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1,528,267 | Follicular dendritic cells are localized in germinal centers of lymphoid follicles and have an integral role in regulation of the germinal center reaction and present antigens to B cells. Most cases of FDCS develop in the lymph nodes, but about 30% develop in extranodal sites. In 1998 the largest study on the disease w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21763101 | 1,527,403 |
113,767 | The PW1900G has a fan for a 12:1 bypass ratio. The aluminum wing span increased to for the highest wing aspect ratio of any airliner, just over 11, while the larger E195-E2 has a longer wingtip and the smaller E175-E2 has a downsized wing. It was moved forward to shift the center of gravity envelope aft to reduce the h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39718589 | 113,722 |
52,143 | In the 1970s, problems with viewing attachment as a trait (stable characteristic of an individual) rather than as a type of behaviour with organizing functions and outcomes, led some authors to the conclusion that attachment behaviours were best understood in terms of their functions in the child's life. This way of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=884589 | 52,123 |
264,367 | The second building phase was dominated by a highly coherent group of pottery within the regional Chalcolithic styles, representing Maritime Bell Beakers of the local (northern Portuguese), "penteada" decoration style in various patterns, using lines of points, incision or impression. Three of them were carbon dated to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=263746 | 264,224 |
623,111 | On telecommunications circuits, disambiguation is a critical function of voice procedure. Due to any number of variables, including radio static, a busy or loud environment, or similarity in the phonetics of different words, a critical piece of information can be misheard or misunderstood; for instance, a pilot being o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=633263 | 622,779 |
1,490,573 | In the majority of cases, an individual's genetic sequence is considered unique to that individual. One notable exception to this rule in humans is the case of identical twins, who have nearly identical genome sequences at birth. In the remainder of cases, one's genetic fingerprint is considered specific to a particula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52716809 | 1,489,734 |
383,604 | "Diablo" was conceived by David Brevik during the development of the fighting game "Justice League Task Force" (1995), developed by Japanese studio Sunsoft with two American studios, Condor Games (later Blizzard North) on the Sega Genesis version and Silicon & Synapse on the SNES version, which by the end of "Justice L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18985454 | 383,409 |
172,265 | At 8:32 a.m. local time the next day (May 18), an earthquake measuring magnitude 5.1 rocked the area, triggering the landslide that started the main eruption. In a matter of seconds, vibrations from the earthquake loosened of rock on the mountain's north face and summit, creating a massive landslide. With the loss of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=981085 | 172,174 |
494,677 | The decision of whether to raise an individual with PAIS as a boy or a girl may not be obvious; grades 3 and 4 in particular present with a phenotype that may be difficult to classify as primarily male or female, and some will be incapable of virilization at puberty. Parents of an affected newborn should seek immediate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5960699 | 494,421 |
1,220,073 | Gerhard Lenski, in "Social Forces", admitted that sociologists had too often ignored non-human societies, and thought the book should be required reading. Human societies were plainly founded on biology, but this did not imply either biological reductionism or determinism. Comparison with other species would be product... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1149054 | 1,219,419 |
1,787,799 | The inside of the bunker was isolated from all time and light cues and subjects lived there for weeks at a time. Subjects prepared their own meals and were asked to eat three meals a day, not nap after lunch, and perform some psychological tasks. Besides this, they could generally do as they pleased, and were able to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67427082 | 1,786,794 |
423,557 | Although measuring biogeochemical process rates could analyze what processes were occurring, they were incomplete because they provided no information on which specific microbes were responsible. It was long known that ‘classical’ cultivation techniques recovered fewer than 1% of the microbes from a natural habitat. Ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1057083 | 423,350 |
930,990 | While still building on traditional models such as the Ricardian framework, the mid 1900s bring forth innovation in international trade theory with the introduction of the Heckscher-Ohlin (H-O) model, developed by Swedish economists Eli Heckscher and Bertil Ohlin from the Stockholm School of Economics. The H-O model ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1675534 | 930,499 |
1,981,214 | Edl Schamiloglu (born 1959) is an American physicist, electrical engineer, pulsed power expert, inventor, and distinguished professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of New Mexico. He has been known in public media for his expertise in the design and operation of directed-ener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68638955 | 1,980,075 |
1,182,919 | On March 3, Latif Mumdžić, a thirty-year-old teacher, who had just arrived in Đakovica to attend school, fell ill. He had no known direct contact with Hoti. He may have been infected by one of the clergyman's friends or relatives who visited during his illness, or simply by passing the clergyman in the street. When Mum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=729623 | 1,182,294 |
321,352 | Immediate though temporary relief of piriformis syndrome can usually be brought about by injection of a local anaesthetic into the piriformis muscle. Symptomatic relief of muscle and nerve pain can also sometimes be obtained by nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and/or muscle relaxants, though the use of such medicat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1104401 | 321,180 |
1,808,725 | Beerling is a leading architect in the field of experimental palaeobiology, adopting advanced experimental research programmes to address fundamental questions raised by the fossil record of plant life. Characterized by the formulation and evaluation of rigorous hypotheses, these programmes demonstrate how experimental... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43094065 | 1,807,704 |
1,885,717 | Since the size of these organisms determines how they interact with their environment, it is no surprise that they are not known to form significant sinking organic aggregates. Their contribution to carbon cycling is difficult to assess because they are difficult to separate by techniques such as filtration. Recent flu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17190038 | 1,884,635 |
260,817 | When compared with Deep Blue or Watson, AlphaGo's underlying algorithms are potentially more general-purpose and may be evidence that the scientific community is making progress towards artificial general intelligence. Some commentators believe AlphaGo's victory makes for a good opportunity for society to start prepari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49242352 | 260,681 |
839,197 | Neurotransmitters are spontaneously packed in vesicles and released in individual quanta-packets independently of presynaptic action potentials. This slow release is detectable and produces micro-inhibitory or micro-excitatory effects on the postsynaptic neuron. An action potential briefly amplifies this process. Neuro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2918988 | 838,748 |
138,810 | Drawbacks of hydrogen peroxide include material compatibility, a lower capability for penetration and operator health risks. Products containing cellulose, such as paper, cannot be sterilized using VHP and products containing nylon may become brittle. The penetrating ability of hydrogen peroxide is not as good as ethyl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=414144 | 138,754 |
283,457 | This mismatch also shows up in the phenomena of the supernormal stimulus, a stimulus that elicits a response more strongly than the stimulus for which the response evolved. The term was coined by Niko Tinbergen to refer to non-human animal behavior, but psychologist Deirdre Barrett said that supernormal stimulation gov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9703 | 283,304 |
467,187 | As for triboelectric nanogenerators, maximizing the charge generation on opposite sides can be achieved by selecting the materials with the largest difference in the ability to attract electrons and changing the surface morphology. In such a case, the output of the TENG depends on the type and concentration of molecule... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30057479 | 466,952 |
1,434,843 | Under the directorship of Edward Charles Pickering from 1877 to 1919, the observatory became the world's major producer of stellar spectra and magnitudes, established an observing station in Peru, and applied mass-production methods to the analysis of data. It was during this time that HCO became host to a series of ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1505128 | 1,434,037 |
1,989,750 | In March 2020, Calder was appointed Clinical Lead setting up the NHS Nightingale Hospital London. Early in the pandemic, the quest to increase ventilator capacity in the NHS led to the concept of converting the Excel Exhibition Centre into a 4000 bed critical care facility. The co-ordination of NHS, military and privat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51786667 | 1,988,608 |
1,029,534 | In 1821 the "Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, and The Arts" published a "letter to the editor" with the title "Account of an Optical Deception." It was dated Dec. 1, 1820 and attributed to "J.M.", possibly publisher/editor John Murray himself. The author noted that the spokes of a rotating wheel seen through f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23289 | 1,029,000 |
2,073,099 | Type 991 I is the first member of Type 991 series, and it is the first purposely designed cable layer / repair ship in China. Program begun in early 1961 when Chinese naval headquarter formally issued the order to the 708th Institute of China State Shipbuilding Corporation, and the 708th Institute is also more commonly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42714440 | 2,071,908 |
1,410,838 | The IPCC First Assessment Report in 1990 noted evidence that Holocene climatic optimum around 5,000-6,000 years ago had been warmer than the present (at least in summer) and that in some areas there had been exceptional warmth during "a shorter Medieval Warm Period (which may not have been global)", the "Medieval Clima... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5354105 | 1,410,046 |
993,352 | A 1976 article in "The New York Times" described the campus as a "cheerful, optimistic place where people smile a lot and tend to be considerate and trusting". In 1992 "The New York Times" reported that the university was a place where all students and faculty meditate, and all the Maharishi's teachings are woven into ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=271937 | 992,835 |
12,926 | In the southern sector, the Israeli Barak Armored Brigade had to defend a much flatter terrain. It also faced two-thirds of the Syrian second wave, while fielding at this time less than a third of the operational Israeli tanks. Beside these objective draw-backs, it suffered from ineffective command. Ben-Shoham initiall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34276 | 12,921 |
912,903 | Hadrosaur research experienced a surge in the decade of the 2000s, similar to the research of other dinosaurs. In response to this, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Royal Tyrrell Museum collaborated to arrange the International Hadrosaur Symposium, a professional meeting about ongoing hadrosaur research that was held a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1091928 | 912,424 |
1,019,800 | PFCs, also known as fluorocarbons, are inert, water-insoluble, synthetic compounds, consisting primarily of carbon and fluorine atoms bonded together in strong C–F bonds. PFCs are substantially clear and colorless liquid emulsions that are heterogeneous in molecular weight, surface area, electronic charge, and viscosit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2087922 | 1,019,273 |
399,560 | In order to minimise the confounding influence of external factors, patients undergoing infrared thermographic testing must conform to special restrictions regarding the use of certain vasoconstrictors (namely, nicotine and caffeine), skin lotions, physical therapy, and other diagnostic procedures in the days prior to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56283 | 399,362 |
267,200 | During the last two decades, eco-evolutionary studies have investigated the relevance of life-history traits and environmental conditions on telomeres of wildlife. Most of these studies have been conducted in endotherms, i.e. birds and mammals. They have provided evidence for the inheritance of telomere length; however... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54888 | 267,056 |
161,661 | There are various important electrochemical processes in both nature and industry, like the coating of objects with metals or metal oxides through electrodeposition, the addition (electroplating) or removal (electropolishing) of thin layers of metal from an object's surface, and the detection of alcohol in drunk driver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9601 | 161,576 |
1,802,334 | In the early 1970s Edwards experienced an unexpected crisis. Disenchanted by the European music of the time, which was itself in crisis due to the waning of the Modernist movement, he found himself unable to compose for several years. Having returned to Australia due to the terminal illness of his mother, and while lec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4963057 | 1,801,321 |
1,925,197 | The Blackmer cell was more precise and had a greater dynamic range that prior VCA topologies but it required well-matched complementary transistors of both polarity types that could not yet be implemented in a silicon integrated circuit (IC). Contemporary junction isolation technology offered poorly performing p-n-p tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63925564 | 1,924,093 |
1,049,780 | Sega's "Gun Fight" (1969) had two players control cowboy figurines on opposing sides of a playfield full of obstacles, with each player attempting to shoot the opponent's cowboy. It had a Western theme and was one of the first games to feature competitive head-to-head shooting between two players, inspiring several ear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34967368 | 1,049,234 |
1,741,616 | Deuterium abundance can be useful in tracking migration of various animals. Animals with metabolically inert tissue (e.g. feathers or hair) will have synthesized that tissue using hydrogen from source water and food but ideally not incorporate subsequent water over the course of the migration. Because δD tends to vary ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50525886 | 1,740,632 |
1,028,657 | The penultimate race of the 1961 World Championship was to be a showdown between two Ferrari drivers. The team had already won the Constructors' title so it was a straight fight between Wolfgang Von Trips and Phil Hill for the Drivers' title although Moss still had a mathematical chance of victory if he won both races.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1140105 | 1,028,123 |
1,301,712 | An incubator is a plastic dome-shaped machine designed as a crib that regulates a newborn infant's body temperature. The incubator is designed to allow the temperature to be adjusted according to the state of the baby's current body heat. A range of five types of incubators all serve different purposes in the neonatal ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10985068 | 1,300,998 |
1,373,551 | Chomsky focuses on the mind of the language learner or user and proposed that internal properties of the language faculty are closely linked to the physical biology of humans. He further introduced the idea of a Universal Grammar (UG) theorized to be inherent to all human beings. From the view of Biolinguistic approach... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9568471 | 1,372,794 |
1,048,686 | In the earlier part of Padmanabhan's career (1980–2001), he made important contributions to quantum cosmology, structure formation in the universe and statistical mechanics of gravitating systems. In the 1980s, he came up with an interpretation of the Planck length as the 'zero-point length' of the spacetime based on v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7390988 | 1,048,141 |
1,756,029 | In response to the growing interest in aviation in France after the Wright brothers' visit in 1908, Anzani produced the first of a series of three-cylinder fan flight engines. The cylinders were each a single iron casting and the one-piece crankcase was aluminium. Pistons were steel with cast rings. In most of these th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23487324 | 1,755,039 |
1,958,090 | Anthracology (from "anthrax" (ἄνθραξ), the Greek word for coal) is the analysis and identification of charcoal which is preserved after carbonization, based on wood anatomy. The remains of carbonized wood come from archaeological sites and sediments, and may yield evidence of natural or anthropogenic paleo-fires. Anthr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44459808 | 1,956,966 |
1,647,475 | "Fifty Shades Freed" is the third movie in the "Fifty Shades" phenomenon. The film was filmed mainly in Vancouver, BC and the production worked hard to reduce their footprint. To begin, Fifty Shades Freed was shot consecutively with its predecessor Fifty Shades Darker which helped the production combine and reuse mater... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62121155 | 1,646,544 |
1,654,075 | Meteorological forecasts are given at specific nodes of a grid covering an area. Since wind farms are not situated on these nodes, it is then needed to extrapolate these forecasts at the desired location and at turbine hub height. Physical-based forecasting methods consist of several sub-models which altogether deliver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8768560 | 1,653,143 |
253,459 | Wireless networking lags wired networking in terms of increasing bandwidth and throughput. While (as of 2013) high-density 256-QAM (TurboQAM) modulation, 3-antenna wireless devices for the consumer market can reach sustained real-world speeds of some 240 Mbit/s at 13 m behind two standing walls (NLOS) depending on thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=192397 | 253,326 |
1,304,325 | A 13.5/8 inch hypervelocity gun (a type of very large-calibre artillery) for stratospheric experiments was developed and deployed near St Margaret's in Kent. The weapon was a 13.5 inch gun Mark V lined down to 8 inches; the liner projected several feet beyond the 13.5 inch barrel. The concept was suggested by F. A. Lin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5639727 | 1,303,609 |
485,059 | Joseph Steinberg writes that "biometrics take time to process and are often inaccurate – especially when a user is under duress – as is likely going to be the case in any situation in which he needs to brandish a gun... it is not ideal to add a requirement for power to devices utilized in cases of emergency that did no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1809910 | 484,810 |
277,195 | In March 1981, the USAF announced the Enhanced Tactical Fighter (ETF) program to procure a replacement for the F-111 Aardvark. The concept envisioned an aircraft capable of launching deep interdiction missions without requiring additional support in the form of fighter escort or jamming support. Under the leadership of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1883426 | 277,045 |
1,718,178 | Ebola is one of the deadliest viruses, starting out as a small outbreak and eventually turning into a major global issue. The first time the virus was noticed was in 1976 near the Ebola River in Democratic Republic of Congo. Since then, the virus has been infecting people from time to time, leading to outbreaks in seve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63453251 | 1,717,208 |
1,886,148 | Jackson joined fellow seniors Robbie Hummel and Ryne Smith as tri-captains for the 2012 Purdue basketball team. Beginning the season with a troubling foot, he managed to average 12.5 points and four assists in his first four outings of the season (4–0). On November 18, 2011, against Temple, Lewis recorded a career high... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24028668 | 1,885,066 |
1,967,584 | These tools are the now-familiar mass spectrometry, multi-atom nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and X-ray crystallography: when applied to alkaloids these allowed relationships in structural sub-types to be clarified. This meant that attention could switch to an understanding of the biosynthetic pathways by whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13013970 | 1,966,454 |
650,509 | The components on "Mariner 10" can be categorized into four groups based on their common function. The solar panels, power subsystem, attitude control subsystem, and the computer kept the spacecraft operating properly during the flight. The navigational system, including the hydrazine rocket, would keep "Mariner 10" on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38785 | 650,168 |
1,576,728 | As with many US universities, a period of rapid expansion occurred following the war. Enrollment for the 1946 school year was so high that temporary dormitories had to be constructed. Fifty surplus metal military barracks, each housing twenty students, were arranged into a trailer-park like camp over a mile from campus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32133136 | 1,575,839 |
1,546,993 | G4 is a compound method in spirit of the other "Gaussian" theories and attempts to take the accuracy achieved with G3X one small step further. This involves the introduction of an extrapolation scheme for obtaining basis set limit Hartree-Fock energies, the use of geometries and thermochemical corrections calculated at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12323349 | 1,546,116 |
2,207,370 | A FOCE system for studies of deep-sea benthic communities (designated dp-FOCE) was developed by Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. The dpFOCE project, deployed at a depth of 900 m, was attached to the MARS cabled seafloor observatory in Monterey Bay, central California. The system used a flume concept for mainta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41597458 | 2,206,112 |
25,760 | Known as viremia, the presence of a virus in the bloodstream enables it to be widely distributed throughout the body. Poliovirus can survive and multiply within the blood and lymphatics for long periods of time, sometimes as long as 17 weeks. In a small percentage of cases, it can spread and replicate in other sites, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25107 | 25,751 |
1,716,515 | As well as the drawn-out process in deciding which country should host SESAME, the project came across several other difficulties on its path to completion. Possibly the largest issue was its funding. Because the major components of the laboratory from the decommissioned BESSY I experiment, originally valued at $60 mil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12260613 | 1,715,546 |
1,761,160 | Stuewe considered the book well-written, and credited Asimov with covering developments in technology since the publication of "Asimov's Guide to Science". McFadden considered the book enjoyable to read, and praised Asimov for presenting new information "from dinosaurs to robots, the solar system to new physics discove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7004633 | 1,760,167 |
355,624 | The issue of bullying within the staff at Imperial resurfaced in November 2020 when Alex Sobel, the Labour MP for Leeds North West asked the Secretary of State for Education in a written question on 24 November what steps the Office for Students had taken in response to a report by Jane McNeill QC dated 25 August which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61116 | 355,441 |
581,174 | In comparison to the albertosaurines, tyrannosaurines were more heavily built and larger. The alioramin genera of "Qianzhousaurus" and "Alioramus", however, were the exception, as they were more comparable in built to albertosaurines and have longirostrine snouts. Like albertosaurines, tyrannosaurines also had heterodo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9430305 | 580,877 |
605,732 | A critical part in the evolution of interior architecture and design is the central theme of sustainability and consciously thinking of the environment and the materials being sourced- energy use, site selection, water usage, and material selection (Leigh Bacon). This sub-category of Interior Architecture focuses on fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1201591 | 605,422 |
156,245 | Following a stroke or other injury to the brain, functional deficiencies are common. The deficits are expected to be in areas related to the part of the brain that has been damaged; if a stroke has occurred in the motor cortex, deficits may include paralysis, abnormal posture, or abnormal movement synergies. Significan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=490258 | 156,173 |
603,131 | The chondrocyte in cartilage matrix has rounded or polygonal structure. The exception occurs at tissue boundaries, for example the articular surfaces of joints, in which chondrocytes may be flattened or discoid. Intra-cellular features are characteristic of a synthetically active cell. The cell density of full-thicknes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1309267 | 602,822 |
886,438 | In the Western United States, many stream and riparian habitats have been negatively affected by livestock grazing. This has resulted in increased phosphates, nitrates, decreased dissolved oxygen, increased temperature, turbidity, and eutrophication events, and reduced species diversity. Livestock management options fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15588468 | 885,974 |
653,051 | After the advent of the internet and digitization, renewed interest in Foote was sparked by an article published by retired petroleum geologist Ray Sorenson, in January 2011, in the American Association of Petroleum Geologists' on-line journal "Search and Discovery". Katharine Hayhoe, director of the Climate Science Ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49280323 | 652,708 |
1,275,362 | In April 2012 "PLOS Medicine" published an article by three researchers who were involved in ongoing updates of a Cochrane Collaboration review of neuraminidase inhibitors for treating influenza, describing their experience of trying to gain access to clinical study reports for the antiviral Tamiflu (oseltamivir) from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2526606 | 1,274,670 |
47,702 | Concern exists about possible grade inflation. It is claimed that academics are under increasing pressure from administrators to award students good marks and grades with little regard for those students' actual abilities, in order to maintain their league table rankings. The percentage of graduates who receive a First... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=460615 | 47,682 |
1,982,888 | Lowe had a rural upbringing in Bell Block, Taranaki, New Zealand. He attended New Plymouth Boys High School but was "bullied and unhappy", so after three years and having gained School Certificate (New Zealand), left and worked in a telephone exchange. He became a keen surfer which heightened his awareness of the envir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65653530 | 1,981,749 |
937,331 | In the 1990s, the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union resulted in severe disruptions in funding for Russia’s MFI (, ) fifth-generation fighter programme, which was being developed as the Mikoyan Project 1.42/1.44. Owing to high costs, the MFI was cancelled and a new programme for a more affordable ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24534095 | 936,833 |
1,836,083 | In 2020, Shaun Hendy identified a gap in the science data being provided to the New Zealand Government to inform its response to COVID-19. He set up a multi-disciplinary team as part of Te Pūnaha Matatini that developed mathematical models in different scenarios for the position New Zealand was in early in the pandemic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69981304 | 1,835,034 |
1,334,014 | Water is in some ways an unusual chemical. It is a very powerful and universal solvent. Most liquids reduce in volume on freezing, but water expands. It occurs naturally on earth in all three states of solid (ice), liquid (water) and gas(water vapour and steam). At 273.16 K or 0.16 °C (known as the triple point) it can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63417066 | 1,333,284 |
1,609,379 | Graph theoretical approaches have set up a mathematical framework to model the pairwise communications between elements of a network. In human neuroscience, graph theory is generally applied to either functional or effective connectivity. Graph theory methods, when applied properly, can offer important new insights int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63336797 | 1,608,474 |
1,651,493 | The Pioneer 5 mission finally managed to get a working magnetometer of this type in orbit around the sun showing that magnetic fields existed between Earth and Venus orbits. A single magnetometer was oriented along the plane perpendicular to the spin axis of the spacecraft. Search coil magnetometers have become increas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18402950 | 1,650,561 |
255,714 | The design effort produced a number of wooden models. A 24-inch long model, made of balsa wood, demonstrated placement of internal structure and access doors. An "Air & Space" article noted "The model shop found it nearly impossible to make all the flat surfaces come to a single point in one corner. Engineers later enc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1253187 | 255,580 |
1,112,332 | Yet, the industry has been slowly changing since about 1999. It has adopted the "best management practices" developed by the World Bank program, for example, and others. and instituted educational programs to promote them. Due to the mangrove protection laws enacted in many countries, new farms are usually of the semi-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2167405 | 1,111,766 |
1,508,621 | The Law on Science has established a system of peer review for research grant applications from universities and research institutes. These competitive grants are examined by the national research councils. The government also plans to increase the share of funding for applied research to 30% and that for experimental ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54181703 | 1,507,773 |
1,172,481 | The difficulties that the community encountered when trying to use heavy metal fluoride glasses in the early years of development for a variety of applications were mostly related to the fragility of the fibers, a major drawback that prevented their broader adoption. However, the developers and manufacturers have dedic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2358446 | 1,171,862 |
79,179 | The M982 Excalibur (previously XM982) is a 155 mm extended-range guided artillery shell developed in a collaborative effort between the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL) and the United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC). The Excalibur was developed and/or manufactured by prime c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3766404 | 79,146 |
1,750,911 | The expression of consensus sequences and parallel ASR via non-ML methods are often required to disband this theory per experiment. One other concern raised by ML methods is that the scoring matrices are derived from modern sequences and particular amino acid frequencies seen today may not be the same as in Precambrian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39867144 | 1,749,925 |
1,120,582 | laboratory testing can distinguish the two as the presentation is so similar, with high plasma concentrations of lysosomal enzymes, often fatal in childhood. Typically, by the age of 6 months, failure to thrive and developmental delays are obvious signs of this disorder. Some physical signs, such as abnormal skeletal d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5881306 | 1,120,008 |
226,237 | The genetic defect of the transcriptional regulator MECP2 is responsible for Rett syndrome. A MECP2 deficiency has been associated to catecholaminergic dysfunctions related to autonomic and sympathoadrenergic system in mouse models of Rett Syndrome (RTT). The locus coeruleus is the major source of noradrenergic innerva... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=833785 | 226,121 |
1,396,247 | Donated intestines, like all organs, should be matched to a recipient prior to recovery, as to prepare him or her and minimize the time the organ spends outside the body. Potential recipients are placed on the International Intestinal Transplant Registry (ITR), where they contribute to the world's growing understanding... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46300441 | 1,395,476 |
1,172,581 | Lack of standardised dive computer user-interfaces can cause confusion under stress. Computer lock-out at times of great need is a potentially fatal design flaw. The meaning of alarms and warnings should be immediately obvious. The diver should be dealing with the problem, not trying to work out what it is. Displays sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63557168 | 1,171,962 |
2,237,238 | When the Spartans opened against Boston College, it appeared like they were going to be run over by the Eagles. BC carried the play throughout the first period, outshooting MSU 13–6, but neither team managed to score. The second saw a reversal with Michigan State doubling up BC in shots, however, Brian Boyle was the on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72377445 | 2,235,967 |
912,588 | The low temperature difference means that water volumes must be very large to extract useful amounts of heat. A 100MW power plant would be expected to pump on the order of 12 million gallons (44,400 tonnes) per minute. For comparison, pumps must move a mass of water greater than the weight of the "battleship Bismarck",... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68498 | 912,109 |
1,770,655 | Michael C. Malin, a planetary scientist and designer of the cameras used by the Mars Global Surveyor that obtained the earliest images of the CO geyser phenomenon, is studying the images acquired of specific areas and he tracks their changes over a period of a few years. In 2000, he modelled the fans and spots' dynamic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18418502 | 1,769,658 |
1,629,827 | In 2009 several more key innovations were yielding results at a single center KPD program, the Methodist Transplant Institute, in San Antonio led by Dr. Adam Bingaman. Prior to Dr. Bingaman's work, KPD was built on the notion that the results of a cross match test to determine donor–recipient compatibility are generall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49687007 | 1,628,908 |
1,029,795 | The Unit's biological research was restricted to free-living nitrogen fixers, chosen as more amenable material for its research than those requiring a plant symbiosis. Its approach ranged from biochemical enzymology to microbial physiology and general microbiology, and in due course it introduced the genetics, and was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42616525 | 1,029,261 |
592,140 | Miscanthus chips have a bulk density of , bales , while pellets and briquettes have a bulk density of respectively. Torrefaction works hand in hand with this trend towards a denser and therefore cheaper to transport product, specifically by increasing the product's "energy" density. Torrefaction removes (by gasificatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8202316 | 591,838 |
1,635,831 | Subtelomeric transcripts largely consist of either pseudogenes (transcribed genes producing RNA sequences not translated into protein) or gene families. In humans, they code for olfactory receptors, immunoglobulin heavy chains, and zinc-finger proteins. In other species, several parasites such as "Plasmodium" and "Tryp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2794604 | 1,634,907 |
525,242 | Launched in September 2017, PocketBeagle offers identical computing performance to BeagleBone Black in a physical form factor that offers over 50% reduction in size and 75% reduction in weight, along with over 40% cheaper purchase price (December 2018 MSRP US$25 vs. US$45 for BeagleBone Black). The miniaturization was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18829463 | 524,970 |
1,917,776 | During the fifties and early sixties, Marcel Pourbaix and his collaborators produced potential-pH diagrams for all the elements and published the "Atlas of Electrochemical Equilibria" in French in 1963 and in English in 1966. As early as in 1962, he introduced the concept of a protection potential against the propagati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2423012 | 1,916,676 |
383,665 | In addition to the facilities on Charles Street, the Central YMCA allocated some space in their building for evening classes. The enrollment during this period increased to 662 students in the fall of 1947 and the establishment of an accredited, full-time undergraduate program, at the newly designated Waterbury Branch ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239846 | 383,470 |
2,136,873 | The rise of Systems Biology, seeking to comprehend biological processes as a whole, highlighted the need to not only develop corresponding quantitative models, but also to create standards allowing their exchange and integration. This concern drove the community to design common data format such as SBML and CellML. SBM... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6974837 | 2,135,644 |
2,104,910 | Knowles began his career in 1991 with a research fellowship at St Catharine's College, Cambridge, before moving to New Zealand to work as a research and consultancy metallurgist for Industrial Research Ltd between 1993 and 1995. He then returned to the University of Cambridge in 1995 to take up a post as Lecturer in Me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67385305 | 2,103,697 |
625,508 | In July 2012, the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 was proposed by Senators Joseph Lieberman and Susan Collins. The bill would have required creating voluntary "best practice standards" for protection of key infrastructure from cyber attacks, which businesses would be encouraged to adopt through incentives such as liability p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3421940 | 625,175 |
248,691 | During 2008, Cerf chaired the Internationalized domain name (IDNAbis) working group of the IETF. In 2008 Cerf was a major contender to be designated the first U.S. Chief Technology Officer by President Barack Obama. Cerf is the co-chair of Campus Party Silicon Valley, the US edition of one of the largest technology fes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32433 | 248,563 |
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