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1,159,309 | With Portal's appointment came consideration of splitting Anderson's committee, which functioned as both an advisory and an interdepartmental body. In August 1946, a new standing committee was created, the Atomic Energy Official Committee, which assumed the interdepartmental function. In March 1947, Roger Makins became... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52573493 | 1,158,694 |
1,459,174 | Morris grew up in Seattle, Washington, in a family that appreciated music and dance and nurtured his budding talents; his father Joe taught him to read music and his mother Maxine introduced him to flamenco and ballet. Joe was a high school teacher while Maxine cared for the children at home. Morris had two older siste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1699981 | 1,458,353 |
4,960 | In the early 1990s, Grumman proposed a few improved "Super Tomcat" versions. The first was the "Quickstrike", which would have been an F-14D with navigational and targeting pods, additional attach points for weapons, and added ground attack capabilities to its radar, turning the Tomcat into a multirole strike fighter. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11719 | 4,958 |
655,958 | Enviropig was a genetically enhanced line of Yorkshire pigs in Canada created with the capability of digesting plant phosphorus more efficiently than conventional Yorkshire pigs. The A transgene construct consisting of a promoter expressed in the murine parotid gland and the "Escherichia coli" phytase gene was introduc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22696587 | 655,614 |
129,342 | The university has undertaken several research partnerships with other institutions. In 2007, the Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) was established as a graduate school and research centre in partnership with the University of Waterloo. BSIA operates three research centres relating to public governance a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=73276 | 129,290 |
1,967,760 | During the 1960s, documents record a number of protests at a local level including boycott of the University refectory over the quality of the food, protesting the right of Sikhs to wear a turban as part of their uniform and standing in solidarity with striking workers at the Ford Southampton plant. Protesting students... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13484007 | 1,966,630 |
1,704,782 | Right education & academic environment leads students to develop responsible & sustainable solutions to real world problems. GB Pant DSEU Okhla 1 campus (Formerly known as G B Pant Engineering College) providing such a learning environment was rechristened and found its home under the ages of Delhi Skill & Entrepreneur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30369567 | 1,703,826 |
929,491 | Since 2006, the NSF has reduced its funding commitment to the observatory, leading academics to push for additional funding support to continue its programs. The telescope was damaged by Hurricane Maria in 2017 and was affected by earthquakes in 2019 and 2020. Two cable breaks, one in August 2020 and a second in Novemb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9013135 | 929,000 |
789,305 | Born in 1931 in , Uma District, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. Both his grandfather and his father were physicians, who operated the only clinic in the village. A classmate recalled that, even in elementary school, he was already "interested in the weather, making comments such as 'If Japan didn't have typhoons, we wouldn't ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7994952 | 788,881 |
758,493 | TEM-1 is the most commonly encountered beta-lactamase in Gram-negative bacteria. Up to 90% of ampicillin resistance in "E. coli" is due to the production of TEM-1. Also responsible for the ampicillin and penicillin resistance that is seen in "H. influenzae" and "N. gonorrhoeae" in increasing numbers. Although TEM-type ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4609 | 758,087 |
631,950 | In anticipation of a need for additional computers, Flowers was already working on Colossus Mark 2 which would employ 2,400 valves. The first Mark 2 went into service at Bletchley Park on 1 June 1944 and immediately produced vital information for the imminent D-Day landings planned for Monday 5 June (postponed 24 hours... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=698618 | 631,612 |
294,617 | The use of 'West' to mean the 'out' direction (actually 'out' → 'West' → 'sunset' → 'down', i.e. 'out of view') may appear unnecessarily contrived. Previously, as related in the first reference cited above, Faraday had used the more straightforward term "exode" (the doorway where the current exits). His motivation for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6944 | 294,457 |
1,981,619 | Ustilaginaceae naturally produce a wide range of value-added chemicals (e.g. secondary metabolites, TCA cycle intermediates) with growing biotechnological interest. Reported metabolites are polyols, organic acids, extracellular glycolipids, iron-chelating siderophores and tryptophan derivatives. Polyols, such as erythr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25479012 | 1,980,480 |
638,092 | In most gram-positive bacteria, certain proteins are targeted for export across the plasma membrane and subsequent covalent attachment to the bacterial cell wall. A specialized enzyme, sortase, cleaves the target protein at a characteristic recognition site near the protein C-terminus, such as an LPXTG motif (where X c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24834 | 637,753 |
1,423,693 | Following the "Pioneer" encounters and in the lead up to the "Voyager" fly-bys in 1979, interest in Io and the other Galilean satellites grew, with the planetary science and astronomy communities going so far as to convene a week of dedicated Io observations by radio, visible, and infrared astronomers in November 1974 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26237277 | 1,422,892 |
2,011,303 | Garden was partner in a busy practice but still found time for his greatest enthusiasm. He collected and studied flora and fauna and parcelled them up to send to John Ellis, a merchant and zoologist in London, and to Carl Linnaeus in Sweden, after discovering linnaean classification in 1754. There were no neighbours wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4770263 | 2,010,150 |
1,748,735 | Augmented cognition is an interdisciplinary area of psychology and engineering, attracting researchers from the more traditional fields of human-computer interaction, psychology, ergonomics and neuroscience. Augmented cognition research generally focuses on tasks and environments where human–computer interaction and in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7113944 | 1,747,749 |
841,547 | where formula_26 and formula_27 are the atomic excited state-electromagnetic vacuum wavefunction and its probability amplitude, formula_28 and formula_29 are the ground state atom with a single photon (of mode formula_30) wavefunction and its probability amplitude, formula_31 is the atomic transition frequency, and for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28219 | 841,097 |
1,405,863 | To analyze human remains of the past, different techniques are used depending on the type of remains that are found. For example, "the approach to palaeopathological samples depends on the nature of the sample itself (e.g. bone, soft tissue or hair), its size (from minimal fragments to full bodies), the degree of prese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2212957 | 1,405,073 |
2,068,345 | α+β class. It has no prosthetic groups and its role in catalysis is unknown. The α-subunit can be divided into two domains: a Rieske domain that contains the [FeS] center and the catalytic domain that contains the active site mononuclear iron. The Rieske domain (residues 38-158) consists of four β-sheets. The overall f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2181834 | 2,067,154 |
530,324 | Following fruit set, the grape berries are green and hard to the touch. They have very little sugar and are high in organic acids. They begin to grow to about half their final size when they enter the stage of veraison. This stage signals the beginning of the ripening process and normally takes place around 40–50 days ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19533906 | 530,050 |
1,121,369 | Although a unifying view on the physiological value of FGF21 for the survival of mammals may still be lacking, evidence indicates that, under dietary protein restriction, FGF21 plays a homeostatic role leading to extend lifespan and improve metabolic health; proof of concept for this view has been recently provided in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16849002 | 1,120,795 |
468,950 | The 3 MeV neutron beam produced no reporting of LF whether it was exposed to the observers through the front exposure of one eye or through the back of the head. With the 14 MeV neutron beam, however, LF were reported. Lasting for short periods of time, "streaks" were reported when the beam entered one eye from the fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1364633 | 468,714 |
1,614,745 | The plan's aim was to replace weapons manufacture with the development of socially useful goods, like solar heating equipment, artificial kidneys, and systems for intermodal transportation. The goal was to not simply retain jobs, but to design the work so that the workers would be motivated by the social value of their... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14013538 | 1,613,839 |
831,075 | Mixing sodium chlorite solution with a weak food-grade acid solution (commonly citric acid), both stable, produces short-lived acidified sodium chlorite (ASC) which has potent decontaminating properties. Upon mixing the main active ingredient, chlorous acid is produced in equilibrium with chlorite anion. The proportion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1906074 | 830,626 |
1,753,217 | "Cacops woehri" is named in honor of Daniel Woehr, who is an amateur collector of fossils. Specimens have been found in the Dolese Brothers Limestone Quarry, near Richards Spur, Oklahoma. "Cacops woehri" differs from "C. aspidephorus" and "C. morrisi" in many attributes, including a more shallow skull, more dorsally lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2230786 | 1,752,228 |
1,826,204 | The National Marine Biological Library (NMBL) began in 1887 as the research support library for the MBA. Today, it provides research support for the MBA, the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science and Plymouth Marine Laboratory. The NMBL's holdings include periodicals, serials, journals, reports and grey litera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21699131 | 1,825,165 |
454,255 | The flexible electronic paper display technology co-developed by Arizona State University and HP employs a manufacturing process developed by HP Labs called Self-Aligned Imprint Lithography (SAIL). The screens are made by layering stacks of semi-conductor materials and metals between pliable plastic sheets. The stacks ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6648322 | 454,034 |
320,292 | Perhaps prompted by Mary Priestley's ill health, or financial problems, or a desire to prove himself to the community that had rejected him in his childhood, Priestley moved with his family from Warrington to Leeds in 1767, and he became Mill Hill Chapel's minister. Two sons were born to the Priestleys in Leeds: Joseph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40176 | 320,120 |
1,793,556 | Naval historians covering this period disagree on the value of the secondary battery. Arguing for, it provided protection against surface torpedo craft without needing a flotilla of supporting craft that smoked up the range and burdened the admiral with additional command, control and signalling. Arguing against, it co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3137286 | 1,792,547 |
170,815 | Just after 4 PM on 15 May 1947, a V-2 fired from White Sands Proving Ground, New Mexico veered off course and landed 4 miles northeast of Alamogordo, New Mexico. At 7:32 PM two weeks later, a German V-2 sounding rocket fired from White Sands Proving Ground veered off course, crashed and exploded on top of a rocky knoll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=301060 | 170,725 |
975,298 | Gravettian culture extends across a large geographic region, as far as Estremadura in Portugal. but is relatively homogeneous until about 27,000 BP. They developed burial rites, which included the inclusion of simple, purpose-built offerings and/or personal ornaments owned by the deceased, placed within the grave or to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=661358 | 974,787 |
1,872,517 | Neurodevelopmental framework for learning, like all frameworks, is an organizing structure through which learners and learning can be understood. Intelligence theories and neuropsychology inform many of them. The framework described below is a neurodevelopmental framework for learning. The neurodevelopmental framework ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19063520 | 1,871,440 |
46,519 | "Forensic engineering" is the investigation of materials, products, structures or components that fail or do not operate or function as intended, causing personal injury or damage to property. The consequences of failure are dealt with by the law of product liability. The field also deals with retracing processes and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5762 | 46,501 |
49,320 | Joel Tillinghast of Fidelity Investments describes Keynes as an early practitioner of value investing, a school of thought formalised in the US by Benjamin Graham and David Dodd at Columbia Business School during the 1920s and 1930s. However, Keynes is believed to have developed his ideas independently. Keynes also reg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37973 | 49,300 |
346,897 | In 1985, France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom teamed to develop a NATO battlefield transport and anti-ship/anti-submarine helicopter for the 1990s. The United Kingdom left the team in 1987. On 1 September 1992, NH Industries signed an NH90 design-and-development contract with NAHEMA (NAT... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=513911 | 346,716 |
1,999,096 | The beautiful nuthatch (Sitta formosa) is a bird species in the family Sittidae, collectively known as nuthatches. It is a large nuthatch, measuring in length, that is not sexually dimorphic. Its coloration and markings are dramatic, the upper parts being black and azure, streaked with white and pale blue on the head a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=385008 | 1,997,952 |
628,083 | Once in flight, the pilot must take pains to stick to plan, otherwise getting lost is all too easy. This is especially true if flying in the dark or over featureless terrain. This means that the pilot must stick to the calculated headings, heights and speeds as accurately as possible, unless flying under visual flight ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=316393 | 627,748 |
118,276 | The foundation for sequencing proteins was first laid by the work of Frederick Sanger who by 1955 had completed the sequence of all the amino acids in insulin, a small protein secreted by the pancreas. This provided the first conclusive evidence that proteins were chemical entities with a specific molecular pattern rat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1158125 | 118,231 |
1,842,526 | Meristematic tissues contain cells that continue to grow and differentiate throughout the plant's lifetime. Shoot apical meristem gives rise to flowers and leaves while root apical meristem grows into roots. These components are crucial to general plant growth and are the harbingers of development. Meristematic tissue ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46694447 | 1,841,473 |
1,980,178 | Marvel was contacted by Wright Patterson Air Force Base in the 1950s, because the U.S. Air Force needed a material suitable for drogue parachutes. They needed a material that would retain its strength when subjected to extremely high temperatures. Researching high-temperature stable polymers, Marvel was the first to sy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10181183 | 1,979,040 |
1,903,738 | Although MDDPD enables the use of DPD in multi source systems, there is another advantage from implementing MDDPD over DPD which is the prime motivation of the initial studies. In one dimensional polynomial-based memory (or memoryless) DPD, in order to solve for the digital pre-distorter polynomials coefficients and mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44376223 | 1,902,644 |
813,779 | A major flaw and vulnerability in biomedical research appears to be the hypercompetition for the resources and positions that are required to conduct science. The competition seems to suppress the creativity, cooperation, risk-taking, and original thinking required to make fundamental discoveries. Other consequences of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2245783 | 813,346 |
217,801 | Car hit and runs, burglaries, assaults, drive-by shootings and bombings such as these situations may cause glass fragments that could be used as evidence of association in glass transfer conditions. LA-ICP-MS is considered one of the best techniques for analysis of glass due to the short time for sample preparation and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49503 | 217,693 |
23,208 | For , Honda switched their supply to McLaren and, encouraged by Prost, Dennis signed Ayrton Senna to drive. Despite regulations reducing the boost pressure and fuel capacity (and therefore, power) of the turbo cars, Honda persisted with a turbocharged engine. In the MP4/4, Senna and Prost engaged in a season-long battl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20994 | 23,199 |
1,596,786 | Gas phase species absorb and display unique spectra between 120 – 240 nm where high energy σ→σ*, n→σ*, π→π*, n → π* electronic transitions can be excited and probed. VUV spectra reflect the absorbance cross section of compounds and are specific to their electronic structure and functional group arrangement. The ability... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56343495 | 1,595,887 |
463,786 | Criticizing Lorentz's 1904 theory, Abraham (1904) held that the Lorentz contraction of electrons requires a non-electromagnetic force to ensure the electron's stability. This was unacceptable to him as a proponent of the electromagnetic worldview. He continued that as long as a consistent explanation is missing as to h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30694430 | 463,556 |
454,399 | An example of spaceflight related health emergency was the inert gas asphyxiation with nitrogen gas aboard Space Shuttle Columbia in 1981, when it was undergoing preparations for its launch In that case, a routine purge with nitrogen to decrease risk of fire lead to 5 medical emergencies and 2 deaths. Another infamous ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42302371 | 454,177 |
366,520 | Early analysis of CCTV and dashcam video posted online indicated that the meteor approached from the southeast, and exploded about 40 km south of central Chelyabinsk above Korkino at a height of , with fragments continuing in the direction of Lake Chebarkul. On 1 March 2013, NASA published a detailed synopsis of the ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38528850 | 366,328 |
1,418,876 | The "electron model of many applications" (EMMA) is a new type of particle accelerator that could support an ADSR. The prototype was built at Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire, UK. Uniquely, EMMA is a new hybrid of a cyclotron and a synchrotron, combining their advantages into a compact, economical form. EMMA is a non-s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34801026 | 1,418,077 |
1,198,673 | The intracellular origin of cfDNA, e.g., either from nucleus or mitochondria, can also influence the inflammatory potential of cfDNA. mtDNA is a potent inflammatory trigger. mtDNA, due to its prokaryotic origin, holds many features that are similar to bacterial DNA, including the presence of a relatively high content o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49665885 | 1,198,032 |
986,691 | Multirotor type unmanned aerial vehicles exist in numerous configurations including duocopter, tricopter, quadcopter, hexacopter and octocopter. All of them can be upgraded to coaxial configuration in order to bring more stability and flight time while allowing carrying much more payload without gaining too much weight... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3082957 | 986,176 |
314,993 | On 10 July 2017, the airborne telescope SOFIA was successfully placed close to the predicted centerline for the second occultation while flying over the Pacific Ocean from Christchurch, New Zealand. The main purpose of those observations was the search for hazardous material like rings or dust near Arrokoth that could ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44163394 | 314,824 |
860,515 | All Andamanese belong to Haplogroup M. It peaks in the Malaysian aboriginal Negrito tribes at almost 100% but with mtDNA M21a representing Semang; 84% in Mendriq people, Batek people 48%, (almost all belong to the specific Malaysian Negrito haplogroup M21a, this subclade also found in the Orang Asli 21%, Thais 7.8% and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4130962 | 860,057 |
1,813,519 | During World War II Franz led a group of five mathematicians, recruited by Wilhelm Fenner, and which included Ernst Witt, Georg Aumann, Alexander Aigner, Oswald Teichmüller and Johann Friedrich Schultze, to form the backbone of the new mathematical research department in the field of cryptology, in the late 1930s. This... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53300886 | 1,812,485 |
1,923,408 | Since the later years of the Cold War, ESC worked to upgrade its key radar, command center, and communications systems. The decade of the 1990s presented new challenges for the expanded Center in the form of regional conflicts, joint and coalition engagements, terrorism, and asymmetric warfare. In response, ESC develop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1250357 | 1,922,305 |
2,107,482 | As the Allied forces advanced, the group continued to support ground forces, participated in the assault against the Siegfried Line. In response to a request from the 2nd Armored Division the group, joined by the 363d Fighter Group bombed tank traps and "dragon's teeth" that were barring the division's advance through ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71378924 | 2,106,269 |
1,001,238 | On 16 August 2018, a strong evidence for the existence of Majorana bound states (or Majorana anyons) in an iron-based superconductor, which many alternative trivial explanations cannot account for, was reported by Ding's and Gao's teams at Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Chinese Acad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4643400 | 1,000,720 |
1,974,576 | Light is a primary driver of lake metabolism, thus seasonality in light levels is an important driver of seasonal changes in lake metabolic rates. Therefore, it is expected GPP rates to be more pronounced during seasons such as spring and summer, in which light levels are higher and days are longer. This is especially ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59168336 | 1,973,440 |
871,387 | There can also be unintended bias in these algorithms that can exacerbate social and healthcare inequities. Since AI's decisions are a direct reflection of its input data, the data it receives must have accurate representation of patient demographics. White males are overly represented in medical data sets. Therefore,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52588198 | 870,927 |
2,157,012 | On 3 December 1875 at Old Pit in New Tredegar, after a minor explosion the previous day where no gas had been detected, the men entered the pit against orders and at 8:00 a.m. there was a tremendous explosion killing 20 men and boys instantly and two more died from their injuries. Three days later, on 6 December 1875, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33734001 | 2,155,781 |
724,783 | In September 2008, Detroit Edison filed an application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a Combined Construction and Operating License (COL) for a third reactor. The new unit is supposed to be built on the same site, slightly to the southwest of Fermi 2. The reactor design selected is the 1,550 MWe GE-de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1835482 | 724,402 |
1,982,674 | At the meeting, BBC reporter Richard Black coined the phrase "climate tourists" to describe some delegates who attended "to see Africa, take snaps of the wildlife, the poor, dying African children and women". Black also noted that due to delegates' concerns over economic costs and possible losses of competitiveness, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38484438 | 1,981,535 |
314,648 | Confocal microscopy provides the capacity for direct, noninvasive, serial optical sectioning of intact, thick, living specimens with a minimum of sample preparation as well as a marginal improvement in lateral resolution compared to wide-field microscopy. Biological samples are often treated with fluorescent dyes to ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1186904 | 314,479 |
2,148,511 | The South African Association for the Advancement of Science was founded in 1902 and modelled on the British Association for the Advancement of Science (BA), now known as the British Science Association. One of the most prominent scientists involved in the movement to establish S2A3 was Dr (later Sir) David Gill (1843–... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27009969 | 2,147,280 |
1,660,250 | Periodic ordered lattices behave as linear viscoelastic solids when subjected to small amplitude mechanical deformations. Okano's group experimentally correlated the shear modulus to the frequency of standing shear modes using mechanical resonance techniques in the ultrasonic range (40 to 70 kHz). In oscillatory experi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20957502 | 1,659,317 |
990,599 | Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) was developed by Seiichi Nakajima in Japan between 1950 and 1970. This experience led to the recognition that a leadership mindset engaging front line teams in small group improvement activity is an essential element of effective operation. The outcome of his work was the application ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40896035 | 990,082 |
1,502,500 | "Primary" biodiversity information can be considered the basic data on the occurrence and diversity of species (or indeed, any recognizable taxa), commonly in association with information regarding their distribution in either space, time, or both. Such information may be in the form of retained specimens and associate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6900845 | 1,501,654 |
28,866 | Using the few scraps of reliable information within the various myths, Trevize and Pelorat discover a planet called Gaia which is inhabited solely by Mentalics, to such an extent that every organism and inanimate object on the planet shares a common mind. Both Branno and Gendibal, who have separately followed Trevize, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60133 | 28,856 |
708,870 | On June 21, 2000, the LDS Church announced that Ricks College would become a four-year institution known as Brigham Young University–Idaho. This change became official just over a year later on August 10, 2001. Among the changes were the elimination of the intercollegiate athletic program and the institution of a large... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=543502 | 708,501 |
10,744 | The technology and services it provides for sending and receiving electronic messages (called "letters" or "electronic letters") over a distributed (including global) computer network. In terms of the composition of elements and the principle of operation, electronic mail practically repeats the system of regular (pape... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36674345 | 10,739 |
644,008 | Collaborations between academic and non-academic actors collectively committed in the creation and maintenance of knowledge commons has been a determining factor in the creation of new infrastructure for open citation data. Since 2010, a dataset of open citation data, the "Open Citation Corpus", has been collected by s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1223245 | 643,668 |
2,214,561 | After graduating, Blaxter worked at the National Institute for Research in Dairying (NIRD), located in Shinfield. With the onset of World War II, Blaxter was conscripted and served with the 10th Field Regiment of the Royal Artillery from spring 1940 to the end of 1941, when he returned to NIRD. At this time, he began t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39395949 | 2,213,301 |
2,103,125 | The X-ray intensity from Aladdin was much higher than on Tantalus, especially in the photon energy range up to 4000eV. These higher energies were potentially available using higher energy monochromators than the Grasshopper. In 1987, with Bancroft now chair of the Chemistry department at UWO he planned for a new beamli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36643525 | 2,101,913 |
503,643 | Pulpotomy is a minimally invasive procedure performed in children on a primary tooth with extensive caries but without evidence of root pathology. The minimally invasive endodontic techniques of vital pulp therapy (VPT) are based on improved understanding of the capacity of pulp (nerve) tissues to heal and regenerate p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20295296 | 503,385 |
1,797,643 | The first generation of NMR spectrometers used large Electromagnets weighing hundreds of kilograms or more. Slightly smaller permanent magnet systems were developed in the 1960s-70s at proton resonance frequencies of 60 and 90 MHz and were widely used for chemical analysis using continuous wave methods, but these perma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38308532 | 1,796,634 |
1,119,202 | Dylan, a 28 year-old grad student, is depressed because he is in love with his best friend, Kira, but she is dating Dylan's roommate, Mason. He has a cynical worldview and criticizes the world for its materialism, and at the same time wishes he could connect better with the people in it. When his roommate is away one n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51244419 | 1,118,629 |
1,890,663 | While working in the role as an assistant professor of microbiology, Ley was the recipient of a 2010 Packard Fellowship in Science and Engineering from the David and Lucille Packard Foundation to study how human genetic variation relates to the diversity of the gut microbiome. For the study, Ley investigated how human ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67230411 | 1,889,580 |
1,020,694 | Citizen science projects have become increasingly focused on providing benefits to scientific research. The North American Bird Phenology Program (historically called the Bird Migration and Distribution records) may have been the earliest collective effort of citizens collecting ornithological information in the U.S. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2155752 | 1,020,165 |
469,410 | The mammalian cell production process, as used for most biopharmaceuticals, is divided into the four main steps: (1) Cultivation, i.e. reproduction of the cells; (2) Fermentation, i.e. the actual production of the protein, typically in 10,000 Liter, or multiples, bioreactors; (3) Purification, i.e. separation of the ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3694845 | 469,174 |
2,181,244 | The official AWIHL gameday schedule was released at the beginning of October 2022. The season structure remained unchanged from 2019-20, with each team playing two of the four opponents in a four game series with the other two teams being played twice during the season. Ahead of the new season, after a two year absence... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72029391 | 2,179,998 |
1,266,593 | Each competing nation might qualify one boat for each of the fourteen events. The majority of the qualifying places were awarded based on the results at the 2015 World Rowing Championships, held at Lac d'Aiguebelette, France from August 30 to September 4, 2015. Places are awarded to National Olympic Committees, not to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36721653 | 1,265,904 |
865,783 | During the COVID-19 pandemic, rapid development of POCT occurred, aiming to improve the turnaround time and ease of use compared to the gold standard lab-based PCR test. These have included rapid antigen tests, alternate nucleic acid amplification methods, and novel sensors. A range of test have been developed includin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8713563 | 865,323 |
905,126 | On July 1, 2009, President Barack Obama and the United States Congress awarded the WASP the Congressional Gold Medal. Three of the roughly 300 surviving WASPs were on hand to witness the event. During the ceremony President Obama said, "The Women Airforce Service Pilots courageously answered their country's call in a t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1549788 | 904,650 |
647,654 | World War II stimulated dramatic technical progress and industrial scale production economies. Increasing affluence after the war led to a substantial and expanding consumer market. This enabled electronics manufacturers to build and market more advanced valve (tube) designs at affordable prices, with the result that t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=325009 | 647,314 |
45,572 | The silanes comprise a homologous series of silicon hydrides with a general formula of . They are all strong reducing agents. Unbranched and branched chains are known up to "n"=8, and the cycles and are also known. The first two, silane and disilane, are colourless gases; the heavier members of the series are volatile ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27114 | 45,555 |
515,732 | The interior of the niche consists of three parts: the conch had a light-blue color that faded all at once after the excavation. The outer surface of the shell is a rich green color. The column and the bottom of the niche are made of marbles. The bottom of the niche consists of five rectangular panels that are framed o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=723899 | 515,463 |
1,552,367 | Each description given by the participants is first read through in its entirety in order to get a better sense of the whole situation in which the experiences occurred. Then each description is attended to individually as the researcher goes through and marks off different units of meaning within the data in order to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38457050 | 1,551,486 |
98,675 | A November 2011 report by scientists at the Institute of Zoology in London found that whales off the coast of California have shown a sharp rise in sun damage, and these scientists "fear that the thinning ozone layer is to blame". The study photographed and took skin biopsies from over 150 whales in the Gulf of Califor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44183 | 98,633 |
606,676 | Terrorists could target nuclear power plants in an attempt to release radioactive contamination into the community. The United States 9/11 Commission has said that nuclear power plants were potential targets originally considered for the September 11, 2001 attacks. If terrorist groups could sufficiently damage safety s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40528380 | 606,366 |
2,094,026 | A mutualism coextinction event is where a species goes extinct upon the loss of its mutualist (Koh et al. 2004). Models have attempted to predict when the breakdown of a mutualism leads to coextinction, because in this situation protecting the mutualism will be particularly important for conservation. These models are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30142956 | 2,092,819 |
714,616 | The Ministry of Civil Aviation released a report entitled "Vision 2040" on 15 January 2019 outlining a roadmap for the future of civil aviation in India. The report projects that air passenger traffic will increase six fold to 1.1 billion by 2040 including 821 million domestic and 303 million international passengers. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49380424 | 714,244 |
341,090 | As an aside, the common ratio "r" can be a complex number such as |"r"|e where |"r"| is the vector's magnitude (or length), "θ" is the vector's angle (or orientation) in the complex plane and i = -1. With a common ratio |"r"|e, the expanded form of the geometric series is "a" + "a"|"r"|e + "a"|"r"|e + "a"|"r"|e + ... M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12630 | 340,909 |
237,021 | There have been a small number of CMEs observed on other stars, all of which have been found on red dwarfs. These have been detected mainly by spectroscopy, most often by studying Balmer lines: the material ejected toward the observer causes asymmetry in the blue wing of the line profiles due to Doppler shift. This enh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=255297 | 236,902 |
362,166 | Following the release of the iPhone 5S model, a group of German hackers announced on September 21, 2013, that they had bypassed Apple's new Touch ID fingerprint sensor by photographing a fingerprint from a glass surface and using that captured image as verification. The spokesman for the group stated: "We hope that thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84777 | 361,976 |
206,626 | Lagrangian techniques are based on parameterizing the contour according to some sampling strategy and then evolving each element according to image and internal terms. Such techniques are fast and efficient, however the original "purely parametric" formulation (due to Kass, Witkin and Terzopoulos in 1987 and known as "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=505717 | 206,519 |
878,145 | Karl Lashley, a well-known American neuropsychologist, had tried but failed to identify an anatomical locus for memory storage in the cortex of the brain. When Kandel joined the Laboratory of Neurophysiology at the US National Institutes of Health in 1957, William Beecher Scoville and Brenda Milner had recently describ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=193622 | 877,683 |
1,741,618 | Biological deuterium fractionation through metabolism is very organism and pathway dependent, resulting in a wide variability in fractionations. Despite this, some trends still hold. Hydrogen isotopes tend to fractionate very strongly in autotrophs relative to heterotrophs during lipid biosynthesis - chemoautotrophs pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50525886 | 1,740,634 |
1,725,085 | Apart from EST and genome sequences, several other tools like PCR, yeast two-hybrid system, microarrays, RNA Interference, SAGE, QTL mapping etc. permit the rapid study of plant developmental patterns. Recently, cross-species hybridization has begun to be employed on microarray chips, to study the conservation and dive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13571938 | 1,724,114 |
726,467 | The effect of supercoiling on gene expression can be mediated by NAPs that directly or indirectly influence supercoiling. The effect of HU on gene expression appears to involve a change in supercoiling and perhaps a higher-order DNA organization. A positive correlation between DNA gyrase binding and upregulation of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=805665 | 726,085 |
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