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1,680,195 | According to Wurl "et al."m the SML can never be devoid of organics due to the abundance of surface-active substances (e.g., surfactants) in the upper ocean and the phenomenon of surface tension at air-liquid interfaces. The SML is analogous to the thermal boundary layer, and remote sensing of the sea surface temperatu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69445009 | 1,679,252 |
1,417,497 | According to Wurl "et al.", the SML can never be devoid of organics due to the abundance of surface-active substances (e.g., surfactants) in the upper ocean and the phenomenon of surface tension at air-liquid interfaces. The SML is analogous to the thermal boundary layer, and remote sensing of the sea surface temperatu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12264442 | 1,416,698 |
1,571,745 | Both hairy and smooth pads in arthropods act to maximize the amount of contact with a surface. The foot pads of flies are densely covered with flexible hair-like structures called setae, and some lizards and spiders use similar hairy pads to create adhesive effects. This indicates a favourable design for hairy pad adhe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46344435 | 1,570,857 |
1,963,892 | To enforce no-slip boundary conditions on immersed surfaces, first, the surface is represented implicitly by a smooth “level set” function, “f”, defined at each grid point. This is the (signed) distance from each grid point to the nearest point on the surface of an object – positive outside, negative inside. Then, at e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24546104 | 1,962,764 |
238,143 | The country's wide geographic variations cause localised differences in sunshine, rainfall and temperature. Average annual coastal temperatures reach and in low lying inland areas, lower. It becomes cooler at higher altitudes; annual temperatures decrease on average approximately each of altitude. Consequently, the hig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84358 | 238,024 |
1,387,822 | It is especially likely to leach from plastics when they are cleaned with harsh detergents or when they contain acidic or high-temperature liquids. BPA is used to form epoxy resin coating of water pipes; in older buildings, such resin coatings are used to avoid replacement of deteriorating pipes. In the workplace, whil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57552333 | 1,387,055 |
1,564,304 | In England in 1980 lawyer Larry Gostin called for psychosurgery to be subject to "the strictest legal and ethical scrutiny". He identified a number of problems with the newer forms of psychosurgery: the lack of any reliable theoretical position relating to psychosurgery, with different forms of surgery used in similar ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38574601 | 1,563,417 |
1,439,483 | Activity-based protein profiling (ABPP, also activity-based proteomics) is a technique that was developed to monitor the availability of enzymatic active sites to their endogenous ligands. ABPP uses specially designed probes that enter and form a covalent bond with an enzyme's active site, which confirms that the enzym... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48999251 | 1,438,673 |
1,663,450 | Criticism of the fetal origins hypothesis can be aimed at the limitations of the research. Confounds abound due to the intertwined nature of environment before and after birth, as well as the correlational factors associated with poverty outcomes. Additionally, the use of historical and longitudinal data raises the que... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47957160 | 1,662,513 |
1,177,973 | The issue of restoration is critical today since mangrove forests are being lost very quickly – at an even faster rate than tropical rainforests inland. A recent estimate puts the total mangrove area worldwide in 2005 at 152,000 km – down from 188,000 km in 1980. In other words, some 36,000 km, or nearly 20% of the wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36309813 | 1,177,350 |
1,472,260 | After the takeover by the Nazis and the elimination of the parliamentary opposition, the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service on 7 April 1933, prescribed the release of all distinguished public servants that held unpopular political opinions or who were "Jewish" in origin; a subsequent regulation e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=617522 | 1,471,431 |
1,226,200 | For this reason, since more than 20 years many research efforts have been dedicated to on-chip embedded tiny reference field effect transistors (REFET). Their functioning principle, or operating mode, can vary, depending on the electrode producers and are often proprietary and protected by patents. Semi-conductor modif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2036897 | 1,225,540 |
2,160,188 | Influenced by Joseph Plunkett and Tom Kettle, Dillon became involved in labour and republican politics. During the 1913 Lockout, he was the honorary secretary of the Industrial Peace Committee, and was the chemical adviser to the Irish Volunteers in their manufacture of bombs and hand grenades. His future wife, Geraldi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65801067 | 2,158,956 |
982,800 | The Griffon IIB which powered the Mk IV was a single-stage supercharged engine of 1,735 hp (1,293 kW). Stronger main longerons were needed to cope with the weight of the Griffon and it required a bigger radiator and oil cooler, although it kept the asymmetric under-wing radiator layout of the single stage Merlin marks.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22829566 | 982,287 |
1,229,049 | Lumber, sizes 1x, 2x, 4x, to include plywood, became in critical supply during the summer and also remained chronically short through the end of 1969. to ensure that lumber was used only for the most pressing requirements throughout Vietnam USARV established a monthly allocation where in-country supplies were issued to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8709111 | 1,228,387 |
367,096 | In February 2012, millionaire Sidney Kimmel, convinced that cold fusion was worth investing in by a 19 April 2009 interview with physicist Robert Duncan on the US news show "60 Minutes", made a grant of $5.5 million to the University of Missouri to establish the Sidney Kimmel Institute for Nuclear Renaissance (SKINR). ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7463 | 366,904 |
812,447 | Binding of MgATP is one of the central events to occur in the mechanism employed by nitrogenase. Hydrolysis of the terminal phosphate group of MgATP provides the energy needed to transfer electrons from the Fe protein to the MoFe protein. The binding interactions between the MgATP phosphate groups and the amino acid re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1080226 | 812,014 |
710,243 | China was a world leader in science and technology until the early years of the Ming dynasty. Chinese discoveries and Chinese innovations such as papermaking, printing, the compass, and gunpowder (the Four Great Inventions) contributed to the economic development in East Asia, the Middle East and Europe. Chinese scient... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277914 | 709,872 |
46,339 | A widely used rule of thumb, the "one in ten rule", states that logistic regression models give stable values for the explanatory variables if based on a minimum of about 10 events per explanatory variable (EPV); where "event" denotes the cases belonging to the less frequent category in the dependent variable. Thus a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=226631 | 46,321 |
532,272 | The breeding period varies. In species or populations living in highly seasonal regions it is generally relatively short, typically during the wet season. It is prolonged, often even year-round, in species or populations living in regions with less distinct seasons. In some species where it is year-round the egg produc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322654 | 531,998 |
37,914 | In late 2005, the program entered the detailed design and integration phase, for which Raytheon was the Mission Systems Integrator. Both Northrop Grumman Ship Systems and General Dynamics Bath Iron Works shared dual-lead for the hull, mechanical, and electrical detailed design. BAE Systems Inc. had the advanced gun sys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=864558 | 37,901 |
463,556 | Titanite, which is named for its titanium content, occurs as translucent to transparent, reddish brown, gray, yellow, green, or red monoclinic crystals. These crystals are typically sphenoid in habit and are often twinned. Possessing a subadamantine tending to slightly resinous luster, titanite has a hardness of 5.5 an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31091 | 463,327 |
1,578,826 | Like all other genetic concepts, the discovery of uniparental inheritance stems from the days of an Augustinian priest known as Gregor Johann Mendel. The soon-to-be "father of modern genetics" spent his days conducting hybridization experiments on pea plants("Pisum sativum") in his monastery's garden. During a period o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23303326 | 1,577,936 |
1,239,544 | Carbon fibre is actually a carbon-fiber-reinforced polymer, and is a strong, light-weight material used in a number of applications, including sporting goods like baseball bats, car parts, helmets, sailboats, bicycles and other equipment where rigidity and high strength-to-weight ratio is important. The polymer used fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37074140 | 1,238,877 |
1,468,376 | "Star Trek" went to series on the basis of the second pilot, but still fearing backlash against Spock's ears, and issues with selling the show to stations in the Bible Belt, NBC airbrushed out the pointed tips in an advertising brochure about the series. Spock's role was used as audition material for new cast members. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51264925 | 1,467,552 |
283,527 | A frequent critique of the discipline is that the hypotheses of evolutionary psychology are frequently arbitrary and difficult or impossible to adequately test, thus questioning its status as an actual scientific discipline, for example because many current traits probably evolved to serve different functions than they... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9703 | 283,374 |
1,636,416 | During his graduate studies at Columbia, Kantrowitz started working as a physicist in 1936 for the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), work he would continue for ten years. While obtaining his Ph.D., Kantrowitz was supervised by Edward Teller. He went on to teach at Cornell University for the next ten y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=412961 | 1,635,491 |
1,202,475 | Artificial introduction of long dsRNAs or siRNAs has been adopted as a tool to inactivate gene expression, both in cultured cells and in living organisms. Structural and functional resolution of small RNAs as the effectors of RNA silencing has had a direct impact on experimental biology. For example, dsRNA may be synth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9458068 | 1,201,832 |
10,753 | Companies in the information technology field are often discussed as a group as the "tech sector" or the "tech industry." These titles can be misleading at times and should not be mistaken for “tech companies;" which are generally large scale, for-profit corporations that sell consumer technology and software. It is al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36674345 | 10,748 |
1,572,299 | The NS1 protein of the highly pathogenic avian H5N1 viruses circulating in poultry and waterfowl in Southeast Asia is currently believed to be responsible for the enhanced virulence of the strain. H5N1 NS1 is characterized by a single amino acid change at position 92. By changing the amino acid from glutamic acid to as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5324329 | 1,571,411 |
552,104 | In 2012, some four thousand former NFL players "joined civil lawsuits against the League, seeking damages over the League's failure to protect players from concussions, according to Judy Battista of the [New York] "Times"". In 2013 the NFL settled with a class action lawsuit. The NFL supposedly hid the long term effect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60104866 | 551,815 |
2,057,465 | Elliott was born in Cardiff, Wales and attended Llanishen High school before being accepted to study Pharmacology at Chelsea College, University of London (1979-1981). During this period he also spent a year gaining research experience at The Medical Clinic, Tubingen, Germany, working with Professor Peter A. Berg on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66911197 | 2,056,281 |
953,891 | In the late 19th century the co-presidents of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society, the Revered James Went, headmaster of the Wyggeston Boys' School, and J. D. Paul, regularly called for the establishment of a university college However, no private donations were forthcoming, and the Corporation of Leiceste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=354047 | 953,386 |
88,542 | In 1984, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) commissioned Golitsyn and N. A. Phillips to review the state of the science. They found that studies generally assumed a scenario where half of the world's nuclear weapons would be used, ~5000 Mt, destroying approximately 1,000 cities, and creating large quantities o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22171 | 88,507 |
996,095 | Ballistic prediction computer programs intended for (extreme) long ranges can be evaluated by conducting field tests at the supersonic to subsonic transition range (the last 10 to 20% of the supersonic range of the rifle/cartridge/bullet combination). For a typical .338 Lapua Magnum rifle for example, shooting standard... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584911 | 995,577 |
246,113 | There are limits to electrophoretic techniques. Since passing a current through a gel causes heating, gels may melt during electrophoresis. Electrophoresis is performed in buffer solutions to reduce pH changes due to the electric field, which is important because the charge of DNA and RNA depends on pH, but running for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12582 | 245,986 |
725,065 | MC1R has a slightly different function in cold-blooded animals such as fish, amphibians, and reptiles. Here, α-MSH activation of MC1R results in the dispersion of eumelanin-filled melanosomes throughout the interior of pigment cells (called melanophores). This gives the skin of the animal a darker hue and often occurs ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30870796 | 724,684 |
658,509 | The Katana provides excellent external visibility to its pilots via the use of a one-piece bubble canopy, which is hinged at the rear, enabling easy entry using the built-in steps. The cockpit features a comprehensive six-unit instrumentation panel on the left-hand side, the majority of avionics-related controls and di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2707055 | 658,164 |
69,962 | Initially, rifles used by the Royal Marines, British Army infantry soldiers (and other soldiers with a dismounted close combat role) and the RAF Regiment are equipped with a SUSAT (Sight Unit Small Arms, Trilux) optical sight, with a fixed 4× magnification and an illuminated aiming pointer powered by a variable tritium... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84350 | 69,935 |
65,828 | The synaptic network that finally emerges is only partly determined by genes, though. In many parts of the brain, axons initially "overgrow", and then are "pruned" by mechanisms that depend on neural activity. In the projection from the eye to the midbrain, for example, the structure in the adult contains a very precis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3717 | 65,803 |
176,023 | Oldsmobile and Pontiac each used an all-aluminum 215 on its senior compact cars, the Oldsmobile F-85, Cutlass, and Jetfire, and Pontiac Tempest and LeMans. Pontiac used the Buick version of the 215. At that time the engine was closely associated with the Buick brand, and Pontiac sold few cars with it, using it only in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1084072 | 175,931 |
165,484 | On July 15, 2016 Dr. Richard C. Benson was appointed the fifth president of the University of Texas at Dallas. Previously he was Dean of the College of Engineering at Virginia Tech, which saw record growth from 2005 to 2016 after the number of engineering applicants nearly doubled during his tenure. He has continued th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=537010 | 165,399 |
1,139,204 | "S. canis" is considered to be an important part of the healthy microbiota of cats and dogs, promoting skin and mucosal health. However, despite these benefits under certain circumstances, strains of this bacterium have been reported to cause diseases in a variety of mammals. When opportunistic infection does occur, tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21984880 | 1,138,611 |
1,027,607 | "Daspletosaurus" lived in a vast floodplain along the western shore of the interior seaway. Large rivers watered the land, occasionally flooding and blanketing the region with new sediment. When water was plentiful, the region could support a great deal of plant and animal life, but periodic droughts also struck the re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=195485 | 1,027,073 |
1,911,085 | Previously, many species of "Cochliobolus" were placed in "Ophiobolus". Drechsler found that graminicolous forms of "Helminthosporium" produced teleomorphs with characteristic features of greater ascus and ascospore width as well as helicoiod ascospores with bipolar germination, which deviates from previously described... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11460093 | 1,909,986 |
593,042 | The Transition Radiation Tracker (TRT), the outermost component of the inner detector, is a combination of a straw tracker and a transition radiation detector. The detecting elements are drift tubes (straws), each four millimetres in diameter and up to 144 centimetres long. The uncertainty of track position measurement... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=512256 | 592,738 |
275,388 | Once the bulk of U.S. civilians had been evacuated out of South Korea by ship, the priority of FEAF changed to a military nature. The 339th F(AW)S received orders from Fifth Air Force to move all available aircraft, along with crews and equipment, to Itazuke Air Base to assist the 68th in providing air cover for the ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=671473 | 275,240 |
1,619,129 | In 1971, DASA ceased to exist and AFRRI passed to its successor, the Defense Nuclear Agency (later DTRA). To address growing DOD concerns about the correlation between radiation presence and cancer in service members, AFRRI helped establish the Nuclear Test Personnel Review (NTPR) program in January 1978. NTPR-which st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6277981 | 1,618,214 |
405,849 | The judge, John Grady, ruled in early 1977 that Baer's patent for the Odyssey constituted "the pioneering patent of the video game art", held the defendants' games as infringing, and set a precedent that any video game where a machine-controlled visual element hit and bounced off a player-controlled element violated Ru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77262 | 405,649 |
101,099 | The studio used their vision of "Dark Sector" to try to secure a publisher, but this only led to more offers for work-for-hire. The company remained quiet on "Dark Sector" for about four years, re-announcing in early 2004 a revised "Dark Sector", now to be a stylish, science-fiction single player experience with stealt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38333096 | 101,054 |
346,915 | In July 2014, the Australian National Audit Office released a report on the MRH90, citing a series of procurement errors and development deficiencies delaying final operational capability (FOC), originally planned for that month, until April 2019, nearly five years later than planned. Some nine years after the initial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=513911 | 346,734 |
1,195,001 | Researchers have called for a greater critical examination of the economic aspects of Biobanks, particularly those facilitated by the state. National biobanks are often funded by public/private partnerships, with finance provided by any combination of national research councils, medical charities, pharmaceutical compan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13512486 | 1,194,361 |
14,888 | At the 2019 quadrennial World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC), atmospheric scientists advocated for a strong buffer of −55 dBW, European regulators agreed on a recommendation of −42 dBW, and US regulators (the FCC) recommended a restriction of −20 dBW, which would permit signals 150 times stronger than the European... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23475353 | 14,883 |
1,329,638 | Researchers used rats in order to investigate the effects of novel tactile objects on the long-term evolution of the major rodent forebrain loops essential in species-specific behaviours, including such structures as the hippocampus, putamen, neocortex and the thalamus. The rats were monitored but not bothered for 48–9... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26685741 | 1,328,910 |
86,774 | Arizona State University has produced over 400,000 alumni worldwide. The university has produced many notable figures over its 125-year history, including influential U.S. senator Carl Hayden, and Silver Star recipient Pat Tillman, who left his National Football League career to enlist in the United States Army in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1859 | 86,739 |
598,089 | A wide variety of companies manufacture ketone screening strips. A strip consists of a thin piece of plastic film slightly larger than a matchstick, with a reagent pad on one end that is either dipped into a urine sample or passed through the stream while the user is voiding. The pad is allowed to react for an exact, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3325416 | 597,784 |
240,159 | Noether remained a leading member of the Göttingen mathematics department until 1933; her students were sometimes called the "Noether boys". In 1924, Dutch mathematician B. L. van der Waerden joined her circle and soon became the leading expositor of Noether's ideas; her work was the foundation for the second volume of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=149896 | 240,039 |
911,854 | Pain at the front or inner side of the knee is common in adults of all ages especially when engaging in soccer, gymnastics, cycling, rowing, tennis, ballet, basketball, horseback riding, volleyball, running, combat sports, figure skating, snowboarding, skateboarding and even swimming. The pain is typically felt after p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1944613 | 911,375 |
14,397 | Those who score high in neuroticism are emotionally reactive and vulnerable to stress. They are more likely to interpret ordinary situations as threatening. They can perceive minor frustrations as hopelessly difficult. They also tend to be flippant in the way they express emotions. Their negative emotional reactions te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1284664 | 14,392 |
1,834,291 | Once transcription and/or translation has completed in the droplets, emulsion will be broken by successive steps of removing mineral oil and surfactants to allow for subsequent selection. At this stage, it is crucial to have a method to ‘track’ each gene products to the encoding gene as they become free floating in a h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15991162 | 1,833,242 |
836,391 | Nanoelectronics for biology and medicine. Lieber demonstrated the first direct electrical detection of proteins, selective electrical sensing of individual viruses and multiplexed detection of cancer marker proteins and tumor enzyme activity. More recently, Lieber demonstrated a general approach to overcome the Debye s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5890897 | 835,942 |
1,880,873 | Since 2010 OSHA has been working for rule making requiring national Accredited Crane Operator Certification. A November 9, 2017 deadline was extended for a year over concerns of “certifying by capacity” and if certification would be equivalent to qualification. Certifying by capacity has been an area of concern since 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58962088 | 1,879,792 |
636,222 | Here "N" is the number of "x" atoms per volume, λ the electron escape depth, θ the analyzer angle, "T" the transmission of the analyzer, "I(t)" the electron excitation flux at depth "t", dΩ the solid angle, and δt is the thickness of the layer being probed. Encompassed in these terms, especially the Auger yield, which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36835 | 635,883 |
1,412,952 | In 1995, Wilson published his landmark paper, "Classifier fitness based on accuracy" in which he introduced the classifier system XCS. XCS took the simplified architecture of ZCS and added an accuracy-based fitness, a niche GA (acting in the action set [A]), an explicit generalization mechanism called "subsumption", an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=854461 | 1,412,157 |
567,348 | A new generation of acoustic levitators employing a large number of small individual piezoelectric-transducers have recently become more common. The first of these levitators was a single-axis standing wave levitator called the TinyLev. The key differences from the Langevin Horn were the use of sources from both top an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6101054 | 567,058 |
357,545 | The gradual development of the Hindu–Arabic numeral system independently devised the place-value concept and positional notation, which combined the simpler methods for computations with a decimal base, and the use of a digit representing 0. This allowed the system to consistently represent both large and small integer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3118 | 357,359 |
1,964,677 | Bersuker's contributions to the JTE and PJTE theory with applications to physical and chemical phenomena are reflected in his several monographs (some of them written and published with the assistance and involvement of other authors) and major reviews on this subject (see the latest in). First published in 1961-1962, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68664805 | 1,963,548 |
2,053,527 | Barrett’s career in research has focused primarily on neglected tropical diseases, particularly the trypanosomiases and leishmaniases. From Cambridge, he spent several years in Bordeaux on a Royal Society fellowship before returning to the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In 1996 he moved to Glasgow to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68470490 | 2,052,345 |
109,052 | EPA's report included the analysis of 12 all-electric passengers cars and 10 plug-in hybrids available in the market as model year 2014. For purposes of an accurate estimation of emissions, the analysis took into consideration the differences in operation between those PHEVs like the Chevrolet Volt that can operate in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1611987 | 109,007 |
1,407,703 | The model is based on the assumption that phase separation during decompression is random, yet highly probable, in body tissue, and that a bubble will continue to grow by acquiring gas from adjacent saturated tissue, at a rate depending on the local free/dissolved concentration gradient. Gas exchange mechanisms are fai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3510328 | 1,406,913 |
728,205 | The works of Balint, Jaques,) and Bion are turning points in the formative years of psychosociology. Commonly cited authors in France include Amado, Barus-Michel, Dubost, Enriquez, Lévy, Gaujelac, and Giust-Desprairies. Different schools of thought and practice include Mendel's action research framed in a 'sociopsychoa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2819542 | 727,821 |
1,808,371 | The thallus is the vegetative body of a lichen that contains the lichen mycobiont (fungus) and the photobiont (algae and/or cyanobacteria). In "P. acicularis", the primary thallus ("thallus horizontalis") is spread out like a granular crust on the surface of its substrate. It is light green when young, but becomes gray... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30271971 | 1,807,350 |
172,859 | The first Apple II computers went on sale on June 10, 1977 with a MOS Technology 6502 (later Synertek) microprocessor running at 1.023 MHz, 4 KB of RAM, an audio cassette interface for loading programs and storing data, and the Integer BASIC programming language built into the ROMs. The video controller displayed 40 co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2116 | 172,768 |
941,950 | Florida Institute of Technology was founded in 1958 as Brevard Engineering College to support NASA by Dr. Jerome P. Keuper, who became the first president. The first concept for the school was developed under the name Brevard Engineering Institute. Classes were originally held at the Melbourne Municipal Airport in buil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=760169 | 941,448 |
1,990,015 | Methylcellulose (MC) is a material with well-defined sol-gel transitions in the optimal range of temperatures. MC gelation occurs because of an increase in intra- and inter-molecular hydrophobic interactions as the temperature increases. The sol-gel transition is governed by the lower critical solution temperature (LCS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11088829 | 1,988,873 |
1,202,778 | The study of "Symbiodinium" biology is driven largely by a desire to understand global coral reef decline. A chief mechanism for widespread reef degradation has been stress-induced coral bleaching caused by unusually high seawater temperature. Bleaching is the disassociation of the coral and the symbiont and/or loss of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11375187 | 1,202,135 |
30,561 | Plans called for Hubble to be serviced in February 2005, but the "Columbia" disaster in 2003, in which the orbiter disintegrated on re-entry into the atmosphere, had wide-ranging effects to the Hubble program and other NASA missions. NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe decided all future shuttle missions had to be able to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40203 | 30,551 |
525,428 | Peebles was born on April 25, 1935 in St. Vital in present-day Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, the son of Ada Marion (Green), a homemaker, and Andrew Charles Peebles, who worked for the Winnipeg Grain Exchange. He completed his bachelor of science at the University of Manitoba. He then went on to pursue graduate studies at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=864778 | 525,155 |
1,055,313 | Case 8. This case illustrates that children with Panayiotopoulos syndrome may be misdiagnosed and treated for encephalitis. This boy had a first seizure at age 4 years and 2 months. Whilst sleeping in his mother's lap, he suddenly vomited. Then his eyes stared into the space upwards, his head deviated to the right, his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19032885 | 1,054,765 |
1,405,848 | Occludin is an enzyme () that oxidizes NADH. It was first identified in epithelial cells as a 65 kDa integral plasma-membrane protein localized at the tight junctions. Together with Claudins, and zonula occludens-1 (ZO-1), occludin has been considered a staple of tight junctions, and although it was shown to regulate t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7027124 | 1,405,058 |
275,555 | From 1967 to 1993, almost all paclitaxel produced was derived from bark of the Pacific yew, "Taxus brevifolia", the harvesting of which kills the tree in the process. The processes used were descendants of the original isolation method of Monroe Wall and Mansukh Wani; by 1987, the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36796 | 275,406 |
1,982,899 | The Alarmist (2021) is Lowe's memoir that was originally to be called "Atmosphere" until he accepted the advice of his publishers to change it to "Alarmist" because he realised that was what he had become -"an alarmist in the sense of sounding the alarm about a very real threat to the Earth's biosphere, to the Earth's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65653530 | 1,981,760 |
1,741,601 | There are two types of approach to study the alteration of D/H ratios of kerogen during catagenesis: 1)laboratory incubation of organic matter that enables mechanistic study with controlled experiments. 2)natural sample measurement that provides information of combined effects over geological timescales. The complex co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50525886 | 1,740,617 |
317,465 | Invasive infection by "L. monocytogenes" causes the disease listeriosis. When the infection is not invasive, any illness as a consequence of infection is termed febrile gastroenteritis. The manifestations of listeriosis include sepsis, meningitis (or meningoencephalitis), encephalitis, corneal ulcer, pneumonia, myocard... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=465920 | 317,295 |
866,419 | Although, the use of oil as a binding agent can be traced to the 12th century, innovations in its handling and manipulation define the era. Egg tempera was the dominant medium until the 1430s, and while it produces both bright and light colours, it dries quickly and is a difficult medium in which to achieve naturalisti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=799881 | 865,959 |
118,578 | In 1913 Niels Bohr had proposed what is now called the Bohr model of the atom, but despite this it remained a mystery as to why electrons do not fall into their nuclei. According to classical ideas, the fact that an accelerating charge loses energy by radiating implied that an electron should spiral into the nucleus an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84400 | 118,532 |
308,767 | A limit case has been reached in Bolivia, with anaerobic digestion in temperature working conditions of less than 10 °C. The anaerobic process is very slow, taking more than three times the normal mesophilic time process. In experimental work at University of Alaska Fairbanks, a 1,000-litre digester using psychrophiles... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1545608 | 308,602 |
1,947,204 | On the 2012-2016 Olympic cycle, Hernandez had great performances. In 2014 along with his teammate Tamara Vega they won the 2nd World Cup Mixed Relays event in front of Ireland and Hungary. Later that year, Hernandez had his revenge at the Central American and Caribbean Championships where he won 2 gold medals. Hernánde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51377077 | 1,946,091 |
515,293 | KR seems to have many different roles, some of which can be viewed as temporary or transient (i.e. performance effects). Three of these roles include: 1) motivation, 2) associative function, and 3) guidance. The motivational influence can increase the effort and interest of the performer in the task as well as maintain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=487908 | 515,027 |
1,903,396 | P22phox is a transmembrane protein that contains 195 amino acids and that has a molecular mass of 22.0 kDa. It associates with NOX2 and with NOX1, NOX3 and NOX4 in a 1:1 complex and has a ubiquitous expression. The main physiological role of p22phox is to contribute to the maturation and the stabilization of the hetero... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14416416 | 1,902,303 |
1,469,936 | The stems and leaves are covered with silvery brown or golden hairs which are either peltate or scaly. "Shepherdia" and "Hippophae" are unisexual, the female and male borne on different plants (dioecious). There are no petals, the perianth comprising a single whorl of two to eight fused sepals. In the male flower the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=194288 | 1,469,111 |
366,381 | To replace the increasingly obsolete de Havilland Mosquito as a night fighter, the Meteor was adapted to serve in the role as an interim aircraft. Gloster had initially proposed a night fighter design to meet the Air Ministry specification for the Mosquito replacement, based on the two seater trainer variant of the Met... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42702 | 366,189 |
409,858 | Work of the American Operation Alsos teams, in November 1944, uncovered leads which took them to a company in Paris that handled rare earths and had been taken over by the "Auergesellschaft". This, combined with information gathered in the same month through an Alsos team in Strasbourg, confirmed that the Oranienburg p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1397318 | 409,656 |
1,378,922 | In the majority of lunar eclipses with which we are now familiar the moon does not seem completely to disappear – merely changing colour and assuming a tawny or coppery shade – yet in the descriptions of Aglaonice's eclipses there is no reference to any failures in which the moon was 'partially consumed' – rather the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5342846 | 1,378,160 |
1,140,063 | Mass spectrometry imaging (MSI) is a technique used in mass spectrometry to visualize the spatial distribution of molecules, as biomarkers, metabolites, peptides or proteins by their molecular masses. After collecting a mass spectrum at one spot, the sample is moved to reach another region, and so on, until the entire ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13535375 | 1,139,469 |
650,446 | Along the same lines, a 2021 study found intriguing results in an attempt to discern the mechanisms behind the established gender disparity. The researchers hypothesized that task characteristics, not only anatomical or social differences, could explain men’s advantage in mental rotation. In particular, the objects to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4155247 | 650,105 |
1,715,473 | More recently, a "Gray Queen Hypothesis" has been posited which seeks to explain the same phenomena in a related way, but through the lenses of constructive neutral evolution. Constructive neutral evolution seeks to explain how complex systems can emerge through neutral transitions. This might involve the chance emerge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60576343 | 1,714,506 |
1,451,845 | In their widely-read 2010 publication, "Beyond the Indian Act: Restoring Aboriginal Property Rights", co-authors Thomas Flanagan, Christopher Alcantara and André Le Dressay, introduced the First Nations Property Ownership Initiative (FNPOI). The book, with a foreword by C.T. (Manny) Jules, was a finalist for the Donner... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1725890 | 1,451,028 |
18,009 | The effects of psychostimulants include increases in heart rate, body temperature, and sweating; improvements in alertness, attention, and endurance; increases in pleasure produced by rewarding events; but at higher doses agitation, anxiety, or even loss of contact with reality. Drugs in this group can have a high addi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48548 | 18,003 |
834,167 | The primary thermometer used throughout the "Challenger" expedition was the Miller–Casella thermometer, which contained two markers within a curved mercury tube to record the maximum and minimum temperature through which the instrument traveled. Several of these thermometers would be lowered at various depths for recor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=88284 | 833,718 |
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