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15,897,912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%20Cephei | T Cephei is a Mira variable star in the constellation Cepheus. Located approximately distant, it varies between magnitudes 5.2 and 11.3 over a period of around 388 days. When it is near its maximum brightness, it is faintly visible to the naked eye under good observing conditions.
Vitold Ceraski announced his discove... | T Cephei | Astronomy | 271 |
52,136,480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeletocutis%20amorpha | Skeletocutis amorpha is a species of poroid fungus in the family Polyporaceae, and the type species of the genus Skeletocutis.
Taxonomy
The fungus was first described as new to science in 1815 by Elias Magnus Fries as Polyporus amorphus. It has since acquired an extensive synonymy. Czech mycologists František Kotlába... | Skeletocutis amorpha | Biology | 263 |
7,299,890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20semantics | Structural semantics (also structuralist semantics) is a linguistic school and paradigm that emerged in Europe from the 1930s, inspired by the structuralist linguistic movement started by Ferdinand de Saussure's 1916 work "Cours De Linguistique Generale" (A Course in General Linguistics).
Examples of approaches withi... | Structural semantics | Mathematics | 455 |
174,721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village%20green | A village green is a common open area within a village or other settlement. Historically, a village green was common grassland with a pond for watering cattle and other stock, often at the edge of a rural settlement, used for gathering cattle to bring them later on to a common land for grazing. Later, planned greens we... | Village green | Biology | 1,756 |
6,148,242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnalium | Magnalium is an aluminium alloy with 50% magnesium and 50% aluminum.
Properties
Alloys with small amounts of magnesium (about 5%) exhibit greater strength, greater corrosion resistance, and lower density than pure aluminium. Such alloys are also more workable and easier to weld than pure aluminum. Alloys with high amo... | Magnalium | Chemistry | 527 |
21,890,097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multilinear%20polynomial | In algebra, a multilinear polynomial is a multivariate polynomial that is linear (meaning affine) in each of its variables separately, but not necessarily simultaneously. It is a polynomial in which no variable occurs to a power of or higher; that is, each monomial is a constant times a product of distinct variables. ... | Multilinear polynomial | Mathematics | 1,005 |
73,192,304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20170873 | HD 170873, also known as HR 6954 or rarely 19 G. Telescopii, is a solitary orange-hued star located in the southern constellation Telescopium. It has an apparent magnitude of 6.20, placing it near the limit for naked eye visibility. Gaia DR3 parallax measurements imply a distance of 551 light years and it is currently ... | HD 170873 | Astronomy | 274 |
71,515,469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucocoprinus%20magnusianus | Leucocoprinus magnusianus is a species of mushroom producing fungus in the family Agaricaceae.
Taxonomy
It was first described in 1891 by the German mycologist Paul Christoph Hennings who classified it as Lepiota magnusiana.
The German mycologist Rolf Singer reclassified it as Hiatula magnusiana in 1943 and then as ... | Leucocoprinus magnusianus | Biology | 316 |
833,572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal%20ballistics | Internal ballistics (also interior ballistics), a subfield of ballistics, is the study of the propulsion of a projectile.
In guns, internal ballistics covers the time from the propellant's ignition until the projectile exits the gun barrel. The study of internal ballistics is important to designers and users of firear... | Internal ballistics | Physics | 7,472 |
69,445,009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocean%20surface%20ecosystem | Organisms that live freely at the ocean surface, termed neuston, include keystone organisms like the golden seaweed Sargassum that makes up the Sargasso Sea, floating barnacles, marine snails, nudibranchs, and cnidarians. Many ecologically and economically important fish species live as or rely upon neuston. Species at... | Ocean surface ecosystem | Biology | 3,891 |
19,986,969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rise%20and%20Resurrection%20of%20the%20American%20Programmer | Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer is a book written by Edward Yourdon in 1996. It is the sequel to Decline and Fall of the American Programmer.
Synopsis
In the original, written at the beginning of the 1990s, Yourdon warned American programmers that their business was not sustainable against foreign co... | Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer | Technology,Engineering | 154 |
26,412,383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GraphCrunch | GraphCrunch is a comprehensive, parallelizable, and easily extendible open source software tool for analyzing and modeling large biological networks (or graphs); it compares real-world networks against a series of random graph models with respect to a multitude of local and global network properties. It is available he... | GraphCrunch | Mathematics | 580 |
69,627,448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20epidemiology | Acoustic epidemiology refers to the study of the determinants and distribution of disease. It also refers to the analysis of sounds produced by the body (coughs, sneezes, wheezing, etc.) through a single tool or a combination of diagnostic tools.
In many cases, epidemiologists have worked across multiple disciplines a... | Acoustic epidemiology | Environmental_science | 756 |
30,871,887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spikenard | Spikenard, also called nard, nardin, and muskroot, is a class of aromatic amber-colored essential oil derived from Nardostachys jatamansi, a flowering plant in the honeysuckle family which grows in the Himalayas of Nepal, China, and India. The oil has been used over centuries as a perfume, a traditional medicine, or in... | Spikenard | Physics | 1,080 |
18,521,939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaeopascichnus | Palaeopascichnus is an Ediacaran fossil comprising a series of lobes, first originating before the Gaskiers glaciation; it is plausibly a protozoan, but probably unrelated to the classical 'Ediacaran biota'. Once thought to represent a trace fossil, it is now recognized as a body fossil and corresponds to the skeleton... | Palaeopascichnus | Biology | 117 |
57,005,722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRENDnet | TRENDnet is a global manufacturer of computer networking products headquartered in Torrance, California, in the United States. It sells networking and surveillance products especially in the small to medium business (SMB) and home user market segments.
History
The company was founded in 1990 by Pei Huang and Peggy Hu... | TRENDnet | Technology,Engineering | 170 |
4,367,479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atkinson%20resistance | Atkinson resistance is commonly used in mine ventilation to characterise the resistance to airflow of a duct of irregular size and shape, such as a mine roadway. It has the symbol and is used in the square law for pressure drop,
where (in English units)
is pressure drop (pounds per square foot),
is the air densi... | Atkinson resistance | Chemistry,Engineering | 1,148 |
38,782,187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C7H10O | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C7H10O}}
The molecular formula C7H10O (molar mass: 110.15 g/mol, exact mass: 110.0732 u) may refer to:
Norcamphor
Tetrahydrobenzaldehyde, or 1,2,3,6-Tetrahydrobenzaldehyde
Molecular formulas | C7H10O | Physics,Chemistry | 80 |
37,630,116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information-centric%20networking | Information-centric networking (ICN) is an approach to evolve the Internet infrastructure away from a host-centric paradigm, based on perpetual connectivity and the end-to-end principle, to a network architecture in which the focal point is identified information (or content or data). Some of the application areas of I... | Information-centric networking | Technology,Engineering | 326 |
5,863,735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonky%20hole | Wonky hole is a colloquial, Australian term for a submarine groundwater discharge, a freshwater spring flowing from the seabed.
Geography
Wonky holes are found in the Great Barrier Reef and the Gulf of Carpentaria, both in Queensland. Wonky holes can be found in the coral reef up to offshore.
Geology
Wonky holes are... | Wonky hole | Chemistry,Engineering,Environmental_science | 314 |
3,680,074 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procrustes%20analysis | In statistics, Procrustes analysis is a form of statistical shape analysis used to analyse the distribution of a set of shapes. The name Procrustes () refers to a bandit from Greek mythology who made his victims fit his bed either by stretching their limbs or cutting them off.
In mathematics:
an orthogonal Procrustes... | Procrustes analysis | Physics,Mathematics | 1,888 |
16,312,085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hu%E2%80%93Washizu%20principle | In continuum mechanics, and in particular in finite element analysis, the Hu–Washizu principle is a variational principle which says that the action
is stationary, where is the elastic stiffness tensor. The Hu–Washizu principle is used to develop mixed finite element methods. The principle is named after Hu Haichang ... | Hu–Washizu principle | Physics,Mathematics,Engineering | 160 |
23,309,403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanging%20garden | A hanging garden is a form of sustainable landscape architecture that can take several different forms, such as roof gardens, but is generally defined as a garden planted at a suspended or elevated position off the ground. These gardens are created with walls, fences, planted on terraces, growing from cliffs, or anythi... | Hanging garden | Engineering,Environmental_science | 812 |
16,764,192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill%20differential%20equation | In mathematics, the Hill equation or Hill differential equation is the second-order linear ordinary differential equation
where is a periodic function with minimal period and average zero. By these we mean that for all
and
and if is a number with , the equation must fail for some . It is named after George Will... | Hill differential equation | Mathematics | 277 |
2,686,467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tryptone | Tryptone is the assortment of peptides formed by the digestion of casein by the protease trypsin.
Tryptone is commonly used in microbiology to produce lysogeny broth (LB) for the growth of E. coli and other microorganisms. It provides a source of amino acids for the growing bacteria. Tryptone is similar to casamino a... | Tryptone | Chemistry | 178 |
5,359,115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Egyptian%20Museum | The Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM; al-Matḥaf al-Maṣriyy al-Kabīr), also known as the Giza Museum, is an archaeological museum under construction in Giza, Egypt, about from the Giza pyramid complex. The Museum will host over 100,000 artifacts from ancient Egyptian civilization, including the complete Tutankhamun collecti... | Grand Egyptian Museum | Engineering | 1,806 |
30,856,828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volvopluteus%20gloiocephalus | Volvopluteus gloiocephalus, commonly known as the big sheath mushroom, rose-gilled grisette, or stubble rosegill, is a species of mushroom in the family Pluteaceae. For most of the 20th century it has been known under the names Volvariella gloiocephala or V. speciosa, but recent molecular studies have placed it as the ... | Volvopluteus gloiocephalus | Biology | 2,068 |
597,844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levitation%20%28physics%29 | Levitation (from Latin , ) is the process by which an object is held aloft in a stable position, without mechanical support via any physical contact.
Levitation is accomplished by providing an upward force that counteracts the pull of gravity (in relation to gravity on earth), plus a smaller stabilizing force that pus... | Levitation (physics) | Physics | 1,260 |
7,824,361 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware-in-the-loop%20simulation | Hardware-in-the-loop (HIL) simulation, also known by various acronyms such as HiL, HITL, and HWIL, is a technique that is used in the development and testing of complex real-time embedded systems. HIL simulation provides an effective testing platform by adding the complexity of the process-actuator system, known as a p... | Hardware-in-the-loop simulation | Technology,Engineering | 2,174 |
48,048,702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond%20Natural%20Selection | Beyond Natural Selection is a 1991 book by Robert G. Wesson, published by MIT Press.
Wesson argues for the case of pluralism in biology. He suggests alternative mechanisms of evolution rather than natural selection. Wesson argues that reductionism is inadequate and looks for chaos theory as an example of a different a... | Beyond Natural Selection | Biology | 366 |
58,504,805 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm%203D%20printing | Swarm 3D printing or cooperative 3D printing or swarm manufacturing is a digital manufacturing platform that employs a swarm of mobile robots with different functionalities to work together to print and assemble products based on digital designs. A digital design is first divided into smaller chunks and components base... | Swarm 3D printing | Technology | 347 |
20,785,437 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molecular%20Frontiers%20Foundation | The Molecular Frontiers Foundation (MFF) was founded under the auspices of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 2007 by Bengt Nordén, a professor of physical chemistry at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden and the former chair of the Nobel Committee for Chemistry. Part of the mission of MFF according to No... | Molecular Frontiers Foundation | Chemistry | 440 |
45,214,668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WRKY%20transcription%20factor | WRKY transcription factors (pronounced ‘worky’) are proteins that bind DNA. They are transcription factors that regulate many processes in plants and algae (Viridiplantae), such as the responses to biotic and abiotic stresses, senescence, seed dormancy and seed germination and some developmental processes but also cont... | WRKY transcription factor | Chemistry,Biology | 3,133 |
36,420,451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible-deactivation%20radical%20polymerization | In polymer chemistry, reversible-deactivation radical polymerizations (RDRPs) are members of the class of reversible-deactivation polymerizations which exhibit much of the character of living polymerizations, but cannot be categorized as such as they are not without chain transfer or chain termination reactions.
Sever... | Reversible-deactivation radical polymerization | Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 3,429 |
55,723,137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Na%20Dae-yong | Na Dae-yong (; 1556 – January 29, 1612) was a Korean naval officer who fought against the Japanese navy in Imjin War and was also known as a designer of the turtle ship.
Biography
Na Dae-yong was born in Jeolla-do of Naju, passed the military examination in 1583, worked as a Hullyeonwon Bongsa (), and was promoted t... | Na Dae-yong | Engineering | 1,608 |
28,300,822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplier%20ideal | In commutative algebra, the multiplier ideal associated to a sheaf of ideals over a complex variety and a real number c consists (locally) of the functions h such that
is locally integrable, where the fi are a finite set of local generators of the ideal. Multiplier ideals were independently introduced by (who work... | Multiplier ideal | Mathematics | 259 |
56,576,360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malacidin | Malacidins are a class of chemicals made by bacteria found in soil that can kill Gram-positive bacteria. Their activity appears to be dependent on calcium. The discovery of malacidins was published in 2018.
The malacidin family were discovered using a new method of soil microbiome screening that does not require cell ... | Malacidin | Biology | 894 |
34,346,779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20contagion%20process | In applied probability, a dynamic contagion process is a point process with stochastic intensity that generalises the Hawkes process and Cox process with exponentially decaying shot noise intensity.
See also
Point process
Cox process
Doubly stochastic model
References
Point processes | Dynamic contagion process | Mathematics | 56 |
4,859,028 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-lift%20drag%20coefficient | In aerodynamics, the zero-lift drag coefficient is a dimensionless parameter which relates an aircraft's zero-lift drag force to its size, speed, and flying altitude.
Mathematically, zero-lift drag coefficient is defined as , where is the total drag coefficient for a given power, speed, and altitude, and is the lif... | Zero-lift drag coefficient | Chemistry,Engineering | 563 |
50,997,707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Control%20Dam | The International Control Dam, also known as the International Control Structure, operated by Ontario Power Generation, is a weir that controls the water diversions from the Niagara River and dispatches the water between the New York Power Authority and Ontario Power Generation in accordance with the terms of the 1950 ... | International Control Dam | Environmental_science | 465 |
26,563,427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma%20shaping | Magnetically confined fusion plasmas such as those generated in tokamaks and stellarators are characterized by a typical shape. Plasma shaping is the study of the plasma shape in such devices, and is particularly important for next step fusion devices such as ITER. This shape is conditioning partly the performance of t... | Plasma shaping | Physics,Chemistry | 716 |
2,296,161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquarius%20Dwarf | The Aquarius Dwarf is a dwarf irregular galaxy, first catalogued in 1959 by the DDO survey. It is located within the boundaries of the constellation of Aquarius. It is a member of the Local Group of galaxies, albeit an extremely isolated one; it is one of only a few known Local Group members for which a past close appr... | Aquarius Dwarf | Astronomy | 301 |
6,118,308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly%20Vlasov | Anatoly Aleksandrovich Vlasov (; – 22 December 1975) was a Russian, later Soviet, theoretical physicist prominent in the fields of statistical mechanics, kinetics, and especially in plasma physics.
Biography
Anatoly Vlasov was born in Balashov, in the family of a steamfitter. In 1927 he entered into the Moscow State ... | Anatoly Vlasov | Physics | 800 |
14,119,857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NFATC2 | Nuclear factor of activated T-cells, cytoplasmic 2 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the NFATC2 gene.
Function
This gene is a member of the nuclear factor of activated T cells (NFAT) family. The product of this gene is a DNA-binding protein with a REL-homology region (RHR) and an NFAT-homology region (NHR). ... | NFATC2 | Chemistry,Biology | 308 |
200,690 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20container | A web container (also known as a servlet container;
and compare "webcontainer") is the component of a web server that interacts with Jakarta Servlets. A web container is responsible for managing the lifecycle of servlets, mapping a URL to a particular servlet and ensuring that the URL requester has the correct access-r... | Web container | Technology,Engineering | 490 |
5,813,192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDK-activating%20kinase | CDK-activating kinase (CAK) activates the cyclin-CDK complex by phosphorylating threonine residue 160 in the CDK activation loop. CAK itself is a member of the Cdk family and functions as a positive regulator of Cdk1, Cdk2, Cdk4, and Cdk6.
Catalytic activity
Cdk activation requires two steps. First, cyclin must bind... | CDK-activating kinase | Biology | 1,703 |
23,314,803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scout%20X-1A | Scout X-1A was an American sounding rocket which was flown in 1962. It was a five-stage derivative of the earlier Scout X-1, with an uprated first stage, and a NOTS-17 upper stage.
The Scout X-1A used an Algol 1C first stage, instead of the earlier Algol 1B used on the Scout X-1. The second, third and fourth stages w... | Scout X-1A | Astronomy | 215 |
2,472,625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Accessible%20Information%20System | Digital accessible information system (DAISY) is a technical standard for digital audiobooks, periodicals, and computerized text. DAISY is designed to be a complete audio substitute for print material and is specifically designed for use by people with print disabilities, including blindness, impaired vision, and dysle... | Digital Accessible Information System | Technology | 1,114 |
23,189,698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geastrum%20fimbriatum | Geastrum fimbriatum, commonly known as the fringed earthstar or the sessile earthstar, is an inedible species of mushroom belonging to the genus Geastrum, or earthstar fungi.
First described in 1829, it is distinguished from other earthstars by the delicate fibers that line the circular pore at the top of its spore sa... | Geastrum fimbriatum | Biology | 585 |
5,518,588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Chloro-9%2C10-bis%28phenylethynyl%29anthracene | 1-Chloro-9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene is a fluorescent dye used in lightsticks. It emits yellow-green light, used in 30-minute high-intensity Cyalume sticks.
See also
9,10-Bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene
2-Chloro-9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene
References
Fluorescent dyes
Organic semiconductors
Anthracenes
Alkyn... | 1-Chloro-9,10-bis(phenylethynyl)anthracene | Chemistry | 115 |
7,127,688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nest%20%28magazine%29 | Nest: A Quarterly of Interiors was a magazine published from 1997 to 2004, for a total run of 26 issues. The first issue was Fall 1997, and the second issue was Fall 1998. Thereafter, the issues were Winter '98-'99, Spring '99, Summer '99, Fall '99, Winter '99-'00, and so on until Fall '04. The founder was Joseph Holtz... | Nest (magazine) | Engineering | 456 |
457,830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excess-3 | Excess-3, 3-excess or 10-excess-3 binary code (often abbreviated as XS-3, 3XS or X3), shifted binary or Stibitz code (after George Stibitz, who built a relay-based adding machine in 1937) is a self-complementary binary-coded decimal (BCD) code and numeral system. It is a biased representation. Excess-3 code was used on... | Excess-3 | Mathematics | 1,101 |
35,051,436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acriflavine%20resistance%20protein%20family | The Escherichia coli Acriflavine resistance (acrA and acrB genes) encode a multi-drug efflux system that is believed to protect the bacterium against hydrophobic inhibitors. The E. coli AcrB protein is a transporter that is energized by proton-motive force and that shows the widest substrate specificity among all know... | Acriflavine resistance protein family | Biology | 406 |
8,923,567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Jones%20Presents%20the%20Pipes%20of%20Pan%20at%20Joujouka | Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka is an album by the Moroccan group the Master Musicians of Joujouka, released on Rolling Stones Records and distributed by Atco Records in 1971. It was produced by Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, who recorded a performance by the group on 29 July 1968 in the village o... | Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka | Engineering | 2,754 |
18,711,902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Standards%20of%20the%20People%27s%20Republic%20of%20China | The National Standards of the People's Republic of China (), coded as , are the standards issued by the Standardization Administration of China under the authorization of Article 10 of the Standardization Law of the People's Republic of China.
According to Article 2 of the Standardization Law, national standards are d... | National Standards of the People's Republic of China | Mathematics | 658 |
35,688,291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Cooperative%20Biodiversity%20Groups | International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups (or ICBG) is a program under National Institutes of Health, National Science Foundation and USAID established in 1993 to promote collaborative research between American universities and research institutions in countries that harbor unique genetic resource in the form of bi... | International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups | Biology | 262 |
18,604,665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentosan | Pentosans are polymers composed of pentoses. In contrast to cellulose, which is composed of hexose (glucose) monomers, pentosans are derived from five-carbon sugars such as xylose. Pentosan-rich biomass is the precursor to furfural.
The pentosan content has been determined for many natural materials:
29-25%: oat hulls... | Pentosan | Chemistry | 232 |
31,746,419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boletellus%20chrysenteroides | Boletellus chrysenteroides is a species of fungus in the family Boletaceae. It was first described as Boletus chrysenteroides by mycologist Wally Snell in 1936. Snell later (1941) transferred the species to Boletellus.
See also
List of North American boletes
References
Fungi of North America
chrysenteroides
Fungi de... | Boletellus chrysenteroides | Biology | 81 |
42,553,031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beihai%20Tunnel%20%28Beigan%29 | The Beihai Tunnel () is a tunnel in Banli village, Beigan Township, Lienchiang County, Taiwan.
History
The tunnel was opened in 1968 for amphibious landing, 10 years after the end of the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis between the Republic of China Armed Forces and the People's Liberation Army. The construction lasted for... | Beihai Tunnel (Beigan) | Engineering | 216 |
8,066,741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese%20Industrial%20Standards | are the standards used for industrial activities in Japan, coordinated by the Japanese Industrial Standards Committee (JISC) and published by the Japanese Standards Association (JSA). The JISC is composed of many nationwide committees and plays a vital role in standardizing activities across Japan.
History
In the Meij... | Japanese Industrial Standards | Mathematics | 3,650 |
56,041,342 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubo%20Kristek | Lubo Kristek (born 8 May 1943) is a sculptor, painter and performance artist of Czech origin, who lived in West Germany from 1968 until the 1990s. He specializes in critical assemblages and happenings, in which he incorporates multiple forms of media. He created sculptures for public space. He is the author of a three-... | Lubo Kristek | Technology | 2,605 |
8,960,415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exonic%20splicing%20enhancer | In molecular biology, an exonic splicing enhancer (ESE) is a DNA sequence motif consisting of 6 bases within an exon that directs, or enhances, accurate splicing of heterogeneous nuclear RNA (hnRNA) or pre-mRNA into messenger RNA (mRNA).
Introduction
Short sequences of DNA are transcribed to RNA; then this RNA is tr... | Exonic splicing enhancer | Biology | 509 |
31,058,693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intronerator | The Intronerator is a database of alternatively spliced genes and a database of introns for Caenorhabditis elegans.
See also
Alternative splicing
AspicDB
EDAS
Hollywood (database)
List of biological databases
References
External links
A working copy of the Intronerator no longer exists as of 2003.
Equivalent f... | Intronerator | Chemistry,Biology | 131 |
65,396,160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backusella%20psychrophila | Backusella psychrophila is a species of zygote fungus in the order Mucorales. It was described by Andrew S. Urquhart and James K. Douch in 2020. The specific epithet refers to the inability of this species to grow above 30 ˚C. The type locality is Jack Cann Reserve, Australia.
See also
Fungi of Australia
References
... | Backusella psychrophila | Biology | 91 |
76,592,604 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remix%20%28web%20framework%29 | Remix is an open source full stack web framework. The software is designed for web applications built with front-end JavaScript frameworks like React and Vue.js. Remix supports server-side rendering and client-side routing. Remix has been presented as an alternative to the popular React framework Next.js. Initially ava... | Remix (web framework) | Technology | 164 |
23,295,305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft%20landing | A soft landing is any type of aircraft, rocket or spacecraft landing that does not result in significant damage to or destruction of the vehicle or its payload, as opposed to a hard landing. The average vertical speed in a soft landing should be about per second or less.
A soft landing can be achieved by
Parachute—o... | Soft landing | Astronomy,Engineering | 209 |
219,009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeppoSAX | BeppoSAX was an Italian–Dutch satellite for X-ray astronomy which played a crucial role in resolving the origin of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most energetic events known in the universe. It was the first X-ray mission capable of simultaneously observing targets over more than 3 orders-of-magnitude of energy, from 0.1... | BeppoSAX | Astronomy | 1,890 |
534,237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20hybrid%20vehicles | This is a list of hybrid vehicles. A hybrid could theoretically have any two power sources, but hybrid vehicles have typically combined an internal combustion engine with a battery and electric motor(s).
This list includes both regular hybrid electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids, in chronological order of first produ... | List of hybrid vehicles | Engineering | 574 |
61,094,758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural%20element%20method | The natural element method (NEM) is a meshless method to solve partial differential equation, where the elements do not have a predefined shape as in the finite element method, but depend on the geometry.
A Voronoi diagram partitioning the space is used to create each of these elements.
Natural neighbor interpolation... | Natural element method | Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics | 130 |
8,412,741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating%20airport | A floating airport is an airport built and situated on a very large floating structure (VLFS) located many miles out at sea utilizing a flotation type of device or devices such as pneumatic stabilized platform (PSP) technology.
As the population increases and land becomes more expensive and scarce, very large floating... | Floating airport | Engineering | 1,167 |
734,854 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subitizing | Subitizing is the rapid, accurate, and effortless ability to perceive small quantities of items in a set, typically when there are four or fewer items, without relying on linguistic or arithmetic processes. The term refers to the sensation of instantly knowing how many objects are in the visual scene when their number ... | Subitizing | Mathematics,Biology | 2,342 |
41,575,363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical%20contact%20distribution%20function | In probability and statistics, a spherical contact distribution function, first contact distribution function, or empty space function is a mathematical function that is defined in relation to mathematical objects known as point processes, which are types of stochastic processes often used as mathematical models of phy... | Spherical contact distribution function | Physics | 849 |
9,468,040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotobiology | Scotobiology is the study of biology as directly and specifically affected by darkness, as opposed to photobiology, which describes the biological effects of light.
Overview
The science of scotobiology gathers together under a single descriptive heading a wide range of approaches to the study of the biology of darknes... | Scotobiology | Biology | 1,011 |
11,865,154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DBpedia | DBpedia (from "DB" for "database") is a project aiming to extract structured content from the information created in the Wikipedia project. This structured information is made available on the World Wide Web using OpenLink Virtuoso. DBpedia allows users to semantically query relationships and properties of Wikipedia re... | DBpedia | Technology | 1,780 |
77,371,428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeri%20Frolov%20%28physicist%29 | Valeri Frolov (born October 7, 1946) is a Russian-born Canadian theoretical physicist at the University of Alberta, Canada.
Education
Valeri Frolov is a theoretical physicist specializing in the study of black holes. He was born and grew up in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow State University and obtained his Mas... | Valeri Frolov (physicist) | Physics | 913 |
78,536,056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie%20n-algebra | In mathematics, a Lie n-algebra is a generalization of a Lie algebra, a vector space with a bracket, to higher order operations. For example, in the case of a Lie 2-algebra, the Jacobi identity is replaced by an isomorphism called a Jacobiator.
See also
2-ring
homotopy Lie algebra
References
Jim Stasheff and Urs ... | Lie n-algebra | Mathematics | 210 |
30,214,168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bendix%20drive | A Bendix drive is a type of engagement mechanism used in starter motors of internal combustion engines. The device allows the pinion gear of the starter motor to engage or disengage the ring gear (which is attached to the flywheel or flexplate of the engine) automatically when the starter is powered or when the engine ... | Bendix drive | Physics,Technology,Engineering | 585 |
43,156,657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial%20site | In crystallography, interstitial sites, holes or voids are the empty space that exists between the packing of atoms (spheres) in the crystal structure.
The holes are easy to see if you try to pack circles together; no matter how close you get them or how you arrange them, you will have empty space in between. The same... | Interstitial site | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 839 |
18,071,097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scoop%20wheel | A scoop wheel or scoopwheel is a pump, usually used for land drainage.
A scoop wheel pump is similar in construction to a water wheel, but works in the opposite manner: a waterwheel is water-powered and used to drive machinery, a scoop wheel is engine-driven and is used to lift water from one level to another. Princi... | Scoop wheel | Physics,Chemistry | 553 |
69,652,211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filippo%20Frontera | Filippo Frontera (Savelli, 16 November 1941) is an Italian astrophysicist and professor, who deals with astronomical investigations on celestial gamma-rays.
Biography
Education and career
"Laurea" degree in physics with laude in 1966 at the Università di Bologna. Full professor of Experimental Physics of the Univers... | Filippo Frontera | Astronomy | 1,495 |
31,903,706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Solar%20Telescope | The European Solar Telescope (EST) is a pan-European project to build a next-generation 4-metre class solar telescope, to be located at the Roque de los Muchachos Observatory in the Canary Islands, Spain. It will use state-of-the-art instruments with high spatial and temporal resolution that can efficiently produce two... | European Solar Telescope | Physics,Astronomy | 494 |
48,847,382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunslinger%27s%20gait | The gunslinger's gait or KGB walk is a walking pattern observed in individuals associated with the KGB or the Red Army. It is a standard walk, except with the non-dominant hand swinging freely, but the other in place, near a pocket or a holster, so that the individual is ready to draw a gun at a moment's notice if ther... | Gunslinger's gait | Biology | 351 |
10,368,228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource | Resource refers to all the materials available in our environment which are technologically accessible, economically feasible and culturally sustainable and help us to satisfy our needs and wants. Resources can broadly be classified according to their availability as renewable or national and international resources. A... | Resource | Biology | 1,856 |
38,854,961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaldicetus | Scaldicetus is an extinct genus of highly predatory macroraptorial sperm whale. Although widely used for a number of extinct physeterids with primitive dental morphology consisting of enameled teeth, Scaldicetus as generally recognized appears to be a wastebasket taxon filled with more-or-less unrelated primitive sperm... | Scaldicetus | Biology | 1,048 |
66,008,000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennie%20Lasby%20Tessmann | Jennie Belle Lasby Tessmann (August 23, 1882 – December 9, 1959) was an American spectroscopist and college educator. She was a "human computer" at Mount Wilson Observatory from 1906 to 1913, the first woman research assistant at the observatory. She taught astronomy and history at Santa Ana College from 1919 to 1946.
... | Jennie Lasby Tessmann | Technology | 565 |
15,852,294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bamboo%20forest | The term bamboo forests is commonly used for bamboo plant communities even though bamboo is a grass, not a tree. Definitions of bamboo forests vary by country and may be contradictory.
Overview
Bamboos often create communities that are almost entirely composed of a single species unlike other forests. Bamboos also dif... | Bamboo forest | Biology | 437 |
60,167,773 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20fallout%20effects%20on%20an%20ecosystem | This article uses Chernobyl as a case study of nuclear fallout effects on an ecosystem.
Chernobyl
Officials used hydrometeorological data to create an image of what the potential nuclear fallout looked like after the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. Using this method, they were able to determine the distribution of radion... | Nuclear fallout effects on an ecosystem | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Technology,Biology | 1,327 |
44,309,868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Access%20to%20a%20Sky%20Century%20%40%20Harvard | The Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard (DASCH) is a project to preserve and digitize images recorded on astronomical photographic plates created before astronomy became dominated by digital imaging. It is a major project of the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian. Over 500,000 glass plates held by t... | Digital Access to a Sky Century @ Harvard | Astronomy | 1,593 |
46,854,300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam%20park | Beam park is a radar mode used for space surveillance, particularly tracking space debris. In beam-park mode, a radar beam is kept in a fixed direction with respect to the Earth, while objects passing through the beam are tracked. In 24 hours, as a result of the Earth’s rotation, the radar effectively scans a narrow st... | Beam park | Technology | 604 |
13,141,596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPTS | Jet Propellant Thermally Stable (JPTS) is a jet fuel originally developed in 1956 for the Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft.
History
Because of tight security restrictions enforced during the U-2's development, batches of fuel that were delivered to the aircraft's engine manufacturer were initially labeled LF-1.
... | JPTS | Engineering | 554 |
286,681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash%20point | The flash point of a material is the "lowest liquid temperature at which, under certain standardized conditions, a liquid gives off vapours in a quantity such as to be capable of forming an ignitable vapour/air mixture".
The flash point is sometimes confused with the autoignition temperature, the temperature that caus... | Flash point | Physics,Chemistry | 1,332 |
9,321,146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRAL-TRIO%20domain | CRAL-TRIO domain is a protein structural domain that binds small lipophilic molecules. This domain is named after cellular retinaldehyde-binding protein (CRALBP) and TRIO guanine exchange factor.
CRALB protein carries 11-cis-retinol or 11-cis-retinaldehyde. It modulates interaction of retinoids with visual cycle enzy... | CRAL-TRIO domain | Biology | 396 |
32,463,401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synthetic%20ecosystems | Synthetic ecosystems are on-chip integrated devices where cellular cultures (individuals) and ecosystem services - such as the renewal of growth, delivery of regulatory signals as well as removal of waste - are patterned into an integrated fluidic device using principles of landscape ecology, physiology and cell signa... | Synthetic ecosystems | Biology,Environmental_science | 113 |
13,678,647 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node%20%28autonomous%20system%29 | The behaviour of a linear autonomous system around a critical point is a node if the following conditions are satisfied:
Each path converges to the or away from the critical point (dependent of the underlying equation) as (or as ). Furthermore, each path approaches the point asymptotically through a line.
References... | Node (autonomous system) | Mathematics | 68 |
77,562,364 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%204734 | NGC 4734 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Virgo. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 7835 ± 23 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 115.56 ± 8.10 Mpc (∼377 million light-years). It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 7 April 1828.
The SIMBAD database l... | NGC 4734 | Astronomy | 207 |
2,467,302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20dithionite | Sodium dithionite (also known as sodium hydrosulfite) is a white crystalline powder with a sulfurous odor. Although it is stable in dry air, it decomposes in hot water and in acid solutions.
Structure
The structure has been examined by Raman spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography. The dithionite dianion has C symmetr... | Sodium dithionite | Chemistry | 1,247 |
4,769,975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koeberg%20Alert | The Koeberg Alert alliance is an anti-nuclear activist organisation which emerged from an earlier pressure group in Cape Town called "Stop Koeberg" in 1983. Both were intended to halt construction of the first nuclear power station in South Africa at Duynefontein, 28 km NNW of Cape Town: the Koeberg Nuclear Power Stati... | Koeberg Alert | Engineering | 366 |
14,757,553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GATA6 | Transcription factor GATA-6, also known as GATA-binding factor 6 (GATA6), is protein that in humans is encoded by the GATA6 gene. The gene product preferentially binds (A/T/C)GAT(A/T)(A) of the consensus binding sequence.
Clinical significance
Mutations in the gene have been linked with pancreatic agenesis and conge... | GATA6 | Chemistry,Biology | 417 |
56,367,760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-277c | Kepler-277c (also known by its Kepler Objects of Interest designation KOI-1215.02) is the third most massive and second-largest rocky planet ever discovered, with a mass about 64 times that of Earth. Discovered in 2014 by the Kepler Space Telescope, Kepler-277c is a Neptune-sized exoplanet with a very high mass and den... | Kepler-277c | Astronomy | 630 |
10,925,256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.Skill | G.SKILL International Enterprise is a Taiwanese computer hardware manufacturing company. The company's target customers are overclocking computer users. It produces a variety of high-end PC products and is best known for its DRAM products.
History
Based in Taiwan, G.SKILL corporation was established in 1989. In 2003,... | G.Skill | Technology | 542 |
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