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1,638,498 | As with most other issues in Ecology and Evolution, paradigms dominating the study of biodiversity on both global and regional scales come mainly from the terrestrial environment despite the marked distinctive features of marine biodiversity and the fact that the aquatic (freshwater & marine) environment occupies more ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19635208 | 1,637,573 |
846,850 | The stent platform itself is an expandable framework, generally with an elaborate mesh-like design to allow expansion, flexibility, and in some cases the ability to make or enlarge side openings for side vessels. The first DES were stainless steel alloys composed of iron, nickel, and chromium and were based on existing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5284087 | 846,400 |
803,800 | In the second half of the 19th century, Gregor Mendel's pioneering work on the inheritance of traits in pea plants suggested that specific “factors” (today established as genes) are responsible for transferring organismal traits between generations. Although proteins were initially assumed to serve as the hereditary ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=619137 | 803,371 |
2,007,740 | Steve Vickers (born c. 1953) is a British mathematician and computer scientist. In the early 1980s, he wrote ROM firmware and manuals for three home computers, the Sinclair ZX81 and ZX Spectrum and the Jupiter Ace. The latter was produced by Jupiter Cantab, a short-lived company Vickers formed together with Richard Alt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7933796 | 2,006,589 |
917,926 | The Sun wobbles as it rotates around the galactic center, dragging the Solar System and Earth along with it. What mathematician Kepler did in arriving at his three famous equations was curve-fit the apparent motions of the planets using Tycho Brahe's data, and "not" curve-fitting their true circular motions about the S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23859945 | 917,443 |
280,396 | The Air and Space Museum announced a two-year renovation of its main entrance hall, "Milestones of Flight" in April 2014. The renovation to the main hall (which had not received a major update since the museum opened in 1976) was funded by a $30 million donation from Boeing. The gift, which will be paid over seven year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=221550 | 280,245 |
1,652,766 | Collaborative processes that consider objective and subjective inputs have the potential to efficiently address some of the conflict between development and nature as they involve a fuller justification by wind farm developers for location, scale, and design. Spatial tools such as creation of 3D view sheds offer partic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7391817 | 1,651,834 |
1,518,069 | The Hsp70 member proteins are important apoptotic constituents. During a normal embryologic processes, or during cell injury (such as ischemia-reperfusion injury during heart attacks and strokes) or during developments and processes in cancer, an apoptotic cell undergoes structural changes including cell shrinkage, pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14024984 | 1,517,211 |
669,341 | Around the same time, Andreas Vesalius was also making some strides of his own. A young anatomist of Flemish descent made famous by a penchant for amazing charts, he was systematically investigating and correcting the anatomical knowledge of the Greek physician Galen. He noticed that many of Galen's observations were n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=265447 | 668,991 |
122,253 | According to Matthias Schramm, Alhazen "was the first to make a systematic use of the method of varying the experimental conditions in a constant and uniform manner, in an experiment showing that the intensity of the light-spot formed by the projection of the moonlight through two small apertures onto a screen diminish... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1645 | 122,204 |
723,731 | Currently, no live or inactivated vaccines have been approved by the USDA that are effective against all strains of "A. marginale". Some vaccines that rely on erythrocyte-derived antigen sources provide immunity or prevent clinical disease, although these do not prevent cattle from being infected with "A. marginale". O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8643981 | 723,351 |
615,560 | Slayton then took thirteen names to a meeting chaired by the MSC director, Robert R. Gilruth. Maxime Faget, his director of engineering and development, had an objection: thirteen was an unlucky number. So Slayton added the next candidate, Walter Cunningham, to the list. The successful candidates received phone calls f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2296945 | 615,246 |
232,588 | A major restriction hampering sales of E85 flex vehicles or fuelling with E85, is the limited infrastructure available to sell E85 to the public, as by 2014 only 2 percent of motor fuel stations offered E85, up from about 1 percent in 2011. , there were only 3,218 gasoline fueling stations selling E85 to the public in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2155310 | 232,469 |
10,030 | By March 1943 Conant decided that British help would benefit some areas of the project. James Chadwick and one or two other British scientists were important enough that the bomb design team at Los Alamos needed them, despite the risk of revealing weapon design secrets. In August 1943 Churchill and Roosevelt negotiated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19603 | 10,026 |
120,562 | While the observation of objects in space, known as astronomy, predates reliable recorded history, it was the development of large and relatively efficient rockets during the mid-twentieth century that allowed physical space exploration to become a reality. The world's first large-scale experimental rocket program was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28431 | 120,513 |
1,337,093 | Reber's first receiver operated at 3300 MHz and failed to detect signals from outer space, as did his second, operating at 900 MHz. Finally, his third attempt, at 160 MHz, was successful in 1938, confirming Jansky's discovery. In 1940, he achieved his first professional publication, in the "Astrophysical Journal", but ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=336860 | 1,336,362 |
364,415 | On July 2, 2015, Stratton revealed that the game would not take place on Earth and that, unlike "Doom 3," the game was comic and "very juvenile". Director Hugo Martin later said that the game was heavily inspired by rock and roll and "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe" and that its Hell-themed levels would feature... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12915762 | 364,225 |
1,866,143 | An important problem closely connected with the foregoing [referring to Hilbert's nineteenth problem] is the question concerning the existence of solutions of partial differential equations when the values on the boundary of the region are prescribed. This problem is solved in the main by the keen methods of H. A. Schw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2336235 | 1,865,069 |
1,129,516 | The neck is usually maple with a flamed figure compatible with that of the ribs and back. It carries the fingerboard, typically made of ebony, but often some other wood stained or painted black. Ebony is considered the preferred material because of its hardness, appearance, and superior resistance to wear. Some very ol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3626270 | 1,128,938 |
302,287 | Manual removal of a rootkit is often extremely difficult for a typical computer user, but a number of security-software vendors offer tools to automatically detect and remove some rootkits, typically as part of an antivirus suite. , Microsoft's monthly Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool is able to detect and remov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=223942 | 302,126 |
928,916 | The association between Epstein-Barr virus and nasopharyngeal carcinoma is unequivocal in World Health Organization (WHO) types II and III tumors but less well-established for WHO type I (WHO-I) NPC, where preliminary evaluation has suggested that human papillomavirus (HPV) may be associated. EBV DNA was detectable in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8263081 | 928,425 |
1,267,209 | An unnatural base pair (UBP) is a designed subunit (or nucleobase) of DNA which is created in a laboratory and does not occur in nature. In 2012, a group of American scientists led by Floyd E. Romesberg, a chemical biologist at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, published that his team designed an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11330015 | 1,266,519 |
1,358,758 | An unnatural base pair (UBP) is a designed subunit (or nucleobase) of DNA which is created in a laboratory and does not occur in nature. In 2012, a group of American scientists led by Floyd Romesberg, a chemical biologist at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, published that his team designed an un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14039006 | 1,358,008 |
392,392 | Aluminium alloys containing cerium are being developed and implemented in high-temperature automotive applications, such as cylinder heads and turbochargers, and in other energy generation applications. These alloys were initially developed as a way to increase the usage of cerium, which is over-produced in rare-earth ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6191356 | 392,197 |
1,801,831 | From July 1960, a Canadair CP-107 Argus of the Royal Canadian Air Force underwent hot weather testing at Eglin AFB. "Since the Canadian climate is comparatively cool, even in mid-summer, a team of 35 RCAF officers and airmen have come to Eglin for six weeks to evaluate the performance of their four-engined Argus patrol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,822 |
2,155,656 | Once in the blastocoel, the mesenchyme cells extend and contract long, thin processes called filopodia. The filopodia are 250 nm in diameter and 25 um long. At this point, the filopodia appear to move randomly along the surface of the inner blastocoel, making and breaking filopodial connections to the blastocoel wall. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27359453 | 2,154,425 |
1,075,144 | The archaeological significance of this part of the province of Burgos became increasingly apparent in the 20th century as the result of the construction of a metre-gauge railway (now disused) through the Atapuerca Mountains. Deep cuttings were made through the karst geology exposing rocks and sediments of features kno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61316746 | 1,074,590 |
1,227,640 | The first known briefings of forensic procedures we still use today are recorded to be used as far back as the 7th century, the concept of utilizing fingerprints as a means of identification was first established. By the 17th century, forensic procedures were used to account criminals of guilt charges among other thing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4985778 | 1,226,979 |
1,959,945 | Alberti has studied at Scuola Normale Superiore under the guide of Giuseppe Buttazzo and Ennio De Giorgi; he is professor of mathematics at the University of Pisa. Alberti is mostly known for two remarkable theorems he proved at the beginning of his career, that eventually found applications in various branches of mode... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39518363 | 1,958,818 |
1,253,622 | In the United States, animal testing on vertebrates is primarily regulated by the Animal Welfare Act of 1966 (AWA), and the Animal Welfare Regulations which is enforced by the Animal Care division of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). The AWA co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14668445 | 1,252,942 |
1,871,803 | The human sewage and the process waste from the manufacturing industries are the two major sources of the waste water. In Thailand, the total volume of the wastewater from industries is much greater than that of the domestic sewage. As a result, an effective method is needed. Microbial remediation of xenobiotics has sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6026902 | 1,870,726 |
943,051 | "Physical Geography" starts with describing the overall structure of planet Earth, along with a brief allusion to the location of the Earth within the Solar System. Subsequently, the book focuses on terrestrial topics, such as the most basic features of land and water, and formations such as mountains, volcanoes, ocean... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600171 | 942,549 |
66,636 | Due to the anticipated global growth of the Internet, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in the early 1990s started an effort to develop a next generation IP protocol. By the beginning of 1992, several proposals appeared for an expanded Internet addressing system and by the end of 1992 the IETF announced a call... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15318 | 66,611 |
1,829,482 | With the sense with which it is used today, the term "quinary structure" first appeared in the work of McConkey, in 1989. In his work, McConkey runs 2D electrophoresis gels on the total protein content of hamster (CHO) and human (HeLa) cells. In a 2D electrophoresis gel experiment, the coordinates of a protein depend o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61245307 | 1,828,441 |
1,701,966 | ASIC's have a large, fist-like extracellular region that consumes most of the proteins structure. Within its "fist-like" structure there is a wrist, palm, finger, knuckle, thumb and β-ball domains. The "palm" makes up most of the extracellular domain, formed by seven β-sheets, where as the rest of the secondary structu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25327696 | 1,701,011 |
322,911 | Some alternatives to dark energy, such as inhomogeneous cosmology, aim to explain the observational data by a more refined use of established theories. In this scenario, dark energy doesn't actually exist, and is merely a measurement artifact. For example, if we are located in an emptier-than-average region of space, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19604228 | 322,739 |
803,876 | The formation of NASA on 29 July 1958 led to an effort to collect the existing heavy-launch rocket programs and select a single set of designs for future work. At the time, both the Air Force and US Army had teams developing such vehicles, the Army's Saturn and the Air Force's Space Launching System (SLS). The SLS used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=654872 | 803,447 |
249,610 | In 2000, Stiglitz founded the Initiative for Policy Dialogue (IPD), a think tank on international development based at Columbia University. He has been a member of the Columbia faculty since 2001, and received the university's highest academic rank (university professor) in 2003. He was the founding chair of the univer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63092 | 249,478 |
877,083 | As I was perfectly aware that my knowledge of the Mexican origin of the mushrooms would lead me to imagine only Mexican scenery, I tried deliberately to look on my environment as I knew it normally. But all voluntary efforts to look at things in their customary forms and colours proved ineffective. Whether my eyes were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1648020 | 876,621 |
1,822,976 | CASBEE considers four assessment fields: Energy Efficiency, Resource Efficiency, Local Environment, and Indoor Environment. Q and L are each divided into three sub-components with specific credits designed to evaluate the four assessment fields. Q consists of Q1: Indoor Environment (noise and acoustics, Thermal comfort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34511543 | 1,821,938 |
363,531 | The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommends statin treatment for adults with an estimated 10 year risk of developing cardiovascular disease that is greater than 10%. Guidelines by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association recommend statin treatment for primary... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=178197 | 363,341 |
2,108,306 | George Fleming is a Scottish civil engineer specialising in environmental issues. Educated at the Royal College of Science and Technology, Stanford University and the University of Strathclyde he is a doctor of philosophy. His research started with studies of the hydrology of the River Clyde that expanded to a range of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58835485 | 2,107,092 |
980,757 | In mid-1940, Maurice Ponte, from the laboratories of CSF in Paris, presented a cavity magnetron designed by Henri Gutton at SFR (see above) to the GEC laboratories at Wembley, Britain. This magnetron was designed for pulsed operation at a wavelength of 16 cm. Unlike other magnetron designs to that day, such as the Boot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1280053 | 980,245 |
2,055,670 | Maantay and Maroko's research is intended to help hazard management and disaster planning before and after a high magnitude flood event. By using a Cadastral-based Expert Dasymetric System (CEDS) they were able to estimate the number of "vulnerable sub-populations" in the densely populated New York City area. Their res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31783151 | 2,054,487 |
696,391 | The practice reached its zenith during World War II, when the availability of man-portable radio systems and sophisticated relay networks allowed forward observers to transmit targeting information and provide almost instant accuracy reports—once troops had landed. Battleships, cruisers (including Bobtail cruisers, des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=511891 | 696,027 |
250,933 | Throughout the early 1960s, the Kennedy Administration, under the aegis of Secretary of Defense McNamara, cancelled numerous SAC modernization programs. This included the Mach 3 North American B-70 Valkyrie in 1961, the GAM-87 Skybolt missile in 1962, and the Rocky Mountain Deep Underground Support Center in 1963. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28118 | 250,800 |
702,160 | "" in 1989 departed from the action-oriented gameplay of previous "Dragon Slayer" titles, and instead used a more traditional turn-based combat system. In 1990, Data East's "Gate of Doom" was an arcade action RPG that combined beat 'em up fighting gameplay with fantasy role-playing and introduced an isometric perspecti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408675 | 701,795 |
111,489 | A key feature of the M-346 is the Embedded Tactical Training System (ETTS). The ETTS is capable of emulating various equipment, such as radar, targeting pods, weapons, and electronic warfare systems; additionally, the ETTS can interface with various munitions and other equipment actually being carried on board. The sys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=948485 | 111,444 |
1,621,159 | When Arnold R. Weber was elected president in 1985, the university not only was in the midst of a funding crisis after cuts in federal aid but was also suffering from diminished national prestige. In 1976, two years after he was tenured, Professor Arthur Butz published a Holocaust denial treatise titled "The Hoax of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10414221 | 1,620,244 |
749,983 | The "Report to the Minister for Defence on the Collins class submarine and related matters" (commonly referred to as the "McIntosh-Prescott Report") was compiled in ten weeks, and released on 1 June 1999. This report concluded that the "Collins" class was incapable of performing at the required level for military opera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=810758 | 749,585 |
1,463,018 | A third possibility considered was to launch "Galileo" using a Centaur upper stage atop a Titan IIIE, but this would have required rebuilding the launch complex at Cape Canaveral, which would have added at least $125 million (equivalent to $ million in ) to the cost of the $285 million (equivalent to $ million in ) "Ga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65467235 | 1,462,195 |
55,192 | The modern automobile may have as many as 70 electronic control units (ECU) for various subsystems. Traditionally, the biggest processor is the engine control unit. Others are used for Autonomous Driving, Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS), transmission, airbags, antilock braking/ABS, cruise control, electric pow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231284 | 55,169 |
722,388 | The idea of a cellular structure that later became known as a T-tubule was first proposed in 1881. The very brief time lag between stimulating a striated muscle cell and its subsequent contraction was too short to have been caused by a signalling chemical travelling the distance between the sarcolemma and the sarcoplas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2302081 | 722,008 |
1,083,192 | The process by which Liesegang rings develop is not completely understood. Liesegang rings may form from the chemical segregation of iron oxides and other minerals during weathering. One popular mechanism suggested by geochemists is that Liesegang rings develop when there is a lack of convection (advection) and has to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29926794 | 1,082,635 |
483,341 | An economic turning point for the better came in 1943, when gross industrial production increased by 17% compared with 1942. In the Urals and Siberia, metallurgical plants were being built and expanded at an accelerated pace. In 1944, the volume of industrial production when compared with the volume of industrial produ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60830799 | 483,094 |
29,518 | Roger Bacon, a Franciscan friar who wrote on a wide variety of topics including optics, comparative linguistics, and medicine, composed his "Great Work" () for as part of a project towards rebuilding the medieval university curriculum to include the new learning of his time. While alchemy was not more important to him ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573 | 29,508 |
1,499,337 | Larger planetesimals, above a transition mass of roughly Ceres mass in the inner solar system and Pluto mass in the outer solar system, accrete pebbles with Stoke's numbers near one from their Hill radii. The Stokes number in this context is the product of stopping time and the keplerian frequency. As with small planet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48625218 | 1,498,493 |
2,142,736 | The dyke was constructed in the 25 hectare farm of Krishi Vigyan Kendra Kannur in 2007 to solve the problem of water scarcity. The experience of KVK indicated that subsurface dyke was an efficient barrier to arrest the subsurface flow of water and conserve ground water. The rate of depletion of drainable water in the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23206550 | 2,141,505 |
1,474,184 | "Synechococcus" has been observed to occur at concentrations ranging between a few cells to 10 cells per ml in virtually all regions of oceanic euphotic zone except in samples from the McMurdo Sound and Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Cells are generally much more abundant in nutrient-rich environments than in the oligot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7219097 | 1,473,353 |
2,068,464 | Naval Medical Research Unit Five (NAMRU-5) was a research laboratory of the US Navy which was founded as a field facility of Naval Medical Research Unit 3 in Addis Ababa Ethiopia with a collecting station in Gambella on December 30, 1965 under an agreement between the US and Ethiopian governments. In 1974 NAMRU-5 was e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33251622 | 2,067,273 |
289,743 | In January 2015, Bostrom joined Stephen Hawking among others in signing the Future of Life Institute's open letter warning of the potential dangers of A.I. The signatories "...believe that research on how to make AI systems robust and beneficial is both important and timely, and that concrete research should be pursued... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=408292 | 289,586 |
1,134,279 | During the anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill movement of 2019 which evolved into a large-scale pro-democracy protest over the course of several months, medics were increasingly frequently denied access to patients. In the 31 August MTR station incident, an online video showed a medic was refused entry to the station ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34833199 | 1,133,686 |
38,013 | "H. erectus" sites frequently are associated with assemblages of medium- to large-sized game, namely elephants, rhinos, hippos, bovine, and boar. "H. erectus" would have had considerable leftovers, potentially pointing to food sharing or long-term food preservation (such as by drying) if most of the kill was indeed uti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19554533 | 38,000 |
54,423 | The end of the war left the USAAF with thousands of P-38s rendered obsolete by the jet age. Orders for 1,887 more were cancelled. The last P-38s in service with the United States Air Force were retired in 1949. One-hundred late-model P-38L and F-5 Lightnings were acquired by Italy through an agreement dated April 1946.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25041 | 54,400 |
7,828 | The 18th century saw the arrival of some notable improvements, first by Poleni with the first fully functional calculating clock and four-operation machine, but these machines were almost always "one of a kind". Luigi Torchi invented the first direct multiplication machine in 1834: this was also the second key-driven m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7593 | 7,825 |
1,443,723 | Shipping ports are a significant source of pollution due to the heavy cargo traffic that these areas receive. The impact of these ships is quite widespread, affecting coastal communities and ecosystems across the globe. Most major shipping ports are located near environmentally sensitive estuaries. These areas are part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3444688 | 1,442,910 |
1,480,119 | An electrodynamic tether is attached to an object, the tether being oriented at an angle to the local vertical between the object and a planet with a magnetic field. The tether's far end can be left bare, making electrical contact with the ionosphere. When the tether intersects the planet's magnetic field, it generates... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2860340 | 1,479,285 |
1,856,821 | It has been suggested that the coeval Appalachian Taconic orogeny is the "northward" continuation of the Famatinian orogeny. This has been explained by adding that the continent Laurentia could have collided with Gondwana (at what is today western South America) in early Paleozoic times due to the closure of the Iapetu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47872098 | 1,855,753 |
854,183 | E-commerce shopping can be seen as the best way to reduce one's carbon footprint. Yet, this is only true to some extent. Shopping online is less energy intensive than driving to a physical store location and then driving back home. This is because shipping can take advantage of economies of scale. However, these benefi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25406027 | 853,728 |
1,723,467 | The origin of qualification structures can be traced back to organized education in antique civilizations such as Greece, Sparta, Rome and China. As no specialized career structure existed in these cultures, organized education focused on broad issues of international citizenship, and not on vocational preparedness, wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53715889 | 1,722,497 |
155,378 | Gottfried Wagener was a German scientist brought in by the government to advise Japanese industry and improve production processes. Along with Namikawa Yasuyuki he developed a transparent black enamel which was used for backgrounds. Translucent enamels in various other colours followed during this period. Along with Ts... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314629 | 155,308 |
1,998,276 | England batted for the second time, and after lunch on the fourth afternoon, Bradman set fields to restrict the scoring, as England passed 100 without loss. Washbrook then hooked Johnston and top edged it, but Bradman failed to take the catch. He repeated the shot soon after and Harvey took the catch at 1/129, so the A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21051201 | 1,997,133 |
506,378 | From 2005 to 2007, Leshin was the director of Sciences and Exploration Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, where she oversaw science activities. From 2008 to 2009, she was the Deputy Center Director for Science & Technology at Goddard. In this position, she oversaw strategy development at the center, lea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33760918 | 506,115 |
530,808 | Inhibition of Hsp90 leads to Hsp70 and Hsp40 upregulation, which can channel misfolded protein for proteasome degradation, which can potentially inhibit the progression of neurodegenerative diseases. For example, Hsp70 overexpression in human neuroglioma cells transfected with mutant alpha-synuclein led to 50% less oli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=474345 | 530,534 |
519,482 | Similar insights were developed by Pierre Bourdieu, who also rejected the arguments of the new institutional economists. While these economists attempted to incorporate culture in their models, they did so by arguing that non-market "tradition" was the product of rational maximizing action in the market (i.e., to show ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=418436 | 519,213 |
10,931 | The American Psychiatric Association (APA) guidelines note that, in general, benzodiazepines are well tolerated, and their use for the initial treatment for panic disorder is strongly supported by numerous controlled trials. APA states that there is insufficient evidence to recommend any of the established panic disord... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4781 | 10,926 |
1,959,446 | The Maori's daily life was dictated by the season. The planting season was in October and the harvest in February. Trapping rats and birds was commonly practised by the forest tribes. Despite a relatively small population, the tribes claimed ownership of the entire island, periodically visiting land to substantiate cla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20232068 | 1,958,319 |
449,138 | IBM Research's numerous contributions to physical and computer sciences include the Scanning Tunneling Microscope and high-temperature superconductivity, both of which were awarded the Nobel Prize. IBM Research was behind the inventions of the SABRE travel reservation system, the technology of laser eye surgery, magnet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=551666 | 448,920 |
998,433 | Once the nobelium-255 is produced, it can be separated out similarly as used to purify the neighboring actinide mendelevium. The recoil momentum of the produced nobelium-255 atoms is used to bring them physically far away from the target from which they are produced, bringing them onto a thin foil of metal (usually ber... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21278 | 997,915 |
965,000 | Viral Meningitis is mostly caused by an infectious agent that has colonized somewhere in its host. People who are already in an immunocompromised state are at the highest risk of pathogen entry. Some of the most common examples of immunocompromised individuals include those with HIV, cancer, diabetes, malnutrition, cer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172305 | 964,491 |
21,906 | Data collection at the LHC finally commenced in March 2010. By December 2011 the two main particle detectors at the LHC, ATLAS and CMS, had narrowed down the mass range where the Higgs could exist to around (ATLAS) and (CMS). There had also already been a number of promising event excesses that had "evaporated" and pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20556903 | 21,897 |
1,051,253 | The Pelagornithidae had extremely thin-walled bones widely pneumatized with the air sac extensions of the lungs. Most limb bone fossils are very much crushed for that reason. In life, the thin bones and extensive pneumatization enabled the birds to achieve large size while remaining below critical wing loadings. Though... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9205088 | 1,050,707 |
302,230 | In December 2015, astronomers at the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) detected a brief series of 350 GHz pulses that they concluded must either be a series of independent sources, or a single, fast moving source. Deciding that the latter was the most likely, they calculated based on its speed that, were it bound t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23842 | 302,069 |
727,317 | Batrachotoxin was discovered by Fritz Märki and Bernhard Witkop, at the National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A. Märki and Witkop separated the potent toxic alkaloids fraction from "Phyllobates bicolor" and determined its chemical properties in 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=854573 | 726,935 |
1,515,084 | Properly designed, flexible, and robust, automated identification systems, organized around distributed computing architectures and referenced to authoritatively identified collections of training set data (e.g., images, and gene sequences) can, in principle, provide all systematists with access to the electronic data ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9788270 | 1,514,233 |
1,977,937 | Finally, Espinoza (48 in 1993) & 1994, Pineda in 1996 & (56 in 1997), Dalton (30 in 1993) 1994 & 1996, Braatz (75 in 1993) & 1997, Nuveman in 1999, Mascarenas in 2001, Findlay in 2005, Chamberlain in 2013, Lindenberg (77 in 1998), Amanda Scott (72 in 1998), Julie Marshall (67 in 1999), Mackenzie Vandergeest (61 in 2001... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30920803 | 1,976,799 |
444,093 | Bismuthene, the two-dimensional (2D) allotrope of bismuth, was predicted to be a topological insulator. It was predicted that bismuthene retains its topological phase when grown on silicon carbide in 2015. The prediction was successfully realized and synthesized in 2016. At first glance the system is similar to graphen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43589512 | 443,878 |
1,661,198 | While nuclear reactors are usually in sturdy housings, it was not immediately realized that long-term neutron bombardment can embrittle steel. When, for example, ex-Soviet submarine reactors are not given full maintenance or decommissioning, there is a cumulative hazard that steel in the containment, or piping that can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13784530 | 1,660,264 |
826,953 | One common way to try and understand the electronic properties of amorphous metals is by comparing them to liquid metals, which are similarly disordered, and for which established theoretical frameworks exist. For simple amorphous metals, good estimations can be reached by semi-classical modelling of the movement of in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=347027 | 826,509 |
1,915,963 | Microbial dissimilatory sulfate reduction (MSR), an energy-yielding metabolism performed by bacteria in anoxic environments, is associated with an especially large fractionation factor. The observed ε values range from 0 to -65.6‰. Many factors influence the size of this fractionation, including sulfate reduction rate,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64047800 | 1,914,864 |
1,625,375 | Marine scientists have slowly begun to understand in the last 10 or 15 years the importance of even the smallest subdivisions of plankton and their role in aquatic food webs and in organic and inorganic nutrient recycling. Therefore, being able to accurately measure the biomass and size distribution of picoplankton com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6994700 | 1,624,459 |
2,015,922 | Nuclear receptor subfamily 5 group A member 1 (NR5A1), also known as SF1 or Ad4BP (MIM 184757), is located on the long arm of chromosome 9 (9q33.3). The NR5A1 is an orphan nuclear receptor that was first identified following the search for a common regulator of the cytochrome P450 steroid hydroxylase enzyme family. Thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47157896 | 2,014,761 |
1,435,490 | On 21 July 1940, III "gruppe" JG 26 "Schlageter" received orders to relocate to Caffiers in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais in preparation for actions against Britain in what would become the Battle of Britain. Adolf Hitler had issued Führer Directive no. 17 ("Weisung Nr." 17) on 1 August 1940; the strategic objective was to en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10701662 | 1,434,684 |
108,486 | After the model's construction, Takahashi decided to combine the model's concept with an unrelated story idea, which became the basis for a new game after positive feedback from staff. Takahashi later said that one of the main reasons for developing the game was to bolster team morale after the commercial failure of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25992553 | 108,441 |
509,923 | During the automotive industry's interest in gas turbines for vehicle propulsion (around 1965), Chrysler invented a unique type of rotary heat exchanger that consisted of a rotary drum constructed from corrugated metal (similar in appearance to corrugated cardboard). This drum was continuously rotated by reduction gear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30547984 | 509,659 |
1,279,223 | A telephone exchange must run continuously without interruption at all times; it implements a fault-tolerant design. Early trials of electronics and computers in the control sub systems of an exchange were successful and resulted in the development of fully electronic systems, in which the switching network was also el... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7092252 | 1,278,529 |
1,564,958 | Katherine Safford Harris, Frederica Bell-Berti and colleagues studied the phasing and cohesion of articulatory speech gestures. Kenneth Pugh was among the first scientists to use functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to reveal brain activity associated with reading and reading disabilities. Pugh, Donald Shankwei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6202324 | 1,564,071 |
1,250,145 | After six months at Veitch's Coombe Woods Nursery, Wilson travelled west towards China, stopping for five days at the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, Massachusetts, where he carried a letter of introduction to Charles Sprague Sargent and studied techniques for shipping seeds and plants without damage. He continued across t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5046260 | 1,249,469 |
899,868 | Thorium-based nuclear power reactors have also become an area of active research in recent years. It is being backed by many scientists and researchers, and Professor James Hansen, the former Director at NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies has reportedly said, “After studying climate change for over four decades, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=626455 | 899,393 |
1,536,184 | "Triarthrus" is an average size trilobite (up to about ) and its moderately convex body is about twice as long as wide (excluding spines). Like in all Olenidae, the headshield (or cephalon) of "Triarthrus" has opisthoparian sutures, and the right and left free cheeks that they define are yoked. The cephalon in "Triarth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9198952 | 1,535,316 |
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