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Edgar Riek Edgar Frederick Riek (1920–2016) was an Australian entomologist and invertebrate zoologist known for his research on fossil insects and the taxonomy of freshwater crayfish. He later became known as prominent viticulturist and winemaker. Affiliated with the CSIRO for over 30 years, he wrote the first pocket f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59353031 |
Georg Ludwig Scharfenberg ( 28 December 1746 , Hümpfershausen - 2 December 1810,Ritschenhausen ) was a German entomologist and a Lutheran pastor. He was the son of a teacher and was educated at the University of Halle. Scharfenberg published notes on insects in "Journal für Liebhaber der Entomologie" edited by Ludwig G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59378407 |
Hugo Moreno Roa is a Chilean geologist known for his studies of Chilean volcanoes. In 2015 he was awarded the prize Medalla “Juan Brüggen” by Colegio de Geólogos. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59393102 |
Hans Hirschke Hans Hirschke, sometimes Hanns (1850, Brno-1921, Vienna), was an Austrian entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera. He was first a linen weaver in Brno, then a gardener's apprentice. In 1899 he was Head of the Exchange Office Vienna and a Member of the Entomological Association of Vienna (Österreichisc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59406918 |
Ernst Heeger (1783, Perchtoldsdorf1866, Laxenburg), was an Austrian amateur entomologist. He was a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna ,a "Privatcadet" in the Napoleonic Wars,and from 1816 an employee of the Magistrat (administrative authority) of Vienna Later he founded a school of languages and drawing in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59408000 |
Rudolf Graf Walderdorff Count Rudolf von Walderdorff (died 1866) was an Austrian malacologist and entomologist. He was a member of the Walderdorff family, a noble German family. He was a captain in the Austrian Imperial Army. He was killed in the Battle of Königgrätz. (1864) System. Verzeichniss der im Kreise Cattaro (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59417516 |
Ludwig Anker (1822, Budapest1887) was a Hungarian entomologist. He was an insect dealer. Anker described "Chondrosoma fiduciaria" Anker, 1854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59418192 |
Baffin Basin The is an oceanic basin located in the middle of Baffin Bay between Baffin Island and Greenland. With a maximum depth of over , the basin represents the deepest point of Baffin Bay. The basin formed as a result of seafloor spreading at the time of the opening of Baffin Bay around 56 million years ago. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59419259 |
Johann Müller-Rutz (28 February 1854, Räuchlisberg – 7 May 1944, St. Gallen) was a Swiss entomologist who specialised in the study of microlepidoptera, small moths. He trained as an embroidery artist and worked in first in Müllheim (1885-1888) and then in St. Gallen where he was teacher of embroidery designs at the Ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59426815 |
Karl Vorbrodt Karl Vorbrodt, or Carl, (1865, Wabern - 1932, Morcote) was a Swiss entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and microlepidoptera). published fauna studies, revisions and descriptions of new species in "Mitteilungen der Schweizerischen Entomologischen Gesellschaft". Together with Johann Müller-Rutz he w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59442895 |
Herbert Bolton (palaeontologist) Herbert Bolton (1863–18 January 1936) was a British palaeontologist and director of the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery for nearly 20 years. He was known as an authority on fossil insects. He was born in Bacup, Lancashire, England and attended classes at night school whilst working in a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59444889 |
Abell S1063 is a cluster of galaxies located in the constellation Grus. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59449751 |
Ludwig Imhoff (22 October 1801 in Basel - 13 September 1868 ) was a Swiss physician and entomologist. Imhoff was the son of a merchant Hieronymus Imhoff and his wife Johanna nee Wenk in Basel. He attended the Samuel Hopf school in Basel, which followed the educational methods of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi. He then atte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59458530 |
Climate Policy (journal) Climate Policy is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing high quality research and analysis on all aspects of climate change policy, including both mitigation and adaptation.. It was launched in 2000 and is published ten times per year by Taylor & Francis. The current ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59458771 |
Climate Policy (journal) The scientific evidence for climate change was becoming clearer, including through the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and governments had declared their commitment to address the problem by adopting the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in 1992... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59458771 |
Climate Policy (journal) As part of its international and interdisciplinary scope, Climate Policy publishes papers on the full range of sectors implicated in climate change, and on the many policy options and governance approaches that are being implemented or proposed around the world. Of particular interest are eval... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59458771 |
Phenylmercuric nitrate is an organomercury compound with powerful antiseptic and antifungal effects. It was once commonly used as a topical solution for disinfecting wounds, but as with all organomercury compounds it is highly toxic, especially to the kidneys, and is no longer used in this application. However it is st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59468239 |
Adolph Rössler Adolf Rössler (1814, Usingen – 1885, Wiesbaden), was a German entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera.Amongst others he described "Cochylidia moguntiana" (Rössler, 1864) , "Aethes bilbaensis" (Rössler, 1877) and "Eupithecia millefoliata" Rössler, 1866 Adolf Rössler, also Adolph, was a jurist and arti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59471555 |
Golconda Thrust The is a major oceanic terrane that was thrust over central and northern Nevada, North America, in possibly sometime between the Late Permian and the late Jurassic. It is considered equivalent to the Tobin thrust fault. It contains the Havallah sequence. The time of the is not perfectly clear, and it ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59471846 |
Perpendicular paramagnetic bond A perpendicular paramagnetic bond is a type of chemical bond (in contrast to covalent or ionic bonds) that does not exist under normal, atmospheric conditions. Such a phenomenon was first hypothesized through simulation to exist in the atmospheres of white dwarf stars whose magnetic fiel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59478233 |
Taitao ophiolite () is an ophiolite in Taitao Peninsula of western Patagonia, Chile. The ophiolite crops out about 10 km w to the east of the Peru-Chile trench and 50 km to the south of Chile Triple Junction —two features to which it is related. The ophiolite formed in connection to the subduction of the Chile Rise, a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59487040 |
Nicole Capitaine (born Nicole Taton on March 14, 1948) is an astronomer at the Paris Observatory who is known as an expert on astrometry and related standards. In 1969, Capitaine received a bachelor's degree ("licence") from the Faculty of Sciences in Paris in mathematics. (She was thus one of the last graduates of thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59499250 |
Nicole Capitaine Her work, carried out in the framework of a large international cooperation, led to a better definition of reference systems and time scales for astronomy, as well as to a better knowledge of the rotation of the Earth. They have also led to the adoption by the IAU and IUGG (International Geodesic and G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59499250 |
John Alexander Watt (1868–1958) was an Australian geologist and mineralogist and participant of the 1894 Horn Expedition to Central Australia. Born in Parramatta, New South Wales, Watt graduated from the University of Sydney. He died in Tenterfield. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59500491 |
NGC 712 is a lenticular galaxy located 230 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered by astronomer John Herschel in October 1828 and is a member of Abell 262. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59510003 |
Rocas Verdes ophiolites The () are a series of greenschists and other rocks constituting ophiolites in Magallanes Region, southernmost Chile. The represent the continental-oceanic crust that existed in a back-arc basin in the Mesozoic Era as result of extensional tectonics. This back-arc basin then evolved into the Mag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59517171 |
NGC 732 is a lenticular galaxy located 250 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered by astronomer Édouard Stephan on December 5, 1883 and is member of Abell 262. On July 20, 2017 a type Ia supernova designated as was discovered in NGC 732. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59519520 |
Ardenticatena is a Gram-negative, thermophilic and chemoheterotrophic genus of bacteria from the family of Ardenticatenaceae with one known species ("maritima"). "maritima" has been isolated from iron-rich sediments from a coastal hydrothermal field from Kagoshima in Japan. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59520971 |
George Walter Tyrrell Dr FRSE FGS (1883–1961) was a 20th-century British geologist, glaciologist and petrologist. A specialist in Arctic and Antarctic landscapes he was the first to describe the recticular glaciers of Spitzbergen. Mount Tyrrell on Alexander Island in Antarctica is named after him, as is the Tyrrell Gla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59536774 |
Fine Gold Intrusive Suite The is one of several intrusive suites that crosses into Yosemite National Park. These also include The is an intrusive suite which is massive (more than 3100 square kilometers) and long-lived (ca. 19 million years). The intrudes both accreted oceanic terranes, and/or island-arc terranes, and,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59548780 |
NGC 741 NGC 741, also known as IC 1751 and PGC 7252, is a formerly active radio galaxy in the constellation of Pisces. Located 66.3 Mpc away, NGC 751 is part of a group of galaxies including NGC 742 and PGC 7250. and NGC 742 recently collided, although the disruption was minor. Radio filaments have been found connectin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59552758 |
Intrusive Suite of Buena Vista Crest The is an intrusive suite which extends southward, from Yosemite Valley to Yosemite National Park's southeastern boundary, into plutons of the Sierra Nevada Batholith, which are slightly older. These intrusive suites also include The came to be roughly 100 to 90 Ma. It is roughly th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59556665 |
Katharine Michie Katharine Arwen Michie is an Australian physicist. In 2005 she was named a Fellow of the L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science. Michie completed her doctoral degree at the University of Sydney. In 2005 she received a L'Oréal-UNESCO Fellowship and spent the next five years working with Jan Löwe at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59560508 |
Intrusive Suite of Yosemite Valley The (see Yosemite Valley) is one of several intrusive suites in Yosemite National Park. These also include It is an intrusive suite composed mainly of granitic rocks, which near the metasedimentary pendant have locally mingled with granitic to gabbroic compositions. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59569409 |
Villogorgia rubra is a species of colonial soft coral sea fan in the family Plexauridae. The scientific name of the species was first validly published in 1899 by Isa Hiles. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59587773 |
Acanthopleuribacter pedis is a Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium found in marine environments. Colonies on marine agar are circular, smooth and yellow in color. are found on marine agar at a temperature of 15–30°C (optimally at 30 °C), and grows at a pH of 5–9 (optimally at pH 7–8). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59605239 |
Acidianus rod-shaped virus 1 is a species of Bacteriophage in the order "Ligamenvirales" and family "Rudiviridae". Its only known host is the Archaea, "Acidianus" sp. Acii26. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59605282 |
Acidicapsa ferrireducens is a species of bacterium originally isolated from metal-rich acidic waters. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59611005 |
Intrusive Suite of Sonora Pass The (also, the Sonora Pass Intrusive Suite) is one of several intrusive suites in Yosemite National Park. These also include The is ~92-89 Ma, and is the northernmost of four large Late Cretaceous zoned intrusive suites in the central Sierra Nevada batholith. On a large scale, it is compo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59611883 |
Frank-van der Merwe growth Frank–van der Merwe growth ("FM growth") is one of the three primary modes by which thin films grow epitaxially at a crystal surface or interface. It is also knows as 'layer-by-layer growth'. It is considered an ideal growth model, requiring perfect lattice matching between the substrate and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59616019 |
NGC 7190 is a barred lenticular galaxy registered in the New General Catalogue. It is located in the direction of the Pegasus constellation. It was discovered by the French astronomer Édouard Stephan in 1870 using an 80.01 cm (31.5 inch) reflector. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59616443 |
Edwin Goldmann (12 November 1862 – 13 August 1913) was a biomedical researcher and surgeon most famous for his contributions in first characterizing the blood–brain barrier. Goldmann's mentor, Paul Ehrlich, was studying staining in his bacteriological studies by injecting aniline dyes in several species of animal. Whil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59620996 |
Aleksandr Voskresensky Aleksandr Abramovich Voskresensky (Russian: Александр Абрамович Воскресенский; 25 November 1808 – 21 January 1880) was a Russian chemist who served as rector of Saint Petersburg Imperial University in 1861–1863 and 1865–1867. Dmitri Mendeleev regarded him as a "grandfather of Russian chemistry". ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59622667 |
Aleksandr Voskresensky Petersburg, where he spent his later years on improving secondary education. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59622667 |
NGC 7199 is a spiral galaxy registered in the New General Catalogue. It is located in the direction of the Indus constellation. It was discovered by the English astronomer John Herschel in 1835 using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflector. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59624291 |
Sulfolobus islandicus filamentous virus is a species of Bacteriophage in the order "Ligamenvirales". Its only known host is the Archaea "Sulfolobus islandicus". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59627488 |
Phenine nanotube A phenine nanotube is a derivation or variant of short carbon nanotubes first reported in 2019. They have a precise cylindrical structure with pores and a length index of 7, and have been made by a 9 step process starting with 1,3-dibromobenzene. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59634425 |
Roman Smoluchowski (born 31 August 1910 in Zakopane; died 12 January 1996 in Austin, Texas) was a notable physicist who worked in Poland, and after World War II settled in Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. He was the son of the statistical physics pioneer Marian Smoluchowski. In 1974, was awarded a Guggenheim ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59641300 |
Mikhail Dyakonov Mikhail (Michel) Dyakonov born in 1940 in Leninrad (now Saint Petersburg), Russia, is professor of physics at Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), Université Montpellier - CNRS in France. His name is connected with several physical phenomena: Dyakonov-Perel spin relaxation mechanism, Dyakonov-Shur plasma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59643870 |
Mikhail Dyakonov He says: "There is a tremendous gap between the rudimentary but very hard experiments that have been carried out with a few qubits and the extremely developed quantum-computing theory, which relies on manipulating thousands to millions of qubits to calculate anything useful. That gap is not likely to b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59643870 |
Haploviricotina is a subphylum of viruses in the phylum "Negarnaviricota". It is one of only two virus subphyla, the other being "Polyploviricotina", which is also in "Negarnaviricota". The name comes from , the Ancient Greek for 'simple', along with the suffix for a virus subphylum; 'viricotina'. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59645446 |
Polyploviricotina is a subphylum of viruses in the phylum "Negarnaviricota". It is one of only two virus subphyla, the other being "Haploviricotina", which is also in "Negarnaviricota". The name comes from , the Ancient Greek for 'complex', along with the suffix for a virus subphylum; 'viricotina'. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59645501 |
Articulavirales is the only order of viruses in the monotypic class Insthoviricetes. The name "Articulavirales" comes from the Latin (segmented) added to the suffix for virus orders "-virales". "Insthoviricetes" derives from a contraction of influenza, "Isavirus", and "Thogotovirus" along with "-viricetes", the suffix ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59656957 |
Mivirus is a genus of viruses. It is the only genus in the family Chuviridae, which is the only family in Jingchuvirales. "Jingchuvirales" and "Mononegavirales" are the only orders in "Monjiviricetes". The name "Mivirus" derives from (), the ancestral name of King Zhuang of Chu during the Spring and Autumn period, alon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59657769 |
Yingvirus is a genus of viruses. It is the only genus in the family Qinviridae, which is the only family in Muvirales, which is the only order in Chunqiuviricetes. The name "Yingvirus" derives from (), the ancestral name of Duke Mù of Qín during the Spring and Autumn period, along with "-virus" the suffix for a virus g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59659379 |
NGC 7196 is an elliptical galaxy registered in the New General Catalogue. It is located in the direction of the Indus constellation, at a distance of circa 150 million light years. It was discovered by the English astronomer John Herschel in 1834 using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflector. appears slightly distorted, with a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59662178 |
NGC 7191 is a spiral galaxy registered in the New General Catalogue. It is located in the direction of the Indus constellation. It was discovered by the English astronomer John Herschel in 1835 using a 47.5 cm (18.7 inch) reflector. It is a member of the galaxy group known as the NGC 7192 group, named after its brighte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59662333 |
Jena Phyletisches Museum (or Jena Phyletic Museum) is a museum in the German town of Jena. It was established by the scientist Ernst Haeckel, as an institute dedicated to explaining evolution to the public. Exhibits include skeletons, stuffed animals, fossils and zoological artworks from Haeckel's Kunstformen der Natur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59663050 |
Jena Phyletisches Museum Today the museum is part of the university's department of special zoology and evolutionary biology and stores 500,000 items. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59663050 |
Monjiviricetes is a class of viruses in the subphylum "Haploviricotina". The name is derived from a contraction of the names of the two orders within it, "Mononegavirales" and "Jingchuvirales" and the suffix for a virus order "-viricetes". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59665870 |
Extremophiles in biotechnology is the application of organisms that thrive in extreme environments to biotechnology. Extremophiles are organisms that thrive in the most volatile environments on the planet and it is due to their talents that they haven begun playing a large role in biotechnology. These organisms live ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59675902 |
Extremophiles in biotechnology These organisms have become more and more important to biotechnology as their genomes have been uncovered, revealing a plethora of genetic potential. Currently the main uses of extremophiles lies in processes such as PCR, biofuel generation and biomining, but there are many other smaller ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59675902 |
Extremophiles in biotechnology Halophilic extremophiles live in areas of high salinity such as solar salterns and soda lakes. Their ability to consume and thrive in areas of such salinity open up possible benefits such as inoculating crops in salt rich soils to help them grow. Another use found for them lies in their p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59675902 |
Extremophiles in biotechnology A good example of this would be how Taq Polymerase was isolated from the bacteria "Thermus aquaticus" and was then used to make the process of PCR possible. In some cases even the entire organism can be utilized due to how it functions in nature. A good example of this would be the use of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59675902 |
Extremophiles in biotechnology These abilities are linked to genes which can be isolated, extracted and replicated in the lab. With this the genetic information can then be implanted in the given enzymes, polymers, proteases and other various organic compounds to give them desired resistance. This allows for biological... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59675902 |
Extremophiles in biotechnology Finally, the extending stage at 72°C the strands of DNA replicate as they would naturally as the DNA nucleotides are added reforming the double stranded helix. These stages are cycled through multiple times until the desired amount of DNA is obtained. Without the enzyme produced by "T. aq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59675902 |
Extremophiles in biotechnology While this application has not yet widely developed to large scale utilization, scientists working in this field hope to find an efficient and sustainable solution involving extremophiles soon. Through work with various extremophiles the technique of biomining was developed. Also known as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59675902 |
Extremophiles in biotechnology Other various applications that will not be fully described here include: carotenoid production, protease/lipase production, Glycosyl hydrolase production and sugar production. These secondary applications focus on the production of biological compounds that can be used within primary app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59675902 |
Extremophiles in biotechnology This would help train immune memory and antibody response to defend the body in case said virus ever attacks. While this is just a handful of examples there are many more advancements and developments being worked on using extremophiles in hopes of creating a better future. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59675902 |
Hey's Mineral Index Hey's Mineral Index | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59683501 |
Iceland Plateau The or Icelandic Plateau is an oceanic plateau in the North Atlantic Ocean consisting of Iceland and its contiguous shelf and marginal slopes. It resides on an active rift zone of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge from which extensive tholeiitic plateau basalts and a number of large rhyolitic domes have been extru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59701181 |
A-center An is a type of crystallographic defect complex in Silicon which consists of a vacancy defect and an impurity Oxygen atom. In general, oxygen in silicon is interstitial, in which the oxygen atom breaks the covalent bond between two adjacent silicon atoms and is attached in the middle. A-centers - another type ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59703859 |
NGC 2460 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis. It was discovered by German astronomer Wilhelm Tempel on August 11, 1882. It is also identified as an active nucleus galaxy. Its redshift of 0.004837 gives an angular diameter distance of 21.501 megaparsecs, or approximately 70 million light-years. has an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59725110 |
Yogue orthonairovirus The Yogue virus is a strain in the genus Orthonairovirus belonging to the Kasokero serogroup. Its only known host is "Rousettus aegyptiacus". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59739095 |
Merbecovirus is a subgenus of viruses in the genus "Betacoronavirus". The viruses in this subgenus were previously known as group 2c coronaviruses. The viruses of this subgenus, like other coronaviruses, have a lipid bilayer envelope in which the membrane (M), envelope (E) and spike (S) structural proteins are anchored... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59759989 |
Viktor Kokochashvili (Georgian: ვიქტორ კოკოჩაშვილი) (November 12, 1904, Kutaisi – April 17, 1986) was a Georgian chemist. He was born in the family of the teacher in Kutaisi. In 1922 he graduated Kutaisi Classic Gymnasium and enrolled in the faculty of pedagogical studies at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59764916 |
Viktor Kokochashvili N Semenov School - the Nobel Prize laureate. During the study of the photochemical kinetic reaction of hydrogen and chlorine, he found the interaction of reaction chains with high-intensity light. He confirmed the thermal nature of the ignition in the chain reaction in the photochemical transformat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59764916 |
Nobecovirus is a subgenus of viruses in the genus "Betacoronavirus". The viruses in the group were previously known as group 2d coronaviruses. The viruses of this subgenus, like other coronaviruses, have a lipid bilayer envelope in which the membrane (M), envelope (E) and spike (S) structural proteins are anchored. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59768813 |
Corneometry is a widely practiced method for the measurement of skin hydration. It uses a capacitive sensor to measure the relative permittivity of upper skin layers. Because these depend on hydration of skin, the measured value is a measure for skin hydration. The name "corneometry" is derived from the German trademar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59790227 |
Charles Lambert Manneback Charles Lambert Marie Joseph Manneback (born 9 March 1894 in Etterbeek, Belgium; died 15 December 1975 in Etterbeek) was a Belgian physicist, mining engineer, and mathematician. After serving in the Belgian army during World War I, he obtained a civil engineering diploma from the Catholic Univ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59799196 |
Kaveri Crater is an area identified by scientists in India which appears to have been created by an asteroid impact that occurred around 800 to 550 million years ago. The area lying between Nilgiris and Kodaikanal is in the southern peninsular India. A study indicated that the Kaveri crater has a diameter of 120 kilome... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59802901 |
Kaveri Crater Junction between the gneissic and charnockitic terrain and even beyond, is marked by the presence of pseudotachylites and breccia. Field and petrographic studies indicate presence of suevite, Planar Deformation Features (PDF), Planar Fractures, diaplectic glass of quartz and plagioclase and spherical incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59802901 |
Puffin Island virus Puffin Island virus, is a strain of "Dugbe orthonairovirus" belonging to the Hughes serogroup. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59802920 |
Verastem Oncology (Verastem Inc) is an American pharmaceutical company that develops medicines to treat certain cancers. Headquartered and founded in Boston, Massachusetts, the firm is a member of NASDAQ Biotechnology Index. (Verastem Inc) was co-founded in 2010 by entrepreneur Christoph H. Westphal and venture capital... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59811433 |
Verastem Oncology In October 2015, they announced the premature termination of the company's late-stage clinical trial for defactinib after data analysis of the Phase II COMMAND trial found no significant differences in efficacy versus placebo. . Following the failure of the study, the company had to cut 50% of its wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59811433 |
Artashat orthonairovirus The (ARTSV), is a species in the genus "Orthonairovirus", first isolated from "Ornithodoros alactagalis", belonging to the soft tick family Argasidae in Armenia in 1972. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59812578 |
CGCG 049-033 is an elliptical galaxy, located some 680 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation of Serpens. It is the central galaxy (BCG) of the galaxy cluster Abell 2040. is known for having the longest galactic jet ever discovered. The beam is about 1.5 million light-years long and was discovered in Dece... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59814182 |
MicroPort is a global medical device developer and manufacturer that is headquartered in Shanghai, China. It designs and produces products for a range of medical fields including cardiology, interventional radiology, orthopedics, electrophysiology, and surgical management. is considered to be among the top 100 medical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59817077 |
MicroPort In 2014 expanded operations in the United States by acquiring Wright Medical's OrthoRecon business to become the 6th largest international producer of orthopedic devices. MicroPort's orthopedic business is based in Arlington, Tennessee and in 2018 has expanded its business into India. In 2018 and LivaNova clo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59817077 |
Gapped Hamiltonian In many-body physics, most commonly within condensed-matter physics, a gapped Hamiltonian is a Hamiltonian for an infinitely large many-body system where there is a finite energy gap separating the (possibly degenerate) ground space from the first excited states. A Hamiltonian that is not gapped is c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59833659 |
Syngenetic permafrost growth is a mode of the growth of permafrost whereby additional material is deposited to a permafrost site during freezing conditions, causing the permafrost layer to build upwards. It is cited as an efficient mode of permafrost growth, compared with heterogenetic permafrost growth, which occurs w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59836249 |
Baade-Wesselink method The is a method for determining the distance of a Cepheid variable star suggested by Walter Baade in 1926 and further developed by Adriaan Wesselink in 1946. In the original method the color of the star at various points during its period of variation is used to determine its surface brightness. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59836665 |
Microlites "Microlites" are minute crystals in an amorphous matrix. In igneous petrology, the term microlitic is used to describe vitric (glassy, non-crystalline, amorphous) matrix containing microscopic crystals. Microlitic rocks are a type of hypocrystalline rocks. Unlike ordinary phenocrysts, which can be seen with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59852418 |
Pavel Patev Pavel Atanasov Patev (1889-22 March 1950) was a Bulgarian zoologist known for his work in ornithology and as the director of the Sofia Zoo. He wrote a major monograph on the "Birds of Bulgaria" (1950). Patev was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Patev served as director of the Sofia Zoo from 1934 till the end of h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59852676 |
Guido Bargellini (1879–1963) was an Italian organic chemist. He specialized in natural product chemistry, in particular, flavonoid dyes and coumarins, and the compound santonin. He was admitted to the Accademia dei Lincei in 1946. The Bargellini reaction is named for him. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59854750 |
Cuba meteorite The exploded over Pinar del Río, Cuba on February 1, 2019, between 1:16 – 1:17 p.m. EST, causing a sonic boom powerful enough to shatter windows. Several stony meteorites were found on the ground. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59857017 |
Namibian drumlins The are a geologic feature in Namibia. Since drumlins only occur as the result of glaciers, researchers determined they are the relic of an ice age in the late Paleozoic Era. The researchers measured the drumlins with satellite imagery available on the Internet. "Megalineations" including drumlins wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59859995 |
Dufek Intrusion The is a mafic layered intrusion that was emplaced into present-day Antarctica approximately 183 million years ago. It comprises two outcropping sections called the Dufek Massif and the Forrestal Range that are thought to be connected beneath the Sallee Snowfield. The Dufek intrusion is associated with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59880911 |
Natur-Museum Luzern or Lucerne Nature Museum is a museum in the Swiss city of Lucerne. It is situated on Kasernenplatz, beside the river Reuss and the Spreuerbrücke. Exhibits in the museum include stuffed animals, minerals/crystals, and insects. The museum is open Tuesday to Sunday and there is a fee for entry. The sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59882849 |
Natur-Museum Luzern The building on Franziskanerplatz became occupied by the kantonalen Finanzverwaltung. The present museum building on Kasernenplatz was built in 1976, and opened in 1978. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59882849 |
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