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Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle is a natural history book by American conservation biologist Thor Hanson. Published by Basic Books in 2011 and written for general audiences, the book discusses the significance of feathers, their evolution, and their history both in nature and in use by humans. "Feathers" i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50302335 |
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle Critical reception to "Feathers" has predominantly been positive, with praise for Hanson's enthusiasm and writing. In 2012, "Feathers" won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award and the "SB&F" Prize in the Young Adult Science Book category, presented by the Amer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50302335 |
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle An essay-length adaptation titled "The Multiple Miracles of Bird Feathers" appeared in the January–February 2012 edition of "Audubon", published by the National Audubon Society. "Feathers" is Hanson's second book, after "The Impenetrable Forest: My Gorilla Years in Uganda" (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50302335 |
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle " Hanson also interviews Alan Feduccia, a professor at the University of North Carolina, who disagrees with the scientific consensus that birds evolved from theropod dinosaurs. Later, Hanson interviews Xing Xu, a Chinese paleontologist who described fossil specimens that hel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50302335 |
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle The "ground-up" view holds that flight originated from theropod dinosaurs running along the ground, whereas the "tree-down" view holds that flight originated from animals who lived in trees "as a means to extend their hops from branch to branch". Hanson discusses the issue w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50302335 |
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle Hanson also visits the Las Vegas Strip and observes how feathers play a role in pageant shows like "Jubilee!". Hanson interviews Marios Ignadiou, the head of "Jubilee!"'s costume shop, as well as fashion designer Pete Menefree. Hanson then describes the history of the feathe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50302335 |
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle Later, Hanson explains the history and use of feathers in quill pens, which he uses as an example of how feathers have been adapted for other purposes beyond their natural evolutionary purposes. Hanson also describes his experience observing the behavior of vultures in Kenya... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50302335 |
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle James, in a review published in "The Condor", described the book as "scholarly and enjoyable", commenting that "Hanson has worked hard to summarize the science behind our current understanding of the form and function of feathers, their development and their evolution." Rega... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50302335 |
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle Bostwick described Hanson's writing as "engaging", writing that there is "something for everyone to learn", from professional ornithologists to non-biologists. Bostwick warned scientific readers, however, that "Feathers" uses poetic license "to adapt some of the historical a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50302335 |
Feathers: The Evolution of a Natural Miracle " "Scientific American" published an online review of "Feathers" in their blog "Tetrapod Zoology" by Darren Naish. Naish commented that prior to Hanson's book, "it doesn’t seem that any one book has ever been devoted to feathers and feathers alone. ... "Feathers" is thus a r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50302335 |
Microfluidic cell culture integrates knowledge from biology, biochemistry, engineering, and physics to develop devices and techniques for culturing, maintaining, analyzing, and experimenting with cells at the microscale. It merges microfluidics, a set of technologies used for the manipulation of small fluid volumes (μL... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50311973 |
Microfluidic cell culture As an alternative to commonly used PDMS, there have been advances in the use of thermoplastics (e.g., polystyrene) as a replacement material. Spatial organization of cells in microscale devices largely depends on the culture region geometry for cells to perform functions "in vivo". For example... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50311973 |
Microfluidic cell culture Therefore, it is important to design the microfluidics system for cell culture in a manner that minimizes cell stress situations. For example, by minimizing cell suspension, by avoiding abrupt geometries (which tend to favor bubble formation), designing higher and wider channels (to avoid shea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50311973 |
Microfluidic cell culture Compartmentalized microfluidic cultures have also been combined with live cell calcium imaging, where depolarizing stimuli have been delivered to the peripheral terminals of neurons, and calcium responses recorded in the cell body. This technique has demonstrated a stark difference in the sens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50311973 |
Microfluidic cell culture Since the advent of poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PDMS) microfluidic device fabrication through soft lithography microfluidic devices have progressed and have proven to be very beneficial for mimicking a natural 3D environment for cell culture. Microfluidic devices make possible the study of a singl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50311973 |
Microfluidic cell culture The first report of these types of microfluidic cultures was used to study the toxicity of naphthalene metabolites on the liver and lung (Viravaidya et al.). These devices can grow a stripped-down version of an organ-like system that can be used to understand many biological processes. By addi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50311973 |
Microfluidic cell culture Organs-on-a-chip have also been used to replicate very complex systems like lung epithelial cells in an exposed airway and provides valuable insight for how multicellular systems and tissues function "in vivo." These devices are able to create a physiologically realistic 3D environment, which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50311973 |
Alice L. Pérez Sánchez (Costa Rica, December 23, 1963) was the Vice-dean of Research at the University of Costa Rica between 2012-2016. Dr. Pérez has a degree in chemistry (1989) from the University of Costa Rica, and a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from Simon Fraser University, Canada. She is a professor in the chemistry... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50349228 |
FAM63B is a protein which in humans is encoded by the gene FAM63B. This gene is highly expressed in humans. The gene is also highly conserved throughout evolutionary history. The discovered function of is an interaction with the kinesin-1 light chain and the transportation of vaccinia virus from the nucleus to the cell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50349553 |
FAM63B The disordered regions coincide with the coiled regions predicted by other programs, and this results in the long stretch of coiled protein beginning at the N-terminus. According to the SOUSI program, there is a 16-amino acid-long span from residues 265 to 280 of that could be a transmembrane sequence. However, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50349553 |
FAM63B Expression of is high in the embryonic stem cells and differentiated tissues but low or off in embryoid bodies and other progenitor cells, such as the multipotent mesenchymal stem cells. It is likely that is expressed during pluripotency and unipotency but is not important for differentiation, as is occurring in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50349553 |
FAM63B is among proteins studied that can rescue virus transport to the cell periphery when expressed in A36-deficient cells, successfully replacing the cytoplasmic domain A36 of vaccinia. The specific pathology of is unknown. is part of four networks regulated by miRNA, three of which are linked to neuronal differenti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50349553 |
Command and Control (book) Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety is a 2013 nonfiction book by Eric Schlosser about the history of nuclear weapons systems in the United States. Incidents Schlosser discusses in the book include the 1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50365010 |
Edward Wyllie Fenton Dr FRSE FLS (1889-1962) was a Scottish botanist. He was President of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh 1944–45. He was born in Aberdeen on 4 November 1889, the son of Edward W. Fenton, a clerk living at 13 Bon Accord Street. He attended Aberdeen University graduating in 1913. He began lecturing in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50365114 |
Gregory (crater on Venus) Grimke is a crater on Venus at latitude 7.1, longitude 95.8. It is 18 km in diameter and is named after Isabella Augusta Gregory. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50371157 |
Amanda Reid (malacologist) Amanda "Mandy" Reid is an Australian malacologist who works as a departmental collection manager at the Australian Museum. She is a published researcher and author. Her work in taxonomy has resulted in the description of many species of velvet worms and cephalopods. Reid is a graduate of Macq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50387175 |
Srinivasan Varadarajan (born 1928) is an Indian chemist, civil servant, corporate executive and the former chairman of several public sector undertakings such as Indian Petrochemicals Corporation Limited (IPCL), Petrofils Cooperative Limited, Engineers India Limited (EIL), and Bridge and Roof Company (India). Born on 3... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50400269 |
Suzanne Mary Prober (born in Hobart on 31 July 1964) is an Australian botanist and ecologist. She received her Bachelor of Science in Agriculture (Honors) from the University of Sydney in 1985 and a PhD in Vegetation Ecology from the Australia National University in 1990. She is a principal research scientist with CSIR... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50405756 |
Bhalchandra Udgaonkar Bhalchandra Madhav Udgaonkar is an Indian theoretical particle physicist, scientist, educationist and the co-editor of "A Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: Desirable?, Feasible?". His contributions have been reported in the development of Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education (HBCSE), Institute of Phy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50407896 |
Three Physicists Prize The () is a physics prize awarded by the École Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris and the Eugène Bloch Foundation. It is named in honour of the physicists Henri Abraham, Eugene Bloch and Georges Bruhat, who were successive directors of the physics laboratory at the ENS and all of whom died in Nazi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50413340 |
Charles Skinner (geologist) Charles Skinner is a geologist who is Head of Group Exploration at diamond miners De Beers. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50414502 |
NGC 4394 is a SBb barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices and is situated about 39.5 million light-years (12.1 megaparsecs) from Earth. It was discovered on 14 March 1784 by the German–British astronomer William Herschel. It is a presumed companion to the lenticular galaxy M85 / NGC 4382, which lies 8 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50414893 |
RAN translation Repeat Associated Non-AUG translation, or RAN translation, is an irregular mode of mRNA translation that can occur in eukaryotic cells. For the majority of eukaryotic messenger RNAs (mRNAs), translation initiates from a methionine-encoding AUG start codon following the molecular processes of 'cap-bindin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50431382 |
Nature Studies (manuscript) Nature Studies is an illustrated manuscript of the 16th century, which represents nature scenes. It was part of the collection of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolph II. The codex is made of parchment and measuring 48.7 x 36.1 centimeters. It is bound in green leather. The manuscript is part of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50459347 |
Rovuma Plate The is one of three tectonic microplates that contribute to the Nubian Plate and the Somali Plate. The other two plates are the Lwandle Plate and the Victoria Plate. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50477739 |
Edouard-Ernest Maire Edouard Ferdinand Ernest Maire (28 February 1848 – 19 August 1932) was a French missionary and plant collector in China. He served as Pro-Vicar Apostolic of Yunnan. Between 1905 and 1916 he sent the plant material he collected to various herbaria in Europe. From time to time he also collected seeds... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50490044 |
NGC 137 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Pisces. It was discovered by William Herschel on November 23, 1785. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50504678 |
Evaporative light scattering detector An evaporative light scattering detector (ELSD) is a detector used in conjunction with high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), Ultra high-performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC), Purification liquid chromatography such as flash or preparative chromatography, countercurrent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50507458 |
Evaporative light scattering detector In this region, a beam of light crosses the column of analyte and the scattering of light is measured by a photodiode or photomultiplier tube. The detector's output is non-linear across more than one order of magnitude and proper calibration is required for quantitative analysis. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50507458 |
NGC 6452 NGC 6452, also occasionally referred to as PGC 60876 or GC 5878, is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Hercules. It was discovered on 2 July, 1864 by astronomer Albert Marth. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50511433 |
Merodiploid A merodiploid is a partially diploid bacterium, which has its own chromosome complement and a chromosome fragment introduced by conjugation, transformation or transduction. It can also be defined as an essentially haploid organism that carries a second copy of a part of its genome. The term is derived from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50529615 |
Proteolysis targeting chimera A proteolysis targeting chimera (PROTAC) is a heterobifunctional small molecule composed of two active domains and a linker capable of removing specific unwanted proteins. Rather than acting as a conventional enzyme inhibitor, a PROTAC works by inducing selective intracellular proteolysis.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50532084 |
Proteolysis targeting chimera E2 then binds to the E3 ligase in a complex which can then recognize target proteins for subsequent ubiquitin tagging and degradation by the 26S proteosome. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50532084 |
Use of beta-adrenergic agonists livestock Beta-adrenergic agonists, or β-agonists, are non-hormonal growth promotants that help animals put on muscle instead of fat. The more scientifically accepted name for agents of this class is a repartitioning agent, not a growth promotor. Ractopamine (brand names include Optaflex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50533059 |
Use of beta-adrenergic agonists livestock Due to their significant nutrition redistribution function, β-agonists have been applied in the livestock industry such as pigs and ruminants to reduce carcass fat and increase muscle mass while improving growth rate and feed conversion ratio (Bareille and Faverdin, 1996, Berge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50533059 |
Use of beta-adrenergic agonists livestock Broad screening and identification of β-agonists in feed and animal body fluid and tissues using ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-quadrupole-orbitrap high resolution mass spectrometry combined with spectra library search • Tingting Lia, 1, • Jingjing Caob, 1, • Zhen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50533059 |
Use of beta-adrenergic agonists livestock The method validation results showed that the limit of detection ranged from 0.021–3.854 μg kg−1and 0.015–1.198 ng mL−1 for solid and liquid samples, respectively. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50533059 |
Fluctuation spectrum Fluctuation spectra are commonly denoted by sets of physical phenomena such as hydrodynamic turbulence, the collective behaviour of bacteria and more generally fluctuations originating from the equilibrium state. All of these phenomena can be generalised by a few theoretical results that qualitativ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50533361 |
NGC 5343 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Virgo. It was discovered on 5 May 1785 by William Herschel. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50540599 |
Eugene G. Munroe Eugene Gordon Munroe (8 September 1919 – 31 May 2008) was a Canadian entomologist who discovered numerous species of insects. He worked for the Insect Systematics and Biological Control Unit, Entomology Division in Ottawa, Canada. Munroe was "the acknowledged authority on the Pyraloidea worldwide for m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50548112 |
Biological rules A biological rule or biological law is a generalized law, principle, or rule of thumb formulated to describe patterns observed in living organisms. and laws are often developed as succinct, broadly applicable ways to explain complex phenomena or salient observations about the ecology and biogeographica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50550012 |
Biological rules There is some scepticism among biogeographers about the usefulness of general rules. For example, J.C. Briggs, in his 1987 book "Biogeography and Plate Tectonics", comments that while Willi Hennig's rules on cladistics "have generally been helpful", his progression rule is "suspect". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50550012 |
Faustovirus is a genus of giant virus which infects amoebae associated with humans. The virus was first isolated in 2015 and shown to be around 0.2 micrometers in diameter with a double stranded DNA genome of 466 kilobases predicted to encode 451 proteins. Although classified as a nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus (NCD... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50559168 |
Faustovirus Similar to the mimivirus, in which a channel is created for particle proteins and DNA to travel through, the faustovirus particles empty their internal compartments into the amoeba’s cytoplasm. In both viruses, the fusion leads to an "eclipse phase" in which the contents of particles become invisible inside... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50559168 |
Faustovirus Isolated strains of the virus have been detected in rodents, cattle, febrile and healthy humans, and well water and rivers. Although faustovirus was found in humans, it is unknown whether it has a pathogenic effect on humans; more research is required to determine the mode of infection and consequences of i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50559168 |
William Whigham Fletcher Prof FRSE FLS (11 August 1918 - 4 April 2001) was a Scottish biologist and academic author. He was Professor of Botany at Strathclyde University, and was known generally as Bill Fletcher. He specialised in crop protection and was one of the first to study the environmental impact of herbicides.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50571493 |
William Whigham Fletcher He served as the Society's Vice President 1983 to 1986. He died on 4 April 2001. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50571493 |
NGC 533 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on October 8, 1785 by William Herschel. It was described as "pretty bright, pretty large, round, gradually brighter middle" by John Louis Emil Dreyer, the compiler of the New General Catalogue. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50577513 |
Charles Edward Foister Dr FRSE (17 August 1903–23 July 1989) was a British botanist and plant pathologist. He was Director of Scottish Agricultural Scientific Services in Edinburgh from 1957. He specialised in lichens and fungi. He was born in Cambridge in England on 17 August 1903, the son of Frederick W Foister and h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50585194 |
Genotyping by sequencing In the field of genetic sequencing, genotyping by sequencing, also called GBS, is a method to discover single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP) in order to perform genotyping studies, such as genome-wide association studies (GWAS). GBS uses restriction enzymes to reduce genome complexity and genot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50591385 |
Genotyping by sequencing Next-generation sequencing technology is performed resulting in about 100 bp single-end reads. Raw sequence data are filtered and aligned to a reference genome using usually Burrows-Wheeler alignment tool (BWA) or Bowtie 2. The next step is to identify SNPs from aligned tags and score all disco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50591385 |
Genotyping by sequencing Other than the multiplex GBS skimming, imputation of missing SNPs has the potential to further reduce GBS costs. GBS is a versatile and cost-effective procedure that will allow mining genomes of any species without prior knowledge of its genome structure. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50591385 |
Hortus Haren is a botanical garden in Haren, Groningen, Netherlands. First created in 1626 by the pharmacist Henricus Munting, it was then situated between Grote Rozenstraat and Grote Kruisstraat in Groningen. Because of space considerations it relocated to Haren in 1967 and became the largest botanical garden in the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50607539 |
Anna Weizmann Anna (Hana, Anushka) Weizmann (; ; 1886 – February 17, 1963) was an Israeli chemist. (Hana) was born in a large family to Ezer Weizmann and Rachel-Leah Chemerinskiy. Sister of Chaim Weizmann and Moshe Weizmann. She studied in Zurich from 1905 to 1912. She worked for a year (1913-1914) in Manchester in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50609194 |
Eugene Goodilin (; born 18 November 1969) is Russian chemist and material scientist. In 2006 was elected in the Russian Academy of Science and became the youngest corresponding member. In 2015, a group of researchers from Lomonosov Moscow State University under the direction of Goodilin developed a unique method of per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50614807 |
Ronda peridotite is a peridotite body in Betic Cordillera, southern Spain. List of ophiolites: Mediterranean and Peri-Arabic ophiolites | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50616217 |
Upper mantle body An upper mantle body is a geological region where upper mantle rocks (peridotite) outcrop on the surface of the Earth (including the ocean floor). Upper mantle outcrops include: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50617072 |
Lherz Massif is an upper mantle peridotite body in the French Pyrenees. The rock lherzolite takes its name from this rock body. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50618789 |
Khamidbi M. Beshtoev (5 May 1943 – 13 May 2016) was a Russian physicist. References | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50636950 |
Santa Marta crater is a newly confirmed impact crater in Piauí State, northeastern Brazil. It is in diameter and it is estimated to have formed between 100 and 66 Ma, during the Late Cretaceous. Its impact origin was first proposed by S. Master and J. Heymann in 2000 based primarily on satellite remote sensing data and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50641384 |
Native aluminium (IMA1980-085a) is a natural occurrence of aluminium metal. Its (co)-type localities are the Billeekh intrusion and the dike OB-255, Sakha Republic. In the a gabbro-dolerite of the Billeekh intrusion it occurs with copper, zinc, tin, lead, cadmium, iron, antimony and moissanite. In the occurrence in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50641858 |
Titanium (native) Native titanium (IMA2010-044) is a natural occurrence of titanium. Its type locality is the Luobusa mining district, Luobusha fault zone (Yarlung Zangbo suture zone), Qusum County, Shannan, Tibet. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50642048 |
NGC 138 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on August 29, 1864 by Albert Marth. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50652487 |
NGC 139 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on August 29, 1864 by the German astronomer Albert Marth. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50652942 |
Dhirendra Kishore Chakravarti (1902after 1982) was an Indian geologist and palaentologist, who worked at Banaras Hindu University in the Geological Museum (now part of the Institute of Science). In 1934, he was the first Indian to describe a species of dinosaur, "Brachypodosaurus gravis" (now considered dubious). In 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50655470 |
PDL BioPharma (known as Protein Design Labs prior to 2006) is a publicly traded American holding company that since 2008 manages patents and other intellectual property that had been generated by the company. In 2008 in response to shareholder pressure, PDL spun out its active development programs to a company called F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50691676 |
PDL BioPharma One of the development programs that PDL had transferred to Facet was the use of daclizumab in indications it had never licensed to Roche, including multiple sclerosis. Facet partnered that development program with Biogen Idec which attempted a hostile buy out of Facet for $350M in 2009; Facet rejected th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50691676 |
Kivu Lacus is a small Titanean hydrocarbon lake. It was discovered by the Cassini probe. The lake is near Titan's north pole and is named after Lake Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda. In 2012, Cassini spotted an Infrared glint off the lake. The aspects of it suggested waves. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50699401 |
Genome Project-Write The Genome Project - Write (also known as GP-Write) is a large-scale collaborative research project (an extension of Genome Projects, aimed at reading genomes since 1984) that focuses on the development of technologies for the synthesis and testing of genomes of many different species of microbes, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50708946 |
Data-independent acquisition In mass spectrometry, data-independent acquisition (DIA) is a method of molecular structure determination in which all ions within a selected "m/z" range are fragmented and analyzed in a second stage of tandem mass spectrometry. Tandem mass spectra are acquired either by fragmenting all ion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50713436 |
Data-independent acquisition One approach to DIA data analysis attempts to use database-based search engines used in data-dependent acquisition to search the produced multiplexed spectra. This approach can be improved by assigning individual fragment ion to precursor ions observed in precursor ion scans, using the elut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50713436 |
C. A. E. Matzek Carol. Anton. Epiph. Matzek (5 February 1810, Sośnicowice (), Lower Silesiaafter 1839) was a Prussian entomologist, who described several species of "Nicrophorus" (burying beetles). As binomial authority, he is called "Matzek". Little is known of him. He studied at the University of Breslau, where his i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50716063 |
Joan Adler Joan Elisabeth Adler (born June 13, 1950, in Sydney, Australia) is a computational physicist at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Her research involves percolation theory, lattice models, and neural networks. Adler graduated with a B.Sc. in mathematics and physics from the University of Sydney i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50723798 |
Karl Theodor Liebe Karl Theodor Leopold Liebe (11 February 1828 - 5 June 1894) was a German geologist and ornithologist. A pioneer in bird conservation, he established the first bird protection agency in Germany. Liebe was born in Neustadt an der Orla. His father was a clergyman while his grandfather was an eye special... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50733084 |
Resorcylic acid lactone Resorcylic acid lactones are a group of estrogenic compounds. They are lactones of resorcylic acid. Examples include the mycoestrogens (and synthetic analogues) zearalenone, zearalanone, zeranol (α-zearalanol), taleranol (β-zearalanol), α-zearalenol, and β-zearalenol. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50734317 |
Phoebe Regio is a regio on the planet Venus. It lies to the southeast of Asteria Regio. It is in diameter and is the principal feature of the V41 quadrangle, to which it gave its name. Four Soviet landers, Venera 11, Venera 12, Venera 13 and Venera 14, landed on the eastern side of and performed various scientific meas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50735788 |
Tidal downsizing is a hypothetical mechanism for the formation of planets. The process begins with the formation of large clumps of gas, of roughly 10 Jupiter masses, via gravitational instability in the outer parts of the protoplanetary disk. The clumps migrate inward due to gravitational interactions with the gas dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50737844 |
David Leigh Clark David L. Clark is a paleontologist. He was the W.H. Twenhofel Professor of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin. In 1972, he described the conodont genus "Neostreptognathodus". In 2001, he received the Raymond C. Moore Medal which is awarded by the Society ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50740871 |
AGC 198691 is a small galaxy with the smallest known metallicity. It has a nickname of Leoncino as it is near Leo Minor. The galaxy appears blue due to the presence of several bright blue stars. There is also an HII region present that contains oxygen. It is important as an indicator of the kind of galaxies first forme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50753071 |
Des singularités de la nature is an essay on natural history by the French philosopher and author Voltaire, first published in 1768. In it, he defends Preformationism, the idea that organisms develop from tiny versions of themselves. He defends the idea of a supreme being, and the idea that many features of the natural... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50758294 |
Heinz Kozur Heinz Walter Kozur (born 26 March 1942 in Hoyerswerda; died 20 December 2013 in Budapest) was a German paleontologist and stratigrapher. In 1974, with Mock, he described the conodont genus "Misikella", in 1975, with Merrill, the genus "Diplognathodus", in 1977, the genus "Vjalovognathus", in 1988, the genus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50763272 |
Abell 2597 is a galaxy cluster located about a billion light years from Earth in the constellation of Aquarius. It is a giant elliptical galaxy that is surrounded by a sprawling cluster of other galaxies. In 2018, the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) captured cosmic weather event using the Atacama Large Mill... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50764247 |
Wild Flower Society (UK) The Wild Flower Society is a society for a wide range of flower enthusiasts, from serious botanists to beginners. It arranges field trips and meetings, publishes the "Wild Flower Magazine", offers prizes and has a children's section. Most members keep diaries of observations, and may photograph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50775008 |
Wild Flower Society (UK) Her daughter Pamela Schwerdt was head gardener at Sissinghurst and was said to have inherited her interest in flowers through her mother. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50775008 |
Energy well In physics, an energy well describes a 'stable' equilibrium that is not at lowest possible energy. In general, modern physics holds the view that the universe - and systems therein - spontaneously drives toward a state of lower energy, if possible. For example, a bowling ball pitched atop a smooth hump (whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50791779 |
Tracy Slatyer is a particle physicist with a concentration in theoretical astrophysics. She was a 2014 recipient of the Rossi Prize for gamma ray detection of Fermi bubbles, which are unexpected large structure in our galaxy. Her research also involves seeking explanations for dark matter and the gamma ray haze at the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50820560 |
Jenny Greene (born October 9, 1978) is an Astrophysicist and Professor at Princeton University. She is notable for her work on supermassive black holes and the galaxies in which they reside. In 2000, Greene received a B.S in astronomy and physics (summa cum laude) from Yale University. She then attended Harvard for her... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50820675 |
Klaus J. Müller Klaus Jürgen Müller (born 6 February 1923 in Berlin, died 12 March 2010 in Bonn) was a German paleontologist. In 1956, he described the Devonian conodont genus "Palmatolepis". In 1959, he described the Cambrian conodont genera "Furnishina", "Hertzina" and "Westergaardodina", and the conodont family West... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50829612 |
Walter C. Sweet (17 October 1927 in Denver, Colorado – 4 December 2015 in Tucson, Arizona) was an American paleontologist. He was a Chief Panderer of the Pander Society, an informal organisation founded in 1967 for the promotion of the study of conodont palaeontology. In 1984, he was president of the Paleontological So... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50837835 |
Stig Bergström Stig M. Bergström (born 12 June 1935 in Skövde) is a Swedish-American paleontologist. In 1981, he described the conodont family Paracordylodontidae. In 1974, he described the multielement conodont genus "Appalachignathus" from the Middle Ordovician of North America. He received the Pander Medal by the Pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50838002 |
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