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309,957 | The Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul, and Pacific Railroad (the Milwaukee Road), the last transcontinental line to be built, electrified its lines across the Rocky Mountains and to the Pacific Ocean starting in 1915. A few East Coastlines, notably the Virginian Railway and the Norfolk and Western Railway, electrified short... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=390883 | 309,790 |
276,563 | A creation unique to the United States was the double-bell euphonium, featuring a second smaller bell in addition to the main one; the player could switch bells for certain passages or even for individual notes by use of an additional valve, operated with the left hand. Ostensibly, the smaller bell was intended to emul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10371 | 276,413 |
152,871 | Though never factory-installed in any car, the ultimate engine of the Ram Air line of engines was the tunnel-port Ram Air V. In 1969 Pontiac created four versions of the Ram Air V engine: a short deck version for SCCA Trans-Am racing, a variant for NASCAR, a version for street use in GTOs and Firebirds, as well as a ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=880258 | 152,803 |
1,510,509 | The beginnings of the field of floral biology is generally traced to Christian Konrad Sprengel's "Entdeckte Geheimniss der Natur im Bau in der Befruchtung der Blumen" (The Secret of Nature in the Form and Fertilization of Flowers Discovered) (1793). Sprengel may however have been influenced by the earlier work of Josep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53510591 | 1,509,659 |
918,013 | The segregation of communities is significant because the qualities of any given space directly impact the wellbeing of the people who live and work there. George Galster and Patrick Sharkey refer to this variation in geographic context as "spatial opportunity structure," and claim that the built environment influences... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=224985 | 917,530 |
451,326 | CSIR-NEERI has been instrumental in designing and commissioning Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETPs) for homogenous and heterogeneous industrial clusters in the country. CETPs designed and commissioned by CSIR-NEERI at various industrial clusters helped in prevention of water and soil pollution. 767 small scale ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16085921 | 451,107 |
1,904,218 | Ma is a significant contributor in scientific outreach efforts. He is a founding member of the Scientist Action and Advocacy Network. In that capacity, he has been an expert witness, providing scientific testimony to the New York City Council Committees on Juvenile Justice & Courts and Legal Services on the issue of ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54462558 | 1,903,124 |
2,127,585 | Dinwiddie was born on 8 December 1746 in Tinwald near Dumfries where his parents John Dinwoody and Catharine Riddick were farmers. One of five children, he was born shortly after the death of his father. He worked on the farm and gained an interest in mechanical devices, building a wooden clock even as a young boy. He ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55383326 | 2,126,364 |
660,511 | "Tau Zero" follows the crew of the starship "Leonora Christine", a colonization vessel crewed by 25 men and 25 women aiming to reach the nearby star Beta Virginis. The ship is powered by a Bussard ramjet, which was proposed 10 years before Anderson wrote the book. This mode of propulsion is not capable of faster-than-l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4438055 | 660,166 |
210,378 | CANDU fuel bundles are about long and in diameter. They consist of sintered (UO) pellets in zirconium alloy tubes, welded to zirconium alloy end plates. Each bundle weighs roughly , and a typical core loading is on the order of 4500–6500 bundles, depending on the design. Modern types typically have 37 identical fuel pi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2046416 | 210,271 |
1,838,954 | In the years following, DeLong's work took him to the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute and it is during his time there that he made a crucial discovery in the understanding of the Earth's carbon and energy cycles. A team of microbiologists led by DeLong discovered a gene in several species of bacteria responsib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30734524 | 1,837,905 |
952,498 | The question of when the transition from prokaryotic to eukaryotic form occurred and when the first crown group eukaryotes appeared on earth is still unresolved. The oldest known body fossils that can be positively assigned to the Eukaryota are acanthomorphic acritarchs from the 1.631 Gya Deonar Formation of India. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60426 | 951,993 |
1,753,331 | Therefore, the calculation in this way is not reliable in real is complicated. An example article considering the variable depends on the temperature coefficient of friction steel - aluminum Al60611 - Alumina is described by authors from Malaysia in for example this paper "Evaluation of Properties and FEM Model of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66141540 | 1,752,341 |
498,534 | Meanwhile, the tutorships in other colleges, and some of the headships also, were being filled with Balliol men, and Jowett's former pupils were prominent in both houses of parliament and at the bar. He continued the practice, which he had commenced in 1848, of taking with him a small party of undergraduates in vacatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231263 | 498,277 |
299,762 | At the season's penultimate round, the 6 Hours of Shanghai in November, Hartley and Webber claimed pole position despite Hartley's first lap being nullified for a track limits violation while Lieb and Jani qualified sixth after Lieb's first lap was voided for excess fuel consumption. Hartley lost the lead to Buemi at t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41368349 | 299,601 |
1,498,852 | To meet the needs of less affluent stations, EMT introduced in 1979 a new model, based on the same principles as the ‘950’: the ‘948 Broadcast turntable'. It had direct drive, sophisticated electronics and a ‘929’ tonearm, but in a much more compact envelope. Its Perspex dust cover featured a ‘groove’ where the DJ coul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7933660 | 1,498,008 |
470,944 | Microwave sensors are executed in a wide variety of techniques. Two basic signal processing techniques are applied, each offering its own advantages: Pulsed or Time-Domain Reflectometry (TDR) which is a measurement of time of flight divided by the speed of electromagnetic waves in the medium (speed of light divided by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4023295 | 470,708 |
452,001 | Beginning in the 1950s, new forms of museology were emerging as a way to revitalize the educational role of museums. One attempt to re-envision museums’ role was the concept of Ecomuseums, first proposed publicly at ICOM’s 9th International Conference in France (1971). Ecomuseums proliferated in Europe – and still exis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=844809 | 451,782 |
220,984 | As part of the digestive process, food-sourced carotenoids must be separated from plant cells and incorporated into lipid-containing micelles to be bioaccessible to intestinal enterocytes. If already extracted (or synthetic) and then presented in an oil-filled dietary supplement capsule, there is greater bioavailabilit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=579219 | 220,875 |
569,712 | Austrian School economist Peter J. Boettke argued in the wake of the Great Recession that the Federal Reserve was making a mistake by not allowing consumer prices to fall. According to him, the Fed's policy of reducing interest rates to below-market-level when there was a chance of deflation in the early 2000s together... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2630062 | 569,422 |
1,893,099 | Lucy Quist is a Ghanain-British electrical engineer and business executive. She graduated from the University of East London with first-class honors in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and pursued an MBA at the Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires in France. Throughout her career, Quist worked at Ford M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57218855 | 1,892,016 |
1,994,149 | The launch (designated Ariane flight VA256) took place as scheduled at 12:20 UTC on 25 December 2021 on an Ariane 5 rocket that lifted off from the Guiana Space Centre in French Guiana. Upon successful launch, NASA administrator Bill Nelson called it "a great day for planet Earth". The telescope was confirmed to be rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71399656 | 1,993,006 |
296,511 | Talons supported "Operation Just Cause", the United States invasion of Panama in December 1989 and January 1990. Three MC-130Es of the 1st Special Operations Wing deployed to Hunter Army Air Field, Georgia within 48 hours of being alerted, then airlanded Rangers of the 2nd Battalion 75th Ranger Regiment into Rio Hato M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600765 | 296,351 |
1,663,695 | Functional Ecology is closely intertwined with genomics. Understanding the functional niches that organisms occupy in an ecosystem can provide clues to genetic differences between members of a genus. On the other hand, discovering the traits/functions that genes encode for yields insight into the roles that organisms p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3269260 | 1,662,758 |
979,412 | By May 1954, Keyhoe was making public statements that his sources told him the search had indeed been successful, and either one or two objects had been found. However, the story did not break until August 23, 1954, when "Aviation Week" magazine stated that two satellites had been found only 400 and 600 miles out. They... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6663 | 978,901 |
1,060,113 | The typical FCS setup consists of a laser line (wavelengths ranging typically from 405–633 nm (cw), and from 690–1100 nm (pulsed)), which is reflected into a microscope objective by a dichroic mirror. The laser beam is focused in the sample, which contains fluorescent particles (molecules) in such high dilution, that o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2589751 | 1,059,562 |
1,857,056 | Every year humans add 25 billion tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, and over half of it comes from their domestic activity. Attenborough introduces the Carbons, a fictional family occupying an average Western suburban house near a city. Their electrical requirements are supplied via fossil fuels. As Attenborough... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7564445 | 1,855,988 |
134,129 | A strategy of "species-packing" was practiced to ensure that food webs and ecological function could be maintained if some species did not survive. The fog desert area became more chaparral in character due to condensation from the space frame. The savannah was seasonally active; its biomass was cut and stored by the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216362 | 134,074 |
1,221,993 | "Armillaria gallica" can normally be found on the ground, but sometimes on stumps and logs. Mushrooms that appear to be terrestrial are attached to plant roots underneath the surface. It is widely distributed and has been collected in North America, Europe, and Asia (China, Iran, and Japan). The species has also been f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22450244 | 1,221,334 |
1,754,486 | Zallinger's first award was an honorable mention for the Prix-de-Rome in 1941. After finishing the mural of The Age of Reptiles, in 1947, he received the Pulitzer Award for Painting in 1949. He received the Addison Emery Verrill Medal for "outstanding contributions to the field of natural history," which was presented ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8990816 | 1,753,496 |
1,462,230 | FPCA can be applied for displaying the modes of functional variation, in scatterplots of FPCs against each other or of responses against FPCs, for modeling sparse longitudinal data, or for functional regression and classification, e.g., functional linear regression. Scree plots and other methods can be used to determin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41204236 | 1,461,408 |
1,902,740 | The settlement movement believed that if men and women from universities lived for a while amongst the poorer communities of their city they could ‘"do a little to remove the inequalities of life"’. They also believed that old problems could be solved together; the university was teaching 'the understanding of difficul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45419083 | 1,901,649 |
117,826 | In the 17th century, pirates started to use the Galápagos Islands as a base for resupply, restocking on food and water, and repairing vessels before attacking Spanish colonies on the South American mainland. However, the Galápagos tortoises did not struggle for survival at this point because the islands were distant fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7934681 | 117,781 |
1,199,338 | Of all cylinder layouts without balance shaft, a straight eight design has very low inherent vibration, while the side-valve layout contains the moving parts of the valve train within the cast-iron block, enabling it to be very quiet compared to an overhead valve configuration (as in the contemporary Buick engines). Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1430626 | 1,198,697 |
629,082 | Even with the quasar data roughly in agreement with the CMB anisotropy data, there are still a number of questions, especially concerning the energy sources of reionization and the effects on, and role of, structure formation during reionization. The 21-cm line in hydrogen is potentially a means of studying this period... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=488748 | 628,744 |
358,847 | From 1942 to 1944, Borlaug was employed as a microbiologist at DuPont in Wilmington, Delaware. It was planned that he would lead research on industrial and agricultural bacteriocides, fungicides, and preservatives. However, following the December 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor Borlaug tried to enlist in the military, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275564 | 358,661 |
2,165,270 | Since war appeared to be drawing closer by the year, the Long Range Program grew in importance and in 1940 was accelerated to deliver more of the 500 planned ships sooner than originally scheduled. The fall of France in May 1940 was a watershed for the Commission and the Long Range Program for when Germany was able to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11688827 | 2,164,033 |
1,826,772 | The Laboratory distributed software, and later data, at cost, thus encouraging experimentation. The Laboratory conducted correspondence courses, hosted numerous conferences, and worked on environmental planning and architectural projects with the Harvard Graduate School of Design. From 1978 to 1983, the Laboratory host... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47557282 | 1,825,733 |
2,139,422 | The Phoenician goddess of pregnancy was Astarte (also called Astoreth), goddess of fertility, nutrition and gynaecology, identified with Aphrodite. Astarte was worshipped in Kition (present day Larnaca). She was married to the Middle Eastern god Baal who was also worshipped in Kition. Bronze snakes (medical symbols) we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20289740 | 2,138,192 |
1,725,796 | Cochlear implants differ than hearing aids in that the entire acoustic hearing is replaced with direct electric stimulation of the auditory nerve, achieved via an electrode array placed inside the cochlea. Hence, here, other factors than device signal processing also strongly contribute to overall hearing, such as etio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56439577 | 1,724,825 |
1,087,512 | In contrast to Dong's certainty about innate goodness, the contemporary writer Jia Yi (201–169 BCE) synthesized the opposing perspectives of Mengzi and Xunzi (c. 312 – c. 230 BCE) in the chapter "Protecting and Tutoring" (Baofu 保傅) of his book "New Recommendations" ("Xinshu" 新書) to argue that human nature was malleable... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21786810 | 1,086,953 |
1,027,573 | The first and most spectacular outcome occurred in 1928, when the Pacifics were called upon daily to work the Flying Scotsman train non-stop over the between London and Edinburgh. Initially three A1s and two A3s took turns on this service. The modifications also gave the A1 locomotives greater speed potential, and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2534748 | 1,027,039 |
2,047,730 | By letters patent of 6 August 1806, however, the Swedish military medical service underwent one of the most important and radical changes, when it was stipulated that all surgeons employed in the army in peace and war would constitute a special establishment, militarily organized and subordinate under its own, only bef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68905089 | 2,046,549 |
21,460 | The revival of the Hebrew language as a mother tongue was initiated in the late 19th century by the efforts of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda. He joined the Jewish national movement and in 1881 immigrated to Palestine, then a part of the Ottoman Empire. Motivated by the surrounding ideals of renovation and rejection of the diaspor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13450 | 21,451 |
641,292 | Woese turned his attention to the genetic code while setting up his lab at General Electric's Knolls Laboratory in the fall of 1960. Interest among physicists and molecular biologists had begun to coalesce around deciphering the correspondence between the twenty amino acids and the four letter alphabet of nucleic acid ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40598 | 640,953 |
1,302,342 | The theorem of Torricelli was employed by many succeeding writers, but particularly by Edme Mariotte (1620–1684), whose "Traité du mouvement des eaux", published after his death in the year 1686, is founded on a great variety of well-conducted experiments on the motion of fluids, performed at Versailles and Chantilly. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2206712 | 1,301,628 |
521,442 | The next royal governor, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, brought Wythe and Virginia to the brink of revolution. Dunmore arrived in Williamsburg from New York on September 26, 1771. Rumors of his rule as New York's governor, which included accusations of graft and companions roughing up local judges, soon followed. Al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261191 | 521,171 |
2,178,954 | Bell was born at Northbank Station on the Wairau river in Marlborough, New Zealand on 13 September 1887. He was the son of William Bell, a sheep farmer and his wife Emma Amelia Dolamore, a schoolmistress and daughter of New Zealand's first Baptist clergyman, Decimus Dolamore. He was educated at Marlborough High School ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34678551 | 2,177,709 |
951,027 | The first such vessel is scheduled to be based in Adak Island, Alaska, part of the Aleutian Islands. From that location it will be able to track missiles launched toward the US from both North Korea and China. Although her homeport is in Alaska, she will be tasked with moving throughout the Pacific Ocean to support her... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4301168 | 950,523 |
185,805 | Infectious disease control through improved water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) infrastructure needs to be included in the antimicrobial resistance (AMR) agenda. The "Interagency Coordination Group on Antimicrobial Resistance" stated in 2018 that "the spread of pathogens through unsafe water results in a high burden o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1914 | 185,708 |
1,602,052 | His doctoral studies at IIT Bombay gave Kumar the opportunity to work alongside noted physicists such as Krityunjai Prasad Sinha and Ram Prakash Singh and during his days at the University of British Columbia, he studied condensed matter physics with Maurice Pryce. He carried on his work on superconductivity and disord... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53973897 | 1,601,151 |
863,608 | The term 'heterokont' first emerged in the context of 19th century phycology. Over time, the scope of application has changed; especially when in the 1970's as ultrastructural studies revealed greater diversity among the algae with chromoplasts (= chlorophylls a and c) than had previously been recognized. At the same t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=332184 | 863,148 |
1,661,924 | Six months of continuous combat in North Africa was followed by a short break, flying reconnaissance and escort missions around the Mediterranean. The respite ended on 15 August 1943, as air attacks increased against southern Italy in preparation for landings at Salerno. On 25 August, the 1st FG launched 65 P-38s, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4381244 | 1,660,989 |
275,371 | The F-82E had a range of over , which meant that with external fuel tanks it could fly from London to Moscow, loiter for 30 minutes over the target, and return, the only American fighter which could do so. It also had an operational ceiling of , where it could stay close to the bombers it was designed to protect. The f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=671473 | 275,223 |
1,747,892 | On 27 August 1914, the 2nd Fleet under Vice-Admiral Sadakichi Kato, was sent to blockade the German colony of Tsingtao on the Shandong peninsula. The 2nd fleet consisted mainly of older warships with the pre-dreadnought battleship being the flagship. Later on October 31, the Japanese together with a token British force... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56104666 | 1,746,906 |
375,668 | The United States Department of Energy web site states that "nuclear power is the most reliable energy source", and to a great degree "has the highest capacity factor. Natural gas and coal capacity factors are generally lower due to routine maintenance and/or refueling at these facilities while renewable plants are con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4131402 | 375,473 |
1,035,276 | Space-division multiple access (SDMA) is a channel access method based on creating parallel spatial pipes (focused signal beams) using advanced antenna technology next to higher capacity pipes through spatial multiplexing and/or diversity, by which it is able to offer superior performance in radio multiple access commu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=381917 | 1,034,736 |
1,330,914 | In 2013, SomaLogic partnered with Agilent Technologies to distribute SomaScan systems to American research and educational institutions. It also signed a development deal with Quest Diagnostics to create a blood test for early-stage, non-small-cell lung cancer. It also has partnerships with Otsuka and New England Biola... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53539396 | 1,330,185 |
2,202,267 | During WW I he was on academic leave of absence from 1917 to 1919 for service in the U.S. Navy. For two months he was a lieutenant (j.g.) on a small patrol boat. He was then appointed a radio officer aboard the scout cruiser USS "Salem" (CL-3). In February 1918 he was assigned to radio compass duty aboard a destroyer. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71644253 | 2,201,013 |
1,644,900 | In the future, a band of immortals (some who are famous historical characters, some who have tried their best to avoid becoming so), including Herb Wells, Ned Curzon (nicknamed Grand Guignol), Hillel, and Sam Pepys have only one requirement for membership: don't die. Through their extensive social network, they come ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6065164 | 1,643,972 |
2,057,647 | As news came of the California Gold Rush in 1848, many men from the Oregon Territory were enticed to seek fortunes. Although Peter had his claim, he did not have any property that could be converted to cash so he could afford passage to California. Being a surveyor, he would survey town sites and claims. For his servic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61637449 | 2,056,462 |
533,744 | Advancements in molecular biology and theory of evolution within zoological research has unraveled questions concerning speciation events and has expanded phylogenic relationships amongst taxa. Integration of phylogenetics with GIS provides a means for communicating evolutionary origins through cartographic design. Rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1750882 | 533,465 |
1,322,169 | "Spinophorosaurus" has been classified as either a very basal sauropod, or inside Eusauropoda, a more derived group. The anatomy, age, and location of specimens indicate that important developments in sauropod evolution may have occurred in North Africa, possibly controlled by climatic zones and plant biogeography. Fea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24361405 | 1,321,443 |
494,348 | The absorbed dose and dose equivalent from galactic cosmic rays and solar energetic particles on the Martian surface for ~300 days of observations during the current solar maximum was measured. These measurements are necessary for human missions to the surface of Mars, to provide microbial survival times of any possibl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36665815 | 494,093 |
723,267 | In October 1896, at the age of seventeen, he moved to Vienna to study Civil Engineering at the TU Wien and graduated in 1902 with the best marks. In his memoirs, Milanković wrote about his lectures on engineering: "Professor Czuber was teaching us mathematics. His every sentence was the masterpiece of strict logic, wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=150014 | 722,887 |
1,902,756 | University of Edinburgh Policy and Strategy Committee minutes of 22 March 2011 report that 'Edinburgh University Settlement, a voluntary organisation providing a range of social care, educational and arts services and venues, closed on 29 October 2010 as a result of severe financial difficulties.' The charity's outgoin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45419083 | 1,901,665 |
1,638,892 | Since one of the basic characteristics of general audio is that it comprises multiple simultaneously sounding sources, such as multiple musical instruments, people talking, machine noises or animal vocalization, the ability to identify and separate individual sources is very desirable. Unfortunately, there are no metho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9536113 | 1,637,967 |
455,174 | For indoor environments such as offices or gyms where the principal source of CO is human respiration, rescaling some easier-to-measure quantities such as volatile organic compound (VOC) and hydrogen gas (H) concentrations provides a good-enough estimator of the real CO concentration for ventilation and occupancy purpo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6080682 | 454,952 |
1,864,547 | From 1990 until 1992, he worked as a research associate in the University of Rochester. Staying in New York, he next worked as an assistant physicist in the Department of Physics in Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) from 1992. The next year he took a leave of absence to work as a Fellow in the PPE Division at CERN f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59420805 | 1,863,475 |
723,693 | Most published studies have reported that between 50% and 80% of individuals mono-infected with "Blastocystis" will show symptoms. Factors influencing presentation of symptoms have been listed as the patient's age, with younger patients less likely to show symptoms, as well as genetic changes that influence the product... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12791192 | 723,313 |
197,366 | In information theory, communication theories examine the technical process of information exchange while typically using mathematics. This perspective on communication theory originated from the development of information theory in the early 1920s. Limited information-theoretic ideas had been developed at Bell Labs, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=248810 | 197,265 |
5,278 | The 2006 study "Skilled or Unskilled, but Still Unaware of It: How Perceptions of Difficulty Drive Miscalibration in Relative Comparisons" tries to show that it is not true of all activities that poor performers give more inaccurate self-assessments than strong performers. The study investigates 13 different tasks and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2288777 | 5,275 |
663 | The single-engine aircraft is powered by the Pratt & Whitney F135 low-bypass augmented turbofan with rated thrust of . Derived from the Pratt & Whitney F119 used by the F-22, the F135 has a larger fan and higher bypass ratio to increase subsonic thrust and fuel efficiency, and unlike the F119, is not optimized for supe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11812 | 663 |
1,102,133 | Subhasis Chaudhuri, born on 1 March 1963 at Bahutali, a small village in Murshidabad district, West Bengal to Santa and Nihar Kumar Chaudhuri, earned his graduate degree in Electronics and Electrical Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur in 1985. Moving to Canada, he obtained a ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53067697 | 1,101,572 |
524,602 | In the years 1948–1988 chlordane was a common pesticide for corn and citrus crops, as well as a method of home termite control. Pathways of exposure to chlordane include ingestion of crops grown in chlordane-contaminated soil, inhalation of air in chlordane-treated homes and from landfills, and ingestion of high-fat fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241799 | 524,330 |
1,203,399 | On the outbreak of World War I, he was commissioned and sent to France as a censor. A year later William Lawrence Bragg had him transferred to the Royal Engineers to participate in the work on the localisation of enemy artillery by sound ranging. When that research was on a solid footing, he was transferred to the RAF ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=502927 | 1,202,755 |
839,631 | Electroporation is a multi-step process with several distinct phases. First, a short electrical pulse must be applied. Typical parameters would be 300–400 mV for < 1 ms across the membrane (note- the voltages used in cell experiments are typically much larger because they are being applied across large distances to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39619 | 839,182 |
911,451 | The Talon is primarily used for bomb disposal, and was incorporated with the ability to be waterproof at 100 ft so that it can search the seas for explosives as well. The Talon was first used in 2000, and over 3,000 units have been distributed worldwide. By 2004, The Talon had been used in over 20,000 separate missions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2253116 | 910,972 |
849,553 | UPMC Magee- Hospital is a UPMC specialty hospital that serves as its primary facility for women's health. Opened mainly for women on January 19, 1911, it has offered some services for men since the 1960s. The hospital is located in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh near UPMC Presbyterian, a location it has been at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2156973 | 849,101 |
1,328,325 | NARMAX methods are designed to do more than find the best approximating model. System identification can be divided into two aims. The first involves approximation where the key aim is to develop a model that approximates the data set such that good predictions can be made. There are many applications where this approa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40158142 | 1,327,597 |
251,256 | This period also saw several other historic developments including the introduction of the first practical magnetic sound recording system, the magnetic wire recorder, which was based on the work of Danish inventor Valdemar Poulsen. Magnetic wire recorders were effective, but the sound quality was poor, so between the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2417230 | 251,123 |
1,102,295 | Motivated by Nash and Kuiper's isometric embedding theorems and the results on immersions by Morris Hirsch and Stephen Smale, Gromov introduced the h-principle in various formulations. Modeled upon the special case of the Hirsch–Smale theory, he introduced and developed the general theory of "microflexible sheaves", pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=771562 | 1,101,734 |
1,732,741 | It is common for a general feeling of discomfort to accompany the electrical stimulation of the nerve, but nearly all patients prefer to undergo the procedure in order to effect a treatment for their condition. Measurements are generally taken on the normal, unaffected side of the face first, and then on the abnormal s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1176280 | 1,731,765 |
1,367,357 | Iwasaki's research continues to focus on understanding innate immunity and how that information is used to produce protective adaptive immunity. Iwasaki and her team study immune responses to influenza in the lungs and herpes simplex virus in the genital tract. Overall, the goal is to design effective vaccines or micro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46270637 | 1,366,601 |
1,805,673 | As presented above, skeletal muscle atrophy involves an imbalance between the processes that control protein synthesis (also known as protein translation) and those that control protein breakdown. When the two processes are in synchrony, muscle mass is stable. However, if there is an imbalance such that the protein syn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39377992 | 1,804,656 |
663,972 | He also served as Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Educational Adviser for the government. He played a role both in the constitution and deliberations of the Scientific Manpower Committee Report of 1948. "It may be pointed out that this was the first-ever systematic assessment of the scientific manpower needs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3945409 | 663,626 |
526,552 | Following the establishment of Mendel's laws, the gene-chromosome theory of heredity was confirmed by the work of August Weismann who identified chromosomes as the hereditary material. Also, in observing the halving of the chromosome number in germ cells he anticipated work to follow on the details of meiosis, the comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25007304 | 526,279 |
13,242 | On 25 July 1955, the Navy ordered two XF4H-1 test aircraft and five YF4H-1 pre-production examples. The Phantom made its maiden flight on 27 May 1958 with Robert C. Little at the controls. A hydraulic problem precluded the retraction of the landing gear, but subsequent flights went more smoothly. Early testing resulted... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11759 | 13,237 |
1,602,683 | During the COVID-19 pandemic Marr studied airborne disease transmission of SARS-CoV-2. She believed that the virus could be transmitted via inhalation of air contaminated with SARS-CoV-2 aerosols. Throughout the pandemic, Marr provided advice to the general public about the transmission of airborne viruses, and how the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63738241 | 1,601,782 |
2,093,430 | Rutledge is the author of " Energy: Supply and Demand", a book published by Cambridge University Press, December 2019. Focusing on trends in energy supply and demand, this text provides students with a comprehensive account of the subject and an understanding of how to use data analysis and modeling to make future proj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7750947 | 2,092,225 |
213,225 | During the 1930s Alvar spent some time experimenting with laminated wood, sculpture and abstract relief, characterized by irregular curved forms. Utilizing this knowledge, he was able to solve technical problems concerning the flexibility of wood while at the same time working out spatial issues in his designs. Aalto's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2009 | 213,117 |
1,122,883 | Clothianidin is authorized for spray, dust, soil drench (for uptake via plant roots), injectable liquid (into tree limbs and trunks, sugar cane stalks etc.), and seed treatment uses, in which clothianidin coats seeds that take up the pesticide via the roots as the plant grows. The chemical may be used to protect plants... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17462962 | 1,122,309 |
1,193,285 | Circadian rhythm, or sleep/wake cycling, is centered in the "suprachiasmatic nucleus" (SCN) within the hypothalamus, and is marked by melatonin levels 2000–4,000% higher during sleep than in the day. A circuit is known to start with melanopsin cells in the eye which stimulate the SCN through glutamate neurons of the "h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2917198 | 1,192,648 |
1,259,367 | The University of Cambodia Foundation (UCF) oversees the fundraising activities of the university. UCF's main function is to seek for donors to fund scholarship programs. Over 80% of UC students receive scholarships facilitated by UCF. In July 2018, UC launched The University of Cambodia Funding Campaign 2018-2023 in o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30495652 | 1,258,680 |
1,446,351 | The oxidation of phenol substrates to their corresponding quinones are the primary cause of fruit and vegetable browning during ripening, handling, and processing. Enzymatic browning affects the nutritional quality and appearance of fruits and produce. Over half of fruit losses are estimated to occur as a result of enz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4616398 | 1,445,535 |
570,695 | "Meloidogyne" spp. were first reported in cassava by Neal in 1889. Damage on cassava is variable depending on cultivar planted, and can range from negligible to serious. Early-season infection leads to worse damage. In most crops, nematode damage reduces plant health and growth; in cassava, though, nematode damage some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1870970 | 570,404 |
746,822 | On 20 May 2017, Boyajian and her colleagues reported, via "The Astronomer's Telegram", on an ongoing dimming event (named "Elsie") which possibly began on 14 May 2017. It was detected by the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network, specifically by its telescope in Maui (LCO Maui). This was verified by the Fair... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48217770 | 746,427 |
595,806 | An opinion issued by the European Commission's Scientific Committee on Consumer Safety, concluding spray tanning with DHA did not pose risk, has been heavily criticized by specialists. This is because the cosmetics industry in Europe chose the evidence to review, according to the commission itself. Thus, nearly every r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=558545 | 595,501 |
655,959 | In 1990, the world's first transgenic bovine, Herman the Bull, was developed. Herman was genetically engineered by micro-injected embryonic cells with the human gene coding for lactoferrin. The Dutch Parliament changed the law in 1992 to allow Herman to reproduce. Eight calves were born in 1994 and all calves inherited... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22696587 | 655,615 |
1,494,172 | The idea of propelling vessels by means of steam early took possession of his mind. "In 1800 (he writes) I applied to Lord Melville, on purpose to show his lordship and the other members of the Admiralty, the practicability and great utility of applying steam to the propelling of vessels against winds and tides, and ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7805890 | 1,493,331 |
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