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1,980,702 | The MSSS cameras on board the Mars Global Surveyor, produced high resolution images that were also processed by Malin Space Science Systems, and discovered the intriguing polar features informally known as 'dark dune spots' and 'spiders'. The origin of dark dune spots and the dark slope streaks emanating from them is y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1862628 | 1,979,564 |
852,862 | The "SHH" gene is a member of the hedgehog gene family with five variations of DNA sequence alterations or splice variants. "SHH" is located on chromosome seven and initiates the production of Sonic Hedgehog protein. This protein sends short- and long-range signals to embryonic tissues to regulate development. If the "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=353697 | 852,408 |
909,275 | Ehrlich earned a bachelor's degree in zoology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1953, an M.A. from the University of Kansas in 1955, and a Ph.D. from the University of Kansas in 1957, supervised by the prominent bee researcher Charles Duncan Michener (the title of his dissertation: "The Morphology, Phylogeny and H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=359542 | 908,796 |
1,393,041 | Face perception is a function of the visual system which is critical for social behavior. People with schizophrenia have shown abnormalities in tasks designed to probe facial processing and recognition. Specifically, performance deficits have been observed in this disorder when subjects were asked to identify degraded ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34042719 | 1,392,270 |
556,357 | The economics of Kalecki was based, more explicitly and systematically than that of Keynes, on the principle of the circular flow of income that goes back to the Physiocrat François Quesnay. According to that principle, income is determined by expenditure decisions, not by the exchange of resources (capital or labor). ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2205338 | 556,068 |
541,824 | As a second application of this work, he was able to show meromorphic continuation for a large class of formula_2-functions arising in the theory of automorphic forms, not previously known to have them. These occurred in the constant terms of Eisenstein series, and meromorphicity as well as a weak functional equation w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25986 | 541,544 |
1,031,952 | SB10 transposase has been improved over the decade since its construction by increasing the consensus with a greater number of extinct Tc1 transposon sequences and testing various combinations of changes. Further work has shown that the DNA-binding domain consists of two paired sequences, which are homologous to sequen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31728232 | 1,031,416 |
233,350 | The Deputy Administrator of NASA, Dr. Robert Seamans, was attending a celebratory dinner sponsored by the Goddard Space Flight Center, at which Vice President Hubert Humphrey was the guest speaker, when the problem arose. The incident inspired Seamans to review NASA's problem investigation procedures, modeled after mil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=364888 | 233,231 |
1,104,045 | Myelination, formation of the lipid myelin sheath around neuronal axons, is a process that is essential for normal brain function. The myelin sheath provides insulation for the nerve impulse when communicating between neural systems. Without it, the impulse would be disrupted and the signal would not reach its target, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=189701 | 1,103,482 |
99,148 | Kaku was inspired to pursue a career in physics after seeing a photograph of Albert Einstein's desk at the time of his death. Kaku was fascinated to learn that Einstein had been unable to complete his unified field theory and resolved to dedicate his life to solving this theory. By the time Kaku was in high school, he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348746 | 99,105 |
118,659 | In the presence of strong electrostatic fields it is predicted that virtual particles become separated from the vacuum state and form real matter. The fact that electromagnetic radiation can be transformed into matter and vice versa leads to fundamentally new features in quantum electrodynamics. One of the most importa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84400 | 118,613 |
1,692,096 | The dates for the Nara period are thought to be around 710-784. The beginning of this period is marked by the relocation of Japan's capital to Nara. It was during this period that Japanese society took on a more hierarchical structure with all power proceeding the emperor. In addition there was a merging of Buddhism an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17616212 | 1,691,145 |
1,079,583 | Not all algorithms try to either find a unique cluster assignment for each point or all clusters in all subspaces; many settle for a result in between, where a number of possibly overlapping, but not necessarily exhaustive set of clusters are found. An example is FIRES, which is from its basic approach a subspace clust... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22562715 | 1,079,028 |
714,867 | However, in a newer history by a retired "Big Safari" commander published in 2014, some of the earlier account is refuted as erroneous. The "Pee Wee III" aircraft arrived in Pakistan in March 1964, well before the Chinese nuclear tests began, not for monitoring the tests since the aircraft were not yet equipped with th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33576652 | 714,494 |
1,543,726 | The paradigm shift in psychology from behaviorism to the study of cognition had a huge impact on the field of Human Performance Modeling. Regarding memory and cognition, the research of Newell and Simon regarding artificial intelligence and the General Problem Solver (GPS; Newell & Simon, 1963), demonstrated that compu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47152350 | 1,542,853 |
1,217,620 | This combines gravity, quantization, and even the electromagnetic interaction, promising ingredients of a fundamental physical theory. This outcome revealed a previously unknown and already existing natural link between general relativity and quantum mechanics. There lacks clarity in the generalization of this theory t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564961 | 1,216,967 |
1,126,417 | In a closely following regulatory action, on August 23, 2004, USEC applied for a license to construct and operate the larger, commercial scale "American Centrifuge Plant" in the same complex of structures as the Lead Cascade, plus some new construction. The NRC issued Special Nuclear Materials License SNM-2011 on Docke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12653614 | 1,125,840 |
341,439 | The original Berkeley RISC designs were in some sense teaching systems, not designed specifically for outright performance. To the RISC's basic register-heavy and load/store concepts, ARM added a number of the well-received design notes of the 6502. Primary among them was the ability to quickly serve interrupts, which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60558 | 341,258 |
1,008,553 | In May 1940 during the Battle of France the DLMs were tasked with the difficult manoeuvre of carrying out a quick advance into the Low Countries, followed by a holding action to allow the infantry divisions following behind to dig themselves in. The 2nd and 3rd DLM were concentrated in the Gembloux gap between Louvain ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2838334 | 1,008,032 |
1,567,844 | While platform trials offer many advantages for investigating a single disease, their adaptive nature and potential for numerous and complicated arms limit the ability to execute platform trials. Platforms require a large number of experts for trial design, Data Monitoring and Safety Boards and operations leading to hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70064623 | 1,566,957 |
577,988 | A recently exploited technique to accelerate traditional volume rendering algorithms such as ray-casting is the use of modern graphics cards. Starting with the programmable pixel shaders, people recognized the power of parallel operations on multiple pixels and began to perform "general-purpose computing on (the) graph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=698016 | 577,692 |
942,903 | On each of the two competition days, the students are typically given three problems which they have to solve in five hours. Each student works on his/her own, with only a computer and no other help allowed, specifically no communication with other contestants, books etc. Usually to solve a task the contestant has to w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14777 | 942,401 |
546,273 | Prior to the end of the war on 15 August 1945, the Australian military was preparing to contribute forces to the invasion of Japan. Australia's participation in this operation would have involved elements of all three services fighting as part of Commonwealth forces. It was planned to form a new 10th Division from exis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22738876 | 545,987 |
837,012 | The first fifty production M18 57 mm cannons and ammunition were rushed from the factories to the European theater in March 1945. Further examples were subsequently sent to the Pacific Theater. The first combat the new cannon saw was with the U.S. Army's 17th Airborne Division near Essen, Germany as well as U.S. Forces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21708398 | 836,563 |
1,832,127 | In November 2007, a controversial aerial approach was used to spray microencapsulated LBAM pheromone in urban and rural areas of the counties of Santa Cruz and Monterey California to combat the invasive light brown apple moth. Usually the effect of disruption of orientation of the male moths to females (or monitoring p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14344741 | 1,831,080 |
322,878 | Nearly all inflation models predict that the total (matter+energy) density of the universe should be very close to the critical density. During the 1980s, most cosmological research focused on models with critical density in matter only, usually 95% cold dark matter (CDM) and 5% ordinary matter (baryons). These models ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19604228 | 322,706 |
1,441,704 | Many companies have worked with inkjet over the years. Many patents have been issued and the technology has been used in a number of products. The basic form of the inkjet was a single nozzle with either fluid forced through under pressure, pulled from it by electrical potential or pushed out with the help of a piezo. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46964830 | 1,440,892 |
1,887,550 | The testing team of Type 032-1 consisted a crew that included seasoned submariners such as Mr. Han Wen-Yun (韩文运), the captain of the boat, Chen Ji-Lin (陈吉林), the crew chief, Mr. Jing Li-Feng (荆聿封), Mr. Li X-Ju (李锡驹), data recording staff on board the boat. The test manager was originally Professor Wang Xu (王旭) of Tianj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48600955 | 1,886,468 |
2,023,897 | Thiel's first appointment after graduation was as an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where she worked in the research group of Gerhard Ertl, who later went on to receive the 2007 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. In 1982 she joined the technical staff of Sandia National Laboratories... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62484997 | 2,022,733 |
1,659,871 | Brazil's public research institutes and universities follow rigid rules that tend to make them difficult to manage. States may opt to develop their own research institutes and university systems but, as all laws and regulations are adopted at federal level, they all have to follow the same rules and regulations. Thus, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1525228 | 1,658,938 |
355,614 | In early 2020, immunology research at the Faculty of Medicine focused on SARS-CoV-2 under the leadership of Robin Shattock as part of the college's COVID-19 Response Team, including the search of a cheap vaccine which started human trials on 15 June 2020. Neil Ferguson's 16 March report entitled "Impact of non-pharmace... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61116 | 355,431 |
1,096,803 | New government spending, regulation, and policies helped the industry weather the 2009 economic crisis better than many other sectors. Most notably, U.S. President Barack Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 included more than $70 billion in direct spending and tax credits for clean energy and associa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10418624 | 1,096,243 |
1,758,769 | Any seasonal cloud cover at the new site needed to arrive in the opposite season to that at Climax, in order to then provide for year-round coverage of the Sun. Similar to Climax, the atmosphere above the new site should be exceptionally free from haze and dust in order to permit for the best possible observing. Robert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57822012 | 1,757,776 |
1,608,680 | The College has approximately 225 students and offers programs in 35 disciplines, from journalism to astrophysics. Around 80 students are accepted per year, with suggested applicant scores of 30 on the ACT and/or 1300 on the SAT, and top 10% class placement at high school graduation. Students benefit from their involve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9781970 | 1,607,775 |
667,233 | While surveillance targets were pre-programmed and the camera could operate automatically, astronauts could decide target priority for photographing. By avoiding cloudy areas and identifying more interesting subjects (an open missile silo instead of a closed one, for example), they would save film, the major limitation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=615373 | 666,885 |
133,329 | The understanding of neurons and the nervous system became increasingly precise and molecular during the 20th century. For example, in 1952, Alan Lloyd Hodgkin and Andrew Huxley presented a mathematical model for transmission of electrical signals in neurons of the giant axon of a squid, which they called "action poten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,276 |
479,821 | The production process starts with mother rolls. First, the etched, roughened and pre-formed anode foil on the mother roll as well as the spacer paper and the cathode foil are cut to the required width. The foils are fed to an automatic winder, which makes a wound section in a consecutive operation involving three sequ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44717055 | 479,580 |
2,222,573 | Previous secret ingredients include: (2019) birthday party supplies, gold; (2018) string, bags, balloons, “2018 teaser”; (2017) packing materials, duct tape; (2016) plastic bottles, PVC pipe, compressed air; (2015) air, plastic bottles, light bulbs; (2014) breakfast foods; dinner ingredients, lunch ingredients; (2013) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33298861 | 2,221,311 |
916,633 | After the Civil War, population expansion, railroad construction, and the culling of the buffalo herds heightened military tensions on the Great Plains. Specifically, according to Colville scholar Dina Gilio-Whitaker in her book As Long as Grass Grows, "While the railroads wreaked havoc on Indian lives in numerous ways... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=161323 | 916,150 |
846,439 | Primary progressive aphasia (PPA) is a type of neurological syndrome in which language capabilities slowly and progressively become impaired. As with other types of aphasia, the symptoms that accompany PPA depend on what parts of the left hemisphere are significantly damaged. However, unlike most other aphasias, PPA re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2540923 | 845,989 |
1,517,961 | The clusters shrink as energy is dissipated by gas drag and inelastic collisions, leading to the formation of planetesimals the size of large asteroids. Impact speeds are limited during the collapse of the smaller clusters that form 1–10 km asteroids, reducing the fragmentation of particles, leading to the formation of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48840652 | 1,517,104 |
2,218,069 | He did postdoctoral study on lunar craters: he worked with Gilbert Fielder, a vocal supporter of the volcanic origin of the craters, at the university observatory. Guest soon rejected Fielder's commonly-held belief and instead supported the meteorite-impact mechanism; the new data unequivocally supported his view. He j... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57939789 | 2,216,807 |
313,248 | From 1947 to 1951, Stockhausen studied music pedagogy and piano at the Hochschule für Musik Köln (Cologne Conservatory of Music) and musicology, philosophy, and German studies at the University of Cologne. He had training in harmony and counterpoint, the latter with Hermann Schroeder, but he did not develop a real inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17268 | 313,080 |
2,123,955 | The genome of "Paraburkholderia xenovorans" (LB400) is one of the largest bacterial genomes completely sequenced to date. The recent genomic studies of this organism have helped expand understanding of bacterial catabolism, noncatabolic physiological adaptation to organic compounds, and the evolution of large bacterial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11290211 | 2,122,735 |
1,590,193 | For sustainability point of view, Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) is a Nano-scale manufacturing technology using bottom-up and chemical vapor deposition (CVD) manufacturing method. ALD replaces SiO dielectric film with AlO dielectric film. ALD industry is already in use in Semiconductor industry and promising in solar ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49251542 | 1,589,299 |
310,228 | Mars, Enceladus and Europa are considered likely candidates in the search for life primarily because they may have underground liquid water, a molecule essential for life as we know it for its use as a solvent in cells. Water on Mars is found frozen in its polar ice caps, and newly carved gullies recently observed on M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2787 | 310,061 |
125,345 | Lightning is a dramatic natural example of static discharge. While the details are unclear and remain a subject of debate, the initial charge separation is thought to be associated with contact between ice particles within storm clouds. In general, significant charge accumulations can only persist in regions of low ele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=200136 | 125,293 |
1,222,422 | Vanadium oxides have been a common class of cathodes to study due to their high capacity, ease of synthesis, and electrochemical window that matches well with common polymer electrolytes. Vanadium oxides cathodes, typically classed as charged cathodes, are found in many different structure types. These materials have b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42601555 | 1,221,763 |
819,659 | While the origins of cost–benefit analysis can be traced back to Jules Dupuit's classic article "On the Measurement of the Utility of Public Works" (1844), much of the subsequent scholarly development occurred in the United States and arose from the challenges of water-resource development. In 1950, the U.S. Federal In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18532781 | 819,218 |
1,448,587 | By the mid-1960s, the techniques of biochemistry and molecular biology—in particular protein electrophoresis—provided a way to measure the level of heterozygosity in natural populations: a possible means to resolve the classical/balance controversy. In 1963, Jack L. Hubby published an electrophoresis study of protein v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11863361 | 1,447,771 |
98,394 | To coincide with the film's release, Pocket Books published a written by Roddenberry. The only "Star Trek" novel Roddenberry wrote, the book adds back story and elements that did not appear in the movie; for example, the novelization mentions that Willard Decker is the son of Commodore Matt Decker from the original ser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277006 | 98,352 |
865,781 | POCT is often accomplished through the use of transportable, portable, and handheld instruments (e.g., blood glucose meter, nerve conduction study device) and test kits (e.g., CRP, HBA1C, Homocystein, HIV salivary assay, etc.). Small bench analyzers or fixed equipment can also be used when a handheld device is not avai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8713563 | 865,321 |
1,591,179 | SCRs were invented by Dr. Carl G. Langner P.E., NAE who described an SCR together with a flexible joint used to accommodate angular deflections of the top region of the SCR relative a support platform, as the platform and the SCR move in currents and waves. SCRs use thousands of feet of long unsupported pipe spans. Com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31591708 | 1,590,285 |
689,536 | is the red spiky-haired silent protagonist of the game. He is never shown speaking, using facial expressions to communicate. His name is spelled in Japanese materials. He lives in the village of Truce with his mother. A chance encounter with Marle at the fair begins a series of adventures and uncovers a pre-millennial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5817189 | 689,174 |
1,013,852 | The MiG-1 was designed in response to a requirement for a high-altitude fighter with an inline engine issued by the VVS in January 1939. Initially the aircraft, designated "I-200", was designed in the Polikarpov construction bureau. Work started in June 1939, under the direction of Nikolai Polikarpov and his assistant ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=534690 | 1,013,331 |
301,623 | Practical electronic converters use switching techniques. Switched-mode DC-to-DC converters convert one DC voltage level to another, which may be higher or lower, by storing the input energy temporarily and then releasing that energy to the output at a different voltage. The storage may be in either magnetic field stor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=618169 | 301,462 |
644,977 | Phenotypic plasticity in plants includes the timing of transition from vegetative to reproductive growth stage, the allocation of more resources to the roots in soils that contain low concentrations of nutrients, the size of the seeds an individual produces depending on the environment, and the alteration of leaf shape... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3040270 | 644,637 |
1,032,096 | In 1990 Benetton competed with three-time world champion Nelson Piquet and Alessandro Nannini, who was replaced by Roberto Moreno after an injury in a helicopter accident in the last two races. Initially, HB III engines were used, which were replaced by the HB IV version in the summer. At the beginning of the season, B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68931039 | 1,031,560 |
1,247,380 | In symptomatic patients, since these tumors are benign, gross total resection (GTR) is the preferred course of therapy. The chance of a cure has nearly reached 100% because to recent improvements in imaging, surgical techniques, and intensive care quality. Significant (12 percent) perioperative mortality occurs in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8160158 | 1,246,705 |
1,993,395 | The university witnessed a leap in the number of colleges in 1998, when the College of Medicine and Health Sciences was established for the purpose of providing qualified doctors and medical staff, and the same year witnessed the establishment of the College of Applied Sciences, and the aim of its establishment was dic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25780732 | 1,992,252 |
1,687,236 | Over time, there are several arguments that would come to define the history of evolutionary neuroscience. The first is the argument between Etienne Geoffro St. Hilaire and George Cuvier over the topic of "common plan versus diversity". Geoffrey argued that all animals are built based on a single plan or archetype and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1555376 | 1,686,290 |
1,030,379 | Projects in which he used concrete foundations included the Millbank Penitentiary, the rebuilding of the London Custom House and the British Museum. At the first two he was called in when work overseen by previous architects had proved unstable. The prison at Millbank (1812–21; demolished c. 1890) had been designed by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1484094 | 1,029,845 |
1,067,782 | Although most fungi—and especially "Aspergillus"—fail to grow in healthy human tissue, significant growth may occur in people whose adaptive immune system is compromised, such as those with chronic granulomatous disease, who are undergoing chemotherapy, or who have recently undergone a bone marrow transplantation. With... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3129502 | 1,067,228 |
636,376 | The last entry in the class is the UGST (Fizik-1) heavy deepwater torpedo with a range of up to (export versions are limited to 40 km). It differs from most previous Soviet and Russian torpedoes in that unlike the previously dominant electric or peroxide propulsion, it uses the Otto fuel axial engine, which allows it t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=621595 | 636,037 |
2,061,779 | The dielectric permittivity and magnetic permeability are usually understood within the 3-vector representation of electrodynamics via the relations formula_13 and formula_14 where formula_15 and formula_16 are, respectively, the electric field, magnetic flux density, electric displacement, and magnetic field intensity... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38875981 | 2,060,591 |
144,528 | For testing the susceptibility of electronic devices to ESD from human contact, an ESD Simulator with a special output circuit, called the human body model (HBM) is often used. This consists of a capacitor in series with a resistor. The capacitor is charged to a specified high voltage from an external source, and then ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75049 | 144,470 |
1,772,693 | In February 1998, the battalion deployed for 3 months to Laredo, Texas in support of Joint Task Force Six to conduct general engineering construction missions in support of U.S. Border Patrol. This included erecting 2 k-span buildings for a helicopter hanger & barracks, quarrying operations & replacing closed culverts ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23176611 | 1,771,696 |
1,515,294 | Extreme phenomena have been observed in single-shot studies of the temporal dynamics of optical beam filamentation in air and the two-dimensional transverse profiles of beams forming multiple filaments in a nonlinear Xenon cell. In the former studies, spectral analysis of self-guided optical filaments, which were gener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42450197 | 1,514,443 |
410,450 | Originally, Gordon was going to adapt Lovecraft's story for the stage, but eventually decided along with writers Dennis Paoli and William Norris to make it as a half-hour television pilot. The story was set around the turn of the century, and they soon realized that it would be too expensive to recreate. They updated i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1129009 | 410,248 |
514,057 | Inspired by the RAF's Empire Test Pilots' School, Colonel Ernest K. Warburton, chief of the Flight Test Section at Wright Field, set about changing the role and status of flight testing in the Army Air Forces. His goals for the flight test community were standardization and independence, which were later realized with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=610257 | 513,791 |
792,013 | Although the advent of anatomical physical modernity cannot confidently be linked with palaeoneurological change, it does seem probable that hominid brains evolved through the same selection processes as other body parts. Genes that promoted a capacity for symbolism may have been selected for, suggesting that the found... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5971398 | 791,588 |
1,436,717 | The advantages of the AV fistula use are lower infection rates, because no foreign material is involved in their formation, higher blood flow rates (which translates to more effective dialysis), and a lower incidence of thrombosis. The complications are fewer than with other access methods. If a fistula has a very high... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5754311 | 1,435,908 |
1,998,664 | Histological examination of the lesions in DFL usually reveals them to be localized to the GI tract mucosa and submucosa. The lesions consist of abnormal germinal center-containing lymphoid follicles overcrowded with a uniformly-sized population of malignant centrocytes and rare centroblasts. The lesions are classified... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61515082 | 1,997,520 |
534,114 | For all ESA selected astronauts, Basic Training begins at the EAC headquarters. This section of the training cycle has four separate training blocks that last 16 months. Astronauts will receive an orientation on the major spacefaring nations, their space agencies, and all major crewed and uncrewed space programs. Train... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34892999 | 533,835 |
1,472,865 | While it is known that mental and sexual health is related to estrogen levels in women, there are limited studies concerning FHA and mental and sexual health. Links to serotonin, dopamine, and allopregnanolone fluctuations have been found in FHA women. Ghrelin concentrations have been found to be linked higher levels o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15738568 | 1,472,035 |
1,460,437 | A travelling microscope is an instrument for measuring length with a resolution typically in the order of 0.01mm. The precision is such that better-quality instruments have measuring scales made from Invar to avoid misreadings due to thermal effects. The instrument comprises a microscope mounted on two rails fixed to, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12793895 | 1,459,615 |
465,817 | Several academic research papers including Turner et al. (2003), Ford and Smith (2004), Adger (2006), Fraser (2007) and Patt et al. (2010) amongst others, have provided a detail review of the diverse epistemologies and methodologies in vulnerability research. Turner et al. (2003) for example proposed a framework that i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=368974 | 465,584 |
1,520,906 | Several studies have used various techniques to study the frequency of subthreshold oscillations at a different membrane potential. For example, a study examined the frequencies of SMPO in different anatomical positions on the dorsoventral axis of a rat medial entorhinal cortex. They used whole-cell patch recording in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14728230 | 1,520,045 |
166,669 | Despite those efforts, PrEP remains controversial among some who worry that widespread PrEP adoption could cause public health issues by enabling risky sexual behaviors. For instance, AIDS Healthcare Foundation founder and director Michael Weinstein has been vocal in his opposition to PrEP adoption, suggesting that PrE... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5295343 | 166,583 |
387,367 | The proposed Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket (VASIMR) functions by using radio waves to ionize a propellant into a plasma, and then using a magnetic field to accelerate the plasma out of the back of the rocket engine to generate thrust. The VASIMR is currently being developed by Ad Astra Rocket Company, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37839 | 387,172 |
2,137,922 | This article makes a proposition based on a perceptive view. When asking the question "am I fat?" the answer is either yes or no, in terms of bits relative to quantum bits, respectively. When perceived in relation to quantum bits the answer can be both yes and no, taking into consideration the multitude of correspondin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49771725 | 2,136,692 |
112,432 | In the past, it was thought that inflammation was the first event in initiating lung tissue scarring. Later findings showed that the development of fibroblastic foci precedes the accumulation of inflammatory cells and the consequent deposition of collagen. This pathogenetic model is indirectly supported by the clinical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8768565 | 112,387 |
216,759 | High-pressure mercury vapor (and some specially-designed metal-halide) lamps find application in molecular spectroscopy due to providing useful broadband continuum ("noise") energy at millimeter and terahertz wavelengths, owing to the high electron temperature of the arc plasma; the main UV emission line of ionized mer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1125543 | 216,651 |
2,048,808 | A nine-inch Cooke equatorial was mounted under Grant's supervision in 1863, and was employed by him for observations of planets, comets, and double stars. He joined the Himalaya expedition to Spain for the total eclipse of 18 July 1860, and from his station near Vittoria watched the disclosure of the chromosphere and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31777117 | 2,047,627 |
792,768 | Along with Cartan, Chern is one of the mathematicians known for popularizing the use of differential forms in math and physics. In his biography, Richard Palais and Chuu-Lian Terng have written "... we would like to point out a unifying theme that runs through all of it: his absolute mastery of the techniques of differ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=391905 | 792,343 |
1,276,758 | There are several projects and proposals to save coastal areas by reducing human damage, some of which have been attempted, including restoring natural floods from the Mississippi. Without such restoration, coastal communities will continue to disappear. One of the primary methods that has been developed are freshwater... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47741580 | 1,276,065 |
1,124,251 | In addition to a gRNA target, Cas9 requires binding to a specific 2-6 nucleotide sequence PAM. In commonly used SpCas9 systems the PAM motif is 5’ NGG 3’, where N represents any of the four DNA nucleotides. The requirement of the PAM sequence can cause specificity limitations as some regions will not have an available ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56710049 | 1,123,677 |
2,092,786 | During her early tenure at UC Berkeley, Kremen also served as a member on the Committee on Status of Pollinators where she led the first global study on crop production that is reliant upon animal pollination. In recognition of her research, she was named a 2007 MacArthur Fellows Program, which came with an unrestricte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26723672 | 2,091,581 |
417,638 | Numerous functions of EVs have been established or postulated. The first evidence for the existence of EVs was enabled by the ultracentrifuge, the electron microscope, and functional studies of coagulation in the mid-20th century. A sharp increase in interest in EVs occurred in the first decade of the 21st century foll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43476921 | 417,434 |
2,065,775 | The 100-meter dash was Cartwright's only trials event; she won from 16-year-old Betty Robinson, the eventual Olympic champion. Future star Stella Walsh was narrowly eliminated in the semi-finals. The 800 meters was run as a time trial with several heats; both Boeckmann in heat one and Wilson in heat three broke the pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48383429 | 2,064,584 |
452,612 | High Resolution Melting analysis is the simplest PCR-based method to understand. Basically, the same thermodynamic properties that allowed for the gel techniques to work apply here, and in real-time. A fluorimeter monitors the post-PCR denaturation of the entire dsDNA amplicon. You make primers specific to the site you... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9007251 | 452,393 |
2,181,188 | At the start of this race Peter Agaba was caught napping, giving up 20 metres to the field. Ferguson Cheruiyot made it clear it was going to be a record attempt, the Kenyan running off the front and making a clear separation from the pack. Kevin López kicked past Michael Rutt to put Spain in second place at the handoff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42773487 | 2,179,942 |
969,098 | Between the mid-1980s and the 2000s, the prevailing interpretation of how hadrosaurids processed their food followed the model put forward in 1984 by David B. Weishampel. He proposed that the structure of the skull permitted motion between bones that resulted in backward and forward motion of the lower jaw, and outward... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1585380 | 968,588 |
703,566 | In 1916, Brown expanded the character set to include more features; in the revised version: a comparatively short skull with a high helmet-like crest formed by nasals, prefrontals and frontals; the nasals not being separated in front by premaxillaries; a narrow beak, expanded section in front of the elongated nares; a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1360138 | 703,198 |
357,414 | The F1AZ features an integrated ground-attack system, comprising two on-board computers that can identify targets at a distance of 5 km. A laser range finder, situated below its conical nose, is connected to the computers to provide them with target info without emitting radar signals. After target identification and i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=377985 | 357,228 |
196,578 | Interferometers are devices that extract information from interference. They are widely used in science and industry for the measurement of microscopic displacements, refractive index changes and surface irregularities. In the case with most interferometers, light from a single source is split into two beams that trave... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166689 | 196,478 |
323,290 | "Thesis" is also used to describe a cumulative project for a bachelor's degree and is more common at selective colleges and universities, or for those seeking admittance to graduate school or to obtain an honors academic designation. These projects are called "senior projects" or "senior theses"; they are generally don... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=300215 | 323,118 |
1,887,549 | Type 032-1 is the unarmed prototype of the Type 032 series, and eventually, it is also the only one completed among the series. Political upheaval has caused numerous problems in that the subsystems could not be ready because many subsystems delivered was in such poor quality that they were rejected immediately upon in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48600955 | 1,886,467 |
1,237,631 | Unlike Vela Hotel, MIDAS experienced a number of problems due to its complexities. In Fall 1960, General Laurence S. Kuter, commander-in-chief of North American Air Defense Command and Lieutenant General Joseph H. Atkinson, commander of Air Defense Command, urged chief of staff of the Air Force General Thomas D. White ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66185637 | 1,236,966 |
188,667 | Dyslipidemias can also be classified based on the underlying cause, whether it is primary, secondary, or a combination of both. Primary dyslipidemias are caused by genetic disorders that can cause abnormal lipid levels without any other obvious risk factors. Those with primary dyslipidemias are at higher risk of gettin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=513054 | 188,570 |
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