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1,002,765 | Madhyamaka offers conceptual tools to analyze all possible elements of existence, allowing the practitioner to elicit through reasoning and contemplation the type of view that the Sūtras express more authoritatively (being considered word of the Buddha) but less explicitly (not offering corroborative arguments). The va... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=545839 | 1,002,247 |
1,991,335 | The ARD is an unmanned 3-axis stabilised automated capsule which served as experimental reentry vehicle primarily for technology-proving and data-gathering purposes. In terms of its shape, the vehicle bares an external resemblance to a 70 per cent-scale version of the American Apollo capsule, and considered by the ESA ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2459800 | 1,990,192 |
863,314 | Genetic testing can be used for rapid detection of certain antimicrobial resistance markers. Methods such as PCR and microarrays, which can be performed directly on positive blood culture samples, detect DNA sequences associated with genes that confer resistance, such as the "mecA" gene found in methicillin-resistant "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1250090 | 862,854 |
1,908,577 | A device that uses radioisotopes is capable of producing electricity for up to 30 years without interruption using a process called radioactive decay. Another similar device was developed by researchers from MIT, which uses butane as a fuel source. It has the size of a button and is estimated to operate three times lon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32679684 | 1,907,480 |
1,435,842 | Marine mammals adaptation to deep and long duration breath-hold diving involves more efficient use of lungs that are proportionately smaller than those of terrestrial animals of similar size. The adaptations to the lungs allow more efficient extraction of oxygen from inhaled air, and a higher exchange rate of air of up... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63196482 | 1,435,035 |
518,725 | In December, it was decided that the plutonium production facilities would not be built at Oak Ridge after all, but at the even more remote Hanford Site in Washington state. Compton and the staff at the Metallurgical Laboratory then reopened the question of building the plutonium semiworks at Argonne, but the engineers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4110093 | 518,456 |
1,940,654 | SuperBIT was originally developed at the University of Toronto led by Barth Netterfield's Balloon Astronomy Group (originally named the Balloon-borne Imaging Test-bed) with contributions and engineering development from UTIAS. With design efforts commencing in summer of 2012, the original BIT team fabricated, assembled... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68284830 | 1,939,543 |
818,234 | The need for economy in the design and production of the A11, which was too small for a radio, led to work on a successor, the A12, Infantry Tank Mk II in 1936. Capable of , the A12 was still slow but had of armour, making it almost invulnerable to tank guns and standard foreign guns like the German 37 mm Pak 36 anti-t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=939852 | 817,795 |
14,696 | Bayesian epistemology is a formal approach to various topics in epistemology that has its roots in Thomas Bayes' work in the field of probability theory. One advantage of its formal method in contrast to traditional epistemology is that its concepts and theorems can be defined with a high degree of precision. It is bas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9247 | 14,691 |
1,302,340 | Benedetto Castelli, and Evangelista Torricelli, two of the disciples of Galileo, applied the discoveries of their master to the science of hydrodynamics. In 1628 Castelli published a small work, "Della misura dell' acque correnti", in which he satisfactorily explained several phenomena in the motion of fluids in rivers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2206712 | 1,301,626 |
394,769 | Food webs serve as a framework to help ecologists organize the complex network of interactions among species observed in nature and around the world. One of the earliest descriptions of a food chain was described by a medieval Afro-Arab scholar named Al-Jahiz: "All animals, in short, cannot exist without food, neither ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145772 | 394,574 |
1,542,420 | Tank designers recommended research on a new tank design, a medium tank capable of going 35 km/h and weighing 15 tons with offensive and defensive abilities greater than the Type 89 I-Go. The Chief-of-Staff Operations was not enthusiastic for the project as it was peace-time and the military had a limited budget. The a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7803569 | 1,541,547 |
630,771 | Some anti-aircraft artillery projectiles were designed to fragment into long, thin pieces in an attempt to inflict damage on the airframe. Holes made by such fragments were more likely to cause destructive disruption of airflow around high-speed aircraft, but the hit probability was lowered for the smaller number of fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1045839 | 630,433 |
837,980 | In his 1964 presidential address to the Linguistic Society of America, American linguist Charles Hockett considered "Syntactic Structures" one of "only four major breakthroughs in modern linguistics". But he rapidly turned into a fierce critic of Chomskyan linguistics. By 1966, Hockett rejected "[Chomsky's] frame of re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1790730 | 837,531 |
1,176,364 | Although 18th and 19th century scientists yielded a considerable amount of important fundamental and applied knowledge about nematode biology, nematology research really began to advance in quality and quantity near the turn of the 20th century. In 1918, the first permanent nematology field station was constructed in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12830890 | 1,175,742 |
922,095 | The atmosphere of Jupiter lacks a clear lower boundary and gradually transitions into the liquid interior of the planet. From lowest to highest, the atmospheric layers are the troposphere, stratosphere, thermosphere and exosphere. Each layer has characteristic temperature gradients. The lowest layer, the troposphere, h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30873277 | 921,609 |
2,230,961 | Reducing agents can also be considered in demand as the rapid rise of low oxidation state chemistry has been reliant on them. Common compounds include but are not limited to potassium graphite (KC), sodium naphthalenide and its’ alkali derivatives, or s-block metals in their elemental form, such as lithium. However, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72214602 | 2,229,695 |
884,045 | More than half of all known cancers involve mutations of p53, a tumor suppressor protein present in every cell which regulates the cell cycle and signals for cell death in the event of damage to DNA. Specific mutations in p53 can disrupt these functions, allowing an abnormal cell to continue growing unchecked, resultin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=413102 | 883,581 |
1,159,534 | VFA-137 embarked aboard for a Western Pacific deployment in October 2004, participating in Operation Unified Assistance, the humanitarian relief effort to aid the victims of the tsunami that struck Southeast Asia. In March 2006, the squadron again deployed with CVW 2 aboard USS "Abraham Lincoln" for a 5-month WestPac. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5917568 | 1,158,919 |
2,000,381 | Tayur has won various undergraduate and MBA teaching awards, including the George Leland Bach Excellence in Teaching Award. One of Tayur's teaching cases, entitled “Managing Operations in the Time-Shared Jet Business," won First Prize for the INFORMS Teaching Case Award in 2000, and another, "Patient Experience Improve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36021710 | 1,999,236 |
1,070,759 | The 8087 differed from subsequent Intel coprocessors in that it was directly connected to the address and data buses. The 8087 looked for instructions that commenced with the "11011" sequence and acted on them, immediately requesting DMA from the main CPU as necessary to access memory operands longer than one word (16 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=924726 | 1,070,205 |
1,366,147 | In order to ensure the proper functioning of the control units and associated sensors, the electronics must be safely protected from external influences, such as moisture, salt, fuel and other automotive fluids. Many sensors are therefore encapsulated or protected by securely fitting housing. In both cases, adhesives a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60725826 | 1,365,391 |
414,770 | GeForce 8's unified shader architecture consists of a number of stream processors (SPs). Unlike the vector processing approach taken with older shader units, each SP is scalar and thus can operate only on one component at a time. This makes them less complex to build while still being quite flexible and universal. Scal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11894598 | 414,567 |
235,223 | A perfect insulator does not exist because even insulators contain small numbers of mobile charges (charge carriers) which can carry current. In addition, all insulators become electrically conductive when a sufficiently large voltage is applied that the electric field tears electrons away from the atoms. This is known... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15066 | 235,104 |
100,310 | Conventional SEM requires samples to be imaged under vacuum, because a gas atmosphere rapidly spreads and attenuates electron beams. As a consequence, samples that produce a significant amount of vapour, e.g. wet biological samples or oil-bearing rock, must be either dried or cryogenically frozen. Processes involving p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28034 | 100,265 |
2,163,010 | PF/PM lesions are poorly circumscribed masses which on histopathological microscopic analyses consist of bland fibroblastic and myofibroblastic spindle-shaped cells mixed with variable proportions of giant epithelioid ganglion cell-like cells. These cells are in a myxoid (i.e. a clear, mucus-like substance which when p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68431457 | 2,161,775 |
1,106,698 | In educational domains, recent efforts by Philip Kellman and colleagues showed that perceptual learning can be systematically produced and accelerated using specific, computer-based technology. Their approach to perceptual learning methods take the form of perceptual learning modules (PLMs): sets of short, interactive ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25335695 | 1,106,134 |
1,682,079 | The latter dates from the end of 1785. This remarkable activity was undoubtedly brought about by the availability of four excellent clarinet and basset horn players – the Stadlers, David and Springer – who in combination must have inspired the scoring of Mozart's Serenade K 361/370a, in addition to more ritualistic wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=219080 | 1,681,136 |
1,689,559 | With this setback, Rossi began an important phase of his career. He summarised this period in a memoir: "The Decay of 'Mesotrons' (1939–1943): Experimental Particle Physics in the Age of Innocence", which he presented in a symposium at Fermilab in 1980. On 12 October 1938, the Rossis left for Copenhagen, where the Dani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=520727 | 1,688,613 |
1,294,786 | In the home, infestations can be avoided by storing dried food products in sealed containers. To control already present infestations, the infested material needs to be identified and disposed of, or frozen- as all life stages of the beetle can be killed by being frozen for six days. In food processing operations and w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9673521 | 1,294,075 |
1,102,090 | The pre-clinical course consists of Anatomy, Physiology and Biochemistry, and these are the basic subjects of medical students and it lasts for a year. Prior to 1997 the I MBBS consisted of 1½ years, but this was trimmed to make more time available for clinical exposure. Passing the I MBBS final examination is mandator... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67605615 | 1,101,529 |
1,504,037 | Thraustochytrids are single-celled saprotrophic eukaryotes (decomposers) that are widely distributed in marine ecosystems, and which secrete enzymes including, but not limited to amylases, proteases, phosphatases. They are most abundant in regions with high amounts of detritus and decaying plant material. They play an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70178444 | 1,503,191 |
1,870,978 | "Empire of Light" (1996) discusses the nature of light, how the eye sees, and how human understanding of these phenomena have emerged over the ages, including the role of light in the development of quantum physics. Perkowitz examines the making of electrical light and its integration into commerce, telecommunications,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35974834 | 1,869,901 |
1,516,792 | Luis Caballero Mejias (Caracas, 1903– Caracas, 1959) was a Venezuelan engineer who invented the Precooked maize flour for the arepas in the 1950s. The traditional preparation of arepa flour is very labor-intensive, requiring the pounding of maize in a large mortar, boiling and grinding. Caballero used the profits from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,940 |
549,467 | The Schwarzschild coordinate system can only cover a single exterior region and a single interior region, such as regions I and II in the Kruskal–Szekeres diagram. The Kruskal–Szekeres coordinate system, on the other hand, can cover a "maximally extended" spacetime which includes the region covered by Schwarzschild coo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2089093 | 549,179 |
1,941,365 | Innate immunity to gluten refers to an immune response that works independently of T-cell receptor or antibody recognition of the 'innate' peptide. This peptide acts directly on cells, such as monocytes, stimulating their growth and differentiation. Innate immunity to gluten is complicated by an apparent role gluten ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18016634 | 1,940,254 |
737,546 | The canonical example of the e-CVT is Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive. This implementation has no conventional transmission, and the sun gear always receives 28% of the torque from the engine. This power can be used to operate any electrical loads in the vehicle, recharging the batteries, powering the entertainment syste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=609147 | 737,157 |
563,924 | In the 100-meter breaststroke heats, King finished first with a time of 1:05.78 and qualified for the semifinals. There she again finished first with a time of 1:05.70. The next fastest swimmer was Yuliya Yefimova from Russia, the reigning world champion who had previously served a 16-month doping suspension for failin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50949403 | 563,634 |
1,307,980 | Government Medical College, Ernakulam (previously Cochin Medical College) is one of the medical colleges in the state of Kerala situated at Kalamassery, Kochi. It was a government-owned institution established by the Co-operative Academy of Professional Education under the Department of Co-operation, Govt. of Kerala, e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32359260 | 1,307,264 |
1,885,028 | To facilitate cooperative research on important topics by marine scientists in member countries, PICES established two major integrative scientific programs during its first two decades. From 1995 to 2006, the PICES/GLOBEC regional programme on Climate Change and Carrying Capacity sought to improve understanding of cli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43692331 | 1,883,947 |
438,105 | The withdrawal of backing resulted in enormous public disappointment: having won two successive races, a British victory in a third race would secure the trophy outright. As ever active in aviation affairs, Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail group of newspapers launched a public appeal for money to support a British race ent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4091776 | 437,891 |
305,811 | Certain pathogens can also affect the p53 protein that the "TP53" gene expresses. One such example, human papillomavirus (HPV), encodes a protein, E6, which binds to the p53 protein and inactivates it. This mechanism, in synergy with the inactivation of the cell cycle regulator pRb by the HPV protein E7, allows for rep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24762 | 305,648 |
382,609 | Boulanger had as many as 40 students at once and employed a formal regimen that Copland had to follow. Copland found her incisive mind much to his liking and found her ability to critique a composition impeccable. Boulanger "could always find the weak spot in a place you suspected was weak... She also could tell you "w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51298 | 382,414 |
8,565 | Similar capability was added to Tranche 2 aircraft on the main development pathway as part of the Phase1 Enhancements. P1Ea (SRP10) entered service in 2013 Q1 and added the use of Paveway IV, EGBU16 and the cannon against surface targets. P1Eb (SRP12) added full integration with GPS bombs such as GBU-10 Paveway II, GBU... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167667 | 8,562 |
1,235,106 | Expanding subsistence strategies beyond big-game hunting and the consequential diversity in tool types has been noted as signs of behavioral modernity. A number of South African sites have shown an early reliance on aquatic resources from fish to shellfish. Pinnacle Point, in particular, shows exploitation of marine re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=710102 | 1,234,443 |
1,748,804 | The rusty bolt effect is a form of radio interference due to interactions of the radio waves with dirty connections or corroded parts. It is more properly known as passive intermodulation, and can result from a variety of different causes such as ferromagnetic conduction metals, or nonlinear microwave absorbers and loa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3453436 | 1,747,818 |
1,986,450 | From 1996 onwards, the Australian government led by John Howard dramatically cut all universities’ funding, forcing them to vigorously seek alternative revenue sources. Attracting more international fee-paying students became the main game, and at the University of Sydney's Faculty of Economics was well placed to becom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32100260 | 1,985,308 |
737,668 | The logistics of any coring project are complex because the locations are usually difficult to reach, and may be at high altitude. The largest projects require years of planning and years to execute, and are usually run as international consortiums. The EastGRIP project, for example, which as of 2017 is drilling in eas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=426456 | 737,278 |
1,683,909 | On August 4, 1999, the President of the Republic of Indonesia, by Presidential Decree No. 93/1999, officially declared that IKIP Yogyakarta was converted into the State University of Yogyakarta (abbreviated as SUY). It expanded the institution's mandate to offer other programs. The conversion of IKIP Yogyakarta from a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4991828 | 1,682,966 |
353,092 | The Geiger–Müller tube is filled with an inert gas such as helium, neon, or argon at low pressure, to which a high voltage is applied. The tube briefly conducts electrical charge when a particle or photon of incident radiation makes the gas conductive by ionization. The ionization is considerably amplified within the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12984 | 352,909 |
1,705,376 | In 2001, Sims and his clinic moved to Kauai, Hawaii after taking a vacation to Hawaii in 2000. Sims operated his clinic from his estate, worked primarily with two long-time employees, Dia and Ella, and saw approximately 20 patients a day. His clinic was of one of approximately 20 veterinary clinics on Kauai, but most s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47407978 | 1,704,420 |
1,305,447 | Until 1991, the facility was a nuclear research facility supposedly under the direction of Khidir Hamza. The facility is surrounded by a sand berm four miles (6.4 km) around and 160 feet (50 m) high, and contained the French-built research reactor Osirak, destroyed by Israel in 1981. Israel contended that there was a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=222755 | 1,304,731 |
1,699,858 | Under the Hara General Partnership Company, the mill was renamed the Hara Tomioka Silk Mill in October 1902. One action take by Hara was to distribute silkworm eggs to sericulture farmers around the country free of charge with the aim of improving cocoon quality, and homogenization of cocoons. He also asked for the coo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3017307 | 1,698,904 |
835,754 | Natural selection cannot discriminate between coextensive properties. To see how the process that Darwinian selection-against works in a real case, consider an example: two distinct gene products, one of which is neutral or even harmful to an organism and the other of which is beneficial, which are coded for by genes r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=350945 | 835,305 |
2,248,019 | Born 5 March 1933 in Penrith, Australia, the second of four children of William Henry Maitland Holmes, a farmer from Berowra, and Ethel Vea Jay from Bellingen, Keith Holmes started his schooling at Berowra Primary School where he fell under the influence of a Mr. Dawson who instilled in him a lasting interest in natura... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12630601 | 2,246,747 |
905,151 | By the mid-1970s in the North American market, emission control regulations were reducing engine performance at the same time as safety regulations were making cars heavier. An increase in performance was required for the G-engine, so a 2-barrel setup was released for the 1976 model year. This was not the same as the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=861486 | 904,675 |
442,854 | Emmy Noether showed that a slight but profound generalization of Lie's notion of symmetry can result in an even more powerful method of attack. This turns out to be closely related to the discovery that some equations, which are said to be completely integrable, enjoy an "infinite sequence of conservation laws". Quite ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1686520 | 442,639 |
785,481 | Another candidate for one of the first scholars to carry out comparative ethnographic-type studies in person was the medieval Persian scholar Abu Rayhan al-Biruni of the Islamic Golden Age, who wrote about the peoples, customs, and religions of the Indian subcontinent. According to Akbar S. Ahmed, like modern anthropol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1676362 | 785,060 |
1,307,305 | Torres 1913 paper, "Essays on Automatics," introduced the idea of floating point arithmetic, which historian Randell says was described "almost casually," apparently without recognizing the significance of the discovery. Torres also proposed a machine that acts intelligently like a human or replaces a human, and is equ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182044 | 1,306,589 |
830,831 | Gur Laish, an expert on the IAF with the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) at Tel Aviv University, wrote a report that indicated that the F-35 would have a deterrent effect with its ability to make pre-emptive attacks on hostile countries before war is declared, such as on Iran's nuclear facilities. Yiftah... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34226671 | 830,383 |
1,064,304 | King was born in Nottingham, England, as the eldest of three children born to Alan King, an engineer, and Daphne King, a housewife. She moved to Canada at an early age and was brought up in Vancouver, British Columbia. She studied at the University of British Columbia and worked on archaeological sites in Canada, Greec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52775150 | 1,063,750 |
40,576 | Initial assessment of the hypertensive people should include a complete history and physical examination. Serum creatinine is measured to assess for the presence of kidney disease, which can be either the cause or the result of hypertension. Serum creatinine alone may overestimate glomerular filtration rate and recent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77432 | 40,561 |
1,510,373 | At Northern Regional Research Laboratory in Peoria, Illinois, researchers collected and examined more than 2,000 specimens of molds (as well as other microorganisms). An extensive research team included Robert Coghill, Norman Heatley, Andrew Moyer, Mary Hunt, Frank H. Stodola and Morris E. Friedkin. Friedkin recalls th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49602444 | 1,509,523 |
1,635,964 | Mary Agnes Meara was born in 1869 in rural Iroquois County, Illinois but moved to Chicago several years later following the lynching of her father (an Irish railway worker named Martin John Meara), at which point the family changed their last name to Merrill. Mary Agnes was the third of six children and, upon moving to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31328401 | 1,635,039 |
1,415,315 | IIASA is a non-governmental institution funded by scientific organizations in its member countries, which currently include: Austria, Brazil, China, Egypt, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Republic of Korea, Malaysia (Observer), Mexico, Norway, Russia, Slovakia, South Africa, Sweden, Ukraine, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1826969 | 1,414,518 |
1,209,284 | In the case of pathologies that affect the extraocular organs, greater attention must be paid to anomalies in the cardiovascular system, since they represent the most worrying associations due to their repercussions at the systemic level. These are present in different structures that make it up, such as heart valve de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6935812 | 1,208,637 |
229,891 | The 8080 supports up to 256 input/output (I/O) ports, accessed via dedicated I/O instructions taking port addresses as operands. This I/O mapping scheme is regarded as an advantage, as it frees up the processor's limited address space. Many CPU architectures instead use so-called memory-mapped I/O (MMIO), in which a co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15062 | 229,774 |
1,242,956 | The southern half of Western Australia is greatly affected by the depletion of atmospheric ozone. While the rate of increase in the size of the ozone hole is slowing, 2006 figures produced by NASA show that the size of the hole that year was the biggest on record, averaging 27.4 million square kilometers in extent. As ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12228640 | 1,242,283 |
987,192 | In this model, beings and information are modeled as abstract information molecules carrying expressions of mathematical logic. They are quasi-randomly displacing due to their interaction with their environments with their intended displacements. Their interaction in abstract computational space creates multi-thread in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20756850 | 986,676 |
1,273,994 | Oxoguanine glycosylase (OGG1) catalyses the first step in base excision repair of the oxidatively damaged base 8-OHdG. OGG1 finds 8-OHdG by sliding along the linear DNA at 1,000 base pairs of DNA in 0.1 seconds. OGG1 very rapidly finds 8-OHdG. OGG1 proteins bind to oxidatively damaged DNA with a half maximum time of ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3308154 | 1,273,302 |
1,527,967 | When doing in vivo analysis of the brain, we can use neuroimaging techniques to gain insights in order to further study developmental cognitive processes. By using these techniques to measure function in healthy children, as well as unhealthy children, we study the structure and anatomy of the brain, as well as connect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6132187 | 1,527,103 |
1,727,521 | Stereognosis(Tactile Gnosis) is defined as the ability to tell the difference and identify objects via touch in the absence of visual or auditory contact. The subject will need to be able to recognize temperature, spatial properties, texture, and size to achieve reach an accurate conclusion to what the object is. This ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15559385 | 1,726,547 |
1,111,512 | Dettre and Johnson discovered in 1964 that the superhydrophobic lotus effect phenomenon was related to rough hydrophobic surfaces, and they developed a theoretical model based on experiments with glass beads coated with paraffin or TFE telomer. The self-cleaning property of superhydrophobic micro-nanostructured surface... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3169559 | 1,110,946 |
534,274 | Six days after the 2022 Swimming World Cup Toronto, Jacoby placed third in the 100-yard breaststroke in a dual meet against the University of Virginia with a time of 58.96 seconds, less than nine-tenths of a second behind two junior-year (third-year) swimmers, each of whom was 21 years of age (three years older than Ja... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67608890 | 533,995 |
387,159 | At the 2018 Geneva Motor Show, McLaren unveiled the concept version of the track-only iteration of the Senna dubbed the Senna GTR. The production Senna GTR unveiled two years later has a different bodywork from the concept, with a different wing setup, toned-down aerodynamics, and utilizes a dual-clutch race transmissi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56010250 | 386,964 |
430,536 | The immediate effect of the "Tractatus" was enormous, particularly by the reception it received by the Vienna Circle. However, it is now claimed by many contemporary analytic philosophers, that the Vienna Circle misunderstood certain sections of the "Tractatus". The indirect effect of the method, however, was perhaps e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=622529 | 430,324 |
475,400 | A comprehensive study exploring several classical functional fixedness experiments showed an overlying theme of overcoming prototypes. Those that were successful at completing the tasks had the ability to look beyond the prototype, or the original intention for the item in use. Conversely, those that could not create a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3297512 | 475,164 |
1,871,706 | On September 7, 2017, the Commission issued its final report, "The Promise of Evidence-Based Policymaking" which outlined a vision for "a future in which rigorous evidence is created efficiently, as a routine part of government operations, and used to construct effective public policy." The final report includes findin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57358660 | 1,870,629 |
585,289 | During D-Day, Spitfires were operated as Spotters by U.S. Navy Cruiser Scouting Squadron Seven (VCS-7) in support of United States Navy and Royal Navy cruisers and battleships bombarding land targets. In this role the Spitfires would locate targets and guide the fire of the ships onto the target. US spotting units norm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15630676 | 584,989 |
1,044,364 | The neonatal form is the least common clinical presentation of this disorder and is almost invariably fatal in rapid fashion regardless of intervention. Symptomatic onset has been documented just hours after birth to within 4 days of life. Affected newborns typically experience respiratory failure, low blood sugar, sei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2525632 | 1,043,820 |
1,760,841 | Avid Radiopharmaceuticals was established by Dr. Daniel Skovronsky in July 2005 with the goal of finding a dye that could be injected into the body, would cross the blood–brain barrier and attach itself to amyloid protein deposits in the brain. Avid raised $500,000 from BioAdvance, a medically oriented venture capital ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37972292 | 1,759,848 |
1,416,979 | In late July, a tropical wave emerged off the west coast of Africa. Traversing the Atlantic Ocean for more than a week, the system eventually consolidated into a tropical depression near the Bahamas on August 6. Remaining nearly stationary for a day, the depression strengthened into Tropical Storm Belle on August 7 and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=791513 | 1,416,181 |
1,921,353 | The immigration hypothesis proposed by Koenigswald was formally termed the 'Two Layer' model by Jacob Teuku. In 1967, Teuku analyzed the cranial and dental proportions of 152 adult skeletal samples recovered from prehistoric sites in Malaysia and Indonesia, the majority displaying robust jaws and teeth, prominent glabe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42959804 | 1,920,250 |
1,834,972 | With about 3.5 laps left, Poland's Bronislaw Malinowski took the lead. Before 2,000 metres, which Malinowski passed in 5:29.07, the lead group was reduced to four men: Malinowski, East Germany's Frank Baumgartl, Sweden's Anders Gärderud, and Finland's Kantanen. West Germany's Michael Karst, the defending European Champ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31825174 | 1,833,923 |
388,548 | Excursion dives without decompression stops can be done both upward and downward from saturation storage pressure within limits, allowing the divers a range of working depths, and if work is required beyond excursion range, the divers can be compressed or decompressed in storage to suit the changed depth range. Further... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=489941 | 388,353 |
37,651 | Metalloproteins — in which the active site is a transition metal ion (or metal-sulfide cluster) often coordinated by sulfur atoms of cysteine residues — are essential components of enzymes involved in electron transfer processes. Examples include plastocyanin (Cu) and nitrous oxide reductase (Cu–S). The function of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27127 | 37,638 |
1,855,674 | Genital leiomyomas (also known as "Dartoic leiomyomas") are leiomyomas that originate in the dartos muscles, or smooth muscles, of the genitalia, areola, and nipple. They are a subtype of cutaneous leiomyomas that affect smooth muscle found in the scrotum, labia, or nipple. They are benign tumors, but may cause pain an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20795062 | 1,854,606 |
261,416 | The Polaris Sales Agreement was signed on 6 April 1963. The UK retained its deterrent force, although its control passed from the RAF to the Royal Navy. The Polaris missiles were equipped with British warheads. A base was developed for the Polaris submarines at Faslane on the Firth of Clyde, not far from the US Navy's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2095669 | 261,277 |
239,814 | Because of AC's advantages in long-distance high voltage transmission, there were many inventors in the United States and Europe during the late 19th century trying to develop workable AC motors. The first person to conceive of a rotating magnetic field was Walter Baily, who gave a workable demonstration of his battery... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5578272 | 239,694 |
1,470,144 | The water was stored in the tanks and then released suddenly, the wave of water sweeping away the soil to reveal the bedrock and any gold-bearing veins beneath. Pliny the Elder gives a dramatic account in his "Naturalis historia" of the method, possibly derived from his experiences in Spain. The method is known as hush... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1714630 | 1,469,319 |
99,443 | There are two major measures of eye irritation. One is blink frequency which can be observed by human behavior. The other measures are break up time, tear flow, hyperemia (redness, swelling), tear fluid cytology, and epithelial damage (vital stains) etc., which are human beings' physiological reactions. Blink frequency... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1070221 | 99,400 |
1,051,257 | It is sometimes claimed that as with some other seabirds (e.g. the flightless Plotopteridae), the evolutionary radiation of cetaceans and pinnipeds outcompeted the pseudotooth birds and drove them into extinction. While this may be correct for the plotopterids, for pelagornithids it is not so likely for two reasons: Fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9205088 | 1,050,711 |
445,604 | The deflection of the spot on the oscilloscope display is a direct indication of the instantaneous phase and strength of the radio signal. Since radio signals consist of waves, the signal varies in phase at a very rapid rate. If one considers the signal received on one channel, say Y, the dot will move up and down, so ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1453216 | 445,388 |
180,729 | Two remains of "Botocudo" people (a term used to refer to Native Americans who live in the interior of Brazil that speak Macro-Jê languages), were found in research published in 2013 to have been members of mtDNA haplogroup B4a1a1, which is normally found only among Polynesians and other subgroups of Austronesians. Thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158687 | 180,635 |
741,301 | When the core temperature reaches about , the thermal energy dissociates the H molecules. This is followed by the ionization of the hydrogen and helium atoms. These processes absorb the energy of the contraction, allowing it to continue on timescales comparable to the period of collapse at free fall velocities. After t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43948 | 740,909 |
636,688 | Some kits can be mostly foam or plastic, or may be all balsa and ply wood. Construction of wood kits typically consists of using formers and longerons for the fuselage and spars and ribs for the wing and tail surfaces. Many designs use solid sheets of balsa wood instead of longerons to form the fuselage sides and may a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1466438 | 636,349 |
1,163,401 | The EcoScale metric was proposed in an article in the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry in 2006 for evaluation of the effectiveness of a synthetic reaction. It is characterized by simplicity and general applicability. Like the yield-based scale, the EcoScale gives a score from 0 to 100, but also takes into account... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9578059 | 1,162,784 |
205,793 | In Russia and other former Soviet countries, the two main rocket kerosene formulations are T-1 and RG-1. Densities are slightly higher, 0.82 to 0.85 g/ml, compared to RP-1 at 0.81 g/ml. For a short period, the Soviets achieved even higher densities by super-chilling the kerosene in the rocket's fuel tanks, but this par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=383074 | 205,687 |
1,440,993 | A 2018 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) report identified three capabilities as being of greatest concern. The first is the recreation of known pathogens from scratch, for example using genome synthesis to recreate historical viruses such as the Spanish Flu virus or polio virus. Current... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59284284 | 1,440,183 |
928,189 | As part of the European Space Agency's media campaign in support of the "Rosetta" mission, both the "Rosetta" and "Philae" spacecraft were given anthropomorphic personalities in an animated web series titled "Once upon a time...". The series depicts various stages in the "Rosetta" mission, involving the personified "Ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=179100 | 927,701 |
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