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411,864 | Koch was made a Knight Grand Cross in the Prussian Order of the Red Eagle on 19 November 1890, and was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society (ForMemRS) in 1897. In 1905, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine "for his investigations and discoveries in relation to tuberculosis." In 1906, resea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13722 | 411,662 |
1,491,524 | An ultra-short period (USP) planet is a type of exoplanet with orbital period less than one day. At this short distance, tidal interactions lead to relatively rapid orbital and spin evolution. Therefore when there is a USP planet around a mature main-sequence star it is most likely that the planet has a circular orbit ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7370382 | 1,490,685 |
772,516 | The development of new pathways for efficient nuclear waste administration is essential in wake of increased public concern about radioactive contamination, due to nuclear plant operation and nuclear weapon decommission. Synthesis of novel materials capable of selective actinide sequestration and separation is one of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9821563 | 772,101 |
696,017 | Exploratory laparotomy originated as a technique for the treatment of acute trauma. In 1881, Dr. George E. Goodfellow performed the first documented exploratory laparotomy for a ballistic injury, however the use of the procedure for blunt trauma has been described previously. In 1888, Dr. Henry O. Marcy first discussed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27249020 | 695,653 |
510,248 | Her father had described about 500 new species of flea, and her uncle Lionel Walter Rothschild had built a private natural history museum at Tring. By the age of four she had started collecting ladybird beetles and caterpillars and taking a tame quail to bed with her. World War I broke on the eve of Miriam's sixth birt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=873363 | 509,983 |
387,360 | Field-emission electric propulsion (FEEP) thrusters may use caesium or indium propellants. The design comprises a small propellant reservoir that stores the liquid metal, a narrow tube or a system of parallel plates that the liquid flows through and an accelerator (a ring or an elongated aperture in a metallic plate) a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37839 | 387,165 |
811,247 | In general, unit operations are designed by writing down the balances for the transported quantity for each elementary component (which may be infinitesimal) in the form of equations, and solving the equations for the design parameters, then selecting an optimal solution out of the several possible and then designing t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1072236 | 810,815 |
653,042 | By 1857, Foote was conducting experiments on static electricity, which she called "electrical excitation". The studies were designed to test the moisture content and which gases in the air could generate static electricity. She used an air pump with limited power to adjust the air pressure in a glass tube about two fee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49280323 | 652,699 |
2,087,285 | Harvard began the second half of its season in early January and looked to have lost a bit of a step during their three-week break; they continued to win games but their massive goal differentials had vanished. Just when it looked like they were vulnerable, however, the Crimson soundly beat previously-undefeated St. La... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62221085 | 2,086,083 |
276,267 | Herschel constructed his first large telescope in 1774, after which he spent nine years carrying out sky surveys to investigate double stars. Herschel published catalogues of nebulae in 1802 (2,500 objects) and in 1820 (5,000 objects). The resolving power of the Herschel telescopes revealed that many objects called neb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33971 | 276,117 |
617,144 | In the case of two-fold increased transcription of a single male X chromosome, there is no use for a Barr body, and the male organism must use different genetic machinery to increase the transcriptional output of their single X chromosome. It is common in such organisms for the Y chromosome to be necessary for male fer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1502597 | 616,830 |
1,037,820 | At shallower depths in the crust, the lithostatic pressure on the magma body decreases. The reduced pressure can cause gases (volatiles), such as carbon dioxide and water vapor, to exsolve from the melt into a froth of gas bubbles. The nucleation of bubbles causes a rapid expansion and cooling of the surrounding melt, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20386565 | 1,037,279 |
1,627,109 | Dams are susceptible to PPV-induced reproductive failure if infected anytime during about the first half of gestation. This interval of maternal susceptibility is indicated by the collective results of several experimental studies, by in-depth epidemiological investigations, and by estimates of the time of death of fet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4741170 | 1,626,191 |
133,562 | In discussing the case of Wang Yue and a later incident in China, in which CCTV footage from a Shanghai subway showed passengers fleeing from a foreigner who fainted, UCLA anthropologist Yunxiang Yan said that the reactions can be explained not only by previous reports of scamming from older people for helping, but als... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=319013 | 133,509 |
2,202,106 | The New York section was briefly involved in practical work on standardization in 1902-3, when they established a Subcommittee on Uniformity of Analysis of Materials. Two samples of Portland cement were analyzed by 14 chemists, and 3 samples of zinc ore were analyzed by 42 chemists. The results were critiqued by Willia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51342950 | 2,200,852 |
1,941,212 | In 2012 key stakeholders in Norwich Research Park created the Norwich Research Partners Limited Liability Partnership which was renamed Anglia Innovation Partnership LLP in July 2018, to help the Park achieve its vision. Its non-executive board is chaired by David Parfrey, currently Executive Director, Finance & Campus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34299050 | 1,940,101 |
2,014,399 | The majority determined that the "Patent Act", in its current form, is "ill-equipped to deal appropriately with higher life forms as patentable subject matter" since biological life forms are living, capable of self-replication, incredibly complex, incapable of full description, and can contain important characteristic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2000215 | 2,013,240 |
980,276 | In order for an to be committed there has to have been an act or action. Various common law define action differently but generally, an action or act is a "bodily movement whether voluntary or involuntary." In "Robinson v. California", , the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a California law making it illegal to be a drug ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=207437 | 979,764 |
1,207,846 | The founding dean of Macaulay Honors College is Dr. Laura Schor, Professor of History at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, received her PhD in Modern European History at the University of Rochester in 1974. In July 2006, Dr. Ann Kirschner, a graduate of SUNY Buffalo, UVA, and Princeton University, was appoin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19455484 | 1,207,200 |
353,808 | Some studies show that rainwater harvesting is a widely applicable solution for water scarcity and other multiple usages, owing to its cost-effectiveness and eco-friendliness. Constructing new substantial, centralized water supply systems, such as dams, is prone to damage local ecosystems, generates external social cos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1032545 | 353,625 |
1,337,444 | Furthermore, biomineralization —also known as bioprecipitation— is the precipitation of radionuclides through the generation of microbial ligands, resulting in the formation of stable biogenic minerals. These minerals have a very important role in the retention of radioactive contaminants. A very localized and produced... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50590211 | 1,336,713 |
1,141,930 | The 1995 edition of the "American Practical Navigator" incorporates extensive changes in organization, content, and format. Recent advances in navigational electronics, communications, positioning, and other technologies have transformed the way navigation is practiced at sea, and it is clear that even more changes are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4738431 | 1,141,336 |
1,566,467 | In 1998 Drake met Svein Rassmussen, owner of the windsurfing company Starboard. The two began a productive, successful and award-winning design collaboration. At Starboard, Drake and Rassmussen developed an entirely new class of board design known as "formula". The formula board is a short and wide light wind race desi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23117343 | 1,565,580 |
1,110,020 | The most complex nanoscale molecular machines are proteins found within cells, often in the form of multi-protein complexes. Some biological machines are motor proteins, such as myosin, which is responsible for muscle contraction, kinesin, which moves cargo inside cells away from the nucleus along microtubules, and dyn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9324236 | 1,109,455 |
1,119,670 | A 2014 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report report noted the difficulty of establishing causation by the virus. Avindra Nath, clinical director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke and president of the International Society for NeuroVirology, compared the situation to the prolonged investigat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44201347 | 1,119,097 |
1,994,279 | The annual output of operations at RMS-Bellevue, RMS-Treasure Island, and ARMS would be a few thousand, but the BuNav estimated that the wartime requirement would be in the tens of thousands. Further, the depth of capability of graduates from the existing instruction was also inadequate. Electronics would have a major ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36494078 | 1,993,136 |
900,756 | Mongol rule under the Yuan dynasty saw technological advances from an economic perspective, with the first mass production of paper banknotes by Kublai Khan in the 13th century. Numerous contacts between Europe and the Mongols occurred in the 13th century, particularly through the unstable Franco-Mongol alliance. Chine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9311753 | 900,280 |
1,718,248 | The diagnosis of femoral neuropathy can be done through physical examinations, several imaging techniques and electrodiagnostic studies. Provided patients do not suffer from haemorrhage, physical examinations is the first line of diagnosis. These examinations are carried out in order to evaluate whether nerves of the l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67272105 | 1,717,278 |
210,626 | Another post-war activity was Huxley's attack on the Soviet politico-scientist Trofim Lysenko, who had espoused a Lamarckian heredity, made unscientific pronouncements on agriculture, used his influence to destroy classical genetics in Russia and to move genuine scientists from their posts. In 1940, the leading botanic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145837 | 210,519 |
94,723 | It was designed in response to a 1957 requirement issued by the Bureau of Aeronautics for an all-weather attack aircraft for Navy long-range interdiction missions and with short takeoff and landing (STOL) capability for Marine close air support. It was to replace the piston-engined Douglas A-1 Skyraider. The requiremen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=379613 | 94,682 |
88,601 | There is some doubt as to when the Soviet Union began modelling fires and the atmospheric effects of nuclear war. Former Soviet intelligence officer Sergei Tretyakov claimed that, under the directions of Yuri Andropov, the KGB invented the concept of "nuclear winter" in order to stop the deployment of NATO Pershing II ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22171 | 88,565 |
68,476 | In a subsequent debate with former U.S. National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski in "Foreign Policy" magazine, Mearsheimer clarified, "It is unlikely that China will go on a rampage and conquer other Asian countries. Instead, China will want to dictate the boundaries of acceptable behavior to neighboring countries... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=980934 | 68,449 |
96,895 | The two men who served as Wertheimer's subjects in the phi experiments were Köhler and Koffka. Köhler was an expert in physical acoustics, having studied under physicist Max Planck (1858–1947), but had taken his degree in psychology under Carl Stumpf (1848–1936). Koffka was also a student of Stumpf's, having studied mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70402 | 96,854 |
1,054,020 | As an alternative definition, other authors use the term C–H functionalization to mean any organic transformation in which the net result is the transformation of a relatively inert C–H bond into a C–X bond (i.e., a functional group), irrespective of the mechanism (or with an agnostic attitude towards it). In particula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6180254 | 1,053,473 |
1,644,284 | The structure of the complex between "Plasmodium falciparum" tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase (Pf-YARS) and tyrosyl-adenylate at 2.2 Å resolution, shows that the overall fold of Pf-YARS is typical of class I synthetases. It comprises an N-terminal catalytic domain (residues 18–260) and an anticodon-binding domain (residues 261–... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14286366 | 1,643,357 |
467,805 | The Middle East, where combatants were generally not firmly aligned with the superpowers, who mainly sought stability in the crucial oil-producing region, was the most visible location of UN peacekeeping during the Cold War. In 1958, UNOGIL was authorized to ensure that there was no illegal infiltration of personnel or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12029262 | 467,570 |
89,388 | After the 2006 war, and as the IDF becomes increasingly involved in unconventional and guerrilla warfare, some analysts say the Merkava is too vulnerable to advanced anti-tank missiles, that in their man-portable types can be fielded by guerrilla warfare opponents. Other post-war analysts, including David Eshel, disagr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166378 | 89,351 |
590,606 | Four fifths of the cave, including any cave wall art, were permanently or periodically submerged and destroyed by sea water. Nearly 500 instances of cave art remain which date back to two distinct periods during the Upper Paleolithic. The first phase, from around 27,000 years BP (the Gravettian Era), is represented by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3625192 | 590,304 |
1,573,120 | While other modern recording techniques such as multi-electrode array and fluorescent calcium sensors have emerged as alternatives which can record from a great deal more neurons at once, patch clamp offers millisecond temporal resolution and the ability to study specific ionic currents. By contrast the best temporal r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66692692 | 1,572,231 |
2,108,630 | Beddard explains in his preface that the book grew from his 1890 Davis Lectures given for the public at London Zoo. The book "contains hardly anything novel, but professes to give some account of the principal phenomena of coloration exhibited by animals." He also notes that since Poulton's recent book "deal[s] with co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38398925 | 2,107,416 |
809,089 | Neural membranes contain several classes of glycerophospholipids which turnover at different rates with respect to their structure and localization in different cells and membranes. There are three major classes namely; 1-alkyl-2-acyl glycerophospholipid, 1,2-diacyl glycerophospholipid and plasmalogen. The main functio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1797388 | 808,659 |
2,150,251 | The construction and deployment of CASA took place between 1988 and 1991. Construction activities were carried out at the University of Chicago in the Accelerator Building of the Enrico Fermi Institute. The completed scintillation detectors, along with electronics, were shipped to Utah in large semi-trailers, where the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1529011 | 2,149,020 |
13,031 | Mazin's interest in creating the series originated when he decided to write something that addressed "how we're struggling with the global war on the truth right now". Another inspiration is that he knew Chernobyl exploded, but he did not know "why". He explained, "I didn't know why, and I thought there was this inexpl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55876266 | 13,026 |
480,645 | As early in the history of biotechnology as 1990, there have been scientists opposed to attempts to modify the human germline using these new tools, and such concerns have continued as technology progressed. With the advent of new techniques like CRISPR, in March 2015 a group of scientists urged a worldwide moratorium ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53827714 | 480,401 |
2,162,637 | The 2016–17 Mount St. Mary's Mountaineers men's basketball team represented Mount St. Mary's University during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Mountaineers, led by fifth-year head coach Jamion Christian, played their home games at Knott Arena in Emmitsburg, Maryland as members of the Northeast ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50219468 | 2,161,402 |
2,245,868 | A specific branch of contrast-enhanced ultrasound, acoustic angiography is a minimally invasive and non-ionizing medical imaging technique used to visualize vasculature. Acoustic angiography was first developed by the Dayton Laboratory at North Carolina State University and provides a safe, portable, and inexpensive al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69401249 | 2,244,596 |
1,726,576 | The disease is spread through sap containing the virus and can be transferred to other areas mostly by mechanical means such as lawn mowers and other equipment. To minimize spread of sugarcane mosaic virus all equipment used should be sanitized. Fungicides and other pesticides have been shown to be ineffective when dea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12458190 | 1,725,605 |
1,648,586 | Because of issues in objectively identifying functionality that plagued the post Barcelona Games, the IPC unveiled plans to develop a new classification system in 2003. This classification system went into effect in 2007, and defined ten different disability types that were eligible to participate on the Paralympic lev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36583540 | 1,647,654 |
1,945,064 | This variability in the impact of ocean acidification on different life cycle stages of different organisms can be partially explained by the fact that most echinoderms and mollusks start shell and skeleton synthesis at their larval stage, while corals start at the settlement stage. Hence, these stages are highly susce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59096122 | 1,943,952 |
1,662,485 | A microquasar is a smaller cousin of a quasar that is a radio emitting X-ray binary, with an often resolvable pair of radio jets. SS 433 is one of the most exotic star systems observed. It is an eclipsing binary with the primary either a black hole or neutron star and the secondary is a late A-type star. SS 433 lies wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25101402 | 1,661,550 |
2,021,855 | Nitrogen bonds to almost all the elements in the periodic table except the first three noble gases, helium, neon, and argon, and some of the very short-lived elements after bismuth, creating an immense variety of binary compounds with varying properties and applications. Many binary compounds are known: with the except... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5704794 | 2,020,692 |
473,954 | In interviews with "PC Gamer" and "Joystiq", lead game developer Jon Mavor commented that the game's complexity and playtime can vary, from half-hour, 2-player battles to lengthy matches with potentially 40-players. However, at release 40-player matches were not yet available. "Planetary Annihilation" features a planet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36773607 | 473,718 |
1,771,888 | High throughput cell biology has many definitions, but is most commonly defined by the search for active compounds in natural materials like in medicinal plants. This is also known as high throughput screening (HTS) and is how most drug discoveries are made today, many cancer drugs, antibiotics, or viral antagonists ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18101603 | 1,770,891 |
164,368 | The Olmec colossal heads are stone representations of human heads sculpted from large basalt boulders. They range in height from . The heads date from at least 900 BC and are a distinctive feature of the Olmec civilization of ancient Mesoamerica. All portray mature individuals with fleshy cheeks, flat noses, and slight... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35721801 | 164,283 |
1,358,448 | Vettel went on to win the race by 9.5 seconds from Jenson Button, who had caught and passed Alonso with less than ten laps to go. Once freed from behind Schumacher's Mercedes, Lewis Hamilton started catching Alonso at a rate that meant the 2008 World Champion would only be able to pass his former teammate on the last l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28687495 | 1,357,698 |
560,400 | Stefan Bellof has been described as the "ultimate 'what-might-have-been' driver". He joined Formula One in 1984, the same year that saw Ayrton Senna join the sport. Senna's performance at the 1984 Monaco Grand Prix marked him out as an immensely talented driver, but Bellof's race had shown what potential the German had... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36929021 | 560,111 |
1,742,873 | The book was his first detailed demonstration of the power of natural selection, and explained how complex ecological relationships resulted in the coevolution of orchids and insects. The view has been expressed that the book led directly or indirectly to all modern work on coevolution and the evolution of extreme spec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21436165 | 1,741,889 |
185,631 | The university offers associate, bachelor, master, doctoral, and higher doctorate degrees through a college, a graduate school, and six faculties. UQ incorporates over one hundred research institutes and centres offering research programs, such as the Institute for Molecular Bioscience, Boeing Research and Technology A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=192819 | 185,534 |
1,630,301 | Following the success of this initial disclosure, Hoover and Stahl went on to publish a further simplified protocol for rapid benzylic alcohol oxidation with Nicolas Hill, director of undergraduate organic chemistry laboratories at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. Utilizing a less expensive solvent and copper sou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63860914 | 1,629,381 |
88,903 | Muzzle-loading muskets (smooth-bored long guns) were among the first firearms developed. The firearm was loaded through the muzzle with gunpowder, optionally with some wadding, and then with a bullet (usually a solid lead ball, but musketeers could shoot stones when they ran out of bullets). Greatly improved muzzleload... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11966 | 88,867 |
1,224,245 | Despite "A. terreus" being found worldwide in warm, arable soil, it has been located in many different habitats such as compost and dust. Eventually, the dispersed fungal spores come into contact with either liquid or solid material and settle onto it, but only when the conditions are right do the spores germinate. One... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10589669 | 1,223,585 |
127,498 | There are many different formulations of the anthropic principle. Philosopher Nick Bostrom counts them at thirty, but the underlying principles can be divided into "weak" and "strong" forms, depending on the types of cosmological claims they entail. The weak anthropic principle (WAP), as defined by Brandon Carter, stat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2792 | 127,446 |
1,381,488 | The idea that the electrical activity generated by nervous tissue may influence the activity of surrounding nervous tissue is one that dates back to the late 19th century. Early experiments, like those by du Bois-Reymond, demonstrated that the firing of a primary nerve may induce the firing of an adjacent secondary ner... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30767825 | 1,380,725 |
1,375,839 | Abelson erected eleven columns at the Bureau of Standards, all approximately in diameter, but ranging from high. Test runs were carried out with potassium salts, and then, in April 1941, with uranium hexafluoride. On 1 June 1941, Abelson became an employee of the NRL, and he moved to the Anacostia Naval Air Station. In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3673785 | 1,375,078 |
511,222 | Northrop Corporation built the HL-10 and Northrop M2-F2, the first two of the fleet of "heavy" lifting bodies flown by the NASA Flight Research Center. The contract for construction of the HL-10 and the M2-F2 was $1.8 million. "HL" stands for horizontal landing, and "10" refers to the tenth design studied by engineers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1268109 | 510,956 |
1,204,151 | American linguist Eugene Garfield was an early pioneer in analytics in science. In 1955, Garfield led the first attempt to analyse the structure of science regarding how developments in science can be better understood by tracking the associations (citations) between articles (how they reference one another, the import... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28486111 | 1,203,506 |
2,195,323 | Sinclair's early research, as part of his Bachelor of Medical Science studies, was conducted in the laboratory of John Eccles—at that time a professor at the University of Otago and later a Nobel laureate—and was published in the "Journal of Neurophysiology" in 1949. In 1953, Sinclair began working at Green Lane Hospit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69701496 | 2,194,073 |
1,779,720 | The first known specimen (the type specimen) of "Sapeornis" was an incomplete skeleton dug up from Jiufotang Formation rocks in the area of Shangheshou, near Chaoyang City in Liaoning Province, China in the summer of 2000. It was discovered by a team from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7506423 | 1,778,717 |
1,526,954 | Hybrid pixel detectors are a type of ionizing radiation detector consisting of an array of diodes based on semiconductor technology and their associated electronics. The term “hybrid” stems from the fact that the two main elements from which these devices are built, the semiconductor sensor and the readout chip (also k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61019171 | 1,526,090 |
1,527,483 | Despite spending almost their entire lives underground, and having very poor eyesight, Cape mole-rats exhibit distinct diurnal rhythms in time with the hours of daylight on the surface, and are primarily nocturnal. Unlike some other species of mole-rat, they are solitary animals, and, except when a female is raising yo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10513216 | 1,526,619 |
535,067 | Performance in G.fast systems is limited to a large extent by crosstalk between multiple wire pairs in a . Self-FEXT (far-end crosstalk) cancellation, also called vectoring, is mandatory in G.fast. Vectoring technology for VDSL2 was previously specified by the ITU-T in G.993.5, also called G.vector. The first version o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41933979 | 534,788 |
86,232 | The psychoanalyst uses various methods to help the patient to become more self-aware and to develop insights into their behavior and into the meanings of symptoms. First and foremost, the psychoanalyst attempts to develop a confidential atmosphere in which the patient can feel safe reporting his feelings, thoughts and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23585 | 86,198 |
1,143,214 | As is the case with other BMCs, the carboxysome is attracting significant attention by researchers for applications in plant synthetic biology. The transfer of a genetic module coding for an alpha-carboxysome has been shown to produce carboxysome-like structures in "E. coli". Bioengineering of carboxysome shells has be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2380144 | 1,142,614 |
1,372,993 | GPS/INS is commonly used on aircraft for navigation purposes. Using GPS/INS allows for smoother position and velocity estimates that can be provided at a sampling rate faster than the GPS receiver. This also allows for accurate estimation of the aircraft attitude (roll, pitch, and yaw) angles. In general, GPS/INS senso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13271682 | 1,372,236 |
798,860 | HDAC3 has been found to be most closely related to HDAC8. HDAC3 contains a non-conserved region in the C-terminal region that was found to be required for transcriptional repression as well as its deacetylase activity. It also contains two regions, one called a Nuclear Localization Signal (NLS) as well as a Nuclear Exp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9957063 | 798,435 |
2,042,330 | After his PhD at the University of Kiel he spent two years as a research fellow at the LFCS (Edinburgh, Scotland) where he co-developed the Edinburgh Concurrency Workbench and authored one of the earliest papers on how to adequately model probabilistic processes, before joining the University of Aarhus in 1989 as a pos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41750884 | 2,041,150 |
301,935 | He soon uncovered a number of important buildings including the Ésagila temple, a major shrine to the chief Babylonian god Marduk, although its identity was not fully confirmed until the German archaeologist Robert Koldewey's excavation of 1900. The excavators found a large number of business documents written on clay ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2749252 | 301,774 |
1,646,051 | According to historian L. T. C. Rolt, the original installation was of machines for wire-braiding crinoline frames, and Charles simultaneously imported metal cutting machine tools to aid his friend Hiram Maxim who was developing a machine gun. This is a moot point: the Maxim gun was not developed for a further 20 years... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30046818 | 1,645,122 |
600,554 | The visual system in the brain is too slow to process that information if the images are slipping across the retina at more than a few degrees per second. Thus, to be able to see while we are moving, the brain must compensate for the motion of the head by turning the eyes. Another specialisation of visual system in man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1894873 | 600,248 |
2,064,560 | During 1995 computer programmer and heavy music enthusiast Derek McDonald began research on the origins of Heavy Metal Music as a personal project. Seeing that his McBBS project was winding down he needed a new project to pass his time. The original text that would eventually evolve into Polishing Of Metal, as it later... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13093858 | 2,063,369 |
1,772,716 | On 19 April 2016, unit 3 received from NRA the final approval to restarting. On 27 June, Shikoku Electric completed loading 157 fuel assemblies, of which 16 uranium-plutonium mixed oxide (MOX). Unit 3 achieved criticality on 13 August and resumed commercial service on 7 September. However, on 13 December 2017 the Hiros... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11972412 | 1,771,719 |
806,701 | An improvement on EPROM, EEPROM, soon followed. The extra "E" stands for "electrically", referring to the ability to reset EEPROM using electricity instead of UV, making the devices much easier to use in practice. The bits are re-set with the application of even higher power through the other terminals of the transisto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=173874 | 806,272 |
309,642 | The advent of the "kamikaze" demonstrated the need for a long range radar umbrella around the fleet. Radar picket destroyers and destroyer escorts were put into service, but they proved vulnerable in this role as they could be attacked as well, leaving the fleet blind. A submarine, though, could dive and escape aerial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444621 | 309,477 |
1,619,198 | On 19 August 2018 a major earthquake struck with high intensity on the northeast corner of Lombok (Sambelia and Labuhan Lombok settlements) and northwest Sumbawa (Poto Tano settlement) at 22:56 local time, a few km to the east of the series of quakes that had been rocking the area for the past 3 weeks. It was measured ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58198690 | 1,618,283 |
1,686,180 | To address this problem, researchers at the Army Research Laboratory developed the corrugated quantum infrared photodetector (C-QWIP) in 2008, which used micromirrors on the photodetector to increase the effectiveness of redirecting the light onto the quantum well region at any wavelength. In essence, the 45-degree inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25596231 | 1,685,234 |
1,972,611 | Jim Davies was born in Glens Falls, New York. He attended Lake George High School and then majored in philosophy at the State University of New York at Oswego, during which he was an exchange student in Beijing, graduating in 1993. He worked in automated text retrieval at the Los Alamos National Laboratory under the su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27687091 | 1,971,476 |
2,114,481 | In molecular biology, GATA zinc fingers are zinc-containing domains found in a number of transcription factors (including erythroid-specific transcription factor and nitrogen regulatory proteins). Some members of this class of zinc fingers specifically bind the DNA sequence (A/T)GATA(A/G) in the regulatory regions of g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32943903 | 2,113,266 |
1,146,050 | "Microsporum gypseum" is categorized as a rare agent of infection, and usually only occurs in rural areas. The infections associated with hair can also be prone to fluorescence under a Wood's Lamp. Sometimes these clinical manifestations are not ringworm but appear as impetigo, scleroderma or psoriasis. The lesions are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22992669 | 1,145,446 |
1,186,680 | The Orbiting Solar Observatory (abbreviated OSO) Program was the name of a series of American space telescopes primarily intended to study the Sun, though they also included important non-solar experiments. Eight were launched successfully into low Earth orbit by NASA between 1962 and 1975 using Delta rockets. Their pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6839453 | 1,186,051 |
1,604,226 | The Grainger Engineering Library Information Center was designed to be a model for future academic libraries. This project was made possible by William Wallace Grainger, a University of Illinois electrical engineering graduate, class of 1919. Grainger made his fortune by launching a small, mail-order electrical supplie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5773362 | 1,603,325 |
959,817 | Occupational therapy (OT) practitioners help patients with terminal illnesses and conditions by assisting them with their needs related to end-of-life support. All of the areas of a patient's life including work, play and leisure are widely affected. An occupational therapist provides various treatment modalities to he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48726 | 959,309 |
1,394,978 | At ION, Poo led a team of Chinese scientists that produced the world's first truly cloned primates, a pair of crab-eating macaques called Zhong Zhong and Hua Hua in late 2017, using somatic cell nuclear transfer (the technique used to create Dolly the sheep) rather than embryo twinning. According to Poo, the principal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56524524 | 1,394,207 |
941,639 | According to Pingree, the influence may have flowed the other way initially, then flowed into India after the arrival of Darius and the Achaemenid conquest of the Indus Valley about 500 BCE. The mathematics and devices for time keeping mentioned in these ancient Sanskrit texts, proposes Pingree, such as the water clock... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3948016 | 941,137 |
832,059 | Together with Malta and the Italian island of Sicily, Iberia has higher levels of North African admixture than is found in the rest of Europe, which is largely ascribed to settlement during the Carthaginian and Islamic periods. According to one genetic study it follows that, considering both some E-M78 subhaplogroups a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29114964 | 831,610 |
1,220,438 | One of the biggest challenges the South Korean defense industry face is its continuous dependency on foreign technologies. Although this issue has and is still being addressed, South Korea still struggles to develop some technologies domestically; forcing the country import what they can't develop in time. This can lea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66301957 | 1,219,784 |
625,894 | The Douglas F6D Missileer was a proposed carrier-based fleet defense fighter designed by Douglas Aircraft Company in response to a 1959 United States Navy requirement. It was designed to be able to loiter for extended periods at a relatively long distance from the Navy's aircraft carriers, engaging hostile aircraft awa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1048043 | 625,561 |
945,602 | Burkholderia cepacia" complex (BCC), or simply Burkholderia cepacia", is a group of catalase-producing, lactose-nonfermenting, Gram-negative bacteria composed of at least 20 different species, including "B. cepacia", "B. multivorans", "B. cenocepacia", "B. vietnamiensis", "B. stabilis", "B. ambifaria", "B. dolosa", "B.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3054783 | 945,100 |
1,307,450 | In a double-blind, placebo-controlled, proof-of-concept study, researchers administered an N-methyl-d-aspartate–receptor antagonist (ketamine) to 18 patients already on treatment with lithium (10 patients) or valproate (8 patients) for bipolar depression. From 40 minutes following intravenous injection of ketamine hydr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4761393 | 1,306,734 |
2,156,289 | The provision of $7.2 million in grants from the NSF during the first five years enabled the expansion of center research into new areas, notably bioremediation and biohydrometallurgy. The center's industrial focus expanded from biofilm control and mitigation to include positive use of biofilm processes to break up soi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45523355 | 2,155,058 |
1,268,792 | The technical feasibility and necessity of digital contact tracing is currently subject of debate, with its major proponents claiming it to be indispensable to stop the spread of pandemics, as COVID-19, and its opponents raising points on its technical functioning and adoption rate by citizens. First of all, the confli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63696174 | 1,268,102 |
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