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19,441,259 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma%20Acoustic%20Shield%20System | The Plasma Acoustic Shield System, or PASS, is in the process of being developed by Stellar Photonics. The company received a $2.7 million contract from the U.S. Government to build the PASS. It is part of a project supervised by the United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center. The laser wa... | Plasma Acoustic Shield System | Physics | 351 |
18,856,018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water%20fluoridation%20by%20country | Water fluoridation is the controlled addition of fluoride to a public water supply to reduce tooth decay, and is handled differently by countries across the world.
Water fluoridation is considered very common in the United States, Canada, Ireland, Chile and Australia where over 50% of the population drinks fluoridated... | Water fluoridation by country | Chemistry | 8,473 |
15,190,840 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaotic%20hysteresis | A nonlinear dynamical system exhibits chaotic hysteresis if it simultaneously exhibits chaotic dynamics (chaos theory) and hysteresis. As the latter involves the persistence of a state, such as magnetization, after the causal or exogenous force or factor is removed, it involves multiple equilibria for given sets of co... | Chaotic hysteresis | Mathematics | 1,257 |
36,780,591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20des%20Dunes | The Fort des Dunes, also known as Fort Leffrinckoucke and sometime Fort de l'Est, is located in the commune of Leffrinckoucke, France, about east of Dunkirk (Dunkerque). Built from 1878 to 1880, it is part of the Séré de Rivières system of fortifications that France built following the defeat of the Franco-Prussian Wa... | Fort des Dunes | Engineering | 1,241 |
481,852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatostatin | Somatostatin, also known as growth hormone-inhibiting hormone (GHIH) or by several other names, is a peptide hormone that regulates the endocrine system and affects neurotransmission and cell proliferation via interaction with G protein-coupled somatostatin receptors and inhibition of the release of numerous secondary... | Somatostatin | Biology | 1,660 |
29,537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific%20misconduct | Scientific misconduct is the violation of the standard codes of scholarly conduct and ethical behavior in the publication of professional scientific research. It is violation of scientific integrity: violation of the scientific method and of research ethics in science, including in the design, conduct, and reporting of... | Scientific misconduct | Technology | 5,131 |
33,899,746 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiourea%20dioxide | Thiourea dioxide or thiox is an organosulfur compound that is used in the textile industry. It functions as a reducing agent. It is a white solid, and exhibits tautomerism in solution.
Structure
The structure of thiourea dioxide depends on its environment. Crystalline and gaseous thiourea dioxide adopts a structure wi... | Thiourea dioxide | Chemistry | 518 |
4,775,999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioSteel%20%28fiber%29 | BioSteel was a trademark name for a high-strength fiber-based material made of the recombinant spider silk-like protein extracted from the milk of transgenic goats, made by defunct Montreal-based company Nexia Biotechnologies, and later by the Randy Lewis lab of the University of Wyoming and Utah State University. It i... | BioSteel (fiber) | Engineering,Biology | 596 |
14,555,039 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Electrical%20Congress | The International Electrical Congress was a series of international meetings, from 1881 to 1904, in the then new field of applied electricity. The first meeting was initiated by the French government, including official national representatives, leading scientists, and others. Subsequent meetings also included official... | International Electrical Congress | Engineering | 2,041 |
30,308,308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C8H16O6 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C8H16O6}}
The molecular formula C8H16O6 (molar mass: 208.21 g/mol, exact mass: 208.0947 u) may refer to:
Pinpollitol
Viscumitol
Molecular formulas | C8H16O6 | Physics,Chemistry | 61 |
42,742,118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG%20G%20Pad%208.0 | The LG G Pad 8.0 (also known as LG G Tab 8.0) is an 8.0-inch Android-based tablet computer produced and marketed by LG Electronics. It belongs to the LG G series, and was announced on 13 May 2014 along with the G Pad 7.0, and G Pad 10.1. This is one of LG's new tablet size variants aimed to compete directly with the Sa... | LG G Pad 8.0 | Technology | 323 |
59,457,867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abeng | An Abeng is an animal horn or musical instrument in the language of the Akan people. The word abeng is from the Twi language in modern-day Ghana, it is a commonly used word in the Caribbean, especially Jamaica, and the instrument is associated with the Maroon people.
The Maroons of Jamaica used the horn to communicat... | Abeng | Chemistry | 140 |
17,004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennelly%E2%80%93Heaviside%20layer | The Heaviside layer, sometimes called the Kennelly–Heaviside layer, named after Arthur E. Kennelly and Oliver Heaviside, is a layer of ionised gas occurring roughly between 90km and 150 km (56 and 93 mi) above the ground — one of several layers in the Earth's ionosphere. It is also known as the E region. It reflects m... | Kennelly–Heaviside layer | Physics | 731 |
53,100,222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triple-twin | The Triple-twin was a type of double vacuum triode for audio power amplifiers. A triple-twin contained two dissimilar, directly coupled triodes in a common envelope. To maximize power yield, the output triode was intended to be positively biased, and thus required substantial grid current. This current was supplied by ... | Triple-twin | Physics | 410 |
75,583,266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adidas%20miCoach | Adidas miCoach (stylized as adidas miCoach) was an Adidas subsidiary which was first announced as a pacer and smart watch on January 7 at the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show.
Adidas miCoach was the parent of many products, including a video game, a fitness app, a pacer, a smart watch, and a performance ce... | Adidas miCoach | Technology | 1,141 |
164,332 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiaroscuro | In art, chiaroscuro ( , ; ) is the use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition. It is also a technical term used by artists and art historians for the use of contrasts of light to achieve a sense of volume in modelling three-dimensional objects and figures. Simil... | Chiaroscuro | Physics | 3,272 |
4,041,866 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/128P/Shoemaker%E2%80%93Holt | 128P/Shoemaker–Holt, also known as Shoemaker-Holt 1, is a periodic comet in the Solar System. The comet passed close to Jupiter in 1982 and was discovered in 1987. The comet was last observed in March 2018.
The nucleus was split into two pieces (A+B) during the 1997 apparition. Fragment A was last observed in 1996 and... | 128P/Shoemaker–Holt | Astronomy | 163 |
71,742,822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PALISADE%20%28software%29 | PALISADE is an open-source cross platform software library that provides implementations of lattice cryptography building blocks and homomorphic encryption schemes.
History
PALISADE adopted the open modular design principles of the predecessor SIPHER software library from the DARPA PROCEED program. SIPHER developmen... | PALISADE (software) | Mathematics | 576 |
171,915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee%20Smolin | Lee Smolin (; born June 6, 1955) is an American theoretical physicist, a faculty member at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, an adjunct professor of physics at the University of Waterloo, and a member of the graduate faculty of the philosophy department at the University of Toronto. Smolin's 2006 book Th... | Lee Smolin | Astronomy | 3,145 |
1,629,349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catechol | Catechol ( or ), also known as pyrocatechol or 1,2-dihydroxybenzene, is an organic compound with the molecular formula . It is the ortho isomer of the three isomeric benzenediols. This colorless compound occurs naturally in trace amounts. It was first discovered by destructive distillation of the plant extract catechin... | Catechol | Chemistry | 1,446 |
37,725,306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ball-and-disk%20integrator | The ball-and-disk integrator is a key component of many advanced mechanical computers. Through simple mechanical means, it performs continual integration of the value of an input. Typical uses were the measurement of area or volume of material in industrial settings, range-keeping systems on ships, and tachometric bomb... | Ball-and-disk integrator | Physics,Technology | 1,501 |
38,007 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian%20day | The Julian day is a continuous count of days from the beginning of the Julian period; it is used primarily by astronomers, and in software for easily calculating elapsed days between two events (e.g. food production date and sell by date).
The Julian period is a chronological interval of 7980 years, derived from three... | Julian day | Physics,Astronomy | 6,922 |
41,626,159 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%93-Tocotrienol | γ-Tocotrienol is one of the four types of tocotrienol, a type of vitamin E.
Vitamin E exists in nature in eight forms, each of which consists of a head section joined to either a saturated (phytyl) or an unsaturated (farnesyl) tail. The four compounds with the saturated tails are the tocopherols, and the four compound... | Γ-Tocotrienol | Chemistry | 256 |
49,235,577 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2MASS%20J2126%E2%80%938140 | 2MASS J21265040−8140293, also known as 2MASS J2126−8140, is an exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf TYC 9486-927-1, 111.4 light-years away from Earth. Its estimated mass, age (10-45 million years), spectral type (L3), and Teff (1800 K) are similar to the well-studied planet β Pictoris b. With an estimated distance of aroun... | 2MASS J2126–8140 | Astronomy | 169 |
4,440,211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Display%20Technology | International Display Technology (IDTech) was a partnership between Taiwan's Chi Mei Corporation and IBM Japan. Its manufacturing factory was sold to Sony in 2005. The headquarters was renamed to the current name, CMO Japan Co., Ltd. in 2006. It manufactured the IBM T220/T221 LCD monitors, among other products.
Extern... | International Display Technology | Technology | 119 |
11,531,972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascochyta%20sorghi | Ascochyta sorghi is a fungal plant pathogen. It causes Ascochyta leaf spot (also known as rough leaf spot) on barley that can also be caused by the related fungi Ascochyta hordei, Ascochyta graminea and Ascochyta tritici. It is considered a minor disease of barley.
Hosts and symptoms
Ascochyta sorghi infects grain cro... | Ascochyta sorghi | Biology | 655 |
61,814,067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David%20Robertson%20%28engineer%29 | David Robertson (1875 – 1941) was the first Professor of Electrical Engineering at Bristol University. Robertson had wide interests and one of these was horology – he wanted to provide the foundation of what we could call “horological engineering”, that is, a firm science-based approach to the design of accurate mecha... | David Robertson (engineer) | Physics | 1,299 |
51,181,206 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline%20of%20social%20media | This page is a timeline of social media. Major launches, milestones, and other major events are included.
Overview
Timeline
An asterisk (*) indicates relaunches.
See also
Timeline of Facebook
Timeline of Instagram
Timeline of LinkedIn
Timeline of Pinterest
Timeline of Snapchat
Timeline of Twitter
Timeline of ... | Timeline of social media | Technology | 73 |
37,871,408 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreground%20detection | Foreground detection is one of the major tasks in the field of computer vision and image processing whose aim is to detect changes in image sequences. Background subtraction is any technique which allows an image's foreground to be extracted for further processing (object recognition etc.).
Many applications do not ne... | Foreground detection | Technology | 3,683 |
72,329,175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanseniaspora%20pseudoguilliermondii | Hanseniaspora pseudoguilliermondii is a species of yeast in the family Saccharomycetaceae. Originally isolated from orange juice concentrate, it has been found on fruit and fruit juices in locations around the world. It has also been observed forming hybrids with Hanseniaspora opuntiae.
Taxonomy
A sample of H. pseud... | Hanseniaspora pseudoguilliermondii | Biology | 594 |
77,834,296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buloxibutid | Buloxibutid is an investigational new drug that is being evaluated to treat COVID-19 infections. It is an angiotensin II receptor type 2 agonist.
References
Carbamates
Imidazoles
Sulfonamides
Thiophenes
Butyl esters
Isobutyl compounds | Buloxibutid | Chemistry | 65 |
3,608,401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic%20foam | Acoustic foam is an open celled foam used for acoustic treatment. It attenuates airborne sound waves, reducing their amplitude, for the purposes of noise reduction or noise control. The energy is dissipated as heat. Acoustic foam can be made in several different colors, sizes and thickness.
Acoustic foam can be attach... | Acoustic foam | Physics,Chemistry | 600 |
51,227,133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%20146 | NGC 146 is a small open cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by John Herschel in 1829 using his father's 18.7 inch reflecting telescope.
Location
NGC 146 is fairly easy to locate in the sky, being half a degree away from the bright star Kappa Cassiopeiae. However, spotting the cluster itself is... | NGC 146 | Astronomy | 199 |
8,529 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disjunction%20elimination | In propositional logic, disjunction elimination (sometimes named proof by cases, case analysis, or or elimination) is the valid argument form and rule of inference that allows one to eliminate a disjunctive statement from a logical proof. It is the inference that if a statement implies a statement and a statement a... | Disjunction elimination | Mathematics | 313 |
7,091,330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water-fuelled%20car | A water-fuelled car is an automobile that hypothetically derives its energy directly from water. Water-fuelled cars have been the subject of numerous international patents, newspaper and popular science magazine articles, local television news coverage, and websites. The claims for these devices have been found to be... | Water-fuelled car | Technology | 3,087 |
53,902,845 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphene%20plasmonics | Graphene is a 2D nanosheet with atomic thin thickness in terms of 0.34 nm. Due to the ultrathin thickness, graphene showed many properties that are quite different from their bulk graphite counterparts. The most prominent advantages are known to be their high electron mobility and high mechanical strengths.
Thus, it ... | Graphene plasmonics | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science | 629 |
4,595,931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flux%20tube | A flux tube is a generally tube-like (cylindrical) region of space containing a magnetic field, B, such that the cylindrical sides of the tube are everywhere parallel to the magnetic field lines. It is a graphical visual aid for visualizing a magnetic field. Since no magnetic flux passes through the sides of the tube,... | Flux tube | Physics | 2,183 |
49,216,832 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%20128 | NGC 128 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is approximately 190 million light-years from the Sun and has a diameter of about 165,000 light-years.
Discovery
NGC 128 was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on 25 December 1790 using a reflecting telescope with an aperture of 18.7 inches. At the ... | NGC 128 | Astronomy | 299 |
11,467,997 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sporisorium%20cruentum | Sporisorium cruentum is a plant pathogen infecting sorghum.
References
External links
Index Fungorum
USDA ARS Fungal Database
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Sorghum diseases
Ustilaginomycotina
Fungus species | Sporisorium cruentum | Biology | 50 |
5,814,292 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angiopoietin | Angiopoietin is part of a family of vascular growth factors that play a role in embryonic and postnatal angiogenesis. Angiopoietin signaling most directly corresponds with angiogenesis, the process by which new arteries and veins form from preexisting blood vessels. Angiogenesis proceeds through sprouting, endothelial ... | Angiopoietin | Chemistry,Biology | 1,967 |
588,193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS%20%28operating%20system%29 | Mobile Operating System (MOS; ) is an operating system, a Soviet clone of Unix from the 1980s.
Overview
This operating system is commonly found on SM EVM minicomputers; it was also ported to ES EVM and Elbrus. MOS is also used by high-end PDP-11 clones.
Modifications of MOS include MNOS, DEMOS, , etc.
See also
List... | MOS (operating system) | Technology | 96 |
23,522,900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-jitter%20modulation | Phase-jitter modulation (PJM) is a modulation method specifically designed to meet the unique requirements of passive RFID tags. It has been adopted by the high-frequency RFID Air Interface Standard ISO/IEC 18000-3 MODE 2 for high-speed bulk conveyor-fed item-level identification because of its demonstrably higher data... | Phase-jitter modulation | Technology,Engineering | 495 |
43,937,224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan%20Jianwei | Pan Jianwei (; born 11 March 1970) is a Chinese academic administrator and quantum physicist. He is a university administrator and professor of physics at the University of Science and Technology of China. Pan is known for his work in the field of quantum entanglement, quantum information and quantum computers. In 2017... | Pan Jianwei | Physics | 703 |
55,410,471 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRISPR%20activation | CRISPR activation (CRISPRa) is a gene regulation technique that utilizes an engineered form of the CRISPR-Cas9 system to enhance the expression of specific genes without altering the underlying DNA sequence. Unlike traditional CRISPR-Cas9, which introduces double-strand breaks to edit genes, CRISPRa employs a modified,... | CRISPR activation | Chemistry,Engineering,Biology | 2,882 |
64,919,624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GamEvac-Combi | GamEvac-Combi () is a heterologous VSV- and Ad5-vectored Ebola vaccine. There is also a version called GamEvac which is a homologous Ad5-vectored vaccine. GamEvac-Combi was developed by Gamaleya Research Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology. the vaccine has been licensed in Russia for emergency use, on the basis... | GamEvac-Combi | Biology | 253 |
44,328,955 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churn%20turbulent%20flow | Churn turbulent flow is a two-phase gas/liquid flow regime characterized by a highly-agitated flow where gas bubbles are sufficient in numbers to both interact with each other and, while interacting, coalesce to form larger distorted bubbles with unique shapes and behaviors in the system. This flow regime is created wh... | Churn turbulent flow | Chemistry | 1,222 |
60,897,141 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Biodeterioration%20and%20Biodegradation%20Society | The International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation Society (IBBS) is a scientific society with an international membership. It is a charity registered in the UK. IBBS belongs to the Federation of European Microbiological Societies (FEMS), along with national organizations from European countries and appears in the Y... | International Biodeterioration and Biodegradation Society | Chemistry | 998 |
47,016,009 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RD-0243 | The RD-0243 () is a propulsion module composed of an RD-0244 main engine and a RD-0245 vernier thruster. Both are liquid-fuel rocket engines, burning a hypergolic mixture of unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH) fuel with dinitrogen tetroxide () oxidizer. The RD-0244 main engine operates in the oxidizer rich staged co... | RD-0243 | Astronomy | 244 |
61,060,210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanie%20Leng | Melanie Jane Leng is a Professor of Isotope Geosciences at the University of Nottingham working on isotopes, palaeoclimate and geochemistry. She also serves as the Chief Scientist for Environmental Change Adaptation and Resilience at the British Geological Survey and Director of the Centre for Environmental Geochemist... | Melanie Leng | Chemistry | 567 |
8,729,683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling%20numbers%20and%20exponential%20generating%20functions%20in%20symbolic%20combinatorics | The use of exponential generating functions (EGFs) to study the properties of Stirling numbers is a classical exercise in combinatorial mathematics and possibly the canonical example of how symbolic combinatorics is used. It also illustrates the parallels in the construction of these two types of numbers, lending suppo... | Stirling numbers and exponential generating functions in symbolic combinatorics | Mathematics | 888 |
70,081,751 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aircraft%20Research%20Association | The Aircraft Research Association (ARA) is an aerodynamics research institute in the north-west of Bedford.
History
The association was founded on 22 January 1952. 14 main British aviation companies funded £1.25m to build a large wind tunnel.
It was first proposed in 1953 to build the site at Stevington, north-east o... | Aircraft Research Association | Engineering | 385 |
14,391,787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayes%20linear%20statistics | Bayes linear statistics is a subjectivist statistical methodology and framework. Traditional subjective Bayesian analysis is based upon fully specified probability distributions, which are very difficult to specify at the necessary level of detail. Bayes linear analysis attempts to solve this problem by developing th... | Bayes linear statistics | Mathematics | 1,133 |
18,150,648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAC%20%28building%20automation%29 | TAC is a Swedish-based building automation company in the fields of both energy and security. It also operates in other countries including the United Kingdom and the United States.
It was originally established in 1925 as Tour Agenturer in Stockholm.
TAC has announced a name change to Schneider Electric, its parent ... | TAC (building automation) | Engineering | 659 |
55,772,368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukanasa | In Hindu temple architecture a sukanasa (, IAST: śukanāsa) or sukanasi is an external ornamented feature over the entrance to the garbhagriha or inner shrine. It sits on the face of the sikhara tower (in South India, the vimana) as a sort of antefix. The forms of the sukanasa can vary considerably, but it normally has... | Sukanasa | Technology,Engineering | 1,013 |
9,131,931 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z%20curve | The Z curve (or Z-curve) method is a bioinformatics algorithm for genome analysis. The Z-curve is a three-dimensional curve that constitutes a unique representation of a DNA sequence, i.e., for the Z-curve and the given DNA sequence each can be uniquely reconstructed from the other.
The resulting curve has a zigzag sha... | Z curve | Biology | 772 |
11,421,821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HgcG%20RNA | The HgcG RNA gene is a non-coding RNA that was identified computationally and experimentally verified in AT-rich hyperthermophiles. The genes from this screen were named hgcA through hgcG ("high GC"). HgcG is of unknown function. hgcG is significantly similar to a region of the Archaeoglobus fulgidus genome. The genes ... | HgcG RNA | Chemistry | 146 |
20,209,852 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intracavernous%20injection | An intracavernous (or intracavernosal) injection is an injection into the base of the penis. This injection site is often used to administer medications to check for or treat erectile dysfunction in adult men (in, for example, a combined intracavernous injection and stimulation test). The more common medications admin... | Intracavernous injection | Chemistry | 236 |
50,362,339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregnancy%20specific%20biological%20substances | Pregnancy-specific biological substances, which include the placenta, umbilical cord, amniotic fluid, and amniotic membrane are being studied for a number of health uses. For example, Placental-derived stem cells are being studied so they can serve as a potential treatment method for cell therapy. Hepatocyte-like cells... | Pregnancy specific biological substances | Chemistry,Biology | 263 |
376,458 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio%20Segr%C3%A8 | Emilio Gino Segrè (; 1 February 1905 – 22 April 1989) was an Italian and naturalized-American physicist and Nobel laureate, who discovered the elements technetium and astatine, and the antiproton, a subatomic antiparticle, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1959 along with Owen Chamberlain.
Born in... | Emilio Segrè | Physics | 4,281 |
23,776,575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postselection | In probability theory, to postselect is to condition a probability space upon the occurrence of a given event. In symbols, once we postselect for an event , the probability of some other event changes from to the conditional probability .
For a discrete probability space, , and thus we require that be strictly posi... | Postselection | Mathematics | 159 |
8,591,677 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20stars%20in%20Grus | This is the list of notable stars in the constellation Grus, sorted by decreasing brightness.
See also
List of stars by constellation
References
List
Grus | List of stars in Grus | Astronomy | 31 |
52,014,798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermodesulforhabdus | Thermodesulforhabdus is an acetate-oxidizing bacterial genus from the order Syntrophobacterales. Up to now there is only on species of this genus known (Thermodesulforhabdus norvegica).
See also
List of bacterial orders
List of bacteria genera
References
Thermodesulfobacteriota
Monotypic bacteria genera
Bacteria g... | Thermodesulforhabdus | Biology | 81 |
57,298,509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1st%20Railway%20Corps%20%28People%27s%20Republic%20of%20China%29 | 1st Railway Corps () of the People's Liberation Army was a military formation mainly focusing on railway construction missions. It was activated on September 1, 1956. The corps commander was He Huiyan.
The corps was composed of 2nd, 7th and 11th Railway Divisions.
From 1956 to early 1957, the corps was in charge of t... | 1st Railway Corps (People's Republic of China) | Engineering | 166 |
74,885,040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20imagery%20in%20North%20Korea | Satellite imagery in North Korea is a knowledge-building tool in the field of North Korean studies. It enables researchers to produce data-based analyses in the agricultural, humanitarian, economic and military fields, in a country where access to the field is limited.
Context
Collecting data on North Korea is very d... | Satellite imagery in North Korea | Technology | 1,119 |
75,596,143 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minister%20for%20Biosecurity | The Minister for Biosecurity is a minister in the New Zealand Government with the responsibility of managing biosecurity.
The current Minister for Biosecurity is Andrew Hoggard.
History
The portfolio was created after the 1996 general election. Previously, biosecurity matters had been under the purview of the Minist... | Minister for Biosecurity | Environmental_science | 183 |
36,132,944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion%20%28geometry%29 | In geometry, a motion is an isometry of a metric space. For instance, a plane equipped with the Euclidean distance metric is a metric space in which a mapping associating congruent figures is a motion. More generally, the term motion is a synonym for surjective isometry in metric geometry, including elliptic geometry a... | Motion (geometry) | Mathematics | 1,475 |
18,005,720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manganese%28II%29%20bromide | Manganese(II) bromide is the chemical compound composed of manganese and bromine with the formula MnBr2.
It can be used in place of palladium in the Stille reaction, which couples two carbon atoms using an organotin compound.
References
Manganese(II) compounds
Bromides
Metal halides | Manganese(II) bromide | Chemistry | 68 |
2,378,222 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic%20Society%20of%20Engineers | The Islamic Society of Engineers (ISE) (, ) is a principlist political organization of engineers in Iran. Formerly one of the parties aligned with the Combatant Clergy Association, it is close to the Islamic Coalition Party, whose decisions it mostly follows. It is questionable whether it is an independent and strong p... | Islamic Society of Engineers | Engineering | 340 |
11,415,141 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masturbation | Masturbation is a form of autoeroticism in which a person sexually stimulates their own genitals for sexual arousal or other sexual pleasure, usually to the point of orgasm. Stimulation may involve use of hands, everyday objects, sex toys, or more rarely, the mouth (autofellatio and autocunnilingus). Masturbation may a... | Masturbation | Biology | 9,523 |
633,822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarich%20orbital%20engine | The Sarich orbital engine is a type of internal combustion engine, invented in 1972 by Ralph Sarich, an engineer from Perth, Australia, which features orbital rather than reciprocating motion of its central piston. It differs from the conceptually similar Wankel engine by using a generally prismatic shaped piston that ... | Sarich orbital engine | Technology | 770 |
3,811,895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skycam |
Skycam is a computer-controlled, stabilized, cable-suspended camera system. The system is maneuvered through three dimensions in the open space over a playing area of a stadium or arena by computer-controlled cable-drive system. It is responsible for bringing video game–like camera angles to television sports coverag... | Skycam | Technology | 1,916 |
51,171,821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapier | Zapier is an American multinational software company that provides integrations for web applications for use in automated workflows.
Overview
Zapier provides workflows that allow different web applications to be used in the same workflow. Their products focus on automating recurring tasks, such as lead management. Use... | Zapier | Engineering | 335 |
60,437,977 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinsurance%20to%20close | Reinsurance to close (RITC) is a business transaction whereby the estimated future liabilities of an insurance company are reinsured into another, in order that the profitability of the former can be finally determined. It is most closely associated with the Lloyd's of London insurance market that comprises numerous co... | Reinsurance to close | Mathematics | 849 |
9,875,250 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geison | Geison ( – often interchangeable with somewhat broader term cornice) is an architectural term of relevance particularly to ancient Greek and Roman buildings, as well as archaeological publications of the same. The geison is the part of the entablature that projects outward from the top of the frieze in the Doric order... | Geison | Technology,Engineering | 698 |
6,662,470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorotrianisene | Chlorotrianisene (CTA), also known as tri-p-anisylchloroethylene (TACE) and sold under the brand name Tace among others, is a nonsteroidal estrogen related to diethylstilbestrol (DES) which was previously used in the treatment of menopausal symptoms and estrogen deficiency in women and prostate cancer in men, among oth... | Chlorotrianisene | Chemistry | 1,222 |
42,063,681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korteweg-de%20Vries-Burgers%27%20equation | The Korteweg-de Vries–Burgers equation is a nonlinear partial differential equation:
The equation gives a description for nonlinear waves in dispersive-dissipative media by combining the nonlinear and dispersive elements from the KdV equation with the dissipative element from Burgers' equation.
The modified KdV-Burge... | Korteweg-de Vries-Burgers' equation | Mathematics | 108 |
49,668,158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC%20One%20X9 | HTC One X9 is a touchscreen, slate smartphone designed and manufactured by HTC. It was released running Android 6.0, (Marshmallow) with the HTC Sense skin overlay. The One X9 was announced in December 2015 and released in China in January 2016.
HTC smartphones
Android (operating system) devices
Mobile phones introduce... | HTC One X9 | Technology | 76 |
72,573 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%20Taylor%20%28physicist%29 | Theodore Brewster "Ted" Taylor (July 11, 1925 – October 28, 2004) was an American theoretical physicist, specifically concerning nuclear energy. His higher education included a PhD from Cornell University in theoretical physics. His most noteworthy contributions to the field of nuclear weaponry were his small bomb deve... | Ted Taylor (physicist) | Engineering | 4,459 |
1,359,407 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific%20Tsunami%20Warning%20Center | The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC), located on Ford Island, Hawaii, is one of two tsunami warning centers in the United States, covering Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific, as well as Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the British Virgin Islands in the Caribbean Se... | Pacific Tsunami Warning Center | Technology,Engineering | 1,786 |
10,389,193 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temperature-sensitive%20mutant | Temperature-sensitive mutants are variants of genes that allow normal function of the organism at low temperatures, but altered function at higher temperatures. Cold sensitive mutants are variants of genes that allow normal function of the organism at higher temperatures, but altered function at low temperatures.
Mech... | Temperature-sensitive mutant | Physics,Chemistry,Biology | 905 |
15,757,169 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20watching | Satellite watching or satellite spotting is a hobby which consists of the observation and tracking of artificial satellites that are orbiting Earth. People with this hobby are variously called satellite watchers, trackers, spotters, observers, etc. Since satellites outside Earth's shadow reflect sunlight, those especia... | Satellite watching | Astronomy | 1,254 |
28,741,893 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6-to-IPv6%20Network%20Prefix%20Translation | IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix Translation (NPTv6) is a specification for IPv6 to achieve address-independence at the network edge, similar to network address translation (NAT) in Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4). It has fewer architectural problems than traditional IPv4 NAT; for example, it is stateless and preserves t... | IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix Translation | Technology | 248 |
988,753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoga%20nidra | Yoga nidra () or yogic sleep in modern usage is a state of consciousness between waking and sleeping, typically induced by a guided meditation.
A state called yoga nidra is mentioned in the Upanishads and the Mahabharata, while a goddess named Yoganidrā appears in the Devīmāhātmya. Yoga nidra is linked to meditation ... | Yoga nidra | Biology | 2,470 |
3,955,475 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather%20warfare | Weather warfare is the use of weather modification techniques such as cloud seeding for military purposes.
History
Prior to the Environmental Modification Convention signed in Geneva in 1977, the United States used weather warfare in the Vietnam War. Operation Popeye saw the use of cloud seeding over the Ho Chi Minh ... | Weather warfare | Engineering | 500 |
2,010,826 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20oxide | Sodium oxide is a chemical compound with the formula . It is used in ceramics and glasses. It is a white solid but the compound is rarely encountered. Instead "sodium oxide" is used to describe components of various materials such as glasses and fertilizers which contain oxides that include sodium and other elements. S... | Sodium oxide | Chemistry | 497 |
3,865,797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium%20tetrafluoride | Uranium tetrafluoride is the inorganic compound with the formula UF4. It is a green solid with an insignificant vapor pressure and low solubility in water. Uranium in its tetravalent (uranous) state is important in various technological processes. In the uranium refining industry it is known as green salt.
Productio... | Uranium tetrafluoride | Physics,Chemistry | 492 |
11,305,178 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nectriella%20pironii | Nectriella pironii is a plant pathogen. It parasitizes Aphelandra squarrosa, Clerodendron bungei, Codiaeum variegatum, Jussiaea peruviana, Leucophyllum frutescens, Pittosporum tobria, Plumbago capensis, Chrysanthemum morifolium and Psychotria undata.
The species is named in honor of Pascal Pompey Pirone.
Plant sympto... | Nectriella pironii | Biology | 325 |
1,037,221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructooligosaccharide | Fructooligosaccharides (FOS) also sometimes called oligofructose or oligofructan, are oligosaccharide fructans, used as an alternative sweetener. FOS exhibits sweetness levels between 30 and 50 percent of sugar in commercially prepared syrups. It occurs naturally, and its commercial use emerged in the 1980s in response... | Fructooligosaccharide | Chemistry | 1,431 |
41,214,091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action%20AWE | Action AWE (Action Atomic Weapons Eradication) is a grassroots activist anti-nuclear weapons campaign/group launched in February 2013. Its aim is to increase and activate public opposition to the UK Trident nuclear weapons system, and depleted uranium warheads manufactured at AWE Burghfield (where AWE stands for Atomic... | Action AWE | Engineering | 542 |
76,671,176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JANNAF | The JANNAF Interagency Propulsion Committee (JANNAF IPC, or simply JANNAF) is a joint-agency committee chartered by the USDOD and NASA. JANNAF is composed of two committees: the Technical Committee and the Programmatic & Industrial Base (PIB) Committee. The Technical Committee is itself divided into subcommittees focus... | JANNAF | Engineering | 255 |
62,589,823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H4K91ac | H4K91ac is an epigenetic modification to the DNA packaging protein histone H4. It is a mark that indicates the acetylation at the 91st lysine residue of the histone H4 protein. No known diseases are attributed to this mark but it might be implicated in melanoma.
Nomenclature
H4K91ac indicates acetylation of lysine 91... | H4K91ac | Chemistry | 1,240 |
74,848,733 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meitei%20astronomy | The astronomy of Meitei civilisation deals with celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole.
Meitei language term “Khenchanglon” () is derived from its ancient Meitei equivalent “Khenchonglon” (), literally meaning "the growing up, evolving or emergence of natural / celestial body(ies) and energy(ie... | Meitei astronomy | Astronomy | 159 |
28,301,027 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suillus%20viscidus | Suillus viscidus (commonly known as the sticky bolete) is an edible, uncommon mushroom in the genus Suillus. It associates with larch and is found throughout Europe and in Japan.
Description
The cap is hemispherical when young, later convex to flat, whitish grey or darker. It is up to 12 cm in diameter. It is slimy, a... | Suillus viscidus | Biology | 404 |
44,654,779 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRIME%20%28labeling%20technique%29 | PRIME (probe incorporation mediated by enzymes) is a molecular biology research tool developed by Alice Y. Ting and the Ting Lab at MIT for site-specific labeling of proteins in living cells with chemical probes. Probes often have useful biophysical properties, such as fluorescence, and allow imaging of proteins. Ultim... | PRIME (labeling technique) | Chemistry,Biology | 607 |
8,736,713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile%20RFID | Mobile RFID (M-RFID) are services that provide information on objects equipped with an RFID tag over a telecommunication network. The reader or interrogator can be installed in a mobile device such as a mobile phone or PDA.
Unlike ordinary fixed RFID, mobile RFID readers are mobile, and the tags fixed, instead of the... | Mobile RFID | Technology,Engineering | 221 |
74,127,943 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023%20Yellowstone%20River%20train%20derailment | The Yellowstone River bridge collapse was a train derailment that occurred on June 24, 2023, near Columbus, Montana, United States. A bridge that crosses the Yellowstone River collapsed, causing several cars of a freight train carrying hazardous materials to fall into the water below. The incident resulted in environ... | 2023 Yellowstone River train derailment | Technology | 513 |
7,098,644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System%20Fault%20Tolerance | (DELETE) This text describes "product name", is not an encyclopedic entry.
In computing, System Fault Tolerance (SFT) is a fault tolerant system built into NetWare operating systems. Three levels of fault tolerance exist:
SFT I 'Hot Fix' maps out bad disk blocks on the file system level to help ensure data integrity... | System Fault Tolerance | Technology | 193 |
1,939,119 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle%20%28weaving%29 | A shuttle is a tool designed to neatly and compactly store a holder that carries the thread of the weft yarn while weaving with a loom. Shuttles are thrown or passed back and forth through the shed, between the yarn threads of the warp in order to weave in the weft.
The simplest shuttles, known as "stick shuttles", ar... | Shuttle (weaving) | Engineering | 208 |
5,450,517 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrosion%20in%20space | Corrosion in space is the corrosion of materials occurring in outer space. Instead of moisture and oxygen acting as the primary corrosion causes, the materials exposed to outer space are subjected to vacuum, bombardment by ultraviolet and X-rays, solar energetic particles (mostly electrons and protons from solar wind),... | Corrosion in space | Chemistry,Materials_science,Astronomy | 705 |
498,934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARts | aRts (which stands for analog real time synthesizer) is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It was best known for previously being used in K Desktop Environment 2 and 3 to simulate an analog synthesizer.
A key component of aRts was the sound server which mixes several sound streams in real time. Th... | ARts | Technology | 342 |
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