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1,165,598 | While studying the Rous sarcoma virus at UW-Madison, Temin began to refer to the genetic material that the virus introduced to the cells, the "provirus". Using the antibiotic, actinomycin D, which inhibits the expression of DNA, he determined that the provirus was DNA or was located on the cell's DNA. These results imp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=920178 | 1,164,981 |
920,162 | In order for the clathrate hypothesis to be applicable to PETM, the oceans must show signs of having been warmer slightly before the carbon isotope excursion, because it would take some time for the methane to become mixed into the system and -reduced carbon to be returned to the deep ocean sedimentary record. Up until... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=387369 | 919,676 |
528,560 | The small subunit (SSU) 18S rRNA gene is one of the most frequently used genes in phylogenetic studies and an important marker for random target polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in environmental biodiversity screening. In general, rRNA gene sequences are easy to access due to highly conserved flanking regions allowing f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16239059 | 528,286 |
2,033,093 | He worked at the University of Kansas, and then at the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos, New Mexico continuing his work with fast neutrons. In 1946 he joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he remained for most of his career following a program on determining fast neutron cross-sections, directing the doctora... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10410636 | 2,031,921 |
1,527,960 | The origin of the discipline of developmental cognitive neuroscience can be traced back to conference held in Philadelphia in 1989 co-funded by NICHD & NIMH, organized by Adele Diamond, that started the process of developmental psychologists, cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists talking with one another. To bridge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6132187 | 1,527,096 |
1,246,121 | One of the clearest examples of this advantage is the use of mechanical probing techniques which require a direct physical interaction with the sample. Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been used to image lipid phase separation, formation of transmembrane nanopores followed by single protein molecule adsorption, and pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21530463 | 1,245,446 |
1,620,033 | (i) Prof. Bashir and his group has developed microscale devices with integrated dielectrophoretic filters for capture of bacteria and label free electrical sensing methods for subsequent detection of bacterial growth. These approaches can have important implications in clinical and pharmaceutical applications where det... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38591647 | 1,619,118 |
1,964,363 | Of Metochites' early years, nothing is known. He first appears in George Pachymeres' "History" in the year 1273 as one of a small group of clerics who backed the Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos's negotiations for ecclesial union with Rome. Following the Council of Lyons, he served for a time as Michael's ambassador at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12555440 | 1,963,235 |
1,748,791 | EP is classified as a relaxant type of prostanoid receptor based on its ability, upon activation, to relax certain types of smooth muscle (see Prostaglandin receptors). When initially bound to PGE or any other of its agonists, it mobilizes G proteins containing the Gs alpha subunit (i.e. Gα)-G beta-gamma complexes (i.e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14522499 | 1,747,805 |
923,016 | Soviet designation Project 671RTM/RTMK "Shchuka" (pike)—entered service in 1979; 25 were produced until 1991. Quieter than previous Soviet submarines, these ships had four tubes for launching SS-N-21 or SS-N-15 missiles and Type 53 torpedoes, plus another two tubes for launching SS-N-16 missiles and Type 65 torpedoes. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=527961 | 922,530 |
2,076,364 | The interwar period saw the emergence in France of the so-called School of Paris, a heterodox group of artists linked to various artistic styles such as post-impressionism, expressionism, cubism and surrealism. The term encompasses a wide variety of artists, both French and foreign, who resided in the French capital in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72166508 | 2,075,165 |
1,424,012 | In a reply to the above negative review, lead author, Ed. F. Kelly, wrote that the reviewers "inexcusably bypass all the material" that the authors had cited as empirical evidence against physicalism, such as "problems in conventional trace theories of memory, psychological automatisms and secondary centers of consciou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28650767 | 1,423,210 |
146,536 | Anti-reflective coatings reduce light lost at every optical surface through reflection at each surface. Reducing reflection via anti-reflective coatings also reduces the amount of "lost" light present inside the telescopic sight which would otherwise make the image appear hazy (low contrast). A telescopic sight with go... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1052795 | 146,478 |
2,162,469 | In addition to these fragmentary teeth, the Maevarano Formation has also yielded a nearly complete, articulated skeleton of an immature, cat-sized mammal that has not yet been fully described. It is the most complete mammal known from the Mesozoic of Gondwana. Its skull is damaged, but its unusual dentition is preserve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27790941 | 2,161,234 |
1,233,395 | Commercial use of space is the provision of goods or services of commercial value by using equipment sent into Earth orbit or outer space. This phenomenon – aka Space Economy (or New Space Economy) – is accelerating cross-sector innovation processes combining the most advanced space and digital technologies to develop ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3816650 | 1,232,732 |
1,559,778 | In the 1920s, new university chancellor John Gabbert Bowman declared that he had a vision for a centerpiece "tall building" for the university. The Frick Acres property in Oakland was soon purchased and plans for the campus shifted focus from the hillside to a neo Gothic Revival plan that today comprises the Cathedral ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13999007 | 1,558,892 |
1,086,536 | British sourced cars maintained their new share into the 1960s when Detroit's big three began to replace British Vauxhalls and Zephyrs with their Australian-made Holden Specials, Falcons and, later, Valiants which soon accounted for a third of the market. All locally assembled cars were their manufacturer's most basic,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34570831 | 1,085,978 |
736,188 | To mitigate the public relations (PR) nightmare, the NFL has taken several steps to better assure player safety and bring awareness to head injuries in football players of all ages. Several rule changes took place between 2007 and 2014. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell issued a memo in December 2009 to all 32 teams stati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36082813 | 735,801 |
1,048,671 | During the Cold War, Britain's GCHQ often used the United States National Security Agency (NSA) for communications interception from space. Concern heightened at the time of the 1982 Falklands War. GCHQ requested access to American signals intelligence satellites to assist in monitoring Argentine communications, but re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=671629 | 1,048,126 |
147,650 | In Romania, medical school is a department of a medical university, which typically includes Dentistry and Pharmacy departments as well. The name "facultate" is used for departments in their universities too, but the Medicine departments distinguish themselves by the length of studies (6 years), which grants to graduat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=465584 | 147,591 |
1,154,742 | Levy also wrote "Love and Sex with Robots", published in the United States in 2007 by HarperCollins, and in paperback in 2009 by Duckworth in the UK. It is the commercial edition of his PhD thesis, which he defended successfully on 11 October 2007, at Maastricht University, Netherlands. On 17 January 2008, he appeared ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=591100 | 1,154,132 |
892,661 | Risk assessment and management is a growth area in the forensic field, with much Canadian academic work being done in Ontario and British Columbia. This began with the attempt to predict the likelihood of a particular kind of offense being repeated, by combining "static" indicators from personal history and offense det... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=888694 | 892,192 |
860,419 | A crewmember of typical size requires approximately of food, water, and oxygen per day to perform standard activities on a space mission, and outputs a similar amount in the form of waste solids, waste liquids, and carbon dioxide. The mass breakdown of these metabolic parameters is as follows: of oxygen, of food, and o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=897136 | 859,961 |
1,962,896 | Carl Petersen obtained a BSc in physics from the University of Oxford in 1992. During his PhD studies under the supervision of Prof. Sir Michael Berridge at the University of Cambridge (1992-1996), he investigated cellular and molecular mechanisms of calcium signalling. In his first postdoctoral period (1996-1998), he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57423198 | 1,961,768 |
539,146 | MDEA is less reactive towards CO, but has an equilibrium loading capacity approaching 1 mole CO per mole amine. It also requires less energy to regenerate. To combine the advantages of MDEA and the smaller amines, MDEA is usually mixed with a catalytic promoter such as piperazine, PZ, or a fast reacting amine such as M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17403365 | 538,866 |
1,879,663 | By 1843 the colony's expanding wheat crop threatened to exceed the capacity of the work force available to harvest it. Ridley gave much time to the problem of devising a mechanical method of harvesting the wheat and building a reaper based on a woodcut in John Claudius Loudon's "An Encyclopaedia of Agriculture" (3rd ed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12836793 | 1,878,582 |
809,557 | The wear, friction, and electrical properties of DLC make it an appealing material for medical applications. DLC has proved to have excellent bio-compatibility as well. This has enabled many medical procedures, such as Percutaneous coronary intervention employing brachytherapy to benefit from the unique electrical prop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1821411 | 809,126 |
318,627 | When anxiety occurs, the mind's first response is to seek rational ways of escaping the situation by increasing problem-solving efforts and a range of defense mechanisms may be triggered. These are ways that the ego develops to help deal with the id and the superego. Defense mechanisms often appear unconsciously and te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40542426 | 318,456 |
65,256 | The fighter-bomber version (F-86H) could carry up to of bombs, including an external fuel-type tank that could carry napalm. Unguided rockets were used on some fighters on training missions, but rockets were later carried on combat operations. The F-86 could also be fitted with a pair of external jettisonable jet fuel ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=359331 | 65,231 |
1,105,495 | AeroMedical examinations aim at screening for elevation in risk of sudden incapacitation, such as a tendency towards myocardial infarction (heart attacks), epilepsy or the presence of metabolic conditions diabetes, etc. which may lead to hazardous condition at altitude. The goal of the AeroMedical Examination is to pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=991893 | 1,104,932 |
352,217 | By the late 18th century, Lyme Regis had become a popular seaside resort, especially after 1792 when the outbreak of the French Revolutionary Wars made travel to the European mainland dangerous for the English gentry, and increasing numbers of wealthy and middle-class tourists were arriving there. Even before Anning's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38334 | 352,034 |
1,528,001 | Several computational methods were developed, with a limited success, for predicting transmembrane alpha-helices and their topology. Pioneer methods utilized the fact that membrane-spanning regions contain more hydrophobic residues than other parts of the protein, however applying different hydrophobic scales altered t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=169448 | 1,527,137 |
811,532 | The mechanism of the Wolff–Kishner reduction has been studied by Szmant and coworkers. According to Szmant's research, the first step in this reaction is the formation of a hydrazone anion 1 by deprotonation of the terminal nitrogen by MOH. If semicarbazones are used as substrates, initial conversion into the correspon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1216247 | 811,100 |
1,191,416 | "Selectivity" is a very important part of organic synthesis. In scientific papers regarding synthesis, selectivity is often listed in data tables alongside percent yield and other reaction conditions. While selectivity is deemed important in scientific literature, it has been challenging to effectively implement select... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23616040 | 1,190,782 |
321,464 | Infection with human papillomavirus (HPV), particularly type 16 (there are over 180 types), is a known risk factor and independent causative factor for oral cancer. A fast-growing segment of those diagnosed does not present with the historic stereotypical demographics. Historically that has been people over 50, blacks ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=414186 | 321,292 |
29,254 | Microwaves are radio waves of short wavelength, from about 10 centimeters to one millimeter, in the SHF and EHF frequency bands. Microwave energy is produced with klystron and magnetron tubes, and with solid state devices such as Gunn and IMPATT diodes. Although they are emitted and absorbed by short antennas, they are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10134 | 29,244 |
1,192,068 | Initial resuscitation of trauma patients continues to evolve. Massive transfusion (defined as receiving greater than or equal to 10 units of packed red blood cells with a 24-hour period) is required in up to 5% of civilian trauma patients that arrive severely injured. Patients who are arriving severely injured to traum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36643113 | 1,191,432 |
1,591,695 | The Warrior & The Caregiver. Who cares for the carer? Stankovic's training in psychological warfare found extension and expression as a performance coach in civilian life combining his unusual experiences of overcoming adversity with depth psychology coaching systems such as the Pearson-Marr Archetype Indicator (PMAI).... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13845488 | 1,590,799 |
32,115 | Considered to be possibly "the most influential researcher in scientific computing of all time", von Neumann made several contributions to the field, both on the technical side and on the administrative side. He was one of the key developers of the stability analysis procedure that now bears his name, a scheme used to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15942 | 32,104 |
730,214 | Partly in response to what he saw as unsound and unscientific speculations by William Buckland and other practitioners of flood geology, Charles Lyell advocated the geological theory of uniformitarianism in his influential work "Principles of Geology". Lyell amassed evidence, both from his own field research and the wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7991116 | 729,829 |
457,945 | Besides boosting and economizing, it is possible to produce cascade subcooling systems, able to subcool the liquid with an analogous and separate system. This procedure is complex and costly as it involves the use of a complete system (with compressors and all of the gear) only for subcooling. Still, the idea has raise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28917399 | 457,722 |
1,298,206 | "O"-GlcNAc is generally a dynamic modification that can be cycled on and off various proteins. Some residues are thought to be constitutively modified by "O"-GlcNAc. The "O"-GlcNAc modification is installed by OGT in a sequential bi-bi mechanism where the donor sugar, UDP-GlcNAc, binds to OGT first followed by the subs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44457563 | 1,297,494 |
102,842 | Thermite hand grenades and charges are typically used by armed forces in both an antimateriel role and in the partial destruction of equipment, the latter being common when time is not available for safer or more thorough methods. For example, thermite can be used for the emergency destruction of cryptographic equipmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52381 | 102,797 |
1,405,229 | The standard 12 lead electrocardiogram (ECG) has several limitations. An ECG represents a brief sample in time. Because unstable ischemic syndromes have rapidly changing supply versus demand characteristics, a single ECG may not accurately represent the entire picture. It is therefore desirable to obtain "serial" 12 le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27732712 | 1,404,439 |
896,216 | This trade-off does not apply to vacuum insulated glass (VIG), or evacuated glazing, as heat loss due to convection is eliminated, leaving radiation losses and conduction through the edge seal and required supporting pillars over the face area. These VIG units have most of the air removed from the space between the pan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30875702 | 895,745 |
1,981,939 | During the late sixties and early seventies, when Charles, Prince of Wales played for the Cambridge side, polo at Oxford enjoyed a winning streak with eight wins in a row. Ironically, one of the strongest teams ever entered saw this streak ending. In 1974, Syed Shahid Ali and Arturo Goetz were both on three goals, with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40015233 | 1,980,800 |
98,384 | Much of the recording equipment used to create the movie's intricately complicated sound effects was, at the time, extremely cutting-edge. Among these pieces of equipment was the ADS ("Advanced Digital Synthesizer") 11, manufactured by Pasadena, California custom synthesizer manufacturer Con Brio, Inc. The movie provid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277006 | 98,342 |
1,575,245 | Theodore Berger and his colleagues at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles have developed a working hippocampal prosthesis that passed the live tissue test in slices of brain tissue in 2004. In 2011, in collaboration with Drs. Sam A. Deadwyler and Robert E. Hampson at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29826376 | 1,574,356 |
799,104 | The continued storage of GAGs leads to abnormalities in multiple organ systems. After 18 months, children with severe MPS II may experience developmental decline and progressive loss of skills. The thickening of the heart valves and walls of the heart can result in progressive decline in cardiac function. The walls of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5650081 | 798,679 |
2,022,992 | Accurate interatomic potentials are essential to analyze assemblies of atoms, molecules, and nanostructures up to the small microscale. IFF is used in molecular dynamics simulations of nanomaterials and biological interfaces. Structures up to ten thousands of atoms can be analyzed on a workstation, and up to a billion ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64170778 | 2,021,828 |
2,136,655 | In parallel, he was involved in a dispute with Raicu Ionescu-Rion and Garabet Ibrăileanu, after he allowed psychological novel techniques to seep into his prose and spoke in favor of the Decadent movement (placing decadent novels on equal footing with works of social criticism). His primordial interest in the subjectiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13765143 | 2,135,426 |
1,667,962 | In 1976, Dharma Realm Buddhist University was formally established at the City of Ten Thousand Buddhas, with the very first class arriving in 1977. The first Chancellor was Venerable Master Hsuan Hua. Other founding members include Bhikshuni Heng Hsien and Professor Ron Epstein. From 1977 to 1984, DRBU operated with th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39225718 | 1,667,023 |
775,274 | The rival hypothesis, that the 1789 outbreak was introduced to Australia by visitors from Makassar, came to prominence in 2002, with Judy Campbell's book "Invisible Invaders". Campbell expanded upon the opinion of C. C. Macknight (1986), an authority on the interaction between indigenous Australians and Makassans. Citi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20790125 | 774,858 |
1,885,650 | B. Brett Finlay, (born 4 April 1959) is a Canadian microbiologist well known for his contributions to understanding how microbes cause disease in people and developing new tools for fighting infections, as well as the role the microbiota plays in human health and disease. Science.ca describes him as one of the world's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52192870 | 1,884,569 |
1,178,132 | For her, social justice is the essential element needed to banish fear and bring peace. Justice means freedom from oppression, but it also implies equality for all. "In God's eyes," she writes, "all creatures have value and are subjects of equal care and love; similarly, in a society of justice and peace, all people ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1094203 | 1,177,508 |
1,948,702 | The Helios Micrometeoroid Analyzer was the in situ instrument to analyze the composition of cosmic dust. In 1974 the instrument was carried by the Helios spacecraft inside the Earth's orbit down to 0.3 AU from the sun. The goal of the Micrometeoroid Analyzer was to determine the spatial distribution of the dust in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70739650 | 1,947,584 |
1,579,749 | Jasmonic acid (JA) is a plant hormone that increases in concentration in response to insect herbivore damage. The rise in JA induces the production of proteins functioning in plant defenses. JA also induces the transcription of multiple genes coding for key enzymes of the major pathways for secondary metabolites. Its s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60758292 | 1,578,859 |
1,439,496 | While adoption of affinity selection-mass spectrometry (AS-MS) has led to an expansion of assay formats, the general technique follows a simple scheme. Protein targets are incubated with small molecules to allow for the formation of stable ligand-protein complexes, unbound small molecules are removed from the mixture, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48999251 | 1,438,686 |
1,083,247 | During the Battle of Britain, the Bf 109's chief disadvantage was its short range: like most of the 1930s monoplane interceptors, it was designed to engage enemy bombers over friendly territory, and the range and endurance necessary for escorting long-ranged bombers over enemy territory was not required. The Bf 109E es... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24239523 | 1,082,690 |
289,742 | To counter or mitigate an A.I. achieving unified technological global supremacy, Bostrom cites revisiting the Baruch Plan in support of a treaty-based solution and advocates strategies like monitoring and greater international collaboration between A.I. teams in order to improve safety and reduce the risks from the A.I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=408292 | 289,585 |
941,531 | Glass containers are 100% inspected; automatic machines, or sometimes persons, inspect every container for a variety of faults. Typical faults include small cracks in the glass called "checks" and foreign inclusions called "stones" which are pieces of the refractory brick lining of the melting furnace that break off an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14730177 | 941,029 |
410,222 | Specifying a Bayesian network meta-analysis model involves writing a directed acyclic graph (DAG) model for general-purpose Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) software such as WinBUGS. In addition, prior distributions have to be specified for a number of the parameters, and the data have to be supplied in a specific forma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62329 | 410,020 |
2,812 | Although many attend regular education classes, some children with AS may attend special education classes such as separate classroom and resource room because of their social and behavioral difficulties. Adolescents with AS may exhibit ongoing difficulty with self-care or organization, and disturbances in social and r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37556 | 2,812 |
634,280 | Rao was first influenced by a science kit her uncle gave to her when she was 4 years old. When she was 10, Rao heard about the Flint water crisis while watching the news and became interested in ways to measure the lead content in water. This led to her using App Inventor to develop a device called Tethys based on carb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58862100 | 633,942 |
599,459 | There have been multiple theories as to why bipedalism was favored, thus leading to skeletal changes that aided the upward gait. The Savannah Hypothesis describes how the transition from arboreal habits to a savannah lifestyle favored an upright, bipedal gait. This would also change the diet of hominins, more specifica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16731978 | 599,153 |
1,643,124 | Alec Rodriguez praised the book's writing in a "Yale Scientific" article, approving of the conciseness and yet approachable technical detail that is included in the book while still remaining smooth in its flow between subjects. Rodriguez concluded that the book also "leaves the reader optimistic" in regards to future ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49960377 | 1,642,197 |
1,244,518 | During World War I and World War II, military engineers built roads, bridges, railroads, ports, fortifications, trenches, and depots in battlefield situations. These engineers emerged as important factors in warfare both on the front lines and behind those lines. Speed became a significant factor in these times of war ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34754607 | 1,243,845 |
780,674 | The AW189 is a medium-sized twin-engined helicopter with a five-bladed fully articulated main rotor, a four-bladed tail rotor and a retractable tricycle landing gear. It is powered by two General Electric CT7-2E1 turboshaft engines. AgustaWestland refer to the AW189 as being a "super-medium class" helicopter, emphasizi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32199250 | 780,256 |
426,738 | The possibility of coiled coils for α-keratin was initially somewhat controversial. Linus Pauling and Francis Crick independently came to the conclusion that this was possible at about the same time. In the summer of 1952, Pauling visited the laboratory in England where Crick worked. Pauling and Crick met and spoke abo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=917564 | 426,529 |
1,317,559 | In 1981, the United States Secretary of State Alexander Haig and his successor George P. Shultz accused the Soviet Union of using T-2 mycotoxin as a chemical weapon known as "yellow rain" in Laos (1975–81), Kampuchea (1979–81), and Afghanistan (1979–81), where it allegedly caused thousands of casualties. Although sever... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1333512 | 1,316,834 |
1,220,696 | Astraeus hygrometricus, commonly known as the hygroscopic earthstar, the barometer earthstar, or the false earthstar, is a species of fungus in the family Diplocystaceae. Young specimens resemble a puffball when unopened. In maturity, the mushroom displays the characteristic earthstar shape that is a result of the oute... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23316558 | 1,220,041 |
385,984 | The largest accumulations of naturally occurring sodium nitrate are found in Chile and Peru, where nitrate salts are bound within mineral deposits called caliche ore. Nitrates accumulate on land through marine-fog precipitation and sea-spray oxidation/desiccation followed by gravitational settling of airborne NaNO, KNO... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=200310 | 385,789 |
1,548,614 | The role of the SA ambassadors was that of "quasi-"Reich" governors" as they aggressively supervised the internal affairs of the nations they were stationed in, making them very much unlike traditional ambassadors. The aristocratic professional diplomats who dominated the "Auswärtiges Amt" saw the SA ambassadors as "ou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65256855 | 1,547,733 |
1,433,657 | Maths B is considerably more theoretical than Maths A, requiring advanced algebra skills to successfully complete. It is a common prerequisite for science and engineering courses at Queensland Universities. Maths B (in some schools) can be studied at the same time with either Maths A or Maths C, but not both. Maths B g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5570773 | 1,432,853 |
1,002,115 | The Polish "Golden Age", the period of the reigns of Sigismund I and Sigismund II, the last two Jagiellonian kings, or more generally the 16th century, is most often identified with the rise of the culture of Polish Renaissance. The cultural flowering had its material base in the prosperity of the elites, both the land... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34960337 | 1,001,597 |
803,126 | The 40 by 80 foot wind tunnel circuit was originally constructed in the 1940s and is now capable of providing test velocities up to . It is used to support an active research program in aerodynamics, dynamics, model noise, and full-scale aircraft and their components. The aerodynamic characteristics of new configuratio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47477 | 802,697 |
1,483,494 | Raichur is privileged of being an oldest establishment for agricultural research in 1932 an Agricultural Research Station was established by the then Nizam’s Government of Hyderabad with a mandate to carryout research on dry land farming. After the reorganization of states in the country, Raichur was identified as the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37067936 | 1,482,658 |
677,480 | In the "Experimenta Nova", Book III, Chapter 20, von Guericke reports on a barometer he had constructed and its application to weather forecasting. The earliest reference to his barometer is in a letter to Fr. Schott of November 1661 ("Technica Curiosa", p. 37) where he writes: "I have observed the variation in the wei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49828 | 677,127 |
1,200,042 | The American University of Afghanistan currently offers four-year undergraduate degree programs in business administration with concentrations in management, accounting, finance and marketing, information technology and computer science, and political science and public administration. Through required general studies ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5229461 | 1,199,401 |
743,822 | In March 1982, designers began working on a W80 variant intended for the Navy's Tomahawk program. The W80 mod 0 (W80-0) used "supergrade" fission fuel, which has less radioactivity, in the primary in place of the conventional plutonium used in the Air Force's version. "Supergrade" is industry parlance for plutonium all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2237316 | 743,428 |
228,478 | As previously mentioned, RA can affect people's memories in different degrees, but testing is required to help determine if someone is experiencing RA. Several tests exist, for example, testing for factual knowledge such as known public events. A problem with this form of testing is that people generally differ in thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1042651 | 228,361 |
1,712,189 | Simulations for Great Britain and the United States show that mitigation (slowing but not stopping epidemic spread) and suppression (reversing epidemic growth) have major challenges. Optimal mitigation policies might reduce peak healthcare demand by two-thirds and deaths by half, but still result in hundreds of thousan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65339945 | 1,711,224 |
1,920,722 | Cope described the next piece of the puzzle in 1874: a more complete jaw fragment in 1874 he named "Cionodon arctatus", which revealed for the first time the complex hadrosaur tooth battery. However, the first essentially complete hadrosaur skull was not described until 1883. It was part of a skeleton (the first essent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23481302 | 1,919,619 |
934,241 | In Belgium, in 2016 and in response to a number of parliamentary questions, the Minister of Social Affairs and Health acknowledged that it is indeed not evident to treat phages as industrially-made drugs and therefore she proposed to investigate if the magistral preparation pathway could offer a solution. Magistral pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=682382 | 933,749 |
1,031,364 | The decision to purchase 60 fighters was due to be made by mid-2013. Emphasis was put on driving down costs, offsets, and technology transfer. Sources in South Korea said part of the focus of which aircraft to select was being heavily based on technology transfer for the indigenous KF-X aircraft program. The Department... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40890966 | 1,030,828 |
1,466,685 | James Henry Breasted was born on August 27, 1865, the son of a small hardware business owner and his wife, in Rockford, Illinois. His ancestors went back to early colonial Dutch and English, with the family name Van Breestede. He was educated at local public schools before attending North Central College (then North-We... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=572601 | 1,465,862 |
1,247,271 | By an ingenious example of lateral thinking, she applied a similar method to make the first ever ‘observation’ of a neutron in nuclear emulsion. Being electrically neutral the neutron cannot, of course, be directly detected in a photographic emulsion, but if it strikes a proton in the emulsion, that recoiling proton ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9769489 | 1,246,596 |
1,576,733 | The period 1970–1990 brought continued growth to the campus. It was during these years that the university began to become proactive in helping businesses. In 1980, several researchers and graduate students who wished to start a company approached the administration and asked for a place to set up a small lab. The admi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32133136 | 1,575,844 |
910,978 | The UK began establishing air and naval facilities in the Persian Gulf, located in the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Oman in 2014–15. The Strategic Defence and Security Review 2015 highlighted a range of foreign policy initiatives of the UK government. Edward Longinotti notes how current British defence policy is g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31731 | 910,499 |
425,143 | Perhaps the most influential criticisms of P&P have been theory internal. As in any other developing field of enquiry, research published within the P&P paradigm often suggests reformulations and variations of the basic P&P premises. Notable debates emerged within P&P including (a) derivationalism vs representationalis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1710381 | 424,935 |
1,535,348 | The "ATP5F1A" gene, located on the q arm of chromosome 18 in position 21, is made up of 13 exons and is 20,090 base pairs in length. The ATP5F1A protein weighs 59.7 kDa and is composed of 553 amino acids. The protein is a subunit of the catalytic portion of the FF ATPase, also known as Complex V, which consists of 14 n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14763133 | 1,534,480 |
44,918 | But Pasteur found that anthrax bacillus was not easily weakened by culturing in air as it formed spores – unlike chicken cholera bacillus. In early 1881, he discovered that growing anthrax bacilli at about 42 °C made them unable to produce spores, and he described this method in a speech to the French Academy of Scienc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17740 | 44,901 |
1,142,689 | Another AUS model is the ZSI 375 (Zephyr Surgical Implants, Geneva, Switzerland), introduced in 2008. It is a one-piece two-part device with a cuff and a pump unit with an integrated spring; it comes in one piece, pre-connected and pre-filled. There is no abdominal component in the ZSI 375, which along with its ready-t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40924799 | 1,142,094 |
263,817 | The "427" V8 was produced as both a top-oiler and side-oiler. Introduced in 1963, its true displacement was 425.98 cubic inches, but Ford called it the 427 because was the maximum displacement allowed by several racing organizations at the time. The stroke was the same as the 390 at , but the bore was increased to . Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=408900 | 263,674 |
1,658,972 | Rowland performed many measurements of the atmosphere. One experiment included collecting air samples at various cities and locations around the globe to determine CClF North-South mixing. By measuring the concentrations at different latitudes, Rowland was able to see that CClF was mixing between hemispheres quite rapi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=637217 | 1,658,039 |
1,609,818 | The botanist Luís Wittnich Carrisso, from the year he became a full professor, from 1918 until the date of his death in 1937, enriched the Garden with new plants, namely with exotic African plants, most of them originating in Angola. He developed relations with similar gardens, promoting exchanges of seeds and plants, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2228967 | 1,608,913 |
396,379 | The Formic species consists of hive-minded colonies directed by queens. In Ender's Game, Graff described them as being an insect that "could have evolved on earth, if things had gone a different way a billion years ago," and that their evolutionary ancestors could have looked similar to Earth's ants. While often descri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=475751 | 396,183 |
1,116,815 | "Kosmoceratops" is known from the Kaiparowits Formation of Utah, which dates to the late Campanian age of the Late Cretaceous epoch, and occurs in a stratigraphic range spanning the upper part of its lower unit to the upper part of its middle unit, in sediments dating to 76.4–75.5 million years ago. The formation was d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28916285 | 1,116,242 |
1,557,626 | Otto's research focus is a multi-pronged approach of population-genetic mathematical models and statistical tools to understand how evolutionary processes generate diverse biological features. The core of her research revolves around analyzing mathematical models and exploring the insights they yield about how biologic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33158087 | 1,556,741 |
1,672,904 | The X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission (XMM) was conceived as the X-ray spectroscopy cornerstone mission at an ESA workshop in Lyngby in June 1985, consisting a space observatory with twelve low-energy and seven high-energy telescopes. Due to practical constraints, the mission's payload was reduced to seven telescopes overall ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60457571 | 1,671,962 |
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