the species. As of 2015, 26 plant species have been gen...
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List of genetically modified crops In the US, separate regulatory agencies handle approval for cultivation (USDA, EPA) and for human consumption (FDA). Two genetically modified crops have been approved for food use in some countries, but have not obtained approval for cultivation. A GM Melon engineered for delayed sene...
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List of genetically modified crops 4 million hectares planted in thirteen countries that contained both herbicide tolerance and insect resistance. Less than one million hectares contained other traits, which include providing virus resistance, delaying senescence, modifying flower colour and altering the plants composi...
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List of genetically modified crops CpTI was first approved for use cotton in 1999 and is currently undergoing trials in rice. Many varieties of GM crops contain more than one resistance gene. This could be in the form of multiple insect resistant genes, multiple herbicide tolerance genes or a combination of the herbici...
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Brendan Lepschi Brendan John Lepschi (born 1969) is an Australian botanist, whose interests include the taxonomy of the genus "Melaleuca", the families Santalaceae and Goodeniaceae and how exotic species become naturalised. He is the curator of the Australian National Herbarium at the Australian National Botanic Garden...
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Peggoty Mutai is a Kenyan chemist. Born in Kericho, her interests are in medicinal chemistry, in particular working with the search for new treatments against parasitic worms. After studying at the University of Nairobi, Kenya, where she obtained her Bachelor of Science and her Master's degree in pharmacy and pharmaceu...
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Léia Scheinvar Léia Akcelrad Lerner de Scheinvar is a Brazilian-Mexican botanist. She has dedicated her work to studying and protecting Mexico's cacti. Scheinvar was born in Brazil on 30 September 1954. She received her doctorate in biology from the UNAM Faculty of Sciences in 1982. She is responsible for the "Laborato...
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Joan Cribb Joan Winifred Cribb (née Herbert; born 1930) is an Australian botanist and mycologist. She was born in Brisbane, Queensland, the daughter of botanist Desmond Herbert. She graduated from the University of Queensland with a Bachelor of Science with Honours and a Master of Science. She married fellow botanist A...
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Richard Robson (chemist) Richard Robson FAA (born 4 June 1937) is a Professor of Chemistry at the University of Melbourne. Robson has published over 200 articles, specialising in coordination polymers, particularly metal-organic frameworks. He has been described as "a pioneer in crystal engineering involving transition...
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Anne's Spot refers to a reddish-colored anticyclonic oval in Saturn's atmosphere, observed in 1980 and 1981 at 55°S by the "Voyager" space probes. It was probably also observed in 2004 at about 53°S by the Cassini orbiter, one-third larger east-west and with faster winds.
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Jones–Dole equation The Jones–Dole equation, or Jones–Dole expression, is an empirical expression that describes the relationship between the viscosity of a solution and the concentration of solute within the solution (at a fixed temperature and pressure). The is written as formula_1 where The Jones–Dole "B" coefficien...
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M. K. Chandrashekaran Maroli Krishnayya Chandrashekaran (4 September 1937 – 2 July 2009), also known as Shekar or MKC, was an Indian zoologist, regarded as the founder of Indian chronobiology, the study of biological rhythms of organisms. He was a fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, and the Third World Academy of...
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Artur Burger (6 June 1943 – 23 September 2000) was an Austrian pharmacist and pharmacognosist. He taught pharmacognosy at the University of Innsbruck and published more than 100 papers on polymorphism in drugs.
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Helicase–primase complex A helicase–primase complex (also "helicase-primase", "Hel/Prim", "H-P" or "H/P") is a complex of enzymes including DNA helicase and DNA primase. A "helicase-primase associated factor" protein may also be present. The complex is used by herpesviruses, in which it is responsible for lytic DNA vir...
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Metal-phenolic network A metal-phenolic network (MPN) is a supramolecular coordination structure which consists of metal ions and polyphenols. These materials were first reported by an Australian group at The University of Melbourne. Ejima et al. demonstrated that MPN materials can be coated on versatile substrates to ...
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Herbert Hartley Herbert Kent Hartley (1908–1986) was an industrial chemist who pioneered the use of polyurethane in the UK, for which he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Plastics and Rubber Institute. He also devised an adhesive for the sticky bomb in World War 2. He was a keen climber and helped to organise the sport...
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Phylogenetic inertia or phylogenetic constraint refers to the limitations on the future evolutionary pathways that have been imposed by previous adaptations. Charles Darwin first recognized this phenomenon, though the term was later coined by Huber in 1939. Darwin explained the idea of phylogenetic inertia based on his...
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Phylogenetic inertia Another study developed a new method of comparative examination that showed to be a powerful predictor of phylogenetic inertia in a variety of situations. It was called Phylogenetic Eigenvector Regression (PVR), which runs principal component analyses between species on a pairwise phylogenetic dist...
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NGC 126 is a lenticular galaxy that was discovered on November 4, 1850 by Bindon Stoney, the very same day he discovered NGC 127 and NGC 130.
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Tellurium ion resistance The Tellurium Ion Resistance (TerC) Family (TC# 2.A.109) is part of the Lysine Exporter (LysE) Superfamily. A representative list of proteins belonging to the TerC family can be found in the Transporter Classification Database. The TerC family (Pfam 03741) includes the "E. coli" TerC protein (T...
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Peptidoglycolipid addressing protein The Peptidoglycolipid Addressing Protein (GAP) Family is a member of the Lysine Exporter (LysE) Superfamily. It is listed as item 2.A.116 in the Transporter Classification Database. The mechanism of its action is not known, but this family has been shown to be a member of the LsyE s...
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Syed Iqbal Hasnain is an Indian glaciologist, writer, educationist and the Chairman of the "Glacier and Climate Change Commission" of the Government of Sikkim. He is a former vice chancellor of the University of Calicut and a member of the "United Nations Environment Program Committee on Global Assessment of Black Carb...
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James Jenkins Simpson (24 November 1881 – 10 November 1936) was a British entomologist and marine biologist who worked in West Africa and Turkey. Son of a gardener from Elgin, he studied at Elgin West End School and Aberdeen Free Church Training College before graduating M.A. from Aberdeen University in 1904. He was a ...
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Fred Hermann Brandt (1908–1994) was a German entomological collector, botanist and Nazi secret agent in World War II who worked in Iran and Afghanistan during the 1930s. Brandt was born in St. Petersburg and grew up in Latvia. His brother, Wilhelm Brandt, was an entomologist who specialised in butterflies, and through ...
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Fred Hermann Brandt Hearing that many German officers were being shot as traitors by the Nazi leadership he joined British officers at Lezha and travelled to Bari as a prisoner of war. Brandt wrote a memoir of his army service in 1973. Some of the lepidopteran specimens collected by Brandt were studied later and some n...
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Sulfolobus tengchongensis spindle-shaped virus 1 (STSV-1 or STSV1) is a DNA virus of the family "Bicaudaviridae". It infects the hyperthermophilic archaeon "Sulfolobus tengchongensis" which can be found in the volcanic area of Tengchong, Baoshan City, in western Yunnan province, People's Republic of China.
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NicO transporters The Nickel/Cobalt Transporter (NicO) Family (TC# 2.A.113) is a member of the Lysine Exporter (LysE) Superfamily. A representative list of proteins belonging to the NicO family can be found in the Transporter Classification Database. Homologues of the NicO family have differing predicted topologies: 6,...
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Woolly monkey sarcoma virus (WMSV), with synonym Simian sarcoma virus (often abbreviated by SSV, but this may also stand for some species called 'Sulfolobus spindle-shaped virus', that belong to different genera in family Fuselloviridae) is a species of gammaretrovirus that infects primates. First isolation was from a ...
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Fontarnauite is a relatively recently described, rare sulfate, borate mineral with the formula (Na,K)(Sr,Ca)(SO)[BO(OH)]·2HO. It is found in an evaporite boron deposit. It coexists with other evaporite boron minerals, especially probertite. It is monoclinic, crystallizing in the space group "P"2/"c". It was named for R...
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Eckfelder Maar The is a former volcanic lake, that was formed during the Middle Eocene around 44.3 million years ago and is thus the oldest known maar. It lies in the southwestern Eifel mountains near Manderscheid in Germany. It is also an important fossil site that contains numerous fossil remains of fauna and flora, ...
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Schiavinatoite is a very rare mineral, a natural niobium borate of the formula (Nb,Ta)BO. is classified as monoborate. It contains tetrahedral borate anion instead of planar BO group, which is more common among minerals. is one of the most simple niobium minerals. It forms a solid solution with its tantalum-analogue, b...
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Bevan Buirchell Bevan John Buirchell (born 1951) is an Australian botanist. He graduated from The University of Western Australia and obtained his PhD in biochemistry in 1982. In 1988 he began working on lupins as an agricultural crop, first as a research officer and later as Senior Lupin Breeder in the Western Austral...
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P-Aminobenzoyl-glutamate transporter The "p"-aminobenzoyl-glutamate transporter (AbgT) family (TC# 2.A.68) is a family of transporter proteins belonging to the ion transporter (IT) superfamily. The AbgT family consists of the AbgT (YdaH; TC# 2.A.68.1.1) protein of "E. coli" and the MtrF drug exporter (TC# 2.A.68.1.2) o...
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P-Aminobenzoyl-glutamate transporter Because of the structural similarity of "p"-aminobenzoyl-glutatmate to peptides, and the enzymatic activities of the "abgA" and "abgB" gene products, it has been suggested that AbgT is also a peptide transporter. Demonstration of an energy requirement suggested an H-dependent mechan...
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P-Aminobenzoyl-glutamate transporter In fact, it was shown that both YdaH and MtrF participate as antibiotic efflux pumps, mediating bacterial resistance to sulfonamide antimetabolite drugs. Possibly, many AbgT-family transporters act as exporters, conferring resistance to sulfonamides. The generalized transport reacti...
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Aradite is a very rare mineral with formula BaCa[(SiO)(VO)](VO)F. and its phosphorus-analogue, zadovite, were found in paralavas (rocks formed due to pyrometamorphism) of the Hatrurim Formation. Both aradite and zadovite have structures similar to that of nabimusaite. Structure of all three minerals is related to that ...
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Gurimite is a rare mineral with formula Ba(VO). It is a simple barium vanadate, one of the most simple barium minerals known. It is named after its type locality - Gurim anticline in Israel. It has formed in the rocks of the Hatrurim Formation. Gurimite's stoichiometry is similar to that of copper vanadates mcbirneyite...
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Arakiite is a rare mineral with the formula (Zn,Mn)(Mn,Mg)(Fe,Al)(AsO)(AsO)(OH). It is both arsenate and arsenite mineral, a combination that is rare in the world of minerals. is stoichiometrically similar to hematolite. It is one of many rare minerals coming from the famous Långban manganese skarn deposit in Sweden. O...
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Lepersonnite-(Gd) is a very rare rare-earth and uranium mineral with the formula Ca(Gd,Dy)(UO)(SiO)(CO)(OH)·48HO. It occurs associated with bijvoetite-(Y) in the Shinkolobwe deposit in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, famous for rare uranium minerals. is unique in being the only confirmed mineral with essential ga...
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Florencite-(Sm) is a very rare mineral of the plumbogummite group (alunite supergroup) with simplified formula SmAl(PO)(OH). Samarium in florencite-(Sm) is substituted by other rare earth elements, mostly neodymium. It does not form separate crystals, but is found as zones in florencite-(Ce), which is cerium-dominant m...
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Marie Mercury Roth is an American synthetic organic chemist. She was the first female Ph.D. candidate at the chemistry department of University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she worked with William Summer Johnson. She received her Doctorate of Philosophy in 1951 for the "Application of the Favorskii rearrangement to the ...
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Marie Mercury Roth Joanne later pursued graduate studies in statistics at UW. Donald died in 2003.
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Feodosiyite is a very rare chloride mineral, just recently approved, with the formula CuMgCl(OH)•16HO. Its structure is unique. comes from the Tolbachik volcano, famous for many rare fumarolic minerals. Chemically similar minerals, chlorides containing both copper and magnesium, include haydeeite, paratacamite-(Mg) and...
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Peterandresenite is a very rare mineral, the first known natural hexaniobate. Its chemical formula is MnNbO•14HO. Its structure contains a special type of octahedron: Lindqvist ion. was found in a pegmatite of the Larvik complex in Norway. It is somewhat similar to other unique niobium minerals, aspedamite and menezesi...
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Aspedamite is a very rare mineral, one of two natural heteropolyniobates. Its chemical formula (one of the possible formulas) is complex and shows the presence of essential vacancies: [](FeFe)Nb(ThNbFeTiO)(HO)(OH). Its structure (isometric, space group "Im"3) is the same as of the second known heteropolyniobate - menez...
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Dargaite is a rare mineral with formula BaCa(SiO)(SO)O. It is the barium-analogue of nabimusaite, also differing from it in the lack of fluorine. It is one of many recently approved new minerals coming from the Hatrurim complex. Dargaite, as nabimusaite, is trigonal (space group "R"-3"m").
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Mesaite is a very rare mineral with formula CaMn(VO)•12HO. It is monoclinic (space group "P"2/"n"). It is related to fianelite, another manganese-rich divanadate. Examples of other divanadate minerals are volborthite, engelhauptite, karpenkoite, and martyite.
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Heptasartorite is a very rare mineral with formula TlPbAsS. It belongs to sartorite homologous series. It is related to other recently approved minerals of the series: enneasartorite and hendekasartorite. All three minerals come from a quarry in Lengenbach, Switzerland, which is famous of thallium minerals. Chemically ...
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Enneasartorite is a very rare mineral with formula TlPbAsS. It belongs to sartorite homologous series. It is related to other recently approved minerals of the sartorite series: hendekasartorite and heptasartorite. All come from Lengenbach quarry in Switzerland, which is famous for thallium sulfosalts. is chemically si...
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Hendekasartorite is a very rare thallium sulfosalt mineral with formula TlPbAsS. It is one of recently approved new members of sartorite homologous series, by enneasartorite and heptasartorite. All new members come from Lengenbach quarry in Switzerland, prolific in terms of thallium sulfosalt minerals. is chemically si...
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Ferraioloite is a rare mineral with formula MgMn(FeAl)Zn(PO)(OH)(HO). It is related to the phosphate mineral falsterite. was found in pegmatites of the Foote Lithium Company Mine, Cleveland County, North Carolina, US. The name honors James (Jim) A. Ferraiolo (1947–2014).
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Castellaroite is a rare arsenate mineral with formula Mn(AsO)•4HO. It is related to the phosphate mineral metaswitzerite. is monoclinic, with space group "P"2/"n". The other natural manganese arsenate hydrate is manganohörnesite, which is an octahydrate.
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Fluorwavellite is a rare phosphate mineral with formula Al(PO)(OH)F•5HO. As suggested by its name, it is a fluorine-analogue of wavellite (hence its name), a rather common phosphate mineral. Chemically similar aluminium fluoride phosphate minerals include fluellite, kingite and mitryaevaite. was discovered in Silver Co...
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Kyawthuite is a rare mineral with a simple formula: BiSbO4. It is a natural bismuth antimonate. is monoclinic, with space group "I"2/"c", and is isostructural with clinocervantite, its trivalent-antimony-analogue. is also an antimony-analogue of clinobisvanite. was discovered in the vicinity of Mogok township in Myanma...
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Juansilvaite is a very rare, complex arsenate-sulfate mineral with formula NaAl[AsO(OH)][AsO(OH)](SO)·4HO. It is both hydroxyarsenate and dihydroxyarsenate. It is among few relatively new minerals from the Torrecillas mine in Chile, the other being torrecillasite, canutite, chongite, gajardoite, leverettite, and magnes...
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Steinmetzite is a very rare phosphate mineral with formula ZnFe(PO)(OH)•3HO. It was discovered among pegmatites of Hagendorf in Germany, that are famous for rare phosphate minerals. is chemically related to phosphophyllite and other zinc iron phosphates, namely plimerite and zinclipscombite.
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Vasilseverginite is a very rare arsenate-sulfate mineral with formula CuO(AsO)(SO). Its structure is of a new type. Is possess a typical feature of many minerals of its type locality, the Tolbachik volcano, namely being a salt with oxide anions. However, it is the first Tolbachik copper oxysalt that is both arsenate an...
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Dachiardite-K is a rare zeolite-group mineral with the formula K(SiAlO)•13HO. It is the potassium-analogue of dachiardite-Ca and dachiardite-Na, as suggested by the suffix "-K". was discovered in opal-chalcedony veins in Eastern Rhodopes, Bulgaria. It is associated with barite, calcite, clinoptilolite-Ca, clinoptilolit...
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Lucchesiite is a new member of tourmaline-group of minerals. has the formula CaFeAl(SiO)(BO)(OH)O. It is the calcium and oxygen-analogue of schorl. It has two co-type localizations, one in Czech Republic and the other in Sri Lanka. As the other members of the tourmaline group, it is trigonal. Impurites in lucchesiite, ...
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Anzaite-(Ce) is a rare-earth element (REE) oxide mineral with the formula CeFeTiO(OH). An example of chemically related mineral is lucasite-(Ce), although it contains no iron. Cerium in anzaite-(Ce) is mainly substituted by neodymium, lanthanum, calcium and praseodymium. Titanium is substituted by niobium. Trace elemen...
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Bartelkeite is an exceptionally rare mineral, one of scarce natural germanium compounds. The formula was originally assumed to be PbFeGeO, bartelkeite was later shown to be isostructural with a high-pressure form of the mineral lawsonite. Thus, its correct formula is PbFeGe(GeO)(OH)•HO. and mathewrogersite are minerals...
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Ekplexite is a unique sulfide-hydroxide niobium-rich mineral with the formula (Nb,Mo)S•(MgAl)(OH). It is unique because niobium is usually found in oxide or, eventually, silicate minerals. is a case in which chalcophile behaviour of niobium is shown, which means niobium present in a sulfide mineral. The unique combinat...
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Qusongite is an extremely rare mineral with the simple formula WC, which shows the mineral to be a naturally occurring tungsten carbide. It was found in Luobusa ophiolite, China. This ophiolite is known for many natural reduced compounds, including native metals, diamond, silicides and carbides (e.g., moissanite, natur...
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Faizievite is a very rare mineral with the formula KNa(CaNa)TiLiSiOF. This triclinic mineral is chemically related to baratovite and katayamalite. is a single-locality mineral, coming from the moraine of the Darai-Pioz glacier, Tien Shan Mountains, Tajikistan. Alkaline rocks of this site are famous for containing numer...
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Howard Turner Barnes (21 July 1873, Woburn, Massachusetts – 4 October 1950, Burlington, Vermont) was an American-Canadian physicist who specialized in calorimetry, electrolytes, ice formation and ice engineering. In 1879, Howard T. Barnes moved with his family from Massachusetts to Montreal. where his father was appoin...
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Howard Turner Barnes Barnes pioneered the constant-flow calorimeter which is used by contemporary physical chemists. He also studied turbulence, electrolytes, and the heat effects of radium. In the 1920s, he became a world-class expert on anchor ice, frazil ice, and ice engineering. Barnes was elected a Fellow of the R...
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Hashemite (mineral) Hashemite is a very rare barium chromate mineral with the formula Ba(Cr,S)O4. It is a representative of natural chromates - a relatively small and rare group of minerals. Hashemite is the barium-analogue of tarapacáite. It is also the chromium-analogue of baryte, and belongs to the baryte group of m...
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Iyoite is a very rare manganese copper chloride hydroxide mineral with the formula MnCuCl(OH). is a new member of the atacamite group, and it an analogue of botallackite characterized in manganese and copper ordering. is monoclinic (space group "P"2/"m"). It is chemically similar to misakiite. Both minerals come from t...
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Jinshajiangite is a rare silicate mineral named after the Jinshajiang river in China. Its currently accepted formula is BaNaFeTi(SiO)O(OH)F. It gives a name of the jinshajiangite group. The mineral is associated with alkaline rocks. In jinshajiangite, there is a potassium-to-barium, calcium-to-sodium, manganese-to-iron...
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Tancaite-(Ce) is a very rare molybdate mineral with the formula FeCe(MoO)•3HO. It was found in Punta de Su Seinargiu locality on Sardinia, Italy. Red crystals of tancaite-(Ce) resemble modified cubes, but the mineral is trigonal (space group "R"-3). The type locality of tancaite-(Ce) is also a place of discovery of oth...
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Bernard Dell (born 1949) is an Australian botanist. He is a research director at Murdoch University developing strategic research partnerships with China and nearby countries. His research spans the disciplines of agriculture and forestry. He is the author of books and academic papers on these subjects and is the recip...
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Physical agents Physical Agents, in physical therapy, may also be referred to as modalities. Often used in conjunction with other manual therapies such as exercises and stretching. Each Physical Agent or Modality has a different use in therapy, depending on the goal of the Physical Therapist (PT) as well as the known b...
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Vicilin is a globulin associated with legumin. It is used as a storage protein and commonly found in plants like pea or lentil. It has been suggested to be an allergen in allergic reactions to peas.
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Molybdovanadate reagent The molybdovanadate reagent is a solution containing both the molybdate and vanadate ions. It is commonly used in the determination of phosphate ion content. The reagent used is ammonium molybdovanadate with the addition of 70% perchloric acid (sulfuric acid is also known to be used). It is used...
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Shirley Coryndon Shirley Cameron Coryndon (1926–1976) was a British paleontologist and authority on fossil hippopotami. In the 1950s she studied paleontology with Donald MacInnes at the Museum of Nairobi. Coryndon was the paleontological assistant to Louis Leakey at the Centre for Prehistory and Paleontology. She also ...
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CitMHS family The Citrate-Mg:H (CitM) / Citrate-Ca:H (CitH) Symporter (CitMHS) Family (TC# 2.A.11) is a family of transport proteins belonging to the Ion transporter superfamily. Members of this family are found in Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, archaea and possibly eukaryotes. These proteins all probably ar...
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CitMHS family mutans" transports citrate conjugated to Fe or Mn but not Ca, Mg or Ni. The transport reactions catalyzed by (1) CitM and (2) CitH, respectively, are:
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Jerome S. Spevack Jerome S. "J.S." Spevack was an American scientist, inventor, and engineer who developed the "dual temperature exchange sulphide process" (known as the Girdler sulfide process) in 1943 while working on the Manhattan Project. This is regarded as the most cost-effective process for producing heavy water...
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David M. Gates (May 27, 1921 – March 4, 2016) was an American ecologist who sounded early warnings that fossil fuels, fertilizers and pesticides posed a potentially fatal threat to the global environment.
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Ilirneyite is a rare tellurate mineral with the formula Mg[ZnMn(TeO)]•4.5HO. It was discovered at the Sentyabr'skoe deposit (of silver and gold) in the Ilirney Range, Western Chukotka, Russia. is a trivalent-manganese-analogue of zemannite. It is also a zinc- and manganese-analogue of keystoneite and kinichilite.
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Itelmenite is a rare sulfate mineral with the formula NaMgCu(SO). It is one of many fumarolic minerals discovered on the Tolbachik volcano. Saranchinaite and dravertite are examples of other anhydrous complex copper-bearing sulfates, also coming from the Tolbachik volcano.
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Joegoldsteinite Itelmenite is a rare sulfate mineral with the formula NaMgCu(SO). It was discovered in Social Circle meteorite found in Georgia, US. is defined as manganese-analogue of daubréelite (iron-rich mineral). It is also analogous to kalininite (Zn-dominant) and cuprokalininite (Cu-dominant).
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Abell 576 is a galaxy cluster in the constellation Lynx. Detailed study has revealed that there are two clusters in the process of merging.
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Honeaite is a rare gold thallium telluride mineral with the formula AuTlTe. It was discovered in the Karonie mine, Cowarna Downs Station, Western Australia, although this is not the only locality for the mineral. is structurally and chemically unique.
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Wampenite is a rare organic mineral with the formula CH, found in Wampen, Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria, Germany. Although structurally unique, chemically wampenite is similar to other minerals, like fichtelite, kratochvílite, ravatite, and simonellite.
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Lislkirchnerite is a rare nitrate mineral with the formula PbAl(OH)Cl(NO)•2HO. It was discovered in Nueva Esperanza No. 1 mine within the Capillitas deposit, Catamarca, Argentina. is the first mineral with combined lead and nitrate. The structure of the mineral is unique.
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CGTG-102 (Ad5/3-D24-GMCSF), (developed by Oncos Therapeutics) is an oncolytic adenovirus currently in orphan drug status for soft tissue sarcomas. It is modified to selectively replicate in p16/Rb-defective cells, which include most human cancer cells. In addition, codes for the granulocyte–macrophage colony-stimulatin...
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