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956,029 | After the United States entered World War II in December 1941, all auto plants were converted to war production, including jeeps, trucks, tanks, and aircraft engines; all passenger automobile production ceased by February 1942. The industry received $10 billion in war-related orders by that month, compared to $4 billio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23576520 | 955,524 |
828,154 | On August 20, 2015, D-Wave released general availability of their D-Wave 2X computer, with 1000 qubits in a Chimera graph architecture (although, due to magnetic offsets and manufacturing variability inherent in the superconductor circuit fabrication, fewer than 1152 qubits are functional and available for use; the exa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9448373 | 827,710 |
26,486 | The most common cause of maintenance headaches and catastrophic failures was the engines. Although the Wright R-3350 Duplex-Cyclone radial engines later became a trustworthy workhorse in large piston-engined aircraft, early models were beset with dangerous reliability problems. This problem was not fully cured until th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53179 | 26,476 |
1,142,194 | Reduced agrobiodiversity influences, and is influenced by, changes in human diets. Since the mid-1900s, human diets across the world have become more diverse in the consumption of major commodity staple crops, with a corollary decline in consumption of local or regionally important crops, and thus have become more homo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1166525 | 1,141,599 |
740,611 | In the 1930s and early 1940s, H. Trendley Dean and colleagues at the newly created U.S. National Institutes of Health published several epidemiological studies suggesting that a fluoride concentration of about 1 mg/L was associated with substantially fewer cavities in temperate climates, and that it increased fluorosis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=763637 | 740,219 |
670,355 | A potential hindrance in recruiting referees is that they are usually not paid, largely because doing so would itself create a conflict of interest. Also, reviewing takes time away from their main activities, such as his or her own research. To the would-be recruiter's advantage, most potential referees are authors the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33158412 | 670,004 |
1,911,835 | The calculation of Ki using arterial input function, time-activity curve, and Hawkins model was limited to a small skeletal region covered by the narrow field-of-view of the PET scanner while acquiring a dynamic scan. However, Siddique et al. showed in 2012 that it is possible to measure K values in bones using static ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63771247 | 1,910,736 |
1,144,742 | In June 1853, Carter became a student in human and comparative anatomy at the Royal College of Surgeons. Carter sacrificed part of his small budget for an insert in the medical journal "The Lancet" in which he supported researchers in the medical field as an artist and illustrator. The same year he was commissioned for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21870624 | 1,144,141 |
2,178,035 | In a study that was published in 1998, Hoshino et al. prepared a TRP with a maltose ligand, evaluated it with concanavalin A (Con A), and attempted to separate and purify α-glucosidase, a thermolabile compound. Since the goal is to selectively isolate a thermolabile enzyme, a TRP with a small LCST value is desired. To ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37850414 | 2,176,790 |
1,321,249 | 13C-labeled parent pesticides were used in the nontarget analysis of degraders by stable isotope probing (SIP) to demonstrate biotransformation potential in soil and sediment samples. A complimentary, potentially more quantitative technique is to directly enumerate the biodegradative gene(s) via quantitative polymerase... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41917683 | 1,320,523 |
93,669 | Organisms can have their cells transformed with a gene coding for a useful protein, such as an enzyme, so that they will overexpress the desired protein. Mass quantities of the protein can then be manufactured by growing the transformed organism in bioreactor equipment using industrial fermentation, and then purifying ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12383 | 93,628 |
1,448,407 | "In situ" infrared spectroscopy may be used to monitor the course of a reaction, provided a reagent or product shows distinctive absorbance in the IR spectral region. The rate of reactant consumption and/or product formation may be abstracted from the change of absorbance over time (by application of Beers' Law). Even ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33482057 | 1,447,591 |
1,101,517 | Horner had not been searching for horned dinosaurs. In the spring of 1985 he had been informed by landowner Jim Peebles that he would no longer be allowed access to the Willow Creek "Egg Mountain" site where during six years a nesting colony of "Maiasaura" had been excavated. This forced Horner to find an alternative s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1792393 | 1,100,956 |
108,485 | "Xenoblade Chronicles" was developed by Japanese development company Monolith Soft, with Tetsuya Takahashi forming the original concept and serving as the game's executive director. Takahashi had previously worked in the 1990s on "Xenogears", then on the "Xenosaga" trilogy after founding Monolith Soft in 1999. "Xenosag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25992553 | 108,440 |
240,081 | ""A growing body of literature proposes that our ancestors contributed to large mammal extinctions in Africa long before the appearance of Homo sapiens, with some arguing that premodern hominins (e.g., Homo erectus) triggered the demise of Africa's largest herbivores and the loss of carnivoran diversity. Though such ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1128035 | 239,961 |
2,062,444 | Tomas Ganz is an American physician-scientist who has made important contributions to innate immunology and the pathophysiology of iron regulation. He was born in Prague, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic) in 1948, and immigrated to the United States in 1966. He studied physics at University of California, Los Ang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40633297 | 2,061,254 |
1,780,157 | [H]is divine mind aided with this science of Geometrical mensurations, found out the quantities, distances, courses, and strange intricate miraculous motions of these resplendent heavenly Globes of Sun, Moon, Planets and Stares fixed, leaving the rules and precepts thereof to his posterity. Archimedes also (as some sup... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1385342 | 1,779,154 |
546 | Artificial intelligence can be used to mitigate vital cross-national diplomatic talks to prevent translation errors caused by human translators. A major example is the 2021 Anchorage meetings held between US and China aimed at stabilizing foreign relations, only for it to have the opposite effect, increasing tension an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1164 | 546 |
2,110,271 | The simuland for adaptive collaborative control centers on robotics. As such, adaptive collaborative control follows the tenets of control theory applied to robotics at its basest level. That means the states of the robot are observed at a given instant and noted if it is within some accepted bound. If it is not, the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33882236 | 2,109,057 |
2,170,723 | By comparing the depth in Earth at which particular minerals crystallize and the elevation at which they were sampled, the age of minerals can be used to determine the rate which the strain zone moved material vertically. Various dating methods on specific fluid inclusions and minerals were used in order to provide chr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33737566 | 2,169,485 |
736,191 | The multidistrict litigation (MDL) titled In re: National Football League Players' Concussion Injury Litigation (MDL 2323) was filed on January 31, 2012 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. Judge Anita B. Brody presides over the matter. The master administrative long-form compla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36082813 | 735,804 |
1,193,987 | A DNA microarray is a device for high-throughput investigations widely used in molecular biology and in medicine. It consists of an arrayed series of microscopic spots (‘features’ or ‘locations’) containing few picomoles of oligonucleotides carrying a specific DNA sequence. This can be a short section of a gene or othe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22810768 | 1,193,347 |
1,675,749 | In April 2014, the first measurement of a planet's rotation period was announced: the length of day for the super-Jupiter gas giant Beta Pictoris b is 8 hours (based on the assumption that the axial tilt of the planet is small.) With an equatorial rotational velocity of 25 km per second, this is faster than for the gia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15032003 | 1,674,807 |
1,305,612 | In 2020, the SFCM added the new Bowes Center at 200 Van Ness Avenue (across from Davies Symphony Hall), a 12-story building that includes dorms (eight floors) with acoustic insulation for 400 of its students, 27 rent-controlled apartments for residents of the older building that was replaced by the construction, and so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1517577 | 1,304,896 |
1,902,894 | By the early 1970s war-weariness had taken a toll on NGC's ROTC program. Negative public perception of the Korean War and the Vietnam War significantly curtailed enthusiasm for such military programs. Regardless, the Owen administration was able to promote enrollment among non-cadet students. During his presidency the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38647111 | 1,901,802 |
2,195,423 | WHB had greatly improved his skills in giving public lectures & science demonstrations during his time in Adelaide but at the relatively old age of 42 was inspired by Rutherford's work to give a Presidential address to the AAAS meeting to be held in Dunedin in 1904 which set out his research ideas on the ionization of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52676648 | 2,194,173 |
1,472,875 | Exercise alone is known to hyperactivate the HPA axis, but the fact that LH pulsatility is altered in amenorrheic female athletes indicates the role of negative energy balance, rather than exercise intensity per se, in menstrual irregularities. When energy balance is maintained, exercise alone has not been indicated as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15738568 | 1,472,045 |
2,184,479 | In 1967, the 10-Year Renewal Program for Floating Resources was approved, which aimed to renew and strengthen the Navy and included six submarines. An interesting aspect of this program was also the nationalization of means, or the reduction of the level of dependence, through the local manufacture of components and pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72168935 | 2,183,231 |
1,275,181 | Maxwell tried to get the authors to agree to a much lower rate of royalties for US sales than was agreed in their contract because the book was to be marketed by a different publisher which would mean reduced profits for Pergamon. It was then actually marketed through the US branch of Pergamon but the authors still rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65937478 | 1,274,489 |
479,498 | On 1 March 1901 the Australian Army was formed following the transfer of colonial forces. Universal service dress was introduced in 1902 and was worn at all times, including in the field, except for formal occasions requiring full dress. This uniform included a peaked cap, tunic, and trousers, with officers wearing a S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51440630 | 479,258 |
1,513,256 | During her time at Harvard, Weisstein specialized in visual neuroscience. She also did research in the areas of visual cognition and cognitive neuroscience. Her dissertation was on the concept of parallel processing; which is the notion that the brain is an active agent in shaping reality. This concept is still being i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61737250 | 1,512,405 |
681,338 | Starting around the second third of the 6th century BC, Attic artists became interested in mythological scenes and other representations of figures. Animal friezes became less important. Only a few painters took care with them, and they were generally moved from the center of attention to less important areas of vases.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1076046 | 680,983 |
974,150 | A firm called International Emergency Services ("IES"), housed at the Santa Maria Public Airport in California, tried for some years to bring the Be-200 to the United States in its fire-fighting role. An organisation called the USA Firefighting Air Corps ("USAFAC") said in September 2014 that it had signed a collaborat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1890144 | 973,639 |
792,866 | Water power, the world's preceding supply of power, continued to be an essential power source even during the height of steam engine popularity. The steam engine, however, provided many benefits that couldn't be realized by relying solely on water power, allowing it to quickly become industrialised nations' dominant po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1424698 | 792,441 |
401,303 | Soviet investigations in rocketry began with the formation of a research laboratory in 1921, but these efforts were hampered by the devastating war with Germany. Competing in the Space Race with the United States and later with the European Union and China, the Soviet program was notable in setting many records in spac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=723059 | 401,104 |
1,837,676 | In the single lineage model we now consider a sequence of populations along an extremely long time axis, say several hundred million years, with the last dot representing an extant population. In the figure there is space for a few dots even though edges between adjacent populations are hidden. We could use a second ax... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62095046 | 1,836,627 |
1,403,171 | The virus is responsible for a highly transmissible respiratory tract infection in mice, hamsters, guinea pigs, rats, and occasionally marmosets, with infection passing through both air and direct contact routes. Natural infection occurs by way of the respiratory tract. In animal facility airborne transmission can occu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6070061 | 1,402,383 |
1,871,531 | In the final, 2012 champion, Abdelaati Iguider jumped out to an early lead, with the American pair of Ben Blankenship and Craig Engels immediately behind him. The entire field jogged through the first 400 at warm up pace, 1:15.84. Blankenship found himself in the lead, looking around as if, "where is everybody?" At 600... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56736760 | 1,870,454 |
336,335 | Airbus Industrie was initially headquartered in Paris, which is where design, development, flight testing, sales, marketing, and customer support activities were centered; the headquarters was relocated to Toulouse in January 1974. The final assembly line for the A300 was located adjacent to Toulouse Blagnac Internatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2524 | 336,157 |
483,234 | Exactly what the e-cigarette vapor consists of varies in composition and concentration across and within manufacturers. The Royal College of General Practitioners stated in 2016 that "To date 42 chemicals have been detected in ENDS aerosol – though with the ENDS market being unregulated there is significant variation b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47016616 | 482,990 |
1,268,448 | The approximate number system (ANS) is a cognitive system that supports the estimation of the magnitude of a group without relying on language or symbols. The ANS is credited with the non-symbolic representation of all numbers greater than four, with lesser values being carried out by the parallel individuation system,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27693293 | 1,267,758 |
998,911 | A computer graphic representation of the projected teeth movements, created in the software program ClinCheck, is provided to the doctor and patient for approval or modification before aligners are manufactured. The aligners are modeled using CAD-CAM (computer-aided-design and computer-aided-manufacturing) software and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1408533 | 998,393 |
173,679 | Nevertheless, Antonov looked elsewhere for an industrial partner. In September that year, the company signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with China Aviation Industry Corporation II that covered the possible joint development of transport aircraft. Russian ambivalence towards the An-70 was made evident when the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=908224 | 173,588 |
63,400 | In 1920, King George V laid the foundation of the Old Building. The campus now occupies an almost continuous group of around 30 buildings between Kingsway and Aldwych. Alongside teaching and academic space, the institution owns 11 student halls of residence across London, a West End theatre (the Peacock), early years c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67704 | 63,375 |
1,473,710 | PVS-17s were regarded as one of the successful systems that reached U.S. troops just before the Iraq War's Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) began. According to testimony by Lieutenant General Edward Hanlon Jr. before the House Armed Services Committee, Subcommittee on Tactical Air and Land Force on April 1, 2004, the Mari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48171848 | 1,472,879 |
452,193 | When energetic protons enter the atmosphere they create isotopes by reactions with the major components; the most important of these is carbon-14 (C), which is created when secondary neutrons react with nitrogen. C, which has a half-life of 5,730 years, reacts with oxygen to form carbon dioxide which is taken up by pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24728109 | 451,974 |
313,151 | An alternative technology developed in the US was based on the use of glass modules to be inserted into the main armour; although this arrangement offered a better shaped charge protection, its multiple hit capability was poor. A similar system using glass inserts in the main steel armour was from the late fifties rese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=200127 | 312,983 |
216,695 | Amidst growing awareness that US military capability depended on strength in science and engineering, Congress considered several proposals to support research in these fields. Separately, President Franklin D. Roosevelt sponsored creation of organizations to coordinate federal funding of science for war, including the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157427 | 216,587 |
496,459 | 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 U.K. Sunday Times of July 18, 1999 by J. Leake, closely followed by articles in the U.S. media. The con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18079182 | 496,203 |
1,472,880 | FHA results from a functional reduction or disruption in GnRH release due to chronic negative energy balance, metabolism, body composition, and stress; such risk factors become relevant in cases of emotional stress, excessive exercise, and nutrient starvation. Metabolic cues, including an increase in body weight, are i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15738568 | 1,472,050 |
453,484 | In the wake of the financial crisis of 2007–08 the G20 leaders agreed at the 2009 Pittsburgh summit that all standardised derivatives contracts should be traded on exchanges or electronic trading platforms and cleared through central counterparties (CCPs). In the United States, as part of the Obama financial regulatory... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13973130 | 453,263 |
1,904,215 | Microbial functions and interactions are also important for maintaining the well-being of the community. In general, phototrophic organisms in the biofilm provide a foundation for the growth of the community as a whole by mediating biofilm processes and conversions. The chemoheterotrophs use the photosynthetic waste pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15988191 | 1,903,121 |
1,936,506 | Historically, the Chalk River Laboratories was a nuclear power plant and advanced nuclear research facility. CNL began developing nuclear technology in the late 1940's and early 1950's. The government owned company Atomic energy of Canada Limited (AECL) took over Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories in 1952, but today the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70529013 | 1,935,398 |
324,994 | The Z3 and Colossus were developed independently of each other, and of the ABC and ENIAC during World War II. Work on the ABC at Iowa State University was stopped in 1942 after John Atanasoff was called to Washington, D.C., to do physics research for the U.S. Navy, and it was subsequently dismantled. The Z3 was destroy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66572 | 324,821 |
990,836 | In the United States there are two major pieces of legislation that govern the use of assistive technology within the school system. The first is Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the second being the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) which was first enacted in 1975 under the name The E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=653 | 990,319 |
732,941 | On 18 July 2013, SAIC, along with ST Engineering Land Systems and Armatec Survivability Corporation, successfully completed two weeks of evaluations of the Terrex at Camp Pendleton. The tests included a series of water performance demonstrations in various sea conditions and an evaluation of human factors and stowage c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1015723 | 732,554 |
1,551,751 | Study programmes at RNC are designed to prepare visually impaired students for progression into further education, university or employment. The development of independent living and personal skills is also encouraged. The college is divided into several different areas of study. These include Leisure, Therapies and Sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5556351 | 1,550,870 |
926,810 | The pay gap in women sports is a controversial issue. Women athletes, in their respective sports, are often paid far less than their male counterparts. The difference between the American men's and women's soccer teams' salaries has been used as an example regarding pay inequality. Women on the U.S national team earned... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=265901 | 926,324 |
530,854 | The practice and study of medicine in Iran has a long and prolific history. Situated at the crossroads of the East and West, Persia was often involved in developments in ancient Greek and Indian medicine; pre- and post-Islamic Iran have been involved in medicine as well. The study of medicinal plants and their effects ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26656516 | 530,580 |
198,889 | A branch of physics, "the study of controlled nuclear fusion", has tried since the 1950s to derive useful power from nuclear fusion reactions that combine small nuclei into bigger ones, typically to heat boilers, whose steam could turn turbines and produce electricity. No earthly laboratory can match one feature of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3043836 | 198,787 |
680,364 | The Proteaceae have a rich fossil record, despite the inherent difficulties in identifying remains that do not show diagnostic characteristics. Identification usually comes from using a combination of brachy-paracytic stomata and the unusual trichome bases or, in other cases, the unusual structure of pollen tetrads. "X... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5713772 | 680,009 |
2,086,881 | Besansky continued to work with the CDC as a scientist following her fellowship while simultaneously maintaining an adjunct assistant professor position at the University of Notre Dame. She was then promoted to the rank of associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences until 2002. While in this role, Besa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69895927 | 2,085,679 |
935,806 | In recent years controversy also involved the peacock tail, the most famous symbol of the principle of sexual selection. A seven-year Japanese study of free-ranging peafowl came to the conclusion that female peafowl do not select mates merely on the basis of their trains. Mariko Takahashi found no evidence that peahens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=521511 | 935,312 |
94,796 | chrony comes by default in Red Hat distributions and is available in the Ubuntu repositories. is aimed at ordinary computers, which are unstable, go into sleep mode or have intermittent connection to the Internet. is also designed for virtual machines, a much more unstable environment. It is characterized by low resour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=159886 | 94,755 |
101,100 | Digital Extremes' creative director Steve Sinclair spent about a year on the road following the re-announcement of "Dark Sector" to find a publisher, but most rejected the idea; Sinclair said most publishers were not impressed with the science fiction setting, and instead encouraged them to change the setting to modern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38333096 | 101,055 |
1,633,859 | In early 1992, I. T. Vanderhoof, New York University, became aware of Woźniakowski's result and gave Woźniakowski's colleague J. F. Traub, Columbia University, a CMO with parameters set by Goldman Sachs. This CMO had 10 tranches each requiring the computation of a 360 dimensional integral. Traub asked a Ph.D. student, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14006293 | 1,632,936 |
1,222,841 | Her interest in mathematics education was originally sparked by her stay in the US, which coincided with the Sputnik phenomenon. Working with the African Mathematics Program in Newton, Massachusetts, under the leadership of MIT professor Ted Martins, she participated in mathematics workshops held in various African cit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3491366 | 1,222,182 |
130,348 | The EPIC science team plans to upload 13 new color images per day on their website. The color balance has been adjusted to approximate an image that could be seen with the average human eye. In addition to images, scientific information will be uploaded as it becomes available after in-flight calibration is complete. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=449531 | 130,296 |
1,458,992 | In the October 1959 church general conference, apostle Spencer W. Kimball stated: "Millions of you have blood relatively unmixed with Gentiles. Columbus called you 'Indians,' thinking he had reached the East Indies. ... The Lord calls you 'Lamanites,' a name which has a pleasant ring, for many of the grandest people ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4874267 | 1,458,171 |
435,355 | A charismatic showman and self-promoter, in 1891-1893 Tesla used the Tesla coil in dramatic public lectures demonstrating the new science of high voltage, high frequency electricity. The radio frequency AC electric currents produced by a Tesla coil did not behave like the DC or low frequency AC current scientists of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56714254 | 435,141 |
1,801,996 | Lockheed Martin successfully conducted the first test flight of a prototype NetFires Loitering Attack Missile (LAM) at Eglin Air Force Base, on 11 November 2002. The LAM vertically launched flawlessly, transitioned to stable flight and performed several maneuvers during the short flight test. Test objectives were succe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,984 |
865,083 | The technology programmer is more likely to be found in larger development studios with specific departments dedicated solely to R&D. Unlike other members of the programming team, the technology programmer usually isn't tied to a specific project or type of development for an extended length of time, and they will typi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=311632 | 864,623 |
2,008,784 | Obesity during pregnancy and high-fat maternal diets both show strong associations with obesity in offspring. As the number of overweight reproductive-age women increases, the number of overweight children and infants also increases. It has been postulated that maternal obesity causes an accumulation of fat in fetal ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30932051 | 2,007,632 |
1,267,440 | Installed on the Salyut 4 were OST-1 (Orbiting Solar Telescope) 25 cm solar telescope with a focal length of 2.5m and spectrograph shortwave diffraction spectrometer for far ultraviolet emissions, designed at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, and two X-ray telescopes. One of the X-ray telescopes, often called the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=245798 | 1,266,750 |
1,830,023 | 3D images visualization is available immediately after data acquisition. The areas containing well-perfused structures with high hemoglobin concentration are visualized in white or light green, and the areas with no vascularization are seen as dull green or black. Mathematical algorithms reconstruct 3-dimensional trans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2314197 | 1,828,982 |
1,942,654 | The brain is one of the major organs affected by hypertension and recent findings have linked hypertension to various forms of cognitive decline. Not only does hypertension affect the cellular structure and molecular composition of blood vessels (arteries, veins, capillaries), it also affects their ability to regulate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65270239 | 1,941,543 |
1,297,812 | Studies on economics of fishery enterprises and socio-economic conditions of fisher folk come under the mandate of the ICAR-CMFRI. Valuation, estimation and analysis of marine fish landings and its economic performance, supply chain management, price behaviour of marine fish varieties, fish consumption patterns, impact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5116330 | 1,297,100 |
475,023 | Up until the late 1980s, low-profile 'bullhorn' handlebars were used, and normal drop handlebars before them. Then in the late 1980s triathletes developed so-called tri-bars that allowed for a much better aerodynamic position. They were first brought into the time trialling public eye in the 1989 Tour de France when Gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348799 | 474,787 |
1,644,828 | Early works considered the integration of luminescent materials as erosion sensors in TBCs. The notion of a "thermal barrier sensor coating" (sensor TBC) for temperature detection was introduced in 1998. Instead of applying a phosphor layer on the surface where the temperature needs to be measured, it was proposed to l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2516966 | 1,643,900 |
1,424,581 | Consumers were able to get components from the Sacramento-based company until 2006. From 2006 to 2008, air motion transformers were made available directly to the European consumer as the company closed its doors in California and relocated to Germany. A new line of modern audiophile speakers utilizing the AMT were the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7549878 | 1,423,779 |
290,141 | A dominant influence on the social constructivist paradigm is Lev Vygotsky's work on sociocultural learning, describing how interactions with adults, more capable peers, and cognitive tools are internalized to form mental constructs. "Zone of Proximal Development" (ZPD) is a term Vygotsky used to characterize an indivi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10332 | 289,984 |
651,384 | In mid-August 2016, it was reported that the Rio 2016 Organizing Committee had failed to timely deliver US$8 million in travel grants that were intended to be paid out at the end of July. Without these grants, National Paralympic Committees may have had to cover a larger share of the cost of transporting their athletes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12090066 | 651,042 |
1,339,953 | Having got lost several times, having not slept for 30 hours and being ten hours behind his intended time, Lancaster departed from Reggane on the evening of 12 April to make a night crossing of the Sahara. The Avian's engine failed after less than an hour's flying, and he crash-landed in the desert far north of his exp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18546798 | 1,339,220 |
1,936,435 | Previous attempts to characterize "in situ" abundance of different microbial species in specific environment have been made through culturing and molecular biology techniques. Culturing produces a very narrow picture of some of the rarer species present, especially when studying an environment where only less than 0,1%... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29393471 | 1,935,327 |
1,801,696 | Lt. Col. Ashley C. McKinley, because of his experiences in ferrying aircraft to the Soviet Union, suggested in 1943 that all aircraft and equipment be operable at temperatures as low as −65 °F (−54 °C) and that a refrigerated hangar be erected at Eglin AFB to produce such an environment under controlled conditions. Sin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,687 |
862,824 | In 2017, the Liberal government announced funding for the mid-life upgrade of the fleet, to be led by 'Team Cormorant', a team composed of Leonardo Helicopters, IMP Aerospace and Defense, CAE, GE Canada and Collins Aerospace. Estimated at around C$1.5bn, the programmes would offer a common fleet featuring latest avioni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=505837 | 862,364 |
146,287 | The main advantage of heavy-water moderator over light water is the reduced absorption of the neutrons that sustain the chain reaction, allowing a lower concentration of active atoms (to the point of using unenriched natural uranium fuel). Deuterium ("heavy hydrogen") already has the extra neutron that light hydrogen w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7475 | 146,229 |
54,385 | Johnson said in his autobiography that he pleaded with National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics to do model tests in its wind tunnel. They already had experience of models thrashing around violently at speeds approaching those requested and did not want to risk damaging their tunnel. Gen. Arnold, head of Army Air Fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25041 | 54,365 |
621,184 | "Chicago Sun-Times" critic Roger Ebert gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars, praising Thompson and Kendrick's performances and the film's honesty and plausibility. He suspected that "a lot of high school students will recognize elements of real life in the movie." Bruce Feld of "Film Journal International" agreed, calling ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8987889 | 620,852 |
1,800,384 | At the time of the excommunications, many contemporary historians, including Byzantine chroniclers, did not consider the event significant. Francis Dvornik states: "In spite of what happened in 1054, the faithful of both church remained long unaware of any change in their relations and acts of intercommunion were so nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21199904 | 1,799,375 |
1,176,696 | Biological oceanic processes, primarily carbon production in the euphotic zone, sinking and remineralization, govern the global biological carbon soft‐tissue pump. Sinking and laterally transported carbon‐laden particles fuel benthic ecosystems at continental margins and in the deep sea. Marine zooplankton play a major... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14562495 | 1,176,074 |
211,244 | Emil Behring had worked at the Berlin Institute of Infectious Diseases until 1893 on developing an antiserum for treating diphtheria and tetanus but with inconsistent results. Koch suggested that Behring and Ehrlich cooperate on the project. This joint work was successful to the extent that Ehrlich was quickly able to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23010 | 211,137 |
567,727 | Dronedarone has been termed a "multichannel blocker". However, it is unclear which channel(s) play a pivotal role in its success. Thus, dronedarone's actions at the cellular level are controversial, with most studies suggesting an inhibition in multiple outward potassium currents including rapid delayed rectifier, slow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7778362 | 567,437 |
1,133,600 | The most critically endangered of any animal in the Everglades region is the Florida panther ("Puma concolor coryi"), a species that once lived throughout the southeastern United States: there were only 25–30 in the wild in 1995. The panther is most threatened by urban encroachment, because males require approximately ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17601646 | 1,133,007 |
1,371,926 | Throughout history non-indigenous members of minority groups have been absorbed into military service. Examples of this practice in ancient armies include Hannibal's use of Ethiopian soldiers, the Roman Auxilia, the Byzantine Empire's recruitment of the Middle Eastern population, and the Ottoman Empire's use of religio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18431120 | 1,371,169 |
1,360,622 | He had let his membership of the Communist Party lapse by 1940, but at Cambridge, when he saw an American report mentioning that Germany might be able to build a dirty bomb, he passed that on to a Soviet contact. In Canada, he was approached by Lieutenant Angelov of the GRU (Soviet military intelligence) for informatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1260465 | 1,359,870 |
1,323,466 | Electrochemical detection serves as an inexpensive alternative to not only measure chemical composition in certain cases, but also droplet length, frequency, conductivity, and velocity at high speeds and usually with very little space compensation on the chip. The method was first discussed in Luo et al. wherein the te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54022162 | 1,322,740 |
1,382,195 | Measurements were generally expressed as scattered intensities or scattered irradiance. Since the collection of data was made as the detector was placed at different locations on the arc, each position corresponding to a different scattering angle, the concept of placing a separate detector at each angular location of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23959374 | 1,381,432 |
1,537,140 | Lauxaniidae are small flies (2–7 mm in length). They are often rather plump, dull, or partly lustrous flies. The body colour varies from yellow to brown or black, or with a combination of these colours. The head is variable in shape, the face projecting or retreating, convex, flat or concave, usually without oral vibri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6343847 | 1,536,269 |
1,238,233 | Meiff replies on December 26 to a hand written note from Fels with a lengthy two-page letter outlining to Fels, "point by point," the many reasons why the piece is deficient—thus arming Fels with the information he needed to be able to speak intelligently to Barber. Meiff explains: it "hasn't got enough backbone—not st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3828005 | 1,237,567 |
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