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7,528,305 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrow%20%26%20Ball | Farrow & Ball is a British manufacturer of paints and wallpapers largely based upon historic colour palettes and archives. The company is particularly well known for the unusual names of its products.
History
The company was started by John Farrow and Richard Maurice Ball in 1946 in Wimborne Minster, Dorset. Both Farr... | Farrow & Ball | Mathematics | 609 |
4,164,558 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power%20symbol | A power symbol is a symbol indicating that a control activates or deactivates a particular device. Such a control may be a rocker switch, a toggle switch, a push-button, a virtual switch on a display screen, or some other user interface. The internationally standardized symbols are intended to communicate their functio... | Power symbol | Mathematics,Technology | 853 |
602,016 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TreadMarks | TreadMarks is a distributed shared memory system created at Rice University in the 1990s.
References
External links
TreadMarks official site
Distributed computing architecture | TreadMarks | Technology,Engineering | 28 |
12,903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gegenschein | Gegenschein (; ; ) or counterglow is a faintly bright spot in the night sky centered at the antisolar point. The backscatter of sunlight by interplanetary dust causes this optical phenomenon, being a zodiacal light and part of its zodiacal light band.
Explanation
Like zodiacal light, gegenschein is sunlight scattered... | Gegenschein | Physics,Astronomy | 606 |
58,229,069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United%20Nations%20Framework%20Classification%20for%20Resources | United Nations Framework Classification for Resources (UNFC) is an international scheme for the classification, management and reporting of energy, mineral, and raw material resources. United Nations Economic Commission for Europe's (UNECE) Expert Group on Resource Management (EGRM) is responsible for the development ... | United Nations Framework Classification for Resources | Chemistry | 446 |
39,014,574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SN%20UDS10Wil | SN UDS10Wil (SN Wilson) is a type Ia supernova, and as of April 2013, the farthest known.
It has a redshift of 1.914, which strongly implies that it exploded when the universe was about a third of its current size. It was discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope's Wide Field Camera 3. The nickname SN Wilson is after... | SN UDS10Wil | Chemistry,Astronomy | 116 |
2,302,400 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asepsis | Asepsis is the state of being free from disease-causing micro-organisms (such as pathogenic bacteria, viruses, pathogenic fungi, and parasites). There are two categories of asepsis: medical and surgical. The modern day notion of asepsis is derived from the older antiseptic techniques, a shift initiated by different ind... | Asepsis | Chemistry,Biology | 1,577 |
1,376,474 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timing%20failure | Timing failure is a failure of a process, or part of a process, in a synchronous distributed system or real-time system to meet limits set on execution time, message delivery, clock drift rate, or clock skew.
Asynchronous distributed systems cannot be said to have timing failures as guarantees are not provided for res... | Timing failure | Mathematics,Technology | 81 |
200,550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baire%20space | In mathematics, a topological space is said to be a Baire space if countable unions of closed sets with empty interior also have empty interior.
According to the Baire category theorem, compact Hausdorff spaces and complete metric spaces are examples of Baire spaces.
The Baire category theorem combined with the proper... | Baire space | Mathematics | 1,380 |
27,636,179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclop%C3%A6dia%20Britannica%20Ultimate%20Reference%20Suite | Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite is an encyclopaedia based on the Encyclopædia Britannica and published by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. It was published between 2003 and 2015.
Product description
The DVD contains over 100,000 articles, an atlas, around 35,000 media files (images, video and audio) and ... | Encyclopædia Britannica Ultimate Reference Suite | Technology | 326 |
23,720,698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General%20Electric%20LM500 | The General Electric LM500 is an industrial and marine gas turbine produced by GE Aviation. The LM500 is a derivative of the General Electric TF34 aircraft engine. Current versions of the LM500 deliver 6,000 shaft horsepower (4.47 MW) with a thermal efficiency of 31 percent at ISO conditions. It has been used in vario... | General Electric LM500 | Technology | 209 |
7,047,611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clyde%20Arc | The Clyde Arc (known locally as the Squinty Bridge) is a road bridge spanning the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland, connecting Finnieston near the SEC Armadillo and SEC with Pacific Quay and Glasgow Science Centre in Govan. Prominent features of the bridge are its innovative curved design, and that it crosses the river... | Clyde Arc | Technology,Engineering | 986 |
42,214,895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal%20meal | A communal meal is a meal eaten by a group of people. Also referred to as communal dining, the practice is centered on food and sharing time with the people who come together in order to share the meal and conversation. Communal dining can take place in public establishments like restaurants, college cafeterias, or in ... | Communal meal | Biology | 317 |
9,234,631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola%20Minitor | The Motorola Minitor is a portable, analog, receive only, voice pager typically carried by civil defense organizations such as fire, rescue, and EMS personnel (both volunteer and career) to alert of emergencies. The Minitor, slightly smaller than a pack of cigarettes, is carried on a person and usually left in selectiv... | Motorola Minitor | Technology | 2,359 |
2,211,700 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closed-loop%20authentication | Closed-loop authentication, as applied to computer network communication, refers to a mechanism whereby one party verifies the purported identity of another party by requiring them to supply a copy of a token transmitted to the canonical or trusted point of contact for that identity. It is also sometimes used to refer... | Closed-loop authentication | Engineering | 562 |
55,570,413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marije%20Vogelzang | Marije Vogelzang is a Dutch "Food Designer" or an "Eating Designer", to be expressed more specialized. Her name is considered among the pioneers of the field of Food Design, along with names such as Marti Guixe and Francesca Zampollo. In the late 1990s, Marije presented her "White Funeral Meal" project at the Design Ac... | Marije Vogelzang | Biology | 762 |
31,160,956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydroxylated%20lecithin | Hydroxylated lecithin is chemically modified lecithin. It is made by treating lecithin with hydrogen peroxide and an organic acid such as acetic or lactic acid. In the process, some of the organic acid becomes peroxy acid. The peroxy acid reacts with olefins in the fatty acid side chains creating intermediate epoxides.... | Hydroxylated lecithin | Chemistry | 208 |
54,044,650 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandrasekhar%27s%20variational%20principle | In astrophysics, Chandrasekhar's variational principle provides the stability criterion for a static barotropic star, subjected to radial perturbation, named after the Indian American astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
Statement
A baratropic star with and is stable if the quantity
is non-negative for all r... | Chandrasekhar's variational principle | Physics,Chemistry,Astronomy,Mathematics,Engineering | 166 |
7,481,905 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methionine%20%28data%20page%29 |
References
Chemical data pages
Chemical data pages cleanup | Methionine (data page) | Chemistry | 10 |
961,381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcade%20cabinet | An arcade cabinet, also known as an arcade machine or a coin-op cabinet or coin-op machine, is the housing within which an arcade game's electronic hardware resides. Most cabinets designed since the mid-1980s conform to the Japanese Amusement Machine Manufacturers Association (JAMMA) wiring standard. Some include addit... | Arcade cabinet | Physics,Technology | 3,849 |
62,396,576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypergraph%20removal%20lemma | In graph theory, the hypergraph removal lemma states that when a hypergraph contains few copies of a given sub-hypergraph, then all of the copies can be eliminated by removing a small number of hyperedges. It is a generalization of the graph removal lemma. The special case in which the graph is a tetrahedron is known a... | Hypergraph removal lemma | Mathematics | 1,338 |
38,763,903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order-4%20apeirogonal%20tiling | In geometry, the order-4 apeirogonal tiling is a regular tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of {∞,4}.
Symmetry
This tiling represents the mirror lines of *2∞ symmetry. Its dual tiling represents the fundamental domains of orbifold notation *∞∞∞∞ symmetry, a square domain with four ideal vertices.
... | Order-4 apeirogonal tiling | Physics | 373 |
25,170,694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymovirales | Tymovirales is an order of viruses with five families. The group consists of viruses which have positive-sense, single-stranded RNA genomes. Their genetic material is protected by a special coat protein.
Description
Tymoviruses are mainly plant pathogens first described in 2004. They are characterised by similarities ... | Tymovirales | Biology | 133 |
75,136,869 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takedaite | Takedaite is a borate mineral that was found in a mine in Fuka, Okayama Prefecture Japan during a mineralogical survey in the year 1994. During the survey, Kusachi and Henmi reported the occurrence of an unidentified anhydrous borate mineral closely associated with nifontovite, olshanskyite, and calcite. By the year 19... | Takedaite | Physics | 796 |
73,480,184 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhenium%20tetrafluoride | Rhenium tetrafluoride is a binary inorganic compound of rhenium and fluorine with the chemical formula .
Synthesis
Rhenium tetrafluoride can be made by the reduction of rhenium hexafluoride with hydrogen, rhenium, or sulfur dioxide:
Physical properties
Rhenium tetrafluoride forms blue crystals of tetragonal structure... | Rhenium tetrafluoride | Chemistry | 131 |
4,890,286 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%203384 | NGC 3384 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Leo. The galaxy was discovered by William Herschel in 1784 as part of the Herschel 400 Catalogue. The high age of the stars in the central region of NGC 3384 was confirmed after analysis of their color. More than 80% were found to be Population II stars which are ov... | NGC 3384 | Astronomy | 227 |
76,018,398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberfeminism%20Index | The Cyberfeminism Index is an index of subjects related to Cyberfeminism by Mindy Seu. In 2019, it began as a Google Sheet that was then transposed onto a website. The index was published as a book in 2023.
References
External links
Official website
Feminism and the arts
Internet culture
Transhumanism | Cyberfeminism Index | Technology,Engineering,Biology | 69 |
71,458,584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hogan%20Yu | Hua-Zhong "Hogan" Yu (于化忠) is presently a professor of materials and analytical chemistry at Simon Fraser University in metro Vancouver, Canada, where he leads a research laboratory working on Surfaces and Materials for Sensing. He is also an associate editor for Analyst, the journal for Analytical and Bioanalytical S... | Hogan Yu | Chemistry | 520 |
54,248,882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NanoCLAMP | In the medical field of immunology, nanoCLAMP (CLostridal Antibody Mimetic Proteins) affinity reagents are recombinant 15 kD antibody mimetic proteins selected for tight, selective and gently reversible binding to target molecules. The nanoCLAMP scaffold is based on an IgG-like, thermostable carbohydrate binding module... | NanoCLAMP | Chemistry | 674 |
10,423,820 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto%20Rico%20statistical%20areas | The currently has 13 statistical areas that have been delineated by the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB). On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated three combined statistical areas, six metropolitan statistical areas, and four micropolitan statistical areas in . As of 2023, the largest of these is the Sa... | Puerto Rico statistical areas | Mathematics | 472 |
27,006,114 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symposium%20on%20Operating%20Systems%20Principles | The Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP), organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), is one of the most prestigious single-track academic conferences on operating systems.
Before 2023, SOSP was held every other year, alternating with the conference on Operating Systems Design and Implement... | Symposium on Operating Systems Principles | Technology | 439 |
610,419 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waybill | A waybill is a document issued by a carrier giving details and instructions relating to the shipment of a consignment of cargo. Typically it will show the names of the consignor and consignee, the point of origin of the consignment, its destination, and route. Most freight forwarders and trucking companies use an in-ho... | Waybill | Physics | 466 |
26,124,772 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20de%20Liouville | The Fort de Liouville, also known as Fort Stengel, located between the communes of Saint-Agnant-sous-les-Côtes and Saint-Julien-sous-les-Côtes, near the town of Commercy in the Meuse departement of France, is one of the forts built at the end of the 19th century to defend the valley of the Meuse. The fort was located ... | Fort de Liouville | Engineering | 681 |
59,431,451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer-Center%20for%20High%20Temperature%20Materials%20and%20Design%20HTL | The Fraunhofer Center for High Temperature Materials and Design is a research center of the Fraunhofer Institute for Silicate Research in Würzburg, a research institute of the Fraunhofer Society. It predominantly conducts research in high temperature technologies energy-efficient heating processes and thus contributes ... | Fraunhofer-Center for High Temperature Materials and Design HTL | Engineering | 1,291 |
2,549,843 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thallium%28III%29%20hydroxide | Thallium(III) hydroxide, , also known as thallic hydroxide, is a hydroxide of thallium. It is a white solid.
Thallium(III) hydroxide is a very weak base; it dissociates to give the thallium(III) ion, , only in strongly acidic conditions.
Preparation
Thallium(III) hydroxide can be produced by the reaction of thallium(... | Thallium(III) hydroxide | Chemistry | 123 |
44,559,112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stokes%20approximation%20and%20artificial%20time | This article provides an error analysis of time discretization applied to spatially discrete approximation of the stationary and nonstationary Navier-Stokes equations. The nonlinearity of the convection term is the main problem in solving a stationary or nonstationary Navier-Stokes equation or Euler equation problems. ... | Stokes approximation and artificial time | Chemistry,Engineering | 391 |
4,083,646 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electrofusion | Electrofusion is a method of joining MDPE, HDPE and other plastic pipes using special fittings that have built-in electric heating elements which are used to weld the joint together.
The pipes to be joined are cleaned, inserted into the electrofusion fitting and then alignment clamps and a voltage (typically 40V) is a... | Electrofusion | Chemistry,Engineering | 470 |
64,368,349 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexios%20Polychronakos | Alexios Polychronakos (born 1959, in Greece) is a theoretical physicist. He studied electrical engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (diploma in 1982) and did graduate work in theoretical physics at the California Institute of Technology (Ph.D. 1987 ) under the supervision of John Preskill.
Po... | Alexios Polychronakos | Physics | 238 |
286,906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NoteCards | NoteCards was a hypertext-based personal knowledge base system developed at Xerox PARC by Randall Trigg, Frank Halasz and Thomas Moran in 1984. NoteCards was developed after Trigg's pioneering 1983 Ph.D. thesis on hypertext while at the University of Maryland College Park.
NoteCards was built to model four basic kinds... | NoteCards | Technology | 298 |
34,692,740 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acetonide | In organic chemistry, an acetonide is the functional group composed of the cyclic ketal of a diol with acetone. The more systematic name for this structure is an isopropylidene ketal. Acetonide is a common protecting group for 1,2- and 1,3-diols. The protecting group can be removed by hydrolysis of the ketal using dilu... | Acetonide | Chemistry | 351 |
12,534,781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife%20of%20Western%20Sahara | The wildlife of Western Sahara is composed of its flora and fauna. It has 40 species of mammals and 207 species of birds.
Fauna
Mammals
Birds
References
Western Sahara | Wildlife of Western Sahara | Biology | 33 |
895,348 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetraoctylammonium%20bromide | Tetraoctylammonium bromide (TOAB or TOABr) is a quaternary ammonium compound with the chemical formula: [CH3(CH2)7]4N Br. It is generally used as a phase transfer catalyst between an aqueous solution and an organic solution.
References
Quaternary ammonium compounds | Tetraoctylammonium bromide | Chemistry | 71 |
6,022,368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium-density%20polyethylene | Medium-density polyethylene (MDPE) is a type of polyethylene defined by a density range of 0.926–0.940 g/cm3. It is less dense than HDPE, which is more common.
MDPE can be produced by chromium/silica catalysts, Ziegler-Natta catalysts or metallocene catalysts. MDPE has good shock and drop resistance properties. It als... | Medium-density polyethylene | Physics,Chemistry | 279 |
49,222,949 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%204762 | NGC 4762 is an edge-on lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo. It is at a distance of 60 million light years and is a member of the Virgo Cluster. The edge-on view of this particular galaxy, originally considered to be a barred spiral galaxy, makes it difficult to determine its true shape, but it is considered th... | NGC 4762 | Astronomy | 254 |
13,637 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hausdorff%20space | In topology and related branches of mathematics, a Hausdorff space ( , ), T2 space or separated space, is a topological space where distinct points have disjoint neighbourhoods. Of the many separation axioms that can be imposed on a topological space, the "Hausdorff condition" (T2) is the most frequently used and dis... | Hausdorff space | Mathematics | 2,187 |
43,849,047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askold%20Khovanskii | Askold Georgievich Khovanskii (; born 3 June 1947, Moscow) is a Russian and Canadian mathematician currently a professor of mathematics at the University of Toronto, Canada. His areas of research are algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, singularity theory, differential geometry and differential equations. His resea... | Askold Khovanskii | Mathematics | 406 |
26,274,346 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggressionism | Aggressionism is a philosophical theory that the only real cause of war is human aggression, which refers to the "general tendency to attack members of one's species." It is argued that aggression is a natural response to defend vital interests such as territory, family, or identity if threatened. This theory has domi... | Aggressionism | Biology | 1,249 |
48,965,973 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolonna%20Eterna | Kolonna Eterna (), also known as the Millennium Monument, is a 21st-century monumental column in San Gwann, Malta. The column is an abstract art designed by Paul Vella Critien, a Maltese local artist that achieved his studies and experience in Italy and Australia.
The monument is a commemoration of the new (third) mil... | Kolonna Eterna | Engineering | 661 |
10,096,234 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyespot%20apparatus | The eyespot apparatus (or stigma) is a photoreceptive organelle found in the flagellate or (motile) cells of green algae and other unicellular photosynthetic organisms such as euglenids. It allows the cells to sense light direction and intensity and respond to it, prompting the organism to either swim towards the light... | Eyespot apparatus | Chemistry,Biology | 875 |
57,395,379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THESEUS | Transient High-Energy Sky and Early Universe Surveyor (THESEUS) is a space telescope mission proposal by the European Space Agency that would study gamma-ray bursts and X-rays for investigating the early universe. If developed, the mission would investigate star formation rates and metallicity evolution, as well as st... | THESEUS | Astronomy | 654 |
46,416,771 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth%20Johnson%20%28pamphleteer%29 | Elizabeth Johnson, née Reynolds (8 July 1721 – 14 May 1800), was an English pamphleteer who attempted to win one of the rewards offered by the 1714 Longitude Act passed, which offered monetary rewards for anyone who could find a simple and practical method for the precise determination of a ship's longitude. Johnson an... | Elizabeth Johnson (pamphleteer) | Astronomy | 571 |
3,549,886 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azlocillin | Azlocillin is an acyl ampicillin antibiotic with an extended spectrum of activity and greater in vitro potency than the carboxy penicillins.
Azlocillin is similar to mezlocillin and piperacillin. It demonstrates antibacterial activity against a broad spectrum of bacteria, including Pseudomonas aeruginosa and, in contra... | Azlocillin | Chemistry | 282 |
26,902,602 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advance%20ratio | The propeller advance ratio or coefficient is a dimensionless number used in aeronautics and marine hydrodynamics to describe the relationship between the speed at which a vehicle (like an airplane or a boat) is moving forward and the speed at which its propeller is turning. It helps in understanding the efficiency of ... | Advance ratio | Engineering | 879 |
65,736,999 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20sulfonamides | This is a list of sulfonamides used in medicine.
Antimicrobials
Short-acting
Sulfacetamide
Sulfadiazine
Sulfadimidine
Sulfafurazole (sulfisoxazole)
Sulfisomidine (sulfaisodimidine)
Sulfaguanidine
Intermediate-acting
Sulfamethoxazole
Sulfamoxole
Sulfanitran
Long-acting
Sulfadimethoxine
Sulfamethoxypyr... | List of sulfonamides | Chemistry | 757 |
25,162,434 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertiary%20ideal | In mathematics, a tertiary ideal is a two-sided ideal in a perhaps noncommutative ring that cannot be expressed as a nontrivial intersection of a right fractional ideal with another ideal. Tertiary ideals generalize primary ideals to the case of noncommutative rings. Although primary decompositions do not exist in gene... | Tertiary ideal | Mathematics | 203 |
15,443,272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epoxy%20granite | Epoxy granite, also known as synthetic granite, is a polymer matrix composite and is a mixture of epoxy and granite commonly used as an alternative material for machine tool bases. Epoxy granite is used instead of cast iron and steel for improved vibration damping, longer tool life, and lower assembly cost, and thus be... | Epoxy granite | Physics,Engineering | 767 |
5,023,355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian%20Henderson-Sellers | Brian Henderson-Sellers (born January 1951) is an English-Australian computer scientist. He is a Professor of Information Systems at the University of Technology Sydney. He is also Director of the Centre for Object Technology and Applications at University of Technology Sydney.
Education
Henderson-Sellers has received... | Brian Henderson-Sellers | Technology | 873 |
22,615,944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bow%20tie%20%28biology%29 | In the biological sciences, the term bow tie (so called for its shape) is a recent concept that tries to grasp the essence of some operational and functional structures observed in biological organisms and other kinds of complex and self-organizing systems. In general, bow tie architectures refer to ordered and recurre... | Bow tie (biology) | Mathematics | 491 |
17,879,542 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreaea%20frigida | Andreaea frigida, commonly known as icy rock moss, is a species of moss endemic to Europe.
Distribution and habitat
Endemic to the mountains of Europe between 37 degrees north and 67 degrees north, A. frigida can be found in Andorra, Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, France (mainland France and Corsica), Germany, ... | Andreaea frigida | Biology | 263 |
4,403,842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profunctor | In category theory, a branch of mathematics, profunctors are a generalization of relations and also of bimodules.
Definition
A profunctor (also named distributor by the French school and module by the Sydney school) from a category to a category , written
,
is defined to be a functor
where denotes the opposite... | Profunctor | Mathematics | 619 |
71,260,257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AP5S1 | AP-5 complex subunit sigma (AP5S1) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the AP5S1 gene.
Function
The protein encoded by this gene is the small subunit of the AP5 adaptor complex. Variants in this gene have not been implicated in any disease but damaging variants in AP5Z1, the gene encoding one of the large subu... | AP5S1 | Chemistry | 156 |
68,897,666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icd-II%20ncRNA%20motif | The icd-II non-coding RNA (ncRNA) is an RNA motif proposed as a Strong Riboswitch Candidate (SRC). Icd-II ncRNA has been recognized by a comparative sequence analysis in GC-rich intergenic regions (IGR) of bacteria, using a pipeline call Discovery of Intergenic Motifs PipeLine (DIMPL). Icd-II ncRNA has been located ups... | Icd-II ncRNA motif | Chemistry | 262 |
6,952,874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Vaccine%20Injury%20Compensation%20Program | The Office of Special Masters of the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, popularly known as "vaccine court", administers a no-fault system for litigating vaccine injury claims. These claims against vaccine manufacturers cannot normally be filed in state or federal civil courts, but instead must be heard in the U.S. Court of ... | National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program | Chemistry,Biology | 2,748 |
30,254,980 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygrophorus%20purpurascens | Hygrophorus purpurascens, commonly known as the purple-red waxy cap, is a species of agaric fungus in the family Hygrophoraceae. Its cap has a pink background color with streaks of purplish red overlaid, and mature gills have red spots.
Taxonomy
The species was originally described as Agaricus purpurascens by Johanne... | Hygrophorus purpurascens | Biology | 458 |
28,257,381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster%20Fuller%20Challenge | The Buckminster Fuller Challenge is an annual international design competition that awards $100,000 to the most comprehensive solution to a pressing global problem. The Challenge was launched in 2007 and is a program of The Buckminster Fuller Institute. The competition, open to designers, artists, architects, students,... | Buckminster Fuller Challenge | Technology | 382 |
2,041,040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fipronil | Fipronil is a broad-spectrum insecticide that belongs to the phenylpyrazole insecticide class. Fipronil disrupts the insect central nervous system by blocking the ligand-gated ion channel of the GABAA receptor (IRAC group 2B) and glutamate-gated chloride (GluCl) channels. This causes hyperexcitation of contaminated ins... | Fipronil | Chemistry | 2,828 |
48,540,695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multidimensional%20seismic%20data%20processing | Multidimensional seismic data processing forms a major component of seismic profiling, a technique used in geophysical exploration. The technique itself has various applications, including mapping ocean floors, determining the structure of sediments, mapping subsurface currents and hydrocarbon exploration. Since geophy... | Multidimensional seismic data processing | Physics | 1,435 |
40,328,918 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humidesulfovibrio%20idahonensis | Humidesulfovibrio idahonensis is a bacterium. It contains c-type cytochromes and reduces sulfate, sulfite, thiosulfate, elemental sulfur, DMSO, anthraquinone disulfonate and fumarate. The type strain is CY1T (=DSM 15450T =JCM 14124T). Originally described under Desulfovibrio, it was reassigned to Humidesulfovibrio by W... | Humidesulfovibrio idahonensis | Biology | 239 |
357,125 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imaginary%20friend | Imaginary friends (also known as pretend friends, invisible friends or made-up friends) are a psychological and a social phenomenon where a friendship or other interpersonal relationship takes place in the imagination rather than physical reality.
Although they may seem real to their creators, children usually underst... | Imaginary friend | Biology | 3,092 |
25,817,713 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20mailroom | Digital mailroom is the automation of incoming mail processes. Using document scanning and document capture technologies, companies can digitise incoming mail and automate the classification and distribution of mail within the organization. Both paper and electronic mail (email) can be managed through the same process ... | Digital mailroom | Technology | 2,210 |
18,571,998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteolepiformes | Osteolepiformes, also known as Osteolepidida, is a group of prehistoric lobe-finned fishes which first appeared during the Devonian period. The order contains the families Canowindridae, Megalichthyidae, Osteolepididae and Tristichopteridae, in addition to several monotypic families. The order is generally considered t... | Osteolepiformes | Biology | 293 |
7,661,576 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disgregation | In the history of thermodynamics, disgregation is an early formulation of the concept of entropy. It was defined in 1862 by Rudolf Clausius as the magnitude of the degree in which the molecules of a body are separated from each other. Disgregation was the stepping stone for Clausius to create the mathematical expressio... | Disgregation | Physics | 1,280 |
44,983,054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanuankuwel | Fanuankuwel is a "place of a whale with two tails" location in Pacific and Polynesian mythology, recorded in the traditional celestial navigation techniques of the Caroline Islands. Part of the Trigger fishes tied together mnemonic-navigational system, it is sometimes grouped with Kafeŕoor as a 'ghost island'.
See als... | Fanuankuwel | Astronomy | 97 |
4,750,568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrobiosis | Necrobiosis is the physiological death of a cell, and can be caused by conditions such as basophilia, erythema, or a tumor. It is identified both with and without necrosis.
Necrobiotic disorders are characterized by presence of necrobiotic granuloma on histopathology. Necrobiotic granuloma is described as aggregation... | Necrobiosis | Biology | 154 |
12,439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guanine | Guanine () (symbol G or Gua) is one of the four main nucleotide bases found in the nucleic acids DNA and RNA, the others being adenine, cytosine, and thymine (uracil in RNA). In DNA, guanine is paired with cytosine. The guanine nucleoside is called guanosine.
With the formula C5H5N5O, guanine is a derivative of purine... | Guanine | Chemistry | 1,520 |
10,694,451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DSS%20%28NMR%20standard%29 | Sodium trimethylsilylpropanesulfonate (DSS) is the organosilicon compound with the formula (CH3)3SiCH2CH2CH2SO3−Na+. It is the sodium salt of trimethylsilylpropanesulfonic acid. A white, water-soluble solid, it is used as a chemical shift standard for proton NMR spectroscopy of aqueous solutions. The chemical shift,... | DSS (NMR standard) | Physics,Chemistry | 298 |
3,500,739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emulsifying%20wax | Emulsifying wax is a cosmetic emulsifying ingredient. The ingredient name is often followed by the initials NF, indicating that it conforms to the specifications of the National Formulary.
Emulsifying wax is created when a wax material (either a vegetable wax of some kind or a petroleum-based wax) is treated with a de... | Emulsifying wax | Physics | 421 |
2,728,392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20Delphini | Alpha Delphini (α Delphini, abbreviated Alpha Del, α Del) is a multiple star system in the constellation of Delphinus.
It consists of a triple star, designated Alpha Delphini A, together with five faint, probably optical companions, designated Alpha Delphini B, C, D, E and F. A's two components are themselves designat... | Alpha Delphini | Astronomy | 826 |
10,479,653 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-resistance | Cross-resistance is when something develops resistance to several substances that have a similar mechanism of action. For example, if a certain type of bacteria develops resistance to one antibiotic, that bacteria will also have resistance to several other antibiotics that target the same protein or use the same route ... | Cross-resistance | Biology,Environmental_science | 991 |
77,979,018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirepemat | Pirepemat (; developmental code name IRL752 or IRL-752) is a drug which is under development for the prevention of falls in people with Parkinson's disease and Parkinson's disease dementia. It has been referred to as a "nootrope" (i.e., nootropic or cognitive enhancer).
Pharmacology
Pirepemat shows affinity for seve... | Pirepemat | Chemistry | 738 |
78,594,739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algebraic%20closure%20%28convex%20analysis%29 | Algebraic closure of a subset of a vector space is the set of all points that are linearly accessible from . It is denoted by or .
A point is said to be linearly accessible from a subset if there exists some such that the line segment is contained in .
Necessarily, (the last inclusion holds when X is equipped... | Algebraic closure (convex analysis) | Physics,Mathematics | 177 |
758,833 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Past | The past is the set of all events that occurred before a given point in time. The past is contrasted with and defined by the present and the future. The concept of the past is derived from the linear fashion in which human observers experience time, and is accessed through memory and recollection. In addition, human be... | Past | Physics,Mathematics | 1,117 |
6,997,890 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polypyrimidine%20tract | The polypyrimidine tract is a region of pre-messenger RNA (mRNA) that promotes the assembly of the spliceosome, the protein complex specialized for carrying out RNA splicing during the process of post-transcriptional modification. The region is rich with pyrimidine nucleotides, especially uracil, and is usually 15–20 b... | Polypyrimidine tract | Chemistry,Biology | 314 |
47,074,767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifshitz%20theory%20of%20van%20der%20Waals%20force | In condensed matter physics and physical chemistry, the Lifshitz theory of van der Waals forces, sometimes called the macroscopic theory of van der Waals forces, is a method proposed by Evgeny Mikhailovich Lifshitz in 1954 for treating van der Waals forces between bodies which does not assume pairwise additivity of the... | Lifshitz theory of van der Waals force | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 1,216 |
47,655,354 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double%20encoding | Double encoding is the act of encoding data twice in a row using the same encoding scheme. It is usually used as an attack technique to bypass authorization schemes or security filters that intercept user input. In double encoding attacks against security filters, characters of the payload that are treated as illegal b... | Double encoding | Technology | 1,994 |
1,158,040 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pingala | Acharya Pingala (; c. 3rd2nd century BCE) was an ancient Indian poet and mathematician, and the author of the (), also called the Pingala-sutras (), the earliest known treatise on Sanskrit prosody.
The is a work of eight chapters in the late Sūtra style, not fully comprehensible without a commentary. It has been dat... | Pingala | Mathematics | 642 |
5,347,069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posaconazole | Posaconazole, sold under the brand name Noxafil among others, is a triazole antifungal medication.
It was approved for medical use in the European Union in October 2005, and in the United States in September 2006. It is available as a generic medication.
Medical uses
Posaconazole is used to treat invasive Aspergillus... | Posaconazole | Chemistry,Biology | 526 |
21,398,025 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20testing | Cloud testing is a form of software testing in which web applications use cloud computing environments (a "cloud") to simulate real-world user traffic.
Steps
Companies simulate real world Web users by using cloud testing services that are provided by cloud service vendors such as Advaltis, Compuware, HP, Keynote Syst... | Cloud testing | Engineering | 422 |
61,747,300 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2I/Borisov | 2I/Borisov, originally designated C/2019 Q4 (Borisov), is the first observed rogue comet and the second observed interstellar interloper after ʻOumuamua. It was discovered by the Crimean amateur astronomer and telescope maker Gennadiy Borisov on 29 August 2019 UTC (30 August local time).
2I/Borisov has a heliocentric ... | 2I/Borisov | Astronomy | 3,106 |
264,752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baryonic%20dark%20matter | In astronomy and cosmology, baryonic dark matter is hypothetical dark matter composed of baryons. Only a small proportion of the dark matter in the universe is likely to be baryonic.
Characteristics
As "dark matter", baryonic dark matter is undetectable by its emitted radiation, but its presence can be inferred from g... | Baryonic dark matter | Physics,Astronomy | 430 |
254,062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mast%20cell | A mast cell (also known as a mastocyte or a labrocyte) is a resident cell of connective tissue that contains many granules rich in histamine and heparin. Specifically, it is a type of granulocyte derived from the myeloid stem cell that is a part of the immune and neuroimmune systems. Mast cells were discovered by Fried... | Mast cell | Biology | 5,101 |
76,632,501 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Getis%E2%80%93Ord%20statistics | Getis–Ord statistics, also known as Gi*, are used in spatial analysis to measure the local and global spatial autocorrelation. Developed by statisticians Arthur Getis and J. Keith Ord they are commonly used for Hot Spot Analysis to identify where features with high or low values are spatially clustered in a statistical... | Getis–Ord statistics | Physics | 412 |
20,187,427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Discovery%20and%20development%20of%20cyclooxygenase%202%20inhibitors | Cyclooxygenases are enzymes that take part in a complex biosynthetic cascade that results in the conversion of polyunsaturated fatty acids to prostaglandins and thromboxane(s).
Their main role is to catalyze the transformation of arachidonic acid into the intermediate prostaglandin H2, which is the precursor of a varie... | Discovery and development of cyclooxygenase 2 inhibitors | Chemistry,Biology | 5,243 |
38,701,470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct%20development | Direct development is a concept in biology. It refers to forms of growth to adulthood that do not involve metamorphosis. An animal undergoes direct development if the immature organism resembles a small adult rather than having a distinct larval form. A frog that hatches out of its egg as a small frog undergoes dire... | Direct development | Biology | 169 |
22,665,481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford%20semigroup | A Clifford semigroup (sometimes also called "inverse Clifford semigroup") is a completely regular inverse semigroup.
It is an inverse semigroup with
. Examples of Clifford semigroups are groups and commutative inverse semigroups.
In a Clifford semigroup, .
References
Algebraic structures
Semigroup theory | Clifford semigroup | Mathematics | 63 |
78,434,850 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epaminurad | Epaminurad is an investigational new drug being developed by JW Pharmaceutical for the treatment of gout and hyperuricemia. It is a urate-lowering agent that selectively inhibits the human uric acid transporter 1 (hURAT1), promoting urate excretion. As of 2024, epaminurad is undergoing Phase 3 clinical trials to evalu... | Epaminurad | Chemistry | 120 |
5,176,764 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardness%20comparison | A variety of hardness-testing methods are available, including the Vickers, Brinell, Rockwell, Meyer and Leeb tests. Although it is impossible in many cases to give an exact conversion, it is possible to give an approximate material-specific comparison table for steels.
Hardness comparison table
References
Further r... | Hardness comparison | Materials_science | 203 |
407,814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene%20hypothesis | In medicine, the hygiene hypothesis states that early childhood exposure to particular microorganisms (such as the gut flora and helminth parasites) protects against allergies by properly tuning the immune system. In particular, a lack of such exposure is thought to lead to poor immune tolerance. The time period for ex... | Hygiene hypothesis | Biology,Environmental_science | 4,222 |
57,268,137 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%20In%20Astronomy%20Nepal | Women In Astronomy Nepal (WIAN) was established on November 1, 2015 A.D. in order to provide a common platform for all the women interested in astronomy and in Nepal. It is a sub unit within Nepal Astronomical Society (NASO). WIAN is primarily concerned with young females pursuing their career in Science, Technology, E... | Women In Astronomy Nepal | Astronomy | 128 |
490,054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20exponential%20topics | This is a list of exponential topics, by Wikipedia page. See also list of logarithm topics.
Accelerating change
Approximating natural exponents (log base e)
Artin–Hasse exponential
Bacterial growth
Baker–Campbell–Hausdorff formula
Cell growth
Barometric formula
Beer–Lambert law
Characterizations of t... | List of exponential topics | Mathematics | 439 |
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