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2,079,205 | The Oxford Brookes Centre for Nutrition and Health has the goal of providing scientific information about food and health to consumers, government and the food industry. It tests popular claims about food, for example that genetically modified crops will feed the world, that substances such as omega-3 in fish oil will ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25982869 | 2,078,006 |
1,143,654 | In Empirical Modelling, the process of construction is an incremental one in which the intermediate products are artefacts that evoke aspects of the intended (and sometimes emerging) referent through live interaction and observation. The connections evoked in this way have distinctive qualities: they are of their essen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3003070 | 1,143,054 |
1,683,192 | Detrital zircons usually retain similar properties as their parent igneous rocks, such as age, rough size and mineral chemistry. However, the composition of detrital zircons is not entirely controlled by the crystallization of the zircon mineral. In fact, many of them are modified by later processes in the sedimentary ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51726398 | 1,682,249 |
353,800 | Rainwater harvesting provides the independent water supply during regional water restrictions, and in developed countries, it is often used to supplement the main supply. It provides water when a drought occurs, can help mitigate flooding of low-lying areas, and reduces demand on wells which may enable groundwater leve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1032545 | 353,617 |
1,708,480 | Because the interval of this radiation (about 4 million years) is short in proportion to its age (about 145 million years), it had long appeared that the 5 groups of mesangiosperms had arisen simultaneously. The mesangiosperms were shown as an unresolved pentatomy in phylogenetic trees. In 2007, two studies attempted t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22071515 | 1,707,522 |
319,890 | It has also been proposed that motion sickness could function as a defense mechanism against neurotoxins. The area postrema in the brain is responsible for inducing vomiting when poisons are detected, and for resolving conflicts between vision and balance. When feeling motion but not seeing it (for example, in the cabi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62580 | 319,718 |
1,224,325 | In response to the growing demand, the president of the Georgia Institute of Technology, Colonel Blake R. Van Leer, sought to establish a technical institute program in Georgia. In 1945 he was approached by the Associated Industries of Georgia (AIG) who shared their common desire to have such a program and offered Van ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=272064 | 1,223,665 |
1,624,172 | Developmental science is an interdisciplinary scientific field that synthesizes perspectives from biology, psychology, and sociology in order to understand behavioral and psychological aspects of human development. The field of developmental science "...is not limited to simply describing deviant behavior at a specific... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32765270 | 1,623,256 |
1,672,188 | These are medium nematocerans, halfway in size between mosquitoes and midges. The body is compact, wings are clear except for veins close to leading edge, and antennae are short with compact segments appearing like rings. Thorax is dorsally humped and dark brown or black (see photograph of "Simulium"). Lifecycle is sim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53631421 | 1,671,246 |
1,314,004 | Rosina Bessie was the younger of two daughters of Maria (née Katz) and Jacques Bessie, a prosperous jeweller from a Dutch Jewish family who emigrated to the Russian Empire to ply his trade as a diamond merchant. There were violent anti-Semitic riots in Kyiv during her first year, and the Bessies moved to Moscow in 1881... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2007979 | 1,313,284 |
2,054,787 | Following his PhD, Robertson worked at the Central Electricity Research Laboratories for 18 years, and in 1994 returned to Cambridge. He has published over 600 journal papers with around 33,000 citations. His main topic of research is theory of carbon materials. Other research interests include: carbon nanotubes, graph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44053040 | 2,053,604 |
385,353 | Spreading rates along mid-ocean ridges vary widely, from per year at the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, to up to along the East Pacific Rise. Higher spreading rates are a probable cause for higher levels of volcanism. The technology for studying seamount eruptions did not exist until advancements in hydrophone technology made it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8921015 | 385,158 |
1,006,065 | Murderbot is seriously injured, and realizes that one of the rogue SecUnits has installed a combat override module into its neck. The Preservation scientists are able to remove it before it completes the data upload that would put Murderbot under the control of whoever has command over the other SecUnits. The team disc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56994349 | 1,005,546 |
1,683,551 | A recent piece of research (Rourke, 2006) found that novice learners can still have difficulty understanding concepts if given examples with incomplete or somewhat inaccurate information (known as faded examples) prior to acquiring basic domain knowledge or literacy skills in the subject matter. This is based on how a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14474772 | 1,682,608 |
441,142 | Yanmar Diesel, a Japanese engine maker, was pioneer in introducing reed valves for flow control at intake ports of its small Wankel engines, showing an improvement in torque and performances at low rpm and under partial load of the engine. Toyota discovered the benefits of injecting fresh air into the Wankel RCE exhaus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1197067 | 440,927 |
1,678,767 | Sample preparation is one of the most critical steps in NanoSIMS analysis, particularly when analysing biological samples. Specific protocols should be developed for individual experiments in order to best preserve not only the structure of the sample but also the true spatial distribution and abundance of molecules wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45048969 | 1,677,824 |
1,212,803 | In 1934 entomologist John S. Clark published a formal description of "Nothomyrmecia macrops" as a new species and within a completely new genus and tribe (Nothomyrmecii) of the Ponerinae. He did so because the two specimens (which then became the syntypes) bore no resemblance to any ant species he knew of, but they did... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9372569 | 1,212,151 |
661,441 | Instruments are increasingly based upon integration with computers to improve and simplify control; enhance and extend instrumental functions, conditions, and parameter adjustments; and streamline data sampling, collection, resolution, analysis (both during and post-process), and storage and retrieval. Advanced instrum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=274810 | 661,096 |
1,646,939 | Applicants could not directly apply for the award, but were nominated by others including their own institutions based on their previous record of scientific achievement. The award, a certificate from the White House signed by the President of the United States, included a minimum grant of $25,000 a year for five years... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30090974 | 1,646,008 |
237,434 | This is a simple process for the reproduction of any light transmitting document. Engineers and architects drew their designs on cartridge paper; these were then traced on to tracing paper using India ink for reproduction whenever needed. The tracing paper drawing is placed on top of the sensitized paper, and both are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99794 | 237,315 |
576,535 | The college began with departments of anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and bacteriology. Dr. C. O. Karunakaran was the first principal of the college. The departments were headed by V. Mathew, C. Vareed, Narayana Rao and C. O. Karunakaran, respectively. The department of bacteriology initially consisted of microbiolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10437484 | 576,241 |
2,046,061 | Indeed, the deep mycophily of Guatemalan indigenous people is apparent. Ethnomycological surveys conducted in the highlands, mainly through visits to local markets and interviews with vendors, revealed that some 130 species were identified as edible species, most of which actually sold in markets or along roadsides. Sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35239323 | 2,044,880 |
213,418 | The term "2 nanometer" or alternatively "20 angstrom" (a term used by Intel) has no relation to any actual physical feature (such as gate length, metal pitch or gate pitch) of the transistors. According to the projections contained in the 2021 update of the International Roadmap for Devices and Systems published by IEE... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65397747 | 213,310 |
1,117,571 | One heavily scrutinized part of the ACA reads that subsidies should be given to healthcare recipients who are enrolled "through an Exchange established by the State". Some have read this to mean that subsidies can be given only in states that have chosen to create their own healthcare exchanges, and do not use the fede... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13853292 | 1,116,998 |
1,271,015 | God is an exo-cause of the universe (not a self-cause); but still God is a self-cause of the system God—universe; thus any cosmogonic theory requires self-causation (or self-causality). God is necessarily a person; if God were a physicalist procedure then we simply distort language by merging semantics. God is a person... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4003963 | 1,270,324 |
2,060,444 | Frank stepped down from the magazine in May 1925 to become the incoming president of the University of Wisconsin (UW). He invited Meiklejohn to open his school there and offered him a distinguished professorship. Meiklejohn planned the experimental college in secret and moved to Madison in January 1926 to teach in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41013618 | 2,059,257 |
592,269 | Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC or TC3) are the United States military guidelines for trauma life support in prehospital combat medicine, designed to reduce preventable deaths while maintaining operation success. The TCCC guidelines are routinely updated and published by the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49783135 | 591,965 |
1,321,021 | "The diameter of the sphere to which the Metal was ground concave was about 25 English Inches, and by consequence the length of the Instrument about six Inches and a quarter. The Eye-glass was Plano-convex, and the diameter of the Sphere to which the convex side was ground was about 1/5 of an Inch, or a little less, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21707583 | 1,320,295 |
732,630 | Forge welding grew from a trial-and-error method, becoming more refined over the centuries. Due to the poor quality of ancient metals, it was commonly employed in making composite steels, by joining high-carbon steels, that would resist deformation but break easily, with low-carbon steels, which resist fracture but ben... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=625114 | 732,243 |
2,118,948 | Among his groups' principal achievements at Bell were observation of quenching of the Hall effect in a quasi-one-dimensional wire, elucidation of electron-boundary scattering in quantum wires, invention of "anti"-dots and elucidation of commensurability effects in this system, first elucidation of chaotic transport in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29077206 | 2,117,730 |
1,648,544 | Further, there is a strong economic incentive to use vibratory stress relief on large workpieces, since stress relief using a furnace (thermal stress relief or TSR) is highly energy-intensive; consuming much natural gas, and hence, producing much CO. The cost of TSR is approximately proportional to a metal component's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28034290 | 1,647,612 |
308,843 | The Armstrong building is the oldest building on the campus and is the site of the original Armstrong College. The building was constructed in three stages; the north east wing was completed first at a cost of £18,000 and opened by Princess Louise on 5 November 1888. The south-east wing, which includes the Jubilee Towe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=203338 | 308,678 |
408,280 | Following the fourth planned interim analysis the trial was ended due to futility. A total of 249 patients were enrolled at study termination. Thirty-five control group patients (28%) required emergency cross-over to ECMO. Results of EOLIA demonstrated no significant difference in 60-day mortality between the ECMO grou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444349 | 408,079 |
1,705,575 | As president of Electric Storage, he became aware of the attempts (despite financial difficulties) since 1896 to deliver the first modern submarines for the US Navy, which ran on electric power while underwater. A year after the 1897 launch of their first vessel, the "Holland VI", the management of John Philip Holland ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4162807 | 1,704,617 |
307,925 | In 1964, they published "", which argued that the psychedelic experience paralleled the death/rebirth experience described in the "Bardo Thodol" (Tibetan Book of the Dead). Leary and Alpert, unfazed by their dismissals, relocated first to Mexico, but were expelled from the country by the Mexican government. They then s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1119225 | 307,760 |
1,888,379 | The men's pommel horse competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 20, 22 and 28th at the Georgia Dome. There were 102 competitors from 31 nations, with nations in the team event having up t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23973964 | 1,887,296 |
982,459 | On April 9, 2008, Georgia Power Company reached a contract agreement with Westinghouse and Shaw for two AP1000 reactors to be built at Vogtle. The contract represents the first agreement for new nuclear development since the Three Mile Island accident in 1979. The license request for the Vogtle site is based on revisio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3111140 | 981,947 |
355,245 | William H. Holloman was reported by the "Times" as saying his review of records confirmed bombers had been lost. Holloman was a member of Tuskegee Airmen Inc., a group of surviving Tuskegee pilots and their supporters, who also taught Black Studies at the University of Washington and chaired the Airmen's history commit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71753 | 355,062 |
864,819 | In the early universe (before recombination) the baryons and photons scatter off each other, and form a tightly-coupled fluid that can support sound waves. The waves are sourced by primordial density perturbations, and travel at speed that can be predicted from the baryon density and other cosmological parameters. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=471487 | 864,359 |
1,874,180 | Mann and his coworkers at Otago carried out a "landmark" review, commissioned by the WHO and published in "The Lancet" in 2019. The analysis of population epidemiological studies and feeding studies said that dietary fibre in "good" carbohydrates will cut people's chances of early death from a wide range of diseases in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59632990 | 1,873,103 |
1,742,715 | The IEEE 802.15 Low Rate Alternative PHY Task Group (TG4a) for wireless personal area networks (WPANs), as its name implies, was tasked with amending the 802.15 standard to provide alternate PHY standards that would allow for high aggregate throughput (much throughput over time) communications with a precision ranging ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17279101 | 1,741,731 |
1,060,809 | ECV has existed since 384–322 B.C., the time of Aristotle. Around 100 A.D., Soranus of Ephesus included guidance on ECV as a way to reduce complications of vaginal breech birth. 17th century French obstetrician, François Mauriceau, is alleged to have described ECV as "a little more difficult than turning an omelette in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=911028 | 1,060,257 |
1,618,015 | The parameter tau (τ) is proportional to the observer's spatial uncertainty (specifically, it is the spatial standard deviation divided by the low-speed prior standard deviation). Consistent with this model, Tong et al. (2016) showed that stimulus pairs consisting of weaker taps, which are localized with greater uncert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3555539 | 1,617,102 |
45,868 | Academic buildings are concentrated in the Center-South and Center-East sections of campus. McCourtney Hall, an interdisciplinary research facility, opened its doors for the fall 2016 semester, and ground was broken on the Walsh Family Hall of Architecture on the south end of campus near the DeBartolo Performing Arts C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146269 | 45,850 |
828,365 | The plant has become naturalized in the Americas, Northern Asia, Europe and Africa in addition to many islands and is listed as an invasive weed in some areas. In the U.S. it survives best in the Southeast (and, according to a 2003 survey, has overtaken more acreage in that region than the notorious kudzu), but has bee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1879547 | 827,919 |
970,886 | Fast ignition and similar approaches changed the situation. In this approach gains of 100-fold are predicted in the first experimental device, HiPER. Given a gain factor of about 100 and a laser efficiency of about 1%, HiPER produces about the same amount of "fusion" energy as electrical energy was needed to create it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40323 | 970,376 |
270,952 | Francis Galton's (1822–1911) anthropometric laboratory opened in 1884. There people were tested on a wide variety of physical (e.g., strength of blow) and perceptual (e.g., visual acuity) attributes. In 1886 Galton was visited by James McKeen Cattell who would later adapt Galton's techniques in developing his own menta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1573230 | 270,804 |
708,062 | Bloom syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder, caused by mutations in the maternally- and paternally-derived copies of the gene "BLM". As in other autosomal recessive conditions, the parents of an individual with Bloom syndrome do not necessarily exhibit any features of the syndrome. The mutations in BLM associated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1212524 | 707,693 |
49,251 | A more typical response was to accept some elements of the criticisms while refining Keynesian economic theories to defend them against arguments that would invalidate the whole Keynesian frameworkthe resulting body of work largely composing New Keynesian economics. In 1992 Alan Blinder wrote about a "Keynesian Restora... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37973 | 49,231 |
1,614,037 | "Ceratocystis fimbriata" is an ascomycete fungal pathogen. The species as a whole can infect a wide variety of hosts, but particular strains are host-specific. One example is the Ipomoea form of the fungus, which is specific to sweet potato ("Ipomea batatas") and wild morning glory. Symptoms can be found on the fleshy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11063364 | 1,613,132 |
1,145,591 | The MBL has long been a center for the world's experts in cell division. In the early 1980s, Tim Hunt, Joan Ruderman and others at the MBL identified the first of a class of proteins that regulate the cycle of cell division (cyclin). Hunt was awarded a Nobel Prize in 2001 for this work (Hunt, 2004). In 1984, Ron Vale, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=391313 | 1,144,990 |
3,015 | In 2013, sequestration budget cuts cast doubt on the USAF's ability to complete the Combat Avionics Programmed Extension Suite (CAPES), a part of secondary programs such as Taiwan's F-16 upgrade. Air Combat Command's General Mike Hostage stated that if he only had money for a service life extension program (SLEP) or CA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11642 | 3,015 |
346,891 | Since each mole of water requires two moles of electrons, and given that the Faraday constant "F" represents the charge of a mole of electrons (96485 C/mol), it follows that the minimum voltage necessary for electrolysis is about 1.23 V. If electrolysis is carried out at high temperature, this voltage reduces. This eff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3206764 | 346,710 |
1,906,061 | Back at his old school, he obtained his baccalauréat in 1942 through "clandestine classes", "Komplety", together with classmates later to become "luminaries" of Polish higher education such as, Professors: Jerzy Kroh, J.A. Miłobędzki, J. Pelc and K. Szaniawski. The class was later dubbed the "professorial cohort"; of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28810330 | 1,904,965 |
447,548 | In July 2020, Graphcore presented hardware using a second generation processor called GC200 built in TSMC's 7nm FinFET manufacturing process. GC200 is a 59 billion transistor, 823 square-millimeter integrated circuit with 1,472 computational cores and 900 Mbyte of local memories. In 2022, Graphcore and TMSC presented t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54715064 | 447,331 |
313,145 | The armour configuration of the first western tanks using Chobham armour was optimised to defeat shaped charges as guided missiles were seen as the greatest threat. In the eighties however they began to face the improved Soviet 3BM-32, then 3BM-42 kinetic energy penetrators which the ceramic layer was not particularly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=200127 | 312,977 |
1,652,863 | The mechanism of human protoporphyrin metalation remains under investigation. Many researchers have hypothesized distortion of the porphyrin macrocycle as key to catalysis. Researchers studying "Bacillus subtilis" ferrochelatase propose a mechanism for iron insertion into protoporphyrin in which the enzyme tightly grip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5758429 | 1,651,931 |
1,822,121 | This was the first validated tool to assess the methodological quality of clinical trials in the world. As of 2022, it had been cited more than 23,000 times in the biomedical literature, being used to identify systematic differences among studies of the same healthcare interventions in more than 5,000 reviews of resear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57363779 | 1,821,083 |
1,294,251 | Furthermore, NDN treats network routing and control messages like all NDN data, requiring signatures. This provides a solid foundation for securing routing protocols against attack, e.g., spoofing and tampering. NDN's use of multipath forwarding, together with the adaptive forwarding strategy module, mitigates prefix h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11092014 | 1,293,540 |
732,692 | Coccolithophores are single-celled phytoplankton that produce small calcium carbonate (CaCO) scales (coccoliths) which cover the cell surface in the form of a spherical coating, called a coccosphere. They have been an integral part of marine plankton communities since the Jurassic. Today, coccolithophores contribute ~1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47520 | 732,305 |
1,364,791 | Digital pathology has been approved by the FDA for primary diagnosis. The approval was based on a multi-center study of 1,992 cases in which whole-slide imaging (WSI) was shown to be non-inferior to microscopy across a wide range of surgical pathology specimens, sample types and stains. While there are advantages to WS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17878526 | 1,364,035 |
244,461 | When German physicist Heinrich Rudolf Hertz was looking for a subject for his doctoral dissertation in 1879, instructor Hermann von Helmholtz suggested he try to prove Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism. Hertz initially couldn't see any way to test the theory but his observation, in the autumn of 1886, of discharging... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3800477 | 244,334 |
1,347,110 | This unremarkable and derivative design was, however, transformed into a formidable fighter when it was fitted with the newly developed synchronizer gear, the Fokker "Stangensteuerung" system, firing a single 7.92 mm (.312 in) Parabellum LMG 14 or Spandau lMG 08 machine gun through the spinning propeller. Indeed, the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1189231 | 1,346,369 |
745,200 | Conodonts resembled primitive jawless eels. They appeared 520 Ma and were wiped out 200 Ma. Initially they were known only from tooth-like microfossils called "conodont elements". These "teeth" have been variously interpreted as filter-feeding apparatuses or as a "grasping and crushing array". Conodonts ranged in lengt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37824359 | 744,806 |
1,451,295 | Following Starr's 1969 paper, the Shapley–Folkman–Starr results have been widely used in economic theory. Roger Guesnerie summarized their economic implications: "Some key results obtained under the convexity assumption remain (approximately) relevant in circumstances where convexity fails. For example, in economies wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29237460 | 1,450,478 |
1,594,537 | Officially opened on February 22, 2013, the Tree of Life exhibit is a relatively recent addition to the museum. It was developed in partnership with Harvard University, Northwestern University, The University of Michigan, and the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. This exhibit combines interactive touchscreen technology w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=915220 | 1,593,640 |
37,732 | The rotation of a planet can be induced by several factors during formation. A net angular momentum can be induced by the individual angular momentum contributions of accreted objects. The accretion of gas by the giant planets contributes to the angular momentum. Finally, during the last stages of planet building, a st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22915 | 37,719 |
27,208 | One of the goals of molecular cloning is to identify the function of specific DNA sequences and the proteins they encode. For a specific DNA sequence to be studied and manipulated, millions of copies of DNA fragments containing that DNA sequence need to be made. This involves breaking down an intact genome, which is mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9127632 | 27,198 |
1,636,263 | The term supramolecular chemistry is defined by Jean-Marie Lehn as "the chemistry of intermolecular bond, covering structures and functions of the entities formed by association of two or more chemical species" in his Nobel lecture in 1987, but the concept of supramolecular catalysis was started way earlier in 1946 by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41267493 | 1,635,338 |
2,144,902 | A paper co-authored by McKay in 2016 reviewed the evidence gathered from ANDRILL-2A core samples of how the ice sheet reacted to variations of CO levels in the early to mid-Miocene period which preceded the Pliocene period. In the abstract, the paper noted the importance of the mid-Miocene period because "global temper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69498152 | 2,143,671 |
665,785 | Other studies have used CRISPR gene editing to correct the patient's mutation in the patient iPSC cells to create an isogenic control, which can be performed simultaneously with iPSC reprogramming. Comparison of a patient iPSC derived organoid against an isogenic control is the current gold standard in the field as it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4542890 | 665,437 |
113,381 | All of these processes do not necessarily occur in a single environment and do not necessarily occur in a single order. The Hawaiian Islands, for example, consist almost entirely of layered basaltic lava flows. The sedimentary sequences of the mid-continental United States and the Grand Canyon in the southwestern Unite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12207 | 113,336 |
116,687 | Point-of-care testing refers to tests conducted outside of the laboratory setting, such as at a person's bedside or in a clinic. This method of testing is faster and uses less blood than conventional methods, and does not require specially trained personnel, so it is useful in emergency situations and in areas with lim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241565 | 116,642 |
1,796,211 | Arthur S. Hathaway, in another 1903 review published in the "Journal of the American Chemical Society", notes that the book centers around complex analysis, but that topics such as infinite series are "considered in all their phases" along with "all those important series and functions" developed by mathematicians such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2139612 | 1,795,202 |
75,749 | A potential, adverse effect of the OPV is its known ability to recombine to a form that causes neurological infection and paralysis. This genetic reversal of the pathogen to a virulent form takes a considerable time (at least 12 months) and does not affect the person who was originally vaccinated. The vaccine-derived a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=192198 | 75,721 |
677,477 | The second was an experiment in which a number of men proved able to pull an airtight piston only about halfway up a cylindrical copper vessel. Von Guericke then attached his evacuated receiver to the space below the piston and succeeded in drawing the piston back down again against the force of the men pulling it up. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49828 | 677,124 |
442,868 | Nociceptors are sensory receptors that respond to potentially damaging stimuli by sending nerve signals to the brain. Although these neurons in invertebrates may have different pathways and relationships to the central nervous system than mammalian nociceptors, nociceptive neurons in invertebrates often fire in respons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31565681 | 442,653 |
654,830 | Over 300 million tons of plastic are produced every year, half of which are used in single-use products like cups, bags, and packaging. At least 14 million tons of plastic enter the oceans every year. It is impossible to know for sure, but it is estimated that about 150 million metric tons of plastic exists in our ocea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61622385 | 654,486 |
2,142,710 | Although the trial caused very harmful side-effects in some of its subjects and was shut down as a result, for the most part it was successful in helping to suppress the symptoms of the immune deficiency in a majority of the children involved. The relative success of this trial lead to subsequent retroviral vector retr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54071237 | 2,141,479 |
398,794 | "Multi-trophic" refers to the incorporation of species from different trophic or nutritional levels in the same system. This is one potential distinction from the age-old practice of aquatic polyculture, which could simply be the co-culture of different fish species from the same trophic level. In this case, these orga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1634 | 398,598 |
1,971,674 | Observation of time-dependent asymmetries in the production of certain flavor-symmetric final states (such as J/Ψ K) was an easier way to detect CP violation in B mesons, both theoretically and experimentally. An asymmetric accelerator, one in which the electrons and positrons had different energies, was necessary to m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5478160 | 1,970,540 |
68,959 | In 2016, a study of the expression of genes in the plant's leaves as they captured and digested prey was published in the journal, "Genome Research". The gene activation observed in the leaves of the plants gives support to the hypothesis that the carnivorous mechanisms present in the flytrap are a specially adapted ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=310678 | 68,932 |
1,074,694 | The Ottoman Empire military was also tactically proficient in the use of small arms weapons such as rifles and handguns. Like many other great powers, the Ottomans issued the M1903 Mauser bolt-action rifle to its most elite front-line infantry and cavalry soldiers, also known as Janissaries. With a five-round box magaz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5230611 | 1,074,140 |
1,020,723 | Not counting iNaturalist and eBird, the Zooniverse is home to the internet's largest, most popular and most successful citizen science projects. The Zooniverse and the suite of projects it contains is produced, maintained and developed by the Citizen Science Alliance (CSA). The member institutions of the CSA work with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2155752 | 1,020,194 |
1,989,740 | TOMS-Earth Probe (Total Ozone Mapping Spectrometer - Earth Probe, TOMS-EP, originally just TOMS, COSPAR 1996-037A) was launched on July 2, 1996, from Vandenberg AFB by a Pegasus XL rocket. The satellite project was originally known as TOMS, back in 1989 when it was selected as a SMEX mission in the Explorer program. Ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=966859 | 1,988,598 |
1,159,307 | Attlee had created a cabinet sub-committee, the Gen 75 Committee (known informally by Attlee as the "Atomic Bomb Committee"), on 10 August 1945 to examine the feasibility of a nuclear weapons programme. To provide technical advice, Attlee created an Advisory Committee on Atomic Energy, with Anderson as its chairman. An... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52573493 | 1,158,692 |
1,178,363 | Computer system architectures which can support data parallel applications were promoted in the early 2000s for large-scale data processing requirements of data-intensive computing. Data-parallelism applied computation independently to each data item of a set of data, which allows the degree of parallelism to be scaled... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31107479 | 1,177,739 |
911,900 | In warmer climates where cooling is a primary concern, passive solar designs can also be very effective. Masonry building materials with high thermal mass are very valuable for retaining the cool temperatures of night throughout the day. In addition builders often opt for sprawling single story structures in order to m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2704720 | 911,421 |
611,587 | The code of many projects has to be modified to suit the GPU processing of Titan, but each code is required to be executable on CPU-based systems so that projects do not become solely dependent on Titan. OLCF formed the Center for Accelerated Application Readiness (CAAR) to aid with the adaptation process. It holds dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34658831 | 611,276 |
1,275,086 | Vibrational spectroscopy provides the most widely used means for characterizing ion associates. Both infrared spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy have been used. Anions containing a CN group, such as cyanide, cyanate and thiocyanide have a vibration frequency a little above 2000 cm, which can be easily observed, as the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22649721 | 1,274,394 |
1,557,398 | The 1998 APG system and the 2003 APG II system assign it to the order Santalales in the clade core eudicots. Prior to the advent of molecular data, the circumscription of the family Olacaceae varied widely between different authorities. Among these various classifications, about 30 genera were included in the family. 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5475622 | 1,556,513 |
1,654,342 | Paralarvae of "D. opalescens" hatch from the eggs and immediately begin swimming. Where they go is unknown, but hatchlings of the closely related "Loligo pealei" swim to the surface in the first 12 hours post-hatching. Paralarvae must rapidly learn to hunt, as their yolk is either used up or detached upon escaping from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5536589 | 1,653,410 |
2,012,880 | Branaplam represents the first mechanistic study of splicing modulation using a sequence-selective small molecule. The drug stabilizes the transient double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) structure formed between the SMN2 pre-mRNA and U1 snRNP complex, a key component of the splicesome. Further, this compound acts by increasing t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56731305 | 2,011,723 |
1,865,779 | The teaching of chemistry in Owens College began in 1851 in a house in St John Street and was later transferred to the main college building in Quay Street. When the college removed to the present university site in 1873 the chemical laboratory was designed by Henry Roscoe. To this was added in 1895 the Schorlemmer lab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44126726 | 1,864,706 |
928,321 | Climate services are systems for the delivery of the best available climate information to end-users in the most usable and accessible formats. Their objective is to support adaptation, mitigation and risk management decisions. A vast diversity of practices and products have been developed for the interpretation, analy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4607152 | 927,833 |
516,761 | Officers and Masters must pass formal examinations to demonstrate their knowledge at various levels, in accordance with national laws and the STCW Convention. These examinations have a progression based on the size and complexity of the ship, including its sailing area as well as by rank. Globally, most seafarers are r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=133512 | 516,492 |
22,942 | Some smaller competitors such as VIA Technologies produce low-power x86 processors for small factor computers and portable equipment. However, the advent of such mobile computing devices, in particular, smartphones, has in recent years led to a decline in PC sales. Since over 95% of the world's smartphones currently us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14617 | 22,933 |
1,457,402 | Additionally, increased labor union activity in academic sectors has played a key role in graduate employee unionization. During the sizable growth in the 1990s, graduate students were better able to access legal support, financial resources, and networking opportunities provided by the new leadership in the AFL–CIO an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3908552 | 1,456,582 |
1,481,700 | Gout was called podagra in ancient Greek medicine and is a common arthritis caused by deposition of monosodium urate crystals within the joints. Gout usually affects the first metatarsophalangeal joint of the big toe and later the other joints of the feet and hands. Hippocrates considered gout to be the result of an ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48369072 | 1,480,866 |
5,774 | Socrates attracted great interest from the Athenian public and especially the Athenian youth. He was notoriously ugly, having a flat turned-up nose, bulging eyes and a large belly; his friends joked about his appearance. Socrates was indifferent to material pleasures, including his own appearance and personal comfort. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25664190 | 5,771 |
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