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23,595,067 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UC%20Davis%20Department%20of%20Applied%20Science | The Department of Applied Science at the University of California, Davis was a cooperative academic program involving the University of California, Davis and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). It was established in the fall of 1963 by Edward Teller, director of LLNL, and Roy Bainer, then dean of the UC ... | UC Davis Department of Applied Science | Engineering | 704 |
576,387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite%20field%20arithmetic | In mathematics, finite field arithmetic is arithmetic in a finite field (a field containing a finite number of elements) contrary to arithmetic in a field with an infinite number of elements, like the field of rational numbers.
There are infinitely many different finite fields. Their number of elements is necessarily ... | Finite field arithmetic | Mathematics | 3,877 |
1,636,903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atriplex | Atriplex () is a plant genus of about 250 species, known by the common names of saltbush and orache (; also spelled orach). It belongs to the subfamily Chenopodioideae of the family Amaranthaceae s.l..
The genus is quite variable and widely distributed. It includes many desert and seashore plants and halophytes, as we... | Atriplex | Chemistry | 3,862 |
677,078 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meander%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a meander or closed meander is a self-avoiding closed curve which crosses a given line a number of times, meaning that it intersects the line while passing from one side to the other. Intuitively, a meander can be viewed as a meandering river with a straight road crossing the river over a number of bri... | Meander (mathematics) | Mathematics | 1,184 |
24,952,083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoaML | SoaML (Service-Oriented Architecture Modeling Language ) is an open source specification project from the Object Management Group (OMG), describing a Unified Modeling Language (UML) profile and metamodel for the modeling and design of services within a service-oriented architecture.
Description
SoaML has been created ... | SoaML | Engineering | 401 |
34,903,867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Claude%20Sikorav | Jean-Claude Sikorav (born 21 June 1957) is a French mathematician. He is professor at the École normale supérieure de Lyon. He is specialized in symplectic geometry.
Main contributions
Sikorav is known for his proof, joint with François Laudenbach, of the Arnold conjecture for Lagrangian intersections in cotangent b... | Jean-Claude Sikorav | Mathematics | 210 |
60,270,671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalai%20%28process%29 | The art of kalai (kalhai or qalai) is the process of coating an alloy surface such as copper or brass by deposition of metal tin on it. The word "kalai" is derived from Sanskrit word kalya lepa, which means "white wash or tin". A cultural Sanskrit work by Keladi Basava called "Sivatattva Ratnakara" (1699) mentions "kal... | Kalai (process) | Chemistry | 1,093 |
18,926,098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rejuvelac | Rejuvelac is a kind of grain water that was invented and promoted by Ann Wigmore, born in Cropos, Lithuania. The beverage is closely related to a traditional Romanian drink, called borș, a fermented wheat bran that can be used to make a sour soup called ciorbă or as the basis for vegan cheeses.
Rejuvelac is a raw foo... | Rejuvelac | Biology | 172 |
16,049,560 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetogenin | Acetogenins are a class of polyketide natural products found in plants of the family Annonaceae. They are characterized by linear 32- or 34-carbon chains containing oxygenated functional groups including hydroxyls, ketones, epoxides, tetrahydrofurans and tetrahydropyrans. They are often terminated with a lactone or b... | Acetogenin | Chemistry | 348 |
589,503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenon%20tetroxide | Xenon tetroxide is a chemical compound of xenon and oxygen with molecular formula XeO4, remarkable for being a relatively stable compound of a noble gas. It is a yellow crystalline solid that is stable below −35.9 °C; above that temperature it is very prone to exploding and decomposing into elemental xenon and oxygen (... | Xenon tetroxide | Chemistry | 594 |
1,831,837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis%20mundi | In astronomy, is the Latin term for the axis of Earth between the celestial poles. In a geocentric coordinate system, this is the axis of rotation of the celestial sphere. Consequently, in ancient Greco-Roman astronomy, the is the axis of rotation of the planetary spheres within the classical geocentric model of the ... | Axis mundi | Physics,Mathematics | 3,005 |
901,291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20benzoate | Sodium benzoate also known as benzoate of soda is the sodium salt of benzoic acid, widely used as a food preservative (with an E number of E211) and a pickling agent. It appears as a white crystalline chemical with the formula C6H5COONa.
Production
Sodium benzoate is commonly produced by the neutralization of sodium h... | Sodium benzoate | Chemistry | 1,359 |
39,288,495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitochondrial%20fusion | Mitochondria are dynamic organelles with the ability to fuse and divide (fission), forming constantly changing tubular networks in most eukaryotic cells. These mitochondrial dynamics, first observed over a hundred years ago are important for the health of the cell, and defects in dynamics lead to genetic disorders. Thr... | Mitochondrial fusion | Biology | 2,748 |
41,686 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security%20management | Security management is the identification of an organization's assets i.e. including people, buildings, machines, systems and information assets, followed by the development, documentation, and implementation of policies and procedures for protecting assets.
An organization uses such security management procedures fo... | Security management | Engineering | 1,183 |
27,032,885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peel-Raam%20Line | The Peel-Raam Line (Dutch: Peel-Raamstelling) was a Dutch defence line built in 1939 and attacked and conquered on 10 May 1940 by the German forces.
The defence line was behind the Maas Line (about 9 km to 21 km away) and started at Grave, where a barrack complex was built as part of the Peel-Raam line. From there, th... | Peel-Raam Line | Engineering | 523 |
76,808,462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersilver%20ratio | In mathematics, the supersilver ratio is a geometrical proportion close to . Its true value is the real solution of the equation
The name supersilver ratio results from analogy with the silver ratio, the positive solution of the equation , and the supergolden ratio.
Definition
Two quantities are in the supersilver... | Supersilver ratio | Mathematics | 1,284 |
1,674,555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibration%20theory%20of%20olfaction | The vibration theory of smell proposes that a molecule's smell character is due to its vibrational frequency in the infrared range. This controversial theory is an alternative to the more widely accepted docking theory of olfaction (formerly termed the shape theory of olfaction), which proposes that a molecule's smell ... | Vibration theory of olfaction | Physics,Biology | 3,790 |
30,303,953 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncus%20%28mathematics%29 | In analytic geometry, a truncus is a curve in the Cartesian plane consisting of all points (x,y) satisfying an equation of the form
where a, b, and c are given constants. The two asymptotes of a truncus are parallel to the coordinate axes. The basic truncus y = 1 / x2 has asymptotes at x = 0 and y = 0, and every other... | Truncus (mathematics) | Mathematics | 291 |
40,458,248 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC%202560 | IC 2560 is a spiral galaxy lying over 110 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Antlia. It was discovered by Lewis Swift in 1897.
The luminosity class of IC 2560 is II with a broad HI line containing regions of ionized hydrogen. Moreover, IC 2560 is an active Type 2 Seyfert Galaxy. It has a disti... | IC 2560 | Astronomy | 237 |
13,622,958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryant%20surface | In Riemannian geometry, a Bryant surface is a 2-dimensional surface embedded in 3-dimensional hyperbolic space with constant mean curvature equal to 1. These surfaces take their name from the geometer Robert Bryant, who proved that every simply-connected minimal surface in 3-dimensional Euclidean space is isometric to... | Bryant surface | Chemistry | 102 |
1,022,948 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit%E2%80%93Windsor%20tunnel | The Detroit–Windsor tunnel (), also known as the Detroit–Canada tunnel, is an international highway tunnel connecting the cities of Detroit, Michigan, United States and Windsor, Ontario, Canada. It is the second-busiest crossing between the United States and Canada, the first being the Ambassador Bridge, which also con... | Detroit–Windsor tunnel | Engineering | 1,599 |
59,573,391 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation%20paleobiology | Conservation paleobiology is a field of paleontology that applies the knowledge of the geological and paleoecological record to the conservation and restoration of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Despite the influence of paleontology on ecological sciences can be traced back at least at the 18th century, the curre... | Conservation paleobiology | Biology | 960 |
35,927,838 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britten%E2%80%93Davidson%20model | The Britten–Davidson model, also known as the gene-battery model, is a hypothesis for the regulation of protein synthesis in eukaryotes. Proposed by Roy John Britten and Eric H. Davidson in 1969, the model postulates four classes of DNA sequence: an integrator gene, a producer gene, a receptor site, and a sensor site. ... | Britten–Davidson model | Biology | 204 |
42,214,280 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorophyllum%20nothorachodes | Chlorophyllum nothorachodes is a species of agaric fungus in the family Agaricaceae. Found in Australia, it was officially described in 2003 from a collection made from a garden in Stirling, Australian Capital Territory. The fruit bodies of the fungus have caps up to wide covered with dark brown patches and small scal... | Chlorophyllum nothorachodes | Biology | 218 |
71,051,857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crepidotus%20variabilis | Crepidotus variabilis is a species of saprophytic fungi in the family Crepidotaceae. It is commonly known as a variable oysterling in the United Kingdom and is seen there in autumn. May occur solitary, but more often in small scattered groups from summer to autumn on twigs and other woody debris of broad-leaved trees. ... | Crepidotus variabilis | Biology | 283 |
31,104,249 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straight-seven%20engine | A straight-seven engine or inline-seven engine is a straight engine with seven cylinders. It is more common in marine applications because these engines are usually based on a modular design, with individual heads per cylinder.
Marine engines
Straight-seven engines produced for marine usage include:
Wärtsilä-Sulzer ... | Straight-seven engine | Engineering | 201 |
22,685,072 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RR%20Lyrae | RR Lyrae is a variable star in the Lyra constellation, figuring in its west near to Cygnus. As the brightest star in its class, it became the eponym for the RR Lyrae variable class of stars and it has been extensively studied by astronomers. RR Lyrae variables serve as important standard candles that are used to measur... | RR Lyrae | Astronomy | 749 |
950,454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric%20fish | An electric fish is any fish that can generate electric fields, whether to sense things around them, for defence, or to stun prey. Most fish able to produce shocks are also electroreceptive, meaning that they can sense electric fields. The only exception is the stargazer family (Uranoscopidae). Electric fish, although ... | Electric fish | Biology | 2,370 |
266,339 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vending%20machine | A vending machine is an automated machine that dispenses items such as snacks, beverages, cigarettes, and lottery tickets to consumers after cash, a credit card, or other forms of payment are inserted into the machine or payment is otherwise made. The first modern vending machines were developed in England in the early... | Vending machine | Physics,Technology,Engineering | 4,483 |
51,880,209 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandin%20brothers | The Grandin Brothers; John Livingston Grandin (December 20, 1836 – September 10, 1912), William James Grandin (August 16, 1838 – December 7, 1904) and Elijah Bishop Grandin (December 20, 1840 – December 3, 1917) were a sibling trio of American entrepreneurs who were among the first to begin business ventures in commer... | Grandin brothers | Engineering | 2,105 |
77,676,319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20star%20systems%20within%20200%E2%80%93250%20light-years | This is a list of star systems within 200–250 light years of Earth.
See also
List of star systems within 150–200 light-years
List of star systems within 250–300 light-years
References
Lists by distance
Star systems
Lists of stars | List of star systems within 200–250 light-years | Physics,Astronomy | 51 |
77,911,947 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HotDog%20domain | In molecular biology, the HotDog domain is a protein structural motif found in a diverse superfamily of enzymes, primarily thioesterases and dehydratases. The name "HotDog" refers to its characteristic structure, where a central α-helix (the "sausage") is wrapped by a curved β-sheet (the "bun").
Structure
The HotDog ... | HotDog domain | Biology | 499 |
17,238,630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple-try%20Metropolis | Multiple-try Metropolis (MTM) is a sampling method that is a modified form of the Metropolis–Hastings method, first presented by Liu, Liang, and Wong in 2000.
It is designed to help the sampling trajectory converge faster,
by increasing both the step size and the acceptance rate.
Background
Problems with Metropolis–H... | Multiple-try Metropolis | Physics | 974 |
1,637,397 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biorefinery | A biorefinery is a refinery that converts biomass to energy and other beneficial byproducts (such as chemicals). The International Energy Agency Bioenergy Task 42 defined biorefining as "the sustainable processing of biomass into a spectrum of bio-based products (food, feed, chemicals, materials) and bioenergy (biofuel... | Biorefinery | Chemistry,Biology | 4,170 |
4,522,192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxacillin | Oxacillin (trade name Bactocill) is a narrow-spectrum second-generation beta-lactam antibiotic of the penicillin class developed by Beecham.
It was patented in 1960 and approved for medical use in 1962.
Medical uses
Oxacillin is a penicillinase-resistant β-lactam. It is similar to methicillin, and has replaced methi... | Oxacillin | Chemistry | 1,291 |
3,368,365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstitial%20cell%20of%20Cajal | Interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC) are interstitial cells found in the gastrointestinal tract. There are different types of ICC with different functions. ICC and another type of interstitial cell, known as platelet-derived growth factor receptor alpha (PDGFRα) cells, are electrically coupled to smooth muscle cells via g... | Interstitial cell of Cajal | Biology | 830 |
41,734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread%20spectrum | In telecommunications, especially radio communication, spread spectrum are techniques by which a signal (e.g., an electrical, electromagnetic, or acoustic) generated with a particular bandwidth is deliberately spread in the frequency domain over a wider frequency band. Spread-spectrum techniques are used for the estab... | Spread spectrum | Physics | 2,061 |
52,800,937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modulation%20doping | Modulation doping is a technique for fabricating semiconductors such that the free charge carriers are spatially separated from the donors. Because this eliminates scattering from the donors, modulation-doped semiconductors have very high carrier mobilities.
History
Modulation doping was conceived in Bell Labs in 197... | Modulation doping | Materials_science | 287 |
142,615 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20Godwin | William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents of utilitarianism and the first modern proponent of anarchism. Godwin is most famous for two books that he published within the space of a year: An Enquiry Concerning P... | William Godwin | Physics | 6,773 |
12,538,238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarion%20Hotel%20and%20Casino | Clarion Hotel and Casino was located near the Las Vegas Strip in Winchester, Nevada. It included a 12-story hotel with approximately 200 rooms, and a small casino. The property opened as a Royal Inn on April 19, 1970. It was renamed Royal Americana in 1980, and then Paddlewheel in 1983.
Actress Debbie Reynolds purchas... | Clarion Hotel and Casino | Engineering | 1,974 |
20,092,561 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armoured%20cable | In electrical power distribution, armoured cable usually means steel wire armoured cable (SWA) which is a hard-wearing power cable designed for the supply of mains electricity. It is one of a number of armoured electrical cables – which include 11 kV Cable and 33 kV Cable – and is found in underground systems, power ne... | Armoured cable | Physics,Engineering | 996 |
2,393,428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Organization%20of%20Legal%20Metrology | The International Organization of Legal Metrology ( - OIML), is an intergovernmental organisation that was created in 1955 to promote the global harmonisation of the legal metrology procedures that underpin and facilitate international trade.
Such harmonisation ensures that certification of measuring devices in one co... | International Organization of Legal Metrology | Engineering | 3,238 |
28,646,503 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defective%20coloring | In graph theory, a mathematical discipline, coloring refers to an assignment of colours or labels to vertices, edges and faces of a graph. Defective coloring is a variant of proper vertex coloring. In a proper vertex coloring, the vertices are coloured such that no adjacent vertices have the same colour. In defective c... | Defective coloring | Mathematics | 1,470 |
3,983,341 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP%20Computer%20Science%20A | Advanced Placement (AP) Computer Science A (also known as AP CompSci, AP CompSci A, APCSA, AP Computer Science Applications, or AP Java) is an AP Computer Science course and examination offered by the College Board to high school students as an opportunity to earn college credit for a college-level computer science cou... | AP Computer Science A | Technology | 1,764 |
23,742,719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C18H16O7 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C18H16O7}}
The molecular formula C18H16O7 (molar mass: 344.31 g/mol, exact mass: 344.0896 u) may refer to:
Ayanin, a flavonol
Cirsilineol, a flavone
Eupatilin, a flavone and a drug
Pachypodol, a flavonol
Santin (molecule), a flavonol
Scillavone A, a homoisoflavone
Usnic acid, a naturally occurrin... | C18H16O7 | Chemistry | 134 |
22,384,158 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compendium%20of%20Analytical%20Nomenclature | The Compendium of Analytical Nomenclature is an IUPAC nomenclature book published by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) containing internationally accepted definitions for terms in analytical chemistry. It has traditionally been published in an orange cover, hence its informal name, the Orang... | Compendium of Analytical Nomenclature | Chemistry | 233 |
1,605,807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stackelberg%20competition | The Stackelberg leadership model is a strategic game in economics in which the leader firm moves first and then the follower firms move sequentially (hence, it is sometimes described as the "leader-follower game"). It is named after the German economist Heinrich Freiherr von Stackelberg who published Marktform und Glei... | Stackelberg competition | Mathematics | 3,093 |
212,813 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984%20%28advertisement%29 | "1984" is an American television commercial that introduced the Apple Macintosh personal computer. It was conceived by Steve Hayden, Brent Thomas, and Lee Clow at Chiat/Day, produced by New York production company Fairbanks Films, and directed by Ridley Scott. The ad was a reference to George Orwell's noted 1949 novel,... | 1984 (advertisement) | Technology | 2,493 |
46,223,763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillium%20incoloratum | Penicillium incoloratum is a species of the genus of Penicillium.
References
incoloratum
Fungi described in 1994
Fungus species | Penicillium incoloratum | Biology | 33 |
31,745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udo%20of%20Aachen | Udo of Aachen (c.1200–1270) is a fictional monk, a creation of British technical writer Ray Girvan, who introduced him in an April Fool's hoax article in 1999. According to the article, Udo was an illustrator and theologian who discovered the Mandelbrot set some 700 years before Benoit Mandelbrot.
Udo's works were all... | Udo of Aachen | Mathematics | 432 |
22,612,797 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEGASUS | PEGASUS is an encryption algorithm used for satellite telemetry, command link and mission data transfers.
According to budget item justification document for FY 2004–2005, this cryptographic algorithm is used for Global Positioning Systems (GPS), Space-Based Infrared Systems (SBIRS), MILSATCOM, and other Special Proje... | PEGASUS | Astronomy,Technology | 80 |
14,308,141 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythrocyte%20rosetting | Erythrocyte rosetting or E-rosetting is a phenomenon seen through a microscope where red blood cells (erythrocytes) are arranged around a central cell to form a cluster that looks like a flower. The red blood cells surrounding the cell form the petal, while the central cell forms the stigma of the flower shape. This ... | Erythrocyte rosetting | Chemistry | 603 |
19,990,354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features%20new%20to%20Windows%207 | Some of the new features included in Windows 7 are advancements in touch, speech and handwriting recognition, support for virtual hard disks, support for additional file formats, improved performance on multi-core processors, improved boot performance, and kernel improvements.
Shell and user interface
Windows 7 retain... | Features new to Windows 7 | Technology | 11,363 |
248,117 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huge%20cardinal | In mathematics, a cardinal number is called huge if there exists an elementary embedding from into a transitive inner model with critical point and
Here, is the class of all sequences of length whose elements are in .
Huge cardinals were introduced by .
Variants
In what follows, refers to the -th iterate of... | Huge cardinal | Mathematics | 576 |
12,150,918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese%20317 | Gliese 317 is a small red dwarf star with two exoplanetary companions in the southern constellation of Pyxis. It is located at a distance of 49.6 light-years from the Sun based on parallax measurements, and is drifting further away with a radial velocity of +87.8 km/s. This star is too faint to be viewed with the naked... | Gliese 317 | Astronomy | 571 |
51,443,362 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20augmentation | Data augmentation is a statistical technique which allows maximum likelihood estimation from incomplete data. Data augmentation has important applications in Bayesian analysis, and the technique is widely used in machine learning to reduce overfitting when training machine learning models, achieved by training models o... | Data augmentation | Engineering | 1,328 |
25,801,354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masayoshi%20Tomizuka | Masayoshi Tomizuka is a professor in Control Theory in Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Berkeley. He holds the Cheryl and John Neerhout, Jr., Distinguished Professorship Chair. Tomizuka received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering from Keio University, Tokyo, Japan in 1968... | Masayoshi Tomizuka | Engineering | 601 |
45,031,327 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20Water%20Flow%20Model | Integrated Water Flow Model (IWFM) is a computer program for simulating water flow through the integrated land surface, surface water and groundwater flow systems. It is a rewrite of the abandoned software IGSM, which was found to have several programing errors. The IWFM programs and source code are freely available. I... | Integrated Water Flow Model | Chemistry,Technology,Engineering,Environmental_science | 674 |
5,550,192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20J.%20Finlay%20Prize%20for%20Microbiology | The Carlos J. Finlay Prize is a biennial scientific prize sponsored by the Government of Cuba and awarded since 1980 by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to people or organizations for their outstanding contributions to microbiology (including immunology, molecular biology, g... | Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology | Technology | 392 |
72,910,457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway%20dimension | The highway dimension is a graph parameter modelling transportation networks, such as road networks or public transportation networks. It was first formally defined by Abraham et al. based on the observation by Bast et al. that any road network has a sparse set of "transit nodes", such that driving from a point A to a ... | Highway dimension | Mathematics | 1,931 |
18,984,059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somatorelin | Somatorelin is a diagnostic agent for determining growth hormone deficiency. It is a recombinant version of growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH).
Somatorelin has been used to study hormone deficiency (particularly growth hormone deficiency), cognitive impairment, sleep disorders, and aging.
See also
List of grow... | Somatorelin | Chemistry | 88 |
12,530,220 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super%20Optimal%20Broth | Super Optimal Broth (SOB medium) is a nutrient-rich bacterial growth medium used for microbiological culture, generally of Escherichia coli. This nutrient-rich microbial broth contains peptides, amino acids, water soluble vitamins and glucose in a low-salt formulation. It was developed by Douglas Hanahan in 1983 and is... | Super Optimal Broth | Biology | 549 |
16,288,924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjelmslev%27s%20theorem | In geometry, Hjelmslev's theorem, named after Johannes Hjelmslev, is the statement that if points P, Q, R... on a line are isometrically mapped to points P´, Q´, R´... of another line in the same plane, then the midpoints of the segments PP´, QQ´, RR´... also lie on a line.
The proof is easy if one assumes the classif... | Hjelmslev's theorem | Mathematics | 419 |
577,438 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minisatellite | In genetics, a minisatellite is a tract of repetitive DNA in which certain DNA motifs (ranging in length from 10–60 base pairs) are typically repeated two to several hundred times. Minisatellites occur at more than 1,000 locations in the human genome and they are notable for their high mutation rate and high diversity ... | Minisatellite | Biology | 1,279 |
29,997,263 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerotic%20acid | Cerotic acid, or hexacosanoic acid, is a 26-carbon long-chain saturated fatty acid with the chemical formula . It is most commonly found in beeswax and carnauba wax. It is a white solid, although impure samples appear yellowish.
The name is derived from the Latin word cerotus, which in turn was derived from the Ancie... | Cerotic acid | Chemistry | 175 |
912,128 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsome | In cell biology, microsomes are heterogeneous vesicle-like artifacts (~20-200 nm diameter) re-formed from pieces of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) when eukaryotic cells are broken-up in the laboratory; microsomes are not present in healthy, living cells.
Rough (containing ribosomes) and smooth (without ribosomes) micr... | Microsome | Chemistry | 1,846 |
71,369,834 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacrifice%20to%20Heaven | Sacrifice to Heaven () is an Asian religious practice originating in the worship of Shangdi in China. In Ancient Chinese society, nobles of all levels constructed altars for Heaven. At first, only nobles could worship Shangdi but later beliefs changed and everyone could worship Shangdi.
Modern Confucian churches make ... | Sacrifice to Heaven | Biology | 1,459 |
514,261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrigley%20Rooftops | Wrigley Rooftops is a name for the sixteen rooftops of residential buildings which have bleachers or seating on them to view baseball games or other major events at Wrigley Field. Since 1914 Wrigley roofs have dotted the neighborhood of Wrigleyville around Wrigley Field, where the Chicago Cubs play Major League Basebal... | Wrigley Rooftops | Technology,Engineering | 1,902 |
50,564,979 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson%20Shatashvili | Samson Lulievich Shatashvili ( Russian: Самсон Лулиевич Шаташвили, born February 1960) is a theoretical and mathematical physicist who has been working at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, since 2002. He holds the Trinity College Dublin Chair of Natural Philosophy and is the director of the Hamilton Mathematics Institut... | Samson Shatashvili | Physics | 585 |
37,642,258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dienone%E2%80%93phenol%20rearrangement | The dienone–phenol rearrangement is a reaction in organic chemistry first reported in 1921 by Karl von Auwers and Karl Ziegler. A common example of dienone–phenol rearrangement is 4,4-disubstituted converting into a stable 3,4-disubstituted phenol in presence of acid. A similar rearrangement is possible with a 2,2-dis... | Dienone–phenol rearrangement | Chemistry | 366 |
69,317,325 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithium%20telluride | Lithium telluride (Li2Te) is an inorganic compound of lithium and tellurium. Along with LiTe3, it is one of the two intermediate solid phases in the lithium-tellurium system. It can be prepared by directly reacting lithium and tellurium in a beryllium oxide crucible at 950°C.
References
Lithium compounds
Tellurides
F... | Lithium telluride | Chemistry | 82 |
40,304,453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cam%20engine | A cam engine is a reciprocating engine where instead of the conventional crankshaft, the pistons deliver their force to a cam that is then caused to rotate. The output work of the engine is driven by this cam.
A variation of the cam engine, the swashplate engine (also the closely related wobble-plate engine), was brie... | Cam engine | Technology | 2,133 |
2,527,535 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trace%20heating | Electric heat tracing, heat tape or surface heating, is a system used to maintain or raise the temperature of pipes and vessels using heat tracing cables. Trace heating takes the form of an electrical heating element run in physical contact along the length of a pipe. The pipe is usually covered with thermal insulati... | Trace heating | Chemistry,Engineering | 2,150 |
15,172,479 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith%27s%20Cloud | Smith's Cloud is a high-velocity cloud of hydrogen gas located in the constellation Aquila at Galactic coordinates l = 39°, b = −13°. The cloud was discovered in 1963 by Gail Bieger, née Smith, who was an astronomy student at Leiden University in the Netherlands.
Properties
Using the National Science Foundation's Rob... | Smith's Cloud | Physics,Astronomy | 449 |
42,351,905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rossby%20wave%20instability | Rossby Wave Instability (RWI) is a concept related to astrophysical accretion discs. In non-self-gravitating discs, for example around newly forming stars, the instability can be triggered by an axisymmetric bump, at some radius , in the disc surface mass-density. It gives rise to exponentially growing non-axisymmetric... | Rossby wave instability | Physics,Astronomy | 401 |
14,027,843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advisory%20Committee%20on%20Earthquake%20Hazards%20Reduction | The 2004 re-authorization of National Earthquake Hazards Reduction Program (NEHRP) directed that the Director of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) establish the Advisory Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction (ACEHR) to assess:
trends and developments in the science and engineering of e... | Advisory Committee on Earthquake Hazards Reduction | Engineering | 286 |
45,515,909 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillium%20fusisporum | Penicillium fusisporum is a fungus species in the family Trichocomaceae. Described as new to science in 2014, it was isolated from plant leaves in China. It is closely related to Penicillium thomii var. flavescens.
See also
List of Penicillium species
References
fusisporum
Fungi described in 2014
Fungi of Asia
Fungu... | Penicillium fusisporum | Biology | 79 |
2,903,350 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phi%20Bo%C3%B6tis | Phi Boötis (φ Boötis) is a single, yellow-hued star in the northern constellation of Boötes. It is dimly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of +5.24. Based upon an annual parallax shift of 19.22 mas as seen from the Earth, it is located 170 light years from the Sun. At that distance, the visual ... | Phi Boötis | Astronomy | 315 |
47,381,133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MACHO%20176.18833.411 | MACHO 176.18833.411 (OGLE BLG-RRLYR-10353) is an RR Lyrae variable star located in the galactic bulge of our Milky Way Galaxy. However, it is not a galactic bulge star, it is a galactic halo star, which is on the part of its elliptical orbit that brings it within the bulge before returning to the outer parts of the gal... | MACHO 176.18833.411 | Astronomy | 166 |
10,700,701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing%20supermarket | A manufacturing supermarket (or market location) is, for a factory process, what a retail supermarket is for the customer. The customers draw products from the 'shelves' as needed and this can be detected by the supplier who then initiates a replenishment of that item. It was the observation that this 'way of working' ... | Manufacturing supermarket | Engineering | 849 |
24,443,253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web%20Services%20for%20Devices | Web Services for Devices or Web Services on Devices (WSD) is a Microsoft API to enable programming connections to web service enabled devices, such as printers, scanners and file shares. Such devices conform to the Devices Profile for Web Services (DPWS). It is an extensible framework that serves as a replacement for ... | Web Services for Devices | Technology | 180 |
2,468,930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis%20Monier | Louis Monier (born March 21, 1956) is a cofounder of the defunct Internet search engine AltaVista together with Paul Flaherty and Michael Burrows. After he left AltaVista, he worked at eBay and then at Google. He left Google in August 2007 to join Cuil, a search engine startup. He was Vice President of Products at Cuil... | Louis Monier | Technology | 252 |
2,785,376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RF%20front%20end | In a radio receiver circuit, the RF front end, short for radio frequency front end, is a generic term for all the circuitry between a receiver's antenna input up to and including the mixer stage. It consists of all the components in the receiver that process the signal at the original incoming radio frequency (RF), be... | RF front end | Engineering | 546 |
56,098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte%20Carlo%20method | Monte Carlo methods, or Monte Carlo experiments, are a broad class of computational algorithms that rely on repeated random sampling to obtain numerical results. The underlying concept is to use randomness to solve problems that might be deterministic in principle. The name comes from the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco, ... | Monte Carlo method | Physics,Mathematics | 7,879 |
22,614,255 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond%20Compare | Beyond Compare is a cross-platform proprietary data comparison utility. The program is able to compare files and multiple types of directories, as well as archives. Beyond Compare can be configured as a difftool and mergetool of version control systems, such as git.
Reception
In an April 2009 review, Beyond Compare r... | Beyond Compare | Technology | 310 |
59,742,671 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSatur | DSatur is a graph colouring algorithm put forward by Daniel Brélaz in 1979. Similarly to the greedy colouring algorithm, DSatur colours the vertices of a graph one after another, adding a previously unused colour when needed. Once a new vertex has been coloured, the algorithm determines which of the remaining uncoloure... | DSatur | Mathematics | 713 |
8,898,329 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency%20scaling | In computer architecture, frequency scaling (also known as frequency ramping) is the technique of increasing a processor's frequency so as to enhance the performance of the system containing the processor in question. Frequency ramping was the dominant force in commodity processor performance increases from the mid-198... | Frequency scaling | Technology,Engineering | 381 |
30,983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testosterone | Testosterone is the primary male sex hormone and androgen in males. In humans, testosterone plays a key role in the development of male reproductive tissues such as testicles and prostate, as well as promoting secondary sexual characteristics such as increased muscle and bone mass, and the growth of body hair. It is as... | Testosterone | Biology | 9,505 |
28,621,577 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%20pad | The T pad is a specific type of attenuator circuit in electronics whereby the topology of the circuit is formed in the shape of the letter "T".
Attenuators are used in electronics to reduce the level of a signal. They are also referred to as pads due to their effect of padding down a signal by analogy with acoustics.... | T pad | Physics,Engineering | 906 |
25,682,462 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Journal%20of%20Nanoscience | The International Journal of Nanoscience is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed scientific journal published by World Scientific. It covers research in nanometer scale science and technology, with articles ranging from the "basic science of nanoscale physics and chemistry to applications in nanodevices, quantum engineer... | International Journal of Nanoscience | Materials_science | 116 |
561,885 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria%20mellea | Armillaria mellea, commonly known as honey fungus, is an edible basidiomycete fungus in the genus Armillaria. It is a plant pathogen and part of a cryptic species complex of closely related and morphologically similar species. It causes Armillaria root rot in many plant species and produces mushrooms around the base of... | Armillaria mellea | Biology | 2,783 |
12,821,985 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi%20Zezong | Xi Zezong (June 6, 1927, Yuanqu, Shanxi – December 27, 2008, Beijing) was a Chinese astronomer, historian, and translator. He was a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an awardee of the Astronomy Prize.
He identified a possible reference to one of the Galilean moons of Jupiter in the fragmentary ancient wor... | Xi Zezong | Astronomy | 217 |
40,639,288 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeepOcean | DeepOcean is an Oslo, Norway - based company which provides subsea services to the global offshore industries such as Inspection Maintenance and Repair (IMR), Subsea Construction, Cable Lay, and Subsea Trenching. Its 1,100 employees project manage and operate a fleet of Vessels, ROV's and subsea Trenchers.
DeepOcean o... | DeepOcean | Engineering | 502 |
894,198 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtain%20wall%20%28architecture%29 | A curtain wall is an exterior covering of a building in which the outer walls are non-structural, instead serving to protect the interior of the building from the elements. Because the curtain wall façade carries no structural load beyond its own dead load weight, it can be made of lightweight materials. The wall trans... | Curtain wall (architecture) | Technology,Engineering | 4,973 |
51,184,343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge%20inertia | Knowledge inertia (KI) is a concept in knowledge management. The term initially proposed by Shu-hsien Liao comprises a two dimensional model which incorporates experience inertia and learning inertia. Later, another dimension—the dimension of thinking inertia—has been added based on the theoretical exploration of the ... | Knowledge inertia | Biology | 643 |
25,510,720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20eclipse%20of%20July%2013%2C%202075 | An annular solar eclipse will occur at the Moon's ascending node of orbit on Saturday, July 13, 2075, with a magnitude of 0.9467. A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby totally or partly obscuring the image of the Sun for a viewer on Earth. An annular solar eclipse occurs when th... | Solar eclipse of July 13, 2075 | Astronomy | 745 |
21,865,544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Electronic%20Message%20Service | The Digital Electronic Message Service (DEMS) is a two-way wireless radio service
for passing of message and facsimile data using the 10.6 and 24 GHz band. As of 1997, Associated Communications was expected to use the band to create a network in 31 U.S. cities.
In October 2005, the FCC moved part of the DEMS service ... | Digital Electronic Message Service | Engineering | 90 |
16,084,455 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feferman%E2%80%93Sch%C3%BCtte%20ordinal | In mathematics, the Feferman–Schütte ordinal (Γ0) is a large countable ordinal.
It is the proof-theoretic ordinal of several mathematical theories, such as arithmetical transfinite recursion.
It is named after Solomon Feferman and Kurt Schütte, the former of whom suggested the name Γ0.
There is no standard notation fo... | Feferman–Schütte ordinal | Mathematics | 301 |
25,872,126 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo%2013%3A%20Mission%20Control | Apollo 13: Mission Control is an interactive theatre show about NASA's failed Apollo 13 mission.
Premiere and touring history
The show premiered in October 2008 at BATS Theatre in Wellington, New Zealand and has toured Hamilton, Nelson and Auckland in New Zealand. It returned to Wellington for a season at the New Zeal... | Apollo 13: Mission Control | Astronomy | 456 |
31,325,710 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genpatsu-shinsai | , meaning nuclear power plant earthquake disaster (from the two words Genpatsu – nuclear power plant – and Shinsai – earthquake disaster) is a term which was coined by Japanese seismologist Professor Katsuhiko Ishibashi in 1997. It describes a domino effect scenario in which a major earthquake causes a severe accident ... | Genpatsu-shinsai | Physics,Chemistry | 354 |
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