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275,233 | A complete lactate dehydrogenase enzyme consists of four protein subunits. Since the two most common subunits found in lactate dehydrogenase are encoded by the LDHA and LDHB genes, either variation of this disease causes abnormalities in many of the lactate dehydrogenase enzymes found in the body. In the case of lactat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14626122 | 275,085 |
414,382 | Measuring uplift and exhumation can be tricky. Measuring the uplift of a point requires measuring its elevation change – usually geoscientists are not trying to determine the uplift of a singular point but rather the uplift over a specified area. Accordingly, the change in elevation of all points on the surface of that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1415891 | 414,179 |
831,960 | The business of the friends was not merely education in existing knowledge. As is expressed in the first few paragraphs of "Physics", they were interested in discovering the principles, or elements of the knowledge, which was an entirely new goal in Greek education. This research was divided into specific "fields" (met... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1666053 | 831,511 |
1,408,197 | "Plasmodium vivax" is a protozoal parasite transmitted to humans through the bite of infected mosquitoes, and is the cause of one of the most common forms of malaria. Gametocyte carriage is essential for malaria transmission and endemicity of disease; thereby it is a target for malaria control strategies. Malaria-infec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1310186 | 1,407,406 |
93,523 | The AV-8B is to be replaced by the F-35B version of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, which was planned to enter service in 2012. The USMC had sought a replacement since the 1980s and has argued strongly in favor of the development of the F-35B. The Harrier's performance in Iraq, including its ability to use forwa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18940560 | 93,482 |
963,139 | Studies on the pathogenesis of "C. jejuni" show that for this organism to cause disease, the susceptibility of the host and the relative virulence of the infecting strain are both important. Infection results from the ingestion of contaminated food or water, and the infective dose can be as low as 800 organisms. To ini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=571816 | 962,630 |
1,539,021 | After studying abalone shells, she worked with several colleagues at MIT and engineered a virus, known as the M13 bacteriophage whose target is usually "Escherichia coli". M13 can be made to latch onto and coat itself with inorganic materials including gold and cobalt oxide. The long tubular virus (coated in cobalt oxi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7923735 | 1,538,148 |
307,444 | In 1930, Frigidaire, one of GE's main competitors, synthesized Freon. With the invention of synthetic refrigerants based mostly on a chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) chemical, safer refrigerators were possible for home and consumer use. Freon led to the development of smaller, lighter, and cheaper refrigerators. The average pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46238 | 307,280 |
1,936,503 | Shanahan attended The Wilderness School in Medindie, a suburb of Adelaide, South Australia. While there, she received a 2007 Australian Student Prize. She received her BSc from the University of Adelaide in 2012 and her PhD from the same institution in 2015. Her PhD advisors were Anthony William Thomas and Ross D. Youn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65513520 | 1,935,395 |
856,573 | Treatment options for aim to cure the underlying cause of the condition, such as lumbar spinal stenosis (LSS) or other degenerative spinal diseases. Decreased walking and lower body motor ability due to is the primary disabling feature of LSS. Constant discomfort and pain in the lower extremities and an inability to sl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12730702 | 856,118 |
1,437,001 | In parallel, McCarty studied patients with rheumatic fever admitted to the Rockefeller Hospital as well as valuable specimen collections from military outbreaks of the disease during World War II. He and his collaborators found that antibody responses to several streptococcal antigens were significantly higher in the g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1040550 | 1,436,192 |
2,152,512 | The team closed up shop during the winter break and returned to the ice a week before the spring semester began with a trip to Minnesota where they played a pair of series against the Golden Gophers and Minnesota–Duluth. After dominating the Bulldogs Michigan opened their conference schedule with a 5–1 win against Minn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40466523 | 2,151,281 |
1,609,443 | Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is a relatively rare personality disorder, making up around 1.4% of the adult U.S. population, with women being disproportionately affected. BPD can be characterized by instability in self image, mood and behavior. Impulsivity, rapid mood swings, and unstable relationships with oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63336797 | 1,608,538 |
1,292,264 | Despite political independence, the United States remained dependent on imports for manufactured goods. The conflicts between the European Powers and the Embargo of 1807 severely disrupted trade between the United States, Great Britain, France and Asia. Lowell reached the conclusion that to be truly independent, the Un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=306727 | 1,291,553 |
240,639 | In June 2011, the Canadian province of British Columbia announced they had officially become the first provincial/state jurisdiction in North America to achieve carbon neutrality in public sector operations: Every school, hospital, university, Crown corporation, and government office measured, reported, and purchased c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=351661 | 240,519 |
232,520 | Jupiter test flights commenced with the launch of AM-1A (ABMA Missile 1A) on 1 March 1957 from LC-5. This missile was equipped with the lower-thrust interim engine. The vehicle performed well until past 50 seconds into launch when control started to fail, leading to breakup at T+73 seconds. It was deduced that turbopum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=710471 | 232,401 |
2,038,984 | Typically the correction techniques involve the physical and electrical characterisation of the motional inductance and terminal capacitance of a crystal blank, the knowledge of which is used to create a correction polynomial, or algorithm, which in turn is implemented in circuit blocks. These are usually simulated in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5721990 | 2,037,806 |
934,668 | Researchers have also attempted to use psychological and biological principles to understand more complex musical phenomena such as performance behavior or the evolution of music, but have reached few consensuses in these areas. It is generally accepted that errors in performance give insight into perception of a music... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80077 | 934,174 |
1,251,871 | 220 million years ago, during the Late Triassic deposition of the Dockum Group, eastern New Mexico was a basin receiving sediments carried downhill by streams and rivers. These sediments were probably trapped locally, burying the remains that would compose the area's fossil record, instead of making their way to the se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799149 | 1,251,193 |
1,009,551 | Kin selection may play a role in plant-pollinator interactions, especially because pollinator attraction is influenced not only by floral displays, but by the spatial arrangement of plants in a group, which is referred to as the “magnet effect”. For example, in an experiment performed on "Moricandia moricandioides", To... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66996 | 1,009,030 |
1,276,830 | With the United States entering into the Washington Naval Treaty, the terms limited the United States to a maximum displacement of . As both the "South Dakota"-class battleships and "Lexington"-class battlecruisers exceeded this limit, the Navy was required to cancel their construction, doing so in 1922. While two of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22676398 | 1,276,137 |
1,399,508 | A large number of examples of chemosensors have been developed by scientists in physical, life and environmental sciences. The advantages of fluorescence emission being 'switched on' from 'off' upon the recognition event enabling the chemosensors to be compared to 'beacons in the night'. As the process is reversible, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9414430 | 1,398,733 |
1,438,083 | Science in the Islamic world during the Middle Ages followed various models, and modes of funding varied based primarily on scholars. It was extensive patronage and strong intellectual policies implemented by specific rulers that allowed scientific knowledge to develop in many areas. The most prominent example of this ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5788461 | 1,437,273 |
1,246,516 | Post World War II was an exciting time for Australian astronomical development, particularly in radio astronomy. These developments bypassed Sydney though the Government Astronomer Harley Wood kept a close involvement as the first president of the Astronomical Society of Australia (ASA) in 1966 and as the co-ordinator ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3911092 | 1,245,841 |
1,303,092 | The QF 5.25 guns performed well on during Operation Halberd, escorting a convoy to Malta under, but later "Prince of Wales" was overwhelmed and sunk while operating as part of along with "Repulse" when Force Z was attacked by Japanese aircraft, due to factors unrelated to the guns' performance. No "Dido"-class cruisers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18067376 | 1,302,376 |
698,501 | While Heath/Zenith's computer business was successful, the growing popularity of home computers as a hobby hurt the company because many customers began writing computer programs instead of assembling Heathkits. Also, while their assembly was still an interesting and educational hobby, kits were no longer less expensiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=618552 | 698,137 |
1,866,432 | Keppel earned her Bachelor of Arts degree at St. John's College in 1984. She spent a year teaching science at the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Fairfax County, Virginia. Keppel worked at the United States Naval Research Laboratory where she created an early computer generated film. She cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61403225 | 1,865,358 |
30,295 | The first pesticide used for indoor residual spraying was DDT. Although it was initially used exclusively to combat malaria, its use quickly spread to agriculture. In time, pest control, rather than disease control, came to dominate DDT use, and this large-scale agricultural use led to the evolution of pesticide-resist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20423 | 30,285 |
1,297,813 | Globally, mariculture is the fastest growing animal food producing sector and an increasing source of protein for human consumption. Envisaged to be the future of Indian marine fisheries mariculture has not yet developed into a major contributor of seafood production in India. However, ICAR – CMFRI remains on the foref... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5116330 | 1,297,101 |
634,620 | Recombinant bovine somatotropin is an artificially synthesized form of the bovine growth hormone. It is legal for use as an artificial cattle lactation stimulant in several countries, including the US. However, its use is prohibited in most of Europe for reasons of consumer preference, animal well-being, and skepticism... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=543002 | 634,282 |
1,231,893 | The inventions of the artisan and mechanical engineer Ding Huan (丁緩) are mentioned in the "Miscellaneous Notes on the Western Capital". The official and poet Sima Xiangru (179–117 BCE) once hinted in his writings that the Chinese used a censer in the form of a gimbal, a pivot support made of concentric rings which allo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21620577 | 1,231,231 |
797,906 | At the heart of Maastricht's PBL philosophy is the idea that students are personally responsible for their own academic education. A typical UM course revolves around so-called 'tutorial groups'. A tutorial group usually consists of 14 to 16 students, meeting once or twice a week to discuss self-identified problems on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542667 | 797,481 |
159,494 | The cockpit was pressurized and air-conditioned. The small canopy was bulletproof in front. It hinged to the right, but because of a long dorsal spine it had no rear vision. The ejection seat was automatically armed as soon as the engine duct was rotated past 30 degrees with an airspeed of less than 300 km/h (162 kn / ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=869316 | 159,409 |
1,871,106 | Howard Wainer began his teaching career at Temple University in 1968, staying on as an assistant professor until 1970. After Temple he taught at the University of Chicago, as a member of the Committee on Methodology in the department of Behavioral Sciences until 1977. Wainer then moved to Washington DC to join the Bure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30741761 | 1,870,029 |
641,051 | Hooker was born in Halesworth, Suffolk, England. He was the second son of the famous botanist Sir William Jackson Hooker, Regius Professor of Botany, and Maria Sarah Turner, eldest daughter of the banker Dawson Turner and sister-in-law of Francis Palgrave. From age seven, Hooker attended his father's lectures at Glasgo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=364723 | 640,712 |
2,123,019 | His research area concerns the structural biology of nucleic acids (stereochemistry, topology, modelling and bioinformatics) and especially ribonucleic acid molecules (RNA). He has developed computer tools dedicated to crystallographic refinement and computer manipulation of nucleic acids. These have led to excellent t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51130242 | 2,121,799 |
1,399,813 | The diet is generally more diverse than any other co-existing owl but often focuses predominantly on a particular range of prey species, with two to four species often making up the majority of the diet. Studies conducted over the course of years has shown that the regional diet often changes dramatically from year to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45597481 | 1,399,037 |
1,849,568 | As previously mentioned, Hox genes encode transcription factors that regulate embryonic and post-embryonic developmental processes. The expression of Hox genes is regulated in part by the tight, spatial arrangement of conserved coding and non-coding DNA regions. The potential for evolutionary alterations in Hox cluster... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46335535 | 1,848,510 |
1,446,779 | To enable heavy four-engine bombers to fly long-range missions, longer all-weather airfields were required. Casey designated two sites for development: the emergency airstrip at Wards, and a new site at Seventeen Mile. The work at Wards was assigned to No. 1 Mobile Works Squadron RAAF, which had been working on Wards s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51118476 | 1,445,963 |
1,380,333 | Neurogenetics studies the role of genetics in the development and function of the nervous system. It considers neural characteristics as phenotypes (i.e. manifestations, measurable or not, of the genetic make-up of an individual), and is mainly based on the observation that the nervous systems of individuals, even of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18143331 | 1,379,571 |
1,056,515 | James Chadwick discovered the neutron in 1932. Shortly thereafter, H. J. Taylor reported that boron-10 nuclei had a high propensity to capture low energy "thermal" neutrons. This reaction causes nuclear decay of the boron-10 nuclei into helium-4 nuclei (alpha particles) and lithium-7 ions. In 1936, G.L. Locher, a scien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32637211 | 1,055,967 |
2,017,818 | While during conventional liquid-liquid extraction the solvent and the extractant have to be dispersed, in a SIR setup the dispersion is already achieved by the impregnated particles. This also prevents an additional phase separation step, which would be necessary after the emulsification occurring in liquid-liquid ext... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34827141 | 2,016,655 |
225,852 | Natural proteins can be engineered, for example, by directed evolution, novel protein structures that match or improve on the functionality of existing proteins can be produced. One group generated a helix bundle that was capable of binding oxygen with similar properties as hemoglobin, yet did not bind carbon monoxide.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=841429 | 225,736 |
1,404,378 | Hedge (2017,) and Hedge, et al (2020) present comprehensive surveys and reviews of latest geocell studies, field testing, state of the art knowledge and present trends and scope of future research directions, validating increased use of geocells in ground reinforcement and infrastructure projects. Han (2013) summarizes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18365940 | 1,403,588 |
1,017,106 | Ideally, a non-rebreather mask would not permit air from the surrounding environment to be inhaled. However, due to safety concerns regarding anti-suffocation protection in the event of a source gas failure (i.e. the oxygen cylinder being drained completely), one of the two one-way valves is normally removed, allowing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15302141 | 1,016,582 |
1,407,944 | The European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling (ECORD) was established in December 2003 with 13 European countries to represent the European contribution in IODP. The consortium grew into a collaborative group of 17 European nations (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1711704 | 1,407,154 |
1,802,338 | Throughout the 1980s, the shapes, rhythms and temporal relationships Edwards subconsciously gleaned from walking in the Brisbane Water National Park began increasingly to inform the structure and texture of his music, which took on the character of angular, animated chant, with subtly varied repetition of rhythmic cell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4963057 | 1,801,325 |
1,147,695 | The United States Navy had decided that it wanted to add rigid airships to its fleet and originally hoped to get two Zeppelins as part of war reparations, but these had been deliberately destroyed by their crews in 1919 in actions connected with the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow. An order was placed with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=588348 | 1,147,090 |
367,497 | Covalent bonds are better understood by valence bond (VB) theory or molecular orbital (MO) theory. The properties of the atoms involved can be understood using concepts such as oxidation number, formal charge, and electronegativity. The electron density within a bond is not assigned to individual atoms, but is instead ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5993 | 367,304 |
1,325,419 | Each year volunteers take part in 'Punarjani', the event where they aid community service centers such as hospitals in repairing damaged machinery and extend their assistance in whatever ways possible. The social commitments of our volunteers are evident from the Friday food serving programme at District hospital Cheng... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3084102 | 1,324,692 |
871,432 | A large number of kit cars, possibly the majority made in the UK, use space frame construction, because manufacture in small quantity requires only simple and inexpensive jigs, and it is relatively easy for an amateur designer to achieve good stiffness with a space frame. Generally the space frames are MIG welded, alth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=514191 | 870,972 |
1,128,587 | In 1950, Erich von Holst and Horst Mittelstaedt investigated how species are able to distinguish between exafference and reafference given a seemingly identical percept of the two. To explore this question, they rotated the head of a fly 180 degrees, effectively reversing the right and left edges of the retina and reve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14573357 | 1,128,009 |
2,039,535 | Hindley was a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) representing Lancashire East from 1984 to 1994, and Lancashire South from 1994 to 1999. Hindley was Vice-President of External Economics Affairs Committee and wrote reports on Europe's relations with China, Hong Kong, Macao, Vietnam, North Korea, ASEAN, Gulf States,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47056373 | 2,038,356 |
690,156 | In July 2015, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ruled that marketing claims for Procera AVH, which promoted the product as a “solution” to memory loss and cognitive decline, were false, misleading, unsubstantiated, and in violation of the FTC Act. BRL and its affiliated companies, Brain Power Partners, Brain Powe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4329032 | 689,793 |
1,994,892 | The architecture of St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador has a style distinct from that of the rest of Canada, and its major buildings are remnants of its history and prestige as the first British colonial capital. The city of St. John's has had a long history, with inhabitation dating to the 16th century onwards. As ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22385114 | 1,993,749 |
932,822 | The Eugenics Wars, first mentioned in "Space Seed", are stated in the "Star Trek Chronology" by Michael and Denise Okuda as taking place between 1992 and 1996. They considered it fortunate that these events did not come to pass in the real world, and noted that the development of the "Botany Bay" in 1996 as an instance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=413157 | 932,330 |
2,198,882 | Accurate diagnosis of patients’ circumstances must be performed to discover biomarkers, which are biological indicators of medical state which can be measured objectively and accurately. A prognostic signature developed by biomarker discovery is predictive of disease progression and patients’ response to drug intervent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70423831 | 2,197,630 |
1,644,588 | The International Energy Agency's "World Energy Outlook 2006" concludes that rising petroleum demand, if left unchecked, would accentuate vulnerability to a severe supply disruption and resulting sudden price increases, in consuming countries. Renewable biofuels for transport represent a key source of diversification f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14130266 | 1,643,661 |
1,772,120 | Optical frequency combs constitute an equidistant set of laser frequencies that can be employed to count the cycles of light. This technique, introduced by Theodor Haensch and John Hall using mode-locked lasers, has led to myriad applications. The work demonstrated the realization of broadband optical frequency combs e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57842154 | 1,771,123 |
468,170 | Their work was stimulated by a 1958 paper by Arthur L. Schawlow and Charles H. Townes offering theoretical analysis and a proposal for a gaseous system using potassium vapor excited by a potassium lamp. However Maiman identified multiple flaws in the Schawlow-Townes proposal and the reason for their rejection of a soli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275419 | 467,935 |
1,332,729 | The origin of seismic anisotropy is non-unique, a range of phenomena may cause Earth materials to display seismic anisotropy. The anisotropy may be strongly dependent on wavelength if it is due to the average properties of aligned or partially aligned heterogeneity. A solid has intrinsic anisotropy when it is homogeneo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3838003 | 1,332,000 |
318,658 | A blender consists of a housing, motor, blades, and food container. A fan-cooled electric motor is secured into the housing by way of vibration dampers, and a small output shaft penetrates the upper housing and meshes with the blade assembly. Usually, a small rubber washer provides a seal around the output shaft to pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=555505 | 318,487 |
876,660 | Accusations have continued to come out of Havana charging U.S. use of bio-weapons on the island, after the official end of the US biological weapons program in 1973. The Cuban government blamed the U.S. for a 1981 outbreak of dengue fever that sickened more than 300,000. Dengue is a vector-borne disease usually carried... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10548751 | 876,198 |
75,224 | The homunculus legend, "Frankenstein" and "Faust" have continued to influence works in the twentieth and twenty-first century. The theme has been used not only in fantasy literature, but also to illuminate social topics. For instance, the British children's writers Mary Norton and Rumer Godden used homunculus motifs in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=317467 | 75,196 |
1,074,064 | During embryological development the "PAX6" gene, found on chromosome 2 in mice, can be seen expressed in multiple early structures such as the spinal cord, hindbrain, forebrain and eyes. Mutations of the PAX6 gene in mammalian species can produce a drastic effect on the phenotype of the organism. This can be seen in m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4796463 | 1,073,510 |
1,818,966 | Pheromone release devices Multiple reservoir-type controlled release devices (CRDs) have been developed to achieve the controlled release of highly volatile pheromones into an agricultural setting; whereby they could act as pesticides throughout the growing season. There are several draw-backs associated with current C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33179421 | 1,817,931 |
362,896 | Eratosthenes now continued from his knowledge about the Earth. Using his discoveries and knowledge of its size and shape, he began to sketch it. In the Library of Alexandria he had access to various travel books, which contained various items of information and representations of the world that needed to be pieced toge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46117 | 362,706 |
846,446 | In 2011, the classification of primary progressive aphasia was updated to include three clinical variants. Patients must first be diagnosed with PPA, and then divided into variants based on speech production features, repetition, single- word and syntax comprehension, confrontation naming, semantic knowledge, and readi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2540923 | 845,996 |
1,259,051 | The Lias started with a transgression that is more important than the advances of the Muschelkalk and Keuper seas. Its total thickness varies between 150 and 400 m. The sea level kept rising during the Hettangian and fossiliferous limestones were deposited; this trend reversed later on into a regression leaving evapori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26161133 | 1,258,364 |
942,788 | To produce the material, a user mixes silicone rubber with the curing agent or vulcanizing agent. Usually, the mixing ratio is a few percent. For RTV silicone to reproduce surface textures, the original must be clean. Vacuum de-airing removes entrained air bubbles from the mixed silicone and catalyst to ensure optimal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29271473 | 942,286 |
1,910,225 | Friedrich von Huene recognized it as a new genus in 1932, and named it in honor of Case. He considered it to be a "podokesaurid". Since the 1970s, though, it has been considered a nondinosaurian. However, a review by Hunt "et al." in 1998 suggested that it was a theropod, possibly a herrerasaurid, citing its hollow cen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4739393 | 1,909,127 |
1,025,723 | The 1970s word processing concept did not refer merely to equipment, but, explicitly, to the use of equipment for "breaking down secretarial labor into distinct components, with some staff members handling typing exclusively while others supply administrative support. A typical operation would leave most executives wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33236 | 1,025,189 |
1,119,052 | The origin of the modern field of security studies has been traced to the period between World War I and World War II. Quincy Wright's 1942 book, "Study of War", was the culmination of a major collaborative research project dating back to 1926. Scholars such as William T. R. Fox, Bernard Brodie, Harold Lasswell, Eugene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25877065 | 1,118,479 |
871,340 | Artificial intelligence algorithms have shown promising results in accurately diagnosing and risk stratifying patients with concern for coronary artery disease, showing potential as an initial triage tool, though few studies have directly compared the accuracy of machine learning models to clinician diagnostic ability.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52588198 | 870,880 |
1,371,561 | With the rise of Processual archaeology, the field of Paleoethnobotany began to grow significantly. The implementation in the 1970s of a new recovery method, called flotation, allowed archaeologists to begin systematically searching for plant macrofossils at every type of archaeological site. As a result, there was a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=327940 | 1,370,804 |
1,986,670 | Gill was inspired into a scientific career whilst exploring caves in the hills of Acadia National Park, when it struck her that they had formed when the sea level was higher, and were lifted up when Maine’s coast bounced back after being pushed down by the weight of Ice Age glaciers. In 2005 Gill achieved a BSc in Huma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56314819 | 1,985,528 |
963,307 | The term "operon" was first proposed in a short paper in the Proceedings of the French Academy of Science in 1960. From this paper, the so-called general theory of the operon was developed. This theory suggested that in all cases, genes within an operon are negatively controlled by a repressor acting at a single operat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=176670 | 962,798 |
403,295 | When the hypospadias is extensive–third degree/penoscrotal–or has associated differences in sex development such as chordee or cryptorchidism, the best management can be a more complicated decision. The world standard (UN and WHO) forbids nonessential surgery to produce a "normal" appearance without the informed consen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=383494 | 403,095 |
495,439 | The debate started in 1999 with an exchange of letters in "Scientific American" between Walter L. Wagner and F. Wilczek, in response to a previous article by M. Mukerjee. The media attention unfolded with an article in UK "Sunday Times" of July 18, 1999 by J. Leake, closely followed by articles in the U.S. media. The c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=849375 | 495,183 |
1,399,261 | Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, BRL increased its focus on target acquisition, guidance, and control technology and expanded its research to include more sophisticated weapon systems. At the same time, the lab discontinued research for which the technology had sufficiently matured and transferred much of its routine or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30865936 | 1,398,486 |
2,047,538 | Ulrich Förstermann’s key research contributed to the understanding of endothelium-dependent relaxation of blood vessels (endothelium-derived relaxing factor), the identification of the enzymes "nitric oxide synthase" (EC 1.14.13.39) and the phenomenon of oxidative stress in the vasculature. He has published over 270 sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24662410 | 2,046,357 |
199,122 | In 1955 to 1956, a group of faculty members at Cornell University met regularly and discussed Parsons' writings. The next academic year, a series of seven widely attended public seminars followed and culminated in a session at which he answered his critics. The discussions in the seminars were summed up in a book edite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54041 | 199,019 |
1,636,398 | The station is seasonal and is only operated during the summer months, with about 15 people working at the station. Heating and obtaining drinking water would be difficult outside the summer season: the water would have to be obtained by melting snow, requiring a large amount of diesel oil. The station features a well ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49495570 | 1,635,473 |
2,072,459 | The contemporary focus of the book was met with praise. Noah Friedman-Biglin, reviewing the book in "Metascience", felt this feature of the book was "distinctive" and praised the coverage of mathematical explanation which he called "a topic which is attracting the interest of many professional philosophers of mathemati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58883860 | 2,071,268 |
38,331 | Although the fund provided Wheelock ample financial support for the Charity School, Wheelock initially had trouble recruiting Indians to the institution, primarily because its location was far from tribal territories. In seeking to expand the school into a college, Wheelock relocated it to Hanover, in the Province of N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8418 | 38,317 |
755,242 | On May 17, 2000, the Field Museum unveiled "Sue", the largest "T. rex" specimen discovered at the time. Sue has a length of , stands tall at the hips, and has been estimated at between as of 2018. The specimen is estimated to be 67 million years old. The fossil was named after the person who discovered it, Sue Hendrick... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=379262 | 754,839 |
1,282,148 | It has been noted that wet 1-octanol solution is a poor approximation of proteins or biological membranes because it contains ~2M of water, and that cyclohexane would be a much better approximation. Investigation of passive permeability barriers for different compounds across lipid bilayers led to conclusion that 1,9-d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7479239 | 1,281,452 |
192,877 | The warming effect of sunlight on different gases was examined in 1856 by Eunice Newton Foote, who described her experiments using glass tubes exposed to sunlight. The warming effect of the sun was greater for compressed air than for an evacuated tube and greater for moist air than dry air. "Thirdly, the highest effect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23423379 | 192,777 |
995,021 | All through the 18th century (that is, well before the founding of modern political economy, conventionally marked by Adam Smith's 1776 Wealth of Nations), simple probabilistic models were used to understand the economics of insurance. This was a natural extrapolation of the theory of gambling, and played an important ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=638834 | 994,504 |
762,764 | This concept may be embedded in standard foresight projects and introduced into anticipatory decision-making activity in order to increase the ability of social groups adapt to surprises arising in turbulent business environments. Such sudden and unique incidents might constitute turning points in the evolution of a ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1508301 | 762,356 |
1,025,860 | The cell line used to develop vedolizumab was created by physician scientists at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston as a result of work executed in Dr. Robert Colvin's lab. This was part of a program to analyze the molecular basis of lymphocyte activation. An antibody was isolated that reacted with long term ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19842110 | 1,025,326 |
110,848 | In the same period there was disagreement about the correct basis for a phonemic analysis. The structuralist position was that the analysis should be made purely on the basis of the sound elements and their distribution, with no reference to extraneous factors such as grammar, morphology or the intuitions of the native... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22980 | 110,803 |
127,019 | The university continued to undergo further expansion during the first decade of the new millennium with the establishment and construction of two new professional schools — the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Rady School of Management—and the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, a rese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31927 | 126,967 |
786,754 | The Athlon 64 was originally codenamed "ClawHammer" by AMD, and was referred to as such internally and in press releases. The first Athlon 64 FX was based on the first Opteron core, "SledgeHammer". Both cores, produced on a 130 nanometer process, were first introduced on September 23, 2003. The models first available w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188944 | 786,331 |
331,053 | The manual extraction of patterns from data has occurred for centuries. Early methods of identifying patterns in data include Bayes' theorem (1700s) and regression analysis (1800s). The proliferation, ubiquity and increasing power of computer technology have dramatically increased data collection, storage, and manipula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42253 | 330,876 |
391,874 | Version 3.0 was released on 29 January 2018, adding a brand new PBR renderer implemented in OpenGL ES 3.0, virtual reality compatibility, and C# support (via Mono). Version 3.0 also added the Bullet physics engine in addition to the engine's built-in 3D physics back end and was the first version of Godot to be included... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42097999 | 391,679 |
726,481 | Conventional transmission electron microscopy (TEM) of chemically fixed "E. coli" cells portrayed the nucleoid as an irregularly shaped organelle. However, wide-field fluorescence imaging of live nucleoids in 3D revealed a discrete, ellipsoid shape. The overlay of a phase-contrast image of the cell and the fluorescent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=805665 | 726,099 |
161,740 | Because excessive TE activity can damage exons, many organisms have acquired mechanisms to inhibit their activity. Bacteria may undergo high rates of gene deletion as part of a mechanism to remove TEs and viruses from their genomes, while eukaryotic organisms typically use RNA interference to inhibit TE activity. Never... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30651 | 161,655 |
1,208,535 | After meeting for two days the conferees were still in, "the early stages of development," and the "process of establishing standard evaluation procedures for assuring safe and effective utilization of dive computers in scientific diving," had not really begun. University of Rhode Island diving safety officer Phillip S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=302027 | 1,207,889 |
2,201,102 | Michael F. Hochella, Jr. is an American geoscientist and currently a University Distinguished Professor (Emeritus) at Virginia Tech and a Laboratory Fellow at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Royal Society of Chemistry, Geochemical Society... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56000616 | 2,199,850 |
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