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560,814 | Clathrin is a protein that plays a major role in the formation of coated vesicles. Clathrin was first isolated and named by Barbara Pearse in 1976. It forms a triskelion shape composed of three clathrin heavy chains and three light chains. When the triskelia interact they form a polyhedral lattice that surrounds the ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=501101 | 560,525 |
875,370 | To heat the plasma to higher temperatures, Spitzer proposed a second heat source, the "magnetic pumping" system. This consisted of radio-frequency source fed through a coil spread along the vacuum chamber. The frequency is chosen to be similar to the natural frequency of the particles around the magnetic lines of force... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29591 | 874,908 |
452,206 | The effect of the sort of superflare apparently found on the original nine candidate stars would be catastrophic for the Earth and would cause serious damage to the atmosphere and to life. Although it would not be nearly as powerful as a gamma ray burst. It also would leave traces on the Solar System; the event on S Fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24728109 | 451,987 |
730,638 | Functionalists assert that mental states are well described by their overall role, their activity in relation to the organism as a whole. "This doctrine is rooted in Aristotle's conception of the soul, and has antecedents in Hobbes's conception of the mind as a 'calculating machine', but it has become fully articulated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9496 | 730,253 |
113,675 | Extensive planning was done by a small group of scientists, senior military officers and senior politicians to ensure that the test preparations would remain secret, and even senior members of the Indian government didn't know what was going on. The chief scientific adviser and the Director of Defence Research and Deve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2188274 | 113,630 |
1,479,574 | This collaboration, in particular the 1973 publication of "Construction of biologically functional bacterial plasmids in vitro" by Cohen, Chang, Boyer and Helling, is considered a landmark in the development of methods to combine and transplant genes. Not only were different plasmids from E. coli successfully joined an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1476055 | 1,478,741 |
1,387,946 | Entomogenous, entomopathogenic or insect-pathogenic hyphomycetes infect and kill insects (and spiders) and are especially diverse in tropical and subtropical regions, especially in Asia. Most are asexual states of or phylogenetically related to the Ascomycete families, Cordycipitaceae and Ophiocordycipitaceae. Insect h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11064625 | 1,387,179 |
1,868,108 | Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26248883 | 1,867,032 |
1,412,629 | The assembly and Validation of the European Robotic Arm will be conducted in five different stages. The first part was the connecting and testing of ERA and its control interfaces, as well as conducting an initial check of the arm. The was performed on 22 September 2021 when ESA astronaut and Flight Engineer Thomas Pes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1120311 | 1,411,834 |
240,655 | On 19 April 2007, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg announced to the Labour Party annual congress that Norway's greenhouse gas emissions would be cut by 10 percent more than its Kyoto commitment by 2012, and that the government had agreed to achieve emission cuts of 30% by 2020. He also proposed that Norway should become... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=351661 | 240,535 |
2,001,575 | The NCCoE asks industry sector members about their cybersecurity problems, then selects issues that affect an entire sector or reaches across sectors. The center forms a team of people from cybersecurity technology companies, other federal agencies and academia to address each problem. The teams work in the center's la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44610768 | 2,000,429 |
1,544,222 | College Navigator is a "free consumer information tool designed to help students, parents, high school counselors, and others get information about over 7,500 postsecondary institutions in the United States - such as programs offered, retention and graduation rates, prices, aid available, degrees awarded, campus safety... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9387810 | 1,543,349 |
282,418 | On 22–23 April 1944, U.S. Army Lieutenant Carter Harman of the 1st Air Commando Group conducted the first combat rescue by helicopter using a YR-4B in the China-Burma-India theater. Despite the high altitude, humidity, and capacity for only a single passenger, Harman rescued a downed liaison aircraft pilot and his thre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2698246 | 282,265 |
2,072,430 | Back in North Africa, Hanson was promoted to lieutenant colonel and made the permanent CRE for the 2nd New Zealand Division. He was active in the African campaigns of 1941-42 and was recognised for his efforts in September 1942 with an appointment as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. The following year, he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34606026 | 2,071,239 |
626,343 | In 1871, a German anatomist Joseph von Gerlach postulated that the brain is a complex "protoplasmic network", in the form of a continuous network called the reticulum. Using his black reaction, Golgi could trace various regions of the cerebro-spinal axis, clearly distinguishing the different nervous projections, namely... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53382 | 626,010 |
240,409 | Several resonator configurations are possible, in addition to the classical way of directly attaching leads to the crystal. E.g. the BVA resonator (Boîtier à Vieillissement Amélioré, Enclosure with Improved Aging), developed in 1976; the parts that influence the vibrations are machined from a single crystal (which redu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40979 | 240,289 |
910,532 | Earlier neoclassical theory had bounded only the "range" of bargaining outcomes and in special cases, for example bilateral monopoly or along the contract curve of the Edgeworth box. Von Neumann and Morgenstern's results were similarly weak. Following von Neumann's program, however, John Nash used fixed–point theory to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18967255 | 910,053 |
632,030 | The first documented data visualization can be tracked back to 1160 B.C. with Turin Papyrus Map which accurately illustrates the distribution of geological resources and provides information about quarrying of those resources. Such maps can be categorized as thematic cartography, which is a type of data visualization t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3461736 | 631,692 |
1,964,511 | Chamber A is the larger of the two chambers. It has a diameter of , with a circular floor that can be rotated 180°. Test subject equipment can be maneuvered using four overhead cranes, each with a carrying capacity of 50,000 pounds. Equipment can be lifted into and out of the chamber using 100,000 pound cranes located ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18129703 | 1,963,383 |
1,531,528 | Today, the CCATT is a three-person, highly specialized medical asset that can create and operate a portable intensive care unit (ICU) on board any transport aircraft during flight. It is a limited, rapidly deployable resource and a primary component of the Air Force's aeromedical evacuation (AE) system. The CCATT team ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8563218 | 1,530,662 |
1,090,379 | Upon his appointment as Commissioner of Health, Frieden made tobacco control a priority, resulting in a rapid decline after a decade of no change in smoking rates. Frieden established a system to monitor the city's smoking rates, and worked with New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg to increase tobacco taxes, ban sm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19732727 | 1,089,819 |
1,009,816 | Media determinism is a form of the popular dominant theory of the relationship between technology and society. In a determinist view, technology takes on an active life of its own and is seen be as a driver of social phenomena. Innis believed that the social, cultural, political, and economic developments of each histo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40626873 | 1,009,295 |
739,780 | Laryngeal papillomatosis, also known as recurrent respiratory papillomatosis (RRP) or glottal papillomatosis, is a rare medical condition in which benign tumors (papilloma) form along the aerodigestive tract. There are two variants based on the age of onset: juvenile and adult laryngeal papillomatosis. The tumors are c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2154041 | 739,388 |
494,058 | As a research tool ion mobility is becoming more widely used in the analysis of biological materials, specifically, proteomics and metabolomics. For example, IMS-MS using MALDI as the ionization method has helped make advances in proteomics, providing faster high-resolution separations of protein pieces in analysis. Mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2916856 | 493,803 |
1,434,418 | Cyber is derived from "cybernetics", a word originally coined by a group of scientists led by Norbert Wiener and made popular by Wiener's book of 1948, "Cybernetics or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine". Cyberspace typically refers to the vast and growing logical domain composed of public and priv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18248534 | 1,433,614 |
528,460 | Each year, more than 900 students and faculty members of KFU visited foreign universities and research centres for various purposes, including international conferences. About 1500 specialists from abroad were involved in various scientific events, development and introduction of new courses, research collaboration and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=640865 | 528,186 |
1,465,929 | Dulbecco was born in Catanzaro (Southern Italy), but spent his childhood and grew up in Liguria, in the coastal city Imperia. He graduated from high school at 16, then moved to the University of Turin. Despite a strong interest in mathematics and physics, he decided to study medicine. At only 22, he graduated in morbid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=744909 | 1,465,106 |
590,533 | However, it was recognised that, while Britain had traditionally been the main source of aircraft for Australia, comprising around 50 per cent of all operational aircraft at one point, British industry was already coming under strain to meet the demands for the RAF, let alone satisfying major orders from other nations.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3943778 | 590,231 |
155,425 | By the 1920s, the "ground effect" phenomenon was well-known, as pilots found that their airplanes appeared to become more efficient as they neared the runway surface during landing. In 1934 the US National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics issued Technical Memorandum 771, "Ground Effect on the Takeoff and Landing of A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13474685 | 155,355 |
893,050 | Some of the most commonly-used biocompatible materials (or biomaterials) are polymers due to their inherent flexibility and tunable mechanical properties. Medical devices made of plastics are often made of a select few including: cyclic olefin copolymer (COC), polycarbonate (PC), polyetherimide (PEI), medical grade pol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6259941 | 892,580 |
968,752 | In August 2013, Tidewater Community College become the first college in the U.S. to create an Associate of Science degree based entirely on openly licensed content the "Z-Degree". The combined efforts of a 13-member faculty team, college staff and administration culminated when students enrolled in the first "z-courses... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1584544 | 968,242 |
1,645,183 | The initial idea of "FEBS Letters" as a journal for rapid communication of short reports in biochemistry, biophysics and molecular biology was proposed by the Secretary General of FEBS, W.J. Whelan, at the 4th FEBS Meeting held in Oslo in 1967. After further discussions and preparations, the first issue of "FEBS Letter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23439954 | 1,644,255 |
877,910 | The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE project, based in the European Union and included sites in Asia and the United States, was a follow-up project to the European DataGrid (EDG) and evolved into the European Grid Infrastructure. This, along with the LHC Computing Grid (LCG), was developed to support experiments using the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49373 | 877,448 |
201,786 | In the same year Vesalius took residence in Basel to help Johannes Oporinus publish the seven-volume "De humani corporis fabrica" ("On the fabric of the human body"), a groundbreaking work of human anatomy that he dedicated to Charles V. Many believe it was illustrated by Titian's pupil Jan Stephen van Calcar, but evid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32491 | 201,683 |
333,244 | Phi Beta Kappa has chapters in only about 10% of American higher learning institutions, and only about 10% of these schools' Arts and Sciences graduates are invited to join the society. Although most students are elected in their senior year, many colleges elect a limited number of extremely select students in their ju... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166504 | 333,066 |
953,001 | In 1934, Georges Lemaître used an unusual perfect-fluid equation of state to interpret the cosmological constant as due to vacuum energy. In 1948, the Casimir effect provided an experimental method for a verification of the existence of vacuum energy; in 1955, however, Evgeny Lifshitz offered a different origin for the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=308158 | 952,496 |
719,332 | Utsav is the cultural and signature festival of the BMS College of Engineering. It is usually held towards the end of August every year. Started in 1973 by a group of students, it has attracted considerable media attention and numerous sponsors over time. There are participants from institutes in other states like IIT ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=768983 | 718,952 |
1,843,524 | In the most recent studies, Militarev has obtained an earlier date for Proto-Afrasian, namely the mid-11th millennium B.C.E., which is supposed to be more grounded, as this time his lexicostatistical and glottochronological analysis of 100 most stable words of Swadesh list was applied to many more (170) languages repre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45600443 | 1,842,470 |
1,004,621 | The Jericho II as an available Israeli counterattack option to Iraqi missile bombardment in the 1991 Gulf War is disputed. Jane's at the time believed that Jericho II entered service in 1989. Researcher Seth Carus claims that, according to an Israeli source, the decision to operationally deploy the Jericho-2 was only m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216096 | 1,004,103 |
285,610 | In November 2021, Bueckers signed her first two major endorsement deals. The first was with footwear and apparel marketplace StockX, specifically for the company's basketball and women's sports lines. While she will continue to wear Nike apparel in games due to UConn's contract with the company, she will wear other bra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61733357 | 285,456 |
1,973,516 | For special populations, e.g. athletes, treatment may be indicated with specific advice of medical experts, in the absence of the previously mentioned criteria. Cut-off for stenosis severity requiring intervention is not clear, although narrowing >50% in comparison to the distal normal segment is generally accepted as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7083598 | 1,972,381 |
1,842,003 | The ZEPLIN-III dark matter experiment attempted to detect galactic WIMPs using a 12 kg liquid xenon target. It operated from 2006 to 2011 at the Boulby Underground Laboratory in Loftus, North Yorkshire. This was the last in a series of xenon-based experiments in the ZEPLIN programme pursued originally by the UK Dark Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34750362 | 1,840,951 |
1,509,787 | The International Affairs Association (IAA) is the largest self funded student organization at the University of Pennsylvania, with the goal of promoting awareness of International Affairs. The club, founded 45 years ago is composed as several semi-independent but centrally funded programs, which each promote awareness... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8946498 | 1,508,937 |
2,049,709 | Harbison had an early interest in the viola, describing it as his "instrument of choice" as a child. He later wrote in score program notes, "It had a commanding awkward size, a somewhat veiled slightly melancholic tone quality, and it seemed always in the middle of things, a good vantage point for a composer (which I a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50678397 | 2,048,528 |
1,237,066 | To measure larger diameters, you may use extended beam gauges. It is designed to measure internal and external diameters. The major challenge is handling these gauges is slightly difficult compared to other bore gauges. It should be lightweight, have low coefficient of thermal expansion, high modulus and stiffness. Mos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1682284 | 1,236,402 |
2,048,477 | In 1872, the school moved again. The hospital had, in the meantime, received of money from the Relief and Aid Society in consideration of certain medical and surgical services rendered from year to year, and had established itself on the corner of Adams and Paulina Streets. On its rear lot, there was a little barn, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66695262 | 2,047,296 |
2,102,566 | The 1950 Russian edition of the book included 11 chapters. The first chapter covers the basic topological properties of polyhedra, including their topological equivalence to spheres (in the bounded case) and Euler's polyhedral formula. After a lemma of Augustin Cauchy on the impossibility of labeling the edges of a pol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65002467 | 2,101,354 |
1,338,408 | A unique addition (mostly of academic interest) to the world of supercritical water (SCW) oxidation is generating high-pressure flames inside the SCW medium. The pioneer works on high-pressure supercritical water flames were carried out by professor EU Franck at the German University of Karlsruhe in the late 80s. The w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=265064 | 1,337,675 |
1,612,655 | From 2006 to 2008, DARPA held numerous XG program demonstrations such as the experiment that involved the deployment of a field of conventionally deconflicted wireless links that included typical military, public safety, and civilian point-to-point links, covering several kilometers. In 2006, an XG technology was deplo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3568143 | 1,611,750 |
1,649,342 | In 2003 Fennimore et al. presented the experimental realization of a prototypical current-driven nanomotor. It was based on tiny gold leaves mounted on multiwalled carbon nanotubes, with the carbon layers themselves carrying out the motion. The nanomotor is driven by the electrostatic interaction of the gold leaves wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1390297 | 1,648,410 |
40,861 | The Seafire, a name derived from "sea", and "Spitfire", was a naval version of the Spitfire specially adapted for operation from aircraft carriers. Although the Spitfire was not designed for the rough-and-tumble of carrier-deck operations, it was considered the best available fighter at the time. The basic Spitfire des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26027181 | 40,846 |
160,363 | Cardiac catheterization often requires the use of fluoroscopy to visualize the path of the catheter as it enters the heart or as it enters the coronary arteries. The coronary arteries are known as "epicardial vessels" as they are located in the epicardium, the outermost layer of the heart. The use of fluoroscopy requir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1219713 | 160,278 |
1,598,297 | Barabasi et al. studied the collaboration networks in mathematics and neuro-science of an 8-year period (1991-1998) to understand the topological and dynamical laws governing complex networks. They viewed the collaboration network as a prototype of evolving networks, as it expands by the addition of new nodes (authors)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42854748 | 1,597,398 |
995,792 | Wilson first designed a microcomputer during a break from studies at Selwyn College, Cambridge. She subsequently joined Acorn Computers and was instrumental in designing the BBC Micro, including the BBC BASIC programming language whose development she led for the next 15 years. She first began designing the ARM reduced... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56288 | 995,275 |
1,224,126 | The Garibaldi Volcanic Belt in southwestern British Columbia is the northern extension of the Cascade Volcanic Arc in the United States and contains the most explosive young volcanoes in Canada. Like the rest of the arc, it has its origins in the Cascadia subduction zone. Volcanoes of the Garibaldi Volcanic Belt have b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10129310 | 1,223,466 |
454,843 | The northern and southern hemispheres of Mars are strikingly different from each other in topography and physiography. This dichotomy is a fundamental global geologic feature of the planet. The northern part is an enormous topographic depression. About one-third of the surface (mostly in the northern hemisphere) lies 3... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8867758 | 454,621 |
1,527,304 | After her graduation and a term as post-doctoral fellow as RWJ Scholar in Health Policy at The University of California at Berkeley, she became an assistant professor of economics at Stanford University (2006–11). In 2011, Jayachandran moved to Northwestern University as Associate Professor of Economics before becoming... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58723747 | 1,526,440 |
1,231,657 | The KTB project utilized several innovations to drill design. The Kola drilling experiment had had problems with high friction that was increased by the vertical instability when drilling to such depths. German scientists designed a new drill head which would maintain direction with a minimal lateral difference. The dr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38130916 | 1,230,995 |
228,293 | In frequency domain OCT (FD-OCT) the broadband interference is acquired with spectrally separated detectors. Two common approaches are swept-source and spectral-domain OCT. A swept source OCT encodes the optical frequency in time with a spectrally scanning source. A spectral domain OCT uses a dispersive detector, like ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=628583 | 228,176 |
1,877,500 | The galaxy's most noticeable feature is a very powerful ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) discovered in the early 1980s by the Einstein Observatory and designated NGC 5204 X-1. It is located at and has a luminosity of around 5.2 x 10 erg/s (5.2 x 10 Watts). While this is far too powerful to be generated by the accretion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38412795 | 1,876,422 |
383,457 | The new combustion system developed with GM's proprietary computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis software features a higher compression ratio which helps improve fuel efficiency and has improved knock resistance. The engine features dual overhead camshafts with continuously variable valve timing and increased-auth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=859278 | 383,262 |
1,917,733 | For trees to be useful in archaeological analysis, they must "produce annual growth rings that are uniform around the tree stem", they must "live for decades and, preferably, centuries" and they "must have been used extensively by humans either for habitation or fuel." One of the problems with this evaluation is that i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2226213 | 1,916,633 |
1,212,818 | Conservationists suggest that conducting surveys, maintaining known populations through habitat protection and fighting climate change may ensure the survival of "Nothomyrmecia". They also advocate protection of remaining mallee habitat from degradation, and for management actions to improve tree and understorey struct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9372569 | 1,212,166 |
1,500,191 | In a minority of lymphedema patients, the condition is caused by mutations in the VEGFC gene and VEGF-C is a potential treatment for lymphedema, even though the underlying molecular cause appears more often in the VEGF-Receptor-3 instead of VEGF-C itself. Because in Milroy's disease (Hereditary lymphedema type I), only... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14297217 | 1,499,346 |
1,625,090 | Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a flexible procedure designed to fit a variety of Bayesian models. It is the underlying method used in computational software such as the LaplacesDemon R Package and WinBUGS. The advancements and developments of these types of statistical software have allowed for the growth of Bayes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35597124 | 1,624,174 |
36,510 | It also became clear that Apollo would outgrow the Canaveral launch facilities in Florida. The two newest launch complexes were already being built for the Saturn I and IB rockets at the northernmost end: LC-34 and LC-37. But an even bigger facility would be needed for the mammoth rocket required for the crewed lunar m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1461 | 36,498 |
454,915 | He also took courses on ancient philosophy. During this period the young Florensky, who had no religious upbringing, began taking an interest in studies beyond "the limitations of physical knowledge" In 1904 he graduated from the Imperial Moscow University and declined a teaching position at the university: instead, he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2848919 | 454,693 |
1,465,081 | NCQ can negatively interfere with the operating system's I/O scheduler, decreasing performance; this has been observed in practice on Linux with RAID-5. There is no mechanism in NCQ for the host to specify any sort of deadlines for an I/O, like how many times a request can be ignored in favor of others. In theory, a qu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1046704 | 1,464,258 |
579,499 | The different manifestations of BHD are controlled in different ways. The fibrofolliculomas can be removed surgically, through curettage, shave excision, skin resurfacing, or laser ablation; this is not a permanent solution, though, as the tumors often recur. Dermatologic examination every 6-12 months due to risk of me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1638257 | 579,202 |
107,267 | There are currently two narratives existing in parallel regarding the age of MTBC and how it has spread and co-evolved with humans through time. One study compared the "M. tuberculosis" phylogeny to a human mitochondrial genome phylogeny and interpreted these as being highly similar. Based on this, the study suggested ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=392019 | 107,222 |
114,117 | The Gateway is planned to be deployed in a highly elliptical seven-day near-rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the Moon, which would bring the station within over the lunar north pole surface at closest approach and as far away as over the lunar south pole. Traveling to and from cislunar space (lunar orbit) is intend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53648310 | 114,072 |
1,943,189 | In 1997 Scott W. Williams of the University at Buffalo, SUNY created the website Mathematicians of the African Diaspora (MAD) dedicated to promoting and highlighting the contributions of members of the African diaspora to mathematics, especially contributions to current mathematical research. Williams retired in 2008 a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58759432 | 1,942,078 |
1,176,867 | If the warming were to remain at elevated levels for a long time, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet would eventually become the dominant contributor to sea level rise, simply because it contains far more ice than any other large ice mass. However, this would require very high warming and a lot of time: in 2022, an extensive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14608977 | 1,176,244 |
1,451,606 | World War II, the Finnish Winter War 1939–1940 and the Finnish Continuation War 1941–1944, disrupted many lives and upset business and delivery activities internationally. The post-war decades witnessed a strenuous effort to revive the national and international economies. Vaisala grew to employ 60 people in 1954. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1369123 | 1,450,789 |
737,545 | In typical implementations, the gear ratio of the transmission and epicyclic system is set to the ratio of the common driving conditions, say highway speed for a car, or city speeds for a bus. When the driver presses on the gas, the associated electronics interpret the pedal position and immediately set the gasoline en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=609147 | 737,156 |
132,331 | The kinetic process of destabilisation can be rather long (up to several months or even years for some products) and it is often required for the formulator to use further accelerating methods in order to reach reasonable development time for new product design. Thermal methods are the most commonly used and consists i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5346 | 132,279 |
1,672,159 | That same year, Henry H. Janeway (1873–1921) published results he had achieved using a laryngoscope he had recently developed. While practicing at Bellevue Hospital in New York City, Janeway was of the opinion that direct intratracheal insufflation of volatile anesthetics would provide improved conditions for otolaryng... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28862297 | 1,671,217 |
71,324 | Professor Jeremy P. Meyers, in the Electrochemical Society journal "Interface" in 2008, wrote, "While fuel cells are efficient relative to combustion engines, they are not as efficient as batteries, primarily due to the inefficiency of the oxygen reduction reaction (and ... the oxygen evolution reaction, should the hyd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11729 | 71,297 |
1,570,821 | The Peninsular War, better known in Spain as the War for Spanish Independence, was truly a disaster for Spanish science and technology, which in some fields had achieved a leading position. Spanish science had contributed to the discovery of two – platinum and tungsten – of the 21 chemical elements identified in the 18... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40134198 | 1,569,933 |
966,214 | Speciation is the lineage-splitting event that results in two separate species forming from a single common ancestral population. A widely accepted method of speciation is called "allopatric speciation". Allopatric speciation begins when a population becomes geographically separated. Geological processes, such as the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19852895 | 965,704 |
1,971,219 | WW domain-containing proteins are found in all eukaryotes and play an important role in the regulation of a wide variety of cellular functions such as protein degradation, transcription, and RNA splicing. This gene encodes a protein which contains 2 WW domains and a short-chain dehydrogenase/reductase domain (SRD). The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14754321 | 1,970,085 |
133,215 | Science's earliest roots can be traced to Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia around 3000 to 1200 BCE. These civilizations' contributions to mathematics, astronomy, and medicine influenced later Greek natural philosophy of classical antiquity, wherein formal attempts were made to provide explanations of events in the physica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,162 |
618,617 | The air echelon consisted of the members of the 393d Bombardment Squadron. The 320th Troop Carrier Squadron remained at Wendover. It began deploying from Wendover 4 June 1945, with the first B-29 arriving at North Field on 11 June. The group was assigned to the 313th Bombardment Wing, whose four groups had been flying ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4567536 | 618,303 |
625,064 | After enduring a difficult Rally Argentina that saw Ogier finish outside the points and both Latvala and Mikkelsen retire, Volkswagen recovered to take a clean sweep of the podium in Portugal, led by Ogier. Ogier continued his form, winning the next two events in Italy and Poland, but faced stiff competition from Hyund... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36636484 | 624,731 |
149,212 | After World War I, the German government sought alternatives to quinine. Chloroquine, a synthetic analogue with the same mechanism of action was discovered in 1934, by Hans Andersag and coworkers at the Bayer laboratories, who named it Resochin. It was ignored for a decade, because it was considered too toxic for human... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1570321 | 149,151 |
265,009 | Unlike electric-powered trains commonly used in rapid transit and light rail systems, bus rapid transit often uses diesel- or gasoline-fueled engines. The typical bus diesel engine causes noticeable levels of air pollution, noise and vibration. It is noted however that BRT can still provide significant environmental be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=333625 | 264,866 |
396,389 | In a study conducted in 2003 by Brand et al. on the cognitive effects of WKS, the researchers used a neuropsychological test battery which included tests of intelligence, speed of information processing, memory, executive function and cognitive estimation. They found that subjects with WKS showed impairments in all asp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=311354 | 396,193 |
801,956 | In April 1873, the college was to be renamed Gustavus Adolphus Literary & Theological Institute in honor of King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden once the final location and buildings were secured. A delegation of residents from St. Peter won favor from the founders to relocate there as a result of an economic crisis and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1094479 | 801,528 |
1,052,819 | The computational study of these phenomena has mainly focused on interpretation as a knowledge-based process. Computationalists such as Yorick Wilks, James Martin, Dan Fass, John Barnden, and Mark Lee have developed knowledge-based approaches to the processing of metaphors, either at a linguistic level or a logical lev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16300571 | 1,052,273 |
767,779 | Immunotherapy successfully treats some kinds of cancer, such as melanoma. This treatment involves manipulating a human's immune system to destroy cancerous cells. Humans have two major antigen identifying lymphocytes: CD8+ cytotoxic T-lymphocytes (CTL) and CD4+ helper T-lymphocytes that can destroy cells. Antigen recep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=273854 | 767,367 |
296,592 | Byrd and Segre have proposed changes to the postulates to make them more accurate for today's world. Their revisions involve the third postulate: they disagree that a pathogen will always cause disease. Their first revision involves colonization resistance. Colonization resistance allows an organism to feed off of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=147009 | 296,432 |
1,604,711 | The Chemistry Department of the Institute made a record progress. In 1952 Prof. Dr. C. M. Desai was recognized as a guide for the Ph. D. students and under his able guidance, the Department made notable research work. Several students obtained their M.Sc., M.Phil. And Ph.D. degrees by doing research in organic, inorgan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36306564 | 1,603,810 |
212,754 | In the 1920s, dropout rates in US medical schools soared from 5% to 50%, leading to the development of a test that would measure readiness for medical school. Physician F. A. Moss and his colleagues developed the "Scholastic Aptitude Test for Medical Students" consisting of true-false and multiple choice questions divi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33731198 | 212,646 |
1,962,802 | Miniaturizing components has always been a primary goal in the semiconductor industry because it cuts production cost and lets companies build smaller computers and other devices. Miniaturization, however, has increased dissipated power per unit area and made it a key limiting factor in integrated circuit performance. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21884508 | 1,961,674 |
1,935,859 | The race took off as a pack, with María Guadalupe González on point but nobody exerting any force to take the lead. Always present near the front were the three Chinese athletes; World champion and world record holder Liu Hong, world silver medalist Lü Xiuzhi and Qieyang Shenjie. Towering over the lead group was Anežka... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45151526 | 1,934,751 |
78,701 | One major deviation of the F-16I from the Block 52 is that approximately 50% of the avionics were replaced by Israeli-developed avionics, such as the Israeli Aerial Towed Decoy replacing the ALE-50 and autonomous aerial combat maneuvering instrumentation, which enables training exercises to be conducted without depende... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18895385 | 78,668 |
1,690,401 | CRREL's second 25 years saw the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the end of the Cold War and a shift in funding that reduced the emphasis of direct appropriations from Congress to a greater reliance on reimbursement for research from CRREL's customers, as evidenced by the sponsorship of its technical reports. Customers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3571931 | 1,689,455 |
1,583,564 | Compared with the general population, people with cancer have a higher risk of arterial thrombotic events such as stroke, myocardial infarction and peripheral arterial embolism. This risk has a potential to be further increased in females undergoing controlled ovarian hyperstimulation for fertility preservation, but is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12977707 | 1,582,674 |
1,672,999 | The ISO telescope was mounted on the center line of the dewar, near the bottom-side of the torodial helium tank. It was of the Ritchey-Chrétien type with an effective entrance pupil of 60 cm, a focal length ratio of 15 and a resulting focal length of 900 cm. Very strict control over straylight, particularly that from b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=526216 | 1,672,057 |
1,866,661 | Founded in 1967, Student Union carries out three major activities: representing student interests; registering, funding, and supporting student groups; and planning campus-wide events. It is divided into three branches: the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches. The Student Union Executive Branch comprises 5 el... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8413340 | 1,865,586 |
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