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1,031,956 | Plasmids, the circular DNAs shown in Fig. 1, are generally used for non-viral gene delivery. However, there are two major problems with most methods for delivering DNA to cellular chromosomes using plasmids, the most common form of non-viral gene delivery. First, expression of transgenes from plasmids is brief due to l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31728232 | 1,031,420 |
223,258 | The unclear position of the new Prussian "polytechnika" (which officially were not universities) affected the first years. Polytechnics lacked prestige in society and the number of students decreased. This began to change in 1880 when the early RWTH, amongst others, was reorganized as a "Royal Technical University", ga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=243937 | 223,144 |
147,879 | An article in "Science" suggested that the construction and filling of the Zipingpu Dam may have triggered the earthquake. The chief engineer of the Sichuan Geology and Mineral Bureau said that the sudden shift of a huge quantity of water into the region could have relaxed the tension between the two sides of the fault... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17901805 | 147,820 |
774,988 | "Protoceratops" were small ceratopsians, about long and in body mass. While adults were largely quadrupedal, juveniles had the capacity to walk around bipedally if necessary. They were characterized by a proportionally large skull, short and stiff neck, and neck frill. The frill was likely used for display or intraspec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1064031 | 774,572 |
1,954,451 | Several of the faculty have won major honors and awards. In the Division of Art, Helen O'Toole was a winner of the 2015 Contemporary Northwest Art Awards and has received a 2016 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; Aaron Flint Jamison was a 2017 Hallie Ford Fellow and had work included in the 2017 Whit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50230309 | 1,953,329 |
111,320 | One of the first machines to incorporate a D-shaped plasma was the JET, which began its design work in 1973. This decision was made both for theoretical reasons as well as practical; because the force is larger on the inside edge of the torus, there is a large net force pressing inward on the entire reactor. The D-shap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31439 | 111,275 |
1,719,307 | MASINT techniques are not limited to the United States, but the U.S. distinguishes MASINT sensors from others more than do other nations. According to the United States Department of Defense, MASINT is technically derived intelligence (excluding traditional imagery IMINT and signals intelligence SIGINT) that – when col... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13789881 | 1,718,337 |
2,098,948 | It was in the lab of Rodney Porter than he began the seminal work which would exemplify his career, namely the characterization of receptors on B and T lymphocytes. Williams has been credited with several major contributions. His group purified and characterized the Thy1 molecule and from this work came the proposal of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47980808 | 2,097,740 |
899,988 | A short procedure called a spermatocelectomy can be performed for spermatoceles that cause irritating symptoms. This standard procedure can be performed in an outpatient setting with the use of local or general anesthesia. This procedure typically consists of removing the spermatocele and a portion of the epididymis. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1122321 | 899,513 |
1,510,413 | Beddoes also advocated for medical reform, attacking the widespread lay practices of self-medication, which he believed were the cause of many unnecessary deaths. Through his writings, Beddoes promoted public education on healthy living, exercise, and public health issues such as tuberculosis. Beddoes also felt that va... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1850574 | 1,509,563 |
737,494 | Only after doing his Nobel Prize-winning research did Bohr receive his doctorate from the University of Copenhagen, in 1954, writing his thesis on "Rotational States of Atomic Nuclei". Bohr became a professor at the University of Copenhagen in 1956, and, following his father's death in 1962, succeeded him as director o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2201 | 737,105 |
990,626 | A key early application of statistics in the 18th century was to the human sex ratio at birth. John Arbuthnot studied this question in 1710. Arbuthnot examined birth records in London for each of the 82 years from 1629 to 1710. In every year, the number of males born in London exceeded the number of females. Considerin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14986442 | 990,109 |
231,464 | In 2020 a group of astronomers analyzed data from the Spitzer Photometry and Accurate Rotation Curves (SPARC) sample, together with estimates of the large-scale external gravitational field from an all-sky galaxy catalog. They concluded that there was highly statistically significant evidence of violations of the stron... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=857235 | 231,345 |
1,445,031 | Copper zinc tin sulfide (CZTS) is a quaternary semiconducting compound which has received increasing interest since the late 2000s for applications in thin film solar cells. The class of related materials includes other I-II-IV-VI such as copper zinc tin selenide (CZTSe) and the sulfur-selenium alloy CZTSSe. CZTS offer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33384730 | 1,444,215 |
790,352 | Apart from its role in development, evidence shows that Notch signaling is also involved in neuronal apoptosis, neurite retraction, and neurodegeneration of ischemic stroke in the brain In addition to developmental functions, Notch proteins and ligands are expressed in cells of the adult nervous system, suggesting a ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1107334 | 789,927 |
64,526 | The solution of the equations is a flow velocity. It is a vector field—to every point in a fluid, at any moment in a time interval, it gives a vector whose direction and magnitude are those of the velocity of the fluid at that point in space and at that moment in time. It is usually studied in three spatial dimensions ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48395 | 64,501 |
850,633 | In a small world network with a degree distribution following a power-law, deletion of a random node rarely causes a dramatic increase in mean-shortest path length (or a dramatic decrease in the clustering coefficient). This follows from the fact that most shortest paths between nodes flow through hubs, and if a periph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1457254 | 850,180 |
2,019,142 | Nagasuma Chandra, born in the south Indian state of Karnataka, completed her undergraduate (BPharm) and post-graduate (MPharm) studies at the Bangalore University and moved to the UK from where she secured a PhD from the University of Bristol in 1992. She did her post-doctoral work at the Molecular Biophysics Unit (MBU... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56329297 | 2,017,979 |
802,779 | Reflecting the fundamental importance and applicability of MRI in medicine, Paul Lauterbur of Stony Brook University and Sir Peter Mansfield of the University of Nottingham were awarded the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their "discoveries concerning magnetic resonance imaging". The Nobel citation ackno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55363309 | 802,350 |
1,336,011 | Based on animal research, it was initially thought that bicalutamide was unable to cross the blood–brain barrier into the central nervous system and hence would be a peripherally-selective antiandrogen in humans. This conclusion was drawn from the finding that bicalutamide does not increase or testosterone levels in mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55868079 | 1,335,281 |
2,067,578 | GJ 3634 is named for its location in the Gliese Catalogue of Nearby Stars; a later expansion of the original catalogue was compiled jointly by Gliese and Hartmut Jahreiß. The Third Catalogue, the most recent catalogue, was formed to tag all then-known stars within 25 parsecs of Earth (81.54 light years). GJ 3634 was fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31645999 | 2,066,387 |
1,346,244 | The United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) invited the British government to send representatives to a series of meetings in Washington, DC, on 27 and 28 August 1958 to work out the details. The U.S. delegation included Willard Libby, AEC deputy chairman; Major General Herbert Loper, the Assistant to the Secretar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52018264 | 1,345,503 |
1,594,332 | He was commissioned an officer in the U.S. Air Force at Lackland Air Force Base in 1970, serving on active duty and in the reserves until 1986, after which he was honorably discharged at the rank of captain. He took leave from academia in 1986 at MIT Lincoln Laboratory as staff physicist working on ballistic missile de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8942643 | 1,593,435 |
1,080,758 | When productivity declined in the low-clay soils of northern Thailand, farmers initially responded by adding organic matter from termite mounds, but this was unsustainable in the long-term. Scientists experimented with adding bentonite, one of the smectite family of clays, to the soil. In field trials, conducted by sci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57885 | 1,080,202 |
1,389,179 | A typical characteristic of many animals that utilize undulatory locomotion is that they have segmented muscles, or blocks of myomeres, running from their head to tails which are separated by connective tissue called myosepta. In addition, some segmented muscle groups, such as the lateral hypaxial musculature in the sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22653328 | 1,388,408 |
1,671,780 | "Volvariella bombycina" is a saprobic species. Fruit bodies grow singly or in small groups on trunks and decayed stumps of dead hardwoods. Favored species include sugar maple, red maple, silver maple, magnolia, mango, beech, oak, and elm. It is often found in clefts and knotholes of dead or living tree trunks. It has b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36449069 | 1,670,839 |
892,108 | Eakins returned to the Pennsylvania Academy to teach in 1876 as a volunteer after the opening of the school's new Frank Furness designed building. He became a salaried professor in 1878, and rose to director in 1882. His teaching methods were controversial: there was no drawing from antique casts, and students received... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=102300 | 891,639 |
1,048,612 | The life history traits of "G. groenlandica" are dictated by the short, cold nature of summers in the High Arctic. Due to its restricted seasonal growth period, "G. groenlandica" has a life cycle of approximately 7 years. In contrast, its lifespan is much shorter (2–3 years) in warmer, alpine environments. Arctic wooll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24791914 | 1,048,067 |
1,356,169 | No follow-up missions to "New Horizons" have been formally planned, but at least two mission concepts have been studied. In April 2017, a workshop met in Houston, Texas to discuss ideas for a follow-up mission. Possible objectives discussed by the group for a follow-up mission include mapping the surface at 30 feet per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28343916 | 1,355,421 |
827,348 | In 2013, Prasad's paper "A Decade of Reversal: An Analysis of 146 Contradicted Practices" was published; The article was covered in a piece by "The Huffington Post," which highlights a key lesson from the paper: patients should become more involved in their health care decisions rather than assuming a prescribed medica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57878700 | 826,904 |
338,338 | Riggs in the first instance tried to limit public awareness of the find. When reading a lecture to the inhabitants of Grand Junction, illustrated by lantern slides, on July 27, 1901, he explained the general evolution of dinosaurs and the exploration methods of museum field crews but did not mention that he had just fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20598015 | 338,158 |
1,899,516 | T-LoCoH (time local convex hull) is an enhanced version of LoCoH which incorporates time into the home range construction. Time is incorporated into the algorithm via an alternative measure of 'distance', called time scaled distance (TSD), which combines the spatial distance and temporal distance between any two points... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6385832 | 1,898,431 |
461,762 | The Development of ‘Soft Systems’ Thinking was first developed using earlier approaches at problem solving, In the 1960’s Systems thinking was only thought of with ‘Space age’ technology, to which was then thought to be extended to reach all ends of society, including civilian life. Peter Checkland and his many colleag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1101984 | 461,535 |
1,267,106 | MacDonald's vehicle began construction by Morrison in mid-1891. Finished in mid-1892 and shipped to him from Des Moines in late July, it arrived in Chicago on Monday, 8 August 1892. It came with a three-horse power electric motor that propelled it and a 24-cell set of storage batteries. MacDonald installed new Morrison... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63019379 | 1,266,416 |
2,164,568 | Jardine notes that this “honourable exchange of tokens figures in the oration as the culmination of the Landgraf’s life. Jardine also highlights a dispute between Tycho Brahe and Ursus where Ursus was accused of stealing a diagram of Tycho’s planetary ordering while at Hven. Tycho eventually brought in the help of Kepl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26849705 | 2,163,331 |
792,198 | The alkynylation reaction of aryl halides using aromatic acetylenes was reported in 1975 in three independent contributions by Cassar, Dieck and Heck as well as Sonogashira, Tohda and Hagihara. All of the reactions employ palladium catalysts to afford the same reaction products. However, the protocols of Cassar and Hec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1267927 | 791,773 |
1,953,588 | When Clayton Ray described ""Ekbletomys hypenemus"" on the basis of abundant skeletal remains from both Barbuda and Antigua, he carefully distinguished it from "M. audreyae", the only other native rodent recorded from those islands. "M. audreyae" is much smaller than ""Ekbletomys""; for example, 72 specimens of the lat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24518746 | 1,952,467 |
1,755,770 | Many recent interdisciplinary research papers use paleolinguistics as one of their approaches. For example, evolutionary biologist Mark Pagel has written an article titled Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia that combines advanced novel statistical modeling techniques and computational m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3611935 | 1,754,780 |
1,081,183 | The stromal cell-derived factor 1 (SDF-1), also known as C-X-C motif chemokine 12 (CXCL12), is a chemokine protein that in humans is encoded by the "CXCL12" gene on chromosome 10. It is ubiquitously expressed in many tissues and cell types. Stromal cell-derived factors 1-alpha and 1-beta are small cytokines that belong... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=960559 | 1,080,627 |
2,076,805 | With the doctor Draga Ljočić, she paved the way to the employment of women in public sector. Since her career was interrupted by the World War I, an Načić for a short time managed to finish many designs, she was innovative and brave in her projects, and she managed to try working in different fields of her profession. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51601941 | 2,075,606 |
2,132,405 | In 1941, Schmitt was recruited by MIT's Karl Compton and Vannevar Bush to lead radically new Department of Biology there that would combine biology, physics, mathematics, and chemistry. Schmitt became an authority on electron microscopy and conducted innovative studies on kidney function, tissue metabolism, and the che... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10841580 | 2,131,180 |
1,148,735 | The most upstream stimuli that activate MAPKKK is either stress or growth factors. This includes mitogens, inflammatory cytokines, ER stress, oxidative stress, UV radiation, and DNA damage. Most MAPKKKs are activated through GPCR's where the signal from the stimuli binds to the GPCR and the GTPase activity of the g-pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3659951 | 1,148,128 |
1,019,527 | Green roofs serve several purposes for a building, such as absorbing rainwater, providing insulation, creating a habitat for wildlife, increasing benevolence and decreasing stress of the people around the roof by providing a more aesthetically pleasing landscape, and helping to lower urban air temperatures and mitigate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=192025 | 1,019,000 |
387,480 | In the second edition (1814) of the "Essai philosophique", Laplace added some revealing comments on politics and governance. Since it is, he says, "the practice of the eternal principles of reason, justice and humanity that produce and preserve societies, there is a great advantage to adhere to these principles, and a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=344783 | 387,285 |
335,978 | The caldera complex at the peak of the volcano is made of at least six overlapping calderas and caldera segments (pictured). Calderas are formed by roof collapse following depletion and withdrawal of the subsurface magma chamber after an eruption. Each caldera thus represents a separate pulse of volcanic activity on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22818 | 335,800 |
6,742 | They deployed the EASEP, which included a passive seismic experiment package used to measure moonquakes and a retroreflector array used for the lunar laser ranging experiment. Then Armstrong walked from the LM to snap photos at the rim of Little West Crater while Aldrin collected two core samples. He used the geologist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=662 | 6,739 |
1,787,323 | The college staff became aggressive in pursuing outside resources, and stepped up grant writing activities to help get the college back on track. As a result, Central Wyoming College secured millions of dollars in grants to assure the college was responsive to the educational needs of its community. CWC is the only Wyo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15307285 | 1,786,318 |
799,380 | The Rhind Mathematical Papyrus dates to the Second Intermediate Period of Egypt. It was copied by the scribe Ahmes (i.e., Ahmose; "Ahmes" is an older transcription favoured by historians of mathematics), from a now-lost text from the reign of king Amenemhat III (12th dynasty). Written in the hieratic script, this Egypt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9210114 | 798,955 |
2,028,987 | The means of acquisition of the locomotives thus became the next challenge for the participants. United States builders were too preoccupied with their own wartime production to construct the locomotives, so this left only Great Britain as a manufacturing source if they were not to be built in Australia (although perha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20871737 | 2,027,819 |
653,889 | The GDBH also accounts for tradeoffs between growth and defense over a resource availability gradient. In situations where resources (e.g. water and nutrients) limit photosynthesis, carbon supply is predicted to limit both growth and defense. As resource availability increases, the requirements needed to support photos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4189740 | 653,545 |
30,303 | Before 2016, the Global Fund against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria had provided 659 million ITN (insecticide treated bed nets), organise support and education to prevents malaria. The challenges are high due to the lack of funds, the fragile health structure and the remote indigenous population that could be hard ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20423 | 30,293 |
1,828,795 | 1967 saw the origin of the Department of Computational Science at the U of S. Just 29 years later in 1996, the department's research was rated as Number 1 by the Institute for Scientific Information in terms of influence in this field. University of Saskatchewan-owned Canadian Light Source opened in 2004, and is an int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12177461 | 1,827,755 |
2,088,145 | The Institute offers a platform on which contacts of lasting values between faculty members of the Department of Mathematics of ETH, graduate students, members of the Swiss mathematical community at large and international researchers can be established. A lean staff structure of a director, a coordinator and an admini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33084376 | 2,086,943 |
364,866 | The condition is named after Australian thoracic surgeon Norman Barrett (1903–1979), who in 1950 argued that "ulcers are found below the squamocolumnar junction ... represent gastric ulcers within 'a pouch of stomach ... drawn up by scar tissue into the mediastinum' ... representing an example of a 'congenital short es... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196998 | 364,675 |
855,190 | The cylinder is inspected externally for dents, cracks, gouges, cuts, bulges, laminations and excessive wear, heat damage, torch or electric arc burns, corrosion damage, illegible, incorrect or unauthorised permanent stamp markings, and unauthorised additions or modifications. Unless the cylinder walls are examined by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=460321 | 854,735 |
230,346 | The concept of identifiability also applies to the other three elements. Although uncommon, it is not unheard of for fictitious adverse event "cases" to be reported to a company by an anonymous individual (or on behalf of an anonymous patient, disgruntled employee, or former employee) trying to damage the company's rep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1243554 | 230,228 |
1,856,688 | Timothy Insoll is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and of the Royal Asiatic Society, and the Honorary Archaeological Advisor to the Court of the Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Bahrain (since 2001), and Honorary Lecturer, Department of Archaeology and Heritage Management, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. Prev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38891541 | 1,855,620 |
267,754 | Hearing begins in utero, but the central auditory system continues to develop for at least the first decade. There is considerable interest in the idea that disruption to hearing during a sensitive period may have long-term consequences for auditory development. One study showed thalamocortical connectivity in vitro wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12328438 | 267,610 |
621,250 | Uncompetitive inhibition can play roles in various other parts of the body as well. It is part of the mechanism by which NMDA (N-methyl-D-aspartate) glutamate receptors are inhibited in the brain, for example. Specifically, this type of inhibition impacts the granule cells that make up a layer of the cerebellum. These ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3942111 | 620,918 |
1,975,833 | Leveraging machine learning and predictive analytics algorithms, industrial big data can help to create value in various use case scenarios like predictive maintenance (predicting and preventing machine failures or component failures, e.g. im manufacturing machines, airplanes, automotive vehicles, trains, wind turbine,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48415691 | 1,974,696 |
155,682 | The includes units 05 through 13, built at various Nerv branches at the behest of the Seele organization to carry out a plan known as the Human Instrumentality Project. All units are equipped with the S engine as a power source and a replica of the Lance of Longinus. Their basic structure is identical the Nerv-owned Ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=577372 | 155,611 |
1,319,828 | Hartree attended St John's College, Cambridge but the first World War interrupted his studies. He (and his father and brother) joined a group working on anti-aircraft ballistics under A. V. Hill, where he gained considerable skill and an abiding interest in practical calculation and numerical methods for differential e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1252692 | 1,319,102 |
1,375,778 | The Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat) currently includes estimates of land and non-cultivated bio and water resources in the "tangible non-produced assets" section of the Russian balance sheet. Rosstat has outlined a series of priorities for developing a Russian SEEA. Its highest priority is asset accounts, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39613895 | 1,375,017 |
456,982 | The car was easy to drive and Piquet used it to good effect that season. Fighting with Alain Prost in the Renault and René Arnoux of Ferrari, it seemed he would lose out on the title after a run of mid season bad luck. But after German company Wintershall developed a special batch of fuel and further development to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7678648 | 456,759 |
633,098 | Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a form of neurostimulation which uses constant, low current delivered via electrodes placed on the scalp. The mechanisms underlying tDCS effects are still incompletely understood, but recent advances in neurotechnology allowing for "in vivo" assessment of brain electric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=987320 | 632,760 |
1,086,760 | The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Stranraers were exact equivalents of their RAF counterparts. In Canadian service, they were usually employed in coastal patrol against submarine threats in a similar role to the British Stranraers. Aviation author Dirk Septer stated that no enemy action was ever recorded by the RCAF'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=586463 | 1,086,202 |
546,855 | Along the north side of campus are found the university's Church of Saints Dominic and Sixtus, the Blessed Sacrament Chapel, and the Choir. The church has been the subject of numerous works of art. In the 18th century Antonio Canaletto made a pen and ink study with grey wash and black chalk, today in the collection of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2174683 | 546,569 |
1,635,599 | A possible mechanism for Leber's congenital amaurosis has been proposed as the deficiency of RPE65. Without the RPE65 protein, the RPE is unable to store retinyl esters, and the visual cycle is therefore interrupted. At the beginning stages of the disease, the cone cells are unaffected, as they can rely on the alternat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11899273 | 1,634,676 |
1,788,421 | One generation of this beetle is produced a year. Adults feed before winter and spend most of their overwintering time in protected areas such as wind rows, crop stubble, and tree bark crevices. Adults mate once the temperature warms to above 9–10 degrees Celsius (or 44.6 degrees F) and females have a relatively long l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2748073 | 1,787,415 |
2,175,291 | microRNAs (miRNAs) are short (20-24 nt) non-coding RNAs that are involved in post-transcriptional regulation of gene expression in multicellular organisms by affecting both the stability and translation of mRNAs. miRNAs are transcribed by RNA polymerase II as part of capped and polyadenylated primary transcripts (pri-m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57142055 | 2,174,047 |
1,035,847 | Streamflow is measured as an amount of water passing through a specific point over time. The units used in the United States are "cubic feet per second", while in most other countries "cubic meters per second" are utilized. There are a variety of ways to measure the discharge of a stream or canal. A stream gauge provid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4687085 | 1,035,307 |
4,396 | The popular preoccupation with dinosaurs has ensured their appearance in literature, film, and other media. Beginning in 1852 with a passing mention in Charles Dickens "Bleak House", dinosaurs have been featured in large numbers of fictional works. Jules Verne's 1864 novel "Journey to the Center of the Earth", Sir Arth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8311 | 4,394 |
967,899 | Most installed proton therapy systems use isochronous cyclotrons. Cyclotrons are considered simple to operate, reliable and can be made compact, especially with use of superconducting magnets. Synchrotrons can also be used, with the advantage of easier production at varying energies. Linear accelerators, as used for ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1164549 | 967,389 |
1,171,745 | Nanotoxicology is a sub-specialty of particle toxicology. Nanomaterials appear to have toxicity effects that are unusual and not seen with larger particles, and these smaller particles can pose more of a threat to the human body due to their ability to move with a much higher level of freedom while the body is designed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9497908 | 1,171,126 |
1,579,045 | Research data archiving is the long-term storage of scholarly research data, including the natural sciences, social sciences, and life sciences. The various academic journals have differing policies regarding how much of their data and methods researchers are required to store in a public archive, and what is actually ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10022970 | 1,578,155 |
1,403,234 | One of the latest applications of SeV-based vectors is the reprogramming of somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells. The SeV vector with a mutation that is responsible for temperature-sensitive phenotype was created to facilitate the erasure of the vector genome in a cell line. Temperature sensitive mutants o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6070061 | 1,402,446 |
2,166,017 | This gene encodes a family member of actin-related proteins (ARPs), which share significant amino acid sequence identity to conventional actins. Both actins and ARPs have an actin fold, which is an ATP-binding cleft, as a common feature. The ARPs are involved in diverse cellular processes, including vesicular transport... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14756720 | 2,164,780 |
1,334,193 | Seven of the sixteen FMARS EVAs were devoted to two geophysical experiments. One project was to install Devon Island's first seismometer, a Trillium Compact provided by Nanometrics. The crew scouted deployment locations and installed the equipment while fully in‐sim, a first for Mars analog research. Seismic stations s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2692913 | 1,333,463 |
1,309,962 | Above or below the circle for manned stations (automatic stations do not report cloud types) that indicates sky cover can lie one or more symbols indicating cloud types in any of the low, middle, and high-étages for tropospheric clouds. One predominant cloud type may be depicted for each of three étages, if known. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11194583 | 1,309,244 |
1,343,120 | pSOS (Portable Software On Silicon) is a real-time operating system (RTOS), created in about 1982 by Alfred Chao, and developed and marketed for the first part of its life by his company Software Components Group (SCG). In the 1980s, pSOS rapidly became the RTOS of choice for all embedded systems based on the Motorola ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=85926 | 1,342,384 |
1,731,712 | The ACF's founders were drawn from Australia's scientific, public service, business and political decision makers. A 1963 memo from the Duke of Edinburgh inspired Francis Ratcliffe to consult with his CSIRO colleagues, and work with conservationists and community leaders, to establish a national conservation body. Ratc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1189447 | 1,730,736 |
1,543,932 | The cap attains a diameter of . It is initially spherical to egg-shaped and uniformly olivaceous brown in color, but later becomes flattened and uniformly white from the center. The sticky cap surface is smooth and shiny, and does not retain any fragments of the partial veil; the cap margin has fine radial grooves. Gil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37213134 | 1,543,059 |
2,017,934 | Space Applications Services is an independent Belgian company founded in 1987, with a subsidiary, Aerospace Applications North America, in Houston, USA. Its aim is to research and develop innovative systems, solutions and products and provide services to the aerospace and security markets and related industries. Its ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62085151 | 2,016,771 |
1,124,644 | From previous studies, it is known that long-distance air travel is associated with high risk of venous thrombosis. Long periods of inactivity in a limited amount of space may be a reason for the increased risk of blood clot formation. In addition, bent knees compresses the vein behind the knee (the popliteal vein) and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3219980 | 1,124,069 |
1,082,241 | There is evidence that CO recombination facilitates meiotic chromosome segregation. Other studies, however, indicate that chiasma, while supportive, are not essential to meiotic chromosome segregation. The budding yeast "Saccharomyces cerevisiae" is a model organism used for studying meiotic recombination. Mutants of "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13663720 | 1,081,685 |
1,912,848 | Born on 22 July 1956, Arun M. Jayannavar obtained a BSc from Govindram Seksaria Science College, Belgaum, Karnataka in 1976 and did his master's degree at Karnataka University to earn an MSc in 1978. His doctoral studies were at the Indian Institute of Science where he was mentored by S. S. Bhatnagar laureates, Narendr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55555126 | 1,911,749 |
1,083,384 | In 1870, workers at the Summertown Brick Pit, just north of Oxford, England, found the skeleton of a theropod. The remains were acquired by the local bookseller James Parker, who brought them to the attention of Oxford Professor John Phillips. Phillips described the bones in 1871, but did not name them. At the time, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3534921 | 1,082,827 |
834,606 | At the completion of the previous Gemini flight, the program still had not demonstrated that an astronaut could work easily and efficiently outside the spacecraft. Prior to the Gemini XII mission, other astronauts from previous missions of the Gemini Program had attempted EVAs. However, their successes were limited due... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=411616 | 834,157 |
187,407 | From the late 1960s decision of the UK government to withdraw the Royal Navy from East of Suez in the early 1970s considerable doubt existed within the RNZN, government, and community about the continuing relevance, viability, and usefulness of an RNZN force of 3 to 4 frigates. The option of the United States Coast Gua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=897679 | 187,310 |
2,160,618 | At least since the use of drones equipped with air-to-ground missiles in 1995 that can be used against ground targets, like e.g. the General Atomics MQ-1, and the resulting collateral damage, the discussion on the international regulation of remote controlled, programmable and autonomous machines attracted public atten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53534260 | 2,159,385 |
51,222 | In adults, widespread screening of the general population is a matter of debate. Some organizations (such as the United States Preventive Services Task Force) state that evidence is insufficient to support routine screening, while others (such as the American Thyroid Association) recommend either intermittent testing a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65845 | 51,202 |
1,188,286 | Hofmann was a major contributor to the development of techniques for organic synthesis, which originated at Liebig's laboratory in Giessen. Hofmann and John Blyth were the first to use the term "synthesis", in their paper "On Styrole, and Some of the Products of Its Decomposition," predating Kolbe's use of the term by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=940627 | 1,187,654 |
1,471,930 | The seven person crew of STS-131 was awakened to begin their first full day in space on Flight Day 2. Due to the lack of K-band communication, changes to the crews daily plan were read up for them to write out. After their post sleep activities, commander Alan Poindexter and pilot Jim Dutton fired "Discovery"'s Orbital... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6002628 | 1,471,101 |
82,661 | The Congress asked the Navy to study improvement programs on existing ships in place of the LCS program. In June 2009, Vice Admiral Barry McCullough, USN testified in a Senate Armed Services Committee meeting that the "Oliver Hazard Perry"-class frigates and "Avenger"-class minesweepers were too worn out to cover the g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=460005 | 82,627 |
679,544 | The universities' estates strategy outlines a 10-year investment plan to refurbish, upgrade and develop facilities, which includes the Pittville Student Village project. In May 2013 some initial concepts and ideas for the redevelopment were presented. Plans included creating 450 extra bedrooms, to the existing 214 stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=703661 | 679,190 |
1,884,093 | The desire to predict retention behavior and selectivity has led to the development of several mathematical models. Changes in pH, surfactant concentration, and concentration of organic modifier play a significant role in determining the chromatographic separation. Often one or more of these parameters need to be optim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8651021 | 1,883,012 |
284,909 | It is a hairy biennial plant that can grow to 2 m tall or more. Its small, yellow flowers are densely grouped on a tall stem, which grows from a large rosette of leaves. It grows in a wide variety of habitats, but prefers well-lit, disturbed soils, where it can appear soon after the ground receives light, from long-liv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1442561 | 284,755 |
504,088 | All previously operational local chapters are now collectively offering courses under SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds). This is done through a platform that facilitates hosting of all the courses, taught in classrooms from Class 9 till post-graduation to be accessed by anyone, anywhere at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11080315 | 503,829 |
2,141,566 | As the United States had entered World War II, five "service teams" joined the college football landscape in 1942. With so many former college players to choose from, condensed into those five teams, the service team rosters contained a disproportionate number of former stars and all-Americans. One of those teams was t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26369159 | 2,140,336 |
1,934,359 | Hydrogen is being researched as a fuel for vehicles because it produces no carbon dioxide emissions. If hydrogen fuel becomes more popular, it has the potential to be less expensive than other fuels, if low-cost production via electrolysis can be implemented. Hydrogen can be used and created in fuel cells to power elec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5074933 | 1,933,251 |
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