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1,327,275 | The mineral industry of Kazakhstan is one of the most competitive and fastest growing sectors of the country. Kazakhstan ranks second to Russia among the countries of the CIS in its quantity of mineral production. It is endowed with large reserves of a wide range of metallic ores, industrial minerals, and fuels, and it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17967709 | 1,326,548 |
774,066 | A 2017 study by researchers from Northwestern University unveiled a mutation among the Old Order Amish living in Berne, Indiana, that suppressed their chances of having diabetes and extends their life expectancy by about ten years on average. That mutation occurred in the gene called Serpine1, which codes for the produ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54472601 | 773,650 |
773,989 | Meropenem is the preferred antibiotic therapy for neurological melioidosis and those with septic shock admitted into intensive care units. Co-trimoxazole is recommended in addition to ceftazidime for neurological melioidosis, osteomyelitis, septic arthritis, skin and gastrointestinal infection, and deeply seated absces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=471444 | 773,573 |
238,791 | David Watt also analyzes exception handling in the framework of sequencers (introduced in this article in the previous section on early exits.) Watt notes that an abnormal situation (generally exemplified with arithmetic overflows or input/output failures like file not found) is a kind of error that "is detected in som... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27695 | 238,671 |
164,383 | The boulders were transported over from the source of the stone. The exact method of transportation of such large masses of rock are unknown, especially since the Olmecs lacked beasts of burden and functional wheels, and they were likely to have used water transport whenever possible. Coastal currents of the Gulf of Me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35721801 | 164,298 |
624,959 | The atomic theory of matter had been proposed again in the early 19th century by the chemist John Dalton and became one of the hypotheses of the kinetic-molecular theory of gases developed by Clausius and James Clerk Maxwell to explain the laws of thermodynamics. The kinetic theory in turn led to the statistical mechan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56661172 | 624,626 |
245,696 | After separating from the command module in lunar orbit, the LM "Antares" had two serious problems. First, the LM computer began getting an ABORT signal from a faulty switch. NASA believed the computer might be getting erroneous readings like this if a tiny ball of solder had shaken loose and was floating between the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1968 | 245,569 |
1,959,787 | UFM1 shares several common properties with ubiquitin (Ub) and the other ubiquitin-like proteins (UBLs). Ufm1 has similar tertiary structure to Ub but lacks any obvious sequence similarity. It is synthesized as an inactive precursor form (pro-Ufm1) which has 2 additional amino acids beyond the conserved glycine. The mec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15348981 | 1,958,660 |
1,042,060 | Turing's report on the ACE was written in late 1945 and included detailed logical circuit diagrams and a cost estimate of £11,200. He felt that speed and size of memory were crucial and he proposed a high-speed memory of what would today be called 25 kilobytes, accessed at a speed of 1 MHz; he remarked that for the pur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=988735 | 1,041,517 |
1,854,480 | The secondary chemicals produced by endophytic fungi when associated with their host plants can be very harmful to mammals including livestock and humans, causing more than 600 million dollars in losses due to dead livestock every year. For example, the ergot alkaloids produced by Claviceps spp. have been dangerous con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31533830 | 1,853,414 |
721,909 | Economists have come up with many ideas to answer the above question. The one which currently dominates the academic literature on real business cycle theory was introduced by Finn E. Kydland and Edward C. Prescott in their 1982 work "Time to Build And Aggregate Fluctuations". They envisioned this factor to be technolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29815196 | 721,529 |
2,170,183 | Ultrasonic testing (UT) can offer detailed NDT information for welded thermoplastic composites. Tests can be done with shear wave or transverse waves, though the composite materials often attenuate the signals significantly and care must be taken to account for this. Contact methods using either manual or automated tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56316763 | 2,168,945 |
723,273 | He began working on it in 1912, after he had realized that "most of meteorology is nothing but a collection of innumerable empirical findings, mainly numerical data, with traces of physics used to explain some of them... Mathematics was even less applied, nothing more than elementary calculus... Advanced mathematics ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=150014 | 722,893 |
283,581 | A space settlement would set a precedent that would raise numerous socio-political questions. The mere construction of the needed infrastructure presents a daunting set of technological and economic challenges. Space settlements are generally conceived as organizational and material structures that have to provide for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29248 | 283,428 |
298,140 | Constructivism asks why students do not learn deeply by listening to a teacher, or reading from a textbook. To design effective teaching environments, it believes one needs a good understanding of what children already know when they come into the classroom. The curriculum should be designed in a way that builds on the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17994 | 297,980 |
1,889,581 | Washington State communities have integrated OCL into educational efforts in innovative ways. For instance, Bellevue College, Washington, the state's largest community college, with help with a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, purchased 500 inexpensive netbook laptop computers in November 2011 for its stude... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42174228 | 1,888,498 |
1,968,279 | Letters in winter 1966 from W.A. Fowler unexpectedly invited Clayton to return to Caltech in order to coauthor a book on nucleosynthesis with Fowler and Fred Hoyle. In his autobiography Clayton quotes these letters. He accepted that offer but the book was never written because while he was resident at Caltech Clayton w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36061850 | 1,967,149 |
559,072 | Studies of the brain became more sophisticated after the invention of the microscope and the development of a staining procedure by Camillo Golgi during the late 1890s that used a silver chromate salt to reveal the intricate structures of single neurons. His technique was used by Santiago Ramón y Cajal and led to the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4794482 | 558,783 |
909,918 | Cells alter their phenotype in response to numerous environmental stimuli and can lose the expression of genes typically used to mark their identity, making it difficult to research the contribution of certain cell types to disease. Therefore, researchers often use transgenic mice expressing CreER recombinase induced b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4363576 | 909,439 |
544,531 | Sparassodonta (from Greek ['], to tear, rend; and , gen. [', '], tooth) is an extinct order of carnivorous metatherian mammals native to South America, related to modern marsupials. They were once considered to be true marsupials, but are now thought to be a separate side branch that split before the last common ancest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2552745 | 544,249 |
2,194,324 | is an international collaboration aimed simulating the integrated cardiovascular function of the rat and supported by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences as a National Center for Systems Biology. The project is motivated by the fact that, although there exist both a depth of knowledge of basic cardiovasc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36307309 | 2,193,074 |
1,546,537 | Accum became involved with the production of gas for lighting purposes through the efforts of Friedrich Albert Winsor (1763–1830), another German émigré, who had been waging a longstanding publicity campaign. In 1809, Accum was asked to appear before a Parliamentary committee that was considering granting a charter for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=287779 | 1,545,661 |
444,404 | Behavior and motivation are broad concepts and have sparked a lot of debate on the etic vs. emic perspective. One of the current major motivational theories is self-determination theory, which has been claimed to be etic universal, or, in other words, the validatity of this theory can be empirically identified across c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11507939 | 444,189 |
761,408 | Anthony Cordesman wrote of NATO's theater air supremacy during its 1999 intervention in the Kosovo War of 1998–1999. According to several reports, including reports by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that quote Russian sources, the Russian Federation has in recent de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=537478 | 761,001 |
740,020 | Due partly to their ready availability and the ease with which they may be grown in the laboratory, "C. micaceus" and other coprinoid mushrooms were common subjects in cytological studies of the 19th and 20th centuries. The German botanist Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link reported his observations of the structure of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22449893 | 739,628 |
1,599,467 | Though, mRNA structures are generally short-lived and single-stranded, there are an abundance of non-coding RNAs with different secondary and tertiary folding (tRNA, rRNA etc.) which contain a preponderance of the canonical Watson-Crick (WC) base-pairs, together with significant number of non-Watson Crick (NWC) base-pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41100419 | 1,598,567 |
1,219,918 | Despite theoretical elegance of Ertel's potential vorticity, early applications of Ertel PV are limited to tracer studies using special isentropic maps. It is generally insufficient to deduce other variables from the knowledge of Ertel PV fields only, since it is a product of wind (formula_81) and temperature fields (f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5837036 | 1,219,264 |
941,561 | In the first year, fourteen hours of lectures each week were on military subjects, including military history, while seventeen hours were non-military, which included general history, mathematics, science and a choice of French or Russian. Roughly the same time allocations were used in the last two years. Lectures were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=438600 | 941,059 |
905,866 | Many software solutions have been developed to organize and integrate the different phases of a product's lifecycle. PLM should not be seen as a single software product but a collection of software tools and working methods integrated together to address either single stages of the lifecycle or connect different tasks ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=597229 | 905,390 |
57,670 | Early in his life, Schrödinger experimented in the fields of electrical engineering, atmospheric electricity, and atmospheric radioactivity, but he usually worked with his former teacher Franz Exner. He also studied vibrational theory, the theory of Brownian motion, and mathematical statistics. In 1912, at the request ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9942 | 57,646 |
1,211,395 | As a teenager, Ayrton became deeply involved in the women's suffrage movement, joining the WSPU in 1907 after attending a celebration with released prisoners. In 1909 Ayrton opened the second day of the Knightsbridge "Women's Exhibition and Sale of Work in the Colours" which included new model bicycles painted in purpl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1805181 | 1,210,743 |
89,053 | In 1925 it was determined by Fricke that the thickness of erythrocyte and yeast cell membranes ranged between 3.3 and 4 nm, a thickness compatible with a lipid monolayer. The choice of the dielectric constant used in these studies was called into question but future tests could not disprove the results of the initial e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33051527 | 89,017 |
1,159,196 | The existence of a mutant spectrum was experimentally evidenced first by clonal analyses of RNA bacteriophage Qβ populations whose replication had been initiated by a single virus particle. Individual genomes differed from the consensus sequence in an average of one to two mutations per individual genome. Fitness of bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6962692 | 1,158,582 |
279,673 | Though most of this work dealt with the theoretical and experimental relations between propellant, rocket mass, thrust, and velocity, a final section, entitled "Calculation of minimum mass required to raise one pound to an 'infinite' altitude," discussed the possible uses of rockets, not only to reach the upper atmosph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=210597 | 279,523 |
920,032 | In 2015, on March 24, Germanwings Flight 9525 (an Airbus A320-200) crashed northwest of Nice, in the French Alps, after a constant descent that began one minute after the last routine contact with air traffic control and shortly after the aircraft had reached its assigned cruise altitude. All 144 passengers and six cre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=682931 | 919,546 |
463,808 | In the "Bad Nauheim Debate" (1920) between Einstein and (among others) Philipp Lenard, the latter stated the following objections: He criticized the lack of "illustrativeness" of Einstein's version of relativity, a condition that he suggested could only be met by an aether theory. Einstein responded that for physicists... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30694430 | 463,578 |
131,941 | An example of Al-Biruni's analysis is his summary of why many Hindus hate Muslims. Biruni notes in the beginning of his book how the Muslims had a hard time learning about Hindu knowledge and culture. He explains that Hinduism and Islam are totally different from each other. Moreover, Hindus in 11th century India had s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=271975 | 131,889 |
1,989,248 | Aside from calculating the "net additions to stock" (NAS) as a balancing item, flows within the economy are not considered (advances are currently being made in the field of dynamic stock modelling). MFA covers all solid, gaseous, and liquid materials, mobilized by humans or by their livestock, with the exception of bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11438515 | 1,988,106 |
1,124,388 | Gray bats, as is the case in other organisms, acquire and use energy for growth and maintenance of their bodies before reaching sexual maturity, at which point much of their energy expenditure is devoted to reproductive processes. Gray bats prefer caves located near appropriate foraging sites to reduce the energy costs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=827802 | 1,123,814 |
599,811 | Early regenerative applications of adult stem cells has focused on intravenous delivery of blood progenitors known as Hematopetic Stem Cells (HSC's). CD34+ hematopoietic Stem Cells have been clinically applied to treat various diseases including spinal cord injury, liver cirrhosis and Peripheral Vascular disease. Resea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2777285 | 599,505 |
1,444,181 | Some proponents of Dual Systems Theory have been accused of forwarding certain agendas involving expansion of universal education, including the idea that youth are biologically predisposed to immaturity, which is then corrected by them pursuing education. This accusation goes back to the early 20th century, when G. St... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55377516 | 1,443,368 |
1,516,816 | Humberto Campins (born in Barquisimeto, 1946) is an international expert on asteroids and comets. He attended the University of Kansas, where he earned a bachelor's degree in astronomy. He went onto the University of Arizona, where he earned a PhD in planetary sciences. As a graduate student he was named a representati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,964 |
107,850 | In pre-industrial society, death rates and birth rates were both high, and fluctuated rapidly according to natural events, such as drought and disease, to produce a relatively constant and young population. Family planning and contraception were virtually nonexistent; therefore, birth rates were essentially only limite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231079 | 107,805 |
1,416,136 | The pioneer work to the implementation of the phase-contrast method to X-ray physics was presented in 1965 by Ulrich Bonse and Michael Hart, Department of Materials Science and Engineering of Cornell University, New York. They presented a crystal interferometer, made from a large and highly perfect single crystal. Not ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35154335 | 1,415,339 |
1,154,595 | On June 11, 2010, the Bulgarian government announced that it would freeze indefinitely the planned construction of the Belene nuclear power plant because it was uncertain when the investment would be returned. Five months later, on December 2, a non-binding memorandum of understanding was signed between NEK EAD, Rosato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6370024 | 1,153,985 |
2,149,733 | The Chicago Air Shower Array (CASA) was a significant ultra high high-energy astrophysics experiment operating in the 1990s. It consisted of a very large array of scintillation detectors located at Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, USA, approximately 80 kilometers southwest of Salt Lake City. The full CASA detector, cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1529011 | 2,148,502 |
1,250,683 | The site features artifacts donated in 1955 from the Bell family's personal museum, located in the Kite House at Beinn Bhreagh. The site also features memorabilia associated with Bell's experiments, including: the original hull of a hydrofoil boat, the HD-4, that set a world marine speed record in Baddeck by reaching s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35471671 | 1,250,007 |
862,646 | Fixed, forward-firing guns were found to be the most effective armament for a majority of World War I era fighter planes, but it was nearly impossible to fire them through the spinning propeller of one's own aircraft without destroying one's own plane. Roland Garros, working with Morane Saulnier Aéroplanes, was the fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=770634 | 862,186 |
619,944 | The Airbus A300 was to be the first aircraft to be developed, manufactured and marketed by Airbus. By early 1967 the "A300" label began to be applied to a proposed 320 seat, twin engined airliner. Following the 1967 tri-government agreement, Roger Béteille was appointed technical director of the A300 development projec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57333683 | 619,629 |
1,483,522 | How can understanding of species' natural history aid their effective conservation in human-dominated ecosystems? Humans often conduct activities that allow for the incorporation of other species, whether as a by-product or as a result of a focus on nature. Traditional natural history can only inform how best to do thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1810870 | 1,482,686 |
125,248 | Several reactions occur between the concrete and the corium melt. Free and chemically bound water is released from the concrete as steam. Calcium carbonate is decomposed, producing carbon dioxide and calcium oxide. Water and carbon dioxide penetrate the corium mass, exothermically oxidizing the non-oxidized metals pres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26266872 | 125,196 |
1,659,016 | Acute flaccid myelitis (AFM) is a serious condition of the spinal cord with symptoms including rapid onset of arm or leg weakness, decreased reflexes, difficulty moving the eyes, speaking, or swallowing may also occur. Occasionally numbness or pain may be present and complications can include trouble breathing. In Augu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20485252 | 1,658,083 |
651,663 | Building on earlier work by Metcalfe and Mischel on delayed gratification, Baumeister, Miller, and Delaney explored the notion of willpower by first defining the self as being made up of three parts: reflexive consciousness, or the person's awareness of their environment and of himself as an individual; interpersonal b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1040741 | 651,321 |
1,969,135 | During the late 1990s, OECD member countries began to assess chemical categories and to use quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) results to create OECD guidance documents, as well as a computerized QSAR toolbox. In 1998, the global chemical industry, organized in the International Council of Chemical Ass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12563713 | 1,968,001 |
1,779,825 | The Zygnemataceae are a family of filamentous or unicellular, uniseriate (unbranched) green algae. The filaments are septated and reproduction is by conjugation; "Spirogyra" is commonly used in schools to demonstrate this kind of reproduction. The family is notable for its diversely shaped chloroplasts, such as stellat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1646446 | 1,778,822 |
124,838 | In the hands of an expert pilot with a tactical advantage, the Wildcat could prove a difficult opponent even against the formidable Zero. After analyzing Fleet Air Tactical Unit Intelligence Bureau reports describing the new carrier fighter, USN Commander "Jimmy" Thach devised a defensive tactic that allowed Wildcat fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=518897 | 124,786 |
2,063,392 | At the beginning scientific personnel of LBMC consisted of 45 researchers, that carried out research in fields of molecular virology, nucleic acid chemistry, virus like particles and molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases. In 2000, LU BMC established a long term collaboration with the Swiss company „Cytos Biotec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34935370 | 2,062,201 |
1,508,612 | During subsequent five-year plans to 2050, new industries will be established in fields such as mobile, multi-media, nano- and space technologies, robotics, genetic engineering and alternative energy. Food processing enterprises will be developed with an eye to turning the country into a major regional exporter of beef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54181703 | 1,507,764 |
1,005,804 | These foot-soldiers fought in close-ranked rectangular or square formations, of which the smallest tactical unit was the 256 men strong "syntagma" or "speira". This formation typically fought eight or sixteen men deep and in a frontage of thirty-two or sixteen men accordingly. Each file of 16 men, a "lochos", was comma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2529634 | 1,005,285 |
652,881 | Cancer is a stochastic effect of radiation, meaning that it only has a probability of occurrence, as opposed to deterministic effects which always happen over a certain dose threshold. The consensus of the nuclear industry, nuclear regulators, and governments, is that the incidence of cancers due to ionizing radiation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35993194 | 652,538 |
434,276 | In 2021, BEE released a review of research on 61 studies of 51 different programs for struggling readers in elementary schools. 84% were randomized experiments and 16% quasi-experiments. The vast majority were done in the US, the programs are replicable, and the studies, done between 1990 and 2018, had a minimum durati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25572436 | 434,062 |
1,780,566 | To begin the conference season, the Bulldogs travelled to Firestone Fieldhouse on January 3 to play Pepperdine, where they would beat the Waves 78–62. David Stockton came off the bench and keyed the Zags with four steals to hold off a Pepperdine team that was down two with 12 minutes left. Despite scoring a season-low ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36171940 | 1,779,562 |
301,672 | Like hydroponics, a few minerals and micronutrients can be added to improve plant growth. Iron is the most deficient nutrient in aquaponics, but it can be added through mixing Iron Chelate powder with water. Potassium can be added as potassium sulfate through foliar spray. Less vital nutrients include magnesium as epso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=466801 | 301,511 |
1,708,355 | Accents are the distinctive variations in the pronunciation of a language. They can be native or foreign, local or national and can provide information about a person’s geographical locality, socio-economic status and ethnicity. The perception of accents is normal within any given group of language users and involves t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40912579 | 1,707,397 |
276,748 | AFM has several advantages over the scanning electron microscope (SEM). Unlike the electron microscope, which provides a two-dimensional projection or a two-dimensional image of a sample, the AFM provides a three-dimensional surface profile. In addition, samples viewed by AFM do not require any special treatments (such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=227982 | 276,598 |
306,878 | Objects in motion within a SAR scene alter the Doppler frequencies of the returns. Such objects therefore appear in the image at locations offset in the across-range direction by amounts proportional to the range-direction component of their velocity. Road vehicles may be depicted off the roadway and therefore not reco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=645554 | 306,714 |
359,935 | Turning his attention elsewhere, Potemkin established his headquarters in Elisabethgrad and planned future operations. He assembled an army of forty or fifty thousand, including the newly formed Kuban Cossacks. He divided his time between military preparation (creating a fleet of a hundred gunboats to fight within the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=475101 | 359,748 |
403,710 | "The Secret Armory of General Knoxx" was unofficially announced on January 21, 2010, via the official Gearbox forums, posted by Gearbox level designer Jason Reiss saying the pack will increase the level cap to level 61, and is "the biggest DLC we have made". A tweet by Gearbox creative director Mike Neumann on January ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12785426 | 403,510 |
535,657 | Rotating drum memory provided 1,000, 2,000, or 4,000 words of memory at addresses 0000 to 0999, 1999, or 3999 respectively. Each word had 10 bi-quinary coded decimal digits, representing a signed 10-digit number or five characters. (Counting a bi-quinary coded digit as 7 bits, 4000 words would be equivalent to 35 kilob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=143676 | 535,378 |
1,255,363 | Tye was raised in Ithaca, New York, where both of her parents worked at Cornell University. Her parents Henry Tye and Bik Kwoon Tye had emigrated from Hong Kong. As a child, Tye worked in her mother's laboratory organizing pipette tips. She completed a Bachelor of Science with a major in cognitive science at the Massac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48542628 | 1,254,680 |
234,470 | Following the 1947 invention of the cathode-ray tube amusement device—the earliest known interactive electronic game as well as the first to use an electronic display—the first true video games were created in the early 1950s. Initially created as technology demonstrations, such as the "Bertie the Brain" and Nimrod com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19992532 | 234,351 |
1,190,212 | A program package MatchMiner was used to scan HUGO names for cloned genes of interest are scanned, then are input into GoMiner, which leveraged the GO to identify the biological processes, functions and components represented in the gene profile. Also, Database for Annotation, Visualization, and Integrated Discovery (D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1872854 | 1,189,578 |
677,014 | At Jamaica High School in Queens, New York, Diffie "performed competently" but "never did apply himself to the degree his father hoped." Although he graduated with a local diploma, he did not take the statewide Regents examinations that would have awarded him an academic diploma because he had previously secured admiss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=427776 | 676,661 |
1,636,588 | In 2020 the Ministry of Environment and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development published a guide which recommended various social, environmental and technical best practices, including that the World Health Organization (WHO) recommends that the concentration of foul smelling gas in the air should not exc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16733934 | 1,635,663 |
2,037,940 | The best lithological profile of the productive section of the Blanowice Formation was developed on the basis of the exposure in the trench made in Kierszula near Poręba. On this exposure, the major data of the Blanowice strata was recovered. The lower layers are above the Hettangian to Sinemurian Zagaje Formation. Mos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64249358 | 2,036,765 |
214,917 | Regardless of whether planets with similar physical attributes to the Earth are rare or not, some argue that life tends not to evolve into anything more complex than simple bacteria without being provoked by rare and specific circumstances. Biochemist Nick Lane argues that simple cells (prokaryotes) emerged soon after ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=827792 | 214,809 |
1,899,312 | Gallaudet was the first person to experiment with warped wings in 1896, and in 1898 he built a warping-wing kite to test his invention of a warping-wing mechanism; this kite survives and is on display in the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. In 1911 he obtained US pilot's license No. 32 with the Aero Cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17442591 | 1,898,227 |
1,492,817 | In 1832, the first classes in physics at Princeton were taught by Joseph Henry, who later served as the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and President of the National Academy of Sciences. Henry taught as a Professor of Natural Philosophy from 1832 to 1846, during which he earned a salary of $1,000 per year. Add... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61605257 | 1,491,978 |
1,227,604 | Each emitter is aligned behind a colored phosphor dot. The accelerated electrons strike the dot and cause it to give off light in a fashion identical to a conventional CRT. Since each dot on the screen is lit by a single emitter, there is no need to steer or direct the beam as there is in a CRT. The quantum tunneling e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1530649 | 1,226,943 |
1,199,335 | However, by the early 1950s, powerful overhead valve V8s from sister GM Divisions Cadillac, Buick and Oldsmobile, as well as new overhead valve V8s from Ford Motor Company and Chrysler Corporation, made the flathead "Silver Streak" all but obsolete. It was a quiet, smooth running, cheap to produce engine that served th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1430626 | 1,198,694 |
237,917 | Professional programs during the interwar period were limited to just theology and nursing. By the 1940s the McMaster administration was under pressure to modernize and expand the university's programs. During the Second World War and post-war periods the demand for technological expertise, particularly in the sciences... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=342555 | 237,798 |
480,862 | There are several techniques, which can greatly improve the performance of search trees in terms of both speed and memory. Pruning techniques such as alpha–beta pruning, Principal Variation Search, and MTD(f) can reduce the effective branching factor without loss of strength. In tactical areas such as life and death, G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=227021 | 480,618 |
333,368 | More recently, work among anthropologists and psychologists has led to the development of sociobiology and later of evolutionary psychology, a field that attempts to explain features of human psychology in terms of adaptation to the ancestral environment. The most prominent example of evolutionary psychology, notably a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21147 | 333,190 |
327,771 | Chapter X examines whether patterns in the fossil record are better explained by common descent and branching evolution through natural selection, than by the individual creation of fixed species. Darwin expected species to change slowly, but not at the same rate – some organisms such as "Lingula" were unchanged since ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29932 | 327,597 |
1,005,042 | It is typically thought that the diets of early "Homo" had a greater proportion of meat than "Australopithecus", and that this led to brain growth. The main hypotheses regarding this are: meat is energy- and nutrient-rich and put evolutionary pressure on developing enhanced cognitive skills to facilitate strategic scav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=303612 | 1,004,524 |
2,114,858 | Over the next four-plus seasons, home games were few and far between, but each one resulted in a win. The Bulldogs eventually reeled off 18 consecutive home victories, tying the all-time stadium record set by head coach Maxie Lambright's great teams of the early 1970s. Some wins have been more magical than others. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21055134 | 2,113,643 |
205,639 | Skeletons should be carefully managed and protected in order to retain their original state for further research purposes in any circumstances, for instance: educational, archaeological, forensic research. Applying the same case for animal skeletons, there are procedures to follow in the aim of ensuring the skeletal re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12341699 | 205,533 |
803,620 | Thiophene derivatives have been detected at nanomole levels in 3.5 billions year old Martian soil sediments (Murray Formation, Pahrump Hills) by the rover "Curiosity" at Gale crater (Mars) between 2012 and 2017. It represents an important milestone for the mission of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) in the long and el... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=508777 | 803,191 |
1,741,910 | Celecoxib was the first specific inhibitor of COX-2 approved to treat patients with rheumatism and osteoarthritis. A study showed that the absorption rate, when given orally, is moderate, and peak plasma concentration occurs after about 2–4 hours. However, the extent of absorption is not well known. Celecoxib has the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20187427 | 1,740,926 |
618,616 | The ground support echelon of the 509th Composite Group, consisting of 44 officers and 815 enlisted men commanded by Major George W. Westcott of the Headquarters Squadron, received movement orders and moved by rail on 26 April 1945 to its port of embarkation at Seattle, Washington. On 6 May the support elements sailed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4567536 | 618,302 |
1,449,386 | The couple InAs/AlSb is the most recent QCL material family compared to alloys grown on InP and GaAs substrates. The main advantage of the InAs/AlSb material system is the small effective electron mass in quantum wells, which favors a high intersubband gain. This benefit can be better exploited in long-wavelength QCLs ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2648839 | 1,448,570 |
1,016,765 | In the late 19th century, Charles Darwin proposed that cognition, or "intelligence," was the product of two combined evolutionary forces: natural selection and sexual selection. Research on human mate choice showed that intelligence is sexually selected for, and is highly esteemed by both sexes. Some evolutionary psych... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7971785 | 1,016,241 |
1,808,328 | It is commonly reported to present on the trunk and extremities and behave in an aggressive manner. MCS is a cancerous subtype of its benign counterpart, chondroid syringoma, and is the least common variation that has an approximated prevalence of less that 0.005%. These tumours mainly arise "from sebaceous glands, swe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23150180 | 1,807,307 |
1,703,428 | Initially, aDNA sequencing involved cloning small fragments into bacteria, which proceeded with low efficiency due to the oxidative damage the aDNA suffered over millennia. aDNA is difficult to analyze due to facile degradation by nucleases; specific environments and postmortem conditions improved isolation and analysi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58990374 | 1,702,472 |
1,238,884 | After an almost four-month delay, "Oblivion" went gold on March 2, 2006, and was released for Microsoft Windows and Xbox 360 on March 21, 2006. Early rumors notwithstanding, "Oblivion" shipped on a single DVD-DL disc. One journalist voiced concern for the game's release date, as it was set in the same week as that of E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12164267 | 1,238,217 |
285,466 | Englishmen in the 18th century such as Eustace Budgell recommended imitating the Chinese examination system. Adam Smith recommended examinations to qualify for employment in 1776. In 1838, the Congregational church missionary Walter Henry Medhurst considered the Chinese exams to be "worthy of imitating". In 1806, the B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244479 | 285,312 |
784,891 | The robot's costs range from $1 million to $2.5 million for each unit, and while its disposable supply cost is normally $1,500 per procedure, the cost of the procedure is higher. Additional surgical training is needed to operate the system. Numerous feasibility studies have been done to determine whether the purchase o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2629669 | 784,471 |
1,169,980 | However, there are currently many gaps in the attempt to bring together developmental science and neuroscience to produce a more complete understanding of the development of awareness and empathy. Educational research relies on pupil's accurate self-report of emotion, which may not be possible for some pupils, e.g., th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25935238 | 1,169,361 |
143,844 | A variety of topics in physics such as crystallography, metallurgy, elasticity, magnetism, etc., were treated as distinct areas until the 1940s, when they were grouped together as "solid-state physics". Around the 1960s, the study of physical properties of liquids was added to this list, forming the basis for the more ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5387 | 143,786 |
909,956 | Davenport and Petter designed an aircraft to incorporate these features. The Lysander was to be powered by a Bristol Mercury air-cooled radial engine and had high wings and a fixed conventional landing gear mounted on an innovative inverted U square-section tube that supported wing struts at the apex, and contained int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=559595 | 909,477 |
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