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15,050,269 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating%20context | An operating context (OC) for an application is the external environment that influences its operation. For a mobile application, the OC is defined by the hardware and software environment in the device, the target user, and other constraints imposed by various other stakeholders, such as a carrier.
This concept diffe... | Operating context | Technology | 332 |
6,485,489 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouser%20press | A trouser press, also referred to by the trademarked name Corby trouser press, is an electrical appliance used to smooth the wrinkles from a pair of trousers. They are commonly provided in hotel rooms worldwide, though may also be purchased for home use; they are generally associated with use by businessmen who require... | Trouser press | Physics,Technology | 804 |
37,835,275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Galloway | Edward Galloway (September 1840 – April 19, 1861) was the first soldier in the American Civil War to be mortally wounded, and the war's second death, after Private Daniel Hough. He was injured when a gun went off prematurely on April 14, 1861, during a 100-gun salute to the flag after the Battle of Fort Sumter. The exp... | Edward Galloway | Chemistry | 442 |
36,847,374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30%20Cygni | 30 Cygni (ο1 Cygni) is a class A5III (white giant) star in the constellation Cygnus. Its apparent magnitude is 4.83 and it is approximately 610 light years away based on parallax.
The Bayer letter ο (omicron) has been variously applied to two or three of the stars 30, 31, and 32 Cygni. 30 Cygni has sometimes been desi... | 30 Cygni | Astronomy | 214 |
12,589,603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcription%20factor%20II%20E | Transcription factor II E (TFIIE) is one of several general transcription factors that make up the RNA polymerase II preinitiation complex. It is a tetramer of two alpha and two beta chains and interacts with TAF6/TAFII80, ATF7IP, and varicella-zoster virus IE63 protein.
TFIIE recruits TFIIH to the initiation complex ... | Transcription factor II E | Chemistry,Biology | 201 |
13,939,428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/74181 | The 74181 is a 4-bit slice arithmetic logic unit (ALU), implemented as a 7400 series TTL integrated circuit. Introduced by Texas Instruments in February 1970, it was the first complete ALU on a single chip. It was used as the arithmetic/logic core in the CPUs of many historically significant minicomputers and other dev... | 74181 | Technology | 1,654 |
8,253,417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma%20modeling | Plasma modeling refers to solving equations of motion that describe the state of a plasma. It is generally coupled with Maxwell's equations for electromagnetic fields or Poisson's equation for electrostatic fields. There are several main types of plasma models: single particle, kinetic, fluid, hybrid kinetic/fluid, gyr... | Plasma modeling | Physics | 975 |
25,388,427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamming%20avoidance%20response | The jamming avoidance response is a behavior of some species of weakly electric fish. It occurs when two electric fish with wave discharges meet – if their discharge frequencies are very similar, each fish shifts its discharge frequency to increase the difference between the two. By doing this, both fish prevent jammin... | Jamming avoidance response | Biology | 1,932 |
29,103,384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycena%20fuscoaurantiaca | Mycena fuscoaurantiaca is a species of mushroom in the family Mycenaceae. First reported as a new species in 2007, the diminutive mushroom is only found in Kanagawa, Japan, where it grows on dead fallen twigs in lowland forests dominated by hornbeam (Carpinus) and Chinese evergreen oak trees. The mushroom has a brownis... | Mycena fuscoaurantiaca | Biology | 1,275 |
77,037,789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRAS%2013218%2B0552 | IRAS 13218+0552 known as SFRS 263, is a galaxy merger located in the Virgo constellation. Its redshift is 0.202806, putting the object at 2.6 billion light-years away from Earth. It is a Seyfert galaxy and a luminous infrared galaxy.
Characteristics
IRAS 13218+0552 is classified as a Seyfert type 1.5 galaxy given its... | IRAS 13218+0552 | Astronomy | 517 |
28,409,956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Power%20%28self-help%20book%29 | The Power is a 2010 self-help and spirituality book written by Rhonda Byrne. It is a sequel to the 2006 book The Secret. The book was released on 17 August 2010 along with an audio-book based on it. The Power'''s mission statement is, "The philosophy and vision of the Secret is to bring joy to billions. To bring joy to... | The Power (self-help book) | Physics | 687 |
72,314,003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20chicane | A magnetic chicane also called a bunch compressor helps form dense bunches of electrons in a free-electron laser. A magnetic chicane makes electrons detour slightly from their otherwise straight path, and in that way is similar to a chicane on a road.
A magnetic chicane consists of four dipole magnets, giving elect... | Magnetic chicane | Physics,Chemistry | 508 |
10,938,277 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20Forester%20Mushet | Robert Forester Mushet (8 April 1811 – 29 January 1891) was a British metallurgist and businessman, born on 8 April 1811, in Coleford, in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, England. He was the youngest son of Scottish parents, Agnes Wilson and David Mushet; an ironmaster, formerly of the Clyde, Alfreton and Whiteclif... | Robert Forester Mushet | Chemistry | 1,514 |
1,947,769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divination%20by%20Astrological%20and%20Meteorological%20Phenomena | The Divination by Astrological and Meteorological Phenomena (), also known as Book of Silk is an ancient astronomy silk manuscript compiled by Chinese astronomers of the Western Han dynasty (202 BC – 9 AD) and found in the Mawangdui of Changsha, Hunan, China in 1973. It lists 29 comets (referred to as 彗星, huì xīng, l... | Divination by Astrological and Meteorological Phenomena | Astronomy | 396 |
35,521,593 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morchella%20meiliensis | Morchella meiliensis is a species of fungus in the family Morchellaceae native to China.
Taxonomy
The species was described as new to science in 2006. The specific epithet meiliensis refers to Meili Snow Mountain in Yunnan, where the type specimen was collected.
Description
The fruit bodies are with a conical cap me... | Morchella meiliensis | Biology | 396 |
1,705,815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark-energy%20star | A dark-energy star is a hypothetical compact astrophysical object, which a minority of physicists think might constitute an alternative explanation for observations of astronomical black hole candidates.
The concept was proposed by physicist George Chapline. The theory states that infalling matter is converted into va... | Dark-energy star | Physics,Astronomy | 557 |
48,309,206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russula%20pyriodora | Russula pyriodora is a species of fungus in the family Russulaceae. Found in Finland, it was described as new to science in 2011 by Juhani Ruotsalainen. It associates mostly with birch (Betula spp.), but has also been recorded with alder (Alnus), spruce (Picea), and willow (Salix). Fruitbodies of the fungus resembles t... | Russula pyriodora | Biology | 171 |
22,819,730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acaulospora%20alpina | Acaulospora alpina is a species of fungus in the family Acaulosporaceae. It forms arbuscular mycorrhiza and vesicles in roots. The fungus was discovered in Switzerland, in the rhizosphere of an alpine grassland at altitudes between .
References
Diversisporales
Fungi described in 2006
Fungi of Europe
Fungus species | Acaulospora alpina | Biology | 75 |
34,259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yet%20another | A naming convention as a form of computer humour especially among playful programmers, yet another is often abbreviated ya, Ya, or YA in the prefix of an acronym or backronym.
This humorous prefix is an idiomatic qualifier in the name of a computer program, organization, or event for the intention of elevating love an... | Yet another | Technology | 616 |
59,067,258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moto%20E5 | The Moto E5 is the 5th generation of the low-end Moto E family of Android smart phones developed by Motorola Mobility. It comprises three submodels: E5 Play, E5 and E5 Plus. They were released in April 2018. The base model costs $99, putting this phone in the budget segment of the smartphone market. This phone is often... | Moto E5 | Technology | 132 |
62,977,003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%20920 | NGC 920 is a barred spiral galaxy in the Andromeda constellation. The celestial object was discovered on September 11, 1885 by the American astronomer Lewis A. Swift.
See also
List of NGC objects (1–1000)
References
External links
Barred spiral galaxies
920
Andromeda (constellation)
009377 | NGC 920 | Astronomy | 65 |
39,516,620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20G.%20Thomas%20%28scientist%29 | Alan G. Thomas (1927-2019) was an international authority on the mechanics of rubbery materials, in particular their fracture mechanics properties. Along with Ronald S. Rivlin, he published the Rupture of Rubber series of articles, beginning in 1953. He was the first to apply Griffith's energy release rate criterion ... | Alan G. Thomas (scientist) | Chemistry,Materials_science | 321 |
55,993,644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business%20process%20outsourcing%20in%20China | The business process outsourcing industry in China including IT and other outsourcing services for onshore and export markets surpassed 1 trillion yuan (about $145 billion) in 2016 according to the Ministry of Commerce (MOC).
History
The outsourcing industry grew rapidly in the 2000s in China by beginning from an "emb... | Business process outsourcing in China | Technology,Engineering | 608 |
50,127,829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euromatrix | The EuroMatrix is a project that ran from September 2006 to February 2009. The project aimed to develop and improve machine translation (MT) systems between all official languages of the European Union (EU).
EuroMatrix was followed up by another project EuroMatrixPlus (March 2009 to February 2012).
Approach to transl... | Euromatrix | Technology | 492 |
60,557,698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military%20geology | Military geology is the application of geological theory to warfare and the peacetime practices of the military. The formal practice of military geology began during the Napoleonic Wars; however, geotechnical knowledge has been applied since the earliest days of siege warfare. In modern warfare military geologists are ... | Military geology | Engineering | 1,006 |
46,207,323 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feature%20engineering | Feature engineering is a preprocessing step in supervised machine learning and statistical modeling which transforms raw data into a more effective set of inputs. Each input comprises several attributes, known as features. By providing models with relevant information, feature engineering significantly enhances their p... | Feature engineering | Engineering | 1,426 |
20,436,586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%20Tyablikov | Sergei Vladimirovich Tyablikov (; September 7, 1921 – March 17, 1968) was a Soviet theoretical physicist known for his significant contributions to statistical mechanics, solid-state physics, and for the development of the double-time Green function's formalism.
Biography
Tyablikov was born in Klin, Russia. In 1944 he... | Sergei Tyablikov | Physics | 734 |
20,281,471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christophe%20Breuil | Christophe Breuil (; born 1968) is a French mathematician, who works in arithmetic geometry and algebraic number theory.
Work
With Fred Diamond, Richard Taylor and Brian Conrad in 1999, he proved the Taniyama–Shimura conjecture, which previously had only been proved for semistable elliptic curves by Andrew Wiles and ... | Christophe Breuil | Mathematics | 442 |
67,028,109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workpiece | A workpiece is a piece, often made of a single material, that is being processed into another desired shape (such as building blocks).
The workpiece is usually a piece of relatively rigid material such as wood, metal, plastic, or stone. After a processing step, the workpiece may be moved on to further steps of process... | Workpiece | Engineering | 281 |
75,391,267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olpasiran | Olpasiran (AMG890) is an experimental antisense therapy designed to lower the level of lipoprotein(a), which is believed to be a causal factor in the development of cardiovascular disease. The drug is developed by Amgen.
References
Amgen
Antisense RNA | Olpasiran | Chemistry | 63 |
1,516,465 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nota%20accusativi | Nota accusativi is a grammatical term for a particle (an uninflected word) that marks a noun as being in the accusative case. An example is the use of the word in Spanish before an animate direct object: .
Esperanto
Officially, in Esperanto, the suffix letter is used to mark an accusative. But a few modern speake... | Nota accusativi | Technology | 421 |
76,012,741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gate%20lice | Gate lice is a pejorative term used to describe a phenomenon observed among air travelers where passengers gather in front of boarding gates before their designated boarding time. The term has gained recognition within the community of frequent flyers, particularly on platforms such as Flyertalk. This phenomenon may ma... | Gate lice | Physics | 502 |
1,945,917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfamic%20acid | Sulfamic acid, also known as amidosulfonic acid, amidosulfuric acid, aminosulfonic acid, sulphamic acid and sulfamidic acid, is a molecular compound with the formula H3NSO3. This colourless, water-soluble compound finds many applications. Sulfamic acid melts at 205 °C before decomposing at higher temperatures to water,... | Sulfamic acid | Chemistry,Technology | 1,756 |
23,963,427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acqua%20alta | An (, ; ) is an exceptional tide peak that occurs periodically in the northern Adriatic Sea. The term is applied to such tides in the Italian region of Veneto. The peaks reach their maximum in the Venetian Lagoon, where they cause partial flooding of Venice and Chioggia; flooding also occurs elsewhere around the north... | Acqua alta | Chemistry,Engineering,Environmental_science | 3,737 |
20,249,418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asymmetric%20graph | In graph theory, a branch of mathematics, an undirected graph is called an asymmetric graph if it has no nontrivial symmetries.
Formally, an automorphism of a graph is a permutation of its vertices with the property that any two vertices and are adjacent if and only if and are adjacent.
The identity mapping of a ... | Asymmetric graph | Physics | 483 |
5,024,592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune%20tolerance | Immune tolerance, also known as immunological tolerance or immunotolerance, refers to the immune system's state of unresponsiveness to substances or tissues that would otherwise trigger an immune response. It arises from prior exposure to a specific antigen and contrasts the immune system's conventional role in elimina... | Immune tolerance | Biology | 6,040 |
57,234,656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanrodai | The () is a sacred entity in Tenrikyo and Tenrikyo-derived Japanese new religions such as Honmichi, Honbushin, and Daehan Cheolligyo. While Tenrikyo considers the Kanrodai to be a physical pillar, Honmichi gives a new interpretation in which the Kanrodai is embodied as a living person. Honbushin recognizes a Kanrodai ... | Kanrodai | Physics,Mathematics | 647 |
43,493,792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deryk%20Osthus | Deryk Osthus is the Professor of Graph Theory at the School of Mathematics, University of Birmingham. He is known for his research in combinatorics, predominantly in extremal and probabilistic graph theory.
Career
Osthus earned a B.A. in mathematics from Cambridge University in 1996, followed by the Certificate of Adv... | Deryk Osthus | Mathematics | 674 |
777,462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroblast | In vertebrates, a neuroblast or primitive nerve cell is a postmitotic cell that does not divide further, and which will develop into a neuron after a migration phase. In invertebrates such as Drosophila, neuroblasts are neural progenitor cells which divide asymmetrically to produce a neuroblast, and a daughter cell of ... | Neuroblast | Biology | 1,536 |
20,672,522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boulder%20River%20Wilderness | Boulder River Wilderness is a wilderness area within the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest in the western Cascade Range of Washington state.
Topography
Boulder River Wilderness is made up of dense forests and steep ridges that rise to the summits of Three Fingers and Whitehorse Mountain. Elevations range from ... | Boulder River Wilderness | Biology | 472 |
12,501,792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bisoxazoline%20ligand | Bis(oxazoline) ligands (often abbreviated BOX ligands) are a class of privileged chiral ligands containing two oxazoline rings. They are typically C2‑symmetric and exist in a wide variety of forms; with structures based around CH2 or pyridine linkers being particularly common (often generalised BOX and PyBOX respectiv... | Bisoxazoline ligand | Chemistry | 1,408 |
41,533,727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TouchBistro%20Inc. | TouchBistro Inc. is a Toronto-based software company that develops a restaurant point of sale system for the iPad. TouchBistro Inc. was founded by Alex Barrotti in 2010.
History
Barrotti had previously founded INEX, a web-based online storefront creator, which he sold to Infospace (now Blucora) in 1999 for $45 million... | TouchBistro Inc. | Technology | 206 |
41,197,921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verbal%20overshadowing | Verbal overshadowing is a phenomenon where giving a verbal description of sensory input impairs formation of memories of that input. This was first reported by Schooler and Engstler-Schooler (1990) where it was shown that the effects can be observed across multiple domains of cognition which are known to rely on non-ve... | Verbal overshadowing | Biology | 4,059 |
6,770,335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Car%E2%80%93Parrinello%20molecular%20dynamics | Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics or CPMD refers to either a method used in molecular dynamics (also known as the Car–Parrinello method) or the computational chemistry software package used to implement this method.
The CPMD method is one of the major methods for calculating ab-initio molecular dynamics (ab-initio MD ... | Car–Parrinello molecular dynamics | Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics | 1,646 |
63,992,561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfate%20nitrates | The sulfate nitrates are a family of double salts that contain both sulfate and nitrate ions (NO3−, SO42−). They are in the class of mixed anion compounds. A few rare minerals are in this class. Two sulfate nitrates are in the class of anthropogenic compounds, accidentally made as a result of human activities in fertil... | Sulfate nitrates | Physics,Chemistry | 153 |
21,922,970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teichm%C3%BCller%E2%80%93Tukey%20lemma | In mathematics, the Teichmüller–Tukey lemma (sometimes named just Tukey's lemma), named after John Tukey and Oswald Teichmüller, is a lemma that states that every nonempty collection of finite character has a maximal element with respect to inclusion. Over Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, the Teichmüller–Tukey lemma is equ... | Teichmüller–Tukey lemma | Mathematics | 286 |
74,149,338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsteinium%20hexafluoride | Einsteinium hexafluoride is a binary inorganic chemical compound of einsteinium and fluorine with the chemical formula . This is a hypothetical compound—its existence has been predicted theoretically, but the compound has yet to be isolated.
Physical properties
It is unlikely that the compound is stable.
References
... | Einsteinium hexafluoride | Chemistry | 78 |
996,739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances%20Power%20Cobbe | Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Anglo-Irish writer, philosopher, religious thinker, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading women's suffrage campaigner. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups, including the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) in 1875 and the Briti... | Frances Power Cobbe | Biology | 2,566 |
7,070,302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alagoas%20curassow | The Alagoas curassow (Mitu mitu) is a glossy-black, pheasant-like bird. It was formerly found in forests in Northeastern Brazil in what is now the states of Pernambuco and Alagoas, which is the origin of its common name. It is now extinct in the wild; there are about 130 individuals in captivity.
German naturalist Geo... | Alagoas curassow | Biology | 1,492 |
26,165,818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20129445 | HD 129445 (HIP 72203; LTT 5856) is a star located in the southern constellation Circinus. It has an apparent magnitude of 8.80, making it faintly visble in binoculars but not to the naked eye. The object is located relatively close at a distance of 219 light-years based on Gaia DR3 parallax measurements but it is drift... | HD 129445 | Astronomy | 394 |
51,488,947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday%20House | Faraday House Electrical Engineering College was created to train engineers in power generation and distribution. It was set up at a time before engineering was widely taught at universities, founded as an adjunct to a commercial company for supplying towns with electricity. It operated between 1890 and 1967, mainly at... | Faraday House | Engineering | 415 |
15,172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20slang | Internet slang (also called Internet shorthand, cyber-slang, netspeak, digispeak or chatspeak (bruh, who even calls it that)) is a non-standard or unofficial form of language used by people on the Internet to communicate to one another. A popular example of Internet slang is "lol" meaning "laugh out loud". Since Intern... | Internet slang | Technology | 3,292 |
43,424,809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoremediation | Nanoremediation is the use of nanoparticles for environmental remediation. It is being explored to treat ground water, wastewater, soil, sediment, or other contaminated environmental materials.
Nanoremediation is an emerging industry; by 2009, nanoremediation technologies had been documented in at least 44 cleanup site... | Nanoremediation | Materials_science | 2,460 |
23,470,390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWeaver%20Developer | NetWeaver Developer is a knowledgebase development system. This article
gives a brief history of the system,
summarizes key features of the software,
is a bit of a primer, describing basic attributes of a NetWeaver knowledgebase, and
provides secondary references that independently document some of the NetWeaver a... | NetWeaver Developer | Engineering | 2,515 |
30,762,165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-11f | Kepler-11f is an exoplanet (extrasolar planet) discovered in the orbit of the Sun-like star Kepler-11 by NASA's Kepler space telescope, which searches for planets that transit (cross in front of) their host stars. Kepler-11f is the fifth planet from its star, orbiting one quarter of the distance (.25 AU) of the Earth f... | Kepler-11f | Astronomy | 1,231 |
2,359,020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20methods%20in%20electronics | Mathematical methods are integral to the study of electronics.
Mathematics in electronics engineering
Mathematical Methods in Electronics Engineering involves applying mathematical principles to analyze, design, and optimize electronic circuits and systems. Key areas include:
Linear Algebra: Used to solve systems o... | Mathematical methods in electronics | Mathematics,Technology,Engineering | 791 |
716,803 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantale | In mathematics, quantales are certain partially ordered algebraic structures that generalize locales (point free topologies) as well as various multiplicative lattices of ideals from ring theory and functional analysis (C*-algebras, von Neumann algebras). Quantales are sometimes referred to as complete residuated semig... | Quantale | Mathematics | 506 |
69,360,178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/June%202075%20lunar%20eclipse | A partial lunar eclipse will occur at the Moon’s descending node of orbit on Friday, June 28, 2075, with an umbral magnitude of 0.6235. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A partial lunar eclipse occurs when one part of the Moon is in the Earth's umbra, w... | June 2075 lunar eclipse | Astronomy | 732 |
26,919,717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromerism | Electromerism is a type of isomerism between a pair of molecules (electromers, electro-isomers) differing in the way electrons are distributed among the atoms and the connecting chemical bonds. In some literature electromerism is equated to valence tautomerism, a term usually reserved for tautomerism involving reconnec... | Electromerism | Chemistry | 185 |
2,019,981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vapor%20pressures%20of%20the%20elements%20%28data%20page%29 |
Vapor pressure
Notes
Values are given in terms of temperature necessary to reach the specified pressure.
Valid results within the quoted ranges from most equations are included in the table for comparison.
A conversion factor is included into the original first coefficients of the equations to provide the pressure ... | Vapor pressures of the elements (data page) | Chemistry | 985 |
58,799,990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QV%20Andromedae | QV Andromedae (abbreviated to QV And, also known as HR 369 in the Bright Star Catalogue) is an Alpha2 Canum Venaticorum variable in the constellation Andromeda. Its maximum apparent visual magnitude is 6.6, so it can be seen by the naked eye under very favourable conditions. The brightness varies slightly following a p... | QV Andromedae | Astronomy | 289 |
51,551,398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handbook%20of%20the%20New%20Zealand%20Flora | Handbook of the New Zealand Flora (abbreviated Handb. N. Zeal. Fl.) is a two volume work by English botanist Joseph Dalton Hooker with systematic botanical descriptions of plants native to New Zealand. The first part published in 1864 covers flowering plants, and the second part published in 1867 covers Hepaticae, moss... | Handbook of the New Zealand Flora | Biology | 90 |
44,058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Bang%20nucleosynthesis | In physical cosmology, Big Bang nucleosynthesis (also known as primordial nucleosynthesis, and abbreviated as BBN) is the production of nuclei other than those of the lightest isotope of hydrogen (hydrogen-1, 1H, having a single proton as a nucleus) during the early phases of the universe. This type of nucleosynthesis ... | Big Bang nucleosynthesis | Physics,Chemistry,Astronomy | 4,459 |
210,844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal%20Swedish%20Academy%20of%20Engineering%20Sciences | The Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (, IVA), founded on 24 October 1919 by King Gustaf V, is one of the royal academies in Sweden. The academy is an independent organisation, which promotes contact and exchange between business, research, and government, in Sweden and internationally. It is the world's ol... | Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences | Engineering | 472 |
70,432,824 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diselenolene%20metal%20complexes | 1,2-Diselenolene metal complexes are a class of coordination compounds homologous to 1,2-dithiolene metal complexes and formally deriving from ene-1,2-diselenolato ligands.
1,2-Diselenolene (DSE) is a versatile ligand that forms complexes with various transition metals. The term refers to the metal complexes containin... | Diselenolene metal complexes | Chemistry | 1,157 |
2,004,122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Context-based%20access%20control | Context-based access control (CBAC) is a feature of firewall software, which intelligently filters TCP and UDP packets based on application layer protocol session information. It can be used for intranets, extranets and internets.
CBAC can be configured to permit specified TCP and UDP traffic through a firewall only w... | Context-based access control | Technology,Engineering | 408 |
33,074,744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein%20music | Protein music or, more broadly, genetic music (including DNA music) is a musical technique where music is composed by converting protein sequences or DNA sequences to musical notes. The earliest published references to genetic music in the scientific literature include a short correspondence by Hayashi and Munakata in ... | Protein music | Chemistry | 1,706 |
2,318,269 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECall | eCall (an abbreviation of "emergency call") is an initiative by the European Union, intended to bring rapid assistance to motorists involved in a collision anywhere within the European Union. The aim is for all new cars to incorporate a system that automatically contacts the emergency services in the event of a serious... | ECall | Technology,Engineering | 1,056 |
42,436,013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGM%20Light | SGM Light A/S is a Danish manufacturer of LED lighting
for the concert touring, entertainment,
architectural, commercial, and industrial sectors. The company is based
in Aarhus, Denmark.
History
SGM Technology for Lighting was founded in 1975 in Italy, by Gabriele Giorgi and Maurizio Guidi — the company name a trunca... | SGM Light | Engineering | 1,520 |
10,669,204 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20independence | Energy independence is independence or autarky regarding energy resources, energy supply and/or energy generation by the energy industry.
Energy dependence, in general, refers to mankind's general dependence on either primary or secondary energy for energy consumption (fuel, transport, automation, etc.). In a narrower... | Energy independence | Environmental_science | 1,154 |
2,550,321 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray%20iron | Gray iron, or grey cast iron, is a type of cast iron that has a graphitic microstructure. It is named after the gray color of the fracture it forms, which is due to the presence of graphite. It is the most common cast iron and the most widely used cast material based on weight.
It is used for housings where the stiffn... | Gray iron | Chemistry | 1,049 |
57,241,168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20scientific%20committee%20on%20price%20history | The International Scientific Committee on Price History was created in 1929 by William Beveridge and Edwin Francis Gay after receiving a five-year grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. The national representatives were William Beveridge for Great Britain, Moritz John Elsas for Germany, Edwin Francis Gay for the United... | International scientific committee on price history | Technology | 493 |
9,591,673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unglie | A unglie ("finger") is an obsolete unit of length equal to three-fourths of an inch (1.905 cm) that was used in India and Pakistan. After metrification in both countries, the unit became obsolete.
See also
List of customary units of measurement in South Asia
References
Units of length
Customary units in India
Obsole... | Unglie | Mathematics | 77 |
47,572,355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marasmius%20aporpus | Marasmius aporpus is a species of fungus in the large agaric genus Marasmius. Found in Chile, it was described as new to science in 1969 by mycologist Rolf Singer.
See also
List of Marasmius species
References
External links
aporpus
Fungi described in 1969
Fungi of Chile
Taxa named by Rolf Singer
Fungus species | Marasmius aporpus | Biology | 72 |
20,207,543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VUF-8430 | VUF-8430 is a histamine agonist selective for the H4 subtype.
References
Histamine agonists
Guanidines
Thioureas | VUF-8430 | Chemistry | 37 |
15,936,151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patatin | Patatin is a family of glycoproteins found in potatoes (Solanum tuberosum) and is also known as tuberin as it is commonly found within vacuoles of parenchyma tissue in the tuber of the plant. They consist of about 366 amino acids all making up and isoelectric point of 4.9. They have a molecular weight ranging from 40 t... | Patatin | Chemistry | 1,317 |
34,017,528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension%20control%20bolt | A tension control bolt (TC bolt) is a heavy duty bolt used in steel frame construction. The head is usually domed and is not designed to be driven. The end of the shank has a spline on it which is engaged by a special power wrench which prevents the bolt from turning while the nut is tightened. When the appropriate ten... | Tension control bolt | Physics | 94 |
16,821,253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFD-DEM | The CFD-DEM model, or Computational Fluid Dynamics / Discrete Element Method model, is a process used to model or simulate systems combining fluids with solids or particles. In CFD-DEM, the motion of discrete solids or particles phase is obtained by the Discrete Element Method (DEM) which applies Newton's laws of motio... | CFD-DEM | Physics | 728 |
19,803,106 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir%20%28topography%29 | In topography, a nadir is a point on a surface that is lower in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a nadir is a local minimum of elevation. A nadir may be the lowest point of a dry basin or depression, or the deepest point of a body of water or ice. The nadir of a body of water is oft... | Nadir (topography) | Mathematics,Engineering | 146 |
18,867,510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conditional%20mutual%20information | In probability theory, particularly information theory, the conditional mutual information is, in its most basic form, the expected value of the mutual information of two random variables given the value of a third.
Definition
For random variables , , and with support sets , and , we define the conditional mutual in... | Conditional mutual information | Physics,Mathematics,Technology,Engineering | 975 |
31,520,243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anuj%20Batra | Anuj Batra is a research electrical engineer at Texas Instruments, specializing in ultrawideband wireless technology.
He holds a BS in electrical engineering from Cornell University, an MS in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech. In 2004, he was recog... | Anuj Batra | Engineering | 116 |
69,572,737 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist%20Memorial%20Hospital-Memphis%20%281912%E2%80%932000%29 | The original Baptist Memorial Hospital was a 2,000-bed medical facility and complex of multiple hospital buildings located at 899 Madison Avenue in midtown Memphis, Tennessee. The facility closed in 2000 after 88 years of service, and was demolished in 2005. With the closure, Baptist transferred their last 12 patients ... | Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis (1912–2000) | Engineering | 1,213 |
58,855,557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography%20of%20disability | 'Geography of disability''' is a multi-disciplinary branch of human geography which studies the experiences of people with disabilities and the extent to which disability in a population can be influenced by its geographical location. Potential components of studies in a geographical analysis include the environment, p... | Geography of disability | Environmental_science | 2,897 |
14,817,828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RABGEF1 | Rab5 GDP/GTP exchange factor is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RABGEF1 gene.
RABGEF1 forms a complex with rabaptin-5 (RABPT5; MIM 603616) that is required for endocytic membrane fusion, and it serves as a specific guanine nucleotide exchange factor for RAB5(RAB5A; MIM 179512) (Horiuchi et al., 1997) [suppl... | RABGEF1 | Chemistry | 114 |
8,591,847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20stars%20in%20Scutum | This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Scutum, sorted by decreasing brightness.
See also
List of stars by constellation
References
List
Scutum | List of stars in Scutum | Astronomy | 33 |
2,549,891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IceCube%20Neutrino%20Observatory | The IceCube Neutrino Observatory (or simply IceCube) is a neutrino observatory developed by the University of Wisconsin–Madison and constructed at the Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica. The project is a recognized CERN experiment (RE10).
Its thousands of sensors are located under the Antarctic ice, distr... | IceCube Neutrino Observatory | Astronomy | 3,969 |
14,777,007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNJ12 | ATP-sensitive inward rectifier potassium channel 12 is a lipid-gated ion channel that in humans is encoded by the KCNJ12 gene.
Function
This gene encodes an inwardly rectifying K+ channel that may be blocked by divalent cations. This protein is thought to be one of multiple inwardly rectifying channels that contribu... | KCNJ12 | Chemistry | 168 |
37,665,378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeta%20Lupi | ζ Lupi (Latinised as Zeta Lupi) is the brighter component of a wide double star in the constellation Lupus, consisting of an orange-hued primary and a fainter secondary with a golden-yellow hue. It is visible to the naked eye with a combined apparent visual magnitude of 3.41. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 27.8... | Zeta Lupi | Astronomy | 288 |
9,304,399 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equilibrium%20selection | Equilibrium selection is a concept from game theory which seeks to address reasons for players of a game to select a certain equilibrium over another. The concept is especially relevant in evolutionary game theory, where the different methods of equilibrium selection respond to different ideas of what equilibria will ... | Equilibrium selection | Mathematics | 1,499 |
13,037,090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichloroethylsilane | Trichloroethylsilane is a compound with formula Si(C2H5)Cl3.
Organochlorosilanes | Trichloroethylsilane | Chemistry | 30 |
23,294,952 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diprophylline | Diprophylline (INN) or dyphylline (USAN) (trade names Dilor, Lufyllin) is a xanthine derivative with bronchodilator and vasodilator effects. It is used in the treatment of respiratory disorders like asthma, cardiac dyspnea, and bronchitis. It acts as an adenosine receptor antagonist and phosphodiesterase inhibitor.
Se... | Diprophylline | Chemistry | 114 |
6,308,157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanoporous%20materials | Nanoporous materials consist of a regular organic or inorganic bulk phase in which a porous structure is present. Nanoporous materials exhibit pore diameters that are most appropriately quantified using units of nanometers. The diameter of pores in nanoporous materials is thus typically 100 nanometers or smaller. Pores... | Nanoporous materials | Materials_science,Engineering | 1,610 |
14,091,260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%A9vost%20reaction | The Prévost reaction is a chemical reaction in which an alkene is converted by iodine and the silver salt of benzoic acid to a vicinal diol with anti stereochemistry. The reaction was discovered by the French chemist Charles Prévost (1899–1983).
Reaction mechanism
The reaction between silver benzoate (1) and iodine i... | Prévost reaction | Chemistry | 252 |
2,468,460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Float-zone%20silicon | Float-zone silicon is very pure silicon obtained by vertical zone melting. The process was developed at Bell Labs by Henry Theuerer in 1955 as a modification of a method developed by William Gardner Pfann for germanium. In the vertical configuration molten silicon has sufficient surface tension to keep the charge from ... | Float-zone silicon | Chemistry,Materials_science | 490 |
61,588,164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollout%20%28drag%20racing%29 | Rollout or rollout allowance is an adjustment in timed acceleration runs used by North-American drag racing and enthusiast magazines to create approximate parity over time between historic 0 to 60 mph and 1/4 mile acceleration times and those measured today using the Global Positioning System (GPS).
Historically, ligh... | Rollout (drag racing) | Physics,Mathematics | 239 |
5,735,334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned%20giving | Planned giving (less commonly known as gift planning ) is an area of fundraising that refers to several specific gift types that can be funded with cash, equity, or property. These gift vehicles are commonly based on United States tax law, but Canada, the United Kingdom, and other nations are beginning to establish si... | Planned giving | Biology | 786 |
77,618,701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8176%20aluminium%20alloy | 8176 aluminium alloy is produced using iron, zinc and silicon as additives. It is used in power lines due to its high electrical conductivity.
Chemical composition
Applications
Aluminium 8176 is used in building wiring and cables.
References
External links
Material Properties
Aluminium alloys | 8176 aluminium alloy | Chemistry | 55 |
199,706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String%20literal | A string literal or anonymous string is a literal for a string value in the source code of a computer program. Modern programming languages commonly use a quoted sequence of characters, formally "bracketed delimiters", as in x = "foo", where , "foo" is a string literal with value foo. Methods such as escape sequences c... | String literal | Mathematics,Technology | 7,109 |
54,227,899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Art%20of%20Unit%20Testing | The Art of Unit Testing is a 2009 book by Roy Osherove which covers unit test writing for software. It's written with .NET Framework examples, but the fundamentals can be applied by any developer.
The second edition was published in 2013. It has two additional chapters, as well as reorganization and updating of chapte... | The Art of Unit Testing | Technology | 211 |
17,992,940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20chromate | Sodium chromate is the inorganic compound with the formula Na2CrO4. It exists as a yellow hygroscopic solid, which can form tetra-, hexa-, and decahydrates. It is an intermediate in the extraction of chromium from its ores.
Production and reactivity
It is obtained on a vast scale by roasting chromium ores in air in t... | Sodium chromate | Chemistry | 523 |
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