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66,137,241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voxtalisib | Voxtalisib (XL-765, SAR245409) is a drug which acts as a dual inhibitor of the kinase enzymes phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) and mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR). It is in clinical trials for the treatment of various types of cancer.
References
Phosphoinositide 3-kinase inhibitors
Experimental cancer dru... | Voxtalisib | Chemistry | 90 |
2,903,108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/66%20Aurigae | 66 Aurigae is a single star located approximately 880 light years away from the Sun in the northern constellation of Auriga. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, orange hued star with an apparent magnitude of 5.23. This object is moving further from the Earth with a heliocentric radial velocity of +22.6 km/s.
At... | 66 Aurigae | Astronomy | 302 |
61,692 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC%20Card | PC Card is a parallel peripheral interface for laptop computers and PDAs. The PCMCIA originally introduced the 16-bit ISA-based PCMCIA Card in 1990, but renamed it to PC Card in March 1995 to avoid confusion with the name of the organization. The CardBus PC Card was introduced as a 32-bit version of the original PC Car... | PC Card | Technology | 2,684 |
2,770,094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%20Everest%20Boole | Mary Everest Boole (11 March 1832 in Wickwar, Gloucestershire – 17 May 1916 in Middlesex, England) was a self-taught mathematician who is best known as an author of didactic works on mathematics, such as Philosophy and Fun of Algebra, and as the wife of fellow mathematician George Boole. Her progressive ideas on educat... | Mary Everest Boole | Mathematics | 1,452 |
2,869,042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hicap | Hicap is a mobile technology developed by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone as a higher capacity alternative to their NTT mobile solution.
Hicap uses a 25 kHz carrier and uses FDMA to separate different calls from each other.
External links
http://www.mobileworld.org/analog_about.html
Mobile radio telephone systems | Hicap | Technology | 68 |
28,365,776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSR%20J2007%2B2722 | PSR J2007+2722 is a 40.8-hertz isolated pulsar in the Vulpecula constellation, 5.3 kpc (17,000 ly) distant in the plane of the Galaxy, and is most likely a disrupted recycled pulsar (DRP).
J2007+2722 was found on data taken by the Arecibo radio telescope in February 2007, and analyzed by volunteers Chris and Helen Col... | PSR J2007+2722 | Astronomy | 146 |
65,085 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triticale | Triticale (; × Triticosecale) is a hybrid of wheat (Triticum) and rye (Secale) first bred in laboratories during the late 19th century in Scotland and Germany. Commercially available triticale is almost always a second-generation hybrid, i.e., a cross between two kinds of primary (first-cross) triticales. As a rule, tr... | Triticale | Biology | 4,728 |
11,694,216 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opus%20vittatum | Opus vittatum ("banded work"), also called opus listatum, was an ancient Roman construction technique introduced at the beginning of the fourth century, made by parallel horizontal courses of tuff blocks alternated with bricks.
This technique was adopted during the whole 4th century, and is typical of the works of Ma... | Opus vittatum | Engineering | 80 |
46,216,773 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillium%20ianthinellum | Penicillium ianthinellum is a species of the genus of Penicillium.
References
ianthinellum
Fungi described in 1923
Fungus species | Penicillium ianthinellum | Biology | 33 |
23,986,673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonse%27s%20inequality | In number theory, Bonse's inequality, named after H. Bonse, relates the size of a primorial to the smallest prime that does not appear in its prime factorization. It states that if p1, ..., pn, pn+1 are the smallest n + 1 prime numbers and n ≥ 4, then
(the middle product is short-hand for the primorial of pn)
Math... | Bonse's inequality | Mathematics | 116 |
747,591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kammback | A Kammback—also known as a Kamm tail or K-tail—is an automotive styling feature wherein the rear of the car slopes downwards before being abruptly cut off with a vertical or near-vertical surface. A Kammback reduces aerodynamic drag, thus improving efficiency and reducing fuel consumption, while maintaining a practical... | Kammback | Chemistry,Engineering | 1,467 |
7,578,186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbit%20portrait | In mathematics, an orbit portrait is a combinatorial tool used in complex dynamics for understanding the behavior of one-complex dimensional quadratic maps.
In simple words one can say that it is :
a list of external angles for which rays land on points of that orbit
graph showing above list
Definition
Given a qua... | Orbit portrait | Physics,Mathematics | 1,428 |
14,819,769 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAND1 | Heart- and neural crest derivatives-expressed protein 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HAND1 gene.
A member of the HAND subclass of basic Helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors, the Heart and neural crest-derived transcript-1 (HAND1) gene is vital for the development and differentiation of three ... | HAND1 | Chemistry,Biology | 1,378 |
16,085,372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processing%20amplifier | Processing amplifier, commonly called ProcAmp, is used to alter, change or clean video or audio signal components or parameters in realtime.
Form factor
Broadcast professionals prefer to use hardware rack mountable ProcAmps that helps them make video broadcast safe by correcting video inconsistencies. They may also b... | Processing amplifier | Technology,Engineering | 258 |
35,886,761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omicron%20Cygni | The Bayer designation Omicron Cygni (ο Cyg / ο Cygni) is shared by two or three star systems in the constellation Cygnus. Application of the superscripts to the three stars varies in different publications; the Flamsteed designations are unambiguous:
ο1 Cygni: 31 Cygni, sometimes 30 Cygni
ο2 Cygni: 32 Cygni, sometimes... | Omicron Cygni | Astronomy | 108 |
64,293,474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeniy%20Nikulin | Yevgeniy Alexandrovich Nikulin (Евгений Александрович Никулин) is a Russian computer hacker. He was arrested in Prague in October 2016, and was charged with the hacking and data theft of several U.S. technology companies. In September 2020, he was sentenced to 88 months in prison.
Hacking career
In 2012, Nikulin was a... | Yevgeniy Nikulin | Technology | 497 |
256,461 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20heart | An artificial heart is an artificial organ device that replaces the heart. Artificial hearts are typically used to bridge the time to complete heart transplantation surgery, but research is ongoing to develop a device that could permanently replace the heart in the case that a heart transplant (from a deceased human or... | Artificial heart | Biology | 6,921 |
1,850,771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified%20atmosphere | Modified atmosphere packaging (MAP) is the practice of modifying the composition of the internal atmosphere of a package (commonly food packages, drugs, etc.) in order to improve the shelf life. The need for this technology for food arises from the short shelf life of food products such as meat, fish, poultry, and dair... | Modified atmosphere | Chemistry | 2,643 |
166,371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroclinity | In fluid dynamics, the baroclinity (often called baroclinicity) of a stratified fluid is a measure of how misaligned the gradient of pressure is from the gradient of density in a fluid. In meteorology a baroclinic flow is one in which the density depends on both temperature and pressure (the fully general case). A sim... | Baroclinity | Chemistry,Engineering | 1,452 |
64,750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20language | A computer language is a formal language used to communicate with a computer. Types of computer languages include:
Construction language – all forms of communication by which a human can specify an executable problem solution to a computer
Command language – a language used to control the tasks of the computer itsel... | Computer language | Technology | 384 |
14,795,640 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGT1A4 | UDP-glucuronosyltransferase 1-4 is an enzyme that in humans is encoded by the UGT1A4 gene.
This gene encodes a UDP-glucuronosyltransferase, an enzyme of the glucuronidation pathway that transforms small lipophilic molecules, such as steroids, bilirubin, hormones, and drugs, into water-soluble, excretable metabolites. ... | UGT1A4 | Chemistry | 276 |
10,639,301 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Candle%20snuffer | A candle snuffer, candle extinguisher, or douter is an instrument used to extinguish burning candles, consisting of a small cone at the end of a handle. The use of a snuffer helps to avoid problems associated with blowing hot wax and it avoids the smoke and odor of a smoldering wick which results from simply blowing a ... | Candle snuffer | Engineering | 436 |
71,160,165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence%20Schkade | Lawrence L. Schkade (1930–2017) was an American information systems and management science researcher.
Schkade was a native of Port Arthur, Texas, who earned his doctorate at Louisiana State University. He taught at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of North Texas before joining the University of Te... | Lawrence Schkade | Technology | 187 |
41,489,324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligent%20maintenance%20system | An intelligent maintenance system (IMS) is a system that uses collected data from machinery in order to predict and prevent potential failures in them. The occurrence of failures in machinery can be costly and even catastrophic. In order to avoid failures, there needs to be a system which analyzes the behavior of the m... | Intelligent maintenance system | Engineering | 793 |
15,509,033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photoacid | Photoacids are molecules that become more acidic upon absorption of light. Either the light causes a photodissociation to produce a strong acid, or the light causes photoassociation (such as a ring forming reaction) that leads to an increased acidity and dissociation of a proton.
There are two main types of molecules... | Photoacid | Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 632 |
26,952,327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Release%20management | Release management is the process of managing, planning, scheduling and controlling a software build through different stages and environments; it includes testing and deploying software releases.
Relationship with processes
Organizations that have adopted agile software development are seeing much higher quantities... | Release management | Engineering | 378 |
5,076,347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy%20and%20Environmental%20Security%20Initiative | Established in 2003, the Energy and Environmental Security Initiative (EESI) is an interdisciplinary Research & Policy Institute located at the University of Colorado Law School. The fundamental mission of EESI is to serve as an interdisciplinary research and policy center concerning the development and crafting of Sta... | Energy and Environmental Security Initiative | Environmental_science | 1,068 |
74,933,054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi2%20Doradus | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Pi2 Doradus}}
Pi2 Doradus, Latinized from π2 Doradus, is a solitary star located in the southern constellation Doradus. It is faintly visible to the naked eye as a yellow-hued point of light with an apparent magnitude of 5.38. The object is located relatively close at a distance of 277 light-years based... | Pi2 Doradus | Astronomy | 344 |
1,376,350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short%20interest%20ratio | The short interest ratio (also called days-to-cover ratio) represents the number of days it takes short sellers on average to cover their positions, that is repurchase all of the borrowed shares. It is calculated by dividing the number of shares sold short by the average daily trading volume, generally over the last 3... | Short interest ratio | Mathematics | 307 |
9,453,048 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C8-Octanediol | 1,8-Octanediol, also known as octamethylene glycol, is a diol with the molecular formula HO(CH)OH. 1,8-Octanediol is a white solid. It is produced by hydrogenation of esters of suberic acid.
1,8-Octanediol is used as a monomer in the synthesis of some polymers such as polyesters and polyurethanes.
As with other fa... | 1,8-Octanediol | Chemistry,Materials_science | 148 |
14,410,628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galanin%20receptor%201 | Galanin receptor 1 (GAL1) is a G-protein coupled receptor encoded by the GALR1 gene.
Function
The neuropeptide galanin elicits a range of biological effects by interaction with specific G-protein-coupled receptors. Galanin receptors are seven-trans membrane proteins shown to activate a variety of intracellular seco... | Galanin receptor 1 | Chemistry | 148 |
26,606,485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC%204651 | IC 4651 is an open cluster of stars located about 2,900 light years distant in the constellation Ara. It was first catalogued by John Louis Emil Dreyer in his 1895 version of the Index Catalogue. This is an intermediate age cluster that is billion years old. Compared to the Sun, the members of this cluster have a high... | IC 4651 | Astronomy | 209 |
2,324,639 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syngenta | Syngenta Global AG is a global agricultural technology company headquartered in Basel, Switzerland. It primarily covers crop protection and seeds for farmers. Syngenta is part of the Syngenta Group, entirely owned by Sinochem, a Chinese state-owned enterprise.
Syngenta was founded in 2000 by the merger of the agrichem... | Syngenta | Chemistry | 3,417 |
66,394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Island%20of%20stability | In nuclear physics, the island of stability is a predicted set of isotopes of superheavy elements that may have considerably longer half-lives than known isotopes of these elements. It is predicted to appear as an "island" in the chart of nuclides, separated from known stable and long-lived primordial radionuclides. It... | Island of stability | Physics,Chemistry | 6,378 |
230,079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-cultural%20communication | Cross-cultural communication is a field of study investigating how people from differing cultural backgrounds communicate, in similar and different ways among themselves, and how they endeavor to communicate across cultures. Intercultural communication is a related field of study.
Cross-cultural deals with the compari... | Cross-cultural communication | Biology | 7,649 |
2,158,485 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart%20bookmark | Smart bookmarks are an extended kind of Internet bookmark used in web browsers. By accepting an argument, they directly give access to functions of web sites, as opposed to filling web forms at the respective web site for accessing these functions. Smart bookmarks can be used for web searches, or access to data on web ... | Smart bookmark | Technology | 439 |
16,179,834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabies%20vaccine | The rabies vaccine is a vaccine used to prevent rabies. There are several rabies vaccines available that are both safe and effective. Vaccinations must be administered prior to rabies virus exposure or within the latent period after exposure to prevent the disease. Transmission of rabies virus to humans typically occur... | Rabies vaccine | Biology | 2,888 |
34,087,660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish%20pile-driving%20formula | The Danish pile-driving formula is a formula which enables one to have a good gauge of the bearing capacity of a driven pile.
History
The formula was constructed by the Danish civil engineer Andreas Knudsen in 1955. It was made as a part of his final project at The Technical University of Denmark and was published fo... | Danish pile-driving formula | Mathematics | 227 |
59,146,042 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accuracy%20paradox | The accuracy paradox is the paradoxical finding that accuracy is not a good metric for predictive models when classifying in predictive analytics. This is because a simple model may have a high level of accuracy but too crude to be useful. For example, if the incidence of category A is dominant, being found in 99% of... | Accuracy paradox | Mathematics | 280 |
1,386,551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime%20mapping | Crime mapping is used by analysts in law enforcement agencies to map, visualize, and analyze crime incident patterns. It is a key component of crime analysis and the CompStat policing strategy. Mapping crime, using Geographic Information Systems (GIS), allows crime analysts to identify crime hot spots, along with oth... | Crime mapping | Environmental_science | 715 |
357,796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constructivism%20%28philosophy%20of%20science%29 | Constructivism is a view in the philosophy of science that maintains that scientific knowledge is constructed by the scientific community, which seeks to measure and construct models of the natural world. According to constructivists, natural science consists of mental constructs that aim to explain sensory experiences... | Constructivism (philosophy of science) | Technology | 2,848 |
400,062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil%20Sloane |
Neil James Alexander Sloane FLSW (born October 10, 1939) is a British-American mathematician. His major contributions are in the fields of combinatorics, error-correcting codes, and sphere packing. Sloane is best known for being the creator and maintainer of the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS).
Biogr... | Neil Sloane | Mathematics | 745 |
50,605,630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cortinarius%20altissimus | Cortinarius altissimus is a fungus native to Guyana. It was described in 2015 by Emma Harrower and colleagues, and is closely related to the northern hemisphere species Cortinarius violaceus.
See also
List of Cortinarius species
References
External links
altissimus
Fungi described in 2015
Fungi of Guyana
Fungus spe... | Cortinarius altissimus | Biology | 69 |
37,959,983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korte%27s%20third%20law%20of%20apparent%20motion | In psychophysics, Korte's third law of apparent motion is an observation relating the phenomenon of apparent motion to the distance and duration between two successively presented stimuli.
Formulation
Korte's four laws were first proposed in 1915 by Adolf Korte. The third law, particularly, describes how the increase... | Korte's third law of apparent motion | Physics | 444 |
12,297,564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife%20of%20Ethiopia | The richness and variety of the wildlife of Ethiopia is dictated by the great diversity of terrain with wide variations in climate, soils, natural vegetation and settlement patterns. Ethiopia contains a vast highland complex of mountains and dissected plateaus divided by the Great Rift Valley, which runs generally sout... | Wildlife of Ethiopia | Biology | 1,040 |
2,221,032 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycles%20and%20fixed%20points | In mathematics, the cycles of a permutation of a finite set S correspond bijectively to the orbits of the subgroup generated by acting on S. These orbits are subsets of S that can be written as , such that
for , and .
The corresponding cycle of is written as ( c1 c2 ... cn ); this expression is not unique since ... | Cycles and fixed points | Mathematics | 895 |
24,145,055 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C21H36O2 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C21H36O2}}
The molecular formula C21H36O2 may refer to:
Allopregnanediol, or 5α-pregnane-3α,20α-diol, a steroid
Adipostatin A, an alkylresorcinol
Pregnanediol, a steroid
Molecular formulas | C21H36O2 | Physics,Chemistry | 79 |
20,213,460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veracevine | Veracevine is an alkaloid that occurs in the seeds of Schoenocaulon officinale. It is used as an insecticide in veterinary medicine.
See also
Veratridine, a related alkaloid
References
Isoquinoline alkaloids
Insecticides | Veracevine | Chemistry | 59 |
22,022,792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cybermethodology | Cybermethodology is a newly emergent field that focuses on the creative development and use of computational and technological research methodologies for the analysis of next-generation data sources such as the Internet. The first formal academic program in Cybermethodology is being developed by the University of Cali... | Cybermethodology | Technology | 623 |
54,201,555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic%20unit | Toxic units (TU) are used in the field of toxicology to quantify the interactions of toxicants in binary mixtures of chemicals. A toxic unit for a given compound is based on the concentration at which there is a 50% effect (ex. EC50) for a certain biological endpoint. One toxic unit is equal to the EC50 for a given end... | Toxic unit | Mathematics,Environmental_science | 1,688 |
47,815,949 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collagen-induced%20arthritis | Collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) is a condition induced in mice (or rats) to study rheumatoid arthritis.
CIA is induced in mice by injecting them with an emulsion of complete Freund's adjuvant and type II collagen.
In rats, only one injection is needed, but mice are normally injected twice.
References
Further readi... | Collagen-induced arthritis | Chemistry | 88 |
38,805,770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyetherketoneketone | Polyetherketoneketone (PEKK) is a semi-crystalline thermoplastic in the polyaryletherketone (PAEK) family of polymers. It possesses high heat, chemical, and mechanical load resistance. PEKK has a glass transition temperature (Tg) of 162 °C.
Applications
Hexcel Corporation (Formerly Oxford Performance Materials) manuf... | Polyetherketoneketone | Chemistry | 190 |
15,816,550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isobaric%20tag%20for%20relative%20and%20absolute%20quantitation | Isobaric tags for relative and absolute quantitation (iTRAQ) is an isobaric labeling method used in quantitative proteomics by tandem mass spectrometry to determine the amount of proteins from different sources in a single experiment.
It uses stable isotope labeled molecules that can be covalent bonded to the N-terminu... | Isobaric tag for relative and absolute quantitation | Physics,Chemistry,Biology | 368 |
69,058,158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humu%20%28software%29 | Humu is a software company that uses machine learning to send "nudges," small recommendations based in nudge theory, to employees at work. Since August 2023, it is a subsidiary of Perceptyx.
History
Humu was founded in May 2017 by former Google executives Laszlo Bock, Wayne Crosby, and Jessie Wisdom. Before founding ... | Humu (software) | Engineering,Biology | 351 |
53,518,515 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theta%20nigrum | The theta nigrum () or theta infelix () is a symbol of death in Greek and Latin epigraphy. Isidore of Seville notes the letter was appended after the name of a deceased soldier and finds of papyri containing military records have confirmed this use. Additionally it can be seen in the Gladiator Mosaic.
The term theta n... | Theta nigrum | Mathematics | 125 |
64,692,781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational%20memory%20effect | Gravitational memory effects, also known as gravitational-wave memory effects are predicted persistent changes in the relative position of pairs of masses in space due to the passing of a gravitational wave. Detection of gravitational memory effects has been suggested as a way of validating general relativity.
In 2014... | Gravitational memory effect | Physics,Astronomy | 592 |
15,494,156 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Journal%20of%20Selected%20Topics%20in%20Quantum%20Electronics | The IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal published by the IEEE Photonics Society. It covers research on quantum electronics. The editor-in-chief is José Capmany (Universitat Politècnica de València). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal... | IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics | Physics | 116 |
41,404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Net%20operation | A radio net is three or more radio stations communicating with each other on a common channel or frequency. A net is essentially a moderated conference call conducted over two-way radio, typically in half-duplex operating conditions. The use of half-duplex operation requires a very particular set of operating procedur... | Net operation | Technology | 1,136 |
2,945,164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecofascism | Ecofascism (sometimes spelled eco-fascism) is a term used to describe individuals and groups which combine environmentalism with fascism.
Philosopher André Gorz characterized eco-fascism as hypothetical forms of totalitarianism based on an ecological orientation of politics. Similar definitions have been used by other... | Ecofascism | Biology,Environmental_science | 8,460 |
27,501,362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holstein%E2%80%93Herring%20method | The Holstein–Herring method, also called the surface integral method, or Smirnov's method is an effective means of getting the exchange energy splittings of asymptotically degenerate energy states in molecular systems. Although the exchange energy becomes elusive at large internuclear systems, it is of prominent import... | Holstein–Herring method | Physics,Chemistry | 1,228 |
11,024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formant | In speech science and phonetics, a formant is the broad spectral maximum that results from an acoustic resonance of the human vocal tract. In acoustics, a formant is usually defined as a broad peak, or local maximum, in the spectrum. For harmonic sounds, with this definition, the formant frequency is sometimes taken as... | Formant | Physics | 1,898 |
71,604,473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zwackhiomyces%20calcariae | Zwackhiomyces calcariae is a species of lichenicolous fungus in the family Xanthopyreniaceae. It was first formally described in 1896 by French lichenologist Camille Flagey, as Arthopyrenia calcariae. Josef Hafellner and Nikolaus Hoffmann transferred it to the genus Zwackhiomyces in 2000. The fungus is parasitic on lic... | Zwackhiomyces calcariae | Biology | 109 |
26,421,394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinage%20metals | The coinage metals comprise those metallic chemical elements and alloys which have been used to mint coins. Historically, most coinage metals are from the three nonradioactive members of group 11 of the periodic table: copper, silver and gold. Copper is usually augmented with tin or other metals to form bronze. Gold, s... | Coinage metals | Chemistry | 2,114 |
40,203,419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandoraviridae | Pandoraviridae is a proposed family of double-stranded DNA viruses that infect amoebae. There is only one genus in this family: Pandoravirus. Several species in this genus have been described, including Pandoravirus dulcis, Pandoravirus salinus and Pandoravirus yedoma.
History
The viruses were discovered in 2013.
Des... | Pandoraviridae | Biology | 164 |
57,655,202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San%20Thang | Thang Hoa San (, ; born 28 August 1954) is an Australian chemist of Chinese-Vietnamese background.
Background
Thang was born in Saigon in 1954 to Chinese parents who migrated to Vietnam in the 1930s. He completed his Bachelor of Science at Saigon University in 1976, and worked as a chemist at SINCO, a sewing machine ... | San Thang | Chemistry,Materials_science | 391 |
14,166,786 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeobox%20protein%20MSX-1 | Homeobox protein MSX-1, is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MSX1 gene. MSX1 transcripts are not only found in thyrotrope-derived TSH cells, but also in the TtT97 thyrotropic tumor, which is a well differentiated hyperplastic tissue that produces both TSHß- and a-subunits and is responsive to thyroid hormone. ... | Homeobox protein MSX-1 | Chemistry,Biology | 919 |
35,538,241 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topological%20rigidity | In the mathematical field of topology, a manifold M is called topologically rigid if every manifold homotopically equivalent to M is also homeomorphic to M.
Motivation
A central problem in topology is determining when two spaces are the same i.e. homeomorphic or diffeomorphic. Constructing a morphism explicitly is al... | Topological rigidity | Physics,Mathematics | 699 |
342,453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center%20%28algebra%29 | The term center or centre is used in various contexts in abstract algebra to denote the set of all those elements that commute with all other elements.
The center of a group G consists of all those elements x in G such that xg = gx for all g in G. This is a normal subgroup of G.
The similarly named notion for a semig... | Center (algebra) | Mathematics | 194 |
11,485,724 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20nucleolar%20RNA%20SNORA70 | In molecular biology, Small nucleolar RNA SNORA70 (also known as U70) is a non-coding RNA (ncRNA) molecule which functions in the biogenesis (modification) of other small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs). This type of modifying RNA is located in the nucleolus of the eukaryotic cell which is a major site of snRNA biogenesis. It is... | Small nucleolar RNA SNORA70 | Chemistry | 242 |
54,339,873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Space%20Observatory%20%28Observatoire%20de%20l%27Espace%29 | The Observatoire de l’Espace (Space Observatory) is a cultural laboratory created in 2000 by CNES (the French Space Agency) to promote a new vision of outer space, different from that of popular science. Space has a major influence on people's perceptions and imagination. The Observatoire de l’Espace introduces artist... | The Space Observatory (Observatoire de l'Espace) | Astronomy | 888 |
19,747,247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monobasic | Monobasic may refer to:
A monobasic or monoprotic acid, able to donate one proton per molecule
A monobasic salt, with one hydrogen atom, with respect to the parent acid, replaced by cations
Monobasic, or Monotypic taxon, a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon
Monobasic, an a... | Monobasic | Chemistry | 126 |
5,959,283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bromo-Seltzer | Bromo-Seltzer is a brand of antacid formulated to relieve pain occurring together with heartburn, upset stomach, or acid indigestion. It originally contained sodium bromide and acetanilide, both toxic substances which were eventually removed. Its current formulation contains the pain reliever aspirin and two reactive c... | Bromo-Seltzer | Chemistry | 801 |
13,454,849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMmer | MUMmer is a bioinformatics software system for sequence alignment. It is based on the suffix tree data structure. It has been used for comparing different genomes assemblies to one another, which allows scientists to determine how a genome has changed. The acronym "MUMmer" comes from "Maximal Unique Matches", or MUMs.... | MUMmer | Biology | 746 |
1,531,409 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeomorphism%20group | In mathematics, particularly topology, the homeomorphism group of a topological space is the group consisting of all homeomorphisms from the space to itself with function composition as the group operation. They are important to the theory of topological spaces, generally exemplary of automorphism groups and topologica... | Homeomorphism group | Physics,Mathematics | 392 |
23,048,878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EchoStar%20Mobile | EchoStar Mobile Limited, an Irish company with commercial operations headquartered in the United Kingdom and a data centre based in Griesheim, Germany, is a mobile operator that provides connectivity across Europe through a converged satellite and terrestrial network. EchoStar Mobile is a subsidiary of EchoStar Corpora... | EchoStar Mobile | Technology | 1,312 |
18,598,282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levoamphetamine | Levoamphetamine{{#tag:ref|Synonyms and alternate spellings include: (IUPAC name), levamfetamine (International Nonproprietary Name [INN]), , , , and is a stimulant medication which is used in the treatment of certain medical conditions. It was previously marketed by itself under the brand name Cydril, but is now avai... | Levoamphetamine | Chemistry | 5,068 |
31,307 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau%20Ceti | Tau Ceti, Latinized from τ Ceti, is a single star in the constellation Cetus that is spectrally similar to the Sun, although it has only about 78% of the Sun's mass. At a distance of just under from the Solar System, it is a relatively nearby star and the closest solitary G-class star. The star appears stable, with li... | Tau Ceti | Astronomy | 4,707 |
39,316,365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ceiling%20effect%20%28pharmacology%29 | In pharmacology, the term ceiling effect refers to the property of increasing doses of a given medication to have progressively smaller incremental effect (an example of diminishing returns). Mixed agonist-antagonist opioids, such as nalbuphine, serve as a classic example of the ceiling effect; increasing the dose of ... | Ceiling effect (pharmacology) | Chemistry | 329 |
53,823,229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probabilistic%20signature%20scheme | Probabilistic Signature Scheme (PSS) is a cryptographic signature scheme designed by Mihir Bellare and Phillip Rogaway.
RSA-PSS is an adaptation of their work and is standardized as part of PKCS#1 v2.1. In general, RSA-PSS should be used as a replacement for RSA-PKCS#1 v1.5.
Design
PSS was specifically developed to ... | Probabilistic signature scheme | Mathematics,Engineering | 227 |
16,718,997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshiba%20Samsung%20Storage%20Technology | Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology Corporation (abbreviated TSST) is a former international joint venture company of Toshiba (Japan) and Samsung Electronics (South Korea). Toshiba used to own 51% of its stock, while Samsung used to own the remaining 49%. The company specialized in optical disc drive manufacturing. The ... | Toshiba Samsung Storage Technology | Technology | 842 |
43,203,961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-source%20inverter | A Z-source inverter is a type of power inverter, a circuit that converts direct current to alternating current. The circuit functions as a buck-boost inverter without making use of DC-DC converter bridge due to its topology.
Impedance (Z) source networks efficiently convert power between source and load from DC to DC,... | Z-source inverter | Engineering | 921 |
54,859,162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George%20McRoberts | George McRoberts (1839–1896) was a Scottish chemist and early explosives expert. He assisted Alfred Nobel in establishing the original Nobel Enterprises dynamite factory at Ardeer. He was a close colleague of Nobel and probably a close friend.
Life
He was born in 1839 in central Scotland the son of John N McRoberts a... | George McRoberts | Engineering | 362 |
1,684,895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutritional%20yeast | Nutritional yeast (also known as nooch) is a deactivated (i.e. dead) yeast, often a strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, that is sold commercially as a food product. It is sold in the form of yellow flakes, granules, or powder, and may be found in the bulk aisle of natural food stores. It is used in vegan and vegetarian... | Nutritional yeast | Biology | 523 |
72,398,699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abrothallus%20etayoi | Abrothallus etayoi is a species of lichenicolous fungus in the family Abrothallaceae. Found in Mexico, it was formally described as a new species in 2015 by Ave Suija and Sergio Pérez-Ortega. The type specimen was collected from Angahuan (Michoacán) at an elevation of ; there, in a pine-oak forest, it was found growing... | Abrothallus etayoi | Biology | 235 |
40,666,874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bis%28dinitrogen%29bis%281%2C2-bis%28diphenylphosphino%29ethane%29molybdenum%280%29 | trans-Bis(dinitrogen)bis[1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane]molybdenum(0) is a coordination complex with the formula Mo(N2)2(dppe)2. It is a relatively air stable yellow-orange solid. It is notable as being the first discovered dinitrogen containing complex of molybdenum.
Structure
Mo(N2)2(dppe)2 is an octahedral comp... | Bis(dinitrogen)bis(1,2-bis(diphenylphosphino)ethane)molybdenum(0) | Chemistry | 562 |
58,790,105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy%20Mullin | Amy S. Mullin is an American chemist and professor at the University of Maryland. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Optical Society of America. Her research focuses on molecular dynamics.
Education
Amy S. Mullin has a B.A. in chemistry fro... | Amy Mullin | Chemistry | 565 |
17,469,833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus%20hadriani | Phallus hadriani, commonly known as the dune stinkhorn or the sand stinkhorn, is a species of fungus in the Phallaceae (stinkhorn) family. The stalk of the fruit body reaches up to tall by thick, and is spongy, fragile, and hollow. At the top of the stem is a ridged and pitted, thimble-like cap over which is spread o... | Phallus hadriani | Biology | 1,153 |
7,610,007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War%20of%20the%20Ring%20%28board%20game%29 | War of the Ring is a strategy board game based on The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien. The game was made by Roberto Di Meglio, Marco Maggi and Francesco Nepitello, first produced by Nexus Editrice (Italy), and is currently published by Ares Games.
Since its first print-run it has been produced in many languages: F... | War of the Ring (board game) | Physics | 621 |
57,631,467 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%91-O | α-O (alpha-oxygen) is a reactive oxygen species formed from an oxygen-atom abstraction (OAT) from nitrous oxide (N2O) by alpha-iron (α-Fe) catalysts. The latter is defined as a high spin (S=2) divalent iron(II) ion in a constrained square planar coordination with an accessible axial coordination position. The stabiliza... | Α-O | Chemistry | 221 |
39,186,685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heptavalent%20botulism%20antitoxin | The Botulism Antitoxin Heptavalent (A, B, C, D, E, F, G) - (Equine) (trade name BAT), made by Emergent BioSolutions Canada Inc. (formerly Cangene Corporation), is a licensed, commercially available botulism anti-toxin that effectively neutralizes all seven known botulinum nerve toxin serotypes (types A, B, C, D, E, F a... | Heptavalent botulism antitoxin | Biology | 1,851 |
24,886,317 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-drive | A V-drive is a power transmission system for boats that consists (usually) of two gearboxes, two drive shafts, and a propeller.
Whereas the conventional arrangement sites the engine with its gearbox aft, driving the propeller shaft directly, in a "V-drive" layout, the engine is reversed, to have the gearbox in front... | V-drive | Engineering | 532 |
26,127,259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boring%20Billion | The Boring Billion, otherwise known as the Mid Proterozoic and Earth's Middle Ages, is an informal geological time period between 1.8 and 0.8 billion years ago (Ga) during the middle Proterozoic eon spanning from the Statherian to the Tonian periods, characterized by more or less tectonic stability, climatic stasis and... | Boring Billion | Astronomy,Biology | 5,371 |
6,789,892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALK-Abell%C3%B3 | ALK-Abelló A/S (), also commonly known as ALK, is a Denmark-based pharmaceutical company which specializes in the development and manufacturing of allergy immunotherapy (AIT) products for the prevention and treatment of allergy. It is one of the world's largest makers of allergy immunotherapy products (also known as ‘... | ALK-Abelló | Biology | 2,678 |
23,825,035 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-squeezing%20theorem | The non-squeezing theorem, also called Gromov's non-squeezing theorem, is one of the most important theorems in symplectic geometry. It was first proven in 1985 by Mikhail Gromov.
The theorem states that one cannot embed a ball into a cylinder via a symplectic map unless the radius of the ball is less than or equal t... | Non-squeezing theorem | Mathematics | 650 |
35,919,963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exeter%20point | In geometry, the Exeter point is a special point associated with a plane triangle. It is a triangle center and is designated as X(22) in Clark Kimberling's Encyclopedia of Triangle Centers. This was discovered in a computers-in-mathematics workshop at Phillips Exeter Academy in 1986. This is one of the recent triangle... | Exeter point | Physics,Mathematics | 286 |
56,520,281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Foster%20Nye | William Foster Nye (May 20, 1824 – August 12, 1910) was an American businessman and founder of a lubricating oil business in New Bedford, Massachusetts, which is still in existence today and known as Nye Lubricants. He was a relative of Bill Nye of Bill Nye the Science Guy fame.
Life and career
Nye was born in the vil... | William Foster Nye | Materials_science | 829 |
23,917,974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOX1 | SOX1 is a gene that encodes a transcription factor with a HMG-box (high mobility group) DNA-binding domain and functions primarily in neurogenesis. SOX1, SOX2 and SOX3, members of the SOX gene family (specifically the SOXB1 group), contain transcription factors related to SRY, the testis-determining factor.
SOX1 exert... | SOX1 | Chemistry,Biology | 518 |
4,579,429 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir%20Edmund%20Whittaker%20Memorial%20Prize | The Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize is awarded every four years by the Edinburgh Mathematical Society to an outstanding young mathematician having a specified connection with Scotland. It is named after Sir Edmund Whittaker.
History
After the death of Sir Edmund Whittaker in 1956, his son John Macnaghten Whittaker... | Sir Edmund Whittaker Memorial Prize | Technology | 389 |
5,435,674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20shadow | An acoustic shadow or sound shadow is an area through which sound waves fail to propagate, due to topographical obstructions or disruption of the waves via phenomena such as wind currents, buildings, or sound barriers.
Short-distance acoustic shadow
A short-distance acoustic shadow occurs behind a building or a sound... | Acoustic shadow | Physics | 465 |
21,836,950 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampulloclitocybe%20clavipes | Ampulloclitocybe clavipes, commonly known as the club-foot or club-footed clitocybe, is a species of gilled mushroom from Europe and North America. The grey brown mushrooms have yellowish decurrent gills and a bulbous stalk, and are found in deciduous and conifer woodlands. Although considered edible, disulfiram-like r... | Ampulloclitocybe clavipes | Biology | 1,091 |
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