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2,113,339 | The benefit of the Monte Carlo analysis is not to decrease uncertainty in the input statistics, but to represent the different combinations of the variables that determine potential risks of water-quality excursions. SELDM provides a method for rapid assessment of information that is otherwise difficult or impossible t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45102490 | 2,112,124 |
679,632 | In 2017, the ISSF made the unusual move to refer Vice-President (also head of the Italian Clay Pigeon Federation (FITAV)) to the Ethics Committee, accusing him of conflicts of interest and disloyalty. Rossi had criticised the changes to the Olympic Shooting Programme, which included dropping the Prone Rifle, 50 meter P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2528826 | 679,278 |
996,073 | The Manges model uses a first principles theoretical approach that eschews "G" curves and "ballistic coefficients" based on the standard G1 and other similarity curves. The theoretical description has three main parts. The first is to develop and solve a formulation of the two dimensional differential equations of moti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584911 | 995,555 |
19,225 | While some descriptions of taxonomic history attempt to date taxonomy to ancient civilizations, a truly scientific attempt to classify organisms did not occur until the 18th century. Earlier works were primarily descriptive and focused on plants that were useful in agriculture or medicine. There are a number of stages ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30463 | 19,217 |
31,302 | Medications for PCOS include oral contraceptives and metformin. The oral contraceptives increase sex hormone binding globulin production, which increases binding of free testosterone. This reduces the symptoms of hirsutism caused by high testosterone and regulates return to normal menstrual periods. Metformin is a medi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54301 | 31,292 |
225,653 | Elimination and substitution are the most desirable approaches to hazard control. While the nanomaterials themselves often cannot be eliminated or substituted with conventional materials, it may be possible to choose properties of the nanoparticle such as size, shape, functionalization, surface charge, solubility, aggl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=868108 | 225,537 |
1,568,206 | Her first two publications in scientific journals showed the mechanisms for reactions that involved the enzymes enolase that metabolizes carbohydrates, and pyruvate kinase. Her first groundbreaking experiments were carried out in the late 1970s and early 1980s, while she was at Yale, then the University of Wisconsin. S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22072352 | 1,567,319 |
310,512 | In 1941, Zuse followed his earlier machine up with the Z3, the world's first working electromechanical programmable, fully automatic digital computer. The Z3 was built with 2000 relays, implementing a 22-bit word length that operated at a clock frequency of about 5–10 Hz. Program code and data were stored on punched fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13636 | 310,344 |
1,268,825 | Hartsfield was the pilot on STS-4, the fourth and final orbital test flight of the shuttle "Columbia", which launched from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 27 June 1982. He was accompanied by Thomas K. Mattingly II (spacecraft commander) on this seven-day mission designed to: further verify ascent and entry phases of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=499520 | 1,268,135 |
1,108,426 | To fulfill the conditions required for a nuclear renewable energy concept, one has to explore a combination of processes going from the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle to the fuel production and the energy conversion using specific fluid fuels and reactors, as reported by Degueldre et al. (2019). Extraction of uran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23210252 | 1,107,862 |
721,684 | To fulfill the conditions required for a nuclear renewable energy concept, one has to explore a combination of processes going from the front end of the nuclear fuel cycle to the fuel production and the energy conversion using specific fluid fuels and reactors, as reported by Degueldre et al. (2019). Extraction of uran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=194031 | 721,304 |
870,444 | Clares also produced a 256-colour package called ProArtisan, also with its own special user interface (despite the impending arrival of RISC OS), costing considerably more than its predecessor (£170, compared to £40 for Artisan), offering a wider range of tools than Artisan including sprays, washes and path editing (us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 869,984 |
1,131,987 | In a simple form, the gaseous detection device (GDD) employs an electrode with a voltage up to several hundred volts to collect the secondary electrons in the ESEM. The principle of this SE detector is best described by considering two parallel plates at a distance d apart with a potential difference V generating a uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9778156 | 1,131,395 |
803,929 | There are several factors that contribute to the exceptional performance of a skill: memory capacities, knowledge structures, problem-solving abilities, and attentional abilities. They all play key roles, each with its own degree of importance based on the procedures and skills required, the context, and the intended g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21312313 | 803,500 |
367,075 | The announcement of a new purported clean source of energy came at a crucial time: adults still remembered the 1973 oil crisis and the problems caused by oil dependence, anthropogenic global warming was starting to become notorious, the anti-nuclear movement was labeling nuclear power plants as dangerous and getting th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7463 | 366,883 |
859,327 | Five classes of visual opsins are found in vertebrates. All but one of these developed prior to the divergence of Cyclostomata and fish. The five opsin classes are variously adapted depending on the light spectrum encountered. As light travels through water, longer wavelengths, such as reds and yellows, are absorbed mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5645086 | 858,869 |
1,375,145 | Humans have innate wonder, exploring many topics through experience and perception. From this wonder, individuals rationally reflects on their own experiences about a specific topic. Then the individual practices dialectics, examining what others have said about the topic being explored with the hopes of finding a part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=981440 | 1,374,386 |
567,808 | Research on intelligent code completion began in 1957, with spelling checkers for bitmap images of cursive writing and special applications to find records in databases despite incorrect entries. In 1961, Les Earnest, who headed the research on this budding technology, saw it necessary to include the first spell checke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=667170 | 567,518 |
345,794 | Despite these experiments, Lavoisier's antiphlogistic approach remained unaccepted by many other chemists. Lavoisier labored to provide definitive proof of the composition of water, attempting to use this in support of his theory. Working with Jean-Baptiste Meusnier, Lavoisier passed water through a red-hot iron gun ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1822 | 345,613 |
122,717 | Miller and Cohen draw explicitly upon an earlier theory of visual attention that conceptualises perception of visual scenes in terms of competition among multiple representations – such as colors, individuals, or objects. Selective visual attention acts to 'bias' this competition in favour of certain selected features ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3704475 | 122,668 |
2,136,587 | The Retarding Ion Mass Spectrometer (RIMS) consisted of a retarding potential analyzer for energy analysis in series with a magnetic ion-mass spectrometer for mass analysis. Multiple sensor heads permitted the determination of the thermal plasma flow characteristics. This instrument was designed to operate in two basic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69341287 | 2,135,359 |
1,540,733 | The Otago settlement was established in 1848 and had an overwhelmingly Presbyterian character. There were very few Catholics there. However, in March 1861 gold was discovered at the Lindis Pass and Gabriel Read made public his successful discovery of gold at Tuapeka in June. The situation dramatically changed. Every st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4966736 | 1,539,860 |
1,303,553 | His father was the business partner of his maternal grandfather in lace manufacturing, a traditional industry in Calais. Debreu was orphaned at an early age, as his father committed suicide and his mother died of natural causes. Prior to the start of World War II, he received his baccalauréat and went to Ambert to begi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=474724 | 1,302,837 |
37,979 | Despite what English naturalist Charles Darwin had hypothesised in his 1871 book "Descent of Man", many late-19th century evolutionary naturalists postulated that Asia, not Africa, was the birthplace of humankind as it is midway between Europe and America, providing optimal dispersal routes throughout the world (the Ou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19554533 | 37,966 |
29,689 | At a scientific conference on 26–28 February 1942 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, called by the Army Weapons Office, Heisenberg presented a lecture to Reichs officials on energy acquisition from nuclear fission. The lecture, entitled "Die theoretischen Grundlagen für die Energiegewinnung aus der Uranspaltu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33130 | 29,679 |
579,543 | A main distinction to understand when looking at psychology and culture is the difference between individualistic and collectivistic cultures. People from an individualistic culture typically demonstrate an independent view of the self; the focus is usually on personal achievement. Members of a collectivistic society h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2700105 | 579,246 |
1,870,767 | The Mount Elbert Gas Hydrate Stratigraphic Test Well was drilled from an ice pad constructed to protect sensitive arctic tundra with drilling operations designed to verify the nature of one of fourteen gas hydrate prospects previously identified by the project within the Milne Point Unit. The Doyon 14 rig began drillin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32303587 | 1,869,690 |
1,212,523 | Of electron donors, organic matter has the most negative redox potential. It can consist of deposits from regions where sunlight is available or produced by local organisms. Fresh material is more easily utilized than aged. Terrestrial organic matter (mainly from plants) is typically harder to process than marine (phyt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61218171 | 1,211,871 |
1,826,955 | Many textbooks describe carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in easily understood terms: carbon nanotubes are tubular structures made entirely of rolled-up layers of graphene. The diameters of CNTs ranges from about one nanometer to tens of nanometers, while their lengths can be up to centimeters, much greater than the diameters. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33178140 | 1,825,916 |
1,436,307 | When AuNRs are exposed to NIR light, the oscillating electromagnetic field of the light causes the free electrons of the AuNR to collectively coherently oscillate. Changing the size and shape of AuNRs changes the wavelength that gets absorbed. A desired wavelength would be between 700-1000 nm because biological tissue ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11693664 | 1,435,499 |
1,108,232 | Temperatures measured after year 1957 until the early 2000s show a difference in trend on the Antarctic Peninsula and the continental interior. According to a study in 2009, West Antarctica increased in temperature by 0.176 ± 0.06 °C per decade between year 1957 and 2006. Another study in year 2020 show a cooling of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46905624 | 1,107,668 |
756,293 | Komarov then activated the manually deployed reserve chute, but it became tangled with the drogue chute, which did not release as intended. As a result, the Soyuz descent module fell to Earth in Orenburg Oblast almost entirely unimpeded, at about . A rescue helicopter spotted the descent module lying on its side with t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=98350 | 755,890 |
279,254 | Most estimates for the duration of a polarity transition are between 1,000 and 10,000 years, but some estimates are as quick as a human lifetime. Studies of 16.7-million-year-old lava flows on Steens Mountain, Oregon, indicate that the Earth's magnetic field is capable of shifting at a rate of up to 6 degrees per day. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2203131 | 279,104 |
1,143,951 | Sensory substitutions have also been successful with the emergence of wearable haptic actuators like vibrotactile motors, solenoids, peltier diodes, etc. At the Center for Cognitive Ubiquitous Computing at Arizona State University, researchers have developed technologies that enable people who are blind to perceive soc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1903855 | 1,143,351 |
724,460 | Several researchers, including Nobel Prize winner Dr. Richard Smalley (1943–2005), attacked the notion of universal assemblers, leading to a rebuttal from Drexler and colleagues, and eventually to an exchange of letters. Smalley argued that chemistry is extremely complicated, reactions are hard to control, and that a u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19637 | 724,080 |
1,906,060 | The German invasion of Poland began on 1 September 1939. On the advice – seriously flawed, as it turned out – of British general, Sir Adrian Carton de Wiart, resident in Poland, on 5 September, the family fled East. They went to stay in Mołodów, Polesie Voivodeship on the estate of Henryk Skirmunt and his sister, Maria... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28810330 | 1,904,964 |
1,978,163 | Dipen Sinha of the Los Alamos National Laboratory developed ARS in 1989. Most published work in acoustics has been in the ultrasonic region and their instrumentation has dealt with propagation through a medium and not a resonance effect. One of the first, if not the first publication related to acoustic resonance was i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21807867 | 1,977,025 |
1,706,843 | Carnoy and Rothstein write that PISA spokesman Schleicher has been quoted saying that "international education benchmarks make disappointing reading for the U.S." and that "in the U.S. in particular, poverty was destiny. Low-income American students did (and still do) much worse than high-income ones on PISA. But poor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50185803 | 1,705,885 |
327,713 | The Protestant Reformation inspired a literal interpretation of the Bible, with concepts of creation that conflicted with the findings of an emerging science seeking explanations congruent with the mechanical philosophy of René Descartes and the empiricism of the Baconian method. After the turmoil of the English Civil ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29932 | 327,539 |
61,600 | A wide range of instrumentation is used by electrical engineers. For simple control circuits and alarms, a basic multimeter measuring voltage, current, and resistance may suffice. Where time-varying signals need to be studied, the oscilloscope is also an ubiquitous instrument. In RF engineering and high frequency telec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9531 | 61,575 |
341,968 | Historically, the “Monoamine Imbalance” hypothesis of depression played a dominant role in psychiatry and drug development. However, while the elevated NE, 5HT, or DA elicited by traditional antidepressants is quick, there is a significant delay in clinical efficacy and often inadequate treatment response. As neuroscie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1948637 | 341,787 |
463,689 | The centrifugal separation of isotopes was first suggested by Aston and Lindemann in 1919 and the first successful experiments were reported by Beams and Haynes on isotopes of chlorine in 1936. However attempts to use the technology during the Manhattan project were unproductive. In modern times it is the main method u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37197 | 463,459 |
2,162,906 | Developing these technologies for future A/C, there is currently (2011 – 2015) a running project, partially funded by the European Commission, called "SARISTU" (Smart Intelligent Aircraft Structures) with a total budget of €51,000,000. This initiative is coordinated by Airbus and brings together 64 partners from 16 Eur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37292180 | 2,161,671 |
1,321,671 | Research in the mid-1950s to early 1960s focused on the cryotron invented by Dudley Allen Buck, but the liquid-helium temperatures and the slow switching time between superconducting and resistive states caused this research to be abandoned. In 1962 Brian Josephson established the theory behind the Josephson effect, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42266481 | 1,320,945 |
139,880 | The first low-cost spectrophotometer capable of recording an infrared spectrum was the Perkin-Elmer Infracord produced in 1957. This instrument covered the wavelength range from 2.5 μm to 15 μm (wavenumber range 4,000 cm to 660 cm). The lower wavelength limit was chosen to encompass the highest known vibration frequenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19762116 | 139,823 |
2,230,972 | Austehc Web was able to provide a wide variety of resources that could be easily accessed by people of different levels, ranging from primary school materials to PhD documentations. During the time Austehc was active, they contributed greatly to the University of Melbourne and their students. They started teaching an u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11681272 | 2,229,706 |
1,864,090 | Scientists around Daniel Rugar and John Mamin at the IBM research laboratories in Almaden have been the pioneers in using heated AFM (atomic force microscope) probes for the modification of surfaces. In 1992, they used microsecond laser pulses to heat AFM tips to write indents as small as 150 nm into the polymer PMMA a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29284770 | 1,863,018 |
1,014,370 | In 1997, Indian Point Unit 3 was removed from the NRC's list of plants that receive increased attention from the regulator. An engineer for the NRC noted that the plant had been experiencing increasingly fewer problems during inspections. On March 10, 2009 the Indian Point Power Plant was awarded the fifth consecutive ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1632712 | 1,013,849 |
111,834 | An important aspect to the Order of St. Anthony's treatment practices was the exclusion of rye bread and other ergot-containing edibles, which halted the progression of ergotism. There was no known cure for ergotism itself; however, there was treatment of the symptoms, which often included blood constriction, nervous d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=262925 | 111,789 |
196,795 | The Open Source Agriculture movement counts different initiatives and organizations such as Farm Labs which is a network in Europe, l'Atelier Paysan which is a cooperative to teach farmers in France how to build and repair their tools, and Ekylibre which is an open-source company to provide farmers in France with open ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23672379 | 196,695 |
1,460,858 | Dendrimers are unique hyper-branched synthetic polymers with monodispersed size, well-defined structure, and a highly functionalized terminal surface. They are typically composed of synthetic or natural amino acid, nucleic acids, and carbohydrates. Therapeutics can be loaded with relative ease onto the interior of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59383794 | 1,460,036 |
1,138,046 | Van Pelt et al. (2004) outlined the process in Quantifying and Visualizing Canopy Structure in Tall Forests: Methods and a Case Study. In the example he used a LTI Criterion 400 Laser Survey instrument to map the tree canopies. It is essentially a device that includes a laser-rangefinder, clinometer, and a compass. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39007810 | 1,137,453 |
1,133,113 | In 2010, a study was published on the soft parts visible with the "Victoria" specimen. It preserves both true impressions of the skin into the surrounding sediment, and natural casts, where the spaces left behind by the rotting of the soft body parts have been filled in with sediment. Additionally on some areas a black... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1250880 | 1,132,520 |
1,718,340 | After her husband died in 1710, Kirch attempted to assume his place as astronomer and calendar maker at the Royal Academy of Sciences. Her actions were representative of a well established principle that allowed widow's to take over their husbands craft after their death. Despite her petition being supported by Leibniz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5190038 | 1,717,370 |
1,326,558 | Pathogens synthesize proteins that can serve as ""recognizable"" antigens; they may express the molecules on their surface or release them into the surroundings (body fluids). What makes these substances recognizable is that they bind very specifically and somewhat strongly to certain host proteins called "antibodies".... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9335254 | 1,325,831 |
241,537 | In "Portal 2", the player explores these long-abandoned areas of Aperture, learning that the company had moved from testing on the country's finest, to paid volunteers, and ultimately to forcing its own employees to participate in testing. Near the point of his death, Johnson ordered his lifelong assistant Caroline (vo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31697773 | 241,411 |
1,626,033 | During the period after the WW II, the University's graduates participated in the restoration of the city and industrial objects much destroyed by the enemy. The second half of the 20th century was the time when professional knowledge and expertise, experience and traditions were accumulated, and highly qualified speci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18480316 | 1,625,115 |
2,128,317 | Thankfully, while many problems exist with PDMS, many solutions have also been developed. To address the negative hydrophobicity and porosity that PDMS exhibits, researchers have started to use coatings such as BSA (bovine serum albumin) or charged molecules to create a layer between the native PDMS and the cells. Othe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57569740 | 2,127,094 |
1,891,101 | "GURPS Bio-Tech" includes a detailed introduction into biotechnology, speaking about both its practices in a real-world sense, and its applications in science fiction and fantasy. In addition to new and supplemental rules for the game, the book goes into great detail discussing what the world would (potentially) be lik... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4789055 | 1,890,018 |
1,017,833 | The Magna Sports was available in only four colours: "Paris White", "Calypso Red", "Nautilus Blue" (deep blue), and "Frontier Green" (deep green), the latter two colours being new to the TF series. This new model carried all the standard features of the Executive model on which it was based, plus a deck lid spoiler, re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=903910 | 1,017,309 |
2,020,988 | Electrical engineering also had a major influence on computer science at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt (TH Darmstadt). In 1964, Robert Piloty was appointed to the chair of data technology at TH Darmstadt. In the 1960s, Germany lacked competitiveness in the field of data processing. To counteract this, the Federal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62391933 | 2,019,825 |
818,050 | Certain environmental conditions can lead to the algae spreading over large areas. In August 2009, unprecedented levels of the algae washed up on the beaches of Brittany, France, causing a major public health scare as it decomposed. The rotting thalli produced large quantities of hydrogen sulfide, a toxic gas which, li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1856429 | 817,612 |
1,663,440 | The thrifty phenotype hypothesis proposes that a low availability of nutrients during the prenatal stage followed by an improvement in nutritional availability in early childhood causes an increase risk of metabolic disorders, including Type II diabetes, as a result of permanent changes in the metabolic processing of g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47957160 | 1,662,505 |
1,601,794 | Armstrong continued his work through 1842, finding a similar effect with compressed air rather than steam, and constructing an "evaporating apparatus" with a specially designed friction nozzle able to produce sparks. The electrical charge on the steam was positive, although Faraday discovered that adding turpentine to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57718998 | 1,600,893 |
113,825 | Schoenberg's serial technique of composition with twelve notes became one of the most central and polemical issues among American and European musicians during the mid- to late-twentieth century. Beginning in the 1940s and continuing to the present day, composers such as Pierre Boulez, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Luigi Nono... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67025 | 113,780 |
1,799,038 | The Functional Independence Measure (FIM) is an assessment tool that aims to evaluate the functional status of patients throughout the rehabilitation process following a stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury or cancer. Its area of use can include skilled nursing facilities and hospitals aimed at acute, sub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48342958 | 1,798,029 |
532,277 | Anoles mainly detect potential enemies by sight, but their hearing range also closely matches the typical vocal range of birds. If hearing a predatory bird, like a kestrel or hawk, they increase their vigilance. When hearing a non-predatory bird little or no change happens. Most anole species will try to escape from a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322654 | 532,003 |
1,198,343 | Before university, Alexa Canady was nominated as a National Achievement Scholar in 1967. Canady attended the University of Michigan where she received her B.S. degree in zoology in 1971 and became a member of Delta Sigma Theta. Her time at the University of Michigan was not without its struggles; she almost dropped out... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30961849 | 1,197,702 |
1,712,067 | This logical structure can be seen as a prototype for the organisation of "On the Origin of Species", presenting the detail of various aspects of the problem, then setting out a theory explaining the phenomena, followed by a demonstration of the wider explanatory power of the theory. Unlike the "Origin" which was hurri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21185695 | 1,711,102 |
2,215,974 | Hernia operations are among the most common surgical procedures performed today with over 20 million cases annually worldwide. Hernia incidents rates are 27% for males and 3% for females over their lifespan, with complications ranging from associated with mild pain, poor quality-of-life for the patient and in rare caus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33775636 | 2,214,714 |
2,002,299 | Quasicrystals were first reported in 1984 and named so by Dov Levine and Paul Steinhardt. More than 100 quasicrystal compositions have been discovered by 2009—all synthesized in the laboratory. Steinhardt initiated a large-scale search for natural quasicrystals around the year of 2000 using the database of the Internat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23910190 | 2,001,151 |
1,319,938 | The CK1 family of monomeric serine–threonine protein kinases is found in eukaryotic organisms from yeast to humans. Mammals have seven family members (sometimes referred to as isoforms, but encoded by distinct genes): alpha, beta 1, gamma 1, gamma 2, gamma 3, delta, and epsilon. Isoforms range from 22 to 55 kDa and hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5785538 | 1,319,212 |
243,176 | In 2017, the USN grounded the T-45 fleet for a three-day "safety pause" after more than 100 instructor pilots refused to fly the aircraft. The pilots cited concerns about incidents of hypoxia that they believed to have resulted from faulty onboard oxygen-generation systems. Over the past five years physiological episod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=425509 | 243,049 |
416,353 | Being before even rudimentary scientific methods such as control groups—and by extension, double-blind experiments—existed, statistical methodology for applications in human behavior and medical research did not emerge during Cottons' lifetime. He could only follow faulty methods to compile data, much of it allowing fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1991008 | 416,150 |
1,668,900 | In 1949, researchers at Connaught discovered a purely synthetic blend of 60 ingredients that efficiently fed the cells required to cultivate viruses. They named it "Medium 199", having hit upon the mix after 198 attempts and more than two years or experimentation. In November 1951, the Medium 199 team supplied the poli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61019378 | 1,667,960 |
1,155,480 | Researchers have been able to show that effective and selective GCPII inhibitors are able to decrease the brain's levels of glutamate and even provide protection from apoptosis or degradation of brain neurons in many animal models of stroke, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and neuropathic pain. This inhibition of these ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10843628 | 1,154,870 |
383,908 | In the early 1500s a larger arquebus known as the musket appeared. The heavy musket, while being rather awkward to handle, requiring a fork rest to fire properly, had the advantage of being able to penetrate the best armor within a range of 180 meters, regular armor at 365 meters, and an unarmed man at 548 meters. Howe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12063194 | 383,713 |
626,270 | Later in 1957, Australian immunologist Frank Macfarlane Burnet published a paper titled "A modification of Jerne's theory of antibody production using the concept of clonal selection" in the rather obscure "Australian Journal of Science". In it Burnet expanded the ideas of Talmage and named the resulting theory the "cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2851103 | 625,937 |
439,790 | The first samples of "Khibiny" were far from ideal as to their weight and size parameters were not suitable for installation on the aircraft. To solve this problem KNIRTI collaborated closely with Sukhoi, working under the direction of Rollan G. Martirosov. Collaborate on a plane integrated ECM (received code "product ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45586559 | 439,576 |
37,278 | The earliest work about backwards time travel is uncertain. The Chinese novel Supplement to the Journey to the West (c. 1640) by Dong Yue features magical mirrors and jade gateways that connect various points in time. The protagonist Sun Wukong travels back in time to the "World of the Ancients" (Qin Dynasty) to retrie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31591 | 37,265 |
88,762 | Because of these complexities, it is common for organizations to use a RTOS, allowing the application programmers to concentrate on device functionality rather than operating system services, at least for large systems; smaller systems often cannot afford the overhead associated with a "generic" real-time system, due t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46630 | 88,726 |
1,810,457 | On 25 June 2009, the University Board of Governors voted to reunify the four separate faculties of Communication and Culture, Fine Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences into a single amalgam, the Faculty of Arts. The new streamlined Faculty was finalised on 1 April 2010, and was designed to conform with other Canadian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51387853 | 1,809,434 |
547,766 | Volkow's imaging studies of the brains of people addicted to drugs have helped to clarify the mechanisms of drug addiction. At Brookhaven, positron emission tomography (PET) scanning was being used to study the brain in people with schizophrenia. When Volkow moved to the University of Texas, studying patients with schi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11066555 | 547,479 |
794,077 | Actual consumption depends on gradients, maximum speeds, and loading and stopping patterns. Data produced for the European MEET project (Methodologies for Estimating Air Pollutant Emissions) illustrate the different consumption patterns over several track sections. The results show the consumption for a German ICE high... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9848870 | 793,652 |
1,637,209 | Serving as an Atlantic Fleet auxiliary for the next six years, the collier cruised the east coast from Boston to Rio de Janeiro, decommissioning twice for brief periods of upkeep — first from 23 June 1906 to 1 February 1907 and then again from 3 January 1910 to 16 September 1911 — and coaling many ships of the Atlantic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19401901 | 1,636,284 |
2,175,379 | A native of Perth, Scotland, Johnston was born on October 13, 1881. He earned a bachelor's of science degree in 1903 and a doctor of science in 1908. From 1903 to 1905, Johnston's studies at St. Andrews University were funded by the Carnegie Scholarship. He began working at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59420294 | 2,174,135 |
32,131 | Gardner began by describing the strategic consequences of ICBMs and briefly what the other two presenters would say. Von Neumann then began his speech, with no notes as he often did, speaking as the nation's preeminent scientist in matters of nuclear weaponry. He discussed technical matters, from the base nuclear engin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15942 | 32,119 |
2,184,467 | David Politzer was the recipient of the 2011 Houston Center for Photography Carol Crow Fellowship Award. His work has been shown at Artspace in New Haven, Connecticut,Vox Populi (Philadelphia), Video Dumbo (Brooklyn), the Syracuse International Film Festival and in a solo exhibition at the Museum of Northern Arizona. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55019100 | 2,183,219 |
1,879,980 | In April 2015, construction was temporarily suspended by Brazil's Ministry of Labor and Employment, claiming a "grave and imminent danger to the physical safety of workers." The ministry cited their concerns for "the absence of collective protection", and risk of workers falling, in addition to lack of security, no tec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26987883 | 1,878,899 |
870,417 | The machines were supplied with RISC OS 3.10 or 3.11. The A30x0 series had a one-piece design, similar to the A3000 but slightly more shallow, while the A4000 looked like a slightly slimmer A5000. The A3010 model was intended to be a home computing machine, featuring a TV modulator (for use with traditional PAL-standar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 869,957 |
390,302 | Generally speaking, anything that increases the rate of a process is a "catalyst", a term derived from Greek καταλύειν, meaning "to annul," or "to untie," or "to pick up." The concept of catalysis was invented by chemist Elizabeth Fulhame and described in a 1794 book, based on her novel work in oxidation-reduction expe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5914 | 390,107 |
604,270 | The Aircraft Board came under severe criticism for failure to meet goals or its own claims of aircraft production, followed by a highly publicized personal investigation by Gutzon Borglum, a harshly vocal critic of the board. Borglum had exchanged letters with President Wilson, a personal friend, from which he assumed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=662917 | 603,960 |
975,074 | The main cytotoxic effect of "M. pneumoniae" is local disruption of tissue and cell structure along the respiratory tract epithelium due to its close proximity to host cells. Attachment of the bacteria to host cells can result in loss of cilia, a reduction in metabolism, biosynthesis, and import of macromolecules, and,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=466746 | 974,563 |
907,486 | Since the discovery of ribozymes that exist in living organisms, there has been interest in the study of new synthetic ribozymes made in the laboratory. For example, artificially-produced self-cleaving RNAs that have good enzymatic activity have been produced. Tang and Breaker isolated self-cleaving RNAs by in vitro se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=237132 | 907,008 |
659,022 | Medicolegal forensic entomology covers evidence gathered through arthropod studies at the scenes of murder, suicide, rape, physical abuse and contraband trafficking. In murder investigations it deals with which insects eggs appear, their location on the body and in what order they appear. This can be helpful in determi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61289 | 658,677 |
299,280 | The firefighters who departed from Belluno, after receiving reports about the raising of the level of the Piave, could not reach the location, since from a certain point onwards the road, coming from the valley, had been completely ripped off. Longarone was reached by firefighters who departed Pieve di Cadore, who were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=679597 | 299,119 |
290,124 | Edward Thorndike (1874–1949) supported the scientific movement in education. He based teaching practices on empirical evidence and measurement. Thorndike developed the theory of instrumental conditioning or the law of effect. The law of effect states that associations are strengthened when it is followed by something p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10332 | 289,967 |
626,804 | Micro Facial expression training tools and subtle Facial expression training tools are software made to develop someone's skills in the competence of recognizing emotion. The software consists of a set of videos that you watch after being educated on the facial expressions. After watching a short clip, there is a test ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=566231 | 626,471 |
1,484,413 | Raw data frequently contain hidden frequencies. Combinations of a few fixed frequency waves can complicate the recognition of the mixture of signals, but still remain predictable over time. Publications show that atmospheric pressure contains hidden periodicities resulting from the gravitational force of the moon and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32683147 | 1,483,576 |
1,591,303 | With a 27-5 record and ranked No. 8 in the country, Georgetown received an at-large bid to the 2008 NCAA tournament, its third consecutive NCAA tournament appearance. Seeded second in the Midwest Regional, the Hoyas began their pursuit of their first back-to-back Final Four appearances since 1984 and 1985 by facing 15t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14518554 | 1,590,408 |
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