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2,064,329 | The earliest remains of gymnotiform electric fish were discovered in the Bolivian Yecua Formation 95 km west-northwest of Santa Cruz by petroleum geologists and easily recognized to belong to a gymnotiform fish based on several characteristic anatomical features. From material collected, Gayet & Meunier described Ellis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69626074 | 2,063,138 |
252,464 | The heliopause is the theoretical boundary where the Sun's solar wind is stopped by the interstellar medium; where the solar wind's strength is no longer great enough to push back the stellar winds of the surrounding stars. This is the boundary where the interstellar medium and solar wind pressures balance. The crossin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1131151 | 252,331 |
1,585,109 | The Caproni company designed the Ca.114 in 1933 to compete against other designs to provide the "Regia Aeronautica" (Italian Royal Air Force) with a new single-seat fighter. Its airframe was derived from the Caproni Ca.113 trainer, and it was a single-bay biplane with staggered wings of equal span. The fuselage was mad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14529053 | 1,584,218 |
1,843,695 | Huybers has multiple research interests related to climate science. First, Huybers is investigating the long-term climate cycles. He has advanced the hypothesis that a 41,000 year period of change connected to the Earth's tilt on its axis is dominant during the past 800,000 years, and that every second or third of thes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25861565 | 1,842,641 |
494,775 | PGA suture is classified as a synthetic, absorbable, braided multifilament. It is coated with N-laurin and L-lysine, which render the thread extremely smooth, soft and safe for knotting. It is also coated with magnesium stearate and finally sterilized with ethylene oxide gas. It is naturally degraded in the body by hyd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1405072 | 494,519 |
1,025,472 | By the mid-1850s the miasma theory of disease was largely superseded by the germ theory of disease, creating extensive interest in microorganisms and their interactions with other forms of life. By the 1880s, bacteriology was becoming a coherent discipline, especially through the work of Robert Koch, who introduced met... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322460 | 1,024,939 |
385,911 | Rhesus macaques are native to India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Nepal, Myanmar, Thailand, Afghanistan, Vietnam, southern China, and some neighbouring areas. They have the widest geographic ranges of any non-human primate, occupying a great diversity of altitudes throughout Central, South, and Southeast Asia. Inhabiting arid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=423943 | 385,716 |
1,819,935 | Dnr S, daunosamine glycosyltransferase catalyzes the addition of the TDP activated glycoside, L-daunosamine-TDP to ε-rhodomycinone to give rhodomycin D (Figure 2). The release of TDP drives the reaction forward. The enzyme has sequence similarity to glycosyltransferases of the other "unusual sugars" added to Type II PK... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12804558 | 1,818,899 |
398,223 | Between 1912 and 1916, Joseph W. Roe, a respected founding father of machine tool historians, credited Eli Whitney (one of the private arms makers mentioned above) with producing the first true milling machine. By 1918, he considered it "Probably the first milling machine ever built—certainly the oldest now in existenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38360943 | 398,027 |
1,284,048 | Todd received her education in Washington, D.C. and taught herself typewriting to earn a living. Her first job was at the Patent Office, but she left two years later to work in the office of the governor of Pennsylvania (she claims in her article that she became the first woman to receive an appointment in the executiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28131812 | 1,283,349 |
183,263 | The purpose of both the (primary) bioluminescence (from aequorin's action on luciferin) and the (secondary) fluorescence of GFP in jellyfish is unknown. GFP is co-expressed with aequorin in small granules around the rim of the jellyfish bell. The secondary excitation peak (480 nm) of GFP does absorb some of the blue em... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=143533 | 183,167 |
1,001,150 | In contrast to the thylakoid network of higher plants, which is differentiated into grana and stroma lamellae, the thylakoids in cyanobacteria are organized into multiple concentric shells that split and fuse to parallel layers forming a highly connected network. This results in a continuous network that encloses a sin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209455 | 1,000,632 |
1,988,165 | In summary the program commits Canada to the first steps to manage the used nuclear fuel it has created. It espouses sequential and collaborative decision-making to provide flexibility to adapt to experience and technical change. It aims to provide a viable, safe and secure long-term storage solution, with the potentia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24166718 | 1,987,023 |
1,975,351 | EBT's proponents include experts in EBM, public health, and toxicology who believe that EBT can help toxicologists to better serve the goals of health protection and safety assurance. They argue that EBT's methodologies for collecting, appraising, and pooling evidence can help ensure that all available information on a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40419859 | 1,974,214 |
1,303,208 | Butterworth filters are an important class of filters due to Stephen Butterworth (1930) which are now recognised as being a special case of Cauer's elliptic filters. Butterworth discovered this filter independently of Cauer's work and implemented it in his version with each section isolated from the next with a valve a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23431648 | 1,302,492 |
526,543 | From 1870 to 1880 it became clear that cell nuclei are never formed anew but always derived from the substance of another nucleus. In 1882 Flemming observed the longitudinal splitting of chromosomes in the dividing nucleus and concluded that each daughter nucleus received half of each of the chromosomes of the mother n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25007304 | 526,270 |
839,903 | Perry has served as a consultant and expert witness on many high-profile incidents involving traumatized children, including the Columbine High School massacre, the Oklahoma City bombing, the Waco siege, and the YFZ Ranch custody cases. He is one of the leads of The Child Trauma Academy (CTA) in Houston. His clinical r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9351890 | 839,453 |
888,409 | The presence of a (called) subroutine in a program contributes nothing extra to the functionality of the program regardless of paradigm, but may contribute greatly to the structuring and generality of the program, making it much easier to write, modify, and extend. The extent to which different paradigms use subroutine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25741143 | 887,941 |
167,717 | When block copolymer micelles don't display the characteristic relaxation processes of surfactant micelles, these are called "kinetically frozen micelles". These can be achieved in two ways: when the unimers forming the micelles are not soluble in the solvent of the micelle solution, or if the core forming blocks are g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=317227 | 167,628 |
706,878 | The US Navy's first deployment of a rangekeeper was on in 1916. Because of the limitations of the technology at that time, the initial rangekeepers were crude. For example, during World War I the rangekeepers would generate the necessary angles automatically but sailors had to manually follow the directions of the rang... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21169396 | 706,509 |
1,418,222 | A study conducted at the McKenzie Flats of the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in New Mexico, a semiarid biome transition zone, observed the result of loss of a variety of different dominant and codominant foundation species of plants on the growth of other species. This transition zone consists of two Chihuahuan De... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1871862 | 1,417,423 |
1,566,677 | According to Cochran (8/23/19), wildlife biologist Frank Bellrose wished to test the direction in which translocated mallard ducks flew when released into a new area. Cochran built a transmitter to attach to the duck with a light metal band around its chest, and when the duck passed a station where Cochran was monitori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42307707 | 1,565,790 |
833,008 | Neurophysiology is a branch of physiology and neuroscience that studies nervous system function rather than nervous system architecture. This area aids in the diagnosis and monitoring of neurological diseases. Historically, it has been dominated by electrophysiology—the electrical recording of neural activity ranging f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=374304 | 832,559 |
1,413,142 | Development of computers in the mid-1950s led both by the Navy's long interest in code-breaking computers, the introduction of newer types of transistors, and the widespread introduction of core memory, reached a point where a Navy version of Air Force's SAGE air defense network was a practical possibility. The Navy be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2026808 | 1,412,346 |
2,003,877 | Bond was born in the United Kingdom, the third of five sons of Richard Bond and Elizabeth Chew (née Benson). The family moved to Philadelphia while Thomas was still a young man. He began his medical training in Annapolis but traveled to Paris and England in 1738 to complete it. He returned to Philadelphia in 1739, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4276104 | 2,002,728 |
616,051 | Academic interventions can be conceptualized as a set of procedures and strategies designed to improve student performance with the intent of closing the gap between how a student is currently performing and the expectations of how they should be performing. Short term and long term interventions used within a problem-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=466785 | 615,737 |
858,109 | The Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) has 23 centers located in Bhubaneswar, Mumbai, Delhi, Gandhinagar, Guwahati, Hyderabad, Indore, Jodhpur, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Chennai, Mandi, Patna, Roorkee, Ropar, Dhanbad, Palakkad, Tirupati, Bhilai, Goa, Jammu, Dharwad and Varanasi. All IITs enjoy the status of the Institutes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40818905 | 857,654 |
911,750 | The names most associated with 19th-century economic nationalism are the first United States Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, the German-American Friedrich List, and the American economist Henry Clay. Hamilton's 1791 "Report on Manufactures," his "magnum opus", is the founding text of the American System, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=210183 | 911,271 |
468,931 | The invention of SLCDs revolutionized rock climbing because it meant that parallel and flaring cracks could be easily protected. Furthermore, unlike pitons, SLCDs can be removed easily without causing damage to the rock, which made clean climbing (climbing without damaging the rock) practical on many more climbs. Since... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=153715 | 468,695 |
856,521 | The main motivation for the transition from LGA to LBM was the desire to remove the statistical noise by replacing the Boolean particle number in a lattice direction with its ensemble average, the so-called density distribution function. Accompanying this replacement, the discrete collision rule is also replaced by a c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5074413 | 856,066 |
635,962 | The clearest experimental evidence against electrostatic substituent effects was reported by Rashkin and Waters. They used meta- and para-substituted N-benzyl-2-(2-fluorophenyl)-pyridinium bromides, which stack in a parallel displaced conformation, as a model system for pi stacking interactions. In their system, a meth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3129901 | 635,623 |
22,266 | In May 2013, "George H.W. Bush" conducted the first carrier-borne end-to-end at-sea test of the Surface Ship Torpedo Defense System (SSTDS). The SSTDS combined the passive detection of the Torpedo Warning System (TWS) that finds, classifies, and tracks torpedoes with the hard-kill capability of a Countermeasure Anti-To... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181160 | 22,257 |
1,102,300 | In 1981, Gromov identified topological restrictions, based upon Betti numbers, on manifolds which admit Riemannian metrics of nonnegative sectional curvature. The principle idea of his work was to combine Karsten Grove and Katsuhiro Shiohama's Morse theory for the Riemannian distance function, with control of the dista... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=771562 | 1,101,739 |
1,499,463 | The properties of the head direction system - particularly its persistence in the dark, and also the constant relationship of firing directions between cells regardless of environmental changes - suggested to early theoreticians the still-accepted notion that the cells might be organized in the form of a ring attractor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2898964 | 1,498,618 |
1,820,572 | 1,1'-dimethyl-4-4'-bipyridinium dichloride (Paraquat) is a nonselective herbicide (Figure 7). Human exposure to this chemical is highly toxic. Its chemical structure is very similar to MPP, therefore, it was thought to act as a neurotoxin as well. Paraquat has the capability to cross the BBB and is selective to dopamin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65269943 | 1,819,535 |
1,298,291 | The close similarities between "Gorgosaurus libratus" and "Albertosaurus sarcophagus" have led many experts to combine them into one genus over the years. "Albertosaurus" was named first, so by convention it is given priority over the name "Gorgosaurus", which is sometimes considered its junior synonym. William Diller ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10040475 | 1,297,578 |
914,550 | Typhus caused hundreds of thousands of deaths during World War II. It struck the German Army during Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia, in 1941. In 1942 and 1943 typhus hit French North Africa, Egypt and Iran particularly hard. Typhus epidemics killed inmates in the Nazi concentration camps and death camps su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46177 | 914,071 |
2,021,501 | Diatom fossils at Horsefly had been noted by Mark Wilson and Adrian Bogan (1994) who identified significant diatom volumes in the "summer varves" during study of a 6,375 year long stratigraphic section. Fossil material was studied subsequently by Alexander Wolfe and Mark Edlund (2005) with the type description of the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70511345 | 2,020,338 |
2,007,671 | Williams worked at the New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) from 1976-1986 on research and commercial animation, and the development of shadow mapping and "mip" texture mapping. Subsequently Williams consulted for Jim Henson Associates, independently developed facial tracking for computer animation, worked for six y... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1246240 | 2,006,520 |
444,385 | Cross-cultural psychology is the scientific study of human behavior and mental processes, including both their variability and invariance, under diverse cultural conditions. Through expanding research methodologies to recognize cultural variance in behavior, language, and meaning it seeks to extend and develop psycholo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11507939 | 444,170 |
98,351 | Besides developing Vulcan ears and alien masks, Phillips and his assistant Charles Schram applied more routine makeup to the principal actors. Khambatta's head was freshly shaved each day, then given an application of makeup to reduce glare from the hot set lights. Khambatta had no qualms about shaving her head at firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277006 | 98,309 |
1,436,860 | The SFV capsid is assembled in the cytoplasm as a result of multimerization of Gag molecules, but unlike other related viruses, SFV Gag lacks an N-terminal myristylation signal and capsids are not targeted to the plasma membrane (PM). They require expression of the envelope protein for budding of intracellular capsids ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5205992 | 1,436,051 |
982,928 | Nucleosynthesis is the process that creates new atomic nuclei from pre-existing nucleons (protons and neutrons) and nuclei. According to current theories, the first nuclei were formed a few minutes after the Big Bang, through nuclear reactions in a process called Big Bang nucleosynthesis. After about 20 minutes, the un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48903 | 982,415 |
1,912,688 | Georgetown faced Wyoming, led by center Milo Komenich and forward Ken Sailors, in the final, which had a smaller crowd than expected because of the New York Citys area's focus on the NIT championship run by St. John's; it was also the only NCAA championship game in history which was not filmed for posterity. Although W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41560752 | 1,911,589 |
2,141,726 | After the war, Ford wrote a thesis on malaria control in the South West Pacific, for which he was awarded his Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree by the University of Melbourne in 1946. He received a Rockefeller Fellowship that allowed him to study at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, where he gained a Dip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33648311 | 2,140,495 |
1,463,043 | William H. Robbins was appointed the head of the Shuttle-Center Project Office at the Lewis Research Center in July 1983. Most of his experience was with NERVA, and this was his first experience with Centaur, but he was an experienced project manager. He handled the project's administration and financial arrangements. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65467235 | 1,462,220 |
1,975,078 | In 2008, electric traction accounted for 90% of the passenger kilometers, 93% of the tonne kilometers and 74% of the energy consumption of all trains running in Norway, with the rest being accounted for by diesel traction. Technology for electric railways was demonstrated in Germany in 1879; the first revenue line took... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25271389 | 1,973,941 |
266,169 | In 1997, Charig and Milner noted that two fragmentary spinosaurid snouts from the Elrhaz Formation of Niger (reported by the French palaeontologist Philippe Taquet in 1984) were similar enough to "Baryonyx" that they considered them to belong to an indeterminate species of the genus (despite their much younger Aptian g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1091918 | 266,025 |
647,470 | Additional experiments have shown that subjects maintain a high degree of consistency across multiple versions of the dictator game in which the cost of giving varies. This suggests that dictator game behavior is well approximated by a model in which dictators maximize utility functions that include benefits received b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1556970 | 647,130 |
680,293 | The ionosphere bends radio waves in the same manner that water in a pool bends visible light. When the medium through which such waves travel is disturbed, the light image or radio information is distorted and can become unrecognizable. The degree of distortion (scintillation) of a radio wave by the ionosphere depends ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=113496 | 679,939 |
1,458,278 | The soil stores more terrestrial carbon than the summation of both the atmospheric and vegetative carbon sinks. The greatest density of this sequestered carbon lies under grassland. Studies reveal that Holistic Planned Grazing holds potential in mitigating global warming, while building soil, increasing biodiversity, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24603722 | 1,457,458 |
1,272,963 | Sponsored by the AAUP and the American Conference of Academic Deans, the 2001 Survey of Higher Education Governance is a study done by Gabriel Kaplan, a doctoral student at Harvard University interested in replicating research done by Committee T of the AAUP thirty years previously. The findings of the report detail th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9177274 | 1,272,272 |
1,931,085 | The Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research (BIDR) constitute one of the academic faculties of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), and are located on BGU's Sede Boqer Campus in Midreshet Ben-Gurion in the heart of the Negev Desert in Israel. The BIDR is home to approximately 70 academic faculty and 90 tech... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7106265 | 1,929,977 |
1,038,126 | The typical 500 volts between the backside of the last MCP and the anode cannot be fed directly into the preamplifier; the inner or the outer conductor needs a DC block, that is, a capacitor. Often it is chosen to only have 10-fold capacitance compared to the MCP-anode capacitance and is implemented as a plate capacito... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30862351 | 1,037,585 |
806,799 | This database makes it possible to apply statistics to answer new questions, an approach that has been called "mineral ecology". One such question is how much of mineral evolution is deterministic and how much the result of chance. Some factors are deterministic, such as the chemical nature of a mineral and conditions ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19883 | 806,369 |
1,370,610 | Concurrently with the work at GDL Friedrich Zander, a scientist and inventor, had begun work on the OR-1 experimental engine in 1929 while working at the Central Institute for Aircraft Motor Construction; It ran on compressed air and gasoline and Zander used it to investigate high-energy fuels including powdered metals... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49664317 | 1,369,854 |
240,094 | The role of humans, climate change, and other factors in driving megafauna extinction in North America is debated, with some scholars arguing in favor of climate change as the primary driver and others suggesting the possibility of direct and indirect human impacts. However, it can be difficult to generalize an extinct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1128035 | 239,974 |
227,230 | The complete role of EBV in the pathogenesis of endemic Burkitt lymphoma is not completely elucidated, but it has been shown to cause DNA damage, dysfunction of telomeres, and genome instability. B cell infection with EBV is latent, and the virus does not undergo replication. These latently infected B cells can then go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=363709 | 227,114 |
1,906,666 | Historically, bone malrotation occurred due to a lack of adequate treatment measures, where fixation methods such as traction, casting and non-locked nails provided poor torsional stability. Currently, the utilisation of locked intramedullary nailing, has reduced the occurrence of rotational malalignment during fractur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60722451 | 1,905,570 |
1,094,421 | In 1984, infectious salmon anemia (ISAv) was discovered in Norway in an Atlantic salmon hatchery. Eighty percent of the fish in the outbreak died. ISAv, a viral disease, is now a major threat to the viability of Atlantic salmon farming. It is now the first of the diseases classified on List One of the European Commissi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22726521 | 1,093,861 |
991,674 | KRAS acts as a molecular on/off switch, using protein dynamics. Once it is allosterically activated, it recruits and activates proteins necessary for the propagation of growth factors, as well as other cell signaling receptors like c-Raf and PI 3-kinase. KRAS upregulates the GLUT1 glucose transporter, thereby contribut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9065739 | 991,157 |
204,433 | A supercolony occurs when many ant colonies over a large area unite. They still continue to recognize genetic differences in order to mate, but the different colonies within the super colony avoid aggression. Until 2000, the largest known ant supercolony was on the Ishikari coast of Hokkaidō, Japan. The colony was esti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1056536 | 204,328 |
1,914,406 | It is important to ask for the presence of neurologic problems in family members, including seizures, cognitive delay, motor impairment, pseudobulbar signs, and focal weakness because many affected family members, particularly those who are older, may not have had MRI performed, even if these problems came to medical a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1446449 | 1,913,307 |
1,016,490 | Seven participants with basal ganglia lesions were used in the experiment, along with nine control participants. It is important to note that the caudate was not affected. The participants were tested for each type of learning during separate sessions, so the information processes would not interfere with each other. D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37608 | 1,015,967 |
981,734 | Breakdown is a local process, and in an insulating medium subjected to a high voltage difference begins at whatever point in the insulator the electric field first exceeds the local dielectric strength of the material. Since the electric field at the surface of a conductor is highest at protruding parts, sharp points a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=853826 | 981,222 |
1,793,193 | The government's view of the purpose of scientific work was set forth in the September 1949 Common Program of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which stated, "Efforts should be made to develop the natural sciences in order to serve the construction of industry, agriculture, and the national defens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14246598 | 1,792,184 |
1,976,451 | Internal USAF debates on the usefulness of manned spaceflight to the DoD caused uncertainty for MSE personnel. When Lew Allen—Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force—met DeTroye in 1981, the general told the MSE that he did not believe that human spaceflight was useful, had helped cancel MOL, and would have cance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23854449 | 1,975,313 |
470,634 | Recent research into the causes of depression has highlighted some possible gene-environment interactions that could explain why after much research, no specific genes or loci which would indicate risk for depression have emerged. Recent studies estimate that even after successive treatments with multiple antidepressan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12155889 | 470,398 |
2,032,325 | After the conclusion of the Tar Heels' inaugural season, the school's Athletic Association announced the previous season's leading scorer Marvin Ritch as team manager, along with teammate William Tillet as his assistant. He assumed the duties of putting together the schedule for the upcoming season. In October, Ritch r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62180062 | 2,031,155 |
643,876 | In the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Brazil, collaboration between anthropology and medicine was initially concerned with implementing community health programs among ethnic and cultural minorities and with the qualitative and ethnographic evaluation of health institutions (hospitals and mental hospitals) and prim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=232415 | 643,536 |
810,114 | Hippocrates' focal point for medicine stemmed from the practice of scientific discipline. To enforce scientific discipline, Hippocrates based his medical principles on natural sciences, diagnosing, treating, and preventing medical diseases. In addition to a focus on natural approaches, he also began to look into anatom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=570856 | 809,683 |
209,379 | Initial attempts at dietary therapy in ALD involved restricting the intake of very-long chain fatty acids (VLCFA). Dietary intake is not the only source for VLCFA in the body, as they are also synthesized endogenously. This dietary restriction did not impact the levels of VLCFA in plasma and other body tissues. After t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52952 | 209,272 |
1,507,404 | Recent studies have demonstrated that specific components of the microbiota, as well as their metabolites, selectively promote the activation and the expansion of different T cell subsets under normal and/or pathological conditions. For example, colonization with Staphylococcus epidermidis may have diverse effects, as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39632259 | 1,506,558 |
277,113 | Numerous prominent nuclear arms control experts, including George Shultz, Richard Lugar and Sam Nunn, urged Trump to preserve the treaty. Gorbachev criticized Trump's nuclear treaty withdrawal as "not the work of a great mind" and stated "a new arms race has been announced". The decision was criticized by the chairmen ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=446189 | 276,963 |
1,315,480 | Smaller carnivorous animals are dominated by brown bears and generally avoid direct interactions with them, unless attempting to steal scraps of food. Species which utilize underground or rock dens tend to be more vulnerable to predatory attacks by brown bears. Several mustelids, including badgers, are not infrequently... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63866123 | 1,314,755 |
972,237 | Usually, structural aberrations appear due to uncontrolled expression of centrosome components, or due to post-translational modifications (such as phosphorylations) that are not adequate for the components. These modifications may produce variations in centrosome size (usually too large, due to an excess of pericentri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=95464 | 971,727 |
1,698,599 | In 2016 a new correlator called SWARM was brought online, allowing more total IF bandwidth to be correlated, increasing the array's sensitivity to continuum sources as well as its instantaneous spectral coverage. The new correlator, an FX design, uses 4.576 GHz analog-to-digital converters and Xilinx Virtex-6 SX475T FP... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1520534 | 1,697,645 |
552,459 | The essential role of tropomyosins was discovered in the Bretscher laboratory, where researchers found that, by eliminating the TPM1 gene of budding yeasts, growth rates were reduced, the presence of actin cables disappeared, defects in vesicular transport were observed, and mating of the yeast was poor. When a second ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1789075 | 552,170 |
122,595 | In the European context, safety effectiveness and quality is ensured through the "Conformity Assessment" which is defined as "the method by which a manufacturer demonstrates that its device complies with the requirements of the European Medical Device Directive". The directive specifies different procedures according t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4827 | 122,546 |
2,170,085 | Mechanochromic luminescence (ML) references to intensity and/or color changes of (solid-state) luminescent materials induced by mechanical forces, such as rubbing, crushing, pressing, shearing, or smearing. Unlike "triboluminescence" which does not require additional excitation source other than force itself, ML is oft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37626168 | 2,168,847 |
35,794 | During the 20th century, improvements in and greater use of seismic instruments such as seismographs enabled scientists to learn that earthquakes tend to be concentrated in specific areas, most notably along the oceanic trenches and spreading ridges. By the late 1920s, seismologists were beginning to identify several p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24944 | 35,782 |
528,344 | On September 30, 2021, the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies approved the Brazilian Legal Framework for Artificial Intelligence, Marco Legal da Inteligência Artificial, in regulatory efforts for the development and usage of AI technologies and to further stimulate research and innovation in AI solutions aimed at ethics, cu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63451675 | 528,070 |
1,629,824 | The Hopkins program, which was based out of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, led the industry in early innovations including the critical "domino chain" breakthrough which allowed Good Samaritan donors to start chains, dramatically increasing the number of pairs that could be matched in a swap compared to the loop approach ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49687007 | 1,628,905 |
1,541,111 | According to his biography in the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition of 1911, Roentgen was not a great cabinetmaker: "His forms were often clumsy, ungraceful, and commonplace; his furniture lacked the artistry of the French and the English cabinetmakers of the great period which came to an end about 1790. His bro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2879654 | 1,540,238 |
2,246,335 | It was originally started in June 1959 by two elementary school students and one about to start junior high school. Originally known as the Warrington Amateur Astronomers Association, the first few years it operated informally as a backyard telescope group. As the membership gained in age, the club was renamed the Esca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7291031 | 2,245,063 |
1,961,575 | After 1945, she taught at the adult education center in Spandau and was a research assistant at the Technical University of Berlin. In 1947 she qualified as a professor at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Her inaugural lecture was titled "Über das Rauschen von Elektronenröhren" ("On the noise in electron tubes"); her... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41305556 | 1,960,448 |
24,298 | The source of magic in the setting is a parallel universe of supernatural energy known as "the Warp". All living creatures with souls are tied to the Warp, but certain individuals called "psykers" have an especially strong link and can manipulate the Warp's energy to work magic. Psykers are generally feared and mistrus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89633 | 24,289 |
205,530 | Changes in luminosity are common to all stars, but the severity of such fluctuations covers a broad range. Most stars are relatively stable, but a significant minority of variable stars often undergo sudden and intense increases in luminosity and consequently in the amount of energy radiated toward bodies in orbit. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2592906 | 205,424 |
1,571,119 | At first the little dots were just placed in the space about the words. However, this method made it hard to determine what pitch a song started on, or when a song was returning to the same pitch. This quickly led to one or two lines, each representing a particular note, being placed on the music with all of the neumes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49646776 | 1,570,231 |
1,615,307 | In 1966, the journal was redesigned and relaunched under the new title "Journal of Cell Science", reflecting its altered scope. It continued to be published broadly quarterly until 1969, when the frequency increased to between six and nine issues per year. In the mid-to-late 1980s, to reduce publication lead times and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16981677 | 1,614,401 |
287,250 | In the 7th century, two separate fields, arithmetic (which included measurement) and algebra, began to emerge in Indian mathematics. The two fields would later be called ' (literally "mathematics of algorithms") and ' (lit. "mathematics of seeds," with "seeds"—like the seeds of plants—representing unknowns with the pot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1848052 | 287,095 |
549,441 | NASA selected the Atlas V 541 operated by United Launch Services as the launch vehicle for GOES-R on 5 April 2012, with a launch date slated for October 2015 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Space Launch Complex 41. Combined with the subsequent GOES-S, launch operations were expected to cost US$446 million. The la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35927196 | 549,153 |
1,687,841 | In 1910, the Austria-Hungary Naval Technical Committee initiated the design and development of a coastal torpedo boat, specifying that it should be capable of sustaining for 10 hours. This specification was based on an expectation that in a future conflict, the Strait of Otranto, where the Adriatic Sea meets the Ionian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46387997 | 1,686,895 |
1,871,962 | Kline furthermore discusses the close relation of some of the most prominent mathematicians such as Newton and Leibniz to God. He believes that Newton's religious interests were the true motivation of his mathematical and scientific work. He quotes Newton from a letter to Reverend Richard Bentley of December 10, 1692:"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32925374 | 1,870,885 |
1,418,264 | Members of any given society are united by a shared and partially distinctive culture and networks of social relationships with one another. These ties vary in intensity and distinctiveness depending on the magnitude of the society's store of information and the extent of contacts with other societies. With the acquisi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1791718 | 1,417,465 |
1,666,434 | These two traditional views of data have been defined by analysts over the years on an application by application basis as specific business needs were addressed, see Figure 1. Typically, the internal schema defined for an initial application cannot be readily used for subsequent applications, resulting in the creation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19539838 | 1,665,495 |
127,541 | Max Tegmark expands on the preceding argument in the following anthropic manner. If "T" differs from 1, the behavior of physical systems could not be predicted reliably from knowledge of the relevant partial differential equations. In such a universe, intelligent life capable of manipulating technology could not emerge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2792 | 127,489 |
1,616,812 | Thromboxane A (TXA) is derived from the prostaglandin H2 (PGH2) molecule. PGH2 contains a relatively weak epidioxy bond, and a possible mechanism is known to involve homolytic cleavage of the epidioxide and a rearrangement to TXA. A heme group in the active site of TXA synthase plays an important role in the mechanism.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3461046 | 1,615,901 |
1,972,531 | Avasthi studied integrative physiology at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. During her undergraduate program she worked on insect classification and synaptic plasticity. She became more interested in the brain, and earned her PhD in neuroscience under the supervision of Wolfgang Baehr at the University of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61287448 | 1,971,397 |
2,037,944 | On the Sequence VII, between Gmina Łęka Opatowska and Bolesławiec appear abundant coal-bearing deposits with numerous palaeosol horizons deposited by a lacustrine/backswamp depositional system. The coal deposits had a thickness of about 6 m on the "Bolesławiec 6 borehole", which represents mostly terrestrial-derived st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64249358 | 2,036,769 |
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