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10,899,167 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toshihide%20Maskawa | was a Japanese theoretical physicist known for his work on CP-violation who was awarded one quarter of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the origin of the broken symmetry which predicts the existence of at least three families of quarks in nature."
Early life and education
Maskawa was born in Nagoy... | Toshihide Maskawa | Physics | 1,022 |
24,008,343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C4H7NO | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C4H7NO}}
The molecular formula C4H7NO (molar mass: 85.10 g/mol) may refer to:
Acetone cyanohydrin (ACH)
Methacrylamide
2-Pyrrolidone
N-Vinylacetamide (NVA)
Molecular formulas | C4H7NO | Physics,Chemistry | 75 |
51,239,611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno-authoritarianism | Techno-authoritarianism, also known as IT-backed authoritarianism, digital authoritarianism or digital dictatorship, refers to the state use of information technology in order to control or manipulate both foreign and domestic populations. Tactics of digital authoritarianism may include mass surveillance including thro... | Techno-authoritarianism | Engineering | 1,356 |
47,024,473 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kumdang-2 | Kumdang-2 is a cure for AIDS, Ebola, MERS, and tuberculosis created in North Korea. According to the website Minjok Tongshin, a version of the drug was originally produced in 1996. The name means "golden shower" in Korean.
It is manufactured by the Pugang Pharmaceutical Company. According to the Korean Central News Ag... | Kumdang-2 | Chemistry | 206 |
605,727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronecker%27s%20theorem | In mathematics, Kronecker's theorem is a theorem about diophantine approximation, introduced by .
Kronecker's approximation theorem had been firstly proved by L. Kronecker in the end of the 19th century. It has been now revealed to relate to the idea of n-torus and Mahler measure since the later half of the 20th cent... | Kronecker's theorem | Mathematics | 652 |
41,163,767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast%20automatic%20restoration | Fast automatic restoration (FASTAR) is an automated fast response system developed and deployed by American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T) in 1992 for the centralized restoration of its digital transport network. FASTAR automatically reroutes circuits over a spare protection capacity when a fiber-optic cable failure is d... | Fast automatic restoration | Technology,Engineering | 2,763 |
56,011,855 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multispecies%20coalescent%20process | Multispecies Coalescent Process is a stochastic process model that describes the genealogical relationships for a sample of DNA sequences taken from several species. It represents the application of coalescent theory to the case of multiple species. The multispecies coalescent results in cases where the relationships a... | Multispecies coalescent process | Biology | 3,450 |
28,734,956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spherical%20shell | In geometry, a spherical shell is a generalization of an annulus to three dimensions. It is the region of a ball between two concentric spheres of differing radii.
Volume
The volume of a spherical shell is the difference between the enclosed volume of the outer sphere and the enclosed volume of the inner sphere:
whe... | Spherical shell | Physics,Mathematics | 146 |
31,182,936 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftAP | SoftAP is an abbreviated term for "software enabled access point". Such access points utilize software to enable a computer which hasn't been specifically made to be a router into a wireless access point. It is often used interchangeably with the term "virtual router".
History on Windows
The first SoftAP software was... | SoftAP | Engineering | 694 |
1,364,342 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategies%20for%20engineered%20negligible%20senescence | Strategies for engineered negligible senescence (SENS) is a range of proposed regenerative medical therapies, either planned or currently in development, for the periodic repair of all age-related damage to human tissue. These therapies have the ultimate aim of maintaining a state of negligible senescence in patients a... | Strategies for engineered negligible senescence | Chemistry,Engineering,Biology | 1,444 |
66,690,547 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio-like%20structure | Bio-like structures were claimed to be a form of synthetic life obtained by the Soviet microbiologist V. O. Kalinenko in distilled water, as well as on an agar gel, under the influence of an electric field. However, these entities are most likely non-living inorganic structures.
Description
The original idea behind... | Bio-like structure | Biology | 751 |
48,545,257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menahem%20Max%20Schiffer | Menahem Max Schiffer (24 September 1911, Berlin – 11 November 1997)) was a German-born American mathematician who worked in complex analysis, partial differential equations, and mathematical physics.
Biography
Menachem Max Schiffer studied physics from 1930 at the University of Bonn and then at the Humboldt University... | Menahem Max Schiffer | Mathematics | 524 |
62,696,900 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protective%20colloid | A protective colloid is a lyophilic colloid that when present in small quantities keeps lyophobic colloids from precipitating under the coagulating action of electrolytes.
Need for protective colloids
When a small amount of hydrophilic colloid is added to hydrophobic colloids it may coagulate the latter. This is du... | Protective colloid | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science | 358 |
36,443,313 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavulina%20wisoli | Clavulina wisoli is a species of coral fungus in the family Clavulinaceae. Officially described in 2003, it is found in Africa.
References
External links
Fungi described in 2003
Fungi of Africa
wisoli
Taxa named by Ron Petersen
Fungus species | Clavulina wisoli | Biology | 54 |
33,629 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak%20interaction | In nuclear physics and particle physics, the weak interaction, also called the weak force, is one of the four known fundamental interactions, with the others being electromagnetism, the strong interaction, and gravitation. It is the mechanism of interaction between subatomic particles that is responsible for the radioa... | Weak interaction | Physics | 3,865 |
610,897 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French%20drain | A French drain (also known by other names including trench drain, blind drain, rubble drain, and rock drain) is a trench filled with gravel or rock, or both, with or without a perforated pipe that redirects surface water and groundwater away from an area. The perforated pipe is called a weeping tile (also called a drai... | French drain | Chemistry,Engineering,Environmental_science | 1,446 |
76,358,418 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoing%20cement%20kiln | The Antoing cement kiln is in the Belgian province of Hainaut. The facility is next to the Scheldt River in the Tournai region. It was built in 1929 under CBR which was later taken over by Heidelberg Materials.
History and ownership
In 1910 the anonymous association Cimenteries et Briqueteries Réunies Bonne-Espérance ... | Antoing cement kiln | Chemistry,Engineering | 2,351 |
75,035,919 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saber%20Astronautics | Saber Astronautics is an space operations and software company based in Sydney and Adelaide in Australia, and Boulder, Colorado in the United States.
Company Structure
Saber Astronautics consists of two separately [[incorporation (business)|incorporated entities] ]– Saber Astronautics, LLC in the US and Saber Astrona... | Saber Astronautics | Astronomy | 766 |
2,290,281 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost%20net | Ghost nets are fishing nets that have been abandoned, lost, or otherwise discarded in the ocean, lakes, and rivers. These nets, often nearly invisible in the dim light, can be left tangled on a rocky reef or drifting in the open sea. They can entangle fish, dolphins, sea turtles, sharks, dugongs, crocodiles, seabirds,... | Ghost net | Chemistry,Environmental_science | 1,676 |
12,176,463 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbala%20climbing%20rat | The Tumbala climbing rat (Tylomys tumbalensis) is a species of rodent in the family Cricetidae.
It is found in Mexico, where it is known only from one locality in Tumbalá, Chiapas. The species is threatened by deforestation.
References
Musser, G. G. and M. D. Carleton. 2005. Superfamily Muroidea. pp. 894–1531 in Mamm... | Tumbala climbing rat | Biology | 138 |
1,835,519 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caihua | Caihua (), or "colour painting", is the traditional Chinese decorative painting or polychrome used for architecture and one of the most notable and important features of historical Chinese architecture. It held a significant artistic and practical role within the development of East-Asian architecture, as Caihua served... | Caihua | Technology,Engineering | 299 |
7,490,775 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaping%20codes | In digital communications shaping codes are a method of encoding that changes the distribution of signals to improve efficiency.
Description
Typical digital communication systems uses M-Quadrature Amplitude Modulation(QAM) to communicate through an analog channel (specifically a communication channel with Gaussian n... | Shaping codes | Mathematics,Technology,Engineering | 391 |
27,606,794 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemerin%20peptide | Chemerin peptides are short peptides (on the order of 9 amino acids) that are produced from the carboxyl terminus of the chemokine chemerin. They display the same activities as chemerin, although at higher efficacy and potency.
A particular synthetic chemerin-derived peptide, termed C15, was developed at Oxford Univer... | Chemerin peptide | Chemistry,Biology | 234 |
57,489,094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abr%2C%20rhogef%20and%20gtpase%20activating%20protein | Active breakpoint cluster region-related protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ABR gene.
Function
The ABR activator of RhoGEF and GTPase, also symbolized as ABR, gene has a reported 13 alternatively spliced transcript variants. This gene is found to have ubiquitous expression within 23 human tissues,... | Abr, rhogef and gtpase activating protein | Chemistry | 252 |
43,881,656 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book%20of%20Nut | The Book of Nut (original title: The Fundamentals of the Course of the Stars) is a collection of ancient Egyptian astronomical texts focusing on mythological subjects, cycles of the stars of the decans, and the movements of the moon, sun, and planets on sundials.
It is titled for the sky goddess Nut who is depicted in... | Book of Nut | Astronomy | 784 |
1,930,917 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free%20clinic | A free clinic or walk in clinic is a health care facility in the United States offering services to economically disadvantaged individuals for free or at a nominal cost. The need for such a clinic arises in societies where there is no universal healthcare, and therefore a social safety net has arisen in its place. Core... | Free clinic | Biology | 4,720 |
3,690,682 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E%C3%B6tv%C3%B6s%20effect | The Eötvös effect is the change in measured Earth's gravity caused by the change in centrifugal acceleration resulting from eastbound or westbound velocity. When moving eastbound, the object's angular velocity is increased (in addition to Earth's rotation), and thus the centrifugal force also increases, causing a perce... | Eötvös effect | Mathematics | 2,265 |
51,992,495 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asgardia | Asgardia, also known as the Space Kingdom of Asgardia and Asgardia the Space Nation, is a "virtual nation" formed by a group of people who have launched a satellite into Earth orbit. They refer to themselves as "Asgardians" and they have given their satellite the name . They have declared sovereignty over the space occ... | Asgardia | Astronomy | 3,747 |
5,726,598 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versatile%20Toroidal%20Facility | The Versatile Toroidal Facility (VTF) is a research group within the Physics Research Division of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The VTF is a laboratory focused on studying the phenomenon of magnetic reconnection. For this purpose the group has a small tokamak d... | Versatile Toroidal Facility | Physics | 228 |
15,161,433 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat%27s%20paw%20%28tool%29 | A cat's paw or cat's claw is a metal hand tool used for extracting nails, typically from wood, using leverage. A standard tool in carpentry, it has a sharp V-shaped tip on one or both ends, which is driven into the wood by a hammer to capture the nailhead. Essentially, it is a smaller, more ergonomic, purpose-design... | Cat's paw (tool) | Physics | 812 |
57,674,142 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photothermal%20time | Photothermal time (PTT) is a product between growing degree-days (GDD) and day length (hours) for each day. PTT = GDD × DL It can be used to quantify environment, as well as the timing of developmental stages of plants.
References
Product certification
Measurement
Ecology | Photothermal time | Physics,Mathematics,Biology | 63 |
2,007,385 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BRLESC | The BRLESC I (Ballistic Research Laboratories Electronic Scientific Computer) was one of the last of the first-generation electronic computers. It was built by the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL) at Aberdeen Proving Ground with assistance from the National Bureau of Standards (now the National... | BRLESC | Technology | 493 |
6,200,915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History%20of%20Sony | The history of Sony, a Japanese multinational conglomerate, dates back to 1946.
Founding
In September 1945, after the end of World War II, Masaru Ibuka started a radio repair shop in the bomb-damaged Shirokiya department store building in the Nihonbashi district of Tokyo. The next year, he was joined by his wartime re... | History of Sony | Technology | 1,632 |
64,540,037 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror%20symmetry%20conjecture | In mathematics, mirror symmetry is a conjectural relationship between certain Calabi–Yau manifolds and a constructed "mirror manifold". The conjecture allows one to relate the number of rational curves on a Calabi-Yau manifold (encoded as Gromov–Witten invariants) to integrals from a family of varieties (encoded as pe... | Mirror symmetry conjecture | Physics,Astronomy,Mathematics | 2,481 |
6,165,182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyman-alpha%20blob | In astronomy, a Lyman-alpha blob (LAB) is a huge concentration of a gas emitting the Lyman-alpha emission line. LABs are some of the largest known individual objects in the Universe. Some of these gaseous structures are more than 400,000 light years across. So far they have only been found in the high-redshift univers... | Lyman-alpha blob | Physics,Chemistry,Astronomy | 486 |
33,520,674 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined%20networking | Software-defined networking (SDN) is an approach to network management that uses abstraction to enable dynamic and programmatically efficient network configuration to create grouping and segmentation while improving network performance and monitoring in a manner more akin to cloud computing than to traditional network ... | Software-defined networking | Engineering | 4,720 |
1,668,287 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph%20LeConte | Joseph Le Conte (alternative spelling: Joseph LeConte) (February 26, 1823 – July 6, 1901) was a physician, geologist, professor at the University of California, Berkeley, early California conservationist, and eugenicist.
Early life
Of Huguenot descent, he was born in Liberty County, Georgia, to Louis Le Conte, patriar... | Joseph LeConte | Biology | 1,291 |
2,041,176 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple%20shear | Simple shear is a deformation in which parallel planes in a material remain parallel and maintain a constant distance, while translating relative to each other.
In fluid mechanics
In fluid mechanics, simple shear is a special case of deformation where only one component of velocity vectors has a non-zero value:
And... | Simple shear | Physics,Engineering | 419 |
2,102,092 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gumstix | Gumstix is an American multinational corporation headquartered in Redwood City, California. It develops and manufactures small system boards comparable in size to a stick of gum. In 2003, when it was first fully functional, it used ARM architecture system on a chip (SoC) and an operating system based on Linux 2.6 kerne... | Gumstix | Technology | 190 |
27,300,394 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%20Hydrae | V Hydrae (V Hya) is a carbon star in the constellation Hydra. To date perhaps uniquely in our galaxy it has plasma ejections/eruptions on a grand scale that could be caused by its near, unseen companion.
Variability
In the 1870s, Benjamin Apthorp Gould suspected that the star is variable, based on observations with o... | V Hydrae | Astronomy | 602 |
1,423,924 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voree%20plates | The Voree plates, also called The Record of Rajah Manchou of Vorito, or the Voree Record, were a set of three tiny metal plates allegedly discovered by James J. Strang, a leader of the Latter Day Saint movement, in Voree, Wisconsin, United States, in 1845.
Purportedly the final testament of an ancient American ruler n... | Voree plates | Physics | 2,517 |
10,744,611 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oecologia | Oecologia is an international peer-reviewed English-language journal published by Springer since 1968 (some articles were published in German or French until 1976). The journal publishes original research in a range of topics related to plant and animal ecology.
Oecologia has an international focus and presents origin... | Oecologia | Environmental_science | 279 |
3,718,113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphic%20violence | Graphic violence refers to the depiction of especially vivid, explicit, brutal and realistic acts of violence in visual media such as film, television, and video games. It may be real, simulated live action, or animated.
Intended for viewing by mature audiences, graphic in this context is a synonym for explicit, refer... | Graphic violence | Biology | 1,404 |
77,978,272 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tert-Butyl%20methacrylate | tert-Butyl methacrylate is an organic compound with the formula . A colorless solid, it is a common monomer for the preparation of methacrylate polymers. It is employed in other kinds of polymerizations.
See also
Butyl methacrylate
References
Methacrylate esters
Monomers
Commodity chemicals
Tert-Butyl esters | Tert-Butyl methacrylate | Chemistry,Materials_science | 80 |
71,483,614 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Staphidine | Staphidine is a bis-diterpene alkaloid of the atisane type, found in the tissues of Delphinium staphisagria in the larkspur family (Ranunculaceae) along with staphimine and staphinine. Similar alkaloids are found in the genus Aconitum in that family, as well as Spiraea in the Rosaceae family.
References
Alkaloids
Het... | Staphidine | Chemistry | 117 |
148,555 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spin%20glass | In condensed matter physics, a spin glass is a magnetic state characterized by randomness, besides cooperative behavior in freezing of spins at a temperature called the "freezing temperature," Tf. In ferromagnetic solids, component atoms' magnetic spins all align in the same direction. Spin glass when contrasted wit... | Spin glass | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Mathematics,Engineering | 3,289 |
10,252,066 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Choquet%20integral | A Choquet integral is a subadditive or superadditive integral created by the French mathematician Gustave Choquet in 1953. It was initially used in statistical mechanics and potential theory, but found its way into decision theory in the 1980s, where it is used as a way of measuring the expected utility of an uncertain... | Choquet integral | Mathematics | 462 |
76,216,842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data%20physicalization | A data physicalization (or simply physicalization) is a physical artefact whose geometry or material properties encode data. It has the main goals to engage people and to communicate data using computer-supported physical data representations.
History
Before the invention of computers and digital devices, the applic... | Data physicalization | Engineering | 1,453 |
8,240,558 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line%E2%80%93line%20intersection | In Euclidean geometry, the intersection of a line and a line can be the empty set, a point, or another line. Distinguishing these cases and finding the intersection have uses, for example, in computer graphics, motion planning, and collision detection.
In three-dimensional Euclidean geometry, if two lines are not in t... | Line–line intersection | Mathematics | 1,689 |
14,446,113 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPR115 | Probable G-protein coupled receptor 115 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GPR115 gene.
References
Further reading
G protein-coupled receptors | GPR115 | Chemistry | 33 |
6,571,624 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition%20H-6 |
Composition H-6 is a melt-cast military aluminized high explosive. H-6 was developed in the United States.
The chemical composition of H-6 is specified as follows:
45.1 ± 0.3% RDX ;
29.2 ± 3.0% TNT;
21.0 ± 3.0% powdered aluminium;
4.7 ± 1.0% paraffin wax as a phlegmatizing agent;
0.47 ± 0.1% calcium chloride as... | Composition H-6 | Chemistry | 332 |
53,561,725 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurypelmella | Eurypelmella is a nomen dubium (doubtful name) for a genus of spiders in the family Theraphosidae. It has been regarded as a synonym for Schizopelma, but this was disputed in 2016.
References
Theraphosidae
Historically recognized spider taxa
Nomina dubia | Eurypelmella | Biology | 64 |
23,505,398 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonio%20Pe%C3%B1a%20D%C3%ADaz | Antonio Peña Díaz (born in 1936) is a Mexican biochemist who received the Carlos J. Finlay Prize for Microbiology (UNESCO, 2003) and chaired both the Mexican Academy of Sciences (1992–93) and the Mexican Society of Biochemistry (1981–83).
Peña Díaz holds a bachelor's degree in Medicine and both a master's and a doctor... | Antonio Peña Díaz | Chemistry | 234 |
627,071 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer-aided%20software%20engineering | Computer-aided software engineering (CASE) is a domain of software tools used to design and implement applications. CASE tools are similar to and are partly inspired by computer-aided design (CAD) tools used for designing hardware products. CASE tools are intended to help develop high-quality, defect-free, and maintai... | Computer-aided software engineering | Technology | 2,334 |
2,404,069 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucism | Leucism () is a wide variety of conditions that result in partial loss of pigmentation in an animal—causing white, pale, or patchy coloration of the skin, hair, feathers, scales, or cuticles, but not the eyes. It is occasionally spelled leukism. Some genetic conditions that result in a "leucistic" appearance include pi... | Leucism | Biology | 877 |
45,372,257 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoxyle | A geoxyle is a plant in which an enlarged, woody structure occurs beneath the surface of the ground. Such plants have developed independently in various plant lineages, mostly evolving in the Pliocene and subsequently diverging within the last two million years. In contrast to their close relatives, these plants have d... | Geoxyle | Biology | 343 |
23,280,884 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blowing%20engine | A blowing engine is a large stationary steam engine or internal combustion engine directly coupled to air pumping cylinders. They deliver a very large quantity of air at a pressure lower than an air compressor, but greater than a centrifugal fan.
Blowing engines are majorly used to provide the air blast for furnaces, ... | Blowing engine | Chemistry | 1,169 |
58,229,662 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paessler%20PRTG | PRTG (Paessler Router Traffic Grapher ) is a network monitoring software developed by Paessler GmbH. It monitors system conditions like bandwidth usage or uptime and collect statistics from miscellaneous hosts such as switches, routers, servers, and other devices and applications.
It was initially released on May 29, ... | Paessler PRTG | Technology,Engineering | 502 |
529,817 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punnett%20square | The Punnett square is a square diagram that is used to predict the genotypes of a particular cross or breeding experiment. It is named after Reginald C. Punnett, who devised the approach in 1905. The diagram is used by biologists to determine the probability of an offspring having a particular genotype. The Punnett squ... | Punnett square | Engineering,Biology | 1,338 |
12,765,380 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite%20formation%20flying | Satellite formation flying is the coordination of multiple satellites to accomplish the objective of one larger, usually more expensive, satellite. Coordinating smaller satellites has many benefits over single satellites including simpler designs, faster build times, cheaper replacement creating higher redundancy, unp... | Satellite formation flying | Astronomy,Technology | 563 |
11,512,166 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schiffnerula%20cannabis | Schiffnerula cannabis is a plant pathogen infecting hemp. It is one of the many 88 species of fungi which attack Cannabis and with time. The black mildew of Cannabis, compared to gray mold caused by Botrytis cinerea, and the problems it causes are often not extreme as opposed to the gray mold with the potential to wipe... | Schiffnerula cannabis | Biology | 599 |
15,417,513 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIAA1109 | Uncharacterized protein KIAA1109 is a protein that in humans is encoded by the KIAA1109 gene.
This protein has a function that is not yet understood. KIAA1109 has 3 aliases, FSA (fragile site-associated) protein, MGC110967 and DKFZp781P0474.
An ortholog of KIAA1109 has been found in Drosophila, responsible for regul... | KIAA1109 | Biology | 1,327 |
16,003,024 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxus%20%28rocket%29 | Maxus is a sounding rocket that are used in the MAXUS microgravity rocket programme, a joint venture between Swedish Space Corporation and EADS Astrium Space Transportation used by ESA. It is launched from Esrange Space Center in Sweden and provides access to microgravity for up to 14 minutes.
Technical characteristic... | Maxus (rocket) | Astronomy | 161 |
5,257,635 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NICMOSlook | NICMOSlook is a computer program to analyze spectral data obtained with the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-Object Spectrometer (NICMOS) on board the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The program originated as Calnic C, which was designed at the Space Telescope European Coordinating Facility (ST-ECF) and programmed in IDL. ... | NICMOSlook | Astronomy | 331 |
2,773,183 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overseas%20experience | Overseas Experience (OE) is a New Zealand term for an extended overseas working period or holiday. It is sometimes referred to as "The big OE", in reference to the extended duration of the travel: typically at least one year, and often extended far longer. It is however generally expected that the person returns after ... | Overseas experience | Physics | 817 |
12,074,089 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Komatsu%20930E | The Komatsu 930E is an off-highway, ultra class, rigid frame, two-axle, diesel/AC electric powertrain haul truck designed and manufactured by Komatsu in Peoria, Illinois, United States. Although the 930E is neither Komatsu's largest nor highest payload capacity haul truck, Komatsu considers the 930E to be the flagship ... | Komatsu 930E | Engineering | 810 |
3,689,569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ives%E2%80%93Stilwell%20experiment | In physics, the Ives–Stilwell experiment tested the contribution of relativistic time dilation to the Doppler shift of light. The result was in agreement with the formula for the transverse Doppler effect and was the first direct, quantitative confirmation of the time dilation factor. Since then many Ives–Stilwell type... | Ives–Stilwell experiment | Physics | 3,173 |
59,284,197 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polyethylene%20wax | Polyethylene wax can be used as a dispersant, slip agent, resin additive, and mold release agent. As an oxidised product, OPEW is authorized in the EU as E number reference E914 only for the surface treatment of some fruits.
There are a variety of methods for producing Polyethylene wax. Polyethylene wax can be made by... | Polyethylene wax | Physics | 241 |
69,235,243 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daimler%20M836%20engine | The Daimler-Mercedes M836 engine is a naturally-aspirated and supercharged, 3.9-liter to 4.0-liter, straight-6, internal combustion piston engine, designed, developed and produced by Mercedes-Benz, in partnership with Daimler; between 1924 and 1929.
M836 engine
The six-cylinder in-line 3920 cc engine featured an overh... | Daimler M836 engine | Technology | 223 |
77,538,436 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combustion%20efficiency | Combustion efficiency refers to the effectiveness of the burning process in converting fuel into heat energy. It is measured by the proportion of fuel that is efficiently burned and converted into useful heat, while minimizing the emissions of pollutants.
Specifically, it may refer to:
fuel efficiency
engine efficienc... | Combustion efficiency | Engineering | 84 |
35,961,512 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey%20Karp | Jeffrey Karp (born 1975) is a Canadian biomedical engineer working as a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the principal faculty at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and Affiliate Faculty at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through the Harvard–MIT Division of Healt... | Jeffrey Karp | Biology | 634 |
36,149,934 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ventus%20%28wireless%20company%29 | Ventus is an American company founded in 1999 and headquartered in Norwalk, Connecticut that provides secure private line wireless services, and manufactures cellular wireless hardware.
Services
Ventus provides managed networks for cellular wireless networking and fixed line services including PCI-DSS (Payment Card ... | Ventus (wireless company) | Technology | 214 |
57,691,958 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%201259 | NGC 1259 is a lenticular galaxy located about 243 million light-years away in the constellation Perseus. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan on October 21, 1884 and is a member of the Perseus Cluster.
A type Ia supernova designated as SN 2008L was discovered in NGC 1259 on January 14, 2008.
Se... | NGC 1259 | Astronomy | 121 |
1,046,155 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projection-valued%20measure | In mathematics, particularly in functional analysis, a projection-valued measure (or spectral measure) is a function defined on certain subsets of a fixed set and whose values are self-adjoint projections on a fixed Hilbert space. A projection-valued measure (PVM) is formally similar to a real-valued measure, except t... | Projection-valued measure | Physics,Mathematics | 1,625 |
67,685,023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norzivirales | Norzivirales is an order of viruses, which infect prokaryotes. Most of these bacteriophages were discovered by metagenomics.
Taxonomy
Norzivirales contains the following four families:
Atkinsviridae
Duinviridae
Fiersviridae
Solspiviridae
References
Virus orders | Norzivirales | Biology | 65 |
67,432,182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticoa | Ticoa is an extinct genus originally assigned to the Cycadales from the Early Cretaceous of Argentina, Chile, and Antarctica. Other authors view this genus as a member of the polyphyletic "seed ferns".
Taxonomy
The genus was erected by Sergio Archangelsky based on material from the Anfiteatro de Ticó formation.
The g... | Ticoa | Biology | 243 |
12,084,606 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yalda%20Night | Yaldā Night ( or Chelle Night (also Chellah Night, ) is an ancient festival in Iran, Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan that is celebrated on the winter solstice. This corresponds to the night of December 20/21 (±1) in the Gregorian calendar, and to the night between the last day of the ninth... | Yalda Night | Astronomy | 2,245 |
49,537,551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuPont%20Fabros%20Technology | DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. (DFT) was a real estate investment trust that invested in carrier-neutral data centers and provided colocation and peering services. In 2017, the company was acquired by Digital Realty.
Operations
As of December 31, 2016, the company owned 11 operating data center facilities comprising ... | DuPont Fabros Technology | Technology | 733 |
67,299 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan%20Wells | Allan Wipper Wells (born 3 May 1952) is a British former track and field sprinter who became the 100 metres Olympic champion at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. In 1981, he was both the IAAF Golden Sprints and IAAF World Cup gold medallist. He is also a three-time European Cup gold medallist.
He was a multiple med... | Allan Wells | Engineering | 2,285 |
2,781,170 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omega%20Andromedae | Omega Andromedae (ω And, ω Andromedae) is the Bayer designation for a slowly co-rotating binary star system in the northern constellation of Andromeda. Parallax measurements made during the Gaia mission make this system to be approximately from Earth. Its apparent visual magnitude is +4.83, which makes it bright enoug... | Omega Andromedae | Astronomy | 352 |
8,088,986 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complex%20conjugate%20line | In complex geometry, the complex conjugate line of a straight line is the line that it becomes by taking the complex conjugate of each point on this line.
This is the same as taking the complex conjugates of the coefficients of the line. So if the equation of is , then the equation of its conjugate is .
The conjuga... | Complex conjugate line | Mathematics | 101 |
542,343 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%20pyramidal%20number | In mathematics, a pyramid number, or square pyramidal number, is a natural number that counts the stacked spheres in a pyramid with a square base. The study of these numbers goes back to Archimedes and Fibonacci. They are part of a broader topic of figurate numbers representing the numbers of points forming regular pat... | Square pyramidal number | Mathematics | 1,695 |
51,295,302 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral%20movement%20%28cybersecurity%29 | Lateral movement refers to the techniques that cyber attackers, or threat actors, use to progressively move through a network as they search for the key data and assets that are ultimately the target of their attack campaigns. While the development of more sophisticated sequences of attack has helped threat actors deve... | Lateral movement (cybersecurity) | Technology | 130 |
13,942,689 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isopropyl%20palmitate | Isopropyl palmitate is the ester of isopropyl alcohol and palmitic acid. It is an emollient, moisturizer, thickening agent, and anti-static agent . The chemical formula is CH3(CH2)14COOCH(CH3)2.
References
Cosmetics chemicals
Isopropyl esters
Lipids
Palmitate esters | Isopropyl palmitate | Chemistry | 78 |
54,427,559 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VoIP%20vulnerabilities | VoIP vulnerabilities are weaknesses in the VoIP protocol or its implementations that expose users to privacy violations and other problems. VoIP is a group of technologies that enable voice calls online. VoIP contains similar vulnerabilities to those of other internet use.
Risks are not usually mentioned to potential ... | VoIP vulnerabilities | Technology | 650 |
3,621,246 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flooded%20engine | A flooded engine is an internal combustion engine that has been fed an excessively rich air-fuel mixture that cannot be ignited. This is caused by the mixture exceeding the upper explosive limit for the particular fuel. An engine in this condition will not start until the excessively rich mixture has been cleared. It i... | Flooded engine | Technology | 698 |
171,728 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drag%20equation | In fluid dynamics, the drag equation is a formula used to calculate the force of drag experienced by an object due to movement through a fully enclosing fluid. The equation is:
where
is the drag force, which is by definition the force component in the direction of the flow velocity,
is the mass density of the fluid,... | Drag equation | Physics,Chemistry | 1,506 |
1,429,083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison%20of%20file%20transfer%20protocols | This article lists communication protocols that are designed for file transfer over a telecommunications network.
Protocols for shared file systems—such as 9P and the Network File System—are beyond the scope of this article, as are file synchronization protocols.
Protocols for packet-switched networks
A packet-switch... | Comparison of file transfer protocols | Technology | 641 |
25,912,923 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psilocybe%20natalensis | Psilocybe natalensis is a species of psilocybin mushroom in the family Hymenogastraceae. It is found in South Africa. The specific epithet refers to its type locality in Natal. The species was described as new to science in 1995 by Jochen Gartz, Derek Reid, Michael Smith, and Albert Eicker. It is very closely related... | Psilocybe natalensis | Biology | 145 |
67,779,776 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei%20Viktorovich%20Bochkarev | Sergei (or Sergey) Viktorovich Bochkarev (or Bočkarev) (Сергей Викторович Бочкарёв, born July 24, 1941, in Kuybyshev now renamed Samara) is a Soviet and Russian mathematician.
Education and career
He received in 1964 his undergraduate degree from Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology and in 1969 his Russian Candi... | Sergei Viktorovich Bochkarev | Mathematics | 616 |
56,410,801 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yui%20%28behavior%29 | Yui (Japanese/Okinawan:結,ゆい) involves a system of collaborative work in small settlements and autonomous units. It consists of mutual aid that helps and cooperates within the residents' village, which requires a great deal of time, money, and effort.
Though the loan word has crept into standard Japanese, the cultural ... | Yui (behavior) | Biology | 313 |
1,220,976 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reclaimer | A reclaimer is a large machine used in bulk material handling applications. A reclaimer's function is to recover bulk material such as ores and cereals from a stockpile. A stacker is used to stack the material.
Reclaimers are volumetric machines and are rated in m3/h (cubic meters per hour) for capacity, which is oft... | Reclaimer | Engineering | 812 |
66,037,756 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bmon | bmon is a free and open-source monitoring and debugging tool to monitor bandwidth and capture and display networking-related statistics. It features various output methods including an interactive curses user interface and programmable text output for scripting. bmon allows the user to see:
Network bandwidth real-tim... | Bmon | Engineering | 104 |
18,971,743 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green%20PR | Green PR is a sub-field of public relations that communicates an organization's corporate social responsibility or environmentally friendly practices to the public. The goal is to produce increased brand awareness and improve the organization's reputation. Tactics include placing news articles, winning awards, communic... | Green PR | Environmental_science | 585 |
1,086,083 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-ray%20absorption%20fine%20structure | X-ray absorption fine structure (XAFS) is a specific structure observed in X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS). By analyzing the XAFS, information can be acquired on the local structure and on the unoccupied local electronic states.
Atomic spectra
The atomic X-ray absorption spectrum (XAS) of a core-level in an absor... | X-ray absorption fine structure | Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 1,248 |
2,695,651 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Browser%20sniffing | Browser sniffing (also known as browser detection) is a set of techniques used in websites and web applications in order to determine the web browser a visitor is using, and to serve browser-appropriate content to the visitor. It is also used to detect mobile browsers and send them mobile-optimized websites. This pract... | Browser sniffing | Engineering | 814 |
71,277,483 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig%20Pohl | Ludwig Maria Pohl (28 September 1932 – 24 October 2020) was an organic chemist, who was instrumental in developing new liquid crystal substance classes and compounds which made liquid crystal displays (LCDs) widely used. His team at Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, developed liquid crystal mixtures optimized for various applicat... | Ludwig Pohl | Chemistry | 688 |
33,149,795 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharonov%E2%80%93Casher%20effect | The Aharonov–Casher effect is a quantum mechanical phenomenon predicted in 1984 by Yakir Aharonov and Aharon Casher, in which a traveling magnetic dipole is affected by an electric field. It is dual to the Aharonov–Bohm effect, in which the quantum phase of a charged particle depends upon which side of a magnetic flux ... | Aharonov–Casher effect | Physics | 216 |
2,428,490 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cache%20poisoning | Cache poisoning refers to a computer security vulnerability where invalid entries can be placed into a cache, which are then assumed to be valid when later used. Two common varieties are DNS cache poisoning and ARP cache poisoning. Web cache poisoning involves the poisoning of web caches (which has led to security iss... | Cache poisoning | Technology | 104 |
9,553,082 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fernseh | The Fernseh AG television company was registered in Berlin on July 3, 1929, by John Logie Baird, Robert Bosch, Zeiss Ikon and D.S. Loewe as partners. John Baird owned Baird Television Ltd. in London, Zeiss Ikon was a camera company in Dresden, D.S. Loewe owned a company in Berlin and Robert Bosch owned a company, Rober... | Fernseh | Technology,Engineering | 2,318 |
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