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557,342 | Many now believe stress to be the most significant factor for the onset of depression. As discussed above, hippocampal cells are sensitive to stress which can lead to decreased neurogenesis. This area is being considered more frequently when examining the causes and treatments of depression. Studies have shown that rem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=740746 | 557,053 |
1,479,806 | In the same year, studies relatedly identified a 98 kb region of the chromosome the four class III genes (that express C4A, C4B, C2, and factor B) are closely linked, which does not allow for cross-overs to occur. Using protein variants visualized by electrophoresis, the four structural genes were located between HLA-B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9693587 | 1,478,972 |
963,212 | In developing a theory to explain the ice ages, Arrhenius, in 1896, was the first to use basic principles of physical chemistry to calculate estimates of the extent to which increases in atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO) will increase Earth's surface temperature through the greenhouse effect. These calculations led him t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36586 | 962,703 |
1,209,923 | After the publication of Chomsky's "Syntactic Structures", the nature of linguistic research began to change, especially at MIT and elsewhere in the linguistic community where TGG had a favorable reception. Morris Halle, a student of Roman Jacobson and a colleague of Chomsky at MIT's Research Laboratory of Electronics ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400467 | 1,209,276 |
174,198 | Speaking to "El País", researcher Alfonso Valencia said "The most important thing that this advance leaves us is knowing that this problem has a solution, that it is possible to solve it... We only know the result. Google does not provide the software and this is the frustrating part of the achievement because it will ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59766171 | 174,107 |
1,278,254 | Small cohort studies have shown that individuals with cerebellar disorders recover coordination and have lower SARA scores regardless of stage or severity of their ataxia before therapy when they are regularly participating in physiotherapy or exergaming over individuals who are not. These studies suggest that multidom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54421246 | 1,277,561 |
1,197,051 | After the establishment of the Union, the first South African government was formed by the South African Party (SAP) which won 67 of the 121 parliamentary seats available in the 1910 election. Led by the former Boer veteran Louis Botha, the SAP pursued a reconciliatory relationship with Britain, was favourable to South... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66447390 | 1,196,411 |
1,815,964 | In the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade), there was a period of transition within the iSchool. There was a general realization that the field was changing and that the business model was changing. With the advent of the Web and search engines there were changes in how information was being gathered and consumed. Ther... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13618147 | 1,814,930 |
1,628,269 | In 1959, University President Elmer Ellis proposed a research reactor, understanding that the many fields of research to benefit from nuclear science "are a part of the University of Missouri's educational responsibilities to our youth and to all our citizens". The MURR began operation October 13, 1966, about one mile ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10400448 | 1,627,350 |
1,117,109 | The Marienthal study attracted the attention of the Rockefeller Foundation, leading to a two-year traveling fellowship to the United States. From 1933 to 1935, Lazarsfeld worked with the Federal Emergency Relief Administration and toured the United States, making contacts and visiting the few universities that had prog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=427665 | 1,116,536 |
1,184,598 | Then Bellingshausen started to systematically study social and economic aspects of life in New South Wales colony. Barratt noticed that Bellingshausen's lengthy and informative notes published in the "Dvukratnyh izyskanijah" were based on observations and extracts made by half a dozen of his subordinates. Collected sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40880361 | 1,183,970 |
2,113,110 | Rutenbar received M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, in 1979 and 1984, respectively. He joined the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in 1984. At CMU, his research group developed a wide range of novel CAD tools t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42279896 | 2,111,895 |
546,944 | Compared to electrical stimulation that utilizes brief, high-voltage electric shock to activate neurons, which can potentially activate pain fibers, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was developed by Baker in 1985. TMS uses a magnetic wire above the scalp, which carries a sharp and high current pulse. A time vari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29803004 | 546,658 |
96,747 | The primary break rate of sparking Tesla coils is slow compared to the resonant frequency of the resonator-topload assembly. When the switch closes, energy is transferred from the primary LC circuit to the resonator where the voltage rings up over a short period of time up culminating in the electrical discharge. In a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39113 | 96,706 |
2,238,648 | "Haaniella gintingi" is a medium-sized, very slender "Haaniella" species with few spines. The females, which are long, vary greatly in color and markings. Their basic color ranges from beige to light to dark brown and can appear somewhat orange or pink. A fine dull green stripe runs along the lateral margins of the mes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71967345 | 2,237,377 |
199,743 | By the 1960s, the United States military was developing the swing-wing F-111 project as a follow-on to the Republic F-105 Thunderchief, a fast low-level fighter-bomber designed in the 1950s with an internal bay for a nuclear weapon. There had been some interest in the TSR-2 from Australia for the Royal Australian Air F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=225702 | 199,640 |
1,450,639 | Gautam Desiraju was born 21 August 1952 in Madras, India. He had his schooling in Cathedral and John Connon Boys School in Bombay and obtained his BSc (1972) from St. Xavier's College, Bombay. He obtained his PhD (1976) from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign where he worked under the supervision of David Y. Cu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19943389 | 1,449,822 |
546,224 | The demands of combat during World War II led to changes in the composition of Army units. The success of German mechanised units during the invasions of Poland and France convinced Australian defence planners that the Army required armoured units, and these began to be raised in 1941 when the 1st Armoured Division was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22738876 | 545,938 |
818,448 | While the cause of FMD remains unclear, current theory suggests that there may be a genetic predisposition as case reports have identified clusters of the disease and prevalence among twins. In fact, according to the Cleveland Clinic approximately 10% of cases appear to be inherited and often coexists with other geneti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4350672 | 818,009 |
1,396,242 | Regardless of the underlying condition, the loss of intestinal function does not necessarily necessitate a transplant. Several conditions, such as necrotizing enterocolitis or volvulus, may be adequately resolved by other surgical and nonsurgical treatments, especially if SBS never develops. An individual can obtain nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46300441 | 1,395,471 |
175,649 | Tandy had 11 million customers that might buy a microcomputer, but it would be much more expensive than the median price of a Radio Shack product, and a great risk for the very conservative company. Executives feared losing money as Sears did with Cartrivision, and many opposed the project; one executive told French, "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30747 | 175,557 |
1,396,321 | Bagian worked as a process engineer for the 3M Company in Bristol, Pennsylvania, in 1973, and later as a mechanical engineer at the U.S. Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent River, Maryland, from 1976 to 1978, and at the same time, pursued studies for his medical degree. Upon graduating from Thomas Jefferson University in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=596595 | 1,395,550 |
1,612,313 | Traditional religion attributed the origin of life to deities who created the natural world. "Spontaneous generation", the first naturalistic theory of abiogenesis, goes back to Aristotle and ancient Greek philosophy, and continued to have support in Western scholarship until the 19th century. The theory held that "low... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69625765 | 1,611,408 |
747,656 | Auxiliary Power Units (APUs) 2 and 3 were started (to provide flight control hydraulic pressure). The 160-second twin-engine OMS de-orbit burn took place during the 36th orbit over the southern Indian Ocean and changed the orbital parameters from to . This ensured atmospheric capture of the spacecraft close enough to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177543 | 747,260 |
710,578 | The University of Texas continued to host the event from 1982 to 1984 as the popularity and number of participants grew. In these subsequent years, UT moved the Formula SAE competition to other parking areas that included elevation changes and driveway aprons that forced the use of functioning suspensions. The event be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=278148 | 710,207 |
1,363,276 | Technological analysis is sometimes applied in decision-making often related to investments, policy-decisions and public spending. They can be done by a variety of organization-types such as for-profit companies, non-profit think tanks, research institutes, public platforms and government agencies and evaluate establis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53635793 | 1,362,523 |
954,984 | After Bacon's retirement from the Planning Commission in 1970, he served as vice president for the private planning firm Mondev U.S.A., was an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the University of Pennsylvania, from 1950 to 1987, and narrated "Understanding Cities", an award-winni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2499291 | 954,479 |
1,894,497 | Missouri did not have much difficulty in Mike Anderson's first three games as head coach, defeating North Carolina A&T, Army and Stetson to capture the John Thompson Foundation Classic title. The Tigers, who did not play a road game until December, began 9-0, facing mostly inferior opponents. However, MU did actually d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21438663 | 1,893,413 |
702,187 | The next major revolution came in the late 1990s, which saw the rise of 3D computer graphics and optical discs in fifth generation consoles. The implications for RPGs were enormous—longer, more involved quests, better audio, and full-motion video. This was clearly demonstrated in 1997 by the phenomenal success of "Fina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408675 | 701,820 |
628,505 | On 13 April 2007, the Department of Science, Technology and Education of the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture hosted the Asian regional workshop on adaptation to climate change organized by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Climate change will affect Asian countries in different but con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13556279 | 628,170 |
144,719 | In 1888, Swedish physicist Johannes Rydberg working from the 1885 Balmer formula noticed that the atomic numbers of the noble gases was equal to doubled sums of squares of simple numbers: 2 = 2·1, 10 = 2(1 + 2), 18 = 2(1 + 2 + 2), 36 = 2(1 + 2 + 2 + 3), 54 = 2(1 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 3), 86 = 2(1 + 2 + 2 + 3 + 3 + 4). This fin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=619795 | 144,661 |
2,013,290 | In vitro experimentation provides great insight and knowledge to characterize the potential of sonosensitizer behavior in vivo. In addition, SDT has shown success through its low intensity allowing increased plasma membrane permeability without cell death. Sonosensitizers have also been used in vitro in applications wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36264089 | 2,012,132 |
1,801,320 | In 1970, AVA was first licensed by the USPHS for protection against cutaneous anthrax to a state-owned facility operated by the Michigan Department of Public Health. In 1973, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) first published standards for making, using and storing AVA. In the mid-1980s, the FDA approved it spec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37488149 | 1,800,311 |
1,121,244 | Daubechies gave the Gauss Lecture of the German Mathematical Society in 2015. The Simons Foundation, a private foundation based in New York City that funds research in mathematics and the basic sciences, gave Daubechies the Math + X Investigator award, which provides money to professors at American and Canadian univers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1430989 | 1,120,670 |
742,512 | Single cell imaging experiments have shown ERK to be activated in stochastic bursts in the presence of EGF. Furthermore, the pathway has been shown to encode the strength of signaling inputs though frequency modulated pulses of its activity. Using live cell FRET biosensors, cells induced with different concentrations o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5618682 | 742,119 |
1,744,074 | ASMS also offers an academic summer camp for students entering the 6th through 9th grades. The Adventures In Math and Science summer program is typically held in June and enrolls roughly 1,000 students over the course of three weeks. Students from across Alabama can enroll in classes that are taught by ASMS instructors... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=633666 | 1,743,090 |
345,517 | The United States Maritime Commission were looking for options to update WWII Liberty ships, and heavy-duty gas turbines were one of those selected. In 1956 the "John Sergeant" was lengthened and equipped with a General Electric HD gas turbine with exhaust-gas regeneration, reduction gearing and a variable-pitch propel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58664 | 345,336 |
1,928,771 | Use of external airway adjuncts, namely the OPA and NPA. Manual and mechanical airway suctioning. Dislodging of foreign body airway obstructions through heimlich maneuver and visible finger sweeps. Airway positioning using head-tilt chin-lift and jaw-thrust maneuvers. BLS cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Automated extern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2471678 | 1,927,666 |
1,138,536 | Possibly being one of the most famous physicians of the 17th and 18th centuries, Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738) approached phenomena in medicine with a scientific process of observation and experiments. He is most famous for recreating the Andrea Vesalius book of human anatomy. Boerhaave featured human beings participati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2419633 | 1,137,943 |
56,861 | For the first episode's opening sequence, Phillips mistakenly assumed that Burnham's mission with Book was a courier mission and designed a leather coat for Martin-Green to wear. The producers corrected her that it was actually a Starfleet mission but asked her to keep the coat and just make it "cleaner" and Starfleet-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63388083 | 56,837 |
1,680,917 | Yuste's interest in neuroscience arose early, inspired by books like Santiago Ramón y Cajal's "Los Tónicos de la Voluntad: Reglas y consejos sobre investigación científica" ) ("The Tonics of the Will: Rules and Advice on Scientific Research") and supported by his parents. He studied medicine at the Universidad Autónoma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56451610 | 1,679,974 |
2,061,502 | Only six months after his arrival in London, in late summer 1725, Joseph boarded a ship for the Gulf of Mexico. The South Sea Company traded there in slaves and goods under the Asiento agreement; the trade agreement allowed the company to send one ship of a limited size each year to sell goods in the fairs of Vera Cruz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30866164 | 2,060,314 |
2,170,872 | The most promising therapy to make use of targeting the T-cell through its receptor is the class of monoclonal antibodies specific for CD3. The CD3 chains compose the signaling arm of the TCR, translating the strength of binding affinity of the TCR/peptide-MHC complex to downstream cytoplasmic signals. Initial studies ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28353188 | 2,169,634 |
2,012,712 | Advancing to the quarterfinals, Georgetown faced the No. 4 seed, Cincinnati, the following day. A dramatic narrative of the game was the duel underneath the baskets between the teams′ two senior "big men," Henry Sims and Cincinnati forward Yancy Gates. The first half was close, although Georgetown pulled away in the fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33673923 | 2,011,555 |
430,080 | In the interest of creating the possibility of longer duration space flight, NASA has invested in the research and application of preventative space medicine, not only for medically preventable pathologies but trauma as well. Although trauma constitutes more of a life-threatening situation, medically preventable pathol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5607447 | 429,868 |
867,027 | The UDC was developed by the Belgian bibliographers Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine at the end of the 19th century. In 1895, they created the Universal Bibliographic Repertory ("Répertoire Bibliographique Universel") (RBU) which was intended to become a comprehensive classified index to all published information. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32129 | 866,567 |
10,703 | In December 2006, the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) released a report on U.S. small arms in combat. The CNA conducted surveys on 2,608 troops returning from combat in Iraq and Afghanistan over the previous 12 months. Only troops who fired their weapons at enemy targets were allowed to participate. 917 troops were arm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=321957 | 10,698 |
704,316 | DEHP is the most common phthalate plasticizer in medical devices such as intravenous tubing and bags, IV catheters, nasogastric tubes, dialysis bags and tubing, blood bags and transfusion tubing, and air tubes. DEHP makes these plastics softer and more flexible and was first introduced in the 1940s in blood bags. For t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3003614 | 703,948 |
402,693 | Photometric mapping of Charon's surface shows a latitudinal trend in albedo, with a bright equatorial band and darker poles. The north polar region is dominated by a very large dark area informally dubbed "Mordor" by the "New Horizons" team. The favored explanation for this feature is that it is formed by condensation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52838 | 402,493 |
270,919 | Phrenology began as "organology", a theory of brain structure developed by the German physician, Franz Joseph Gall (1758–1828). Gall argued that the brain is divided into a large number of functional "organs", each responsible for particular human mental abilities and dispositions – hope, love, spirituality, greed, lan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1573230 | 270,772 |
2,112,934 | An important biogeochemical consequence of SSA are their role as cloud condensation nuclei. These are particles that provide the surfaces necessary for water vapor to condensate below supersaturation conditions. The freezing of organic matter in these aerosols promotes the formation of clouds in warmer and drier enviro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62264747 | 2,111,719 |
760,736 | In 2020, the university track-and-field head coach David Scott-Thomas was given a lifetime ban by Athletics Canada for violating its code of conduct. The Globe and Mail reported that Scott-Thomas had an alleged sexual relationship with an underage student athlete dating back to 2002-2004 (of consenting age, but unlawfu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9181362 | 760,330 |
1,326,310 | In the year 1975, timoprazole was found to inhibit acid secretion irrespective of stimulus, extracellular or intracellular. Studies on timoprazole revealed enlargement of the thyroid gland due to inhibition of iodine uptake as well as atrophy of the thymus gland. A literature search showed that some substituted mercapt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29482459 | 1,325,583 |
2,076,297 | The second phase of German Expressionism was the group "Der Blaue Reiter", founded in Munich in 1911, where a number of artists were grouped together who rather than a common stylistic stamp shared a certain vision of art, in which the creative freedom of the artist and the personal and subjective expression of his wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72166508 | 2,075,099 |
1,515,845 | Thanks to the increased interest in extremophiles the revolutionary technique of PCR was pioneered and brought the field of DNA study to the next level. Following this trend scientists in both biotech and industry want to push farther and find new ways to impact the scientific community. One way that is currently being... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59675902 | 1,514,993 |
1,622,538 | According to the original National Network for Manufacturing Innovation proposal, it would consist of up to 45 linked institutes with unique research concentrations to serve as regional manufacturing innovation hubs with spokes that link to project locations as seen represented by the various linked activities across t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39696460 | 1,621,622 |
513,723 | In reviewing a few points from the military history of the 20th century, within roughly a decade of the first flight of an airplane, aircraft were having an occasionally decisive effect on the battlefield. Within four decades, a nation—Great Britain—secured its national survival through air warfare. By the midst of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=598620 | 513,457 |
1,742,879 | In 1854, Darwin began to work full-time on the origin of species. He examined orchids and counted how often one or both pollinia (pollen masses) had been removed from their flowers, indicating that they had been visited by insects. He experimented with insect pollination to investigate whether, by cross-fertilising fie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21436165 | 1,741,895 |
1,472,893 | Improving energy balance status, often through behavioral change, is the recommended means for restoring HPO function, and this commonly requires the adoption of behaviors which promote weight gain. Avoidance of chronic stressors and modification of the stress-response with cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) may also h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15738568 | 1,472,062 |
1,042,876 | John Slough of the University of Washington documented in 2004 and 2006 results of NASA Institute of Advanced Concepts (NIAC) funded research, development and experimentation for a more efficient method to generate the static magnetic dipole for a magnetic sail using a design called the Plasma magnet (PM). The design u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37845 | 1,042,333 |
1,782,587 | The advent of Canada's confederation, presented the nation with the task of building a transcontinental railway. Railways were hesitant to build across the prairies, so an intensive immigration policy was implemented to encourage agricultural settlement. Agricultural science began developing many new styles of farming ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11332374 | 1,781,583 |
1,757,137 | Thus, Chairman Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai decided on July 14, 1967 to start China's own crewed space program. China first crewed spacecraft was named "Shuguang-1" (曙光一号) in January 1968. China's Space Medical Institute (航天医学工程研究所) was founded on April 1, 1968, where space medical research were conducted. The Central Mil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12230438 | 1,756,146 |
1,799,669 | In 1885, Wheeler returned to Milwaukee to teach German and physiology at a high school. At the time, George W. Peckham was the principal of the school, in which Wheeler and Peckham formed a close working relationship. Wheeler collaborated with some of Peckham's published papers by illustrating the palpi and epigynes of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=330863 | 1,798,660 |
983,259 | The Chinese practiced the oldest documented use of variolation, dating back to the fifteenth century. They implemented a method of "nasal insufflation" administered by blowing powdered smallpox material, usually scabs, up the nostrils. Various insufflation techniques have been recorded throughout the 16th and 17th cent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34062507 | 982,745 |
371,943 | Though the idea is controversial, some evidence suggests a link between aging and mitochondrial genome dysfunction. In essence, mutations in mtDNA upset a careful balance of reactive oxygen species (ROS) production and enzymatic ROS scavenging (by enzymes like superoxide dismutase, catalase, glutathione peroxidase and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89796 | 371,748 |
2,156,322 | The center's biofilm research program was established in the 1980s with a focus on environmental bioengineering, interdisciplinary investigation, and industrial participation. Faculty expertise from civil/environmental engineering, mathematics, microbiology, chemical and biological engineering, chemistry and biochemist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45523355 | 2,155,091 |
1,424,271 | The pion rocket has been studied independently by Robert Frisbee and Ulrich Walter, with similar results. Pions, short for pi-mesons, are produced by proton-antiproton annihilation. The antihydrogen or the antiprotons extracted from it will be mixed with a mass of regular protons pumped into the magnetic confinement no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=417815 | 1,423,469 |
1,721,302 | The theory was influenced by the work of proponents of Social Medicine in the 19th and early 20th centuries, such as Louis-René Villermé, Rudolf Virchow, Friedrich Engels, and Karl Marx; as well as by the more recent work of Social Production of Disease (SPD) theorists, including Sydenstricker, Goldberg, and Davey-Smit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38762727 | 1,720,332 |
2,060,143 | As the apiary became a research laboratory, classroom and an extension service to the state, the demand increased for these services and thus it became necessary to maintain additional hives. It is for these reasons that, in 1913, Dr. Gates hired John L. Byard as superintendent of the apiary. Some of Byard's responsibi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31274932 | 2,058,957 |
436,847 | Another issue that aerodynamic heating causes for aircraft design is the effect of high temperatures on common material properties. Common materials used in aircraft wing design, such as aluminum and steel, experience a decrease in strength as temperatures get extremely high. The Young's Modulus of the material, define... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1711063 | 436,633 |
1,701,490 | The mathematics and algorithm of the GOR method were based on an earlier series of studies by Robson and colleagues reported mainly in the "Journal of Molecular Biology" and "The Biochemical Journal". The latter describes the information theoretic expansions in terms of conditional information measures. The use of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8732281 | 1,700,535 |
1,937,538 | The numerical renormalization group is an inherently non-perturbative procedure, which was originally used to solve the Kondo model. The Kondo model is a simplified theoretical model which describes a system of magnetic spin-1/2 impurities which couple to metallic conduction electrons (e.g. iron impurities in gold). Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22426870 | 1,936,430 |
1,105,802 | After this moment, it would not be easy for APC/SPBC to convince both potential sponsors and Australian authorities about financial guarantees. Even with the political guarantee of support from the three spheres of government and the visit of the then President of the IPC, the Canadian Robert Stedwart during the inspec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=333674 | 1,105,239 |
87,312 | The question of who first tried cowpox inoculation/vaccination cannot be answered with certainty. Most, but still limited, information is available for Benjamin Jesty, Peter Plett and John Fewster. In 1774 Jesty, a farmer of Yetminster in Dorset, observing that the two milkmaids living with his family were immune to sm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61088 | 87,277 |
1,017,991 | Among the nine underground tests, which were carried between 1962 and 1969 and codenamed Anacostia (5.2 kilotons, 1962), Kennebec (<5 kilotons, 1963), Par (38 kilotons, 1964), Barbel (<20 kilotons, 1964), Tweed (<20 kilotons, 1965), Cyclamen (13 kilotons, 1966), Kankakee (20-200 kilotons, 1966), Vulcan (25 kilotons, 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10822 | 1,017,467 |
463,818 | In addition, there were many critics (with or without physical training) whose ideas were far outside the scientific mainstream. These critics were mostly people who had developed their ideas long before the publication of Einstein's version of relativity, and they tried to resolve in a straightforward manner some or a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30694430 | 463,588 |
201,009 | Per Georg Scheutz (1785–1873) was a Swedish lawyer, publicist and inventor who created the first working programmable difference engine with a printing unit. Martin Wiberg (1826–1905) was a prolific inventor who, among many things, created the first difference engine the size of the sewing machine that could calculate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17843 | 200,906 |
558,566 | Airborne bacteria are emitted by most Earth surfaces (plants, oceans, land, and urban areas) to the atmosphere via a variety of mechanical processes such as aeolian soil erosion, sea spray production, or mechanical disturbances including anthropogenic activities. Due to their relatively small size (the median aerodynam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1676889 | 558,277 |
101,408 | In June 2012, the case of H.K. Derryberry was reported, a blind 20-year-old man who could clearly recall every day of his life since the age of about 11. Derryberry had been born at 27 weeks, weighing just over and was in neonatal intensive care for 96 days. A severe brain hemorrhage was the likely cause of cerebral pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4476769 | 101,363 |
1,621,261 | With little money to spend, Burley played the markets and made two key free signings in Iñigo Idiakez and Grzegorz Rasiak. Idiakez was voted the club's Player of the Season and Rasiak finished top scorer (with 17 goals) as Derby confounded their form of the last 5 years to grab a fourth-placed finish in the newly rebra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33866257 | 1,620,346 |
1,952,055 | RHESSI is intended to image at high resolution solar flares in X-rays and gamma rays. The X-rays and gamma rays covers an energy range of 3 keV-20 MeV with an energy resolution of about 1 keV and a spatial resolution of just a few seconds of arc. The imaging is accomplished by a tube containing nine pairs (one behind t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1190663 | 1,950,934 |
1,801,327 | In October 2000, a committee of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) of the National Academy of Sciences was asked by the US Congress to review AVA according to the best available evidence. It issued its study in March 2002. The IOM panel noted that human data on inhalational anthrax prevention is limited due to the natural... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37488149 | 1,800,318 |
1,515,081 | "... we are running out of systematic palaeontologists who have anything approaching synoptic knowledge of a major group of organisms ... Palaeontologists of the next century are unlikely to have the luxury of dealing at length with taxonomic problems ... Palaeontology will have to sustain its level of excitement witho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9788270 | 1,514,230 |
1,018,051 | Western Electric and Alaska Freightlines, with the help of the United States Army Transportation Research and Development Command (TRADCOM), contracted to have a pair of off-road overland trains, the TC-264 Sno-Buggy, designed specifically for Arctic conditions, to be built by LeTourneau Technologies, owned by R. G. Le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=614142 | 1,017,527 |
1,215,332 | "H. maculosa" has a very short life span with a large importance placed on reproduction. The average life span of a southern blue ringed octopus is around seven months. The octopus reaches sexual maturity at around four months old, at which time it focuses its last few months of life towards copulation and breeding. Bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4279570 | 1,214,680 |
606,315 | Jose Rabasa, professor of Romance languages and Literatures at Harvard University, describes Columbus's journal as an accurate account of his journey, despite Columbus inaccurately reaching the East Indies. Rabasa characterizes Columbus's narrative of his discovery as picturesque and glorified, citing examples from Las... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47594693 | 606,005 |
1,990,778 | The historian and philosopher of science Ehud Lamm, on the book's reissue in 2010 for Darwin's bicentenary, writes that at almost 800 pages it was longer than the other "milestone" 1942 book on the modern synthesis, Ernst Mayr's "Systematics and the Origin of Species". Lamm calls it remarkable that both books were desc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4758816 | 1,989,635 |
827,896 | Capacitors, including film types, designed for continuous operation at low-frequency (50 or 60 Hz) mains voltage, typically between line and neutral or line and ground for interference suppression, are required to meet standard safety ratings; e.g., X2 is designed to operate between line and neutral at 200-240 VAC, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35034187 | 827,452 |
1,531,204 | Theoretical physicist Rainer Sachs from the University of California, Berkeley, observed that "The Large-Scale Structure of Space–Time" was published within just a few years as "Gravitation and Cosmology" by Steven Weinberg and "Gravitation" by Charles Misner, Kip Thorne, and John Archibald Wheeler. He believed these t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67229 | 1,530,338 |
492,182 | The first three Corporal battalions were activated in March 1952 with an Engineer-User launch program beginning in January 1953. In the same year the Corporal II system was sold to the United Kingdom. The extremely ambitious original goal of the Corporal program was to have 16 battalions of missiles deployed by July 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1956534 | 491,928 |
347,664 | University graduates include over 110 state and federal legislators, 70 federal judges, and numerous state supreme court justices, government officials, and ambassadors. Notable alumni include former acting United States Attorney General Sally Yates, Ertharin Cousin who was named to the "TIME" 100 most influential peop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378232 | 347,483 |
333,132 | The Economic and Risk Analysis Division (DERA) was created in September 2009 to integrate financial economics and rigorous data analytics into the core mission of the SEC. The Division is involved across the entire range of SEC activities, including policy-making, rule-making, enforcement, and examination. As the agenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55097 | 332,954 |
34,448 | While drawing inspiration from the defense in the Battle of Peleliu, Kuribayashi designed a defense that broke with Japanese military doctrine. Rather than establishing his defenses on the beach to face the landings directly, he created strong mutually-supporting defenses in depth by using static and heavy weapons such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60027 | 34,436 |
1,845,007 | In 1954 Womersley left BTM and joined a research team, led by Donald McDonald at St Bartholomew's Hospital, who were studying blood flow in arteries. This change seems to have been a temporary arrangement to 'fill in time whilst awaiting completion of arrangements to come to WADC' (the Wright Air Development Center, Da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25679436 | 1,843,952 |
479,983 | The Joseon government also subsidized the agricultural industry and land reclamation projects to increase food production – the growing of rice, barley, buckwheat, beans, ginseng, cotton and potatoes. Accompanying the agriculturally based prosperity came with the increased use of irrigation and a modern monetary econom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16234875 | 479,741 |
141,472 | Seth MacFarlane had met Druyan through Tyson at the 2008 kickoff event for the Science & Entertainment Exchange, a new Los Angeles office of the National Academy of Sciences, designed to connect Hollywood writers and directors with scientists. A year later, at a 2009 lunch in New York City with Tyson, MacFarlane learne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35777337 | 141,414 |
1,083,246 | British pilots who tested a captured Bf 109 E-3 liked the engine and throttle response, the docile and responsive handling and stall characteristics at low speeds, but criticised the high-speed handling characteristics (in part due to the automatic wing slats opening), poorer turning circle (850 ft as opposed to 680 ft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24239523 | 1,082,689 |
349,379 | Louis Kahn (1901–74) was another American architect who moved away from the Mies van der Rohe model of the glass box, and other dogmas of the prevailing international style. He borrowed from a wide variety of styles, and idioms, including neoclassicism. He was a professor of architecture at Yale University from 1947 to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315927 | 349,196 |
152,657 | The Neotropical realm was affected by the fact that South America had been isolated as an island continent for many millions of years, and had a wide range of fauna found nowhere else, although many of them became extinct during the Great American Interchange about 3 million years ago, such as the "Sparassodonta" famil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18783051 | 152,589 |
1,023,624 | The third area discussed in "Animal Chemistry" was fermentation and putrefaction. Liebig proposed chemical explanations for processes such as eremacausis (organic decomposition), describing the rearrangement of atoms as a result of unstable "affinities" reacting to external causes such as air or already decaying substa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16024 | 1,023,091 |
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