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1,303,979 | Depending on the set-up chosen (financial recompensation scheme, power plant, extra equipment), prices may vary. According to Practical Action, microgeneration at home which uses the latest in cost saving-technology (wiring harnesses, ready boards, cheap DIY-power plants, e.g. DIY wind turbines) the household expenditu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3263679 | 1,303,263 |
681,255 | The IAe 33 Pulqui II project was inexorably linked to the machinations and fortunes of the Peronist regime. Although the "Fábrica Militar de Aviones" was charged with bringing aviation projects to completion, constant political interference contributed to delays and disarray in aviation programs. Severe economic proble... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2616710 | 680,900 |
1,297,881 | The electrowetting of mercury and other liquids on variably charged surfaces was probably first explained by Gabriel Lippmann in 1875 and was certainly observed much earlier. A. N. Frumkin used surface charge to change the shape of water drops in 1936. The term electrowetting was first introduced in 1981 by G. Beni and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=491221 | 1,297,169 |
1,226,754 | One of the challenges in thermal therapy is delivering the appropriate amount of heat to the correct part of the patient's body. For this technique to be effective, the temperatures must be high enough, and the temperatures must be sustained long enough, to damage or kill the cancer cells. However, if the temperatures ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14905896 | 1,226,093 |
1,139,452 | His book "Νεκροκηδεία" or "The Art of Embalming wherein is shewn the right of burial, and funeral ceremonies, especially that of preserving bodies after the Egyptian method" was published in 1705. Its main concern was to advocate the importance of embalming for the burial of the aristocracy, and make it a task limited ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18503931 | 1,138,859 |
2,178,134 | Promising results were obtained in 2003 in a study that merged the newer developments in affinity chromatography with microfluidic devices. Upon the development of microfluidic technology, coupling it with affinity chromatography meant modifying channel surfaces, packing coated beads, or packing with coated porous mate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37850414 | 2,176,889 |
289,555 | Bombing target tests showed a tendency of flying wings to "hunt" in yaw after turns and when flying in "disturbed" air, degrading bombing accuracy. It was thought that one of the new Honeywell autopilots, with yaw damping, would correct this flaw. Northrop chief test pilot on the YB-35 and YB-49 programs Max Stanley co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=566037 | 289,398 |
1,003,176 | This orientation field is introduced into the directional total variation optimization model for CS reconstruction through the equation: formula_47. formula_48 is the objective signal which needs to be recovered. Y is the corresponding measurement vector, d is the iterative refined orientation field and formula_49 is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11403316 | 1,002,658 |
1,522,955 | Backed by the Chinese government's total stimulus package of RMB 4 trillion ($585bn), Chinese businesses are now among the top producers of electric vehicles, wind turbines, solar panels and energy efficient appliances, according to a report released last month by London-based The Climate Group. In March 2009, the Chin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11612450 | 1,522,094 |
475,723 | Genetically modified mice are used extensively in research as models of human disease. Mice are a useful model for genetic manipulation and research, as their tissues and organs are similar to that of a human and they carry virtually all the same genes that operate in humans. They also have advantages over other mammal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18293050 | 475,486 |
398,621 | In 1981, the U.S. Air Force developed a requirement for an Advanced Tactical Fighter (ATF) as a new air superiority fighter to replace the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon. This was made more crucial by the emerging worldwide threats, including development and proliferation of Soviet MiG-29 and Su-27 "Flanker"-class... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=844110 | 398,425 |
701,923 | MTR has negative effects on surface and ground water quality. Surface water in MTM regions has higher concentrations of arsenic, selenium, lead, magnesium, calcium, aluminum, manganese, sulfates and hydrogen sulfide from overburden. Wastewater from the coal cleaning process contains surfactants, flocculants, coal fines... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1685995 | 701,558 |
1,286,569 | Riddoch's description was dismissed by Sir Gordon Holmes in a 1918 paper in which he wrote that" The condition described by Riddoch should not be spoken of as a dissociation of the elements of visual sensation" because "occipital lesions do not produce true dissociations of function with intact retinal sensibility". Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13498040 | 1,285,868 |
598,065 | U.S. military strategy in the European theater was confined to responses to potential Soviet aggression against NATO countries. Soviet military theory was dominated by the theory of the "deep operation" – a large-scale combined-arms offensive into enemy-held territory – rather than a nuclear offensive. Soviet conventio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45876 | 597,760 |
19,669 | Psilocybin is present in varying concentrations in over 200 species of Basidiomycota mushrooms. In a 2000 review on the worldwide distribution of hallucinogenic mushrooms, Gastón Guzmán and colleagues considered these to be distributed amongst the following genera: "Psilocybe" (116 species), "Gymnopilus" (14), "Panaeol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38468 | 19,661 |
1,056,610 | Knowing the twin-radar design was not feasible at all, the 14th Institute design team was determined to win. The original Star of the Sea design consisted of two active arrays: an octagon S-band array with diameter of four meters for search and track, and a much smaller C-band active array with diameter of 60 centimete... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51215241 | 1,056,061 |
857,691 | Patients with grade I–II encephalopathy should be transferred to a liver transplant facility and listed for transplantation. Consider a brain computed tomography (CT) scan to rule out other causes of altered or impaired mental status. Stimulation and overhydration can cause elevations in intracranial pressure (ICP) and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1226250 | 857,236 |
310,368 | Tigers were usually employed in separate German heavy tank battalions ("schwere-Panzer-Abteilung") under army command. These battalions would be deployed to critical sectors, either for breakthrough operations or, more typically, counter-attacks. The first time the Tiger saw action was on August 29 of 1942 and Septembe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29073044 | 310,200 |
585,519 | The academic foundations of the subject began with classic texts initially from the Orient such as Sun Tzu’s "Art of War" and went on to gain a European focus with Carl von Clausewitz’s "On War". Like Clausewitz, many academics in this field reject monocausal theories and hypotheses that reduce the study of conflict to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20749412 | 585,219 |
808,126 | After World War II it was not clear whether the university would be restored or whether Warsaw itself would be rebuilt. However, many professors who had survived the war returned, and began organizing the university from scratch. In December 1945, lectures resumed for almost 4,000 students in the ruins of the campus, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11157563 | 807,696 |
1,214,998 | Other Image Converter tube based systems emerged in the 1950s which incorporated a modified GenI image intensifier with additional deflector plates which allowed a photon image to be converted to a photoelectron beam. The image, while in this photoelectron state, could be shuttered on and off as short as a few nanoseco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3582572 | 1,214,346 |
1,737,982 | Soils in Antarctica are nearly two-dimensional habitats, with most biological activity limited to the top four or five inches by the permanently frozen ground below. Environments can be limiting due to soil properties such as unfavorable mineralogy, texture, structure, salts, pH, or moisture relationships. Visible sour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26376332 | 1,737,005 |
958,772 | Criticisms of the company's response to the event included the time it took the company to report events and the certainty with which they were able to locate the source of various problems. TEPCO's president made a comment the site was a "mess" after visiting post-quake. While the reported amount of leaked radioactivi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11996462 | 958,266 |
605,419 | If the shock absorbers of a vehicle's suspension are filled with magnetorheological fluid instead of a plain oil or gas, and the channels which allow the damping fluid to flow between the two chambers is surrounded with electromagnets, the viscosity of the fluid, and hence the critical frequency of the damper, can be v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=533789 | 605,109 |
375,280 | These facts were completely forgotten after the Second World War. Thus in 2001 the discovery of the typescript from 1843 in the library archives of the University of Giessen and its annotated publication was a scientific sensation. The full text of Baer's original work is available online (234 pages). The editor added ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157774 | 375,085 |
320,631 | An initial order of 48 airframes was made in 2012 to equip the air wings of the planned two "Queen Elizabeth"-class aircraft carriers, with the operation split between the FAA and the Royal Air Force, as was the case with Joint Force Harrier. 809 Naval Air Squadron was announced as the second UK unit to fly the F-35B (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51777 | 320,459 |
1,999,007 | Physical therapists can assist immobilized patients with effective cough techniques, secretion clearance, stretching of the thoracic wall, and suggest abdominal support belts when necessary. The amount of time a patient is immobilized may depend on the level of the spinal cord injury. Physical therapists work with the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35738438 | 1,997,863 |
1,617,538 | Independently from the BIR, in August 1915, a submerged cable was laid on the seabed of the Firth of Forth. The idea originated with the Scottish physicist Alexander Crichton Mitchell, who was helped by the Royal Navy at HMS Tarlair. He had shown that the passage of a submarine past a cable formed an induction loop whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17874759 | 1,616,625 |
732,862 | Depending on the part made and its intended use, SLM can help make more lightweight parts with complex dimensions which reduce both energy intensive post-processing machining such as EDM or a computer numerical control (CNC) machining and decrease part weight. Often a direct comparison can only be made by looking at pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29017963 | 732,475 |
1,750,233 | A genetic disorder (discovered in 2003 and 2004) is caused by mutation in the transporter of thyroid hormone, MCT8, also known as SLC16A2, is believed to be account for a significant fraction of the undiagnosed neurological disorders (usually resulting in hypotonic/floppy infants with delayed milestones). This genetic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14818895 | 1,749,247 |
2,180,076 | Lotzer returned for the next game against Brantford A.C. but the team was routed by a 4-goal third period from the visitors. They recovered for a 5–3 win in the second match to earn a split. A week later the team headed to Colorado to take on the Colorado College. The Tigers were a tough team but had had a rough go ear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67612886 | 2,178,831 |
59,935 | Tyre supplier Pirelli faced criticism early in the season due to the wear of some tyres, with some claiming tyre management had become too important to race strategy. This prompted Pirelli to announce plans to introduce new designs after the Canadian Grand Prix. The testing Pirelli undertook on these proposed new desig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33534350 | 59,910 |
53,283 | Hospitals were forbidden by law to turn away patients who were unable to pay. Eventually, charitable foundations called waqfs were formed to support hospitals, as well as schools. Part of the state budget also went towards maintaining hospitals. While the services of the hospital were free for all citizens and patients... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37477763 | 53,263 |
944,291 | NASA representatives George Low and Astronauts John Glenn and Scott Carpenter testified that under NASA's selection criteria women could not qualify as astronaut candidates. Glenn also believed that "The fact that women are not in this field is a fact of our social order." They correctly stated that NASA required all a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4054350 | 943,789 |
562,007 | Reconstruction of the surface is performed using a distance function which assigns to each point in the space a signed distance to the surface "S". A contour algorithm is used to extracting a zero-set which is used to obtain polygonal representation of the object. Thus, the problem of reconstructing a surface from a di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16234982 | 561,718 |
1,564,425 | Marmor credited Grünbaum with extensive knowledge of psychoanalytic literature in general and Freud's work in particular, with showing that free association, as well as other aspects of psychoanalytic theory, were scientifically unsupported, and with summarizing much evidence against the view that the success of psycho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34449875 | 1,563,538 |
1,608,583 | According to L.C. Scott, who studied statistical mechanics and biophysics at Oklahoma State University, "Thermodynamics and an Introduction to Thermostatistics" is a popular textbook that begins with some basic postulates based on intuitive classical, empirical, and macroscopic arguments. He found that it is remarkable... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63572008 | 1,607,678 |
162,337 | The "Alexander L. Kielland" was a Norwegian semi-submersible drilling rig that capsized whilst working in the Ekofisk oil field in March 1980, killing 123 people. The capsizing was the worst disaster in Norwegian waters since World War II. The rig, located approximately 320 km east of Dundee, Scotland, was owned by the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348898 | 162,252 |
400,225 | Parenteral administration generally acts more rapidly than topical or enteral administration, with onset of action often occurring in 15–30 seconds for IV, 10–20 minutes for IM and 15–30 minutes for SC. They also have essentially 100% bioavailability and can be used for drugs that are poorly absorbed or ineffective whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=334816 | 400,026 |
989,874 | Various (cyclical) scrubbing processes have been proposed to remove CO from the air or from flue gases and release them in a controlled environment, reverting the scrubbing agent. These usually involve using a variant of the Kraft process which may be based on sodium hydroxide. The CO is absorbed into such a solution, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12637359 | 989,357 |
1,950,485 | Anton was born to Peter (1831–1873) and Rosina Handlirsch (born 1841). His father worked as a cook of the Schwarzenberg family. His surname Handlirsch came from "merchant". He went to study at the Gymnasium in Vienna in 1875. Although he began to show an interest in zoology, his father wished that he obtain a degree in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14585784 | 1,949,364 |
466,765 | After NASA's NASP program was cut, American scientists began to look at adopting available Russian technology as a less expensive alternative to developing hypersonic flight. On November 17, 1992, Russian scientists with some additional French support successfully launched a scramjet engine named "Kholod" in Kazakhstan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4841481 | 466,532 |
979,473 | Small changes were made to the cylinder head for the 1995 model year. In 1996, the engine block was redesigned for greater strength. The new block had more webbing and a stud girdle for added rigidity of the crankshaft main bearings. Engines installed in 1999 Grand Cherokees carried the "PowerTech" name that had been u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1431166 | 978,962 |
1,039,706 | The tree typically grows to < 30 m (98 ft) and bears a rounded crown. The bark of the trunk is rough, furrowed lightly in older trees to form a block pattern. Young branchlets occasionally have corky wings. The shoots are slender compared with those of wych elm. The leaves are smaller than those of the other European s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4810606 | 1,039,165 |
118,668 | Nevertheless, as Jaffe himself notes in his paper, "no one has shown that source theory or another S-matrix based approach can provide a complete description of QED to all orders." Furthermore, Milonni has shown the necessity of the vacuum field for the formal consistency of QED. In QCD, color confinement has led physi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84400 | 118,622 |
2,056,692 | The solution of the LFQCD Hamiltonian eigenvalue equation will utilize the available mathematical methods of quantum mechanics and contribute to the development of advanced computing techniques for large quantum systems, including nuclei. For example, in the discretized light-cone quantization method (DLCQ), periodic c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44607491 | 2,055,508 |
1,459,629 | Questions of subjectivity, agency, actors, and structures have always been of interest in social and cultural anthropology. In cyborg anthropology the question of what type of cybernetic system constitutes an actor/subject becomes all the more important. Is it the actual technology that acts on humanity (the Internet),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33264144 | 1,458,808 |
470,112 | In 2006, the small school virtual competition was created for schools with 650 or fewer students. Two years later, the medium school virtual competition was added to accommodate schools with a student population between 650 and 1,300. These two separate contests are held via the Internet and, as such, the interview and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=562034 | 469,876 |
1,181,503 | Comparative studies of the cytochrome "b" gene, which are frequently used to determine phylogenetic relationships among mammals—particularly within families and genera—have been used to show that lemurs share common ancestry with lorisoids. This conclusion is also corroborated by the shared strepsirrhine toothcomb, an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26770557 | 1,180,879 |
573,818 | The Cabral-Dahab Science Park Management Paradigm, was first presented by Regis Cabral in ten points in 1990. According to this management paradigm, a science park must: "have access to qualified research and development personnel in the areas of knowledge in which the park has its identity; be able to market its high ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=590109 | 573,524 |
1,399,635 | Following the success of Hafler and Keroes, American manufacturers like Eico, The Fisher, Harman/Kardon and Marantz disposed with "obsolete" power triodes and switched to ultralinear designs. Mullard, Britain's largest valve manufacturer and provider of reference designs to the European industry, publicly supported the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1019188 | 1,398,860 |
320,724 | The name "deep stall" first came into widespread use after the crash of the prototype BAC 1-11 G-ASHG on 22 October 1963, which killed its crew. This led to changes to the aircraft, including the installation of a stick shaker (see below) to clearly warn the pilot of an impending stall. Stick shakers are now a standard... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81511 | 320,552 |
556,204 | The most prominent sculptor was Artus Quellinus the Elder, member of a family of famous sculptors and painters, and the cousin and master of another prominent Flemish sculptor, Artus Quellinus the Younger. Born in Antwerp, he had spent time in Rome where he became familiar with local Baroque sculpture and that of his c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8608509 | 555,915 |
1,002,105 | The sudden death of Sigismund Kęstutaitis left the office of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania empty. The Voivode of Trakai, Jonas Goštautas, and other magnates of Lithuania, supported Casimir as a candidate to the throne. However many Polish noblemen hoped that the thirteen-year-old boy would become a Vice-regent for the P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34960337 | 1,001,587 |
139,789 | The Mercury-Redstone Launch Vehicle was an (with capsule and escape system) single-stage launch vehicle used for suborbital (ballistic) flights. It had a liquid-fueled engine that burned alcohol and liquid oxygen producing about of thrust, which was not enough for orbital missions. It was a descendant of the German V-2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19812 | 139,732 |
550,699 | Shortly after World War II, a second approach to drug therapy of cancer began. Sidney Farber, a pathologist at Harvard Medical School, studied the effects of folic acid on leukemia patients. Folic acid, a vitamin crucial for DNA metabolism (the significance of DNA was not known at that time), had been discovered by Luc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1914242 | 550,411 |
833,173 | Historians have judged the Qing dynasty's vulnerability and military weakness in the 19th century to be based mainly on its maritime naval weakness while it achieved military success against Western armies on land, the historian Edward L. Dreyer said that "China's nineteenth-century humiliations were strongly related t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=407942 | 832,724 |
561,812 | The simple linear approximation applied by Hamaker's law degrades under higher voltages and longer deposition times. Under higher voltage, chemical reactions, such as reduction, driven by the influence of the applied field can obscure the kinetics. So, solvents with high reduction-oxidation potentials should be used to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1476858 | 561,523 |
288,792 | Contrast ratio is the difference between the brightest and darkest parts of an image, measured in discrete steps, at any given moment. Generally, the higher the contrast ratio, the more realistic the image is (though the "realism" of an image depends on many factors including color accuracy, luminance linearity, and sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=175859 | 288,635 |
1,568,941 | The CNS consists of neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes that are generated from multipotent stem cells. NCRP Report No. 153 provides the following excellent and short introduction to the composition and cell types of interest for radiation studies of the CNS: “The CNS consists of neurons differing markedly in siz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39761773 | 1,568,054 |
947,673 | Kam Wong published a paper questioning the bathtub curve—see also reliability-centered maintenance. During this decade, the failure rate of many components dropped by a factor of 10. Software became important to the reliability of systems. By the 1990s, the pace of IC development was picking up. Wider use of stand-alon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1724836 | 947,170 |
596,971 | According to Margaret Murray, female mathematicians in the United States have almost always been a minority. Although the exact difference fluctuates with the times, as she has explored in her book "Women Becoming Mathematicians: Creating a Professional Identity in Post-World War II America", "Since 1980, women have ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8111444 | 596,666 |
2,062,285 | Following Pittendrigh and Daan's behavioral characterization of the dual oscillator model, it took several years before scientists discovered the mechanistic basis of it. In 2000, Anita Jagota, Horacio de la Iglesia, and William J. Schwartz were the first group to show two distinct peaks of electrical activity in the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60472185 | 2,061,095 |
1,386,329 | The Ceramic Technology Laboratory was established in 1977 under the direction of Dr. Prudence Rice, then UF professor of anthropology. Pottery analysis plays an integral role in archaeological research at the museum as it constitutes the predominant material remaining at most archaeological sites investigated by museum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1143787 | 1,385,562 |
877,230 | The university has a history of interaction with South Africa and a number of its leading figures. It was the first university to award Nelson Mandela an honorary doctorate upon his release from prison in 1990 in recognition of his leadership during the anti-apartheid movement. In accepting the honour, Mandela asked th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=712587 | 876,768 |
58,955 | Convolutional layers convolve the input and pass its result to the next layer. This is similar to the response of a neuron in the visual cortex to a specific stimulus. Each convolutional neuron processes data only for its receptive field. Although fully connected feedforward neural networks can be used to learn feature... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40409788 | 58,930 |
1,089,534 | Genetic mutations occur when nucleotide sequences in an organism are altered. These mutations lead to not only observable phenotypic influences in an individual, but also alterations that are undetectable phenotypically. The sources for these mutations can be errors during replication, spontaneous mutations, and chemic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3190493 | 1,088,974 |
1,970,124 | The WNT gene family consists of structurally related genes that encode secreted signaling lipid modified glycoproteins. These proteins have been implicated in oncogenesis and in several developmental processes, including regulation of cell fate and patterning during embryogenesis. This gene is a member of the WNT gene ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14759760 | 1,968,990 |
2,246,466 | MOF-5 is an early and heavily studied example of a MOF material. The material is an example of a cubic 3-dimensional extended lattice composed of ZnO inorganic clusters connected by terephthalate linkers. Each cluster involves 6 carboxylate groups of 6 terephthalate molecules bridging zinc atoms leading to an octahedra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71321817 | 2,245,194 |
389,664 | Analyzing the comorbid state of patient S, 73 years of age, using the most used international comorbidity assessment scales, a doctor would come across totally different evaluation. The uncertainty of these results would somewhat complicate the doctors judgment about the factual level of severity of the patient's condi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217631 | 389,469 |
1,721,481 | While the nonlinearity of neural color-coding, as evidenced by the classical understanding of the Abney effect and its use of white light to particular wavelengths of light, has been thoroughly studied in the past, a new method was undertaken by researchers at the University of Nevada. Rather than adding white light to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2503147 | 1,720,511 |
1,974,253 | The animal moves through the water via rhythmic muscle contraction, aided by its side cilia, and a tuft of longer cilia on its back. The organism can also use its musculature to roll up into a ball, and maintain that form for several months. Adults are known to have a symbiotic relationship with bacterial species. Gene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56317112 | 1,973,118 |
97,903 | Pterosaur fossils are very rare, due to their light bone construction. Complete skeletons can generally only be found in geological layers with exceptional preservation conditions, the so-called "Lagerstätten". The pieces from one such "Lagerstätte", the Late Jurassic Solnhofen Limestone in Bavaria, became much sought ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24824 | 97,862 |
984,828 | Pemphigus defines a group of autoimmune intraepithelial blistering diseases that are characterized by loss of normal cell-cell adhesion (acantholysis), and by the presence of pathogenic (predominantly IgG) autoantibodies reacting against epithelial adhesion molecules. Pemphigus is further divided in two major subtypes:... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1209518 | 984,314 |
1,204,596 | The word "addiction" has been traced to the 17th century. The consumption of addictive substances, such as alcohol, opioids, cocaine, and cannabis, has been traced back to ancient history of Syria, China, and South America. During this time period, addiction was defined as being compelled to act out any number of bad h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37697843 | 1,203,951 |
358,465 | In May 1985, Robert and Sinsheimer organized a workshop at the University of California, Santa Cruz, to discuss the feasibility of building a systematic reference genome using gene sequencing technologies. In March 1986, the Santa Fe Workshop was organized by Charles DeLisi and David Smith of the Department of Energy's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5219699 | 358,279 |
106,143 | Generally speaking, the process of decompression is simply a matter of translating the stream of prefix codes to individual byte values, usually by traversing the Huffman tree node by node as each bit is read from the input stream (reaching a leaf node necessarily terminates the search for that particular byte value). ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13883 | 106,098 |
550,443 | The lung/swim bladder originated as an outgrowth of the gut, forming a gas-filled bladder above the digestive system. In its primitive form, the air bladder was open to the alimentary canal, a condition called physostome and still found in many fish. The primary function is not entirely certain. One consideration is bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38046595 | 550,155 |
663,834 | In the late 1950s, Szent-Györgyi developed a research interest in cancer and developed ideas on applying the theories of quantum mechanics to the biochemistry (quantum biology) of cancer. The death of Rath, who had acted as the financial administrator of the Institute for Muscle Research, left Szent-Györgyi in a financ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240540 | 663,488 |
593,096 | "Porpoising", also known as running, is a high speed surface behaviour of small cetaceans where long jumps are alternated with swimming close to the surface. Despite the name, porpoising behaviour is seen in dolphins and porpoises, as well as other marine species such as penguins and pinnipeds. When marine mammals are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=755842 | 592,792 |
2,022,880 | In the context of chemistry and molecular modelling, the Interface force field (IFF) is a force field for classical molecular simulations of atoms, molecules, and assemblies up to the large nanometer scale, covering compounds from across the periodic table. It employs a consistent classical Hamiltonian energy function ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64170778 | 2,021,716 |
56,602 | The bidding process for the 2016 Summer Olympics was officially launched on 16 May 2007. The first step for each city was to submit an initial application to the International Olympic Committee by 13 September 2007, confirming their intention to bid. Completed official bid files containing answers to a 25-question IOC ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=961522 | 56,578 |
965,591 | The message passing interface effort began in the summer of 1991 when a small group of researchers started discussions at a mountain retreat in Austria. Out of that discussion came a Workshop on Standards for Message Passing in a Distributed Memory Environment, held on April 29–30, 1992 in Williamsburg, Virginia. Atten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=221466 | 965,082 |
260,633 | A procedure using a long thin tube with a camera passed through your mouth into the first part of your small intestine to locate, diagnose, and treat disorders related to your bile and pancreatic ducts. These ducts carry fluids that help with digesting food from your liver, gallbladder, and pancreas and can become narr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12976 | 260,499 |
266,017 | The day's next task was to deploy the ALSEP; while they were parking the lunar rover, on which the TV camera was mounted, to observe the deployment, the rear steering began functioning. After ALSEP deployment, they collected samples in the vicinity. About four hours after the beginning of EVA-1, they mounted the lunar ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1970 | 265,873 |
831,622 | Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) proposed a different theory. Unlike Saussure who approached the conceptual question from a study of linguistics and phonology, Peirce, the so-called father of the Pragmatist school of philosophy, extended the concept of sign to embrace many other forms. He considered "word" to be only... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=562907 | 831,173 |
333,381 | Fatty acyls, a generic term for describing fatty acids, their conjugates and derivatives, are a diverse group of molecules synthesized by chain-elongation of an acetyl-CoA primer with malonyl-CoA or methylmalonyl-CoA groups in a process called fatty acid synthesis. They are made of a hydrocarbon chain that terminates w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17940 | 333,203 |
1,162,715 | At discovery, the transient had an absolute magnitude of , making it faint in comparison to a typical core-collapse supernova but bright in comparison to a classical nova. Additionally, the photometric and spectroscopic properties of the OT imply that it is not a luminous blue variable either. Since its peak, brightnes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=613611 | 1,162,098 |
409,576 | The NTSB has asked for the installation of cockpit image recorders in large transport aircraft to provide information that would supplement existing CVR and FDR data in accident investigations. They have recommended that image recorders be placed into smaller aircraft that are not required to have a CVR or FDR. The rat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=938385 | 409,374 |
353,499 | Phytochemistry is a branch of plant biochemistry primarily concerned with the chemical substances produced by plants during secondary metabolism. Some of these compounds are toxins such as the alkaloid coniine from hemlock. Others, such as the essential oils peppermint oil and lemon oil are useful for their aroma, as f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4183 | 353,316 |
218,116 | The formal medical description of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and the more severe, related diagnosis of premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) goes back at least 70 years to a paper presented at the New York Academy of Medicine by Robert T. Frank titled "Hormonal Causes of Premenstrual Tension". The specific term preme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217947 | 218,008 |
1,400,578 | These curves are often consulted in the therapeutic setting. Normally, the body's various physiological rhythms will be synchronized within an individual organism (human or animal), usually with respect to a master biological clock. Of particular importance is the sleep–wake cycle. Various sleep disorders and externals... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1556918 | 1,399,791 |
1,547,077 | The School expanded rapidly and was moved along with its newly established library, the British Library of Political and Economic Science to No. 10 Adelphi Terrace in September 1896, continuing to expand through the next couple of years thanks to Shaw. In 1902, The Coefficients dining club was regularly meeting in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23735472 | 1,546,200 |
1,718,022 | In 1975, the Army conducted the Intelligence Organization and Stationing Study, which recommended significant changes to Army intelligence, including the 203rd. At the same time, the military had a growing need for analysis and exploitation of a flood of material captured by Israeli intelligence, which in turn had been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67447284 | 1,717,052 |
1,283,816 | Born in England, Withering attended Edinburgh Medical School from 1762 to 1766. In 1767 he started as a consultant at Stafford Royal Infirmary. He married Helena Cookes (an amateur botanical illustrator, and a former patient of his) in 1772; they had three children (the first, Helena was born in 1775 but died a few day... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33065 | 1,283,118 |
1,762,120 | DRDO ARM has a range of 100–250 km which is made to be integrated with Sukhoi Su-30MKI as its primary test platform, although can be used with Dassault Mirage 2000, SEPECAT Jaguar, HAL Tejas and HAL Tejas Mark 2/MWF in future. According to the then Director of Research Centre Imarat (RCI), G. Satheesh Reddy, the missil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49474371 | 1,761,127 |
998,948 | Development work started in 1968 at the Klimov Design Bureau, led by Sergey Isotov. The first few engines for the 9.01 MiG-29 prototype were equipped with a longer nozzle, without the double wall design, which is featured on the current RD-33 and RD-33MK models. This design had an extra controllable section after the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4166892 | 998,430 |
2,167,619 | Iliffe took the engineering view that it should be possible to offer a way, based on the memory management techniques already demonstrated in the Rice R1 to ensure the integrity of concurrent programs without resorting to relatively expensive mechanisms involving the frequent swapping of process state vectors seen in m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60155126 | 2,166,382 |
305,872 | Soon afterwards, the morphology became much better known. In 1823, Thomas Clark reported an almost complete skull, probably belonging to "Thalassiodracon", which is now preserved by the British Geological Survey as specimen BGS GSM 26035. The same year, commercial fossil collector Mary Anning and her family uncovered a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1398078 | 305,709 |
668,988 | In Xenopus oocytes, β-catenin is initially equally localized to all regions of the egg, but it is targeted for ubiquitination and degradation by the β-catenin destruction complex. Fertilization of the egg causes a rotation of the outer cortical layers, moving clusters of the "Frizzled" and "Dsh" proteins closer to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5602902 | 668,638 |
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