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1,304,321 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mucoid%20plaque | Mucoid plaque (or mucoid cap or rope) is a pseudoscientific term used by some alternative medicine advocates to describe what is claimed to be a combination of harmful mucus-like material and food residue that they say coats the gastrointestinal tract of most people. The term was coined by Richard Anderson, a naturopat... | Mucoid plaque | Biology | 1,267 |
2,878,457 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda%20Arae | Lambda Arae (λ Ara, λ Arae) is the Bayer designation for a star in the southern constellation of Ara. It is at a distance of from Earth. The apparent visual magnitude of this star is 4.77, making it bright enough to be seen with the naked eye.
The spectrum of this star matches a stellar classification of F4 V, which ... | Lambda Arae | Astronomy | 243 |
1,140,043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squeeze%20mapping | In linear algebra, a squeeze mapping, also called a squeeze transformation, is a type of linear map that preserves Euclidean area of regions in the Cartesian plane, but is not a rotation or shear mapping.
For a fixed positive real number , the mapping
is the squeeze mapping with parameter . Since
is a hyperbola, if ... | Squeeze mapping | Mathematics | 2,332 |
73,561,616 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind%20setup | Wind setup, also known as wind effect or storm effect, refers to the rise in water level in seas, lakes, or other large bodies of water caused by winds pushing the water in a specific direction. As the wind moves across the water’s surface, it applies shear stress to the water, generating a wind-driven current. When th... | Wind setup | Physics,Chemistry,Engineering,Environmental_science | 1,172 |
4,320,269 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit%20mercaptan | Grapefruit mercaptan is a natural organic compound found in grapefruit. It is a monoterpenoid that contains a thiol (also known as a mercaptan) functional group. Structurally a hydroxy group of terpineol is replaced by the thiol in grapefruit mercaptan, so it also called thioterpineol. Volatile thiols typically have v... | Grapefruit mercaptan | Chemistry | 355 |
26,789,633 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadet%20%28genealogy%29 | In genealogy, a cadet is a younger son, as opposed to the firstborn heir.
Etymology
The word has been recorded in English since 1634, originally for a young son, identical to the French, which is itself derived from the Gascon Occitan (spoken in Gascony in southwest France) capdet "captain, chief", in turn from the L... | Cadet (genealogy) | Biology | 318 |
11,799,986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colletotrichum%20mangenotii | Colletotrichum mangenotii is a fungal plant pathogen.
References
mangenotii
Fungal plant pathogens and diseases
Fungi described in 1952
Fungus species | Colletotrichum mangenotii | Biology | 34 |
12,037,194 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrenosterone | Adrenosterone, also known as Reichstein's substance G , as well as 11-ketoandrostenedione (11-KA4), 11-oxoandrostenedione (11-OXO), and androst-4-ene-3,11,17-trione, is a steroid hormone with an extremely weak androgenic effect, and an intermediate/prohormone of 11-ketotestosterone. It was first isolated in 1936 from t... | Adrenosterone | Biology | 311 |
28,246,199 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackBerry%20Torch%209800 | The BlackBerry Torch 9800 is a 2010 model in the BlackBerry line of smartphones. It combines a physical QWERTY keyboard with a sliding multi-touch screen display and runs on BlackBerry OS 6. Introduced on August 3, 2010, the phone became available exclusively on AT&T on August 12, 2010.
The device looks similar to ex... | BlackBerry Torch 9800 | Technology | 1,502 |
72,477,621 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity%20%28mathematics%29 | In mathematics, a diversity is a generalization of the concept of metric space. The concept was introduced in 2012 by Bryant and Tupper,
who call diversities "a form of multi-way metric". The concept finds application in nonlinear analysis.
Given a set , let be the set of finite subsets of .
A diversity is a pair ... | Diversity (mathematics) | Mathematics | 303 |
51,080,253 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet%20plume | A toilet plume is the cloud-like dispersal of potentially infectious microscopic sewage particles & water vapor as a result of flushing a toilet. Day to day use of a toilet by healthy individuals is considered to be of a lower health risk. However this dynamic completely changes if an individual is fighting an illness ... | Toilet plume | Biology | 902 |
1,274,203 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha%20Pegasi | Alpha Pegasi (α Pegasi, abbreviated Alpha Peg, α Peg), formally named Markab , is the third-brightest star in the constellation of Pegasus and one of the four stars in the asterism known as the Great Square of Pegasus.
Properties
Alpha Pegasi has a stellar classification of A0 IV, indicating that it is an A-type subgi... | Alpha Pegasi | Astronomy | 448 |
24,529,994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasimeter | The tasimeter, or microtasimeter, or measurer of infinitesimal pressure, is a device designed by Thomas Edison to measure infrared radiation. In 1878, Samuel Langley, Henry Draper, and other American scientists needed a highly sensitive instrument that could be used to measure minute temperature changes in heat emitted... | Tasimeter | Astronomy | 750 |
26,051,183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automation%20Anywhere | Automation Anywhere is an American global software company that develops robotic process automation (RPA) software.
Founded in 2003, the company is headquartered in San Jose, California.
History
Automation Anywhere was originally founded as Tethys Solutions, LLC in San Jose, by Mihir Shukla, Neeti Mehta Shukla, Ank... | Automation Anywhere | Engineering | 395 |
46,445,426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung%20Electronics | Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (SEC; stylised as SΛMSUNG; ) is a South Korean multinational major appliance and consumer electronics corporation founded on 13 January 1969 and headquartered in Yeongtong District, Suwon, South Korea. It is currently the pinnacle of the Samsung chaebol, accounting for 70% of the group's r... | Samsung Electronics | Technology | 11,103 |
9,982,439 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph%20enumeration | In combinatorics, an area of mathematics, graph enumeration describes a class of combinatorial enumeration problems in which one must count undirected or directed graphs of certain types, typically as a function of the number of vertices of the graph. These problems may be solved either exactly (as an algebraic enumera... | Graph enumeration | Mathematics | 475 |
24,018,403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C7H14N2 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C7H14N2}}
The molecular formula C7H14N2 (molar mass: 126.20 g/mol) may refer to:
Bispidine (3,7-diazabicyclo[3.3.1]nonane)
N,N'-Diisopropylcarbodiimide
Molecular formulas | C7H14N2 | Physics,Chemistry | 82 |
19,983 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central%20moment | In probability theory and statistics, a central moment is a moment of a probability distribution of a random variable about the random variable's mean; that is, it is the expected value of a specified integer power of the deviation of the random variable from the mean. The various moments form one set of values by whic... | Central moment | Physics,Mathematics | 921 |
22,555,068 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PstI | PstI is a type II restriction endonuclease isolated from the Gram negative species, Providencia stuartii.
Function
PstI cleaves DNA at the recognition sequence 5′-CTGCA/G-3′ generating fragments with 3′-cohesive termini. This cleavage yields sticky ends 4 base pairs long. PstI is catalytically active as a dimer. The ... | PstI | Biology | 662 |
20,593,858 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True%20vapor%20pressure | True vapor pressure (TVP) is a common measure of the volatility of petroleum distillate fuels. It is defined as the
equilibrium partial pressure exerted by a volatile organic liquid as a function of temperature as determined by the test method ASTM D 2879.
The true vapor pressure (TVP) at 100 °F differs slightly from... | True vapor pressure | Physics,Chemistry,Engineering | 206 |
8,604,538 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand%20600-cell | In geometry, the grand 600-cell or grand polytetrahedron is a regular star 4-polytope with Schläfli symbol {3, 3, 5/2}. It is one of 10 regular Schläfli-Hess polytopes. It is the only one with 600 cells.
It is one of four regular star 4-polytopes discovered by Ludwig Schläfli. It was named by John Horton Conway, exten... | Grand 600-cell | Mathematics | 576 |
973,601 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Bassett | Charles Arthur "Charlie" Bassett II (December 30, 1931 – February 28, 1966), (Major, USAF), was an American electrical engineer and United States Air Force test pilot. He went to Ohio State University for two years and later graduated from Texas Tech University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineerin... | Charles Bassett | Engineering | 1,367 |
52,095,463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rees%20decomposition | In commutative algebra, a Rees decomposition is a way of writing a ring in terms of polynomial subrings. They were introduced by .
Definition
Suppose that a ring R is a quotient of a polynomial ring k[x1,...] over a field by some homogeneous ideal. A Rees decomposition of R is a representation of R as a direct sum (o... | Rees decomposition | Mathematics | 146 |
6,757,063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cervarix | Cervarix is a vaccine against certain types of cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV).
Cervarix is designed to prevent infection from HPV types 16 and 18, that cause about 70% of cervical cancer cases. These types also cause most HPV-induced genital and head and neck cancers. Additionally, some cross-reactive pro... | Cervarix | Biology | 1,387 |
2,147,428 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOG%20Knife | The SOG Knife was designed for, and issued to, covert Studies and Observations Group personnel during the Vietnam War. It was unmarked and supposedly untraceable to country of origin or manufacture in order to maintain plausible deniability of covert operators in the event of their death or capture.
Design
The SOG Kni... | SOG Knife | Physics | 875 |
54,321,473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalconatronite | Chalconatronite is a carbonate mineral and rare secondary copper mineral that contains copper, sodium, carbon, oxygen, and hydrogen, its chemical formula is Na2Cu(CO3)2•3(H2O). Chalconatronite is partially soluble in water, and only decomposes, although chalconatronite is soluble while cold, in dilute acids. The name c... | Chalconatronite | Chemistry,Materials_science | 601 |
26,726,570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frost%20flower%20%28sea%20ice%29 | Frost flowers are ice crystals commonly found growing on young sea ice and thin lake ice in cold, calm conditions. The ice crystals are similar to hoar frost, and are commonly seen to grow in patches around 3–4 cm in diameter. Frost flowers growing on sea ice have extremely high salinities and concentrations of other s... | Frost flower (sea ice) | Chemistry,Engineering,Environmental_science | 1,419 |
6,894,506 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophobic%20collapse | Hydrophobic collapse is a proposed process for the production of the 3-D conformation adopted by polypeptides and other molecules in polar solvents. The theory states that the nascent polypeptide forms initial secondary structure (ɑ-helices and β-strands) creating localized regions of predominantly hydrophobic residue... | Hydrophobic collapse | Chemistry | 1,133 |
70,348,606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutaneotrichosporon%20curvatum | Cutaneotrichosporon curvatum is a species of fungus in the family Trichosporonaceae. It is an extremophile found in cold-seep sites. It is oleaginous, and uses the sugars in cellulose for the growth and production of storage triglycerides. This species has been extensively studied in relationship to lipids. It can upta... | Cutaneotrichosporon curvatum | Biology | 148 |
54,333,425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Bangladeshi%20engineers | This is a list of notable Bangladeshi engineers.
F
Fazlur Rahman Khan
I
Iqbal Mahmud
J
Jamilur Reza Choudhury
K
Khondkar Siddique-e-Rabbani
M
Muhammad M. Hussain
M. Rezwan Khan
Mahmudur Rahman
Muhammad Shahid Sarwar
S
Sunny Sanwar
engineers
Bangladeshi | List of Bangladeshi engineers | Technology | 69 |
46,838,883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raffaelea%20subfusca | Raffaelea subfusca is a mycangial fungus, first isolated from female adults of the redbay ambrosia beetle, Xyleborus glabratus.
References
Further reading
Dreaden, Tyler J., et al. "Phylogeny of ambrosia beetle symbionts in the genus Raffaelea." Fungal biology 118.12 (2014): 970–978.
Harrington, Thomas C., et al. "I... | Raffaelea subfusca | Biology | 324 |
41,254 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improved-definition%20television | Improved-definition television (IDTV) or enhanced-quality television transmitters and receivers exceed the performance requirements of the NTSC standard, while remaining within the general parameters of NTSC emissions standards.
IDTV improvements may be made at the television transmitter or receiver. Improvements inc... | Improved-definition television | Technology | 212 |
36,821,570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riemann%E2%80%93Silberstein%20vector | In mathematical physics, in particular electromagnetism, the Riemann–Silberstein vector or Weber vector named after Bernhard Riemann, Heinrich Martin Weber and Ludwik Silberstein, (or sometimes ambiguously called the "electromagnetic field") is a complex vector that combines the electric field E and the magnetic field ... | Riemann–Silberstein vector | Physics | 1,379 |
70,425 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inflammation | Inflammation (from ) is part of the biological response of body tissues to harmful stimuli, such as pathogens, damaged cells, or irritants. The five cardinal signs are heat, pain, redness, swelling, and loss of function (Latin calor, dolor, rubor, tumor, and functio laesa).
Inflammation is a generic response, and ther... | Inflammation | Biology | 8,095 |
2,824,202 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Code%20of%20Nomenclature%20of%20Prokaryotes | The International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes (ICNP) or Prokaryotic Code, formerly the International Code of Nomenclature of Bacteria (ICNB) or Bacteriological Code (BC), governs the scientific names for Bacteria and Archaea. It denotes the rules for naming taxa of bacteria, according to their relative rank. As... | International Code of Nomenclature of Prokaryotes | Biology | 1,168 |
74,990,551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Competence%20stimulating%20peptide | Competence stimulating peptides (CSP) are chemical messengers that assist the initiation of quorum sensing, and exist in many bacterial genera. Bacterial transformation of DNA is driven by CSP-coupled quorum sensing.
Competence stimulating peptides are a subset of proteins that promote quorum sensing in numerous bacte... | Competence stimulating peptide | Chemistry | 987 |
60,876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markov%20chain | In probability theory and statistics, a Markov chain or Markov process is a stochastic process describing a sequence of possible events in which the probability of each event depends only on the state attained in the previous event. Informally, this may be thought of as, "What happens next depends only on the state of ... | Markov chain | Mathematics | 10,430 |
655,358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20time | Standard time is the synchronization of clocks within a geographical region to a single time standard, rather than a local mean time standard. Generally, standard time agrees with the local mean time at some meridian that passes through the region, often near the centre of the region. Historically, standard time was es... | Standard time | Physics,Astronomy | 1,795 |
41,164,606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interfungin | Interfungins are a group of chemical compounds isolated from fungi in the genus Phellinus which have NF-κB inhibitory activities.
References
2-Pyrones
Phellinus
Catechols | Interfungin | Chemistry | 44 |
15,498,897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief%20Scientist%20Office | The Chief Scientist Office is part of the Health and Wellbeing Directorate of the Scottish Government. The Chief Scientist (Health) is currently Professor Dame Anna Dominiczak.
See also
Health Science Scotland
References
External links
Scotland
Health
Health in Scotland
Scotland
Healthcare science in the United Kin... | Chief Scientist Office | Technology | 57 |
3,815,666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lattice%20model%20%28finance%29 | In quantitative finance, a lattice model is a numerical approach to the valuation of derivatives in situations requiring a discrete time model. For dividend paying equity options, a typical application would correspond to the pricing of an American-style option, where a decision to exercise is allowed at the closing o... | Lattice model (finance) | Mathematics | 4,384 |
2,701,625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20countries%20by%20life%20expectancy | This list of countries by life expectancy provides a comprehensive list of countries alongside their respective life expectancy figures. The data is differentiated by sex, presenting life expectancies for males, females, and a combined average. In addition to sovereign nations, the list encompasses several non-sovereig... | List of countries by life expectancy | Biology | 772 |
12,069,928 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaps%20and%20gores | Gaps and gores are portions of land areas that do not conform to boundaries found in cadastre and other land surveys based upon imprecise measurements and other ambiguities of metes and bounds. A gap, also known as a hiatus, occurs where the descriptions in deeds describing adjacent properties (unintentionally) overlo... | Gaps and gores | Engineering | 257 |
30,407,344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort%20de%20Chillon | The Fort de Chillon is a twentieth-century fortification directly adjacent to the medieval Château de Chillon on the edge of Lake Geneva in Switzerland. The fort secures the road and rail lines that pass along the lakeshore running east from Lausanne to the mountainous interior of Switzerland. The position is an advanc... | Fort de Chillon | Engineering | 730 |
14,439,807 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P2RY13 | P2Y purinoceptor 13 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the P2RY13 gene.
The product of this gene, P2Y13, belongs to the family of G-protein coupled receptors. This family has several receptor subtypes with different pharmacological selectivity, which overlaps in some cases, for various adenosine and uridine nuc... | P2RY13 | Chemistry | 125 |
506,906 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Density%20of%20air | The density of air or atmospheric density, denoted ρ, is the mass per unit volume of Earth's atmosphere. Air density, like air pressure, decreases with increasing altitude. It also changes with variations in atmospheric pressure, temperature and humidity. At 101.325 kPa (abs) and 20 °C (68 °F), air has a density of app... | Density of air | Physics,Mathematics | 1,891 |
47,856,659 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillium%20tropicum | Penicillium tropicum is a species of fungus in the genus Penicillium which was isolated from soil beneath a Coffea arabica plant in Karnataka in India.
References
Further reading
tropicum
Fungi described in 2010
Fungus species | Penicillium tropicum | Biology | 51 |
16,859,900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VAX1 | Ventral anterior homeobox 1 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the VAX1 gene.
Function
This gene appears to influence the development in humans of the forebrain. It is also present in mice and xenopus frogs, which suggests a long evolutionary history, and in those organisms its expression is confined to the f... | VAX1 | Chemistry,Biology | 251 |
42,158,570 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amplitude%20of%20low%20frequency%20fluctuations | Amplitude of Low Frequency Fluctuations (ALFF) and fractional Amplitude of Low Frequency Fluctuations (f/ALFF) are neuroimaging methods used to measure spontaneous fluctuations in BOLD-fMRI signal intensity for a given region in the resting brain. Electrophysiological studies suggest that low-frequency oscillations ari... | Amplitude of low frequency fluctuations | Chemistry,Biology | 237 |
41,548,363 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquascope | An aquascope (also called bathyscope) is an underwater viewing device. It is used to view the underwater world often from dry land or a boat. It eliminates the water surface glare and allows viewing as far as water clarity and light permit. The underwater viewer can be used for observing reefs, checking boat moorings, ... | Aquascope | Materials_science,Engineering | 536 |
2,305,020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optode | An optode or optrode is an optical sensor device that optically measures a specific substance usually with the aid of a chemical transducer.
Construction
An optode requires three components to function: a chemical that responds to an analyte, a polymer to immobilise the chemical transducer and instrumentation (optical... | Optode | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Technology,Engineering | 506 |
67,834,099 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May%202107%20lunar%20eclipse | A penumbral lunar eclipse will occur at the Moon’s ascending node of orbit on Saturday, May 7, 2107, with an umbral magnitude of −0.9356. A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon moves into the Earth's shadow, causing the Moon to be darkened. A penumbral lunar eclipse occurs when part or all of the Moon's near side passes ... | May 2107 lunar eclipse | Astronomy | 628 |
1,808,430 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensonic%20Group | Pensonic Holdings Berhad (stylized as PENSONIC) () is a Malaysian company that sells electrical appliances. It was founded by Chew Weng Khak in 1965 as a shop in Penang selling electrical appliances trading under the name of Keat Radio Co. with Chew as a sole proprietor. In 1982, Chew started the Pensonic brand name to... | Pensonic Group | Engineering | 250 |
36,836,014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jennifer%20Doudna | Jennifer Anne Doudna (; born February 19, 1964) is an American biochemist who has pioneered work in CRISPR gene editing, and made other fundamental contributions in biochemistry and genetics. She received the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, with Emmanuelle Charpentier, "for the development of a method for genome editi... | Jennifer Doudna | Technology,Engineering,Biology | 4,135 |
70,196,876 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gromia%20dubia | Gromia dubia is a species of testate rhizarian animal in the family Gromiidae. It is known from a single specimen discovered in 1884 by Gruber, and no other specimens have been found. Gruber did not actually make a proper description of the species itself.
See also
Gromia
Testate amoeba
References
Amoeboids
Rhizar... | Gromia dubia | Biology | 87 |
12,341,831 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum%20parcel%20level | The maximum parcel level (MPL) is the highest level in the atmosphere that a moist convectively rising air parcel will reach after ascending from the level of free convection (LFC) through the free convective layer (FCL) and reaching the equilibrium level (EL), near the tropopause. As the parcel rises through the FCL i... | Maximum parcel level | Physics,Chemistry | 330 |
16,008,681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OGLE-2006-BLG-109Lb | OGLE-2006-BLG-109Lb is an extrasolar planet approximately 4,920 light-years away in the constellation of Sagittarius. The planet was detected orbiting the star OGLE-2006-BLG-109L in 2008 by a research team using Microlensing.
See also
Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment or OGLE
47 Ursae Majoris b
OGLE-2005-B... | OGLE-2006-BLG-109Lb | Astronomy | 132 |
53,496,177 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable%20protection%20system | A cable protection system (CPS) protects subsea power cables against various factors that could reduce the cable's lifetime, when entering an offshore structure.
When a subsea power cable is laid, there is an area where the cable can be subjected to increased dynamic forces the cable is not necessarily designed to wi... | Cable protection system | Engineering | 1,839 |
38,503,539 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent%20Circle%20%28software%29 | Silent Circle is an encrypted communications firm based in Washington DC. Silent Circle provides multi-platform secure communication services for mobile devices and desktops. Launched October 16, 2012, the company operates under a subscription business model. The encryption part of the software used is free software/op... | Silent Circle (software) | Mathematics | 1,074 |
27,108,098 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einstein%20function | In mathematics, Einstein function is a name occasionally used for one of the functions
References
E W Lemmon, R Span, 2006, Short Fundamental Equations of State for 20 Industrial Fluids, J. Chem. Eng. Data 51 (3), 785–850 .
Wolfram MathWorld: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/EinsteinFunctions.html
Special functions | Einstein function | Mathematics | 81 |
75,113,634 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie%20Lopez%20del%20Puerto | Marie Lopez del Puerto is a condensed matter physicist whose research concerns the computational study of the electronic, optical, and quantum properties of nanocrystals and nanostructures. As a physics educator, she has worked to integrate computational physics into the undergraduate physics curriculum. Educated in Me... | Marie Lopez del Puerto | Physics | 433 |
2,289,914 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9my%27s%20salt | Frémy's salt is a chemical compound with the formula (K4[ON(SO3)2]2), sometimes written as (K2[NO(SO3)2]). It is a bright yellowish-brown solid, but its aqueous solutions are bright violet. The related sodium salt, disodium nitrosodisulfonate (NDS, Na2ON(SO3)2, CAS 29554-37-8) is also referred to as Frémy's salt.
Rega... | Frémy's salt | Chemistry,Biology | 543 |
11,671,030 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walking%20Stewart | John "Walking" Stewart (19 February 1747 – 20 February 1822) was an English philosopher and traveller. Stewart developed a unique system of materialistic pantheism.
Travels
Known as "Walking" Stewart to his contemporaries for having travelled on foot from Madras, India (where he had worked as a clerk for the East In... | Walking Stewart | Physics | 1,081 |
3,838,003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic%20anisotropy | Seismic anisotropy is the directional dependence of the velocity of seismic waves in a medium (rock) within the Earth.
Description
A material is said to be anisotropic if the value of one or more of its properties varies with direction. Anisotropy differs from the property called heterogeneity in that anisotropy is th... | Seismic anisotropy | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science | 6,318 |
3,689,668 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protein-fragment%20complementation%20assay | Within the field of molecular biology, a protein-fragment complementation assay, or PCA, is a method for the identification and quantification of protein–protein interactions. In the PCA, the proteins of interest ("bait" and "prey") are each covalently linked to fragments of a third protein (e.g. DHFR, which acts as a... | Protein-fragment complementation assay | Chemistry,Biology | 556 |
78,329 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AmigaGuide | AmigaGuide is a hypertext document file format designed for the Amiga. It was developed in the early 1990s and released to the market in 1992. Files are stored in ASCII so it is possible to read and edit a file without the need for special software.
Since Workbench 2.1 an Amiga Guide system for O.S. inline help files ... | AmigaGuide | Technology | 970 |
46,871,975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phlegmacium%20brunneiaurantium | Phlegmacium brunneiaurantius is a species of fungus in the family Cortinariaceae.
Taxonomy
It was originally described in 2014 by the mycologists Ilkka Kytövuori, Kare Liimatainen and Tuula Niskanen who classified it as Cortinarius brunneiaurantium. It was placed in the (subgenus Phlegmacium) of the large mushroom ge... | Phlegmacium brunneiaurantium | Biology | 227 |
49,575,179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noroxymorphone | Noroxymorphone is an opioid which is both a metabolite of oxymorphone and oxycodone and is manufactured specifically as an intermediate in the production of narcotic antagonists such as naltrexone and others. It is a potent agonist of the μ-opioid receptor, but is poorly able to cross the blood-brain-barrier into the c... | Noroxymorphone | Chemistry | 280 |
39,316,600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manson%20Medal | The Manson Medal (full name Sir Patrick Manson Medal, originally the Manson Memorial Medal), named in honour of Sir Patrick Manson, is the highest accolade the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene awards. Started in 1923, it is awarded triennially to an individual whose contribution to tropical medicine or hy... | Manson Medal | Technology | 1,079 |
3,522,161 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Askaryan%20radiation | The Askaryan radiation also known as Askaryan effect is the phenomenon whereby a particle traveling faster than the phase velocity of light in a dense dielectric (such as salt, ice or the lunar regolith) produces a shower of secondary charged particles which contains a charge anisotropy and emits a cone of coherent ra... | Askaryan radiation | Physics | 297 |
36,236,625 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal%20carbonyl%20hydride | Metal carbonyl hydrides are complexes of transition metals with carbon monoxide and hydride as ligands. These complexes are useful in organic synthesis as catalysts in homogeneous catalysis, such as hydroformylation.
Preparation
Walter Hieber et al. prepared the first metal carbonyl hydride in 1931 by the so-called ... | Metal carbonyl hydride | Chemistry | 566 |
42,666 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerg | The Zerg are a fictional race of insectoid aliens obsessed with assimilating other races into their swarm in pursuit of genetic perfection, and the overriding antagonists for much of the StarCraft franchise. Unlike the fictional universe's other primary races, the Protoss and Terrans, the Zerg lack technological inclin... | Zerg | Biology | 3,518 |
468,915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/While%20loop | In most computer programming languages, a while loop is a control flow statement that allows code to be executed repeatedly based on a given Boolean condition. The while loop can be thought of as a repeating if statement.
Overview
The while construct consists of a block of code and a condition/expression. The conditio... | While loop | Technology | 2,816 |
75,766,808 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penoxsulam | Penoxsulam is sulfonamide and triazolopyrimidine herbicide that acts as an acetolactate synthase inhibitor. It is primarily used for rice production.
References
Herbicides
Triazolopyrimidines
Sulfonamides
Methoxy compounds
Trifluoromethyl compounds | Penoxsulam | Chemistry,Biology | 67 |
10,090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erythromycin | Erythromycin is an antibiotic used for the treatment of a number of bacterial infections. This includes respiratory tract infections, skin infections, chlamydia infections, pelvic inflammatory disease, and syphilis. It may also be used during pregnancy to prevent Group B streptococcal infection in the newborn, and to i... | Erythromycin | Chemistry | 3,311 |
53,546,903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel%20Jungwirth | Pavel Jungwirth (born 20 May 1966 in Prague, Czech Republic) is a Czech physical chemist. Since 2004, he has been the head of the Senior Research Group at the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He has also been a professor in the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics at Charl... | Pavel Jungwirth | Chemistry | 207 |
1,604,631 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20Oesterl%C3%A9 | Joseph Oesterlé (born 1954) is a French mathematician who, along with David Masser, formulated the abc conjecture which has been called "the most important unsolved problem in diophantine analysis".
He is a member of Bourbaki.
References
External links
The ABC conjecture
Oesterlé on the origin of the abc Conjecture... | Joseph Oesterlé | Mathematics | 105 |
13,418,956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabicodium | Arabicodium is a fossil genus of green algae in the family Codiaceae.
References
Ulvophyceae genera
Bryopsidales
Fossil algae | Arabicodium | Biology | 31 |
28,747,453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern%20and%20Eastern%20Serbia | The Southern and Eastern Serbia () is one of five statistical regions of Serbia. It is also a Level-2 statistical region according to the Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS).
History
In 2009, the National Assembly adopted a law which divided Serbia into seven statistical regions. At first, it was d... | Southern and Eastern Serbia | Mathematics | 292 |
19,751,291 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer%20of%20the%20S%C3%A3o%20Francisco%20River | The Transfer of the São Francisco River is a large-scale interbasin transfer to the dry sertão in the four northeastern states of Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba and Pernambuco in Brazil. The project, which was given the green light to go ahead by Brazil's government in 2005, is estimated to cost US$2 billion and i... | Transfer of the São Francisco River | Environmental_science | 565 |
42,055,006 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clitocine | Clitocine is a mushroom nucleoside isolate with anticancer activity in vitro.
References
Nucleosides | Clitocine | Chemistry | 26 |
3,624,902 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Position%20weight%20matrix | A position weight matrix (PWM), also known as a position-specific weight matrix (PSWM) or position-specific scoring matrix (PSSM), is a commonly used representation of motifs (patterns) in biological sequences.
PWMs are often derived from a set of aligned sequences that are thought to be functionally related and have ... | Position weight matrix | Engineering,Biology | 1,426 |
20,776,857 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reptilase%20time | Reptilase time (RT) is a blood test used to detect deficiency or abnormalities in fibrinogen, especially in cases of heparin contamination.
Reptilase, an enzyme found in the venom of Bothrops snakes, has activity similar to thrombin. Unlike thrombin, reptilase is resistant to inhibition by antithrombin III. Thus, the ... | Reptilase time | Chemistry | 160 |
3,720,236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundary%20conformal%20field%20theory | In theoretical physics, boundary conformal field theory (BCFT) is a conformal field theory defined on a spacetime with a boundary (or boundaries). Different kinds of boundary conditions for the fields may be imposed on the fundamental fields; for example, Neumann boundary condition or Dirichlet boundary condition is ac... | Boundary conformal field theory | Physics | 164 |
187,750 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large%20numbers | Large numbers, far beyond those encountered in everyday life—such as simple counting or financial transactions—play a crucial role in various domains. These expansive quantities appear prominently in mathematics, cosmology, cryptography, and statistical mechanics. While they often manifest as large positive integers, t... | Large numbers | Mathematics | 6,794 |
3,393,903 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pushback%20%28aviation%29 | In aviation, pushback is an airport procedure during which an aircraft is pushed backwards away from its parking position, usually at an airport gate by external power. Pushbacks are carried out by special, low-profile vehicles called pushback tractors or tugs.
Although many aircraft are capable of moving themselves b... | Pushback (aviation) | Engineering | 1,805 |
17,910,574 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20ecosystem | A digital ecosystem is a distributed, adaptive, open socio-technical system with properties of self-organization, scalability and sustainability inspired from natural ecosystems. Digital ecosystem models are informed by knowledge of natural ecosystems, especially for aspects related to competition and collaboration amo... | Digital ecosystem | Technology | 408 |
31,285,090 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantharellus%20minor | Cantharellus minor is a fungus native to eastern North America. It is one of the smallest of the genus Cantharellus, which includes other edible chanterelles.
Description
Cantharellus minor is colored bright yellow to yellowish-orange. The cap ranges from wide and is convex and umbonate, often shallowly depressed, b... | Cantharellus minor | Biology | 320 |
26,919,476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff%20Kahn%20%28mathematician%29 | Jeffry Ned Kahn is a professor of mathematics at Rutgers University notable for his work in combinatorics.
Education
Kahn received his Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1979 after completing his dissertation under his advisor Dijen K. Ray-Chaudhuri.
Research
In 1980 he showed the importance of the bundle theorem fo... | Jeff Kahn (mathematician) | Mathematics | 223 |
9,517,883 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spongivore | A spongivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating animals of the phylum Porifera, commonly called sea sponges, for the main component of its diet. As a result of their diet, spongivore animals like the hawksbill turtle have developed sharp, narrow bird-like beak that allows them to reach with... | Spongivore | Biology | 1,089 |
25,290,996 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elapsed%20real%20time | In computing, elapsed real time, real time, wall-clock time, wall time, or walltime is the actual time taken from the start of a computer program to the end. In other words, it is the difference between the time at which a task finishes and the time at which the task started.
Wall time is thus different from CPU time,... | Elapsed real time | Physics,Technology | 354 |
43,576,627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Student%20Science%20Fair | The International Student Science Fair (ISSF) is an annual event providing a platform for international interaction to take place in science education. The fair brings together high school students, teachers and school leaders to share and develop the learning and teaching of science research and education.
The ISSF is... | International Student Science Fair | Technology | 712 |
15,730,240 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haller%20index | The Haller index, created in 1987 by J. Alex Haller, S. S. Kramer, and S. A. Lietman, is a mathematical relationship that exists in a human chest section observed with a CT scan. It is defined as the ratio of the transverse diameter (the horizontal distance of the inside of the ribcage) and the anteroposterior diameter... | Haller index | Mathematics | 269 |
23,980,804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity%20and%20Extreme%20Magnetism%20Small%20Explorer | Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer (GEMS or SMEX-13) mission was a NASA space observatory mission. The main scientific goal of GEMS was to be the first mission to systematically measure the polarization of X-ray sources. GEMS would have provided data to help scientists study the shape of spacetime that has be... | Gravity and Extreme Magnetism Small Explorer | Astronomy | 1,259 |
15,417,038 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZNF34 | Zinc finger protein 34 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ZNF34 gene.
References
Further reading
External links
Transcription factors | ZNF34 | Chemistry,Biology | 29 |
44,483,753 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikeda%20lift | In mathematics, the Ikeda lift is a lifting of modular forms to Siegel modular forms. The existence of the lifting was conjectured by W. Duke and Ö. Imamoḡlu and also by T. Ibukiyama, and the lifting was constructed by . It generalized the Saito–Kurokawa lift from modular forms of weight 2k to genus 2 Siegel modular fo... | Ikeda lift | Mathematics | 197 |
312,229 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiral%20anomaly | In theoretical physics, a chiral anomaly is the anomalous nonconservation of a chiral current. In everyday terms, it is equivalent to a sealed box that contained equal numbers of left and right-handed bolts, but when opened was found to have more left than right, or vice versa.
Such events are expected to be prohibite... | Chiral anomaly | Physics | 2,731 |
224,312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lapse%20rate | The lapse rate is the rate at which an atmospheric variable, normally temperature in Earth's atmosphere, falls with altitude. Lapse rate arises from the word lapse (in its "becoming less" sense, not its "interruption" sense). In dry air, the adiabatic lapse rate (i.e., decrease in temperature of a parcel of air that r... | Lapse rate | Physics,Mathematics,Engineering | 3,881 |
11,447,720 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excel%20Services | Excel Services is a server technology included in SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint 2007. This shared service enables users to load, calculate, and display Excel 2010 workbooks on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010.
Using Excel Services, users can reuse and share Excel workbooks on Microsoft Office SharePoint Server... | Excel Services | Mathematics | 346 |
6,394,545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propiomazine | Propiomazine, sold under the brand name Propavan among others, is an antihistamine which is used to treat insomnia and to produce sedation and relieve anxiety before or during surgery or other procedures and in combination with analgesics as well as during labor. Propiomazine is a phenothiazine, but is not used therape... | Propiomazine | Chemistry,Biology | 591 |
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