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71,810 | While traveling, many steamships from the eastern seaboard required the passengers to bring kits, which were typically full of personal belongings such as clothes, guidebooks, tools, etc. In addition to personal belongings, Argonauts were required to bring barrels full of beef, biscuits, butter, pork, rice, and salt. W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58296 | 71,783 |
544,890 | The Griffins' office in Chicago closed in 1917; however, they had successful practices in Melbourne and Sydney, which were a strong motivation for their continuing to live in Australia. The Griffins had received commissions for work outside Canberra since Walter first arrived in the country in 1913, designing town plan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53409 | 544,606 |
1,924,350 | The strength of the organization continues to grow in all directions, and the responsibilities of the officers coincide. In 1972, two-term student president Fay D'Avignon (Boston Architectural Center) is elected as the first female president of the organization, and also becomes the first ASC/AIA officer to take full-t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=607666 | 1,923,247 |
10,169 | MIT has its own police force. Three days after the Boston Marathon bombing of April 2013, MIT Police patrol officer Sean Collier was fatally shot by the suspects Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, setting off a violent manhunt that shut down the campus and much of the Boston metropolitan area for a day. One week later, Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18879 | 10,165 |
1,828,744 | The geology of Mozambique is primarily extremely old Precambrian metamorphic and igneous crystalline basement rock, formed in the Archean and Proterozoic, in some cases more than two billion years ago. Mozambique contains greenstone belts and spans the Zimbabwe Craton, a section of ancient stable crust. The region was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57637304 | 1,827,704 |
921,995 | Chancellor Ryan also opposed the Columbia Point proposal, who before he resigned in February 1968, made a counterproposal for a 15-acre campus south of where John Hancock Tower was being built that the BRA rejected. Architectural consultants of the university also scouted land near North Station and adjacent to the Bos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99867 | 921,509 |
1,657,970 | These activity-dependent changes in intracellular calcium levels can be monitored by introducing GECIs to the cell. Following this influx of ions, GECIs fluoresce upon Ca binding and the change in fluorescence corresponds proportionally to intracellular calcium changes. The most commonly used calcium indicator for fibe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68824274 | 1,657,037 |
152,647 | The Palearctic realm spans the entirety of the European continent and stretches into northern Asia, through the Caucasus and central Asia to northern China, Siberia and Beringia. During the Late Pleistocene, this region was noted for its great diversity and dynamism of biomes, including the warm climes of the Mediterra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18783051 | 152,579 |
559,369 | The main engineer for the MP4 was John Barnard, who began drawing the car in late 1979. After a visit to the Rolls Royce factory where he saw engineers working with carbon fibre technology on the Rolls-Royce RB211 jet engine, Barnard saw the potential of this technology and convinced Ron Dennis to fund the design and b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5935978 | 559,080 |
694,087 | Progress in molecular biology over the last six decades has produced powerful tools that facilitate the dissection of biochemical and genetic signals; yet, they tend to not be well-suited for bioelectric studies "in vivo". Prior work relied extensively on current applied directly by electrodes, reinvigorated by signifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55498066 | 693,724 |
1,361,971 | The first study of the spectral energy distribution of the planet was published in July 2013. This study shows detections at 1.265, 1.66, 2.18, 3.80, 4.05 and 4.78 µm demonstrating that the planet has a very dusty and/or cloudy atmosphere. The SED is consistent with that of an early L dwarf, but with a lower surface gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20398001 | 1,361,218 |
264,480 | A second minor hardware refresh, with model number CUH-7200, was first released in bundles with "Red Dead Redemption 2" in November 2018. The newer version, otherwise functionally equivalent to the CUH-7000, has a different power connector, and uses a quieter fan, which, according to Digital Foundry, makes a "night and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39616242 | 264,337 |
1,079,429 | In 2019, thioacidolysis degradation and solid-state NMR was used to determine the molecular structure of pitch pine sporopollenin, finding it primarily composed of polyvinyl alcohol units alongside other aliphatic monomers, all crosslinked through a series of acetal linkages. Its complex and heterogeneous chemical stru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1127490 | 1,078,874 |
313,512 | Spatial resolution of an fMRI study refers to how well it discriminates between nearby locations. It is measured by the size of voxels, as in MRI. A voxel is a three-dimensional rectangular cuboid, whose dimensions are set by the slice thickness, the area of a slice, and the grid imposed on the slice by the scanning pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=226722 | 313,343 |
746,809 | Ballesteros et al. (2017) proposed a large, ringed planet trailed by a swarm of Trojan asteroids in its L5 Lagrangian point, and estimated an orbit that predicts another event in early 2021 due to the leading Trojans followed by another transit of the hypothetical planet in 2023. The model suggests a planet with a radi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48217770 | 746,414 |
916,646 | The United States originally wished to remain neutral when World War I broke out in August 1914. However, it insisted on its right as a neutral party to immunity from German submarine attack, even though its ships carried food and raw materials to Britain. In 1917 the Germans resumed submarine attacks, knowing that it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=161323 | 916,163 |
1,727,522 | Graphesthesia is the ability in which a person is able to recognize a number or letter that is written on the person's skin. Like other tactile discrimination tests, the test for this is a measurement of the patient's sense of touch, and requires that the patient perform the test voluntarily and without visual contact.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15559385 | 1,726,548 |
202,937 | The choice of a scoring function that reflects biological or statistical observations about known sequences is important to producing good alignments. Protein sequences are frequently aligned using substitution matrices that reflect the probabilities of given character-to-character substitutions. A series of matrices c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=149289 | 202,833 |
1,657,912 | The reproductive season for this species is year round. On average, their clutch size is around one or two eggs per reproductive cycle. Female water anoles reach sexual maturity at an earlier age than their male counterparts, and also have a smaller snout-anus length than males do at their sexual maturity. Males have a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63217760 | 1,656,979 |
319,460 | The third Scout and Raiders organization deployed to fight with the Sino-American Cooperative Organization (SACO) in China. Admiral Ernest J. King ordered that 120 officers and 900 enlisted sailors be trained for "Amphibious Roger" at the Amphibious Roger school at Fort Pierce, Florida in order to support this mission.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=846251 | 319,289 |
49,231 | During the Second World War, Keynes argued in "How to Pay for the War", published in 1940, that the war effort should be largely financed by higher taxation and especially by compulsory saving (essentially workers lending money to the government), rather than deficit spending, to avoid inflation. Compulsory saving woul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37973 | 49,211 |
1,280,873 | Phylogenetic comparative methods (PCMs) use information on the historical relationships of lineages (phylogenies) to test evolutionary hypotheses. The comparative method has a long history in evolutionary biology; indeed, Charles Darwin used differences and similarities between species as a major source of evidence in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9738540 | 1,280,178 |
1,386,665 | As one of the earliest cynodonts, "Procynosuchus" has many primitive features, but it also has features that distinguish it from all other early therapsids. Some of these features were interpreted by Kemp (1980) as adaptations for a semi-aquatic lifestyle. For example, the wide zygapophyses of the vertebrae allow for a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4984136 | 1,385,898 |
1,671,717 | In 1949, he received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of Chicago. His early work was in enzyme kinetics at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Long Island, and Rockefeller University, New York. This led him to propose the induced fit model for enzyme catalysis. In the same period he studied the effect of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12505173 | 1,670,776 |
213,469 | The US Department of Defense stated in 2010 that China has developed and reached initial operating capability (IOC) of a conventionally armed high hypersonic land-based anti-ship ballistic missile based on the DF-21. This is the first ASBM and weapon system capable of targeting a moving aircraft carrier strike group fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9066481 | 213,361 |
1,362,956 | Designed as a single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) reusable winged launch vehicle, HOTOL was to be fitted with a unique air-breathing engine, the RB545 or Swallow, that was under development by British engine manufacturer Rolls-Royce. The propellant for the engine technically consisted of a combination of liquid hydrogen/liqui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14301 | 1,362,203 |
956,262 | Inspired by his father, Haldane often used self-experimentation and would expose himself to danger to obtain data. To test the effects of acidification of the blood he drank dilute hydrochloric acid, enclosed himself in an airtight room containing 7% carbon dioxide, and found that it 'gives one a rather violent headach... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62417 | 955,757 |
1,968,224 | The need for a higher organisational command structure for medium and heavy artillery became apparent during the Battle of France and the early part of the Western Desert Campaign. The 'Army Group Royal Artillery' (AGRA) concept was developed during Exercise 'Bumper' held in the UK in 1941, organised by the commander o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=816083 | 1,967,094 |
1,164,560 | Hopkins received her BA from Radcliffe College in 1964, and earned her PhD from the Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry at Harvard University in 1971, where she worked with Professor Mark Ptashne. With Ptashne she identified the operator sites on DNA to which the lambda repressor binds to control early gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13544223 | 1,163,943 |
309,575 | At first the fuzes were only used in situations where they could not be captured by the Germans. They were used in land-based artillery in the South Pacific in 1944. Also in 1944, fuzes were allocated to the British Army's Anti-Aircraft Command, that was engaged in defending Britain against the V-1 flying bomb. As most... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=225127 | 309,410 |
402,657 | The report "A Review of Published Research on Low Frequency Noise and its Effects" contains a long list of research about exposure to high-level infrasound among humans and animals. For instance, in 1972, Borredon exposed 42 young men to tones at 7.5 Hz at 130 dB for 50 minutes. This exposure caused no adverse effects ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=215176 | 402,457 |
2,170,291 | The project started in October 2016, with the team initially conducting system developments on a small prototype vehicle prior to receiving the ISEKI compact tractor which was adapted to conduct autonomous farming tasks. During the project the team (now also including Precision Decisions engineer Martin Abell) worked a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67180375 | 2,169,053 |
1,884,102 | Despite the reduced efficiency verses reversed phase HPLC, hundreds of applications have been reported using MLC. One of the most advantageous is the ability to directly inject physiological fluids. Micelles have an ability to solubilize proteins which enables MLC to be useful in analyzing untreated biological fluids s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8651021 | 1,883,021 |
206,914 | The Taj Mahal was constructed using materials from all over India and Asia. The buildings are constructed with walls of brick and rubble inner cores faced with either marble or sandstone locked together with iron dowels and clamps. Some of the walls of the mausoleum are several metres thick. Over 1,000 elephants were u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13325558 | 206,807 |
1,135,319 | The above relation gives a very simplified picture of the economy in a single year; what growth theory econometrics does is to look at a sequence of years to find a statistically significant pattern in the changes of the variables, and perhaps identify the existence and value of the "Solow residual". The most basic tec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1827716 | 1,134,726 |
803,804 | A fundamental feature of the replicon hypothesis is that it relies on positive regulation to control DNA replication onset, which can explain many experimental observations in bacterial and phage systems. For example, it accounts for the failure of extrachromosomal DNAs without origins to replicate when introduced into... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=619137 | 803,375 |
1,765,451 | The 178th Infantry Regiment traces its history back to the formation of the 16th Battalion, Illinois State Militia, on 1 April 1878. A and B Companies were recruited from Chicago. The Clark County Guards from Marshall became C Company, and the Cumberland County Guards from Greenup became D Company. Elements of the 178t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51015546 | 1,764,458 |
526,586 | Under normal circumstances in humans, growth hormone (GH) is released in a pulsatile fashion from cells known as somatotrophs in the anterior pituitary gland. These pulses of GH are regulated by cells in the hypothalamus, via the release of growth hormone-releasing hormone (GHRH) into the hypothalamohypophysial system ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8501552 | 526,313 |
988,267 | Information Processing Theory is currently being utilized in the study of computer or artificial intelligence. This theory has also been applied to systems beyond the individual, including families and business organizations. For example, Ariel (1987) applied Information Processing Theory to family systems, with sensin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3341783 | 987,751 |
448,778 | The original pilot selected for Mercury Atlas-7 was to have been Deke Slayton, with Schirra as his back-up. However Slayton was removed from flight status after the discovery of cardiac dysrhythmia during a training run in the "g"-loading centrifuge. Slayton had chosen the name "Delta 7" for the spacecraft, as this wou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213240 | 448,560 |
1,690,139 | The majority of the railway network was single track and its equipment and rolling stock was mostly in poor condition and unable to cope with increasing traffic. The difficult financial situation during the first half of the 20th century limited the modernisation of the Swiss rail network. The main work carried out was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23812586 | 1,689,193 |
1,728,157 | In the Cenozoic Era, which extended from 66 million years ago to present day, igneous activity was renewed in the eastern part of the State. Approximately 45 million years ago, a complex of dikes and sills with compositions ranging from basalt to rhyolite were intruded into the Paleozoic sedimentary rocks in the area i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16049803 | 1,727,183 |
1,382,228 | Rhizomorphs act as a system of underground absorption and growth structures that invade and decay roots and wood, as well as sometimes propagating through the air. They can access places where food resources are not available, giving certain advantages to the fungi that produce them in terms of competition. They act as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10666886 | 1,381,465 |
1,772,089 | In late 1914, the German "Luftstreitkräfte", the air service of the Imperial German Army, developed a requirement for two-seat aircraft, the C-type, powered by engines of at least and armed with at least one machine gun. The Albatros Flugzeugwerke's design to meet this requirement, the Albatros C.I, was designed by Rob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1109708 | 1,771,092 |
1,175,712 | Ecto-5-prime-nucleotidase (5-prime-ribonucleotide phosphohydrolase; EC 3.1.3.5) catalyzes the conversion at neutral pH of purine 5-prime mononucleotides to nucleosides, the preferred substrate being AMP. The enzyme consists of a dimer of 2 identical 70-kD subunits bound by a glycosyl phosphatidyl inositol linkage to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14755145 | 1,175,090 |
830,052 | The possible use of the 3 : 4 : 5 triangle in Ancient Egypt, with the supposed use of a knotted rope to lay out such a triangle, and the question whether Pythagoras' theorem was known at that time, have been much debated. It was first conjectured by the historian Moritz Cantor in 1882. It is known that right angles wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2278116 | 829,605 |
1,936,849 | The sailing events were hosted at the Sydney Harbour venue, as well as the offshore region adjacent to the entrance of the harbour. Due to its detailed and complex topography, this entire region experienced certain challenges in relation to the forecasting of surface winds. This included variations in wind speed and di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18272352 | 1,935,741 |
822,850 | For reasons that are not entirely clear, for the most part the Gupta period represented a hiatus in Indian rock-cut architecture, with the first wave of construction finishing before the empire was assembled, and the second wave beginning in the late 5th century, just as it was ending. This is the case, for example, at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62155656 | 822,409 |
1,648,212 | Pritchard Steam Power received a boost on 6 March 1972 when it signed contracts with Pancoastal PXP that provided an immediate $130,000 to continue development, and a third of the royalties on all engines sold. Later that month, Richard Alexander gave an extensive outline of the Pritchard Power system for Automobiles a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54112011 | 1,647,280 |
864,583 | In general: formula_13 where formula_14 is the Jacobian of the sensor measurement residual equations formula_15, with respect to the unknowns, formula_16; formula_17 is the Jacobian of the sensor measurement residual equations with respect to the measured quantities formula_18, and formula_19 is the correlation matrix ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1021510 | 864,123 |
958,599 | The similarities between HUS, aHUS, and TTP make differential diagnosis essential. All three of these systemic TMA-causing diseases are characterized by thrombocytopenia and microangiopathic hemolysis, plus one or more of the following: neurological symptoms (e.g., confusion, cerebral convulsions, seizures); renal impa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542776 | 958,093 |
204,995 | In January and February 2008, hundreds of residents demonstrated in downtown Shanghai against the line being built close to their homes. The residents were reportedly concerned with potential health hazards, noise, and loss of property value. The Shanghai scheme has a buffer zone around the track that will be 22.5 m wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1963462 | 204,889 |
519,733 | In 2009, Draper collaborated with the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary to develop an implantable drug-delivery device, which "merges aspects of microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS, with microfluidics, which enables the precise control of fluids on very small scales". The device is a "flexible, fluid-filled machi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=445258 | 519,464 |
1,208,207 | Along with war scenes, Curry also produced manhunt and fugitive subjects. These ideas were inspired by remembrances from his own childhood, but were also observed from publicized events during the early 1930s. The Lindbergh kidnapping and John Dillinger's crime spree were well known and public deaths such as lynchings ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=552213 | 1,207,561 |
1,798,184 | A common engineering entrance examination was first proposed by the Ministry of Human Resource Development in February 2010 as "a common system for common admission into professional institutions in the country". One of the names proposed was Indian Science Engineering Eligibility Test (ISEET). It was meant as a replac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35633369 | 1,797,175 |
962,584 | In 1928 Arthur Ernest Guedel introduced the cuffed endotracheal tube, which allowed deep enough anesthesia that completely suppressed spontaneously respirations while the gas and oxygen were delivered via positive pressure ventilation controlled by the anesthesiologist. Also important for the development of modern anes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28755089 | 962,075 |
1,230,448 | In his 1975 book "Streckensegelflug" (published in English in 1978 as "Cross-Country Soaring" by the Soaring Society of America), Helmut Reichmann describes a flight made by Ingo Renner in a Glasflügel H-301 Libelle glider over Tocumwal in Australia on 24 October 1974. On that day there was no wind at the surface, but ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=454196 | 1,229,786 |
1,914,803 | Monitor used a pipe-like system of shared memory as the basis of its inter-process communication (IPC). Data to be sent from one process to another was copied into an empty memory data buffer, and when the receiving program was ready, back out again. The buffer was then returned to the pool. Programs had a very simple ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2005452 | 1,913,704 |
1,768,455 | Vakhtin et al. (2014) determined to identify functional networks relating to fluid intelligence, as measured by both the standard and advanced versions of Raven's Progressive Matrices test. Using fMRI, Vakhtin et al. found a discrete set of networks associated with fluid reasoning, including the dorsolateral cortex, in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46424669 | 1,767,461 |
1,681,811 | The ecological hydrology in a specific system can be assessed by answering a few basic questions Where does the water come from and where does it go? This is defined as the flowpath taken by the water entering the watershed being assessed. How long does the water stay in a specific flux or pool of water? This is define... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1858623 | 1,680,868 |
256,742 | During the McCarthy era of the 1950s, then-President Duncan Ballantine fired Marxist philosopher Stanley Moore, a tenured professor, for his failure to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigation. According to an article in the college's alumni magazine, "because of the decisive suppo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25417 | 256,608 |
1,121,253 | Paul Berg (born June 30, 1926) is an American biochemist and professor emeritus at Stanford University. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1980, along with Walter Gilbert and Frederick Sanger. The award recognized their contributions to basic research involving nucleic acids. Berg received his unde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=766186 | 1,120,679 |
1,431,766 | One common trait found in several Lamiales families that may have led to carnivory is the secretion of proteinase mucilage through leaf surfaces. This mucilage is generally used to prevent insect predation by trapping and degrading potentially harmful insects. Some research suggests these glands can quite easily shift ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=871194 | 1,430,962 |
1,319,009 | Permissive action link were developed in the United States in a gradual process from the first use of atomic weapons to the early 1960s. In 1953 the United States Atomic Energy Commission and the Department of Defense signed the "Missiles and Rockets Agreement", which paved the way for the development and implementatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62380 | 1,318,283 |
2,060,626 | Some of the AAC systems common to individuals with RTT include eye-gaze boards, communication boards, switches, or voice output communication devices. Speech-Language Pathologists (SLPs), often with specialized AAC training and knowledge, provide education and training to families, educational teams, and other communic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55742304 | 2,059,439 |
915,865 | If the fuel is a light hydrocarbon, for example, methane, another function of the anode is to act as a catalyst for steam reforming the fuel into hydrogen. This provides another operational benefit to the fuel cell stack because the reforming reaction is endothermic, which cools the stack internally. The most common ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1049636 | 915,384 |
1,370,164 | In April 2019, Rocket Lab announced plans to create a new satellite bus, named Photon, to launch small payloads into Earth orbit. Its goal was to reduce the complexity and development time for customers, enabling technology demonstrations without the complexity of developing a full spacecraft. At the same time the comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67314711 | 1,369,408 |
1,531,421 | Rappuoli is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Paul Ehrlich and Ludwig Darmstaedter Prize in 1991. He is a member of numerous international associations, including the European Molecular Biology Organization and the American Society for Microbiology. He also serves as a member of the research di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1920902 | 1,530,555 |
71,172 | Mustard gas was dispersed as an aerosol in a mixture with other chemicals, giving it a yellow-brown color. Mustard agent has also been dispersed in such munitions as aerial bombs, land mines, mortar rounds, artillery shells, and rockets. Exposure to mustard agent was lethal in about 1% of cases. Its effectiveness was a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46126 | 71,145 |
799,519 | Once FES develops, the person should be admitted into intensive care unit (ICU), preferably with central venous pressure (CVP) monitoring. CVP monitoring would be helpful to guide the volume resuscitation. Supportive treatment is the only proven treatment method. Supplemental oxygen can be given if a person has mild re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3888802 | 799,093 |
1,252,316 | A metaanalysis published in 2007, based on 1,201 cancers in 18 high-quality clinical trials carefully selected by predefined criteria from the literature, systematically examined the performance of EUS-guided FNA in NSCLC staging. Two scenarios were considered: the setting of enlarged lymph nodes on CT (suggestive but ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15477610 | 1,251,638 |
533 | Dating back to 2011, when the Czech National Security Authority (NSA) was appointed as the national authority for the cyber agenda. The role of cyber diplomacy strengthened in 2017 when the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) detected a serious cyber campaign directed against its own computer networks. In 2016, thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1164 | 533 |
985,625 | The French artist Jean-Max Albert, beside environmental sculptures like "Iapetus", and "O=C=O", developed a project dedicated to the vegetation itself, in terms of biological activity. The "Calmoduline Monument" project is based on the property of a protein, calmodulin, to bond selectively to calcium. Exterior physical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=250466 | 985,110 |
480,907 | The Beveridge curve, or UV curve, was developed in 1958 by Christopher Dow and Leslie Arthur Dicks-Mireaux. They were interested in measuring excess demand in the goods market for the guidance of Keynesian fiscal policies and took British data on vacancies and unemployment in the labour market as a proxy, since excess ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1485108 | 480,663 |
1,009,531 | Eusociality (true sociality) is used to describe social systems with three characteristics: an overlap in generations between parents and their offspring, cooperative brood care, and specialised castes of non-reproductive individuals. The social insects provide good examples of organisms with what appear to be kin sele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66996 | 1,009,010 |
1,121,748 | The proto-Scotland landmass moved northwards, and from 460 to 430 Ma, sandstone, mudstone and limestone were deposited in the area that is now the Midland Valley. This occurred in shallow tropical seas at the margins of the Iapetus Ocean. The Ballantrae Complex near Girvan was formed from this ocean floor and is simila... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3338124 | 1,121,174 |
2,108,385 | Charles Lucas was a qualified engineer who had started racing in the early 1960s. In 1963, his friends got involved with the then new Formula 3 class of cars. In 1964, Lucas had a clone Lotus 31 built for him by Roy Thomas. In 1965, he managed and raced in a team with Brabham BT10s. This was so successful that Colin Ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66707296 | 2,107,171 |
830,770 | The first DNA-based genome ever fully sequenced was achieved by two-time Nobel Prize winner, Frederick Sanger, in 1977. Sanger and his team of scientists created a library of the bacteriophage, phi X 174, for use in DNA sequencing. The importance of this success contributed to the ever-increasing demand for sequencing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4995479 | 830,322 |
1,690,100 | Because many genes belonging to HLA remain unidentified, positional cloning (a method used to identify a specific gene, when only its location on a chromosome is known) has been used to determine that a mucin-like gene is associated with DPB. In addition, diseases caused by identified HLA genes in the DPB-susceptibilit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17337043 | 1,689,154 |
343,231 | Three crewed missions, designated Skylab 2, Skylab 3, and Skylab 4, were made to Skylab in the Apollo command and service modules. The first crewed mission, Skylab 2, launched on May 25, 1973, atop a Saturn IB and involved extensive repairs to the station. The crew deployed a parasol-like sunshade through a small instr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29441 | 343,050 |
762,208 | The Western Electric system greatly improved the fidelity of sound recording, increasing the reproducible frequency range to a much wider band (between 60 Hz and 6000 Hz) and allowing a new class of professional – the audio engineer – to capture a fuller, richer, and more detailed and balanced sound on record, using mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4556078 | 761,800 |
700,191 | Contemporary Nanquan features vigorous, athletic movements with very stable, low stances, extensive hand techniques and a vocal articulation called "fasheng" ("release shout"), which is the predecessor of the Japanese and Korean martial arts "kiai". Power is driven from sharp waist movements with special emphasis on fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2391184 | 699,826 |
1,195,269 | Although the underlying mechanism behind stress cues emitted by roots remains largely unknown, Falik et al. suggested that the plant hormone abscisic acid (ABA) may be responsible for integrating the observed phenotypic response (stomatal closure). Further research is needed to identify a well-defined mechanism and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53754650 | 1,194,629 |
1,708,351 | CAAD has two types of structures in its program. The first system is surface structure which provides a graphics medium to represent three-dimensional objects using two-dimensional representations. Also algorithms that allow the generation of patterns and their analysis using programmed criteria, and data banks that st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1911423 | 1,707,393 |
211,641 | Access to healthcare and preventive health services is unequal, as is the quality of care received. A study conducted by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) revealed health disparities in the United States. In the United States, elderly adults (>65 years old) received worse care and had less access to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1032780 | 211,533 |
1,681,300 | The 5000 metre mark was reached in 14:05.79, with Tadese in front, though Bedan Karoki Muchiri took the lead soon after. Thirteen runners remained in the lead pack including three Ethiopians, three Eritreans, two Kenyans, Kipsiro, Kenyan born Polat Kemboi Arikan running for Turkey, Canadian Cameron Levins, Farah and Ru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31815984 | 1,680,357 |
1,750,143 | The tool will be used to understand the atomic structure of substances with which scientists are going to work, which can help in the development of new drugs, in the enhancement of materials used in construction, oil exploration and in many other areas. The 68,000-square-meter building will house a ring-shaped, circum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56151614 | 1,749,157 |
202,005 | German engineer Carl von Linde's invention of a continuous process of liquefying gases in large quantities formed a basis for the modern technology of refrigeration and provided both impetus and means for conducting scientific research at low temperatures and very high vacuums. He developed a dimethyl ether refrigerato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1416046 | 201,902 |
1,999,698 | Clearing or ploughing in the stubble, grass weeds and volunteer cereals reduce inoculum as does crop rotation (Diehl et al., 1982). Reis et al. (1998) indicate that eradicant fungicide treatment of the seed and crop rotation with non-host crops can control spot blotch. In the rice-wheat system of South Asia, little wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9423276 | 1,998,554 |
1,444,531 | At least 15 ancient basins have been identified on Mercury. Tolstoj is a true multi-ring basin, displaying at least two, and possibly as many as four, concentric rings. It has a well-preserved ejecta blanket extending outward as much as from its rim. The basin interior is flooded with plains that clearly postdate the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12607134 | 1,443,718 |
301,968 | However, the Cylinder's account of Cyrus's conquest clearly does not tell the whole story, as it suppresses any mention of the earlier conflict between the Persians and the Babylonians; Max Mallowan describes it as a "skilled work of tendentious history". The text omits the Battle of Opis, in which Cyrus's forces defea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2749252 | 301,807 |
1,604,755 | Primorac was at first not a member of a political party, before he joined the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) in September 2007. At the Croatian parliamentary election, 2007, he ran as a candidate of HDZ in the 11th electoral unit (the so-called Croatian diaspora list), and their list won almost 82% of the votes. After... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5830574 | 1,603,854 |
1,643,332 | IEE finished developing the system for Brunswig in 1957. It proved successful at first; only one malfunction was reported in the first 18 months, leading to downtime of only 10 minutes. Solartron–John Brown Automation Ltd. of the United Kingdom, who intended to market the system to supermarkets, acquired the rights to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70209793 | 1,642,405 |
1,998,981 | Bernard's career began developing calculation tools for aerodynamic optimization. Several military aircraft programmes were then underway, including the Alpha Jet, or the Mirage III successors and the civilian aircraft programs Mercure or Falcon. Heading a 5 to 6 people team, Francis Bernard developed three-dimensional... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65710946 | 1,997,837 |
2,069,812 | In spring 1914, plans were made for a larger Hall of Residence. In early summer an arts block with 28 large and many smaller lecture rooms and a connecting block for biology, chemistry, physics and engineering opened on 20 June. Then, eight days later, the First World War began, with profound implications for the futur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40341040 | 2,068,621 |
133,740 | Just prior to Saharan desertification, the communities that developed south of Egypt, in what is now Sudan, were full participants in the Neolithic revolution and lived a settled to semi-nomadic lifestyle, with domesticated plants and animals. It has been suggested that megaliths found at Nabta Playa are examples of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14099 | 133,687 |
1,605,386 | The first U.S. Congressional appropriation for weed control was made in 1901 for work on control of johnsongrass, 23 years after Congress had appropriated funds for work on cotton insect pests. Petroleum-based herbicides were first used on California crop land in 1924 and soon became widely accepted in Southwestern sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53497560 | 1,604,482 |
2,110,134 | A solar car challenge for schools' was first thought of in 1987 during the first World Solar Challenge. Everyone who attended—car makers, staff and students from universities and secondary schools—believed it to be a great experience. Two men, Paul Wellington (teacher at Chisholm Institute of Technology, part of Monash... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10343439 | 2,108,920 |
1,760,454 | The major criterion for absorber foils used in ERDA is whether a recoiling impurity atom can be transmitted through the absorber, preferably a commercially available metal foil, while stopping heavy particles. Since the lighter atoms leave the absorber with smaller energies, the kinematic calculations do not provide mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2321375 | 1,759,461 |
1,782,336 | In a 2009 report of a 2006 trip, botanist Andreas Fleischmann noted that the higher altitude site is overgrown with plants of the family Restionaceae and he could not locate any remaining "D. regia". The lower altitude site was in a similar state, but he recorded approximately 50 mature plants, making this one of the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2361104 | 1,781,332 |
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