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Akamptisomer An akamptisomer is a type of conformational isomer characterized by a hindered inversion of a bond angle. It was first discovered in 2018 in a series of bridged porphyrin molecules. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57622987 |
Philip Hedrick Philip W. Hedrick (born November 21, 1942) is an American emeritus professor at Arizona State University (ASU). From 1992 until his retirement, Hedrick was Ullman Professor of Conservation Biology at ASU. Hedrick has published over 200 articles on the topics of population genetics and conservation biology. Among other organisms, he has published extensively on wolves and bighorn sheep. Hedrick previously served as president of the American Society of Naturalists and the American Genetic Association, and in 1987 was made a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57625935 |
NOAA-2 NOAA-2, also known as ITOS-D was a weather satellite operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It was part of a series of satellites called ITOS, or improved TIROS. was launched on a Delta rocket on October 15, 1972. The launch carried one other satellite: AMSAT-OSCAR 6. NOAA 2 was the first in a series of reconfigured ITOS-M satellies launched with new meteorological sensors on board to expand the operational capability of the ITOS system. NOAA 2 was not equipped with conventional TV cameras. It was the first operational weather satellite to rely solely upon radiometric imaging to obtain cloud cover data. The primary objective of NOAA 2 was to provide global daytime and nighttime direct readout real-time cloud cover data on a daily basis. The sun-synchronous spacecraft was also capable of supplying global atmospheric temperature soundings and very high resolution infrared cloudcover data for selected areas in either a direct readout or a tape-recorder mode. A secondary objective was to obtain global solar-proton flux data on a real-time daily basis. The primary sensors consisted of Very High Resolution Radiometer (VHRR), a Vertical Temperature Profile Radiometer (VTPR), and a Scanning Radiometer (SR). The VHRR, VTPR, and SR were mounted on the satellite baseplate with their optical axes directed vertically earthward. The nearly cubical spacecraft measured | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57626313 |
NOAA-2 The satellite was equipped with three curved solar panels that were folded during launch and deployed after orbit was achieved. Each panel measured over in length when unfolded and was covered with approximately 3,500 solar cells measuring . The NOAA 2 dynamics and attitude control system maintained desired spacecraft orientation through gyroscopic principles incorporated into the satellite design. Earth orientation of the satellite body was maintained by taking advantage of the precession induced from a momentum flywheel so that the satellite body precession rate of one revolution per orbit provided the desired earth-looking attitude. Minor adjustments in attitude and orientation were made by means of magnetic coils and by varying the speed of the momentum flywheel. The spacecraft operated satisfactorily until March 18, 1974, when VTPR failed. NOAA 2 was then placed in a marginal standby mode from March 19 to July 1, 1974. It was then used as the operational NOAA satellite until October 16, 1974, when it was again placed in a marginal standby mode. The spacecraft was deactivated on January 30, 1975. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57626313 |
NOAA-3 NOAA-3, also known as ITOS-F was a weather satellite operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It was part of a series of satellites called ITOS, or improved TIROS. It was deactivated by NOAA in August 1976. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57627839 |
NOAA-5 NOAA-5, also known as ITOS-H was a weather satellite operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). It was part of a series of satellites called ITOS, or improved TIROS, being the last of the series. was launched on a Delta rocket on July 29, 1976. was one in a series of improved TIROS-M type satellites launched with new meteorological sensors on board to expand the operational capacity of the ITOS (NOAA) system. The primary objectives of the meteorological satellite were to provide global daytime and nighttime direct readout cloud cover data on a daily basis. The sun-synchronous spacecraft was capable of supplying global atmospheric temperature soundings and very high resolution infrared cloudcover data of selected areas in either a direct readout or a tape recorder mode. A secondary objective was to obtain global solar proton density data on a routine daily basis. The primary sensors consisted of a very high resolution radiometer (VHRR), a vertical temperature profile radiometer (VTPR), and a scanning radiometer (SR). The VHRR, VTPR, and SR were mounted on the satellite baseplate with their optical axes directed vertically earthward. The nearly cubical spacecraft measured . The satellite was equipped with three curved solar panels that were folded during launch and deployed after orbit was achieved. Each panel measured over in length when unfolded and was covered with 3,420 solar cells, each measuring | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57628171 |
NOAA-5 The ITOS dynamics and attitude control system maintained desired spacecraft orientation through gyroscopic principles incorporated into the satellite design. Earth orientation of the satellite body was maintained by taking advantage of the precession induced from a momentum flywheel so that the satellite body precession rate of one revolution per orbit provided the desired "earth looking" attitude. Minor adjustments in attitude and orientation were made by means of magnetic coils and by varying the speed of the momentum flywheel. The satellite was placed in a sun-synchronous orbit with equatorial crossing of the ascending node near 08:30 A.M. local time. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57628171 |
Julius Aamisepp (1883–1950) was an Estonian horticulturalist, agricultural scientist, revolutionary, and soldier. Aamisepp was born in 1883 in Harjumaa. At the time, Harjumaa and greater Estonia were part of the Russian Empire. Upon graduation from elementary school, Aamisepp's education became militarily focused, with Aamisepp being set on joining the Imperial Russian Army. After graduating from secondary school in 1903, Aamisepp enrolled in a military electrical engineering school in St. Petersburg. While in St. Petersburg, Aamisepp became involved with a revolutionary movement inside Russia. He was expelled from the academy he was attending and briefly imprisoned, but was later allowed to return to military service on the condition that he remain under surveillance. Rather than remain in the military, Aamisepp chose instead to return to Estonia to study horticulture; he soon developed a hobby of growing potatoes, which he cultivated near his family's home. He experimented on the Imperator variety of potato, eventually leading to him developing his own variety. Dubbed the "Kalevipoeg", the new potato variety yielded a crop 58% larger than the Imperator. When the First World War broke out in 1914, Aamisepp rejoined the Imperial Army and was commissioned as an artillery officer. When the October Revolution resulted in the collapse of the Russian state, Amisepp joined the burgeoning Estonian Independence movement, helping to organize new army units | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57645415 |
Julius Aamisepp Following the end of the First World War, Aamisepp began working at the Jõgeva Plant Breeding Institute to develop new varieties of potatoes. Notably, Amisepp developed the Jõgeva Yellow, a popular variety of potato in Estonia. In addition to developing the Jõgeva Yellow, Aamisepp bred apples, peas, beans, beatroot, buckwheat, onions, currants, and pears. He died in Jõgeva in 1950. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57645415 |
Hygroreception is the ability to detect changes in the moisture and humidity content of an environment. It is a sense that is not present in humans. Some insects have this sense. The structure responsible for this sense is a hygroreceptor. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57651406 |
Peter Milner (13 June 1919 – 2 June 2018) was a Canadian neuroscientist. He was the husband of Dr. Brenda Milner. Born in Yorkshire, England, Milner worked at the British Air Defence Research and Development Establishment before moving to Canada in 1944. He was an electrical engineer, but became interested in neuroscience while Brenda was studying the subject at McGill University; he became a graduate student under the same supervisor as she, and later taught at McGill himself. In collaboration with James Olds, he is credited with the discovery of the brain's pleasure centre in 1954. Milner received the Gold Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Contributions to Canadian Psychology from the Canadian Psychological Association in 2005. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57669296 |
NGC 3336 is a barred spiral galaxy located about 190 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. It was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on March 24, 1835. is a member of the Hydra Cluster. A supernova of an unknown type was discovered in on December 20, 1984. It was designated as SN 1984S. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57676290 |
SPARC (tokamak) SPARC is a tokamak that has been proposed for construction by Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS) in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC), with funding from Italian energy company Eni. SPARC would be a scaled down version of the proposed ARC fusion reactor. SPARC proposes to use powerful magnets built with new yttrium barium copper oxide (YBCO) high temperature superconductor in order to produce 100 MW of fusion power for 10 second bursts despite being a relatively compact device. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57688085 |
Navigation surface In hydrography, the Navigation Surface paradigm represents an alternative to traditional approaches to manage bathymetric data by creating bathymetric databases that can be used to generate high-resolution navigation aids and other applications. The paradigm also provides methods to manipulate the data to create products for various applications (e.g., thematic maps for marine geology,acoustic seabed classification and marine biology). Recent technological developments in hydrography (e.g., large adoption of multibeam echosounder and electronic navigational charts) have pushed hydrographic organizations to adopt a new production paradigm centered on gridded surfaces rather than sounding-based workflow and products. Based on such a shift, the concept of navigation surface was introduced in 2003 to provide a seafloor model at the best resolution that the data support. Depth values for nautical charting are then derived by generalization of the available gridded surfaces. In addition, a quality assessment for each grid node of the navigation surface is created through an uncertainty layer. The Open Navigation Surface (ONS) project designed a free, open-source code library to manage (read/write) the information required to create a Navigation Surface. The implementation of these requirements is represented by the Bathymetric Attributed Grid data format. The US Navy has implemented a global navigation surface database using an infrastructure called DBDB-NV. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57696352 |
H.Y. Mohan Ram Holenarasipur Yoganarasimham Mohan Ram (24 September 1930 - 18 June 2018) was an Indian botanist who influenced numerous students as a professor of Botany at Delhi University. His research areas included studies in floral biology, plant physiology, insectivorous plants and on the family Podostemaceae. He was a brother of H. Y. Sharada Prasad and the father of Indian Ocean's Rahul Ram. Mohan Ram was born in Karnataka and grew up in Mysuru where he studied at the Saradavilas High School (1943–46) and Intermediate College (1946–48), receiving his bachelor of science degree from St. Philomena's College, Mysore and a master's degree in Botany from the Balwant Rajput College, Agra in 1953. He then joined as a lecturer in Botany at University of Delhi and worked on seed development in the Acanthaceae under Professor Panchanan Maheswari. He subsequently worked at Cornell University as a Fulbright Scholar with F.C. Steward and became a specialist in tissue culture. He also worked at the Laboratoire de Physiologie Pluricellulaire with J.P. Nitsch. Professor Mohan Ram published over 240 research papers and edited four books while also guiding 32 PhD students. He helped in the establishment of the Department of Genetics and Environmental Biology at Delhi University. He was an honorary scientist of the Indian National Science Academy from 2006 and was a vice-president of Indian Academy of Sciences between 1988 and 1990. He was the chairman of the NCERT biology textbook committee from 1986 to 1988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57716134 |
H.Y. Mohan Ram He was awarded the JC Bose Award in 1979, the Om Prakash Bhasin Award (1986), the Sergei Nawashin Medal of the USSR (1990) and numerous other recognitions. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57716134 |
NGC 1273 is a lenticular galaxy located about 245 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. It was discovered by astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest on February 14, 1863 and is a member of the Perseus Cluster. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57723155 |
NGC 1274 is a compact elliptical galaxy located about 280 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. was discovered by astronomer Lawrence Parsons on December 4, 1875. It is a member of the Perseus Cluster. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57726900 |
NGC 1270 is an elliptical galaxy located about 250 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. It was discovered by astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest on February 14, 1863. is a member of the Perseus Cluster and has an estimated age of about 11 billion years. However, Greene et al. puts the age of at about 15.0 ± 0.50 Gy. has a supermassive black hole with an estimated mass of no more than 12 billion solar masses (). Spectroscopy of suggests that the galaxy contains a low-luminosity AGN (LLAGN). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57733812 |
Cetobacterium is a Gram-negative, pleomorphic, non-spore-forming, rod-shaped and non-motile genus of bacteria from the family of Fusobacteriaceae. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57733913 |
Cetobacterium ceti is a Gram-negative, and rod-shaped obligately anaerobic bacterium from the genus of "Cetobacterium" which has been isolated from sea mammals. represents a hitherto unknown line of descent peripherally associated to the fusobacteria and low G + C relatives.There is no growth of at 25°C or 45°C. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57734000 |
Cetobacterium somerae is a Gram-negative, microaerotolerant, non-spore-forming and rod-shaped bacterium from the genus of "Cetobacterium" which has been isolated from human feces. "Cetobacterium somerae" occur in intestinal tracts of freshwater fish. produces cobalamin. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57734324 |
Sneathia is a Gram-negative,rod-shaped, non-spore-forming and non-motile genus of bacteria from the family of Leptotrichiaceae. "Sneathia" is named of the microbiologist H. A. Snaeth. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57734572 |
Keystone virus The is a mosquito-borne virus which can infect mammals. It was first discovered in animals in the Florida area, where it is spread in part by local species of "Aedes" mosquitoes. In 1964, a case of human infection, producing minor symptoms of a rash and fever, was circumstantially diagnosed. Conclusive laboratory demonstration of the virus in humans was first obtained and reported in 2018. The was first discovered in mosquitoes in the Keystone area of Tampa, Florida in 1964, based on antigenic evidence from specimens caught in 1963. The virus has been subsequently observed along the eastern and southern coastline of the United States, from Boston through Texas. In small mammals it can produce symptoms of encephalitis. Infection in humans is believed to be widespread, based on a 1972 report detecting antibodies in 19–21 percent of the people tested in the Tampa Bay region. The first laboratory isolation of the virus from a human case occurred in Florida in 2016, and was reported in 2018. Identification took almost two years after the case actually occurred, when blood samples taken from the subject in 2016 were analyzed retrospectively by researchers studying the incidence of Zika virus in the Florida population. The "Aedes atlanticus" mosquito is a demonstrated vector | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57744538 |
Keystone virus The virus transmits transstadially through the different stages of the insect's life: A female mosquito may lay eggs carrying the virus, which hatch into infected larvae, eventually maturing into adults that can infect mammals while injecting their anti-coagulant saliva during a bite. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57744538 |
Sidney Segalowitz Sidney J. "Sid" Segalowitz is a Canadian psychologist and neuroscientist who is a professor of psychology at Brock University. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University. He is known for his research using electroencephalography to study brain activity associated with human behavioral phenotypes. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57745268 |
Sneathia sanguinegens is a Gram-positive and anaerobic bacterium from the genus of "Sneathia" which has been isolated from humans. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57746699 |
North Atlantic Craton The (NAC) is an Archaean craton exposed in southern West Greenland, the Nain Province in Labrador, and the Lewisian complex in northwestern Scotland. The NAC is bounded by the Nagssugtoqidian orogen to the north and the 1.8–1.87 Ga Ketilidan–Makkovik mobile belt to the south. The latter can be linked to the Lewisian-Malin boundary in Scotland, which in turn can be linked to the Transscandinavian Igneous Belt in Baltica. Palaeoproterozoic mobile belts surround the continental blocks and cratonic fragments of the NAC. Throughout the Mesoproterozoic, Neoproterozoic, and Mesozoic (1350–550 ), when these blocks still formed a coherent craton, repeated continental extension resulted in lithospheric thinning. The NAC finally broke up at 60 Ma with the opening of the Labrador Sea. Ultramafic magmatism has occurred continuously in the NAC for almost 3 billion years but kimberlite-producing magmatism has only occurred in two stages: in the Neoproterozoic (c. 600–550 Ma) in the northern NAC and in the Jurassic (c. 200–150 Ma) in the southern NAC. Magmatism during the Neoproterozoic was caused by either the opening of the Iapetus Ocean, lithospheric thinning along a fracture zone, or the appearance of a mantle plume. A rift system that developed during the Mesozoic began to fraction the NAC and the initial stages of the break-up of the NAC produced the kimberlite and carbonatite deposits along the Labrador Sea | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57747454 |
North Atlantic Craton In Greenland the NAC is primarily made of TTG orthogneisses separated and obscured by supracrustal belts, anorthosite complexes, and granite intrusions. A series of terranes have been distinguished in Greenland: north of the Frederikshåb Isblink Glacier. The Akia, Isukasia, and Kapisilik terranes probably collided c. 2950 Ma in the Isukasia orogeny, although events are masked by Neoarchaean overprinting. The Færingehavn, Tre Brødre, and Tasiusarsuaq terranes merged c. 2800–2700 Ma in the Tasiusarsuaq orogeny, although these terranes were affected by Neoarchaean folding and deformation. In the Kapisilik orogeny c. 2650–2580 Ma terranes around the Godthåbsfjord, mostly north of Nuuk, were accreted along the Iivinnguit fault. South of Frederikshåb Isblink the Paamiut and Neria blocks probably collided c. 2850–2830 Ma in the Paamiut orogeny. They in turn collided with the Sioraq block and Tasiusarsuaq terranes 2760–270 Ma in the Tasiusarsuaq orogeny. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57747454 |
National Weather Service Gray/Portland, Maine The (GYX) is a local office of the National Weather Service responsible for monitoring weather conditions over western Maine and all of New Hampshire. It is situated in Gray, Maine, in the metropolitan area of Portland, in a rural setting. The National Weather Service in Gray provides weather, hydrologic, and climate forecasts and warnings for western Maine, New Hampshire, and adjacent waters for the protection of life and property and the enhancement of the national economy. The National Weather Service in Gray is responsible for observing equipment at Portland, Augusta, Wiscasset, and Fryeburg in Maine; and Concord, Manchester, Rochester, Lebanon, Berlin, Jaffrey, and Whitefield in New Hampshire. The FAA or other organizations maintain the equipment in Lewiston-Auburn, Rockland, Waterville, Sanford, and Rangeley in Maine; and Laconia, Keene, Nashua, and Plymouth in New Hampshire. The site in Gray has a WSR-88D weather radar, part of the NEXRAD network, which Reflectivity/Doppler/dual polarization high resolution data cover an area of about around the station, or roughly the area of responsibility of the NWS Forecasting Office in Gray (long range reflectivity data cover about double of this). Colocated is a radiosonde facility from which a weather balloon is released twice dayly to obtain temperature, humidity and winds in the troposphere above Maine. It is part of a network of such facilities across United States, run by the NWS, which in turn is part of the World Weather Watch. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57747871 |
Sneathia amnii is a bacterium from the genus of "Sneathia" which has been isolated from human blood from Strasbourg in France. "Sneathia amnii" is a pathogen of the female urogenital tract. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57759485 |
Gregory Edgecombe Gregory Donald Edgecombe is a merit researcher in the department of Earth Sciences at the Natural History Museum, London. He is a leading figure in understanding the evolution of arthropods, their position in animal evolution and the integration of fossil data into analyses of animal phylogeny. As a palaeontologist, he is also an authority on the systematics of centipedes – and a morphologist whose work contributes to the growth and methods of analysis of molecular datasets for inferring evolutionary relationships. Edgecombe was educated at Columbia University where he received a PhD in 1991 for systematic studies on the trilobite order Phacopida supervised by Niles Eldredge at the American Museum of Natural History. After his PhD, Edgecombe was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Alberta, and worked as a researcher at the Australian Museum in Sydney for 14 years. In 2007 he took up the position of research leader at the Natural History Museum, London, where since 2013 he has been a Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) merit researcher. Edgecombe was awarded the president's medal by the Palaeontological Association in 2011 and the Fenner Medal for distinguished research in biology by the Australian Academy of Science in 2004. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2018. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57759683 |
Ilyobacter insuetus is a mesophilic and anaerobic bacterium from the genus of "Ilyobacter" which has been isolated from marine anoxic sediments from Venice in Italy. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57776148 |
Leptotrichia trevisanii is an aerotolerant, filamentous and non-motile bacterium from the genus of "Leptotrichia" which has been isolated from human blood. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57776199 |
Leptotrichia goodfellowii is a Gram-negative, non-spore-forming and non-motile bacterium from the genus of "Leptotrichia" which has been isolated from human blood of an endocarditis patient. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57776292 |
Cole equation of state An equation of state introduced by R. H. Cole where formula_2 is a reference density, formula_3 is the adiabatic index, and formula_4 is a parameter with pressure units. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57778150 |
Adoudounian The Adoudounien (or Adoudounian) is an obsolete geological stage used in North Africa to characterise stratigraphic formations located at the transition between the Ediacarian (last period of the Neoproterozoic) and the Cambrian (first period of the Paleozoic). While largely used in the scientific literature in the 20th century and still common in articles related to the geology of Morocco, the definition of this unofficial term remains blurry and no start and end dates where associated to it. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57780058 |
Sentinel outlet A sentinel outlet in occupational safety and health is a water outlet that is chosen to have its temperature monitored so that risk from "Legionella" can be controlled. This is typically chosen to be the closest and furthest outlets from the water tank. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57785164 |
John C. Crabbe John C. Crabbe, Jr. is an American neuroscientist and behavior geneticist. He is a professor of behavioral neuroscience at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) School of Medicine, where he has worked since 1979. He is also a senior research career scientist at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Portland, Oregon. He is also the former director of OHSU's Portland Alcohol Research Center. Crabbe is known for his research using mouse models to study the pharmacogenetics of alcoholism. He is also known for a 1999 study he and his colleagues published documenting significant variations in certain mouse behaviors across different labs, even when they all tried to follow the same protocols. In 2011, he was chosen by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism to give the 16th annual Mark Keller Honorary Lecture. Crabbe is a member of the editorial board of "Genes, Brain and Behavior", | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57792267 |
Floc (biofilm) A floc is a type of microbial aggregate that may be contrasted with biofilms and granules, or else considered a specialized type of biofilm. Flocs appear as cloudy suspensions of cells floating in water, rather than attached to and growing on a surface like most biofilms. The floc typically is held together by a matrix of extracellular polymeric substance (EPS), which may contain variable amounts of polysaccharide, protein, and other biopolymers. The formation and the properties of flocs may affect the performance of industrial water treatment bioreactors such as activated sludge systems. Floc formation may benefit the constituent microorganisms in a number of ways, including protection from pH stress, resistance to predation, manipulation of microenvironments, and facilitation of mutualistic relationships in mixed microbial communities. In general, the mechanisms by which flocculating microbial aggregates hold together are poorly understood. However, work on the activated sludge bacterium Zoogloea resiniphila has shown that PEP-CTERM proteins must be expressed for flocs to form; in their absence, growth is planktonic, even though exopolysaccharide is produced. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57805865 |
RXC J2211.7-0350 is a cluster of galaxies. Galaxy clusters are the biggest objects in the Universe that are held together by gravity. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57813559 |
Brownie Chasma The is a Chasma located on Ariel. They are named after Brownies, which are spirits believed to help with household tasks. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57817034 |
Kewpie Chasma The is a Chasma on the surface of Ariel.. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57821097 |
NOAA-8 NOAA-8, also known as NOAA-E, was a U.S. weather satellite operated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for use in the National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS). It was first of the Advanced TIROS-N series of satellites. was launched on an Atlas E rocket on March 28, 1983 from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The last contact occurred on December 29, 1985, following a power failure caused by thermal runaway of its battery system. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57823568 |
Reinhardt Adolfo Fuck is a Brazilian geologist who is a professor at the University of Brasília. His surname is pronounced to rhyme with "hook" (British pronunciation): [fʊk]. His research lines are geochronology, petrology and lithogeochemistry, high-grade metamorphism, greenstone belts, Proterozoic double belts. He has been an author of a large number of Precambrian-geology-related scientific papers. (Google Scholar search says "about 289 results", if patents and citations are excluded.) In 2010, he was awarded the Brazilian honour called the National Order of Scientific Merit. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57840294 |
John Aggleton (born 14 June 1955 in Cardiff) is a British behavioural neuroscientist. Aggleton obtained his B.A. in natural sciences in 1976 at Cambridge University and his Ph.D. with his thesis entitled "Anatomical and Functional Subdivisions of the Amygdala" in 1980 from the University of Oxford. From 1983 he was first lecturer and then from 1992 senior lecturer in the department of psychology at the University of Durham. Since 1994, he has been professor of cognitive neuroscience at Cardiff University, where he studies the architecture of the brain and how various brain structures work together to provide different forms of memory. Aggleton was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences and a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2012. He was president of the European Brain and Behaviour Society from 2005-2006 and of the British Neuroscience Association from 2015–2017. He is a member of the editorial boards of "Behavioral Neuroscience", "Behavioural Brain Research", "Neuropsychologia", and "Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57840491 |
Alloy broadening is a spectral-line broadening mechanism caused by random distribution of the atoms in an alloy. The alloy broadening is one of the line broadening mechanisms. The random distribution of atoms in an alloy causes a different material composition at different positions. In semiconductors and insulators the different material composition leads to different band gap energies. This gives different exciton recombination energies. Therefore, depending on the position where an exciton recombines the emitted light has a different energy. The alloy broadening is an inhomogeneous line broadening, meaning that its shape is Gaussian. In the mathematical description it is assumed that no clustering occurs within the alloy. Then, for a binary alloy of the form <chem>A_{1-x}B_{x}</chem>, e.g. <chem>Si_{1-x}Ge_{x}</chem>, the standard deviation of the composition is given by : where formula_2 is the number of atoms within the excitons' volume, i.e. formula_3 with formula_4 being the atoms per volume. In general, the band gap energy formula_5 of a semiconducting alloy depends on the composition, i.e. formula_5. The band gap energy can be considered to be the fluorescence energy. Therefore, the standard deviation in fluorescence is As the alloy broadening belongs to the group of inhomogeneous broadenings the line shape of the fluorescence intensity formula_8 is Gaussian: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57843630 |
NGC 1282 is an elliptical galaxy located about 230 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. It was discovered by astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan on October 23, 1884. is a member of the Perseus Cluster. A type Ia supernova designated as SN 2008fh was detected near on either July 30, or August 30, 2008. Oddly, though, the supernova was not associated with the galaxy. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57845368 |
Mocha-Villarrica Fault Zone The is a northwest-trending geological fault zone in southern Chile and Argentina. The fault zone runs from Mocha Island in the Pacific to the Andes where it aligns Villarrica, Quetrupillán and Lanín volcanoes. It is one of several fault zones that traverses the north-south Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57856318 |
Bitopic protein Bitopic proteins (also known as single-pass or single-spanning proteins) are transmembrane proteins that span the lipid bilayer only one time. These proteins may constitute up to 50% of all transmembrane proteins, depending on the organism, and contribute significantly to the network of interactions between different proteins in cells, including interactions via transmembrane helices. They usually include one or several water-soluble domains situated at the different sides of biological membranes, for example in single-pass transmembrane receptors. Some of them are small and serve as regulatory or structure-stabilizing subunits in large multi-protein transmembrane complexes, such as photosystems or the respiratory chain. Bitopic proteins are classified into 4 types, depending on their transmembrane topology and location of the transmembrane helix in the amino acid sequence of the protein. According to Uniprot: Hence type I proteins are anchored to the lipid membrane with a stop-transfer anchor sequence and have their N-terminal domains targeted to the ER lumen during synthesis (and the extracellular space, if mature forms are located on plasmalemma). Type II and III are anchored with a signal-anchor sequence, with type II being targeted to the ER lumen with its C-terminal domain, while type III have their N-terminal domains targeted to the ER lumen. Type IV is subdivided into IV-A, with their N-terminal domains targeted to the cytosol and IV-B, with an N-terminal domain targeted to the lumen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57858574 |
Bitopic protein The implications for the division in the four types are especially manifest at the time of translocation and ER-bound translation, when the protein has to be passed through the ER membrane in a direction dependent on the type. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57858574 |
Biobío-Aluminé Fault Zone The is a northwest-trending geological fault zone in south-central Chile and Argentina. The fault aligns with the middle-upper course of Bío Bío River where fault traces are largely covered with fluvial gravels. The northernmost reaches of the north-south Liquiñe-Ofqui Fault intersect and displace the Biobío-Aluminé Fault Zone. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57862192 |
UGC 12682 is an irregular galaxy, located in the constellation of Pegasus. In November 2008, 14-year-old amateur astronomer Caroline Moore from Warwick, New York, became the youngest supernova discoverer when she found SN 2008ha in UGC 12682. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57862873 |
Quseir Formation The is a Geological Formation in the vicinity of the Kharga Oasis in Egypt. It is Campanian In age. The lithology largely consists of soft shale with hard bands of sandstone, siltstone and phosphorite. The environment of deposition was nearshore to freshwater fluvio-lacustrine characterized by moist and aquatic habitats with a tropical warm-humid climate. It is conformably overlain by the marine late Campanian-Maastrichtian Duwi Formation, and unconformably overlies the Turonian Taref Formation. The dinosaur "Mansourasaurus" was discovered in the formation., Additionally the lungfish genera "Lavocatodus and Protopterus" and the Crocodyliform "Wahasuchus" are also known. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57862936 |
Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon is a book about the history of pit bulls in the United States. Bronwen Dickey spent seven years researching with dog experts. For Dickey's efforts she received death threats at book signings. The book covers the history of the Pitbull, in the United States. It covers how the dog went from beloved family pet owned by likes of Teddy Roosevelt to demonized dog fighting animal owned by the likes of Ed Faron and -Michael Vick. The book received a mostly positive reception from critics. This is a very good book... Ms. Dickey has earned her reputation as a first-rate reporter.” —The Wall Street Journal. "Terrific... [Dickey] does more than simply dispel the many myths around pit bulls; she strives to explore what those myths can tell us about ourselves. This beautifully written, heartbreaking book is not just for dog lovers — it's for anyone interested in race, class, history and the complexity of media narratives." —NPR Ms. Dickey not only writes about the ebb and flow of public fear and loathing, she takes the reader on a thoroughly comprehensible tour of genetics and behavioral science to explain why breeding never guarantees an individual dog's personality, and shouldn't be used to condemn it... Picking out one breed to blame is neither warranted nor effective, and a reader of her book will be hard put to disagree | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57863371 |
Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon " —The New York Times “Brilliant… A powerful and disturbing book that shows how the rise of the killer-pit bull narrative reflects many broader American anxieties and pathologies surrounding race, class, and poverty… A remarkable study of our capacities for cruelty and compassion toward dogs and other humans, and an eloquent argument for abandoning the fears and prejudices that have made pit bulls in particular the victims of mistreatment.” —Christian Science Monitor Anti pit bull advocates accused Bronwen Dickey of downplaying the potential danger of pit bull dogs. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57863371 |
Ronchigram is the convergent beam diffraction pattern of a known object with features comparable to the diffracting wavelength. In the case of electron Ronchigrams amorphous materials are used. The structure of the encodes information about the aberration phase field across the objective aperture. As such, Ronchigrams have become increasingly important with the invention of aberration corrected scanning transmission electron microscopy. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57865596 |
Navicula de Venetiis A navicula de Venetiis or "little ship of Venice" was an altitude dial used to tell time and which was shaped like a little ship. The cursor (with a plumb line attached) was slid up/down the mast to the correct latitude. The user then sighted the sun through the pair of sighting holes at either end of the "ship's deck". The plumb line then marked what hour of the day it was. Some naviculas had additional information inscribed, such as the latitude of some common English towns, some zodiac signs, etc. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57879382 |
Tachyspory is a form of dehiscence where seed is rapidly released from a cone or fruit upon maturity, as opposed to bradyspory, the slow release of seed over time. It is a word used in botany to describe seed dispersal. "Tachy" is a word-forming element meaning "rapid, swift, fast", from Latinized comb. form of Greek takhy "swift". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57882535 |
Xcacau Corona is a corona (geological formation in the form of crown) in the planet Venus, in the coordinates -56 ° S and 131 ° E. It covers a circular surface about 200 kilometers in diameter. It is located in Henie Quadrangle. The was named in 1997 in reference to the Xcacau, the K'iche' goddess of the cacao and fertility. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57919351 |
Ersa (moon) Ersa , also Jupiter LXXI, originally known as S/2018 J 1, is an outer natural satellite of Jupiter. It was discovered by Scott S. Sheppard and his team in 2018, and was announced on July 17, 2018, via a Minor Planet Electronic Circular from the Minor Planet Center. It is about in diameter and has an orbit radius of around ; its orbital inclination is about 30.61°. It belongs to the Himalia group. The moon was named in 2019 after Ersa, the Greek goddess of dew, daughter of Zeus and Selene: Jupiter L Herse is also named for this goddess. The name was suggested in a naming contest held by the Carnegie Institute on Twitter where more than 20 tweets suggested that name, most significantly by users Aaron Quah (@8603103) who submitted the name first, StSauveur_MoonsProject (@StSauMoons) who are the 12th grade students of Saint Sauveur High School in Redon, France, the fifth grade at Hillside Traditional Academy in British Columbia, Canada (submitted on their behalf by @mrgrouchypants), and a 4-year-old child named Walter who sang a song about Ersa (submitted on his behalf by @Thoreson). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57923591 |
Pandia (moon) Pandia , also known as Jupiter LXV, originally known as S/2017 J 4, is an outer natural satellite of Jupiter, 3 km in diameter. Pandia was discovered by Scott S. Sheppard and his team in 2017, but not announced until July 17, 2018 via a Minor Planet Electronic Circular from the Minor Planet Center. The moon was named in 2019 after Pandia (Πανδία "Pandīa"), the Greek goddess of the full moon, daughter of Zeus and Selene. Pandia was among the most popular suggestions in a naming contest held by the Carnegie Institute on Twitter, with the most significant submission coming from the astronomy club of the Lanivet School in Cornwall, United Kingdom. They chose Pandia because their school's mascot is a panda and their local village used to supply bamboo for a panda at London Zoo. It belongs to the prograde outer Himalia group which are given names ending in "a". It orbits at a semi-major axis of about 11,525,000 km with an inclination of about 28.15°. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57923594 |
West Andaman Fault is a major oceanic strike-slip fault. It lies Indian plate and Andaman microplate in the Andaman Sea. Different segments of the fault ruptured in both foreshocks and aftershocks surrounding the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami event. The northern end is thought to connect to the Sagaing Fault and the southern end to the Great Sumatran fault. The two magnitude 8 events in 2004 and 2005, are located on either side of indicate that fault played a critical role in controlling the rupture pattern of both the 2004 and 2005 earthquakes. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57936181 |
Arctic Alaska-Chukotka terrane The (AAC) is a microcontinent that today encompasses the North Slope, Brooks Range, and Seward Peninsula of northern Alaska; the Chukotka Peninsula, New Siberia Islands, and Wrangel Island in eastern Siberia; and the continental shelves of the Bering, Beaufort, and Chukchi seas. Comparable in size to Greenland, the AAC is the largest of the Neoproterozoic–Early Paleozoic continental fragments now dispersed around the Arctic Ocean; some of which possibly formed the continent Arctida. The AAC originated on the shores of the Iapetus Ocean and is a composite terrane made of fragments from the Baltica, Laurentia, and Siberia continents, as well as the ocean floor of the Panthalassic ocean. The AAC has a complex geological history that includes the Grenville, Timanian, Caledonian–Appalachian, and Ellesmerian orogenies. The Proterozoic–Carboniferous histories of Arctic Alaska and Chukotka are similar but their Triassic–Jurassic histories are apparently distinct. Whether or not they were separate blocks before the Mesozoic opening of the Amerasia Basin is disputed. The age of the basement of the AAC remains enigmatic, hence also details about the microcontinent's ancient, tectonic history. It is, nevertheless, clear from Neoproterozoic igneous rocks that the AAC was not originally part of Laurentia, but most likely Baltica. The microcontinent was obviously involved in a series of magmatic events, beginning at 1.6–1.4 , and ending in the Avalonia–Cadomian orogeny. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57940553 |
NGC 3857 is a lenticular galaxy located about 295 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer by Édouard Stephan on March 23, 1884. It is a member of the Leo Cluster. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57941307 |
Atomic trap trace analysis Atom Trap Trace Analysis (ATTA) is an extremely sensitive trace analysis method developed by Argonne National Lab (ANL). ATTA is used on long-lived, stable radioisotopes such as , , and . By using a laser that is locked to an atomic transition, a CCD or PMT will detect the laser induced fluorescence to allow highly selective, parts-per-trillion to parts-per-quadrillion concentration measurement with single atom detection. This method is useful for atomic transport processes, such as in the atmosphere, geological dating, as well as noble gas purification. ATTA measurements are possible only if the atoms are excited to a metastable state prior to detection. The main difficulty to accomplishing this is the large energy gap (10-20 eV) between the ground and excited state. The current solution is to use an RF discharge, which is a brute force technique that is inefficient and leads to complications such contamination of the walls from ion sputtering and high gas density. A new scheme for generating a metastable beam which can achieve a cleaner, slower, and preferably more intense source would provide a substantial advance to ATTA technology. All-optical techniques have been considered, but have not yet been able to compete with the discharge source. A new technique for generation of metastable krypton involves the use of a two photon transition driven by a pulsed, far-UV laser to populate the excited state which decays to the metastable state with high probability. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57954250 |
Trichoderma asperellum is a species of fungus in the family Hypocreaceae. This species has been used commercially and experimentally as a biopesticide for plant disease control: some commercial isolates were previously placed in "T. harzianum". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57956800 |
Annalisa Berta is an American paleontologist and professor emerita in the Department of Biology at San Diego State University. The focus of her research is the evolution and fossil history of whales and other marine mammals, and among her contributions is the description of the early pinniped "Enaliarctos". Berta received her Ph.D. from the Department of Paleontology at the University of California, Berkeley in 1979, after which she was a postdoctoral researcher at University of Florida before starting as a faculty member at San Diego State University in 1989. Berta served as president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in 2004-2006 and was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2015. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57966888 |
Catherine E. Badgley (born November 15, 1950) is an American paleontologist and professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The focus of Badgley's research is the evolution and fossil history and biodiversity of mammals, especially the role of mountains in driving biodiversity patterns. She has also pursued research on organic agriculture and global food supplies., for which she has received considerable public attention. Badgley has also authored a children's book, "Pippa's First Summer", with artist Bonnie Miljour. Badgley received a Ph.D. from the Biology Department at Yale University in 1982, a Master of Forest Science degree from Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies in 1974, and a Bachelor of Science degree from Radcliffe College (Harvard University) in 1972. Badgley served as president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology from 2006 to 2008. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57966987 |
Blaire Van Valkenburgh is an American paleontologist and holds the Donald R. Dickey Chair in Vertebrate Biology in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at University of California Los Angeles. She has served as chair of the department and as associate dean of academic programs in the life sciences at UCLA. The focus of her research is the paleobiology and paleoecology of Carnivora. Her contributions include quantification of guild structure in fossil carnivore communities and the study of iterative evolution in carnivore feeding adaptations. Van Valkenburgh received a bachelor's degree from Stockton State College in New Jersey in 1974, a Ph.D. in Vertebrate Paleobiology from Johns Hopkins University in 1984, where she worked with Robert Bakker, after which she worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Alan Walker at Johns Hopkins before moving to UCLA in 1986. Van Valkenburgh served as president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology from 2008 to 2010 and as associate editor of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology from 2011 to 2017. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57967446 |
M32p is a hypothesized former galaxy that was incorporated into the Andromeda Galaxy. It was a sister galaxy to the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies, previously the third largest galaxy in the Local Group, and was merged into the larger Andromeda Galaxy an estimated 2 billion years ago. The merger is thought to have created the thick disc and contributed the majority of the halo stars of Andromeda and caused its burst of star formation at the time of the merger. The former galaxy may be associated with the Andromeda satellite galaxy Messier 32 (M32), which may be the remains of its dense core. M32's unusual characteristics of dense compactness and burst of star formation 2 billion years ago would be explained by this theory as a remnant of an earlier large galaxy, given its unlikeness to other similarly sized elliptical galaxies. It was described in 2018 by scientists at the University of Michigan. It is thought to have been 2.5×10 M in size.<ref name="10.1038/s41550-018-0533-x"></ref> | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57973824 |
Gypsum cave A "gypsum cave" is a natural karstic formation in gypsum. Gypsum karst is very rare. It depends on deposits of gypsum or anhydrite, often also called alabaster. Chemically it is calcium sulfate, CaSO. Gypsum caves can be found in several places on earth, including: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57977174 |
John Jonides (born December 8, 1947) is an American cognitive neuroscientist and psychologist. He is the Edward E. Smith Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of Michigan. He has been a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1995 and of the Society of Experimental Psychologists since 1996. He is known for his research on the malleability of human intelligence, and on the effects of Facebook use on happiness and life satisfaction. In 2011, he received the Association for Psychological Science's William James Fellow Award. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57980582 |
PKS1353-341 is a galaxy cluster located 2.4 billion light years away. It was previously believed to be a single quasar, but on June 14, 2018 it was confirmed to be a massive galaxy cluster. is estimated to have a total mass of 690 trillion solar masses, making it over 1000 times as massive as the Milky Way. Its central galaxy is an extremely bright quasar at a luminosity 46 billion times that of the Sun. This brightness is produced by a superheated disk of matter circling the supermassive black hole at the center of the central galaxy. is the first discovery of the CHiPS (Clusters Hiding in Plain Sight) Survey, which analyzed data from the 2MASS, NVSS, ROSAT, SUMSS, and WISE all-sky surveys in order to find powerful sources of infrared, radio, and X-ray light. It aims to discover new galaxy clusters that were previously misidentified as isolated sources of X-ray light due to the central quasar's brightness. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58004297 |
Robophysics is an emerging scientific field to understand the physical principles of how robots move in the complex real world, analogous to biophysics to understand the motions of biological systems. This emerging area has demonstrated the need for a physics of robotics and reveal interesting problems at the interface of nonlinear dynamics, soft matter, control and biology. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58004420 |
Moazagotl The is an orographic lenticular cloud formed by the Foehn wind on the northern (lee) side of the Riesengebirge mountains in Silesia (Poland, the Czech Republic, and Germany). The name is thought to be derived from the name of a shepherd, Gottlieb Matz, who was known for describing them. The Schneider sailplane is named for this type of cloud. The name has sometimes been misspelled "Moazagoatl," but its spelling does not include a third 'a;' the term refers to the cloud, rather than the wind that forms it. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58008831 |
Rat Ice is a trademarked version of dry ice approved by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for use in suffocating rat nests. The trademark is owned by Bell Labs. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58033587 |
Compensatory conductance The compensatory root water uptake conductance (Kcomp) (formula_1) characterizes how a plant compensates its water uptake under heterogeneous water potential. It controls the root water uptake in a soil where the water potential is not uniform. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58037802 |
Acidicapsa dinghuensis is a Gram-negative, aerobic and non-motile bacterium from the genus of "Acidicapsa" which has been isolated from forest soil from the Dinghushan Biosphere Reserve in China. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58051807 |
Adrian Luckman Adrian J. Luckman is a British glaciologist and professor of geology at Swansea University in Wales. He is a lead researcher for Project Midas, which monitored the Larsen C iceberg and the Larsen Ice Shelf. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58068618 |
Harriet Louise Keeler (1846-1921) was an American teacher, botanist, and author of several plant identification guides and textbooks. She authored 11 books, and the Harriet Keeler Memorial Woods in the Brecksville Reservation are named in her honor. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58069981 |
C1 chemistry is the chemistry of one-carbon molecules. Although many compounds and ions contain only one carbon, stable and abundant C-1 feedstocks are the focus of research. Four compounds are of major industrial importance: methane, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and methanol. Technologies that interconvert these species are often consequential. Carbon monoxide and methanol are important chemical feedstocks. CO is utilized by myriad carbonylation reactions. Together with hydrogen, it is the feed for the Fischer–Tropsch process, which affords liquid fuels. Methanol is the precursor to acetic acid, formaldehyde, and many methyl compounds (esters, amines, halides). A larger scale application is methanol to olefins, which produces ethylene and propylene. In contrast to the situation for carbon monoxide and methanol, methane and carbon dioxide have limited uses as feedstocks to chemicals and fuels. This disparity contrasts with the relative abundance of methane and carbon dioxide. Methane is often partially converted to carbon monoxide for utilization in Fischer-Tropsch processes. Of interest for upgrading methane is its oxidative coupling: Relevant to conversion of carbon dioxide is its electrochemical reduction to unsaturated hydrocarbons. This technology remains aspirational. Methane, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and methanol also are substrates and products of enzymatic processes. In methanogenesis, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and methanol are converted to methane, provided suitable reducing agents | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58076521 |
C1 chemistry Methanogenesis by methanogenic archaea is reversible. In photosynthesis, carbon dioxide and water is converted to sugars (and O), the energy for this (thermally) uphill reaction being provided by sunlight. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58076521 |
Eduard Gübelin Eduard Josef Gübelin (1913 – 2005) was a gemstone researcher. His lifelong studies on gemstone inclusions changed the science of gemology, and his work laid the groundwork for the microscopic identification of all kinds of gemstones. He achieved world renown in the field of gemology with his scientific work and his collection of gems. He also founded Gübelin Gem Lab. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58091445 |
NGC 5018 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation of Virgo at an approximate distance of 132.51 Mly. was discovered in 1788 by William Herschel. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58105173 |
George Clayton Kennedy (1919–1980) was a professor of geochemistry at UCLA and a botanist with an interest in orchids. (taken from Orchid Digest Index, incomplete)<br> "DispelaPulpul Him He Nothing – Something", 1977, "Orchid Digest" 41 (2)<br> "The Butterfly orchids: Section Glanduligera of the genus "Oncidium"", 1977, "Orchid Digest" 41 (4)<br> ""Encyclia adenocaula" and "Encyclia kennedyi"", 1981, "Orchid Digest" 45 (2)<br> "Further notes on the genus "Anguloa": confused species of the "Anguloa rucheri" section", 1978, "Orchid Digest" 42 (4)<br> "The genera "Schomburgkia" and "Myrmecophila"", 1979, "Orchid Digest" 43 (6)<br> "The genus "Anguloa"", 1976, "Orchid Digest" 40 (4)<br> "The genus "Clowesia"", 1978, "Orchid Digest" 42 (3)<br> "The genus "Comparettia"", 1978, "Orchid Digest" 42 (5)<br> "The genus "Dracula"", 1979, "Orchid Digest" 43 (1)<br> "The genus "Pabasatia"", 1978, "Orchid Digest" 42 (4)<br> "The Laelias of Mexico", 1978, "Orchid Digest" 42 (1)<br> "Some members of the genus "Coryanthes"", 1978, "Orchid Digest" 42 (1)<br> | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58114387 |
Montserrat Garriga Cabrero (1865-1956) was a Cuban-Spanish botanist. She was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, but moved to Catalonia with her family when she was a child. She collected plants from around the world, especially alpine flora, and collaborated closely with botany professor Pius Font i Quer (1888-1964). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58118318 |
NGC 4212 is a flocculent spiral galaxy with LINER activity located about 53 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 8, 1784 and was listed in the NGC catalog as NGC 4208. He then observed the same galaxy and listed it as NGC 4212. Astronomer John Louis Emil Dreyer later concluded that NGC 4208 was identical to NGC 4212. is a member of the Virgo Cluster. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58122825 |
Daria Mochly-Rosen is a Professor of Chemical and Systems Biology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, where she also holds the George D. Smith Chair for Translational Medicine. She is in addition the founder of Mitoconix Bio, a startup company whose goal is to produce drugs that treat Huntington's disease and other neurodegenerative illnesses. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58128006 |
NGC 4222 is an edge-on spiral galaxy located about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. It was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 8, 1784 and is often misidentified as IC 3087. is a member of the Virgo Cluster and is a companion of NGC 4216 which lies about away. Despite this, the two galaxies are not interacting. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58128095 |
Izabela Textorisová (16 March 1866, in Ratková – 12 September 1949, in Krupina) was Slovakia's first female botanist. Her copious herbarium is still today a valuable source for botanists. She described more than a hundred new plants in the Turiec region. In 1893 she discovered a new species of thistle, later named "Carduus textorisianus" Marg. in her honor. A main-belt asteroid discovered in 2000 was also named in her honor. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58136802 |
Winifred Josephine Robinson (1867-1962) was an American botanist, educator, and educational administrator. As a botanist, she studied ferns and wrote several papers and books. She was the first dean of the Women's College of the University of Delaware. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58143565 |
NGC 4267 is a barred lenticular galaxy located about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on Apr 17, 1784 and is a member of the Virgo Cluster. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58151276 |
Elizabeth Dale (27 March 1868 - ?) was a British botanist, paleobotanist, plant pathologist, and author. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58153457 |
NGC 6158 is an elliptical galaxy located about 400 million light-years away in the constellation Hercules. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on March 17, 1787 and is a member of Abell 2199. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58157292 |
Russell Grimwade Sir Wilfrid (15 October 1879 - 2 November 1955) was an Australian chemist, botanist, industrialist and philanthropist. He was the son of Frederick Sheppard Grimwade and brother of Harold Grimwade. An endowment by Grimwald in 1929 was used to create the Prize, a scholarship for study of forestry. As of 2018, the annual prize value is $40,000. In 1934, he presented Cooks' Cottage to Victoria after purchasing it in England and shipping it to Australia. He received a CBE in 1935 and was knighted in the 1950 King's Birthday Honours List. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58162397 |
Tuhua Orogeny The Tuhua orogeny was a regional orogeny between 370 and 330 million years ago, now preserved in the Fiordland region of New Zealand. Early Paleozoic rocks such as Ordovician greywacke, slate and paragneiss in the Buller terrane, weakly metamorphosed greenschist and sub-greenschist rocks, Cambrian mafic volcanics, Ordovician limestone and Silurian clastic rocks were all deformed and metamorphosed. In addition, between 380 and 250 million years ago, metasediments reached amphibolite grade in the sequence of metamorphic facies. In 1978, G.W. Grindley proposed that the Tuhua orogeny emplaced the Central Belt as a stack of nappe formations, with recumbent folding, thrusting and axial plane schistosity. The first rocks to be affected, like the Silurian Baton Formation and the Constant Gneiss were later intruded by the Tuhua Intrusive Group granitoids in the second phase of the orogeny during the Devonian. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58170004 |
Jerry Silver is an American neuroscientist and professor in the Department of Neurosciences at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He is known for his research using rat models to develop treatments for spinal cord injuries. He became a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2011. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58195759 |
Gas hydrate pingo A gas hydrate pingo (GHP) is a submarine dome structure formed by the accumulation gas hydrates under the seafloor. Gas hydrate pingos resemble the pingo landforms found on land in periglacial regions. may accumulate non-hydrate gas under pressure leading to explosions that forms craters. Crater depressions of this type have been found on the seafloor of Barents Sea. A trigger for the explosions may be drop in pressure as result of lowering of the sea level. A study in the Norwegian Sea found that gas hydrate pingos were covered by bacterial mats and by Polychaete tubeworms that are associated with methane. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58209558 |
UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute The UKM Medical Molecular Biology Institute, usually referred to as UMBI, is a biomedicine and cancer research institute located in Bandar Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The institute is one of research institute in National University of Malaysia. UMBI was established in 2003. The institute has been recognized as a Center for Excellence in Higher Education (HICoE) in 2009 by the Prime Minister of Malaysia. The (UMBI) was founded as one of the Centre of Excellent in UKM after the apporal from the National University of Malaysia senate meeting. UMBI was officially established in July 2003 with the operating budget allocated to this new institute of RM 25 thousand. Professor Datuk Dr. A Rahman A Jamal has been appointed as a founding director of UMBI since 2003 until his tenure ends in 2017. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58234137 |
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