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35,177,747 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba%E2%80%93Kongsberg%20scandal | The Toshiba–Kongsberg scandal, referred to in Japan as the Toshiba Machine Cocom violation case, was an international trade incident that unfolded during the final period of the Cold War. It centered on certain Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (CoCom) member nations who transgressed foreign excha... | Toshiba–Kongsberg scandal | Technology | 1,489 |
2,324,714 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FERET%20database | The Facial Recognition Technology (FERET) database is a dataset used for facial recognition system evaluation as part of the Face Recognition Technology (FERET) program. It was first established in 1993 under a collaborative effort between Harry Wechsler at George Mason University and Jonathon Phillips at the Army Rese... | FERET database | Technology | 308 |
10,407,605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphatidylinositol%20phosphate | Phosphatidylinositol phosphate may refer to:
Phosphatidylinositol 3-phosphate, also known as PI(3)P
Phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate, also known as PI(4)P
Phosphatidylinositol 5-phosphate, also known as PI(5)P
Phospholipids | Phosphatidylinositol phosphate | Chemistry | 81 |
69,787,990 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goldberg%20drum | A Goldberg drum is a laboratory equipment used in the studies of aerosols. It was described by Leonard J. Goldberg from the Naval Biological Laboratory, School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, in 1958. It is used to contain airborne aerosols and particles.
References
Aerosols
Laboratory equipmen... | Goldberg drum | Chemistry | 64 |
66,727,176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neofavolus%20suavissimus | Neofavolus suavissimus is a species of fungus belonging to the family Polyporaceae.
Synonym:
Panus suavissimus (Fr.) Singer, 1951
References
Polyporaceae
Fungus species | Neofavolus suavissimus | Biology | 44 |
56,051,175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Essential%20Biodiversity%20Variables | Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) is a putative set of parameters intended to be the minimum set of broadly agreed upon necessary and sufficient biodiversity variables for at least national to global monitoring, researching, and forecasting of biodiversity. They are being developed by an interdisciplinary group o... | Essential Biodiversity Variables | Biology | 608 |
804,255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20shower | A Roman shower is a type of architecturally designed shower stall that does not require a door or curtain.
These showers are often used as disabled-accessible showers in hotels. They may also be known as "roll-in showers".
References
Plumbing
Bathing | Roman shower | Engineering | 52 |
41,269,797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prostaglandin%20E3 | Prostaglandin E3 (PGE3) is a naturally formed prostaglandin and is formed via the cyclooxygenase (COX) metabolism of eicosapentaenoic acid.
See also
Prostaglandin E1 (PGE1)
Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2)
References
Prostaglandins
Carboxylic acids
Secondary alcohols | Prostaglandin E3 | Chemistry | 87 |
77,828,177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepetaprost | Sepetaprost is an investigational new drug that is being evaluated for the treatment of open angle glaucoma and ocular hypertension. It is an agonist of the prostaglandin EP3 and F receptors.
References
Oxepanes
2-Fluorophenyl compounds
Isopropyl esters
Diols | Sepetaprost | Chemistry | 71 |
28,263,672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20World%27s%2025%20Most%20Endangered%20Primates | The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates is a list of highly endangered primate species selected and published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Species Survival Commission (SSC) Primate Specialist Group (PSG), the International Primatological Society (IPS), Global Wildlife Conservation (GWC),... | The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates | Biology | 1,456 |
15,892,469 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancestral%20relation | In mathematical logic, the ancestral relation (often shortened to ancestral) of a binary relation R is its transitive closure, however defined in a different way, see below.
Ancestral relations make their first appearance in Frege's Begriffsschrift. Frege later employed them in his Grundgesetze as part of his definit... | Ancestral relation | Mathematics | 637 |
21,292,715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear%20Swamp%20%28New%20Jersey%29 | Bear Swamp is a swamp in Cumberland County, southwestern New Jersey, notable for its of old-growth forests and the birds they contain. It is divided into two areas, Bear Swamp East and Bear Swamp West, separated from each other by gravel mines and roads.
Bear Swamp West
Bear Swamp West contains broadleaf swamp fores... | Bear Swamp (New Jersey) | Biology | 322 |
50,711,232 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIA%20S.p.A. | SIA S.p.A. is an Italian company operating in the area of ICT, providing services to the banking and finance sector in addition to platforms for financial markets and e-payment services.
History
The company was founded in 1977 as Società Interbancaria per l'Automazione by Banca d'Italia, ABI and a pool of Italian ban... | SIA S.p.A. | Technology | 2,527 |
65,505,892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian%20Union%20of%20Chemical%20and%20Allied%20Industries | The Italian Union of Chemical and Allied Industries (, UILCID) was a trade union representing workers in the chemical and mining industries in Italy.
The union was founded in 1950, as the Italian Union of Chemical Workers, and was a founding affiliate of the Italian Labour Union. It grew steadily, and by 1953, had 22... | Italian Union of Chemical and Allied Industries | Chemistry | 204 |
55,199,641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward%20Merewether%20%28physician%29 | Dr Edward Rowland Alworth Merewether FRSE CB CBE (1892-1970) was a British barrister and physician (combining two fields in a unique manner). He was an expert in industrial medicine and the laws linked to this, working especially with asbestosis. In 1944 he was appointed Honorary Physician to King George VI. Close coll... | Edward Merewether (physician) | Environmental_science | 410 |
3,996,332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plunge%20pool | A plunge pool (or plunge basin or waterfall lake) is a deep depression in a stream bed at the base of a waterfall or shut-in. It is created by the erosional forces of cascading water on the rocks at the formation's base where the water impacts. The term may refer to the water occupying the depression, or the depression... | Plunge pool | Chemistry,Engineering,Environmental_science | 398 |
57,350,509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denis%20Albert%20Bardou | Denis Albert Bardou (15 February 1841 – 14 March 1893) was a French manufacturer of precision optical instruments.
Early life
He was born in Paris, the son of Pierre Gabriel Bardou, optician, and Gertrude Aglaé Anna Guichard. Denis Albert's grandfather had founded the Maison Bardou in 1819, an optical company in Paris... | Denis Albert Bardou | Astronomy | 507 |
2,083,415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navigation%20mesh | A navigation mesh, or navmesh, is an abstract data structure used in artificial intelligence applications to aid agents in pathfinding through complicated spaces. This approach has been known since at least the mid-1980s in robotics, where it has been called a meadow map, and was popularized in video game AI in 2000.
... | Navigation mesh | Physics,Technology,Engineering | 601 |
1,785,141 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZTE | ZTE Corporation is a Chinese partially state-owned technology company that specializes in telecommunication. Founded in 1985, ZTE is listed on both the Hong Kong and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges.
ZTE's core business is wireless, exchange, optical transmission, data telecommunications gear, telecommunications software, and... | ZTE | Technology | 2,874 |
18,112,972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince%20Philip%20Medal | The Prince Philip Medal is named after Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, who was the Senior Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAE). In 1989 Prince Philip agreed to the commissioning of solid gold medals to be "awarded periodically to an engineer of any nationality who has made an exceptional contribution to ... | Prince Philip Medal | Technology | 225 |
3,200,976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etioplast | Etioplasts are an intermediate type of plastid that develop from proplastids that have not been exposed to light, and convert into chloroplasts upon exposure to light. They are usually found in stem and leaf tissue of flowering plants (Angiosperms) grown either in complete darkness, or in extremely low-light conditions... | Etioplast | Biology | 625 |
23,950,388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-slit%20interferometer | The N-slit interferometer is an extension of the double-slit interferometer also known as Young's double-slit interferometer. One of the first known uses of N-slit arrays in optics was illustrated by Newton. In the first part of the twentieth century, Michelson described various cases of N-slit diffraction.
Feynman de... | N-slit interferometer | Technology,Engineering | 1,033 |
32,523,543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppis%20in%20Chinese%20astronomy | According to traditional Chinese uranography, the modern constellation Puppis is located within the southern quadrant of the sky, which is symbolized as the Vermilion Bird of the South (南方朱雀, Nán Fāng Zhū Què).
The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 船尾座 (chuán wěi zuò), meaning "behind of the ship ... | Puppis in Chinese astronomy | Astronomy | 174 |
2,157,145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollin%20film | A Rollin film, named after Bernard V. Rollin, is a -thick liquid film of helium in the helium II state. It exhibits a "creeping" effect in response to surfaces extending past the film's level (wave propagation). Helium II can escape from any non-closed container via creeping toward and eventually evaporating from cap... | Rollin film | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 430 |
1,022,471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarium%20%28myrmecology%29 | In myrmecology, a solarium is an above-ground earthen structure constructed by some ant species for the purpose of nest thermoregulation and brood incubation. Solaria are usually dome-shaped and fashioned from a paper-thin layer of soil, connected to the main nest by way of subterranean runs. Some species, such as Form... | Solarium (myrmecology) | Biology | 141 |
13,290,757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metagame%20analysis | Metagame analysis involves framing a problem situation as a strategic game in which participants try to realise their objectives by means of the options available to them. The subsequent meta-analysis of this game gives insight in possible strategies and their outcome.
Origin
Metagame theory was developed by Nigel How... | Metagame analysis | Mathematics | 1,170 |
254,789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20administrator | A database administrator (DBA) manages computer databases. The role may include capacity planning, installation, configuration, database design, migration, performance monitoring, security, troubleshooting, as well as backup and data recovery.
Skills
Required skills for database administrators include knowledge of SQL... | Database administrator | Technology | 213 |
45,119,474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioclaustration | Bioclaustration is kind of interaction when one organism (usually soft bodied) is embedded in a living substrate (i.e. skeleton of another organism); it means "biologically walled-up". In case of symbiosis the walling-up is not complete and both organisms stay alive (Palmer and Wilson, 1988).
References
Ecology... | Bioclaustration | Biology | 84 |
16,845,493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABHD2 | Abhydrolase domain-containing protein 2 is a serine hydrolase enzyme that is strongly expressed in human spermatozoa. It is a key controller of sperm hyperactivation, which is a necessary step in allowing sperm to fertilize an egg. It is encoded by the ABHD2 gene.
Function
In the presence of Progesterone (or Pregnen... | ABHD2 | Biology | 562 |
52,089,502 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North%20Wind%27s%20Weir | North Wind's Weir or North Wind's Fish Weir south of Seattle on the Duwamish River in Tukwila, Washington is a site that figures prominently in the oral traditions of the Salish people of the Puget Sound region. The legends describe battles between North Wind and South Wind for control of the region.
Salish tradition ... | North Wind's Weir | Environmental_science | 413 |
2,288,158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Duncan%20MacMillan | William Duncan MacMillan (July 24, 1871 – November 14, 1948) was an American mathematician and astronomer on the faculty of the University of Chicago. He published research on the applications of classical mechanics to astronomy, and is noted for pioneering speculations on physical cosmology. For the latter, Helge Krag... | William Duncan MacMillan | Physics | 974 |
553,525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman%20Haworth | Sir Walter Norman Haworth FRS (19 March 1883 – 19 March 1950) was a British chemist best known for his groundbreaking work on ascorbic acid (vitamin C) while working at the University of Birmingham. He received the 1937 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his investigations on carbohydrates and vitamin C". The prize was shar... | Norman Haworth | Chemistry | 1,159 |
2,286,702 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaonic%20hydrogen | Kaonic hydrogen is an exotic atom consisting of a negatively charged kaon orbiting a proton.
Such particles were first identified, through their X-ray spectrum, at the KEK proton synchrotron in Tsukuba, Japan in 1997.
More detailed studies have been performed at DAFNE in Frascati, Italy.
Kaonic hydrogen has been creat... | Kaonic hydrogen | Physics,Chemistry | 312 |
40,872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit%20reliability | Circuit reliability (also time availability) (CiR) is the percentage of time an electronic circuit was available for use in a specified period of scheduled availability. Circuit reliability is given by where T o is the circuit total outage time, Ts is the circuit total scheduled time, and T a is the circuit total avai... | Circuit reliability | Engineering | 89 |
23,676,098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian%20Society%20of%20Landscape%20Architects | The Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (; CSLA-AAPC) is the national organization representing 1600 landscape architects in Canada's ten provinces and three territories. The organization was founded in 1934. Its mission is to "advance the art, science and business of landscape architecture."
One of the founding ... | Canadian Society of Landscape Architects | Engineering | 157 |
23,498,248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quasiregular%20element | This article addresses the notion of quasiregularity in the context of ring theory, a branch of modern algebra. For other notions of quasiregularity in mathematics, see the disambiguation page quasiregular.
In mathematics, specifically ring theory, the notion of quasiregularity provides a computationally convenient wa... | Quasiregular element | Mathematics | 1,595 |
42,526,327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-Weibull%20distribution | In statistics, the q-Weibull distribution is a probability distribution that generalizes the Weibull distribution and the Lomax distribution (Pareto Type II). It is one example of a Tsallis distribution.
Characterization
Probability density function
The probability density function of a q-Weibull random variable is:
... | Q-Weibull distribution | Physics | 368 |
33,127,408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VFTS%20682 | VFTS 682 is a Wolf–Rayet star in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It is located over north-east of the massive cluster R136 in the Tarantula Nebula. It is 138 times the mass of the Sun and 3.2 million times more luminous, which makes it one of the most massive and most luminous stars known.
Discovery
VFTS 682 is a promine... | VFTS 682 | Astronomy | 793 |
15,874,481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfadoxine | Sulfadoxine (also spelled sulphadoxine) is an ultra-long-lasting sulfonamide used in combination with pyrimethamine to treat malaria.
It is also used to prevent malaria but due to high levels of sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine resistance, this use has become less common.
It is also used, usually in combination with other ... | Sulfadoxine | Chemistry | 169 |
35,835,916 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WISE%200535%E2%88%927500 | WISE J053516.80−750024.9 (designation abbreviated to WISE 0535−7500) is either a sub-brown dwarf or a free planet. It has spectral class Y1 and is located in constellation Mensa. It is estimated to be 47 light-years from Earth.
In 2017, more accurate analysis found it to be a binary system made up of two substellar o... | WISE 0535−7500 | Astronomy | 549 |
14,756,913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TFDP1 | Transcription factor Dp-1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the TFDP1 gene.
Function
The E2F transcription factor family (see MIM 189971) regulates the expression of various cellular promoters, particularly those involved in the cell cycle. E2F factors bind to DNA as homodimers or heterodimers in association... | TFDP1 | Chemistry | 147 |
56,741,386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%204586 | NGC 4586 is a spiral galaxy located about 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on February 2, 1786. Although listed in the Virgo Cluster Catalog, NGC 4586 is considered to be a member of the Virgo II Groups which form a southern extension of th... | NGC 4586 | Astronomy | 183 |
39,086,554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrightoporia%20lenta | Wrightoporia lenta is a species of fungus in the family Bondarzewiaceae. First described as a species of Poria in 1946, Czech mycologist Zdeněk Pouzar transferred it to Wrightoporia in 1966.
References
External links
Russulales
Fungi described in 1946
Fungus species | Wrightoporia lenta | Biology | 63 |
3,772,202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rev%20limiter | A rev limiter is a device fitted in modern vehicles that have internal combustion engines. They are intended to protect an engine by restricting its maximum rotational speed, measured in revolutions per minute (RPM).
Rev limiters are pre-set by the engine manufacturer. There are also aftermarket units where a separate ... | Rev limiter | Technology | 1,625 |
43,747,041 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open%20coopetition | In R&D management and systems development, open coopetition or open-coopetition is a neologism to describe cooperation among competitors in the open-source arena. The term was first coined by the scholars Jose Teixeira and Tingting Lin to describe how rival firms that, while competing with similar products in the same... | Open coopetition | Engineering | 3,595 |
415,895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman%20series | In physics and chemistry, the Lyman series is a hydrogen spectral series of transitions and resulting ultraviolet emission lines of the hydrogen atom as an electron goes from n ≥ 2 to n = 1 (where n is the principal quantum number), the lowest energy level of the electron (groundstate). The transitions are named seque... | Lyman series | Physics,Chemistry | 798 |
237,305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Abel's theorem for power series relates a limit of a power series to the sum of its coefficients. It is named after Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel, who proved it in 1826.
Theorem
Let the Taylor series
be a power series with real coefficients with radius of convergence Suppose that the ... | Abel's theorem | Mathematics | 770 |
71,443,545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISAM-140 | ISAM-140 is a selective non-xanthinic adenosine A2B receptor antagonist. Discovered in 2016, it has a Ki of 3.49 nM on the A2B receptor and >1000-fold selectivity with respect to the other three adenosine receptor subtypes. It has been shown to help the immune system to attack cancer cells in in vitro assays by rescuin... | ISAM-140 | Chemistry | 120 |
55,963,248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengvaxia%20controversy | The Dengvaxia controversy () occurred in the Philippines when the dengue vaccine Dengvaxia was found to increase the risk of disease severity for some people who had received it.
A vaccination program run by the Philippine Department of Health (DOH) administered Sanofi Pasteur's Dengvaxia to schoolchildren. The progra... | Dengvaxia controversy | Chemistry,Biology | 2,255 |
17,973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20crystal | Liquid crystal (LC) is a state of matter whose properties are between those of conventional liquids and those of solid crystals. For example, a liquid crystal can flow like a liquid, but its molecules may be oriented in a common direction as in a solid. There are many types of LC phases, which can be distinguished by t... | Liquid crystal | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science | 10,071 |
50,960,623 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonpathogenic%20organisms | Nonpathogenic organisms are those that do not cause disease, harm or death to another organism. The term is usually used to describe bacteria. It describes a property of a bacterium – its inability to cause disease. Most bacteria are nonpathogenic. It can describe the presence of non-disease causing bacteria that norma... | Nonpathogenic organisms | Biology | 314 |
960,826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messier%2023 | Messier 23, also known as NGC 6494, is an open cluster of stars in the northwest of the southern constellation of Sagittarius. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764. It can be found in good conditions with binoculars or a modestly sized telescope. It is in front of "an extensive gas and dust network", which ther... | Messier 23 | Astronomy | 338 |
42,095,159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sponge%20isolates | Lacking an immune system, protective shell, or mobility, sponges have developed an ability to synthesize a variety of unusual compounds for survival. C-nucleosides isolated from Caribbean Cryptotethya crypta, were the basis for the synthesis of zidovudine (AZT), aciclovir (Cyclovir), cytarabine (Depocyt), and cytarabi... | Sponge isolates | Chemistry,Biology | 264 |
41,688,269 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20dimensionless%20quantities | This is a list of well-known dimensionless quantities illustrating their variety of forms and applications. The tables also include pure numbers, dimensionless ratios, or dimensionless physical constants; these topics are discussed in the article.
Biology and medicine
Chemistry
Physics
Physical constants
Fluids an... | List of dimensionless quantities | Physics,Mathematics | 76 |
48,677,845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2D%20silica | Two-dimensional silica (2D silica) is a layered polymorph of silicon dioxide. Two varieties of 2D silica, both of hexagonal crystal symmetry, have been grown so far on various metal substrates. One is based on SiO4 tetrahedra, which are covalently bonded to the substrate. The second comprises graphene-like fully satura... | 2D silica | Materials_science,Engineering | 228 |
28,381,767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drosometer | A drosometer (from Classical Greek , drosos, dew + , metron, measure) is an apparatus for measuring the quantity of dew formed in a unit of time per unit area of surface.
Description
The surface may be either a horizontal metal plate or a leaf hanging naturally, or a bit of wool or cotton representing a large surface ... | Drosometer | Technology,Engineering | 399 |
964,630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CATH%20database | The CATH Protein Structure Classification database is a free, publicly available online resource that provides information on the evolutionary relationships of protein domains. It was created in the mid-1990s by Professor Christine Orengo and colleagues including Janet Thornton and David Jones, and continues to be deve... | CATH database | Chemistry,Biology | 479 |
55,055,036 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%204993 | NGC 4993 (also catalogued as NGC 4994 in the New General Catalogue) is a lenticular galaxy located about 140 million light-years away in the constellation Hydra. It was discovered on 26 March 1789 by William Herschel and is a member of the NGC 4993 Group.
NGC 4993 was the site of GW170817, a collision of two neutron ... | NGC 4993 | Astronomy | 840 |
14,199,931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edeleanu%20process | The Edeleanu process is a type of extraction process in the petroleum refining industry, whereby liquid sulfur dioxide is used to extract aromatics from kerosene. Liquid SO2 selectively dissolves the aromatics leaving behind the low aromatic content kerosene as the finished product. It is named after the Romanian chemi... | Edeleanu process | Chemistry | 150 |
899,908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess%20piece%20relative%20value | In chess, a relative value (or point value) is a standard value conventionally assigned to each piece. Piece valuations have no role in the rules of chess but are useful as an aid to evaluating a position.
The best-known system assigns 1 point to a pawn, 3 points to a knight or bishop, 5 points to a rook and 9 points ... | Chess piece relative value | Mathematics | 3,633 |
13,525,027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual%20norm | In functional analysis, the dual norm is a measure of size for a continuous linear function defined on a normed vector space.
Definition
Let be a normed vector space with norm and let denote its continuous dual space. The dual norm of a continuous linear functional belonging to is the non-negative real number de... | Dual norm | Mathematics | 1,432 |
1,312,556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Last%20Night%20of%20a%20Jockey | "The Last Night of a Jockey" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. In this episode, a diminutive jockey's wish to be a big man is granted. Rod Serling wrote the episode specifically for Mickey Rooney, who is the only actor to appear in it.
Opening narration
Plot
A jockey named M... | The Last Night of a Jockey | Physics,Mathematics | 787 |
13,401,263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copper%28I%29%20fluoride | Copper(I) fluoride or cuprous fluoride is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula CuF. Its existence is uncertain. It was reported in 1933 to have a sphalerite-type crystal structure. Modern textbooks state that CuF is not known, since fluorine is so electronegative that it will always oxidise copper to its +2 ... | Copper(I) fluoride | Chemistry | 233 |
8,705,069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure%20%28company%29 | Pure International Ltd. is a British consumer electronics company, based in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, founded in 2002. They are best known for designing and manufacturing digital audio broadcasting (DAB) and DAB+ radios. In recent years the company has moved away from being a digital radio company with more broad-b... | Pure (company) | Engineering | 546 |
36,698,981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aureoboletus%20innixus | Aureoboletus innixus is a species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae. Found in eastern North America, it was first described scientifically by Charles Christopher Frost in 1874, from collections made in New England. An edible mushroom, the convex cap grows to wide and is dull reddish brown to yellow brown. The ... | Aureoboletus innixus | Biology | 222 |
15,744,107 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtuality%20%28software%20design%29 | Virtuality is a term used by Ted Nelson for what he considers one of the central issues of software design. "Virtuality" refers to the seeming of anything, as opposed to its reality. (This has been the dictionary meaning of "virtuality" since at least the 18th century). Everything has a reality and a virtuality. Nelson... | Virtuality (software design) | Engineering | 505 |
8,266,455 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20Diederich | François Diederich (9 July 1952 – 23 September 2020) was a Luxembourgish chemist specializing in organic chemistry.
Education
He obtained both his diploma and PhD (first synthesis of Kekulene) from the University of Heidelberg in 1977 and 1979, respectively.
Career and research
After postdoctoral studies with Orville... | François Diederich | Chemistry | 724 |
1,629,687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carry%20%28arithmetic%29 | In elementary arithmetic, a carry is a digit that is transferred from one column of digits to another column of more significant digits. It is part of the standard algorithm to add numbers together by starting with the rightmost digits and working to the left. For example, when 6 and 7 are added to make 13, the "3" is ... | Carry (arithmetic) | Mathematics | 1,236 |
4,115,260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20marketing | Mobile marketing is a multi-channel online marketing technique focused at reaching a specific audience on their smartphones, feature phones, tablets, or any other related devices through websites, e-mail, SMS and MMS, social media, or mobile applications. Mobile marketing can provide customers with time and location s... | Mobile marketing | Technology | 6,327 |
10,429,786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medact | Medact is a non-profit organization and registered charity, whose mission is "to support health professionals from all disciplines to work together towards a world in which everyone can truly achieve and exercise their human right to health".
Medact was formed in 1992 following the merger of the Medical Association fo... | Medact | Engineering | 427 |
22,619,813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclopentadienylcobalt%20dicarbonyl | Cyclopentadienylcobalt dicarbonyl is an organocobalt compound with formula (C5H5)Co(CO)2, abbreviated CpCo(CO)2. It is an example of a half-sandwich complex. It is a dark red air sensitive liquid. This compound features one cyclopentadienyl ring that is bound in an η5-manner and two carbonyl ligands. The compound is ... | Cyclopentadienylcobalt dicarbonyl | Chemistry | 664 |
61,594,784 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ovine%20gammaherpesvirus%202 | Ovine gammaherpesvirus 2 (OvHV-2) is a species of virus in the genus Macavirus, subfamily Gammaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales.
References
External links
Gammaherpesvirinae | Ovine gammaherpesvirus 2 | Biology | 57 |
40,615,969 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In%20ovo | In ovo is Latin for in the egg. In medical usage it refers to the growth of live virus in chicken egg embryos for vaccine development for human use, as well as an effective method for vaccination of poultry against various Avian influenza and coronaviruses. During the incubation period, the virus replicates in the cell... | In ovo | Biology | 398 |
1,586,599 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sceptrum%20Brandenburgicum | Sceptrum Brandenburgicum (or Sceptrum Brandenburgium – Latin for scepter of Brandenburg) was a constellation created in 1688 by Gottfried Kirch, astronomer of the Prussian Royal Society of Sciences. It represented the scepter used by the royal family of the Brandenburgs. It was west from the constellation of Lepus. The... | Sceptrum Brandenburgicum | Astronomy | 138 |
19,283,589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urinal%20%28health%20care%29 | A urinal, urine bottle, or male urinal is a bottle for urination. It is most frequently used in health care for patients who find it impossible or difficult to get out of bed during sleep. Urinals allow the patient who has cognition and movement of their arms to urinate without the help of staff. A urinal bottle can al... | Urinal (health care) | Biology | 295 |
13,502,050 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold%20filter%20plugging%20point | Cold filter plugging point (CFPP) is the lowest temperature, expressed in degrees Celsius (°C), at which a given volume of diesel type of fuel still passes through a standardized filtration device in a specified time when cooled under certain conditions. This test gives an estimate for the lowest temperature that a fu... | Cold filter plugging point | Chemistry | 351 |
248,042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weissenberg%20number | The Weissenberg number (Wi) is a dimensionless number used in the study of viscoelastic flows. It is named after Karl Weissenberg. The dimensionless number compares the elastic forces to the viscous forces. It can be variously defined, but it is usually given by the relation of stress relaxation time of the fluid and a... | Weissenberg number | Chemistry,Engineering | 294 |
7,778,580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wamani | Wamani is a non-governmental organisation working on ICT issues in Argentina. In 2004, Wamani built a regional information system for the Latin American chapters of Amnesty International.
Human rights organisations in that part of the world (Latin America), such as Madres de la Plaza de Mayo have been using the servic... | Wamani | Technology | 282 |
22,856,302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infosys%20Prize | The Infosys Prize is an annual award granted to scientists, researchers, engineers and social scientists of Indian origin (not necessarily born in India) by the Infosys Science Foundation and ranks among the highest monetary awards for research in India. The prize for each category includes a gold medallion, a citation... | Infosys Prize | Technology | 475 |
23,807,785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface%20Evolver | Surface Evolver is an interactive program for the study of surfaces shaped by surface tension and other energies, and subject to various constraints. A surface is implemented as a simplicial complex. The user defines an initial surface in a datafile. The Evolver evolves the surface toward minimal energy by a gradient d... | Surface Evolver | Physics,Mathematics | 234 |
2,163,601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon%20monoxide%20%28data%20page%29 | This page provides supplementary chemical data on carbon monoxide.
Material safety data sheet
The handling of this chemical may incur notable safety precautions. It is highly recommended that you seek the material safety data sheet (MSDS) for this chemical from a reliable source such as SIRI, and follow its directio... | Carbon monoxide (data page) | Chemistry | 98 |
70,950,228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica%20M.%20Bierbaum | Veronica Marie Bierbaum is an emeritus professor of chemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder, specialising in mass spectrometry in the areas of atmospheric chemistry and stellar chemistry.
Education
Bierbaum studied for a BA in chemistry at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., graduating in ... | Veronica M. Bierbaum | Physics,Chemistry | 399 |
1,430,977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polydeuces%20%28moon%29 | Polydeuces , also designated Saturn XXXIV, is a small trojan moon of Saturn occupying the trailing Lagrange point of Dione. It was discovered by the Cassini Imaging Science Team in images taken by the Cassini space probe on 21 October 2004. With a mean diameter of about , Polydeuces is thought to have a smooth surface... | Polydeuces (moon) | Astronomy | 2,266 |
1,782,065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C8-Diazabicyclo%285.4.0%29undec-7-ene | 1,8-Diazabicyclo[5.4.0]undec-7-ene, or more commonly DBU, is a chemical compound and belongs to the class of amidine compounds. It is used in organic synthesis as a catalyst, a complexing ligand, and a non-nucleophilic base.
Occurrence
Although all commercially available DBU is produced synthetically, it may also be i... | 1,8-Diazabicyclo(5.4.0)undec-7-ene | Chemistry | 290 |
6,742,890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyword-driven%20testing | Keyword-driven testing, also known as action word based testing (not to be confused with action driven testing), is a software testing methodology suitable for both manual and automated testing. This method separates the documentation of test casesincluding both the data and functionality to usefrom the prescription of... | Keyword-driven testing | Engineering | 1,634 |
45,019,735 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niobium%20nanowire | Niobium nanowires are nanowires made of the element niobium, which is a transition metal. Niobium nanowires in form oxide or nitride are used to detect single photons at low temperatures. The superconducting nanowire single-photon detector is an example of something made from these nano-structured materials.
Reference... | Niobium nanowire | Materials_science | 83 |
1,549,715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysulfide | Polysulfides are a class of chemical compounds derived from anionic chains of sulfur atoms. There are two main classes of polysulfides: inorganic and organic. The inorganic polysulfides have the general formula . These anions are the conjugate bases of polysulfanes . Organic polysulfides generally have the formulae , w... | Polysulfide | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science | 872 |
46,779,473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%20Trianguli%20Australis | S Trianguli Australis is a yellow-white hued variable star in the constellation Triangulum Australe. It is a dim star near the lower limit of visibility with the naked eye, having a typical apparent visual magnitude of 6.41. Based upon an annual parallax shift of , it is located 3,030 light years from the Earth.
A Cla... | S Trianguli Australis | Astronomy | 208 |
29,963,420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squamanita%20schreieri | Squamanita schreieri is a species of fungus in the order Agaricales and the type species of the genus Squamanita. It is parasitic on basidiocarps (fruit bodies] of the ectomycorrhizal fungi Amanita solitaria and A. strobiliformis, replacing their caps with its own. The species was first described scientifically by Swis... | Squamanita schreieri | Biology | 154 |
34,557,525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NucleaRDB | The NucleaRDB is a database of nuclear receptors. It contains data about the sequences, ligand binding constants and mutations of those proteins.
See also
Nuclear receptor
References
External links
https://web.archive.org/web/20120409204749/http://www.receptors.org/nucleardb/.
Biological databases
Intracellular re... | NucleaRDB | Chemistry,Biology | 79 |
76,000,797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New%20materialism | New materialism is a term which refers to several theoretical perspectives within contemporary philosophy that attempt to rework the conventional ontological understanding of the material world. While many philosophical tendencies are associated with new materialism, in such a way that the movement resists a single def... | New materialism | Physics,Environmental_science | 536 |
374,002 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limit%20cardinal | In mathematics, limit cardinals are certain cardinal numbers. A cardinal number λ is a weak limit cardinal if λ is neither a successor cardinal nor zero. This means that one cannot "reach" λ from another cardinal by repeated successor operations. These cardinals are sometimes called simply "limit cardinals" when the c... | Limit cardinal | Mathematics | 830 |
10,946,528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Activating%20transcription%20factor | Activating transcription factor, ATF, is a group of bZIP transcription factors, which act as homodimers or heterodimers with a range of other bZIP factors. First, they have been described as members of the CREB/ATF family, whereas it turned out later that some of them might be more similar to AP-1-like factors such as ... | Activating transcription factor | Chemistry,Biology | 204 |
54,280,883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%207077 | NGC 7077 is a lenticular blue compact dwarf galaxy located about 56 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. Discovered by astronomer Albert Marth on August 11, 1863, the galaxy lies within the Local Void.
See also
List of NGC objects (7001–7840)
References
External links
Peculiar galax... | NGC 7077 | Astronomy | 92 |
37,464,575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russula%20rugulosa | Russula rugulosa is a species of agaric fungus in the family Russulaceae. It was first described by American mycologist Charles Horton Peck in 1902.
See also
List of Russula species
References
External links
rugulosa
Fungi described in 1902
Fungi of North America
Taxa named by Charles Horton Peck
Fungus species | Russula rugulosa | Biology | 66 |
7,066,954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-energy%20transfer | A low-energy transfer, or low-energy trajectory, is a route in space that allows spacecraft to change orbits using significantly less fuel than traditional transfers. These routes work in the Earth–Moon system and also in other systems, such as between the moons of Jupiter. The drawback of such trajectories is that the... | Low-energy transfer | Engineering | 725 |
46,674,466 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peryton%20%28astronomy%29 | In radio astronomy, perytons are short man-made radio signals of a few milliseconds resembling fast radio bursts (FRB). A peryton differs from radio frequency interference by the fact that it is a pulse of several to tens of millisecond duration which sweeps down in frequency. They are further verified by the fact that... | Peryton (astronomy) | Physics,Astronomy | 821 |
37,035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s%20Game%20of%20Life | The Game of Life, also known as Conway's Game of Life or simply Life, is a cellular automaton devised by the British mathematician John Horton Conway in 1970. It is a zero-player game, meaning that its evolution is determined by its initial state, requiring no further input. One interacts with the Game of Life by creat... | Conway's Game of Life | Mathematics | 5,798 |
11,128,582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podosphaera%20macularis | Podosphaera macularis (formerly Sphaerotheca macularis) is a plant pathogen infecting several hosts including chamomile, caneberrie, strawberries, hop, hemp and Cineraria. It causes powdery mildew of hops.
Host range and symptoms of Podosphaera macularis
The pathogen that causes powdery mildew of hops was once conside... | Podosphaera macularis | Biology | 2,154 |
1,158,925 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal%20stage | The anal stage is the second stage in Sigmund Freud's theory of psychosexual development, taking place approximately between the ages of 18 months and three years. In this stage, the anal erogenous zone becomes the primary focus of the child's libidinal energy. The main social context for the experience is the process ... | Anal stage | Biology | 903 |
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