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819,006 | The overworld of Golden Sun is filled with towns, caves, and dungeons. Players explore from a top-down perspective. Environments often have puzzles integrated into their layout. These puzzles require the player to perform actions such as creating makeshift bridges by pushing logs into rivers or shifting the track of a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=440119 | 818,566 |
1,499,868 | In a similar form students learn all the subjects, techniques and skills in these schools. Every person, children and youth included, has a different learning style and pace and each person, is unique, not only capable of learning but also capable of succeeding. These schools assert that applying the medical model of p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1010814 | 1,499,023 |
2,004,554 | Babcock was born on a farm in Bridgewater, New York to Peleg and Cornelia Babcock. He earned a B.A. from Tufts College in 1866 and attended Cornell University from 1872 to 1875, where he earned a master's degree before studying organic chemistry at the University of Göttingen, Germany, from which he received a Ph.D. in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1328375 | 2,003,405 |
1,444,561 | In early 2014, using data from the Herschel Space Observatory, it was discovered that there are several localized (not more than 60 km in diameter) mid-latitude sources of water vapor on Ceres, which each give off about 10 molecules (or 3 kg) of water per second. Two potential source regions, designated Piazzi (123°E, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12607134 | 1,443,748 |
114,116 | On 1 November 2017, NASA commissioned five studies lasting four months into affordable ways to develop the Power and Propulsion Element (PPE), leveraging private companies' plans. These studies had a combined budget of US$2.4 million. The companies performing the PPE studies were Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK, S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53648310 | 114,071 |
1,485,781 | In the US, the interest in reliability assessments of generation, transmission, substations, and distribution picked up after the Northeast blackout of 1965. A work by Capra et al. in 1969 suggested designing systems to standardized levels of reliability and suggested a metric similar to the modern SAIFI. SAIFI, SAIDI,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70555846 | 1,484,943 |
795,081 | While suited up for the Apollo 17 mission, but before his helmet was attached, Evans smoked a last cigarette. His crewmates had urged him to quit, and Schmitt suggested that he could take advantage of the two-week mission to go cold turkey. An estimated 700,000 people watched the night launch from the Kennedy Space Cen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=598426 | 794,656 |
1,736,797 | 120 student veterinarians are admitted to the school each year after successfully passing the highly competitive application and interview processes. Student veterinarians can usually be found studying in the Lifetime Learning Center, having a coffee in the Pathobiology building, or playing hockey at the Gryphon Center... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=353352 | 1,735,820 |
663,488 | By the end of 1948, Aerojet had designed, built, and tested a liquid hydrogen pump (15 cm diameter). Initially, it used ball bearings that were run clean and dry, because the low temperature made conventional lubrication impractical. The pump was first operated at low speeds to allow its parts to cool down to operating... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31440 | 663,143 |
1,444,178 | Researchers have also been accused of misrepresenting the data gathered from their studies. In one example, a commonly cited study to reference the immaturity of the brain in adolescence is a 2004 study involving a no-go task comparing teens and adults. Adolescents aged 12 to 17 were measured along with adults aged 22 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55377516 | 1,443,365 |
202,271 | Vertebrate animals tend to be generalist feeders, and seldom make good biological control agents; many of the classic cases of "biocontrol gone awry" involve vertebrates. For example, the cane toad ("Rhinella marina") was intentionally introduced to Australia to control the greyback cane beetle ("Dermolepida albohirtum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155739 | 202,167 |
456,606 | Chloral Hydrate is a commonly prescribed sedative, and most common for inducing sleep in young children and infants for AEP recordings. It uses alcohol to depress the central nervous system, specifically the cerebral cortex. Side effects of chloral hydrate include vomiting, nausea, gastric irritation, delirium, disorie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6259764 | 456,383 |
574,154 | At Columbia, Muller and his collaborator and longtime friend Edgar Altenburg continued the investigation of lethal mutations. The primary method for detecting such mutations was to measure the sex ratios of the offspring of female flies. They predicted the ratio would vary from 1:1 due to recessive mutations on the X c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240846 | 573,860 |
279,543 | The proteoglycan components of tendons also are important to the mechanical properties. While the collagen fibrils allow tendons to resist tensile stress, the proteoglycans allow them to resist compressive stress. These molecules are very hydrophilic, meaning that they can absorb a large amount of water and therefore h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=144865 | 279,393 |
1,346,379 | The industrial revolution in the 1700s brought with it a plethora of novel public health issues stemming from rapid urban development and poor sanitation, conditions which fueled the development of disease mapping, or medical cartography. A precursor to medical geography, medical cartography arose from the need to comm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2596739 | 1,345,638 |
350,293 | When reporters at a news conference surrounded Grissom after his space flight to ask how he felt, Grissom replied, "Well, I was scared a good portion of the time; I guess that's a pretty good indication." Grissom stated he had done nothing to cause the hatch to blow, and no definitive explanation for the incident was f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36592 | 350,110 |
905,605 | Genome editing using Meganuclease, ZFNs, and TALEN provides a new strategy for genetic manipulation in plants and are likely to assist in the engineering of desired plant traits by modifying endogenous genes. For instance, site-specific gene addition in major crop species can be used for 'trait stacking' whereby severa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34930586 | 905,129 |
685,103 | Flory-Huggins theory tends to agree well with experiments in the semi-dilute concentration regime and can be used to fit data for even more complicated blends with higher concentrations. The theory qualitatively predicts phase separation, the tendency for high molecular weight species to be immiscible, the formula_75 i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3010589 | 684,746 |
1,573,024 | The preliminary diagnosis begins with a pelvic examination, serum tumor marker test and imaging. Physicians may feel a large palpable mass or lump in lower abdomen upon insertion of the gloved fingers into the vagina. To further identify the histologic subtypes of OGMTs, blood samples of patients are collected to analy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60324666 | 1,572,135 |
401,299 | On 6 September 1968, Ralph Ponte, one of three civilian pilots to hold a rating for the F-15, was flying a series of routine Phos-Chek drops on a fire raging near Hollister, California. In an effort to reduce his return time, Ponte opted to reload at a small airfield nearer the fire. The runway was shorter than the one... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=458868 | 401,100 |
1,112,881 | Much like the other regions in Canada, the educational system in British Columbia remained, for the most part, stagnant from the 1960s through the 1990s. During this period, education was divided into two main groups, the college and institution sector and the university sector. However, only the college and institutio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17661972 | 1,112,315 |
462,324 | The phenomenon of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) was first described in molecular beams (1938) and bulk matter (1946), work later acknowledged by the award of a joint Nobel prize in 1952. Further investigation laid out the principles of relaxation times leading to nuclear spectroscopy. In 1971, there was the first re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13791336 | 462,095 |
1,626,631 | In 1960 Malcolm McKenna discovered two early Paleocene turtles on behalf of the American Museum of Natural History on South Table Mountain. The following year, curator of the University of Colorado Museum at Boulder discovered even more turtles of that age at the same place. In the summer of 1961 a major discovery happ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799146 | 1,625,713 |
734,864 | "The Phenological Reports" ended suddenly in 1948 after 58 years, and Britain remained without a national recording scheme for almost 50 years, just at a time when climate change was becoming evident. During this period, individual dedicated observers made important contributions. The naturalist and author Richard Fitt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=536188 | 734,477 |
125,610 | Death caps have been reported to taste pleasant. This, coupled with the delay in the appearance of symptoms—during which time internal organs are being severely, sometimes irreparably, damaged—makes it particularly dangerous. Initially, symptoms are gastrointestinal in nature and include colicky abdominal pain, with wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=184774 | 125,558 |
820,155 | Patients who have drug-resistant focal epilepsy defined as failing 2 or more medications with seizures arising from 1 hemisphere of the brain qualify to be candidate for hemispherectomy. To confirm this candidacy, a set of tests is required that usually includes electroencephalograph (EEG ), brain imaging in the form o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1196674 | 819,714 |
1,505,509 | The genetic modification of mammalian cells is a standard procedure for the production of correctly modified proteins with pharmaceutical relevance. To be successful, the transfer and expression of the transgene has to be highly efficient and should have a largely predictable outcome. Current developments in the field ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14032539 | 1,504,663 |
764,595 | In 1987, mechanical engineer Peter Masak called on aerodynamicist Mark D. Maughmer, an associate professor of aerospace engineering at the Pennsylvania State University, about designing winglets to improve performance on his wingspan racing sailplane. Others had attempted to apply Whitcomb's winglets to gliders before,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=313398 | 764,185 |
1,406,949 | Greenpeace and workers' unions continued to mount pressure on the company to take responsibility for the dumping crimes it had committed and for meddling with a pristine environment. They asked the regulatory bodies to prosecute the company. With these demands, public interest groups led by Greenpeace campaign head Sha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41848782 | 1,406,159 |
1,800,909 | In mice, NADA was shown to induce the tetrad of physiological paradigms associated with cannabinoids: hypothermia, hypo-locomotion, catalepsy, and analgesia. NADA has been found to play a regulatory role in both the peripheral and central nervous systems, and displays antioxidant and neuroprotectant properties. NADA ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14712189 | 1,799,900 |
37,996 | "Homo erectus" featured a flat face compared to earlier hominins; pronounced brow ridge; and a low, flat skull. The presence of sagittal, frontal, and coronal keels, which are small crests that run along these suture lines, has been proposed to be evidence of significant thickening of the skull, specifically the crania... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19554533 | 37,983 |
596,622 | Reconstructing the organisation of the ancient economy from the surviving sources (mainly textual) faces numerous difficulties. Agricultural activity in ancient Mesopotamia is documented by tens of thousands of administrative documents, but they generally relate to a specific sector of the economy - the institutions of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59427724 | 596,317 |
916,656 | The loss of eight battleships and 2,403 Americans at Pearl Harbor forced the U.S. to rely on its remaining aircraft carriers, which won a major victory over Japan at Midway just six months into the war, and on its growing submarine fleet. The Navy and Marine Corps followed this up with an island hopping campaign across... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=161323 | 916,173 |
786,182 | The spacecraft was assembled at LASP in Boulder, Colorado, where Emirati engineers worked and learned from their American counterparts. It was launched from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. The first Mars probe of the Arab world arrived at the launch site in Japan in April 2020, after officials navigated coronavirus-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49079379 | 785,759 |
85,980 | During an 1861 Royal Institution lecture on colour theory, Maxwell presented the world's first demonstration of colour photography by this principle of three-colour analysis and synthesis. Thomas Sutton, inventor of the single-lens reflex camera, took the picture. He photographed a tartan ribbon three times, through re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28989696 | 85,946 |
1,131,829 | He became well known nationally for his coverage of the World Chess Championship 1993, live from the Savoy in London, on Channel 4 television. The programme, hosted by Carol Vorderman, contained expert commentary and analysis from King, Ray Keene, Jon Speelman and "Fritz", the chess-playing computer program. The show w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15286184 | 1,131,238 |
383,854 | According to historian Tonio Andrade, "Scholars today overwhelmingly concur that the gun was invented in China," however multiple independent gunpowder and gun invention theories continue to exist today, advocating for European, Islamic, or Indian origins. Opponents of Chinese invention and transmission criticize the v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12063194 | 383,659 |
1,394,589 | On 1 March 2018, UK authorities issued a red warning in Wales and south-west England as citizens in Scotland spent up to 20 hours in their cars stuck in traffic in frigid weather and a 46-year-old Southampton man died in a motor vehicle accident on the A34. Schools across the UK were closed in the face of oncoming bliz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55159883 | 1,393,818 |
1,012,007 | The practice of precision agriculture has been enabled by the advent of GPS and GNSS. The farmer's and/or researcher's ability to locate their precise position in a field allows for the creation of maps of the spatial variability of as many variables as can be measured (e.g. crop yield, terrain features/topography, org... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=144068 | 1,011,486 |
2,198,056 | Dr. Taylor directs, coordinates and designs (with LNVR staff) epidemiological, clinical, and laboratory research in the LNVR and its collaborating institutions. This includes human and animal studies that seek to discover behaviors, environmental influences, methods and molecules that diminish the risk for cataract and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46738116 | 2,196,805 |
215,830 | Rush was interested in Native American health. He wanted to find out why Native Americans were susceptible to certain illnesses and whether they had higher mortality rates as compared to other people. Other questions that he raised were whether they dreamed more and if their hair turned gray as they got older. His fasc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=260899 | 215,722 |
252,542 | The Alpha Jet is a light twin-engine aircraft equipped with an intentionally simple airframe despite the performance delivered. Both the leading edges and air intakes are fixed; while the aerodynamic shape of the aircraft, which was developed with the aid of computer aided design (CAD), conforms with the area rule. Ful... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1162592 | 252,409 |
1,488,872 | Although earlier pluralistic conceptions of science persisted during the rise of positivism, modern conceptions of scientific pluralism began to emerge in the 1970s. In a 1978 address to the Philosophy of Science Association, Stanford University professor Patrick Suppes argued against what he called "reduction of langu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9482256 | 1,488,033 |
1,846,120 | Russell Hulme regularly conducts throughout Britain and Ireland and in 2019 appeared for the first time as guest conductor with the Zaporozhye Symphony Orchestra in Ukraine. In 2001 he toured Australia and New Zealand, where he conducted the State Orchestra of Victoria (now Orchestra Victoria), the Auckland Philharmoni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11291076 | 1,845,065 |
205,200 | The 1975 mainframe game was the most popular software in the system for Minnesota schools for five years, with thousands of players monthly. Rawitsch, Heinemann, and Dillenberger were not publicly acknowledged as the creators of the original game until 1995, when MECC honored them in a ceremony at the Mall of America. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=354015 | 205,094 |
160,345 | Amphotericin B is well known for its severe and potentially lethal side effects. Very often, it causes a serious reaction soon after infusion (within 1 to 3 hours), consisting of high fever, shaking chills, hypotension, anorexia, nausea, vomiting, headache, dyspnea and tachypnea, drowsiness, and generalized weakness. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=732448 | 160,260 |
82,418 | The possibility of a seventh noble gas, after helium, neon, argon, krypton, xenon, and radon, was considered almost as soon as the noble gas group was discovered. Danish chemist Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen predicted in April 1895, the year after the discovery of argon, that there was a whole series of chemically i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62200 | 82,384 |
187,404 | The proposed baseline characteristics called for a vessel capable of reaching speeds of and a range of at based on a Combined diesel or gas (CODOG) propulsion system, able to operate in Sea State 5, and capable of operating a Seahawk-size helicopter. The ship was to be fitted with a main gun and an eight-cell launcher ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=897679 | 187,307 |
404,222 | Category 5 is the highest category of the Saffir–Simpson scale. These storms cause complete roof failure on many residences and industrial buildings, and some complete building failures with small utility buildings blown over or away. The collapse of many wide-span roofs and walls, especially those with no interior sup... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=255313 | 404,022 |
797,009 | The Yak-120 exceeded the Air Force specific operational requirements in all aspects except for speed and range. Its 3-hour and 45 minute endurance without a drop tank (4 hours and 15 minutes with tank) and 2,800 km range on internal fuel at 12,000 m altitude allowed it to fly long-range patrols. Being smaller and light... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1045156 | 796,584 |
1,990,500 | In 1956, Meitetsu rail-road company and other companies in the Chūbu area built the (JMC) as a tourist attraction. Inuyama was chosen as the location for JMC since the city was already famous for its ancient castle. The JMC was created as a private foundation under the control of the Ministry of Education, Science, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5410793 | 1,989,357 |
863,567 | School year calendar starts in October and finishes in July. In 2004, it was among the first universities in Portugal limiting the time for degree completion. The degree programmes have a specified minimum and maximum time for completion. The time limit is 6 years from the date of first enrolment for the 4 years degree... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=715164 | 863,107 |
4,374 | One of the greatest contributions to the modern understanding of dinosaur physiology has been paleohistology, the study of microscopic tissue structure in dinosaurs. From the 1960s forward, Armand de Ricqlès suggested that the presence of fibrolamellar bone—bony tissue with an irregular, fibrous texture and filled with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8311 | 4,372 |
2,112,939 | Bioaerosols are particles composed of living and non-living components released from terrestrial and marine ecosystems into the atmosphere. These can be forest, grasslands, agricultural crops, or even marine primary producers, such as phytoplankton. Primary biological aerosol particles (PBAPs) contain a range of biolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62264747 | 2,111,724 |
605,380 | For several decades research has been conducted into human dental sexual dimorphism, looking at different tooth classes, and using various techniques and measurements, to try to establish the extent of any dimorphism and find criteria or patterns that might enable accurate sexing of unknown individuals. Most of these s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=422592 | 605,070 |
336,434 | During the Vibrant Goa Global Expo and Summit 2019 in October, DRDO signed technology transfer contracts with 16 Indian companies, including 3 startups, to produce products for the use by Indian Armed Forces. This included high shelf life, high nutrition, ready-to-eat on-the-go food products to be consumed in the diffi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=745675 | 336,256 |
29,418 | The most common cause of vitamin B deficiency in developed countries is impaired absorption due to a loss of gastric intrinsic factor (IF) which must be bound to a food-source of B in order for absorption to occur. A second major cause is age-related decline in stomach acid production (achlorhydria), because acid expos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14538619 | 29,408 |
1,403,875 | A restriction to the constructive reading of existence apriori leads to stricter requirements regarding which characterizations of a set formula_21 involving unbounded collections constitute a (mathematical, and so always implying total) function. This is often because the predicate in a case-wise would-be definition m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5042360 | 1,403,085 |
416,599 | The historically-significant 2N3055 was designed by Herb Meisel's engineering group with RCA; it was the first multi-amp silicon power transistor to sell for less than one dollar, and became an industry workhorse standard. The 2N3054 and 2N3055 were derived from the 2N1486 and 2N1490 after package redesigns by Milt Gri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3257222 | 416,396 |
451,317 | At present, the focus of the Institute is developing end to end environmental solutions and keep the focus of CSIR NEERI as a place for "Society driven Solution" through use of Science and Engineering and cost-effective and resource recovery-based technologies suitable to socio-economic conditions prevailing in the cou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16085921 | 451,098 |
373,763 | In the UK, the Royal College of Physicians reported in 1995, abandoning the 1979 claim that the tests published in 1976 sufficed for the diagnosis of brain death, and suggesting a new definition of death based on the irreversible loss of brain-stem function alone. This new definition, the irreversible loss of the capac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187262 | 373,568 |
195,769 | UCR's enrollment exceeded 1,000 students by the time Clark Kerr became president of the UC system in 1958. Anticipating a "tidal wave" in enrollment growth required by the baby boom generation, Kerr developed the California Master Plan for Higher Education and the Regents designated Riverside a general university campu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230311 | 195,669 |
582,217 | BU went 20–10–9 in 06-07, finishing in third place in Hockey East and advancing to the NCAA tournament. The team won its 28th total and third consecutive Beanpot tournament title, defeating rival Boston College in overtime. At the end of the season, BU continued their surge for the NCAA tournament by earning home ice i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12453414 | 581,919 |
2,087,526 | The first plant pathogenic bacteria was determined in 1878 and many more have been identified since. However, research on Bacterial Fruit Blotch began much later than many other plant diseases. It was not until the 1980s that the disease began to impact the fruit industry economically. Since the discovery of BFB, milli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1040179 | 2,086,324 |
31,005 | GBMs usually form in the cerebral white matter, grow quickly, and can become very large before producing symptoms. Fewer than 10% form more slowly following degeneration of low-grade astrocytoma or anaplastic astrocytoma. These are called secondary GBMs and are more common in younger patients (mean age 45 versus 62 yea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1023575 | 30,995 |
1,924,413 | The U.S. Meat Animal Research Center was designated by Congress on June 16, 1964, following the closure of the Naval Ammunition Depot, which produced bombs and shells during World War II. The property was transferred to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). On October 10, 1978, President Jimmy Carter sign... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45153360 | 1,923,310 |
17,121 | The first focus on issues of grade inflation by the Princeton administration began in 1998 when a university report was released showcasing a steady rise in undergraduate grades from 1973 to 1997. Subsequent reports and discussion from the report culminated to when in 2004, Nancy Weiss Malkiel, the dean of the college,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23922 | 17,116 |
835,166 | The native range of "P. clarkii" is from northern Mexico and far southeastern New Mexico, through the Gulf States to the Florida Panhandle, as well as inland north through the Mississippi Basin to southern Illinois and Ohio. It has also been introduced, sometimes deliberately, outside its natural range to countries in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3517842 | 834,717 |
448,150 | Most of the molecules in the human body interact weakly with electromagnetic fields in the radio frequency or extremely low frequency bands. One such interaction is absorption of energy from the fields, which can cause tissue to heat up; more intense fields will produce greater heating. This can lead to biological effe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3108062 | 447,933 |
1,207,758 | Boerhaave devoted himself intensively to the study of the human body. He was strongly influenced by the mechanistic theories of René Descartes, and those of the 17th-century astronomer and mathematician Giovanni Borelli, who described animal movements in terms of mechanical motion. On such premises Boerhaave proposed a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3874 | 1,207,112 |
232,918 | Public attention focused on the trusts--economic monopolies--typically blamed for raising inflation. Roosevelt seized the issue and became identified as the "trusty buster," although he typically wanted to regulate the trusts rather than break them up. In the 1890s many large businesses, most notoriously Standard Oil, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3520221 | 232,799 |
161,115 | It was in the mid-17th century that another major contributor to the field of neuropsychology emerged. Thomas Willis studied at Oxford University and took a physiological approach to the brain and behavior. It was Willis who coined the words 'hemisphere' and 'lobe' when referring to the brain. He was one of the earlies... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288292 | 161,030 |
924,083 | Hutton then sought evidence to support his idea that there must have been repeated cycles, each involving deposition on the seabed, uplift with tilting and erosion, and then moving undersea again for further layers to be deposited. At Glen Tilt in the Cairngorm mountains he found granite penetrating metamorphic schists... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32128 | 923,597 |
1,606,625 | In 1696, Sauveur had been elected to the French Royal Academy of Sciences and most of his work on acoustics was therefore done under its aegis. He soon ran into what proved to be an insurmountable obstacle: the musicians who were serving as his ears and voices had become exasperated at the mathematician's insistence up... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8676042 | 1,605,721 |
1,968,312 | Clayton created mathematical tools for calculating the interstellar abundances of radioactive nuclei in the Galaxy. In 1964 he discovered a new method for measuring the age of interstellar nuclei based on the larger than expected observed abundances of stable daughters of radioactive nuclei. The decays of rhenium-187 t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36061850 | 1,967,180 |
362,526 | In physics, he approximated experimental confirmation that gravity heeds an inverse square law, and first hypothesised such a relation in planetary motion, too, a principle furthered and formalised by Isaac Newton in Newton's law of universal gravitation. Priority over this insight contributed to the rivalry between Ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49720 | 362,336 |
1,710,000 | TRPV1-S isoform results from alternative splicing during post-transcriptional regulation, a variation of the TRPV1 C-terminus due to insertion of 23-base-pair sequence, exon14a, that contains a stop codon. The inserted sequence is flanked by two introns marked with GT/AG donor-acceptor sites that are necessary for U2-d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33977879 | 1,709,041 |
759,827 | Bone metabolism also changes. Normally, bone is laid down in the direction of mechanical stress. However, in a microgravity environment, there is very little mechanical stress. This results in a loss of bone tissue approximately 1.5% per month especially from the lower vertebrae, hip, and femur. Due to microgravity and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1614102 | 759,421 |
470,093 | Like an athletic decathlon, the Academic Decathlon has ten events: art, economics, essay, interview, language and literature, math, music, science, social science, and speech. Prior to 2013, the Super Quiz replaced one of the seven objective events each year; from 2003–2012, it alternated between replacing science and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=562034 | 469,857 |
1,334,697 | He graduated from the Physics department of the Leningrad State University. In 1951, he was sent to Arzamas-16, also known as KB-11 (English: Design Bureau-11), now the All-Russian Scientific Research Institute of Experimental Physics (VNIIEF), in the closed city of Sarov, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast. He was one of the main... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25088523 | 1,333,967 |
1,307,740 | The Nissl staining technique (named for Franz Nissl the neuroscientist and histologist who originated the technique) is commonly used for determining the cytoarchitectonics of neuroanatomical structures, using common agents such as thionine, cresyl violet, or neutral red. These dyes intensely stain "Nissl bodies" (roug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3641749 | 1,307,024 |
1,990,070 | Astrocytes are glial cells that are abundant in the central nervous system. They are crucial for the metabolic and trophic support of neurons; additionally, astrocytes provide ion buffering and neurotransmitter clearance. Growing axons are guided by cues created by astrocytes; thus, astrocytes can regulate neurite path... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11088829 | 1,988,927 |
301,750 | The body's capability to react to antigens depends on a person's age, antigen type, maternal factors and the area where the antigen is presented. Neonates are said to be in a state of physiological immunodeficiency, because both their innate and adaptive immunological responses are greatly suppressed. Once born, a chil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14959 | 301,589 |
1,811,536 | The exact mechanism of Kinesin-13 activated microtubule depolymerization remains unclear, however, recent biochemical and structural studies revealed some more detailed class specific features enabling researchers to formulate a model.) The protein first contacts the side wall of a microtubule. This is not a stable int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4138132 | 1,810,503 |
1,657,938 | Ashutosh K. Tewari (born in Kanpur, India) is the chairman of urology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City. He is a board certified American urologist, oncologist, and principal investigator. Before moving to the Icahn School of Medicine in 2013, he was the founding director of both ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18733675 | 1,657,005 |
1,552,112 | The Mirkin group and others have developed SNAs as novel labels for molecular diagnostics for use both outside and inside of cells. The SNA-based, FDA-cleared Verigene system, originally commercialized by Nanosphere, is now sold by Luminex (Fig. 5) with applications in bloodstream, respiratory, and gastrointestinal inf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36131613 | 1,551,231 |
2,241,463 | NOMADS fosters system inter-operability by integrating legacy systems and emerging technologies and existing metadata conventions used for models and observational data. NOMADS relies on local decisions about data holdings. Loosely combining legacy systems, while developing new ways to support data access to valuable d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31944603 | 2,240,192 |
1,217,007 | There are many issues that arise as people age, which includes but are not limited to vision loss, hearing loss, dental issues, incontinence, and increased risk for falls. Gerontological nursing is complex and requires extensive interventions to keep the elderly safe. Nurses must be able to accommodate their patients f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8857878 | 1,216,354 |
1,845,786 | Steven Rose reviewed "Evolution in Four Dimensions" favorably for "the Guardian", describing it as "a lucid book that restores subtlety to evolutionary theory". Andrew Lloyd of St. Vincent's University Hospital reviewed the book favorably as well, describing it as "engagingly well-written" and praising the cartoon illu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62025398 | 1,844,731 |
289,739 | A machine with general intelligence far below human level, but superior mathematical abilities is created. Keeping the A.I. in isolation from the outside world, especially the internet, humans preprogram the A.I. so it always works from basic principles that will keep it under human control. Other safety measures inclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=408292 | 289,582 |
567,419 | The medical establishment ashore continued to believe that scurvy was a disease of putrefaction, curable by the administration of elixir of vitriol, infusions of wort and other remedies designed to 'ginger up' the system. It could not account for the effect of citrus fruits and so dismissed the evidence of them as unpr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16279 | 567,129 |
1,180,958 | By the end of the 1970s, numerous successful demonstrations of a context-dependent effect appear in the literature. As early as 1971, Jensen et al. found evidence that contradicted previous findings by demonstrating a context-dependent effect on memory for nonsense syllables. In a similar timeframe, Endel Tulving and D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21312301 | 1,180,334 |
1,907,590 | Rosette and lower pitchers are only produced briefly before the plant starts to climb. They are either entirely ovate or only ovate in the upper half and infundibular below. They often narrow just below the peristome. Terrestrial pitchers grow to 10 cm in height by 6 cm in width. A pair of fringed wings (≤10 mm wide) u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4853254 | 1,906,494 |
854,260 | Ski ballet, later renamed acroski (or "acro"), was a competitive discipline in the formative years of freestyle skiing. Competitors devised routines lasting 3 to 5 minutes and executed to music. The routines consisted of spins, jumps, and flips on a prepared flat course. For a short period of time (in the 1980s) there ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40057 | 853,805 |
1,322,694 | A nonlinear theory explaining transition, has also been proposed. Although that theory does include linear transient growth, the focus is on 3D nonlinear processes that are strongly suspected to underlie transition to turbulence in shear flows. The theory has led to the construction of so-called complete 3D steady stat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10106425 | 1,321,968 |
1,456,071 | The holotype specimen, MPC-D 100/111, was found in layers from the Bayshin Tsav locality on the Bayan Shireh Formation, consisting of an exceptionally well preserved skull, a virtually complete right pes only lacking the proximal end of metatarsals II, III and IV, and an almost complete left humerus. Other remains incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4613539 | 1,455,251 |
2,008,261 | In 1901 Inglis was made a fellow of King's College after writing a thesis entitled "The Balancing of Engines", the first general treatment of the subject – which was becoming increasingly important due to the growing speeds of locomotives. In the same year, he received his Master of Arts degree and was accepted as an I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16975609 | 2,007,109 |
1,477,936 | Some solids with a high formula_1 form density waves while others choose a superconducting or magnetic ground state at low temperatures, because of the existence of nesting vectors in the materials' Fermi surfaces. The concept of a nesting vector is illustrated in the Figure for the famous case of chromium, which trans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3201966 | 1,477,104 |
1,831,513 | Since 2003, "Phytophthora kernoviae" has caused marked damage to ornamentals and species of trees in the Southwest United Kingdom. The oomycete pathogen was first discovered in the 1990s, yet only gained widespread attention when it was identified as one of the causal agents, along with "P. ramorum," of sudden oak deat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22892661 | 1,830,466 |
476,508 | It was clear that KamiokaNDE could be used to perform a fantastic and novel experiment, but a serious problem needed to be overcome first. The presence of radioactive backgrounds in KamiokaNDE meant that the detector had an energy threshold of tens of MeV. The signals produced by proton decay and atmospheric neutrino i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5944240 | 476,268 |
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