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1,611,498 | Circadian literally translates to "about a day" in Latin. This refers to the human 24-hour cycle of sleep and wakefulness. This cycle is driven by light. The human body must photoentrain or synchronize itself with light in order to make this happen. The rod cells are the photoreceptor cells in the retina capable of sen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37689509 | 1,610,593 |
1,678,442 | Perhaps the first experiment conducted to study the phenomenon of haptic memory was that of Bliss, Crane, Mansfield, and Townsend who investigated the characteristics of immediate recall for brief tactile stimuli applied to the hand. The results obtained showed a haptic memory store remarkably similar to the visual mem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31122898 | 1,677,499 |
2,179,598 | It is a zinc-dependent metalloamidase that catalyses the second and committed step in the biosynthesis of lipid A. Lipid A anchors lipopolysaccharide (the major constituent of the outer membrane) into the membrane in Gram negative bacteria. It shows no homology to mammalian metalloamidases and is essential for cell via... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34635766 | 2,178,353 |
1,003,727 | DePalma began excavating systematically in 2012 and quickly found the site to contain very unusual and promising features. Everything he found had been covered so quickly that details were exceptionally well preserved, and the fossils as a whole formed a very unusual collection – fish fins and complete fish, tree trunk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60404595 | 1,003,209 |
131,957 | Spectroscopic studies were central to the development of quantum mechanics, because the first useful atomic models described the spectra of Hydrogen which models include the Bohr model, the Schrödinger equation, and Matrix mechanics which all can produce the spectral lines of Hydrogen, therefore, providing the basis fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27752 | 131,905 |
460,709 | On the UK 5-Year Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Strategy 2013–2018, the importance of addressing AMR negative effects on animal health has been considered as same as human health. Several scientific partnerships with low-middle income countries would be established. UK-China Newton fund has started to build multi-disci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40364158 | 460,483 |
1,643,226 | Necatoriasis is caused by "N. americanus". "N. americanus" can be divided into two areas – larvae and adult stage. The third stage larvae are guided to human skin by following thermal gradients. Typically, the larvae enter through the hands and feet following contact with contaminated soil. A papular, pruritic, itchy r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12271407 | 1,642,299 |
514,435 | G93A (glycine 93 changed to alanine) is a comparatively rare mutation, but has been studied very intensely as it was the first mutation to be modeled in mice. G93A is a pseudo-WT mutation that leaves the enzyme activity intact. Because of the ready availability of the G93A mouse from Jackson Laboratory, many studies of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13622588 | 514,169 |
873,135 | It is suggested that since the FOXP2 gene controls synapses, its disconnection from a formerly complex network of genes instantly removed many instincts including ones that drove sexual selection. It is also suggested that it allowed more genetic variants that affect the phenotype to accumulate in humans, which in comb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50773588 | 872,675 |
490,394 | Electrical stimulation of the nervous system has a long and complex history. Earlier practitioners of deep brain stimulation in the latter half of the 20th century (Delgado, Heath, Hosbuchi. See Hariz "et al." for historical review) were limited by the technology available. Heath, in the 1950s, stimulated subcortical a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40651435 | 490,140 |
53,139 | After Weber's immense productivity in the early 1890s, he did not publish any papers between early 1898 and late 1902, finally resigning his professorship in late 1903. Freed from those obligations, in that year he accepted a position as associate editor of the "Archives for Social Science and Social Welfare", where he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19455 | 53,119 |
1,003,818 | The potential applications surrounding integrated HPLC columns within microfluidic devices have proven expansive over the last 10–15 years. The integration of such columns allows for experiments to be run where materials were in low availability or very expensive, like in biological analysis of proteins. This reduction... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18906 | 1,003,300 |
1,863,628 | After declaring independence from the Soviet Union, the Baltic States of Lithuania and Latvia were left with an energy sector that was heavily reliant on imported gas, oil, and nuclear fuel sources. In 1996, when the plant project was appraised, domestic energy sources supplied only 2% of Lithuania's heat demand. The s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17257994 | 1,862,556 |
1,647,162 | The first Colonial Veterinary Surgeon in South Africa was appointed in approximately 1874 in Port Natal (present day Durban in KwaZulu-Natal), followed by the appointment of the first Colonial Veterinary Surgeon in the Cape Colony in 1876 and the subsequent arrival of private practitioners in the late 19th century. A m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18072964 | 1,646,231 |
112,994 | Being the smallest alkali metal, lithium forms the widest variety of and most stable organometallic compounds, which are bonded covalently. Organolithium compounds are electrically non-conducting volatile solids or liquids that melt at low temperatures, and tend to form oligomers with the structure (RLi) where R is the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=666 | 112,949 |
2,237,228 | The NCAA ice hockey season began on September 15, and head coach Mel Pearson held a practice that day with assistance from goaltending coach Steve Shields while the other assistant coaches were on recruiting trips. Practices continued four days a week, though the coaches were only allowed on the ice two hours a week th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34618144 | 2,235,957 |
175,648 | In the mid-1970s, Tandy Corporation's Radio Shack division was a successful American chain of more than 3,000 electronics stores. Among the Tandy employees who purchased a MITS Altair kit computer was buyer Don French, who began designing his own computer and showed it to vice president of manufacturing John V. Roach, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30747 | 175,556 |
515,660 | Further changes were seen in the league in the 2006–07 season. After the last season The Nordic Vikings were looking for sponsors for the team. However, they failed to find sufficient sponsorship and left the league due to financial trouble. Harbin moved their home rink to Beijing and changed their name to Hosa to refl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2209949 | 515,392 |
1,338,689 | The yet unproven but commonly accepted Church-Turing thesis states that a Turing machine and all equivalent formal languages such as the lambda calculus perform and represent all formal operations respectively as applied by a computing human. However the selection of adequate operations for the correct computation itse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1594796 | 1,337,956 |
966,399 | Despite the successful tests, the Department of Defense, the sponsor of the Pluto project, had second thoughts. The weapon was considered "too provocative", and it was believed that it would compel the Soviets to construct a similar device. Intercontinental ballistic missile technology had proven to be more easily deve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57684 | 965,889 |
1,619,632 | Sahakian frequently engages the public in science, appearing on programmes such as BBC Newsnight, and on both The Life Scientific and the Today Programme on BBC Radio 4. She has also taken part in numerous newspaper interviews, such as The Sunday Times and Forbes Online. In 2012, Sahakian contributed to the catalogue a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35056044 | 1,618,717 |
1,236,545 | When the Berlin Wall was built on August 13, 1961, it became impossible for Ulf's mother to visit him. Merbold then moved to Stuttgart, where he had an aunt, and started studying physics at the University of Stuttgart, graduating with a in 1968. He lived in a dormitory in a wing of Solitude Palace. Thanks to an amnesty... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=180824 | 1,235,881 |
1,285,432 | During April 1958, scientific use of the Skylark commenced, marking the programme's attainment of true operational status. Unlike the majority of missile/rocket programmes, which would only temporarily be based at Woomera until they matured, Skylark continued to operate at Woomera as its long term home. This arrangemen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1414851 | 1,284,733 |
117,344 | Due to the Horten brothers lacking appropriate production facilities, the Ho 229's manufacturing was contracted out to Gothaer Waggonfabrik; however, the company allegedly undermined the project and sought to have Air Ministry officials favour its own flying wing designs instead. On 1 March 1944, the first prototype "H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=176778 | 117,299 |
1,589,273 | Meanwhile, the success of Scylla I led to a number of potential development pathways that began to be explored during the early 1960s. In the short term, a set of minor improvements produced Scylla II, which was similar to the original but later upgraded from 35 kJ of capacitor power to 185. It came online in 1959, but... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70694704 | 1,588,379 |
832,644 | Rapid development in military technology had a dramatic impact on armies and navies in the industrialized world in 1740–1914. For land warfare, cavalry faded in importance, while infantry became transformed by the use of highly accurate more rapidly loading rifles, and the use of smokeless powder. Machine guns were dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=90815 | 832,195 |
1,023,007 | A power tower is a large tower surrounded by tracking mirrors called heliostats. These mirrors align themselves and focus sunlight on the receiver at the top of the tower, collected heat is transferred to a power station below. This design reaches very high temperatures. High temperatures are suitable for electricity g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=772868 | 1,022,475 |
1,576,057 | SignAloud is a technology that incorporates a pair of gloves made by a group of students at University of Washington that transliterate American Sign Language (ASL) into English. In February 2015 Thomas Pryor, a hearing student from the University of Washington, created the first prototype for this device at Hack Arizo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53034622 | 1,575,168 |
296,941 | Planting new trees can be expensive and a risky investment as, for example, about 80 percent of planted trees in the Sahel die within two years. Instead, helping native species sprout naturally is cheaper and they are more likely to survive, with even long deforested areas still containing an "underground forest" of li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2119179 | 296,781 |
315,249 | The PCR process generally consists of a series of temperature changes that are repeated 25–50 times. These cycles normally consist of three stages: the first, at around 95 °C, allows the separation of the nucleic acid's double chain; the second, at a temperature of around 50–60 °C, allows the binding of the primers wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3487107 | 315,080 |
855,028 | In the summer of 1847, Robert was invited to stand in the election for the Member of Parliament for Whitby and was elected unopposed; he continued as their MP for the rest of his life. He entered Parliament as a member of the Conservative Party, holding strong protectionist Tory views and opposed to free trade. His mai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=252957 | 854,573 |
630,278 | Studies have shown that meditation has both short-term and long-term effects on various perceptual faculties. In 1984 a study showed that meditators have a significantly lower detection threshold for light stimuli of short duration. In 2000 a study of the perception of visual illusions by zen masters, novice meditators... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9578417 | 629,940 |
2,153,313 | Upon completing her Master's and Doctoral degree, Glymour became a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health & Society Scholar in Social Epidemiology and subsequently joined the faculty at Harvard University. Her primary research interests focus on "how social factors experienced across the lifecourse, such as educational ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66428132 | 2,152,082 |
387,992 | The High Evolutionary's character has varied between that of a weary, well-meaning creator to that of a "mad scientist" who is willing to do whatever he considers necessary to further his goals of evolving a better, less-brutal world. He has great respect for the process of evolution, but is also deeply troubled by the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=703266 | 387,797 |
1,932,921 | Stevens' methodology in the investigation of speech sounds is organized into three steps. The first step is to use physics (mainly tube models) to model the shape of the articulators (e.g. the shapes of the front and back cavity, rounding or non-rounding of lips, etc). Based on the articulatory tube models, resonant fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4836189 | 1,931,813 |
309,665 | Melbourne hosted the Olympics in 1956. There were calls for the expulsion of the Soviet Union following their invasion of Hungary, but the International Olympic Committee decided not to pursue any action. As a result, some nations boycotted the games in protest of the Soviets' presence, and the Hungarians themselves be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2112059 | 309,500 |
403,361 | Although the RAF was working on its CAS doctrine in London, officers in North Africa improvised their own coordination techniques. In October 1941, Sir Arthur Tedder and Arthur Coningham, senior RAF commanders in North Africa, created joint RAF-Army Air Support Control staffs at each corps and armored division headquar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600792 | 403,161 |
786,818 | Membrane filtration is the method of choice for the analysis of fecal coliforms in water. Samples to be tested are passed through a filter of particular pore size (generally 0.45 micrometre). The microorganisms present in the water remain on the filter surface. The filter is placed in a sterile Petri dish with a select... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1708619 | 786,395 |
200,114 | DNP is considered to have high acute toxicity. In March 2020 a UK judge stated "there is no antidote or remedy for DNP once taken. In consequence, DNP has a high mortality rate — of those who presented at hospital between 2007 and 2019 with a history of having taken DNP, 18% died. This puts DNP close to cyanide in te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=948020 | 200,011 |
861,661 | Thus, Sartre rejects what he calls "deterministic excuses" and claims that people must take responsibility for their behavior. Sartre defines anguish as the emotion that people feel once they realize that they are responsible not just for themselves, but for all humanity. Anguish leads people to realize that their acti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=176841 | 861,202 |
193,078 | Like bryozoans and phoronids, brachiopods have a lophophore, a crown of tentacles whose cilia (fine hairs) create a water current that enables them to filter food particles out of the water. However a bryozoan or phoronid lophophore is a ring of tentacles mounted on a single, retracted stalk, while the basic form of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19827372 | 192,978 |
799,222 | In October 1869, shortly after attending courses in Heidelberg, she visited London with Vladimir, who spent time with his colleagues Thomas Huxley and Charles Darwin, while she was invited to attend George Eliot's Sunday salons. There, at age nineteen, she met Herbert Spencer and was led into a debate, at Eliot's insti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=105587 | 798,797 |
73,081 | A hypothesis published in 2014 posits that a genus of anaerobic methanogenic archaea known as "Methanosarcina" was responsible for the event. Three lines of evidence suggest that these microbes acquired a new metabolic pathway via gene transfer at about that time, enabling them to efficiently metabolize acetate into me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24749 | 73,054 |
134,140 | Managing levels was a particular challenge, and a source of controversy regarding the Biosphere 2 project's alleged misrepresentation to the public. Daily fluctuation of carbon dioxide dynamics was typically 600 ppm because of the strong drawdown during sunlight hours by plant photosynthesis, followed by a similar rise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216362 | 134,085 |
1,229,592 | Biofluorescence describes the absorption of ultraviolet or visible light and the sub sequential emission of photons at a lower energy level (S_1 excited state relaxes to S_0 ground state) by intrinsically fluorescent proteins or by synthetic fluorescent molecules covalently attached to a biomarker of interest. Biomarke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=407292 | 1,228,930 |
987,273 | Examples of where engineering management consulting might be used include developing and leading a company wide business transformation initiative, or designing and implementing a new product development process, designing and implementing a manufacturing engineering process, including an automated assembly workstation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=551388 | 986,757 |
557,265 | Oliphant then met with the Uranium Committee at its meeting in New York on 26 August 1941. Samuel K. Allison, a new member of the committee, was an experimental physicist and a protégé of Arthur Compton at the University of Chicago. He recalled that Oliphant "came to a meeting and said 'bomb' in no uncertain terms. He ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315710 | 556,976 |
1,287,399 | The blood glucose can usually be raised to normal within minutes with 15–20 grams of carbohydrate, although overtreatment should be avoided if at all possible. It can be taken as food or drink if the person is conscious and able to swallow. This amount of carbohydrate is contained in about 3–4 ounces (100–120 mL) of or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1763662 | 1,286,698 |
620,394 | Constructive solid geometry (CSG) is a family of schemes for representing rigid solids as Boolean constructions or combinations of primitives via the regularized set operations discussed above. CSG and boundary representations are currently the most important representation schemes for solids. CSG representations take ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=457579 | 620,079 |
1,139,184 | Worldwide, the L-5 was the first guitar to feature f-holes. Then as well as today, the construction of the L-5 is similar in construction, carving, bracing and tap-tuning, to building a cello. This guitar as well as the cello are similarly designed in order to amplify and project the acoustic vibration of strings throu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1348717 | 1,138,591 |
143,143 | The International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of Threatened Species describes the conservation status as of 'least concern' in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, broad range of habitats, and likely slow rate of decline though it acknowledges the population to be decreasing. Reductio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=897576 | 143,085 |
221,140 | In 1926, a regular connection of the luxury passenger train from London to Paris, Golden Arrow/Fleche d'Or, by Southern Railway and French Northern Railway, began. For transport of passengers' baggage four containers were used. These containers were loaded in London or Paris and carried to ports, Dover or Calais, on fl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50387 | 221,031 |
203,361 | Astrocytes are macroglial cells in the central nervous system. Astrocytes are derived from heterogeneous populations of progenitor cells in the neuroepithelium of the developing central nervous system. There is remarkable similarity between the well known genetic mechanisms that specify the lineage of diverse neuron su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1024090 | 203,257 |
2,126,316 | The second major application of pharmacometabolomics is the analysis of a patient's metabolic profile following the administration of a specific therapy. This process is often secondary to a pre-treatment metabolic analysis, allowing for the comparison of pre- and post-treatment metabolite concentrations. This allows f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34939027 | 2,125,095 |
105,006 | The definition of a genetically modified organism (GMO) is not clear and varies widely between countries, international bodies, and other communities. At its broadest, the definition of a GMO can include anything that has had its genes altered, including by nature. Taking a less broad view, it can encompass every organ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12339 | 104,961 |
2,048,633 | "Etheostoma simoterum atripinne" reaches sexual maturity in about one year and only survives for a breeding season (maximum life expectancy is about 18 months), which occurs in April to early May. Leading up to the breeding season, males develop bright colors, and by April, all males are deep green to blue-green in col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32562345 | 2,047,452 |
1,397,808 | To support the RS/6000 and RS/6000 SP2 product lines in 1996, IBM had its own design team implement a single-chip version of POWER2, the P2SC ("POWER2 Super Chip"), outside the Apple/IBM/Motorola alliance in IBM's most advanced and dense CMOS-6S process. P2SC combined all of the separate POWER2 instruction cache, fixed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38905529 | 1,397,035 |
554,119 | The fundraising campaign to raise US$200 million from foreign sources, in addition to Schwarzman's $100 million donation to the program, was also simultaneously launched at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Shortly after in fall of 2013, Oxford University's Rhodes House announced the launch of its own Second Cen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39174296 | 553,830 |
583,976 | Marine survey acquisition is not just limited to seismic vessels; it is also possible to lay cables of geophones and hydrophones on the sea bed in a similar way to how cables are used in a land seismic survey, and use a separate source vessel. This method was originally developed out of operational necessity in order t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=676418 | 583,677 |
241,890 | An office was set up for Salam in the Prime Ministers' Secretariat by order of Bhutto. Salam immediately started to motivate and invite scientists to begin work with PAEC in the development of fission weapons. In December 1972, two theoretical physicists working at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics were ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=304427 | 241,764 |
2,023,194 | UMass has been arguably the ECWHL's top team since Penn State's re-entry through the Women's Ice Hockey Club, with league playoff titles and ACHA tournament bids in 2014–15, 2015–16 and 2016–17. Still, PSU has managed a pair of overtime wins against the Minutewomen in twelve regular season meetings. The first was on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51386378 | 2,022,030 |
436,838 | Pareiasaurs had long been thought to be terrestrial, but it is difficult to assess their range of locomotion given the lack of modern anatomical analogues. In 1987, Ivakhnenko hypothesised that they were aquatic or amphibious due to the deep and low-lying pectoral girdle, short but engorged limbs, and thick cartilage o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4462232 | 436,624 |
131,536 | The USAF announced the CFM56 as the winner of the re-engine contract in January 1980. Officials indicated that they were excited at the prospect of replacing the Pratt & Whitney J57 engines currently flying on the KC-135A aircraft, calling them "...the noisiest, dirtiest, [and] most fuel inefficient powerplant still fl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=437326 | 131,484 |
800,726 | Algorithmic bias has been cited in cases ranging from election outcomes to the spread of online hate speech. It has also arisen in criminal justice, healthcare, and hiring, compounding existing racial, socioeconomic, and gender biases. The relative inability of facial recognition technology to accurately identify darke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55817338 | 800,299 |
1,585,113 | In the early days of the railway, locomotives were built with more and more axles in order the meet the increasingly heavy loads of goods trains. In order not to overstress the tracks, axle loads were often restricted, initially to 16 tonnes, occasionally to 18 tonnes and later usually to 20 tonnes. A ten-coupled locom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21315079 | 1,584,222 |
318,223 | Early estimates of the diameter of Vesta ranged from in 1825, to . E.C. Pickering produced an estimated diameter of in 1879, which is close to the modern value for the mean diameter, but the subsequent estimates ranged from a low of up to a high of during the next century. The measured estimates were based on photometr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47200 | 318,052 |
305,998 | During the mid-1950s, more difficult market conditions followed the peak demand of the dieselization era. The 1950s saw collapse in the positions of all of EMD's established competitors and the strong emergence of a new one, the General Electric Company. Lima-Hamilton failed first, in 1951 merging with Baldwin to form ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1968562 | 305,834 |
348,879 | Since 1991, the year the Gulf War ended, veterans and their families voiced concern about subsequent health problems. In 1999, an assessment of the first 1,000 veterans involved in the Ministry of Defence's Gulf War medical assessment programme found "no evidence" of a single illness, physical or mental, that would exp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37514 | 348,697 |
1,111,078 | Phytoliths occur abundantly in the fossil record, and have been reported from the Late Devonian onwards. Robustness of phytoliths make them available to be found in various remains including sedimentary deposits, coprolites, and dental calculus from diverse environmental conditions. In addition to reconstructing human-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2225215 | 1,110,512 |
647,579 | The J8M took to the air for its first powered flight on 7 July 1945, with Lieutenant Commander Toyohiko Inuzuka at the controls; after his "sharp start" rocket-powered takeoff, Inuzuka successfully jettisoned the dolly upon becoming airborne and began to gain speed, climbing skywards at a 45° angle. At an altitude of ,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=460022 | 647,239 |
739,946 | The Colt Model 750 was an improvement of the basic principle of the Colt LMG, developed jointly by Colt and Diemaco with an eye to Canadian Army sales. The improved version featured all A2 parts and is essentially the same as the preceding variant externally except for the redesigned vertical foregrip, now of a ribbed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3352016 | 739,554 |
467,799 | The first UN peacekeeping mission was a team of observers deployed to the Middle East in 1948, during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The mission was officially authorized on May 29, 1948. This date is used as a memorial day to all the UN peacekeepers who have died known as the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12029262 | 467,564 |
832,128 | It is commonly used in molecular biology as a reporter marker to monitor gene expression. It also exhibits a phenomenon called α-complementation which forms the basis for the blue/white screening of recombinant clones. This enzyme can be split in two peptides, LacZα and LacZΩ, neither of which is active by itself but w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67168 | 831,679 |
736,308 | Westinghouse also had to develop a system based on rotary converters to allow them to supply all the needed power standards including single phase and polyphase AC and DC for street cars and factory motors. Westinghouse's initial customer for the power from the hydroelectric generators at the Edward Dean Adams Station ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18179220 | 735,920 |
410,244 | There is a debate about the appropriate balance between testing with as few animals or humans as possible and the need to obtain robust, reliable findings. It has been argued that unreliable research is inefficient and wasteful and that studies are not just wasteful when they stop too late but also when they stop too e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62329 | 410,042 |
369,832 | A joint interim statement of the International Diabetes Federation Task Force on Epidemiology and Prevention; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; American Heart Association; World Heart Federation; International Atherosclerosis Society; and International Association for the Study of Obesity published a guideline... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54439 | 369,638 |
813,768 | A list of studies shows that public fear of the conflicts of interest that exist when biomedical research is funded by industry can be considered valid after a 2003 publication of "Scope and Impact of Financial Conflicts of Interest in Biomedical Research" in The Journal of American Association of Medicine. This public... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2245783 | 813,335 |
209,453 | These compounds give a permanent froth when shaken with water. They also cause hemolysis of red blood cells. Saponin glycosides are found in liquorice. Their medicinal value is due to their expectorant, corticoid and anti-inflammatory effects. Steroid saponins are important starting material for the production of semi-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=518902 | 209,346 |
62,674 | Early research into circadian rhythms suggested that most people preferred a day closer to 25 hours when isolated from external stimuli like daylight and timekeeping. However, this research was faulty because it failed to shield the participants from artificial light. Although subjects were shielded from time cues (lik... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56565 | 62,649 |
1,420,524 | Volume is an indie stealth video game developed by Mike Bithell Games. It was released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and PlayStation 4 in August 2015, and the PlayStation Vita in January 2016. The game uses stealth mechanics inspired by "Metal Gear Solid" series, allowing the player to plan courses of action to work thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40229030 | 1,419,724 |
1,318,895 | According to Garphart, compared with in traditional workplace, sensemaking in electronically enabled work place becomes more complex and ambiguous. and act differently in the above five procedures. To be specific. four distinct features can be seen. Firstly, the process of reciprocity is much confined. The reciprocity ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33079593 | 1,318,170 |
248,119 | The Van de Graaff generator was developed, starting in 1929, by physicist Robert J. Van de Graaff at Princeton University, with help from colleague Nicholas Burke. The first model was demonstrated in October 1929. The first machine used an ordinary tin can, a small motor, and a silk ribbon bought at a five-and-dime sto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52642 | 247,991 |
1,193,269 | One of the ultimate goals is to devise and develop prescriptions of treatment for a variety of neuropathological conditions and psychiatric disorders. More profoundly, though, the knowledge gained may provide insight into the very nature of human thought, mental abilities like learning and memory, and perhaps conscious... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2917198 | 1,192,633 |
676,658 | In June 1936, Armstrong gave a formal presentation of his new system at the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) headquarters. For comparison, he played a jazz record using a conventional AM radio, then switched to an FM transmission. A United Press correspondent was present, and recounted in a wire service repor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10315 | 676,305 |
270,125 | Like all arthropods, chelicerates have segmented bodies with jointed limbs, all covered in a cuticle made of chitin and proteins. The chelicerate body plan consists of two tagmata, the prosoma and the opisthosoma, except that mites have lost a visible division between these sections. The chelicerae, which give the grou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50884 | 269,978 |
1,244,430 | In a model of explant growth in vitro using corneal epithelium, Matrix Metalloproteinase (MMP) 2 expression correlates with an initial degradation of the original basement membrane. Reformation of basement membrane in culture was dependent on an initial upregulation followed by a downregulation of MMP-9, in contrast to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4328716 | 1,243,757 |
663,065 | On 15 January 2006, at 05:57 UTC, the Sample Return Capsule successfully separated from "Stardust". The SRC re-entered the Earth's atmosphere at 09:57 UTC, with a velocity of , the fastest reentry speed into Earth's atmosphere ever achieved by a human-made object. The capsule followed a drastic reentry profile, going f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187388 | 662,720 |
1,124,342 | By the latter half of the 1960s, higher-level programming languages such as BASIC which were able to be run on multiple types of computers further increased the reach of games developed at any given location. While most games were limited to text-based designs, rather than visual graphics like "Spacewar", these games b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49386138 | 1,123,768 |
999,688 | Since the late 2000s, and certainly since 2010 and on, the domain of general purpose protocols has moved to deal with efficiency improvements of the protocols with practical applications in mind. Increasingly efficient protocols for MPC have been proposed, and MPC can be now considered as a practical solution to variou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=646233 | 999,170 |
2,194,818 | Human polycystin 1 is a huge protein of 4303 amino acyl residues (aas). Its repeated leucine-rich (LRR) segment is found in many proteins. According to the SwissProt description, polycystin 1 contains 16 polycystic kidney disease (PKD) domains, one LDL-receptor class A domain, one C-type lectin family domain, and 16-18... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50111119 | 2,193,568 |
814,961 | The morning final for the third day was the women's marathon, which saw Jemima Sumgong win Kenya's first Olympic gold medal for that event. The race was unusual in that two sets of twins crossed the line together: North Korea's Kim Hye-song and Kim Hye-gyong took tenth and eleventh while Germans Anna and Lisa Hahner we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36721624 | 814,527 |
870,436 | The launch of the A5000 in late 1991 brought a new version of RISC OS to the market: RISC OS 3. This delivered a range of enhancements to the operating system including multitasking filer operations (meaning that file copying, moving and deletion no longer took over the computer), support for reading and writing DOS fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 869,976 |
863,535 | The university was founded, or ratified, in 1290 by King Dinis, having begun its existence in Lisbon with the name Studium Generale ("Estudo Geral"). "Scientiae thesaurus mirabilis", the royal charter announcing the institution of the university was dated 1 March of that year, although efforts had been made at least si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=715164 | 863,075 |
1,806,542 | Walcott and his family returned to the quarry each summer until 1913, using dynamite as surface collection dried up. During this time, his wife died in a train crash and his eldest son died of tuberculosis. He considered his next trip, in 1917, to have "practically exhausted" the quarry, with 1300 kg of material being ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23963520 | 1,805,525 |
903,150 | "C. maenas" is a predator, feeding on many organisms, particularly bivalve molluscs (such as clams – up to 40 clams per day, oysters, and mussels), polychaetes, and small crustaceans – including other crabs up to their own size. They are primarily diurnal, although activity also depends on the tide, and crabs can be ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3298595 | 902,674 |
1,459,580 | A complete warehouse automation system can drastically reduce the workforce required to run a facility, with human input required only for a few tasks, such as picking units of product from a bulk packed case. Even here, assistance can be provided with equipment such as pick-to-light units. Smaller systems may only be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=475255 | 1,458,759 |
1,010,763 | The MB-326 was outfitted with a tandem cockpit configuration, this arrangement had been chosen to result in a slimmer and more aerodynamically efficient fuselage in comparison to the more usual side-by-side arrangement. It was covered by a bubble canopy for excellent external visibility; it featured a windscreen anti-i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=184400 | 1,010,242 |
122,197 | Israel Aerospace Industries announced in August 2013 it will offer pre-owned Kfir fighter jets to foreign customers, with a 40-year guarantee. Unit price is reported to be $20 million. A few Eastern European and Latin American countries have expressed interest, Israel's Globes business daily reported. By October 2013, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=489370 | 122,148 |
1,572,717 | Remote telescope system development started in 1999, with first test runs on real telescope hardware in early 2000. RTS2 was primary intended for Gamma ray burst follow-up observations, so ability to interrupt observation was core part of its design. During development, it became an integrated observatory management su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=970131 | 1,571,829 |
883,014 | In January 2008, NASA Watch revealed that the first stage solid rocket of the "Ares I" could have created high vibrations during the first few minutes of ascent. The vibrations would have been caused by thrust oscillations inside the first stage. NASA officials had identified the potential problem at the Ares I system ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5517979 | 882,550 |
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