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29,941 | String theory eventually made it out of the dustbin, but for the following decade, all work on the theory was completely ignored. Still, the theory continued to develop at a steady pace thanks to the work of a handful of devotees. Ferdinando Gliozzi, Joël Scherk, and David Olive realized in 1977 that the original Ramon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28305 | 29,931 |
1,856,858 | As Gondwana broke apart, the Antarctic Peninsula started to take on its modern shape. Roughly 220 million years ago, the continents of Antarctica, South America, and Africa rifted apart. This rifting created low relief basins which allowed for the transport of sediments and subsequent deposition of sedimentary rocks. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33737008 | 1,855,790 |
1,934,451 | Rodríguez wrote many works, some of them truly revolutionary contributions to mathematics (like his treatise on logarithms), astronomy and engineering. He also wrote treatises on technology, such as the one dealing with the construction of precise clocks. Many of these works were developed for his own courses in the un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12241857 | 1,933,343 |
2,048,983 | “I have thought it necessary to constitute a genus for the reception of a naked-bodied, long-armed "Ophiura", which is not uncommon in the seas of the Archipelago. It combines some of the characters of "Ophiomyxa" with some of those of the following genus, and has a habit peculiar to itself. But one species occurs. It ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41161999 | 2,047,802 |
207,145 | For example, if the reactor got too hot, it would trigger a system that would release soluble neutron absorbers (generally a solution of borated materials, or a solution of borax), or materials that greatly hamper a chain reaction by absorbing neutrons, into the reactor core. The tank containing the soluble neutron abs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=143351 | 207,038 |
81,439 | While the team obeys no specific formula in terms of physical procedure, most myths involve construction of various objects to help test the myth. They use their functional workshops to construct whatever is needed, often including mechanical devices and sets to simulate the circumstances of the myth. Human actions are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=627304 | 81,406 |
718,687 | Symplectic manifolds arise from classical mechanics; in particular, they are a generalization of the phase space of a closed system. In the same way the Hamilton equations allow one to derive the time evolution of a system from a set of differential equations, the symplectic form should allow one to obtain a vector fie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28356 | 718,307 |
1,036,327 | The stages of the "scientific method" are often incorporated into sections of scientific reports. The first section is typically the "abstract", followed by the "introduction", "methods", "results", "conclusions", and "acknowledgments". The introduction discusses the issue studied and discloses the hypothesis tested in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4541652 | 1,035,787 |
278,266 | German chemists Robert Bunsen and Gustav Kirchhoff discovered rubidium in 1861 by the newly developed technique, flame spectroscopy. The name comes from the Latin word , meaning deep red, the color of its emission spectrum. Rubidium's compounds have various chemical and electronic applications. Rubidium metal is easily... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25599 | 278,116 |
988,062 | That year, FFA 68 was renamed "Kampfeinsitzer Kommando" Habsheim before becoming "Jagdstaffel" 15 on 28 September 1916. Udet claimed five more victories, before transferring to "Jasta" 37 in June 1917. In the first of his victories on 12 October 1916, Udet forced a French Breguet to land safely in German territory, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=370934 | 987,546 |
220,177 | According to J.D.A. Piper, Rodinia is one of two models for the configuration and history of the continental crust in the latter part of Precambrian times. The other is Paleopangea, Piper's own concept. Piper proposes an alternative hypothesis for this era and the previous ones. This idea rejects that Rodinia ever exis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51829 | 220,068 |
647,833 | It is estimated that nuclear reactions in the uranium in centimeter- to meter-sized veins consumed about five tons of and elevated temperatures to a few hundred degrees Celsius. Most of the non-volatile fission products and actinides have only moved centimeters in the veins during the last 2 billion years. Studies have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64168540 | 647,493 |
315,400 | It is estimated that nuclear reactions in the uranium in centimeter- to meter-sized veins consumed about five tons of and elevated temperatures to a few hundred degrees Celsius. Most of the non-volatile fission products and actinides have only moved centimeters in the veins during the last 2 billion years. Studies have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=472834 | 315,231 |
1,056,546 | Accelerators now are the primary source of epithermal neutrons for clinical BNCT. The first papers relating to their possible use were published in the 1980s, and, as summarized by Blue and Yanch, this topic became an active area of research in the early 2000s. However, it was the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32637211 | 1,055,998 |
1,135,443 | The production-ready NMOS process enabled HP to develop the industry’s first 4-kbit IC ROM. Motorola eventually served as a second source for these products and so became one of the first commercial semiconductor vendors to master the NMOS process, thanks to Hewlett-Packard. A while later, the startup company Intel ann... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2855453 | 1,134,850 |
2,070,825 | Solrad 10 was a 12-sided cylinder that measured in diameter and in height. Four symmetrically placed solar cell panels, hinged at the central section of the structure, served as the elements of a turnstile antenna system. 18 solar sensors were mounted pointing parallel to the spin axis of the satellite, which pointed d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57721944 | 2,069,634 |
690,231 | Breakthroughs in telescope, detector and computer technology now allow astronomical surveys to produce large numbers of images, spectra and catalogues. These data sets cover the sky at all wavelengths, from gamma- and X-rays through optical, infrared and radio waves. Astronomers are developing ways to make the large am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=175184 | 689,868 |
430,811 | During the early 1930s Walton and John Cockcroft collaborated to build an apparatus that split the nuclei of lithium atoms by bombarding them with a stream of protons accelerated inside a high-voltage tube (700 kilovolts). The splitting of the lithium nuclei produced helium nuclei. They went on to use Boron and Carbon ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=362499 | 430,599 |
1,694,832 | Frieser argued that German rearmament was incomplete in 1939 and it had been France and Britain that had declared war on Germany; Hitler's gamble failed and left Germany with no way out, in a war against a more powerful coalition, with time on the Allies' side. Hitler chose flight forward and staked everything on a sur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51751618 | 1,693,881 |
10,676 | Interest in the M4 Carbine was accelerated after the Battle of Mogadishu (1993), in which Rangers complained that their M16 rifles were "unwieldy", whereas members of Delta Force in the same battle, equipped with the CAR-15, had no such complaints. The M4 Carbine first saw action in the hands of U.S. troops deployed to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=321957 | 10,671 |
369 | A significant controversy arose with elements 102 through 106 in the 1960s and 1970s, as competition arose between the LBNL team (now led by Albert Ghiorso) and a team of Soviet scientists at the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) led by Georgy Flyorov. Each team claimed discovery, and in some cases each propo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23053 | 369 |
1,860,152 | CALCE is at the forefront of research in Prognostics and Health Management (PHM). CALCE formed the first collaborative research effort to address PHM applications. Through the work of their PHM Consortium, CALCE has developed a new paradigm for reliability prediction based on prognostics whereby sensor data is integrat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41960662 | 1,859,084 |
410,664 | Despite considerable research, the cause of keratoconus remains unclear. Several sources suggest that keratoconus likely arises from a number of different factors: genetic, environmental or cellular, any of which may form the trigger for the onset of the disease. Once initiated, the disease normally develops by progres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=252630 | 410,462 |
188,629 | The implantation of a mine is a major habitat modification, and smaller perturbations occur on a larger scale than exploitation site, mine-waste residuals contamination of the environment for example. Adverse effects can be observed long after the end of the mine activity. Destruction or drastic modification of the ori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23754906 | 188,532 |
545,839 | In 1906, Lee De Forest of the US added a control "grid" to the valve to create an amplifying vacuum tube RF detector called the "Audion", leading Fleming to accuse him of infringing his patents. De Forest's tube developed into the triode the first electronic amplifier. The triode was vital in the creation of long-dista... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16291 | 545,553 |
1,592,656 | The Photochemical Reflectance Index (PRI) is a reflectance measurement developed by John Gamon during his tenure as a postdoctorate fellow supervised by Christopher Field at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University. The PRI is sensitive to changes in carotenoid pigments (e.g. xanthophyll pigments) in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14431176 | 1,591,759 |
965,106 | Despite Teller's reassurances, Kennedy himself "hated the idea of reopening the race" and was uneasy with continued production of fallout, a negative consequence of resumed testing that its opponents within the administration stressed. Opponents of the tests also argued that renewed atmospheric tests would come at a si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30592 | 964,597 |
649,751 | Research has continued today around the world on the functions of the area postrema. Beyond its role in emesis, as studied intensely by the researchers of the mid-1900s, the activity of the area postrema has been closely linked to other autonomic functions such as regulation of food intake, body fluid homeostasis, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5035843 | 649,410 |
1,223,616 | Yacht and small craft (Y&SC) surveyors specialize in inspecting smaller vessels, typically less than 24 meters, that are most often used for pleasure boating (both power and sail). Y&SC surveyors may be employed directly by larger marine insurance companies, but most often they are independent practitioners engaged dir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2961889 | 1,222,956 |
943,544 | Many researchers have argued that, by way of an "intelligence explosion", a self-improving AI could become so powerful that humans would not be able to stop it from achieving its goals. In his paper "Ethical Issues in Advanced Artificial Intelligence" and subsequent book "", philosopher Nick Bostrom argues that artific... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13659583 | 943,042 |
207,155 | FLLHGR (FDLRX, MFLPD) is a limit on fuel rod power in the reactor core. For new fuel, this limit is typically around 13 kW/ft (43 kW/m) of fuel rod. This limit ensures that the centerline temperature of the fuel pellets in the rods will not exceed the melting point of the fuel material (uranium/gadolinium oxides) in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=143351 | 207,048 |
471,232 | The project was planned to be completed by 1992 and to be fitted in Brahmaputra-class frigates as an anti-sea skimmer. In 1992, the missile was successfully fired reaching Mach 2 speed following a predetermined trajectory against a target mounted 7 meter above sea but variation in altimeter led to test failure. In 1997... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1248899 | 470,996 |
478,225 | Despite the dramatic change in the school's mission after the 1952 move to Milton, Massachusetts, Curry College maintained its debt to its founders and their scholarship focus that centered on the delivery of words. Today the college is respected throughout the country for its Communications Department. Curry College s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181275 | 477,985 |
1,940,295 | Sensory and sensorimotor disturbances when arriving in low Earth orbit are well documented, the most known of these being space motion sickness (SMS). Individual differences, spacecraft size, and body movements cause SMS symptoms. Typically lasting the first three or four days of weightlessness, symptoms range from hea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34095626 | 1,939,185 |
1,687,585 | When the function and mechanisms of hair cells are more fully understood, there are two applications that it could have. These involve both basic research in other fields and clinical applications in the field of hair cells. The mechanism of the hair cell might contribute to the understanding other mechanosensory syste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20519370 | 1,686,639 |
751,891 | MPA is a potent full agonist of the AR. Its activation of the AR may play an important and major role in its antigonadotropic effects and in its beneficial effects against breast cancer. However, although MPA may produce androgenic side effects such as acne and hirsutism in some women. In fact, likely due to its suppre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23484633 | 751,489 |
1,013,853 | The MiG-1 was a low-wing monoplane with a tailwheel undercarriage of mixed construction. Due to shortages of light alloys, the rear fuselage was made from wood, but the front fuselage, from the propeller to the rear of the cockpit, was a welded steel tube truss covered by duralumin. The bulk of the wing was wooden, but... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=534690 | 1,013,332 |
1,874,607 | Aslin has been recognized by a number of organizations for the impact of his theoretical and empirical contributions to the fields of cognitive science and developmental psychology. He was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at Uppsala University in 2010, the Robert and Pamela Goergen Award for Distinguished Contributions to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28734194 | 1,873,530 |
1,849,981 | Dendronized polymers can contain several thousands of dendrons in one macromolecule and have a stretched out, anisotropic structure. In this regard they differ from the more or less spherically shaped dendrimers, where a few dendrons are attached to a small, dot-like core resulting in an isotropic structure. Depending ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17800165 | 1,848,923 |
1,942,918 | Indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs) is a compound III-V semiconductor. It can be applied in two ways for use in TPVs. When lattice-matched to an InP substrate, InGaAs has a bandgap of 0.74 eV, no better than GaSb. Devices of this configuration have been produced with a fill factor of 69% and an efficiency of 15%. However,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2937772 | 1,941,807 |
104,061 | Corruption is pervasive in the Indonesian government, affecting many fields that are central to barrier the country's economic development from local governments, the police, the private sectors even various ministerial institutions which are close to the president. It is related to problems of human capacities and tec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14647 | 104,016 |
524,144 | The first traceable concepts of environmental designs focused primarily on solar heating, which began in Ancient Greece around 500 BCE. At the time, most of Greece had exhausted its supply of wood for fuel, leading architects to design houses that would capture the solar energy of the sun. The Greeks understood that th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=581799 | 523,872 |
1,646,391 | The idea of an isoperimetric function for a finitely presented group goes back to the work of Max Dehn in 1910s. Dehn proved that the word problem for the standard presentation of the fundamental group of a closed oriented surface of genus at least two is solvable by what is now called Dehn's algorithm. A direct conseq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20017026 | 1,645,461 |
199,529 | The SKF Group currently consists of approximately 150 companies including the seal manufacturer Chicago Rawhide. Since its founding, SKF's company headquarters have been located in Gothenburg. One recent acquisition was that of Economos, part of Salzer Holding, an Austria-based seal company, Jaeger Industrial and ABBA,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89744 | 199,426 |
530,989 | Otto Struve proposed in 1952 the use of powerful spectrographs to detect distant planets. He described how a very large planet, as large as Jupiter, for example, would cause its parent star to wobble slightly as the two objects orbit around their center of mass. He predicted that the small Doppler shifts to the light e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10932739 | 530,715 |
270,383 | The functional drawback of a thyristor is that, like a diode, it only conducts in one direction so it can't be safely used with AC current. A similar self-latching 5-layer device, called a TRIAC, is able to work in both directions. This added capability, though, also can become a shortfall. Because the TRIAC can conduc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181174 | 270,236 |
131,234 | Supercapacitors are constructed with two metal foils (current collectors), each coated with an electrode material such as activated carbon, which serve as the power connection between the electrode material and the external terminals of the capacitor. Specifically to the electrode material is a very large surface area.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33307786 | 131,182 |
130,162 | In work that earned him a Nobel Prize in 2000, Swedish scientist Arvid Carlsson first showed in the 1950s that administering -DOPA to animals with drug-induced (reserpine) Parkinsonian symptoms caused a reduction in the intensity of the animals' symptoms. In 1960/61 Oleh Hornykiewicz, after discovering greatly reduced ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=905037 | 130,110 |
444,360 | She is a researcher at the MIT Media Lab, where she works to identify bias in algorithms and to develop practices for accountability during their design; at the lab, Buolamwini is a member of Ethan Zuckerman's Center for Civic Media group. During her research, Buolamwini showed facial recognition systems 1,000 faces an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56932411 | 444,145 |
1,967,638 | The hydrogel structure consists of cross-linked hydrophilic polymer chains. A semi-permeable membrane or a homogeneous solid mass encapsulate cells. Natural and synthetic hydrogels are used to encapsulate the cells. Algae and sodium alginate provide a commonly used source for polysaccharides. Other natural biomaterials... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21880823 | 1,966,508 |
2,191,310 | A few years later, Hoadley was a lead researcher at The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) which analyzed over 3,500 tumors across 12 different tissue types to see how they compared to one another. The results of the study found that one in ten cancers analyzed would be classified differently using their new approach. In 2015,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66081012 | 2,190,061 |
1,021,120 | In June 1996, the MoD's Equipment Approvals Committee recommended that the Nimrod 2000 bid be selected to meet the RAF's requirement. In July 1996, in response to the committee's decision, Lockheed Martin announced that it had reduced the cost of its Orion 2000 submission by 15 per cent amid a series of last-minute dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29573970 | 1,020,591 |
321,329 | Several biblical stories allude to the belief that the Canaanite gods all existed and were thought to possess the most power in the lands by the people who worshiped them and their sacred objects; their power was believed to be real and could be invoked by the people who patronized them. There are numerous accounts of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14429 | 321,157 |
388,806 | The effect of the last ball ejecting with a velocity nearly equal to the first ball can be seen in sliding a coin on a table into a line of identical coins, as long as the striking coin and its twin targets are in a straight line. The effect can similarly be seen in billiard balls. The effect can also be seen when a sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1090018 | 388,611 |
22,610 | On 6 August 2011, a Chinook crashed near Kabul, killing all of the 38 aboard. The Chinook was reportedly shot down with a rocket-propelled grenade by the Taliban while attempting to assist a group of U.S. Army Rangers. The 38 were members of NATO and allied forces, including 22 Naval Special Warfare operators, five U.S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38005 | 22,601 |
1,191,633 | The Spanish company PharmaMar licensed the compound from the University of Illinois before 1994 and attempted to farm the sea squirt with limited success. Yields from the sea squirt are extremely low - 1 tonne of animals is needed to isolate 1 gram of trabectedin - and about 5 grams were believed to be needed for a cli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8213823 | 1,190,998 |
1,323,946 | Apart from the cells, the major non-aqueous constituents of the stroma are collagen fibrils and proteoglycans. The collagen fibrils are made of a mixture of type I and type V collagens. These molecules are tilted by about 15 degrees to the fibril axis, and because of this, the axial periodicity of the fibrils is reduce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5304212 | 1,323,220 |
1,386,560 | When photographic curator Maya Benton began to catalog Vishniac's negatives for the archive of the International Center of Photography, she noticed that, in his book "A Vanished World", Vishniac juxtaposed photos to tell stories, and wrote captions that were not supported by the material. In the final spread of the boo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1442763 | 1,385,793 |
504,317 | Non-secretory multiple myeloma represents a class of plasma cell dyscrasias where no myeloma protein is detected in serum or urine of patients with evidence of increased clonal bone marrow plasma cells and/or multiple plasmacytomas, particularly of the bone but also of soft tissues. While a pre-malignant phase is likel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17475959 | 504,055 |
1,801,373 | The protein core of GPC3 consists of two subunits, where the N-terminal subunit has a size of ~40 kDa and the C-terminal subunit is ~30 kDa. Six glypicans (GPC1-6) have been identified in mammals. Cell surface heparan sulfate proteoglycans are composed of a membrane-associated protein core substituted with a variable n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14755566 | 1,800,364 |
1,902,884 | From 1851 to 1861 (the last ten years of its use) the Dahlonega Gold Mint was minting more gold from California than from Georgia. Consequently, following the Civil War the Treasury Department felt it would be impractical to resume minting operations at the Dahlonega Mint. A few years after the war a former Confederate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38647111 | 1,901,793 |
33,519 | The extent of intellectual loss receded substantially over the 1990s and 2000s, with the percentage of students going abroad dropping from as high as 70% at one time to around 30% in 2005. This is largely attributed to the liberalization of the Indian economy and the opening of previously closed markets. Government ini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23883046 | 33,507 |
477,388 | Near the end of the scheduled run time, data suggested tantalizing but inconclusive hints that the Higgs particle of a mass around 115 GeV might have been observed, a sort of Holy Grail of current high-energy physics. The run-time was extended for a few months, to no avail. The strength of the signal remained at 1.7 st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=596353 | 477,148 |
1,800,451 | Anne Fausto-Sterling, a professor of Biology and Gender Studies at Brown University, assesses the complexity of defining sex through a dichotomous lens in a variety of her works such as "Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality" as well as in an article piece she wrote titled "The Five Sexes: ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46439815 | 1,799,442 |
33,823 | By the late 1990s, several Chinese fifth-generation fighter programs, grouped under the program codename J-XX or XXJ, were identified by western intelligence sources. PLAAF officials have confirmed the existence of such a program, which they estimated would enter service between 2017–2019. By late 2010, two prototypes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20926432 | 33,811 |
153,437 | Eight of the seventeen operating reactors in Germany, mostly older ones, were permanently shut down following Fukushima. Chancellor Angela Merkel said the nuclear power phase-out, previously scheduled to be completed as late as 2036, would give Germany a competitive advantage in the renewable energy era, stating, "As t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8870938 | 153,367 |
417,698 | In the past, biomarkers were primarily physiological indicators such as blood pressure or heart rate. More recently, biomarker is becoming a synonym for molecular biomarker, such as elevated prostate specific antigen as a molecular biomarker for prostate cancer, or using enzyme assays as liver function tests. There has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4584230 | 417,494 |
1,137,722 | In review, classical 20th century cell biology used cell lines grown in culture where the experiments were measured using very similar to that described here, but there the investigator made the choice on what was measured and how. In the early 1990s, the development of CCD cameras (charge coupled device cameras) for r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5824073 | 1,137,129 |
595,512 | Although the idea of residential University at Gorakhpur was first mooted by C.J. Rao, the then Principal of St. Andrews College, then under Agra University, who initiated post-graduate and undergraduate science teaching in his college, the idea got crystallized and took concrete shape by the untiring efforts of S. N. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11521639 | 595,207 |
539,967 | The blue/white screening method relies on the principle of α-complementation of the β-galactosidase gene, where a fragment of the lacZ gene (lacZα) in the plasmid can complement another mutant lacZ gene (lacZΔM15) in the cell. Both genes by themselves produce non-functional peptides, however, when expressed together, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4336761 | 539,687 |
759,551 | The Republic of China Air Force initially operated the S-2A in 1967. In 1976, they received S-2Es. The S-2As were later converted into target aircraft and later decommissioned in batches from 1979 to 1992. In 1986, several S-2Gs were purchased to make up for attrition. A modernization program began the same year, conve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=218313 | 759,145 |
2,118,253 | The RW technique is used in three ways in the creation of low-energy antihydrogen atoms. Antiprotons are compressed radially by sympathetic compression with electrons co-loaded in the trap. The technique has also been used to fix the positron density before the positrons and antiprotons are combined. Recently it was di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61679626 | 2,117,035 |
566,975 | Until recently, ultrasound images have been 2D views and have relied on highly-trained specialists to properly orient the probe and select the position within the body to image with only few and complex visual cues. The complete measurement of 3D velocity vectors makes many post-processing techniques possible. Not only... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6059135 | 566,685 |
549,426 | GOES-16 and other satellites of the GOES-R generation are based around a derivative of Lockheed Martin's A2100 spacecraft bus capable of supporting up to dry mass with power capabilities exceeding 4 kW until the spacecraft's end-of-life. With propellant, GOES-16 had a total mass of , with a dry mass of . The spacecraft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35927196 | 549,138 |
914,739 | The teeth of "Coelophysis" were typical of predatory dinosaurs, blade-like, recurved, sharp and jagged with fine serrations on both the anterior and posterior edges. Its dentition shows that it was carnivorous, probably preying on the small, lizard-like animals that were discovered with it. It may also have hunted in p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1091927 | 914,258 |
1,117,881 | Features shown by the Viking orbiters in 1976, revealed two possible ancient shorelines near the pole, Arabia and Deuteronilus, each thousands of kilometers long. Several physical features in the present geography of Mars suggest the past existence of a primordial ocean. Networks of gullies that merge into larger chann... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20573621 | 1,117,308 |
1,196,765 | The tradition of science in this region goes back to the 16th century when Georg Agricola (1494-1555), a famous German scholar of minerals, served as the city's mayor. Historically, the university emerged from the "Gewerbschule" (trade school) founded in 1836. One year later, a "Baugewerkenschule" (school for the build... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1985783 | 1,196,125 |
1,416,213 | If the X-ray beam is vertically thin and impinges on the edge of the detector, X-ray refraction can change the status of the individual X-ray from "detected" to "undetected" and vice versa, effectively playing the same role as the crystal rocking curve in ABI. This analogy with ABI, already observed when the method was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35154335 | 1,415,416 |
1,070,033 | The loss of three battlecruisers at Jutland (the others were and ) led to the force being reorganised into two squadrons, with "Inflexible" and "Indomitable" in the 2nd BCS. However, after Jutland there was little significant naval activity for the "Invincible"s, other than routine patrolling, thanks to the Kaiser's or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=382984 | 1,069,479 |
1,298,917 | Inter-individual relationships are thought to be influenced by sex-related variables and can occur (1) between females, (2) between males or (3) between members of the opposite sex. Factors influencing inter-female relationships are primarily thought to be: food competition; group size; and dispersal patterns. These th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58591903 | 1,298,203 |
897,403 | The five-dimensional (5D) theory developed in three steps. The original hypothesis came from Theodor Kaluza, who sent his results to Einstein in 1919 and published them in 1921. Kaluza presented a purely classical extension of general relativity to 5D, with a metric tensor of 15 components. Ten components are identifie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17070 | 896,930 |
538,003 | Dr. William Halford at the Southern Illinois University (SIU) School of Medicine tested a live-attenuated HSV-2 ICP0∆NLS vaccine in 2016, before his death in June, 2017. Vaccine attenuation is achieved by a mutation in ICP0 (ICP0∆NLS) that increases the vaccine strain's sensitivity to interferon responses and limits it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35349626 | 537,724 |
1,290,342 | The Mazatzal orogeny occurred from 1.7 to 1.61 billion years ago. During this event, igneous rocks that were more enriched in quartz than previous rocks formed the Mazatzal Mountains and the New River area. The Pinal Schist also formed during this period and was intruded by granite and granodiorite. The oldest Proteroz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57850771 | 1,289,632 |
9,520 | Everett's many-worlds interpretation, formulated in 1956, holds that "all" the possibilities described by quantum theory "simultaneously" occur in a multiverse composed of mostly independent parallel universes. This is a consequence of removing the axiom of the collapse of the wave packet. All possible states of the me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25202 | 9,516 |
848,648 | The mannose receptor (MR) is a PRR primarily present on the surface of macrophages and dendritic cells. It belongs into the calcium-dependent multiple CRD group. The MR belongs to the multilectin receptor protein group and, like the TLRs, provides a link between innate and adaptive immunity. It recognizes and binds to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1903231 | 848,198 |
1,511,254 | Due to this act, the Philippine Government shall facilitate the transfer and promote the utilization of intellectual property for the national benefit and shall call upon all research and development institutes and/or institutions that perform government-funded research and development to take on technology transfer as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50207505 | 1,510,404 |
2,130,120 | After working with the International YMCA and the Chinese Labour Corps in France during the war, he earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Yale Divinity School in 1922. When he returned to China in 1923, his ability in the Chinese language and his faculty position at Nanking Seminary allowed him access to many Chine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17110351 | 2,128,896 |
1,218,285 | On 5 October 1995, the proposal for founding NBRC was put forward. The creation was subsequently declared on 14 November 1997 as a part of the Golden Jubilee celebrations of India's Independence and the birth anniversary of our then Prime Minister, the architect of modern science, Jawaharlal Nehru. A Management Advisor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17563859 | 1,217,631 |
566,876 | The more common rock constituents are nearly all oxides; chlorides, sulfides and fluorides are the only important exceptions to this and their total amount in any rock is usually much less than 1%. By 1911, F. W. Clarke had calculated that a little more than 47% of the Earth's crust consists of oxygen. It occurs princi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39562 | 566,586 |
1,940,779 | All nature reserves have a primary goal of protecting biodiversity from harmful activities and processes, both natural and anthropogenic. To achieve this, reserves must extensively sample biodiversity at all taxonomic levels and enhance and ensure long-term survival of the organisms. As it is described in the guides to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11371222 | 1,939,668 |
1,216,222 | In John Nash's work on the isometric embedding problem, the key step is a small perturbation result, highly reminiscent of an implicit function theorem; his proof used a novel combination of Newton's method (in an infinitesimal form) with smoothing operators. Nirenberg was one of many mathematicians to put Nash's ideas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1814725 | 1,215,570 |
2,241,828 | In the fall of 1942, as citizens of Texas responded to America's need for military officers, the number of individual military units in the Cadet Corps hit an all-time high with a total of seven regiments of seventeen battalions comprising sixty companies, batteries, and troops, including the Band. The Cadet Corps at T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=507422 | 2,240,557 |
1,008,439 | AlphaGo responded poorly on move 79, at which time it estimated it had a 70% chance to win the game. Lee followed up with a strong move at white 82. AlphaGo's initial response in moves 83 to 85 was appropriate, but at move 87, its estimate of its chances to win suddenly plummeted, provoking it to make a series of very ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49693402 | 1,007,918 |
1,223,522 | Though hard to visualize in multiple dimensions, a simple one-dimension example illustrates the basic procedure. Suppose the symbols are located at [1, 2, 3, 4, ...]. Place all odd symbols in one group, and all even symbols in the second group. (This is not quite accurate, because Ungerboeck was looking at the two dime... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=479030 | 1,222,862 |
1,402,091 | Consider singular cohomology formula_23 with coefficients in an abelian group formula_24. For a CW complex formula_4, the group formula_23 can be identified with the set of homotopy classes of maps from formula_4 to formula_28, the Eilenberg–MacLane space with homotopy concentrated in degree formula_29. We write this a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1033697 | 1,401,304 |
1,922,738 | The Echols Scholars program was created in 1960 as an answer to the soaring numbers introduced by the GI Bill. The Faculty Senate decided to create a program that would provide "ambitious academic privileges to students". The program was designed to attract applicants deemed by the admissions committee to comprise the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4694647 | 1,921,635 |
1,580,500 | Galactosialidosis, also known as neuraminidase deficiency with beta-galactosidase deficiency, is a genetic lysosomal storage disease. It is caused by a mutation in the CTSA gene which leads to a deficiency of enzymes β-galactosidase and neuraminidase. This deficiency inhibits the lysosomes of cells from functioning pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17720767 | 1,579,610 |
982,990 | PCT is a member of the calcitonin (CT) superfamily of peptides. It is a peptide of 116 amino acid with an approximate molecular weight of 14.5 kDa, and its structure can be divided into three sections (see Figure 1): amino terminus (represented by the ball and stick model in Figure 1), immature calcitonin (shown in Fig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=700550 | 982,477 |
434,957 | "Capnocytophaga canimorsus" was first observed in 1976 by Bobo and Newton. The pair isolated a previously unknown Gram-negative bacterium from a patient presenting with meningitis in addition to sepsis. The patient had been previously exposed to two canine bites on two consecutive days from two different dogs. Noting t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8770962 | 434,743 |
1,489,768 | The platform for epigenome-wide DNAm quantification utilizes the high throughput technology Illumina Methylation Assay. In the past, the 27k Illumina array covered on average two CpG sites in the promoter regions of approximately 14,000 genes and represented less than 0.1% of the 28 million CpG sites in the human genom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53362498 | 1,488,929 |
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