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877,880 | Grids are a form of distributed computing composed of many networked loosely coupled computers acting together to perform large tasks. For certain applications, distributed or grid computing can be seen as a special type of parallel computing that relies on complete computers (with onboard CPUs, storage, power supplies... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49373 | 877,418 |
1,184,628 | In 1961–1963, the famous historian of polar expeditions published a series of studies on the Bellingshausen's report card. Thus, the new primary source that proved the Russian priority over Antarctic lands was released. The map was presumably made by the expedition officers for the report to Traversay, or even to Alexa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40880361 | 1,184,000 |
1,510,983 | The best way to manage "P. cactorum" is by implementing an integrated management plan. The combination of soil fumigation and proper cultural controls will be the best option for plant health. Recommended chemical controls products include fosetyl-Al, metalaxyl, and etridiazole. Prevention and sanitation are crucial be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11069040 | 1,510,133 |
757,083 | Intravenously administered glucocorticoids, such as prednisone, are the standard of care in acute GvHD and chronic GVHD. The use of these glucocorticoids is designed to suppress the T-cell-mediated immune onslaught on the host tissues; however, in high doses, this immune-suppression raises the risk of infections and ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=575888 | 756,679 |
252,115 | The E-7 was the next major production variant, entering service and seeing combat at the end of August 1940. One of the limitations of the earlier Bf 109Es was their short range of 660 km (410 mi) and limited endurance, as the design was originally conceived as a short-range interceptor. The E-7 rectified this problem ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24983642 | 251,982 |
867,437 | Lake Okeechobee is an ideal habitat for cyanobacteria because its shallow, sunny, and laden with nutrients from Florida's agriculture. The Okeechobee Waterway connects the lake to the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico through the St. Lucie River and the Caloosahatchee respectively. This means that harmful algal blo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18348855 | 866,977 |
1,212,353 | Historian Paul Forman, in his seminal 1987 article, proposed that not only had military funding of science greatly expanded the scope and significance of American physics, it also initiated "a qualitative change in its purposes and character." Historians of science were beginning to turn to the Cold War relationship be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4999816 | 1,211,701 |
438,409 | Another major area of research for logical theory was software engineering. Research projects such as the Knowledge Based Software Assistant and Programmer's Apprentice programs applied logical theory to validate the correctness of software specifications. They also used them to transform the specifications into effici... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1151991 | 438,195 |
2,197,991 | In bioconjugation (forming a stable covalent link between a biomolecule and a functional payloads, such as fluorescent dyes, cytotoxic agents, or tracers), linking of the payload was classically achieved using maleimide heterobifunctional reagents (for example, see SMCC). However, when administered into living organism... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54069873 | 2,196,740 |
285,618 | On 24 March 2011, Shanghai-based Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (Comac) and Bombardier Inc. signed a framework agreement for a long-term strategic cooperation on commercial aircraft. The intention was to break the near-duopoly of Airbus and Boeing. Aircraft covered by the programme included the Bombardier CRJ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81581 | 285,464 |
1,888,091 | While all mechanistic aspects of this behavior have yet to be elucidated (e.g., evidence indicates differential gene expression is involved, but the specifics have yet to be determined), many of the physiological aspects of paraheliotropic movement, at least in "Phaseolus vulgaris" (the common bean), are well understoo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57401142 | 1,887,008 |
747,769 | The final element of a choropleth map is the set of colors used to represent the different values of the variable. There are a variety of different approaches to this task, but the primary principle is that any order in the variable (e.g., low to high quantitative values) should be reflected in the perceived order of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1506652 | 747,373 |
440,910 | Beginning in the late 1950s, English physicists Stan Evans and Gordon Robin began using the radioglaciology technique of radio-echo sounding (RES) to chart ice thickness. Subglacial lakes are identified by (RES) data as continuous and specular reflectors which dip against the ice surface at around x10 of the surface sl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2024699 | 440,695 |
1,274,813 | On 17 September 1996, three 509th B-2s dropped three inert GBU-36 weapons, the highly accurate Global Positioning System-Aided Munitions (GAM) which used the GPS-Aided Targeting System (GATS). The B-2s made the drops at the Nellis AFB, Nevada, bombing range. Range officials, inspecting the area after the releases, were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4761168 | 1,274,121 |
2,061,429 | The book received a positive review from David Oshinsky in the "New York Times". It also received a positive review in the "Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine", where Michael Fitzpatrick wrote that Allen "does not ignore the history of vaccine disasters. He includes the fiasco in the US military in 1942, when yel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40208289 | 2,060,242 |
272,957 | Generally speaking, the structure of materials is different from one another. Metallic materials have different structures compared to polymer or ceramics, and even within the same class of materials, different structures might have existed at different temperatures. The difference in the structure includes the differe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=681241 | 272,809 |
1,808,802 | While working in the laboratory Lee had started to pursue her own research projects. She published four papers in her own name and contributed to 26 others. Twice she declined to be listed as a co-author of a paper published by Pearson, arguing that she had only done the arithmetic. She was in the process of establishi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39502937 | 1,807,781 |
1,270,661 | In 1853 the Pacific Railroad Exploration survey became the first to write about Arizona's petrified forest. In 1873 the Smithsonian sent an expedition through Fort Wingate to the petrified forest to collect samples of the eponymous petrified wood. In 1900 the United States Geological Survey dedicated a report to the lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799161 | 1,269,970 |
1,033,422 | The Foreign Legion was heavily involved in World War II, playing a large role in the Middle East and the North African campaign. The 6th Foreign Infantry Regiment was established by consolidating battalions stationed in Syria into a single battalion on October 15, 1939. Around the beginning of the war the primary train... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8868718 | 1,032,886 |
1,526,932 | Development of this first climate model was based on Smagorinsky's belief that individual inquiry would be inadequate for addressing such a complex problem. He realized that it would take large-scale numerical modeling with teams of scientists using commonly shared high-speed computers to achieve such a breakthrough. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5194620 | 1,526,068 |
652,511 | Perchlorate (ClO) is a strong oxidizer, so it has the potential of being used for rocket fuel and as a source of oxygen for future missions. Also, when mixed with water, perchlorate can greatly lower freezing point of water, in a manner similar to how salt is applied to roads to melt ice. So, perchlorate may be allowin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453566 | 652,169 |
1,184,625 | On August 9, 1948, discussion regarding the role of Russia in the discovery of Antarctica moved to a political dimension. At that day the USA officially urged countries that pretended on Antarctic territories (Argentina, Australia, Chile, France, New Zealand, Norway and Britain) to unite and create a condominium of eig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40880361 | 1,183,997 |
897,373 | A neutron interacting with the semiconductor lattice will displace its atoms. This leads to an increase in the count of recombination centers and deep-level defects, reducing the lifetime of minority carriers, thus affecting bipolar devices more than CMOS ones. Bipolar devices on silicon tend to show changes in electri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1041641 | 896,900 |
543,568 | The pathophysiology of CRS can be attributed to two broad categories of "hemodynamic factors" such as low cardiac output, elevation of both intra-abdominal and central venous pressures, and non-hemodynamic factors or "cardiorenal connectors" such as neurohormonal and inflammatory activation. It was previously believed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24748182 | 543,288 |
872,442 | Markovich. These are approaches based on variable bandwidth and long-tailed kernel estimators; on the preliminary data transform to a new random variable at finite or infinite intervals, which is more convenient for the estimation and then inverse transform of the obtained density estimate; and "piecing-together approa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8092200 | 871,982 |
1,167,138 | Nuclear astrophysics is an interdisciplinary part of both nuclear physics and astrophysics, involving close collaboration among researchers in various subfields of each of these fields. This includes, notably, nuclear reactions and their rates as they occur in cosmic environments, and modeling of astrophysical objects ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5470137 | 1,166,520 |
1,264,161 | Hydrothermal vents are located where the tectonic plates are moving apart and spreading. This allows water from the ocean to enter into the crust of the earth where it is heated by the magma. The increasing pressure and temperature forces the water back out of these openings, on the way out, the water accumulates disso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58817607 | 1,263,473 |
203,939 | On January 30, 2012, Sandia announced that it successfully test-fired a self-guided dart that can hit targets at . The dart is long, has its center of gravity at the nose, and is made to be fired from a small-caliber smoothbore gun. It is kept straight in flight by four electromagnetically actuated fins encased in a pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155558 | 203,834 |
1,420,230 | Due to its material properties, Terfenol-D is excellent for use in the manufacturing of low frequency, high powered underwater acoustics. Its initial application was in naval sonar systems. It sees application in magnetomechanical sensors, actuators, and acoustic and ultrasonic transducers due to its high energy densit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1545150 | 1,419,431 |
803,669 | During most of the T's production run, its fuel tank was mounted to the frame beneath the front seat. Because Ford relied on gravity to feed fuel to the carburetor rather than a fuel pump, a Model T could not climb a steep hill when the fuel level was low. The immediate solution was to climb steep hills in reverse. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1108601 | 803,240 |
566,915 | The game underwent several changes throughout production. Initial pre-production concepts included Ellie discovering information about other immune people. Later in development, the game had five days in Seattle instead of three, including an additional side story wherein Ellie traveled to the Seraphite island, which w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64504979 | 566,625 |
1,256,446 | Anderson then spent two years, 1965–1967, in the laboratory of Marshall Nirenberg at the National Institutes of Health, where he helped finish the decipherment of the genetic code. Nirenberg rewarded his efforts by allowing him to make the first public presentation of the final genetic code before an audience of approx... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=769598 | 1,255,762 |
1,622,587 | Another common-path interferometer useful in lens testing and fluid flow diagnostics is the point diffraction interferometer (PDI), invented by Linnik in 1933. The reference beam is generated by diffraction from a small pinhole, about half the diameter of the Airy disk, in a semitransparent plate. Fig. 1 illustrates an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35152689 | 1,621,671 |
1,990,415 | Ekklesia, a United Kingdom theological think-tank accused Truth in Science and the advocates of intelligent design of misrepresenting the bible, and that creationism and intelligent design are not on par with accepted scientific theories. According to one Ekklesia contributor, Geologist and Anglican vicar Michael Rober... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8480391 | 1,989,272 |
297,978 | Norway participates in the F-35 program as a Level 3 partner in the system development and demonstration phase, with a view to enabling its industry to compete for industrial opportunities. Norwegian National Deputy Rune Fagerli, the country's sole representative on the Joint Strike Fighter program, told SPACE.com that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28702755 | 297,818 |
2,011,788 | It has been demonstrated that photoluminescence spectra can be recorded utilizing a modified PSTM instrument. Coupling photoluminescence spectroscopy to PSTM allows the observation of emission from local nanoscopic regions of a sample and provides an understanding of how the photoluminescent properties of a material ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50229484 | 2,010,635 |
143,759 | Such a hastened strategy may become topical in the case of late detection of a potential hazard, and also, if required, in providing the possibility for some additional action. Conventional concave reflectors are practically inapplicable to the high-concentrating geometry in the case of a giant shadowing space target, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174069 | 143,701 |
1,338,717 | Biddle emphasized in June 2003 that hardware vendors and software developers were vital to NGSCB. Microsoft publicly demonstrated NGSCB for the first time at WinHEC 2003, where it protected data in memory from an attacker; prevented access to—and alerted the user of—an application that had been changed; and prevented a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59524 | 1,337,984 |
1,232,078 | Tooth extraction is the major risk factor for development of MRONJ. Prevention including the maintenance of good oral hygiene, comprehensive dental examination and dental treatment including extraction of teeth of poor prognosis and dentoalveolar surgery should completed prior to commencing any medication which is like... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19269097 | 1,231,416 |
1,318,501 | Radiolabeling is a technique used to track the passage of a molecule that incorporates a radioisotope through a reaction, metabolic pathway, cell, tissue, organism, or biological system. The reactant is 'labeled' by replacing specific atoms by their isotope. Replacing an atom with its own radioisotope is an intrinsic l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8355163 | 1,317,776 |
1,876,551 | The summer of 1977-78 was characterised by a build-up of extreme fire danger in most areas of southern Australia. There were 606 outbreaks of fire in Victoria, of which 77 occurred over a period of three days from 15–17 January. Lightning caused most of these in the alpine areas of the State. Many were controlled quick... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57882206 | 1,875,473 |
362,694 | Niels Bohr (1923) incorporated Langmuir’s model that the periodicity in the properties of the elements might be explained by the electronic structure of the atom. His proposals were based on the then current Bohr model of the atom, in which the electron shells were orbits at a fixed distance from the nucleus. Bohr's or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67211 | 362,504 |
1,543,738 | Historically, Task Network Modeling stems from queuing theory and modeling of engineering reliability and quality control. Art Siegel, a psychologist, first though of extending reliability methods into a Monte Carlo simulation model of human-machine performance (Siegel & Wolf, 1969). In the early 1970s, the U.S. Air Fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47152350 | 1,542,865 |
1,411,133 | The surface of Venus contains over 200 channel systems and named valles, that resemble terrestrial rivers. These channels vary in length and width and are commonly found in planar regions of the planet. Channel length and width ranges from the minimum resolution of Magellan imaging to over 6800 km long (Baltis Vallis) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46265008 | 1,410,340 |
134,156 | The Biosphere 2 Science Advisory Committee, chaired by Tom Lovejoy of the Smithsonian Institution, in its report of August 1992 reported: "The committee is in agreement that the conception and construction of Biosphere 2 were acts of vision and courage. The scale of Biosphere 2 is unique and Biosphere 2 is already prov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216362 | 134,101 |
1,250,940 | 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Nc3 a6 6. c5 b6 7. cxb6 Nbd7 8. Na4 Nxb6 9. Bd2 Nxa4 10. Qxa4 Qb6 11. Rc1 Bd7 12. Ne5 Qxb2 13. Nxd7 Nxd7 14. Bd3 Rb8 15. Ke2 Rb6 16. Rb1 Qa3 17. Qxa3 Bxa3 18. Rxb6 Nxb6 19. Rb1 Nd7 20. Bxa6 Ke7 21. Rb3 Bd6 22. Bb7 c5 23. a4 Bb8 24. Rb5 Ba7 25. dxc5 Nxc5 26. Bb4 Kd6 27. a5 Kc7 28... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18398938 | 1,250,262 |
711,608 | The bayonet light bulb mount is the standard fitting in many former members of the British Empire including the United Kingdom, Australia, India, Ireland, and New Zealand, Hong Kong, as well as parts of the Middle East and Africa (although not Canada, which primarily uses Edison screw sockets along with the United Stat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4912409 | 711,236 |
762,622 | In addition to being used by the US, UK and other Commonwealth forces, the M1 was supplied under the Lend-Lease program to the Free French Forces (653), USSR (400) and Brazil (57). Guns captured by the Germans were given the designations 5.7 cm PaK 209(e) and 5.7 cm PaK 202(a). The Israel Defense Forces employed the 6-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1834136 | 762,214 |
187,200 | Power electronics can be used to help utilities adapt to the rapid increase in distributed residential/commercial solar power generation. Germany and parts of Hawaii, California, and New Jersey require costly studies to be conducted before approving new solar installations. Relatively small-scale ground- or pole-mounte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1001628 | 187,103 |
1,262,561 | Interferons, a subclass of cytokines, are produced in the body during illnesses such as influenza in order to help fight the infection. They are responsible for many of the symptoms of influenza infections, including fever, muscle aches, fatigue, and headaches. Many patients report influenza-like symptoms hours after t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2858017 | 1,261,873 |
516,623 | Interferons, a subclass of cytokines, are produced in the body during illnesses such as influenza in order to help fight the infection. They are responsible for many of the symptoms of influenza infections, including fever, muscle aches, fatigue, and headaches. Many patients report influenza-like symptoms hours after t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=382139 | 516,354 |
1,477,287 | Interferons, a subclass of cytokines, are produced in the body during illnesses such as influenza in order to help fight the infection. They are responsible of many of the symptoms of influenza infections, including fever, muscle aches, fatigue, and headaches. Many patients report influenza-like symptoms hours after ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7663818 | 1,476,455 |
461,731 | On 18 October 2008, "XMM-Newton" suffered an unexpected communications failure, during which time there was no contact with the spacecraft. While some concern was expressed that the vehicle may have suffered a catastrophic event, photographs taken by amateur astronomers at the Starkenburg Observatory in Germany and at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=227960 | 461,504 |
953,250 | In addition to patients and their families, doctors also are confronted with ethical questions. In addition to patient life, doctors have to consider medical resource allocations. They have to decide whether one patient is a worthwhile investment of limited resources versus another. Current ethical guidelines are vague... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261763 | 952,745 |
1,226,494 | Paper microfluidics (sometimes called lab on paper) is the use of paper substrates in microfabrication to manipulate fluid flow for different applications. Paper microfluidics have been applied in paper electrophoresis and immunoassays, the most notable being the commercialized pregnancy test, ClearBlue. Advantages of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19081158 | 1,225,834 |
2,049,842 | In 1931, Nankai Committee of Sociology and Economics, together with Economic Studies under the School of Arts, formed the School of Economics, and the committee started to take on the role of an educational facility as well. From 1931 onwards, Nankai Institute of Economics made progress with impressive research results... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56956514 | 2,048,661 |
93,493 | In August 1981, the program received a boost when British Aerospace (BAe) and McDonnell Douglas signed a memorandum of understanding, marking the UK's re-entry into the program. The British government was enticed by the lower cost of acquiring Harriers promised by a large production run, and the fact that the U.S. was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18940560 | 93,452 |
97,411 | The proposed production F-23 configuration (DP231 for the F119 engine and DP232 for the F120 engine) for full-scale development, or Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD), would have differed from the YF-23 prototypes in several ways. Instead of a single weapons bay, the EMD design would instead have two tande... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=547733 | 97,370 |
1,904,205 | Ma researches how the human brain represents and processes uncertainty. A large portion of his academic work is devoted to the construction of Bayesian inference models which describe how an observer arrives at beliefs about things in the world from noisy information. This modeling spans the range of describing the beh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54462558 | 1,903,111 |
91,585 | Although the Green Revolution has been able to improve agricultural output in some regions in the world, there was and is still room for improvement. As a result, many organizations continue to invent new ways to improve the techniques already used in the Green Revolution. Frequently quoted inventions are the System of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72727 | 91,545 |
2,181,184 | Philippe Clerc was born in Lausanne, Switzerland, on 26 April 1955. In 1970 he attended secondary school at the Collège Calvin in Geneva. From 1974 to 1979 he studied natural science at the University of Geneva. His interest in lichenology was initiated after seeing an article about lichens and air pollution in the new... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68839255 | 2,179,938 |
1,979,057 | Although much national attention focused on Mourning and Mutombo, the star of the team arguably was senior guard Mark Tillmon. A starter in his freshman and sophomore years, he had slumped during his junior season and been relegated to the bench. This year, he returned to form, starting all 31 games. In December 1989, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41228743 | 1,977,919 |
1,597,236 | It is instinctive for all animals to live a life according to fitness (Parker 1974). Animals will do what they can to improve their fitness and therefore survive long enough to produce offspring. However when resources are not in abundance, this can be challenging; eventually, animals will begin to compete for resource... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2268669 | 1,596,337 |
20,010 | In 1925, it was established that when 7-dehydrocholesterol is irradiated with light, a form of a fat-soluble vitamin is produced (now known as D). Alfred Fabian Hess stated: "Light equals vitamin D." Adolf Windaus, at the University of Göttingen in Germany, received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24998247 | 20,002 |
1,111,963 | From 1993 to 2007, doctors at Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program hospitals, Brigham Women's Hospital, and Beth Israel-Deaconess Medical Center conducted a nested case-control study in an effort to create a better quantitative method for determining risk factors for neonatal early-onset sepsis. The study examined ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25662965 | 1,111,397 |
328,245 | Required to tender by the end of April 1947, work began on receipt of Specification B.35/46 at Avro, led by technical director Roy Chadwick and chief designer Stuart Davies; the type designation was "Avro 698". As was obvious to the design team, conventional aircraft could not satisfy the specification. No worthwhile i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44070 | 328,071 |
934,623 | Modern researchers often criticize historical works of ethnomusicology as showing gender-biased research and androcentric theoretical models that do not reflect reality. There are many reasons for this issue. Historically, ethnomusicological fieldwork often focused on the musical contributions of men, in line with the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80077 | 934,129 |
1,168,603 | In the case of decentralization at on-site level and clusters of buildings, the whole wastewater system is located within private premises. The costs and responsibility for the design, construction, operation and maintenance is the responsibility of the owner. In many cases specialized companies might execute the opera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53547575 | 1,167,985 |
862,962 | In 1984 he started another company, "Activenture", which adapted optical disc technology for computer use. In early 1985 it was renamed "KnowledgeSet" and released the first computer encyclopedia in June 1985, a CD-ROM version of Grolier's "Academic American Encyclopedia" named "The Electronic Encyclopedia", later acqu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12740 | 862,502 |
859,718 | The occurrence of high scores in modern times is mainly due to the continuous development of the employed match air rifles from spring-piston type designs into single-stroke pneumatic and then regulated pre-charged pneumatic (PCP) designs. Modern PCP match rifles from the leading manufacturers all feature regulated PCP... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2452530 | 859,260 |
133,110 | Neoteny is seen in domesticated animals such as dogs and mice. This is because there are more resources available, less competition for those resources, and with the lowered competition the animals expend less energy obtaining those resources. This allows them to mature and reproduce more quickly than their wild counte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21922 | 133,057 |
2,076,136 | In the 1920s, Picasso's relationship with Vollard grew closer: a series of etchings made by Picasso in 1927 on the theme of the artist and his model was acquired by the dealer to illustrate "The Unknown Masterpiece" by Honoré de Balzac, published in 1931. It was then that Vollard commissioned a series of prints that th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72166508 | 2,074,939 |
1,723,752 | The new charter awarded to the University of London in 1858 broke the exclusive connection between the University and the affiliated schools and colleges. The change was strongly objected to by UCL, with the proprietors passing motions saying "That this meeting … understanding that the Senate [of the University of Lond... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9771300 | 1,722,782 |
74,610 | The concept has been used to analyze hostile situations such as wars and arms races (see prisoner's dilemma), and also how conflict may be mitigated by repeated interaction (see tit-for-tat). It has also been used to study to what extent people with different preferences can cooperate (see battle of the sexes), and whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45337 | 74,583 |
1,460,757 | At the word, sentence, and paragraph level, the patient is tested on level of linguistic skill (phonological, morphological, syntactic, lexical, semantic). Part C is used to assess the ability of the subject to translate material between given pairs of their known languages. There are currently 65 available languages f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25181073 | 1,459,935 |
18,743 | The maximum effective point target range of an M4 carbine with M855 rounds is , with a maximum effective area target range of . These mark the greatest distances the rounds can be expected to accurately hit the target, not the ranges that they have terminal effectiveness against them. Because the M855 is yaw dependent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35022 | 18,736 |
1,270,837 | Johannes Rebmann (January 16, 1820 – October 4, 1876) was a German missionary, linguist, and explorer credited with feats including being the first European, along with his colleague Johann Ludwig Krapf, to enter Africa from the Indian Ocean coast. In addition, he was the first European to find Kilimanjaro. News of Reb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10594099 | 1,270,146 |
1,479,670 | The 8th edition of UCLA’s publication on Selected Reports in Ethnomusicology published in 1990 was devoted to Issues in Organology. The first paper in the journal written by Sue Carole DeVale entitled “Organizing Organology” attempted to provide a more comprehensive system for defining the study of organology, particul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=190908 | 1,478,837 |
544,503 | Most systems are usually constructed from diameter, smooth-walled (so they do not easily trap condensation moisture and mold), rigid or semi-rigid plastic, plastic-coated metal pipes or plastic pipes coated with inner antimicrobial layers, buried underground where the ambient earth temperature is typically all year rou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4813788 | 544,221 |
650,146 | Coren worked on left-handedness and its causes and consequences, with his co-researchers, Diane F. Halpern, Clare Porac, and Alan Searleman. Specifically his research led him to believe that left-handedness could be a marker for various psychological and physical problems. The media became interested in this work when ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4962128 | 649,805 |
2,028,615 | The presence of perchlorates in the soil makes growing vegetables on Mars especially difficult. Since there is no ozone layer on Mars, UV rays penetrate to the surface of the planet. Perchlorates become toxic when exposed to UV light, destroying bacteria within minutes of exposure. Research suggests that the iron oxide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60527646 | 2,027,447 |
2,017,067 | After Klein completed her postdoctoral work, she was recruited to Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri in 2003. At WUSM, Klein was appointed, and still holds, professorships in the Departments of Medicine, Pathology & Immunology, and Neuroscience. After Klein arrived at WUSM, she founded the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63543418 | 2,015,905 |
1,995,245 | Resonant interactions were first considered and described by Henri Poincaré in the 19th century, in the analysis of perturbation series describing 3-body planetary motion. The first-order terms in the perturbative series can be understood for form a matrix; the eigenvalues of the matrix correspond to the fundamental mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65312394 | 1,994,102 |
1,116,923 | The effect achieved a small degree of popularity in television in the late 1980s and 1990s. On Sunday, January 22, 1989 the "Super Bowl" XXIII halftime show and a specially produced commercial for "Diet Coke" were telecast using this effect. In the commercial, objects moving in one direction appeared to be nearer to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=790468 | 1,116,350 |
65,839 | Brain tissue consumes a large amount of energy in proportion to its volume, so large brains place severe metabolic demands on animals. The need to limit body weight in order, for example, to fly, has apparently led to selection for a reduction of brain size in some species, such as bats. Most of the brain's energy cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3717 | 65,814 |
324,323 | Over the years, the Marconi companies gained a reputation for being technically conservative, in particular by continuing to use inefficient spark-transmitter technology, which could be used only for radio-telegraph operations, long after it was apparent that the future of radio communication lay with continuous-wave t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12104 | 324,151 |
1,464,240 | These processes were the foundation of later HTL technologies that attracted research interest especially during the 1970s oil embargo. It was around that time that a high-pressure (hydrothermal) liquefaction process was developed at the Pittsburgh Energy Research Center (PERC) and later demonstrated (at the 100 kg/h s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38754240 | 1,463,417 |
1,534,363 | The virion is a flexible filament (worm-like chain) about 6 nm in diameter and 900 nm long. Several thousand copies of a small (50 amino-acid residues) elongated alpha-helical major coat protein subunit (the product of gene 8, or p8) in an overlapping shingle-like array form a hollow cylinder enclosing the circular sin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35226694 | 1,533,495 |
376,333 | For the 14th round of the season in Europe, Frentzen took his first pole in 2 years, ahead of Coulthard and Häkkinen. At the start, Frentzen led Häkkinen and Coulthard into the first corner, but at the back Damon Hill suffered an electrical failure, causing Alexander Wurz to hit Pedro Diniz, which caused his Sauber to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1137692 | 376,138 |
1,106,739 | The study of protein folding began in 1910 with a famous paper by Harriette Chick and C. J. Martin, in which they showed that the flocculation of a protein was composed of two distinct processes: the precipitation of a protein from solution was "preceded" by another process called denaturation, in which the protein bec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4173711 | 1,106,175 |
280,124 | Any score of 24 or more (out of 30) indicates a normal cognition. Below this, scores can indicate severe (≤9 points), moderate (10–18 points) or mild (19–23 points) cognitive impairment. The raw score may also need to be corrected for educational attainment and age. Even a maximum score of 30 points can never rule out ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1585251 | 279,973 |
2,143,994 | Some years later, further research was carried out in relation to 3D FPM approximations in (Ortega, Oñate & Idelsohn, 2007). This work focused on constructing robust approximations regardless of the characteristics of the local support. To this end, local automatic adjusting of the weighting function and other approxim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50991882 | 2,142,763 |
279,021 | A consequence of these evolutionarily selected sequences is that proteins are generally thought to have globally "funneled energy landscapes" (a term coined by José Onuchic) that are largely directed toward the native state. This "folding funnel" landscape allows the protein to fold to the native state through any of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52085 | 278,871 |
1,172,986 | The 1970s were a particularly fruitful period for Wuorinen, who taught at the Manhattan School of Music from 1971 to 1979. Chamber works during this decade include his first two string quartets, the "Six Pieces for Violin and Piano", "Fast Fantasy" for cello and piano, and two large works for the Tashi Ensemble, "Tashi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=341837 | 1,172,367 |
1,032,109 | For the 1994 season, Minardi repositioned itself. Half of the company's shares were acquired by a consortium led by Giuseppe "Beppe" Lucchini, whose Formula 1 team BMS Scuderia Italia had stopped operating at the end of 1993. Minardi's opportunities improved significantly. That also affected the engine. Although Minard... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68931039 | 1,031,573 |
423,882 | The initial notion of Frames or Scripts as they were also called is that they would establish the context for a problem and in so doing automatically reduce the possible search space significantly. The idea was also adopted by Schank and Abelson who used it to illustrate how an AI system could process common human inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9924067 | 423,675 |
10,124 | Most of the components for Little Boy left San Francisco on the cruiser on 16 July and arrived on Tinian on 26 July. Four days later the ship was sunk by a Japanese submarine. The remaining components, which included six uranium-235 rings, were delivered by three C-54 Skymasters of the 509th Group's 320th Troop Carrier... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19603 | 10,120 |
1,263,517 | Goldschmidt is usually referred to as a "non-Darwinian"; however, he did not object to the general microevolutionary principles of the Darwinians. He veered from the synthetic theory only in his belief that a new species develops suddenly through discontinuous variation, or macromutation. Goldschmidt presented his hypo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1643013 | 1,262,829 |
934,230 | As with antibiotic therapy and other methods of countering bacterial infections, endotoxins are released by the bacteria as they are destroyed within the patient (Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction). This can cause symptoms of fever; in extreme cases toxic shock (a problem also seen with antibiotics) is possible. Janakiraman ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=682382 | 933,738 |
1,942,157 | The trunk is short and heavily built, with broad and flattened ribs. The ribcage is deepest at the shoulders and gradually becomes shallower, forming a straight, constant slope, similar to "Cartorhynchus" but in contrast to the more rounded underside seen in other ichthyosauromorphs. An extensive gastral rib basket run... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50616736 | 1,941,046 |
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