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59,231,369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate%20change%20and%20invasive%20species | Climate change and invasive species refers to the process of the environmental destabilization caused by climate change. This environmental change facilitates the spread of invasive species — species that are not historically found in a certain region, and often bring about a negative impact to that region's native spe... | Climate change and invasive species | Biology | 6,384 |
2,377,830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20of%20Women%20Engineers | The Society of Women Engineers (SWE) is an international not-for-profit educational and service organization. Founded in 1950 and headquartered in the United States, the Society of Women Engineers is a major advocate for women in engineering and technology. SWE has over 47,000 members in nearly 100 professional section... | Society of Women Engineers | Technology | 2,618 |
41,027,768 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hantavirus%20vaccine | Hantavirus vaccine is a vaccine that protects in humans against hantavirus infections causing hantavirus hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome (HFRS) or hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS). The vaccine is considered important as acute hantavirus infections are responsible for significant morbidity and mortality worldwi... | Hantavirus vaccine | Biology | 434 |
45,637,989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20functions%20of%20hydrogen%20sulfide | Hydrogen sulfide is produced in small amounts by some cells of the mammalian body and has a number of biological signaling functions. Only two other such gases are currently known: nitric oxide (NO) and carbon monoxide (CO).
The gas is produced from cysteine by the enzymes cystathionine beta-synthase and cystathionine... | Biological functions of hydrogen sulfide | Chemistry | 1,656 |
2,167,518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kamptulicon | Kamptulicon, whose name was derived from the Greek kamptos ("flexible") + oulos ("thick"), was a floor covering made from powdered cork and natural rubber.
Patented by Elijah Galloway in 1843, kamptulicon was first launched in public at the 1862 International Exhibition in London, where it caused a sensation. Its prom... | Kamptulicon | Physics,Engineering | 302 |
36,405,625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WaterGAP | The global freshwater model WaterGAP calculates flows and storages of water on all continents of the globe (except Antarctica), taking into account the human influence on the natural freshwater system by water abstractions and dams. It supports understanding the freshwater situation across the world's river basins duri... | WaterGAP | Biology,Environmental_science | 1,321 |
18,826,785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxipurinol | Oxipurinol (INN, or oxypurinol USAN) is an inhibitor of xanthine oxidase. It is an active metabolite of allopurinol and it is cleared renally. In cases of renal disease, this metabolite will accumulate to toxic levels. By inhibiting xanthine oxidase, it reduces uric acid production. High serum uric acid levels may resu... | Oxipurinol | Chemistry | 124 |
34,733,083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessen%E2%80%93Wintner%20theorem | In mathematics, the Jessen–Wintner theorem, introduced by , asserts that a random variable of Jessen–Wintner type, meaning the sum of an almost surely convergent series of independent discrete random variables, is of pure type.
References
Probability theorems | Jessen–Wintner theorem | Mathematics | 54 |
1,283,621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bordetella | Bordetella () is a genus of small (0.2 – 0.7 μm), Gram-negative, coccobacilli bacteria of the phylum Pseudomonadota. Bordetella species, with the exception of B. petrii, are obligate aerobes, as well as highly fastidious, or difficult to culture. All species can infect humans. The first three species to be described (B... | Bordetella | Biology | 2,430 |
4,964,562 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20petite%20mort | (; ) is an expression that refers to a brief loss or weakening of consciousness, and in modern usage refers specifically to a post-orgasm sensation as likened to death.
The first attested use of the expression in English was in 1572 with the meaning of "fainting fit". It later came to mean "nervous spasm" as well. The... | La petite mort | Biology | 360 |
49,911,242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%20finger%20protein%20585b | Zinc finger protein 585B is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF585B gene.
References
Further reading
Human proteins | Zinc finger protein 585b | Chemistry | 31 |
28,121,972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Weinstock | George M. Weinstock (born February 6, 1949) is an American geneticist and microbiologist on the faculty of The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine, where he is a professor and the associate director for microbial genomics. Before joining The Jackson Laboratory, he taught at Washington University in St. Louis and se... | George Weinstock | Engineering | 566 |
25,512,740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetLabs | NetLabs was a software company that was founded in 1989 to address management of SNMP and CMOT (CMIP over TCP/IP) devices. CMOT was specified in RFC 1095. This RFC was subsequently obsoleted by RFC 1189. RFC 1147 mentions the company and some of its products in a catalog of network management tools. The company was... | NetLabs | Engineering | 436 |
60,682,970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20SMTP%20server%20return%20codes | This is a list of Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) response status codes. Status codes are issued by a server in response to a client's request made to the server.
Unless otherwise stated, all status codes described here is part of the current SMTP standard, . The message phrases shown are typical, but any human-r... | List of SMTP server return codes | Technology | 2,105 |
71,416,154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey%20Piletsky | Sergey Piletsky is a professor of Bioanalytical Chemistry and the Research Director for School of Chemistry, University of Leicester, United Kingdom.
Education
Sergey graduated from Kyiv University, Ukraine, obtaining an MSc in chemistry in 1985 and researched on synthesis of the polymers selective for nucleic acids,... | Sergey Piletsky | Chemistry,Technology,Engineering,Biology | 796 |
15,063,933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRKRIR | 52 kDa repressor of the inhibitor of the protein kinase is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the PRKRIR gene.
Interactions
PRKRIR has been shown to interact with STK4 and DNAJC3.
References
Further reading | PRKRIR | Chemistry | 52 |
2,165,654 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gel%20extraction | In molecular biology, gel extraction or gel isolation is a technique used to isolate a desired fragment of intact DNA from an agarose gel following agarose gel electrophoresis. After extraction, fragments of interest can be mixed, precipitated, and enzymatically ligated together in several simple steps. This process, ... | Gel extraction | Chemistry,Biology | 677 |
5,605,137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oligomycin | Oligomycins are macrolides created by Streptomyces that are strong antibacterial agents but are often poisonous to other organisms, including humans.
Function
Oligomycins have use as antibiotics. However, in humans, they have limited or no clinical use due to their toxic effects on mitochondria and ATP synthase.
Oli... | Oligomycin | Chemistry | 293 |
64,586,299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assault%20Engineering%20Brigades | Assault Engineering Brigades () or Storm Engineer-Sapper Brigades were formations of the Reserve of the Supreme High Command of the Red Army, being notable for their service during the Second World War. These brigades were designed to storm settlements and to break through heavily fortified enemy lines. These units are... | Assault Engineering Brigades | Engineering | 773 |
37,077,548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogelio%20Bernal%20Andreo | Rogelio Bernal Andreo (born 9 January 1969) is a Spanish-American astrophotographer. He is known for his photographs of deep sky objects. His work has been recognized by NASA as a regular contributor to their Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) 80 times. Andreo's photography has been published in international magazine... | Rogelio Bernal Andreo | Astronomy | 784 |
3,323,565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cauchy%20stress%20tensor | In continuum mechanics, the Cauchy stress tensor (symbol , named after Augustin-Louis Cauchy), also called true stress tensor or simply stress tensor, completely defines the state of stress at a point inside a material in the deformed state, placement, or configuration. The second order tensor consists of nine componen... | Cauchy stress tensor | Physics,Mathematics,Engineering | 5,031 |
50,501,391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIX%20Toolbox%20for%20Linux%20Applications | The AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications is a collection of GNU tools for IBM AIX. These tools are available for installation using Red Hat's RPM format.
Licensing
Each of these packages includes its own licensing information and while IBM has made the code available to AIX users, the code is provided as is and has no... | AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications | Technology | 132 |
298,486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrage%20balloon | A barrage balloon is a type of airborne barrage, a large uncrewed tethered balloon used to defend ground targets against aircraft attack, by raising aloft steel cables which pose a severe risk of collision with hostile aircraft, making the attacker's approach difficult and hazardous. Early barrage balloons were often ... | Barrage balloon | Engineering | 1,255 |
55,774,252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affinity%20capture | Affinity capture is a technique in molecular biology used to isolate desired compounds based on their chemical properties and a solid substrate. Commonly, plates out of solid materials such as glass are coated with various reagents to allow for covalent bonding of a capturing molecule such as an antibody. Afterwards, a... | Affinity capture | Chemistry,Biology | 169 |
72,693,689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20193 | Association 193 is an anti-nuclear non-governmental organisation in French Polynesia. The association is named for the 193 nuclear weapons tests conducted by France at Moruroa and Fangataufa between 1966 and 1996. It was established in 2014 to preserve the historical memory of nuclear testing and campaign for the Frenc... | Association 193 | Engineering | 336 |
30,048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tantalum | Tantalum is a chemical element; it has symbol Ta and atomic number 73. It is named after Tantalus, a figure in Greek mythology. Tantalum is a very hard, ductile, lustrous, blue-gray transition metal that is highly corrosion-resistant. It is part of the refractory metals group, which are widely used as components of str... | Tantalum | Physics,Chemistry,Biology | 5,760 |
49,884,868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide-field%20multiphoton%20microscopy | Wide-field multiphoton microscopy refers to an optical non-linear imaging technique tailored for ultrafast imaging in which a large area of the object is illuminated and imaged without the need for scanning. High intensities are required to induce non-linear optical processes such as two-photon fluorescence or second h... | Wide-field multiphoton microscopy | Chemistry | 1,222 |
78,179,351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RPRFamide | RPRFamide is a neurotoxin belonging to the conorfamide family of neuropeptides, which can be found in the venom of cone snails.
Etymology and source
RPRFamide is a toxin from the carnivorous marine cone snail Conus textile, a predatory species that mainly lives in tropical waters. The venom of marine cone snails cont... | RPRFamide | Chemistry | 790 |
7,591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cholera | Cholera () is an infection of the small intestine by some strains of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. Symptoms may range from none, to mild, to severe. The classic symptom is large amounts of watery diarrhea lasting a few days. Vomiting and muscle cramps may also occur. Diarrhea can be so severe that it leads within hour... | Cholera | Biology | 10,365 |
9,115,050 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Electrical%20Engineering%20and%20Computer%20Science%20at%20MIT | The Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT is an engineering department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is regarded as one of the most prestigious in the world, and offers degrees of Master of Science, Master of Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy, an... | Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT | Engineering | 605 |
45,122,752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren%20Galatius | Søren Galatius (born 1 August 1976) is a Danish mathematician who works as a professor of mathematics at the University of Copenhagen. He works in algebraic topology, where one of his most important results concerns the homology of the automorphisms of free groups. He is also known for his joint work with Oscar Randal-... | Søren Galatius | Mathematics | 299 |
35,899,362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technicien%20sup%C3%A9rieur%20de%20l%27aviation | The degree of Technicien supérieur de l'aviation (TSA, in English Advanced Technician Degree in Aviation) is a certification created in 2010 from the Technicien supérieur des études et de l'exploitation de l'aviation civile certification. It is a title recognized by the CNCP, and registered at level III in the National... | Technicien supérieur de l'aviation | Engineering | 452 |
10,874,936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sudan%20Airways%20Flight%20139 | Sudan Airways Flight 139 was a Sudan Airways passenger flight that crashed on 8 July 2003 at Port Sudan. The Boeing 737 aircraft was operating a domestic scheduled Port Sudan–Khartoum passenger service. Some 15 minutes after takeoff, the aircraft lost power in one of its engines, which prompted the crew to return to th... | Sudan Airways Flight 139 | Materials_science | 488 |
288,400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provenance | Provenance () is the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object. The term was originally mostly used in relation to works of art, but is now used in similar senses in a wide range of fields, including archaeology, paleontology, archival science, economy, computing, and scientific inquiry in... | Provenance | Technology | 5,520 |
2,059,470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorine%20pentafluoride | Chlorine pentafluoride is an interhalogen compound with formula ClF5. This colourless gas is a strong oxidant that was once a candidate oxidizer for rockets. The molecule adopts a square pyramidal structure with C4v symmetry, as confirmed by its high-resolution 19F NMR spectrum. It was first synthesized in 1963.
Pre... | Chlorine pentafluoride | Chemistry | 450 |
12,389,663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insuetophrynus | Insuetophrynus is a monotypic genus of frogs in the family Rhinodermatidae. The sole species is Insuetophrynus acarpicus, also known as Barrio's frog. It is endemic to Chile and only known from few localities on the Valdivian Coast Range between Chanchán in the Los Ríos Region in the south and Queule (southernmost Arau... | Insuetophrynus | Biology | 386 |
8,418,529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann%20Irving%20Schlesinger | Hermann Irving Schlesinger (October 11, 1882 – October 3, 1960) was an American inorganic chemist, working in boron chemistry.
He and Herbert C. Brown discovered sodium borohydride in 1940 and both were involved in the further development of borohydride chemistry.
Schlesinger studied chemistry at the University of Ch... | Hermann Irving Schlesinger | Chemistry | 246 |
71,605,294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGC%202369 | UGC 2369 is a pair of galaxies and interacting galaxies in the constellation Aries, about 424 million light-years away. The two galaxies are called UGC 2369N and UGC 2369S.
A tenuous bridge of gas, dust and stars can be seen connecting the two galaxies, created when they pulled material out into space across the dimin... | UGC 2369 | Astronomy | 172 |
3,223,727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipple%20%28plumbing%29 | In plumbing and piping, a nipple is a fitting, consisting of a short piece of pipe, usually provided with a male pipe thread at each end, for connecting two other fittings.
The length of the nipple is usually specified by the overall length with thread. It may have a hexagonal section in the center for a wrench to gra... | Nipple (plumbing) | Chemistry,Engineering | 479 |
16,969,599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Souring | Souring is a food preparation technique that causes a physical and chemical change in food by exposing it to an acid. This acid can be added explicitly (e.g., vinegar, lemon juice, lime juice, etc.), or can be produced within the food itself by a microbe, such as Lactobacillus.
Souring is similar to pickling or fermen... | Souring | Chemistry | 249 |
473,326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poise%20%28unit%29 | The poise (symbol P; ) is the unit of dynamic viscosity (absolute viscosity) in the centimetre–gram–second system of units (CGS). It is named after Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille (see Hagen–Poiseuille equation). The centipoise (1 cP = 0.01 P) is more commonly used than the poise itself.
Dynamic viscosity has dimensions... | Poise (unit) | Mathematics | 309 |
39,977,878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rousettus%20bat%20coronavirus%20HKU9 | Rousettus bat coronavirus HKU9 is bat Betacoronavirus.
See also
RNA virus
Animal viruses
References
Betacoronaviruses
Animal viral diseases
Bat diseases
Bat virome | Rousettus bat coronavirus HKU9 | Biology | 39 |
73,252,323 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginal%20sinus | The marginal sinus is a dural venous sinus surrounding the margin of the foramen magnum inside the skull, accommodated by the groove for marginal sinus. It usually drains into either the sigmoid sinus, or the jugular bulb. It communicates with the basilar venous plexus anteriorly, and the occipital sinus posteriorly (t... | Marginal sinus | Biology | 187 |
24,621,384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irrelevant%20ideal | In mathematics, the irrelevant ideal is the ideal of a graded ring generated by the homogeneous elements of degree greater than zero. It corresponds to the origin in the affine space, which cannot be mapped to a point in the projective space. More generally, a homogeneous ideal of a graded ring is called an irrelevant ... | Irrelevant ideal | Mathematics | 195 |
54,940,860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrin-like%20receptors | Integrin-like receptors (ILRs) are found in plants and carry unique functional properties similar to true integrin proteins. True homologs of integrins exist in mammals, invertebrates, and some fungi but not in plant cells. Mammalian integrins are heterodimer transmembrane proteins that play a large role in bidirection... | Integrin-like receptors | Chemistry | 1,421 |
432,450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-off%20error | In computing, a roundoff error, also called rounding error, is the difference between the result produced by a given algorithm using exact arithmetic and the result produced by the same algorithm using finite-precision, rounded arithmetic. Rounding errors are due to inexactness in the representation of real numbers and... | Round-off error | Mathematics | 2,550 |
13,337,703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whinstone | Whinstone is a term used in the quarrying industry to describe any hard dark-coloured rock. Examples include the igneous rocks, basalt and dolerite, as well as the sedimentary rock chert.
Etymology
The Northern English/Scots term whin is first attested in the fourteenth century, and the compound whinstone from the six... | Whinstone | Physics | 212 |
67,684,016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concerted%20metalation%20deprotonation | Concerted metalation-deprotonation (CMD) is a mechanistic pathway through which transition-metal catalyzed C–H activation reactions can take place. In a CMD pathway, the C–H bond of the substrate is cleaved and the new C–Metal bond forms through a single transition state. This process does not go through a metal hydrid... | Concerted metalation deprotonation | Chemistry | 1,030 |
40,839,292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local%20Environment | Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering the fields of urban planning, environmental policy, and sustainable development with a focus on the intersection of social justice and sustainability in the local environment. The journal's audience a... | Local Environment | Environmental_science | 212 |
53,281,588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet%20%28experiment%29 | COMET (Coherent Muon to Electron Transition) is a nuclear physics experiment in J-PARC, Tokai, Japan. In contrast to the usual muon decay to an electron and neutrino, COMET seeks to look for neutrinoless muon to electron conversion, where the electron flies away with an energy of 104.8 MeV. Muon to electron conversion ... | Comet (experiment) | Physics | 211 |
58,138,832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir%20and%20Occultation%20for%20Mars%20Discovery | Nadir and Occultation for MArs Discovery (NOMAD) is a 3-channel spectrometer on board the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) launched to Mars orbit on 14 March 2016.
NOMAD is designed to perform high-sensitivity orbital identification of atmospheric components, concentration and temperature, their sources, loss, and cycl... | Nadir and Occultation for Mars Discovery | Astronomy,Biology | 821 |
28,058,626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Kelleher%20%28scientist%29 | Neil L. Kelleher is the Walter and Mary Elizabeth Glass Professor of Chemistry, Molecular Biosciences, and Medicine at Northwestern University. His research focuses on mass spectrometry, primarily its application to proteomics. He is known mainly for top-down proteomics and the development of the fragmentation techniqu... | Neil Kelleher (scientist) | Physics,Chemistry | 268 |
32,790,202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varespladib | Varespladib is an inhibitor of the IIa, V, and X isoforms of secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2). The molecule acts as an anti-inflammatory agent by disrupting the first step of the arachidonic acid pathway of inflammation. From 2006 to 2012, varespladib was under active investigation by Anthera Pharmaceuticals as a pot... | Varespladib | Chemistry | 2,313 |
67,578,063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achnanthaceae | Achnanthaceae is a family of algae belonging to the order Achnanthales.
Genera:
Achnanthes Bory, 1822
Amphicocconeis M.De Stephano & D.Marino, 2002
Diatomella
Haloroundia C.A.Düaz & N.I.Maidana, 2006
Platebaikalia Kulikovskiy, Glushchenko, Genkal & Kociolek, 2020
Platessa H.Lange-Bertalot, 2004
References
Alga... | Achnanthaceae | Biology | 107 |
60,212,303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Rosemond | Amy D. Rosemond is an American aquatic ecosystem ecologist, biogeochemist, and Distinguished Research Professor at the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia. Rosemond studies how global change affects freshwater ecosystems, including effects of watershed urbanization, nutrient pollution, and changes in bi... | Amy Rosemond | Chemistry | 1,035 |
29,214,414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell-gable | The bell gable (, , ) is an architectural element crowning the upper end of the wall of church buildings, usually in lieu of a church tower. It consists of a gable end in stone, with small hollow semi-circular arches where the church bells are placed. It is a characteristic example of the simplicity of Romanesque archi... | Bell-gable | Technology,Engineering | 421 |
367,577 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipodal%20point | In mathematics, two points of a sphere (or n-sphere, including a circle) are called antipodal or diametrically opposite if they are the endpoints of a diameter, a straight line segment between two points on a sphere and passing through its center.
Given any point on a sphere, its antipodal point is the unique point at... | Antipodal point | Mathematics | 518 |
195,700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20electrical%20engineers | This is a list of electrical engineers (by no means exhaustive), people who have made notable contributions to electrical engineering or computer engineering.
See also
List of engineers - for lists of engineers from other disciplines
List of Russian electrical engineers
Engineers
Electrical Engineers | List of electrical engineers | Technology,Engineering | 51 |
46,737,135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPEARpesticides | SPEARpesticides (Species At Risk) is a trait based biological indicator system for streams which quantitatively links pesticide contamination to the composition of macroinvertebrate communities. The approach uses species traits that characterize the ecological requirements posed by pesticide contamination in running wa... | SPEARpesticides | Chemistry,Biology,Environmental_science | 406 |
28,850,554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mezepine | Mezepine is a tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) that was never marketed.
See also
Tricyclic antidepressant
References
Amines
Dibenzazepines
Tricyclic antidepressants
Abandoned drugs | Mezepine | Chemistry | 53 |
6,490,564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legs%20%28Chinese%20constellation%29 | The Legs mansion (奎宿, pinyin: Kuí Xiù) is one of the Twenty-eight mansions of the Chinese constellations. It is one of the western mansions of the White Tiger.
Cultural significance
In East Asian cultures, the Legs mansion (Kuí Xiù) represents wisdom, scholarship and literature. A notable example is a structure known... | Legs (Chinese constellation) | Astronomy | 111 |
22,093,715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foilbacks | Foilbacks, in vintage jewellery, is the practice of inserting metal foil behind gemstones or faux gemstones, to enhance their sparkle and reflective properties. When this foil darkens or peels, these gemstones are often considered dead or lacking in sparkle. Modern jewelers seldom use foiling behind actual gemstones, ... | Foilbacks | Technology,Engineering | 83 |
56,322,565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazan%20Soda%20Elektrik | The Kazan Soda Elektrik, full name Kazan Soda Elektrik Üretim A.Ş., is a chemical industry and electric energy company in Ankara Province, Turkey producing natural soda ash and baking soda from trona. The company is a subsidiary of Ciner Holding.
Background
The trona ore deposits were owned by Rio Tinto Group, an Aust... | Kazan Soda Elektrik | Chemistry | 808 |
1,029,423 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megastructure | A megastructure is a very large artificial object, although the limits of precisely how large vary considerably. Some apply the term to any especially large or tall building. Some sources define a megastructure as an enormous self-supporting artificial construct. The products of megascale engineering or astroengineerin... | Megastructure | Technology | 4,705 |
54,224,095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inocybe%20violaceocaulis | Inocybe violaceocaulis is a species of mushroom native to Western Australia. Collections had been previously classified as I. geophylla var. lilacina.
References
violaceocaulis
Fungi described in 2005
Fungi native to Australia
Fungus species | Inocybe violaceocaulis | Biology | 53 |
13,680,395 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named%20entity | In information extraction, a named entity is a real-world object, such as a person, location, organization, product, etc., that can be denoted with a proper name. It can be abstract or have a physical existence. Examples of named entities include Barack Obama, New York City, Volkswagen Golf, or anything else that can b... | Named entity | Technology | 555 |
51,484,404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meizu%20MX4%20Ubuntu%20Edition | The Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition is a smartphone designed and produced by the Chinese manufacturer Meizu, which runs on Ubuntu Touch. It is a previous phablet model of the MX series, representing an alternative edition of the MX4. It is Meizu's first commercially available Ubuntu Touch device and the second commercially av... | Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition | Technology | 815 |
3,666,839 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMC%20protein | SMC complexes represent a large family of ATPases that participate in many aspects of higher-order chromosome organization and dynamics. SMC stands for Structural Maintenance of Chromosomes.
Classification
Eukaryotic SMCs
Eukaryotes have at least six SMC proteins in individual organisms, and they form three distinct ... | SMC protein | Biology | 896 |
508,390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownian%20motor | Brownian motors are nanoscale or molecular machines that use chemical reactions to generate directed motion in space. The theory behind Brownian motors relies on the phenomenon of Brownian motion, random motion of particles suspended in a fluid (a liquid or a gas) resulting from their collision with the fast-moving mol... | Brownian motor | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Mathematics,Engineering | 1,725 |
1,321,047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commercial%20animal%20cloning | Commercial animal cloning is the cloning of animals for commercial purposes, including animal husbandry, medical research, competition camels and horses, pet cloning, and restoring populations of endangered and extinct animals. The practice was first demonstrated in 1996 with Dolly the sheep.
Cloning methods
Moving or... | Commercial animal cloning | Engineering,Biology | 2,266 |
7,356,525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REDCON | In the U.S. military, the term REDCON is short for Readiness Condition and is used to refer to a unit's readiness to respond to and engage in combat operations. There are five REDCON levels, as described below in this excerpt from Army Field Manual 71–1.
Overview
REDCON-1: Full alert; unit ready to move and fight.
W... | REDCON | Technology | 441 |
76,504,351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoferroelectric%20imaging | Photoferroelectric imaging is the process of storing an image onto a piece of ferroelectric material by the aid of an applied electric pulse.
Stored images are nonvolatile and selectively erasable. Photoferroelectric image storage devices have the advantage of being "extremely simple and easy to fabricate".
Photoferr... | Photoferroelectric imaging | Physics | 473 |
46,978,792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleosome%20repeat%20length | The nucleosome repeat length, (NRL) is the average distance between the centers of neighboring nucleosomes. NRL is an important physical chromatin property that determines its biological function. NRL can be determined genome-wide for the chromatin in a given cell type and state, or locally for a large enough genomic r... | Nucleosome repeat length | Chemistry,Biology | 436 |
70,245,162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra%20Forest | Sierra Forest is the codename for sixth generation Xeon Scalable server processors designed by Intel, launched in June 2024. It is the first generation of Xeon processors to exclusively feature density-optimized E-cores. Sierra Forest processors are targeted towards cloud server customers with up to 288 Crestmont E-cor... | Sierra Forest | Technology | 702 |
44,949,681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler-Parsons%20Blacksmith%20Shop | The Chandler-Parsons Blacksmith Shop, now the Blacksmith Shop Museum, is a historic blacksmith shop at 107 Dawes Road in Dover-Foxcroft, Maine. Believed to be built in the early 1860s, it is one of a very small number of relatively unaltered rural 19th-century blacksmithies in the state. It is owned and operated by ... | Chandler-Parsons Blacksmith Shop | Chemistry | 451 |
61,947,436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Antigua%20and%20Barbuda | Antigua and Barbuda Time (AST) is the official time in Antigua and Barbuda. It is four hours behind Coordinated Universal Time (UTC−04:00). Antigua and Barbuda has only one time zone and does not observe daylight saving time.
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database Antigua and Barbuda has the following... | Time in Antigua and Barbuda | Physics | 98 |
5,636,920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne%20Tromborg | Bjarne Tromborg (born 1940) is a Danish physicist, best known for his work in particle physics and photonics.
Biography
Tromborg was born in Give, Denmark. In 1968, he received the M.Sc. degree in physics and mathematics from the Niels Bohr Institute, in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a university researcher studying h... | Bjarne Tromborg | Physics | 781 |
7,504,769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Canadian%20plants%20by%20family%20N | Main page: List of Canadian plants by family
Families:
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I J K | L | M | N | O | P Q | R | S | T | U V W | X Y Z
Najadaceae
Najas flexilis — slender naiad
Najas gracillima — threadlike naiad
Najas guadalupensis — southern naiad
Najas marina — holly-leaved naiad
Neckeraceae
Homa... | List of Canadian plants by family N | Biology | 340 |
12,132,347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C3H2ClF5O | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C3H2ClF5O}}
The molecular formula C3H2ClF5O (molar mass: 184.49 g/mol, exact mass: 183.9714 u) may refer to:
Enflurane (2-chloro-1,1,2,-trifluoroethyl-difluoromethyl ether)
Isoflurane | C3H2ClF5O | Chemistry | 92 |
68,496,223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fireproof%20banknote | The fireproof banknote is a demonstration of putting a banknote, previously soaked in 50% (v/v) alcohol fuel solution, to a flame. The fire is lit and later extinguished by itself without the banknote being burnt. This demonstration can be used to teach about the fire triangle and classes of fire.
Explanation
A 50% (... | Fireproof banknote | Chemistry,Engineering | 592 |
30,134,316 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momordenol | Momordenol (3β-hydroxy-stigmasta-5,14-dien-16-one) is a natural chemical compound, a sterol found in the fresh fruit of the bitter melon (Momordica charantia).
The compound is soluble in ethyl acetate and methanol but not in pure chloroform or petrol. It crystallizes as fine needles that melt at 160–161 °C. It was ... | Momordenol | Chemistry | 146 |
59,742,809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmaria%20%28alga%29 | Palmaria is a genus of algae. One of its most notable members is dulse, Palmaria palmata.
References
Florideophyceae
Red algae genera
Taxa named by John Stackhouse | Palmaria (alga) | Biology | 42 |
47,360,092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lasiodiplodia%20citricola | Lasiodiplodia citricola is an endophytic fungus. It was first isolated in northern Iran, and is named after its first known host, citrus plants. It has since been isolated in other plants in other continents, and is considered a plant pathogen. L. citricola is phylogenetically related to L. parva, but conidia of the fo... | Lasiodiplodia citricola | Biology | 413 |
11,545,402 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon%20Institute%20of%20Marine%20Biology | The Oregon Institute of Marine Biology (or OIMB) is the marine station of the University of Oregon. This marine station is located in Charleston, Oregon at the mouth of Coos Bay. Currently, OIMB is home to several permanent faculty members and a number of graduate students. OIMB is a member of the National Association... | Oregon Institute of Marine Biology | Biology | 816 |
43,863,686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corticolous%20lichen | A corticolous lichen is a lichen that grows on bark. This is contrasted with lignicolous lichen, which grows on wood that has had the bark stripped from it, and saxicolous lichen, which grows on rock.
Examples of corticolous lichens include the crustose lichen Graphis plumierae, foliose lichen Melanohalea subolivacea... | Corticolous lichen | Biology | 118 |
2,198,300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphaalkyne | In chemistry, a phosphaalkyne (IUPAC name: alkylidynephosphane) is an organophosphorus compound containing a triple bond between phosphorus and carbon with the general formula R-C≡P. Phosphaalkynes are the heavier congeners of nitriles, though, due to the similar electronegativities of phosphorus and carbon, possess re... | Phosphaalkyne | Chemistry | 2,312 |
19,897,702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parseval%E2%80%93Gutzmer%20formula | In mathematics, the Parseval–Gutzmer formula states that, if is an analytic function on a closed disk of radius r with Taylor series
then for z = reiθ on the boundary of the disk,
which may also be written as
Proof
The Cauchy Integral Formula for coefficients states that for the above conditions:
where γ is defi... | Parseval–Gutzmer formula | Mathematics | 127 |
12,223,583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gale%E2%80%93Church%20alignment%20algorithm | In computational linguistics, the Gale–Church algorithm is a method for aligning corresponding sentences in a parallel corpus. It works on the principle that equivalent sentences should roughly correspond in length; that is, longer sentences in one language should correspond to longer sentences in the other language. ... | Gale–Church alignment algorithm | Technology | 86 |
52,187,779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%20340 | NGC 340 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on September 27, 1864, by Albert Marth. It was described by Dreyer as "very faint, small, extended."
References
External links
0340
-01-03-055
003610
18640927
Cetus
Spiral galaxies | NGC 340 | Astronomy | 67 |
1,855,357 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecosystem%20service | Ecosystem services are the various benefits that humans derive from healthy ecosystems. These ecosystems, when functioning well, offer such things as provision of food, natural pollination of crops, clean air and water, decomposition of wastes, or flood control. Ecosystem services are grouped into four broad categories... | Ecosystem service | Chemistry,Engineering,Environmental_science | 5,134 |
26,611,936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penrose%20tiling | A Penrose tiling is an example of an aperiodic tiling. Here, a tiling is a covering of the plane by non-overlapping polygons or other shapes, and a tiling is aperiodic if it does not contain arbitrarily large periodic regions or patches. However, despite their lack of translational symmetry, Penrose tilings may have bo... | Penrose tiling | Physics,Mathematics | 5,557 |
61,082,109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%201345 | NGC 1345 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Eridanus. It was discovered by John Herschel on Dec 11, 1835.
See also
List of NGC objects (1001–2000)
References
External links
Barred spiral galaxies
Eridanus (constellation)
1345
012979 | NGC 1345 | Astronomy | 60 |
21,139,310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naegleria%20gruberi | Naegleria gruberi is a species of Naegleria. It is famous for its ability to change from an amoeba, which lacks a cytoplasmic microtubule cytoskeleton, to a flagellate, which has an elaborate microtubule cytoskeleton, including flagella. This "transformation" includes de novo synthesis of basal bodies (or centrioles).
... | Naegleria gruberi | Biology | 636 |
6,909,686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald%20Sadoway | Donald Robert Sadoway (born 7 March 1950) is professor emeritus of materials chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a noted expert on batteries and has done significant research on how to improve the performance and longevity of portable power sources. In parallel, he is an expert on the extracti... | Donald Sadoway | Chemistry | 1,329 |
22,136,672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Oenslager | George Oenslager (September 25, 1873 – February 5, 1956) was a Goodrich chemist who discovered that a derivative of aniline accelerated the vulcanization of rubber with sulfur. He first introduced carbon black as a rubber reinforcing agent in 1912.
Biography
Oenslager attended Harrisburg & Phillips Exeter Academies,... | George Oenslager | Chemistry,Materials_science | 317 |
34,884,919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-mixing%20plenum | An air-mixing plenum (or mixing box) is used in building services engineering and HVAC construction for mixing air from different ductwork systems.
Usage
Air streams are mixed to save energy and improve energy efficiency by partially recirculating conditioned air.
The most common application for an air-mixing plenum... | Air-mixing plenum | Chemistry,Engineering | 544 |
5,698,359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunodermatology | Immunodermatology studies skin as an organ of immunity in health and disease. Several areas have special attention, such as photo-immunology (effects of UV light on skin defense), inflammatory diseases such as Hidradenitis suppurativa, allergic contact dermatitis and atopic eczema, presumably autoimmune skin diseases s... | Immunodermatology | Biology | 186 |
41,651,252 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic%20taxonomy%20construction | Automatic taxonomy construction (ATC) is the use of software programs to generate taxonomical classifications from a body of texts called a corpus. ATC is a branch of natural language processing, which in turn is a branch of artificial intelligence.
A taxonomy (or taxonomical classification) is a scheme of classificat... | Automatic taxonomy construction | Technology | 1,037 |
32,376,085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer%20math | Consumer math comprises practical mathematical techniques used in commerce and everyday life. In the United States, consumer math is typically offered in high schools, some elementary schools, or in some colleges which grant associate's degrees.
A U.S. consumer math course might include a review of elementary arithm... | Consumer math | Mathematics | 244 |
31,466,181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puccinia%20sessilis | Puccinia sessilis is a fungal species and plant pathogen, which is also known as arum rust or ramsons rust. It commonly infects Arum maculatum and Allium ursinum causing yellow to orange circular patches on leaves. On the underside of the leaves, it produces raised orange aecia commonly covered in spores. It is common ... | Puccinia sessilis | Biology | 256 |
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