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344,811 | Theories about the origin of life require knowledge of chemical pathways that permit formation of life’s key building blocks under plausible prebiotic conditions. The RNA world hypothesis holds that in the primordial soup there existed free-floating ribonucleotides, the fundamental molecules that combine in series to f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21505 | 344,630 |
247,880 | Piot has received the majority of the credit for discovering Ebola, since in 1976, it was claimed he was the one to receive blood samples while working in a lab at the Institute for Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium. The samples were once claimed to be originally sent by Dr. Jean-Jacques Muyembe-Tamfum, a Congolese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=816001 | 247,752 |
443,859 | On 25 February 1977, Kawasaki and German aerospace manufacturer Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm (MBB) signed an agreement to cooperate on the development of a new rotorcraft; under the terms of this agreement, the two corporations merged their previously separate projects to produce twin-engined general purpose helicopters,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16593309 | 443,644 |
200,730 | The volume, variety and velocity of big data have introduced challenges across the board for capture, storage, search, sharing, analysis, and visualization. Examples of big data sources include web logs, RFID, sensor data, social networks, Internet search indexing, call detail records, military surveillance, and comple... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4141563 | 200,627 |
2,122,912 | Academic analytics is defined as the process of evaluating and analyzing organizational data received from university systems for reporting and decision making reasons (Campbell, & Oblinger, 2007). Academic analytics will help student and faculty to track their career and professional paths. According to Campbell & Obl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13292275 | 2,121,692 |
140,355 | Hawking then discusses the uncertainty principle formulated by German scientist Werner Heisenberg, according to which the speed and the position of a particle cannot be precisely known due to Planck's quantum hypothesis: increasing the accuracy in measuring its speed will decrease the certainty of its position and vice... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67227 | 140,298 |
369,981 | Holst's father, Adolph von Holst, became organist and choirmaster at All Saints' Church, Cheltenham; he also taught, and gave piano recitals. His wife, Clara, a former pupil, was a talented singer and pianist. They had two sons; Gustav's younger brother, Emil Gottfried, became known as Ernest Cossart, a successful acto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49241 | 369,787 |
1,986,448 | The students organised further demonstrations in the winter of 1983. On 8 June some students towed a rented caravan into the university grounds and parked it on the lawn by the main Quadrangle. Adorned with a banner describing it as ‘the Faculty of Political Economy’ the caravan was used as an information centre for th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32100260 | 1,985,306 |
1,879,662 | On arrival in South Australia he bought a piece of land at Hindmarsh close to Adelaide, took over the flour-mill of the South Australian Company, installed the first steam engine (a Watt's Beam) in South Australia able to cut wood and grind meal, and began growing wheat at Hindmarsh. Foreseeing that the heavy spending ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12836793 | 1,878,581 |
1,610,100 | Kornhuber and Deecke's discovery of the Bereitschaftspotential (German for readiness potential) led to research on the now extensively used LRP, which has often been investigated in the context of the mental chronometry paradigm. In the basic chronometric paradigm, the subject experiences a warning stimulus, followed b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22509570 | 1,609,195 |
164,298 | According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and defined by the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, antimicrobial pesticides are used in order to control growth of microbes through disinfection, sanitation, or reduction of development and to protect inanimate objects, industrial process... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=965323 | 164,213 |
450,133 | Capitalism relies on the efficient allocation of capital to deliver returns to investors over the short, medium and long term. It is the job of companies to manage the financial capital that investors provide and also to create and preserve the value generated from other forms of non-financial data such as people, trad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26075893 | 449,914 |
1,544,397 | In geology, a horizon is either a bedding surface where there is marked change in the lithology within a sequence of sedimentary or volcanic rocks, or a distinctive layer or thin bed with a characteristic lithology or fossil content within a sequence. Examples of the former can include things such as volcanic eruptions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38358339 | 1,543,523 |
908,855 | According to skeptic author Daniel Loxton, "skepticism is a story without a beginning or an end." His 2013 article in "Skeptic" magazine "Why Is There a Skeptical Movement" claims a history of two millennia of paranormal skepticism. He is of the opinion that the practice, problems, and central concepts extend all the w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=204511 | 908,376 |
1,378,967 | Euphemia Lofton was the first child and only daughter of William S. Lofton, a dentist and financier, and Lavinia Day Lofton, a kindergarten teacher. She was the valedictorian of M Street High School in 1907 and then graduated from Normal School for Colored Girls, now known as University of the District of Columbia, wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32521866 | 1,378,205 |
435,437 | The basic functional principle of the warp drive in Star Trek is the same for all spaceships. A strong energy source, usually called a " warp core " or sometimes "intermix chamber", generates a high-energy plasma. This plasma is transported to "warp field generators" via lines that are reminiscent of pipes. These gener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24583 | 435,223 |
130,870 | Different cancer types have different radiation sensitivity. While predicting the sensitivity based on genomic or proteomic analyses of biopsy samples has proven challenging, the predictions of radiation effect on individual patients from genomic signatures of intrinsic cellular radiosensitivity have been shown to asso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26350 | 130,818 |
1,297,362 | An ARDF competition normally takes place in diverse wooded terrain, such as in a public park or natural area but competitions have also been held in suitable suburban areas. Each competitor receives a detailed topographic map of the competition area. The map will indicate the location of the start with a triangle and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3058028 | 1,296,651 |
1,692,733 | After qualifying, and working junior hospital jobs, Stroud specialised in nutrition and gastroenterology. He became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1984 and a Fellow in 1995. He has studied human endurance under extreme conditions based on personal experience including running marathons in the Sahara and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3809306 | 1,691,782 |
493,455 | Accompanied by some of his fellow conspirators, Percy's flight ended at about 10:00 pm on 7 November, at Holbeche House on the Staffordshire county boundary. He was unharmed by a gunpowder accident that injured Catesby and a few of the others, but those who remained resolved to wait for the arrival of government forces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1452052 | 493,200 |
1,940,682 | The twinkle gene is an important protein that is involved in the synthesis and maintenance of mtDNA. The gene is located in the mitochondrial matrix and mitochondrial nucleotides. Twinkle protein serves as the mitochondrial DNA helicase that binds to DNA and aids in unwinding the double helix of the DNA molecules. By a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14795981 | 1,939,571 |
678,804 | Autistic girls and women show higher social motivation and a greater capacity for typical friendships than autistic boys and men, are less likely to be hyperactive, impulsive, have issues with conduct or stereotyped behavioral traits, and have been shown to mask their conditions more frequently than autistic men. Autis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48280285 | 678,450 |
1,911,938 | Comparative genomic analysis revealed that bacteria successful in heterogeneous and competitive environments often contain extensive signal transduction and regulatory networks. Detailed comparative genomic analysis with a dataset of 500 complete bacterial genomes revealed that "P. vortex" has the third highest number ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30427075 | 1,910,839 |
1,407,108 | By the time Bill Clinton and Tony Blair announced the completion of the first rough draft of the human genome sequence in June 2000, deCODE was busily scaling up its gene-hunting in dozens of diseases and publishing its first discoveries. The company used the most scalable DNA-reading technology of the time - microsate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1494572 | 1,406,318 |
2,148,724 | In 2005, tuberculosis caused approximately 1.6 million deaths worldwide, 8.8 million people became sick, with 90% of these cases in developing countries, and an estimated one-third of the world's population has latent TB. Despite the availability of the BCG vaccine and multiple antibiotics, until 2005 TB resurged due t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14541769 | 2,147,493 |
725,382 | In the 1970s, a helmet-cage combination was popularized by Vladislav Tretiak. Like the original fiberglass design, the helmet-cage combination has been criticized for not providing adequate facial/cranial protection. Dan Cloutier switched from this type of mask to the more popular full fiberglass citing safety reasons ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=568164 | 725,001 |
1,883,529 | The fair's initial intention was to "attract foreign trade to this country after the war." Organizers had received applications from numerous countries to host exhibits at the fair. The organizers also planned for dozens of buildings to eventually be erected at the fair; estimates ranged from 70 to more than 100. The s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17779429 | 1,882,448 |
65,114 | Oxygen is poorly soluble in water. Fully aerated fresh water therefore contains only 8–10 ml O/liter compared to the O concentration of 210 ml/liter in the air at sea level. Furthermore, the coefficient of diffusion (i.e. the rate at which a substances diffuses from a region of high concentration to one of low concentr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66723 | 65,089 |
827,413 | PBR is, as Joe Wilson puts it, "more of a concept than a strict set of rules" – but the concept contains several distinctive points of note. One of these is that – unlike many previous models that sought to differentiate surfaces between non-reflective and reflective – PBR recognizes that, in the real world, as John Ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52274874 | 826,969 |
531,272 | The HeForShe NU club is a student organization with Japanese and International students at Nagoya University, with a mission to spread awareness about gender-related issues on campus and beyond. It was founded in 2017 by second-year JACS (G30) student Momo Mori. The first meetings consisted of her friends and intereste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1340264 | 530,998 |
1,351,997 | On June 7, 2011, an electrical component in a switch gear room caused a small fire with Halon extinguisher activation which forced a partial evacuation. The fire was no longer burning when the on site fire brigade arrived and according to officials, the public was never in any danger. The fire impacted pumping of coola... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1806412 | 1,351,251 |
1,587,885 | MMPA is quite useful in the field of quantitative structure–activity relationship (QSAR) modelling studies. One of the issues of QSAR models is they are difficult to interpret in a chemically meaningful manner. While it can be pretty easy to interpret simple linear regression models, the most powerful algorithms like n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44046734 | 1,586,991 |
97,910 | The situation for dinosaurs was comparable. From the 1960s onwards, a dinosaur renaissance took place, a quick increase in the number of studies and critical ideas, influenced by the discovery of additional fossils of "Deinonychus", whose spectacular traits refuted what had become entrenched orthodoxy. In 1970, likewis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24824 | 97,869 |
25,156 | The product rule and chain rule, the notions of higher derivatives and Taylor series, and of analytic functions were used by Isaac Newton in an idiosyncratic notation which he applied to solve problems of mathematical physics. In his works, Newton rephrased his ideas to suit the mathematical idiom of the time, replacin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5176 | 25,147 |
1,008,760 | An even bigger problem for most cruiser tanks was the small calibre of their main gun. The first cruisers were armed with the 2-pounder (40 mm) gun. This gun had adequate armour penetration against early war tanks but was never issued high explosive ammunition. This made the cruisers less able to deal with towed anti-t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=932142 | 1,008,239 |
1,794,244 | The Pacific silver fir ("Abies amabilis") is extremely tolerant of shade and does not fare as well in drought or warmer temperatures. It can grow as high as and reach in diameter. The understory communities of the Pacific silver fir can vary depending on moisture availability. Common understory shrubs include the vine ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21948411 | 1,793,235 |
748,694 | In India, the first analog computer was designed by Samarendra Kumar Mitra and built by Ashish Kumar Maity at ISI in 1953, for use in computation of numerical solutions of simultaneous linear equations using a modified version of Gauss-Siedel iteration. In 1955, the first digital computer of India was procured by ISI. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2238418 | 748,296 |
540,841 | Mount Garibaldi (known as Nch'kaý to the indigenous Squamish people) is a dormant stratovolcano in the Garibaldi Ranges of the Pacific Ranges in southwestern British Columbia, Canada. It has a maximum elevation of and rises above the surrounding landscape on the east side of the Cheakamus River in New Westminster Land ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=659719 | 540,561 |
232,959 | Upon taking office, Roosevelt made naval expansion a priority, and his tenure saw an increase in the number of ships, officers, and enlisted men in the Navy. With the publication of "[[The Influence of Sea Power upon History]], 1660–1783" in 1890, Captain [[Alfred Thayer Mahan]] had been immediately hailed as an outsta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3520221 | 232,840 |
692,966 | After Joseph Stalin had succeeded in expelling Leon Trotsky from the Central Committee in 1927, he very soon cut off connections with the West and established an isolationist state. Stalin rejected Western culture and its ‘bourgeois principles,’ as these did not agree with the policies of the Soviet Communist Party or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7272957 | 692,603 |
1,478,839 | Coatings - The use of VCIs as alternative corrosion inhibitor technologies in coating is not a new concept. In the last few years, however, with the growing environmental pressure to reduce the use of traditional inhibitors containing heavy metals, they have gained in popularity. Since VCI particles have a polar attrac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38529942 | 1,478,006 |
884,166 | Borrelia is a genus of bacteria of the spirochete phylum. Several species cause Lyme disease, also called Lyme borreliosis, a zoonotic, vector-borne disease transmitted by ticks. Other species of "Borrelia" cause relapsing fever, and are transmitted by ticks or lice, depending on the species of bacteria. A few "Borreli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4920788 | 883,702 |
887,110 | In early 2010, NASA came full circle to once again investigate "making inflatable space-station modules to make roomier, lighter, cheaper-to-launch spacecraft" by announcing plans in its budget proposal released 22 February 2010. NASA considered connecting a Bigelow expandable craft to the ISS for safety, life support,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=754129 | 886,646 |
2,103,420 | On 28 October 2005, the ground control station in Aalborg has not had any contact with SSETI Express. Thorough analysis indicated that a failure in the electrical power system on board the spacecraft is preventing the batteries from charging, resulting in a shutdown of the satellite. The launch itself was successful bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25111087 | 2,102,208 |
1,781,732 | The relatively new areas of evolutionary computing, massively parallel algorithms, and even "artificial life" explore the solution of problems by the evolving interaction of large numbers of small actors, or agents, or decision-makers who interact in a largely unconstrained fashion. The "side effect" of the interaction... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2028143 | 1,780,728 |
258,767 | The first documented case of LQTS was described in Leipzig by Meissner in 1856, when a deaf girl died after her teacher yelled at her. Soon after being notified, the girl's parents reported that her older brother, also deaf, had previously died after a terrible fright. This was several decades before the ECG was invent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=363747 | 258,633 |
598,741 | The power station is located on the southwest shore of Lake Erie about north of Oak Harbor, Ohio and is on the north side of Highway 2 just east of Highway 19 on a site in the Carroll Township. The plant only utilizes , with devoted to the Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge. The entrance to the Magee Marsh Wildlife Area i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1011995 | 598,436 |
926,198 | In Berlin, the collaboration of Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn, together with their assistant Fritz Strassmann, furthered the research begun by Fermi and his team when they bombarded uranium with neutrons. Between 1934 and 1938, Hahn, Meitner, and Strassmann found a great number of radioactive transmutation products from t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46190717 | 925,712 |
404,597 | In addition to different backgrounds and histories, the races have characteristic philosophies of starship design. Minmatar ships tend to be quite fast but fragile, and rely on their high speed and maneuverability to evade the tracking systems of heavier weapons, while using projectile weapons such as artillery or auto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=403307 | 404,397 |
935,497 | The word "Aeolian", like the names for the other ancient Greek "tonoi" and "harmoniai", is an ethnic designation: in this case, for the inhabitants of Aeolis (Αἰολίς)—the Aeolian Islands and adjacent coastal district of Asia Minor. In the music theory of ancient Greece, it was an alternative name (used by some later wr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=523013 | 935,003 |
1,397,140 | As of December 2011 the search had narrowed to the approximate region to 115–130 GeV, with a specific focus around 125 GeV, where both the ATLAS and CMS experiments had independently reported an excess of events, meaning that a higher than expected number of particle patterns compatible with the decay of a Higgs boson ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36772327 | 1,396,367 |
921,067 | Completing its acceptance tests with the turret installed, the Defiant attained a top speed of and subsequently was declared the victor of the turret fighter competition. Flight trials had revealed the aircraft to possess positive flight characteristics and considerable stability, which was of particular value when usi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=523502 | 920,581 |
1,515,534 | Along with Bartolomeo, the Dragon cargo mission delivers about a ton of scientific experiments, including biological research investigations studying microgravity's impact on stem cells, intestinal diseases and chemical reactions. The Bartolomeo platform was robotically removed from Dragon's trunk section and installed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51113163 | 1,514,682 |
406,714 | The earliest published JIT compiler is generally attributed to work on LISP by John McCarthy in 1960. In his seminal paper "Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine, Part I", he mentions functions that are translated during runtime, thereby sparing the need to save the compiler outpu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=220632 | 406,513 |
896,030 | The phrase Fourth Industrial Revolution was first introduced by Klaus Schwab, the executive chairman of the World Economic Forum, in a 2015 article in "Foreign Affairs", "Mastering the Fourth Industrial Revolution" was the theme of the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2016 in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland. On October ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23421828 | 895,559 |
1,959,443 | The Maori people first arrived in New Zealand beginning in 950 AD. At the time, the biodiversity of New Zealand was much greater than the current state with the only mammals being three species of bats. As a result, a large and diverse bird population inhabited the forests of the land. The largest species of eagle know... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20232068 | 1,958,316 |
1,214,768 | In her early career, she was not especially interested in the psychology of homosexual people. After teaching for only one year at the Maryland College for Women, she contracted tuberculosis and spent the next year in a sanatorium in Arizona. After her recovery she began teaching at Whittier College in Southern Califor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=425441 | 1,214,116 |
32,533 | Optimum growth of "E. coli" occurs at , but some laboratory strains can multiply at temperatures up to . "E. coli" grows in a variety of defined laboratory media, such as lysogeny broth, or any medium that contains glucose, ammonium phosphate monobasic, sodium chloride, magnesium sulfate, potassium phosphate dibasic, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40114 | 32,521 |
1,322,139 | This timeline of tyrannosaur research is a chronological listing of events in the history of paleontology focused on the tyrannosaurs, a group of predatory theropod dinosaurs that began as small, long-armed bird-like creatures with elaborate cranial ornamentation but achieved apex predator status during the Late Cretac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46673417 | 1,321,413 |
2,222,782 | The other large area of research being done currently on CED is the translation of CED from being used for brain tumors to other brain diseases. The primary conditions being researched for non-cancerous treatments include Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy. Animal model research using CED to deliver therapeutics to the b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70683630 | 2,221,520 |
1,850,758 | In statistics, the focused information criterion (FIC) is a method for selecting the most appropriate model among a set of competitors for a given data set. Unlike most other model selection strategies, like the Akaike information criterion (AIC), the Bayesian information criterion (BIC) and the deviance information cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31438297 | 1,849,697 |
313,817 | The graphite tubes are heated via their ohmic resistance using a low-voltage high-current power supply; the temperature in the individual stages can be controlled very closely, and temperature ramps between the individual stages facilitate separation of sample components. Tubes may be heated transversely or longitudina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2637 | 313,648 |
1,666,340 | Progressive inflammatory neuropathy is a disease that was identified in a report, released on January 31, 2008, by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The first known outbreak of this neuropathy occurred in southeastern Minnesota in the United States. The disease was reported among pig slaughterhouse worker... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15588705 | 1,665,401 |
429,931 | A formal grammar that contains left recursion cannot be parsed by a naive recursive descent parser unless they are converted to a weakly equivalent right-recursive form. However, recent research demonstrates that it is possible to accommodate left-recursive grammars (along with all other forms of general CFGs) in a mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=339102 | 429,720 |
40,899 | Inaccurate intelligence analysis caused the West initially to believe the MiG-25 was an agile air-combat fighter rather than an interceptor. In response, the United States started a new program, which resulted in the McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle. NATO obtained a better understanding of the MiG-25's capabilities on 6 Se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=247960 | 40,884 |
1,418,551 | In 1997, Hall was a part of group with Susan Renn, Jae Park, Michael Rosbash, and Paul Taghert that discovered genes that are a part of the TTFL are expressed in cells throughout the body. Despite these genes being identified as necessary genes to the circadian clock, there was a variety of levels of expressions in var... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40836099 | 1,417,752 |
105,357 | By the time he reached his teens, Gygax had a voracious appetite for pulp fiction authors such as Robert Howard, Jack Vance, Fritz Leiber, H. P. Lovecraft, and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Gygax was a mediocre student, and in 1956, a few months after his father died, he dropped out of high school in his junior year. He joined... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12848 | 105,312 |
223,179 | Linguistically, Korean shows similarities to Ainu, Nivkh and most "Altaic" languages, while those with Japanese are explained through a more recent convergence starting from the Yayoi period. Those groups correlate closely to modern-day Koreans and Japanese, who form a cluster in regional comparisons, along with variou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58702403 | 223,069 |
183,009 | Repartnering or remarrying can bring in additional levels of conflict and anger into their home environment. One of the reasons that re-partnering causes additional stress is because of the lack of clarity in roles and relationships; the child may not know how to react and behave with this new "parent" figure in their ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3735409 | 182,913 |
1,069,783 | Gold resigned from the Royal Observatory following Spencer-Jones's retirement and moved to the United States in 1956, where he served as Professor of Astronomy (1957–1958) and Robert Wheeler Wilson Professor of Applied Astronomy (1958–1959) at Harvard University. In early 1959, he accepted an appointment at Cornell Uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=156331 | 1,069,229 |
616,631 | The theoretical frameworks for molecular systematics were laid in the 1960s in the works of Emile Zuckerkandl, Emanuel Margoliash, Linus Pauling, and Walter M. Fitch. Applications of molecular systematics were pioneered by Charles G. Sibley (birds), Herbert C. Dessauer (herpetology), and Morris Goodman (primates), foll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=149544 | 616,317 |
1,024,094 | Tetrasomy X has a variable presentation with a spectrum of severity, and lacks obvious defining clinical abnormalities that can lead to a diagnosis in the absence of testing. Recognizable characteristics include increased height and mild intellectual disability; the average adult height in tetrasomy X is compared with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67170050 | 1,023,561 |
1,383,692 | Day 1 of the test marked the first appearance of the AlphaTauri team, rebranded from Toro Rosso. Esteban Ocon returned to Formula One, now with Renault, after a one-year hiatus. Daniel Ricciardo wore a purple helmet in memory of the recently deceased Kobe Bryant. Hamilton set the fastest time of 1:16.976. On the second... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64109267 | 1,382,925 |
819,535 | The moon was originally much closer to the Earth, which rotated faster than it does today, resulting in greater tidal heating than experienced today. Original estimates found that even early tidal heating would be minimal, perhaps 0.02 watts per square meter. (For comparison, the solar energy incident on the Earth's at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2202381 | 819,094 |
1,020,897 | Homozygous FH is harder to treat. The LDL (Low Density Lipoprotein) receptors are minimally functional, if at all. Only high doses of statins, often in combination with other medications, are modestly effective in improving lipid levels. If medical therapy is not successful at reducing cholesterol levels, LDL apheresis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6834535 | 1,020,368 |
418,279 | In biology, pairwise interactions have historically been the focus of intense study. With the recent advances in network science, it has become possible to scale up pairwise interactions to include individuals of many species involved in many sets of interactions to understand the structure and function of larger ecolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22072718 | 418,074 |
2,029,064 | In the domain of physics and probability, the filters, random fields, and maximum entropy (FRAME) model is a Markov random field model (or a Gibbs distribution) of stationary spatial processes, in which the energy function is the sum of translation-invariant potential functions that are one-dimensional non-linear trans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64689698 | 2,027,896 |
356,272 | Further, the researcher has to decide whether emissions from direct/indirect land use change should be included in the calculation. Most researchers include emissions from direct land use change, for instance the emissions caused by cutting down a forest in order to start some agricultural project there instead. The in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7906908 | 356,089 |
603,715 | While devices for circular end-to-end anastomosis of digestive tract are widely used, in spite of intensive research circular staplers for vascular anastomosis never had yet significant impact on standard hand (Carrel) suture technique. Apart from the different modality of coupling of vascular (everted) in respect to d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9487577 | 603,405 |
1,092,144 | The dominant question for shale oil production is under what conditions shale oil is economically viable. According to the United States Department of Energy, the capital costs of a "ex-situ" processing complex are $3–10 billion. The various attempts to develop oil shale deposits have succeeded only when the shale-oil ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12321977 | 1,091,584 |
492,575 | Johannes Kepler's first major astronomical work, "Mysterium Cosmographicum" ("The Cosmographic Mystery"), was the second published defence of the Copernican system. Kepler claimed to have had an epiphany on July 19, 1595, while teaching in Graz, demonstrating the periodic conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the zodiac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3194945 | 492,320 |
714,466 | From April 1944, a number of Vengeance Mk IV series Is were made available to the 8th Air Force and assigned to target-towing flights and Combat Crew Replacement Center stations. All armament was removed and a light cable winch fitted in the rear fuselage for sleeve towing. Some of these aircraft continued to be flown ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2953330 | 714,094 |
410,375 | The music for "Tomb Raider" was composed by Nathan McCree, who at the time was an in-house composer for Core Design. The main inspiration behind the score for McCree was English Classical music. This approach was directly influenced by his conversations with Gard about Lara's character. Based on this, he kept the main ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3926606 | 410,173 |
129,770 | The nature of the longer-wavelength afterglow emission (ranging from X-ray through radio) that follows gamma-ray bursts is better understood. Any energy released by the explosion not radiated away in the burst itself takes the form of matter or energy moving outward at nearly the speed of light. As this matter collides... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48803 | 129,718 |
1,795,300 | The Human Genome Project faced several challenges during its lifetime. A few of these problems were solved when many of the genomics labs started to use Perl. The process of analyzing all of the DNA sequences was one such problem. Some labs built large monolithic systems with complex relational databases that took fore... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=559864 | 1,794,291 |
1,595,943 | In 2012, LIPA adopted a Power Purchase Agreement (limited to 50 MW), which will pay $0.22/kWh for solar generation for installations ranging from 50 kW to 20 MW. A $500 to $5000 application fee favors larger power plants represents roughly the first 10 days of generation for a 50 kW to 500 kW system, but less than 2 ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35855943 | 1,595,044 |
370,165 | In the early 20th century, there was an increased interest in the role of the environment, as a reaction to the strong focus on pure heredity in the wake of the triumphal success of Darwin's theory of evolution. During this time, the social sciences developed as the project of studying the influence of culture in clean... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39807 | 369,971 |
133,290 | The renewal of learning in Europe began with 12th century Scholasticism. The Northern Renaissance showed a decisive shift in focus from Aristotelian natural philosophy to chemistry and the biological sciences (botany, anatomy, and medicine). Thus modern science in Europe was resumed in a period of great upheaval: the P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,237 |
1,689,563 | Immediately after a symposium session on mesotron instability reached a consensus that more definitive observations were needed, Rossi and Compton began to plan an experiment. Because the intensity of the hard component increases with altitude, while the density of air decreases, Compton suggested that the investigatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=520727 | 1,688,617 |
10,010 | In February 1940, the U.S. Navy awarded Columbia University $6,000 in funding, most of which Enrico Fermi and Szilard spent on purchasing graphite. A team of Columbia professors including Fermi, Szilard, Eugene T. Booth and John Dunning created the first nuclear fission reaction in the Americas, verifying the work of H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19603 | 10,006 |
51,594 | In June 2002, BAE Systems confirmed it was in takeover discussions with TRW, an American aerospace, automotive and defence business. This was prompted by Northrop Grumman's £4.1 billion (approx. US$6 billion c. 2002) hostile bid for TRW in February 2002. A bidding war between BAE Systems, Northrop and General Dynamics ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=200128 | 51,574 |
1,102,632 | In addition to the functional form of each energy term, a useful energy function must be assigned parameters for force constants, van der Waals multipliers, and other constant terms. These terms, together with the equilibrium bond, angle, and dihedral values, partial charge values, atomic masses and radii, and energy f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=547400 | 1,102,071 |
956,015 | The development of self-powered vehicles was accompanied by numerous technologies and components giving rise to numerous supplier firms and associated industries. Various types of energy sources were employed by early automobiles including steam, electric, and gasoline. Thousands of entrepreneurs were involved in devel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23576520 | 955,510 |
357,221 | Midshipmen have the opportunity to participate in a broad range of other extracurricular activities including musical performance groups (Drum & Bugle Corps, Men's Glee Club, Women's Glee Club, Gospel Choir, an annual musical, a midshipman orchestra, and a bagpipe band, the Pipes & Drums), religious organizations, acad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59766 | 357,035 |
1,564,610 | Anthony Reid (born 19 June 1939) is a New Zealand-born historian of Southeast Asia. His doctoral work at Cambridge University examined the contest for power in northern Sumatra, Indonesia in the late 19th century, and he extended this study into a book "The Blood of the People" on the national and social revolutions in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6195771 | 1,563,723 |
2,074,806 | Phaeogalera is a small genus of slender, fleshy bog and swamp-inhabiting mushrooms with large, brownish spores with a germ pore and a hymenium lacking chrysocystidia. "Phaeogalera" resemble "Galerina" in their habitat, macroscopic appearance, and spore print color, however, their microscopic characteristics (smooth spo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43950357 | 2,073,610 |
1,842,171 | Reversible solid oxide cells are receiving increased attention as energy storage solutions for the weekly or the monthly scale. Other technologies for large scale electrical storage such as pumped-storage hydroelectricity and compressed air energy storage are characterized by geographical limitations. On the other hand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64583610 | 1,841,119 |
675,208 | In December 2009, the Edmonton city council approved a new low-floor train route that would leave a new ground-level station at Churchill Square on 102 Avenue between 100 and 99 streets before stopping in The Quarters redevelopment on 102 Avenue between 97 street and 96 street. From here the route enters a tunnel and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5381842 | 674,855 |
768,273 | A major branch of virology is virus classification. It is artificial in that it is not based on evolutionary phylogenetics but it is based shared or distinguishing properties of viruses. It seeks to describe the diversity of viruses by naming and grouping them on the basis of similarities. In 1962, André Lwoff, Robert ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32772 | 767,861 |
277,488 | Arsenic is a neurotoxin commonly found concentrated in areas exposed to agricultural runoff, mining, and smelting sites (Martinez-Finley 2011). One of the effects of arsenic ingestion during the development of the nervous system is the inhibition of neurite growth which can occur both in PNS and the CNS. This neurite g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=326357 | 277,338 |
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