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1,293,510 | Switching of field gradients causes a change in the Lorentz force experienced by the gradient coils, producing minute expansions and contractions of the coil. As the switching typically is in the audible frequency range, the resulting vibration produces loud noises (clicking, banging or beeping). This behaviour, of sou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55013132 | 1,292,799 |
160,872 | From the 1980s to 2010s, other changes in I-O psychology took place. Researchers increasingly adopted a multi-level approach, attempting to understand behavioral phenomena from both the level of the organization and the level of the individual worker. There was also an increased interest in the needs and expectations o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15450 | 160,787 |
629,318 | French missionary Simon Bruté spent two decades as teacher and pastor in the formative years of Mount St. Mary's. He was considered "one of the foremost scholars in America," and he had a great deal of influence on the Catholic Church in America. In 1834, he was appointed the founding bishop of the Diocese of Vincennes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=863822 | 628,980 |
1,485,538 | In 1902 the College launched an appeal for £500,000. The main aims of the appeal were to pay off the debt, to maintain the quality of labs and equipment, and to secure adequate pay for the professors. The Bishop of London read a message from the king at the launch of the appeal: "His Majesty is thoroughly in sympathy w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49301271 | 1,484,701 |
1,058,300 | In 1964 after a large amount of political lobbying CAC began producing components for the Sabre's replacement, a version of the Dassault Mirage III, as a subcontractor to the Government Aircraft Factories (GAF). In 1967 CAC commenced licence production of a version of the Aermacchi MB-326 optimised for Australian condi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4362082 | 1,057,751 |
252,529 | This left the original requirement unfulfilled; as a result of this outcome, in 1967, France entered into a series of discussions with West Germany on the topic of a prospective collaboration effort to meet this demand. West Germany was keen to participate in such talks, having long held an interest in conducting joint... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1162592 | 252,396 |
696,249 | Careful regulation of NADPH oxidase activity is crucial to maintain a healthy level of ROS in the body. The enzyme is dormant in resting cells but becomes rapidly activated by several stimuli, including bacterial products and cytokines. Vascular NADPH oxidases are regulated by a variety of hormones and factors known to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2137756 | 695,885 |
1,749,227 | Cyclospora is a gastrointestinal pathogen that causes fever, diarrhea, vomiting, and severe weight loss. Outbreaks of the disease occurred in Chicago in 1989 and other areas in the United States. But investigation by the Center for Disease Control could not identify an infectious cause. The discovery of the cause was m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12999450 | 1,748,241 |
1,040,521 | Goodall was promoted to doctor honoris causa at the University of Trieste, Italy, in 1990. He was a member of 14 learned societies, and received the Distinguished Statistical Ecologist Award from the International Association for Ecology in 1994, and the Gold Medal of the Australian Ecological Society in 2008. In 1997 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25504547 | 1,039,978 |
200,001 | In the 19th century, the connection between heat and mechanical energy was established quantitatively by Julius Robert von Mayer and James Prescott Joule, who measured the mechanical equivalent of heat in the 1840s. In 1849, Joule published results from his series of experiments (including the paddlewheel experiment) w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13758 | 199,898 |
624,955 | In the 19th century, the connection between heat and mechanical energy was established quantitatively by Julius Robert von Mayer and James Prescott Joule, who measured the mechanical equivalent of heat in the 1840s. In 1849, Joule published results from his series of experiments (including the paddlewheel experiment) w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56661172 | 624,622 |
1,259,908 | By late December 2015, the season had seen year-ending injuries to two top skiers. Austrian Matthias Mayer suffered severe spinal damage in the downhill competition at Gröden in Val Gardena, Italy, and German Josef Ferstl damaged his knee during training in Santa Caterina, Italy on the Downhill course. Despite his brok... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43892494 | 1,259,221 |
122,097 | Around the turn of the 20th century, Peter J. Shields, secretary of the California Agricultural Society, became aware that colleges of agriculture elsewhere had university farms which performed experiments and provided hands-on education in useful agricultural subjects, and that young people were leaving the state to s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31924 | 122,048 |
1,260,669 | The oxidation is usually carried out at ambient conditions, in nearly neutral pH conditions, in dimethylformamide or dichloromethane or their mixture. The choice of solvent or their ratio affects the reaction rate; in particular, higher content of dimethylformamide results in stronger oxidation. The slow oxidation rate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10195745 | 1,259,982 |
2,048,077 | Static light scattering or SLS and its many types are well outlined in literature and is the base principal for DSLS but varies specifically in that the difference (before and after) is the focus of this measurement. Typically the system will commence measurement at T and over the course of time measure the change in l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50592162 | 2,046,896 |
968,894 | The formula is named after Henry Frederick Baker, John Edward Campbell, and Felix Hausdorff who stated its qualitative form, i.e. that only commutators and commutators of commutators, ad infinitum, are needed to express the solution. An earlier statement of the form was adumbrated by Friedrich Schur in 1890 where a con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=285422 | 968,384 |
1,172,811 | Apparent mineralocorticoid excess is an autosomal recessive disorder causing hypertension (high blood pressure), hypernatremia (increased blood sodium concentration) and hypokalemia (decreased blood potassium concentration). It results from mutations in the "HSD11B2" gene, which encodes the kidney isozyme of 11β-hydrox... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3820467 | 1,172,192 |
519,083 | The single hose regulator, with a mouth held demand valve supplied with low pressure gas from the cylinder valve mounted first stage, was invented by Australian Ted Eldred in the early 1950s in response to patent restrictions and stock shortages of the Cousteau-Gagnan apparatus in Australia. In 1951 E. R. Cross invente... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=460952 | 518,814 |
276,396 | The M10's heavy chassis did not conform to the quickly evolving tank destroyer doctrine of employing very light high-speed vehicles, and starting in the summer of 1944 it began to be supplemented by the fast M18 Hellcat. American tank destroyer doctrine called for tank destroyers to be kept in reserve and rushed forwar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1759964 | 276,246 |
1,567,841 | The second defining aspect of a platform is that the therapies under investigation can change during the active enrollment phase of a trial. By comparison, conventional RCTs must specify the therapies under investigation before active enrollment and then discontinuation of a therapy results in discontinuation of the en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70064623 | 1,566,954 |
157,754 | Napier (1963) argued that it is unlikely that a single factor drove the evolution of bipedalism. He stated ""It seems unlikely that any single factor was responsible for such a dramatic change in behaviour. In addition to the advantages of accruing from ability to carry objects – food or otherwise – the improvement of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4210 | 157,682 |
1,808,334 | Written by Tural Selçukbiricik, Günver, Karışmaz, and Serdengecti, this report investigates the case of a slow growing bump on the face of a thirty-four-year-old woman. After undergoing an excisional biopsy, it was revealed that the nodule had developed into neurofibroma. Originally the patient had undergone excision h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23150180 | 1,807,313 |
2,157,015 | The electronic structure of the thiolate-protected gold clusters is characterized by strongly pronounced quantum effects. These result in discrete electronic states, and a nonzero HOMO/LUMO gap. This existence of discrete electronic states was first indicated by the discrepancy between their optical absorption and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39953452 | 2,155,784 |
1,660,240 | Rod-shaped particles in the tobacco mosaic virus could form a two-dimensional triangular lattice, while a body-centered cubic structure was formed from the almost spherical particles in the tomato Bushy Stunt Virus. In 1957, a letter describing the discovery of ""A Crystallizable Insect Virus"" was published in the jou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20957502 | 1,659,307 |
1,989,023 | By the early 1960s, this new partnership of biochemistry and Mendelian genetics had achieved a success, the detection of phenylketonuria, an autosomal recessive genetic disorder also. Phenylketonuria is a common metabolic disease in which the failure of an essential liver enzyme, needed to break down a byproduct of dig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34219394 | 1,987,881 |
977,637 | Chemical engineering professors Warren K. Lewis and Edwin R. Gilliland of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) suggested to the CRA researchers that a low velocity gas flow through a powder might "lift" it enough to cause it to flow in a manner similar to a liquid. Focused on that idea of a fluidized catalys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3527984 | 977,126 |
1,067,783 | Macronaria is a clade of sauropod dinosaurs. Macronarians are named after the large diameter of the nasal opening of their skull, known as the external naris, which exceeded the size of the orbit, the skull opening where the eye is located (hence "macro"- meaning large, and –"naria" meaning nose). Fossil evidence sugge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3535047 | 1,067,229 |
334,226 | One of the ways to prevent or slow down the transmission of infectious diseases is to recognize the different characteristics of various diseases. Some critical disease characteristics that should be evaluated include virulence, distance traveled by those affected, and level of contagiousness. The human strains of Ebol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37220 | 334,048 |
1,045,249 | The FAA uses the Aviation Environmental Design Tool to assess the environmental impact of federal actions at airports as well as on air traffic, airspace, and aviation procedures, and along with other federal agencies and Transport Canada, funds the Aviation Sustainability Center, which is contributing to developing in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12942905 | 1,044,704 |
158,109 | In the historical region of North America known as New France, colombage pierroté, also called "maçonnerie entre poteaux", half-timbered construction with the infill between the posts and studs of stone rubble and lime plaster or bousillage and simply called "colombage" in France. Colombage was used from the earliest s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=699422 | 158,028 |
1,287,585 | Power models are those with an onboard power source which is not a rubber motor. Frequently this is an internal combustion engine, and the engine run is limited, typically to just five seconds. Designing an aircraft which climbs as high as possible, with minimum drag at a low lift coefficient, but then must convert to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242554 | 1,286,884 |
789,253 | Carrel was a young surgeon in 1894, when the French president Sadi Carnot was assassinated with a knife. Carnot bled to death due to severing of his portal vein, and surgeons who treated the president felt that the vein could not be successfully reconnected. This left a deep impression on Carrel, and he set about devel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1051 | 788,829 |
908,702 | The thermal sensitivity of an individual is quantified by the descriptor "F", which takes on higher values for individuals with lower tolerance to non-ideal thermal conditions. This group includes pregnant women, the disabled, as well as individuals whose age is below fourteen or above sixty, which is considered the ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7455643 | 908,223 |
1,624,448 | Regarding their photosynthetic pigment composition, in the Chromatiaceae can be found bacteriochlorophyll a or b and different types of carotenoids, according to the species. They confer to these bacteria their characteristic pigmentation, and if the amount of cells in the medium is high enough, the coloring may also b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1412458 | 1,623,532 |
889,231 | Thermal ablation techniques are also increasingly being used in the palliative treatment of painful metastatic bone disease. Currently, external beam radiation therapy is the standard of care for patients with localized bone pain due to metastatic disease. Although the majority of patients experience complete or partia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=309884 | 888,762 |
1,794,698 | Manipulating single cells is important to many biological studies, such as in controlling the cellular microenvironment and isolating specific cells of interest. Acoustic tweezers have been demonstrated to manipulate each individual cell with micrometer-level resolution. Cells generally have a diameter of 10–20 μm. To ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42287747 | 1,793,689 |
859,361 | A detailed conceptual proposal for a self-replicating machine was first put forward by mathematician John von Neumann in lectures delivered in 1948 and 1949, when he proposed a kinematic model of self-reproducing automata as a thought experiment. Von Neumann's concept of a physical self-replicating machine was dealt wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1600053 | 858,903 |
816,117 | As the development effort grew, Watt requested a central research station be established "of large size and with ground space for a considerable number of mast and aerial systems". Several members of the team went on scouting trips with Watt to the north of Orfordness but found nothing suitable. Then Wilkins recalled h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=382754 | 815,681 |
86,792 | PEG and PEO are liquids or low-melting solids, depending on their molecular weights. While PEG and PEO with different molecular weights find use in different applications, and have different physical properties (e.g. viscosity) due to chain length effects, their chemical properties are nearly identical. Different forms... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=147203 | 86,757 |
1,823,703 | Fitzpatrick retired from teaching in 1962. In 1964 she was a member of the Third University Committee, which advised the Government of Victoria on the establishment of Melbourne's third university, La Trobe University; it was Fitzpatrick who suggested that it be named after Charles La Trobe. She continued to write in h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22381650 | 1,822,665 |
1,970,652 | Prokaryote biomass in the bathypelagic is dependent and thus correlated with the amount of sinking POM and organic carbon availability. These essential organic carbon inputs for microbes typically decrease with depth as they are utilized while sinking to the bathypelagic. Microbial production varies over six orders of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=565536 | 1,969,518 |
1,465,933 | Oncoviruses are the cause of some forms of human cancers. Dulbecco's study gave a basis for a precise understanding of the molecular mechanisms by which they propagate, thus allowing humans to better fight them. Furthermore, the mechanisms of carcinogenesis mediated by oncoviruses closely resemble the process by which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=744909 | 1,465,110 |
875,336 | This led to the construction of the Model B, which had the problem that the magnets were not well mounted and tended to move around when they were powered to their maximum capacity of 50,000 gauss. A second design also failed for the same reason, but this machine demonstrated several-hundred-kilovolt X-rays that sugges... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29591 | 874,874 |
1,100,242 | Since the fraction of a radioisotope's atoms decaying per unit of time is inversely proportional to its half-life, the relative radioactivity of a quantity of buried human radioactive waste would diminish over time compared to natural radioisotopes (such as the decay chain of 120 trillion tons of thorium and 40 trillio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4222539 | 1,099,681 |
893,837 | In 2016, a scientific drilling project drilled deep into the peak ring of the Chicxulub impact crater, to obtain rock core samples from the impact itself. The discoveries were widely seen as confirming current theories related to both the crater impact, and its effects. They confirmed that the rock composing the peak r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2536187 | 893,367 |
1,343,174 | The concept of mate choice explains how organisms select their mates based on two main methods; The Good Genes Hypothesis and Genetic Compatibility. The Good Genes Hypothesis, also referred to as the sexy son hypothesis, suggests that the females will choose a male that produce an offspring that will have increased fit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1720640 | 1,342,438 |
2,143,667 | The final began at a jog, with first Yassin Bouih stepping out to the lead, then Clemens Bleistein to lead the race through at 1:14.58 first 400. The three Ethiopian runners all went to the back of the pack. Davis Kiplangat moved to the front but didn't really push the pace. After another lap, Adel Mechaal took the poi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56737091 | 2,142,436 |
1,741,647 | In terms of its structure, Mircera is similar to the previous synthetic EPO drugs, except that it is connected to a chemical called polyethylene glycol (PEG), which makes it last longer in the body. According to Roche, the product has the longest half-life of all FDA-approved erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs): u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18486827 | 1,740,663 |
108,123 | It is often assumed that Fordism derives from Taylor's work. Taylor apparently made this assumption himself when visiting the Ford Motor Company's Michigan plants not too long before he died, but it is likely that the methods at Ford were evolved independently, and that any influence from Taylor's work was indirect at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=389401 | 108,078 |
644,991 | Infection with parasites can induce phenotypic plasticity as a means to compensate for the detrimental effects caused by parasitism. Commonly, invertebrates respond to parasitic castration or increased parasite virulence with fecundity compensation in order to increase their reproductive output, or fitness. For example... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3040270 | 644,651 |
1,226,996 | Timely use and development of quick testing systems for novel virus in combination with other measures might (possibly) make it possible to end transmission lines of outbreaks before they become pandemics. After an outbreak there may be a certain window of time during which a pandemic can still be prevented. A key diff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63478457 | 1,226,335 |
1,695,300 | Chemical integration uses reactions to functionalize paper devices and create electrical nanostructures. Chemical integration techniques can be classified into two groups: "in situ" seed growth and polymerization". In situ" seed growth ("i.e.", growing an interconnected nanoparticle layer) is an effective method for ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56210030 | 1,694,348 |
585,711 | The first competition of the DARPA Grand Challenge was held on March 13, 2004 in the Mojave Desert region of the United States, along a 150-mile (240 km) route that follows along the path of Interstate 15 from just before Barstow, California to just past the California–Nevada border in Primm. None of the robot vehicles... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=289702 | 585,411 |
370,009 | At the outbreak of the First World War, Holst tried to enlist but was rejected as unfit for military service. He felt frustrated that he could not contribute to the war effort. His wife became a volunteer ambulance driver; Vaughan Williams went on active service to France as did Holst's brother Emil; Holst's friends th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49241 | 369,815 |
2,037,946 | The "Blanowice Formation" Brown Coals (Blanowice Coals) are part of the Łęka Coal Basin, and had been known since 1800 from its abundant deposits, where younger material has been suggested as redeposited from this deposits. In the Early Jurassic the Blanowice Beds were surrounded by land to the north, east and south ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64249358 | 2,036,771 |
1,330,332 | In this context, utility executives were required to make investment decisions committing millions of dollars over extended periods. As summarized by one utility manager: "Major decisions must be made without adequate information or even the ability to obtain adequate information." For example, after a protracted strug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7574401 | 1,329,603 |
65,846 | Many animals alternate between sleeping and waking in a daily cycle. Arousal and alertness are also modulated on a finer time scale by a network of brain areas. A key component of the sleep system is the suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN), a tiny part of the hypothalamus located directly above the point at which the optic n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3717 | 65,821 |
277,712 | During the First World War, submarines were a major threat. They operated in the Baltic, North Sea, Black Sea and Mediterranean as well as the North Atlantic. Previously, they had been limited to relatively calm and protected waters. The vessels used to combat them were a range of small, fast surface ships using guns a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3480866 | 277,562 |
155,553 | First offered in 1946 in the Sandusky area and later expanded to serve Erie, Huron, Lorain, and Ottawa counties, extension programs established a foundation for BGSU Firelands, the university's regional campus. The college was established at a site located near Lake Erie in Huron, Ohio, when the first building (now Fou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275181 | 155,483 |
2,191,271 | The network's agenda appears on its Foundation Document. The document outlines the objectives of a doctoral program in Translation Studies and the activities required so that students in these programs can acquire the necessary competences. Its aims include the following: promoting the cooperation between existing doct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56542943 | 2,190,022 |
949,904 | Pterophyllum is a small genus of freshwater fish from the family Cichlidae known to most aquarists as angelfish. All "Pterophyllum" species originate from the Amazon Basin, Orinoco Basin and various rivers in the Guiana Shield in tropical South America. The three species of "Pterophyllum" are unusually shaped for cichl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=648312 | 949,400 |
565,838 | Clusters of new cases have been reported two to six weeks after local peaks in viral transmission. The disease is thought to be driven by a delayed biological mechanism in certain predisposed children. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) has rated risk to children in Europe as being 'low' over... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63895130 | 565,548 |
1,292,646 | During the match, the players will typically form strategic plans in their minds, then enter the candidate sequences of moves into the computer to analyze and make sure there are no blunders and other possible holes. The human player will compare the merits of each candidate sequence after having seen the computer's an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1527261 | 1,291,935 |
389,681 | On November 21, 2009, a release of radioactivity occurred inside the containment building of TMI-1 while workers were cutting pipes. Exelon Corporation stated to the public that "A monitor at the temporary opening cut into the containment building wall to allow the new steam generators to be moved inside showed a sligh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1750486 | 389,486 |
517,649 | The fire lance or fire tubea combination of a firearm and flamethrowerhad been adapted and changed into several different forms by the time Jiao Yu edited the "Huolongjing". The earliest depiction of a fire lance is dated c. 950, a Chinese painting on a silk banner found at the Buddhist site of Dunhuang. These early fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11388956 | 517,380 |
390,937 | There are several ways to determine the porosity of aerogel: the three main methods are gas adsorption, mercury porosimetry, and scattering method. In gas adsorption, nitrogen at its boiling point is adsorbed into the aerogel sample. The gas being adsorbed is dependent on the size of the pores within the sample and on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50069638 | 390,742 |
191,301 | The theory of universal grammar proposes that if human beings are brought up under normal conditions (not those of extreme sensory deprivation), then they will always develop language with certain properties (e.g., distinguishing nouns from verbs, or distinguishing function words from content words). The theory propose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40313 | 191,202 |
285,280 | The most common type of collaborative method of teaching in a class is classroom discussion. It is also a democratic way of handling a class, where each student is given equal opportunity to interact and put forth their views. A discussion taking place in a classroom can be either facilitated by a teacher or by a stude... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=92028 | 285,126 |
492,765 | Digital agriculture technologies can expand farmers’ access to credit, insurance, and bank accounts for a number of reasons. First, digital technology helps alleviate the information asymmetry that exists between farmers and financial institutions. When lenders decide a farmer's credit ceiling or insurance premium, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59238166 | 492,510 |
1,451,398 | Organizations from around the world believed that General MIDI could be made more versatile, so Roland created the GS standard. It is still an extension of the GM specification, meaning it can provide many extra controllers and sounds while still keeping to the sound map and obeying all the protocols of GM. This means ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4468473 | 1,450,581 |
657,511 | After the seminal work of Jess "et al". (2009), in 2017 Srivastava "et al". detected the existence of high-frequency torsional Alfvén waves in the Sun's chromospheric fine-structured flux tubes. They discovered that these high-frequency waves carry substantial energy capable of heating the Sun's corona and also in orig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=907108 | 657,167 |
1,269,876 | The genesis of the work stems from many sources, including a conversation Brian had with Henry Wood about writing a suite that would revive the older instruments that had fallen out of use in the modern symphony orchestra, such as the oboe d'amore or basset horn. This idea was repudiated by Brian's close friend Granvil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=734003 | 1,269,185 |
905,946 | The chemistry of unbinilium is predicted to be similar to that of the alkaline earth metals, but it would probably behave more like calcium or strontium than barium or radium. Like strontium, unbinilium should react vigorously with air to form an oxide (UbnO) and with water to form the hydroxide (Ubn(OH)), which would ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67491 | 905,470 |
515,432 | Drugs that block the CXCR4 receptor appear to be capable of "mobilizing" hematopoietic stem cells into the bloodstream as peripheral blood stem cells. Peripheral blood stem cell mobilization is very important in hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (as a recent alternative to transplantation of surgically harvested ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2422743 | 515,166 |
1,409,002 | Instead of a one-shot temporary installation, the hackers have designed and built a permanent facility that can be re-used repeatedly by the MIT community. An understanding has been reached with the Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS), which is headquartered in the Green Building, to allow th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2621926 | 1,408,211 |
686,218 | Human nutrition is typical of mammalian omnivorous nutrition requiring a balanced input of carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, and minerals. However, the human diet has a few very specific requirements. These include two specific amino acids, alpha-linolenic acid and linoleic acid without which life is not sustain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=411951 | 685,861 |
623,352 | LEOSAR was the original Cospas-Sarsat space segment architecture. The complementary LEOSAR-satellite orbits provide periodic coverage of the entire Earth. Because of their relatively low altitude (and therefore, relatively small "footprint" of visibility of any particular part of the Earth at any given time), there are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3043414 | 623,020 |
631,840 | The magazine was profitable, but the Great Depression caused Clayton problems. Normally a publisher would pay a printer three months in arrears, but when a credit squeeze began in May 1931, it led to pressure to reduce this delay. The financial difficulties led Clayton to start alternating the publication of his magazi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18932608 | 631,502 |
1,041,720 | Using biomass as a fuel produces air pollution in the form of carbon monoxide, NOx (nitrogen oxides), VOCs (volatile organic compounds), particulates and other pollutants, in some cases at levels above those from traditional fuel sources such as coal or natural gas. Black carbon – a pollutant created by incomplete comb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9774491 | 1,041,177 |
136,659 | During the boom of the microcomputer industry, and especially during the 1980s, users started to deploy computers everywhere, in many cases with little or no care about operating requirements. However, as information technology (IT) operations started to grow in complexity, organizations grew aware of the need to contr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=579730 | 136,604 |
1,552,796 | According to research conducted in 2021, another function of eccDNAs is their role as possible immunostimulants. eccDNA significantly induces type I interferons (IFNα, IFNβ), interleukin-6 (IL-6), and tumor necrosis factor (TNF), even more so than linear DNA and other generally potent cytokine inducers at their highest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54260123 | 1,551,915 |
775,919 | During the "Fear Itself" storyline, Odin senses the return of his elder brother, Cul, the Serpent: God of Fear. After a brief monologue with Uatu the Watcher, Odin commands his people to return to the Asgardian plane against the protests of Thor, and Asgard rebuilds into a war engine with which he intends to raze Earth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=994848 | 775,503 |
1,261,253 | The Rev-Erb proteins are unique from other nuclear receptors in that they do not have a helix in the C-terminal that is necessary for coactivator recruitment and activation by nuclear receptors via their LBD. Instead, Rev-Erbα interacts via its LBD with Nuclear Receptor Co-Repressor (NCoR) and another closely related c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13530834 | 1,260,566 |
903,903 | The field of welfare economics is associated with two fundamental theorems. The first states that given certain assumptions, competitive markets (price equilibria with transfers, e.g. Walrasian equilibria) produce Pareto efficient outcomes. The assumptions required are generally characterised as "very weak". More speci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=438566 | 903,427 |
315,355 | In 1970, Math 55 covered almost four years worth of department coursework in two semesters, and subsequently, it drew only the most diligent of undergraduates. Of the 75 students who enrolled in the 1970 offering, by course end, only 20 remained due to the advanced nature of the material and time-constraints under whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22008131 | 315,186 |
1,996,745 | It is also worth pointing out some important aspect related to the family symmetries. As matter of fact, an existence of three identical quark-lepton families could mean that there might exist the truly elementary fermions, preons, being actual carriers of all the Standard Model fundamental quantum numbers involved and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53730614 | 1,995,602 |
281,162 | The university's home golf course, Trysting Tree's, features championship-worthy golf and practice facilities. The name of the course can be traced back to a locally famous tree near Community Hall on campus where student couples would meet to make dates. Basketball is held in Gill Coliseum and named after former Beave... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233155 | 281,010 |
278,163 | Nanomachines are largely in the research and development phase, but some primitive molecular machines and nanomotors have been tested. An example is a sensor having a switch approximately 1.5 nanometers across, able to count specific molecules in the chemical sample. The first useful applications of nanomachines may be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1006597 | 278,013 |
375,862 | Hall achieved the first commercially successful synthesis of diamond on December 16, 1954, and this was announced on February 15, 1955. His breakthrough was using a "belt" press, which was capable of producing pressures above and temperatures above . The press used a pyrophyllite container in which graphite was dissolv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=498137 | 375,667 |
1,992,249 | Eugene Hilgard was born at Zweibrücken, Germany, January 5, 1833, the son of Theodore Erasmus and Margaretha (Pauli) Hilgard. His father was a successful lawyer, holding the position of chief justice of the court of appeals of the province of Rhenish Bavaria. His liberally-minded father was displeased by the increasing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4643480 | 1,991,106 |
1,198,869 | A motion artifact is one of the most common artifacts in MR imaging. Motion can cause either ghost images or diffuse image noise in the phase-encoding direction. The reason for mainly affecting data sampling in the phase-encoding direction is the significant difference in the time of acquisition in the frequency- and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56564310 | 1,198,228 |
502,785 | While it had been necessary to obtain an Act of Parliament to build a new railway, the government initially took a "laissez faire" approach to their construction and operation. The Government began to take an interest in safety matters, with the 1840 "Act for Regulating Railways", which empowered the Board of Trade to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8076215 | 502,527 |
967,865 | Some argue that this logic can be extended. The custom of classifying periods of human development by its dominating general purpose technology has surely been borrowed from historians, starting with the Stone Age. Including those, authors distinguish three different long-term metaparadigms, each with different long wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17282 | 967,355 |
982,733 | "Titanosaurus indicus" was first named by British paleontologist Richard Lydekker in 1877, as a new taxon of dinosaur based on two caudals and a femur collected on different occasions at the same location in India. While it was later given a position as a sauropod within Cetiosauridae by Lydekker in 1888, he named the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1139347 | 982,221 |
1,827,377 | Li’s focus of research includes areas of solid-state inorganic and materials chemistry. Her current research focuses on the development of new and functional materials that are fundamentally important and relevant for clean and renewable energy applications. These include (a) metal organic frameworks (MOFs) for gas sto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18092744 | 1,826,338 |
1,695,064 | KIF1A belongs to the kinesin-3 subfamily and is characterized by its very high microtubule binding rate and its ability to travel further and faster along microtubules compared to other kinesin family groups. With run lengths on the order of 10 um, nearly 10 times longer than those of the well-characterized kinesin-1 m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31656267 | 1,694,113 |
823,205 | Habituation has been observed in an enormously wide range of species from motile single-celled organisms such as the amoeba and "Stentor coeruleus" to sea slugs to humans. Habituation processes are adaptive, allowing animals to adjust their innate behaviors to changes in their natural world. A natural animal instinct, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=599837 | 822,763 |
1,842,587 | Genomic analysis has allowed scientists to examine the relationships between different species of "Polaribacter". However, by combining genomic analysis with other analytical techniques such as chemotaxonomic and biochemical, scientists can theorize how a species might fit into an environment or how they believe a spec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54711583 | 1,841,534 |
535,856 | In February 2016, Thiem won his fourth ATP singles title at the Argentina Open, defeating top seed and defending champion Rafael Nadal en route after saving a match point in the third set. In the same month, he won his first ATP 500 title, and first title on hard court at the Abierto Mexicano Telcel, beating Bernard To... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49550066 | 535,577 |
2,055,128 | In addition to the rhesus macaque application, SNALPs have also been proven to protect cavia porcellua from viremia and death when administered shortly after postexposure to ZEBOV. A polymerase (L) gene-specific siRNAs delivery system was imposed upon four genes associated with the viral genomic RNA in the ribonucleopr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27557852 | 2,053,945 |
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