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702,920 | The American physicist Richard Feynman lectured, "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom," at an American Physical Society meeting at Caltech on December 29, 1959, which is often held to have provided inspiration for the field of nanotechnology. Feynman had described a process by which the ability to manipulate individua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7064233 | 702,552 |
1,887,029 | An important concept in understanding these results is that of transitional probability, the likelihood of an element, in this case a syllable, following or preceding another element. In this experiment, syllables that went together in words had a much higher transitional probability than did syllables at word boundari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35676775 | 1,885,947 |
515,231 | The word "ceramic" is derived from the Greek word "keramos", meaning "potter's clay". It came from the ancient art of fabricating pottery where mostly clay was fired to form a hard, brittle object; a more modern definition is a material that contains metallic and non-metallic elements (usually oxygen). These materials ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1117992 | 514,965 |
1,975,117 | Familial eosinophilia is an autosomal dominant disorder. Genetic linkage gene mapping family studies localize the gene responsible for this disease to chromosome 5 at position q31-q33, between markers D5S642 and D5S816. Studies on other disorders associated with high levels of blood eosinophils (e.g. childhood asthma, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53983813 | 1,973,980 |
14,342 | An alternative possibility is disinhibited feedback, or a reduction in the amount of inhibition along normally existing feedback pathways. Normally, excitation and inhibition are balanced. However, if normal feedback were not inhibited as usual, then signals feeding back from late stages of multi-sensory processing mig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21438200 | 14,337 |
684,385 | Ram Sharan Sharma (26 November 1919 – 20 August 2011) was an Indian historian and Indologist who specialised in the history of Ancient and early Medieval India. He taught at Patna University and Delhi University (1973–85) and was visiting faculty at University of Toronto (1965–1966). He also was a senior fellow at the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6989422 | 684,028 |
18,042 | On 24 March 2014, Boeing won a $30.6 million contract from DARPA as part of the Airborne Launch Assist Space Access (ALASA) program. The goal of the program is to cut the cost of putting microsatellites into orbit by 66% through advances in launch systems. Under the 11-month contract, Boeing will build twelve launch ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=495724 | 18,036 |
2,012,960 | During the period when Type N-1 was in widespread use, Lenkurt Corporation, owned and controlled by General Telephone, fielded a variant competitor, the Type BN. BN used the same pairs and repeaters as did the Bell N-CXR, but used four channel "groups," lower single-sideband heterodyning, and 24 channels per carrier, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7092388 | 2,011,803 |
1,222,402 | Hydrogen-treatment of graphene nanofoam electrodes in LIBs was shown to improve their capacity and transport properties. Chemical synthesis methods used in standard anode manufacture leave significant amounts of atomic hydrogen. Experiments and multiscale calculations revealed that low-temperature hydrogen treatment of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42601555 | 1,221,743 |
259,218 | The RF-101C saw service during the Cuban Missile Crisis and soon followed the North American F-100 Super Sabres in October 1961, into combat when RF-101s from the 67th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing deployed to Vietnam. The RF-101C was deployed operationally during the Vietnam War, sustaining losses with the first F-101 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=222857 | 259,084 |
1,033,955 | Members of this family occur in a variety of different colors, and are notable for the hexagonal or "honeycomb" patterns on their skin. They swim in a rowing manner. Their hexagonal plate-like scales are fused together into a solid, triangular or box-like carapace, from which the fins, tail, eyes and mouth protrude. Be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2086847 | 1,033,418 |
907,886 | Nutritional rickets is an important cause of childhood genu varum or bow legs in some parts of the world. Nutritional rickets is due to unhealthy life style habits as insufficient exposure to sun light which is the main source of vitamin D. Insufficient dietary intake of calcium is another contributing factor. Rickets ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=915361 | 907,408 |
1,931,362 | In the 1980s, ESA devised plans for its own space station called "Columbus" Man-Tended Free Flyer which could be attached to NASA's Space Station "Freedom". America objected to ESA's using "Columbus" as building block of a future European space station, and were concerned that they would facilitate the creation of a po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37285469 | 1,930,254 |
447,201 | CNT can be used for water transport and desalination. Water molecules can be separated from salt by forcing them through electrochemically robust nanotube networks with controlled nanoscale porosity. This process requires far lower pressures than conventional reverse osmosis methods. Compared to a plain membrane, it op... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7452926 | 446,984 |
436,324 | During the 1950s, sustainable agriculture was a topic of scientific interest, but research tended to concentrate on developing the new chemical approaches. One of the reasons for this, which informed and guided the ongoing Green Revolution, was the widespread belief that high global population growth, which was demonst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3735202 | 436,110 |
1,457,498 | Genetic modification in order to cure genetic diseases is referred to as gene therapy. Many such gene therapies are available, made it through all phases of clinical research and are approved by the FDA. Between 1989 and December 2018, over 2,900 clinical trials were conducted, with more than half of them in phase I. ,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=887836 | 1,456,678 |
1,803,020 | Kokabee is from Iran's mostly Sunni Muslim Turkmen ethnic group. He was ranked 29th in the Iranian university entrance exam, which is held annually with more than one million participants. He entered Sharif University of Technology in 2000 and completed a double major undergraduate program in Applied Physics and Mechan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33348169 | 1,802,007 |
3,142 | JWST's primary mirror is a -diameter gold-coated beryllium reflector with a collecting area of . If it had been designed as a single large mirror, it would have been too large for existing launch vehicles. The mirror is therefore composed of 18 hexagonal segments (a technique pioneered by Guido Horn d'Arturo), which un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=434221 | 3,142 |
1,793,715 | By the 1740s, William Watson had conducted several experiments to determine the speed of electricity. The general belief at the time was that electricity was faster than sound, but no accurate test had been devised to measure the velocity of a current. Watson, in the fields north of London, laid out a line of wire supp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3733488 | 1,792,706 |
1,208,676 | Some of the largest antidunes on Earth are formed by turbidity currents. One observed sediment-wave field is located on the lower continental slope off Guyana, South America. This sediment-wave field covers an area of at least 29 000 km at a water depth of 4400–4825 meters. These antidunes have wavelengths of 110–2600 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1763424 | 1,208,030 |
474,679 | If a binary star has a long orbital period such that non-linear motions of the photocentre were insignificant over the short (3-year) measurement duration, the binary nature of the star would pass unrecognised by "Hipparcos", but could show as a "Hipparcos" proper motion discrepant compared to those established from lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=207964 | 474,443 |
1,058,001 | Brinker and Robinson first reported aliphatic polybenzimidazoles in 1949. However the discovery of aromatic polybenzimidazole, which shows excellent physical and chemical properties, was generally credited to Carl Shipp Marvel in the 1950s. The Material Laboratory of Wright Patterson Air Force Base approached Marvel. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2035017 | 1,057,452 |
521,036 | As of January 15, 2015, Samsung announced in a press release that it had begun mass production of "8 Gb" (8 × 1024 bits) GDDR5 memory chips based on a 20 nm fabrication process. To meet the demand of higher resolution displays (such as 4K) becoming more mainstream, higher density chips are required in order to facilita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6330871 | 520,765 |
1,440,866 | The holotype specimen is about long, including the long skull, making "Viatkogorgon" a relatively small gorgonopsian. The assigned specimen is larger, with a long skull, and the holotype may have been young. As a gorgonopsian, it would have been skeletally robust with a somewhat dog-like stance, though with outwards-tu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16984249 | 1,440,056 |
562,031 | Adverse effects are similar to hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, namely graft-versus-host disease if the cord blood is from a genetically different person, and the risk of severe infection while the immune system is reconstituted. To assure that the smallest amount of complications occur during transplantation, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2294357 | 561,742 |
2,045,608 | Bonnan's research focuses on three broad but interconnected areas of research: 1) the evolution of dinosaur locomotion, particularly in the giant, long-necked sauropod dinosaurs; 2) the evolution of an erect posture from a sprawled posture in dinosaurs and mammals; and 3) the evolution of pronation and supination in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18295648 | 2,044,427 |
1,235,676 | OrientDB is an open source NoSQL database management system written in Java. It is a Multi-model database, supporting graph, document, key/value, and object models, but the relationships are managed as in graph databases with direct connections between records. It supports schema-less, schema-full and schema-mixed mode... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31921181 | 1,235,013 |
1,227,662 | “Post-mortem microbiology (PMM) aims to detect unexpected infections causing sudden deaths; confirm clinically suspected but unproven infection; evaluate the efficacy of antimicrobial therapy; identify emergent pathogens; and recognize medical errors. Additionally, the analysis of the thanatomicrobiome may help to esti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4985778 | 1,227,000 |
1,981,144 | Teachers choose roles carefully in order to engender different interactions and dynamics within the context of the dramatic environment. Adopting different roles in a fictional setting and allowing students to explore the information of the setting through dialogue is an interactive and engaging method of teaching. Tea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=964384 | 1,980,005 |
574,817 | There were three reasons for the 6502's low cost. One was that the designers stripped out any feature that wasn't absolutely required. This led to the removal of one of the two accumulators and the use of smaller 8-bit index registers, both resulting in less internal wiring. Another change was the move to depletion-loa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20326 | 574,523 |
359,484 | Dirac studied electrical engineering on a City of Bristol University Scholarship at the University of Bristol's engineering faculty, which was co-located with the Merchant Venturers' Technical College. Shortly before he completed his degree in 1921, he sat for the entrance examination for St John's College, Cambridge. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24742 | 359,297 |
1,480,783 | The Netherlands nearly pulled a worst-to-first effort, building from an eighth-place turn by Inge Dekker (54.67), fifth by Marleen Veldhuis (53.80), and third by Femke Heemskerk (53.39), until they handed Ranomi Kromowidjojo the anchor duties on the final exchange. She delivered a fastest freestyle split in the field w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34236467 | 1,479,949 |
1,578,335 | Rather than sequencing the entire genome (all DNA sequence) of the various plant species, the project sequenced only those regions of the genome that produce a protein product (coding genes); the transcriptome. This approach is justified by the focus on biochemical pathways where only the genes producing the involved p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26412304 | 1,577,445 |
2,023,063 | Bamberger strongly recommended "Serendipity" "to the general public and especially to science administrators and science teachers". He found the chemistry-related material particularly interesting. He suggested that teachers using the book should highlight that repeated experimentation is necessary to proceed from a lu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66598596 | 2,021,899 |
1,895,533 | Barber has published over 650 original research papers and reviews in the field of natural and artificial photosynthesis, editing 15 specialised books. The focus of his research has been the investigation of photosynthesis and the functional role of the photosystems with emphasis on their structures. Much of his work h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21160498 | 1,894,449 |
2,108,683 | In April 1817, digging the pit for the dry dock was tendered together with digging a stretch of the wet dock from the sea lock to the dry dock. The order also included delivery of 5,000 oak and other piles, as well as 30,000 feet of related planks. The circumstances in the dock proved even worse than below the pump bui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66553510 | 2,107,469 |
396,619 | Concussion involves diffuse (as opposed to focal) brain injury, meaning that the dysfunction occurs over a widespread area of the brain rather than in a particular spot. It is thought to be a milder type of diffuse axonal injury, because axons may be injured to a minor extent due to stretching. Animal studies in which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399231 | 396,423 |
905,084 | The WASP arrangement with the US Army Air Forces ended on December 20, 1944. During its period of operation, each member's service had freed a male pilot for military combat or other duties. They flew over 60 million miles; transported every type of military aircraft; towed targets for live anti-aircraft gun practice; ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1549788 | 904,608 |
1,772,616 | With the development of tumor-associated antigens (TAA), the first clone of a human tumor antigen, melanoma antigen-1 (MAGE-1) was reported in 1990s, which elicited an autologous cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) response in a melanoma patient. Further studies found that MAGE-1 (renamed MAGE-A1 later) was expressed in vario... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47052678 | 1,771,619 |
1,892,873 | During the 1970s, the research have develop a novel technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with United States Department of Energy funding. The undertaking known as the Advanced System for Process Engineering (ASPEN) Project, was originally intended to design nonlinear simulation software that co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50058607 | 1,891,790 |
62,659 | The central oscillator generates a self-sustaining rhythm and is driven by two interacting feedback loops that are active at different times of day. The morning loop consists of CCA1 (Circadian and Clock-Associated 1) and LHY (Late Elongated Hypocotyl), which encode closely related MYB transcription factors that regula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56565 | 62,634 |
1,069,041 | Fusion: the process requires a self-generating reducing atmosphere, and so the crushed ore sample is mixed with fluxes and a carbon source (e.g. coal dust, ground charcoal, flour, etc.) mixed with powdered lead oxide (litharge) in a refractory crucible. In general, multiple crucibles will be placed inside an electric f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23008816 | 1,068,487 |
1,350,044 | The initial squad was selected for the British team on 14 July; however, the final team was not confirmed until the outcome of a court case involving Dwain Chambers. Under the rules of the BOA, Chambers had been banned from future Games after testing positive for the steroid THG in 2003. His appeal to overturn that ban... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14879786 | 1,349,298 |
632,588 | The basis for most LOC fabrication processes is photolithography. Initially most processes were in silicon, as these well-developed technologies were directly derived from semiconductor fabrication. Because of demands for e.g. specific optical characteristics, bio- or chemical compatibility, lower production costs and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1041078 | 632,250 |
1,568,634 | SEDS is a prominent student-run international grass-roots movement dedicated to space advocacy. The Purdue chapter, known as the Purdue Space Program, oversees five rocketry teams, a satellite team, and promotes science outreach at local elementary schools and science centers as well as participating in space conferenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24957288 | 1,567,747 |
1,562,746 | Environmental conditions such as soil pH, soil temperature, moisture content, and plant litter type and quality have the potential to alter exoenzyme expression and activity. Variations in seasonal temperatures can shift metabolic needs of microorganisms in synchrony with shifts in plant nutrient requirements. Agricult... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39415854 | 1,561,859 |
1,847,811 | The hind legs of the "Cosesaurus" specimen are longer than the forelimbs, indicating that it was possibly, but not certainly, bipedal. Sanz & López-Martínez (1984) used a proportional tool known as the "Index of Galton" to investigate the possibility. Originated by Peter Galton in a 1976 study on "prosauropods" (basal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31710135 | 1,846,753 |
485,903 | It was customary for the Hellenistic warlords to name individual units of phalangites according to the color of their shields. Thus, the phalanx of the Hellenistic armies used terms such as "Chrysaspides" (Greeks: Χρυσάσπιδες 'gold-shields'), "Chalkaspides" ('bronze-shields') and "Leukaspides" ('white-shields') to deno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9050031 | 485,654 |
139,340 | In this basic technology, only one side of the insulator is coated with a conductive layer. A small voltage is applied to the layer, resulting in a uniform electrostatic field. When a conductor, such as a human finger, touches the uncoated surface, a capacitor is dynamically formed. The sensor's controller can determin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=667206 | 139,283 |
1,060,768 | Due to the chemical activity higher than lithium, electrolytes for potassium ion battery requires more delicate engineering to address safety concerns. Commercial ethylene carbonate (EC) and diethyl carbonate (DEC) or other traditional ether/ester liquid electrolyte showed poor cycling performance and fast capacity deg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28863162 | 1,060,216 |
565,243 | Parameters of factory files such as fuel injection, boost pressure, rail pressure, fuel pump pressure and ignition timing, are adjusted to safe limits that are set by an expert so the unlocked performance does not compromise the car's safe levels of reliability, fuel consumption and emissions. The map may be customized... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=301309 | 564,953 |
741,780 | One of the most important changes in lineage B.1.1.7 seems to be N501Y, a change from asparagine (N) to tyrosine (Y) in amino-acid position 501. This is because of its position inside the spike protein's receptor-binding domain (RBD)—more specifically inside the receptor-binding motif (RBM), a part of the RBD—which bin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66147797 | 741,388 |
1,338,578 | This algorithm, which was proposed by Holtgrewe et al., was the first distributed RGG generator algorithm for dimension 2. It partitions the unit square into equal sized cells with side length of at least formula_7. For a given number formula_8of processors, each processor is assigned formula_9cells, where formula_10Fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12106740 | 1,337,845 |
898,200 | Most of the body was covered in scales. Larger scales were arranged in irregular patterns, with numerous smaller scales occupying the spaces between them, similarly to skin impressions known from other ceratopsians, such as "Chasmosaurus". A series of what appear to be hollow, tubular bristle-like structures, approxima... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2274247 | 897,726 |
847,623 | The industrial revolution put more importance on employing machinery in production, and the non-labor costs that came with it. This required 'durable assets' and so brought about the corporation as an entity, with limited liability for investors. The main source of financing shifted from commercial banks to investment ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5200483 | 847,173 |
88,220 | Yeager, who never attended college and was often modest about his background, is considered by many, including "Flying Magazine", the California Hall of Fame, the State of West Virginia, National Aviation Hall of Fame, a few U.S. presidents, and the United States Army Air Force, to be one of the greatest pilots of all ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6185 | 88,185 |
1,264,462 | By the early 20th century, Nova Scotia businesses and industries recognized the growing need for technical education in the province, particularly in light of the coal mining and steel manufacturing boom underway in Industrial Cape Breton. Competing engineering diploma programs were established by four universities in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182697 | 1,263,774 |
167,869 | Santos-Dumont began to show symtoms of multiple sclerosis. He aged in appearance and felt too tired to continue competing with new inventors in races. On 22 August 1909 he attended the Great Aviation Week in Reims, where he made his last flights. After an accident with the Demoiselle on 4 January 1910, he closed down h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152687 | 167,779 |
761,150 | The BCIA didactic education requirement includes a 36-hour course from a regionally accredited academic institution or a BCIA-approved training program that covers the complete Neurofeedback Blueprint of Knowledge and study of human anatomy and physiology. Applicants must also pass a written exam, complete 25 hours of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=510370 | 760,743 |
740,745 | In 1924, or 1925, Shewhart's innovation came to the attention of W. Edwards Deming, then working at the Hawthorne facility. Deming later worked at the United States Department of Agriculture and became the mathematical advisor to the United States Census Bureau. Over the next half a century, Deming became the foremost ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=435754 | 740,353 |
50,984 | By 1914, experiments by physicists Ernest Rutherford, Henry Moseley, James Franck and Gustav Hertz had largely established the structure of an atom as a dense nucleus of positive charge surrounded by lower-mass electrons. In 1913, Danish physicist Niels Bohr postulated that electrons resided in quantized energy states,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9476 | 50,964 |
277,050 | Biosynthesis of this 31-membered macrocycle begins as the loading domain is primed with the starter unit, 4,5-dihydroxocyclohex-1-ene-carboxylic acid, which is derived from the shikimate pathway. Note that the cyclohexane ring of the starting unit is reduced during the transfer to module 1. The starting unit is then mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=529476 | 276,900 |
560,935 | The electrothermic process, developed by the St. Joseph's Lead Company, was somewhat similar. The first commercial plant using this process was built in 1930 at the present site of Josephtown, Pennsylvania. The electrothermic furnace was a steel cylinder around 15 meters high and 2 meters in diameter, lined with firebr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16916026 | 560,646 |
825,128 | With the renovated Bathysphere, Beebe and Barton began preparing for their planned descent of half a mile. Their ship once again was the "Ready", this time towed by a tug called the "Powerful". During their first test dive, they demanded to be pulled up after descending only because the sphere had begun to leak; they s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4928504 | 824,685 |
1,227,149 | The genus "Paranthropus" (from Ancient Greek παρα "para" beside or alongside, and άνθρωπος "ánthropos" man, otherwise known as "robust australopithecines") typically includes "P. aethiopicus", "P. boisei", and "P. robustus". "P. aethiopicus" is the earliest member of the genus, with the oldest remains, from the Ethiopi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1722009 | 1,226,488 |
2,011,561 | In recent years, ovarian fragmentation has surfaced as an effective strategy to promote ovarian follicular activation and growth. Studies undertaken on cultured human ovarian cortical fragments have demonstrated that the mechanical damage resulting from ovarian tissue fragmentation disrupts the Hippo signalling pathway... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55362208 | 2,010,408 |
360,974 | Google has unveiled a new archaeology document program named Ithaca after the home island of mythical hero Odysseys. The deep neural network helps researchers restore the empty text of damaged documents, identify the place they originated from, and give them a definite accurate date. The work builds on another text ana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41755648 | 360,785 |
1,722,276 | The image reconstruction algorithms are based on iterative phase retrieval, either related to the Gerchberg–Saxton algorithm or based on convex relaxation methods. Like real space ptychography, the solution of the phase problem relies on the same mathematical shift invariance constraint, except in Fourier ptychography ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46760498 | 1,721,306 |
520,660 | A newer technique, spin-transfer torque (STT) or "spin-transfer switching", uses spin-aligned ("polarized") electrons to directly torque the domains. Specifically, if the electrons flowing into a layer have to change their spin, this will develop a torque that will be transferred to the nearby layer. This lowers the am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315008 | 520,389 |
448,816 | Landsat 7 is the seventh satellite of the Landsat program. Launched on 15 April 1999, Landsat 7's primary goal is to refresh the global archive of satellite photos, providing up-to-date and cloud-free images. The Landsat program is managed and operated by the United States Geological Survey, and data from Landsat 7 is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=473823 | 448,598 |
1,305,797 | Heck retired from the University of Delaware in 1989, where he became the Willis F. Harrington Professor Emeritus in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Its annual lectureship was named in his honor in 2004. In 2005, he was awarded the Wallace H. Carothers Award, which recognizes creative applications of chem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17951090 | 1,305,081 |
84,761 | While angular momentum total conservation can be understood separately from Newton's laws of motion as stemming from Noether's theorem in systems symmetric under rotations, it can also be understood simply as an efficient method of calculation of results that can also be otherwise arrived at directly from Newton's seco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2839 | 84,727 |
1,535,795 | During the 76th Oregon Legislative Assembly, the Senate passed a resolution to "congratulate the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific Northwest, thank the founders for their commitment to the people of Oregon and wish the college success in the future". The school opened in August 2011 with an initial enrollm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32599734 | 1,534,927 |
251,192 | Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment released the series in its entirety on DVD, as part of the series' 20th anniversary. In the United Kingdom, it was distributed on VHS by ViewTech, Bristol. In 1994 and 1995, Walt Disney Home Video released five volumes of "Bill Nye the Science Guy", such as "The Human Body: The In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=717037 | 251,059 |
1,896,094 | With the help of precision medicine, scientists can gain better insights into the underlying causes of diseases in the population with certain genome information. Subpopulations with similar genome information, such as close family members, have a relatively high chance of developing certain genetic conditions or disea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70427358 | 1,895,010 |
896,144 | The gravity of Mars is a natural phenomenon, due to the law of gravity, or gravitation, by which all things with mass around the planet Mars are brought towards it. It is weaker than Earth's gravity due to the planet's smaller mass. The average gravitational acceleration on Mars is 3.72076 ms (about 38% of that of Eart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55521195 | 895,673 |
1,237,832 | Child participants have been able to provide interviewers with solid responses, which have proven to be both correct and detailed when given a cognitive interview. Researchers have recently reported that cognitive interviewing leads children to report detailed information that is particularly relevant to police investi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15767995 | 1,237,167 |
921,336 | In the United States, anyone, including the city issuing building permits, may face a civil liability lawsuit for negligently creating a situation that results in loss of life or property. Those who fail to adhere to well known best practices for safety have been held negligent. This liability and the desire to protect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=537422 | 920,850 |
916,742 | While it is true that the TVA is vital to back and core health, the muscle also has the effect of pulling in what would otherwise be a protruding abdomen (hence its nickname, the “corset muscle”). Training the rectus abdominis muscles alone will not and can not give one a "flat" belly; this effect is achieved only thro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2279794 | 916,259 |
1,576,537 | The results are summarized in Table 31. For reaction (19), only the lowest vibrational levels are accounted. The lower frequency of disappearance limit is 0.40 ns. This process induces the highest destruction, indicating that XeCl(B) synthesized with high vibrational excitation is quickly relaxed by binary collision wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36182278 | 1,575,648 |
1,269,809 | Published in 1901, Max Planck deduced the existence and value of the constant now bearing his name from considering only Wien's displacement law, statistical mechanics, and electromagnetic theory. Four years later in 1905, Albert Einstein went further to elucidate this constant and its deep connection to the stopping p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4490255 | 1,269,118 |
1,072,215 | After any of the above approaches are used to design the secondary structure of a target complex, an actual sequence of nucleotides that will form into the desired structure must be devised. Nucleic acid design is the process of assigning a specific nucleic acid base sequence to each of a structure's constituent strand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26901564 | 1,071,661 |
1,931,151 | The amino acid sequence of the protein has a central domain with a high concentration of prolines, as well as domains at the amino-terminal and carboxy-terminal of the amino acid sequence. The PDB file 1H3H depicts the SH3 domain of GRAP2 in complex with an RSTK-containing peptide representing residues 226–235 of SLP-7... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9697944 | 1,930,043 |
2,184,519 | Starting in 2008, Brazil began a radical change in its military policy, with the objective of consolidating itself as the greatest power in Latin America. The National Defense Strategy, launched in 2008, established that Brazil should have a "naval force of stature"; from this would emerge the Submarine Development Pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72168935 | 2,183,271 |
105,963 | Later, this essentially philosophical position gained strength from the success of Skinner's early experimental work with rats and pigeons, summarized in his books "The Behavior of Organisms" and "Schedules of Reinforcement". Of particular importance was his concept of the operant response, of which the canonical examp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=540801 | 105,918 |
753,924 | Humans have often colonised areas in the temperate deciduous forest. They have harvested wood for timber and charcoal. During the European colonization of North America, potash made from tree ashes was exported back to Europe as fertilizer. This left less than one-quarter of original forests remaining. Many forests are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9394749 | 753,521 |
1,809,073 | At the start of 2010, David made the move from the Swansea High Performance Centre to Caerphilly County Swim Squad and a new coach in Peter Key. On 4 March 2010 David was chosen to be a patron of the Jaguar Sports Academy. In August 2010 he once again represented Britain at the IPC World Swimming Championships, which w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15297417 | 1,808,052 |
1,515,838 | Having the ability to live in such harsh environment comes from the organisms traits and abilities that are coded into their genomes. Changes inherited over time via DNA have allowed these organisms to build up various resistances and immunities to the volatile nature of their homes. It is these traits that have scient... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59675902 | 1,514,986 |
1,334,770 | On the advice of Kita, a personal friend of the elder Fukui, young Kenichi was directed to the Department of Industrial Chemistry, with which Kita was then affiliated. He also explains that chemistry was difficult to him because it seemed to require memorization to learn it, and that he preferred more logical character... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=729933 | 1,334,040 |
981,327 | Despite the sophistication of the concept, the mechanism of capacitive switching is physically simple. The movable part ends with a flat foam element about the size of an aspirin tablet, finished with aluminum foil. Opposite the switch is a PCB with the capacitor pads. When the key is pressed, the foil tightly clings t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16830 | 980,815 |
963,050 | However, the fall of Tula checked the power of the "zuyuano" system, which finally broke down with the dissolution of the League of Mayapán, the Mixtec state, and the abandonment of Tula. Mesoamerica received new immigrants from the north, and although these groups were related to the ancient Toltecs, they had a comple... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399215 | 962,541 |
1,758,871 | Recently manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MEMRI) has been used to trace functional circuits in living brains, as pioneered by Russ Jacobs, Robia Paultler, Alan Koretsky and Elaine Bearer. The Mn ion gives a hyperintense signal in T-weighted MRI and thus serves as a contrast agent. Mn enters through voltag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19529858 | 1,757,878 |
612,323 | Selective pressure between two species can include host-parasite coevolution. This antagonistic relationship leads to the necessity for the pathogen to have the best virulent alleles to infect the organism and for the host to have the best resistant alleles to survive parasitism. As a consequence, allele frequencies va... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1653186 | 612,012 |
773,405 | It was not approved to treat idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). In 2002, the manufacturer InterMune issued a press release saying that phase III data demonstrated survival benefit in IPF and reduced mortality by 70% in patients with mild to moderate disease. The U.S. Department of Justice charged that the release con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2687346 | 772,989 |
1,982,141 | Plks have been found to cooperate with Cdks in the orchestration of cell division. Entry into M phase is controlled through the activation of cyclin-dependent kinase 1 (CDK1)–cyclin B, and Cdc25 is a phosphatase that dephosphorylates Cdk1 to promote mitotic entry. Plk1 binds to phosphorylated Cdc25 through its PBD. Thu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13735376 | 1,981,002 |
69,819 | The most important symptoms for diagnosing serotonin syndrome are tremor, extreme aggressiveness, akathisia, or clonus (spontaneous, inducible and ocular). Physical examination of the patient should include assessment of deep-tendon reflexes and muscle rigidity, the dryness of the mucosa of the mouth, the size and reac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29500 | 69,792 |
1,082,398 | Born in Newport, Delaware, Evans received little formal education and in his mid-teens was apprenticed to a wheelwright. Going into business with his brothers, he worked for over a decade designing, building and perfecting an automated mill with devices such as bucket chains and conveyor belts. In doing so Evans design... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=389929 | 1,081,842 |
1,389,826 | Although metachromasia was observed and described since 1875, by Cornil, Ranvier and others, it was the German scientist Paul Ehrlich (1854-1915) who gave its name and studied it more extensively. The modern understanding of metachromasia was advanced by Belgian histologist Lucien Lison, who studied it between 1933 and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2615959 | 1,389,055 |
195,454 | In psychology, pattern recognition is used to make sense of and identify objects, and is closely related to perception. This explains how the sensory inputs humans receive are made meaningful. Pattern recognition can be thought of in two different ways. The first concerns template matching and the second concerns featu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=126706 | 195,354 |
1,983,809 | Herman A. Witkin (2 August 1916 – 8 July 1979) was an American psychologist who pioneered the development of cognitive theories, especially as they pertained to learning. While many cognitive psychologists diagnosed learning disabilities with questionnaires, he preferred projective tests and problem-solving exercises. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9088314 | 1,982,670 |
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