Breast cancer awarenessBreast cancer awareness is an effort to raise awareness and reduce the stigma of breast cancer through education about screening, symptoms, and treatment. Supporters hope that greater knowledge will lead to earlier detection of breast cancer, which is associated with higher long-term survival rates, and that money raised for breast cancer will produce a reliable, permanent cure. Breast cancer advocacy and awareness efforts are a type of health advocacy. Breast cancer advocates raise funds and lobby for better care, more knowledge, and more patient empowerment.
Champ magnétique interplanétairevignette|La nappe de courant héliosphérique le long de la spirale de Parker est la forme prise par le champ magnétique solaire dans le milieu interplanétaire. Le champ magnétique interplanétaire (CMI), également connu sous le nom de champ magnétique de l'héliosphère, est le champ magnétique du Soleil porté par le vent solaire à travers les planètes et autres corps du Système solaire, dans le milieu interplanétaire jusqu'au confins de l'héliosphère. Les modélisations actuelles du CMI lui donnent une forme de spirale, nommée spirale de Parker.
Wild silkWild silks have been known and used in many countries from early times, although the scale of production is far smaller than that from cultivated silkworms. Silk cocoons and nests often resemble paper or cloth, and their use has arisen independently in many societies. Silk taken from various species has been used since ancient times, either in its natural state or after some form of preparation. Spider webs were used as a wound dressing in ancient Greece and Rome, and as a base for painting from the 16th century.
Celestial spheresThe celestial spheres, or celestial orbs, were the fundamental entities of the cosmological models developed by Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, and others. In these celestial models, the apparent motions of the fixed stars and planets are accounted for by treating them as embedded in rotating spheres made of an aetherial, transparent fifth element (quintessence), like gems set in orbs. Since it was believed that the fixed stars did not change their positions relative to one another, it was argued that they must be on the surface of a single starry sphere.
Assam silkAssam silk denotes the three major types of indigenous wild silks produced in Assam—golden muga, white pat and warm eri silk. The Assam silk industry, now centered in Sualkuchi, is a labor-intensive industry. Assam was well known for the production of high quality silk since ancient times. The craft of weaving goes along with the production of silk. It grew to such sophistication in Assam that it was known all over India and abroad.
SéricineSericin is a protein created by Bombyx mori (silkworms) in the production of silk. Silk is a fibre produced by the silkworm in production of its cocoon. It consists mainly of two proteins, fibroin and sericin. Silk consists of 70–80% fibroin and 20–30% sericin; fibroin being the structural center of the silk, and sericin being the gum coating the fibres and allowing them to stick to each other. Sericin is composed of 18 different amino acids, of which 32% is serine.
Concentric spheresThe cosmological model of concentric (or homocentric) spheres, developed by Eudoxus, Callippus, and Aristotle, employed celestial spheres all centered on the Earth. In this respect, it differed from the epicyclic and eccentric models with multiple centers, which were used by Ptolemy and other mathematical astronomers until the time of Copernicus. Eudoxus of Cnidus was the first astronomer to develop the concept of concentric spheres. He was originally a student at Plato's academy and is believed to have been influenced by the cosmological speculations of Plato and Pythagoras.
SéricicultureLa sériciculture est l'élevage du ver à soie, qui est lui-même la chenille du papillon Bombyx mori. Elle consiste en l'ensemble des opérations de culture du mûrier, d'élevage du ver à soie pour l'obtention du cocon, de dévidage du cocon et de filature de la soie. L'élevage s'effectue à partir des œufs du papillon, appelés selon l'usage « graines ». Dans le sud de la France, la maison dans laquelle on pratique l'élevage des vers à soie est appelée magnanerie, du nom de « magnan » donné au ver.
