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2,200,412 | Based on sequencing data, "M. hakonensis" contains the gene for maleylacetate reductase, a key component in biological degradation of halogenated aromatic organic compounds. Based on recent studies, halogenated aromatic compounds have become a pollutant of food products. Other benzene derivatives have been known to pol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54639041 | 2,199,160 |
899,737 | Current association studies have focused on common variation across the genome, as these are the easiest to identify with our current assays. However, disease-causing variants of large effect have been found to lie within exomes in candidate gene studies, and because of negative selection, are found in much lower allel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26418006 | 899,262 |
2,048,795 | Returning to Habsburg Hungary, he was appointed as a military engineer. Soon after, in the 1770s, he abandoned military service to become a civil engineer working for the Hofkammer, the main financial institution of the Habsburg monarchy. His first duty was regulating the water level of the Danube near Bratislava. He l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38475224 | 2,047,614 |
1,974,764 | In 1882, Forbes became manager of the British Electric Light Company, manufacturers of carbon filaments and arc lamps. He experimented with using carbon for the brushes in electric motors, rather than wire or gauze and in 1885 took out a patent for the "Improved Means for Establishing Electric Connection between Surfac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6637881 | 1,973,627 |
1,436,092 | After the release of the Terrigen Mist, Storm, Iceman and Magik have decided to leave the Westchester and establish X-Haven in the Limbo dimension. Their goal is to protect healthy mutants from the Terrigen and to provide safe care for mutants who were infected by it. Before leaving they try to recruit old friends: Col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47140571 | 1,435,285 |
1,901,532 | Adaptive Sports USA has a long and storied history in providing competitive sports opportunities to individuals with a disability. Founded in 1956 as the National Wheelchair Athletic Association, the early years of wheelchair sports were successful in large part due to the efforts of Benjamin Lipton, the Bulova Watch C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34184676 | 1,900,443 |
256,101 | Vast deposits of dolomite are present in the geological record, but the mineral is relatively rare in modern environments. Reproducible, inorganic low-temperature syntheses of dolomite are yet to be performed. Usually, the initial inorganic precipitation of a metastable "precursor" (such as magnesium calcite) can easil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=102519 | 255,967 |
58,350 | During the Berlin Crisis of 1961, President John F. Kennedy ordered 148,000 United States National Guard and reserve personnel to active duty on 30 August, in response to Soviet moves to cut off Allied access to Berlin. 21,067 individuals were from the ANG, forming 18 fighter squadrons, four reconnaissance squadrons, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82439 | 58,325 |
994,880 | Using multivariate methods in spatial analysis began really in the 1950s (although some examples go back to the beginning of the century) and culminated in the 1970s, with the increasing power and accessibility of computers. Already in 1948, in a seminal publication, two sociologists, Wendell Bell and Eshref Shevky, ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3190431 | 994,363 |
571,128 | Nernst started university at Zurich in 1883, then after an interlude in Berlin, he returned to Zurich. He wrote his thesis at Graz where Boltzmann was professor, though he worked under the direction of Ettinghausen. They discovered the Nernst effect: that a magnetic field applied perpendicular to a metallic conductor i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75876 | 570,837 |
1,782,071 | Autophagy is an innate pathway used for degradation of cellular components (Kobayashi, 2015). In recent studies, scientists recognize the significance of autophagy both as a potential anti-apoptotic response to cancer treatments as well as a potential mechanism for getting rid of undesirable fusion proteins such as AML... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10454051 | 1,781,067 |
1,112,402 | More than 125,000 years ago, early Archaic humans such as "Homo heidelbergensis" developed the extensive use of hafted stone tools. Over time, hafting evolved and tools became deadlier with more control. Evolution has brought hafts with small shafts and dull stone tools to longer stronger shafts with sharper, narrower ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9721272 | 1,111,836 |
735,557 | Dr. R. Chidambaram was Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India (until Dr. Krishnasamy VijayRaghavan, replaced him in March 2018) and Chairman of the Scientific Advisory to the Cabinet of the Federal Government. Some of his initiatives as Principal Scientific Adviser, including the setting up of the Core... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7339616 | 735,170 |
338,819 | Average global temperatures in the Early Carboniferous Period were high: approximately 20 °C (68 °F). However, cooling during the Middle Carboniferous reduced average global temperatures to about 12 °C (54 °F). Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels fell during the Carboniferous Period from roughly 8 times the current level... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5401 | 338,639 |
2,121,068 | Joseph Zimmermann (1912 – March 31, 2004) was an engineer, born in Kenosha, Wisconsin who invented the first answering machine, called the "Electronic Secretary". Zimmermann graduated from Marquette University in 1935 with a degree in electrical engineering. He served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps during World War II a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1861452 | 2,119,849 |
28,138 | Empirical therapy may be chosen on the basis of the person's age, whether the infection was preceded by a head injury, whether the person has undergone recent neurosurgery and whether or not a cerebral shunt is present. In young children and those over 50 years of age, as well as those who are immunocompromised, the ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21009963 | 28,128 |
1,850,405 | Annals of Botany is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing experimental, theoretical and applied papers on all aspects of plant biology. The current (2022) Chief Editor is Rowan Sage, replacing John Seymour (Pat) Heslop-Harrison (University of Leicester, UK and the South China Botanical Garden appointed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12382401 | 1,849,344 |
67,347 | An operant conditioning chamber (also known as a "Skinner box") is a laboratory apparatus used in the experimental analysis of animal behavior. It was invented by Skinner while he was a graduate student at Harvard University. As used by Skinner, the box had a lever (for rats), or a disk in one wall (for pigeons). A pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4868 | 67,321 |
2,138,883 | The advent in the mid-1990s of 'no-frills' carriers, such as easyJet, has had a significant influence on air travel in the UK. In 2005 these airlines carried 77.5 million passengers, up from just 4.3 million in 1996. They are responsible for the growth of regional airports, operating from 35 airports in 2006 compared t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14120583 | 2,137,653 |
1,759,216 | In 1965, the third Indian expedition, which was led by Mohan Singh Kohli and his deputy Colonel Narendra "Bull" Kumar, included 21 core members of the expedition, and around 50 climbing sherpas. The mission was sponsored by the Indian Mountaineering foundation. The team started their journey from New Delhi on 21 Februa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61445869 | 1,758,223 |
630,422 | Currently, all PGD embryos are obtained by assisted reproductive technology, although the use of natural cycles and "in vivo" fertilization followed by uterine lavage was attempted in the past and is now largely abandoned. In order to obtain a large group of oocytes, the patients undergo controlled ovarian stimulation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=562180 | 630,084 |
255,657 | Several Filipino scientist have pioneered in the field of biology. For example, Eduardo Quisumbing, a biologist who graduated MS in Botany at the University of the Philippines Los Baños in 1921, and Ph.D. in Plant Taxonomy, Systematics and Morphology at the University of Chicago in 1923. He conducted research on taxono... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9629399 | 255,523 |
1,238,228 | However, in mid-November, things began to go awry. Briselli showed the two completed movements he was learning to his violin coach in New York City, Albert Meiff, who was immediately critical of the work from a violinistic standpoint. Briselli did not concur. Nevertheless, Meiff, who enjoyed the confidence of Fels, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3828005 | 1,237,562 |
470,945 | Non contact microwave-based radar sensors are able to see through low conductivity 'microwave-transparent' (non-conductive) glass/plastic windows or vessel walls through which the microwave beam can be passed and measure a 'microwave reflective' (conductive) liquid inside (in the same way as to use a plastic bowl in a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4023295 | 470,709 |
535,169 | In the immediate post-war period Australia contributed significant forces to the Allied occupation of Japan as part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force (BCOF), which included forces from Australia, Britain, India and New Zealand. At its height in 1946 the Australian component consisted of an infantry brigade, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,890 |
1,923,512 | Within the vast biological diversity that inhabits the world’s oceans, it would be challenging to find a eukaryotic organism that does not live in close relationship with a microbial partner. Such symbioses, i.e., persistent interactions between host and microbe in which none of the partners gets harmed and at least on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62893752 | 1,922,409 |
1,805,476 | Many advancements were made in music instrument technology during the Middle Ages and 19th Century. The introduction of copper smelting allowed for trumpets, organ pipes, and slides to be constructed with sheet metal which had a smooth texture and consistency in thickness, allowing for more range of tones and sounds. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6078697 | 1,804,461 |
1,318,071 | In 1924 Beranek's father brought home a battery-powered radio containing a single vacuum tube. His eldest son became fascinated with both the technology and the musical aspects of radio. In the harsh winter of January 1926, Beranek's mother died suddenly, leaving his father with huge debts and forcing his father to sel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3255483 | 1,317,346 |
2,122,004 | Muconate lactonizing enzymes (, "muconate cycloisomerase I", "cis,cis-muconate-lactonizing enzyme", "cis,cis-muconate cycloisomerase", "4-carboxymethyl-4-hydroxyisocrotonolactone lyase (decyclizing)", "CatB", "MCI", "MLE", "2,5-dihydro-5-oxofuran-2-acetate lyase (decyclizing))" are involved in the breakdown of lignin-d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4782730 | 2,120,785 |
455,861 | In February 2004, the UCS received press attention for its publication "Scientific Integrity in Policymaking". The report criticized the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush for "politicizing" science. Some of the allegations include altering information in global warming reports by the Environmental Protect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=495732 | 455,639 |
494,166 | "TIS-100" was based on an idea that Zach Barth, the founder and lead game designer of Zachtronics, had years prior. The concept was named "The Second Golden Age", which was set in the Middle East sometime in the near future, in which the player would program nanobots to be injected into the player-character's blood as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46875661 | 493,911 |
1,002,080 | Houdini's set of tools are mostly implemented as operators. This has led to a higher learning curve than other comparable tools. It is one thing to know what all the nodes do – but the key to success with Houdini is understanding how to represent a desired creative outcome as a network of nodes. Successful users are ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=908456 | 1,001,562 |
1,276,752 | The dredging of canals across the southern marshlands has long been blamed for coastal erosion. What was then the Orleans Levee Board, now the Southeast Louisiana Flood Protection Authority operating as the East and West divisions, filed a lawsuit in July 2013 against 97 oil and gas companies for damages, claiming the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47741580 | 1,276,059 |
338,177 | It is typically thought that the diets of "H. habilis" and other early "Homo" had a greater proportion of meat than "Australopithecus", and that this led to brain growth. The main hypotheses regarding this are: meat is energy- and nutrient-rich and put evolutionary pressure on developing enhanced cognitive skills to fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14348 | 337,997 |
1,652,827 | When looking at a picture, people's brains are constantly making decisions about what object they are looking at, where they need to move their eyes next, and what they find to be the most salient aspects of the input stimulus. As these images hit the back of the retina, these stimuli are converted from varying wavelen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33246145 | 1,651,895 |
1,068,102 | On April 15, 2010, President Obama spoke at the Kennedy Space Center announcing the administration's plans for NASA. None of the 3 plans outlined in the committee's final report were completely selected. The President cancelled the Constellation program and rejected immediate plans to return to the Moon on the premise ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30731968 | 1,067,548 |
1,404,463 | During World War One, work started on radio guided weapons at various establishments, such as the experiments of Capt. Cyril Percy Ryan at Hawkcraig Experimental Station (H.M.S. Tarlair). However, as control by the Munitions Inventions Department over military research was introduced, a centre for the Royal Flying Corp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67154389 | 1,403,673 |
1,933,048 | The Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) is a society that aims to further the success of Chicano/Hispanic and Native American students in obtaining advanced degrees, careers, leadership positions, and equality in the STEM field. Founded in 1973, SACNAS has over 20,000 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51783464 | 1,931,940 |
2,003,925 | Low temperature distillation (LTD) is a thermal distillation process in several stages, powered by temperature differences between heat and cooling sources of at least 5 K per stage. Two separate volume flows, a hot evaporator flow and a cool condenser flow, with different temperatures and vapor pressures, are sprayed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63078029 | 2,002,776 |
1,077,662 | Perhaps one of the most prominent models of peer-assessment can be found in design studios. One of the benefits of such studios comes from structured contrasts which can help novices notice differences that might otherwise have been accessible only for experts. In fact, it is a well known strategy for designers to use ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25382047 | 1,077,107 |
2,111,197 | The race was conducted in almost 30 °C temperatures, but the Chinese team took the race out at a pace only seen once before, during Ingrid Kristiansen's world record race 5 years earlier. Zhong Huandi took the pace for her 20 year old country mate Wang Junxia, while the others struggled to keep up. 15 year old Sally Ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13977098 | 2,109,982 |
1,760,400 | Brenda Dervin (Dervin, 1983, 1992, 1996) has investigated individual sensemaking, developing theories about the "cognitive gap" that individuals experience when attempting to make sense of observed data. Because much of this applied psychological research is grounded within the context of systems engineering and human ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55646581 | 1,759,407 |
2,154,198 | The appointment of a new executive team in 2019 came with a comprehensive reorientation of the key guiding principles for their research agendas. At the heart of the research agenda of the Department of Criminal Law is the development of a transnational theory of criminal law. The objective is to map comprehensively th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18437664 | 2,152,967 |
1,450,551 | The Himmler stamp was designed by the British secret service with the intention of driving a wedge between the leadership of the Nazi regime. With the idea that Himmler was planning a coup d'état and wanted to make himself a new leader or president of Germany, an allegedly prepared stamp issue with his portrait was con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6890367 | 1,449,734 |
716,273 | The nuclear fuel elements were made of refractory ceramic based on beryllium oxide, with enriched uranium dioxide as fuel and small amount of zirconium dioxide for structural stability. The fuel elements were hollow hexagonal tubes about long with distance between the outer parallel planes, with inside diameter of . Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=746248 | 715,897 |
606,309 | In the prologue, Columbus mentions his orders to sail to India were received in January 1492, following the expulsion of Jews from Spain. Conflicting reports exist over the actual date of the expulsion, with Columbus citing January while other sources, including the Alhambra Decree, cite March. After the prologue, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47594693 | 605,999 |
1,348,011 | In the 1960s, Fitzsimons Army Hospital became further known for its "Clinical Specialist School," at that time one of the longest professional schools for enlisted US military personnel. US Army medics of varied service and rank studied both academically and in rotation on the hospital's wards. At the end of close to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=466014 | 1,347,270 |
539,441 | Every century (group of 60-100 men) in the Roman army had a "ballista" by the 1st century AD. It was the command of the chief of the "ballistae", under whom were the artillery experts, or "doctores ballistarum" and finally, the artillerymen, or "ballistarii". "Ballistae" were heavy missile weapons, hurling large rocks ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1299991 | 539,161 |
1,356,532 | Previous research has documented the effectiveness of Tetramethylenedisulfotetramine against mice. The dangers of this chemical were first suspected in 1949. The U.S. Forest Service, looking to protect tree seeds for reforestation, noted its lethal effect against the rodent populations. Rather than repel wandering scav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5414549 | 1,355,782 |
1,341,877 | A prominent feature of "Mymoorapelta" was its armor mostly consisting of large spiked osteoderms (bony armor) protruding from the lateral and dorsal sides of the body. These have not been found in articulation, so their exact placement on the body is unknown, though their position can be surmised based on the well pres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4347315 | 1,341,143 |
1,826,121 | When the substrate is biased to a negative voltage (few KV's), the resultant electric field drives electrons away from the substrate in the time scale of the inverse electron plasma frequency ω ( ~ 10 sec). Thus an ion matrix Debye sheath which is depleted of electrons forms around it. The negatively biased substrate w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13871411 | 1,825,082 |
155,674 | , or Test Type, is the experimental model of the Evangelion series and the second specimen to be built in the Nerv headquarters, studied under the direct supervision of Dr. Yui Ikari. It differs from all previous and subsequent specimens, as the biological matter that forms the basis comes from the second Angel, Lilith... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=577372 | 155,603 |
1,156,334 | Diethylzinc is not limited to only being used in chemistry. Because of its high reactivity toward air, it was used in small quantities as a hypergolic or "self igniting" liquid rocket fuel—it ignites on contact with oxidizer, so the rocket motor need only contain a pump, without a spark source for ignition. Diethylzinc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5672289 | 1,155,724 |
101,760 | Card's membership of the LDS Church has been an important influence on his writing, though he initially tried to keep his religious beliefs separate from his fiction. Susanne Reid, a science fiction scholar, stated Card's religious background is evident in his frequent messiah protagonists and the "moral seriousness" i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6097209 | 101,715 |
215,302 | Between 1930 and 1938 the Air Corps had obtained a mission in coastal defense that justified both the creation of a centralized strike force and the development of four-engined bombers, and over the resistance of the General Staff lobbied for another mission, strategic bombardment, with which it could persuasively argu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23869026 | 215,194 |
1,068,504 | At the moment there are no therapies specifically targeting the underlying cause of AGS. Current treatments address the symptoms, which can be varied both in scope and severity. Many patients benefit from tube-feeding. Drugs can be administered to help with seizures / epilepsy. The treatment of chilblains remains probl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38887508 | 1,067,950 |
808,348 | Linguistic determinism is a partial assumption behind developments in rhetoric and literary theory. For example, French philosopher Jacques Derrida dissected the terms of "paradigmatic" hierarchies (in language structures, some words exist only with antonyms, such as light/dark, and others exist only with relation to o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=915027 | 807,918 |
1,632,425 | Early in 1900 a new Nevada fossil site was discovered in the Virgin Valley. The site bore three fossil rich horizons. The lower and upper layers were rich in animal remains like two relatives of modern camels, a large cat, two different kinds of horse, remains likely belonging to a rhinoceros, and mastodons. Between th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799163 | 1,631,503 |
152,573 | The Scorpion stemmed from a United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) Air Technical Service Command specification ("Military Characteristics for All-Weather Fighting Aircraft") for a night fighter to replace the P-61 Black Widow. The preliminary specification, sent to aircraft manufacturers on 28 August 1945, required two ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=458875 | 152,505 |
2,019,510 | HADES (Haskins Analysis Display and Experiment System) refers to a family of signal processing computer programs that was developed in the 1980s at Haskins Laboratories by Philip Rubin and colleagues to provide for the display and analysis of multiple channel physiological, speech, and other sampled data in an experime... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8283993 | 2,018,347 |
90,391 | Prior to its production by recombinant DNA technology, growth hormone used to treat deficiencies was extracted from the pituitary glands of cadavers. Attempts to create a wholly synthetic HGH failed. Limited supplies of HGH resulted in the restriction of HGH therapy to the treatment of idiopathic short stature. Very li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=173072 | 90,351 |
1,690,447 | A very popular form of sound marketing is through the use of jingles. In the United States jingles were used as a new way to market new products and services as early as the 1920s. In 1938, Hereford-born Austen Croom-Johnson (1909–1964) and his Chicago-born lyricist partner, Alan Bradley Kent "(né" Karl Dewitt Byington... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33544122 | 1,689,501 |
1,260,942 | On July 25, 2017, Tetraphase pharmaceuticals released top line data via press showing clinical cure rates in the micro-ITT population to be 90.8% and 91.2% for eravacycline (n=195) and meropenem (n=205), respectively (95% CI: -6.3%,5.3%). Primary analysis was conducted using a 12.5% non-inferiority margin of the modifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40308124 | 1,260,255 |
4,009 | "Betrayal" was announced by Sony Online Entertainment at a press conference in Los Angeles in May 2007. The game utilizes a total of 110 different animations and features a 2D rendition of the series' three-dimensional (3D) graphics. Game director Phil Cohen said that although the game was enjoyable to develop, the gre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16282491 | 4,007 |
1,476,533 | After modification by Maunsell, the S15 class was regarded by locomotive crews as an excellent goods engine best known for working heavy night express goods trains between Exeter, Southampton and Nine Elms. The S15s were also very capable passenger engines, being able to deputise in situations where there was a shortag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2964379 | 1,475,701 |
15,344 | On 25 August 2012, the plan to order was confirmed by both Swedish and Swiss authorities. Deliveries were expected to run from 2018 to 2021 at a fixed price of CHF 3.126 billion (US$3.27 billion) including development costs, mission planning systems, initial spares and support, training, and certification; the Swedish ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=87577 | 15,339 |
1,558,722 | The stem of this cycad resembles that of a palm, and grows 4–10 meters tall and up to 45 cm in diameter. The large photosynthetic leaves have spiral arrangement on the stem and are interspersed with many brown, hairy, triangular scale-like leaves. The photosynthetic leaves are pinnate, dark-green, somewhat glossy, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33966690 | 1,557,837 |
310,296 | In 1934, delays in the design and production of the Panzer III and Panzer IV tanks were becoming apparent. Designs for a stopgap tank were solicited from Krupp, MAN, Henschel, and Daimler-Benz. The final design was based on the Panzer I, but larger, and with a turret mounting a 20 mm anti-tank gun. The Panzer II came a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29073044 | 310,128 |
142,023 | In more recent times, the university was the focus of the "Glasgow Group" of poets and literary critics, including Philip Hobsbaum, Tom Leonard and Alasdair Gray. The university boasts one of Europe's largest collections of life scientists, as well as having been the training ground of numerous politicians including fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39569 | 141,965 |
1,032,782 | A single variant of the Mk VIII was designed, the Alecto self-propelled gun. Originally known as the Harry Hopkins 1 CS (for "Close Support"), the Alecto was eventually given the General Staff specification number A25 E2. The Alecto mounted a howitzer on a lightweight version of the Mk VIII chassis which had the turret... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4601125 | 1,032,246 |
700,696 | The new objection to the Homunculus Argument claims that it relies on a naive view of sensation. Because the eyes respond to light rays is no reason for supposing that the visual field requires eyes to see it. Visual sensation (the argument can be extrapolated to the other senses) bears no direct resemblance to the lig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=613052 | 700,331 |
2,047,743 | The ability to design and manufacture devices to perform microfluidic experiments using well established approaches lends to the utility of studying chemical biology with microfluidics. The most common material used for device manufacturing is polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS). This material is far and away the most popular ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36431056 | 2,046,562 |
937,854 | A number of changes were made to the prototype during testing. The main change was the addition of supporting steel beams to improve and strengthen the suspension of the tank, which increased the weight to , the maximum weight that could be carried by a Hamilcar glider. Two new prototypes were ordered by the Ordnance D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=335693 | 937,354 |
1,666,101 | However, based upon more recent research, these outcomes are no longer completely viable. For example: In case studies of the Black Sea, a modern anoxic environment, it has been shown that anoxia within the lower-levels of the water column alone do not produce significant amount of organic-rich sediments, even though s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2830385 | 1,665,163 |
55,356 | The Arabic language, although originating in the Arabian Peninsula, first emerged in written form in the 1st to 4th centuries CE in the southern regions of The Levant. With the advent of the early Arab conquests of the seventh and eighth centuries, Classical Arabic eventually replaced many (but not all) of the indigeno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26919 | 55,333 |
209,684 | The Zhoukoudian Locality 1 has produced more than 100,000 lithic pieces. In 1979, to highlight technological evolution, Péi and Zhang partitioned the Zhoukoudian industry into three stages: the early stage typified by the simple hammer and anvil technique (slamming the core against a rock) which produced large flakes n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=253340 | 209,577 |
2,026,546 | At its inception in late 2015, the three undergraduate founders of the Small Satellite Research Laboratory envisioned it as a space company. Two of the founders had been involved in a previous startup as part of a UGA accelerator program. Their product, a large, remote-operated, 3D-printed telescope, achieved moderate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53334263 | 2,025,379 |
1,679,449 | Hilmers replaced another astronaut, killed in a plane crash, for his last mission. STS-42 "Discovery" launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on January 22, 1992. Fifty-five major experiments conducted in the International Microgravity Laboratory-1 module were provided by investigators from eleven countries, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=604840 | 1,678,506 |
653,203 | More effective on lighter targets are the expanding bullets, the hollow point bullet and the soft point bullet. These are designed to use the hydraulic pressure of muscle tissue to expand the bullet. The hollow point peels back into several connected pieces (sometimes referred to as petals due to their appearance) caus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186150 | 652,860 |
1,474,400 | It is suspected that "H. sapiens" ancestors’ did not initially forage on the forest floor; instead they migrated from the trees for various reasons. In that environment, they survived on a diet high in plant matter with some insects and little amounts of meat. They were not very formidable opponents to more dominant ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32156908 | 1,473,569 |
1,151,143 | The initial archaeological studies of the 1940s, by Malan, Cooke and Wells, were followed up briefly by K.W. Butzer in the 1970s. Peter Beaumont of the McGregor Museum in Kimberley then carried out major excavations at the site between 1978 and 1993, with Anne Thackeray and Francis Thackeray working at the site in 1979... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22695001 | 1,150,536 |
1,065,424 | To support its varied activities, NIO uses the services of limited-tenure staff, including doctoral students, project assistants and post-doctoral fellows. Their numbers have grown significantly with the growth in research programmes. The largest increase has been in the number of project assistants since CSIR introduc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1669118 | 1,064,870 |
1,836,792 | Netrin-1 and its receptors DCC and UNC-5 show a new mechanism for induction or suppression regulation of apoptosis. Evidence shows that this signaling pathway in humans is frequently inactivated. During the last 15 years, controversial data has failed to firmly establish whether DCC is indeed a tumour suppressor gene. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40631926 | 1,835,743 |
1,433,303 | Established in 1996, Wapusk National Park is 11,475 square kilometres (4,430 sq mi) of protected diverse and remote wilderness, located in Northeast Manitoba along the coast of the Hudson Bay. Wapusk derives from the Cree word for "white bear", and as the meaning indicates, is a significant maternity denning area for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2023242 | 1,432,499 |
261,221 | Atomic and nuclear tests can involve many hazards. Some of these were illustrated in the U.S. Castle Bravo test in 1954. The weapon design tested was a new form of hydrogen bomb, and the scientists underestimated how vigorously some of the weapon materials would react. As a result, the explosion—with a yield of 15 Mt—w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337775 | 261,084 |
719,464 | Muzychuk again generally finished towards the top of the standings in the 2013–14 FIDE Women's Grand Prix events, but did not win any of them and ultimately finished fourth in the overall standings. She had a better result at the Tata Steel Challengers tournament in Wijk aan Zee in early 2014, where she came in fourth ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1076780 | 719,084 |
1,613,267 | On June 21, 2009, the Krümmel reactor was restarted for the first time since the 2007 fire, and the plant started to produce electricity again but was shut down for the second time on July 4, 2009, only a few days after its two-year-long repair period. The shutdown was caused by a short circuit in a transformer that wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12241746 | 1,612,362 |
378,372 | A pacemaker may be implanted whilst a person is awake using local anesthetic to numb the skin with or without sedation, or asleep using a general anesthetic. An antibiotic is usually given to reduce the risk of infection. Pacemakers are generally implanted in the front of the chest in the region of the left or right sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80732 | 378,177 |
329,908 | Dermatopathology is a subspecialty of anatomic pathology that focuses on the skin and the rest of the integumentary system as an organ. It is unique, in that there are two paths a physician can take to obtain the specialization. All general pathologists and general dermatologists train in the pathology of the skin, so ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48791 | 329,733 |
803,446 | Rovers which land on celestial bodies far from the Earth, such as the Mars Exploration Rovers, cannot be remotely controlled in real-time since the speed at which radio signals travel is far too slow for "real-time" or "near-real-time" communication. For example, sending a signal from Mars to Earth takes between 3 and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10297736 | 803,017 |
123,845 | The first published causal explanation of the motions of planets was Johannes Kepler's "Astronomia nova," published in 1609. He concluded, based on Tycho Brahe's observations on the orbit of Mars, that the planet's orbits were ellipses. This break with ancient thought was happening around the same time that Galileo was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19555586 | 123,794 |
226,952 | In a large proportion (50–70%) of cases, the propensity for malignant hyperthermia is due to a mutation of the ryanodine receptor (type 1), located on the sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR), the organelle within skeletal muscle cells that stores calcium. RYR1 opens in response to conformational changes in the L-type calcium c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=722421 | 226,836 |
932,797 | In Wilber's first proposal for the story that became "Space Seed", dated August 29, 1966 (shortly before the first episode of "Star Trek" aired) the villain was Harold Erickson, an ordinary criminal exiled into space. He sought to free his gang from "Botany Bay", seize "Enterprise", and become a pirate. Parts of the st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=413157 | 932,305 |
1,397,157 | Surface engineering techniques are being used in the automotive, aerospace, missile, power, electronic, biomedical, textile, petroleum, petrochemical, chemical, steel, cement, machine tools and construction industries including road surfacing. Surface engineering techniques can be used to develop a wide range of functi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6822551 | 1,396,384 |
681,248 | To prove the soundness of the IAe 33 design, two gliders built under contract by another expatriate, Reimar Horten, were constructed and used for aerodynamics testing in 1948–1949, including flights by Tank himself. These tests revealed significant problems with lateral stability, resulting in modifications to the tail... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2616710 | 680,893 |
545,485 | In August 1940, Cockcroft travelled to the United States as part of the Tizard Mission. Because Britain had developed many new technologies but lacked the industrial capacity to fully exploit them, it was decided to share them with the United States, although that nation was not yet at war. The information provided by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=352564 | 545,199 |
596,600 | The administration of the Mesopotamian countryside was also motivated by a desire to ameliorate various kinds of risk that could affect agricultural activities and rural and urban society more generally. The irrigation system was also designed to limit the risk of floods, by means of basins that could retain excess wat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59427724 | 596,295 |
55,109 | The simplest type of neural circuit is a reflex arc, which begins with a sensory input and ends with a motor output, passing through a sequence of neurons connected in series. This can be shown in the "withdrawal reflex" causing a hand to jerk back after a hot stove is touched. The circuit begins with sensory receptors... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21944 | 55,086 |
966,047 | The main risk associated with the administration of medications to stimulate the ovaries is ovarian hyper stimulation syndrome (OHSS). This is a transient syndrome in which there is increased permeability of the blood vessels, resulting in fluid loss from the vessels into the surrounding tissues. In most cases the synd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10990255 | 965,538 |
1,507,907 | Considering geological and structural units of Iran, three main structural units or zones could be distinguished in Iran. These units or zones are separated from each other by ophiolite–bearing sutures. Other criteria such as structural style, crustal character and age of basement consolidation, age and intensity of de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44255536 | 1,507,061 |
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