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1,365,810 | The cost for deploying a wireless network is normally dominated by base station sites (real estate costs, planning, maintenance, distribution network, energy, etc.) and sometimes also by frequency license fees. So, the objective of radio resource management is typically to maximize the system spectral efficiency in "bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7856907 | 1,365,054 |
889,314 | Alprostadil is also available as a generic. The major cost is that it must be mixed by a compounding pharmacy and supplies may be difficult to obtain. The different formulations, including Bimix and Trimix, may include papaverine and/or phentolamine. A typical mix might be 30 mg of papaverine, 2 mg of phentolamine, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6419543 | 888,845 |
1,157,463 | The gene "early growth response protein 1" ("EGR1") is an immediate early gene (IEG). EGR1 can rapidly be induced by neuronal activity. The defining characteristic of IEGs is the rapid and transient up-regulation—within minutes—of their mRNA levels independent of protein synthesis. In adulthood, EGR1 is expressed widel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21227807 | 1,156,850 |
1,273,995 | The gene "early growth response protein 1" ("EGR1") is an immediate early gene (IEG). The defining characteristic of IEGs is the rapid and transient up-regulation—within minutes—of their mRNA levels independent of protein synthesis. EGR1 can rapidly be induced by neuronal activity. In adulthood, EGR1 is expressed widel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3308154 | 1,273,303 |
1,364,462 | In 2013, an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine raised concerns about the value of the exam. The authors calculated that the test fee alone cost students $36 million annually, and that the cost of detecting a single student who failed the exam on back-to-back attempts was $1.1 million. A letter to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1660985 | 1,363,706 |
1,246,529 | The picturesque Italianate character and stylistic interest of the observatory and residence building, together with the high level of competence of the masonry (brick and stone) of all major structures on the site, combine to create a precinct of unusual quality; Finally, the continued use of the observatory for astro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3911092 | 1,245,854 |
1,131,348 | The postscript to a 1992 edition of "Ideological Origins", which alone became the subject of a number of retrospectives, explored notional "interests" underpinning the Constitutional ratification debates as empowered "fulfillment" of "the ideology of the American Revolution." Yet, according to historian Gordon S. Wood,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19064726 | 1,130,758 |
1,979,029 | The first successful identification of a strong infrared spectral signature from surficial carbonate minerals of local scale (< 10 km²) was made by the MRO-CRISM team. Spectral modeling in 2007 identified a key deposit in Nili Fossae dominated by a single mineral phase that was spatially associated with olivine outcrop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13325194 | 1,977,891 |
2,125,910 | The geology of Arkansas includes deep 1.4 billion year old igneous crystalline basement rock from the Proterozoic known only from boreholes, overlain by extensive sedimentary rocks and some volcanic rocks. The region was a shallow marine, riverine and coastal environment for much of the early Paleozoic as multi-cellula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57674182 | 2,124,689 |
1,884,165 | In the area of research, the level of outside support increased to about $4 million annually. A new research center, the Center for Drug Targeting and Analysis, was founded under the direction of Ban-an Khaw, an internationally known researcher who came from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42827233 | 1,883,084 |
281,502 | In the spring of 1865, while walking home with Thomas Anderson, the chemistry professor at Glasgow, Anderson introduced Lister to the work of the French chemist Louis Pasteur. At that time, Lister was not a wide reader of continental literature nor of chemical literature. Anderson drew Lister's attention to the latest ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16535 | 281,349 |
194,354 | An application of the quantity-theory approach aimed at removing monetary policy as a source of macroeconomic instability was to target a constant, low growth rate of the money supply. Still, practical identification of the relevant money supply, including measurement, was always somewhat controversial and difficult. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=761731 | 194,254 |
1,909,300 | When creating new memories, the hippocampus and related structures of the brain play a key role in consolidation. Memory consolidation is the transformation of short-term memories to long-term memories, which is crucial in the acquisition of new ideas. Until they can be stored more permanently, these memories are tempo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44390130 | 1,908,202 |
339,911 | Although "Allosaurus" may have hunted in packs, it has been argued that "Allosaurus" and other theropods had largely aggressive interactions instead of cooperative interactions with other members of their own species. The study in question noted that cooperative hunting of prey much larger than an individual predator, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1347 | 339,730 |
730,312 | This type of engine was first used in ships and stationary power-generating plants, and is now used for some railway locomotives such as the GE PowerHaul. It was adapted by Mazda for their KJ-ZEM V6, used in the Millenia sedan, and in their Eunos 800 sedan (Australia) luxury cars. More recently, Subaru has combined a M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=74761 | 729,927 |
2,005,574 | Richard G. Klein (born April 11, 1941) is a Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Stanford University. He is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences. He earned his PhD at the University of Chicago in 1966, and was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in April 2003. Hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3994981 | 2,004,425 |
30,803 | While atoms are too small to be seen, devices such as the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) enable their visualization at the surfaces of solids. The microscope uses the quantum tunneling phenomenon, which allows particles to pass through a barrier that would be insurmountable in the classical perspective. Electrons ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=902 | 30,793 |
1,781,239 | The approach to women shifted from paternalistic protection to access in the early 1980s as AIDS activists like ACT UP and women's groups challenged ways that drugs were developed. The NIH responded with policy changes in 1986, but a Government Accountability Office report in 1990 found that women were still being excl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32780718 | 1,780,235 |
15,483 | Using DSM-5 criteria, 92% of the children diagnosed per DSM-IV with one of the disorders which is now considered part of ASD will still meet the diagnostic criteria of ASD. However, if both ASD and the social (pragmatic) communication disorder categories of DSM-5 are combined, the prevalence of autism is mostly unchang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29113700 | 15,478 |
973,967 | By 2002, the area below the snow line was found to have increased by 16% since the beginning of detailed measurements in 1979. The area of melting in 2002 broke all previous records. The number of glacial earthquakes at the Helheim Glacier and the northwest Greenland glaciers increased substantially between 1993 and 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1164809 | 973,456 |
842,986 | It is considered that I-L621 could have been present in the Cucuteni–Trypillia culture, but until now was mainly found G2a and non-I2-L621 clades, and another clade I2a1a1-CTS595 was present in the Baden culture of the Chalcolithic Carpathian Basin. Although it is dominant among the modern Slavic peoples on the territo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8683255 | 842,536 |
1,819,271 | The cytogenetics of this tumor reside in the reciprocal translocations of the 9q22 locus with chromosomes 3q11, 15q21, 17q11, and 22q12. Other cytogenetic events can be observed but are not characteristic. The most common translocation includes the EWSR1 locus at 22q12 and the NR4A3 (also known as TEC and CHN) locus at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21989725 | 1,818,236 |
1,766,502 | The internal heating within stars is so great that (after an initial phase of gravitational contraction) they ignite and sustain thermonuclear reaction of hydrogen (with itself) to form helium, and can make heavier elements (see Stellar nucleosynthesis). The Sun for example has a core temperature of 13,600,000 K. The m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12684087 | 1,765,508 |
1,947,126 | Discoid lupus erythematosus is a cutaneous disease characterized by an attack on healthy epidermal tissue by the immune system leading to lesions on the skin, inflammation, and rashes. This can result in pigment changes, scarring of the skin, as well as potential hair loss. Differential expression of lncRNAs and circRN... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70058191 | 1,946,013 |
1,298,269 | Flash photolysis was developed shortly after World War II as an outgrowth of attempts by military scientists to build cameras fast enough to photograph missiles in flight. The technique was developed in 1949 by Manfred Eigen, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish and George Porter, who won the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3032460 | 1,297,556 |
484,060 | Machine fault diagnosis is a field of mechanical engineering concerned with finding faults arising in machines. A particularly well developed part of it applies specifically to rotating machinery, one of the most common types encountered. To identify the most probable faults leading to failure, many methods are used fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21017316 | 483,811 |
1,341,677 | Likewise, a recent meta-analysis has found that although attention bias modification (ABM) can be used as a treatment for several primary characteristics of social anxiety disorder (SAD), the durability of treatment and inability to treat secondary symptoms has been raised as potential issues. In this meta-analysis, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31101067 | 1,340,944 |
1,014,966 | When light hits photoreceptive pigments within the photoreceptor cell, the pigment changes shape. The pigment, called rhodopsin (conopsin is found in cone cells) comprises a large protein called opsin (situated in the plasma membrane), attached to which is a covalently bound prosthetic group: an organic molecule called... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=514355 | 1,014,445 |
213,563 | From the instrumental viewpoint, there are three different experimental techniques: microelectrophoresis, electrophoretic light scattering, and tunable resistive pulse sensing. Microelectrophoresis has the advantage of yielding an image of the moving particles. On the other hand, it is complicated by electro-osmosis at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1183025 | 213,455 |
851,613 | The first step towards the Standard Model was Sheldon Glashow's discovery, in 1960, of a way to combine the electromagnetic and weak interactions. In 1967, Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam incorporated the Higgs mechanism into Glashow's electroweak theory, giving it its modern form. The Higgs mechanism is believed to gi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5951576 | 851,160 |
1,326,823 | The introduction of nanotechnology into every day life enables potential benefits of use, yet carries the possibility of unknown consequences for the environment and safety. Possible positive developments include creation of nano-devices to decrease remaining radio-activity in areas, as well as sensors to detect pollut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60786392 | 1,326,096 |
2,123,147 | The 2015–16 UC Irvine Anteaters men's basketball team represented the University of California, Irvine during the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Anteaters were led by sixth year head coach Russell Turner and played their home games at the Bren Events Center. They are members of the Big West Confer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47967834 | 2,121,927 |
995,795 | In July 1981, Wilson extended the Acorn Atom's BASIC programming language dialect into an improved version for the Acorn Proton, a microcomputer that enabled Acorn to win the contract with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) for their ambitious computer education project. Hauser employed a deception, telling bot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56288 | 995,278 |
1,444,723 | Anti-viral drugs directed against "Cytomegalovirus" (i.e. cidofovir, ganciclovir, and valganciclovir) have been reported to produce complete presumed temporary responses in individual cases of PEL while drugs directed against HIV in patients with HIV+ PEL have achieved presumed temporary median response and 5 year surv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3628299 | 1,443,907 |
1,689,572 | Bomb development called for large detectors of ionising radiation, whose response is proportional to the energy released in the detector and follows rapid changes in radiation intensity. From the earliest research on radioactivity, radiation had been measured in terms of Ionisation, but existing Ionisation chambers wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=520727 | 1,688,626 |
1,324,921 | A 2013 analysis of oxygen and strontium isotope composition of the teeth and spines of Late Carboniferous and Early Permian shark taxa was performed to infer the hydrochemistry of their ambient water, thus contributing to the controversy between an obligate freshwater or euryhaline diadromous lifestyle. Facies interpre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1205338 | 1,324,194 |
1,356,231 | Shortly after the fungus enters an orchid, the fungus produces intracellular hyphal coils called pelotons in the embryos of developing seedlings and the roots of adult plants. The formation of pelotons in root cortical cells is a defining anatomical structure in orchid mycorrhiza that differentiate it from other forms ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55484311 | 1,355,483 |
586,227 | Fluorescent "in situ" sequencing (FISSEQ), like ISS padlock, is a method that uses reverse transcription, rolling-circle amplification, and sequencing by ligation techniques. It allows spatial transcriptome analysis in fixed cells. RNA is first reverse transcribed into cDNA with regular and modified amine-bases and ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57313623 | 585,927 |
43,101 | Czech serologist Jan Janský was the first to recognise and designate four blood types in 1907 that he published in a local journal, using the Roman numerical I, II, III, and IV (corresponding to modern O, A, B, and AB respectively). Unknown to Janský, an American physician William L. Moss introduced almost identical cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55309 | 43,085 |
1,837,625 | Development began in late 2010 by several part-time students at MIT. Originally, a physical prototype game was built, titled "MCDS", which featured many of the mechanics that would later make it into "Prismata". The game later evolved through several digital prototypes and in 2011 a standalone application was construct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46973749 | 1,836,576 |
77,649 | The foundations of this divergence may be traced back to the mid-18th century when advances in physiology began to localize the causes and nature of diseases to specific organs and tissues. Doctors began shifting their focus from the patient to the internal state of the body, resulting in an issue labeled as the proble... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=74591 | 77,620 |
208,498 | Since prehispanic times, this plant has been used for medicinal purposes. The Cherokee used it as a skin wash and for yellow dye. The pigments of the erect tagetes are due to the presence of carotenoids, of which the main one is lutein, which is associated with the prevention of the development of age-related eye disea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3065003 | 208,391 |
973,791 | Amylose is also an important thickener, water binder, emulsion stabilizer, and gelling agent in both industrial and food-based contexts. Loose helical amylose chains have a hydrophobic interior that can bind to hydrophobic molecules such as lipids and aromatic compounds. The one problem with this is that, when it cryst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542645 | 973,281 |
1,899,631 | OCP was first described in 1981 by Holt and Krogmann who isolated it from the unicellular cyanobacterium "Arthrospira maxima", although its function would remain obscure until 2006. The crystal structure of the OCP was reported in 2003. At the same time the protein was shown to be an effective quencher of singlet oxyge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46647836 | 1,898,546 |
107,345 | Whilst their relatively high noise levels, increasing maintenance costs, high fuel consumption and unsophisticated nature (the pre-flight checks alone take between 30 and 40 minutes) has rendered them obsolete for the majority of commercial routes in Europe, the large number of aircraft available means that unit prices... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=702782 | 107,300 |
1,197,410 | When moving from reactive maintenance to predictive maintenance, it is crucial that breakdowns are really understood. One of the basic analysis techniques is to use high-speed cameras in order to characterize events which happen too fast to see, e.g. during production. Similar to use in science, with a pre- or post-tri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1070737 | 1,196,769 |
1,569,828 | The debate within the EU surrounding biofuels ‘"has long been seen as a battle between politicians intent on finding a viable alternative to fossil fuels and campaign groups that claim the creation of biofuels creates potential environmental damage, cuts into food production, and may be of limited effect in tackling cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20596324 | 1,568,940 |
1,182,195 | Grant in his publication about the leech eggs in the "Edinburgh Journal of Science" for July 1827 acknowledged "The merit of having first ascertained them to belong to that animal is due to my zealous young friend Mr Charles Darwin of Shrewsbury", the first time Darwin's name appeared in print. Grant's lengthy memoir r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2087722 | 1,181,570 |
474,282 | Media richness theory implies that a sender should select a medium of appropriate richness to communicate the desired message or fulfill a specific task. Senders that use less-rich communication media must consider the limitations of that medium in the dimensions of feedback, multiple cues, message tailoring, and emoti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2185671 | 474,046 |
1,902,887 | NGAC's agricultural department was eliminated in 1929 and the school formally became known as North Georgia College (NGC). The economic onslaught of the Great Depression led the Board of Regents to reduce NGC to a junior college. Although the state of Georgia was allocated $250 million by President Roosevelt's New Deal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38647111 | 1,901,796 |
2,215,937 | Degeneration of intervertebral disc (IVD) is the main cause of neck and low back pain. The IVD is composed of a gelatinous nucleus pulposus (NP) centre and several surrounding coaxial lamellae that form the inner and outer anulus fibrosus. This unique structural feature allows the IVD to constrain motion at high loads ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33775636 | 2,214,677 |
2,858 | The Sh-121 consists of the N036 Byelka radar system and L402 Himalayas electronic countermeasures (ECM) system. Developed by Tikhomirov NIIP Institute, the N036 consists of the main nose-mounted N036-1-01 X band active electronically scanned array (AESA) radar, or in Russian nomenclature, active phased array radar (, )... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2971192 | 2,858 |
2,039,907 | Following his PhD, Fichtner spent two years as a Young Researcher at the former Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center (KfK) and developed his method further so that it could be applied to organic materials also. In 1994 he became assistant to the board of directors of the Karlsruhe Research Center (FZK), in the area Basic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52294456 | 2,038,728 |
934,502 | Intense columns of Auroral ionization at 100 km (60 mile) altitudes within the auroral oval backscatter radio waves, including those on HF and VHF. Backscatter is angle-sensitive—incident ray vs. magnetic field line of the column must be very close to right-angle. Random motions of electrons spiraling around the field ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=271195 | 934,010 |
68,244 | In 1977, Hans Moravec wrote an article with unclear publishing status where he envisioned a development of self-improving thinking machines, a creation of "super-consciousness, the synthesis of terrestrial life, and perhaps jovian and martian life as well, constantly improving and extending itself, spreading outwards f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54245 | 68,218 |
1,805,678 | In 2007 a report was published about an effort to develop a computer-based simulation named “The Digital Astronaut” to predict the loss of skeletal muscle mass and function in a microgravity environment or to predict the efficacy of countermeasures in experimental animals or humans. The Digital Astronaut was described ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39377992 | 1,804,661 |
174,835 | British forces were not well handled during Diadem. Oliver Leese, the commander of Eighth Army, made an enormous mistake by sending the heavily mechanised XIII Corps up the Liri Valley towards Rome. An enormous traffic jam developed. There was also controversy over the handling of American forces. VI Corps had original... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202102 | 174,744 |
1,474,185 | The factors controlling the abundance of "Synechococcus" still remain poorly understood, especially considering that even in the most nutrient-depleted regions of the central gyres, where cell abundances are often very low, population growth rates are often high and not drastically limited. Factors such as grazing, vir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7219097 | 1,473,354 |
555,560 | The Wallops Flight Facility also supports science missions for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and occasionally for foreign governments and commercial organizations. Wallops also supports development tests and exercises involving United States Navy aircraft and ship-based electronics and weap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=845673 | 555,271 |
921,342 | The NEC is composed of an introduction, nine chapters, annexes A through J, and the index. The introduction sets forth the purpose, scope, enforcement, and rules or information that are general in nature. The first four chapters cover definitions and rules for installations (voltages, connections, markings, etc.), circ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=537422 | 920,856 |
510,473 | The main form of treatment is laparotomy, a modern and minimally invasive type of surgery. Laparotomy properly positions the testes within the scrotum (orchidopexy) and remove Müllerian structures, the uterus and fallopian tubes. Occasionally they are unsalvageable if located high in the retroperitoneum. During this su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=983793 | 510,208 |
237,638 | The Denison Campus Governance Association (DCGA) is the Denison student governing body, in which all students are members. The DCGA Student Senate is the primary representative body of students on Denison's campus, and it has been involved in various student initiatives: from postponing quiet hours in the fall of 2007 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=870648 | 237,519 |
331,371 | In 1912, Frederick Gowland Hopkins demonstrated that unknown accessory factors found in milk, other than carbohydrates, proteins, and fats were necessary for growth in rats. Hopkins received a Nobel Prize for this discovery in 1929. By 1913, one of these substances was independently discovered by Elmer McCollum and Mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54114 | 331,194 |
1,772,213 | Other limitations affecting a marathon runner's VO include pulmonary diffusion, mitochondria enzyme activity, and capillary density. These features of a marathon runner can be enlarged compared to that of an untrained individual but have upper limits determined by the body. Improved mitochondria enzyme activity and inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57276769 | 1,771,216 |
1,286,289 | Section 6 covers the different "Technology Trials" performed. First, Inflatable habitats were investigated to provide a "shirtsleeve indoor environment" for the astronauts. The article further suggests that if the cave's cross sectional surface area is properly sized, an inflatable cave liner could be placed in the cav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1539570 | 1,285,588 |
1,572,831 | To help regulate the ownership of genetic resources and control their utilization is one example where policies are necessary. Patenting of genetic resources is one approach that has been applied. Patenting of animal genetic resources reached its apex in the late 1990s, focusing on expressed sequence tags (ESTs) and si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51678199 | 1,571,943 |
2,103,287 | In 1959, Cumberland County Council rezoned adjoining land to the east and south from "Green Belt" to residential. The close proximity of dwellings made it difficult to operate the farm effectively. New laboratories and offices were built 1958–1960 and the name changed to "Poultry Research Station". In 1959, Cumberland ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57714944 | 2,102,075 |
1,062,904 | The challenge of getting anything at all to space, due to launch constraints, has had a profound effect on the physical shapes of space architecture. All space habitats to date have used modular architecture design. Payload fairing dimensions (typically the width but also the height) of modern launch vehicles limit the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23516569 | 1,062,350 |
63,402 | In 2003, LSE purchased the former Public Trustee building at 24 Kingsway and engaged Sir Nicholas Grimshaw to redesign it into an ultra-modern educational facility at a total cost of over £45 million – increasing the size of the campus by . The New Academic Building opened for teaching in October 2008, with an official... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67704 | 63,377 |
348,684 | In 1973, "New Scientist" magazine reported that a sonic weapon known as a 'squawk box' underwent successful field trials in Northern Ireland, using soldiers as guinea pigs. The device combined two slightly different frequencies which when heard would be heard as the sum of the two frequencies (ultrasonic) and the diffe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453420 | 348,502 |
1,407,096 | An example of discovery science being enhanced for human brain function can be seen in the 1000 Functional Connectomes Project (FCP). This project was launched in 2009 as a way of generating and collecting functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from over 1,000 individuals. Similarly to decoding the human gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2780651 | 1,406,306 |
859,203 | Spatial perception is also very relevant in sports. For example, a study found that cricket players who were faster at picking up information from briefly presented visual displays were significantly better batsmen in an actual game. A 2015 study published in the "Journal of Vision" found that soccer players had higher... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49045837 | 858,745 |
1,906,343 | The secalonic family of secondary metabolite mycotoxins exhibit interesting bioactivities. Secalonic acid A has antitumor properties and also reduces colchicines toxicity in rat cortical neurons. In addition, it has been demonstrated that secalonic acid A protects against dopaminergic neuron death in a Parkinson's dise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40232407 | 1,905,247 |
474,295 | In evaluating students' satisfaction with distance courses, Sheppherd and Martz concluded that a course's use of media rich technology affected how students evaluated the quality of the course. Courses that utilized tools such as "discussion forums, document sharing areas, and web casting" were viewed more favorably. L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2185671 | 474,059 |
868,263 | In the present approach used by LIGO, a laser beam is split and the two halves are recombined after travelling different paths. Changes to the length of the paths or the time taken for the two split beams, caused by the effect of passing gravitational waves, to reach the point where they recombine are revealed as "beat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49396186 | 867,803 |
635,200 | In addition to giving access to hardware facilities, BIOS provides added facilities that are implemented in the BIOS software. For example, the BIOS maintains separate cursor positions for up to eight text display pages and provides for TTY-like output with automatic line wrap and interpretation of basic control charac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1260095 | 634,861 |
775,926 | During the "War of the Realms" storyline, Odin is in his throne room pondering how he could defeat Malekith the Accursed with the Bifrost Bridge was destroyed during a battle against Mangog and Asgard in shambles. Suddenly, Odin is targeted by Malekith's assassins and Malekith's assassins revealed that they have create... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=994848 | 775,510 |
1,045,051 | In 1998, a single sauropod tooth was discovered by private fossil collector Holger Lüdtke in an active quarry at Langenberg Mountain, between the communities of Oker, Harlingerode and Göttingerode in Germany. The Langenberg chalk quarry had been active for more than a century; rocks are quarried using blasting and are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5468113 | 1,044,507 |
220,869 | The rehab phase proved to be psychologically the hardest phase for most of the men with extreme effects including self-mutilation, where one subject, Sam Legg, amputated three fingers of his hand with an axe, though the subject was unsure if he had done so intentionally or accidentally. Participants exhibited a preoccu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10830607 | 220,760 |
831,308 | Proteins encoded by a second group of genes, "PIN" genes, have been found to play a major role in phototropism. They are auxin transporters, and it is thought that they are responsible for the polarization of auxin location. Specifically "PIN3" has been identified as the primary auxin carrier. It is possible that photo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30876740 | 830,859 |
1,993,653 | The medical field has been constantly evolving in an attempt to master the unknown about diseases, such as cancer. Much is unknown about cancer and most treatment routines includes chemotherapy, where toxic chemicals are flushed throughout the body in order to kill the cancer cells. This viscous treatment has been clai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52801156 | 1,992,510 |
52,097 | Crittenden also argues that some behaviour classified as Disorganized/disoriented can be regarded as more 'emergency' versions of the avoidant and/or ambivalent/resistant strategies, and function to maintain the protective availability of the caregiver to some degree. Sroufe et al. have agreed that "even disorganized a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=884589 | 52,077 |
1,801,708 | Realizing the necessity of testing and evaluating the B-36 Peacemaker's APG-3 radar tail turret system, Headquarters, United States Air Force, directed the 7th Bomb Wing to undertake testing. The APG-3 was a radar airborne gun sighting system that provided for aircraft detection and automatic fire control of the tail-t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,699 |
2,063,389 | Charles Robertson carried out what is still the single most intensive study of flower-visiting insects of a single locality, culminating in a 221-page book published in 1928 under the title Flowers and Insects. From among the specimens he collected in the process of doing this study, he named over 100 new species of be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43941353 | 2,062,198 |
1,754,024 | The Mechanostat is a term describing the way in which mechanical loading influences bone structure by changing the mass (amount of bone) and architecture (its arrangement) to provide a structure that resists habitual loads with an economical amount of material. As changes in the skeleton are accomplished by the process... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13955557 | 1,753,034 |
263,960 | The era is marked by such profound technical advancements like linear perceptivity, double shell domes or Bastion fortresses. Note books of the Renaissance artist-engineers such as Taccola and Leonardo da Vinci give a deep insight into the mechanical technology then known and applied. Architects and engineers were insp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=803661 | 263,817 |
1,884,479 | Staff and students often worked together to build or improve college facilities during this period. Their work included formation of the Tom Graham Cricket Oval in 1931, and the 1930 relocation by students using horses and tractors, of a timber grandstand, erected in 1927 on a sports ground near the site of the present... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44321024 | 1,883,398 |
272,474 | Selection for growth in Penaeid shrimps yielded successful results. A selective breeding program for "Litopenaeus stylirostris" saw an 18% increase in growth after the fourth generation and 21% growth after the fifth generation. "Marsupenaeus japonicas" showed a 10.7% increase in growth after the first generation. Argu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=200646 | 272,326 |
423,927 | US guidance history centers around 2 distinct communities. One driven out of Caltech and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the other from the German scientists that developed the early V2 rocket guidance and MIT. The GN&C system for V2 provided many innovations and was the most sophisticated military weapon in 1942 using... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=319341 | 423,720 |
112,917 | The transition from in-person learning to distance education in higher education due to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to enhanced extraction of student data enabled by complex data infrastructures. These infrastructures collect information such as learning management system logins, library metrics, impact measurements,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1944675 | 112,872 |
833,376 | Morehead State University is located in the foothills of the Daniel Boone National Forest in Rowan County. The more than 700-acre main campus within the city limits of Morehead includes more than 50 major structures with a total replacement value of more than $650 million. Beyond the city, the university's real estate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=192826 | 832,927 |
2,148,676 | Despite his leadership roles, Fawcett was uncommonly solitary in his work and private in his personal life. Goodenough describes him as "fair, generous, and austere," recounting how Fawcett encouraged his early interest in black-and-white photography at a time when Goodenough was a graduate student and couldn't even dr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27794457 | 2,147,445 |
973,589 | Assyria was a Northern Mesopotamian kingdom known for its war-like culture. It was King Shamshi-Adad I at the start of the 18th century BC who conquered lands to the west as far as the Mediterranean, and established the first Assyrian empire. They had set up schools to teach military warfare involving demolition of wal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23468036 | 973,079 |
628,529 | Early authors such as V. C. Wynne-Edwards and Konrad Lorenz argued that the behavior of animals could affect their survival and reproduction as groups, speaking for instance of actions for the good of the species. In the 1930s, R.A. Fisher and J.B.S. Haldane proposed the concept of kin selection, a form of altruism fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=426305 | 628,194 |
2,036,892 | Roberto Conti was born in Florence on 29 April 1923. He obtained his M.Sc. and Ph.D. in mathematics from the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, under the supervision, respectively, of Leonida Tonelli (replaced, after his premature death, by Emilio Baiada) and Giovanni Sansone. Conti’s M.Sc. and Ph.D. dissertations dealt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50597368 | 2,035,717 |
1,974,746 | In March 2010, the Obama administration declassified limited material regarding the CNCI, making Initiative 8 public: "Initiative #8. Expand cyber education." "While billions of dollars are being spent on new technologies to secure the U.S. Government in cyberspace, it is the people with the right knowledge, skills, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57591866 | 1,973,609 |
1,119,986 | The phenomenon described above that the atmospheric refractive index, relative permittivity or dielectric constant gradually reduces with increasing height is on account of the reduction of the atmospheric air density with increasing height. Air density is also a function of temperature, which ordinarily also reduces w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2175469 | 1,119,413 |
440,375 | After mechanical and electrical engineering studies at the Vienna college in 1926, he was employed by various Austrian automobile companies: Austro-Daimler, Steyr and Adler automobile companies before joining Daimler-Benz in 1939. Dr Wilhelm Haspel, a member of the board of management was won over by Barényi’s convicti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3304025 | 440,161 |
649 | While lacking the raw performance of the larger twin-engine F-22, the F-35 has kinematics competitive with fourth generation fighters such as the F-16 and F/A-18, especially with ordnance mounted because the F-35's internal weapons carriage eliminates parasitic drag from external stores. All variants have a top speed o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11812 | 649 |
65,865 | The first real progress toward a modern understanding of nervous function, though, came from the investigations of Luigi Galvani (1737–1798), who discovered that a shock of static electricity applied to an exposed nerve of a dead frog could cause its leg to contract. Since that time, each major advance in understanding... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3717 | 65,840 |
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