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827,519 | In temperate climates, honey bees usually form swarms in late spring. A swarm typically contains about half the workers together with the old queen, while the new queen stays back with the remaining workers in the original hive. When honey bees emerge from a hive to form a swarm, they may gather on a branch of a tree o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=207874 | 827,075 |
592,951 | Since the advent of high-power rocketry, which began in the mid-1980s with the availability of G- through J-class motors (each letter designation has up to twice the energy of the one before), a number of companies have shared the market for larger and more powerful rockets. By the early 1990s, Aerotech Consumer Aerosp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134827 | 592,647 |
1,398,822 | Type-6 episodic ataxia (EA6) is a rare form of episodic ataxia, identified initially in a 10-year-old boy who first presented with 30 minute bouts of decreased muscle tone during infancy. He required "balance therapy" as a young child to aid in walking and has a number of ataxic attacks, each separated by months to yea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8064365 | 1,398,047 |
1,124,640 | Surgery to remove the clot is possible, but rarely performed. In the past, surgical removal of the renal vein clot was the primary treatment but it is very invasive and many complications can occur. In the past decades, treatment has shifted its focus from surgical intervention to medical treatments that include intrav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3219980 | 1,124,065 |
1,713,343 | The first successful numerical prediction was performed using the ENIAC digital computer in 1950 by a team led by American meteorologist Jule Charney. The team include Philip Thompson, Larry Gates, and Norwegian meteorologist Ragnar Fjørtoft, applied mathematician John von Neumann, and computer programmer Klara Dan von... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30890995 | 1,712,377 |
1,220,400 | One 1 June 2005, President Roh Moo-hyun's administration would draft the "Defense Reform 2020" to further establish a more technologically advanced military and sophisticated defense capability for the country. Part of the reform involves reducing the manpower of the military from 650,000 to 500,000 by 2020, but would ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66301957 | 1,219,746 |
753,337 | Angiogenesis represents an excellent therapeutic target for the treatment of cardiovascular disease. It is a potent, physiological process that underlies the natural manner in which our bodies respond to a diminution of blood supply to vital organs, namely "neoangiogenesis": the production of new collateral vessels to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64972 | 752,935 |
807,981 | Casey and his team developed and built the second Tornado Intercept Vehicle, dubbed TIV 2, to be featured in their next IMAX movie and the "Storm Chasers" series. Work began in September 2007 by forty welding students at the Great Plains Technology Center in Lawton, Oklahoma and was completed in time for the 2008 torna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9566962 | 807,551 |
237,015 | The first optical observation of a CME was made on 14 December 1971 using the coronagraph of Orbiting Solar Observatory 7 (OSO-7). It was first described by R. Tousey of the Naval Research Laboratory in a research paper published in 1973. The discovery image (256 × 256 pixels) was collected on a Secondary Electron Cond... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=255297 | 236,896 |
1,609,444 | Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder(OCPD) is a personality type where the need for perfectionism in all aspects of life takes precedence. Despite the fact that OCPD is the most common personality disorder in the general population, published studies looking at the brain correlates of this disorder are practically... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63336797 | 1,608,539 |
71,210 | The .338 Lapua Magnum fills the gap between weapons chambered for standard military rounds such as the 7.62×51mm NATO and large, heavy rifles firing the .50 BMG cartridge. It also offers an acceptable amount of barrel wear, which is important to military snipers who tend to fire thousands of rounds a year in practice. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=689792 | 71,183 |
1,668,174 | Cabbage-family cultivation is a multi-billion dollar industry worldwide, reflecting its value as a vegetable crop, source of vegetable oil, component of fodder crop for livestock feed, and ingredient in condiments and spices. In 2007, the cabbage crop in the US exceed $413M (1.4M+ tons). Black rot is considered the mos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29223911 | 1,667,235 |
1,163,279 | The M86 antipersonnel mine is manually armed by removing the safety clip and then the arming strap assembly. A camming action breaks the shorting bar and forces the battery ball against the battery breaking the glass ampule containing an electrolyte which activates the reserve battery and provides power. The shorting b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5058960 | 1,162,662 |
1,331,287 | The multiple cores of the Kentsfield mostly benefits applications that can easily be broken into a small number of parallel threads (such as audio and video transcoding, data compression, video editing, 3D rendering and ray-tracing). To take a specific example, multi-threaded games such as Crysis and Gears of War which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24100323 | 1,330,558 |
740,607 | Communities have discontinued water fluoridation in some countries, including Finland, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Changes have been motivated by political opposition to water fluoridation, but sometimes the need for water fluoridation was met by alternative strategies. The use of fluoride in its ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=763637 | 740,215 |
565,728 | Sims entered the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), initially studying math. She decided that the job prospects were poor and switched to chemistry, graduating with her Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry in 1971. She then spent a year in graduate school, conducting X-ray crystallographic studies of meta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1397856 | 565,438 |
1,359,622 | A continuous-wave (CW) NO DIAL system based on the Scheimpflug principle has been developed by employing a compact high-power CW multimode 450 nm laser diode as the light source. Laser emissions at the on-line and off-line wavelengths of the NO absorption spectrum are implemented by tuning the injection current of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46736055 | 1,358,871 |
905,941 | The results indicated that nuclei of unbinilium were produced at high (~70 MeV) excitation energy which underwent fission with measurable half-lives just over 10 s. Although very short (indeed insufficient for the element to be considered by IUPAC to exist, because a compound nucleus has no internal structure and its n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67491 | 905,465 |
1,380,461 | Due to Hutchinson, the European attitudes towards ecology entered America. Before Hutchinson, ecology and natural history were considered identical. After Hutchinson it became legitimate to study the physical and chemical properties of ecosystems in their own right. Hutchinson also raised the idea of climate change 30 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2321755 | 1,379,698 |
8,444 | Columbia is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". Columbia was the first North American site where the uranium atom was split. The College of Physicians and Surgeons played a central role in developing the modern understanding of neuroscience with the publication of "Principles of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6310 | 8,441 |
834,332 | As for socialism, Mises (1944) and Hayek (1937) insisted that bureaucrats in individual ministries could not coordinate their plans without a price system. If decentralized socialism cannot work, central authorities must plan production. However, central planners face the local knowledge problem in forming a comprehens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9297 | 833,883 |
1,184,578 | On January 9, "Mirny" collided with an ice field and knocked out four-pound ship gref. Strength of the construction and skills of lieutenant Nikolay Obernisov minimized damage, so the leak did not even open. On January 12 the expedition passed 8 icebergs and crossed 61 south latitude, the weather all that time was clou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40880361 | 1,183,951 |
382,651 | When Hollywood beckoned concert hall composers in the 1930s with promises of better films and higher pay, Copland saw both a challenge for his abilities as a composer as well as an opportunity to expand his reputation and audience for his more serious works. In a departure from other film scores of the time, Copland's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51298 | 382,456 |
960,070 | The Hawaiian honeycreepers form a large, highly morphologically diverse species group of birds that began radiating in the early days of the Hawaiian archipelago. While today only 17 species are known to persist in Hawaii (3 more may or may not be extinct), there were more than 50 species prior to Polynesian colonizati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1909 | 959,561 |
1,112,929 | The plasmon resonant frequency is highly sensitive to the refractive index of the environment; a change in refractive index results in a shift in the resonant frequency. As the resonant frequency is easy to measure, this allows LSP nanoparticles to be used for nanoscale sensing applications. Also, nanoparticles exhibit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38931518 | 1,112,363 |
1,498,188 | Compared to the bacterial enzyme, plant versions of the synthase are much harder to crystallize, and as of August 2019 no experimental atomic structures of the plant cellulose synthase catalytic domain is known. However, at least two high-confidence structures have been predicted for these enzymes. The broader of the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14650763 | 1,497,344 |
159,552 | Given the necessary degree of uncertainty for which prospect theory is applied, it should come as no surprise that it and other psychological models are applied extensively in the context of political decision-making. Both rational choice and game theoretical models generate significant predictive power in the analysis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=197284 | 159,467 |
1,679,120 | By acquiring images every 2 minutes in wavelengths invisible to the human eye, it allowed detailed study of the interaction of the solar wind with the magnetosphere and the magnetosphere's response during a magnetic storm. From its distant orbit, the spacecraft produced a wealth of images of the previously invisible re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1090498 | 1,678,177 |
1,215,456 | The primary movements in art which influenced education at Vkhutemas were constructivism and suprematism, although individuals were versatile enough to fit into many or no movements—often teaching in multiple departments and working in diverse media. The leader figure of suprematist art, Kazimir Malevich, joined the te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3014315 | 1,214,804 |
2,113,781 | Arntzen's research focus spans plant cell-molecular biology and protein engineering. He was an early proponent of using plant biotechnology to enhance food quality and value, to express pharmacologically active products in plants, and to overcome health and agricultural constraints in the developing world. He is a pion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25822067 | 2,112,566 |
439,519 | In 1987, Lovaas published a study which demonstrated that, following forty hours a week of treatment, 9 of the 19 autistic children developed typical spoken language, increased IQs by 30 points on average, and were placed in regular classrooms. A 1993 follow-up study found that 8 maintained their gains and were "indist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1317207 | 439,305 |
228,451 | Construction has begun on the largest artificial breeding and protection base for the endangered giant salamander in China. The base in Jing'an County, in the eastern province of Jiangxi, will breed the amphibians for scientific research, the traditional Chinese medicine industry and for exhibition in aquariums. Locate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9428033 | 228,334 |
529,072 | Lambert was born in 1728 into a Huguenot family in the city of Mulhouse (now in Alsace, France), at that time a city-state allied to Switzerland. Some sources give 26 August as his birth date and others 28 August. Leaving school at 12, he continued to study in his free time while undertaking a series of jobs. These inc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93085 | 528,798 |
974,847 | This live conversion was crude compared to early-21st-century electronic digital conversion techniques. Image degradation was unavoidable with this system as the monitor and camera's optical limitations significantly lowered the original SSTV signal's contrast, brightness and resolution. If the scan converter's setting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6549167 | 974,336 |
466,728 | In 1986 United States president Ronald Reagan announced the National Aerospace Plane (NASP) program, intended to develop two X-30 aircraft capable of single stage to orbit (SSTO), as well as horizontal takeoff and landing from conventional runways. The aircraft was to be a hydrogen fuelled air-breathing space plane, wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4841481 | 466,495 |
2,170,873 | Although it is not thought to directly target components of the TCR/CD3 complex, Alemtuzumab, or Campath-1H, has been utilized because of its strong ability to deplete T cells, in many cases for up to 3 years. It is a monoclonal antibody that targets CD52, a protein that is expressed on the surface of mature lymphocyte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28353188 | 2,169,635 |
785,528 | It was in this context that the so-called American School of Anthropology thrived as the champion of polygenism or the doctrine of multiple origins—sparking a debate between those influenced by the Bible who believed in the unity of humanity and those who argued from a scientific standpoint for the plurality of origins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1676362 | 785,107 |
1,386,320 | Prior to 1953, the UF collection consisted of only a few hundred specimens, mostly acquired through public donation, and of little scientific value. Beginning in 1953, serious fossil prospecting began at the University of Florida, initially led by Robert S. Bader and Walter A. Auffenberg, both then members of the Depar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1143787 | 1,385,553 |
413,473 | Statistical analysis of marine losses at this time suggests that the decrease in diversity was caused more by a decrease in speciation than by an increase in extinctions. Nevertheless, a pronounced turnover in plant spores and a collapse of coral reef communities indicates that an ecological catastrophe did occur at th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31188 | 413,271 |
1,701,380 | Alan Kin-tak Lau () is an engineer and academic based in Melbourne, Australia. He is the President and Chair Professor of Product Innovation at Technological and Higher Education Institute (Thei) of Hong Kong. Prior to this appointment, he was Pro Vice-Chancellor of Research Performance and Development at Swinburne Uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57033612 | 1,700,425 |
91,573 | There are varying opinions about the effect of the Green Revolution on wild biodiversity. One hypothesis speculates that by increasing production per unit of land area, agriculture will not need to expand into new, uncultivated areas to feed a growing human population. However, land degradation and soil nutrients deple... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72727 | 91,533 |
1,053,364 | Collaborative adaptive management is often celebrated as an effective way to deal with natural resource management under high levels of conflict, uncertainty and complexity. The effectiveness of these efforts can be constrained by both social and technical barriers. As the case of the Glenn Canyon Dam Adaptive Manageme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1206605 | 1,052,818 |
1,852,790 | The AAAS Award for Scientific Freedom and Responsibility is given by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and honours scientists and engineers whose exemplary actions, often taken at significant personal cost, have served to foster scientific freedom and responsibility and increased scientific awaren... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21123525 | 1,851,728 |
1,279,922 | The Renaissance was the age of collectors and travellers, when many of the stories were actually demonstrated as true when the living or preserved specimens were brought to Europe. Verification by collecting of things, instead of the accumulation of anecdotes, then became more common, and scholars developed a new facul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=250535 | 1,279,227 |
859,962 | In 2005, the Cleveland Clinic became the first US hospital to approve the procedure. In December 2008, a team at the Cleveland Clinic, led by Maria Siemionow and including a group of supporting doctors and six plastic surgeons (Steven Bernard, Dr Mark Hendrickson, Robert Lohman, Dan Alam and Francis Papay) performed th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1000053 | 859,504 |
1,200,745 | Many marine fauna utilise coastal habitats as critical nursery areas, for shelter and feeding, yet these habitats are increasingly at risk from agriculture, aquaculture, industry and urban expansion. Indeed, these systems are subject to what may be called "a triple whammy" of increasing industrialisation and urbanisati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65970498 | 1,200,104 |
899,943 | Finding a cure for the diseases caused by frameshift mutations is rare. Research into this is ongoing. One example is a primary immunodeficiency (PID), an inherited condition which can lead to an increase in infections. There are 120 genes and 150 mutations that play a role in primary immunodeficiencies. The standard t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=610997 | 899,468 |
1,941,270 | Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae, one of Thomsen's early assistants, set out in 1850 to investigate an interesting find of flint tools linked to a heap of ancient oyster shells at Meilgaard in Northern Djursland. Worsaae surmised that perhaps “this had been a sort of eating-place for the people of the neighborhood in the ea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4650284 | 1,940,159 |
1,340,819 | Considered one of the most beautiful bamboos in cultivation, "Fargesia murielae" is native to the mountains of central China, introduced by Ernest Henry Wilson in 1913 and named after his daughter. Its common name "umbrella bamboo" describes the graceful weeping habit of this plant. It grows at elevations of . It usual... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35699194 | 1,340,086 |
2,177,771 | Modification had also been extended past hydrophobic and hydrophilic attachments, charged compounds have also been introduced to TRPs. Kobayashi et al. had previously performed successful modifications to separate bioactive ionic compounds, and continued on that success to improve separation efficiency of bioactive com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37850414 | 2,176,526 |
1,479,327 | Bechtel joined the family business in 1948. While he initially wanted to enter into home building, he was convinced by his father by showcasing Bechtel Corporation's global projects in a three week trip. He succeeded his father, Stephen Bechtel Sr., as president of Bechtel Corporation in 1960 and chairman in 1969. His ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1324576 | 1,478,494 |
462,524 | Males become sexually mature at one year, females may mature in either two or three years. Males will establish breeding territories and maintain them throughout the entirety of the breeding period, with the season occurring from spring through summer, with variations depending on location and temperature. During this ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13010117 | 462,295 |
126,856 | Small scale crystallography can be done with a local X-ray tube source, typically coupled with an image plate detector. These have the advantage of being relatively inexpensive and easy to maintain, and allow for quick screening and collection of samples. However, the wavelength of the light produced is limited by the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34151 | 126,804 |
2,061,990 | Professional science in Canada began with the founding of the Geological Survey of Canada, by the Legislature of the Province of Canada, in 1841. William Logan was appointed the first director in 1842 and after establishing headquarters in Montreal in 1843 began field work searching for coal in the area between Pictou,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,800 |
1,030,298 | France adopted the EU laws on growing GMOs in 2007 and was fined €10 million by the European Court of Justice for the six-year delay in implementing the laws. In February 2008, the French government used the safeguard clause to ban the cultivation of MON 810 after Senator Jean-François Le Grand, chairman of a committee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33942954 | 1,029,764 |
186,423 | Scripting languages are, by definition, able to be extended; for example, a MS-DOS/Windows 95/98 and Windows NT type systems allows for shell/batch programs to call tools like KiXtart, QBasic, various BASIC, Rexx, Perl, and Python implementations, the Windows Script Host and its installed engines. On Unix and other POS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28938 | 186,326 |
691,114 | Atypical as Lederberg was at Asilomar, his optimistic vision of genetic engineering would soon lead to the development of the biotechnology industry. Over the next two years, as public concern over the dangers of recombinant DNA research grew, so too did interest in its technical and practical applications. Curing gene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6012335 | 690,751 |
218,782 | The Boeing C-97 Stratofreighter was a long-range heavy military cargo aircraft developed from the B-29 and B-50 bombers. Design work began in 1942, the first of three prototype XC-97s flew on 9 November 1944 (none saw combat), and the first of six service-test YC-97s flew on 11 March 1947. All nine were based on the 24... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=594470 | 218,674 |
1,729,461 | Goldstein, long recognized for his scholarship in classical mechanics and reactor shielding, was the author of the graduate textbook, Classical Mechanics. The book has been a standard text since it first appeared 50 years ago and has been translated into nine languages. He received a B.S. from City College of New York ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2342319 | 1,728,487 |
199,015 | The new HC-130J aircraft are derived from the Lockheed Martin KC-130J tanker operated by the U.S. Marine Corps. The USCG has six HC-130Js in service, but they are not capable of refueling helicopters in flight. The first delivery of this variant to the United States Coast Guard was in October 2003. They initially opera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=526711 | 198,913 |
305,123 | Abandoning economic liberalism, he instead propounded a system which would replace the traditional state with a brotherhood of man that incorporated industry and society into a single centralized organization. In this new society all people would have equal opportunity within a meritocratic order, ignoring traditional ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 304,961 |
19,636 | Common responses include pupil dilation (93%); changes in heart rate (100%), including increases (56%), decreases (13%), and variable responses (31%); changes in blood pressure (84%), including hypotension (34%), hypertension (28%), and general instability (22%); changes in stretch reflex (86%), including increases (80... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38468 | 19,628 |
1,936,808 | "Lucifer's Requiem" is a Requiem for every person who seeks the eternal light. In "Kathinka's Chant", Kathinka sings with flute and voice at Lucifer's grave a chant that protects the soul of the deceased by means of musical exercises regularly performed for 49 days after the death of the body, and leads it to clear con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31521466 | 1,935,700 |
535,197 | Under the overall command of Australian Major General Peter Cosgrove, INTERFET began arriving on 12 September 1999 and was tasked with restoring peace and security, protecting and supporting UNAMET, and facilitating humanitarian assistance operations. With the withdrawal of the Indonesian armed forces, police and gover... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,918 |
1,656,037 | It provides programs for undergraduate, graduate students on four campuses—three in Lanzhou city centre and one in Yuzhong County, about 30 miles away from the main campus. Total enrolment compromises of approximately 20,000 undergraduates, 10,572 graduates, 2,559 doctoral students, and about 700 registered internation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564351 | 1,655,104 |
667,272 | At the time the MOL was canceled, 192 service and 100 civilian personnel were employed on MOL activities. Within weeks, 80 percent of the service personnel were given new duty assignments. The civilians were reassigned to the Space and Missile Systems Organization (SAMSO). The service personnel included fourteen of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=615373 | 666,924 |
850,218 | Human factors have been a constant thorn in the side of the designers of military simulations – whereas political-military simulations are often required by their nature to grapple with what are referred to by modellers as "squishy" problems, purely military models often seem to prefer to concentrate on hard numbers. W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10280894 | 849,766 |
1,411,485 | The health impacts of groundwater contamination for population of Ukraine, Belarus and bordering states are usually perceived as extremely negative. The Ukrainian government initially implemented a costly and sophisticated remediation program. However, in view of limited financial resources and other more urgent health... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59803219 | 1,410,692 |
401,060 | The USF Tampa Library is the largest and most comprehensive library in the USF System. In addition to providing students access to more than 2 million academic journals, databases, and books, the seven-story USF Tampa library offers tutoring and writing services, laptops, a career resource center, and Course Reserves a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3649046 | 400,861 |
1,334,342 | In 1948, he joined the engineering faculty of the University of Maryland, College Park. A condition of his appointment was that he should quickly attain a PhD. Thus, he did his PhD studies, on microwave spectroscopy, at night, while already a faculty member. He completed his PhD, with a thesis entitled "Microwave Techn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2191496 | 1,333,612 |
775,234 | The history of smallpox extends into pre-history. Genetic evidence suggests that the smallpox virus emerged 3,000 to 4,000 years ago. Prior to that, similar ancestral viruses circulated, but possibly only in other mammals, and possibly with different symptoms. Only a few written reports dating from about 500 AD to 1000... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20790125 | 774,818 |
1,435,801 | Many studies have found this pattern to be true and one of the simplest experiments is the framed-line test. The results of it show that Americans pay attention to an object independent of its environment, while Japanese focus attention on the environment and interrelated objects. Hedden et al. used a modified framed-l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7621043 | 1,434,994 |
249,379 | The school's sports teams are called the Sooners, a nickname given to early settlers during the land run who sneaked into the offered territory and staked claims illegally before they were officially allowed to. They participate in the NCAA's Division I-Bowl Subdivision and in the Big 12 Conference. The school sponsors... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=323072 | 249,249 |
968,619 | Further advances in liposome research have been able to allow liposomes to avoid detection by the body's immune system, specifically, the cells of reticuloendothelial system (RES). These liposomes are known as "stealth liposomes". They were first proposed by G. Cevc and G. Blume and, independently and soon thereafter, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=633963 | 968,109 |
2,112,769 | The College of General Studies evolved from the 1908 Downtown Division of the Pittsburgh Academy. It became the Department of Afternoon, Saturday and Evening Studies in 1911 when it moved from Downtown to Oakland and began offering a limited number of off-campus courses. By 1920, Pitt had expanded its off-campus offeri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16932747 | 2,111,554 |
1,123,791 | The discipline has relatively flourished since the 1980s, in large part, because of contributions made in the 1970s, even if the outcomes for patients have been disappointing at times. It was a decade during which child psychiatry witnessed a major evolution as a result of the work carried out by, Eva Frommer, Douglas ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11743428 | 1,123,217 |
1,862,928 | Polydioctylfluorene is a polymer light-emitting device known as PLED, which covalently bonds to the carbon hydrogen chains. PFO is a copolymer of basic polyfluorene, which enables it to release phosphorescent light. This basic fluorene backbone strengthens the molecule on account of the carbon rings. The cross-linking ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17600071 | 1,861,859 |
715,073 | A detailed comparison among PEI and other amino-containing molecules showed an excellent performance of PEI-containing samples with cycles. Also, only a slight decrease was registered in their CO uptake when increasing the temperature from 25 to 100 °C, demonstrating a high contribution of chemisorption to the adsorpti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20677877 | 714,699 |
1,338,630 | Above all, whether the typological classification, function or technology, there is a premise in these analytic method. The premise is that archaeologists presume a blueprint of the end-product of stone tool, or say a mental map with step-by-step processes of prehistoric people in mind. This assumption contain the conc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=147620 | 1,337,897 |
1,002,996 | In the USSR, RCA-manufactured radio equipment was introduced on a large scale by Joseph Stalin to construct broadcast networks, and the newly formed All-Union Scientific Research Institute for Television was gearing up a research program in vacuum tubes that was advanced for its time and place. Numerous visits were mad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177215 | 1,002,478 |
1,232,755 | In 2004, Kilcullen wrote "Complex Warfighting", which became the basis of the Australian Army's Future Land Operating Concept, approved the next year. It identifies an operating environment heavily influenced by globalization and the United States' conventional military dominance. The concept claims that future conflic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9327221 | 1,232,093 |
859,835 | The cause of the Hirnantian-Rhuddanian anoxic event is uncertain. Like most global anoxic events, an increased supply of nutrients (such as nitrates and phosphates) would encourage algal or microbial blooms that deplete oxygen levels in the seawater. The most likely culprits are cyanobacteria, which can use nitrogen fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=425753 | 859,377 |
1,254,489 | Dravet syndrome, previously known as severe myoclonic epilepsy of infancy (SMEI), is a neurodevelopmental disorder beginning in infancy and characterized by severe epilepsy that does not respond well to treatment. This syndrome was described by Charlotte Dravet, French psychiatrist and epileptologist (born July 14, 193... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41403879 | 1,253,808 |
2,016,392 | Fasciclin 2 (Fas2 or FasII) is a 95 kilodalton cell membrane glycoprotein in the immunoglobulin (Ig) – related superfamily of cell adhesion molecules (CAMs). It was first identified in the developing grasshopper embryo, seen dynamically expressed on a subset of fasciculating axons in the central nervous system (CNS), f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38707815 | 2,015,230 |
2,073,469 | The EWOC Conference structure consists of a combination of scientific presentations, workshops, topical networking sessions, career panel and also includes a poster session. Examples of Workshops have included Cultivate Belonging in the Workplace for Yourself and Others; How to Create, Build and Leverage Networks for S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63929468 | 2,072,277 |
946,723 | The College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards was a joint collaboration among states and social studies organizations, including the National Council for the Social Studies, designed to focus social studies education on the practice of inquiry, emphasizing "the disciplinary conce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10129706 | 946,220 |
1,758,386 | Chope left Stanford Medical School and Dickson recruited a classmate, Charles E. Smith, to replace him. Smith began an extensive 17-month study of "coccidioidomycosis" in Kern and Tulare County, that also began a lifelong professional focus of study of "C. immitis" and "coccidioidomycosis", even after he became Dean of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15086544 | 1,757,393 |
1,775,962 | BFU provides an atmosphere for teaching and learning combining the acquisition of professional knowledge with an improvement of all-round abilities (with an emphasis on forging a rigorous, creative academic style). Systems of optional courses, subsidiary courses, course exemption, and bachelor-to-master continuing educ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=919316 | 1,774,965 |
420,666 | This relative lack of loud bass is often remedied with a hybrid design using a dynamic loudspeaker, e.g. a subwoofer, to handle lower frequencies, with the electrostatic diaphragm handling middle and high frequencies. Many feel that the best low frequency unit for hybrids are cone drivers mounted on open baffles as dip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196048 | 420,461 |
649,146 | Mapping the connectome at the "microscale" (micrometer resolution) means building a complete map of the neural systems, neuron-by-neuron. The challenge of doing this becomes obvious: the number of neurons comprising the brain easily ranges into the billions in more complex organisms. The human cerebral cortex alone con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15978180 | 648,805 |
161,260 | In late 2010, The UK Government Office for Science initiated a "Foresight" project investigating the future of computer trading in the financial markets, led by Dame Clara Furse, ex-CEO of the London Stock Exchange and in September 2011 the project published its initial findings in the form of a three-chapter working p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2484768 | 161,175 |
1,292,787 | The advanced planning study was well received both at MITRE and ESD and it was decided to pursue a practical design to see if these ideas could be translated into a usable system. In 1968 MITRE Technical Director John H. Monahan appointed C. Eric Ellingson to head this effort and Ellingson put together a technical team... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=106295 | 1,292,076 |
929,395 | The possibility of the Air National Guard assuming operational control of the mission had first emerged in 1988. The 109th Airlift Wing had been notified that, almost overnight, one of the Distant Early Warning Line (DEW) radar sites that it supported in Greenland was going to be shut down. The other sites would soon f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1777434 | 928,904 |
135,395 | Infants begin with cooing and soft vowel sounds. Shortly after birth, this system is developed as the infants begin to understand that their noises, or non-verbal communication, lead to a response from their caregiver. This will then progress into babbling around 5 months of age, with infants first babbling consonant a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9627698 | 135,340 |
1,592,592 | 91% of the largest forensic DNA database in the world, the National Criminal Intelligence DNA Database (NDNAD), contains DNA information from residents of England and Wales. The NDNAD stores genetic information of criminally convicted individuals, those who were charged but acquitted of a recordable offence, those who ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55251966 | 1,591,695 |
182,396 | There are multiple potential destinations for hydrocarbons after an oil spill has settled and currents routinely deposit them in extreme environments. Methane bubbles resulting from the Deepwater Horizon oil spill were found 1.1 kilometers below water surface level and at concentrations as high as 183 "μ"mol per kilogr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9619 | 182,300 |
1,342,703 | Imaging is usually made at optical wavelengths by lenses and mirrors. However, for X-rays and Gamma-rays, lenses and mirrors are impractical, therefore modulating apertures are often used instead. The pinhole camera is the most basic form of such a modulation imager, but its disadvantage is low throughput, as its small... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55133455 | 1,341,967 |
144,982 | Open source software tools as well as range of free and paid sentiment analysis tools deploy machine learning, statistics, and natural language processing techniques to automate sentiment analysis on large collections of texts, including web pages, online news, internet discussion groups, online reviews, web blogs, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6435232 | 144,924 |
544,292 | In the late 1960s, single-beam hydrographic surveys were conducted using widely spaced track lines and the shallow (peak) soundings in the bottom data were retained in preference to deeper soundings in the sounding record. During that same time period, early side scan sonar was introduced into the operational practices... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167741 | 544,010 |
73,295 | The UK fleet has slowly been reduced from 7 since 2011. In 2009, the UK effectively limited the service life of the E-3D fleet by de-funding the Project Eagle upgrade which would have seen it upgraded in line with the USAF Block 40/45 standard. "AirForces Monthly" reported that by December 2020, just 2 aircraft were av... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10384 | 73,268 |
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