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795,058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aplite | Aplite () is an intrusive igneous rock that has a granitic composition. Aplites are fine-grained to aphanitic (without grains visible to the naked eye) and may consist of only quartz and feldspar or the term may refer to any leucocratic (pale-coloured) minor intrusion of that grain size. They are associated with the la... | Aplite | Chemistry | 460 |
11,296,918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20shopping | Discovery shopping (also known as discovery shopping search) is a type of online shopping that emphasizes the browsing aspects of the shopping experience. Discovery shopping search offers shoppers guided queries for more personalized results. The goal is to recreate the experience of live shopping as a leisure activit... | Discovery shopping | Technology | 274 |
11,456,236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Mingos | David Michael Patrick Mingos (born 6 August 1944) is a British chemist and academic. He was Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford from 1999 to 2009, and Professor of Inorganic Chemistry at the University of Oxford.
Education
Mingos attended the Harvey Grammar School, King Edward VII School Lytham St Anne's, University o... | Michael Mingos | Chemistry | 556 |
2,531,152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diazonium%20compound | Diazonium compounds or diazonium salts are a group of organic compounds sharing a common functional group where R can be any organic group, such as an alkyl or an aryl, and X is an inorganic or organic anion, such as a halide. The parent compound where R is hydrogen, is diazenylium.
Structure and general properties
... | Diazonium compound | Chemistry | 3,030 |
62,456,017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heyde%20theorem | In the mathematical theory of probability, the Heyde theorem is the characterization theorem concerning the normal distribution (the Gaussian distribution) by the symmetry of one linear form given another. This theorem was proved by C. C. Heyde.
Formulation
Let be independent random variables. Let be nonzero cons... | Heyde theorem | Mathematics | 176 |
38,049,962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota%20Delphini | Iota Delphini (ι Del, ι Delphini) is a star in the constellation Delphinus. It has an apparent magnitude of about 5.4, meaning that it is just barely visible to the naked eye. Based upon parallax measurements made by the Gaia spacecraft, this star is located at a distance of 196 light years.
Iota Delphini's spectral t... | Iota Delphini | Astronomy | 251 |
17,459,933 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Core%20Protocol | The Open Core Protocol (OCP) is a protocol for on-chip subsystem communications.
It is an openly licensed, core-centric protocol and defines a bus-independent, configurable interface. OCP International Partnership (OCP-IP) produces OCP specifications. OCP data transfer models range from simple request-grant handshaking... | Open Core Protocol | Technology | 323 |
3,273,682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscone | Muscone is a macrocyclic ketone, an organic compound that is the primary contributor to the odor of musk. Natural muscone is obtained from musk, a glandular secretion of the musk deer, which has been used in perfumery and medicine for thousands of years. Since obtaining natural musk requires killing the endangered ani... | Muscone | Chemistry | 479 |
14,373,561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinya%20Yamanaka | is a Japanese stem cell researcher and a Nobel Prize laureate. He is a professor and the director emeritus of Center for iPS Cell (induced Pluripotent Stem Cell) Research and Application, Kyoto University; as a senior investigator at the UCSF-affiliated Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco, California; and as a profes... | Shinya Yamanaka | Biology | 3,418 |
16,079,328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%20559 | NGC 559 (also known as Caldwell 8) is an open cluster and Caldwell object in the constellation Cassiopeia. It shines at magnitude +9.5. Its celestial coordinates are RA , dec . It is located near the open cluster NGC 637, and the bright magnitude +2.2 irregular variable star Gamma Cassiopeiae. The cluster is 7 arcmins ... | NGC 559 | Astronomy | 210 |
28,476,152 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coital%20incontinence | Coital incontinence (CI) is urinary leakage that occurs during either penetration or orgasm and can occur with a sexual partner or with masturbation. It has been reported to occur in 10% to 27% of sexually active women with urinary continence problems. There is evidence to suggest links between urinary leakage at penet... | Coital incontinence | Biology | 138 |
1,733,595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer%20Wells | Spencer Wells (born April 6, 1969) is an American geneticist, anthropologist, author and entrepreneur. He co-hosts The Insight podcast with Razib Khan. Wells led The Genographic Project from 2005 to 2015, as an Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society, and is the founder and executive director of pers... | Spencer Wells | Biology | 1,468 |
25,229,818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African%20Renaissance%20Monument | The African Renaissance Monument (French: Monument de la Renaissance Africaine) is a tall bronze statue located on top of one of the twin hills known as Collines des Mamelles, outside Dakar, Senegal. Built overlooking the Atlantic Ocean in the Ouakam suburb, the statue was designed by the Senegalese architect Pierre G... | African Renaissance Monument | Physics,Mathematics | 967 |
1,794,902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pin%20group | In mathematics, the pin group is a certain subgroup of the Clifford algebra associated to a quadratic space. It maps 2-to-1 to the orthogonal group, just as the spin group maps 2-to-1 to the special orthogonal group.
In general the map from the Pin group to the orthogonal group is not surjective or a universal coverin... | Pin group | Mathematics | 1,655 |
1,009,291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyranometer | A pyranometer () is a type of actinometer used for measuring solar irradiance on a planar surface and it is designed to measure the solar radiation flux density (W/m2) from the hemisphere above within a wavelength range 0.3 μm to 3 μm.
A typical pyranometer does not require any power to operate. However, recent techni... | Pyranometer | Technology,Engineering | 3,586 |
1,133,651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternus%20illusion | The Ternus illusion, also commonly referred to as the Ternus Effect, is an illusion related to human visual perception involving apparent motion. In a simplified explanation of one form of the illusion, two discs, (referred to here as L for left and C for centre) are shown side by side as the first frame in a sequence ... | Ternus illusion | Physics | 1,745 |
48,407,339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolay%20Zheludev | Nikolay Zheludev (born 23 April 1955) is a British scientist specializing in nanophotonics, metamaterials, nanotechnology, electrodynamics, and nonlinear optics. Nikolay Zheludev is one of the founding members of the closely interlinked fields of metamaterials and nanophotonics that emerged at the dawn of the 21st cen... | Nikolay Zheludev | Materials_science | 936 |
2,129,346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TILLING%20%28molecular%20biology%29 | TILLING (Targeting Induced Local Lesions in Genomes) is a method in molecular biology that allows directed identification of mutations in a specific gene. TILLING was introduced in 2000, using the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana, and expanded on into other uses and methodologies by a small group of scientists includin... | TILLING (molecular biology) | Chemistry,Engineering,Biology | 1,153 |
11,763,375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenated%20error%20correction%20code | In coding theory, concatenated codes form a class of error-correcting codes that are derived by combining an inner code and an outer code. They were conceived in 1966 by Dave Forney as a solution to the problem of finding a code that has both exponentially decreasing error probability with increasing block length and p... | Concatenated error correction code | Mathematics,Technology,Engineering | 2,225 |
19,649,338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20motion | Biological motion is motion that comes from actions of a biological organism. Humans and animals are able to understand those actions through experience, identification, and higher level neural processing. Humans use biological motion to identify and understand familiar actions, which is involved in the neural processe... | Biological motion | Biology | 2,006 |
13,660,531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinz%20Gerischer | Heinz Gerischer (31 March 1919 – 14 September 1994) was a German chemist who specialized in electrochemistry. He was the thesis advisor of future Nobel laureate Gerhard Ertl.
The Heinz Gerischer Award of the European section of The Electrochemical Society is named in his honour.
Academic career
Gerischer studied chem... | Heinz Gerischer | Chemistry | 2,393 |
18,586,236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CommScope | CommScope Holding Company, Inc. is an American network infrastructure provider based in Claremont, North Carolina. CommScope employs over 22,000 employees. The company joined the Nasdaq stock exchange on October 25, 2013.
CommScope designs and manufactures network infrastructure products. It has the following business... | CommScope | Technology | 1,161 |
22,971,835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just%20and%20Unjust%20Wars | Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations is a 1977 book by the philosopher Michael Walzer. Published by Basic Books, it is still in print, now as part of the Basic Books Classics Series. A second edition was published in 1992, a third edition in 2000, a fourth edition in 2006, and a fifth ed... | Just and Unjust Wars | Biology | 325 |
4,169,622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic%20data | In data management, dynamic data or transactional data is information that is periodically updated, meaning it changes asynchronously over time as new information becomes available. The concept is important in data management, since the time scale of the data determines how it is processed and stored.
Data that is not... | Dynamic data | Technology | 419 |
14,404,325 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delco%20Carousel | The Delco Carousel — proper name Carousel IV — was an inertial navigation system (INS) for aircraft developed by Delco Electronics. Before the advent of sophisticated flight management systems, Carousel IV allowed pilots to automate navigation of an aircraft along a series of waypoints that they entered via a control c... | Delco Carousel | Technology | 445 |
50,783,862 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20Conversion%20and%20Management | Energy Conversion and Management is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on energy generation, utilization, conversion, storage, transmission, conservation, management, and sustainability that was established in 1979. It is published by Elsevier and the editor-in-chief is Moh'd Ahmad Al-Nimr (J... | Energy Conversion and Management | Environmental_science | 150 |
19,170,396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IT%20baseline%20protection | The IT baseline protection () approach from the German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) is a methodology to identify and implement computer security measures in an organization. The aim is the achievement of an adequate and appropriate level of security for IT systems. To reach this goal the BSI recommends... | IT baseline protection | Technology | 2,087 |
168,340 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewage%20sludge | Sewage sludge is the residual, semi-solid material that is produced as a by-product during sewage treatment of industrial or municipal wastewater. The term "septage" also refers to sludge from simple wastewater treatment but is connected to simple on-site sanitation systems, such as septic tanks.
After treatment, and ... | Sewage sludge | Chemistry,Engineering,Environmental_science | 6,983 |
52,490,761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangadhar%20J.%20Sanjayan | Gangadhar J. Sanjayan (born 1968) is an Indian bioorganic chemist, scientist and the head of The Sanjayan Lab at the National Chemical Laboratory, Pune. He is known for his researches on the synthesis of designer peptide/protein mimetics and hetero-foldamers and is a recipient of the Bronze Medal of the Chemical Resear... | Gangadhar J. Sanjayan | Chemistry | 653 |
7,975,294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20line | In mathematics, a complex line is a one-dimensional affine subspace of a vector space over the complex numbers. A common point of confusion is that while a complex line has complex dimension one over C (hence the term "line"), it has ordinary dimension two over the real numbers R, and is topologically equivalent to a r... | Complex line | Mathematics | 128 |
2,396,669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puzz%203D | Puzz 3D is the brand name of three-dimensional jigsaw puzzles, manufactured by Hasbro and formerly by Wrebbit, Inc. Unlike traditional puzzles which are composed of series of flat pieces that when put together, create a single unified image, the Puzz 3D series of puzzles are composed on plastic foam, with part of an im... | Puzz 3D | Physics,Mathematics | 712 |
37,530 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado | A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, although the word cyclone is used in meteorology to name a weather system with a low-... | Tornado | Physics | 9,786 |
25,069,329 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Borderlands%20Studies | The Journal of Borderlands Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of borderlands studies. The journal was established in 1986 and is published by Routledge on behalf of the Association for Borderlands Studies. It appears five times a year and the editors-in-chief are Sergio Peña (El Colegio de... | Journal of Borderlands Studies | Physics | 130 |
31,013,910 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndall%20Medal | The Tyndall Medal is a prize from the Institute of Acoustics awarded every two years to a citizen of the UK, preferably under the age of 40, for "achievement and services in the field of acoustics". The prize is named after John Tyndall (1820-1893) who preceded Rayleigh as the Professor of Natural Philosophy at the Ro... | Tyndall Medal | Technology | 132 |
25,050,762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suparnostic | suPARnostic is a simplified double monoclonal antibody sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) that measures the amount of soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) in blood. Elevated plasma suPAR levels have been observed in various infectious, inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. suPAR conc... | Suparnostic | Chemistry | 1,123 |
35,099,255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fenchel%E2%80%93Moreau%20theorem | In convex analysis, the Fenchel–Moreau theorem (named after Werner Fenchel and Jean Jacques Moreau) or Fenchel biconjugation theorem (or just biconjugation theorem) is a theorem which gives necessary and sufficient conditions for a function to be equal to its biconjugate. This is in contrast to the general property th... | Fenchel–Moreau theorem | Mathematics | 169 |
21,912,073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron%20capture%20nucleosynthesis | Neutron capture nucleosynthesis describes two nucleosynthesis pathways: the r-process and the s-process, for rapid and slow neutron captures, respectively. R-process describes neutron capture in a region of high neutron flux, such as during supernova nucleosynthesis after core-collapse, and yields neutron-rich nuclides... | Neutron capture nucleosynthesis | Physics,Chemistry | 170 |
45,079,586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siderocalin | Siderocalin (Scn), lipocalin-2, NGAL, 24p3 is a mammalian lipocalin-type protein that can prevent iron acquisition by pathogenic bacteria by binding siderophores, which are iron-binding chelators made by microorganisms.
Iron serves as a key nutrient in host-pathogen interactions, and pathogens can acquire iron from th... | Siderocalin | Chemistry | 2,567 |
1,030,860 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffer%20state | A buffer state is a country geographically lying between two rival or potentially hostile great powers. Its existence can sometimes be thought to prevent conflict between them. A buffer state is sometimes a mutually agreed upon area lying between two greater powers, which is demilitarised in the sense of not hosting th... | Buffer state | Physics | 1,357 |
11,187,755 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insect%20pins | Insect pins are used by entomologists for mounting collected insects.
They can also be used in dressmaking for very fine silk or antique fabrics.
As standard, they are long and come in sizes from 000 (the smallest diameter), through 00, 0, and 1, to 8 (the largest diameter).
The most generally useful size in entomolo... | Insect pins | Engineering,Biology | 261 |
1,027,046 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychic%20vampire | A psychic vampire is a creature in folklore said to feed off the "life force" of other living creatures. The term can also be used to describe a person who gets increased energy around other people, but leaves those other people exhausted or "drained" of energy. Psychic vampires are represented in the occult beliefs of... | Psychic vampire | Biology | 940 |
77,366,328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infostealer | In computing, infostealers are a form of malicious software created to breach computer systems to steal sensitive informationincluding login details, financial information, and other personally identifiable information. The stolen information is then packaged, sent to the attacker, and often traded on illicit markets t... | Infostealer | Technology | 2,105 |
34,628,742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCRIPDB | SCRIPDB is a database of chemical structures associated to patents.
References
External links
http://dcv.uhnres.utoronto.ca/SCRIPDB.
Biological databases
Patent law
Public records | SCRIPDB | Biology | 45 |
24,978,923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene%20theft | In bioethics and law, gene theft or DNA theft is the act of acquiring the genetic material of another individual, usually from public places, without his or her permission. The DNA may be harvested from a wide variety of common objects such as discarded cigarettes, used condoms, coffee cups, and hairbrushes. In additio... | Gene theft | Biology | 641 |
4,379,833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromate%20conversion%20coating | Chromate conversion coating or alodine coating is a type of conversion coating used to passivate steel, aluminium, zinc, cadmium, copper, silver, titanium, magnesium, and tin alloys. The coating serves as a corrosion inhibitor, as a primer to improve the adherence of paints and adhesives, as a decorative finish, or t... | Chromate conversion coating | Chemistry | 1,783 |
76,014,273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand%20Giese | Ferdinand Giese (Johann Emanuel Ferdinand Giese; 13 January 1781 – 22 May 1821) was a Baltic German pharmacologist. 1817–1818 he was the rector of Tartu University.
He graduated from Erfurt University. 1804–1814 he worked at Kharkiv University. Since 1814 he taught at Tartu University.
References
1781 births
1821 de... | Ferdinand Giese | Chemistry | 107 |
73,170,392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne-Christine%20Hladky | Anne-Christine Hladky-Hennion (born 1965) is a French researcher in acoustic metamaterials. She is a director of research for the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), and scientific deputy director of the CNRS (INSIS).
Education and career
Hladky is originally from Lille, where she was born in 1965.... | Anne-Christine Hladky | Materials_science,Technology | 246 |
36,074,045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan%20Turing%20Centenary%20Conference | The Alan Turing Centenary Conference was an academic conference celebrating the life and research of Alan Turing by bringing together distinguished scientists to understand and analyse the history and development of Computer Science and Artificial intelligence.
The conference was organised by Andrei Voronkov and hoste... | Alan Turing Centenary Conference | Technology | 460 |
49,253,469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmium%E2%80%93magnesium%E2%80%93zinc%20quasicrystal | A holmium–magnesium–zinc (Ho–Mg–Zn) quasicrystal is a quasicrystal made of an alloy of the three metals holmium, magnesium and zinc that has the shape of a regular dodecahedron, a Platonic solid with 12 five-sided faces. Unlike the similar pyritohedron shape of some cubic-system crystals such as pyrite, this quasicryst... | Holmium–magnesium–zinc quasicrystal | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Mathematics | 232 |
14,161,069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallium%20manganese%20arsenide | Gallium manganese arsenide, chemical formula is a magnetic semiconductor. It is based on the world's second most commonly used semiconductor, gallium arsenide, (chemical formula ), and readily compatible with existing semiconductor technologies. Differently from other dilute magnetic semiconductors, such as the majori... | Gallium manganese arsenide | Physics,Chemistry | 2,022 |
51,757,526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%20258 | NGC 258 is a lenticular galaxy located in the Andromeda constellation. It was discovered by George Stoner in 1848.
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Lenticular galaxies
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002829 | NGC 258 | Astronomy | 49 |
7,499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDX | RDX (abbreviation of "Research Department eXplosive" or Royal Demolition eXplosive) or hexogen, among other names, is an organic compound with the formula (CH2N2O2)3. It is white, odorless, and tasteless, widely used as an explosive. Chemically, it is classified as a nitroamine alongside HMX, which is a more energetic ... | RDX | Chemistry,Biology | 5,107 |
59,630,526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20metal%20imido%20complex | In coordination chemistry and organometallic chemistry, transition metal imido complexes is a coordination compound containing an imido ligand. Imido ligands can be terminal or bridging ligands. The parent imido ligand has the formula NH, but most imido ligands have alkyl or aryl groups in place of H. The imido ligand ... | Transition metal imido complex | Chemistry | 520 |
77,981,664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRAS%2010565%2B2448 | IRAS 10565+2448 known as IRAS F10565+2448, is a galaxy merger located in the constellation of Leo. It is located at a distance of 625 million light years from Earth. It is classified as an ultraluminous infrared galaxy with an infrared luminosity of 1.2 x 1012 LΘ. It has a star formation rate of 131.8 MΘ yr−1.
IRAS 10... | IRAS 10565+2448 | Astronomy | 566 |
319,153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier%2083 | Messier 83 or M83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy and NGC 5236, is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 15 million light-years away in the constellation borders of Hydra and Centaurus. Nicolas-Louis de Lacaille discovered M83 on 17 February 1752 at the Cape of Good Hope. Charles Messier added it to his cata... | Messier 83 | Astronomy | 876 |
9,193,086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip%20counting | Skip counting is a mathematics technique taught as a kind of multiplication in reform mathematics textbooks such as TERC. In older textbooks, this technique is called counting by twos (threes, fours, etc.).
In skip counting by twos, a person can count to 10 by only naming every other even number: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Comb... | Skip counting | Mathematics | 115 |
13,342,698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robbins%20lemma | In statistics, the Robbins lemma, named after Herbert Robbins, states that if X is a random variable having a Poisson distribution with parameter λ, and f is any function for which the expected value E(f(X)) exists, then
Robbins introduced this proposition while developing empirical Bayes methods.
References
Theor... | Robbins lemma | Mathematics | 74 |
4,725,497 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slipform%20stonemasonry | Slipform stonemasonry is a method for making a reinforced concrete wall with stone facing in which stones and mortar are built up in courses within reusable slipforms. It is a cross between traditional mortared stone wall and a veneered stone wall. Short forms, up to 60 cm high, are placed on both sides of the wall to ... | Slipform stonemasonry | Engineering | 319 |
1,419,520 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetri%20Martin | Demetri Martin (, Dimitrios Evangelos Martin; born May 25, 1973) is an American comedian, actor, writer, director, cartoonist and musician. He was a contributor on The Daily Show. In stand-up, he is known for his deadpan delivery, playing his guitar for jokes, and his satirical cartoons. He starred as Ice Bear in Carto... | Demetri Martin | Physics | 2,060 |
53,369,661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermonema%20lapsum | Thermonema lapsum is a Gram-negative and thermophilic bacterium from the genus of Thermonema which has been isolated from a hot spring in Rotorua in New Zealand.Homospermidine and homospermine are the major polyamines of Thermonema lapsum
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External links
Type strain of Thermonema lapsum at BacDive - the Ba... | Thermonema lapsum | Biology | 106 |
8,942,458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hill%E2%80%93Robertson%20effect | In population genetics, the Hill–Robertson effect, or Hill–Robertson interference, is a phenomenon first identified by Bill Hill and Alan Robertson in 1966. It provides an explanation as to why there may be an evolutionary advantage to genetic recombination.
Explanation
In a population of finite but effective size whi... | Hill–Robertson effect | Biology | 604 |
71,906,829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monorackbahn | Monorackbahn is a small monorail rack railway manufactured by the Doppelmayr/Garaventa Group. Its style is derived from industrial monorails used in 1960s vineyards. There are more than 650 Monorackbahn systems installed across Switzerland, Germany and Italy.
History
The idea for the development of the Monorackbahn ... | Monorackbahn | Technology | 449 |
38,900,265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricholoma%20colossus | Tricholoma colossus is a mushroom of the agaric genus Tricholoma. Due to its ringed foot, it was previously classified as Armillaria, even though it is otherwise clearly Tricholoma. The cap is 6–30 cm wide, brick red to chestnut brown, hemispherical when young, widening later on, uneven, always with very thick flesh, s... | Tricholoma colossus | Biology | 177 |
58,887,579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coprothermobacterota | Coprothermobacterota is a phylum of nonmotile, rod-shaped bacteria.
Its members are strictly anaerobic and thermophilic, growing at optimal temperatures between 55 °C and 70 °C.
The name of this phylum is based on an early genus, dubbed "Coprothermobacter", a term whose etymology derives from the Greek words "kopros"... | Coprothermobacterota | Biology | 180 |
681,781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic%20particle%20inspection | Magnetic particle inspection (MPI) is a nondestructive testing process where a magnetic field is used for detecting surface, and shallow subsurface, discontinuities in ferromagnetic materials. Examples of ferromagnetic materials include iron, nickel, cobalt, and some of their alloys. The process puts a magnetic field i... | Magnetic particle inspection | Materials_science,Engineering | 3,015 |
20,104,879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermittent%20fasting | Intermittent fasting is any of various meal timing schedules that cycle between voluntary fasting (or reduced calorie intake) and non-fasting over a given period. Methods of intermittent fasting include alternate-day fasting, periodic fasting, such as the 5:2 diet, and daily time-restricted eating.
Intermittent fastin... | Intermittent fasting | Biology | 3,254 |
4,431,243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas%E2%80%93oil%20separation%20plant | In the upstream oil industry, a gas–oil separation plant (GOSP) is temporary or permanent facilities that separate wellhead fluids into constituent vapor (gas) and liquid (oil and produced water) components.
Temporary plant
Temporary gas–oil separation facilities are associated with newly drilled or newly sidetracked ... | Gas–oil separation plant | Chemistry,Engineering | 874 |
6,665,926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20Design%20System | Data Design System AS (DDS) supplies the construction industry with software tools for building information modelling (BIM).
The company was founded in 1984 in Stavanger, Norway. In 2021, the company merged into Graphisoft. in the Nemetschek Group.
DDS is an active member of buildingSMART. DDS has its headquarters at... | Data Design System | Engineering | 234 |
53,299,882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharp%20pocket%20computer%20character%20sets | The Sharp pocket computer character sets are a number of 8-bit character sets used by various Sharp pocket computers and calculators in the 1980s and mid 1990s.
Character sets
PC-12xx and PC-14xx series
The Sharp PC-14xx series (like the Sharp PC-1403 (1986), PC-1403H or PC-1475) uses an 8-bit extended ASCII charact... | Sharp pocket computer character sets | Mathematics | 356 |
15,514,744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling | In psychotherapy and mental health, enabling is the encouragement of some behaviour, especially if said behaviour is either particularly positive or dysfunctional.
Positive
As a positive term, "enabling" describes patterns of interaction which allow individuals to develop and grow in a healthy direction. These pattern... | Enabling | Biology | 804 |
47,532,691 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tillie%20the%20All-Time%20Teller | Tillie the All-Time Teller was one of the first ATMs, run by the First National Bank of Atlanta and considered to be one of the most successful ATMs in the banking industry. Tillie the All-Time Teller had a picture of a smiling blonde girl on the front of the machine to suggest it was user-friendly, had an apparent pe... | Tillie the All-Time Teller | Technology,Engineering | 648 |
50,781,701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache%20control%20instruction | In computing, a cache control instruction is a hint embedded in the instruction stream of a processor intended to improve the performance of hardware caches, using foreknowledge of the memory access pattern supplied by the programmer or compiler. They may reduce cache pollution, reduce bandwidth requirement, bypass lat... | Cache control instruction | Technology,Engineering | 1,060 |
55,017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion%20power | Fusion power is a proposed form of power generation that would generate electricity by using heat from nuclear fusion reactions. In a fusion process, two lighter atomic nuclei combine to form a heavier nucleus, while releasing energy. Devices designed to harness this energy are known as fusion reactors. Research into f... | Fusion power | Physics,Chemistry | 16,024 |
478,185 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disinfectant | A disinfectant is a chemical substance or compound used to inactivate or destroy microorganisms on inert surfaces. Disinfection does not necessarily kill all microorganisms, especially resistant bacterial spores; it is less effective than sterilization, which is an extreme physical or chemical process that kills all ty... | Disinfectant | Biology | 5,913 |
47,814,732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita%20excelsa | Amanita excelsa, also known as the European false blushing amanita, is a species of agaric fungus in the family Amanitaceae. It is found in Asia, Europe, and North America, where it grows in deciduous forests.
Toxicity
Amanita excelsa var. alba is inedible.
A. excelsa var. spissa is edible, but can easily be confuse... | Amanita excelsa | Biology | 122 |
78,699,108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl%20F.%20Lindman | Karl Ferdinand Lindman (7 June 1874 – 14 February 1952) was a Finnish physicist and educator. Best known for his work on chiral media, he has performed the experimental demonstration of optical rotation of microwaves in an artificial chiral medium in 1914. For the most of his career, he was a professor of physics at Åb... | Karl F. Lindman | Physics | 861 |
60,694,300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lia%20Addadi | Lia Addadi (born 1950) is a professor of structural biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science. She works on crystallization in biology, including biomineralization, interactions with cells, and crystallization in cell membranes. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in 2017 for “disting... | Lia Addadi | Chemistry | 858 |
13,693,330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiazyl%20trifluoride | Thiazyl trifluoride is a chemical compound of nitrogen, sulfur, and fluorine, having the formula . It exists as a stable, colourless gas, and is an important precursor to other sulfur-nitrogen-fluorine compounds. It has tetrahedral molecular geometry around the sulfur atom, and is regarded to be a prime example of a co... | Thiazyl trifluoride | Chemistry | 316 |
14,513,559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20Research | Environmental Research is a peer-reviewed environmental science and environmental health journal published by Elsevier. The editor in chief is Jose L. Domingo.
The journal's 2020 impact factor of 6.498 placed it 16th out of 203 journals in the category Public, Environmental, and Occupational Health; the 2021 impact fac... | Environmental Research | Environmental_science | 89 |
54,426,651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ackermann%27s%20formula | In control theory, Ackermann's formula is a control system design method for solving the pole allocation problem for invariant-time systems by Jürgen Ackermann. One of the primary problems in control system design is the creation of controllers that will change the dynamics of a system by changing the eigenvalues of th... | Ackermann's formula | Mathematics,Engineering | 832 |
17,904,953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational%20dependence | In mathematics, a collection of real numbers is rationally independent if none of them can be written as a linear combination of the other numbers in the collection with rational coefficients. A collection of numbers which is not rationally independent is called rationally dependent. For instance we have the following... | Rational dependence | Physics,Mathematics | 265 |
69,889,778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurent%20Charlet | Laurent Charlet (born 1955 in Paris, France) is a French environmental molecular geochemist working at the Institute of Earth Science within the University of Grenoble-Alpes (France). In 2007, he was appointed Distinguished Professor to reflect his major scientific achievements. He holds several adjunct or affiliated p... | Laurent Charlet | Chemistry | 2,309 |
15,245,685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLEC2D | C-type lectin domain family 2 member D is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CLEC2D gene.
This gene encodes a member of the natural killer cell receptor C-type lectin family. The encoded protein inhibits osteoclast formation and contains a transmembrane domain near the N-terminus as well as the C-type lectin-l... | CLEC2D | Chemistry | 234 |
11,569,785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thecaphora%20solani | Thecaphora solani, potato smut, is a fungal plant pathogen. It affects plants, primarily potatoes, in the Andean part of South America. The disease of potatoes that it causes is economically important (there have been reports of crop losses up to 80 percent in South America).
References
External links
Index Fungoru... | Thecaphora solani | Biology | 97 |
11,460,668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ophiostoma%20wageneri | Ophiostoma wageneri is a plant pathogen. Leptographium wageneri var. pseudotsugae develops on Douglas-fir.
See also
List of Douglas-fir diseases
References
Fungal conifer pathogens and diseases
Ophiostomatales
Fungi described in 1962
Fungus species | Ophiostoma wageneri | Biology | 62 |
9,369,090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Physics%20and%20Astronomy%2C%20University%20of%20Manchester | The Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Manchester is one of the largest and most active physics departments in the UK, taking around 330 new undergraduates and 50 postgraduates each year, and employing more than 80 members of academic staff and over 100 research fellows and associates. The departm... | Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Manchester | Astronomy | 966 |
5,440,905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winlink | Winlink, or formally, Winlink Global Radio Email (registered US Service Mark), also known as the Winlink 2000 Network, is a worldwide radio messaging system that uses amateur-band radio frequencies and government frequencies to provide radio interconnection services that include email with attachments, position reporti... | Winlink | Technology | 2,148 |
26,449,667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulabyte | Kulabyte was a private company headquartered in San Marcos, Texas that developed live video encoding and [[video streamEdit summary
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Edit_summarying]] software and provided streaming event services. KulaByte was acquired by Haivision in 2011 and is now part of Haivision's product lin... | Kulabyte | Technology | 415 |
856,432 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appliance%20classes | Appliance classes (also known as protection classes) specify measures to prevent dangerous contact voltages on unenergized parts, such as the metallic casing, of an electronic device. In the electrical appliance manufacturing industry, the following appliance classes are defined in IEC 61140 and used to differentiate b... | Appliance classes | Physics,Technology,Engineering | 1,420 |
25,522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20radio | The early history of radio is the history of technology that produces and uses radio instruments that use radio waves. Within the timeline of radio, many people contributed theory and inventions in what became radio. Radio development began as "wireless telegraphy". Later radio history increasingly involves matters of... | History of radio | Technology | 8,985 |
65,493,518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batya%20Friedman | Batya Friedman is an American professor in the University of Washington Information School. She is also an adjunct professor in the Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering and adjunct professor in the Department of Human-Centered Design and Engineering, where she directs the Value Sensitive Design Rese... | Batya Friedman | Technology | 694 |
18,428,835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%20construction | In thermodynamic equilibrium, a necessary condition for stability is that pressure, , does not increase with volume, or molar volume, ; this is expressed mathematically as , where is the temperature.
This basic stability requirement, and similar ones for other conjugate pairs of variables, is violated in analytic mod... | Maxwell construction | Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics | 4,015 |
67,507,369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception%20and%20motor%20control | Proprioception refers to the sensory information relayed from muscles, tendons, and skin that allows for the perception of the body in space. This feedback allows for more fine control of movement. In the brain, proprioceptive integration occurs in the somatosensory cortex, and motor commands are generated in the motor... | Proprioception and motor control | Biology | 1,386 |
70,141,217 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punctularia%20strigosozonata | Punctularia strigosozonata is a fungus species of the genus Punctularia. It was originally described in 1832 by Lewis David de Schweinitz as a member of genus Merulius. Patrick Talbot transferred it to genus Punctularia in 1958. Punctularia strigosozonata produces the antibiotic phlebiarubrone.
References
Punctulari... | Punctularia strigosozonata | Biology | 102 |
346,287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode%20X | Mode X is a 256-color graphics display mode of the VGA graphics hardware for IBM PC compatibles. It was first publicized by Michael Abrash in his July 1991 column in Dr. Dobb's Journal and then in chapters 47-49 of Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book. The term "Mode X" was coined by Abrash. Mode X is a variant of... | Mode X | Technology | 459 |
11,555,840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau%20Puppis | Tau Puppis, Latinized from τ Puppis, is a star in the southern constellation of Puppis, near the southern constellation boundary with Carina. It is visible to the naked with an apparent visual magnitude of +2.95 and is located at a distance of about from Earth. The variable radial velocity of this system was detected ... | Tau Puppis | Astronomy | 358 |
32,325,621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top%20cap | In vacuum tube technology, a top cap is a terminal at the top of the tube envelope that connects one of the electrodes, the other electrodes being connected via the tube socket.
Top caps have most commonly been used for:
Amplifier or similar tube control grid connection, to provide greater circuit stability by isola... | Top cap | Physics | 255 |
4,243,417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%204833 |
NGC 4833 (also known as Caldwell 105) is a globular cluster discovered by Abbe Lacaille during his 1751-1752 journey to South Africa, and catalogued in 1755. It was subsequently observed and catalogued by James Dunlop and Sir John Herschel whose instruments could resolve it into individual stars.
The globular cluste... | NGC 4833 | Astronomy | 232 |
29,593,616 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic%20front | The Arctic front is the semipermanent, semi-continuous weather front between the cold arctic air mass and the warmer air of the polar cell. It can also be defined as the southern boundary of the Arctic air mass. Mesoscale cyclones known as polar lows can form along the arctic front in the wake of extratropical cyclone... | Arctic front | Chemistry | 335 |
75,324,191 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epstein%20drag | In fluid dynamics, Epstein drag is a theoretical result, for the drag force exerted on spheres in high Knudsen number flow (i.e., rarefied gas flow). This may apply, for example, to sub-micron droplets in air, or to larger spherical objects moving in gases more rarefied than air at standard temperature and pressure. No... | Epstein drag | Physics,Chemistry | 1,204 |
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