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Mortality rate, or death rate,: 189, 69  is a measure of the number of deaths (in general, or due to a specific cause) in a particular population, scaled...

Paper size standards govern the size of sheets of paper used as writing paper, stationery, cards, and for some printed documents. The ISO 216 standard...

Many people have made use of, or invented, units of measurement intended primarily for their humor value. This is a list of such units invented by sources...

Evolutionism is a term used (usually derogatorily) to denote the theory of evolution. Its exact meaning has changed over time as the study of evolution...

Baloxavir marboxil, sold under the brand name Xofluza, is an antiviral medication for treatment of influenza A and influenza B. It was approved for medical...

The Savage Islands or Selvagens Islands (Portuguese: Ilhas Selvagens IPA: [ˈiʎɐʃ sɛlˈvaʒɐ̃jʃ]; also known as the Salvage Islands) are a small Portuguese...

The 1N400x (or 1N4001 or 1N4000) series is a family of popular one-ampere general-purpose silicon rectifier diodes commonly used in AC adapters for common...

Vulpinic acid is a natural product first found in and important in the symbiosis underlying the biology of lichens. It is a simple methyl ester derivative...

A Stockbridge damper is a tuned mass damper used to suppress wind-induced vibrations on slender structures such as overhead power lines, long cantilevered...

A moral injury is an injury to an individual's moral conscience and values resulting from an act of perceived moral transgression on the part of themselves...

Greenfield Energy Centre is a natural gas-fired power station located in Courtright, Ontario. It produces 1,005 MW of electricity and is the second largest...

Cybereason is an American cybersecurity technology company founded in 2012. It is headquartered in the United States, with offices in San Diego, California...

The European Parliamentary Technology Assessment (EPTA) is a network of technology assessment (TA) institutions specialising in advising parliamentary...

Third-party punishment, or altruistic punishment, is punishment of a transgressor (first party) which is administered, not by a victim of the transgression...

A Wardley map is a map for business strategy. Components are positioned within a value chain and anchored by the user need, with movement described by...

Woodcock Airport (TC LID: CBQ8) is an abandoned airstrip 3.8 nautical miles (7.0 km; 4.4 mi) northeast of Cedarvale at Woodcock, British Columbia, Canada...

Jason W. Locasale is an American scientist and university professor. His focus is on metabolism. Locasale graduated summa cum laude from Rutgers University...

Chittoor V. Ramamoorthy (1926–2016) was an Indian-American computer scientist, computer engineer and educator whose work had many implications in engineering...

Alexander A. Borbély (born 1939 in Budapest) is a Hungarian-Swiss pharmacologist known for his sleep research. Borbély proposed the two-process model of...