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1,052,748 | New regulations were enacted for 2015, requiring an 80-percent redesign of the TS040; this included a new front-end crash structure, a suspension optimised to preserve tyre life and additional weight reduction. Two body kits were designed: one for fast tracks and the other for tight turns. Designers added a guide vane ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41475424 | 1,052,202 |
307,817 | The earliest fossil attributed to a stem-caecilian (a species closer to caecilians than to frogs or salamanders but not a member of the extant lineage) comes from the Jurassic period. This primitive genus, "Eocaecilia", had small limbs and well-developed eyes. In their 2008 description of the fossil batrachian "Gerobat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=405548 | 307,652 |
156,836 | The design principles developed for the AGC by MIT Instrumentation Laboratory, directed in late 1960s by Charles Draper, became foundational to software engineering—particularly for the design of more reliable systems that relied on asynchronous software, priority scheduling, testing, and human-in-the-loop decision cap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188887 | 156,764 |
1,161,565 | In January 2016, BBC science reporter Jonathan Webb said, "Astronomers have spotted two huge waves of gas being 'burped' by the black hole at the heart of a nearby galaxy. The swathes of hot gas, detected in X-ray images from NASA's Chandra space telescope, appear to be sweeping cooler hydrogen gas ahead of them. This ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=983493 | 1,160,949 |
1,675,596 | The creation of the National Science Foundation, although implemented in 1950, was a controversial issue that started as early as 1942, between engineer and science administrator Vannevar Bush and Senator Harley M. Kilgore (D-WV), who was interested in the organization of military research. Senator Kilgore presented a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29656133 | 1,674,654 |
1,540,286 | Berhane has been working for the past 25 years as a private researcher at the Ethiopian Ministry of Culture, Centre for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage. He established the first research laboratory at the National Museum of Ethiopia. Berhane spearheaded major archeological expeditions into Afar region th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23924009 | 1,539,413 |
279,544 | Tendons are viscoelastic structures, which means they exhibit both elastic and viscous behaviour. When stretched, tendons exhibit typical "soft tissue" behavior. The force-extension, or stress-strain curve starts with a very low stiffness region, as the crimp structure straightens and the collagen fibres align suggesti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=144865 | 279,394 |
1,925,070 | Hampikian assisted in the establishment of various forensic evidence projects such as the Georgia Innocence Project, the Irish Innocence Project, and the Innocence Project France. He is currently a Professor in the Departments of Biological Sciences and Criminal Justice at Boise State University. Hampikian is a DNA Exp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39033182 | 1,923,966 |
620,829 | In 1923, Briggs read the work of Carl Jung and introduced it to her daughter. His theory focused on innate differences between people in regard to their decision making and their intake of information. She was inspired to write erotic fiction about Jung. After reading C.G. Jung's Psychological Types, Briggs abandoned h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4922879 | 620,497 |
426,119 | MCASOM has its administrative center and primary location at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. It is the largest medical school campus in the United States, with 11.5 million square feet of medical and research space in a single location. Educational activities are based at the Mitchell Student Center and Guggen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56382717 | 425,911 |
72,811 | The quicksort algorithm was developed in 1959 by Tony Hoare while he was a visiting student at Moscow State University. At that time, Hoare was working on a machine translation project for the National Physical Laboratory. As a part of the translation process, he needed to sort the words in Russian sentences before loo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3268249 | 72,784 |
410,259 | Staphylococcal blepharitis is caused by an infection of the anterior portion of the eyelid by Staphylococcal bacteria. In a study of ocular flora, 46% to 51% of those diagnosed with staphylococcal blepharitis had cultures positive for Staphylococcus aureus in comparison to 8% of normal patients. Staphylococcal blephari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=772026 | 410,057 |
347,883 | Manta rays have broad heads, triangular pectoral fins, and horn-shaped cephalic fins located on both sides of their mouths. They have horizontally flattened bodies with eyes on the sides of their heads behind the cephalic fins, and gill slits on their ventral surfaces. Their tails lack skeletal support and are shorter ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50838 | 347,701 |
689,420 | In 1988, "Extropy: The Journal of Transhumanist Thought" was first published. (For the first few issues, it was "Extropy: Vaccine for Future Shock".) This brought together thinkers with interests in artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, genetic engineering, life extension, mind uploading, idea futures, robotics, spa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=173286 | 689,058 |
1,444,175 | Most criticism of the dual systems model arises from one continual error; the lack of actual evidence proving a casual relation between youth misbehavior and a dysfunctional brain. Despite countless studies of maturation of the adolescent brain, there has never been a notable study that necessarily confirms that cognit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55377516 | 1,443,362 |
383,347 | Because of its explosive nature, not all applications of nitrocellulose were successful. In 1869, with elephants having been poached to near extinction, the billiards industry offered a US$10,000 prize to whomever came up with the best replacement for ivory billiard balls. John Wesley Hyatt created the winning replacem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58246 | 383,152 |
915,330 | Particularly notable alumni include Harry Reid, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader; Lars Peter Hansen, one of the three Americans to win the 2013 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences; May Swenson, poet; Merlin Olsen, pro football hall-of-famer, actor, and TV personality; Ardeshir Zahedi, former Iranian Foreign Minister and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=267513 | 914,849 |
649,908 | KNIME allows users to visually create data flows (or pipelines), selectively execute some or all analysis steps, and later inspect the results, models, using interactive widgets and views. KNIME is written in Java and based on Eclipse. It makes use of extension mechanism to add plugins providing additional functionalit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24960689 | 649,567 |
978,184 | The big ship threat to the Royal Navy was real, and was useful to it in justifying conventional fleet and carrier construction, especially in the North Atlantic. The response was to introduce the Blackburn Buccaneer, a carrier-based strike aircraft that had the performance required to approach and attack "Sverdlov"-cla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5195389 | 977,673 |
93,506 | The technological advances incorporated into the Harrier II, compared with the original Harrier, significantly reduce the workload on the pilot. The supercritical wing, hands-on-throttle-and-stick (HOTAS) control principle, and increased engineered lateral stability make the aircraft fundamentally easier to fly. Ed Har... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18940560 | 93,465 |
321,818 | There is evidence that, in addition to its base functions, the insula may play a role in certain higher-level functions that operate only in humans and other great apes. The spindle neurons found at a higher density in the right frontal insular cortex are also found in the anterior cingulate cortex, which is another re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1495134 | 321,646 |
1,934,635 | None of the NASA prototypes became commonly produced as commercial generators because the purpose of the program was to develop the technology and support the emerging industry. Many of the technologies such as doubly fed variable speed generators, light weight tubular towers, and the engineering design tools used in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30251550 | 1,933,527 |
1,612,867 | The virus was reported at first in southern India in the 1900s by Mollison and it has also highly affected Guatemala and Sri Lanka. The disease is widely distributed among cardamom-cultivating regions. The cardamom production industry in some parts of Guatemala started showing symptoms of the disease, after which all n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62416074 | 1,611,962 |
2,089,002 | Members of the family Microcoleaceae have a distinct radial arrangement of their thylakoids that distinguishes them from other closely related families of cyanobacteria. "Trichodesmium thiebautii" is usually composed of a few to hundreds of cells in a colony and has trichomes that appear to be twisted together much lik... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53576535 | 2,087,799 |
2,051,494 | After completing her PhD in 1991, Moghaddam began a position as a Senior Engineer in the Radar Science and Engineering Section of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. As the Systems Engineer for the Cassini Radar, she helped develop new radar based measurement technologies for subcanopy and subsu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63576090 | 2,050,313 |
642,984 | Each year hundreds of millions of tons of plastics are produced from petroleum. Most of these plastics will remain in landfills for years to come or litter the environment posing significant health risks to animals; however, the average person's lifestyle would be impractical without them (see Applications). One soluti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14253816 | 642,645 |
1,806,438 | The ore body was discovered in early 1995 by Dominion Mining Ltd. It was found by using the relatively new (at that time) method of sampling calcrete (calcium carbonate laterite). Broad sample spacing of 800m fortuitously "snagged" the sub-surface orebody with a single high gold in calcrete value attracting almost imme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6881505 | 1,805,421 |
862,091 | After an accidental ingestion of a contaminated opioid drug desmethylprodine, the neurotoxic effect of 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) was discovered. MPTP is able to cross the blood brain barrier and enter acidic lysosomes. MPTP is biologically activated by MAO-B, an isozyme of monoamine oxidase (M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59841811 | 861,631 |
305,128 | Leaving England for the United States, Robert Owen and his sons began an experiment with a socialist community in New Harmony, Indiana in 1825. Advertisements announced the experiment for the cooperative colony, bringing various people to attempt an 8-hour work-day of which Owen was a proponent. The town banned money a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 304,966 |
1,838,868 | The "French Lives" provided Shelley with a way to celebrate literary women, particularly "salonniéres". In her life of Madame de Sévigné, Shelley celebrates "her chaste widowhood; her loyalty as a friend; [and] her maternal devotion". However, Orr writes that it is difficult to see a pattern in the way Shelley addresse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17481711 | 1,837,819 |
48,558 | The U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) revised the Immediately Dangerous to Life and Health (IDLH) concentration for benzene to 500 ppm. The current NIOSH definition for an IDLH condition, as given in the NIOSH Respirator Selection Logic, is one that poses a threat of exposure to airborn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18582186 | 48,538 |
983,264 | Lady Mary Wortley Montagu had lost her brother to smallpox in 1713. In 1715 she contracted the disease herself. Although she survived, she was left with severe facial scarring. While in Turkey she came across the process of variolation as it was introduced and published in Constantinople by two doctors, Emmanuel Timoni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34062507 | 982,750 |
757,506 | By the 1860s, the Russian government was ready to abandon its Russian America colony. Zealous over-hunting had severely reduced the fur-bearing animal population, and competition from the British and Americans exacerbated the situation. This, combined with the difficulties of supplying and protecting such a distant col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52451 | 757,102 |
1,105,628 | During the late 1970s and early 1980s little was known about the genetic and molecular mechanisms by which multicellular organisms develop from single cells to morphologically complex forms during embryogenesis. Nüsslein-Volhard and Wieschaus identified genes involved in embryonic development by a series of genetic scr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=222990 | 1,105,065 |
169,817 | Following Rosalind Franklin's confirmation of the helical structure of DNA, James D. Watson and Francis Crick's publication of the structure of DNA in 1953 and Fred Sanger's publication of the Amino acid sequence of insulin in 1955, nucleic acid sequencing became a major target of early molecular biologists. In 1964, R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55170 | 169,727 |
683,255 | The 120SRAMS is developed specifically for rapid and close range requirements of the battlefield. The semi-automatic Ammunition Transfer System and the patented Valve System in the breech mechanism provides an effective vent for the trapped air to let the bomb "free-fall" into the barrel. This reduces the projectile's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6309961 | 682,899 |
1,179,324 | "SimplePlanes" received "mixed or average" reviews, according to Metacritic, where it garnered a score of 67/100. The biggest issue critics had was the process of building. Nadia Oxford, a writer for Gamezebo gave "SimplePlanes" a 4/5 for its realistic flight challenges, sandbox mode and the amount of building options.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48988469 | 1,178,700 |
744,713 | A gentle, passive range-of-motion program should be started to help prevent stiffness and maintain range of motion during this resting period. Stiffness negatively affects the tendon-bone healing process, a critical part of recovery. Stiffness during rehabilitation is related to worse clinical outcomes, so it is import... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1263226 | 744,319 |
114,025 | The Indian Institute of Science collaborates with various government organisations like the Indian Ordnance Factories, DRDO, the ISRO, Bharat Electronics Limited, Aeronautical Development Agency, National Aerospace Laboratories, CSIR, Department of IT (Government of India), Centre for Development of Advanced Computing,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37533 | 113,980 |
558,976 | The TDD concept was developed by James C. Marsters (1924–2009), a dentist and private airplane pilot who became deaf as an infant because of scarlet fever, and Robert Weitbrecht, a deaf physicist. In 1964, Marsters, Weitbrecht and Andrew Saks, an electrical engineer and grandson of the founder of the Saks Fifth Avenue ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=334420 | 558,687 |
799,979 | Before the computer age stability analysis was performed graphically or by using a hand-held calculator. Today engineers have a lot of possibilities to use analysis software, ranges from simple "limit equilibrium" techniques through to computational limit analysis approaches (e.g. Finite element limit analysis, Discont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23897117 | 799,553 |
1,517,965 | Streaming instabilities are more likely to form in regions of the disk where: the growth of solids is favored, the pressure gradient is small, and turbulence is low. Inside the ice-line the bouncing barrier may prevent the growth of silicates large enough to take part in streaming instabilities. Beyond the ice line hyd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48840652 | 1,517,107 |
1,430,494 | The Australian focus has been on underwater aviation archaeology, partly as a result of the interest of the relatively large number of maritime archaeologists and shipwreck conservators in the field. This has resulted in numerous studies and reports, including some cross-fertilization or ideas, theory and techniques wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2984169 | 1,429,690 |
2,071,931 | After a short time as an assistant biologist at the Rhode Island Agricultural Experiment Station in 1897-98, Barlow assumed a faculty position teaching biology at Fairmount College in Wichita, Kansas, from 1898 to 1901. Barlow returned to Kingston, Rhode Island, to stay in 1902 when he accepted the positions of Profess... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33954987 | 2,070,740 |
1,561,424 | Samarkand State Medical University takes an active part in the implementation of projects within the framework of grants of the Center for Science and Technology, Fundamental Research of the Academy of the Republic of Uzbekistan, and also closely cooperates with foreign partners. Cooperation is successfully carried out... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66858162 | 1,560,538 |
1,375,852 | The Thermal Diffusion Process Building (F01) was a black structure long, wide, and high. There was one control room and one transfer room for each pair of racks, except for the final one, which had its own control and transfer rooms for training purposes. Four pumps drew per minute of cooling water from the Clinch Rive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3673785 | 1,375,091 |
336,666 | Several manufacturers and their successors produced mainframe computers from the 1950s until the early 21st century, with gradually decreasing numbers and a gradual transition to simulation on Intel chips rather than proprietary hardware. The US group of manufacturers was first known as "IBM and the Seven Dwarfs": usua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20266 | 336,487 |
2,121,781 | The Bhopal medical community was faced with 1) the urgent health care needs of the affected community, 2) the non-availability of toxicological and accident-related information, 3) the extreme sensitivity of local and national government bodies toward all aspects of the disaster, 4) lack of expertise, and 5) the lack o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9253629 | 2,120,562 |
1,025,487 | Oswald Avery showed in 1943 that DNA was likely the genetic material of the chromosome, not its protein; the issue was settled decisively with the 1952 Hershey–Chase experiment—one of many contributions from the so-called phage group centered around physicist-turned-biologist Max Delbrück. In 1953 James Watson and Fran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322460 | 1,024,954 |
280,172 | In 2007, his residence was a hexagonal, shed style mansion he dubbed Westwind, located in Bedford, New Hampshire, just outside Manchester. The house has at least four levels and is very eclectically conceived, with such things as: hallways resembling mine shafts; 1960s novelty furniture; a collection of vintage wheelch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9133 | 280,021 |
1,684,971 | Studies conducted in the 1970s found that a series of N-Formylmethionine-containing oligopeptides, including the most potent and best known member of this series, N-formylmethionine-leucyl-phenylalanine (fMLF or fMet-Leu-Phe), stimulated rabbit and human neutrophils by an apparent receptor-dependent mechanism to migrat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9771642 | 1,684,026 |
1,704,464 | A wilderness first responder is trained to deal with many situations that may be encountered in the wilderness. The training is principally geared towards lay providers, with little to no actual medical experience, though they are often already professionals in other aspects of the outdoors industry, like park rangers,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7624916 | 1,703,508 |
1,569,813 | The European Union (EU) has its own subsidiary body that handles all energy-related issues, called the European Commission on Energy. They define biofuels as "liquid or gaseous transport fuels such as biodiesel and bioethanol which are made from biomass". Chemically, biofuels are alcohols produced by fermenting raw mat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20596324 | 1,568,925 |
1,475,458 | In the northern hemisphere tropical regions of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, surface winds blow predominantly from the northeast year round, with westward-flowing ocean currents underneath. The Indian Ocean differs from the Atlantic and Pacific in that a continental landmass forms a complete northern boundary at rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20084649 | 1,474,626 |
1,566,659 | Isotope analysis is based on the principle that most elements exist in two or more forms, known as isotopes. Isotopes have the same number of protons but differ in their number of neutrons, resulting in different masses. This variation in the relative abundance of stable isotopes results from tiny mass differences that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42307707 | 1,565,772 |
1,084,457 | In a 2017 study of niche partitioning in therizinosaurs through digital simulations, Lautenschlager found the dentaries of "Segnosaurus" experienced one of the lowest stress magnitudes during extrinsic feeding scenarios. "Segnosaurus" and "Erlikosaurus" were aided by the down-turned tip of the lower jaws and symphyseal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=636977 | 1,083,900 |
353,505 | Plant responses to climate and other environmental changes can inform our understanding of how these changes affect ecosystem function and productivity. For example, plant phenology can be a useful proxy for temperature in historical climatology, and the biological impact of climate change and global warming. Palynolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4183 | 353,322 |
851,597 | Dewar and John Ambrose Fleming predicted that at absolute zero, pure metals would become perfect electromagnetic conductors (though, later, Dewar altered his opinion on the disappearance of resistance believing that there would always be some resistance). Walther Hermann Nernst developed the third law of thermodynamics... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5951576 | 851,144 |
981,269 | Many of the classical techniques and theories of psychophysics were formulated in 1860 when Gustav Theodor Fechner in Leipzig published "Elemente der Psychophysik (Elements of Psychophysics)". He coined the term "psychophysics", describing research intended to relate physical stimuli to the contents of consciousness su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=438004 | 980,757 |
2,112,648 | As the war progressed, the Museum and Library staffs participated more and more in the activities of the Inter-Services Topographical Department (I.S.T.D.), a special department responsible for supplying topographical intelligence for all combined operations, and, in particular, for preparing reports in advance of mili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37422382 | 2,111,433 |
1,959,045 | Multiphase flows are invariably complex. Advanced measuring techniques are required to monitor and quantify phase hold ups in such multiphase flows. Due to their relatively fast speed of acquisition and non-intrusive characteristics, ECT and ECVT are widely used in industries for flow monitoring. However, the flow deco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54190649 | 1,957,918 |
645,104 | Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome can be caused by a number of different organisms (see below). When caused by "Neisseria meningitidis", WFS is considered the most severe form of meningococcal sepsis. The onset of the illness is nonspecific with fever, rigors, vomiting, and headache. Soon a rash appears; first macular, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=90901 | 644,764 |
271,694 | A colloidal crystal is a highly ordered array of particles that forms over a long range (from a few millimeters to one centimeter in length); colloidal crystals have appearance and properties roughly analogous to their atomic or molecular counterparts. It has been known for many years that, due to repulsive Coulombic i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=421940 | 271,546 |
436,831 | The first fossils were uncovered by Russian paleontologist Vladimir Prokhorovich Amalitskii while documenting plant and animal species in the Upper Permian sediments in the Northern Dvina River, Arkhangelsk District, Northern European Russia. Amalitskii had discovered the site in 1899, and he and his wife Anne Amalitsk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4462232 | 436,617 |
807,568 | While prior to India's development of nuclear weapons (see below), the ability to use natural uranium (and thus forego the need for uranium enrichment which is a dual use technology) was seen as "hindering" nuclear proliferation, this opinion has changed drastically in light of the ability of several countries to build... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33087778 | 807,138 |
1,688,475 | "Locality" has several different meanings in physics. EPR describe the principle of locality as asserting that physical processes occurring at one place should have no immediate effect on the elements of reality at another location. At first sight, this appears to be a reasonable assumption to make, as it seems to be a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10296 | 1,687,529 |
408,572 | Historical concern for environmental issues is well documented in archives around the world. Ancient civilizations were mainly concerned with what is now known as environmental science insofar as it related to agriculture and natural resources. Scholars believe that early interest in the environment began around 6000 B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64919 | 408,371 |
644,849 | Db2 Event Store targets the needs of the Internet of things (IOT), industrial, telecommunications, financial services, online retail and other industries needing to perform real-time analytics on streamed high volume, high velocity data. It became publicly available in June 2017. It can store and analyze 250 billion ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=142983 | 644,509 |
521,439 | On August 1, Wythe identified himself in print as one of the consulted lawyers and said his opinion had been limited to the legal bail issue. After Chiswell returned to Williamsburg in September, his attorney John Wayles published the two depositions given to the judges, which proved to be from Wayles himself and the C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261191 | 521,168 |
1,715,668 | Foxp1 is a transcription factor; specifically it is a transcriptional repressor. Fox genes are part of a forkhead DNA-binding domain family. This domain binds to sequences in promoters and enhancers of many genes. Foxp1 regulates a variety of important aspects of development including tissue development of: the lungs, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12994729 | 1,714,701 |
163,883 | A pilot Advance Market Commitment (AMC) to develop a vaccine against pneumococcus was launched by GAVI in June 2009 as a strategy to address two of the major policy challenges to vaccine introduction: a lack of affordable vaccines on the market, and insufficient commercial incentives to develop vaccines for diseases co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8866863 | 163,798 |
983,193 | Perhaps Prokudin-Gorsky's best-known work during his lifetime was his color portrait of Leo Tolstoy, which was reproduced in various publications, on postcards, and as larger prints for framing. The fame from this photo and his earlier photos of Russia's nature and monuments earned him invitations to show his work to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444712 | 982,679 |
1,362,588 | "Pediastrum" is coenobial green algae which are globally distributed, and they are usually found in sediments of freshwater lakes or wetlands. The strong cell walls of "Pediastrum" make them preserve very well in the core of sediments for a long time. Besides, it could retain theirl morphology, some organelles inside, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13132368 | 1,361,835 |
1,375,533 | From the end of the 19th century, systematic scientific and technical studies began on the processes of slowing down aging and possible rejuvenation. The period of world history between the two world wars is a very complicated, difficult and ambiguous time of world history. In many spheres of life, there were ideas tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67572411 | 1,374,772 |
1,069,775 | Immediately after the war, Hoyle and Bondi returned to Cambridge, while Gold stayed with naval research until 1947. He then began working at Cambridge's Cavendish Laboratory to help construct the world's largest magnetron, a device invented by two British scientists in 1940 that generated intense microwaves for radar. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=156331 | 1,069,221 |
969,028 | For stationary antennas, excessive amounts of ice can de-tune the antenna to the point where its impedance at the input frequency rises drastically, causing the voltage standing wave ratio (VSWR) to rise as well. This reflected power goes back to the transmitter, where it can cause overheating. A foldback circuit can a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=591552 | 968,518 |
1,872,622 | REMS technology performance has been evaluated through multicentre clinical studies. The work of Di Paola et al. has investigated precision and diagnostic accuracy of REMS in comparison with DXA on a sample of 2000 patients. A very high correlation has been observed between the T-Score values obtained by both technolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65996113 | 1,871,545 |
1,643,296 | At least 71 disease-causing mutations in this gene have been discovered. Mutations in the PDHA1 gene have been known to cause one form of pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency. Pyruvate dehydrogenase deficiency is characterized by the buildup of a chemical called lactic acid in the body and a variety of neurological proble... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14144328 | 1,642,369 |
1,777,111 | Her father Pradeep Kurup, a civil engineering professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, came to United States in 1983 from India. Her mother, Meena Kurup, is originally from the southern Indian state of Kerala. Deepika is planning on concentrating in Neurobiology. Deepika Kurup grew up in Nashua, New Hampshi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43078354 | 1,776,110 |
1,851,605 | An alternative approach for on-demand control of circuit excitability that does not require light delivery to the brain is to use chemogenetics. This relies on expressing a mutated receptor in the seizure focus, which does not respond to endogenous neurotransmitters but can be activated by an exogenous drug. G-protein ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41050914 | 1,850,544 |
1,889,638 | However there was more to come, from the Wests: their study of the phytoplankton of rivers and lakes. "In this the two Wests were the pioneer British workers, and they took up the task in characteristically full and systematic fashion". Aided by grants, they carried out "detailed field work" around the British Isles du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25778405 | 1,888,555 |
167,824 | On 30 May 1898 he made his first night ascent, and the following month he started working as a captain, taking groups of passengers aloft in a hired balloon. By 1900 he had created nine balloons, of which two became famous: the "Brazil" and the "Amérique". "Brazil" first flew on 4 July 1898, and was the smallest aircra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152687 | 167,734 |
1,932,687 | While the GICNT has garnered many members and held many events, there are some in the academic community who believe there is room for expansion and improvement. In a piece evaluating the GICNT, the Stimson Center notes that the GICNT will be useful for countries to fulfill their UNSCR 1540 commitments. However it poin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22303000 | 1,931,579 |
805,945 | The Spanish Civil War had proved that tactical dive-bombing using Stukas was a very efficient way of destroying enemy troops concentrations, and so resources and money had been devoted to the development of smaller bomber craft. As a result, the Luftwaffe was forced to attack London in 1940 with heavily overloaded Hein... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=326225 | 805,516 |
609,582 | In 1974 at the IHÉS, Deligne's joint paper with Phillip Griffiths, John Morgan and Dennis Sullivan on the real homotopy theory of compact Kähler manifolds was a major piece of work in complex differential geometry which settled several important questions of both classical and modern significance. The input from Weil c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=394544 | 609,271 |
1,000,939 | Link analysis is a subset of network analysis, exploring associations between objects. An example may be examining the addresses of suspects and victims, the telephone numbers they have dialed, and financial transactions that they have partaken in during a given timeframe, and the familial relationships between these s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=766409 | 1,000,421 |
27,480 | Information communication technologies play a role in facilitating accelerated pluralism in new social movements today. The internet according to Bruce Bimber is "accelerating the process of issue group formation and action" and coined the term accelerated pluralism to explain this new phenomena. ICTs are tools for "en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1197962 | 27,470 |
1,523,643 | 2. Predictions in brain – Following his research on the role of associations in cognition, Prof. Bar has pioneered (together with a few other groups) a major new research wave indicating that the brain is a predictive and proactive organ. His theoretical and empirical work has set in motion a collection of hypothese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26854460 | 1,522,782 |
1,621,774 | It is recommended that practitioners adhere to several guiding principles in order to ensure that XBA procedures are psychometrically and theoretically sound. First, one should select an intelligence battery that best addresses referral concerns. Second, subtests and clusters or composites from a single battery should ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22400988 | 1,620,858 |
290,129 | Benjamin Bloom (1903–1999) spent over 50 years at the University of Chicago, where he worked in the department of education. He believed that all students can learn. He developed the taxonomy of educational objectives. The objectives were divided into three domains: cognitive, affective, and psychomotor. The cognitive ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10332 | 289,972 |
1,298,579 | The boiler resembled two elongated marine Yarrow boilers, placed end to end. Both had the usual Yarrow arrangement of a central large steam drum above two separated water drums, linked by four rows of slightly curved tubes. The upper drum was shared, but the lower water drums were separate. The rearward "firebox" area ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25268306 | 1,297,866 |
2,144,889 | After a number of troubles with the administration and funding of the Station in the mid 1950s, very basic accommodation was established on the island. It had a laboratory, but no equipment. This lab could also double as sleeping quarters in the short term. Longer term, it was hoped that the lab would be equipped, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50253124 | 2,143,658 |
1,671,090 | The PPIA protein is an important apoptotic constituent. 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, plasma memb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14092224 | 1,670,150 |
1,718,007 | American Physical Society: Fellow; American Philosophical Society: Member; American Academy of Arts and Sciences: Fellow, Editor of the Academy, 1956–63, Founding Editor of the quarterly journal, Daedalus, 1958, member of Council (to 1997). Académie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences, Vice President, 1981–88. Acadé... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=765527 | 1,717,037 |
1,074,017 | Protein NMR utilizes multidimensional nuclear magnetic resonance experiments to obtain information about the protein. Ideally, each distinct nucleus in the molecule experiences a distinct electronic environment and thus has a distinct chemical shift by which it can be recognized. However, in large molecules such as pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3654507 | 1,073,463 |
971,013 | It is important that those interested in a Chemistry degree understand the variety of roles available to them (on average), which vary depending on education and job experience. Those Chemists who hold a bachelor's degree are most commonly involved in positions related to either research assistance (working under the g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5636 | 970,503 |
1,012,128 | The Salk Institute employs 850 researchers in 60 research groups and focuses its research in three areas: molecular biology and genetics; neurosciences; and plant biology. Research topics include aging, cancer, diabetes, birth defects, Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, AIDS, and the neurobiology of American Sig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=164934 | 1,011,607 |
1,441,715 | Piezoelectric Drop-On-Demand (DOD) was invented in the 1970s. One disadvantage of the piezoelectric-DOD method is that jettable inks must have viscosity and surface tension within a relatively strict range to expel smaller drops without spray or satellite drops. One big advantage is DOD piezoelectric jets can be design... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46964830 | 1,440,903 |
709,804 | The survey was broken up into 26 observation sectors, each sector being 24° × 96°, with an overlap of sectors at the ecliptic poles to allow additional sensitivity toward smaller and longer-period exoplanets in that region of the celestial sphere. The spacecraft will spend two 13.70-day orbits observing each sector, ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20024409 | 709,433 |
1,127,194 | Since 1995, Khrunichev has been developing the Angara rocket family. The main purpose of Angara is to ensure Russia's independent access to space, as the rockets can be launched from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia as well as the upcoming Vostochny Cosmodrome, instead of having to rely on Baikonur Cosmodrome... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5126663 | 1,126,617 |
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