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2,042,558 | The Center for Advanced Materials (CAM) is an umbrella organization institute that hosts faculty members and researchers involved in materials research. It provides the opportunities for collaborative research projects between academic and industry experts as well between faculty members and students. The Center for Ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43313877 | 2,041,378 |
694,497 | Many plant pathogens produce virulence factors (i.e., effectors) that modulate or interfere with normal host processes to the benefit of the pathogens. In 2009, a secreted protein, termed “tengu-su inducer” (TENGU; ), was identified from a phytoplasma causing yellowing of onions; this was the first phytoplasmal virulen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1041312 | 694,134 |
497,670 | Backhaul is needed to connect the small cells to the core network, internet and other services. For in-building use, existing broadband internet can be used. In urban outdoors, mobile operators consider this more challenging than macrocell backhaul because a) small cells are typically in hard-to-reach, near-street-leve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33593212 | 497,413 |
377,381 | Work and experimentation is currently underway in designing this technology to be applied to electric vehicles. This could be implemented by using a predefined path or conductors that would transfer power across an air gap and charge the vehicle on a predefined path such as a wireless charging lane. Vehicles that could... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6349042 | 377,186 |
1,815,529 | According to Geoffrey O’Gara of High Country News, The Green Mountain Common Allotment was once one of the largest unfenced open ranges in North America. O’Gara claims the allotment contains over 500,000 acres, split north to south by the Continental Divide, spanning 60 miles by 20 miles and is a mix of private and pub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19085952 | 1,814,495 |
469,467 | On the "demand side", the main customer base for fine chemicals, the pharmaceutical industry, is faced with slower growth of demand, patent expirations of many lucrative blockbuster drugs and stalling new product launches. In order to restrain these challenges, the leading companies are implementing restructuring progr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3694845 | 469,231 |
1,506,686 | The full name of the UCSD division of Calit2 is the "Qualcomm Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology, the UC San Diego Division of Calit2". Atkinson Hall is the home of the Qualcomm Institute. The 215,000-square-foot facility was designed by NBBJ and constructed by Gilbane and is "inspired by the n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18510052 | 1,505,840 |
1,048,838 | Long married Caroline Swain in 1842 and together they had twelve children, seven of whom survived to adulthood. The family moved to Atlanta in 1850, then again to Athens in 1851 to be closer to friends and family. Here, Long and his brother Robert opened a private practice and pharmacy on Broad Street, just across from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=347774 | 1,048,293 |
1,184,607 | All foreign emissaries were supposed to follow the Portugal king after he moves to Portugal. For this reason, Bellingshausen suggested Russian consul that he stays on "Vostok" and travels to Lisbon with them. Akinfiy Borodovitsyn and Dutch representative settled on "Mirny". On April 23 at 6 am, the sloops set sails and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40880361 | 1,183,979 |
1,065,156 | LS-DYNA originated from the 3D FEA program DYNA3D, developed by Dr. John O. Hallquist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) in 1976. DYNA3D was created in order to simulate the impact of the Full Fusing Option (FUFO) or "Dial-a-yield" nuclear bomb for low altitude release (impact velocity of ~ 40 m/s). At th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=648925 | 1,064,602 |
1,079,586 | In 1866, he became a research director at the Zeiss Optical Works, and in 1886 he invented the apochromatic lens, a microscope lens which eliminates both the primary and secondary color distortion. By 1870, Abbe invented the Abbe condenser, used for microscope illumination. In 1871, he designed the first refractometer,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=524981 | 1,079,031 |
173,768 | All this assumes that the theory of general relativity remains valid at these small distances. If it does not, then other, currently unknown, effects might limit the minimum size of a black hole. Elementary particles are equipped with a quantum-mechanical, intrinsic angular momentum (spin). The correct conservation law... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=709427 | 173,677 |
1,049,468 | Karl Jansky attended college at the University of Wisconsin where he received his BS in physics in 1927. He stayed an extra year at Madison, completing all the graduate course work for a Masters degree in physics except for the thesis. In July 1928 at age 22, he was able to join the Bell Telephone Laboratories, and bec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=180079 | 1,048,922 |
2,107,364 | By 1959, the White Sands Signal Corps Agency had doubled in size and scope of operations and was redesignated as the U.S. Army Signal Missile Support Agency (SMSA). SMSA was responsible for providing communication-electronic, meteorologic, and other support for the Army's missile and space program as well as conduct re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69460238 | 2,106,151 |
1,598,169 | In considering Islamic sciences as a distinct, local practice, it is important to define words such as "Arabic," "Islamic," "alchemy," and "chemistry." In order to gain a better grasp on the concepts discussed in this article, it is important to come to an understanding of what these terms mean historically. This may a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27280889 | 1,597,270 |
587,462 | R. Alan Culpepper (who was dean of the McAfee School of Theology at Mercer University) observed, in his 2021 overview of seven distinct "classes" of argument about the number, that whilst there are arguments in favour of symbolic interpretations "Nevertheless, the text gives no basis for interpreting the number." Profe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=457905 | 587,161 |
1,233,582 | The "Numerical Recipes" books cover a range of topics that include both classical numerical analysis (interpolation, integration, linear algebra, differential equations, and so on), signal processing (Fourier methods, filtering), statistical treatment of data, and a few topics in machine learning (hidden Markov model, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=632539 | 1,232,919 |
1,894,792 | Astrobotic Technologies of Pittsburgh, Pa. is believed to have bid the payload Griffin Lander. Astrobotics has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA containing 20 Milestones supporting two demonstration missions, the second of which has enhanced navigation and hazard avoidance performance, ending in July 2017. Astrobo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42663177 | 1,893,708 |
473,595 | Michael McCormick, a historian supporting bubonic plague as the Black Death, explains how archaeological research has confirmed that the black or "ship" rat ("Rattus rattus)" was already present in Roman and medieval Europe. Also, the DNA of "Y. pestis" has been identified in the teeth of the human victims, the same DN... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20155412 | 473,359 |
331,328 | Reviews based on "in vitro" and animal research describe the role that retinoic acid (RA) has in the immune system. RA triggers receptors in bone marrow, resulting in generation of new white blood cells. RA regulates proliferation and differentiation of white blood cells, the directed movement of T cells to the intesti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54114 | 331,151 |
69,928 | In the United States, an all-out effort for making atomic weapons was begun in late 1942. This work was taken over by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1943, and known as the Manhattan Engineer District. The top-secret Manhattan Project, as it was colloquially known, was led by General Leslie R. Groves. Among the pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22054 | 69,901 |
640,778 | Using advanced biosensors and creating more affordable diagnostic biomedical instruments, integrated photonics opens the door to lab-on-a-chip (LOC) technology, cutting waiting times, and taking diagnosis out of laboratories and into the hands of doctors and patients. Based on an ultrasensitive photonic biosensor, Surf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6424117 | 640,439 |
1,190,685 | The E.III was basically an E.II fitted with larger, newly designed wings that had a slightly narrower chord of 1.80 meter (70-7/8 in), compared to 1.88 meter (74 in) on the earlier Eindeckers, going back to Fokker's original M.5 monoplane aircraft. The E.III retained the same 75 kW (100 hp) Oberursel U.I engine, and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1189234 | 1,190,051 |
312,398 | Following this military training, Barry was posted to Cape Town, South Africa, in 1816. Through Lord Buchan, Barry had a letter of introduction to the Governor, Lieutenant General Lord Charles Somerset. Following the successful, even spectacular, treatment of Lord Charles's sick daughter, Barry was welcomed into the fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=169505 | 312,230 |
1,476,322 | The Sahara Forest Project designed by the firm Exploration Architecture is a greenhouse that aims to rely on solar energy alone to operate as a zero waste system. The project is on the ecosystem level because its many components work together in a cyclical system. After finding that the deserts used to be covered by fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39314537 | 1,475,490 |
178,902 | Published in 1628 in the city of Frankfurt (host to an annual book fair that Harvey knew would allow immediate dispersion of his work), the 72-page "Exercitatio Anatomica de Motu Cordis et Sanguinis in Animalibus" contains the mature account of the circulation of the blood. Opening with a dedication to King Charles I, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50203 | 178,809 |
2,000,587 | Individual psychological assessment (IPA) is a tool used by organizations to make decisions on employment. IPA allows employers to evaluate and maintain potential candidates for hiring, promotion, and development by using a series of job analysis instruments such as position analysis questionnaires (PAQ), occupational ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34017061 | 1,999,442 |
386,380 | Book 3, subtitled "De mundi systemate" ("On the system of the world"), is an exposition of many consequences of universal gravitation, especially its consequences for astronomy. It builds upon the propositions of the previous books, and applies them with further specificity than in Book 1 to the motions observed in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48781 | 386,185 |
509,411 | Following extensive experimentation on about 200 dogs, on November 9, 1944, Blalock and Thomas performed the surgery on the first human patient. Eileen Saxon, a 15-month-old baby, had arrived at the emergency department earlier that month severely underweight at just 5 kg, purplish blue in colour and hardly able to dri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1266115 | 509,147 |
1,285,664 | From approximately 1950 to 1980 Malawi enjoyed adequate and reliable rains. Food security seemed assured and consumption exceeded production only in five years in this period, none leading to serious shortages. This supported the dual agricultural policy, developed since 1961 by Hastings Banda, first as Agriculture min... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14543243 | 1,284,964 |
1,852,752 | A quick note to mention is the work corresponding to the hysteresis in the force profile (Figure 2) does not correlate to the bond energy. The work done in retracting the tip is formula_9 approximated due to the linear behavior of deformation with being the force and being the displacement immediately before release. U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19855700 | 1,851,690 |
1,787,501 | David Orlin Hestenes (eldest son of mathematician Magnus Hestenes) was born 1933 in Chicago, Illinois. Beginning college as a pre-medical major at UCLA from 1950 to 1952, he graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in 1954 with degrees in philosophy and speech. After serving in the U.S. Army from 1954 to 1956, he ent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=746424 | 1,786,496 |
251,267 | The next important innovation was small cartridge-based tape systems, of which the compact cassette, commercialized by the Philips electronics company in 1964, is the best known. Initially a low-fidelity format for spoken-word voice recording and inadequate for music reproduction, after a series of improvements it enti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2417230 | 251,134 |
1,468,225 | Outside of these individuals, each continent began to host excavations and field schools to explore their own prehistory across a wide spectrum of dates. Several examples, though not a complete list of every country, are listed below by continental area. Within Europe exploration began in England with several individua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=642775 | 1,467,401 |
585,287 | The usual force to attack these small targets was four to six Spitfires, each with either one 500 and two 250 pound bombs or two 250 pounders and a long range tanks... As we crossed into enemy territory we were liable to be engaged with predicted fire from heavy 88mm guns. But in a Spitfire this was no great danger, pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15630676 | 584,987 |
1,305,023 | Permaculture (from "permanent" and "agriculture") is a type of conservation agriculture which is a systems thinking approach that seeks to increase the carbon content of soil by utilizing natural patterns and processes. There is a strong emphasis on knowledge of plants, animals, and natural cycles to promote high effic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48579721 | 1,304,307 |
2,184,529 | Hermann Bruck was the most important historical figure for Edinburgh astronomy, at least in leadership terms. When he arrived in 1957 the observatory had six scientific staff. By the time he retired in 1975, there over a hundred, and the observatory was established as a major international centre. There were three main... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67188634 | 2,183,281 |
1,143,723 | Shahriar S. Afshar's experimental work was done initially at the Institute for Radiation-Induced Mass Studies (IRIMS) in Boston in 2001 and later reproduced at Harvard University in 2003, while he was a research scholar there. The results were presented at a Harvard seminar in March 2004, and published as conference pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1305761 | 1,143,123 |
677,470 | There were three broad currents of opinion from which von Guericke dissented. Firstly, there was the Aristotelian view that there simply was no void and that everything that exists objectively is in the category of substance. The general plenist position lost credibility in the 17th century, owing primarily to the succ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49828 | 677,117 |
1,195,632 | When the DFT is used for spectral analysis, the {"x"} sequence usually represents a finite set of uniformly spaced time-samples of some signal "x"("t") where "t" represents time. The conversion from continuous time to samples (discrete-time) changes the underlying Fourier transform of "x"("t") into a discrete-time Four... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41309901 | 1,194,992 |
801,386 | Despite criticisms, experimenters are still trying to gather data that may support the case that conscious "will" can be predicted from brain activity. fMRI machine learning of brain activity (multivariate pattern analysis) has been used to predict the user choice of a button (left/right) up to 7 seconds before their r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26565579 | 800,958 |
404,838 | The United States Navy manufactured single-base tubular powder for naval artillery at Indian Head, Maryland, beginning in 1900. Similar procedures were used for United States Army production at Picatinny Arsenal beginning in 1907 and for manufacture of smaller grained Improved Military Rifle (IMR) powders after 1914. S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=860000 | 404,638 |
1,430,572 | Bryan Stark joined the Harvard baseball team as an assistant coach in the fall of 2014 after two seasons at Navy in the same capacity. Stark was promoted to Associate Head Coach in the summer of 2019. In 2019, Stark was a member of the staff that coached the Crimson to its first Ivy League title and NCAA appearance sin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21159112 | 1,429,768 |
1,104,077 | Contemporary diffusion-weighted MRI techniques may also uncover the macroscopic process of axonal development. The connectome can be constructed from diffusion MRI data: the vertices of the graph correspond to anatomically labelled gray matter areas, and two such vertices, say "u" and "v", are connected by an edge if t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=189701 | 1,103,514 |
23,762 | Reye's syndrome, a rare but severe illness characterized by acute encephalopathy and fatty liver, can occur when children or adolescents are given aspirin for a fever or other illness or infection. From 1981 to 1997, 1207 cases of Reye's syndrome in people younger than 18 were reported to the US Centers for Disease Con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1525 | 23,753 |
1,652,945 | The movement towards a research university was subsequently championed by John W. Cavanaugh, who modernized educational standards. An intellectual figure known for his literary gifts and his eloquent speeches, he dedicated himself to the school's academic reputation and to increasing number of students awarded bachelor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33791684 | 1,652,013 |
1,366,782 | In June 2018 Australian Senate's Senate Community Affairs References Committee recommended a move towards legalising MRT, and in July 2018 the Australian senate endorsed it. Research and clinical applications of MRT were overseen by laws made by federal and state governments. State laws were, for the most part, consist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25416659 | 1,366,026 |
27,815 | Some astronomical hypotheses at the time (such as epicycles and eccentrics) were seen as mere mathematical devices to adjust calculations of where the heavenly bodies would appear, rather than an explanation of the cause of those motions. (As Copernicus still maintained the idea of perfectly spherical orbits, he relied... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=323592 | 27,805 |
1,658,034 | So an experimental plan was clear: synthesize all 64 different trinucleotide combinations, and use the filter assay with tRNAs charged with all 20 amino acids, to see which amino acid associated with which trinucleotide. However, obtaining pure trinucleotides with mixed base sequences, for example GUU, was a daunting c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=611203 | 1,657,101 |
1,621,947 | Functional morphology differs from ecomorphology in that it deals with the features arising from form at varying levels of organisation. Ecomorphology, on the other hand, refers to those features which can be shown to derive from the ecology surrounding the species. In other words, functional morphology focuses heavily... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24624524 | 1,621,031 |
1,593,120 | The Nieuport II was the subject of extensive research carried out by the Nieuport brothers in conjunction with the Eiffel Laboratories and benefited from input from Robert Esnault-Pelterie, who had designed his own low-drag monoplane. The result was a wire-braced monoplane with only a single pair of bracing wires on ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34986155 | 1,592,223 |
1,445,202 | The observations on biological and biogeochemical transformation and succession mainly focussed on analysing samples from all three major physical regimes, i.e., the ice, snow and water environments. Additionally flow measurements were conducted at both the ice/water and ice/air boundary layers. These were repeated thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59728348 | 1,444,386 |
433,737 | As already mentioned above, for the implementation of a boson sampling machine one necessitates a reliable source of many indistinguishable photons, and this requirement currently remains one of the main difficulties in scaling up the complexity of the device. Namely, despite recent advances in photon generation techni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49287688 | 433,523 |
172,222 | The first product that performed OLAP queries was "Express," which was released in 1970 (and acquired by Oracle in 1995 from Information Resources). However, the term did not appear until 1993 when it was coined by Edgar F. Codd, who has been described as "the father of the relational database". Codd's paper resulted f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=189239 | 172,131 |
1,830,572 | In the 1970s, scientists began to take a greater interest into the effects and process of brain aging due to the growing aging population, resulting in the formation of the geriatric medicine specialty. Without prior experience in this area, Scheibel was able to effectively fill his gap in knowledge and further the fie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66282493 | 1,829,526 |
1,228,635 | TEPCO admits for the first time that it had failed to take stronger measures to prevent disasters for fear of inviting lawsuits or protests against its nuclear plants. TEPCO's internal reform task force, led by company President Naomi Hirose, said in a report TEPCO had feared efforts to better protect nuclear facilitie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31167895 | 1,227,973 |
299,367 | The first attempt at end-to-end ASR was with Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC)-based systems introduced by Alex Graves of Google DeepMind and Navdeep Jaitly of the University of Toronto in 2014. The model consisted of recurrent neural networks and a CTC layer. Jointly, the RNN-CTC model learns the pronunciati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29468 | 299,206 |
245,848 | Searching for inspiration, Pajitnov recalled his childhood memories of playing pentominoes, a game where you create pictures using its shapes. Remembering the difficulty he had in putting the pieces back into their box, Pajitnov felt inspired to create a game based on that concept. Using an Electronika 60 in the Comput... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3017 | 245,721 |
893,991 | As well as combating the Neptunists, he also accepted the growing consensus on the concept of deep time for scientific purposes. Rather than accepting that the earth was no more than a few thousand years old, he maintained that the Earth must be much older, with a history extending indefinitely into the distant past. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15965 | 893,521 |
1,232,466 | The decision to site AERE at Harwell had huge implications for a rural area which had depended mainly on agriculture for employment before World War II. The site (which quickly became known colloquially amongst the local population as 'The Atomic') became one of the main employers in the post-war period. It also led to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=352456 | 1,231,804 |
798,249 | The name "Geometridae" ultimately derives from Latin "" from Greek ("geometer", "earth-measurer"). This refers to the means of locomotion of the larvae or caterpillars, which lack the full complement of prolegs seen in other caterpillars, with only two or three pairs at the posterior end instead of the usual five pairs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=490442 | 797,824 |
979,064 | MEP specifically encompasses the in-depth design and selection of these systems, as opposed to a tradesperson simply installing equipment. In countries of Asia such as Pakistan, China and Saudi Arabia the use of MEP is increasing in building construction projects due to extreme climates in summer and winter. For exampl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38495380 | 978,553 |
730,298 | Biochemical engineers primarily focus on designing systems that will improve the production, processing, packaging, storage, and distribution of food. Some commonly processed foods include wheat, fruits, and milk which undergo processes such as milling, dehydration, and pasteurization in order to become products that c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=616670 | 729,913 |
1,446,262 | Although robots can replace people to complete some tasks, there are still many tasks that cannot be done alone by robots that master artificial intelligence. A study analyzed 2,000 work tasks in 800 different occupations globally, and concluded that half (totaling US$ 15 trillion in salaries) could be automatized by a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66026469 | 1,445,446 |
91,197 | The focus on increasing participation in STEM fields has attracted criticism. In the 2014 article "The Myth of the Science and Engineering Shortage" in "The Atlantic", demographer Michael S. Teitelbaum criticized the efforts of the U.S. government to increase the number of STEM graduates, saying that, among studies on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3437663 | 91,157 |
2,018,304 | Gonsiorek considered the book a competent and engaging discussion of Hamer's scientific work, but one that showed the "tension and unease" inherent in popularizing science. He questioned Hamer's description of how he shifted "from an obscure to a high-profile area of genetics", writing that it strained credibility. He ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55800745 | 2,017,141 |
542,734 | Although many components of the RVFV's RNA play an important role in the virus' pathology, the nonstructural protein encoded on the S segment (NSs) is the only component that has been found to directly affect the host. NSs is hostile and combative against the hosts interferon (IFNs) antiviral response. IFNs are essenti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26378 | 542,454 |
2,079,309 | One of the major sources for CALM's outgrowth was integrated definition (IDEF) modeling in aerospace manufacturing that was pioneered by the U.S. Air Force in the 1970s. IDEF is a methodology designed to model the end-to-end decisions, actions, and activities of an organization or system so that costs, performance, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20341886 | 2,078,110 |
1,679,788 | Rhodolith beds have been found throughout the world's oceans, including in the Arctic near Greenland, in waters off British Columbia, Canada, the Gulf of California, Mexico, the Mediterranean as off New Zealand and eastern Australia. Globally, rhodoliths fill an important niche in the marine ecosystem, serving as a tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11766287 | 1,678,845 |
281,278 | Early infrared seekers were most effective in detecting infrared radiation with shorter wavelengths, such as the 4.2 micrometre emissions of the carbon dioxide efflux of a jet engine. This made them useful primarily in tail-chase scenarios, where the exhaust was visible and the missile's approach was carrying it toward... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1396771 | 281,125 |
858,576 | The venom of "P. nigriventer" has been reported to contain at least six neurotoxic peptides globally known as PhTx3 and individually identified as Tx3-1 to Tx3-6. Tx3-3 has also been named ω-"Phoneutria nigriventer" toxin ω-PnTx3-3 and Tx3-4, phonetoxin IIA or ω-Ptx-IIA. These toxins act as broad-spectrum calcium chann... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5874525 | 858,118 |
1,656,072 | A variety of compounds of empirical formula AlR and AlRCl exist. The aluminium trialkyls and triaryls are reactive, volatile, and colorless liquids or low-melting solids. They catch fire spontaneously in air and react with water, thus necessitating precautions when handling them. They often form dimers, unlike their bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61997772 | 1,655,139 |
18,953 | A variety of compounds of empirical formula AlR and AlRCl exist. The aluminium trialkyls and triaryls are reactive, volatile, and colorless liquids or low-melting solids. They catch fire spontaneously in air and react with water, thus necessitating precautions when handling them. They often form dimers, unlike their bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=904 | 18,945 |
436,642 | Following the Northridge earthquake, a number of steel moment -frame buildings were found to have experienced brittle fractures of beam to column connections. Discovery of these unanticipated brittle fractures of framing connections was alarming to engineers and the building industry. Starting in the 1960s, engineers b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=923301 | 436,428 |
620,645 | The Ural owl was named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1771 as "Strix uralensis", due to the type specimen having been collected in the Ural mountains range. While the Urals fall around the middle of the species’ distribution, some authors such as Karel Voous lamented that a more broadly appropriate than Ural owl wasn’t deriv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=815909 | 620,330 |
1,845,361 | The only child of French parents living in London, he was educated at the French Lycée in London and the Salesian College, Farnborough. He graduated at King's College London in 1948 and qualified as a teacher in 1949. In 1953 he was awarded the M.A. degree of London University for which he submitted a thesis on Cardina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19428402 | 1,844,306 |
735,922 | Ignoring color, all television systems work in essentially the same manner. The monochrome image seen by a camera (later, the luminance component of a color image) is divided into horizontal "scan lines", some number of which make up a single image or "frame". A monochrome image is theoretically continuous, and thus un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=441611 | 735,535 |
195,514 | Cal Poly Pomona's institute for sustainability education is the Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies. The center was built adjacent to an old landfill and conducts research in the areas of sustainable technology and agriculture. As an example of Cradle to Cradle Design, it uses solar-powered dormitories, aquaculture po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=489505 | 195,414 |
20,208 | In January 1943, at the Casablanca Conference, the Allies formulated the Combined Bomber Offensive (CBO) plan for "round-the-clock" bombing – USAAF daytime operations complementing the RAF nighttime raids on industrial centers. In June 1943, the Combined Chiefs of Staff issued the Pointblank Directive to destroy the Lu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24710 | 20,200 |
1,881,516 | The MCSB supervisor, Alan Weston, obtained from NASA Ames Research Center $4 million in internal funding to get the project started. Using that money, the prototype was built in about 15 months during 2007–2008. The fast concept development time is due in part to the preliminary use of repurposed SCUBA air tanks and an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23528366 | 1,880,435 |
1,110,493 | At the time, there was no medical cure for streptococcal infection, and infected body parts had to be surgically removed to prevent further spread of the infection. This is still in practice when the infection had caused severe tissue damage even after antibiotics are available. In a notable incidence, Domagk's four-ye... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=474958 | 1,109,928 |
174,056 | As the suppliers made the transition to COTS components, they also discovered that the hardware market was shrinking fast. COTS not only resulted in lower manufacturing costs for the supplier, but also steadily decreasing prices for the end users, who were also becoming increasingly vocal over what they perceived to be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=274816 | 173,965 |
85,510 | Hughes developed a TOW missile with a wireless data link in 1989, referred to as TOW-2N, but this weapon was not adopted for use by the U.S. military. Raytheon continued to develop improvements to the TOW line, but its FOTT (Follow-On To TOW) program was cancelled in 1998, and its TOW-FF (TOW-Fire and Forget) program w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=338060 | 85,476 |
2,242,031 | On July 1, 1959, Major General James Earl Rudder, class of 1932, became the 16th president of the college. In 1963, with the backing of State Senator William T. "Bill" Moore, the 58th Legislature of Texas approved Rudder's proposal for a substantial expansion of the college. Over the coming years, Texas A&M augmented a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29927 | 2,240,760 |
1,317,251 | The oxidation of hydrogen sulfide has been considered one of the most important processes in the environment, given that the oceans have had very low oxygen and high sulfidic conditions over most of the Earth's history. The modern analog ecosystems are deep marine basins, for instance in the Black Sea, near the Cariaco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57166749 | 1,316,526 |
357,599 | Fossey turned down an offer to join the Henrys on an African tour due to lack of finances, but in 1963 she borrowed $8,000 (one year's salary), took out her life savings and went on a seven-week visit to Africa. In September 1963, she arrived in Nairobi, Kenya. While there, she met actor William Holden, owner of Treeto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=168280 | 357,413 |
1,564,798 | Mihalcea's lie-detection software uses machine learning techniques to analyze video clips of actual trials. In her 2015 study, the team used clips from The Innocence Project, a national organization that works to reexamine cases where individuals were tried without the benefit of DNA testing with the aim of exonerating... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55086021 | 1,563,911 |
1,929,388 | The institute was constructed to consist of about 50 scientists in interactive research groups of 3 to 5 researchers supported by technical staff with no titles other than “member” with renewable contracts of 2 to 5 years. Interaction was facilitated by laboratories split into two floors per lab connected by a spiral s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3547497 | 1,928,283 |
1,189,398 | The Washington Nationals selected him in the Double-A portion of the Rule 5 Draft, though the team traded him to the Tampa Bay Rays for cash considerations in April 2012. He pitched for the Montgomery Biscuits and Triple-A Durham Bulls in 2012 and went 7–8 with a 3.98 ERA in 26 games (24 starts). In May, he earned a So... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49468910 | 1,188,766 |
2,021,308 | CARE was a three-year European CSA project that fostered greener aviation and related research and development activities. Placing particular focus on SMEs and labs, this was achieved through cooperation between regional aerospace clusters and the adoption of a harmonised agenda approach. In order to reach a sustainabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28079376 | 2,020,145 |
88,381 | The project was controversial and repeatedly delayed. In May 2007 the project was suspended by officials, reportedly due to public concerns about radiation from the system. In January and February 2008 hundreds of residents demonstrated in downtown Shanghai that the line route came too close to their homes, citing conc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=822307 | 88,346 |
1,472,829 | Three days later, Mawson reached the cave, where he discovered more provisions, but something that was missing from the cave was extra pairs of crampons which he would need to make the final descent to the base. He had thrown his last pair of crampons away after clearing the final glacier a few days earlier knowing tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3433767 | 1,472,000 |
852,703 | Since the 1970s, the empirical study of networks has played a central role in social science, and many of the mathematical and statistical tools used for studying networks have been first developed in sociology. Amongst many other applications, social network analysis has been used to understand the diffusion of innova... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16981683 | 852,249 |
328,460 | Systems analysis and design (SAD) is the process of developing information technology systems (ITS) that effectively use hardware, software, data, processes, and people to support the company's business objectives. It is a process of planning a new business system or replacing an existing system by defining its compone... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573528 | 328,286 |
1,326,437 | The "Gata2" gene in mice has a structure similar to its human counterpart, Deletion of both parental "Gata2" genes in mice is lethal by day 10 of embryogenesis due to a total failure in the formation of mature blood cells. Inactivation of one mouse "Gata2" gene is neither lethal nor associated with most of the signs of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14156407 | 1,325,710 |
543,730 | While causes are unknown, both genetic and environmental triggers are suspected. One study suggests that chemicals that act as endocrine disrupters may put an unborn infant at risk. A 2012 epidemiological study looked at atrazine, a commonly used herbicide in the U.S., and found that women who lived in counties in Texa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=760897 | 543,449 |
2,247,436 | During Charles Edward Stuart's Jacobite uprising in 1745, Jack remained loyal to GeorgeII. Volunteering, he was entrusted with arranging some of the placement of the cannon at Edinburgh as a fortifications engineer under the guidance of Prof.Colin MacLaurin. He fled with most of the other Hanoverian forces ahead of Cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72260649 | 2,246,164 |
2,241,066 | Following a nationwide search conducted by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents, Dr. Marc A. Nigliazzo was appointed in April 2010 as A&M-Central Texas' inaugural president. Dr. Nigliazzo previously served as the president of Galveston College, Temple College, and Arizona Western College. Dr. Nigliazzo's of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23274595 | 2,239,795 |
387,172 | The most important distinction is their growth pattern, lacking a lateral meristem (cambium) that allows for continual growth in diameter with height (secondary growth), and therefore this characteristic is a basic limitation in shoot construction. Although largely herbaceous, some arboraceous monocots reach great heig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55625 | 386,977 |
2,084,082 | That night 41st Siege Bty moved five guns (one was in the workshops) up to just behind the Allied front line to support the main attack. Zero for the Battle of the St Quentin Canal was 05.50 on 29 September. Despite some shortcomings, the Australian–US attack was a success, while the rest of Fourth Army had stormed acr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69464934 | 2,082,882 |
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