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237,498 | Structural MRI scans often reveal frontal lobe and/or anterior temporal lobe atrophy but in early cases the scan may seem normal. Atrophy can be either bilateral or asymmetric. Registration of images at different points of time (e.g., one year apart) can show evidence of atrophy that otherwise (at individual time point... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=668318 | 237,379 |
977,245 | Southeast of Meyer Library is the Robert W. Plaster Sports Complex. Originally built in 1930, the athletic field became the stadium in 1941 and was known for many years as Briggs Stadium in honor of Coach A. W. Briggs, longtime head of Missouri State's athletic department. In 2014, the stadium was converted to a footba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187859 | 976,734 |
454,844 | The origin and age of the hemispheric dichotomy are still debated. Hypotheses of origin generally fall into two categories: one, the dichotomy was produced by a mega-impact event or several large impacts early in the planet's history (exogenic theories) or two, the dichotomy was produced by crustal thinning in the nort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8867758 | 454,622 |
535,104 | Reflecting both the realist and liberal paradigms of international relations and the conception of national interests, a number of other important themes in Australian strategic culture are also obvious. Such themes include: an acceptance of the state as the key actor in international politics, the centrality of notion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,825 |
459,378 | ICAR-National Dairy Research Institute (NDRI) at Karnal, Haryana is one of the premier institutes in the dairy sector, which has contributed a lot in the growth of the dairy industry and played a crucial role in India's development in milk production with its continuous research. Over ninety nine years old NDRI's linea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18078164 | 459,153 |
454,515 | In 1871, Jennie and Thomas Barbour Bryan gave land in Elmhurst to the German Evangelical Synod of the Northwest. This land was given for the purpose of establishing a school to prepare young men for the theological seminary and to train teachers for parochial schools, and was named the Elmhurst Proseminary. The first s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1134127 | 454,293 |
912,810 | The possibility that the El Niño–Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is a tipping element had attracted attention in the past. Normally strong winds blow west across the South Pacific Ocean from South America to Australia. Every two to seven years, the winds weaken due to pressure changes and the air and water in the middle of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16817594 | 912,331 |
614,228 | Raster engraving traces the laser across the surface in a back-and-forth slowly advancing linear pattern that will remind one of the printhead on an inkjet or similar printer. The pattern is usually optimized by the controller/computer so that areas to either side of the pattern which aren't to be engraved are ignored ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=763693 | 613,916 |
317,467 | The infective dose of "L. monocytogenes" varies with the strain and with the susceptibility of the victim. From cases contracted through raw or supposedly pasteurized milk, one may safely assume that, in susceptible persons, fewer than 1,000 total organisms may cause disease. "L. monocytogenes" may invade the gastroint... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=465920 | 317,297 |
1,752,739 | During the five years of this expedition Malaspina fixed the measurements of America's western coast with a precision never before achieved. He measured the height of Mount Saint Elias in Alaska and explored gigantic glaciers, including Malaspina Glacier, later named after him. He demonstrated the feasibility of a poss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6370301 | 1,751,751 |
1,146,523 | States could use their own tax money to support their troops as Ohio did. Following the unexpected carnage at the battle of Shiloh in April 1862, the Ohio state government sent 3 steamboats to the scene as floating hospitals with doctors, nurses and medical supplies. The state fleet expanded to eleven hospital ships. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38600542 | 1,145,919 |
1,605,176 | The modernization of private and state-owned factories and the construction of railways, which began in the 1910s, were not completed by the beginning of the war. Thinking the war would be brief, the government did not involve the private factories of the Urals in the production of guns and shells until the summer of 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66141214 | 1,604,273 |
232,935 | In 1907, Roosevelt faced the greatest domestic economic crisis since the [[Panic of 1893]]. The U.S. [[stock market]] entered a slump in early 1907, and many in the financial markets blamed Roosevelt's regulatory policies for the decline in stock prices. Lacking a strong [[History of central banking in the United State... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3520221 | 232,816 |
298,133 | Cognitive theories grew out of Gestalt psychology. Gestalt psychology was developed in Germany in the early 1900s by Wolfgang Kohler and was brought to America in the 1920s. The German word "Gestalt" is roughly equivalent to the English "emergence (of a form-as in the game pictionary, when all of a sudden one recognise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17994 | 297,973 |
170,634 | Earth meanwhile increasingly falls under the control of transnational corporations (transnats) that come to dominate its governments, particularly smaller nations adopted as "flags of convenience" for extending their influence into Martian affairs. As UNOMA's power erodes, the Mars treaty is renegotiated in a move led ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89970 | 170,544 |
2,051,116 | The Japanese Experiment Module (JEM), christened "Kibō" ("hope") in 1999, is Japan's first manned spacecraft. Kibō consists of a pressurised laboratory dedicated to advanced technology experiments, education and art, a cargo bay, an unpressurised pallet for vacuum experiments in space, a robotic arm, and interorbital c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41550290 | 2,049,935 |
1,754,855 | Chamosite is a relatively uncommon mineral in nature. Since its discovery in Chamoson, only about 15 localities around the world are known to be associated with iron deposits. Chamosite may be found in occurrence with other chlorite minerals. In recent years, berthierine; a more abundant chlorite, was discovered in occ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25365594 | 1,753,865 |
1,106,668 | The prevalent idiom that “practice makes perfect” captures the essence of the ability to reach impressive perceptual expertise. This has been demonstrated for centuries and through extensive amounts of practice in skills such as wine tasting, fabric evaluation, or musical preference. The first documented report, dating... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25335695 | 1,106,104 |
88,058 | Described in the original publication, "a patient suffering from acute coryza" was later identified as Fleming himself. His research notebook dated 21 November 1921 showed a sketch of the culture plate with a small note: “Staphyloid coccus from A.F.'s nose." He also identified the bacterium present in the nasal mucus a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1937 | 88,023 |
1,026,400 | Fieldwork in 1996 turned up a spectacularly complete theropod skull preserved in exquisite detail (FMNH PR 2100). On top of this skull was a dome-shaped swelling nearly identical to the one described by Sues and Taquet as "Majungatholus atopus". "Majungatholus" was redescribed as an abelisaurid rather than a pachycepha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4590393 | 1,025,866 |
1,659,000 | Lipkin is the director for the Center for Research in Diagnostics and Discovery (CRDD), under the NIH Centers of Excellence for Translational Research program. The CRDD brings together leading investigators in microbial and human genetics, engineering, microbial ecology and public health to develop insights into mechan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20485252 | 1,658,067 |
1,015,907 | On the contrary, according to Boris Brutskus, it was poorly thought out, which manifested itself in a series of announced "fractures" (April–May 1929, January–February 1930, June 1931). A grandiose and thoroughly politicised system emerged, the characteristic features of which were economic "gigantomania", chronic comm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11818766 | 1,015,384 |
2,071,776 | NS5A has three structurally different domains: Domain I was demonstrated to be an alternative dimeric structure by crystallography, while domain II and III remained unfolded. Furthermore, the conformational flexibility of NS5A plays an important role in multiple HCV infection stages. It is also possible that NS5A is a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20937565 | 2,070,585 |
1,180,063 | EVA 1 started with astronauts Dave Wolf and Tim Kopra switching their spacesuit power to internal battery at 16:19 UTC. Despite a communication problem with the spacewalkers, the Japanese Exposed Facility was successfully installed on the Japanese Experiment Module by means of a complex series of steps involving the ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4292653 | 1,179,439 |
920,167 | It was estimated in 2001 that it would take around 2,300 years for an increased temperature to diffuse warmth into the sea bed to a depth sufficient to cause a release of clathrates, although the exact time-frame is highly dependent on a number of poorly constrained assumptions. Ocean warming due to flooding and pressu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=387369 | 919,681 |
1,150,141 | The detection of CTCs, or liquid biopsy, presents several advantages over traditional tissue biopsies. They are non-invasive, can be used repeatedly, and provide more useful information on metastatic risk, disease progression, and treatment effectiveness. For example, analysis of blood samples from cancer patients has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16806609 | 1,149,534 |
244,442 | Spinoffs refer to any technology that is a direct result of coding or products created by NASA and redesigned for an alternate purpose. These technological advancements are one of the primary results of the aerospace industry, with $5.2 billion worth of revenue generated by spinoff technology, including computers and c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=154711 | 244,315 |
302,755 | The TeX system has precise knowledge of the sizes of all characters and symbols, and using this information, it computes the optimal arrangement of letters per line and lines per page. It then produces a DVI file ("DeVice Independent") containing the final locations of all characters. This DVI file can then be printed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30065 | 302,594 |
704,654 | In 1963, the KH-4 system was introduced with dual cameras and the program made completely secret, by the then president, Kennedy. The Discoverer label was dropped and all launches became classified. Because of the increased satellite mass, the basic Thor-Agena vehicle was enhanced by the addition of three Castor solid-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191323 | 704,286 |
377,146 | Shortly after being launched on a rainy day at Kennedy Space Center, Apollo 12 was twice struck by lightning, causing instrumentation problems but little damage. Switching to the auxiliary power supply resolved the data relay problem, saving the mission. The outward journey to the Moon otherwise saw few problems. On No... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1967 | 376,951 |
505,395 | In 1945, Delbrück, Luria, and Hershey set up a course in bacteriophage genetics at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Long Island, New York. This Phage Group spurred molecular biology's early development. Delbrück received the 1969 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with Luria and Hershey "for their discoverie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=169382 | 505,132 |
498,264 | Studies that show more direct positive associations between religious practice and health and longevity are more controversial. Harold G. Koenig and Harvey J. Cohen summarized and assessed the results of 100 evidence-based studies that systematically examined the relationship between religion and human well-being, find... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14780759 | 498,007 |
1,396,257 | It is ideal to commence enteral nutrition as early as possible following transplantation. Therefore, a feeding tube connecting to the stomach or jejunum is quickly placed to facilitate rehabilitation. If gastrointestinal function is restored, a diet can be reestablished and cautiously advanced as tolerated. Most patien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46300441 | 1,395,486 |
1,516,801 | Ignacio Irribarren (born in Caracas in 1945). Graduated in mathematics at the University of Oxford during the 1960s. He began his professorial career more than forty years ago in the Faculty of Engineering of the Central University of Venezuela, where he won the chair of Mathematical Analysis by Competition. He is prof... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,949 |
511,892 | The entire yew bush, except the aril (the red flesh of the berry covering the seed), is toxic due to a group of chemicals called taxine alkaloids. Their cardiotoxicity is well known and act via calcium and sodium channel antagonism, causing an increase in cytoplasmic calcium currents of the myocardial cells. The seeds ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2404954 | 511,626 |
348,055 | The archaeological record of many sites demonstrates that the economic recovery of Greece was well underway by the beginning of the 8th century BC. Cemeteries, such as the Kerameikos in Athens or Lefkandi, and sanctuaries, such as Olympia, recently founded in Delphi or the Heraion of Samos, first of the colossal free-s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=340510 | 347,873 |
920,835 | The visual departments analyzed the original game to understand it better, focusing development resources on the most crucial scenes and storylines to maximize their impact. Rather than simply improving the visuals, the team analyzed its cutscenes and narrative beats, employing modernized techniques to emphasize story ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57786602 | 920,349 |
1,138,817 | Prior to the Master Plan's development in the 1960s, California struggled for many years to reform and improve its social institutions. In response to the powerful railroad monopolies' stranglehold on state business and politics at the turn of the 20th century, new Progressive reformers attempted to overthrow the econo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3159469 | 1,138,224 |
628,817 | It has been observed by scientists that motor skills generally develop from the center to the body outward and head to tail. Babies need to practice their skills; therefore they will grow and strengthen better. They need space and time to explore in their environment and use their muscles. “Tummy-time” is a good exampl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4620141 | 628,481 |
1,279,914 | The ancient cultures of Mesopotamia, the Indian subcontinent, and China, among others, produced renowned surgeons and students of the natural sciences such as Susruta and Zhang Zhongjing, reflecting independent sophisticated systems of natural philosophy. Taoist philosophers, such as Zhuangzi in the 4th century BC, exp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=250535 | 1,279,219 |
2,218,561 | Cells and proteins can be patterned in microfluidic devices with one of the channel walls exposed in different geometries and designs depending on the behaviors and interactions to be studied, such as quorum sensing or co-culturing of several types of cells. A majority of cell culturing has been carried out by introduc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60405154 | 2,217,299 |
796,698 | Partch returned to the U.S. in 1935 at the height of the Great Depression, and spent a transient nine years, often as a hobo, often picking up work or obtaining grants from organizations such as the Federal Writers' Project. For the first eight months of this period, he kept a journal which was published posthumously a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=147683 | 796,273 |
1,522,616 | Mutations in GPR56 cause the brain developmental disorder BFPP, characterized by disordered cortical lamination in frontal cortex. Mice lacking expression of GPR56 develop a comparable phenotype. Furthermore, loss of GPR56 leads to reduced fertility in male mice, resulting from a defect in seminiferous tubule developme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14517273 | 1,521,755 |
2,107,438 | As of 2008, ABSA membership includes over 1,600 professionals from across the nation, and over 20 countries, including Brazil, Canada, and Japan. Its goals are to provide a professional association that represents the interests and needs of practitioners of biological safety, and to provide a forum for the continued an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42854808 | 2,106,225 |
737,710 | In 1970, scientific discussions began which resulted in the Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP), a multinational investigation into the Greenland ice sheet that lasted until 1981. Years of field work were required to determine the ideal location for a deep core; the field work included several intermediate-depth cores, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=426456 | 737,320 |
575,002 | Marshes, intertidal ecosystems dominated by herbaceous vegetation, can be found globally on coastlines from the arctic to the subtropics. In the tropics, marshes are replaced by mangroves as the dominant coastal vegetation. Marshes have high productivity, with a large portion of primary production in belowground biomas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36995466 | 574,708 |
262,669 | During the 1970s the U.S. Department of Defense launched project Lockheed Have Blue, with the aim of developing a stealth fighter. There was fierce bidding between Lockheed and Northrop to secure the multibillion-dollar contract. Lockheed incorporated into its bid a text written by the Soviet-Russian physicist Pyotr Uf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=262577 | 262,530 |
115,893 | In addition, paleontology often borrows techniques from other sciences, including biology, osteology, ecology, chemistry, physics and mathematics. For example, geochemical signatures from rocks may help to discover when life first arose on Earth, and analyses of carbon isotope ratios may help to identify climate change... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23084 | 115,848 |
1,472,871 | FHA can affect women who are underweight, normal weight, or overweight. Risk factors for adolescents and young women generally include eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa. Even in normal-weight patients, it is important to watch for the presentation of symptoms of anorexia in both the physical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15738568 | 1,472,041 |
264,260 | Barnes' work inspired a number of further studies, including a wing controlled aerodyne in response to OR.346 for a supersonic STOL fighter-bomber, then as BAC two further submissions: the Type 583 to meet Naval ER.206 and Type 584 to meet NATO NBMR.3, both also being V/STOL requirements. In 1960, Maurice Brennan joine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349470 | 264,117 |
26,014 | Although the RAF unit operated as part of Detachment B, the UK formally received title to the U-2s their pilots would fly, and Eisenhower wrote to Macmillan that because of the separate lines of authority, the nations were conducting "two complementary programs rather than a joint one". A secret MI6 bank account paid t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32310 | 26,005 |
1,891,588 | Following the completion of his Ph.D., Odenwald moved to Washington, D.C., in 1982, where he worked as a postdoctoral candidate at the Space Sciences Division of the Naval Research Laboratory until 1990. While there, he continued his partnership with the Harvard-Smithsonian balloon program and wrote a series of papers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13008086 | 1,890,505 |
1,405,150 | The Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination provides a comprehensive exploration of a range of communicative abilities. Its results are used to classify patient's language profiles into one of the localization based classifications of aphasia: Broca's, Wernicke's, anomic, conduction, transcortical, transcortical motor, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9447014 | 1,404,360 |
1,535,674 | Anikeeva was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia (then Leningrad, Soviet Union). She studied biophysics at St. Petersburg State Polytechnic University, where she worked under the guidance of Tatiana Birshtein, a polymer physicist at the Institute of Macromolecular Compounds of the Russian Academy of Sciences. During her u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65809631 | 1,534,806 |
109,882 | Stewart offered a theoretical proof that this should be the case separately for every selected quality of thermal radiation, but his mathematics was not rigorously valid. According to historian D. M. Siegel: "He was not a practitioner of the more sophisticated techniques of nineteenth-century mathematical physics; he d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191123 | 109,837 |
305,930 | While the Loch Ness monster is often reported as looking like a plesiosaur, it is also often described as looking completely different. A number of reasons have been presented for it to be unlikely to be a plesiosaur. They include the assumption that the water in the loch is too cold for a presumed cold-blooded reptile... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1398078 | 305,766 |
1,057,698 | In category A (1+2+3+4) is the fuel cladding, the protective and nonreactive outer layer of the fuel pellet, which uses none of the above features: It is always closed and keeps the fuel and the fission products inside and is not open before arriving at the reprocessing plant. In category B (2+3+4) is the surge line, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1228393 | 1,057,149 |
149,399 | The measured ultra low thermal conductivity of 0.5 W/(Km) at room temperature in CHNHPbI can prevent fast propagation of the light deposited heat, and keep the cell resistive on thermal stresses that can reduce its life time. The PbI residue in perovskite film has been experimentally demonstrated to have a negative eff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43845714 | 149,338 |
1,825,908 | In 1983 he became Sembal Professor of Experimental Ophthalmology at the Institute of Ophthalmology then based in Judd Street, London. In 1991 he moved to St Thomas' Hospital, UMDS to become the Frost Professor of Ophthalmology, honorary consultant and Head of Department of Ophthalmology. He has published extensively in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51235589 | 1,824,870 |
499,229 | Some of the terrain in these areas is particularly efficient at reflecting radar signals. This is possibly analogous to snow lines on Earth and is likely related to temperatures and pressures there being lower than in the other provinces due to the higher elevation, which allows for distinct mineralogy to occur. It is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2200368 | 498,972 |
105,519 | SignWriting, proposed in 1974 by Valerie Sutton, is the first writing system to gain use among the public and the first writing system for sign languages to be included in the Unicode Standard. SignWriting consists of more than 5000 distinct iconic graphs/glyphs. Currently, it is in use in many schools for the Deaf, pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1201 | 105,474 |
184,091 | Low exposures. Effects after low exposures such as from food have been difficult to prove. Levels of dioxins in contemporary population are 5 to 20 pg/g (TEQ in fat) and 50 to 100 pg in older people or at least 1000 times lower than those in poisonings (see above). Tooth deformities have been considered plausible after... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20663724 | 183,994 |
383,907 | The arquebus is considered to be the first portable "shoulder" arms firearm. Arquebuses were used as early as 1472 by the Spanish and Portuguese at Zamora. Likewise, the Castilians used arquebuses as well in 1476. In 1496 Philip Monch of the Palatinate composed an illustrated "Buch der Strynt un(d) Buchsse(n)" on guns ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12063194 | 383,712 |
1,395,334 | In the trial, growth velocity was decreased, bone age advancement was slowed, aggressiveness was decreased, and masculinization, measured via Tanner staging of pubic hair and genitals, did not appear to further progress. However, the decrease in growth rate was modest and fell just short of reaching statistical signifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55839585 | 1,394,563 |
604,374 | One interpretation would be that, when a government deploys highly armed soldiers, equipped and trained to kill, in a civilian area, the law must give the armed forces greater licence to kill than would be granted to any other person including, presumably, a less lethally equipped police officer. In the event, Private ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3736836 | 604,064 |
1,194,837 | Despite the fact that the University College of Science and Technology was a department of Calcutta University set up as a part of the colonial educational despatch of 1854. there had been no substantial financial support from the British Raj to encourage the Indian Scientists in their works presumably under the idea t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62858858 | 1,194,197 |
75,673 | Despite initial successes, however, Gericke realized that the time was not yet ripe for the general technical application and commercial use of hydroponics for producing crops. He also wanted to make sure all aspects of hydroponic cultivation were researched and tested before making any of the specifics available to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14133 | 75,645 |
1,376,603 | The spatial extent of deoxygenated conditions can vary widely. In coastal waters, regions with deoxygenated conditions can extend from less than one to many thousands of square kilometers. Open ocean OMZs exist in all ocean basins and have similar variation in spatial extent; an estimated 8% of global ocean volume is w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19892474 | 1,375,841 |
1,485,651 | Familial sleep traits have been difficult to study due to the various environmental influences (such as entraining daily alarms, artificial light at night, and caffeine or stimulant intake) that can contribute to different behavioral phenotypes in humans. Despite these potential difficulties, Louis Ptáček and colleague... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67466517 | 1,484,813 |
1,569,372 | Margaret Masterman was one of six students in Wittgenstein's course of 1933–34 whose notes were compiled as "The Blue Book". In 1955 she founded and directed the Cambridge Language Research Unit (CLRU), which grew from an informal discussion group to a major research centre in computational linguistics in its time. She... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25850319 | 1,568,485 |
313,266 | Since the mid-1950s, Stockhausen had been developing concepts of spatialization in his works, not only in electronic music, such as the 5-channel "Gesang der Jünglinge" (1955–56) and "Telemusik" (1966), and 4-channel "Kontakte" (1958–60) and "Hymnen" (1966–67). Instrumental/vocal works like "Gruppen" for three orchestr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17268 | 313,098 |
545,609 | Concerns with a two-front war against France and Russia dominated Caprivi's thinking, which resulted in his decision to opt for a strategy of coastal defense in the memorandum; he noted that without a powerful battle fleet, the sea-going ironclads would have little utility against the numerically superior French fleet.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10865795 | 545,323 |
499,348 | "Thermotoga" spp. are gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-spore forming, hyperthermophilic microorganisms, given their name by the presence of a sheathlike envelope called “toga”. They are strictly anaerobes and fermenters, catabolizing sugars or starch and producing lactate, acetate, , and as products, and can grow in a ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2753131 | 499,091 |
612,376 | The first two aircraft began assembly in July 1967, and were issued with the serial numbers XV884 and XV885. These were intended as development aircraft, to undertake airframe, avionics and weapons testing prior to them being refurbished as operational units. At the same time, the remainder of the planned 50 strong fle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39518516 | 612,065 |
1,209,283 | Bilateral ocular manifestations are usually pathognomonic of the disease. In the case of children who develop glaucoma, they may attend the consultation with signs and symptoms of buphthalmos, photosensitivity, tearing, corneal decompensation, which associated with poor vision, can be completed with a strabismus. In th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6935812 | 1,208,636 |
572,411 | Data General also brought out a small-footprint "Desktop Generation" range, starting with the DG10 that included both Data General and Intel CPUs in a patented closely coupled arrangement, able to run MS-DOS or CP/M-86 concurrently with DG/RDOS, with each benefiting from the hardware acceleration given by other CPU as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157959 | 572,118 |
808,754 | He had far-sighted ideas of metal aeroplanes and flying wings, but the necessities of the war held him back. During World War I, the government forced him to focus on aircraft production. In 1915, he developed the world's first practical all-metal aircraft design, the Junkers J 1 "Blechesel" (Sheetmetal Donkey), which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242188 | 808,324 |
430,077 | Ultrasound is the main diagnostic imaging tool on ISS and for the foreseeable future missions. X-rays and CT scans involve radiation which is unacceptable in the space environment. Though MRI uses magnetics to create images, it is too large at present to consider as a viable option. Ultrasound, which uses sound waves t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5607447 | 429,865 |
559,140 | Just, however, became frustrated because he could not obtain an appointment at a major American university. He wanted a position that would provide a steady income and allow him to spend more time with his research. Just's scientific career involved a constant struggle for an opportunity for research, "the breath of hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7575460 | 558,851 |
1,712,356 | Pradeep Mathur, born on 17 August 1955 in Teheran to Damyanti and Amrit Dayal. Mathur and his older brother, renowned physicist at TIFR, Deepak Mathur (married to Helen Mathur) were both brought up and educated in London whilst their father Amrit Dayal worked as a senior diplomatic official at the Indian High Commissio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52421585 | 1,711,391 |
1,420,342 | Venoms are naturally occurring substances that organisms evolved to deploy against other organisms, in defense or attack. They are often mixtures of proteins that act together or singly to attack their specific targets within the organism against which they are used, generally with high specificity and generally easily... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56276862 | 1,419,543 |
383,844 | Another weapon the Jin employed was an improved version of the fire lance called the flying fire lance. The "History of Jin" provides a detailed description: "To make the lance, use chi-huang paper, sixteen layers of it for the tube, and make it a bit longer than two feet. Stuff it with willow charcoal, iron fragments,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12063194 | 383,649 |
1,066,354 | During the period in which Uraniborg was actively used, astronomy and astrology were thought to be linked to the other scientific fields, and as such the observatory was used to discover more than the astral bodies. Brahe's driving force for research at Uraniborg was the desire to make astrology an empirical science an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=243449 | 1,065,800 |
91,790 | Steve Crocker formed a "Networking Working Group" in 1969 with Vint Cerf, who also joined an International Networking Working Group in 1972. These groups considered how to interconnect packet switching networks with different specifications, that is, internetworking. Stephen J. Lukasik directed DARPA to focus on intern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=253111 | 91,750 |
338,609 | Feldman points out that while other thinkers recognized the wetness of the world "none of them was inspired to conclude that everything was ultimately aquatic." He further points out that Thales was "a wealthy citizen of the fabulously rich Oriental port of Miletus...a dealer in the staples of antiquity, wine and oil..... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30072 | 338,429 |
735,331 | Return of menstruation following childbirth varies widely among individuals. This return does not necessarily mean a woman has begun to ovulate again. The first postpartum ovulatory cycle might occur before the first menses following childbirth or during subsequent cycles. A strong relationship has been observed betwee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3636272 | 734,944 |
341,857 | Aphids reproducing asexually by parthenogenesis can have genetically identical winged and non-winged female progeny. Control is complex; some aphids alternate during their life-cycles between genetic control (polymorphism) and environmental control (polyphenism) of production of winged or wingless forms. Winged progeny... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162296 | 341,676 |
1,432,802 | The protein encoded by this gene functions as a phosphodiesterase. Autotaxin is secreted and further processed to make the biologically active form. Several alternatively spliced transcript variants have been identified. Autotaxin is able to cleave the phosphodiester bond between the α and the β position of triphosphat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11175075 | 1,431,998 |
1,572,690 | Currently, MIT researchers have engineered a device that delivers a tiny, high-pressure jet of medicine through the skin without the use of a hypodermic needle. The device can be programmed to deliver a range of doses to various depths, an improvement over similar jet-injection systems commercially available. Among oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10316499 | 1,571,802 |
620,877 | The Aeryon Scout is a man-packable quadcopter UAV designed for aerial reconnaissance by users with minimal training. Weighing just 1.3 kg, it features onboard intelligence, all-digital communications and a map-based touch-screen control which enables new users to operate the vehicles with only minutes of training. This... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3525527 | 620,545 |
1,377,288 | In a field more relevant to clinical diagnostics, HRM has been shown to be suitable in principle for the detection of mutations in the breast cancer susceptibility genes BRCA1 and BRCA2. More than 400 mutations have been identified in these genes.The sequencing of genes is the gold standard for identifying mutations. S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21003747 | 1,376,526 |
1,612,667 | The efficiency and exhaustivity of generators are also related to the data structures. Unlike previous methods, AEGIS was a list-processing generator. Compared to adjacency matrices, list data requires less memory. As no spectral data was interpreted in this system, the user needed to provide substructures as inputs. S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66452088 | 1,611,762 |
1,815,743 | Cherry grew up in Brooklyn. Her mother was born in Germany in a displaced persons camp and migrated to the United States. Her father was from Poland and passed through Ellis Island. Her parents were the first in their families to attend college and eventually became academics at Brooklyn College. Her mother was eventua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63549495 | 1,814,709 |
831,892 | The clinical illness associated with CCHFV is a severe form of hemorrhagic fever. Following infection by a tick bite, the incubation period is typically two to three days but can last as long as nine days, while the incubation period following contact with infected blood or tissues is usually five to six days with a do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2347152 | 831,443 |
1,392,916 | It was in 1926 when Beckam proposed the utilisation of microorganisms as agents for recovering the remnant oil entrapped in porous media. Since that time numerous investigations have been developed, and are extensively reviewed. In 1947, ZoBell and colleagues set the basis of petroleum microbiology applied to oil recov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47746148 | 1,392,145 |
720,465 | On land, the cartographer Gemma Frisius proposed using triangulation to accurately position far-away places for map-making in his 1533 pamphlet "Libellus de Locorum describendorum ratione" ("Booklet concerning a way of describing places"), which he bound in as an appendix in a new edition of Peter Apian's best-selling ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50691950 | 720,085 |
1,807,903 | In 1913, a record killing freeze caused a panic throughout the $175 million Southern California citrus industry, which demanded more state-funded agricultural research. Three acts of the California Legislature in 1913 provided $185,000 to fund an enlarged Citrus Experiment Station to be located in one of the eight sout... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12600727 | 1,806,883 |
243,047 | In the late 1950s, the United States Department of Defense, together with scientists of other institutions and countries, began to develop the needed world system to which geodetic data could be referred and compatibility established between the coordinates of widely separated sites of interest. Efforts of the U.S. Arm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233654 | 242,920 |
795,613 | There are also many developing port cities along the Kuroshio Current. While the Kuroshio Current is historically known to support many fisheries where it meets with the Oyashio current, this region is still recovering from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident. In 2011, a magnitude 9.0 earthquake triggere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=952514 | 795,188 |
70,567 | After the end of the first age, however, temperatures increased again, and these conditions were almost constant until the end of the period. The warming may have been due to intense volcanic activity which produced large quantities of carbon dioxide. Between 70 and 69 Ma and 66–65 Ma, isotopic ratios indicate elevated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5615 | 70,540 |
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