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51,971 | More aerial kills were made with the Bf 109 than any other aircraft of World War II. Many of the aerial victories were accomplished against poorly trained and badly organized Soviet forces in 1941 during Operation Barbarossa. The Soviets lost 21,200 aircraft at this time, about half to combat. If shot down, the Luftwaf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186739 | 51,951 |
863,212 | Proguanil (chloroguanide) is a biguanide; a synthetic derivative of pyrimidine. It was developed in 1945 by a British Antimalarial research group. It has many mechanisms of action but primarily is mediated through conversion to the active metabolite cycloguanil. This inhibits the malarial dihydrofolate reductase enzyme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186625 | 862,752 |
773,999 | Melioidosis is endemic in parts of southeast Asia (including Thailand, Laos, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Myanmar and Vietnam), southern China, Taiwan northern Australia. India, and South America. Since 1991, a total of 583 cases were reported in India. Most Indian cases are located in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Fifty-o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=471444 | 773,583 |
2,060,145 | In the span of only a decade the apiary laboratory had been run by 4 different faculty members until finally, in 1931, a new and more permanent apiology instructor, Frank R. Shaw, was hired. Shaw, a student at the time, had previously been hired on in 1930 as assistant entomologist to the college Experimental Station, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31274932 | 2,058,959 |
157,001 | The university now offers 46 majors, minors, and concentrations in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering and allows students to design specialized majors and engage in pre-professional programs. It is noted for its programs in the fields of psychology, geography, physics, biology, and entre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=274804 | 156,929 |
2,056,057 | SP imagery as embodied in the commercial REMOTS system (Rhoads et al. 1997) is expensive (>NZ$60,000 at time of writing), requires heavy lifting gear (ca. 66–400 kg with a full complement of weights to effectively penetrate sediments), and is limited to muddy sediments. REMOTS is not well suited to small research progr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14917968 | 2,054,873 |
361,469 | To adapt the original Su-27 for naval operations, Sukhoi first incorporated a reinforced structure and undercarriage to withstand the great stress experienced upon landing, particularly quick descents and non-flare landings (landings where the aircraft does not 'float' and slow its descent rate just prior to touchdown)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=552810 | 361,279 |
287,868 | Salcatonin, also called calcitonin-salmon is a synthetic copy of a polypeptide hormone secreted by the ultimobranchial gland of salmon. Miacalcin is administered by injection, three times per week or daily, for 6–18 months. Repeat courses can be given after brief rest periods. Miacalcin may be appropriate for certain p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=650007 | 287,712 |
753,899 | A successful demonstration was also given by the National Safety Device of Cleveland, Ohio. A representative of the company, Mr. Mason, entered a poisonous building with Morgan's hood on his head and remained in that environment for twenty minutes. The test was satisfactory according to Chief Stickle of the Cleveland F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314626 | 753,497 |
519,460 | The opposition between substantivist and formalist economic models was first proposed by Karl Polanyi in his work "The Great Transformation" (1944). He argued that the term 'economics' has two meanings: the formal meaning refers to economics as the logic of rational action and decision-making, as rational choice betwee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=418436 | 519,191 |
1,776,599 | three electric organs, two flutes, four saxophones (two soprano, one alto, one tenor) and one female voice. Only the organ can be heard throughout; the other instruments are not playing simultaneously the whole time. Only one piece was originally written, which was called "Music in Twelve Parts" because it was original... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3130700 | 1,775,600 |
1,334,775 | In an interview to "New Scientist" magazine in 1985, Fukui had been highly critical on the practices adopted in Japanese universities and industries to foster science. He noted, "Japanese universities have a chair system that is a fixed hierarchy. This has its merits when trying to work as a laboratory on one theme. Bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=729933 | 1,334,045 |
1,849,548 | The initial diversification processes (somatic V(D)J recombination or gene conversion and nucleotide addition) occur in the primary lymphoid organ (thymus) and lead to very high diversity (> 10) of TCRs, which are able to recognize almost any antigenic structure/sequence. The paradigm of adaptive immunity is that a sin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47036739 | 1,848,490 |
1,071,634 | Aerogels are highly porous ultralight materials in which the liquid component of a gel has been replaced with a gas, and are noteworthy for being solids that are extremely effective thermal insulators with very low density. Aerogels can be prepared in a variety of ways, and though most have been based on silica, materi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32297166 | 1,071,080 |
713,594 | The Green Bank Telescope operates at meter to millimeter wavelengths. Its 100-meter diameter collecting area, unblocked aperture, and good surface accuracy provide superb sensitivity across the telescope's full 0.1–116 GHz operating range. The GBT is fully steerable, and 85 percent of the local celestial hemisphere is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=318498 | 713,222 |
432,614 | The basic FDTD algorithm traces back to a seminal 1966 paper by Kane Yee in IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation. Allen Taflove originated the descriptor "Finite-difference time-domain" and its corresponding "FDTD" acronym in a 1980 paper in IEEE Trans. Electromagn. Compat. Since about 1990, FDTD techniques ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3849994 | 432,401 |
1,046,984 | The sense of touch, or tactile perception, is what allows organisms to feel the world around them. The environment acts as an external stimulus, and tactile perception is the act of passively exploring the world to simply sense it. To make sense of the stimuli, an organism will undergo active exploration, or haptic per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=569650 | 1,046,439 |
819,486 | Mu-metal was developed by British scientists Willoughby S. Smith and Henry J. Garnett and patented in 1923 for inductive loading of submarine telegraph cables by The Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Co. Ltd. (now Telcon Metals Ltd.), a British firm that built the Atlantic undersea telegraph cables. The conductive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19196 | 819,045 |
1,295,821 | The origin of sequence stratigraphy can be traced back to the work of L.L. Sloss on interregional unconformities of the North American craton. Sloss recognized six craton-wide sequences representing hundreds of millions of years of earth history. In the late 1960's Sloss had several students, notably Peter Vail, Robert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1450081 | 1,295,110 |
1,668,910 | In June 1972, the Connaught Medical Research Laboratories was sold to the Canada Development Corporation (CDC) for $25 million (Canadian Dollars) and became known as "Connaught Laboratories Limited". Logistically, it was incorporated as "CDC Life Sciences Inc." under the CDC's healthcare division titled "ConnLab Holdin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61019378 | 1,667,970 |
1,744,901 | Highly specialized behaviors are hard to change, making the flatfishes' natural instinct to minimize detection rendered useless. Usually they can be rather cryptic, and have great success avoiding natural predators. Utilizing their low body profile and texture-matching colorations, they become hard to detect. Furtheri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2242682 | 1,743,917 |
488,651 | Astronomy is a science that lends itself to the recording and study of observations: the rigorous notings of the motions of the stars, planets, and the moon are left on thousands of clay tablets created by scribes. Even today, astronomical periods identified by Mesopotamian scientists are still widely used in Western c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1673699 | 488,401 |
407,034 | The United States developed its own kinetic energy penetrator (KEP) tank round in the form of an armour-piercing fin-stabilized discarding sabot (APFSDS) round, using a depleted uranium (DU) alloy long-rod penetrator (LRP), designated the "M829", followed by improved versions. An immediate improvement, known as the "M8... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2482363 | 406,833 |
221,628 | In fighters, North American Aviation was in the midst of working on a straight-wing jet-powered naval fighter, then known as the FJ-1; it was later submitted to the United States Air Force as the XP-86. Larry Green, who could read German, studied the Busemann reports and convinced management to allow a redesign startin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=246851 | 221,519 |
702,146 | While the Japanese video game industry has long been viewed as console-centric in the Western world, due to the worldwide success of Japanese consoles beginning with the NES, the country had in fact produced thousands of commercial PC games from the late 1970s up until the mid-1990s, in addition to "dōjin soft" indepen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408675 | 701,781 |
750,614 | The Confederate States of America fielded several human-powered submarines, including CSS "H. L. Hunley" (named for its designer and chief financier, Horace Lawson Hunley). The first Confederate submarine was the "Pioneer", which sank a target schooner using a towed mine during tests on Lake Pontchartrain, but it was n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4551386 | 750,216 |
1,825,597 | Born as László Fröhlich to Hungarian-speaking Jewish parents in Yugoslavia, Elkana moved with his family to Szeged in 1944. That same year, Elkana and his parents were dispatched to Auschwitz. His family escaped the gas chambers when the Nazis transferred them to Austria as corvée labourers for the reconstruction of wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27297924 | 1,824,559 |
862,443 | As predicted by the Baumol effect, the proportion of the United States labor force employed in stagnant industries has grown substantially since the 1960s. In particular, the United States has morphed from a manufacturing economy into a service economy (see chart). However, how much of this is due to the Baumol effect ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3126360 | 861,983 |
2,032,535 | Sims received a B.A. in Geology in 1986 from Colorado College, graduating Cum Laude with Honors. He completed an M.Sc. at the University of New Mexico’s Institute of Meteoritics in 1989, where his research focused on chemical fractionation during the formation of the Earth’s core and continental crust. His Ph.D. was ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53174400 | 2,031,365 |
1,265,933 | On the ground, to obtain directional radio beams with a well-defined navigable course, crossed loop antennas were used initially. The Ford Motor Company developed the first commercially workable application of a loop-based, low-frequency radio range, installing it at their Dearborn and Chicago fields in 1926 and filed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23697364 | 1,265,245 |
1,149,444 | The prototype was completed in July and was first flown on 27 July 1947. Two aircraft were shown at the Tushino Aviation Day parade on 3 August 1947. It completed manufacturer's trials in September and underwent the state acceptance trials from 4 October 1947 to 27 February 1948 when it was redesignated as the Tu-12. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16510658 | 1,148,837 |
473,186 | The Harrier jump jet, though capable of taking off vertically, can do so only at less than its maximum loaded weight. In most cases a short take off is needed to lift the required amount of fuel and weapons needed for a training sortie/mission, using forward speed to supplement the jet lift with aerodynamic lift. A sho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=305172 | 472,950 |
1,771,180 | Fontana composed treatises on a diverse array of topics, including measurement of heights or depths by falling stones. We have early works of his on water-clocks (with wheels), sand-clocks and measurement. Fontana studied trigonometric measurements, mentioned in "De trigono balistario", and through his own designed ins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21440620 | 1,770,183 |
429,407 | Deficiencies in β-glucuronidase result in the autosomal recessive inherited metabolic disease known as Sly syndrome or Mucopolysaccharidosis VII. A deficiency in this enzyme results in the build-up of non-hydrolyzed mucopolysaccharides in the patient. This disease can be extremely debilitating for the patient or can re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2335587 | 429,197 |
1,351,533 | The retinoic acid receptor (RAR) is a type of nuclear receptor which can also act as a ligand-activated transcription factor that is activated by both all-trans retinoic acid and 9-cis retinoic acid the retinoid active derivatives of Vitamin A . They are typically found within the nucleus. There are three retinoic acid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5880781 | 1,350,787 |
1,553,991 | Tobacco Rattle Virus can be managed through a variety of methods designed to make the environment unsuitable for transmission and viral propagation. Tubers or seeds of any susceptible plants should be purchased only from sellers certified as clean, and never planted in fields with a history of corky ringspot or Tobacco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12457944 | 1,553,110 |
1,596,605 | Chlorinated alkanes found an initial application in pharyngeal sprays. These contained chlorinated alkanes in relatively large quantities as solvents for chloramine T from 1914 to 1918. The Sharpless Solvents Corporation commissioned the first industrial photochloration plant for the chlorination of pentane in 1929. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54626105 | 1,595,706 |
266,792 | Life cycle assessment is a powerful tool for analyzing commensurable aspects of quantifiable systems. Not every factor, however, can be reduced to a number and inserted into a model. Rigid system boundaries make accounting for changes in the system difficult. This is sometimes referred to as the boundary critique to sy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=604896 | 266,648 |
1,217,214 | "O. viverrini" was first described by a French parasitologist Jules Poirier in 1886, who discovered the parasite in an Indian fishing cat ("Prionailurus viverrus"), originally from Southeast Asia, that died in the Zoological Gardens attached to the National Museum of Natural History in Paris. He named it "Distomum vive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2206335 | 1,216,561 |
1,478,082 | The power plant for the armoured car was a 4-cylinder, air-cooled engine with a capacity of 30 horsepower] (in some sources 35 horsepower). The gearbox had four forward gears and 1 reverse. Forwards, the vehicle could reach a speed of 18 km/h, although in reverse the maximum speed was 3 km/h. The latter was a serious p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26354934 | 1,477,250 |
382,611 | After a fruitful stay in Paris, Copland returned to America optimistic and enthusiastic about the future, determined to make his way as a full-time composer. He rented a studio apartment on New York City's Upper West Side in the Empire Hotel, close to Carnegie Hall and other musical venues and publishers. He remained i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51298 | 382,416 |
1,547,873 | The TACC Visualization Laboratory, located in POB 2.404a, is open to all UT faculty, students and staff, as well as UT Systems users. The Vislab includes 'Stallion', one of the highest resolution tiled displays in the world (see below); 'Lasso', a 12.4 megapixel collaborative multi-touch display; 'Bronco', a Sony 4D SR... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6018316 | 1,546,995 |
173,250 | A significant motivation for introducing the SID code was to identify disc manufacturing plants producing unauthorised copies of commercial CDs. By the 1990s, the production process for CDs had evolved from requiring a "clean-room" environment involving multiple processes, this demanding a substantial investment and li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=299592 | 173,159 |
223,608 | In 1998, the EPA announced the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program by establishment of a framework for priority setting, screening and testing more than 85,000 chemicals in commerce. While the Food Quality Protection Act only required the EPA to screen pesticides for potential to produce effects similar to estrogens ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=903152 | 223,494 |
133,618 | Originally, "Myxine" was included by Linnaeus (1758) in Vermes. The fossil hagfish "Myxinikela siroka" from the Late Carboniferous of the United States in the oldest known member of the group. It is in some respects more similar to lampreys, but shows key autapomorphies of hagfish. In recent years, hagfish have become ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77662 | 133,565 |
993,331 | The original Parsons College campus included 60-80 buildings before closing due to bankruptcy, standing empty and being purchased by MIU. The Library Building continues to be used and houses the main library, classrooms, administrative offices, multimedia computer lab, Unity Art Gallery, Campus Security and Facilities ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=271937 | 992,814 |
30,862 | On October 15, 2010, the "M2A1" heavy machine gun was type classified by the U.S. Army. Formerly known as the M2E2, the M2A1 incorporates improvements to the design including a quick change barrel (QCB) with a removable carrying handle, a new slotted flash suppressor that reduces muzzle flash by 95 percent, fixed heads... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=246727 | 30,852 |
926,656 | The technique being evaluated uses voltammetric sensors combined in an electronic tongue (ET) to observe the antioxidant capacity in red wines. These electronic tongues (ETs) consist of multiple sensing units like voltammetric sensors, which will have unique responses to certain compounds. This approach is optimal to u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1101849 | 926,170 |
1,424,169 | The SPARC64 X is a 16-core server microprocessor announced in 2012 and used in Fujitsu's M10 servers (which are also marketed by Oracle). The SPARC64 X is based on the SPARC64 VII+ with significant enhancements to its core and chip organization. The cores were improved by the inclusion of a pattern history table for br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21964284 | 1,423,367 |
71,224 | An example of such a special .338 caliber extreme range bullet is the German CNC manufactured mono-metal 18.92 gram (292 gr) LM-105 (C = 0.2487 at Mach 2.216 – this drag coefficient and the corresponding G1, G7 and G8 ballistic coefficients are established by Doppler radar measurements). The LM-105 has a supersonic ran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=689792 | 71,197 |
22,143 | In healthy children, moderate caffeine intake under 400 mg produces effects that are "modest and typically innocuous". As early as 6 months old, infants can metabolize caffeine at the same rate as that of adults. Higher doses of caffeine (>400 mg) can cause physiological, psychological and behavioral harm, particularly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6868 | 22,134 |
1,665,838 | OpenMRS grew out of the critical need to scale up the treatment of HIV in Africa but from the start was conceived as a general purpose electronic medical record system that could support the full range of medical treatments. The first ideas and prototype of OpenMRS were conceived by Paul Biondich and Burke Mamlin from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10889095 | 1,664,901 |
1,979,999 | John Davey's youngest and only son to serve in World War I, Paul H. Davey returned from his service and was placed in charge of research at the Davey Tree Expert Company. The young and ambitious Paul Davey developed and patented a lightweight air compressor to be used in tree surgery and developed his designs to the po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18952165 | 1,978,861 |
280,398 | On June 30, 2015, the Smithsonian began seeking approval for a $365 million renovation to the National Air and Space Museum. The agency hired the firm of Quinn Evans Architects to design the renovations and improvements. Interior changes include improving handicapped accessibility, main entrance visibility, and perimet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=221550 | 280,247 |
1,231,872 | There were great innovations in metallurgy. In addition to Zhou-era China's (c. 1046 – 256 BCE) previous inventions of the blast furnace and cupola furnace to make pig iron and cast iron, respectively, the Han period saw the development of steel and wrought iron by use of the finery forge and puddling process. With the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21620577 | 1,231,210 |
41,010 | Evolution influences every aspect of the form and behaviour of organisms. Most prominent are the specific behavioural and physical adaptations that are the outcome of natural selection. These adaptations increase fitness by aiding activities such as finding food, avoiding predators or attracting mates. Organisms can al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9236 | 40,995 |
815,059 | By contrast in Britain, where natural theology was influential during the early nineteenth century, a group of geologists including William Buckland and Robert Jameson interpreted Cuvier's work differently. Cuvier had written an introduction to a collection of his papers on fossil quadrupeds, discussing his ideas on ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174883 | 814,625 |
126,440 | One thing I never did learn was contour integration. I had learned to do integrals by various methods shown in a book that my high school physics teacher Mr. Bader had given me. One day he told me to stay after class. "Feynman," he said, "you talk too much and you make too much noise. I know why. You're bored. So I'm g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2558855 | 126,388 |
1,951,971 | On 22 April 1939, after hearing a paper by Wilhelm Hanle on the use of uranium fission in a "Uranmaschine" (uranium machine, i.e., nuclear reactor), Georg Joos, along with Hanle, notified Wilhelm Dames, at the "Reichserziehungsministerium" (REM, Reich Ministry of Education), of potential military applications of nuclea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16570765 | 1,950,850 |
256,014 | In Isenstadt, he meets the brothers Stefan and Anton Kriege, who run the Black Market where Blazkowicz can upgrade all of his weapons and powers. (He pays for upgrades with gold earned from missions or found scattered throughout the game.) He also meets the leader of the Kreisau Circle, a former schoolteacher named Car... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18459313 | 255,880 |
215,317 | The initial "25-Group Program" for air defense of the hemisphere, developed in April 1939, called for 50,000 men (12,000 pilots). Its ten new combat groups were activated on 1 February 1940. Following the successful German invasion of France and the Low Countries in May 1940, a "54-Group Program" was approved on 12 Jul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23869026 | 215,209 |
393,423 | Among the most popular alternatives were theories involving the inheritance of characteristics acquired during an organism's lifetime. Scientists who felt that such Lamarckian mechanisms were the key to evolution were called neo-Lamarckians. They included the British botanist George Henslow (1835–1925), who studied the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187588 | 393,228 |
19,667 | Several relatively simple chemical tests—commercially available as reagent testing kits—can be used to assess the presence of psilocybin in extracts prepared from mushrooms. The drug reacts in the Marquis test to produce a yellow color, and a green color in the Mandelin reagent. Neither of these tests, however, is spec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38468 | 19,659 |
1,887,551 | Further sea trials were planned but were abruptly cut short by orders of PLAN, due to an accident of People's Liberation Army Navy Submarine Force. At 1:40 PM on December 1, 1959, Chinese midget submarine "National Defense 24" with hull number 418 (ex-Soviet M-class submarine No. M-279) sunk in a naval exercise after c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48600955 | 1,886,469 |
1,191,248 | On this basis, many early papers in microwave chemistry postulated the possibility of exciting specific molecules, or functional groups within molecules. However, the time within which thermal energy is repartitioned from such moieties is much shorter than the period of a microwave wave, thus precluding the presence of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1710956 | 1,190,614 |
15,192 | In a 12 May 2013 op-ed for "The Wall Street Journal", Kasparov questioned reports that the Russian security agency, the FSB, had fully cooperated with the FBI in the matter of the Boston bombers. He noted that the elder bomber, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, had reportedly met in Russia with two known jihadists who "were killed in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12810 | 15,187 |
1,624,330 | The demands on software crowdsourcing systems are ever evolving as new development philosophies and technologies gain favor. The reference architecture presented above is designed to encompass generality in many dimensions including, for example different software development methodologies, incentive schemes, and compe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39643325 | 1,623,414 |
863,788 | Structures involves selection of material of construction, structural analysis of global and local strength of the vessel, vibration of the structural components and structural responses of the vessel during motions in seaway. Depending on type of ship, the structure and design will vary in what material to use as well... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=76653 | 863,328 |
954,243 | During the changes to Japan brought by opening up to the outside world at the beginning of the Meiji era (1868–1912), the samurai lost their status. Therefore, "kyūjutsu" was considered obsolete and began to decline. Kyūjutsu practitioners established dojos to survive and began to spread among the common people. Kyūjut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157501 | 953,738 |
1,616,915 | During purification, Haemophilus haemolyticus methyltransferase was overexpressed and purified using a high salt back-extraction step to selectively solubilize M.HhaI, followed by fast protein liquid chromatography (FPLC) as done previously by Kumar and colleagues. Authors utilized a Mono-Q anion exchange column to rem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42177410 | 1,616,004 |
303,549 | The Innova SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Qualitative Test was never approved for use in the United States, but was being sold by the company anyway. The FDA inspected Innova facilities in California in March and April 2021, and found inadequate quality assurance of tests manufactured in China. On 23 April 2021, the company ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63204759 | 303,387 |
1,237,588 | The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was established on 29 July 1958, and was directed by President Eisenhower to become the United States' civil space agency. Eisenhower always intended to have parallel civil and military space programs, only temporarily putting civil space programs under ARPA. NAS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66185637 | 1,236,924 |
170,641 | "Blue Mars" takes its title from the stage of terraforming that has allowed atmospheric pressure and temperature to increase so that liquid water can exist on the planet's surface, forming rivers and seas. It follows closely in time from the end of "Green Mars" and has a much wider scope than the previous two books, co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89970 | 170,551 |
450,959 | The obstacles created by the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic resulted in over 90,000 opioid overdose fatalities in 2020, reflecting the global crisis' effect on attempts to stop the increase of the synthetic opioid fentanyl in the illegal narcotics supply, according to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC). With the foc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6262709 | 450,740 |
220,754 | Overseas manufacturing of the type commenced in 1937; the first such overseas builder was de Havilland Canada at its facility in Downsview, Ontario. In addition to an initial batch of 25 Tiger Moths that were built for the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF), the Canadian firm began building fuselages, which were exported ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=528202 | 220,645 |
1,536,088 | Work in the laboratory of Samuel I. Stupp by Hartgerink et al., in the early 2000s, reported a new type of PA that are able to self-assemble into elongated nanostructures. These novel PAs contain three regions: a hydrophobic tail, a region of beta-sheet-forming amino acids, and a charged peptide epitope designed to all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28333458 | 1,535,220 |
517,083 | The initial cost estimate for the station was $3.9 billion CAD in the late 1970s, which increased to $7.4 billion in 1981 when construction was started. A year-long period of public hearings and study by an Ontario government all-party committee finished in 1986 with the decision to proceed with the project, which had ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=937819 | 516,814 |
1,676,843 | Although relatively infrequent the use of SIMS on obsidian surface investigations has produced great progress in OHD dating. SIMS in general refers to four instrumental categories according to their operation; static, dynamic, quadrupole, and time-of-flight, TOF. In essence it is a technique with a large resolution on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2188925 | 1,675,901 |
1,008,793 | Thoracentesis is no longer used in the "treatment" of hemothorax, although it may still be used to treat small hemothoraces. In catamenial hemothorax, the bleeding is typically self-limiting and mild. Most people with the condition are stable and can be treated with hormonal therapies. They are only partially effective... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2166658 | 1,008,272 |
1,711,421 | Some call attention to the conjunction of commons-based peer production with distributed manufacturing techniques. The self-reinforced fantasy of a system of eternal growth can be overcome with the development of economies of scope, and here, the civil society can play an important role contributing to the raising of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39021261 | 1,710,458 |
996,093 | To circumvent the transonic problems encountered by spin-stabilized projectiles, projectiles can theoretically be guided during flight. The Sandia National Laboratories announced in January 2012 it has researched and test-fired 4-inch (102 mm) long prototype dart-like, self-guided bullets for small-caliber, smooth-bore... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584911 | 995,575 |
80,094 | Some species have become so numerous that they conflict with local people. In the United States, pinnipeds are protected under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (MMPA). Since that year, California sea lion populations have risen to 250,000. These animals began exploiting more man-made environments, like docks, f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60261 | 80,061 |
200,022 | Although relativity resolved the electromagnetic phenomena conflict demonstrated by Michelson and Morley, a second theoretical problem was the explanation of the distribution of electromagnetic radiation emitted by a black body; experiment showed that at shorter wavelengths, toward the ultraviolet end of the spectrum, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13758 | 199,919 |
164,387 | San Lorenzo Colossal Head 1 (also known as San Lorenzo Monument 1) was lying facing upwards when excavated. The erosion of a path passing on top of the monument uncovered its eye and led to the discovery of the Olmec site. Colossal Head 1 is high; it measures wide and it weighs 25.3 tons. The monument was discovered pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35721801 | 164,302 |
1,455,297 | The "Biefeld–Brown effect" was the name given to a phenomenon observed by Thomas Townsend Brown while he was experimenting with X-ray tubes during the 1920s while he was still in high school. When he applied a high voltage electrical charge to a Coolidge tube that he placed on a scale, Brown noticed a difference in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=184495 | 1,454,477 |
1,736,626 | On 31 July 1973, the foundations of the Ariane project were laid, that contributed to the merging of the European Launch Development Organization (ELDO) and the European Space Research Organization (ESRO), resulting in the creation of the European Space Agency (ESA) on 31 May 1975. Engineers quickly realized the need f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12971550 | 1,735,649 |
1,827,950 | The first experiments to measure intracellular calcium levels via protein expression were based on aequorin, a bioluminescent protein from the jellyfish "Aequorea". To produce light, however, this enzyme needs the 'fuel' compound coelenteracine, which has to be added to the preparation. This is not practical in intact ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69124573 | 1,826,911 |
1,401,640 | Daksh is a battery-operated remote-controlled robot on wheels that was created with a primary function of bomb recovery. Developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation, it is fully automated. It can navigate staircases, negotiate steep slopes, navigate narrow corridors and tow vehicles to reach hazardous ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23551264 | 1,400,853 |
22,117 | Prominent historical mainstream economists such as Keynes and Joskow observed that much of the economics of their time was conceptual rather than quantitative, and difficult to model and formalize quantitatively. In a discussion on oligopoly research, Paul Joskow pointed out in 1975 that in practice, serious students o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9223 | 22,108 |
153,518 | Another aspect of low latency strategy has been the switch from fiber optic to microwave and shortwave technology for long distance networking. The switch to microwave transmission was because microwaves traveling in air suffer a less than 1% speed reduction compared to light traveling in a vacuum, whereas with convent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23550923 | 153,448 |
1,061,448 | In the early 1970s, computer technology enabled on-site data processing, some real-time analysis, and even graphical displays of metabolic variables, such as O, CO, and air-flow, thereby encouraging academic institutions to test accuracy and precision in new ways. A few years later in the decade, battery-operated syste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1660393 | 1,060,895 |
1,148,465 | In 2012, Jacobson coauthored a paper estimating the health effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. The paper projected approximately 180 "cancer-related morbidities" to eventually occur in the public. Health physicist Kathryn Higley of Oregon State University wrote in 2012, "The methods of the study were solid, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21130805 | 1,147,858 |
1,966,244 | It was proposed that signals received by the traveling antenna and coherently detected be displayed as a single range-trace line across the diameter of the face of a cathode-ray tube, the line's successive forms being recorded as images projected onto a film traveling perpendicular to the length of that line. The infor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71515213 | 1,965,115 |
1,964,778 | Representational momentum is a small, but reliable, error in our visual perception of moving objects. Representational moment was discovered and named by Jennifer Freyd and Ronald Finke. Instead of knowing the exact location of a moving object, viewers actually think it is a bit further along its trajectory as time goe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32323840 | 1,963,649 |
1,812,805 | The function of msDNA remains unknown even though many copies are present within cells. Knockout mutations that do not express msDNA are viable, so the production of msDNA is not essential to life under laboratory conditions. Over-expression of msDNA is mutagenic, apparently as a result of titrating out repair proteins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5649173 | 1,811,772 |
1,019,327 | He majored in chemistry at the Vienna Institute of Technology, but took courses at the University of Vienna, in particular from Ludwig Boltzmann on his kinetic theory of thermodynamics. These lectures had a profound influence: they were instrumental in developing Ehrenfest's interest in theoretical physics, defined his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=78958 | 1,018,800 |
1,371,050 | A cerebral organoid, or brain organoid, describes an artificially grown, "in vitro," miniature organ resembling the brain. Cerebral organoids are created by culturing pluripotent stem cells in a three-dimensional rotational bioreactor, and they develop over a course of months. The brain is an extremely complex system o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40466325 | 1,370,293 |
61,459 | Successful forms of prevention come from existing entities such as: the FDA, United States Department of Agriculture, and the Food Safety and Inspection Service. All of these organizations create standards and inspections to ensure public safety in the U.S. For example, the FSIS agency working with the USDA has a Salmo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42114 | 61,434 |
802,069 | On March 21 4th-seeded Maryland faced off against 5th-seeded West Virginia. The Mountaineers defeated the Terrapins 69 to 59 to set up a match-up against Kentucky in the Sweet 16 in Cleveland. Prior to the game on March 26, West Virginia guard Daxter Miles Jr. guaranteed that the Mountaineers would hand the Wildcats th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42440511 | 801,640 |
1,592,540 | Conductive CNT coatings have recently become a prospective substitute based on wide range of methods including spraying, spin coating, casting, layer-by-layer, and Langmuir–Blodgett deposition. The transfer from a filter membrane to the transparent support using a solvent or in the form of an adhesive film is another m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17279558 | 1,591,643 |
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