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875,001 | The mechanism of aspirin's analgesic, anti-inflammatory and antipyretic properties was unknown through the drug's heyday in the early- to mid-twentieth century; Heinrich Dreser's explanation, widely accepted since the drug was first brought to market, was that aspirin relieved pain by acting on the central nervous syst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16283254 | 874,539 |
2,157,301 | Type 645 was an experimental program of the Fourth five-year plan of China and designed by the 2nd Directorate of 708th Institute of China State Shipbuilding Corporation, which is also more commonly known as China Shipbuilding and Oceanic Engineering Design Academy (中国船舶及海洋工程设计研究) nowadays. Construction begun in Octobe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42759544 | 2,156,070 |
337,716 | After graduation, Eiffel had hoped to find work in his uncle's workshop in Dijon, but a family dispute made this impossible. After a few months working as an unpaid assistant to his brother-in-law, who managed a foundry, Eiffel approached the railway engineer Charles Nepveu, who gave Eiffel his first paid job as his pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12232 | 337,537 |
2,073,830 | Microfluidic modulation spectroscopy features a tunable mid-infrared quantum cascade laser to generate an optical beam that is 1000 times brighter than those used in conventional FTIR. This enables the measurement of samples that are substantially more concentrated than possible with other techniques, and the use of si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65444294 | 2,072,638 |
925,644 | Researchers at Northwestern University led by Drs. Diane Wayne, Jeff Barsuk and William McGaghie pioneered the use of mastery learning in the health professions. In 2006 they investigated mastery learning vs. traditional medical education in advanced cardiac life support techniques and showed that internal medicine res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3389587 | 925,158 |
2,116,386 | In 2015, the elucidation of the full-length structures of CDH from "Crassicarpon hotsonii" (syn. "Myriococcum thermophilum") (PDB ID: 4QI6) and "Neurospora crassa" (PDB ID: 4QI7) increased the understanding of the domain mobility for the role of CYT as built-in redox mediator. Tan and Kracher et al. showed that CDH exi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14130647 | 2,115,169 |
1,309,088 | McMillan's abrupt departure was caused by the outbreak of World War II in Europe. In November 1940, he began working at the MIT Radiation Laboratory in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he participated in the development and testing of airborne microwave radar during World War II. He conducted tests in April 1941 with th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157241 | 1,308,372 |
2,044,545 | Research at CeSOS focuses on the creation of fundamental knowledge about the design and operation of future ships and ocean structures, using analytical, numerical and experimental studies. The centre has furthermore made it its responsibility to integrate marine hydrodynamics, structural mechanics and automatic contro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33603101 | 2,043,364 |
1,126,054 | Genes encoding three-finger toxins are thought to have evolved through gene duplication. Traditionally, this has been conceptualized as repeated events of duplication followed by neofunctionalization and recruitment to gene expression patterns restricted to venom glands. However, it has been argued that this process sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53872747 | 1,125,477 |
955,097 | Between 1948 and 1950, she developed a theory by which these mobile elements regulated the genes by inhibiting or modulating their action. She referred to "Dissociation" and "Activator" as "controlling units"—later, as "controlling elements"—to distinguish them from genes. She hypothesized that gene regulation could ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55188 | 954,592 |
873,468 | Nest cavities have to be quite large in order to accommodate these birds. Clutch size is 1 to 3, usually 2. In Russia, clutches are usually just one egg. Eggs are long and wide and are thus similar in size to Siberian eagle-owl eggs. The males provide food for the incubating female and later the nestlings. The incubati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=764546 | 873,007 |
89,181 | On October 27, 1895, the Rotunda burned to a shell because of an electrical fire that started in the Rotunda Annex, a long multi-story structure built in 1853 to house additional classrooms. The electrical fire was no doubt assisted by the help of overzealous faculty member William "Reddy" Echols, who attempted to save... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59801 | 89,144 |
158,454 | Smart Grid Energy Research Center (SMERC) - Located at University of California, Los Angeles dedicated its efforts to large-scale testing of its smart EV charging network technology. It created another platform for bidirectional flow of information between a utility and consumer end-devices. SMERC also developed a dema... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13201685 | 158,373 |
1,271,940 | Viruses have been explored as a means to treat infections caused by protozoa. One such protozoa that potential virotherapy treatments have explored is "Naegleria fowleri", which causes primary amebic meningoencephalitis (PAM). With a mortality rate of 95%, this disease-causing eukaryote has one of the highest pathogeni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1873971 | 1,271,249 |
196,619 | The latest proposed extremely large astronomical telescopes, such as the Thirty Meter Telescope and the Extremely Large Telescope, will be of segmented design. Their primary mirrors will be built from hundreds of hexagonal mirror segments. Polishing and figuring these highly aspheric and non-rotationally symmetric mirr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166689 | 196,519 |
679,020 | By 1966, the design took on its final form as the L-2000-7A and L-2000-7B. The L-2000-7A featured a re-designed wing and fuselage lengthened to 273 ft (83 m). The longer fuselage allows for a mixed-class seating of 230 passengers. The new wing featured a proportionately larger forward delta, with greater refinement to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=265811 | 678,666 |
326,344 | The fifth-generation 4A-GE engine produced from 1995 to 2000 is the final version of the 4A-GE engine and has black cam covers. It uses Toyota Variable Valve Timing (VVT) system on the intake cam. This engine is commonly known as the "black top" due to the color of the valve cover, and yet again features an even higher... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=903321 | 326,170 |
387,170 | The monocots or monocotyledons have, as the name implies, a single (mono-) cotyledon, or embryonic leaf, in their seeds. Historically, this feature was used to contrast the monocots with the dicotyledons or dicots which typically have two cotyledons; however, modern research has shown that the dicots are not a natural ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55625 | 386,975 |
344,853 | There were two variations of the EJ25D sold in the US market. The engine was introduced in 1996 in the Legacy 2.5GT, LSi, and Legacy Outback. That version of the engine used Hydraulic Lash Adjuster (HLA) heads, was recommended to be run on 91 octane fuel, had lower power and torque ratings than the later '97-99 EJ25D, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4222124 | 344,672 |
1,057,680 | Milstein's early work on antibodies focused on their diversity at the amino acid level, as well as on the disulfide bonds by which they were held together. Part of this work was done in collaboration with his wife, Celia. The emphasis of his research then shifted towards the mRNA encoding antibodies, where he was able ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1297458 | 1,057,131 |
588,165 | Grosseteste continued to keep a watchful eye on ecclesiastical events. In 1251 he protested against a papal mandate enjoining the English clergy to pay Henry III one-tenth of their revenues for a crusade; and called attention to the fact that, under the system of provisions, a sum of 70,000 marks was annually drawn fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=94721 | 587,863 |
972,211 | A Calabi–Yau manifold is a compact Kähler manifold which is Ricci-flat; as a special case of Yau's verification of the Calabi conjecture, such manifolds are known to exist. Mirror symmetry, which is a proposal developed by theoretical physicists dating from the late 1980s, postulates that Calabi−Yau manifolds of comple... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=303137 | 971,701 |
209,676 | "H. erectus" seems to have typically favoured open environments. It is debated if Peking Man occupied the region during colder glacial periods or only took residence during warmer interglacials, tied to the uncertain chronology of the Zhoukoudian, as well as arguments regarding fire usage, clothing technology, and hunt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=253340 | 209,569 |
1,657,747 | While attending GWU, Alpher met Louise Ellen Simons, who was majoring in psychology at night school and working as a day secretary with the State Department. Nearly two months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Alpher and Louise were married. At this time he had already done classified work for the U.S. Navy through the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1273628 | 1,656,814 |
1,321,521 | DTT is carried out in a one-on-one therapist to student ratio at the table. Intervention can start when a child is as young as two years old and can last from two to six years. Progression through goals of the program are determined individually and are not determined by which year the client has been in the program. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1559185 | 1,320,795 |
1,320,048 | After 23 years in Southeast Asia, Manson had amassed considerable wealth from his medical practices. He returned to London in 1889, and settled at 21 Queen Anne Street, W1. In 1890 he qualified the Membership of the Royal College of Physicians. He became Physician at the Seamen's Hospital Society in 1892 and also Lectu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2995870 | 1,319,322 |
961,560 | Remoras are a family ("Echeneidae") of ray-finned fish. They grow to long, and their distinctive first dorsal fins take the form of a modified oval, sucker-like organ with slat-like structures that open and close to create suction and take a firm hold against the skin of larger marine animals. By sliding backward, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1132756 | 961,051 |
212,744 | Legends of magnetic levitation were common in ancient and medieval times, and their spread from the Roman world to the Middle East and later to India has been documented by the classical scholar Dunstan Lowe. The earliest known source is Pliny the Elder (first century AD), who described architectural plans for an iron ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33565171 | 212,636 |
184,356 | After leaving the Bay of Whales on 15 February 1911, "Fram" sailed for Buenos Aires where she arrived on 17 April. Here, Nilsen learned that the expedition's funds were exhausted; a sum supposedly set aside for the ship's needs had not materialised. Fortunately, Amundsen's friend Don Pedro Christopherson was at hand to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15021680 | 184,259 |
417,890 | Britain contributed to the Manhattan Project by helping initiate the effort to build the first atomic bombs in the United States during World War II, and helped carry it through to completion in August 1945 by supplying crucial expertise. Following the discovery of nuclear fission in uranium, scientists Rudolf Peierls ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41957579 | 417,686 |
417,637 | Extracellular vesicles (EVs) are lipid bilayer-delimited particles that are naturally released from almost all types of cell but, unlike a cell, cannot replicate. EVs range in diameter from near the size of the smallest physically possible unilamellar liposome (around 20-30 nanometers) to as large as 10 microns or more... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43476921 | 417,433 |
331,462 | Additional risks posed by increased availability of inorganic nitrogen in aquatic ecosystems include water acidification; eutrophication of fresh and saltwater systems; and toxicity issues for animals, including humans. Eutrophication often leads to lower dissolved oxygen levels in the water column, including hypoxic a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59414 | 331,285 |
208,523 | In 2015, the US National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine concluded a 21-month project to study the potential impacts, benefits, and costs of climate engineering. The differences between these two classes of climate engineering "led the committee to evaluate the two types of approaches separately in compa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1038280 | 208,416 |
1,399,634 | In December 1951 Hafler and Keroes began promoting the ultralinear stage - a method of distributing load between anode and screen grid of a pentode or tetrode, invented by Alan Blumlein in the 1930s. An ultralinear stage delivered 50% to 100% more output power than the same stage in triode connection, at roughly the sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1019188 | 1,398,859 |
638,964 | An advantage of using Gaussians as interpolation functions is that they yield linear operators, including Laplacians, that are free from rotational artifacts of the coordinate frame in which formula_64 is represented via formula_81, in formula_73-dimensions, and are frequency aware by definition. A linear operator has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1394358 | 638,625 |
503,749 | Pneumoencephalography makes use of plain X-ray images. These are very poor at resolving soft tissues, such as the brain. Moreover, all the structures captured in the image are superimposed on top of each other, which makes it difficult to pick out individual items of interest (unlike modern scanners which are able to p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=499118 | 503,490 |
391,596 | Genetically engineered M13 bacteriophage viruses allow preparation of quantum dot biocomposite structures. It had previously been shown that genetically engineered viruses can recognize specific semiconductor surfaces through the method of selection by combinatorial phage display. Additionally, it is known that liquid ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=511547 | 391,401 |
1,062,675 | A 2021 update to the 2019 climate emergency declaration focuses on 31 planetary vital signs (including greenhouse gases and temperature, rising sea levels, energy use, ice mass, ocean heat content, Amazon rainforest loss rate, etc), and recent changes to them. Of these, 18 are reaching critical levels. The COVID-19 loc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2016744 | 1,062,121 |
1,148,646 | Behavioral neurobiologists in the field of neuroethology have researched this behavior extensively for over fifty years in the crayfish species "Procambarus clarkii". Based on studies of "P. clarkii" it was discovered that the tail- flip mechanism is characterized by a decisive, all-or-nothing quality that inhibits all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1108892 | 1,148,039 |
692,791 | By the early years of the 20th century, the white blood cell differential had become a common practice in the United States, but difficulties in interpreting the results cast doubt on the test's utility. In 1906, Charles Langdon Gibson introduced the Gibson chart, which compared the total white blood cell count against... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61239754 | 692,428 |
413,452 | The longest living person whose dates of birth and death were verified according to the modern norms of "Guinness World Records" and the Gerontology Research Group was Jeanne Calment (1875–1997), a French woman who is verified to have lived to 122. Reduction of infant mortality has accounted for most of the increased a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=232786 | 413,250 |
882,012 | The theory (for which empirical support has yet to be developed) states that in each functional module of the visual cortex, Fourier analysis is performed on the receptive field and the neurons in each module are thought to respond selectively to various orientations and frequencies of sine wave gratings. When all of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3037867 | 881,548 |
1,540,131 | Thus, while more complex models have value in studying fire behavior and testing fire spread in a range of scenarios, from the application point of view, FARSITE and Palm-based applications of BEHAVE have shown great utility as practical in-the-field tools because of their ability to provide estimates of fire behavior ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20115268 | 1,539,258 |
280,268 | There were years of delays in the subatomic particle research during World War II (1939–1945), with most physicists working in applied projects for wartime necessities. When the war ended in August 1945, many physicists gradually returned to peacetime research. The first true meson to be discovered was what would later... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19870 | 280,117 |
1,690,027 | The SpaceLiner concept consists of a two-stage, vertical takeoff, horizontal landing configuration with a large uncrewed booster and a crewed stage designed for 50 passengers and 2 crew members. The fully reusable system is accelerated by a total of eleven liquid rocket engines (9 for the booster stage, 2 for the passe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27118109 | 1,689,081 |
1,030,167 | Education and awareness in the area of resource recovery is increasingly important from a global perspective of resource management. The Talloires Declaration is a declaration for sustainability concerned about the unprecedented scale and speed of environmental pollution and degradation, and the depletion of natural re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32845594 | 1,029,633 |
391,466 | In the 19th and 20th century, new technologies and scientific innovations allowed scientists to greatly expand their understanding of astronomy and astronomical objects. Larger telescopes and observatories began to be built and scientists began to print images of the moon and other celestial bodies on photographic plat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=206542 | 391,271 |
183,289 | Formed by the Idaho Territory legislature on January 30, 1889, the university opened its doors in 1892 on October 3, with an initial class of 40 students. The first graduating class in 1896 contained two men and two women. It has an enrollment exceeding 12,000, with over 11,000 on the Moscow campus. The university offe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53545 | 183,192 |
1,591,299 | With a No. 1 seed in the Big East tournament for the second year in a row and a No.9 national ranking, Georgetown had a bye in the first round. In the quarterfinals, the Hoyas faced eighth seed Villanova, also for the second year in a row. Villanova, a heavy underdog, fell behind 34-19 with 3:58 left in the first half,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14518554 | 1,590,404 |
1,655,016 | Because of the misinformation and easy access to processed and prepackaged foods, people are more likely to choose them over fresh food or healthier packaged foods. That can lead to health-related diseases and obesity. Those that are uneducated on the topic of nutrition and how to read nutrition labels are the most at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37161190 | 1,654,084 |
440,085 | In March 2009 Growth Energy, a lobbying group for the ethanol industry, formally requested the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to allow the ethanol content in gasoline to be increased to 15%, from 10%. In October 2010, the EPA granted a waiver to allow up to 15% blends to be sold for cars and trucks with a m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5029525 | 439,871 |
50,591 | The first jets developed during World War II and saw combat in the last two years of the war. Messerschmitt developed the first operational jet fighter, the Me 262A, primarily serving with the Luftwaffe's JG 7, the world's first jet-fighter wing. It was considerably faster than contemporary piston-driven aircraft, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10929 | 50,571 |
384,152 | On 7 December 2009, SpaceShipTwo was unveiled at the Mojave Spaceport. Branson told the 300 people attending, each of whom had booked rides at $200,000 each, that flights would begin "in 2011". However, in April 2011, Branson announced further delays, saying "I hope 18 months from now, we’ll be sitting in our spaceship... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1021879 | 383,957 |
1,400,037 | His findings also led him to oppose the fluoridation of drinking water based on his understanding of the biochemical impact of fluoride on tissue. He challenged the fluoridation of drinking water by public health programs. Reporting in 1967 the "Increased death rate in Chile associated with artificial fluoridation of d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1990488 | 1,399,250 |
1,864,240 | Breakup of the super-continent Gondwana started in the early Jurassic around 184 million years ago (Ma), but Antarctica did not break up from Australia until the late Cretaceous (80 Ma). Just before the breakaway in the Late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous, rifting began to occur near the soon-to-be Transantarctic Mounta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37577368 | 1,863,168 |
1,096,442 | The main symptom of "O. tsutsugamushi" infection is high (febrile) fever; however, the symptom is similar to other vector-borne tropical diseases such as malaria, leptospirosis, typhoid, murine typhus, chikungunya, and dengue fever. This makes precise clinical diagnosis difficult, which often leads to misdiagnosis. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12300557 | 1,095,882 |
468,127 | Chowdhury and Roy noted several drawbacks of using the Hunsdiecker reaction, namely that some reagents, such as molecular bromine and salts of mercury, thallium, lead, and silver, are inherently toxic and that reactions with α,β-unsaturated carboxylic acids result in low yield. Regarding reactions using α,β-unsaturated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4039848 | 467,892 |
313,497 | The primary form of fMRI uses the blood-oxygen-level dependent (BOLD) contrast, discovered by Seiji Ogawa in 1990. This is a type of specialized brain and body scan used to map neural activity in the brain or spinal cord of humans or other animals by imaging the change in blood flow (hemodynamic response) related to en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=226722 | 313,328 |
1,789,180 | However, after India tested a nuclear device in 1974, the U.S. slowed down and eventually halted nuclear cooperation with Brazil. Also, in the aftermath of the 1973 energy crisis, USAEC made its provision of fuel to third countries subject to availability. This in turn pushed Brazil to accelerate talks with West German... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31197926 | 1,788,174 |
383,439 | A turbocharged direct injected (redubbed "Spark Ignition Direct Injection") Ecotec was introduced in the 2007 Pontiac Solstice GXP and Saturn Sky Red Line. In these applications, the engine is mounted longitudinally. Displacement is with a square bore and stroke. Compression is 9.2:1 and maximum boost is , delivering a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=859278 | 383,244 |
1,551,718 | 2. Alivecor heart monitors are currently available in the United States, the UK, and Ireland. The device is a small handheld single-channel ECG recording device that immediately sends information to a smartphone. Recordings can then be sent to a cardiac technician or a certified cardiologist for a small cost. AliveCor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42241914 | 1,550,837 |
2,024,101 | Paleomaps are maps of continents and mountain ranges in the past based on plate reconstructions. Until the 1960s, paleomaps were not very satisfactory, since it was difficult to understand many quite distinctive features. For example, huge river deltas seemed to be associated with what must have been rather small drain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23473 | 2,022,937 |
226,042 | In early 1979, before giving a speech at the Chicago chapter of the Air Force Association, General Stafford met with the Chairman of Northrop whose company had started a low-speed experimental stealth reconnaissance program for DARPA and the U.S. Army using smooth surfaces. On a piece of hotel stationery, General Staff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=638571 | 225,926 |
1,618,670 | Condensation particle counters are able to detect particles with dimensions from 2 nm and larger. This is of special importance because particles sized down from 50 nm are generally undetectable with conventional optical techniques. Usually the supersaturation is ca. 100…200 % in condensation chamber, despite the fact ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35830148 | 1,617,755 |
779,602 | Within weeks of the fire, a national fundraising campaign was launched, enticing donations from President Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of State James Madison, Chief Justice John Marshall, and many others. Benjamin Latrobe, already noted for his design work on the Bank of Pennsylvania and Princeton University's Nassau Ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=164636 | 779,185 |
1,242,831 | Between 1907 and 1908, Romania assembled and launched four river monitors at the Galați shipyard. The monitors were built in sections by STT in Austria-Hungary, then transported to Galați and assembled there. The four vessels were named "Ion C. Brătianu", "Lascăr Catargiu", "Mihail Kogălniceanu" and "Alexandru Lahovary... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62027085 | 1,242,159 |
1,104,358 | Transmission line loudspeakers designs are more complex to implement, making mass production difficult, but their advantages have led to acclaim for a number of manufacturers such as IMF, TDL, PMC. As a rule, transmission line speakers tend to have exceptionally high fidelity low frequency response far below that of a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44224558 | 1,103,795 |
1,774,265 | The growing popularity of the engineering curricula also required physical growth of the campus. In 1891, $100,000 was allotted to construct a building devoted entirely to engineering. This building, named Main Engineering, was dedicated on February 22, 1893, with most of the dedication speech focused on the importance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31430357 | 1,773,268 |
820,456 | ImageJ can display, edit, analyze, process, save, and print 8-bit color and grayscale, 16-bit integer, and 32-bit floating point images. It can read many image file formats, including TIFF, PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP, DICOM, and FITS, as well as raw formats. ImageJ supports image "stacks", a series of images that share a sing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3793613 | 820,015 |
1,052,544 | Zener was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and earned his PhD in physics under Edwin Kemble at Harvard in 1929. His thesis was titled "Quantum Mechanics of the Formation of Certain Types of Diatomic Molecules". In 1957 he received the Bingham Medal for his work in rheology, in 1959 the John Price Wetherill Medal from The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=415428 | 1,051,998 |
1,294,543 | The primary payload, the unpiloted prototype for the country's next-generation crewed spacecraft, continuously raised its orbit before its landing on 8 May 2020. On 8 May, China's spacecraft successfully returned to the Dongfeng landing site in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at 05:49 UTC, on 8 May 2020,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63696796 | 1,293,832 |
2,149,539 | "Conway" was commissioned in 1832 for the North Sea, Lisbon, and South America. She recommissioned in 1835 for the Pacific, and during this time she carried some of Charles Darwin's letters and specimens back to the United Kingdom. She paid off in 1835, recommissioning the next year for the East Indies. This commission... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30035238 | 2,148,308 |
46,872 | There has been a growing interest in the role of long-chain omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids to reduce inflammation and alleviate the symptoms of RA. Metabolism of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids produces docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), which inhibits pro-inflammatory eicosanoids and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25875 | 46,854 |
711,144 | MsbA (3.A.1.106.1) is a multi-drug resistant (MDR) ABC transporter and possibly a lipid flippase. It is an ATPase that transports lipid A, the hydrophobic moiety of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), a glucosamine-based saccharolipid that makes up the outer monolayer of the outer membranes of most gram-negative bacteria. Lipid ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1551873 | 710,773 |
206,627 | The level-set method was initially proposed to track moving interfaces by Dervieux and Thomasset in 1979 and 1981 and was later reinvented by Osher and Sethian in 1988. This has spread across various imaging domains in the late 1990s. It can be used to efficiently address the problem of curve/surface/etc. propagation i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=505717 | 206,520 |
1,148,413 | In addition to the illustrations of the text, the manuscript contains several frontispieces in the form of a series of full-page miniatures. Of special note is the dedication miniature portrait of Anicia Juliana on folio 6 verso. The manuscript was presented to Anicia out of gratitude for her funding the construction o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1366582 | 1,147,807 |
1,237,616 | With Project Advent's failure, the Defense Department turned to the Air Force-aligned the Aerospace Corporation, which had been developing two alternatives. In Summer 1962, the Space Systems Division got authorization to proceed with the development of the Initial Defense Communication Satellite Program (IDCSP) to prov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66185637 | 1,236,951 |
171,863 | Apollo 9 was to remain in space for about ten days to check how the CSM would perform over the period of time required for a lunar mission. Most major events had been scheduled for the first days so that they would be accomplished if the flight needed to be ended early. The remaining days in orbit were to be conducted ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1774 | 171,772 |
1,199,933 | Referred to as the "Hermit Kingdom," the DPRK has been nearly totally isolated from the world since the negotiated ceasefire in 1953. Requests for entry by US organizations were rebuffed. Working through the DPRK Ambassador to the UN, an invitation was issued to the Nobel Laureate-led AAAS team in partnership with CRDF... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1044010 | 1,199,292 |
1,778,037 | As a direct consequence of being quantitative technique (i.e. capable of highly reproducible detection of both near-field amplitude & phase and well understood near-field interaction models), nano-FTIR also provides means for the quantitative studies of the sample interior (within the probing range of the tip near fiel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52973193 | 1,777,035 |
246,315 | Increases in atmospheric concentrations of and other long-lived greenhouse gases such as methane, nitrous oxide and ozone increase the absorption and emission of infrared radiation by the atmosphere, causing the observed rise in average global temperature and ocean acidification. Another direct effect is the CO fertili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11251601 | 246,188 |
810,739 | A crucial part of this curve comes from the net load ("the difference between expected load and anticipated electricity production from the range of renewable energy sources"). In certain times of the year (namely Spring and Summer), the curves create a "belly" appearance in the midday that then drastically increases p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52077192 | 810,307 |
1,835,754 | CBM began in the mid-1970s with research headed by Stan Deno at the University of Minnesota. Over the course of 10 years, this work led to the establishment of measurement systems in reading, writing, and spelling that were: (a) easy to construct, (b) brief in administration and scoring, (c) had technical adequacy (rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13240808 | 1,834,705 |
2,058,335 | Mubarak Al-Besher was aged 24 and competing in his first Olympic Games. FINA granted the nation a universality place, after Al-Besher's personal best of 1 minute, 4.60 seconds recorded at the 2011 Arab Games was 1.68 seconds slower than the FINA/Olympic Invitation qualifying standard for the men's 100 metre breaststrok... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34456801 | 2,057,150 |
1,242,268 | Until 1956, the mine product totaled almost a million dollars in several minerals, including copper, silver, and gold; In 1977, the United States Bureau of Mines valued the output of Groom mine products at $3.75 million. It was the most productive mine in the Groom Mining District and had been worked on by three genera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56836491 | 1,241,596 |
1,668,468 | Allergies can be caused by genetic and environmental factors. Some theories support the view that allergies enter as protection against environmental substances that can disrupt the body, such as insect venom. Another possibility of activating an allergic reaction is the similarity of some allergens to the molecular pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6865131 | 1,667,528 |
86,101 | Sometimes a gene, after being turned on, transcribes a product that (directly or indirectly) maintains the activity of that gene. For example, Hnf4 and MyoD enhance the transcription of many liver-specific and muscle-specific genes, respectively, including their own, through the transcription factor activity of the pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49033 | 86,067 |
1,981,081 | Following infection and establishment of an endosymbiotic relationship, the new cyanobionts will no longer be free living and autonomous, but rather begin to dedicate their physiological activities in tandem with their hosts'. Over time and evolution, the cyanobiont will begin to lose portions of their genome in a proc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19806269 | 1,979,943 |
2,072,193 | Born in Saginaw, Michigan, Serrin graduated from Central Michigan University in 1961. He began working for Booth Newspapers in 1964, and joined the "Detroit Free Press" staff two years later. In 1967, the "Free Press" won a Pulitzer Prize for Local General or Spot News Reporting for its coverage of the Detroit riot to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56762662 | 2,071,002 |
1,403,423 | The heliospheric boundary of the Solar System is being imaged by measuring the location and magnitude of charge-exchange collisions occurring in all directions. The satellite's payload consists of two energetic neutral atom (ENA) imagers, IBEX-Hi and IBEX-Lo. Each consists of a collimator that limits their fields of vi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4142398 | 1,402,633 |
1,149,187 | Things are never that simple, however. Pipelining requires that the unit's internals can be effectively separated to the point where each step of the operation is running on completely separate circuitry. This is rarely achievable in the real world. Nevertheless, the use of pipelining on the 7600 improved performance o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=655742 | 1,148,580 |
330,282 | A Stuka repair centre was set up at Wels-Lichtenegg. From May 1940 to November 1944, 746 were repaired and flight-tested there. In the winter 1943/44, the "Metal Works Lower Saxony Brinckmann und Mergell" company (Menibum) converted approximately 300 Ju 87D-3 and 5s to night versions. Dive-brakes were removed there, wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16590 | 330,107 |
833,582 | Frisch normally celebrated Christmas with Meitner in Berlin, but in 1938 she accepted an invitation from Eva von Bahr to spend it with her family at Kungälv, and Meitner asked Frisch to join her there. Meitner received the letter from Hahn describing his chemical proof that some of the product of the bombardment of ura... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64011351 | 833,133 |
2,066,350 | Following the Partition of India in 1947, she became concerned about the status of the Bengali language in East Pakistan, and joined the campaign to have it recognised as an official language, which in 1952 was successful. As head of Cox's Bazar Girls' High school, she came into conflict with vested interests and resig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50801646 | 2,065,159 |
1,284,878 | One of Lotka's earliest publications, in 1912, proposed a solution to Ronald Ross's second malaria model. In 1923, he published a thorough five-part analysis and extension of both Ross's malaria models. The fourth part in the series, co-authored by F. R. Sharpe, modeled the time lag for pathogen incubation. Lotka publi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=484120 | 1,284,179 |
552,272 | In 1996, an international group of 30 clinical epidemiologists, clinicians, statisticians, editors, and researchers convened The Quality of Reporting of Meta-analyses (QUOROM) conference to address standards for improving the quality of reporting of meta-analyses of clinical randomized controlled trials (RCTs). This co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35028896 | 551,983 |
224,438 | The Arab physician, Ibn al-Nafis, wrote the "Commentary on Anatomy in" "Avicenna's" "Canon" in 1242 in which he provided possibly the first known description of the system that remains substantially congruent with modern understandings, in spite of its flaws. Ibn al-Nafis made two key improvements on Galen's ideas. Fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=598465 | 224,324 |
29,519 | Soon after Bacon, the influential work of Pseudo-Geber (sometimes identified as Paul of Taranto) appeared. His "Summa Perfectionis" remained a staple summary of alchemical practice and theory through the medieval and renaissance periods. It was notable for its inclusion of practical chemical operations alongside sulphu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573 | 29,509 |
897,898 | It was one of the smallest, if not the smallest among the heavy machine guns of that conflict, with a weight of 16.6 kilograms (37 lb,) less than 60% of the M2 Browning or the Breda-SAFAT machine gun. Despite this, the MG 131 was a rapid fire weapon with an elevated firepower for its mass. It was equipped with HEI ammu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1461119 | 897,424 |
10,874 | In 2003, the U.S. Army contended that the lack of lethality of the 5.56×45 mm was more a matter of perception than fact. With good shot placement to the head and chest, the target was usually defeated without issue. The majority of failures were the result of hitting the target in non-vital areas such as extremities. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19901 | 10,869 |
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