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5,233,930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20A.%20Lewis | Jennifer A. Lewis (born 1964) is an American materials scientist and engineer, best known for her research on colloidal assembly of ceramics and 3D printing of functional, structural, and biological materials.
In 2017, Lewis was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering for the development of material... | Jennifer A. Lewis | Materials_science,Technology | 1,209 |
49,144,314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcodon%20aglaosoma | Sarcodon aglaosoma is a species of tooth fungus in the family Bankeraceae. Found in Papua New Guinea, it was described as new to science in 1976 by Dutch mycologist Rudolph Arnold Maas Geesteranus. It is quite similar to H. joeides and S. ianthinus, both also from New Guinea.
References
External links
Fungi describe... | Sarcodon aglaosoma | Biology | 88 |
9,481,277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20of%20chaos | In lab experiments that study chaos theory, approaches designed to control chaos are based on certain observed system behaviors. Any chaotic attractor contains an infinite number of unstable, periodic orbits. Chaotic dynamics, then, consists of a motion where the system state moves in the neighborhood of one of these o... | Control of chaos | Mathematics | 826 |
34,750,899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aviation%20and%20Railway%20Accident%20Investigation%20Board | The Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board (ARAIB, ) is an agency of the South Korean government that investigates aviation and railway accidents, subservient to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) and headquartered in Sejong City.
The ARAIB opened on July 10, 2006. It was a merger of... | Aviation and Railway Accident Investigation Board | Technology | 276 |
41,183,702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypersensitive%20Narcissism%20Scale | The Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale (HSNS) is a self-report measure of covert narcissism. It was developed by Holly M. Hendin and Jonathan M. Cheek in 1997. It consists of ten items rated on a five-point scale.
It has a near zero correlation with the Narcissistic Personality Inventory, which measures overt narcissism.... | Hypersensitive Narcissism Scale | Biology | 102 |
48,732,326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers%20VR180%20Vigor | The Vickers VR180 Vigor was a British crawler tractor, built from 1951 to 1958 by Vickers-Armstrongs. Since the 1920s, the company gained substantial experience in the design and construction of tanks and continuous track vehicles. After the war they developed a civilian crawler tractor that could be sold for use in pe... | Vickers VR180 Vigor | Engineering | 911 |
47,763,726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaxterogaster%20occidentalis | Thaxterogaster occidentalis is a species of fungus in the family Cortinariaceae.
Taxonomy
It was described in 1939 by the American mycologist Alexander H. Smith who classified it as Cortinarius occidentalis.
In 2022 the species was transferred from Cortinarius and reclassified as Thaxterogaster occidentalis based on... | Thaxterogaster occidentalis | Biology | 111 |
40,434,786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Permanent | Semi Permanent is a creative experience company, best known for hosting annual design festivals. Semi Permanent provides creative and production services via SP Studio and SP Productions. Semi Permanent produces innovative creative experiences for clients, including Google, Dropbox and National Geographic.
The first S... | Semi-Permanent | Engineering | 727 |
9,385,138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20for%20Retail%20Technology%20Standards | The Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS) is an international standards organization dedicated to reducing the costs of technology through standards. Since 1993, ARTS has been delivering application standards exclusively to the retail industry. ARTS has four standards
The Standard Relational Data Model, U... | Association for Retail Technology Standards | Technology | 363 |
71,506,226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sean%20Smith%20%28chemist%29 | Sean Smith is the director of NCI Australia with a conjoint position of professor of computational nanomaterials science and technology at the Australian National University (ANU).
Education and research
Smith received a BSc and PhD in chemistry at University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand before postdocto... | Sean Smith (chemist) | Chemistry | 289 |
78,396,435 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%3A%20Tango | Operation: Tango is a cooperative first-person video game, created by the Canadian studio Clever Plays. Two players take control of either an Agent or a Hacker and must work together to solve puzzles to bring down a hi-tech global menace.
Premise and gameplay
Announced in 2020, Operation: Tango is an asymmetrical co-o... | Operation: Tango | Physics | 395 |
78,164,251 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integral%20of%20a%20correspondence | In mathematics, the integral of a correspondence is a generalization of the integration of single-valued functions to correspondences.
The first notion of the integral of a correspondence is due to Aumann in 1965, with a different approach by Debreu appearing in 1967. Integrals of correspondences have applications... | Integral of a correspondence | Mathematics | 589 |
15,964,820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Chemical%20Society | The European Chemical Society (EuChemS) is a European non-profit organisation which promotes collaboration between non-profit scientific and technical societies in the field of chemistry.
Based in Brussels, Belgium, the association took over the role and responsibilities of the Federation of European Chemical Societie... | European Chemical Society | Chemistry | 1,496 |
20,759,739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sesamodil | Sesamodil is a calcium channel blocker.
Calcium channel blockers
Benzodioxoles
Benzothiazines
Lactams
Phenol ethers | Sesamodil | Chemistry,Biology | 35 |
51,975,023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mailvelope | Mailvelope is free software for end-to-end encryption of email traffic inside of a web browser (Firefox, Chromium or Edge) that integrates itself into existing webmail applications ("email websites"). It can be used to encrypt and sign electronic messages, including attached files, without the use of a separate, native... | Mailvelope | Mathematics | 1,278 |
2,077,667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knuckle-walking | Knuckle-walking is a form of quadrupedal walking in which the forelimbs hold the fingers in a partially flexed posture that allows body weight to press down on the ground through the knuckles. Gorillas and chimpanzees use this style of locomotion, as do anteaters and platypuses.
Knuckle-walking helps with actions othe... | Knuckle-walking | Biology | 2,905 |
5,119,865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20116243 | HD 116243 is a single star in the southern constellation of Centaurus. It has the Bayer designation m Centauri, while HD 116243 is the identifier from the Henry Draper catalogue. This star has a yellow hue and is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.52. It is located at a distance of... | HD 116243 | Astronomy | 214 |
1,165,697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-recurring%20engineering | Non-recurring engineering (NRE) cost refers to the one-time cost to research, design, develop and test a new product or product enhancement. When budgeting for a new product, NRE must be considered to analyze if a new product will be profitable. Even though a company will pay for NRE on a project only once, NRE costs c... | Non-recurring engineering | Engineering | 513 |
12,514,554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toadstone | The toadstone, also known as bufonite (from Latin , "toad"), is a mythical stone or gem that was thought to be found in the head of a toad. It was supposed to be an antidote to poison and in this it is like batrachite, supposedly formed in the heads of frogs. Toadstones were actually the button-like fossilised teeth of... | Toadstone | Physics,Chemistry | 757 |
2,086,023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysogeny%20broth | Lysogeny broth (LB) is a nutritionally rich medium primarily used for the growth of bacteria. Its creator, Giuseppe Bertani, intended LB to stand for lysogeny broth, but LB has also come to colloquially mean Luria broth, Lennox broth, life broth or Luria–Bertani medium. The formula of the LB medium was published in 195... | Lysogeny broth | Biology | 670 |
13,008,203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunization%20registry | An immunization registry or immunization information system (IIS) is an information system that collects vaccination data about all persons within a geographic area. It consolidates the immunization records from multiple sources for each person living in its jurisdiction.
Introduction
Immunization information systems... | Immunization registry | Biology | 525 |
27,868,407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How%20the%20Universe%20Works | How The Universe Works is a science documentary television series that provides scientific explanations about the inner workings of the universe and everything it encompasses. With the use of computer-generated imagery (CGI) and visual effects, each episode presents and narrates a topic about the universe (e.g.: the or... | How the Universe Works | Astronomy | 548 |
1,051,589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyraminx | The Pyraminx () is a regular tetrahedron puzzle in the style of Rubik's Cube. It was made and patented by Uwe Mèffert after the original 3 layered Rubik's Cube by Ernő Rubik, and introduced by Tomy Toys of Japan (then the 3rd largest toy company in the world) in 1981.
Optimal solutions
The maximum number of twists r... | Pyraminx | Mathematics | 1,502 |
13,606,566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotolock%20valve | A service valve is a valve used to separate one piece of equipment from another in any system where liquids or gases circulate. Two types of service valves are marketed: the Schrader-type valve and the stem-type service valve. Specialized versions are made for specific purposes, such as the Rotolock valve (a stem-type ... | Rotolock valve | Physics,Chemistry | 140 |
7,272,050 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rangekeeper | Rangekeepers were electromechanical fire control computers used primarily during the early part of the 20th century. They were sophisticated analog computers whose development reached its zenith following World War II, specifically the Computer Mk 47 in the Mk 68 Gun Fire Control system. During World War II, rangekeepe... | Rangekeeper | Technology | 4,775 |
31,834,828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bert%20Schiettecatte | Bert Schiettecatte (born January 1, 1979) is a Belgian entrepreneur who created the Audiocubes.
Biography
Bert Schiettecatte was born in Ghent, Belgium. He has an electronic music production background . He holds an MSc in computer science from the University of Brussels (VUB) and an MA/MST of Arts in Music, Science ... | Bert Schiettecatte | Engineering | 258 |
13,113,563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutonium%28III%29%20chloride | Plutonium(III) chloride is a chemical compound with the formula PuCl3. This ionic plutonium salt can be prepared by reacting the metal with hydrochloric acid.
Structure
Plutonium atoms in crystalline PuCl3 are 9 coordinate, and the structure is tricapped trigonal prismatic. It crystallizes as the trihydrate, and form... | Plutonium(III) chloride | Physics,Chemistry | 162 |
5,817,943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Organisation%20for%20Civil%20Aviation%20Equipment | The European Organisation for Civil Aviation Equipment (EUROCAE) is an international organisation that deals exclusively with aviation standardisation, for both airborne and ground systems and equipment. It was created in 1963 in Lucerne, Switzerland by a decision of the European Civil Aviation Conference as a European... | European Organisation for Civil Aviation Equipment | Technology | 548 |
11,845,078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972%20Chicago%20commuter%20rail%20crash | A collision between two commuter trains in Chicago occurred during the cloudy morning rush hour on October 30, 1972, and was the worst such crash in Chicago's history. Illinois Central Gulf Train 416, made up of newly purchased Highliners, overshot the 27th Street station on what is now the Metra Electric Line, and the... | 1972 Chicago commuter rail crash | Technology | 395 |
30,669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska%20event | The Tunguska event was a large explosion of between 3 and 50 megatons that occurred near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Yeniseysk Governorate (now Krasnoyarsk Krai), Russia, on the morning of 30 June 1908. The explosion over the sparsely populated East Siberian taiga flattened an estimated 80 million trees over an ... | Tunguska event | Physics,Astronomy | 5,338 |
25,137,399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphanumeric%20grid | An alphanumeric grid (also known as atlas grid) is a simple coordinate system on a grid in which each cell is identified by a combination of a letter and a number.
An advantage over numeric coordinates such as easting and northing, which use two numbers instead of a number and a letter to refer to a grid cell, is that... | Alphanumeric grid | Mathematics | 171 |
76,617,124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient%20Near%20Eastern%20cosmology | Ancient Near Eastern (ANE) cosmology refers to the plurality of cosmological beliefs in the Ancient Near East, covering the period from the 4th millennium BC to the formation of the Macedonian Empire by Alexander the Great in the second half of the 1st millennium BC. These beliefs include the Mesopotamian cosmologies f... | Ancient Near Eastern cosmology | Astronomy | 13,251 |
7,626,796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudoelasticity | In materials science, pseudoelasticity, sometimes called superelasticity, is an elastic (reversible) response to an applied stress, caused by a phase transformation between the austenitic and martensitic phases of a crystal. It is exhibited in shape-memory alloys.
Overview
Pseudoelasticity is from the reversible mot... | Pseudoelasticity | Physics,Materials_science,Engineering | 732 |
45,558,734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COX5A | Cytochrome c oxidase subunit 5a is a protein that in humans is encoded by the COX5A gene. Cytochrome c oxidase 5A is a subunit of the cytochrome c oxidase complex, also known as Complex IV, the last enzyme in the mitochondrial electron transport chain.
Structure
The COX5A gene, located on the q arm of chromosome 15 ... | COX5A | Chemistry | 437 |
73,851,158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%2027563 | HD 27563, also known by the Bayer designation d Eridani, is a single star in Eridanus, in the direction of the Orion–Eridanus Superbubble, that is faintly visible to the naked eye at a magnitude of about 5.84. classifies this star as spectral type B5III, but catalog it as B7II.
It was used as a comparison star for 4... | HD 27563 | Astronomy | 257 |
9,264,025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrain%20awareness%20and%20warning%20system | In aviation, a terrain awareness and warning system (TAWS) is generally an on-board system aimed at preventing unintentional impacts with the ground, termed "controlled flight into terrain" accidents, or CFIT. The specific systems currently in use are the ground proximity warning system (GPWS) and the enhanced ground p... | Terrain awareness and warning system | Technology | 2,314 |
69,228,425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20Antique%20marble | Grand Antique marble (also Celtic marble (), Grand Antique of Aubert, and known in Roman times as Marmor Aquitanicum), is a prestigious marble, composed of clasts of black limestone and white calcite, quarried near Aubert-Moulis in France. The fault breccia from which it is extracted was formed at the end of the Cretac... | Grand Antique marble | Physics,Engineering | 387 |
70,812,248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandni%20Chowk%2C%20Kolkata | Chandni Chowk is a neighbourhood of North Kolkata in Kolkata district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is famous for its old and cheap market of computer software products and hardwares, and had been listed as a notorious market in 2009 and 2010 by the USTR for selling counterfeit software, media and goods.
Hist... | Chandni Chowk, Kolkata | Technology | 571 |
1,550,921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20wiki%20software | The following tables compare general and technical information for many wiki software packages.
General information
Systems listed on a light purple background are no longer in active development.
Target audience
Features 1
Features 2
Installation
See also
Comparison of
wiki farms
notetaking software
text editor... | Comparison of wiki software | Technology | 94 |
21,141,486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-1000A | The 4-1000A/8166 is a radial-beam tetrode designed for use in radio transmitters. The 4-1000A is the largest of a series of tubes including the 4-65A, 4-125A, 4-250A, and the 4-400A. These tubes share a common naming convention in which the first number identifies the number of elements contained within the tube; i.e... | 4-1000A | Physics | 665 |
35,330,140 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convergence%20%28relationship%29 | The convergence hypothesis suggests that spouses and romantic partners tend to become more alike over time due to their shared environment, repeated interactions, and synchronized routines. For example, partners who often laugh and joke with each other, may experience less stress, which, over the years, may improve the... | Convergence (relationship) | Biology | 617 |
487,507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange%20box | An orange box is a piece of hardware or software that generates caller ID frequency-shift keying (FSK) signals to spoof caller ID information on the target's caller ID terminal.
See also
Blue box
References
Caller ID
Phreaking boxes | Orange box | Engineering | 52 |
1,621,152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritual%20materialism | Spiritual materialism is a term coined by Chögyam Trungpa in his book Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism. The book is a compendium of his talks explaining Buddhism given while opening the Karma Dzong meditation center in Boulder, Colorado. He expands on the concept in later seminars that became books such as Work, ... | Spiritual materialism | Physics | 992 |
657,862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shared%20Source%20Common%20Language%20Infrastructure | The Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure (SSCLI), previously codenamed Rotor, is Microsoft's shared source implementation of the CLI, the core of .NET. Although the SSCLI is not suitable for commercial use due to its license, it does make it possible for programmers to examine the implementation details of many... | Shared Source Common Language Infrastructure | Technology | 505 |
16,782,427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20156846%20b | HD 156846 b is an extrasolar planet located approximately 160 light-years away in the constellation of Ophiuchus, orbiting the star HD 156846. It has one of the most eccentric planetary orbits known. The high eccentricity of this planet's orbit is probably attributable to the presence of a red dwarf companion star. The... | HD 156846 b | Astronomy | 212 |
3,400,834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acylsilane | Acylsilanes are a group of chemical compounds sharing a common functional group with the general structure RC(O)-SiR3.
Synthesis
Acylsilanes can be synthesized by treating acyl anion equivalents with silyl halides (typically trimethylsilyl chloride, tmsCl). Silylation of 2-lithio-1,3-dithiane, followed by hydrolysis... | Acylsilane | Chemistry | 328 |
11,421,637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20nucleolar%20RNA%20psi28S-2876 | In molecular biology, Small nucleolar RNA psi28S-2876 (also known as snoRNA psi28S-2876) is a non-coding RNA (ncRNA) molecule which functions in the biogenesis (modification) of other small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs). This type of modifying RNA is located in the nucleolus of the eukaryotic cell which is a major site of snRN... | Small nucleolar RNA psi28S-2876 | Chemistry | 184 |
377,112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20Romanes | George John Romanes (20 May 1848 – 23 May 1894) was a Canadian-Scots evolutionary biologist and physiologist who laid the foundation of what he called comparative psychology, postulating a similarity of cognitive processes and mechanisms between humans and other animals.
He was the youngest of Charles Darwin's academ... | George Romanes | Biology | 3,682 |
40,326,332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo%20Rodriguez%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Pablo Rodriguez (; born 17 April) is a Spanish computer scientist and researcher, who is best known for his research in the mid-2000s on peer-to-peer file sharing and user-generated content. After working for technology and communications companies AT&T and Microsoft Research, Rodriguez returned to Spain in 2006 to bec... | Pablo Rodriguez (computer scientist) | Technology | 1,307 |
14,039,665 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decene | Decene is an organic compound with the chemical formula . Decene contains a chain of ten carbon atoms with one double bond, making it an alkene. There are many isomers of decene depending on the position and geometry of the double bond. Dec-1-ene is the only isomer of industrial importance. As an alpha olefin, it is ... | Decene | Chemistry | 248 |
47,186,759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desoutter%20Tools | Desoutter Industrial Tools founded in Great Britain in 1914, now headquartered in France, is an industrial manufacturer providing Process Control & Data Analysis Software, as well as electric and formerly pneumatic assembly tools. Products and services are sold in more than 170 countries through 20 business units. Deso... | Desoutter Tools | Engineering | 653 |
14,308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover%20Dam | Hoover Dam is a concrete arch-gravity dam in the Black Canyon of the Colorado River, on the border between the U.S. states of Nevada and Arizona. Constructed between 1931 and 1936, during the Great Depression, it was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Its construction was the result of... | Hoover Dam | Engineering | 9,404 |
307,155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primitive%20equations | The primitive equations are a set of nonlinear partial differential equations that are used to approximate global atmospheric flow and are used in most atmospheric models. They consist of three main sets of balance equations:
A continuity equation: Representing the conservation of mass.
Conservation of momentum: Con... | Primitive equations | Physics,Chemistry,Environmental_science | 1,550 |
14,504,484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking%20fern | Walking fern may refer to two species of fern in the genus Asplenium, which are occasionally placed in a separate genus Camptosorus. The name "walking fern" derives from the fact that new plantlets grow wherever the arching leaves of the parent touch the ground, creating a walking effect. Both have evergreen, undivided... | Walking fern | Biology | 244 |
42,202,892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geophysical%20Service%20of%20the%20Russian%20Academy%20of%20Sciences | Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences () is a research body responsible for geological research.
History
Geophysical Service was established on the basis of Experimental Methodical Expedition of the Joint Institute of Physics of the Earth in accordance with the Decree of the Presidium of the Russian A... | Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences | Engineering | 300 |
64,487,875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas%20Whitwell | Thomas Whitwell (24 October 1837 – 5 August 1878) was a British engineer, inventor and metallurgist.
Known as Tom, he was the third son of William and Sarah Whitwell of Kendal. Tom was initially educated at home via private tutors he was sent to the Quaker run York School at 10 years old. In 1858, at 16, he travelle... | Thomas Whitwell | Chemistry,Materials_science | 639 |
68,772,421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicante%2010 | Alicante 10, also known as RSGC6 (Red Supergiant Cluster 6), is a young massive open cluster belonging to the Milky Way galaxy. It was discovered in 2012 in the 2MASS survey data. Currently, eight red supergiants have been identified in this cluster. Alicante 10 is located in the constellation Scutum at the distance o... | Alicante 10 | Astronomy | 318 |
71,937,299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%2032820 | HD 32820, also known as HR 1651, is a yellowish-white hued star located in the southern constellation Caelum, the chisel. It has an apparent magnitude of 6.3, placing it near the limit of naked eye visibility. The object is located relatively close at a distance of 103 light years based on parallax measurements from Ga... | HD 32820 | Astronomy | 239 |
1,084,655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von%20Staudt%E2%80%93Clausen%20theorem | In number theory, the von Staudt–Clausen theorem is a result determining the fractional part of Bernoulli numbers, found independently by
and .
Specifically, if is a positive integer and we add to the Bernoulli number for every prime such that divides , then we obtain an integer; that is,
This fact immediately ... | Von Staudt–Clausen theorem | Mathematics | 502 |
71,560,254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20208741 | HD 208741, also known as HR 8380, is a yellowish-white hued star located in the southern circumpolar constellation Octans. It has an apparent magnitude of 5.91, making it faintly visible to the naked eye. Parallax measurements place it at a distance of 211 light years, and it is currently receding with a heliocentric r... | HD 208741 | Astronomy | 319 |
22,269,179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aster%20%28cell%20biology%29 | An aster is a cellular structure shaped like a star, consisting of a centrosome and its associated microtubules during the early stages of mitosis in an animal cell. Asters do not form during mitosis in plants. Astral rays, composed of microtubules, radiate from the centrosphere and look like a cloud. Astral rays are ... | Aster (cell biology) | Biology | 905 |
1,293,780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fomitopsis%20betulina | Fomitopsis betulina (previously Piptoporus betulinus), commonly known as the birch polypore, birch bracket, or razor strop, is a common bracket fungus and, as the name suggests, grows almost exclusively on birch trees. The brackets burst out from the bark of the tree, and these fruit bodies can last for more than a yea... | Fomitopsis betulina | Biology | 1,088 |
41,993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensity%20%28physics%29 | In physics and many other areas of science and engineering the intensity or flux of radiant energy is the power transferred per unit area, where the area is measured on the plane perpendicular to the direction of propagation of the energy. In the SI system, it has units watts per square metre (W/m2), or kg⋅s−3 in base ... | Intensity (physics) | Physics,Mathematics,Engineering | 858 |
45,252,803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20OpenCL%20applications | The following list contains a list of computer programs that are built to take advantage of the OpenCL or WebCL heterogeneous compute framework.
Graphics
ACDSee
Adobe Photoshop
Affinity Photo
Capture One
Blurate
darktable
FAST: imaging Medical
GIMP
HALCON by MVTec
Helicon Focus
ImageMagick
Musemage
Pathfind... | List of OpenCL applications | Technology | 902 |
37,092,860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Conference%20on%20Cold%20Fusion | The International Conference on Cold Fusion (ICCF) (also referred to as Annual Conference on Cold Fusion in 1990-1991 and mostly as International Conference on Condensed Matter Nuclear Science since 2007) is an annual or biennial conference on the topic of cold fusion. An international conference on cold fusion was hel... | International Conference on Cold Fusion | Physics,Chemistry,Technology | 916 |
913,935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac%20NC | The Mac NC, or Macintosh NC, is a prototype networked thin client from Apple, expected for release by April 1998. The device was widely promoted by then-Apple director Larry Ellison, apparently as part of his Oracle Network Computer initiative. Mac NC was canceled, and its key technology components were inherited by th... | Mac NC | Technology | 450 |
12,469,280 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAMA%20300 | TAMA 300 is a gravitational wave detector located at the Mitaka campus of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan. It is a project of the gravitational wave studies group at the Institute for Cosmic Ray Research (ICRR) of the University of Tokyo. The ICRR was established in 1976 for cosmic ray studies, and is cu... | TAMA 300 | Technology,Engineering | 341 |
1,873,971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virotherapy | Virotherapy is a treatment using biotechnology to convert viruses into therapeutic agents by reprogramming viruses to treat diseases. There are three main branches of virotherapy: anti-cancer oncolytic viruses, viral vectors for gene therapy and viral immunotherapy. These branches use three different types of treatment... | Virotherapy | Biology | 3,115 |
684,143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wedge%20sum | In topology, the wedge sum is a "one-point union" of a family of topological spaces. Specifically, if X and Y are pointed spaces (i.e. topological spaces with distinguished basepoints and ) the wedge sum of X and Y is the quotient space of the disjoint union of X and Y by the identification
where is the equivalen... | Wedge sum | Physics,Mathematics | 543 |
77,414,579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cactus%20alkaloids | Cactus alkaloids are alkaloids that occur in cactus. Structurally, they are tetrahydroisoquinolines and phenylethylamines.
Occurrence and Representatives
Cactus alkaloids are found in the cactus family, particularly in the genus Lophophora, which alone contains over 40 known compounds. The alkaloids can be categorize... | Cactus alkaloids | Chemistry | 583 |
73,603,655 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth%20Museum | Perth Museum is a museum which opened on 30 March 2024. The museum is housed within Perth City Hall and aims showcase the city’s important collections to tell the tale of Scotland through the prism of Perth, the former capital of Scotland. The museum faces King Edward Street but is accessed from St John's Place.
Histo... | Perth Museum | Materials_science,Engineering | 341 |
232,386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor%20skill | A motor skill is a function that involves specific movements of the body's muscles to perform a certain task. These tasks could include walking, running, or riding a bike. In order to perform this skill, the body's nervous system, muscles, and brain have to all work together. The goal of motor skill is to optimize the ... | Motor skill | Biology | 3,460 |
3,876,831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%202547 | NGC 2547 is a southern open cluster in Vela, discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1751 from South Africa. The star cluster is young with an age of 20-30 million years.
Observations with the Spitzer Space Telescope showed a shell around the B3 III/IV-type star HD 68478. This could be a sign of recent mass loss in... | NGC 2547 | Astronomy | 449 |
39,083,294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synnefo | Synnefo is a complete open-source cloud stack written in Python that provides Compute, Network, Image, Volume and Storage services, similar to the ones offered by AWS. Synnefo manages multiple Google Ganeti clusters at the backend that handle low-level VM operations and uses Archipelago to unify cloud storage. To boost... | Synnefo | Technology | 1,979 |
61,243,323 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen%20Pearson%20%28science%20journalist%29 | Helen Pearson is a science journalist, author and Chief Magazine Editor for the journal Nature, where she oversees the journalism and opinion content. She is the author of The Life Project, a book about the British birth cohort studies, a series of longitudinal studies which have tracked thousands of people since their... | Helen Pearson (science journalist) | Technology | 649 |
3,992,145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAZWOPER | Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response (HAZWOPER; ) is a set of guidelines produced and maintained by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration which regulates hazardous waste operations and emergency services in the United States and its territories. With these guidelines, the U.S. government regul... | HAZWOPER | Physics,Chemistry,Technology | 1,401 |
34,625,143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%206642 | NGC 6642 is a globular cluster located 26,700 light-years from Earth, in the constellation Sagittarius. Many "blue stragglers" (stars which seemingly lag behind in their rate of aging) have been spotted in this globular, and it is known to be lacking in low-mass stars.
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Globular clusters
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17,119,866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PacketTrap | PacketTrap Networks, Inc., later known as just PacketTrap, was a provider of network management and traffic analysis software for midsize companies.
History
PacketTrap was founded in 2006 and headquartered in San Francisco, California. It received $5 million in Series A venture capital from August Capital in 2007.
Th... | PacketTrap | Technology | 358 |
70,383,921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oceanic%20freshwater%20flux | Oceanic freshwater fluxes are defined as the transport of non saline water between the oceans and the other components of the Earth's system (the lands, the atmosphere and the cryosphere). These fluxes have an impact on the local ocean properties (on sea surface salinity, temperature and elevation), as well as on the l... | Oceanic freshwater flux | Physics,Environmental_science | 4,613 |
26,835,066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millbank%20bag | A Millbank bag is a portable water filtration device made of tightly woven canvas for outdoor use. They are light, compact, and easy but slow to use. The bag is filled with water, which filters through the canvas by gravity. It is useful for removing sediment and organic matter but the water may require further sterili... | Millbank bag | Chemistry | 84 |
10,883,673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%206242 | NGC 6242 is an open cluster of stars in the southern constellation Scorpius. It can be viewed with binoculars or a telescope at about 1.5° to the south-southeast of the double star Mu Scorpii. This cluster was discovered by French astronomer Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille in 1752 from South Africa. It is located at a distan... | NGC 6242 | Astronomy | 175 |
14,330,135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmetrical%20double-sided%20two-way%20ranging | In radio technology, symmetrical double-sided two-way ranging (SDS-TWR) is a ranging method that uses two delays that naturally occur in signal transmission to determine the range between two stations:
Signal propagation delay between two wireless devices
Processing delay of acknowledgements within a wireless device... | Symmetrical double-sided two-way ranging | Technology,Engineering | 454 |
16,620,919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network%20Centric%20Product%20Support | Network Centric Product Support (NCPS) is an early application of an Internet of Things (IoT) computer architecture developed to leverage new information technologies and global networks to assist in managing maintenance, support and supply chain of complex products made up of one or more complex systems, such as in a ... | Network Centric Product Support | Technology,Engineering | 1,966 |
16,921,836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F.%20Gordon%20A.%20Stone | Francis Gordon Albert Stone CBE, FRS, FRSC (19 May 1925 – 6 April 2011), always known as Gordon, was a British chemist who was a prolific and decorated scholar. He specialized in the synthesis of main group and transition metal organometallic compounds. He was the author of more than 900 academic publications resulting... | F. Gordon A. Stone | Chemistry | 811 |
40,997,391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puente%20%28holiday%29 | A (Spanish for bridge) is a holiday in Spain. It is the day off to bridge the time between the weekend and a holiday, thereby creating a long weekend. A typically occurs when a holiday falls on a Tuesday or Thursday, workers will then take the Monday or Friday as a , a day off. Some businesses will close down altoget... | Puente (holiday) | Engineering | 256 |
49,503,671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future%20Anterior | Future Anterior is a biannual peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of Minnesota Press. The editor-in-chief is Jorge Otero-Pailos (Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation).
History
The journal was established in 2004 by Jorge Otero-Pailos and is dedicated to the "critic... | Future Anterior | Engineering | 413 |
28,498,504 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20Space%20Track | Project Space Track was a research and development project of the US Air Force, to create a tracking system for all artificial satellites of the Earth and space probes, domestic and foreign.
Project Space Track was started in 1957 at the Air Force Research Laboratory at Laurence G. Hanscom Field, now Hanscom Air Force... | Project Space Track | Physics,Astronomy,Technology | 4,711 |
8,801,791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawking%20%28birds%29 | Hawking is a feeding strategy in birds involving catching flying insects in the air. The term usually refers to a technique of sallying out from a perch to snatch an insect and then returning to the same or a different perch, though it also applies to birds that spend almost their entire lives on the wing. This techniq... | Hawking (birds) | Biology | 2,439 |
18,738,884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxidized%20cellulose | Oxidized cellulose is a water-insoluble derivative of cellulose. It can be produced from cellulose by the action of an oxidizing agent, such as chlorine, hydrogen peroxide, peracetic acid, chlorine dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, persulfates, permanganate, dichromate-sulfuric acid, hypochlorous acid, hypohalites or perioda... | Oxidized cellulose | Chemistry | 227 |
30,864,881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob%20Israelachvili | Jacob Nissim Israelachvili, (19 August 1944 – 20 September 2018) was an Israeli physicist who was a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).
Personal life
He was born in Tel Aviv, Israel and sent to an English boarding school at the age of 7. After completing his secondary education he return... | Jacob Israelachvili | Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 906 |
1,721,778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spitting | Spitting is the act of forcibly ejecting saliva, sputum, nasal mucus and/or other substances from the mouth. The act is often done to get rid of unwanted or foul-tasting substances in the mouth, or to get rid of a large buildup of mucus. Spitting of small saliva droplets can also happen unintentionally during talkin... | Spitting | Biology | 1,241 |
390,562 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomasulo%27s%20algorithm | Tomasulo's algorithm is a computer architecture hardware algorithm for dynamic scheduling of instructions that allows out-of-order execution and enables more efficient use of multiple execution units. It was developed by Robert Tomasulo at IBM in 1967 and was first implemented in the IBM System/360 Model 91’s floating ... | Tomasulo's algorithm | Mathematics | 1,679 |
76,780,183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CYB210010 | CYB210010, also known as 2C-T-TFM, is a lesser-known psychedelic drug of the phenethylamine family related to compounds such as 2C-T and 2C-T-21.
Alexander Shulgin attempted to synthesise this compound in the 1990s, and mentions it in his book PiHKAL under the entry for 2C-T-21, but was unsuccessful in producing a key... | CYB210010 | Chemistry | 432 |
25,086,315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20hydrogen%20electrode | A dynamic hydrogen electrode (DHE) is a reference electrode, more specific a subtype of the standard hydrogen electrodes for electrochemical processes by simulating a reversible hydrogen electrode with an approximately 20 to 40 mV more negative potential.
Principle
A separator in a glass tube connects two electrolytes... | Dynamic hydrogen electrode | Chemistry | 111 |
11,421,092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake%20H/ACA%20box%20small%20nucleolar%20RNA | In molecular biology, Snake H/ACA box small nucleolar RNA refers to a number of very closely related non-coding RNA (ncRNA) genes identified in snakes which have been predicted to be small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs). This type of ncRNA is involved in the biogenesis of other small nuclear RNAs and are often referred to as... | Snake H/ACA box small nucleolar RNA | Chemistry | 229 |
31,148,481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out%20of%20the%20Ordinary%20Festival | The Out of the Ordinary Festival was an annual family- and eco-friendly music festival near Hailsham in the Sussex countryside. From 2007 to 2013 it celebrated the autumn equinox in England with a variety of live music, talks and workshops, performances, activities for children with green and ethical businesses, many p... | Out of the Ordinary Festival | Astronomy | 616 |
62,812,480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHL-16 | The PHL-16, also known as PCL-191, is a truck-mounted self-propelled multiple rocket launcher (MRL) system developed by the People's Republic of China.
Development
It is based on the AR-3 MRL developed by Norinco. The AR-3 was marketed in 2010. The PHL-16 was unveiled during the Chinese National Day Parade in 2019; un... | PHL-16 | Engineering | 401 |
610,773 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-unit%20system | In the power systems analysis field of electrical engineering, a per-unit system is the expression of system quantities as fractions of a defined base unit quantity. Calculations are simplified because quantities expressed as per-unit do not change when they are referred from one side of a transformer to the other. Th... | Per-unit system | Physics,Engineering | 1,980 |
73,708,520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20192827 | HD 192827, also known as HR 7745 or rarely 83 G. Telescopii, is a solitary red hued star located in the southern constellation Telescopium. It has an apparent magnitude of 6.28, placing it near the limit for naked eye visibility. The object is located relatively far at a distance of 1,320 light years based on Gaia DR3 ... | HD 192827 | Astronomy | 383 |
1,239,940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REFSMMAT | REFSMMAT is a term used by guidance, navigation, and control system flight controllers during the Apollo program, which carried over into the Space Shuttle program. REFSMMAT stands for "Reference to Stable Member Matrix". It is a numerical definition of a fixed orientation in space and is usually (but not always) defin... | REFSMMAT | Astronomy,Engineering | 490 |
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