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738,582 | In 1998, NASA formally embraced the goal of finding and cataloging, by 2008, 90% of all near-Earth objects (NEOs) with diameters of 1 km or larger that could represent a collision risk to Earth. The 1 km diameter metric was chosen after considerable study indicated that an impact of an object smaller than 1 km could ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58017976 | 738,191 |
185,215 | Some particulates occur naturally, originating from volcanoes, dust storms, forest and grassland fires, living vegetation and sea spray. Human activities, such as the burning of fossil fuels, and biomass including wood and stubble, power plants, road dust from tyre and road wear, wet cooling towers in cooling systems a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30876688 | 185,118 |
710,875 | LMS advised a return to riveted construction due to doubts about the strength of the welds and rather than risk delays due to a lack of welders, this was accepted. The welded design used two layers of armour plate, the inner being of steel that would weld readily without losing its properties. This two-plate system was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1281816 | 710,504 |
1,050,549 | With time-to-market pressures and rising mask costs in the semiconductor industry, several electronic design automation (EDA) companies are beginning to bring more automation into the ECO implementation process. Most popular place and route products have some level of built-in ECO routing to help with implementing phys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5210185 | 1,050,003 |
828,847 | Upon graduating in Economics from Harvard in 1952, Ellsberg left immediately to serve as a US Marine before coming back to Harvard in 1957 to complete his post-graduate studies on decision-making under uncertainty. Ellsberg left his graduate studies to join the RAND Corporation as a strategic analyst but continued to d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1912480 | 828,401 |
1,954,266 | In the battle that followed, 24 Luftwaffe fighters were destroyed by the 352d Group. However, one pilot, Lt. Dean Huston, was forced to belly land his P-51 after its cooling system was holed from the fire of zealous British antiaircraft gunners. Two pilots of the 487th claimed 4 German fighters shot down. The 487th rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2872588 | 1,953,144 |
1,098,009 | Conscious thoughts about a romantic partner activate brain regions related to reward and motivation. Ortigue et al. investigated whether "unconscious" priming by a partner's name could also affect motivation. They found that priming by either a beloved or a favorite hobby improved reaction times in identifying whether ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4318932 | 1,097,449 |
173,005 | Senescence, an irreversible process in which the cell no longer divides, is a protective response to the shortening of the chromosome ends, called telomeres. The telomeres are long regions of repetitive noncoding DNA that cap chromosomes and undergo partial degradation each time a cell undergoes division (see Hayflick ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=854294 | 172,914 |
1,920,718 | Researchers have long believed their unusual mouth mechanics may have played a role in their evolutionary success. However, because they lack the complex flexible lower jaw joint of today's mammals, it has been difficult for scientists to determine exactly how the hadrosaurs broke down their food and ate. Without this ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23481302 | 1,919,615 |
2,181,542 | Cap: 1.5-2.5 cm wide when mature, it starts hemispherical before expanding to convex. The surface is very pale, whitish with a shiny (micante), powdery (pruinose) coating whilst the centre disc has a pale red ochre colour (described as 'sinopicus' in the Latin description which refers to the pigment from Sinop, Turkey)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72311526 | 2,180,295 |
1,849,814 | The most common clinical presentations of "A. ustus" infection involve onychomycosis and otitis media. It only rarely found to cause serious infection (e.g., endocarditis, pneumonia, disseminated disease), typically as an opportunist in severely immunocompromised people, often secondary to immunosuppressive chemotherap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41322001 | 1,848,756 |
211,155 | MD simulation has been reported for pharmacophore development and drug design. For example, Pinto et al. implemented MD simulations of Bcl-Xl complexes to calculate average positions of critical amino acids involved in ligand binding. On the other hand, Carlson et al. implemented molecular dynamics simulation to identi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=198608 | 211,048 |
729,855 | The analogy between light waves and transverse waves in elastic solids does not predict "dispersion" — that is, the frequency-dependence of the speed of propagation, which enables prisms to produce spectra and causes lenses to suffer from chromatic aberration. Fresnel, in "De la Lumière" and in the second supplement to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1141 | 729,471 |
1,831,794 | A plaque on the southwest corner of West Hall reads as follows: "The Corner Stone of the Troy Hospital was laid on the 28th of June 1868 by the right Rev. Bishop Conroy". The hospital was opened in 1869 and was operated by the Sisters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul. The design of the building is due to Marcus F. C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21964134 | 1,830,747 |
225,115 | Muscles with severe spasticity are likely to be more limited in their ability to exercise, and may require help to do this. In spastic cerebral palsy children the main treatment modality of spasticity is conservative in the form of botulinum toxin A injection and various physical therapy modalities such as serial casti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=98998 | 224,999 |
893,944 | Combining multiple technologies would in itself be an increase to complexity and development challenges, but reducing the performance requirements of a given subsystem may allow reduction in its individual complexity or cost. For instance, the number of parts in a liquid-fueled rocket engine may be two orders of magnit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17037094 | 893,474 |
709,484 | ALD is a useful process for the fabrication of microelectronics due to its ability to produce accurate thicknesses and uniform surfaces in addition to high quality film production using various different materials. In microelectronics, ALD is studied as a potential technique to deposit high-κ (high permittivity) gate o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3607910 | 709,113 |
1,807,064 | In 1942, Princeton started allowing women in some US-government funded defense courses on topics such as photogrammetry and map-making. According to the student newspaper, the reason for this change was a great need by the government for map-makers and other "sub-professional engineering" positions, which were open to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35873798 | 1,806,045 |
1,756,343 | Due to the high sequence similarity between the pore of KcsA and other eukaryotic K ion channel proteins, KcsA has provided important insight into the behavior of other important voltage conducting proteins such as the drosophilla-derived "Shaker" and the human "hERG" potassium channel. KcsA has been used in mutagenesi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36080526 | 1,755,352 |
1,625,980 | The ability to study liquid samples, particularly those involving water, with electron microscopy has been a wish ever since the early days of electron microscopy but technical difficulties prevented early attempts from achieving high resolution. Two basic approaches exist for imaging liquid specimens: i) closed system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54895550 | 1,625,062 |
1,177,529 | AB 26 was initiated by Assembly woman Susan Bonilla, District of Concord and it was heard in the Senate Environmental Quality Committee June 19, 2013. The bill is sponsored by the State Building and Construction trades Council, AFL-CIO, and supported by California Teamsters Public Affairs Council and the International ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7186486 | 1,176,906 |
925,226 | In service, Skylon could potentially lower the cost of launching satellites which, according to evidence submitted to the UK parliament by Reaction, is forecast to be around £650/kg; as of 2011, the average launch cost using conventional methods was estimated to be roughly £15,000/kg. Amongst other prospective operatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=550928 | 924,740 |
1,261,394 | Primary neuronal tumors occurring in the ventricular system were considered to be rare. Most cases described were of non-neuronal origin such as oligodendroglioma, ependymoma, meningioma, choroid plexus papilloma and giant cell. Neurocytomas were probably historically misdiagnosed as intraventricular oligondedronglioma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35002185 | 1,260,707 |
344,849 | Piston pin offset has been changed to . Piston to cylinder wall clearance has been reduced by increasing the piston diameter. Another source of high engine friction is the valve train. Hydraulic lash adjusters (HLAs) are always in contact with the valves. The hydraulic pressure of the lash adjuster must be overcome dur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4222124 | 344,668 |
641,869 | The two main standalone spectroscopy techniques for forensic chemistry are FTIR and AA spectroscopy. FTIR is a nondestructive process that uses infrared light to identify a substance. The attenuated total reflectance sampling technique eliminates the need for substances to be prepared before analysis. The combination o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2275867 | 641,530 |
17,475 | The school has also become more focused on computer science, engineering, biology, chemistry, economics, and business. In 2007, the Energy Biosciences Institute was established with funding from BP and Stanley Hall, a research facility and headquarters for the California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences, opened. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31922 | 17,470 |
41,302 | First identified as a drug candidate in 1973, clinical trials followed in 1977, using a form solubilised in cremophor EL. However, due to anaphylactic reactions to cremophor, this formulation was withdrawn from the market and subsequently reformulated as an emulsion of a soya oil/propofol mixture in water. The emulsifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=496540 | 41,287 |
922,227 | Specific functions have been ascribed to subregions of the OFC. The lateral OFC has been proposed to reflect potential choice value, enabling fictive(counterfactual) prediction errors to potentially mediate switching choices during reversal, extinction and devaluation. Optogenetic activation of the lOFC enhances goal d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3766002 | 921,741 |
2,229,439 | After Denver was left out of the 1959 NCAA Tournament despite having the best record of any NCAA team at 22-5-1, the Pioneers knew they had to make changes. First, the argument between Denver and Minnesota over recruiting practices (teenage Americans vs. overage Canadians) was not settled but was put to the side. As pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59689039 | 2,228,175 |
754,349 | During the interwar period, the British developed ideas for fully-mechanized all-arms warfare with the Experimental Mechanized Force. The Germans reviewed their doctrine and revised their approach by expanding on infiltration tactics and amplifying them with motor transport. Heinz Guderian was a leading proponent of ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1172427 | 753,946 |
878,810 | Holmium is the eleventh member of the lanthanide series. In the periodic table, it appears between the lanthanides dysprosium to its left and erbium to its right, and above the actinide einsteinium. It is a relatively soft and malleable element that is fairly corrosion-resistant and stable in dry air at standard temper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13465 | 878,347 |
1,342,714 | Maxim wrote a book, "Defenseless America", first issued in 1912, in which he pointed out the inferiority of the American defense system and the vulnerability of the country against attacks of foreign aggressors. At that time, the United States army according to Maxim, had a total strength of 81,000 men of which 29,000 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1896763 | 1,341,978 |
503,494 | Hydrofoils, or fins, are used to push against the water to create a normal force to provide thrust, propelling the animal through water. Sea turtles and penguins beat their paired hydrofoils to create lift. Some paired fins, such as pectoral fins on leopard sharks, can be angled at varying degrees to allow the animal t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22210655 | 503,236 |
1,859,659 | Tethering typically refers to linking mobile devices together. However, in "The Tethered Economy" by Chris Hoofnagle, Aniket Kesari, and Aaron Perzanowski, the authors refer to tethering as the connection and dependence of goods on sellers for their operation. Examples of tethered devices include Google Home, Amazon Al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39339462 | 1,858,591 |
1,799,187 | PLFAs are an essential structural component of all microbial cellular membranes. PLFA analysis is a technique widely used for estimation of the total biomass and to observe broad changes in the community composition of the living microbiota of soil and aqueous environments. There has been a surge of interest in PLFAs i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19338927 | 1,798,178 |
1,134,606 | David Edward Hughes (16 May 1830 – 22 January 1900), was a British-American inventor, practical experimenter, and professor of music known for his work on the printing telegraph and the microphone. He is generally considered to have been born in London but his family moved around that time so he may have been born in C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=862429 | 1,134,013 |
499,183 | Like other ankylosaurs, "Antarctopelta oliveroi" was a stocky, herbivorous quadruped protected by armor plates embedded in the skin. Although a complete skeleton has not been found, the species is estimated to have reached a maximum length of 4 meters (13 ft) from snout to tail tip. In 2010 Gregory Paul gave a higher e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4583327 | 498,926 |
174,209 | AlphaFold has been used to predict structures of proteins of SARS-CoV-2, the causative agent of COVID-19. The structures of these proteins were pending experimental detection in early 2020. Results were examined by the scientists at the Francis Crick Institute in the United Kingdom before release into the larger resear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59766171 | 174,118 |
1,178,944 | Electronic design automation (EDA) software tools had a major impact on delivery and success of many modern electronic device and products. As the integration of seminconductor and emergance of the VLSI devices grew over the years it became impossible to keep up with pace (see also Moore's law) without using specialize... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29432015 | 1,178,320 |
341,316 | In 2006, Weems defended his 2003 assessment of "Eubrontes", and proposed an animal like "Dilophosaurus" as the possible trackmaker of numerous "Kayentapus" trackways of the Culpeper Quarry in Virginia. Weems suggested rounded impressions associated with some of these trackways to represent hand impressions lacking digi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444541 | 341,135 |
529,911 | BC got back to the National Championship game in 2008, disposing of Minnesota, Miami (OH), and North Dakota in the Frozen Four semifinals along the way. The 2008 Tournament marked the third year in a row that the Eagles ending Miami's season, beating the top seeded Red Hawks 4–3 in overtime thanks to an acrobatic goal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18880361 | 529,637 |
1,245,661 | Heavy metals are high-density metallic compounds which are poisonous to plants at low concentrations, although toxicity depends on plant species, specific metal and its chemical form, and soil properties. The most relevant heavy metals contributing to phytotoxicity in crops are silver (Ag), arsenic (As), cadmium (Cd), ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6612910 | 1,244,986 |
1,370,622 | The Katyusha rocket launchers were top secret in the beginning of World War II, however only forty launchers had been built. A special unit of the NKVD troops was raised to operate them. On July 14, 1941, an experimental artillery battery of seven launchers was first used in battle at Rudnya in Smolensk Oblast of Russi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49664317 | 1,369,866 |
710,078 | Development of the T-50 started as the SP project ("Soprovzhdeniya Pekhoty", 'Infantry Support') in 1939 at the OKMO design bureau in the S.M. Kirov Factory Number 185 in Leningrad, under the direction of, and headed by, L. Troyanov and I. Bushnevov, to create a light tank replacement for the T-26 and BT tanks. Initial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3373106 | 709,707 |
1,875,834 | Each player's criminal actions, once reported through the Continoma SVS Network will affect the behavior of every guard the player encounters. There will be cases when despite guard activity, the actions do not get reported island-wide. For the most prosecuted player killers that means that their life in a sizable port... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16111059 | 1,874,757 |
1,560,875 | Bernstein's second Mahler cycle recorded for Deutsche Grammophon took advantage of the newly developed digital recording technologies of the 1980s. The new cycle also involved recordings by orchestras closely linked to Mahler's compositional and conductorial output, including the New York Philharmonic, the Vienna Philh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20430828 | 1,559,989 |
1,028,457 | The new model was flown for the first time on 1 February 1945. Without the need for the heavy coolant radiator and other fittings required for a liquid-cooled engine, the Ki-100 was lighter than the Ki-61-II, reducing the wing loading from 189 kg/m (38.8 lb/ft) to 175 kg/m (35.8 lb/ft). This had a positive effect on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=839172 | 1,027,923 |
1,683,451 | Scalpels were tools made of a steel blade and a bronze handle. The bronze handle could be round, square, horizontal, or trapezoidal. Some scalpels had handles made of copper alloys with grips, dissectors, and an iron blade. This design was used to maximize efficiency. A slot was placed at one of the ends to connect to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70734376 | 1,682,508 |
1,458,184 | After the war, Doll returned to St Thomas's to research asthma. In 1948 he joined a research team under Dr Francis Avery-Jones at the Central Middlesex Hospital, run under the auspices of the statistical research unit of the Medical Research Council. Over a 21-year career in the unit, Doll rose to become its director. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1116776 | 1,457,364 |
1,336,566 | Given the wide area that the many serotonergic neurons innervate, these pathways are implicated in many functions, as listed above. The caudal serotonergic nuclei heavily innervate the spinal cord, medulla and cerebellum. In general, manipulation of the caudal nuclei(e.g. pharmacological, lesion, receptor knockout) tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24918224 | 1,335,836 |
1,732,502 | BH4 is a compound that helps convert several amino acids, including phenylalanine, to other essential molecules in the body. It is also involved in the production of serotonin, dopamine, epinephrine, and norepinephrine – neurotransmitters that transmit signals between nerve cells in the brain. THB deficiency can be cau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3407595 | 1,731,526 |
1,782,679 | The Medical Cadet Corp (MCC) is a program of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (Adventist church) started in the 1930s in the United States with the intention of preparing young men of draft age for military service in noncombatant roles. The training included drill, first aid, military courtesies, organization of medic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9672275 | 1,781,675 |
337,047 | Sukhoi Su-30MKI has electronic counter-measure systems. The RWR system is of Indian design, developed by India's DRDO, called "Tarang", ("Wave" in English). It has direction finding capability and is known to have a programmable threat library. The RWR is derived from work done on an earlier system for India's MiG-23BN... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3793034 | 336,868 |
926,943 | In 1821 Jacobi went to study at Berlin University, where he initially divided his attention between his passions for philology and mathematics. In philology he participated in the seminars of Böckh, drawing the professor's attention with his talent. Jacobi did not follow a lot of mathematics classes at the University, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=210340 | 926,456 |
900,084 | Dr. Cushing began his career in private practice in Baltimore. During his time with Kocher, he first encountered the Cushing reflex, which describes the relationship between blood pressure and intracranial pressure. At the age of 32, he was made associate professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital, and was placed i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=267165 | 899,609 |
663,736 | "Cretoxyrhina" represents one of the earliest forms and possible origins of endothermy in mackerel sharks. Possessing regional endothermy (also known as mesothermy), it may have possessed a build similar to modern regionally endothermic sharks like members of the thresher shark and lamnid families, where red muscles ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1092359 | 663,390 |
514,898 | The 2008 video game "Left 4 Dead" uses an artificial intelligence technology dubbed "The AI Director". The AI Director is used to procedurally generate a different experience for the players each time the game is played. It monitors individual players' performance and how well they work together as a group to pace the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22006984 | 514,632 |
1,028,454 | In mid-1944, the Ki-61 was one of the best fighters of the Imperial Japanese Army Air Service. It was also the only production Japanese fighter to have an inline powerplant, the V-12 Kawasaki Ha-40, a Japanese adaptation of the German Daimler-Benz DB 601 engine, as well as one of the first with factory-installed armor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=839172 | 1,027,920 |
1,784,196 | Color normalization has been used for object recognition on color images in the field of robotics, bioinformatics and general artificial intelligence, when it is important to remove all intensity values from the image while preserving color values. One example is in case of a scene shot by a surveillance camera over th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35026656 | 1,783,192 |
406,462 | Because the aviation industry is especially sensitive to the weather, accurate weather forecasting is essential. Fog or exceptionally low ceilings can prevent many aircraft from landing and taking off. Turbulence and icing are also significant in-flight hazards. Thunderstorms are a problem for all aircraft because of s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=73231 | 406,261 |
1,063,199 | Traditional rice cultivation is the second biggest agricultural methane source after livestock, with a near-term warming impact equivalent to the carbon-dioxide emissions from all aviation. Government involvement in agricultural policy is limited due to high demand for agricultural products like corn, wheat, and milk. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61503585 | 1,062,645 |
1,025,492 | The late 1950s to the early 1970s was a period of intense research and institutional expansion for molecular biology, which had only recently become a somewhat coherent discipline. In what organismic biologist E. O. Wilson called "The Molecular Wars", the methods and practitioners of molecular biology spread rapidly, o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322460 | 1,024,959 |
1,596,301 | In 2010, Hugo Duminil-Copin and Stanislav Smirnov published the first rigorous proof of the fact that formula_16 for the hexagonal lattice. This had been conjectured by Nienhuis in 1982 as part of a larger study of O("n") models using renormalization techniques. The rigorous proof of this fact came from a program of ap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36246682 | 1,595,402 |
1,596,570 | His taste for mechanics was about this time accidentally awakened on seeing his father making use of a lever to raise a part of the roof of his house — an exhibition of strength which excited his wonder. In 1720 he was sent to a neighboring farm to keep sheep, where he amused himself by making models of machines, and a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2000367 | 1,595,671 |
503,289 | Climate change will have varying effects on Thai crops. Heavy rain may damage the roots of cassava plants in the north, while a decrease in rain might damage cane sugar and rice in the central region. Temperature and quality changes of water might lead to a reduction in the viability of livestock due to heat stress, su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3467679 | 503,031 |
1,551,214 | Castillo-Chavez was the founder of the Applied Mathematics in the Life and Social Sciences Degrees (2008) Ph.D. programs. and BS The Ph.D. program at Arizona State University aims to produce "a new generation of scientists with an understanding of global issues and vigorous training in quantitative theory and methods. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15989869 | 1,550,333 |
729,823 | In 1826, the British astronomer John Herschel, who was working on a book-length article on light for the "Encyclopædia Metropolitana", addressed three questions to Fresnel concerning double refraction, partial reflection, and their relation to polarization. The resulting article, titled simply "Light", was highly sympa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1141 | 729,439 |
1,031,772 | The goal of the pilot phase was to identify a set of procedures that, in combination, could be applied cost-effectively and at high-throughput to accurately and comprehensively characterize large regions of the human genome. The pilot phase had to reveal gaps in the current set of tools for detecting functional sequenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2140955 | 1,031,236 |
1,918,003 | The "cycle" gene found in "Drosophila melanogaster" has many orthologs among eukaryotes including other members of the genus "Drosophila", mosquitoes, various non-dipteran insects, non insect arthropods, humans, and other mammals. In other members of "Drosophila", functional orthologs of the "D." melanogaster "cycle" g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39042642 | 1,916,903 |
1,265,365 | This position is not yet entirely understood. It is believed that the chain, formed over millions of years by the now-inactive Cobb hotspot, is older than the mid-ocean ridge it bisects. Between 200,000 and 700,000 years ago, the hotspot was encroached by the tectonic spreading center, displacing it by as much as and b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12730246 | 1,264,677 |
281,991 | The system is highly adaptable because of two factors. First, somatic hypermutation is a process of accelerated random genetic mutations in the antibody-coding genes, which allows antibodies with novel specificity to be created. Second, V(D)J recombination randomly selects one variable (V), one diversity (D), and one j... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1664060 | 281,838 |
1,071,723 | As technologies are deployed to improve global information access, the role of education will continue to grow and change. Education is viewed as a basic human right. For a society where reading and counting are a requisite for daily living, skills in reading, writing, and basic arithmetic are critical for future learn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39845988 | 1,071,169 |
514,705 | The first version of Direct3D in 1996 elicited broad criticism because even simple operations, such as state changes, required creating and submitting objects called "execute buffers". In contrast, in OpenGL most state changes can be performed with one function call. The Direct3D model frustrated many programmers. A ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=793319 | 514,439 |
312,042 | The Weierstrass function has historically served the role of a pathological function, being the first published example (1872) specifically concocted to challenge the notion that every continuous function is differentiable except on a set of isolated points. Weierstrass's demonstration that continuity did not imply alm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444091 | 311,874 |
1,543,543 | Together with Eva Jablonka, Kevin Laland, Alex Mesoudi, Stuart Newman, Massimo Pigliucci, Kim Sterelny, John Odling-Smee, Tobias Uller, as well as Denis Noble and others, Gerd Müller is an advocate of an alternative evolutionary framework, one version of which has been termed the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis (EES). ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21795432 | 1,542,670 |
2,170,122 | Over the course of his career, Clark delivered several named lectures and received multiple awards. In 1969, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry. In 1989, he was granted honorary fellowship by the Royal Society of New Zealand. He became a fellow of the Royal Society of London and member of the Aca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59402449 | 2,168,884 |
1,527,762 | The Royal Malaysian Navy originated from the Straits Settlement Volunteer Reserve Force formed on 27 April 1934 in Singapore. The formation of a Penang branch in 1938 saw its expansion. When the Second World War broke out in 1939, Britain strengthened its Naval Force in Southeast Asia by forming a unit called the "Mala... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11623663 | 1,526,898 |
870,466 | Given a slower access medium such as CD-ROM or floppy disk, video could be played back at up to 12.5 frames per second, with up to 25 frames per second from a hard disk. One 800 KB floppy disk could reportedly hold 12 seconds of video. In the introductory phase of the technology, support for Replay files was quickly in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 870,006 |
828,649 | Metabolomics is the scientific study of chemical processes involving metabolites, the small molecule substrates, intermediates, and products of cell metabolism. Specifically, metabolomics is the "systematic study of the unique chemical fingerprints that specific cellular processes leave behind", the study of their smal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1029211 | 828,203 |
225,442 | Merton's work is often compared to that of Talcott Parsons. Merton enrolled in Parsons' theory course while at Harvard, admiring Parsons' work because it introduced him to European methods of theory, while also broadening his own ideas about sociology. However, unlike Parsons, who emphasized the necessity for social sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230600 | 225,326 |
28,382 | Evans, Carman, and Thorndike published a solution with significant differences from Wright's. Their proposal centred on what they observed as irregular spacing of the inscriptions on the front dial face, which to them seemed to indicate an off-centre sun indicator arrangement; this would simplify the mechanism by remov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89732 | 28,372 |
1,424,057 | The International Space Station (ISS) External Active Thermal Control System (EATCS) maintains an equilibrium when the ISS environment or heat loads exceed the capabilities of the Passive Thermal Control System (PTCS). Note Elements of the PTCS are external surface materials, insulation such as Multi-Layer Insulation (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32751273 | 1,423,255 |
1,938,334 | This disease was first described in 2014. In 2017 a group led by Dr. Jonathan Miner generated the first mouse model of SAVI. Dr. Miner's research team used CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing to introduce a mutation into the mouse STING gene ("STING1") that was analogous to a human SAVI-associated mutation. These mice, known as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60038512 | 1,937,224 |
573,857 | On 26 July 1778, Joseph married Claudine Boichon. She was a middle-class widow from Lyon who owned property and had a substantial dowry. However, Joseph soon fell deeply into debt and was brought to court. Barlow claims that after Jacquard's father died, Jacquard started a figure-weaving business but failed and lost al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=142918 | 573,563 |
1,955,896 | The building of the Faculty of Science was inaugurated in 1951 and it was decided that instead of having different departments of science in each faculty, all basic science disciplines would be located in the Faculty of Science. In 1952, the field of physics and chemistry was divided into two independent fields of phys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65741492 | 1,954,774 |
228,308 | Ocular (or ophthalmic) OCT is used heavily by ophthalmologists and optometrists to obtain high-resolution images of the retina and anterior segment. Owing to OCT's capability to show cross-sections of tissue layers with micrometer resolution, OCT provides a straightforward method of assessing cellular organization, pho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=628583 | 228,191 |
1,633,466 | Electrochemotherapy employs lower dosages of chemotherapeutic drugs than standard chemotherapy protocols; thus, the patient's burden usually associated to chemotherapy is not present. In the clinical use of electrochemotherapy, limited side effects related to bleomycin or cisplatin use are recorded. Provided that appro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15081764 | 1,632,543 |
953,379 | The mainstream book companies' large print runs and distribution networks lowered prices and increased availability, but displaced the small publishers; Algis Budrys later said that "they themselves would draw little but disaster" from the science fiction boom of the 1950s they helped to begin. While book sales continu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3387802 | 952,874 |
1,425,502 | Between roughly 19ka, the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (or LGM) to 11ka, which was the early Holocene, the climate system experienced drastic transformation. Much of this change was occurring at an astonishing rate, as the earth was dealing with the end of the last ice age. Changes in insolation was the principal re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32428639 | 1,424,700 |
1,042,831 | The term “stock of knowledge” was coined by Schütz. This concept is vital to phenomenological sociologists and their claim that social reality is intersubjective. While phenomenologists tend to focus on establishing the structures of “intentional consciousness,” as Husserl calls it, proponents of phenomenological socio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13891422 | 1,042,288 |
863,819 | Building on the innovative work of James Hutton and his follower John Playfair, Lyell favoured an indefinitely long age for the earth, despite evidence suggesting an old but finite age. He was a close friend of Charles Darwin, and contributed significantly to Darwin's thinking on the processes involved in evolution. As... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7472 | 863,359 |
1,559,193 | On Saturday, 1 February 2014, Flemish public news agency VRT reported that about 6 months earlier, Quisquater's personal computer had been hacked. Since the same hacking technique was used at Belgium's public/private telecom provider Belgacom, VRT makes links to the NSA hacking scandal. Still according to VRT, a week b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2220831 | 1,558,307 |
973,657 | In 2009, Eurojet entered a bid, in competition with General Electric's F414, to supply a thrust vectoring variant of the EJ200 to power the HAL Tejas Mk2 after both the indigenous Kaveri engine and the General Electric F404 used in prototypes and early production models proved to have insufficient performance. After ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=570416 | 973,147 |
770,789 | Sarcopenia is emerging as a major public health concern given the increased longevity of industrialized populations and growing geriatric population. Sarcopenia is a predictor of many adverse outcomes including increased disability, falls and mortality. Immobility or bed rest in populations predisposed to sarcopenia ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3108990 | 770,375 |
1,266,878 | The optimum pH for cathepsin D in vitro is 4.5-5.0. Cathepsin-D is an aspartic protease that depends critically on protonation of its active site Asp residue. Along with Asp-protonation, lower pH also leads to conformational switch in cathepsin-D : the N-terminal segment of the protease moves out of the active site as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14722632 | 1,266,188 |
781,554 | Karl Pearson was important in the founding of the school of biometrics, which was a competing theory to describe evolution and population inheritance at the turn of the 20th century. His series of eighteen papers, "Mathematical Contributions to the Theory of Evolution" established him as the founder of the biometrical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=164695 | 781,136 |
343,223 | A dry workshop simplified plans for the interior of the station. Industrial design firm Raymond Loewy/William Snaith recommended emphasizing habitability and comfort for the astronauts by providing a wardroom for meals and relaxation and a window to view Earth and space, although astronauts were dubious about the desig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29441 | 343,042 |
1,109,885 | A surprisingly high amount of cells in salt brines around the world are "Haloquadratum walsbyi." Up to 80% of the cells in the brines can be identified as "Haloquadratum walsbyi." Experiments have been done to examine the genetic diversity in the salt brine environment. Seven different types of "H. walsbyi's" genomic i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41584636 | 1,109,320 |
1,225,716 | Because the methods of vestibular rehabilitation therapy differ for different disorders, the form of vestibular dysfunction, ability level, and history of symptoms, each patient must be carefully assessed in order to diagnose vestibular dysfunction and to choose the correct exercises for treatment. In some cases, vesti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58426250 | 1,225,056 |
758,633 | The responsibility for missionary work fell on the missionaries themselves for the most part. While the U.S. government provided some funding for missionary work, such as Native American Missionary Schools, the missionaries themselves were primarily responsible for running these schools. The scholar Kyle Massey Stephen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9083795 | 758,227 |
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