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18,365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luminance | Luminance is a photometric measure of the luminous intensity per unit area of light travelling in a given direction. It describes the amount of light that passes through, is emitted from, or is reflected from a particular area, and falls within a given solid angle.
The procedure for conversion from spectral radiance t... | Luminance | Physics,Mathematics | 1,219 |
3,633,250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiotic%20drive | Meiotic drive is a type of intragenomic conflict, whereby one or more loci within a genome will affect a manipulation of the meiotic process in such a way as to favor the transmission of one or more alleles over another, regardless of its phenotypic expression. More simply, meiotic drive is when one copy of a gene is ... | Meiotic drive | Biology | 1,010 |
8,434,240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Programme%20for%20Intervention%20Epidemiology%20Training | The European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET) Fellowship provides training and practical experience in intervention epidemiology at the national centres for surveillance and control of communicable diseases in the European Union. The fellowship is aimed at EU medical practitioners, public-health... | European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training | Environmental_science | 504 |
8,334,646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20Equulei | Delta Equulei, Latinized from δ Equulei, is the second brightest star in the constellation Equuleus. Delta Equulei is a binary star system about 60 light years away, with components of class G0 and F5. Their combined magnitude is 4.47, and their absolute magnitude is 3.142. There is controversy as to the exact masses o... | Delta Equulei | Astronomy | 287 |
4,385,708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setting%20circles | Setting circles are used on telescopes equipped with an equatorial mount to find celestial objects by their equatorial coordinates, often used in star charts and ephemerides.
Description
Setting circles consist of two graduated disks attached to the axes – right ascension (RA) and declination (DEC) – of an equatorial ... | Setting circles | Astronomy | 937 |
1,840,504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twilight%20Sentinel | Twilight Sentinel is an automatic headlight control system developed by General Motors (GM) for use in their vehicles. The system uses a photoelectric cell to sense outside light conditions and automatically control the vehicle's exterior lights.
History and development
The development of automatic headlight systems... | Twilight Sentinel | Engineering | 568 |
51,453,550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanonephron%20elegans | Cyanonephron elegans is a freshwater species of cyanobacteria in the family Synechococcaceae. It is described in the Netherlands, Siberia, Russia and Queensland, Australia.
References
McGregor, G. (2013). Freshwater Cyanobacteria from North-Eastern Australia: 2. Chroococcales. Phytotaxa 133: 1-130
External links
... | Cyanonephron elegans | Biology | 117 |
65,804,611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20spyware%20programs | This is a list of spyware programs.
These common spyware programs illustrate the diversity of behaviours found in these attacks. Note that as with computer viruses, researchers give names to spyware programs which may not be used by their creators. Programs may be grouped into "families" based not on shared program co... | List of spyware programs | Technology,Engineering | 1,081 |
1,186,904 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confocal%20microscopy | Confocal microscopy, most frequently confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM) or laser scanning confocal microscopy (LSCM), is an optical imaging technique for increasing optical resolution and contrast of a micrograph by means of using a spatial pinhole to block out-of-focus light in image formation. Capturing multip... | Confocal microscopy | Chemistry,Biology | 4,899 |
56,032,130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loubignac%20iteration | In applied mathematics, Loubignac iteration is an iterative method in finite element methods. It gives continuous stress field. It is named after Gilles Loubignac, who published the method in 1977.
References
Loubignac's paper
Continuum mechanics
Finite element method
Numerical differential equations
Partial differe... | Loubignac iteration | Physics,Mathematics,Engineering | 65 |
714,440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf%20Prize%20in%20Chemistry | The Wolf Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Wolf Foundation in Israel. It is one of the six Wolf Prizes established by the Foundation and awarded since 1978; the others are in Agriculture, Mathematics, Medicine, Physics and Arts.
The Wolf Prize in Chemistry is considered to be one of the most prestigious in... | Wolf Prize in Chemistry | Technology | 224 |
22,216,147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harassment | Harassment covers a wide range of behaviors of an offensive nature. It is commonly understood as behavior that demeans, humiliates, and intimidates a person, and it is characteristically identified by its unlikelihood in terms of social and moral reasonableness. In the legal sense, these are behaviors that appear to be... | Harassment | Biology | 2,663 |
60,261,481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government%20formation | Government formation is the process in a parliamentary system of selecting a prime minister and cabinet members. If no party controls a majority of seats, it can also involve deciding which parties will be part of a coalition government. It usually occurs after an election, but can also occur after a vote of no confi... | Government formation | Physics | 401 |
34,900,000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20firm | The Digital Firm is a kind of organization that has enabled core business relationships through digital networks In these digital networks are supported by enterprise class technology platforms that have been leveraged within an organization to support critical business functions and services. Some examples of these te... | Digital firm | Technology | 1,351 |
39,580,391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic%20Health%20Science%20Networks | Academic Health Science Networks (AHSNs) are membership organisations within the NHS in England. They were created in May 2013 with the aim of bringing together health services, and academic and industry members. Their stated purpose is to improve patient outcomes and generate economic benefits by promoting and encoura... | Academic Health Science Networks | Biology | 867 |
64,530,838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactobacillus%20vaccine | Lactobacillus vaccines are used in the therapy and prophylaxis of non-specific bacterial vaginitis and trichomoniasis. The vaccines consist of specific inactivated strains of Lactobacilli, called "aberrant" strains in the relevant literature dating from the 1980s. These strains were isolated from the vaginal secretions... | Lactobacillus vaccine | Biology | 9,245 |
37,621,805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stenella%20paulliniae | Stenella paulliniae is a species of anamorphic fungi.
References
External links
paulliniae
Fungi described in 2005
Fungus species | Stenella paulliniae | Biology | 28 |
49,213,402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubaria%20moseri | Tubaria moseri is a species of agaric fungus in the family Tubariaceae. Found in Argentina, it was described as new to science in 1974 by Jörg H. Raithelhuber. The specific epithet moseri honours Austrian mycologist Meinhard Moser.
References
External links
Tubariaceae
Fungi described in 1974
Fungi of Argentina
Fung... | Tubaria moseri | Biology | 77 |
73,163,376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLAC-Seq | Proximity ligation-assisted chromatin immunoprecipitation sequencing (PLAC-seq) is a chromatin conformation capture(3C)-based technique to detect and quantify genomic chromatin structure from a protein-centric approach. PLAC-seq combines in situ Hi-C and chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP), which allows for the identi... | PLAC-Seq | Chemistry,Biology | 1,784 |
36,234,132 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichophaea%20woolhopeia | Trichophaea woolhopeia is a species complex of ectomycorrhizal fungi belonging to the family Pyronemataceae. There are at least 4 well-resolved cryptic species within the complex, including Quercirhiza quadratum and AD (Angle Droit). They are European species that appear on damp ground, with apothecial fruiting bodies... | Trichophaea woolhopeia | Biology | 148 |
7,802,744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret%20admirer | A secret admirer is an individual who feels adoration, fondness or love for another person without disclosing their identity to that person, and who might send gifts or love letters to their crush.
Grade school
The goal of a secret admirer is to woo the object of their affections, and then to reveal their identity, ... | Secret admirer | Biology | 300 |
23,909,605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanophora | Cyanophora is a genus of glaucophytes, a group of rare but evolutionarily significant freshwater microalgae.
It includes the following species:
Cyanophora biloba
Cyanophora cuspidata
Cyanophora kugrensii
Cyanophora paradoxa
Cyanophora sudae
Cyanophora tetracyanea
These species are differentiated based on cell s... | Cyanophora | Biology | 135 |
4,093,697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte%20Carlo%20localization | Monte Carlo localization (MCL), also known as particle filter localization, is an algorithm for robots to localize using a particle filter. Given a map of the environment, the algorithm estimates the position and orientation of a robot as it moves and senses the environment. The algorithm uses a particle filter to repr... | Monte Carlo localization | Physics | 2,113 |
64,019,016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplified%20magnetic%20resonance%20imaging | Amplified magnetic resonance imaging (aMRI) is an MRI method that is coupled with video magnification processing methods to amplify the subtle spatial variations in MRI scans and to enable better visualization of tissue motion. aMRI can enable better visualization of tissue motion to aid the in vivo assessment of the b... | Amplified magnetic resonance imaging | Chemistry | 390 |
59,784,486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Paule%20Kieny | Marie-Paule Kieny is a French virologist, vaccinologist, public health expert and science writer. She is currently director of research at INSERM and chief of the board at DNDi.
Education
Kieny completed her PhD in microbiology in 1980 at the University of Montpellier, and received her Habilitation à Diriger des Rech... | Marie-Paule Kieny | Biology | 819 |
252,009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical%20of%20an%20ideal | In ring theory, a branch of mathematics, the radical of an ideal of a commutative ring is another ideal defined by the property that an element is in the radical if and only if some power of is in . Taking the radical of an ideal is called radicalization. A radical ideal (or semiprime ideal) is an ideal that is equa... | Radical of an ideal | Mathematics | 1,039 |
38,439,167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution%20in%20the%20Valley | Revolution in the Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made is a nonfiction book written by Andy Hertzfeld about the birth of the Apple Macintosh personal computer. The author was a core member of the team that built the Macintosh system software and the chief creator of the Mac's radical new user interf... | Revolution in the Valley | Technology | 239 |
26,103,936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20Biological%20Detection%20System | The Integrated Biological Detection System is a system used by the British Army and Royal Air Force for detecting Chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear agents or elements.
The Integrated Biological Detection System can provide early warning of a chemical or biological warfare attack and is in service with th... | Integrated Biological Detection System | Chemistry,Biology,Environmental_science | 178 |
74,839,988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanifibranor | Lanifibranor is a pan-PPAR (peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor) receptor agonist and is the first medication that targets PPAR-alpha, PPAR-beta, and PPAR-gamma simultaneously. As of 2023, it is in a phase III trial for nonalcoholic steatohepatitis; its advantage over other drugs that are in phase III trials for... | Lanifibranor | Chemistry | 146 |
28,826,058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Mort%20de%20la%20Terre | The Death of the Earth (French: La Mort de la Terre) is a 1910 Belgian novel by J.-H. Rosny aîné.
Plot summary
In the far future, the Earth has become an immense, dry desert. Small communities of future humans, partially adapted to the harsher climate, survive united by the "Great Planetarium" communications web. The ... | La Mort de la Terre | Biology | 240 |
11,178,102 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20192310 | HD 192310 (also known as 5 G. Capricorni or Gliese 785) is a star in the southern constellation of Capricornus. It is located in the solar neighborhood at a distance of , and is within the range of luminosity needed to be viewed from the Earth with the unaided eye. (According to the Bortle scale, it can be viewed from ... | HD 192310 | Astronomy | 584 |
198,711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancidification | Rancidification is the process of complete or incomplete autoxidation or hydrolysis of fats and oils when exposed to air, light, moisture, or bacterial action, producing short-chain aldehydes, ketones and free fatty acids.
When these processes occur in food, undesirable odors and flavors can result. In processed meats... | Rancidification | Chemistry | 1,460 |
898,023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grivna | The grivna () was a currency as well as a measure of weight used in Kievan Rus' and other states in Eastern Europe from the 11th century.
Name
The word grivna is derived from from . In Old East Slavic, it had the form , grivĭna. In modern East Slavic languages it has such forms: , grivna, , hryvnia, , hryŭnia.
The ... | Grivna | Physics,Mathematics | 939 |
77,465,643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmethylselegiline | Desmethylselegiline (DMS), also known as norselegiline or as N-propargyl-L-amphetamine, is an active metabolite of selegiline, a medication used in the treatment of Parkinson's disease and depression.
Like selegiline, DMS is a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI); specifically, it is a selective and irreversible inhibit... | Desmethylselegiline | Chemistry | 1,177 |
25,896,348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper%E2%80%93tungsten | Copper–tungsten (tungsten–copper, CuW, or WCu) is a mixture of copper and tungsten. As copper and tungsten are not mutually soluble, the material is composed of distinct particles of one metal dispersed in a matrix of the other one. The microstructure is therefore rather a metal matrix composite instead of a true alloy... | Copper–tungsten | Chemistry | 1,059 |
70,030,960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paleo-inspiration | Paleo-inspiration is a paradigm shift that leads scientists and designers to draw inspiration from ancient materials (from art, archaeology, natural history or paleo-environments) to develop new systems or processes, particularly with a view to sustainability.
Paleo-inspiration has already contributed to numerous appl... | Paleo-inspiration | Physics,Materials_science,Engineering | 666 |
35,239,732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril%20Beeson | Cyril Frederick Cherrington Beeson CIE, D.Sc. (1889–1975) was an English entomologist and forest conservator who worked in India. Beeson was an expert on forest entomology who wrote numerous papers on insects, and whose book on Indian forest insects remains a standard work on the subject. After his retirement and retur... | Cyril Beeson | Physics | 1,377 |
7,900,534 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaspalast%20%28Munich%29 | The Glaspalast (Glass Palace) was a glass and iron exhibition building located in the Old botanical garden in Munich modeled after the Crystal Palace in London. The Glaspalast opened for the first General German Industrial Exhibition on 15 July 1854.
Planning
Following other examples around Europe, the Glaspalast was ... | Glaspalast (Munich) | Materials_science,Engineering | 1,119 |
50,702,547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective%20PPAR%20modulator | A selective PPAR modulator (SPPARM) is a selective receptor modulator of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor (PPAR). Examples include SPPARMs of the PPARγ, BADGE, EPI-001, INT-131, MK-0533, and S26948.
See also
PPAR agonist
References
PPAR agonists | Selective PPAR modulator | Chemistry | 80 |
22,219,418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/955%20acorn%20triode | The type 955 triode "acorn tube" is a small triode thermionic valve (vacuum tube in USA) designed primarily to operate at high frequency. Although data books specify an upper limit of 400–600 MHz, some circuits may obtain gain up to about 900 MHz. Interelectrode capacitances and Miller capacitances are minimized by t... | 955 acorn triode | Physics | 639 |
54,536,319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HPA-23 | HPA-23, sometimes known as antimonium tungstate, is an antiretroviral drug that was used for the treatment of HIV infection. It achieved widespread publicity as an effective treatment for HIV and AIDS beginning in 1984, just one year after HIV was first identified. Later testing failed to demonstrate any efficacy and s... | HPA-23 | Chemistry | 667 |
14,256,746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20Fornacis | Alpha Fornacis (α Fornacis, abbreviated Alpha For, α For) is a triple star system in the southern constellation of Fornax. It is the brightest star in the constellation and the only one brighter than magnitude 4.0. Based on parallax measurements obtained during the Hipparcos mission, it is approximately 46 light-years ... | Alpha Fornacis | Astronomy | 748 |
1,031,816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemokine | Chemokines (), or chemotactic cytokines, are a family of small cytokines or signaling proteins secreted by cells that induce directional movement of leukocytes, as well as other cell types, including endothelial and epithelial cells. In addition to playing a major role in the activation of host immune responses, chemok... | Chemokine | Chemistry,Biology | 3,655 |
448,518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heisenberg%20group | In mathematics, the Heisenberg group , named after Werner Heisenberg, is the group of 3×3 upper triangular matrices of the form
under the operation of matrix multiplication. Elements a, b and c can be taken from any commutative ring with identity, often taken to be the ring of real numbers (resulting in the "continuo... | Heisenberg group | Physics,Mathematics | 3,820 |
65,853,439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezospectroscopy | Piezospectroscopy (also known as photoluminescence piezospectroscopy) is an analytical technique that reveals internal stresses in alumina-containing materials, particularly thermal barrier coatings (TBCs). A typical procedure involves illuminating the sample with laser light of a known wavelength, causing the material... | Piezospectroscopy | Physics,Materials_science,Engineering | 1,167 |
72,671,951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cis-action | Cis-action or cis-acting is a vague term that, in general, means "an action on the same" in contrast to trans-action "an action on a different". In other words, the initiator of the action is affected by it. Cis-actions occur wherever circular dependencies are present. Most notably in:
biology, where it refers to lif... | Cis-action | Chemistry,Biology | 130 |
13,150,801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Client-side%20persistent%20data | Client-side persistent data or CSPD is a term used in computing for storing data required by web applications to complete internet tasks on the client-side as needed rather than exclusively on the server. As a framework it is one solution to the needs of Occasionally connected computing or OCC.
A major challenge for ... | Client-side persistent data | Technology | 177 |
1,962,960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-photon%20physics | Two-photon physics, also called gamma–gamma physics, is a branch of particle physics that describes the interactions between two photons. Normally, beams of light pass through each other unperturbed. Inside an optical material, and if the intensity of the beams is high enough, the beams may affect each other through a ... | Two-photon physics | Physics | 1,210 |
38,679,864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumping%20library | Jumping libraries or junction-fragment libraries are collections of genomic DNA fragments generated by chromosome jumping. These libraries allow the analysis of large areas of the genome and overcome distance limitations in common cloning techniques.
A jumping library clone is composed of two stretches of DNA that are ... | Jumping library | Chemistry,Biology | 2,743 |
4,372,153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Conquest%20of%20Space | The Conquest of Space is a 1949 speculative science book written by Willy Ley and illustrated by Chesley Bonestell. The book contains a portfolio of paintings by Bonestell depicting the possible future exploration of the Solar System, with explanatory text by Ley. Most of the 58 illustrations by Bonestell in Conquest, ... | The Conquest of Space | Astronomy | 331 |
650,677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molluscicide | Molluscicides () – also known as snail baits, snail pellets, or slug pellets – are pesticides against molluscs, which are usually used in agriculture or gardening, in order to control gastropod pests specifically slugs and snails which damage crops or other valued plants by feeding on them.
A number of chemicals can b... | Molluscicide | Biology | 402 |
53,248,722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%206801 | NGC 6801 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Cygnus. It was discovered by Lewis A. Swift on August 5, 1886.
Supernovae
In May 2011 a Type Ia supernova, 2011df, was detected in NGC 6801. 2015af, a Type II supernova was discovered in August 2015.
References
Unbarred spiral galaxies
Cygnus (constellation)
6801
0... | NGC 6801 | Astronomy | 88 |
35,205,666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinfeld%20reciprocity | In mathematics, Drinfeld reciprocity, introduced by , is a correspondence between eigenforms of the moduli space of Drinfeld modules and factors of the corresponding Jacobian variety, such that all twisted L-functions are the same.
References
. English translation in Math. USSR Sbornik 23 (1974) 561–592.
Modular fo... | Drinfeld reciprocity | Mathematics | 75 |
61,594,511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spheniscid%20alphaherpesvirus%201 | Spheniscid alphaherpesvirus 1 (SpAHV-1) is a species of virus in the genus Mardivirus, subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales.
References
Alphaherpesvirinae | Spheniscid alphaherpesvirus 1 | Biology | 57 |
70,847,519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Import%20One-Stop%20Shop | Import One-Stop Shop (IOSS or Import OSS) is an electronic one-stop shop (OSS) portal in the European Union (EU) which serves as a point of contact for the import of goods from third countries into the European Union. The scheme aims to simplify the declaration and payment of value-added tax when importing goods into t... | Import One-Stop Shop | Technology | 1,455 |
14,323,258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hepatocyte%20nuclear%20factor%204%20gamma |
Hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 gamma (HNF4G) also known as NR2A2 (nuclear receptor subfamily 2, group A, member 2) is a nuclear receptor that in humans is encoded by the HNF4G gene.
Function
HNF4G is a transcription factor that has been shown to play a significant role in intestinal epithelial cell differentiation and ... | Hepatocyte nuclear factor 4 gamma | Chemistry,Biology | 202 |
51,906,100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ts15 | Ts15 (Tityustoxin-15; α-KTx 21.1) is produced by the Brazilian yellow scorpion Tityus serrulatus. It targets voltage-gated potassium channels, primarily the subtypes Kv1.2 and Kv1.3.
Sources
Ts15 can be isolated from the venom of Tityus serrulatus, otherwise known as the Brazilian yellow scorpion. It is the deadliest ... | Ts15 | Chemistry | 533 |
956,089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marburgvirus | The genus Marburgvirus is the taxonomic home of Marburg marburgvirus, whose members are the two known marburgviruses, Marburg virus (MARV) and Ravn virus (RAVV). Both viruses cause Marburg virus disease in humans and nonhuman primates, a form of viral hemorrhagic fever. Both are select agents, World Health Organizat... | Marburgvirus | Biology,Environmental_science | 876 |
62,480,458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidorenko%27s%20conjecture | Sidorenko's conjecture is a major conjecture in the field of extremal graph theory, posed by Alexander Sidorenko in 1986. Roughly speaking, the conjecture states that for any bipartite graph and graph on vertices with average degree , there are at least labeled copies of in , up to a small error term. Formally, it... | Sidorenko's conjecture | Mathematics | 1,988 |
3,110,216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omicron%20Piscium | Omicron Piscium (ο Piscium, abbreviated Omi Psc, ο Psc) is a binary star in the constellation of Pisces. It is visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 4.27. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 11.67 mas as seen from the Earth, the system is located roughly 280 light-years from the Sun. It is... | Omicron Piscium | Astronomy | 613 |
1,840,072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20rage | Computer rage refers to negative psychological responses towards a computer due to heightened anger or frustration. Examples of computer rage include cursing or yelling at a computer, slamming or throwing a keyboard or a mouse, and assaulting the computer or monitor with an object or weapon.
Notable cases
In April 20... | Computer rage | Technology | 1,615 |
1,274,727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridgman%20seal | A Bridgman seal, invented by and named after Percy Williams Bridgman, can be used to seal a pressure chamber and compress its contents to high pressures (up to 40,000 MPa), without the seal leaking and releasing the pressure
A cylindrical driving piston is mounted within a cylindrical channel that is closed at its far... | Bridgman seal | Physics | 456 |
4,579,933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20energy%20transfer | In dosimetry, linear energy transfer (LET) is the amount of energy that an ionizing particle transfers to the material traversed per unit distance. It describes the action of radiation into matter.
It is identical to the retarding force acting on a charged ionizing particle travelling through the matter. By definition... | Linear energy transfer | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering,Biology | 1,927 |
72,440,211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik%20Ernst | Erik Ernst is a prominent computer scientist and an associate professor at the University of Aarhus in Denmark. In 2010, he won the Dahl-Nygaard Prize.
External links
References
Danish computer scientists
Living people
Dahl–Nygaard Prize
Academic staff of Aarhus University
Year of birth missing (living people) | Erik Ernst | Technology | 59 |
47,701,231 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer%20set%20library | isl (integer set library) is a portable C library for manipulating sets and relations of integer points bounded by linear constraints.
The following operations are supported:
intersection, union, set difference
emptiness check
convex hull
(integer) affine hull
integer projection
computing the lexicographic minim... | Integer set library | Mathematics | 267 |
31,385,296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacterial%20taxonomy | Bacterial taxonomy is subfield of taxonomy devoted to the classification of bacteria specimens into taxonomic ranks. Archaeal taxonomy are governed by the same rules.
In the scientific classification established by Carl Linnaeus, each species is assigned to a genus resulting in a two-part name. This name denotes the t... | Bacterial taxonomy | Biology | 8,070 |
7,132,704 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre%20multi-object%20spectrograph | Fibre multi-object spectrograph (FMOS) is facility instrument for the Subaru Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii. The instrument consists of a complex fibre-optic positioning system mounted at the prime focus of the telescope. Fibres are then fed to a pair of large spectrographs, each weighing nearly 3000 kg. The instrume... | Fibre multi-object spectrograph | Physics,Chemistry,Astronomy,Technology,Engineering | 317 |
63,584,864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copulas%20in%20signal%20processing | A copula is a mathematical function that provides a relationship between marginal distributions of random variables and their joint distributions. Copulas are important because it represents a dependence structure without using marginal distributions. Copulas have been widely used in the field of finance, but their use... | Copulas in signal processing | Technology,Engineering | 703 |
17,134,535 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicon%20tetrabromide | Silicon tetrabromide, also known as tetrabromosilane, is the inorganic compound with the formula SiBr4. This colorless liquid has a suffocating odor due to its tendency to hydrolyze with release of hydrogen bromide. The general properties of silicon tetrabromide closely resemble those of the more commonly used silico... | Silicon tetrabromide | Chemistry | 990 |
58,647,164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katharina%20Boll-Dornberger | Katharina Boll-Dornberger (2 November 1909 – 27 July 1981), also known as Käte Dornberger-Schiff, was an Austrian-German physicist and crystallographer. She is known for her work on order-disorder structures.
Life
Katharina Boll-Dornberger was born in Vienna in 1909 as the daughter of the university professor and Ali... | Katharina Boll-Dornberger | Chemistry,Materials_science | 560 |
44,163,266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klee%20diagram | Klee diagrams, named for their resemblance to paintings by Paul Klee, are false-colour maps that represent a way of assembling and viewing large genomic datasets. Contemporary research has produced genomic databases for an enormous range of life forms, inviting insights into the genetic basis of biodiversity.
Indicato... | Klee diagram | Biology | 160 |
1,793,092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabric%20softener | A fabric softener (American English) or fabric conditioner (British English) is a conditioner applied to laundry after it has been washed in a washing machine. A similar, more dilute preparation meant to be applied to dry fabric is known as a wrinkle releaser.
Fabric softeners reduce the harsh feel of items dried in o... | Fabric softener | Chemistry | 1,366 |
2,338,241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanczos%20resampling | Lanczos filtering and Lanczos resampling are two applications of a certain mathematical formula. It can be used as a low-pass filter or used to smoothly interpolate the value of a digital signal between its samples. In the latter case, it maps each sample of the given signal to a translated and scaled copy of the Lanc... | Lanczos resampling | Technology,Engineering | 1,433 |
29,172,014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma%20Comae%20Berenices | Gamma Comae Berenices, Latinized from γ Comae Berenices, is a single, orange-hued star in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices. It is faintly visible to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 4.36. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 19.50 mas as seen from Earth, its distance can be estimated ... | Gamma Comae Berenices | Astronomy | 292 |
898,605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain%20sensor | A rain sensor or rain switch is a switching device activated
by rainfall. There are two main applications for rain sensors. The first is a water conservation device connected to an automatic irrigation system that causes the system to shut down in the event of rainfall. The second is a device used to protect the inter... | Rain sensor | Technology,Engineering | 836 |
6,104,628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothenburg%20International%20Bioscience%20Business%20School | Gothenburg International Bioscience Business School (GIBBS) is in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The education is a collaboration between Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University and Chalmers University of Technology and is a part of the Center for Intellectual Property Studies, CIP. Most of the collaboration is during the fir... | Gothenburg International Bioscience Business School | Biology | 114 |
38,041,270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%20Systems | Mercury Systems, Inc. is a technology company serving the aerospace and defense industry. It designs, develops and manufactures open architecture computer hardware and software products, including secure embedded processing modules and subsystems, avionics mission computers and displays, rugged secure computer servers,... | Mercury Systems | Physics,Technology,Engineering | 600 |
52,149,903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrix%20Cloud | Citrix Cloud is a cloud management platform that allows organizations to deploy cloud-hosted desktops and apps to end users. It was developed by Citrix Systems and released in 2015.
Overview
Citrix Cloud is a cloud-based platform for managing and deploying Citrix products and desktops and applications to end users usi... | Citrix Cloud | Technology | 657 |
30,553,668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%2084117 | HD 84117 is a F-type main sequence star in the constellation of Hydra. It has an apparent visual magnitude of approximately 4.94.
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Durchmusterung objects | HD 84117 | Astronomy | 67 |
22,245,489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodama%20state | The Kodama state in physics for loop quantum gravity, is a zero energy solution to the Schrödinger equation (a linear partial differential equation that governs the wave function of a quantum-mechanical system).
In 1988, Hideo Kodama wrote down the equations of the Kodama state, but as it described a positive (de Sitt... | Kodama state | Physics | 371 |
1,804,457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bornological%20space | In mathematics, particularly in functional analysis, a bornological space is a type of space which, in some sense, possesses the minimum amount of structure needed to address questions of boundedness of sets and linear maps, in the same way that a topological space possesses the minimum amount of structure needed to ad... | Bornological space | Mathematics | 2,570 |
27,546,886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value%20sensitive%20design | Value sensitive design (VSD) is a theoretically grounded approach to the design of technology that accounts for human values in a principled and comprehensive manner. VSD originated within the field of information systems design and human-computer interaction to address design issues within the fields by emphasizing th... | Value sensitive design | Technology,Engineering | 2,217 |
70,395,393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20179886 | HD 179886 (HR 7289) is a binary star located in the southern constellation Telescopium. It has a combined apparent magnitude of 5.37, making it faintly visible to the naked eye if viewed under ideal conditions. The system is situated at a distance of 700 light years but is receding with a heliocentric radial velocity o... | HD 179886 | Astronomy | 263 |
44,970,384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrical%20transcription | Electrical transcriptions are special phonograph recordings made exclusively for radio broadcasting, which were widely used during the "Golden Age of Radio". They provided material—from station-identification jingles and commercials to full-length programs—for use by local stations, which were affiliates of one of the ... | Electrical transcription | Technology | 4,829 |
74,454,680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Watch%206 | The Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 (stylized as Samsung Galaxy Watch6) is a series of Wear OS-based smartwatches developed by Samsung Electronics. It was announced on July 26, 2023 at Samsung's biannual Galaxy Unpacked event in Seoul, South Korea, making it the first such release held in the company's home country. The watches... | Samsung Galaxy Watch 6 | Technology | 108 |
4,774,419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herpes%20simplex%20virus | Herpes simplex virus 1 (cold sores) and 2 (genital herpes) (HSV-1 and HSV-2), also known by their taxonomic names Human alphaherpesvirus 1 and Human alphaherpesvirus 2, are two members of the human Herpesviridae family, a set of viruses that produce viral infections in the majority of humans. Both HSV-1 and HSV-2 are v... | Herpes simplex virus | Biology | 5,994 |
13,778,073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Developmental-behavioral%20surveillance%20and%20screening | Early detection of children with developmental-behavioral delays and disabilities is essential to ensure that the benefits of early intervention are maximized.
Background
Early intervention has been proven to help prevent school failure, reduce the need for expensive special education services, is associated with grad... | Developmental-behavioral surveillance and screening | Biology | 2,614 |
3,094,328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tight%20binding | In solid-state physics, the tight-binding model (or TB model) is an approach to the calculation of electronic band structure using an approximate set of wave functions based upon superposition of wave functions for isolated atoms located at each atomic site. The method is closely related to the LCAO method (linear comb... | Tight binding | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science | 3,471 |
1,363,291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical%20device | A medical device is any device intended to be used for medical purposes. Significant potential for hazards are inherent when using a device for medical purposes and thus medical devices must be proved safe and effective with reasonable assurance before regulating governments allow marketing of the device in their count... | Medical device | Biology | 8,136 |
76,844,678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGC%209684 | UGC 9684 is a barred spiral galaxy with a ring structure in the Boötes constellation. It is located 250 million light-years from the Solar System and has an approximate diameter of 90,000 light-years.
The luminosity class of UGC 9684 is I-II and it is classified as an active star-forming galaxy according to a study pu... | UGC 9684 | Astronomy | 1,046 |
30,659,735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Terrorism%20Advisory%20System | The National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) is a terrorism threat advisory scale used by the US Department of Homeland Security since April 26, 2011.
The NTAS is the replacement for the often-criticized, color-coded Homeland Security Advisory System introduced by the George W. Bush administration in 2002. Janet Nap... | National Terrorism Advisory System | Technology | 971 |
76,222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flaviviridae | Flaviviridae is a family of enveloped positive-strand RNA viruses which mainly infect mammals and birds. They are primarily spread through arthropod vectors (mainly ticks and mosquitoes). The family gets its name from the yellow fever virus; flavus is Latin for "yellow", and yellow fever in turn was named because of it... | Flaviviridae | Biology | 1,190 |
19,249,767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip%20hip%20hooray | Hip hip hooray (also hippity hip hooray; hooray may also be spelled and pronounced hoorah, hurrah, hurray etc.) is a cheer called out to express congratulation toward someone or something, in the English-speaking world and elsewhere, usually given three times.
By a sole speaker, it is a form of interjection. In a grou... | Hip hip hooray | Biology | 522 |
5,168,898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choi%27s%20theorem%20on%20completely%20positive%20maps | In mathematics, Choi's theorem on completely positive maps is a result that classifies completely positive maps between finite-dimensional (matrix) C*-algebras. An infinite-dimensional algebraic generalization of Choi's theorem is known as Belavkin's "Radon–Nikodym" theorem for completely positive maps.
Statement
Cho... | Choi's theorem on completely positive maps | Mathematics | 1,073 |
38,143,080 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobileye | Mobileye Global Inc. is a United States-domiciled, Israel-headquartered autonomous driving company. It is developing self-driving technologies and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) including cameras, computer chips, and software. Mobileye was acquired by Intel in 2017 and went public again in 2022.
History
Mob... | Mobileye | Technology,Engineering | 1,915 |
63,346,757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Npj%202D%20Materials%20and%20Applications | npj 2D Materials and Applications, is an open access peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Nature Publishing Group. It focuses on 2D materials (such as thin films), including fundamental behaviour, synthesis, properties and applications.
According to the Journal Citation Reports, npj 2D Materials and Applicati... | Npj 2D Materials and Applications | Materials_science,Engineering | 265 |
15,462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral%20domain | In mathematics, an integral domain is a nonzero commutative ring in which the product of any two nonzero elements is nonzero. Integral domains are generalizations of the ring of integers and provide a natural setting for studying divisibility. In an integral domain, every nonzero element a has the cancellation propert... | Integral domain | Mathematics | 2,191 |
285,967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situated%20ethics | Situated ethics, often confused with situational ethics, is a view of applied ethics in which abstract standards from a culture or theory are considered to be far less important than the ongoing processes in which one is personally and physically involved, e.g. climate, ecosystem, etc. It is one of several theories of... | Situated ethics | Biology | 398 |
62,548,396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20metallurgy%20in%20Mosul | During the thirteenth century, Mosul, Iraq became home to a school of luxury metalwork which rose to international renown. Artifacts classified as Mosul are some of the most intricately designed and revered pieces of the Middle Ages.
Background
The school of metalwork in Mosul is believed to have been founded in the... | History of metallurgy in Mosul | Chemistry,Materials_science | 1,472 |
735,661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterrence%20theory | Deterrence theory refers to the scholarship and practice of how threats of using force by one party can convince another party to refrain from initiating some other course of action. The topic gained increased prominence as a military strategy during the Cold War with regard to the use of nuclear weapons and is related... | Deterrence theory | Chemistry | 7,273 |
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