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1,589,371 | John Roger Speakman (born 1958) is a British biologist working at the University of Aberdeen, Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, for which he was Director from 2007 to 2011. He leads the University's Energetics Research Group, which is one of the world's leading groups using doubly labeled water (DLW) ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23755266 | 1,588,477 |
707,024 | The major step in the methylation cycle is the remethylation of homocysteine, a compound which is naturally generated during demethylation of the essential amino acid methionine. Despite its natural formation, homocysteine has been linked to inflammation, depression, specific forms of dementia, and various types of vas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1623599 | 706,655 |
1,345,291 | The oblong square is variously proportioned. The depth may be a little more than the breadth, or it may be nearly twice as much. In either case, the front occupies one of the shorter sides, or ends of the edifice. The outer wall is sometimes pierced by one entrance only; but, more commonly, entrances are multiplied bey... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2784178 | 1,344,553 |
292,480 | The exact size of "Paraceratherium" is unknown because of the incompleteness of the fossils. The shoulder height was about , and the length about . Its weight is estimated to have been about . The long neck supported a skull that was about long. It had large, tusk-like incisors and a nasal incision that suggests it had... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2199066 | 292,322 |
1,448,327 | Environmental external factors are the key drivers into influencing circannual and circadian rhythms. Although they may all differ depending on species, they all are influenced by factors like weather and seasonality. At temperate latitudes, circannual rhythms align with the day lengths, and in mammals, the hormone mel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54046997 | 1,447,511 |
745,731 | The School of Naturalists or the School of Yin-yang () was a Warring States era philosophy that synthesized the concepts of yin-yang and the Wu Xing; Zou Yan is considered the founder of this school. His theory attempted to explain the universe in terms of basic forces in nature: the complementary agents of yin (dark, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5822 | 745,337 |
732,045 | At the , Hamilton took pole position while Rosberg secured the twelfth front row lockout for the team by beating Verstappen and Ricciardo on his final run. Both drivers managed to stay ahead after the start although neither Hamilton nor Rosberg stayed on track at the first corner. Hamilton missed the braking point whil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49194160 | 731,658 |
1,741,245 | The proposed "ultimate goal" for human space flight would appear to require two basic objectives: (1) physical sustainability and (2) economic sustainability. The Committee adds a third objective: to meet key national objectives. These might include international cooperation, developing new industries, energy independe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23192383 | 1,740,263 |
1,989,640 | The proposed "ultimate goal" for human space flight would appear to require two basic objectives: (1) physical sustainability and (2) economic sustainability. The Committee adds a third objective: to meet key national objectives. These might include international cooperation, developing new industries, energy independe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2708731 | 1,988,498 |
1,419,811 | Some argue that Quick Response Manufacturing differs from Quick Response (QR) methods used in the apparel industry and the fast fashion market. QRM is a companywide management strategy applicable to a wide variety of businesses, whereas QR primarily stands for a specific business model in a particular industry. However... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17991164 | 1,419,012 |
60,734 | The Classical era established many of the norms of composition, presentation, and style, and was also when the piano became the predominant keyboard instrument. The "basic" forces required for an orchestra became somewhat standardized (although they would grow as the potential of a wider array of instruments was develo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6668778 | 60,709 |
994,132 | Traditionally, superacids are made from mixing a Brønsted acid with a Lewis acid. The function of the Lewis acid is to bind to and stabilize the anion that is formed upon dissociation of the Brønsted acid, thereby removing a proton acceptor from the solution and strengthening the proton donating ability of the solution... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1072889 | 993,615 |
352,972 | U of I's Division of Intercollegiate Athletics fields teams for ten men's and eleven women's varsity sports. The university participates in the NCAA's Division I. The university's athletic teams are known as the Fighting Illini. The university operates a number of athletic facilities, including Memorial Stadium for foo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384695 | 352,789 |
1,216,911 | In April 2017, scientists from the U.S. National Academy of Medicine (NAM) published a review of the response to the Ebola outbreak that included a discussion of how clinical trial candidates were selected, how trials were designed and conducted, and reviewed the data resulting from the trials. The committee found that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43779954 | 1,216,259 |
1,793,185 | The outside world remained uninformed about Chinese work in agronomy, pharmacology, mathematics, and optics. Scientific and technological activity in China dwindled, however, after the 14th century. It became increasingly confined to little-known and marginal individuals who differed from Western scientists such as Gal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14246598 | 1,792,176 |
44,632 | In 2019, oil and gas companies were listed by Forbes with sales of US$4.8 trillion, about 5% of the global GDP. Net importers such as China and the EU would gain advantages from a transition to low-carbon technologies driven by technological development, energy efficiency or climate change policy, while Russia, the USA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25784 | 44,615 |
288,296 | Naturally sourced d-α-tocopherol can be extracted and purified from seed oils, or γ-tocopherol can be extracted, purified, and methylated to create d-alpha-tocopherol. In contrast to α-tocopherol extracted from plants, which also is called d-α-tocopherol, industrial synthesis creates dl-α-tocopherol. "It is synthesized... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54105 | 288,140 |
1,837,677 | To date, the best OPV devices have a maximum power conversion efficiency of approximately 8.13%. This low power conversion efficiency is directly related to discrepancies in the film morphology on the nano-scale level. Explanations of film morphology include recombination and/or trapping of charges, low open circuit vo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31698140 | 1,836,628 |
14,760 | On 21 August 2017, USS "John S. McCain" collided with the container ship "Alnic MC". The collision injured 48 sailors and killed 10, whose bodies were all recovered by 27 August. The cause of the collision was determined to be poor communication between the two ships and the bridge crew lacking situational awareness. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=197341 | 14,755 |
154,547 | The Great Hall also continues to serve as an important metropolitan art space and has hosted lectures and performances by such key figures as Joseph Campbell, Steve Reich, Salman Rushdie, Ralph Nader, Hamza Yusuf, Richard Stallman, Rudolph Giuliani, Pema Chodron, Michael Bloomberg, Evo Morales, and Venezuelan president... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275339 | 154,477 |
944,227 | In practice, mixers do more than simply mix signals. They can provide phantom power for condenser microphones; pan control, which changes a sound's apparent position in the stereo soundfield; filtering and equalization, which enables sound engineers to boost or cut selected frequencies to improve the sound; dynamic ran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=193299 | 943,725 |
1,983,274 | The second predecessor of the unit was activated as the 23d Troop Carrier Squadron on 21 November 1944 at Pope Field, North Carolina and equipped with Douglas C-47 Skytrains. Assigned to the 349th Troop Carrier Group of IX Troop Carrier Command in England, at RAF Barkston Heath, the unit transported cargo and personnel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2538763 | 1,982,135 |
1,810,911 | Jain is best known for discoveries and insights into plasmon resonances – collective electron oscillations in metal nanoparticles, induced by light excitation and the applications of plasmon resonances in biomedicine, optoelectronics, and chemical catalysis. In the 2010s, Jain and his coworkers at the University of Ill... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57709236 | 1,809,878 |
272,282 | The effect of "Phytophthora infestans" in Ireland in 1845–52 was one of the factors which caused over one million to starve to death and forced another two million to emigrate from affected countries. Most commonly referenced is the Great Irish Famine, during the late 1840s, from which the Irish population has still no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=165450 | 272,134 |
1,787,385 | In 2015, an Italian team of scientists, led by Michele De Luca at the University of Modena, successfully treated a seven-year-old Syrian boy who had lost 80% of his skin. The boy's family had fled Syria for Germany in 2013. Upon seeking treatment in Germany, he had lost the epidermis from almost his entire body, with o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21609068 | 1,786,380 |
285,467 | After Great Britain's successful implementation of systematic, open, and competitive examinations in India in the 19th century, similar systems were instituted in the United Kingdom itself, and in other Western nations. Like the British, the development of the French and American civil service was influenced by the Chi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244479 | 285,313 |
1,709,750 | This method has been used for synthesizing over 100 mixed metal oxides including lanthanum manganite for solid oxide fuel cells and BaTiO3 (Lessing 1989). Unlike the sol–gel process in which the metal alkoxide participates in the gel-forming reactions this process is based on a gelation reaction between the alcohol and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66580770 | 1,708,791 |
1,921,210 | Mr. Eban tours extensively as a chamber musician, collaborating with world-renowned artists and ensembles. He has been guest artist with the Alexander, Audubon, Orion, St. Petersburg, Tel Aviv and Ying Quartets, and was a frequent participant of the Marlboro Music Festival in Vermont. While at Marlboro, he was invited ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8943458 | 1,920,107 |
50,387 | A famous quotation of Clarke's is often cited: "One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion." He was quoted in "Popular Science" in 2004 as saying of religion: "Most malevolent and persistent of all mind viruses. We should get rid of it as quick as we can." In a three-day "dialo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598148 | 50,367 |
458,509 | A small batch of C.205s were in service with the Air Force of the Independent State of Croatia, "Zrakoplovstvo Nezavisne Države Hrvatske" (ZNDH) in 1944, but the Croatian "Veltros" flew few sorties and were soon overwhelmed by the waves of Allied fighters that swarmed over Yugoslavian skies. On 30 June 1944, three rece... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=176530 | 458,285 |
1,809,558 | During the COVID-19 pandemic, Hubbell and Melody Swartz co-launched the Chicago Immunoengineering Innovation Center to develop new technologies to treat diseases, including cancer, autoimmune disorders, and COVID-19. Throughout the pandemic, the researchers at the center began developing computational and experimental ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67950793 | 1,808,537 |
125,551 | The Bren was a gas-operated weapon using the same .303 ammunition as the standard British bolt-action rifle, the Lee–Enfield, firing at a rate between 480 and 540 rounds per minute (rpm), depending on the model. Propellant gases vented from a port towards the muzzle end of the barrel through a regulator (visible just i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240860 | 125,499 |
515,425 | Varadhan's awards and honours include the National Medal of Science (2010) from President Barack Obama, "the highest honour bestowed by the United States government on scientists, engineers and inventors". He also received the Birkhoff Prize (1994), the Margaret and Herman Sokol Award of the Faculty of Arts and Science... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9638038 | 515,159 |
835,687 | Friedreich ataxia (FA) is the most common genetic cause of ataxia in children. Like A–T, FA is a recessive disease, appearing in families without a history of the disorder. FA is caused by mutation in the frataxin gene, most often an expansion of a naturally occurring repetition of the three nucleotide bases GAA from t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1058672 | 835,238 |
1,277,855 | Pathak is an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow and a recipient of a 2012 Presidential Early Career for Scientists and Engineers by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. In 2012, he was selected to give the Shapley Lecture, a lecture in honor of Lloyd Shapley given by a distinguished game theorist aged 40 or und... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31934945 | 1,277,162 |
1,372,977 | The SLS also envisioned a number of much larger designs intended to launch the Air Force's Lunex Project crewed lunar landing. Lunex was a direct landing mission, in which a single very large spacecraft would fly to the Moon, land, and return. In order to launch such a design to low Earth orbit (LEO), a very large boos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5006565 | 1,372,220 |
199,113 | During the McCarthy era, on April 1, 1952, J. Edgar Hoover, the director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, received a personal letter from an informant who reported on communist activities at Harvard. During a later interview, the informant claimed that "Parsons... was probably the leader of an inner group" of co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54041 | 199,010 |
1,169,964 | Goswami also suggests that neuroimaging could be used to assess the impact of particular training programmes, such as the Dore, an exercise based programme based on the cerebellar deficit hypothesis that aims to improve reading through a series of balance exercises. Some brain imaging research is beginning to show that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25935238 | 1,169,345 |
695,685 | Like other cephalopods, belemnites may have laid floating-egg masses, and single female may have laid between 100 and 1,000 eggs. Hatchlings were either miniature forms of adults or went through a larval stage. According to the latter model, the egg was formed by the protoconch and a single-layered shell wall. During t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30275643 | 695,321 |
606,746 | The scintillation X-ray detector (XC) aboard Vela 5A and its twin Vela 5B consisted of two 1 mm thick NaI(Tl) crystals mounted on photomultiplier tubes and covered by a 0.13 mm thick beryllium window. Electronic thresholds provided two energy channels, 3–12 keV and 6–12 keV. In addition to the x-ray Nova announcement i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=630088 | 606,436 |
1,981,134 | Results from three randomized controlled trials have been published. One randomized controlled trial of 157 patients with chronic migraine was published in October 2012. Participants were implanted with the device and then randomized to have the device turned on (the treatment group) or off (the control group) for 12 w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36666029 | 1,979,995 |
800,152 | It is considered a potential occupational carcinogen by the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The International Agency for Research on Cancer concluded based on studies perfo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2250747 | 799,726 |
873,207 | The release of a neurotransmitter is triggered by the arrival of a nerve impulse (or action potential) and occurs through an unusually rapid process of cellular secretion (exocytosis). Within the presynaptic nerve terminal, vesicles containing neurotransmitter are localized near the synaptic membrane. The arriving acti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27809 | 872,747 |
1,686,850 | Trees have also been applied to remediation. Trees are the lowest cost plant type. They can grow on land of marginal quality and have long life-spans. This results in little or no maintenance costs. The most commonly used are willows and poplars, which can grow 6 - 8’ per year and have a high flood tolerance. For deep ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16728325 | 1,685,904 |
1,135,607 | In May 2014, McNutt and a group of international scholars and scientists participated in a workshop with Pope Francis organized by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences and the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences. By invitation, McNutt presented a paper, "The Risks of Rising Seas to Coastal Populations." In a September ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8962853 | 1,135,014 |
1,891,877 | When the Agricultural College of the State of Montana (now Montana State University) was established in 1893, the first college catalog announced a division of business that would include "book-keeping, commercial arithmetic, commercial correspondence, penmanship, commercial law, and business ethics, etc." The first cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49026463 | 1,890,794 |
1,959,096 | Examples of unrelated enzymes with similar functions were noted as early as 1943 by Warburg and Christian (1943) who discovered two different forms of fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase, one occurring in yeast cells and the other occurring in rabbit muscle. In 1998 an article by Mariana Omelchenko et al, titled "Analog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41726501 | 1,957,969 |
70,023 | Hydrogen sulfide has been shown to be involved in physiological processes such as vasodilation in animals, as well as in increasing seed germination and stress responses in plants. Hydrogen sulfide signaling is also innately intertwined with physiological processes that are known to be moderated by reactive oxygen spec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=154738 | 69,996 |
1,269,803 | Plug computers consist of a high-performance, low-power system-on-a-chip processor, with several I/O hardware ports (USB ports, Ethernet connectors, etc.). Most versions do not have provisions for connecting a display and are best suited as running media servers, back-up services, or file sharing and remote access func... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21284823 | 1,269,112 |
1,680,672 | It could navigate in and out of creeks, city streets, next to big buildings, compact alleyways, and refugee camp warrens, while shielded rotor blades make it tougher than a regular helicopter. Unmanned vehicles can enter situations too risky for manned helicopters. Cormorant could deliver supplies or cargo, evacuate up... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43693478 | 1,679,729 |
1,000,720 | In the early 1900s the mortality rate for VS surgery was in the range of 75 to 85%. Surgeons typically delayed invasive intervention as long as possible as a last resort. Harvey Cushing (1869–1939) is known as 'the father of neurosurgery for VS.' His basic study published in 1917 was entitled "Tumors of the Nervus Acus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1002770 | 1,000,202 |
1,232,102 | In July 2011, Orion Publishing Group announced that the third edition of "The Science Fiction Encyclopedia" would be released online later that year by SFE Ltd in association with Victor Gollancz, Orion's science fiction imprint. The "beta text" of the third edition launched online on 2 October 2011, with editors John ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196761 | 1,231,440 |
1,561,267 | The first SCR-720 was delivered on 12 July for fitting to Mosquito "HK195", which was turned over to the FUI on 11 August and flew for the first time two days later. Small batches were completed on various marks of Mosquitos before the production was turned over entirely for installation on the NF.XIX, which featured R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43764346 | 1,560,381 |
5,509 | Egypt is rich in building and decorative stone, copper and lead ores, gold, and semiprecious stones. These natural resources allowed the ancient Egyptians to build monuments, sculpt statues, make tools, and fashion jewelry. Embalmers used salts from the Wadi Natrun for mummification, which also provided the gypsum need... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=874 | 5,506 |
951,217 | The term matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization (MALDI) was coined in 1985 by Franz Hillenkamp, Michael Karas and their colleagues. These researchers found that the amino acid alanine could be ionized more easily if it was mixed with the amino acid tryptophan and irradiated with a pulsed 266 nm laser. The tryptoph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2190535 | 950,713 |
1,158,944 | The agricultural policies promulgated from 1976 through 1980 had mixed results. Pragmatic measures that encouraged the planting of more subsidiary food crops (such as sweet potatoes, manioc, beans, and corn) led to an increase of these crops from a level of less than 10 percent in 1975 to a level that was more than 20 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10903239 | 1,158,330 |
1,248,657 | The quasistatic approximation can be understood through the idea that the sources in the problem change sufficiently slowly that the system can be taken to be in equilibrium at all times. This approximation can then be applied to areas such as classical electromagnetism, fluid mechanics, magnetohydrodynamics, thermodyn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22996180 | 1,247,981 |
222,050 | To deliver nutrients aeroponic systems use hydro-atomized sprays that minimize water use, increase root oxygenation, and produce excellent plant growth. The nutrient solution throughput of aeroponic systems is higher than in other systems developed to operate in low gravity. Aeroponics' elimination of substrates and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1044136 | 221,941 |
243,128 | Understanding the scale of the extinction crisis led him to advocate for forest protection, including the "Act to Save America's Forests", first introduced in 1998, until 2008, but never passed. The Forests Now Declaration calls for new markets-based mechanisms to protect tropical forests. Wilson once said destroying a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10313 | 243,001 |
348,030 | The legal circumstances of Piëch and Porsche's imprisonment and trial could be largely apportioned to Ferdinand Porsche's contribution to his country's war effort and personal friendship with Hitler. In the Porsche family's own account, the affair was a thinly veiled attempt at extorting money and forcing them to colla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67720 | 347,848 |
1,805,561 | In the US human space program, the only in-flight countermeasure to skeletal muscle functional deficits that has been utilized thus far is physical exercise. In-flight exercise hardware and protocols have varied from mission to mission, somewhat dependent on mission duration and the volume of the spacecraft available. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39377992 | 1,804,546 |
318,990 | Van der Waals' early interests were primarily in the field of thermodynamics, where a first influence was Rudolf Clausius's published work on heat in 1857; other significant influences were the writings by James Clerk Maxwell, Ludwig Boltzmann, and Willard Gibbs. After initial pursuit of teaching credentials, Van der W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=206064 | 318,819 |
1,357,025 | The striker of the Model 69 was cocked by the closing motion of the bolt, and the safety was actuated by grasping the cocking piece at the rear of the bolt, drawing it back, and rotating it, an arrangement similar to the Mosin–Nagant. The Model 69 used the same standard 5-round box magazine as the Models 52, 56, 57 and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27902950 | 1,356,275 |
53,689 | Wildcat cartridges such as the .300 Whisper series addressed these issues, but their widespread use in single-shot handguns and lack of industry standard cartridge dimension meant that a great number of the popular loads on both the supersonic and subsonic end of the spectrum were less than ideal in the AR pattern weap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28997320 | 53,669 |
1,370,734 | Burnet was opposed to the use of nuclear power in Australia owing to the issues of nuclear proliferation. He later retracted his objections to uranium mining in Australia, feeling that nuclear power was necessary while other renewable energy sources were being developed. In the late 1960s and 1970s, he was also vocal i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=417493 | 1,369,978 |
686,276 | Landsat 8 is an American Earth observation satellite launched on 11 February 2013. It is the eighth satellite in the Landsat program; the seventh to reach orbit successfully. Originally called the Landsat Data Continuity Mission (LDCM), it is a collaboration between NASA and the United States Geological Survey (USGS). ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14678164 | 685,919 |
1,927,674 | The construction phase of Aladdin ended in 1981, but by late 1984 SRC had been unable to complete the commissioning of the facility, with a maximum stored current of 2.5 mA, too little to provide useful light intensities. Accelerator experts reviewing the project recommended the addition of a booster synchrotron at a c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10984862 | 1,926,570 |
732,612 | In the Drug Quality and Security Act (DQSA) of 2013 (H.R. 3204), Congress amended the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) to clarify limits of FDA jurisdiction over patient-specific compounding, and to provide an optional pathway for "non-traditional" or bulk compounders to operate. The law established that ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7521201 | 732,225 |
1,031,942 | Rubbia has also been one of the leaders in a collaboration effort deep in the Gran Sasso Laboratory, designed to detect any sign of decay of the proton. The experiment seeks evidence that would disprove the conventional belief that matter is stable. The most widely accepted version of the unified field theories predict... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44932 | 1,031,406 |
54,159 | Any main-sequence star with an initial mass of above 8 times the mass of the sun () has the potential to produce a neutron star. As the star evolves away from the main sequence, subsequent nuclear burning produces an iron-rich core. When all nuclear fuel in the core has been exhausted, the core must be supported by deg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21869 | 54,139 |
1,895,439 | Returning to India in 1971, Kumar joined the Indian Agricultural Research Institute as a geneticist and senior scientist where he served till 1989, serving as the professor of Molecular biology and Agricultural biotechnology from 1985 onward. Moving to the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) as a senio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51779501 | 1,894,355 |
459,021 | The alien team has no defined leader, and so it must communicate and co-operate to ensure different roles are fulfilled as needed. There is only one "Builder Class", the "Gorge" which can be used to build a multitude of structures. Gorges can choose to build three different "upgrade" chambers: Movement, Defense, and Se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=502020 | 458,797 |
1,543,266 | The manual heliodon consists of a flat table with a scaled model on top whereas the table lies stationary with only sun lamps in motion. The heliodon consists of a horizontal platform and seven rings that represent the sun path for the 21st day of every month which can be rotated to replicate the time of the day. It ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1382285 | 1,542,393 |
912,128 | As per "Haig v. Agee" and the (currently codified at et seq.), the presidential administration may deny or revoke passports for foreign policy or national security reasons at any time. The Secretary of State has historically in times of peace refused passports for one of three reasons: citizenship or loyalty, criminal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26677627 | 911,649 |
1,420,057 | The main problem that has to be solved for all cases of manipulation of the STFT is the fact that individual signal components (sinusoids, impulses) will be spread over multiple frames and multiple STFT frequency locations (bins). This is because the STFT analysis is done using overlapping analysis windows. The windowi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1434057 | 1,419,258 |
107,876 | Cha (2007) analyzes a panel data set to explore how industrial revolution, demographic transition, and human capital accumulation interacted in Korea from 1916 to 1938. Income growth and public investment in health caused mortality to fall, which suppressed fertility and promoted education. Industrialization, skill pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231079 | 107,831 |
511,027 | Ramsey interferometry, also known as Ramsey–Bordé interferometry or the separated oscillating fields method, is a form of particle interferometry that uses the phenomenon of magnetic resonance to measure transition frequencies of particles. It was developed in 1949 by Norman Ramsey, who built upon the ideas of his ment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41740230 | 510,761 |
1,771,700 | Edelman used the terms reentrant and degenerate in order to describe these complex neural connections. Reentrant was defined as a complex interwoven system in which the output can feed back into the input. Reentry is a two way straight that can run in parallel. Degenerate was explained by saying that the pathway can be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33768425 | 1,770,703 |
1,210,764 | In Portugal, the telephonic block was the main safety system across the national railway network until the mid-1990s due to lack of resources. Thus, it evolved to try to provide multiple layers of safety on busy single-track lines with diverse train types, albeit at the cost of high levels of staffing. In the Portugues... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5875823 | 1,210,117 |
459,038 | The many achievements of the ancient Egyptians include the quarrying, surveying and construction techniques that supported the building of monumental pyramids, temples, and obelisks; a system of mathematics, a practical and effective system of medicine, irrigation systems and agricultural production techniques, the fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4560948 | 458,814 |
1,457,870 | Since the dyes in processed film block various part of visible light but are all fairly transparent to infrared, dark black sections of any processed film (where all visible colors are blocked) pass only infrared light and are commonly used (layering one over another if necessary for better visual light filtering) as a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181898 | 1,457,050 |
167,318 | Endospore staining is used to identify the presence or absence of endospores, which make bacteria very difficult to kill. Bacterial spores have proven to be difficult to stain as they are not permeable to aqueous dye reagents. Endospore staining is particularly useful for identifying endospore-forming bacterial pathog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=411782 | 167,231 |
716,796 | Much work has been done to characterize various metal systems, review critical manufacturing parameters, and identify typical reliability issues that occur in wire bonding. When it comes to material selection, the application and use environment will dictate the metal system. Often the electrical properties, mechanical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230283 | 716,419 |
1,863,895 | It is important to note that AIDA, like other model-based approaches, is not sufficiently accurate to be used for individual patient simulation or glycemic prediction. Therefore, as the program makes clear, it is not intended for insulin therapy planning and can only be used for teaching, self-learning, demonstration, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8121243 | 1,862,823 |
1,377,172 | In the 1970s and early 1980s, much work was done in the astronomical community to update the astronomical almanacs from the theoretical work of the 1890s to modern, relativistic theory. From 1975 through 1982, six ephemerides were produced at JPL using the modern techniques of least-squares adjustment of numerically-in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13028634 | 1,376,410 |
1,488,239 | SceneKit, sometimes rendered Scene Kit, is a 3D graphics application programming interface (API) for Apple Inc. platforms written in Objective-C. It is a high-level framework designed to provide an easy-to-use layer over the lower level APIs like OpenGL and Metal. SceneKit maintains an object based scene graph, along w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49090429 | 1,487,400 |
1,096,780 | Just as there is a need for tax shifting, there is also a need for subsidy shifting. Subsidies are not an inherently bad thing as many technologies and industries emerged through government subsidy schemes. The Stern Review explains that of 20 key innovations from the past 30 years, only one of the 14 was funded entire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10418624 | 1,096,220 |
280,506 | It is impossible in this article to enter into the great variety of other applications of analysis to physical problems. Among them are the investigations of Euler on vibrating chords; Sophie Germain on elastic membranes; Poisson, Lamé, Saint-Venant, and Clebsch on the elasticity of three-dimensional bodies; Fourier on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=746117 | 280,354 |
216,206 | The School of Applied Technology was founded as the Center for Professional Development in 2001 to provide technology oriented education for working professionals. In December 2009 Illinois Tech announced the formation of the School of Applied Technology, composed of undergraduate and graduate degree programs in Indust... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=73299 | 216,098 |
2,236,403 | John Graeme Balsillie visited Brisbane in mid April 1912 with the objective of identifying a suitable site for the Brisbane coastal station VIB. Such visits tended to be a little circumspect in case a prospective vendor was encouraged to increase his asking price. A variety of locations were considered, including: Pink... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60879547 | 2,235,132 |
1,719,727 | The impact the ND280 Upgrade will have on the analyses at T2K is two-fold. Firstly, an increase in statistics thanks to the 2 ton SuperFGD target will allow to nearly double the amount of data in certain samples. Secondly and more relevant, the new configuration will allow for better detection of additional final state... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5736419 | 1,718,757 |
611,165 | Both sympathetic and parasympathetic stimuli flow through the paired cardiac plexus near the base of the heart. Without any nervous stimulation, the SA node would establish a sinus rhythm of approximately 100 bpm. Since resting rates are considerably less than this, it becomes evident that parasympathetic stimulation n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26862016 | 610,854 |
548,895 | In an April 1, 1880, Washington, D.C., experiment, Bell and Tainter communicated some along an alleyway to the laboratory's rear window. Then a few months later on June 21 they succeeded in communicating clearly over a distance of some 213 meters (about 700 ft.), using plain sunlight as their light source, practical el... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51160 | 548,607 |
156,446 | In the early 1970s, many navies began to need replacements for World War II-era submarines, aging United States GUPPY conversions, and British units transferred postwar. During this time, few western submarine designs were available for export as most were large, expensive, sophisticated and difficult to operate, and d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9531739 | 156,374 |
143,220 | Chronic kidney disease is typically managed with treatment of causative conditions (such as diabetes), avoidance of substances toxic to the kidneys (nephrotoxins like radiologic contrast and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs), antihypertensives, diet and weight modification and planning for end-stage kidney failure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22028 | 143,162 |
496,665 | In early nineteenth-century Britain, catastrophism was adapted with the aim of reconciling geological science with religious traditions of the biblical Great Flood. In the early 1820s English geologists including William Buckland and Adam Sedgwick interpreted "diluvial" deposits as the outcome of Noah's flood, but by t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8245348 | 496,409 |
569,496 | A major new challenge was how to deal with the exceptional data volume generated by the telescope and instruments. At the time, hundreds of gigabytes of raw data per night was unprecedented, and a collaborating team as complex as the original hardware and engineering team was needed to design a software and storage sys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=831170 | 569,206 |
181,619 | In 2020, Luis A. Anchordoqu and Eugene M. Chudnovsky of the City University of New York hypothesized that cosmic necklace-based life composed of magnetic monopoles connected by cosmic strings could evolve inside stars. This would be achieved by a stretching of cosmic strings due to the star's intense gravity, thus allo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7316 | 181,524 |
1,910,786 | Chemical Diversity (ChemDiv) is a US contract research organization headquartered in San Diego, California. It provides services to pharmaceutical and biotech companies for their research and development programs. ChemDiv has helped clients develop treatments and drugs for central nervous system, oncology, inflammation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31052089 | 1,909,688 |
1,039,945 | The IXPE mission was announced on 3 January 2017 and was launched on 9 December 2021. The international collaboration was signed in June 2017, when the Italian Space Agency (ASI) committed to provide the X-ray polarization detectors. The estimated cost of the mission and its two-year operation is US$188 million (the la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56477466 | 1,039,404 |
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