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356,890 | An OI diagnosis can be confirmed through DNA or collagen protein analysis, but in many cases, the occurrence of bone fractures with little trauma and the presence of other clinical features such as blue sclerae are sufficient for a diagnosis. A skin biopsy can be performed to determine the structure and quantity of typ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=891521 | 356,704 |
231,347 | Undernourishment, or hunger, according to the FAO, is dietary intake below the minimum daily energy requirement. The amount of undernourishment is calculated utilizing the average amount of food available for consumption, the size of the population, the relative disparities in access to the food, and the minimum calori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93827 | 231,228 |
1,648,076 | After World War I, sheet music publishers—namely those from Tin Pan Alley—experienced unprecedented growth that was fueled for the next three decades by composers, technological advancements—and also market saturation owed partly to higher quality of recorded sound, radio, and film. The boom was so great that even some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25147374 | 1,647,144 |
352,500 | MAHLI is a camera on the rover's robotic arm, and acquires microscopic images of rock and soil. MAHLI can take true-color images at 1600×1200 pixels with a resolution as high as 14.5 µm per pixel. MAHLI has an focal length and a 33.8–38.5° field of view. MAHLI has both white and ultraviolet Light-emitting diode (LED) i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36645032 | 352,317 |
1,689,545 | In 1954, Bothe was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the coincidence method and his discoveries made therewith" for a method of assessing coincident events he implemented prior to 1924. However, his implementation of this method was very cumbersome, for it involved visual correlation of photographed pulses. Withi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=520727 | 1,688,599 |
35,607 | Merlin Entertainments operates eight Legoland amusement parks, the original in Billund, Denmark, the second in Windsor, England, the third in Günzburg, Germany, the fourth in Carlsbad, California, the fifth in Winter Haven, Florida, the sixth in Iskandar Puteri, Malaysia, the seventh in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18362 | 35,595 |
2,170,708 | The Nanga Parbat-Haramosh is the most studied region in the context of tectonic aneurysms. The region has extreme relief over very short distances with the Indus River valley approximately 7 kilometers lower in elevation than the peak of the mountain. Within the study area, Biotite cooling ages (280 °C ± 40 °C) are con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33737566 | 2,169,470 |
1,238,896 | The inclusion of procedural content tools allowed for the creation of realistic environments at much faster rates than was the case with "Morrowind". Using Interactive Data Visualization, Inc. (IDV)'s SpeedTree technology, for example, Bethesda artists were able to "quickly generate complex and organic tree shapes with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12164267 | 1,238,229 |
1,255,618 | As a result of incomplete information, there may be multiple competing distributions to model the random variables of interest. An effective approach is developed by Cai et al. (2009), to tackle this problem, based on Bayesian information update. It identifies each competing distribution by a realization of a random va... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56682148 | 1,254,935 |
739,861 | The desired shape may be built from a multi-layered construction of mesh, supported by an armature, or grid, built with rebar and tied with wire. For optimum performance, steel should be rust-treated, (galvanized) or stainless steel. Over this finished framework, an appropriate mixture (grout or mortar) of Portland cem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1443370 | 739,469 |
25,765 | Spinal polio, the most common form of paralytic poliomyelitis, results from viral invasion of the motor neurons of the anterior horn cells, or the ventral (front) grey matter section in the spinal column, which are responsible for movement of the muscles, including those of the trunk, limbs, and the intercostal muscles... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25107 | 25,756 |
502,619 | A 1980 Norton Critical Edition of "The Double Helix" edited by Gunther Stent, analyzed the events surrounding its initial publication. It presents a selection of both positive and negative reviews of the book, by such figures as Philip Morrison, Richard Lewontin, Alex Comfort, Jacob Bronowski, and more in-depth analyse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=922489 | 502,361 |
949,736 | The dog genome compared to the wolf genome shows signs of having undergone positive selection, these include genes relating to brain function and behavior, and to lipid metabolism. This ability to process lipids indicates a dietary target of selection that was important when proto-dogs hunted and fed alongside hunter-g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5141410 | 949,232 |
486,767 | Mischel was born on February 22, 1930 in Vienna, Austria, to Salomon Mischel and the former Lola Leah Schreck. He was the brother of Theodore Mischel, who became an American philosopher. When he was 8 years old his Jewish family fled with him to the United States after the Nazi occupation in 1938. He grew up in Brookly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4392099 | 486,518 |
10,048 | Cominco had produced electrolytic hydrogen at Trail, British Columbia, since 1930. Urey suggested in 1941 that it could produce heavy water. To the existing $10 million plant consisting of 3,215 cells consuming 75 MW of hydroelectric power, secondary electrolysis cells were added to increase the deuterium concentration... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19603 | 10,044 |
1,133,303 | 1985 marked Williams' second full season with Honda turbo power. had been difficult, as the FW09 struggled to cope with the enormous power and brutal torque curve, leading to handling problems which afflicted drivers Keke Rosberg and Jacques Laffite throughout the season. Technical director Patrick Head thus decided to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11850732 | 1,132,710 |
1,181,472 | The hardware of the ALICE DAQ system is largely based on commodity components: PC's running Linux and standard Ethernet switches for the eventbuilding network. The required performances are achieved by the interconnection of hundreds of these PC's into a large DAQ fabric. The software framework of the ALICE DAQ is call... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2575969 | 1,180,848 |
27,220 | Phylogenetic trees are the basis for comparing and grouping different species. Different species that share a feature inherited from a common ancestor are described as having homologous features (or synapomorphy). Homologous features may be any heritable traits such as DNA sequence, protein structures, anatomical featu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9127632 | 27,210 |
380,143 | The flowers are mostly dioecious (rarely monoecious) and appear in early spring before the leaves. They are borne in long, drooping, sessile or pedunculate catkins produced from buds formed in the axils of the leaves from the previous year. The flowers are each seated in a cup-shaped disk which is borne on the base of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=94248 | 379,948 |
1,092,489 | Considering institution funding, it varies dramatically among different universities. In order to adapt to the fierce global competition in education, the Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China initiated Project 211 in mid 1990s aimed at strengthening about 100 institutions of higher education and key ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10789112 | 1,091,929 |
14,263 | Reduction in the activity of the cholinergic neurons is a well-known feature of Alzheimer's disease. Acetylcholinesterase inhibitors are employed to reduce the rate at which acetylcholine (ACh) is broken down, thereby increasing the concentration of ACh in the brain and combating the loss of ACh caused by the death of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18914017 | 14,258 |
102,225 | Some devices require an additional flow control signal from slave to master, indicating when data is ready. This leads to a 5-wire protocol instead of the usual 4. Such a "ready" or "enable" signal is often active-low, and needs to be enabled at key points such as after commands or between words. Without such a signal,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=340476 | 102,180 |
341,352 | Fuller was awarded 28 United States patents and many honorary doctorates. In 1960, he was awarded the Frank P. Brown Medal from The Franklin Institute. He was elected an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1967, on the occasion of the 50-year reunion of his Harvard class of 1917 (from which he was expelled in his firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4031 | 341,171 |
1,195,139 | In 1985, four young space enthusiasts created the Space Generation Foundation, dedicated to fostering a sense of identity for those people born since the beginning of the space era. The ISU founders are Peter Diamandis, one of the founders of SEDS and a medical doctor with a Master's in aerospace engineering from MIT; ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1077821 | 1,194,499 |
777,106 | In July 2013, the results of a joint study involving scientists from University of Oxford, the University of Vienna and the Max Planck Institute, again involving the Tanimbar corellas of the Vienna Goffin Lab, were announced. It was discovered that the birds possessed the ability to solve complex mechanical problems, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15704241 | 776,690 |
756,796 | When the motor nerve is stimulated there is a delay of only 0.5 to 0.8 msec between the arrival of the nerve impulse in the motor nerve terminals and the first response of the endplate The arrival of the motor nerve action potential at the presynaptic neuron terminal opens voltage-dependent calcium channels and Ca ions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=681908 | 756,393 |
504,623 | By 1948, Haloid realized that it would have to make a public announcement about electrophotography in order to retain its claims to the technology. However, the term "electrophotography" troubled Haloid; for one thing, its use of the term "photography" invited unwelcome comparisons with traditional duplicating technolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=358498 | 504,361 |
272,683 | The disease is found across much of Asia, and in the Middle East. Within Afghanistan, leishmaniasis occurs commonly in Kabul, partly due to bad sanitation and waste left uncollected in streets, allowing parasite-spreading sand flies an environment they find favorable. In Kabul, the number of people infected was estimat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=198491 | 272,535 |
1,758,457 | In the early 1920s, a key policy of newly established Soviet Belarus was the advancement of science, aimed at accelerating the technological, economic and social development of the republic and resolving a broad range of regional issues. The idea of creating a Belarusian academic and research institution was discusse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3092513 | 1,757,464 |
1,099,291 | Interest in hydropower in the UK rose in the early 2010s due to UK and EU targets for reductions in carbon emissions and the promotion of renewable energy power generation through commercial incentives such as the Renewable Obligation Certificate scheme (ROCs) and feed-in tariffs (FITs). Before such schemes, studies to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35207732 | 1,098,731 |
651,143 | Spring is a time of major transition in Minnesota. As winter nears its end, the sun rises higher in the sky and temperatures begin to moderate. As this happens much of the Midwest starts to experience severe thunderstorms and tornadoes. Storm systems that move inland from the Pacific begin to collide with the increasin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7762235 | 650,801 |
526,024 | 3′-UTR mutations can be very consequential because one alteration can be responsible for the altered expression of many genes. Transcriptionally, a mutation may affect only the allele and genes that are physically linked. However, since 3′-UTR binding proteins also function in the processing and nuclear export of mRNA,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=345919 | 525,751 |
207,580 | Higher education has also served as a source for professional credentials, as a vehicle for social mobility, and as a social sorter. The college functions as a 'status marker', "signaling membership in the educated class, and a place to meet spouses of similar status". Especially among students who move away from their... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3189597 | 207,473 |
2,177,893 | In the twentieth century the dominant type of electric motor was an induction motor using tightly wound copper wire coils to generate the necessary internal magnetic fields. More recently, and in part spurred on by the growth in battery electric vehicles, there has been much innovation in permanent magnet motors. These... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70046013 | 2,176,648 |
615,102 | Inoculation theory is especially useful with an audience who already has an opinion on a brand. It is the perfect way to convince already faithful customers that they are making the right choice in trusting your company and to keep the customer coming back in the future, and particularly to protect commercial brands ag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18546373 | 614,788 |
1,136,921 | In the second semifinal, Louisville defeated Pittsburgh 3–2. The teams, who are both in the ACC conference, handed each other its only conference loss of the season, as they both went 17–1 in conference play to claim a share of the title. Both teams were making their second straight (and second overall in school histor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69193052 | 1,136,328 |
124,894 | In Belgium, a 15th-century church in Ostend burned down in 1896. King Leopold II funded its replacement, the Saint Peter's and Saint Paul's Church, a cathedral-scale design which drew inspiration from the neo-Gothic Votive Church in Vienna and Cologne Cathedral. In Mechelen, the largely unfinished building drawn in 152... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=311821 | 124,842 |
1,401,799 | The team's ascent over the east face of Kabru is less readily dismissed. Although their report of views of Mount Everest from the top appears convincing, Graham's description of the ascent was also vague, and this, coupled with the speed of their claimed ascent and his failure to report significant effects of altitude ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19219339 | 1,401,012 |
1,760,965 | In a 2013 interview, Perkins claimed that the 1988 Tooheys 1000 was "the one that got away", claiming that Walkinshaw had disobeyed orders regarding gear changes and engine revs which caused the cars failure on lap 137. However, had Perkins gone on to win the race, the No. 10 cars ultimate disqualification would have b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6922736 | 1,759,972 |
1,668,339 | The England team flew back to the United Kingdom in economy class; Mitchell highlighted the contrast with the England men's team, who regularly flew business class. They held a reception at Lord's in London upon their return, but the former sports minister, Richard Caborn, lamented the low-key celebrations, saying that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35365727 | 1,667,400 |
330,044 | By this time, the apparent position of Ceres had changed (mostly due to Earth's motion around the Sun), and was too close to the Sun's glare for other astronomers to confirm Piazzi's observations. Toward the end of the year, Ceres should have been visible again, but after such a long time it was difficult to predict it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=791 | 329,869 |
361,550 | IGN cites "Herzog Zwei", released for the Sega Mega Drive/Genesis home console in 1989 as "arguably the first RTS game ever", and it is often cited as "the first real-time strategy game" according to "Ars Technica". It combines traditional strategy gameplay with fully real-time, fast-paced, arcade-style action gameplay... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77251 | 361,360 |
1,105,943 | Dialysis occurs throughout nature and the principles of dialysis have been exploited by humans for thousands of years using natural animal or plant-based membranes. The term dialysis was first routinely used for scientific or medical purposes in the late 1800s and early 1900s, pioneered by the work of Thomas Graham. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1699596 | 1,105,380 |
1,156,400 | A Wigner crystal is the solid (crystalline) phase of electrons first predicted by Eugene Wigner in 1934. A gas of electrons moving in a uniform, inert, neutralizing background (i.e. Jellium Model) will crystallize and form a lattice if the electron density is less than a critical value. This is because the potential en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3707854 | 1,155,790 |
33,247 | Whether the extinction occurred gradually or suddenly has been debated, as both views have support from the fossil record. A study of 29 fossil sites in Catalan Pyrenees of Europe in 2010 supports the view that dinosaurs there had great diversity until the asteroid impact, with more than 100 living species. More recent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44503418 | 33,235 |
81,779 | To obtain a vertical refresh rate higher than 40Hz with DVI, this resolution requires dual-link DVI cables and devices. To avoid cable problems monitors are sometimes shipped with an appropriate dual link cable already plugged in. Many video cards support this resolution. One feature that is currently unique to the 30-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28385304 | 81,746 |
199,148 | In his later years, Parsons became increasingly interested in working out the higher conceptual parameters of the human condition, which was in part what led him toward rethinking questions of cultural and social evolution and the "nature" of telic systems, the latter which he especially discussed with Bellah, Lidz, Fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54041 | 199,045 |
689,439 | The parameters formula_4 are estimated by solving formula_8 and are typically obtained via the Newton–Raphson algorithm. The variance structure is chosen to improve the efficiency of the parameter estimates. The Hessian of the solution to the GEEs in the parameter space can be used to calculate robust standard error es... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16794199 | 689,077 |
546,287 | The Australian Army's pre-war doctrine was focused on conventional warfare in a European environment. This doctrine and the supporting training manuals were common to those of all Commonwealth countries. Following the outbreak of war the Army continued to focus on preparing its units to fight in Europe and North Africa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22738876 | 546,001 |
1,792,079 | The PowerQUICC III processors are based on a 32-bit Power ISA v.2.03 core called e500, introduced in 2003. It has a dual issue, seven-stage pipeline with double precision FPUs, 32/32 KiB data and instruction L1 caches, multiple Gigabit Ethernet, PCI and PCIe, RapidIO, DDR/DDR2 memory controllers, and security accelerat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6606053 | 1,791,072 |
1,255,763 | The Energy Policy Act of 1992 had a provision under Section 801, which directed the EPA to promulgate radiation protection standards for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada. The Yucca Mountain site was then designated by the federal government to serve as the permanent disposal site for used nuclear f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31284652 | 1,255,079 |
1,372,641 | Rudin's text was the first modern English text on classical real analysis, and its organization of topics have been frequently imitated. In Chapter 1, he constructs the real and complex numbers and outlines their properties. (In later editions, the Dedekind cut construction is sent to an appendix for pedagogical reason... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70241079 | 1,371,884 |
927,458 | Palermo and Catania, Sicily's largest cities, are currently connected by a double-track railway which is limited to a single-track section between Catenanuova and Bicocca (near Catania). This requires trains to stop and wait for the train from the opposite direction to pass. The first step to improving this line is dou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8869916 | 926,970 |
1,265,668 | Considering a directed graph with "n" nodes. Let formula_1 denote the fraction of nodes with degree "k" so that formula_2. Each new node has a given out-degree (namely those papers it cites) and it is fixed in the long run. This does not mean that the out-degrees can not vary across nodes, simply we assume that the mea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40947668 | 1,264,980 |
1,758,082 | Hidden PJTE, spin crossover, and magnetic-dielectric bistability. As mentioned above, there are molecular systems in which the ground state in the high-symmetry configuration is neither degenerate to trigger the JTE, nor does it interact with the low-lying excited states to produce the PJTE (e.g., because of their diff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52837586 | 1,757,089 |
497,085 | Cleavage of the bond between a deoxyribose sugar in DNA's sugar-phosphate backbone and its associated nucleobase leaves an abasic site in double stranded DNA. These abasic sites are often generated as an intermediate and then restored in base excision repair. However, if these sites are allowed to persist, they can inh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8489099 | 496,828 |
1,517,483 | For example, In 8th Harsh Environment Mass Spectrometry Workshop, a group of scientists presented their study about utilization of lightweight MS based instrumentation and small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAV platforms for in-situ volcanic plume analysis in Turrialba and Arenal volcanoes (Costa Rica). Mini mass spectrome... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45249739 | 1,516,631 |
1,938,945 | Surface-assisted laser desorption/ionization (SALDI) is a soft laser desorption technique used for mass spectrometry analysis of biomolecules, polymers, and small organic molecules. In its first embodiment Koichi Tanaka used a cobalt/glycerol liquid matrix and subsequent applications included a graphite/glycerol liquid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31771889 | 1,937,835 |
336,381 | BSE prions are misfolded forms of the particular brain protein called prion protein. When this protein is misfolded, the normal alpha-helical structure is converted into a beta sheet. The prion induces normally-folded proteins to take on the misfolded phenotype in an exponential cascade. These sheets form small chains ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19344418 | 336,203 |
643,165 | In fact, the sequence identity between animal and mirobial opsins is no greater than could be accounted for by random chance. However, in recent years new methods have been developed specific to "deep phylogeny". As a result, several studies have found evidence of a possible phylogenetic relationship between the two. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1452717 | 642,826 |
2,070,158 | The Amateur Astronomers Association of Pittsburgh, Inc. (AAAP) has promoted popular astronomy in western Pennsylvania for 75 years. With over 500 members, it is one of the larger astronomy clubs in the nation. At monthly meetings, upcoming celestial events such as meteor showers, comets, occultations, and planetary ali... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2915993 | 2,068,967 |
33,649 | The distributed computing project LHC@home was started to support the construction and calibration of the LHC. The project uses the BOINC platform, enabling anybody with an Internet connection and a computer running Mac OS X, Windows or Linux to use their computer's idle time to simulate how particles will travel in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=357353 | 33,637 |
881,617 | The clinical case series from 1935 to 1955 indicated that haemochromatosis was more common than had been acknowledged. During the 1960s, MacDonald, a pathologist at Boston City Hospital, diverted attention away from the true cause of haemochromatosis. He believed that haemochromatosis was a nutritional condition becaus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68349 | 881,153 |
557,814 | One drop of the cell suspension should then be dropped onto an ethanol cleaned slide from a distance of about 30 cm, optimally this should be carried out at room temperature at humidity levels of 60–70%. Slides should be evaluated by visualisation using a phase contrast microscope, minimal cytoplasm should be observed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=983601 | 557,525 |
908,690 | The adaptive model is based on the idea that outdoor climate influences indoor comfort because humans can adapt to different temperatures during different times of the year. The adaptive hypothesis predicts that contextual factors, such as having access to environmental controls, and past thermal history can influence ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7455643 | 908,211 |
2,024,852 | After her PhD, she joined Polytechnic University of New York as a postdoctoral research fellow in 1988 and was appointed Assistant Professor in 1989. Cohen first joined Imperial College London in 1993 funded by a Royal Society University Research Fellowship. She became a Reader in Solid State in 2003 and a Professor in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56402439 | 2,023,687 |
1,994,305 | A basic list of topics to be covered was prescribed, but it was up to the schools to develop this into a three-month instructional program. Mandatory topics included the following: advanced d-c and a-c circuit theory, electrical motors and generators, vacuum-tube characteristics, power supplies, amplifiers, oscillators... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36494078 | 1,993,162 |
41,693 | Head designed the FW07 for the season with Frank Dernie picking up the aerodynamic development and skirt design. This was the team's first ground effect car, a technology first introduced by Colin Chapman and Team Lotus. Williams also obtained membership of the Formula One Constructors' Association (FOCA) which express... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34104 | 41,678 |
268,532 | Most species grow as filamentous, microscopic structures called hyphae or as budding single cells (yeasts). Many interconnected hyphae form a thallus usually referred to as the mycelium, which—when visible to the naked eye (macroscopic)—is commonly called mold. During sexual reproduction, many Ascomycota typically prod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48981 | 268,388 |
452,641 | On 16 September 2016, Andrea Boyd, an Australian working as a flight operations engineer for the International Space Station (ISS) in Cologne, Germany, delivered an address at the Global Access Partners Summit in Parliament House, Sydney, urging Australia to grasp the commercial opportunities of the new space market an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57412860 | 452,422 |
1,078,749 | The farmer's "proper position in society" was in particular jeopardy in New England, according to leaders of the agricultural education movement. Increasing industrialization caused the population of mill towns to grow exponentially in the mid-19th century at the expense of rural towns, many of which were left all but ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=519972 | 1,078,194 |
1,720,664 | In genetics and genetic epidemiology, a phenome-wide association study, abbreviated PheWAS, is a study design in which the association between single-nucleotide polymorphisms or other types of DNA variants is tested across a large number of different phenotypes. The aim of PheWAS studies (or PheWASs) is to examine the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58635479 | 1,719,694 |
1,072,196 | Nanostructures of arbitrary, non-regular shapes are usually made using the DNA origami method. These structures consist of a long, natural virus strand as a "scaffold", which is made to fold into the desired shape by computationally designed short "staple" strands. This method has the advantages of being easy to design... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26901564 | 1,071,642 |
759,823 | Short-term exposure to microgravity causes space adaptation syndrome, self-limiting nausea caused by derangement of the vestibular system. Long-term exposure causes multiple health problems, one of the most significant being loss of bone and muscle mass. Over time these deconditioning effects can impair astronauts' per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1614102 | 759,417 |
1,397,470 | The Italian government has identified measures to increase the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency in the heating and cooling sector as outlined in the 2009 Italian National Renewable Energy Action Plan. These include an energy efficiency credits scheme which was expected to save 6 Mtoe by 2012. A 55% tax rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32847002 | 1,396,697 |
30,288 | Scientific studies on malaria made their first significant advance in 1880, when Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran—a French army doctor working in the military hospital of Constantine in Algeria—observed parasites inside the red blood cells of infected people for the first time. He, therefore, proposed that malaria is cau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20423 | 30,278 |
174,512 | The residence halls and the academic side of campus are connected with a walkway called the "Quarter Mile." Along the Quarter Mile, between the academic and residence hall side are various administration and support buildings. On the academic side of the walkway is a courtyard, known as the Infinity Quad due to a strik... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81756 | 174,421 |
1,123,628 | "U. ferox" requires high nutrient levels found in cycling forest systems such as those found in native New Zealand forest. In these environments an “A type” soil horizon of rich leaf litter and humus between 10 – 80 cm is common. This is significant as the species doesn't directly compete with other flora, this is achi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2394687 | 1,123,054 |
2,125,570 | In their first game of the Tournament, Raymar Morgan scored 16 points to help the Spartans defeat Robert Morris 77–62. In the Second round of the Tournament, Travis Walton scored a career-high 18 points to help beat USC 74–69 and advance to the Sweet Sixteen. In the Sweet Sixteen, Michigan State came back from a 36–29 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42469215 | 2,124,349 |
404,553 | Illness, though much rarer, can also cause anterograde amnesia if it causes encephalitis, which is the inflammation of brain tissue. There are several types of encephalitis: one such is herpes simplex encephalitis (HSV), which, if left untreated, can lead to neurological deterioration. How HSV gains access to the brain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=530537 | 404,353 |
1,122,974 | In 2010 Anandkumar joined University of California, Irvine, as an assistant professor. At the time, the technology industry was at the beginning of the big data revolution. Here she started working on tensor decompositions of latent variable models. She joined Microsoft Research in New England as a visiting scientist i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59602729 | 1,122,400 |
399,805 | The legal and regulatory status of GM foods varies by country, with some nations banning or restricting them, and others permitting them with widely differing degrees of regulation. Countries such as the United States, Canada, Lebanon and Egypt use "substantial equivalence" to determine if further testing is required, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216102 | 399,606 |
324,171 | RDX has a high birefringence, and the other components commonly found in C-4 are generally isotropic; this makes it possible for forensic science teams to detect trace residue on fingertips of individuals who may have recently been in contact with the compound. However, positive results are highly variable and the mass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=104020 | 323,999 |
1,384,793 | At 6:30 in the morning of December 14, 1807, a blazing fireball about two-thirds the apparent size of the moon in the sky, was seen traveling southwards by early risers in Vermont and Massachusetts. Three loud explosions were heard over the town of Weston in Fairfield County, Connecticut. Stone fragments fell in at lea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=309920 | 1,384,026 |
1,793,220 | The State Science and Technology Commission, a ministerial-level organ of the State Council, had responsibility for overseeing the work of civilian research institutes subordinate to the various industrial ministries, such as the Ministry of Electronics Industry and the Ministry of Coal Industry, or to provincial-level... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14246598 | 1,792,211 |
736,760 | Although link chains were later superseded by the steel ribbon tape (a form of tape measure), its legacy was a new statutory unit of length called the chain, equal to 66 feet (or 100 links). This unit still exists as a location identifier on British railways, as well as in some areas of America. In the United States (U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1555317 | 736,372 |
1,673,767 | The Southwest is littered with the archaeological remains of efforts by Indian societies to overcome the severe environmental challenges to agriculture throughout the region. The Ancestral Puebloan centers of Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde were abandoned in the 12th and 13th centuries CE, probably because of drought. Afte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36306301 | 1,672,825 |
1,108,150 | The high purity, moisture barrier, clarity, and sterilization compatibility of COC resins make them an excellent alternative to glass in a wide range of medical products. Breakage prevention and weight reduction are common reasons for choosing COC in these applications. COC has a very low-energy and nonreactive surface... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11487713 | 1,107,586 |
851,455 | CMC is examined and compared to other communication media through a number of aspects thought to be universal to all forms of communication, including (but not limited to) synchronicity, persistence or "recordability", and anonymity. The association of these aspects with different forms of communication varies widely. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=320498 | 851,002 |
1,278,248 | No formal diagnostic criteria exist for most SCAs, and genetic testing is the only certain diagnostic method, but clinical examination of signs and symptoms may be vital to distinguishing SCAs from non-genetic ataxias, and from other types of genetic ataxias. Clinical examination can also help distinguish between SCA t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54421246 | 1,277,555 |
2,148,955 | The late-2010s included a number of changes in the faculty, including the death of P.P Karan in 2018 after over 60 years of serving the department and university. In 2016, after serving a year as Associate Dean of International Affairs, Sue Roberts was appointed Associate Provost for Internationalization. Upon promotio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47120039 | 2,147,724 |
575,856 | Both BEA and the RAF had publicly announced their interest in the Rotodyne, the latter placing an initial order for the type. Reportedly, the larger Rotodyne Z design could be developed to accommodate up to 75 passengers and, when equipped with Rolls-Royce Tyne engines, would have a projected cruising speed of 200 knot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3968964 | 575,562 |
1,862,466 | NIAID also supports comprehensive research on other biomedical/behavioral prevention approaches, including drugs and/or vaccines that prevent mother to infant HIV transmission, including during breastfeeding, microbicides for preventing sexual transmission of HIV, interventions that reduce behaviors that expose people ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4666597 | 1,861,397 |
91,823 | After a dramatic Atlantic Ocean recovery, Shepard observed that he "didn't really feel the flight was a success until the recovery had been successfully completed. It's not the fall that hurts; it's the sudden stop." Splashdown occurred with an impact comparable to landing a jet aircraft on an aircraft carrier. A recov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63727 | 91,783 |
1,383,438 | The sequencing was carried out by an international partnership of research laboratories involving researchers from the University of Oklahoma (US), J. Craig Venter Institute (US), Genoscope (France), and Sanger Centre (UK). Partner institutions included the University of Minnesota (US), University of California-Davis (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1027042 | 1,382,671 |
730,629 | In the early 1900s scientific behaviorists such as Ivan Pavlov, John B. Watson, and B. F. Skinner began the attempt to uncover laws describing the relationship between stimuli and responses, without reference to inner mental phenomena. Instead of adopting a form of eliminativism or mental fictionalism, positions that d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9496 | 730,244 |
1,580,804 | Internet of things has been described as a "network of networks" where internal workings of one network may not be appropriate to disclose to a peer or foreign network. For example, a use case involving redundant or spare IoT devices facilitates availability and serviceability objectives, but network operations that lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47826553 | 1,579,914 |
1,273,501 | During his career, Beadle has received many honors. These include the Honorary Doctor of Science of the following Universities: Yale (1947), Nebraska (1949), Northwestern University (1952), Rutgers University (1954), Kenyon College (1955), Wesleyan University (1956), the University of Birmingham and the University of O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=767277 | 1,272,809 |
37,856 | The outer outline of specified quotas for personnel and equipment for each force that were deemed necessary to meet its tasks. Particular elements of each force's mission were also identified. The JGSDF was to defend against any ground invasion and threats to internal security, be able to deploy to any part of the nati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2785204 | 37,843 |
1,291,960 | On August 7, word arrived that U.S. Marines had landed at 5:20 that morning on Guadalcanal. Due to bad weather, the Allied expeditionary force had arrived undetected by the Japanese. Without delay, 17 Zeros of the Tainan Group escorted 27 Mitsubishi G4M Betty bombers of the 4th "Ku". in an attack on the U.S. Navy task ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6303326 | 1,291,250 |
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