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299,038 | Establishing a timeline of his work is now impossible, since no document provides chronological references. Themistius, a 4th-century Byzantine rhetorician, mentions that he was the "first of the known Greeks to publish a written document on nature." Therefore, his texts would be amongst the earliest written in prose, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1168 | 298,878 |
1,794,119 | Scotland is known for its dramatically placed castles, many of which date from the late medieval era. Castles, in the sense of a fortified residence of a lord or noble, arrived in Scotland as part of David I's encouragement of Norman and French nobles to settle with feudal tenures, particularly in the south and east, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36309414 | 1,793,110 |
2,037,594 | In one study, participants listened to short narratives in which a man and woman converse about an inanimate object that is semantically related to the man (e.g., "tourist" and "suitcase"). In the fifth sentence of the narrative, either the woman would continue her conversation with the man (coherent continuation), or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29354346 | 2,036,419 |
134,155 | Poynter in her memoir rebuts the critique that because some of the creative team of Biosphere 2 were not credentialed scientists, the results of the endeavor are invalid. "Some reporters hurled accusations that we were unscientific. Apparently because many of the SBV managers were not themselves degreed scientists, thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216362 | 134,100 |
410,373 | The level editor program was designed so that developers could make rapid adjustments to specific areas with ease. Another noted aspect was the multi-layered levels, as compared to equivalent 3D action-adventure games of the time which were mostly limited to a flat-floor system with little verticality. The interlinking... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3926606 | 410,171 |
408,445 | When feature widths were far greater than about 10 micrometres, semiconductor purity was not as big of an issue as it is today in device manufacturing. As devices become more integrated, cleanrooms must become even cleaner. Today, fabrication plants are pressurized with filtered air to remove even the smallest particle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27696 | 408,244 |
94,954 | The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) ordered 16 S-70B-2s which were delivered in 1988 and 1989. In December 2017, the S-70B-2s were retired from service. The S-70B-2 had served extensively in the Middle East embarked on the "Adelaide"-class and the "Anzac"-class frigates. 11 S-70B-2 were sold to Skyline Aviation Group. Unde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202031 | 94,913 |
1,211,514 | Turkey's nuclear activities started soon after the first International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy, held in Geneva in September 1955. In 1961, a 1 MW test reactor at Çekmece Nuclear Research and Training Center was commissioned for educational and research purposes. As stated by the World Nuclear A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31197009 | 1,210,862 |
1,683,124 | A general paradigm for understanding motor control, optimal control has been defined as "optimizing motor control for a given aspect of task performance," or as a way to minimize a certain "cost" associated with a movement. This "cost function" may be different depending on the task-goal; for example, minimum energy ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33820872 | 1,682,181 |
26,080 | The thermionic triode, a vacuum tube invented in 1907, enabled amplified radio technology and long-distance telephony. The triode, however, was a fragile device that consumed a substantial amount of power. In 1909, physicist William Eccles discovered the crystal diode oscillator. Austro-Hungarian physicist Julius Edgar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30011 | 26,071 |
754,946 | The Panzer Corps slowed their advance considerably but were stretched out, exhausted and low on fuel; many tanks had broken down. There was now a dangerous gap between them and the infantry. A determined attack by a fresh large mechanized force could have cut them off and wiped them out. The French high command, howeve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=376965 | 754,543 |
1,204,293 | Speaking in a 2003 television documentary about Nigel Kneale's career, the writer and critic Kim Newman praised the underlying themes of "Quatermass II", and their particular relevance to the British way of life. ""Quatermass II" is the British "Invasion of the Bodysnatchers", but I don't necessarily think that's a bad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=869155 | 1,203,648 |
1,282,615 | Bleomycin use causes side effects ranging from nausea, vomiting, anorexia and fevers, to fatal pulmonary toxicity in 1–2% of cases resulting in death. More commonly, skin reactions occur including erythema or redness of the skin, hyperpigmentation with darker patches of skin, and the presence or formation of vesicles. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17033084 | 1,281,919 |
1,221,564 | In December 1943, two blockade runners arriving from Japan attempted to pass through the bay. The Allies were aware of them through their Ultra code-breaking efforts and positioned cruisers and aircraft in the Western Atlantic to intercept them in Operation Stonewall. The first ship reached France, but the second one w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58527641 | 1,220,906 |
2,123,609 | "BWFS, an Internet Protocol (IP) cluster file system (CFS), has moved beyond the research lab and into the commercialization stage, and has now been successfully deployed in various industries including the energy, automotive, military and the media sectors. Its success demonstrates the strengths of China's research in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32248020 | 2,122,389 |
775,051 | In 2016 Hone and colleagues analyzed 37 skulls of "P. andrewsi", finding that the neck frill of "Protoceratops" (in both length and width) underwent positive allometry during ontongeny, that is, a faster growth/development of this region than the rest of the animal. The jugal bones also showed a trend towards an increa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1064031 | 774,635 |
1,515,280 | Optical rogue waves are rare pulses of light analogous to rogue or freak ocean waves. The term optical rogue waves was coined to describe rare pulses of broadband light arising during the process of supercontinuum generation—a noise-sensitive nonlinear process in which extremely broadband radiation is generated from a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42450197 | 1,514,429 |
293,791 | In the early 1990s, the United States Forest Service (USFS) introduced the M40 for avalanche control as ammunition stocks for its M27 rifles became depleted. The M40 was initially successful due to operational similarities to the familiar M27 and ready availability from the U.S. military; however, in 1995, a USFS gunne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2245429 | 293,633 |
1,508,315 | On April 14, 2022 EPA published a policy regarding pesticide effectiveness. Officially starting on June 14th, 2022, this policy requires reliable data proving a pesticide's effectiveness against specific invertebrate pests. The pests that are being targeted are those that cause harm to health, those that damage wood st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31728658 | 1,507,467 |
211,842 | The maximum proportion of errors or missing bits that can be corrected is determined by the design of the ECC, so different forward error correcting codes are suitable for different conditions. In general, a stronger code induces more redundancy that needs to be transmitted using the available bandwidth, which reduces ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4237207 | 211,734 |
261,417 | Polaris had not been designed to penetrate anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defences, but the Royal Navy had to ensure that its small Polaris force operating alone, and often with only one submarine on patrol, could penetrate the ABM screen around Moscow. The Wilson government publicly ruled out the purchase of Poseidon mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2095669 | 261,278 |
624,899 | Optimal and reliable results require controlling several variables, such as incubation times, red blood cell concentration, and type of red blood cell. Non-specific factors in the sample can lead to interference and incorrect titer values. For example, molecules in the sample other than virus-specific antibodies can in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1284618 | 624,566 |
284,051 | In January 1948, the Chief of Naval Operations issued a requirement to develop a long-range, carrier-based attack plane that could deliver either a bomb load or a nuclear weapon. The envisioned aircraft was intended to be operated from the planned "United States"-class "supercarriers," which were significantly larger t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=457649 | 283,898 |
763,185 | There are numerous other facets to the controversy, but whatever the school of thought, all agree that the traditional strengths and weaponry of the heavy infantry legion declined from the standards of earlier eras. The 4th-century writer Vegetius, in one of the most influential Western military works "De Re Militari",... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30855309 | 762,776 |
595,823 | Industrial research began at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, was also initiated at the Daniel Sieff Research Center (later the Weizmann Institute of Science), established in 1934 in Rehovot. The Dead Sea Laboratories opened in the 1930s. The first modern electronic computer in Israel and the Middle East,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=397525 | 595,518 |
1,411,480 | Unfortunately, hydrological and geological conditions in Chernobyl area promoted rapid radionuclide migration to subsurface water network. These factors include flat terrain, abundant precipitation and highly permeable sandy sediments Main natural factors of nuclides migration in the region can be divided into four gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59803219 | 1,410,687 |
732,860 | There are various components, environments, and material considerations that can affect the environmental impact that the SLM process has. First, the embodied energy that was used to make the printer, which has more than 500 parts, contributes around 124,000 MJ for a standard Renishaw AM250. It is important to note tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29017963 | 732,473 |
481,060 | The development of the first level of engineering requirements is not a purely analytical exercise and should also involve both the architect and engineer. If any compromises are to be made— to meet constraints- the architect must ensure that the final product and overall look and feel do not stray very far from the us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2497175 | 480,816 |
908,458 | Recent research shows that prevalence of Mgen is currently higher than other commonly occurring sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Mgen is a fastidious organism with prolonged growth durations. This makes detection of the pathogen in clinical specimens and subsequent isolation extremely difficult. Lacking a cell w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20219 | 907,980 |
2,091,571 | The microbial communities residing inside the host body have now been recognized to be important for effective immune responses. Yet the molecular mechanisms underlying this protection are largely unknown. Bacteria can help the host to fight against pathogens either by directly stimulating the immune response or by com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46837955 | 2,090,366 |
306,880 | A technique closely related to SAR uses an array (referred to as a "phased array") of real antenna elements spatially distributed over either one or two dimensions perpendicular to the radar-range dimension. These physical arrays are truly synthetic ones, indeed being created by synthesis of a collection of subsidiary ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=645554 | 306,716 |
537,421 | In Cambodia, a study showed "B. dendrobatidis" to be prevalent throughout the country in areas near Phnom Penh (in a village <5 km), Sihanoukville (frogs collected from the local market), Kratie (frogs collected from streets around the town), and Siem Reap (frogs collected from a national preserve: Angkor Centre for Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5243299 | 537,142 |
402,020 | A central tenet of cognitive science is that a complete understanding of the mind/brain cannot be attained by studying only a single level. An example would be the problem of remembering a phone number and recalling it later. One approach to understanding this process would be to study behavior through direct observati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5626 | 401,821 |
1,532,278 | Respiratory damage is related to the concentration of the gas and its solubility. Irritant gas exposures predominantly affect the airways, causing tracheitis, bronchitis, and bronchiolitis. Other inhaled agents may be directly toxic (e.g. cyanide, carbon monoxide), or cause harm simply by displacing oxygen and producin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36597555 | 1,531,411 |
1,398,801 | Birds have been used as study organisms in much of the research concerning wildlife responses to anthropogenic noise, and the resulting literature documents many effects that are relevant to other taxa affected by anthropophony. Birds may be particularly sensitive to noise pollution given that they rely heavily on acou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31352483 | 1,398,028 |
2,073,844 | In microfluidic modulation spectroscopy, the sample (protein-in-buffer) solution and a matching buffer reference stream are introduced into the transmission cell under continuous flow and then rapidly modulated (1-10 Hz) across the laser beam path to produce nearly drift-free, background compensated, differential scans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65444294 | 2,072,652 |
426,103 | During a recent 2019 study, a 51 year old woman was examined by medical professionals at the department of Oral and Maxillofacial surgery, Tokyo Medical University Hospital, to treat an existing condition which was an inflamed mass of cells noted in patient's bottom left gum line. A sample biopsy was obtained from the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41967434 | 425,895 |
1,301,236 | "Peresvet", named after Alexander Peresvet, a Russian monk who fought against the Golden Horde at the Battle of Kulikovo in 1380, and "Pobeda" (the Russian word "pobeda" means "victory") steamed to the Far East almost immediately after entering service in 1901 and 1903 respectively. Upon her arrival, "Peresvet" became ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5232901 | 1,300,522 |
375,141 | In academia, people associated with Warwick include: Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1975) winner Sir John Cornforth who was a professor at Warwick; mathematicians Ian Stewart, David Preiss, David Epstein and Fields Medallist Martin Hairer; computer scientists Mike Cowlishaw and Leslie Valiant; and neurologist Oliver Sacks. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61115 | 374,946 |
964,221 | The AAT has been investigated in different scenarios and with different types of stimuli such as words and images. A study focusing on the AAT on embodied cognition, for example, examined people's response to positive and negative words presented on the center of a screen by moving them away or towards the center. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33034640 | 963,712 |
1,979,806 | In the second book “"Metaphysics of Globalization. Cultural-cum-civilizational Context"”, the focus is on culture, civilization and globalization, which are analyzed as closely interrelated, fundamental characteristics of various cultural and civilizational systems. It is substantiated that, due to objective reasons, g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40153145 | 1,978,668 |
1,775,732 | Glycosylation is a common posttranslational protein modifications, and almost all cell surface and secreted proteins are modified by covalently-linked carbohydrates. Eukaryotic glycans are generally classified into two main groups: N- and O-glycans, where the glycan chains are linked to asparagine and serine/threonine ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3322568 | 1,774,735 |
1,296,105 | The earliest descriptions of the axonal growth cone were made by the Spanish neurobiologist Santiago Ramón y Cajal in the late 19th century. However, understanding the molecular and cellular biology of axon guidance would not begin until decades later. In the last thirty years or so, scientists have used various method... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2065100 | 1,295,394 |
496,698 | Though in practice this series is finite because the number of occupied molecular orbitals is finite, as is the number of excitations, it is still very large, to the extent that even modern-day massively parallel computers are inadequate, except for problems of a dozen or so electrons and very small basis sets, when co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=429789 | 496,442 |
1,831,292 | Terpenes are a key component in chemotaxonomical classification of cannabis strains as terpene composition is a phenotypic trait. Majority of terpenes found in cannabis are hydrocarbons, which are a direct product of terpene synthase (TPS) enzymes. The molecular make up of terpenes in a cannabis plant involves the link... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70796522 | 1,830,245 |
480,014 | Anderson was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and grew up in Urbana, Illinois. His father, Harry Warren Anderson, was a professor of plant pathology at the University of Illinois at Urbana; his maternal grandfather was a mathematician at Wabash College, where Anderson's father studied; and his maternal uncle was a Rhodes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396694 | 479,770 |
663,742 | A remeasurement conducted by Newbrey et al. (2013) found that "C. mantelli" and "C. agassizensis" reached sexual maturity at around four to five years of age and proposed a possible revision to the measurements of the growth rings in FHSM VP-2187. The lifespan of FHSM VP-2187 and maximum lifespan of "C. mantelli" was a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1092359 | 663,396 |
1,430,812 | Secondary consciousness is seen in animals with semantic capabilities, such as the four great apes. It is present in its richest form in the human species, which is unique in possessing complex language made up of syntax and semantics. In considering how the neural mechanisms underlying primary consciousness arose and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29807596 | 1,430,008 |
205,976 | Secondary consciousness is seen in animals with semantic capabilities, such as the four great apes. It is present in its richest form in the human species, which is unique in possessing complex language made up of syntax and semantics. In considering how the neural mechanisms underlying primary consciousness arose and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13001588 | 205,870 |
1,404,709 | Additionally, on November 1, 2007, LKSOM broke ground on a new home. At a projected cost of $160 million, the project is the largest capital improvement project in the history of Temple University. The new building, an 11-story, glass and brick structure designed by Philadelphia-based architecture and engineering firm ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9865332 | 1,403,919 |
676,659 | In the late 1930s, as technical advances made it possible to transmit on higher frequencies, the FCC investigated options for increasing the number of broadcasting stations, in addition to ideas for better audio quality, known as "high-fidelity". In 1937 it introduced what became known as the Apex band, consisting of 7... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10315 | 676,306 |
375,092 | The "White Koan" is a modern art sculpture by Liliane Lijn which is installed outside the main entrance to the Warwick Arts Centre. The "Koan" is high, white in colour, decorated with elliptical of fluorescent lights and is rotated by an electric motor whilst illuminated. It is intended to represent the Buddhist quest ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61115 | 374,897 |
1,429,527 | Samples brought from non-restricted bodies such as the Moon, asteroids, comets, solar particles and space dust, are processed at specialized facilities rated Biosafety level-3 (BSL-3). Samples brought to Earth from a planet or moon suspected to have either past or present habitable environments to microscopic life woul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58584263 | 1,428,723 |
699,592 | On July 9, 2012, the company accepted an offer of purchase for US$1.79 billion by China-based Superior Aviation Beijing, a holding company in part owned by E-Town, an economic development agency of the municipal government of Beijing, subject to completing the sale agreement within 45 days and regulatory approvals. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8549092 | 699,228 |
2,205,350 | Pegylation is the process of covalently binding polyethylene glycol (PEG) to proteins. Pegylation prolongs the half-life of the bound protein, leading to sustained delivery. This is advantageous because lower, less frequent dosing will be needed to have the same therapeutic effect in the patient, which will limit the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70621516 | 2,204,095 |
1,969,277 | CCP can be derived from aerobically grown yeast strains and can be isolated in both native and recombinant forms with high yield from "Saccharomyces cerevisiae." The enzyme’s primary function is to eliminate toxic radical molecules produced by the cell which are harmful to biological systems. It works to maintain low c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=323083 | 1,968,143 |
238,748 | In addition to blocking nerves which carry pain signals, local anesthetics may block nerves which carry other signals, though sensory nerve fibers are more sensitive to the effects of the local anesthetics than motor nerve fibers. For this reason, adequate pain control can usually be attained without blocking the motor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=985885 | 238,628 |
395,422 | In order to create a typing reagent, blood from animals or humans would be taken, the blood cells allowed to separate from the serum, and the serum diluted to its optimal sensitivity and used to type cells from other individuals or animals. Thus, serotyping became a way of crudely identifying HLA receptors and receptor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=302013 | 395,227 |
2,018,113 | Phillips returned to England in April 1684, and by July had been appointed third engineer of the ordnance. He visited France in the summer of 1684. Whilst in Luxembourg he met fellow military engineer and expert in fortifications, Vauban. He also took the opportunity to view frontier fortifications on the Rhine and at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16263583 | 2,016,950 |
1,746,085 | Hazeltine's innovation was to add a circuit to each radio frequency amplifier stage which fed back a small amount of energy from the plate (output) circuit to the grid (input) circuit with opposite phase to cancel ("neutralize") the feedback which was causing the oscillation. This effectively prevented the high-pitched... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2991563 | 1,745,099 |
990,227 | The Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment was an experimental demonstration, reported in 1944 by Oswald Avery, Colin MacLeod, and Maclyn McCarty, that DNA is the substance that causes bacterial transformation, in an era when it had been widely believed that it was proteins that served the function of carrying genetic inform... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19517416 | 989,710 |
1,181,621 | The Japanese began experimenting with oxygen-driven torpedoes about 1924, but gave up after numerous explosions and failures. Then, in 1927, an eight-man Japanese naval delegation went to the Whitehead Torpedo Works at Weymouth to study and buy a regular version of the Whitehead torpedo. While there, they believed that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54109056 | 1,180,996 |
1,588,384 | Puerpural Fever was a common cause of illness and mortality in women. White's practices practically eliminated this terror. He was sure that free flow of noxious fluids by gravitational drainage. For this he designed a chair to encourage such flow. Such an innovation is also often called a Fowler Chair after the Americ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21438344 | 1,587,490 |
288,693 | In March 2004, at the 82nd Airborne Division's request, the Army approved the transfer of four production vehicles from United Defense's facility in Pennsylvania to Fort Bragg, North Carolina. The vehicles were intended to bolster the 82nd's 17th Cavalry Squadron, which was in need of greater firepower for an upcoming ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4138470 | 288,536 |
2,062,140 | One notable center is the University of Calgary's Institute for Biocomplexity and Informatics. The Chairman of the Institute, Stuart Kauffman has contributed to the field of abiogenisis with his research into the emergence of metabolism through phenomena involving autocatalytic sets. Others centres of note in Ontario i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,950 |
169,589 | In 2016, ULA released the Cislunar 1000 Vision with an aim of creating an economy on the Moon and in Earth orbit with 1,000 people living and working in space. Core to this aim was that the production of fuel in space would allow for dramatically cheaper space travel. ULA made clear it was willing to become a customer ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4164089 | 169,499 |
1,661,214 | Magnus published 84 papers in research journals. His research output was continuous over his lifetime: the first memoir was published in 1825 when he was still a student, and the last appeared shortly after his death in 1870. From 1825 to 1833 he was occupied mainly with chemical researches. These resulted in the disco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=475659 | 1,660,280 |
279,847 | After taking off the surviving crew and passengers ("Whipple" rescued 308 men and "Edsall" 177) at 13:58, the escorting destroyers stood off and began firing nine shells and two torpedoes into "Langley" hull at 14:29 to prevent her from falling into enemy hands, scuttling her at approximately 8°51'04.2"S 109°02'02.6"E ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=199421 | 279,697 |
141,836 | The "San Antonio" class has significant survivability features and computer technology. In addition to Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) protection from air threats, the class was designed to minimize radar signature. Techniques that reduce radar cross-section (RCS) make the ships more difficult to locate and target. Enha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233229 | 141,778 |
1,929,713 | Other studies showed a trend for DNMT3a and DNMT3b. However, these DNMT's add new methyl marks on unmethylated DNA, unlike DNMT1. Like DNMT1, the loss of DNMT3a and 3b resulted in neuromuscular degeneration two months after birth, as well as poor survival rates amongst the progeny of the mutant cells, even though DNMT3... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51304858 | 1,928,606 |
163,915 | The distinguishing feature for this series is presence of four fast, 12-bit, simultaneous sampling ADCs (multiplexer to over 30 channels), and four matched, 8 MHz bandwidth op-amps with all pins exposed and additionally internal PGA (Programmable Gain Array) network. The exposed pads allow for a range of analog signal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33902286 | 163,830 |
29,158 | Bacteria are ubiquitous, living in every possible habitat on the planet including soil, underwater, deep in Earth's crust and even such extreme environments as acidic hot springs and radioactive waste. There are approximately 2×10 bacteria on Earth, forming a biomass that is only exceeded by plants. They are abundant i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9028799 | 29,148 |
61,195 | After completing seventh grade, Mikhail, with his stepfather's permission, left his family and returned to Kurya, hiking for nearly 1,000 km. In Kurya, he found a job in mechanics at a tractor station. A party organizer embedded within the factory noticed the man's dexterity and issued him a directive ("napravlenie") t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19535 | 61,170 |
1,868,024 | 6-Pyruvoyltetrahydropterin synthase deficiency is an autosomal recessive disorder that causes malignant hyperphenylalaninemia due to tetrahydrobiopterin deficiency. It is a recessive disorder that is accompanied by hyperphenylalaninemia. Commonly reported symptoms are initial truncal hypotonia, subsequent appendicular ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3906966 | 1,866,948 |
1,022,934 | A Ward Leonard control is usually used for controlling a shunt or compound wound DC motor, and developed as a method of providing a speed-controlled motor from an AC supply, though it is not without its advantages in DC schemes. The AC supply is used to drive an AC motor, usually an induction motor that drives a DC gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10004115 | 1,022,404 |
1,456,109 | Technology assessments, which are a form of cost–benefit analysis, are a medium for decision makers to evaluate and analyze solutions with regards to the particular technology assessment, and choose a best possible option which is cost effective and obeys the authoritative and budgetary requirements. However, they are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=74007 | 1,455,289 |
219,147 | A member of the natriuretic peptide gene family, "NPPA" encodes an important cardiac signaling molecule known as atrial natriuretic peptide/factor (ANP). ANP carries out endocrine functions of the heart. It acts as a diuretic by inhibiting sodium reabsorption in the kidneys. ANP also acts in the heart to prevent cardia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=475143 | 219,038 |
1,828,759 | Since about 2000, FDTD techniques have emerged as a primary means to computationally model many scientific and engineering problems dealing with electromagnetic wave interactions with material structures. Current FDTD modeling applications range from near-DC (ultralow-frequency geophysics involving the entire Earth-ion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6071706 | 1,827,719 |
1,499,177 | The stability and structure of the cystine knot motif implicates possible applications in drug design. The hydrogen bonding between the disulfide bonds of the motif and beta-sheet structures gives rise to highly efficient structure stabilization. In addition, the size of the motif is approximately 30 amino acid residue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16117606 | 1,498,333 |
1,015,314 | So far, Mendelssohn had devoted his talents to philosophy and criticism; now, however, an incident turned the current of his life in the direction of the cause of Judaism. In April 1763, Johann Kaspar Lavater, then a young theology-student from Zurich, made a trip to Berlin, where he visited the already famous Jewish p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44893 | 1,014,793 |
1,136,480 | From the mid-18th century through the 19th century scientific missions mapped the newly discovered regions, brought back to Europe the newly discovered fauna and flora, made hydrological, astronomical and meteorological observations and improved the methods of navigation. This stimulated great advances in the scientifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31642145 | 1,135,887 |
309,242 | Mandelbrot saw financial markets as an example of "wild randomness", characterized by concentration and long range dependence. He developed several original approaches for modelling financial fluctuations. In his early work, he found that the price changes in financial markets did not follow a Gaussian distribution, bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3999 | 309,077 |
941,737 | A "thermosiphon" traditionally refers to a closed system consisting of several pipes and/or chambers, with a larger chamber containing a small reservoir of liquid (often having a boiling point just above ambient temperature, but not necessarily). The larger chamber is as close to the heat source and designed to conduct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=798370 | 941,235 |
2,055,646 | Boyle's research and articles were crucial to the litigation brought in 1965 by Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference (Scenic Hudson) against Consolidated Edison (Con Ed), New York's primary electric utility company in the lawsuit titled "Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. Federal Power Commission". He relayed th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64533552 | 2,054,463 |
789,370 | AAC systems are diverse: unaided communication uses no equipment and includes signing and body language, while aided approaches use external tools. Aided communication methods can range from paper and pencil to communication books or boards to speech generating devices (SGDs) or devices producing written output. The sy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2106968 | 788,946 |
1,112,672 | The 3D modeling process used is that of polygon modeling with triangular faces to be represented by shell models. Limited use of constructive solid geometry is possible though only as a transitional method to create the union, subtraction and intersection of shell models. Once created models are rendered on an HTML 5 c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54900827 | 1,112,106 |
1,358,804 | In many mafic igneous rocks, such as gabbro and diabase, scapolite replaces feldspar by a secondary or metasomatic process. Some Norwegian scapolite-gabbros (or diorite) examined microscopically furnish examples of every stage of the process. The chemical changes involved are really small, one of the most important bei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1179763 | 1,358,053 |
1,453,583 | Beneficial mycorrhizal associations are to be found in many of our edible and flowering crops. Shewell Cooper suggests that these include at least 80% of the "brassica" and "solanum" families (including tomatoes and potatoes), as well as the majority of tree species, especially in forest and woodlands. Here the mycorrh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4686654 | 1,452,766 |
61,379 | The UChicago Arts program joins academic departments and programs in the Division of the Humanities and the college, as well as professional organizations including the Court Theatre, the Oriental Institute, the Smart Museum of Art, the Renaissance Society, University of Chicago Presents, and student arts organizations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32127 | 61,354 |
535,201 | A modest force remained in Afghanistan over this time and was involved in counter-insurgency operations in Uruzgan Province in conjunction United States and other coalition forces, including the Dutch prior to their withdrawal. The force consisted of motorised infantry, special forces, engineers, cavalry, artillery and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,922 |
329,043 | The narrative concept for "Prey" came to Colantonio during one of his airline flights while on travel; on return, he started to engage with the Austin studio to flesh out the ideas for the narrative, design, and gameplay, looking to build as detailed a world as they had for the city of Dunwall used as the setting for "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11718979 | 328,868 |
423,881 | Early work on Frames was inspired by psychological research going back to the 1930s that indicated people use stored stereotypical knowledge to interpret and act in new cognitive situations. The term Frame was first used by Marvin Minsky as a paradigm to understand visual reasoning and natural language processing. In t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9924067 | 423,674 |
230,945 | A detailed timeline stretching from the late 20th century to the mid-32nd describes humanity's technological, social and political development and spread through space both in broad historical terms and through accounts of the lives of individuals who experienced and shaped that history, with an emphasis on (initially)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=206330 | 230,827 |
2,044,180 | Led by ESA's Education Office at ESTEC, the project successfully completed a Phase A feasibility study and continued with the preliminary design during phase B. So far, more than 200 students have been involved in phases A and B of the ESMO project. Since November 2009, SSTL coordinate and supervise the work of the stu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19932393 | 2,043,000 |
723,614 | Market mix modeling can determine the sales impact generated by individual media such as television, magazine, and online display ads. In some cases it can be used to determine the impact of individual advertising campaigns or even ad executions upon sales. For example, for TV advertising activity, it is possible to ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10219801 | 723,234 |
943,142 | Regional specification is initiated by the presence of cytoplasmic determinants in one part of the zygote. The cells that contain the determinant become a signaling center and emit an inducing factor. Because the inducing factor is produced in one place, diffuses away, and decays, it forms a concentration gradient, hig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8449 | 942,640 |
1,863,945 | Following his PhD, Pawliszyn joined the faculty at Utah State University where he attempted to get funding for research on polymer-coated optical fibers that could extract both volatile and nonvolatile analytes from complex media in the liquid or gas phase. After failing to secure funding from United States-based fundi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69404680 | 1,862,873 |
287,751 | In 2010, INFRA built a compact Pilot Plant for conversion of natural gas into synthetic oil. The plant modeled the full cycle of the GTL chemical process including the intake of pipeline gas, sulfur removal, steam methane reforming, syngas conditioning, and Fischer–Tropsch synthesis. In 2013 the first pilot plant was a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1284762 | 287,595 |
938,053 | By 1889, the electric power industry was flourishing, and power companies had built thousands of power systems (both direct and alternating current) in the United States and Europe. These networks were effectively dedicated to providing electric lighting. During this time the rivalry between Thomas Edison and George We... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14105333 | 937,553 |
1,729,770 | Atwater's legacy endures not only in the field of nutrition but also in the work of the agricultural experiment stations. Both he and Johnson are considered responsible for focusing the role of the experiment stations on scientific study in service of the public and the tables and formulas Atwater created through his r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10465237 | 1,728,795 |
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