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1,074,228 | Sprytrons are often designed similar to trigatrons, with the trigger electrode coaxial to the cathode. In one design the trigger electrode is formed as metallization on the inner surface of an alumina tube. The trigger pulse causes surface flashover, which liberates electrons and vaporized surface discharge material in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=961677 | 1,073,674 |
15,731 | His efforts, and those of others such as numerical analyst George Forsythe, were rewarded: universities went on to create such departments, starting with Purdue in 1962. Despite its name, a significant amount of computer science does not involve the study of computers themselves. Because of this, several alternative na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5323 | 15,726 |
2,098,299 | In 2012, Brown founded TableTopOpera, a chamber ensemble that specializes in multimedia projects. In particular, TableTopOpera has collaborated with comics artist P. Craig Russell on three comic book operas ("Ariane and Bluebeard", "Salome", and "Pelléas Redux"), and has developed its own shows for the Rochester Fringe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69243558 | 2,097,091 |
2,240,558 | Seadragons are known for their remarkable derived traits, including leaf-like appendages; extreme spinal curvature (kyphosis and lordosis); elongated craniofacial bones; large body size and unique body plan; and elaborate skin coloration, presumably adapted for crypsis. They also have a toothless tubular mouth, bony ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72186579 | 2,239,287 |
1,116,765 | Once Gary Gygax's attention had been drawn to Barker's work, it was decided that TSR would publish a revised version of the game mechanics along with a condensed version of his campaign setting. TSR's "Empire of the Petal Throne" was published in 1975 for Gen Con VIII, making it TSR's third role-playing game to be publ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60915 | 1,116,192 |
284,111 | Published in 1909, with the eventual classical analysis by Rutherford published May 1911, the key preemptive experiment was performed during 1909, at the University of Manchester. Ernest Rutherford's assistant, Professor Johannes "Hans" Geiger, and an undergraduate, Marsden, performed an experiment in which Geiger and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21285 | 283,958 |
2,097,316 | An experimental early warning system developed by BSL issued a warning 10 seconds before the 6.0 magnitude earthquake that hit the Napa region on August 24, 2014. Such a warning system could potentially give people time to take cover in the event of a quake, preventing injuries caused by falling debris, automatically s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43668436 | 2,096,108 |
745,287 | The use of a rotor for vertical flight has existed since 400 BC in the form of the bamboo-copter, an ancient Chinese toy. The bamboo-copter is spun by rolling a stick attached to a rotor. The spinning creates lift, and the toy flies when released. The philosopher Ge Hong's book the "Baopuzi" (Master Who Embraces Simpli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3512290 | 744,893 |
361,918 | Thorium is still being used as an alloying element in TIG welding electrodes but is slowly being replaced in the field with different compositions. It was also material in high-end optics and scientific instrumentation, used in some broadcast vacuum tubes, and as the light source in gas mantles, but these uses have bec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30044 | 361,728 |
979,025 | When the forms are removed from the material, it is solid but still soft. It is then cut into either blocks or panels, and placed in an autoclave chamber for 12 hours. During this steam pressure hardening process, when the temperature reaches and the pressure reaches , quartz sand reacts with calcium hydroxide to form ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2624245 | 978,514 |
1,994,401 | In 1932 a new and innovative anti-aircraft gun was designed. Partly based on the M/16, it was mounted on a low-slung trailer with three outriggers. Two of them folded together for transportation, and two rubber wheels could be mounted. The outriggers could be adjusted in elevation to a limited extent to help place the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5729246 | 1,993,258 |
1,096,287 | During the 1940s and 1950s, chemists had trouble explaining why even slight changes in the reactants caused significant differences in the rate and product distributions of a reaction. In 1955 George Hammond, a young professor at Iowa State University, postulated that transition-state theory could be used to qualitativ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4131678 | 1,095,727 |
53,727 | In the U.K. the British Computer Society has developed a legally recognized professional certification called "Chartered IT Professional (CITP)", available to fully qualified members ("MBCS"). Software engineers may be eligible for membership of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and so qualify for Chartered... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27010 | 53,707 |
168,161 | Polyploidy was induced in fish by Har Swarup (1956) using a cold-shock treatment of the eggs close to the time of fertilization, which produced triploid embryos that successfully matured. Cold or heat shock has also been shown to result in unreduced amphibian gametes, though this occurs more commonly in eggs than in sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62610 | 168,071 |
79,952 | The conclusions of trials and systematic reviews of acupuncture generally provide no good evidence of benefit, which suggests that it is not an effective method of healthcare. Acupuncture is generally safe when done by appropriately trained practitioners using clean needle technique and single-use needles. When properl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1537 | 79,919 |
169,774 | The particular normative form of masculinity that is the most honoured way of being a man, which requires all other men to position themselves in relation to it, is known as hegemonic masculinity. Originally, hegemonic masculinity was understood as the pattern of practice that allowed men's dominance over women to cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9928314 | 169,684 |
376,864 | Michel Foucault sought to analyze and uncover how disciplines within the social sciences developed and adopted the methodologies used by their practitioners. In works like "The Archaeology of Knowledge", he used the term "human sciences". The human sciences do not comprise mainstream academic disciplines; they are rath... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37010 | 376,669 |
758,512 | In general, an isolate is suspected to be an ESBL producer when it shows "in vitro" susceptibility to the cephamycins (cefoxitin, cefotetan) but resistance to the third-generation cephalosporins and to aztreonam. Moreover, one should suspect these strains when treatment with these agents for Gram-negative infections fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4609 | 758,106 |
317,870 | In 1976, two landers of the Viking program provided the first ever in-situ measurements of the composition of the Martian atmosphere. Another objective of the mission included investigations for evidence of past or present life on Mars (see Viking lander biological experiments). Since then, many orbiters and landers ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4548379 | 317,700 |
1,220,584 | Diagnosis of AIR can be difficult due to the overlap of symptoms with other disorders. Examination of the fundus (inner surface of eye) can show no results or it can show narrowing of the blood vessels, abnormal colouration of the optic disc, and retinal atrophy. Fundus examination results are not indicative of autoimm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45423314 | 1,219,929 |
815,058 | The leading scientific proponent of catastrophism in the early nineteenth century was the French anatomist and paleontologist Georges Cuvier. His motivation was to explain the patterns of extinction and faunal succession that he and others were observing in the fossil record. While he did speculate that the catastrophe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174883 | 814,624 |
425,390 | The United Kingdom has almost two-thirds, 58%, of the rail network on non-electrified track, which consumes 469 million litres of diesel each year. Mark Carne of Network Rail, who are responsible for the tracks of the British rail network, in March 2017 stated: "The idea that you need to electrify an entire route is no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20883116 | 425,182 |
633,841 | The Poincaré disk was described by Henri Poincaré in his 1882 treatment of hyperbolic, parabolic and elliptic functions, but became widely known following Poincaré's presentation in his 1905 philosophical treatise, "Science and Hypothesis". There he describes a world, now known as the Poincaré disk, in which space was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30871836 | 633,503 |
165,988 | Claudio Stampi, as a result of his interest in long-distance solo boat racing, has studied the systematic timing of short naps as a means of ensuring optimal performance in situations where extreme sleep deprivation is inevitable, but he does not advocate ultrashort napping as a lifestyle. "Scientific American Frontier... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=620330 | 165,903 |
1,332,267 | Modal logic can be regarded also as the most simple appearance of such studies: it extends extensional logic just with a few sentential functors: these are intensional, and they are interpreted (in the metarules of semantics) as quantifying over possible worlds. For example, the Necessity operator (the 'box') when appl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1601765 | 1,331,538 |
1,380,984 | DIF refers to differences in the functioning of items across groups, oftentimes demographic, which are matched on the latent trait or more generally the attribute being measured by the items or test. It is important to note that when examining items for DIF, the groups must be matched on the measured attribute, otherwi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9268401 | 1,380,221 |
880,479 | Early humans migrated due to many factors, such as changing climate and landscape and inadequate food-supply for the levels of population. The evidence indicates that the ancestors of the Austronesian peoples spread from the South Chinese mainland to the island of Taiwan around 8,000 years ago. Evidence from historical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46187677 | 880,015 |
532,385 | The microelectrodes used by Katz and his contemporaries pale in comparison to the technologically advanced recording techniques available today. Spatial summation began to receive a lot of research attention when techniques were developed that allowed the simultaneous recording of multiple loci on a dendritic tree. A l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20705108 | 532,106 |
1,731,644 | Frescoes can be found in places of worship such as churches, ancient temples and tombs, as well as private residences and commercial establishments used for public entertainment. It is these environments and their pollutants that interact with the chemicals, both organic and inorganic, utilized to create the frescoes a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48563146 | 1,730,668 |
300,792 | A review of all of the criticality accidents with eyewitness accounts indicates that the heat waves were only observed when the fluorescent blue glow (the non-Cherenkov light, see above) was also observed. This would suggest a possible relationship between the two, and indeed, one can be potentially identified. In dens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=949651 | 300,631 |
618,927 | On April 9 2021, firearms YouTuber Scott DeShields Jr., known for his channel "Kentucky Ballistics", suffered critical injuries while recording a video shooting the model RN-50 rifle using old .50 BMG SLAP rounds. The gun exploded as DeShields fired the last round, sending shrapnel into his face and torso, lacerating h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9915681 | 618,613 |
1,028,136 | Forest Research Institute Dehradun is among the oldest institutions of its kind. The institute's history is virtually synonymous with the evolution and development of scientific forestry, not only in India, but over the entire sub-continent. Built over 450 hectares, with the outer Himalaya forming its back drop, the in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2217623 | 1,027,602 |
1,950,494 | Prosopis strombulifera is a species of mesquite or "algarrobo", a shrub in the legume family. It is known by the English common names Argentine screwbean and creeping screwbean and the Spanish common name retortuño. This shrub is native to Argentina, where it grows in arid and saline soils. It became well known in Cali... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26889518 | 1,949,373 |
921,910 | Between August 2002 and July 2006, the W3C released eight Working Drafts of XHTML 2.0, a new version of XHTML able to make a clean break from the past by discarding the requirement of backward compatibility. This lack of compatibility with XHTML 1.x and HTML 4 caused some early controversy in the web developer communit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18984580 | 921,424 |
1,756,642 | The Cardiac Arrhythmia Suppression Trial (CAST) was a double-blind, randomized, controlled study designed to test the hypothesis that suppression of premature ventricular complexes (PVC) with class I antiarrhythmic agents after a myocardial infarction (MI) would reduce mortality. It was conducted between 1986 and 1989 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33224638 | 1,755,651 |
983,247 | Although this hunter was sharing meat, he was not doing so in the framework of reciprocity. The general model of costly signalling is not reciprocal; rather, individuals who share acquire more mates and allies. Costly signalling applies to situations in Kalahari foraging groups where giving often goes to recipients who... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1318175 | 982,733 |
2,078,767 | Protandrena is a genus of mining bees in the family Andrenidae. Depending upon whose definition of the genus one follows, there are anywhere from 50 to 180 described species in "Protandrena"; traditional classifications recognize 7 subgenera, some of which are sometimes elevated to genus rank, and other classifications... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57324891 | 2,077,568 |
191,930 | In 2009, experts attended a private conference hosted by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) to discuss whether computers and robots might be able to acquire any sort of autonomy, and how much these abilities might pose a threat or hazard. They noted that some robots have acquired vari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46583121 | 191,831 |
392,512 | The corpus callosum is found only in placental mammals, while it is absent in monotremes and marsupials, as well as other vertebrates such as birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish. (Other groups do have other brain structures that allow for communication between the two hemispheres, such as the anterior commissure, whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=270014 | 392,317 |
2,121,518 | Mongolia has complicated tectonic and structural geology, belonging to the Mongolian-Okhotsk Mobile Zone, between the Siberian Platform and Chinese Platform. The basement rocks formed during the Paleozoic in the Precambrian as Riphean age ophiolite formations experienced rifting from 1.7 to 1.6 billion years ago and ag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58909852 | 2,120,299 |
1,262,344 | This students' protest has triggered many debates about higher education in Quebec. Firstly, there was a heated discussion of the possibility of lower accessibility to higher education caused by the higher tuition fees. Especially the students shared the opinion that higher tuition fee would lead to lower accessibility... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17662107 | 1,261,657 |
1,099,054 | Snowden and Teie created species-specific music and tested it on cotton-top tamarins, "Saguinus oedipus" at the University of Wisconsin. The results of this study, indicated that species-specific music was the most effective music to elicit a response. There have been several other musicians over the years who have per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1043371 | 1,098,494 |
88,456 | Microkernel (also abbreviated μK or uK) is the term describing an approach to operating system design by which the functionality of the system is moved out of the traditional "kernel", into a set of "servers" that communicate through a "minimal" kernel, leaving as little as possible in "system space" and as much as pos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21346982 | 88,421 |
1,564,325 | The horse-mounted timpani of the Ottoman Empire was sure to be one of the sources of inspiration for the European adoption of timpani into their cavalry. Having timpani in the cavalry was rare and the drums were only awarded to the most elite of groups. The drums were paired with trumpeters and announced the arrival of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26164030 | 1,563,438 |
260,181 | Some Precambrian (Ediacaran) organisms produced tough but non-mineralized outer shells, while others, such as "Cloudina", had a calcified exoskeleton, but mineralized skeletons did not become common until the beginning of the Cambrian period, with the rise of the "small shelly fauna". Just after the base of the Cambria... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145424 | 260,047 |
1,814,120 | NOBCChE was co-founded in 1972 by a group of chemists and chemical engineers. Initially, the organization was financially aided by the Haas Community Fund and Drexel University. After receiving positive feedback and interest from other black chemists and chemical engineers, the founders decided to expand on their idea ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7073994 | 1,813,086 |
1,292,463 | Characterized by their elongated maxillae, they were herbivorous and typically large in size. This family exhibited locomotive dynamism; there exists evidence for both bipedalism and quadrupedalism within iguanodontid species, supporting the idea that individual organisms were capable of both locomoting exclusively wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3579033 | 1,291,752 |
980,832 | In 1986, local businessman Bruce Samson dropped out of Tampa's mayoral campaign to become UT's president, a position he was offered due in part to his background in banking and finance. Samson successfully eliminated the school's $1.4 million annual budget deficit through "hardnosed" decisions, including withdrawing fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=947651 | 980,320 |
853,267 | In 2016, Novas and his colleagues published a study of megaraptoran hand anatomy, in an attempt to help settle the question of their classification. They found that megaraptorans lacked most of the key features in the hands of derived coelurosaurs including "Guanlong" and "Deinonychus". Instead, their hands retain a nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24759003 | 852,813 |
918,687 | In order to improve the quality of service for users in hotspots and on cell edges, heterogenous networks (HetNet) are formed of a mixture of macro-, pico- and femto base stations serving corresponding-size areas. Frozen in December 2012, 3GPP Release 11 concentrates on better support of HetNet. Coordinated Multi-Point... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19285762 | 918,204 |
2,052,073 | Online social media not only comes to mind as an analogy for what the CCL achieves in its combination of mailing list, online forum, and portal, but also as a threat to the CCL in the long term. A number of groups exist on Facebook and LinkedIn, and increasingly also in the online platforms of learned societies like th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2907947 | 2,050,892 |
1,378,770 | Ishihara graduated from medicine in 1905 on a military scholarship and immediately joined the Imperial Japanese Army as a doctor, serving mainly as a surgeon. He later changed specialties to ophthalmology. In 1908 he returned to the University of Tokyo where he dedicated himself to ophthalmic research. In 1910 he becam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2147946 | 1,378,008 |
302,765 | Metafont, not strictly part of TeX, is a font description system which allows the designer to describe characters algorithmically. It uses Bézier curves in a fairly standard way to generate the actual characters to be displayed, but Knuth devotes substantial attention to the rasterizing problem on bitmapped displays. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30065 | 302,603 |
1,022,252 | In September 1947, a series of talks outlining the project took place between Dassault and the Bureau d'Etudes et Plans d'Etat Major. The French government's response to the proposal was positive; however no firm order for the aircraft was placed at this time, necessitating the project to proceed as a private venture. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2179000 | 1,021,723 |
224,568 | This interpretation is now in doubt, and the debate and struggle may have initially begun in the provinces rather than in the imperial court. Letters survive written by the Patriarch Germanos in the 720s and 730s concerning Constantine, the bishop of Nakoleia, and Thomas of Klaudioupolis. In both sets of letters (the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9790552 | 224,454 |
460,696 | While the human medical use of antibiotics is the main source of antibiotic resistant infections in humans, it is known that humans can acquire antibiotic resistance genes from a variety of animal sources, including farm animals, pets and wildlife. Three potential mechanisms by which agricultural antibiotic use could l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40364158 | 460,470 |
2,116,483 | The first expedition of the Adam Mickiewicz University at Spitsbergen took place in 1984. In the years 1984-1989, a research project focused on the research and creation of the Petuniabukta geomorphological map. In the 1990s, the research continued in the area of the Polish Polar Station Hornsund. In 2000, a new cycle ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58463817 | 2,115,266 |
620,514 | Flashboards run in several parallel strings to provide a large area of plasma or ultraviolet radiation and uses the breakdown and vaporization of gaps of diamonds to produce the required plasma. These parallel strings are mounted in tubes and oriented to have their gaps azimuthal to the tube's axis. It discharges by us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10382 | 620,199 |
2,198,900 | The integration of diagnostic techniques and genomic sequencing has played a vital role in allowing for the implementation of personalized medicine in the market. For instance, warfarin may lead to acute cardiac failure, hemorrhage, necrosis, and osteoporosis depending on the genetic variations in the CYP2C9, and VKORC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70423831 | 2,197,648 |
983,487 | "Friendship 7" lost altitude in its reentry glide over the continental United States, and headed toward splashdown in the Atlantic. The Texas tracking station told Glenn to retain the retro pack until the accelerometer read 1.5 "g" (14.7 m/s). Glenn reported as he crossed Cape Canaveral that he had been controlling the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213238 | 982,973 |
221,012 | Contemporary German photographer and philosopher Alexander Lauterwasser has brought cymatics into the 21st century using finely crafted crystal oscillators to resonate steel plates covered with fine sand and to vibrate small samples of water in Petri dishes. His first book, "Water Sound Images", translated into English... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=411512 | 220,903 |
2,106,873 | He has worked on many construction projects in the United Kingdom and abroad including manufacturing facilities, bridges, power stations and offshore structures. He spent 25 years working with the engineering contractor Tarmac plc and was the company's chief operating officer and vice-chairman. Francis has also served ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37532950 | 2,105,660 |
967,669 | In December 2008: In Denmark, plans were announced in for the conversion of its entire national network to Level 2. This was necessitated by the near obsolete nature of parts of its network. The total cost of the project is estimated at €3.3bn, with conversion beginning in 2009 and projected for completion in 2021. Den... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2214121 | 967,159 |
1,602,864 | An alternative waveguide configuration that is suitable for growth on InAs substrates uses highly "n"-doped InAs for the optical cladding. The high electron density in this layer lowers the refractive index in accordance with the Drude model. In this approach, the epitaxial structure is grown on an "n"-type InAs substr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37769853 | 1,601,963 |
1,864,780 | General Liu Huaqing, the future commander-in-chief of the PLAN, was the head of the 7th Academy and agreed with the Chinese researchers and ordered two samples to be produced in 30 months, with the 705th Research Institute as the primary contractor. Since there were no design information available, Chinese had to rever... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12949759 | 1,863,708 |
2,005,247 | The geology of Virginia began to form 1.8 billion years ago and potentially even earlier. The oldest rocks in the state were metamorphosed during the Grenville orogeny, a mountain building event beginning 1.2 billion years ago in the Proterozoic, which obscured older rocks. Throughout the Proterozoic and Paleozoic, Vir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57822114 | 2,004,098 |
381,759 | Pyridine is a basic heterocyclic organic compound with the chemical formula . It is structurally related to benzene, with one methine group replaced by a nitrogen atom. It is a highly flammable, weakly alkaline, water-miscible liquid with a distinctive, unpleasant fish-like smell. Pyridine is colorless, but older or im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23863 | 381,564 |
999,325 | Arfa Abdul Karim Randhawa (; 2 February 1995 – 14 January 2012) was a Pakistani student and computer prodigy who became the youngest Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) in 2004. She was submitted to the Guinness Book of World Records for her achievement. Arfa kept the title until 2008 and went on to represent Pakist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4135978 | 998,807 |
868,729 | The Ruth and Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine is home to two Nobel Laureates: Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover. It is one of four state-sponsored medical schools in Israel. It was founded in 1979 through the philanthropy of Bruce Rappaport and is active in basic science research and pre-clinical medical training ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=161784 | 868,269 |
2,005,634 | The heterogeneity of the refractive index of the metallic surface imparts high contrast images, caused by the shift in the resonance angle. SPRM can achieve a sub-nanometer thickness sensitivity and lateral resolution achieves values of micrometer scale. SPRM is used to characterize surfaces such as self-assembled mono... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47482842 | 2,004,485 |
1,766,514 | A thermosonic bond is formed using a set of parameters which include ultrasonic, thermal and mechanical (force) energies. A thermosonic bonding machine includes a magnetostrictive or piezoelectric-type transducer which is used to convert electrical energy into vibratory motion which is known as piezoelectricity. The vi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26109619 | 1,765,520 |
80,081 | In a match-to-sample task study, a single California sea lion was able to demonstrate an understanding of symmetry, transitivity and equivalence; a second seal was unable to complete the tasks. They demonstrate the ability to understand simple syntax and commands when taught an artificial sign language, though they onl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60261 | 80,048 |
332,786 | Epicurus distinguished between two different types of pleasure: "moving" pleasures (κατὰ κίνησιν ἡδοναί) and "static" pleasures (καταστηματικαὶ ἡδοναί). "Moving" pleasures occur when one is in the process of satisfying a desire and involve an active titillation of the senses. After one's desires have been satisfied (e.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10073 | 332,609 |
2,184,149 | The small, milk-white shell is pupiform and generally cancellated. It measures 3.2 mm. The whorls of the protoconch number at least two, forming a depressed helicoid spire, whose axis is at right angles to that of the succeeding turns, in the first of which it is all but one-half immersed. The seven whorls of the teleo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33685858 | 2,182,901 |
346,909 | The NH90 features an advanced composite airframe, designed for ballistic tolerance, a high level of crashworthiness, lower weight, and 30 per cent greater endurance than a metallic counterpart. The four main rotor blades are also composed of composite materials, increasing fatigue strength and lifespan while providing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=513911 | 346,728 |
1,820,573 | Alpha-synuclein (α-synuclein) is an endogenous protein that is encoded by the "SNCA" gene and known as the pathological hallmark of Parkinson's disease. It is found in distinct regions of the body, but in PD, alpha-synuclein accumulation in the brain is of main importance. This protein misfolds and accumulates creating... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65269943 | 1,819,536 |
566,880 | The other determining factor, namely the physical conditions attending consolidation, plays, on the whole, a smaller part, yet is by no means negligible. Certain minerals are practically confined to deep-seated intrusive rocks, e.g., microcline, muscovite, diallage. Leucite is very rare in plutonic masses; many mineral... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39562 | 566,590 |
1,609,418 | Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a neuro developmental disorder, most commonly diagnosed in childhood, and is characterized by deficits in social and communication skills. Symptoms include social impairments, hyper-fixations, repetitive behaviors and hypersensitivity. ASD severity falls on a spectrum, which means some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63336797 | 1,608,513 |
379,175 | Recent studies suggest that taking the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) antidepressants paroxetine (Paxil), fluoxetine (Prozac), and sertraline (Zoloft) can decrease the effectiveness of tamoxifen, as these drugs compete for the CYP2D6 enzyme which is needed to metabolize tamoxifen into its active forms.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1269557 | 378,980 |
1,359,842 | Ira Flatow was the show's first host during the first five seasons and in the 6th season, he was replaced by David Heil, then assistant director of the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI). In the 4th season, Peggy Knapp joined the show as a field reporter and later became the co-host in the 13th season. The la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1419397 | 1,359,090 |
1,105,166 | The arguments for light rail were mainly related to the environment, urban development and reduction in road congestion. Light rail is estimated to increase the use of public transport from Fana, reducing both local and global pollution. The roads do not have capacity for further growth, and any increase in public tran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9113069 | 1,104,603 |
543,871 | ASR 8 is the analog precursor to the ASR 9. The military nomenclature for the radar is AN/GPN-20. It is an aging radar system that is obsolete, not logistically supported, does not provide digital inputs to new terminal automation systems, and does not provide a calibrated precipitation intensity product nor any storm ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4456695 | 543,590 |
1,616,569 | G9a and G9a-like protein, another histone-lysine N-methyltransferase, catalyze the synthesis of H3K9me2, which is a repressive mark. G9a is an important control mechanism for epigenetic regulation within the nucleus accumbens (NAcc); reduced G9a expression in the NAcc plays a central role in mediating the development o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14773184 | 1,615,658 |
2,128,460 | Hardy was born in 1847 in Andover, Massachusetts, the son of Alpheus and Susan W. (Holmes) Hardy. He received his elementary school education abroad and thus gained an exposure to languages. He attended Phillips Academy and completed one year at Amherst College before becoming a cadet at the United States Military Acad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8273931 | 2,127,237 |
1,794,217 | In present days, the regional drainage configuration is very different from how it originally was. River systems were eastward flowing, with the Indus as an exception, before the continental collision started. At present, most rivers are flowing south to southeast. The Salween, Yom, Mekong and Red river are drastically... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61748831 | 1,793,208 |
1,710,682 | Millican has published a series of substantial papers with the aim of deciding the so-called "New Hume" debate, which has been the most prominent controversy in Hume scholarship over the last 20 years ("New Humeans" take Hume to be a believer in a form of causation that goes beyond the constraints of his famous "two de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24993687 | 1,709,722 |
616,223 | Alzheimer’s patients display elevated levels of TGF-B and phosphorylated Smad2 in their hippocampal neurons. This finding is seemingly paradoxical, as TGF-B has previously been shown to have neuroprotective effects on Alzheimer’s patients. This suggests that some aspect of TGF-B signaling is defective, causing TGF-B to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5695222 | 615,909 |
192,061 | On 21 January 2018 at 01:43 UTC, their second rocket, on a flight named "Still Testing", launched, reached orbit and deployed three CubeSats for customers Planet Labs and Spire Global. The rocket also carried an additional satellite payload called "Humanity Star", a of wide carbon fibre geodesic sphere made up of 65 pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25113585 | 191,962 |
320,019 | Different previously isolated, non-interacting systems occupy different phase spaces. Alternatively we can say that they occupy different lower-dimensional subspaces in the phase space of the joint system. The "effective" dimensionality of a system's phase space is the number of "degrees of freedom" present, which—in n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=185732 | 319,847 |
1,491,167 | Magnetic Immunoassay (MIA) is able to detect select molecules or pathogens through the use of a magnetically tagged antibody. Functioning in a way similar to that of an ELISA or Western Blot, a two-antibody binding process is used to determine concentrations of analytes. MIA uses antibodies that are coating a magnetic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19889519 | 1,490,328 |
28,518 | The work which eventually led to the discovery of fluoxetine began at Eli Lilly and Company in 1970 as a collaboration between Bryan Molloy and Robert Rathbun. It was known at that time that the antihistamine diphenhydramine shows some antidepressant-like properties. 3-Phenoxy-3-phenylpropylamine, a compound structural... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10153680 | 28,508 |
103,997 | With high levels of regulation and dependence on declining oil prices, growth slowed to an average of 4.5% per annum between 1981 and 1988. A range of economic reforms was introduced in the late 1980s, including a managed devaluation of the rupiah to improve export competitiveness, and deregulation of the financial sec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14647 | 103,952 |
446,366 | Utility proposals in the U.S for nuclear generating stations, peaked at 52 in 1974, fell to 12 in 1976 and have never recovered, in large part due to the pressure-group litigation strategy, of launching lawsuits against each proposed U.S construction proposal, keeping private utilities tied up in court for years, one o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36030827 | 446,150 |
1,841,809 | Scoliosis is well established and even evaluated at an early age. It is typically quantified using the standardized Cobb angle method. This method consists of measuring the degree of deformity by the angle between two successive vertebrae. The Cobb method was accepted by the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) in 1966. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72045415 | 1,840,757 |
898,327 | A complete "Herrerasaurus" skull was found in 1988, by a team of paleontologists led by Paul Sereno. Based on the new fossils, authors such as Thomas Holtz and José Bonaparte classified "Herrerasaurus" at the base of the saurischian tree before the divergence between prosauropods and theropods. However, Sereno favored ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1902021 | 897,853 |
163,068 | The result of GVD, whether negative or positive, is ultimately temporal spreading of the pulse. This makes dispersion management extremely important in optical communications systems based on optical fiber, since if dispersion is too high, a group of pulses representing a bit-stream will spread in time and merge, rende... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172333 | 162,983 |
1,356,938 | On average, the light that Gliese 581d receives from its star has about 30% of the intensity of light the Earth receives from the Sun. By comparison, sunlight on Mars has about 40% of the intensity of that on Earth. That might seem to suggest that Gliese 581d is too cold to support liquid water and hence is inhospitabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10881051 | 1,356,188 |
849,371 | Gene nomenclature is the scientific naming of genes, the units of heredity in living organisms. It is also closely associated with protein nomenclature, as genes and the proteins they code for usually have similar nomenclature. An international committee published recommendations for genetic symbols and nomenclature in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9894237 | 848,921 |
43,028 | In 1994, the Nuclear Posture Review study determined that, of the 18 "Ohio" SSBNs the U.S. Navy would be operating in total, 14 would be sufficient for the strategic needs of the U.S. The decision was made to convert four "Ohio"-class boats into SSGNs capable of conducting conventional land attack and special operation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22654 | 43,012 |
1,986,143 | The Education and Outreach Program is designed to integrate EarthScope into both the classroom and the community. The program must reach out to scientific educators and students as well as industry professionals (engineers, land/resource managers, technical application/data users), partners of the project (UNAVCO, IRIS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3463982 | 1,985,002 |
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