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86,150 | Epigenetic modifications have given insight into the understanding of the pathophysiology of different disease conditions. Though, they are strongly associated with cancer, their role in other pathological conditions are of equal importance. It appears that the hyperglycaemic environment could imprint such changes at t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49033 | 86,116 |
444,600 | Patricia Smith Churchland (born 16 July 1943) is a Canadian-American analytic philosopher noted for her contributions to neurophilosophy and the philosophy of mind. She is UC President's Professor of Philosophy Emerita at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where she has taught since 1984. She has also held... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=425385 | 444,385 |
342,365 | In calling the Hubble's spectacular new image of the Eagle Nebula the "Pillars of Creation", NASA scientists were tapping a rich symbolic tradition with centuries of meaning, bringing it into the modern age. As much as we associate pillars with the classical temples of Greece and Rome, the concept of the pillars of cre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8855209 | 342,184 |
1,429,339 | During his PhD studies in the laboratory of Jacques Monod and Francois Jacob, Changeux studied the allosteric regulations of enzymes, that is the modulation of their activity by compounds different from their substrates. This work led to the development of the model of concerted transitions for allosteric proteins. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1798741 | 1,428,535 |
1,144,456 | Empirical evidence indicates behaviors spread because people have a strong tendency to imitate their neighbors when they believe those neighbors are more successful. Enfield and Levinson add that "The rapid spread of Christianity in the Roman Empire may provide an example". Pagan society had weak traditions of mutual a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8223762 | 1,143,855 |
745,483 | SAS Institute has grown in revenue each year since it was incorporated in 1976. About 20-30% of the company's revenues are spent on research and development, which is the highest ratio among software companies of its size. In 1994, "Computerworld" found that out of the world's 50 largest software companies, SAS spent 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=194872 | 745,089 |
1,838,242 | After that inauspicious beginning the Pioneers collected themselves and played host to #2 Boston University, winning both games. Denver finished out the month with four more wins against weaker teams and moved all the way up to #2 in the nation before their big series in North Dakota against the Fighting Hawks. The Pio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59212222 | 1,837,193 |
78,704 | In 1991, 24 F-16A/B Block 10 aircraft belonging to the 174th TFW, a New York Air National Guard unit that had transitioned from the A-10 in 1988, were armed with the 30mm GAU-13/A four-barrel derivative of the seven-barrel GAU-8/A cannon used by the A-10A. This weapon was carried in a General Electric GPU-5/A Pave Claw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18895385 | 78,671 |
2,163,093 | The 1868 Steam Locomotive Class C1s used in the Grand Duchy of Finland, an autonomous part of the Russian Empire until 1917, were typical of the Victorian principles of locomotive design and the British 0-6-0 of the period, with inside cylinders and Stephenson link motion. There is a similarity with the NER Class C1, C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39100921 | 2,161,857 |
1,286,634 | Confidence in ethanol-powered vehicles was restored with the introduction in the Brazilian market of flexible-fuel vehicles starting in 2003. A key innovation in the Brazilian flex technology was avoiding the need for an additional dedicated sensor to monitor the ethanol-gasoline mix, which made the first American M85 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20604765 | 1,285,933 |
1,846,592 | In the last section the basic principle of TLM was introduced and now more details about the theoretical background are given. The main purpose here is to find an expression that relates the measurable quantity formula_21 with the specific contact resistivity formula_1 which is intended to be determined with TLM. There... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1744973 | 1,845,537 |
874,214 | The cancellation of the Lockheed Martin X-33 by the federal government in 2001 decreased funding availability, but aerospike engines remain an area of active research. For example, a milestone was achieved when a joint academic/industry team from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) and Garvey Spacecraft Cor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152552 | 873,752 |
1,124,340 | By the 1960s, improvements in computing technology and the early development of relatively cheaper mainframe computers, which would later be termed minicomputers, led to the loosening of restrictions regarding programming access to the computers. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), access to the TX-0 ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49386138 | 1,123,766 |
628,050 | Variations in the toolkit may have produced a large part of the morphological evolution of animals. The toolkit can drive evolution in two ways. A toolkit gene can be expressed in a different pattern, as when the beak of Darwin's large ground-finch was enlarged by the "BMP" gene, or when snakes lost their legs as "dist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57414 | 627,715 |
229,048 | On May 17, 2021, United States President Joseph Biden signed Executive Order 14028 Improving the Nations Cybersecurity. This Executive Order mandates endpoint protection, further defining logging requirements, implementing audit logging in a unified way, and enhancing the capabilities to provide further insight into sy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27262733 | 228,931 |
1,373,543 | Dating all the way back to 1821, German linguist August Scheilurer was the representative pioneer of biolinguistics, discussing the evolution of language based on Darwin's theory of evolution. Since linguistics had been believed to be a form of historical science under the influence of the Société de Linguistique de Pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9568471 | 1,372,786 |
1,470,602 | Polyakov is known for a number of fundamental contributions to quantum field theory, including work on what is now called the 't Hooft–Polyakov monopole in non-Abelian gauge theory, independent from Gerard 't Hooft. Polyakov and coauthors discovered the so-called BPST instanton which, in turn, led to the discovery of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1238064 | 1,469,777 |
2,133,916 | The Journal of the American Medical Association looked at the effect that physical activity had on diabetic patients who took diabetes medications. The patients were all assigned a personal trainer who helped them perform routine exercises five to six times a week and keep a stable diet for the duration of the 12-month... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59677309 | 2,132,691 |
728,209 | Community-based participatory research and service-learning are a more recent attempts to reconnect academic interests with education and community development. The Global Alliance on Community-Engaged Research is a promising effort to "use knowledge and community-university partnership strategies for democratic social... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2819542 | 727,825 |
961,565 | Some fish use multiple modes of locomotion. Walking fish may swim freely or at other times "walk" along the ocean or river floor, but not on land (e.g., the flying gurnard—which does not actually fly—and batfishes of the family Ogcocephalidae). Amphibious fish, are fish that are able to leave water for extended periods... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1132756 | 961,056 |
648,721 | The Rapid Airborne Mine Clearance System (RAMICS) can be considered an armament subsystem (and one of the largest guns ever fitted to a helicopter), though its intended targets are strictly naval mines. Consisting of a single modified Mk 44 Mod 0 30mm cannon firing the Mk 248 Mod 1 Armor-Piercing Fin-Stabilized Discard... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2571732 | 648,380 |
1,289,580 | The K-series was an entirely new design by the Škoda Works company of Czechoslovakia. Although the exact development schedule is unknown, the first contract to deliver 12 artillery pieces was signed with the Kingdom of Yugoslavia in 1928. The howitzers were locally designated as M.28. In October 1929, a Polish delegati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52578771 | 1,288,871 |
341,338 | Welles noted various paleopathologies (ancient signs of disease, such as injuries and malformations) in "Dilophosaurus". The holotype had a sulcus (groove or furrow) on the neural arch of a cervical vertebra that may have been due to an injury or crushing, and two pits on the right humerus that may have been abscesses ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444541 | 341,157 |
992,233 | The greater resolution of PCT allows operation with no direct contact, such that the conducting layers can be coated with further protective insulating layers, and operate even under screen protectors, or behind weather and vandal-proof glass. Because the top layer of a PCT is glass, PCT is a more robust solution versu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18946305 | 991,716 |
1,168,834 | The arrangements of land masses on the Earth's surface are believed to reinforce the orbital forcing effects. Comparisons of plate tectonic continent reconstructions and paleoclimatic studies show that the Milankovitch cycles have the greatest effect during geologic eras when landmasses have been concentrated in polar ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1449483 | 1,168,216 |
1,565,259 | Molecular wires conduct electricity. They typically have non-linear current-voltage characteristics, and do not behave as simple ohmic conductors. The conductance follows typical power law behavior as a function of temperature or electric field, whichever is the greater, arising from their strong one-dimensional charac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13818990 | 1,564,372 |
301,301 | In 842 BC, the nobles revolted against the corrupt King Li of Zhou in a coup known as the "Countrymen's Riot" (國人暴動), overthrowing him the following year, and the country subsequently fell into political turmoil. The Xirong tribes used the opportunity to rebel against the Zhou dynasty, attacking and exterminating the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=361005 | 301,140 |
923,890 | While the single-tasking DOS had provisions for multi-sector reads and track blocking/deblocking, the operating system and the traditional PC hard disk architecture (only one outstanding input/output request at a time and no DMA transfers) originally did not contain mechanisms which could alleviate fragmentation by asy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42815625 | 923,404 |
578,918 | Many low-income and/or homeless girls and women in the inner cities of the United States cannot afford sanitary supplies. Food banks in New York report that feminine hygiene products are in high demand. Homeless women in the United States may face the challenge of not being able to shower or use the communal toilet in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61027921 | 578,621 |
1,590,808 | The main geological component of the Mendips is Carboniferous Limestone. It represents the remnants of a much higher range of hills that existed hundreds of millions years ago. This has allowed the formation of features such as Cheddar Gorge, Ebbor Gorge and Burrington Combe. There are a wide variety of caves and swall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3407122 | 1,589,914 |
1,705,192 | In late October, "Politico" reported that HHS chief Azar was trying to get permission to fire FDA administrator Hahn over the FDA's insistence on that a COVID-19 vaccine meet safety standards before being approved. On December 10, a standing committee of outside scientists reviewed the application for the Pfizer/BioNTe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65365100 | 1,704,236 |
1,171,953 | Both inspiratory and, indirectly, expiratory muscle function can be assisted by GPB. GPB can provide an individual with weak inspiratory muscles and no vital capacity or breathing ventilator-free breathing tolerance with normal alveolar ventilation and perfect safety when not using a ventilator or in the event of sudde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3250281 | 1,171,334 |
549,770 | In a series of studies held at Stanford University in 1975 and 1976 with the purpose of speculating on designs for future space colonies, Dr. Gerard K. O'Neill proposed "Island One," a modified Bernal sphere with a diameter of only rotating at 1.9 RPM to produce a full Earth artificial gravity at the sphere's equator. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=126705 | 549,482 |
1,762,121 | The missile is a single-stage, approximately 5.5-metre in length and 600 kg of weight with cruciform wing surface to increase high maneuverability and to give constant aerodynamic characteristics similar to Astra BVRAAM. It uses pre-fragmented warhead with optical proximity fuze and is powered by a dual-pulsed solid ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49474371 | 1,761,128 |
303,793 | Primitive operations akin to SEAD emerged during the Second World War, during which multiple participants made attempts to degrade enemy ground radar stations. However, SEAD missions performed by dedicated aircraft first undertook combat missions during the Vietnam War, the United States Air Force's EF-105F/F-105G Thun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573491 | 303,631 |
330,232 | The Ju 87 V1, powered by a Rolls-Royce Kestrel V12 cylinder liquid-cooled engine, and with a twin tail, crashed on 24 January 1936 at Kleutsch near Dresden, killing Junkers' chief test pilot, Willy Neuenhofen, and his engineer, Heinrich Kreft. The square twin fins and rudders proved too weak; they collapsed and the air... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16590 | 330,057 |
250,886 | Despite the pressures of demobilization, SAC continued the training and evaluation of bomber crews and units still on active duty in the postwar Army Air Forces. Radar Bomb Scoring became the preferred method of evaluating bomber crews, with the last of 888 simulated bomb runs scored against a bombing site near San Die... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28118 | 250,753 |
69,375 | In February 1927, Heisenberg developed the first version of the uncertainty principle, presenting it using a thought experiment where an electron was observed through a gamma-ray microscope. Bohr was dissatisfied with Heisenberg's argument, since it required only that a measurement disturb properties that already exist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21210 | 69,348 |
1,141,854 | One of the largest issues with ammonia usage in refrigeration is its toxicity. Ammonia is lethal in certain doses, but proper preparation and emergency protocols can mitigate these risks down to as little as one death per decade, according to the EPA. The unusual smell of ammonia is one reason for that, which allows hu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12262882 | 1,141,260 |
259,189 | Delays in the 1954 interceptor project led to demands for an interim interceptor aircraft design, a role that was eventually won by the B model of the Voodoo. This required extensive modifications to add a large radar to the nose of the aircraft, a second crew member to operate it, and a new weapons bay using a rotatin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=222857 | 259,055 |
1,178,041 | Köstenberger was born on November 2, 1957, in Vienna, Austria. He received a masters (1980) and doctorate (1982) in social and economic sciences from the Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien (the Vienna University of Economics and Business). Subsequently, at the age of twenty-seven, he traveled to the United States to complete ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18445275 | 1,177,417 |
70,399 | On the structure of the crystalline DNA, Franklin first recorded the analysis in her notebook, which reads: "Evidence for spiral [meaning helical] structure. Straight chain untwisted is highly improbable. Absence of reflections on meridian in χtalline [crystalline] form suggests spiral structure." An immediate discover... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=90472 | 70,372 |
233,200 | Even as the XF-108 program was progressing well, there were signs that would ultimately lead to its eventual cancellation. Unconfirmed Soviet bomber threats, the overwhelming trend toward offensive and defensive nuclear missiles in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as well as rising costs, contributed to the termination ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=840363 | 233,081 |
1,202,944 | Propulsion for the mid-course trajectory correction was provided by a 224 N thrust monopropellant hydrazine engine with four jet-vane vector control. Orientation and attitude control about three axes was enabled by twelve nitrogen gas jets coupled to a system of three gyros, four primary Sun sensors, two secondary Sun ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=623993 | 1,202,300 |
597,861 | A drawback to the equipment pioneered by Deane and Siebe was the requirement for a constant supply of air pumped from the surface. This restricted the movements and range of the diver and was also potentially hazardous as the supply could get cut off for a number of reasons. Early attempts at creating systems that woul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51846703 | 597,556 |
139,809 | The number of personnel supporting a Mercury mission was typically around 18,000, with about 15,000 people associated with recovery. Most of the others followed the spacecraft from the World Wide Tracking Network, a chain of 18 stations placed around the equator, which was based on a network used for satellites and mad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19812 | 139,752 |
1,778,030 | The breakthrough in nano-FTIR came upon the development of high-power broadband mid-IR laser sources, which provided large spectral irradiance in a sufficiently large bandwidth (mW-level power in ~1000 cm-1 bandwidth) and enabled truly broadband nanoscale-resolved material spectroscopy capable of detecting even the wea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52973193 | 1,777,028 |
117,041 | , the world's annual production of natural zeolite approximates 3 million tonnes. Major producers in 2010 included China (2 million tonnes), South Korea (210,000 t), Japan (150,000 t), Jordan (140,000 t), Turkey (100,000 t) Slovakia (85,000 t) and the United States (59,000 t). The ready availability of zeolite-rich roc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=92389 | 116,996 |
1,131,892 | The range of recorded sinking velocities of particles in the oceans spans from negative (particles float toward the surface) to several km per day (as with salp fecal pellets) When considering the sinking velocity of an individual particle, a first approximation can be obtained from Stoke's law (originally derived for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49090922 | 1,131,301 |
687,996 | The size of an electrospun fiber can be in the nano scale and the fibers may possess nano scale surface texture, leading to different modes of interaction with other materials compared with macroscale materials. In addition to this, the ultra-fine fibers produced by electrospinning are expected to have two main propert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1352090 | 687,638 |
1,453,249 | The mechanisms governing phenotypic plasticity, or the capacity of a cell to change its state in response to stimuli, have long been the subject of research (Phenotypic plasticity 1). The traditional central dogma of biology states that the DNA of a cell is transcribed to RNA, which is translated to proteins, which per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17704946 | 1,452,432 |
197,510 | In 2014, a new confirmation method called "validation by multiplicity" was announced. From the planets previously confirmed through various methods, it was found that planets in most planetary systems orbit in a relatively flat plane, similar to the planets found in the Solar System. This means that if a star has multi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=849815 | 197,408 |
516,862 | Altom was the third member of Corey's lab to commit suicide since 1980. Corey was reportedly devastated and bewildered by his student's death. Corey said, "That letter doesn't make sense. At the end, Jason must have been delusional or irrational in the extreme." Corey also claimed he never questioned Altom's intellectu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172740 | 516,593 |
747,185 | Knowledge of the structure of DNA led scientists to examine the nature of genetic coding and, in turn, understand the process of protein synthesis. George Gamow proposed that the genetic code was composed of sequences of three DNA base pairs known as triplets or codons which represent one of the twenty amino acids. Gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13928 | 746,789 |
657,581 | The Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), originally known as the Microwave Anisotropy Probe (MAP and Explorer 80), was a NASA spacecraft operating from 2001 to 2010 which measured temperature differences across the sky in the cosmic microwave background (CMB) – the radiant heat remaining from the Big Bang. Head... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186468 | 657,237 |
146,134 | Protactinium was possibly isolated in 1900 by William Crookes. It was first identified in 1913, when Kasimir Fajans and Oswald Helmuth Göhring encountered the short-lived isotope Pa (half-life 1.17 minutes) during their studies of the U decay. They named the new element "brevium" (from Latin "brevis" meaning brief); th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2308 | 146,076 |
29,548 | According to this view, early alchemists such as Zosimos of Panopolis () highlighted the spiritual nature of the alchemical quest, symbolic of a religious regeneration of the human soul. This approach is held to have continued in the Middle Ages, as metaphysical aspects, substances, physical states, and material proces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573 | 29,538 |
11,828 | Ionization of the air around the command module during reentry would typically cause a four-minute communications blackout. Apollo 13's shallow reentry path lengthened this to six minutes, longer than had been expected; controllers feared that the CM's heat shield had failed. "Odyssey" regained radio contact and splash... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1770 | 11,823 |
893,192 | The large populations of killifish and the genetic diversity of the species have enabled it to evolve and survive in areas where other species have died out, including Superfund sites. Over a few dozen generations of killifish in a relatively short period of time (50–60 years), killifish have evolved resistance against... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=249773 | 892,722 |
974,729 | They have been considered for use as weapons, since current armour-piercing ammunition tends to consist of small rounds with very high kinetic energy, for which just such motors are suitable. Many amusement park launched roller coasters now use linear induction motors to propel the train at a high speed, as an alternat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44495 | 974,218 |
1,725,503 | The institute was founded by France and Germany, with the United Kingdom becoming the third major partner in 1973. These partner states provide, through Research Councils, the bulk of its funding. Ten other countries have since become partners. Scientists of institutions in the member states may apply to use the ILL fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=265085 | 1,724,532 |
708,724 | NcRNA may also apply additional regulatory pressures during translation, a property particularly exploited in neurons where the dendritic or axonal translation of mRNA in response to synaptic activity contributes to changes in synaptic plasticity and the remodelling of neuronal networks. The RNAP III transcribed BC1 an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16770101 | 708,355 |
2,116,082 | Andreas Kjær (born April 12, 1963) is a Danish physician-scientist and European Research Council (ERC) advanced grantee. He is professor at the University of Copenhagen and chief physician at Rigshospitalet, the National University Hospital of Denmark. He is board certified in Nuclear Medicine and his research is focus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53725478 | 2,114,865 |
1,749,936 | Haussler’s research combines mathematics, computer science, and molecular biology. He develops new statistical and algorithmic methods to explore the molecular function and evolution of the human genome, integrating cross-species comparative and high-throughput genomics data to study gene structure, function, and regul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10452165 | 1,748,950 |
1,791,268 | Klf4, also known as gut-enriched Krüppel-like factor (GKLF), acts as a transcriptional activator or repressor depending on the promoter context and/or cooperation with other transcription factors. For example, Klf4 transactivates the iNOS promoter in cooperation with p65 (RelA), and the p21Cip1/Waf1 promoter in coopera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5170699 | 1,790,261 |
757,363 | Cardinal Angelo Mai prepared the first typographical facsimile edition between 1828 and 1838, which did not appear until 1857, three years after his death, and which was considered unsatisfactory. It was issued in 5 volumes (1–4 volumes for the Old Testament, 5 volume for the New Testament). All lacunae of the Codex we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=100832 | 756,959 |
1,844,870 | The department administers a four-year, eight-semester full-time undergraduate programme in mechanical engineering. The department has a sufficient number of well-qualified, experienced, and committed faculty and support staff. The department has sixteen modern laboratories, spacious classrooms, a drawing hall, and a p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49445710 | 1,843,816 |
1,530,205 | For a long time it was assumed that receptors transmitted their effects exclusively from their basic functional forms – as monomers. The first clue to the existence of GPCR oligomers goes back to 1975 when Robert Lefkowitz observed that β-adrenoceptors display negative binding cooperativity. At the beginning of the 198... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35435442 | 1,529,340 |
755,588 | Legal decisions surrounding the BRCA1 and BRCA2 patents will affect the field of genetic testing in general. A June 2013 article, in "Association for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics" (No. 12-398), quoted the US Supreme Court's unanimous ruling that, "A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=412097 | 755,185 |
223,602 | Experiments (gene by environment) with these relatively new rodent models may, be able to discover if there are mechanisms that EDCs could impact in the social decline in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and other behavioral disorders. This is because prairie and pine voles are socially monogamous making them a better mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=903152 | 223,488 |
1,688,848 | This disease-causing verdict agent is the biomarker is existing extremely trace amount especially initial state of the disease. Therefore, identifying or getting images of biomarker is tricky and, in few circumstances, uncertain by NMR tech. Hence, we must use the contrasting agent to enhance the images at least to vis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=900726 | 1,687,902 |
785,498 | Museums such as the British Museum weren't the only site of anthropological studies: with the New Imperialism period, starting in the 1870s, zoos became unattended "laboratories", especially the so-called "ethnological exhibitions" or "Negro villages". Thus, "savages" from the colonies were displayed, often nudes, in c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1676362 | 785,077 |
1,568,336 | Sivin studied abroad on many occasions. From October 1961 to August 1962 he studied Chinese language and philosophy in [Taipei, Taiwan. From August 1962 to March 1963 he studied the history of Chinese alchemy in Singapore and provided guest lectures there. From the 1960s until the 1980s he was an avid visitor to Kyoto,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12198246 | 1,567,449 |
2,038,941 | It has also been observed that 20% of the Caucasian population possess a mutation, called CCR5-Δ32 (frequency of 0.0808 for homozygous allele), that prevents the CCR5 chemokine receptor protein, which is the main means of viral access into the cell, from being expressed on the surface of their CD4 T-cells. Individuals ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57937625 | 2,037,763 |
801,992 | The Gustavus women's softball team placed third in the NCAA Division III national tournament in 2009. The Gustavus men's hockey team placed second in the NCAA Division III national tournament in 2009. The Gustavus soccer team finished second in the NCAA Division III national tournament in 2005—led in part by three-time... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1094479 | 801,564 |
470,876 | Tablets designed to dissolve on the buccal (cheek) mucous membrane were a precursor to the ODT. This dosage form was intended for drugs that yield low bioavailability through the digestive tract but are inconvenient to administer parenterally, such as steroids and narcotic analgesics. Absorption through the cheek allow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8187204 | 470,640 |
1,925,421 | The idiopathic scoliosis accounts for 80–90% of scoliosis cases. Its pathogenesis is unknown. However, changes in the vestibular system, a lateral shift of the hand representation and abnormal variability of erector spinae motor map location in the motor cortex may be involved in this disease. A short spinal cord and a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31536456 | 1,924,317 |
327,243 | The 256-element free Boolean algebra on three generators is deployed in computer displays based on raster graphics, which use bit blit to manipulate whole regions consisting of pixels, relying on Boolean operations to specify how the source region should be combined with the destination, typically with the help of a th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54476844 | 327,069 |
154,892 | Pregnant women and children are typically excluded from clinical trials as vulnerable populations, though the data to support excluding them is not robust. By excluding them from clinical trials, information about the safety and effectiveness of therapies for these populations is often lacking. During the early history... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241717 | 154,822 |
1,097,952 | The Blurnton-Jones 'backload model' "tested a hypothesis that the length of the birth intervals of !Kung hunter-gatherers allowed women to balance optimally the energetic demands of child bearing and foraging in a society where women had to carry small children and foraged substantial distances". Behind this hypothesis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1482205 | 1,097,392 |
2,132,097 | The thrifty phenotype hypothesis is the idea that if an organism suffers from inadequate nutrition in fetal development it will subsequently be predisposed to certain genetic outcomes as an adult. A study done examining glucose tolerance of individuals born during a famine in the Netherlands in 1944-1945 favors the “th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38828265 | 2,130,872 |
666,845 | Furthermore, an overly conservative PTC system runs the risk of slowing trains below the level at which they had previously been safely operated by human engineers. Railway speeds are calculated with a safety factor such that slight excesses in speed will not result in an accident. If a PTC system applies its own safet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11562996 | 666,497 |
1,771,574 | Vitamins and Minerals are essential substances that the body needs to grow and function. Your body needs thirteen vitamins, but does produce Vitamin K by the gut microflora and Vitamin D from the sunlight. There are two types of vitamins, including fat-soluble vitamins and water-soluble vitamins. Fat-soluble vitamins a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61977673 | 1,770,577 |
1,172,277 | Hydrogen, however, has a considerably lower calorific value per cubic meter compared to natural gas. This is only about one-third of that of natural gas. This results in new requirements for gas pipelines to transport hydrogen. The currently existing natural gas network is not easily designed for this. To provide the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55785489 | 1,171,658 |
185,325 | Foraminifera (; Latin for "hole bearers"; informally called "forams") are single-celled organisms, members of a phylum or class of amoeboid protists characterized by streaming granular ectoplasm for catching food and other uses; and commonly an external shell (called a "test") of diverse forms and materials. Tests of c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=477903 | 185,228 |
313,103 | On April 13, Leahy gave the regular morning briefing on the progress of the war to Truman, who had become President on Roosevelt's death. This was followed by a short meeting with the Joint Chiefs, the Secretary of War, Henry Stimson, and the Secretary of the Navy, James Forrestal. Afterwards, Leahy offered to resign, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=448716 | 312,935 |
171,695 | Mahan contended that with a command of the sea, even if local and temporary, naval operations in support of land forces could be of decisive importance. He also believed that naval supremacy could be exercised by a transnational consortium acting in defense of a multinational system of free trade. His theories, expound... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=210133 | 171,604 |
58,209 | If hydrogen cyanide is inhaled it can cause a coma with seizures, apnea, and cardiac arrest, with death following in a matter of seconds. At lower doses, loss of consciousness may be preceded by general weakness, dizziness, headaches, vertigo, confusion, and perceived difficulty in breathing. At the first stages of unc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13798915 | 58,184 |
179,392 | In 1988, a record 57 National Olympic Committees (NOC) sent a total of 1,423 athletes to these Games. These Winter Olympics would be the last attended one for both the Soviet Union and East Germany NOCs. Just like the 1976 Summer Olympics, Canada failed again to win a gold medal in an official medal event on home soil.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187504 | 179,299 |
159,975 | A study published in April 2010 reports recordings from single neurons with mirror properties in the human brain. Mukamel "et al." (Current Biology, 2010) recorded from the brains of 21 patients who were being treated at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center for intractable epilepsy. The patients had been implanted with in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1168317 | 159,890 |
1,418,391 | Although both the pearlite and martensite can be polished to a mirror-like shine, only the back and spine are usually polished to such an extent. The hardened portion of the blade (yakiba) and the center portion (hira) are often given a matte finish instead, to make the differences in the hardness stand out. This cause... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182203 | 1,417,592 |
1,954,786 | Much of his recent and current research is on climate mitigation, especially transitioning electricity supply systems to 100% renewable energy. To this end he is involved with colleagues in the Centre for Energy & Environmental Markets at UNSW in scenario development, computer simulation modelling and energy policy. Pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10066930 | 1,953,664 |
373,744 | One of the major improvements introduced in the "340B Plus" was the installation of an active noise and vibration control system in the cabin, reducing noise and vibration levels by about ten dB during cruising flight. This optional feature carried over from the 340B was standard in the 340B Plus along with extended wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=469211 | 373,549 |
275,457 | Cross-sectional studies can contain individual-level data (one record per individual, for example, in national health surveys). However, in modern epidemiology it may be impossible to survey the entire population of interest, so cross-sectional studies often involve secondary analysis of data collected for another purp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1557627 | 275,308 |
898,130 | Majorana earned his Laurea in physics at the University of Rome La Sapienza in 1929. In 1932, he published a paper in the field of atomic spectroscopy concerning the behaviour of aligned atoms in time-varying magnetic fields. This problem, also studied by I. I. Rabi and others, led to development of an important sub-br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=156018 | 897,656 |
921,999 | On January 28, 1974, the university opened its new campus on the Columbia Point peninsula surrounded by Dorchester Bay. Beginning in 1970, the construction of the Columbia Point campus was the largest public capital construction project in the history of Massachusetts (exceeded only later by the Big Dig). The state gov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99867 | 921,513 |
256,179 | As Sanders was a military contractor and not in the business of making and selling commercial electronics, the team approached several cable television industry companies to produce the console, but were unable to find a buyer. By January 1969 the team had produced the seventh and final prototype, nicknamed the "Brown ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3921614 | 256,045 |
79,546 | Functional programming languages are typically less efficient in their use of CPU and memory than imperative languages such as C and Pascal. This is related to the fact that some mutable data structures like arrays have a very straightforward implementation using present hardware. Flat arrays may be accessed very effic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10933 | 79,513 |
1,375,511 | The AMOS effort formally began with an amendment to an existing ARPA order with the University of Michigan's Institute for Science and Technology, which was to design, construct, and operate the facility. This amendment defined the AMOS goals as follows: "(1) Identification and signature of space objects; (2) an active... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1000466 | 1,374,750 |
2,048,461 | In 1973, the EAS was suspended to support the emerging FACSS (Federation of Analytical Chemistry and Spectroscopy Societies), whose meetings were held at a similar time of the year. After two years, an EAS mini-symposium was held, and in 1977, the EAS returned to its original format in New York City. During the late 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27874410 | 2,047,280 |
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