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916,157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vandermonde%27s%20identity | In combinatorics, Vandermonde's identity (or Vandermonde's convolution) is the following identity for binomial coefficients:
for any nonnegative integers r, m, n. The identity is named after Alexandre-Théophile Vandermonde (1772), although it was already known in 1303 by the Chinese mathematician Zhu Shijie.
There i... | Vandermonde's identity | Mathematics | 1,184 |
53,935,097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sindoh | Sindoh (), formerly Sindoricoh (), is a South Korean company that makes multi-function printers, fax machines, Thermal paper and 3D printers. Headquartered in Seoul, South Korea, Sindoh's main market for 2D printers is Korea, the United States, and Europe for its 3D printers.
The company was founded in 1960 under the ... | Sindoh | Technology | 831 |
2,647,638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20Rights%20Group | The Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based organisation that works to preserve digital rights and freedoms by campaigning on digital rights issues and by fostering a community of grassroots activists. It campaigns on numerous issues including mass surveillance, internet filtering and censorship, and intellectual propert... | Open Rights Group | Technology,Engineering | 974 |
13,411,300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astellas%20Institute%20for%20Regenerative%20Medicine | Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine is a subsidiary of Astellas Pharma located in Marlborough, Massachusetts, US, developing stem cell therapies with a focus on diseases that cause blindness. It was formed in 1994 as a company named Advanced Cell Technology, Incorporated (ACT), which was renamed to Ocata The... | Astellas Institute for Regenerative Medicine | Biology | 593 |
57,147,096 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronarcosis | Electronarcosis, also called electric stunning or electrostunning, is a profound stupor produced by passing an electric current through the brain. Electronarcosis may be used as a form of electrotherapy in treating certain mental illnesses in humans, or may be used to render livestock unconscious prior to slaughter.
... | Electronarcosis | Biology | 456 |
990,491 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-fouling%20paint | Anti-fouling paint is a specialized category of coatings applied as the outer (outboard) layer to the hull of a ship or boat, to slow the growth of and facilitate detachment of subaquatic organisms that attach to the hull and can affect a vessel's performance and durability. It falls into a category of commercially ava... | Anti-fouling paint | Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 1,873 |
1,271 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytical%20engine | The analytical engine was a proposed digital mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage's Difference Engine, which was a design for a simpler mechanical calculator.
The analytical engine incorpor... | Analytical engine | Physics,Technology | 3,101 |
56,870,719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritualized%20aggression | Ritualized aggression or ritualized fighting is when animals use a range of behaviours as posture or warning but without engaging in serious aggression or fighting, which would be expensive in terms of energy and the risk of injury. Ritualized aggression involves a graded series of behaviours or displays that include t... | Ritualized aggression | Biology | 550 |
3,809,560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicidology | Suicidology is the scientific study of suicidal behaviour, the causes of suicidalness and suicide prevention. Every year, about one million people die by suicide, which is a mortality rate of sixteen per 100,000 or one death every forty seconds. Suicidologists believe that suicide is largely preventable with the right ... | Suicidology | Biology | 1,271 |
5,795,043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implicational%20propositional%20calculus | In mathematical logic, the implicational propositional calculus is a version of classical propositional calculus that uses only one connective, called implication or conditional. In formulas, this binary operation is indicated by "implies", "if ..., then ...", "→", "", etc..
Functional (in)completeness
Implication alo... | Implicational propositional calculus | Mathematics | 4,661 |
26,610,144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D-Shape | D-Shape is a large 3-dimensional printer that uses binder-jetting, a layer-by-layer printing process, to bind sand with inorganic seawater and magnesium-based binder in order to create stone-like objects. Invented by Enrico Dini, founder of Monolite UK Ltd, the first model of the D-Shape printer used epoxy resin, commo... | D-Shape | Engineering | 1,074 |
76,125,137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010%20California%20contrail%20incident | On the evening of Monday, November 8, 2010, an unusually conspicuous contrail appeared about 35miles west of Los Angeles, California in the vicinity of Catalina Island. News footage of the event from a KCBS helicopter led to intense media coverage and speculation about a potential military missile launch, with many re... | 2010 California contrail incident | Physics | 2,731 |
4,331,734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone%20monitor | An ozone monitor is electronic equipment that monitors for ozone concentrations in the air. The instrument may be used to monitor ozone values for industrial applications or to determine the amount of ambient ozone at ground level and determine whether these values violate National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS)... | Ozone monitor | Chemistry,Technology,Engineering | 634 |
42,520,223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sednoid | A sednoid is a trans-Neptunian object with a large semi-major axis and a high perihelion, similar to the orbit of the dwarf planet Sedna. The consensus among astronomers is that there are only three objects that are known from this population: Sedna, , and 541132 Leleākūhonua (). All three have perihelia greater than .... | Sednoid | Physics,Astronomy | 1,541 |
12,257,271 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator%3A2010 | Elevator:2010 was an inducement prize contest with the purpose of developing space elevator and space elevator-related technologies. Elevator:2010 organized annual competitions for climbers, ribbons and power-beaming systems, and was operated by a partnership between Spaceward Foundation and the NASA Centennial Challen... | Elevator:2010 | Astronomy,Technology | 794 |
43,783,024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay%20Frank%20Schamberg | Jay Frank Schamberg (November 6, 1870 – March 30, 1934) was a physician and prominent dermatologist/syphilogist in Philadelphia, PA during the first third of the twentieth century. He first became known as a strong advocate for smallpox vaccination prior to 1910. He had two diseases named for him, one of which continue... | Jay Frank Schamberg | Chemistry,Biology | 1,087 |
2,806,550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SK%20Hynix | SK Hynix Inc. () is a South Korean supplier of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) chips and flash memory chips. SK Hynix is one of the world's largest semiconductor vendors.
Founded as Hyundai Electronics in 1983, SK Hynix was integrated into the SK Group in 2012 following a series of mergers, acquisitions, and restr... | SK Hynix | Technology | 1,510 |
1,854,369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic%20head | Hydraulic head or piezometric head is a specific measurement of liquid pressure above a vertical datum.
It is usually measured as a liquid surface elevation, expressed in units of length, at the entrance (or bottom) of a piezometer. In an aquifer, it can be calculated from the depth to water in a piezometric well (a s... | Hydraulic head | Physics,Chemistry,Engineering,Environmental_science | 1,924 |
62,696,810 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleroma%20%28software%29 | Pleroma is a free and open-source microblogging social networking service. Unlike popular microblogging services such as Twitter or Weibo, Pleroma can be self-hosted and operated by anyone with a server and a web domain, a combination commonly referred to as an instance. Instance administrators can manage their own cod... | Pleroma (software) | Technology | 1,210 |
1,118,198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garmin | Garmin Ltd. (shortened to Garmin, stylized as GARMIN, and formerly known as ProNav) is an American, Swiss-domiciled multinational technology company founded in 1989 by Gary Burrell and Min Kao in Lenexa, Kansas, United States, with operational headquarters in Olathe, Kansas. Since 2010, the company is legally incorpora... | Garmin | Engineering | 5,570 |
4,600,562 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20finish | Surface finish, also known as surface texture or surface topography, is the nature of a surface as defined by the three characteristics of lay, surface roughness, and waviness. It comprises the small, local deviations of a surface from the perfectly flat ideal (a true plane).
Surface texture is one of the important fa... | Surface finish | Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 1,092 |
170,097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean%20free%20path | In physics, mean free path is the average distance over which a moving particle (such as an atom, a molecule, or a photon) travels before substantially changing its direction or energy (or, in a specific context, other properties), typically as a result of one or more successive collisions with other particles.
Scatte... | Mean free path | Physics,Chemistry | 1,673 |
36,284,117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%20Arhangelskii | Alexander Vladimirovich Arhangelskii (, Aleksandr Vladimirovich Arkhangelsky, born 13 March 1938 in Moscow) is a Russian mathematician. His research, comprising over 200 published papers, covers various subfields of general topology. He has done particularly important work in metrizability theory and generalized metric... | Alexander Arhangelskii | Mathematics | 771 |
435,315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khinchin%27s%20constant | In number theory, Khinchin's constant is a mathematical constant related to the simple continued fraction expansions of many real numbers. In particular Aleksandr Yakovlevich Khinchin proved that for almost all real numbers x, the coefficients ai of the continued fraction expansion of x have a finite geometric mean tha... | Khinchin's constant | Mathematics | 1,219 |
9,411,318 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Salt | British Salt Limited is a United Kingdom-based chemical company that produces pure white salt. The company is owned by Tata Chemicals Europe after a buy out from private equity company LDC in April 2010. It is based in Middlewich, Cheshire, employs 125 people, and produces approximately of pure white salt every year.
... | British Salt | Chemistry | 363 |
3,066,436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howdah | A howdah, or houdah (), derived from the Arabic (), which means "bed carried by a camel", also known as hathi howdah (, ), is a carriage which is positioned on the back of an elephant, or occasionally some other animal such as a camel, used most often in the past to carry wealthy people during progresses or procession... | Howdah | Biology | 1,357 |
3,219,844 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azure%20Dragon | The Azure Dragon (Chinese: Qīnglóng), also known as Qinglong in Chinese, is one of the Dragon Gods who represent the mount or chthonic forces of the Five Regions' Highest Deities ( Wǔfāng Shàngdì). It is also one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese constellations, which are the astral representations of the Wufang Shan... | Azure Dragon | Astronomy | 700 |
3,592,883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege%20of%20Fort%20Pitt | The siege of Fort Pitt took place during June and July 1763 in what is now the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. The siege was a part of Pontiac's War, an effort by Native Americans to remove the Anglo-Americans from the Ohio Country and Allegheny Plateau after they refused to honor their promises and tr... | Siege of Fort Pitt | Biology | 4,012 |
24,093,107 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-star%20snark | In the mathematical field of graph theory, the double-star snark is a snark with 30 vertices and 45 edges.
In 1975, Rufus Isaacs introduced two infinite families of snarks—the flower snark and the BDS snark, a family that includes the two Blanuša snarks, the Descartes snark and the Szekeres snark (BDS stands for Blan... | Double-star snark | Mathematics | 208 |
29,952,043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeruginospora%20furfuracea | Aeruginospora furfuracea is a species of fungus in the family Hygrophoraceae. The species, described by Egon Horak in 1973, is found in New Zealand. It is currently placed in the genus Aeruginospora, but may actually belong in Camarophyllopsis.
References
External links
Tricholomataceae
Fungi of New Zealand
Fungi de... | Aeruginospora furfuracea | Biology | 93 |
25,500,428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information%20technology%20in%20Morocco | The information technology sector in Morocco has been witnessing significant expansion. Morocco is the first country in North Africa to install a 3G network. The number of Internet subscribers in the country jumped 73% in 2006 over the previous year. Further, a new offshore site at Casablanca, with state-of-the-art te... | Information technology in Morocco | Technology | 974 |
23,984,989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20Manufacturing%20Co.%20Inc | Energy Manufacturing Co., Inc. is an American manufacturing company based in Monticello, Iowa. Established in 1944, the company produces a variety of hydraulic cylinders, hydraulic pumps, valves, and power systems.
History
In the early 1940s B.J. Pasker ran a blacksmith shop in New Vienna, Iowa. In this shop his son, ... | Energy Manufacturing Co. Inc | Physics,Chemistry,Engineering | 712 |
11,459,978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternaria%20radicina | Alternaria radicina is a fungal plant pathogen infecting carrots.
References
radicina
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Carrot diseases
Fungi described in 1922
Fungus species | Alternaria radicina | Biology | 37 |
37,910,757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint%20CMU-Pitt%20Ph.D.%20Program%20in%20Computational%20Biology | The Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D Program in Computational Biology (CPCB) is an interdisciplinary graduate training program in computational biology. It is a joint program between Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
The Department of Computational Biology (DCB) at the Univers... | Joint CMU-Pitt Ph.D. Program in Computational Biology | Biology | 197 |
4,724,047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOD-STD-2167A | DOD-STD-2167A (Department of Defense Standard 2167A), titled "Defense Systems Software Development", was a United States defense standard, published on February 29, 1988, which updated the less well known DOD-STD-2167 published 4 June 1985. This document established "uniform requirements for the software development th... | DOD-STD-2167A | Technology,Engineering | 813 |
41,029,065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White%20bream%20virus | White bream virus is a species of virus. It is the sole species in the subgenus Blicbavirus, which is in the genus Bafinivirus. It was first isolated from white bream (Blicca bjoerkna) in Germany. It is a bacilliform (rod-shaped) positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus.
References
Nidovirales
Zoonoses | White bream virus | Biology | 87 |
62,293,592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%20Scantlebury | Roger Anthony Scantlebury (born August 1936) is a British computer scientist and Internet pioneer who worked at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) and later at Logica.
Scantlebury led the pioneering work to implement packet switching and associated communication protocols at the NPL in the late 1960s. He proposed ... | Roger Scantlebury | Technology | 1,317 |
20,403,801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20set | In mathematics, a Δ-set, often called a Δ-complex or a semi-simplicial set, is a combinatorial object that is useful in the construction and triangulation of topological spaces, and also in the computation of related algebraic invariants of such spaces. A Δ-set is somewhat more general than a simplicial complex, yet n... | Delta set | Physics,Mathematics | 1,708 |
17,764,646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Momentum%20%28finance%29 | In finance, momentum is the empirically observed tendency for rising asset prices or securities return to rise further, and falling prices to keep falling. For instance, it was shown that stocks with strong past performance continue to outperform stocks with poor past performance in the next period with an average exce... | Momentum (finance) | Biology | 261 |
35,869,003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20mouth | In human anatomy, the mouth is the first portion of the alimentary canal that receives food and produces saliva. The oral mucosa is the mucous membrane epithelium lining the inside of the mouth.
In addition to its primary role as the beginning of the digestive system, the mouth also plays a significant role in communi... | Human mouth | Biology | 1,303 |
13,412,752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rider-Ericsson%20Engine%20Company | The US Rider-Ericsson Engine Company was the successor of the DeLamater Iron Works and the Rider Engine Company, having bought from both companies their extensive plants and entire stocks of engines and patterns, covering all styles of Rider and Ericsson hot air pumping engines brought out by both of the old companies ... | Rider-Ericsson Engine Company | Technology | 504 |
54,000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biophysics | Biophysics is an interdisciplinary science that applies approaches and methods traditionally used in physics to study biological phenomena. Biophysics covers all scales of biological organization, from molecular to organismic and populations. Biophysical research shares significant overlap with biochemistry, molecular ... | Biophysics | Physics,Biology | 1,568 |
61,294,445 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethylolpropionic%20acid | Dimethylolpropionic acid (DMPA) is a chemical compound that has the full IUPAC name of 2,2-bis(hydroxymethyl)propionic acid and is an organic compound with one carboxyl and two hydroxy groups. It has the CAS Registry Number of 4767-03-7.
Properties
DMPA is an odorless free flowing white crystalline solid and essenti... | Dimethylolpropionic acid | Chemistry | 524 |
595,183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20sulfate | Calcium sulfate (or calcium sulphate) is the inorganic compound with the formula CaSO4 and related hydrates. In the form of γ-anhydrite (the anhydrous form), it is used as a desiccant. One particular hydrate is better known as plaster of Paris, and another occurs naturally as the mineral gypsum. It has many uses in in... | Calcium sulfate | Physics,Chemistry | 2,049 |
77,488,101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kakhovka%20Irrigation%20System | The Kakhovka Irrigation System (; ) is an irrigation system in southern Ukraine. With a total irrigation area of , it is the largest irrigation system in the entire country.
History
In 1951, construction began for the Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant, which created the Kakhovka Reservoir and provided a water source... | Kakhovka Irrigation System | Engineering | 195 |
62,240,093 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%28Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl%29titanium%20trichloride | (Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)titanium trichloride is an organotitanium compound with the formula Cp*TiCl3 (Cp* = C5(CH3)5). It is an orange solid. The compound adopts a piano stool geometry. An early synthesis involve the combination of lithium pentamethylcyclopentadienide and titanium tetrachloride.
The compound... | (Pentamethylcyclopentadienyl)titanium trichloride | Chemistry | 159 |
18,297,485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform%20consensus | In computer science, Uniform consensus is a distributed computing problem that is a similar to the consensus problem with one more condition which is no two processes (whether faulty or not) decide differently.
More specifically one should consider this problem:
Each process has an input, should decide on an output (... | Uniform consensus | Mathematics,Technology | 96 |
969,684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herd | A herd is a social group of certain animals of the same species, either wild or domestic. The form of collective animal behavior associated with this is called herding. These animals are known as gregarious animals.
The term herd is generally applied to mammals, and most particularly to the grazing ungulates that clas... | Herd | Biology | 2,364 |
16,781,589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%2072659%20b | HD 72659 b is a superjovian exoplanet massing at least 3.3 MJ orbiting at 4.77 AU from the star, taking 3630 days to complete one orbit. The orbital distance range from 3.49 AU to 6.05 AU with orbital eccentricity of 0.269. In 2022, the inclination and true mass of HD 72659 b were measured via astrometry.
See also
H... | HD 72659 b | Astronomy | 126 |
30,762,173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brass%20mill | A brass mill is a mill which processes brass. Brass mills are common in England; many date from long before the Industrial Revolution.
Examples of brass mills include
Brassmill (Ross on Wye)
Saltford Brass Mill
See also
Calamine brass
Latten
William Champion
Further reading
Metallurgical facilities | Brass mill | Chemistry,Materials_science | 61 |
14,427,846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocretin%20%28orexin%29%20receptor%202 | Orexin receptor type 2 (Ox2R or OX2), also known as hypocretin receptor type 2 (HcrtR2), is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HCRTR2 gene. It should not be confused for the protein CD200R1 which shares the alias OX2R but is a distinct, unrelated gene located on the human chromosome 3.
Structure
The structur... | Hypocretin (orexin) receptor 2 | Chemistry | 572 |
34,815,353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond%20Horton-Smith%20Prize | The Raymond Horton-Smith Prize is a prize awarded by the School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge for the best thesis presented for MD degree during the academical year. Known as the prize for the best MD of the year, it should be awarded annually but from time to time it has not been awarded for some years... | Raymond Horton-Smith Prize | Technology | 743 |
1,396,257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteorhodopsin | Proteorhodopsin (also known as pRhodopsin) is a family of transmembrane proteins that use retinal as a chromophore for light-mediated functionality, in this case, a proton pump. pRhodopsin is found in marine planktonic bacteria, archaea and eukaryotes (protae), but was first discovered in bacteria.
Its name is derived... | Proteorhodopsin | Chemistry,Biology | 1,721 |
37,620,426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Index%20of%20women%20scientists%20articles |
A
A. Catrina Bryce
A. Elizabeth Adams
Abby Howe Turner
Abella
Ada Lovelace
Ada Yonath
Adele Goldberg (computer scientist)
Adrienne Mayor
Aglaonike
Agnes Arber
Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award
Agnes Mary Clerke
Agnes Pockels
Agnes Sime Baxter
Agnodice
Aisling Judge
Alejandra Bravo
Alenush Terian
Alessandra Giliani
Ale... | Index of women scientists articles | Technology | 4,196 |
40,736,436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiocarpine | Pleiocarpine is an anticholinergic alkaloid.
External links
Tryptamine alkaloids
Indolizidines
Heterocyclic compounds with 6 rings | Pleiocarpine | Chemistry | 39 |
24,738,960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioinformatics%20%28journal%29 | Bioinformatics is a biweekly peer-reviewed open-access scientific journal covering research and software in bioinformatics and computational biology. It is the official journal of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), together with PLOS Computational Biology.
The journal was established as Comp... | Bioinformatics (journal) | Biology | 362 |
29,773,157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry%20of%20Energy%20%28Ukraine%29 | The Ministry of Energy is responsible for energy in Ukraine.
The government ministry was originally formed in the 1970s as the Ministry of Energy and Electrification.
Functions
state governing of the Fuel-Energy Complex
ensuring the realization of the state policies in the Fuel-Energy Complex
ensuring energy secur... | Ministry of Energy (Ukraine) | Engineering | 654 |
23,465,899 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock%20fever | Rock fever and island fever are colloquial terms for a form of mental distress said to mainly afflict mainlanders who move to isolated islands, especially any of the Hawaiian islands or Guam. It is not a medical term or classification and has not been the focus of any serious research. It has been described as "an ailm... | Rock fever | Biology | 161 |
40,341,247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tridemorph | Tridemorph is a fungicide used to control Erysiphe graminis. It was developed by BASF in the 1960s who use the trade name Calixin. The World Health Organization has categorized it as a Class II "moderately hazardous" pesticide because it is believed harmful if swallowed and can cause irritation to skin and eyes.
One t... | Tridemorph | Chemistry,Biology | 112 |
29,337,501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect%20matrix | In mathematics, a perfect matrix is an m-by-n binary matrix that has no possible k-by-k submatrix K that satisfies the following conditions:
k > 3
the row and column sums of K are each equal to b, where b ≥ 2
there exists no row of the (m − k)-by-k submatrix formed by the rows not included in K with a row sum great... | Perfect matrix | Mathematics | 114 |
2,269,568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainband | A rainband is a cloud and precipitation structure associated with an area of rainfall which is significantly elongated. Rainbands in tropical cyclones can be either stratiform or convective and are curved in shape. They consist of showers and thunderstorms, and along with the eyewall and the eye, they make up a tropica... | Rainband | Physics | 995 |
53,322,500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kappa%20Crateris | Kappa Crateris (κ Crateris) is the Bayer designation for a star in the southern constellation of Crater. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 5.94, which, according to the Bortle scale, can be seen with the naked eye under dark suburban skies. The distance to this star, as determined from an annual parallax shift of ... | Kappa Crateris | Astronomy | 257 |
24,991,420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrective%20maintenance | Corrective maintenance is a maintenance task performed to identify, isolate, and rectify a fault so that the failed equipment, machine, or system can be restored to an operational condition within the tolerances or limits established for in-service operations.
Definition
A French official standard defines "corrective... | Corrective maintenance | Engineering | 527 |
34,651,693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental%20manager | Environmental managers are involved in processes that seek to control some environmental entities in orientation to a plan or idea. Whether such control is possible, however, is contested. Examples for environmental managers range from corporate agents (corporate environmental managers) via managers of a nature reserve... | Environmental manager | Environmental_science | 426 |
1,411,678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibbons%20Creek%20Reservoir | Gibbons Creek Reservoir (sometimes referred to as Gibbons Creek Lake) is a power plant cooling reservoir on Gibbons Creek in the Navasota River basin, 20 miles (32 km) east of College Station, Texas, United States. The dam and lake are managed by Texas Municipal Power Agency (TMPA), which uses the reservoir as a cooli... | Gibbons Creek Reservoir | Chemistry,Environmental_science | 378 |
29,545,728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biotin%20attachment%20domain | Biotin/lipoyl attachment domain has a conserved lysine residue that binds biotin or lipoic acid. Biotin plays a catalytic role in some carboxyl transfer reactions and is covalently attached, via an amide bond, to a lysine residue in enzymes requiring this coenzyme. Lipoamide acyltransferases have an essential cofactor,... | Biotin attachment domain | Biology | 161 |
2,872,234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird%27s-eye%20view | A bird's-eye view is an elevated view of an object or location from a very steep viewing angle, creating a perspective as if the observer were a bird in flight looking downward. Bird's-eye views can be an aerial photograph, but also a drawing, and are often used in the making of blueprints, floor plans and maps.
Befo... | Bird's-eye view | Engineering | 774 |
66,516,442 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyctacovirus | Nyctacovirus is a subgenus of viruses in the genus Alphacoronavirus.
Species
The genus consists of the following two species:
Nyctalus velutinus alphacoronavirus SC-2013
Pipistrellus kuhlii coronavirus 3398
References
Virus subgenera
Alphacoronaviruses | Nyctacovirus | Biology | 64 |
392,828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abundance%20of%20the%20chemical%20elements | The abundance of the chemical elements is a measure of the occurrences of the chemical elements relative to all other elements in a given environment. Abundance is measured in one of three ways: by mass fraction (in commercial contexts often called weight fraction), by mole fraction (fraction of atoms by numerical coun... | Abundance of the chemical elements | Physics,Chemistry,Astronomy | 4,393 |
76,673,018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRAS%2014348-1447 | IRAS 14348-1447 known as PGC 52270, are a pair of spiral galaxies located 1 billion light-years away in the constellation of Libra. The galaxy IRAS 14348-1447NE, is in the early process of merging with IRAS 14348-1447SW, causing gravity to pull stars from both galaxies and forming tidal tails. As the interaction takes ... | IRAS 14348-1447 | Astronomy | 178 |
27,994,073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plique-%C3%A0-jour | Plique-à-jour (French for "letting in daylight") is a vitreous enamelling technique where the enamel is applied in cells, similar to cloisonné, but with no backing in the final product, so light can shine through the transparent or translucent enamel. It is in effect a miniature version of stained-glass and is consider... | Plique-à-jour | Chemistry | 1,246 |
43,064,767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/2013%20V5%20%28Oukaimeden%29 | C/2013 V5 (Oukaimeden) is a retrograde Oort cloud comet discovered on 12 November 2013 by Oukaimeden Observatory at an apparent magnitude of 19.4 using a reflecting telescope.
From 5 May 2014 until 18 July 2014 it had an elongation less than 30 degrees from the Sun. By late August 2014 it had brighten to apparent mag... | C/2013 V5 (Oukaimeden) | Astronomy | 437 |
2,980,850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITU-R%20468%20noise%20weighting | ITU-R 468 (originally defined in CCIR recommendation 468-4, therefore formerly also known as CCIR weighting; sometimes referred to as CCIR-1k) is a standard relating to noise measurement, widely used when measuring noise in audio systems. The standard, now referred to as ITU-R BS.468-4, defines a weighting filter curv... | ITU-R 468 noise weighting | Engineering | 2,270 |
18,652,109 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yeoh%20hyperelastic%20model | The Yeoh hyperelastic material model is a phenomenological model for the deformation of nearly incompressible, nonlinear elastic materials such as rubber. The model is based on Ronald Rivlin's observation that the elastic properties of rubber may be described using a strain energy density function which is a power seri... | Yeoh hyperelastic model | Physics,Materials_science | 791 |
18,945,682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dexter%20Kozen | Dexter Campbell Kozen (born December 20, 1951) is an American theoretical computer scientist. He is Professor Emeritus and Joseph Newton Pew, Jr. Professor in Engineering at Cornell University.
Career
Kozen received his BA in mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1974 and his PhD in computer science in 1977 from Corn... | Dexter Kozen | Technology | 564 |
37,124,406 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicaforsen | Alicaforsen (trade name Camligo) is an antisense oligonucleotide therapeutic that targets the messenger RNA for the production of human ICAM-1 receptor and is being developed for the treatment of acute disease flares in moderate to severe Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD).
Alicaforsen inhibits ICAM-1 production, which... | Alicaforsen | Biology | 1,270 |
37,096,441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Permit-to-work | Permit-to-work (PTW) refers to a management system procedure used to ensure that work is done safely and efficiently. It is used in hazardous industries, such as process and nuclear plants, usually in connection with maintenance work. It involves procedured request, review, authorization, documenting and, most importan... | Permit-to-work | Chemistry,Engineering | 1,076 |
5,219,699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20Genome%20Project | The Human Genome Project (HGP) was an international scientific research project with the goal of determining the base pairs that make up human DNA, and of identifying, mapping and sequencing all of the genes of the human genome from both a physical and a functional standpoint. It started in 1990 and was completed in... | Human Genome Project | Engineering,Biology | 5,919 |
14,410,911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20maleonitriledithiolate | Sodium maleonitriledithiolate is the chemical compound described by the formula . The name refers to the cis compound, structurally related to maleonitrile (). Maleonitriledithiolate is often abbreviated mnt. It is a "dithiolene", i.e. a chelating alkene-1,2-dithiolate. It is a prototypical non-innocent ligand in coord... | Sodium maleonitriledithiolate | Chemistry | 164 |
33,974,097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20storage | Water storage is a broad term referring to storage of both potable water for consumption, and non potable water for use in agriculture. In both developing countries and some developed countries found in tropical climates, there is a need to store potable drinking water during the dry season. In agriculture water storag... | Water storage | Environmental_science | 1,734 |
57,302,917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium%20dihydrogenphosphate | Aluminium dihydrogenphosphate describes inorganic compounds with the formula Al(H2PO4)3.xH2O where x = 0 or 3. They are white solids. Upon heating these materials convert sequentially to a family of related polyphosphate salts including aluminium triphosphate (AlH2P3O10.2H2O), aluminium hexametaphosphate (Al2P6O18), ... | Aluminium dihydrogenphosphate | Chemistry | 198 |
13,415,486 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolaamphiphile | In chemistry, bolaamphiphiles (also known as bolaform surfactants, bolaphiles, or alpha-omega-type surfactants) are amphiphilic molecules that have hydrophilic groups at both ends of a sufficiently long hydrophobic hydrocarbon chain. Compared to single-headed amphiphiles, the introduction of a second head-group general... | Bolaamphiphile | Physics,Chemistry | 626 |
54,801,052 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%27s%20Ideological%20Echo%20Chamber | "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber", commonly referred to as the Google memo, is an internal memo, dated July 2017, by US-based Google engineer James Damore () about Google's culture and diversity policies. The memo and Google's subsequent firing of Damore in August 2017 became a subject of interest for the media. Damo... | Google's Ideological Echo Chamber | Technology | 2,655 |
69,426,485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese%20367 | Gliese 367 (GJ 367, formally named Añañuca) is a red dwarf star from Earth in the constellation of Vela. It is suspected to be a variable with amplitude 0.012 stellar magnitude and period 5.16 years. A stellar multiplicity survey in 2015 failed to detect any stellar companions to Gliese 367. It hosts three known exopl... | Gliese 367 | Astronomy | 714 |
170,567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxicity | Toxicity is the degree to which a chemical substance or a particular mixture of substances can damage an organism. Toxicity can refer to the effect on a whole organism, such as an animal, bacterium, or plant, as well as the effect on a substructure of the organism, such as a cell (cytotoxicity) or an organ such as the ... | Toxicity | Chemistry,Environmental_science | 3,308 |
331,921 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20name | In biology, a common name of a taxon or organism (also known as a vernacular name, English name, colloquial name, country name, popular name, or farmer's name) is a name that is based on the normal language of everyday life; and is often contrasted with the scientific name for the same organism, which is often based in... | Common name | Biology | 2,315 |
894,995 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Ingenhousz | Jan Ingenhousz FRS (8 December 1730 – 7 September 1799) was a Dutch-British physiologist, biologist and chemist.
He is best known for discovering photosynthesis by showing that light is essential to the process by which green plants absorb carbon dioxide and release oxygen. He also discovered that plants, like animals... | Jan Ingenhousz | Chemistry | 1,174 |
76,999,108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese%2012 | Gliese 12 (GJ 12) is a red dwarf star located away in the constellation Pisces. It has about 24% the mass and 26% the radius of the Sun, and a temperature of about . It is an inactive star and hosts one known exoplanet.
Planetary system
The transiting exoplanet Gliese 12 b was discovered by TESS, and two independent ... | Gliese 12 | Astronomy | 298 |
541,158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java%20Management%20Extensions | Java Management Extensions (JMX) is a Java technology that supplies tools for managing and monitoring applications, system objects, devices (such as printers) and service-oriented networks. Those resources are represented by objects called MBeans (for Managed Bean). In the API, classes can be dynamically loaded and ins... | Java Management Extensions | Engineering | 1,861 |
14,118,911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RELB | Transcription factor RelB is a protein that in humans is encoded by the RELB gene.
Interactions
RELB has been shown to interact with NFKB2, NFKB1, and C22orf25.
Activation and function
In resting cells, RelB is sequestered by the NF-κB precursor protein p100 in the cytoplasm. A select set of TNF-R superfamily mem... | RELB | Chemistry,Biology | 521 |
24,288,564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Geometric%20Methods%20in%20Modern%20Physics | The International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (IJGMMP) is a peer-reviewed journal, published by World Scientific, covering mathematical physics. It was originally published bimonthly beginning in January 2004; as of 2006 it appears 8 times a year, and as of 2024 it appears 14 times a year. Editorial ... | International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics | Mathematics | 280 |
42,787,988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alajuela%20orthobunyavirus | Alajuela orthobunyavirus (ALJV) is a species in the genus Orthobunyavirus in the Gamboa serogroup. It is isolated from mosquitoes, Aedeomyia squamipennis. It has not been reported to cause disease in humans.
References
Orthobunyaviruses | Alajuela orthobunyavirus | Biology | 73 |
14,622,190 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachimycin | Hachimycin, also known as trichomycin, is a polyene macrolide antibiotic, antiprotozoal, and antifungal derived from streptomyces. It was first described in 1950, and in most research cases have been used for gynecological infections.
References
Antibiotics
Macrolide antibiotics
Polyenes | Hachimycin | Biology | 72 |
30,779,094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augeas%20%28software%29 | Augeas is a free software configuration-management library, written in the C programming language. It is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License.
Augeas uses programs called lenses (in reference to the Harmony Project) to map a filesystem to an XML tree which can then be parsed using an XP... | Augeas (software) | Engineering | 175 |
18,979,417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens%27%20Advisory%20Council%20on%20National%20Space%20Policy | The Citizen's Advisory Council on National Space Policy was a group of prominent US citizens concerned with the space policy of the United States of America. It is no longer active.
History
The Council's roots date to 1980 as a group which prepared many of the Reagan Administration Transition Team's space policy pa... | Citizens' Advisory Council on National Space Policy | Astronomy | 1,413 |
3,573,165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsallis%20entropy | In physics, the Tsallis entropy is a generalization of the standard Boltzmann–Gibbs entropy.
It is proportional to the expectation of the q-logarithm of a distribution.
History
The concept was introduced in 1988 by Constantino Tsallis as a basis for generalizing the standard statistical mechanics and is identical in ... | Tsallis entropy | Physics,Mathematics,Technology,Engineering | 1,031 |
72,083,500 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time%20in%20Panama | Panama observes Eastern Standard Zone (UTC−5) year-round.
IANA time zone database
In the IANA time zone database, Panama is given one zone in the file zone.tab—America/Panama. "PA" refers to the country's ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. Data for Panama directly from zone.tab of the IANA time zone database; columns m... | Time in Panama | Physics | 118 |
73,769,888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20Taichung%20crane%20collapse | On 10 May 2023, a construction crane fell 30 floors from a construction site of Highwealth Construction Corp onto a moving Taichung Metro Green Line train south of Feng-le Park metro station, Taichung, Taiwan, killing 1 and injuring 10 passengers onboard.
The deceased passenger, legal scholar , 52, was ejected out of ... | 2023 Taichung crane collapse | Technology,Engineering | 894 |
33,787,267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear%20resonance%20vibrational%20spectroscopy | Nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy is a synchrotron-based technique that probes vibrational energy levels. The technique, often called NRVS, is specific for samples that contain nuclei that respond to Mössbauer spectroscopy, most commonly iron. The method exploits the high resolution offered by synchrotron li... | Nuclear resonance vibrational spectroscopy | Physics,Chemistry | 429 |
51,276,643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harposporium%20anguillulae | Harposporium anguillulae is a member of the genus Harposporium. It is an endoparasitic nematophagous fungus that attacks nematodes and eelworms and is isolated commonly from field and agricultural soils as well as used as an experimental organism in the laboratory.
History and taxonomy
Harposporium anguillulae was des... | Harposporium anguillulae | Biology | 874 |
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