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26,220 | We can describe mood not as specific to an emotional status, but as associated with a relatively long-lasting emotional state. Serotonin's association with mood is most known for various forms of depression and bipolar disorders in humans. Disorders caused by serotonergic activity potentially contribute to the many sym... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28764 | 26,210 |
1,517,488 | Cancer, a group of diseases in which cells grow and divide abnormally, is one of the primary diseases being looked at with regards to how it responds to CNT drug delivery. Current cancer therapy primarily involves surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy. These methods of treatment are usually painful and kill norm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22444556 | 1,516,636 |
633,109 | Part of the difficulty in determining which changes constitute a threat to identity is rooted in its dynamic nature: since one's personality and concept of self is expected to change with time as a result of emotional development and lived experience, it is not easy to identify clear criteria and draw a line between ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=987320 | 632,771 |
1,185,314 | Science in classical antiquity encompasses inquiries into the workings of the world or universe aimed at both practical goals (e.g., establishing a reliable calendar or determining how to cure a variety of illnesses) as well as more abstract investigations belonging to natural philosophy. Classical antiquity is traditi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1694427 | 1,184,685 |
74,959 | James Cooley and John Tukey independently rediscovered these earlier algorithms and published a more general FFT in 1965 that is applicable when "N" is composite and not necessarily a power of 2, as well as analyzing the formula_2 scaling. Tukey came up with the idea during a meeting of President Kennedy's Science Advi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11512 | 74,932 |
2,200,995 | Kirthi Tennakone is a Sri Lankan scientist with an assortment of research interests in theoretical and experimental physics, chemistry and biological systems. He has authored over 350 publications covering a diverse variety of disciplines. He is the former Director of Institute of Fundamental Studies, Sri Lanka (now na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53112355 | 2,199,743 |
743,095 | The first publications on modern abrasive waterjet (AWJ) cutting were published by Mohamed Hashish in the 1982 BHR proceedings showing, for the first time, that waterjets with relatively small amounts of abrasives are capable of cutting hard materials such as steel and concrete. The March 1984 issue of the Mechanical E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2366787 | 742,701 |
475,513 | The extracellular matrix (ECM) is composed primarily of collagen, and various collagen-based scaffolding has been tested in SoC models. Collagen tends to detach from the microfluidic backbone during culturing due to the contraction of fibroblasts. One study attempted to address this problem by comparing the qualities o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33980770 | 475,276 |
169,347 | The involvement of the BBC in microcomputing also initiated tentative plans by the independent television companies of the ITV network to introduce their own initiative and rival computing system, with a CP/M-based system proposed by Transam Computers under consideration for such an initiative by the Independent Televi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18950885 | 169,257 |
526,507 | In Western Europe, after Theophrastus, botany passed through a bleak period of 1800 years when little progress was made and, indeed, many of the early insights were lost. As Europe entered the Middle Ages (5th to 15th centuries), China, India and the Arab world enjoyed a golden age. Chinese philosophy had followed a si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25007304 | 526,234 |
2,056,708 | Dodge, a clinical and developmental psychologist, is a widely cited expert on the development, prevention and policy of aggressive behavior and chronic violence in children. He is recognized for transforming school-based interventions to improve children's social competence and early childhood interventions to prevent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43089276 | 2,055,524 |
1,577,343 | Furthermore, exploring the neural dynamics of cognitive efforts after, "inter alia", the Dehaene-Changeux Model, Kitzbichler et al. (2011b) demonstrated how cognitive effort breaks the modularity of mind to make human brain functional networks transiently adopt a more efficient but less economical configuration. Werner... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33548913 | 1,576,454 |
339,485 | During June 2012, Airbus Military announced several enhancements to the base C-295 design, changes included the adoption of winglets and an ability to carry the Marte anti-ship missile; a dedicated airborne early warning and control variant was also planned. In November 2015, a C-295 successfully demonstrated a new sel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7175494 | 339,305 |
2,028,702 | Hemopexin () is a serum glycoprotein that binds haem and transports it to the liver for breakdown and iron recovery, after which the free hemopexin returns to the circulation. Hemopexin prevents haem-mediated oxidative stress. Structurally hemopexin consists of two similar halves of approximately two hundred amino acid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28960981 | 2,027,534 |
1,879,978 | The Barra Velodrome, one of three venues built as part of the City of Sports Complex in Barra da Tijuca for the 2007 Pan American Games, was originally planned to host cycling events for the 2016 Summer Olympics and Paralympics. In early 2013, the International Cycling Union (UCI), the governing body of sports cycling,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26987883 | 1,878,897 |
1,040,061 | Although the transposon origins of these genes are well-established, there is still no consensus on when the ancestral RAG1/2 locus became present in the vertebrate genome. Because agnathans (a class of jawless fish) lack a core RAG1 element, it was traditionally assumed that RAG1 invaded after the agnathan/gnathostome... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7038870 | 1,039,520 |
1,610,115 | The flankers task requires blocking out irrelevant distractors from the environment, but what if the relevant and irrelevant features are embedded in one target stimulus? This is often the case in the classic Stroop task, such as when one must inhibit their natural response to read a word by responding to only the ink ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22509570 | 1,609,210 |
1,418,261 | In 1958, Lenski's empirical inquiry into "religion's impact on politics, economics, and family life" in the Detroit area revealed, among other insights, that there were significant differences between Catholics on the one hand and (white) Protestants and Jews on the other hand with regard to economics and the sciences.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1791718 | 1,417,462 |
266,172 | "Baryonyx" had a rudimentary , similar to crocodiles but unlike most theropod dinosaurs. A rugose (roughly wrinkled) surface suggests the presence of a horny pad in the roof of the mouth. The nasal bones were fused, which distinguished "Baryonyx" from other spinosaurids, and a sagittal crest was present above the eyes,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1091918 | 266,028 |
2,201,613 | Activities include: training and teaching aspects, to gain a minimal structured knowledge in Medical Informatics, have established the "Telemedicine Body of Knowledge" covering sociology, economics, technology transfer, technology and organizational issues, standardization, security and liability aspects in co-operatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15536273 | 2,200,360 |
1,398,689 | The ability to rapidly generate many tumor cells from small biopsy specimens and frozen tissue provides significant opportunities for cell-based diagnostics and therapeutics (including chemosensitivity testing) and greatly expands the value of biobanking. Using CRC technology, researchers were able to identify an effec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36315057 | 1,397,916 |
1,521,869 | Diagnosis is done through the exclusion of other potential causes. These include acute tubular necrosis from chronic ischemia, membranoproliferative glomerulonephropathy from hepatitis C, nephrolithiasis causing obstructive nephropathy, and papillary necrosis which could be caused by pyelonephritis, diabetes mellitus, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21751036 | 1,521,008 |
1,407,483 | Normalization process theory focuses attention on agentic contributions – the things that individuals and groups "do" to operationalize new or modified modes of practice as they interact with dynamic elements of their environments. It defines the implementation, embedding, and integration as a process that occurs when ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15450044 | 1,406,693 |
162,252 | Business history in Britain emerged in the 1950s following the publication of a series of influential company histories and the establishment of the journal "Business History" in 1958 at the University of Liverpool. The most influential of these early company histories was Charles Wilson's "History of Unilever", the fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,167 |
1,742,912 | Among the many prominent biologists who began research on coevolution, Hermann Müller was particularly interested in the evolutionary sequence in which insects and flowers became adapted to each other. Like Darwin, he began with the premise that flowers were adapted to ensure cross-fertilisation, and added his own prem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21436165 | 1,741,928 |
1,919,141 | In orthopedics, methods with minimum invasion are desired and improving injectable systems is a leading aim. Bone cavities can be filled by polymerizing materials when injected and adaptation to the shape of the cavity can be provided. Shorter surgical operation time, minimum large muscle retraction harm, smaller scar ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23037879 | 1,918,041 |
232,208 | In the 1960s, he began to speak out against German historians who began to study the war and highlight the crimes committed by Nazi Germany. Hoth claimed that German veterans were the ones who should have the "greater right" to shape the perception on the war. In his view, accounts of the conflict should not focus on d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261665 | 232,089 |
347,529 | Henry King Stanford served as interim president before the appointment of Charles Knapp in 1987. Together with UGA alumnus and Georgia Governor Zell Miller, Knapp helped establish the state's HOPE Scholarship in 1993 with funds appropriated from the new state lottery. Knapp also was a founding member of the Georgia Res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378232 | 347,348 |
947,689 | Provision of only quantitative minimum targets (e.g., Mean Time Between Failure (MTBF) values or failure rates) is not sufficient for different reasons. One reason is that a full validation (related to correctness and verifiability in time) of a quantitative reliability allocation (requirement spec) on lower levels for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1724836 | 947,186 |
1,119,380 | Transparent conductive oxides (TCO) are doped metal oxides used in optoelectronic devices such as flat panel displays and photovoltaics (including inorganic devices, organic devices, and dye-sensitized solar cells). Most of these films are fabricated with polycrystalline or amorphous microstructures. Typically, these a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22645659 | 1,118,807 |
1,923,526 | Sponges are common members of the ocean's diverse benthic habitats and their abundance and ability to filter large volumes of seawater have led to the awareness that these organisms play critical roles in influencing benthic and pelagic processes in the ocean. They are one of the oldest lineages of animals, and have a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62893752 | 1,922,423 |
941,292 | Sponges are common members of the ocean's diverse benthic habitats and their abundance and ability to filter large volumes of seawater have led to the awareness that these organisms play critical roles in influencing benthic and pelagic processes in the ocean. They are one of the oldest lineages of animals, and have a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45515504 | 940,790 |
1,546,556 | The first biographical sketch of Friedrich Accum's life was written by the American agricultural chemist and historian of science Charles Albert Browne, Jr. in 1925. He studied the life and works of Accum closely for ten years, which he was able to complement with information from civil and ecclesiastical sources in Bü... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=287779 | 1,545,680 |
1,002,627 | The earliest model engines for free-flight model aircraft flown before the end of World War II used a 3:1 mix of white gas and heavy viscosity motor oil for the two-stroke spark-ignition engines used for the hobby at that time. By 1948, the then-new innovation of glow plug-ignition model engines began to take over the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=806181 | 1,002,109 |
320,290 | In 1767, the 700-page "The History and Present State of Electricity" was published to positive reviews. The first half of the text is a history of the study of electricity to 1766; the second and more influential half is a description of contemporary theories about electricity and suggestions for future research. The v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40176 | 320,118 |
1,133,608 | Hurricane Andrew struck Miami in 1992, with catastrophic damage to Homestead Air Force Base in Homestead. A plan to rejuvenate the property in 1993 and convert it into a commercial airport was met with enthusiasm from local municipal and commercial entities hoping to recoup $480 million and 11,000 jobs lost in the loca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17601646 | 1,133,015 |
297,730 | The first clinical use of an artificial heart designed for permanent implantation rather than a bridge to transplant occurred in 1982 at the University of Utah. Artificial kidney pioneer Willem Johan Kolff started the Utah artificial organs program in 1967. There, physician-engineer Clifford Kwan-Gett invented two comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=256461 | 297,570 |
1,741,617 | Assimilation of diet into tissue has a tissue-specific fractionation known as the trophic discrimination factor. Diet sources can be tracked through a food web via deuterium isotope profiles, although this is complicated by deuterium having two potential sources – water and food. Food more strongly impacts δD than does... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50525886 | 1,740,633 |
482,314 | Jellyfish are slow swimmers, and most species form part of the plankton. Traditionally jellyfish have been viewed as trophic dead ends, minor players in the marine food web, gelatinous organisms with a body plan largely based on water that offers little nutritional value or interest for other organisms apart from a few... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60927729 | 482,070 |
779,540 | According to the China Academy of Space Technology (CAST) presentation at the 2015 International Space Development Congress in Toronto, Canada, Chinese interest in space-based solar power began in the period 1990–1995. By 2011, there was a proposal for a national program, with advocates such as Pioneer Professor Wang X... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=343674 | 779,123 |
299,782 | In early 1966, Brown's vehicle became available for examining human factors and other testing. Marshall built a small test track with craters and rock debris where the several different mock-ups were compared; it became obvious that a small rover would be best for the proposed missions. The test vehicle was also operat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18238 | 299,621 |
1,988,384 | Step changes in reactor coolant leakage can be detected with moving filter media to satisfy the quantitative requirements of USNRC Regulatory Guide 1.45. [See description for US Patent Number 5343046 (1994).] The mathematical method is highly detailed and it focuses on time-dependent viewable collected activity, rather... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20993959 | 1,987,242 |
688,019 | In contrast to the previously bleak picture for life, 1997 studies by Robert Haberle and Manoj Joshi of NASA's Ames Research Center in California have shown that a planet's atmosphere (assuming it included greenhouse gases CO and HO) need only be 100 millibar, or 10% of Earth's atmosphere, for the star's heat to be eff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39863531 | 687,661 |
1,171,880 | A number of economists have been influenced by Alchian, including several Nobel laurates. Kenneth Arrow was "personally and intellectually closely linked" with Alchian and the latter's influence played a crucial role on Arrow's introduction of the concept of "learning curve" into an economic growth model. James M. Buch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1479817 | 1,171,261 |
1,528,150 | Following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001; there has been a massive increase in research related to terrorism. Terrorism has become one of the most powerful signifiers in contemporary society with the term generating vast amounts of social and political activity. It has also become a cultural taboo which in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19455353 | 1,527,286 |
1,757,346 | Connotation is concerned with how the sign system is used in each message. The semantic content is selected by the addresser and represents that individual's values and intentions. Limiting an analysis purely to the sign system comprised by paradigms and syntagms excludes key elements in the interpretive process. Thus,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2094518 | 1,756,355 |
1,416,612 | The rods originate from the lower-lateral surface of the body. The furling and unfurling of the gliding membrane were likely controlled by the abdominal muscles. Preserved fossils of "Weigeltisaurus" show that the bony rods had a high degree of flexiiblity, similar to the ribs of living gliding lizards. Due to the low-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4392929 | 1,415,814 |
1,025,464 | The emerging discipline of geology also brought natural history and natural philosophy closer together; the establishment of the stratigraphic column linked the spatial distribution of organisms to their temporal distribution, a key precursor to concepts of evolution. Georges Cuvier and others made great strides in com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322460 | 1,024,931 |
1,934,594 | The preliminary flight certification (PFC) program, which would clear the way for the SSMEs to be flown aboard manned vehicles, began in early 1980. A number of setbacks, including an overheating high-pressure turbopump that shut down an engine 4.6 seconds into a 544-second test on April 16, 1980, in July, the burn-thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2227921 | 1,933,486 |
1,837,730 | A recently developed OPV system based on tetrabenzoporphryin (BP) and either [6,6]-phenyl-C-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) is explained in detail as follows. In this study, the precursor to BP (1,4:8,11:15,18:22,25-tetraethano-29H,31H-tetrabenzo[b,g,l,q]porphyrin (CP) solution is applied as the starting film, and was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31698140 | 1,836,681 |
94,179 | The 1948 results of Alpher and Herman were discussed in many physics settings through about 1955, when both left the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University. The mainstream astronomical community, however, was not intrigued at the time by cosmology. Alpher and Herman's prediction was rediscovered by Yako... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7376 | 94,138 |
1,358,088 | After decades of capital investment in United States's infrastructure such as the Interstate Highway System, local water treatment facilities, electric transmission and utility lines, the need to sustain such infrastructure experiences mounting challenges. The current duress includes tight state and local budgets, defe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29332110 | 1,357,338 |
194,699 | Currently, the most popular form factor for desktop computers is ATX, although microATX and small form factors have also become very popular for a variety of uses. In the high-end segment, the unofficial and loosely defined XL-ATX specification appeared around 2009. It extends the length of the mainboard to accommodate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1136417 | 194,599 |
1,116,180 | Numerous factors appear involved in the development of EMZL. In a small number of cases, the disease has an increased frequency in patients who have a family history of a hematological malignancy, particularly leukemia, or various autoimmune diseases such as Sjögren syndrome and lupus erythematosus. Inherited genetic, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21339698 | 1,115,611 |
949,010 | The depth of the plasma proteome encompasses a dynamic range of more than 10 between the highest abundant protein (albumin) and the lowest (some cytokines) and is thought to be one of the main challenges for proteomics. Temporal and spatial dynamics further complicate the study of human plasma proteome. The turnover of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55172 | 948,506 |
72,991 | A large fall in blood pressure upon standing (persistent systolic/diastolic blood pressure decrease of >20/10 mm Hg) is termed orthostatic hypotension (postural hypotension) and represents a failure of the body to compensate for the effect of gravity on the circulation. Standing results in an increased hydrostatic pres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56558 | 72,964 |
1,722,442 | Historically genomic studies have been focused on select organisms for which there is funding to study. Initially, when sequencing costs were prohibitive, this was limited to organisms with small genomes, such as viruses and bacteria, and then in eukaryotes, model organisms of importance to the scientific community for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33890453 | 1,721,472 |
50,615 | The end of the Cold War in 1992 led many governments to significantly decrease military spending as a "peace dividend". Air force inventories were cut. Research and development programs working on "fifth-generation" fighters took serious hits. Many programs were canceled during the first half of the 1990s, and those th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10929 | 50,595 |
1,927,221 | Pathogenomics is a field which uses high-throughput screening technology and bioinformatics to study encoded microbe resistance, as well as virulence factors (VFs), which enable a microorganism to infect a host and possibly cause disease. This includes studying genomes of pathogens which cannot be cultured outside of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21787394 | 1,926,117 |
2,127,737 | In the late 1960s, Wayne developed a cumulative hazard analysis method for nonparametric estimation of a population's cumulative life distribution. The resulting estimate is most conveniently displayed and interpreted on a probability plot. Until Wayne developed his method practitioners relied on crude approximations f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67877140 | 2,126,516 |
2,159,148 | In 1848 he read a paper in Philadelphia "On Acid Springs and Gypsum Deposits of the Onondaga Salt Group". At Yale he became assistant to Benjamin Silliman Jr., and in 1846 was appointed chemist to the Geological Survey of Vermont. In 1847 he was appointed to similar duties on the Canadian Geological Survey at Montreal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1331621 | 2,157,916 |
391,910 | Recent findings have confirmed important examples of heritable changes that cannot be explained by direct agency of the DNA molecule. These phenomena are classed as epigenetic inheritance systems that are causally or independently evolving over genes. Research into modes and mechanisms of epigenetic inheritance is stil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13457 | 391,715 |
1,940,942 | Czech Republic and Georgia split the points with four draws. Azerbaijan and Greece also played a match that ended 2-2 but with one decisive game per side. Shakhriyar Mamedyarov and Teimour Radjabov drew their games on the top two boards against Dimitrios Mastrovasilis and Hristos Banikas, respectively. Arkadij Naiditsc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51472590 | 1,939,831 |
1,793,196 | The adoption of the Soviet model meant that the organization of Chinese science was based on bureaucratic rather than professional principles. Under the bureaucratic model, leadership was in the hands of non-scientists, who had assigned research tasks in accordance with a centrally determined plan. The administrators, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14246598 | 1,792,187 |
2,025,022 | Academic staff is trained at postgraduate and doctoral programs under license No. 1834 series AAA of September 1, 2012 (there are 26 certified post-graduate programs as well as 5 doctoral degree programs) on sciences highly demanded in agriculture. There are dissertation boards on 10 specialities of agricultural, biolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53429370 | 2,023,857 |
1,601,121 | In microbial ecology, the principle of priority effect refers to the competitive advantage some microorganisms gain by colonizing a surface first. It is generally believed that primary colonization occurs by transmission from the mother or their breastmilk (vertical transmission), as well as the environment of the newb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20630639 | 1,600,220 |
2,068,761 | Surface acoustic wave gas sensor or surface acoustic wave (SAW) sensors consist of an input transducer, a chemically adsorbent polymer film, and an output transducer on a piezoelectric substrate, which is typically quartz. The input transducer launches an acoustic wave that travels through the chemical film and is dete... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14230861 | 2,067,570 |
1,719,414 | Indirectly, human-induced changes in the global climate cause widespread modifications to the terrestrial ecosystem's function in the carbon cycle. As local climates transition, locations that have long been conducive to one type of ecosystem can become more favorable for other ecosystem types. For example, warming in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36117426 | 1,718,444 |
75,155 | In 1873, Frederick Guthrie observed that a grounded, white-hot metal ball brought in close proximity to an electroscope would discharge a positively charged electroscope, but not a negatively charged electroscope. In 1880, Thomas Edison observed unidirectional current between heated and unheated elements in a bulb, lat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8254 | 75,127 |
1,361,640 | In 1996, the BCF incurred large debts as a result of a legal dispute with Tony Doyle, who resigned from his position as President of the Federation shortly after its Board attempted to remove him. Doyle had been elected to the Presidency in late 1995 on a platform of increasing transparency and accountability in the Fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1052782 | 1,360,887 |
1,905,561 | In 1999 Fleetwood left Sandia to accept the position of Professor of Electrical Engineering at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. In 2000, he was also named a Professor of Physics, in 2001 he was appointed Associate Dean for Research of the Vanderbilt School of Engineering, and from June 2003 through June 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41774898 | 1,904,466 |
5,616 | Continuing his research in London, Darwin's wide reading now included the sixth edition of Malthus's "An Essay on the Principle of Population". On 28 September 1838 he noted its assertion that human "population, when unchecked, goes on doubling itself every twenty five years, or increases in a geometrical ratio", a geo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8145410 | 5,613 |
929,826 | In line with its role as a first line defense system, SP is released when toxicants or poisons come into contact with a range of receptors on cellular elements in the chemoreceptor trigger zone, located in the floor of the fourth ventricle of the brain (area postrema). Presumably, SP is released in or around the nucleu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=364084 | 929,335 |
356,172 | Stanford University professor Umran Inan told "Popular Science" that weather-control conspiracy theories were "completely uninformed," explaining that "there's absolutely nothing we can do to disturb the Earth's [weather] systems. Even though the power HAARP radiates is very large, it's minuscule compared with the powe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=73615 | 355,989 |
1,176,693 | Jellyfish are slow swimmers, and most species form part of the plankton. Traditionally jellyfish have been viewed as trophic dead ends, minor players in the marine food web, gelatinous organisms with a body plan largely based on water that offers little nutritional value or interest for other organisms apart from a few... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14562495 | 1,176,071 |
1,012,675 | NTNU students have a clear presence in the city of Trondheim. The most famous student organization is the Studentersamfundet i Trondhjem, also known as "the red round house" after its architectural form; every other year it organizes a cultural festival UKA. Another festival organized by students is the International S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231683 | 1,012,154 |
1,565,851 | Butterworth is one of the founding fathers of the modern approach to mathematical cognition. In 1989, when he started in this area, the few people who were working on it operated in disciplinary silos. A comprehensive review of research on number abilities in animals made no mention of humans and developmental psycholo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22614234 | 1,564,964 |
1,786,059 | In some cases, a gene can be classified as an orphan gene due to undersampling of the existing genome space. While it is possible that homologues exist for a given gene, that gene will still be classified as an orphan if the organisms harbouring homologues have not yet been discovered and had their genomes sequenced an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11241418 | 1,785,054 |
614,951 | Recent developments that permit non-invasive monitoring using functional transcranial Doppler (fTCD) technique showed that successful problem-solving employs a discrete knowledge strategy (DKS) that selects neural pathways represented in one hemisphere, while unsuccessful outcome implicates a non-discrete knowledge str... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5067510 | 614,637 |
1,945,013 | A site was first identified for the power plant in the 1970s when a study was carried out on the water resources of the Albors Mountains by the Belgian firm Traksionel. Several sites for dams were identified including Siah Bisheh as a potential place for a pumped-storage power plant. In 1975, a feasibility report on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27005684 | 1,943,901 |
512,547 | Gislimberti never regained consciousness and he was pronounced dead at Monza Hospital. The Trento-born volunteer firefighter and lead water control engineer in the province, who was vice-president of the CEA Squadra Corse firefighting organisation, predeceased his wife of two years Elena (who was pregnant with his chil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1123405 | 512,281 |
1,523,869 | Alogliptin ("Figure 9") is a novel DPP-4 inhibitor developed by the Takeda Pharmaceutical Company. Researchers hypothesized that a quinazolinone based structure ("Figure 9") would have the necessary groups to interact with the active site on the DPP-4 complex. Quinazolinone based compounds interacted effectively with t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20208243 | 1,523,008 |
479,496 | Many of the Australian Army's customs and traditions have been inherited from the British Army, due to the nation's history as a former British colony and the Army's origins in the forces raised by the each of the Australian colonies. While soldiers originally only wore a single uniform for all occasions—including cere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51440630 | 479,256 |
1,230,456 | The ability to transport, or route, data from a source to a destination is a fundamental ability all communication networks must have. Delay and disruption-tolerant networks (DTNs), are characterized by their lack of connectivity, resulting in a lack of instantaneous end-to-end paths. In these challenging environments,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2710684 | 1,229,794 |
974,903 | A review of SLA theories and their explanations for age-related differences is necessary before considering empirical studies. The most reductionist theories are those of Penfield and Roberts (1959) and Lenneberg (1967), which stem from L1 and brain damage studies. Children who suffer impairment before puberty typicall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8329918 | 974,392 |
719,961 | Challenges with regards to treatment include the very high number of women needing reconstructive surgery, access to facilities and trained surgeons, and the cost of treatment. For many women, US$300 is a price they cannot afford. Access and availability of treatment also vary widely across different sub-Saharan countr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231286 | 719,581 |
655,965 | Gene therapy uses genetically modified viruses to deliver genes which can cure disease in humans. Although gene therapy is still relatively new, it has had some successes. It has been used to treat genetic disorders such as severe combined immunodeficiency and Leber's congenital amaurosis. Treatments are also being dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22696587 | 655,621 |
1,156,597 | The primary mission objectives for Little Joe as seen in late 1958 (in addition to studying the capsule dynamics at progressively higher altitudes) were to test the capsule escape system at maximum dynamic pressure, to qualify the parachute system, and to verify search and retrieval methods. But since each group of spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=846333 | 1,155,987 |
259,927 | Autogating (ATG) is a function which rapidly switches the power supply's voltage to the photocathode on and off. However, these switches are rapid enough that they are not detectable to the human eye and peak voltage supplied to the night vision device is maintained. This achieves several purposes: first, it reduces th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=313114 | 259,793 |
2,244,492 | Murray, described as a "Eurasian" was born in 1841 in Tanna, (he claimed later to be a resident of Perth, Scotland) in the state of Maharashtra, India and resided in Byculla, Bombay. He was briefly a Member of the Bombay Natural History Society and Anthropological Society of Bombay, a manager at the Victoria Natural Hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4924563 | 2,243,221 |
439,280 | Specific mutations in the isocitrate dehydrogenase gene IDH1 have been found in several tumor types. Notably brain tumors including astrocytoma, oligodendroglioma and glioblastoma multiforme, with mutations found in nearly all cases of secondary glioblastomas, which develop from lower-grade gliomas, but rarely in prima... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1232957 | 439,066 |
844,085 | The ancient Egyptians were at least partially aware of the importance of diet, both in balance and moderation. Owing to Egypt's great endowment of fertile land, food production was never a major issue, although, no matter how bountiful the land, paupers and starvation still exist. The main crops for most of ancient Egy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2584146 | 843,635 |
1,416,062 | The ocean represents the largest continuous planetary ecosystem, hosting an enormous variety of organisms, which include microscopic biota such as unicellular eukaryotes (protists). Despite their small size, protists play key roles in marine biogeochemical cycles and harbour tremendous evolutionary diversity. Notwithst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63933276 | 1,415,265 |
1,385,706 | Mayor Fiorello Henry La Guardia laid the cornerstone of the academy building in 1940, shortly after the opening of LaGuardia Airport. Mayor LaGuardia wanted an aviation school to teach and train young people in the Aviation technologies at his new airport. At the time, his friend and flying comrade of World War I, Char... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=745215 | 1,384,939 |
2,033,208 | During the COVID-19 pandemic Lechuga developed a simple, low-cost and fast COVID-19 testing system. Her proposal came out of a rapid grant scheme that the European Commission established at the end of January 2020 in an effort to tackle the emerging pandemic. Lechuga developed the idea within ten days, making use of he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63540891 | 2,032,036 |
822,039 | With just three well-defined genera within an entire division, there still is understandable difficulty in establishing an unambiguous interrelationship among them; in earlier times matters were even more difficult and we find for example Pearson in the early 20th century speaking of the class Gnetales, rather than the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=238281 | 821,598 |
1,546,773 | There are different technologies that are used in the mental health field over the past 30 years. "Mobile devices like cell phones, smartphones, and tablets are giving the public, doctors, and researchers new ways to access help, monitor progress, and increase understanding of mental wellbeing. New technology can also ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31300489 | 1,545,897 |
675,145 | The speed of Formula One cars had increased dramatically since 1950 but the standard of safety at race meetings had not followed suit. Deaths were still common, and there were many factors at play to blame. Many of the drivers felt that the danger level involved in the sport was unnecessarily high despite the changes i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20796228 | 674,792 |
1,232,368 | UHTCs possess simple empirical formulas and thus can be prepared by a wide variety of synthetic methods. UHTCs such as ZrB can be synthesized by stoichiometric reaction between constituent elements, in this case Zr and B. This reaction provides for precise stoichiometric control of the materials. At 2,000 K, the format... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38050893 | 1,231,706 |
46,068 | In 2017 "Dawn" confirmed that Ceres has a transient atmosphere of water vapour. Hints of an atmosphere had appeared in early 2014, when the Herschel Space Observatory detected localised mid-latitude sources of water vapour on Ceres, no more than in diameter, which each give off approximately molecules (3kg) of water pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5595163 | 46,050 |
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