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32,629,238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford%209-inch%20axle | The Ford 9-inch is an automobile axle manufactured by Ford Motor Company. It is known as one of the most popular axles in automotive history. It was introduced in 1957 model year cars and ended production in 1986, having been phased out in favor of the Ford 8.8 inch axle. However, aftermarket companies still produce t... | Ford 9-inch axle | Engineering | 568 |
653,778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dystonia | Dystonia is a neurological hyperkinetic movement disorder in which sustained or repetitive muscle contractions occur involuntarily, resulting in twisting and repetitive movements or abnormal fixed postures. The movements may resemble a tremor. Dystonia is often intensified or exacerbated by physical activity, and symp... | Dystonia | Chemistry | 2,943 |
56,556,388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic%20Principles%20for%20the%20Treatment%20of%20Prisoners | The Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners were adopted and proclaimed by the General Assembly of the United Nations by resolution 45/111 on 14 December 1990.
Article 1 protects human dignity. Article 2 bans discrimination.
References
United Nations General Assembly resolutions
Human rights
Prisoners and d... | Basic Principles for the Treatment of Prisoners | Biology | 59 |
11,798,314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20of%20International%20Trade%20in%20Endangered%20Species | Control of International Trade in Endangered Species also known as COTES is an organisation (1996) which complies with CITES.
COTES is used in the United Kingdom to convict wildlife crimes involving protected and endangered species.
References
Endangered species
Conservation in the United Kingdom | Control of International Trade in Endangered Species | Biology | 53 |
8,969,039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrochromic%20device | An electrochromic device (ECD) controls optical properties such as optical transmission, absorption, reflectance and/or emittance in a continual but reversible manner on application of voltage (electrochromism). This property enables an ECD to be used for applications like smart glass, electrochromic mirrors, and elect... | Electrochromic device | Materials_science,Engineering | 1,788 |
13,693,851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Specified%20minimum%20yield%20strength | Specified Minimum Yield Strength (SMYS) means the specified minimum yield strength for steel pipe manufactured in accordance with a listed specification1. This is a common term used in the oil and gas industry for steel pipe used under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of Transportation. It is an indic... | Specified minimum yield strength | Materials_science,Engineering | 206 |
9,354,293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasteur%20effect | The Pasteur effect describes how available oxygen inhibits ethanol fermentation, driving yeast to switch toward aerobic respiration for increased generation of the energy carrier adenosine triphosphate (ATP). More generally, in the medical literature, the Pasteur effect refers to how the cellular presence of oxygen cau... | Pasteur effect | Chemistry,Biology | 683 |
60,482,408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sascha%20Braunig | Sascha Braunig (born 1983) is a Canadian painter. She is best known for her hyperrealist and surrealist paintings of lay figures.
Life and education
Braunig was born in Qualicum Beach, British Columbia and lives and works in Portland, Maine.
In 2005, Braunig received a BFA in painting and photography from The Coope... | Sascha Braunig | Technology | 322 |
14,627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac%20Newton | Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher. Newton was a key figure in the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment that followed. Newton's bo... | Isaac Newton | Physics,Chemistry,Astronomy,Mathematics | 12,655 |
13,371,175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomorphan | Phenomorphan is an opioid analgesic. It is not currently used in medicine, but has similar side-effects to other opiates, which include itching, nausea and respiratory depression.
Phenomorphan is a highly potent drug due to the N-phenethyl group, which boosts affinity to the μ-opioid receptor, and so phenomorphan is a... | Phenomorphan | Chemistry | 288 |
29,843,595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DexNet | Dex-net is a robotic. It uses a Grasp Quality Convolutional Neural Network to learn how to grasp unusually shaped objects.
History
Dex-net was developed by University of California, Berkeley professor Ken Goldberg and graduate student Jeff Mahler.
Design
Dex-net includes a high-resolution 3-D sensor and two arms, e... | DexNet | Engineering | 347 |
75,631,986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathini%20Sellathurai | Mathini Sellathurai is an electrical engineer whose research topics include wireless communications, radar, cognitive radio, and multiple-input and multiple-output radio communications. Educated in Sri Lanka, Sweden and Canada, she has worked in Canada, the US, and Scotland, where she is professor in signal processing ... | Mathini Sellathurai | Engineering | 306 |
8,084,851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place%20syntax | Within geographic information systems, Place syntax is a term in spatial analysis. There is potential in combining geographically oriented accessibility research and geometrically oriented research in architecture, such as space syntax, as stated by for example, Ståhle et al.
References
External links
Place Syntax: ... | Place syntax | Technology | 67 |
3,332,850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutidine | Lutidine is the trivial name used to describe the chemical compounds which are dimethyl derivatives of pyridine. They were discovered in Dippel's oil and named (as an anagram of toluidine, with which they share their empirical formula) by Thomas Anderson in 1851. Their chemical properties resemble those of pyridine, al... | Lutidine | Chemistry | 247 |
66,261,967 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20plant%20genera%20named%20for%20people%20%28K%E2%80%93P%29 | Since the first printing of Carl Linnaeus's Species Plantarum in 1753, plants have been assigned one epithet or name for their species and one name for their genus, a grouping of related species. Thousands of plants have been named for people, including botanists and their colleagues, plant collectors, horticulturists,... | List of plant genera named for people (K–P) | Biology | 611 |
5,143,567 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imago%20therapy | Imago Relationship Therapy (IRT) is a form of therapy that focuses on relationship counseling.
IRT was developed by Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt. The word imago is Latin for "image"; in this sense, it refers to the "unconscious image of similar love", according to one therapist.
A 2017 study of the method... | Imago therapy | Biology | 117 |
17,001,425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minor%20planet | According to the International Astronomical Union (IAU), a minor planet is an astronomical object in direct orbit around the Sun that is exclusively classified as neither a planet nor a comet. Before 2006, the IAU officially used the term minor planet, but that year's meeting reclassified minor planets and comets into ... | Minor planet | Astronomy | 3,993 |
67,967,062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archiv%20der%20Pharmazie | The Archiv der Pharmazie (German pronunciation: [ˈ arˈçiːf ˈdeːɐ̯ farmaˈtsiː], English: Archive of Pharmacy) is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of chemistry in the life sciences. The journal was established in 1822 and is published by Wiley-VCH on behalf of the Deutsche Pharmazeutische G... | Archiv der Pharmazie | Chemistry | 373 |
1,675,601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifold%20vacuum | Manifold vacuum, or engine vacuum in a petrol engine is the difference in air pressure between the engine's intake manifold and Earth's atmosphere.
Manifold vacuum is an effect of a piston's movement on the induction stroke and the airflow through a throttle in the intervening carburetor or throttle body leading to th... | Manifold vacuum | Physics,Technology,Engineering | 2,487 |
32,848,710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q-Meixner%20polynomials | In mathematics, the q-Meixner polynomials are a family of basic hypergeometric orthogonal polynomials in the basic Askey scheme. give a detailed list of their properties.
Definition
The polynomials are given in terms of basic hypergeometric functions by
References
Orthogonal polynomials
Q-analogs
Special hyperge... | Q-Meixner polynomials | Mathematics | 63 |
24,979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-polytope | In geometry, a 4-polytope (sometimes also called a polychoron, polycell, or polyhedroid) is a four-dimensional polytope. It is a connected and closed figure, composed of lower-dimensional polytopal elements: vertices, edges, faces (polygons), and cells (polyhedra). Each face is shared by exactly two cells. The 4-polyto... | 4-polytope | Mathematics | 2,425 |
43,819,148 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya%20astronomy | Maya astronomy is the study of the Moon, planets, Milky Way, Sun, and astronomical phenomena by the Precolumbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica.
The Classic Maya in particular developed some of the most accurate pre-telescope astronomy in the world, aided by their fully developed writing system and their positional n... | Maya astronomy | Astronomy | 6,618 |
33,753,674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tylopilus%20alboater | Tylopilus alboater, called the black velvet bolete, by some, is a bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae. The species is found in North America east of the Rocky Mountains, and in eastern Asia, including China, Japan, Taiwan, and Thailand. A mycorrhizal species, it grows solitarily, scattered, or in groups on the gro... | Tylopilus alboater | Biology | 1,634 |
70,426,129 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aetokthonotoxin | Aetokthonotoxin (AETX), colloquially known as eagle toxin, is a chemical compound that was identified in 2021 as the cyanobacterial neurotoxin causing vacuolar myelinopathy (VM) in eagles in North America. As the biosynthesis of aetokthonotoxin depends on the availability of bromide ions in freshwater systems and requi... | Aetokthonotoxin | Chemistry | 637 |
78,863,667 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C/1936%20K1%20%28Peltier%29 | Peltier's Comet, formal designation C/1936 K1, is a non-periodic comet that became visible to the naked eye between July and August 1936. It is the fifth of 10 comets discovered by American astronomer, Leslie C. Peltier.
References
External links
Non-periodic comets
Near-Earth comets | C/1936 K1 (Peltier) | Astronomy | 66 |
21,809,607 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NC-SI | NC-SI, abbreviated from network controller sideband interface, is an electrical interface and protocol defined by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). The NC-SI enables the connection of a baseboard management controller (BMC) to one or more network interface controllers (NICs) in a server computer system for ... | NC-SI | Technology | 489 |
50,586,295 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back%20action%20%28quantum%29 |
Introduction (error in measurement)
Back Action in quantum mechanics is the phenomenon in which the act of measuring a property of a particle directly influences the state of the particle. In all scientific measurement, there exists a degree of error due to a variety of factors. This could include unaccounted-for va... | Back action (quantum) | Physics | 629 |
92,962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemierre%27s%20syndrome | Lemierre's syndrome is infectious thrombophlebitis of the internal jugular vein. It most often develops as a complication of a bacterial sore throat infection in young, otherwise healthy adults. The thrombophlebitis is a serious condition and may lead to further systemic complications such as bacteria in the blood or ... | Lemierre's syndrome | Biology | 2,048 |
38,488,397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramaria%20caulifloriformis | Ramaria caulifloriformis is a species of coral fungus in the family Gomphaceae. It was first described in 1956 as Clavaria caulifloriformis by Chester Leathers from collections made near Topinabee, Michigan. It was transferred into the genus Ramara in 1970 by E.J.H. Corner. The creamy-brown fruit bodies measure tall b... | Ramaria caulifloriformis | Biology | 163 |
25,271,400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Kosmos%20satellites%20%28751%E2%80%931000%29 | The designation Kosmos ( meaning Cosmos) is a generic name given to a large number of Soviet, and subsequently Russian, satellites, the first of which was launched in 1962. Satellites given Kosmos designations include military spacecraft, failed probes to the Moon and the planets, prototypes for crewed spacecraft, and ... | List of Kosmos satellites (751–1000) | Technology | 120 |
65,933,492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tracklib | Tracklib is a music service that allows producers to sample original music and clear the samples for official use. The platform was founded with the aim to solve legal and ethical issues surrounding sampling and music clearances. The platform has been previously used to sample and clear tracks for commercial releases b... | Tracklib | Technology,Engineering | 635 |
214,121 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20largest%20optical%20reflecting%20telescopes | This list of the largest optical reflecting telescopes with objective diameters of or greater is sorted by aperture, which is a measure of the light-gathering power and resolution of a reflecting telescope. The mirrors themselves can be larger than the aperture, and some telescopes may use aperture synthesis through i... | List of largest optical reflecting telescopes | Astronomy | 1,070 |
7,463,734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glomeraceae | The Glomeraceae are a family of arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi that form symbiotic relationships (mycorrhizas) with plant roots. The family was circumscribed in 1989.
References
Fungus families
Glomerales | Glomeraceae | Biology | 60 |
9,730,285 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical%20design | A spherical design, part of combinatorial design theory in mathematics, is a finite set of N points on the d-dimensional unit d-sphere Sd such that the average value of any polynomial f of degree t or less on the set equals the average value of f on the whole sphere (that is, the integral of f over Sd divided by the ar... | Spherical design | Mathematics | 546 |
619,795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20the%20periodic%20table | The periodic table is an arrangement of the chemical elements, structured by their atomic number, electron configuration and recurring chemical properties. In the basic form, elements are presented in order of increasing atomic number, in the reading sequence. Then, rows and columns are created by starting new rows and... | History of the periodic table | Chemistry | 9,135 |
11,077,605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Submillimeter%20Wave%20Astronomy%20Satellite | Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite (SWAS, also Explorer 74 and SMEX-3) is a NASA submillimetre astronomy satellite, and is the fourth spacecraft in the Small Explorer program (SMEX). It was launched on 6 December 1998, at 00:57:54 UTC, from Vandenberg Air Force Base aboard a Pegasus XL launch vehicle. The telescope... | Submillimeter Wave Astronomy Satellite | Astronomy | 1,405 |
53,231,843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brownout%20%28software%20engineering%29 | Brownout in software engineering is a technique that involves disabling certain features of an application.
Description
Brownout is used to increase the robustness of an application to computing capacity shortage. If too many users are simultaneously accessing an application hosted online, the underlying computing in... | Brownout (software engineering) | Technology,Engineering | 429 |
39,316,385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact%20survival | Impact survival is a theory that life, usually in the form of microbial bacteria, can survive under the extreme conditions of a major impact event, such as a meteorite striking the surface of a planet. This step is necessary for the possibility of panspermia. Microbial life must be able to survive both the escape out o... | Impact survival | Biology | 593 |
8,328,182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3%2C5-Xylidine | 3,5-Xylidine is the organic compound with the formula C6H3(CH3)2NH2. It is one of several isomeric xylidines. It is a colorless viscous liquid. It is used in the production of the dye Pigment Red 149.
Production
3,5-Xylidine is produced industrially by amination of the xylenol using ammonia and alumina catalyst.
Re... | 3,5-Xylidine | Chemistry | 97 |
84,726 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfate | The sulfate or sulphate ion is a polyatomic anion with the empirical formula . Salts, acid derivatives, and peroxides of sulfate are widely used in industry. Sulfates occur widely in everyday life. Sulfates are salts of sulfuric acid and many are prepared from that acid.
Spelling
"Sulfate" is the spelling recommended... | Sulfate | Chemistry | 1,727 |
16,880,172 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger%20tip%20unit | In medicine, a finger tip unit (FTU) is defined as the amount of ointment, cream or other semi-solid dosage form expressed from a tube with a 5 mm diameter nozzle, applied from the distal skin-crease to the tip of the index finger of an adult. The "distal skin-crease" is the skin crease over the joint nearest the end... | Finger tip unit | Mathematics | 717 |
78,633,817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peronospora%20violacea | Peronospora violacea is a floricolous downy mildew which infects plants in the Caprifoliaceae. It has been reported from hosts in the genera Dipsacus, Knautia, Lomelosia, Scabiosa, and Succisa.
It produces conidiophores on the petals and styles of the host, oospores inside the petal and style tissue, and suppresses th... | Peronospora violacea | Biology | 188 |
169,250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lipid-anchored%20protein | Lipid-anchored proteins (also known as lipid-linked proteins) are proteins located on the surface of the cell membrane that are covalently attached to lipids embedded within the cell membrane. These proteins insert and assume a place in the bilayer structure of the membrane alongside the similar fatty acid tails. The ... | Lipid-anchored protein | Chemistry,Biology | 2,097 |
34,787,877 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20States%20v.%20Ancheta | United States of America v. Ancheta (U.S. vs. Ancheta, 06-051 (C.D. Cal.)) is the name of a lawsuit against Jeanson James Ancheta of Downey, California by the U.S. Government and was handled by the United States District Court for the Central District of California. This is the first botnet related prosecution in U.S h... | United States v. Ancheta | Technology | 2,173 |
43,201,908 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valamon%20Viiniherman | Valamon Viiniherman Oy () is a distillery located in Finland that produces whisky and church wine. The company, founded in 1997, is owned by the Valamo Monastery.
History
The company was founded by the Valamo Monastery and a winery called Hermannin viinitila ("Hermann's Wine Estate") from Ilomantsi. The latter is the... | Valamon Viiniherman | Chemistry | 393 |
54,377,322 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C5-Diaza-3%2C7-diphosphacyclooctanes | 1,5-Diaza-3,7-diphosphacyclooctanes are organophosphorus compounds with the formula [R'NCHP(R)CH], often abbreviated PN. They are air-sensitive white solids that are soluble in organic solvents. The ligands exist as meso and d,l-diastereomers, but only the meso forms function as bidentate ligands.
Some metal-PN comp... | 1,5-Diaza-3,7-diphosphacyclooctanes | Chemistry | 397 |
15,637,117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChemMedChem | ChemMedChem is a biweekly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering medicinal chemistry. It is published by Wiley-VCH on behalf of Chemistry Europe. In addition to original research in the form of full papers and shorter communications, the journal contains review-type articles (reviews, minireviews, patent reviews, es... | ChemMedChem | Chemistry | 205 |
2,907,387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signed%20zero | Signed zero is zero with an associated sign. In ordinary arithmetic, the number 0 does not have a sign, so that −0, +0 and 0 are equivalent. However, in computing, some number representations allow for the existence of two zeros, often denoted by −0 (negative zero) and +0 (positive zero), regarded as equal by the numer... | Signed zero | Mathematics | 1,463 |
32,711,954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School%20of%20Mining%20Engineering%20of%20Madrid | The School of Mining Engineering of Madrid (Spanish: Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Minas y Energia) is located in calle Ríos Rosas, Madrid, Spain. It is one of the engineering schools of the Technical University of Madrid which was founded in 1971 through the integration of the Higher Technical Schools.
Hi... | School of Mining Engineering of Madrid | Engineering | 333 |
2,407,249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geitonogamy | Geitonogamy (from Greek geiton (γείτων) = neighbor + gamein (γαμεῖν) = to marry) is a type of self-pollination. Geitonogamous pollination is sometimes distinguished from the fertilizations that can result from it, geitonogamy. If a plant is self-incompatible, geitonogamy can reduce seed production.
Geitonogamy is when... | Geitonogamy | Biology | 322 |
1,281,160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistance%20thermometer | Resistance thermometers, also called resistance temperature detectors (RTDs), are sensors used to measure temperature. Many RTD elements consist of a length of fine wire wrapped around a heat-resistant ceramic or glass core but other constructions are also used. The RTD wire is a pure material, typically platinum (Pt),... | Resistance thermometer | Physics,Technology,Engineering | 4,319 |
14,627,569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia%20%C3%97%20soulangeana | Magnolia × soulangeana (Magnolia denudata × Magnolia liliiflora), the saucer magnolia or sometimes the tulip tree, is a hybrid flowering plant in the genus Magnolia and family Magnoliaceae. It is a deciduous tree with large, early-blooming flowers in various shades of white, pink, and purple. It is one of the most comm... | Magnolia × soulangeana | Biology | 692 |
2,982,822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanket%20fort | A blanket fort is a construction commonly made using blankets, bed sheets, pillows, and sofa cushions. It is also known as a couch fort, pillow fort, sheet fort or den.
Parenting books frequently suggest building blanket forts as an activity for parents to participate in play with their children. A blanket fort is mad... | Blanket fort | Biology | 317 |
3,386,142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order%20operator | In quantum field theory, an order operator or an order field is a quantum field version of Landau's order parameter whose expectation value characterizes phase transitions. There exists a dual version of it, the disorder operator or disorder field, whose expectation value characterizes a phase transition by indicating ... | Order operator | Physics,Chemistry | 249 |
9,679,559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%2012661%20b | HD 12661 b is a giant exoplanet two and a half times the mass of Jupiter orbiting around the star HD 12661.
References
Aries (constellation)
Giant planets
Exoplanets discovered in 2001
Exoplanets detected by radial velocity | HD 12661 b | Astronomy | 55 |
10,897,091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healer%20%28video%20games%29 | A healer is a type of character class in video gaming. When a game includes a health game mechanic and multiple classes, often one of the classes will be designed around the restoration of allies' health, known as healing, in order to delay or prevent their defeat. Such a class can be referred to as a healer. In add... | Healer (video games) | Technology | 1,526 |
12,207,392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compact%20complement%20topology | In mathematics, the compact complement topology is a topology defined on the set of real numbers, defined by declaring a subset open if and only if it is either empty or its complement is compact in the standard Euclidean topology on .
References
Topology | Compact complement topology | Physics,Mathematics | 48 |
54,812,230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser%2050 | The Laser 50 is an educational portable computer sold by Vtech that ran the BASIC programming language. It was released in 1984.
Specifications
The Laser 50 used a Zilog Z80 central processing unit running at 3.5 MHz, 2 kB to 18 kB of RAM, a 12 kB ROM, and a 80x7 dots LCD screen.
Microcomputers
Computer-related intr... | Laser 50 | Technology | 80 |
48,729,126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authority%20distribution | The solution concept authority distribution was formulated by Lloyd Shapley and his student X. Hu in 2003 to measure the authority power of players in a well-contracted organization. The index generates the Shapley-Shubik power index and can be used in ranking, planning and organizational choice.
Definition
The organ... | Authority distribution | Mathematics | 1,095 |
2,756,880 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T.51/ISO/IEC%206937 | T.51 / ISO/IEC 6937:2001, Information technology — Coded graphic character set for text communication — Latin alphabet, is a multibyte extension of ASCII, or more precisely ISO/IEC 646-IRV. It was developed in common with ITU-T (then CCITT) for telematic services under the name of T.51, and first became an ISO standard... | T.51/ISO/IEC 6937 | Technology | 1,714 |
43,942 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petri%20dish | A Petri dish (alternatively known as a Petri plate or cell-culture dish) is a shallow transparent lidded dish that biologists use to hold growth medium in which cells can be cultured, originally, cells of bacteria, fungi and small mosses. The container is named after its inventor, German bacteriologist Julius Richard P... | Petri dish | Biology | 1,764 |
12,937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram-negative%20bacteria | Gram-negative bacteria are bacteria that, unlike gram-positive bacteria, do not retain the crystal violet stain used in the Gram staining method of bacterial differentiation. Their defining characteristic is that their cell envelope consists of a thin peptidoglycan cell wall sandwiched between an inner (cytoplasmic) me... | Gram-negative bacteria | Chemistry,Biology | 2,608 |
50,820,388 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxim%20DL | MaxIm DL is a software package developed by Cyanogen Imaging for acquisition, processing, and analysis of astronomical imaging. It contains tools to process and analyze data from imaging array detectors such as CCDs.
It is available for Windows 7 and later. Installation on alternative operating systems is possible bu... | Maxim DL | Astronomy | 71 |
76,624,748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%20716 | NGC 716 is a large barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Aries, about 200 million light-years away from the Milky Way. The luminosity class of NGC 716 is I and has a large HI line. It also contains regions of ionized hydrogen. Many non-redshift measurements provide a distance of 54,023±8,169 Mpc (~176 milli... | NGC 716 | Astronomy | 219 |
77,663,120 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galerina%20semilanceata | Galerina semilanceata is a species of mushroom in the genus Galerina native to Washington state and California.
Description
This species is identified by its heavily veined, light colored cap, and small white V shaped powderings that go up the stem. The mushrooms are usually about 3 cm all around.
Conservation status... | Galerina semilanceata | Biology | 88 |
72,615,273 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather%20of%202023 | The following is a list of weather events that occurred on Earth in the year 2023. The year saw a transition from La Niña to El Niño, with record high global average surface temperatures. There were several natural disasters around the world from various types of weather, including blizzards, cold waves, droughts, heat... | Weather of 2023 | Physics | 5,171 |
20,000,238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardboard%20modeling | Cardboard modeling or cardboard engineering is a form of modelling with paper, card stock, paperboard, and corrugated fiberboard. The term cardboard engineering is sometimes used to differentiate from the craft of making decorative cards. It is often referred to as paper modelling although in practice card is generally... | Cardboard modeling | Physics,Engineering | 345 |
41,461,043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinnamedrine | Cinnamedrine (, ), also known as N-cinnamylephedrine, is a sympathomimetic drug with similar effects relative to those of ephedrine. It also has some local anesthetic activity. Cinnamedrine was previously used, in combination with analgesics, as an antispasmodic to treat dysmenorrhea in the over-the-counter drug Midol ... | Cinnamedrine | Chemistry | 165 |
30,423,565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleosome%20positioning%20region%20database | Nucleosome Positioning Region Database (NPRD) is a database of nucleosome formation sites (NFSs).
See also
References
External links
http://srs6.bionet.nsc.ru/srs6/.
Biological databases
Genetics databases | Nucleosome positioning region database | Biology | 59 |
3,846,760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tagish%20Lake%20%28meteorite%29 | The Tagish Lake meteorite fell at 16:43 UTC on 18 January 2000 in the Tagish Lake area in northwestern British Columbia, Canada.
History
Fragments of the Tagish Lake meteorite landed upon the Earth on January 18, 2000, at 16:43 UT (08:43 local time in Yukon) after a large meteoroid exploded in the upper atmosphere at ... | Tagish Lake (meteorite) | Astronomy | 1,533 |
39,784,158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood%20stabilization | Wood stabilization is a series of processes which use pressure and/or vacuum to impregnate wood cellular structure with certain monomers, acrylics, phenolics or other resins to improve dimensional stability, biological durability, hardness, and other material properties. When exposed to moisture through humidity absorp... | Wood stabilization | Engineering | 327 |
554,661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish%20numerals | Numbers in Finnish are highly systematic, but can be irregular.
Cardinal numbers
The ordinary counting numbers (cardinals) from 0 to 10 are given in the table below. Cardinal numbers may be inflected and some of the inflected forms are irregular in form.
Note: in parentheses, alternative form for counting, and collo... | Finnish numerals | Mathematics | 1,751 |
31,490,462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database%20of%20protein%20conformational%20diversity | The Database of protein conformational diversity (PCDB) is a database of diversity of protein tertiary structures within protein domains as determined by X-ray crystallography. Proteins are inherently flexible and this database collects information on this subject for use in molecular research. It uses the CATH databa... | Database of protein conformational diversity | Chemistry,Materials_science | 158 |
3,480,657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design%20flow%20%28EDA%29 | Design flows are the explicit combination of electronic design automation tools to accomplish the design of an integrated circuit. Moore's law has driven the entire IC implementation RTL to GDSII design flows from one which uses primarily stand-alone synthesis, placement, and routing algorithms to an integrated constr... | Design flow (EDA) | Engineering | 574 |
24,268,588 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KP-1461 | KP-161 is an experimental antiviral drug being studied for the treatment of HIV/AIDS. It belongs to the class of nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors.
KP-1461 is a prodrug of the active antiviral agent KP-1212.
References
Reverse transcriptase inhibitors
Experimental drugs
Prodrugs | KP-1461 | Chemistry | 72 |
2,407,422 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anta%20%28architecture%29 | An anta (pl. antæ, antae, or antas; Latin, possibly from ante, "before" or "in front of"), or sometimes parastas (pl. parastades), is a term in classical architecture describing the posts or pillars on either side of a doorway or entrance of a Greek temple – the slightly projecting piers which terminate the side walls... | Anta (architecture) | Technology,Engineering | 565 |
63,557,748 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%203302 | NGC 3302 is an unbarred lenticular galaxy in the constellation Antlia. It was discovered by the astronomer John Herschel on January 28, 1835.
References
Antlia
3302
Unbarred lenticular galaxies
031391 | NGC 3302 | Astronomy | 49 |
8,203,685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bridge%20locus | In neuroscience the bridge locus for a particular sensory percept is a hypothetical set of neurons whose activity is the basis of that sensory percept. The term was introduced by D.N. Teller and E.Y. Pugh Jr. in 1983, and has been sparingly used. Activity in the bridge locus neurons is postulated to be necessary and su... | Bridge locus | Biology | 400 |
39,682,392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Material%20flow%20cost%20accounting | Material flow cost accounting (MFCA) is a management tool that assists organizations in better understanding the potential environmental and financial consequences of their material and energy practices and seeks to improve them via changes in those practices. It does so by assessing the physical material flows in a co... | Material flow cost accounting | Environmental_science | 317 |
57,052,173 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiation-induced%20lumbar%20plexopathy | Radiation-induced lumbar plexopathy (RILP) or radiation-induced lumbosacral plexopathy (RILSP) is nerve damage in the pelvis and lower spine area caused by therapeutic radiation treatments. RILP is a rare side effect of external beam radiation therapy and both interstitial and intracavity brachytherapy radiation impla... | Radiation-induced lumbar plexopathy | Chemistry,Materials_science | 2,638 |
1,216,778 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest%20Nagel | Ernest Nagel (November 16, 1901 – September 20, 1985) was an American philosopher of science. Along with Rudolf Carnap, Hans Reichenbach, and Carl Hempel, he is sometimes seen as one of the major figures of the logical positivist movement. His 1961 book The Structure of Science is considered a foundational work in the... | Ernest Nagel | Mathematics | 1,118 |
678,158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endosperm | The endosperm is a tissue produced inside the seeds of most of the flowering plants following double fertilization. It is triploid (meaning three chromosome sets per nucleus) in most species, which may be auxin-driven. It surrounds the embryo and provides nutrition in the form of starch, though it can also contain oils... | Endosperm | Biology | 1,708 |
42,558,178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anion-exchange%20chromatography | Anion-exchange chromatography is a process that separates substances based on their charges using an ion-exchange resin containing positively charged groups, such as diethyl-aminoethyl groups (DEAE). In solution, the resin is coated with positively charged counter-ions (cations). Anion exchange resins will bind to nega... | Anion-exchange chromatography | Chemistry | 589 |
76,454,282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confocal%20endoscopy | Confocal endoscopy, or confocal laser endomicroscopy (CLE), is a modern imaging technique that allows the examination of real-time microscopic and histological features inside the body. In the word "endomicroscopy", endo- means "within" and -skopein means "to view or observe". CLE, also known as "optical biopsy", can a... | Confocal endoscopy | Biology | 2,587 |
12,570,324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15%20Vulpeculae | 15 Vulpeculae is a variable star in the northern constellation of Vulpecula, located approximately 243 light years away based on parallax measurements. It has the variable star designation NT Vulpeculae; 15 Vulpeculae is the Flamsteed designation. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, white-hued star with a typica... | 15 Vulpeculae | Astronomy | 446 |
63,295,596 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janson%20inequality | In the mathematical theory of probability, Janson's inequality is a collection of related inequalities giving an exponential bound on the probability of many related events happening simultaneously by their pairwise dependence. Informally Janson's inequality involves taking a sample of many independent random binary va... | Janson inequality | Mathematics | 327 |
8,637,261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications%2C%20Computers%2C%20and%20Networks | The Scientific American special issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks is a special issue of Scientific American dedicated to articles concerning impending changes to the Internet in the period prior to the expansion and mainstreaming of the World Wide Web via Mosaic and Netscape. This issue contained essays ... | Communications, Computers, and Networks | Technology | 734 |
49,664,155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullspace%20property | In compressed sensing, the nullspace property gives necessary and sufficient conditions on the reconstruction of sparse signals using the techniques of -relaxation. The term "nullspace property" originates from Cohen, Dahmen, and DeVore. The nullspace property is often difficult to check in practice, and the restricted... | Nullspace property | Mathematics | 421 |
33,969,294 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tricholoma%20atrosquamosum | Tricholoma atrosquamosum, commonly known as dark-scaled knight, is an edible gilled mushroom native to Europe. The grey-capped fruit bodies are generally found singly or in small groups in deciduous woodland on chalk-based soils.
Taxonomy
Tricholoma atrosquamosum was described 1837 by French naturalist François Fulgis... | Tricholoma atrosquamosum | Biology | 520 |
47,633,996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invertebrate%20mitochondrial%20code | The invertebrate mitochondrial code (translation table 5) is a genetic code used by the mitochondrial genome of invertebrates. Mitochondria contain their own DNA and reproduce independently from their host cell. Variation in translation of the mitochondrial genetic code occurs when DNA codons result in non-standard ami... | Invertebrate mitochondrial code | Chemistry,Biology | 900 |
65,249,555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SB-228357 | SB-228357 is a drug which acts as a selective antagonist of the serotonin 5-HT2B and 5-HT2C receptors.
It has antidepressant and anxiolytic effects in animal models and inhibits 5-HT2B mediated proliferation of cardiac fibroblasts. It has also been found to reverse meta-chlorophenylpiperazine (mCPP)-induced hypolocomo... | SB-228357 | Chemistry | 200 |
55,691,349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Razer%20Phone | The Razer Phone (code name: cheryl, stylized as RΛZΞR PHONE) is an Android-based phablet designed and developed by Razer Inc., released on November 15, 2017. While the device was designed mainly for mobile gamers, reviewers such as Engadget have noted that it is also good enough for everyday use.
History
As a result o... | Razer Phone | Technology | 834 |
671,262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abell%201835 | Abell 1835 is a galaxy cluster in the Abell catalogue. It is a cluster that also gravitational lenses more-distant background galaxies to make them visible to astronomers. The cluster has a red shift of around 75,900 km/s and spans 12.
In 2004, one of the galaxies lensed by this cluster was proposed to be the most di... | Abell 1835 | Astronomy | 111 |
71,234,420 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20blockchains | This is a list of blockchains - decentralized, cryptographic databases - and other distributed ledgers.
List
See also
Category:Blockchains
List of cryptocurrencies
References
General refs
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.05665.pdf
Blockchains
Blockchains | List of blockchains | Technology | 69 |
10,589,669 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspergillus%20terreus | Aspergillus terreus, also known as Aspergillus terrestris, is a fungus (mold) found worldwide in soil. Although thought to be strictly asexual until recently, A. terreus is now known to be capable of sexual reproduction. This saprotrophic fungus is prevalent in warmer climates such as tropical and subtropical regions.... | Aspergillus terreus | Biology | 2,857 |
14,468,598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content%20managed%20hosting | Content managed hosting is a service that couples website hosting with a content management system. Content management systems enable Web site owners or marketing departments to edit website content, share files, and hyperlink pages without needing to know markup or programming languages. It is an alternative to using ... | Content managed hosting | Technology | 81 |
37,506,594 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snapchat | Snapchat is an American multimedia instant messaging app and service developed by Snap Inc., originally Snapchat Inc. One of the principal features of the multimedia Snapchat is that pictures and messages are usually available for only a short time before they become inaccessible to their recipients. The app has evolve... | Snapchat | Technology | 9,753 |
40,428,711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus%20Feldman | Marcus William Feldman (born 14 November 1942) is the Burnet C. and Mildred Finley Wohlford Professor of Biological Sciences, director of the Morrison Institute for Population and Resource Studies, and co-director of the Center for Computational, Evolutionary and Human Genomics (CEHG) at Stanford University. He is an A... | Marcus Feldman | Biology | 799 |
35,057,676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacteriophage%20T12 | Bacteriophage T12 is a bacteriophage that infects Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria. It is a proposed species of the family Siphoviridae in the order Caudovirales also known as tailed viruses.
It converts a harmless strain of bacteria into a virulent strain. It carries the speA gene which codes for erythrogenic toxin A. ... | Bacteriophage T12 | Biology | 2,081 |
15,076,371 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIST1H3E | Histone H3.1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HIST1H3E gene.
Histones are basic nuclear proteins that are responsible for the nucleosome structure of the chromosomal fiber in eukaryotes. Two molecules of each of the four core histones (H2A, H2B, H3, and H4) form an octamer, around which approximately 146 ... | HIST1H3E | Chemistry | 197 |
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