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1,176,614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Granzyme | Granzymes are serine proteases released by cytoplasmic granules within cytotoxic T cells and natural killer (NK) cells. They induce programmed cell death (apoptosis) in the target cell, thus eliminating cells that have become cancerous or are infected with viruses or bacteria. Granzymes also kill bacteria and inhibit v... | Granzyme | Chemistry,Biology | 1,743 |
26,991,991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilish | Pilish is a style of constrained writing in which the lengths of consecutive words or sentences match the digits of the number (pi). The shortest example is any three-letter word, such as "hat", but many longer examples have been constructed, including sentences, poems, and stories.
Examples
The following sentence... | Pilish | Mathematics | 919 |
233,266 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martensite | Martensite is a very hard form of steel crystalline structure. It is named after German metallurgist Adolf Martens. By analogy the term can also refer to any crystal structure that is formed by diffusionless transformation.
Properties
Martensite is formed in carbon steels by the rapid cooling (quenching) of the austen... | Martensite | Engineering | 1,169 |
562,827 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POP-11 | POP-11 is a reflective, incrementally compiled programming language with many of the features of an interpreted language. It is the core language of the Poplog programming environment developed originally by the University of Sussex, and recently in the School of Computer Science at the University of Birmingham, which ... | POP-11 | Technology | 1,607 |
27,850,970 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touch%20Book | The Touch Book is a portable computing device that functions as a netbook, and a tablet computer. Designed by Always Innovating, a company situated in the city of Menlo Park, in California, USA, it was launched at the DEMO conference in March 2009. Its designers stated at launch that it is the first netbook featuring a... | Touch Book | Technology | 873 |
62,064,684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adriana%20Lita | Adriana Eleni Lita is a Romanian materials scientist who is a member of the faint photonics group at National Institute of Standards and Technology. She works on fabrication and development of single-photon detectors such as transition-edge sensors and superconducting nanowire single-photon detector devices.
Life
Lit... | Adriana Lita | Materials_science,Technology | 368 |
27,625,488 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulefos%20Jernv%C3%A6rk | Ulefos Jernværk is an iron foundry located at Ulefoss in the municipality Nome, Norway. It was established in 1657 by Ove Gjedde and Preben von Ahnen. The company produced pig iron until 1877. Wood-burning stoves were important products until the 1950s. From 1999 the foundry is owned by the holding company Ulefos NV.
... | Ulefos Jernværk | Chemistry | 105 |
74,647,829 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PX5%20RTOS | PX5 RTOS is a real-time operating system (RTOS) designed for embedded systems. It is implemented using the ANSI C programming language.
Overview
The PX5 RTOS, created by William Lamie, is an embedded real-time operating system (RTOS) that was launched in January 2023. Lamie, who also developed other RTOSes such as Nuc... | PX5 RTOS | Technology | 1,092 |
69,517,557 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul%20Hagenmuller | Paul Hagenmuller (August 3, 1921 – January 7, 2017) was a French chemist. Hagenmuller founded the Laboratoire de Chimie du Solide (Solid-State Chemistry Laboratory) of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) and he served as its Director until 1985. He is considered "one of the founders of solid-state... | Paul Hagenmuller | Chemistry | 546 |
6,546,592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camar%C3%ADn | A camarín is a shrine or chapel set above and behind the altar in a church, but still visible from the body of the church. They are especially found in Spain and Portugal and throughout Latin America. George Kubler and Martin Soria, in Art and Architecture of Spain and Portugal, trace the typology to the mid-15th cent... | Camarín | Technology,Engineering | 371 |
1,644,632 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brisbane%20Line | The "Brisbane Line" was a defence proposal supposedly formulated during World War II to concede the northern portion of the Australian continent in the event of an invasion by the Japanese. Although a plan to prioritise defence in the vital industrial regions between Brisbane and Melbourne in the event of invasion had ... | Brisbane Line | Engineering | 1,077 |
5,454,605 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon%20Bell%20Prize | The Gordon Bell Prize is an award presented by the Association for Computing Machinery each year in conjunction with the SC Conference series (formerly known as the Supercomputing Conference). The prize recognizes outstanding achievement in high-performance computing applications. The main purpose is to track the prog... | Gordon Bell Prize | Technology | 631 |
20,829,208 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4H5NS | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C4H5NS}}
The molecular formula C4H5NS (molar mass: 99.15 g/mol, exact mass: 99.0143 u) may refer to:
Allyl isothiocyanate (AITC)
Thiazine
Molecular formulas | C4H5NS | Physics,Chemistry | 65 |
18,920,299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim%20Propp | James Gary Propp is a professor of mathematics at the University of Massachusetts Lowell.
Education and career
In high school, Propp was one of the national winners of the United States of America Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO), and an alumnus of the Hampshire College Summer Studies in Mathematics. Propp obtained his A... | Jim Propp | Mathematics | 572 |
42,662,705 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbohydrate%20Research | Carbohydrate Research is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering research on the chemistry of carbohydrates. It is published by Elsevier and was established in 1965. The editor-in-chief is M. Carmen Galan (University of Bristol). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2022 impact factor of 3.1... | Carbohydrate Research | Chemistry | 101 |
77,259,262 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Career%20cushioning | In human resources, career cushioning refers to employees who discreetly upskill and network as a contingency plan in the event of job loss.
Career cushioning may involved getting certifications, expanding professional networks, updating resumes and profiles, and discretely applying to alternative jobs. The proactive ... | Career cushioning | Biology | 147 |
849,543 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darcy%27s%20law | Darcy's law is an equation that describes the flow of a fluid flow trough a porous medium and through a Hele-Shaw cell. The law was formulated by Henry Darcy based on results of experiments on the flow of water through beds of sand, forming the basis of hydrogeology, a branch of earth sciences. It is analogous to Ohm's... | Darcy's law | Physics,Chemistry,Engineering,Environmental_science | 3,163 |
35,480,438 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge%20theory | Nudge theory is a concept in behavioral economics, decision making, behavioral policy, social psychology, consumer behavior, and related behavioral sciences that proposes adaptive designs of the decision environment (choice architecture) as ways to influence the behavior and decision-making of groups or individuals. Nu... | Nudge theory | Biology | 4,181 |
14,637,814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase%20stuttering | Polymerase stuttering is the process by which a polymerase transcribes a nucleotide several times without progressing further on the mRNA chain. It is often used in addition of poly A tails or capping mRNA chains by less complex organisms such as viruses.
Process
A polymerase may undergo stuttering as a probability... | Polymerase stuttering | Biology | 185 |
73,999,998 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taioro | Taioro is a condiment made from the grated flesh of the coconut and allowed to ferment. It is traditional food found throughout the islands of Oceania and is often eaten as an accompaniment to meals.
Preparation
Taioro is made from the meat of the coconut drupe and allowed to ferment. The flesh from the coconut is gr... | Taioro | Biology | 409 |
5,643,937 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music%20and%20mathematics | Music theory analyzes the pitch, timing, and structure of music. It uses mathematics to study elements of music such as tempo, chord progression, form, and meter. The attempt to structure and communicate new ways of composing and hearing music has led to musical applications of set theory, abstract algebra and number t... | Music and mathematics | Mathematics | 4,031 |
581,175 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertex-transitive%20graph | In the mathematical field of graph theory, an automorphism is a permutation of the vertices such that edges are mapped to edges and non-edges are mapped to non-edges. A graph is a vertex-transitive graph if, given any two vertices and of , there is an automorphism such that
In other words, a graph is vertex-transi... | Vertex-transitive graph | Mathematics | 671 |
6,908,822 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John%20Michell%20%28writer%29 | John Frederick Carden Michell (9 February 1933 – 24 April 2009) was an English author and esotericist who was a prominent figure in the development of the pseudoscientific Earth mysteries movement. Over the course of his life he published over forty books on an array of different subjects, being a proponent of the Trad... | John Michell (writer) | Engineering | 7,213 |
76,361,821 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buellia%20oidalea | Buellia oidalea is a species of crustose lichen found along the Pacific coast of North America, from Coos County, Oregon to Baja California Sur.
Morphology
The thallus of B. oidalea is crustose, varying from thin and rimose-areolate to thick and rugose-verrucose or even subsquamulose. The prothallus is often present... | Buellia oidalea | Biology | 898 |
3,432,177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TAUVEX | The Tel Aviv University Ultraviolet Explorer, or TAUVEX (), is a space telescope array conceived by Noah Brosch of Tel Aviv University and designed and constructed in Israel for Tel Aviv University by El-Op, Electro-Optical Industries, Ltd. (a division of Elbit systems) acting as Prime Contractor, for the exploration o... | TAUVEX | Astronomy | 1,459 |
39,908,722 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%201288 | NGC 1288 is an intermediate barred spiral galaxy located about 196 million light years away in the constellation Fornax. In the nineteenth century, English astronomer John Herschel described it as "very faint, large, round, very gradually little brighter middle." The morphological classification of SABc(rs) indicates w... | NGC 1288 | Astronomy | 213 |
939,244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly%20Cluster | The Butterfly Cluster (cataloged as Messier 6 or M6, and as NGC 6405) is an open cluster of stars in the southern constellation of Scorpius. Its name derives from the resemblance of its shape to a butterfly.
The first astronomer to record the Butterfly Cluster's existence was Giovanni Battista Hodierna in 1654. Howeve... | Butterfly Cluster | Astronomy | 449 |
13,578,015 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPLAB | MPLAB is a proprietary freeware integrated development environment for the development of embedded applications on PIC and dsPIC microcontrollers, and is developed by Microchip Technology.
MPLAB Extensions for Visual Studio Code and MPLAB X for NetBeans platform are the latest editions of MPLAB, including support for ... | MPLAB | Technology,Engineering | 693 |
59,823,364 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willie%20Rockward | Willie S. Rockward is a physics professor and has served as the chair of the department of physics and engineering physics at Morgan State University since August 2018. His research interests include Micro/Nano Optics Lithography, Extreme Ultraviolet Interferometry, Metamaterials, Terahertz imaging, Nanostructure Chara... | Willie Rockward | Materials_science | 803 |
2,942,638 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloss%20%28optics%29 | Gloss is an optical property which indicates how well a surface reflects light in a specular (mirror-like) direction. It is one of the important parameters that are used to describe the visual appearance of an object. Other categories of visual appearance related to the perception of regular or diffuse reflection and t... | Gloss (optics) | Physics,Chemistry | 1,780 |
75,205,974 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First%20universal%20common%20ancestor | The first universal common ancestor (FUCA) is a proposed non-cellular entity that was the earliest organism with a genetic code capable of biological translation of RNA molecules into peptides to produce proteins. Its descendants include the last universal common ancestor (LUCA) and every modern cell. FUCA would also b... | First universal common ancestor | Biology | 1,397 |
44,981,609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Black%20Sea%20region%20%28statistical%29 | The West Black Sea Region (Turkish: Batı Karadeniz Bölgesi) (TR8) is a statistical region in Turkey.
Subregions and provinces
Zonguldak Subregion (TR81)
Zonguldak Province (TR811)
Karabük Province (TR812)
Bartın Province (TR813)
Kastamonu Subregion (TR82)
Kastamonu Province (TR821)
Çankırı Province (TR822)
S... | West Black Sea region (statistical) | Mathematics | 202 |
6,576,473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallest%20organisms | The smallest organisms found on Earth can be determined according to various aspects of organism size, including volume, mass, height, length, or genome size.
Given the incomplete nature of scientific knowledge, it is possible that the smallest organism is undiscovered. Furthermore, there is some debate over the defin... | Smallest organisms | Biology | 3,888 |
13,973,133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolbe%20nitrile%20synthesis | The Kolbe nitrile synthesis is a method for the preparation of alkyl nitriles by reaction of the corresponding alkyl halide with a metal cyanide. A side product for this reaction is the formation of an isonitrile because the cyanide ion is an ambident nucleophile. The reaction is named after Hermann Kolbe.
\underset{a... | Kolbe nitrile synthesis | Chemistry | 359 |
24,130,404 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CrystaSulf | CrystaSulf is the trade name for a chemical process used for removing hydrogen sulfide (H2S) from natural gas, synthesis gas and other gas streams in refineries and chemical plants. CrystaSulf uses a modified liquid-phase Claus reaction to convert the hydrogen sulfide (H2S) into elemental sulfur which is then removed f... | CrystaSulf | Chemistry | 747 |
52,560,308 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiovascular%20Toxicology | Cardiovascular Toxicology is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering molecular aspects of cardiovascular disease. It was established in 2001 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media. The editor-in-chief is Y. James Kang (University of Louisville School of Medicine). According to the Journal Cit... | Cardiovascular Toxicology | Environmental_science | 101 |
916,587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyvinyl%20butyral | Polyvinyl butyral (or PVB) is a resin mostly used for applications that require strong binding, optical clarity, adhesion to many surfaces, toughness and flexibility. It is prepared from polyvinyl alcohol by reaction with butyraldehyde. The major application is laminated safety glass for automobile windshields. Trad... | Polyvinyl butyral | Physics,Chemistry | 1,119 |
35,951,900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20grid | A data grid is an architecture or set of services that allows users to access, modify and transfer extremely large amounts of geographically distributed data for research purposes. Data grids make this possible through a host of middleware applications and services that pull together data and resources from multiple ad... | Data grid | Technology | 3,986 |
22,858,525 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kogan.com | Kogan.com is an Australian portfolio of retail and services businesses including Kogan Retail, Kogan Marketplace, Kogan Mobile, Kogan Internet, Kogan Insurance, Kogan Travel, Kogan Money, Kogan Cars, Kogan Energy, Dick Smith, Matt Blatt and Mighty Ape. The company was founded in 2006 by Ruslan Kogan.
In July 2016, Ko... | Kogan.com | Engineering | 3,966 |
52,724,403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySensors | MySensors is a free and open source DIY (do-it yourself) software framework for wireless IoT (Internet of Things) devices allowing devices to communicate using radio transmitters. The library was originally developed for the Arduino platform.
The MySensors devices create a virtual radio network of nodes that automatic... | MySensors | Technology | 463 |
106,291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultracentrifuge | An ultracentrifuge is a centrifuge optimized for spinning a rotor at very high speeds, capable of generating acceleration as high as (approx. ). There are two kinds of ultracentrifuges, the preparative and the analytical ultracentrifuge. Both classes of instruments find important uses in molecular biology, biochemistr... | Ultracentrifuge | Chemistry,Engineering | 1,055 |
1,081,644 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quill%20drive | A quill drive is a mechanism that allows a drive shaft to shift its position (either axially, radially, or both) relative to its driving shaft. It consists of a hollow driving shaft (the quill) with a driven shaft inside it. The two are connected in some fashion which permits the required motion.
Examples
Drill pre... | Quill drive | Engineering | 320 |
981,613 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XMLGUI | XMLGUI is a KDE framework for designing the user interface of an application using XML, using the idea of actions.
In this framework, the programmer designs various actions that their application can implement, with several actions defined for the programmer by the KDE framework, such as opening a file or closing the ... | XMLGUI | Technology | 321 |
34,357,587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogan%20diagram | In mathematics, a Vogan diagram, named after David Vogan, is a variation of the Dynkin diagram of a real semisimple Lie algebra that indicates the maximal compact subgroup. Although they resemble Satake diagrams they are a different way of classifying simple Lie algebras.
References
Lie algebras | Vogan diagram | Mathematics | 63 |
1,832,706 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pemoline | Pemoline, formerly sold under the brand name Cylert among others, is a stimulant medication which has been used in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and narcolepsy. It has been discontinued in most countries due to rare but serious problems with liver toxicity. The medication was taken by... | Pemoline | Chemistry | 2,295 |
74,066,841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix%20Georges%20Lema%C3%AEtre | The Prix Georges Lemaître is an award created in 1995, in celebration of the centenary of the birth in 1894 of Georges Lemaître. The Association des Anciens et Amis de l'Université catholique de Louvain (Association of the Alumni and Friends of the Université catholique de Louvain) initiated the award, as well as the F... | Prix Georges Lemaître | Technology | 439 |
12,378,165 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxomics | Fluxomics describes the various approaches that seek to determine the rates of metabolic reactions within a biological entity. While metabolomics can provide instantaneous information on the metabolites in a biological sample, metabolism is a dynamic process. The significance of fluxomics is that metabolic fluxes det... | Fluxomics | Engineering,Biology | 1,025 |
1,828,766 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%20Rape%20in%20Cyberspace | "A Rape in Cyberspace, or How an Evil Clown, a Haitian Trickster Spirit, Two Wizards, and a Cast of Dozens Turned a Database into a Society" is an article written by freelance journalist Julian Dibbell and first published in The Village Voice in 1993. The article was later included in Dibbell's book My Tiny Life on his... | A Rape in Cyberspace | Technology | 1,792 |
14,794,097 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CLNS1A | Methylosome subunit pICln is a protein that in humans is encoded by the CLNS1A gene.
Interactions
CLNS1A has been shown to interact with:
ITGA2B,
PRMT5,
SNRPD1, and
SNRPD3.
See also
Chloride channel
References
Further reading
External links
Ion channels | CLNS1A | Chemistry | 67 |
3,408,731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DrugBank | The DrugBank database is a comprehensive, freely accessible, online database containing information on drugs and drug targets created and maintained by the University of Alberta and The Metabolomics Innovation Centre located in Alberta, Canada. As both a bioinformatics and a cheminformatics resource, DrugBank combines ... | DrugBank | Chemistry | 783 |
41,000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date-time%20group | In communications messages, a date-time group (DTG) is a set of characters, usually in a prescribed format, used to express the year, the month, the day of the month, the hour of the day, the minute of the hour, and the time zone, if different from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC). The order in which these elements are... | Date-time group | Physics | 739 |
3,818,648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew%20Hennessy | Matthew Hennessy is an Irish computer scientist who has contributed especially to concurrency, process calculi and programming language semantics.
Career
During 1976–77, Matthew Hennessy was an assistant professor at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Then during 1977–78, he was a visiting professor at the Universi... | Matthew Hennessy | Technology | 417 |
44,596,855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5154%20aluminium%20alloy | 5154 aluminium alloy is an alloy in the wrought aluminium-magnesium family (5000 or 5xxx series). As an aluminium-magnesium alloy, it combines moderate-to-high strength with excellent weldability. 5154 aluminium is commonly used in welded structures such as pressure vessels and ships. As a wrought alloy, it can be form... | 5154 aluminium alloy | Chemistry | 467 |
68,738,451 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James%20Bond%20007%3A%20Everything%20or%20Nothing%20%28GBA%20video%20game%29 | James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing is a third-person shooter video game, developed by Griptonite Games and published by Electronic Arts for the Game Boy Advance (GBA). As MI6 agent James Bond, the player must foil an ex-KGB agent who plans to use nanotechnology for world domination.
Everything or Nothing was releas... | James Bond 007: Everything or Nothing (GBA video game) | Materials_science | 1,534 |
47,885,421 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20138289 | HD 138289, also known as HR 5757, is a probable spectroscopic binary located in the constellation Apus, the bird-of-paradise. It has an apparent magnitude of 6.18, placing it near the limit for naked eye. Gaia DR3 parallax measurements place the object 359 light years away and it is currently receding with a heliocentr... | HD 138289 | Astronomy | 358 |
22,672,118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupational%20burnout | The ICD-11 of the World Health Organization (WHO) describes occupational burnout as a work-related phenomenon resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. According to the WHO, symptoms include "feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; increased mental distance from one's job, or f... | Occupational burnout | Biology | 9,260 |
548,237 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malted%20milk | Malted milk or malt powder or malted milk powder, is a powder made from a mixture of malted barley, wheat flour, and evaporated whole milk powder. The powder is used to add its distinctive flavor to beverages and other foods, but it is also used in baking to help dough cook properly.
History
London pharmacist James H... | Malted milk | Technology | 519 |
54,084,147 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal4%20transcription%20factor | The Gal4 transcription factor is a positive regulator of gene expression of galactose-induced genes. This protein represents a large fungal family of transcription factors, Gal4 family, which includes over 50 members in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae e.g. Oaf1, Pip2, Pdr1, Pdr3, Leu3.
Gal4 recognizes genes with UA... | Gal4 transcription factor | Biology | 827 |
72,380,107 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20psychoactive%20substances%20and%20precursor%20chemicals%20derived%20from%20genetically%20modified%20organisms | List of various substances that are either psychoactive themselves or serve as precursors to psychoactive compounds, all sourced from genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
Psychoactive substances
Psychoactive substances derived from genetically modified organisms.
Cocaine
GMO plant: Nicotiana benthamiana (a tobacc... | List of psychoactive substances and precursor chemicals derived from genetically modified organisms | Chemistry,Engineering,Biology | 201 |
5,520,376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock%20factor | Shock factor is a commonly used figure of merit for estimating the amount of shock experienced by a naval target from an underwater explosion as a function of explosive charge weight, slant range, and depression angle (between vessel and charge).
R is the slant range in feet
W is the equivalent TNT charge weight i... | Shock factor | Chemistry | 465 |
12,532,379 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paternian | Paternian or Paternianus () is the name of an Italian saint. A native of Fermo who escaped to the mountains during the persecutions of Christians by Diocletian, he was then appointed bishop of Fano by Pope Sylvester I.
(Paternian is often confused with Parthenian (Parteniano), a bishop of Bologna, also commemorated on... | Paternian | Physics | 553 |
34,819,006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrrhic%20defeat%20theory | Pyrrhic defeat theory is the idea that those with the power to change a system, benefit from the way it currently works.
Origin
This concept amalgamates ideas from Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Kai Erikson and Richard Quinney, drawn together by Jeffrey Reiman in 1979. In criminology, pyrrhic defeat theory is a way of lo... | Pyrrhic defeat theory | Biology | 387 |
77,434,865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel%20Quinn | Nigel William Trevelyan Quinn is a water resources engineer, earth scientist and academic who is most known for introducing the concept of real-time water quality management in the 1990s. He has been a Research Group Leader of the HydroEcological Engineering Advanced Decision Support group during his career at Berkeley... | Nigel Quinn | Environmental_science | 1,744 |
11,815,360 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSD%20microscopy | Ground state depletion microscopy (GSD microscopy) is an implementation of the RESOLFT concept. The method was proposed in 1995 and experimentally demonstrated in 2007. It is the second concept to overcome the diffraction barrier in far-field optical microscopy published by Stefan Hell. Using nitrogen-vacancy centers i... | GSD microscopy | Chemistry | 381 |
2,768,426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Correct%20name | In botany, the correct name according to the International Code of Nomenclature for algae, fungi, and plants (ICN) is the one and only botanical name that is to be used for a particular taxon, when that taxon has a particular circumscription, position and rank. Determining whether a name is correct is a complex procedu... | Correct name | Biology | 1,020 |
29,596,019 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexaminolevulinate | Hexaminolevulinate, sold under the brand name Cysview among others, is an imaging agent that lights up under blue light during a blue light cystoscopy. It is used to help detect non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC), in particular papillary tumors and carcinoma in situ (CIS).
It made by Photocure ASA, a Norwegian... | Hexaminolevulinate | Chemistry | 165 |
16,569,244 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/18-bit%20computing | Eighteen binary digits have 262,144 (1000000 octal, 40000 hexadecimal) distinct combinations.
Eighteen bits was a common word size for smaller computers in the 1960s, when large computers often using 36 bit words and 6-bit character sets, sometimes implemented as extensions of BCD, were the norm. There were also 18-bi... | 18-bit computing | Technology | 446 |
6,796,215 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichoderma%20harzianum | Trichoderma harzianum is a fungus that is also used as a fungicide. It is used for foliar application, seed treatment and soil treatment for suppression of fungal pathogens causing various fungal plant diseases. Commercial biotechnological products such as 3Tac have been useful for treatment of Botrytis, Fusarium and P... | Trichoderma harzianum | Biology | 770 |
71,906,761 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slip%20bands%20in%20metals | Slip bands or stretcher-strain marks are localized bands of plastic deformation in metals experiencing stresses. Formation of slip bands indicates a concentrated unidirectional slip on certain planes causing a stress concentration. Typically, slip bands induce surface steps (e.g., roughness due persistent slip bands du... | Slip bands in metals | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Technology,Engineering | 3,116 |
66,549,427 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AB%20Bo%C3%B6tis | AB Boötis, also known as Nova Boötis 1877 and occasionally Nova Comae Berenices 1877, is an object that may have undergone a nova outburst in 1877. It was discovered by Friedrich Schwab at Technische Universität Ilmenau in 1877. He reported observing the star as a 5th magnitude object, visible to the naked eye, on 14 n... | AB Boötis | Astronomy | 394 |
58,017,976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asteroid%20impact%20prediction | Asteroid impact prediction is the prediction of the dates and times of asteroids impacting Earth, along with the locations and severities of the impacts.
The process of impact prediction follows three major steps:
Discovery of an asteroid and initial assessment of its orbit which is generally based on a short observa... | Asteroid impact prediction | Astronomy | 8,491 |
241,965 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals%20of%20Improbable%20Research | The Annals of Improbable Research (AIR) is a bimonthly magazine devoted to scientific humor, in the form of a satirical take on the standard academic journal. AIR, published six times a year since 1995, usually showcases at least one piece of scientific research being done on a strange or unexpected topic, but most of ... | Annals of Improbable Research | Technology | 460 |
64,731,000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicago%20Inc. | Medicago Inc. was a Canadian biotechnology company focused on the discovery, development, and commercialization of virus-like particles using plants as bioreactors to produce proteins, candidate vaccines, and medications. By using live plant leaves as hosts in the discovery and manufacturing process, the Medicago "Prof... | Medicago Inc. | Biology | 1,425 |
8,217,872 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CT2 | CT2 is a cordless telephony standard that was used in the early 1990s to provide short-range proto-mobile phone service in some countries in Europe and in Hong Kong. It is considered the precursor to the more successful DECT system. CT2 was also referred to by its marketing name, Telepoint.
Overview
CT2 is a digital ... | CT2 | Technology | 1,517 |
2,935,372 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth%20differentiation%20factor-9 | Growth/differentiation factor 9 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GDF9 gene.
Growth factors synthesized by ovarian somatic cells directly affect oocyte growth and function. Growth differentiation factor-9 (GDF9) is expressed in oocytes and is thought to be required for ovarian folliculogenesis. GDF9 is a m... | Growth differentiation factor-9 | Chemistry | 2,021 |
839,260 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus%20Express | Venus Express (VEX) was the first Venus exploration mission of the European Space Agency (ESA). Launched in November 2005, it arrived at Venus in April 2006 and began continuously sending back science data from its polar orbit around Venus. Equipped with seven scientific instruments, the main objective of the mission w... | Venus Express | Technology,Engineering | 3,057 |
55,127,221 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metuloidea%20cinnamomea | Metuloidea cinnamomea is a species of tooth fungus in the family Steccherinaceae. Found in the Andes region of Venezuela, it was initially described in 2010 by Teresa Iturriaga and Leif Ryvarden as a species of Antrodiella. Otto Miettinen and Ryvarden transferred it to the newly created genus Metuloidea in 2016.
Refer... | Metuloidea cinnamomea | Biology | 106 |
1,397,595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprise | In music, a reprise ( , ; from the verb 'to resume') is the repetition or reiteration of the opening material later in a composition as occurs in the recapitulation of sonata form, though—originally in the 18th century—was simply any repeated section, such as is indicated by beginning and ending repeat signs.
A parti... | Reprise | Technology | 1,199 |
1,585,314 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt%20Mullenweg | Matthew Charles Mullenweg (born January 11, 1984) is an American web developer and entrepreneur. He is known as a co-founder of the free and open-source web publishing software WordPress, and the founder of Automattic.
Early life and education
Mullenweg was born in Houston, Texas, and grew up in the Willowbend neighbo... | Matt Mullenweg | Engineering | 1,560 |
21,243,439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pocket%20litter | Pocket litter is material, including notes scribbled on scraps of paper, that accumulates in an individual's pockets. It can include identity cards, transportation tickets, personal photographs, computer files and similar material.
Counter-terrorism analysts report that the analysis of pocket litter can be an importan... | Pocket litter | Physics | 242 |
56,059,449 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial%20mapping | In algebra, a polynomial map or polynomial mapping between vector spaces over an infinite field k is a polynomial in linear functionals with coefficients in k; i.e., it can be written as
where the are linear functionals and the are vectors in W. For example, if , then a polynomial mapping can be expressed as where... | Polynomial mapping | Mathematics | 191 |
6,792,870 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BioPHP | BioPHP is a collection of open-source PHP code, with classes for DNA and protein sequence analysis, alignment, database parsing, and other bioinformatics tools. BioRuby is released under the GNU GPL version 2 licence and is one of a number of Bio* projects, designed to reduce code duplication. As an open source bioinfo... | BioPHP | Biology | 384 |
38,889,765 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coherence%20%28units%20of%20measurement%29 | A coherent system of units is a system of units of measurement used to express physical quantities that are defined in such a way that the equations relating the numerical values expressed in the units of the system have exactly the same form, including numerical factors, as the corresponding equations directly relatin... | Coherence (units of measurement) | Mathematics,Engineering | 3,106 |
50,954,000 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brasilsat%20B2 | Brasilsat B2 is a Brazilian communications satellite launched on 28 March 1995, at 23:14:19 UTC, by an Ariane 44LP H10+ launch vehicle at Kourou in French Guiana.
History
The Boeing Company contracted the acquisition of three satellites from Hughes Electronics Corporation. As part of the contract, Hughes would divide... | Brasilsat B2 | Astronomy | 328 |
68,846,045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained%20equal%20awards | Constrained equal awards (CEA), also called constrained equal gains, is a division rule for solving bankruptcy problems. According to this rule, each claimant should receive an equal amount, except that no claimant should receive more than his/her claim. In the context of taxation, it is known as leveling tax.
Formal ... | Constrained equal awards | Mathematics | 395 |
42,346,684 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greedy%20Perimeter%20Stateless%20Routing%20in%20Wireless%20Networks | The Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing in Wireless Networks (GPSR) is a routing protocol for mobile ad-hoc networks. It was developed by B. Karp. It uses a greedy algorithm to do the routing and orbits around a perimeter.
Coordinates instead of receiver names
GPSR is a geo routing method, which means that data packag... | Greedy Perimeter Stateless Routing in Wireless Networks | Technology | 234 |
75,773,058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CWISEP%20J1935-1546 | CWISEP J1935-1546 (CWISEP J193518.59-154620.3 or Brown Dwarf W1935 or W1935) is a cold brown dwarf or planetary-mass object with a mass of 2-20 or 6-35 and a distance of 14.4 parsec (47 light-years).
CWISEP J1935-1546 was discovered in 2019 by Marocco et al. as an extremely cold brown dwarf with a temperature range ... | CWISEP J1935-1546 | Astronomy | 594 |
73,800,544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitra%2015 | The Mitra 15 is a minicomputer made by the French company CII under Plan Calcul, along with the Iris 50 and Iris 80 mainframe computers. It was marketed from 1971 to 1985 and could function in conjunction with large systems. CII manufactured a thousand Mitra 15 machines until 1975 in its Toulouse factory, then in Croll... | Mitra 15 | Technology | 1,954 |
53,058,380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tania%20Antoshina | Tatyana Antoshina (Russian: Таня Антошина, Татьяна Константиновна Антошина; also transliterated as Tania Antoshina, Tatiana Antoshina, Tanya Antoshina, Tatjana Antoschina, Tatyana Antoschina. From 1977 to 1997 she bore the surname Машукова (Tatyana Mashukova)) (b. 1 May 1956, Krasnoyarsk Siberia, Russia), is a French-R... | Tania Antoshina | Technology | 3,745 |
24,161,058 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMath%20Studio | SMath Studio is a freeware (free of charge, but not libre), closed-source, mathematical notebook program similar to Mathcad. It is available for Windows, Linux, iOS, Android, Universal Windows Platform, and on some handhelds.
Among its capabilities are:
Solving differential equations;
Graphing functions in two or th... | SMath Studio | Mathematics | 130 |
15,354,712 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRPS6 | 28S ribosomal protein S6, mitochondrial is a protein that in humans is encoded by the MRPS6 gene.
Mammalian mitochondrial ribosomal proteins are encoded by nuclear genes and help in protein synthesis within the mitochondrion. Mitochondrial ribosomes (mitoribosomes) consist of a small 28S subunit and a large 39S subuni... | MRPS6 | Chemistry | 207 |
4,039,380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media%20processor | A media processor, mostly used as an image/video processor, is a microprocessor-based system-on-a-chip which is designed to deal with digital streaming data in real-time (e.g. display refresh) rates. These devices can also be considered a class of digital signal processors (DSPs).
Unlike graphics processing units (GPU... | Media processor | Engineering | 616 |
66,067,881 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helosciadium%20%C3%97%20longipedunculatum | Helosciadium × longipedunculatum, synonym Apium × longipedunculatum, is a hybrid plant in the umbellifer family (Apiaceae); the result of hybridisation between Helosciadium repens (creeping marshwort) and Helosciadium nodiflorum (fool's water cress).
Discovery
The hybrid was first discovered by George Lawson in July ... | Helosciadium × longipedunculatum | Biology | 495 |
12,710,444 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procambarus%20angustatus | Procambarus angustatus was a species of crayfish in the family Cambaridae. It was only known from the type specimen, described by John Lawrence LeConte in 1856. He reported that it "lives in lesser Georgia, in the rivulets of pure water which flow between little sand hills". It was endemic to the U. S. state of Georgia... | Procambarus angustatus | Biology | 140 |
12,498,941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizofenone | Nizofenone (Ekonal, Midafenone) is a neuroprotective drug which protects neurons from death following cerebral anoxia (interruption of oxygen supply to the brain). It might thus be useful in the treatment of acute neurological conditions such as stroke.
References
Further reading
Nitrobenzene d... | Nizofenone | Chemistry | 87 |
44,247,164 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DnaD | DnaD is a 232 amino acid long protein that is part of the primosome involved in prokaryotic DNA replication. In Bacillus subtilis, genetic analysis has revealed three primosomal proteins, DnaB, DnaD, and DnaI, that have no obvious homologues in E. coli. They are involved in primosome function both at arrested replicati... | DnaD | Chemistry,Biology | 172 |
61,801,258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snaiad | Snaiad is a speculative evolution, science fiction and artistic worldbuilding project by Turkish artist C. M. Kösemen, focused on a fictional exoplanet of the same name. Begun in the early 2000s and inspired by earlier works such as Wayne Barlowe's 1990 book Expedition, Kösemen has produced hundreds of paintings and sk... | Snaiad | Biology | 1,257 |
15,168,509 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orion%20Society | The Orion Society is a United States non-profit organization that engages environmental and cultural issues through publication of books, magazines, and educational materials, and facilitation of informational networks. It was founded in 1992 and is based in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. The Society is probably be... | Orion Society | Environmental_science | 101 |
5,175,930 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pill%20splitting | Pill-splitting refers to the practice of splitting a tablet or pill to provide a lower dose of the active ingredient, or to obtain multiple smaller doses, either to reduce cost or because the pills available provide a larger dose than required. Many pills that are suitable for splitting (aspirin tablets for instance) c... | Pill splitting | Chemistry | 1,271 |
14,062,693 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIMBOA | DIMBOA (2,4-dihydroxy-7-methoxy-1,4-benzoxazin-3-one) is a naturally occurring hydroxamic acid, a benzoxazinoid. DIMBOA is a powerful antibiotic present in maize, wheat, rye, and related grasses,
DIMBOA was first identified in maize in 1962 as the "corn sweet substance". Etiolated maize seedlings have a very sweet, al... | DIMBOA | Chemistry | 522 |
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