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1,521,562 | A central goal of neuroergonomics is to study the way in which brain function is related to task/work performance. To do this, noninvasive neuroimaging methods are typically used to record direct neurophysiological markers of brain activity through electrical activity electroencephalography (EEG), magnetoencephalograph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4627121 | 1,520,701 |
1,069,795 | In 1987, approximately of drilling lubricant disappeared nearly into the ground, leading Gold to believe that the lubricant had fallen into a methane reservoir. Soon after, the team brought up nearly 100 liters of black oily sludge to the surface. Gold claimed that the sludge contained both oil and remnants of archaeba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=156331 | 1,069,241 |
27,605 | Research at CERN in Switzerland by the British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989–90 resulted in the World Wide Web, linking hypertext documents into an information system, accessible from any node on the network. The dramatic expansion of capacity of the Internet with the advent of wave division multiplexing (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13692 | 27,595 |
51,773 | One of the first applications of augmented reality was in healthcare, particularly to support the planning, practice, and training of surgical procedures. As far back as 1992, enhancing human performance during surgery was a formally stated objective when building the first augmented reality systems at U.S. Air Force l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=85631 | 51,753 |
990,115 | Using IIoT in car manufacturing implies the digitalization of all elements of production. Software, machines, and humans are interconnected, enabling suppliers and manufacturers to rapidly respond to changing standards. IIoT enables efficient and cost-effective production by moving data from the customers to the compan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54014377 | 989,598 |
1,905,584 | A key feature of his research has entailed field observation programmes in Africa which have aimed at improving weather forecast and climate models. In 2005, the Royal Geographical Society funded Bodele Dust Experiment (BoDEX) in Chad recovered the first observational data from the world’s largest single dust source. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68345791 | 1,904,489 |
162,135 | However, the statistical evidence counters any of perception of economic stagnation in the latter 19th century: the employed labour force grew, unemployment in the years 1874–1890 only averaged 4.9%, and productivity continued to rise after the 1870s recession, albeit at a lower annual rate of 1%, compared to 2% in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,050 |
1,706,382 | The term macroscopic scale differs in usage from the science concept as discussed above; in essence it covers any item large enough to be seen with the unaided eye, in other words, not requiring a microscope to be visualized. Some authors also use "macroscopic" as part of a continuum of successively larger types of sca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64208794 | 1,705,424 |
147,488 | In most medical programs, the first two years deal with basic scientific courses (cellular and molecular biology, chemistry, organic chemistry, mathematics, and physics), and the core medical sciences (anatomy, embryology, histology, physiology, and biochemistry). The following year may change in how it is organized in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=465584 | 147,430 |
1,567,948 | Bioenvironmental Engineers conduct health risk assessments (HRAs) in and around workplaces, protecting Airmen and employees from the hazards associated with their duties, very similar in nature to industrial or occupational hygiene. HRAs with recommendations to reduce or eliminate risk are sent to relevant parties for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13390384 | 1,567,061 |
1,667,592 | Among the investigations into post-surgical stereopsis is a publication of 2005 that reported on a total of 43 adults over 18 years of age who had surgical correction after having lived with from constant-horizontal strabismus for more than 10 years with no previous surgery or stereopsis, with visual acuity of 20/40 or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40018674 | 1,666,653 |
596,405 | Nanoparticles can provide a means to overcome MDR. In general, when using a targeting agent to deliver nanocarriers to cancer cells, it is imperative that the agent binds with high selectivity to molecules that are uniquely expressed on the cell surface. Hence NPs can be designed with proteins that specifically detect ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23891367 | 596,100 |
187,409 | The new most touted off-the-shelf options in 1986–88 (the "Castle" and "Bear"-class vessels) were no longer possible, as the Scottish shipbuilders had closed and development of the "Bear" cutter option into a stretched vessel was effectively impossible after the ANZUS impasse. The New Zealand government's planned acqui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=897679 | 187,312 |
1,580,052 | In a critical 1984 review, Paul Forman wrote that much of the information in the biography sections of the book was previously unpublished and that Pais gave a better account of Einstein's childhood than had previously been available, but that by "allotting so little space to so large a life, Pais perforce omits far mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65780422 | 1,579,162 |
997,693 | In terms of its basic configuration, the C-1 is a twin-engine medium-range airlifter, somewhat resembling the larger Lockheed C-141 Starlifter. It is powered by a pair of Pratt & Whitney JT8D-M-9 low-bypass turbofan engines, which were locally manufactured under license by Mitsubishi, each capable of generating up to o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4115268 | 997,175 |
282,655 | George Washington stated "the settlement of southeastern Ohio was not accidental, but the result of the careful deliberation of wise, prudent, and patriotic men." The Confederation Congress, which operated under the Articles of Confederation, did not work with an executor or cabinet. Executive roles transacted from com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=483329 | 282,502 |
1,971,200 | The Principal Triangulation of Great Britain was initiated by the Board of Ordnance in 1791 and carried out under the direction of William Mudge and Thomas Frederick Colby. The field work was completed in 1853, just as Clarke joined the Board. The methods of analysis had been planned in outline by William Yolland, his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6420474 | 1,970,066 |
1,737,757 | On 2 February 1964, Atalanta lost 7–1 at home against Fiorentina; this was the club's worst ever home defeat. This result outraged the fans, requiring police intervention to prevent violence between them and the players. Quario's tactical choices were also questioned, causing him to be sacked after the match and replac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66131596 | 1,736,780 |
2,054,666 | T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is a type of acute lymphoblastic leukemia with aggressive malignant neoplasm of the bone marrow. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a condition where immature white blood cells accumulate in the bone marrow, subsequently crowding out normal white blood cells and create bui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63488624 | 2,053,483 |
1,699,954 | In May 2014, three months before DARPA started the GXV-T program, the Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC), which provides the technological backbone for all Army and U.S. Marine Corps ground vehicles, issued a report called "GXV Operational Vignettes" which included two dozen pages of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43809043 | 1,699,000 |
902,132 | There are also researchers who subscribe to the idea that working memory does not play a measurable role in attentional blindness. This is different from the study by Kreitz and her team finding that individual differences in cognitive abilities might not be relative to noticing rates. Bredemeier and Simons conducted t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1677048 | 901,656 |
842,618 | Herbert E. Ives and Frank Gray of Bell Telephone Laboratories gave a dramatic demonstration of mechanical television on April 7, 1927. The reflected-light television system included both small and large viewing screens. The small receiver had a screen (width by height). The large receiver had a screen (width by height)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1361581 | 842,168 |
35,940 | While a modern geological time scale was not formulated until 1911 by Arthur Holmes, the broader concept that rocks and time are related can be traced back to (at least) the philosophers of Ancient Greece. Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 570–487 BCE) observed rock beds with fossils of shells located above the sea-level, vie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12967 | 35,928 |
781,176 | On 11 August 1910, American paleontologist Barnum Brown discovered the remains of a large group of "Albertosaurus" at another quarry alongside the Red Deer River. Because of the large number of bones and the limited time available, Brown's party did not collect every specimen, but made sure to collect remains from all ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1367 | 780,758 |
316,069 | It has been asserted by authors such as Lewis Sorley that in contrast to Westmoreland, Abrams implemented counterinsurgency tactics that focused on winning the hearts and minds of the Vietnamese rural population. A joint military-civilian organization named Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support under C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=418311 | 315,900 |
1,057,751 | Aaron Scharf's 1968 book "Art and Photography", which details evidence of the use of photographs and the camera by painters, is referred to by Hockney in his 1977 painting "My Parents" (Tate, London) in which his father is depicted attentively reading the volume. Scharf notes in his introduction that in 1568 Daniele Ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10082768 | 1,057,202 |
1,370,363 | The phenomenon of familiarity and recognition has long been described in books and poems. Within the field of Psychology, recognition memory was first alluded to by Wilhelm Wundt in his concept of "know-againness" or "assimilation" of a former memory image to a new one. The first formal attempt to describe recognition ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21312318 | 1,369,607 |
327,802 | The leading naturalist in Britain was the anatomist Richard Owen, an idealist who had shifted to the view in the 1850s that the history of life was the gradual unfolding of a divine plan. Owen's review of the "Origin" in the April 1860 "Edinburgh Review" bitterly attacked Huxley, Hooker and Darwin, but also signalled a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29932 | 327,628 |
747,651 | "Columbia"'s main engines were throttled down to 65% thrust to transit the region of Max Q, the point during ascent when the shuttle undergoes maximum aerodynamic stress. This occurred 56 seconds into the flight at Mach1.06. The wind corrected value was (predicted , limit ). The two SRBs performed better than expected ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177543 | 747,255 |
1,468,597 | "Discovery" later rolled out from the VAB to Launch Complex 39A on August 4, 2009, in a slow drive on the top of the Crawler-transporter. The rollout began at 02:07 EDT, and ended with the launch platform secured in place at about 13:50 EDT. The move took longer than expected due to adverse weather conditions, which in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6002600 | 1,467,773 |
2,011,004 | The bioeconomy has largely been associated with visions of "green growth". A study found that a "circular bioeconomy" may be "necessary to build a carbon neutral future in line with the climate objectives of the Paris Agreement". However, some are concerned that with a focus or reliance on technological progress a fund... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11339988 | 2,009,851 |
403,053 | In 2014, the museum published plans for a $325 million, annex, the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation, on the Columbus Avenue side. Designed by Studio Gang, Higgins Quasebarth & Partners and landscape architects Reed Hilderbrand, the new building's pink Milford granite facade will have a textu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399990 | 402,853 |
135,318 | In the words of his biographer, Pei won "every award of any consequence in his art", including the Arnold Brunner Award from the National Institute of Arts and Letters (1963), the Gold Medal for Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1979), the AIA Gold Medal (1979), the first "Praemium Imperiale" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15155 | 135,263 |
523,759 | Calculus is usually taken by high-school seniors or university freshmen, but can occasionally be taken as early as tenth grade. A successfully completed college-level calculus course like one offered via Advanced Placement program (AP Calculus AB and AP Calculus BC) is a transfer-level course—that is, it can be accepte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24836125 | 523,487 |
2,124,232 | The fungus commonly grows on feathers, hooves, hair and other dead matter. It is rarely found on human skin and more commonly found in soil in temperate areas, plant material, dung and on birds. A study on keratinophylic fungi in the water sediments of India, by Katiyar and Kushwaha, found "C. keratinophilum" in sedime... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41179389 | 2,123,011 |
54,394 | The strategic bombing proponents within the USAAF, called the Bomber Mafia by their ideological opponents, had established in the early 1930s a policy against research to create long-range fighters, which they thought would not be practical; this kind of research was not to compete for bomber resources. Aircraft manufa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25041 | 54,373 |
534,671 | Maksutov's design notes from 1941 explored the possibility of a 'folded' Cassegrain-type construction with a secondary silvered "spot" on the convex side of the meniscus facing the primary mirror. He thought this would create a sealed and rugged optical system suitable for use in schools. This design appeared commercia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1744889 | 534,392 |
1,036,608 | Generally, negative ions are created (atoms are ionized) in an ion source. In fortunate cases, this already allows the suppression of an unwanted isobar, which does not form negative ions (as N in the case of C measurements). The pre-accelerated ions are usually separated by a first mass spectrometer of sector-field ty... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1127875 | 1,036,068 |
20,239 | One of the most significant Mustangs involved in air racing was serial number 44-10947, a surplus P-51C-10-NT purchased by film stunt pilot Paul Mantz. He modified the wings, sealing them to create a giant fuel tank in each one; these "wet wings" reduced the need for fuel stops or drag-inducing drop tanks. Named "Blaze... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24710 | 20,230 |
487,352 | Widlar dispensed with hybrid technology, and used only diffused resistors formed within the silicon die. Each of the nine NPN transistors was sized and shaped according to its function, contrary to an earlier, arbitrary practice of employing standard minimal-area patterns. Widlar introduced three innovations: Interfaci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3483624 | 487,102 |
551,992 | It has been suggested that quadruplex formation plays a role in immunoglobulin heavy chain switching. As cells have evolved mechanisms for resolving (i.e., unwinding) quadruplexes that form. Quadruplex formation may be potentially damaging for a cell; the helicases WRN and Bloom syndrome protein have a high affinity fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4238684 | 551,704 |
199,953 | In the 3rd century BCE, the Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse ( (287–212 BCE) – generally considered to be the greatest mathematician of antiquity and one of the greatest of all time – laid the foundations of hydrostatics, statics and calculated the underlying mathematics of the lever. A leading scientist of c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13758 | 199,850 |
1,187,824 | Swedish scientists first reported substances related to pentaBDE were accumulating in human breast milk. Studies by the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation found for the first time very high levels of more highly brominated PBDEs (BDE-209) in eggs of peregrine falcons. Two forms of PBDEs, penta- and octaBDE, are no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=801852 | 1,187,193 |
1,944,508 | Since 1997, Pagano's laboratory has been funded uninterruptedly by the National Institute of Health. In 2008, he was named a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator. He was also the recipient of other grants and awards, including an NCI MERIT Award (2006-2017) and an NIGMS MIRA Award (2020-2025) in recognition of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61524566 | 1,943,396 |
1,416,141 | In 2006, another great advancement was the transfer of the grating-based technique to conventional laboratory X-ray tubes by Franz Pfeiffer and co-workers, which fairly enlarged the technique's potential for clinical use. About two years later the group of Franz Pfeiffer also accomplished to extract a supplementary sig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35154335 | 1,415,344 |
1,399,273 | Weapon systems research at BRL generally referred to the study of various munitions from an operational analysis viewpoint. These studies focused on enhancing the effectiveness of various weapons such as guns and rockets against a wide variety of targets from personnel to armed tanks. This research was primarily done t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30865936 | 1,398,498 |
1,935,636 | The final saw Sunday Uti start off with a strong leg in lane 7, giving the Nigerian team the lead going in to the first handoff. Moses Ugbusien took the baton rather casually, the slow start giving Darren Clark the chance to pass during the curve, putting Australia into the lead at the break. Taking an efficient tangen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9930642 | 1,934,528 |
60,502 | The Misgav Ladach method is a modified caesarean section which has been used nearly all over the world since the 1990s. It was described by Michael Stark, the president of the New European Surgical Academy, at the time he was the director of Misgav Ladach, a general hospital in Jerusalem. The method was presented durin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46924 | 60,477 |
1,961,898 | The National Youth Science Camp (NYSCamp) is a free residential honors program for two accomplished high school graduates from each state in the USA, plus Washington, DC. As of 2020, NYSCamp also accepts two delegates to represent Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, and Trinidad and Tobago. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36489354 | 1,960,770 |
2,218,494 | Fawcett was the son of Richard Fawcett, incumbent of St. John's Church, Leeds, Yorkshire, was born in that town in 1752. He had a weakly constitution from birth. Having passed through Leeds Grammar School with credit, he was entered at St. John's College, Cambridge, 26 March 1770, under John Chevallier, and went into r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30831022 | 2,217,232 |
702,178 | In 1990, "" segmented its plot into segregated chapters, making the game more linear than its predecessor while allowing for greater characterization. The game also introduced an AI system called "Tactics" which allowed the player to modify the strategies used by the allied party members while maintaining full control ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408675 | 701,813 |
1,412,579 | Once a rice village, the pollution has made Guiyu unable to produce crops for food and the water of the river is undrinkable. Many of the primitive recycling operations in Guiyu are toxic and dangerous to workers' health with 80% of children suffering from lead poisoning. Above-average miscarriage rates are also report... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22995310 | 1,411,784 |
25,814 | Small localized paralytic polio epidemics began to appear in Europe and the United States around 1900. Outbreaks reached pandemic proportions in Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand during the first half of the 20th century. By 1950, the peak age incidence of paralytic poliomyelitis in the United States ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25107 | 25,805 |
1,835,388 | The Barrell family originated from a family that migrated from Suffolk in Britain to Boston in 1637. Joseph was born at New Providence on December 15, 1869. His father Henry Ferdinand and his mother Elizabeth née Wisner, of Swiss descent, had owned a farm in Warwick, Orange County, New York before moving to a new farm ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20031674 | 1,834,339 |
1,241,162 | In 1961, a Danish ophthalmologist named Mette Warburg reported on a Danish family that showed seven cases of a hereditary degenerative disease throughout seven generations. The first member of the family to be thoroughly studied was a 12-month-old boy. At the child's examination at three months, it was noticed that he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1971959 | 1,240,491 |
466,732 | NASA's Hyper-X program is the successor to the National Aerospace Plane (NASP) program which was cancelled in November 1994. This program involves flight testing through the construction of the X-43 vehicles. NASA first successfully flew its X-43A scramjet test vehicle on March 27, 2004 (an earlier test, on June 2, 200... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4841481 | 466,499 |
277,469 | By being hydrophobic and small, or inhibiting astrocyte function, some compounds including certain neurotoxins are able to penetrate into the brain and induce significant damage. In modern times, scientists and physicians have been presented with the challenge of identifying and treating neurotoxins, which has resulted... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=326357 | 277,319 |
1,388,561 | When comparing the three main traditions of the computational theory of mind, as well as the different possible forms of computation in the brain, it is helpful to define what we mean by computation in a general sense. Computation is the processing of information, otherwise known as variables or entities, according to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3630374 | 1,387,791 |
1,736,973 | In life sciences, single-particle tracking is broadly used to quantify the dynamics of molecules/proteins in live cells (of bacteria, yeast, mammalian cells and live "Drosophila" embryos). It has been extensively used to study the transcription factor dynamics in live cells. This method has been extensively used in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21059952 | 1,735,996 |
1,015,125 | The RAMC began to develop during the Boer War of 1899–1902. The Corps itself lost 743 officers and 6130 soldiers in the war. However, far more of them, and thousands more of the sick and wounded they treated, would have died if it had not been for the civilian doctors working in South Africa as volunteers—such as Sir F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1182289 | 1,014,604 |
55,716 | Since the end of FY 2015, the US Navy has upgraded all Phalanx systems to the Block 1B variant. In addition to the FLIR sensor, the Block 1B incorporates an automatic acquisition video tracker, optimized gun barrels (OGB), and Enhanced Lethality Cartridges (ELC) for additional capabilities against asymmetric threats su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89872 | 55,693 |
369,413 | Full decarbonisation of the global energy system is expected to take several decades and can mostly be achieved with existing technologies. The IEA states that further innovation in the energy sector, such as in battery technologies and carbon-neutral fuels, is needed to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Developing new... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1055890 | 369,220 |
94,595 | Some of the most striking advances in early anatomy and physiology took place in Hellenistic Alexandria. Two of the most famous anatomists and physiologists of the third century were Herophilus and Erasistratus. These two physicians helped pioneer human dissection for medical research, using the cadavers of condemned c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=674 | 94,554 |
400,730 | "Belfast" is a cruiser of the third Town class. The Town class had originated in 1933 as the Admiralty's response to the Imperial Japanese Navy's , an -ton cruiser mounting fifteen guns with a top speed exceeding . The Admiralty's requirement called for a 9,000-ton cruiser, sufficiently armoured to withstand a direct h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209815 | 400,531 |
2,846 | The first aircraft in Russian military service to emphasize stealth, the Su-57 employs a variety of methods to reduce its radar signature. Similar to other stealth fighters such as the F-22, the aircraft aligns the planform edges to reduce its radar cross-section (RCS); the leading and trailing edges of the wings and c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2971192 | 2,846 |
18,750 | Since its introduction, the M855A1 has been criticized for its St. Mark's SMP842 propellant causing increased fouling of the gun barrel. Post-combat surveys have reported no issues with the EPR in combat. A series of tests found no significant difference in fouling between the old M855 and the M855A1. However, manufact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35022 | 18,742 |
910,148 | J. Hall's (1970) report on the state of site preparation in Ontario noted that blades and rakes were found to be well suited to post-cut scarification in tolerant hardwood stands for natural regeneration of yellow birch. Plows were most effective for treating dense brush prior to planting, often in conjunction with a p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1031149 | 909,669 |
1,482,609 | On March 16, 2009 MannKind submitted a new drug application for their inhalable insulin. In 2011 the FDA denied approval of Afrezza; because the design of the delivery device had changed, it requested additional clinical trials to ensure that people would use it the same way as the earlier versions. After conducting fu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3877211 | 1,481,774 |
1,069,792 | Gold theorized that since petroleum and its component hydrocarbons were present across the entire universe, there was no reason to believe "that on Earth they must be biological in origin". Gold proposed that fuels were trapped inside the core of the Earth in randomized molecular form nearly 4.5 billion years ago. Over... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=156331 | 1,069,238 |
1,422,189 | These problems are often overcome by averaging over many realizations of the same event after applying a taper to each trial. However, this method is unreliable with small data sets and undesirable when one does not wish to attenuate signal components that vary across trials. Furthermore, even when many trials are avai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9166436 | 1,421,388 |
1,124,451 | Cortical white matter increases from childhood (~9 years) to adolescence (~14 years), most notably in the frontal and parietal cortices. Cortical grey matter development peaks at ~12 years of age in the frontal and parietal cortices, and 14-16 years in the temporal lobes (with the superior temporal cortex being last to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14727912 | 1,123,877 |
250,870 | Alumni and former students have also participated in the world of sports. Jason Giambi, Evan Longoria, Troy Tulowitzki, Harold Reynolds, Jered Weaver, Steve Trachsel, and Jason Vargas have all been selected to play in the Major League Baseball All Stars games. Matt Duffy won the World Series with the 2014 San Francisco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=383130 | 250,737 |
75,684 | In continuous-flow solution culture, the nutrient solution constantly flows past the roots. It is much easier to automate than the static solution culture because sampling and adjustments to the temperature, pH, and nutrient concentrations can be made in a large storage tank that has potential to serve thousands of pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14133 | 75,656 |
879,950 | Computational phylogenetics makes extensive use of sequence alignments in the construction and interpretation of phylogenetic trees, which are used to classify the evolutionary relationships between homologous genes represented in the genomes of divergent species. The degree to which sequences in a query set differ is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=331535 | 879,487 |
1,950,746 | As the world is becoming a more globalized society and more and more people are adopting western consumption patterns, there has been a coinciding concern for the impact on our environment incurred by the production, distribution, use and disposal of consumer goods. As a result of this awareness, there are more and mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32271197 | 1,949,625 |
1,162,250 | During this period Wing Commander Adrian Warburton built a reputation as a daring and productive reconnaissance pilot; and Wing Commander D. W. Steventon undertook many important missions, inc. some of the first overflights of the German experimental site of Peenemünde Army Research Center on the Baltic coast. The inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38534810 | 1,161,633 |
1,252,137 | For most of Rock's medical career, he directed and practiced at the Fertility and Endocrine Clinic at the Free Hospital for Women in Boston, Massachusetts. In addition to practicing as a medical doctor, he was an active researcher, striving to discover new knowledge and offer more help to his female patients. In collab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25242913 | 1,251,459 |
202,236 | Cropping systems can be modified to favor natural enemies, a practice sometimes referred to as habitat manipulation. Providing a suitable habitat, such as a shelterbelt, hedgerow, or beetle bank where beneficial insects such as parasitoidal wasps can live and reproduce, can help ensure the survival of populations of na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155739 | 202,132 |
1,749,642 | Other botanists in the twentieth century echoed Lindley's concerns about the lack of a clearly defined grouping for Liliaceae. The earliest of these was Johannes Paulus Lotsy (1911), building on Wettstein's work. Lotsy suggested four separate families, Liliaceae, Alliaceae, Agapanthaceae and Gilliesiaceae, within the "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42056883 | 1,748,656 |
1,910,746 | Social living provides a multitude of advantages to its practitioners, including predation risk reduction, environmental buffering, food procurement, and possible mating advantages. The most advanced form of sociality is eusociality, characterized by overlapping generations, cooperative care of the young, and reproduct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17317817 | 1,909,648 |
1,008,560 | In order to address some of the shortcomings of the S35, SOMUA presented the improved AC5 type in 1939. Based on the SAu 40 chassis and its Char G1-project but with the original width, this SOMUA S40 had a welded ARL 2C turret and redesigned cast superstructure, both to lower production costs and to improve protection ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2838334 | 1,008,039 |
1,578,432 | The initial history of the WTS kicks off with the Krupp firing range in Meppen, which was established by Friedrich Krupp AG from 1877. The eventful history of the site and the holdings there during the First World War, the period of the Treaty of Versailles, the Second World War until the takeover of the properties by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69306757 | 1,577,542 |
1,336,325 | The facts about Leibowitz's early years are problematical, complicated by his practice of reinventing his history, but it is known that he was born in Warsaw. According to his pupil and translator, Jan Maguire, who wrote two studies of him for "Tempo" magazine in the late 1970s, Leibowitz was of Russian Jewish parentag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1995253 | 1,335,595 |
2,062,117 | In recent years there have been plans for the dramatic renewal of Canadian observing facilities in both the visible and radio spectrum. In the visible spectrum, running from the near-ultraviolet to the mid-infrared (0.31 to 28 μm), the Thirty Meter Telescope project calls for the construction of a telescope with a mirr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,927 |
1,014,223 | Rechargeable zinc–air cells require zinc precipitation from the water-based electrolyte to be closely controlled. Challenges include dendrite formation, non-uniform zinc dissolution, and limited solubility in electrolytes. Electrically reversing the reaction at a bi-functional air cathode, to liberate oxygen from disch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1765073 | 1,013,702 |
600,336 | While nanobiology is in its infancy, there are a lot of promising methods that may rely on nanobiology in the future. Biological systems are inherently nano in scale; nanoscience must merge with biology in order to deliver biomacromolecules and molecular machines that are similar to nature. Controlling and mimicking th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2154572 | 600,030 |
601,857 | The U.S. Navy released the long-delayed RFP for the UCLASS on 17 April 2014, after Navy Secretary Ray Mabus signed the draft the previous day. The draft RFP was planned to be released in mid-2013, but was repeatedly delayed by disagreements over the proposed aircraft's stealth levels, ability to survive in contested ai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39092723 | 601,548 |
1,188,108 | A typical integrated circuit layout for an array of junctions is shown in Fig. 6. The microwave drive power is collected from a waveguide by a finline antenna, split 16 ways, and injected into 16 junction strip lines of 1263 junctions each. The junction striplines are separated from a superconductive ground plane by ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47967448 | 1,187,476 |
831,471 | This implementation could make more effective use of the computer's built in arithmetic. A simple escalation would be to use base 100 (with corresponding changes to the translation process for output), or, with sufficiently wide computer variables (such as 32-bit integers) we could use larger bases, such as 10,000. Wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600892 | 831,022 |
1,364,241 | On July 10, 1941 Zelinsky joined the Scientific and Technical Council for the development and testing of scientific works related to military defense, chaired by the authorized State Defense Committee, Professor Sergei Kaftanov. During the Great Patriotic War, he worked in evacuation until the summer of 1943. Zelinsky ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1030290 | 1,363,485 |
542 | With the exponential surge of artificial technology and communication, the distribution of one's ideals and values has been evident in daily life. Digital information is spread via communication apps such as Whatsapp, Facebook/Meta, Snapchat, Instagram and Twitter. However, it is known that these sites relay specific i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1164 | 542 |
1,311,167 | One challenge facing Irrational was identified from "BioShock", in which players, once equipped with specific plasmids and weapons, could complete the game without having to alter their weapons; Levine quotes the saying "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" to describe how they found players wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38977195 | 1,310,448 |
983,076 | It was only in the 19th century that debates over technological unemployment became intense, especially in Great Britain where many economic thinkers of the time were concentrated. Building on the work of Dean Tucker and Adam Smith, political economists began to create what would become the modern discipline of economi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32040137 | 982,563 |
2,142,601 | Ion thrusters are an enabling technology for SSP Low Earth Orbit (LEO) to Geostationary Orbit (GEO) orbit transfer and station keeping. Studies showed that advanced electric propulsion can provide a factor of 5 increase in payload for Earth to orbit transfer when compared to storable biprop and cryogenic biprop thruste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6773732 | 2,141,370 |
869,595 | Special operations weathermen were not included in the failed US embassy hostage rescue attempt in Iran in 1980, known as Operation Eagle Claw. A review group composed of six senior military officials (Admiral James L. Holloway III, United States Navy, Retired; Lieutenant General Samuel V. Wilson, United States Army, R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5662029 | 869,135 |
349,372 | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe described his architecture with the famous saying, "Less is more". As the director of the school of architecture of what is now called the Illinois Institute of Technology from 1939 to 1956, Mies (as he was commonly known) made Chicago the leading city for American modernism in the postwar year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315927 | 349,189 |
420,538 | Methods for generating polygenic scores in humans are an active area of research. A key consideration in developing polygenic scores is which SNPs and the number of SNPs to include. The simplest so-called "pruning and thresholding" method of construction sets weights equal to the coefficient estimates from a regression... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52142704 | 420,333 |
2,119,044 | The Akademische Fliegergruppe of the Technical University of Darmstadt (Akaflieg Darmstadt) was first formed in 1921. It was, and is, a group of aeronautical students who design and construct aircraft as part of their studies and with the help and encouragement of their University. Before the Cirrus their sailplanes de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34454811 | 2,117,826 |
1,221,856 | On March 2, 2010, at the inaugural ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit, U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced a third funding opportunity for ARPA-E projects. Like the second funding opportunity, ARPA-E solicited projects by category: Grid-Scale Rampable Intermittent Dispatchable Storage (GRIDS), Agile Delivery of Ele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21687875 | 1,221,197 |
849,395 | One common way of reconciling these two opposing forces is simply to exempt all gene and protein symbols from the glossing rule. This is certainly fast and easy to do, and in highly specialized journals, it is also justified because the entire target readership has high subject matter expertise. (Experts are not confus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9894237 | 848,945 |
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