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42,054,240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metreleptin | Metreleptin, sold under the brand name Myalept among others, is a synthetic analog of the hormone leptin used to treat various forms of dyslipidemia. It has been approved in Japan for metabolic disorders including lipodystrophy and in the United States as replacement therapy to treat the complications of leptin defici... | Metreleptin | Chemistry | 908 |
41,062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-ended%20synchronization | For two connected exchanges in a communications network, a double-ended synchronization (also called double-ended control) is a synchronization control scheme in which the phase error signals used to control the clock at one telephone exchange are derived by comparison with the phase of the incoming digital signal and ... | Double-ended synchronization | Engineering | 80 |
26,633,993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-male%20group | One-male groups are a type of social organization where one male interacts with a group of females and their immature offspring. Offspring of both sexes are evicted from the group upon reaching puberty. It can be seen in many species of primates, including the gelada baboon, the patas monkey, savanna baboon, sun-tail... | One-male group | Biology | 1,301 |
3,677,332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraxanthine | Paraxanthine, also known as 1,7-dimethylxanthine, is an isomer of theophylline and theobromine, two well-known stimulants found in coffee, tea, and chocolate mainly in the form of caffeine. It is a member of the xanthine family of alkaloids, which includes theophylline, theobromine and caffeine.
Production and metabol... | Paraxanthine | Chemistry | 1,236 |
13,276,879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racetrack%20memory | Racetrack memory or domain-wall memory (DWM) is an experimental non-volatile memory device under development at IBM's Almaden Research Center by a team led by physicist Stuart Parkin. It is a current topic of active research at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Dr. Parkin's group. In early 2008, a ... | Racetrack memory | Physics,Materials_science | 1,757 |
26,165,831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20129445%20b | HD 129445 b is an eccentric Jupiter gas giant exoplanet orbiting the star HD 129445 which was discovered by the Magellan Planet Search Program in 2010. Its minimum mass is 1.6 times Jupiter's, and it takes 5 years to complete one orbit around HD 129445, a G-type star approximately 219 light years away. In 2023, the inc... | HD 129445 b | Astronomy | 125 |
61,956,186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer%20green%20energy%20program | A consumer green energy program is a program that enables households to buy energy from renewable sources. By allowing consumers to purchase renewable energy, it simultaneously diverts the utilization of fossil fuels and promotes the use of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind.
In several countries with c... | Consumer green energy program | Chemistry | 1,788 |
1,619,958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transportation%20Safety%20Board%20of%20Canada | The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB, ), officially the Canadian Transportation Accident Investigation and Safety Board () is the agency of the Government of Canada responsible for advancing transportation safety in Canada. It is accountable to Parliament directly through the President of the King’s Privy Cou... | Transportation Safety Board of Canada | Technology | 1,531 |
38,462,710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LRLL%2054361 | LRLL 54361 also known as L54361 is thought to be a binary protostar producing strobe-like flashes, located in the constellation Perseus in the star-forming region IC 348 and 950 light-years away.
The object may offer insight into a star's early stages of formation, when large masses of gas and dust are falling into a ... | LRLL 54361 | Astronomy | 368 |
66,122,548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymateria | Polymateria Ltd is a British technology company developing biodegradable plastic alternatives. In 2020, the privately owned company was the first to achieve certified biodegradation of the most commonly-littered forms of plastic packaging in real-world conditions, in less than a year without creating microplastics.
Hi... | Polymateria | Chemistry | 1,910 |
44,465,987 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-constructive%20algorithm%20existence%20proofs | The vast majority of positive results about computational problems are constructive proofs, i.e., a computational problem is proved to be solvable by showing an algorithm that solves it; a computational problem is shown to be in P by showing an algorithm that solves it in time that is polynomial in the size of the inpu... | Non-constructive algorithm existence proofs | Mathematics | 1,378 |
51,583,637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita%20basii | Amanita basii is a mushroom of the family Amanitaceae.
Description
Its cap is at around wide, with a brown reddish color to "cadmium orange" becoming very intense red, "lake red" or brownish red in the center part of the cap, which is somewhat faded by the sun, in spots it's red-orange, orange-yellow to deep orange... | Amanita basii | Biology | 673 |
3,326,836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CALIPSO | CALIPSO was a joint NASA (US) and CNES (France) environmental satellite, built in the Cannes Mandelieu Space Center, which was launched atop a Delta II rocket on April 28, 2006. Its name stands for Cloud-Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations. CALIPSO launched alongside CloudSat.
Passive and act... | CALIPSO | Environmental_science | 520 |
47,289,026 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone%20acetate | Testosterone acetate (brand names Aceto-Sterandryl, Aceto-Testoviron, Amolisin, Androtest A, Deposteron, Farmatest, Perandrone A), or testosterone ethanoate, also known as androst-4-en-17β-ol-3-one 17β-acetate, is an androgen and anabolic steroid and a testosterone ester. The drug was first described in 1936 and was on... | Testosterone acetate | Chemistry | 148 |
1,503,460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McNeill%27s%20law | In human geography, McNeill's law is the process outlined in William H. McNeill's book Plagues and Peoples. The process described concerns the role of microbial disease in the conquering of people-groups. Particularly, it describes how diseases such as smallpox, measles, typhus, scarlet fever, and sexually-transmitted... | McNeill's law | Environmental_science | 414 |
13,482,790 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20psilocybin%20mushroom%20species | Psilocybin mushrooms are mushrooms which contain the hallucinogenic substances psilocybin, psilocin, baeocystin and norbaeocystin. The mushrooms are collected and grown as an entheogen and recreational drug, despite being illegal in many countries. Many psilocybin mushrooms are in the genus Psilocybe, but species acros... | List of psilocybin mushroom species | Biology | 3,204 |
2,257,041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multireference%20configuration%20interaction | In quantum chemistry, the multireference configuration interaction (MRCI) method consists of a configuration interaction expansion of the eigenstates of the electronic molecular Hamiltonian in a set of Slater determinants which correspond to excitations of the ground state electronic configuration but also of some exci... | Multireference configuration interaction | Physics,Chemistry | 517 |
2,615,949 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega%20network | An Omega network is a network configuration often used in parallel computing architectures. It is an indirect topology that relies on the perfect shuffle interconnection algorithm.
Connection architecture
An 8x8 Omega network is a multistage interconnection network, meaning that processing elements (PEs) are connected... | Omega network | Engineering | 785 |
78,923,697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PKS%201335%E2%88%92127 | PKS 1335-127 is a blazar located in the constellation of Virgo with a redshift of (z) 0.539. This is a compact BL Lac object containing a radio source of extragalactic origins; discovered in 1970 during the continuum survey conducted by astronomers from Ohio State University. The object shows a radio spectrum appearing... | PKS 1335−127 | Astronomy | 531 |
6,800,801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichert%20value | The Reichert value (also Reichert-Meissl number, Reichert-Meissl-Wollny value or Reichert-Meissl-Wollny number) is a value determined when examining fats and oils. The Reichert value is an indicator of how much volatile fatty acid can be extracted from a particular fat or oil through saponification. It is equal to the ... | Reichert value | Chemistry | 248 |
4,501,325 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma%20parameters | Plasma parameters define various characteristics of a plasma, an electrically conductive collection of charged and neutral particles of various species (electrons and ions) that responds collectively to electromagnetic forces. Such particle systems can be studied statistically, i.e., their behaviour can be described ba... | Plasma parameters | Physics,Astronomy | 762 |
1,236,616 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedorah | , also known as the Smog Monster, is a fictional monster, or kaiju who first appeared in Toho's 1971 film Godzilla vs. Hedorah. Hedorah was named for , the Japanese word for sludge, slime, vomit or chemical ooze.
Overview
Development
Whereas Godzilla was a symbol of Japanese concerns over nuclear weapons, Hedorah was... | Hedorah | Biology | 1,461 |
6,165,852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRC%20Herzberg%20Astronomy%20and%20Astrophysics%20Research%20Centre | The NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre (NRC Herzberg, HAA) is the leading Canadian centre for astronomy and astrophysics. It is based in Victoria, British Columbia. The current director-general, as of 2021, is Luc Simard.
History
Named for the Nobel laureate Gerhard Herzberg, it was formed in 197... | NRC Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre | Physics,Astronomy | 525 |
16,702,705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispersive%20adhesion | Dispersive adhesion, also called adsorptive adhesion, is a mechanism for adhesion which attributes attractive forces between two materials to intermolecular interactions between molecules of each material. This mechanism is widely viewed as the most important of the five mechanisms of adhesion due to its presence in ev... | Dispersive adhesion | Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 1,110 |
39,171,284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirac%20equation%20in%20curved%20spacetime | In mathematical physics, the Dirac equation in curved spacetime is a generalization of the Dirac equation from flat spacetime (Minkowski space) to curved spacetime, a general Lorentzian manifold.
Mathematical formulation
Spacetime
In full generality the equation can be defined on or a pseudo-Riemannian manifold, ... | Dirac equation in curved spacetime | Physics,Materials_science | 1,412 |
59,131,716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice%20Zucrow | Maurice Joseph Zucrow (December 15, 1899 – June 1975) was a Russian-born American scientist and aerospace engineer known for his contributions to the development of gas turbines and jet propulsion. Zucrow was born in Kiev in Tsarist Russia and immigrated with his family to the United Kingdom in 1900. Young Maurice atte... | Maurice Zucrow | Engineering | 648 |
2,542,927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20reference%20identifier |
Overview
A content reference identifier or CRID is a concept from the standardization work done by the TV-Anytime forum. It is or closely matches the concept of the Uniform Resource Locator, or URL, as used on the World-Wide Web:
The concept of CRID permits referencing contents unambiguously, regardless of their lo... | Content reference identifier | Technology,Engineering | 2,505 |
40,816,101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Today%20Trader | Today Trader, Inc is a trading and education service that started in 2008. As of 2013, trading with their service is done primarily through their relationship with the Ditto Trade online brokerage service. Since 2018, the venture serves as an educational hub.
History
Steve Gomez and Andy Lindloff met at a Level 2 trad... | Today Trader | Technology | 588 |
27,059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stainless%20steel | Stainless steel, also known as inox, corrosion-resistant steel (CRES), and rustless steel, is an iron-based alloy containing a minimum level of chromium that is resistant to rusting and corrosion. Stainless steel's resistance to corrosion results from the 10.5%, or more, chromium content which forms a passive film th... | Stainless steel | Physics,Chemistry,Engineering,Biology | 8,229 |
5,411,423 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social%20organism | Social organism is a sociological concept, or model, wherein a society or social structure is regarded as a "living organism". Individuals interacting through the various entities comprising a society, such as law, family, crime, etc., are considered as they interact with other entities of the society to meet its needs... | Social organism | Biology | 551 |
27,510,746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tera%20100 | Tera 100 is a supercomputer built by Bull SA for the French Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique.
On May 26, 2010, Tera 100 was turned on. The computer, which is located in Essonne is able to sustain around 1 petaFLOPs maximum performance and a peak at 1.25 petaFLOPs. It has 4300 Bullx Series S servers ('Mesca'), 140,000... | Tera 100 | Technology | 238 |
59,457,604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartmut%20B%C3%A4rnighausen | Hartmut Bärnighausen (born 16 February 1933 in Chemnitz) is a German chemist and crystallographer. He is known for establishing the Bärnighausen trees which describe group-subgroup relationships of crystal structures.
Life
Bärnighausen studied Chemistry at Leipzig University and received his diploma after a diploma t... | Hartmut Bärnighausen | Chemistry | 231 |
227,682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meristem | In cell biology, the meristem is a type of tissue found in plants. It consists of undifferentiated cells (meristematic cells) capable of cell division. Cells in the meristem can develop into all the other tissues and organs that occur in plants. These cells continue to divide until they become differentiated and lose t... | Meristem | Biology | 4,640 |
23,943,342 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image-based%20meshing | Image-based meshing is the automated process of creating computer models for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and finite element analysis (FEA) from 3D image data (such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), computed tomography (CT) or microtomography). Although a wide range of mesh generation techniques are currently... | Image-based meshing | Physics | 830 |
45,320,628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioFabric | BioFabric is an open-source software application for graph drawing. It presents graphs as a node-link diagram, but unlike other graph drawing tools that depict the nodes using discrete symbols, it represents nodes using horizontal lines.
Rationale
Traditional node-link methods for visualizing networks deteriorate in ... | BioFabric | Biology | 555 |
21,161,506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bephenium%20hydroxynaphthoate | Bephenium hydroxynaphthoate (INN, trade names Alcopara, Alcopar, Befenium, Debefenium, Francin, Nemex) is an anthelmintic agent formerly used in the treatment of hookworm infections and ascariasis. It is formulated as a salt between the active pharmaceutical ingredient, bephenium, and 3-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid.
Beph... | Bephenium hydroxynaphthoate | Biology | 138 |
16,513,502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20conductivity%20measurement | There are a number of possible ways to measure thermal conductivity, each of them suitable for a limited range of materials, depending on the thermal properties and the medium temperature. Three classes of methods exist to measure the thermal conductivity of a sample: steady-state, time-domain, and frequency-domain met... | Thermal conductivity measurement | Materials_science,Engineering | 3,467 |
1,184,578 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yokogawa%20Electric | is a Japanese multinational electrical engineering and software company, with businesses based on its measurement, control, and information technologies.
It has a global workforce of over 19,000 employees, 84 subsidiary and 3 affiliated companies operating in 55 countries. The company is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exch... | Yokogawa Electric | Engineering | 1,196 |
58,965,261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilse%20Hirsch | Ilse Hirsch (1922–2000) was a German Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM) Hauptgruppenführerin (captain) famous as part of the six-person team that participated in Operation Carnival in 1945.
Early life
Hirsch was born in Hamm. She joined the BDM at age sixteen and became one of its principal organizers in the town of Monschau... | Ilse Hirsch | Chemistry | 776 |
5,021,791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium%20iodide | Aluminium iodide is a chemical compound containing aluminium and iodine. Invariably, the name refers to a compound of the composition , formed by the reaction of aluminium and iodine or the action of on metal. The hexahydrate is obtained from a reaction between metallic aluminum or aluminum hydroxide with hydrogen... | Aluminium iodide | Chemistry | 365 |
87,372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Additive%20function | In number theory, an additive function is an arithmetic function f(n) of the positive integer variable n such that whenever a and b are coprime, the function applied to the product ab is the sum of the values of the function applied to a and b:
Completely additive
An additive function f(n) is said to be completely ad... | Additive function | Mathematics | 1,326 |
2,189,901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microstructure | Microstructure is the very small scale structure of a material, defined as the structure of a prepared surface of material as revealed by an optical microscope above 25× magnification. The microstructure of a material (such as metals, polymers, ceramics or composites) can strongly influence physical properties such as ... | Microstructure | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 1,447 |
7,214,369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20distance%20test | The global distance test (GDT), also written as GDT_TS to represent "total score", is a measure of similarity between two protein structures with known amino acid correspondences (e.g. identical amino acid sequences) but different tertiary structures. It is most commonly used to compare the results of protein structur... | Global distance test | Chemistry,Engineering,Biology | 984 |
4,012,894 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HttpUnit | HttpUnit is an open-source software testing framework used to perform testing of web sites without the need for a web browser. HttpUnit supports HTML form submission, JavaScript, HTTP basic access authentication, automatic page redirection, and cookies. Written in Java, HttpUnit allows Java test code to process returne... | HttpUnit | Technology | 162 |
3,375,111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Northern%20Concrete%20Toboggan%20Race | The Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race (GNCTR) is an annual event that challenges the creativity of engineering students. The competition originated in 1974 and was created by Dr. S. H. Simmonds, president of the Alberta chapter of the American Concrete Institute. The first race was held in 1975 with participants f... | Great Northern Concrete Toboggan Race | Engineering | 501 |
2,266,155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescopic%20handler | A telescopic handler, also called a lull, telehandler, teleporter, reach forklift, or zoom boom, is a machine widely used in agriculture and industry. It is somewhat like a forklift but has a boom (telescopic cylinder), making it more a crane than a forklift, with the increased versatility of a single telescopic boom t... | Telescopic handler | Engineering | 1,034 |
1,612,994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee%20on%20Space%20Research | The Committee on Space Research (COSPAR) was established on October 3, 1958 by the International Council for Scientific Unions (ICSU) and its first chair was Hildegard Korf Kallmann-Bijl. Among COSPAR's objectives are the promotion of scientific research in space on an international level, with emphasis on the free ex... | Committee on Space Research | Astronomy | 1,546 |
7,643,455 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteroendocrine%20cell | Enteroendocrine cells are specialized cells of the gastrointestinal tract and pancreas with endocrine function. They produce gastrointestinal hormones or peptides in response to various stimuli and release them into the bloodstream for systemic effect, diffuse them as local messengers, or transmit them to the enteric n... | Enteroendocrine cell | Biology | 1,182 |
33,518,991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setrobuvir | Setrobuvir (also known as ANA-598) was an experimental drug candidate for the treatment of hepatitis C that was discovered at Anadys Pharmaceuticals, which was acquired by Roche in 2011; Roche terminated development in July 2015. It was in Phase IIb clinical trials, used in combination with interferon and ribavirin, ... | Setrobuvir | Chemistry | 116 |
13,981,054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%20Inghram | Mark Gordon Inghram (November 13, 1919 – September 29, 2003) was an American physicist. Inghram was a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Life
Inghram was born in Livingston, Montana. He did undergraduate work at Olivet College, receiving a B.A. in 1939. He worked in the Manhattan Project during World War II... | Mark Inghram | Physics,Chemistry | 347 |
40,141,710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Windows%20%28film%29 | Open Windows is a 2014 found footage techno-thriller film directed and written by Nacho Vigalondo. The film stars Elijah Wood, Sasha Grey and Neil Maskell, and had its world premiere at South by Southwest on 10 March 2014. It is Vigalondo's first English-language film.
Plot
Nick Chambers wins a contest to meet his fav... | Open Windows (film) | Technology | 1,489 |
49,120,365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C10H9NO3S | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C10H9NO3S}}
The molecular formula C10H9NO3S (molar mass: 223.25 g/mol, exact mass: 223.0303 u) may refer to:
Aminonaphthalenesulfonic acids
Naphthionic acid
Tobias acid (2-amino-1-naphthalenesulfonic acid) | C10H9NO3S | Chemistry | 84 |
21,550,149 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%202000 | The Delta 2000 series was an American expendable launch system which was used to conduct forty-four orbital launches between 1974 and 1981. It was a member of the Delta family of rockets, sometimes called Thorad Delta. Several variants existed, which were differentiated by a four digit numerical code. The Delta 1000, 2... | Delta 2000 | Astronomy | 382 |
63,326,424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discrete%20fixed-point%20theorem | In discrete mathematics, a discrete fixed-point is a fixed-point for functions defined on finite sets, typically subsets of the integer grid .
Discrete fixed-point theorems were developed by Iimura, Murota and Tamura, Chen and Deng and others. Yang provides a survey.
Basic concepts
Continuous fixed-point theorems of... | Discrete fixed-point theorem | Mathematics | 1,048 |
58,214,031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bouvardin | Bouvardin is a bicyclic hexapeptide isolated from Bouvardia ternifolia. Its chemical formula is C40H48N6O10. It is derived from the amino acid sequence Ala-Ala-Tyr-Ala-Tyr-Tyr. It has demonstrated certain anti-cancerous activities by inhibiting protein synthesis through inhibition of 80S ribosomes (eukaryotic ribosome... | Bouvardin | Chemistry | 103 |
87,599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.%20H.%20Hardy | Godfrey Harold Hardy (7 February 1877 – 1 December 1947) was an English mathematician, known for his achievements in number theory and mathematical analysis. In biology, he is known for the Hardy–Weinberg principle, a basic principle of population genetics.
G. H. Hardy is usually known by those outside the field of m... | G. H. Hardy | Mathematics | 2,829 |
22,059,637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/August%202035%20lunar%20eclipse | A partial lunar eclipse will occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit on Sunday, August 19, 2035, with an umbral magnitude of 0.1049. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A partial lunar eclipse occurs when one part of the Moon is in the Earth's umbra,... | August 2035 lunar eclipse | Astronomy | 620 |
61,860,767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafnium%E2%80%93tungsten%20dating | Hafnium–tungsten dating is a geochronological radiometric dating method utilizing the radioactive decay system of hafnium-182 to tungsten-182. The half-life of the system is million years. Today hafnium-182 is an extinct radionuclide, but the hafnium–tungsten radioactive system is useful in studies of the early Solar ... | Hafnium–tungsten dating | Chemistry | 1,624 |
22,614,305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space%20science%20in%20Estonia | The cornerstone of the Estonian cosmological research is the Tartu Observatory which was founded in 1812. The observatory itself has a long tradition of studying galaxies and theoretically modeling the structure of the universe and its formation. Till today this facility is Estonia's main research centre for astronomy ... | Space science in Estonia | Astronomy | 682 |
76,097,725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallacinol | Fallacinol (teloschistin) is an organic compound in the structural class of chemicals known as anthraquinones. It is found in some lichens, particularly in the family Teloschistaceae, as well as a couple of plants and non lichen-forming fungi. In 1936, Japanese chemists isolated a pigment they named fallacin from the l... | Fallacinol | Chemistry | 2,389 |
18,195,193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermo-magnetic%20motor | Thermomagnetic motors (also known as Curie wheels, Curie-motors and pyromagnetic motors) convert heat into kinetic energy using the thermomagnetic effect, i.e., the influence of temperature on the magnetic material magnetization.
Historical background
This technology dates back to 19th century, when a number of scie... | Thermo-magnetic motor | Technology,Engineering | 211 |
58,529,226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jensenism | Jensenism is a term coined by New York Times writer Lee Edson. Named after educational psychologist Arthur Jensen, it was originally defined as "the theory that IQ is largely determined by the genes". The term was coined after Jensen published the article "How Much Can We Boost IQ and Scholastic Achievement?" in the Ha... | Jensenism | Biology | 572 |
2,146,043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermochromic%20ink | Thermochromic ink (also called thermochromatic ink) is a type of dye that changes color in response to a change in temperature. It was first used in the 1970s in novelty toys like mood rings, but has found some practical uses in things such as thermometers, product packaging, and pens. The ink has also found applicatio... | Thermochromic ink | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 1,066 |
27,135,340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaweed%20farming | Seaweed farming or kelp farming is the practice of cultivating and harvesting seaweed. In its simplest form farmers gather from natural beds, while at the other extreme farmers fully control the crop's life cycle.
The seven most cultivated taxa are Eucheuma spp., Kappaphycus alvarezii, Gracilaria spp., Saccharina jap... | Seaweed farming | Biology | 2,648 |
28,579,539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora%20Lapponica | Flora Lapponica (Amsterdam, 1737) is an account of the plants of Lapland written by botanist, zoologist and naturalist Carl Linnaeus (1707–1788) following his expedition to Lapland.
Background
Over the period from 12 May 1732 to 10 September 1732, and with a grant from the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala for his ... | Flora Lapponica | Biology | 394 |
4,401,864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tirgan | Tirgan (, Tirgān), is an early summer ancient Iranian festival, celebrated annually on Tir 13 (July 2, 3, or 4).
It is celebrated by splashing water, dancing, reciting poetry, and serving traditional foods such as spinach soup and sholezard. The custom of tying rainbow-colored bands on wrists, which are worn for ten d... | Tirgan | Astronomy | 608 |
65,503,180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenocs | Xenocs is a scientific instrumentation company based in Grenoble, France, providing instruments, software and related services for x-ray characterization of materials, in particular Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) and Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (WAXS).
Xenocs products are typically used by universities, research ... | Xenocs | Chemistry,Materials_science | 472 |
4,827 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biomedical%20engineering | Biomedical engineering (BME) or medical engineering is the application of engineering principles and design concepts to medicine and biology for healthcare applications (e.g., diagnostic or therapeutic purposes). BME is also traditionally logical sciences to advance health care treatment, including diagnosis, monitorin... | Biomedical engineering | Engineering,Biology | 6,530 |
815,776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen-segment%20display | A sixteen-segment display (SISD) is a type of display based on sixteen segments that can be turned on or off to produce a graphic pattern. It is an extension of the more common seven-segment display, adding four diagonal and two vertical segments and splitting the three horizontal segments in half. Other variants inclu... | Sixteen-segment display | Engineering | 581 |
1,627,125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glucose%20meter | A glucose meter, also referred to as a "glucometer", is a medical device for determining the approximate concentration of glucose in the blood. It can also be a strip of glucose paper dipped into a substance and measured to the glucose chart. It is a key element of glucose testing, including home blood glucose monito... | Glucose meter | Technology,Engineering | 4,667 |
34,057,814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De-identification | De-identification is the process used to prevent someone's personal identity from being revealed. For example, data produced during human subject research might be de-identified to preserve the privacy of research participants. Biological data may be de-identified in order to comply with HIPAA regulations that define ... | De-identification | Technology,Engineering | 1,711 |
8,327,127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dense-in-itself | In general topology, a subset of a topological space is said to be dense-in-itself or crowded
if has no isolated point.
Equivalently, is dense-in-itself if every point of is a limit point of .
Thus is dense-in-itself if and only if , where is the derived set of .
A dense-in-itself closed set is called a perfect ... | Dense-in-itself | Physics,Mathematics | 516 |
22,479,749 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepiapterin | Sepiapterin, also known as 2-amino-6-[(2S)-2-hydroxypropanoyl]-7,8-dihydro-1H-pteridin-4-one, is a member of the pteridine class of organic chemicals.
Sepiapterin can be metabolized into tetrahydrobiopterin via a salvage pathway. Tetrahydrobiopterin is an essential cofactor in humans for breakdown of phenylalanine and... | Sepiapterin | Chemistry | 331 |
38,662,839 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transmembrane%20Protein%20205 | Transmembrane Protein 205 (TMEM205) is a protein encoded on chromosome 19 by the TMEM205 gene.
Gene
TMEM205 is located on the minus strand of chromosome 19 from base pair 11,453,452 to 11,456,981. In close proximity to TMEM205, CCDC159 is located slightly upstream and RAB3D slightly down stream of the genomic sequenc... | Transmembrane Protein 205 | Chemistry | 485 |
4,983,922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.%20Hyam%20Rubinstein | Joachim Hyam Rubinstein FAA (born 7 March 1948, in Melbourne) an Australian top mathematician specialising in low-dimensional topology; he is currently serving as an honorary professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, having retired in 2019.
He has spoken and written wi... | J. Hyam Rubinstein | Mathematics | 501 |
39,813,016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dis-unification | Dis-unification, in computer science and logic, is an algorithmic process of solving inequations between symbolic expressions.
Publications on dis-unification
"Anti-Unification" here refers to inequation-solving, a naming which nowadays has become quite unusual, cf. Anti-unification (computer science).
Co... | Dis-unification | Mathematics | 274 |
540,176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melena | Melena is a form of blood in stool which refers to the dark black, tarry feces that are commonly associated with upper gastrointestinal bleeding. The black color and characteristic strong odor are caused by hemoglobin in the blood being altered by digestive enzymes and intestinal bacteria.
Iron supplements may cause a... | Melena | Biology | 901 |
62,025,667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AAindex | AAindex is a database of amino acid indices, amino acid mutation matrices, and pair-wise contact potentials. The data represent various physicochemical and biochemical properties of amino acids and pairs of amino acids.
See also
Proteinogenic amino acid
References
External links
Official AAindex website
Biologi... | AAindex | Biology | 63 |
66,858,127 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigia%20%28nautical%29 | A vigia is a warning on a nautical chart indicating a possible rock, shoal, or other hazard which has been reported but not yet verified or surveyed.
Some non-existent vigias have remained on successive charts for centuries as a precaution by hesitant hydrographers. One such example was 'Las Casses Bank', a vigia betw... | Vigia (nautical) | Environmental_science | 246 |
1,914,171 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Havriliak%E2%80%93Negami%20relaxation | The Havriliak–Negami relaxation is an empirical modification of the Debye relaxation model in electromagnetism. Unlike the Debye model, the Havriliak–Negami relaxation accounts for the asymmetry and broadness of the dielectric dispersion curve. The model was first used to describe the dielectric relaxation of some poly... | Havriliak–Negami relaxation | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 492 |
47,768,197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phellodon%20indicus | Phellodon indicus is a species of tooth fungus in the family Bankeraceae. Found in Himachal Pradesh, India, it was described as new to science in 1978.
References
External links
Fungi described in 1971
Fungi of India
Inedible fungi
indicus
Fungus species | Phellodon indicus | Biology | 55 |
1,820,960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transpersonal | The transpersonal is a term used by different schools of philosophy and psychology in order to describe experiences and worldviews that extend beyond the personal level of the psyche, and beyond mundane worldly events.
Definition and context
The transpersonal has been defined as experiences in which the sense of iden... | Transpersonal | Biology | 1,593 |
349,223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20ring | In algebra, a group ring is a free module and at the same time a ring, constructed in a natural way from any given ring and any given group. As a free module, its ring of scalars is the given ring, and its basis is the set of elements of the given group. As a ring, its addition law is that of the free module and its mu... | Group ring | Mathematics | 3,072 |
3,143,591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclid%27s%20theorem | Euclid's theorem is a fundamental statement in number theory that asserts that there are infinitely many prime numbers. It was first proven by Euclid in his work Elements. There are several proofs of the theorem.
Euclid's proof
Euclid offered a proof published in his work Elements (Book IX, Proposition 20), which is p... | Euclid's theorem | Mathematics | 2,420 |
9,335,972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipman%20Bers | Lipman Bers (Latvian: Lipmans Berss; May 22, 1914 – October 29, 1993) was a Latvian-American mathematician, born in Riga, who created the theory of pseudoanalytic functions and worked on Riemann surfaces and Kleinian groups. He was also known for his work in human rights activism.
Biography
Bers was born in Riga, then... | Lipman Bers | Mathematics | 2,120 |
47,777,700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphipols | Amphipols (a portmanteau of amphiphilic polymers) are a class of amphiphilic polymers designed to keep membrane proteins soluble in water without the need for detergents, which are traditionally used to this end but tend to be denaturing. Amphipols adsorb onto the hydrophobic transmembrane surface of membrane proteins ... | Amphipols | Chemistry | 266 |
73,141,922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegunigalsidase%20alfa | Pegunigalsidase alfa, sold under the brand name Elfabrio, is an enzyme replacement therapy for the treatment of Fabry disease. It is a recombinant human α-galactosidase-A. It is a hydrolytic lysosomal neutral glycosphingolipid-specific enzyme.
The most common side effects are infusion-related reactions, hypersensitivi... | Pegunigalsidase alfa | Biology | 280 |
404,181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed%20and%20exact%20differential%20forms | In mathematics, especially vector calculus and differential topology, a closed form is a differential form α whose exterior derivative is zero (), and an exact form is a differential form, α, that is the exterior derivative of another differential form β. Thus, an exact form is in the image of d, and a closed form is ... | Closed and exact differential forms | Mathematics,Engineering | 1,848 |
1,575,643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass%20flow%20meter | A mass flow meter, also known as an inertial flow meter, is a device that measures mass flow rate of a fluid traveling through a tube. The mass flow rate is the mass of the fluid traveling past a fixed point per unit time.
The mass flow meter does not measure the volume per unit time (e.g. cubic meters per second) pas... | Mass flow meter | Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics,Technology,Engineering | 1,191 |
4,743,663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20iPod%20file%20managers | This is a list of iPod file managers, i.e. software that permits the transferring of media files. In the case of iPod file managers, this takes place between an iPod and a computer or vice versa.
iTunes is the official iPod managing software, but 3rd parties have created alternatives to work around restrictions in the... | Comparison of iPod file managers | Technology | 102 |
22,205,229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20of%20Streams | The Field of Streams is a patch of sky where several stellar streams are visible and crisscross.
It was discovered by Vasily Belokurov and Daniel Zucker's team in 2006 by analyzing the Sloan Digital Sky Survey II (SDSS-II) data. The team named the area Field of Streams because of so many crisscrossing trails of stars.... | Field of Streams | Astronomy | 490 |
406,922 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete%20Fermi%E2%80%93Dirac%20integral | In mathematics, the complete Fermi–Dirac integral, named after Enrico Fermi and Paul Dirac, for an index j is defined by
This equals
where is the polylogarithm.
Its derivative is
and this derivative relationship is used to define the Fermi-Dirac integral for nonpositive indices j. Differing notation for appear... | Complete Fermi–Dirac integral | Mathematics | 233 |
30,979,615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahlfors%20finiteness%20theorem | In the mathematical theory of Kleinian groups, the Ahlfors finiteness theorem describes the quotient of the domain of discontinuity by a finitely generated Kleinian group. The theorem was proved by , apart from a gap that was filled by .
The Ahlfors finiteness theorem states that if Γ is a finitely-generated Kleinian... | Ahlfors finiteness theorem | Mathematics | 265 |
60,630,955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie%20Birch%20House | The Annie Birch House, near Hoytsville, Utah, was built in 1875. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
It is located at approximately 900 S. West Hoytsville Rd., off I-80.
It is a vernacular Pair House.
References
Pair-houses
National Register of Historic Places in Summit County, Utah
... | Annie Birch House | Engineering | 77 |
44,024,971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matja%C5%BE%20Perc | Matjaž Perc is Professor of Physics at the University of Maribor in Slovenia, and director of the Complex Systems Center Maribor. He is member of Academia Europaea and among top 1% most cited physicists according to Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researchers. He is Outstanding Referee of the Physical Review and Physical ... | Matjaž Perc | Physics | 1,698 |
9,733,327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwell%20channel | The Blackwell channel is a deterministic broadcast channel model used in coding theory and information theory. It was first proposed by mathematician David Blackwell. In this model, a transmitter transmits one of three symbols to two receivers. For two of the symbols, both receivers receive exactly what was sent; the t... | Blackwell channel | Mathematics | 387 |
2,670,705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda2%20Sculptoris | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Lambda2 Sculptoris}}
Lambda2 Sculptoris is an orange-hued star in the southern constellation of Sculptor. On dark nights it is faintly visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of +5.90. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 9.63 mas as measured from Earth, it is located roughly 340... | Lambda2 Sculptoris | Astronomy | 236 |
55,081,903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigroporus%20macroporus | Nigroporus macroporus is a species of poroid fungus in the family Steccherinaceae. It was described as new to science in 2003 by mycologists Leif Ryvarden and Teresa Iturriaga. Found in Venezuela and Brazil, it is a wood-decay fungus that causes a white rot in the hardwood Dimorphandra macrostachya.
Description
Fruit ... | Nigroporus macroporus | Biology | 260 |
26,989,304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20repairs | In construction, structural repairs is a technical term describing maintenance of a property structure in order to bring it up to local health and safety standards. It is contrasted to renovations or non-structural repairs. Unlike renovations, structural repairs add relatively little value to a property.
Leases often... | Structural repairs | Engineering | 81 |
59,158,616 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%C3%B1%C3%A1n%27s%20equation | In the study of diffusion flame, Liñán's equation is a second-order nonlinear ordinary differential equation which describes the inner structure of the diffusion flame, first derived by Amable Liñán in 1974. The equation reads as
subjected to the boundary conditions
where is the reduced or rescaled Damköhler number ... | Liñán's equation | Chemistry,Engineering | 480 |
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