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990,657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Service%20data%20unit | In Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) terminology, a service data unit (SDU) is a unit of data that has been passed down from an OSI layer or sublayer to a lower layer. This unit of data (SDU) has not yet been encapsulated into a protocol data unit (PDU) by the lower layer. That SDU is then encapsulated into the lower... | Service data unit | Technology | 566 |
66,315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state%20chemistry | Solid-state chemistry, also sometimes referred as materials chemistry, is the study of the synthesis, structure, and properties of solid phase materials. It therefore has a strong overlap with solid-state physics, mineralogy, crystallography, ceramics, metallurgy, thermodynamics, materials science and electronics with ... | Solid-state chemistry | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science,Engineering | 2,358 |
3,104,727 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoning%20home | In computing, phoning home is a term often used to refer to the behavior of security systems that report network location, username, or other such data to another computer.
Phoning home may be useful for the proprietor in tracking a missing or stolen computer. In this way, it is frequently performed by mobile computer... | Phoning home | Engineering | 971 |
4,145,476 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doxefazepam | Doxefazepam (marketed under brand name Doxans) is a benzodiazepine medication. It possesses anxiolytic, anticonvulsant, sedative and skeletal muscle relaxant properties. It is used therapeutically as a hypnotic. According to Babbini and colleagues in 1975, this derivative of flurazepam was between 2 and 4 times more po... | Doxefazepam | Biology | 321 |
14,848,284 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table%20of%20volume%20of%20distribution%20for%20drugs | This is a table of volume of distribution (Vd) for various medication. For comparison, those with a Vd L/kg body weight of less than 0.2 are mainly distributed in blood plasma, 0.2-0.7 mostly in the extracellular fluid and those with more than 0.7 are distributed throughout total body water.
References & footnotes
Vo... | Table of volume of distribution for drugs | Chemistry | 89 |
15,593,568 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email%20storm | An email storm (also called a reply all storm or sometimes reply allpocalypse) is a sudden spike of "reply all" messages on an email distribution list, usually caused by a controversial or misdirected message. Such storms can start when even one member of the distribution list replies to the entire list at the same tim... | Email storm | Technology | 1,326 |
7,318,182 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superordinate%20goals | In social psychology, superordinate goals are goals that are worth completing but require two or more social groups to cooperatively achieve. The idea was proposed by social psychologist Muzafer Sherif in his experiments on intergroup relations, run in the 1940s and 1950s, as a way of reducing conflict between competin... | Superordinate goals | Biology | 2,566 |
372,242 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical%20of%20a%20ring | In ring theory, a branch of mathematics, a radical of a ring is an ideal of "not-good" elements of the ring.
The first example of a radical was the nilradical introduced by , based on a suggestion of . In the next few years several other radicals were discovered, of which the most important example is the Jacobson rad... | Radical of a ring | Mathematics | 1,314 |
70,901,258 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EA-1763 | EA-1763, O-PPVX, V1 or propyl S-2-diisopropylaminoethylmethylphosphonothiolate is a military-grade neurotoxic organophosphonate nerve agent related to VX as it is the propyl analogue of VX. It is part of the V-series.
Chemical characteristics
Little information about EA-1763's physicochemical properties has been repo... | EA-1763 | Chemistry | 468 |
53,810,329 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%20430 | NGC 430 is an elliptical galaxy of type E: located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on October 1, 1785 by William Herschel. It was described by Dreyer as "faint, very small, round, very suddenly brighter middle similar to star."
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004376 | NGC 430 | Astronomy | 72 |
16,655,417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The%20Nautical%20Almanac | The Nautical Almanac has been the familiar name for a series of official British almanacs published under various titles since the first issue of The Nautical Almanac and Astronomical Ephemeris, for 1767: this was the first nautical almanac to contain data dedicated to the convenient determination of longitude at sea. ... | The Nautical Almanac | Astronomy | 1,134 |
2,878,186 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta%20Arae | Delta Arae, Latinized from δ Arae, is the Bayer designation for a double star in the southern constellation Ara. It has an apparent visual magnitude of 3.62 and is visible to the naked eye. Based upon an annual parallax of 16.48 mas, it is about distant from the Earth.
Delta Arae is massive B-type main sequence star ... | Delta Arae | Astronomy | 342 |
29,941,454 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control%20of%20chromosome%20duplication | In cell biology, eukaryotes possess a regulatory system that ensures that DNA replication occurs only once per cell cycle.
A key feature of the DNA replication mechanism in eukaryotes is that it is designed to replicate relatively large genomes rapidly and with high fidelity. Replication is initiated at multiple origi... | Control of chromosome duplication | Biology | 2,401 |
63,763 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solved%20game | A solved game is a game whose outcome (win, lose or draw) can be correctly predicted from any position, assuming that both players play perfectly. This concept is usually applied to abstract strategy games, and especially to games with full information and no element of chance; solving such a game may use combinatorial... | Solved game | Mathematics | 2,610 |
43,611,767 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifastin | Pacifastin is a family of serine proteinase inhibitors found in arthropods. Pacifastin inhibits the serine peptidases trypsin and chymotrypsin.
All pacifastin members that have been characterized at the molecular level are precursor peptides composed of an N-terminal signal sequence followed by a precursor domain and ... | Pacifastin | Biology | 783 |
698,830 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street%20light | A street light, light pole, lamp pole, lamppost, streetlamp, light standard, or lamp standard is a raised source of light on the edge of a road or path. Similar lights may be found on a railway platform. When urban electric power distribution became ubiquitous in developed countries in the 20th century, lights for urba... | Street light | Engineering | 6,485 |
73,252,403 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon-carbon%20bond%20activation | Carbon-carbon bond activation refers to the breaking of carbon-carbon bonds in organic molecules. This process is an important tool in organic synthesis, as it allows for the formation of new carbon-carbon bonds and the construction of complex organic molecules. However, C–C bond activation is challenging mainly for th... | Carbon-carbon bond activation | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science | 1,181 |
24,324,550 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillaria%20paulensis | Armillaria paulensis is a species of mushroom in the family Physalacriaceae. This species is found in South America.
See also
List of Armillaria species
References
paulensis
Fungal tree pathogens and diseases
Fungus species | Armillaria paulensis | Biology | 48 |
40,592 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darbepoetin%20alfa | Darbepoetin alfa (INN) is a re-engineered form of erythropoietin containing 5 amino acid changes (N30, T32, V87, N88, T90) resulting in the creation of 2 new sites for N-linked carbohydrate addition. It has a 3-fold longer serum half-life compared to epoetin alpha and epoetin beta. It stimulates erythropoiesis (increa... | Darbepoetin alfa | Chemistry | 1,084 |
13,530,107 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological%20momentum | Technological momentum is a theory about the relationship between technology and society over time. The term, which is considered a fourth technological determinism variant, was originally developed by the historian of technology Thomas P. Hughes. The idea is that relationship between technology and society is reciproc... | Technological momentum | Technology | 705 |
3,302,238 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proview%20International%20Holdings | Proview International Holdings Ltd (; ) was a Hong Kong–based manufacturer of computer monitors and other media devices. The company marketed its products under its own and other brand name through its extensive distribution network over the world. Proview manufactured CRT and LCD monitors, LCD TVs, Plasma TVs and DVD ... | Proview International Holdings | Technology | 202 |
33,287,571 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titanium%28IV%29%20hydride | Titanium(IV) hydride (systematically named titanium tetrahydride) is an inorganic compound with the empirical chemical formula . It has not yet been obtained in bulk, hence its bulk properties remain unknown. However, molecular titanium(IV) hydride has been isolated in solid gas matrices. The molecular form is a colour... | Titanium(IV) hydride | Chemistry | 432 |
236,319 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trioxane | Trioxane refers to any of three isomeric organic compounds composed of a six-membered ring with three carbon atoms and three oxygen atoms, having the molecular formula C3H6O3.
Isomers
The three isomers are:
1,2,3-trioxane, a hypothetical compound that is the parent structure of the molozonides
1,2,4-trioxane, a hypo... | Trioxane | Chemistry | 151 |
115,628 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwego%2C%20Louisiana | Westwego is a city in the U.S. state of Louisiana, located in Jefferson Parish. It is a suburban community of New Orleans in the Greater New Orleans metropolitan area and lies along the west bank of the Mississippi River. The population of the city of Westwego was 8,568 at the 2020 United States census.
Etymology
One ... | Westwego, Louisiana | Chemistry | 1,865 |
3,063,823 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Architecture%20of%20Kievan%20Rus%27 | The architecture of Kievan Rus' comes from the medieval state of Kievan Rus' which incorporated parts of what is now modern Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, and was centered on Kiev and Novgorod. Its architecture is the earliest period of Russian and Ukrainian architecture, using the foundations of Byzantine culture but w... | Architecture of Kievan Rus' | Engineering | 1,162 |
34,034,699 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VinyLoop | VinyLoop is a proprietary physical plastic recycling process for polyvinyl chloride (PVC). It is based on dissolution in order to separate PVC from other materials or impurities.
Background
A major factor of the recycling of polyvinyl chloride waste is the purity of the recycled material. In most composite materials,... | VinyLoop | Chemistry,Engineering,Environmental_science | 610 |
319,941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaumatin | Thaumatin (also known as talin) is a low-calorie sweetener and taste modifier. The protein is often used primarily for its flavor-modifying properties and not exclusively as a sweetener.
The thaumatins were first found as a mixture of proteins isolated from the katemfe fruit (Thaumatococcus daniellii) (Marantaceae) of... | Thaumatin | Biology | 1,130 |
14,210,324 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dental%20Laboratories%20Association | The Dental Laboratories Association (DLA) is the professional body for dental laboratory owners in the United Kingdom. It is estimated that members of the DLA are responsible for over 80 per cent of the dental laboratory services in the UK.
Origin
The DLA began as a division of the Surgical Instrument Manufacturers A... | Dental Laboratories Association | Biology | 985 |
59,633,745 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biaoxingma%20method | The Biaoxingma Input Method (), also abbreviated to simply Biaoxingma (), is a kind of shape-based Chinese character input method invented by Chen Aiwen, an overseas Chinese scholar living in France in the 1980s. Because it is intuitive in the splitting of Chinese characters and has theoretical support in Chinese chara... | Biaoxingma method | Technology | 325 |
22,538,283 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape%20Canaveral%20Launch%20Complex%2016 | Launch Complex 16 (LC-16) is a launch pad site located at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS) in Florida. Part of the Missile Row lineup of launch pads, it was built for use by LGM-25 Titan missiles, and later used for NASA operations before being transferred back to the US military and used for tests of MGM-31 ... | Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 16 | Astronomy | 383 |
37,194,181 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science%20DMZ%20Network%20Architecture | The term Science DMZ refers to a computer subnetwork that is structured to be secure, but without the performance limits that would otherwise result from passing data through a stateful firewall. The Science DMZ is designed to handle high volume data transfers, typical with scientific and high-performance computing, by... | Science DMZ Network Architecture | Engineering | 1,313 |
76,666,752 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trichosporon%20asahii | Trichosporon asahii is a non-Candida yeast that has been reported to cause infections in immunocompromised patients. T. asahii is the most prominent human pathogen in its genus, causing more than half of all Trichosporon infections. First discovered and named in 1929, The currently accepted nomenclature of T. asahii wa... | Trichosporon asahii | Biology | 304 |
37,890,657 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC%2080 | NGC 80 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda. It is currently interacting with two other barred spiral galaxies NGC 47 and NGC 68, and was discovered on August 17, 1828 by John Herschel.
Physical properties
NGC 80 is classfied as a giant lenticular galaxy. Its circumnuclear ring measured 5″t 7... | NGC 80 | Astronomy | 381 |
61,246,073 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles%20Matcham | Charles Arthur Matcham (15 January 1862 – 22 September 1911) was an English civil engineer and businessman who spent most of his life in America. He founded numerous businesses, mostly within the cement-making industry, in areas including Phillipsburg, in New Jersey, and Allentown, and Portland in Pennsylvania. He was ... | Charles Matcham | Engineering | 555 |
53,293 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tangloids | Tangloids is a mathematical game for two players created by Piet Hein to model the calculus of spinors.
A description of the game appeared in the book "Martin Gardner's New Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American" by Martin Gardner from 1996 in a section on the mathematics of braiding.
Two flat blocks of woo... | Tangloids | Mathematics | 1,851 |
973,239 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethion | Ethion (C9H22O4P2S4) is an organophosphate insecticide. It is known to affect the neural enzyme acetylcholinesterase and disrupt its function.
History
Ethion was first registered in the US as an insecticide in the 1950s. Annual usage of ethion since then has varied depending on overall crop yields and weather conditi... | Ethion | Chemistry | 4,764 |
16,472 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet%20stream | Jet streams are fast flowing, narrow air currents in the Earth's atmosphere.
The main jet streams are located near the altitude of the tropopause and are westerly winds, flowing west to east around the globe. The northern hemisphere and the southern hemisphere each have a polar jet around their respective polar vortex... | Jet stream | Chemistry | 5,808 |
64,281,882 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinacyanol | Pinacyanol is a cyanine dye. It is an organic cation, typically isolated as the chloride or iodide salts. The blue dye is prepared from 2-methylquinoline by quaternization with ethyl chloride or ethyl iodide. Condensation with formaldehyde results in coupling. Subsequent oxidation of the leuco intermediate gives the... | Pinacyanol | Chemistry | 135 |
7,640,211 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map%20algebra | Map algebra is an algebra for manipulating geographic data, primarily fields. Developed by Dr. Dana Tomlin and others in the late 1970s, it is a set of primitive operations in a geographic information system (GIS) which allows one or more raster layers ("maps") of similar dimensions to produce a new raster layer (map)... | Map algebra | Physics,Mathematics,Technology | 2,094 |
13,271,310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NAD%2B%20kinase | {{DISPLAYTITLE:NAD+ kinase}}
NAD+ kinase (EC 2.7.1.23, NADK) is an enzyme that converts nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) into NADP+ through phosphorylating the NAD+ coenzyme. NADP+ is an essential coenzyme that is reduced to NADPH primarily by the pentose phosphate pathway to provide reducing power in biosynth... | NAD+ kinase | Chemistry,Biology | 775 |
7,177,687 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross%E2%80%93Pitaevskii%20equation | The Gross–Pitaevskii equation (GPE, named after Eugene P. Gross and Lev Petrovich Pitaevskii) describes the ground state of a quantum system of identical bosons using the Hartree–Fock approximation and the pseudopotential interaction model.
A Bose–Einstein condensate (BEC) is a gas of bosons that are in the same quant... | Gross–Pitaevskii equation | Physics,Chemistry,Materials_science | 2,394 |
9,824,460 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAS3 | NPAS3 or Neuronal PAS domain protein 3 is a brain-enriched transcription factor belonging to the bHLH-PAS superfamily of transcription factors, the members of which carry out diverse functions, including circadian oscillations, neurogenesis, toxin metabolism, hypoxia, and tracheal development. NPAS3 contains basic heli... | NPAS3 | Chemistry,Biology | 339 |
22,114,492 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British%20Board%20of%20Agr%C3%A9ment | The British Board of Agrément (BBA) is a UK body issuing certificates for construction products and systems and providing inspection services in support of their designers and installers.
Agrément certificate
This is an authoritative document proving the fitness for the purpose of a construction product and its compl... | British Board of Agrément | Mathematics | 613 |
47,544 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrying%20capacity | The carrying capacity of an environment is the maximum population size of a biological species that can be sustained by that specific environment, given the food, habitat, water, and other resources available. The carrying capacity is defined as the environment's maximal load, which in population ecology corresponds to... | Carrying capacity | Mathematics | 5,407 |
48,784,874 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elias%20Ladopoulos | Elias Ladopoulos is a technologist and investor from New York City. Under the pseudonym Acid Phreak, he was a founder of the Masters of Deception (MOD) hacker group along with Phiber Optik (Mark Abene) and Scorpion (Paul Stira). Referred to as The Gang That Ruled Cyberspace in a 1995 non-fiction book, MOD was at the fo... | Elias Ladopoulos | Technology | 1,065 |
1,871,333 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda%20VT1100 | The Honda VT1100 is a motorcycle engine used in the Honda Shadow 1100 motorcycle line since its debut in 1985 until production ended in 2007. In this 22-year run, there were minimal changes.
It is a liquid cooled, , 45 degree V-twin. It has a bore and stroke of 87.5mm x 91.4mm with an 8:1 compression ratio. It is a... | Honda VT1100 | Technology | 740 |
262,401 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Translation%20%28biology%29 | In biology, translation is the process in living cells in which proteins are produced using RNA molecules as templates. The generated protein is a sequence of amino acids. This sequence is determined by the sequence of nucleotides in the RNA. The nucleotides are considered three at a time. Each such triple results in a... | Translation (biology) | Chemistry,Biology | 4,402 |
34,051,196 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic%20photorefractive%20materials | Organic photorefractive materials are materials that exhibit a temporary change in refractive index when exposed to light. The changing refractive index causes light to change speed throughout the material and produce light and dark regions in the crystal. The buildup can be controlled to produce holographic images for... | Organic photorefractive materials | Chemistry | 2,735 |
7,701 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocaine | Cocaine (, , ultimately ) is a tropane alkaloid that acts as a central nervous system stimulant. As an extract, it is mainly used recreationally and often illegally for its euphoric and rewarding effects. It is also used in medicine by Indigenous South Americans for various purposes and rarely, but more formally, as a ... | Cocaine | Physics,Chemistry | 14,956 |
28,022,785 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial%20block-face%20scanning%20electron%20microscopy | Serial block-face scanning electron microscopy is a method to generate high resolution three-dimensional images from small samples. The technique was developed for brain tissue, but it is widely applicable for any biological samples. A serial block-face scanning electron microscope consists of an ultramicrotome mounted... | Serial block-face scanning electron microscopy | Chemistry | 660 |
75,957,413 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa%20rustica%20%28M%C3%B6ckenlohe%29 | The Villa rustica in Möckenlohe is the remains of a villa rustica from the 2nd or 3rd century near Möckenlohe, a part of the municipality of Adelschlag in the Landkreis Eichstätt in Bavaria.
Ancient remains were known here from the beginning of the 20th century. Aerial photos from 1983 show the plan of the villa, but ... | Villa rustica (Möckenlohe) | Engineering | 424 |
3,025,636 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic%20search%20results | In web search engines, organic search results are the query results which are calculated strictly algorithmically, and not affected by advertiser payments. They are distinguished from various kinds of sponsored results, whether they are explicit pay per click advertisements, shopping results, or other results where the... | Organic search results | Technology | 577 |
25,191,344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FIPS%20140-3 | The Federal Information Processing Standard Publication 140-3 (FIPS PUB 140-3) is a U.S. government computer security standard used to approve cryptographic modules. The title is Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules. Initial publication was on March 22, 2019 and it supersedes FIPS 140-2.
Purpose
The Nationa... | FIPS 140-3 | Technology,Engineering | 928 |
15,941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques%20Rousseau | Jean-Jacques Rousseau (, ; ; 28 June 1712 – 2 July 1778) was a Genevan philosopher (philosophe), writer, and composer. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Age of Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic, and educat... | Jean-Jacques Rousseau | Biology | 17,704 |
48,249,441 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase%20stretch%20transform | Phase stretch transform (PST) is a computational approach to signal and image processing. One of its utilities is for feature detection and classification. PST is related to time stretch dispersive Fourier transform. It transforms the image by emulating propagation through a diffractive medium with engineered 3D disper... | Phase stretch transform | Physics | 1,047 |
14,812,118 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histone%20H2B%20type%201-C | Histone H2B type 1-C/E/F/G/I is a protein that in humans is encoded by the HIST1H2BC gene.
Histones are basic nuclear proteins that are responsible for the nucleosome structure of the chromosomal fiber in eukaryotes. Two molecules of each of the four core histones (H2A, H2B, H3, and H4) form an octamer, around which a... | Histone H2B type 1-C | Chemistry | 239 |
46,267,731 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geastrum%20britannicum | Geastrum britannicum is a fungal species in the family Geastraceae. Its recommended English name is vaulted earthstar. Like other earthstars, the basidiocarps (fruit bodies) are initially globose. Their thick outer skin splits open at maturity to expose the puffball-like spore sac surrounded by the split rays of the ou... | Geastrum britannicum | Biology | 313 |
491,962 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Respiration%20%28physiology%29 | In physiology, respiration is the transport of oxygen from the outside environment to the cells within tissues, and the removal of carbon dioxide in the opposite direction to the environment by a respiratory system.
The physiological definition of respiration differs from the biochemical definition, which refers to a ... | Respiration (physiology) | Biology | 877 |
44,818,023 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load%20%28unit%29 | The load, also known as a fodder, fother, and charrus (, "cartload"), is a historic English unit of weight or mass of various amounts, depending on the era, the substance being measured, and where it was being measured. The term was in use by the 13th century, and disappeared with legislation from the 1820s onwards. M... | Load (unit) | Mathematics | 901 |
18,777,003 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCT-790 | XCT-790 is a potent and selective inverse agonist ligand of the estrogen-related receptor alpha (ERRα). Independent of its inhibition of ERRα, XCT-790 is a potent mitochondrial electron transport chain uncoupler.
Mitochondrial electron transport chain uncoupling effect
XCT-790 has been shown to uncouple oxygen consump... | XCT-790 | Chemistry | 178 |
1,172,094 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosurgery | Radiosurgery is surgery using radiation, that is, the destruction of precisely selected areas of tissue using ionizing radiation rather than excision with a blade. Like other forms of radiation therapy (also called radiotherapy), it is usually used to treat cancer. Radiosurgery was originally defined by the Swedish neu... | Radiosurgery | Chemistry,Biology | 3,559 |
48,188,711 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BDS-1 | Blood-depressing substance-1 (BDS-1), also known as kappa-actitoxin-Avd4a, is a polypeptide found in the venom of the snakelocks anemone Anemonia sulcata. BDS-1 is a neurotoxin that modulates voltage-dependent potassium channels, in particular Kv3-family channels, as well as certain sodium channels. This polypeptide be... | BDS-1 | Chemistry | 697 |
10,977,940 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photobiotin | Photobiotin is a derivative of biotin used as a biochemical tool. It is composed of a biotin group, a linker group, and a photoactivatable aryl azide group.
The photoactivatable group provides nonspecific labeling of proteins, DNA and RNA probes or other molecules. Biotinylation of DNA and RNA with photoactivatable b... | Photobiotin | Biology | 261 |
11,306,676 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllosticta%20capitalensis | Phyllosticta capitalensis is a cosmopolitan fungal plant pathogen that grows on many hosts either as an endophyte or as a saprobe on dead tissue, including species of Citrus and Musa (bananas). There are some reports of it infecting orchids, such as cattleyas or Cymbidium.
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USDA ARS Fungal D... | Phyllosticta capitalensis | Biology | 92 |
46,597,851 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strict%20initial%20object | In the mathematical discipline of category theory, a strict initial object is an initial object 0 of a category C with the property that every morphism in C with codomain 0 is an isomorphism. In a Cartesian closed category, every initial object is strict. Also, if C is a distributive or extensive category, then the in... | Strict initial object | Mathematics | 89 |
64,365,600 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfite%20sulfate | A sulfite sulfate is a chemical compound that contains both sulfite and sulfate anions [SO3]2− [SO4]2−. These compounds were discovered in the 1980s as calcium and rare earth element salts. Minerals in this class were later discovered. Minerals may have sulfite as an essential component, or have it substituted for anot... | Sulfite sulfate | Physics,Chemistry | 806 |
9,857,569 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nursery%20%28room%29 | A nursery is a bedroom within a house or other dwelling set aside for an infant or toddler.
Historically, European nurseries had little decorations and were away from visitors' sight. An article in the 1842 British Cyclopedia of Domestic Medicine and Surgery instructed the readers to never use a shaded room for a nur... | Nursery (room) | Engineering | 615 |
54,313,516 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy%20quark%20effective%20theory | In quantum chromodynamics, heavy quark effective theory (HQET) is an effective field theory describing the physics of heavy (that is, of mass far greater than the QCD scale) quarks. It is used in studying the properties of hadrons containing a single charm or bottom quark. The effective theory was formalised in 1990 by... | Heavy quark effective theory | Physics | 295 |
7,392 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class%20%28computer%20programming%29 | In object-oriented programming, a class defines the shared aspects of objects created from the class. The capabilities of a class differ between programming languages, but generally the shared aspects consist of state (variables) and behavior (methods) that are each either associated with a particular object or with al... | Class (computer programming) | Engineering | 5,289 |
51,045 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guided%20rat | A remotely guided rat, popularly called a ratbot or robo-rat, is a rat with electrodes implanted in the medial forebrain bundle (MFB) and sensorimotor cortex of its brain. They were developed in 2002 by Sanjiv Talwar and John Chapin at the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center. The rats wear a small el... | Guided rat | Biology | 536 |
24,343,915 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C20H28N2O5 | {{DISPLAYTITLE:C20H28N2O5}}
The molecular formula C20H28N2O5 (molar mass: 376.447 g/mol, exact mass: 376.1998 u) may refer to:
Enalapril
Remifentanil
Molecular formulas | C20H28N2O5 | Physics,Chemistry | 68 |
5,377,788 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semicarbazone | In organic chemistry, a semicarbazone is a derivative of imines formed by a condensation reaction between a ketone or aldehyde and semicarbazide. They are classified as imine derivatives because they are formed from the reaction of an aldehyde or ketone with the terminal -NH2 group of semicarbazide, which behaves very... | Semicarbazone | Chemistry | 329 |
11,421,453 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotavirus%20cis-acting%20replication%20element | This family represents a rotavirus cis-acting replication element (CRE) found at the 3'-end of rotavirus mRNAs. The family is thought to promote the synthesis of minus strand RNA to form viral dsRNA.
References
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Cis-regulatory RNA elements | Rotavirus cis-acting replication element | Chemistry | 58 |
22,367,956 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beuchat | Beuchat International, better known as Beuchat, is a company that designs, manufactures and markets underwater equipment. It was established in 1934 in Marseille, France, by Georges Beuchat, who descended from a Swiss watchmaking family.
Georges Beuchat was an underwater pioneer who co-founded the French Underwater Fe... | Beuchat | Engineering | 652 |
1,023,079 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malachite%20green | Malachite green is an organic compound that is used as a dyestuff and controversially as an antimicrobial in aquaculture. Malachite green is traditionally used as a dye for materials such as silk, leather, and paper. Despite its name the dye is not prepared from the mineral malachite; the name just comes from the simil... | Malachite green | Chemistry,Materials_science,Biology | 1,693 |
9,025,310 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%20of%20UN%20numbers%203001%20to%203100 | UN numbers from UN3001 to UN3100 as assigned by the United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods are as follows:
UN 3001 to UN 3100
See also
Lists of UN numbers
References
External links
ADR Dangerous Goods, cited on 7 May 2015.
UN Dangerous Goods List from 2015, cited on 7 May 2015.
UN... | List of UN numbers 3001 to 3100 | Chemistry,Technology | 88 |
26,386,344 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea%20foam | Sea foam, ocean foam, beach foam, or spume is a type of foam created by the agitation of seawater, particularly when it contains higher concentrations of dissolved organic matter (including proteins, lignins, and lipids) derived from sources such as the offshore breakdown of algal blooms. These compounds can act as sur... | Sea foam | Physics,Chemistry,Biology | 2,972 |
441,179 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combustion%20chamber | A combustion chamber is part of an internal combustion engine in which the fuel/air mix is burned. For steam engines, the term has also been used for an extension of the firebox which is used to allow a more complete combustion process.
Internal combustion engines
In an internal combustion engine, the pressure cause... | Combustion chamber | Technology | 1,194 |
16,179,698 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isrotel%20Tower | The Isrotel Tower is a hotel located on the beachfront of Tel Aviv, Israel.
The tower is 108 meters high, has 29 floors and is operated by the Israeli Isrotel hotel group. A Gvirtzman Architects designed the towers which were completed in 1966, whilst the main core was completed in the 1980s. The diameter of the struc... | Isrotel Tower | Engineering | 190 |
769,021 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioavailability | In pharmacology, bioavailability is a subcategory of absorption and is the fraction (%) of an administered drug that reaches the systemic circulation.
By definition, when a medication is administered intravenously, its bioavailability is 100%. However, when a medication is administered via routes other than intravenou... | Bioavailability | Chemistry,Biology | 2,451 |
56,857,842 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic-Ray%20Extremely%20Distributed%20Observatory | Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory (CREDO) is a scientific project initiated at the end of August 2016 by Polish scientists from the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Kraków (researchers from the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary also joined the project) whose purpose is the detection of cosmic rays and the ... | Cosmic-Ray Extremely Distributed Observatory | Astronomy | 858 |
26,985,551 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman%20lead%20pipe%20inscription | A Roman lead pipe inscription is a Latin inscription on a Roman water pipe made of lead which provides brief information on its manufacturer and owner, often the reigning emperor himself as the supreme authority. The identification marks were created by full text stamps.
Manufacture of pipes
Lead, a by-product of th... | Roman lead pipe inscription | Engineering | 618 |
72,173,841 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTT%2068 | MTT 68 is a multiple star system located on the outskirts of the HD 97950 cluster in the NGC 3603 star-forming region, about 25,000 light years from Earth. It contains a rare example of an O2If* star which is one of the most luminous and most massive known.
MTT 68 was first identified as being associated with NGC 360... | MTT 68 | Astronomy | 427 |
9,755,564 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congruence%20lattice%20problem | In mathematics, the congruence lattice problem asks whether every algebraic distributive lattice is isomorphic to the congruence lattice of some other lattice. The problem was posed by Robert P. Dilworth, and for many years it was one of the most famous and long-standing open problems in lattice theory; it had a deep i... | Congruence lattice problem | Mathematics | 5,866 |
4,371,417 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique%20Material%20Identifier | The Unique Material Identifier (UMID) is a SMPTE standard for providing a stand-alone method for generating a unique label designed to be used to attach to media files and streams. The UMID is standardized in SMPTE 330M.
There are two types of UMID:
Basic UMID
contains the minimal components necessary for the unique... | Unique Material Identifier | Technology | 174 |
10,698,707 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleaning%20%28birds%29 | Gleaning is a feeding strategy by birds and bats in which they catch invertebrate prey, mainly arthropods, by plucking them from foliage or the ground, from crevices such as rock faces and under the eaves of houses, or even, as in the case of ticks and lice, from living animals. This behavior is contrasted with hawking... | Gleaning (birds) | Biology | 2,545 |
55,270,757 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aminophosphine | In organophosphorus chemistry, aminophosphines are compounds with the formula R3−nP(NR2)n where R is a hydrogen or organic substituent, and n = 0, 1, or 2. At one extreme, the parents H2PNH2 and are lightly studied and fragile. At the other extreme, tris(dimethylamino)phosphine (P(NMe2)3) is commonly available. Interm... | Aminophosphine | Chemistry | 1,177 |
77,307,051 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention%20for%20the%20Protection%20and%20Development%20of%20the%20Marine%20Environment%20of%20the%20Wider%20Caribbean%20Region | The Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region, commonly called the Cartagena Convention, is an international agreement for the protection of the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico and a portion of the adjacent Atlantic Ocean. It was adopted on 24 March 1983, en... | Convention for the Protection and Development of the Marine Environment of the Wider Caribbean Region | Chemistry,Environmental_science | 2,497 |
33,941 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows%202000 | Windows 2000 is a major release of the Windows NT operating system developed by Microsoft and oriented towards businesses. It is the direct successor to Windows NT 4.0, and was released to manufacturing on December 15, 1999, officially released to retail on February 17, 2000 for all versions, and on September 26, 2000 ... | Windows 2000 | Technology | 10,765 |
51,563,546 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant%20Stellar | The Avant Stellar is a mechanical keyboard that was produced by Creative Vision Technologies Inc (CVT). It was the successor to the popular and successful OmniKey keyboard by Northgate Computers, and was regarded as being very similar to the OmniKey Plus. It is no longer in production.
References
Footnotes
Sources
... | Avant Stellar | Technology | 78 |
1,852,572 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marangoni%20effect | The Marangoni effect (also called the Gibbs–Marangoni effect) is the mass transfer along an interface between two phases due to a gradient of the surface tension. In the case of temperature dependence, this phenomenon may be called thermo-capillary convection or Bénard–Marangoni convection.
History
This phenomenon was... | Marangoni effect | Physics,Chemistry,Engineering | 1,822 |
12,503,315 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/API%20oil%E2%80%93water%20separator | An API oil–water separator is a device designed to separate gross amounts of oil and suspended solids from industrial wastewater produced at oil refineries, petrochemical plants, chemical plants, natural gas processing plants and other industrial oily water sources. The API separator is a gravity separation device desi... | API oil–water separator | Chemistry,Engineering | 1,697 |
3,104,018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomson%20problem | The objective of the Thomson problem is to determine the minimum electrostatic potential energy configuration of electrons constrained to the surface of a unit sphere that repel each other with a force given by Coulomb's law. The physicist J. J. Thomson posed the problem in 1904 after proposing an atomic model, later ... | Thomson problem | Chemistry,Mathematics | 1,876 |
779,848 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buprenorphine | Buprenorphine, sold under the brand name Subutex among others, is an opioid used to treat opioid use disorder, acute pain, and chronic pain. It can be used under the tongue (sublingual), in the cheek (buccal), by injection (intravenous and subcutaneous), as a skin patch (transdermal), or as an implant. For opioid use d... | Buprenorphine | Chemistry | 4,884 |
48,981 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascomycota | Ascomycota is a phylum of the kingdom Fungi that, together with the Basidiomycota, forms the subkingdom Dikarya. Its members are commonly known as the sac fungi or ascomycetes. It is the largest phylum of Fungi, with over 64,000 species. The defining feature of this fungal group is the "ascus" (), a microscopic sexual ... | Ascomycota | Biology | 9,299 |
34,267,681 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity%20and%20Distributions | Diversity and Distributions is a bimonthly peer-reviewed scientific journal on conservation biogeography. It was established in 1993 as Biodiversity Letters. The journal covers the applications of biogeographical principles, theories, and analyses to problems concerning the conservation of biodiversity. The editors-in-... | Diversity and Distributions | Environmental_science | 221 |
38,731,424 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantic%20order-4%20hexagonal%20tiling | In geometry, the cantic order-4 hexagonal tiling is a uniform tiling of the hyperbolic plane. It has Schläfli symbol of t0,1{(4,4,3)} or h2{6,4}.
Related polyhedra and tiling
References
John H. Conway, Heidi Burgiel, Chaim Goodman-Strauss, The Symmetries of Things 2008, (Chapter 19, The Hyperbolic Archimedean Tesse... | Cantic order-4 hexagonal tiling | Physics | 179 |
7,944,108 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fixed-asset%20turnover | Fixed-asset turnover is the ratio of sales (on the profit and loss account) to the value of fixed assets (on the balance sheet). It indicates how well the business is using its fixed assets to generate sales.
Generally speaking, the higher the ratio, the better, because a high ratio indicates the business has less ... | Fixed-asset turnover | Mathematics | 234 |
36,222,895 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruprecht%20147 | Ruprecht 147 or NGC 6774 is a dispersed star cluster in the Milky Way galaxy. It is about 1,000 light years away, which is close to Earth in comparison with other such clusters. In late summer, it can be seen with binoculars in the constellation of Sagittarius. The stars, bound by gravity, are about 2.5 to 3.25 billion... | Ruprecht 147 | Astronomy | 277 |
242,282 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nucleocosmochronology | Nucleocosmochronology, or nuclear cosmochronology, is a technique used to determine timescales for astrophysical objects and events based on observed ratios of radioactive heavy elements and their decay products. It is similar in many respects to radiometric dating, in which trace radioactive impurities were selectivel... | Nucleocosmochronology | Physics,Astronomy | 598 |
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