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1,960,583 | Reflecting its role as a core clock protein, deletion of the "frq" gene results in arrhythmicity, and in "Neurospora", the only function of FRQ is in the circadian clock. The "frq" gene can be activated from two distinct cis-acting sequences in its promoter, a distal site, the clock-box, used in the context of circadia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39055192 | 1,959,456 |
1,458,679 | The mechanism of the SBTS is similar to the Tn5 transposon system, however the enzyme and gene sequences are eukaryotic in nature as opposed to prokaryotic. The system's tranposase can act in "trans" as well as in "cis", allowing a diverse collection of transposon structures. The transposon itself is flanked by inverte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17030615 | 1,457,859 |
705,960 | Occupational noise exposure is the main risk factor for work-related hearing loss. One study examined hearing test results obtained between 2000 and 2008 for workers ages 18–65 who had a higher occupational noise exposure than the average worker. Of the sample taken, 18% of the workers had hearing loss. Of the occupati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6894544 | 705,591 |
703,773 | The force flexibility that underlies this command style poses particular challenges once this new, task-oriented formation is created. The creation of combined-arms forces poses particular challenges to command, especially if they are attached during a battle. To this end (in and before WW2) the German General Staff cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1960159 | 703,405 |
1,296,363 | A newer, non-rule based form of A.I. for security called "behavioral analytics" has been developed. This software is fully self-learning with no initial programming input by the user or security contractor. In this type of analytics, the A.I. learns what is normal behaviour for people, vehicles, machines, and the envir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48653319 | 1,295,652 |
157,607 | For the average woman, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends (2016) mammography every two years between the ages of 50 and 74, concluding that "the benefit of screening mammography outweighs the harms by at least a moderate amount from age 50 to 74 years and is greatest for women in their 60s". The America... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=262039 | 157,535 |
582,572 | The biological carbon pump is one of the chief determinants of the vertical distribution of carbon in the oceans and therefore of the surface partial pressure of CO governing air-sea CO exchange. It comprises phytoplankton cells, their consumers and the bacteria that assimilate their waste and plays a central role in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240228 | 582,274 |
335,513 | The principle of liquid-crystal display (LCD) technology relies on the rotation of the axis of linear polarization by the liquid crystal array. Light from the backlight (or the back reflective layer, in devices not including or requiring a backlight) first passes through a linear polarizing sheet. That polarized light ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41564 | 335,335 |
2,096,016 | From the 1920s, thanks to scholarships awarded by the , a large number of Spanish physicists and chemists had travelled abroad and renowned scientists had visited Spain, including Urbain, Fourneau, Fabry, Perrin, Fajans, Sabatier, Ostwald, Mme. Curie, Einstein, Scherrer, Weiss, Sommerfeld, and many others. Furthermore,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60132162 | 2,094,808 |
1,933,728 | Sarah Tishkoff participated in the first study on variability in PTC taste perception. PTC is the bitter antithyroid compound phenylthiocarbamide, and the ability to perceive this compound is attributed to the gene "TAS2R38". "TAS2R38" is hypothesized to underlie a dietary adaptation that allows for avoidance of bitter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58971746 | 1,932,620 |
2,114,359 | Siepel has worked on various problems at the intersection of computer science, statistics, evolutionary biology, and genomics. At Los Alamos National Laboratory, he developed phylogenetic methods for detecting recombinant strains of HIV, and at the National Center for Genome Resources, he led the development of ISYS, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35487183 | 2,113,144 |
741,418 | Debates over the identity of "Helicoprion"'s tooth whorl were abundant in the years following Karpinsky's monograph. In 1900, the publication was reviewed by Charles Eastman, who appreciated the paper as a whole but derided the sketch of the supposed life position of the whorl. Though Eastman admitted that the teeth of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1856394 | 741,026 |
1,951,255 | Surgical treatment is best, when it can be performed. Pressure within the portal vein is measured as the shunt is closed, and it must be kept below 20 cm HO or else portal hypertension will ensue. Methods of shunt attenuation should aim to slowly occlude the vessel over several weeks to months in order to avoid complic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68595657 | 1,950,134 |
2,002,044 | In 1988, Hubbard Brook was designated by the National Science Foundation as an LTER, a site for collaborative long term ecological research. In 2005, Hubbard Brook celebrated 50 years of research at the site. Likens' work in the area is considered "one of the world’s most comprehensive studies on how air pollution and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3782916 | 2,000,896 |
181,088 | While the first experimental pressurization systems saw use during the 1920s and 1930s, it was not until 1940 that a commercial aircraft would enter service with a pressurized cabin, when the Boeing 307 Stratoliner joined the Transcontinental & Western Air and Pan American Airways fleets. The practice would become wide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1488888 | 180,994 |
1,945,464 | "P. yonahlossee" can be found in the southern Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Tennessee, western North Carolina, and small portions of southwest Virginia. Specifically, they have been located in Avery, Yancey, and Rutherford Counties in North Carolina; Rocky Fork State Park & Limestone Cove in Unicoi County, Tennessee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12403981 | 1,944,352 |
677,460 | Von Guericke was the offspring of one of Magdeburg's leading patrician families, that were well educated and well connected. His father and grandfather had been life-long members of the city council and at various occasions during their careers been appointed to serve as mayor of the city. In 1626 Otto von Guericke sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49828 | 677,107 |
1,026,301 | Estimates of the minimum reasonable population for a generation ship vary. Anthropologist John Moore has estimated that, without genetic testing of people before boarding the ship, social control and / or social engineering (such as requiring people to wait until their thirties to have children), nor cryopreservation o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=85620 | 1,025,767 |
1,176,143 | One unique property of dendrimers such as PAMAM is the high density of surface functional groups, which allow many alterations to be made to the surface of each dendrimer molecule. In putative PAMAM dendrimers, the surface is rife with primary amines, with higher generations expressing exponentially greater densities o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41237117 | 1,175,521 |
254,150 | With Truman as president, men like John R. Steelman, who was appointed chairman of the President's Scientific Research Board in October 1946, came to prominence. Bush's authority, both among scientists and politicians, suffered a rapid decline, though he remained a revered figure. In September 1949, he was appointed to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32767 | 254,017 |
1,405,860 | From the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century, there was increasing reference to ancient disease, initially within prehistoric animals although later the importance of studying the antiquity of human disease began to be emphasized. Some historians and anthropologists theorize that "Johann Friederich Esper, a Germa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2212957 | 1,405,070 |
1,516,779 | Augusto Bonazzi (Rome, December 1890 – Caracas, March 1974). Bonazzi studied chemistry in the Universities of Naples and Earth Sciences in University of Rome. From 1911 to 1924 he worked as researcher at Wooster Experimental Agricultural Station in Ohio, United States. In 1926 moved to Havana (Cuba) and became director... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,927 |
1,516,825 | (El Tocuyo, Lara State, September 19, 1858 – Valencia, Carabobo state, April 10, 1929). Venezuelan physician, naturalist, historian, linguist and philologist. This eminent scientist overcome his poverty and, in 1888, managed to graduate of doctor in the Central University of Venezuela. He then began a professional care... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,973 |
1,453,806 | Practical engineering designs must first take into account safety as the primary goal. All designs should incorporate passive cooling in combination with refractory materials to prevent melting and reconfiguration of fissionables into geometries capable of un-intentional criticality. Blanket layers of Lithium bearing c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20766780 | 1,452,989 |
706,993 | The L-39 Albatros was designed during the 1960s as a replacement for the Aero L-29 Delfín as a principal training aircraft. Several specialised variants of the base L-39 design were quickly introduced. In 1972, a purpose-built target tug variant, the L-39V, conducted its initial flight. During 1975, the first "L-39ZO" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=493754 | 706,624 |
1,590,351 | The village plan initially called for a village of 6,500 people, expandable up to 7,500, based on the assumption that 30 to 40 percent of the operating employees would live in the surrounding communities. The inability of those communities to absorb the numbers soon became apparent, and in September 1943 the size of Ri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72002318 | 1,589,457 |
232,938 | High tariffs had always been Republican Party orthodoxy. However, the western elements wanted lower tariffs on industrial products while keeping rates high on farm products. Democrats had a powerful campaign issue to the effect that high tariffs enriched big business and hurt consumers; they wanted to sharply lower rat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3520221 | 232,819 |
387,192 | Historically, Bentham (1877), considered the monocots to consist of four alliances, Epigynae, Coronariae, Nudiflorae and Glumales, based on floral characteristics. He describes the attempts to subdivide the group since the days of Lindley as largely unsuccessful. Like most subsequent classification systems it failed to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55625 | 386,997 |
1,267,410 | Referring to Fig. 1, key optical components were mounted within vacuum chamber "V" on a fused quartz base of extremely low coefficient of thermal expansion. A water jacket "W" kept the temperature regulated to within 0.001 °C. Monochromatic green light from a mercury source "Hg" passed through a Nicol polarizing prism ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=262824 | 1,266,720 |
448,627 | In 1936, Mark Oliphant was appointed the professor of physics at the University of Birmingham, and he approached Peierls about a new chair in applied mathematics that he was creating there. (Applied mathematics being what would today be called theoretical physics.) Peierls got the job despite competition from Harrie Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1024759 | 448,409 |
1,534,943 | The original technique of foldforming was originated and developed in the late 1980s by Charles Lewton-Brain, an English-born goldsmith who lived and studied in Tanzania, the United States, and Germany before moving to Canada. Outside of the Industrial Revolution, the method represents the first major innovation in met... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5977142 | 1,534,075 |
983,123 | Economists including Larry Summers have advised a package of measures may be needed. He advised vigorous cooperative efforts to address the "myriad devices" – such as tax havens, bank secrecy, money laundering, and regulatory arbitrage – which enable the holders of great wealth to avoid paying taxes, and to make it mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32040137 | 982,609 |
1,414,558 | The enforced flatback airfoils are based on Kline–Fogleman airfoils, which have been subdivided into 12 sub-classifications on the inside. The Kline–Fogleman airfoil, sometimes known as the KF airfoil, is a basic airfoil with one or more steps along the length of the wing. In the early 1960s, a series of KF airfoils we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26794949 | 1,413,761 |
848,670 | Human preferences toward things in nature, while refined through experience and culture, are hypothetically the product of biological evolution. For example, adult mammals (especially humans) are generally attracted to baby mammal faces and find them appealing across species. The large eyes and small features of any yo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=189429 | 848,220 |
511,652 | Another serious obstacle encountered in river engineering consists in the large quantity of detritus they bring down in flood-time, derived mainly from the disintegration of the surface layers of the hills and slopes in the upper parts of the valleys by glaciers, frost and rain. The power of a current to transport mate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3966984 | 511,386 |
1,941,474 | Since characterization, the development of synthetic pathways to histrionicotoxin has been of interest to research groups due to its unusual functionality. The Kishi group proposed the first total synthesis of the parent 283A in 1985 using 89, a previously synthesized lactam used for the synthesis of other variants. Tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18630707 | 1,940,363 |
1,851,685 | The new journal had an ambitious program. As the Editor-in-Chief wrote in his first editorial:Right from the beginning we are emphasising the international and multilingual nature of this publication as well as the variety of the aspects of neurology which we hope to cover. ... "World Neurology"… requests review papers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55384832 | 1,850,624 |
948,057 | Owing to a limited literature on the subject, birds are believed to have very limited regenerative abilities as adults. Some studies on roosters have suggested that birds can adequately regenerate some parts of the limbs and depending on the conditions in which regeneration takes place, such as age of the animal, the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=854081 | 947,553 |
1,624,431 | In the 2000s, Kitaev was transferred to serve his sentence at the Torbeevsky Central Colony in Mordovia. During his imprisonment, he was described as a troublesome prisoner who would be repeatedly penalized for violating the rules. In 2010, under unclear circumstances, Kitaev suffered a spinal fracture with injuries to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66857982 | 1,623,515 |
1,471,993 | In the case of amoeboid migration, malignant tumor cells have been demonstrated to have a round or elliptical shape (Fig. 1). Amoeboid cells are characterized by fast deformability, adaption of their shapes to existing structures of the surrounding extracellular matrix, and penetration through them via narrow spaces in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58886026 | 1,471,164 |
630,277 | Meditation has been found to decrease mind wandering and allows the brain to fully focus on challenging tasks for longer periods of time without getting distracted. This is due to an increased ability to reduce activity in the default mode network when focusing on a particular task. Non-directive forms of meditation wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9578417 | 629,939 |
1,933,370 | Typical measurements of SHG from crystalline surfaces structures are performed by rotating the sample in an incident beam (Figure 1). The second harmonic signal will vary with the azimuth angle of the sample due to the symmetry of the atomic and electronic structure (Figure 2). As a result, surface SHG theory is highly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13752102 | 1,932,262 |
1,457,816 | Immediately prior to target introduction, the single stranded oligonucleotide library is often heated and cooled slowly to renature oligonucleotides into thermodynamically stable secondary and tertiary structures. Once prepared, the randomized library is incubated with immobilized target to allow oligonucleotide-target... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8028338 | 1,456,996 |
1,968,855 | At the time of his retirement from Guy's Hospital in 1925, Fripp was a famous personage in London and environs: when he died in 1930, he was a household name throughout the Empire. In 1924, he performed life-prolonging abdominal surgery on a patient called Bert Temple. Bert formed Ye Ancient Order of Froth Blowers in o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3581938 | 1,967,721 |
796,750 | Furrow irrigation is conducted by creating small parallel channels along the length of the field parallel to the direction of its predominant slope. Water is applied to the top end of each furrow and flows down the field under the influence of gravity. Water may be supplied using gated pipe, siphon and head ditch, or b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17588855 | 796,325 |
134,138 | There was controversy when the public learned that the project had allowed an injured member to leave and return, carrying new material inside. The team claimed the only new supplies brought in were plastic bags, but others accused them of bringing food and other items. More criticism was raised when it was learned tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216362 | 134,083 |
1,748,381 | In early 1960 Air Force offered a development contract to build a spaceplane with a crew of three that could take off from any runway and fly directly into orbit and return. They wanted the design to be in operation in 1970 for a total development cost of only $5 billion. Boeing, Douglas, Convair, Lockheed, Goodyear, N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2218788 | 1,747,395 |
1,280,834 | Darwin thought that the possibility of a common ancestor of "mammalia & fish" could not be ruled out when such strange forms as the platypus existed. The unique plants and animals on the Galápagos islands sharing features with mainland American species, while wandering birds such as sandpipers were unchanged, showed th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1632764 | 1,280,139 |
1,822,606 | This section amends the Energy Policy Act of 2005 in which it adds a new subsection. The Secretary is required to carry out a program to competitively award cash prizes to advance the research, development, demonstration and commercial application of hydrogen energy technologies. The prize competitions are to be widely... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30832113 | 1,821,568 |
317,622 | Researchers from Michigan State University have teamed up with others from the Universities of Minnesota, Guelph, and Wisconsin, and others in a research effort into newly synthesized pheromones. These are believed to have independent influences on the sea lamprey behavior. One group of pheromones serves a migratory fu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1202733 | 317,452 |
566,943 | The game received several pieces of merchandise, including clothing, a Funko Pop, and a replica of Ellie's guitar. Sony also released PlayStation 4 hardware and accessories branded with the game's logo and art, including a PlayStation 4 Pro, DualShock 4 controller, wireless headset, and Seagate hard drive. "The Art of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64504979 | 566,653 |
228,302 | Line-field confocal optical coherence tomography (LC-OCT) is an imaging technique based on the principle of time-domain OCT with line illumination using a broadband laser and line detection using a line-scan camera. LC-OCT produces B-scans in real-time from multiple A-scans acquired in parallel. En face as well as thre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=628583 | 228,185 |
285,765 | On the other hand, in the late 1980s the Western Atlantic ctenophore "Mnemiopsis leidyi" was accidentally introduced into the Black Sea and Sea of Azov via the ballast tanks of ships, and has been blamed for causing sharp drops in fish catches by eating both fish larvae and small crustaceans that would otherwise feed t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62251 | 285,611 |
1,929,717 | Neuroplasticity refers to the ability of the brain to undergo synaptic rearrangement as a response to recurring stimuli. Neurotrophin proteins play a major role in synaptic rearrangement, amongst other factors. Depletion of neurotrophin BDNF or BDNF signaling is one of the main factors in developing diseases such as Al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51304858 | 1,928,610 |
596,402 | Silver nanoparticles can undergo coating techniques that offer a uniform functionalized surface to which substrates can be added. When the nanoparticle is coated, for example, in silica the surface exists as silicic acid. Substrates can thus be added through stable ether and ester linkages that are not degraded immedia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23891367 | 596,097 |
17,550 | Berkeley alumni have developed a number of key technologies associated with the personal computer and the Internet. Unix was created by alumnus Ken Thompson (BS 1965, MS 1966) along with colleague Dennis Ritchie. Alumni such as L. Peter Deutsch (PhD 1973), Butler Lampson (PhD 1967), and Charles P. Thacker (BS 1967) wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31922 | 17,544 |
844,785 | Besides mercury vapor, the lamp contains iodides or bromides of different metals. Iodine and bromine are of the halogen group of the periodic table, and so are termed "halides" when ionized. Scandium and sodium are also used in some types, with thallium, indium, and sodium in European "Tri-Salt" models. Dysprosium used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1289944 | 844,335 |
2,170,711 | The Namche Barwa-Gayla Peri tectonic aneurysm is located on the Eastern side of the Himalaya with the active Tsangpo River flowing down the valley between the mountains. Many researchers conclude the tectonic aneurysm model is the best explanation of the observed structures and tectonic arrangement of the region. The a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33737566 | 2,169,473 |
701,886 | Historically, reforested mining sites have been characterized by seedling mortality, slow growth and poor production. Challenges associated with returning forests to their pre-mining state enabled grassland conversion to become standard. The Appalachian Regional Reforestation Initiative (ARRI), established in 2004, wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1685995 | 701,521 |
1,242,254 | Nova's partial success, combined with other experimental numbers, prompted Department of Energy to request a custom military ICF facility they called the "Laboratory Microfusion Facility" (LMF) that could achieve fusion yield between 100 and 1000 MJ. Based on the LASNEX computer models, it was estimated that LMF would ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2700382 | 1,241,582 |
87,964 | It was not until the middle of the 20th century that the wider medical community started to recognize and promote artificial ventilation in the form of mouth-to-mouth resuscitation combined with chest compressions as a key part of resuscitation following cardiac arrest. The combination was first seen in a 1962 training... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66392 | 87,929 |
1,563,827 | From the late Devonian to the end of the Permian ending in the Paleozoic era the Variscan Orogeny occurred. The super continents of Gondwanaland and Laurussia collided creating an extensive mountain range just east of the pre-existing Caledonian mountains and creating Pangea the super continent at the end of the Varisc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45343728 | 1,562,940 |
2,087,034 | From the InSAR side, signal delay caused by variations of tropospheric properties in space and time is the source of major challenges for InSAR technique. In other words, tropospheric perturbation, caused by the differences in relative humidity, temperature, and pressure in the lower part of the troposphere between two... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71698021 | 2,085,832 |
1,733,903 | After the Balfour declaration by Great Britain in 1917 and the award of the mandate to Palestine by the League of Nations to Britain, the Jewish Agency established in 1921 the Agricultural Experiment Station. Their mission was to conduct research leading to small farms with intensive agriculture, specializing in mixed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6570637 | 1,732,926 |
1,701,559 | Histidine kinases (HK) are multifunctional, and in non-animal kingdoms, typically transmembrane, proteins of the transferase class of enzymes that play a role in signal transduction across the cellular membrane. The vast majority of HKs are homodimers that exhibit autokinase, phosphotransfer, and phosphatase activity. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14678550 | 1,700,604 |
1,285,716 | In military aviation, the fast all-metal monoplane emerged slowly. During the 1920s the high-wing parasol monoplane vied with the traditional biplane. It was not until the arrival of the American Boeing P-26 Peashooter in 1932 — nearly fifteen years after the first low-wing fighter to enter limited military service, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5887363 | 1,285,015 |
1,849,738 | In 1981 Horn had visited Stanford University, where he met Andy Bechtolsheim, inventor of the Stanford University Network (SUN) workstation, and Bill Joy, and when they later went on to co-found Sun Microsystems, he began to talk to fellow academics about starting their own venture. Eventually, in 1991, Horn, Sean Bake... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67405247 | 1,848,680 |
1,017,858 | As part of this update, officially known as the TJ MY02 series, side impact bars previously fitted only to export models were also introduced for Australian market cars, and the front doors now featured energy absorbing material. The Magna Executive received ABS and power windows as standard, while the Advance, Sports ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=903910 | 1,017,334 |
555,965 | With continuing experience, particularly on the upper continental slope in the Gulf of Mexico, the successful prediction of the presence of tubeworm communities continues to improve, however chemosynthetic communities cannot be reliably detected directly using geophysical techniques. Hydrocarbon seeps that allow chemos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=400223 | 555,676 |
1,411,417 | In 1995 the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy announced that it intended to resume the construction of Cuba’s reactors in 1998 with financing provided by an international consortium involving Siemens, Ansaldo and Électricité de France. However, the aforementioned companies dismissed the claims and it was reported that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16698665 | 1,410,624 |
1,119,755 | Widespread interest in ptychography only started after the first demonstration of iterative phase-retrieval X-ray ptychography in 2007 at the Swiss Light Source (SLS). Progress at X-ray wavelengths was then quick. By 2010, the SLS had developed X-ray ptychotomography, now a major application of the technique. Thibault,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19397346 | 1,119,182 |
559,003 | The pair had started to fully explore ambient music after Hedberg's sister had picked up "Orgship" (1994) by Solar Quest, which quickly became a favourite of theirs and influenced the two to make similar music. The electronic bands The Future Sound of London and Boards of Canada were also a big influence on them; Seger... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11299765 | 558,714 |
520,773 | The species was originally described from Sweden as "Helvella mesenterica" by the naturalist Jacob Christian Schäffer in 1774. Valid description was provided by Anders Jahan Retzius in 1769. It was later (1822) sanctioned by Elias Magnus Fries in the second volume of his "Systema Mycologicum". It is the type species of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3784638 | 520,502 |
525,727 | Standard 6-dot braille only provides 63 distinct characters (not including the space character), and thus, over the years a number of distinct rule-sets have been developed to represent literary text, mathematics, scientific material, computer software, the @ symbol used in email addresses, and other varieties of writt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1845709 | 525,454 |
338,935 | Optical holography needs a laser light to record the light field. In its early days, holography required high-power and expensive lasers, but currently, mass-produced low-cost laser diodes, such as those found on DVD recorders and used in other common applications, can be used to make holograms and have made holography... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66338 | 338,755 |
505,711 | In March 2021, 17 students were accused of cheating on remote exams held during the COVID-19 pandemic. Following an audit by university technical teams, the students were alleged to have accessed content related to exam questions using the university's learning management system, Canvas. Students, faculty, and independ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=981603 | 505,448 |
958,004 | The XM25 began as an offshoot of the Objective Individual Combat Weapon program that started in the late 1990s. The U.S. Army Research Laboratory was the technical lead for the Program Manager Soldier Weapons, who worked on the development of the XM25 25 mm individual air burst weapon system. The system was designed to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1608120 | 957,498 |
1,568,828 | After returning to Berkeley, Kamen met two Russian officials at a party given by his friend, the violinist Isaac Stern, whom he sometimes accompanied as a viola player in social evenings of chamber music. The Russians were Grigory Kheifets and Grigory Kasparov, posted as undercover KGB officers in the Soviet Union's Sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146252 | 1,567,941 |
136,304 | Chandrasekhar was tutored at home until the age of 12. In middle school his father taught him mathematics and physics and his mother taught him Tamil. He later attended the Hindu High School, Triplicane, Madras during the years 1922–25. Subsequently, he studied at Presidency College, Madras (affiliated to the Universit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145319 | 136,249 |
2,170,869 | As autoimmunity and organ transplant rejection are inextricably linked to T-cell activation and differentiation, it is apposite that T-cells are the primary target of modern tolerance induction strategies. Current strategies for the treatment of T-cell mediated pathologies employ long-term, broad immunosuppressive drug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28353188 | 2,169,631 |
1,792,133 | Dentists are at the top of the working groups who have a high risk of exposure to COVID-19. SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, remains stable in aerosols for several hours. The Virus is viable for hours in aerosols and for few days on surfaces, hence the transmission of SARS-CoV-2 is feasible through aerosols and also ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56331432 | 1,791,126 |
1,214,021 | By 1943 "Dolphin" was thoroughly worn out and badly in need of a modernization. Her age and basic limitations argued against the time-consuming and costly work, so for most of 1943 she was used in training operations at Pearl Harbor. A shipyard inspection showed that she was suffering badly from rusting and corrosion i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=207419 | 1,213,369 |
951,468 | A 2001 study comparing the populations of Mediterranean Europe and Turkic-speaking peoples of Central Asia estimated the Central Asian genetic contribution to current Anatolian Y-chromosome loci (one binary and six short tandem repeat) and mitochondrial DNA gene pool to be roughly 30%. A 2004 high-resolution SNP analys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27234935 | 950,963 |
130,909 | Prior to World War 2, the only practical sources of radiation for radiotherapy were radium, its "emanation", radon gas, and the X-ray tube. External beam radiotherapy (teletherapy) began at the turn of the century with relatively low voltage (<150 kV) X-ray machines. It was found that while superficial tumors could be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26350 | 130,857 |
684,699 | Coniine is a poisonous chemical compound, an alkaloid present in and isolable from poison hemlock ("Conium maculatum"), where its presence has been a source of significant economic, medical, and historico-cultural interest; coniine is also produced by the yellow pitcher plant ("Sarracenia flava"), and fool's parsley ("... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=603468 | 684,342 |
940,219 | On 5 September 1939 the Cipher Bureau began preparations to evacuate key personnel and equipment from Warsaw. Soon a special evacuation train, the Echelon F, transported them eastward, then south. By the time the Cipher Bureau was ordered to cross the border into allied Romania on 17 September, they had destroyed all s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4349420 | 939,718 |
94,519 | In humans, cells with location-specific firing patterns have been reported during a study of patients with drug-resistant epilepsy. They were undergoing an invasive procedure to localize the source of their seizures, with a view to surgical resection. The patients had diagnostic electrodes implanted in their hippocampu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53948 | 94,478 |
773,694 | Sweet chestnut is suited for human nutrition. Most sweet chestnut is consumed in processed form, which has an impact on the nutrient composition. Its naturally high concentration of organic acids is a key factor influencing the organoleptic characteristics of fruits and vegetables, namely flavor. Organic acids are thou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=437956 | 773,278 |
575,222 | STScI is responsible for developing, enhancing, and maintaining most of the ground systems used to carry out our Hubble science operations described above. These systems originally (1980s, early 1990s) came from several sources, including in-house STScI developments and work done under NASA contracts with various vendo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177098 | 574,928 |
278,077 | The student takes the master's degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences (equivalent to the PharmD program) in one of the nine Pharmacy faculties with their own respective numerous clausus which comprises a six-year rigorous study (5 with the uniformities in EU teaching). Finished the degree, the academic title of Doctor of Ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=707762 | 277,927 |
1,642,763 | The main precursor to the faculty was the Central Technical College, which was founded by the City and Guilds of London Institute, opening in 1884. The institute was founded after a meeting at Mansion House by the city livery companies in July, 1876. The Prince of Wales laid the foundation stone for the college in 1881... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26242551 | 1,641,836 |
999,405 | The group 8 elements show a distinctive oxide chemistry. All the lighter members have known or hypothetical tetroxides, MO. Their oxidizing power decreases as one descends the group. FeO is not known due to its extraordinarily large electron affinity—the amount of energy released when an electron is added to a neutral ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13764 | 998,887 |
1,800,133 | Henry Edwards was born to Hannah and Thomas Edwards (c. 1794–1857) at Brook House in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, England, on 27 August 1827, and was christened on 14 September. From his older brother William, he picked up an interest in examining insects. He collected butterflies as a hobby, and studied them under the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23711726 | 1,799,124 |
682,780 | This field was formed largely based upon Luria's books and writings on neuropsychology integrated during his experiences during the war years and later periods. In the area of child neuropsychology, "The need for its creation was dictated by the fact that children with localized brain damage were found to reveal specif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=389738 | 682,424 |
1,726,532 | The isolation and the sequencing of "N. maritimuss genome have allowed to extend the insight into the physiology of the organisms belonging to the Nitrososphaerota group. "N. maritimus" was the first Archaeon with an ammonia oxidizing metabolism"' to be studied. This organism is common in the marine environment especia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12918181 | 1,725,561 |
427,410 | Mathematically, this implies "n" < 1, because the rays follow the shortest path and hence in theory create a perfect concealment. In practice, a certain amount of acceptable visibility occurs, as noted above. The range of the refractive index of the dielectric (optical material) needs to be across a wide spectrum to ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25560578 | 427,200 |
629,389 | At the request of the French Air Staff, the French aircraft company SNCASO also developed its own point defence interceptor, the SNCASO Trident. It was primarily powered by a single SEPR-built rocket engine and augmented with a set of wing-tip mounted turbojet engines; operationally, both rocket and turbojet engines we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=977522 | 629,051 |
631,691 | An autosomal recessive disorder of sex development, described as pseudovaginal perineoscrotal hypospadias (PPSH), was discovered in males in 1961. The main feature of this syndrome was female appearing external genitalia with the presence of bilateral testes and male urogenital tracts in which the ejaculatory ducts ter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36202 | 631,353 |
597,598 | Studies concerning transgenerational epigenetic inheritance in plants have been reported as early as the 1950s. One of the earliest and best characterized examples of this is b1 paramutation in maize. The b1 gene encodes a basic helix-loop-helix transcription factor that is involved in the anthocyanin production pathwa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31182307 | 597,293 |
2,070,992 | Gianola was born in Montevideo on 16 May 1947. His father, Gorgias Gianola, was an MIT graduate in mechanical engineering as well as a musician; his mother, Alondra Barberia (known as Alondra Alzua), was a producer of television and radio programs in Uruguay. Gianola spent long periods at the family farm in Melo, Urugu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56448818 | 2,069,801 |
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