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1,674,216 | gOS 2.9 Space became available as a generic Linux distribution on April 7, 2008, and is a debugged and extended version of the older gOS V2 Rocket G. It can be downloaded as an .ISO that can be burned on a DVD (it is slightly too large for a CD), or can be put on another external bootable medium such as a memory stick ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14014116 | 1,673,274 |
581,173 | Valid genera would not be named until the 2010s, where in 2011 announced the publication of "Teratophoneus" by Thomas D. Carr and colleagues. The fossils were first found in the Kaiparowits Formation of southern Utah. Later, fossils from the same formation were discovered and identified as the genus. Argon-argon radiom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9430305 | 580,876 |
1,348,016 | During the 1990s, the MOS designation was changed to 91A for Biomedical Equipment Repair Technician, and the Basic Course consisted of a 38-week course broken up into twelve modules. Didactic Modules included Anatomy and Physiology, Basic Soldering, AC/DC theory and Ohm's Law, electron theory, Transistor Theory, Digita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=466014 | 1,347,275 |
758,146 | After a year-long search for the next president, Harvard University dean, Clayton Spencer, was appointed as Hansen's successor. Spencer assumed the presidency in 2012, and created diversity mandates, expanded student and faculty recruitment, and financial aid allocation. While some reforms were successful, minorities a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=319763 | 757,740 |
1,179,524 | In August 1999, the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) began receiving reports of large die-offs of crows in parks across New York City. On August 9th, dead wild crows were discovered outside both the Queens Zoo and the Bronx Zoo, prompting head pathologist Dr. Tracey McNamara to begin inv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=853303 | 1,178,900 |
1,176,131 | Poly(amidoamine), or PAMAM, is a class of dendrimer which is made of repetitively branched subunits of amide and amine functionality. PAMAM dendrimers, sometimes referred to by the trade name Starburst, have been extensively studied since their synthesis in 1985, and represent the most well-characterized dendrimer fami... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41237117 | 1,175,509 |
1,632,634 | Harvard researchers Sarnoff et al. revisited diaphragm pacing via the phrenic nerve in 1948, publishing their experimental results on dogs. In a separate publication a few days before, the same group also revealed they had an opportunity to use the technique "on a five-year-old boy with complete respiratory paralysis f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19275701 | 1,631,712 |
1,430,438 | However, for particles which mirror at safe altitudes, (in yet a further level of approximation) the fact that the field generally increases towards the center of the Earth means that the curvature on the side of the orbit nearest the Earth is somewhat greater than on the opposite side, so that the orbit has a slightly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13361521 | 1,429,634 |
151,148 | Moreover neural and deep learning methods are widely used in industry where they are extensively tested. The topic of reproducibility is not new in recommender systems. By 2011, Ekstrand, Konstan, et al. criticized that "it is currently difficult to reproduce and extend recommender systems research results,” and that e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=596646 | 151,080 |
641,499 | "Montrose" forward-deployed to Bahrain in April 2019, where she will remain until 2022 carrying out an array of joint security operations including counter-piracy, counter-narcotics and boarding operations to support allies in the region and to protect the UK's interests. In early July 2019, amid rising tensions betwee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=449988 | 641,160 |
1,144,259 | In 2020, a free-piston Stirling power convertor reached 15 years of maintenance-free and degradation-free cumulative operation in the Stirling Research Laboratory at NASA Glenn. This duration equals the operational design life of the MMRTG, and is representative of typical mission concepts designed to explore the outer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5202850 | 1,143,658 |
342,636 | In 2011, graduate student Ryan Carney and colleagues performed the first colour study on an "Archaeopteryx" specimen. Using scanning electron microscopy technology and energy-dispersive X-ray analysis, the team was able to detect the structure of melanosomes in the isolated feather specimen described in 1861. The resul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2995 | 342,455 |
1,305,406 | In 1987, Mubarakmand was posted at the secretive Directorate for Technical Development (DTD)— a secret directorate that developed the explosive lenses and triggering mechanism for the fission weapon. He collaborated with Hafeez Qureshi and Zaman Sheikh. He once described them: "These (Engineering) people at DTD were re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4989510 | 1,304,690 |
694,101 | Defection of cells from the normally tight coordination of activity towards an anatomical structure results in cancer; it is thus no surprise that bioelectricity – a key mechanism for coordinating cell growth and patterning – is a target often implicated in cancer and metastasis. Indeed, it has long been known that gap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55498066 | 693,738 |
1,129,707 | A method with similar advantages to mechanical milling is laser etching and laser drilling. Etching PCBs with lasers offers the same advantages as mechanical milling in regards to quick turnaround times, but the nature of the laser etching process is preferable to both milling and chemical etching when it comes to phys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1029949 | 1,129,129 |
729,909 | According to Abram Hoffer, orthomolecular medicine does not purport to treat all diseases, nor is it "a replacement for standard treatment. A proportion of patients will require orthodox treatment, a proportion will do much better on orthomolecular treatment, and the rest will need a skillful blend of both." Neverthele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=327995 | 729,525 |
2,012,751 | Prashant Kamat has made significant research contributions to physical chemistry and material science, seeking to utilize nanomaterials and nanomaterial heterostructures for light energy conversion. Recently his research efforts have focused heavily on Quantum dot solar cell development. He has published more than 450 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18791954 | 2,011,594 |
1,936,038 | When the first draft of the human genome was completed in the early 2000s, TBI continued to grow and demonstrate prominence as a means to bridge biological findings with clinical informatics, impacting the opportunities for both industries of biology and healthcare. Expression profiling, text mining for trends analysis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37670240 | 1,934,930 |
410,351 | The technology has applications in a number of fields, including molecular biology, pathology, immunology, virology, plant biology and marine biology. It has broad application in medicine especially in transplantation, hematology, tumor immunology and chemotherapy, prenatal diagnosis, genetics and sperm sorting for sex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=501216 | 410,149 |
1,664,348 | The Asiatic cholera pandemic of 1846-63 was the time period when Pacini made his discovery of the cholera bacillus. Cholera came to Florence in 1854 during the Asiatic Cholera Pandemic of 1846-63. Pacini became very interested in the disease. Immediately following the death of cholera patients, he performed an autopsy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1112523 | 1,663,411 |
1,201,022 | Black was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1976 and the same year he was awarded the Lasker award. His certificate of election to the Royal Society reads: Has made outstanding contributions, based on fundamental considerations of receptor theory, to the development of new drugs of clinical importance. Int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337415 | 1,200,381 |
399,457 | "Bacillus subtilis" and substances derived from it have been evaluated by different authoritative bodies for their safe and beneficial use in food. In the United States, an opinion letter issued in the early 1960s by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) designated some substances derived from microorganisms as genera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=866377 | 399,259 |
1,444,418 | Carr was commander of Skylab 4 (third and final crewed visit to the Skylab Orbital Workshop) launched November 16, 1973, with splashdown on February 8, 1974. He was the first rookie astronaut to command a mission since Neil Armstrong on Gemini 8 (later followed by Joe Engle on STS-2 in 1981 and Raja Chari on SpaceX Cre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=597271 | 1,443,605 |
1,256,818 | How a system extracts energy from the wind and transfers energy to useful purposes helps to define types of crosswind kite power systems. One typing parameter regards the position of the generator or pump or tasking line or device. Another typing parameter regards how the tethers of the tether set of the kite system ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39562189 | 1,256,134 |
665,678 | On 22 June 2012, the Turkish government announced that Syrian forces had shot down a Turkish RF-4E from 113 Filo with two crew members over the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Hatay Province, which borders the Syrian Latakia Governorate. The aircraft is reported to have been conducting a reconnaissance flight off th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13567676 | 665,331 |
1,675,883 | Also the fact that children, when learning a language, often and quite suddenly begin to apply rules they have learned to new phrases such as saying "I've drinken all my drink" after learning "I've eaten all my food". This is usually without being taught these rules first and as such demonstrate a key role of cognition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1914580 | 1,674,941 |
1,551,698 | The superradiant phase transition was the subject of a wide discussion as to whether or not it is only a result of the simplified model of the matter-field interaction; and if it can occur for the real physical parameters of physical systems (a no-go theorem). However, both the original derivation and the later correct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39462950 | 1,550,817 |
108,674 | In the mid-1930s, Pauling, strongly influenced by the biologically oriented funding priorities of the Rockefeller Foundation's Warren Weaver, decided to strike out into new areas of interest. Although Pauling's early interest had focused almost exclusively on inorganic molecular structures, he had occasionally thought ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37342 | 108,629 |
22,612 | In August 1992, six CH-47Ds were deployed from Fort Bragg in North Carolina to provide relief in the wake of Hurricane Andrew in what was one of the first major helicopter disaster relief operations on US soil. Then President George H. W. Bush ordered the military to assist. The Chinooks arrived at Miami-Opa Locka Exec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38005 | 22,603 |
1,610,797 | Willis's earliest published work on architecture was the "Remarks on the architecture of the middle ages, especially of Italy" based on material collected during the 1832-3 honeymoon trip, and published in 1835. The book was as much an analysis of the gothic style in general as a work on Italian buildings in particular... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11572848 | 1,609,892 |
1,884,546 | The spinal cord processes and interprets proprioception in a manner similar to how our visual system processes information. When a painting is viewed, the brain interprets the total visual field, as opposed to processing each individual pixel of information independently, and then derives an image. At any instant the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27083516 | 1,883,465 |
362,147 | In 1880 Henry Faulds, a Scottish surgeon in a Tokyo hospital, published his first paper on the usefulness of fingerprints for identification and proposed a method to record them with printing ink. Returning to Great Britain in 1886, he offered the concept to the Metropolitan Police in London but it was dismissed at tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84777 | 361,957 |
1,332,588 | It is important to note that while primates have remarkably similar brains to humans, there are differences in function, ability, and sophistication. They make for good preliminary test subjects, but do not show small differences that are the result of different evolutionary tracks and environment. However, in the real... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6258906 | 1,331,859 |
2,008,722 | In relation to online harassment, sexism is certainly one of the most constant issues that is debated over the internet. Studies have shown that outstanding percentages of women and younger girls faced abuse online that is motivated by sex and gender discrimination. In 2012, Laura Bates established a website and set up... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38824009 | 2,007,570 |
1,506,502 | Catecholamine receptors persisted in this wavering state for more than forty years. Additional blocking agents were found such as tolazoline in Switzerland and phenoxybenzamine in the United States, but like the ergot alkaloids they blocked only the smooth muscle excitatory receptors. Additional agonists also were synt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38791208 | 1,505,656 |
287,756 | Syntroleum, a publicly traded United States company, has produced over of diesel and jet fuel from the Fischer–Tropsch process using natural gas and coal at its demonstration plant near Tulsa, Oklahoma. Syntroleum is working to commercialize its licensed Fischer–Tropsch technology via coal-to-liquid plants in the Unite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1284762 | 287,600 |
1,405,988 | In the mid – late 19th century, biological stations were formalized and began to be built around the world. In Europe, some early field stations (which are still in operation today) included Concarneau Marine Biological Station (Station de biologie marine de Concarneau) which was founded in 1859 in Concarneau, France. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1857169 | 1,405,198 |
967,402 | The scimitar-toothed machairodonts (Machairodontini, Homotherini and Metailurini) are a much more diverse group. The canines of this larger group are significantly shorter and generally stouter, but still much longer than in any modern cat. Because of the diversity of the genera, it is difficult to illustrate a specifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1223797 | 966,892 |
1,817,040 | Meanwhile, in 1949, another Army organization concerned with snow and ice was established: the Snow, Ice and Permafrost Research Establishment (SIPRE). SIPRE was based in Washington at first, but soon relocated to St. Paul, and then in 1951 to Wilmette, Illinois, just outside Chicago. In 1953 FEL was merged with the Pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56017314 | 1,816,006 |
1,511,218 | The 59th MDW operates with a $271 million budget, and a staff of 8,000 military, civilian, and contract personnel. The 59th MDW is home to the Critical Care Air Transport Team Pilot Unit (CCATT), which has executive management over 118 active-duty, Guard and Reserve teams. The wing also has the Defense Department's lar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11277244 | 1,510,368 |
127,010 | When the Regents of the University of California originally authorized the San Diego campus in 1956, it was planned to be a graduate and research institution, providing instruction in the sciences, mathematics, and engineering. Local citizens supported the idea, voting the same year to transfer to the university of mes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31927 | 126,958 |
607,944 | At the end of 1990, Vladimir Vapnik moved to the USA and joined the Adaptive Systems Research Department at AT&T Bell Labs in Holmdel, New Jersey. While at AT&T, Vapnik and his colleagues did work on the support-vector machine, which he also worked on much earlier before moving to the USA. They demonstrated its perform... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209673 | 607,633 |
1,481,240 | In our world of advancing automation, our dependence upon these advancing technologies will require educated skill sets from multiple disciplines. The challenges may appear simply rooted in better design of control systems for greater safety and efficiency. However, the evolution of the technologies in the current desi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22982978 | 1,480,406 |
1,087,682 | During testing, contamination was discovered in the system of metal slip rings and brushes used to transmit electrical signals around the spacecraft, and they were returned to be refabricated. The problem was traced back to a chlorofluorocarbon used to clean parts after soldering. It had been absorbed, and was then rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13077 | 1,087,123 |
195,781 | Institutional rankings of UC Riverside vary widely, depending on the criteria of the publication. For instance, U.S. News & World Report has named UC Riverside the top university in the nation for social mobility in 2021, 2020, and 2019. In the 2022 edition of "U.S. News & World Report"'s "America's Best Colleges", UCR... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230311 | 195,681 |
9,641 | A 2013 study published in "Science" estimated the age of the impact as 66,043,000 ± 11,000 years ago (± 43,000 years ago considering systematic error), based on multiple lines of evidence, including argon–argon dating of tektites from Haiti and bentonite horizons overlying the impact horizon in northeastern Montana, Un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174609 | 9,637 |
1,286,309 | The fourth IPY comprised an intense, coordinated field campaign of observations, research, and analysis. It was the largest, most comprehensive campaign ever mounted to explore the Earth's polar regions. An estimated 50,000 researchers, local observers, educators, students and support personnel from more than 60 countr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=78204 | 1,285,608 |
134,145 | At 3 a.m. on April 5, 1994, Abigail Alling and Mark Van Thillo, members of the first crew, allegedly vandalized the project from outside, opening one double-airlock door and three single door emergency exits, leaving them open for about 15 minutes. Five panes of glass were also broken. Alling later told the Chicago Tri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216362 | 134,090 |
585,401 | Target costing and target value design have applications in building healthcare facilities including critical components such as Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs). The process is influenced by unit locations, degree of comfort, number of patients per room, type of supply location and access to nature. According to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1816139 | 585,101 |
1,489,240 | Hancock is known for his visual work that focuses on the Mounds and the Vegans, two forces that are constantly dueling with one another and serve as a representation of the eternal battle between good and evil. This extended series also serves to explore Hancock's mythology of the two forces, which gives him the opport... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=494993 | 1,488,401 |
1,828,902 | The Lord Roberts Centre was a controversial building from its inception. Oriented North-East rather than due North, early morning shooters on the outdoor ranges were blinded by the sun rising over the targets. This was compounded by the decision not to include cross-range baffles, which are a common feature on similar ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4801594 | 1,827,861 |
1,472,021 | The significance of studies of the morphological manifestations and molecular genetic mechanisms of the invasion and metastasis of malignant tumors is not in doubt. The results of numerous studies clearly demonstrate that migration of tumor cells during invasive growth can occur both via single cells and via groups of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58886026 | 1,471,192 |
1,062,932 | In some of these modern, economy models of the Mars mission, we see the crew size reduced to a minimal 4 or 6. Such a loss in variety of social relationships can lead to challenges in forming balanced social responses and forming a complete sense of identity. It follows that if long-duration missions are to be carried ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23516569 | 1,062,378 |
1,780,049 | These – and other investigations in the same line – resulted in international fame for Ferrier and assured his permanent place as one of the greatest experimental neurologists. In June 1876 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society at the age of 33 and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians the following year. He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1069597 | 1,779,046 |
736,292 | Early arc lights were extremely bright and the high voltages presented a sparking/fire hazard, making them too dangerous to use indoors. In 1878 inventor Thomas Edison saw a market for a system that could bring electric lighting directly into a customer's business or home, a niche not served by arc lighting systems. Af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18179220 | 735,904 |
1,346,243 | British timing was good. The Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite, on 4 October 1957, came as a tremendous shock to the American public, who had trusted that American technological superiority ensured their invulnerability. Now, suddenly, there was incontrovertible proof that, in s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52018264 | 1,345,502 |
1,462,962 | Changes in climate and global warming have significant influences on the biology and distribution of vector-borne diseases, parasites, fungi, and their associated illnesses. Regional changes resulting from changing weather conditions and patterns within temperate climates will stimulate the reproduction of certain inse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31026536 | 1,462,139 |
1,511,738 | Boston's last smallpox outbreak had been in 1703, and a new generation of non-immune children and young adults was vulnerable. By June the town was faced with a major public health crisis and the religious public became increasingly worried that they were the subjects of divine punishment. Around 900 people fled Boston... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61016641 | 1,510,888 |
2,032,357 | Sims’ research endeavors focus on obtaining hard-to-collect samples and then measuring unique and analytically challenging isotope systems to provide otherwise unobtainable answers to societally relevant questions about Earth systems science. Sims’ research applies a variety of isotopic techniques (U– and Th– decay ser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53174400 | 2,031,187 |
1,486,072 | Chemogenomics has been used to identify mode of action (MOA) for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and Ayurveda. Compounds contained in traditional medicines are usually more soluble than synthetic compounds, have “privileged structures” (chemical structures that are more frequently found to bind in different living o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5168909 | 1,485,234 |
1,591,462 | Mucosal surfaces are a major portal of entry for pathogens into the body. Antibodies in mucosal secretions represent the first line of immune defense of the mucosae. They are capable to bind to specific pathogens and prevent their adherence to the epithelial cell lining of the mucous membranes. Neutralized pathogens ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64530838 | 1,590,567 |
1,320,287 | Kane resumed command of his brigade, occupying a position on Culp's Hill, the right of the Union line. His men did not participate in the bloody fighting of July 2 because his division, commanded by Maj. Gen. John W. Geary, was pulled out of the line and sent to defend against Confederate attacks on the Union left. (Du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4809391 | 1,319,561 |
836,672 | In 1970, the U.S. Congress passed the Clean Air Act of 1970 (CAA). The law authorized development of federal regulations in the United States covering emissions from both stationary (industrial) and mobile sources, which were subsequently published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In 1977, Congress am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1496984 | 836,223 |
1,064,233 | In the mid-2000s, several of the developers of BCG, including Charles Fillmore, Paul Kay, Ivan Sag and Laura Michaelis, collaborated in an effort to improve the formal rigor of BCG and clarify its representational conventions. The result was Sign Based Construction Grammar (SBCG). SBCG is based on a multiple-inheritanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1559221 | 1,063,679 |
89,433 | The 65-tonne Merkava is not regarded as useful for missions other than conventional warfare. The Israeli Army Armored Corps wants a lighter and highly mobile vehicle for rapid-response and urban warfare situations that can fill multiple roles. In 2012, the Defense Ministry drafted a program for development of a new fam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166378 | 89,396 |
752,059 | Johnson Space Center has its origins in NASA's Space Task Group (STG). Starting on November 5, 1958, Langley Research Center engineers under Robert R. Gilruth directed Project Mercury and follow-on crewed space programs. The STG originally reported to the Goddard Space Flight Center organization, with a total staff of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177571 | 751,657 |
339,954 | The earliest solid reference to a "trebuchet" in European sources dates to the siege of Castelnuovo Bocca d'Adda in 1199. However it is unclear if this referred to counterweight trebuchets since the author did not specify what engine was used and described the machine as fairly light. They may have been used in Germany... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43380 | 339,773 |
918,361 | The mesh on the MAF is used to smooth out airflow to ensure the sensors have the best chance of a steady reading. It is not used for measuring the air flow per se. In situations where owners use oiled-gauze air filters, it is possible for excess oil to coat the MAF sensor and skew its readings. Indeed, General Motors h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2432911 | 917,878 |
772,460 | Among the earliest reports of MOF-based catalysis was the cyanosilylation of aldehydes by a 2D MOF (layered square grids) of formula Cd(4,4-bpy)(NO). This investigation centered mainly on size- and shape-selective clathration. A second set of examples was based on a two-dimensional, square-grid MOF containing single Pd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9821563 | 772,046 |
935,361 | In February 2015, the KI announced it had received a record $50 million donation from Lau Ming-wai, who chairs Hong Kong property developer Chinese Estates Holdings, and would establish a research centre in the city. Within a few days, "Next Magazine" revealed that Chuen-yan – son of Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216908 | 934,867 |
1,169,970 | Mathematical skills are important not only for the national economy but also for an individual's life chances: low numeracy increases the probability of arrest, depression, physical illnesses, unemployment. One of the main causes of low numeracy is a congenital condition called dyscalculia. As the Foresight report on M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25935238 | 1,169,351 |
1,122,908 | In 2012, several peer reviewed independent studies were published showing that neonicotinoids, including clothianidin, had previously undetected routes of exposure affecting bees including through dust, pollen, and nectar; that sub-nanogram toxicity resulted in failure to return to the hive without immediate lethality,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17462962 | 1,122,334 |
1,041,807 | Fredikson, Sundin, and Frankenhaeuser (1985) found that reactions to psychological stressors include increased activity in the brain axes that play an important role in the regulation of blood pressure, particularly ambulatory blood pressure. A meta-analysis and systematic review involving 29 samples linked jobs that c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18079605 | 1,041,264 |
1,343,074 | Jansen was born in Erfurt, East Germany. She was frequently unwell as a child, and suffered several throat infections. The medical treatment she received from her father (antibiotics, codeine) inspired her to pursue a career in drug development. Her family fled to West Germany before the Berlin Wall was constructed in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65362635 | 1,342,338 |
283,327 | Governments at the national, regional, and local levels may implement policies to promote energy efficiency. Building energy rules can cover the energy consumption of an entire structure or specific building components, like heating and cooling systems. They represent some of the most frequently used instruments for en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=478933 | 283,174 |
1,556,081 | The original version of HITRAN was compiled by the US Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (1960s) in order to enable surveillance of military aircraft detected through the terrestrial atmosphere. One of the early applications of HITRAN was a program called Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) for the US Depart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10399056 | 1,555,197 |
1,588,963 | Lineage is a clinical-stage biotechnology company developing novel cell therapies for unmet medical needs. The company changed its name from BioTime Inc. to Lineage Cell Therapeutics less than one year following its appointment of a new CEO, Brian Culley, in August 2018 and completing a series of corporate transactions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40941727 | 1,588,069 |
314,678 | In the mid-1980s, William Bradshaw Amos and John Graham White and colleagues working at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge built the first confocal beam scanning microscope. The stage with the sample was not moving, instead the illumination spot was, allowing faster image acquisition: four images per seco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1186904 | 314,509 |
2,061,454 | From the moment of his baptism there are uncertainties. He was baptised on 16 February 1703 in the ancient church of Saint Gwendolen, Talgarth, on the slopes of the Black Mountains in the Welsh county of Brecknock, now subsumed into the county of Powys. His baptismal record falls between the beginning of January and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30866164 | 2,060,267 |
679,018 | During the course of the L-2000-2's development, the engine previously selected by Lockheed was no longer deemed acceptable. During the time frame between the L-2000-1 and L-2000-2, Pratt and Whitney designed a new afterburning turbofan called the JTF-17A, which produced greater amounts of thrust. General Electric deve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=265811 | 678,664 |
1,557,939 | The large and flattened pterygotid telson is a distinctive feature of the group that is only shared by the closely related "Slimonia" and by the derived hibbertopterid "Hibbertopterus" and mycteroptid "Hastimima", where a flattened telson had convergently evolved. The telson is in general flat but with a raised thin me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25249165 | 1,557,054 |
725,610 | Fossils are important for estimating when various lineages developed in geologic time. As fossilization is an uncommon occurrence, usually requiring hard body parts and death near a site where sediments are being deposited, the fossil record only provides sparse and intermittent information about the evolution of life.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2339577 | 725,229 |
2,186,598 | The Lindsey–Fox algorithm uses the FFT (fast Fourier transform) to very efficiently conduct a grid search in the complex plane to find accurate approximations to the "N" roots (zeros) of an "N"th-degree polynomial. The power of this grid search allows a new polynomial factoring strategy that has proven to be very effec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36266522 | 2,185,350 |
291,097 | Heavier elements beyond the actinides were first proposed to exist as early as 1895, when the Danish chemist Hans Peter Jørgen Julius Thomsen predicted that thorium and uranium formed part of a 32-element period which would end at a chemically inactive element with atomic weight 292 (not far from the 294 known today fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68326 | 290,939 |
473,171 | Archaeologists use NAA in order to determine the elements that comprise certain artifacts. This technique is used because it is nondestructive and it can relate an artifact to its source by its chemical signature. This method has proven to be very successful at determining trade routes, particularly for obsidian, with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21933 | 472,935 |
1,128,918 | On April 7, 2019, Shirai started season by participating in the FIG Individual All-Around World Cup 2019, or 2019 Tokyo World Cup in Tokyo, Japan. Like 2018, Shirai was supposed to start his season at the 2019 American Cup, but withdrew to treat injury of left ankle, which was sustained about a week before he began tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40713040 | 1,128,340 |
1,667,509 | In the United States and a few other countries, Doppler capable weather radar stations are used. These devices are capable of measuring the radial velocity, including radial direction (towards or away from the radar) of the winds in a storm, and so can spot evidence of rotation in storms from more than a hundred miles ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12253521 | 1,666,570 |
51,077 | The order Caudata (from the Latin "cauda" meaning "tail") consists of the salamanders—elongated, low-slung animals that mostly resemble lizards in form. This is a symplesiomorphic trait and they are no more closely related to lizards than they are to mammals. Salamanders lack claws, have scale-free skins, either smooth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=621 | 51,057 |
1,861,409 | The APCTP focuses on theoretical physics research, leading international programs in the Asia-Pacific region. It was founded in June 1996 as an international non-governmental organizations, with current member states: Australia, Canada, China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48798671 | 1,860,340 |
1,551,076 | All Typhoon variants use the same family of engines (JMZ-536), information and management system, mine protection and suspension. Mine protection is provided by a V-shaped bottom, energy absorbing seats and explosion corresponds to 3b in accordance with STANAG 4569 (explosive device up to 8 kg of TNT). All utilize comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42692210 | 1,550,195 |
1,056,079 | In the 1980s, a new movement arose led by the British archaeologists Michael Shanks, Christopher Tilley, Daniel Miller and Ian Hodder. It questioned processualism's appeals to science and impartiality by claiming that every archaeologist is in fact biased by their personal experience and background, and thus truly scie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1728479 | 1,055,531 |
2,170,004 | In the period 1983-1993 the research staff of the Center increased by 10 fold. Sato purchased several local properties for staff and student housing. He established an international Ph.D. program in Chemical Biology with nearby Clarkson University, Potsdam (village), New York and a joint program with the University of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8400809 | 2,168,766 |
790,658 | The objective of DLR's aeronautics research is to strengthen the competitive advantage of the national and European aeronautical industry and aviation sector, and to meet political and social demands – for instance with regard to climate-friendly aviation. German space research activities range from experiments under c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=647619 | 790,233 |
2,061,506 | By 11 April 1728 Joseph had returned to London, some years ahead of the "Prince Frederick", and several of his subsequent letters speak of its continued detention, the death of its Captain Williams in Vera Cruz and the political events around the negotiations. Joseph's months at sea (three in each direction for Vera Cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30866164 | 2,060,318 |
768,138 | medical, ecological, and dual application, while in terms of origin they are divided into two groups: natural and synthetic. The Clean Technology Group is exploiting the use of supercritical carbon dioxide, which under high pressure at room temperature is a solvent that can use biodegradable plastics to make polymer dr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47490 | 767,726 |
282,661 | The historic College Green is the centralized quadrangle lawn and location of significant campus buildings: Manasseh Cutler Hall, the Office of the President; Wilson Hall, the College of Arts and Sciences; McGuffey Hall, named for William McGuffey; and the College Gateway. These three original primary structures are fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=483329 | 282,508 |
285,970 | IGF-1 binds and activates its own receptor, IGF-1R, through the cell surface expression of Receptor Tyrosine Kinase's (RTK's) and further signal through multiple intracellular transduction cascades. IGF-1R is the critical role-playing inducer in modulating the metabolic effects of IGF-1 for cellular senescence and surv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=632786 | 285,816 |
1,363,876 | The largest portion of silicon integrated circuit respins and steppings are due at least in part to functional errors and bugs inadvertently introduced at the RTL stage of the design process. Thus, comprehensive functional verification is key to reducing development costs and delivering a product on time. Functional ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3575095 | 1,363,120 |
1,098,730 | Varmus was born to Beatrice, a social service worker, and Frank Varmus, a physician, Jewish parents of Eastern European descent, in Oceanside, New York. In 1957, he graduated from Freeport High School in Freeport, New York, and enrolled at Amherst College, intending to follow in his father's footsteps as a medical doct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=666898 | 1,098,170 |
748,224 | Different outcome measures were used to assess the effectiveness of the intervention. Health-centred intervention studies measured BMI, weight, waist circumference as well as general health. However, only one of three found a significant change in general health, while BMI and other measures had no effect. Measures tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1906107 | 747,826 |
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