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743,192 | In 1998, Andrew Fire at Carnegie Institution for Science in Washington DC and Craig Mello at University of Massachusetts in Worcester discovered the RNAi mechanism while working on the gene expression in the nematode, "Caenorhabditis elegans". They won the Nobel prize for their research with RNAi in 2006. siRNAs and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584617 | 742,798 |
1,706,710 | Krylov has received worldwide recognition, in particular for her invention of the spin-flip method. She received the 2007 WATOC (World Association of Theoretical and Computational Chemists) Dirac Medal for her "outstanding research on new methods in electronic structure theory for the description of bond-breaking, in p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11061937 | 1,705,752 |
765,968 | Such materials would need to be manufactured into bulk materials with complex shapes at high volume and low cost and would serve a variety of fields such as construction, transportation, energy storage and conversion. In a classic design problem, strength and toughness are more likely to be mutually exclusive i.e., str... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45784 | 765,558 |
88,579 | A major criticism of the assumptions that continue to make these model results possible appeared in the 1987 book "Nuclear War Survival Skills" ("NWSS"), a civil defense manual by Cresson Kearny for the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. According to the 1988 publication "An assessment of global atmospheric effects of a ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22171 | 88,544 |
147,492 | The Universidad de El Salvador (University of El Salvador) has a program of 8 years for students who want to study medicine. The first six years are organized in a two semesters fashion, the seventh year is used for a rotating internship through the mayor specialty areas in a 10-week periods fashion (psychiatry and pub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=465584 | 147,434 |
1,248,138 | For the DoD, SwA is defined as "the level of confidence that software functions only as intended and is free of vulnerabilities, either intentionally or unintentionally designed or inserted as part of the software, throughout the life cycle. DoD is developing SwA as a sound systems engineering practice as demonstrated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3084104 | 1,247,462 |
725,491 | On 23 March 1923 on one of the lakes of Moritzburg, the Frauenteich, he spotted what he identified as a red-crested pochard. The species had not been seen in Saxony since 1845 and the local club argued about the identity. Raimund Schelcher (1891–1979) of the club then suggested that Mayr visit his classmate Erwin Stres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9238 | 725,110 |
94,509 | The second major line of thought relates the hippocampus to memory. Although it had historical precursors, this idea derived its main impetus from a famous report by American neurosurgeon William Beecher Scoville and British-Canadian neuropsychologist Brenda Milner describing the results of surgical destruction of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53948 | 94,468 |
602,702 | Brånemark spent almost 30 years fighting the scientific community for acceptance of osseointegration as a viable treatment. In Sweden he was often openly ridiculed at science conferences. His university stopped funding for his research, forcing him to open a private clinic to continue treating patients. Eventually an e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1176900 | 602,393 |
2,186,608 | In short, critical gaps exist in the literature, with a paucity of prospective, controlled studies on late-life outcomes and neurodegeneration after mTBI and related basic science research. These research gaps are particularly prominent in the injuries and difficulties seen in combat-exposed populations. The existing r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42630360 | 2,185,360 |
1,263,707 | Specific parts were carefully chosen to be entirely manufactured in Australia in a strategic manner to save on costs judging by the competitive market at the time. Many of these were selected with a long term vision in mind, being the more disposable and consumable materials that would otherwise need to be purchased co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63754631 | 1,263,019 |
823,319 | Gravitropism is a turning or growth movement by a plant or fungus in response to gravity. It is equally widespread in both kingdoms. Statolites are required in both fungi and plants for the mechanism of gravity-sensing. The Zygomycota sporangiophores originate from specialized “basal hyphae” and pass through several di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191164 | 822,876 |
843,644 | Morgan moved to California to head the Division of Biology at the California Institute of Technology in 1928. In establishing the biology division, Morgan wanted to distinguish his program from those offered by Johns Hopkins and Columbia, with research focused on genetics and evolution; experimental embryology; physiol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31522 | 843,194 |
1,539,946 | In 1979, Gordon became co-chair of a commission on economic problems set up by the Progressive Alliance—a political coalition of more than 200 organizations representing labor, citizens, civil rights and women's organizations. He felt that a new and overarching analysis of the U.S. economy was needed in order to unders... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26644045 | 1,539,073 |
1,066,044 | In regard to the pulp and paper industry; lignin is a natural polymer co-generated and is generally used as boiler fuel to generate heat or steam to cover the energy demand in the process. Since lignin accounts for 10–30 wt% of the available lignocellulosic biomass and is equivalent to ~40% of its energy contents; the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1637397 | 1,065,490 |
8,989 | In 1958, NASA formed an engineering group, the Space Task Group, to manage their human spaceflight programs under the direction of Robert Gilruth. Their earliest programs were conducted under the pressure of the Cold War competition between the US and the Soviet Union. NASA inherited the US Air Force's Man in Space Soo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426568 | 8,985 |
1,061,380 | Blastomyces dermatitidis is a dimorphic fungus that causes blastomycosis, an invasive and often serious fungal infection found occasionally in humans and other animals. It lives in soil and wet, decaying wood, often in an area close to a waterway such as a lake, river or stream. Indoor growth may also occur, for exampl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12618169 | 1,060,827 |
2,037,773 | Sustainable Islands International website reports that a 30kWh/8 kW prototype has been installed in Scotland to support a remote community and has been running successfully since 2013. This product has been recently selected by Canadian and UK governments to install large scale SLIQ battery systems to support the grid ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67041304 | 2,036,598 |
228,514 | As machines became more powerful the time to run programs diminished, and the time to hand off the equipment to the next user became large by comparison. Accounting for and paying for machine usage moved on from checking the wall clock to automatic logging by the computer. Run queues evolved from a literal queue of peo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55395 | 228,397 |
892,370 | Most of the early software crackers were computer hobbyists who often formed groups that competed against each other in the cracking and spreading of software. Breaking a new copy protection scheme as quickly as possible was often regarded as an opportunity to demonstrate one's technical superiority rather than a possi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29213 | 891,901 |
817,137 | "World Taekwondo" was established on May 28, 1973, at the inaugural meeting held at the Kukkiwon with participation of 35 representatives from the world after it separated from the International Taekwon-Do Federation because of political reasons. At that time, Un Yong Kim was elected president for a four-year term. One... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=912408 | 816,701 |
515,788 | Conservationists are working with governments and fisheries to prevent further declines and increase populations of endangered procellariids. Progress has been made in protecting many colonies where most species are most vulnerable. On 20 June 2001, the Agreement on the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels was signe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=224443 | 515,519 |
33,206 | As originally proposed in 1980 by a team of scientists led by Luis Alvarez and his son Walter, it is now generally thought that the K–Pg extinction was caused by the impact of a massive asteroid , 66 million years ago, which devastated the global environment, mainly through a lingering impact winter which halted photos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44503418 | 33,194 |
921,267 | There is no one mode of reproduction that is universally superior in selective terms, but in many circumstances viviparity of various forms offers good protection from parasites and predators and permits flexibility in dealing with problems of reliability and economy in adverse circumstances. Variations on the theme in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=354964 | 920,781 |
133,284 | An intellectual revitalization of Western Europe started with the birth of medieval universities in the 12th century. These urban institutions grew from the informal scholarly activities of learned friars who visited monasteries, consulted libraries, and conversed with other fellow scholars. A friar who became well-kno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,231 |
116,073 | Solar photovoltaic power is not entirely "clean energy": production produces greenhouse gas emissions, materials used to build the cells are potentially unsustainable and will run out eventually, the technology uses toxic substances which cause pollution, and there are no viable technologies for recycling solar waste. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=652531 | 116,028 |
116,200 | The table below does not necessarily give power densities for the pure material but for a chemically inert form. For actinides this is of little concern as their oxides are usually inert enough (and can be transformed into ceramics further increasing their stability), but for alkali metals and alkaline earth metals lik... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211485 | 116,155 |
406,285 | In a practical situation and room-temperature setting, humans lose considerable energy due to thermal radiation in infra-red in addition to that lost by conduction to air (aided by concurrent convection, or other air movement like drafts). The heat energy lost is partially regained by absorbing heat radiation from wall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=185239 | 406,085 |
347,519 | The turn of the century brought many changes in the administration and organization of the university including the naming of a new chancellor in 1899. Walter B. Hill became the first UGA alumnus to lead the university. A progressive leader, his six-year tenure, before his death from pneumonia, was marked with increase... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378232 | 347,338 |
1,285,687 | Malawi's rainfall in 1989-90 and 1990-91 was at best moderate and locally poor. Smallholder food reserves were depleted before the deeper crisis in 1991–92. Rainfall before planting in 1991 was low and sporadic; withdrawing fertilizer subsidies made a poor harvest poorer. Only 40% of the normal maize crop was gathered ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14543243 | 1,284,986 |
1,042,842 | Hansen is best known as the developer of the econometric technique generalized method of moments (GMM) and has written and co-authored papers applying GMM to analyze economic models in numerous fields including labor economics, international finance, finance and macroeconomics. This method has been widely adopted in ec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3313162 | 1,042,299 |
1,186,027 | Laboratory registries allow for the analysis of the incidence and prevalence of the target condition as well as trends in the level of control. For instance, an NIH-funded program called the Vermedx Diabetes Information System maintained a registry of laboratory values of diabetic adults in Vermont and northern New Yor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2497276 | 1,185,398 |
1,144,749 | Meanwhile, Carter wrote the Indian Medical Service examination and joined the service in January 1858 had moved to Bombay and was married to a woman named Harriet Bushell, only to discover that her real name was Amelia Adams, previously married and whose first marriage had been canceled because of her adultery. Carter ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21870624 | 1,144,148 |
1,900,273 | Kim specializes in computational biology, genomics, and evolutionary biology. Originally from South Korea, he received his undergraduate degree in Microbiology at Seoul National University. During his undergraduate years, he became strongly interested in computer science and programming. He developed a program to fold ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38570216 | 1,899,185 |
2,073,651 | The fungus Chondrostereum purpureum, the causal agent of silver leaf, was grown in liquid culture and agar, which caused it to secrete extracellular proteinases into the medium. The fluid dialysed by the activation of metal ions, which confirmed the presence of metalloproteinases. The silverleaf disease is a basidiomyc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29961903 | 2,072,459 |
1,270,614 | The start of the Great Leap Forward in 1958 came with a vehement attack on pure mathematics and intellectuals, which prompted Hua to shift towards applied mathematics. Hua developed, with Wang Yuan, a broad interest in linear programming, operations research, and multidimensional numerical integration. In connection wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2337582 | 1,269,923 |
1,039,593 | A hockey tournament debuted in the Summer Olympics in 1920 and would later also be recognized as the first World Ice Hockey Championship. Canada took the gold medal, with the United States getting the silver. The Canadians went on to claim three consecutive golds after the sport was permanently transferred to the newly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51692350 | 1,039,052 |
100,116 | Rhinoviruses are spread worldwide and are the primary cause of the common cold. Symptoms include sore throat, runny nose, nasal congestion, sneezing and cough; sometimes accompanied by muscle aches, fatigue, malaise, headache, muscle weakness, or loss of appetite. Most sinus findings are reversible consistent with a se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=104066 | 100,071 |
731,426 | Born in Spokane, Washington, on January 26, 1891, Penfield spent most of his early life in Hudson, Wisconsin. He studied at Princeton University, where he was a member of Cap and Gown Club and played on the football team. After graduation in 1913, he was hired briefly as the team coach. In 1915 he obtained a Rhodes Sch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=400115 | 731,041 |
2,062,034 | The use of theoretical and applied physics were an extremely important part of Canada's war effort as reflected in activities involving the development of atomic energy. The Tizard Mission, a delegation of British scientists and military experts, visiting North America to promote wartime allied scientific cooperation, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,844 |
60,003 | All known "Achelousaurus" specimens were recovered from the Two Medicine Formation in Glacier County, Montana during excavations conducted by the Museum of the Rockies, which still houses the specimens. The discoveries came about by an accidental chain of events. In the spring of 1985, paleontologist John "Jack" R. Hor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1792493 | 59,978 |
1,056,530 | There also has been some interest in the possible use of gadolinium-157 (Gd) as a capture agent for NCT for the following reasons: "First", and foremost, has been its very high neutron capture cross section of 254,000 barns. "Second", gadolinium compounds, such as Gd-DTPA (gadopentetate dimeglumine Magnevist®), have be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32637211 | 1,055,982 |
1,618,479 | There is a slight thermodynamic tendency for heavy isotopes to form bonds with each other, in excess of what would be expected from a stochastic or random distribution of the same concentration of isotopes. The excess is greatest at low temperature (see Van 't Hoff equation), with the isotopic distribution becoming mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2527382 | 1,617,564 |
1,669,075 | In addition to her roles as an engineer, Ericsson has been passionate about mentoring young people and students for much of her life and career, beginning in high school and college. By lecturing and serving on advisory boards at multiple universities, advising pre-college STEM programs, and reviewing proposals for NAS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41937200 | 1,668,135 |
1,098,005 | The role of the limbic system in emotion was first explained by James Papez in 1937 within his paper titled “A proposed mechanism of emotion.” The model is known as the Papez circuit. the Papez circuit highlighted the presence of neuronal pathways between vestibular system and limbic system. The vestibular apparatus is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4318932 | 1,097,445 |
1,371,353 | "Mei" is a troodontid, a group of small, bird-like, gracile maniraptorans. All troodontids have many unique features of the skull, such as closely spaced teeth in the lower jaw, and large numbers of teeth. Troodontids have sickle-claws and raptorial hands, and some of the highest non-avian encephalization quotients, me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1342730 | 1,370,596 |
1,523,647 | 4. Mood and depression – Several years ago, Prof. Bar’s research evolved to include clinical questions, particularly pertaining to psychiatric disorders such as major depression, and this work made a rapid impact. He started with a theoretical paper (Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 2009) that presented a novel synthes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26854460 | 1,522,786 |
275,392 | During those early days, the stress and strain of combat put on the crews was intense. However, by early July the chances of F-82s engaging in air-to-air combat was significantly reduced, as the F-80 Shooting Stars had effectively stopped North Korea's air force from coming below the 38th parallel. The F-82s began flyi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=671473 | 275,243 |
775,259 | In the late 1770s, during the American Revolutionary War, smallpox returned once more and killed thousands. Peter Kalm in his "Travels in North America", described how in that period, the dying Indian villages became overrun with wolves feasting on the corpses and weakened survivors. During the 1770s, smallpox killed a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20790125 | 774,843 |
1,014,044 | Sibley and Etnier (2003) performed a meta-analysis that looked at the relationship between physical activity and cognitive performance in children. They reported a beneficial relationship in the categories of perceptual skills, intelligence quotient, achievement, verbal tests, mathematic tests, developmental level/acad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34760961 | 1,013,523 |
1,162,569 | "Redfish" received a Presidential Unit Citation which read "For extraordinary heroism in action during the First and Second War Patrols against enemy Japanese surface units in the restricted waters of the Pacific. Operating in bold defiance of foul weather and persistent hostile depth charging, gunfire and bombing by o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=446267 | 1,161,952 |
420,274 | The most complete example of the species, currently in the collections of the University of Alberta Laboratory for Vertebrate Paleontology as specimen number UALVP 24238, is a partially-articulated sub-adult fossil with a wingspan of about . The skeleton is missing only parts of the skull and the ends of the wings and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12413861 | 420,069 |
339,957 | In spite of the evidence regarding increasingly powerful counterweight trebuchets during the 13th century, "it remains an important consideration that not one of these appears to have effected a breach that directly led to the fall of a stronghold." In 1220, Al-Mu'azzam Isa laid siege to Atlit with a "trabuculus", thre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43380 | 339,776 |
702,455 | Because molecular diagnostics methods can detect sensitive markers, these tests are less intrusive than a traditional biopsy. For example, because cell-free nucleic acids exist in human plasma, a simple blood sample can be enough to sample genetic information from tumours, transplants or an unborn fetus. Many, but not ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40439442 | 702,087 |
943,374 | In 1958, American physicist William Higinbotham worked in the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton, New York, as the head of the instrumentation division. Higinbotham had a bachelor's degree in physics from Williams College, and had previously worked as a technician in the physics department at Cornell University wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=921415 | 942,872 |
1,162,244 | Neutral countries seemingly remained in the World War I mindset of trench observation. While aerial photography was allocated to tactically inferior aircraft, and aerial mapping advanced considerably, there was no concept of strategic reconnaissance and little thought given to analysis and interpretation. Surprisingly,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38534810 | 1,161,627 |
954,965 | In 1871 Darwin published his own research on human ancestry in "The Descent of Man", concluding that humans "descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears", which would be classified amongst the Quadrumana along with monkeys, and in turn descended "through a long line of diversified forms" go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=328815 | 954,460 |
1,038,130 | In a delay line detector the electrons are accelerated to 500 eV between the back of the last MCP and a grid. They then fly for 5 mm and are dispersed over an area of 2 mm. A grid follows. Each element has a diameter of 1 mm and consists of an electrostatic lens focusing arriving electrons through a 30 µm hole of a gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30862351 | 1,037,589 |
2,129,512 | Harold Smith founded OyaGen, Inc. in 2003. OyaGen is a biopharmaceutical company which develops therapies to fight viral illness through editing enzymes, with a focus on Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Founded with a seed fund by the University of Rochester and the Trillium Group, Smith has successfully brought in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42927273 | 2,128,288 |
694,802 | Claude Bernard, a French physiologist of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (National Museum of Natural History in English), formulated the concept of the "milieu interieur" in the mid-1800s. In 1865, Bernard described the perturbation of this internal state: "... there are protective functions of organic element... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=816012 | 694,439 |
717,254 | When multiple copies of a polypeptide encoded by a gene form a complex, this protein structure is referred to as a multimer. When a multimer is formed from polypeptides produced by two different mutant alleles of a particular gene, the mixed multimer may exhibit greater functional activity than the unmixed multimers fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2161878 | 716,877 |
1,519,325 | A notable point in 771's wartime history was that they started the chain that led to the sinking of the German battleship Bismarck. The Commanding Officer of HMS Sparrowhawk, Capt Henry Lockhart St John Fancourt, RN, had been ordered to identify and sink the Bismarck at the earliest opportunity. The two squadrons of Al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6617900 | 1,518,467 |
1,132,642 | A CNN article from 2000 noted that "Though most of his peers concluded otherwise, Levin still holds that the robot tests he coordinated on the 1976 Viking lander indicated the presence of living organisms on Mars." A 2006 astrobiology textbook noted that "With unsterilized Terrestrial samples, though, the addition of m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1072959 | 1,132,050 |
211,603 | Preventive healthcare is especially important given the worldwide rise in prevalence of chronic diseases and deaths from these diseases. There are many methods for prevention of disease. One of them is prevention of teenage smoking through information giving. It is recommended that adults and children aim to visit thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1032780 | 211,495 |
1,617,412 | The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the fibroblast growth factor receptor family, where amino acid sequence is highly conserved between members and throughout evolution. FGFR family members differ from one another in their ligand affinities and tissue distribution. A full-length representative protein would... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14125672 | 1,616,499 |
535,363 | Unfortunately, Wegener provided no convincing mechanism for this drift, and his ideas were not generally accepted during his lifetime. Arthur Homes accepted Wegener's theory and provided a mechanism: mantle convection, to cause the continents to move. However, it was not until after the Second World War that new eviden... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56516812 | 535,084 |
2,037,570 | The school was made known first nationally and eventually worldwide to U.S. enterprises and to U.S. allies involved in the development of peaceful uses of atomic energy, and who were interested in educating and training designated scientific and engineering personnel at its unique venue. In 1959, ORSORT accepted its fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27934732 | 2,036,395 |
1,301,816 | Captorhinids are a clade of small to very large lizard-like reptiles that date from the late Carboniferous through the Permian. Their skulls were much stronger than those of their relatives, the Protorothyrididae, and had teeth that were better able to deal with tough plant material. The postcranial skeleton is very si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4071551 | 1,301,102 |
162,133 | The last and longest lasting of the 19th century recessions was the Long Depression, which began with the financial Panic of 1873 and induced a twenty three-year period of worldwide anemic growth and recession cycles which only ended in the late 1890s. The bursting of a railroad speculation bubble in the United States,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,048 |
1,838,862 | During the two or three years that Mary Shelley spent writing the "Spanish and Portuguese Lives" from 1834 or 1835 to 1837, she also wrote a novel, "Falkner" (1837), experienced the death of her father, William Godwin, started a biography of him, and moved to London after her son, Percy Florence Shelley, entered Trinit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17481711 | 1,837,813 |
2,215,527 | 1. Efficient elementary instruction should be available to every child to enable the working class to benefit from scientific instruction.2. In order for this to be effective, regular attendance of the child for a sufficient period must be obtained.3. Elementary schools should teach drawing, physical geography and "the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29873624 | 2,214,267 |
495,921 | Although DHCA is necessary for some procedures, the use of anesthesia can provide optimum operation time and organ protection but can also have serious impacts on cellular demand, brain cells, and serious systemic inflammatory results. Possible disadvantages of DHCA includes alteration in organ functions of the liver, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6891706 | 495,665 |
2,143,600 | ICES Statistical Rectangles (aka "ICES Rectangles") is a gridded, latitude-longitude based area notation system covering the north-east Atlantic region developed by the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) in the 1970s, for simplified analysis and visualization of spatial data of relevance to tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69103054 | 2,142,369 |
183,931 | A solar flyer has also been proposed by Geoffrey A. Landis in place of a balloon, and the idea has been featured from time to time since the early 2000s. Venus has a high albedo, and reflects most of the sunlight that shines on it making the surface quite dark, the upper atmosphere at 60 km has an upward solar intensit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6410946 | 183,834 |
1,978,157 | While at FHCRC, Weintraub continued and extended his prior studies of chromatin structure and function. Another of his contributions was developing the technique of using antisense RNA to create specific mutant phenotypes in vertebrate organisms. Perhaps the work for which Weintraub is best known was his laboratory's d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44554443 | 1,977,019 |
550,277 | The chip is located behind the retina and utilizes microphotodiode arrays (MPDA) which collect incident light and transform it into electrical current stimulating the retinal ganglion cells. As natural photoreceptors are far more efficient than photodiodes, visible light is not powerful enough to stimulate the MPDA. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17198736 | 549,989 |
293,476 | While radar was being developed during World War II, there arose an urgent need for a high-power microwave generator that worked at shorter wavelengths, around 10 cm (3 GHz), rather than the 50 to 150 cm (200 MHz) that was available from tube-based generators of the time. It was known that a multi-cavity resonant magne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20861 | 293,318 |
251,907 | Because of the broad variety of operating conditions, these devices must meet specific requirements concerning their rate and duration of cooling, their power source, and their adherence to health and safety regulations. Among other criteria are the user's need for physical mobility and autonomy. For example, active-li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75654 | 251,774 |
667,869 | Despite women's tendency to perform better than men academically, there are flaws involving stereotyping, lack of information, and family influence that have been found to affect women's involvement in science. Stereotyping has an effect, because people associate characteristics such as nurturing, kind, and warm or cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3135183 | 667,520 |
1,594,223 | Rafelski studied physics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, where he received his PhD in the spring of 1973 working with Walter Greiner on strong fields and muonic atom tests of QED. In 1973 he began a series of postdoctoral fellowships: first at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23520574 | 1,593,326 |
1,977,022 | The next year, Jefferson published 200 copies of his "Notes on the State of Virginia". The section on the minerals and animals of Virginia included a discussion of the "Mammoth". He rejected the idea that the mammoth could be extinct and drew from the lore of local indigenous people that to speculate that it may surviv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37798921 | 1,975,884 |
519,466 | Inspired by a collection on ""Trade and Market in the early Empires"" edited by Karl Polanyi, the substantivists conducted a wide comparative study of market behavior in traditional societies where such markets were embedded in kinship, religion and politics. They thus remained focused on the social and cultural proces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=418436 | 519,197 |
1,311,160 | Irrational Games brought another 2K Games subsidiary, 2K Marin, aboard to help build out the architecture and details of Columbia. Irrational's director of design Bill Gardner stated that the scope of Columbia was much more expansive than Rapture in terms of virtual space, using an example of the whole of one "BioShock... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38977195 | 1,310,442 |
461,927 | Both etoposide and teniposide are naturally occurring semi-synthetic derivatives of podophyllotoxins and are important anti-cancer drugs that function to inhibit TopII activity. Etoposide is synthesized from podophyllum extracts found in the North American May Apple plant and the North American Mandrake plant. More spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6688255 | 461,698 |
559,078 | One major question for neuroscientists in the early twentieth century was the physiology of nerve impulses. In 1902 and again in 1912, Julius Bernstein advanced the hypothesis that the action potential resulted from a change in the permeability of the axonal membrane to ions. Bernstein was also the first to introduce t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4794482 | 558,789 |
1,343,019 | In 1834, he resigned his post and set off west again on an expedition led by Nathaniel Jarvis Wyeth, this time accompanied by the naturalist John Kirk Townsend. They travelled through Kansas, Wyoming, and Utah, and then down the Snake River to the Columbia. Nuttall then sailed across the Pacific Ocean to the Hawaiian I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=386446 | 1,342,283 |
1,818,020 | Cognitive humor processing refers to the neural circuitry and pathways that are involved in detecting incongruities of various situations presented in a humorous manner. Over the past decade, many studies have emerged utilizing fMRI studies to describe the neural correlates associated with how a human processes somethi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41122131 | 1,816,985 |
498,526 | Jowett found a friend and correspondent in Florence Nightingale, but whether there was any romantic attachment is unclear. It has been suggested that he belatedly proposed marriage, but was rejected, and lived the latter part of his life in regret that he never knew matrimonial bliss. Jowett's didactic and pedagogic na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231263 | 498,269 |
2,170,697 | By weakening the crust in a localized area, a preferential region of strain can develop concentrating the flow of material. Ductile rocks deeper in the crust will be able to move towards the potential gradient, whereas brittle rocks near the surface will fracture when subject to increased strain. The transition between... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33737566 | 2,169,459 |
1,875,624 | Glaciers never reached Maryland during the later Ice Age. However, they still affected the local environment as when water was trapped frozen in glaciers it caused the local sea levels to drop. The local climate was cold and the local flora correspondingly different. The local wildlife was also different and included s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37798948 | 1,874,547 |
808,868 | Compared to graphene oxide, which has been widely reported as an antibacterial agent, TiC MXene shows lack of antibacterial properties. On the other hand, MXene of TiC MXene shows a higher antibacterial efficiency toward both Gram-negative E. coli and Gram-positive B. subtilis. Colony forming unit and regrowth curves s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44354911 | 808,438 |
1,518,067 | In addition to the process of protein folding, transport and degradation, this Hsp70 member can preserve the function of mutant proteins. Nonetheless, effects of these mutations can still manifest when Hsp70 chaperones are overwhelmed during stress conditions. Hsp72 also protects against DNA damage and participates in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14024984 | 1,517,209 |
1,744,185 | On November 18, 2007, the NRU reactor was shut down for routine maintenance. This shutdown was voluntarily extended when AECL decided to install seismically-qualified emergency power systems (EPS) to two of the reactor's cooling pumps (in addition to the AC and DC backup power systems already in place), as required as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2802690 | 1,743,201 |
1,145,595 | Other marine organisms draw neuroscientists and neurobiologists to the MBL each summer, where a history of research into sensory physiology and behavior has been established. Haldan Keffer Hartline, an MBL summer investigator in the 1920s and early 1930s, uncovered several basic mechanisms of photoreceptor function thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=391313 | 1,144,994 |
309,674 | During the Cold War period the Americans did their best to challenge the Soviets, but the playing field wasn't level. The Soviet athletes were funded by the state and trained full-time, while the US strictly obeyed the amateur rules, and its athletes were primarily self-financed students who were significantly younger ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2112059 | 309,507 |
760,536 | Conan and Jimmy soon begin to socialize and also decide to raid the ship, respectively to save Lana and to steal its goods. The attempt fails and they are punished and forced into labor by the captain. The group is eventually brought to Industria and separated and reunited again various times, as the situation on that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=626891 | 760,130 |
546,221 | The AIF's requirements for manpower and equipment constrained the Militia during the early years of the war. At the outbreak of the Pacific War the main Army units in Australia were five Militia infantry divisions—the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Divisions—two Militia cavalry divisions—the 1st and 2nd Cavalry Divisions—a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22738876 | 545,935 |
395,655 | Heavy metals can degrade air, water, and soil quality, and subsequently cause health issues in plants, animals, and people, when they become concentrated as a result of industrial activities. Common sources of heavy metals in this context include mining and industrial wastes; vehicle emissions; motor oil; fuels used by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46659847 | 395,460 |
1,642,575 | Huxley studied physics at Christ's College, Cambridge in 1941. During his second year, his education was interrupted by the Second World War, and he joined the Royal Air Force as a radar officer. He worked on the development of radar equipment for during 1943 to 1947, for which he was later honoured a Member of the Ord... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3383286 | 1,641,648 |
1,159,179 | A blastema (Greek "βλάστημα", "offspring") is a mass of cells capable of growth and regeneration into organs or body parts. The changing definition of the word "blastema" has been reviewed by Holland (2021). A broad survey of how blastema has been used over time brings to light a somewhat involved history. The word ent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2880535 | 1,158,565 |
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