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434,745 | It seems clear from the richer tombs that the Etruscan elite lived in fairly spacious comfort, but there is little evidence as to what their homes looked like, although some furniture is shown in tomb frescos. The rock-cut tomb chambers often form suites of "rooms", some quite large, which presumably resemble in part t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49732154 | 434,531 |
569,387 | In March 1937, a team of Enea Bossi (designer), Vittorio Bonomi (builder), and Emilio Casco (pilot) met a challenge by the Italian government for a flight of one kilometre using their "Pedaliante". The aircraft apparently flew short distances fully under human power, but the distances were not significant enough to win... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23777691 | 569,097 |
525,666 | Bloomfield's work in Indo-European beyond his dissertation was limited to an article on palatal consonants in Sanskrit and one article on the Sanskrit grammatical tradition associated with Pāṇini, in addition to a number of book reviews. Bloomfield made extensive use of Indo-European materials to explain historical and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18060 | 525,393 |
990,100 | The F2H Banshee and Grumman F9F Panther, both of which began flight tests around the time of the Phantom's entry into service, better satisfied the navy's desire for a versatile, long-range, high-performance jet. Consequently, the FH-1 saw little weapons training, and was primarily used for carrier qualifications to tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11761 | 989,583 |
59,709 | The onset of pre-eclampsia is thought to be caused by several complex interactions between genetics and environmental factors. Our current understanding of the specifically heritable cause involves an imbalance of angiogenic factors in the placenta. Angiogenesis involves the growth of new blood vessels from existing ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=414967 | 59,684 |
1,651,362 | Nanotechnology is the manipulation of matter at the atomic scale to create materials, devices, or systems with new properties or functions, with potential applications in energy, healthcare, industry, communications, agriculture, consumer products, and other sectors. Nanomaterials have at least one primary dimension of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53376859 | 1,650,430 |
1,016,279 | In 1975, one potential application for the new satellite-generated imagery was to find high yield fishery areas. Through the Landsat Menhaden and Thread Investigation, some satellite data of the eastern portion of the Mississippi sound and another area off the coast of the Louisiana coast data was run through classific... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=387175 | 1,015,756 |
1,486,888 | Initial attempts to treat autism were mostly unsuccessful and in the 1960s researchers began to focus on behavioral intervention therapies. Though these interventions enjoyed a degree of success, limitations included long hours needed for thousands of trials and limited generalization to new environments. Drs. Lynn and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6114596 | 1,486,050 |
467,986 | In other areas, the operation resulted in improved data or reduced uncertainties. The U capture-to-fission ratio in a typical MSR neutron spectrum is an example of basic data that was improved. The effect of fissioning on the redox potential of the fuel salt was resolved. The deposition of some elements ("noble metals"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5710651 | 467,751 |
1,514,640 | A different and more efficient approach is due to Mark van Hoeij. Considering the roots of the first and the last coefficient polynomial formula_8 and formula_9 – called singularities – one can build a solution step by step making use of the fact that every hypergeometric sequence formula_44 has a representation of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58006825 | 1,513,789 |
1,142,596 | He was born into a prominent Quaker family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, son of Edward M. Davis and Maria Mott Davis (a daughter of the women's advocate Lucretia Mott). Davis studied geology and geography at Harvard's Lawrence Scientific School and then joined the Harvard sponsored geographic exploration party to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77831 | 1,142,001 |
1,893,236 | MKK7 play an important part in the stress-activated protein kinase/c-Jun N-terminal kinase (SAP/JNK) signaling pathway. In collaboration with another mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase MKK4, MKK7 work as crucial transducers upstream of JNK signaling. Through joint efforts the two MKKs phosphorylate different JNK i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14754426 | 1,892,153 |
24,877 | The story of the golden crown does not appear anywhere in Archimedes' known works. The practicality of the method it describes has been called into question due to the extreme accuracy that would be required while measuring the water displacement. Archimedes may have instead sought a solution that applied the principle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1844 | 24,868 |
1,246,119 | The main problems associated with painted bilayers are residual solvent and limited lifetime. Some researchers believe that pockets of solvent trapped between the two bilayer leaflets can disrupt normal protein function. To overcome this limitation, Montal and Mueller developed a modified deposition technique that elim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21530463 | 1,245,444 |
98,684 | At Montreal, the participants agreed to freeze production of CFCs at 1986 levels and to reduce production by 50 percent by 1999. After a series of scientific expeditions to the Antarctic produced convincing evidence that the ozone hole was indeed caused by chlorine and bromine from manmade organohalogens, the Montreal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44183 | 98,642 |
910,230 | Unlike linear birefringence, however, natural optical rotation (in the absence of a magnetic field) cannot be explained in terms of a local material permittivity tensor (i.e., a charge response that only depends on the local electric field vector), as symmetry considerations forbid this. Rather, circular birefringence ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39774 | 909,751 |
330,517 | Claims of exoplanet detections have been made since the nineteenth century. Some of the earliest involve the binary star 70 Ophiuchi. In 1855 William Stephen Jacob at the East India Company's Madras Observatory reported that orbital anomalies made it "highly probable" that there was a "planetary body" in this system. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9763 | 330,342 |
1,666,426 | The subfamily Caprinae has also been subdivided into the tribe Caprini, the group which includes goats and sheep. Selective pressure is generally considered to be the cause for the split between the Caprini and other Caprinae, with early members of the group moving into mountainous regions and developing particular tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60746925 | 1,665,487 |
891,513 | Davies et al. (1995) have argued that Cosmides and Tooby's argument in favor of context-sensitive, domain-specific reasoning mechanisms as opposed to general-purpose reasoning mechanisms is theoretically incoherent and inferentially unjustified. Von Sydow (2006) has argued that we have to distinguish deontic and descri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=823236 | 891,044 |
776,827 | However, Columbia has not been exempt from internal and external criticism in recent years. During the 2011–12 school year, the college administration attempted to implement a set of sweeping changes to the college's curriculum, staffing policies, and overall institutional structure, through an initiative dubbed Bluepr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1914203 | 776,411 |
139,489 | Ultimately, the USPF failed to conform to IPF demands and was expelled from the international body in 1997, with the ADFPA, now named USA Powerlifting (USAPL), taking its place. Despite the trend towards more and more federations, each with their own rules and standards of performance, some powerlifters have attempted ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64223 | 139,432 |
830,152 | The dyes used in early experimental cells (circa 1995) were sensitive only in the high-frequency end of the solar spectrum, in the UV and blue. Newer versions were quickly introduced (circa 1999) that had much wider frequency response, notably "triscarboxy-ruthenium terpyridine" [Ru(4,4',4"-(COOH)-terpy)(NCS)], which i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1932063 | 829,705 |
628,674 | Ticks generally are obligate blood feeders. Active stages (larvae, nymphs and adults) of "Ixodes holocyclus" require blood as a source of nutrition. Adults also require the blood for sperm or egg production. The feeding process of ixodid ticks has first a slow phase for several days followed by a fast phase in the last... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3272427 | 628,339 |
883,016 | The Ares I igniter was an advanced version of the flight-proven igniter used on the Space Shuttle's solid rocket boosters. It was approximately 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter and 36 inches (91 cm) long, and took advantage of upgraded insulation materials that had improved thermal properties to protect the igniter's case... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5517979 | 882,552 |
119,135 | The further evolution of Callisto after accretion was determined by the balance of the radioactive heating, cooling through thermal conduction near the surface, and solid state or subsolidus convection in the interior. Details of the subsolidus convection in the ice is the main source of uncertainty in the models of al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43126 | 119,086 |
778,634 | To get to this point, Sanger refined a partition chromatography method first developed by Richard Laurence Millington Synge and Archer John Porter Martin to determine the composition of amino acids in wool. Sanger used a chemical reagent 1-fluoro-2,4-dinitrobenzene (now, also known as Sanger's reagent, fluorodinitroben... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63349 | 778,217 |
100,726 | UA is a member of the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, a consortium of institutions pursuing research in astronomy. The association operates observatories and telescopes, notably Kitt Peak National Observatory just outside Tucson. UA is a member of the Association of American Universities, and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32015 | 100,681 |
1,330,705 | These rights apply to both researchers and participants. Informed consent is one area that nurses must be familiar with in order to complete research. Informed consent is "the legal principle that governs the patient's ability to accept or reject individual medical interventions designed to diagnose or treat an illness... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16818407 | 1,329,976 |
2,172,825 | I was asked to give a talk at Edinburgh University, since I was going to be in the neighborhood to do field work in my real area of research interest, what we call single malt Scotch and what they call malt whisky. Having mentioned why I was around at the start of the talk, I was delighted to be invited to take a dram ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33067032 | 2,171,583 |
1,621,321 | SOFI has been developed for super-resolution of biological specimen that are labelled with independently fluctuating fluorescent emitters (organic dyes, fluorescent proteins). In comparison to other super-resolution microscopy techniques such as STORM or PALM that rely on single-molecule localization and hence only all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41972103 | 1,620,406 |
1,320,697 | This modernization included lengthening the barrel from 30 to 40 calibers, making a hole in the single trail carriage to allow a larger elevation angle, installing a balancing mechanism and adding a new panoramic sight. As a result of such enhancements the muzzle velocity reached 662 m/s, the elevation angle was increa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5934019 | 1,319,971 |
1,857,818 | In 1744 the advice of Pieter van Musschenbroek and Willem 's Gravesande was sought in acquiring instruments from the Netherlands to teach and explore the theories of Galileo and Newton. In 1745 the institute opened a "Gabinetto di Fisica", a room that held a museum and a laboratory for exploring physics. The entire wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38231013 | 1,856,750 |
68,440 | Mearsheimer has won several teaching awards. He received the Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching when he was a graduate student at Cornell in 1977, and he won the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the University of Chicago in 1985. In addition, he was selected as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=980934 | 68,414 |
148,664 | Early development tests revealed serious combustion instability problems which sometimes caused catastrophic failure. Initially, progress on this problem was slow, as it was intermittent and unpredictable. Oscillations of 4 kHz with harmonics to 24 kHz were observed. Eventually, engineers developed a diagnostic techniq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=712616 | 148,603 |
51,091 | Tadpoles retain the lateral line system of their ancestral fishes, but this is lost in terrestrial adult amphibians. Some caecilians possess electroreceptors that allow them to locate objects around them when submerged in water. The ears are well developed in frogs. There is no external ear, but the large circular eard... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=621 | 51,071 |
2,959 | Three letters are not needed, but are retained due to inertia and would be hard to justify today by the standards of the modern IPA. appears because it is found in English; officially it is a fricative, with terminology dating to the days before 'fricative' and 'approximant' were distinguished. Based on how all other f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14761 | 2,959 |
839,524 | Michelson sought another measurement, but this time in an evacuated tube to avoid difficulties in interpreting the image owing to atmospheric effects. In 1929, he began a collaboration with Francis G. Pease and Fred Pearson to perform a measurement in a 1.6 km tube 3 feet in diameter at the Irvine Ranch near Santa Ana,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=92733 | 839,075 |
1,689,908 | A series of statistical-dynamical models, which used regression equations based upon CLIPER output and the latest output from primitive equation models run at the National Meteorological Center, then National Centers for Environmental Prediction, were developed between the 1970s and 1990s and were named NHC73, NHC83, N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4142447 | 1,688,962 |
590,550 | In response to a request by Sir Thomas Blamey for an army cooperation squadron operating a relatively slow aircraft, No. 4 Squadron, equipped with the Wirraway, was dispatched to Port Moresby during early November 1942. Operating over New Guinea, the type performed aerial reconnaissance, photography, artillery spotting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3943778 | 590,248 |
1,951,525 | As in traditional organoid culture, introducing a third culture dimension is critical for a better representation of the microanatomy of a tissue. Since 3D cell cultures implement more physiologically relevant biochemical and mechanical cues, 3D cultures generally achieve better cell viability and a more physiological ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69799974 | 1,950,404 |
1,614,377 | "Aplysia punctata" are grazing organisms which prefer to reside and feed on algal seaweed beds. Using their radula, "A. punctata" tear up seaweeds in order to consume them and are found to eat up to one-third of their body weight per day of algae. Individuals of "A. punctata" found in the intertidal area are recorded t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20522147 | 1,613,471 |
1,587,555 | As a result of exploitation by Johann Wilhelm Weinmann, Ehret finished only 500 plates of a 1,000 plate commission and moved to England, where he was promoted by Sir Hans Sloane, Dr Mead and the bluestocking Duchess of Portland. “While he did not slavishly imitate what he saw, neither did he allow his feeling for the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2874850 | 1,586,661 |
1,066,395 | In 1988, over the objections of the amateur radio community, the FCC adopted the "220 MHz Allocation Order", which reallocated 220–222 MHz to private and federal government land-mobile use while leaving 222–225 MHz exclusively for amateur use. The reallocation proceeding took so long, however, that UPS eventually pursu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1047953 | 1,065,841 |
603,179 | Most recently, The Aerospace Corporation provided further technical assistance to EELV programs including the Atlas V and Delta IV, and supported planning for Space Radar to provide global persistent intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance to the Department of Defense. Aerospace has been involved in the analysis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2425204 | 602,869 |
1,420,150 | Renewable-energy consumption increased more than elevenfold from in 1980 to in 2018. Whilst renewable-energy consumption was rising between 1990 and 2013, gross energy consumption fell by 7%. Most of the fall can be attributed to a great increase in combined power and heat generation (CHP) and the growth in wind power.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49842447 | 1,419,351 |
100,776 | Three national championships for synchronized swimming were won in 1980, 1981, and 1984, though these championships were in the Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, and not the NCAA. Along with winning three national championships in the pool for synchronized swimming, the Wildcats have also won their fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32015 | 100,731 |
357,044 | Caesium-137 is a radioisotope commonly used as a gamma-emitter in industrial applications. Its advantages include a half-life of roughly 30 years, its availability from the nuclear fuel cycle, and having Ba as a stable end product. The high water solubility is a disadvantage which makes it incompatible with large pool ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5879 | 356,858 |
73,938 | Consider as an example superimposing 3D Cartesian coordinates over all points on the Earth (that is, geospatial 3D). Kilometers are a good choice of units, since the original definition of the kilometer was geospatial, with equaling the surface distance from the equator to the North Pole. Based on symmetry, the gravita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7706 | 73,911 |
429,290 | The first machine was delivered to the University of Manchester. Ferranti had high hopes for further sales, and were encouraged by an order placed by the Atomic Energy Research Establishment for delivery in autumn 1952. However, a change of government while the second machine was being built led to all government contr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=571886 | 429,080 |
53,852 | The deeply rooted stigma of SCD from society causes families to often hide their family members' sick status for fear of being labeled, cursed, or left out of social events. Sometimes in Uganda, when it is confirmed that a family member has sickle cell disease, intimate relationships with all members of the family are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21010263 | 53,832 |
1,606,797 | Vladimir Hachinski is a and researcher based at the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry at Western University. He is also a Senior Scientist at London's Robarts Research Institute. His research pertains in the greatest part to stroke and dementia, the interactions between them and their joint prevention. He and J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48072660 | 1,605,892 |
1,089,355 | Studies suggest that individuals are capable of automatically detecting a difference or anomaly in a melody such as an out of tune pitch which does not fit with their previous music experience. This automatic processing occurs in the secondary auditory cortex. Brattico, Tervaniemi, Naatanen, and Peretz (2006) performed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25049383 | 1,088,796 |
438,412 | Logic models are used by planners, funders, managers and evaluators of programs and interventions to plan, communicate, implement and evaluate them. They are being employed as well by health scientific community to organize and conduct literature reviews such as systematic reviews. Domains of application are various, e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8599305 | 438,198 |
767,404 | The Hermes 900 was first used by Israel during Operation Protective Edge in July 2014. It had been undergoing test flights and wasn't planned for operational deployment until late 2015, but it was introduced during the operation for unique missions that it could perform better than the Hermes 450. A few days after rece... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25717566 | 766,992 |
895,918 | The field saw significant research findings and a fair surge of interest in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but has seen challenges of nomenclature, obtaining objective and repeatable results, scope, and the fact that some research rests on underlying assumptions about human perception, which is not fully understood. B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1639997 | 895,447 |
1,953,341 | At the point in time when the charge arrives at the electrode, there is no current flowing in the circuit since υ=0, only when the charge is in motion between the electrodes do we have a signal current. This is important in the case, for example, when a new electron-ion pair is generated at any point in the space betwe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22712749 | 1,952,220 |
1,263,233 | This scheme originated in the early days of computer graphics. The memory chips of this era can not supply data fast enough on their own to generate a picture on a TV screen or monitor from a large framebuffer. By splitting the data up into multiple planes, each plane can be stored on a separate memory chip. These chip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80814 | 1,262,545 |
706,992 | During the 1950s, Aero Vodochody developed the L-29 Delfin trainer aircraft; it was Czechoslovakia's first indigenously designed jet-powered aircraft. The L-29 is believed to have likely been the biggest aircraft industrial programme to take place across any of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (COMECON) count... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=493754 | 706,623 |
1,070,885 | Her research considers the molecular mechanisms for neurodevelopment and neuroplasticity. She looks at how the neural circuits responsible for cognitive and motor functions are developed, and how the microenvironment of a tumour impacts the transition of precursor cells to diseased cells. She studies brainstem tumours ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61420111 | 1,070,331 |
819,196 | Although a working demand regulator system had been invented in 1864 by Auguste Denayrouze and Benoît Rouquayrol, the first open-circuit scuba system developed in 1925 by Yves Le Prieur in France was a manually adjusted free-flow system with a low endurance, which limited the practical usefulness of the system. In 1942... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28502 | 818,755 |
2,051,430 | Lyte's first and most important work was his translation of the "Cruydeboeck" of Rembert Dodoens (Antwerp, 1554) by way of the 1557 French translation of Charles de L'Ecluse ("Histoire des Plantes"). His copy of the French edition endorsed on the title page "Henry Lyte taught me to speake English" is now in the British... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15935556 | 2,050,249 |
356,967 | Several books have claimed that food and agricultural associations exert undue political power on the USDA. Food industries, such as milk companies, have been accused of influencing the United States Department of Agriculture into making the colored spots on the newly created food pyramid larger for their particular pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=208092 | 356,781 |
400,836 | Immediately upon his return to Columbia Army Air Base to serve as a B-25 instructor, Slayton applied and was accepted to fly the new A-26 Invader bomber aircraft. He moved to Selfridge Field in Michigan for training, and began preparing for a deployment to the Pacific. In July 1945, he arrived on Okinawa Island and joi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=331454 | 400,637 |
695,040 | Donna Haraway is the inspiration and genesis for cyberfeminism with her 1985 essay "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century" which was reprinted in "Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature" (1991). Haraway's essay states that cyborgs are able to transc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2626651 | 694,677 |
850,215 | There have been many charges over the years of computerised models, too, being unrealistic and slanted towards a particular outcome. Critics point to the case of military contractors, seeking to sell a weapons system. For obvious reasons of cost, weapons systems (such as an air-to-air missile system for use by fighter ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10280894 | 849,763 |
468,856 | The first form of filter press was invented in the United Kingdom in 1853, used in obtaining seed oil through the use of pressure cells. However, there were many disadvantages associated with them, such as high labour requirement and discontinuous process. Major developments in filter press technology started in the mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12591223 | 468,620 |
1,803,666 | Erlanger and Gasser were able to modify a Western Electric oscilloscope to run at low voltages. Prior to this modification, the only method available to measure neural activity was the electroencephalograph, which could only show large-scale electrical activity. With this technology, they were able to observe that acti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=779501 | 1,802,652 |
1,014,401 | In mathematical terms, the Hausdorff dimension generalizes the notion of the dimension of a real vector space. That is, the Hausdorff dimension of an "n"-dimensional inner product space equals "n". This underlies the earlier statement that the Hausdorff dimension of a point is zero, of a line is one, etc., and that irr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14294 | 1,013,880 |
2,125,533 | The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the family of P-type primary ion transport ATPases characterized by the formation of an aspartyl phosphate intermediate during the reaction cycle. These enzymes remove bivalent calcium ions from eukaryotic cells against very large concentration gradients and play a critical r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14757972 | 2,124,312 |
2,165,616 | The protein encoded by this gene belongs to the family of P-type primary ion transport ATPases characterized by the formation of an aspartyl phosphate intermediate during the reaction cycle. These enzymes remove bivalent calcium ions from eukaryotic cells against very large concentration gradients and play a critical r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14762021 | 2,164,379 |
1,000,703 | For the most part, unilateral sporadic vestibular schwannomas are readily treated successfully by modern medical techniques. Having bilateral VSs is a more troublesome condition. Bilateralism is considered to be the hallmark and main diagnostic criterion of Neurofibromatosis Type II (NF2), a genetic disorder that is he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1002770 | 1,000,185 |
1,564,113 | Annotating large numbers of SNPs is a difficult and complex process, which need computational methods to handle such a large dataset. Many tools available have been developed for SNP annotation in different organisms: some of them are optimized for use with organisms densely sampled for SNPs (such as humans), but there... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44260712 | 1,563,226 |
1,745,892 | Despite the losses, the Black Watch launched another attack to capture "Jack". Major Meythaler, the commanding officer of the German sector under attack, was positioned there and reported nine more British tanks lost to mines. Minutes after his report, at 10:30, the Black Watch overran the strong point. 1 RTR proceeded... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4468060 | 1,744,907 |
69,578 | The term originated as a contraction of "quasi-stellar "[star-like]" radio source"—because quasars were first identified during the 1950s as sources of radio-wave emission of unknown physical origin—and when identified in photographic images at visible wavelengths, they resembled faint, star-like points of light. High-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25239 | 69,551 |
853,686 | One of the biggest challenges of reintroducing plants back into the wild is the unintended introduction of unwanted species, such as pests, diseases, and invasive weeds. Often, it is human destruction of areas in which the Sarracenia thrive that is a major killer. Aside from determining what genetic material is appropr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=871268 | 853,231 |
1,324,790 | Selected by NASA in April 1996, Burbank reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996. After completing two years of training and evaluation, Burbank worked technical issues for the Astronaut Office Operations Planning Branch, and the International Space Station (ISS) Branch, and served as CAPCOM (spacecraft comm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=478957 | 1,324,063 |
180,070 | Other challenges faced by life in the abyssal zone are the pressure and darkness caused by the zone’s depth. Many organisms living in this zone have evolved to minimize internal air spaces, such as swim bladders. This adaptation helps to protect them from the extreme pressure, which can reach around 75 MPa (11,000 psi)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1665333 | 179,976 |
653,822 | It has been claimed that human olfactory receptors are capable of distinguishing between deuterated and undeuterated isotopomers of cyclopentadecanone by vibrational energy level sensing. However this claim has been challenged by another report that the human musk-recognizing receptor, OR5AN1 that robustly responds to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=665470 | 653,478 |
376,518 | At the time, electrons were understood to be charged particles of matter; the wave nature of electrons was not fully realized until the publication of the De Broglie hypothesis in 1927. Knoll's research group was unaware of this publication until 1932, when they quickly realized that the De Broglie wavelength of electr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=214513 | 376,323 |
916,636 | The Philippine–American War (1899–1902) was an armed conflict between a group of Filipino revolutionaries and the American forces following the ceding of the Philippines to the United States after the defeat of Spanish forces in the Battle of Manila. The Army sent in 100,000 soldiers (mostly from the National Guard) un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=161323 | 916,153 |
1,736,665 | CASTEP was created in the late 1980s and early 1990s in the TCM Group of the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge. It was then an academic code written in Fortran77, and the name was originally derived from CAmbridge Serial Total Energy Package. In the mid 1990s it was commercialised by licensing it to Molecular Simulatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2437021 | 1,735,688 |
1,182,215 | Over Easter Charles stayed at Cambridge, mounting and cataloguing his beetle collection. He then became an enthusiastic member of the botany course which the "good natured & agreeable" professor Henslow taught five days a week in the Botanic Gardens and on field trips. Henslow's outings were attended by 78 men includin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2087722 | 1,181,590 |
1,509,080 | In this frame of reference, an approach called "social context displays" has been proposed for showing social information -either from real or virtual environments- in digital scenarios. It is based on the use of graphical representations to visualize the presence and activity traces of a group of people, thus providin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18576207 | 1,508,231 |
1,440,914 | As long as natural enemies have some potential to be omnivorous, plants can provide food resources to encourage their retention and increase the impact they have on herbivore populations. This potential, however, can hinge on a number of the insect's traits. For example, hemipteran predators can use their sucking mouth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42730010 | 1,440,104 |
39,922 | Michigan was the first university in the West to pursue professional education, establishing its medical school in 1850, engineering courses in 1854, and a law school in 1859. The university was among the first to introduce instruction in fields as diverse as zoology and botany, modern languages, modern history, Americ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31740 | 39,907 |
1,347,750 | Cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as ""The sum of activity and interventions required to ensure the best possible physical, mental, and social conditions so that patients with chronic or post-acute cardiovascular disease may, by their own efforts, preserve or resume their pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13811770 | 1,347,009 |
1,217,175 | Bohr was also an excellent football player. He had a long playing career with Akademisk Boldklub, making his debut as a 16-year-old in 1903. During the 1905 season he played alongside his brother Niels, who was a goalkeeper. Harald was selected to play for the Danish national team in the 1908 Summer Olympics, where foo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=638305 | 1,216,522 |
8,365 | Oxford has produced a large number of distinguished jurists, judges and lawyers around the world. Lords Bingham and Denning, commonly recognised as two of the most influential English judges in the history of the common law, both studied at Oxford. Within the United Kingdom, three of the current justices of the Supreme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31797 | 8,362 |
84,837 | On 30 March 1962, the Soviet Union and China signed a technology transference arrangement pertaining to the MiG-21. Allegedly, while various kits, components, completed aircraft and associated documents were delivered to the Shenyang Aircraft Factory, the design documentation was incomplete, and Chinese designers made ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=377543 | 84,803 |
633,175 | The Southern Ocean is an atypical environment. To begin with, the Southern Ocean has been characterized by extremely cold but stable temperatures for the past 10-14 million years. These cold temperatures, which allow for higher water oxygen content, combined with a high degree of vertical mixing in these waters, means ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=693028 | 632,837 |
818,533 | It is theorized that the translocation of the 7q31.2 region of the FOXP2 gene causes a severe language impairment called developmental verbal dyspraxia (DVD) or childhood apraxia of speech (CAS) So far this type of mutation has only been discovered in three families across the world including the original KE family. A ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=184421 | 818,094 |
1,561,745 | The Adel Mountains Volcanic Field is a thick unit which lies unconformably on top of Cretaceous sedimentary rock of the Two Medicine Formation on the edge of the Great Falls Tectonic Zone. The extrusive rock is composed of breccia and conglomerate. The intrusive rock has formed numerous dikes, sills, and plugs. An "eno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24552797 | 1,560,859 |
897,541 | In 2012, George Church and colleagues at Harvard University published an article in which DNA was encoded with digital information that included an HTML draft of a 53,400 word book written by the lead researcher, eleven JPG images and one JavaScript program. Multiple copies for redundancy were added and 5.5 petabits ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38324409 | 897,068 |
569,907 | Occasionally, MRA directly produces (thick) slices that contain the entire vessel of interest. More commonly, however, the acquisition results in a stack of slices representing a 3D volume in the body. To display this 3D dataset on a 2D device such as a computer monitor, some rendering method has to be used. The most c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3019969 | 569,617 |
27,271 | An animal's body fluids have three properties: osmotic pressure, ionic composition, and volume. Osmotic pressures determine the direction of the diffusion of water (or osmosis), which moves from a region where osmotic pressure (total solute concentration) is low to a region where osmotic pressure (total solute concentr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9127632 | 27,261 |
97,804 | More advanced data processing can occur with image processing, a technique developed in the late 1960s by NASA and the private sector to provide contrast enhancement, false color rendering and a variety of other techniques including use of two dimensional Fourier transforms. Since digital data is collected and stored i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12398 | 97,763 |
1,900,938 | Polyamines such as spermidine and spermine are essential for cellular growth under most conditions, being implicated in many cellular processes including DNA, RNA and protein synthesis. S-adenosylmethionine decarboxylase (AdoMetDC) plays an essential regulatory role in the polyamine biosynthetic pathway by generating t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11437181 | 1,899,849 |
681,501 | Pioneer 10 provided the best coverage available of the inner magnetic field as it passed through the inner radiation belts within 20 "R", receiving an integrated dose of 200,000 rads from electrons and 56,000 rads from protons (for a human, a whole body dose of 500 rads would be fatal). The level of radiation at Jupite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8482163 | 681,145 |
809,219 | Another method of achieving the same result is the use of a laser to heat the silicon locally without heating the underlying substrate beyond some upper temperature limit. An excimer laser or, alternatively, green lasers such as a frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser is used to heat the amorphous silicon, supplying energy ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28098613 | 808,789 |
747,418 | In June, AstraZeneca made a deal allowing CEPI and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance to manufacture and distribute 300 million doses if its Oxford vaccine candidate proved to be safe and effective, reportedly increasing the company's total production capacity to over 2 billion doses per year. Commercialization of pandemic vac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66426813 | 747,022 |
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