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64,080,299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumento%20a%20la%20Virgen%20de%20la%20Paz | The Monumento a la Virgen de la Paz is a colossal statue honoring Mary. Completely made out of concrete, it is located southwest of the city of Trujillo in Venezuela. At tall it is the 48th tallest statue in the world, the tallest statue in South America and the second-tallest in the Americas, the fourth-tallest stat... | Monumento a la Virgen de la Paz | Physics,Mathematics | 2,094 |
65,446,330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20217786 | HD 217786 is a binary star system in the equatorial constellation of Pisces. With an apparent visual magnitude of 7.78, it requires binoculars or a small telescope to view. The system is located at a distance of from the Sun based on parallax, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +10 km/s. Kinematica... | HD 217786 | Astronomy | 444 |
674,582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilinear%20interpolation | Trilinear interpolation is a method of multivariate interpolation on a 3-dimensional regular grid. It approximates the value of a function at an intermediate point within the local axial rectangular prism linearly, using function data on the lattice points.
Trilinear interpolation is frequently used in numerical ana... | Trilinear interpolation | Physics | 743 |
2,219,552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavens-Above | Heavens-Above is a non-profit website developed and maintained by Chris Peat as Heavens-Above GmbH. The web site is dedicated to helping people observe and track satellites orbiting the Earth without the need for optical equipment such as binoculars or telescopes. It provides detailed star charts showing the trajectory... | Heavens-Above | Astronomy | 253 |
48,640,084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron%20%28software%20framework%29 | Electron (formerly known as Atom Shell) is a free and open-source software framework developed and maintained by OpenJS Foundation. The framework is designed to create desktop applications using web technologies (mainly HTML, CSS and JavaScript, although other technologies such as front-end frameworks and WebAssembly a... | Electron (software framework) | Technology | 607 |
62,014,670 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual%20Viking%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Ambush | Virtual Viking – The Ambush is a 2019 short film directed by Erik Gustavson, using volumetric video capture to create one of the first films in virtual reality. Produced for The Viking Planet centre in Oslo, Norway, the film is part of a wider exhibition of the lives of Norse seafarers and uses a number of VR headsets ... | Virtual Viking – The Ambush | Technology | 181 |
23,426,056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TDIQ | TDIQ (also known as 6,7-methylenedioxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinoline or MDTHIQ) is a drug used in scientific research, which has anxiolytic and anorectic effects in animals. It has an unusual effects profile in animals, with the effects generalising to cocaine and partially to MDMA and ephedrine, but the effects did n... | TDIQ | Chemistry | 206 |
4,346,564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core%20OpenGL | Core OpenGL, or CGL, is Apple Inc.'s Macintosh Quartz windowing system interface to the OS X implementation of the OpenGL specification. CGL is analogous to GLX, which is the X11 interface to OpenGL, as well as WGL, which is the Microsoft Windows interface to OpenGL.
History
All windowing system interfaces to OpenGL a... | Core OpenGL | Technology | 956 |
41,081,248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza%20A%20virus%20subtype%20H6N1 | Influenza A virus subtype H6N1 (A/H6N1), is a subtype of the influenza A virus. It has only infected one person, a woman in Taiwan, who recovered. Known to infect Eurasian teal, it is closely related to subtype H5N1.
References
Bird diseases
H6N1 | Influenza A virus subtype H6N1 | Biology | 72 |
910,926 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subspace%20topology | In topology and related areas of mathematics, a subspace of a topological space X is a subset S of X which is equipped with a topology induced from that of X called the subspace topology (or the relative topology, or the induced topology, or the trace topology).
Definition
Given a topological space and a subset of... | Subspace topology | Physics,Mathematics | 1,182 |
45,285,235 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillium%20coffeae | Penicillium coffeae is a fungus species of the genus of Penicillium which was isolated from the plant Coffea arabica L. in Hawaii. Insects play a role in spreading Penicillium coffeae.
See also
List of Penicillium species
References
Further reading
coffeae
Fungi described in 2005
Fungus species | Penicillium coffeae | Biology | 72 |
572,352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complete%20partial%20order | In mathematics, the phrase complete partial order is variously used to refer to at least three similar, but distinct, classes of partially ordered sets, characterized by particular completeness properties. Complete partial orders play a central role in theoretical computer science: in denotational semantics and domain ... | Complete partial order | Mathematics | 1,490 |
49,326,597 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray%20laser | A gamma-ray laser, or graser, is a hypothetical device that would produce coherent gamma rays, just as an ordinary laser produces coherent rays of visible light. Potential applications for gamma-ray lasers include medical imaging, spacecraft propulsion, and cancer treatment.
In his 2003 Nobel lecture, Vitaly Ginzburg... | Gamma-ray laser | Physics | 971 |
333,219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eulerian%20path | In graph theory, an Eulerian trail (or Eulerian path) is a trail in a finite graph that visits every edge exactly once (allowing for revisiting vertices). Similarly, an Eulerian circuit or Eulerian cycle is an Eulerian trail that starts and ends on the same vertex. They were first discussed by Leonhard Euler while solv... | Eulerian path | Mathematics | 3,156 |
240,228 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological%20pump | The biological pump (or ocean carbon biological pump or marine biological carbon pump) is the ocean's biologically driven sequestration of carbon from the atmosphere and land runoff to the ocean interior and seafloor sediments. In other words, it is a biologically mediated process which results in the sequestering of c... | Biological pump | Chemistry,Biology | 12,634 |
19,242,924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Issues%20relating%20to%20biofuels | Issues relating to biofuel are social, economic, environmental and technical problems that may arise from biofuel production and use. Social and economic issues include the "food vs fuel" debate and the need to develop responsible policies and economic instruments to ensure sustainable biofuel production. Farming for b... | Issues relating to biofuels | Biology | 4,476 |
32,958,853 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botryosphaeria%20corticola | Bot canker of oak is a disease on stems, branches and twigs of oak trees in Europe and North America. The casual agent of Bot canker of oak is the fungus Botryosphaeria corticola. Bot canker of oak causes lesions and cankers on a wide range of oaks in Europe and most recently live oaks in North America. Some infecti... | Botryosphaeria corticola | Biology | 711 |
5,720,835 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney%20Coordinated%20Adaptive%20Traffic%20System | The Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System, abbreviated SCATS, is an intelligent transportation system that manages the dynamic (on-line, real-time) timing of signal phases at traffic signals, meaning that it tries to find the best phasing (i.e. cycle times, phase splits and offsets) for a traffic situation (for in... | Sydney Coordinated Adaptive Traffic System | Technology | 1,767 |
412,384 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port%20of%20entry | In general, a port of entry (POE) is a place where one may lawfully enter a country. It typically has border security staff and facilities to check passports and visas and to inspect luggage to assure that contraband is not imported. International airports are usually ports of entry, as are road and rail crossings on a... | Port of entry | Physics | 1,177 |
10,144,966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solenoid%20%28DNA%29 | The solenoid structure of chromatin is a model for the structure of the 30 nm fibre. It is a secondary chromatin structure which helps to package eukaryotic DNA into the nucleus.
Background
Chromatin was first discovered by Walther Flemming by using aniline dyes to stain it. In 1974, it was first proposed by Roger Ko... | Solenoid (DNA) | Chemistry,Biology | 1,609 |
145,128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic%20efficiency | In computer science, algorithmic efficiency is a property of an algorithm which relates to the amount of computational resources used by the algorithm. Algorithmic efficiency can be thought of as analogous to engineering productivity for a repeating or continuous process.
For maximum efficiency it is desirable to mini... | Algorithmic efficiency | Technology | 3,629 |
1,501,233 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20fault | On the x86 architecture, a double fault exception occurs if the processor encounters a problem while trying to service a pending interrupt or exception. An example situation when a double fault would occur is when an interrupt is triggered but the segment in which the interrupt handler resides is invalid. If the proces... | Double fault | Technology | 212 |
31,155,242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGC%206945 | UGC 6945 (also known as Arp 194) is a trio of interacting galaxies. The highly disrupted galaxy to the northwest is actually two galaxies in the advanced stages of merger, and has an angular size of . About 40″ to the southeast is a third galaxy with an angular size of .
Based upon a radial velocity of about 10,500 km... | UGC 6945 | Astronomy | 286 |
630,088 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vela%20%28satellite%29 | Vela was the name of a group of satellites developed as the Vela Hotel element of Project Vela by the United States to detect nuclear detonations and monitor Soviet Union compliance with the 1963 Partial Test Ban Treaty.
Vela started out as a small budget research program in 1959. It ended 26 years later as a successf... | Vela (satellite) | Physics,Astronomy,Technology | 1,884 |
28,413,819 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly%28p-phenylene%20oxide%29 | Poly(p-phenylene oxide) (PPO), poly(p-phenylene ether) (PPE), poly(oxy-2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene), often referred to simply as polyphenylene oxide, is a high-temperature thermoplastic with the general formula (C8H8O)n. It is rarely used in its pure form due to difficulties in processing. It is mainly used as blend wit... | Poly(p-phenylene oxide) | Chemistry,Materials_science | 702 |
36,886,954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bipartite%20matroid | In mathematics, a bipartite matroid is a matroid all of whose circuits have even size.
Example
A uniform matroid is bipartite if and only if is an odd number, because the circuits in such a matroid have size .
Relation to bipartite graphs
Bipartite matroids were defined by as a generalization of the bipartite grap... | Bipartite matroid | Mathematics | 373 |
44,939,434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interferon-stimulated%20gene | An interferon-stimulated gene (ISG) is a gene that can be expressed in response to stimulation by interferon. Interferons bind to receptors on the surface of a cell, initiating protein signaling pathways within the cell. This interaction leads to the expression of a subset of genes involved in the innate immune system ... | Interferon-stimulated gene | Chemistry | 1,197 |
24,507,568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gymnopilus%20subtropicus | Gymnopilus subtropicus is a species of agaric fungus in the family Hymenogastraceae.
Taxonomy and Phylogeny
The scientific name for this species is Gymnopilus subtropicus. It was first described by mycologist Lexemuel Ray Hesler in his 1969 monograph "North American Species of Gymnopilus", with the type collections m... | Gymnopilus subtropicus | Biology | 747 |
55,383,649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taper%20burn%20mark | Taper burn marks are deep flame shaped scorch marks often found on the timber beams of early modern houses. They were originally thought to have been accidental scorches from a taper candle, but research suggests that most marks may have been made deliberately, as there is clear patterning of the activity. They are the... | Taper burn mark | Biology | 141 |
797,238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford%E2%80%93Klein%20form | In mathematics, a Clifford–Klein form is a double coset space
,
where G is a reductive Lie group, H a closed subgroup of G, and Γ a discrete subgroup of G that acts properly discontinuously on the homogeneous space G/H. A suitable discrete subgroup Γ may or may not exist, for a given G and H. If Γ exists, there is t... | Clifford–Klein form | Physics,Mathematics | 399 |
66,341,767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Task%20Force%20on%20Process%20Mining | The IEEE Task Force on Process Mining (TFPM) is a non-commercial association for process mining. The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Task Force on Process Mining was established in October 2009 as part of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society at the Eindhoven University of Technology.
T... | Task Force on Process Mining | Technology | 413 |
42,194,912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyophyllum%20eucalypticum | Lyophyllum eucalypticum is a species of fungus in the family Lyophyllaceae. Found in Australia, it was first described as a species of Tricholoma by English mycologist Arthur Anselm Pearson in 1951. Meinhard Michael Moser transferred it to Lyophyllum in 1986. This white, wooly tropical mushroom is similar to other mush... | Lyophyllum eucalypticum | Biology | 145 |
75,185,887 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT%201137-0337 | VT 1137-0337 is a extragalactic pulsar wind nebula (possibly a magnetar nebula) that is located 395 million light years away from planet earth in the dwarf galaxy named SDSS J113706.18-033737.1, a galaxy going through a burst of star formation. It was created through the supernova of a massive star just 14-80 years ago... | VT 1137-0337 | Astronomy | 217 |
43,114,929 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20prostitution | The Internet has become one of the preferred methods of communication for prostitution, as clients and prostitutes are less vulnerable to arrest or assault and for its convenience.
Origins of Internet advertising
During the latter half of the twentieth century, most off-street prostitution was advertised locally using... | Internet prostitution | Technology | 1,473 |
11,438,601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battery%20indicator | A battery indicator (also known as a battery gauge) is a device which gives information about a battery. This will usually be a visual indication of the battery's state of charge. It is particularly important in the case of a battery electric vehicle.
Automobiles
Some automobiles are fitted with a battery condition... | Battery indicator | Technology,Engineering | 713 |
10,295,673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber%20disk%20laser | A fiber disk laser is a fiber laser with transverse delivery of the pump light. They are characterized by the pump beam not being parallel to the active core of the optical fiber (as in a double-clad fiber), but directed to the coil of the fiber at an angle (usually, between 10 and 40 degrees). This allows use of the s... | Fiber disk laser | Chemistry | 446 |
27,090,911 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthropod%20bites%20and%20stings | Many species of arthropods (insects, arachnids, millipedes and centipedes) can bite or sting human beings. These bites and stings generally occur as a defense mechanism or during normal arthropod feeding. While most cases cause self-limited irritation, medically relevant complications include envenomation, allergic rea... | Arthropod bites and stings | Biology | 2,387 |
73,960,946 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retiperidiolia | Retiperidiolia is a genus of fungi in the family Nidulariaceae. Basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are typically under 10 mm in diameter and irregularly spherical. Each produces a number of peridioles which contain the spores and are released from the disintegrating fruit bodies at maturity. Species are usually found growing ... | Retiperidiolia | Biology | 144 |
7,668,353 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amadori%20rearrangement | The Amadori rearrangement is an organic reaction describing the acid or base catalyzed isomerization or rearrangement reaction of the N-glycoside of an aldose or the glycosylamine to the corresponding 1-amino-1-deoxy-ketose. The reaction is important in carbohydrate chemistry, specifically the glycation of hemoglobin ... | Amadori rearrangement | Chemistry | 416 |
70,847,281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsulimonas | Capsulimonas is a Gram-negative, non-spore-forming, aerobic and non-motile genus of bacteria from the family of Capsulimonadaceae with one known species (Capsulimonas corticalis). Capsulimonas corticalis has been isolated from the surface of a beech (Fagus crenata)
See also
List of bacterial orders
List of bacteria ... | Capsulimonas | Biology | 99 |
17,673,401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrological%20model | A hydrologic model is a simplification of a real-world system (e.g., surface water, soil water, wetland, groundwater, estuary) that aids in understanding, predicting, and managing water resources. Both the flow and quality of water are commonly studied using hydrologic models.
Analog models
Prior to the advent of co... | Hydrological model | Biology,Environmental_science | 2,629 |
41,729,693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%20Vulpeculae | T Vulpeculae is a possible binary star system in the northern constellation of Vulpecula, near the star Zeta Cygni, close to the pair 31 Vulpeculae and 32 Vulpeculae. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude that ranges around 5.75. The distance to this system is around 1,900 light years, as det... | T Vulpeculae | Astronomy | 317 |
21,953,783 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selected%20reaction%20monitoring | Selected reaction monitoring (SRM), also called multiple reaction monitoring (MRM), is a method used in tandem mass spectrometry in which an ion of a particular mass is selected in the first stage of a tandem mass spectrometer and an ion product of a fragmentation reaction of the precursor ions is selected in the seco... | Selected reaction monitoring | Physics,Chemistry | 878 |
42,872,715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tambjamine | Tambjamines are a group of natural products that are structurally related to the prodiginines. They are enamine derivatives of 4-methoxy-2,2'-bipyrrole-5-carboxaldehyde (MBC).
Chemical structure
Tambjamines are composed of two pyrrole rings with an enamine moiety at C-5 and a methoxy group at C-4: the majority have s... | Tambjamine | Chemistry | 566 |
5,907,652 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardware%20bug | A hardware bug is a bug in computer hardware. It is the hardware counterpart of software bug, a defect in software. A bug is different from a glitch which describes an undesirable behavior as more quick, transient and repeated than constant, and different from a quirk which is a behavior that may be considered useful ... | Hardware bug | Engineering | 390 |
17,303,780 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerodynamic%20potential-flow%20code | In fluid dynamics, aerodynamic potential flow codes or panel codes are used to determine the fluid velocity, and subsequently the pressure distribution, on an object. This may be a simple two-dimensional object, such as a circle or wing, or it may be a three-dimensional vehicle.
A series of singularities as sources, ... | Aerodynamic potential-flow code | Chemistry,Engineering | 1,111 |
3,913,867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimal%20virulence | Optimal virulence is a concept relating to the ecology of hosts and parasites. One definition of virulence is the host's parasite-induced loss of fitness. The parasite's fitness is determined by its success in transmitting offspring to other hosts. For about 100 years, the consensus was that virulence decreased and par... | Optimal virulence | Biology | 1,639 |
42,382,863 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium%20hydroxychloride | Magnesium hydroxychloride is the traditional term for several chemical compounds of magnesium, chlorine, oxygen, and hydrogen whose general formula , for various values of x, y, and z; or, equivalently, . The simple chemical formula that is often used is Mg(OH)Cl, which appears in high school subject, for example.Other... | Magnesium hydroxychloride | Chemistry | 1,936 |
6,354,416 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grebbe%20Line | The Grebbe Line (Dutch: Grebbelinie) was a forward defence line of the Dutch Water Line, based on inundation. The Grebbe Line ran from the Grebbeberg in Rhenen northwards until the IJsselmeer.
Early history and first decommissioning
The Grebbe Line was first established in 1745 as a line of defense to protect the Neth... | Grebbe Line | Engineering | 1,959 |
15,145 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO%209660 | ISO 9660 (also known as ECMA-119) is a file system for optical disc media. The file system is an international standard available from the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Since the specification is available for anybody to purchase, implementations have been written for many operating systems.
IS... | ISO 9660 | Technology | 6,165 |
13,535,882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlying%20territory | An outlying territory or separate area is a state territory geographically separated from its parent territory and lies beyond Exclusive Economic Zone of its parent territory.
The tables below are lists of outlying territories which are marked by distinct, non-contiguous maritime boundaries or land boundaries:
Outly... | Outlying territory | Physics | 133 |
74,735,914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TM5441 | TM5441 is a drug which acts as an inhibitor of the serpin protein plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1). By inhibiting PAI-1, it increases activity of the enzymes tissue plasminogen activator and urokinase, which are involved in the blood clotting cascade. It has been researched for conditions such as hepatic steat... | TM5441 | Chemistry | 136 |
2,898,697 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau%20Aurigae | Tau Aurigae, Latinized from τ Aurigae, is a star in the northern constellation Auriga. It is visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.505, and is approximately distant from Earth.
Tau Aurigae is an evolved giant star with a stellar classification of G8 III. It has expanded to 11 times the radiu... | Tau Aurigae | Astronomy | 188 |
12,953,377 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%20Lotfi%20A.%20Zadeh%20Award%20for%20Emerging%20Technologies | The IEEE Lotfi A. Zadeh Award for Emerging Technologies (until 2020 IEEE Daniel E. Noble Award) is a Technical Field Award of the IEEE for contributions to emerging technologies. The award is named after the US-Azerbaijani mathematician Lotfi A. Zadeh. The award was established by the IEEE Board of Directors in 2000, r... | IEEE Lotfi A. Zadeh Award for Emerging Technologies | Technology | 358 |
290,146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uziel%20Gal | Uziel "Uzi" Gal (, born Gotthard Glas; 15 December 1923 – 7 September 2002) was a German-born Israeli firearm designer who invented and became the eponym of the Uzi submachine gun.
Biography
Gal was born in Weimar, Germany to Miele and Erich Glas. When the Nazis came to power in 1933, he first moved to the United Kin... | Uziel Gal | Engineering | 476 |
5,107,070 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmalol | Harmalol is a bioactive beta-carboline and a member of the harmala alkaloids.
Legal status
Australia
Harmala alkaloids are considered Schedule 9 prohibited substances under the Poisons Standard (October 2015). A Schedule 9 substance is a substance which may be abused or misused, the manufacture, possession, sale or u... | Harmalol | Chemistry | 130 |
1,829,947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KITT | KITT or K.I.T.T. is the common name of two fictional characters from the action franchise Knight Rider.
In both instances, KITT is an artificially intelligent electronic computer module in the body of a highly advanced, very mobile, robotic automobile.
The original KITT is known as the Knight Industries Two Thousand,... | KITT | Technology | 9,533 |
29,504,901 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20says%20no | "Computer says no" is a catchphrase first used in the British sketch comedy television programme Little Britain in 2004. In British culture, the phrase is used to criticise public-facing organisations and customer service staff who rely on information stored on or generated by a computer to make decisions and respond t... | Computer says no | Technology | 646 |
13,713,557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxostat | An auxostat is a continuous culture device which, while in operation, uses feedback from a measurement taken on the growth chamber to control the media flow rate, maintaining the measurement at a constant.
Auxo was the Greek goddess of spring growth, and represents nutrients as a prefix. However, the most typical auxo... | Auxostat | Chemistry,Engineering,Biology | 103 |
17,630,523 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BanxQuote | BanxQuote was a provider and licensor of indexes and analytics, which were used as a barometer of the U.S. banking and mortgage markets. Its bank rate website and consumer banking marketplace featured daily updated market rates on banking, mortgage and loan products in the United States, until its close in 2010.
Histo... | BanxQuote | Technology | 937 |
634,932 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infatuation | Infatuation, also known as being smitten, is the personal state of being overly driven by an uninformed or otherwise unreasonable passion, usually towards another person for whom one has developed strong romantic or sexual feelings.
Psychologist Frank D. Cox said that infatuation could be distinguished from romantic l... | Infatuation | Biology | 1,882 |
5,052,383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%20bridge | A Maxwell bridge is a modification to a Wheatstone bridge used to measure an unknown inductance (usually of low Q value) in terms of calibrated resistance and inductance or resistance and capacitance. When the calibrated components are a parallel resistor and capacitor, the bridge is known as a Maxwell bridge. It is n... | Maxwell bridge | Physics,Technology,Engineering | 889 |
42,695,664 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt%20Jensen%20%28computer%20scientist%29 | Kurt Jensen (born 1950) is a Danish computer science professor at Aarhus University has been writing peer-reviewed papers since 1976, and by 2014 had an h-index of 32. He is best known for his research into coloured Petri nets.
References
Living people
1950 births
Academic staff of Aarhus University
Danish computer s... | Kurt Jensen (computer scientist) | Technology | 72 |
13,127,033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood%20risk%20assessment | A flood risk assessment (FRA) is an assessment of the risk of flooding from all flooding mechanisms, the identification of flood mitigation measures and should provide advice on actions to be taken before and during a flood. The sources of water which produce floods include: groundwater, surface water (rivers, streams ... | Flood risk assessment | Chemistry,Engineering | 1,036 |
4,067,918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical%20and%20horizontal%20bundles | In mathematics, the vertical bundle and the horizontal bundle are vector bundles associated to a smooth fiber bundle. More precisely, given a smooth fiber bundle , the vertical bundle and horizontal bundle are subbundles of the tangent bundle of whose Whitney sum satisfies . This means that, over each point , the f... | Vertical and horizontal bundles | Mathematics | 1,424 |
7,324,297 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genome-based%20peptide%20fingerprint%20scanning | Genome-based peptide fingerprint scanning (GFS) is a system in bioinformatics analysis that attempts to identify the genomic origin (that is, what species they come from) of sample proteins by scanning their peptide-mass fingerprint against the theoretical translation and proteolytic digest of an entire genome. This m... | Genome-based peptide fingerprint scanning | Chemistry,Engineering,Biology | 887 |
2,650,443 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobe%20Steel | Kobe Steel, Ltd. (株式会社神戸製鋼所, Kabushiki gaisha Kōbe Seikō-sho), is a major Japanese steel manufacturer headquartered in Chūō-ku, Kobe. KOBELCO is the unified brand name of the Kobe Steel Group.
Kobe Steel has the lowest proportion of steel operations of any major steelmaker in Japan and is characterised as a conglomera... | Kobe Steel | Engineering | 1,382 |
271,143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresnel%20integral | The Fresnel integrals and are two transcendental functions named after Augustin-Jean Fresnel that are used in optics and are closely related to the error function (). They arise in the description of near-field Fresnel diffraction phenomena and are defined through the following integral representations:
The parametr... | Fresnel integral | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Mathematics | 1,359 |
427,292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User%20equipment | In the Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) and 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE), user equipment (UE) is any device used directly by an end-user to communicate. It can be a hand-held telephone, a laptop computer equipped with a mobile broadband adapter, or any other device. It connects to the base station No... | User equipment | Technology | 284 |
74,384,507 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanmaoa%20asiatica | Lanmaoa asiatica is a species of bolete mushroom in the family Boletaceae that is native to southwest China and adjacent regions. It is reddish in color and it is an ectomycorrhizal symbiote of the Yunnan Pine, Pinus yunnanensis.
It is considered a choice wild edible in Yunnan Province and may have hallucinogenic comp... | Lanmaoa asiatica | Biology | 161 |
33,020,517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentagonal%20polytope | In geometry, a pentagonal polytope is a regular polytope in n dimensions constructed from the Hn Coxeter group. The family was named by H. S. M. Coxeter, because the two-dimensional pentagonal polytope is a pentagon. It can be named by its Schläfli symbol as {5, 3n − 2} (dodecahedral) or {3n − 2, 5} (icosahedral).
Fam... | Pentagonal polytope | Physics | 981 |
5,444,091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knob-and-tube%20wiring | Knob-and-tube wiring (sometimes abbreviated K&T) is an early standardized method of electrical wiring in buildings, in common use in North America from about 1880 to the 1930s. It consisted of single-insulated copper conductors run within wall or ceiling cavities, passing through joist and stud drill-holes via protecti... | Knob-and-tube wiring | Physics,Engineering | 2,118 |
33,014,565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gadofosveset | Gadofosveset (trade names Vasovist, Ablavar) is a gadolinium-based MRI contrast agent. It was used as the trisodium salt monohydrate form. It acts as a blood pool agent by binding to human serum albumin. The manufacturer (Lantheus Medical) discontinued production in 2017 due to poor sales.
Gadofosveset consists of a ... | Gadofosveset | Chemistry | 180 |
2,720,244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational%20epidemiology | Computational epidemiology is a multidisciplinary field that uses techniques from computer science, mathematics, geographic information science and public health to better understand issues central to epidemiology such as the spread of diseases or the effectiveness of a public health intervention. Computational epidemi... | Computational epidemiology | Mathematics,Environmental_science | 248 |
1,944,827 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaimingjie%20germ%20weapon%20attack | The Kaimingjie germ weapon attack () was a secret biological warfare launched by Japan in October 1940 against the Kaiming Street area of Ningbo, Zhejiang, China. A joint operation of the Imperial Japanese Army's Unit 731 and Unit 1644, this attack was operated by military planes taking off from Jianqiao Airport in Han... | Kaimingjie germ weapon attack | Biology | 7,863 |
38,393,517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramaria%20cokeri | Ramaria cokeri is a coral mushroom in the family Gomphaceae. It was described in 1976 from the Appalachian Mountains in the United States. Some authors have proposed to place the species in a separate genus Phaeoclavulina based on molecular analyses, but this was explicitly rejected in a subsequent publication due to t... | Ramaria cokeri | Biology | 159 |
3,263,791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice%20constant | A lattice constant or lattice parameter is one of the physical dimensions and angles that determine the geometry of the unit cells in a crystal lattice, and is proportional to the distance between atoms in the crystal. A simple cubic crystal has only one lattice constant, the distance between atoms, but in general latt... | Lattice constant | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science | 944 |
40,662,884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bottlenose%20%28company%29 | Bottlenose.com, also known as Bottlenose, is an enterprise trend intelligence company that analyzes big data and business data to detect trends for brands. It helps Fortune 500 enterprises discover, and track emerging trends that affect their brands. The company uses natural language processing, sentiment analysis, sta... | Bottlenose (company) | Technology | 468 |
5,162,760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frzb | Frzb (pronounced like the toy frisbee) is a Wnt-binding protein especially important in embryonic development. It is a competitor for the cell-surface G-protein receptor Frizzled.
Frizzled is a tissue polarity gene in Drosophila melanogaster and encodes integral proteins that function as cell-surface receptors for Wnt... | Frzb | Chemistry,Biology | 958 |
23,809,963 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microstoma%20floccosum | Microstoma floccosum is a species in the cup fungus family Sarcoscyphaceae. It is recognizable by its deep funnel-shaped, scarlet-colored fruit bodies bearing white hairs on the exterior. Found in the United States and Asia, it grows on partially buried sticks and twigs of oak trees.
Taxonomy
One variant species has b... | Microstoma floccosum | Biology | 635 |
21,521,968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOA%20Technologies | TOA Technologies is an American software-as-a-service company that develops, markets and sells ETAdirect, a web-based applications solution for companies with small, medium, and large mobile workforces across the world.
Headquartered in Beachwood, Ohio, its products include advanced tools for automating and optimizing... | TOA Technologies | Technology | 634 |
50,718,063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gephyronic%20acid | Gephyronic acid is a polyketide that exists as an equilibrating mixture of structural isomers. In nature, gephyronic acid is produced by slow growing myxobacterium: Archangium gephyra strain Ar3895 and Cystobacter violaceus strain Cb vi76. It is the first antibiotic in myxobacteria that was reported to specifically in... | Gephyronic acid | Chemistry | 980 |
63,627,383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%201347 | NGC 1347 is a barred spiral galaxy situated in the constellation of Eridanus. It is at a distance of 81 million light years and is a member of the Eridanus cluster, a cluster of about 200 galaxies.
NGC 1347 has a Hubble classification of SBc, which indicates it is a barred spiral galaxy. It is moving away from the Mil... | NGC 1347 | Astronomy | 159 |
45,178,493 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvella%20albella | Helvella albella is a species of fungus in the family Helvellaceae that is found in Europe and North America. It was described by French mycologist Lucien Quélet in 1896.
References
albella
Fungi described in 1896
Fungi of Europe
Fungi of North America
Fungus species | Helvella albella | Biology | 60 |
63,992,022 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoslactomycin%20B | Phoslactomycin (PLM) is a natural product from the isolation of Streptomyces species. This is an inhibitor of the protein serine/threonine phosphatase which is the protein phosphate 2A (PP2A). The PP2A involves the growth factor of the cell such as to induce the formation of mitogen-activated protein interaction and pl... | Phoslactomycin B | Chemistry | 907 |
1,571,487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20114729 | HD 114729 is a Sun-like star with an orbiting exoplanet in the southern constellation of Centaurus. Based on parallax measurements, it is located at a distance of 124 light years from the Sun. It is near the lower limit of visibility to the naked eye, having an apparent visual magnitude of 6.68 The system is drifting f... | HD 114729 | Astronomy | 388 |
22,556,798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAC611 | Socket PAC611 is a 611 pin microprocessor socket designed to interface an Intel Itanium 2 processor to the rest of the computer (usually via the motherboard). It provides both an electrical interface as well as physical support. This socket is designed to support a microprocessor module.
Technical specifications
Socke... | PAC611 | Technology | 125 |
13,802,176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spot%20zoning | Spot zoning is the application of zoning to a specific parcel or parcels of land within a larger zoned area when the rezoning is usually at odds with a city's master plan and current zoning restrictions. Spot zoning may be ruled invalid as an "arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable treatment" of a limited parcel of lan... | Spot zoning | Engineering | 953 |
1,060,909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Residual%20strength | Residual strength is the load or force (usually mechanical) that a damaged object or material can still carry without failing. Material toughness, fracture size and geometry as well as its orientation all contribute to residual strength.
References
Materials science | Residual strength | Physics,Materials_science,Engineering | 47 |
44,605,851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gynomorph | Gynomorph is a word used to describe an organism with female physical characteristics.
Mythology
In Greek mythology and religion, a gynomorph was a bi-gendered god with both masculine and feminine characteristics. Gynomorphs were portrayed as effeminate young males, like Dionysos, a masculine god who possessed distin... | Gynomorph | Biology | 264 |
1,065,470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code%20injection | Code injection is a computer security exploit where a program fails to correctly process external data, such as user input, causing it to interpret the data as executable commands. An attacker using this method "injects" code into the program while it is running. Successful exploitation of a code injection vulnerabilit... | Code injection | Technology | 3,504 |
13,629,364 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20nucleolar%20RNA%20SNORD99 | In molecular biology, Small Nucleolar RNA SNORD99 (also known as HBII-420) 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. ... | Small nucleolar RNA SNORD99 | Chemistry | 254 |
42,620,834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FooDB | FooDB (The Food Database) is a freely available, open-access database containing chemical (micronutrient and macronutrient) composition data on common, unprocessed foods. It also contains extensive data on flavour and aroma constituents, food additives as well as positive and negative health effects associated with foo... | FooDB | Chemistry | 344 |
16,110,878 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20bacteria%20genera | This article lists the genera of the bacteria. The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN) and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). However many taxonomic names are taken from the GTDB release 08-RS214 (28 April 2023).
Phyla
List
Not... | List of bacteria genera | Biology | 343 |
33,731,592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playfair%27s%20axiom | In geometry, Playfair's axiom is an axiom that can be used instead of the fifth postulate of Euclid (the parallel postulate):
In a plane, given a line and a point not on it, at most one line parallel to the given line can be drawn through the point.
It is equivalent to Euclid's parallel postulate in the context of Euc... | Playfair's axiom | Mathematics | 1,650 |
36,921,375 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20114837 | HD 114837 is a suspected binary star system in the southern constellation of Centaurus. The brighter star is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.90. It has a magnitude 10.2 candidate common proper motion companion at an angular separation of , as of 2014. The distance to this system,... | HD 114837 | Astronomy | 248 |
23,992 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piscis%20Austrinus | Piscis Austrinus is a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere. The name is Latin for "the southern fish", in contrast with the larger constellation Pisces, which represents a pair of fish. Before the 20th century, it was also known as Piscis Notius. Piscis Austrinus was one of the 48 constellations listed by... | Piscis Austrinus | Astronomy | 1,942 |
40,763,842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA%20clan%20of%20proteases | The PA clan (Proteases of mixed nucleophile, superfamily A) is the largest group of proteases with common ancestry as identified by structural homology. Members have a chymotrypsin-like fold and similar proteolysis mechanisms but can have identity of <10%. The clan contains both cysteine and serine proteases (different... | PA clan of proteases | Chemistry,Biology | 1,259 |
48,897,477 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotient%20of%20an%20abelian%20category | In mathematics, the quotient (also called Serre quotient or Gabriel quotient) of an abelian category by a Serre subcategory is the abelian category which, intuitively, is obtained from by ignoring (i.e. treating as zero) all objects from . There is a canonical exact functor whose kernel is , and is in a certain ... | Quotient of an abelian category | Mathematics | 1,080 |
41,610,115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayrton%20shunt | The Ayrton shunt or universal shunt is a high-resistance shunt used in galvanometers to increase their range without changing the damping.
The circuit is named after its inventor William E. Ayrton. Multirange ammeters that use this technique are more accurate than those using a make-before-break switch. Also it will el... | Ayrton shunt | Technology,Engineering | 186 |
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