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681,572 | In biology, scout bees and ants will return home to "tell" the others where food is to be found, the fact of fertility must be announced to prospective mates from the same species, and the presence of danger must be passed as a warning to others in the group. Such transmission may be chemical, auditory, visual, or tact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=515547 | 681,216 |
45,334 | The EuroHawk was officially rolled out on 8 October 2009 and its first flight took place on 29 June 2010. It underwent several months of flight testing at Edwards Air Force Base. On 21 July 2011, the first EuroHawk arrived in Manching, Germany; after which it was scheduled to receive its SIGINT sensor package and under... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37375 | 45,317 |
963,669 | "Hōshō" began the Pacific War in the Third Carrier Division assigned to the 1st Fleet under Vice Admiral Shirō Takasu. The carrier, captained by Kaoru Umetani, was tasked along with to provide air support, including scouting, anti-submarine patrols, and combat air patrol for the Combined Fleet's "Main Body" battle-line... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=494604 | 963,160 |
1,406,600 | In some cases, most notably the Si/Ge system, nanoscale dislocation-free islands can be formed during SK growth by introducing undulations into the near surface layers of the substrate. These regions of local curvature serve to elastically deform both the substrate and island, relieving accumulated strain and bringing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14552970 | 1,405,810 |
14,364 | Wassily Kandinsky (a synesthete) and Piet Mondrian (not a synesthete) both experimented with image–music congruence in their paintings. Contemporary artists with synesthesia, such as Carol Steen and Marcia Smilack (a photographer who waits until she gets a synesthetic response from what she sees and then takes the pict... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21438200 | 14,359 |
1,032,431 | It is estimated that as many as 1.6–3.8 million concussions occur in the US per year in competitive sports and recreational activities; this is a rough estimate, since as many as 50% of concussions go unreported. Concussions occur in all sports with the highest incidence in American football, ice hockey, rugby, soccer,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36306767 | 1,031,895 |
1,878,177 | Photosynthetic reaction centre genes from PSII (PsbA, PsbD) have been discovered within marine bacteriophage. Though it is widely accepted dogma that arbitrary pieces of DNA can be borne by phage between hosts (transduction), one would hardly expect to find transduced DNA within a large number of viruses. Transduction ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14596496 | 1,877,099 |
1,887,340 | The company's main product, Iluvien, is a sustained release intravitreal implant that delivers sub-microgram levels of fluocinolone acetonide for 36 months. Alimera conducted two phase 3 clinical trials for Iluvien involving 956 patients in sites across the United States, Canada, Europe and India to assess the efficacy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29701414 | 1,886,258 |
2,091,659 | One of the best studied natural pathogens of "C. elegans" is the microsporidium "Nematocida parisii", which was directly isolated from wild-caught "C. elegans". "N. parisii" is an intracellular parasite that is exclusively transmitted horizontally from one animal to another. The microsporidian spores are likely to exit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46837955 | 2,090,454 |
707,982 | A modern digital wattmeter samples the voltage and current thousands of times a second. For each sample, the voltage is multiplied by the current at the same instant; the average over at least one cycle is the real power. The real power divided by the apparent volt-amperes (VA) is the power factor. A computer circuit u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1789206 | 707,613 |
67,131 | The only structures in the vicinity were the McDonald Ranch House and its ancillary buildings, about to the southeast. Like the rest of the Alamogordo Bombing Range, it had been acquired by the government in 1942. The patented land had been condemned and grazing rights suspended. Scientists used this as a laboratory fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60033 | 67,106 |
288,485 | Only the prime minister or a designated survivor can authorise the missiles to be fired. These orders would likely be issued from the Pindar command bunker under Whitehall in central London. From there, the order would be relayed to the Commander, Task Force 345 (CTF 345) operations room at the Northwood Headquarters f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9095461 | 288,328 |
360,973 | DeepMind researchers have applied machine learning models to the sport of football, often referred to as soccer in North America, to modelling the behaviour of football players, including the goalkeeper, defenders, and strikers during different scenarios such as penalty kicks. The researchers used heat maps and cluster... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41755648 | 360,784 |
922,150 | Other notable features of Jupiter are its cyclones near the northern and southern poles of the planet. These are called circumpolar cyclones (CPCs) and they have been observed by the Juno Spacecraft using JunoCam and JIRAM. The cyclones have now been observed for about 5 years, as Juno completed 39 orbits around Jupite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30873277 | 921,664 |
2,063,226 | H6N2 is an avian influenza virus with two forms: one has a low and the other a high pathogenicity. It can cause a serious problem for poultry, and also infects ducks as well. H6N2 subtype is considered to be a non-pathogenic chicken virus, the host still unknown, but could strain from feral animals, and/or aquatic bird... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4051863 | 2,062,036 |
239,304 | Kempelen would inform the player that the Turk would use the white pieces and have the first move. Between moves the Turk kept its left arm on the cushion. The Turk could nod twice if it threatened its opponent's queen, and three times upon placing the king in check. If an opponent made an illegal move, the Turk would ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=418820 | 239,184 |
1,849,864 | Raff was an intern and assistant resident in medicine at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal (1963–65) and a resident in neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston (1965–68). He did postdoctoral research in immunology with Avrion Mitchison at the National Institute for Medical Research in Mill Hill, Lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41008630 | 1,848,806 |
1,140,916 | GRS 1915+105 or V1487 Aquilae is an X-ray binary star system which features a regular star and a black hole. It was discovered on August 15, 1992 by the WATCH all-sky monitor aboard Granat. "GRS" stands for "GRANAT source", "1915" is the right ascension (19 hours and 15 minutes) and "105" reflects the approximate decli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12949957 | 1,140,322 |
1,569,487 | A large crowd had gathered to witness the event, but it was immediately obvious that Cocking was in trouble. He had neglected to include the weight of the parachute itself in his calculations and as a result the descent was far too quick. Though rapid, the descent continued evenly for a few seconds, but then the entire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8556624 | 1,568,599 |
1,234,301 | In 2006, the Pasadena Museum of California Art mounted a one-woman show of her digital photography entitled: "Drive-by Shooting: April Greiman Digital Photography". She was also in the major group show at Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris called "Elle@Centre Pompidou". In 2007, Greiman completed her largest ever work: a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4550992 | 1,233,638 |
606,796 | The first attempt at commercializing a process for ethanol from wood was done in Germany in 1898. It involved the use of dilute acid to hydrolyze the cellulose to glucose, and was able to produce 7.6 liters of ethanol per 100 kg of wood waste ( per ton). The Germans soon developed an industrial process optimized for yi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1391016 | 606,486 |
139,930 | DRM is not without controversy. Critics of DRM contend that no evidence proves that DRM helps prevent copyright infringement, arguing that it serves only to inconvenience legitimate customers, and that DRM can stifle innovation and competition. Furthermore, works can become permanently inaccessible if the DRM scheme ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18938226 | 139,873 |
924,644 | Only the limitations of weight and materials (e.g., the strengths and melting points of materials in the turbine) reduce the efficiency at which a turbofan gas turbine converts this thermal energy into mechanical energy, for while the exhaust gases may still have available energy to be extracted, each additional stator... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=483048 | 924,158 |
1,867,822 | Taiwania 3 is one of the supercomputers made by Taiwan. and also the newest one (August, 2021). It is placed in the National Center for High-performance Computing of NARLabs. There are 50,400 cores in total with 900 nodes, using Intel Xeon Platinum 8280 2.4 GHz CPU (28 Cores/CPU) and using CentOS as Operating System. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57372665 | 1,866,746 |
1,491,619 | In 2014, Thomas organized a "non-fiction theater" roadshow bus tour to 25 cities nationwide featuring spoken word, film, art and live music performances. Sponsored by AARP's Life Reimagined, the tour targeted members of the baby boom generation and offered new approaches to growth, aging, health and wellness based on T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9595600 | 1,490,780 |
1,515,379 | The lung microbiota, is the pulmonary microbial community consisting of a complex variety of microorganisms found in the lower respiratory tract particularly on the mucous layer and the epithelial surfaces. These microorganisms include bacteria, fungi, viruses and bacteriophages. The bacterial part of the microbiota ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33032376 | 1,514,527 |
1,807,004 | In 2011 Todd Sacktor proposed a model for how de novo protein synthesis modulates plasticity. Protein Kinase M zeta (PKMzeta) is a plasticity related protein that regulates the physiological processes that underlie learning and memory in Sacktor's model. PKMzeta is an isoform of protein kinase C, which differs in that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37957946 | 1,805,985 |
724,057 | The French naval command initially intended to remain within the original displacement limits, since existing naval infrastructure prohibited vessels larger than the , and even for those 35,000-ton ships, inventive measures had to be taken to build the first two vessels. The work to improve French shipyards and harbor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7712818 | 723,677 |
1,636,085 | In biomedical engineering, it is a priority to understand the biological contributions to an overall system in order to understand how the systems may be optimized. Paul Bach y Rita was a famous believer of neuroplasticity and integrated the principles of device design in order to model what neurons were actually doing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33244792 | 1,635,160 |
1,675,414 | There were 17 athletes who made the final. The height of 1.93 proved to be the undoing for five of them, even though all of them had cleared 1.94 in qualifying the day earlier. Among the non-qualifiers were World indoor Champion Vashti Cunningham and European silver medalist Airinė Palšytė. Eight more were excised at 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45151566 | 1,674,472 |
1,191,426 | NF-κB is a transcription factor that regulates many genes involved in cell survival, growth, immune response and angiogenesis. Withaferin A inhibits NF-κB at a very low concentration by targeting the ubiquitin-mediated proteasome pathway (UPP) in endothelial cells. Scientists believe that the site at which withaferin a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33219149 | 1,190,792 |
2,072,980 | In mid-May 2008, the Davidson County Board of Commissioners agreed to subsidize the project. This included $1.8 million to go into land grading and multiple cash payments beginning in July 2009, and going through 2011. Another $127 million was raised from investors. The solar farm created 80 jobs during construction, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24743250 | 2,071,789 |
1,481,363 | The five chapters of the second part of the book, roughly half of the text and "the heart of the book", concern the application of tools from complex analysis to the generating function, in order to understand the asymptotics of the numbers of objects in a combinatorial class. In particular, for sufficiently well-behav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51136652 | 1,480,529 |
2,112,306 | Along with Division 20 and the committee on aging, Division 40 was involved in drafting APA's response to the first draft of National Framework for Alzheimer's disease (AD), a federal plan of action based on legislation passed in 2011 to reduce the burdens of AD. The response encouraged the federal government to allow ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36192906 | 2,111,091 |
503,105 | Components of the "Cupola" were initially fabricated in California, and the windows in New York in the late 1980s, but as budgets were cut, the "Cupola" was a favorite target. Several times it was fought back into the program only to be cut again as not technically required. More than once the responsibilities for fabr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=739132 | 502,847 |
1,591,209 | Miller had played for Australia in every Test match since the resumption of international cricket after World War II. A specialist batsman before the war, he emerged as a frontline fast bowler during the Victory Tests, a series of friendly games between England and Australia in 1945. He made his official Test debut aga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18325173 | 1,590,315 |
361,786 | A soft dead center is used in the headstock spindle as the work rotates with the centre. Because the centre is soft it can be trued in place before use. The included angle is 60°. Traditionally, a hard dead center is used together with suitable lubricant in the tailstock to support the workpiece. In modern practice the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=149993 | 361,596 |
1,060,828 | As of 1900, 38% of US automobiles, 33,842 cars, were powered by electricity (40% by steam, and 22% by gasoline). However, as combustion powertrains developed, they offered a superior range than electrics, and (especially after the 1908 Ford Model T, and its mass production from 1913 onwards) a much lower purchase price... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46901507 | 1,060,276 |
187,317 | The first mass-produced assault rifle, the World War II StG 44, and its preceding prototypes had iron sight lines elevated over the bore axis to extend point-blank range. The current trend for elevated sights and flatter shooting higher-velocity cartridges in assault rifles is in part due to a desire to further extend ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1061019 | 187,220 |
1,248,300 | On the other hand, more recent studies suggest that some amount of fast mapping does take place, questioning the validity of previous laboratory studies that aim to show that probabilistic learning does occur. A critique to the theory of fast mapping is how can children connect the meaning of the novel word with the no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1104562 | 1,247,624 |
628,235 | Since the discovery and crystallization of Z-DNA in 1979, the configuration has left scientists puzzled about the pathway and mechanism from the B-DNA configuration to the Z-DNA configuration. The conformational change from B-DNA to the Z-DNA structure was unknown at the atomic level, but in 2010, computer simulations ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=891696 | 627,900 |
968,732 | A large part of the early work on open educational resources was funded by universities and foundations such as the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which was the main financial supporter of open educational resources in the early years and has spent more than $110 million in the 2002 to 2010 period, of which more... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1584544 | 968,222 |
1,995,579 | Southern Georgia remained submerged by shallow seawater into the ensuing Paleogene and Neogene periods of the Cenozoic era. These seas were home to relatively small coral reefs. During the Paleocene, Georgia was home to foraminiferans, mollusks, and sea urchins. The mollusks were preserved as casts and the urchins left... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37798993 | 1,994,436 |
1,885,010 | The species is nocturnal and spends the day in a hiding place. It only feeds when the water conditions are optimal. When the current is too strong it keeps its arms folded up but at moderate current speed it climbs to an elevated position and spreads its arms wide. The arms are much branched and the mesh size is small,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2671113 | 1,883,929 |
1,825,279 | This Congressionally mandated group was formed in November 1978, by Public Law 95-622, succeeding the National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research. It was created to study bio-ethical issues such as the effects of income and residence on the availability of healthcare, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30583898 | 1,824,241 |
312,708 | Most recently, Sabine Hyland claims to have made the first phonetic decipherment of a "quipu," challenging the assumption that "quipus" do not represent information phonetically. After being contacted by local woman Meche Moreyra Orozco, the head of the Association of Collatinos in Lima, Hyland was granted access to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261479 | 312,540 |
2,127,908 | Isaac Yakovlevich Itkind [app. 1871, Smarhon' (Smorgonie), near Vilnius, Russian Empire, present-day Belarus - February 14, 1969, Alma-Ata (present-day Almaty, Kazakhstan)] was a distinguished Russian and Soviet sculptor from Lithuanian Jewish origin. A self-taught primitivist and a rabbi, only at age of 39 did he star... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56786215 | 2,126,686 |
979,593 | TRAPPIST-1e was detected with the transit method, where the planet blocked a small percentage of its host star's light when passing between it and Earth. This allowed scientists to accurately determine the planet's radius at 0.910 , with a small uncertainty of about . Transit-timing variations and advanced computer sim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53277189 | 979,082 |
1,695,079 | Studies conducted with UNC-104 have shown that loss-of-function UNC-104 mutants were not able to properly transport SVPs to synapses, which resulted in an abnormal accumulation of SVs in cell bodies and dendrites. Other studies depicted that low levels of SVPs in mice from disrupted KIF1A-mediated transport were detrim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31656267 | 1,694,128 |
1,405,377 | where formula_9 is the intensity of light at position formula_10, formula_11 is the absorption coefficient of the medium in the formula_10 direction, and formula_13 is the speed of light. Circular dichroism (CD) is then defined by the difference between left (formula_14) and right (formula_15) circularly polarized ligh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=92206 | 1,404,587 |
1,458,270 | The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) Article 4(1)(a) requires all Parties to "develop, periodically update, publish and make available to the Conference of the Parties" as well as "national inventories of anthropogenic emissions by sources" "removals by sinks of all greenhouse gases not co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24603722 | 1,457,450 |
237,386 | The U.S. legal case of "M.C. v. Aaronson", advanced by intersex civil society organization interACT with the Southern Poverty Law Center, was brought before the courts in 2013. The child in the case was born in December 2004 with ovotestes, initially determined as male, but subsequently assigned female and placed in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4280045 | 237,267 |
24,487 | Situation-appropriateness should be considered as a distinguishing characteristic between agile methods and more plan-driven software development methods, with agile methods allowing product development teams to adapt working practices according to the needs of individual products. Potentially, most agile methods could... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=639009 | 24,478 |
1,910,306 | Around this time, academic collaborations with Inuit and their communities became a dominant form of scholarship on the topic; these collaborations have been important for the preservation of traditional knowledge. For example, the Igloolik Research Centre in Nunavut, Canada, archives interviews with Inuit elders to pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67335138 | 1,909,208 |
2,086,155 | Asia exhibits some different trends. In Southeast Asia, a more equal gender distribution in the discipline has been reported. Cultural reasons have been cited for this, as well as the perception that computing is an employable field, which results in greater parental encouragement to pursue careers in the field regardl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38444556 | 2,084,953 |
607,862 | In Nocutzepo, Mexico, indigenous heritage families form collective units where it is generally agreed that children and youth engage in adult cooperative household or community economic practices such as food preparation, child care, participating in markets, agriculture, animal herding, and construction to name a few.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=665948 | 607,551 |
901,381 | Early RDF systems were useful largely for long wave signals. These signals are able to travel very long distances, which made them useful for long-range navigation. However, when the same technique was being applied to higher frequencies, unexpected difficulties arose due to the reflection of high frequency signals fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=820724 | 900,905 |
1,748,837 | Under the immune network theory, the main cause for progression to AIDS after HIV infection is not the direct killing of infected T helper cells by the virus. Following an infection with HIV that manages to establish itself, there is a complex interaction between the HIV virus, the T helper cells that it infects, and r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25595247 | 1,747,851 |
719,455 | Anna Muzychuk was born on 28 February 1990 in Lviv to Nataliya and Oleh Muzychuk. She grew up with her sister Mariya, who is two years younger, in the nearby smaller city of Stryi. Anna and Mariya both learned to play chess at age two from their parents, both of whom are professional chess coaches who studied coaching ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1076780 | 719,075 |
79,236 | Originally, the most basic polymer OLEDs consisted of a single organic layer. One example was the first light-emitting device synthesised by J. H. Burroughes "et al.", which involved a single layer of poly(p-phenylene vinylene). However multilayer OLEDs can be fabricated with two or more layers in order to improve devi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191646 | 79,203 |
1,207,297 | In the event, the efforts made by the United States came to little. The final decision came down to a choice between the American and British tenders, and with a loan from the Rothchilds, Chile awarded one battleship contract to the latter's Armstrong Whitworth on 25 July 1911. The design was drawn up by J.R. Perret, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29390357 | 1,206,651 |
2,076,942 | For the second flight of the "Humboldt", which was planned to be a high-altitude flight, it was fitted with a smaller and lighter basket, and only two rather than three balloonists were to make the ascent. The balloon lifted off on 14 March amid pouring rain with Groß and Berson on board. Despite the greater weight fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55432762 | 2,075,743 |
1,516,853 | Peripherin was discovered as being the major intermediate filament in neuroblastoma cell lines and in rat pheochromocytoma cells. It is classified by gene structure and coding sequence as a type III intermediate filament protein because of its homology with vimentin, glial fibrillary acidic protein, and desmin. All int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1300487 | 1,516,001 |
1,009,684 | The true nature of the supernova remained obscure for some time. Observers slowly came to recognize a class of stars that undergo long-term periodic fluctuations in luminosity. Both John Russell Hind in 1848 and Norman Pogson in 1863 had charted stars that underwent sudden changes in brightness. However, these received... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7760112 | 1,009,163 |
2,062,042 | The NRC continued atomic research at Chalk River Laboratories until the scale of activity necessitated its transfer to a newly created organization, Atomic Energy of Canada Limited, dedicated exclusively to atomic research, in 1952. Although Canada had the scientific, engineering and industrial means to design, built a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,852 |
1,143,179 | The Michaelis–Arbuzov reaction is initiated with the S2 attack of the nucleophilic phosphorus species (1 - A phosphite) with the electrophilic alkyl halide (2) to give a phosphonium salt as an intermediate (3). These intermediates are occasionally stable enough to be isolated, such as for triaryl phosphites which do no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1884887 | 1,142,581 |
536,234 | In the historical development of geometry, the steps in the abstraction of geometry were made by the ancient Greeks. Euclid's Elements being the earliest extant documentation of the axioms of plane geometry— though Proclus tells of an earlier axiomatisation by Hippocrates of Chios. Euclid's "Elements" (c. 300 BC) is on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6134187 | 535,955 |
1,232,654 | In April 2009, hydroxypropyl-beta-cyclodextrin (HPbCD) was approved under compassionate use by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat Addison and Cassidy Hempel, identical twin girls who had Niemann–Pick type C disease. Medi-ports, similar to ports used to administer chemotherapy drugs, were surgically pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20058343 | 1,231,992 |
523,394 | The Brazilian Grand Prix would start off as disappointing for McLaren as Sainz encountered engine problems during Q1, while Norris was eliminated in Q2. In the race however, their fortunes would change entirely, as Sainz fought his way through the midfield (including Norris) on a risky one stop strategy. Various frontr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59939572 | 523,122 |
1,393,450 | Racetrack memory is one among several emerging technologies that aim to replace conventional memories such as DRAM and Flash, and potentially offer a universal memory device applicable to a wide variety of roles. Other contenders included magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM), phase-change memory (PCRAM) and fer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13276879 | 1,392,679 |
557,273 | Oliphant envisaged Canberra one day becoming a university town like Oxford or Cambridge. A threat to the future of the university arose in the wake of the 1949 election, when the Liberal Party of Australia led by Robert Menzies won. Many Liberals were opposed to the university, which they saw as an extravagance. Menzie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315710 | 556,984 |
1,660,056 | According to Eysenck, MacLeod & Mathews (1987) and Mathews (2004) the dot-probe task derives directly from research carried out by Christos Halkiopoulos in 1981. Halkiopoulos, later a doctoral student of Eysenck, carried out this research while he was a psychology undergraduate at UCL, under the supervision of professo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4505581 | 1,659,123 |
884,049 | Folding@home is assisting in research towards preventing some viruses, such as influenza and HIV, from recognizing and entering biological cells. In 2011, Folding@home began simulations of the dynamics of the enzyme RNase H, a key component of HIV, to try to design drugs to deactivate it. Folding@home has also been use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=413102 | 883,585 |
1,282,888 | Little is known about the biology of these insects, but because of their size, and simple ovipositors, entomologists assumed they were idiobiont parasitoids on the eggs of insects, similar to other extremely small parasitic wasps such as fairyflies. Psocoptera, long suspected as their hosts based on circumstantial evid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5364807 | 1,282,192 |
1,664,784 | The Central Nervous System controls most of the functions of the body and mind. It comprises the brain, spinal cord and the nerve fibers that branch off to all parts of the body. The Central Nervous System viral diseases are caused by viruses that attack the CNS. Existing and emerging viral CNS infections are major sou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18697901 | 1,663,847 |
554,841 | Daniil Kvyat became the second Russian to compete in Formula One when he debuted with Toro Rosso at the 2014 Australian Grand Prix. He finished his first race in 9th place – an equal best result for the season matched in Britain and Belgium. He finished 15th in the championship. He was hired by Red Bull Racing for the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48795844 | 554,552 |
393,440 | Epigenetic inheritance has been argued by scientists including Eva Jablonka and Marion J. Lamb to be Lamarckian. Epigenetics is based on hereditary elements other than genes that pass into the germ cells. These include methylation patterns in DNA and chromatin marks on histone proteins, both involved in gene regulation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187588 | 393,245 |
1,523,854 | Also, systematic SAR investigation has shown that the ring size and stereochemistry for the P2 position is quite conditioned. A 5-membered ring and L-configuration has shown better results than a 4-membered or 6-membered ring with D-configuration. Only minor changes on the pyrrolidine ring can be tolerated, since the g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20208243 | 1,522,993 |
801,303 | The accepted crystal structure of ordinary ice was first proposed by Linus Pauling in 1935. The structure of ice I is roughly one of crinkled planes composed of tessellating hexagonal rings, with an oxygen atom on each vertex, and the edges of the rings formed by hydrogen bonds. The planes alternate in an ABAB pattern,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1191099 | 800,875 |
338,768 | The premise of the multiple intelligences hypothesis, that human intelligence is a collection of specialist abilities, have been criticized for not being able to explain human adaptation to most if not all environments in the world. In this context, humans are contrasted to social insects that indeed have a distributed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89008 | 338,588 |
1,434,733 | In 2012, amassed numerical evidence of an extension of Mathieu moonshine, where families of mock modular forms were attached to divisors of 24. After some group-theoretic discussion with Glauberman, found that this earlier extension was a special case (the A-series) of a more natural encoding by Niemeier lattices. For ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36283711 | 1,433,927 |
1,088,131 | Nijinska created the ballet "Les noces" ['The Wedding' [original title "Les noces Villageoise", in Russian "Svadebka"]) from the music and libretto by Igor Stravinsky, music commissioned ten years earlier by Diaghilev. In four tableaux, the 24-minute ballet depicts in abstract fashion events surrounding a peasant marri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780188 | 1,087,572 |
1,658,962 | The Technology Student Association has partnered with many groups to promote other skills. Junior Solar Sprint is a national program allows students to design solar-powered cars. Tests of Engineering Aptitude, Mathematics, and Science (TEAMS) is an annual one-day competition where students use their skills to solve iss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=524457 | 1,658,029 |
194,324 | To illustrate this, the guided differentiation of mouse ESCs has resulted in generating primitive streak-like cells that display many of the characteristics of epiblast cells that traverse through the primitive streak (e.g. transient brachyury up regulation and the cellular changes associated with an epithelial to mese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=222177 | 194,224 |
1,158,689 | The difference between the seeing limited image (third image from top) and the best 1% images selected result is quite remarkable: a triple system has been detected. The brightest component in the West is a V=14.9 magnitude M4V star. This component is the lucky imaging reference source. The weaker component consists of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=667576 | 1,158,075 |
687,244 | From about 1040 AD, Shen's family moved around Sichuan province and finally to the international seaport at Xiamen, where Shen's father accepted minor provincial posts in each new location. Shen Zhou also served several years in the prestigious capital judiciary, the equivalent of a national supreme court. Shen Kuo too... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1102000 | 686,887 |
1,921,921 | Unlike divisions of the octave into 19, 31 or 53 steps, which can be considered as being derived from ancient Greek intervals (the greater and lesser diesis and the syntonic comma), division into 34 steps did not arise 'naturally' out of older music theory, although Cyriakus Schneegass proposed a meantone system with 3... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11677312 | 1,920,818 |
1,706,921 | They are dioecious, individual plants being either male or female. The fruit is unusual in that it builds up hydrostatic pressure internally when ripe and shoots the single sticky seed up to speeds nearly , an example of rapid plant movement. The lodgepole pine dwarf mistletoe," Arceuthobium americanum, has been found ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=900286 | 1,705,963 |
1,103,022 | The Institute of Life Sciences (ILS), an autonomous institute has been brought under the fold of the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India in August 2002. The institute is located in close proximity to other research institutions at Bhubaneswar. The institute was earlier established on 11 February 1989 and w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11608671 | 1,102,460 |
244,874 | The waste produced by the troops stationed there is dumped in the crevasses of the glacier. Mountaineers who visited the area while on climbing expeditions witnessed large amount of garbage, empty ammunition shells, parachutes etc. dumped on the glacier, that neither decomposes nor can be burned because of the extreme ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1673550 | 244,747 |
119,040 | For daytime operations, conventional light fighters have normally filled the interceptor role. Day interceptors have been used in a defensive role since World War I, and are perhaps best known from major actions like the Battle of Britain, when the Supermarine Spitfire and Hawker Hurricane were part of a successful def... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=142759 | 118,992 |
1,389,985 | The sole was soft and probably muscular. Since "Halkieria" was unsuited to swimming and had no obvious adaptations for burrowing, it must have lived on the sea-floor, "walking" by making its muscular sole ripple. The backward-projecting siculate sclerites may have improved its grip by preventing it from slipping backwa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4863813 | 1,389,214 |
1,681,528 | Besides increased efficiency of power plants, there was an increase in efficiency (between 1950 and 1973) of the railway utilization of this electricity with energy-intensity dropping from 218 to 124 kwh/10,000 gross tonne-km (of both passenger and freight trains) or a 43% drop. Since energy-intensity is the inverse of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36017606 | 1,680,585 |
1,222,040 | The Faculty of Medicine awards the Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) after completion of six years comprising three years of medical sciences and three clinical years. Students are admitted to medicine based solely on their grade point average in their high school national general exam (Tawjihi); there are neithe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4821140 | 1,221,381 |
36,483 | On January 28, 1986, STS-51-L disintegrated 73 seconds after launch, due to the failure of the right SRB, killing all seven astronauts on board "Challenger". The disaster was caused by the low-temperature impairment of an O-ring, a mission-critical seal used between segments of the SRB casing. Failure of the O-ring all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28189 | 36,471 |
1,919,145 | Because fibrin fulfills the mechanical aspects of neuronal growth without initiation of glial proliferation, it can be potentially used in neuronal wound healing even with no need of growth factors or such constituents. Neurons and astrocytes, two major cell type of central nervous system, can show various responses to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23037879 | 1,918,045 |
740,751 | The purpose in adding warning limits or subdividing the control chart into zones is to provide early notification if something is amiss. Instead of immediately launching a process improvement effort to determine whether special causes are present, the Quality Engineer may temporarily increase the rate at which samples ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=435754 | 740,359 |
588,206 | Susceptibility-weighted imaging (SWI) is a new type of contrast in MRI different from spin density, "T", or "T" imaging. This method exploits the susceptibility differences between tissues and uses a fully velocity-compensated, three-dimensional, RF-spoiled, high-resolution, 3D-gradient echo scan. This special data acq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55538688 | 587,904 |
508,740 | A more detailed description by Hertzberger was published in 1973. It is a structuralist definition in a general sense, but also the basis concept for user participation: ""The fact that we put 'form' in a central position with respect to such notions as 'space' or 'architecture', means in itself no more than a shifting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18411985 | 508,476 |
1,154,719 | A native of New York City, Richter was born into a Jewish family in Brooklyn, and was raised in the Queens neighborhood of Far Rockaway. His parents were Fanny (Pollack) and Abraham Richter, a textile worker. He graduated from Far Rockaway High School, a school that also produced fellow laureates Baruch Samuel Blumberg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396684 | 1,154,109 |
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