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723,689 | "Blastocystis" is one of the most common human parasites in the world and has a global distribution. It is the most common parasitic infection in the United States, where it infected approximately 23% of the total population during year 2000. In less developed areas, infection rates as high as 100% have been observed. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12791192 | 723,309 |
17,087 | In 1823, James Carnahan became president, arriving as an unprepared and timid leader. With the college riven by conflicting views between students, faculty, and trustees, and enrollment hitting its lowest in years, Carnahan considered closing the university. Carnahan's successor, John Maclean Jr., who was only a profes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23922 | 17,082 |
551,229 | In contrast to the Tibetans who have been living at high altitudes for no more than 11,000 years, the Andean highlanders show different pattern of haemoglobin adaptation. Their haemoglobin concentration is higher compared to those of lowlander population, which also happens to lowlanders moving to high altitude. When t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39127332 | 550,941 |
268,122 | The study and practice of physics is based on an intellectual ladder of discoveries and insights from ancient times to the present. Many mathematical and physical ideas used today found their earliest expression in the work of ancient civilizations, such as the Babylonian astronomers and Egyptian engineers, the Greek p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23269 | 267,978 |
1,843,611 | Professor Voth is interested in the development and application of theoretical and computational methods to study problems involving the structure and dynamics of complex condensed phase systems, including proteins, membranes, liquids, and materials. He has developed a method known as “multiscale coarse-graining” in wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57613611 | 1,842,557 |
2,241,632 | Anticipated CGSM stakeholders met in Edmonton in June 2002 to initiate planning for the program. An ambitious plan was settled on, requiring numerous new instruments of various types to be deployed in challenging remote environments. The instruments would need to operate autonomously for long periods, and suffer few br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8746365 | 2,240,361 |
985,677 | Medical linear accelerators accelerate electrons using a tuned-cavity waveguide, in which the RF power creates a standing wave. Some linacs have short, vertically mounted waveguides, while higher energy machines tend to have a horizontal, longer waveguide and a bending magnet to turn the beam vertically towards the pat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=273524 | 985,162 |
1,184,577 | On December 31, 1819, the expedition reached Bristol Island, and survived the heaviest squall, followed with wet snow that decreased the visibility to 50 fathoms. At 10 pm the expedition ran into an impassable ice field and changed its course. Only the topsail was to be remained, even though it was also covered in snow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40880361 | 1,183,950 |
1,774,256 | Fraser was succeeded by Thomas H. Burrowes, who felt that the intentions of the Morrill Act would be best served by the original setup of the farmers’ high school. Burrowes reinstated manual labor and offered a single course of study. Under the Burrowes system, the Agricultural Course was mandatory, and students were a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31430357 | 1,773,259 |
1,621,106 | In 1853, the trustees elected Clark T. Hinman as the first president of the university and committed to raising $200,000. Hinman insisted that a university, rather than a preparatory school, be constructed first and that it should be built outside of Chicago. Following Hinman's recommendation, Lunt began to survey for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10414221 | 1,620,191 |
691,893 | Solid polymer electrolyte (SPE) are defined as a solvent-free salt solution in a polymer host material that conducts ions through the polymer chains. Compared to ISEs, SPEs are much easier to process, generally by solution casting, making them greatly compatible with large-scale manufacturing processes. Moreover, they ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64345812 | 691,530 |
1,785,515 | The "El-Sayed group" studied AuNP effects in vitro and in vivo. They determined that the NIR wavelengths were converted into heat on the picosecond timescale, allowing for short exposure of CW to minimize possible exposure to healthy cells. In vitro, photothermal therapy was used in oral epithelial cell lines, (HSC 313... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46188763 | 1,784,511 |
1,341,882 | "Mymoorapelta" is one of the basalmost known genera of Nodosauridae an extinct family of medium to large, heavily built, quadrupedal, herbivorous dinosaurs, possessing small, leaf-shaped teeth which first evolved in the Late Jurassic (ca. 155 mya) and went extinct in the Late Cretaceous (ca. 66 mya) during the famous C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4347315 | 1,341,148 |
14,121 | Because Feynman was no longer working at the Los Alamos Laboratory, he was no longer exempt from the draft. At his induction physical, Army psychiatrists diagnosed Feynman as suffering from a mental illness and the Army gave him a 4-F exemption on mental grounds. His father died suddenly on October 8, 1946, and Feynman... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25523 | 14,116 |
1,479,358 | In 2007, Germany's Institute for Quality and Cost Effectiveness in the Health Care Sector (IQWiG) report, concluded that there is currently "no evidence" available of the superiority of rapid-acting insulin analogs over synthetic human insulins in the treatment of adult patients with type 1 diabetes. Many of the studie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3005304 | 1,478,525 |
594,417 | In his Conway Memorial Lecture in 1922, Bertrand Russell used the example of Albert Einstein to explain the meaning of scientific temper:We have had in recent years a brilliant example of the scientific temper of mind in the theory of relativity and its reception by the world. Einstein, a German-Swiss-Jew pacifist, was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13433031 | 594,112 |
337,086 | Claiming that the strength of the pound was affecting his company's profits on exports to France and Germany, in February 2000 Dyson threatened to shift focus from his Malmesbury plant to a new plant set up in Malaysia because the government would not join the euro. He said: "We would expect to double in size in the ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=369661 | 336,907 |
1,181,596 | In 1920, Genzo Shimadzu invents "reactive lead oxides production method". Genzo's invention of the reactive lead powder manufacturing method in 1920 revolutionized the quality and cost of lead powder used in storage batteries. The manufactured lead powder was also used in anti-rust paints, which was even used on the To... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54109056 | 1,180,972 |
889,906 | The physical and moral destruction caused by the Second World War was soon overcome and the University of Pisa, whose matriculated students passed from 768 in 1945 to 1,292 in 1950, was able to lead the field in many areas of knowledge, adapting to the new demands of social, civil and economic life. The faculties of Ec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453158 | 889,437 |
1,004,044 | On 6 January 2011, Gates made a speech on the U.S. defense budget for FY 2012, which announced major investment in developing a long-range, nuclear-capable bomber, also to be optionally remotely piloted. He also said the aircraft "will be designed and developed using proven technologies, an approach that should make it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34042348 | 1,003,526 |
973,452 | In 1985, Seymour Papert, Mitchel Resnick and Stephen Ocko created a company called Microworlds with the intent of developing a construction kit that could be animated by computers for educational purposes. Papert had previously created the Logo programming language as a tool to "support the development of new ways of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=198856 | 972,942 |
94,939 | The MH-60R is designed to combine the features of the SH-60B and SH-60F. Its avionics includes dual controls and instead of the complex array of dials and gauges in Bravo and Foxtrot aircraft, 4 fully integrated 8" x 10" night vision goggle-compatible and sunlight-readable color multi-function displays, all part of gla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202031 | 94,898 |
510,116 | Sylvester began his study of mathematics at St John's College, Cambridge in 1831, where his tutor was John Hymers. Although his studies were interrupted for almost two years due to a prolonged illness, he nevertheless ranked second in Cambridge's famous mathematical examination, the tripos, for which he sat in 1837. Ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234861 | 509,852 |
1,805,669 | In contrast to the contractile apparatus, studies on various rodent skeletal muscle metabolic enzymes have revealed a variety of responses with no clear-cut adaptive changes in oxidative enzyme expression. These observations are consistent with the results of studies focusing on mitochondrial function after 9 days of s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39377992 | 1,804,653 |
2,243,519 | These are complex and specialized cells. However, the improved understanding of cellular evolution achieved over the last several years has revealed that even the most sophisticated and unique properties of nerve cells represent an adaptation of basic functions observed in all eukaryotic cells, including unicellular or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5463771 | 2,242,248 |
1,062,929 | The Soviet Union conducted studies of human exploration of Mars and came up with slightly less epic mission designs (though not short on exotic technologies) in 1960 and 1969. The first of which used electric propulsion for interplanetary transit and nuclear reactors as the power plants. On spacecraft that combine huma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23516569 | 1,062,375 |
622,519 | There was a particularly unusual case that came out of the Boy Scouts of America in this decade. Back in 1994, in Commerce Township, Michigan, a member by the name of David Hahn had constructed a homemade neutron source from scratch. Hahn was an Eagle Scout who was deeply interested in chemistry as a child. He would co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6125637 | 622,187 |
1,695,082 | KAND is a neurodegenerative disorder caused by one or more variations (mutations) in the KIF1A gene that can lead to a spectrum of symptoms, such as neurodevelopmental delay, intellectual disability, autism, microcephaly, progressive spastic paraplegia, periphery neuropathy, optic nerve atrophy, cerebral and cerebellar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31656267 | 1,694,131 |
1,968,850 | At the beginning of the War, Fripp was employed by the War Office at Rosyth as Consulting Surgeon to the Navy. Later he described what he had seen. After one year, the Government decided that employing civilian experts was an unnecessary expense, so Fripp returned to voluntary surgical and advisory work in London hospi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3581938 | 1,967,716 |
2,181,434 | 5-HEDH functions as a highly specific oxidizer of 5("S")-HETE to 5-oxo-ETE; no functional importance has yet been ascribed to its ability in similarly oxidizing other 5("S")-hydroxyl fatty acids. 5-Oxo-ETE stimulates a wide range of biological activities far more potently and powerfully than 5("S")-HETE (see 5-oxo-eico... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48470949 | 2,180,188 |
1,624,004 | The US Navy initiated the Military Manpower versus Hardware (HARDMAN) Methodology in 1977 to address problems with manpower, personnel and training in the service. In 1980, The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine established the Committee on Human Factors, which was later renamed the Committee on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67470005 | 1,623,088 |
1,035,927 | "Scipionyx" was discovered in the spring of 1981 by Giovanni Todesco, an amateur paleontologist, in the small "Le Cavere" quarry at the edge of the village of Pietraroja, approximately seventy kilometers northeast of Naples. The specimen was preserved in the marine Pietraroja Formation, well known for unusually well-co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3558454 | 1,035,387 |
1,207,229 | RNA-Binding Proteins (RBPs) are dynamic assemblages between mRNAs and different proteins that form messenger ribonucleoprotein complexes (mRNPs). These complexes are essential for the regulation of gene expression to ensure that all the steps are performed correctly throughout the whole process. Therefore, they are imp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16908428 | 1,206,583 |
2,062,127 | The Geological Survey has continued its research during this period. In 1986, the Survey merged with the Earth Physics Branch of the Department of Energy, Mines and Resources and acquired the national seismology and geomagnetic observatory networks of that organization. In the nineties, this new organization took the l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,937 |
413,982 | Modern satellite communications systems (SATCOM) are often large and complex with many interacting parts and elements. In addition, the need for broadband connectivity on a moving vehicle has increased dramatically in the past few years for both commercial and military applications. To accurately predict and deliver hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43444 | 413,779 |
155,670 | The units have different equipment that varies according to battle needs. The basic one is called type B (Basic), consisting only of a cutter-like weapon named Progressive Knife. Other assets are type D (Dive), specifically for diving; and type F (Fly) for flight. The Evangelion's piloting system synchronizes it with t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=577372 | 155,599 |
146,392 | Modern advances in genetics have allowed humans to more directly alter plants genetics. In 1970 Hamilton Smith's lab discovered restriction enzymes that allowed DNA to be cut at specific places, enabling scientists to isolate genes from an organism's genome. DNA ligases that join broken DNA together had been discovered... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2291204 | 146,334 |
1,700,602 | It is usually considered a rare mineral, but this is likely due to difficulty in preserving samples. It was first discovered in nature by the Danish mineralogist Pauly in the Ikka (then spelt Ika) fjord in southwest Greenland, close to Ivittuut, the locality of the famous cryolite deposit. Here ikaite occurs in truly s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8813912 | 1,699,648 |
670,642 | Response to this criticism came both from the physics community as well as from philosophers and historians of science who emphasized the exploratory potential of any future large-scale collider. A detailed physics discussion is included in the first volume of the FCC Conceptual Design Report. Gian Giudice, Head of CER... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47278268 | 670,291 |
1,030,392 | Bloomsbury (1823–46). This is Smirke's largest and best-known building. Having previously designed a temporary gallery for the Parthenon sculptures following their acquisition by the British Museum in 1816, his role as architect to the Office of Works also led Smirke to be invited to redesign the museum in 1821. The co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1484094 | 1,029,858 |
2,062,146 | There have been significant developments in stem cell research activity during this period. In 1997, Dr. John Dick, a molecular biologist at the University of Toronto, was the first to discover the existence of cancer stem cells. The Stem Cell Network was established in 2001 with headquarters at the University of Ottaw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,956 |
1,516,777 | (Mijagual, 1784 – Angostura, 1819). Venezuelan lawyer, physician, chemist, diplomatic and politician. Graduated at the University of Santa Fe (Vice royalty of New Granada) when the independence movement exploded in 1810, was practicing its profession as physician in Guanare. The province of Barinas elected him as his d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,925 |
1,264,341 | Isfahan University of Technology, started its academic activities in 1977. It is located in the central part of the country with the total area of 2300 hectares. Of this, 400 ha area has been dedicated to the main campus. The main campus resembling a small town, includes all the educational or research building as well... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3581057 | 1,263,653 |
905,629 | According to a September 2016 report by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics, the simplicity and low cost of tools to edit the genetic code will allow amateursor "biohackers"to perform their own experiments, posing a potential risk from the release of genetically modified bugs. The review also found that the risks and ben... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34930586 | 905,153 |
12,363 | One of its major features is Nanite, an engine that allows for high-detailed photographic source material to be imported into games. The Nanite virtualized geometry technology allows Epic to take advantage of its past acquisition of Quixel, the world's largest photogrammetry library as of 2019. The goal of Unreal Engin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=417152 | 12,358 |
1,096,694 | The larger polyploid macronucleus is transcriptionally active, meaning its genes are actively expressed, and so it controls somatic cell functions during vegetative growth. The polyploid nature of the macronucleus refers to the fact that it contains approximately 200–300 autonomously replicating linear DNA mini-chromos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66793 | 1,096,134 |
1,142,578 | The Stentrode technology has been tested on sheep and humans, with human trials being approved by the St Vincent's Hospital, Melbourne Human Research Ethics Committee, Australia in November 2018. Oxley originally expressed that he expected human clinical trials to help paralyzed people regain movement to operate a moto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49375299 | 1,141,983 |
276,452 | The programme had its beginnings in an American television quiz show called "College Bowl". Cecil Bernstein, brother of Sidney Bernstein who founded Granada Television in 1954, had seen the programme in the United States and liked the format. It was decided that Granada would produce a similar programme with competing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=180499 | 276,302 |
168,974 | The process of RNAi was referred to as "co-suppression" and "quelling" when observed prior to the knowledge of an RNA-related mechanism. The discovery of RNAi was preceded first by observations of transcriptional inhibition by antisense RNA expressed in transgenic plants, and more directly by reports of unexpected outc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29188721 | 168,884 |
520,030 | Patil Systems, Inc., was founded in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1981 by Suhas Patil, and in 1983 the company was reorganized by Patil, Kamran Elahian, and venture capitalist Fred Nazem, whose firm, Nazem and Company provided the company's first/start-up round of financing. Later the company was renamed as Cirrus Logic whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1687828 | 519,759 |
393,790 | During the 2011 winter-over season, station manager Renee-Nicole Douceur experienced a stroke on August 27, resulting in loss of vision and cognitive function. Because the Amundsen–Scott base lacks diagnostic medical equipment such as an MRI or CT scan machine, station doctors were unable to fully evaluate the damage d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=221644 | 393,595 |
2,016,771 | She has spent her career researching magma and volcanoes. One specific area of her research is how the chemical composition of magma and crystals that form during eruption can provide information about the amount of water present during the eruption and explain how explosive it was. She uses microanalysis and modeling ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37199545 | 2,015,609 |
728,206 | PAR emerged in the postwar years as an important contribution to intervention and self-transformation within groups, organizations and communities. It has left a singular mark on the field of rural and community development, especially in the Global South. Tools and concepts for doing research with people, including "b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2819542 | 727,822 |
346,599 | In 1847, Scottish obstetrician James Young Simpson was the first to demonstrate the anesthetic properties of chloroform on humans and helped to popularize the drug for use in medicine. This first supply came from local pharmacists, James Duncan and William Flockhart, and its use spread quickly, with 750,000 doses weekl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56561 | 346,418 |
1,220,406 | A third effort is to boost support for local supply-chain by promoting and developing domestic substitutions of imported products or components. In April 2020, the MND invested $37 million to establish a "defense industry innovation cluster" in the city of Changwon; with the goal to launch several more "clusters" withi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66301957 | 1,219,752 |
446,914 | The job security granted by tenure is necessary to recruit talented individuals into university professorships, because in many fields private industry jobs pay significantly more; as Schrecker puts it, providing professors "the kind of job security that most other workers can only dream of" counterbalances universitie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314951 | 446,698 |
252,896 | The job security granted by tenure is necessary to recruit talented individuals into university professorships, because in many fields private industry jobs pay significantly more; as Schrecker puts it, providing professors "the kind of job security that most other workers can only dream of" counterbalances universitie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3153225 | 252,763 |
1,050,074 | The crew of STS-120 worked through the rendezvous procedures in the morning leading to the rendezvous pitch maneuver which began at 11:34 UTC. Following the RPM, the crew was given the "Go" to dock with the station, and successful docking to the International Space Station occurred at 12:40 UTC. Following docking, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2445038 | 1,049,528 |
1,416,139 | An alternative approach called analyzer-based imaging was first explored in 1995 by Viktor Ingal and Elena Beliaevskaya at the X-ray laboratory in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and by Tim Davis and colleagues at the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Material Science and Techno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35154335 | 1,415,342 |
1,738,963 | In 1863 a German anatomist Otto Friedrich Karl Deiters described the existence of an unbranched tubular process (the axon) extending from some cells in the central nervous system, specifically from the lateral vestibular nucleus. In 1871 Gerlach proposed that the brain is composed of "protoplasmic network", hence the b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40329294 | 1,737,986 |
1,986,343 | In humans, the spinal cord comprises a major part of the central nervous system (CNS). Along with the brain, it develops from the dorsal nerve cord in the embryonic stage. The spinal cord consists of such segmental enlargements called ganglia. These ganglia form the basis for the peripheral nervous system’s (PNS) senso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46273402 | 1,985,202 |
968,051 | Essentially an OM616 with an extra cylinder, it debuted in 1974 with the W115(240 3.0d) chassis. Bore and stroke was . It was originally . Bosch MW inline injection pumps were used, which had flyweight governors and vacuum shutoff. Previous engines had used pneumatic governors, and "gorilla knob" to start and shut off ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1801741 | 967,541 |
2,050,921 | Wonderly was born on April 21, 1922 in Mountain Lake Park, Maryland, to Earl and Gustava Wonderly. After graduating from Oakland High School in Oakland, Maryland in 1940, he attended the Southeastern Bible College for two years. He was then drafted into the United States Army, in which capacity he served in both Japan ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59096281 | 2,049,740 |
696,881 | In a show of strength and confidence by a company that rejected positions of weakness, an intense direct campaign ensued by a dedicated 12-person "Nintendo SWAT team" who relocated from Nintendo of America's headquarters in Redmond. The team included Nintendo of America's president Minoru Arakawa, Tukwila warehouse man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1571248 | 696,517 |
1,521,833 | The hemispherical lens (also known as a fisheye or whole-sky lens) was originally designed by Robin Hill (1924) to view the entire sky for meteorological studies of cloud formation. Foresters and ecologists conceived of using photographic techniques to study the light environment in forests by examining the canopy geom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11453612 | 1,520,972 |
105,384 | Gygax immediately discarded his movie ambitions—his "D&D" movie would never be made—and flew back to Lake Geneva. There, he discovered to his shock that although industry leader TSR was grossing , it was barely breaking even; it was in fact in debt and teetering on the edge of insolvency. After investigating the reason... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12848 | 105,339 |
1,019,552 | Industrial brownfield sites can be valuable ecosystems, supporting rare species of plants, animals and invertebrates. Increasingly in demand for redevelopment, these habitats are under threat. "Brown roofs", also known as "biodiverse roofs", can partly mitigate this loss of habitat by covering the flat roofs of new dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=192025 | 1,019,025 |
12,340 | At first, the engine relied completely on software rendering, meaning the graphics calculations were handled by the CPU. However, over time, it was able to take advantage of the capabilities provided by dedicated graphics cards, focusing on the Glide API, specially designed for 3dfx accelerators. While OpenGL and Direc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=417152 | 12,335 |
2,144,465 | Cline received her bachelor's degree in biology from Bryn Mawr College in 1977. While an undergraduate she worked at Rockefeller University in Christian de Duve’s lab. Cline earned her doctoral degree in neurobiology in 1985 from the University of California, Berkeley, studying nervous system development under the supe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62135161 | 2,143,234 |
1,068,958 | Commercial LD PSAs have gained popularity due to their broad dynamic range, rapid measurement, high reproducibility and the capability to perform online measurements. However, these devices are generally large in size (~700 × 300 × 450 mm), heavy (~30 kg) and expensive (in the 50–200 K€ range). On the one hand, the lar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16521792 | 1,068,404 |
1,106,680 | In some complex perceptual tasks, all humans are experts. We are all very sophisticated, but not infallible at scene identification, face identification and speech perception. Traditional explanations attribute this expertise to some holistic, somewhat specialized, mechanisms. Perhaps such quick identifications are ach... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25335695 | 1,106,116 |
2,151,943 | The University of Alaska currently maintains its land-grant endowment as a trust fund that collects various forms of income from its federal land grants. The UAF Cooperative Extension Service resides within the UAF Office of the Provost. UAF's public service and community engagement role is filled in part by Extension ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36201569 | 2,150,712 |
1,578,443 | In the discussion for a future design of the WTS, the necessary infrastructure, a sufficient personnel framework and the economic efficiency in operation play a role above all. For a long time, the relocation of the WTS with all its functions to the former Fritsch barracks in front of Ehrenbreitstein fortress was discu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69306757 | 1,577,553 |
201,008 | Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778), began his academic career in Lund by studying medicine and botany for a year before moving to Uppsala. He is known as the father of modern taxonomy, and is also considered one of the fathers of modern ecology. Pehr Henrik Ling (1776–1839) is considered the prime developer of natural gymnastic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17843 | 200,905 |
139,802 | It was further stipulated that candidates should be between 25 and 40 years old, no taller than , and hold a college degree in a STEM subject. The college degree requirement excluded the USAF's X-1 pilot, then-Lt Col (later Brig Gen) Chuck Yeager, the first person to exceed the speed of sound. He later became a critic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19812 | 139,745 |
2,057,468 | When leaving Millennium, Dr. Elliott was Senior Vice President of Pharmacology & Drug Development. Following the launch of Velcade, Dr. Elliott joined a new biotechnology company, CombinatoRx (CRx) as Executive Vice President of Product Development (2001-2005). Here he launched numerous combination products into variou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66911197 | 2,056,283 |
12,934 | By the early morning of October 7, all attempts to patch the breach in the main defensive line of the southern sector became futile because also the center and right flank of the 188th AB had started to collapse. During the night, it had largely managed to hold its ground against continuous attacks, inflicting severe l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34276 | 12,929 |
1,975,427 | The Airplane Engineering Department, precursor of ASC, was first established under the U.S. Army's Aviation Section, U.S. Signal Corps in late 1917 at McCook Field. Early on the department's focus was flight testing and training. The department was renamed the Airplane Engineering Division following World War I, it con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14559659 | 1,974,290 |
1,898,522 | Classification of cancers has been dominated by the fields of histology and histopathology which aim to leverage morphological markers for accurate identification of a tumor type. Histological methods rely on chemical staining of tissues with pigments such as haematoxylin and eosin and microscopy-based visualization by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25304632 | 1,897,438 |
1,975,796 | Tikvah Alper was born in South Africa, the youngest of four daughters in a family of Jewish refugees from Russia. As a schoolgirl at Durban Girls' High School, she was described as "the most intellectually distinguished girl ever to attend the school", and matriculated with distinction a year early. She graduated with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37887218 | 1,974,659 |
1,923,518 | Host-associated microbiomes also influence biogeochemical cycling within ecosystems with cascading effects on biodiversity and ecosystem processes. For example, microbial symbionts comprise up to 40% of the biomass of their sponge hosts. Through a process termed the “sponge-loop,” they convert dissolved organic carbon ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62893752 | 1,922,415 |
2,171,776 | James E. Faller (born January 17, 1934) is an American physicist and inventor who specializes in the field of gravity. He conceived the Lunar Laser Ranging Program, the goal of which, was to fire high powered laser beams at special retroreflectors placed on the Moon by Apollo program Astronauts. He invented a gravity m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12932718 | 2,170,537 |
211,624 | Obesity is a major risk factor for a wide variety of conditions including cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, certain cancers, and type 2 diabetes. In order to prevent obesity, it is recommended that individuals adhere to a consistent exercise regimen as well as a nutritious and balanced diet. A healthy individual s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1032780 | 211,516 |
1,730,029 | In 1998, Dr. Roberto Bolli led a U of L team that identified an intracellular molecule that could protect the heart from ischemic myocardial damage. This group presented its findings to 40,000 cardiologists at the 1998 American Heart Association (AHA) conference. Dr. Bolli also headed a U of L team that was awarded an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36648613 | 1,729,054 |
1,435,165 | The concept of islet transplantation is not new.<ref name="www.cellr4.org/article/128"></ref> Investigators as early as the English surgeon Charles Pybus (1882–1975) attempted to graft pancreatic tissue to cure diabetes. Most, however, credit the recent era of islet transplantation research to Paul Lacy's studies datin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6580862 | 1,434,359 |
800,096 | One practical application of conjoint analysis in business analysis is given by the following example: A real estate developer is interested in building a high rise apartment complex near an urban Ivy League university. To ensure the success of the project, a market research firm is hired to conduct focus groups with c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=296457 | 799,670 |
1,384,806 | Prosser arrived at the University of Cincinnati as a candidate for a PhD in Educational Psychology in 1931. She arrived at a time when there was a research program that "focused on African Americans in different school environments". The general consensus in the department at this time was that "all-black schools with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13646566 | 1,384,039 |
23,136 | There are few studies of the health effects of long-term continuous CO exposure on humans and animals at levels below 1%. Occupational CO exposure limits have been set in the United States at 0.5% (5000 ppm) for an eight-hour period. At this CO concentration, International Space Station crew experienced headaches, leth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5906 | 23,127 |
247,179 | This line of experiments were developed by several groups, including DT Marsh and colleagues, who in February 1948 showed that a series of compounds structurally related to adrenaline could also show either contracting or relaxing effects, depending on whether or not other toxins were present. This again supported the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241017 | 247,051 |
1,606,045 | Ecometrics is the quantitative analysis of economic, environmental, and societal systems based on the concurrent development of empirical theory, related by appropriate methods of inference in attempts to create more sustainable systems. Broadly defined, Ecometrics is a way to evaluate if an activity is contributing to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34022580 | 1,605,141 |
1,907,767 | George Kollias is placed amongst the top cited European scientists in Rheumatology research for the period 1997 to 2008. He has published over 170 primary research articles in peer-reviewed journals and more than 40 reviews and commentaries. His work has received over 29.000 citations and an h-index of 76 (data from Go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13272704 | 1,906,671 |
691,895 | Quasi solid-state electrolytes (QSSEs) are a wide class of composite compounds consisting of a liquid electrolyte and a solid matrix. This liquid electrolyte serves as a percolating pathway of ion conduction while the solid matrix adds mechanical stability to the material as a whole. As the name suggests, QSSEs can hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64345812 | 691,532 |
593,076 | Spearman had an unusual background for a psychologist. In his childhood he was ambitious to follow an academic career. He first joined the army as a regular officer of engineers in August 1883, and was promoted to captain on 8 July 1893, serving in the Munster Fusiliers. After 15 years he resigned in 1897 to study for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1290799 | 592,772 |
920,290 | In 1934, Meccano began to be used in the construction of differential analysers, a type of analogue computer used to solve differential equations using methods which have since been superseded by the digital computer. Though invented on paper in the 19th century, the first such machine had only been built in 1931, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=147874 | 919,804 |
1,841,466 | Unfortunately, there are many analytical and practical problems to consider using approaches involving genome-wide sequencing. Availability of samples is a major limiting factor: sampling procedures may disturb an already fragile population or may have a big impact in individual animals itself putting limitations to sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62084317 | 1,840,414 |
167,659 | After the banning of turbocharged engines in 1989, V10 became the most popular engine configuration in Formula One, because it offered the best compromise between power and fuel consumption. From the 1998 season onwards, all competing teams had V10 engines in their cars. V12s were powerful but thirsty, while V8s were m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=640098 | 167,572 |
390,602 | Since the 1960s, over three hundred rocket launch sites have been built globally. Among these launch sites, 17 hosted 90 launches in 2017 alone. Rocket launches affect local and global environments through the construction of necessary infrastructure, exposure of local environments to toxic residue and the dispersal of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=266344 | 390,407 |
1,403,202 | Some cancer studies with non-rodent animals have been performed with the unmodified Sendai virus. Thus, after intratumoral injections of the virus, complete or partial remission of mast cell tumors (mastocytomas) was observed in dogs affected by this disease. Short-term remission after an intravenous injection of SeV w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6070061 | 1,402,414 |
1,844,499 | It is a two-dimensional graphical representation in the Segrè-arrangement with the neutron number "N" on the abscissa and the proton number "Z" on the ordinate. Each nuclide is represented at the intersection of its respective neutron and proton number by a small square box with the chemical symbol and the nucleon numb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21685565 | 1,843,445 |
1,630,414 | In 1953, after a year of research, meetings and reports alike, the design of "the Synchro-Cyclotron" started. The construction of the machine began in 1954 on the site at Meyrin with the parts coming from all over Western Europe. In late 1955, Wolfgang Gentner became the director of the Synchro-Cyclotron Study Group, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47506008 | 1,629,494 |
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