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53,875,120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3C-model | The 3H-model of motivation ("3H" stands for the "three components of motivation") was developed by Hugo M. Kehr of UC Berkeley. The 3C-model is an integrative, empirically validated theory of motivation that can be used for systematic motivation diagnosis and intervention.
Main assumptions
The three components head, ... | 3C-model | Biology | 1,848 |
93,492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed%20Component%20Object%20Model | Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) is a proprietary Microsoft technology for communication between software components on networked computers. DCOM, which originally was called "Network OLE", extends Microsoft's COM, and provides the communication substrate under Microsoft's COM+ application server infrastructur... | Distributed Component Object Model | Technology | 800 |
26,424,495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbo%20%28mycology%29 | An umbo is a raised area in the center of a mushroom cap. Caps that possess this feature are called umbonate. Umbos that are sharply pointed are called acute, while those that are more rounded are broadly umbonate. If the umbo is elongated, it is cuspidate, and if the umbo is sharply delineated but not elongated (somew... | Umbo (mycology) | Biology | 109 |
35,741,623 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel%20Galuccio | Miguel Matías Galuccio (born April 23, 1968) is an Argentine petroleum engineer and executive. He was appointed CEO of the state energy firm YPF upon its renationalization on May 5, 2012. He is also the CEO of Vista Oil and Gas.
Biography
Galuccio was born in Paraná, Entre Ríos Province, in 1968. He enrolled at the In... | Miguel Galuccio | Engineering | 446 |
59,303,035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTCA%20-%20The%20Rural%20Broadband%20Association | NTCA - The Rural Broadband Association (NTCA) is a membership association with the goal of improving communications services in rural America. With a membership comprising over 850 independent rural American telecommunications companies in 46 states, NTCA provides training and employee benefit packages to its members. ... | NTCA - The Rural Broadband Association | Technology | 991 |
7,596,042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawnmower%20Man%202%3A%20Beyond%20Cyberspace | Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace (also subtitled Jobe's War) is a 1996 American science fiction action film written and directed by Farhad Mann, and starring Matt Frewer, Patrick Bergin, Austin O'Brien, and Ely Pouget. It is a sequel to the 1992 film The Lawnmower Man. The film was negatively reviewed by both critics... | Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace | Technology | 1,008 |
37,862,072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PTQ%20implant | PTQ implant is a type of bio-compatible perianal injectable bulking agent used in urinary and fecal incontinence. The material is a type of silicone, and is injected into the desired area to bulk out the tissues and reduce incontinence symptoms.
It is a hydrogel of polyvinylpyrrolidone. It has been used in Europe.
S... | PTQ implant | Biology | 101 |
76,863,523 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pelota%20%28boat%29 | A pelota was an improvised rawhide boat used in South and Central America for crossing rivers. It was similar in some respects to the coracle of the British Isles or the bull boat of North America, but it had little or no wooden framework or internal supporting structure, often relying entirely on the stiffness of the ... | Pelota (boat) | Physics | 2,541 |
5,801,035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Follistatin | Follistatin, also known as activin-bindings protein, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the FST gene. Follistatin is an autocrine glycoprotein that is expressed in nearly all tissues of higher animals.
Its primary function is the binding and bioneutralization of members of the TGF-β superfamily, with a particul... | Follistatin | Chemistry | 1,209 |
2,565,082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intrinsically%20photosensitive%20retinal%20ganglion%20cell | Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (ipRGCs), also called photosensitive retinal ganglion cells (pRGC), or melanopsin-containing retinal ganglion cells (mRGCs), are a type of neuron in the retina of the mammalian eye. The presence of an additional photoreceptor was first suspected in 1927 when mice lack... | Intrinsically photosensitive retinal ganglion cell | Chemistry,Biology | 3,045 |
39,284,674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant%20manufactured%20pharmaceuticals | Plant manufactured Pharmaceuticals are pharmaceuticals derived from genetically modified plants used as therapeutic compounds. This can be used as the replacement for the traditional method of inoculating animals for Cell Culture production. We can use plants to cure and prevent diseases that may have once been deemed ... | Plant manufactured pharmaceuticals | Chemistry | 470 |
85,151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloacina | Cloacina was a goddess who presided over the Cloaca Maxima ('Greatest Drain'), the main interceptor discharge outfall of the system of sewers in Rome.
Name
The theonym Cloācīna is a derivative of the noun cloāca ('sewer, underground drainage'; cf. cluere 'to purify'), itself from Proto-Italic *klowā-, ultimately from... | Cloacina | Chemistry,Engineering,Environmental_science | 540 |
859,798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottled%20gas | Bottled gas is a term used for substances which are gaseous at standard temperature and pressure (STP) and have been compressed and stored in carbon steel, stainless steel, aluminum, or composite containers known as gas cylinders.
Gas state in cylinders
There are four cases: either the substance remains a gas at stand... | Bottled gas | Physics,Chemistry,Engineering | 1,279 |
1,624,551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betts%20electrolytic%20process | The Betts electrolytic process is an industrial process for purification of lead from bullion. Lead obtained from its ores is impure because lead is a good solvent for many metals. Often these impurities are tolerated, but the Betts electrolytic process is used when high purity lead is required, especially for bismut... | Betts electrolytic process | Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 344 |
54,184,720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiroxasone | Spiroxasone (, ) is a synthetic, steroidal antimineralocorticoid of the spirolactone group which was developed as a diuretic and antihypertensive agent but was never marketed. It was synthesized and assayed in 1963. The drug is 7α-acetylthiospirolactone with the ketone group removed from the C17α spirolactone ring. Sim... | Spiroxasone | Chemistry | 158 |
3,938,313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serine%20octamer%20cluster | The Serine octamer cluster in physical chemistry is an unusually stable cluster consisting of eight serine molecules (Ser) implicated in the origin of homochirality. This cluster was first discovered in mass spectrometry experiments. Electrospray ionization of an aerosol of serine in methanol results in a mass spectrum... | Serine octamer cluster | Physics,Chemistry | 544 |
60,389,003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISE%20project | The RISE Project (Rivera Submersible Experiments) was a 1979 international marine research project which mapped and investigated seafloor spreading in the Pacific Ocean, at the crest of the East Pacific Rise (EPR) at 21° north latitude. Using a deep sea submersible (ALVIN) to search for hydrothermal activity at depths ... | RISE project | Physics,Environmental_science | 1,124 |
4,700,310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contextual%20inquiry | Contextual inquiry (CI) is a user-centered design (UCD) research method, part of the contextual design methodology. A contextual inquiry interview is usually structured as an approximately two-hour, one-on-one interaction in which the researcher watches the user in the course of the user's normal activities and discuss... | Contextual inquiry | Engineering | 1,398 |
4,721,358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable%20gauge | Variable gauge systems allow railway vehicles to travel between two railways with different track gauges. Vehicles are equipped with variable gauge axles (VGA). The gauge is altered by driving the train through a gauge changer installed at the break of gauge which moves the wheels to the gauge desired.
Variable gauge... | Variable gauge | Engineering | 3,337 |
50,807,880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CVSO%2030 | CVSO 30 (PTFO 8-8695) is a suspected binary T Tauri star, located in constellation Orion at 1200 light years from Earth with one candidate planet called CVSO 30 c. The candidate planet is a gas giant. The star is named after the CIDA Variability Survey of Orion (CVSO) and the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) and is with... | CVSO 30 | Astronomy | 368 |
37,342,825 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raventoxin | Raventoxins are neurotoxins from the venom of the spider Macrothele raveni.
Sources
Raventoxins are toxins from the venom of the spider Macrothele raveni. This is a hairy spider, a member of the genus Macrothele, that can be found in the hilly areas of Ningming County, Guangxi Province in China.
Chemistry
Six differ... | Raventoxin | Chemistry | 894 |
39,032,300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flora%20Japonica%20%281834%20book%29 | is a Flora written in Leyden by Bavarian botanist and traveler Philipp Franz von Siebold in collaboration with fellow Bavarian Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini. The work, written in Latin, carries the full title of Flora Japonica; sive, Plantae Quas in Imperio Japonico Collegit, Descripsit, ex Parte in Ipsis Locis Pingendas C... | Flora Japonica (1834 book) | Biology | 505 |
265,407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isinglass | Isinglass ( ) is a form of collagen obtained from the dried swim bladders of fish. The English word origin is from the obsolete Dutch huizenblaas – huizen is a kind of sturgeon, and blaas is a bladder, or German Hausenblase, meaning essentially the same. The bladders, once removed from the fish, processed, and dried, ... | Isinglass | Physics,Technology | 1,334 |
5,915,049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindley%27s%20paradox | Lindley's paradox is a counterintuitive situation in statistics in which the Bayesian and frequentist approaches to a hypothesis testing problem give different results for certain choices of the prior distribution. The problem of the disagreement between the two approaches was discussed in Harold Jeffreys' 1939 textbo... | Lindley's paradox | Mathematics | 1,503 |
19,529,000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebra%20tile | Algebra tiles are mathematical manipulatives that allow students to better understand ways of algebraic thinking and the concepts of algebra. These tiles have proven to provide concrete models for elementary school, middle school, high school, and college-level introductory algebra students. They have also been used to... | Algebra tile | Mathematics | 1,033 |
968,834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VO2%20max | {{DISPLAYTITLE:VO2 max}}
V̇O2 max (also maximal oxygen consumption, maximal oxygen uptake or maximal aerobic capacity) is the maximum rate of oxygen consumption attainable during physical exertion. The name is derived from three abbreviations: "V̇" for volume (the dot over the V indicates "per unit of time" in Newton's... | VO2 max | Chemistry,Biology | 2,589 |
62,033,221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20for%20Telematics | The Center for Telematics (commonly known as ZFT by its acronym in German) is a German research institute located in the City of Würzburg in northern Bavaria; although its main research topic is on robotics and telematics, it is also among the leading institutes in Bavaria designing and building small satellites (cubes... | Center for Telematics | Technology | 682 |
23,381,686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morisita%27s%20overlap%20index | Morisita's overlap index, named after Masaaki Morisita, is a statistical measure of dispersion of individuals in a population. It is used to compare overlap among samples (Morisita 1959). This formula is based on the assumption that increasing the size of the samples will increase the diversity because it will includ... | Morisita's overlap index | Mathematics | 484 |
15,677,650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Framsticks | Framsticks is a 3D freeware Artificial Life simulator. Organisms consisting of physical structures ("bodies") and control structures ("brains") evolve over time against a user's predefined fitness landscape (for instance, evolving for speed), or spontaneously coevolve in a complex environment. Evolution of organisms o... | Framsticks | Biology | 388 |
46,669,670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl%20Sagan%20Institute | The Carl Sagan Institute: Pale Blue Dot and Beyond was founded in 2014 at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York to further the search for habitable planets and moons in and outside the Solar System. It is focused on the characterization of exoplanets and the instruments to search for signs of life in the universe. Th... | Carl Sagan Institute | Astronomy,Biology | 615 |
2,670,015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu1%20Scorpii | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Mu1 Scorpii}}
Mu1 Scorpii (μ1 Scorpii, abbreviated Mu1 Sco, μ1 Sco) is a binary star system in the southern zodiac constellation of Scorpius. The combined apparent visual magnitude of the pair is about magnitude 3, making it one of the brighter members of Scorpius. Based upon parallax measurements, the ... | Mu1 Scorpii | Astronomy | 842 |
77,919,448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATP-grasp | In molecular biology, the ATP-grasp fold is a unique ATP-binding protein structural motif made of two α+β subdomains that "grasp" a molecule of ATP between them. ATP-grasp proteins have ATP-dependent carboxylate-amine/thiol ligase activity.
Structure
Proteins of the ATP-grasp family have an overall structural configu... | ATP-grasp | Biology | 399 |
731,779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movie%20projector | A movie projector (or film projector) is an opto-mechanical device for displaying motion picture film by projecting it onto a screen. Most of the optical and mechanical elements, except for the illumination and sound devices, are present in movie cameras. Modern movie projectors are specially built video projectors (se... | Movie projector | Engineering | 11,513 |
26,481,652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foliicolous | Foliicolous refers to the growth habit of certain lichens, algae, fungi, liverworts, and other bryophytes that prefer to grow on the leaves of vascular plants. Foliicolous simply means 'growing upon leaves' whilst epiphyllous derives from the Greek meaning on or over and means leaf so 'over leaf' and hypophyllous mea... | Foliicolous | Biology | 160 |
14,352,658 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMIEW | EMIEW is a robot developed by Hitachi. Another version has also been made called EMIEW 2. EMIEW stands for Excellent Mobility and Interactive Existence as Workmate. Two EMIEWs have been made, called Pal and Chum. Hitachi stated that Pal and Chum, have a vocabulary of about 100 words, and Pal exhibited these skills by t... | EMIEW | Technology | 156 |
42,430,964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris%20Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf | Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf (February 15, 1922 – March 25, 2010) was a German metallurgist.
Biography
Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf was born in Bremen, Germany on February 15, 1922, to Adolph Friedrich and Elsa Kuhlmann. She attended the University of Göttingen from 1942 where she received her doctorate in materials science in ... | Doris Kuhlmann-Wilsdorf | Materials_science | 713 |
49,222,617 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VeRoLog | The European Working Group on Vehicle Routing and Logistics Optimization (also, EWG VeRoLog, or simply VeRoLog) is a working group within EURO, the Association of European Operational Research Societies whose objective is to promote the application of operations research models, methods and tools to the field of vehicl... | VeRoLog | Mathematics | 348 |
5,075,038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandisol | Grandisol is a natural organic compound with the molecular formula C10H18O. It is a monoterpene containing a cyclobutane ring, an alcohol group, an alkene group and two chiral centers (one of which is quaternary).
Grandisol is a pheromone primarily important as the sex attractant of the cotton boll weevil (Anthonomus ... | Grandisol | Chemistry | 295 |
37,350,078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hainantoxin | Hainantoxins (HNTX) are neurotoxins from the venom of the Chinese bird spider Haplopelma hainanum. Hainantoxins specifically inhibit tetrodotoxin-sensitive Voltage-gated sodium channels, thereby causing blockage of neuromuscular transmission and paralysis. Currently, 13 different hainantoxins are known (HNTX-I – HNTX-X... | Hainantoxin | Chemistry | 1,376 |
75,359,782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efinopegdutide | Efinopegdutide (MK-6024) is a dual agonist of the glucagon and GLP-1 receptors. It is being developed by Merck for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease. It was also developed for type 2 diabetes and obesity but these indications were discontinued.
References
Glucagon receptor agonists
GLP-1 receptor agonists
Peptide the... | Efinopegdutide | Chemistry | 92 |
62,457,740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structural%20Ramsey%20theory | In mathematics, structural Ramsey theory is a categorical generalisation of Ramsey theory, rooted in the idea that many important results of Ramsey theory have "similar" logical structures. The key observation is noting that these Ramsey-type theorems can be expressed as the assertion that a certain category (or class ... | Structural Ramsey theory | Mathematics | 1,337 |
9,553,738 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ensemble%20Kalman%20filter | The ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is a recursive filter suitable for problems with a large number of variables, such as discretizations of partial differential equations in geophysical models. The EnKF originated as a version of the Kalman filter for large problems (essentially, the covariance matrix is replaced by the... | Ensemble Kalman filter | Physics | 2,204 |
3,916,626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb%20temperature | The wet-bulb temperature (WBT) is a temperature that can be measured by a thermometer covered in cloth which has been soaked in water at ambient temperature (a wet-bulb thermometer) and over which air is passed. At 100% relative humidity, the wet-bulb temperature is equal to the air temperature (dry-bulb temperature); ... | Wet-bulb temperature | Physics,Chemistry | 3,443 |
205,718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimosa%20%28star%29 | Mimosa is the second-brightest object in the southern constellation of Crux (after Acrux), and the 20th-brightest star in the night sky. It has the Bayer designation β Crucis, which is Latinised to Beta Crucis and abbreviated Beta Cru or β Cru. Mimosa forms part of the prominent asterism called the Southern Cross. It i... | Mimosa (star) | Astronomy | 1,154 |
69,817,964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marta%20Bunster | Marta Cecilia del Carmen Bunster Balocchi is a Chilean scientist, most noted for her work in the fields of biochemistry, biophysics and crystallography. She is also known as one of the main promoters of bioinformatics in her country.
Biography
She began studying biochemistry in 1969 at the University of Concepción, w... | Marta Bunster | Chemistry,Materials_science,Biology | 2,150 |
73,916,236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankenia%20serpyllifolia | Frankenia serpyllifolia, commonly known as bristly sea-heath is a flowering plant in the family Frankeniaceae and grows in New South Wales, South Australia, Queensland and the Northern Territory. It is a small, spreading shrub with pink flowers.
Description
Frankenia serpyllifolia is a small, spreading herb to high ... | Frankenia serpyllifolia | Chemistry | 276 |
2,195,233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patern%C3%B2%E2%80%93B%C3%BCchi%20reaction | The Paternò–Büchi reaction, named after Emanuele Paternò and George Büchi, who established its basic utility and form, is a photochemical reaction, specifically a 2+2 photocycloaddition, which forms four-membered oxetane rings from an excited carbonyl and reacting with an alkene.
With substrates benzaldehyde and 2-me... | Paternò–Büchi reaction | Chemistry | 221 |
46,777,441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShareSpace%20foundation | ShareSpace is a non-profit educational foundation focused on the benefits of the STEAM disciplinesscience, technology, engineering, arts, and mathfor both the individual young person and society as a whole.
History
At its founding by astronaut and lunar pioneer Buzz Aldrin in 1998, ShareSpace was intended to be used f... | ShareSpace foundation | Astronomy | 582 |
14,000,891 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provocation%20test | A provocation test, also called a provocation trial or provocation study, is a form of medical clinical trial whereby participants are exposed to either a substance or "thing" that is claimed to provoke a response, or to a sham substance or device that should provoke no response, or a severe exercise as in Erb's test ... | Provocation test | Chemistry,Environmental_science | 113 |
39,439,699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battus%20%28trilobite%29 | Battus is a synonym for several agnostid trilobites, now assigned to other genera.
Etymology
In Greek mythology, Battus is a shepherd who witnessed Hermes stealing Apollo's cattle. Because he broke his promise not to reveal this theft, Hermes turned him to stone.
Taxonomy
Battus Barrande, 1846 was no longer availa... | Battus (trilobite) | Biology | 231 |
642,136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specularity | Specularity is the visual appearance of specular reflections.
In computer graphics
In computer graphics, it means the quantity used in three-dimensional (3D) rendering which represents the amount of reflectivity a surface has. It is a key component in determining the brightness of specular highlights, along with shini... | Specularity | Physics | 516 |
74,349,529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%207236 | NGC 7236 is an interacting lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Pegasus. It is located at a distance of about 300 million light years from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 7236 is about 150,000 light years across. NGC 7236 forms a pair with NGC 7237 and is a radio galaxy. It was dis... | NGC 7236 | Astronomy | 377 |
39,022,230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buccal%20administration | Buccal administration is a topical route of administration by which drugs held or applied in the buccal () area (in the cheek) diffuse through the oral mucosa (tissues which line the mouth) and enter directly into the bloodstream. Buccal administration may provide better bioavailability of some drugs and a more rapid ... | Buccal administration | Chemistry | 2,645 |
937,519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel%20Butler%20%28novelist%29 | Samuel Butler (4 December 1835 – 18 June 1902) was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh (published posthumously in 1903 with substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest Pontifex ... | Samuel Butler (novelist) | Biology | 5,370 |
25,181,469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meiotic%20recombination%20checkpoint | The meiotic recombination checkpoint monitors meiotic recombination during meiosis, and blocks the entry into metaphase I if recombination is not efficiently processed.
Generally speaking, the cell cycle regulation of meiosis is similar to that of mitosis. As in the mitotic cycle, these transitions are regulated by co... | Meiotic recombination checkpoint | Biology | 2,346 |
33,026,985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactarius%20fuliginellus | Lactarius fuliginellus is a species of fungus in the family Russulaceae. Described as a new species in 1962 by American mycologists Alexander H. Smith and Lexemuel Ray Hesler, the mushroom is found in North America.
See also
List of Lactarius species
References
External links
fuliginosus
Fungi described in 1962
Fun... | Lactarius fuliginellus | Biology | 88 |
44,300,180 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limacella%20guttata | Limacella guttata is a mushroom-forming fungus in the family Amanitaceae. Limacella guttata is found in Europe and North America, where it grows in damp woodlands typically dominated by deciduous plants such as ash, beech, and elm. The specific epithet guttata is derived from Latin, meaning "with droplets".
References... | Limacella guttata | Biology | 93 |
7,428,060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simdesk | Simdesk, fully known as Simdesk Technologies, Inc., formerly Internet Access Technologies, was a Houston-based software as a service provider of on demand messaging and collaboration tools for business. It was founded by Ray C. Davis in 1999. Early in the company's history, it was sold to municipal authorities. The c... | Simdesk | Technology | 238 |
5,072,098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%20lattice%20Ising%20model | In statistical mechanics, the two-dimensional square lattice Ising model is a simple lattice model of interacting magnetic spins. The model is notable for having nontrivial interactions, yet having an analytical solution. The model was solved by Lars Onsager for the special case that the external magnetic field H = 0. ... | Square lattice Ising model | Physics,Materials_science | 696 |
701,981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hideki%20Shirakawa | is a Japanese chemist, engineer, and Professor Emeritus at the University of Tsukuba and Zhejiang University. He is best known for his discovery of conductive polymers. He was co-recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Chemistry jointly with Alan MacDiarmid and Alan Heeger.
Early life and education
Hideki Shirakawa was... | Hideki Shirakawa | Chemistry,Materials_science | 1,401 |
697,793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrust-to-weight%20ratio | Thrust-to-weight ratio is a dimensionless ratio of thrust to weight of a rocket, jet engine, propeller engine, or a vehicle propelled by such an engine that is an indicator of the performance of the engine or vehicle.
The instantaneous thrust-to-weight ratio of a vehicle varies continually during operation due to prog... | Thrust-to-weight ratio | Mathematics,Technology,Engineering | 1,327 |
40,769,155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbiting%20Astronomical%20Observatory%202 | The Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 (OAO-2, nicknamed Stargazer) was the first successful space telescope (first space telescope being OAO-1, which failed to operate once in orbit), launched on December 7, 1968. An Atlas-Centaur rocket launched it into a nearly circular altitude Earth orbit. Data was collected in ... | Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2 | Astronomy | 538 |
16,036,981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lava%20filter | A lava filter is a biological filter that uses lavastone pebbles as support material on which microorganisms can grow in a thin biofilm. This community of microorganisms, known as the periphyton, break down the odor components in the air, such as hydrogen sulfide. The biodegradation processes that occurs is provided by... | Lava filter | Chemistry,Environmental_science | 852 |
43,042,866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20parks%20and%20gardens%20of%20Paris | Paris today has more than 421 municipal parks and gardens, covering more than three thousand hectares and containing more than 250,000 trees. Two of Paris's oldest and most famous gardens are the Tuileries Garden, created in 1564 for the Tuileries Palace, and redone by André Le Nôtre in 1664; and the Luxembourg Garden,... | History of parks and gardens of Paris | Engineering | 14,062 |
30,793,446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Hershfield | Charles Hershfield, B.Sc., M.A.Sc, F.E.I.C, P.Eng. (1910–1990) was widely recognized by the engineering community and known for his innovative structural engineering solutions, as a senior assistant engineer and lieutenant with the Department of National Defense, a professor at the University of Toronto, as co-founder ... | Charles Hershfield | Engineering | 1,204 |
33,973,727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graduation%20Pledge%20of%20Social%20and%20Environmental%20Responsibility | The Graduation Pledge of Social and Environmental Responsibility is a voluntary pledge made by students graduating from colleges or universities, stating their commitment to social and environment responsibility in their future careers. The pledge was first offered in 1987 at colleges and universities in the United Sta... | Graduation Pledge of Social and Environmental Responsibility | Environmental_science | 778 |
30,136,372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FANC%20proteins | FANC proteins are a network of at least 15 proteins that are associated with a cell process known as the Fanconi anemia.
History
Fanconi anemia was first described in 1927 by Guido Fanconi, a Swiss pediatrician. It is a chromosome instability syndrome characterized by the progressiveness of bone marrow failure and o... | FANC proteins | Chemistry,Biology | 1,113 |
16,091,266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WR%20104 | WR 104 is a triple star system located about from Earth. The primary star is a Wolf–Rayet star (abbreviated as WR), which has a B0.5 main sequence star in close orbit and another more distant fainter companion.
The WR star is surrounded by a distinctive spiral Wolf–Rayet nebula, often referred to as a pinwheel nebula... | WR 104 | Astronomy | 1,557 |
25,597,490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20neutrino%20problem | The solar neutrino problem concerned a large discrepancy between the flux of solar neutrinos as predicted from the Sun's luminosity and as measured directly. The discrepancy was first observed in the mid-1960s and was resolved around 2002.
The flux of neutrinos at Earth is several tens of billions per square centimetr... | Solar neutrino problem | Physics | 1,854 |
12,687,840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subnet%20%28mathematics%29 | In topology and related areas of mathematics, a subnet is a generalization of the concept of subsequence to the case of nets. The analogue of "subsequence" for nets is the notion of a "subnet". The definition is not completely straightforward, but is designed to allow as many theorems about subsequences to generalize ... | Subnet (mathematics) | Physics,Mathematics | 1,466 |
1,818,270 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamiltonian%20vector%20field | In mathematics and physics, a Hamiltonian vector field on a symplectic manifold is a vector field defined for any energy function or Hamiltonian. Named after the physicist and mathematician Sir William Rowan Hamilton, a Hamiltonian vector field is a geometric manifestation of Hamilton's equations in classical mechanics... | Hamiltonian vector field | Physics,Mathematics | 776 |
11,408,570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent%20extinction%20risk | In conservation biology, latent extinction risk is a measure of the potential for a species to become threatened.
Latent risk can most easily be described as the difference, or discrepancy, between the current observed extinction risk of a species (typically as quantified by the IUCN Red List) and the theoretical exti... | Latent extinction risk | Mathematics | 590 |
51,724,747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single%20pushout%20graph%20rewriting | In computer science, a single pushout graph rewriting or SPO graph rewriting refers to a mathematical framework for graph rewriting, and is used in contrast to the double-pushout approach of graph rewriting.
References
Further reading
Graph rewriting | Single pushout graph rewriting | Mathematics,Technology | 52 |
44,600,975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equatorial%20plasma%20bubble | Equatorial plasma bubbles are an ionospheric phenomenon near the Earth's geomagnetic equator at night time. They affect radio waves by causing varying delays. They degrade the performance of GPS.
Different times of the year and locations have different frequencies of occurrence. In Northern Australia, the most common ... | Equatorial plasma bubble | Physics,Astronomy | 224 |
1,537,992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descent%20direction | In optimization, a descent direction is a vector that points towards a local minimum of an objective function .
Computing by an iterative method, such as line search defines a descent direction at the th iterate to be any such that , where denotes the inner product. The motivation for such an approach is that sm... | Descent direction | Mathematics | 159 |
42,057,374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chem-seq | Chem-seq is a technique that is used to map genome-wide interactions between small molecules and their protein targets in the chromatin of eukaryotic cell nuclei. The method employs chemical affinity capture coupled with massively parallel DNA sequencing to identify genomic sites where small molecules interact with the... | Chem-seq | Chemistry,Biology | 1,312 |
25,338,858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20largest%20video%20screens | This is a list of the largest video-capable screens in the world.
See also
Jumbotron
References
Display technology
Technology-related lists
Videoscreens | List of largest video screens | Engineering | 32 |
3,753,857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Work%20behavior | Work behavior is the behavior one uses in employment and is normally more formal than other types of human behavior. This varies from profession to profession, as some are far more casual than others. For example, a computer programmer would usually have far more leeway in their work behavior than a lawyer.
People are... | Work behavior | Biology | 1,187 |
200,307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel%20Rolle | Michel Rolle (21 April 1652 – 8 November 1719) was a French mathematician. He is best known for Rolle's theorem (1691). He is also the co-inventor in Europe of Gaussian elimination (1690).
Life
Rolle was born in Ambert, Basse-Auvergne. Rolle, the son of a shopkeeper, received only an elementary education. He married e... | Michel Rolle | Mathematics | 1,099 |
10,898,092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeutrAvidin | Neutralite Avidin protein is a deglycosylated version of chicken avidin, with a mass of approximately 60,000 daltons. As a result of carbohydrate removal, lectin binding is reduced to undetectable levels, yet biotin binding affinity is retained because the carbohydrate is not necessary for this activity. Avidin has a h... | NeutrAvidin | Chemistry | 301 |
24,389,211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%2086264 | HD 86264 is a single star with an exoplanetary companion in the equatorial constellation of Hydra. It is too faint to be readily visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 7.41. The distance to this star, as determined by parallax measurements, is 219 light-years, and it is drifting further away with... | HD 86264 | Astronomy | 334 |
54,064,049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phanteks | Phanteks is a Dutch company which mainly produces PC cases, fans, and other case accessories. The company has a base in the United States.
History
Phanteks's first product was the PH-TC14PE, a CPU cooler. Later, Phanteks started producing cases, beginning with the Enthoo Series.
Products
The company produces several ... | Phanteks | Technology | 175 |
72,235,151 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylogenetic%20reconciliation | In phylogenetics, reconciliation is an approach to connect the history of two or more coevolving biological entities. The general idea of reconciliation is that a phylogenetic tree representing the evolution of an entity (e.g. homologous genes or symbionts) can be drawn within another phylogenetic tree representing an ... | Phylogenetic reconciliation | Mathematics,Biology | 9,960 |
19,543,375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion%206360 | Marion 6360, known as "the Captain", was a giant power shovel built by the Marion Power Shovel company. Completed and commissioned on October 15 1965, it was one of the largest land vehicles ever built, exceeded only by some dragline and bucket-wheel excavators. The shovel originally started work with Southwestern Illi... | Marion 6360 | Engineering | 513 |
1,307,591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tocolytic | Tocolytics (also called anti-contraction medications or labor suppressants) are medications used to suppress premature labor (from Greek τόκος tókos, "childbirth", and λύσις lúsis, "loosening"). Preterm birth accounts for 70% of neonatal deaths. Therefore, tocolytic therapy is provided when delivery would result in pre... | Tocolytic | Chemistry | 1,231 |
73,169,693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grothendieck%20trace%20theorem | In functional analysis, the Grothendieck trace theorem is an extension of Lidskii's theorem about the trace and the determinant of a certain class of nuclear operators on Banach spaces, the so-called -nuclear operators. The theorem was proven in 1955 by Alexander Grothendieck. Lidskii's theorem does not hold in general... | Grothendieck trace theorem | Mathematics,Engineering | 212 |
926,797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture-in-picture | Picture-in-picture (PiP) is a feature that can be found in television receivers, personal computers, and smartphones. It consists of a video stream playing within an inset window, freeing the rest of the screen for other tasks.
For televisions, picture-in-picture requires two independent tuners or signal sources to su... | Picture-in-picture | Technology | 865 |
18,289,561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tegafur | Tegafur is a chemotherapeutic prodrug of 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) used in the treatment of cancers. It is a component of the combination drug tegafur/uracil. When metabolised, it becomes 5-FU.
It was patented in 1967 and approved for medical use in 1972.
Medical uses
As a prodrug to 5-FU it is used in the treatment of t... | Tegafur | Chemistry | 625 |
11,178,099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rata%20Die | Rata Die (R.D.) is a system for assigning numbers to calendar days (optionally with time of day), independent of any calendar, for the purposes of calendrical calculations. It was named (after the Latin ablative feminine singular for "from a fixed date") by Howard Jacobson.
Rata Die is somewhat similar to Julian Dates... | Rata Die | Physics,Mathematics | 652 |
17,806,864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visions%20of%20the%20Future | Visions of the Future is a 2007 documentary television series aired on the BBC Four television channel. The series stars theoretical physicist and futurist Michio Kaku as he documents cutting edge science.
There are three installments in the series.
Episodes
The Intelligence Revolution
The Intelligence Revolution ... | Visions of the Future | Technology | 412 |
1,190,775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debye | The debye ( , ; symbol: D) is a CGS unit (a non-SI metric unit) of electric dipole moment named in honour of the physicist Peter J. W. Debye. It is defined as statcoulomb-centimetres. Historically the debye was defined as the dipole moment resulting from two charges of opposite sign but an equal magnitude of 10−10 sta... | Debye | Mathematics | 426 |
1,674,353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20pseudoscience | The history of pseudoscience is the study of pseudoscientific theories over time. A pseudoscience is a set of ideas that presents itself as science, while it does not meet the criteria to properly be called such.
Distinguishing between proper science and pseudoscience is sometimes difficult. One popular proposal for d... | History of pseudoscience | Technology | 1,864 |
872,409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitruvian%20module | A module (Latin modulus, a measure) is a term that was in use among Roman architects, corresponding to the semidiameter of the column at its base. The term was first set forth by Vitruvius (book iv.3), and was employed by architects in the Italian Renaissance to determine the relative proportions of the various parts o... | Vitruvian module | Engineering | 289 |
46,304,496 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W75N%28B%29-VLA2 | W75N(B)-VLA2 is a massive protostar located in the Cygnus X region
some 4,200 light-years from Earth, about 8 times more massive and 300 times brighter than the Sun, observed in 1996 and 2014 by the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). In 2014 its stellar wind had changed from a compact spherical form to a larger the... | W75N(B)-VLA2 | Astronomy | 271 |
2,727,432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega2%20Cygni | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Omega2 Cygni}}
Omega2 Cygni, Latinized from ω2 Cygni, is the Bayer designation for a solitary star in the northern constellation of Cygnus. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 5.5, which is faintly visible to the naked eye on a dark night. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 8.17 mas, it is locate... | Omega2 Cygni | Astronomy | 250 |
59,162,859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/He%20Jiankui%20genome%20editing%20incident | The He Jiankui genome editing incident is a scientific and bioethical controversy concerning the use of genome editing following its first use on humans by Chinese scientist He Jiankui, who edited the genomes of human embryos in 2018. He became widely known on 26 November 2018 after he announced that he had created the... | He Jiankui genome editing incident | Chemistry,Engineering,Biology | 7,668 |
1,720,307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopotassium%20phosphate | Monopotassium phosphate (MKP) (also, potassium dihydrogen phosphate, KDP, or monobasic potassium phosphate) is the inorganic compound with the formula KH2PO4. Together with dipotassium phosphate (K2HPO4.(H2O)x) it is often used as a fertilizer, food additive, and buffering agent. The salt often cocrystallizes with the... | Monopotassium phosphate | Physics,Chemistry | 584 |
32,001,633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunton%20Technical%20Centre | The Dunton Campus (informally Ford Dunton or Dunton) is a major automotive research and development facility located in Dunton Wayletts, Laindon, England, which is owned and operated by Ford. Ford Dunton houses the main design team of Ford of Europe alongside its Merkenich Technical Centre in Cologne, Germany. With the... | Dunton Technical Centre | Technology,Engineering | 1,741 |
8,193,519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Village%20Homes | Village Homes is a planned community in Davis, Yolo County, California. It is designed to be ecologically sustainable by harnessing the energies and natural resources that exist in the landscape, especially stormwater and solar energy.
History
The principal designer of Village Homes was architect Mike Corbett who bega... | Village Homes | Chemistry,Environmental_science | 451 |
21,039,403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPK-MB%20test | The CPK-MB test (creatine phosphokinase-MB), also known as CK-MB test, is a cardiac marker used to assist diagnoses of an acute myocardial infarction, myocardial ischemia, or myocarditis. It measures the blood level of CK-MB (creatine kinase myocardial band), the bound combination of two variants (isoenzymes CKM and CK... | CPK-MB test | Chemistry | 281 |
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