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592,081 | Exact procedures can vary, but in one study a seventeen year old male sex offender was, at the start of each daily session, privately fitted with a Parks Medical Electronics mercury strain gauge attached to his penis and worn under trousers and underwear. The device had previously been calibrated with measurements from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=410384 | 591,779 |
2,129,367 | Honoring Nations invites applications from American Indian governments across a broad range of subject areas: education; health care; resource management; government policy development and reform; justice; intergovernmental relations; and economic, social, and cultural programs. A Board of Governors composed of disting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20996152 | 2,128,143 |
967,265 | The United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon endorsed the concept of planetary boundaries on 16 March 2012, when he presented the key points of the report of his High Level Panel on Global Sustainability to an informal plenary of the UN General Assembly. Ban stated: "The Panel’s vision is to eradicate poverty and r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24458151 | 966,755 |
504,681 | Carbon isotopes aid us in determining the primary production source responsible for the energy flow in an ecosystem. The transfer of C through trophic levels remains relatively the same, except for a small increase (an enrichment < 1 ‰). Large differences of δC between animals indicate that they have different food sou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174238 | 504,419 |
1,843,072 | The MAC began following a 1990 survey of 550 Western Pennsylvania manufacturers by the Department of Industrial Engineering that revealed the need for manufacturing support services in this part of the state. In response a concept of shared manufacturing was created by Pitt School of Engineering professors Dr. Bopaya B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22828647 | 1,842,019 |
763,936 | During World War II, military radar operators noticed noise in returned echoes due to rain, snow, and sleet. After the war, military scientists returned to civilian life or continued in the Armed Forces and pursued their work in developing a use for those echoes. In the United States, David Atlas at first working for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=675776 | 763,526 |
1,212,802 | The first collection of "Nothomyrmecia" was made in December 1931 by amateur entomologist, Amy Crocker, whose colleagues had collected a range of insect samples for her during a field excursion, including specimens of two worker ants, reportedly near the Russell Range, inland from Israelite Bay in Western Australia. Cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9372569 | 1,212,150 |
1,897,442 | Standing with tradition, IPMI includes a single track of presentations on novel methodology wherein speakers are allotted sufficient time to describe their contributions in thorough detail. Discussions following each presentation have no time-limit permitting stimulating debate and resolution of any questions or commen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53868818 | 1,896,358 |
848,688 | Speleothem transects can provide paleoclimate records similar to those from ice cores or tree rings. Slow geometrical growth and incorporation of radioactive elements enables speleothems to be accurately and precisely dated over much of the late Quaternary by radiocarbon dating and uranium-thorium dating, as long as th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=393061 | 848,238 |
375,531 | While x-rays would normally travel at the speed of light through a low-density material like the plastic foam channel filler between (2) and (3), the intensity of radiation from the exploding primary creates a relatively opaque radiation front in the channel filler, which acts like a slow-moving logjam to retard the pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172911 | 375,336 |
348,052 | Greece during this period was likely divided into independent regions organized by kinship groups and the "oikoi" or households, the origins of the later "poleis". Excavations of Dark Age communities such as Nichoria in the Peloponnese have shown how a Bronze Age town was abandoned in 1150 BC but then reemerged as a sm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=340510 | 347,870 |
15,466 | Medications may be used to treat ASD symptoms that interfere with integrating a child into home or school when behavioral treatment fails. They may also be used for associated health problems, such as ADHD or anxiety. However, their routine prescription for the core features of ASD is not recommended. More than half of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29113700 | 15,461 |
615,218 | As a result of these steep population declines and the ongoing threat from demersal fisheries, the IUCN has assessed the angelshark as Critically Endangered. An assessment of the angelshark population by the IUCN showed a decrease in population of over 90%. The assessment also showed that there was no signs of recovery... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7367893 | 614,904 |
1,452,046 | "M. cerebralis" has been reported in nearly two dozen (green) states in the United States, according to the Whirling Disease Initiative "M. cerebralis" was first recorded in North America in 1956 in Pennsylvania, having been introduced via infected trout imported from Europe, and has spread steadily south and westwards... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1849824 | 1,451,229 |
726,516 | The mindrot virus originally manifested itself on the Emergents' home world as a devastating plague, but they subsequently mastered it and learned to use it both as a weapon and as a tool for mental domination. Emergent culture uses mindrot primarily in the form of a variant which technicians can manipulate in order to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=714151 | 726,134 |
1,148,323 | Since 2015, a group of paleontologists has been acquiring pterosaur fossils from commercial Moroccan fossil traders, who obtain these from workers in the phosphate mines on the Khouribga plateau, which is located within the Ouled Abdoun Basin. The purpose of this project is to determine pterosaur diversity in the lates... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56880061 | 1,147,718 |
108,495 | "Xenoblade Chronicles" was announced during E3 2009. Its official title and release window were not announced until the beginning of 2010, alongside the announcement of "The Last Story". The game released in Japan on 10 June 2010. Over a year after its Japanese release, it was confirmed for release in European territor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25992553 | 108,450 |
668,831 | The inappropriate use of PPE equipment such as gloves, has been linked to an increase in rates of the transmission of infection, and the use of such must be compatible with the other particular hand hygiene agents used. Research studies in the form of randomized controlled trials and simulation studies are needed to de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3331179 | 668,482 |
426,782 | The idea of moving the nuclear deterrent away from the densely populated UK and out to sea had considerable appeal in the UK. It not only implicitly addressed the drawbacks of Blue Streak in that it was not vulnerable to a pre-emptive nuclear strike, but invoked the traditional role of the Royal Navy, and its second-st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35942972 | 426,573 |
1,687,980 | Both the Model 30 and its 286 successor feature the same case design. Their "bleached-beige" chassis measures — roughly a third in volume of the PC/AT. The Model 30 weighs roughly . The front and back of the case sport plastic bezels, the front featuring a sloping canopy design off-white in color, while the back is bro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70578771 | 1,687,034 |
8,153 | Psychology was of interest to Enlightenment thinkers in Europe. In Germany, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) applied his principles of calculus to the mind, arguing that mental activity took place on an indivisible continuum. He suggested that the difference between conscious and unconscious awareness is only a ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22921 | 8,150 |
269,837 | Although the Royal Commission on Sewage Disposal proposed 5 days as an adequate test period for rivers of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, longer periods were investigated for North American rivers. Incubation periods of 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 days were being used into the mid-20th century. Keeping dissolve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=420598 | 269,690 |
524,637 | A week later, the FDA is making the writing in the sky a priority over the chicken ban. Tony teams up with Mason's old partner Caesar to look for a former FDA agent named Migdalo Daniel who is a Voresoph, Migdalo attacked the agents and accidentally killed himself. A Kentucky Fried Chicken imitation restaurant called M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23490621 | 524,365 |
715,015 | Fw 189 "V7+1H" ("Werk Nr. 2100") is the only surviving Fw 189. It was part of 1./"Nahaufklärungsgruppe 10", with V7 originally the "Geschwaderkennung" code for Heeres-Aufklärungsgruppe 32 based at Pontsalenjoki (due east of Kuusamo, and within the south-central area of modern Russia's Republic of Karelia) and took part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=454903 | 714,641 |
636,802 | Although, by this time, production of the Spitfire had started to increase, a prototype of a Merlin XX powered Hurricane Mk I was built and first flew on 11 June 1940. The initial Mark II, is often known as the Mark IIA Series 1, but that is an unofficial designation, later mark II had their wing centre sections streng... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10829023 | 636,463 |
1,108,387 | In 1998, the board of management of Philips commissioned a series of presentations and internal workshops, organized by Eli Zelkha and Brian Epstein of Palo Alto Ventures. Zelkha, together with Simon Birrell, coined the term 'ambient intelligence' to investigate different scenarios that would transform the high-volume ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2370788 | 1,107,823 |
1,203,333 | Mapping of continental shelf seafloor topography using remotely sensed data has applied a variety of methods to visualise the bottom topography. Early methods included hachure maps, and were generally based on the cartographer's personal interpretation of limited available data. Acoustic mapping methods developed from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52233145 | 1,202,689 |
2,112,792 | Originally located on the fourth floor of the Cathedral of Learning, the $537,000 McCarl Center was opened in 2002 and occupies space that once housed two levels of the main stacks of the university's library. Made possible by a gift from F. James and Foster J.J. McCarl, it serves as resource center for non-traditional... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16932747 | 2,111,577 |
97,851 | Ontologies are a key component of this semantic approach as they allow a formal, machine-readable specification of the concepts and relationships in a given domain. This in turn allows a GIS to focus on the intended meaning of data rather than its syntax or structure. For example, reasoning that a land cover type class... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12398 | 97,810 |
789,947 | Skyroot Aerospace, on 19 May 2022, has announced the successful completion of a full duration test-firing of its ‘Vikram-1’ rocket stage, representing a major milestone for the company. Named ‘Kalam-100’ after former president and the renowned Indian rocket scientist A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the third stage of ‘Vikram-1’ pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64795373 | 789,522 |
411,457 | In 1910, Egon Neumann of Germany discovered that a block of TNT, which would normally dent a steel plate, punched a hole through it if the explosive had a conical indentation. The military usefulness of Munroe's and Neumann's work was unappreciated for a long time. Between the world wars, academics in several countries... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37515 | 411,255 |
773,965 | Melioidosis is caused by gram-negative, motile, saprophytic bacteria named "Burkholderia pseudomallei". The bacteria are usually opportunistic, facultative intracellular pathogens. It is also aerobic and oxidase test positive. A granule at the centre of the bacterium makes it resemble a "safety pin" when Gram stained. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=471444 | 773,549 |
1,406,604 | As mentioned previously, coherent island formation during SK growth has attracted increased interest as a means for fabricating epitaxial nanoscale structures, particularly quantum dots (QDs). Widely used quantum dots grown in the SK-growth-mode are based on the material combinations Si/Ge or InAs/GaAs. Significant eff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14552970 | 1,405,814 |
156,899 | A goal for the new systems was user-friendliness. One executive stated, "Does the end user care about the architecture of the machine? The answer is no. 'What will it do for me?' That's his major concern. ... why try to scare the consumer off by making it so he or she has to have a double E or be a computer programmer ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63429 | 156,827 |
1,936,123 | In 2001, Prather joined the faculty at the University of California, San Diego as a member of the Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry and Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Prather's early research focused on determining the major sources of fine particle pollution in California as well as in the Northeastern United ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59545995 | 1,935,015 |
369,436 | Governments can accelerate energy system transformation by leading the development of infrastructure such as long-distance electrical transmission lines, smart grids, and hydrogen pipelines. In other cases divorcing government from fossil fuel investments can contribute to a less hindered, more transparent and accelera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1055890 | 369,243 |
1,532,225 | Sami Haddadin was born in Neustadt am Rübenberge, the eldest of three children to a Jordanian doctor and a Finnish nurse. He grew up with his sister and brother in his birthplace Neustadt am Rübenberge. He is married and has three children. He completed his "Abitur" in 1999 in Stolzenau at the local high school and stu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68691185 | 1,531,358 |
2,187,885 | However, tourism and direct exploitation of anchialine systems has resulted in degradation of their environmental health. Approximately 90% of Hawaii's anchialine habitat have been degraded or lost due to development and introduction of exotic species. Hawaii's anchialine systems are currently one of the most threatene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72402042 | 2,186,637 |
1,560,935 | Sharma is a member of the Optical Society of India, served as its vice president during 2008–12 and is the founder general secretary of the Delhi chapter of the Optical Society of America. He sits in the expert committee on physical sciences of the "Fund for Improvement of S&T Infrastructure in Universities and other H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53000311 | 1,560,049 |
1,263,490 | He was a proponent of market dynamics and efficiency and argued in favor of market driven actions rather than wage guarantees like minimum wages and other governmental interventions. At the same time, he also argued that European state policies toward job stability amongst workers did not necessarily mean higher unempl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4109177 | 1,262,802 |
2,001,190 | General mobilization in the summer of 1914 found Serbian Aeroplane Wing not well prepared. Aeroplane Wing had only 9 aeroplanes of which 7 in flying condition. Five planes and three pilots were relocated to Dabića airfield. From that airfield, Captain Živojin Stanković and 2nd Lieutenant Miodrag Tomić on August 13, 191... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48791069 | 2,000,045 |
1,911,227 | High school can yield a wide range of experiences for students, ranging from fulfilling and pleasurable to some to downright worthless and miserable for others. During these malleable and very important years of development, the groups and associations young adults make may have long-lasting effects throughout their li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37879363 | 1,910,128 |
187,442 | The RAN plans to begin removing their "Anzac"s from service from 2024 onwards. To replace them, the "Hunter" class of new frigates will be built under the SEA 5000 acquisition project. The frigates are predicted to have a displacement of up to , and although they will be primarily oriented towards anti-submarine warfar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=897679 | 187,345 |
1,778,372 | River boating also becomes significant during the atlatl stone dart and stone arrow point arrival, with some evidence of a coastal trade. Some hunters and warriors transitioned to bow and arrow. Although, the atlatl and dart continued in use alongside the arrow into the Late Protohistoric. The main water way trade was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17254851 | 1,777,370 |
1,233,306 | The first approach that bore fruit is known as the "interaction representation" (see the article Interaction picture), a Lorentz-covariant and gauge-invariant generalization of time-dependent perturbation theory used in ordinary quantum mechanics, and developed by Tomonaga and Schwinger, generalizing earlier efforts of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2078963 | 1,232,643 |
1,259,307 | Mechanobiology is an emerging field of science at the interface of biology, engineering, chemistry and physics. It focuses on how physical forces and changes in the mechanical properties of cells and tissues contribute to development, cell differentiation, physiology, and disease. Mechanical forces are experienced and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29462590 | 1,258,620 |
1,897,852 | He focuses on expanding student education and challenge opportunities based on the idea that "continuing to produce world-class human resources will be the driving force for advancing research and create a good spiral." In the quantum field, which is his specialty, he invited IBM's quantum computer research base "IBM Q... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69143456 | 1,896,768 |
283,980 | Biofilms promote conjugation, often fostering cross-species transfer events due to the diverse heterogeneity of many biofilms. Additionally, biofilms are structurally confined by a polysaccharide matrix, providing the close spatial requirements for conjugation. Transformation is also frequently observed in biofilms. Ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43946 | 283,827 |
1,157,083 | In addition to the on-ice success, in 2008 Bemidji began exploring options to strengthen the program. The CHA had lost many of the original member to programs at Findlay and Wayne State folding and other teams transferring to other college hockey conferences. Travel expenses to remaining members in Huntsville, Alabama,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25103637 | 1,156,471 |
356,917 | Setrusumab, formerly known as BPS-804, is a monoclonal antibody that targets sclerostin, and has been studied in OI specifically more than any of the others. In the body, sclerostin binds to the LRP5 and LRP6 receptors, resulting in inhibition of the Wnt signaling pathway. This decreases bone formation, and is not a pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=891521 | 356,731 |
1,647,787 | The tyrosinase (TYR) gene is located on chromosome 11q14. This protein coding gene produces tyrosinase, an enzyme which catalyzes a total of three steps in the conversion of tyrosine to the end product, melanin. This enzyme and conversion process takes place within melanocytes, which are specialized cells for melanin p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18842173 | 1,646,855 |
1,766,671 | Continuing the arguments he had started in "The Examination of Dr. Reid's Inquiry… Dr. Beattie's Essay… and Dr. Oswald's Appeal" (1774) and "Disquisitions Relating to Matter and Spirit" (1777), Priestley published "The Doctrine of Philosophical Necessity Illustrated" (1777), an "appendix" to the "Disquisitions" that "s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13044506 | 1,765,677 |
989,044 | Kant observed that the assertion of a spiritual soul as substance could be a synthetic proposition which, however, was unproved and completely arbitrary. Introspection does not reveal any diachronic substrate remaining unchanged throughout life. The temporal structure of consciousness is retentive-perceptive-prognostic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27568 | 988,528 |
23,461 | In a lively exchange over what has come to be referred to as "the Chinese room argument", John Searle sought to refute the claim of proponents of what he calls "strong artificial intelligence (AI)" that a computer program can be conscious, though he does agree with advocates of "weak AI" that computer programs can be f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5664 | 23,452 |
934,252 | In academic fields, the typical terminal degree is that of Doctor of Philosophy, although others also exist. The first phase of the Ph.D. consists of coursework in the student's field of study and requires one to three years to complete. This is often followed by a preliminary or comprehensive examination and/or a seri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3016712 | 933,760 |
186,808 | Denture wearing and poor denture hygiene, particularly wearing the denture continually rather than removing it during sleep, is another risk factor for both candidal carriage and oral candidiasis. Dentures provide a relative acidic, moist and anaerobic environment because the mucosa covered by the denture is sheltered ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=878898 | 186,711 |
1,126,504 | An individual's implicit theory of intelligence can predict future success, particularly navigating life transitions that are often associated with challenging situations, such as moving from elementary to middle school. Students followed throughout their middle school careers showed that those who possessed growth min... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44523981 | 1,125,927 |
57,930 | Some call attention to the conjunction of commons-based peer production with 3D printing and other low-cost manufacturing techniques. The self-reinforced fantasy of a system of eternal growth can be overcome with the development of economies of scope, and here, society can play an important role contributing to the rai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1305947 | 57,905 |
241,256 | The simplest possible tennessine compound would be the monohydride, TsH. The bonding is expected to be provided by a 7p electron of tennessine and the 1s electron of hydrogen. The non-bonding nature of the 7p spinor is because tennessine is expected not to form purely sigma or pi bonds. Therefore, the destabilized (thu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67611 | 241,136 |
925,560 | Stereochemistry has important applications in the field of medicine, particularly pharmaceuticals. An often cited example of the importance of stereochemistry relates to the thalidomide disaster. Thalidomide is a pharmaceutical drug, first prepared in 1957 in Germany, prescribed for treating morning sickness in pregnan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28756 | 925,074 |
1,036,610 | L.W. Alvarez and Robert Cornog of the United States first used an accelerator as a mass spectrometer in 1939 when they employed a cyclotron to demonstrate that He was stable; from this observation, they immediately and correctly concluded that the other mass-3 isotope, tritium (H), was radioactive. In 1977, inspired by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1127875 | 1,036,070 |
104,720 | The French astronomer Charles Messier discovered M87 in 1781, and cataloged it as a nebula. M87 is about from Earth and is the second-brightest galaxy within the northern Virgo Cluster, having many satellite galaxies. Unlike a disk-shaped spiral galaxy, M87 has no distinctive dust lanes. Instead, it has an almost featu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=214077 | 104,675 |
83,326 | Built at the request of race teams, such as those owned by Ray Bellm and Thomas Bscher, in order to compete in the BPR Global GT Series, the McLaren F1 GTR was a custom-built race car which introduced a modified engine management system that increased power output – however, air-restrictors mandated by racing regulatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=420183 | 83,292 |
147,893 | Researchers believe that the first cellular lifeforms were not heterotrophs as they would rely upon autotrophs since organic substrates that were delivered from space was either too heterogeneous to support microbial growth or too reduced to be fermented. Instead, they consider that the first cells were autotrophs. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25086118 | 147,834 |
833,563 | Working in assembly-line fashion, they started by irradiating water, and then progressed up the periodic table through lithium, beryllium, boron and carbon, without inducing any radioactivity. When they got to aluminium and then fluorine, they had their first successes. Induced radioactivity was ultimately found throug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64011351 | 833,114 |
1,371,289 | Following the signing of the Korean Armistice Agreement on 27 July 1953, the squadron remained in South Korea on garrison duties—initially at Kimpo, later at Kunsan—until transferring to Iwakuni on 12 October 1954. It departed for Australia on 19 November and arrived in Sydney on 3 December, having been based overseas ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3573298 | 1,370,532 |
33,016 | A 1943 survey by the USAAF found that over half the bombers shot down by the Germans had left the protection of the main formation. To address this problem, the United States developed the bomb-group formation, which evolved into the staggered combat box formation in which all the B-17s could safely cover any others in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4997 | 33,004 |
1,035,141 | The race began at 20:00 Singapore Standard Time (UTC+8). The conditions on the grid were dry and cloudy before the race; the air temperature ranged between and the track temperature was ; no rain was predicted during the race. Most drivers started on the super-soft compound tyre. Alguersuari started from the pit lane a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24511010 | 1,034,601 |
2,069,766 | The University of Arkansas was established in 1871 under the provisions of the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act of 1862, which provided for federal government support of "colleges for the common man" in each state. Land-Grant colleges were mandated to provide higher education, research and public service in agriculture,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18350209 | 2,068,575 |
854,184 | Since 2009, UPS deliveries have increased by 65%. With the increase in deliveries, there is a demand for trucks on the road, resulting in more carbon emissions in our atmosphere. More recently, there has been research to help combat greenhouse gas emission to the atmosphere with better traffic signals. These WiFi signa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25406027 | 853,729 |
201,987 | Avogadro's hypothesis was neglected for half a century after it was first published. Many reasons for this neglect have been cited, including some theoretical problems, such as Jöns Jacob Berzelius's "dualism", which asserted that compounds are held together by the attraction of positive and negative electrical charges... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1416046 | 201,884 |
1,265,190 | A 2018 study found that trees grow faster due to increased carbon dioxide levels, however, the trees are also eight to twelve percent lighter and denser since 1900. The authors note, "Even though a greater volume of wood is being produced today, it now contains less material than just a few decades ago."The Arctic regi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26515241 | 1,264,502 |
579,811 | Foxp3 is a recruiter of other anti-tumor enzymes such as CD39 and CD8. The overexpression of CD39 is found in patients with multiple cancer types such as melanoma, leukemia, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, and ovarian cancer. This overexpression may be protecting tumorous cells, allowing them to create their “escape p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1920949 | 579,514 |
497,737 | Parrondo's paradox is used extensively in game theory, and its application to engineering, population dynamics, financial risk, etc., are areas of active research. Parrondo's games are of little practical use such as for investing in stock markets as the original games require the payoff from at least one of the intera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4185466 | 497,480 |
1,072,379 | DCs are a major cell population responsible for the initiation of the adaptive immune response. They present short peptides on MHCII, which are recognized by specific TCR. After encountering an antigen with recognition danger or pathogen-associated molecular patterns, DCs start the secretion of proinflammatory cytokine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13780711 | 1,071,825 |
774,465 | From the 1960s onwards, CMEA countries, beginning with East Germany, attempted "intensive" growth strategies, aiming to raise the productivity of labour and capital. However, in practice this meant that investment was shifted towards new branches of industry, including the electronics, computing, automotive and nuclear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43069513 | 774,049 |
1,336,772 | On August 3, 2011 Volkov participated in his third spacewalk. He and cosmonaut Aleksandr Samokutyayev worked for six hours and 23 minutes performing a variety of tasks for both science and maintenance outside the Russian segment of the ISS. Outside the Zvezda service module, Volkov and Samokutyayev installed laser comm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8659609 | 1,336,041 |
1,004,054 | With a target price of $550 million per aircraft, Defense News quoted a source with knowledge of the program predicting that the LRS-B may be smaller than the B-2, perhaps half the size, powered by two engines in the F135 power class. The target unit cost of $550 million is based on 2010 dollars and is $606 million in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34042348 | 1,003,536 |
269,319 | In 2016, following a discovery at Flamanville Nuclear Power Plant, about 400 large steel forgings manufactured by Le Creusot Forge since 1965 were found to have carbon-content irregularities that weakened the steel. A widespread programme of reactor checks was started involving a progressive programme of reactor shutdo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4131857 | 269,172 |
1,706,256 | Plasmablastic lymphoma lesions are most commonly rapidly growing, soft tissue masses that may be ulcerating, bleeding, and/or painful. In a recent (2020) review of published cases, individuals presenting with PBD were typically middle-aged or elderly (range 1–88 years; median age 58 tears) males (~73% of cases). Only a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36982384 | 1,705,298 |
2,029,774 | Patient derived iPSC lines are unique in which differentiated somatic cells are taken from Alzheimer's disease patients and reverted into pluripotent stem cells via an ectopic transcriptional "Tamanaka" factor cocktail. These stem cells can then be directed to differentiate into many cell types, including neurons, astr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67639494 | 2,028,606 |
1,920,283 | Trees ("Hevea brasiliensis") producing natural latex grew wild in Amazonia, but rubber did not become a major export product until industrialization created a demand for rubber tires for vehicles. Starting around 1850, trees growing in the wild were tapped for their rubber in a highly exploitative form of labor. Trees ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65056762 | 1,919,180 |
1,378,030 | The most common method of cultivating "M. pyrifera" was developed in China in the 1950s. It is called the long line cultivation system, where the sporelings are produced in a cooled water greenhouse and then planted in the ocean attached to long lines. The depth at which they are grown varies. This species alternates g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33310498 | 1,377,268 |
1,308,499 | New Urbanism emerged in the 1980s and was an early touchstone for sustainable urbanism, since it is based around bringing activities and land uses closer together, increasing urban and suburban densities, being more efficient in terms of infrastructure provision and transport energy use, and having more within walking ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33814239 | 1,307,783 |
928,443 | The right to repair concept has generally come from the United States. The earliest known published reference using the phrase comes from the auto industry dating back to 2003 with repeated attempts in the US Congress to pass legislation. Within the automotive industry, Massachusetts passed the United States' first Mot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56788383 | 927,955 |
1,084,454 | In 1993, Russell and Dong considered the small size of the head, blunt beaks and large body weights of therizinosaurs consistent with herbivory. In 1993 and 1997, Russell suggested therizinosaurs would have "sat" on their pelvises and supported their bodies on their hind limbs while using their long arms, claws, and fl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=636977 | 1,083,897 |
206,659 | Pulse-coupled neural networks (PCNNs) are neural models proposed by modeling a cat’s visual cortex and developed for high-performance biomimetic image processing. In 1989, Reinhard Eckhorn introduced a neural model to emulate the mechanism of a cat’s visual cortex. The Eckhorn model provided a simple and effective tool... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=505717 | 206,552 |
1,959,697 | Regarding long-term economic development, Wößmann has been investigating the roles of education, religion and culture in work with fellow economist Sascha Becker. Challenging Max Weber's theory of Protestants' work ethic as the main cause for their higher prosperity, they instead argue that Protestant economies prosper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56571686 | 1,958,570 |
1,822,120 | Jadad was born in Medellín, and grew up in Montería, Colombia. When he was a medical student, he conducted the first studies on the jargon, the chemical composition and the clinical implications of a drug called 'basuco' in Colombia, which soon became known worldwide as "crack" cocaine. He obtained his medical degree i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57363779 | 1,821,082 |
715,082 | The general usage of the BMW powerplant was abandoned for the Me 262, except for two experimental examples of the plane known as the Me 262 A-1b. The few "Messerschmitt Me 262 A-1b" test examples built used the more developed version of the 003 jet, recording an official top speed of . The Me 262A-1a production version... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=408868 | 714,708 |
1,865,602 | Though the team was disappointed by the result, their championship game appearance earned the Broncos a top-3 national ranking. That gave them one of the #1 seeds and they were sent to Worcester to take on Northeastern. While this was Western Michigan's seventh appearance in the national tournament, the team had still ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68619355 | 1,864,529 |
1,852,783 | High-throughput phenotypic testing is increasingly important for exploring the biology of bacteria, fungi, yeasts, and animal cell lines such as human cancer cells. Just as DNA microarrays and proteomic technologies have made it possible to assay the expression level of thousands of genes or proteins all a once, phenot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38245286 | 1,851,721 |
2,046,203 | The "Dart"'s initial opinion was that the standard of replacement for Hodgetts, Jones and Farnall – "two or three players who have done well with local clubs have been signed up, and a smart left-wing forward in Kirton, of Lincoln City, has also been secured" – but as the directors preferred to spend their money on gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34698933 | 2,045,022 |
133,113 | Neoteny has been observed in many other species. It is important to note the difference between partial and full neoteny when looking at other species, to distinguish between juvenile traits which are advantageous in the short term and traits which are beneficial throughout the organism's life; this might provide insig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21922 | 133,060 |
106,927 | In February 2022, Chinese researchers say they have achieved a record data streaming speed using vortex millimetre waves, a form of extremely high-frequency radio wave with rapidly changing spins, the researchers transmitted 1 terabyte of data over a distance of 1 km (3,300 feet) in a second. The spinning potential of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64681276 | 106,882 |
108,294 | Other conditions giving rise to malabsorption include surgical removal of the stomach, chronic inflammation of the pancreas, intestinal parasites, certain medications such as long-term use of proton pump inhibitors, H2-receptor blockers, and metformin, and some genetic disorders. Deficiency can also be caused by inadeq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12742560 | 108,249 |
144,136 | Throughout the history of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory it has been the site of various supercomputers, home to the fastest on several occasions. In 1953, ORNL partnered with the Argonne National Laboratory to build ORACLE (Oak Ridge Automatic Computer and Logical Engine), a computer to research nuclear physics, ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38147 | 144,078 |
925,218 | Skylon is a series of concept designs for a reusable single-stage-to-orbit spaceplane by the British company Reaction Engines Limited (Reaction), using SABRE, a combined-cycle, air-breathing rocket propulsion system. The vehicle design is for a hydrogen-fuelled aircraft that would take off from a specially built reinfo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=550928 | 924,732 |
775,283 | In 1713, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's brother died of smallpox; she too contracted the virus two years later at the age of twenty-six, leaving her badly scarred. When her husband was made ambassador to Ottoman Empire, she accompanied him to Constantinople. It was here that Lady Mary first came upon variolation. Two Gree... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20790125 | 774,867 |
454,939 | As a student at Carnegie Mellon University in 2004, Druckmann was tasked with creating a video game concept to present to film director George A. Romero, who would select a winner. Druckmann's idea was to merge the gameplay of "Ico" (2001) in a story set during a zombie apocalypse, like that of Romero's "Night of the L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45204814 | 454,717 |
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