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76,052,326 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%913IA | α3IA, also known as GTPL4094, is an inverse agonist of the GABAA receptor. It is more selective for the α3 subunit, hence its name.
Effects
Agonism of the α3 subunit shows anxiolytic properties. However, by being an inverse agonist, α3IA has the opposite action: it shows anxiogenic properties.
This compound also has ... | Α3IA | Chemistry | 167 |
4,243,182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver%20telluride | Silver telluride (Ag2Te) is a chemical compound, a telluride of silver, also known as disilver telluride or silver(I) telluride. It forms a monoclinic crystal. In a wider sense, silver telluride can be used to denote AgTe (silver(II) telluride, a metastable compound) or Ag5Te3.
Silver(I) telluride occurs naturally as ... | Silver telluride | Chemistry | 664 |
24,762,328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic%20metamaterial | A seismic metamaterial, is a metamaterial that is designed to counteract the adverse effects of seismic waves on artificial structures, which exist on or near the surface of the Earth. Current designs of seismic metamaterials utilize configurations of boreholes, trees or proposed underground resonators to act as a lar... | Seismic metamaterial | Physics,Materials_science,Engineering | 1,404 |
17,745,893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest%20trains | The length of a train may be measured in number of wagons (for bulk loads such as coal and iron ore) or in metres for general freight. Train lengths and loads on electrified railways, especially lower voltage 3000 V DC and 1500 V DC, are limited by traction and power considerations. Drawgear and couplings can also be a... | Longest trains | Technology | 1,551 |
23,288,103 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phylloporus%20rhodoxanthus | Phylloporus rhodoxanthus, commonly known as the gilled bolete, is a species of fungus in the family Boletaceae. Like other species in the genus, it has a lamellate (gilled) hymenium and forms a mycorrhizal association with the roots of living trees, specifically beech and oak in North and Central America.
Taxonomy
The... | Phylloporus rhodoxanthus | Biology | 726 |
45,381,806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toroidal%20embedding | In algebraic geometry, a toroidal embedding is an open embedding of algebraic varieties that locally looks like the embedding of the open torus into a toric variety. The notion was introduced by Mumford to prove the existence of semistable reductions of algebraic varieties over one-dimensional bases.
Definition
Let X... | Toroidal embedding | Mathematics | 236 |
16,855,596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRPS5 | 28S ribosomal protein S5, mitochondrial, otherwise called uS5m, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MRPS5 gene.
Function
Mammalian mitochondrial ribosomal proteins are encoded by nuclear genes and help in protein synthesis within the mitochondrion. Mitochondrial ribosomes (mitoribosomes) consist of a small... | MRPS5 | Chemistry | 219 |
15,918,153 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oleoylethanolamide | Oleoylethanolamide (OEA) is an endogenous peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor alpha (PPAR-α) agonist. It is a naturally occurring ethanolamide lipid that regulates feeding and body weight in vertebrates ranging from mice to pythons.
OEA is a shorter, monounsaturated analogue of the endocannabinoid anandamide, b... | Oleoylethanolamide | Chemistry | 544 |
12,265,304 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point%20distribution%20model | The point distribution model is a model for representing the mean geometry of a shape and some statistical modes of geometric variation inferred from a training set of shapes.
Background
The point distribution model concept has been developed by Cootes, Taylor et al. and became a standard in computer vision for the s... | Point distribution model | Engineering | 858 |
36,510,964 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM%20%28atoms%29 | IBM in atoms was a demonstration by IBM scientists in 1989 of a technology capable of manipulating individual atoms. A scanning tunneling microscope was used to arrange 35 individual xenon atoms on a substrate of chilled crystal of nickel to spell out the three letter company initialism. It was the first time that atom... | IBM (atoms) | Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 267 |
64,204,284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian%20Iovi%C8%9B%C4%83 | Adrian Ioviță (born 28 June 1954) is a Romanian-Canadian mathematician, specializing in arithmetic algebraic geometry and p-adic cohomology theories.
Education
Born in Timișoara, Romania, Iovita received in 1978 his undergraduate degree in mathematics from the University of Bucharest. He worked as a researcher at the ... | Adrian Ioviță | Mathematics | 333 |
67,543,042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20G.%20Heyd | Charles Gordon Heyd (27 August 1884 – 4 February 1970) was an American surgeon and president of the American Medical Association in 1936–1937.
Biography
Heyd obtained a B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1905 and M.D. from University of Buffalo in 1909. During World War I he served as a Major in France. Heyd was ... | Charles G. Heyd | Chemistry | 427 |
14,936,306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Workgroup%20%28computer%20networking%29 | In computer networking a work group is a collection of computers connected on a LAN that share the common resources and responsibilities. Workgroup is Microsoft's term for a peer-to-peer local area network. Computers running Microsoft operating systems in the same work group may share files, printers, or Internet conne... | Workgroup (computer networking) | Technology,Engineering | 178 |
5,024,105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold%28III%29%20bromide | Gold(III) bromide is a dark-red to black crystalline solid. It has the empirical formula , but exists as a dimer with the molecular formula in which two gold atoms are bridged by two bromine atoms. It is commonly referred to as gold(III) bromide, gold tribromide, and rarely but traditionally auric bromide, and sometim... | Gold(III) bromide | Chemistry | 905 |
8,445,754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stress%20testing%20%28software%29 | Stress testing is a software testing activity that determines the robustness of software by testing beyond the limits of normal operation. Stress testing is particularly important for "mission critical" software, but is used for all types of software. Stress tests commonly put a greater emphasis on robustness, availabi... | Stress testing (software) | Engineering | 1,786 |
7,808,557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmanned%20surface%20vehicle | An unmanned surface vehicle, unmanned surface vessel or uncrewed surface vessel (USV), colloquially called a drone boat, drone ship or sea drone, is a boat or ship that operates on the surface of the water without a crew. USVs operate with various levels of autonomy, from remote control to fully autonomous surface vehi... | Unmanned surface vehicle | Technology,Engineering | 4,177 |
33,592,038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey%20Studios | Odyssey Studios was a recording studio based near Marble Arch in London and opened in 1979. It was set up by Wayne Bickerton as an extension of State Records, the label he had set up with Tony Waddington and John Fruin in 1975. The studio closed in 1989 and the building was subsequently sold to Jazz FM.
Albums recorde... | Odyssey Studios | Engineering | 416 |
4,362,140 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subsynchronous%20orbit | A subsynchronous orbit is an orbit of a satellite that is nearer the planet than it would be if it were in synchronous orbit, i.e. the orbital period is less than the sidereal day of the planet.
Technical considerations
An Earth satellite that is in (a prograde) subsynchronous orbit will appear to drift eastward as se... | Subsynchronous orbit | Astronomy | 162 |
221,400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft%20flight%20dynamics | Flight dynamics is the science of air vehicle orientation and control in three dimensions. The three critical flight dynamics parameters are the angles of rotation in three dimensions about the vehicle's center of gravity (cg), known as pitch, roll and yaw. These are collectively known as aircraft attitude, often princ... | Aircraft flight dynamics | Chemistry,Technology,Engineering | 7,128 |
65,287,796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammistin | Grammistins are peptide toxins synthesised by glands in the skin of soapfishes of the tribes Grammistini and Diploprionini which are both classified within the grouper subfamily Epinephelinae, a part of the family Serranidae. Grammistin has a hemolytic and ichthyotoxic action. The grammistins have secondary structures ... | Grammistin | Chemistry | 313 |
1,261,255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode%20of%20limited%20transposition | Modes of limited transposition are musical modes or scales that fulfill specific criteria relating to their symmetry and the repetition of their interval groups. These scales may be transposed to all twelve notes of the chromatic scale, but at least two of these transpositions must result in the same pitch classes, thu... | Mode of limited transposition | Physics | 2,749 |
39,290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precondition | In computer programming, a precondition is a condition or predicate that must always be true just prior to the execution of some section of code or before an operation in a formal specification.
If a precondition is violated, the effect of the section of code becomes undefined and thus may or may not carry out its int... | Precondition | Mathematics,Engineering | 813 |
39,963,415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overlay%20transport%20virtualization | Overlay transport virtualization (OTV) is a Cisco proprietary protocol for relaying layer 2 communications between layer 3 computer networks.
See also
Distributed Overlay Virtual Ethernet (DOVE)
Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE)
IEEE 802.1ad, an Ethernet networking standard, also known as provider bridging, Stac... | Overlay transport virtualization | Technology,Engineering | 115 |
50,425,980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-to-range%20ratio | The domain-to-range ratio (DRR) is a ratio which describes how the number of outputs corresponds to the number of inputs of a given logical function or software component. The domain-to-range ratio is a mathematical ratio of cardinality between the set of the function's possible inputs (the domain) and the set of possi... | Domain-to-range ratio | Mathematics,Engineering | 419 |
1,452,758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parts%20book | A parts book, parts catalogue or illustrated part catalogue is a book published by a manufacturer which contains the illustrations, part numbers and other relevant data for their products or parts thereof.
Parts books were often issued as microfiche, though this has fallen out of favour. Now, many manufacturers offer ... | Parts book | Engineering | 226 |
61,594,613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monodontid%20alphaherpesvirus%201 | Monodontid alphaherpesvirus 1 (MoHV-1) is a species of virus in the family Herpesviridae. The virus is able to infect narwhals and beluga whales. The name of the virus stems from the scientific name of the Narwhal, Monodon Monoceros.
References
Alphaherpesvirinae | Monodontid alphaherpesvirus 1 | Biology | 77 |
6,021,465 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20pigment | Biological pigments, also known simply as pigments or biochromes, are substances produced by living organisms that have a color resulting from selective color absorption. Biological pigments include plant pigments and flower pigments. Many biological structures, such as skin, eyes, feathers, fur and hair contain pigmen... | Biological pigment | Biology | 5,005 |
204,118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortification | A fortification (also called a fort, fortress, fastness, or stronghold) is a military construction designed for the defense of territories in warfare, and is used to establish rule in a region during peacetime. The term is derived from Latin ("strong") and ("to make").
From very early history to modern times, defens... | Fortification | Engineering | 8,212 |
78,160,954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ana%20Guadalupe | Ana R. Guadalupe Quiñones (born 1956) is a Puerto Rican chemist and academic academic administrator who served as the chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus from 2009 to 2013. She researches electrochemistry, specifically in the development of electrochemical sensors, biosensors, and electrocat... | Ana Guadalupe | Chemistry | 1,088 |
66,646,643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan%20Trlifaj | Jan Trlifaj (born 30 December 1954) is a professor of Mathematics at Charles University whose research interests include Commutative algebra, Homological algebra and Representation theory.
Career and research
Jan Trlifaj studied mathematics at the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, from which he r... | Jan Trlifaj | Mathematics | 530 |
71,267,518 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setaphyta | The Setaphyta are a clade within the Bryophyta which includes Marchantiophytina (liverworts) and Bryophytina (mosses). Anthocerotophytina (hornworts) are excluded. A 2018 study found through molecular sequencing that liverworts are more closely related to mosses than hornworts, with the implication that liverworts were... | Setaphyta | Biology | 119 |
22,796,688 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time%20recovery | In information technology, real-time recovery (RTR) is the ability to recover a piece of IT infrastructure such as a server from an infrastructure failure or human-induced error in a time frame that has minimal impact on business operations. Real-time recovery focuses on the most appropriate technology for restores, th... | Real-time recovery | Technology | 856 |
946,459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich%20Gamma | Erich Gamma is a Swiss computer scientist and one of the four co-authors (referred to as "Gang of Four") of the software engineering textbook, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.
Gamma, along with Kent Beck, co-wrote the JUnit software testing framework which helped create Test-Driven Devel... | Erich Gamma | Technology | 211 |
61,200,396 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C22H25N3O2 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C22H25N3O2}}
The molecular formula C22H25N3O2 may refer to:
Baxdrostat
Bucindolol | C22H25N3O2 | Chemistry | 43 |
4,245,815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic%20gold | Mosaic gold or bronze powder refers to tin(IV) sulfide as used as a pigment in bronzing and gilding wood and metal work. It is obtained as a yellow scaly crystalline powder. The alchemists referred to it as aurum musivum, or aurum mosaicum. The term mosaic gold has also been used to refer to ormolu and to cut shapes of... | Mosaic gold | Physics,Chemistry | 371 |
66,707,212 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corporate%20Memphis | Corporate Memphis is an art style named after the Memphis Group that features flat areas of color and geometric elements. Widely associated with Big Tech illustrations in the late 2010s and early 2020s, it has been met with a polarized response, with criticism focusing on its use in sanitizing corporate communication, ... | Corporate Memphis | Engineering | 589 |
209,584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atomic%20Age | The Atomic Age, also known as the Atomic Era, is the period of history following the detonation of the first nuclear weapon, The Gadget at the Trinity test in New Mexico on 16 July 1945 during World War II. Although nuclear chain reactions had been hypothesized in 1933 and the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear c... | Atomic Age | Chemistry | 6,233 |
2,301,322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfecundation | Superfecundation is the fertilization of two or more ova from the same cycle by sperm from separate acts of sexual intercourse, which can lead to twin babies from two separate biological fathers. The term superfecundation is derived from fecund, meaning able to produce offspring. Homopaternal superfecundation is fertil... | Superfecundation | Astronomy,Biology | 922 |
61,194,766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-domain%20diffuse%20optics | Time-domain diffuse optics or time-resolved functional near-infrared spectroscopy is a branch of functional near-Infrared spectroscopy which deals with light propagation in diffusive media. There are three main approaches to diffuse optics namely continuous wave (CW), frequency domain (FD) and time-domain (TD). Biologi... | Time-domain diffuse optics | Physics,Chemistry | 1,634 |
25,292,513 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methiodide | In organic chemistry, a methiodide is a chemical derivative produced by the reaction of a compound with methyl iodide. Methiodides are often formed through the methylation of tertiary amines:
R3N + CH3I → (CH3)R3N+I−
Whereas the parent amines are hydrophobic and often oily, methiodides, being salts, are somewhat hydr... | Methiodide | Chemistry | 179 |
18,493,701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin%E2%80%93Wallace%20Medal | The Darwin–Wallace Medal is a medal awarded by the Linnean Society of London for "major advances in evolutionary biology". Historically, the medals have been awarded every 50 years, beginning in 1908. That year marked 50 years after the joint presentation by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace of two scientific p... | Darwin–Wallace Medal | Technology | 517 |
24,113,462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20147018%20c | HD 147018 c is a gas giant extrasolar planet which orbits the G-type main sequence star HD 147018, located approximately 140 light years away in the constellation Triangulum Australe. It has mass at least six and a half time more than Jupiter and orbits HD 147018 nearly twice the distance between the Earth and the Sun.... | HD 147018 c | Astronomy | 126 |
15,245,998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KCNJ13 | Potassium inwardly-rectifying channel, subfamily J, member 13 (KCNJ13) is a human gene encoding the Kir7.1 protein.
See also
Inward-rectifier potassium ion channel
References
Further reading
External links
Ion channels | KCNJ13 | Chemistry | 52 |
78,283,566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zytron | Zytron, also known as DMPA, is a chlorophenoxy herbicide. It controls crabgrass and other weeds in turf preëmergently, and ants, chinch bugs and grubs. It is used on baseball pitches in Australia.
Zytron inhibits microtubule assembly, preventing mitosis. making it a Group 3 / D / K1, similar to dinitroanilines like tr... | Zytron | Chemistry,Biology | 316 |
13,703,641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20166 | HD 166 or V439 Andromedae (ADS 69 A) is a 6th magnitude star in the constellation Andromeda, approximately 45 light years away from Earth. It is a variable star of the BY Draconis type, varying between magnitudes 6.13 and 6.18 with a 6.23 days periodicity. It appears within one degree of the star Alpha Andromedae and i... | HD 166 | Astronomy | 514 |
11,242,818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChemRefer | ChemRefer was a service that allows searching of freely available and full-text chemical and pharmaceutical literature that is published by authoritative sources.
Features included basic and advanced search options, mouseover detailed view, an integrated chemical structure drawing and search tool, downloadable toolbar... | ChemRefer | Technology | 268 |
18,957,256 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batch%20Enhancer | BATCH ENHANCER (or BE) (or BE.EXE,) is an applet or free-standing utility packaged with Norton Utilities (NU) to graphically enhance the presentation of batch files. Batch Enhancer allows the use of colours, square graphics, delays, beeps, more complex decision parameters, easier to create user-choice menus and other f... | Batch Enhancer | Technology | 417 |
12,608 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geodesy | Geodesy or geodetics is the science of measuring and representing the geometry, gravity, and spatial orientation of the Earth in temporally varying 3D. It is called planetary geodesy when studying other astronomical bodies, such as planets or circumplanetary systems. Geodesy is an earth science and many consider the st... | Geodesy | Physics,Astronomy,Mathematics | 5,099 |
5,308,524 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder-actuated%20tool | A powder-actuated tool (PAT, often generically called a Hilti gun or a Ramset gun after their manufacturing companies) is a type of nail gun used in construction and manufacturing to join materials to hard substrates such as steel and concrete. Known as direct fastening or explosive fastening, this technology is powere... | Powder-actuated tool | Physics | 987 |
63,094,759 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poincar%C3%A9%20and%20the%20Three-Body%20Problem | Poincaré and the Three-Body Problem is a monograph in the history of mathematics on the work of Henri Poincaré on the three-body problem in celestial mechanics. It was written by June Barrow-Green, as a revision of her 1993 doctoral dissertation, and published in 1997 by the American Mathematical Society and London Mat... | Poincaré and the Three-Body Problem | Astronomy,Mathematics | 1,249 |
64,394,483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute%20of%20Naval%20Medicine | The Institute of Naval Medicine is the main research centre and training facility of the Royal Navy Medical Service. The Institute was established in Alverstoke, Gosport, in 1969.
The Institute today offers 'specialist medical training, guidance and support from service entry to resettlement', and provides 'extensive ... | Institute of Naval Medicine | Engineering,Environmental_science | 2,252 |
31,599,049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stars%20virus | The Stars virus is a computer virus which infects computers running Microsoft Windows. It was named and discovered by Iranian authorities in April 2011. Iran claimed it was used as a tool to commit espionage. Western researchers came to believe it is probably the same thing as the Duqu virus, part of the Stuxnet attack... | Stars virus | Technology,Engineering | 353 |
6,816,383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burgundy%20mixture | Burgundy mixture, named after the French district where it was first used to treat grapes and vines, is a mixture of copper sulfate and sodium carbonate. This mixture, which can have an overall copper concentration within the range of 1% through 20%, is used as a fungicidal spray for trees and small fruits.
History
Si... | Burgundy mixture | Biology | 450 |
61,391,308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alphasyllabic%20numeral%20system | Alphasyllabic numeral systems are a type of numeral systems, developed mostly in India starting around 500 AD. Based on various alphasyllabic scripts, in this type of numeral systems glyphs of the numerals are not abstract signs, but syllables of a script, and numerals are represented with these syllable-signs. On the ... | Alphasyllabic numeral system | Mathematics | 1,036 |
14,876,723 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CREBL1 | CAMP responsive element binding protein-like 1, also known as CREBL1, is a protein which in humans is encoded by the CREBL1 gene.
Function
The protein encoded by this gene bears sequence similarity with the Creb/ATF subfamily of the bZip superfamily of transcription factors. It localizes to both the cytoplasm and th... | CREBL1 | Chemistry,Biology | 108 |
23,087,727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordell%E2%80%93Weil%20theorem | In mathematics, the Mordell–Weil theorem states that for an abelian variety over a number field , the group of K-rational points of is a finitely-generated abelian group, called the Mordell–Weil group. The case with an elliptic curve and the field of rational numbers is Mordell's theorem, answering a question app... | Mordell–Weil theorem | Mathematics | 613 |
23,266,205 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Honorary%20Membership | IEEE Honorary Membership is an honorary type of membership of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), that is given for life to an individual. It is awarded by the board of directors of IEEE to people 'who have rendered meritorious service to humanity in [the] IEEE's designated fields of interest... | IEEE Honorary Membership | Technology | 163 |
73,374,707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsakane%20Clay%20Grassland | The Tsakane Clay Grassland is a rare South African vegetation type supporting a unique grassland ecosystem. It is named after the township of Tsakane in Ekurhuleni, Gauteng, in which it is the dominant natural vegetation type. This ecosystem is characterized by its clay-rich soil, which supports a diverse array of flor... | Tsakane Clay Grassland | Biology | 529 |
501,086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedrunning | Speedrunning is the act of playing a video game, or section of a video game, with the goal of completing it as fast as possible. Speedrunning often involves following planned routes, which may incorporate sequence breaking and exploit glitches that allow sections to be skipped or completed more quickly than intended. T... | Speedrunning | Technology | 4,329 |
83,877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enema | An enema, also known as a clyster, is an injection of fluid into the rectum or into lower bowel by way of the rectum. The word enema can also refer to the liquid injected, as well as to a device for administering such an injection.
In standard medicine, the most frequent uses of enemas are to relieve constipation and ... | Enema | Chemistry,Biology | 7,524 |
1,160,936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marconi%20Company | The Marconi Company was a British telecommunications and engineering company founded by Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi in 1897 which was a pioneer of wireless long distance communication and mass media broadcasting, eventually becoming one of the UK's most successful manufacturing companies.
Its roots were in the ... | Marconi Company | Engineering | 1,644 |
16,336,287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesaglitazar | Tesaglitazar (also known as AZ 242) is a dual peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor agonist with affinity to PPARα and PPARγ, proposed for the management of type 2 diabetes.
The drug had completed several phase III clinical trials, however in May, 2006 AstraZeneca announced that it had discontinued further devel... | Tesaglitazar | Chemistry | 152 |
69,141,235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAST-31 | CAST-31, Technical Clarifications Identified for RTCA DO-254 / EUROCAE ED-80 is a Certification Authorities Software Team (CAST) Position Paper. It is an FAA publication that "does not constitute official policy or guidance from any of the authorities", but is provided for educational and informational purposes only fo... | CAST-31 | Technology,Engineering | 410 |
1,241,750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Actinism | Actinism () is the property of solar radiation that leads to the production of photochemical and photobiological effects. Actinism is derived from the Ancient Greek ἀκτίς, ἀκτῖνος ("ray, beam"). The word actinism is found, for example, in the terminology of imaging technology (esp. photography), medicine (concerning s... | Actinism | Physics,Chemistry | 1,012 |
36,929,648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphinimide%20ligands | Phosphinimide ligands, also known as phosphorane iminato ligands, are any of a class of organic compounds of the general formula NPR3−. The R groups represent organic substituents or, in rare cases, halides or NR2 groups. NPR3− is isoelectronic with phosphine oxides (OPR3) and siloxides ([OSiR3]−), but far more basic.... | Phosphinimide ligands | Chemistry | 535 |
14,263,752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20malate | Sodium malate is a compound with formula Na2(C2H4O(COO)2). It is the sodium salt of malic acid. As a food additive, it has the E number E350.
Properties
Sodium malate is an odorless white crystalline powder. It is freely soluble in water.
Use
It is used as an acidity regulator and flavoring agent. It tastes simila... | Sodium malate | Chemistry | 103 |
19,468,696 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental%20theorem%20of%20calculus | The fundamental theorem of calculus is a theorem that links the concept of differentiating a function (calculating its slopes, or rate of change at each point in time) with the concept of integrating a function (calculating the area under its graph, or the cumulative effect of small contributions). Roughly speaking, th... | Fundamental theorem of calculus | Mathematics | 3,237 |
3,441,703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DO-219 | DO-219 is a communications standard published by RTCA, Incorporated. It contains Minimum Operational Performance Standards (MOPS) for aircraft equipment required for Air Traffic Control (ATC) Two-Way Data Link Communications (TWDL) services. TWDL Services are one element of Air Traffic Services Communication (ATSC). ... | DO-219 | Technology | 238 |
3,225,985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proth%27s%20theorem | In number theory, Proth's theorem is a primality test for Proth numbers.
It states that if p is a Proth number, of the form k2n + 1 with k odd and k < 2n, and if there exists an integer a for which
then p is prime. In this case p is called a Proth prime. This is a practical test because if p is prime, any chosen a ha... | Proth's theorem | Mathematics | 731 |
53,616,523 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naira%20Hovakimyan | Naira Hovakimyan (born September 21, 1966) is an Armenian control theorist who holds the W. Grafton and Lillian B. Wilkins professorship of the Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She is the director of AVIATE Center of flying cars at UIUC, funded through a NASA Univers... | Naira Hovakimyan | Mathematics,Engineering | 739 |
4,385,154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site-specific%20recombinase%20technology | Site-specific recombinase technologies are genome engineering tools that depend on recombinase enzymes to replace targeted sections of DNA.
History
In the late 1980s gene targeting in murine embryonic stem cells (ESCs) enabled the transmission of mutations into the mouse germ line, and emerged as a novel option to st... | Site-specific recombinase technology | Chemistry,Engineering,Biology | 3,728 |
1,190,570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket%20park | A pocket park (also known as a parkette, mini-park, vest-pocket park or vesty park) is a small park accessible to the general public. While the locations, elements, and uses of pocket parks vary considerably, the common defining characteristic of a pocket park is its small size. Typically, a pocket park occupies one to... | Pocket park | Engineering | 1,866 |
61,321,852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enik%C5%91%20Kubinyi | Eniko Kubinyi (born 1 August 1976) is a Hungarian biologist, professor and head of department at the Department of Ethology, ELTE Eotvos Lorand University, who studies dog behaviour, cognition, ageing, and the relationship between dogs and humans. She is the principal investigator of the Senior Family Dog Project, the ... | Enikő Kubinyi | Biology | 236 |
74,589,966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VITO%20experiment | The Versatile Ion polarisation Technique Online (VITO) experiment is a permanent experimental setup located in the ISOLDE facility at CERN, in the form of a beamline. The purpose of the beamline is to perform a wide range of studies using spin-polarised short-lived atomic nuclei. VITO uses circularly-polarised laser li... | VITO experiment | Physics | 822 |
69,520,751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20D.%20Shannon | Robert Day Shannon (born 1935) is a retired research chemist formerly at DuPont de Nemours, Inc.
Career
Shannon received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Ceramic Engineering from the University of Illinois in 1957 and 1959. He then went on to receive his Ph.D. in Ceramic Engineering from the University of California at Be... | Robert D. Shannon | Chemistry | 2,219 |
25,625,276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark%C3%B3%E2%80%93Lam%20deoxygenation | The Markó–Lam deoxygenation is an organic chemistry reaction where the hydroxy functional group in an organic compound is replaced by a hydrogen atom to give an alkyl group. The Markó-Lam reaction is a variant of the Bouveault–Blanc reduction and an alternative to the classical Barton–McCombie deoxygenation. It is name... | Markó–Lam deoxygenation | Chemistry | 348 |
25,553,718 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket | WebSocket is a computer communications protocol, providing a simultaneous two-way communication channel over a single Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection. The WebSocket protocol was standardized by the IETF as in 2011. The current specification allowing web applications to use this protocol is known as WebS... | WebSocket | Technology,Engineering | 3,502 |
52,974,247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department%20of%20Pharmacology%2C%20University%20College%20London | The Department of Pharmacology at the University College London, the first of its kind in England, was founded in 1905 and remained in existence until 2007.
Early history
University College London (UCL) was founded in 1826. It was born in the ferment of radical London in the 1820s and 1830s and was heavily influence... | Department of Pharmacology, University College London | Chemistry | 4,484 |
50,078,940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclorotor | A cyclorotor, cycloidal rotor, cycloidal propeller or cyclogiro, is a fluid propulsion device that converts shaft power into the acceleration of a fluid using a rotating axis perpendicular to the direction of fluid motion. It uses several blades with a spanwise axis parallel to the axis of rotation and perpendicular to... | Cyclorotor | Chemistry,Engineering | 3,164 |
11,308,417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertex%20%28geometry%29 | In geometry, a vertex (: vertices or vertexes) is a point where two or more curves, lines, or edges meet or intersect. As a consequence of this definition, the point where two lines meet to form an angle and the corners of polygons and polyhedra are vertices.
Definition
Of an angle
The vertex of an angle is the point... | Vertex (geometry) | Mathematics | 848 |
5,635,076 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntrophy | In biology, syntrophy, syntrophism, or cross-feeding (from Greek syn meaning together, trophe meaning nourishment) is the cooperative interaction between at least two microbial species to degrade a single substrate. This type of biological interaction typically involves the transfer of one or more metabolic intermediat... | Syntrophy | Biology | 1,885 |
45,658,812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%20Tabachnikov | Sergei Tabachnikov, also spelled Serge, (born in 1956) is an American mathematician who works in geometry and dynamical systems. He is currently a Professor of Mathematics at Pennsylvania State University.
Biography
He earned his Ph.D. from Moscow State University in 1987 under the supervision of Dmitry Fuchs and Ana... | Sergei Tabachnikov | Mathematics | 284 |
20,221,001 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draw%20twister | A draw twister is a machine used to draw and twist large quantities of polymer fibers. It uses two sets of rollers, where the second set rotates faster than the first, thus drawing the fiber between them. While the fibers are being drawn they are also twisted into thread.
References
Plastics industry
Machines | Draw twister | Physics,Technology,Engineering | 63 |
14,848,896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PH%20partition | pH partition is the tendency for acids to accumulate in basic fluid compartments, and bases to accumulate in acidic compartments. The reason for this phenomenon is that acids become negatively electric charged in basic fluids, as they donate a proton. On the other hand, bases become positively electric charged in acid ... | PH partition | Chemistry,Biology | 131 |
66,250,770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler-429 | Kepler-429 (KIC 10001893) is a variable subdwarf B star in the constellation Lyra, about 5,900 light years away.
The brightness of Kepler-429 changes unpredictably by up to 0.13 magnitudes. It has been classified as a V361 Hydrae variable, but also as a V1093 Herculis variable, which typically has slower variations a... | Kepler-429 | Astronomy | 163 |
22,398,341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire-safe%20polymers | Fire-safe polymers are polymers that are resistant to degradation at high temperatures. There is need for fire-resistant polymers in the construction of small, enclosed spaces such as skyscrapers, boats, and airplane cabins. In these tight spaces, ability to escape in the event of a fire is compromised, increasing fire... | Fire-safe polymers | Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 2,583 |
65,122,016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomscrolling | Doomscrolling or doomsurfing is the act of spending an excessive amount of time reading large quantities of news, particularly negative news, on the web and social media. The concept was coined around 2020, particularly in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Doomscrolling can also be defined as the excessive consump... | Doomscrolling | Technology | 2,318 |
25,654,198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telescope%20for%20Habitable%20Exoplanets%20and%20Interstellar/Intergalactic%20Astronomy | Telescope for Habitable Exoplanets and Interstellar/Intergalactic Astronomy (THEIA) is a NASA-proposed 4-metre optical/ultraviolet space telescope that would succeed the Hubble Space Telescope and complement the infrared-James Webb Space Telescope. THEIA would use a 40-metre occulter to block starlight so as to directl... | Telescope for Habitable Exoplanets and Interstellar/Intergalactic Astronomy | Astronomy | 156 |
27,015,788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael%20Zerner | Michael Charles Zerner (January 1, 1940 – February 2, 2000) was an American theoretical chemist, professor at the University of Guelph from 1970 to 1981 and University of Florida from 1981 to 2000. Zerner earned his Ph.D. under Martin Gouterman at Harvard, working with the spectroscopy of porphyrins. He conceived and w... | Michael Zerner | Chemistry | 158 |
15,508,064 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20in%20Tajikistan | Internet in Tajikistan became present within the country during the early 1990s. Tajikistan had just become independent in 1992, with Emomali Rahmon as the new ruler, when the internet was introduced to the country. Nevertheless, it was after over a decade that the country’s internet became more accessible. The histor... | Internet in Tajikistan | Technology | 2,776 |
14,224,142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBG1 | Hemoglobin subunit gamma-1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HBG1 gene.
Function
The gamma globin genes (HBG1 and HBG2) are normally expressed in the fetal liver, spleen and bone marrow. Two gamma chains together with two alpha chains constitute fetal hemoglobin (HbF) which is normally replaced by adult h... | HBG1 | Chemistry | 264 |
43,541,168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16%2C807 | 16807 is the natural number following 16806 and preceding 16808.
In mathematics
As a number of the form nn − 2 (16807 = 75), it can be applied in Cayley's formula to count the number of trees with seven labeled nodes.
In other fields
Several authors have suggested a Lehmer random number generator:
References
Exte... | 16,807 | Mathematics | 83 |
42,374,268 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese%20button%20knot | The Chinese button knot is essentially a knife lanyard knot where the lanyard loop is shortened to a minimum, i.e. tightened to the knot itself. There emerges therefore only two lines next to each other from the knot: the beginning and the end. The knot has traditionally been used as a button on clothes in Asia, thus ... | Chinese button knot | Technology | 460 |
18,163,211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided%20management%20of%20emergency%20operations | CAMEO is a system of software applications used widely to plan for and respond to chemical emergencies. It is one of the tools developed by EPA’s Office of Emergency Management (OEM) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Office of Response and Restoration (NOAA), to assist front-line chemical emergenc... | Computer-aided management of emergency operations | Chemistry | 348 |
208,288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/17%20%28number%29 | 17 (seventeen) is the natural number following 16 and preceding 18. It is a prime number.
17 was described at MIT as "the least random number", according to the Jargon File. This is supposedly because, in a study where respondents were asked to choose a random number from 1 to 20, 17 was the most common choice. This s... | 17 (number) | Mathematics | 985 |
47,486,255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20Provinces | The Northern Provinces of South Africa is a biogeographical area used in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD). It is part of the WGSRPD region 27 Southern Africa. The area has the code "TVL". It includes the South African provinces of Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo (Northern Province) ... | Northern Provinces | Biology | 105 |
106,235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipette | A pipette (sometimes spelled as pipet) is a type of laboratory tool commonly used in chemistry and biology to transport a measured volume of liquid, often as a media dispenser. Pipettes come in several designs for various purposes with differing levels of accuracy and precision, from single piece glass pipettes to mor... | Pipette | Technology,Engineering,Biology | 2,905 |
45,031,983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo%20Baeza%20Rodr%C3%ADguez | Ricardo Baeza Rodríguez is a Chilean mathematician who works as a professor at the University of Talca. He earned his Ph.D. in 1970 from Saarland University, under the joint supervision of Robert W. Berger and Manfred Knebusch. His research interest is in number theory.
Career
Baeza became a member of the Chilean Aca... | Ricardo Baeza Rodríguez | Mathematics | 385 |
66,444,644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockfall%20barrier | A rockfall barrier is a structure built to intercept rockfall, most often made from metallic components and consisting of an interception structure hanged on post-supported cables.
Barriers are passive rockfall mitigation structures adapted for rock block kinetic energies up to 8 megajoules.
Alternatively, these st... | Rockfall barrier | Environmental_science | 978 |
3,514,267 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zinc%20telluride | Zinc telluride is a binary chemical compound with the formula ZnTe. This solid is a semiconductor material with a direct band gap of 2.26 eV. It is usually a p-type semiconductor. Its crystal structure is cubic, like that for sphalerite and diamond.
Properties
ZnTe has the appearance of grey or brownish-red powder, ... | Zinc telluride | Physics,Chemistry | 821 |
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