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2,175,154 | Cancer: The most dreadful impact of NUMT insertion happens when the mtDNA is inserted into the regulatory region or nuclear structural genes and disrupts or alters the vital cell processes. For instance, in primary low-grade brain neoplasms, fluorescent in situ hybridization analysis helped with the recognition of mtDN... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8564084 | 2,173,910 |
272,265 | Migrations from Mexico to North America or Europe have occurred several times throughout history, probably linked to the movement of tubers. Until the 1970s, the A2 mating type was restricted to Mexico, but now in many regions of the world both A1 and A2 isolates can be found in the same region. The co-occurrence of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=165450 | 272,117 |
463,704 | Radioactive beams of specific isotopes are widely used in the fields of experimental physics, biology and materials science. The production and formation of these radioactive atoms into an ionic beam for study is an entire field of research carried out at many laboratories throughout the world. The first isotope separa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37197 | 463,474 |
530,004 | The AAF created the Twentieth Air Force to employ long-range B-29 Superfortress bombers in strategic attacks on Japanese cities. The use of forward bases in Free China (needed to be able to reach Japan by the heavily laden B-29's) was ineffective because of the difficulty in logistically supporting the bases entirely b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9895061 | 529,730 |
1,595,293 | During World War II, Trafford Park became an important centre for the manufacture and development in engineering in the aim of giving Britain a technological advantage over its enemies. Having an abandoned factory in Trafford Park, Ford of Britain was approached about the possibility of converting it into an aircraft e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33684900 | 1,594,395 |
155,663 | Two years before airing, Gainax published a project presentation document to find backers entitled , which included the initial unit designs. In the "Proposal," the Evangelion were described as humanoids made of artificial metal muscles and replicas of Adam, indicated in the document as an artificial giant left by the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=577372 | 155,592 |
1,652,528 | A second mode of occurrence of tachylite is in the form of lava flows. Basaltic rocks often contain a small amount of glassy ground-mass, and in the limburgites this becomes more important and conspicuous, but vitreous types are far less common in these than in the acid lavas. In the Hawaiian Islands, however, the volc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1198783 | 1,651,596 |
1,665,337 | As with other types of renal cell cancer, most cases of PRCC are discovered incidentally without showing specific signs or symptoms of cancer. In advanced stages, hematuria, flank pain, and abdominal mass are the three classic manifestation. While a complete list of the causes of PRCC remains unclear, several risk fact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63591324 | 1,664,400 |
1,345,912 | Radiation therapy destroys cancer primarily by causing DNA damage that promotes cell death. Tumor cells within a cancer are especially susceptible to damage by radiation as they frequently develop mutations in the DNA repair mechanisms that allow normal, healthy cells to recover from radiation damage. However, excessiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38331416 | 1,345,171 |
199,983 | Other branches of physics also received attention during the period of the Scientific revolution. William Gilbert, court physician to Queen Elizabeth I, published an important work on magnetism in 1600, describing how the earth itself behaves like a giant magnet. Robert Boyle (1627–91) studied the behavior of gases enc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13758 | 199,880 |
1,414,902 | Autogenous healing of cementitious materials influences crack self-closure and, subsequently, durability and physical-mechanical performance of composites. It is considered to be one of the main reasons for substantial life extension of ancient structures and buildings. Autogenous self-healing in cement-based composite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69140980 | 1,414,105 |
1,542,205 | APPI has also been effectively applied for ambient ionization applications lending itself to several practical configurations. One configuration termed Desorption APPI (DAPPI) was developed by Haapala et al. and is pictured in the figure here. This device has been applied to the analysis of drugs of abuse in various so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44339074 | 1,541,332 |
138,228 | Even before the "Sputnik 1" launch, Korolev was interested in getting to the Moon. He came up with the notion to modify the R-7 missile in order to carry a package to the Moon. However, it was not until 1958 that this idea was approved, after Korolev wrote a letter explaining that his current technology would make it p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=86655 | 138,172 |
1,053,361 | Sustainable community development requires recognition of the relationship between environment, economics and social instruments within the community. An adaptive management approach to creating sustainable community policy and practice also emphasizes the connection and confluence of those elements. Looking into the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1206605 | 1,052,815 |
1,312,813 | Nutrition contributes directly to human health, and health directly contributes to the effectiveness of military personnel. Lack of proper nutrition can decrease the effectiveness of vaccines and increase the possibility of disease, especially in high stress situations. Many nutrients have direct effects on the immune ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27709502 | 1,312,093 |
2,090,323 | With the start of the Cold War, the Treaty of Brussels was signed in 1948 establishing the Western Union (WU). It expanded upon the Dunkirk Treaty which was a military pact between France and the United Kingdom who were concerned about the threat from the USSR following the communist take over in Czechoslovakia. The ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11662516 | 2,089,120 |
1,710,279 | Unethical human experimentation in the United States has been practiced in the United States for a long time prior to creation of the OHRP. A major characteristic of experimentation done during this time was the disregard for suffering inflicted on patients. In the 1840s, J. Marion Sims performed hundreds of surgical o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17319116 | 1,709,319 |
1,516,775 | Vicente Marcano (Caracas, October 27, 1848 -Valencia July 17, 1891) was an outstanding engineer, chemist, geologist, university professor and scientific disseminator. Graduated in philosophical sciences at the Central University of Venezuela, he continued his education at the French school of St. Louis, at the institut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,923 |
305,184 | Within a few years, a bureaucracy developed in the Soviet Union as a result of the Russian Civil War, foreign invasion, and Russia's historic poverty and backwardness. The bureaucracy undermined the democratic and socialist ideals of the Bolsheviks and elevated Joseph Stalin to their leadership after Lenin's death. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 305,022 |
1,516,827 | Aldemaro Romero Jr. (born in Caracas, September 11, 1951) is a Venezuelan/American scientist, communicator, and advocate of liberal arts education. While an undergraduate student in biology at the Universitat de Barcelona in Spain, Romero volunteered at the Museum of Zoology (later renamed as Museum of Natural Sciences... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,975 |
2,022,482 | It was not until 1666 that Isaac Newton showed that white lights from the sun could be dissipated into a continuous series of colors. So Newton introduced the concept which he called "spectrum" to describe this phenomenon. He used a small aperture to define the beam of light, a lens to collimate it, a glass prism to di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14657447 | 2,021,318 |
1,801,912 | Continuing problems with the forward-looking radar and other sensor systems (which were ultimately never resolved) on the Tropic Moon III B-57Gs after deployment to Thailand in the September 1970 meant that ADTC testing of the design continued at Eglin into 1971. Concurrently, the Air Force delivered the Cat II test ai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,901 |
1,580,981 | I-SPY 2 is an adaptive clinical trial of multiple Phase 2 treatment regimens combined with standard chemotherapy. I-SPY 2 linked 19 academic cancer centers, two community centers, the FDA, the NCI, pharmaceutical and biotech companies, patient advocates and philanthropic partners. The trial is sponsored by the Biomarke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65297106 | 1,580,091 |
1,071,879 | This technology has been tested extensively with multiple deep wells drilled in several field areas around world including the US, Japan, Australia, France, and the UK and investment of billions of research funds. It continues to be the focus, along with a related technique called Enhanced Geothermal System (EGS), for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12951705 | 1,071,325 |
86,731 | World-renowned scholars have been integral to the successes of the institutes associated with the university. ASU students and researchers have been selected as Marshall, Truman, Rhodes, and Fulbright Scholars with the university ranking 1st overall in the U.S. for Fulbright Scholar awards to faculty and 5th overall fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1859 | 86,696 |
1,217,930 | length from the measurement point would be given by D = wavelength/32 = cf/32 = 3.5 cm and a frequency f of 4.92 Hz. The calculated distance approximates that of the segment of MCA main stem just after the carotid bifurcation, where probably the ultrasound sample volume was placed, to the MCA bifurcation. Thus, these e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3147406 | 1,217,276 |
1,190,210 | Given the genetic makeup of an organism, the complete set of possible reactions constitutes its reactome. Reactome, located at http://www.reactome.org is a curated, peer-reviewed resource of human biological processes/pathway data. The basic unit of the Reactome database is a reaction; reactions are then grouped into c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1872854 | 1,189,576 |
1,387,752 | In 2007, the U.S. federal government invited experts to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to perform a scientific assessment of literature on BPA. Thirty-eight experts in fields involved with bisphenol A gathered in Chapel Hill, North Carolina to review several hundred studies on BPA, many conducted by members of the group. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57552333 | 1,386,985 |
1,974,416 | There were no new fortifications along this coast at the start of World War II. After the fall of France in 1940, the threat of invasion led to the creation of new defences. In addition to the installation of anti-tank and other passive obstacles, fourteen coastal batteries, each of two guns, were constructed. Some of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34525509 | 1,973,281 |
850,191 | The above arguments are still cogent in the modern, computer-heavy military simulation environment. There remains a recognised place for umpires as arbiters of a simulation, hence the persistence of manual simulations in war colleges throughout the world. Both computer-assisted and entirely computerised simulations are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10280894 | 849,739 |
750,742 | Pyrimidine ribonucleosides and their respective nucleotides have been prebiotically synthesised by a sequence of reactions that by-pass free sugars and assemble in a stepwise fashion by including nitrogenous and oxygenous chemistries. In a series of publications, John Sutherland and his team at the School of Chemistry,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25765 | 750,344 |
1,807,126 | The magnitude of the MMG signals is lower than that of the heart and the brain. The minimum spectral density could reach limit of detection (LOD) of hundreds of fT/√Hz at low frequencies especially between 10 Hz and 100 Hz. In a seminal work of Cohen and Gilver in 1972, they discovered and recorded MMG signals using Su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30883500 | 1,806,107 |
414,648 | Nucleic acids are generally basophilic because they have a very high density of negative charge due to the sugar phosphate backbone. However, in contrast to other basic i.e. cationic dyes, Alcian blue usually (given the right pH and salt concentrations, and normal temperature and duration in minutes, not hours) prefera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21548765 | 414,445 |
1,271,614 | The southern flying lizard is brown with patches of grey that match the pattern of tree bark. It can change its colour to a limited extent. As an adult, it is has a total length of about , with a snout-to-vent length (SVL) of about and a tail length of . The head is round with a short snout, and the nostrils point upwa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3489409 | 1,270,923 |
68,477 | In a widely debated 2021 "Foreign Affairs" article, Mearsheimer observed that the United States was destined to compete aggressively with China as long as the latter continued to grow into a militarily and economically powerful state in East Asia. However, contrary to realist logic, the United States in the post-Cold W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=980934 | 68,450 |
1,050,837 | Small interfering (siRNA) are short, 19-23 base-pair (with a 3' overhang of two nucleotides), double-stranded pieces of RNA that participate in the RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC) for gene silencing. Specifically, siRNA is bound by the RISC complex where it is unwound using ATP hydrolysis. It is then used as a gui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65187964 | 1,050,291 |
925,553 | It was not until after the observations of certain molecular phenomena that stereochemical principles were developed. In 1815, Jean-Baptiste Biot’s observation of optical activity marked the beginning of organic stereochemistry history. He observed that organic molecules were able to rotate the plane of polarized light... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28756 | 925,067 |
246,599 | As syntax began to be studied more closely in the early 20th century in relation to language learning, it became apparent to linguists, psychologists, and philosophers that knowing a language was not merely a matter of associating words with concepts, but that a critical aspect of language involves knowledge of how to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18614 | 246,472 |
5,706 | Two solid rocket boosters (SRBs), built by Morton Thiokol at the time of the disaster, provided the majority of thrust at liftoff. They were connected to the external tank, and burned for the first two minutes of flight. The SRBs separated from the orbiter once they had expended their fuel and fell into the Atlantic Oc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=403717 | 5,703 |
2,150,027 | In 1946 at the age of 17 he quit school and went to work for the Gulf Oil Co. in Chelsea, Massachusetts for one year. At age 20 he went to work for Oxford Paper Co., retiring in 1989. After working at Oxford for a few months he enlisted into the Army Airborne for 3 years. This was during the Korean War. He got into the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23119176 | 2,148,796 |
440,165 | The aim of quantum key distribution is the distribution of identical, true random numbers to two distant parties A and B in such a way that A and B can quantify the amount of information about the numbers that has been lost to the environment (and thus is potentially in hand of an eavesdropper). To do so, sender (A) se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56495427 | 439,951 |
1,900,118 | Although considered a revivalist architect, Seyfarth's designs were not pedantic copies of existing work or even typical examples of the revival architecture that was popular at the time. Despite the fact that his design aesthetic was more traditional than that of his previous employer, Seyfarth had absorbed many of Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24940492 | 1,899,030 |
681,261 | With the Canadair Sabre no longer a viable option, the "Fábrica Militar de Aviones" seriously considered having the Pulqui II enter series production. A new prototype was ordered in 1957, despite the United States having offered 100 combat-proven F-86 Sabre fighters with Orenda engines that were available immediately. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2616710 | 680,906 |
1,405,568 | Owing to its ability to realise high purity results, orbital welding found its place in the production of clean-room components for the semiconductor industry. Its application has now expanded to the construction of pipework and equipment for diverse industries like food processing, pharmaceuticals, chemical engineerin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17805006 | 1,404,778 |
187,410 | The primary role foreseen for the RNZN was fisheries protection, particularly following the introduction of a Exclusive Economic Zone by the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea; this was thought to require a minimum of six vessels to effectively police. Peace campaigners claimed that the purchase of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=897679 | 187,313 |
32,066 | In his early years von Neumann published several papers relating to set-theoretical real analysis and number theory. In a paper from 1925, he proved that for any dense sequence of points in formula_9, there existed a rearrangement of those points that is uniformly distributed. In 1926 his sole publication was on Prüfer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15942 | 32,055 |
1,939,057 | Telomerase is an enzyme that works to create telomeric ends for DNA, and it is thought to play important roles in the development of cancer. Specifically, telomeric stability is known to be a common occurrence in cancer cells. Along with the telomerase, the shelterin complex, and TERF2 and TERF1 specifically, also have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14135628 | 1,937,947 |
813,776 | Of industry sponsored research, pharmaceutical firm spending was the greatest contributor from all industry sponsored biomedical research spending, but only increased 15% (adjusted for inflation) from 2003 to 2007, while device and biotechnology firms accounted for the majority of the spending. The stock performance, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2245783 | 813,343 |
173,206 | All optical disc-drives use the SCSI-protocol on a command bus level, and initial systems used either a fully featured SCSI bus or as these were some what cost-prohibitive to sell to consumer applications, a proprietary cost-reduced version of the bus. This is because conventional ATA-standards at the time did not supp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=299592 | 173,115 |
1,690,724 | They conducted experiments with stereotactic high-energy proton irradiation in goats resulting in a seminal publication in "Nature" in 1958. This technique was also applied in a few patients with Parkinson's disease (pallidotomy), psychiatric disorder (capsulotomy) and pain (mesencephalotomy). Although precisely placed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1168881 | 1,689,777 |
1,399,258 | While ENIAC never saw use during World War II, its first job upon completion was to calculate the feasibility of a proposed design for the hydrogen bomb. But while ENIAC could perform ballistic calculations at impressive speeds, it was held back by its lack of internally stored program capability. It took scientists a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30865936 | 1,398,483 |
899,702 | On June 28, 2015 CRS-7 launched a Falcon 9 carrying an unmanned Dragon capsule intended to take supplies to the International Space Station. 2 minutes and 19 seconds into the flight a cloud of vapor was seen by the tracking camera forming outside the craft. A few seconds afterward there was a loss of pressure in the he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53357431 | 899,227 |
590,722 | The Large Area Telescope (LAT) detects individual gamma rays using technology similar to that used in terrestrial particle accelerators. Photons hit thin metal sheets, converting to electron-positron pairs, via a process termed pair production. These charged particles pass through interleaved layers of silicon microstr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399678 | 590,420 |
601,852 | The Navy planned to arm the proposed UCLASS with weapons currently in the carrier air wing's inventory. With the priority of the aircraft on ISR, the airframe would accommodate a fifth-generation AESA radar and multiple intelligence (multi-int) sensors to include electro-optical/infrared sensors and full-motion video c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39092723 | 601,543 |
2,070,995 | Professor Shepherd began his research with studies of the aurora borealis, conceiving new instruments for its observation. The implementation was done by his students, postdocs and research associates of which not all can be mentioned here. These began with the Fabry-Perot Interferometer (John Nilson, Leroy Cogger, Ste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53100427 | 2,069,804 |
595,321 | Transcriptional initiation, termination and regulation are mediated by “DNA looping” which brings together promoters, enhancers, transcription factors and RNA processing factors to accurately regulate gene expression. Chromosome conformation capture (3C) and more recently Hi-C techniques provided evidence that active c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=398124 | 595,016 |
1,944,321 | TNMD belongs to the new family of type II transmembrane glycoproteins. The gene is localized on the X chromosome and accounts for an approximately 1.4 kb transcript and a predicted protein consisting of 317 amino acids. The gene is composed of seven exons. The second exon encodes the transmembrane domain (amino acid po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16855134 | 1,943,209 |
293,262 | On April 29, 2021, the developers of Sputnik V said that Anvisa admitted not testing Sputnik V and that they would sue Anvisa in Brazil for defamation. At a press conference, Anvisa officials said that Gamaleya's own documents indicated multiple times the presence of replication-competent adenoviruses (RCAs) in ready v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64800626 | 293,104 |
896,010 | A third way is to consider the cohomology of probabilistic space or statistical systems directly, called information structures and basically consisting in the triple (formula_165), sample space, random variables and probability laws. Random variables are considered as partitions of the n atomic probabilities (seen as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17740009 | 895,539 |
192,388 | The Australian-led INTERFET intervention into East Timor in September 1999 marked the closest Australia's F-111s ever came to combat. F-111s from both No. 1 and No. 6 Squadrons were deployed to RAAF Base Tindal, Northern Territory, on 28 August to support the international forces, and remained there until 17 December 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25595226 | 192,289 |
1,330,707 | The use of evidence-based practice depends a great deal on the nursing student's proficiency at understanding and critiquing the research articles and the associated literature that will be presented to them in the clinical setting. According to, Blythe Royal, author of "Promoting Research Utilization in nursing: The R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16818407 | 1,329,978 |
1,606,634 | In the absence of hypoxic conditions (i.e. physiological levels of oxygen), cancer cells preferentially convert glucose to lactate, according to Otto H. Warburg, who believed that aerobic glycolysis was the key metabolic change in cancer cell malignancy. The "Warburg effect" was later coined to describe this metabolic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68831440 | 1,605,730 |
581,403 | In 1969 scientists D. Wilshaw, O. P. Buneman and H. Longuet-Higgins proposed an alternative, non-holographic model that fulfilled many of the same requirements as Gabor's original holographic model. The Gabor model did not explain how the brain could use Fourier analysis on incoming signals or how it would deal with th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1896271 | 581,105 |
2,137,758 | Basic science leads to a better understanding of natural phenomena. It looks for "knowledge and discovery of facts" to enable one to understand an already existing phenomenon. Basic science is the foundation of all scientific research. If you want the greatest long-term yield for human health, there’s no better investm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30371013 | 2,136,528 |
990,091 | McDonnell engineers evaluated a number of engine combinations, varying from eight 9.5 in (24 cm) diameter engines down to two engines of 19 inch (48 cm) diameter. The final design used the two 19 in (48 cm) engines after it was found to be the lightest and simplest configuration. The engines were buried in the wing roo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11761 | 989,574 |
833,952 | After this formal education, Garrett spent the next nine years tending to domestic duties, but she continued to study Latin and arithmetic in the mornings and also read widely. Her sister Millicent recalled Garrett's weekly lectures, "Talks on Things in General", when her younger siblings would gather while she discuss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9695 | 833,503 |
1,588,966 | ●OpRegen®, a single-injection retinal pigment epithelium cell replacement therapy currently in a Phase 1/2a multicenter clinical trial for the treatment of advanced dry age-related macular degeneration (“AMD”) with geographic atrophy (GA). There currently are no therapies approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administrati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40941727 | 1,588,072 |
1,184,729 | Chemical sensors are useful for analyzing odors from food samples and detecting atmospheric gases. The "electronic nose" was developed in 1988 to determine the quality and freshness of food samples using traditional sensors, but more recently the sensing film has been improved with nanomaterials. A sample is placed in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=603278 | 1,184,101 |
691,263 | The use of computer hardware and software in education and training dates to the early 1940s, when American researchers developed flight simulators which used analog computers to generate simulated onboard instrument data. One such system was the type19 synthetic radar trainer, built in 1943. From these early attempts ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=290786 | 690,900 |
54,415 | The P-38 was used most extensively and successfully in the Pacific Theater, where it proved more suited, combining exceptional range with the reliability of two engines for long missions over water. The P-38 was used in a variety of roles, especially escorting bombers at altitudes of . The P-38 was credited with destro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25041 | 54,392 |
351,189 | The study of human physiology as a medical field originates in classical Greece, at the time of Hippocrates (late 5th century BC). Outside of Western tradition, early forms of physiology or anatomy can be reconstructed as having been present at around the same time in China, India and elsewhere. Hippocrates incorporate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23597 | 351,006 |
789,266 | We must single out the children who are endowed with high potentialities, and develop them as completely as possible. And in this manner give to the nation a non-hereditary aristocracy. Such children may be found in all classes of society, although distinguished men appear more frequently in distinguished families than... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1051 | 788,842 |
702,174 | In 1989, "Phantasy Star II" for the Genesis established many conventions of the genre, including an epic, dramatic, character-driven storyline dealing with serious themes and subject matter, and a strategy-based battle system. Its purely science fiction setting was also a major departure for RPGs, which had previously ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408675 | 701,809 |
2,134,038 | During the past, many microorganisms such as anammox bacteria may have escaped discovery due to their relatively low growth rates requiring very efficient biomass retention absent from classical methods of cultivation. With the use of biofilms to improve the culturability of organisms that naturally occur in biofilms, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37522056 | 2,132,813 |
931,689 | The countdown began at 8:30 p.m. the previous night, with Shepard waking up and eating a breakfast of steak and eggs with toast, coffee, and orange juice (the steak and eggs breakfast would soon become a tradition for astronauts the morning of a launch). He entered the spacecraft at 5:15 am. ET, just over two hours bef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213233 | 931,197 |
1,908,562 | The first international sculpture symposia in the United States (and the first on a college campus) was in the summer of 1965 on the California State University, Long Beach campus in Long Beach, California. The symposium was under the direction of Sculpture Professor Kenneth Glenn, University President Carl W. McIntosh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=439256 | 1,907,465 |
1,519,496 | In 1993, Antonio Giordano identified and cloned a new tumor suppressor gene, RB2 / p130, which has a primary function in the cell cycle by controlling correct DNA replication and essentially preventing the onset of cancer. The alterations, at the level of these tumor suppressor genes, that is their non-expression or a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44199904 | 1,518,638 |
1,495,922 | The history of New York University begins in the early 19th century. A group of prominent New York City residents from the city's landed class of merchants, bankers, and traders established NYU on April 18, 1831. These New Yorkers believed the city needed a university designed for young men who would be admitted based ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11141122 | 1,495,080 |
1,096,441 | Scrub typhus is historically endemic to the Asia-Pacific region, covering the Russian Far East and Korea in the north, to northern Australia in the south, and Afghanistan in the west, including islands of the western Pacific Oceans such as Japan, Taiwan, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, and the Indi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12300557 | 1,095,881 |
1,244,949 | One dictionary definition of “convergence” provides a starting point for the analysis: “the act of converging and esp. moving toward union or uniformity.” The new regulatory framework that was shaped by the 1996 act eliminated the entry barrier for companies to expand their business into new markets. Local exchange car... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31591629 | 1,244,276 |
1,651,123 | Far from being universally decried, the recent accelerated expansion of western capitalism, geographically, politically, and ideologically, has been lauded in many quarters. International and bilateral agencies such as the World Bank, IMF, and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have utilized... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17200325 | 1,650,191 |
1,050,629 | The DSF-GTP technique was developed by a team led by Patrick Schaeffer at James Cook University and published in Moreau et al. 2012. The development of differential scanning fluorimetry and the high-throughput capability of thermofluor have vastly facilitated the screening of crystallization conditions of proteins and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38876059 | 1,050,083 |
348,685 | In East Germany in the 1960s, many people were arrested and interrogated for holding politically incorrect views or for performing actions deemed hostile by the ruling socialist state. Such arrests, which could also involve direct physical torture, were condemned internationally. In an effort to avoid such condemnation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453420 | 348,503 |
6,808 | Although Galileo seriously considered the priesthood as a young man, at his father's urging he instead enrolled in 1580 at the University of Pisa for a medical degree. He was influenced by the lectures of Girolamo Borro and Francesco Buonamici of Florence. In 1581, when he was studying medicine, he noticed a swinging c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29688374 | 6,805 |
693,140 | Following the realisation that a new material was needed, Brain looked at a number of options; polyvinyl chloride was too rigid and synthetic foam did not lend itself to re-use. Silicone prototypes looked promising as what was produced was an ellipse with a flat central web which, if cut correctly, could be used to cre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=660192 | 692,777 |
1,610,810 | Ting-Chao Chou (born 1938 in Taiwan, Chinese name: 周廷潮) is a Chinese American theoretical biologist, pharmacologist, cancer researcher and inventor. His 353 scientific papers have been cited in 40,108 times in over 1,469 biomedical journals as of October 15, 2022. He derived the median-effect equation (MEE) from the ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40586690 | 1,609,905 |
1,059,005 | Montana sapphires were heavily mined during for industrial abrasive and cutting purposes. As the Yogo mines were still owned by the English, the United States government could not control those operations, so the mines were little affected by the war, even though industrial sapphires were critical to the war effort. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33521256 | 1,058,455 |
1,048,153 | The "limes" consisted of fortresses for legions or vexillations (e.g. Segedunum) as well as a system of roads for the rapid transit of troops and, in some places, extensive walls. Perhaps the most famous example of these is Hadrian's Wall in Great Britain, which was built across the entire width of the island to protec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8247092 | 1,047,608 |
1,767,897 | The SGD provides Internet access to the complete "Saccharomyces cerevisiae" genomic DNA sequence, its genes and their products, the phenotypes of its mutants, and the literature supporting these data. In the peer-reviewed literature report, experiment result on function and interaction of yeast genes are extracted by h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7281961 | 1,766,903 |
1,344,067 | The body's electrical capabilities were studied at least as early as 1830, when the Italian Carlo Matteucci is credited as being one of the first to measure the electrical current in injured tissue. Bioelectricity received less attention after the discovery of penicillin, when the focus of medical research and treatmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=683590 | 1,343,330 |
1,782,145 | James H. Simons was the chair of the mathematics department at Stony Brook from 1968 to 1976. After deciding to leave academia, he then went on to make billions with his investment firm Renaissance Technologies. On February 27, 2008 he announced a donation totaling $60 million (including a $25 million gift two years pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25568388 | 1,781,141 |
1,942,865 | In the case of the scarlet tiger moth "Callimorpha" ("Panaxia") "dominula" (family Arctiidae), which is a diurnal moth that occurs in continental Europe, western Asia and southern England, three forms occur in England: the typical homozygote; the rare homozygote ("bimacula") and the heterozygote ("medionigra"). It was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29671995 | 1,941,754 |
1,779,307 | The physical aspect comprises the tropical littoral waters in the IOR that result in sub-optimal sonar performance to achieve any meaningful way ahead for effective UDA. The deep vs. shallow waters need to be defined acoustically before the physical challenges in the IOR can be properly appreciated. The hypsometric def... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60878831 | 1,778,304 |
243,951 | The value or utility a user derives from a good or service depends on the number of users of compatible products – the "network effect" in economics. Network effects are typically positive, resulting in a given user deriving more value from a product as other users join the same network. At national levels, the network... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=267139 | 243,824 |
2,092,821 | What most rivets attention on John Crawford is his remarkable research into the cause of disease. As early as 1790 he conceived—entirely independently—the idea of a living contagium—minute animalcula gaining access to the human body and there depositing germs to develop and produce disease. He ransacked the whole realm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58030865 | 2,091,616 |
577,019 | In 1910 British physicist J. J. Thomson observed a release of positive ions and neutral atoms from a solid surface induced by ion bombardment. Improved vacuum pump technology in the 1940s enabled the first prototype experiments on SIMS by Herzog and Viehböck in 1949, at the University of Vienna, Austria. In the mid-195... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=651485 | 576,723 |
1,117,963 | The atmosphere is a fluid. The idea of numerical weather prediction is to sample the state of the fluid at a given time and use the equations of fluid dynamics and thermodynamics to estimate the state of the fluid at some time in the future. The process of entering observation data into the model to generate initial co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2458875 | 1,117,390 |
1,227,005 | Expert on infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, Amesh Adalja states that the most immediate way to predict a pandemic is with deeper surveillance of symptoms that fit the virus' profile. The scientific and technological ways of quickly detecting a spillover could be improved so that an ou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63478457 | 1,226,344 |
2,136,296 | Born in Vienna in 1926, Ross left Austria with his parents only days before the outbreak of World War II. They settled in New York, where he studied chemistry at Queens College (B.S. 1948), with a two-year interruption to serve in the Army from 1944 to 1946. After completing his degree, he went on to perform doctoral r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4467960 | 2,135,068 |
1,701,571 | Irving Ezra Segal was born in the Bronx on September 13, 1918, to Jewish parents. He attended school in Trenton. In 1934 he was admitted to Princeton University, at the age of 16. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, completed his undergraduate studies in just three years time, graduated with highest honors with a bachelo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2255484 | 1,700,616 |
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