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677,506 | Product development within the telecommunication industry has traditionally followed rigorous standards for stability, protocol adherence and quality, reflected by the use of the term carrier grade to designate equipment demonstrating this high reliability and performance factor. While this model worked well in the pas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38556048 | 677,152 |
905,588 | Transcription activator-like effector nucleases (TALENs) are specific DNA-binding proteins that feature an array of 33 or 34-amino acid repeats. TALENs are artificial restriction enzymes designed by fusing the DNA cutting domain of a nuclease to TALE domains, which can be tailored to specifically recognize a unique DNA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34930586 | 905,112 |
250,626 | Other prizes, for distance and speed records, also drove development forwards. For example, on 14 June 1919, Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Brown co-piloted a Vickers Vimy non-stop from St. John's, Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland, winning the £13,000 ($65,000) Northcliffe prize. The first flight across the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177680 | 250,493 |
1,955,732 | The morphotype transition (Figure 3), can be viewed as an identity switching – the calls can cooperatively make drastic alterations of their internal genomic state, effectively transforming themselves into differently looking and behaving cells which can generate colonies with entirely different organization. Under con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33153587 | 1,954,610 |
466,322 | Affective forecasters often rely on memories of past events. When people report memories of past events they may leave out important details, change things that occurred, and even add things that have not happened. This suggests the mind constructs memories based on what actually happened, and other factors including t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2426547 | 466,089 |
1,327,141 | Exposure of a male fetus to substances that disrupt hormone systems, particularly chemicals that inhibit the action of androgens (male sex hormones) during the development of the reproductive system, has been shown to cause many of the characteristic TDS disorders. These include environmental estrogens and anti-androge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51778132 | 1,326,414 |
2,177,339 | At present, there is little evidence suggesting that cardiovascular adaptation to microgravity or space flight increases susceptibility to life-threatening arrhythmias in astronauts. From a clinical perspective, according to the “biological model” of sudden cardiac death, both the substrate and the trigger for arrhythm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39685359 | 2,176,095 |
2,055,621 | Another example of citizen science and GIS in action is taken from inside the academy. University College London (UCL) and London 21 sustainability network's Mapping for Change initiative has encouraged voluntary groups, local authorities and development agencies to build map-based projects to support political, social... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31783151 | 2,054,438 |
73,724 | Nematodes have successfully adapted to nearly every ecosystem: from marine (salt) to fresh water, soils, from the polar regions to the tropics, as well as the highest to the lowest of elevations. They are ubiquitous in freshwater, marine, and terrestrial environments, where they often outnumber other animals in both in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19827803 | 73,697 |
1,332,086 | eCLIP (enhanced CrossLinking and ImmunoPrecipitation followed by high-throughput sequencing) is a method developed to provide a robust and reproducible framework to map RBP binding sites on RNAs transcriptome-wide.<br>eCLIP was designed to improve upon previous CrossLinking and ImmunoPrecipitation (CLIP) methods by inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3570572 | 1,331,357 |
535,193 | During this period Australia continued to retain forces in Malaysia as part of the Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) agreed in 1971 to defend it in the event of external attack, with this commitment initially including significant air, ground and naval forces. However, these forces were gradually reduced with the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,914 |
1,025,052 | During a time of peace, the Roman army would have had a typical diet consisting of bacon, cheese, vegetables, and beer to drink. Corn is mentioned in their works as well, however; this was a common term that was applied to their use of grain. The Roman use of the term corn is not to be confused with maize, which did no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4921176 | 1,024,519 |
358,411 | On 15 February 2013, an asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere over Russia as a fireball and exploded above the city of Chelyabinsk during its passage through the Ural Mountains region at 09:13 YEKT (03:13 UTC). The object's air burst occurred at an altitude between above the ground, and about 1,500 people were injured, m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63794 | 358,225 |
920,155 | On the other hand, there are suggestions that surges of activity occurred in the later stages of the volcanism and associated continental rifting. Intrusions of hot magma into carbon-rich sediments may have triggered the degassing of isotopically light methane in sufficient volumes to cause global warming and the obser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=387369 | 919,669 |
231,240 | The symptoms that occur after a concussion have been described in various reports and writings for hundreds of years. The idea that this set of symptoms forms a distinct entity began to attain greater recognition in the latter part of the 19th century. John Erichsen, a surgeon from London, played an important role in d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3623092 | 231,121 |
506,776 | The solar cells, and the central compartment of instruments had to be maintained at much lower temperatures. The solar cells could not exceed , while the central compartment had to be maintained between . These restrictions required the rejection of 96 percent of the energy received from the Sun. The conical shape of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=922604 | 506,512 |
1,184,605 | On February 8, 1821, the expedition headed to Rio de Janeiro. For the first time for the last three months, the crew was able to open all the hatches and to air all living decks and holds. Taken biological samples (Australian birds and penguins from Nova Scotia) got sick, many of them died. On February 11, birds were f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40880361 | 1,183,977 |
1,345,913 | Current understanding is guided primarily by the work of Delanian and Lefaix, who proposed the radiation-induced fibroatrophic (RIF) process. Advances in lab techniques allowed scientists to perform more detailed studies of ORN specimens. Analysis of samples showed that tissues undergoing ORN underwent three phases of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38331416 | 1,345,172 |
321,350 | The most common etiology of piriformis syndrome is that resulting from a specific previous injury due to trauma. Large injuries include trauma to the buttocks while "micro traumas" result from small repeated bouts of stress on the piriformis muscle itself. To the extent that piriformis syndrome is the result of some ty... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1104401 | 321,178 |
120,175 | At the end of 1894, the young Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi began working on the idea of building a commercial wireless telegraphy system based on the use of Hertzian waves (radio waves), a line of inquiry that he noted other inventors did not seem to be pursuing. Building on the ideas of previous scientists and i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30010 | 120,126 |
21,895 | At first, these seminal papers on spontaneous breaking of gauge symmetries were largely ignored, because it was widely believed that the (non-Abelian gauge) theories in question were a dead-end, and in particular that they could not be renormalised. In 1971–72, Martinus Veltman and Gerard 't Hooft proved renormalisatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20556903 | 21,886 |
938,956 | "Reversed blowing" (as compared to the previous type described which was invented first) assumes the coal and the oxidizer being supplied from the same side of the reactor. In this case there is no chemical interaction between coal and oxidizer before the reaction zone. The gas produced in the reaction zone passes soli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1380898 | 938,455 |
1,906,790 | Chemical controls are ineffective against this disease, and the use of copper containing compounds can cause phytotoxicity in the plants. It is best to destroy infected leaves, plants, and debris immediately by burning or burying it. Cultural controls can include choosing a growing site with adequate air circulation, l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11292174 | 1,905,694 |
514,540 | The genus "Halobacterium" ("salt" or "ocean bacterium") consists of several species of Archaea with an aerobic metabolism which requires an environment with a high concentration of salt; many of their proteins will not function in low-salt environments. They grow on amino acids in their aerobic conditions. Their cell w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2683080 | 514,274 |
1,962,555 | Galluzzi is best known for his experimental and conceptual contributions to the fields of cell death, autophagy, tumor metabolism and tumor immunology. In particular, he provided profound insights into the links between adaptive stress responses in cancer cells and the activation of a clinically relevant tumor-targetin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54601851 | 1,961,427 |
1,356,236 | At infection of an orchid by a mycorrhizal fungus both partners are altered considerably to allow for nutrient transfer and symbiosis. Nutrient transfer mechanisms and the symbiotic mycorrhizal peloton organs start to appear only shortly after infection around 20–36 hours after initial contact. There is significant gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55484311 | 1,355,488 |
253,499 | Many PFASs were used in the mid 20th century as products or precursors for materials due to their enhanced water-resistant properties, such as within Teflon or aqueous film forming foam. Only since the start of the 21st century had the environmental impact and toxicity to human and mammalian life of PFASs has been stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20471890 | 253,366 |
1,670,565 | "Imperator Aleksandr II" served in the Baltic Fleet and represented Russia, along with the cruiser , at the opening of the Kiel Canal in June 1895. She ran aground in Vyborg Bay later that year, but suffered little damage. Joining the Mediterranean Squadron in August 1896, she supported Russian interests during the Cre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5507897 | 1,669,625 |
2,143,661 | By the end of the season BRM had managed to build an engine designed by Peter Berthon and Aubrey Woods (BRM P56 V8) (2.6975 x 2.0 in, 68.5 x 50.8 mm) which was on a par with the Dino V6 used by Ferrari and the Coventry Climax V8 used by other British teams. However, the real change was the promotion by Owen of an engin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71020390 | 2,142,430 |
1,481,395 | Without electricity, needed for water pumps and ventilation fans, rising heat within the containment area led to increasing pressure. In a press release on 12 March at 07:00 JST, TEPCO stated, "Measurement of radioactive material (iodine-131, etc.) by monitoring car indicates increasing value compared to normal level. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38070727 | 1,480,561 |
2,133,389 | In March 1932, while Dan was studying at the MBL, his father was assassinated in Japan by ultra-nationalist radicals in the 'League of Blood Incident'. Katsuma Dan returned to Japan in the late 1930s and worked at the Misaki Marine Biological Station in Morioso Bay. He and his students maintained a remarkable degree of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6337644 | 2,132,164 |
346,924 | In October 2020, France signed a contract to develop the TFRA Standard 2 configuration for French Army special forces using the final batch of 10 NH90 TTH already ordered. A design study for the new configuration began 18 months earlier in cooperation with Belgium and Australia. The first phase of the design will featu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=513911 | 346,743 |
377,131 | Further complicating matters, under global nuclear war scenarios, with conditions similar to that during the Cold War, major strategically important cities, like Moscow, and Washington are likely to be hit not once, but numerous times from sub megaton multiple independently targetable re-entry vehicles, in a cluster bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244601 | 376,936 |
977,249 | The four-story Robert W. Plaster Student Union (PSU) is a student activity center located in the center of campus between the main academic and residential areas. This building provides a place for students to dine, socialize, study, shop, and see films and guest speakers in the theater. It also houses a bank, a conven... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187859 | 976,738 |
1,197,976 | The oscillations that have been successfully utilized for seismology are essentially adiabatic. Their dynamics is therefore the action of pressure forces formula_15 (plus putative Maxwell stresses) against matter with inertia density formula_16, which itself depends upon the relation between them under adiabatic change... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=408801 | 1,197,335 |
2,081,931 | To better understand the pathogenicity of all possible genomic variants to interpret WES/WGS data, researchers are systematically studying genome-wide sequencing data across many tumour genomes. Whole exome sequencing has been the conventional data used by international cancer genome research programs such as The Cance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60103727 | 2,080,731 |
935,905 | With the release of Flash 5 in September 2000, the "actions" from Flash 4 were enhanced once more and named "ActionScript" for the first time. This was the first version of ActionScript with influences from JavaScript and the ECMA-262 (Third Edition) standard, supporting the said standard's object model and many of its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=519691 | 935,411 |
1,270,660 | The geology and fossils of Arizona was a possible influence on Zuni creation mythology. Zuni creation stories contain considerable parallels to modern science's understanding of earth's history. The Zunis believed that the modern world was just one in a temporal series of worlds whose inhabitants differed. Similar beli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799161 | 1,269,969 |
1,024,394 | At the time, most U.S. military policy was based on the US Air Force quickly gaining air superiority and holding it throughout a conflict. In keeping with this, the Army had previously placed relatively low priority on anti-aircraft weapons. This gave them time to mature through testing and shakedowns. In the case of D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23200607 | 1,023,861 |
450,868 | The distribution of "H. capsulatum" in Canada is not as well documented as in the US. The St. Lawrence Valley is probably the best known endemic region based both on case reports and on a number of skin test reaction studies that were done between 1945 and 1970. The Montreal area is a particularly well documented endem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9261687 | 450,649 |
118,955 | In chondrichthyans, the nervous system is composed of a small brain, 8-10 pairs of cranial nerves, and a spinal chord with spinal nerves. They have several sensory organs which provide information to be processed. Ampullae of Lorenzini are a network of small jelly filled pores called electroreceptors which help the fis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5232 | 118,907 |
78,738 | In March 1980, General Dynamics began converting the sixth FSD F-16A to serve as the technology demonstrator aircraft for the joint Flight Dynamics Laboratory-NASA Advanced Fighter Technology Integration (AFTI) program. The AFTI F-16 built upon GD's experience with its YF-16 CCV program, and the AFTI F-16 even received... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18895385 | 78,705 |
1,208,552 | To effectively use the device the ergonomic aspects of the display and control input system (User interface) are important. Misunderstanding of the displayed data and inability to make necessary inputs can lead to life-threatening problems underwater. The operating manual is not available for reference during the dive,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=302027 | 1,207,906 |
1,407,727 | The state with the highest rate of female literacy, at 91.98%, is the southern state of Kerala. 26.9% of female students in Kerala are likely to pursue higher education, while men are less likely at 19.3%. The state's GDP is ranked 11th out of all Indian states. The extremely high female literacy rate, especially when ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40860039 | 1,406,937 |
1,242,430 | Most often, the quartic is modeled either by a smooth genus 3 surface with tetrahedral symmetry (replacing the edges of a regular tetrahedron with tubes/handles yields such a shape), which have been dubbed "tetruses", or by polyhedral approximations, which have been dubbed "tetroids"; in both cases this is an "embeddin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=390976 | 1,241,758 |
2,060,563 | Scholars have noted that most of the articles in American Psychological Association journals are about largely white, US populations, despite U.S. citizens only constituting about 5% of the world's population. Arnett (2008) pointed out that psychologists have no grounds for assuming psychological processes are universa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63748615 | 2,059,376 |
489,022 | On October 23, 2015, four-star recruit Jordan Poole became the first commitment for the Class of 2017 after home gym visit from Beilein and assistant coach Jordan and multiple Michigan campus visits. Poole had several competing offers including Illinois, Indiana, Nebraska, Memphis, Marquette, and Auburn. As a junior, P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53688572 | 488,771 |
1,086,566 | The purpose was to conserve foreign exchange and to protect local industry, in particular to promote manufacturing to improve employment opportunities and to reduce the economy's reliance on the rural sector. During the war the restrictions were generally recognised to be necessary but they were not dismantled only eas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34570831 | 1,086,008 |
947,599 | Osler is well known in the field of gerontology for the speech he gave when leaving Hopkins to become the Regius Professor of Medicine at Oxford. "The Fixed Period", given on February 22, 1905, included some controversial words about old age. Osler, who had a well-developed humorous side to his character, was in his mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146219 | 947,096 |
557,464 | Software Technology Parks of India (STPI) is an S&T organization under Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) engaged in promoting IT/ ITES Industry, Innovation, R&D, Start-ups, Product/ IP creation in the field of emerging technologies like Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain, Artificial Intellige... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6327932 | 557,175 |
819,698 | The NAE's achievements list was criticized for ranking space technology (listed as "Spacecraft") twelfth instead of number one despite NAE recognizing in its report that the Soviet Union's Sputnik "shocked the world and started a space race that launched the greatest engineering team effort in American history." (NAE, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5521184 | 819,257 |
282,698 | The 13,080-seat Convocation Center serves as home to the university's men's and women's basketball teams, as well as women's volleyball teams. The first Ohio basketball game occurred in 1907 when the Bobcats defeated the Parkersburg YMCA 46-9. Since that day, Ohio has posted a .571 winning percentage over their 100-yea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=483329 | 282,545 |
2,158,369 | The main use of the unit is to flatten out deformed press belts whilst simultaneously stress-relieving the belt material. The small size and low weight makes the unit flexible to use and easy to bring into and operate in field situations. All of the equipment needed (excluding the carriage frame and the air compressor)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42071443 | 2,157,137 |
660,473 | The ancients worked from a geocentric perspective for the simple reason that the Earth was where they stood and observed the sky, and it is the sky which appears to move while the ground seems still and steady underfoot. Some Greek astronomers (e.g., Aristarchus of Samos) speculated that the planets (Earth included) or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=143608 | 660,128 |
539,704 | In the United States of America demand increased dramatically for this type of study in the 1980s following judicial decisions related to liability of property owners to effect site cleanup. Interpreting the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), the U.S. courts have held... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6998695 | 539,424 |
1,779,946 | The winning entry was submitted by Paul D. Tinari, a first year student in Engineering at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He was the youngest entrant, aged 18. Tinari selected as his basic structure a spherical shape, constructed of interlocking, pre-fabricated concrete slabs, properly sealed and covered with a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7379175 | 1,778,943 |
1,543,715 | A developed area in attention is the control of visual attention - models that attempt to answer, "where will an individual look next?" A subset of this concerns the question of visual search: How rapidly can a specified object in the visual field be located? This is a common subject of concern for human factors in a v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47152350 | 1,542,842 |
117,520 | UMass Amherst issued an announcement in early 2015 stating: "the University has determined that it will no longer admit Iranian national students to specific programs in the College of Engineering (i.e., Chemical Engineering, Electrical & Computer Engineering, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering) and in the College of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=248437 | 117,475 |
1,066,692 | Nuclear power plants emit no greenhouse gas to the atmosphere, in this way NPPs annually contribute to CO emission reduction by 15 million tonnes in Slovakia. Nuclear power plants hence contribute significantly to the obligation to reduce emissions of harmful greenhouse gas to the atmosphere. Mochovce NPP meets all int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10143800 | 1,066,138 |
1,136,073 | Direct laser writing is a very popular form of optical maskless lithography, which offers flexibility, ease of use, and cost effectiveness in R&D processing (small batch production). The underlying technology uses spatial light modulating (SLM) micro-arrays based on glass to block laser pathway from reaching a substrat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1903362 | 1,135,480 |
677,384 | The NSF has overall management responsibility for U.S. activities in Antarctica. Organized through its Office of Polar Programs, it has responsibility for a range of day-to-day functions including preparing an annual budget and operational plans for consideration by the executive branch and for review and appropriation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1253269 | 677,031 |
831,731 | Usability practitioners are sometimes trained as industrial engineers, psychologists, kinesiologists, systems design engineers, or with a degree in information architecture, information or library science, or Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). More often though they are people who are trained in specific applied fields ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288276 | 831,282 |
235,494 | Most LFTs are intended to operate on a purely qualitative basis. However, it is possible to measure the intensity of the test line to determine the quantity of analyte in the sample. Handheld diagnostic devices known as lateral flow readers are used by several companies to provide a fully quantitative assay result. By ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14352711 | 235,375 |
1,069,404 | A total of 1,351 applications were received by the deadline. About 200 of these were rejected for failing to meet the basic age, citizenship, height or vision criteria. The names of 400 applicants (four of whom were women) were forwarded to NAS to review their academic qualifications. The NAS selection board consisted ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3144242 | 1,068,850 |
384,350 | The sixth generation also coincided with the September 11 attacks in New York City and the Pentagon, which had a huge impact on the entertainment industry, including the video game industry; in the subsequent market climate, multiple games were edited in response to the sensitivity surrounding the event. Prior to its r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=490610 | 384,155 |
711,868 | The house was plagued with mechanical and structural issues, as its impracticality resulted in inhabitability. The Savoye's complaints were well documented but largely unaddressed, citing pervasive leaking and flooding throughout the site. However, Le Corbusier did not formally recognize many of these functional defect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38574765 | 711,496 |
1,583,075 | In the home, putting cereal or grain-type items in protective containers will also help to prevent an infestation or the spread of insects from one product to another. Insects can chew through thin plastic, foil, cardboard and other packaging used for product for resale; transferring purchased products into heavy glass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16345498 | 1,582,185 |
193,930 | Wall-flow diesel particulate filters usually remove 85% or more of the soot, and under certain conditions can attain soot removal efficiencies approaching 100%. Some filters are single-use, intended for disposal and replacement once full of accumulated ash. Others are designed to burn off the accumulated particulate ei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2917407 | 193,830 |
464,924 | Photodegradation involves the transformation of CDOM into smaller and less colored molecules (e.g., organic acids), or into inorganic carbon (CO, CO2), and nutrient salts (NH4, HPO). Therefore, it generally means that photodegradation transforms recalcitrant into labile DOC molecules that can be rapidly used by prokary... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4236528 | 464,694 |
1,704,140 | The Malcolm H. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological Science was founded in 1992 to serve the interests of American, Greek and other archaeological scholars working in Greece through long-range, multidimensional research projects focused on human skeletal studies, faunal analysis, and a range of geoarchaeological and pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3904882 | 1,703,184 |
178,209 | To cope with the upcoming postwar population boom in the United States and elsewhere, researchers decided to tap into the unexploited sea resources. Initial testing by the Stanford Research Institute showed "Chlorella" (when growing in warm, sunny, shallow conditions) could convert 20% of solar energy into a plant that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=628811 | 178,116 |
643,990 | While the web expanded the intellectual influence of bibliometrics way beyond specialized scientific research, it also shattered the core tenents of the field. In contrast with the wide utopian visions of Bernal and Otlet that partly inspired it, the Science Citation Index was always conceived as a closed infrastructur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1223245 | 643,650 |
1,127,734 | The late 1950s saw a dramatic increase in the Army's size and Canada's largest ever standing army was created, largely through the vision of General G. G. Simonds, the Chief of the General Staff. The reason for this expansion was the need to maintain a presence in Germany as part of NATO, while simultaneously providing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3110164 | 1,127,156 |
136,977 | Adherence to the geocentric model stemmed largely from several important observations. First of all, if the Earth did move, then one ought to be able to observe the shifting of the fixed stars due to stellar parallax. In short, if the Earth was moving, the shapes of the constellations should change considerably over th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=83754 | 136,922 |
803,813 | Origin recognition in eukaryotes other than "S. cerevisiae" or its close relatives does not conform to the sequence-specific read-out of conserved origin DNA elements. Pursuits to isolate specific chromosomal replicator sequences more generally in eukaryotic species, either genetically or by genome-wide mapping of init... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=619137 | 803,384 |
854,361 | The majority of active galaxies are very distant and show large Doppler shifts. This suggests that active galaxies occurred in the early Universe and, due to cosmic expansion, are receding away from the Milky Way at very high speeds. Quasars are the furthest active galaxies, some of them being observed at distances 12 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=206919 | 853,906 |
133,247 | The Jesuit China missions of the 16th and 17th centuries "learned to appreciate the scientific achievements of this ancient culture and made them known in Europe. Through their correspondence European scientists first learned about the Chinese science and culture." Western academic thought on the history of Chinese tec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,194 |
1,745,889 | Prior to their withdrawal, the Australians briefed the incoming British troops. The men of the division then took over from the Australians and settled into their task of defending Tobruk, with what the Black Watch Regiment described as a sense that it was "the main post of honour open to the British fighting man." The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4468060 | 1,744,904 |
1,190,577 | Neuroscience has been implicated in the study of birth order and male sexual orientation. A significant volume of research has found that the more older brothers a man has from the same mother, the greater the probability he will have a homosexual orientation. Estimates indicate that there is a 33–48% increase in chanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20515023 | 1,189,943 |
2,027,995 | The CPLEE had a mass of , a stowed volume of 2540 cubic cm, and used 3.0 W power normally and 6.0 W at night when the survival heater was on. The main part of the instrumentation consisted of two electrostatic analyzers. One of these (analyzer A) pointed toward local lunar vertical, and the other (analyzer B) to a poin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49386352 | 2,026,828 |
774,346 | As a counterpoint, there are limits to the scope of use for the procedures that characterize content analysis. In particular, if access to the goal of analysis can be obtained by direct means without material interference, then direct measurement techniques yield better data. Thus, while content analysis attempts to qu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=473317 | 773,930 |
19,010 | Reviews of clinical stimulant research have established the safety and effectiveness of long-term continuous amphetamine use for the treatment of ADHD. Randomized controlled trials of continuous stimulant therapy for the treatment of ADHD spanning 2 years have demonstrated treatment effectiveness and safety. Two review... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2504 | 19,002 |
1,086,093 | The final episode shows how the unique properties of visible light provide an insight into the origins and development of mankind and the Universe. At Karnak Temple in Egypt he observes the sunrise of the winter solstice through precisely aligned stone columns. The central star of the Lagoon Nebula, Herschel 36, and Et... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31086430 | 1,085,535 |
1,226,755 | To minimize damage to healthy tissue and other adverse effects, attempts are made to monitor temperatures. The goal is to keep local temperatures in tumor bearing tissue under to avoid damage to surrounding tissues. These temperatures have been derived from cell culture and animal studies. The body keeps itself normal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14905896 | 1,226,094 |
835,922 | In December 2012, the three CCiCap winners were each given an additional USD$10 million in funding as the first of two series of "certification products contracts" (CPC) to allow for further testing, engineering standards, and design analysis to meet NASA's safety requirements for crewed spaceflight. The second CPC ser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64072812 | 835,473 |
2,060,137 | Since the early days of its founding as the Massachusetts Agricultural College, UMass Amherst has maintained apiculture and ecological studies of bees throughout much of its history. In 1870 the first short courses on beekeeping were taught at the college by Alonzo Bradley Esq., an expert on honeybee behavior and the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31274932 | 2,058,951 |
530,002 | The Eighth Air Force had attempted to use both the Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and the Lockheed P-38 Lightning as escorts, but while the Thunderbolt was a capable dog-fighter it lacked the range, even with the addition of drop tanks to extend its range, and the Lightning proved mechanically unreliable in the frigid altit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9895061 | 529,728 |
1,004,300 | Unfortunately, the next world women's basketball major tournaments were clouded by a series of political boycotts caused by the Cold War. Firstly, the Soviet Union and four other Eastern Bloc countries withdrew from next World Championships which was held in 1979 in South Korea. In spite of losing to the hosts (82–94),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5779563 | 1,003,782 |
505,310 | Virus-specific T-lymphocytes (VST) therapy is used for patients who have received hematopoietic stem cell transplantation that has proven to be unsuccessful. It is a treatment that has been effective in preventing and treating viral infections after HSCT. VST therapy uses active donor T-cells that are isolated from all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6983937 | 505,048 |
529,516 | This period also saw sporadic investigation of more mild forms of hypothermia, with mild hypothermia being defined as a body temperature of . In the 1950s, Doctor Rosomoff demonstrated in dogs the positive effects of mild hypothermia after brain ischemia and traumatic brain injury. In the 1980s further animal studies i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12461863 | 529,242 |
1,465,930 | After the war he resumed his work at Levi's laboratory, but soon he moved, together with Levi-Montalcini, to the U.S., where, at Indiana University, he worked with Salvador Luria on bacteriophages. In the summer of 1949 he moved to Caltech, joining Max Delbrück's group (see Phage group). In the early 1950s, on Delbruck... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=744909 | 1,465,107 |
12,936 | The original Syrian offensive plan "Al-Aouda" ("The Return"), devised by Major-General Adul Habeisi, had emphasized the element of tactical surprise. It was known to the Syrians that the 188th AB normally rotated its two tank battalions on the Purple Line, so that on any given moment just thirty-three tanks were guardi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34276 | 12,931 |
2,162,286 | John Hennessy was a prominent architect who designed the Frazer fountain in Hyde Park (1881), the Centennial Hall extensions to the Sydney Town Hall (1883), the Hordern Brothers' Drapery Store (1886) and City Tatterstall's Club in Pitt Street (1892). However, Hennessy's most enduring works are the many Catholic buildin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62880865 | 2,161,051 |
1,238,899 | From April 2006 onwards, Bethesda began releasing small, downloadable packages of content from their website and over the Xbox Live Marketplace, for the equivalent of between one and three US dollars. The first package, a set of horse armor (barding) for "Oblivion"s steeds, was released on April 3, 2006, costing 200 Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12164267 | 1,238,232 |
1,348,922 | Somatosensory evoked potential (SEP or SSEP) is the electrical activity of the brain that results from the stimulation of touch. SEP tests measure that activity and are a useful, noninvasive means of assessing somatosensory system functioning. By combining SEP recordings at different levels of the somatosensory pathway... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27326458 | 1,348,180 |
1,246,513 | All government astronomers from Scott to Cooke were worried about increasing levels of city light, vibration from traffic and magnetic disturbance which rendered the Flagstaff Hill site increasingly unsuitable. Recommendations had been made by Smalley in 1864 and others in the first quarter of the twentieth century. Wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3911092 | 1,245,838 |
1,838,843 | During the first quarter of the 19th century, self-improvement literature became an important portion of the book market: "it was the age of the 'Family Library' edition". In his article on the "Cabinet Cyclopaedia", Morse Peckham writes that this "revolution in literacy, [was] partly the result of the spread of libera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17481711 | 1,837,794 |
1,882,170 | IARC prizes have traditionally been "winner take all", although during the competition's early years monetary progress awards were given to further development of the best performers. With the fourth mission it was realized that there would be no quick winners, and that several years of development would be required by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3961621 | 1,881,089 |
278,239 | SLA did not exist prior to chemical synthesis in 1952. SLA is produced in equal amounts with RLA during achiral manufacturing processes. The racemic form was more widely used clinically in Europe and Japan in the 1950s to 1960s despite the early recognition that the various forms of LA are not bioequivalent. The first ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81648 | 278,089 |
353,996 | Cybernetics has its origins in exchanges between numerous fields during the 1940s, including anthropology, mathematics, neuroscience, psychology, and engineering. Initial developments were consolidated through meetings such as the Macy Conferences and the Ratio Club. At its most prominent during the 1950s and 1960s, cy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20786042 | 353,813 |
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