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438,819 | Eukaryotes have a nucleus where DNA is contained. They are usually larger than prokaryotes and contain many more organelles. The nucleus, the feature of a eukaryote that distinguishes it from a prokaryote, contains a nuclear envelope, nucleolus and chromatin. In cytoplasm, endoplasmic reticulum (ER) synthesizes membran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6227883 | 438,605 |
1,333,311 | One PBT of concern is DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), an organochlorine that was widely used as an insecticide during World War II to protect soldiers from malaria carried by mosquitoes. Due to the low cost and low toxicity to mammals, the widespread use of DDT for agricultural and commercial motives started aro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36650542 | 1,332,582 |
1,787,888 | In the electrode belt, four dry, non-adhesive ECG electrodes continuously monitor the patient's heart rhythm. Three defibrillation electrodes are placed in the vest, one on the chest (approximately at the level of the apex of the heart) and two on the back (between the shoulder blades). The ECG electrodes are placed at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24587308 | 1,786,883 |
807,618 | In a series of studies, linguistic anthropologists Elinor Ochs and Bambi Schieffelin addressed the anthropological topic of socialization (the process by which infants, children, and foreigners become members of a community, learning to participate in its culture), using linguistic and other ethnographic methods. They ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166208 | 807,188 |
1,847,294 | In 2005, Partin was appointed the David Hall McConnell Professor in the Department of Urology. While serving in this role, he co-led a study with Stephen J. Freedland which demonstrated that men with high PSA levels prior to prostate removal surgery were significantly more likely to have advanced clinical stages of can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67675157 | 1,846,237 |
1,374,728 | Different regions of the ACC have been studied in the literature, with the subgenual (sgACC) and rostral (rACC) parts being largely separated. Grey matter volume in the sgACC has been, albeit with some exceptions, found to be reduced in bipolar. Along with this, bipolar is associated with increased blood flow in the sg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56259633 | 1,373,969 |
437,081 | The peptidyl transferase is an aminoacyltransferase () as well as the primary enzymatic function of the ribosome, which forms peptide bonds between adjacent amino acids using tRNAs during the translation process of protein biosynthesis. The substrates for the peptidyl transferase reaction are two tRNA molecules, one be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2100199 | 436,867 |
1,468,258 | The sympathoadrenal system is a physiological connection between the sympathetic nervous system and the adrenal medulla and is crucial in an organism's physiological response to outside stimuli. When the body receives sensory information, the sympathetic nervous system sends a signal to preganglionic nerve fibers, whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35799849 | 1,467,434 |
155,509 | 1931. However, in 1933, the Ohio State Senate Welfare Commission proposed a plan to convert the school into a mental health institution. Students, faculty and administrators organized with the Bowling Green community to counter the proposal. The Student Protest Committee coordinated with the faculty and administration ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275181 | 155,439 |
524,345 | The interpretation has also been criticized for not explaining which things have sufficient consciousness to collapse the wave function. Also, it posits an important role for the conscious mind, and it has been questioned how this could be the case for the earlier universe, before consciousness had evolved or emerged. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41681462 | 524,073 |
2,045,852 | Looking back at the 1896–97 season, the "Sports Argus"' editorial expressed disappointment with the team's performance and dissatisfaction with the running of the club. At the start of the season, they had "confidently looked forward" to Small Heath reaching the test match positions, even if they proved unsuccessful th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34698933 | 2,044,671 |
1,043,184 | Group address and unknown destination individual frames are optimally transmitted to only members of the same Ethernet service. IEEE 802.1aq supports the creation of thousands of logical Ethernet services in the form of E-LINE, E-LAN or E-TREE constructs which are formed between non-participating logical ports of the I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23094504 | 1,042,640 |
187,294 | At low luminosities, the objects to be unified are Seyfert galaxies. The unification models propose that in Seyfert 1s the observer has a direct view of the active nucleus. In Seyfert 2s the nucleus is observed through an obscuring structure which prevents a direct view of the optical continuum, broad-line region or (s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177092 | 187,197 |
1,592,528 | The dispersion of CNTs in a solution of an electron donating conjugated polymer is perhaps the most common strategy to implement CNT materials into OPVs. Generally poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT) or poly(3-octylthiophene) (P3OT) are used for this purpose. These blends are then spin coated onto a transparent conductive el... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17279558 | 1,591,631 |
1,067,495 | Management of shock should be based on the type of shock. When the type of shock hasn't been identified yet, the provider should start with some initial treatments and labs. All children with suspected shock should receive supplemental oxygen, ventilation if in respiratory distress (via nasal canula, high flow nasal ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12823966 | 1,066,941 |
2,072,424 | In 1841 he made a proposal to a dynamic solicitor of Elgin, James Grant (later provost of the town), to build a railway linking it with the harbour of Lossiemouth, six miles away. Mitchell would undertake the engineering, and Grant would organise the company. Mitchell carried out a survey, and had a contractor ready, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28138694 | 2,071,233 |
313,462 | William Kamkwamba (born August 5, 1987) is a Malawian inventor, engineer, and author. He gained renown in his country in 2001 when he built a wind turbine to power multiple electrical appliances in his family's house in Wimbe, 23 km (14 mi) east of Kasungu, using blue gum trees, bicycle parts, and materials collected i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14681659 | 313,293 |
351,758 | Wolfgang Pauli in 1924 was the first to propose a doubling of the number of available electron states due to a two-valued non-classical "hidden rotation". In 1925, George Uhlenbeck and Samuel Goudsmit at Leiden University suggested the simple physical interpretation of a particle spinning around its own axis, in the sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19593829 | 351,575 |
907,072 | However at higher and top competitive levels, even these variations are thought too coarse-grained and match pellets are "batch tested"; that is, the specific gun is mounted in a machine rest test rig and pellets from a specific production run on a specific machine with the same ingredients fed into the process (a "bat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11060151 | 906,594 |
1,312,445 | Chemical engineering is a discipline that was developed out of those practicing "industrial chemistry" in the late 19th century. Before the Industrial Revolution (18th century), industrial chemicals and other consumer products such as soap were mainly produced through batch processing. Batch processing is labour-intens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3272644 | 1,311,726 |
4,683 | Carlsen played in the Bazna Kings Tournament in Romania on 14–25 June. The tournament was a double round robin involving Wang Yue, Boris Gelfand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Teimour Radjabov, and Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu. He finished with 7½/10 and a 2918 PR, winning the tournament by two points ahead of Radjabov and Gelfand. Car... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=442682 | 4,681 |
1,516,634 | The main benefit of liberalisation comes from the increased competition afforded to the market. This increases the availability and distribution of energy in supply situations by building transparent price signals and diversifying the production of electricity between gas-turbine technologies to nuclear energy. It has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1303857 | 1,515,782 |
1,813,694 | Although the intraparticle pore of the original SWNHs is completely closed, 11 and 36% of the intraparticle pore spaces become open by oxidation at 573 and 623 K, respectively. As the number and size of the windows in the wall of SWNH can be varied by the heating temperature, the possibility for a molecular selective a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33177808 | 1,812,660 |
159,549 | An important implication of prospect theory is that the way economic agents subjectively frame an outcome or transaction in their mind affects the utility they expect or receive. Narrow framing is a derivative result which has been documented in experimental settings by Tversky and Kahneman, whereby people evaluate new... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=197284 | 159,464 |
1,760,840 | The development of florbetapir built on research done by William Klunk and Chester Mathis who had developed a substance they called Pittsburgh compound B as a means of detecting amyloid plaque, after analyzing 400 prospective compounds and developing 300 variations of the substance that they had discovered might work. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37972292 | 1,759,847 |
1,207,682 | From the mathematical point of view the Lippmann–Schwinger equation in coordinate representation is an integral equation of Fredholm type. It can be solved by discretization. Since it is equivalent to the differential time-independent Schrödinger equation with appropriate boundary conditions, it can also be solved by n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4110552 | 1,207,036 |
713,537 | Translational research in biomedicine is broken down into different stages. In a two-stage model, "T1 research", refers to the "bench-to-bedside" enterprise of translating knowledge from the basic sciences into the development of new treatments and "T2 research" refers to translating the findings from clinical trials i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20927937 | 713,165 |
266,205 | This problem can also be caused by excessive weight in children. In this case, the symptoms are more like the symptoms adults feel such as restlessness, exhaustion, etc. If adenotonsillar hypertrophy remains the most common cause of OSA in children, obesity can also play a role in the pathophysiology of upper airway ob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1976353 | 266,061 |
974,416 | Alonzo Church was born on June 14, 1903, in Washington, D.C., where his father, Samuel Robbins Church, was a Justice of the Peace and the judge of the Municipal Court for the District of Columbia. He was the grandson of Alonzo Webster Church (1829-1909), United States Senate Librarian from 1881-1901, and great grandson... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49731 | 973,905 |
2,198,971 | Nicholson was born Heather Margaret Halcrow in Hamilton on 19 June 1931, the daughter of Amy and Tom Halcrow, and was raised at Galatea. After studying physical geography at high school, she enrolled at Auckland University College in 1949, where she decided to study geology. She was the first woman whose thesis, titled... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61415273 | 2,197,719 |
2,210,237 | Benjamin Limo completed the fourth leg 24 seconds faster than the rest of the field to keep Kenya's lead. Brazil's Ronaldo da Costa gained a ten-second gap in third, with Japan (Masatoshi Ibata) and Portugal (Angelo Pacheco) both slowing in fourth and fifth. Tom Nyariki made it three consecutive stage wins for Kenya in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61585520 | 2,208,977 |
888,591 | When World War II ended, the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union were all intent on capitalizing on Nazi research and competed for the spoils of war. While President Harry S. Truman refused to provide sanctuary to ideologically committed members of the Nazi party, the Office of Strategic Services int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=199804 | 888,123 |
1,567,178 | The basic structural unit of the neural network is connectivity of one neuron to another via an active junction, called synapse. Neurons of widely divergent characteristics are connected to each other via synapses, whose characteristics are also of diverse chemical and electrical properties. In presenting a comprehensi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33818014 | 1,566,291 |
407,290 | For interaction models, the participants in communication alternate the positions of sender and receiver. So upon receiving a message, a new message is generated and returned to the original sender as a form of feedback. In this regard, communication is a two-way process. This adds more complexity to the model since th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33742208 | 407,089 |
1,798,857 | One of the most significant challenges for IUWM could be securing a consensus on the definition of IUWM and the implementation of stated objectives at operational stages of projects. In the developing world there is still a significant fraction of the population that has no access to proper water supply and sanitation.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24341799 | 1,797,848 |
354,684 | His RB9 car initially struggled possibly due to its aerodynamic profile on the new softer Pirelli compounds but performed better when the 2012 compounds were re-introduced mid-season. At the , the season's second round, Webber was overtaken by Vettel in the closing laps to win the race after Vettel ignored the team ord... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564161 | 354,501 |
2,190,850 | The first program that was offered by the School of Library Science was the BLS. This program began with a 4-week orientation, which included a road trip across the prairies to visit different libraries in Canada. This program was granted accreditation by the American Library Association in 1970. This accreditation was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51603009 | 2,189,601 |
1,519,469 | By 1984, Borucki's attention had turned to the search for extrasolar planets by use of the transit method, which involves observing the periodic dimming of the star in order to detect the signature of a planet blocking some of its light as it passes in front. In that year and subsequently in 1988, Borucki organized wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38164008 | 1,518,611 |
483,168 | The physiological blood-flow response largely decides the temporal sensitivity, how well neurons that are active can be measured in BOLD fMRI. The basic time resolution parameter is the sampling rate, or TR, which dictates how often a particular brain slice is excited and allowed to lose its magnetization. TRs could va... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37689664 | 482,924 |
1,877,444 | Based on these fundamental empirical studies, Burgess argued for two kinds of theoretical model to describe systems, which he called type 1 and type 2. Type 1 models were dynamical performance models that described machines as changing phenomena. Type 2 were semantic models, concerning the efficacy and influence of hum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6372337 | 1,876,366 |
403,339 | The Second World War marked the universal acceptance of the integration of air power into combined arms warfare. Although the German "Luftwaffe" was the only force to use CAS at the start of the war, all the major combatants had developed effective air-ground coordination techniques by the conflict's end. New technique... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600792 | 403,139 |
135,889 | According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), getting as many girls vaccinated as early and as quickly as possible will reduce the cases of cervical cancer among middle-aged women in 30 to 40 years and reduce the transmission of this highly communicable infection. Barriers include the limited ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3304705 | 135,834 |
1,835,815 | IBM's 1964 System/360 introduced their new self-formatting variable-length record format for disk and other random-access drives, wherein each record had an optional variable length key field and a variable length data field. IBM mainframe disk, drum and mass storage devices, called direct access storage devices (DASD)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16218879 | 1,834,766 |
104,602 | Many physicists—including Woldemar Voigt, George FitzGerald, Joseph Larmor, and Hendrik Lorentz himself—had been discussing the physics implied by these equations since 1887. Early in 1889, Oliver Heaviside had shown from Maxwell's equations that the electric field surrounding a spherical distribution of charge should ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18404 | 104,557 |
1,468,852 | Polyploidy is pervasive in plants and some estimates suggest that 30–80% of living plant species are polyploid, and many lineages show evidence of ancient polyploidy (paleopolyploidy) in their genomes. Huge explosions in angiosperm species diversity appear to have coincided with ancient genome duplications shared by ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15756753 | 1,468,028 |
378,964 | The development program for pembrolizumab was seen as high priority at Organon, but low at Schering and later Merck. In early 2010, Merck terminated development and began preparing to out-license it. Later, in 2010, scientists from Bristol Myers Squibb published a paper in "The New England Journal of Medicine" showing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39210170 | 378,769 |
2,013,949 | In 1995 with his colleagues Nirav Kapadia and Jose A.B. Fortes, Lundstrom created PUNCH – the Purdue University Network Computing Hub, which provided access to scientific simulations through a web browser, and was an early example of cloud computing. As founding director of the National Science Foundation-funded Networ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38647083 | 2,012,790 |
185,514 | A physical system is said to be ergodic if any representative point of the system eventually comes to visit the entire volume of the system. For the above example, this implies that any given atom not only visits every part of the box formula_95 with uniform probability, but it does so with every possible velocity, wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5456824 | 185,417 |
1,626,293 | The International Space Station (ISS) orbits the Earth once every 90 minutes, but it does not always follow the same route that Gagarin took. To find out when filming opportunities might occur, the European Space Agency (ESA) teamed Riley up with German Flight Dynamics Engineer, Gerald Ziegler. Ziegler discovered that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31316600 | 1,625,375 |
1,021,101 | There has been numerical modeling of plasmonic metallic nanostructures have shown great potential as a method of light management in thin-film nanodisc-patterned hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) solar photovoltaic (PV) cells. A problem that arises for plasmonic-enhanced PV devices is the requirement for 'ultra-t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=362598 | 1,020,572 |
1,701,047 | ISI became one of the earliest nodes on ARPANET, the predecessor to the Internet, and in 1977 figured prominently in a demonstration of its international viability. ISI also helped refine the TCP/IP communications protocols fundamental to Net operations, and researcher Paul Mockapetris developed the now-familiar Domain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15034 | 1,700,093 |
671,612 | Upon completing cycle 3, "Magellan" ceased imaging the surface. Instead, beginning mid-September 1992, the "Magellan" maintained pointing of the high-gain antenna toward Earth where the Deep Space Network began recording a constant stream of telemetry. This constant signal allowed the DSN to collect information on the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=256567 | 671,260 |
276,733 | Several types of interaction can be detected. Depending on the interaction under investigation, the surface of the tip of the AFM probe needs to be modified with a coating. Among the coatings used are gold – for covalent bonding of biological molecules and the detection of their interaction with a surface, diamond for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=227982 | 276,583 |
9,122 | Approaching 40 years of service, the NASA TV channel airs content ranging from live coverage of manned missions to video coverage of significant milestones for operating robotic spacecraft (e.g., rover landings on Mars for example) and domestic and international launches. The channel is delivered by NASA and is broadca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426568 | 9,118 |
1,873,335 | The average acceptance rate in 2009 at WMSCI and related conferences was 32.12%, with the average of 4.93 reviewers per paper/abstract. A combination of double blind peer reviews and non-anonymous peer reviews was used, with a total of 11902 reviews for the 2413 submissions. The organizers claim that for the refereed p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2379841 | 1,872,258 |
1,466,330 | The MicroVAX 3800 and MicroVAX 3900, code-named ""Mayfair III"", were introduced in April 1989. They were high-end models in the MicroVAX family, replacing the MicroVAX 3500 and MicroVAX 3600, and were intended to compete with the IBM AS/400. At introduction, the starting price of the MicroVAX 3800 was US$81,000 and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4318570 | 1,465,507 |
522,095 | Another position of realism is that natural kinds are demarcated by the world itself by having a unique property that is shared by all the members of a species, and none outside the group. In other words, a natural kind possesses an essential or intrinsic feature (“essence”) that is self-individuating and non-arbitrary... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9261359 | 521,823 |
110,777 | The titan arum grows in the wild only in the equatorial rainforests of Sumatra, Indonesia. It was first scientifically described in 1878 by Italian botanist Odoardo Beccari. The plant flowers only infrequently in the wild. It first flowered in cultivation at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, London, UK, in 1889, with ove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23551092 | 110,732 |
1,260,933 | Many non-governmental organisations also use STV. Most Australian political parties, unions and peak business organisations use STV. All National Union of Students of the United Kingdom, Cambridge Union, and Oxford Union elections and those of their constituent members are under the system. It is used as well by ESIB –... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2942129 | 1,260,246 |
72,108 | One nanometer (nm) is one billionth, or 10, of a meter. By comparison, typical carbon-carbon bond lengths, or the spacing between these atoms in a molecule, are in the range , and a DNA double-helix has a diameter around 2 nm. On the other hand, the smallest cellular life-forms, the bacteria of the genus "Mycoplasma", ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21488 | 72,081 |
616,290 | During the 1960s, various philosophers such as Donald Davidson, Hilary Putnam, and Fodor tried to resolve the puzzle of developing a way to preserve the explanatory efficacy of mental causation and so-called "folk psychology" while adhering to a materialist vision of the world which did not violate the "generality of p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=427994 | 615,976 |
562,718 | Orido's JZA80 consisted of many parts from his JGTC racer including the tail lights, doors and foot pedals and boasts of over outputted from a modified 3.4 liter engine, but is set up to run at for reliability. The body work design is designed by fellow D1GP commentator Manabu Suzuki. During the 2005 season, Orido fini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14253999 | 562,429 |
1,933,427 | "C. oncophora" generally tends to reside in the proximal gut, the first six meters. An effective host immune response subsequently drives the adults towards more distal locations. The fecundity of the parasite decreases in the proximal gut after immune activation, although fecundity in the distal gut remains higher. An... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49924759 | 1,932,319 |
1,514,033 | During the preparation of the Report, and as a logical consequence of the researches connected therewith, Smith published several original contributions to the higher arithmetic. Some were in complete form and appeared in the "Philosophical Transactions" of the Royal Society of London; others were incomplete, giving on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47123 | 1,513,182 |
2,162,109 | In 1883 were sold for £4500 to William Von der Heyde and George Todman, tobacco merchants. Heyde was Mayor of Strathfield 1887–9. In 1885 they sold a lot of land comprising to A. Thomson, F.L. Barker and John Hinchcliff, wool broker, who erected a large country mansion or "villa" on this property. This residence, calle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62880865 | 2,160,874 |
475,854 | Some differences exist between the bacterial and archaeal systems studied. Homology to "pylS" is broken into two separate proteins in "D. hafniense". Most notably, the UAG codon appears to act as a stop codon in many of that organism's proteins, with only a single established use in coding pyrrolysine in that organism.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62614 | 475,617 |
563,552 | Nuclear genome sizes are well known to vary enormously among eukaryotic species. In animals they range more than 3,300-fold, and in land plants they differ by a factor of about 1,000. Protist genomes have been reported to vary more than 300,000-fold in size, but the high end of this range ("Amoeba") has been called int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2355052 | 563,263 |
167,860 | On 23 October, Santos-Dumont presented himself at Bagatelle with the "Oiseau de Proie II", a modification of the original model. The plane had been varnished to reduce the porosity of the fabric and increase lift. The rear wheel had been removed. In the morning he limited himself to manoeuvring the aircraft across the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152687 | 167,770 |
362,583 | In 2019, Dr. Larry Griffing, an associate professor at Texas A&M University, conjectured that a contemporary portrait by famed painter Mary Beale of an unknown sitter and referred to as "Portrait of a Mathematician" was actually Hooke, noting that the physical features of the sitter in the portrait match his. The figur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49720 | 362,393 |
1,551,571 | In the first prospectively designed trial to examine the effect of RIC on clinical outcomes in coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG), Thielmann and colleagues showed that RIC treatment reduced troponin levels and improved long-term morbidity and mortality. However, while patients who received the anesthetic isoflurane... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49230038 | 1,550,690 |
1,318,584 | Karen Spärck Jones (26 August 1935 – 4 April 2007) was a pioneering British computer scientist responsible for the concept of inverse document frequency (IDF), a technology that underlies most modern search engines. In 2019, "The New York Times" published her belated obituary in its series "Overlooked", calling her "a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17212387 | 1,317,859 |
7,762 | In his article "Sensations and Brain Processes" (1959), J. J. C. Smart invoked Occam's razor with the aim to justify his preference of the mind-brain identity theory over spirit-body dualism. Dualists state that there are two kinds of substances in the universe: physical (including the body) and spiritual, which is non... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36797 | 7,759 |
1,119,753 | The name "ptychography" was coined by Hegerl and Hoppe in 1970 to describe a solution to the crystallographic phase problem first suggested by Hoppe in 1969. The idea required the specimen to be highly ordered (a crystal) and to be illuminated by a precisely engineered wave so that only two pairs of diffraction peaks i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19397346 | 1,119,180 |
107,360 | What is clear is that Harappan society was not entirely peaceful, with the human skeletal remains demonstrating some of the highest rates of injury (15.5%) found in South Asian prehistory. Examinations of Harappan skeletons have often found wounds that are likely to have been inflicted in battle. Paleopathological anal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14149 | 107,315 |
1,554,595 | Recirculating aquaculture systems often involve intensive, high-density culture of a species with limited water usage and extensive filtration. In a typical recirculating aquaculture system, a series of filtration steps maintains a high level of water quality that promotes rapid fish growth. Steps include solids remova... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14383330 | 1,553,714 |
2,012,078 | By contrast, the collineation group of the real hyperbolic plane formula_127consists of isometries. Consequently, the intrinsic conics comprise a small but varied subset of the "general" conics, curves obtained from the intersections of projective conics with a hyperbolic domain. Further, unlike the Euclidean plane, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46462753 | 2,010,925 |
228,404 | In August 2007, a new student recreation center was completed. In 2008, the school finished expanding its main computer center, the Center for Technology and Learning Media (CTLM). In May 2008 the school completed construction and installation of a new supercomputer nicknamed "Ra" in the CTLM managed by the Golden Ener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=340937 | 228,287 |
1,749,643 | The 1990s saw considerable progress in plant phylogenetics and cladistic theory, enabling a phylogenetic tree to be constructed for the flowering plants. The establishment of major new clades necessitated a departure from the older but widely used classifications such as Cronquist and Thorne, based largely on morpholog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42056883 | 1,748,657 |
1,008,311 | The aberrations can also be expressed by means of the "characteristic function" of the system and its differential coefficients, instead of by the radii, &c., of the lenses; these formulae are not immediately applicable, but give, however, the relation between the number of aberrations and the order. Sir William Rowan ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2704 | 1,007,791 |
1,089,904 | The low-rate production of the Block I missile was to have started in July 2005 and using funds originally allocated for its R&D, at least five missiles were built. The unit cost per missile was estimated to be at US$3.08 million (2003 US$ dollar value). Another report made in 2006 claimed that three batteries comprisi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2160224 | 1,089,344 |
44,089 | In "Anatomy of the Spirit" (1996), Caroline Myss described the function of chakras as follows: "Every thought and experience you've ever had in your life gets filtered through these chakra databases. Each event is recorded into your cells...". The chakras are described as being aligned in an ascending column from the b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6907 | 44,072 |
967,779 | The United States worked with several prototypes, including the Northrop XB-35, XB-42 Mixmaster, the Douglas XTB2D Skypirate, the Curtiss XBTC, the A2J Super Savage, the Boeing XF8B, the XP-56 Black Bullet, the Fisher P-75 Eagle and the tail-sitting Convair XFY "Pogo" and Lockheed XFV "Salmon" VTOL fighters and the Hug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1055001 | 967,269 |
1,775,770 | He was hired by NASA's predecessor, NACA, in 1929 at the Langley Aeronautical Laboratory as an aerodynamicist to work on the design of the Altitude Wind Tunnel to be built in Cleveland, Ohio at the Lewis Laboratory (later, the Lewis Research Center, and now known as Glenn Research Center). While at Langley, he directed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2499183 | 1,774,773 |
818,398 | An alternative is the use of low or null pitching moment airfoils, seen for example in the Horten series of sailplanes and fighters. These use an unusual wing aerofoil section with reflex or reverse camber on the rear or all of the wing. With reflex camber the flatter side of the wing is on top, and the strongly curved... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13405764 | 817,959 |
374,715 | The microsystem is the immediate environment surrounding and influencing the individual (example: school or the home setting). The mesosystem is the combination of two microsystems and how they influence each other (example: sibling relationships at home vs. peer relationships at school). The exosystem is the interacti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9014 | 374,520 |
747,444 | In the United States, an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) is "a mechanism to facilitate the availability and use of medical countermeasures, including vaccines, during public health emergencies, such as the current COVID‑19 pandemic." Once an EUA is issued by the FDA, the vaccine developer is expected to continue the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66426813 | 747,048 |
619,119 | The U.S. aid allowed the Salvadoran military to defeat the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). In one particular case which occurred in December 1981, the US-trained Salvadoran army's elite counter-insurgency unit, the Atlácatl Battalion, commanded by Lt. Col. Domingo Monterrosa, willingly committed retal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14355446 | 618,805 |
1,890,176 | Another architecture is a periodic grouping of anodic and cathodic poles. For this design power and energy density is maximized by minimizing electrode separation. An innate non-uniform current density occurs and lowers cell efficiencies, reduces stability and produces non-uniform heating within the cell. Relative to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22730221 | 1,889,093 |
2,241,445 | Dicoordinate borylene has a filled p orbital and an empty sp-hybridized orbital in appropriate symmetry that can interact with inert small molecules like dinitrogen. In 2018, Braunschweig "et al." reported the nitrogen fixation and reduction by active borylene species. [(CAAC)BDurBr] could smoothly undergo one-electron... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72430683 | 2,240,174 |
337,325 | The Strauss–Howe generational theory, devised by William Strauss and Neil Howe, describes a theorized recurring generation cycle in American history and Western history. According to the theory, historical events are associated with recurring generational personas (archetypes). Each generational persona unleashes a new... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28937240 | 337,146 |
370,047 | Warrack emphasises that Holst acquired an instinctive understanding—perhaps more so than any English composer—of the importance of folksong. In it he found "a new concept not only of how melody might be organized, but of what the implications were for the development of a mature artistic language". Holst did not found ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49241 | 369,853 |
409,975 | Following the recommendation of the board, Congress passed legislation in 1954 to begin the construction of the Air Force Academy, and President Eisenhower signed it into law on 1 April of that year. The legislation established an advisory commission to determine the site of the new school. Among the panel members were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77587 | 409,773 |
2,225,984 | This technique is an improvement of the layer-by-layer lithography. Additive manufacturing can be time consuming and create flawed structures. In conventional 3-D printing, oxygen inhibition often causes incomplete curing and bulky surfaces during photosensitive polymerization. By introducing controlled levels of oxyge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54200883 | 2,224,720 |
21,343 | Scientific opinions differ on whether viruses are a form of life or organic structures that interact with living organisms. They have been described as "organisms at the edge of life", since they resemble organisms in that they possess genes, evolve by natural selection, and reproduce by creating multiple copies of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19167679 | 21,334 |
194,323 | There have been a number of attempts to understand the processes of gastrulation using "in vitro" techniques in parallel and complementary to studies in embryos, usually though the use of 2D and 3D cell (Embryonic organoids) culture techniques using Embryonic stem cells (ESCs) or induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs).... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=222177 | 194,223 |
2,173,705 | Botanical expeditions have been driven by a number of motives, such as scientific discovery, economic incentives in terms of resources or for the horticultural trade, such as the Veitch enterprise in the late 19th century. Collection in the field and transportation provided considerable challenges. Initially, dried spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40390498 | 2,172,463 |
1,215,899 | The Learning Commons has over 30,000 square feet, with 450 seats available. There are 18 group study rooms which can be reserved, so students can work together without disturbing others, and there are over 200 work stations equipped with Mac and PC computers. The computers have a broad range of software installed, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=521765 | 1,215,247 |
402,656 | Air is a very inefficient medium for transferring low frequency vibration from a transducer to the human body. Mechanical connection of the vibration source to the human body, however, provides a potentially dangerous combination. The U.S. space program, worried about the harmful effects of rocket flight on astronauts,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=215176 | 402,456 |
434,246 | The State driven Common Core State Standards Initiative was developed in the United States in 2009 in an attempt to standardize education principles and practices. There appears to have been some attempt to incorporate evidence-based practices. For example, the core standards website has a comprehensive description of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25572436 | 434,032 |
1,860,561 | In 1888 she was finally able to return to the collegiate scene at the age of 31. She enrolled at Cornell University and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in just three years. She was then offered a biology scholarship at Bryn Mawr College. She accepted and began under the tutelage of Jacques Loeb and Thomas Hunt Morga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17610070 | 1,859,493 |
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