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41,575,984 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolve%20%28video%20game%29 | Evolve is a first-person shooter video game developed by Turtle Rock Studios and published by 2K. Announced in January 2014, the game was released worldwide for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in February 2015. Evolve uses an asymmetrical multiplayer structure, where five players—four playing as hunters ... | Evolve (video game) | Physics | 8,388 |
2,222,635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric%20electricity | Atmospheric electricity describes the electrical charges in the Earth's atmosphere (or that of another planet). The movement of charge between the Earth's surface, the atmosphere, and the ionosphere is known as the global atmospheric electrical circuit. Atmospheric electricity is an interdisciplinary topic with a long ... | Atmospheric electricity | Physics | 3,372 |
43,026,600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMBRACE%20%28telescope%29 | EMBRACE (Electronic MultiBeam Radio Astronomy ConcEpt) is a prototype radio telescope for phase two of the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project. It's the first dense phased array for radioastronomy in the GHz frequency range (initially planned for covering the 0.5-1.5 GHz, mid-frequency band of SKA). It is composed of ... | EMBRACE (telescope) | Astronomy | 171 |
29,500,283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda%20Orionis%20Cluster | The Lambda Orionis Cluster (also known as the Collinder 69) is an open star cluster located north-west of the star Betelgeuse in the constellation of Orion. It is about five million years old and roughly away from the Sun. Included within the cluster is a double star named Meissa. With the rest of Orion, it is visible... | Lambda Orionis Cluster | Astronomy | 507 |
12,765,635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavoisier%20Medal | A Lavoisier Medal is an award named and given in honor of Antoine Lavoisier, considered by some to be a father of modern chemistry.
At least three organizations independently give awards for achievement in chemical-related disciplines, each using the name Lavoisier Medal. Lavoisier Medals are awarded by the following... | Lavoisier Medal | Chemistry,Materials_science,Technology,Engineering | 695 |
36,831,006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hindsight%20optimization | Hindsight optimisation (HOP) is a computer science technique used in artificial intelligence for analysis of actions which have stochastic results. HOP is used in combination with a deterministic planner. By creating sample results for each of the possible actions from the given state (i.e. determinising the actions), ... | Hindsight optimization | Engineering | 95 |
2,959,101 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diethanolamine | Diethanolamine, often abbreviated as DEA or DEOA, is an organic compound with the formula HN(CH2CH2OH)2. Pure diethanolamine is a white solid at room temperature, but its tendencies to absorb water and to supercool often results in it being found in a colorless, viscous liquid state. Diethanolamine is polyfunctional, b... | Diethanolamine | Chemistry | 756 |
80,197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet%E2%80%93Afghan%20War | The Soviet–Afghan War took place in the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from December 1979 to February 1989. Marking the beginning of the protracted Afghan conflict, it saw the Soviet Union and the Afghan military fight against the rebelling Afghan mujahideen. While they were backed by various countries and organiza... | Soviet–Afghan War | Chemistry | 21,095 |
62,469,606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darmois%E2%80%93Skitovich%20theorem | In mathematical statistics, the Darmois–Skitovich theorem characterizes the normal distribution (the Gaussian distribution) by the independence of two linear forms from independent random variables. This theorem was proved independently by G. Darmois and V. P. Skitovich in 1953.
Formulation
Let be independent rando... | Darmois–Skitovich theorem | Mathematics | 170 |
3,381,059 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parom | The Parom (ferry in Russian) is a space tug that has been proposed by RKK Energia. The purpose of this vehicle is to replace most of the Progress' active components. Progress spacecraft have flown re-supply missions since 1978. Nikolai Bryukhanov, RKK Energia's deputy general designer, said in May 2005 that the Federa... | Parom | Astronomy,Technology | 434 |
2,602,927 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laramie-Poudre%20Tunnel | The Laramie-Poudre Tunnel is an early transmountain tunnel in the U.S. state of Colorado. The tunnel transfers water from the west side of the Laramie River basin, which drains to the North Platte River, to the east side Cache la Poudre River basin that drains to the South Platte River. The tunnel is about long with v... | Laramie-Poudre Tunnel | Engineering | 627 |
35,411,581 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erotic%20plasticity | Erotic plasticity is the degree to which one's sex drive can be changed by cultural or social factors. Someone has "high erotic plasticity" when their sex drives can be affected by situational, social and cultural influences, whereas someone with "low erotic plasticity" has a sex drive that is relatively rigid and unsu... | Erotic plasticity | Biology | 3,620 |
36,956,239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolated%20horizon | It was customary to represent black hole horizons via stationary solutions of field equations, i.e., solutions which admit a time-translational Killing vector field everywhere, not just in a small neighborhood of the black hole. While this simple idealization was natural as a starting point, it is overly restrictive. P... | Isolated horizon | Physics,Astronomy | 816 |
30,856,548 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Galaxy%20S%20II | The Samsung Galaxy S II (also unofficially known as the Samsung Galaxy S2) is a touchscreen-enabled, slate-format Android smartphone developed and marketed by Samsung Electronics, as the second smartphone of the Samsung Galaxy S series. It has additional software features, expanded hardware, and a redesigned physique c... | Samsung Galaxy S II | Technology | 6,894 |
64,547,519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transition%20metal%20isocyanide%20complexes | Transition metal isocyanide complexes are coordination compounds containing isocyanide ligands. Because isocyanides are relatively basic, but also good pi-acceptors, a wide range of complexes are known. Some isocyanide complexes are used in medical imaging.
Scope of isocyanide ligands
Several thousand isocyanides a... | Transition metal isocyanide complexes | Chemistry | 1,005 |
1,600,321 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago%20Sanitary%20and%20Ship%20Canal | The Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, historically known as the Chicago Drainage Canal, is a canal system that connects the Chicago River to the Des Plaines River. It reverses the direction of the Main Stem and the South Branch of the Chicago River, which now flows out of Lake Michigan rather than into it. The related... | Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal | Engineering,Environmental_science | 2,643 |
31,678,753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracytophagy | Paracytophagy () is the cellular process whereby a cell engulfs a protrusion which extends from a neighboring cell. This protrusion may contain material which is actively transferred between the cells. The process of paracytophagy was first described as a crucial step during cell-to-cell spread of the intracellular b... | Paracytophagy | Biology | 2,250 |
17,967,841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5-HTTLPR | 5-HTTLPR (serotonin-transporter-linked promoter region) is a degenerate repeat (redundancy in the genetic code) polymorphic region in SLC6A4, the gene that codes for the serotonin transporter.
Since the polymorphism was identified in the middle of the 1990s,
it has been extensively investigated, e.g., in connection wit... | 5-HTTLPR | Biology | 2,845 |
2,299,135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-diagonal%20matrix | In mathematics, an anti-diagonal matrix is a square matrix where all the entries are zero except those on the diagonal going from the lower left corner to the upper right corner (↗), known as the anti-diagonal (sometimes Harrison diagonal, secondary diagonal, trailing diagonal, minor diagonal, off diagonal or bad diago... | Anti-diagonal matrix | Mathematics | 453 |
67,610,207 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nilufar%20Mamadalieva | Nilufar Mamadalieva is a biochemist from Uzbekistan.
Biography
Mamadalieva completed a Master's in science at Fergana State University and a PhD at the Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances in Tashkent. She is a scientific researcher at the institute. Her work focuses on the phytochemical and biological inve... | Nilufar Mamadalieva | Chemistry | 149 |
37,192,426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryogenic%20energy%20storage | Cryogenic energy storage (CES) is the use of low temperature (cryogenic) liquids such as liquid air or liquid nitrogen to store energy.
The technology is primarily used for the large-scale storage of electricity. Following grid-scale demonstrator plants, a 250 MWh commercial plant is now under construction in the UK, ... | Cryogenic energy storage | Physics | 1,479 |
74,259,791 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadmium%20tellurite | Cadmium tellurite is the tellurite salt of cadmium, with the chemical formula CdTeO3.
Preparation
Cadmium tellurite can be prepared by the reaction of cadmium sulfate and sodium tellurite in ammonia.
Properties
Cadmium tellurite is a colourless solid that is insoluble in water. It is a semiconductor. It is part ... | Cadmium tellurite | Chemistry | 130 |
490,539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudocopulation | Pseudocopulation is a behavior similar to copulation that serves a reproductive function for one or both participants but does not involve actual sexual union between the individuals. It is most generally applied to a pollinator attempting to copulate with a flower adapted to mimic a potential female mate. The resembla... | Pseudocopulation | Biology | 479 |
69,039,000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glugging | Glugging (also referred to as "the glug-glug process") is the physical phenomenon which occurs when a liquid is poured rapidly from a vessel with a narrow opening, such as a bottle. It is a facet of fluid dynamics.
As liquid is poured from a bottle, the air pressure in the bottle is lowered, and air at higher pressur... | Glugging | Chemistry,Engineering | 299 |
63,989,659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid%20set | In mathematics, specifically in order theory and functional analysis, a subset of a vector lattice is said to be solid and is called an ideal if for all and if then
An ordered vector space whose order is Archimedean is said to be Archimedean ordered.
If then the ideal generated by is the smallest ideal in co... | Solid set | Mathematics | 258 |
46,995,261 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association%20of%20Greek%20Chemists | The Association of Greek Chemists () is the chemical society of Greek chemists. The Association of Greek Chemists is a public legal entity that reports to the Ministry of Industry, Energy and Technology.
Its headquarters are in Athens: 27 Kaniggos Street, 10682, Ethans, Greece. It was founded in 1924 in order to act a... | Association of Greek Chemists | Chemistry | 1,004 |
61,594,585 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubaline%20alphaherpesvirus%201 | Bubaline alphaherpesvirus 1 (BuHV-1) is a species of virus in the genus Varicellovirus, subfamily Alphaherpesvirinae, family Herpesviridae, and order Herpesvirales.
References
Alphaherpesvirinae | Bubaline alphaherpesvirus 1 | Biology | 56 |
5,813,818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernanda%20Vi%C3%A9gas | Fernanda Bertini Viégas (born 1971) is a Brazilian computer scientist and graphical designer, whose work focuses on the social, collaborative and artistic aspects of information visualization.
Biography
Viégas studied graphic design and art history at the University of Kansas, where she obtained her bachelor's degree... | Fernanda Viégas | Engineering | 960 |
23,728,527 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estipite | The estipite column is a type of pilaster used in buildings in the Mannerist and Baroque styles,a moment when many classical architectural elements lost their simple shapes and became increasingly complex, offering a variety of forms and exuberant decoration. This sort of column has the shape of an inverted pyramid or ... | Estipite | Technology | 943 |
11,911,464 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model%20of%20hierarchical%20complexity | The model of hierarchical complexity (MHC) is a framework for scoring how complex a behavior is, such as verbal reasoning or other cognitive tasks. It quantifies the order of hierarchical complexity of a task based on mathematical principles of how the information is organized, in terms of information science. This mod... | Model of hierarchical complexity | Physics | 3,666 |
4,954,583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeOTFE | FreeOTFE is a discontinued open source computer program for on-the-fly disk encryption (OTFE). On Microsoft Windows, and Windows Mobile (using FreeOTFE4PDA), it can create a virtual drive within a file or partition, to which anything written is automatically encrypted before being stored on a computer's hard or USB dri... | FreeOTFE | Mathematics | 983 |
75,282,554 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remibrutinib | Remibrutinib is a small molecule drug that acts as a Bruton's tyrosine kinase (BTK) inhibitor. It is in development for the treatment of chronic spontaneous urticaria. In November 2023, Novartis announced that the compound "demonstrated clinically meaningful and statistically significant reduction in urticaria activity... | Remibrutinib | Chemistry | 114 |
2,995,958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential%20isomorphism | In mathematical logic and in particular in model theory, a potential isomorphism is a collection of finite partial isomorphisms between two models which satisfies certain closure conditions. Existence of a partial isomorphism entails elementary equivalence, however the converse is not generally true, but it holds for ω... | Potential isomorphism | Mathematics | 221 |
47,825,086 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark%20data | Dark data is data which is acquired through various computer network operations but not used in any manner to derive insights or for decision making. The ability of an organisation to collect data can exceed the throughput at which it can analyse the data. In some cases the organisation may not even be aware that the d... | Dark data | Technology | 1,221 |
22,398,576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutrino%20Array%20Radio%20Calibration | The Neutrino Array Radio Calibration (NARC) experiment was the successor to the Radio Ice Cherenkov Experiment (RICE) which served as a testbed for future development of an eventual large-scale neutrino radio-detection array. NARC involved detecting ultra high energy electron neutrinos through their interactions with i... | Neutrino Array Radio Calibration | Astronomy | 175 |
6,586,455 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycorine | Lycorine is a toxic crystalline alkaloid found in various Amaryllidaceae species, such as the cultivated bush lily (Clivia miniata), surprise lilies (Lycoris), and daffodils (Narcissus). It may be highly poisonous, or even lethal, when ingested in certain quantities. Regardless, it is sometimes used medicinally, a rea... | Lycorine | Chemistry | 802 |
9,641,508 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William%20L.%20Jorgensen | William L. Jorgensen (born October 5, 1949, in New York) is a Sterling Professor of Chemistry at Yale University. He is known for his work in the field of computational chemistry. Some of his contributions include the TIP3P, TIP4P, and TIP5P water models, the OPLS force field, free-energy perturbation theory for modell... | William L. Jorgensen | Chemistry | 503 |
172,732 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glycerol | Glycerol () is a simple triol compound. It is a colorless, odorless, viscous liquid that is sweet-tasting and non-toxic. The glycerol backbone is found in lipids known as glycerides. It is also widely used as a sweetener in the food industry and as a humectant in pharmaceutical formulations. Because of its three hydrox... | Glycerol | Chemistry | 4,255 |
415,167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitone | A semitone, also called a minor second, half step, or a half tone, is the smallest musical interval commonly used in Western tonal music, and it is considered the most dissonant when sounded harmonically.
It is defined as the interval between two adjacent notes in a 12-tone scale (or half of a whole step), visually see... | Semitone | Physics,Mathematics | 4,498 |
28,279,387 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google%20Nexus | Google Nexus is a discontinued line of consumer electronic mobile devices that ran a stock version of the Android operating system. Google managed the design, development, marketing, and support of these devices, but some development and all manufacturing were carried out by partnering with original equipment manufactu... | Google Nexus | Technology | 3,045 |
1,687,359 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary%20succession | Primary succession is the beginning step of ecological succession where species known as pioneer species colonize an uninhabited site, which usually occurs in an environment devoid of vegetation and other organisms.
In contrast, secondary succession occurs on substrates that previously supported vegetation before an ... | Primary succession | Biology | 1,584 |
27,908,073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triton%20Systems | Triton Systems LLC is a manufacturer of automated teller machines (ATMs). Triton ATMs are built in Long Beach, Mississippi. Triton has been in business since 1979, and has nearly 200,000 installations in over 24 countries.
History
Founded in 1979 by Ernest L. Burdette, Frank J. Wilem, Jr., and Robert E. Sandoz, Triton... | Triton Systems | Engineering | 804 |
10,879,760 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C3-Dichloropropene | 1,3-Dichloropropene, sold under diverse trade names, is an organochlorine compound with the formula . It is a colorless liquid with a sweet smell. It is feebly soluble in water and evaporates easily. It is used mainly in farming as a pesticide, specifically as a preplant fumigant and nematicide. It acts non-specificall... | 1,3-Dichloropropene | Biology,Environmental_science | 647 |
70,126,157 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calibrated%20automated%20thrombogram | The calibrated automated thrombogram (CAT or CT) is a thrombin generation assay (TGA) and global coagulation assay (GCA) which can be used as a coagulation test to assess thrombotic risk. It is the most widely used TGA. The CAT is a semi-automated test performed in a 96-well plate and requires specialized technologists... | Calibrated automated thrombogram | Chemistry | 315 |
11,420,730 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citrus%20tristeza%20virus%20replication%20signal | The Citrus tristeza virus replication signal is a regulatory element involved in a viral replication signal which is highly conserved in citrus tristeza viruses. Replication signals are required for viral replication and are usually found near the 5' and 3' termini of protein coding genes. This element is predicted to ... | Citrus tristeza virus replication signal | Chemistry | 127 |
345,758 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar%20constant | The solar constant (GSC) measures the amount of energy received by a given area one astronomical unit away from the Sun. More specifically, it is a flux density measuring mean solar electromagnetic radiation (total solar irradiance) per unit area. It is measured on a surface perpendicular to the rays, one astronomical ... | Solar constant | Engineering | 1,705 |
53,153,455 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximal%20entropy%20random%20walk | Maximal entropy random walk (MERW) is a popular type of biased random walk on a graph, in which transition probabilities are chosen accordingly to the principle of maximum entropy, which says that the probability distribution which best represents the current state of knowledge is the one with largest entropy. While st... | Maximal entropy random walk | Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics,Technology,Engineering | 1,553 |
3,232,460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20exceptional%20set%20concepts | This is a list of exceptional set concepts. In mathematics, and in particular in mathematical analysis, it is very useful to be able to characterise subsets of a given set X as 'small', in some definite sense, or 'large' if their complement in X is small. There are numerous concepts that have been introduced to study '... | List of exceptional set concepts | Mathematics | 214 |
47,277,557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pivaldehyde | Pivaldehyde is an organic compound, more specifically an aldehyde. Shown in the image is a line-angle representation of this organic aldehyde, whose systematic name, 2,2-dimethylpropanal, is based on the longest carbon chain (three carbon atoms), ending in "-al" to indicate the aldehyde functionality, and where another... | Pivaldehyde | Chemistry | 207 |
49,595,958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitri%20Leonidovich%20Romanowsky | Dmitri Leonidovich Romanowsky (sometimes spelled Dmitry and Romanowski, ; 1861–1921) was a Russian physician who is best known for his invention of an eponymous histological stain called Romanowsky stain. It paved the way for the discovery and diagnosis of microscopic pathogens, such as malarial parasites, and later de... | Dmitri Leonidovich Romanowsky | Chemistry,Biology | 1,257 |
28,042,707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprus%20Safer%20Internet%20Helpline | The Cyprus Safer Internet Helpline is a service provided by the Cyprus Safer Internet Center project, coordinated by the Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute (CNTI). The Helpline ensures that not only children and adolescents but also adults have the opportunity to converse with experts in case they experience... | Cyprus Safer Internet Helpline | Technology | 717 |
37,208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landslide | Landslides, also known as landslips, or rockslides, are several forms of mass wasting that may include a wide range of ground movements, such as rockfalls, mudflows, shallow or deep-seated slope failures and debris flows. Landslides occur in a variety of environments, characterized by either steep or gentle slope gradi... | Landslide | Physics,Environmental_science | 4,837 |
4,087,321 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent%20learning | Latent learning is the subconscious retention of information without reinforcement or motivation. In latent learning, one changes behavior only when there is sufficient motivation later than when they subconsciously retained the information.
Latent learning is when the observation of something, rather than experiencin... | Latent learning | Biology | 1,853 |
28,219,858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlborough-Blenheim%20Hotel | The Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel was a historic resort hotel property in Atlantic City, New Jersey, built in 1902–1906, and demolished in October 1978.
History
In 1900, Josiah White III bought a parcel of land between Ohio Avenue and Park Place on the Boardwalk, and built the Queen Anne style Marlborough House. The hote... | Marlborough-Blenheim Hotel | Engineering | 1,177 |
75,914,024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsteinium%28II%29%20iodide | Einsteinium(II) iodide is a binary inorganic chemical compound of einsteinium and iodide with the chemical formula .
Synthesis
The compound can be prepared via a reaction of and .
Physical properties
The compound forms a solid.
References
Einsteinium compounds
Iodides
Actinide halides | Einsteinium(II) iodide | Chemistry | 60 |
3,841,160 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constant%20fraction%20discriminator | A constant fraction discriminator (CFD) is an electronic signal processing device, designed to mimic the mathematical operation of finding a maximum of a pulse by finding the zero of its slope. Some signals do not have a sharp maximum, but short rise times .
Typical input signals for CFDs are pulses from plastic scint... | Constant fraction discriminator | Technology,Engineering | 590 |
12,637,298 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimethyltubocurarinium%20chloride | Dimethyltubocurarinium chloride (INN; also known as metocurine chloride (USAN) and dimethyltubocurarine chloride) is a non-depolarizing nicotinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist used as a muscle relaxant.
References
Quaternary ammonium compounds
Nicotinic antagonists
Norsalsolinol ethers
Pyrogallol ethers
Macrocyc... | Dimethyltubocurarinium chloride | Chemistry | 113 |
72,918,290 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnesium%20laurate | Magnesium laurate is a metal-organic compound with the chemical formula . The compound is classified as a metallic soap, i.e. a metal derivative of a fatty acid (lauric acid).
Physical properties
Soluble in water.
Uses
Magnesium laurate is used in the food industry as a binder, emulsifier, and anticaking agent.
Refe... | Magnesium laurate | Chemistry | 78 |
76,167,693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confluentic%20acid | Confluentic acid is an organic compound belonging to the chemical class known as depsides. It serves as a secondary metabolite in certain lichens and plays a role in distinguishing closely related species within the genus Porpidia. In 1899, Friedrich Wilhelm Zopf isolated a compound from Lecidea confluens, which he ini... | Confluentic acid | Chemistry | 2,266 |
55,907,806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE%201849 | The IEEE STANDARD 1849-2016, IEEE Standard for eXtensible Event Stream (XES) for Achieving Interoperability in Event Logs and Event Streams, is a technical standard developed by the IEEE Standards Association. It standardizes "a language to transport, store, and exchange (possibly large volumes of) event data (e.g., fo... | IEEE 1849 | Technology | 379 |
1,307,896 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemically%20peculiar%20star | In astrophysics, chemically peculiar stars (CP stars) are stars with distinctly unusual metal abundances, at least in their surface layers.
Classification
Chemically peculiar stars are common among hot main-sequence (hydrogen-burning) stars. These hot peculiar stars have been divided into 4 main classes on the basis o... | Chemically peculiar star | Astronomy | 1,069 |
37,842,413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%202467 | NGC 2467, nicknamed the "Skull and Crossbones Nebula", is a star-forming region whose appearance has occasionally also been likened to that of a colorful mandrill. It includes areas where large clouds of hydrogen gas incubate new stars. This region was one of the areas featured in the book Hubble's Universe: Greatest D... | NGC 2467 | Astronomy | 690 |
7,902,939 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-coupling | In nuclear chemistry and nuclear physics, J-couplings (also called spin-spin coupling or indirect dipole–dipole coupling) are mediated through chemical bonds connecting two spins. It is an indirect interaction between two nuclear spins that arises from hyperfine interactions between the nuclei and local electrons. In N... | J-coupling | Physics,Chemistry | 2,151 |
56,284,478 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuEST | Quantum Entanglement Science and Technology (QuEST) is a research program, announced by the DARPA Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) in 2008. As a follow-on to the QuIST Program, its goal was to further accelerate development in the field of quantum information science.
Example areas under investigation included:
S... | QuEST | Physics | 152 |
65,888,580 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multifit%20algorithm | The multifit algorithm is an algorithm for multiway number partitioning, originally developed for the problem of identical-machines scheduling. It was developed by Coffman, Garey and Johnson. Its novelty comes from the fact that it uses an algorithm for another famous problem - the bin packing problem - as a subroutine... | Multifit algorithm | Mathematics,Engineering | 5,358 |
56,284,003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuIST | The Quantum Information Science and Technology Program (abbreviated as QUIST or QuIST) was a five-year, $100M DARPA research program that ran from FY 2001 – 2005. The initiative was jointly created by the Defense Sciences Office (DSO) and the Information Technology Office (ITO) to accelerate development in the field of... | QuIST | Physics | 236 |
57,406,626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tibric%20acid | Tibric acid is a sulfamylbenzoic acid that acts as a hypolipidemic agent. Although it was found to be more powerful than clofibrate in lowering lipid levels, it was found to cause liver cancer in mice and rats, and so was not introduced as a human drug. In rats it causes an increase in peroxisomes, and liver enlargemen... | Tibric acid | Chemistry | 202 |
11,275,526 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audio%20router | An audio router is a device that transports audio signals from inputs to outputs.
Inputs and Outputs
The number of inputs and outputs varies dramatically. The way routers are described is normally number of inputs by number of outputs e.g. 2×1, 256×256.
Signals
The type of signals transported - switched can be anal... | Audio router | Technology | 213 |
4,739,349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STED%20microscopy | Stimulated emission depletion (STED) microscopy is one of the techniques that make up super-resolution microscopy. It creates super-resolution images by the selective deactivation of fluorophores, minimizing the area of illumination at the focal point, and thus enhancing the achievable resolution for a given system. It... | STED microscopy | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Biology | 2,529 |
64,099,734 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scardovia%20wiggsiae | Scardovia wiggsiae is a species of bacterium in the family Bifidobacteriaceae. In 2011, a study carried out using anaerobic culture conditions allowed the identification of a newly named species, Scardovia wiggsiae [], which was significantly associated with severe ECC (Early childhood caries, a particularly severe ma... | Scardovia wiggsiae | Biology | 232 |
6,870,342 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-document%20summarization | Multi-document summarization is an automatic procedure aimed at extraction of information from multiple texts written about the same topic. The resulting summary report allows individual users, such as professional information consumers, to quickly familiarize themselves with information contained in a large cluster of... | Multi-document summarization | Technology | 1,594 |
40,106,773 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Lebanese%20Rocket%20Society%20%28film%29 | The Lebanese Rocket Society is a 2012 Franco - Lebanese documentary film directed by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige and released theatrically on 1 May 2013.
Synopsis
In the 1960s, Lebanon was the first Arab country to start sending rockets into the sky. Led by Manoug Manougian, their physics teacher, a small gro... | The Lebanese Rocket Society (film) | Astronomy | 267 |
15,358,713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilomilast | Cilomilast (INN, codenamed SB-207,499, proposed trade name Ariflo) is a drug which was developed for the treatment of respiratory disorders such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It is orally active and acts as a selective phosphodiesterase-4 inhibitor.
Phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors, suc... | Cilomilast | Chemistry | 417 |
54,903,105 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically%20modified%20food%20in%20Asia | India and China are the two largest producers of genetically modified products in Asia. India currently only grows GM cotton, while China produces GM varieties of cotton, poplar, petunia, tomato, papaya and sweet pepper. Cost of enforcement of regulations in India are generally higher, possibly due to the greater influ... | Genetically modified food in Asia | Engineering,Biology | 1,282 |
78,909,914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%2C3-Bis%283-%28dimethylamino%29propyl%29urea | 1,3-Bis(3-(dimethylamino)propyl)urea is an aliphatic organic chemical principally used as a curing agent in epoxy chemistry and a blowing agent in the polyurethane foam industry. It has the formula C11H26N4O. It is on TSCA and also on EINECS and thus by definition, REACH registered with a number of 257-861-2. The CAS n... | 1,3-Bis(3-(dimethylamino)propyl)urea | Chemistry | 198 |
38,360,352 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truncated%20order-5%20pentagonal%20tiling | In geometry, the truncated order-5 pentagonal tiling is a regular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of t0,1{5,5}, constructed from one pentagons and two decagons around every vertex.
Related tilings
See also
Square tiling
Uniform tilings in hyperbolic plane
List of regular polytopes
References
... | Truncated order-5 pentagonal tiling | Physics | 179 |
37,422,023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP%20Flexible%20Data%20Center | HP Flexible Data Center, also termed FlexDC, is a modular data center built from prefabricated components by Hewlett-Packard and introduced in 2010. It is housed in five large buildings that form the shape of a butterfly. The Flexible DC looks like a traditional building, but it is fabricated off-site in order to circu... | HP Flexible Data Center | Technology | 207 |
3,186,372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human%E2%80%93robot%20interaction | Human–robot interaction (HRI) is the study of interactions between humans and robots. Human–robot interaction is a multidisciplinary field with contributions from human–computer interaction, artificial intelligence, robotics, natural language processing, design, psychology and philosophy. A subfield known as physical ... | Human–robot interaction | Technology,Engineering,Biology | 5,579 |
4,989,591 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psi5%20Aurigae | {{DISPLAYTITLE:Psi5 Aurigae}}
Psi5 Aurigae (ψ5 Aur, ψ5 Aurigae) is a star in the northern constellation of Auriga. It is faintly visible to the naked eye with an apparent visual magnitude of 5.25. Based upon parallax measurements made during the Hipparcos mission, this star is approximately distant from Earth. There ... | Psi5 Aurigae | Astronomy | 420 |
15,226,993 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2RX6 | P2X purinoceptor 6 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the P2RX6 gene.
The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the family of P2X receptors, which are ATP-gated ion channels and mediate rapid and selective permeability to cations. This gene is predominantly expressed in skeletal muscle, and regulated by p53. ... | P2RX6 | Chemistry | 121 |
371,700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locale%20%28computer%20software%29 | In computing, a locale is a set of parameters that defines the user's language, region and any special variant preferences that the user wants to see in their user interface. Usually a locale identifier consists of at least a language code and a country/region code.
Locale is an important aspect of i18n.
General local... | Locale (computer software) | Technology | 1,273 |
155,192 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera%20%28genetics%29 | A genetic chimerism or chimera ( or ) is a single organism composed of cells with more than one distinct genotype. Animal chimeras can be produced by the fusion of two (or more) embryos. In plants and some animal chimeras, mosaicism involves
distinct types of tissue that originated from the same zygote but differ due... | Chimera (genetics) | Biology | 5,441 |
5,750,289 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self%20accelerating%20decomposition%20temperature | The self-accelerating decomposition temperature (SADT) is the lowest temperature at which an organic peroxide in a typical vessel or shipping package will undergo a self-accelerating decomposition within one week. The SADT is the point at which the heat evolution from the decomposition reaction and the heat removal ra... | Self accelerating decomposition temperature | Chemistry | 1,295 |
17,508,125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XF-73 | XF-73 (Exeporfinium chloride) is an experimental drug candidate. It is an anti-microbial that works via weakening bacteria cell walls. It is a potential treatment for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and possibly Clostridioides difficile. It is being developed by Destiny Pharma Ltd.
Structurally, it ... | XF-73 | Chemistry,Biology | 176 |
24,009,393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haemolysin%20E | Haemolysin E (HlyE) is a protein family that consists of several enterobacterial haemolysin (HlyE) proteins. Hemolysin E (HlyE) is a novel pore-forming toxin of Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhi, and Shigella flexneri.
HlyE is unrelated to the well characterised pore-forming E. coli hemolysins of the RTX family, ha... | Haemolysin E | Biology | 188 |
74,771,915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal%20character | In computer science, an illegal character is a character that is not allowed by a certain programming language, protocol, or program. To avoid illegal characters, some languages may use an escape character which is a backslash followed by another character.
Examples
Windows
In the Windows operating system, illegal c... | Illegal character | Technology | 80 |
7,013,274 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prajmaline | Prajmaline (Neo-gilurythmal) is a class Ia antiarrhythmic agent which has been available since the 1970s. Class Ia drugs increase the time one action potential lasts in the heart. Prajmaline is a semi-synthetic propyl derivative of ajmaline, with a higher bioavailability than its predecessor. It acts to stop arrhythmia... | Prajmaline | Chemistry | 610 |
1,039,393 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrewsarchus | Andrewsarchus (), meaning "Andrews' ruler", is an extinct genus of artiodactyl that lived during the Middle Eocene in what is now China. The genus was first described by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1924 with the type species A. mongoliensis based on a largely complete cranium. A second species, A. crassum, was described ... | Andrewsarchus | Biology | 2,669 |
74,992,659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiaomi%20Mi%205s%20Plus | Xiaomi Mi 5s Plus is a flagship smartphone from the Chinese company Xiaomi, which is a modification of the Xiaomi Mi 5. It was presented on September 27, 2016, with Xiaomi Mi 5s. This is the first smartphone of the Mi series to receive a dual main camera setup.
Design
The screen is made of glass. The body of the smar... | Xiaomi Mi 5s Plus | Technology | 695 |
29,954 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Topology | Topology (from the Greek words , and ) is the branch of mathematics concerned with the properties of a geometric object that are preserved under continuous deformations, such as stretching, twisting, crumpling, and bending; that is, without closing holes, opening holes, tearing, gluing, or passing through itself.
A to... | Topology | Physics,Mathematics | 4,093 |
420,764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20pest%20management | Integrated pest management (IPM), also known as integrated pest control (IPC) that integrates both chemical and non-chemical practices for economic control of pests. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization defines IPM as "the careful consideration of all available pest control techniques and subsequent integration o... | Integrated pest management | Chemistry | 3,648 |
3,074,135 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbital%20plane | The orbital plane of a revolving body is the geometric plane in which its orbit lies. Three non-collinear points in space suffice to determine an orbital plane. A common example would be the positions of the centers of a massive body (host) and of an orbiting celestial body at two different times/points of its orbit.
... | Orbital plane | Mathematics | 448 |
13,615,347 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latent%20semantic%20structure%20indexing | Latent semantic structure indexing (LaSSI) is a technique for calculating chemical similarity derived from latent semantic analysis (LSA).
LaSSI was developed at Merck & Co. and patented in 2007 by Richard Hull, Eugene Fluder, Suresh Singh, Robert Sheridan, Robert Nachbar and Simon Kearsley.
Overview
LaSSI is simil... | Latent semantic structure indexing | Chemistry,Biology | 440 |
13,721,358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Handle | The Handle is an electric guitar created by designer Peter Solomon and produced by the company XOX Audio Tools.
The Handle is characterized by its hollow shell which construction favors direct transmission of acoustic vibrations and creates a resonance chamber similar to that of a semi-acoustic guitar.
The Handle is ... | The Handle | Engineering | 92 |
59,579,913 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell%20unroofing | Cell unroofing is any of various methods to isolate and expose the cell membrane of cells. Differently from the more common membrane extraction protocols performed with multiple steps of centrifugation (which goal is to separate the membrane fraction from a cell lysate), in cell unroofing the aim is to tear and preserv... | Cell unroofing | Biology | 259 |
1,819,715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine%20geology | Marine geology or geological oceanography is the study of the history and structure of the ocean floor. It involves geophysical, geochemical, sedimentological and paleontological investigations of the ocean floor and coastal zone. Marine geology has strong ties to geophysics and to physical oceanography.
Marine geolog... | Marine geology | Physics,Environmental_science | 4,502 |
46,833,807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merit%20good | The economics concept of a merit good, originated by Richard Musgrave (1957, 1959), is a commodity which is judged that an individual or society should have on the basis of some concept of benefit, rather than ability and willingness to pay. The term is, perhaps, less often used presently than it was during the 1960s t... | Merit good | Physics | 1,131 |
20,841,370 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonradiation%20condition | Classical nonradiation conditions define the conditions according to classical electromagnetism under which a distribution of accelerating charges will not emit electromagnetic radiation. According to the Larmor formula in classical electromagnetism, a single point charge under acceleration will emit electromagnetic ra... | Nonradiation condition | Physics | 676 |
29,203,856 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllospondyli | The Phyllospondyli is a now abandoned term for a series of small, poorly ossified fossils of labyrinthodont amphibians from the Paleozoic. The groups was proposed as an order on the basis if their vertebrae, which was either consisting of neural arches over an otherwise unossified notocord or consisting of thin-walled,... | Phyllospondyli | Biology | 335 |
16,365,986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backhouse%27s%20constant | Backhouse's constant is a mathematical constant named after Nigel Backhouse. Its value is approximately 1.456 074 948.
It is defined by using the power series such that the coefficients of successive terms are the prime numbers,
and its multiplicative inverse as a formal power series,
Then:
.
This limit was conj... | Backhouse's constant | Mathematics | 94 |
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