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12,026,220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinogenic%20bacteria | Cancer bacteria are bacteria infectious organisms that are known or suspected to cause cancer. While cancer-associated bacteria have long been considered to be opportunistic (i.e., infecting healthy tissues after cancer has already established itself), there is some evidence that bacteria may be directly carcinogenic. ... | Carcinogenic bacteria | Biology | 1,368 |
24,137,478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunker%20Hill%20Covered%20Bridge | The Bunker Hill Covered Bridge is one of two covered bridges left in North Carolina, (the other being the Pisgah Covered Bridge in Randolph County), and is possibly the last wooden bridge in the United States with Haupt truss construction. It was built in 1895 by Andrew Loretz Ramsour (1817–1906) in Claremont, North Ca... | Bunker Hill Covered Bridge | Engineering | 354 |
48,634,138 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K2-24c | K2-24c also known as EPIC 203771098 c is an exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star K2-24 every 42 days. It has a density far lower than that of Saturn, which indicates that the planet is clearly a gas giant.
References
Exoplanets discovered in 2015
Transiting exoplanets
Exoplanets discovered by K2
Scorpius | K2-24c | Astronomy | 86 |
14,225,958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-function | In statistics, the Q-function is the tail distribution function of the standard normal distribution. In other words, is the probability that a normal (Gaussian) random variable will obtain a value larger than standard deviations. Equivalently, is the probability that a standard normal random variable takes a value l... | Q-function | Mathematics | 1,101 |
39,142,961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beach%20Erosion%20Board | The Beach Erosion Board (BEB) was a federal board organized under the US Government's War Department (later, the Department of Defense), U.S. Army, and was a part of the civil works program of the United States Army Corps of Engineers. The Board had seven members and a large staff. The life of the BEB spanned a perio... | Beach Erosion Board | Engineering | 526 |
1,614,482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan-Vickers | Metropolitan-Vickers, Metrovick, or Metrovicks, was a British heavy electrical engineering company of the early-to-mid 20th century formerly known as British Westinghouse. Highly diversified, it was particularly well known for its industrial electrical equipment such as generators, steam turbines, switchgear, transform... | Metropolitan-Vickers | Chemistry | 2,387 |
4,626,155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triacsin%20C | Triacsin C is an inhibitor of long fatty acyl CoA synthetase that has been isolated from Streptomyces aureofaciens. It blocks β-cell apoptosis, induced by fatty acids (lipoapoptosis) in a rat model of obesity. In addition, it blocks the de novo synthesis of triglycerides, diglycerides, and cholesterol esters, thus int... | Triacsin C | Chemistry | 321 |
25,719,815 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loading%20screen | A loading screen is a screen shown by a computer program, very often a video game, while the program is loading (moving program data from the disk to RAM) or initializing.
In early video games, the loading screen was also a chance for graphic artists to be creative without the technical limitations often required for ... | Loading screen | Technology | 1,080 |
29,090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software%20testing | Software testing is the act of checking whether software satisfies expectations.
Software testing can provide objective, independent information about the quality of software and the risk of its failure to a user or sponsor.
Software testing can determine the correctness of software for specific scenarios but cannot ... | Software testing | Technology,Engineering | 8,701 |
5,735,510 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrostatic%20stress | In continuum mechanics, hydrostatic stress, also known as isotropic stress or volumetric stress, is a component of stress which contains uniaxial stresses, but not shear stresses. A specialized case of hydrostatic stress contains isotropic compressive stress, which changes only in volume, but not in shape. Pure hydrost... | Hydrostatic stress | Physics,Mathematics | 676 |
52,297,611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi%20leaf%20spring | Multi-leaf springs are widely used for the suspension of cars, trucks and railway wagons. A multi-leaf spring consists of a series of flat plates, usually of semi-elliptical shape. The flat plates are called leaves of the spring. The leaf at the top has maximum length. The length gradually decreases from the top leaf ... | Multi leaf spring | Engineering | 371 |
51,648,390 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20music%20sequencers | Music sequencers are hardware devices or application software that can record, edit, or play back music, by handling note and performance information.
Hardware sequencers
Many synthesizers, and by definition all music workstations, groove machines and drum machines, contain their own sequencers.
The following are s... | List of music sequencers | Engineering | 2,996 |
25,723,035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang%E2%80%93Mills%E2%80%93Higgs%20equations | In mathematics, the Yang–Mills–Higgs equations are a set of non-linear partial differential equations for a Yang–Mills field, given by a connection, and a Higgs field, given by a section of a vector bundle (specifically, the adjoint bundle). These equations are
with a boundary condition
where
A is a connection on a... | Yang–Mills–Higgs equations | Physics | 480 |
168,680 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teradata | Teradata Corporation is an American software company that provides cloud database and analytics-related software, products, and services. The company was formed in 1979 in Brentwood, California, as a collaboration between researchers at Caltech and Citibank's advanced technology group.
Overview
Teradata is an enterpri... | Teradata | Technology | 1,708 |
46,775,463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diphasiastrum%20%C3%97%20sabinifolium | Diphasiastrum × sabinifolium, the savinleaf groundpine or savin leaf club moss, is hybrid of D. sitchense and D. tristachyum. It can be found in North America from Labrador and Newfoundland to Ontario, and south to Pennsylvania and Michigan. Erect stems can reach 20 centimeters high, and branch dichotomously. The steri... | Diphasiastrum × sabinifolium | Biology | 161 |
20,530,144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripod%20%28surveying%29 | A surveyor's tripod is a device used to support any one of a number of surveying instruments, such as theodolites, total stations, levels or transits.
History
The modern sturdy, but portable, tripod stand with three leg pairs hinged to a triangular metal head was invented and first manufactured for sale by Sir Franci... | Tripod (surveying) | Engineering | 748 |
3,687,460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20usability%20scale | In systems engineering, the system usability scale (SUS) is a simple, ten-item attitude Likert scale giving a global view of subjective assessments of usability. It was developed by John Brooke at Digital Equipment Corporation in the UK in 1986 as a tool to be used in usability engineering of electronic office systems.... | System usability scale | Technology,Engineering | 628 |
43,269,014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%20logic | In mathematical logic, a Gödel logic, sometimes referred to as Dummett logic or Gödel–Dummett logic, is a member of a family of finite- or infinite-valued logics in which the sets of truth values V are closed subsets of the unit interval [0,1] containing both 0 and 1. Different such sets V in general determine differen... | Gödel logic | Mathematics,Engineering | 140 |
12,967,579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bicycloundecane | Bicycloundecane is an organic compound with molecular formula C11H20. It is essentially the spherical form of the ring cycloundecane. In cycloundecane, the eleven carbon atoms are joined together in a chain that meets at the ends to form a ring. In bicycloundecane, the eleven carbon atoms are arranged nearly sphericall... | Bicycloundecane | Chemistry | 249 |
7,667,067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-domain%20solution | A cross-domain solution (CDS) is an integrated information assurance system composed of specialized software or hardware that provides a controlled interface to manually or automatically enable and/or restrict the access or transfer of information between two or more security domains based on a predetermined security p... | Cross-domain solution | Engineering | 913 |
25,213,349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel%20fibre-reinforced%20shotcrete | Steel fibre-reinforced shotcrete (SFRS) is shotcrete (spray concrete) with steel fibres added. It has higher tensile strength than unreinforced shotcrete and is quicker to apply than weldmesh reinforcement. It has often been used for tunnels.
Advantages
The primary advantages of fibre-reinforced shotcrete are:
Addit... | Steel fibre-reinforced shotcrete | Physics,Engineering | 218 |
932,711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmichael%27s%20theorem | In number theory, Carmichael's theorem, named after the American mathematician R. D. Carmichael,
states that, for any nondegenerate Lucas sequence of the first kind Un(P, Q) with relatively prime parameters P, Q and positive discriminant, an element Un with n ≠ 1, 2, 6 has at least one prime divisor that does not divid... | Carmichael's theorem | Mathematics | 930 |
66,510,961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabix | Tabix is a bioinformatics software utility for indexing large genomic data files. Tabix is free software under the MIT license.
Benefits
Speed: Without an index, extracting specific regions from large files would require scanning through the entire file. Tabix avoids this by jumping directly to the region of intere... | Tabix | Chemistry,Biology | 113 |
60,446,868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%204302 | NGC 4302 is an edge-on spiral galaxy located about 55 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. It was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 8, 1784 and is a member of the Virgo Cluster.
It is classified as a Seyfert galaxy and as a LINER galaxy. It also has a prominent, extended dust ... | NGC 4302 | Astronomy | 593 |
17,347,053 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society%20of%20Mexican%20American%20Engineers%20and%20Scientists | MAES: Latinos in Science and Engineering, Inc. (MAES), originally the Mexican American Engineering Society, was founded in 1974. It organizes an annual symposium and career fair.
History
MAES was founded in Los Angeles in 1974 to increase the number of Mexican Americans and other Hispanics in the technical and scien... | Society of Mexican American Engineers and Scientists | Engineering | 598 |
26,802,549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lean%20enterprise | Lean enterprise is a practice focused on value creation for the end customer with minimal waste and processes. Principals derive from lean manufacturing and Six Sigma (or Lean Six Sigma). The lean principles were popularized by Toyota in the automobile manufacturing industry, and subsequently the electronics and intern... | Lean enterprise | Engineering | 983 |
15,515,301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations%20of%20statistics | The Foundations of Statistics are the mathematical and philosophical bases for statistical methods. These bases are the theoretical frameworks that ground and justify methods of statistical inference, estimation, hypothesis testing, uncertainty quantification, and the interpretation of statistical conclusions. Further,... | Foundations of statistics | Mathematics | 4,956 |
27,058,073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lax%E2%80%93Wendroff%20theorem | In computational mathematics, the Lax–Wendroff theorem, named after Peter Lax and Burton Wendroff, states that if a conservative numerical scheme for a hyperbolic system of conservation laws converges, then it converges towards a weak solution.
See also
Lax–Wendroff method
Godunov's scheme
References
Randall J. Le... | Lax–Wendroff theorem | Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics | 95 |
48,483,838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encapsulin%20nanocompartment | Encapsulin nanocompartments, or encapsulin protein cages, are spherical bacterial organelle-like compartments roughly 25-30 nm in diameter that are involved in various aspects of metabolism, in particular protecting bacteria from oxidative stress. Encapsulin nanocompartments are structurally similar to the HK97 bacteri... | Encapsulin nanocompartment | Chemistry,Engineering,Biology | 338 |
60,293,208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019%20Kim%20Kim%20River%20toxic%20pollution | The 2019 Kim Kim River toxic pollution is a water pollution incident that occurred on 7 March 2019 caused by illegal chemical waste dumping at the Kim Kim River in Pasir Gudang of Johor in Malaysia. The illegal dumping released toxic fumes, affecting 6,000 people and hospitalising 2,775. Most of the victims were schoo... | 2019 Kim Kim River toxic pollution | Chemistry,Environmental_science | 2,113 |
38,407,940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakarta%20Planetarium%20and%20Observatory | Jakarta Planetarium and Observatory (Indonesian: Planetarium dan Observatorium Jakarta) is a public planetarium and an observatory, part of the Taman Ismail Marzuki Art and Science Complex in Jakarta, Indonesia. The planetarium is the oldest of the three planetaria in Indonesia. The second planetarium is located in Sur... | Jakarta Planetarium and Observatory | Astronomy | 647 |
58,710,893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notion%20%28productivity%20software%29 | Notion is a productivity and note-taking web application developed by Notion Labs, Inc. It is an online-only organizational tool with options for both free and paid subscriptions. It is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States, with offices in New York, Dublin, Hyderabad, Seoul, Sydney, and Tokyo.
Sof... | Notion (productivity software) | Technology | 1,730 |
2,496,547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiley%20Post%E2%80%93Will%20Rogers%20Memorial%20Airport | Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport, often referred to as Post/Rogers Memorial, is a public airport located in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), the largest city and borough seat of the North Slope Borough of the U.S. state of Alaska. The airport is owned by the Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities. ... | Wiley Post–Will Rogers Memorial Airport | Technology | 296 |
1,004,764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap%20penalty | A Gap penalty is a method of scoring alignments of two or more sequences. When aligning sequences, introducing gaps in the sequences can allow an alignment algorithm to match more terms than a gap-less alignment can. However, minimizing gaps in an alignment is important to create a useful alignment. Too many gaps can c... | Gap penalty | Biology | 2,328 |
56,007,376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillus%20fresenii | Aspergillus fresenii is a species of fungus in the genus Aspergillus. Aspergillus fresenii produces ochratoxin A, ochratoxin B, ochratoxin C, aspochracins, mellamides, orthosporins, radarins, secopenitrems, sulphinines, xanthomegnins.
References
Further reading
fresenii
Fungi described in 1971
Fungus species | Aspergillus fresenii | Biology | 100 |
331,579 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20microfluidics | Digital microfluidics (DMF) is a platform for lab-on-a-chip systems that is based upon the manipulation of microdroplets. Droplets are dispensed, moved, stored, mixed, reacted, or analyzed on a platform with a set of insulated electrodes. Digital microfluidics can be used together with analytical analysis procedures su... | Digital microfluidics | Materials_science,Biology | 8,074 |
37,720,522 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binning%20%28metagenomics%29 | In metagenomics, binning is the process of grouping reads or contigs and assigning them to individual genome. Binning methods can be based on either compositional features or alignment (similarity), or both.
Introduction
Metagenomic samples can contain reads from a huge number of organisms. For example, in a single ... | Binning (metagenomics) | Biology | 1,628 |
25,744,542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlekamp%E2%80%93Zassenhaus%20algorithm | In mathematics, in particular in computational algebra, the Berlekamp–Zassenhaus algorithm is an algorithm for factoring polynomials over the integers, named after Elwyn Berlekamp and Hans Zassenhaus. As a consequence of Gauss's lemma, this amounts to solving the problem also over the rationals.
The algorithm starts b... | Berlekamp–Zassenhaus algorithm | Mathematics,Technology | 177 |
8,732,281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOR%20method | The GOR method (short for Garnier–Osguthorpe–Robson) is an information theory-based method for the prediction of secondary structures in proteins. It was developed in the late 1970s shortly after the simpler Chou–Fasman method. Like Chou–Fasman, the GOR method is based on probability parameters derived from empirical s... | GOR method | Chemistry,Engineering,Biology | 864 |
58,465,819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillus%20thermomutatus | Aspergillus thermomutatus (also called Neosartorya pseudofischeri) is a species of fungus in the genus Aspergillus. It is from the Fumigati section. The species was first described in 1992. It has been reported to produce asperfuran, cytochalasin-like compounds, fiscalin-like compounds, pyripyropens, and gliotoxin.
Gr... | Aspergillus thermomutatus | Biology | 163 |
71,507,666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Path%20space%20%28algebraic%20topology%29 | In algebraic topology, a branch of mathematics, the based path space of a pointed space is the space that consists of all maps from the interval to X such that , called based paths. In other words, it is the mapping space from to .
A space of all maps from to X, with no distinguished point for the start of the ... | Path space (algebraic topology) | Mathematics | 144 |
56,116,830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year-riddle | The year-riddle is one of the most widespread, and apparently most ancient, international riddle-types in Eurasia. This type of riddle is first attested in Vedic tradition thought to originate in the second millennium BCE.
Research
Studies have surveyed the exceptionally wide attestation of this riddle type. The ridd... | Year-riddle | Physics | 1,597 |
20,325,453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20methanethiolate | Sodium methanethiolate or sodium thiomethoxide (CH3SNa, MeSNa) is the sodium conjugate base of methanethiol. This compound is commercially available as a white solid. It is a powerful nucleophile that can be used to prepare methylthioether and other organic compounds like ethyl bromide. Its hydrolysis in moist air prod... | Sodium methanethiolate | Chemistry | 105 |
23,648,859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucosylation | Fucosylation is the process of adding fucose sugar units to a molecule. It is a type of glycosylation.
It is important clinically, and high levels of fucosylation have been reported in cancer. In cancer and inflammation there are significant changes in the expression of fucosylated molecules. Therefore, antibodies and... | Fucosylation | Chemistry | 394 |
6,390,507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multivalued%20dependency | In database theory, a multivalued dependency is a full constraint between two sets of attributes in a relation.
In contrast to the functional dependency, the multivalued dependency requires that certain tuples be present in a relation. Therefore, a multivalued dependency is a special case of tuple-generating dependenc... | Multivalued dependency | Engineering | 1,010 |
40,597,241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinorine | Vinorine is an indole alkaloid isolated from Alstonia.
References
Alkaloids found in Apocynaceae
Tryptamine alkaloids
Quinolizidine alkaloids
Acetate esters
Heterocyclic compounds with 6 rings | Vinorine | Chemistry | 55 |
2,139,612 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Course%20of%20Modern%20Analysis | A Course of Modern Analysis: an introduction to the general theory of infinite processes and of analytic functions; with an account of the principal transcendental functions (colloquially known as Whittaker and Watson) is a landmark textbook on mathematical analysis written by Edmund T. Whittaker and George N. Watson, ... | A Course of Modern Analysis | Mathematics | 814 |
52,975,808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slosh%20baffle | A slosh baffle is a device used to dampen the adverse effects of liquid slosh in a tank. Slosh baffles have been implemented in a variety of applications including tanker trucks, and liquid rockets, although any moving tank containing liquid may employ them.
Baffle rings
Baffle rings are rigid rings placed within the... | Slosh baffle | Chemistry,Engineering | 108 |
5,847,044 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford%20Web%20Credibility%20Project | The Stanford Web Credibility Project, which involves assessments of website credibility conducted by the Stanford University Persuasive Technology Lab, is an investigative examination of what leads people to believe in the veracity of content found on the Web. The goal of the project is to enhance website design and t... | Stanford Web Credibility Project | Technology,Engineering | 1,200 |
57,655,879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VS%20%28nerve%20agent%29 | VS is a nerve agent of the V-series. Its chemical structure is very similar to the VX nerve agent, but the methyl group on the phosphorus atom is replaced by an ethyl group.
See also
VX (nerve agent)
References
V-series nerve agents
Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors
Diisopropylamino compounds
Ethyl esters | VS (nerve agent) | Chemistry | 74 |
419,495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka%20%28mass%29 | The oka, okka, or oke () was an Ottoman measure of mass, equal to 400 dirhems (Ottoman drams). Its value varied, but it was standardized in the late empire as 1.2829 kilograms. 'Oka' is the most usual spelling today; 'oke' was the usual contemporary English spelling; 'okka' is the modern Turkish spelling, and is usuall... | Oka (mass) | Physics,Mathematics | 474 |
34,299,760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasite%20experiment | In experimental physics, and particularly in high energy and nuclear physics, a parasite experiment or parasitic experiment is an experiment performed using a big particle accelerator or other large facility, without interfering with the scheduled experiments of that facility. This allows the experimenters to proceed ... | Parasite experiment | Physics | 82 |
65,540,554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benadryl%20challenge | The Benadryl challenge is an internet challenge that emerged in 2020, revolving around the deliberate consumption, excessive use and overdose of the antihistamine medicine diphenhydramine (commonly sold in the United States under the brand name Benadryl), which acts as a deliriant in high doses. The challenge, which re... | Benadryl challenge | Biology | 624 |
7,280,707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-length%20code | In coding theory, a variable-length code is a code which maps source symbols to a variable number of bits. The equivalent concept in computer science is bit string.
Variable-length codes can allow sources to be compressed and decompressed with zero error (lossless data compression) and still be read back symbol by sy... | Variable-length code | Mathematics | 1,295 |
2,475,030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tianeptine | Tianeptine, sold under the brand names Stablon, Tatinol, and Coaxil among others, is an atypical tricyclic antidepressant which is used mainly in the treatment of major depressive disorder, although it may also be used to treat anxiety, asthma, and irritable bowel syndrome.
Tianeptine has antidepressant and anxiolytic... | Tianeptine | Chemistry | 4,761 |
52,747,022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20corticosteroid%20esters | This is a list of corticosteroid esters, including esters of steroidal glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids.
Esters of natural corticosteroids
Desoxycortone esters
Desoxycortone acetate (deoxycortone acetate; desoxycorticosterone acetate)
Desoxycortone cypionate (deoxycortone cypionate; desoxycorticosterone cypi... | List of corticosteroid esters | Chemistry | 2,224 |
9,142,511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaeamphora | Archaeamphora longicervia is a fossil plant species, the only member of the hypothetical genus Archaeamphora. Fossil material assigned to this taxon originates from the Yixian Formation of northeastern China, dated to the Early Cretaceous (around ).
The species was originally described as a pitcher plant with close af... | Archaeamphora | Biology | 1,638 |
6,250,598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oph%20162225-240515 | Oph 162225-240515, often abbreviated Oph 1622, and also known as Oph 11, is a pair of brown dwarfs that have been reported as orbiting each other. The bodies are located in the constellation Scorpius and are about 400 light years away. Mass estimates of the two objects are uncertain, but they are probably each higher t... | Oph 162225-240515 | Astronomy | 660 |
27,996,219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20landslides | This list of landslides is a list of notable landslides and mudflows divided into sections by date and type. This list may be incomplete as there is no central catalogue for landslides, although it does exist for some for individual countries or areas. Volumes of landslides are recorded in the scientific literature usi... | List of landslides | Environmental_science | 276 |
2,172,717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom%20of%20Crystal | The Kingdom of Crystal (Swedish: Glasriket, The glass realm) is a geographical area today containing a total of 14 glassworks in the municipalities of Emmaboda, Nybro, Uppvidinge, and Lessebo in southern Sweden. The two municipalities Emmaboda and Nybro belong to Kalmar County and Lessebo and Uppvidinge belong to Krono... | Kingdom of Crystal | Materials_science,Engineering | 686 |
13,737,983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20cremation | Alkaline hydrolysis (also called biocremation, resomation, flameless cremation, aquamation or water cremation) is a process for the disposal of human and pet remains using lye and heat; it is alternative to burial, cremation, or sky burial.
Process
The process is based on alkaline hydrolysis: the body is placed in a p... | Water cremation | Chemistry | 2,054 |
35,844,937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAMP%20domain | In molecular biology, the HAMP domain (present in Histidine kinases, Adenylate cyclases, Methyl accepting proteins and Phosphatases) is an approximately 50-amino acid alpha-helical region that forms a dimeric, four-helical coiled coil. It is found in bacterial sensor and chemotaxis proteins and in eukaryotic histidine ... | HAMP domain | Biology | 250 |
38,138,287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta%20function%20%28accelerator%20physics%29 | The beta function in accelerator physics is a function related to the transverse size of the particle beam at the location s along the nominal beam trajectory.
It is related to the transverse beam size as follows:
where
is the location along the nominal beam trajectory
the beam is assumed to have a Gaussian shape... | Beta function (accelerator physics) | Physics | 312 |
72,606,989 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virivore | Virivore (equivalently virovore) comes from the English prefix viro- meaning virus, derived from the Latin word for poison, and the suffix -vore from the Latin word vorare, meaning to eat, or to devour; therefore, a virivore is an organism that consumes viruses. Virivory is a well-described process in which organisms, ... | Virivore | Chemistry,Biology | 3,044 |
4,843,717 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullpower%20Technologies | Fullpower is a Santa Cruz, California-based privately held developer of cloud-based IoT and wearable product technology used for activity tracking and sleep monitoring. Fullpower specializes in wireless technology, microelectromechanical systems, and nanotechnology. The company holds over 125 patents for its intellectu... | Fullpower Technologies | Biology | 1,668 |
55,617,041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20biogenic%20calcification | Marine biogenic calcification is the production of calcium carbonate by organisms in the global ocean.
Marine biogenic calcification is the biologically mediated process by which marine organisms produce and deposit calcium carbonate minerals to form skeletal structures or hard tissues. This process is a fundamental a... | Marine biogenic calcification | Chemistry | 6,689 |
40,543,716 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulbul%20coronavirus%20HKU11 | Bulbul coronavirus HKU11 (Bulbul-CoV HKU11) is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA Deltacoronavirus of avian origin found in Chinese bulbuls.
References
Deltacoronaviruses
Bird diseases
Animal viral diseases | Bulbul coronavirus HKU11 | Biology | 53 |
33,926,747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary%20aesthetics | Evolutionary aesthetics refers to evolutionary psychology theories in which the basic aesthetic preferences of Homo sapiens are argued to have evolved in order to enhance survival and reproductive success.
Based on this theory, things like color preference, preferred mate body ratios, shapes, emotional ties with objec... | Evolutionary aesthetics | Biology | 1,083 |
1,007,168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stored%20Waste%20Examination%20Pilot%20Plant | The Stored Waste Examination Pilot Plant (SWEPP) is a facility at the Idaho National Laboratory for nondestructively examining containers of radioactive waste to determine if they meet criteria to be stored at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant. SWEPP is part of the Radioactive Waste Management Complex, located southwest ... | Stored Waste Examination Pilot Plant | Physics,Chemistry,Technology | 92 |
57,184,777 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mierzanowice%20culture | The Mierzanowice culture appeared in the area of the upper and middle basin of the Vistula, during the Early Bronze Age. It evolved from the so-called Proto-Mierzanowice cultural unit. The name of the culture comes from an eponymous site in Mierzanowice, where the cemetery was located. This entity was part of the pre-c... | Mierzanowice culture | Physics | 1,042 |
1,753,261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biographical%20Dictionary%20of%20Civil%20Engineers | The Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland discusses the lives of the people who were concerned with building harbours and lighthouses, undertook fen drainage and improved river navigations, built canals, roads, bridges and early railways, and provided water supply facilities. The first... | Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers | Engineering | 215 |
73,394,958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tedral | Tedral, or theophylline/ephedrine/phenobarbital, is a medicine formerly used to treat respiratory diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive lung disease (COPD), chronic bronchitis, and emphysema. It is a combination drug containing three active ingredients - theophylline, ephedrine, phenobarbital. This medication re... | Tedral | Chemistry | 2,933 |
5,499,671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil%20production%20function | Soil production function refers to the rate of bedrock weathering into soil as a function of soil thickness. A general model suggests that the rate of physical weathering of bedrock (de/dt) can be represented as an exponential decline with soil thickness:
where h is soil thickness [m], P0 [mm/year] is the potential (... | Soil production function | Mathematics | 339 |
416,830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ONERA | The Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (English: National office for aerospace studies and research) or ONERA, dubbed The French Aerospace Lab in English, is the French national aerospace research center. Originally founded as the Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aéronautiques (National Of... | ONERA | Engineering | 1,251 |
67,719,992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.%20V.%20Rajan%20Babu | T.V. (Babu) RajanBabu is an organic chemist who holds the position of Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in the College of Arts and Sciences at the Ohio State University. His laboratory traditionally focuses on developing transition metal-catalyzed reactions. RajanBabu is known for helping develop the Nugent-RajanBab... | T. V. Rajan Babu | Chemistry | 1,115 |
7,093,376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PVR-resistant%20advertising | PVR (DVR)-resistant advertising is a form of advertising which is designed specifically to remain viewable despite a user skipping through the commercials when using a device such as a TiVo or other digital video recorder. For instance, a black bar with a product's tagline and logo or the title of a promoted television... | PVR-resistant advertising | Technology | 122 |
47,921,089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tmem110 |
Definition and cellular localization
TMEM110, also designated as STIMATE (for STIM-activating enhancer), is an ER-resident multi-transmembrane protein identified through a proteomic study on the ER-PM junctions. The ER-PM junctions are defined as specialized junctional sites, also known as membrane contact sites, t... | Tmem110 | Chemistry | 265 |
39,378,034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20rank%20of%20a%20graph | In mathematics, the minimum rank is a graph parameter for a graph G. It was motivated by the Colin de Verdière graph invariant.
Definition
The adjacency matrix of an undirected graph is a symmetric matrix whose rows and columns both correspond to the vertices of the graph. Its elements are all 0 or 1, and the element... | Minimum rank of a graph | Mathematics | 408 |
10,367,565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC%2061030 | D²B (Domestic Digital Bus, IEC 61030) is an IEC standard for a low-speed multi-master serial communication bus for home automation applications. It was originally developed by Philips in the 1980s. In 2006 it has been withdrawn by IEC because another standard was proposed, JTC1 SC 83/WG1. There remain many IEC61030-com... | IEC 61030 | Technology | 139 |
23,833,597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnopilus%20echinulisporus | Gymnopilus echinulisporus is a species of agaric fungus in the family Hymenogastraceae. It was first formally described by American mycologist William Alphonso Murrill in 1912.
Description
The convex to flattened cap is up to in diameter.
Habitat and distribution
Gymnopilus echinulisporus has been found growing on w... | Gymnopilus echinulisporus | Biology | 125 |
24,904,544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20bombings%20during%20the%20Troubles | This is a list of notable bombings related to the Northern Ireland "Troubles" and their aftermath. It includes bombings that took place in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Great Britain since 1968. There were at least 10,000 bomb attacks during the conflict (1968–1998).
1969
5 August - RTÉ Studio bombin... | List of bombings during the Troubles | Chemistry | 5,192 |
2,001,760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Imagery%20Transmission%20Format | The National Imagery Transmission Format Standard (NITFS) is a U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and Federal Intelligence Community (IC) suite of standards for the exchange, storage, and transmission of digital-imagery products and image-related products.
DoD policy is that other image formats can be used internally w... | National Imagery Transmission Format | Technology | 678 |
69,609,424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cetacean%20microbiome | The cetacean microbiome is the group of communities of microorganisms that reside within whales.
Microbiomes play an important role in individual health and ecology and in particular in the discovery of different microbiomes in gut, skin and nose permitted to analyze their conditions and the condition of the Microbiom... | Cetacean microbiome | Environmental_science | 2,047 |
26,606,575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorobi-1%20RNA%20motif | The Chlorobi-1 RNA motif is a conserved RNA secondary structure identified by bioinformatics. It is predicted to be used only by Chlorobiota (formerly Chlorobi), a phylum of bacteria. The motif consists of two stem-loops that are followed by an apparent rho-independent transcription terminator. The motif is presumed... | Chlorobi-1 RNA motif | Chemistry | 175 |
21,438,855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooning | Mooning is the act of displaying one's bare buttocks by removing clothing, e.g., by lowering the backside of one's trousers and underpants, usually bending over, and also potentially exposing the genitals. Mooning is used in the English-speaking world to express protest, scorn, disrespect, or for provocation, but moon... | Mooning | Biology | 1,845 |
68,807,529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Br%C3%BCderschaft | The ( in German) or () is a drinking ritual, or a rite of passage, to consolidate friendship. Two people simultaneously drink a glass of the same alcoholic beverage each, with their arms intertwined at the elbows. A "brotherly kiss" is customary after emptying the glasses, which then seals the ritual. Thence they are... | Brüderschaft | Biology | 185 |
4,067,466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sort%20%28C%2B%2B%29 | sort is a generic function in the C++ Standard Library for doing comparison sorting. The function originated in the Standard Template Library (STL).
The specific sorting algorithm is not mandated by the language standard and may vary across implementations, but the worst-case asymptotic complexity of the function is s... | Sort (C++) | Mathematics | 1,448 |
1,460,235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminate%20%28variable%29 | In mathematics, an indeterminate or formal variable is a variable (a symbol, usually a letter) that is used purely formally in a mathematical expression, but does not stand for any value.
In analysis, a mathematical expression such as is usually taken to represent a quantity whose value is a function of its variable ... | Indeterminate (variable) | Mathematics | 835 |
792,998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertil%20Lindblad | Bertil Lindblad (Örebro, 26 November 1895 – Saltsjöbaden, outside Stockholm, 25 June 1965) was a Swedish astronomer.
After finishing his secondary education at Örebro högre allmänna läroverk, Lindblad matriculated at Uppsala University in 1914. He received his filosofie magister degree in 1917, his filosofie licentiat... | Bertil Lindblad | Astronomy | 396 |
1,708,126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitch%20detection%20algorithm | A pitch detection algorithm (PDA) is an algorithm designed to estimate the pitch or fundamental frequency of a quasiperiodic or oscillating signal, usually a digital recording of speech or a musical note or tone. This can be done in the time domain, the frequency domain, or both.
PDAs are used in various contexts (e.g... | Pitch detection algorithm | Engineering | 887 |
69,840,223 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CKLF%20like%20MARVEL%20transmembrane%20domain-containing%201 | CKLF like MARVEL transmembrane domain-containing 1 (i.e. CMTM1), formerly termed chemokine-like factor superfamily 1 (i.e. CKLFSF1), has 23 known isoforms, the CMTM1-v1 to CMTM1-v23 proteins. Protein isoforms are variant products that are made by alternative splicing of a single gene. The gene for these isoforms, CMTM1... | CKLF like MARVEL transmembrane domain-containing 1 | Chemistry,Biology | 798 |
24,144,415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C29H52O | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C29H52O}}
The molecular formula C29H52O (molar mass: 416.72 g/mol, exact mass: 416.4018 u) may refer to:
24-Ethyl coprostanol
Stigmastanol (sitostanol)
Poriferastanol
Molecular formulas | C29H52O | Physics,Chemistry | 75 |
39,722,957 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitsubishi%20MCA | Mitsubishi MCA stands for Mitsubishi Clean Air, a moniker used in Japan to identify vehicles built with emission control technology. The term was first introduced in Japan, with later introductions internationally. The technology first appeared in January 1973 on the Mitsubishi 4G32A gasoline-powered inline four cylind... | Mitsubishi MCA | Physics,Technology | 584 |
29,674,553 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Share%20icon | A share icon is a user interface icon intended to convey to the user a button for performing a share action. Content platforms such as YouTube often include a share icon so that users can forward the content onto social media platforms or embed videos into their websites, thus increasing its view count.
Share Icon
W... | Share icon | Technology | 635 |
1,544,931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonnefantenmuseum | The Bonnefanten Museum is a museum of historic, modern and contemporary art in Maastricht, Netherlands.
History
The museum was founded in 1884 as the historical and archaeological museum for the Dutch province of Limburg. The name Bonnefanten Museum is derived from the French 'bons enfants' ('good children'), the popu... | Bonnefantenmuseum | Engineering | 1,212 |
41,999,000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fonderie%20Nationale%20des%20Bronzes | Fonderie Nationale des Bronzes (established as J. Petermann fondeur Bruxelles) was a 19th– and 20th–century artistic studio and foundry in Brussels, Belgium, that specialized in bronze sculptures. It became known for casting the works of Auguste Rodin, Rembrandt Bugatti, Paul Delvaux, and many others.
Works
Several wo... | Fonderie Nationale des Bronzes | Chemistry | 178 |
46,655,707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinatuzumab%20vedotin | Pinatuzumab vedotin (INN; development codes DCDT2980S and FCU2703) is a monoclonal antibody designed for the treatment of B-cell malignancies.
This drug was developed by Genentech/Roche.
References
Monoclonal antibodies for tumors
Antibody-drug conjugates
Experimental cancer drugs | Pinatuzumab vedotin | Biology | 73 |
36,581,725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen%20Hawking%3A%20Master%20of%20the%20Universe | Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe is a documentary television series produced by the television broadcaster Channel 4. The subject of the series is British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, known for his work on black holes, who is also the presenter of the series. The series includes interviews with astroph... | Stephen Hawking: Master of the Universe | Astronomy | 476 |
2,029,635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variational%20perturbation%20theory | In mathematics, variational perturbation theory (VPT) is a mathematical method to convert divergent power series in a small expansion parameter, say
,
into a convergent series in powers
,
where is a critical exponent (the so-called index of "approach to scaling" introduced by Franz Wegner). This is possible with the h... | Variational perturbation theory | Physics,Mathematics | 313 |
1,801,877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saccharic%20acid | Saccharic acid, is a chemical compound with the formula C6H10O8. It is derived by oxidizing a sugar such as glucose with nitric acid.
The salts of saccharic acid are called saccharates or glucarates.
See also
Saccharide
Disaccharides
Monosaccharides
Mucic acid
Gluconic acid
Isosaccharinic acid
References
Su... | Saccharic acid | Chemistry | 93 |
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