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1,468,449 | The MRCS qualification consists of a multi-part examination including both theory and practical assessments. Part A is a 5-hour examination which assesses the applied basic sciences (a 3 hour paper in the morning) and principles of surgery in general (a 2 hour paper in the afternoon) using multiple-choice Single Best A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1133102 | 1,467,625 |
1,585,326 | "H. laboriosa" exhibits a special method of pollination referred to as buzz pollination. They are oligolectic or specialist pollinators to the genus "Vaccinium ashei" and Gelsemium sempervirens. They latch onto the anthers of a plant and vibrate their thoracic muscles and their wings at 100 to 500 Hz, which results in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5224409 | 1,584,435 |
1,028,165 | During the late 1960s, the U.S. Navy funded the development of the T56-A-18 engine, which introduced a new gearbox compared with the early gearbox on the T56-A-7. The 50-hour preliminary flight rating test (PFRT) was completed for the T56-A-18 in 1968. In the early 1970s, Boeing Vertol selected Allison (at that time kn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2395247 | 1,027,631 |
299,754 | At Le Mans, Bernhard's No. 17 car broke the 2008 track record of the Circuit de la Sarthe until Jani bettered it to claim pole position in the first qualifying session. Tandy put the No. 19 Porsche in third as the team's other two cars did not improve their lap times in the following two sessions. During the race, Pors... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41368349 | 299,593 |
1,706,372 | The more practical aspect of exactly what constitutes a macroscope has varied through time and according to the interests, requirements, and field of activity of the workers concerned. Sommers and Vinge viewed the "macroscope" as an extended system of mapping to visualize the spatial relationships between items on the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64208794 | 1,705,414 |
1,666,956 | Crop rotation may reduce the number of pathogens in the soil and, "a minimum of a 3 years crop rotation which alternates with non-host species is recommended to avoid build-up of "P. capsici" spores." Crops should also avoid conditions that would be conducive to the pathogen by using well drained soils and raised beds.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11466299 | 1,666,017 |
1,568,177 | Many studies have demonstrated that people's understanding of words and sentences can influence their movements and actions as well as the opposite – peoples’ actions can influence how quickly they can comprehend a word or sentence. This knowledge is important for many reasons. One study looked at the impact of embodie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35182952 | 1,567,290 |
2,118,622 | Imagine is a defunct educational periodical for 7th-12th graders that was published by the Center for Talented Youth (CTY) at Johns Hopkins University. It is intended to provide intellectual stimulus for students looking toward their college years. Each issue focuses on an academic theme such as engineering, social sci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6014934 | 2,117,404 |
1,370,619 | Instead of pursuing the RP-218, in 1935, Korolev and RNII began developing the SK-9, a simple wooden two-seat glider which was to be used for testing rocket engines. The rear seat was replaced with tanks holding kerosene and nitric acid, and the OR-2 rocket motor was installed in the fuselage. The resulting craft was r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49664317 | 1,369,863 |
493,684 | The role of short-interspersed nuclear elements in gene regulation within cells has been supported by multiple studies. One such study examined the correlation between a certain family of SINEs with microRNAs (in zebrafish). The specific family of SINEs being examined was the Anamnia V-SINEs; this family of short inter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49982814 | 493,429 |
1,057,222 | After gaining independence Ukraine retained the Soviet principle of having a post secondary education system that its population could afford. In 2009, Ukraine spent 7.3% of GDP on education compared to the United States' 5.2%. Trade schools (Technikums), which are analogous to community colleges in the US and award th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23063986 | 1,056,673 |
604,318 | In 1919, Mitchell proposed a Cabinet-level Department of Aviation equal to the War and Navy Departments to control all aviation, including sea-based air, airmail, and commercial operations. His goal was not only independent and centralized control of airpower, but also encouragement of the peacetime U.S. aviation indus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=662917 | 604,008 |
1,870,702 | The campus expanded slowly with a bunkhouse built in 1927 (now the present day Store and Recreation Area) and smaller buildings being constructed for faculty and daily operation. The first automobile to make it to Pingree Valley was a Stanley Steamer in 1919. Telephone lines were installed to the campus in 1928 and ele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46511029 | 1,869,625 |
859,364 | The next major development of the concept of self-replicating machines was a series of thought experiments proposed by physicist Freeman Dyson in his 1970 Vanuxem Lecture. He proposed three large-scale applications of machine replicators. First was to send a self-replicating system to Saturn's moon Enceladus, which in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1600053 | 858,906 |
996,115 | The vertical angle (or elevation) of a shot will also affect the trajectory of the shot. Ballistic tables for small calibre projectiles (fired from pistols or rifles) assume a horizontal line of sight between the shooter and target with gravity acting perpendicular to the earth. Therefore, if the shooter-to-target angl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584911 | 995,597 |
520,387 | There has been some controversy over the interpretation of evidence purporting to show theory of mind ability—or inability—in animals. Part of this debate has involved whether animals are really able to associate cognitive abilities with another individual, or if they are just able to read and understand behavior. Povi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20240240 | 520,116 |
1,910,327 | Newer techniques have been developed to allow for accurate analysis of garment construction in shorter timeframes without having to dismantle garments. X-rays may be used to non-invasively identify sewing techniques. In 2006, the National Museum of Denmark and the Centre for Textile Research at the University of Copenh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67335138 | 1,909,229 |
270,927 | Experimentation was not the only approach to psychology in the German-speaking world at this time. Starting in the 1890s, employing the case study technique, the Viennese physician Sigmund Freud developed and applied the methods of hypnosis, free association, and dream interpretation to reveal putatively unconscious be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1573230 | 270,779 |
854,091 | Demands for managing hundreds and thousands of servers in the emerging Internet Data Centers where the manpower simply didn't exist to keep pace a new server architecture was needed. In 1998 and 1999 this new Blade Server Architecture was developed at Ziatech based on their Compact PCI platform to house as many as 14 "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=881423 | 853,636 |
700,535 | In 1890, , a 28-year-old assistant in Berlin, published instructions for folding a piece of paper to represent two forms of cyclohexane he called "symmetrical" and "asymmetrical" (what we would now call "chair" and "boat"). He clearly understood that these forms had two positions for the hydrogen atoms (again, to use m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1524030 | 700,170 |
1,524,927 | Amit Singh was born on 18 March 1976. He graduated in science from the University of Delhi and earned his master's degree in biotechnology from the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee in 1998. He then obtained a Ph.D. in 2004 under the guidance of Anil Kumar Tyagi at the South Campus of the University of Delhi, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59640243 | 1,524,066 |
1,718,046 | By June 1 nearly the entire battalion had moved into Iraq, with Bravo Company and most of headquarters encamped at Tallil Air Base, near Nasiriyah, and A and C company as well as the command group in Baghdad, waiting for the entire Battalion to consolidate at their position where they had stockpiled captured materials ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67447284 | 1,717,076 |
227,245 | Biostatistical modeling forms an important part of numerous modern biological theories. Genetics studies, since its beginning, used statistical concepts to understand observed experimental results. Some genetics scientists even contributed with statistical advances with the development of methods and tools. Gregor Mend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3878 | 227,129 |
1,984,442 | The PSE unit was constructed principally of beryllium and had a mass of 11.5 kg, including the electronics module and thermal insulation. It was housed in a drum-shaped enclosure 23 cm in diameter and 29 cm in height. The enclosure was rounded on the bottom and rested on a leveling stool. The PSE consisted of two main ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49383463 | 1,983,303 |
582,437 | In 1932 "Palaeontologica Indica" included his account of the Bennettitalean plant that he named "Williamsonia sewardi", and another description of a new type of petrified wood, "Homoxylon", bearing resemblance to the wood of a living homoxylous angiosperm, but from the Jurassic age. During the following years he not on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1844265 | 582,139 |
1,226,506 | Mechanical detection in bio-MEMS is achieved through micro- and nano-scale cantilevers for stress sensing and mass sensing, or micro- and nano-scale plates or membranes. In stress sensing, the biochemical reaction is performed selectively on one side of the cantilever to cause a change in surface free energy. This resu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19081158 | 1,225,846 |
622,102 | The salvage of "Squalus" was commanded by Rear Admiral Cyrus W. Cole, Commander of the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, who supervised salvage officer Lieutenant Floyd A. Tusler from the Construction Corps. Tusler's plan was to lift the submarine in three stages to prevent it from rising too quickly, out of control, with one... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=422293 | 621,770 |
1,464,668 | As clinicians and researchers become increasingly aware of the limitations of the current diagnostic systems, calls for new nosology are being made. The National Institute of Health's Research of Domain Criteria (RDoC) research program, launched in 2009, is perhaps the largest combined effort to address the need for a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30487688 | 1,463,845 |
175,976 | Daniel Gabriel began training as a merchant in Amsterdam after both of his parents died on 14 August 1701 from eating poisonous mushrooms. However, Fahrenheit's interest in natural science led him to begin studies and experimentation in that field. From 1717, he traveled to Berlin, Halle, Leipzig, Dresden, Copenhagen, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8663 | 175,884 |
77,951 | The Liberal Party fought the 1929 General Election on a promise to "reduce levels of unemployment to normal within one year by utilising the stagnant labour force in vast schemes of national development". David Lloyd George launched his campaign in March with a policy document, "We can cure unemployment," which tentati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17326 | 77,922 |
2,061,422 | Woolley arrived in Sydney with his wife and daughters on 9 July 1852 and quickly started making arrangements for the opening of the University. The first matriculation examination was held in October, and 24 students were admitted to matriculation; teaching work began at once. Woolley afterwards added to his duties the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6269925 | 2,060,235 |
2,125,168 | Native to brackish tidal waters such as mangrove swamps, this snail is also classified as Vittina turrita, and is sold in the freshwater aquarium trade under the common name "tiger nerite" or "tiger snail." Adults may thrive in fresh water with sufficient dissolved minerals. The species has separate male and female ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56171356 | 2,123,947 |
312,520 | One way to signal one's socioeconomic status is conspicuous consumption, or when individuals purchase luxurious items which provide little to no utility over less costly versions, thereby prioritizing self-promotion over economic sense. It is a common behavior of class and often involves strategic planning to maximize ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41162624 | 312,352 |
1,325,392 | Polysilazanes are not vaporizable because of strong intermolecular forces. Heating polysilazanes results in crosslinking to form higher molecular weight polymers. At temperatures of 100-300 °C, further crosslinking of the molecules takes place with evolution of hydrogen and ammonia. If the polysilazane contains further... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31122086 | 1,324,665 |
1,237,174 | In an attempt to reduce the costs and increase the accessibility of gate array design and production, Ferranti introduced in 1982 a computer-aided design tool for their uncommitted logic array (ULA) product called ULA Designer. Although costing £46,500 to acquire, this tool promised to deliver reduced costs of around £... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=592816 | 1,236,510 |
1,367,627 | VIIRS was launched on board Suomi NPP by a United Launch Alliance Delta II rocket from the Vandenberg Air Force Base at 5:48 am EDT on 28 Oct, 2011. VIIRS was designed to expand upon the data collected by the aging MODIS and AVHRR sensors by collecting radiometric measurements of Earth in the visible and infrared spect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39062719 | 1,366,871 |
1,287,591 | The FAI is the international organising body for all air sports worldwide, including aeromodelling. The FAI sanctions World and European Championships for the ultimate indoor duration class designated F1D. F1D models must have a minimum weight of 1.4 grams and a maximum wing span of 55 cm. These models are constructed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242554 | 1,286,890 |
211,087 | In 1924, Hahn was elected to full membership of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, by a vote of thirty white balls to two black. While still remaining the head of his own department, he hecame Deputy Director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in 1924, and succeeded Alfred Stock as the director in 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46825 | 210,980 |
1,828,607 | Kumaravel Somasundaram, born on 8 October 1962 in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, graduated in veterinary medicine from the Madras Veterinary College and did his post-graduate studies at the Madurai Kamaraj University to earn an MSc in biotechnology. He continued at the university for his doctoral studies under t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56118452 | 1,827,568 |
1,427,240 | Cochran has argued that homosexuality may be considered a disease because it generally reduces or eliminates reproductive output, and he and Ewald have speculated that homosexuality might be caused by infection with an unknown virus. However, he does not suggest that the infectious agent that causes homosexuality is sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2009840 | 1,426,437 |
815,988 | Variations in ADME, i.e. an individual's efficiency in absorpting, distributing, metabolizing, and excreting a drug has been found to occur in cases of the DRESS syndrome. These variations influence the levels and duration of a drug or drug metabolite in tissues and thereby impact the drug's or drug metabolite's abilit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14563386 | 815,552 |
622,597 | In the early 2000s, SPADs have been implemented within CMOS processes. This has radically increased their performance, (dark count rate, jitter, array pixel pitch etc), and has leveraged the analog and digital circuits that can be implemented alongside these devices. Notable circuits include photon counting using fast ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=972711 | 622,265 |
334,187 | An interesting fact that gas chromatography–mass spectrometry, 16S ribosomal RNA analysis, omics, and other advanced technologies have made more apparent to humans in recent decades is that microbial colonization is very common even in environments that humans think of as being nearly sterile. Because it is normal to h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37220 | 334,009 |
1,045,512 | These developments took place in a wider context. The first process was colonialism. Although Imperial powers settled most differences of opinion with their colonial subjects with force, increased awareness of non-Western peoples raised new questions for European scholars about the nature of society and culture. Simila... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2267847 | 1,044,967 |
1,542,202 | APPI is most used for LC/MS although it has recently found widespread use in ambient applications such as detection of explosives and narcotics compounds for security applications using ion mobility spectrometry. Compared to the more commonly used predecessor ionization sources ESI and APCI, APPI ionizes a broader rang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44339074 | 1,541,329 |
759,230 | A number of other possible sources of the Late Heavy Bombardment have been investigated. Among these are additional Earth satellites orbiting independently or as lunar trojans, planetesimals left over from the formations of the terrestrial planets, Earth or Venus co-orbitals, and the breakup of a large main belt astero... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30864636 | 758,824 |
1,258,909 | Inverse problems seek to identify features of the geometry from information about the eigenvalues of the Laplacian. One of the earliest results of this kind was due to Hermann Weyl who used David Hilbert's theory of integral equation in 1911 to show that the volume of a bounded domain in Euclidean space can be determin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20635289 | 1,258,222 |
1,507,777 | Why Molyneux left England for Holland is unclear. The "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography" suggests it was to be able to personally distribute his globes to European princes, since Amsterdam was then quickly establishing itself as the centre of globe- and map-making. However, this could not have been his intention... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15442947 | 1,506,931 |
154,548 | In late 2008, the Great Hall was closed to students and outside events for the first major renovation of the hall since 1978. This renovation and redecoration was overseen by Sam Anderson Architects, a firm created and led by Cooper Union School of Architecture alumni, while the Arup Acoustics company was responsible f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275339 | 154,478 |
931,644 | Normally, once a tissue is injured or infected, damaged cells elicit inflammation by stimulating specific patterns of enzyme activity and cytokine gene expression in surrounding cells. Discrete clusters ("cytokine clusters") of molecules are secreted, which act as mediators, inducing the activity of subsequent cascades... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2332422 | 931,152 |
1,159,687 | It has been observed that fear can contribute to behavioral changes. One way this phenomenon has been studied is on the basis of the repeated stress model done by Camp RM et al.(among others). In this particular study, it was examined that the contribution fear conditioning may play a huge role in altering an animal's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36086848 | 1,159,072 |
967,922 | A large study on comparative effectiveness of proton therapy was published by teams of the University of Pennsylvania and Washington University in St. Louis in JAMA Oncology, assessing if proton therapy in the setting of concurrent chemoradiotherapy is associated with fewer 90-day unplanned hospitalizations and overall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1164549 | 967,412 |
464,944 | The Tn7 transposon is a mobile genetic element found in many prokaryotes such as "Escherichia coli" ("E. coli"), and was first discovered as a DNA sequence in bacterial chromosomes and naturally occurring plasmids that encoded resistance to the antibiotics trimethoprim and streptomycin. Specifically classified as a tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1258217 | 464,714 |
2,246,089 | The exploding demand for higher spectral efficiency in radio has spurred a renewed interest in analog real-time components and systems beyond conventional purely digital signal processing techniques. Although they are unrivaled at low microwave frequencies, due to their high flexibility, compact size, low cost and stro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40714668 | 2,244,817 |
730,257 | The M3 saw action for the first time during the defense of the Philippines in December 1941. It went on to become a factor in the Guadalcanal Campaign, where it was successfully employed against both Japanese armor and infantry. Throughout the war it remained effective against Japanese vehicles, which were thinly armor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4079815 | 729,872 |
456,005 | Brute force acquisition can be performed by 3rd party passcode brute force tools that send a series of passcodes / passwords to the mobile device. This is a time-consuming method, but effective nonetheless. This technique uses trial and error in an attempt to create the correct combination of password or PIN to authent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23739365 | 455,782 |
1,416,458 | Similarly, anxiety has been commonly associated with individuals being able to perceive threat when in fact none is present, and orient more quickly to threatening cues than other cues. Anxiety has been associated with an enhanced orienting toward threat, a late-stage attention maintenance toward threat, or possibly vi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37940820 | 1,415,660 |
1,221,297 | At the University of Berlin, he studied astronomy, physics, zoology and paleontology. Ley explained, "I was never quite sure whether my studies would earn me the title of 'zoologist' or 'geologist', but I kept exploring, in a manner of speaking, looking especially into such corners as others had neglected." He then bec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=421035 | 1,220,639 |
926,328 | In May 2008, Fender introduced the Classic Player Series Jazzmaster, which was made in Mexico. Fender made numerous changes to the original design. This included replacing the bridge with a Tune-o-matic type, giving it a 9.5" fretboard radius and moving the tremolo plate around 1 cm forward towards the bridge. The tail... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=797005 | 925,842 |
650,532 | The mission revealed the composition and meteorological nature of the atmosphere of Venus. Data from the radio science experiment measured the extent to which radio waves passing through the atmosphere were refracted, which was used to calculate the density, pressure, and temperature of the atmosphere at any given alti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38785 | 650,191 |
1,563,785 | There is no one food or nutrient capable of providing adequate bone health on its own. Instead, a balanced diet sufficient in fruits and vegetables for their vitamins, minerals, and alkalinizing substrates is thought to be most beneficial. High protein diets supply larger amounts of amino acids that could be degraded t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41121277 | 1,562,898 |
1,612,054 | Recoverin is involved in the recovery phase of visual excitation and in adaptation to background light. It controls the life span of photoexcited rhodopsin by helping to inhibit rhodopsin kinase. An image of bovine recoverin with 3.00 Å resolution is shown. This three-dimensional structure was determined by X-ray diffr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7330655 | 1,611,149 |
1,450,433 | Acharya et al. suggested that the conduction mechanism involves the exchange of protons between the His37 imidazole moieties of M2 and waters confined to the M2 bundle interior. Water molecules within the pore form hydrogen-bonded networks or 'water wires' from the channel entrance to His37. Pore-lining carbonyl groups... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2853690 | 1,449,616 |
853,694 | The name "Sarracenia" was first employed by Michel Sarrazin, the Father of Canadian Botany who in the late 17th century sent live specimens of "S. purpurea" to the Parisian botanist Joseph Pitton de Tournefort, who thereupon described the species. Linnaeus adopted this name when he published his "Species Plantarum" (17... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=871268 | 853,239 |
12,717 | There is usually a preliminary assessment to remain in the program and the thesis is submitted at the end of a three- to four-year program. These periods are usually extended pro rata for part-time students. With special dispensation, the final date for the thesis can be extended for up to four additional years, for a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21031297 | 12,712 |
1,934,515 | The visual word form area (VWFA) is located in the left lateral occipitotemporal sulcus. This area overlaps with the part of the ventral visual cortex that detects the presence of line junctions, and thus is thought to have provided the VWFA with its neuronal niche. Biederman (1987) found that line vertices are more es... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39151518 | 1,933,407 |
1,637,068 | Detonation spray coatings are applied using a detonation gun (D-gun) which is composed of a long-water-cooled metal barrel containing inlet valves for introducing gases and powders into the chamber. A preselected amount of the desired protective coating material known as feedstock (in powder form of particle size 5–60μ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60828981 | 1,636,143 |
364,265 | The general short-term effect of nitrogen fertilization on coniferous seedlings is to stimulate shoot growth more so than root growth (Armson and Carman 1961). Over a longer period, root growth is also stimulated. Many nursery managers were long reluctant to apply nitrogenous fertilizers late in the growing season, for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68085 | 364,075 |
1,153,350 | Soon after discovering superconductivity in 1911, Kamerlingh Onnes attempted to make an electromagnet with superconducting windings but found that relatively low magnetic fields destroyed superconductivity in the materials he investigated. Much later, in 1955, George Yntema succeeded in constructing a small 0.7-tesla i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1929545 | 1,152,740 |
483,740 | Story Musgrave and Jeffrey A. Hoffman started the first EVA about an hour earlier than scheduled by stepping into the cargo bay at 03:46 UTC. They began by unpacking tools, safety tethers and work platforms. Hoffman then installed a foot restraint platform onto the end of the shuttle's remote manipulator arm (Canadarm)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=504305 | 483,493 |
1,445,189 | During its one-year-long journey, the central expedition ship, the research icebreaker "Polarstern" from Germany's Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), was supported and resupplied by the icebreakers and research vessels "Akademik Fedorov" and "Kapitan Dranitsyn" (Russia), "So... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59728348 | 1,444,373 |
142,542 | The real scare, however, came from a quote in the 1979 film "The China Syndrome", which stated, "It melts right down through the bottom of the plant—theoretically to China, but of course, as soon as it hits ground water, it blasts into the atmosphere and sends out clouds of radioactivity. The number of people killed wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162498 | 142,484 |
666,370 | Researchers including Irene A. Chen and Jack W. Szostak have demonstrated that simple physicochemical properties of elementary protocells can give rise to simpler conceptual analogues of essential cellular behaviors, including primitive forms of Darwinian competition and energy storage. Such cooperative interactions be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19179678 | 666,022 |
82,658 | In 2003, the Navy launched its first experimental LCS, "Sea Fighter", designated as fast sea frame or FSF-1. In 2005, the SWATH-hulled "Sea Fighter" entered service as an experimental vessel using mission modules. As the "Oliver Hazard Perry", , and classes were reaching the end of their lives, the U.S. Navy released t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=460005 | 82,624 |
1,439,488 | Microbead-based immobilization is a modular technique in that it allows the investigator to decide whether they wish to fish for protein targets from the proteome or drug-like compounds from chemical libraries. The macroscopic properties of microbeads make them amenable to relatively low labor enrichment applications, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48999251 | 1,438,678 |
1,894,538 | There are currently no varieties of cucurbit completely resistant to "D. bryoniae". Cultural practices and preventive techniques can be taken to avoid or reduce harm done by "D. bryoniae". Purchasing and planting reputable disease-free seeds is necessary for ensuring "D. bryoniae" will not be present at planting. A rot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41052642 | 1,893,454 |
732,829 | Selective laser melting (SLM) machines can operate with a work space up to 1 m (39.37 in) in X, Y and Z. Some of the materials being used in this process can include Ni based super alloys, copper, aluminum, stainless steel, tool steel, cobalt chrome, titanium and tungsten. SLM is especially useful for producing tungste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29017963 | 732,442 |
95,129 | Each year, students may sign up to participate in BuckeyeThon, Ohio State's student-led philanthropy. The organization hosts events throughout the year to support the hematology/oncology/bone marrow transplant unit at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. Although BuckeyeThon is operated entirely by student... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22217 | 95,088 |
281,271 | New seeker designs began to appear during the 1970s and led to a series of more advanced missiles. A major upgrade to the Sidewinder began, providing it with a seeker that was sensitive enough to track from any angle, giving the missile "all aspect" capability for the first time. This was combined with a new scanning p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1396771 | 281,118 |
227,733 | Other forces did not have the pressing need to move to the jet engine; Britain and the US were facing enemies with aircraft of even lower performance than their existing night fighters. However, the need for new designs was evident, and some low-level work started in the closing stages of the war, including the US cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=164906 | 227,616 |
452,319 | In 1866, he published a short story in the "Atlantic Monthly" resting upon both somatic and psychological insights entitled "The Case of George Dedlow". From that point onward, Mitchell divided his attention between scientific and literary pursuits. In the former field, he produced monographs on rattlesnake venom, inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=853456 | 452,100 |
871,360 | Beyond making content edits to an EHR, there are AI algorithms that evaluate an individual patient's record and predict a risk for a disease based on their previous information and family history. One general algorithm is a rule-based system that makes decisions similarly to how humans use flow charts. This system take... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52588198 | 870,900 |
702,173 | In 1988, "Dragon Quest III" introduced a character progression system allowing the player to change the party's character classes during the course of the game, and keep a character's stats and skills learned from previous classes. This class-changing system shaped the gameplay of future console RPGs, especially the "F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408675 | 701,808 |
1,172,422 | The study identified a number of issues with development of this option: "On the one hand, the Apollo system is well understood, and proved to be a highly successful, rugged system with a very capable launch abort system. Documentation would be very helpful in leading the designers. On the other hand, nearly every syst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7051471 | 1,171,803 |
794,447 | Many people and organisations are involved in the development and maintenance of the ISO27K standards. The first standard in this series was ISO/IEC 17799:2000; this was a fast-tracking of the existing British standard BS 7799 part 1:1999 The initial release of BS 7799 was based, in part, on an information security pol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12251814 | 794,022 |
554,245 | Current research suggests that polyandry is the dominant social structure in the New World monkey family Callitrichidae. The Callitrichidae includes marmosets and tamarins, two groups of small New World monkeys found in South America. Wild groups usually consist of three to ten individuals, with one reproductively acti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44468915 | 553,956 |
1,403,166 | Levitin offers possible explanations for this phenomenon, by describing how even young children have this ability to a certain degree, so this ability to recognize musical patterns could be located in the cerebellum the brain. The cerebellum helps to control balance and coordination, but when listening to music the cer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30930484 | 1,402,379 |
299,820 | Some authors have argued that flagella cannot have evolved, assuming that they can only function properly when all proteins are in place. In other words, the flagellar apparatus is "irreducibly complex". However, many proteins can be deleted or mutated and the flagellum still works, though sometimes at reduced efficien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43093 | 299,659 |
939,232 | Conservation biologists are dealing with and have published evidence from all corners of the planet indicating that humanity may be causing the sixth and fastest planetary extinction event. It has been suggested that an unprecedented number of species is becoming extinct in what is known as the Holocene extinction even... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216216 | 938,731 |
474,391 | Normally, glauconite is considered a diagnostic mineral indicative of continental shelf marine depositional environments with slow rates of accumulation and gradational boundaries. For instance, it appears in Jurassic/lower Cretaceous deposits of greensand, so-called after the coloration caused by glauconite, its prese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1031478 | 474,155 |
654,669 | The wider bandgap is particularly important for allowing devices that use them to operate at much higher temperatures, on the order of 300 °C. This makes them highly attractive for military applications, where they have seen a fair amount of use. The high temperature tolerance also means that these devices can be opera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=467183 | 654,325 |
1,920,784 | As a leader at OSU's College of Nursing, Melnyk increased their enrollment and hiring of faculty members and rose their school ranking in the "U.S. News & World Report." In recognition of her efforts, she was promoted to vice president for health promotion and reappointed dean through 2022. Following her promotion, Mel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65371945 | 1,919,681 |
423,932 | The initial "Delta" guidance system assessed the difference in position from a reference trajectory. A velocity to be gained (VGO) calculation is made to correct the current trajectory with the objective of driving VGO to Zero. The mathematics of this approach were fundamentally valid, but dropped because of the challe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=319341 | 423,725 |
686,118 | Several Martian meteorites have been found to contain what some think is evidence for fossilized Martian life forms. The most significant of these is a meteorite found in the Allan Hills of Antarctica (ALH 84001). Ejection from Mars seems to have taken place about 16 million years ago. Arrival on Earth was about 13 000... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67216 | 685,761 |
1,868,027 | PTPS is a hexamer of identical subunits. The PTPS monomer folds into a sequential four-stranded, antiparallel 𝛃-sheet. Three PTPS monomers form a 12-stranded antiparallel 𝛃-barrel by tight association between the N and C terminus of 2 adjacent subunits. The active enzyme complex is formed by two trimers in a head-to-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3906966 | 1,866,951 |
1,062,931 | Several techniques have changed the outlook on Mars exploration. The most powerful of which is in-situ resource utilization. Using hydrogen imported from Earth and carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere, the Sabatier reaction can be used to manufacture methane (for rocket propellant) and water (for drinking and for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23516569 | 1,062,377 |
1,527,782 | A few years later, Ives replaced this process with the much simpler one usually associated with his name. In the new process, an ordinary photograph was rephotographed directly onto the sensitized metal plate. A crossline screen, consisting of two glass plates finely ruled with opaque lines and sandwiched together with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=738971 | 1,526,918 |
700,102 | The orientation, in principle strictly monastic, as well as the exclusivism and conservation of the Dominicans, and the continuous decrease in members of other congregations gave rise to the Dominicans losing predominance and also generated a reaction on the part of lay teachers; the demand for greater openness led the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1070670 | 699,737 |
311,183 | The Iranian government has repeatedly made compromise offers to place limits on its nuclear program beyond what the Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Additional Protocol require of Iran, in order to ensure that the program cannot be secretly diverted to the manufacture of weapons. These offers have included operating Ir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=721807 | 311,015 |
1,337,866 | Defining a particular aim for kinanthropometry is central for its full understanding. Ross et al. (1972) said “K is a scientific discipline that studies the body size, the proportionality, the performance of movement, the body composition and principal functions of the body. This so well cited definition is not complet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15605448 | 1,337,135 |
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