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2,144,484 | Cline's research focuses on brain development, in particular the effect of visual experience of the development of the visual system. Her studies have helped increase understanding of mechanisms controlling topographic map formation, neurogenesis, synapse formation and plasticity, neuron development and assembly of bra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62135161 | 2,143,253 |
199,770 | In August 2010, some information about the newly modified Project 21631, dubbed as "Buyan-M", were published. The Project 21631 ships are said to be an up-to-date variant of Project 21630 "Buyan" small artillery ship, armed with the nuclear-capable Kalibr cruise missiles (SS-N-27 "Sizzler") with a claimed range of at l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20030984 | 199,667 |
1,165,128 | Chaucer in The Nun's Priest's Tale (line 476) ranks Bradwardine with Augustine and Boethius. His great theological work, to modern eyes, is a treatise against the Pelagians, entitled "De causa Dei contra Pelagium et de virtute causarum". Bradwardine's major treatise argued that space was an infinite void in which God c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=153676 | 1,164,511 |
2,048,030 | Yang Xiao currently is a Full Professor of Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA. He obtained his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA, and his B.S. and M.S. degrees in computational mathematics at Jilin Unive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19068492 | 2,046,849 |
44,554 | Climate change concerns, coupled with the continuing fall in the costs of some renewable energy equipment, such as wind turbines and solar panels, are driving increased use of renewables. New government spending, regulation and policies helped the industry weather the global financial crisis better than many other sect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25784 | 44,537 |
964,947 | New design of anti-bacterial medications is of continuing importance in scientific research as bacterial antibiotic resistance to common antibiotics increases. A specific metabolic protein that uses FAD (Complex II) is vital for bacterial virulence, and so targeting FAD synthesis or creating FAD analogs could be a usef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1491100 | 964,438 |
2,054,750 | In comparison to B-ALL, T-ALL patients present more high-risk features including tendency for earlier relapse, CNS involvement, and resistance to chemotherapy. In response, Prophylactic Intrathecal Chemotherapy is further enhanced with CNS radiation therapy. In treating high-risk T-ALL patients, allogeneic hematopoieti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63488624 | 2,053,567 |
1,076,861 | Metallic parallel-plate waveguides (striplines), lumped-constant circuit elements such as inductance and capacitance (at visible light frequencies, the values of the latter being of the order of femtohenries and attofarads, respectively), and impedance-matching of dipole antennas to transmission lines, all familiar tec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4550348 | 1,076,306 |
1,804,123 | A small supernumerary marker chromosome (sSMC) is an abnormal extra chromosome. It contains copies of parts of one or more normal chromosomes and like normal chromosomes is located in the cell's nucleus, is replicated and distributed into each daughter cell during cell division, and typically has genes which may be exp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2018913 | 1,803,109 |
621,391 | "The Acoustisizer" is an electroacoustic musical instrument built from a small grand piano with built-in speakers, magnetic guitar pickups, PZMs, and "prepared piano" strings. It was built as part of a graduate thesis project at California State University Dominguez Hills by Bob Fenger (1983), a student of Richard Bung... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=86050 | 621,059 |
804,805 | Sustainable architects design with sustainable living in mind. Sustainable vs green design is the challenge that designs not only reflect healthy processes and uses but are powered by renewable energies and site specific resources. A test for sustainable design is — can the design function for its intended use without ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28730644 | 804,376 |
1,050,306 | At the time of Igor's birth, Ansoff, Sr., was secretary to the American Consul General in Moscow, David R. Francis, and had just completed a cross-Siberian trip on behalf of the American Red Cross, examining living conditions in prisoner of war camps. This concluded with a trip to Japan in 1918, after which the family ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2496640 | 1,049,760 |
40,897 | The design cruising speed is Mach 2.35 (2,500 km/h) with partial afterburner in operation. The maximum speed of Mach 2.83 (3,000 km/h) is allowed to maintain no more than 5 minutes due to the danger of overheating of the airframe and fuel in the tanks. When the airframe temperature reaches , the warning lamp lights up,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=247960 | 40,882 |
486,419 | Immediately after Mongolia attained independence in 1990, the enthusiasm was to declare 100 percent of the area of the country as a national park. However, the figure was pegged at an achievable 30 percent. But due to economic conditions dictating development of mines, the achievement so far has been of the order of 13... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39267532 | 486,170 |
325,983 | The size of the pneumothorax (i.e. the volume of air in the pleural space) can be determined with a reasonable degree of accuracy by measuring the distance between the chest wall and the lung. This is relevant to treatment, as smaller pneumothoraces may be managed differently. An air rim of 2 cm means that the pneumoth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=286359 | 325,810 |
439,972 | However, cellular recognition of natural polymers can easily initiate an immune response. Consequently, synthetic polymers such as poly(lactic acid) (PLA), polycaprolactone (PCL), polyurethane (PU), poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA), poly(L-lactide) (PLLA), and poly(ethylene-co-vinylacetate) (PEVA) have been develop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4406110 | 439,758 |
1,190,792 | At Cornell, she studied under E. B. Titchener, his first and only major graduate student at that time. Her major was psychology. As a graduate student, she conducted an experimental study of the methods of equivalences in tactual perception, as was suggested by Titchener. After two semesters of experimental study, she ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=508123 | 1,190,158 |
1,497,776 | Adverse liver function tests are commonly seen with EMP, but severe liver dysfunction is rare with the medication. Central nervous system side effects are rarely seen with EMP, although enlarged ventricles and neuronal pigmentation have been reported in monkeys treated with very high doses of EMP (20–140 mg/kg/day) for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4498159 | 1,496,933 |
345,523 | Gas turbine technology has steadily advanced since its inception and continues to evolve. Development is actively producing both smaller gas turbines and more powerful and efficient engines. Aiding in these advances are computer-based design (specifically computational fluid dynamics and finite element analysis) and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58664 | 345,342 |
493,660 | Paste reservoir dispenses a measured amount of specified resin paste onto a plastic carrier film. This carrier film passes underneath a chopper which cuts the fibers onto the surface. Once these have drifted through the depth of resin paste, another sheet is added on top which sandwiches the glass. The sheets are compa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7997999 | 493,405 |
1,475,181 | With elimination theory in hand, a large part of the problems treated in Seki's time became solvable in principle, given the Chinese tradition of geometry almost reduced to algebra. In practice, the method could founder under huge computational complexity. Yet this theory had a significant influence on the direction of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=532653 | 1,474,349 |
372,363 | In 1917, with the Russian Revolution and widespread disillusionment over the war, and with Britain and France low on credit, the German Empire appeared to have the upper hand in Europe, while the Ottoman Empire clung to its possessions in the Middle East. In the same year, the German Empire decided to resume unrestrict... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25604889 | 372,168 |
945,344 | Calcineurin interacts with an endocytotic complex at the postsynaptic zone, explaining its effects on LTD. The complex, consisting of a clathrin-coated pit underneath a section of AMPAR-containing plasma membrane and interacting proteins, is the direct mechanism for reduction of AMPARs, in particular GluR2/GluR3 subuni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=374335 | 944,842 |
1,147,562 | In 2010, Warren, Ohio's water treatment facility announced plans to become the first in the state to accept waste water from shale drilling, while at the 2010 Marcellus Summit in State College, Pennsylvania, state officials announced they were working with local officials on bonding issues for new infrastructure. In Au... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40594547 | 1,146,957 |
412,537 | The real beginning of the Armored Force was in 1928, twelve years before it was officially established, when Secretary of War Dwight F. Davis directed that a tank force be developed in the Army, after observing the maneuvers by the British Experimental Armoured Force. Davis' 1928 directive for the development of a tank... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25658417 | 412,335 |
192,953 | A box cooker has a transparent glass or plastic top, and it may have additional reflectors to concentrate sunlight into the box. The top can usually be removed to allow dark pots containing food to be placed inside. One or more reflectors of shiny metal or foil-lined material may be positioned to bounce extra light int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1530612 | 192,853 |
78,113 | Google Sheets serves as a collaborative tool for cooperative editing of spreadsheets in real time. Documents can be shared, opened, and edited by multiple users simultaneously and users can see character-by-character changes as other collaborators make edits. Changes are automatically saved to Google's servers and a re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42951365 | 78,084 |
328,732 | Physical therapy has been found to be effective for improving outcomes, both in terms of pain and function, in multiple musculoskeletal conditions. A 2012 systematic review found evidence to support the use of spinal manipulation by physical therapists as a safe option to improve outcomes for lower back pain. According... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24022 | 328,558 |
494,619 | Leuconostoc mesenteroides is a species of lactic acid bacteria associated with fermentation, under conditions of salinity and low temperatures (such as lactic acid production in fermented sausages). In some cases of vegetable and food storage, it was associated with pathogenicity (soft rot, slime and unpleasant odor). ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6880603 | 494,363 |
852,860 | Of the "hh" homologues, "SHH" has been found to have the most critical roles in development, acting as a morphogen involved in patterning many systems—including the anterior pituitary, pallium of the brain, spinal cord, lungs, teeth and the thalamus by the "zona limitans intrathalamica". In vertebrates, the development... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=353697 | 852,406 |
1,742,883 | During 1861, botany became a preoccupation for Darwin, and his projects became serious scientific pursuits. He continued his study of orchids throughout the summer, writing to anyone who might be able to supply specimens he had not yet examined. Field naturalists, botanists, and country gentry sent specimens from acros... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21436165 | 1,741,899 |
1,670,170 | Similar views were expressed by the notorious socialist and Zimmerwald pacifist Christian Rakovsky, leader of the Social Democratic Party. Writing to his main collaborator Leon Trotsky in May 1915, he accused Ionescu of "making a political principle out of venality", and of being "a man of vulgar ambitions and unmeasur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=738484 | 1,669,230 |
1,123,236 | Also in that year WikiLeaks released the Vault 7 documents series that contain details of CIA exploits and tools with Julian Assange stating that they are working to "disarm" them before publication. Disarmament of cyber weapons may come in the form of contacting respective software vendors with information of vulnerab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37856743 | 1,122,662 |
52,134 | Psychoanalytic concepts influenced Bowlby's view of attachment, in particular, the observations by Anna Freud and Dorothy Burlingham of young children separated from familiar caregivers during World War II. However, Bowlby rejected psychoanalytical explanations for early infant bonds including "drive theory" in which t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=884589 | 52,114 |
1,484,324 | Neuroprotection aims to prevent the harm that occurs from secondary injury. One example is to target the protein calpain which appears to be involved in apoptosis; inhibiting the protein has produced improved outcomes in animal trials. Iron from blood damages the spinal cord through oxidative stress, so one option is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48644210 | 1,483,487 |
285,631 | On 8 November 2018, Viking Air parent Longview Aviation Capital Corp. acquired the Q400 program and the de Havilland brand from Bombardier. Viking had already bought the discontinued de Havilland Canada aircraft type certificates in 2006. At that point, Q400 sales were lower than rival ATR Aircraft. Bombardier announce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81581 | 285,477 |
640,246 | Birds returning north in spring across the central Mediterranean appear to follow a well-defined route. Large concentrations of ruffs form every year at particular stopover sites to feed, and individuals marked with rings or dye reappear in subsequent years. The refuelling sites are closer together than the theoretical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=350073 | 639,907 |
1,899,643 | The idea of establishing a science and technology research centre dates back to 1989. A study about the required costs, funding sources, architectural designs, setting administrative, and technical and financial regulations was published in October 1992. An area of 100 acres [CONVERT] was later allocated in the unive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61697996 | 1,898,558 |
1,035,150 | Schumacher and Heidfeld's accident on lap 37 was investigated by the stewards who took no further action after deciding it was a "racing incident". Heidfeld felt Schumacher had braked too late and hoped that he would have had a better finishing position. Schumacher himself said that he was unhappy with his first race i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24511010 | 1,034,610 |
594,796 | After constructing biomechanical models of the Cripplefoot casts by calculating their distance, leverage, weight dynamics and distribution, and comparing the data to the track's heel, ankle and toe base, Krantz concluded that the footprints had been left by an animal about 2.44 m (8 ft) tall and weighing roughly 363 kg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=801846 | 594,491 |
432,450 | SUNY Oneonta consistently gains recognition for delivering excellence and value. The college sits at No. 75 on the 2023 "U.S. News & World Report" list of the best public institutions in its region and is ranked No. 114 on Money magazine's "Best Colleges 2022" list. The college is also No. 11 among the best colleges in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=532186 | 432,237 |
498,658 | In 1949, Brenda Milner graduated with a M.A. in experimental psychology in Cambridge. In Montreal, she became a Ph.D. candidate in physiological psychology at McGill University, under the direction of Donald Olding Hebb. While working on her Ph.D., Milner and Hebb presented research on their patient P.B. who had underg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=605565 | 498,401 |
804,255 | The International Society of Genetic Genealogy (ISOGG) maintains the most up-to-date consensus version of haplogroup categories. These classifications are based on shared SNP mutations. The discovery of new SNPs can result in assignment of new names to haplogroup categories. There were only a few G categories until 200... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3413411 | 803,826 |
1,940,953 | The matches of the penultimate round saw the United States and Ukraine winning to reach the final round tied for the first place with 18 match points each. The United States beat Georgia 2½-1½ thanks to the wins scored by Wesley So and Sam Shankland on the lower boards. Sam Shankland was the first to score a full point... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51472590 | 1,939,842 |
2,023,161 | Thanks largely to the Miami win – and despite a loss to URI in the ECWHL playoff semifinals that nearly undid everything – Penn State qualified for the 2015 ACHA National Tournament at York City Ice Arena in York, PA. However, the team saw a quicker exit than had been customary to that point, losing in overtime to even... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51386378 | 2,021,997 |
439,750 | Historically, mainframes in general, and Linux on IBM Z in particular, did not execute "CPU-intensive" single task computations with notably high performance compared to certain other platforms with a few notable exceptions such as cryptographic calculations. Examples included most scientific simulations, weather forec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33589774 | 439,536 |
1,769,987 | Of particular interest since the 1980s has been the deposition of functionalized plasma polymer films. For example, functionalized films are used as a means of improving biocompatibility for biological implants6 and for producing super-hydrophobic coatings. They have also been extensively employed in biomaterials for c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30747793 | 1,768,992 |
581,976 | Such densities are possible because white dwarf material is not composed of atoms bound by chemical bonds, but rather consists of a plasma of unbound nuclei and electrons. There is therefore no obstacle to placing nuclei closer to each other than electron orbitals—the regions occupied by electrons bound to an atom—woul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17052696 | 581,678 |
50,947 | In December 2015, the Ontario provincial government enacted the Ontario Fertility Program for patients with medical and non-medical infertility, regardless of sexual orientation, gender or family composition. Eligible patients for IVF treatment must be Ontario residents under the age of 43 and have a valid Ontario Heal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57880 | 50,927 |
1,037,889 | On 6 May 1997, operational responsibility to set interest rates was granted to the independent Bank of England by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Gordon Brown. Guidelines for the creation of a new "Monetary Policy Committee" were laid out in the Bank of England Act 1998. The Act also set out the responsibilities of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1234219 | 1,037,348 |
1,545,880 | An alternative methanizer design known as the Jetanizer, where the methanizer is fully contained in a 3D-printed FID jet with novel catalyst, is available from Activated Research Company. The Jetanizer utilizes the heater and hydrogen supply of the FID, reducing the need for additional fittings and temperature control.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39935332 | 1,545,006 |
103,248 | The U.S. Navy had already begun procuring its own jet aircraft, but the slow pace of delivery was causing retention problems among pilots, particularly those of the Marines who were still flying Vought F4U Corsairs. To increase land-based jet-transition training in the late 1940s, 50 F-80Cs were transferred to the U.S.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=78035 | 103,203 |
1,684,620 | One challenge in applying synteny-based methods is that synteny can be difficult to detect across longer timescales. To address this, various optimization techniques have been created, such as using exons clustered irrespective of their specific order to define syntenic blocks or algorithms that use well-conserved geno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60852153 | 1,683,675 |
1,956,955 | Provider Backbone Transport (PBT) is connection-oriented switch operation scheme and network management architecture. PBT was invented by British Telecom (BT) and developed by Nortel (now Avaya). It defines methods to emulate connection-oriented networks by providing "nailed-up" trunks through a packet-switched network... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10678027 | 1,955,831 |
1,216,326 | While traditional thromboelastography is a global assay for blood clotting disorders and drug effects, TEM is primarily used in combination with appropriate differential assays. They allow testing in the presence of therapeutic heparin concentrations and provide differential diagnostic information to support decisions ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22809868 | 1,215,674 |
2,135,886 | "Verticilluim longisporum" is known to cause the disease Verticillium wilt in oilseed crops. This disease is responsible for major yield loss with reports as high as 72%. Oilseed is grown worldwide with a few countries being China, Canada, United Kingdom, and Australia. Historically, oilseed was used in the production ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11128751 | 2,134,659 |
1,337,086 | Saleh et al. (2008) studied the effect of the smear layer on the penetration of bacteria along different root canal filling materials. A total of 110 human root segments were instrumented to size 80 under irrigation with 1% sodium hypochlorite. Half of the roots were irrigated with a 5-mL rinse of 17% EDTA to remove th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26897222 | 1,336,355 |
2,147,669 | Stem cell genomics analyzes the genomes of stem cells. Currently, this field is rapidly expanding due to the dramatic decrease in the cost of sequencing genomes. The study of stem cell genomics has wide reaching implications in the study of stem cell biology and possible therapeutic usages of stem cells. Application of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5747184 | 2,146,438 |
492,199 | In 2007 reports emerged in the press and via the Internet that Evangelos Michelakis and coworkers at the University of Alberta had found that dichloroacetic acid, or rather its sodium salt sodium dichloroacetate, reduced tumors in rats and killed cancer cells "in vitro". A story in "New Scientist" sparked "unprecedente... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2997935 | 491,945 |
684,033 | The semi-monocoque fuselage of Oxford uses an arrangement of spruce longerons and stiffeners underneath a plywood exterior. It is constructed in two sections on separate jigs, divided between the front and rear, these are joined together at the rear bulkhead. The forward bulkhead is deliberately reinforced so that the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=569246 | 683,677 |
1,941,939 | This type of bacteria was first described in 2007. It is able to form symbiotic relationships with a wide range of hosts in the marine environment such as cnidarians, poriferans, molluscs, annelids, tunicates, and fish. They are distributed through various marine zones from extreme depths to warm photic zones. "Endozoi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46861405 | 1,940,828 |
859,365 | In 1980, inspired by a 1979 "New Directions Workshop" held at Wood's Hole, NASA conducted a joint summer study with ASEE entitled to produce a detailed proposal for self-replicating factories to develop lunar resources without requiring additional launches or human workers on-site. The study was conducted at Santa Clar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1600053 | 858,907 |
2,169,882 | Active in helioseismology for over twenty years beginning in the early 1980s. The efforts in which he was involved include the first determinations of the Sun’s internal rotation, its internal differential rotation and determining limits on buried magnetic field and demonstrating that the Sun rotates on a single axis, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28353336 | 2,168,644 |
1,661,741 | ArcGIS Server is available for the Microsoft Windows .NET Framework and the Java Platform. ArcGIS Server ships in three functional editions, Basic, Standard, and Advanced, with the Advanced edition providing the most functionality. ArcGIS Server Basic edition is used primarily to manage multiuser geodatabases and geoda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7166931 | 1,660,806 |
511,662 | Channelization has several predictable and negative effects. One of them is loss of wetlands. Wetlands are an excellent habitat for many forms of wildlife, and additionally serve as a "filter" for much of the world's surface fresh water. Another is the fact that channelized streams are almost invariably straightened. F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3966984 | 511,396 |
891,290 | In 1968 Victor Veselago's paper showed that the opposite directions of EM plane waves and the flow of energy was derived from the individual Maxwell curl equations. In ordinary optical materials, the curl equation for the electric field show a "right hand rule" for the directions of the electric field E, the magnetic i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23870096 | 890,821 |
2,022,896 | Preimplantation factor (PIF) is a peptide secreted by trophoblast cells prior to placenta formation in early embryonic development. Human embryos begin to express PIF at the 4-cell stage, with expression increasing by the morula stage and continuing to do so throughout the first trimester. Expression of preimplantation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60620623 | 2,021,732 |
1,504,878 | The original commercial AFM-IR instruments required most samples to be thicker than 50 nm to achieve sufficient sensitivity. Sensitivity improvements were achieved using specialized cantilever probes with an internal resonator and by wavelet based signal processing techniques. Sensitivity was further improved by Lu "et... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44893854 | 1,504,032 |
995,467 | The Congress of the Confederation received a report on August 7, 1786, from a twelve-member "Grand Committee", appointed to develop and present "such amendments to the Confederation, and such resolutions as it may be necessary to recommend to the several states, for the purpose of obtaining from them such powers as wil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=497752 | 994,950 |
138,233 | Although he was having ideas since 1948, Korolev's planning for the piloted mission began in 1958 with design studies for the future Vostok spacecraft. It was to hold a single passenger in a space suit, and be fully automated. The space suit, unlike the United States' pure oxygen system, was 80 percent nitrogen and onl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=86655 | 138,177 |
613,963 | Event camera pixels independently respond to changes in brightness as they occur. Each pixel stores a reference brightness level, and continuously compares it to the current brightness level. If the difference in brightness exceeds a threshold, that pixel resets its reference level and generates an event: a discrete pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59748886 | 613,651 |
348,821 | The actual level of acute and chronic toxicity of DU is also controversial. Several studies using cultured cells and laboratory rodents suggest the possibility of leukemogenic, genetic, reproductive, and neurological effects from chronic exposure. According to an article in Al Jazeera, DU from American artillery is sus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37514 | 348,639 |
1,695,871 | A year long, moderate-intensity aerobic exercise program increased DHT and SHBG in sedentary men age 40–75, but had no effect on other androgens. Both DHT and SHBG increased 14% in exercisers at 3 months, and at 12 months they remained 9% above baseline. SHBG is protective against DHT as it binds free androgen. In acut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53670711 | 1,694,918 |
857,901 | Blastomycosis is endemic to the eastern United States and Canada, especially the Ohio and Mississippi River valleys, the Great Lakes, and the St. Lawrence River valley. In these areas, there are about 1 to 2 cases per 100,000 per year. Less frequently, blastomycosis also occurs in Africa, the Middle East, India, and we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=883645 | 857,446 |
880,140 | ABA is the trigger for the closure of the stomatal opening. To trigger this it activates the release of anions and potassium ions. This influx in anions causes a depolarization of the plasma membrane. This depolarization triggers potassium plus ions in the cell to leave the cell due to the unbalance in the membrane pot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5134478 | 879,676 |
1,382,960 | "Halibut" was commissioned in January 1960. Following a shakedown and exercises, she deployed to Pearl Harbor in November. After the end of her use as a Regulus submarine, in February 1965 "Halibut" underwent an overhaul and was redesignated as an attack submarine, operating from California. In 1968 she was taken in fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59895854 | 1,382,194 |
1,419,361 | At around 1960, Pedersen went back to research in the field of Coordination Chemistry, focusing on the synthesis of multidentate ligands. It was recommended by his colleague Herman Schroeder to work on the coordination chemistry of vanadium before working on the polymerization and oxidative catalytic activity of vanadi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=945048 | 1,418,562 |
319,494 | In response to the attacks on America 11 September 2001, Naval Special Warfare forces put operators on the ground in Afghanistan in October. The first military flag officer to set foot in Afghanistan was a Navy SEAL, Rear Admiral Albert Calland, in charge of Special Operations Command Central (SOCCENT), which was respo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=846251 | 319,323 |
56,047 | NASAMS 3 comes with updated Fire Distribution Center station, an "ADX" console that has ergonomic control surfaces and three 30" flat-panel displays. The redesigned Mk 2 canister launcher can fire AIM-9X Sidewinder Block II short-range missiles and AMRAAM-ER missiles from its launching rails, in addition to AIM-120 AMR... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1908655 | 56,023 |
367 | The quantum theory clarified the transition metals and lanthanides as forming their own separate groups, transitional between the main groups, although some chemists had already proposed tables showing them this way before then: the English chemist Henry Bassett did so in 1892, the Danish chemist Julius Thomsen in 1895... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23053 | 367 |
440,074 | Gasoline containing up to 10% ethanol began a decades-long growth in the United States in the late 1970s. The demand for ethanol produced from field corn was spurred by the discovery that methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE) was contaminating groundwater. MTBE's use as an oxygenate additive was widespread due to mandates... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5029525 | 439,860 |
1,623,196 | The Deep Energy Community is dedicated to quantifying the environmental conditions and processes from the molecular to the global scale that control the origins, forms, quantities and movements of reduced carbon compounds derived from deep carbon through deep geologic time. The Deep Energy Community uses field-based in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39621288 | 1,622,280 |
246,032 | The Mehrgarh Period I (pre-7000 BCE – 5500 BCE) was Neolithic and aceramic (without the use of pottery). The earliest farming in the area was developed by semi-nomadic people using plants such as wheat and barley and animals such as sheep, goats and cattle. The settlement was established with unbaked mud-brick building... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20675 | 245,905 |
148,663 | Rocketdyne developed the F-1 and the E-1 to meet a 1955 U.S. Air Force requirement for a very large rocket engine. The E-1, although successfully tested in static firing, was quickly seen as a technological dead-end, and was abandoned for the larger, more powerful F-1. The Air Force eventually halted development of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=712616 | 148,602 |
687,544 | A variety of different smoothing kernels have been proposed for generating pyramids. Among the suggestions that have been given, the "binomial kernels" arising from the binomial coefficients stand out as a particularly useful and theoretically well-founded class. Thus, given a two-dimensional image, we may apply the (n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15966023 | 687,186 |
2,106,163 | Gardner pioneered the transplantation of cells and tissues between blastocyst stage mouse embryos and their reconstruction from their component tissues. He was the first to apply clonal analysis to study cell fate and potency in mammals, and used this strategy to provide conclusive evidence against early segregation of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51274486 | 2,104,950 |
15,314 | The first Brazilian F-39E Gripen flight took place on 26 August 2019, from Saab's facility in Linköping, Sweden. It was handed over to the Brazilian Air Force on 10 September 2019 for flight testing. The fighter arrived in Brazil on 20 September 2020, and then was transported by land to Navegantes International Airport... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=87577 | 15,309 |
1,096,016 | Also in 2015 another project announced a microsupercapacitor that is small enough to fit in wearable or implantable devices. Just one-fifth the thickness of a sheet of paper, it is capable of holding more than twice as much charge as a comparable thin-film lithium battery. The design employed laser-scribed graphene, or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42482555 | 1,095,456 |
1,748,638 | The accepted catalytic mechanism, called the “ping-pong mechanism,” consists of four major stages. The first stage is the oxidation of the substrate by the double-redox center. After the hydroxyl group of substrate alcohol occupies the solvent coordination site, the hydroxyl group is deprotonated by Tyr495, followed by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45079544 | 1,747,652 |
1,870,889 | Because an occultation event for an individual object is quite rare, the process of observing occultation events begins with the creation of a list of candidate targets. The list is generated from a computer by analyzing the orbital motions of a large collection of objects with known orbital parameters. Once a candidat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28001404 | 1,869,812 |
192,387 | During late 1990 and early 1991 the Australian government considered deploying F-111Cs to expand the Australian contribution to the 1991 Gulf War, which mainly comprised a Royal Australian Navy task group. The Department of Defence and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's (DFAT) preferred option if the government ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25595226 | 192,288 |
1,530,330 | Irwin then announced that the contact light had illuminated, indicating one of the landing probes on the LM's feet had contacted the ground. Immediately Scott cut the engine. With the extended engine bell there was a fear that it could touch the ground and cause exhaust to travel back into the engine. It is estimated t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2099059 | 1,529,465 |
2,104,181 | The International PhD Programme in Molecular Medicine is taught entirely in English. During the three-year period of studies, students must take part in a number of compulsory activities. Central teaching activities include the lecture "Improve your Textbook Knowledge" as well as a "Journal Club" and the biweekly semin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29372572 | 2,102,968 |
2,245,569 | Max Julius Leopold Schultze (c. 1881 - 13 April 1955) was a herring exporter and Labour politician who served as Provost of Peterhead from 1936 to 1940. He was born in Stettin and moved to Peterhead with his parents in 1885 He married Helen Agnes Spence, daughter of crofter from Lerwick in 1909. He was instrumental in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62468005 | 2,244,297 |
356,317 | The environmental impact caused by biomass or other renewable energy production depends to some extent on its land use requirements. To calculate land use requirements, it is essential to know the relevant surface power production densities (e.g. power production per square metre). Vaclav Smil estimates that the averag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7906908 | 356,133 |
75,907 | Finite semiotics, developed by Cameron Shackell (2018, 2019), aims to unify existing theories of semiotics for application to the post-Baudrillardian world of ubiquitous technology. Its central move is to place the finiteness of thought at the root of semiotics and the sign as a secondary but fundamental analytical con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29301 | 75,878 |
158,484 | Before a utility installs an advanced metering system, or any type of smart system, it must make a business case for the investment. Some components, like the power system stabilizers (PSS) installed on generators are very expensive, require complex integration in the grid's control system, are needed only during emerg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13201685 | 158,403 |
1,252,165 | By May 2010, compiled versions of the work-in-progress source code had been downloaded from the Internet more than a million times. The most popular version, entitled "ChromiumOS Flow", was created by Liam McLoughlin, a then 17-year-old college student in Liverpool, England, posting under the name "Hexxeh". McLoughlin'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25140600 | 1,251,487 |
1,778,661 | Titanium undergoes allotropic transformation from its α-phase (hexagonal close-packed (hcp) structure at temperatures less than 882.5 °C) to its β-phase (body centered cubic, bcc) structure at temperatures above 882.3 °C). Alpha-phase titanium products typically exhibit medium to high strength with excellent creep stre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57445960 | 1,777,659 |
1,159,630 | Yi Cui (; born 1976) is a Chinese-American materials scientist, specializing in nanotechnology, and energy and environment-related research. Cui is the Fortinet Founders Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, and by courtesy, of Chemistry at Stanford University. He currently serves as the director of the Preco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62783536 | 1,159,015 |
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