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1,166,607 | Instruments to detect this radiation commonly measure the Cherenkov radiation produced by secondary particles generated from an energetic photon entering the Earth's atmosphere. This method is called imaging atmospheric Cherenkov technique or IACT. A high-energy photon produces a cone of light confined to 1° of the ori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33870807 | 1,165,989 |
1,978,467 | Working closely with Doug Lauffenburger and funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Institutes of Health's National Centers for Systems Biology program, Sorger's work in the 1990s increasingly focused on oncogenesis itself and on mammalian signal transduction. Sorger and Lauffenburger's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69534725 | 1,977,329 |
2,148,947 | During the late 1990s, Linda Roth (Clark) offered courses in physical geography and biogeography a few years before her untimely death. The faculty for years, including in five-year plans, agreed that it was important to develop on such concentrations, following university commitment in 1989, not only to provide balanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47120039 | 2,147,716 |
980,806 | The first devices to capture radar images were developed during the same period. The number of scanned angles was increased to get a three-dimensional view of the precipitation, so that horizontal cross-sections (CAPPI) and vertical ones could be performed. Studies of the organization of thunderstorms were then possibl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1280053 | 980,294 |
191,162 | Streptomycin was first isolated on October 19, 1943, by Albert Schatz, a PhD student in the laboratory of Selman Abraham Waksman at Rutgers University in a research project funded by Merck and Co. Waksman and his laboratory staff discovered several antibiotics, including actinomycin, clavacin, streptothricin, streptomy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209023 | 191,063 |
1,784,008 | PHASA-35 was originally designed and developed by engineers who had previously worked on the Zephyr HAPS drone for Qinetiq. When Qinetiq sold Zephyr to Airbus Defence and Space in 2013, these engineers left and formed their own company, named Prismatic, to develop a rival aircraft. Development of PHASA-35 consequently ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65996746 | 1,783,004 |
960,941 | The exact molecular details of the catalytic mechanism are still not fully understood. Although there is much debate on this issue, it seems certain that a "closed" conformation is required for the hydrolysis of ATP, and it is thought that the residues that are involved in the process move to the appropriate distance. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=438944 | 960,432 |
820,523 | High-strength low-alloy steel (HSLA) is a type of alloy steel that provides better mechanical properties or greater resistance to corrosion than carbon steel. HSLA steels vary from other steels in that they are not made to meet a specific chemical composition but rather specific mechanical properties. They have a carbo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=339129 | 820,082 |
555,308 | The charioteer would have had to use great skill to ensure that the radius of each turn of the chariot was correct to make one of the wheels exactly stop rotating. Unless he did this correctly, the pointing doll would not have kept aiming to the south. He would have been able to adjust the direction in which it aimed b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1437746 | 555,019 |
1,028,516 | At the end of Jon Bentley's book "Writing Efficient Programs", the author warns that making code more efficient generally also makes it harder to understand and maintain, and so one does not rush in and tweak code unless one has first determined that there is a performance problem, and measures such as code profiling h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5921339 | 1,027,982 |
552,029 | Though the fluid system is perhaps described most intuitively, the high precision of electrical measurements makes experimental realisations of Onsager's reciprocity easier in systems involving electrical phenomena. In fact, Onsager's 1931 paper refers to thermoelectricity and transport phenomena in electrolytes as wel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=466164 | 551,740 |
1,644,354 | Evidence for a "virus first" hypothesis, which may support theories of the RNA world, was suggested in 2015. One of the difficulties for the study of the origins of viruses is their high rate of mutation; this is particularly the case in RNA retroviruses like HIV. A 2015 study compared protein fold structures across di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70660540 | 1,643,427 |
1,760,384 | The main types of automation are classified by the type of solid-phase substrates, the methods for adding and removing reagents, and design of reaction chambers. Polymer resins may be used as a substrate for solid-phase. It is not a true combinatorial method in the sense that ""split-mix"" where a peptide compound is s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=871903 | 1,759,391 |
1,173,654 | Hard-rock mining has taken place in the province for over 130 years (as of 2012). The mining industry in Ontario produces more than 30 different metal and non-metal mineral products, and is responsible for a major percentage of Canada's nickel, gold, copper and platinum-group metals production. The extraction of metall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57470308 | 1,173,034 |
1,654,905 | If Steinitz had a period of popularity, then it was short-lived. For pretty soon there was a growing number of chess players turning against him, either because of his strategic method of play, or because of his personality. The public had previously championed Zukertort and before him, Morphy; two men with an abundanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14609003 | 1,653,973 |
1,059,633 | The fusiform face area is located within the inferior temporal cortex in the fusiform gyrus. Similar to the PPA, the FFA exhibits higher neural activation when visually processing faces more so than places or buildings (Kanwisher et al., 1997). However, the fusiform area also shows activation for other stimuli and can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1170978 | 1,059,082 |
1,161,199 | Numerous proposals have been brought forward with respect to the lake-lander concept. One of the most detailed plans so far is the so-called Titan Mare Explorer (TiME), which had originally been proposed as a separate scout mission, but might eventually be postponed and included in the TSSM. If approved, TiME would be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20713632 | 1,160,583 |
1,001,917 | Comparing the two models reveals a notable similarity between their respective results while also highlighting a remarkable discrepancy, whereby – in the standard version of the SAIM – the model's focus is mainly upon the excitatory connections, whereas in the PE-SAIM, the inhibitory connections are leveraged to make a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39403556 | 1,001,399 |
1,778,353 | Monongahela tribe roots are in farm fields and hamlets with no palisading walls, on the major broad river valleys following the late Watson people. The Worley village Complex (46Mg23), Monongalia County, West Virginia, dates to about CE 900. To quote the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Lab, "Monongahela ceramics a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17254851 | 1,777,351 |
1,587,956 | Rosen served in the US Navy as a radio communication and radar technician during World War II. He graduated from Tulane University in 1947 with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in electrical engineering. He received his M.S. (1948) and Ph.D. (1951) in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10150062 | 1,587,062 |
890,556 | A Cochrane review on sugammadex concluded that "sugammadex was shown to be more effective than placebo (no medication) or neostigmine in reversing muscle relaxation caused by neuromuscular blockade during surgery and is relatively safe. Serious complications occurred in less than 1% of the patients who received sugamma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6139193 | 890,087 |
2,156,318 | The NSF ERC program was designed to create institutional centers that would be self-sufficient within ten years. The Center for Biofilm Engineering at Montana State University started planning for self-sufficiency in 1998 through the establishment of a Self-sufficiency Task Force at the university. The center achieved ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45523355 | 2,155,087 |
431,642 | The development of the University of Bremen can be divided up into steps of 10 to 12 years – first foundation, then restructuring, consolidation and profile building. At the beginning of the 1970s, the University was set up as a "science complex" in a city oriented towards trade and seafaring that had no experience wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1184716 | 431,430 |
1,090,191 | Dr. Allan Schore, of the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, has explored related ideas beginning with his book "Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self" published in 1994. Dr. Shore looks at the contribution of the limbic system to the preservation of the species, its role in forming social bonds with other mem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23301912 | 1,089,631 |
1,052,778 | In 2006, Marcos Pontes returned to Brazil after the Missão Centenário, deciding to enter the Aeronautics reserve. In this sense, the repercussion around the situation became very wide, due to the indignation that was demonstrated by the National Congress. At first, the Palácio do Planalto, AEB (Brazilian Space Agency) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1187714 | 1,052,232 |
479,004 | Radar picket ships first came into being in the US Navy during World War II to aid in the Allied advance to Japan. The number of radar pickets was increased significantly after the first major employment of kamikaze aircraft by the Japanese in the Battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944. "Fletcher-class", "Sumner"-class d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2895198 | 478,764 |
383,335 | Cinema fires caused by the ignition of nitrocellulose film stock commonly occurred as well. In Ireland in 1926, it was blamed for the Dromcolliher cinema tragedy in County Limerick in which 48 people died. Then in 1929 at the Glen Cinema in Paisley, Scotland, a film-related fire killed 69 children. Today, nitrate film ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58246 | 383,140 |
959,565 | In 1921 Franklin D. Roosevelt became totally and permanently paralyzed from the waist down. Although the paralysis (whether from poliomyelitis, as diagnosed at the time, or from Guillain–Barré syndrome) had no cure at the time, Roosevelt, who had planned a life in politics, refused to accept the limitations of his dise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11110672 | 959,057 |
1,516,793 | Humberto Fernández-Morán (Maracaibo, February 18, 1924 – Stockholm, March 17, 1999) was a Venezuelan research scientist, renowned for inventing the diamond knife or scalpel, significantly advancing the development of electromagnetic lenses for electron microscopy based on superconducting technology, and many other scie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,941 |
894,307 | Quantum neural networks take advantage of the hierarchical structures, and for each subsequent layer, the number of qubits from the preceding layer is decreased by a factor of two. For n input qubits, these structure have O(log(n)) layers, allowing for shallow circuit depth. Additionally, they are able to avoid "barren... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44108758 | 893,837 |
160,264 | The difference between the multinomial logit model and numerous other methods, models, algorithms, etc. with the same basic setup (the perceptron algorithm, support vector machines, linear discriminant analysis, etc.) is the procedure for determining (training) the optimal weights/coefficients and the way that the scor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4433814 | 160,179 |
42,721 | The light curves for type Ia are mostly very uniform, with a consistent maximum absolute magnitude and a relatively steep decline in luminosity. Their optical energy output is driven by radioactive decay of ejected nickel-56 (half-life 6 days), which then decays to radioactive cobalt-56 (half-life 77 days). These radio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27680 | 42,706 |
693,183 | In August 2000 Pigliucci started a monthly internet column called Rationally Speaking. In August 2005, the column became a blog, where he wrote posts until March 2014. Starting in February 2010, he co-hosted the bi-weekly "Rationally Speaking" podcast with Julia Galef, whom he first met at the Northeast Conference on S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1838677 | 692,820 |
7,517 | The Federation of American Scientists claims the MiG-29 is equal to, or better than the F-15C in short aerial engagements because of the Helmet Mounted Weapons Sight (HMS) and better maneuverability at slow speeds. This was demonstrated when MiG-29s of the German Air Force participated in joint DACT exercises with US f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=185653 | 7,514 |
1,323,430 | Droplet-based microfluidics has become an important tool in chemical synthesis due to several attractive features. Microscale reactions allow for cost reduction through the usage of small reagent volumes, rapid reactions in the order of milliseconds, and efficient heat transfer that leads to environmental benefits when... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54022162 | 1,322,704 |
1,064,109 | A February 2011 article in the magazine "Science Illustrated" states, "In commercial agriculture, CEA can increase efficiency, reduce pests and diseases, and save resources. ... Replicating a conventional farm with computers and LED lights is expensive but proves cost-efficient in the long run by producing up to 20 tim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7848908 | 1,063,555 |
559,717 | The first technical dictionary was drafted by John Harris and entitled "Lexicon Technicum: Or, An Universal English Dictionary of Arts and Sciences". Harris’ book avoided theological and biographical entries; instead it concentrated on science and technology. Published in 1704, the "Lexicon technicum" was the first boo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17912788 | 559,428 |
1,532,875 | Studies of this reaction in multiple ribozymes have served to establish that the reaction chemistry (catalytic mechanism) is an endogenous property of the RNA molecule itself and is not mediated by metal ions, as is true for some protein enzymes and some other ribozymes. Moreover, cleavage activity is still observed wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11243863 | 1,532,007 |
292,153 | After soldering, the boards may be washed to remove flux residues and any stray solder balls that could short out closely spaced component leads. Rosin flux is removed with fluorocarbon solvents, high flash point hydrocarbon solvents, or low flash solvents e.g. limonene (derived from orange peels) which require extra r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=232333 | 291,995 |
734,118 | Current applications of TS span the areas of resource planning, telecommunications, VLSI design, financial analysis, scheduling, space planning, energy distribution, molecular engineering, logistics, pattern classification, flexible manufacturing, waste management, mineral exploration, biomedical analysis, environmenta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=381937 | 733,731 |
1,135,440 | In the late 1960s, bipolar junction transistors were faster than (p-channel) MOS transistors then used and were more reliable, but they also consumed much more power, required more area, and demanded a more complicated manufacturing process. MOS ICs were considered interesting but inadequate for supplanting the fast bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2855453 | 1,134,847 |
750,703 | Broom was one of the few scientists defending the close human affinities of "Australopithecus africanus". In 1936, he was informed by two of Dart's students, Trevor R. Jones and G. Schepers, that human-like remains had been discovered in the Sterkfontein Cave quarries. On 9 August 1936, he asked G.W. Barlow to provide ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1627000 | 750,305 |
888,032 | Following successful trials of the initial locomotives, a production run of 43 locomotives were ordered as part of the Bournemouth Electrification and built by English Electric at their Vulcan Foundry between 1965 and 1967. They were initially classified as Class JB and numbered E6007-E6049. They differed slightly from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=994664 | 887,564 |
1,997,807 | Milton S. J. Wright (19031972) was an African-American academic born in Georgia. He received his B.A. from Wilberforce University in 1926, his M.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in Economics from Germany’s University of Heidelberg in 1932, with the dissertation "Die Wirtschafts Entwicklung und die Eingeborenen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6219852 | 1,996,664 |
308,374 | Ultra-wideband gained widespread attention for its implementation in synthetic aperture radar (SAR) technology. Due to its high resolution capacities using lower frequencies, UWB SAR was heavily researched for its object-penetration ability. Starting in the early 1990s, the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) developed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166428 | 308,209 |
275,556 | Concurrently, synthetic chemists in the U.S. and France had been interested in paclitaxel, beginning in the late 1970s. As noted, by 1992 extensive efforts were underway to accomplish the total synthesis of paclitaxel, efforts motivated by the desire to generate new chemical understanding rather than to achieve practic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36796 | 275,407 |
1,221,858 | ARPA-E's fourth round of funding was announced on April 20, 2011 and awarded projects in five technology areas: Plants Engineered To Replace Oil (PETRO), High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage (HEATS), Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT), Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI), and Solar Agile ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21687875 | 1,221,199 |
1,568,432 | The Planetarium features the 12.5m diameter Cosmic Skydome (hemispherical planetarium theatre) with a maximum concentric seating capacity of 130. Extensive space exploration and astronomy displays in the Planetarium's Foyer and Gallery include the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing with a replica of Neil Armstrong's space sui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5429999 | 1,567,545 |
962,343 | Enheduanna has received substantial attention in feminism. In a BBC Radio 4 interview, Assyriologist Eleanor Robson credits this to the feminist movement of the 1970s, when, two years after attending a lecture by Cyrus H. Gordon in 1976, American anthropologist Marta Weigle introduced Enheduanna to an audience of femin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=330959 | 961,834 |
394,861 | In 2016, Russian company NtechLab caused a privacy scandal in the international media when it launched the FindFace face recognition system with the promise that Russian users could take photos of strangers in the street and link them to a social media profile on the social media platform Vkontakte (VT). In December 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=602401 | 394,666 |
451,658 | In 2000, 454 Life Sciences was founded as a subsidiary of CuraGen; Rothberg was the CEO of CuraGen at the time. The idea for 454 Life Sciences came when Noah, his second child, was born in 1999, and had to be sent to the neonatal intensive care unit because of breathing troubles. Noah turned out to be fine, but Rothber... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11446118 | 451,439 |
1,050,754 | In general, the alimentary system of "Bothriolepis" –which includes the organs involved in ingestion, digestion, and removal of waste– can be described as simple and straight, unlike that of humans. It begins at the anterior end of the organism with a small mouth cavity located over the posterior area of the upper jaw ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4467052 | 1,050,208 |
1,268,119 | On the voyage of the "Beagle" the young Charles Darwin took a break between graduating and starting his career as a clergyman to study the natural history of South America, an interest he had developed at the University of Edinburgh and the University of Cambridge. Influenced by Charles Lyell's "Principles of Geology",... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=856170 | 1,267,429 |
851,571 | In 1864 James Clerk Maxwell of Edinburgh announced his electromagnetic theory of light, which was perhaps the greatest single step in the world's knowledge of electricity. Maxwell had studied and commented on the field of electricity and magnetism as early as 1855/6 when "On Faraday's lines of force" was read to the Ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5951576 | 851,118 |
1,513,987 | As research in the Arctic region of northern North America became more frequent, conflicts between researchers and the indigenous peoples started to occur. Recently, the indigenous communities of the North American Arctic have played a direct role in setting ethical standards for research in the region. Scientists have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11180149 | 1,513,136 |
840,865 | The behavioural approach, as developed in particular by Richard Cyert and James G. March of the Carnegie School places emphasis on explaining how decisions are taken within the firm, and goes well beyond neoclassical economics. Much of this depended on Herbert A. Simon’s work in the 1950s concerning behaviour in situat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1337683 | 840,415 |
252,688 | The use of bone building drugs, like bisphosphonates and anti-RANKL drugs require special consideration with implants, because they have been associated with a disorder called Medication-associated osteonecrosis of the jaw (MRONJ). The drugs change bone turnover, which is thought to put people at risk for death of bone... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1118041 | 252,555 |
1,977,901 | At low flight speeds the DASS engine relies solely on the on-board turbojet that runs on a conventional hydrocarbon fuel. The variable geometry intake (PCT patent pending) allows large gaps to form between the heat exchanger (which is not operating at this stage), minimizing intake pressure losses. During this mode, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43208165 | 1,976,763 |
649,917 | In 1960, the US Navy put into service its Transit satellite-based navigation system to aid in naval navigation. The US Navy in the mid-1960s conducted an experiment to track a submarine with missiles with six satellites and orbiting poles and was able to observe satellite changes. Between 1960 and 1982, as the benefits... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17800413 | 649,576 |
2,041,182 | Printers are generally referred to as "Super-Wide format" when their print bed exceeds 2.2m in width. For many applications at this size resolution becomes secondary to print speed - which is why many machines over 3m wide are designed for speed over resolution. In the 1980s billboards were generally printed at resolut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13189722 | 2,040,002 |
799,816 | The skull of "Plateosaurus" is small and narrow, rectangular in side view, and nearly three times as long as it is high. There is an almost rectangular lateral temporal foramen at the back. The large, round orbit (eye socket), the sub-triangular antorbital fenestra and the oval naris (nostril) are of almost equal size.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1565138 | 799,390 |
961,593 | Edward Lee Thorndike (August 31, 1874 – August 9, 1949) was an American psychologist who spent nearly his entire career at Teachers College, Columbia University. His work on comparative psychology and the learning process led to the theory of connectionism and helped lay the scientific foundation for educational psycho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84864 | 961,084 |
371,301 | Author Bruce Haynes describes the role of the metronome in modern style in detail in his book "The end of early music", for metronomic practice is now common worldwide. He emphasizes that modern style is much more rhythmically rigid, in that tempo is steady and scores are read very literally, sometimes perceived as dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=88771 | 371,107 |
9,801 | On April 23, 2010, the newest 787, ZA003, arrived at the McKinley Climatic Laboratory hangar at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, for extreme weather testing in temperatures ranging from , including takeoff preparations at both temperature extremes. ZA005, the fifth 787 and the first with GEnx engines, began ground engine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=307133 | 9,797 |
63,420 | The school's historic coat of arms is used on official documentation including degree certificates and transcripts and includes the motto – "rerum cognoscere causas", a line taken from Virgil's "Georgics" meaning "to know the causes of things", together with the school's mascot – a beaver. Both these symbols, adopted i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67704 | 63,395 |
836,139 | Proponents of nuclear power argue that the problems of nuclear waste "do not come anywhere close" to approaching the problems of fossil fuel waste. A 2004 article from the BBC states: "The World Health Organization (WHO) says 3 million people are killed worldwide by outdoor air pollution annually from vehicles and indu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14163295 | 835,690 |
874,793 | Modern graphics processing units (GPUs) include an array of shader pipelines which may be driven by compute kernels, and can be considered vector processors (using a similar strategy for hiding memory latencies). As shown in Flynn's 1972 paper the key distinguishing factor of SIMT-based GPUs is that it has a single ins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58205 | 874,331 |
233,603 | Explicit MPC (eMPC) allows fast evaluation of the control law for some systems, in stark contrast to the online MPC. Explicit MPC is based on the parametric programming technique, where the solution to the MPC control problem formulated as optimization problem is pre-computed offline. This offline solution, i.e., the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1100516 | 233,484 |
1,237,628 | In 1963, the Aerospace Corporation prompted the Space Systems Division to begin work on Project 621B (Satellite System for Precise Navigation), which was intended to provide accurate, all-weather positioning data anywhere on Earth. At the same time, the Navy began work on Timation as a follow-on to Transit. The first T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66185637 | 1,236,963 |
266,193 | Other dinosaurs from the Wessex Formation of the Isle of Wight where "Baryonyx" may have occurred include the theropods "Riparovenator", "Ceratosuchops", "Neovenator", "Eotyrannus", "Aristosuchus", "Thecocoelurus", "Calamospondylus", and "Ornithodesmus"; the ornithopods "Iguanodon", "Hypsilophodon", and "Valdosaurus"; ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1091918 | 266,049 |
2,108,586 | "B. ovatus" has been used in animal studies as a mode of microbial drug delivery due to its xylanase operon. Operons exist in bacteria to control gene expression and are composed of a DNA sequence containing an operator followed by the genes of interest. The operator in the xylanase operon prevents transcription of gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52337409 | 2,107,372 |
694,049 | Augustana's honors program, "Civitas", was launched in 2007 and is currently directed by Sociology professor Wiiliam J. Swart. The program is named Civitas, a Latin word meaning "citizenship," and is built upon the work of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German Lutheran pastor and theologian who acted as a founding member of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1105987 | 693,686 |
1,060,413 | Their recommendations were made to a NASA Advisory Council, but were ultimately unsuccessful in obtaining Congressional funding due to NASA, lacking a legislated mandate for planetary protection, not being permitted to request it. Feeling it would be imprudent to continue waiting for substantive government or United Na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=333633 | 1,059,862 |
1,786,616 | It is widely known that the state of our environment affects us in many ways. Minerals and rocks have an impact on human and animal populations because that is what the earth is composed of. Medical geology brings professionals from both the medicine field and the geology field to help us understand this relationship. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2440784 | 1,785,611 |
862,733 | Another unique addition to "Phantasy Star" was the 3D dungeons. They became a central concept in the game's early planning stages, in part because the Famicom was incapable of handling them. The team drew inspiration from Western dungeon crawling RPGs like "Wizardry" and wanted to add animated navigation to help the pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145427 | 862,273 |
1,552,636 | The study of MA structure and function is challenging, in particular because of their megadalton size, but also because of their complex compositions and varying dynamic natures. Most have had standard chemical and biochemical methods applied (methods of protein purification and centrifugation, chemical and electrochem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36128950 | 1,551,755 |
447,810 | John Searle argues that Dennett, who insists that discussing subjectivity is nonsense because it is unscientific and science presupposes objectivity, is making a category error. Searle argues that the goal of science is to establish and validate statements which are epistemically objective (i.e., whose truth can be dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157212 | 447,593 |
2,170,246 | The idea for the Hands Free Hectare project was conceived in 2015 by two staff working in the Engineering Department at Harper Adams University, Kit Franklin and Jonathan Gill, who were frustrated by the pace and limited scope of academic developments in the area of field agricultural automation/robotics that they beli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67180375 | 2,169,008 |
299,272 | The first series of 5 experiments began on August 30, 1961 with a sliding surface of the flat landslide inclined by 30°, consisting of a wooden plank covered with a sheet. The sliding mass was simulated with gravel, held in place by flexible metal nets, which were initially held in position by ropes that were then sudd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=679597 | 299,111 |
1,788,614 | A standard approach to investigating neural synchrony, especially with data from naturalistic experimental designs, is inter-subject correlation (ISC). Often, ISC is the Pearson correlation, or robust regression, of spatio-temporal patterns of neural activity in multiple subjects. In ISC, an individual's brain response... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69270951 | 1,787,608 |
1,992,864 | Seen as the simplest form of message production, the fundamental premise of Expressive Design Logic is that “Language is a medium for expressing thoughts and feelings.” This premise is the simplest of the three logics and explains that someone says what they feel. As long as this feeling is conveyed in the message, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35419501 | 1,991,721 |
116,675 | The complete blood count has specific applications in many medical specialties. It is often performed before a person undergoes surgery to detect anemia, ensure that platelet levels are sufficient, and screen for infection, as well as after surgery, so that blood loss can be monitored. In emergency medicine, the CBC is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241565 | 116,630 |
356,305 | Because short rotation energy crops only have managed to grow/accumulate carbon for a short amount of time before they are harvested, it is relatively easy to pay back the harvest-related carbon debt, provided that there is no additional large carbon debt from land use change to deal with (for instance created by clear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7906908 | 356,121 |
33,017 | The B-17 was noted for its ability to absorb battle damage, still reach its target and bring its crew home safely. Wally Hoffman, a B-17 pilot with the Eighth Air Force during World War II, said, "The plane can be cut and slashed almost to pieces by enemy fire and bring its crew home." Martin Caidin reported one instan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4997 | 33,005 |
826,376 | To prepare for an assay, the researcher fills each well of the plate with some biological entity that they wish to conduct the experiment upon, such as a protein, cells, or an animal embryo. After some incubation time has passed to allow the biological matter to absorb, bind to, or otherwise react (or fail to react) wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=882729 | 825,932 |
1,790,751 | The ethynyl radical (systematically named λ-ethyne and hydridodicarbon("C"—"C")) is an organic compound with the chemical formula C≡CH (also written [CCH] or ). It is a simple molecule that does not occur naturally on Earth but is abundant in the interstellar medium. It was first observed by electron spin resonance iso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6425704 | 1,789,745 |
2,007,669 | Williams was an Honors student majoring in English with a minor in Asian Studies at the University of Kansas and graduated with a B.A. in 1972. While a student at KU he competed in collegiate chess tournaments and is said to have had a rating of 1800. He was drawn to the University of Utah by a "Humanistic Computation"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1246240 | 2,006,518 |
1,860,834 | The curriculum at TSAS is challenging and differentiated. High school students are all part of one of four “houses” which are diverse, equally rigorous graduation plans based on student and family preference and future goals. In all houses, Advanced Placement classes, internships, community service, and concurrent enro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21218154 | 1,859,766 |
1,177,606 | Some 20 years after Emperor Wuzong's death, the Tang empire began its last phase of collapse. The source of the downfall can be traced to an event in 868 when a group of soldiers in Gui Prefecture (Guangxi) under Pang Xun rebelled after the government ordered them to extend their garrison duty for one extra year, even ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47026706 | 1,176,983 |
962,933 | Occupational therapy and physical therapy interventions are used in the rehabilitation of lacunar stroke. A physiotherapy program will improve joint range of motion of the paretic limb using passive range of motion exercises. When increases in activity are tolerated, and stability improvements are made, patients will p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8942747 | 962,424 |
776,771 | Computational linguistics is often grouped within the field of artificial intelligence but was present before the development of artificial intelligence. Computational linguistics originated with efforts in the United States in the 1950s to use computers to automatically translate texts from foreign languages, particul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5561 | 776,355 |
827,202 | Some biologists have proposed the deliberate extinction of certain mosquito species. Biologist Olivia Judson has advocated "specicide" of thirty mosquito species by introducing a genetic element which can insert itself into another crucial gene, to create recessive "knockout genes". She says that the "Anopheles" mosqui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2887318 | 826,758 |
955,244 | The first courses at the Royal Engineers Establishment were done on an all ranks basis with the greatest regard to economy. To reduce staff the NCOs and officers were responsible for instructing and examining the soldiers. If the men could not read or write they were taught to do so, and those who could read and write ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=100034 | 954,739 |
1,485,714 | The White cell was first described in 1942 by John U. White in his paper "Long Optical Paths of Large Aperture", and was a significant improvement over previous long path spectroscopic measurement techniques. A White cell is constructed using three spherical, concave mirrors having the same radius of curvature. The mir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36229076 | 1,484,876 |
372,500 | The first recoilless gun to enter service in Germany was the 7.5 cm Leichtgeschütz 40 ("light gun" '40), a simple 75 mm smoothbore recoilless gun developed to give German airborne troops artillery and anti-tank support that could be parachuted into battle. The 7.5cm LG 40 was found to be so useful during the invasion o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=236060 | 372,305 |
2,047,900 | Whitehead was born in Sutton, Surrey in 1902 and educated at Sir Walter St. John's School. After winning a scholarship to Jesus College, Oxford, Whitehead obtained first-class degrees in mathematics and in physics before carrying out research with Lord Cherwell at the Clarendon Laboratory. He was appointed as a physici... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20192709 | 2,046,719 |
2,061,526 | Late in 1730 he sailed westward again, this time to Jamaica. He went as an employee of the Hon. Colin Campbell, to carry out an experiment devised by George Graham and to supervise a cargo of astronomical instruments destined to establish an observatory there. The instruments were eventually bequeathed to Glasgow Unive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30866164 | 2,060,338 |
317,390 | The maintenance of the dikaryotic status in dikaryons in many Basidiomycota is facilitated by the formation of clamp connections that physically appear to help coordinate and re-establish pairs of compatible nuclei following synchronous mitotic nuclear divisions. Variations are frequent and multiple. In a typical Basid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48980 | 317,221 |
112,395 | However, the opportunity cost of implementing policies to the sector has limited impact in the health sector. Patients with severe symptoms of COVID-19 require close monitoring in the ICU and in therapeutic ventilator support, which is key to treating the disease. In this case, scarce resources include bed days, ventil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45528 | 112,350 |
352,685 | For several months Verdi was preoccupied with family matters. These stemmed from the way in which the citizens of Busseto were treating Giuseppina Strepponi, with whom he was living openly in an unmarried relationship. She was shunned in the town and at church, and while Verdi appeared indifferent, she was certainly no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12958 | 352,502 |
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