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1,627,264 | F3J is one of many competition categories for model and full scale aircraft that are defined by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI). F3J is a man on man thermal soaring competition undertaken on a flat field site (ideally 1–2 miles from workable slope lift). Models are launched by a monofilament tow line, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3582033 | 1,626,346 |
840,159 | FANUC Robotics America Corporation (1992-2013) supplied robotic automation in North and South America, with over 240,000 robots installed. It also produced software, controls, and vision products that aid in the development of robotic systems. Headquartered in Rochester Hills, Michigan, the company had 10 regional loca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1430758 | 839,709 |
6,761 | Before dawn on July 24, "Hornet" launched four Sea King helicopters and three Grumman E-1 Tracers. Two of the E-1s were designated as "air boss" while the third acted as a communications relay aircraft. Two of the Sea Kings carried divers and recovery equipment. The third carried photographic equipment, and the fourth ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=662 | 6,758 |
821,870 | Duesberg's views are cited as major influences on South African HIV/AIDS policy under the administration of Thabo Mbeki, which embraced AIDS denialism. Duesberg served on an advisory panel to Mbeki convened in 2000. The Mbeki administration's failure to provide antiretroviral drugs in a timely manner, due in part to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23739 | 821,429 |
2,041,909 | Michalak's research considers planet Earth's cycles of greenhouse gases and primarily makes use of atmospheric observations. She uses these observations to better inform climate models, for example her efforts show that during the growing season, farms in the Midwestern United States are removing considerably more carb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69536076 | 2,040,729 |
347,467 | Notable University of St Andrews alumni include King James II of Scotland; United States Declaration of Independence signatory James Wilson (1761); Governor General of Canada John Campbell; discoverer of logarithms John Napier (1563); founder of the Church of Scotland and leader of the Protestant Reformation John Knox ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181348 | 347,286 |
787,398 | Part-time enrolment expanded to over 1000 students by 1969–1970. The year 1971 marked a significant turning point in Algoma University College's history in respect to both program and facilities. In May, in recognition of the rapid maturation of the post-secondary institution, the Department of University Affairs appro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1370080 | 786,975 |
1,457,812 | The process begins with the synthesis of a very large oligonucleotide library, consisting of randomly generated sequences of fixed length flanked by constant 5' and 3' ends. The constant ends serve as primers, while a small number of random regions are expected to bind specifically to the chosen target. For a randomly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8028338 | 1,456,992 |
1,705,208 | Democratic members of the House of Representatives launched several investigations. The House Select Committee on the Coronavirus Crisis investigated claims that political employees of the HHS pressured scientists to alter data or change their recommendations related to the coronavirus pandemic. The lawmakers requested... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65365100 | 1,704,252 |
582,049 | Climate change is another major component in structuring current research in landscape ecology. Ecotones, as a basic unit in landscape studies, may have significance for management under climate change scenarios, since change effects are likely to be seen at ecotones first because of the unstable nature of a fringe hab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=252582 | 581,751 |
1,166,269 | The royal court was not the only place in Berlin where Bach was performed. The family of Daniel Itzig, banker to Frederick the Great and his father, also provided a cultural milieu for musical connoisseurs: four of his daughters, Sara, Zippora, Fanny and Bella (maternal grandmother of Felix Mendelssohn), were all keybo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51501355 | 1,165,652 |
1,651,708 | The prototype Type 98 20 mm AAG tank was equipped with modified twin Type 2 20 mm AA machine cannons. The guns were similar to the Type 98 anti-aircraft cannon, but these could be elevated to 95 degrees and had a central fire-control system. The rate of fire was 300 rpm, and they had a maximum range of 5,500 m. The gun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1845276 | 1,650,776 |
1,572,784 | More recent work has centered on the severe Permian–Triassic extinction event (252 million years ago), with fieldwork in South Africa, Hungary, Japan, India and China, particularly focused on the so-called “fungal event” marking the devastation of Late Permian vegetation. Rampino and colleagues found evidence that the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57461484 | 1,571,896 |
1,868,847 | Acupuncture has been known since at least several centuries prior, and body models were being created earlier too (e.g. lacquer figurines excavated from a Han Dynasty tomb), but the ones created by Wang Weiyi were much more precise and of human size. They are sometimes called "Tiansheng Bronze Figures" () after the era... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63350272 | 1,867,771 |
1,610,108 | Cueing paradigms may even influence response preparation when the subject is unaware of the cue. In a special type of cuing paradigm the cue can be presented for a very short period of time (e.g., 40 ms) and preceded and followed by other visual stimuli that effectively "mask" the cue's presence. This type of paradigm,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22509570 | 1,609,203 |
581,095 | The first enantioselective chemical synthesis is most often attributed to Willy Marckwald, Universität zu Berlin, for a brucine-catalyzed enantioselective decarboxylation of 2-ethyl-2-methylmalonic acid reported in 1904. A slight excess of the levorotary form of the product of the reaction, 2-methylbutyric acid, was pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1463286 | 580,798 |
1,748,634 | Galactose oxidase is a type II copper protein. It contains a single copper center that adopts square planar or square-based pyramidal coordination geometry. The copper center has five coordinating ligands: two tyrosines (Tyr272 and Tyr495), two histidines (His496 and His581), and a solvent molecule that is usually wate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45079544 | 1,747,648 |
1,848,585 | Faculty of Engineering facilities are located mainly in the north-west corner of the University of Alberta campus and have experienced much growth since 2001. The joint Engineering Teaching and Learning Complex (ETLC) and Electrical and Computer Engineering Research Facility (ECERF) was completed in February 2002. ETLC... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11979270 | 1,847,527 |
684,479 | The Somme offensive was launched on 1 July 1916. In English writing, attention has been paid to the first day, a British disaster for three of the five attacking corps, although the battle lasted 141 days against two German armies. On 1 July, British forces were repulsed by the Germans along most of the front north of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=889184 | 684,122 |
1,382,947 | The Regulus missile itself was long, in diameter, had a wingspan of , and weighed between 10,000 and 12,000lb (4,500 and 5,400 kg). Guidance was provided by remote control, with at least two control stations required for operation of the weapon, which could be installed on submarines, ships or chase aircraft. The first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59895854 | 1,382,181 |
364,678 | In 2008 concerns were raised in the book "Wafer Level 3-D ICs Process Technology" that non-scaling analog elements such as charge pumps and voltage regulators, and additional circuitry "have allowed significant increases in bandwidth but they consume much more die area". Examples include CRC error-detection, on-die ter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19126521 | 364,487 |
2,003,855 | HSA currently occupies the top three floors and basement of Burke-McCoy Hall. Bank of America, Playa Bowls, and HSA Cleaners occupy the retail level of Burke-McCoy Hall. Behind the building, enough space exists to accommodate construction of a substantial annex for future expansion. A partnership with CS50, the introdu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16518258 | 2,002,706 |
485,150 | A physician-scientist is traditionally a holder of a medical degree and a doctor of philosophy also known as an MD-PhD. Compared to other clinicians, physician-scientists invest significant time and professional effort in scientific research and spend correspondingly less time in direct clinical practice with ratios of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48177158 | 484,901 |
792,928 | Photography using extended exposure-times revolutionized the field of professional astronomical research, recording hundreds of thousands of new stars, and nebulae invisible to the human eye. Specialized and ever-larger optical telescopes were constructed as essentially big cameras to record images on photographic plat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=143115 | 792,503 |
2,146,270 | The torus semicircularis is a region of the vertebrate midbrain that contributes to auditory perception, studied most often in fish and amphibians. Neurons from the medulla project to the nucleus centralis and the nucleus ventrolateralis in the torus semicircularis, providing afferent auditory and hydrodynamic informat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58586045 | 2,145,039 |
713,792 | Extraradical hyphae, particularly rhizomorphs, can also offer invaluable transport of water. Often these develop into specialized runners that extend far from the host roots, increasing the functional water access area. The hyphal sheath enveloping the root tips also acts as a physical barrier shielding plant tissues f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39480963 | 713,420 |
548,934 | He has also written books for the general public, five of which have been "New York Times" best-sellers, including "The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives", which was chosen as a "New York Times" notable book, and short-listed for the Royal Society Science Book Prize; "The Grand Design", co-authored with S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1920940 | 548,646 |
473,517 | In a recent study, Wistar rats were administered 1/50 of dosage of monocrotophos (0.36 mg/kg body weight) orally via gavage daily for three weeks. Animals administered Monocrotophos exhibited mild hyperglycemia and dyslipidemia in the blood. Cardiac oxidative stress was conferred by accumulation of protein carbonyls, l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4534769 | 473,281 |
248,832 | As a result of the delays the second prototype, "P5216", first flew on 3 May 1941: "P5216" carried an armament of four belt-fed 20 mm (0.79 in) Hispano Mk II cannon, with 140 rounds per gun and was the prototype of the Typhoon IB series. In the interim between construction of the first and second prototypes, the Air Mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63744 | 248,704 |
628,577 | NHS England has been criticised for delays in deciding on a policy for the prescription of everolimus in the treatment of Tuberous Sclerosis. 20 doctors addressed a letter to the board in support of the charity Tuberous Sclerosis Association saying " around 32 patients with critical need, whose doctors believe everolim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=530396 | 628,242 |
1,457,815 | The first step of SELEX involves the synthesis of fully or partially randomized oligonucleotide sequences of some length flanked by defined regions which allow PCR amplification of those randomized regions and, in the case of RNA SELEX, in vitro transcription of the randomized sequence. While Ellington and Szostak demo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8028338 | 1,456,995 |
2,170,324 | By 1912, there was a proliferation of newspapers, sports writers, coaches and others choosing All-America teams. Recognizing the difficulties faced by any single person who could only watch one game per week, some began to seek better methodologies for selecting a true "consensus" All-America team. One writer, Louis A.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22027890 | 2,169,086 |
1,099,714 | Environmental DNA or eDNA describes the genetic material present in environmental samples such as sediment, water, and air, including whole cells, extracellular DNA and potentially whole organisms. eDNA can be captured from environmental samples and preserved, extracted, amplified, sequenced, and categorized based on i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66619486 | 1,099,154 |
390,973 | The UK has ordered 34 Wildcats for the British Army and 28 for the Royal Navy. The Army Air Corps formed the Wildcat Fielding Team (Army), which later became 652 (Operational Conversion) Squadron, for trials and operational conversion of Joint Helicopter Command aircrew and ground crew to the type. The Royal Navy also ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22589260 | 390,778 |
355,005 | Starting in 1986, published papers described the basis of the system, and a prototype version was shown at the 1988 ACM SIGMOD Conference. The team released version 1 to a small number of users in June 1989, followed by version 2 with a re-written rules system in June 1990. Version 3, released in 1991, again re-wrote t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23824 | 354,822 |
1,338,707 | Part of the Trustworthy Computing initiative when unveiled in 2002, NGSCB was to be integrated with Windows Vista, then known as "Longhorn." NGSCB relied on hardware designed by the Trusted Computing Group to produce a parallel operation environment hosted by a new hypervisor (referred to as a sort of kernel in documen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59524 | 1,337,974 |
972,677 | Among the devices used for astronomy was gnomon, known as "Sanku", in which the shadow of a vertical rod is applied on a horizontal plane in order to ascertain the cardinal directions, the latitude of the point of observation, and the time of observation. This device finds mention in the works of Varāhamihira, Āryabhat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2781944 | 972,167 |
1,773,305 | REU sites typically consist of ten undergraduates working in the research program of the host institution either in the US or abroad, for example, CERN. As the program is funded by the NSF, undergraduates must be citizens or permanent residents of the US or its possessions to be eligible for funding. However, some REU ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1886467 | 1,772,308 |
578,349 | The development of food systems can be traced back to the origins of in-situ agriculture and the production of food surpluses. These surpluses enabled the development of settled areas and contributed to the development of ancient civilizations, particularly those in the Fertile Crescent. The system of trade associated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20548520 | 578,053 |
341,345 | "Dilophosaurus" was featured in the 1990 novel "Jurassic Park", by the writer Michael Crichton, and its 1993 movie adaptation by the director Steven Spielberg. The "Dilophosaurus" of "Jurassic Park" was acknowledged as the "only serious departure from scientific veracity" in the movie's making-of book, and as the "most... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444541 | 341,164 |
1,188,089 | In 1962, Brian Josephson, a graduate student at Cambridge University, derived equations for the current and voltage across a junction consisting of a thin insulating barrier separating two superconductors – now generally known as a Josephson junction. His equations predicted that if a junction is driven at frequency fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47967448 | 1,187,458 |
1,285,182 | Chimerarachne is a genus of extinct arachnids, sometimes considered as spider itself, containing a single species Chimerarachne yingi. Fossils of "Chimerarachne" were discovered in Burmese amber from Myanmar which dates to the mid-Cretaceous, about 100 million years ago. Its classification is disputed, either belonging... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56505307 | 1,284,483 |
1,976,401 | Mundell has played a leading role in the understand Gamma Ray Bursts, developing robotic telescopes that can capture the extremely fast jets. In 2011 she won a Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award for her research on "Black Hole-Driven Explosions and the Dynamic Universe". In 2012 whilst at Liverpool, Mundell co-designed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56367526 | 1,975,263 |
1,797,351 | A mathematical theory for general multi-view camera self-calibration was originally demonstrated in 1992 by Olivier Faugeras, QT Luong, and Stephen J. Maybank. In 3D scenes and general motions, each pair of views provides two constraints on the 5 degree-of-freedom calibration. Therefore, three views are the minimum nee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23281951 | 1,796,342 |
991,428 | Aiming to increase sales, Alexander P. de Seversky personally took a demonstrator on a tour of Europe in early 1939. As a result of this demonstration, Sweden ordered 15 EP-106 fighters on 29 June 1939, a development of the P-35 powered by a 1,050 hp (783 kW) R-1830-45, which improved performance by over 25 mph (40 km/... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=675157 | 990,911 |
1,085,047 | At 10:30 a.m. on 9 August, a Su-25 piloted by Colonel Sergey Kobylash, commander of the 368th Attack Aviation Regiment, was shot down during an attack on a Georgian military formation south of Tskhinvali, on the Gori-Tskhinvali road. After making his initial approach, Kolybash's aircraft was struck by a missile that im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56842965 | 1,084,489 |
862,873 | From the standpoint of a developing country, the emigration of skilled workers represents a loss of human capital (known as brain drain), leaving the remaining workforce without the benefit of their support. That effect upon the welfare of the parent country is to some extent offset by the remittances that are sent hom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1700209 | 862,413 |
1,214,481 | The other group 14 elements have a lower tendency to catenate. Silanes SiH are known for "n" = 1–8 (thermal stability decreasing as "n" increases), as are cyclosilanes SiH and SiH. They are very reactive, pyrophoric colourless gases or volatile liquids. Their volatility is intermediate between the alkanes and the germa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51379805 | 1,213,829 |
302,288 | System hardening represents one of the first layers of defence against a rootkit, to prevent it from being able to install. Applying security patches, implementing the principle of least privilege, reducing the attack surface and installing antivirus software are some standard security best practices that are effective... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=223942 | 302,127 |
288,625 | In the case of local or nearby earthquakes, the difference in the arrival times of the P and S waves can be used to determine the distance to the event. In the case of earthquakes that have occurred at global distances, three or more geographically diverse observing stations (using a common clock) recording P-wave arri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89830 | 288,468 |
314,971 | Like on Weeyo, troughs and pit crater chains are also present along the terminator of the larger lobus Wenu. Wenu consists of eight distinctive units or blocks of rolling topography, each similarly sized at around . The units are separated by relatively bright boundary regions. The similar sizes of the units suggests t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44163394 | 314,802 |
1,932,575 | The first major findings of the collaborative effort between EPGP and Epi4K, which demonstrated the role of de novo mutations as the cause of many patients with epileptic encephalopathy, appeared in a 2013 issue of "Nature". Numerous findings have since been published based on the combined work of EPGP and Epi4K, inclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27525787 | 1,931,467 |
1,862,149 | To continue, the symptoms of this bacterial blight include spots and lesions on leaves, and rot of floral buds and flowers. The floral symptoms undergo changes throughout the seasons that ultimately end in the floral bud dying and falling off. These symptoms are found initially as brown and sunken spots on the green se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10207944 | 1,861,080 |
1,703,319 | Observers such as PZ Myers have stated that the Discovery Institute's statement "relies heavily on fragmentary quotes taken from emails that they obtained through an open records inquiry", that the "entire anti-evolution movement" has a track-record of taking quotations out of context, that "the DI has not made the ful... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4140198 | 1,702,363 |
1,055,206 | To avoid the performance issues that plagued the i432, the central i960 instruction-set architecture was a RISC design, which was only implemented in full in the i960MX. The memory subsystem was 33-bits wide—to accommodate a 32-bit word and a "tag" bit to implement memory protection in hardware. In many ways, the i960 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=480351 | 1,054,658 |
1,227,300 | In the early 1920s several countries were vying to be the first to fly around the world. The British had made one unsuccessful around-the-world air flight attempt in 1922. The following year, a French team had tried; the Italians, Portuguese, and British also announced plans for a world-circling flight. In the spring o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1649178 | 1,226,639 |
835,689 | Ataxia–oculomotor apraxia type 1 (AOA1) is an autosomal recessive disorder similar to A–T in manifesting increasing problems with coordination and oculomotor apraxia, often at a similar age to those having A–T. It is caused by mutation in the gene coding for the protein aprataxin. Affected individuals differ from those... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1058672 | 835,240 |
704,211 | The deployment of renewable energy can also include co-benefits of climate change mitigation: positive socio-economic effects on employment, industrial development, health and energy access. Depending on the country and the deployment scenario, replacing coal power plants can more than double the number of jobs per ave... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39208945 | 703,843 |
1,789,351 | Although not developed with any significant Acorn involvement, RiscBSD eventually became NetBSD/arm32 (being imported in NetBSD 1.2) and was used in a Risc PC-based product sold by Acorn's education joint venture, Xemplar, called NCServer. Support for this product continued after the Apple takeover of Xemplar in 1999 t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=724931 | 1,788,345 |
410,340 | Recent progress on automated population identification using computational methods has offered an alternative to traditional gating strategies. Automated identification systems could potentially help findings of rare and hidden populations. Representative automated methods include FLOCK in Immunology Database and Analy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=501216 | 410,138 |
365,620 | A 2019 clinical trial assessed the effects of HIIT on vascular health in inactive people and found that HIIT has beneficial vascular effects, based on observed decreases in arterial wall thickness and increase in endothelial function. The trial also found that HIIT had stronger effects than medium intensity continuous ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1409767 | 365,429 |
431,852 | According to the neoplasticists, the painter, sculptor, architect, musician, writer, etc., are concerned with expressing or depicting all facets of life. However, this never happens by chance. Every painting, sculpture, building, piece of music, book, etc., is deliberately created. It is the maker's product and, to a l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=331139 | 431,640 |
1,195,887 | There have been several “generations” of social physicists. The first generation began with Saint-Simon, Comte, and Quetelet, and ended with the late 1800s with historian Henry Adams. In the middle of the 20th century, researchers such as the American astrophysicist John Q. Stewart and Swedish geographer Reino Ajo, who... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52054307 | 1,195,247 |
847,751 | Targeted amplicon sequencing relies on having some expectations about the composition of the community that is being studied. In target amplicon sequencing a phylogenetically informative marker is targeted for sequencing. Such a marker should be present in ideally all the expected organisms. It should also evolve in su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19456032 | 847,301 |
1,482,846 | It has been stated by non-astronomers and non-navigators that two people are required to use the small instrument successfully: one to take the sight and one to read the cord (plum line) position on the radius segment and incorrect presumption as the instrument is to be held flush (face on) and below eye level with a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20747100 | 1,482,010 |
839,744 | The most common side effects are flu-like symptoms and include fever, rash, dermatographism, hyperpigmentation, alopecia (hair loss), chills, and Raynaud's phenomenon (discoloration of fingers and toes). The most serious complication of bleomycin, occurring upon increasing dosage, is pulmonary fibrosis and impaired lun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1010309 | 839,295 |
882,506 | Lasting traces of Adena culture are still seen in the remains of their substantial earthworks. At one point, larger Adena mounds numbered in the hundreds, but only a small number of the remains of the larger Adena earthen monuments still survive today. These mounds generally ranged in size from to in diameter and serve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1445953 | 882,042 |
31,930 | The intense efforts devoted in the 1960s to achieving first an uncrewed and then ultimately a human Moon landing become easier to understand in the political context of its historical era. World War II had introduced many new and deadly innovations including blitzkrieg-style surprise attacks used in the invasion of Pol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1558077 | 31,919 |
1,758,660 | The life cycle of the chlorovirus infecting "Paramecium bursaria", known as PBCV-1 has been studied in detail . Cryo-electron microscopy and 3D reconstruction of the viral capsid shows that there is a long 'spike' structure which first contacts the cell wall and likely serves to puncture the cell wall of the host. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7903516 | 1,757,667 |
1,333,685 | The original design of the ISS called for a Habitat element to be installed on the Nadir-facing port of Node 1 (Unity), and bulkhead penetrations were designed accordingly. As the station matured through the first phases of assembly, Node 3 was planned for that location. It later became apparent that installation on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7362461 | 1,332,956 |
1,497,011 | Bok's record of success in setting up new observatories would guide the rest of his career. Starting in 1952 he led the efforts to fund and construct a major radio telescope facility at Harvard's Oak Ridge Observatory. Unusually for his time, Bok believed that the combination of radio and optical astronomy could produc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=726366 | 1,496,168 |
870,010 | Problems can occur when the market-based measurement does not accurately represent the underlying asset's true value. This can occur when a company is forced to calculate the selling price of these assets or liabilities during unfavorable or volatile times, such as a financial crisis. For example, if the liquidity is l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=457618 | 869,550 |
2,041,335 | Vascular plant lineages of sphenoids, fern, progymnosperms, and seed plants evolved laminated leaves during the Devonian. Plants that possessed true leaves appeared during the Devonian, though they may have many independent origins with parallel trajectories of leaf morphologies. Morphological evidence to support this ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63520779 | 2,040,155 |
844,232 | Published periodic tables show variation regarding the heavier members of group 3, which begins with scandium and yttrium. They are most commonly lanthanum and actinium (group 3 as Sc-Y-La-Ac), but many physicists and chemists have argued that they should be lutetium and lawrencium (Sc-Y-Lu-Lr). A third form of group 3... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=306609 | 843,782 |
1,215,351 | Others have proposed to use a substantially different business process modeling language, namely Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), as a graphical front-end to capture BPEL process descriptions. As an illustration of the feasibility of this approach, the BPMN specification includes an informal and partial mapp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=334947 | 1,214,699 |
936,999 | "Junk DNA" refers broadly to "any DNA sequence that does not play a functional role in development, physiology, or some other organism-level capacity." The term "junk DNA" was used in the 1960s. but it only became widely known in 1972 in a paper by Susumu Ohno. Ohno noted that the mutational load from deleterious mutat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44284 | 936,503 |
253,890 | The Vostok spacecraft used an ejector seat to bail out the cosmonaut in the event of a low-altitude launch failure, as well as during reentry; however, it would probably have been ineffective in the first 20 seconds after liftoff, when the altitude would be too low for the parachute to deploy. Inspired by the Mercury L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=178182 | 253,757 |
802,061 | On December 5 Kentucky defeated No. 6 Texas 63 to 51 in a Big 12/SEC Challenge game at Rupp Arena. The game was tied at halftime until Kentucky outscored the Longhorns 18 to 2 in the first 8:40 of the second half to make it 44 to 28. Cauley-Stein totaled a career-high 21 points and a season-high 12 rebounds, his first ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42440511 | 801,633 |
2,199,938 | Coleman was born on October 28, 1926, in Washington, DC and, as one of three children, grew up in Charleston, Illinois. His father was a professor of history at a state teacher's college. On his 17th birthday in October 1943, he joined the US Marines. Following boot camp, he was shipped to the Pacific and spent the rem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60877350 | 2,198,686 |
1,977,073 | After meeting with Morris later in September, Wild opined that "in many areas Australia needed desperately to dig itself out of the stagnation of 19th century thought." He believed the reaction highlighted Australia's general malaise; he deplored the emphasis on the short term and the preference for patching up decayin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=610478 | 1,975,935 |
363,454 | Auburn has a diverse group of alumni, in many different industries. Some of its prominent alumni include Apple CEO Tim Cook, MacArthur Genius and 2004 AIA Gold Medal recipient Samuel Mockbee, National Security Agency and Commander of the U.S. Cyber Command Michael S. Rogers, Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer, Wikipe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=327945 | 363,264 |
1,033,198 | "A. aperta" are funnel weavers, which are known for their characteristic funnel-shaped webs. These webs consist of a flat surface that is connected to a deep tube, which is known as the funnel. The spider waits in the tube, and when it senses motion on the flat sheet of its web, it emerges from the tube to catch its pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15161945 | 1,032,662 |
209,541 | Early pre-modern accounts of flight are in most cases difficult to verify and it is unclear whether each craft was a glider, kite or parachute and to what degree they were truly controllable. Often the event is only recorded a long time after it allegedly took place. A 17th-century account reports an attempt at flight ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13049012 | 209,434 |
1,153,365 | During the ensuing protoplanetary nebula phase, the central star's effective temperature will continue rising as a result of the envelope's mass loss as a consequence of the hydrogen shell's burning. During this phase, the central star is still too cool to ionize the slow-moving circumstellar shell ejected during the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2272102 | 1,152,755 |
1,994,666 | A pediatric concussion, also known as pediatric mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI), is a head trauma that impacts the brain capacity. The concussion can affect the patient on multiple factors such as functional, emotional, cognitive and physical, that occurs in infant, adolescent and child patients. Symptoms following ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67225079 | 1,993,523 |
119,453 | No matter which IOL is used, the surgeon will need to select the appropriate power of IOL (much like an eyeglass prescription) to provide the patient with the desired refractive outcome. Traditionally, doctors use preoperative measurements including corneal curvature, axial length, and white to white measurements to es... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1179794 | 119,404 |
1,758,193 | In biophysics, single-molecule force spectroscopy can be used to study the energy landscape underlying the interaction between two bio-molecules, like proteins. Here, one binding partner can be attached to a cantilever tip via a flexible linker molecule (PEG chain), while the other one is immobilized on a substrate sur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162400 | 1,757,200 |
737,834 | Phase 1 was executed in spring 1961, with innovative ocean engineering culminating in test bore holes. Led by Bascom, Project Mohole contracted with Global Marine of Los Angeles for the use of its oil drill ship "CUSS I". The name of the drill ship was derived from the consortium of oil companies that had developed it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3278857 | 737,444 |
2,131,729 | He held various positions at the Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry, Munich from 1973 to 1979, and in Uppsala from 1979. Jones was a Research Professor employed by the Swedish Natural Science Research Council 1987–1994, and has been Professor of Structural Biology at the Department of Molecular Biology, Uppsala, fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13972884 | 2,130,504 |
2,008,277 | Inglis was elected as ICE president for the 1941–42 session, having been vice-president in 1938, and gave an inaugural address on the education of engineers that was judged to be one of the best ever given. In his address, he stated that "the soul and spirit of education is that habit of mind which remains when a stude... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16975609 | 2,007,125 |
84,370 | The Tor (; ) is an all-weather, low- to medium-altitude, short-range surface-to-air missile system designed for destroying airplanes, helicopters, cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles and short-range ballistic threats (anti-munitions). Originally developed by the Soviet Union under the GRAU designation 9K330 Tor, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1394799 | 84,336 |
1,321,672 | In 1983, Bell Labs created niobium/aluminum oxide Josephson junctions that were more reliable and easier to fabricate. In 1985, the Rapid single flux quantum logic scheme, which had improved speed and energy efficiency, was developed by researchers at Moscow State University. These advances led to the United States' Hy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42266481 | 1,320,946 |
140,202 | A more sensitive class of detector uses a laser Michelson interferometer to measure gravitational-wave induced motion between separated 'free' masses. This allows the masses to be separated by large distances (increasing the signal size); a further advantage is that it is sensitive to a wide range of frequencies (not j... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8111079 | 140,145 |
629,986 | Ancient DNA (aDNA) is DNA isolated from ancient specimens. Due to degradation processes (including cross-linking, deamination and fragmentation) ancient DNA is more degraded in comparison with contemporary genetic material. Even under the best preservation conditions, there is an upper boundary of 0.4–1.5 million years... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3285684 | 629,648 |
35,854 | An anomaly arose in the late 19th century involving a contradiction between the wave theory of light and measurements of the electromagnetic spectra that were being emitted by thermal radiators known as black bodies. Physicists struggled with this problem unsuccessfully for many years. It later became known as the ultr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9426 | 35,842 |
2,191,121 | Metal-ion dependent regulators orchestrate the virulence of several important human pathogens. The dtxR protein regulates the expression of diphtheria toxin in response to environmental iron concentrations. Furthermore, dtxR and ideR control iron uptake. Homeostasis of manganese, which is an essential nutrient, is regu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32752072 | 2,189,872 |
900,422 | The economic value of natural capital and ecosystem services is accepted by mainstream environmental economics, but is emphasized as especially important in ecological economics. Ecological economists may begin by estimating how to maintain a stable environment before assessing the cost in dollar terms. Ecological econ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177694 | 899,947 |
207,200 | Radiotherapy aims to minimize the size of tumors and kill cancer cells with high energy. The source of high energy arises from x-rays, gamma rays, charged particles and heavy particles. The therapeutic ratio in radiotherapy for cancer treatment is related to the maximum radiation dose by which death of cancer cells is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=334955 | 207,093 |
227,239 | The overall cure rate for sporadic Burkitt lymphoma in developed countries is about 90%. In adults, Burkitt lymphoma is uncommon and has poor outcomes. Unsatisfactory initial response to the treatment of Burkitt lymphoma with cyclophosphamide, vincristine, and prednisolone indicates a negative prognosis. Furthermore, f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=363709 | 227,123 |
2,075,304 | The Wnt signaling pathway is a crucial component of proper retinal development. Briefly, Wnt signaling proteins bind to their receptors, the Frizzled receptor family, and cause activation of molecular cascades within the cell. Fz3 is a Wnt receptor that is eventually restricted to the eye field of the neural plate duri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38663170 | 2,074,107 |
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