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859,374 | In 2012, NASA researchers Metzger, Muscatello, Mueller, and Mantovani argued for a so-called "bootstrapping approach" to start self-replicating factories in space. They developed this concept on the basis of In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) technologies that NASA has been developing to "live off the land" on the Moo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1600053 | 858,916 |
1,656,614 | Stations are fitted with coastal surveillance radars, frequency diversity radars, meteorological systems, optical sensors, electro-optical sensors, charge-coupled device (CCD) day cameras, Low Light TV (LLTV) night vision cameras, long-range thermal imagers, an Automatic Identification System (AIS), a distress alert tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69195684 | 1,655,681 |
2,104,711 | Dr. Karlsson's field of research is the regulation of hematopoietic stem cells and development of stem cell expansion protocols and gene therapy. He performed postdoctoral studies with Professor Arthur W. Nienhuis (1983-1986) at the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) at the National Institutes of Health (N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46693734 | 2,103,498 |
583,968 | Land seismic surveys tend to be large entities, requiring hundreds of tons of equipment and employing anywhere from a few hundred to a few thousand people, deployed over vast areas for many months. There are a number of options available for a controlled seismic source in a land survey and particularly common choices a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=676418 | 583,669 |
1,081,541 | Roy D'Andrade (1995) sees the history of cognitive anthropology proper as divisible into four phases. The first began in the 1950s with the explicit formulation of culture as knowledge by anthropologists such as Ward Goodenough and Anthony Wallace. From the late 1950s through the mid-1960s, attention focused on categor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7055844 | 1,080,985 |
826,401 | There is a trend in academia for universities to be their own drug discovery enterprise. These facilities, which normally are found only in industry, are now increasingly found at universities as well. UCLA, for example, features an open access HTS laboratory Molecular Screening Shared Resources (MSSR, UCLA), which can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=882729 | 825,957 |
1,327,440 | While developed countries often have exploited the most economical sites already with large benefits, many large-scale diversion/transfer schemes have been proposed in developing countries such as Brazil, African countries, India and China. These more modern transfers have been justified because of their potential econ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19725253 | 1,326,713 |
3,929 | Aristotle distinguished about 500 species of animals, arranging these in the "History of Animals" in a graded scale of perfection, a nonreligious version of the "scala naturae", with man at the top. His system had eleven grades of animal, from highest potential to lowest, expressed in their form at birth: the highest g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=308 | 3,929 |
450,888 | One criticism of the book by "Kirkus Reviews" is that some of the scenarios or solutions in the book are a stretch or somewhat prophetic: "Tegmark's solutions to inevitable mass unemployment are a stretch." AI researcher Stuart J. Russell, writing in "Nature", said: "I am unlikely to disagree strongly with the premise ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55090826 | 450,669 |
1,492,879 | Jameson's research into flotation began when he was at Imperial College London, in 1969. A colleague, Dr J. A. Kitchener of the Royal School of Mines, pointed out that many of the new mineral deposits being found around the world required fine grinding to separate the valuable particles from the rock in which they were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40142408 | 1,492,040 |
280,200 | The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) is a self-report personality test developed over several decades of empirical research by Raymond B. Cattell, Maurice Tatsuoka and Herbert Eber. The 16PF provides a measure of personality and can also be used by psychologists, and other mental health professionals, as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18334122 | 280,049 |
741,344 | While "C. tetani" is frequently benign in the soil or in the intestinal tracts of animals, it can sometimes cause the severe disease tetanus. Disease generally begins with spores entering the body through a wound. In deep wounds, such as those from a puncture or contaminated needle injection the combination of tissue d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13233321 | 740,952 |
922,010 | In 1988, historian Sherry A. Penney succeeded Robert A. Corrigan as chancellor. Penney had been serving as chancellor of academic programs, policy, and planning for the State University of New York system. Her tenure was initially marred by an economic downturn in Massachusetts. During the en masse failure of more than... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99867 | 921,524 |
441,920 | Material is put on a sinter machine in two layers. The bottom layer may vary in thickness from . A 12 to 20 mm sinter fraction is used, also referred to as the hearth layer. The second, covering layer consists of mixed materials, making for a total bed height of . The mixed materials are applied with drum feeders and r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33126504 | 441,705 |
1,259,389 | Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie is about 5 km north of Uzès and some 30 km north of Nîmes. Joseph was one of ten children born to a family of horticulturists in the service of the duc d'Uzès. All hands being needed in the fields, Joseph was not sent to school. By the age of 17 he had proved his worth as a gardener, and the du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10286525 | 1,258,702 |
7,860 | Through the 1970s the hand-held electronic calculator underwent rapid development. The red LED and blue/green vacuum fluorescent displays consumed a lot of power and the calculators either had a short battery life (often measured in hours, so rechargeable nickel-cadmium batteries were common) or were large so that they... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7593 | 7,857 |
983,271 | In 1738, variolation was added to the second edition of "Chambers' Cyclopædia", which in its time was an authority of knowledge for the literary class. Later in 1754, variolation received the sanction of the Royal College of Physicians. All of this made England the international center of variolation, attracting visito... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34062507 | 982,757 |
1,468,139 | For an orientable vector bundle formula_27 a spin structure exists on formula_2 if and only if the second Stiefel–Whitney class formula_29 vanishes. This is a result of Armand Borel and Friedrich Hirzebruch. Furthermore, in the case formula_30 is spin, the number of spin structures are in bijection with formula_31. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2844303 | 1,467,315 |
1,458,289 | It has also been argued that the United Nations mechanism for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) may increase pressure to convert or modify other ecosystems, especially savannahs and wetlands, for food or biofuel, even though those ecosystems also have high carbon sequestration potentia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24603722 | 1,457,469 |
1,477,308 | Multidisciplinary approaches have been shown to be effective in increasing activity levels and participation in multiple sclerosis. Studies investigating information provision in support of patient understanding and participation suggest that while interventions (written information, decision aids, coaching, educationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7663818 | 1,476,476 |
1,666,427 | The need to adapt to higher altitudes pushed for the development of browsing behaviour due to the lack of low and easily accessible grass, a factor which likely contributed to the evolution of curiosity in goats and their ability to digest plants which would otherwise be poisonous. It also resulted in the development o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60746925 | 1,665,488 |
1,541,170 | A novel strategy utilizes highly-tailorable diffusion based nanocarriers for the delivery of genetic material, allowing for non-transgenic, non-destructive plant transformation. The method specificity is highly dependent on the properties of the material utilized, with key factors including size, polarity, and surface ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63883339 | 1,540,297 |
878,727 | Bohr evidently misunderstood Einstein's argument about the quantum mechanical violation of relativistic causality (locality) and instead focused on the consistency of quantum indeterminacy. Bohr's response was to illustrate Einstein's idea more clearly using the diagram in Figure C. (Figure C shows a fixed screen S tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1025272 | 878,264 |
803,130 | The magnitude and capacity of these systems makes the Ames Arc Jet Complex unique. The largest power supply can deliver 75 megawatts (MW) for a 30-minute duration or 150 MW for a 15-second duration. This power capacity, in combination with a high-volume 5-stage steam ejector vacuum-pumping system, enables facility oper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47477 | 802,701 |
696,884 | Headquartered in a Hackensack warehouse oozing with EPA hazards "something like 'rats and snakes and toxic waste'", the SWAT team worked every day even through Christmas Eve 1985, in what Don James called "the longest and hardest I ever worked consecutive days in my life" and what Howard Phillips called "every waking h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1571248 | 696,520 |
414,436 | Clinical signs and symptoms of complement-mediated TMA can include abdominal pain, confusion, fatigue, edema (swelling), nausea/vomiting and diarrhea. aHUS often presents with malaise and fatigue, as well as microangiopathic anemia. However, severe abdominal pain and bloody diarrhea are unusual. Laboratory tests may al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38187439 | 414,233 |
1,856,685 | Between 2004 and 2013, and contiguous with the "Early Islamic Bahrain" project, Insoll directed research examining the archaeology of indigenous African religions in Northern Ghana, with a particular focus on the Talensi of the Tong Hills, and subsequently the figurines of Koma Land. This was completed with research pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38891541 | 1,855,617 |
80,275 | A 2015 ESPN profile praised Donnarumma's fundamental goalkeeping skills, identifying his large slender frame and reach, agility, and composed nature as his biggest strengths; writer Nick Dorrington additionally described the teenager as "a natural leader [with] the necessary confidence to organise a defence featuring p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48358672 | 80,242 |
27,820 | Rheticus's hopes were dashed when six years after the publication of "De Revolutionibus" Melanchthon published his "Initia Doctrinae Physicae" presenting three grounds to reject Copernicanism. These were "the evidence of the senses, the thousand-year consensus of men of science, and the authority of the Bible". Blastin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=323592 | 27,810 |
798,612 | The perennially-popular "Looney Tunes" characters made a comeback. While the older shorts continued to enjoy countless reruns and compilation specials (and a few compilation films), new "Looney Tunes" short features were made in the 1990s. Inspired by the success of Disney's "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and a series of Ni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=141959 | 798,187 |
1,231,488 | This enzyme's function positions type I cells to uniquely take advantage of their mitochondria. However, AMPK is an enzyme found in many more types of cells than chemoreceptors because it helps regulate metabolism. The difference may actually lie in the cell's metabolism, rather than the AMPK enzyme; peripheral chemore... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9044842 | 1,230,826 |
54,318 | During mid-1943, Adolf Hitler envisioned the Me 262 as a ground-attack/bomber aircraft rather than a defensive interceptor. The configuration of a high-speed, light-payload "Schnellbomber" ("fast bomber") was intended to penetrate enemy airspace during the expected Allied invasion of France. His edict resulted in the d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20488 | 54,298 |
1,973,564 | He led the 3d Platoon to the rescue of a similar unit which had been surrounded in an enemy counterattack at Oberhoffen, France. As he advanced along a street, he observed several Germans crossing a field about 100 yards away. Running into a barn, he took up a position in a window and swept the hostile troops with subm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15828980 | 1,972,429 |
617,463 | Strauss and Trott built a partnership of 118 before the England captain edged to Michael Clarke at first slip just before the lunch break on day three. With the final ball of the morning session, Prior drove a ball from North to the off side and hit Ricky Ponting at silly point square in the jaw. The Australian captain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8708994 | 617,149 |
1,105,102 | Taylor hoped to build a computer network to connect the ARPA-sponsored projects together, if nothing else, to let him communicate to all of them through one terminal. By June 1966, Taylor had been named director of IPTO; in this capacity, he shepherded the ARPANET project until 1969. Taylor had convinced ARPA director ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1002038 | 1,104,539 |
1,829,826 | "P. fragariae" was first observed in 1921 in Scotland. The actual infectious agent was not identified until 1940 by Clarence James Hickman. The disease was not found in the United States until 1935 when it was reported in eastern Illinois. Once discovered, a survey was done to identify other states that had the disease... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11466323 | 1,828,785 |
546,222 | The Army was considerably expanded in early 1942 in response to the Japanese threat to Australia. During this year the Army's strength peaked at eleven infantry divisions—the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th Divisions—and three armoured divisions—the 1st, 2nd and 3rd—organised into the First ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22738876 | 545,936 |
581,169 | The first remains of tyrannosaurids were uncovered during expeditions led by the Geological Survey of Canada, which located numerous scattered teeth. These distinctive dinosaur teeth were given the name "Deinodon" ("terrible tooth") by Joseph Leidy in 1856. In 1892 Edward Drinker Cope described more tyrannosaur materia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9430305 | 580,872 |
493,446 | Percy was a tall, physically impressive man, "of serious expression but with an attractive manner". He has been variously described as belligerent and eccentric, with "surges of wild energy subsiding into sloth". The Jesuit priest Father John Gerard wrote that in his youth Percy had "been very wild more than ordinary, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1452052 | 493,191 |
677,844 | On average, Communications service providers utilize an average of just 35 to 40 percent of available network capacity. Recently, telecommunications software vendors such as Telcordia and Ericsson have promoted yield management as a strategy for communications service providers to generate additional revenue and reduce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1053994 | 677,490 |
326,913 | By May 2014, nine aircraft had been delivered, completing the core fleet. Further deliveries were for a "surge capability", available to the RAF when needed, but otherwise available to AirTanker for "release to the civil market, less its military equipment or to partner nations in a military capacity with the MoD's agr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=616482 | 326,739 |
826,454 | The amount of sensory data collected poses a huge storage problem, and will require real-time signal processing to reduce the raw data to relevant derived information. In mid 2011 it was estimated the array could generate an exabyte a day of raw data, which could be compressed to around 10 petabytes. China, a founding ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=792246 | 826,010 |
1,114,649 | Space vehicles for sub-orbital and orbital flights from the Eastern and Western Test Ranges were destroyed if they endangered populated areas by crossing pre-determined destruct lines encompassing the safe flight launch corridor. To assist the RSO in making a flight termination decision, there are many indicators showi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16537446 | 1,114,081 |
336,523 | Lockheed is pushing for funding for the development of an extended-range (ER) version of the THAAD to counter maturing threats posed by hypersonic glide vehicles that adversaries may deploy, namely the Chinese WU-14, to penetrate the gap between low- and high-altitude missile defenses. The company performed static fire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1034696 | 336,344 |
60,008 | Sampson had continued his studies of the material since 1989. In 1994, in a talk during the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, he named "Taxon C" as a new genus and species, "Achelousaurus horneri"; although his abstract was published, it did not identify a holotype, a name-bearing specimen, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1792493 | 59,983 |
1,968,292 | Clayton's promotion to full professor at Rice University was brisk (1963–69). In 1989 he resigned to accept an offer from Clemson University in South Carolina to guide the establishment of a research program in astrophysics. Clemson University had launched an effort to move into the top 20 of public universities, and C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36061850 | 1,967,162 |
833,432 | MUMPS is a language intended for and designed to build database applications. Secondary language features were included to help programmers make applications using minimal computing resources. The original implementations were interpreted, though modern implementations may be fully or partially compiled. Individual "pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19723 | 832,983 |
109,081 | Galileo Galilei, made key improvements on the thermometer and telescope which allowed him to observe and clearly describe the solar system. Descartes was not only a pioneer of analytic geometry but formulated a theory of mechanics and advanced ideas about the origins of animal movement and perception. Vision interested... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26997 | 109,036 |
1,328,584 | Variable incidence allowed the fuselage to be kept at the optimum angle for good visibility whilst maintaining lift – particularly useful for a carrier-borne aircraft and with tail-wheel undercarriage. The incidence could be varied from 2 degrees when the flap setting was neutral, to 16 degrees when the flaps were lowe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12441671 | 1,327,856 |
1,616,847 | The remarkable stability of cyclotides means that they have an exciting range of potential applications centred on either their intrinsic biological activities or the possibility of using the CCK motif as a scaffold for stabilizing biologically active epitopes. Interest in these has recently intensified with the public... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9947355 | 1,615,936 |
516,324 | In June 2021, the State Minister of Internal Security, Home Affairs and Disaster Management presented the "Sir John Kotelawala National Defence University Bill (Special Provisions)", proposing legislative changes to the governing structure of the KDU. Controversially, the proposed Bill placed KDU management under the D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10216898 | 516,055 |
1,973,251 | Nagaraja has done research on DNA topoisomerases, topology modulation, regulation of gene expression to understand the underlying molecular mechanisms and their importance in cellular function. Understanding the biology of the pathogen that causes TB has been a major research effort. As a result, several seminal contri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51789475 | 1,972,116 |
54,356 | After Willy Messerschmitt's death in 1978, the former Me 262 pilot Hans Guido Mutke claimed to have exceeded Mach 1 on 9 April 1945 in a Me 262 in a "straight-down" 90° dive. This claim relies solely on Mutke's memory of the incident, which recalls effects other Me 262 pilots observed below the speed of sound at high i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20488 | 54,336 |
141,249 | The answers to many remaining mysteries of Enceladus had to wait until the arrival of the "Cassini" spacecraft on July 1, 2004, when it entered orbit around Saturn. Given the results from the "Voyager 2" images, Enceladus was considered a priority target by the "Cassini" mission planners, and several targeted flybys wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=208430 | 141,192 |
1,381,293 | Around the outbreak of World War I in 1914 it was noted that the rapid development of dreadnought battleships might soon render US coast defenses obsolescent. These had been constructed 1895-1915 under the Endicott and Taft programs. The United States Army's initial response was to place some existing 12-inch guns on h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52254496 | 1,380,530 |
782,612 | By 1975, the zoo could no longer expand, and it had to be moved out of the city because of space constraints and increased noise pollution due to the city's high-density traffic. Hence it was planned in 1976 to maintain the animals in the zoo in good simulated conditions. In 1976, the Tamil Nadu Forest Department set a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30870670 | 782,193 |
358,206 | While at Uraniborg, Tycho maintained correspondence with scientists and astronomers across Europe. He inquired about other astronomers' observations and shared his own technological advances to help them achieve more accurate observations. Thus, his correspondence was crucial to his research. Often, correspondence was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30027 | 358,020 |
207,546 | Strong research funding helped elite American universities dominate global rankings in the early 21st century, making them attractive to international students, professors and researchers. Other countries, though, are offering incentives to compete for researchers as funding is threatened in the US and US dominance of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3189597 | 207,439 |
843,041 | Four outstanding mathematicians arose during the Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty, particularly in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries: Yang Hui, Qin Jiushao, Li Zhi (Li Ye), and Zhu Shijie. Yang Hui, Qin Jiushao, Zhu Shijie all used the Horner-Ruffini method six hundred years earlier to solve certain types of simultaneo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1524543 | 842,591 |
1,587,957 | Stimulated by the possibilities of the new Space Age, Rosen wanted it to be some kind of space program. Because at that time international telephony was very expensive and hard to arrange, and transoceanic television was impossible, he decided it should be some kind of communication satellite since these problems could... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10150062 | 1,587,063 |
982,640 | Modern automobiles have complex instrumentation. In addition to displays of engine rotational speed and vehicle linear speed, there are also displays of battery voltage and current, fluid levels, fluid temperatures, distance traveled and feedbacks of various controls (turn signals, parking brake, headlights, transmissi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47403 | 982,128 |
1,410,528 | During the Second World War, the Brazilian Expeditionary Force, with about 25,300 soldiers, fought in the Allied campaigns in Italy. This participation with the Allies was a contradiction to the quasi-Fascist policies established by Getúlio Vargas's Estado Novo campaign. However, with the increasing trade with and dipl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5748261 | 1,409,736 |
1,988,053 | Jordan contributes 75% of the Arabic content on the Internet. In fact, the ICT sector is the fastest-growing sector in the Jordanian economy with a 25% annual growth rate. The sector accounts for more than 84,000 jobs and contributes 12% to GDP. There are 400 companies in Jordan operating across the spectrum of telecom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47911441 | 1,986,911 |
1,564,242 | During these twelve years, besides the work of a busy police court, which brought him into intimate contact with social problems, he found time to study chemistry, and attended lectures at the Birkbeck Institute (which later became Birkbeck College). George Chaloner, the chemistry teacher at the Institute, remarked one... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2350906 | 1,563,355 |
1,570,878 | The Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine (CMM) is a large dynamic interdisciplinary department consisting of 30 faculty researchers and teaching staff, as well as 63 cross-appointed or adjunct members. It offers graduate programs at the M.Sc and Ph.D. level, as well as post-doctoral training. The department main... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4163101 | 1,569,990 |
405,078 | Apart from the quantum efficiency it depends on the incident photon flux and the exposure time, which is equivalent to the exposure and the sensor area; since the exposure is the integration time multiplied with the image plane illuminance, and illuminance is the luminous flux per unit area. Thus for equal exposures, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10497504 | 404,878 |
1,901,354 | Developers face an additional financial burden when employing passive design methods, as they must pay an architect to design an environmentally friendly building without any subsidies to offset the costs. Furthermore, building codes often fail to accommodate more innovative approaches to promoting green design, such a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26864757 | 1,900,265 |
1,720,137 | L1 is involved in neuron-neuron adhesion, neurite fasciculation, outgrowth of neurites, cerebellar granule cell migration, neurite outgrowth on Schwann cells and interactions among epithelial cells of intestinal crypts. As a consequence, mutations in the L1CAM gene cause the Nervous System to malfunction. The main diso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1648200 | 1,719,167 |
13,892 | In 2005, futurist Ray Kurzweil claimed the next technological revolution would rest upon advances in genetics, nanotechnology, and robotics, with robotics being the most impactful of the three. Genetic engineering will allow far greater control over human biological nature through a process called directed evolution. S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29816 | 13,887 |
2,624 | Throughout the 2000s when the U.S. was primarily involved in asymmetric warfare in Iraq and Afghanistan, the USAF's procurement goal of 381 F-22s was questioned over rising costs, initial reliability and availability problems, limited multirole versatility, and a lack of relevant adversaries for air combat missions. In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66299 | 2,624 |
354,381 | Organofluorines exhibit biopersistence due to the strength of the carbon–fluorine bond. Perfluoroalkyl acids (PFAAs), which are sparingly water-soluble owing to their acidic functional groups, are noted persistent organic pollutants; perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS) and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) are most often r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17481271 | 354,198 |
1,112,335 | A significant problem causing much conflict in some regions, for instance in Bangladesh, are the land use rights. With shrimp farming, a new industry expanded into coastal areas and started to make exclusive use of previously public resources. In some areas, the rapid expansion resulted in the local coastal population ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2167405 | 1,111,769 |
1,766,346 | In the early 2000s, the company faced significant financial issues: in April 2001, the company's US$225 million credit line was in default, and during FY2001, Geac posted a loss of US$169 million on revenues of US$552 million. Geac updated some of its legacy software replaced its management team, ultimately tapping its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28396947 | 1,765,352 |
338,320 | "Brachiosaurus" is thought to have been a high browser, feeding on foliage well above the ground. Even if it did not hold its neck near vertical, and instead had a less inclined neck, its head height may still have been over above the ground. It probably fed mostly on foliage above . This does not preclude the possibil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20598015 | 338,140 |
616,034 | Gertrude Hildreth was a psychologist with the Lincoln School at Teacher's College, Columbia then at Brooklyn College in New York. She authored many books including the first book pertaining to school psychology titled, "Psychological Service for School Problems" written in 1930. The book discussed applying the science ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=466785 | 615,720 |
817,774 | The cadherin family is essential in maintaining the cell-cell contact and regulating cytoskeletal complexes. The cadherin superfamily includes cadherins, protocadherins, desmogleins, desmocollins, and more. In structure, they share "cadherin repeats", which are the extracellular Ca-binding domains. There are multiple c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1201933 | 817,337 |
485,892 | The Hellenistic armies based their strength on the pike-bearing phalanx, the legacy of Philip II and Alexander the Great. Throughout the age of the Diadochi and the Epigonoi, the phalanx, as the line of the pikemen was commonly referred to by ancient authors, remained the backbone of armies as diverse as those of Antio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9050031 | 485,643 |
1,026,410 | Abelisaurids, especially "Majungasaurus", may instead have been adapted for a feeding strategy more similar to modern felids, with short and broad snouts, that bite once and hold on until the prey is subdued. "Majungasaurus" had an even broader snout than other abelisaurids, and other aspects of its anatomy may also su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4590393 | 1,025,876 |
1,918,706 | He was appointed National Director for Clinical Quality and Efficiency by Jeremy Hunt in October 2015. When appointed he said that surgical patients were at risk of infections because beds were not “ring-fenced” for those undergoing the same types of procedures. There was a 25-fold variation in infection rates for the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52980237 | 1,917,606 |
2,134,470 | While the GH model has often been compared with the ground breaking model of Wiener and Rosenblueth developed earlier for the same purpose, the analogy is incorrect because the latter is not a CA. See for example, in which it is stated that "The organization of muscle cells, the contraction of muscle, the dependence of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39435644 | 2,133,245 |
1,362,792 | Multimodal human-computer interaction refers to the "interaction with the virtual and physical environment through natural modes of communication", This implies that multimodal interaction enables a more free and natural communication, interfacing users with automated systems in both input and output. Specifically, mul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2081243 | 1,362,039 |
1,568,039 | While the rotating dish antenna can no longer spin as designed, the rest of the instrument remains functional and data transmission capabilities remain intact, although it cannot determine the surface vector wind. It can, however, still measure radar backscatter at a fixed azimuth angle. QuikSCAT is being used in this ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3465350 | 1,567,152 |
17,485 | Requirements for undergraduate degrees are set by four authorities: the University of California system, the Berkeley campus, the college or school, and the department. These requirements include an entry-level writing requirement before enrollment (typically fulfilled by minimum scores on standardized admissions exams... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31922 | 17,480 |
722,464 | Stephen Crane (1871–1900), born in Newark, New Jersey, had roots going back to the American Revolutionary War era, soldiers, clergymen, sheriffs, judges, and farmers who had lived a century earlier. Primarily a journalist who also wrote fiction, essays, poetry, and plays, Crane saw life at its rawest in slums and on ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11382737 | 722,084 |
526,537 | The opening of the 19th century was marked by an increase in interest in the connection between climate and plant distribution. Carl Willdenow (1765–1812) examined the connection between seed dispersal and distribution, the nature of plant associations and the impact of geological history. He noticed the similarities b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25007304 | 526,264 |
281,362 | Though generally regarded as a positive for the area due to the economic impact, Cal Poly has received criticism for both the behavior of students upsetting the community, and the effects on local housing market. Parties and gatherings have gotten wilder due to an increased student body size and social media presence, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=433230 | 281,209 |
1,095,759 | Flavonoids are one class of secondary plant metabolites that are also known as Vitamin P or citrin. These metabolites are mostly used in plants to produce yellow and other pigments which play a big role in coloring the plants. In addition, Flavonoids are readily ingested by humans and they seem to display important ant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31336624 | 1,095,199 |
1,245,606 | Drepanosaurs are notable for their distinctive, triangular skulls, which resemble the skulls of birds. Some drepanosaurs, such as "Avicranium," had pointed, toothless, bird-like beaks. This similarity to birds may have led to the misattribution of what may be a drepanosaur skull to the would-be "first bird," "Protoavis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10333756 | 1,244,931 |
2,045,559 | Larger fungi (usually referred to as macrofungi or macromycetes) are of particular interest because of their importance as food resources and as a component of traditional culture in many places in the world. Moreover, many basidiomycetes and ascomycetes with conspicuous sporocarps often play an important role as ectom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35239323 | 2,044,378 |
1,599,495 | His recent work has focused on applying a computational materials science approach to study materials failure in biological systems, including the investigation of material breakdown in a variety of diseases and other extreme conditions across multiple time- and length-scales. His key contributions lie in the field of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2257165 | 1,598,595 |
2,146,243 | As of January 2018, of the known, surviving bound sets, that held by the Natural History Museum, London (subscribed for by the Earl of Sheffield) originally comprised second edition versions of parts 1 - 30 but was corrected some time prior to 1911 by the separate acquisition of a first edition of Volume I. The set bel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8145404 | 2,145,012 |
165,351 | The Indian grammarian-philosopher Bhartrhari (late fifth century AD) dealt with paradoxes such as the liar in a section of one of the chapters of his magnum opus the Vākyapadīya. Bhartrhari's solution fits into his general approach to language, thought and reality, which has been characterized by some as "relativistic"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17967 | 165,266 |
914,588 | There are various methods to treat otosclerosis. However the method of choice is a procedure known as stapedectomy. Early attempts at hearing restoration via the simple freeing of the stapes from its sclerotic attachments to the oval window were met with temporary improvement in hearing, but the conductive hearing loss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=247891 | 914,109 |
2,058,485 | Research by Zuckerman et al. published in 1951, established a central dogma that neo-oogenesis in mammals does not occur postnatally. These conclusions were supported by other researches, such as Peters et al., who investigated DNA synthesis in oocytes during embryonic development. However, since they didn’t study ooge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51777983 | 2,057,300 |
1,753,822 | He was born at Reading, Berkshire, the son of John Howard Hinton, Baptist minister and author of the "History and Topography of the United States" and other works. James was educated at his grandfather's school near Oxford, and at the Nonconformist school at Harpenden, and in 1838, on his father's removal to London, wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=252312 | 1,752,832 |
2,187,623 | A large number of events in the field of science, research and education were held in Germany and Brazil from April 2010 to April 2011. The slogan "sustainable:innovative" guided Brazilian and German universities, research institutions, scientists and students as they came together to exchange information on a wide var... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40565294 | 2,186,375 |
289,779 | Nevertheless, propeller aircraft "were" able to approach their critical Mach number, different for each aircraft, in a dive. Unfortunately, doing so led to numerous crashes for a variety of reasons. Flying the Mitsubishi Zero, pilots sometimes flew at full power into terrain because the rapidly increasing forces acting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166072 | 289,622 |
854,532 | On September 29, 2006 (sol ), MRO took its first high resolution image from its science orbit. This image is said to resolve items as small as 90 cm (3 feet) in diameter. On October 6, NASA released detailed pictures from the MRO of Victoria crater along with the "Opportunity" rover on the rim above it. In November, pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453326 | 854,077 |
1,505,388 | In 2007, Huang experimentally observed optical superoscillation phenomenon in the diffraction patterns of light transmitted through quasi-periodic nanohole arrays. Optical foci much smaller than the diffraction limit were observed. The results matched simulations without evanescent waves. In 2009, Huang et al further d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23376006 | 1,504,542 |
466,484 | When symbiotic gut flora populations are disrupted (e.g., by antibiotics), one becomes more vulnerable to pathogens. The rapid evolution of antibiotic resistance places an enormous selective pressure on the advantageous alleles of resistance passed down to future generations. The Red Queen hypothesis shows that the evo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5745363 | 466,251 |
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