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1,477,964 | Coarse-grained architectures (rDPA) are intended for the implementation for algorithms needing word-width data paths (rDPU). As their functional blocks are optimized for large computations and typically comprise word wide arithmetic logic units (ALU), they will perform these computations more quickly and with more powe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188371 | 1,477,132 |
1,402,274 | In 1951, Hunsaker stepped down as head of MIT’s Aeronautical Engineering Department and the following year discontinued his regular teaching duties. He remained active as a lecturer in the department and assisted in fund-raising activities for the institution throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In October 1956, he relinqui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3956769 | 1,401,487 |
1,092,924 | To calculate the elastic response of a rubber sample, the three chain force models (regimes Ia, Ib and II) and the network morphology must be combined in a micro-mechanical network model. Using the joint probability distribution in equation () and the force extension models, it is possible to devise numerical algorithm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7623862 | 1,092,364 |
1,727,456 | The training program aims to be a full pitching-development service, to "develop healthy, high velocity pitchers of any age." It incorporates weighted baseballs and elements of recovery, mechanics and command, as well as the work of other pitching experts, such as Mike Marshall, Tom House, Ron Wolforth, Alan Jaeger and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52482686 | 1,726,482 |
2,241,375 | The R-2800 powered several types of fighters and medium bombers during the war, including the US Navy's Vought F4U Corsair, with the XF4U-1 first prototype Corsair becoming the first airframe to fly (as originally designed) with the Double Wasp in its XR-2800-4 prototype version on May 29, 1940, and the first single-en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=673160 | 2,240,104 |
1,929,439 | Human case reports of "B. pilosicoli" spirochaetosis have been described, suggesting that individuals colonized with "B. pilosicoli" may develop focal colitis and chronic diarrhea, with abdominal pain, flatulence, gastrointestinal bleeding, rectal discharge, watery diarrhea, and pseudoappendicitis. Colonoscopic examin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32841803 | 1,928,333 |
1,875,655 | Most historical and sociologists of technology have worked in industrial societies, where ample information about the thoughts and motivations of adopters and users of new technologies exist, and where the social effects of new technologies can be assessed. But how can this be done for the archaeological past, where al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71498816 | 1,874,578 |
1,718,287 | In 2016 and 2017, two major clinical trials were published in the international journal, Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science (IOVS). These studies were funded by the European Research Council (Ref: 281096). The first trial, the CREST (Central Retinal Enrichment Supplementation Trials) normal study involved 105... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49287862 | 1,717,317 |
1,659,078 | The power system became operational on 19 June 1891 and was run continuously for the first 30 days. The entire plant required 15 to 20 attendants for its operation. The instruments and controls were rudimentary, solenoid type gravity balance Voltmeters and ammeters mounted on lacquered wooden boards. Workers had to tak... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9838639 | 1,658,145 |
696,585 | Green Infrastructure can be traced as far back as the 17th century in European society beginning in France. France used the presence of nature to provide social and spatial organization to their towns. Originally, nature in cities was used to provide social areas to interact, and plants were grown in these spaces to pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10040229 | 696,221 |
33,020 | The adoption of the 21 cm Nebelwerfer-derived "Werfer-Granate 21" (Wfr. Gr. 21) rocket mortar by the Luftwaffe in mid-August 1943 promised the introduction of a major "stand-off" style of offensive weapon – one strut-mounted tubular launcher was fixed under each wing panel on the Luftwaffe's single-engine fighters, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4997 | 33,008 |
82,636 | In April 2012, Chief of Naval Operations Greenert said, "You won't send it into an anti-access area," rather groups of two or three ships are intended to be sent into areas where access is jeopardized to perform missions like minesweeping while under the cover of a destroyer. The LCS main purpose is to take up operatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=460005 | 82,602 |
1,482,006 | Cumana chose to produce a 68008 second processor running the OS-9 operating system that was installed into the 6502 CPU socket, relocating the 6502 to the second processor board itself, and providing 512 KB RAM and its own disk controller. Initial pricing was announced as £695 plus VAT, although subsequent recommended ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8881125 | 1,481,172 |
1,487,405 | Certain samples of Moon rock and lunar dust soil from the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 missions, mounted on the wooden plaque displays especially for Brazil, Canada, Cyprus, Honduras, Ireland, Malta, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37521438 | 1,486,567 |
40,868 | In late 1962, Air Marshal Sir John Nicholls instigated a trial when he flew Spitfire "PM631", a PR Mk 19 in the custody of the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight, against an English Electric Lightning F 3 (a supersonic jet-engined interceptor) in mock combat at RAF Binbrook. At the time, British Commonwealth forces were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26027181 | 40,853 |
1,784,772 | Information theory was a fashionable scientific approach in the mid '50s. However, pioneer Claude Shannon wrote in 1956 that this trendiness was dangerous. He said, "Our fellow scientists in many different fields, attracted by the fanfare and by the new avenues opened to scientific analysis, are using these ideas in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4561188 | 1,783,768 |
1,897,107 | In the years that followed the research of the late 1920s, more objections to biological control were raised by environmentalists, including the concept that it is risky to introduce any new species to an already compromised ecosystem, even to destroy a previously introduced one. Further, it has been argued that gorse ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32939258 | 1,896,023 |
14,939 | Tardigrades are the first known animal to survive after exposure to outer space. In September 2007, dehydrated tardigrades were taken into low Earth orbit on the FOTON-M3 mission carrying the BIOPAN astrobiology payload. For 10 days, groups of tardigrades, some of them previously dehydrated, some of them not, were expo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19817681 | 14,934 |
1,560,856 | The Wear Valley District Council along with its local Durham Dales Primary Care Trust in England developed an innovative scheme in an effort to combat the high levels of poor health and obesity in the area. They created a mobile gym with electronic fitness monitoring equipment, which is called "WOW" (Wellness on Wheels... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3357557 | 1,559,970 |
244,186 | The earliest record of falconry comes from the reign of Sargon II (722–705 BC) in Assyria. Falconry is thought to have made its entry to Europe only after AD 400, brought in from the east after invasions by the Huns and Alans. Starting from the eighth century, numerous Arabic works on the subject and general ornitholog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42967 | 244,059 |
687,289 | Shen Kuo was much in favor of philosophical Daoist notions which challenged the authority of empirical science in his day. Although much could be discerned through empirical observation and recorded study, Daoism asserted that the secrets of the universe were boundless, something that scientific investigation could mer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1102000 | 686,932 |
305,223 | In 1946, speaking at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, former British prime minister Winston Churchill warned that, "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent." In the months that followed, Josef Stalin continued to solidify a Soviet sphere of influ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 305,060 |
912,374 | Algae biodiesel is still a fairly new technology. Despite the fact that research began over 30 years ago, it was put on hold during the mid-1990s, mainly due to a lack of funding and a relatively low petroleum cost. For the next few years algae biofuels saw little attention; it was not until the gas peak of the early 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14205946 | 911,895 |
497,512 | A study done after the Dutch Hunger Winter of 1944-1945 showed that undernutrition during the early stages of pregnancy are associated with hypomethylation of the insulin-like growth factor II (IGF2) gene even after six decades. These individuals had significantly lower methylation rates as compared to their same sex s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=343457 | 497,255 |
414,915 | One important difference to traditional epistemology is that Bayesian epistemology focuses not on the notion of simple belief but on the notion of degrees of belief, so-called "credences". This approach tries to capture the idea of certainty: we believe in all kinds of claims but we are more certain about some, like th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55503854 | 414,712 |
339,379 | Although they have been pushed into smaller habitats by human settlement expansion, members of the genus have been designated least-concern species by the IUCN, indicating low risk of becoming extinct in their natural environments in the near future. This is due to their high adaptiveness to changing habitat conditions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9125620 | 339,199 |
2,013,361 | Sea levels in Utah dropped by the start of the Mesozoic, leaving only the western half of the state submerged. Life was abundant in the sea. In Utah's Triassic marine ecosystems, "Meekoceras" was an especially common cephalopod. Its remains were preserved at what is now known as "Cephalopod Gulch" near Salt Lake City. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799157 | 2,012,202 |
575,212 | Once the Phase II information is gathered, a long-range observing plan is developed that covers the entire year, finding appropriate times to schedule individual observations, and at the same time ensuring effective and efficient use of the telescope through the year. Detailed observing schedules are created each week,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177098 | 574,918 |
269,616 | Those with fitting names give differing accounts of the effect of their name on their career choices. Igor Judge, former Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, said he has no recollection of anyone commenting on his destined profession when he was a child, adding "I'm absolutely convinced in my case it is entirely co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2326978 | 269,469 |
272,339 | Among some futurists and within the part of transhumanist movement, mind uploading is treated as an important proposed life extension or immortality technology (known as "digital immortality"). Some believe mind uploading is humanity's current best option for preserving the identity of the species, as opposed to cryoni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162435 | 272,191 |
1,896,124 | Another absolute instrumental approach was also possible with the development of light scattering theory by Albert Einstein, Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Peter Debye, Bruno H. Zimm, and others. The problem with measurements made using membrane osmometry and sedimentation was that they only characterized the bulk prope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16977319 | 1,895,040 |
1,023,490 | Simple atomization techniques are available in which liquid metal is forced through an orifice at a sufficiently high velocity to ensure turbulent flow. The usual performance index used is the Reynolds number R = fvd/n, where f = fluid density, v = velocity of the exit stream, d = diameter of the opening, and n = absol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=495768 | 1,022,957 |
435,270 | Between the years 1980 and 2000, three assumed fossils were discovered on a beach near The Gobbins in Northern Ireland by palaeontologist Roger Byrne. Exact geologic provenance is not reported for any of the specimens, but the very dark colouration of the specimens indicate (through means of comparison to marine fossil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2469650 | 435,056 |
465,899 | Transformation via Agrobacterium has been successfully practiced in dicots, i.e. broadleaf plants, such as soybeans and tomatoes, for many years. Recently it has been adapted and is now effective in monocots like grasses, including corn and rice. In general, the "Agrobacterium" method is considered preferable to the ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22346936 | 465,666 |
651,393 | While the organization of information has been going on since antiquity, bibliographic control as we know it today is a more recent invention. Ancient civilizations recorded lists of books onto tablets and libraries in the Middle Ages kept records of their holdings. With the invention of the printing press in the 15th ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3185540 | 651,051 |
235,525 | Loss of habitat is the single greatest threat to any species. If an island on which an endemic organism lives becomes uninhabitable for some reason, the species will become extinct. Any type of habitat surrounded by a different habitat is in a similar situation to an island. If a forest is divided into parts by logging... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1596317 | 235,406 |
564,885 | "Lemna minor" has been shown to remove heavy metals like lead, copper, zinc and arsenic very efficiently from waters with non-lethal concentrations. One particular study found, that more than 70% of arsenic was removed after 15 days at initial concentration of 0.5 mg/L. Another one says, that viable "L. minor" biomass ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13151201 | 564,595 |
139,485 | The International Powerlifting Federation was formed immediately after the contest and so none of the lifts could be yet registered as official world records. The 1973 Worlds was also held in York. This time there were only 47 entrants: one Swedish, one Puerto Rican (Peter Fiore, who was lifting for Zambia), two Canadi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64223 | 139,428 |
977,394 | The acceleration of research on animal cognition in the last 50 years or so has led to a rapid expansion in the variety of species studied and methods employed. The remarkable behavior of large-brained animals such as primates and cetacea have claimed special attention, but all sorts of animals large and small (birds, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=425938 | 976,883 |
844,235 | In 2015, IUPAC began a project to decide if group 3 should be Sc-Y-La-Ac or Sc-Y-Lu-Lr: it was chaired by Scerri and included (among others) Jensen and Lavelle. It considered the question to be "of considerable importance" for chemists, physicists, and students, noting that the variation in published periodic tables on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=306609 | 843,785 |
167,817 | In 1879, the Dumonts sold their farm in Valença, Rio de Janeiro, and settled in Sítio do Cascavel, in Ribeirão Preto, where they bought the Arindeúva Farm, of José Bento Junqueira, producing 1200 bushels. Until he was 10, he was taught by his older sister, Virginia. From 10 to 12 years old he studied at Colégio Culto à... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152687 | 167,727 |
1,828,213 | In metazoans, defense against disruption of the multicellular life style by such cheaters takes two major forms. First, a consistent feature of the multicellular life cycle is the interposition of a unicellular phase, even among organisms whose major mode of propagation may be via many-celled vegetative propagules. Thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34769236 | 1,827,174 |
535,396 | The development and continual improvement of computers, at first mechanical analog machines and then digital electronic machines, allowed industry to deal with larger and larger amounts of data to facilitate mass production and distribution and communication, and new areas of mathematics were developed to deal with thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56516812 | 535,117 |
91,404 | The development and continual improvement of computers, at first mechanical analog machines and then digital electronic machines, allowed industry to deal with larger and larger amounts of data to facilitate mass production and distribution and communication, and new areas of mathematics were developed to deal with thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14220 | 91,364 |
1,363,312 | In addition to the white Thermoplastic PVC and TPO membranes used in many commercial cool roof applications, there is also research in the field of cool asphalt shingles. Asphalt shingles make up the majority of the North American residential roofing market, and consumer preferences for darker colors make creating sola... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3178571 | 1,362,559 |
1,454,386 | The comparison in the table below is only meant to give approximate indications of radioresistance for different species and should be taken with great caution. There are generally big differences in radioresistance for one species among experiments, due to the way radiation affects living tissues and to different expe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1659631 | 1,453,566 |
1,632,999 | The first medical schools were established in Lower Canada in the 1820s. These included the Montreal Medical Institution, which is the McGill University Faculty of Medicine today. In the mid-1870s, Sir William Osler changed the face of medical school instruction with the introduction of the hands-on approach. The Colle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10620033 | 1,632,077 |
795,607 | As the Kuroshio Current separates from the equatorial current and flows northward, warm water from the Western Pacific Warm Pool segues into the northwest Pacific Ocean Basin. Principal heat flux in the Kuroshio occurs via the Kuroshio Extension between 132°E and 160°E and 30°N to 35°N, depending on the latitude where ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=952514 | 795,182 |
1,577,594 | English walnuts (Juglans regia) and black walnuts (Juglans nigra) are two main types of walnuts in the market across the world. Walnuts are utilized as a valuable ingredient due to favorable health attributes, sensory properties and consumer sensation. Shelled walnuts are broadly applied as ingredients in different foo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60902291 | 1,576,705 |
29,001 | Following criticisms over the aesthetic value of the device, the FIA revealed plans to allow teams some design freedom in the final version of the halo, with the teams permitted to attach a thin single-plane wing atop the halo to control airflow over the top of the car and into the airbox to assist with engine cooling.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52639993 | 28,991 |
2,029,657 | The viola concerto has been highly praised by music critics. Reviewing the world premiere, Fiona Maddocks of "The Observer" described the piece as an "inventive, three-movement piece" and said it "exploits fully the lyrical qualities of the instrument, launching with a rhapsodic solo ascent and finding bold colours via... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50706725 | 2,028,489 |
1,948,887 | The European environmental research and innovation policy has a multidisciplinary character and involve efforts across many different sectors to provide safe, economically feasible, environmentally sound and socially acceptable solutions along the entire value chain of human activities. To reduce resource use and envir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47556865 | 1,947,769 |
630,691 | The first organisms that showed similar characteristics of Crocodilians were the Crurotarsi, who appeared during the early Triassic 250 million years ago. This quickly gave rise to the Eusuchia clade 220 million years ago, which would eventually lead to the order of Crocodilians, the first of which arose about 85 milli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30600763 | 630,353 |
2,060,441 | In January 1925, "Century" published Meiklejohn's plan for a new and "experimental" college, "A New College: Notes on a Next Step in Higher Education". The proposed college would have a "unified" two-year curriculum and closer ties between faculty and students, who were to be "coequal partners". Meiklejohn called for a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41013618 | 2,059,254 |
1,864,289 | In 1997, Percy Schmeiser discovered that canola growing on his farm was genetically modified to be resistant to Roundup although he had not planted GM seed. He had initially discovered that some canola growing by a roadside along one of his fields was Roundup resistant when he was killing weeds along the road; this led... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8160680 | 1,863,217 |
1,331,573 | Growing up in dysfunctional family environments or experiencing social isolation can atrophy the 'emotional' areas of the brain. For example, toxic parent-child attachments involving verbal/physical abuse, and regular angry interactions impairs the child's sense of agency, coherence, and affectivity in interactions wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63045052 | 1,330,844 |
733,992 | No new consensus has emerged to replace the documentary hypothesis, but since roughly the mid-1980s an influential theory has emerged which relates the emergence of the Pentateuch to the situation in Judah in the 5th century BCE under Persian imperial rule. The central institution in the post-Exilic Persian province of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1365728 | 733,605 |
953,221 | Eckert and Mauchly were uncertain about the reliability of digital logic circuits and little was known about them at the time. The UNIVAC I was designed with parallel computation circuits and result comparison. In practice, only failing components yielded comparison faults as their circuit designs were very reliable. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=142981 | 952,716 |
644,412 | The above description assumes that the waveform of the transmitter being exploited possesses a usable radar ambiguity function and hence cross-correlation yields a useful result. Some broadcast signals, such as analogue television, contain a structure in the time domain that yields a highly ambiguous or inaccurate resu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1766338 | 644,072 |
1,119,061 | To test the notion that attention plays a vital role in visual perception, Treisman and Schmidt (1982) designed an experiment to show that features may exist independently of one another early in processing. Participants were shown a picture involving four objects hidden by two black numbers. The display was flashed fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1695035 | 1,118,488 |
1,691,810 | Psychosurgery is a surgical operation that destroys brain tissue in order to alleviate the symptoms of mental disorder. The lesions are usually, but not always, made in the frontal lobes. Tissue may be destroyed by cutting, burning, freezing, electric current or radiation. The first systematic attempt at psychosurgery ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16036540 | 1,690,859 |
2,154,890 | Between 1992 and 1996 Lightfoot worked with the Moroccan-American Project at Sijilmasa to map the city plan of the Sijilmasa archaeological site and study the environmental history of the Tafilalt Oasis and changes to the historical landscape that reflect changes in the cityscape and population of medieval Sijilmasa. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66682935 | 2,153,659 |
820,115 | In 1944, the Sukhoi design bureau (OKB) began designing a twin-engined fighter powered by two Lyulka TR-1 turbojets, known internally as the Samolyet or Izdeliye (item or product) K. The ultimate design was very probably influenced by a captured Messerschmitt Me 262, but the Su-9 was not a copy of the German aircraft. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1247260 | 819,674 |
15,380 | The American Psychiatric Association's "Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition, Text Revision" (DSM-5-TR), released in 2022, is the current version of the DSM. The fifth edition, DSM-5, released in May 2013, was the first to define ASD as a single diagnosis, which is continued in DSM-5-TR.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29113700 | 15,375 |
256,771 | Each January, before the beginning of second-semester classes, the campus holds an interim period called Paideia (drawn from the Greek, meaning 'education'). Originally conceived and approved by the faculty in 1968 for unstructured independent study or "UIS," Paideia ran for the full month of January from 1969 to 1981,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25417 | 256,637 |
934,507 | Sudden changes in the atmosphere's vertical moisture content and temperature profiles can on random occasions make UHF, VHF and microwave signals propagate hundreds of kilometers (miles) up to about —and for ducting mode even farther—beyond the normal radio-horizon. The inversion layer is mostly observed over high pres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=271195 | 934,015 |
1,558,856 | Kazakhstan has 76.5 Mha agricultural land, 10 Mha forest and 185 Mha steppe grasslands providing abundant biomass wastes and residues which have the potential to generate arrange of bioenergy services. Kazakhstan produces and exports crops such as wheat (winter and spring), rye (winter), maize (for grain), barley (wint... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50433642 | 1,557,971 |
8,214 | When experimental psychology came to Britain, Francis Galton was a leading practitioner. By virtue of his procedures for measuring reaction time and sensation, he is considered an inventor of modern mental testing (also known as "psychometrics"). James McKeen Cattell, a student of Wundt and Galton, brought the idea of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22921 | 8,211 |
866,019 | The earliest significant use of aleatory features is found in many of the compositions of American Charles Ives in the early 20th century. Henry Cowell adopted Ives's ideas during the 1930s, in such works as the "Mosaic Quartet" (String Quartet No. 3, 1934), which allows the players to arrange the fragments of music in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99234 | 865,559 |
1,544,422 | CERES spatial resolution at nadir view (equivalent diameter of the footprint) is 10 km for CERES on TRMM, and 20 km for CERES on Terra and Aqua satellites. Perhaps of greater importance for missions such as CERES is calibration stability, or the ability to track and partition instrumental changes from Earth data so it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=471126 | 1,543,548 |
217,566 | Dewar's design was quickly transformed into a commercial item in 1904 as two German glassblowers, Reinhold Burger and Albert Aschenbrenner, discovered that it could be used to keep cold drinks cold and warm drinks warm and invented a more robust flask design, which was suited for everyday use. The Dewar flask design ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=143689 | 217,458 |
673,453 | Cryostats are used in medicine to cut histological slides. They are usually used in a process called frozen section histology (see Frozen section procedure). The cryostat is essentially an ultrafine "deli-slicer", called a microtome, placed in a freezer. The cryostat is usually a stationary upright freezer, with an ext... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=978840 | 673,101 |
897,057 | According to the WHO, the "precautionary principle" is "a risk management policy applied in circumstances with a high degree of scientific uncertainty, reflecting the need to take action for a potentially serious risk without awaiting the results of scientific research." Other less stringent recommended approaches are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1272748 | 896,585 |
1,237,581 | In August 1954, Congress authorized the government to begin development of a satellite to be launched for the International Geophysical Year. Each of the military services sought to compete to launch a satellite from their service for the competition, however the Department of Defense directed that it not detract from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66185637 | 1,236,917 |
1,924,572 | Individuals presenting with the PAL form of DLBCL-CI have typically been elderly males (male to female ratio 4:1 to 12:1) with a median age of 67 years (range 46–86 years). Most of these individuals have been Japanese with a long (median 37 years) history of pyothorax due to tuberculosis previously treated with a pneum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63301487 | 1,923,469 |
947,705 | Reliability engineers, whether using quantitative or qualitative methods to describe a failure or hazard, rely on language to pinpoint the risks and enable issues to be solved. The language used must help create an orderly description of the function/item/system and its complex surrounding as it relates to the failure ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1724836 | 947,202 |
556,671 | The late 1990s and early 2000s presented many obstacles for the newly developed rockets. Both flight number 5 and 8 of the H-II rocket failed at launch, as well as the launch of the fourth M-V rocket. Another notable situation was that of the Nozomi probe, which failed to enter Mars orbit. These failures along with rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30764115 | 556,382 |
2,201,938 | Studies have shown that normal lung sounds have distinctive characteristics that can be differentiated from abnormal lung sounds, thus supporting the potential clinical value of acoustic lung imaging. By using the VRI that simultaneously records the vibration energy from 40 points over 12 seconds and presents all of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25572054 | 2,200,685 |
2,743 | The triggering event for the security hearing happened on November 7, 1953, when William Liscum Borden, who until earlier in the year had been the executive director of the United States Congress Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, sent a letter to Hoover which said that "more probably than not J. Robert Oppenheimer is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39034 | 2,743 |
1,019,561 | In June 2014 ecological artist Lloyd Godman, with structural engineer Stuart Jones and environmental scientist Grant Harris collaborated to install an experiment using Tillandsia plants in extreme outdoor conditions at levels 92, 91, 65 and 56 on Eureka Tower in Melbourne, Australia. The selected air plants are extreme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=192025 | 1,019,034 |
1,598,631 | The nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are members of a superfamily of ligand-gated ion channels that mediate fast signal transmission at synapses. The nAChRs are thought to be hetero-pentamers composed of homologous subunits. The proposed structure for each subunit is a conserved N-terminal extracellular domai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14477915 | 1,597,731 |
1,973,554 | In a more recent work Efimov and Nogovitsin showed that an alternative renormalization technique originating from QFT, based on the concept of "tadpole renormalization", can be a very effective approach for computing functional integrals arising in statistical mechanics of classical many-particle systems (Efimov 1996).... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19668009 | 1,972,419 |
594,899 | Other species pairs which consist of a well-armored marine form and a smaller, unarmored freshwater form are being studied in ponds and lakes in south-central Alaska that were once marine habitats such as those uplifted during the 1964 Alaska earthquake. The evolutionary dynamics of these species pairs are providing a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=489642 | 594,594 |
1,388,379 | Hrdlička was born at Humpolec house 393 on 30 March 1869 and baptized Catholic the next day at the . His mother, Karolína Hrdličková, educated her child herself; his skills and knowledge made it possible to skip the primary level of school. When he was 13, Hrdlička arrived in New York with his father Maxmilian Hrdlička... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1811400 | 1,387,611 |
861,719 | DOTS stands for "Directly Observed Treatment, Short-course" and is a major plank in the World Health Organization (WHO) Global Plan to Stop TB. The DOTS strategy focuses on five main points of action. The first element involves creating increased sustainable financial services and a short and long-term plan provided by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1330683 | 861,260 |
338,276 | The site, Riggs Quarry 13, is located on a small hill later known as Riggs Hill; it is today marked by a plaque. More "Brachiosaurus" fossils are reported on Riggs Hill, but other fossil finds on the hill have been vandalized. During excavation of the specimen, Riggs misidentified the humerus as a deformed femur due to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20598015 | 338,096 |
634,120 | As the championship continued on to Latin America, the world began to feel the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the Rally Mexico began as planned, the final leg of the rally was cancelled to allow teams enough time to return to their home bases in Europe before travel restrictions came into effect. This meant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60663941 | 633,782 |
540,519 | In traditional healthcare, doctors conducted medical practices with a limited number of tools, and got more experienced over time. Since becoming a doctor required experience and knowledge, very few took up the profession. The lack of communication between people in different places caused new technology to spread slow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37451236 | 540,239 |
181,379 | Before the development of viscous-drive and electric fans, engines were fitted with simple fixed fans that drew air through the radiator at all times. Vehicles whose design required the installation of a large radiator to cope with heavy work at high temperatures, such as commercial vehicles and tractors would often ru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21600868 | 181,284 |
1,201,918 | In their first "Neurospora" paper, published in the November 15, 1941, edition of the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences", Beadle and Tatum noted that it was "entirely tenable to suppose that these genes which are themselves a part of the system, control or regulate specific reactions in the system either... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20971660 | 1,201,276 |
135,329 | Jean Piaget was a Swiss scholar who began his studies in intellectual development in the 1920s. Piaget's first interests were those that dealt with the ways in which animals adapt to their environments and his first scientific article about this subject was published when he was 10 years old. This eventually led him to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9627698 | 135,274 |
500,296 | The quantitative revolution responded to the regional geography paradigm that was dominant at the time. Debates raged predominantly (although not exclusively) in the U.S., where regional geography was the major philosophical school. In the early 1950s, there was a growing sense that the existing paradigm for geographic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2519712 | 500,039 |
1,244,451 | At the organismic level, mechanical stress has a profound impact on extracellular matrix integrity and probably causes induction of a number of ECM genes for repair and remodeling of ECM in tissue stroma and basement membranes. One study examined the in vitro effects of pressure on global gene transcription using a mic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4328716 | 1,243,778 |
23,501 | One of the most striking disorders of consciousness goes by the name anosognosia, a Greek-derived term meaning 'unawareness of disease'. This is a condition in which patients are disabled in some way, most commonly as a result of a stroke, but either misunderstand the nature of the problem or deny that there is anythin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5664 | 23,492 |
2,629 | In contrast to prior upgrades, Increment 3.2 for Block 30/35 aircraft emphasized air combat capabilities and was a two-part process. 3.2A focused on electronic warfare, communications and identification, while 3.2B included geolocation improvements and full integration of the AIM-9X and AIM-120D; fleet releases began i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66299 | 2,629 |
546,949 | In cochlear implants, the sound is picked up by a microphone and transmitted to the behind-the-ear external processor to be converted to the digital data. The digitized data is then modulated on a radio frequency signal and transmitted to an antenna inside a headpiece. The data and power carrier are transmitted through... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29803004 | 546,663 |
2,012,488 | Genetic and environmental studies alone fail to explain the importance the developmental stressor timing exposure to the phenotypic changes associated with PTSD. Epigenetic modification is the environmentally induced change in DNA that alters the function rather than the structure of the gene. The biological mechanism ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44631723 | 2,011,335 |
112,235 | The difference in gravity may negatively affect human health by weakening bones and muscles. There is also risk of osteoporosis and cardiovascular problems. Current rotations on the International Space Station put astronauts in zero gravity for six months, a comparable length of time to a one-way trip to Mars. This giv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1744360 | 112,190 |
1,093,528 | "Neurospora" was used by Edward Tatum and George Wells Beadle in the experiments for which they won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1958. The results of these experiments led directly to the "one gene, one enzyme" hypothesis that specific genes code for specific proteins. This concept launched molecular bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4350664 | 1,092,968 |
71,613 | The first aircraft to put this theory to the test was the RB-36D specialized photo-reconnaissance version of the B-36D. It was outwardly identical to the standard B-36D, but carried a crew of 22 rather than 15, the additional crew members being needed to operate and maintain the photo-reconnaissance equipment that was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=385077 | 71,586 |
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