id int64 580 79M | url stringlengths 31 175 | text stringlengths 9 245k | source stringlengths 1 109 | categories stringclasses 160
values | token_count int64 3 51.8k |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
16,781,789 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20221287%20b | HD 221287 b, also known as Pipitea, is an exoplanet that orbits HD 221287, approximately 173 light years away in the constellation of Tucana. This planet has mass >3.12 MJ (>992 M🜨) and orbits in a habitable zone at 1.25 AUs (6.06 μpc) from the star, taking 1.25 years to orbit at 29.9 km/s around the star. Dominique N... | HD 221287 b | Astronomy | 308 |
1,861,998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo%20A | Leo A (also known as Leo III) is an irregular galaxy that is part of the Local Group. It lies 2.6 million light-years from Earth, and was discovered by Fritz Zwicky in 1942. The estimated mass of this galaxy is solar masses, with at least 80% consisting of dark matter. It is one of the most isolated galaxies in the L... | Leo A | Astronomy | 309 |
57,100,265 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luteuthis%20shuishi | Luteuthis shuishi is a species of octopus that lives in the South China Sea, which is known only from one female specimen collected at a depth of 767 meters. It has short arms and is quite gelatinous. The octopus's total length is about 300 millimeters.
References
Octopuses
Cephalopods described in 2002
Marine mollus... | Luteuthis shuishi | Biology | 84 |
490,020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furfural | Furfural is an organic compound with the formula C4H3OCHO. It is a colorless liquid, although commercial samples are often brown. It has an aldehyde group attached to the 2-position of furan. It is a product of the dehydration of sugars, as occurs in a variety of agricultural byproducts, including corncobs, oat, wheat ... | Furfural | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science | 1,541 |
32,255,439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neottiella%20rutilans | Neottiella rutilans is a species of apothecial fungus belonging to the family Pyronemataceae. This European species appears in autumn as bright yellowish-orange discs among Polytrichum and related mosses.
Description
This cup fungus has a shallow, somewhat uneven cup and a short stem. The upper surface is yellow, ofte... | Neottiella rutilans | Biology | 218 |
22,133,845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabric%20computing | Fabric computing or unified computing involves constructing a computing fabric consisting of interconnected nodes that look like a weave or a fabric when seen collectively from a distance.
Usually the phrase refers to a consolidated high-performance computing system consisting of loosely coupled storage, networking an... | Fabric computing | Technology,Engineering | 655 |
2,114,155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duoprism | In geometry of 4 dimensions or higher, a double prism or duoprism is a polytope resulting from the Cartesian product of two polytopes, each of two dimensions or higher. The Cartesian product of an -polytope and an -polytope is an -polytope, where and are dimensions of 2 (polygon) or higher.
The lowest-dimensional du... | Duoprism | Physics | 1,939 |
39,670,586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloon%20phobia | Balloon phobia or globophobia is a fear of balloons. The most common source of fear is the sound of balloons popping, but individuals can also be triggered by their texture and smell.
Generally, people with globophobia will refuse to touch, feel, smell, or go near a balloon for fear it will burst.
Globophobia origina... | Balloon phobia | Chemistry | 1,055 |
35,539,273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robenacoxib | Robenacoxib, sold under the brand name Onsior, is a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) used in veterinary medicine for the relief of pain and inflammation in cats and dogs. It is a COX-2 inhibitor (coxib).
References
COX-2 inhibitors
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
Fluoroarenes
Anilines
Carboxylic acids... | Robenacoxib | Chemistry | 85 |
73,780,505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paurocotylis%20pila | Paurocotylis pila, commonly known as the scarlet berry truffle, is an ascomycete fungus in the genus Paurocotylis. It was first described by Miles Joseph Berkley in 1855.
This species is native to New Zealand and Australia and is naturalized in the United Kingdom. It often appears in forests under podocarp trees such... | Paurocotylis pila | Biology | 1,047 |
45,596,218 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillium%20glycyrrhizacola | Penicillium glycyrrhizacola is a species of the genus of Penicillium.
References
glycyrrhizacola
Fungi described in 2013
Fungus species | Penicillium glycyrrhizacola | Biology | 39 |
75,982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defecation | Defecation (or defaecation) follows digestion, and is a necessary process by which organisms eliminate a solid, semisolid, or liquid waste material known as feces from the digestive tract via the anus or cloaca. The act has a variety of names ranging from the common, like pooping or crapping, to the technical, e.g. bow... | Defecation | Biology | 3,438 |
8,197,423 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waitomo%20Glowworm%20Caves | The Waitomo Glowworm Caves attraction is a cave at Waitomo on the North Island of New Zealand. It is known for its population of Arachnocampa luminosa, a glowworm species found exclusively in New Zealand. This cave is part of the waitomo streamway system that includes the Ruakuri Cave, Lucky Strike, and Tumutumu Cave.
... | Waitomo Glowworm Caves | Chemistry,Biology | 1,487 |
11,460,108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochliobolus%20lunatus | Cochliobolus lunatus is a fungal plant pathogen that can cause disease in humans and other animals. The anamorph of this fungus is known as Curvularia lunata, while C. lunatus denotes the teleomorph or sexual stage. They are, however, the same biological entity. C. lunatus is the most commonly reported species in clini... | Cochliobolus lunatus | Biology | 1,561 |
18,951,627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini-ykkC%20RNA%20motif | The mini-ykkC RNA motif (later renamed Guanidine-II riboswitch) was discovered as a putative RNA structure that is conserved in bacteria. The motif consists of two conserved stem-loops whose terminal loops contain the RNA sequence ACGR, where R represents either A or G. Mini-ykkC RNAs are widespread in Pseudomonadota,... | Mini-ykkC RNA motif | Chemistry | 287 |
37,017,219 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury%28II%29%20hydride | Mercury(II) hydride (systematically named mercurane(2) and dihydridomercury) is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula (also written as ). It is both thermodynamically and kinetically unstable at ambient temperature, and as such, little is known about its bulk properties. However, it can also be a white, crys... | Mercury(II) hydride | Chemistry | 1,164 |
78,357,360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%209289 | HD 9289 is a white-hued variable star in the constellation of Cetus. It has the variable-star designation BW Ceti (abbreviated to BW Cet). With an apparent magnitude of 9.38, it is too faint to be observed by the naked eye from Earth. It is located at a distance of approximately according to Gaia EDR3 parallax measure... | HD 9289 | Astronomy | 569 |
1,697,920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronomy%20Day | Astronomy Day is an annual event in various countries, intended to provide a means of interaction between the general public and various astronomy enthusiasts, groups and professionals.
History
This event was started in 1973 by Doug Berger, the president of the Astronomical Association of Northern California. His int... | Astronomy Day | Astronomy | 367 |
2,783,744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randall%20C.%20Kennedy | Randall C Kennedy is director of research and cofounder of Competitive Systems Analysis, an IT consulting company. He was a former systems analyst for Giga Information Group. Kennedy was a contributor for InfoWorld, focusing on Windows, Microsoft and other topics, but was dismissed on February 21, 2010. In his announc... | Randall C. Kennedy | Technology | 513 |
59,209,120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janssen%20revolver | The Janssen revolver () was invented by the French astronomer Pierre Jules César Janssen in 1874. It was the instrument that originated chronophotography, a branch of photography based on capturing movement from a sequence of images. To create the apparatus Pierre Janssen was inspired by the revolving cylinder of Samue... | Janssen revolver | Astronomy | 1,068 |
27,325,068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project%20SUNSHINE | Project SUNSHINE was a series of research studies that began in 1953 to ascertain the impact of radioactive fallout on the world's population. The project was initially kept secret, and only became known publicly in 1956. Commissioned jointly by the United States Atomic Energy Commission and USAF Project Rand, SUNSHINE... | Project SUNSHINE | Chemistry,Technology | 751 |
50,006,201 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20%28mineral%20deposit%29 | A field is a mineral deposit containing a metal or other valuable resources in a cost-competitive concentration. It is usually used in the context of a mineral deposit from which it is convenient to extract its metallic component. The deposits are exploited by mining in the case of solid mineral deposits (such as iron ... | Field (mineral deposit) | Engineering | 501 |
18,678,110 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELMO%20%28protein%29 | ELMO (Engulfment and Cell Motility) is a family of related proteins (~82 kDa) involved in intracellular signalling networks. These proteins have no intrinsic catalytic activity and instead function as adaptors which can regulate the activity of other proteins through their ability to mediate protein-protein interaction... | ELMO (protein) | Chemistry,Biology | 343 |
47,733,167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyxis%20globular%20cluster | The Pyxis globular cluster is a globular cluster in the constellation Pyxis. It lies around 130,000 light-years distant from earth and around 133,000 light-years distant from the centre of the Milky Way—a distance not previously thought to contain globular clusters. It is around 13.3 ± 1.3 billion years old. Discovered... | Pyxis globular cluster | Astronomy | 148 |
5,571,005 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility%20%28geochemistry%29 | Compatibility is a term used by geochemists to describe how elements partition themselves in the solid and melt within Earth's mantle. In geochemistry, compatibility is a measure of how readily a particular trace element substitutes for a major element within a mineral.
Compatibility of an ion is controlled by two thi... | Compatibility (geochemistry) | Chemistry | 1,383 |
37,403,337 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen-bond%20catalysis | Hydrogen-bond catalysis is a type of organocatalysis that relies on use of hydrogen bonding interactions to accelerate and control organic reactions. In biological systems, hydrogen bonding plays a key role in many enzymatic reactions, both in orienting the substrate molecules and lowering barriers to reaction. The fie... | Hydrogen-bond catalysis | Chemistry | 4,349 |
8,731,428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kile%20%28unit%29 | The kile () was an Ottoman unit of volume similar to a bushel, like other dry measures also often defined as a specific weight of a particular commodity. Its value varied widely by location, period, and commodity, from 8 to 132 oka. The 'standard' kile was 36 litres or 20 oka.
References
Diran Kélékian, Dictionnair... | Kile (unit) | Physics,Mathematics | 182 |
58,179,215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot%20Particulate%20Ingestion%20Rig | The Hot Particulate Ingestion Rig (HPIR) is a gas burner that can shoot sand into a hot gas flow and onto a target material to test how that material's thermal barrier coating is impacted by the molten sand. It was developed by the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) to experiment with new coating materials for gas tur... | Hot Particulate Ingestion Rig | Chemistry,Technology | 912 |
2,051,812 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proportional%20control | Proportional control, in engineering and process control, is a type of linear feedback control system in which a correction is applied to the controlled variable, and the size of the correction is proportional to the difference between the desired value (setpoint, SP) and the measured value (process variable, PV). Two... | Proportional control | Engineering | 1,389 |
184,383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedict%27s%20reagent | Benedict's reagent (often called Benedict's qualitative solution or Benedict's solution) is a chemical reagent and complex mixture of sodium carbonate, sodium citrate, and copper(II) sulfate pentahydrate. It is often used in place of Fehling's solution to detect the presence of reducing sugars and other reducing substa... | Benedict's reagent | Chemistry,Biology | 1,235 |
11,648,371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibulin | Fibulin (FY-beau-lin) (now known as Fibulin-1 FBLN1) is the prototypic member of a multigene family, currently with seven members. Fibulin-1 is a calcium-binding glycoprotein. In vertebrates, fibulin-1 is found in blood and extracellular matrices. In the extracellular matrix, fibulin-1 associates with basement membra... | Fibulin | Chemistry,Biology | 464 |
70,102,727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntrophales | The Syntrophales are an order of gram-negative Thermodesulfobacteriota. It is the only order in the monotypic class Syntrophia. Acetate is converted by syntrophales into acetyl-CoA, which can be used as a source of carbon and energy. Given that genes involved in fermentation were missing, this might then be channeled i... | Syntrophales | Biology | 195 |
22,526,294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LabVantage | LabVantage Solutions, Inc. is a laboratory information management system (LIMS) provider based in Somerset, New Jersey. Founded in 1981, LabVantage is the third largest LIMS provider in the world.
Laboratory MicroSystems was founded by Mark Chudzicki and Michael Boskin in 1981. Chudzicki started the company when he wa... | LabVantage | Technology | 531 |
6,814,674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malliavin%20derivative | In mathematics, the Malliavin derivative is a notion of derivative in the Malliavin calculus. Intuitively, it is the notion of derivative appropriate to paths in classical Wiener space, which are "usually" not differentiable in the usual sense.
Definition
Let be the Cameron–Martin space, and denote classical Wiener ... | Malliavin derivative | Mathematics | 224 |
30,265,224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enzo%20Martinelli | Enzo Martinelli (11 November 1911 – 27 August 1999) was an Italian mathematician, working in the theory of functions of several complex variables: he is best known for his work on the theory of integral representations for holomorphic functions of several variables, notably for discovering the Bochner–Martinelli formul... | Enzo Martinelli | Mathematics | 3,020 |
5,648,302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expansion%20joint | A expansion joint, or movement joint, is an assembly designed to hold parts together while safely absorbing temperature-induced expansion and contraction of building materials. They are commonly found between sections of buildings, bridges, sidewalks, railway tracks, piping systems, ships, and other structures.
Buildi... | Expansion joint | Physics,Chemistry,Technology,Engineering | 2,690 |
1,555,681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger%20%28unit%29 | A finger (sometimes fingerbreadth or finger's breadth) is any of several units of measurement that are approximately the width of an adult human finger. [Exactly which part of the finger should be used is not defined; the width at the base of fingernail (#6 in the sketch) is typically less than that at the knuckle (#5... | Finger (unit) | Mathematics | 307 |
46,704,027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillium%20melanoconidium | Penicillium megasporum is a species in the genus Penicillium which produces xanthomegin, verrucosidin, roquefortine C and penitrem A. Penicillium megasporum occurs in grain
References
Further reading
melanoconidium
Fungi described in 2004
Fungus species | Penicillium melanoconidium | Biology | 67 |
73,124,554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked-read%20sequencing | Linked-read sequencing, a type of DNA sequencing technology, uses specialized technique that tags DNA molecules with unique barcodes before fragmenting them. Unlike traditional sequencing technology, where DNA is broken into small fragments and then sequenced individually, resulting in short read lengths that has diffi... | Linked-read sequencing | Chemistry,Biology | 2,224 |
63,867,828 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20hydroselenide | Sodium hydroselenide is an inorganic compound with the chemical formula . It is a salt of hydrogen selenide. It consist of sodium cations and hydroselenide anions . Each unit consists of one sodium, one selenium, and one hydrogen atom. Sodium hydroselenide is a selenium analog of sodium hydroxide NaOH.
Production
Sod... | Sodium hydroselenide | Chemistry | 228 |
70,151,472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank%20the%20Tank | Hank the Tank (also known as Henrietta) is a five-hundred-pound female American black bear that gained attention for repeated interactions with humans in the Lake Tahoe area, resulting in her eventual capture and relocation to Colorado. Known by wildlife officials as Bear 64F, Hank became a symbol of human-wildlife con... | Hank the Tank | Biology | 1,093 |
11,353,293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attribute-based%20access%20control | Attribute-based access control (ABAC), also known as policy-based access control for IAM, defines an access control paradigm whereby a subject's authorization to perform a set of operations is determined by evaluating attributes associated with the subject, object, requested operations, and, in some cases, environment ... | Attribute-based access control | Engineering | 1,974 |
22,713,707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20Operations%20in%20the%20High%20North | Integrated Operations in the High North (IOHN, IO High North or IO in the High North) is a unique collaboration project that during a four-year period starting May 2008 is working on designing, implementing and testing a Digital Platform for what in the upstream oil and gas industry is called the next or second generat... | Integrated Operations in the High North | Chemistry,Engineering | 637 |
75,985,917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avionics%20bay | Avionics bay, also known as E&E bay or electronic equipment bay in aerospace engineering is known as compartment in an aircraft that houses the avionics and other electronic equipment, such as flight control computers, navigation systems, communication systems, and other electronic equipment essential for the operation... | Avionics bay | Technology,Engineering | 397 |
28,547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal%20affair | The Sokal affair, also known as the Sokal hoax, was a demonstrative scholarly hoax performed by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College London. In 1996, Sokal submitted an article to Social Text, an academic journal of cultural studies. The submission was an experiment to test the ... | Sokal affair | Technology | 3,153 |
76,111,276 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xanthomonas%20campestris%20pv.%20raphani | Xanthomonas campestris pv. raphani is a gram-negative, obligate aerobic bacterium that like many other Xanthomonas spp. bacteria has been found associated with plants. This organism is closely related with Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris, but causes a non-vascular leaf spot disease that is clearly distinct from ... | Xanthomonas campestris pv. raphani | Biology | 311 |
54,637,408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TEDAX | Technician Specialist in Deactivation of Explosive Artifacts (), commonly known by its abbreviation TEDAX, is the Spanish name for bomb disposal units.
Many TEDAX groups exist in Spain, most of them in the police corps but also in the Armed Forces (but they changed their name in 2001). Since 2001, these units of the A... | TEDAX | Chemistry | 413 |
46,373,107 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adsorption/bio-oxidation%20process | The adsorption/bio-oxidation process (AB process) is a two-stage modification of the activated sludge process used for wastewater treatment. It consists of a high-loaded A-stage and low-loaded B-stage. The process is operated without a primary clarifier, with the A-stage being an open dynamic biological system. Both st... | Adsorption/bio-oxidation process | Chemistry,Engineering,Environmental_science | 1,619 |
79,836 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Wheatstone | Sir Charles Wheatstone (; 6 February 1802 – 19 October 1875) was an English physicist and inventor best known for his contributions to the development of the Wheatstone bridge, originally invented by Samuel Hunter Christie, which is used to measure an unknown electrical resistance, and as a major figure in the developm... | Charles Wheatstone | Physics,Chemistry | 7,207 |
75,115,484 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASASSN-21qj | ASASSN-21qj, also known as 2MASS J08152329-3859234, is a Sun-like main sequence star with a rotating disk of circumstellar dust and gas which are leftovers from its stellar formation around 300 million years ago. The star is located 1,850 light years (567.2 parsecs) from Earth in the constellation of Puppis.
Planetary... | ASASSN-21qj | Astronomy | 577 |
8,276,257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformational%20Satellite%20Communications%20System | The Transformational Satellite Communications System (TSAT) program was a United States Department of Defense (DOD) program sponsored by the U.S. Air Force for a secure, high-capacity global communications network serving the Department of Defense, NASA and the United States Intelligence Community (IC). It was intended... | Transformational Satellite Communications System | Engineering | 1,214 |
70,694,306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduction-sensitive%20nanoparticles | Reduction-sensitive nanoparticles (RSNP) consist of nanocarriers that are chemically responsive to reduction. Drug delivery systems using RSNP can be loaded with different drugs that are designed to be released within a concentrated reducing environment, such as the tumor-targeted microenvironment. Reduction-Sensitive ... | Reduction-sensitive nanoparticles | Chemistry | 2,756 |
3,362,363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicotiana%20benthamiana | Nicotiana benthamiana, colloquially known as benth or benthi, is a species of Nicotiana indigenous to Australia. It is a close relative of tobacco.
A synonym for this species is Nicotiana suaveolens var. cordifolia, a description given by George Bentham in Flora Australiensis in 1868. This was transferred to Nicotiana... | Nicotiana benthamiana | Biology | 615 |
417,014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive%20transport | Passive transport is a type of membrane transport that does not require energy to move substances across cell membranes. Instead of using cellular energy, like active transport, passive transport relies on the second law of thermodynamics to drive the movement of substances across cell membranes. Fundamentally, substan... | Passive transport | Physics,Chemistry,Engineering,Biology | 1,646 |
16,647,678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmented%20spindle | A segmented spindle, also known by the trademark Kataka, is a specialized mechanical linear actuator conceived by the Danish mechanical engineer Jens Joerren Soerensen during the mid-1990s. The actuator forms a telescoping tubular column, or spindle, from linked segments resembling curved parallelograms. The telescop... | Segmented spindle | Physics,Technology,Engineering | 230 |
11,422,187 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small%20nucleolar%20RNA%20Z185 | In molecular biology, Small nucleolar RNA Z185 is a non-coding RNA (ncRNA) molecule which functions in the modification of other small nuclear RNAs (snRNAs). This type of modifying RNA is usually located in the nucleolus of the eukaryotic cell which is a major site of snRNA biogenesis. It is known as a small nucleolar ... | Small nucleolar RNA Z185 | Chemistry | 197 |
50,601,254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ULTRA%20%28machine%20translation%20system%29 | ULTRA is a machine translation system created for five languages (Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, English, and German) in the Computing Research Laboratory in 1991.
ULTRA (Universal Language Translator), is a machine translation system developed at the Computing Research Laboratory, which can translate between five langua... | ULTRA (machine translation system) | Technology | 480 |
74,367,386 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorized%20potentiometer | A motorized potentiometer combines a potentiometer with an electric motor.
Uses
Motorized potentiometers can be found in audio/video equipment, specifically mixing consoles. In this application, they are called motorized faders. Mixing consoles with motorized faders typically are used to save and restore settings on... | Motorized potentiometer | Physics | 445 |
22,829,996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremal%20orders%20of%20an%20arithmetic%20function | In mathematics, specifically in number theory, the extremal orders of an arithmetic function are best possible bounds of the given arithmetic function. Specifically, if f(n) is an arithmetic function and m(n) is a non-decreasing function that is ultimately positive and
we say that m is a minimal order for f. Similarly... | Extremal orders of an arithmetic function | Mathematics | 561 |
3,569,061 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ciena | Ciena Corporation is an American networking systems and software company based in Hanover, Maryland. The company has been described by The Baltimore Sun as the "world's biggest player in optical connectivity". The company reported revenues of $4 billion and more than 8,500 employees, . Gary Smith serves as president a... | Ciena | Technology | 2,470 |
65,001,360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofqual%20exam%20results%20algorithm | In 2020, Ofqual, the regulator of qualifications, exams and tests in England, produced a grades standardisation algorithm to combat grade inflation and moderate the teacher-predicted grades for A level and GCSE qualifications in that year, after examinations were cancelled as part of the response to the COVID-19 pandem... | Ofqual exam results algorithm | Engineering | 1,823 |
5,926,021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th%20FAI%20World%20Rally%20Flying%20Championship | 14th FAI World Rally Flying Championship took place between July 14 - July 20, 2004 in Herning, Denmark, altogether with the 16th FAI World Precision Flying Championship (July 19-24).
There were 50 crews from Czech Republic, Poland, France, South Africa, Denmark, Russia, Germany, United Kingdom, Austria, Spain, Chile,... | 14th FAI World Rally Flying Championship | Engineering | 655 |
18,055,330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victimisation | Victimisation (or victimization) is the state or process of being victimised or becoming a victim. The field that studies the process, rates, incidence, effects, and prevalence of victimisation is called victimology.
Peer victimisation
Peer victimisation is the experience among children of being a target of the aggre... | Victimisation | Biology | 2,174 |
67,841,351 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dibutylmagnesium | Dibutylmagnesium is an organometallic chemical compound of magnesium. Its chemical formula is . Dibutylmagnesium is a chemical compound from the group of organomagnesium compounds. The pure substance is a waxy solid. Commercially, it is marketed as solution in heptane.
Synthesis
Dibutylmagnesium can be obtained by rea... | Dibutylmagnesium | Chemistry,Technology | 208 |
2,250,414 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad%20Commission%20of%20Texas | The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC; also sometimes called the Texas Railroad Commission, TRC) is the state agency that regulates the oil and gas industry, gas utilities, pipeline safety, safety in the liquefied petroleum gas industry, and surface coal and uranium mining. Despite its name, it ceased regulating railro... | Railroad Commission of Texas | Chemistry | 2,880 |
24,891,124 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across%20the%20Universe%20%28message%29 | Across the Universe is an interstellar radio message (IRM) consisting of the song "Across the Universe" by the Beatles that was transmitted on 4 February 2008, at 00:00 UTC by NASA in the direction of the star Polaris. This transmission was made using a 70-meter "DSS-63" dish in the NASA Deep Space Network's (DSN) Mad... | Across the Universe (message) | Astronomy | 448 |
50,984,744 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prior-independent%20mechanism | A Prior-independent mechanism (PIM) is a mechanism in which the designer knows that the agents' valuations are drawn from some probability distribution, but does not know the distribution.
A typical application is a seller who wants to sell some items to potential buyers. The seller wants to price the items in a way t... | Prior-independent mechanism | Mathematics | 940 |
683,116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SO%288%29 | In mathematics, SO(8) is the special orthogonal group acting on eight-dimensional Euclidean space. It could be either a real or complex simple Lie group of rank 4 and dimension 28.
Spin(8)
Like all special orthogonal groups SO(n) with n ≥ 2, SO(8) is not simply connected. And all like all SO(n) with n > 2, the fundame... | SO(8) | Mathematics | 1,068 |
10,110,554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite%20transposon | A composite transposon is similar in function to simple transposons and insertion sequence (IS) elements in that it has protein coding DNA segments flanked by inverted, repeated sequences that can be recognized by transposase enzymes. A composite transposon, however, is flanked by two separate IS elements which may or... | Composite transposon | Biology | 306 |
4,769,321 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20fundamental%20physics%20discoveries | This timeline lists significant discoveries in physics and the laws of nature, including experimental discoveries, theoretical proposals that were confirmed experimentally, and theories that have significantly influenced current thinking in modern physics. Such discoveries are often a multi-step, multi-person process. ... | Timeline of fundamental physics discoveries | Physics,Technology | 2,817 |
33,288,508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycoside%20hydrolase%20family%2056 | In molecular biology, glycoside hydrolase family 56 is a family of glycoside hydrolases.
Glycoside hydrolases are a widespread group of enzymes that hydrolyse the glycosidic bond between two or more carbohydrates, or between a carbohydrate and a non-carbohydrate moiety. A classification system for glycoside hydrolase... | Glycoside hydrolase family 56 | Biology | 376 |
15,141,674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNPlex | SNPlex is a platform for SNP genotyping sold by Applied Biosystems (ABI). It is based on capillary electrophoresis to separate varying fragments of DNA, which allows the assay to be performed on ABI's 3730xl DNA analyzers. Currently, up to 48 SNPs can be genotyped in a single reaction.
References
External links
SNP... | SNPlex | Chemistry,Biology | 99 |
978,650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple%20product | In geometry and algebra, the triple product is a product of three 3-dimensional vectors, usually Euclidean vectors. The name "triple product" is used for two different products, the scalar-valued scalar triple product and, less often, the vector-valued vector triple product.
Scalar triple product
The scalar triple p... | Triple product | Mathematics | 1,562 |
67,834,566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rurouni%20Kenshin%20%281996%20TV%20series%29 | , sometimes called Samurai X, is a Japanese anime television series, based on Nobuhiro Watsuki's manga series Rurouni Kenshin. It was directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi, produced by SPE Visual Works and Fuji Television, and animated by Studio Gallop (episodes 1–66) and Studio Deen (episodes 67–95). It was broadcast on Fuji... | Rurouni Kenshin (1996 TV series) | Biology | 3,226 |
20,354,163 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diamphotoxin | Diamphotoxin is a toxin produced by larvae and pupae of the beetle genus Diamphidia. Diamphotoxin is a hemolytic, cardiotoxic, and highly labile single-chain polypeptide bound to a protein that protects it from deactivation.
Diamphotoxin increases the permeability of cell membranes of red blood cells. Although this do... | Diamphotoxin | Chemistry | 254 |
46,861,405 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20microbial%20symbiosis | Microbial symbiosis in marine animals was not discovered until 1981. In the time following, symbiotic relationships between marine invertebrates and chemoautotrophic bacteria have been found in a variety of ecosystems, ranging from shallow coastal waters to deep-sea hydrothermal vents. Symbiosis is a way for marine org... | Marine microbial symbiosis | Biology | 2,811 |
11,976,532 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500 | The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a year. The first of these updates always coincides with the International Supercomputing Conference in June, and the second... | TOP500 | Technology | 4,572 |
41,720,459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla%20STEM%20High%20School | Tesla STEM High School (officially Nikola Tesla Science, Technology, Engineering & Math High School, formerly STEM High School) is a magnet high school in Redmond, Washington operated by the Lake Washington School District. It serves as a lottery-selected choice program and offers a STEM-based curriculum.
History and ... | Tesla STEM High School | Engineering | 1,245 |
364,328 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big%20Bounce | The Big Bounce hypothesis is a cosmological model for the origin of the known universe. It was originally suggested as a phase of the cyclic model or oscillatory universe interpretation of the Big Bang, where the first cosmological event was the result of the collapse of a previous universe. It receded from serious con... | Big Bounce | Physics,Astronomy | 1,932 |
34,180,753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable-mass%20system | In mechanics, a variable-mass system is a collection of matter whose mass varies with time. It can be confusing to try to apply Newton's second law of motion directly to such a system. Instead, the time dependence of the mass m can be calculated by rearranging Newton's second law and adding a term to account for the mo... | Variable-mass system | Physics,Engineering | 948 |
1,686,492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold%20extraction | Gold extraction is the extraction of gold from dilute ores using a combination of chemical processes. Gold mining produces about 3600 tons annually, and another 300 tons is produced from recycling.
Since the 20th century, gold has been principally extracted in a cyanide process by leaching the ore with cyanide solutio... | Gold extraction | Chemistry,Materials_science | 2,015 |
19,425,495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microtrabeculae | In cell biology, microtrabeculae were a hypothesised fourth element of the cytoskeleton (the other three being microfilaments, microtubules and intermediate filaments), proposed by Keith Porter based on images obtained from high-voltage electron microscopy of whole cells in the 1970s. The images showed short, filamento... | Microtrabeculae | Biology | 140 |
21,921,858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20sediment%20and%20water | Basic sediment and water (BS&W) is both a technical specification of certain impurities in crude oil and the method for measuring it. When extracted from an oil reservoir, the crude oil will contain some amount of water and suspended solids from the reservoir formation. The particulate matter is known as sediment or ... | Basic sediment and water | Chemistry,Engineering | 556 |
14,873,776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3C%20401 | 3C 401 is a powerful radio galaxy located in the constellation Draco. It is near the center of a rich cluster of galaxies and dominates the cluster. That is, it is the type-cD galaxy of its cluster. It has a double nucleus, indicating that it is merging with another galaxy.
3C 401 is classified as a Fanaroff and Riley... | 3C 401 | Astronomy | 185 |
7,619,130 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habit%20reversal%20training | Habit reversal training (HRT) is a "multicomponent behavioral treatment package originally developed to address a wide variety of repetitive behavior disorders".
Behavioral disorders treated with HRT include tics, trichotillomania, nail biting, thumb sucking, skin picking, temporomandibular disorder (TMJ), lip-cheek b... | Habit reversal training | Biology | 697 |
9,891,751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20Assessment%20Procedure | The Standard Assessment Procedure (SAP) is the UK government's recommended method system for measuring the energy rating of residential dwellings. The methodology is owned by the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, and produced under licence by BRE. The first version was published in 1995, and was re... | Standard Assessment Procedure | Engineering | 351 |
8,364,986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chhajja | A chhajja is an overhanging eave or roof covering found in Indian architecture. It is characterised with large support brackets with different artistic designs. Variation is also seen in its size depending on the importance of the building on which it features or the choice of the designer.
Its function is similar to ... | Chhajja | Technology,Engineering | 882 |
56,596,473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vlastimil%20Dlab | Vlastimil Dlab (born 5 August 1932) is a Czech-born Canadian mathematician who has worked in Czechoslovakia, Sudan, Australia and especially Canada where he founded and led an influential department of modern mathematics.
Biography
Dlab was born on August 5, 1932, in Bzí, Czechoslovakia, a historical village whose te... | Vlastimil Dlab | Mathematics | 489 |
49,642,374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9%20Phase%20Tracking | Moiré Phase Tracking (MPT) is 3D tracking technology developed by Metria Innovation based on optical moiré patterns.
Moiré phase tracking is an approach to deriving three dimensional spatial and rotational information of tracked objects. By fixing a special marker with designs that result in moiré patterns, a camera ... | Moiré Phase Tracking | Technology | 132 |
64,243,012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20Note%2020 | The Samsung Galaxy Note 20 and Galaxy Note 20 Ultra (stylized and marketed as Samsung Galaxy Note20 and Galaxy Note20 Ultra) are a series of high-end Android-based smartphones developed, produced, and marketed by Samsung Electronics as part of their Samsung Galaxy Note series, succeeding the Samsung Galaxy Note 10 seri... | Samsung Galaxy Note 20 | Technology | 2,162 |
41,134,793 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labrador%20Sea%20Water | Labrador Sea Water is an intermediate water mass characterized by cold water, relatively low salinity compared to other intermediate water masses, and high concentrations of both oxygen and anthropogenic tracers. It is formed by convective processes in the Labrador Sea located between Greenland and the northeast coast ... | Labrador Sea Water | Physics,Environmental_science | 774 |
26,452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riesz%20representation%20theorem | The Riesz representation theorem, sometimes called the Riesz–Fréchet representation theorem after Frigyes Riesz and Maurice René Fréchet, establishes an important connection between a Hilbert space and its continuous dual space. If the underlying field is the real numbers, the two are isometrically isomorphic; if the u... | Riesz representation theorem | Physics,Mathematics | 4,726 |
704,266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dicofol | Dicofol is an insecticide, an organochlorine that is chemically related to DDT. Dicofol is a miticide that is very effective against spider mite. Its production and use is banned internationally under the Stockholm Convention.
One of the intermediates used in its production is DDT. This has caused criticism by many en... | Dicofol | Chemistry | 2,687 |
380,338 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysome | A polyribosome (or polysome or ergosome) is a group of ribosomes bound to an mRNA molecule like “beads” on a “thread”. It consists of a complex of an mRNA molecule and two or more ribosomes that act to translate mRNA instructions into polypeptides. Originally coined "ergosomes" in 1963, they were further characterized... | Polysome | Chemistry | 1,136 |
47,486,581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PT%20Puppis | PT Puppis (PT Pup) is a star in the constellation Puppis. Anamarija Stankov confirmed this star as a Beta Cephei variable. Analysis of its spectrum and allowing for extinction gives a mass 7.94 times that of the Sun, a surface temperature of 19,400 K and luminosity of 6405 Suns.
The star was discovered to be variable ... | PT Puppis | Astronomy | 137 |
7,148,302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy%27s%20inequality | In Euclidean geometry, Ptolemy's inequality relates the six distances determined by four points in the plane or in a higher-dimensional space. It states that, for any four points , , , and , the following inequality holds:
It is named after the Greek astronomer and mathematician Ptolemy.
The four points can be ordere... | Ptolemy's inequality | Mathematics | 1,053 |
12,742,172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strassmann%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Strassmann's theorem is a result in field theory. It states that, for suitable fields, suitable formal power series with coefficients in the valuation ring of the field have only finitely many zeroes.
History
It was introduced by .
Statement of the theorem
Let K be a field with a non-Archimedean absol... | Strassmann's theorem | Mathematics | 222 |
72,703,400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amanita%20galactica | Amanita galactica is a species of agaric fungus in the family Amanitaceae, first described by Giuliana Furci and Bryn Dentinger in 2020. The species was discovered in the Andes of southern Chile, living at the base of trees such as Nothofagus and Araucaria araucana. The epithet galactica was given by Furci, and was ins... | Amanita galactica | Biology | 116 |
54,072,128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery%20%28theatre%29 | The gallery of a theatre or church is a form of balcony, an elevated platform generally supported by columns or brackets, which projects from an interior wall, in order to accommodate additional audience.
It may specifically refer to the highest such platform, and carries the cheapest seats in theatres.
References
S... | Gallery (theatre) | Technology | 67 |
8,284,364 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colitose | Colitose is a mannose-derived 3,6-dideoxysugar produced by certain bacteria. It is a constituent of the lipopolysaccharide. It is the enantiomer of abequose.
Biological role
Colitose is found in the O-antigen of certain Gram-negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Yersinia pseudotuberculosis, Salmonella enterica,... | Colitose | Chemistry | 581 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.