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666,010 | With the Soviet Union apparently making rapid progress in its rocket program, in 1954 the United States began a program to develop a long range surveillance radar. General Electric Heavy Military Electronics Division (HMED) in Syracuse, NY was the prime contractor and Lincoln Laboratory was a subcontractor. This detect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1430643 | 665,662 |
1,704,061 | The mechanism of the IDE enzyme remains poorly understood. The first step of one proposed mechanism includes a zinc-bound hydroxide group performing a nucleophilic attack on a carbon substrate that materializes into the intermediate INT1. In this species, we can note that the zinc-bound hydroxide is completely transfer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11229905 | 1,703,105 |
1,529,682 | In undiagnosed and untreated children, the accumulation of precursor metabolites due to the deficient activity of galactose 1-phosphate uridylyltransferase (GALT) can lead to feeding problems, failure to thrive, liver damage, bleeding, and infections. The first presenting symptom in an infant is often prolonged jaundic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11039449 | 1,528,818 |
56,338 | To create the illusion of depth, the IMAX 3D process uses two separate camera lenses that represent the left and right eyes. The lenses are separated by a distance of , the average distance between a human's eyes. Two separate rolls of film are used to capture the images they produce. The IMAX 3D camera weighs over . B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=173787 | 56,314 |
867,266 | As of September 6, 1967, Apollo 5 was running about 39 days behind the plan established on July 18, but all known issues were being dealt with, with the exception of some leaks from the propulsion system. Most mission documents were ready by late 1967; Mission Director William C. Schneider issued mission rules on Novem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231435 | 866,806 |
1,961,001 | Several analysis can be used to determine the presence of the disease. Physical examinations showing papilledema, visual field defects, cranial nerves palsy, dysphasia, and focal neurological deficits are evidences for possible tumor. PNETs can also be spotted through computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance ima... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60059141 | 1,959,874 |
976,075 | The mitochondrion is a component of a human cell, and contains its own DNA. Mitochondrial DNA usually has 16,569 base pairs (the number can vary slightly depending on addition or deletion mutations) and is much smaller than the human genome DNA which has 3.2 billion base pairs. Mitochondrial DNA is transmitted from mot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2282128 | 975,564 |
2,177,336 | Brown's consuming interest in fossils was sparked by the surveyor and anthropologist, Joseph Millerd Orpen. The Burgersdorp Formation and the Stormberg Series proved to be a rich source of material, and an undemanding work schedule left Brown with ample time to pursue his interest in natural history. He soon possessed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55402770 | 2,176,092 |
1,070,023 | The Germans sortied from Messina on 6 August and headed east, towards Constantinople, trailed by "Gloucester". Milne, still expecting Rear Admiral Wilhelm Souchon to turn west, kept the battlecruisers at Malta until shortly after midnight on 8 August when he set sail for Cape Matapan at a leisurely , where "Goeben" had... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=382984 | 1,069,469 |
1,278,732 | Local authorities were given a deal of freedom on how this was to be implemented, and while it was easy to create two branches from existing building stock, technical schools often had to be built afresh. As a result, in most LEA areas, pupils were not selected from the 11-plus as originally proposed, but from a separa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2779171 | 1,278,039 |
281,261 | Aware of the advantages of passive IR homing, the research program started with a number of theoretical studies considering the emissions from the targets. This led to the practical discovery that the vast majority of the IR output from a piston engine aircraft was between 3 and 4.5 micrometers. The exhaust was also a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1396771 | 281,108 |
1,754,974 | With recent advances in phone technology, camera quality, and phone computational power, the ability to track movements via computer vision without the need for additional hardware has become more widespread. A number of applications are commercially available at affordable prices and even completely free increasing th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68101123 | 1,753,984 |
1,929,168 | Michael has appeared in most forms of media to discuss the impacts of his work, including public webcasts, invited/keynote speeches, plenary lectures, and radio broadcasts, magazine features/interviews and print/online news. He has contributed to several UK Science and Technology Committee (House of Lords) inquiries, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68476818 | 1,928,063 |
1,953,566 | Disease is often affected by the environment and the changing conditions. "M. coffeicola" is a tropically adapted pathogen due to its host narrow geographical range around the equator. Favorable environmental conditions around the equator are warm and humid wet seasons followed by a warm and dry season. The highest dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11127586 | 1,952,445 |
151,015 | In certain cases agency problems may be analysed by applying the techniques developed for financial options, as applied via a real options framework. Stockholders and bondholders have different objective—for instance, stockholders have an incentive to take riskier projects than bondholders do, and to pay more out in di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=730742 | 150,947 |
943,157 | Much of developmental biology research in recent decades has focused on the use of a small number of model organisms. It has turned out that there is much conservation of developmental mechanisms across the animal kingdom. In early development different vertebrate species all use essentially the same inductive signals ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8449 | 942,655 |
858,601 | "Streptomyces roseosporus", the producer organism of daptomycin, is amenable to genetic manipulation; the daptomycin biosynthetic gene cluster has been cloned, sequenced, and expressed in "S. lividans"; the lipopeptide biosynthetic machinery has the potential to be interrupted by variations of natural precursors, as we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1758235 | 858,143 |
391,811 | An image is projected through a lens onto the capacitor array (the photoactive region), causing each capacitor to accumulate an electric charge proportional to the light intensity at that location. A one-dimensional array, used in line-scan cameras, captures a single slice of the image, whereas a two-dimensional array,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6804 | 391,616 |
1,090,947 | Achillina Bo was born on 5 December 1914 in Rome, Italy. Lina was the oldest child of Enrico and Giovanna Bo, who later had another daughter named Graziella. Lina had an appreciation for art from a young age. When she decided on becoming an architect, her father was not in total support of her decision. In 1939, she gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=650199 | 1,090,387 |
1,497,992 | The publisher John Murray made an offer of payment for a revised second edition of "Journal and Remarks", diverting Darwin's attention from "South America". On 25 April Darwin began extensive revisions incorporating his latest information and interpretations, including several hints about his species speculation. He no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1588456 | 1,497,148 |
1,589,936 | The biological pacemaker is intended as an alternative to the artificial cardiac pacemaker that has been in human use since the late 1950s. Despite their success, several limitations and problems with artificial pacemakers have emerged during the past decades such as electrode fracture or damage to insulation, infectio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12887799 | 1,589,042 |
2,212,082 | Penn was to open its season in mid-December against the Quaker City Hockey Club, an organization captained by program founder George Orton, but the school's athletic department refused to allow the team to play. shortly afterwards the university opted to officially recognize the team for the first time. With this offic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62998513 | 2,210,822 |
1,672,156 | In 1858, Eugène Bouchut (1818–1891), a pediatrician from Paris, developed a new technique for non-surgical orotracheal intubation to bypass laryngeal obstruction resulting from a diphtheria-related pseudomembrane. His method involved introducing a small straight metal tube into the larynx, securing it by means of a sil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28862297 | 1,671,214 |
2,181,286 | The current model, first put forth in 2005, proposes that the nitrogen taken up by the fungus is converted in the ERM to arginine, which is then transported to the IRM, where it is released as ammonium into the apoplast for the plant to use. A growing body of data has supported and expanded upon this model. Support has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33273473 | 2,180,040 |
244,104 | The subject is clearly defined by Felix Klein in his "Erlangen Program" (1872): the geometry invariants of arbitrary continuous transformation, a kind of geometry. The term "topology" was introduced by Johann Benedict Listing in 1847, although he had used the term in correspondence some years earlier instead of previou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30450 | 243,977 |
4,010 | A film adaptation of the first game was announced in 2005. Creator David Jaffe confirmed that a completed script had been written by David Self and would be sent to an unspecified director. He said that Universal Studios was behind the making of the "God of War" movie, but was unaware of its status, and eventually said... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16282491 | 4,008 |
887,883 | In August 2021, two months after the re-emergent Ebola epidemic in the Guéckédou prefecture was declared over, a case of the Marburg disease was confirmed by health authorities through laboratory analysis. Other potential case of the disease in a contact awaits official results. This was the first case of the Marburg h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58743 | 887,415 |
1,120,956 | Tc remained a scientific curiosity until the 1950s when Powell Richards realized the potential of technetium-99m as a medical radiotracer and promoted its use among the medical community. While Richards was in charge of the radioisotope production at the Hot Lab Division of the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Walter Tu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1786418 | 1,120,382 |
725,611 | Evidence from animal coloration was gathered by some of Darwin's contemporaries; camouflage, mimicry, and warning coloration are all readily explained by natural selection. Special cases like the seasonal changes in the plumage of the ptarmigan, camouflaging it against snow in winter and against brown moorland in summe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2339577 | 725,230 |
1,082,823 | The Dream Chaser was originally intended to serve as an American reusable crewed suborbital and orbital lifting-body spaceplane being developed and privately funded by Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) Space Systems. It is now planned to be a robotic cargo transport to the ISS. The Dream Chaser was designed to carry up t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=198078 | 1,082,266 |
734,657 | The first cell therapies were intended to slow the aging process. This began in the 1930s with Paul Niehans, a Swiss doctor who was known to have treated famous historical figures such as Pope Pius XII, Charlie Chaplin, and king Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Niehans would inject cells of young animals (usually lambs or cal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2285007 | 734,270 |
1,258,685 | NESAP: The NERSC Exascale Science Applications Program is a collaborative effort in which NERSC is partnering with code teams and library and tools developers to prepare critical applications to make the most effective use of Cori's manycore architecture. NESAP represents an important opportunity for researchers to pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6239945 | 1,257,998 |
599,453 | Change in the shape of the hip may have led to the decrease in the degree of hip extension, an energy efficient adaptation. The ilium changed from a long and narrow shape to a short and broad one and the walls of the pelvis modernized to face laterally. These combined changes provide increased area for the gluteus musc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16731978 | 599,147 |
322,028 | The founder of the Bauhaus school, Walter Gropius, along with prominent Bauhaus instructor, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, became known for steel frame structures employing glass curtain walls. One of the world's earliest modern buildings where this can be seen is a shoe factory designed by Gropius in 1911 in Alfeld, Germa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314881 | 321,856 |
2,135,611 | BSPU was founded in 1930 and is one of the oldest educational institutions in the Far East of Russia. There are over 400 faculty members and about 6,000 students within 10 departments, across 35 specialties. The university also has 14 postgraduate courses; both of pedagogical and non-pedagogical specializations. The un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10045300 | 2,134,384 |
1,272,751 | Anyonic Dirac matter is a hypothetical field which is rather unexplored to date. An anyon is a type of quasiparticle that can only occur in two-dimensional systems. Considering bosons and fermions, the interchange of two particles contributes a factor of 1 or -1 to the wave function. In contrast, the operation of excha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56731778 | 1,272,060 |
2,167,117 | Under the leadership of Rudolf Stadler (Chairman since 1951) and Henri Isliker (Director), ISREC was created on 18 June 1964 as a Swiss foundation. Initially, the ISREC was situated next to the University Hospital of Lausanne (CHUV). The ISREC was growing steadily. In 1970, the collaboration of the ISREC with the Insti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2759411 | 2,165,880 |
191,218 | In 2001, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment announced that humanity's impact on the natural world was increasing to levels never before seen, and that the degradation of the planet's ecosystems would become a major barrier to achieving the Millennium Development Goals. In recognition of this fact, Ecosystem-Based Adap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1855357 | 191,119 |
823,206 | Another example of the importance of habituation in the animal world is provided by a study with harbor seals. In one study researchers measured the responses of harbor seals to underwater calls of different types of killer whales. The seals showed a strong response when they heard the calls of mammal-eating killer wha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=599837 | 822,764 |
1,221,121 | According to marine ecologist Chris Frid, the fishing industry points to marine pollution and global warming as the causes of recent, unprecedented declines in fish populations. Frid counters that overfishing has also altered the way the ecosystem works:Everybody would like to see the rebuilding of fish stocks and this... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=481277 | 1,220,465 |
31,179 | Pure carbon has extremely low toxicity to humans and can be handled safely in the form of graphite or charcoal. It is resistant to dissolution or chemical attack, even in the acidic contents of the digestive tract. Consequently, once it enters into the body's tissues it is likely to remain there indefinitely. Carbon bl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5299 | 31,169 |
1,151,051 | At periodically spaced "paralleling stations" within each electrical section the tracks' catenary wires are connected together to one side of an autotransformer and the feeder wires are connected together to the other side of the autotransformer. The autotransformer center tap is connected to the grounded running rails... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30203804 | 1,150,444 |
1,477,339 | Newspaper Tages Anzeiger commented in October 2015 that two independent sources have confirmed that the reactor 1 pressure vessel contains around 1,000 cavities of half a centimetre in diameter. Similar cavities, although smaller in number, size and extension, were first discovered in the Belgian Doel 3 reactor, conseq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12813506 | 1,476,507 |
1,375,836 | Philip H. Abelson was a young physicist who had been awarded his PhD from the University of California on 8 May 1939. He was among the first American scientists to verify nuclear fission, reporting his results in an article submitted to the Physical Review in February 1939, and collaborated with Edwin McMillan on the d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3673785 | 1,375,075 |
698,069 | A number of studies have used climate models to study the effect of extremely large wind farms. One study reports simulations that show detectable changes in global climate for very high wind farm usage, on the order of 10% of the world's land area. Wind power has a negligible effect on global mean surface temperature,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18985866 | 697,705 |
1,696,741 | Winlogon can be configured to use a different GINA, providing for non-standard authentication methods such as smart card readers or identification based on biometrics, or to provide an alternate visual interface to the default GINA. Developers who implement a replacement GINA are required to provide implementations for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2313837 | 1,695,788 |
138,996 | Each instar – the period between molts – generally takes about 4–10 days. There are five instars before cocooning. At the end of each instar, a small amount of silk is placed on the major vein of a leaf and the larva undergoes apolysis, then ecdysis (molting), leaving the old exoskeleton behind. Sometimes the shed exos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=345366 | 138,940 |
53,848 | In the U.S., there are stigmas surrounding SCD that discourage people with SCD from receiving necessary care. These stigmas mainly affect people of African American and Latin American ancestries, according to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. People with SCD experience the impact of stigmas of the disease ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21010263 | 53,828 |
597,774 | While glacier variations are likely to have minimal effects upon global climate, their recession may have contributed one-third to one-half of the observed 20th century rise in sea level (Meier 1984; IPCC 1996). Furthermore, it is extremely likely that such extensive glacier recession as is currently observed in the We... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47527 | 597,469 |
303,726 | The earliest operations on the pericardium (the sac that surrounds the heart) took place in the 19th century and were performed by Francisco Romero (1801) Dominique Jean Larrey, Henry Dalton, and Daniel Hale Williams. The first surgery on the heart itself was performed by Norwegian surgeon Axel Cappelen on 4 September ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=598741 | 303,564 |
795,222 | In January 2022, Sjöström was announced as one of the team Sweden members pre-nominated for the 2022 World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary. In the 100 metre freestyle at the World Championships in June, she won the silver medal with a time of 52.80 seconds, this marked her seventeenth individual medal (eigh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16493334 | 794,797 |
69,434 | William Parker, Randy Bollinger, and colleagues at Duke University proposed in 2007 that the appendix serves as a haven for useful bacteria when illness flushes the bacteria from the rest of the intestines. This proposition is based on an understanding that emerged by the early 2000s of how the immune system supports t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99611 | 69,407 |
592,268 | Recent studies of ancient DNA have revealed that European populations are largely descending from three ancestral groups. The first one are Paleolithic Siberians, the second one are Paleolithic European hunter-gatherers, and the third one are early farmers and later arrivals from the Near East and West Asia. According ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50376130 | 591,964 |
1,654,690 | The advantages of population based association mapping, utilizing a sample of individuals from the germplasm collections or a natural population, over traditional QTL-mapping in biparental crosses, primarily are due to availability of broader genetic variations with wider background for marker and trait correlations. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25273326 | 1,653,758 |
174,091 | Sony and Philips developed the first generation of the CDs in the mid-1980s with the complete specifications for these devices. With the help of this kind of technology the possibility of representing the analog signal into digital signal was exploited to a great level. For this purpose, the 16-bit samples of the analo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41458 | 174,000 |
428,781 | High-pressure systems are frequently associated with light winds at the surface and subsidence through the lower portion of the troposphere. Subsidence will generally dry out an air mass by adiabatic, or compressional, heating. Thus, high pressure typically brings clear skies. During the day, since no clouds are presen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=519987 | 428,571 |
2,051,132 | The net evaporation over much of the subtropics is most pronounced during winter season due to the increased strength of the easterly trades in winter. This applies for both hemispheres. The wind impacts evaporation in two ways. Firstly directly, whereby a greater wind speed carries water vapour faster away from the ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70383921 | 2,049,951 |
514,726 | In March 2014, Microsoft presented basic assumptions and goals for the DirectX12 3D component (to be ready for December 2015). OpenGL vendors took a different approach, and during GDC 2014 presented a mix of features mandatory in OpenGL 4.3 & OpenGL 4.4 or already ARB extensions, to show fast paths already present in i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=793319 | 514,460 |
912,801 | In 2021, a study which used a "primitive" finite-difference ocean model estimated that AMOC collapse could be invoked by a sufficiently fast increase in ice melt even if it never reached the common thresholds for tipping obtained from slower change. Thus, it implied that the AMOC collapse is more likely than what is us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16817594 | 912,322 |
384,414 | Thermoelectric generators are all-solid-state devices that do not require any fluids for fuel or cooling, making them non-orientation dependent allowing for use in zero-gravity or deep-sea applications. The solid-state design allows for operation in severe environments. Thermoelectric generators have no moving parts wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209712 | 384,219 |
395,536 | Historically, the probing process was performed in two steps because of the relative ease of producing primary and secondary antibodies in separate processes. This gives researchers and corporations huge advantages in terms of flexibility, reduction of cost, and adds an amplification step to the detection process. Give... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174030 | 395,341 |
535,166 | Australia's role in the Pacific War declined from 1944. The increasing size of the US forces in the Pacific rendered the Australian military superfluous and labour shortages forced the Government to reduce the size of the armed forces to boost war production. Nevertheless, the Government wanted the Australian military ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,887 |
1,247,251 | ETSU continued playing intercollegiate athletics in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) until 1972, when it moved to Division II in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). The football team remained the most popular squad on campus, and while not as dominant as they had been during... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49751816 | 1,246,576 |
414,017 | Simulations are useful in modeling the flow of transactions through business processes, such as in the field of sales process engineering, to study and improve the flow of customer orders through various stages of completion (say, from an initial proposal for providing goods/services through order acceptance and instal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43444 | 413,814 |
1,072,023 | I first came to Erice in 1966, to lecture at the fourth of the annual schools on subnuclear physics organized by Nino Zichichi. I was charmed by the beauty of Erice, fascinated by the thick layers of Sicilian culture and history, and terrified by the iron rule with which Nino kept the students and faculty in line. In a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=701167 | 1,071,469 |
502,714 | At the computational level, the functioning of the register can be accounted for in terms of arithmetic and, in particular, in terms of the theory of addition: at this level are relevant the computed function (addition), and such abstract properties of it, as commutativity or associativity. The level of representation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=417031 | 502,456 |
1,312,734 | The study of the fate of persistent organic chemicals in the environment has revealed a large reservoir of enzymatic reactions with a large potential in preparative organic synthesis, which has already been exploited for a number of oxygenases on pilot and even on industrial scale. Novel catalysts can be obtained from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13475684 | 1,312,014 |
113,209 | The Sikorsky CH-53 Sea Stallion is a heavy lift military transport helicopter. The CH-53A carries a crew of four; pilot, copilot, crew chief, and an aerial observer. It can carry various payloads, including up to 38 fully-equipped troops, 24 litters with medical attendants, an internal cargo load of , or an external lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=674186 | 113,164 |
843,639 | In the following years, most biologists came to accept the Mendelian-chromosome theory, which was independently proposed by Walter Sutton and Theodor Boveri in 1902/1903, and elaborated and expanded by Morgan and his students. Garland Allen characterized the post-1915 period as one of normal science, in which "The acti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31522 | 843,189 |
808,416 | Instead of optimizing specific enzymes on the PR pathway for glycolate degradation, South et al. decided to bypass PR altogether. In 2019, they transferred "Chlamydomonas reinhardtii" glycolate dehydrogenase and "Cucurbita maxima" malate synthase into the chloroplast of tobacco (a model organism). These enzymes, plus t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573489 | 807,986 |
758,576 | All the New England colonies required towns to set up schools, and many did so. In 1642 the Massachusetts Bay Colony made "proper" education compulsory; other New England colonies followed this example. Similar statutes were adopted in other colonies in the 1640s and 1650s. In the 18th century, "common schools" were es... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9083795 | 758,170 |
320,723 | Effects similar to deep stall had been known to occur on some aircraft designs before the term was coined. A prototype Gloster Javelin (serial "WD808") was lost in a crash on 11 June 1953 to a "locked-in" stall. However, Waterton states that the trimming tailplane was found to be the wrong way for recovery. Low-speed h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81511 | 320,551 |
1,385,458 | The Molecular Operating Environment was developed by the Chemical Computing Group under the supervision of President/CEO Paul Labute. Founded in 1994 and based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, this private company is dedicated to developing computation software that will challenge, revolutionize, and aid in the scientific ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51708210 | 1,384,691 |
126,090 | DMD is caused by a mutation of the dystrophin gene, located on the short arm of the X chromosome (locus Xp21) that codes for dystrophin protein. Mutations can either be inherited or occur spontaneously during germline transmission, causing to a large reduction or absence of dystrophin, a protein that provides structura... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=974284 | 126,038 |
1,444,722 | PEL is generally resistant to cancer chemotherapy drugs that are active against other B-cell lymphomas and therefore carries a poor prognosis. Overall median and 1 year survival rates in a series of 28 patients treated with chemotherapy for PEL were 6.2 months and 39.3%, respectively. In this study, the complete respon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3628299 | 1,443,906 |
1,622,205 | While the concept of the synaptic tagging hypothesis mainly resulted from experiments applying stimulation to synapses, a similar model can be established considering the process of learning in a broader - behavioral - sense. Fabricio Ballarini and colleagues developed this behavioral tagging model by testing spatial o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27122321 | 1,621,289 |
1,814,195 | The most recent renovations at Gerstein were similarly funded by the Frank Gerstein Charitable Foundation and the Bertrand Gerstein Family Foundation, and were completed in the fall of 2008. The Gerstein Reading Room, a spacious study area for students restored to its 1892 original state, was the end product of the ren... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11420308 | 1,813,161 |
1,956,367 | Adjacent to the Main Gate at the southeast end of George Street and on alignment with the Main Drive, the three-storey, facebrick, hip-roofed former Commercial and Day School overlooks the City Botanic Gardens. Each elevation is composed of light red facebrick with contrasting dark red facebrick relieved quoining, flat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3049824 | 1,955,245 |
1,990,640 | The Biophysical Society's Public Affairs committee responds to science policy issues such as research, careers, and science education, and has adopted a number of positions. In February 2004, the society released a statement supporting freedom of communication of scientific data, supporting the existing policy that pri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3721767 | 1,989,497 |
890,412 | Apert syndrome is an autosomal dominant disorder; approximately two-thirds of the cases are due to a C to G mutation at the position 755 in the FGFR2 gene, which causes a Ser to Trp change in the protein. This is a male-specific mutation hotspot: in a study of 57 cases, the mutation always occurred on the paternally de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1514889 | 889,943 |
1,491,696 | The RMC method suffers from a number of potential problems. The most notable problem is that often more than one qualitatively different model will give similar agreement with experimental data. For example, in the case of amorphous silicon, the integral of the first peak in the pair distribution function may imply an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7747652 | 1,490,857 |
1,068,319 | For mobile devices, both the Kindle E-Ink and the iPhone/iPod Touch feature data ported from Perseus. The Android market also currently offers the intermediate LSJ as an offline downloadable app for free or for a small price. A CD-ROM version published and sold by Logos Bible Software also incorporates the Supplement's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1037542 | 1,067,765 |
2,164,224 | Williams failed to gain a scholarship to Wallasey Grammar School, having missed six months’ schooling with diphtheria, but his parents paid for him to attend. He went on to gain a place and be awarded a Postmastership to read chemistry at Merton College, Oxford in 1944. For his final undergraduate research year he work... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17245542 | 2,162,988 |
158,686 | Many species of Pleistocene megafauna, like the woolly rhinoceros, became extinct around the same time period. Human hunting is often cited as one cause. Other theories for the cause of the extinctions are climate change associated with the receding Ice age and the hyperdisease hypothesis (q.v. Quaternary extinction ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=506239 | 158,604 |
869,714 | The fourth phase of the excavation was conducted between 2017 and 2018, bringing out 5,820 artifacts. This phase was conducted by the Tamil Nadu Archaeology Department while the first three phases were conducted by the Archaeological Survey of India. Six carbon samples collected from the fourth phase of excavation at K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59540117 | 869,254 |
742,184 | This term is used because the left main coronary and/or the left anterior descending supply blood to large areas of the heart. This means that if these arteries are abruptly and completely occluded it will cause a massive heart attack that will likely lead to sudden death. The blockage that kills is made up of platelet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7193171 | 741,792 |
1,292,925 | It is important to keep track of the patient's vital signs, especially oxygen saturation and blood pressure when giving PSA to ensure adequate cardiopulmonary function. Monitors are also useful for PSA safety. These include cardiac monitoring such as electrocardiogram, pulse oximetry, blood pressure cuff, and an end ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20684275 | 1,292,214 |
487,633 | Two alternatively spliced transcript variants of this gene encoding the same protein have been reported. The originally identified isoform, with long signal peptide of 48 amino acids (IL-15 LSP) consisted of a 316 bp 5'-untranslated region (UTR), 486 bp coding sequence and the C-terminus 400 bp 3'-UTR region. The other... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7801838 | 487,383 |
214,968 | Piccolo, more specifically his parent Piccolo Daimaō, was created by Toriyama as he wanted to have a villain who would be a true "bad guy." Prior to his creation, nearly all the previous villains in the series were considered too likable. His editor, Kazuhiko Torishima, stated he introduced Toriyama to evil historical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=262049 | 214,860 |
2,061,840 | The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) Technical Symposium is the main ACM conference for computer science educators. It has been held annually in February or March in the United States since 1970, with the exception of 2020 when it was cancelled due to C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40076829 | 2,060,650 |
1,070,881 | In his contribution to the special "Cultural Studies" issue critiquing Jenkins' work on convergence, Graeme Turner argued for the need to be wary of any overtly optimistic accounts of the impacts of convergence culture. Although there is no denying, he argues, that the idea of convergence has "its heart in the right pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1423953 | 1,070,327 |
739,335 | To create different colours and textures, artists use a variety of metal powders including gold, silver, copper, brass, lead, aluminum, platinum, and pewter, as well as their alloys. Bamboo tubes and soft brushes of various sizes are used for laying powders and drawing fine lines. As it requires highly skilled craftsma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1862574 | 738,943 |
1,681,620 | Alaska is generally considered the birthplace of packrafting as long distance, non-motorized, landscape travel across untracked wilderness necessitates a small, portable boat for water crossings. Dick Griffith, Roman Dial (author of "Packrafting! An Introduction and How-to Guide"), the Alaska Mountain Wilderness Classi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10691764 | 1,680,677 |
1,078,697 | There are two major methods of two dimensional fractal generation. One is to apply an iterative process to simple equations by generative recursion. Dynamical systems produce a series of values. In fractal software values for a set of points on the complex plane are calculated and then rendered as pixels. This computer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19725960 | 1,078,142 |
1,483,762 | As the group 2 elements (also referred to as the alkaline earth metals) contain two valence electrons, their chemistries have similarities group 12 organometallic compounds. Both readily assume a +2 oxidation states with higher and lower states being rare, and are less electronegative than carbon. However, as the group... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10648600 | 1,482,926 |
243,173 | At the time of the Goshawk's selection, the World War II-era USS "Lexington" was the U.S. Navy's training carrier. "Lexington", which featured a 910 ft-long and 192 ft-wide angled flight deck, complete with a pair of relatively short-stroke steam catapults and similarly short, undamped arrester gear, was a major drivin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=425509 | 243,046 |
68,812 | McGill University played a significant role in The Great War. Many students and alumni enlisted in the first wave of patriotic fervour that swept the nation in 1914, but in the spring of 1915—after the first wave of heavy Canadian casualties at Ypres—Hamilton Gault, the founder of the Canadian regiment and a wealthy Mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954643 | 68,785 |
1,532,781 | As a case study, the authors consider mevinphos application on leaf lettuce in Salinas Valley, California for the purpose of controlling aphids. Previous research by other authors found that daily percentage growth of the green peach aphid could be modeled as an increasing linear function of average daily temperature. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43070114 | 1,531,913 |
358,755 | In 1942, Slotin was invited to participate in the Manhattan Project, and subsequently performed experiments with uranium and plutonium cores to determine their critical mass values. After World War II he continued his research at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. On 21 May 1946, he accidentally began a fiss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=507859 | 358,569 |
75,055 | Because of improved test accuracy, ease of specimen management, convenience in specimen management, and ease of screening sexually active men and women, the NAATs have largely replaced culture, the historic gold standard for chlamydia diagnosis, and the non-amplified probe tests. The latter test is relatively insensiti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7037 | 75,028 |
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