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2,616,739 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Particle%20zoo | In particle physics, the term particle zoo is used colloquially to describe the relatively extensive list of known subatomic particles by comparison to the variety of species in a zoo.
In the history of particle physics, the topic of particles was considered to be particularly confusing in the late 1960s. Before the d... | Particle zoo | Physics | 241 |
39,575,312 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affine%20gauge%20theory | Affine gauge theory is classical gauge theory where gauge fields are affine connections on the tangent bundle over a smooth manifold . For instance, these are gauge theory of dislocations in continuous media when , the generalization of metric-affine gravitation theory when is a world manifold and, in particular, gaug... | Affine gauge theory | Physics | 1,230 |
67,989,719 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crohns%20MAP%20Vaccine | The Crohns MAP Vaccine is an experimental Viral vector vaccine intended to prevent or treat Crohn's disease, by provoking an immune response to one possible causative agent of the disease, Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis. The vaccine is currently about to begin Phase 2 of its development. One of the scienti... | Crohns MAP Vaccine | Biology | 115 |
2,880,043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rho%20Arietis | The Bayer designation Rho Arietis (ρ Arietis, abbreviated to ρ Ari) is shared by three stars in the constellation of Aries:
ρ¹ Arietis (44 Arietis), an A-type main sequence star.
ρ² Arietis (45 Arietis), an M-type giant star.
ρ³ Arietis (46 Arietis), an F-type main sequence star.
In some instances, ρ³ Arietis is ... | Rho Arietis | Astronomy | 120 |
12,192,441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet%20rim%20block | A toilet rim block is a substance in the shape of a block that is used in flush toilets, which slowly dissolves in water. The blocks usually come in a small holder that is attached over the rim of a toilet and hangs down into the bowl, so as the toilet gets flushed, the water passes through the holder coming into conta... | Toilet rim block | Chemistry,Biology | 446 |
7,399,069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-Ethylpentane | 3-Ethylpentane (C7H16) is a branched saturated hydrocarbon. It is an alkane, and one of the many structural isomers of heptane, consisting of a five carbon chain with a two carbon branch at the middle carbon.
An example of an alcohol derived from 3-ethylpentane is the tertiary alcohol 3-ethylpentan-3-ol.
References
... | 3-Ethylpentane | Chemistry | 94 |
39,641,481 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mapcode | The mapcode system is an open-source geocode system consisting of two groups of letters and digits, separated by a dot. It represents a location on the surface of the Earth, within the context of a separately specified country or territory. For example, the entrance to the elevator of the Eiffel Tower in Paris is “Fran... | Mapcode | Mathematics | 1,030 |
3,313,334 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud%20point | In liquids, the cloud point is the temperature below which a transparent solution undergoes either a liquid-liquid phase separation to form an emulsion or a liquid-solid phase transition to form either a stable sol or a suspension that settles as precipitate. The cloud point is analogous to the 'dew point' at which a ... | Cloud point | Chemistry | 956 |
58,624,238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%201898 | NGC 1898 is a globular cluster in the constellation of Dorado at an approximate distance of 170,000 light-years. NGC 1898 is located in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, and was for some time believed to be discovered by John Herschel in 1834; however recent research shows it was first ob... | NGC 1898 | Astronomy | 93 |
1,059,742 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire%20brick | A fire brick, firebrick, fireclay brick, or refractory brick is a block of ceramic material used in lining furnaces, kilns, fireboxes, and fireplaces. A refractory brick is built primarily to withstand high temperature, but will also usually have a low thermal conductivity for greater energy efficiency. Usually dense ... | Fire brick | Physics | 856 |
6,050,376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metz%20%28company%29 | Metz-Werke GmbH & Co. KG was a German consumer electronic manufacturer, Besides Loewe and TechniSat, Metz was the only remaining TV manufacturer which developed and produced their devices in Germany. Its head office is in Zirndorf, Bavaria. The company filed for insolvency in 2014 and backed up by new investors now re... | Metz (company) | Engineering | 1,783 |
4,336,426 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torula | Torula (Cyberlindnera jadinii) is a species of yeast.
Use
Torula, in its inactive form (usually labeled as torula yeast), is widely used as a flavoring in processed foods and pet foods. It is often grown on wood liquor, a byproduct of paper production, which is rich in wood sugars (xylose). It is pasteurized and spra... | Torula | Biology | 376 |
1,390,368 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive%20by%20wire | Drive by wire or DbW in the automotive industry is the technology that uses electronics or electro-mechanical systems in place of mechanical linkages to control driving functions. The concept is similar to fly-by-wire in the aviation industry. Drive-by-wire may refer to just the propulsion of the vehicle through elect... | Drive by wire | Engineering | 1,470 |
22,822,116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PA%20degree | In the mathematical field of computability theory, a PA degree is a Turing degree that computes a complete extension of Peano arithmetic (Jockusch 1987). These degrees are closely related to fixed-point-free (DNR) functions, and have been thoroughly investigated in recursion theory.
Background
In recursion theory, ... | PA degree | Mathematics | 1,096 |
34,927,770 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convective%20mixing | In fluid dynamics, convective mixing is the vertical transport of a fluid and its properties. In many important ocean and atmospheric phenomena, convection is driven by density differences in the fluid, e.g. the sinking of cold, dense water in polar regions of the world's oceans; and the rising of warm, less-dense air ... | Convective mixing | Physics,Chemistry | 129 |
68,511,809 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutetium%28III%29%20nitrate | Lutetium(III) nitrate is an inorganic compound, a salt of lutetium and nitric acid with the chemical formula Lu(NO3)3. The compound forms colorless crystals, dissolves in water, and also forms crystalline hydrates. The compound is poisonous.
Synthesis
Dissolving lutetium oxide in nitric acid:
To obtain anhydrous nitr... | Lutetium(III) nitrate | Chemistry | 249 |
80,849 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seashell | A seashell or sea shell, also known simply as a shell, is a hard, protective outer layer usually created by an animal or organism that lives in the sea. Most seashells are made by mollusks, such as snails, clams, and oysters to protect their soft insides. Empty seashells are often found washed up on beaches by beachcom... | Seashell | Biology | 5,762 |
23,208,230 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meter%20data%20management | Meter data management (MDM) refers to software that performs long-term data storage and management for the vast quantities of data delivered by smart metering systems. This data consists primarily of usage data and events that are imported from the head-end servers managing the data collection in advanced metering inf... | Meter data management | Chemistry,Technology,Engineering | 568 |
20,895,383 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiffits | Spiffits are a group of branded products, launched in April 1989 as the first complete line of pre-moistened household cleaning towelettes.
The line included a glass cleaner, furniture polish, a soft scouring cleanser, bathroom cleaner and a multi-surface cleaner and competed against similar individual products sold ... | Spiffits | Chemistry | 304 |
73,558,859 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch%20number | In cryptography, the branch number is a numerical value that characterizes the amount of diffusion introduced by a vectorial Boolean function that maps an input vector to output vector . For the (usual) case of a linear the value of the differential branch number is produced by:
applying nonzero values of (i.e., v... | Branch number | Mathematics,Engineering | 364 |
5,135,754 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fej%C3%A9r%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Fejér's theorem, named after Hungarian mathematician Lipót Fejér, states the following:
Explanation of Fejér's Theorem's
Explicitly, we can write the Fourier series of f as
where the nth partial sum of the Fourier series of f may be written as
where the Fourier coefficients are
Then, we can define
... | Fejér's theorem | Mathematics | 845 |
34,826,296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxing | Doxing, also spelled doxxing, is the act of publicly providing personally identifiable information about an individual or organization, usually via the Internet and without their consent. Historically, the term has been used to refer to both the aggregation of this information from public databases and social media web... | Doxing | Technology,Engineering | 3,826 |
23,289,685 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moo%20box | The moo box or moo can is a toy or a souvenir, also used as a hearing test. When turned upside down, it produces a noise that resembles the mooing of a cow. The toy can be configured to create other animal sounds such as the meow of a cat, the chirp of a bird, or the bleat of a sheep.
Construction
The moo box consists... | Moo box | Physics,Technology | 712 |
1,884,226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectrofluorometer | A spectrofluorometer is an instrument which takes advantage of fluorescent properties of some compounds in order to provide information regarding their concentration and chemical environment in a sample. A certain excitation wavelength is selected, and the emission is observed either at a single wavelength, or a scan i... | Spectrofluorometer | Physics,Chemistry | 408 |
143,533 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20fluorescent%20protein | The green fluorescent protein (GFP) is a protein that exhibits green fluorescence when exposed to light in the blue to ultraviolet range. The label GFP traditionally refers to the protein first isolated from the jellyfish Aequorea victoria and is sometimes called avGFP. However, GFPs have been found in other organisms... | Green fluorescent protein | Chemistry,Biology | 6,146 |
39,305,846 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical%20variety | In algebraic geometry, given a reductive algebraic group G and a Borel subgroup B, a spherical variety is a G-variety with an open dense B-orbit. It is sometimes also assumed to be normal. Examples are flag varieties, symmetric spaces and (affine or projective) toric varieties.
There is also a notion of real spherical... | Spherical variety | Mathematics | 492 |
73,059,571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard%20Rock%20%28exercise%29 | Hard Rock (sometimes Operation Hard Rock or the Hard Rock exercise) was a British civil defence exercise planned by the Conservative government to take place in September–October 1982. One of a series of regular national civil defence exercises, it followed Square Leg in 1980. As the public reaction to the scale of de... | Hard Rock (exercise) | Chemistry | 2,098 |
408,116 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9union%20ibis | The Réunion ibis or Réunion sacred ibis (Threskiornis solitarius) is an extinct species of ibis that was endemic to the volcanic island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. The first subfossil remains were found in 1974, and the ibis was first scientifically described in 1987. Its closest relatives are the Malagasy sacred i... | Réunion ibis | Biology | 4,721 |
34,963,497 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insignificance | People may face feelings of insignificance due to a number of causes, including having low self-esteem, being depressed, living in a huge, impersonal city, comparing themselves to wealthy celebrity success stories, working in a huge bureaucracy, or being in awe of a natural wonder.
Psychological factors
A person's "..... | Insignificance | Biology | 1,844 |
52,102,225 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%20318 | NGC 318 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It was discovered on November 29, 1850 by Bindon Stoney.
References
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003465 | NGC 318 | Astronomy | 50 |
25,692,725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit-reversal%20permutation | In applied mathematics, a bit-reversal permutation is a permutation of a sequence of items, where is a power of two. It is defined by indexing the elements of the sequence by the numbers from to , representing each of these numbers by its binary representation (padded to have length exactly ), and mapping each item ... | Bit-reversal permutation | Mathematics | 1,336 |
56,487,811 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histology%20and%20Histopathology | Histology and Histopathology is a monthly peer-reviewed medical journal publishing original and review articles in the fields of histology and histopathology. It was established in 1986 and is published by the University of Murcia in Spain. The editors-in-chief are Francisco Hernández and Juan F. Madrid (University of ... | Histology and Histopathology | Chemistry | 121 |
66,209,912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet%20of%20vehicles | Internet of vehicles (IoV) is a network of vehicles equipped with sensors, software, and the technologies that mediate between these with the aim of connecting & exchanging data over the Internet according to agreed standards. IoV evolved from Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks ("VANET", a category of mobile ad hoc network used... | Internet of vehicles | Technology | 427 |
19,905,369 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAPTOR%20%28software%29 | RAPTOR is protein threading software used for protein structure prediction. It has been replaced by RaptorX, which is much more accurate than RAPTOR.
Comparison of techniques
Protein threading vs. homology modeling
Researchers attempting to solve a protein's structure start their study with little more than a protei... | RAPTOR (software) | Chemistry | 1,362 |
833,814 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald%20Hawkins | Gerald Stanley Hawkins (20 April 1928– 26 May 2003) was a British-born American astronomer and author noted for his work in the field of archaeoastronomy. A professor and chair of the astronomy department at Boston University in the United States, he published in 1963 an analysis of Stonehenge in which he was the firs... | Gerald Hawkins | Astronomy | 917 |
43,222,381 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huawei%204G%20eLTE | 4G eLTE is Huawei's proprietary derivative of the LTE standard, the "e" standing for "enhanced", intended to provide wireless broadband transmission with peak downlink speeds of 50 Mbit/s and 20 Mbit/s uplink per site in 5 MHz, 10 MHz and 15 MHz frequencies.
See also
Emergency operations center
High Speed Packet Acc... | Huawei 4G eLTE | Technology | 123 |
68,484,446 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arden%20Warner | Arden Warner (born 1965 or 1964) is a Barbadian-American particle physicist and inventor, working at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab), notable for the creation of a novel environmentally positive, magnetism-based method for cleaning up oil spills, now being developed by Fermilab and a company led by... | Arden Warner | Physics | 740 |
24,920,595 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rawnsley%27s%20bowerbird | Rawnsley's bowerbird, also known as Rawnsley's satin bird or the blue regent, is a rare intergeneric hybrid between a satin bowerbird (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus) and a regent bowerbird (Sericulus chrysocephalus).
Type specimen
It is based on a unique specimen collected by Henry Charles Rawnsley at Witton, near Brisba... | Rawnsley's bowerbird | Biology | 373 |
2,973,816 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stickum | Stickum is a trademark adhesive of Mueller Sports Medicine, of Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, United States. It is available in powder, paste, and aerosol spray forms. According to the company website, the spray form helps improve grip "even in wet conditions". Suggested uses include for bat handles and vaulting poles, w... | Stickum | Physics | 291 |
4,820,337 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer%20repair%20technician | A computer repair technician is a person who repairs and maintains computers and servers. The technician's responsibilities may extend to include building or configuring new hardware, installing and updating software packages, and creating and maintaining computer networks.
Overview
Computer technicians work in a vari... | Computer repair technician | Technology | 1,293 |
7,056,912 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clootie%20well | A clootie well is a holy well (or sacred spring), almost always with a tree growing beside it, where small strips of cloth or ribbons are left as part of a healing ritual, usually by tying them to branches of the tree (called a clootie tree or rag tree). Clootie wells are places of pilgrimage usually found in Celtic ar... | Clootie well | Environmental_science | 1,299 |
8,860,450 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel%20water | Laurel water is distilled from the fresh leaves of the cherry laurel, and contains the poison prussic acid (hydrocyanic acid), along with other products carried over in the process.
Pharmacological usage
Historically, the water (Latin aqua laurocerasi) was used for asthma, coughs, indigestion and dyspepsia, and as a s... | Laurel water | Environmental_science | 141 |
20,723,155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaede%20%28protein%29 | Kaede is a photoactivatable fluorescent protein naturally originated from a stony coral, Trachyphyllia geoffroyi. Its name means "maple" in Japanese. With the irradiation of ultraviolet light (350–400 nm), Kaede undergoes irreversible photoconversion from green fluorescence to red fluorescence.
Kaede is a homotetramer... | Kaede (protein) | Chemistry,Biology | 1,546 |
73,267,330 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ville%27s%20inequality | In probability theory, Ville's inequality provides an upper bound on the probability that a supermartingale exceeds a certain value. The inequality is named after Jean Ville, who proved it in 1939.
The inequality has applications in statistical testing.
Statement
Let be a non-negative supermartingale. Then, for any ... | Ville's inequality | Mathematics | 94 |
2,408,459 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welte-Mignon | M. Welte & Sons, Freiburg and New York was a manufacturer of orchestrions, organs and reproducing pianos, established in Vöhrenbach by Michael Welte (1807–1880) in 1832.
Overview
From 1832 until 1932, the firm produced mechanical musical instruments of the highest quality. The firm's founder, Michael Welte (1807-1880... | Welte-Mignon | Physics,Technology | 2,265 |
4,698,944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20issue-tracking%20systems | Notable issue tracking systems, including bug tracking systems, help desk and service desk issue tracking systems, as well as asset management systems, include the following. The comparison includes client-server application, distributed and hosted systems.
General
System names listed with a light purple background ... | Comparison of issue-tracking systems | Technology | 107 |
245,944 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durability%20%28database%20systems%29 | In database systems, durability is the ACID property that guarantees that the effects of transactions that have been committed will survive permanently, even in cases of failures, including incidents and catastrophic events. For example, if a flight booking reports that a seat has successfully been booked, then the sea... | Durability (database systems) | Engineering | 1,697 |
1,000,609 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallasite | Dallasite is a breccia made of subequant to rectangular or distinctly elongate, curvilinear shards that represent the spalled rims of pillow basalt (see: Hyaloclastite). This material is commonly partly altered to chlorite, epidote, quartz and carbonate, for which the local term 'dallasite' has been coined. The stone ... | Dallasite | Physics,Materials_science | 146 |
59,222,107 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pairing%20strategy | In a positional game, a pairing strategy is a strategy that a player can use to guarantee victory, or at least force a draw. It is based on dividing the positions on the game-board into disjoint pairs. Whenever the opponent picks a position in a pair, the player picks the other position in the same pair.
Example
Cons... | Pairing strategy | Mathematics | 660 |
9,830,701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20tallest%20statues | This list of tallest statues includes completed statues that are at least tall. The height values in this list are measured to the highest part of the human (or animal) figure, but exclude the height of any pedestal (plinth), or other base platform as well as any mast, spire, or other structure that extends higher tha... | List of tallest statues | Physics,Mathematics | 290 |
40,646,378 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehurst%20Historic%20Preservation%20Overlay%20Zone | The Stonehurst Historic Preservation Overlay Zone is located in the Sun Valley neighborhood of Los Angeles, in the northeastern San Fernando Valley.
It is a city-designated Historic Preservation Overlay Zone (HPOZ).
Architecture
Most of the 92 homes were built between 1923 and 1925 by Dan Montelongo, using local rive... | Stonehurst Historic Preservation Overlay Zone | Engineering | 223 |
2,546,505 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mogul%20lamp | A mogul lamp or six way lamp is a floor lamp which has a large center light bulb surrounded by three (or four) smaller bulbs that may be candelabra-style or standard medium-base bulbs, each mounted base-down. This entire setting is typically covered, at least partially, by a large cylindrical (or bell-shaped) fabric s... | Mogul lamp | Engineering | 549 |
4,163,498 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum%20Data%20Set | The Minimum Data Set (MDS) is part of the U.S. federally mandated process for clinical assessment of all residents in Medicare or Medicaid certified nursing homes and non-critical access hospitals with Medicare swing bed agreements. (The term "swing bed" refers to the Social Security Act's authorizing small, rural hosp... | Minimum Data Set | Biology | 517 |
149,306 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National%20Center%20for%20Biotechnology%20Information | The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is part of the (NLM), a branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). It is approved and funded by the government of the United States. The NCBI is located in Bethesda, Maryland, and was founded in 1988 through legislation sponsored by US Congressman Claude ... | National Center for Biotechnology Information | Engineering,Biology | 1,357 |
46,868,492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verticillium%20zaregamsianum | Verticillium zaregamsianum is a fungus often found in lettuce in Japan. It can cause verticillium wilt in some plant species. It produces yellow-pigmented hyphae and microsclerotia, while producing few chlamydospores and with sparse resting mycelium. It is most closely related to V. tricorpus.
References
Further read... | Verticillium zaregamsianum | Biology | 242 |
51,100,867 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algestone%20acetonide | Algestone acetonide (developmental code name W-3395), also known as algestone 16α,17α-acetonide or 16α,17α-isopropylidenedioxyprogesterone, is a progestin which was never marketed. It is the acetonide cyclic ketal of algestone. Another progestin, algestone acetophenide, in contrast, has been marketed.
Chemistry
Refer... | Algestone acetonide | Chemistry | 119 |
11,708,313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sodium%20nonanoyloxybenzenesulfonate | Sodium nonanoyloxybenzenesulfonate (NOBS) is an important component of laundry detergents and bleaches. It is known as a bleach activator for active oxygen sources, allowing formulas containing hydrogen peroxide releasing chemicals (specifically sodium perborate, sodium percarbonate, sodium perphosphate, sodium persul... | Sodium nonanoyloxybenzenesulfonate | Chemistry,Technology | 318 |
168,651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-performance%20liquid%20chromatography | High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), formerly referred to as high-pressure liquid chromatography, is a technique in analytical chemistry used to separate, identify, and quantify specific components in mixtures. The mixtures can originate from food, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, biological, environmental and agr... | High-performance liquid chromatography | Chemistry | 10,890 |
36,626,511 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6%20Equulei | 6 Equulei is a probable (95% chance) astrometric binary star system in the northern constellation of Equuleus, located 380 light years from the Sun. It is barely visible to the naked eye as a dim, white-hued star with an apparent visual magnitude of 6.07. The system is moving further away from the Earth with a heliocen... | 6 Equulei | Astronomy | 302 |
2,827,774 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charpy%20impact%20test | In materials science, the Charpy impact test, also known as the Charpy V-notch test, is a standardized high strain rate test which determines the amount of energy absorbed by a material during fracture. Absorbed energy is a measure of the material's notch toughness. It is widely used in industry, since it is easy to pr... | Charpy impact test | Materials_science,Engineering | 1,257 |
37,662,627 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greystone%20%28architecture%29 | Greystones are a style of residential building most commonly found in Chicago, Illinois, United States. As the name suggests, the buildings are typically grey in color and were most often built with Bedford Limestone quarried from South Central Indiana. In Chicago, there are roughly 30,000 greystones, usually built as ... | Greystone (architecture) | Physics,Engineering | 607 |
2,993,703 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20position%20measurement | Data position measurement (DPM) is a CD and DVD copy protection mechanism that operates by measuring the physical location of data on an optical disc. Stamped CDs are perfect clones and always have the data at the expected location, while a burned copy would exhibit physical differences. DPM detects these differences t... | Data position measurement | Technology | 203 |
2,994,661 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%20number | In fluid dynamics and thermodynamics, the Lewis number (denoted ) is a dimensionless number defined as the ratio of thermal diffusivity to mass diffusivity. It is used to characterize fluid flows where there is simultaneous heat and mass transfer. The Lewis number puts the thickness of the thermal boundary layer in rel... | Lewis number | Chemistry,Engineering | 254 |
151,694 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar%20%28computing%29 | In computing, tar is a computer software utility for collecting many files into one archive file, often referred to as a tarball, for distribution or backup purposes. The name is derived from "tape archive", as it was originally developed to write data to sequential I/O devices with no file system of their own, such a... | Tar (computing) | Technology | 4,310 |
47,666,123 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal%20of%20Integer%20Sequences | The Journal of Integer Sequences is a peer-reviewed open-access academic journal in mathematics, specializing in research papers about integer sequences.
It was founded in 1998 by Neil Sloane. Sloane had previously published two books on integer sequences, and in 1996 he founded the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Seq... | Journal of Integer Sequences | Mathematics | 221 |
430,988 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean%20time%20to%20recovery | Mean time to recovery (MTTR) is the average time that a device will take to recover from any failure. Examples of such devices range from self-resetting fuses (where the MTTR would be very short, probably seconds), to whole systems which have to be repaired or replaced.
The MTTR would usually be part of a maintenance ... | Mean time to recovery | Engineering | 352 |
2,898,227 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch%20control%20%28automotive%29 | Launch control is an electronic aid to assist drivers of both racing and street cars to accelerate from a standing start. Motorcycles have been variously fitted with mechanical and electronic devices for both street and race.
Popular automobiles with launch control include the BMW M series, certain marques of the Volk... | Launch control (automotive) | Physics | 1,394 |
21,463,296 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game%20theory%20in%20communication%20networks | Game theory has been used as a tool for modeling and studying interactions between cognitive radios envisioned to operate in future communications systems. Such terminals will have the capability to adapt to the context they operate in, through possibly power and rate control as well as channel selection. Software agen... | Game theory in communication networks | Mathematics | 786 |
39,541,470 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divided%20visual%20field%20paradigm | The Divided Visual Field Paradigm is an experimental technique that involves measuring task performance when visual stimuli are presented on the left or right visual hemifields. If a visual stimulus appears in the left visual field (LVF), the visual information is initially projected to the right cerebral hemisphere (... | Divided visual field paradigm | Biology | 921 |
7,912,154 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body%20Wars | Body Wars was a motion simulator attraction inside the Wonders of Life pavilion at the Walt Disney World Resort's Epcot. Riders would be taken on a mission by the fictional Miniaturized Exploration Technologies corporation (Stylized as MET) to study the effects of the white blood cells on a splinter inside the left ind... | Body Wars | Physics | 1,406 |
267,787 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubbing%20alcohol | Rubbing alcohol, also known as surgical spirit in some regions, refers to a group of denatured alcohols commonly used as topical antiseptics. These solutions are primarily composed of either isopropyl alcohol (isopropanol) or ethanol, with isopropyl alcohol being the more widely available formulation. Rubbing alcohol i... | Rubbing alcohol | Chemistry | 930 |
165,320 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodrell%20Bank%20Observatory | Jodrell Bank Observatory ( ) in Cheshire, England hosts a number of radio telescopes as part of the Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics at the University of Manchester. The observatory was established in 1945 by Bernard Lovell, a radio astronomer at the university, to investigate cosmic rays after his work on radar in... | Jodrell Bank Observatory | Astronomy | 4,676 |
66,497,133 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruceanol%20B | Bruceanol B is a cytotoxic quassinoid isolated from Brucea antidysenterica with potential antitumor and antileukemic properties.
See also
Bruceanol
References
Quassinoids | Bruceanol B | Chemistry | 48 |
10,045,226 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large%20Scale%20Concept%20Ontology%20for%20Multimedia | The Large-Scale Concept Ontology for Multimedia project was a series of workshops held from April 2004 to September 2006 for the purpose of defining a standard formal vocabulary for the annotation and retrieval of video.
Mandate
The Large-Scale Concept Ontology for Multimedia project was sponsored by the Disruptive T... | Large Scale Concept Ontology for Multimedia | Technology | 808 |
56,789,136 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonkin%20weasel | The Tonkin weasel or Vietnamese mountain weasel (Mustela tonkinensis) is a species of weasel described by Björkegren in 1941. It is known only from a singular specimen collected from an undisclosed location in Northern Vietnam. Originally believed to be a form of either the least weasel or the yellow-bellied weasel, th... | Tonkin weasel | Biology | 589 |
10,930,626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Description%20error | A description error or selection error is an error, or more specifically a human error, that occurs when a person performs the correct action on the wrong object due to insufficient specification of an action which would have led to a desired result. This commonly happens when similar actions lead to different results.... | Description error | Engineering,Biology | 219 |
21,710,054 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polychloro%20phenoxy%20phenol | Polychloro phenoxy phenols (polychlorinated phenoxy phenols, PCPPs) are a group of organic polyhalogenated compounds. Among them include triclosan and predioxin which can degrade to produce certains types of dioxins and furans. Notably, however, the particular dioxin formed by degradation of triclosan, 2,8-DCDD, was ... | Polychloro phenoxy phenol | Chemistry,Engineering | 117 |
28,734,047 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animalia%20Paradoxa | (Latin for "contradictory animals"; cf. paradox) are the mythical, magical or otherwise suspect animals mentioned in the first five editions of Carl Linnaeus's seminal work under the header "Paradoxa". It lists fantastic creatures found in medieval bestiaries and some animals reported by explorers from abroad and expl... | Animalia Paradoxa | Biology | 1,553 |
44,818,034 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truss%20%28unit%29 | A truss is a tight bundle of hay or straw. It would usually be cuboid, for storage or shipping, and would either be harvested into such bundles or cut from a large rick.
Markets and law
Hay and straw were important commodities in the pre-industrial era. Hay was required as fodder for animals, especially horses, and... | Truss (unit) | Physics,Mathematics | 378 |
25,244,065 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La%20Pedrera%20de%20R%C3%BAbies%20Formation | The La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, also called as La Pedrera de Meià is an Early Cretaceous (late Berriasian to early Barremian geologic formation in Catalonia, Spain. The formation crops out in the area of the Montsec in the Organyà Basin. At the La Pedrera de Meià locality, the formation consists of rhythmically lam... | La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation | Physics | 966 |
4,489,440 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSSPM%20J1549-3544 | SSSPM J1549-3544 is a star in the constellation Lupus with high proper motion. It was initially found to have high proper motion in a 2003 survey of images taken by the optical SuperCOSMOS Sky Surveys and by the near-infrared sky surveys 2MASS and DENIS. It was then thought to be a cool white dwarf close to the Sun. ... | SSSPM J1549-3544 | Astronomy | 125 |
37,068,575 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International%20Council%20of%20Chemical%20Associations | The International Council of Chemical Associations (ICCA) is the trade association of the global chemical industry. Its members are both regional trade associations like Cefic or the Gulf Petrochemicals and Chemicals Association, and also national associations including the American Chemistry Council.
According to its... | International Council of Chemical Associations | Chemistry | 167 |
844,841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermediate-density%20lipoprotein | Intermediate-density lipoproteins (IDLs) belong to the lipoprotein particle family and are formed from the degradation of very low-density lipoproteins as well as high-density lipoproteins. IDL is one of the five major groups of lipoproteins (chylomicrons, VLDL, IDL, LDL, HDL) that enable fats and cholesterol to move w... | Intermediate-density lipoprotein | Chemistry | 581 |
844,938 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga%20Old%20File%20System | On the Amiga, the Old File System, sometimes also called Amiga File System, was the filesystem for AmigaOS before the Amiga Fast File System. Even though it used 512-byte blocks, it reserved the first small portion of each block for metadata, leaving an actual data block capacity of 488 bytes per block. It wasn't very ... | Amiga Old File System | Technology | 1,229 |
43,371,589 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Callistosporium%20luteo-olivaceum | Callistosporium luteo-olivaceum is a species of agaric fungus in the family Callistosporiaceae. It was originally described in 1859 as Agaricus luteo-olivaceus by Miles Joseph Berkeley and Moses Ashley Curtis in 1859. Rolf Singer transferred it to Callistosporium in 1946. The fungus has an extensive synonymy. Although ... | Callistosporium luteo-olivaceum | Biology | 209 |
71,980,146 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary%20of%20mycology | This glossary of mycology is a list of definitions of terms and concepts relevant to mycology, the study of fungi. Terms in common with other fields, if repeated here, generally focus on their mycology-specific meaning. Related terms can be found in glossary of biology and glossary of botany, among others. List of Lati... | Glossary of mycology | Biology | 163 |
2,358,741 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odometry | Odometry is the use of data from motion sensors to estimate change in position over time. It is used in robotics by some legged or wheeled robots to estimate their position relative to a starting location. This method is sensitive to errors due to the integration of velocity measurements over time to give position esti... | Odometry | Engineering | 538 |
2,722,325 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Group%20code | In coding theory, group codes are a type of code. Group codes consist of
linear block codes which are subgroups of , where is a finite Abelian group.
A systematic group code is a code over of order defined by homomorphisms which determine the parity check bits. The remaining bits are the information bits themse... | Group code | Mathematics | 164 |
27,915,795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Process%20analytical%20chemistry | Process analytical chemistry (PAC) is the application of analytical chemistry with specialized techniques, algorithms, and sampling equipment for solving problems related to chemical processes. It is a specialized form of analytical chemistry used for process manufacturing similar to process analytical technology (PAT)... | Process analytical chemistry | Chemistry,Materials_science,Biology | 469 |
69,687,865 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elburt%20F.%20Osborn | Elburt Franklin Osborn (August 13, 1911 – January 19, 1998) was an American geochemist and educator. He served as the 13th director of the U.S. Bureau of Mines.
Early life
Elburt Franklin Osborn was born on August 13, 1911, in Kishwaukee, Illinois to Anna (née Sherman) and William Franklin Osborn. Osborn graduated wit... | Elburt F. Osborn | Chemistry | 812 |
495,236 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rho%20factor | A ρ factor (Rho factor) is a bacterial protein involved in the termination of transcription. Rho factor binds to the transcription terminator pause site, an exposed region of single stranded RNA (a stretch of 72 nucleotides) after the open reading frame at C-rich/G-poor sequences that lack obvious secondary structure.
... | Rho factor | Chemistry,Biology | 795 |
39,484,358 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ParABS%20system | The parABS system is a broadly conserved molecular mechanism for plasmid partitioning and chromosome segregation in bacteria. Originally identified as a genetic element required for faithful partitioning of low-copy-number plasmids, it consists of three components: the ParA ATPase, the ParB DNA-binding protein, and th... | ParABS system | Biology | 312 |
34,624,069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siconos | SICONOS is an open source scientific software primarily targeted at
modeling and simulating non-smooth dynamical systems (NSDS):
Mechanical systems (Rigid body or solid) with Unilateral contact and Coulomb friction as we find in Non-smooth mechanics, Contact dynamics or Granular material.
Switched Electrical Circuit... | Siconos | Physics,Mathematics | 493 |
54,575,571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explainable%20artificial%20intelligence | Explainable AI (XAI), often overlapping with interpretable AI, or explainable machine learning (XML), is a field of research within artificial intelligence (AI) that explores methods that provide humans with the ability of intellectual oversight over AI algorithms. The main focus is on the reasoning behind the decision... | Explainable artificial intelligence | Engineering | 5,054 |
594,043 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrel%20%28unit%29 | A barrel is one of several units of volume applied in various contexts; there are dry barrels, fluid barrels (such as the U.K. beer barrel and U.S. beer barrel), oil barrels, and so forth. For historical reasons the volumes of some barrel units are roughly double the volumes of others; volumes in common use range appro... | Barrel (unit) | Chemistry,Mathematics | 3,044 |
75,127,626 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Your%20Favourite%20London%20Sounds | Your Favourite London Sounds is an album compiled by English musician Peter Cusack and released in November 2001 by the London Musicians Collective (LMC). It collects 40 field recordings of sounds around the English city of London, most of which were recorded by Cusack. The project originated when the LMC hosted a temp... | Your Favourite London Sounds | Engineering | 3,197 |
37,338,762 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical%20physiology | Mathematical physiology is an interdisciplinary science. Primarily, it investigates ways in which mathematics may be used to give insight into physiological questions. In turn, it also describes how physiological questions can lead to new mathematical problems. The field may be broadly grouped into two physiological ap... | Mathematical physiology | Mathematics,Biology | 95 |
12,747,972 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduct | In universal algebra and in model theory, a reduct of an algebraic structure is obtained by omitting some of the operations and relations of that structure. The opposite of "reduct" is "expansion".
Definition
Let A be an algebraic structure (in the sense of universal algebra) or a structure in the sense of model the... | Reduct | Mathematics | 332 |
8,031,376 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astilbe%20Arendsii%20Group | Astilbe Arendsii Group (Astilbe × arendsii) is a cultivar group of complex hybrids with A. astilboides, A. chinensis, A. japonica, A. thunbergii and others. They are all perennial, herbaceous plants with flowers in various shades from white to purplish red.
Numerous cultivars exist, a majority of them produced by bree... | Astilbe Arendsii Group | Biology | 171 |
14,439,920 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGR4 | Leucine-rich repeat-containing G-protein coupled receptor 4 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the LGR4 gene. LGR4 is known to have a role in the development of the male reproductive tract, eyelids, hair and bone.
Mutations in this gene have been associated to osteoporosis (doi:10.1038/nature12124).
References... | LGR4 | Chemistry | 90 |
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