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1,351,516 | In the context of Parkinson's disease (PD), dyskinesia is often the result of long-term dopamine therapy. These motor fluctuations occur in up to 80% of PD patients after 5–10 years of l-DOPA treatment, with the percentage of affected patients increasing over time. Based on the relationship with levodopa dosing, dyskin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25332361 | 1,350,770 |
1,801,096 | Mecanum wheels is a ubiquitous feature found on all ground robots, primarily due to the gameplay need for agility and tactical flexibility. Other than the Engineer robot, every competing robot is equipped with a projectile launcher that uses two motor-driven wheels to propel or plastic balls like a squash ball machine.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62042120 | 1,800,087 |
2,146,269 | The 2007 report by Platt Byard Dovell White Architects evaluating the condition and context for many of Vassar's buildings found Mudd to be "by far Vassar's most interesting and most important post-Modern building." A contemporary review in "Architecture" commented that Mudd "responds on a variety of levels to its cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42057902 | 2,145,038 |
1,574,857 | In his opening speech, Prof. L.A. Van Royen emphasized that the RSL should develop free and open communications with the aeronautical world and in turn, the RSL should be assisted to come into contact with those who are interested in the activities of RSL. The RSL was originated at offices belonging to the Ministry of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14030909 | 1,573,968 |
683,261 | The Terrex AV81 is an armoured fighting vehicle weighing between 25 and 30 tons an 8×8 wheeled chassis and modern armour. Multiple weapon platforms are supported, including both the remote and overhead weapons stations. The Terrex's modular design allows for different level of armour protection and weapon systems. It i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6309961 | 682,905 |
2,243,165 | In 1843, the English geologist and paleontologist William Buckland described the now called BGS GSM 26037 (housed at the British Geological Survey in Nottingham, England) specimen as the result of the repeated impressions of three bony processes of the pectoral fin of an ambulatory (related or adapted to walk) fish, "I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15331437 | 2,241,894 |
1,443,943 | Varshney, a highly cited researcher for 7 consecutive years (2014-2020), is a highly prolific author and frequently invited speaker including TEDx speaker. Varshney has presented research and novel concepts related to food and nutrition security in several high-level fora such as: G8 International Conference on Open Da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33748721 | 1,443,130 |
2,110,911 | The Center promotes the development of extensive research in the field of East Central Europe’s history and cooperates with related scientific institutions in Ukraine and abroad. It offers young Ukrainian researchers opportunities to do advanced, internationally recognized work in their own country, seeking to reduce t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48998472 | 2,109,696 |
1,882,115 | Jane Davidson, Welsh Government Minister for Education, Lifelong Learning & Skills from 2000 to 2007, responded to the pair's criticism by stating that the Welsh Baccalaureate is "a significant innovation which will broaden students' programmes and bring coherence to them. The programme will be distinctive, modern and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2484699 | 1,881,034 |
958,991 | The implications of gliosis in various neuropathologies and injury conditions has led to the investigation of various therapeutic routes which would regulate specific aspects of gliosis in order to improve clinical outcomes for both CNS trauma and a wide range of neurological disorders. Because gliosis is a dynamic pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4694311 | 958,485 |
1,624,425 | Little is known about Kitaev's early life. It is known that he was born in 1962 in Krasnokamsk, Perm Krai and had a younger brother named Konstantin. Since his childhood, Kitaev was distinguished as an intelligent and talkative individual, thanks to which he had many friends and acquaintances, but at the same time, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66857982 | 1,623,509 |
119,576 | In 1494, Christopher Columbus experienced a tropical cyclone, which led to the first written European account of a hurricane. In 1686, Edmund Halley presented a systematic study of the trade winds and monsoons and identified solar heating as the cause of atmospheric motions. In 1735, an "ideal" explanation of global ci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19904 | 119,527 |
2,022,148 | New scales were constantly added to the TSh2B-32 sight allowing range input for new types of ammunition. A dial to the left side of the gunner's eyepiece served for selecting of the x3.5 times to x7 times zoom. The gunner could turn on the sight illumination during night time, which made the distance and aiming marking... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29784708 | 2,020,985 |
714,901 | The development was primarily the work of Hall, who had been working on a design in the first two decades of the 19th century, receiving critical patents during the time. The work caught the interest of Army, which led to the contract at the end of the latter decade. The breech-loading design was made possible by his f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3065501 | 714,527 |
2,195,174 | Ward points out that the title that Dickinson gave the painting, as well as its original name, "Figures and Still Life" seem to reflect his determination to discourage interpretation. He suggests, however, that he must have become aware of the effect of the imagery as the painting developed and that it is perhaps signi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32739872 | 2,193,924 |
144,033 | The COVID-19 virus that started in late 2019 had spread to over multiple countries within months, forcing the World Health Organization to declare an international public health emergency and a pandemic. The outbreak pushed education into a more digital and online experience where teachers had to adopt to new levels of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5169750 | 143,975 |
1,396,323 | Bagian first flew on the crew of STS-29, which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, aboard the Orbiter "Discovery", on March 13, 1989. During this highly successful five-day mission, the crew deployed a Tracking and Data Relay Satellite and performed numerous secondary experiments, including a Space Station -he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=596595 | 1,395,552 |
749,261 | West of Bolton Hall is Lubar Hall, home of Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business. This four-story facility consists of of classroom, computer labs and office space and can accommodate 2,000 students in its instructional facilities at one time. Originally constructed in 1995 as the Business Administration Building, it was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=512185 | 748,863 |
1,384,803 | Upon receiving her Master's degree, Prosser left Anderson High School in 1927 to accept a position as a faculty member at Tillotson College, a Black college in Austin. Tillotson had been coeducational, but in 1926, a year before Prosser arrived, it had become a women's college. At Tillotson, she not only displayed her ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13646566 | 1,384,036 |
913,463 | For the 1769 transit (taking place on 3–4 June N.S., 23 May O.S.), scientists traveled to Tahiti, Norway, and locations in North America including Canada, New England, and San José del Cabo (Baja California, then under Spanish control). The Czech astronomer Christian Mayer was invited by Catherine the Great to observe ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=632331 | 912,984 |
136,646 | The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is the leading United States federal agency conducting research and providing guidance on the occupational safety and health implications and applications of nanomaterials. Early scientific studies have indicated that nanoscale particles may pose a great... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5320 | 136,591 |
10,698 | Conversion of M4s to the M4A1 began in 2011, as part of the Product Improvement Program, which included the conversion of 300,000 M4 carbines to the M4A1. Though in service with special forces, combat in Afghanistan showed the need for providing automatic suppression fires during fire and movement for regular soldiers.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=321957 | 10,693 |
1,856,686 | The use of scientific investigative techniques was expanded in the second phase of the research undertaken by Insoll to help in interpreting the meaning and role of enigmatic ceramic human and animal figurines and the mound contexts they were found within during University of Ghana excavations directed by Prof. Kankpey... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38891541 | 1,855,618 |
1,618,774 | It is advantageous for ecologists and naturalists to study plants, animals, and ecosystems in the tropical climate for a number of reasons. For one, the tropics are home to a wide array of ecosystems, from rainforests to deserts. In that sense, the tropics are a great place for ecologists to conduct diverse studies wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19826061 | 1,617,859 |
27,502 | Promising outcomes of this increased screening have been reported by the Norris Lab, led by Russell Norris, in the Department of Regenerative Medicine and Cell Biology at Medical University of South Carolina. Using CRISPR Cas-9 mediated genome editing on mouse models of the disease, the lab has recently identified a "v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=156668 | 27,492 |
1,015,638 | A report released in 2013 stated that flaws in the fuel tank and fueldraulic (fuel-based hydraulic) systems have left it considerably more vulnerable to lightning strikes and other fire sources, including enemy fire, than previously revealed, especially at lower altitudes. The restriction on blue skies flights was subs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54719700 | 1,015,115 |
283,276 | In addition to ITS, transit-oriented development (T.O.D.) significantly improves transportation in urban areas by emphasizing density, proximity to transit, diversity of uses, and streetscape design. Density is important for optimizing location and is a way to cut down on driving. Planners can regulate development righ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=478933 | 283,123 |
1,885,823 | Chamberlin returned to the University of Utah in 1925, where he was made head of the departments of zoology and botany. When he arrived, the faculty consisted of one zoologist, one botanist, and an instructor. He soon began expanding the size and diversity of the biology program, and by the time of his retirement the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3997448 | 1,884,741 |
1,403,229 | SeV has been known to the research community more since late 1950s and it has been widely used to create multiple variants of genetic engineering constructs, including vectors for trans-genes delivery. Creation of SeV genetic constructs is easier compared to other viruses, many SeV genes have a transcriptional initiati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6070061 | 1,402,441 |
331,365 | The world market for synthetic retinol is primarily for animal feed, leaving approximately 13% for a combination of food, prescription medication and dietary supplement use. Industrial methods for the production of retinol rely on chemical synthesis. The first industrialized synthesis of retinol was achieved by the com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54114 | 331,188 |
1,977,469 | Grainger's departure for 2009–10, along with the loss of other stars like Murphy, Jill Clark and standout goalie Christen Eulian, signaled a bit of a transition period for the program. Even UMass' customary spot in the top two of ECWHL was no longer safe thanks to Northeastern, which won the ACHA Division 2 national ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54095645 | 1,976,331 |
252,890 | Academics are divided into two classes: On the one hand, professors (W2/W3&C3/C4 positions in the new&old systems of pay grades) are employed as state civil servants and hold tenure as highly safeguarded lifetime employment; On the other hand, there is a much larger group of "junior staff" on fixed-term contracts, rese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3153225 | 252,757 |
151,018 | The reason that employees are often paid according to hours of work rather than by direct measurement of results is that it is often more efficient to use indirect systems of controlling the quantity and quality of effort, due to a variety of informational and other issues (e.g., turnover costs, which determine the opt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=730742 | 150,950 |
175,518 | In a 2005 well-to-wheels analysis, the DOE estimated that fuel cell electric vehicles using hydrogen produced from natural gas would result in emissions of approximately 55% of the CO per mile of internal combustion engine vehicles and have approximately 25% less emissions than hybrid vehicles. In 2006, Ulf Bossel stat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1252085 | 175,426 |
78,763 | On 19 September 2013, an empty F-16 jet tested by Boeing and US Air Force, two US Air Force pilots controlled the plane from the ground as it flew from Tyndall Air Force Base, Panama City, Florida. Boeing suggested that the innovation could ultimately be used to help train pilots, providing an adversary they could prac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18895385 | 78,730 |
691,507 | Many government agencies have made guidelines and recommendations in an effort to increase biosafety measures across laboratories in the United States. Agencies involved in producing policies surrounding biosafety within a hospital, pharmacy or clinical research laboratory include: the CDC, FDA, USDA, DHHS, DoT, EPA an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45259 | 691,144 |
1,785,075 | Organisers were charged simply with creating "a coordinated set of materials, for use by teachers in any way they saw fit." The foundation also gave instructions to avoid public announcements or debates for two years. The approach taken in all three sciences was inquiry-based: teaching "for understanding, not learning"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48393333 | 1,784,071 |
479,976 | The Japanese economy enjoyed a period of growth and prosperity during the medieval era. As medieval Japanese society became more advanced, East Asia's first marketplaces began to take root as entrepreneurial merchants and artisans supplied manufactured goods to opening markets throughout the entire country. Self-employ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16234875 | 479,734 |
1,231,873 | The quality of life was improved with many Han inventions. The Han Chinese had hempen-bound bamboo scrolls to write on, yet by the 2nd century CE had invented the papermaking process which created a writing medium that was both cheap and easy to produce. The invention of the wheelbarrow aided in the hauling of heavy lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21620577 | 1,231,211 |
1,905,810 | Dr. Arnaout’s research on the biology and structure of integrins has led to scientific observations that span the entire spectrum from gene discovery to 3-dimensional protein structure to clinical translation. He described an inherited deficiency in leukocyte adhesion in a lead article in the New England Journal of Med... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49747841 | 1,904,714 |
633,517 | For a period of almost thirty years (1927–1954) the school was funded predominantly through the support of the Rockefeller Foundation. Since then the canton of Geneva and the Swiss Federal Council bear most of the costs associated with the institute. This transfer of financial responsibility coincided with the 1955 arr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14744053 | 633,179 |
330,303 | The Stukas had numerous successes against Allied naval vessels and in particular the Royal Navy which posed a formidable threat to German naval and coastal operations. The British heavy cruiser HMS "Suffolk" was attacked on 17 April. Her stern was virtually destroyed but she limped back to Scapa Flow with 33 dead and 3... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16590 | 330,128 |
1,742,269 | Russell wrote about the plant and animal life of Madras as he had of Aleppo. As a physician as well as a naturalist to the East India Company in the Carnatic he was concerned with the problem of snakebite and made it his aim to find a way for people to identify venomous snakes. He also made a large collection of plants... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4900362 | 1,741,285 |
2,175,149 | NUMTs are not utterly functionless and certain functions are being associated with them. Although the insertion of NUMTs was previously considered functionless pseudogenes, recent human NUMTs are shown to be a potentially mutagenic process that could damage the functional integrity of the human genome. The accumulation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8564084 | 2,173,905 |
186,477 | Following Russell's presentation of the diagram to a meeting of the Royal Astronomical Society in 1912, Arthur Eddington was inspired to use it as a basis for developing ideas on stellar physics. In 1926, in his book "The Internal Constitution of the Stars" he explained the physics of how stars fit on the diagram. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23364086 | 186,380 |
1,590,056 | In the SEPAP 12-24 unit, light excitation is provided by four 400 Watts medium-pressure mercury vapor lamps placed at the four corners of a parallelepiped. These lamps, whose shortest wavelengths are eliminated by a borosilicate glass envelope, have lifetime of 5000 hours. The temperature of the exposed surfaces (and n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17177316 | 1,589,162 |
438,989 | Unlike in previous centuries when the community of scholars were all members of few learned societies and similar institutions, there are no singular bodies or individuals which can be said today to speak for all science or all scientists. This is partly due to the specialized training most scientists receive in very f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=338705 | 438,775 |
2,151,940 | In the 1950s, Extension in Alaska focused on bringing educational resources to more remote areas of the northern and western parts of the state. During this decade, Extension collaborated with community members to determine the needs of the growing territory. In a 1956 report to the Secretary of the Interior, Governor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36201569 | 2,150,709 |
1,471,964 | A malignant tumor is characterized by the possibility to implement such a biological phenomenon as the metastatic cascade that is a unique multi-stage “program” where cell invasion is a trigger and a key factor for further cancer progression and metastasis in distant organs and tissues. Massive metastatic lesions lead ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58886026 | 1,471,135 |
1,685,244 | Abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) in the reproductive years, unrelated to pregnancy, is rarely life-threatening, but is frequently life altering. The symptoms frequently interfere with quality of life and those girls and women affected by chronic AUB spend significant amounts of personal resources on menstrual products a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51070599 | 1,684,299 |
2,250,219 | From the early 1980s David Fell switched his research to systems biology and was one of the very earliest systems biologists in the UK, with publications from 1979 onwards. The other notable systems biologist at time was Henrik Kacser at the University of Edinburgh. Given that his early work had a significant mathemati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58564825 | 2,248,946 |
262,342 | Classes began that November, with approximately 60 students enrolled, including 28 transfers from Madison. From 1850 to 1862, the university was housed in the old United States Hotel in downtown Rochester on Buffalo Street near Elizabeth Street, today, West Main Street near the I-490 overpass. On a February 1851 visit,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31918 | 262,203 |
2,057,466 | In 1984, Dr. Elliott was granted a research Fellowship to work with Dr. Charles B. Nemeroff at the Department of Psychiatry, Duke University. There he investigated the role of neurotensin on dopamine systems in the central nervous system, in relation to psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. The following year he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66911197 | 2,056,282 |
1,242,187 | After the end of World War II, Dannenberg was brought to the United States with 117 other German specialists under Operation Paperclip to Fort Bliss, Texas. Most members of the group performed calculations and designs of future advanced launch vehicles with longer ranges and greater payloads. About 30 members trained t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11984401 | 1,241,515 |
344,322 | The Late Cretaceous spans from 100 to 66 million years ago. The Late Cretaceous featured a cooling trend that would continue in the Cenozoic Era. Eventually, tropics were restricted to the equator and areas beyond the tropic lines experienced extreme seasonal changes in weather. Dinosaurs still thrived, as new taxa suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19322 | 344,141 |
136,301 | Chandrasekhar worked on a wide variety of problems in physics during his lifetime, contributing to the contemporary understanding of stellar structure, white dwarfs, stellar dynamics, stochastic process, radiative transfer, the quantum theory of the hydrogen anion, hydrodynamic and hydromagnetic stability, turbulence, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145319 | 136,246 |
65,259 | The F-86 entered service with the USAF in 1949, joining the 1st Fighter Wing's 94th Fighter Squadron and became the primary air-to-air jet fighter used by the Americans in the Korean War. While earlier straight-winged jets such as the P-80 and F-84 initially achieved air victories, when the swept-wing Soviet MiG-15 was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=359331 | 65,234 |
1,010,117 | The General Board's requirements were not thoroughly spelled out at the beginning of the design process and it requested a main armament of a dozen guns and higher speed than the existing 21 knots of the earlier ships to counter trends it saw in fast foreign battleships like the British and the Japanese es. Despite thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6313348 | 1,009,596 |
1,887,082 | It will take five years to build the first working global earthquake model – including corresponding tools, software and datasets. The work started in 2009 and will be finished at the end of 2013. Construction occurs in various stages that are partly overlapping in time. The pilot project GEM1 (January 2009 – March 201... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23793839 | 1,886,000 |
100,554 | In 1936, Fritz Kögl and Benno Tönnis documented isolating a yeast growth factor in a journal article titled "Darstellung von krystallisiertem biotin aus eigelb." (Representation of crystallized biotin from egg yolk). The name "biotin" derives from the Greek word "bios" (to live) and the suffix "-in" (a general chemical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54118 | 100,509 |
162,203 | The second explanation is the New Cambridge model associated with Wynne Godley and Francis Cripps. It stresses the long-term decline and competitiveness of British industry. During the 1970s especially, the manufacturing sector steadily lost its share of both home and international markets. The historic substantial sur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,118 |
1,035,920 | Arvind Lal, born on 22 August 1949, graduated in medicine from the Armed Forces Medical College, Pune, secured his post graduate degree from the same institution and started his career there as a lecturer at the Department of Pathology. In 1977, he went back to his family business by taking charge of Dr Lal PathLabs, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49501327 | 1,035,380 |
1,142,111 | Surveying and taking inventory of trees originated in Europe in the late 18th century out of a fear that wood (the main source of fuel) would run out. The first information was organized into maps used to plan out usage. In the early 19th century forest harvesters estimated the volume and dispersal of trees within smal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16638247 | 1,141,517 |
829,926 | The idea of devolution is based on the presumption of orthogenesis, the view that evolution has a purposeful direction towards increasing complexity. Modern evolutionary theory, beginning with Darwin at least, poses no such presumption, and the concept of evolutionary change is independent of either any increase in com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2379716 | 829,479 |
1,269,645 | The ultimate driver of the stresses that cause earthquakes are the motions of the tectonic plates: material from the Earth's mantle rises at spreading centers, and moves out as plates of oceanic crust which eventually are subducted under the more buoyant plates of continental crust. Western Washington lies over the Cas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27651043 | 1,268,954 |
923,126 | The Shrike was first employed during the Vietnam War by the Navy in 1965 using A-4 aircraft. The Air Force adopted the weapon the following year using F-105F and G Thunderchief Wild Weasel SEAD aircraft, and later the F-4 Phantom II in the same role. The range was nominally shorter than the SA-2 Guideline missiles that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1577127 | 922,640 |
1,152,453 | The "Studium Generalis Kalaritanum" was founded in 1606 along the lines of the old Spanish Universities of Salamanca, Valladolid and Lleida, but it begins to operate only after the privilege of King Philip III in 1620. as "Universidad y Estudio General de Caller en el Reyno de Cerdeña" (University and Gener Study of Ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4958826 | 1,151,843 |
358,569 | As mentioned before, these results of increased proportions of people seropositive for the parasite in cases of these neurological disorders do not necessarily indicate a causal relationship between the infection and disorder. It is also important to mention that in 2016 a population-representative birth cohort study w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196523 | 358,383 |
305,983 | Harold L. Hamilton and Paul Turner founded the Electro-Motive Engineering Corporation in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1922, soon renaming it to Electro-Motive Company (EMC). The company developed and marketed self-propelled railcars using General Electric's newly developed internal combustion-electric propulsion and control sys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1968562 | 305,819 |
592,166 | The fibrous, extensive miscanthus rooting system and the lack of tillage disturbance improves infiltration, hydraulic conductivity and water storage compared to annual row crops, and results in the porous and low bulk density soil typical under perennial grasses, with water holding capabilities expected to increase by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8202316 | 591,864 |
1,900,101 | Seyfarth continued to work for Maher until about 1909, at which time he opened his own practice. In the early years the office was located in the Corn Exchange Bank Building (1908, Shepley, Rutan, and Coolidge, demolished 1985) at 134 S. LaSalle Street, which was a short walk from the Chicago Stock Exchange Building. S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24940492 | 1,899,013 |
1,060,721 | In 1909, Akeley accompanied Theodore Roosevelt on a year-long expedition in Africa funded by the Smithsonian Institution and began working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where his efforts can still be seen in the Akeley Hall of African Mammals. Akeley joined the Explorers Club in 1912, havi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=851109 | 1,060,169 |
1,594,768 | Examples include ghrelin (a peptide hormone associated with feeding), and bacterial antibiotics that aren’t synthesised in the ribosome. Further examples include those produced by the Bacillus subtilis family which are composed of a cyclic structure made up of 7-10 amino acids, and a β-hydroxy fatty acid chain of varyi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61309152 | 1,593,870 |
1,403,538 | Plants are extremely versatile and have been able to develop advantageous mechanisms to overcome the constant environmental changes throughout time. Despite being unable to move and flee like animals they are able to utilize other skills to gain nutrients, water, enact defensive mechanisms and possibly communicate with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57090582 | 1,402,748 |
1,443,949 | Varshney has delivered invited presentations in several high-level meetings related to international agricultural research including: (i) G8 International Conference on Open Data for Agriculture on Open Data in Genomics and Modern Breeding for Crop Improvement, organized by US and UK Governments in the World Bank 29–30... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33748721 | 1,443,136 |
1,979,952 | Massachusetts headed to its second Frozen Four (the other coming in 2019) and were looking forward to a rematch with Minnesota Duluth. Just days prior to the game, the Minutemen lost 4 players due to COVID protocols; While Duluth would be without their backup goalie, UMass lost the services of their leading goal scorer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67443386 | 1,978,814 |
683,698 | The Phase I clinical trials were conducted by Parexel at an independent clinical trials unit in leased space on the premises of Northwick Park and St. Mark's Hospital, London, on 13 March 2006. Parexel is a company that carries out drug trials on behalf of pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Healthy volunteers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4402358 | 683,342 |
546,298 | The process of demobilisation began immediately after the end of hostilities, although it had partially commenced as early as 1943. At the end of the war the strength of the Australian Army was 398,594 men, approximately half of which were serving overseas in the South West Pacific Area. The demobilisation plan was put... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22738876 | 546,012 |
2,206,354 | This model, proposed by Marr and Nishihara (1978), states that object recognition is achieved by matching 3-D model representations obtained from the visual object with 3-D model representations stored in memory as vertical shape precepts. Through the use of computer programs and algorithms, Yi Yungfeng (2009) was able... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24965027 | 2,205,096 |
2,128,413 | Tautz's research covers a broad interest area in the fields of molecular evolution and developmental genetics. His thesis dealt with the first generic description of simple sequences (now often called microsatellites). This work became later the basis for his development of the genetic fingerprinting technology that is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37024678 | 2,127,190 |
1,884,491 | In contrast to the restricted building program of the 1950s, the 1960s and 1970s was a boom construction period for the college, reflecting in part the dominance of the Country/National Party in Queensland politics. The Queensland Government made a commitment to upgrade facilities at the College and to replace the earl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44321024 | 1,883,410 |
295,265 | Several studies provide evidence that the Internet-community, particularly bloggers, can push their own agenda into public agenda, then media agenda, and, eventually, into policy agenda. In the most comprehensive study to date, Wallsten tracked mainstream media coverage and blog discussion of 35 issues during the 2004 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=473279 | 295,105 |
133,921 | Before 1939, the military establishments were very small throughout British Africa, and largely consisted of whites, who comprised under two percent of the population outside South Africa. As soon as the war began, newly created African units were set up, primarily by the Army. The new recruits were almost always volun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14099 | 133,867 |
249,676 | Stiglitz bases his argument on the themes that his decades of theoretical work have emphasized: namely, what happens when people lack the key information that bears on the decisions they have to make, or when markets for important kinds of transactions are inadequate or don't exist, or when other institutions that stan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63092 | 249,544 |
1,184,620 | Overall, there are six different descriptions of the journey and the most important discoveries, the authors of which were expedition participants and eyewitnesses of the events. For a long time, report that was sent in 1820 by Bellingshausen to Traversay from Australia, Lazarev's private letter that was written two mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40880361 | 1,183,992 |
1,875,652 | The first steps toward today's Anthropology of Technology were undertaken by francophone anthropologists, and reflected a twentieth-century movement away from decontextualized artifacts to technical processes. Beginning in the mid-1930s, Marcel Mauss and his student Leroi-Gourhan noted that object-making techniques inv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71498816 | 1,874,575 |
1,190,211 | In the post-genomic age, high-throughput sequencing and gene/protein profiling techniques have transformed biological research by enabling comprehensive monitoring of a biological system, yielding a list of differentially expressed genes or proteins, which is useful in identifying genes that may have roles in a given p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1872854 | 1,189,577 |
754,585 | The Great Depression was a time of significant upheaval in the world economy. One of the most original contributions to understanding what went wrong came from Harvard University lawyer Adolf Berle (1895–1971), who like John Maynard Keynes had resigned from his diplomatic job at the Paris Peace Conference, 1919 and was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7881361 | 754,182 |
1,456,518 | The Conservatoire national des arts et métiers (; abbr. CNAM | English: French National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts) is a French public higher education institution, national research centre and "grand établissement" as well as "grande école" of engineering, thus part of the French elite universities league. Headqu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=434493 | 1,455,698 |
1,635,972 | After Chase's retirement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1939, she maintained her role as custodian of grasses at the U.S. National Herbarium (a position she held until her death in 1963) and was thought to be the "foremost grass specialist in the world." Beginning in 1941 Chase acted as a mentor and instruc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31328401 | 1,635,047 |
36,451 | The Space Shuttle's fly-by-wire control system was entirely reliant on its main computer, the Data Processing System (DPS). The DPS controlled the flight controls and thrusters on the orbiter, as well as the ET and SRBs during launch. The DPS consisted of five general-purpose computers (GPC), two magnetic tape mass mem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28189 | 36,439 |
1,354,124 | The first prototype designated WZ-122A was finished on 25 September 1970. This tank is largely based on soviet designs in terms of external shape, but has a different suspension and main gun. The tank utilized a hydromatic transmission system, hydropneumatic suspension, and hydraulic assisted power steering, nicknamed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43410769 | 1,353,377 |
1,227,013 | Stanford biological anthropologist James Holland Jones notes that humanity has "engineer[ed] a world where emerging infectious diseases are both more likely and more likely to be consequential", referring to the modern world's prevalent highly mobile lifestyles, increasingly dense cities, various kinds of human interac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63478457 | 1,226,352 |
1,619,400 | A new helminthologist at the London School of Tropical Medicine, Robert T. Leiper, re-examined the parasite in 1913. He noted the distinctive characters such as a tuberculated genital cone, the position of the genital orifice, a smooth ventral disc, and the testes in tandem position. These outstanding features prompted... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38751052 | 1,618,485 |
230,869 | In 1912 Spielrein married the Russian Jewish physician Pavel Nahumovitch Sheftel. They moved to Berlin, where Spielrein worked alongside Karl Abraham. Spielrein had her first daughter, Irma-Renata (known as Renata), in 1913. While in Berlin, Spielrein published nine further papers. One of these was an account of childr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2425513 | 230,751 |
354,115 | The plan of the Fifth Army commander, Lieutenant General Clark, was for the British X Corps, under Lieutenant General Richard McCreery, on the left of a thirty-kilometer (20 mi) front, to attack on 17 January 1944, across the Garigliano near the coast (5th and 56th Infantry Divisions). The British 46th Infantry Divisio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33088 | 353,932 |
1,184,616 | By 1824, Bellingshausen finished his description of the expedition; ten pages manuscript was presented to the Admiralty department. After the coronation of Nicholas I of Russia, Bellingshausen submitted a request to allocate money for publishing 1200 samples of the book. However, his request was ignored. Only in 1827, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40880361 | 1,183,988 |
1,146,003 | The Midland was blessed, in that George Stephenson had built its main lines with very shallow gradients while its main rival the LNWR had to cope with the hilly country north of Lancaster. The Midland favoured building large numbers of relatively small, low-powered engines to standardised designs. Each engine was cheap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564296 | 1,145,401 |
575,007 | Decline in seagrasses are due to a number of factors including drought, water quality issues, agricultural practices, invasive species, pathogens, fishing and climate change. Over 35% of global mangrove habitat remains. Decreases in habitat is due to damming of rivers, clearing for aquaculture, development etc., overfi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36995466 | 574,713 |
170,645 | The longevity treatments themselves begin to show weaknesses once those receiving them reach the two-century mark in age. The treatments reduce most aging processes to a negligible rate, but are much less effective when it comes to brain function, and in particular memory. Maya in particular suffers extreme lapses in m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89970 | 170,555 |
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