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178,142 | In ".hack//Infection", Kite's friend Orca invites him to play "The World". In the first dungeon they visit, they encounter a girl in white, Aura, being chased by a humanoid monster. Aura tries to entrust Orca with an item called "the Book of Twilight", but the monster attacks him, crashing "The World"<nowiki>'</nowiki>... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240931 | 178,049 |
1,350,643 | The BiG-SLiCE workflow starts at vectorization (feature extraction), converting input BGCs provided from dataset of cluster GenBank files from antiSMASH and MIBiG into vectors of numerical features based on the absence/presence and bitscores of hits obtained from querying BGC gene sequences from a library curated of pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53970843 | 1,349,897 |
278,549 | Upon returning to South Africa in 1958, Barnard was appointed head of the Department of Experimental Surgery at Groote Schuur hospital, as well as holding a joint post at the University of Cape Town. He was promoted to full-time lecturer and Director of Surgical Research at the University of Cape Town. In 1960, he flew... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7015 | 278,399 |
465,459 | The bacterial T-DNA is about 24,000 base pairs long and contains plant-expressed genes that code for enzymes synthesizing opines and phytohormones. By transferring the T-DNA into the plant genome, the bacterium essentially reprograms the plant cells to grow into a tumor and produce a unique food source for the bacteria... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=779824 | 465,229 |
1,032,108 | After the Italian team Minardi competed with Ferrari engines in 1991 and Lamborghini engines in 1992, the 1993 season started with HB customer engines. While the other HB customers received the engines from Cosworth and only had the maintenance carried out by Grand Prix Engines Services (Tom Walkinshaw Racing), in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68931039 | 1,031,572 |
1,633,643 | In the early 20th century, naturalists were faced with increasing pressure to add rigor and preferably experimentation to their methods, as the newly prominent laboratory-based biological disciplines had done. Ecology had emerged as a combination of biogeography with the biogeochemical cycle concept pioneered by chemis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30410498 | 1,632,720 |
2,144,965 | Anderson was born in Edinburgh in 1832. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with an MD in 1853. While at University he became interested in botany, and earned a gold medal for the best local collection of plants, and assisted in arranging the Indian herbarium. In 1854 he entered the Bengal me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30060988 | 2,143,734 |
578,546 | "I have been corresponding with Lutz for a few months now, and I have learned quite a few things. I seriously considered an OTRAG style massive-cluster-of-cheap-modules orbital design back when we had 98% peroxide (assumed to be a biprop with kerosene), and I have always considered it one of the viable routes to signif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177629 | 578,250 |
263,152 | Deep Blue's victory switched the canonical example of a game where humans outmatched machines to the ancient Chinese game of Go, a game of simple rules and far more possible moves than chess, which requires more intuition and is far less susceptible to brute force. Go is widely played in China, South Korea, and Japan, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10713426 | 263,013 |
2,096,583 | Townsend died on July 8, 1851, in Philadelphia, five months after her brother John died and ten days prior to her sister Hannah's death. She was buried in the Woodlands, where Hannah would also be buried. Townsend's book on insects was influential, not only upon Lewis' choice of career, but also was praised by Swedish ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71429312 | 2,095,375 |
1,673,518 | "Cladophialophora bantiana" exhibits predominantly hyphal growth both "in vivo" and "in vitro". The normal morphology consists of dark coloured largely unbranched, wavy chains of conidia, individually 5–10 µm in length. The dark colour is due to the presence of the dark pigment melanin. Hyphae are septate, as is the ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40763130 | 1,672,576 |
1,618,599 | Multi-material injection molding (MMM) is the process of molding two or more different materials into one plastic part at one time. As is the case in traditional injection molding, multi material injection molding uses materials that are at or near their melting point so that the semi-liquidous (viscous) material can f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49245420 | 1,617,684 |
1,718,152 | The effect of climate on the tick life cycle is one of the more difficult projections to make in relation to climate and vector-borne disease. Unlike other vectors, tick life cycles span multiple seasons as they mature from larva to nymph to adult. Further, infection and spread of diseases such as Lyme disease happens ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63453251 | 1,717,182 |
1,625,750 | John F. Kennedy, then the U.S. president, gave the graduation commencement address at Aztec Bowl in front of 40,000 people on June 6, 1963. Kennedy was given an honorary doctorate degree in law at the ceremony, making San Diego State the first in California to award an honorary doctorate degree. To commemorate his visi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20079555 | 1,624,832 |
329,690 | Rounding is used when the exact result of a floating-point operation (or a conversion to floating-point format) would need more digits than there are digits in the significand. IEEE 754 requires "correct rounding": that is, the rounded result is as if infinitely precise arithmetic was used to compute the value and then... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11376 | 329,515 |
2,246,007 | Ice reflects sunlight more readily than open water. Snow-covered sea ice reflects about 80% of the incident sunlight. Seasonal changes in the Arctic result in clear skies and radiational cooling from snow-covered sea ice in the constantly dark arctic winter. In spring, with the return of sunlight, melt pools begin to f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30448834 | 2,244,735 |
1,875,175 | Biomass regrowth following herbivory is often reported as an indicator of tolerance and plant response after apical meristem damage (AMD) is one of the most heavily studied mechanisms of tolerance (Tiffin 2000; Suwa and Maherali 2008; Wise and Abrahamson 2008). Meristems are sites of rapid cell divisions and so have hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31477370 | 1,874,098 |
697,562 | The trade-offs between voltage, current, and frequency ratings also exist for a switch. In fact, any power semiconductor relies on a PIN diode structure in order to sustain voltage; this can be seen in figure 2. The power MOSFET has the advantages of a majority carrier device, so it can achieve a very high operating fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=833412 | 697,198 |
680,973 | Hattar and his co-workers discovered that, even among the subtypes of ipRGC, there can be designated sets that differentially control circadian versus pupillary behavior. In experiments with M1 ipRGCs, they discovered that the transcription factor Brn3b is expressed by M1 ipRGCs that target the OPN, but not by ones tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56566 | 680,618 |
1,828,402 | Geographically, UTIG's scope includes the ocean basins, continental margins, Antarctica, and all sites of seismic activity. Chronologically, its scope is no less vast: from the development of tectonic evolution models that reconstruct continental arrangements as much as a billion years ago to predicting how future clim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6873192 | 1,827,363 |
1,123,433 | The medical field also benefits from the study of comparative genomics. In an approach known as reverse vaccinology, researchers can discover candidate antigens for vaccine development by analyzing the genome of a pathogen or a family of pathogens. Applying a comparative genomics approach by analyzing the genomes of se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=917868 | 1,122,859 |
1,523,855 | In general, DPP-4 inhibitors are not very stable compounds. Therefore, many researchers focus on enhancing the stability for cyanopyrrolidines. The most widespread technique to improve chemical stability is to incorporate a steric bulk. The two cyanopyrrolidines that have been most pronounced, vildagliptin and saxaglip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20208243 | 1,522,994 |
627,408 | Charismatic power is that aura possessed by only a few individuals in our midst; it is characterized by super confidence, typical physical attractiveness, social adroitness, amiability, sharpened leadership skills, and heightened charm. Some charisma has dark and sinister overtones such as that shown by Adolf Hitler, J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22757157 | 627,074 |
697,190 | Some authors such as Mansouri and Sexl (1977) as well as Will (1992) argued that this problem doesn't affect measurements of the isotropy of the one-way speed of light, for instance, due to direction-dependent changes relative to a "preferred" (aether) frame Σ. They based their analysis on a specific interpretation of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24372574 | 696,826 |
173,079 | The fossil record indicates that single-cell life began to proliferate on the planet at some point during the Precambrian period, although exactly when recognizably modern life first emerged is unclear. Nucleic acids became the sole and universal means of encoding genetic information, requiring DNA repair mechanisms th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=854294 | 172,988 |
1,195,968 | Although the above model is unable to describe the undesired phenomenon of sensitivity degradation, the inclusion of rheological models has predicted that drift can be reduced by choosing an appropriate sourcing voltage; this statement has been supported by experimental observations. Another approach to reduce drift is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22801904 | 1,195,328 |
19,835 | There have been many instances showing that there is a form of aphasia among deaf individuals. Sign languages are, after all, forms of language that have been shown to use the same areas of the brain as verbal forms of language. Mirror neurons become activated when an animal is acting in a particular way or watching an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2088 | 19,827 |
605,791 | The ColorChecker Classic chart is a rectangular card measuring about , or in its original incarnation about , an aspect ratio approximately the same as that of 35 mm film. It includes 24 patches in a 4 × 6 grid, each slightly under square, made of matte paint applied to smooth paper, and surrounded by a black border. S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19127147 | 605,481 |
261,348 | The British hydrogen bomb programme demonstrated Britain's ability to produce thermonuclear weapons in the Operation Grapple nuclear tests in the Pacific, and led to the amendment of the McMahon Act. Since the 1958 US–UK Mutual Defence Agreement, the US and the UK have cooperated extensively on nuclear security matters... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2095669 | 261,209 |
1,937,701 | Ironically Mackenzie himself suffered from an irregular heart beat, as a result of ischemic heart disease. He had his first heart attack in 1901, and recorded in himself the atrial fibrillation that accompanied this episode. By 1907 Mackenzie experienced frequent episodes of angina pectoris which he mentioned to Sir Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14892699 | 1,936,593 |
1,335,529 | After his return to Paris in 1754 he made use of a small portion of the materials he had collected in his "Histoire naturelle du Senegal" (1757). Sales of the work were slow, and after the publisher's bankruptcy and the reimbursement to subscribers, Adanson estimated the cost of the book to him had been 5,000 livres, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=458553 | 1,334,799 |
744,169 | The two original definitions highlight important differences in how evidence-based medicine is applied to populations versus individuals. When designing guidelines applied to large groups of people in settings with relatively little opportunity for modification by individual physicians, evidence-based policymaking emph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10013 | 743,775 |
2,126,019 | In the 1970s, Stewart became well-known for his opposition to the pertussis vaccine, which he claimed to have supported until 1974, when he saw many vaccinated children who had still developed pertussis. By the mid-1970s, his criticisms of vaccines had attracted the attention of many parents who felt that their childre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57263213 | 2,124,798 |
1,645,704 | U.S. swimmer Allison Schmitt blasted a new Olympic record with a stunning effort to capture the gold medal in the event for the first time, since Nicole Haislett topped the podium in 1992. She pulled away from a tightly packed field on the final lap to hit the wall first in a sterling time of 1:53.61, shaving 1.21 seco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34236379 | 1,644,776 |
1,571,562 | Diatoms do not inhabit domestic water sources, which limits the situations that diatoms can be used to create flora profiles or time of death estimations. Diatoms can only tell when or where evidence was found in some situations and not the time of death if there is no body fluid sample available to be collected. If a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37050200 | 1,570,674 |
15,445 | Considering the unique challenges in diagnosing ASD using behavioral and observational assessment, specific US practice parameters for its assessment were published by the American Academy of Neurology in the year 2000, the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in 1999, and a consensus panel with represen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29113700 | 15,440 |
1,300,093 | After graduating from Amherst Regional High School in Amherst, Massachusetts in 1976, he obtained his bachelor's degree in economics from Princeton University in 1980 and graduated as the valedictorian of his class. Romer completed a 138-page long senior thesis "A Study of the Effects of Population on Development, with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20421094 | 1,299,379 |
1,465,427 | The IFR uses metal alloy fuel (uranium/plutonium/zirconium) which is a good conductor of heat, unlike the LWR's (and even some fast breeder reactors') uranium oxide which is a poor conductor of heat and reaches high temperatures at the center of fuel pellets. The IFR also has a smaller volume of fuel, since the fissile... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1429401 | 1,464,604 |
786,996 | Another class of hallucinogens, known as dissociatives, includes drugs such as ketamine, phencyclidine (PCP), and "Salvia divinorum". Drugs such as these are thought to interact predominantly with glutamate recpetors within the brain. Specifically, ketamine is thought to block NMDA receptors that are responsible for si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45621 | 786,573 |
835,395 | Some professional systems use a phase-reversal of the CTCSS tone at the end of a transmission to eliminate the squelch crash or squelch tail. This is common with General Electric Mobile Radio and Motorola systems. When the user releases the push-to-talk button the CTCSS tone does a phase shift for about 200 millisecond... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315928 | 834,946 |
502,896 | In September 2011, the OMG Board of Directors voted to adopt the Vector Signal and Image Processing Library (VSIPL) as the latest OMG specification. Work for adopting the specification was led by Mentor Graphics' Embedded Software Division, RunTime Computing Solutions, The Mitre Corporation as well as the High Performa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22637 | 502,638 |
1,524,739 | Miller has innovated techniques for recording from many neurons simultaneously in multiple brain areas, a departure from the classic single-neuron recording approach. It has revealed network dynamics and emergent properties that are not possible by studying individual neurons. Miller's lab has used this approach to und... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19628311 | 1,523,878 |
503,870 | One field in which SMPs are having a significant impact is photonics. Due to the shape changing capability, SMPs enable the production of functional and responsive photonic gratings. By using modern soft lithography techniques such as replica molding, it is possible to imprint periodic nanostructures, with sizes of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9111849 | 503,611 |
444,199 | Neurons can tolerate ChR expression for a long time, and several laboratories are testing optogenetic stimulation to solve medical needs. In blind mice, visual function can be partially restored by expressing ChR2 in inner retinal cells. In 2021, the red-light sensitive ChR ChrimsonR was virally delivered to the eyes o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1763319 | 443,984 |
111,682 | Wild type fruit flies are yellow-brown, with brick-red eyes and transverse black rings across the abdomen. The brick-red color of the eyes of the wild type fly are due to two pigments: xanthommatin, which is brown and is derived from tryptophan, and drosopterins, which are red and are derived from guanosine triphosphat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=173204 | 111,637 |
635,764 | Henry was born in Albany, New York, to Scottish immigrants Ann Alexander Henry and William Henry. His parents were poor, and Henry's father died while he was still young. For the rest of his childhood, Henry lived with his grandmother in Galway, New York. He attended a school which would later be named the "Joseph Henr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187477 | 635,425 |
1,274,045 | Randall and Boot, given no other projects to work on, began considering solutions to this problem in November 1939. The only other microwave device known at that time was the split-anode magnetron, a device capable of generating small amounts of power, but with low efficiency and generally lower output than the klystro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30859641 | 1,273,353 |
1,311,099 | When thin films are disordered, as they are in electronic devices, pair distribution is used so to view the strain and structure-properties of that material or composition. They have these properties that cannot be exploited in the bulk or crystalline form. There is a method with the radial distribution that is able to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5473402 | 1,310,381 |
374,568 | In 2009 Mark G. Raizen developed a laser atomic cooling technique which realizes the process Maxwell envisioned of sorting individual atoms in a gas into different containers based on their energy. The new concept is a one-way wall for atoms or molecules that allows them to move in one direction, but not go back. The o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=96558 | 374,373 |
1,556,594 | The TLP has been used in a variety of circuits including vector arithmetic circuits, current conveyors, current-mode operational amplifiers, and RMS-DC converters. It has been in use since the 1960s (by Gilbert), but was not formalized until 1975. In the 1980s, Evert Seevinck's work helped to create a systematic proces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15850729 | 1,555,709 |
1,806,923 | The acronym CCN is derived from the first three members of the family discovered, namely CYR61 (cysteine-rich angiogenic protein 61 or CCN1), CTGF (connective tissue growth factor or CCN2), and NOV (nephroblastoma overexpressed or CCN3). Together with three Wnt-induced secreted proteins, they comprise the CCN family of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30010828 | 1,805,904 |
708,111 | The amygdala, specifically the basolateral region (BLA) is involved in the encoding of significant experiences and has been directly linked to memorable events. Extensive evidence suggests that stress hormones such as epinephrine play a critical role in consolidating new memories and this is why stressful memories are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21312297 | 707,742 |
3,186 | The telescope circles about the Sun–Earth point in a halo orbit, which is inclined with respect to the ecliptic, has a radius varying between about and , and takes about half a year to complete. Since is just an equilibrium point with no gravitational pull, a halo orbit is not an orbit in the usual sense: the spacecraf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=434221 | 3,186 |
1,598,147 | The 59th did deploy during Operations Desert Shield Desert Storm at King Abdulaziz Air Base. Some of their personnel deployed with the 58th Tactical Fighter Squadron from 26 August 1990 – 12 April 1991, to help support manning, and to provide some experience. The 59th deployed as a relief rotation for their sister squa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20436444 | 1,597,248 |
661,275 | After the war, the perceived affronts of the Treaty of Versailles kept some of these nationalistic feelings running high, especially in Lenard, who had already complained about England in a small pamphlet at the beginning of the war. When, on 26 January 1920, the former naval cadet Oltwig von Hirschfeld tried to assass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=730450 | 660,930 |
2,130,331 | High Affinity K transporter HAK5 is a transport protein found on the cell surface membrane of plants under conditions of potassium deprivation. It is believed to act as a symporter for protons and the potassium ion, K. Firstly discovered in barley, receiving the name of HvHAK1, it was soon after identified in the model... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54988028 | 2,129,107 |
1,967,105 | With the success of such projects, participating scientists began to explore the idea of creating a global network of sensor sites that could be used to integrate their data and provide access for the members of the academic community and general public. At a meeting in La Thuile, Italy during 1995, contributing scient... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9257264 | 1,965,975 |
1,100,517 | Much of the focus of exome sequencing in the context of disease diagnosis has been on protein coding "loss of function" alleles. Research has shown, however, that future advances that allow the study of non-coding regions, within and without the exome, may lead to additional abilities in the diagnoses of rare Mendelian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22095859 | 1,099,956 |
908,170 | The earliest work in exploring mechanisms of early selective attention was performed by Donald Broadbent, who proposed a theory that came to be known as the "filter model". This model was established using the dichotic listening task. His research showed that most participants were accurate in recalling information tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1781678 | 907,692 |
173,858 | Superficially lanthanide complexes are similar to those of the transition metals in that some are colored. However, for the common Ln ions (Ln = lanthanide) the colors are all pale, and hardly influenced by the nature of the ligand. The colors are due to 4f electron transitions. As the 4f orbitals in lanthanides are "b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7304 | 173,767 |
1,949,232 | Williams's work was originally inspired by the design principles in natural structure systems promoted by R. Buckminster Fuller. He was introduced to the work of Fuller by designer Peter Pearce in 1963. He finished graduate studies in structural design at Southern Illinois University in 1967, where Fuller was Universit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25441114 | 1,948,111 |
647,054 | Cultural heritage is present everywhere. Its structural control, documentation and conservation is one of humanity's main duties (UNESCO). Under this point of view, SfM is used in order to properly estimate situations as well as planning and maintenance efforts and costs, control and restoration. Because serious constr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5386671 | 646,714 |
817,676 | When a B cell recognizes an antigen, it is stimulated to divide (or proliferate). During proliferation, the B-cell receptor locus undergoes an extremely high rate of somatic mutation that is at least 10–10 fold greater than the normal rate of mutation across the genome. Variation is mainly in the form of single-base su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30873253 | 817,240 |
415,993 | However, even if technology seems to allow for those solutions to function correctly as various tests of various companies show, the main throwback to the market launch and use of such drones is inevitably the legislation in place and regulatory agencies have to decide on the framework they wish to take to draft regula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5071866 | 415,790 |
683,693 | It was initially hypothesized that an antibody with this property could be therapeutically useful in stimulating the immune system in immunosuppressed patients. However, "in vitro" and "in vivo" data from animal studies later suggested that administration would lead to preferential activation of regulatory T cells, lea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4402358 | 683,337 |
1,877,163 | The structure of the skin of the patagia and accessory areas for the patagia of a Ptychozoon kuhli, flying gecko, exhibiting the passive gliding mechanism consists of five layers; a layer of adipose tissue is surrounded by a layer of dermis on each side (ventral and dorsal) and a layer of epidermis is external to the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27007881 | 1,876,085 |
1,287,638 | Mingarelli appeared on Stargazing Live in 2012. She was featured on the BBC Radio Cambridgeshire show The Naked Scientists. In 2013 the Royal Astronomical Society selected Mingarelli as a "Voice of the Future", and she attended an interview session at the House of Commons. She regularly appears on science themed podcas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56939328 | 1,286,937 |
973,593 | The Macedonians emerged as a power in Greece after the crippling of Sparta at the Battle of Leuctra, the ascent to power of King Phillip II who, through a combination of military power and diplomacy, unified the Greek city-states and formed the Corinthian League to fight the Persians. The Macedonians followed the tradi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23468036 | 973,083 |
69,685 | The Apollo command module was redesigned after the fire, and afterwards it underwent a series of qualification tests. In April 1968, Lovell, along with fellow astronauts Stuart Roosa and Charles Duke, spent 48 hours in command module CM-007A, bobbing in the Gulf of Mexico to test the seaworthiness of the Apollo spacecr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=344336 | 69,658 |
1,046,690 | Despite the obvious benefits that antisense therapeutics can bring to the world with their ability to silence neural disease, there are many issues with the development of this therapy. One problem is the ASOs are highly susceptible to degradation by the nucleases within the body. This results in a high amount of chemi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5706520 | 1,046,145 |
759,929 | For a decade from 1963 to about 1973, a substantial number of astronomers accepted a claim by Peter van de Kamp that he had detected, by using astrometry, a perturbation in the proper motion of Barnard's Star consistent with its having one or more planets comparable in mass with Jupiter. Van de Kamp had been observing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4196 | 759,523 |
1,982,120 | Edward Hugh Hebern was a building contractor who was jailed in 1908 for stealing a horse. It is claimed that, with time on his hands, he started thinking about the problem of encryption, and eventually devised a means of mechanizing the process with a typewriter. He filed his first patent application for a cryptographi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=194839 | 1,980,981 |
224,836 | Chadwick set about acquiring a cyclotron for Liverpool. He started by spending £700 to refurbish the antiquated laboratories at Liverpool, so some components could be made in-house. He was able to persuade the university to provide £2,000 and obtained a grant for another £2,000 from the Royal Society. To build his cycl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174316 | 224,721 |
1,642,478 | The action trigger account was developed by Wilfried Kunde, Andrea Kiesel, and Joachim Hoffmann at the University of Würzburg, Germany. This account assumes that responses to unconscious primes are neither elicited by semantic analysis of the primes nor by pre-established stimulus-response mappings. Instead, it is assu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30601657 | 1,641,551 |
710,568 | The engine must be a four-stroke, Otto-cycle piston engine with a displacement no greater than 710cc. An air restrictor of circular cross-section must be fitted downstream of the throttle and upstream of any compressor, with a diameter no greater than 20mm for gasoline engines, forced induction or naturally aspirated, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=278148 | 710,197 |
32,601 | The Department of Defense conducted an extensive evaluation of air combat tactics and missile technology from 1974 to 1978 at Nellis AFB using the F-14 Tomcat and F-15 Eagle equipped with Sparrow and Sidewinder missiles as the blue force and aggressor F-5E aircraft equipped with AIM-9L all-aspect Sidewinders as the red... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3147 | 32,589 |
215,295 | The B-10 featured innovations that became standard internationally for the next decade: an all-metal low wing monoplane, closed cockpits, rotating gun turrets, retractable landing gear, internal bomb bay, high-lift devices and full engine cowlings. The B-10 proved to be so superior that as its 14 operational test model... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23869026 | 215,187 |
352,671 | In March 1843, Verdi visited Vienna (where Gaetano Donizetti was musical director) to oversee a production of "Nabucco". The older composer, recognising Verdi's talent, noted in a letter of January 1844: "I am very, very happy to give way to people of talent like Verdi... Nothing will prevent the good Verdi from soon r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12958 | 352,488 |
964,061 | Historically the naming of moons did not always match the times of their discovery. Traditionally, the discoverer enjoys the privilege of naming the new object; however, some neglected to do so (E. E. Barnard stated he would "defer any suggestions as to a name" [for Amalthea] "until a later paper" but never got around ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=534079 | 963,552 |
1,289,849 | The kidneys are the third most sensitive organ to ischemia. Prolonged renal ischemia from cardiac arrest leads to acute kidney injury (AKI) in about 40% of patients. While PCAS may independently present with AKI, the development of AKI can be exacerbated by the administration of intravenous contrast if the patient unde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69737388 | 1,289,140 |
695,469 | Although not one of the classic three construction problems, the problem of constructing regular polygons with straightedge and compass is often treated alongside them. The Greeks knew how to construct regular with formula_135 (for any integer formula_136), 3, 5, or the product of any two or three of these numbers, but... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7439 | 695,105 |
1,140,726 | Physical fermions in the high-energy physics and condensed matter models have antiperiodic boundary conditions in time. The unconventional periodic boundary conditions for fermions in the path integral expression for the Witten index is the origin of the topological character of this object. These boundary conditions r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53961341 | 1,140,132 |
1,561,201 | The solution was provided by well-known tube expert Robert W. Sutton at the Admiralty Signals Establishment. He designed a new tube for this purpose, today known as the Sutton tube but at that time more widely known as a reflex klystron. This was essentially a conventional two-cavity klystron with one cavity removed. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43764346 | 1,560,315 |
232,837 | The upper end is related to the stringent requirements of choosing keys used in encryption. In 1999, an Electronic Frontier Foundation project broke 56-bit DES encryption in less than a day using specially designed hardware. In 2002, "distributed.net" cracked a 64-bit key in 4 years, 9 months, and 23 days. As of Octobe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4459886 | 232,718 |
914,654 | The albumin is the predominant protein in most body fluids, its Cys34 represents the largest fraction of free thiols within body. The albumin Cys34 thiol exists in both reduced and oxidized forms. In plasma of healthy young adults, 70–80% of total HSA contains the free sulfhydryl group of Cys34 in a reduced form or mer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3993576 | 914,175 |
1,458,575 | Wingcopter GmbH is a German aerospace company that designs and manufactures unmanned eVTOL delivery drones capable of providing last-mile delivery as well as mapping, surveying, and inspection. Their flagship drone, Wingcopter 178 Heavy Lift (HL), set the Guinness world speed record for remote-controlled tilt-rotor air... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63477455 | 1,457,755 |
838,288 | This function consideration of the plateau cell number makes it useful in accurately mimicking real-life population dynamics. The function also adheres to the sigmoid function, which is the most widely accepted convention of generally detailing a population's growth. Moreover, the function makes use of initial growth r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3350262 | 837,839 |
15,728 | During the 1940s, with the development of new and more powerful computing machines such as the Atanasoff–Berry computer and ENIAC, the term "computer" came to refer to the machines rather than their human predecessors. As it became clear that computers could be used for more than just mathematical calculations, the fie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 | 15,723 |
593,922 | Protein phosphorylation is common among all clades of life, including all animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and archaea. The origins of protein phosphorylation mechanisms are ancestral and have diverged greatly between different species. In eukaryotes, it is estimated that between 30 - 65% of all proteins may be phosph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14854417 | 593,617 |
1,546,723 | Mycotoxicology is the branch of mycology that focuses on analyzing and studying the toxins produced by fungi, known as mycotoxins. In the food industry it is important to adopt measures that keep mycotoxin levels as low as practicable, especially those that are heat-stable. These chemical compounds are the result of se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9465500 | 1,545,847 |
1,974,943 | Development of the I-212, one such variant, began in 1947 as a twin-engined, all-metal, two-seat jet fighter. The round, streamlined fuselage was optimized to reduce drag and house the considerable amount of equipment and fuel required by the VVS. It had mid-mounted straight laminar flow wings and the engine nacelles w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22724963 | 1,973,806 |
777,863 | A ball mill, a type of grinder, is a cylindrical device used in grinding (or mixing) materials like ores, chemicals, ceramic raw materials and paints. Ball mills rotate around a horizontal axis, partially filled with the material to be ground plus the grinding medium. Different materials are used as media, including ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=854175 | 777,446 |
1,226,439 | Exposure to significant and potentially traumatizing stress is pervasive for military personnel during times of war. Such stress can lead to a degradation of psychological health with potentially dire consequences for the individual (e.g. PTSD), mission (e.g. impaired judgment), and family (e.g. divorce), amongst other... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41190411 | 1,225,779 |
425,205 | Cell and nuclear membranes are highly permeable to formaldehyde. Formaldehyde cross-linking is frequently employed for the detection and quantification of DNA-protein and protein-protein interactions. Of interest in the context of Hi-C, and all 3C-based methods, is the ability of formaldehyde to capture cis chromosomal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70169832 | 424,997 |
1,582,141 | The most striking difference between the 2004 and 2013 results is the precisely inverted placement of "Galvezia" and "Gambelia" (one as core of a distinct clade, the other close to "Antirrhinum" as part of the "Sairocarpus" complex). Given the highly similar datasets and analyses, a clerical error confusing the two gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43406008 | 1,581,251 |
944,578 | On 12 July, Hassan entered the mile run at the Herculis meet in Fontvieille, Monaco. Olha Lyakhova was the pace setter, taking the field through the first two laps (measured at the start line, not the quarter-mile splits) in 64.26 and 63.94 (2:08.20). As is typical for Hassan, she was last off the start line, but over ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42019907 | 944,076 |
1,866,695 | 75% of undergraduate students choose to live on campus. Housing is guaranteed for a student for all four years if a student chooses. Most of the dormitories on campus are located on the "South 40", named because of its adjacent location south of the Danforth Campus and its size of . It is the location of all the freshm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8413340 | 1,865,620 |
654,192 | 1955 – Antwerp, Belgium – (July) – There were 24 players in total, comprising an original entry of 23, plus an additional player from the home country to make a more manageable number. The competitors were split into three groups of eight; the representatives of USSR, Argentina and Yugoslavia (the top three teams at th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=294931 | 653,848 |
2,087,644 | Foldi et al. used a multi-target visual cancellation task to examine visual selective attention in patients with AD compared to healthy controls. Researchers found slower performance and completion times compared to those without AD, and this can be seen as a more inefficient and severe form of the attentional processe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49990541 | 2,086,442 |
1,822,796 | Originally an event center and meeting facility for area Masons, Alumni Hall now houses Pitt's Alumni Relations offices and Alumni Center, the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid, the headquarters of the Pitt Pathfinders, a 270-seat Natural Science Lecture Hall, the Office of Governmental Relations, the Institute of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11630838 | 1,821,758 |
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