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65,977,551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uwu | uwu (), also stylized UwU, is an emoticon representing a cute face. The u characters represent closed eyes, while the w represents a cat mouth. It is used to express various warm, happy, or affectionate feelings.
Usage and variants
The emoticon uwu is often used to denote cuteness (kawaii), happiness, or tenderness. ... | Uwu | Mathematics | 506 |
2,916,615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force%20field%20%28chemistry%29 | In the context of chemistry, molecular physics, physical chemistry, and molecular modelling, a force field is a computational model that is used to describe the forces between atoms (or collections of atoms) within molecules or between molecules as well as in crystals. Force fields are a variety of interatomic potentia... | Force field (chemistry) | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 6,397 |
21,965,993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stable%20cell | In cellular biology, stable cells are cells that multiply only when needed. They spend most of the time in the quiescent G0 phase of the cell cycle but can be stimulated to enter the cell cycle when needed. Examples include the liver, the proximal tubules of the kidney and endocrine glands.
See also
Labile cells, whi... | Stable cell | Biology | 93 |
75,192,485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amylin%20receptor | The amylin receptors (AMYRs) are heterodimers of the calcitonin receptor that are bound to by amylin with high affinity and consist of AMY1, AMY2, and AMY3. Amylin mimetics that are agonists at the amylin receptors are being developed as therapies for diabetes and obesity, and one, pramlintide, has been FDA approved. T... | Amylin receptor | Chemistry | 179 |
64,777,898 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kersti%20Hermansson | Kersti Hermansson (born in 1951) is a Professor for Inorganic Chemistry at Uppsala University.
Education and professional career
She did her PhD on "The Electron Distribution in the Bound Water Molecule" in 1984. From 1984 to 1986, she had a postdoctoral fellowship from the Swedish Research Council with Dr. E. Clemen... | Kersti Hermansson | Physics,Chemistry | 350 |
2,940,678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backhousia%20citriodora | Backhousia citriodora, commonly known as lemon myrtle, lemon scented myrtle or lemon scented ironwood, is a flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae. It is native to the subtropical rainforests of central and south-eastern Queensland, Australia, with a natural distribution from Mackay to Brisbane.
Description and ecolo... | Backhousia citriodora | Chemistry | 1,423 |
31,453,721 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagicWB | MagicWB is a third-party Workbench enhancer for AmigaOS. It was developed in 1992-1997 by Martin Huttenloher.
History
The idea to enhance Workbench arose when the author got bored with the gray and abstract icons provided by Commodore. The original Amiga icons could use only four colours and even those were scarcely u... | MagicWB | Technology | 295 |
1,226,666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adams%20operation | In mathematics, an Adams operation, denoted ψk for natural numbers k, is a cohomology operation in topological K-theory, or any allied operation in algebraic K-theory or other types of algebraic construction, defined on a pattern introduced by Frank Adams. The basic idea is to implement some fundamental identities in ... | Adams operation | Physics,Mathematics | 484 |
14,557,753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware%20Biotechnology%20Institute | The Delaware Biotechnology Institute (DBI) at the University of Delaware is a partnership among government, academia and industry with an aim to establish Delaware as a notable hub for biotechnology and life sciences.
Adjacent to the University of Delaware main campus, DBI's research facility is located in the Dela... | Delaware Biotechnology Institute | Engineering,Biology | 157 |
422,887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor%20camp | A labor camp (or labour camp, see spelling differences) or work camp is a detention facility where inmates are forced to engage in penal labor as a form of punishment. Labor camps have many common aspects with slavery and with prisons (especially prison farms). Conditions at labor camps vary widely depending on the ope... | Labor camp | Biology | 1,839 |
38,584,702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flights%20%28rotary%20dryer%29 | Flights, also commonly referred to as "material lifters" or "shovelling plates" are used in rotary dryers and rotary coolers to shower material through the process gas stream. Fixed to the interior of the rotary drum, these fin-like structures scoop material up from the material bed at the bottom of the drum and shower... | Flights (rotary dryer) | Chemistry | 146 |
859,878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panharmonicon | The Panharmonicon was a musical instrument invented in 1805 by Johann Nepomuk Mälzel, a contemporary and friend of Beethoven. Beethoven composed his piece "Wellington's Victory" (Op. 91) to be played on Mälzel's mechanical orchestral organ and also to commemorate Arthur Wellesley's victory over the French at the Battle... | Panharmonicon | Physics,Technology | 401 |
391,832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobordism | In mathematics, cobordism is a fundamental equivalence relation on the class of compact manifolds of the same dimension, set up using the concept of the boundary (French bord, giving cobordism) of a manifold. Two manifolds of the same dimension are cobordant if their disjoint union is the boundary of a compact manifol... | Cobordism | Mathematics | 4,797 |
608,935 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marginalia | Marginalia (or apostils) are marks made in the margins of a book or other document. They may be scribbles, comments, glosses (annotations), critiques, doodles, drolleries, or illuminations.
Biblical manuscripts
Biblical manuscripts have notes in the margin, for liturgical use. Numbers of texts' divisions are given at ... | Marginalia | Engineering | 1,203 |
27,461,561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theories%20of%20cloaking | Theories of cloaking discusses various theories based on science and research, for producing an electromagnetic cloaking device. Theories presented employ transformation optics, event cloaking, dipolar scattering cancellation, tunneling light transmittance, sensors and active sources, and acoustic cloaking.
A cloakin... | Theories of cloaking | Physics,Materials_science,Engineering | 2,494 |
248,717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typical%20set | In information theory, the typical set is a set of sequences whose probability is close to two raised to the negative power of the entropy of their source distribution. That this set has total probability close to one is a consequence of the asymptotic equipartition property (AEP) which is a kind of law of large number... | Typical set | Mathematics,Technology,Engineering | 1,484 |
74,838,640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERN-501 | TERN-501 is a selective thyromimetic drug that is being developed for the treatment of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
References
Thyroid hormone receptor beta agonists
Chloroarenes
Oxadiazoles
Pyridazines
Anilides
Isopropyl compounds
Experimental drugs developed for non-alcoholic fatty liver disease | TERN-501 | Chemistry | 69 |
74,919,811 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine%20Hadida | Sabine Hadida is a pharmacologist and senior vice president at Vertex Pharmaceuticals. She works at Vertex's cystic fibrosis research center in San Diego. She was awarded the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences in 2024.
Education
Hadida has a bachelor's degree, master's degree, and Ph.D. in pharmacy from the Universi... | Sabine Hadida | Chemistry | 240 |
3,045,014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasure%20principle%20%28psychology%29 | In Freudian psychoanalysis, the pleasure principle () is the instinctive seeking of pleasure and avoiding of pain to satisfy biological and psychological needs. Specifically, the pleasure principle is the animating force behind the id.
Precursors
Epicurus in the ancient world, and later Jeremy Bentham, laid stress upo... | Pleasure principle (psychology) | Biology | 584 |
15,487,064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-TADIL%20J | S-TADIL J, or Satellite TADIL J, is a real-time Beyond Line-of-Sight (BLOS) Tactical Digital Information Link (TADIL) supporting the exchange of the same J Series message set that is implemented on Link-16 via the Joint Tactical Information Distribution System (JTIDS). S-TADIL J provides for robust continuous connectiv... | S-TADIL J | Engineering | 345 |
59,202,539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%92-Isophorone | β-Isophorone is an organic compound with the formula (CH3)3C6H7O. Classified as a β,γ-unsaturated ketone, it is an isomer of and common impurity in the major industrial intermediate α-isophorone, which is produced from acetone. Like the alpha isomer, beta-isophorone is a colorless liquid.
See also
Phorone
References... | Β-Isophorone | Chemistry | 104 |
6,014,225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure%20drop | Pressure drop (often abbreviated as "dP" or "ΔP") is defined as the difference in total pressure between two points of a fluid carrying network. A pressure drop occurs when frictional forces, caused by the resistance to flow, act on a fluid as it flows through a conduit (such as a channel, pipe, or tube). This friction... | Pressure drop | Physics,Chemistry,Engineering | 634 |
26,628,083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega-categorical%20theory | In mathematical logic, an omega-categorical theory is a theory that has exactly one countably infinite model up to isomorphism. Omega-categoricity is the special case κ = = ω of κ-categoricity, and omega-categorical theories are also referred to as ω-categorical. The notion is most important for countable first-orde... | Omega-categorical theory | Mathematics | 499 |
70,193,166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michner%20Plating%20site | The Michner Plating Co.–Mechanic Street Site, as dubbed by the EPA, is a 140,000 square foot industrial complex that sits upstream to the Grand River in Jackson, Michigan. on the corner of N. Mechanic Street and W. Trail Street.
Architecture
The first portion of the main structure was completed between 1907 and 1910,... | Michner Plating site | Engineering | 1,254 |
343,257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20craters%20on%20Mars%3A%20A%E2%80%93G | This is a partial list of craters on Mars. There are hundreds of thousands of impact craters on Mars, but only some of them have names. This list here only contains named Martian craters starting with the letter A – G (see also lists for H – N and O – Z).
Large Martian craters (greater than 60 kilometers in diameter) ... | List of craters on Mars: A–G | Astronomy | 221 |
25,672,752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20inverse%20scattering%20method | In quantum physics, the quantum inverse scattering method (QISM), similar to the closely related algebraic Bethe ansatz, is a method for solving integrable models in 1+1 dimensions, introduced by Leon Takhtajan and L. D. Faddeev in 1979.
It can be viewed as a quantized version of the classical inverse scattering metho... | Quantum inverse scattering method | Physics | 629 |
9,701,718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dice-S%C3%B8rensen%20coefficient | The Dice-Sørensen coefficient (see below for other names) is a statistic used to gauge the similarity of two samples. It was independently developed by the botanists Lee Raymond Dice and Thorvald Sørensen, who published in 1945 and 1948 respectively.
Name
The index is known by several other names, especially Sørensen–... | Dice-Sørensen coefficient | Physics | 1,221 |
52,848,120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clebsch%20representation | In physics and mathematics, the Clebsch representation of an arbitrary three-dimensional vector field is:
where the scalar fields and are known as Clebsch potentials or Monge potentials, named after Alfred Clebsch (1833–1872) and Gaspard Monge (1746–1818), and is the gradient operator.
Background
In fluid dynami... | Clebsch representation | Physics,Chemistry,Engineering | 344 |
54,295,335 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnadur | Magnadur is a sintered barium ferrite, specifically BaFe12O19 in an anisotropic form. It is used for making permanent magnets. The material was invented by Mullard and was used initially particularly for focussing rings on cathode-ray tubes. Magnadur magnets retain their magnetism well, and are often used in education.... | Magnadur | Physics,Chemistry | 123 |
37,806,728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%205608 | HD 5608 is an orange-hued star in the northern constellation of Andromeda with one known planet, HD 5608 b. It is a dim star near the lower limit of visibility to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of +5.98. The distance to HD 5608, as estimated from an annual parallax shift of , is . It is moving close... | HD 5608 | Astronomy | 484 |
5,458,288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse%20Tamers | The colossal pair of marble "Horse Tamers"—often identified as Castor and Pollux—have stood since antiquity near the site of the Baths of Constantine on the Quirinal Hill, Rome. Napoleon's agents wanted to include them among the classical booty removed from Rome after the 1797 Treaty of Tolentino, but they were too lar... | Horse Tamers | Astronomy | 933 |
9,024,703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UN%20numbers%201701%20to%201800 | UN numbers from UN1701 to UN1800 as assigned by the United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods are as follows:
UN 1701 to UN 1800
n.o.s. = not otherwise specified meaning a collective entry to which substances, mixtures, solutions or articles may be assigned if a) they are not mentioned... | List of UN numbers 1701 to 1800 | Chemistry,Technology | 166 |
28,165,618 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20LCD | Super LCD (SLCD) is a display technology used by numerous manufacturers for mobile device displays. It is mostly used by HTC, though Super LCD panels are actually produced by S-LCD Corporation.
Super LCD differs from a regular LCD in that it does not have an air gap between the outer glass and the display element. Thi... | Super LCD | Engineering | 281 |
529,449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20control%20surface | In the domain of digital audio, a control surface is a human interface device (HID) that allows the user to control a digital audio workstation or other digital audio application. Generally, a control surface will contain one or more controls that can be assigned to parameters in the software, allowing tactile control... | Audio control surface | Engineering | 893 |
28,738,842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C16H18N2O3 | The molecular formula C16H18N2O3 (molar mass: 286.331 g/mol) may refer to:
Cromakalim
Difenoxuron
Molecular formulas | C16H18N2O3 | Physics,Chemistry | 40 |
35,857,329 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steiner%20point%20%28triangle%29 | In triangle geometry, the Steiner point is a particular point associated with a triangle. It is a triangle center and it is designated as the center X(99) in Clark Kimberling's Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers. Jakob Steiner (1796–1863), Swiss mathematician, described this point in 1826. The point was given Steiner's ... | Steiner point (triangle) | Physics,Mathematics | 748 |
10,271,359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicit%20cognition | Implicit cognition refers to cognitive processes that occur outside conscious awareness or conscious control. This includes domains such as learning, perception, or memory which may influence a person's behavior without their conscious awareness of those influences.
Overview
Implicit cognition is everything one does a... | Implicit cognition | Biology | 3,988 |
9,928,955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastra | Rastra is a registered tradename for a particular insulating concrete form (ICF) construction system, Rastra created the name Insulating COMPOUND Concrete Form (ICCF), used to make walls for buildings. It is one of the earliest such products, first patented in 1965 in Austria. Rastra is in production since 1972, and is... | Rastra | Physics,Engineering | 511 |
31,473,944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinag | Zinag is an alloy of three metallic materials (zinc, aluminium and silver), the composition of the alloy gives excellent mechanical and anticorrosive properties, this is an alloy of low density that can be used for many process such as automotive area, medical, aerospace, construction industry, etc., the silver gives t... | Zinag | Chemistry | 117 |
591,513 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical%20cavity | An optical cavity, resonating cavity or optical resonator is an arrangement of mirrors or other optical elements that confines light waves similarly to how a cavity resonator confines microwaves. Optical cavities are a major component of lasers, surrounding the gain medium and providing feedback of the laser light. Th... | Optical cavity | Materials_science,Engineering | 2,222 |
2,936,393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact%20explosive | A contact explosive is a chemical substance that explodes violently when it is exposed to a relatively small amount of energy (e.g. friction, pressure, sound, light). Though different contact explosives have varying amounts of energy sensitivity, they are all much more sensitive relative to other kinds of explosives. C... | Contact explosive | Chemistry | 1,129 |
17,920,440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slave%20boson | The slave boson method is a technique for dealing with models of strongly correlated systems, providing a method to second-quantize valence fluctuations within a restrictive manifold of states.
In the 1960s the physicist John Hubbard introduced an operator, now named the "Hubbard operator" to describe the creation ... | Slave boson | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 516 |
884,375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ely%20Cathedral | Ely Cathedral, formally the , is an Anglican cathedral in the city of Ely, Cambridgeshire, England.
The cathedral can trace its origin to the abbey founded in Ely in 672 by St Æthelthryth (also called Etheldreda). The earliest parts of the present building date to 1083, and it was granted cathedral status in 1109. Unt... | Ely Cathedral | Materials_science,Engineering | 10,061 |
7,569,885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20lift | Artificial lift is the use of artificial means to increase the flow of liquids, such as crude oil or water, from a production well. Generally this is achieved by the use of a mechanical device inside the well (known as pump or velocity string) or by decreasing the weight of the hydrostatic column by injecting gas into ... | Artificial lift | Physics,Chemistry | 3,269 |
4,168,493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium%28II%29%20chloride | Chromium(II) chloride describes inorganic compounds with the formula CrCl2(H2O)n. The anhydrous solid is white when pure, however commercial samples are often grey or green; it is hygroscopic and readily dissolves in water to give bright blue air-sensitive solutions of the tetrahydrate Cr(H2O)4Cl2. Chromium(II) chlorid... | Chromium(II) chloride | Chemistry | 710 |
46,876,332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S5.92 | The S5.92 is a Russian rocket engine, currently used on the Fregat upper stage. It burns a hypergolic mixture of unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) fuel with dinitrogen tetroxide (N2O4) oxidizer in the gas-generator cycle.
Design
The S5.92 has two throttle settings. The highest produces of thrust, a specific impu... | S5.92 | Astronomy | 334 |
2,132,322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes%20operators | The Stokes operators are the quantum mechanical operators corresponding to the classical Stokes parameters. These matrix operators are identical to the Pauli matrices .
External links
Stokes operators, angular momentum and radiation phase.
Quantum mechanics | Stokes operators | Physics | 41 |
50,396,981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cellosaurus | Cellosaurus is an online knowledge base on cell lines, which attempts to document all cell lines used in biomedical research. It is provided by the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB). It is an ELIXIR Core Data Resource as well as an IRDiRC's Recognized Resource. It is the contributing resource for cell lines on t... | Cellosaurus | Chemistry,Biology | 435 |
13,745,959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20173780 | HD 173780 is a single star in the northern constellation Lyra, near the southern constellation border with Hercules. It is an orange-hued star that is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.84. This object is located at a distance of approximately 237 light years from the Sun based on ... | HD 173780 | Astronomy | 227 |
25,106,789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winkler%20vine | The Winkler Vine was an example of large-vine grape culture. The vine was named after Albert J. Winkler, Chair of the Department of Viticulture and Enology (1935–1957) at University of California, Davis. Planted in 1979, the Winkler vine was a Vitis vinifera cv. Mission, grafted on to a Vitis rupestris St George rootst... | Winkler vine | Biology | 420 |
56,315,819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic%20billiards | In recreational mathematics, arithmetic billiards provide a geometrical method to determine the least common multiple and the greatest common divisor of two natural numbers. It makes use of reflections inside a rectangle which has sides with length of the two given numbers. This is an easy example of trajectory analysi... | Arithmetic billiards | Mathematics | 1,141 |
50,484,294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden%20waste%20dumping | Garden waste, or green waste dumping is the act of discarding or depositing garden waste somewhere it does not belong.
Garden waste is the accumulated plant matter from gardening activities which involve cutting or removing vegetation, i.e. cutting the lawn, weed removal, hedge trimming or pruning consisting of l... | Garden waste dumping | Chemistry | 2,375 |
24,406,065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C11H13F3N2 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C11H13F3N2}}
The molecular formula C11H13F3N2 (molar mass: 230.23 g/mol, exact mass: 230.1031 u) may refer to:
Trifluoromethylphenylpiperazine
1-(4-(Trifluoromethyl)phenyl)piperazine | C11H13F3N2 | Chemistry | 87 |
2,883,528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennelec | Tennelec was a US electronics company founded in the early 1960s by Edward Fairstein in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The company came to prominence producing instrumentation for nuclear studies and later, programmable scanning radios.
The TC-200 amplifier was a successful early design that established Tennelec as a leader in... | Tennelec | Engineering | 492 |
1,513,917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potassium%20selective%20electrode | Potassium selective electrodes are a type of ion selective electrode used in biochemical and biophysical research, where measurements of potassium concentration in an aqueous solution are required, usually on a real time basis.
These electrodes are typical ion exchange resin membrane electrodes, using valinomycin, a p... | Potassium selective electrode | Chemistry | 303 |
27,378,535 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical%20oscillator | In chemistry, a chemical oscillator is a complex mixture of reacting chemical compounds in which the concentration of one or more components exhibits periodic changes. They are a class of reactions that serve as an example of non-equilibrium thermodynamics with far-from-equilibrium behavior. The reactions are theoretic... | Chemical oscillator | Chemistry,Mathematics | 1,105 |
48,321,657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygrophorus%20erubescens | Hygrophorus erubescens, commonly known as the blotched woodwax or pink waxcap, is an agaric fungus native to Scandinavia, Japan, Central Europe, Great Britain and North America.
Taxonomy
Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries described it as Agaricus erubescens in his 1821 work Systema Mycologicum. The species name is ... | Hygrophorus erubescens | Biology | 629 |
43,727,603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20excitation%20%28accelerator%20physics%29 | Quantum excitation is the effect in circular accelerators or storage rings whereby the discreteness of photon emission causes the charged particles (typically electrons) to undergo a random walk or diffusion process.
Mechanism
An electron moving through a magnetic field emits radiation called synchrotron radiation. T... | Quantum excitation (accelerator physics) | Physics | 404 |
12,284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grimoire | A grimoire () (also known as a book of spells, magic book, or a spellbook) is a textbook of magic, typically including instructions on how to create magical objects like talismans and amulets, how to perform magical spells, charms, and divination, and how to summon or invoke supernatural entities such as angels, spirit... | Grimoire | Physics | 4,300 |
18,195,426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigerose | Nigerose, also known as sakebiose, is an unfermentable sugar obtained by partial hydrolysis of nigeran, a polysaccharide found in black mold, but is also readily extracted from the dextrans found in rice molds and many other fermenting microorganisms, such as L. mesenteroides. It is a disaccharide made of two glucose r... | Nigerose | Chemistry | 115 |
17,909,998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallopamil | Gallopamil (INN) is an L-type calcium channel blocker that is an analog of verapamil. It is used in the treatment of abnormal heart rhythms.
Synthesis
The alkylation reaction of 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenylacetonitrile (1) and isopropyl chloride (2), using sodium amide as base gives the intermediate nitrile (3). A second a... | Gallopamil | Chemistry | 138 |
55,724,853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emery%20Worldwide%20Airlines%20Flight%2017 | Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 was a regularly scheduled United States domestic cargo flight, flying from Reno, Nevada to Dayton, Ohio with an intermediate stopover at Rancho Cordova, California. On February 16, 2000, the DC-8-71F operating the flight crashed onto an automobile salvage yard shortly after taking off... | Emery Worldwide Airlines Flight 17 | Materials_science | 1,313 |
75,767,608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulcus%20primigenius | The (Latin for "initial furrow") was the ancient Roman ritual of plowing the boundary of a new cityparticularly formal coloniesprior to distributing its lots or erecting its walls. The Romans considered the ritual extremely ancient, believing their own founder Romulus had introduced it from the Etruscans, who had also... | Sulcus primigenius | Engineering | 1,568 |
63,719,093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelier%20model | The Bachelier model is a model of an asset price under Brownian motion presented by Louis Bachelier on his PhD thesis The Theory of Speculation (Théorie de la spéculation, published 1900). It is also called "Normal Model" equivalently (as opposed to "Log-Normal Model" or "Black-Scholes Model"). One early criticism of ... | Bachelier model | Environmental_science | 433 |
42,434,747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20design | Game design is the process of creating and shaping the mechanics, systems, rules, and gameplay of a game. Game design processes apply to board games, card games, dice games, casino games, role-playing games, sports, war games, or simulation games.In Elements of Game Design, game designer Robert Zubek defines game desig... | Game design | Mathematics,Engineering | 3,060 |
15,759,971 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mamadsho%20Ilolov | Mamadsho Ilolovich Ilolov () is President of the Tajik Academy of Sciences, a former member of the Tajikistan Parliament and former Minister of Labor and Social Protection of Population of the Republic of Tajikistan, and former rector of Khorugh State University.
Ilolov was born on March 14, 1948, in GBAO, Republic of... | Mamadsho Ilolov | Materials_science | 593 |
11,660,809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile-ITX | Mobile-ITX is the smallest (by 2009) x86 compliant motherboard form factor presented by VIA Technologies in December, 2009. The motherboard size (CPU module) is . There are no computer ports on the CPU module and it is necessary to use an I/O carrier board. The design is intended for medical, transportation and milita... | Mobile-ITX | Technology | 240 |
5,831,822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas%20Institute%20for%20Genomic%20Medicine | The Texas A&M Institute for Genomic Medicine (TIGM) is a research institute of Texas A&M AgriLife Research. It was founded in 2005 under a $50 million award from the Texas Enterprise Fund to accelerate the pace of medical discoveries and foster the development of the biotechnology industry in Texas.
TIGM helps resear... | Texas Institute for Genomic Medicine | Engineering,Biology | 176 |
28,752,783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PlusCal | PlusCal (formerly called +CAL) is a formal specification language created by Leslie Lamport, which transpiles to TLA+. In contrast to TLA+'s action-oriented focus on distributed systems, PlusCal most resembles an imperative programming language and is better-suited when specifying sequential algorithms. PlusCal was des... | PlusCal | Technology,Engineering | 184 |
76,117,622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welding%20table | A welding table is a type of workbench used for holding workpieces during welding. They are made of fireproof and electrically conductive materials, and often have good possibilities for clamping workpieces down, providing increased stability, precision and security. In addition to a welding machine and personal protec... | Welding table | Engineering | 461 |
31,478,429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre%20for%20Gene%20Regulation%20and%20Expression | The Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression, located within the School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee, is a research facility working in the field of gene expression and chromosome biology. Previously part of the Dundee Biocentre and receiving significant Wellcome Trust funding from 1995 onwards, it was award... | Centre for Gene Regulation and Expression | Chemistry,Biology | 582 |
6,436,309 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master%20of%20Physics | A Master of Physics honours (or MPhys (Hons)) degree is a specific master's degree for courses in the field of physics.
United Kingdom
In England and Wales, the MPhys is an undergraduate award available after pursuing a four-year course of study at a university. In Scotland the course has a five-year duration. In some... | Master of Physics | Physics | 450 |
42,156,215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardian%20%28polymer%29 | Guardian is the trademark name of a polymer originally manufactured by Securency International, a joint venture between the Reserve Bank of Australia and Innovia Films Ltd. The latter completed acquisition of the former's stake in 2013.
Its production involves gravity feeding a molten polymer, composed of extruded pol... | Guardian (polymer) | Chemistry,Materials_science | 762 |
857,836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Saturn-crossing%20minor%20planets | A Saturn-crosser is a minor planet whose orbit crosses that of Saturn. The known numbered Saturn-crossers (as of 2005) are listed below. There is only one inner-grazer (944 Hidalgo) and no outer-grazers or co-orbitals known; most if not all of the crossers are centaurs. is a damocloid.
Notes: † inner-grazer.
944 Hi... | List of Saturn-crossing minor planets | Astronomy | 219 |
44,663,481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seabed%20tractor | A seabed tractor is a type of remotely operated underwater vehicle. They can be used for submarine cable laying or burial of cables or pipelines. This type of vehicle consists of a tracked Crawler excavator device, configured for the task. It is controlled from the vessel by an umbilical cable. Operating seabed tract... | Seabed tractor | Engineering | 340 |
20,596,907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jollo | Jollo was an online machine translation service where users could instantly translate texts into 23 languages, request human translations from a community of volunteers around the world, and compare the correctness of several leading machine translation websites. It was discontinued in 2012.
System
Jollo was a free W... | Jollo | Technology | 306 |
61,606,868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%204316 | NGC 4316 is an edge-on spiral galaxy located about 70 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It was discovered by astronomer Wilhelm Tempel on March 17, 1882. NGC 4316 is a member of the Virgo Cluster and is classified as LINER and as a Seyfert galaxy.
The galaxy has undergone ram-pressure stripping in t... | NGC 4316 | Astronomy | 135 |
61,717,760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harzia%20acremonioides | Harzia acremonioides is a species of seed-borne fungus that occurs in the soil. It has been categorized in the Ceratostomataceae family and under the genus Harzia. The genus Harzia contained up to three accepted species: H. acremonioides, H. verrucose, and H. velatea in 1974. Within the genus Harzia, H. acremonioides ... | Harzia acremonioides | Biology | 1,340 |
33,720,269 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrosoma%20atlanticum | Pyrosoma atlanticum is a pelagic species of marine colonial tunicate in the class Thaliacea found in temperate waters worldwide. The name of the genus comes from the Greek words pyros meaning 'fire' and soma meaning 'body', referring to the bright bioluminescence sometimes emitted. The specific epithet atlanticum refer... | Pyrosoma atlanticum | Biology | 1,189 |
7,074,727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesoporous%20silicate | Mesoporous silicates are silicates with a special morphology.
Background
Porous inorganic solids have found great utility as catalysts and sorption media because of their large internal surface area, i.e. the presence of voids of controllable dimensions at the atomic, molecular, and nanometer scales. With increasing ... | Mesoporous silicate | Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 439 |
2,030,477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connections%20%28British%20TV%20series%29 | Connections is a science education television series created, written, and presented by British science historian James Burke. The series was produced and directed by Mick Jackson of the BBC Science and Features Department and first aired in 1978 (UK) and 1979 (US). It took an interdisciplinary approach to the history ... | Connections (British TV series) | Technology | 1,440 |
2,902,981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%20Aero | Windows Aero (a backronym for Authentic, Energetic, Reflective, and Open) is the design language introduced in the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system. The changes introduced by Windows Aero encompassed many elements of the Windows interface, with the introduction of a new visual style with an emphasis on animatio... | Windows Aero | Engineering | 2,835 |
48,740,815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-surveyable%20proof | In the philosophy of mathematics, a non-surveyable proof is a mathematical proof that is considered infeasible for a human mathematician to verify and so of controversial validity. The term was coined by Thomas Tymoczko in 1979 in criticism of Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken's computer-assisted proof of the four col... | Non-surveyable proof | Mathematics | 744 |
66,516,263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Rabinowicz | Ernest Rabinowicz (1927-2006) was an American mechanical engineer. He was known for his work in tribology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Education
Rabinowicz received his bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Cambridge in 1947. In 1950, he obtained a doctor of philosophy in physical che... | Ernest Rabinowicz | Materials_science | 322 |
1,481,340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott%20Kim | Scott Kim is an American puzzle and video game designer, artist, and author of Korean descent. He started writing an occasional "Boggler" column for Discover magazine in 1990, and became an exclusive columnist in 1999, and created hundreds of other puzzles for magazines such as Scientific American and Games, as well as... | Scott Kim | Mathematics | 685 |
29,247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfuric%20acid | Sulfuric acid (American spelling and the preferred IUPAC name) or sulphuric acid (Commonwealth spelling), known in antiquity as oil of vitriol, is a mineral acid composed of the elements sulfur, oxygen, and hydrogen, with the molecular formula . It is a colorless, odorless, and viscous liquid that is miscible with wate... | Sulfuric acid | Chemistry | 7,020 |
1,553,972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20production | Video production is the process of producing video content. It is the equivalent of filmmaking, but with video recorded either as analog signals on videotape, digitally in video tape or as computer files stored on optical discs, hard drives, SSDs, magnetic tape or memory cards instead of film stock.
Television broadca... | Video production | Engineering | 397 |
903,303 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diazotroph | Diazotrophs are bacteria and archaea that fix atmospheric nitrogen (N2) in the atmosphere into bioavailable forms such as ammonia.
A diazotroph is a microorganism that is able to grow without external sources of fixed nitrogen. Examples of organisms that do this are rhizobia and Frankia and Azospirillum. All diazotro... | Diazotroph | Chemistry,Environmental_science | 2,237 |
8,596,033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravian%20star | A Moravian star () is an illuminated decoration used during the Christian liturgical seasons of Advent, Christmas, and Epiphany representing the Star of Bethlehem pointing towards the infant Jesus. The Moravian Church teaches:
The Moravian star is popular in places where there are Moravian Christian congregations wor... | Moravian star | Mathematics | 1,093 |
69,544,961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SHIELDS | The Spatial Heterodyne Interferometric Emission Line Dynamics Spectrometer (SHIELDS) mission is intended to study light from interstellar particles that have drifted into the Solar System in order to learn about the nearest reaches of interstellar space. The purpose of the mission is acquire a spatial map of scattered ... | SHIELDS | Astronomy | 153 |
72,252,379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blind%20polytope | In geometry, a Blind polytope is a convex polytope composed of regular polytope facets.
The category was named after the German couple Gerd and Roswitha Blind, who described them in a series of papers beginning in 1979.
It generalizes the set of semiregular polyhedra and Johnson solids to higher dimensions.
Uniform ca... | Blind polytope | Mathematics | 553 |
20,811,122 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerLab | PowerLab (before 1998 was referred to as MacLab) is a data acquisition system developed by ADInstruments comprising hardware and software and designed for use in life science research and teaching applications. It is commonly used in physiology, pharmacology, biomedical engineering, sports/exercise studies and psychoph... | PowerLab | Biology | 1,123 |
53,156,368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing%E2%80%93Washington%20hotline | The Beijing–Washington hotline is a system that allows direct communication between the leaders of the United States and China. This hotline was established in November 2007, when both countries announced that they would set up a military hotline to avoid misunderstanding between their militaries during any moments of ... | Beijing–Washington hotline | Engineering | 749 |
27,440,875 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%ABzim%20Bo%C3%A7ari | Gëzim Boçari (born 25 March 1949) is an Albanian professor of pharmacology and a politician.
Gëzim Boçari is head of the pharmacology sector of the medicine faculty at the University of Tirana. He is one of the writers of medicine and pharmacology textbooks of Albanian universities. In the 2009 parliamentary elections... | Gëzim Boçari | Chemistry | 151 |
4,834,091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuhn%20length | The Kuhn length is a theoretical treatment, developed by Werner Kuhn, in which a real polymer chain is considered as a collection of Kuhn segments each with a Kuhn length . Each Kuhn segment can be thought of as if they are freely jointed with each other. Each segment in a freely jointed chain can randomly orient in a... | Kuhn length | Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 401 |
9,020,211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chungah | A chungah is an obsolete unit of volume used in India, approximately equal to 1/6 of an imperial gallon (0.758 litres). After metrication in the mid-20th century the unit became obsolete.
See also
List of customary units of measurement in South Asia
References
Units of volume
Customary units in India
Obsolete units ... | Chungah | Mathematics | 70 |
62,726,859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut%20oc%C3%A9anographique | The () is an ocean education organization based in Monaco. The institute manages two ocean museums (in Monaco and Paris) and lobbies globally for the preservation of the oceans' ecology.
History
The Institut océanographique was founded in 1906 by Albert I, Prince of Monaco (the International Hydrographic Organization... | Institut océanographique | Physics,Environmental_science | 280 |
1,786,719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Step-growth%20polymerization | In polymer chemistry, step-growth polymerization refers to a type of polymerization mechanism in which bi-functional or multifunctional monomers react to form first dimers, then trimers, longer oligomers and eventually long chain polymers. Many naturally-occurring and some synthetic polymers are produced by step-growth... | Step-growth polymerization | Chemistry,Materials_science | 4,121 |
3,986,852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical%20truth | Logical truth is one of the most fundamental concepts in logic. Broadly speaking, a logical truth is a statement which is true regardless of the truth or falsity of its constituent propositions. In other words, a logical truth is a statement which is not only true, but one which is true under all interpretations of its... | Logical truth | Mathematics | 1,340 |
32,526,740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promin | Promin, or sodium glucosulfone is a sulfone drug that was investigated for the treatment of malaria, tuberculosis and leprosy. It is broken down in the body to dapsone, which is the therapeutic form.
History
The first synthesis of Promin is sometimes credited to Edward Tillitson and Benjamin F. Tullar of Parke, Davis... | Promin | Chemistry | 682 |
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