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76,010,471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrick%20Brown%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Derrick Brown was an American Computer Scientist. Brown helped create "the Black equivalent of the original Yahoo index", called Universal Black Pages.
Brown was born in Elloree, South Carolina in 1969.
References
Living people
Computer scientists
People from Elloree, South Carolina
1969 births | Derrick Brown (computer scientist) | Technology | 57 |
810,183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access%20network | An access network is a type of telecommunications network which connects subscribers to their immediate service provider. It is contrasted with the core network, which connects local providers to one another. The access network may be further divided between feeder plant or distribution network, and drop plant or edg... | Access network | Engineering | 1,139 |
31,694,592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wozencraft%20ensemble | In coding theory, the Wozencraft ensemble is a set of linear codes in which most of codes satisfy the Gilbert-Varshamov bound. It is named after John Wozencraft, who proved its existence. The ensemble is described by , who attributes it to Wozencraft. used the Wozencraft ensemble as the inner codes in his constructio... | Wozencraft ensemble | Engineering | 624 |
46,883,788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillium%20neomiczynskii | Penicillium neomiczynskii is a species of fungus in the genus Penicillium.
References
neomiczynskii
Fungi described in 2011
Fungus species | Penicillium neomiczynskii | Biology | 36 |
20,244,070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips%20Intimate%20Massager | The Philips Intimate Massager is a range of electric personal massagers made by Philips which were first introduced to the UK market during 2008. When the line was launched, commentators questioned whether Philips' movement into the sex-toy market was a sign that sex-toys were gaining mainstream acceptance. After only ... | Philips Intimate Massager | Biology | 117 |
41,113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoch | In chronology and periodization, an epoch or reference epoch is an instant in time chosen as the origin of a particular calendar era. The "epoch" serves as a reference point from which time is measured.
The moment of epoch is usually decided by congruity, or by following conventions understood from the epoch in questi... | Epoch | Physics | 1,264 |
101,388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists%20of%20engineers | Types of engineer include:
Chartered Engineer
European Engineer
Incorporated Engineer
Professional Engineer
Royal Engineer
Lists of individual engineers by discipline include:
List of aerospace engineers
List of canal engineers
List of chemical engineers
List of civil engineers
List of combat engineering co... | Lists of engineers | Technology | 110 |
4,295,487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One-electron%20universe | The one-electron universe postulate, proposed by theoretical physicist John Wheeler in a telephone call to Richard Feynman in the spring of 1940, is the hypothesis that all electrons and positrons are actually manifestations of a single entity moving backwards and forwards in time. According to Feynman:
A similar "zig... | One-electron universe | Physics,Chemistry,Astronomy | 461 |
22,928,014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elementary%20cellular%20automaton | In mathematics and computability theory, an elementary cellular automaton is a one-dimensional cellular automaton where there are two possible states (labeled 0 and 1) and the rule to determine the state of a cell in the next generation depends only on the current state of the cell and its two immediate neighbors. Ther... | Elementary cellular automaton | Mathematics | 2,100 |
32,544,581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniformity%20tape | Uniformity tape is a microstructured thin-film mechanism for mixing and diffusing the light generated by light-emitting diodes (LEDs) in edge-lit digital displays, including computer monitors, televisions and signage.
Purpose
Compared to other sources of illumination, such as fluorescent and incandescent bulbs, LEDs... | Uniformity tape | Physics | 454 |
10,228,607 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strychnine%20poisoning | Strychnine poisoning is poisoning induced by strychnine. It can be fatal to humans and other animals and can occur by inhalation, swallowing or absorption through eyes or mouth. It produces some of the most dramatic and painful symptoms of any known toxic reaction, making it quite noticeable and a common choice for ass... | Strychnine poisoning | Environmental_science | 5,531 |
7,376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic%20microwave%20background | The cosmic microwave background (CMB, CMBR), or relic radiation, is microwave radiation that fills all space in the observable universe. With a standard optical telescope, the background space between stars and galaxies is almost completely dark. However, a sufficiently sensitive radio telescope detects a faint backgro... | Cosmic microwave background | Physics,Astronomy | 9,697 |
19,159,493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft%20POSIX%20subsystem | Microsoft POSIX subsystem is one of four subsystems shipped with the first versions of Windows NT, the other three being the Win32 subsystem which provided the primary API for Windows NT, plus the OS/2 and security subsystems.
This subsystem implements only the POSIX.1 standard also known as IEEE Std 1003.1-1990 or IS... | Microsoft POSIX subsystem | Technology | 552 |
1,980,807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogie | Boogie is a repetitive, swung note or shuffle rhythm, "groove" or pattern used in blues which was originally played on the piano in boogie-woogie music. The characteristic rhythm and feel of the boogie was then adapted to guitar, double bass, and other instruments. The earliest recorded boogie-woogie song was in 1916. ... | Boogie | Physics | 1,012 |
1,597,970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An%20Essay%20on%20the%20Inequality%20of%20the%20Human%20Races | An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (originally: Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines), published between 1853 and 1855, is a racialist work of French diplomat and writer Arthur de Gobineau. It argues that there are intellectual differences between human races, that civilizations decline and fall when th... | An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races | Biology | 1,833 |
8,312,093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20wind%20power | Wind power has been used as long as humans have put sails into the wind. Wind-powered machines used to grind grain and pump water — the windmill and wind pump — were developed in what is now Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan by the 9th century. Wind power was widely available and not confined to the banks of fast-flowing... | History of wind power | Technology | 5,279 |
57,594,622 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESSA-7 | ESSA-7 (or TOS-E) was a spin-stabilized operational meteorological satellite. Its name was derived from that of its oversight agency, the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA).
Launch
ESSA-7 was launched on August 16, 1968, at 11:31 UTC. It was launched atop a Delta rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Bas... | ESSA-7 | Astronomy | 146 |
17,176,241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt%20%26%20Whitney%20X-1800 | The Pratt & Whitney X-1800 (later enlarged as the XH-2600) was an H-block aircraft engine project developed between 1938 and 1940, which was cancelled with only one example being built.
Design and development
The X-1800 was a watercooled 24-cylinder H-block of 2,240 in3 displacement; this was later expanded to 2,600 ... | Pratt & Whitney X-1800 | Technology | 322 |
31,554,613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENI%20number | An ENI number (European Number of Identification or European Vessel Identification Number) is a registration for ships capable of navigating on inland European waters. It is a unique, eight-digit identifier that is attached to a hull for its entire lifetime, independent of the vessel's current name or flag.
ENI was in... | ENI number | Mathematics | 381 |
31,257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadoma | Tadoma is a method of communication utilized by deafblind individuals, in which the listener places their little finger on the speaker's lips and their fingers along the jawline. The middle three fingers often fall along the speaker's cheeks with the little finger picking up the vibrations of the speaker's throat. It i... | Tadoma | Biology | 395 |
434,512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land%20Transport%20Authority | The Land Transport Authority (LTA) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Transport of the Government of Singapore.
History
Incorporation
The Land Transport Authority (LTA) was established on 1 September 1995 and was formed by the merger of various public sector entities: the Registry of Vehicles, Mass Rapid Tran... | Land Transport Authority | Technology | 1,142 |
14,744,934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia%202110 | The Nokia 2110 is a cellular phone made by the Finnish telecommunications firm Nokia, first announced and released in January 1994. It is the first Nokia phone with the famous Nokia tune ringtone. The phone can send and receive SMS messages; and lists ten dialed calls, ten received calls and ten missed calls. At the ti... | Nokia 2110 | Technology | 343 |
1,039,736 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotone | Two nuclides are isotones if they have the same neutron number N, but different proton number Z. For example, boron-12 and carbon-13 nuclei both contain 7 neutrons, and so are isotones. Similarly, 36S, 37Cl, 38Ar, 39K, and 40Ca nuclei are all isotones of 20 because they all contain 20 neutrons. Despite its similarity t... | Isotone | Physics | 944 |
2,589,664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTF | KT Freetel Co., Ltd. (Korea Telecom Freetel, ) was a South Korean telecommunications firm, now merged into Korea Telecom, specializing in cellular, or mobile, phones. Since 1999, it has also developed extensive overseas operations. The company is credited with developing customized ring back tones. On 1 June 2009, KTF ... | KTF | Technology | 339 |
38,621,100 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nihamanchi | Nihamanchï is a beer brewed from cassava (Manihot esculenta) by indigenous peoples of South America. It is also known as nihamanci, nijimanche, or nijiamanchi, and is related to chicha.
Jívaro women make it by chewing manioc tubers, placing them in large jars, and allowing them to ferment in their saliva. Nijimanche i... | Nihamanchi | Chemistry,Biology | 470 |
5,409,892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodboring%20beetle | The term woodboring beetle encompasses many species and families of beetles whose larval or adult forms eat and destroy wood (i.e., are xylophagous). In the woodworking industry, larval stages of some are sometimes referred to as woodworms. The three most species-rich families of woodboring beetles are longhorn beetle... | Woodboring beetle | Materials_science | 608 |
59,492,054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sala%20Senkayi | Sala Nanyanzi Senkayi is an African environmental scientist at the United States Environmental Protection Agency. She was the first Ugandan-born woman to win the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
Early life and education
Senkayi is the daughter of Abu Senkayi and Sunajeh Senkayi. Her famil... | Sala Senkayi | Environmental_science | 382 |
3,157,929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original%20design%20manufacturer | An original design manufacturer is a company that designs and manufactures a product, in contrast to "OEM" which only manufactures a product.
Post-2016 Nokia phones (HMD) is an example of a firm which relies on original design manufacturers. In late 2019, it switched from relying on only one original design manufactur... | Original design manufacturer | Engineering | 207 |
10,127,300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative%20Wave%20Blaster | The Wave Blaster was an add-on MIDI-synthesizer for Creative Sound Blaster 16 and Sound Blaster AWE32 family of PC soundcards. It was a sample-based synthesis General MIDI compliant synthesizer. For General MIDI scores, the Wave Blaster's wavetable-engine produced more realistic instrumental music than the SB16's onb... | Creative Wave Blaster | Technology | 767 |
15,144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Electrotechnical%20Commission | The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC; ) is an international standards organization that prepares and publishes international standards for all electrical, electronic and related technologies – collectively known as "electrotechnology". IEC standards cover a vast range of technologies from power generation... | International Electrotechnical Commission | Engineering | 1,501 |
27,285,703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safingol | Safingol is a lyso-sphingolipid protein kinase inhibitor. It has the molecular formula C18H39NO2 and is a colorless solid. Medicinally, safingol has demonstrated promising anticancer potential as a modulator of multi-drug resistance and as an inducer of necrosis. The administration of safingol alone has not been shown ... | Safingol | Chemistry | 947 |
71,078,367 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMEM104 | Transmembrane protein 104 (TMEM104) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TMEM104 gene. The aliases of TMEM104 are FLJ00021 and FLJ20255. Humans have a 163,255 base pair long gene coding sequence, 4703 base pair long mRNA, and 496 amino acid long protein sequence. In Eukaryotes, the TMEM104 gene is conserved.
... | TMEM104 | Biology | 639 |
577,961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Plant%20Sciences%2C%20University%20of%20Cambridge | The Department of Plant Sciences is a department of the University of Cambridge that conducts research and teaching in plant sciences. It was established in 1904, although the university has had a professor of botany since 1724.
Research
, the department pursues three strategic targets of research
Global food securi... | Department of Plant Sciences, University of Cambridge | Biology | 328 |
47,350,206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda%20XVIII | Andromeda XVIII, discovered in 2008, is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy (has no rings, low luminosity, much dark matter, little gas or dust), which is a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy (M31). It is one of the 14 known dwarf galaxies orbiting M31. It is relatively isolated, being about 1.8 million light-years (579 kpc) away... | Andromeda XVIII | Astronomy | 213 |
31,333,144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phospho.ELM | Phospho.ELM is a database storing the phosphorylation data extracted from the literature and the analyses.
References
External links
http://phospho.elm.eu.org
Biological databases
Post-translational modification
Phosphorus | Phospho.ELM | Chemistry,Biology | 52 |
700,674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tr%20%28Unix%29 | tr is a command in Unix, Plan 9, Inferno, and Unix-like operating systems. It is an abbreviation of translate or transliterate, indicating its operation of replacing or removing specific characters in its input data set.
Overview
The utility reads a byte stream from its standard input and writes the result to the stan... | Tr (Unix) | Technology | 631 |
35,297,570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerontoplast | A gerontoplast is a plastid that develops from a chloroplast during the senescing of plant foliage. Gerontoplast development is generally seen to be the process of grana being unstacked, loss of thylakoid membranes, and large accumulation of plastoglobuli.
Transformation of chloroplasts to gerontoplasts
The term geron... | Gerontoplast | Chemistry,Biology | 237 |
8,641,308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk%20buffer | In computer storage, a disk buffer (often ambiguously called a disk cache or a cache buffer) is the embedded memory in a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD) acting as a buffer between the rest of the computer and the physical hard disk platter or flash memory that is used for storage. Modern hard disk driv... | Disk buffer | Technology | 1,605 |
684,771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enemy%20of%20the%20State%20%28film%29 | Enemy of the State is a 1998 American political action thriller film directed by Tony Scott, written by David Marconi, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer, and starring Will Smith and Gene Hackman with an ensemble supporting cast consisting of Jon Voight, Regina King, Loren Dean, Jake Busey, Barry Pepper and Gabriel Byrne. I... | Enemy of the State (film) | Technology | 2,689 |
1,528,864 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad%20Band%20X-ray%20Telescope | The Broad Band X-ray Telescope (BBXRT) was flown on the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-35) from December 2 through December 11, 1990 as part of the ASTRO-1 payload. The flight of BBXRT marked the first opportunity for performing X-ray observations over a broad energy range (0.3-12 keV) with a moderate energy resolution (t... | Broad Band X-ray Telescope | Astronomy | 226 |
24,871,369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionic%20liquid%20piston%20compressor | An ionic liquid piston compressor, ionic compressor or ionic liquid piston pump is a hydrogen compressor based on an ionic liquid piston instead of a metal piston as in a piston-metal diaphragm compressor.
Principle
An ionic liquid compressor takes advantage of two properties of ionic liquids—their virtually non-measu... | Ionic liquid piston compressor | Chemistry | 351 |
277,956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline%20of%20neuroscience | The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to neuroscience:
Neuroscience is the scientific study of the structure and function of the nervous system. It encompasses the branch of biology that deals with the anatomy, biochemistry, molecular biology, and physiology of neurons and neural circui... | Outline of neuroscience | Biology | 1,146 |
260,914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orders%20of%20magnitude%20%28numbers%29 | This list contains selected positive numbers in increasing order, including counts of things, dimensionless quantities and probabilities. Each number is given a name in the short scale, which is used in English-speaking countries, as well as a name in the long scale, which is used in some of the countries that do not h... | Orders of magnitude (numbers) | Mathematics | 13,006 |
6,477,222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deductive%20language | A deductive language is a computer programming language in which the program is a collection of predicates ('facts') and rules that connect them. Such a language is used to create knowledge based systems or expert systems which can deduce answers to problem sets by applying the rules to the facts they have been given.
... | Deductive language | Technology,Engineering | 966 |
6,899,692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachytrope | A tachytrope is a curve in which the law of the velocity is given. It was first used by American mathematician Benjamin Peirce in A System of Analytic Mechanics, first published in 1855.
References
Sources
Velocity | Tachytrope | Physics,Mathematics | 45 |
15,981,895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20activating%20RNA | Small activating RNAs (saRNAs) are small double-stranded RNAs (dsRNAs) that target gene promoters to induce transcriptional gene activation in a process known as RNA activation (RNAa).
Small dsRNAs, such as small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) and microRNAs (miRNAs), are known to be the trigger of an evolutionarily conserv... | Small activating RNA | Chemistry,Biology | 496 |
4,652,664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eye%20%28cyclone%29 | The eye is a region of mostly calm weather at the center of a tropical cyclone. The eye of a storm is a roughly circular area, typically in diameter. It is surrounded by the eyewall, a ring of towering thunderstorms where the most severe weather and highest winds of the cyclone occur. The cyclone's lowest barometric p... | Eye (cyclone) | Chemistry,Mathematics | 3,217 |
157,932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20coincidence | In cryptography, coincidence counting is the technique (invented by William F. Friedman) of putting two texts side-by-side and counting the number of times that identical letters appear in the same position in both texts. This count, either as a ratio of the total or normalized by dividing by the expected count for a r... | Index of coincidence | Technology | 2,618 |
48,222,408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20channel%20opener | A calcium channel opener is a type of drug which facilitates ion transmission through calcium channels.
An example is Bay K8644, which is an analogue of nifedipine that specifically and directly activates L-type voltage-dependent calcium channels.
In contrast to Bay K8644, which is not for clinical use, ambroxol is a... | Calcium channel opener | Chemistry | 197 |
1,303,480 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrostriction | In electromagnetism, electrostriction is a property of all electrical non-conductor or dielectrics. Electrostriction causes these materials to change their shape under the application of an electric field. It is the dual property to magnetostriction.
Explanation
Electrostriction is a property of all dielectric materi... | Electrostriction | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 650 |
33,778,328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rectal%20microbicide | A rectal microbicide is a microbicide for rectal use. Most commonly such a product would be a topical gel inserted into the anus so that it make act as protection against the contract of a sexually transmitted infection during anal sex.
Along with vaginal microbicides, rectal microbicides are currently the subject of... | Rectal microbicide | Biology | 1,929 |
77,323,818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VITEK | VITEK refers to a series of automated microbiology analyzers for microbial identification (ID) and antibiotic sensitivity testing (AST).
History
Vitek was developed in the 1960s between NASA and the defense contractor McDonnell Douglas. For the Voyager program, McDonnell Douglas developed a Microbial Load Monitor (MLM... | VITEK | Biology | 237 |
5,039,137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20Canis%20Minoris | The Bayer designation Delta Canis Minoris (δ CMi / δ Canis Minoris) is shared by three stars in the constellation Canis Minor:
δ1 Canis Minoris
δ2 Canis Minoris
δ3 Canis Minoris
Canis Minoris, Delta
Canis Minor | Delta Canis Minoris | Astronomy | 60 |
25,077,398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian%20coherent%20structure | Lagrangian coherent structures (LCSs) are distinguished surfaces of trajectories in a dynamical system that exert a major influence on nearby trajectories over a time interval of interest. The type of this influence may vary, but it invariably creates a coherent trajectory pattern for which the underlying LCS serves as... | Lagrangian coherent structure | Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics,Engineering | 6,322 |
634,780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohr%20compactification | In mathematics, the Bohr compactification of a topological group G is a compact Hausdorff topological group H that may be canonically associated to G. Its importance lies in the reduction of the theory of uniformly almost periodic functions on G to the theory of continuous functions on H. The concept is named after Ha... | Bohr compactification | Mathematics | 517 |
11,741,990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclin-dependent%20kinase%20inhibitor%20protein | A cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor protein (also known as CKIs, CDIs, or CDKIs) is a protein that inhibits the enzyme cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) and Cyclin activity by stopping the cell cycle if there are unfavorable conditions, therefore, acting as tumor suppressors. Cell cycle progression is stopped by Cyclin-dep... | Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor protein | Biology | 1,176 |
26,908,280 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organorhenium%20chemistry | Organorhenium chemistry describes the compounds with Re−C bonds. Because rhenium is a rare element, relatively few applications exist, but the area has been a rich source of concepts and a few useful catalysts.
General features
Rhenium exists in ten known oxidation states from −3 to +7 except −2, and all but Re(−3) a... | Organorhenium chemistry | Chemistry | 1,099 |
11,548,017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leandria%20momordicae | Leandria momordicae is an ascomycete fungus that is a plant pathogen.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Enigmatic Ascomycota taxa
Fungus species | Leandria momordicae | Biology | 50 |
44,557,148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laves%20graph | In geometry and crystallography, the Laves graph is an infinite and highly symmetric system of points and line segments in three-dimensional Euclidean space, forming a periodic graph. Three equal-length segments meet at 120° angles at each point, and all cycles use ten or more segments. It is the shortest possible trip... | Laves graph | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Mathematics,Engineering | 2,106 |
2,115,222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banert%20cascade | The Banert cascade is an organic reaction in which an NH-1,2,3-triazole is prepared from a propargyl halide or sulfate and sodium azide in a dioxane- water mixture at elevated temperatures. It is named after Klaus Banert, who first reported the process in 1989. This cascade reaction is unusual because it consists of tw... | Banert cascade | Chemistry | 273 |
42,042,702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band%20%28software%29 | Band is a mobile community application that facilitates group communication. Created by Naver Corporation, the service is available on iOS, Android, and desktop.
Users can create separate spaces for communicating with members of different groups, depending on the purpose of those groups. Types of groups include existi... | Band (software) | Technology | 532 |
6,247,216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20172051 | HD 172051 (86 G. Sagittarii) is a single, yellow-hued star in the southern constellation of Sagittarius. The star is barely bright enough to be seen with the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 5.85. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 76.64 mas, it is located some 43 light years from the Sun. It is mo... | HD 172051 | Astronomy | 283 |
53,243,172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eridanus%20II | The Eridanus II Dwarf is a low-surface brightness dwarf galaxy in the constellation Eridanus. Eridanus II was independently discovered by two groups in 2015, using data from the Dark Energy Survey (Bechtol et al., 2015; Koposov et al. 2015). This galaxy is probably a distant satellite of the Milky Way (Li et al., 2016)... | Eridanus II | Astronomy | 6,247 |
60,066,159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CoRoT-8b | CoRoT-8b is a transiting exoplanet orbiting the K-type main sequence star CoRoT-8 1,050 light years away in the equatorial constellation Aquila. The planet was discovered in April 2010 by the CoRoT telescope.
Discovery
This planet was discovered using the transit method, which detects planet via eclipses. The discover... | CoRoT-8b | Astronomy | 204 |
31,468,613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Nature | The Book of Nature is a religious and philosophical concept originating in the Latin Middle Ages that explores the relationship between religion and science, which views nature as a book for knowledge and understanding. Early theologians, such as St. Paul, believed the Book of Nature was a source of God's revelation to... | Book of Nature | Technology,Biology | 2,848 |
2,056,787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widlar%20current%20source | A Widlar current source is a modification of the basic two-transistor current mirror that incorporates an emitter degeneration resistor for only the output transistor, enabling the current source to generate low currents using only moderate resistor values.
The Widlar circuit may be used with bipolar transistors, MOS ... | Widlar current source | Engineering | 1,843 |
17,527,994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Horrocks | Brigadier General Sir William Heaton Horrocks (25 August 1859 – 26 January 1941) was an officer of the British Army remembered chiefly for confirming Sir David Bruce's theory that Malta fever was spread through goat's milk. He also contributed to the making safe of water, developing a simple method of testing and pur... | William Horrocks | Chemistry | 903 |
71,568,815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaomi%20MIX%20Fold%202 | Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 is an Android-based foldable smartphone manufactured by Xiaomi. For the first time in the MIX Fold series, the phone developed in partnership with Leica camera, it was announced on August 11, 2022.
A feature of MIX Fold 2 is its thickness: 5.4 mm in the unfolded state and 11.2 mm in the folded state,... | Xiaomi MIX Fold 2 | Technology | 700 |
10,384,126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa%C3%A7ade%20engineering | Building façades are one of the largest, most important elements in the overall aesthetic and technical performance of a building. Façade engineering is the art and science of resolving aesthetic, environmental and structural issues to achieve the effective enclosure of buildings.
Specialist companies are dedicated to... | Façade engineering | Technology,Engineering | 401 |
66,071,501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydration%20%28web%20development%29 | In web development, hydration or rehydration is a technique in which client-side JavaScript converts a web page that is static from the perspective of the web browser, delivered either through static rendering or server-side rendering, into a dynamic web page by attaching event handlers to the HTML elements in the DOM.... | Hydration (web development) | Engineering | 712 |
35,127,635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed-counting%20machine | Seed counting machines count seeds for research and packaging purposes. The machines typically provide total counts of seeds or batch sizes for packaging.
Background
The first seed counters were developed to count legumes and other seeds which were large.
Traditionally, the seed packaging industry packed seeds by wei... | Seed-counting machine | Engineering | 977 |
17,258,404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pramiconazole | Pramiconazole is a triazole antifungal which was under development by Barrier Therapeutics for the treatment of acute skin and mucosal fungal infections but was never marketed.
References
Dioxolanes
Imidazolidinones
Isopropyl compounds
Lanosterol 14α-demethylase inhibitors
Organofluorides
Phenol ethers
Piperazines
Ph... | Pramiconazole | Chemistry | 100 |
39,811,873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lomaphorus | Lomaphorus is a possibly dubious extinct genus of glyptodont that lived during the Pleistocene in eastern Argentina. Although many species have been referred, the genus itself is possibly dubious or synonymous with other glyptodonts like Neoslerocalyptus from the same region.
Etymology
The genus name Lomaphorus is de... | Lomaphorus | Biology | 1,611 |
683,583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcutaneous%20electrical%20nerve%20stimulation | A transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS or TNS) is a device that produces mild electric current to stimulate the nerves for therapeutic purposes. TENS, by definition, covers the complete range of transcutaneously applied currents used for nerve excitation, but the term is often used with a more restrictive ... | Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation | Biology | 2,974 |
72,818,708 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12%20Cassiopeiae | 12 Cassiopeiae (12 Cas) is a white giant in the constellation Cassiopeia, about 860 light years away. It has an apparent magnitude of 5.4, so it faintly visible to the naked eye.
The spectrum of 12 Cassiopeiae is classified as a B9-type giant. About three times as massive as the Sun and 386 times as luminous, it has... | 12 Cassiopeiae | Astronomy | 156 |
71,367,978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans%20Max%20Jahn | Hans Max Jahn (4 July 1853 – 7 August 1906) was a German physical chemist who worked on thermochemistry and electrochemistry. As an experimental chemist he identified problems in the contemporary theory of electrolyte conductivity and examined the thermodynamic validity of the Gibbs-Helmholtz equation.
Jahn was born i... | Hans Max Jahn | Chemistry | 319 |
22,685,393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S2%20%28star%29 | S2, also known as S0–2, is a star in the star cluster close to the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), orbiting it with a period of 16.0518 years, a semi-major axis of about 970 au, and a pericenter distance of 17 light hours (18 Tm or 120 au) – an orbit with a period only about 30% longer than that of Jup... | S2 (star) | Astronomy | 1,159 |
4,862,582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALCOR | ALCOR (ALGOL Converter, acronym) is an early computer language definition created by the ALCOR Group, a consortium of universities, research institutions and manufacturers in Europe and the United States which was founded in 1959 and which had 60 members in 1966. The group had the aim of a common compiler specification... | ALCOR | Technology | 471 |
41,164,716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malettinin | Malettinins are polyketide-derived antimicrobial compounds produced by fungal ascomycetes in the genus Hypoxylon.
Chemical structures
References
Antimicrobials | Malettinin | Chemistry,Biology | 42 |
13,265,673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanix | Lanix Internacional, S.A. de C.V. is a multinational computer and mobile phone manufacturer company based in Hermosillo, Mexico. Lanix primarily markets and sells its products in Mexico and the Latin American export market.
History
Lanix was founded in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico in 1990, and released its first comput... | Lanix | Technology | 629 |
230,527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic%20hazard | A seismic hazard is the probability that an earthquake will occur in a given geographic area, within a given window of time, and with ground motion intensity exceeding a given threshold. With a hazard thus estimated, risk can be assessed and included in such areas as building codes for standard buildings, designing lar... | Seismic hazard | Engineering | 1,118 |
769,434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setoid | In mathematics, a setoid (X, ~) is a set (or type) X equipped with an equivalence relation ~. A setoid may also be called E-set, Bishop set, or extensional set.
Setoids are studied especially in proof theory and in type-theoretic foundations of mathematics. Often in mathematics, when one defines an equivalence relati... | Setoid | Mathematics | 585 |
45,459,609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leccinellum%20rugosiceps | Leccinellum rugosiceps, commonly known as the wrinkled Leccinum, is a species of bolete fungus. It is found in Asia, North America, Central America, and South America, where it grows in an ectomycorrhizal association with oak. Fruitbodies have convex, yellowish caps up to in diameter. In age, the cap surface becomes w... | Leccinellum rugosiceps | Biology | 1,438 |
75,357,507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD%20Rosick%C3%BD%20%28mathematician%29 | Jiří Rosický (born 1946) is a Czech mathematician. He works on the field of category theory. He is cited as one of the first researchers to introduce tangent categories and tangent bundle functors.
Life
Jiří Rosický was born in 1946. In 1963–1968, he studied mathematics at the Faculty of Science of the Masaryk Univers... | Jiří Rosický (mathematician) | Mathematics | 157 |
5,785,677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landau%27s%20problems | At the 1912 International Congress of Mathematicians, Edmund Landau listed four basic problems about prime numbers. These problems were characterised in his speech as "unattackable at the present state of mathematics" and are now known as Landau's problems. They are as follows:
Goldbach's conjecture: Can every even in... | Landau's problems | Mathematics | 1,134 |
47,340,705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nu2%20Lyrae | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Nu2 Lyrae}}
Nu2 Lyrae, Latinized from ν2 Lyrae, or sometimes simply Nu Lyrae, is a solitary star in the northern constellation of Lyra. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 14.09 mas as seen from Earth, it is located around 231 light years from the Sun. With an apparent visual magnitude of 5.23, it is... | Nu2 Lyrae | Astronomy | 262 |
21,626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-Earth%20object | A near-Earth object (NEO) is any small Solar System body orbiting the Sun whose closest approach to the Sun (perihelion) is less than 1.3 times the Earth–Sun distance (astronomical unit, AU). This definition applies to the object's orbit around the Sun, rather than its current position, thus an object with such an orbi... | Near-Earth object | Astronomy | 12,157 |
39,313,381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear%20transformation%20in%20rotating%20electrical%20machines | Transformation of three phase electrical quantities to two phase quantities is a usual practice to simplify analysis of three phase electrical circuits. Polyphase a.c machines can be represented by an equivalent two phase model provided the rotating polyphases winding in rotor and the stationary polyphase windings in s... | Linear transformation in rotating electrical machines | Engineering | 1,117 |
69,416,798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakub%20Haberfeld | Jakub Haberfeld (original spelling: Jakób Haberfeld or Jakob Haberfeld) – one of the oldest Polish alcohol factiories, founded in 1804 in Oświęcim producing vodka and liqueurs. The company was reactivated in June 2019.
History
The Haberfeld family settled in Oświęcim in the second half of the XVIIIth century. Jakub, ... | Jakub Haberfeld | Chemistry | 1,350 |
24,023,782 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IMA%20%28company%29 | IMA – Industria Macchine Automatiche S.p.A. is a multinational Italian company based in the Metropolitan City of Bologna, Italy. Established in 1961, IMA Group is a leader in the design and manufacture of automatic machines for the processing and packaging of pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food, tobacco, tea and coffee.
... | IMA (company) | Engineering | 671 |
22,288,224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic-numeric%20computation | In mathematics and computer science, symbolic-numeric computation is the use of software that combines symbolic and numeric methods to solve problems.
References
External links
Professional organizations
ACM SIGSAM: Special Interest Group in Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation
Computer algebra
Numerical analysis
... | Symbolic-numeric computation | Mathematics,Technology | 54 |
7,224,143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit%20Award | The Orbit Awards were given by the National Space Society and the Space Tourism Society to pioneers in the private space travel industry, and presented at the Annual International Space Development Conference
The actual award is a holographic crystal created by international artist, Eileen Borgeson and holography pion... | Orbit Award | Technology | 149 |
35,942,883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20dark%20matter | Biological dark matter is an informal term for unclassified or poorly understood genetic material. This genetic material may refer to genetic material produced by unclassified microorganisms. By extension, biological dark matter may also refer to the un-isolated microorganisms whose existence can only be inferred from ... | Biological dark matter | Biology | 607 |
70,939,631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon%20isotope%20geochemistry | Xenon isotope geochemistry uses the abundance of xenon (Xe) isotopes and total xenon to investigate how Xe has been generated, transported, fractionated, and distributed in planetary systems. Xe has nine stable or very long-lived isotopes. Radiogenic 129Xe and fissiogenic 131,132,134,136Xe isotopes are of special inter... | Xenon isotope geochemistry | Physics,Chemistry | 3,778 |
20,684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions%20per%20second | Instructions per second (IPS) is a measure of a computer's processor speed. For complex instruction set computers (CISCs), different instructions take different amounts of time, so the value measured depends on the instruction mix; even for comparing processors in the same family the IPS measurement can be problematic.... | Instructions per second | Mathematics,Technology | 1,142 |
2,014,128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mu%20Cephei | Mu Cephei (Latinized from μ Cephei, abbreviated Mu Cep or μ Cep), also known as Herschel's Garnet Star, Erakis, or HD 206936, is a red supergiant or hypergiant star in the constellation Cepheus. It appears garnet red and is located at the edge of the IC 1396 nebula. It is a 4th magnitude star easily visible to the nak... | Mu Cephei | Astronomy | 1,421 |
36,142,464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorosulfolipid | Chlorosulfolipids are a class of naturally occurring molecules that are characterized as being stereochemically complex. These polychlorinated structures have been isolated from the freshwater alga Ochromonas danica, and are proposed to serve a structural role within the membranes of this species. The high extent of ... | Chlorosulfolipid | Chemistry | 401 |
3,192,531 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi%20Persei | π Persei, Latinized as Pi Persei, is a single star in the northern constellation of Perseus. It has the traditional name Gorgonea Secunda , the second of three Gorgons in the mythology of the hero Perseus. This star has a white hue and is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +4.7. It i... | Pi Persei | Astronomy | 280 |
6,307,858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deviant%20sexual%20intercourse | Deviant sexual intercourse or deviate sexual intercourse is, in some U.S. states, a legal term for "any act of sexual gratification involving the sex organs of one person and the mouth or anus of another, anus to mouth or involving invasion of the anus or vagina of one person by a foreign object manipulated by another ... | Deviant sexual intercourse | Biology | 375 |
2,879,746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epsilon%20Arietis | Epsilon Arietis (ε Ari, ε Arietis) is the Bayer designation for a visual binary star system in the northern constellation of Aries. It has a combined apparent visual magnitude of 4.63 and can be seen with the naked eye, although the two components are too close together to be resolved without a telescope. With an annua... | Epsilon Arietis | Astronomy | 455 |
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