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50,395,663 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retail%20outsourcing | Retail outsourcing is a form of business process outsourcing practiced in retail, logistic and restaurant business. It involves the contracting of the operations and responsibilities of transportation, cooking, customer servicing or settlement of accounts business processes to a third-party service provider. Such provi... | Retail outsourcing | Technology | 274 |
10,356,246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard%20atomic%20weight | The standard atomic weight of a chemical element (symbol Ar°(E) for element "E") is the weighted arithmetic mean of the relative isotopic masses of all isotopes of that element weighted by each isotope's abundance on Earth. For example, isotope 63Cu (Ar = 62.929) constitutes 69% of the copper on Earth, the rest being ... | Standard atomic weight | Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics | 2,895 |
21,880,823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nano-scaffold | Nano-scaffolding or nanoscaffolding is a medical process used to regrow tissue and bone, including limbs and organs. The nano-scaffold is a three-dimensional structure composed of polymer fibers very small that are scaled from a Nanometer (10−9 m) scale. Developed by the American military, the medical technology uses a... | Nano-scaffold | Materials_science,Biology | 5,060 |
26,666,150 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee%20for%20Nuclear%20Responsibility | The Committee for Nuclear Responsibility was formed as a "political and educational organization to disseminate anti-nuclear views and information to the public". The goals of the organization were a moratorium on nuclear power and the commercialization of alternative energy sources.
John Gofman founded the Committee... | Committee for Nuclear Responsibility | Engineering | 191 |
52,810,837 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maridesulfovibrio%20ferrireducens | Maridesulfovibrio ferrireducens is a psychrotolerant bacterium which has been isolated from permanently cold sediments from fjords in the Svalbard archipelago in Norway. Originally described under Desulfovibrio, it was reassigned to Maridesulfovibrio by Waite et al. in 2020.
References
External links
Type strain of ... | Maridesulfovibrio ferrireducens | Biology | 110 |
51,801,762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOSTEC | The International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - BIOSTEC - is an international joint conference composed of five co-located conferences each specialized in a different knowledge area:
Biomedical Electronics and Devices
Bioimaging
Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms... | BIOSTEC | Technology | 412 |
74,285,940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous%20impedance%20curve | The synchronous impedance curve (also short-circuit characteristic, SCC) of a synchronous generator is a plot of the output short circuit current as a function of the excitation current or field. The curve is typically plotted alongside the open-circuit saturation curve.
The SCC is almost linear, since under the short... | Synchronous impedance curve | Physics,Technology | 198 |
78,606,586 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DitchCarbon | DitchCarbon is a UK-based emissions intelligence company that provides software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for measuring and managing Scope 3 carbon emissions, specifically those from suppliers, and investments (category 1, 2 &15). The company's platform supports businesses in integrating carbon emissions insights i... | DitchCarbon | Chemistry | 273 |
10,313,521 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomalous%20cancellation | An anomalous cancellation or accidental cancellation is a particular kind of arithmetic procedural error that gives a numerically correct answer. An attempt is made to reduce a fraction by cancelling individual digits in the numerator and denominator. This is not a legitimate operation, and does not in general give a c... | Anomalous cancellation | Mathematics | 558 |
58,080,546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sewer%20Murders | The Sewer Murders or "Sewage Plant Murders" ( or ) were an unexplained murder series of male adolescents in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main area during the 1970s and 1980s.
Victims
The killings took place from 1976 to 1983. The victims were seven boys and male adolescents aged between 11 and 18 from Frankfurt (likely Basele... | Sewer Murders | Chemistry,Engineering,Environmental_science | 1,614 |
15,040,210 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LuaTeX | LuaTeX is a TeX-based computer typesetting system which started as a version of pdfTeX with a Lua scripting engine embedded. After some experiments it was adopted by the TeX Live distribution as a successor to pdfTeX (itself an extension of ε-TeX, which generates PDFs). Later in the project some functionality of Aleph ... | LuaTeX | Mathematics | 569 |
8,205,972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potamkin%20Prize | The Potamkin Prize for Research in Pick's, Alzheimer's, and Related Diseases was established in 1988 and is sponsored by the American Academy of Neurology. The prize is funded through the philanthropy of the Potamkin Foundation. The prize is awarded for achievements on emerging areas of research in Pick's disease, Alzh... | Potamkin Prize | Technology | 534 |
39,862,678 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West%20Fork%20Furnace | West Fork Furnace is a historic iron furnace and national historic district located near Floyd, Floyd County, Virginia. The district includes structural, landscape and archaeological components of a small and well preserved mid-19th-century iron furnace built about 1853. The components consist of the furnace, retainin... | West Fork Furnace | Chemistry | 151 |
7,406,806 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanon%20Shah | Shanon Shah (born 14 August 1978 in Alor Star, Kedah), is a singer-songwriter, playwright and academic from Malaysia. He released two albums Dilanda Cinta (2005) and Suara Yang Ku Dengar (2010) on the InterGlobal Music Malaysia independent label. He is noted for his emotive voice and cabaret-style piano playing.
Train... | Shanon Shah | Chemistry,Engineering | 1,062 |
38,734,545 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD%20143346 | HD 143346 (HR 5595) is a single star in the southern circumpolar constellation of Apus. It is 28.5 minutes west and about 5° north of the yellow giant star Gamma Apodis, which is the second brightest star in the constellation of Apus.
This object has an orange hue and is visible to the naked eye as a dim point of lig... | HD 143346 | Astronomy | 323 |
38,002,452 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eta%20Normae | Eta Normae, Latinized from η Normae, is a single star in the southern constellation of Norma. It is visible to the naked eye as a faint, yellow-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 4.65. The distance to this star is about 219 light years, based on parallax. The Gamma Normids radiate from a position near this ... | Eta Normae | Astronomy | 235 |
29,882,763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%20factor%20%28crude%20oil%20refining%29 | The K factor or characterization factor is defined from Rankine boiling temperature °R=1.8Tb[k] and relative to water density ρ at 60°F:
K(UOP) =
The K factor is a systematic way of classifying a crude oil according to its paraffinic, naphthenic, intermediate or aromatic nature. 12.5 or higher indicate a crude oil... | K factor (crude oil refining) | Chemistry | 144 |
9,421,365 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhombitriheptagonal%20tiling | In geometry, the rhombitriheptagonal tiling is a semiregular tiling of the
hyperbolic plane. At each vertex of the tiling there is one triangle and one heptagon, alternating between two squares. The tiling has Schläfli symbol rr{7, 3}. It can be seen as constructed as a rectified triheptagonal tiling, r{7,3}, as well... | Rhombitriheptagonal tiling | Physics | 416 |
34,266,683 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei%20IDEOS | The Huawei IDEOS U8150 is an Android smartphone manufactured by Huawei.
It is rebranded as S31HW by EMOBILE in Japan. It is also renamed the T-Mobile Comet in the United States.
Features
The U8150 features a 2.8-inch glass capacitive touchscreen. It also features a 3.16 megapixel fixed-focus camera, Bluetooth connec... | Huawei IDEOS | Technology | 173 |
12,055,540 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shapley%E2%80%93Shubik%20power%20index | The Shapley–Shubik power index was formulated by Lloyd Shapley and Martin Shubik in 1954 to measure the powers of players in a voting game.
The constituents of a voting system, such as legislative bodies, executives, shareholders, individual legislators, and so forth, can be viewed as players in an n-player game. Play... | Shapley–Shubik power index | Mathematics | 1,598 |
35,038,731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C19H26N4O2 | The molecular formula C19H26N4O2 may refer to:
BIMU8, a drug which acts as a 5-HT4 receptor selective agonist
ADB-4en-PINACA, a cannabinoid designer drug
Sucrononic acid, a guanidino derivative artificial sweetener
Molecular formulas | C19H26N4O2 | Physics,Chemistry | 69 |
52,472,798 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nisterime | Nisterime (), also known as 2α-chloro-4,5α-dihydrotestosterone 3-O-(p-nitrophenyl)oxime or as 2α-chloro-5α-androstan-17β-ol-3-one 3-O-(p-nitrophenyl)oxime, is a synthetic anabolic-androgenic steroid (AAS) and a derivative of dihydrotestosterone (DHT) that was never marketed. The C17α acetate ester of nisterime, nisteri... | Nisterime | Chemistry | 214 |
6,748,115 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health%20information%20management | Health information management (HIM) is information management applied to health and health care. It is the practice of analyzing and protecting digital and traditional medical information vital to providing quality patient care. With the widespread computerization of health records, traditional (paper-based) records ar... | Health information management | Biology | 2,812 |
2,555,528 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas%20to%20liquids | Gas to liquids (GTL) is a refinery process to convert natural gas or other gaseous hydrocarbons into longer-chain hydrocarbons, such as gasoline or diesel fuel. Methane-rich gases are converted into liquid synthetic fuels. Two general strategies exist: (i) direct partial combustion of methane to methanol and (ii) Fisch... | Gas to liquids | Chemistry | 2,292 |
8,664,662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalized%20Pochhammer%20symbol | In mathematics, the generalized Pochhammer symbol of parameter and partition generalizes the classical Pochhammer symbol, named after Leo August Pochhammer, and is defined as
It is used in multivariate analysis.
References
Gamma and related functions
Factorial and binomial topics | Generalized Pochhammer symbol | Mathematics | 57 |
20,052,587 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermosediminibacterales | Thermosediminibacterales is an order of Gram positive bacteria in the class Clostridia.
See also
List of Bacteria genera
List of bacterial orders
References
Bacteria orders
Clostridia
Thermophiles
Anaerobes | Thermosediminibacterales | Biology | 50 |
40,956,660 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beauty%20micrometer | The beauty micrometer, also known as the beauty calibrator, was a device designed in the early 1930s to help in the identification of the areas of a person's face which need to have their appearance reduced or enhanced by make-up. The inventors include famed beautician Max Factor Sr. A 2013 Wired article described the ... | Beauty micrometer | Technology,Engineering | 437 |
4,056,695 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary%20moment%20diagram | A binary moment diagram (BMD) is a generalization of the binary decision diagram (BDD) to linear functions over domains such as booleans (like BDDs), but also to integers or to real numbers.
They can deal with Boolean functions with complexity comparable to BDDs, but also some functions that are dealt with very ineffi... | Binary moment diagram | Engineering | 690 |
3,473,949 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Repetition%20code | In coding theory, the repetition code is one of the most basic linear error-correcting codes. In order to transmit a message over a noisy channel that may corrupt the transmission in a few places, the idea of the repetition code is to just repeat the message several times. The hope is that the channel corrupts only a m... | Repetition code | Mathematics,Engineering | 633 |
8,510,311 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid%20Fidelity | Liquid Fidelity is a "microdisplay" technology applied in high-definition televisions. It incorporates Liquid Crystal on Silicon technology capable of producing true 1080p resolution with two million pixels on a single display chip.
Components of Liquid Fidelity technology were originally used in 720p HDTVs produced ... | Liquid Fidelity | Engineering | 593 |
68,683,770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foraminifera%20test | Foraminiferal tests are the tests (or shells) of Foraminifera.
Foraminifera (forams for short) are single-celled predatory protists, mostly marine, and usually protected with shells. These shells, often called tests, can be single-chambered or have multiple interconnected chambers; the cellular machinery is contained ... | Foraminifera test | Chemistry | 3,248 |
38,243,004 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union%20for%20Ethical%20Biotrade | thumb
The Union for Ethical BioTrade (UEBT) is a nonprofit association that promotes the "Sourcing with Respect" of ingredients that come from biodiversity. Members commit to gradually ensuring that their sourcing practices promote the conservation of biodiversity, respect traditional knowledge and assure the equitabl... | Union for Ethical Biotrade | Biology | 1,245 |
60,912,643 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%20655 | NGC 655 is a lenticular galaxy located 400 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered in a sky-survey by Ormond Stone on December 12, 1885.
On July 23, 2010, supernova SN 2010gp in NGC 655 was announced, reaching magnitude 15.5 on July 22. It was offset by 22″ west and 47″ south of the nucl... | NGC 655 | Astronomy | 134 |
47,900,975 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillium%20vancouverense | Penicillium vancouverense is a species of fungus in the genus Penicillium which was isolated from soil under a maple tree in Vancouver in Canada.
References
vancouverense
Fungi described in 2011
Fungus species | Penicillium vancouverense | Biology | 43 |
452,582 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimaa | Arimaa () is a two-player strategy board game that was designed to be playable with a standard chess set and difficult for computers while still being easy to learn and fun to play for humans. It was invented between 1997 and 2002 by Omar Syed, an Indian-American computer engineer trained in artificial intelligence. S... | Arimaa | Mathematics | 2,702 |
67,699,403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enteral%20respiration | Enteral respiration, also referred to as cloacal respiration or intestinal respiration, is a form of respiration in which gas exchange occurs across the epithelia of the enteral system, usually in the caudal cavity (cloaca). This is used in various species as an alternative respiration mechanism in hypoxic environments... | Enteral respiration | Biology | 412 |
10,197,275 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry%20matter | The dry matter or dry weight is a measure of the mass of a completely dried substance.
Analysis of food
The dry matter of plant and animal material consists of all its constituents excluding water. The dry matter of food includes carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants (e.g., thiocyanate,... | Dry matter | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Mathematics | 989 |
19,161,243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20Challenge%20Award | The Global Challenge Award is an online science and engineering design program for pre-college school students (e.g. middle school through high school) from all over the world. It is an initiative that started with a partnership with the University of Vermont in collaboration with the National Science Foundation, curre... | Global Challenge Award | Technology | 895 |
1,815,563 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockfall | A rockfall or rock-fall is a quantity/sheets of rock that has fallen freely from a cliff face. The term is also used for collapse of rock from roof or walls of mine or quarry workings. "A rockfall is a fragment of rock (a block) detached by sliding, toppling, or falling, that falls along a vertical or sub-vertical clif... | Rockfall | Technology | 865 |
28,772,649 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium%20diacetate | Aluminium diacetate, also known as basic aluminium acetate, is a white powder with the chemical formula C4H7AlO5. It is one of a number of aluminium acetates and can be prepared in a reaction of sodium aluminate (NaAlO2) with acetic acid.
Medicinal use
Aluminium diacetate is used as an antiseptic and astringent. It is... | Aluminium diacetate | Chemistry | 398 |
73,189,382 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawing%20tower | A drawing tower produces a fine glass filament by drawing a glass preform. The tip of the preform is heated to melting temperature and then a strand of molten material is pulled downward. Industrial drawing towers range in height from 30 to 45 meters. A drawing tower is used in the production of optical fiber, for ex... | Drawing tower | Materials_science,Engineering | 97 |
45,336,978 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian%20School%20of%20Petroleum%20and%20Energy%20Resources | The Australian School of Petroleum and Energy Resources (ASPER) is a centre for education, training and research in petroleum and energy resources engineering, geoscience and management at the University of Adelaide in South Australia. ASPER is housed in the purpose-built Santos Petroleum Engineering Building on the Un... | Australian School of Petroleum and Energy Resources | Engineering | 681 |
80,630 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wubi%20method | The Wubizixing input method (), often abbreviated to simply Wubi or Wubi Xing, is a Chinese character input method primarily for inputting simplified Chinese and traditional Chinese text on a computer. Wubi should not be confused with the Wubihua (五笔画) method, which is a different input method that shares the categoriz... | Wubi method | Technology | 4,374 |
1,012,800 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20design%20power | Thermal Design Power (TDP), also known as thermal design point, is the maximum amount of heat that a computer component (like a CPU, GPU or system on a chip) can generate and that its cooling system is designed to dissipate during normal operation at a non-turbo clock rate (base frequency).
Some sources state that the... | Thermal design power | Physics,Chemistry,Technology,Engineering | 2,399 |
69,680,802 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive%20largest%20first%20algorithm | The Recursive Largest First (RLF) algorithm is a heuristic for the NP-hard graph coloring problem. It was originally proposed by Frank Leighton in 1979.
The RLF algorithm assigns colors to a graph’s vertices by constructing each color class one at a time. It does this by identifying a maximal independent set of vertic... | Recursive largest first algorithm | Mathematics | 751 |
13,590,511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycoplasma%20laboratorium | Mycoplasma laboratorium or Synthia refers to a synthetic strain of bacterium. The project to build the new bacterium has evolved since its inception. Initially the goal was to identify a minimal set of genes that are required to sustain life from the genome of Mycoplasma genitalium, and rebuild these genes syntheticall... | Mycoplasma laboratorium | Engineering,Biology | 3,103 |
24,573,336 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC%202149 | IC 2149 is a planetary nebula in the constellation of Auriga. It is a small, bright planetary nebula with something to offer in telescopes of most sizes.
Characteristics
Visually it has an apparent magnitude of 10.6 and an apparent size of 12 arc seconds and like other objects of its class a nebular filter may help o... | IC 2149 | Astronomy | 174 |
47,147,050 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20Google%20April%20Fools%27%20Day%20jokes | From 2000 to 2019, Google frequently inserted jokes and hoaxes into its products on April Fools' Day, which takes place on April 1. The company ceased performing April Fools jokes in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and has not performed them since.
2000
Google's first April Fools' Day hoax, the MentalPlex trick, wa... | List of Google April Fools' Day jokes | Technology | 13,847 |
14,708,063 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy%E2%80%93entropy%20compensation | In thermodynamics, enthalpy–entropy compensation is a specific example of the compensation effect. The compensation effect refers to the behavior of a series of closely related chemical reactions (e.g., reactants in different solvents or reactants differing only in a single substituent), which exhibit a linear relation... | Enthalpy–entropy compensation | Physics,Chemistry,Mathematics | 2,496 |
1,223,804 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philips%2068070 | The SCC68070 is a Philips Semiconductors-branded, Motorola 68000-based 16/32-bit processor produced under license. While marketed externally as a high-performance microcontroller, it has been almost exclusively used combined with the Philips SCC66470 VSC (Video- and Systems Controller) in the Philips CD-i interactive ... | Philips 68070 | Technology | 468 |
56,515,003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red%20fluorescent%20protein | Red fluorescent protein (RFP) is a protein which acts as a fluorophore, fluorescing red-orange when excited. The original variant occurs naturally in the coral genus Discosoma, and is named DsRed. Several new variants have been developed using directed mutagenesis which fluoresce orange, red, and far-red.
Characterist... | Red fluorescent protein | Chemistry,Biology | 429 |
72,500,648 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation%20PowerOFF | Operation PowerOFF is an ongoing joint operation by the FBI, EUROPOL, the Dutch National Police Corps, German Federal Criminal Police Office , Poland Cybercrime Police and the UK National Crime Agency to close "booter/stresser" services offering DDoS attack services for hire. Beginning in 2018, the operation shut down ... | Operation PowerOFF | Technology | 351 |
17,745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutetium | Lutetium is a chemical element; it has symbol Lu and atomic number 71. It is a silvery white metal, which resists corrosion in dry air, but not in moist air. Lutetium is the last element in the lanthanide series, and it is traditionally counted among the rare earth elements; it can also be classified as the first eleme... | Lutetium | Physics | 2,942 |
22,590,756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal%20profiling | A thermal profile is a complex set of time-temperature data typically associated with the measurement of thermal temperatures in an oven (ex: reflow oven). The thermal profile is often measured along a variety of dimensions such as slope, soak, time above liquidus (TAL), and peak.
A thermal profile can be ranked on h... | Thermal profiling | Engineering | 2,187 |
45,076,094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BOSH%20%28software%29 | BOSH is an open-source software project that offers a toolchain for release engineering, software deployment and application lifecycle management of large-scale distributed services. The toolchain is made up of a server (the BOSH Director) and a command line tool. BOSH is typically used to package, deploy and manage cl... | BOSH (software) | Technology | 2,639 |
38,916,131 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow%20socks | Snow socks (also known as auto socks) are textile alternatives to snow chains. Snow sock devices wrap around the tires of a vehicle to increase traction on snow and ice. Snow socks are normally composed of a woven fabric with an elastomer attached to the inner and/or outer edge. The woven fabric covers the tire tread a... | Snow socks | Physics | 580 |
9,773,583 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hormone%20antagonist | For the use of hormone antagonists in cancer, see hormonal therapy (oncology)
A hormone antagonist is a specific type of receptor antagonist which acts upon hormone receptors. Such pharmaceutical drugs are used in antihormone therapy.
External links
Hormonal agents
Receptor antagonists | Hormone antagonist | Chemistry,Biology | 58 |
2,710,792 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda%20Ursae%20Majoris | Lambda Ursae Majoris (λ Ursae Majoris, abbreviated Lambda UMa, λ UMa), formally named Tania Borealis , is a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Major.
Properties
This star has an apparent visual magnitude of +3.45, making it one of the brighter members of the constellation. The distance to this star... | Lambda Ursae Majoris | Astronomy | 506 |
4,959,031 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demecarium%20bromide | Demecarium bromide, trade name Humorsol, is a carbamate parasympathomimetic drug that acts as an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor, and is used as a glaucoma medication. It is applied directly to the eye in order to reduce elevated intraocular pressure associated with glaucoma.
Demecarium causes constriction of the pupil... | Demecarium bromide | Chemistry | 295 |
22,056,752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum%20phases | Quantum phases are quantum states of matter at zero temperature. Even at zero temperature a quantum-mechanical system has quantum fluctuations and therefore can still support phase transitions. As a physical parameter is varied, quantum fluctuations can drive a phase transition into a different phase of matter. An exam... | Quantum phases | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 275 |
21,600,868 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiator%20%28engine%20cooling%29 | Radiators are heat exchangers used for cooling internal combustion engines, mainly in automobiles but also in piston-engined aircraft, railway locomotives, motorcycles, stationary generating plants or any similar use of such an engine.
Internal combustion engines are often cooled by circulating a liquid called engine ... | Radiator (engine cooling) | Chemistry,Technology,Engineering | 4,489 |
530,470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mycophenolic%20acid | Mycophenolic acid is an immunosuppressant medication used to prevent rejection following organ transplantation and to treat autoimmune conditions such as Crohn's disease and lupus. Specifically it is used following kidney, heart, and liver transplantation. It can be given by mouth or by injection into a vein. It comes ... | Mycophenolic acid | Chemistry | 2,587 |
23,435,056 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C7H9N | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C7H9N}}
The molecular formula C7H9N may refer to:
Benzylamine
Lutidines (dimethylpyridines)
2,4-Lutidine
2,6-Lutidine
3,5-Lutidine
N-Methylaniline
Toluidines
o-Toluidine
m-Toluidine
p-Toluidine | C7H9N | Chemistry | 90 |
1,248,062 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic%20news%20gathering | Electronic news gathering (ENG) or electronic journalism (EJ) is usage of electronic video and audio technologies by reporters to gather and present news instead of using film cameras. The term was coined during the rise of videotape technology in the 1970s. ENG can involve anything from a single reporter with a singl... | Electronic news gathering | Engineering | 2,256 |
18,749,313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video%20sculpture | A video sculpture is a type of video installation that integrates video into an object, environment, site or performance. The nature of video sculpture is that it utilizes the material of video in an innovative way in space and time, different from the standard traditional narrative screening where the video has a begi... | Video sculpture | Engineering | 578 |
29,157,715 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20ray%20tracing%20software | Ray tracing is a technique that can generate near photo-realistic computer images. A wide range of free software and commercial software is available for producing these images. This article lists notable ray-tracing software.
References
3D graphics software
Ray tracing
Ray tracing (graphics) | List of ray tracing software | Technology | 53 |
51,476,095 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20earth | Green earth, also known as terre verte and Verona green, is an inorganic pigment derived from the minerals celadonite and glauconite. Its chemical formula is .
First used by the ancient Romans, green earth has been identified on wall paintings at Pompeii and Dura-Europos. The Renaissance painter and writer Cennino Cen... | Green earth | Chemistry | 346 |
21,056,112 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powder%20mixture | A powder is an assembly of dry particles dispersed in air. If two different powders are mixed perfectly, theoretically, three types of powder mixtures can be obtained: the random mixture, the ordered mixture or the interactive mixture.
Different powder types
A powder is called free-flowing if the particles do not st... | Powder mixture | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 711 |
21,293,847 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nitrogen%20generator | Nitrogen generators and stations are stationary or mobile air-to-nitrogen production complexes.
Adsorption technology
Adsorption concept
The adsorption gas separation process in nitrogen generators is based on the phenomenon of fixing various gas mixture components by a solid substance called an adsorbent. This phe... | Nitrogen generator | Chemistry | 1,868 |
30,616,049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LG%20Optimus%202X | The LG Optimus 2X is a smartphone designed and manufactured by LG Electronics. The Optimus 2X is the world's first smartphone with a dual-core processor and the third phone in the LG Optimus-Android series. LG introduced the Optimus 2X on December 16, 2010 and the device first became available to consumers in South Kor... | LG Optimus 2X | Technology | 783 |
889,961 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contour%20crafting | Contour crafting is a building printing technology being researched by Behrokh Khoshnevis of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute (in the Viterbi School of Engineering) that uses a computer-controlled crane or gantry to build edifices rapidly and efficiently with substantially less man... | Contour crafting | Engineering | 511 |
9,566 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty%20set | In mathematics, the empty set or void set is the unique set having no elements; its size or cardinality (count of elements in a set) is zero. Some axiomatic set theories ensure that the empty set exists by including an axiom of empty set, while in other theories, its existence can be deduced. Many possible properties o... | Empty set | Mathematics | 2,233 |
2,984,167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-satellite%20service | Fixed-satellite service (FSS, or fixed-satellite radiocommunication service) is – according to article 1.21 of the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) Radio Regulations (RR) – defined as A radiocommunication service between earth stations at given positions, when one or more satellites are used; the given pos... | Fixed-satellite service | Engineering | 395 |
42,593,487 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HWB%20color%20model | HWB (Hue, Whiteness, Blackness) is a cylindrical-coordinate representation of points in an RGB color model, similar to HSL and HSV. It was developed by HSV’s creator Alvy Ray Smith in 1996 to address some of the issues with HSV. HWB was designed to be more intuitive for humans to use and slightly faster to compute. The... | HWB color model | Mathematics | 253 |
30,535,968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OMEGA%20process | The OMEGA process ("Only MEG Advantage") is a chemical process discovered by the Shell Global Solutions company that is used to produce ethylene glycol from ethylene. This process comprises two steps, the controlled oxidation of ethylene to ethylene oxide, and the net hydrolysis of ethylene oxide to monoethylene glycol... | OMEGA process | Chemistry | 517 |
396,482 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor%20Francis%20Hess | Victor Franz Hess (; 24 June 1883 – 17 December 1964) was an Austrian-American physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carl David Anderson "for his discovery of cosmic radiation".
Biography
He was born to Vinzenz Hess and Serafine Edle von Grossbauer-Waldstätt, in Waldstein Castle, near Peggau in St... | Victor Francis Hess | Physics,Chemistry | 918 |
12,197,537 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafosfamide | Mafosfamide (INN) is an oxazaphosphorine (cyclophosphamide-like) alkylating agent under investigation as a chemotherapeutic. It is metabolized by cytochrome P450 into 4-hydroxycyclophosphamide, which is then converted into aldophosphamide, which, in turn yields the cytotoxic metabolites phosphoramide mustard and acrol... | Mafosfamide | Chemistry | 151 |
59,603,661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interconnect%20%28integrated%20circuits%29 | In integrated circuits (ICs), interconnects are structures that connect two or more circuit elements (such as transistors) together electrically. The design and layout of interconnects on an IC is vital to its proper function, performance, power efficiency, reliability, and fabrication yield. The material interconnects... | Interconnect (integrated circuits) | Technology,Engineering | 1,855 |
52,288,281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalodiplosporium%20elegans | Cephalodiplosporium elegans is a species of fungus in the Nectriaceae.
References
Nectriaceae
Fungi described in 1961
Fungus species | Cephalodiplosporium elegans | Biology | 34 |
36,983,565 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel%20Boston | Nigel Boston (July 20, 1961 – March 31, 2024) was a British-American mathematician, who made notable contributions to algebraic number theory, group theory, and arithmetic geometry.
Biography
Boston attended Harvard University, earning his doctorate in 1987, under supervision of Barry Mazur. He was a Professor Emeritu... | Nigel Boston | Mathematics | 137 |
21,489,968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table%20data%20gateway | Table Data Gateway is a design pattern in which an object acts as a gateway to a database table. The idea is to separate the responsibility of fetching items from a database from the actual usages of those objects. Users of the gateway are then insulated from changes to the way objects are stored in the database.
Refe... | Table data gateway | Technology | 69 |
577,446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20DNA | Satellite DNA consists of very large arrays of tandemly repeating, non-coding DNA. Satellite DNA is the main component of functional centromeres, and form the main structural constituent of heterochromatin.
The name "satellite DNA" refers to the phenomenon that repetitions of a short DNA sequence tend to produce a dif... | Satellite DNA | Biology | 1,490 |
10,914,584 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luciano%20Maiani | Luciano Maiani (born 16 July 1941) is a Sammarinese physicist. He is best known for his prediction of the charm quark with Sheldon Glashow and John Iliopoulos (the "GIM mechanism").
Academic history
In 1964 Luciano Maiani received his degree in physics and he became a research associate at the Istituto Superiore di Sa... | Luciano Maiani | Physics | 884 |
62,296,569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient%20Array%20Radio%20Telescope | The Transient Array Radio Telescope (TART) is a low-cost open-source array radio telescope consisting of 24 all-sky GNSS receivers operating at the L1-band (1.575 GHz). TART was designed as an all-sky survey instrument for detecting radio bursts, as well as providing a test-bed for the development of new synthesis imag... | Transient Array Radio Telescope | Astronomy | 1,364 |
49,214,673 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agrocybe%20procera | Agrocybe procera is a species of agaric fungus in the family Strophariaceae. Found in Chile, it was described as new to science by mycologist Rolf Singer in 1969.
References
Fungi described in 1969
Fungi of Chile
Strophariaceae
Taxa named by Rolf Singer
Fungus species | Agrocybe procera | Biology | 63 |
35,044,818 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C36H53N7O6 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C36H53N7O6}}
The molecular formula C36H53N7O6 (molar mass: 679.85 g/mol, exact mass: 679.4057 u) may refer to:
Difelikefalin
Telaprevir
Molecular formulas | C36H53N7O6 | Physics,Chemistry | 68 |
38,399,162 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duplex%20strainers | Duplex strainer or twin basket strainer is a type of filter built into a fuel, oil or water piping system and it is used to remove large particles of dirt and debris. The duplex strainer system usually consists of two separate strainer baskets housings. The system also contains a valve handle placed between the two bas... | Duplex strainers | Chemistry,Engineering,Environmental_science | 265 |
1,516,049 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pylon%20%28architecture%29 | A pylon is a monumental gate of an Egyptian temple (Egyptian: bxn.t in the Manuel de Codage transliteration). The word comes from the Greek term 'gate'. It consists of two pyramidal towers, each tapered and surmounted by a cornice, joined by a less elevated section enclosing the entrance between them. The gate was gen... | Pylon (architecture) | Technology,Engineering | 429 |
923,556 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classifying%20space | In mathematics, specifically in homotopy theory, a classifying space BG of a topological group G is the quotient of a weakly contractible space EG (i.e., a topological space all of whose homotopy groups are trivial) by a proper free action of G. It has the property that any G principal bundle over a paracompact manifol... | Classifying space | Mathematics | 1,833 |
6,662,091 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluorescence%20anisotropy | Fluorescence anisotropy or fluorescence polarization is the phenomenon where the light emitted by a fluorophore has unequal intensities along different axes of polarization. Early pioneers in the field include Aleksander Jablonski, Gregorio Weber, and Andreas Albrecht. The principles of fluorescence polarization and so... | Fluorescence anisotropy | Chemistry,Biology | 2,007 |
42,570,879 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy-Safety%20and%20Energy-Economy | Energy-Safety and Energy-Economy () is a peer-reviewed scientific and technical journal covering energy safety and economy, safety regulations, personnel training, innovation, and recent trends in alternative power sources research. The editor-in-chief is Svetlana Zernes (). It was established in 2005 as Energy Safety ... | Energy-Safety and Energy-Economy | Environmental_science | 227 |
17,193,739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noisy%20text | Noisy text is text with differences between the surface form of a coded representation of the text and the intended, correct, or original text. The noise may be due to typographic errors or colloquialisms always present in natural language and usually lowers the data quality in a way that makes the text less accessible... | Noisy text | Mathematics | 317 |
48,363,641 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial%20turf%E2%80%93cancer%20hypothesis | Artificial turf is surface of synthetic fibers resembling natural grass. It is widely used for sports fields for being more hard-wearing and resistant than natural surfaces. Most use infills of crumb rubber from recycled tires; this use is controversial because of concerns that the tires contain carcinogens, though re... | Artificial turf–cancer hypothesis | Chemistry | 1,030 |
39,800,770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated%20modification%20methodology | Integrated modification methodology (IMM) is a procedure encompassing an open set of scientific techniques for morphologically analyzing the built environment in a multiscale manner and evaluating its performance in actual states or under specific design scenarios.
The methodology is structured around a nonlinear phas... | Integrated modification methodology | Engineering,Environmental_science | 1,896 |
11,884,960 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensin | Extensins are a family of flexuous, rodlike, hydroxyproline-rich glycoproteins (HRGPs) of the plant cell wall.
They are highly abundant proteins. There are around 20 extensins in Arabidopsis thaliana. They form crosslinked networks in the young cell wall. Typically they have two major diagnostic repetitive peptide mo... | Extensin | Chemistry | 431 |
16,341,729 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tape%20transport | A tape transport is the collection of parts of a magnetic tape player or recorder that move the tape and play or record it. Transport parts include the head, capstan, pinch roller, tape pins, and tape guide. The tape transport as a whole is called the transport mechanism.
Tape head
The tape head is the part of a tape... | Tape transport | Technology | 768 |
2,218,814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern%20hairy-nosed%20wombat | The northern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus krefftii) or yaminon is one of three extant species of Australian marsupials known as wombats. It is one of the rarest land mammals in the world and is critically endangered. Its historical range previously extended across New South Wales, Victoria, and Queensland, and as re... | Northern hairy-nosed wombat | Biology | 2,271 |
35,819,355 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conference%20on%20Computer%20Communications | The IEEE Conference on Computer Communications (INFOCOM) addresses key topics and issues related to computer communications, with emphasis on traffic management and protocols for both wired and wireless networks.
The first INFOCOM conference took place in the United States in Las Vegas, Nevada, in 1982. Since then it ... | Conference on Computer Communications | Technology | 102 |
784,781 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global%20city | A global city is a city that serves as a primary node in the global economic network. The concept originates from geography and urban studies, based on the thesis that globalization has created a hierarchy of strategic geographic locations with varying degrees of influence over finance, trade, and culture worldwide. Th... | Global city | Mathematics | 1,410 |
21,806,224 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipbuilding%20contract | Shipbuilding contract, which is the contract for the complete construction of a ship, concerns the sales of future goods, so the property could not pass title at the time when the contract is concluded. The aim of shipbuilding contract is to regulate a substantial and complex project which the builders and buyers assum... | Shipbuilding contract | Engineering | 1,191 |
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