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1,799,448 | The pathogenesis of GA is not fully understood yet. It is likely multifactorial and triggered by intrinsic and extrinsic stressors of the poorly regenerative retinal pigment epithelium (RPE), particularly oxidative stress caused by the high metabolic demand of photoreceptors, photo-oxidation, and environmental stressor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53361793 | 1,798,439 |
1,497,262 | In some cases, the meniscal tear is so extensive that the entire meniscus must be removed, leaving the joint prone to constant pain and swelling. Removal of the meniscus cartilage leads to progressive, degenerative arthritis of the knee joint. Replacing the badly damaged or deficient meniscus with a meniscus transplant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5096790 | 1,496,419 |
1,103,989 | The original commitment in Phase III required all countries to have 45 percent of the chemical stockpiles destroyed by April 2004. Anticipating the failure to meet this deadline, the Bush administration in September 2003 requested a new deadline of December 2007 for Phase III and announced a probable need for an extens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40505833 | 1,103,427 |
1,817,794 | Another pivotal moment in Lubic's life and career began with her appointment as the General Director of the MCA in 1970, a position she would hold for 25 years until 1995. As General Director, Lubic championed for the provision of an alternative to the institutionalized, medical model of birth that was prevalent during... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27153303 | 1,816,759 |
616,731 | As well as linking the two series into a single future history, the present book served to address a criticism levelled against the largely radioactive Earth depicted in "Pebble in the Sky" and mentioned in several other books. Though not explicitly stated, there was the clear implication that the world's being mostly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=309408 | 616,417 |
282,647 | This burst of gamma rays quickly continued to spread. Eleven seconds later, Helios 2, a NASA probe, which was in orbit around the Sun, was saturated by the blast of radiation. It soon hit Venus, and the Pioneer Venus Orbiter's detectors were overcome by the wave. Seconds later, Earth received the wave of radiation, whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=118570 | 282,494 |
956,223 | Space warfare is likely to be done at far bigger distances and speeds than combat on Earth. The vast distances pose big challenges for targeting and tracking, as even light requires a few seconds to cover hundreds of thousands of kilometers. For example, if trying to fire on a target at the distance of the Moon from th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=956982 | 955,718 |
1,673,359 | Up until the 2007-2008 admissions cycle the school exclusively used a self-dubbed "Uncommon Application", and did not accept the more popular, nationalized Common Application, which can be sent to multiple institutions, for collegiate admissions. However, in 2009, the school adopted the Common Application and included ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5580587 | 1,672,417 |
887,978 | The barricade webbing consists of upper and lower horizontal loading straps joined to each other at the ends. Five vertical engaging straps, spaced apart, are connected to each upper and lower load strap. The barricade webbing is raised to a height of approximately 20 feet. The barricade webbing engages the wings of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2771881 | 887,510 |
27,058 | In June 1977 a new "Joint European Transport" (JET) programme was set up, established by British Aerospace (BAe), Aerospatiale, Dornier and Fokker. It was based at the then BAe (formerly Vickers) site in Weybridge, Surrey, UK. Although the members were all of Airbus' partners, they regarded the project as a separate co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=164933 | 27,048 |
708,731 | Telomeres form the terminal region of mammalian chromosomes and are essential for stability and aging and play central roles in diseases such as cancer. Telomeres have been long considered transcriptionally inert DNA-protein complexes until it was shown in the late 2000s that telomeric repeats may be transcribed as tel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16770101 | 708,362 |
1,134,194 | In 2010 scientists at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich showed that LAG3 was an exhaustion marker for CD8+ T cells specific for Lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus, but alone did not significantly contribute to T-cell exhaustion. A team at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center showed that CD8+ Tumor-inf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14818000 | 1,133,601 |
1,039,345 | The 5-HTTLPR has been thought to predispose individuals to affective disorders such as anxiety and depression. There have been some studies that test whether this association is due to the effects of variation in 5-HTTLPR on the reactivity of the human amygdala. In order to test this, researchers gathered a group of su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17967841 | 1,038,804 |
746,875 | She married a classmate, Charles Scott, and worked at General Radio in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while Scott attended Harvard Law School. They divorced several years later when Ostrom began contemplating a Ph.D. After graduation, she had trouble finding a job because employers presumed that she was only looking for job... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5033761 | 746,480 |
364,646 | The "Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine" published a paper expressing concerns about benzodiazepine receptor agonist drugs, the benzodiazepines and the Z-drugs used as hypnotics in humans. The paper cites a systematic review of the medical literature concerning insomnia medications and states almost all trials of sleep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239812 | 364,455 |
2,006,841 | According to Professor Barry Sautman, writing in the "Texas Journal of International Law:""None of the many recent studies of endangered languages deems Tibetan to be imperiled, and language maintenance among Tibetans contrasts with language loss even in the remote areas of Western states renowned for liberal policies.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25199505 | 2,005,691 |
14,776 | Adverse effects of benzodiazepines such as diazepam include anterograde amnesia, confusion (especially pronounced in higher doses) and sedation. The elderly are more prone to adverse effects of diazepam, such as confusion, amnesia, ataxia, and hangover effects, as well as falls. Long-term use of benzodiazepines such as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234806 | 14,771 |
1,082,211 | A class of laboratory power meters has an extended sensitivity, of the order of -110 dBm. This is achieved by using a very small detector and lens combination, and also a mechanical light chopper at typically 270 Hz, so the meter actually measures AC light. This eliminates unavoidable dc electrical drift effects. If th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14077738 | 1,081,655 |
1,236,989 | In this section we will briefly discuss the dynamics of the two main regimes in which supercontinua are generated in fibre. As previously stated a supercontinuum occurs through the interaction of many nonlinear processes to cause extensive spectral broadening. Many of these processes such as: self-phase modulation, fou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8736971 | 1,236,325 |
2,202,070 | Conferences are normally scheduled for May or June in Europe, North America or Asia. However, most conferences are held in Europe because the majority of the current membership resides in Europe. Conferences start with an informal reception on Sunday evening followed by two and a half days of technical sessions. Ample ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31756480 | 2,200,816 |
1,995,234 | In nonlinear systems, a resonant interaction is the interaction of three or more waves, usually but not always of small amplitude. Resonant interactions occur when a simple set of criteria coupling wave-vectors and the dispersion equation are met. The simplicity of the criteria make technique popular in multiple fields... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65312394 | 1,994,091 |
273,687 | In 1910, Fritz Heinrich Lewy was studying in Berlin for his doctorate. He was the first doctor to notice some unusual proteins in the brain, comparing them to earlier findings by Gonzalo Rodríguez Lafora. In 1913, Lafora described another case, and acknowledged Lewy as the discoverer, naming them "cuerpos intracelulare... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=491887 | 273,539 |
1,385,018 | In 2000, Riazuddin began his research in the series unsolved problems in physics. In 2005, at the National Center for Physics (NCP), Riazuddin presented his papers on neutrinos where he provided the mathematical framework of the neutrinos. Neutrinos have heavier masses but the neutrino oscillations do not completely id... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22233947 | 1,384,251 |
500,558 | The relationship between the "Wolbachia" bacteria and "B. malayi" is not fully understood. Extrapolating from research done with "Wuchereria bancrofti", another nematode that causes filariasis, "Wolbachia" may aid in embryogenesis of the worm, be responsible for potent inflammatory responses from macrophages and filari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1539801 | 500,301 |
258,658 | Several areas of the brain contribute to hierarchical behavior in animals. One of the areas that has been linked with this behavior is the prefrontal cortex, a region involved with decision making and social behavior. High social rank in a hierarchical group of mice has been associated with increased excitability in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1096688 | 258,524 |
403,502 | Ezetimibe is primarily metabolized in the liver and the small intestine via glucuronide conjugation with subsequent renal and biliary excretion. Both the parent compound and its active metabolite are eliminated from plasma with a half-life around 22 hours, allowing for once-daily dosing. Ezetimibe lacks significant inh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=864202 | 403,302 |
31,372 | According to HAL Chairman and Director R Madhavan, the design activity of Tejas Mark 1A is moving ahead and the testing of subsystems will be completed by 2021. The taxi trials will commence in the first half of 2022 and the first flight of Mark 1A prototype will happen in second half of 2022. Delivery of the aircraft ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=749967 | 31,362 |
457,257 | All vane type air starters should have a lubricator installed to insure long-life and maximum performance. Lubricators give the moving parts a needed friction barrier, reduce metal corrosion and keep vanes sealed properly against the cylinder walls. Even the so-called lube-free air starters require lubrication to prolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=194126 | 457,034 |
1,427,889 | The effect of the mapping is that generalized (i.e. including zero curvature) -spheres in the base space map onto -blades, and so that the effect of a translation (or "any" conformal mapping) of the base space corresponds to a rotation in the higher-dimensional space. In the algebra of this space, based on the geometri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34629138 | 1,427,085 |
1,924,419 | The second "Times" statement that was said to be inaccurate is, "Last year, the center set out to show that its cows could thrive on a growth stimulant called Zilmax. Months earlier, the drug had been withdrawn by its manufacturer, Merck & Company, amid concern in the meat industry that it caused rare complications, li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45153360 | 1,923,316 |
1,999,001 | The rehabilitation process following a spinal cord injury typically begins in the acute care setting. Occupational therapy plays an important role in the management of SCI. Recent studies emphasize the importance of early occupational therapy, started immediately after the client is stable. This process includes teachi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35738438 | 1,997,857 |
1,013,721 | Frequency analysis requires only a basic understanding of the statistics of the plaintext language and some problem solving skills, and, if performed by hand, tolerance for extensive letter bookkeeping. During World War II (WWII), both the British and the Americans recruited codebreakers by placing crossword puzzles in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157934 | 1,013,200 |
248,679 | As vice president of MCI Digital Information Services from 1982 to 1986, Cerf led the engineering of MCI Mail, the first commercial email service to be connected to the Internet. In 1986, he joined Bob Kahn at the Corporation for National Research Initiatives as its vice president, working with Kahn on Digital Librarie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32433 | 248,551 |
1,470,153 | This site yields some of the earliest evidence anywhere for the Roman use of water-powered trip hammers to crush ore (Burnham 1997). The ore was probably crushed on the famous Carreg Pumsaint, a block of stone erected many years ago before the Romans had left the site. There are parallels with similar stones at other a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1714630 | 1,469,328 |
709,470 | In a prototypical ALD process, a substrate is exposed to two reactants A and B in a sequential, non-overlapping way. In contrast to other techniques such as chemical vapor deposition (CVD), where thin-film growth proceeds on a steady-state fashion, in ALD each reactant reacts with the surface in a self-limited way: the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3607910 | 709,099 |
288,495 | The publication of the report was met with a mixed reception from different political parties and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the field of non-proliferation and disarmament. While it was welcomed by the prime minister, David Cameron, as having confirmed the necessity of like-for-like replacement of Trident... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9095461 | 288,338 |
633,708 | And so, if you wish to ask the question of the age—why do humans exist?—a major part of the answer, touching those aspects of the issue that science can treat at all, must be: because "Pikaia" survived the Burgess decimation.This interpretation that the chances of evolutionary products are unpredictable is known as evo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=884809 | 633,370 |
1,367,571 | Studies have found the frontal lobes to be involved in the executive functions of the brain, which are higher level cognitive processes. This control process is involved in the coordination, planning and organizing of actions towards an individual's goals. It contributes to such things as one's behaviour, language and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25146378 | 1,366,815 |
74,336 | Each database is likely to produce a different "h" for the same scholar, because of different coverage. A detailed study showed that the Web of Science has strong coverage of journal publications, but poor coverage of high impact conferences. Scopus has better coverage of conferences, but poor coverage of publications ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3604693 | 74,309 |
1,655,941 | The bioremediation potential of "L. sphaericus" has been widely studied: strains with chromate reduction capacity have been isolated from different contaminated environments and naturally metal-rich soils. The strain JG-A12, isolated from uranium-mining waste piles in Germany, is also able to reversibly bind aluminium,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12024674 | 1,655,008 |
1,159,207 | In some cases of sweeping selection (very strong selection for a trait), an individual (or a limited number of individuals) that encodes signatures prone to be selected, may approach dominance while becoming the founder of a mutant cloud (because formation of a cloud is inherent to replication). Conditions for dominanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6962692 | 1,158,592 |
1,847,012 | As an adaptive behavior, magnetotropism is recognizing as a method to improve agriculture success, using the well-studied plant model, Arabidopsis thaliana, a typical small plant which is native in the Europe and Asia with well-known genomic functions. In 2012, Xu et al. conducted a Near-Null Magnetic Field experiment ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60977793 | 1,845,955 |
1,969,747 | The Physiological Society was founded in 1876 as a dining society "for mutual benefit and protection" by a group of 19 physiologists, led by John Burdon Sanderson and Michael Foster, as a result of the 1875 Royal Commission on Vivisection and the subsequent 1876 Cruelty to Animals Act. Other founding members included: ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4050428 | 1,968,613 |
1,977,210 | The TPS is a 3-GeV third-generation synchrotron light source, built at a cost of approximately NT$7 billion (US$224 million). After a seven-year plan was launched in 2007, it delivered first light on December 31, 2014. Projected to be 10,000 times brighter than the TLS, the TPS is considered one of the world's brightes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14141497 | 1,976,072 |
1,425,668 | Bright, indirect sunlight is required for this plant. It prefers temperatures ranging from low 70°F to low 80°F, and the humidity should be maintained at approximately 50% or higher, with an optimal range of 75-85%. These plants do not do well in small amounts of light or no light at all. Veins can lose saturation when... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46186679 | 1,424,866 |
975,532 | In March 2019 the university announced it would have to make £15m worth of cuts owing to the effects of Brexit and anticipated cuts in tuition fees, and was offering redundancy to all staff. Following the announcement, "The Stag", published an article titled 'Paygate: The Problem with Surrey's Vice-Chancellor', in whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167774 | 975,021 |
165,808 | This cycle leads to an exotic-looking display of electric white, yellow, blue or purple arcs, which is often seen in films about mad scientists. The device was a staple in schools and science fairs of the 1950s and 1960s, typically constructed out of a Model T spark coil or any other source of high voltage in the 10,00... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1239265 | 165,723 |
2,112,211 | No Kenyan or Ethiopian had won the Women's Steeplechase at the World Championships. It became quickly obvious that was going to change. From the gun the three Kenyans and the three Ethiopians formed a pack that separated from the rest of the field. At the beginning of the 6th lap Sofia Assefa, running at the back of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40187493 | 2,110,996 |
526,025 | Despite our current understanding of 3′-UTRs, they are still relative mysteries. Since mRNAs usually contain several overlapping control elements, it is often difficult to specify the identity and function of each 3′-UTR element, let alone the regulatory factors that may bind at these sites. Additionally, each 3′-UTR c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=345919 | 525,752 |
2,162,759 | In 2008, he joined the Laboratory of Ueli Schibler at the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Geneva for a postdoctoral training. Here, he developed a new technology allowing ultra-sensitive monitoring of transcriptional kinetics in single living cells by luminescence microscopy. It allowed to demonstr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64981089 | 2,161,524 |
1,517,901 | MacLean spent two years during World War 2 serving as a medical officer for the Yale Unit, which later became known as the 39th General Hospital. This experience helped to shape MacLean's perspective on the impacts of post-traumatic stress disorder on fallen soldiers, which would ultimately shape his future studies int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58785859 | 1,517,049 |
2,120,293 | According to beam theory and the 3-point test of a rectangular beam of an istoroptic linear material, a perpendicular specific force applied to a rectangular beam would cause it to deflect as a function of its dimension parameters and material properties (i.e. flexural modulus). All parameters fixed, the dependence of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53230706 | 2,119,074 |
663,342 | The Saturn's hardware was new to the team, and it was their first attempt at creating an original environment. It was also Futatsugi's first year working as a full developer at Sega, so he was only able to do simple things while having a clear vision of what he wanted, which helped him to keep the overall style pure, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=599658 | 662,997 |
2,144,931 | (i.e. rituximab plus CHOP); radiotherapy; or a combination of these modalities. Regardless of treatment type, 30 of the 36 cases of FA-DBCL for which there is follow-up results had a benign course with no disease recurrence over 1 to 130 months. All cases arising in pseudocysts had favorable results. Local recurrences ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63408853 | 2,143,700 |
1,980,049 | Since its inaugural edition in 1952, the women's and men's World Championships were hosted by the same country. The FIVB decided to split the tournaments, awarding men's and women's to different countries, for 1966 the men's was held in Czechoslovakia and the women's was planned to be held in Lima, Peru between 12 and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15593677 | 1,978,911 |
1,795,219 | Mass wasting events such as the 1925 Gros Ventre landslide continue to change the area. On June 22, 1925, an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 4 weakened the side of a mountain located three miles (4.8 km) outside of the current park's southeastern border. The next day, 50 million cubic yards (38 million cubic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=768815 | 1,794,210 |
1,772,591 | "Vogelgesang" conducted shakedown training out of Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, from mid-May to late June and returned to New York on 24 June for post-shakedown availability. In July, she moved to Newport, Rhode Island, for gunnery exercises and, in August, began duty at Norfolk as a training platform for destroyer nucleus cre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=545459 | 1,771,594 |
1,238,879 | Most commentators blamed Take-Two's corporate governance; one analyst stated that the company's troubles were more "company-specific than market-driven", and another declared company CEO Paul Eibeler to be the "worst CEO of 2005", pointing to "setbacks on the rollouts of newer games" as evidence of his failure. Pete Hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12164267 | 1,238,212 |
963,173 | Wallenberg's first patient in 1885 was a 38-year-old male with symptoms of vertigo, numbness, loss of pain and temperature sensitivity, paralysis of multiple locations, ataxia and more. His background in neuroanatomy helped him in correctly locating the patient's lesion to the lateral medulla and connected it to a bloc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=685809 | 962,664 |
1,265,203 | Species of fish living in cold or cool water can see a reduction in population of up to 50% in the majority of U.S. fresh water streams, according to most climate change models. The increase in metabolic demands due to higher water temperatures, in combination with decreasing amounts of food will be the main contributo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26515241 | 1,264,515 |
568,673 | The nervous system can be described as a control system that interconnects the other body systems. It consists of the brain, spinal cord, and other nerve tissues throughout the body. The system's primary function is to react to internal and external stimuli in the human body. It uses electrical and chemical signals to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=485923 | 568,383 |
1,159,271 | In a speech at the 2008 Davos World Economic Forum, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, called for a new form of capitalism, that goes beyond traditional philanthropy and government aid. Citing examples ranging from the development of software for people who cannot read to developing vaccines at a price that Africans can af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31816142 | 1,158,656 |
1,744 | Kissinger and Nixon were "realists" who deemphasized idealistic goals like anti-communism or promotion of democracy worldwide because those goals were too expensive in terms of America's economic capabilities. Instead of a Cold War they wanted peace, trade and cultural exchanges. They realized that Americans were no lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=325329 | 1,744 |
440,732 | Starting in the 1960s, Andrée's status as a national hero was increasingly questioned and a cooler, more skeptical view began to prevail, in a way not unlike the changing assessment of Robert Falcon Scott's South polar journey. Emphasis has been placed on the view that the expedition was bound to fail, and that Andrée ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30876371 | 440,517 |
1,591,306 | At the end of the school year, a major turnover took place in the roster. Hibbert, Ewing, Wallace, and Tyler Crawford all graduated. The Toronto Raptors drafted Hibbert in the 2008 NBA draft and subsequently traded the rights to him to the Indiana Pacers, with whom he began his NBA career. The Sacramento Kings drafted ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14518554 | 1,590,411 |
2,059,175 | To understand why the calotype process could sometimes produce attractive results but was found to be generally unsatisfactory, it would be useful to compare pictures of the same subject taken with first paper and then with glass (or clear plastic film) as the negative substrate. An easier way to gain insight into the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30383465 | 2,057,989 |
432,597 | One approach is to discretize the space in terms of grids (both orthogonal, and non-orthogonal) and solving Maxwell's equations at each point in the grid. Discretization consumes computer memory, and solving the equations takes significant time. Large-scale CEM problems face memory and CPU limitations. As of 2007, CEM ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3849994 | 432,384 |
773,952 | Karl Kössler and Günter Ott, in their book "Die großen Dessauer: Junkers Ju 89, 90, 290, 390. Die Geschichte einer Flugzeugfamilie" (The Big Dessauers... History of an Aircraft Family), also examined the claimed flight and debunked the flight north of New York. Assuming there was only one aircraft in existence, Kössler... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=482682 | 773,536 |
798,854 | MOZ (Monocytic Leukemia Zinc Finger Protein), Ybf2/Sas3, Sas2 and Tip60 (Tat Interacting Protein) all make up MYST, another well known family that exhibits acetylating capabilities. This family includes Sas3, essential SAS-related acetyltransferase (Esa1), Sas2, Tip60, MOF, MOZ, MORF, and HBO1. The members of this fami... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9957063 | 798,429 |
66,790 | Unplasticised PVC (uPVC, almost synonymous with rigid PVC) is extensively used in the building industry as a low-maintenance material, particularly in Ireland, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. In the US and Canada, it is known as vinyl or vinyl siding. The material comes in a range of colors and finis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24458 | 66,765 |
867,936 | The effort to start a national trading system has faced some problems that took longer than expected to solve, mainly in the complicated process of initial data collection to determine the base level of pollution emission. According to the initial design, there will be eight sectors that are first included in the tradi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15532928 | 867,476 |
1,076,378 | Wankel engines run very hot, so Garside gave this air-cooled motor additional interior air-cooling. Air was drawn through a forward-facing filter situated to provide a ram air effect. This air passed through the interior of the rotors and then into a large pressed-steel plenum before entering the combustion chambers "v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18335862 | 1,075,823 |
2,103,929 | The Hamburg Centre for Ultrafast Imaging (CUI) is a research facility established in the context of the Universities Excellence Initiative by the German Federal and State Governments. The multidisciplinary and interinstitutional cluster is located at Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, and has been initiated on 1 No... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46673093 | 2,102,717 |
1,726,156 | Combinatorics in Oxford in the 1970s was dominated by matroid theory, due to the influence of Dominic Welsh and Aubrey William Ingleton. Much of Seymour's early work, up to about 1980, was on matroid theory, and included three important matroid results: his D.Phil. thesis on matroids with the max-flow min-cut property ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1575708 | 1,725,185 |
1,362,688 | The preponderance of peer reviewed, published research finds that CISM is ineffective and/or harmful. Several meta-analyses in the medical literature either find no preventative benefit of CISM, very low quality evidence of benefit, or negative impact for those debriefed. A number of studies have shown that CISM has li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5289263 | 1,361,935 |
603,111 | Understanding the interactions of microbial communities present on amphibians' skin with fungal species in the environment can reveal why certain amphibians, such as the frog "Rana muscosa", are susceptible to the fatal effects of "B. dendrobatidis" and why others, such as the salamander "Hemidactylium scutatum", are a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2221852 | 602,802 |
87,853 | Only the goalkeepers are allowed to move freely within the goal perimeter, although they may not cross the goal perimeter line while carrying or dribbling the ball. Within the zone, they are allowed to touch the ball with all parts of their bodies, including their feet, with a defensive aim (for other actions, they are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13730 | 87,818 |
590,371 | NASA astronauts train underwater to simulate the weightlessness and occasionally need to fly afterwards at cabin altitudes not exceeding 10,000 feet (3,000 meters). Training dives use 46% Nitrox and can exceed six hours at a maximum depth of 40 ffw (12 mfw) for a maximum equivalent air depth (EAD) of 24 fsw (7 msw). NA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38810153 | 590,069 |
279,267 | In this entry, for clarity, the term "inline engine" refers only to engines with a single row of cylinders, as used in automotive language, but in aviation terms, the phrase "inline engine" also covers V-type and opposed engines (as described below), and is not limited to engines with a single row of cylinders. This is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158681 | 279,117 |
155,675 | The first activation experiment of Unit 01, carried out in 2004 in the Laboratory for Artificial Evolution, is conducted by a research center called Gehirn. Yui is designated as the test subject of the experiment; during the experiment her synchrony rate reaches 400%, a percentage at which the subject dissolves into th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=577372 | 155,604 |
1,723,457 | The Hertz Foundation was established in 1957 with the goal of supporting applied sciences education. The founder, John D. Hertz, was a European emigrant whose family arrived in the United States with few resources, when the Hertz was five years old. Hertz matured into a prominent entrepreneur and business leader (found... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3122424 | 1,722,487 |
671,768 | In 1969, Itakura and Saito introduced method based on partial correlation (PARCOR), Glen Culler proposed real-time speech encoding, and Bishnu S. Atal presented an LPC speech coder at the Annual Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America. In 1971, realtime LPC using 16-bit LPC hardware was demonstrated by Philco-Ford... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36682 | 671,416 |
1,403,537 | In one study the scientist studied how plant root exudates can manipulate the environment of the rhizosphere which in turn causes feedback in the soil to the plant [1]. The plants they studied for this experiment were wheat and maize species which release a secondary metabolite known as Benzoxazinoids which is a defens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57090582 | 1,402,747 |
254,610 | The use of 'East' to mean the 'in' direction (actually 'in' → 'East' → 'sunrise' → 'up') may appear contrived. Previously, as related in the first reference cited above, Faraday had used the more straightforward term "eisode" (the doorway where the current enters). His motivation for changing it to something meaning 't... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2392 | 254,477 |
1,577,024 | Construction of the power plant began in 2006, with completion planned by 2009. The plant was built into a 100-meter section of the breakwater on a 0.50 meter deep foundation, measuring 14.24 meters wide and 102 meters long. 16 air chambers were constructed on the foundation, using prefabricated parts. Each air chamber... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32344175 | 1,576,135 |
2,144,676 | Molecular vapor deposition is the gas-phase reaction between surface reactive chemicals and an appropriately receptive surface. Often bi-functional silanes are used in which one termination of the molecule is reactive. For example, a functional chlorosilane (R-Si-Cl) can react with surface hydroxyl groups (-OH) resulti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47222588 | 2,143,445 |
2,178,301 | The early studies of archaeology and genetics Sardinia may have been plagued by incorrect assumptions. For example, the archaeological ties with Europe may have been overemphasized given the poor archaeological studies of North Africa. Recent archaeological studies in Africa reveal the advancement of pottery traditions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23801823 | 2,177,056 |
1,399,209 | He was the founding editor (1991) of the International Series on the Advances in Solid State Electronics and Technology (ASSET) which has published three titles by invited authors (1990s) and eight monographs (2007–2013) by invited authors on compact modelling of devices for computer aided design of integrated circuits... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14313519 | 1,398,434 |
1,346,418 | The Extended Range Guided Munition was a precision guided rocket-assisted 5-inch (127 mm) shell (projectile) development by Raytheon for the U.S. Navy. The program was cancelled in March 2008 after twelve years of development and over 600 million dollars in funding. The developmental round was designated EX 171. ERGM c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12035446 | 1,345,677 |
1,353,110 | Reference to a HetNet often indicates the use of multiple types of access nodes in a wireless network. A Wide Area Network can use some combination of macrocells, picocells, and femtocells in order to offer wireless coverage in an environment with a wide variety of wireless coverage zones, ranging from an open outdoor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1648455 | 1,352,363 |
87,319 | In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Leslie Collier, an English microbiologist working at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, developed a method for producing a heat-stable freeze-dried vaccine in powdered form. Collier added 0.5% phenol to the vaccine to reduce the number of bacterial contaminants but the key s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61088 | 87,284 |
385,264 | The power transferred increases with frequency and the mutual inductance formula_1 between the coils, which depends on their geometry and the distance formula_2 between them. A widely used figure of merit is the coupling coefficient formula_3. This dimensionless parameter is equal to the fraction of magnetic flux throu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=570662 | 385,069 |
332,134 | In September 2013, ATK delivered the 100th AARGM to the U.S. Navy. The AGM-88E program is on schedule and on budget, with Full Operational Capability (FOC) planned for September 2014. The AGM-88E was designed to improve the effectiveness of legacy HARM variants against fixed and relocatable radar and communications sit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3149 | 331,957 |
2,115,902 | A typical form of OFD is a bimodal distribution, indicating the species in a community is either rare or common, known as Raunkiaer's law of distribution of frequencies. That is, with each species assigned to one of five 20%-wide occupancy classes, Raunkiaer's law predicts bimodal distributions within homogenous plant ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27064677 | 2,114,685 |
1,732,287 | Following his postgraduate research, Gaffney undertook commercial geophysical surveys, and eventually he and John Gater set up a partnership and traded under the name Geophysical Surveys of Bradford before renaming GSB Prospection. For nearly two decades Chris and John operated one of the country's most successful priv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27381902 | 1,731,311 |
1,653,487 | Another traditional distinction between endosymbionts has been between primary and secondary symbionts. Primary endosymbionts reside in specialized host cells that may be organized into larger, organ-like structures (in insects, the bacteriome). Associations between hosts and primary endosymbionts are usually ancient, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34920670 | 1,652,555 |
2,027,882 | Human microbiota plays a central role in health and diseases and disruption of the microbiome leads to dysbiosis (the relationship between microbiota and host is linked to illnesses etc.). Unlike other human microbiomes, the oral microbiome is in dysbiosis causing disease in a majority of people in their lifetime. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67011367 | 2,026,715 |
572,250 | Oberon is a general-purpose programming language first published in 1987 by Niklaus Wirth and the latest member of the Wirthian family of ALGOL-like languages (Euler, ALGOL W, Pascal, Modula, and Modula-2). Oberon was the result of a concentrated effort to increase the power of Modula-2, the direct successor of Pascal,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22496 | 571,957 |
303,611 | Officially designated as the Curtiss H75-C1 (the "Hawk" name was not used in France), the aircraft were powered by Pratt & Whitney R-1830-SC-G engines of 900 hp and had instruments calibrated for the metric system, a seat for French dorsal parachutes, a French-style throttle which operated in reverse from U.S. and Brit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=493939 | 303,449 |
1,558,174 | Much of the Government Office for Science's work looks to the future, focusing on what science and the evidence base can tell us about how the world could develop and what effects potential interventions might have. The Foresight program and its Horizon Scanning Center enable the Government to plan for the long term by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20557134 | 1,557,289 |
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