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239,477 | The oldest inclusions found in meteorites, thought to trace the first solid material to form in the presolar nebula, are 4,568.2 million years old, which is one definition of the age of the Solar System. Studies of ancient meteorites reveal traces of stable daughter nuclei of short-lived isotopes, such as iron-60, that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6139438 | 239,357 |
1,758,437 | The mitochondrial form of IDH2 is correlated with many diseases. Mutations in IDH2 are associated with 2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria, a condition that causes progressive damage to the brain. The major types of this disorder are called D-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria (D-2-HGA), L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria (L-2-HGA), and comb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14877730 | 1,757,444 |
511,273 | Seeking advice on the story, Hergé consulted his friend Bernard Heuvelmans, who had authored the non-fiction book "L'Homme parmi les étoiles" ("Man Among the Stars") (1944). In autumn 1947, Heuvelmans and Jacques Van Melkebeke developed a script for the story, which they gave to Hergé. This version based Calculus' luna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=547990 | 511,007 |
1,869,799 | Working in California, Oregon, Alaska, and Iceland, Erlandson has extensively researched the beginnings of coastal adaptations and the exploitation of marine resources. Although it was long held true in anthropological theories that access to marine adaptations developed late in human history (the last 10,000 years or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37784948 | 1,868,722 |
1,890,452 | Gale gained his bachelor's degree at the University of Chicago in 1896, where he also gained his PhD in physics in 1899, joining the faculty the same year. He was a member of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. During his studies he met Agnes Spofford Cook, who later became a children's author. They married in 1901, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4286699 | 1,889,369 |
409,169 | The world's first operational nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) was with 16 Polaris A-1 missiles, which entered service in December 1959 and conducted the first SSBN deterrent patrol November 1960 – January 1961. "George Washington" also conducted the first successful submerged SLBM launch with a Polar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53170 | 408,968 |
1,843,808 | Switching Noise Jitter (SNJ) is the aggregation of variability of noise events in the time-domain on the supply bias of an electronic system, in particular with a voltage regulated supply bias incorporated with closed-loop (feedback) control, for instance, SMPS. SNJ is measurable using real-time spectral histogram anal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58960240 | 1,842,754 |
1,413,908 | formula_1. These equations combine the spacetime geometry encoded in the metric formula_2 with the matter content comprised in the energy–momentum tensor formula_3. The quantum nature of matter has been tested experimentally, for instance quantum electrodynamics is by now one of the most accurately confirmed theories i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37596615 | 1,413,112 |
2,061,780 | The fundamental quantity of electrodynamics is the potential 1-form formula_21 from which the field strength tensor is the 2-form formula_22 From the nilpotency of the exterior derivative one immediately has the homogeneous Maxwell equations formula_23 while a variation of the Yang-Mills action formula_24 with respect ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38875981 | 2,060,592 |
650,511 | The flyby past Mercury posed major technical challenges for scientists to overcome. Due to Mercury's proximity to the Sun, "Mariner 10" would have to endure 4.5 times more solar radiation than when it departed Earth; compared to previous Mariner missions, spacecraft parts needed extra shielding against the heat. Therma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38785 | 650,170 |
466,338 | Many welfare programs are focused on providing assistance with the attainment of basic necessities such as food and shelter. This may be due to the fact that happiness and well-being are best derived from personal perceptions of one's ability to provide these necessities. This statement is supported by research that st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2426547 | 466,105 |
1,121,538 | The suspension of the IAAF test for hyperandrogenism led to controversy in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, in particular related to the participation and performance of South African middle distance runner Caster Semenya. Competitors Lynsey Sharp and Joanna Jóźwik spoke out about their belief that Semenya has a competitive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61958415 | 1,120,964 |
1,414,906 | Superabsorbent polymers are natural, or synthetic 3D cross-linked homopolymers or copolymers with a high fluid absorption capacity. The swelling capacity varies according to the monomers' type and the cross-linking density and may reach 1000 g g-1. The maximal swelling results from a balance between osmotic pressure, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69140980 | 1,414,109 |
773,707 | When Botvinnik finished the school curriculum, he was below the minimum age for the entrance examinations for higher education. While waiting, he qualified for his first USSR Championship final stage in 1927 as the youngest player ever at that time, tied for fifth and sixth places and gained the title of master. He wan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242416 | 773,291 |
1,523,861 | In 1999, Merck started a drug development program on DPP-4 inhibitors. When they started internal screening and medicinal chemistry program, two DPP-4 inhibitors were already in clinical trials, isoleucyl thiazolidide (P32/38) and NVP-DPP728 from Novartis. Merck in-licensed L-"threo"-isoleucyl thiazolidide and its "all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20208243 | 1,523,000 |
1,111,485 | His role as editor of "Preussen Jahrbücher" provided a platform for a growing interest in Germany's diplomatic relationship with Russia. This took the form of a roving commission to Herr Paul Rohrbacher to enquire about German opinion. The findings from the 1890s tours formed a racial policy of dismemberment of Russia ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=487236 | 1,110,919 |
2,120,951 | Muxcapacitor technology is used on the company's Tronium brand of Power Supply System on a Chip (PSSoC), to manage power and reduce energy consumption for electronic devices. The Tronium PSSoC includes a dial-a-voltage feature which allows the chip to be programmed for a range of outputs from 1.8 to 48 volts, eliminati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51415539 | 2,119,732 |
911,589 | In 2004, President George W. Bush signed Executive Order 13335, creating the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONCHIT) as a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The mission of this office is widespread adoption of interoperable electronic health records... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=351581 | 911,110 |
1,779,123 | British aero engines were normally equipped with a power take-off shaft that led to the rear of the engine. In twin engine aircraft like the Anson, one of these would be used for a generator that powered the aircraft instruments at 24 V DC, the other would be left unconnected and available for use. Following a suggesti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43239543 | 1,778,121 |
848,663 | Research groups have recently conducted extensive research into the involvement and potential use of patient's immune system in the therapy of various diseases, the so-called immunotherapy, including monoclonal antibodies, non-specific immunotherapies, oncolytic virus therapy, T-cell therapy and cancer vaccines. NOD2 h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1903231 | 848,213 |
1,225,118 | The first fossils of "Massospondylus" were described by paleontologist Sir Richard Owen in 1854. Originally, Owen did not recognize the finds as those of a dinosaur; instead he attributed them to "large, extinct, carnivorous reptiles" that were related to modern lizards, chameleons, and iguanas. The material, a collect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3081760 | 1,224,458 |
162,391 | The terrestrial subsurface is the largest reservoir of carbon on earth, containing 14–135 Pg of carbon and 2–19% of all biomass. Microorganisms drive organic and inorganic compound transformations in this environment and thereby control biogeochemical cycles. Current knowledge of the microbial ecology of the subsurface... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=398638 | 162,306 |
98,987 | In 2014, Lautenschlager tested the function of various therizinosaur hand claws—including "Therizinosaurus"—through digital simulations. Three different functional scenarios were simulated for each claw morphology with a force of 400 N applied in each scenario: scratch/digging; hook-and-pull; and piercing. Though the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=851586 | 98,944 |
959,921 | Although twice the size of the old buildings, the location on the Scott land quickly became outdated after a 32 percent increase in enrollment created a shortage in classroom space. In 1928, Henry J. Doermann became president and initiated plans for a new campus. Doermann received his funding after a city bond levy pas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33431636 | 959,413 |
1,601,138 | User design group, GASMAP (Gas Analysis System for Metabolic Analysis Physiology); Unit principal investigator for the NASA Specialized Center for Outreach, Research and Training (NSCORT) grant in integrative physiology. He received a NASA Young Investigator Award in 1994 for his work in the area of autonomic neurophys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=635357 | 1,600,237 |
655,738 | The Tinkering Studio began in 2008 as an in-house program geared towards maker culture and a “think with your hands” approach. It is housed within the museum in a dedicated space in the South Gallery, where it runs free do-it-yourself activities for museum visitors; it also shares its work with a larger audience of edu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22990622 | 655,394 |
2,007,818 | Pimentel was a pioneer in tabulating the energy cost, fossil fuel in particular, of food production. When his suggestion that "energy was going to be important to agricultural research in the future" was rebuffed as an area of study by a 1968 National Academy of Science Panel on which he served, Pimentel set about to p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62724632 | 2,006,667 |
35,774 | In 1973, George W. Moore of the USGS and R. C. Bostrom presented evidence for a general westward drift of Earth's lithosphere with respect to the mantle. He concluded that tidal forces (the tidal lag or "friction") caused by Earth's rotation and the forces acting upon it by the Moon are a driving force for plate tecton... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24944 | 35,762 |
1,158,948 | Between 1976 and 1980, agricultural policy in the North was implemented by newly established government district offices in an effort to improve central control over planting decisions and farm work. The lax enforcement of state agricultural policies adopted during the war years gave way to a greater rigidity that dimi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10903239 | 1,158,334 |
1,147,692 | The "R.38" class was designed to meet an Admiralty requirement of June 1918 for an airship capable of patrolling for six days at ranges of up to 300 miles from home base and altitudes of up to 22,000 ft (6,700 m). A heavy load of armaments was specified, to allow the airship to be used to escort surface vessels. Design... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=588348 | 1,147,087 |
1,760,795 | British astronomer Richard van der Riet Woolley pushed for a large optical telescope for the Southern Hemisphere in 1959. In 1965, Macfarlane Burnet, president of the Australian Academy of Science, wrote to the federal education minister John Gorton inviting the federal government to support a joint British-Australian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=758427 | 1,759,802 |
1,810,776 | Tawny owls will potentially take any small mammals that they encounter. This was illustrated in Poland where the number of species taken by the owls was greater than the number of species biologists could capture themselves. They primarily take and derive most of their food energy from rodent prey. Dietary staples in m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68959881 | 1,809,751 |
870,507 | Watford Electronics, in association with "prolific ex-Computer Concepts hardware expert" Chris Honey, announced a PC podule in early 1992, this effectively delivering "a stand-alone PC" within the host computer and potentially allowing two independent users with their own keyboards and monitors, although the PC system ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 870,047 |
2,090,366 | In 1873 Costanzo Mazzone, called him as an assistant to the chair of surgical clinic of the University of Rome, teaching surgical anatomy, which he carries out with great passion in the old headquarters of the San Giacomo degli Incurabili hospital between Via di Ripetta and Via del Corso near the Mausoleum of Augustus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34434541 | 2,089,163 |
1,399,493 | A molecular sensor or chemosensor is a molecular structure (organic or inorganic complexes) that is used for sensing of an analyte to produce a detectable change or a signal. The action of a chemosensor, relies on an interaction occurring at the molecular level, usually involves the continuous monitoring of the activit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9414430 | 1,398,718 |
1,212,585 | The first living related renal transplant was performed in China in 1972; the first allogeneic bone marrow transplantation was successfully executed in an acute leukaemia patient. The first recorded clinical liver transplant from a living donor in China took place in 1995, seven years after the world's first was perfor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6497079 | 1,211,933 |
719,558 | Instead, the OH 80 femur, more like "H. erectus" femora, is quite thick, features a laterally flattened shaft, and indicates similarly arranged gluteal, pectineal and intertrochanteric lines around the hip joint. Nonetheless, the intertrochanteric line is much more defined in OH 80, the gluteal tuberosity is more towar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2165275 | 719,178 |
178,277 | The life cycle of the malaria parasite is particularly complex, presenting initial developmental problems. Despite the huge number of vaccines available, there are none that target parasitic infections. The distinct developmental stages involved in the life cycle present numerous opportunities for targeting antigens, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10280304 | 178,184 |
55,921 | Through mid-March 1944, only four of the 26 successful Blizna launches had satisfactorily reached the Sarnaki target area due to in-flight breakup () on re-entry into the atmosphere. (As mentioned above, one rocket was collected by the Polish Home Army, with parts of it transported to London for tests.) Initially, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32786 | 55,897 |
297,234 | The end-to-end encryption paradigm does not directly address risks at the communications endpoints themselves. Each user's computer can still be hacked to steal his or her cryptographic key (to create a MITM attack) or simply read the recipients’ decrypted messages both in real time and from log files. Even the most pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1065362 | 297,074 |
738,796 | The backwash system can be optimized using IPC membranes, as developed by Blue Foot Membranes. In systems where the membranes are in a separate tank from the bioreactor, individual trains of membranes can be isolated to undertake cleaning regimes incorporating membrane soaks, however, the biomass must be continuously p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16743975 | 738,405 |
1,795,208 | The subducting Farallon Plate was eventually completely consumed below the North American Plate, bringing an end to the Laramide orogeny. Hot and semi-plastic rock deep below western North America responded to the lack of compression beginning 30 million years ago by slowly rising; gradually pushing the overlying rock ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=768815 | 1,794,199 |
1,209,431 | The minimum configuration for a 1110 system was two CAUs and one IOAU. The largest configuration, 6x4 was only used by NASA. The 1110 CAU was the first pipelined processor to be designed by UNIVAC. The CAU could have as many as four instructions in various stages of execution at any given instant. The IOAU was complete... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201462 | 1,208,784 |
888,407 | A pseudocode comparison of imperative, procedural, and object oriented approaches used to calculate the area of a circle (πr²), assuming no subroutine inlining, no macro preprocessors, register arithmetic, and weighting each instruction 'step' as only 1 instruction – as a crude measure of instruction path length – is p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25741143 | 887,939 |
1,393,513 | Over the following century the surveying service expanded in both size and reach, becoming a global operation. Several accounts record this history in detail. Llewellyn Styles Dawson was a surveyor particularly noted for his work in China (1865-1870) and a naval assistant in the department for five years (1876-1881). D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1986808 | 1,392,742 |
785,790 | There has been recent interest in the utilization of the large amounts of surface area on skyscrapers to improve their overall energy efficiency. Because skyscrapers are increasingly ubiquitous in urban environments, yet require large amounts of energy to operate, there is potential for large amounts of energy savings ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67029 | 785,367 |
857,313 | Founded in 1966, SUT was established to train and supply part of the required expert human resources of the country on an equal level to credible universities of the world. Compared with other worldwide universities, it is a young and growing pioneer in both basic and applied sciences. The main aims of SUT are: (1) to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453155 | 856,858 |
417,689 | A biomarker can be a substance that is introduced into an organism as a means to examine organ function or other aspects of health. For example, rubidium chloride is used in isotopic labeling to evaluate perfusion of heart muscle. It can also be a substance whose detection indicates a particular disease state, for exam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4584230 | 417,485 |
1,784,775 | The incremental research techniques developed at IBM eventually became dominant in the field after DARPA, in the mid-80s, returned to NLP research and imposed that methodology to participating teams, shared common goals, data, and precise evaluation metrics. The Continuous Speech Recognition Group's research, which req... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4561188 | 1,783,771 |
1,422,467 | Research initiatives in cognition have helped to develop an understanding of the vegetative state. Research has shown that although a person can be awake and conscious, he or she may not show any signs of awareness or recognition to external stimulation. In 2005, research was conducted on a 23-year-old female who suffe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10152418 | 1,421,666 |
1,576,716 | In 1875 Mr. and Mrs. Ebenezer Proudfit of Troy donated $15,000 to build an impressive observatory named the William Proudfit Observatory. The observatory was named in honor of the Proudfit's son, an RPI student in the class of 1877 who died in a tragic stagecoach accident at the age of 19. On November 10, 1875, the tru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32133136 | 1,575,827 |
1,244,761 | SWAS was designed to study the chemical composition, energy balance and structure of interstellar clouds, both galactic and extragalactic, and investigate the processes of stellar and planetary formation. Its sole instrument is a telescope operating in the submillimeter wavelengths of far infrared and microwave radiati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11077605 | 1,244,088 |
80,035 | "Enaliarctos", a fossil species of late Oligocene/early Miocene (24–22 mya) California, closely resembled modern pinnipeds; it was adapted to an aquatic life with a flexible spine, and limbs modified into flippers. Its teeth were adapted for shearing (like terrestrial carnivorans), and it may have stayed near shore mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60261 | 80,002 |
379,578 | A genetic component to IBD has been recognized for over a century. Research that has contributed to understanding of the genetics include studies of ethnic groups (e.g., Ashkenazi Jews, Irish), familial clustering, epidemiological studies, and twin studies. With the advent of molecular genetics, understanding of the ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=616967 | 379,383 |
2,086,471 | Heavy charged particles are very effective at producing chromosomal exchanges with RBE values exceeding 30 in interphase (as visualized using premature chromosome condensation) and 10 at the post-irradiation mitosis for energetic iron (Fe) ions. The detailed RBE vs. LET relationship that was found for total exchanges i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36255817 | 2,085,269 |
899,512 | The auditory cortex has distinct responses to sounds in the gamma band. When subjects are exposed to three or four cycles of a 40 hertz click, an abnormal spike appears in the EEG data, which is not present for other stimuli. The spike in neuronal activity correlating to this frequency is not restrained to the tonotopi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=994097 | 899,037 |
1,446,305 | Trilochan Mohapatra was born on 20 April 1962 at Kharibil village in Cuttack in the Indian state of Odisha. After completing early schooling at Laxmi Narayan High School at Eranch near his home village in 1978, he did his pre-university studies at Ravenshaw College (present day Ravenshaw University) in 1980. Joining Or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56021875 | 1,445,489 |
367,072 | In 1988, Fleischmann and Pons applied to the United States Department of Energy for funding towards a larger series of experiments. Up to this point they had been funding their experiments using a small device built with $100,000 out-of-pocket. The grant proposal was turned over for peer review, and one of the reviewer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7463 | 366,880 |
331,113 | The construction of the Chinese Space Station officially began in April 2021. The planned 11 missions include three module launches, four crewed missions, and four autonomous cargo flights. On 29 April 2021, the first component of the station, "Tianhe" core module, was launched to the orbit aboard the Long March 5B roc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2481401 | 330,936 |
681,323 | The clay used in Corinth was soft, with a yellow, occasionally green tint. Faulty firing was a matter of course, occurring whenever the complicated firing procedure did not function as desired. The result was often unwanted coloring of the entire vase, or parts of it. After firing, the glossy slip applied to the vase t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1076046 | 680,968 |
1,086,409 | In 1934, Joe Vincent Meigs in New York originally described tumor debulking surgery (cytoreductive surgery) for ovarian cancer under the premise of reducing macroscopic disease. In the 60s and 70s this aggressive cytoreductive approach began to be accepted. During this time, Dr. Kent Griffith at the National Cancer Ins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30860773 | 1,085,851 |
1,525,278 | Freely available SAS analysis computer programs have been intensively developed at EMBL. In the first general "ab initio" approach, an angular envelope function of the particle "r=F(ω)", where ("r,ω") are spherical coordinates, is described by a series of spherical harmonics. The low resolution shape is thus defined by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=910107 | 1,524,417 |
526,888 | Most force fields are distance-dependent, making the most convenient expression for these Cartesian coordinates. Yet the comparatively rigid nature of bonds which occur between specific atoms, and in essence, defines what is meant by the designation "molecule", make an internal coordinate system the most logical repres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=734256 | 526,615 |
1,607,041 | In mammals, as well as in other species, ecological niche and demographic conditions strongly shape typical contexts of interaction between individuals, including the frequency and circumstances surrounding the interactions between genetic relatives. Although mammals exist in a wide variety of ecological conditions and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50797822 | 1,606,136 |
1,385,465 | Drug discovery is a process that involves the use of computational, experimental, and clinical studies in order to design new therapeutics. This process is lengthy and costly, yet it is the most popular process to date in developing successful treatments and medicines for a variety of diseases. The increasing use of dr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51708210 | 1,384,698 |
798,622 | In 1989, producer Tom Ruegger had led an exodus of Hanna-Barbera staffers to restart Warner Bros. Animation. At first, the studio was constantly under threat of closure. However, under Fred Seibert's guidance, Hanna-Barbera's new staff (whose ranks included Seth MacFarlane, Butch Hartman, and Genndy Tartakovsky) create... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=141959 | 798,197 |
59,804 | The USAF responded to this threat with increasingly effective means. Early efforts to directly attack the missiles sites as part of Operation Spring High and Operation Iron Hand were generally unsuccessful, but the introduction of Wild Weasel aircraft carrying "Shrike" missiles and the Standard ARM missile changed the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182664 | 59,779 |
1,240,747 | An Asian study was performed on children ages 3–13 who had obstructive sleep apnea. The study concluded that four cephalometric anthropomorphic parameters were related to the apnea-hypopnea index. Three of which indicated the importance of hyoid position in pediatric sleep apnea. Future studies are needed in this area.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11131663 | 1,240,076 |
264,769 | Following the publication of the WHI data in 2002, the stock prices for the pharmaceutical industry plummeted, and huge numbers of women stopped using HRT. The stocks of Wyeth, which supplied the Premarin and Prempro that were used in the WHI trials, decreased by more than 50%, and never fully recovered. Some of their ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19526030 | 264,626 |
1,056,551 | The single greatest advance in moving BNCT forward clinically has been the introduction of cyclotron-based neutron sources (c-BNS) in Japan. Shin-ichi Miyatake and Shinji Kawabata have led the way with the treatment of patients with recurrent glioblastomas (GBMs). In their Phase II clinical trial, they used the Sumitom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32637211 | 1,056,003 |
152,655 | The survivors are in some ways as significant as the losses: bison (H), grey wolf (C), lynx (C), grizzly bear (C), American black bear (C), deer (e.g. caribou, moose, wapiti (elk), "Odocoileus" spp.) (H), pronghorn (H), white-lipped peccary (H), muskox (H), bighorn sheep (H), and mountain goat (H); the list of survivor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18783051 | 152,587 |
1,020,191 | University of Tehran is appointed as the "Center of Excellence" (قطب علمی) by Iran's Ministry of Science and Technology in the fields of "Evaluation and improvement of irrigation networks", "Breeding and Biotechnology of trees", "Farming, Grading and Biotechnology", "Applied Electromagnetic Systems", "Land Logistics", ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=159999 | 1,019,664 |
1,395,217 | Designing effective antimicrobial surfaces demands an in-depth understanding of the initial microbe-surface adhesion mechanisms. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) is used for nonliving samples. Bacterial colony forming unit (CFU) counting requires overnight incubation and detects bacteria that readily grow on solid me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32006269 | 1,394,446 |
622,751 | In most, if not all proteinopathies, a change in the 3-dimensional folding conformation increases the tendency of a specific protein to bind to itself. In this aggregated form, the protein is resistant to clearance and can interfere with the normal capacity of the affected organs. In some cases, misfolding of the prote... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10348140 | 622,419 |
740,334 | Upon heating, Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinolic acid decarboxylates to give the psychoactive compound Δ9-Tetrahydrocannabinol. When cannabis is heated in vacuum, the decarboxylation of tetrahydrocannabinolic acid (THCA) appears to follow first order kinetics. The log fraction of THCA present decreases steadily over time, and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=193461 | 739,942 |
1,650,551 | According to one scientist involved in the development of the supercomputer, a team of the leading scientists at PAEC developed powerful computerized electronic codes, acquired powerful high performance computers to design this system and came up with the first design that was to be manufactured, as part of the atomic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37251345 | 1,649,619 |
1,312,727 | The increasing amount of bacterial genomic data provides new opportunities for understanding the genetic and molecular bases of the degradation of organic pollutants. Aromatic compounds are among the most persistent of these pollutants and lessons can be learned from the recent genomic studies of "Burkholderia xenovora... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13475684 | 1,312,008 |
456,664 | Fire has long been an important element in Southeastern forests. Native Americans burned land to improve grass growth for grazing and visibility for hunting. When European settlers arrived in the New World, they brought new diseases that severely diminished the Native American populations. Over time, with the lack of c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=509871 | 456,441 |
616,632 | Early attempts at molecular systematics were also termed as chemotaxonomy and made use of proteins, enzymes, carbohydrates, and other molecules that were separated and characterized using techniques such as chromatography. These have been replaced in recent times largely by DNA sequencing, which produces the exact sequ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=149544 | 616,318 |
183,019 | Individualist cultures, such as those of the U.S., Austria, Spain, and Canada, emphasize personal goals, initiatives, and achievements. Independence, self-reliance, and individual rights are highly valued by members of individualistic cultures. Economic, political, and social policies reflect the culture's interest in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3735409 | 182,923 |
606,923 | Zooplankton and salps play a large role in the active transport of fecal pellets. 15–50% of zooplankton biomass is estimated to migrate, accounting for the transport of 5–45% of particulate organic nitrogen to depth. Salps are large gelatinous plankton that can vertically migrate 800 meters and eat large amounts of foo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7743448 | 606,613 |
1,341,125 | Alfred Goldscheider (1884) confirmed the existence of distinct heat and cold sensors, by evoking heat and cold sensations using a fine needle to penetrate to and electrically stimulate different nerve trunks, bypassing their receptors. Though he failed to find specific pain sensitive spots on the skin, Goldscheider con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34045015 | 1,340,392 |
558,005 | Neuroprosthetics are devices capable of supplementing or replacing missing functions of the nervous system by stimulating the nervous system and recording its activity. Electrodes that measure firing of nerves can integrate with prosthetic devices and signal them to perform the function intended by the transmitted sign... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2567511 | 557,716 |
1,364,793 | Trained pathologists traditionally view tissue slides under a microscope. These tissue slides may be stained to highlight cellular structures. When slides are digitized, they are able to be shared through tele-pathology and are numerically analyzed using computer algorithms. Algorithms can be used to automate the manua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17878526 | 1,364,037 |
1,004,047 | As of August 2013, the USAF believes that the LRS-B can reach Initial Operating Capability (IOC) in 2025. Reportedly, the main risk is funding, in light of the F-35 Lightning II's acquisition difficulties and a lack of an "urgent threat". Prior bomber programs were hindered by a lack of funding, only 21 B-2 Spirits wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34042348 | 1,003,529 |
1,814,437 | "Aulacephalodon" is considered to be medium-sized relative to other dicynodont species, unique to other dicynodont species due to the canine tusks they possessed. Fossilization tends to have preserved only skulls and complete or fragmented bones of "Aulacephalodon bainii," requiring paleontologists to use the unique fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26640920 | 1,813,403 |
389,638 | Comorbidity is widespread among the patients admitted at multidiscipline hospitals. During the phase of initial medical help, the patients having multiple diseases simultaneously are a norm rather than an exception. Prevention and treatment of chronic diseases declared by the World Health Organization, as a priority pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217631 | 389,443 |
1,419,409 | The "American Coast Pilot" had long been lacking in current information when the Coast Survey took control of it in 1867, and the Survey had recognized that deficit but had been hindered by a lack of funding and the risks associated with mooring vessels in deep waters or along dangerous coasts in order to collect the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16021406 | 1,418,610 |
1,876,994 | Numerous proteolytic fragments or domains of ECM proteins have been reported to exert positive or negative activity on angiogenesis. Native proteins which contain such domains with regulatory activity are normally inactive, most likely because they are cryptic segments hidden in the native protein structure. Angiostati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22993401 | 1,875,916 |
356,277 | The economic boundaries define which market effects to include in the calculation, if any. Changed market conditions can lead to small or large changes in carbon emissions and absorptions from supply chains and forests, for instance changes in forest area as a response to changes in demand. Miner et al. describe how re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7906908 | 356,094 |
807,947 | Having shown success in all preliminary tests, the decisive push for the creation of the Human Spaceflight Programme took place in 2017, and it was accepted and formally announced by the Prime Minister on 15 August 2018. The funding is approximately Rs 10,000 crore. The testing phase was expected to begin in December 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7818844 | 807,517 |
142,022 | Many distinguished figures have taught, worked and studied at the University of Glasgow, including seven Nobel laureates and three Prime Ministers, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman and Bonar Law. Famous names include the physicist Lord Kelvin, his pupil, and later partner of the Carneg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39569 | 141,964 |
992,833 | At the beginning of the 1970s, video games existed almost entirely as novelties passed around by programmers and technicians with access to computers, primarily at research institutions and large companies. One of these games was "Spacewar!", created in 1962 for the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-1 by Steve Ru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292879 | 992,316 |
1,060,462 | Russell Louis "Rusty" Schweickart (b. October 25, 1935) is a co-founder of the B612 Foundation and chair emeritus of its board of directors. He is also a former U.S. Apollo astronaut, research scientist, Air Force pilot, plus business and government executive. Schweickart, chosen in NASA's third astronaut group, is bes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=333633 | 1,059,911 |
1,229,043 | A program was initiated in August 1969 to upgrade the medical equipment of residual brigade hospitals, the term "residual" meaning those hospitals to remain in Vietnam under then-existing plans. Designed to obtain equipment suitable for use in fixed, semi-permanent facilities, capable of providing the type of diagnosti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8709111 | 1,228,381 |
1,070,495 | One of the most famous rationale being used is the Active Mass Balance Auto-Control (AMBAC) system, referenced also in various other series including Macross. Within the non-UC "Gundam" series, the AMBAC system term is also used in "Mobile Suit Gundam 00". The AMBAC system is a fundamental technology that allows for th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20587324 | 1,069,941 |
931,637 | A number of authors have questioned the assumption that cancers result from sequential random mutations as oversimplistic, suggesting instead that cancer results from a failure of the body to inhibit an innate, programmed proliferative tendency. A related theory suggests that cancer is an atavism, an evolutionary throw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2332422 | 931,145 |
1,192,880 | Neutron science soon became a critical tool in the development of industrial and consumer products worldwide. So much so that the Organization for Economic Development (OECD), declared in 1999 that a new generation of high-intensity neutron sources should be built, one each in North America, Asia and Europe. Europe's c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8958658 | 1,192,244 |
556,905 | Cells are created in a workplace to facilitate flow. This is accomplished by bringing together operations or machines or people involved in a processing sequence of a products natural flow and grouping them close to one another, distinct from other groups. This grouping is called a cell. These cells are used to improve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9515578 | 556,616 |
435,951 | As previously stated, partial deletions on the long arm of chromosome 13 can cause numerous different effects. These effects are due to the size and position of the deleted region. A recent study done in 2017 by Wang, Wang, Niu, and Cui looked at two patients with 13q terminal (13qter) deletion syndrome. The manifestat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47313691 | 435,737 |
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