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1,535,689 | Perhaps the best measure of trends within international psychology is within its organizations, through new membership, conference topics, and cooperative research across borders. For example, the International Union of Psychological Science (IUPsyS) has seen an increase of new member countries from Africa, Asia, Easte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12691183 | 1,534,821 |
1,409,032 | The bookend segments featuring Goodstein were specially staged versions of actual freshman physics lectures from Caltech's courses Physics 1a and 1b. The organization and the choice of topics to emphasize in the television show reflect a then-recent revision of Caltech's introductory physics curriculum, the first total... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4840666 | 1,408,241 |
165,826 | In 2003, she co-founded Poverty Action Lab at MIT, which has since conducted over 200 empirical development experiments and trained development practitioners to run randomized controlled trials. The lab has branches in Chennai, India and at the Paris School of Economics. In 2004, together with several colleagues, Duflo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16736191 | 165,741 |
1,251,710 | The "ETV6" gene codes for a transcription factor protein that in mice appears to be required for hematopoiesis and maintenance of the developing vascular network. The gene is located on human chromosome 12 at the p13 position, consists of 14 exons, and is well-known to be involved in a large number of chromosomal rearr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14076099 | 1,251,032 |
620,382 | The use of solid modeling techniques allows for the automation process of several difficult engineering calculations that are carried out as a part of the design process. Simulation, planning, and verification of processes such as machining and assembly were one of the main catalysts for the development of solid modeli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=457579 | 620,067 |
1,482,742 | Santosh Honavar, born in Pune in the Indian state Maharashtra to Bhavani Ganapi Melinkeri and Gajanan Narayan Honavar, graduated in medicine from Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute and did his post-graduate training and Senior Residency in Ophthalmic Plastic Surgery, Glaucoma and Pediatric Ophthalmology a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53688917 | 1,481,906 |
105,004 | Animals are generally much harder to transform and the vast majority are still at the research stage. Mammals are the best model organisms for humans, making ones genetically engineered to resemble serious human diseases important to the discovery and development of treatments. Human proteins expressed in mammals are m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12339 | 104,959 |
1,831,520 | Tissue sodium concentration (TSC) is tightly regulated by healthy cells and are altered by energy status and cellular integrity, making it an effective marker for disease states. Cells maintain a low intracellular Na concentration by actively pumping Na ions out via the Na/K ATPase channel, and any challenge to the cel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49742837 | 1,830,473 |
357,110 | Candidates for admission generally must apply directly to the academy and apply separately for a nomination, usually from a member of Congress. Students are officers-in-training with the rank of midshipman. Tuition for midshipmen is fully funded by the Navy in exchange for an active duty service obligation upon graduat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59766 | 356,924 |
1,089,001 | Urbanization, deforestation, and agricultural activities largely contribute sediment and nutrient inputs to coastal waters via rivers. Increased nutrient inputs to marine systems have shown both short-term increases in productivity and fishery yields, and long-term detrimental effects of eutrophication. Tripling of NO ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11632817 | 1,088,442 |
1,588,530 | Regeneration refers to ecosystems replenishing what is being eaten, disturbed, or harvested. Regeneration's biggest force is photosynthesis which transforms sun energy and nutrients into plant biomass. Resilience to minor disturbances is one characteristic feature of healthy ecosystems. Following major (lethal) disturb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46371949 | 1,587,636 |
1,804,200 | One technique proposed is to place books in an evacuated chamber, then introduce diethylzinc (DEZ). In theory, the diethylzinc would react with acidic residues in the paper, leaving an alkaline residue that would protect the paper against further degradation. In practice, the heating required to remove trace water from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19157 | 1,803,185 |
1,889,765 | During his 10 years in Buffalo, Zelen helped the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) — one of several regional organizations established by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to test experimental cancer treatments — with its studies. In an American University alumni magazine article in 2008, Zelen said those ear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44472568 | 1,888,682 |
262,565 | In 1823, the British government gave Babbage £1700 to start work on the project. Although Babbage's design was feasible, the metalworking techniques of the era could not economically make parts in the precision and quantity required. Thus the implementation proved to be much more expensive and doubtful of success than ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8324 | 262,426 |
755,664 | One of the most important advances of this redesign was an Earth-trailing orbit. Cryogenic satellites that require liquid helium (LHe, T ≈ 4 K) temperatures in near-Earth orbit are typically exposed to a large heat load from Earth, and consequently require large amounts of LHe coolant, which then tends to dominate the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=306755 | 755,261 |
95,398 | Common causes include allergies to insect bites and stings, allergies to foods – including nuts, milk, fish, shellfish, eggs and some fresh fruits or dried fruits; allergies to sulfites – a class of food preservatives and a byproduct in some fermented foods like vinegar; allergies to medications – including some antibi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=74240 | 95,357 |
396,749 | The development of SAS began in 1966 after North Carolina State University re-hired Anthony Barr to program his analysis of variance and regression software so that it would run on IBM System/360 computers. The project was funded by the National Institutes of Health. and was originally intended to analyze agricultural ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=990677 | 396,553 |
685,586 | The rapid evolution of dreadnought battleships between 1905 and 1920 demonstrated the need for improved coast defenses, as most Endicott and Taft period weapons were on short-range mountings and were not large enough to reliably defeat battleship armor. Thirty existing 12-inch M1895 guns were mounted on new long-range ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13422946 | 685,229 |
354,159 | By the afternoon of 12 May, the Gari bridgeheads were increasing despite furious counterattacks whilst the attrition on the coast and in the mountains continued. By 13 May the pressure was starting to tell. The German right wing began to give way to Fifth Army. The French Corps had captured Monte Maio and were now in a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33088 | 353,976 |
556,271 | An organisation with just one person cannot have any duplication of effort between employees. If there are two employees, there could be some duplication of efforts, but this is likely to be minor, as each of the two will generally know what the other is working on. When organisations grow to thousands of workers, it i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396723 | 555,982 |
1,742,222 | The VIT-2 was derived from the VIT-1 prototype, but it was given Klimov M-105 engines and its structure was revised. It was a low-winged, twin-engined aircraft with a mixed structure. The monocoque fuselage was made in halves of 'shpon', molded birch plywood and a large fuel tank was placed between the pilot and rear g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25116043 | 1,741,238 |
1,864,435 | Stinson-Remick Hall of Engineering, built in 2009, is a $70 million and 160,000-square-foot building that hosts some of the most advanced facilities of the college. These include a nanotechnology research center, which include an 8,500-square-foot semiconductor processing and device fabrication cleanroom, which feature... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48464061 | 1,863,363 |
86,411 | The concept of an "Interface computer" was first proposed by Donald Davies for the NPL network in 1966. The same idea was conceived by Wesley Clark the following year for use in the ARPANET. Named "Interface Message Processors" (IMPs), these computers had fundamentally the same functionality as a router does today. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25748 | 86,377 |
267,194 | Certain lifestyle factors have been shown to prematurely shorten telomere length. Smoking is negatively correlated to telomere length. The average human loses roughly 25-27 base pairs per year due to telomere shortening. A study of telomere length in white blood cells of chronic smokers revealed an additional 5 base pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54888 | 267,050 |
990,856 | Since this grant, many others have been written. NIDRR funded research appears to be moving from the fabrication of robotic arms that can be used by disabled persons to perform daily activities, to developing robotics that assist with therapy in the hopes of achieving long-term performance gains. If there is success in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=653 | 990,339 |
146,497 | He has appeared on the History Channel's "The Universe", Science Channel's "Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman", "Closer to Truth" (broadcast on PBS), and Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report". Carroll is the author of "Spacetime And Geometry", a graduate-level textbook in general relativity, and has also recorde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6871680 | 146,439 |
239,519 | In the long term, the greatest changes in the Solar System will come from changes in the Sun itself as it ages. As the Sun burns through its hydrogen fuel supply, it gets hotter and burns the remaining fuel even faster. As a result, the Sun is growing brighter at a rate of ten percent every 1.1 billion years. In about ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6139438 | 239,399 |
953,865 | Swedish physiologist Ulf von Euler and British physiologist M.W. Goldblatt, first discovered prostaglandins independently in 1935 as factors contained in human seminal fluid. Prostaglandins were noted for having blood pressure reducing effects and smooth muscle regulation effects. Prostaglandin E itself was identified ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3936671 | 953,360 |
215,208 | The Mark V had a new, more powerful six cylinder engine (also ordered by Stern) designed by Harry Ricardo, displacing 19 litres and developing . According to J. F. C. Fuller, the Ricardo engine was of a "somewhat unorthodox design", but it was highly efficient and, with proper care and attention, gave very little troub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7568878 | 215,100 |
1,514,093 | The concept of utility was used by Daniel Bernoulli (1738) first in 1730s while explaining the evaluation of St Petersburg paradox, a specific uncertain gable. He explained that money was not enough to measure how much value is. For an individual, however, the worth of money was a non-linear function. This discovery le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60777557 | 1,513,242 |
244,266 | Research on PFOA has demonstrated ubiquity, animal-based toxicity, and some associations with human health parameters and potential health effects. Additionally, advances in analytical chemistry in recent years have allowed the routine detection of low- and sub-parts per billion levels of PFOA in a variety of substance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=824692 | 244,139 |
1,089,210 | A decade later, Davson and Danielli proposed a modification to this concept. In their model, the lipid bilayer was coated on either side with a layer of globular proteins. According to their view, this protein coat had no particular structure and was simply formed by adsorption from solution. Their theory was also inco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21400587 | 1,088,651 |
2,120,331 | Cricket was first introduced into Bengal by the British East India Company in the eighteenth century and the first cricket matches recorded were in Calcutta in 1792, but matches were possibly played more than a decade earlier and the sport quickly achieved popularity in western Bengal and neighbouring Bihar. In eastern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8370738 | 2,119,112 |
2,048,018 | The reduction of carbon emissions, along with other greenhouse gases (GHGs), has become a vitally important task of international, national and local actors. If we understand governance as the creation of “conditions for ordered rule and collective action” then, given the fact that the reduction of carbon emissions wil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34078852 | 2,046,837 |
598,570 | The relationship between the two theories has been explored by Altemeyer and other researchers such as John Duckitt, who have exploited the greater coverage possible by employing RWA and SDO scales in tandem. Duckitt proposes a model in which RWA and SDO influences ingroup and outgroup attitudes in two different dimens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8377605 | 598,265 |
916,290 | This approach enables agreement across Martian remote sensing methods that span the electromagnetic spectrum from gamma to radio waves. ‘‘Soil’’ refers to all other, typically unconsolidated, material including those sufficiently fine-grained to be mobilized by wind. Soil consequently encompasses a variety of regolith ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21025499 | 915,808 |
1,663,442 | Epigenetics refers to the study of the behavior of genes, and how gene expression can be altered by the environment without changes made in DNA. This is believed to be particularly possible during prenatal development, and both stress and diet have been known to causes changes to a fetus. Findings linking maternal expo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47957160 | 1,662,507 |
1,483,633 | Robock has researched nuclear winter, the Toba catastrophe theory, the little ice age, the effect of volcanic eruptions on climate, soil moisture, human impacts of climate change, regional atmosphere-hydrology modeling, and geoengineering. In 2022, an analysis led by Lili Xia and Alan Robock of Rutgers University quant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38538513 | 1,482,797 |
2,023,122 | The 2013–14 season was marked by both continuity and change. Nearly all of the senior-free 2012–13 squad returned (with second-leading scorer Mortach a notable exception), this time with a little bit of depth, thanks to a strong freshman class including future captains Lucy Yeatman, Anna Marcus and Cassie Dunne. Newnes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51386378 | 2,021,958 |
188,760 | By 1681, Giovanni Domenico Cassini had told Halley of his theory that comets were objects in orbit. In September 1682, Halley carried out a series of observations of what became known as Halley's Comet; his name became associated with it because of his work on its orbit and predicting its return in 1758 (which he did n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36858805 | 188,663 |
239,314 | In 1809, Napoleon I of France arrived at Schönbrunn Palace to play the Turk. According to an eyewitness report, Mälzel took responsibility for the construction of the machine while preparing the game, and the Turk (Johann Baptist Allgaier) saluted Napoleon before the start of the match. The details of the match have be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=418820 | 239,194 |
1,733,708 | Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) have played a large role in recent agricultural research and practice, but have proven controversial, and face regulatory barriers to implementation in some jurisdictions. GMOs are defined by the inclusion of “foreign” genetic material into the genome. The treatment of plants with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65534120 | 1,732,731 |
1,432,941 | On 26 November 1941, eight LSDs were ordered for construction at the Moore Dry Dock Company yard in Oakland, California for the United States Navy. They entered service at the height of World War II and saw action in the Pacific theater, taking part in several major invasions including the battles of Saipan, Philippine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23183091 | 1,432,137 |
1,419,389 | Hassler submitted a plan for the survey work involving the use of triangulation to ensure scientific accuracy of surveys, but international relations prevented the new Survey of the Coast from beginning its work; the Embargo Act of 1807 brought American overseas trade virtually to a halt only a month after Hasslers app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16021406 | 1,418,590 |
1,294,870 | HSL-Oost (Dutch: "Hogesnelheidslijn-Oost", English: "High-Speed Line East") is the name of a proposed high-speed line from Amsterdam into Germany via the Dutch cities of Utrecht and Arnhem. The scope of the project has now been reduced, but it is expected that German ICE trains will be able to travel at from Amsterdam ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23576548 | 1,294,159 |
1,802,340 | Since the turn of the 21st century, Edwards' music, especially in his diverse larger scale works, has begun to integrate the many consistent elements of his earlier work – ranging from childlike simplicity, embellished Eastern pentatonicism, medieval Western modality, fragments of plainchant, occasional outbursts of ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4963057 | 1,801,327 |
1,750,998 | Evolutionary dynamics is the study of the mathematical principles according to which biological organisms as well as cultural ideas evolve and evolved. This is mostly achieved through the mathematical discipline of population genetics, along with evolutionary game theory. Most population genetics considers changes in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26369801 | 1,750,012 |
2,126,307 | As metabolite analyses are being conducted at the individual patient level, pharmacometabolomics may be considered a form of personalized medicine. This field is currently being employed in a predictive manner to determine the potential responses of therapeutic compounds in individual patients, allowing for more custom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34939027 | 2,125,086 |
1,785,953 | Peppas is a leading scientist of modern drug delivery. He has helped to set the fundamentals and rational design of drug delivery systems and biomaterials over the past 39 years. He was the first to set the theories and equations that led to the design of a wide range of new systems. For example, using biomedical engin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20887787 | 1,784,949 |
360,859 | The allies' most advanced technologies were showcased by the anti-aircraft defence against the German V-1 cruise missiles (V stands for "Vergeltungswaffe", "retaliation weapon"). The 419th and 601st Anti-aircraft Gun Battalions of the US Army were first allocated to the Folkestone-Dover coast to defend London, and then... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146640 | 360,670 |
680,514 | European colonizers engaged in various actions around the world that had both short term and long term consequences for the colonized. Numerous scholars have attempted to analyze and categorize colonial activities by determining if they have positive or negative outcomes. Stanley Engerman and Kenneth Sokoloff categoriz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5090455 | 680,159 |
162,204 | Deindustrialisation meant the closure of many enterprises in mining, heavy industry and manufacturing, with the resulting loss of high paid working-class jobs. A certain amount of turnover had always taken place, with older businesses shutting down and new ones opening up. However, the post-1973 scene was different, wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,119 |
134,791 | The role of the bassoon in the orchestra varied depending on the country. In the Viennese orchestra the instrument offered a three-dimensional sound to the ensemble by doubling other instruments such as violins, as heard in Mozart's overture to "The Marriage of Figaro," K 492. where it plays a rather technical part alo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4207 | 134,736 |
345,795 | Lavoisier employed the new nomenclature in his "Traité élémentaire de chimie" ("Elementary Treatise on Chemistry"), published in 1789. This work represents the synthesis of Lavoisier's contribution to chemistry and can be considered the first modern textbook on the subject. The core of the work was the oxygen theory, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1822 | 345,614 |
1,731,728 | The 1990s began on a high note. The environment was the focus of the federal election and ACF was swamped by the media with requests for information to produce environment-related TV programs, newspaper feature articles and radio documentaries. On World Environment Day 1990, ACF and Telecom Australia held a nationwide ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1189447 | 1,730,752 |
1,656,916 | In the late 18th century, coconut palm plantations were established on the island to produce copra for which slave labourers were brought in from Africa. A small population lived in the archipelago, descendants of Mauritian laborers working the copra industry. After an agreement was signed in 1966 between Britain and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=795952 | 1,655,983 |
162,429 | Many studies have been conducted to identify the relationship between acoustics and cognition, or more commonly known as psychoacoustics, in which what one hears is a combination of perception and biological aspects. The information intercepted by the passage of sound waves through the ear is understood and interpreted... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1198 | 162,344 |
2,116,360 | Upon graduating with his PhD, Olson worked at Dartmouth College as an inorganic chemist but experienced "an early mid-life crisis" and chose to change fields. He subsequently took a sabbatical and worked with Benjamin Hall at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle. In 1979, he accepted a position at Washington Un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12198794 | 2,115,143 |
1,033,644 | Protests started in Punjab as the syllabus released by PMC included out of syllabus topics of UHS despite the syllabi from the Admitting Universities already being released in accordance with the now defunct PMDC Regulations, 2020. PUMHSW (the Admitting University of Sindh as per the defunct PMDC Regulations, 2020) had... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41135576 | 1,033,107 |
1,149,585 | doctors brought them into a friendship, which lasted throughout their lives. They were on Folly Island for three weeks, during which time Dr. Stone ignited the imagination of Hunt with the great medical possibilities in epidemic-ridden Louisiana. It is said that these two kindred spirits discussed plans for a medical c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=638045 | 1,148,978 |
542,264 | Franck enlisted in the German Army soon after the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914. In December he was sent to the Picardy sector of the Western Front. He became a deputy officer ("offizierstellvertreter"), and then a lieutenant ("leutnant") in 1915. In early 1915 he was transferred to Fritz Haber's new u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=381797 | 541,984 |
2,154,712 | Thompson's research on OLEDs addresses problems such as the mechanism of electroluminescence, the identification of new materials and device architectures for OLEDs. His work in OLEDs is part of a long-term collaboration with Prof. Stephen Forrest (University of Michigan), dating back to 1994. The Thompson Group were ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54282405 | 2,153,481 |
1,585,185 | Remote sensing is actively used in various fields of natural sciences like geology, physical geography, ecology, archeology and meteorology but, remote sensing of the ocean is vastly different. Unlike most land processes the ocean, just like the atmosphere, is variable on way shorter time scales over its entire spatial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67696353 | 1,584,294 |
531,926 | Operational psychology is a specialty within the field of psychology that applies behavioral science principles through the use of consultation to enable key decision makers to more effectively understand, develop, target, and influence an individual, group or organization to accomplish tactical, operational, or strate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15059413 | 531,652 |
773,956 | Humans are infected with "B. pseudomallei" by contact with contaminated soil or water. The bacteria enter the body through wounds, inhalation, or ingestion. Person-to-person or animal-to-human transmission is extremely rare. The infection is constantly present in Southeast Asia particularly in northeast Thailand and no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=471444 | 773,540 |
336,601 | Surgical septal myectomy is an open-heart operation done to relieve symptoms in people who remain severely symptomatic despite medical therapy. It has been performed successfully since the early 1960s. Surgical septal myectomy uniformly decreases left ventricular outflow tract obstruction and improves symptoms, and in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=606009 | 336,422 |
534,143 | NASA Virtual Reality Laboratory utilizes virtual reality to supplement the Simplified Aid For EVA Rescue (SAFER) as simplified aid. The VR training offers a graphical 3-dimensional simulation of the International Space Station (ISS) with a headset, haptic feedback gloves, and motion tracker. In 2018, two Expedition 55 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34892999 | 533,864 |
2,137,998 | At its inception, SCOPE was developed as a homology-independent recombination technique to enable the creation of multiple crossover libraries from distantly related genes. In this application, an “exon plate tectonics” design strategy was devised to assemble “equivalent” elements of structure (continental plates) with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22596736 | 2,136,768 |
450,567 | At the initial discovery of Pc, its uses were primarily limited to dyes and pigments. Modification of the substituents attached to the peripheral rings allows for the tuning of the absorption and emission properties of Pc to yield differently colored dyes and pigments. There has since been significant research on HPc a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1156511 | 450,348 |
328,980 | A study of the material consumption trends and requirements for wind energy in Europe found that bigger turbines have a higher consumption of precious metals but lower material input per kW generated. The current material consumption and stock was compared to input materials for various onshore system sizes. In all EU ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20541773 | 328,806 |
265,742 | The "Phoenix" lander also confirmed the existence of large amounts of water ice in the northern region of Mars. This finding was predicted by previous orbital data and theory, and was measured from orbit by the Mars Odyssey instruments. On June 19, 2008, NASA announced that dice-sized clumps of bright material in the "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21857752 | 265,598 |
851,473 | The expedition, using the ship SY "Aurora" commanded by Captain John King Davis, departed from Hobart on 2 December 1911, landed at Cape Denison (named after Hugh Denison, a major backer of the expedition) on Commonwealth Bay on 8 January 1912, and established the Main Base. A second camp was located to the west on the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60005 | 851,020 |
1,458,081 | Success with inquiry-based learning activities relies on a deep foundation of factual knowledge. Students then use observation, imagination, and reasoning about scientific phenomena they are studying to organize knowledge within a conceptual framework. The teacher monitors the changing concepts of the students through ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8711436 | 1,457,261 |
2,102,902 | The engineering staff of ISDE performs design, analysis and modeling work for a variety of space and defense-oriented organizations. ISDE engineers help to identify radiation-related issues at the device and circuit levels, propose design solutions, and implement test plans. ISDE has an array of software tools for simu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23369161 | 2,101,690 |
1,621,133 | The College of Engineering was initially founded in 1873 with a single degree program in engineering, but folded four years later due to a lack of funding. The program was re-opened in 1909, under the direction of the College of Liberal Arts and was housed in the Swift Hall of Engineering (given by Gustavus Swift) whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10414221 | 1,620,218 |
1,070,027 | Spee turned to the south in the hope of disengaging while the British had their vision obscured, but only opened the range to before the British saw his course change. This was futile as the British battlecruisers gave chase at . Forty minutes later, the British opened fire again at . Eight minutes later, Spee turned a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=382984 | 1,069,473 |
334,754 | Education in the Canadian federation is a provincial power: each province and territory regulates tertiary education and degree system in their jurisdictions, with pan-Canadian co-ordination in a Council of Ministers of Education, Canada. British Columbia is the only Canadian province offering American-style associate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=223220 | 334,576 |
944,956 | 1973 was the low point for March in Formula One. The four extant 721Gs were re-bodied and fitted with nose-mounted radiators and the crash-absorbing deformable structures that became mandatory that season; although no new chassis were built, they were re-designated 731s. Without significant STP money, the March factory... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1347020 | 944,454 |
1,952,489 | IDO2 (indolamine-2,3-dioxygenase) is an enzyme with protein size of 420 amino acids (47 kDa) that is used for catabolism of tryptophan. In organisms, other enzymes participate in -tryptophan cleavage, namely IDO1 and TDO. Despite of IDO1 and IDO2 are closely related enzymes originating by gene duplication and sharing h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56340345 | 1,951,368 |
302,769 | The original source code for the current TeX software is written in WEB, a mixture of documentation written in TeX and a Pascal subset in order to ensure readability and portability. For example, TeX does all of its dynamic allocation itself from fixed-size arrays and uses only fixed-point arithmetic for its internal c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30065 | 302,607 |
1,926,258 | Since the publication of its discovery, HDA technology is being used for a "simple, easy to adapt nucleic acid test for the detection of "Clostridium difficile"". Other applications include the rapid detection of "Staphylococcus aureus " by the amplification and detection of a short DNA sequence specific to the bacteri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=803558 | 1,925,154 |
1,927,883 | The Crerar Library opened in the Marshall Field building, moving in 1921 to its own building at the northwest corner of Randolph Street and Michigan Avenue. The Board of Directors of the library established a building fund with the 1889 endowment and set out to gain approval for a Grant Park location. In 1902, the Chic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26307620 | 1,926,779 |
1,743,864 | Beginning in the 1970s, experiments conducted by Ron Konopka and colleagues, in which forward genetic methods were used to induce mutation, revealed that "Drosophila melanogaster" specimens with altered "period" ("Per") genes also demonstrated altered periodicity. As genetic and molecular biology experimental tools imp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60444275 | 1,742,880 |
1,633,849 | High-dimensional integrals in hundreds or thousands of variables occur commonly in finance. These integrals have to be computed numerically to within a threshold formula_1. If the integral is of dimension formula_2 then in the worst case, where one has a guarantee of error at most formula_1, the computational complexit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14006293 | 1,632,926 |
1,269,489 | Resources are generally limited. Therefore, favouring one trait, like virulence or immunity, limits other life-history traits, such as reproductive rate. Moreover, genes are often pleiotropic, having multiple effects. Thus, a change in a pleiotropic immunity or virulence gene can automatically affect other traits. Ther... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27828644 | 1,268,798 |
1,077,996 | Melatonin has been known about since the beginning of the 20th century with experiments led by Carey P. McCord and Floyd P. Allen. The two scientists obtained extracts of the pineal gland from bovines and noticed its blanching effects on the skin of tadpoles. The melatonin chemical was found and isolated in the pineal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8258942 | 1,077,441 |
1,778,086 | Guided exploration circles use self-discovery and the Socratic method to probe deep questions. Robert & Ellen Kaplan, in their book Out of the Labyrinth: Setting Mathematics Free, make a case for this format describing the non-profit Cambridge/Boston Math Circle they founded in 1994 in the Harvard University. The book ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5163815 | 1,777,084 |
1,755,277 | Deb established the Kanpur Genetic Algorithms Laboratory at IIT Kanpur in 1997 and the Computational Optimization and Innovation (COIN) Laboratory at Michigan State in 2013. In 2001, Wiley published a textbook written by Deb titled "Multi-Objective Optimization using Evolutionary Algorithms" as part of its series title... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5957521 | 1,754,287 |
45,974 | Laboratory evidence indicated that cannabidiol may reduce THC clearance, increasing plasma concentrations which may raise THC availability to receptors and enhance its effect in a dose-dependent manner. In vitro, cannabidiol inhibited the activity of voltage-dependent sodium and potassium channels, which may affect neu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1232085 | 45,956 |
2,173,725 | Plant hunting has been the subject of criticism, for its Eurocentric and colonialist past and also attracted description as piracy and theft. This in turn has led to the creation of the Convention on Biologiocal Diversity and the Convention on Interenational Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) to ensure that those coun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40390498 | 2,172,483 |
1,577,140 | In March 2014, the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities rejected a proposal to build the off-shore wind farm, citing financial irregularities and viability. In May 2014, the federal Department of Energy awarded a grant for up to $47 million calling the project "innovative". The revised plan was to install five 5-megawa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32415523 | 1,576,251 |
1,480,582 | The required temperature of the process varies widely, with about half the industrial process heat having operating temperatures above . These higher-temperature processes can generally only be supplied by dedicated supplies like natural gas or coal, although pre-heating from other sources is also common in order to re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21576157 | 1,479,748 |
1,711,033 | Tropicbirds breed in pair bonds that often carry over during the course of several breeding seasons as they possess a strong attachment to successful nesting sites, although this does not always occur and is subject different pairing patterns. Courtship behaviour takes place in groups at breeding ground sites and is in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30722380 | 1,710,070 |
866,923 | The ruins are a possible reference to the Basilica of Maxentius, which, according to medieval legend, the Romans claimed would stand until a virgin gave birth. It is supposed to have collapsed on the night of Christ's birth. (In fact it was not even built until a later date.) The ruins dominate a preparatory perspectiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1843479 | 866,463 |
1,458,288 | The World Rainforest Movement has argued that poor developing countries could be pressured to accept reforestation projects under the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism in order to earn foreign exchange simply to pay off the interest on debt to the World Bank. Tensions also exist over forest management betwee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24603722 | 1,457,468 |
837,934 | Based on lecture notes he had prepared for his students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Chomsky's first book presented contemporary developments in early generative grammar. The approach to syntax is fully formal (based on symbols and rules). At its base, Chomsky uses phrase structure rules, which break d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1790730 | 837,485 |
857,525 | These chambers are normally cylindrical and operate at atmospheric pressure, but to prevent ingress of moisture a filter containing a desiccant is installed in the vent line. This is to stop moisture building up in the interior of the chamber, which would otherwise be introduced by the "pump" effect of changing atmosph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1464117 | 857,070 |
2,098,378 | Lin et al. (2012) reported the crystal structure of a "Vigna radiata" H-PPase (VrH-PPase) in complex with a non-hydrolysable substrate analogue, imidodiphosphate (IDP), at 2.35 Å resolution. Each VrH-PPase subunit consists of an integral membrane domain formed by 16 transmembrane helices. IDP is bound in the cytosolic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49921046 | 2,097,170 |
1,403,247 | The genomes of non segmented negative-stranded RNA viruses (including paramyxoviruses) have a low rate of homologous recombination and evolve comparatively slowly. Multiple reasons for this genomic stability likely exist: (1) the genomes of these viruses are nonsegmented, therefore cannot undergo genetic reassortment, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6070061 | 1,402,458 |
866,607 | Realistic scenarios that actively involve both economic phenomena would include the market for rental properties. Adverse selection occurs in the process of deciding "before" renting or buying a property ("the contract"). Those who are uncommitted to doing the regular upkeep of the house due to time constraints, are il... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=309452 | 866,147 |
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