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40,247 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulsed%20inductive%20thruster | A pulsed inductive thruster (PIT) is a form of ion thruster, used in spacecraft propulsion. It is a plasma propulsion engine using perpendicular electric and magnetic fields to accelerate a propellant with no electrode.
Operation
A nozzle releases a puff of gas which spreads across a flat spiraling induction coil of... | Pulsed inductive thruster | Physics,Chemistry | 951 |
36,069,663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australasian%20Institute%20of%20Mining%20and%20Metallurgy | The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM) provides services to professionals engaged in all facets of the global minerals sector and is based in Carlton, Victoria, Australia.
History
The Institute had its genesis in 1893 with the formation in Adelaide of the Australasian Institute of Mining Engineer... | Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy | Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 1,345 |
37,011,244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conductor%20clashing | In an overhead power line, conductor clashing occurs when energized wires accidentally come into contact with each other. Overhead transmission systems typically use un-insulated bare conductors for reasons of weight and economy. When bare conductors touch, the resulting momentary short circuit or electric arc can caus... | Conductor clashing | Physics | 964 |
47,634,858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meltwater%20pulse%201B | Meltwater pulse 1B (MWP1b) is the name used by Quaternary geologists, paleoclimatologists, and oceanographers for a period of either rapid or just accelerated post-glacial sea level rise that some hypothesize to have occurred between 11,500 and 11,200 years ago at the beginning of the Holocene and after the end of the ... | Meltwater pulse 1B | Physics,Environmental_science | 2,452 |
20,838,282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMA%20Acceleration%20Architecture | In computing, UMA Acceleration Architecture (UXA) is the reimplementation of the EXA graphics acceleration architecture of the X.Org Server developed by Intel. Its major difference with EXA is the use of GEM, replacing Translation Table Maps. In February 2009 it became clear that UXA would not be merged back into EXA.
... | UMA Acceleration Architecture | Technology | 127 |
480,178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinitesimal%20rotation%20matrix | An infinitesimal rotation matrix or differential rotation matrix is a matrix representing an infinitely small rotation.
While a rotation matrix is an orthogonal matrix representing an element of (the special orthogonal group), the differential of a rotation is a skew-symmetric matrix in the tangent space (the spec... | Infinitesimal rotation matrix | Physics,Mathematics | 1,576 |
7,853,144 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triethylammonium%20acetate | Triethylammonium acetate is a volatile salt, which is often used as an ion-pairing reagent in high-performance liquid chromatography separations of oligonucleotides. Since unadjusted triethylammonium acetate salt solutions contain neither a conjugate acid nor a conjugate base, they are not buffers.
References
Ammon... | Triethylammonium acetate | Chemistry | 86 |
4,965,295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebacoyl%20chloride | Sebacoyl chloride (or sebacoyl dichloride) is a di-acyl chloride, with formula (CH2)8(COCl)2. A colorless oily liquid with a pungent odor, it is soluble in hydrocarbons and ethers. Sebacoyl chloride is corrosive; like all acyl chlorides, it hydrolyzes, evolving hydrogen chloride. It is less susceptible to hydrolysis t... | Sebacoyl chloride | Chemistry,Materials_science | 186 |
59,849,415 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancet%20MMR%20autism%20fraud | In February 1998, a fraudulent research paper by physician Andrew Wakefield and twelve coauthors, titled "Ileal-lymphoid-nodular hyperplasia, non-specific colitis, and pervasive developmental disorder in children", was published in the British medical journal The Lancet. The paper falsely claimed causative links betwee... | Lancet MMR autism fraud | Technology | 4,660 |
4,404,004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metadata%20discovery | In metadata, metadata discovery (also metadata harvesting) is the process of using automated tools to discover the semantics of a data element in data sets. This process usually ends with a set of mappings between the data source elements and a centralized metadata registry. Metadata discovery is also known as metadat... | Metadata discovery | Technology | 707 |
16,454,909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisoxetine | Nisoxetine (developmental code name LY-94939), originally synthesized in the Lilly research laboratories during the early 1970s, is a potent and selective inhibitor for the reuptake of norepinephrine (noradrenaline) into synapses. It currently has no clinical applications in humans, although it was originally researche... | Nisoxetine | Chemistry | 3,326 |
12,062,017 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteoimmunology | Osteoimmunology (όστέον, osteon from Greek, "bone"; from Latin, "immunity"; and λόγος, logos, from Greek "study") is a field that emerged about 40 years ago that studies the interface between the skeletal system and the immune system, comprising the "osteo-immune system". Osteoimmunology also studies the shared compon... | Osteoimmunology | Biology | 855 |
33,288,603 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary%20Activity%20family%209 | Auxiliary Activity family 9 (formerly GH61) is a family of lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases. The family was previously incorrectly classified as glycoside hydrolase family 61, however it was re-classified in March 2013.
AA9 is known to be a copper dependent, oxidative enzyme able to cleave crystalline cellulose. Ac... | Auxiliary Activity family 9 | Biology | 207 |
71,218,720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy%20B.%20Rhyne | Timothy B. Rhyne is a retired Michelin Research Fellow and co-inventor of the Tweel.
Rhyne received his BS and PhD degrees from North Carolina State University. He started at Michelin in 1978, originally in machine design, and moving to tire research and development in 1986.
He was an adjunct professor at Clemson U... | Timothy B. Rhyne | Chemistry,Materials_science | 156 |
27,863,637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shelf%20angle | In masonry veneer building construction, a shelf angle or masonry support is a steel angle which supports the weight of brick or stone veneer and transfers that weight onto the main structure of the building so that a gap or space can be created beneath to allow building movements to occur.
Background
Traditional maso... | Shelf angle | Physics,Engineering | 345 |
22,731,444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skyline%20Solar | Skyline Solar was a Concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) company based in Mountain View, California. The company developed medium-concentration photovoltaic systems to produce electricity for commercial, industrial and utility scale solar markets. The company was founded in 2007 by Bob MacDonald, Bill Keating and Eric Johns... | Skyline Solar | Engineering | 881 |
147,536 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcium%20oxide | Calcium oxide (formula: CaO), commonly known as quicklime or burnt lime, is a widely used chemical compound. It is a white, caustic, alkaline, crystalline solid at room temperature. The broadly used term lime connotes calcium-containing inorganic compounds, in which carbonates, oxides, and hydroxides of calcium, silico... | Calcium oxide | Physics,Chemistry | 2,090 |
38,894,374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Legionnaires%27%20disease%20outbreaks | This is a list of Legionnaires' disease outbreaks; Legionnaire's is a potentially fatal infectious disease caused by gram negative, aerobic bacteria belonging to the genus Legionella. The first reported outbreak was in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1976 during a Legionnaires Convention at the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel.
... | List of Legionnaires' disease outbreaks | Engineering | 1,046 |
3,062,336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%20right%20to%20water%20and%20sanitation | The human right to water and sanitation (HRWS) is a principle stating that clean drinking water and sanitation are a universal human right because of their high importance in sustaining every person's life. It was recognized as a human right by the United Nations General Assembly on 28 July 2010. The HRWS has been reco... | Human right to water and sanitation | Environmental_science | 6,336 |
42,552,728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RU-58841 |
RU-58841, also known as PSK-3841 or HMR-3841, is a nonsteroidal antiandrogen (NSAA) which was initially developed in the 1980s by Roussel Uclaf, the French pharmaceutical company from which it received its name. It was formerly under investigation by ProStrakan (previously ProSkelia and Strakan) for potential use as ... | RU-58841 | Chemistry | 345 |
35,884,376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curzon%20Memories%20App | The Curzon Memories App is a locative media mobile app based at the Curzon Community Cinema, Clevedon, UK. The cinema celebrated its centenary in April 2012 and is one of the oldest continuously operating independent cinemas in the UK. The app was developed as part of an academic practice-based research project by Char... | Curzon Memories App | Technology | 1,339 |
10,799,951 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20supply%20rejection%20ratio | In electronic systems, power supply rejection ratio (PSRR), also supply-voltage rejection ratio (kSVR; SVR), is a term widely used to describe the capability of an electronic circuit to suppress any power supply variations to its output signal.
In the specifications of operational amplifiers, the PSRR is defined as th... | Power supply rejection ratio | Mathematics,Engineering | 666 |
12,415,907 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claw-free%20graph | In graph theory, an area of mathematics, a claw-free graph is a graph that does not have a claw as an induced subgraph.
A claw is another name for the complete bipartite graph (that is, a star graph comprising three edges, three leaves, and a central vertex). A claw-free graph is a graph in which no induced subgraph ... | Claw-free graph | Mathematics | 3,163 |
5,993,712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koide%20formula | The Koide formula is an unexplained empirical equation discovered by Yoshio Koide in 1981. In its original form, it is not fully empirical but a set of guesses for a model for masses of quarks and leptons, as well as CKM angles. From this model it survives the observation about the masses of the three charged leptons; ... | Koide formula | Physics | 1,810 |
44,429,959 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal%20network | A temporal network, also known as a time-varying network, is a network whose links are active only at certain points in time. Each link carries information on when it is active, along with other possible characteristics such as a weight. Time-varying networks are of particular relevance to spreading processes, like the... | Temporal network | Mathematics | 2,202 |
8,652,895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCL21 | Chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 21 (CCL21) is a small cytokine belonging to the CC chemokine family. This chemokine is also known as 6Ckine (because it has six conserved cysteine residues instead of the four cysteines typical to chemokines), exodus-2, and secondary lymphoid-tissue chemokine (SLC). CCL21 elicits its effect... | CCL21 | Chemistry | 860 |
72,387,940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivia%20Sanchez%20Brown | Olivia Sanchez Brown is a multimedia Chicana artist and curator in the Los Angeles area and has been active since the early 1970s.
Art
Olivia Sanchez Brown was one of the first Chicana Artists to be featured in a juried exhibition in The Woman's Building in 1973, around the time that The Woman's Building was first est... | Olivia Sanchez Brown | Technology | 133 |
3,352,673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost-canceling%20reference | Ghost-canceling reference (GCR) is a special sub-signal on a television channel that receivers can use to compensate for the ghosting effect of a television signal distorted by multipath propagation between transmitter and receiver.
In the United States, the GCR signal is a chirp in frequency of the modulating signal ... | Ghost-canceling reference | Technology | 174 |
480,634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absorbance | Absorbance is defined as "the logarithm of the ratio of incident to transmitted radiant power through a sample (excluding the effects on cell walls)". Alternatively, for samples which scatter light, absorbance may be defined as "the negative logarithm of one minus absorptance, as measured on a uniform sample". The term... | Absorbance | Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics | 2,466 |
63,707,472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATPase%20Domain%203B | ATPase Domain 3B (ATAD3B) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ATAD3B gene. ATAD3 is part of the AAA protein family. The function of ATAD3B is not yet well understood by the scientific community. In humans the gene is located at 1p36.33.
Function
ATAD3B is associated with the mitochondria. The C terminus i... | ATPase Domain 3B | Chemistry,Biology | 265 |
77,270,791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative%20title%20%28publishing%29 | An alternative title or alternate title in book publishing refers to a title that is presented alongside the primary title. It often uses a semi-colon or the term "or" in book titles, typically seen in the form "Title: or, Subtitle." This was a practice that started in the 17th century, and was common in both English ... | Alternative title (publishing) | Engineering | 243 |
36,107,188 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronic%20radiation%20syndrome | Chronic radiation syndrome (CRS), or chronic radiation enteritis, is a constellation of health effects of radiation that occur after months or years of chronic exposure to high amounts of radiation. Chronic radiation syndrome develops with a speed and severity proportional to the radiation dose received (i.e., it is a ... | Chronic radiation syndrome | Chemistry,Materials_science | 435 |
77,658,557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Implantable%20bulking%20agent | Implantable bulking agents are self-expanding solid prostheses which are implanted in the tissues around the anal canal. It is a surgical treatment for fecal incontinence and represents a newer evolution of the similar procedure which uses perianal injectable bulking agents.
History
The implantable bulking agents repr... | Implantable bulking agent | Biology | 2,858 |
3,241,211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wieland%E2%80%93Miescher%20ketone | The Wieland–Miescher ketone is a racemic bicyclic diketone (enedione) and is a versatile synthon which has so far been employed in the total synthesis of more than 50 natural products, predominantly sesquiterpenoids, diterpenes and steroids possessing possible biological properties including anticancer, antimicrobial, ... | Wieland–Miescher ketone | Chemistry | 534 |
14,440,221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuropeptide%20FF%20receptor%201 | Neuropeptide FF receptor 1, also known as NPFF1 is a human protein, encoded by the NPFFR1 gene.
See also
Neuropeptide FF receptor
References
Further reading
External links
G protein-coupled receptors | Neuropeptide FF receptor 1 | Chemistry | 50 |
78,103,499 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%20Leinster | Thomas "Tom" Stephen Hampden Leinster (born 1971) is a British mathematician, known for his work on category theory.
Education and career
Leinster graduated in 2000 with a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge. His Ph.D. thesis Operads in Higher-Dimensional Category Theory was supervised by Martin Hyland. After teac... | Tom Leinster | Mathematics | 375 |
17,015,288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20African%20red%20colobus | Central African red colobus is the traditional name for several species of red colobus monkey that had formerly been considered a single species, Piliocolobus foai. Central African red colobus monkeys are found in humid forests in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, the Central African Rep... | Central African red colobus | Biology | 386 |
57,834,314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companion%20robot | A companion robot is a robot created to create real or apparent companionship for human beings. Target markets for companion robots include the elderly and single children. Companions robots are expected to communicate with non-experts in a natural and intuitive way. They offer a variety of functions, such as monitorin... | Companion robot | Engineering,Biology | 1,796 |
16,052,374 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coturnism | Coturnism is an illness featuring muscle tenderness and rhabdomyolysis (muscle cell breakdown) after consuming quail (usually common quail, Coturnix coturnix, from which the name derives) that have fed on poisonous plants.
Causes
From case histories it is known that the toxin is stable, as four-month-old pickled quail... | Coturnism | Chemistry | 668 |
2,819,660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downstream%20processing | Downstream processing refers to the recovery and the purification of biosynthetic products, particularly pharmaceuticals, from natural sources such as animal tissue, plant tissue or fermentation broth, including the recycling of salvageable components as well as the proper treatment and disposal of waste. It is an esse... | Downstream processing | Chemistry | 799 |
35,910,856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OUP-16 | OUP-16 is a histamine agonist selective for the H4 subtype.
References
Guanidines
Histamine agonists
Nitriles
Tetrahydrofurans
Imidazoles | OUP-16 | Chemistry | 45 |
4,260,539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labtec | Labtec Enterprises Inc. was an American manufacturer of computer accessories active as an independent company from 1980 to 2001. They were best known for their budget range of peripherals such as keyboards, mice, microphones, speakers and webcams. In the United States, the company had cornered the market for computer s... | Labtec | Technology | 413 |
1,112,620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloric%20acid | Chloric acid, HClO3, is an oxoacid of chlorine, and the formal precursor of chlorate salts. It is a strong acid (pKa ≈ −2.7) and an oxidizing agent.
Properties
Chloric acid is thermodynamically unstable with respect to disproportionation.
Chloric acid is stable in cold aqueous solution up to a concentration of appro... | Chloric acid | Chemistry | 369 |
22,215,967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norpropoxyphene | Norpropoxyphene is a major metabolite of the opioid analgesic drug dextropropoxyphene, and is responsible for many of the side effects associated with use of this drug, especially the unusual toxicity seen during dextropropoxyphene overdose. It has weaker analgesic effects than dextropropoxyphene itself, but is a relat... | Norpropoxyphene | Chemistry | 333 |
16,559,873 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%20of%20Mathematics%20and%20Naval%20Construction | The Central School of Mathematics and Naval Construction was a short-lived shipbuilding college at Portsmouth Dockyard on the south coast of England. It was founded in 1848 but only lasted five years, until 1853. The first Principal was Joseph Woolley, who in 1864 would found the Royal School of Naval Architecture and ... | School of Mathematics and Naval Construction | Engineering | 403 |
33,562,060 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuscuta%20pacifica | Cuscuta pacifica is a species of dodder. Its common name is goldenthread.
Distribution
The plant is native to the coast of western North America from British Columbia to Baja California. It is a halophyte, living in coastal salt marsh habitats, such as the San Francisco Bay.
Description
Cuscuta pacifica is a slender ... | Cuscuta pacifica | Chemistry | 415 |
3,189,101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate%20bulk%20container | Intermediate bulk containers (also known as IBC, IBC tote, or pallet tank) are industrial-grade containers engineered for the mass handling, transport, and storage of liquids, semi-solids, pastes, or granular solids. There are several types of IBCs with the two main categories being flexible IBCs and rigid IBCs. Many... | Intermediate bulk container | Engineering | 2,570 |
16,314,447 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert%20McCarley | Robert W. McCarley, MD, (1937–2017) was Chair and Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and the VA Boston Healthcare System. He is also Director of the Laboratory of Neuroscience located at the Brockton VA Medical Center and the McLean Hospital. McClarley was a prominent researcher in the field of sleep a... | Robert McCarley | Biology | 403 |
3,093,672 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common%20beta%20emitters | Various radionuclides emit beta particles, high-speed electrons or positrons, through radioactive decay of their atomic nucleus. These can be used in a range of different industrial, scientific, and medical applications. This article lists some common beta-emitting radionuclides of technological importance, and their p... | Common beta emitters | Physics,Chemistry | 891 |
5,929,146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PikeOS | PikeOS is a commercial hard real-time operating system (RTOS) which has a separation kernel-based hypervisor that supports multiple logical partition types for various operating systems (OS) and applications, each referred to as a GuestOS. PikeOS is engineered to support the creation of certifiable smart devices for th... | PikeOS | Technology | 1,112 |
37,019,012 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64%20Eridani | 64 Eridani is a single, yellow-white hued star in the constellation Eridanus having variable star designation S Eridani. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.77. The annual parallax shift is measured at , which equates to a distance of about . In addition to its proper motion, i... | 64 Eridani | Astronomy | 295 |
2,495,244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Field%20recording | Field recording is the production of audio recordings outside recording studios, and the term applies to recordings of both natural and human-produced sounds. It can also include the recording of electromagnetic fields or vibrations using different microphones like a passive magnetic antenna for electromagnetic recordi... | Field recording | Engineering | 2,406 |
851,084 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koru | The is a spiral shape evoking a newly unfurling frond from a silver fern frond. It is an integral symbol in Māori art, carving and tattooing, where it symbolises new life, growth, strength and peace.
Its shape "conveys the idea of perpetual movement," while the inner coil "suggests returning to the point of origin".
... | Koru | Mathematics | 312 |
4,567,165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer%20matrix | In applied mathematics, the transfer matrix is a formulation in terms of a block-Toeplitz matrix of the two-scale equation, which characterizes refinable functions. Refinable functions play an important role in wavelet theory and finite element theory.
For the mask , which is a vector with component indexes from to ,... | Transfer matrix | Mathematics | 126 |
51,179,097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dangyangyu%20Kiln | The Dangyangyu Kiln (当阳峪窑 Dangyangyu yao) was a private kiln in operation during the Northern Song dynasty, producing Cizhou ware. It is located in Xiuwu in Henan province, China, and is also known as the Xiuwu Kiln (修武窑 Xiuwu yao) or Xiuwu kiln. Dangyangyu is sometimes presented as Tangyangyu, Tangyang Yu or Tang Yan... | Dangyangyu Kiln | Chemistry,Engineering | 417 |
1,404,572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Ramsbottom%20%28engineer%29 | John Ramsbottom (11 September 1814 – 20 May 1897) was an English mechanical engineer. Born in Todmorden, then on the county border of Yorkshire and Lancashire. He was the Chief Mechanical Engineer for the London and North Western Railway for 14 years. He created many inventions for railways but his main legacy is the s... | John Ramsbottom (engineer) | Materials_science | 2,199 |
64,372,846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/88%20Leonis | 88 Leonis is a wide binary star system in the equatorial constellation of Leo, the lion. The system is near the lower limit of visibility to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 6.27. It is located at a distance of 77 light years from the Sun based on parallax, but is drifting closer with a radial velocit... | 88 Leonis | Astronomy | 362 |
75,620,851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyrotrema%20papillatum | Gyrotrema papillatum is a little-known species of corticolous (bark-dwelling), crustose lichen in the family Harpidiaceae. It is known from a single collection in a lowland rainforest region of Costa Rica.
Taxonomy
Gyrotrema papillatum was described as new to science in 2011 by the German lichenologist Robert Lücking.... | Gyrotrema papillatum | Biology | 554 |
1,960,186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error%20catastrophe | Error catastrophe refers to the cumulative loss of genetic information in a lineage of organisms due to high mutation rates. The mutation rate above which error catastrophe occurs is called the error threshold. Both terms were coined by Manfred Eigen in his mathematical evolutionary theory of the quasispecies.
The ... | Error catastrophe | Biology | 1,284 |
19,050,295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCA3 | Prostate cancer antigen 3 (PCA3, also referred to as DD3) is a gene that expresses a non-coding RNA. PCA3 is only expressed in human prostate tissue, and the gene is highly overexpressed in prostate cancer. Because of its restricted expression profile, the PCA3 RNA is useful as a tumor marker.
Use as biomarker
The mos... | PCA3 | Chemistry,Biology | 479 |
34,754,337 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyron | Zyron is a registered trademark for specialty gases marketed to the global electronics industry by DuPont.
History
Freon was used as the original brand name for electronic gases produced and marketed by DuPont. With the depletion of the ozone layer and the subsequent phase-out of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) gas compoun... | Zyron | Materials_science | 635 |
3,358,541 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European%20Conference%20on%20Artificial%20Intelligence | The biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI) is the leading conference in the field of Artificial Intelligence in Europe, and is commonly listed together with IJCAI and AAAI as one of the three major general AI conferences worldwide. The conference series has been held without interruption since 1... | European Conference on Artificial Intelligence | Technology | 385 |
68,097,758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20176693 | HD 176693, also known as Kepler-408, is a star with a close orbiting exoplanet in the northern constellation of Draco. It is located at a distance of 291 light years from the Sun based on parallax measurements, but it is drifting closer with a radial velocity of −55 km/s. The star is predicted to come as close as in 1... | HD 176693 | Astronomy | 443 |
5,102,797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinker%20paradox | The drinker paradox (also known as the drinker's theorem, the drinker's principle, or the drinking principle) is a theorem of classical predicate logic that can be stated as "There is someone in the pub such that, if he or she is drinking, then everyone in the pub is drinking." It was popularised by the mathematical lo... | Drinker paradox | Mathematics | 996 |
3,187,506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20podcast%20clients | A podcast client, podcatcher, or podcast app, is a computer program or mobile app used to stream or download podcasts, via an RSS or XML feed.
While podcast clients are best known for streaming and downloading audio podcasts, many can also download video podcasts, newsfeeds, text, and pictures. Some of these podcast c... | List of podcast clients | Technology | 220 |
15,333,552 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-minimal%20theory | In model theory, a branch of mathematical logic, a C-minimal theory is a theory that is "minimal" with respect to a ternary relation C with certain properties. Algebraically closed fields with a (Krull) valuation are perhaps the most important example.
This notion was defined in analogy to the o-minimal theories, whi... | C-minimal theory | Mathematics | 300 |
26,420,043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peritoneal%20washing | Peritoneal washing is a procedure used to look for malignant cells, i.e. cancer, in the peritoneum.
Peritoneal washes are routinely done to stage abdominal and pelvic tumours, e.g. ovarian cancer.
See also
Peritoneal lavage
Additional images
References
External links
Peritoneal washing
Pathology | Peritoneal washing | Biology | 79 |
10,886,610 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivialism | Trivialism is the logical theory that all statements (also known as propositions) are true and, consequently, that all contradictions of the form "p and not p" (e.g. the ball is red and not red) are true. In accordance with this, a trivialist is a person who believes everything is true.
In classical logic, trivialism ... | Trivialism | Mathematics | 2,265 |
29,648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-lens%20reflex%20camera | A single-lens reflex camera (SLR) is a camera that typically uses a mirror and prism system (hence "reflex" from the mirror's reflection) that permits the photographer to view through the lens and see exactly what will be captured. With twin lens reflex and rangefinder cameras, the viewed image could be significantly d... | Single-lens reflex camera | Technology | 4,891 |
17,127,473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6N14P | The 6N14P (Russian: 6Н14П) is a miniature Russian-made medium gain dual triode vacuum tube, intended for service as a low-noise cascode amplifier at HF through VHF frequencies. It is a direct equivalent of ECC84 and 6CW7 vacuum tubes. The construction of the tube is asymmetrical, with the control grid of the first trio... | 6N14P | Physics | 369 |
25,078,285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anilingus | Anilingus (also spelled analingus) is an oral and anal sex act (anal–oral contact or anal–oral sex) in which one person stimulates the anus of another by using their tongue or lips.
The anus has a relatively high concentration of nerve endings and can be an erogenous zone, and so the recipient may receive pleasure fro... | Anilingus | Biology | 935 |
515,683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbanion | In organic chemistry, a carbanion is an anion in which carbon is negatively charged.
Formally, a carbanion is the conjugate base of a carbon acid:
where B stands for the base. The carbanions formed from deprotonation of alkanes (at an sp3 carbon), alkenes (at an sp2 carbon), arenes (at an sp2 carbon), and alkynes (at... | Carbanion | Physics,Chemistry | 4,298 |
41,036,105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great%20Annihilator | 1E1740.7-2942, or the Great Annihilator, is a Milky Way microquasar, located near the Galactic Center on the sky. It likely consists of a black hole and a companion star. It is one of the brightest X-ray sources in the region around the Galactic Center.
The object was first detected in soft X-rays by the Einstein Obse... | Great Annihilator | Physics,Astronomy | 344 |
21,151,506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Membrane%20bound%20polyribosome | In cell biology, membrane bound polyribosomes are attached to a cell's endoplasmic reticulum. When certain proteins are synthesized by a ribosome they can become "membrane-bound". The newly produced polypeptide chains are inserted directly into the endoplasmic reticulum by the ribosome and are then transported to their... | Membrane bound polyribosome | Biology | 1,656 |
43,423,462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20silicon | In the electronics industry, dark silicon is the amount of circuitry of an integrated circuit that cannot be powered-on at the nominal operating voltage for a given thermal design power (TDP) constraint.
Dennard scaling would posit that as transistors get smaller, they become more efficient in proportion to the increa... | Dark silicon | Engineering | 360 |
52,252,137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectopic%20decidua | Ectopic decidua are decidual cells found outside inner lining of the uterus. This condition was first described in 1971 by Walker and the name 'ectopic decidua' was coined by Tausig. While ectopic decidua is most commonly seen during pregnancy, it rarely occurs in non-pregnant people, accompanied by bleeding and pain.
... | Ectopic decidua | Chemistry | 227 |
3,988,213 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SecurityFocus | SecurityFocus was an online computer security news portal and purveyor of information security services. Home to the well-known Bugtraq mailing list, SecurityFocus columnists and writers included former Department of Justice cybercrime prosecutor Mark Rasch, and hacker-turned-journalist Kevin Poulsen.
References
Exte... | SecurityFocus | Technology | 87 |
22,607,189 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker%20News | Hacker News (HN) is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by the investment fund and startup incubator Y Combinator. In general, content that can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."
The word hacker in "Hacker News" is used in i... | Hacker News | Technology | 539 |
1,164,549 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proton%20therapy | In medicine, proton therapy, or proton radiotherapy, is a type of particle therapy that uses a beam of protons to irradiate diseased tissue, most often to treat cancer. The chief advantage of proton therapy over other types of external beam radiotherapy is that the dose of protons is deposited over a narrow range of de... | Proton therapy | Physics | 6,418 |
44,849,849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tylopilus%20louisii | Tylopilus louisii is a bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae. Described as new to science in 1964 by Belgian mycologist Paul Heinemann, it is found in the Republic of the Congo. It has a gray cap and stipe, and spores measuring 10–11.7 by 3.5–3.8 μm.
See also
List of North American boletes
References
External links... | Tylopilus louisii | Biology | 98 |
1,028,345 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw%20Zaremba%20%28mathematician%29 | Stanisław Zaremba (3 October 1863 – 23 November 1942) was a Polish mathematician and engineer. His research in partial differential equations, applied mathematics and classical analysis, particularly on harmonic functions, gained him a wide recognition. He was one of the mathematicians who contributed to the success of... | Stanisław Zaremba (mathematician) | Mathematics | 402 |
25,967,148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brickellia%20veronicifolia | Brickellia veronicifolia is a North American species of plants in the family Asteraceae. It is widespread across much of Mexico, from Chihuahua to Oaxaca. In the United States, it very rare, found only in the Chisos Mountains inside Big Bend National Park in Texas, and also in Otero County in New Mexico.
Brickellia ve... | Brickellia veronicifolia | Chemistry | 180 |
30,011,620 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20copy%20detection | Video copy detection is the process of detecting illegally copied videos by analyzing them and comparing them to original content.
The goal of this process is to protect a video creator's intellectual property.
History
Indyk et al. produced a video copy detection theory based on the length of the film; however, it ... | Video copy detection | Technology | 1,196 |
68,649,892 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantharellus%20enelensis | Cantharellus enelensis is one of several species of chanterelle native to North America, discovered in 2017 as a new member of the C. cibarius complex. It forms mycorrhizal relationships and is an edible mushroom.
Taxonomy
Cantharellus enelensis was discovered in 2017 as a new member of the C. cibarius complex. It wa... | Cantharellus enelensis | Biology | 418 |
7,389,796 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMG-CoA | β-Hydroxy β-methylglutaryl-CoA (HMG-CoA), also known as 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A, is an intermediate in the mevalonate and ketogenesis pathways. It is formed from acetyl CoA and acetoacetyl CoA by HMG-CoA synthase. The research of Minor J. Coon and Bimal Kumar Bachhawat in the 1950s at University of Illino... | HMG-CoA | Chemistry,Biology | 433 |
360,033 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordnance%20Survey%20National%20Grid | The Ordnance Survey National Grid reference system (OSGB), also known as British National Grid (BNG), is a system of geographic grid references, distinct from latitude and longitude, whereby any location in Great Britain can be described in terms of its distance from the origin (0, 0), which lies to the west of the Isl... | Ordnance Survey National Grid | Mathematics | 2,227 |
43,785,666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinyoun%20stain | The Kinyoun method or Kinyoun stain (cold method), developed by Joseph J. Kinyoun, is a procedure used to stain acid-fast species of the bacterial genus Mycobacterium. It is a variation of a method developed by Robert Koch in 1882. Certain species of bacteria have a waxy lipid called mycolic acid, in their cell walls w... | Kinyoun stain | Chemistry,Biology | 344 |
119,596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elimination%20communication | Elimination communication (EC) is a practice in which a caregiver uses timing, signals, cues, and intuition to address an infant's need to eliminate waste. Caregivers try to recognize and respond to babies' bodily needs and enable them to urinate and defecate in an appropriate place (e.g. a toilet). Caregivers may us... | Elimination communication | Biology | 2,777 |
1,819,888 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wreck%20of%20the%20Old%2097 | The Wreck of the Old 97 was an American rail disaster involving the Southern Railway mail train, officially known as the Fast Mail (train number 97), while en route from Monroe, Virginia, to Spencer, North Carolina, on September 27, 1903. Travelling at an excessive speed in an attempt to maintain schedule, the train de... | Wreck of the Old 97 | Technology | 2,090 |
58,568,168 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaus%20Immelmann | Klaus Immelmann (May 6, 1935 – September 8, 1987) was a German ethologist and ornithologist. He undertook field research in Africa and Australia, and published works in German and English. His second and third visit to South Africa were in 1969 and 1971. Immelmann became a permanent executive member of the Internationa... | Klaus Immelmann | Biology | 201 |
17,945 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lie%20group | In mathematics, a Lie group (pronounced ) is a group that is also a differentiable manifold, such that group multiplication and taking inverses are both differentiable.
A manifold is a space that locally resembles Euclidean space, whereas groups define the abstract concept of a binary operation along with the additio... | Lie group | Physics,Mathematics | 9,098 |
7,743,448 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diel%20vertical%20migration | Diel vertical migration (DVM), also known as diurnal vertical migration, is a pattern of movement used by some organisms, such as copepods, living in the ocean and in lakes. The adjective "diel" (IPA: , ) comes from , and refers to a 24-hour period. The migration occurs when organisms move up to the uppermost layer o... | Diel vertical migration | Biology | 4,093 |
7,464,700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theorem%20of%20corresponding%20states | According to van der Waals, the theorem of corresponding states (or principle/law of corresponding states) indicates that all fluids, when compared at the same reduced temperature and reduced pressure, have approximately the same compressibility factor and all deviate from ideal gas behavior to about the same degree.
... | Theorem of corresponding states | Physics,Chemistry,Engineering | 455 |
7,066,527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Height%20Modernization | Height Modernization is the name of a series of state-by-state programs recently begun by the United States' National Geodetic Survey, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The goal of each state program is to place GPS base stations at various locations within each participating state to m... | Height Modernization | Mathematics | 114 |
15,875,167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickering%20emulsion | A Ramsden emulsion, sometimes named Pickering emulsion, is an emulsion that is stabilized by solid particles (for example colloidal silica) which adsorb onto the interface between the water and oil phases. Typically, the emulsions are either water-in-oil or oil-in-water emulsions, but other more complex systems such as... | Pickering emulsion | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 991 |
70,679,614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QOI%20%28image%20format%29 | The Quite OK Image Format (QOI) is a specification for lossless image compression of 24-bit (8 bits per color RGB) or 32-bit (8 bits per color with 8-bit alpha channel RGBA) color raster (bitmapped) images, invented by Dominic Szablewski and first announced on 24 November 2021.
Description
The intended purpose was to... | QOI (image format) | Technology | 1,437 |
71,295,111 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthonia%20stereocaulina | Arthonia stereocaulina is a species of lichenicolous fungus in the family Arthoniaceae.
Distribution
Arthonia stereocaulina has been reported from Alaska, Canada, Iceland, Russia and Svalbard.
Host species
As the name suggests, Arthonia stereocaulina infects lichens of the genus Stereocaulon. Known host species are:
... | Arthonia stereocaulina | Biology | 220 |
19,132,648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WISE%20Campaign | The WISE Campaign (Women into Science and Engineering) is a United Kingdom-based organization that encourages women and girls to value and pursue science, technology, engineering and maths-related courses in school or college and to move on into related careers and progress. Its mission statement aims to facilitate und... | WISE Campaign | Technology | 609 |
10,220,473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eilenberg%E2%80%93Zilber%20theorem | In mathematics, specifically in algebraic topology, the Eilenberg–Zilber theorem is an important result in establishing the link between the homology groups of a product space and those of the spaces and . The theorem first appeared in a 1953 paper in the American Journal of Mathematics by Samuel Eilenberg and Joseph... | Eilenberg–Zilber theorem | Mathematics | 897 |
55,782,403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydnum%20vesterholtii | Hydnum vesterholtii is a species of fungus in the family Hydnaceae native to the southern and Central Europe and southwestern China.
References
Fungi described in 2012
Fungi of Europe
vesterholtii
Fungus species | Hydnum vesterholtii | Biology | 49 |
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