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716,614 | What were the factors leading to the first escapement clock in China? The chief tradition leading to Yi Xing (AD 725 ) was of course the succession of 'pre-clocks' which had started with Zhang Heng about 125. Reason has been given for believing that these applied power to the slow turning movement of computational armi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34542 | 716,237 |
181,360 | As stated in a journal from the American Dairy Science Association, ""Lactobacillus acidophilus" is a commercial strain and probiotic that is widely used in the dairy industry to obtain high-quality fermentation products." Increased levels of beneficial bacteria, and decreased levels of pathogenic bacteria within the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=965861 | 181,265 |
436,306 | The Don-2N radar (, NATO: Pill Box) is a large missile defense and early warning active electronically scanned array radar outside Moscow, and a key part of the Russian A-135 anti-ballistic missile system designed for the defense of the capital against ballistic missiles. Located near Sofrino in Pushkinsky District of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34781529 | 436,092 |
88,901 | The original predecessors of all firearms, the Chinese fire lance and hand cannon, were loaded with gunpowder and the shot (initially lead shot, later replaced by cast iron) through the muzzle, while a fuse was placed at the rear. This fuse was lit, causing the gunpowder to ignite and propel the projectiles. In militar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11966 | 88,865 |
380,265 | Although the laboratory did not employ any revolutionary measurement techniques, it was unique because of the simple logistics of constructing such a demonstration within a limited space, and because of the speed and efficiency with which all the necessary data were gathered. The laboratory itself was a see-through (la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49072 | 380,070 |
2,070,143 | The compact and lightweight engine was a 90-degree V4 cylinder bank mid-mounted mono-turbocharged petrol engine. It ran at 9,000 rpm, with performance coming from a direct fuel-injection system and a single Garrett-designed turbocharger with a dual overhead camshaft. It produced approximately and acted as a chassis loa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72147712 | 2,068,952 |
1,227,308 | On 6 April 1924, just 13 days after the British, under Stuart-MacLaren, set off from England in the opposite direction, they left Seattle for Alaska. Shortly after departing Prince Rupert Island on 15 April, the lead aircraft "Seattle," flown by Martin with Harvey (the only fully qualified mechanic in the flight), blew... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1649178 | 1,226,647 |
214,522 | MPI emerged in the early 1990s out of discussions among 40 organizations. The initial effort was supported by ARPA and National Science Foundation. Rather than starting anew, the design of MPI drew on various features available in commercial systems of the time. The MPI specifications then gave rise to specific impleme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18949896 | 214,414 |
2,148,512 | One of the first comprehensive overviews of work in environmental psychology is Lenelis Kruse-Graumann’s dissertation (1974), which was supervised by Carl-Friedrich Graumann. Around the same time, Ernst-Dieter Lantermann published his dissertation ' ["Solidarity and Living"]. Pioneering insights were also generated by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39119819 | 2,147,281 |
369,775 | DNA microarray is a bioinformatics tool used to quantify expression levels of various genes simultaneously, and has been used extensively in the study of adipose tissue. One such study used microarray analysis in conjunction with Ingenuity IPA software to look at changes in WAT and BAT gene expression when mice were ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=419094 | 369,582 |
817,218 | CW multipliers are typically used to develop higher voltages for relatively low-current applications, such as bias voltages ranging from tens or hundreds of volts to millions of volts for high-energy physics experiments or lightning safety testing. CW multipliers are also found, with a higher number of stages, in laser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2428994 | 816,782 |
592,959 | The physically largest black-powder model rocket motors are typically F-class, as black powder is very brittle. If a large black-powder motor is the upper stage motor of a rocket that exceeds the maximum recommended takeoff weight, or is dropped or exposed to many heating/cooling cycles (e.g., in a closed vehicle expos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=134827 | 592,655 |
1,605,037 | Water gas shift is the most widespread industrial process for the production of dihydrogen, H. It involves the reaction of carbon monoxide and water (syngas) to form hydrogen and carbon dioxide as a byproduct. In many catalytic reaction schemes, one of the elementary reactions is the oxidation of CO with an adsorbed ox... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57084837 | 1,604,135 |
1,801,905 | Beginning in 1969, Ford Aerospace developed an early laser targeting pod, the AN/AVQ-10 Pave Knife, for the USAF and US Navy to designate and guide laser-guided bombs, and replaced the essentially improvised Airborne Laser Designator (ALD), a hand-held laser. Testing at Eglin, the system met specifications. McDonnell D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,894 |
1,190,783 | The issues surrounding setting the stretch by ear vs machine have not been settled; machines are better at deriving the absolute placement of semitones within a given chromatic scale, whereas non-machine tuners prefer to adjust these locations preferentially due to their temptation to make intervals more sonorous. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292196 | 1,190,149 |
2,118,132 | The identification of causal variants, genes and pathways leads to opportunities that bridge the divide between research and clinical usage. If successful, the subsequent discovery of therapeutic targets within implicated biological pathways have consequences for both treatment and prevention. Furthermore, the downstre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43778895 | 2,116,914 |
862,299 | Elements used for precipitation strengthening in typical aluminium and titanium alloys make up about 10% of their composition. While binary alloys are more easily understood as an academic exercise, commercial alloys often use three components for precipitation strengthening, in compositions such as Al(Mg, Cu) and Ti(A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1590904 | 861,839 |
1,505,760 | Shepard was educated at Heatherdown School, near Ascot in Berkshire, followed by Eton College (also in Berkshire). In 1964, he was commissioned into the Coldstream Guards, after which he joined 21 Regiment Special Air Service (Artists). His civilian career started at the Charrington Brewery in the East End of London in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19162126 | 1,504,914 |
25,939 | The U-2's flight controls are designed for high-altitude flight; the controls require light control inputs at operational altitude. However, at lower altitudes the higher air density and lack of a power-assisted control system make the aircraft very difficult to fly: control inputs must be extreme to achieve the desire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32310 | 25,930 |
646,814 | The tsetse fly bite erupts into a red chancre sore and within a few weeks, the person can experience fever, swollen lymph glands, blood in urine, aching muscles and joints, headaches and irritability. In the first phase, the patient has only intermittent bouts of fever with lymphadenopathy together with other non-speci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=644499 | 646,474 |
451,662 | In 2011, Rothberg founded Butterfly Network after seeing a talk by MIT physicist Max Tegmark, who was becoming fascinated by artificial intelligence. Rothberg brought in one of Tegmark's smartest students, Nevada Sanchez, a co-founder of the company who was named among Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2015. Butterfly Network sell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11446118 | 451,443 |
394,819 | Even though facial recognition technology (FRT) is not fully accurate, it is being increasingly deployed for identification purposes by the police in India. FRT systems generate a probability match score, or a confidence score between the suspect who is to be identified and the database of identified criminals that is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=602401 | 394,624 |
2,160,955 | On January 29, 1990, Dr. John E. Murray Jr., then President of Duquesne University, announced the creation of a School of Health Sciences in order to "graduate professionals who will provide assistance to people in maintaining their physical well-being. It will make them more self-sufficient physically and provide grea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13294825 | 2,159,722 |
1,299,356 | In the 1990s, the US medical biological defense research effort (part of the U.S. Army's Biological Defense Research Program [BDRP]) was concentrated at USAMRIID at Fort Detrick. The army maintained state-of-the-art containment laboratory facilities there, with more than 10,000 ft2 of BSL-4 and 50,000 ft2 of BSL-3 labo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38421966 | 1,298,642 |
393,480 | In his 1687 theory, Isaac Newton postulated space as an infinite and unalterable physical structure existing before, within, and around all objects while their states and relations unfold at a constant pace everywhere, thus absolute space and time. Inferring that all objects bearing mass approach at a constant rate, bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10890 | 393,285 |
1,809,296 | As part of two orphan GPCR projects funded by the European Research Commission and the Lundbeck Foundation, respectively, the GPCRdb will deposit data and develop computational tools for identification of endogenous and surrogate GPCR ligands. The GPCRdb aims to grow from and enable new progress in GPCR structure, func... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31375770 | 1,808,275 |
2,213,736 | At the core of this new program is the Oncofertility Consortium, a multi-institutional project to assess the impact of cancer and its treatment on reproductive health. The Consortium brings together biomedical and social scientists, oncologists, pediatricians, engineers, educators, social workers, medical ethicists and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12466470 | 2,212,476 |
1,800,054 | When bacteria is in an area of very low and cold temperature, they will have a five hour long phase that will cause them not to grow at all. The way the bacteria tries to adapt is by creating child shock proteins that will be transcription factors that will be upregulated during the five hour phase. Once this five hour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34067938 | 1,799,045 |
400,555 | Close-up video footage of "Challenger" during its final launch on January 28, 1986 clearly shows that the problems began due to an O-ring failure on the right solid rocket booster (SRB). The hot plume of gas leaking from the failed joint caused the collapse of the external tank, which then resulted in the orbiter's dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38458 | 400,356 |
318,451 | The M36 tank destroyer, formally 90 mm Gun Motor Carriage, M36, was an American tank destroyer used during World War II. The M36 combined the hull of the M10 tank destroyer, which used the M4 Sherman's reliable chassis and drivetrain combined with sloped armor, and a new turret mounting the 90 mm gun M3. Conceived in 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=947388 | 318,280 |
725,342 | Leishmania donovani is a species of intracellular parasites belonging to the genus "Leishmania", a group of haemoflagellate kinetoplastids that cause the disease leishmaniasis. It is a human blood parasite responsible for visceral leishmaniasis or "kala-azar", the most severe form of leishmaniasis. It infects the monon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20763865 | 724,961 |
1,236,188 | Partial pressure blending using ideal gas calculations is fairly straightforward. The required mixture is chosen, either as a "best mix" which optimises the decompression advantages for acceptable oxygen exposure based on the planned dive profile, or selected from a range of standardised mixes suitable for a range of d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=996061 | 1,235,524 |
907,623 | The bone business turned into a safari business in 1961. In 1962, he obtained a private pilot licence and took tours to the Olduvai Gorge. It was from a casual aerial survey that he noted the potential of Lake Natron's shores for palaeontology. He went looking for fossils in a Land Rover, but could find none, until his... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=149154 | 907,145 |
1,024,000 | ICT has a strong research culture. In 2008-09 UGC report notices that the institute generated around 50 crores from external sources, which was 8 times the government support. Currently, ICT graduates 100 PhDs annually, which is about 10% of India's engineering PhDs. ICT has strong relationships with the industries and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33571886 | 1,023,467 |
959,042 | Most of the coordinators and researchers showed some hesitation when they were asked if they would enroll as a subject in a clinical trial, not necessarily their own, but any study. When asked to elaborate on their hesitation, many said that they would be "concerned about the motivations behind the study, its purpose, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=447842 | 958,536 |
440,132 | Some environmentalists, such as George Monbiot, expressed fears that the marketplace would convert crops to fuel for the rich, while the poor starved and biofuels caused environmental problems. The food vs fuel debate grew in 2008 as a result of the international community's concerns regarding the steep increase in foo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5029525 | 439,918 |
281,399 | Second, the lack of a magnetosphere around Mars may have allowed the solar wind to gradually erode the atmosphere. Convection within the core of Mars, which is made mostly of iron, originally generated a magnetic field. However the dynamo ceased to function long ago, and the magnetic field of Mars has largely disappear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29824 | 281,246 |
1,342,530 | This technology has many applications in quality control (QC) genotyping, quantitative trait locus (QTL) mapping, marker-assisted selection (MAS), and allele mining. For example, the KASP platform has been used in qualitative control analyses for maize. In maize, homogeneity is important in cultivating the crops that t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42441653 | 1,341,796 |
105,231 | "Variety" praised the documentary style: "the yarn is told interestingly enough and imbued with sufficient science-fiction lures and suspense so that only seldom does its moralistic wordiness get in the way... Cast, although secondary to the story, works well." "Harrison's Reports" wrote: "Very good! It is by far the b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=73422 | 105,186 |
1,038,741 | In January 1991, the brigade was task organized under VII Corps Artillery in support of offensive operations. On 15 January 1991, the brigade moved over 100 miles west and joined the 1st Infantry Division (Mechanized) at Tactical Assembly Area Roosevelt. During the movement, Battery A, 6th Battalion, 27th Field Artille... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18407812 | 1,038,200 |
354,206 | The cells were propagated by Gey shortly before Lacks died of her cancer in 1951. This was the first human cell line to prove successful in vitro, which was a scientific achievement with profound future benefit to medical research. Gey freely donated these cells along with the tools and processes that his lab developed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=324834 | 354,023 |
868,939 | HFEF provides 15 state-of-the-art workstations known as hot cells. For windows, each cell has leaded glass panes layered thick and separated by thin layers of oil. Remote manipulators allow users to maneuver items inside the hot cell using robotic arms. Special filtered exhaust systems keep indoor and outdoor air safe.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=981118 | 868,479 |
1,025,068 | In October 2021, teams from USTC again reported quantum advantage by building two supercomputers called Jiuzhang 2.0 and Zuchongzhi. The light-based Jiuzhang 2.0 implemented gaussian boson sampling to detect 113 photons from a 144-mode optical interferometer and a sampling rate speed up of – a difference of 37 photons ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54452801 | 1,024,535 |
86,777 | In addition to Pat Tillman, ASU has had many renowned athletes attend the school. Those athletes include: World Golf Hall of Fame member Phil Mickelson, Baseball Hall of Fame member Reggie Jackson, Major League Baseball home run king Barry Bonds, National Basketball Association All-Star James Harden, and 2011 NFL Defen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1859 | 86,742 |
1,259,309 | Articular cartilage is the connective tissue that protects bones of load-bearing joints like knee, shoulder by providing a lubricated surface. It deforms in response to compressive load, thereby reducing stress on bones. This mechanical responsiveness of articular cartilage is due to its biphasic nature; it contains bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29462590 | 1,258,622 |
1,903,456 | Time stretch dispersive Fourier transform (TS-DFT), otherwise known as time-stretch transform (TST), temporal Fourier transform or photonic time-stretch (PTS) is a spectroscopy technique that uses optical dispersion instead of a grating or prism to separate the light wavelengths and analyze the optical spectrum in real... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34270042 | 1,902,362 |
1,493,698 | The "white hat" hacker community has also been involved in the public debate. From July 27–30, 2017, DEFCON – the world's largest, longest running and best-known hacker conference – hosted a “Voting Machine Hacking Village” at its annual conference in Las Vegas, Nevada to highlight election security vulnerabilities. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56767592 | 1,492,858 |
1,755,252 | Although occasionally mentioned as a copy of the French Schneider et Cie Canon de 75 Mle 1933, this connection is dubious. The Type 95 essentially utilized the Model 38 (improved) weapon with sliding-wedge type breechblock and hydro-pneumatic recoil mechanism on the split trail carriage used on the Type 90. This hybrid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18656734 | 1,754,262 |
796,976 | Nutrient cycling has a historical foothold in the writings of Charles Darwin in reference to the decomposition actions of earthworms. Darwin wrote about "the continued movement of the particles of earth". Even earlier, in 1749 Carl Linnaeus wrote in "the economy of nature we understand the all-wise disposition of the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32086658 | 796,551 |
1,439 | File input and output (I/O) is not part of the C language itself but instead is handled by libraries (such as the C standard library) and their associated header files (e.g. codice_174). File handling is generally implemented through high-level I/O which works through streams. A stream is from this perspective a data f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6021 | 1,439 |
1,160,951 | Brain Age: Concentration Training, known in Europe and Australia as Dr Kawashima's Devilish Brain Training: Can you stay focused?, is an educational puzzle video game developed and published by Nintendo. It is the fourth major entry in the "Brain Age" series and the first made specifically for the Nintendo 3DS. It was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36436079 | 1,160,335 |
1,780,488 | Cervical artery dissections begin initially with a small tear in the innermost layer of the arterial wall, the tunica intima, or rupture of the vasa vasorum with bleeding within the media. As the arterial wall begins to tear, blood begins to enter this newly formed false lumen and the resulting hematoma formation can e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14458107 | 1,779,484 |
1,055,745 | Additionally, national statistical offices may also publish SNA-type data series. More detailed data at a lower level of aggregation is often available on request. Because national accounts data is notoriously prone to revision (because it involves a very large number of different data sources, entries and estimation p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2386846 | 1,055,197 |
925,725 | Direct3D 12 allows a lower level of hardware abstraction than earlier versions, enabling future games to significantly improve multithreaded scaling and decrease CPU utilization. This is achieved by better matching the Direct3D abstraction layer with the underlying hardware, by means of new features such as Indirect Dr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=97025 | 925,239 |
678,679 | Lewis Madison Terman (January 15, 1877 – December 21, 1956) was an American psychologist and author. He was noted as a pioneer in educational psychology in the early 20th century at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. He is best known for his revision of the Stanford–Binet Intelligence Scales and for initiating ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1583393 | 678,325 |
1,345,390 | Moser was born to German parents who had moved to Norway in the 1950s, and grew up in Ålesund. He received his education as a psychologist at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo and obtained a PhD in neurophysiology at the Faculty of Medicine at the same university in 1995; in 1996 he was appointed as asso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22976273 | 1,344,652 |
1,849,448 | Semantic imitation has important implications to the general vocabulary problem in information retrieval and human–computer interaction – the creation of a large number of diverse tags to describe the same set of information resources. Semantic imitation implies that the unit of communication among users is more likely... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24574814 | 1,848,390 |
831,589 | In 2020, Eagleman published "Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain", a nonfiction book about neuroplasticity. As of late 2020, it is nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. A Kirkus review described the book as "outstanding popular science", while "New Scientist" magazine wrote that "Eagleman brings the subj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6058684 | 831,140 |
1,829,956 | Omentin is an anti-inflammatory adipokine produced preferentially by visceral adipose tissue. Plasma omentin-1 levels are significantly decreased in patients with obesity, insulin resistance and diabetes that contribute to the major components of the metabolic syndrome. Insulin resistance contributes to the changes of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59406172 | 1,828,915 |
91,023 | Like Apollo 15 and 16, Apollo 17 was slated to be a "J-mission", an Apollo mission type that featured lunar surface stays of three days, higher scientific capability, and the usage of the Lunar Roving Vehicle. Since Apollo 17 was to be the final lunar landing of the Apollo program, high-priority landing sites that had ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1971 | 90,983 |
699,545 | The low oxygen level leads to physiologic constriction of the pulmonary arteries to correct ventilation-perfusion mismatching, which puts excessive strain on the right side of the heart. When this leads to right sided heart failure, it is known as "cor pulmonale". Symptoms of this disorder occur because the heart has d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=311433 | 699,181 |
1,147,196 | Even in countries where vaccination has been introduced, vaccination rates may remain low due to parents choosing not to have their children vaccinated. In Ireland, vaccination was introduced in 1985. There were 99,903 cases that year. Within two years, the number of cases had fallen to 201, but this fall was not susta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45300883 | 1,146,591 |
1,652,303 | Local void models propose a large area of lower than average density, so they ordinarily make or imply stochastic predictions that can be falsified by astronomical surveys. For example, under a local void model, an unusually low number of nearby galaxies would be expected, so observations indicating an average number o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30721431 | 1,651,371 |
756,734 | Degenerate matter is usually modelled as an ideal Fermi gas, an ensemble of non-interacting fermions. In a quantum mechanical description, particles limited to a finite volume may take only a discrete set of energies, called quantum states. The Pauli exclusion principle prevents identical fermions from occupying the sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=144428 | 756,331 |
111,281 | In the aftermath of ZETA, the UK teams began the development of new plasma diagnostic tools to provide more accurate measurements. Among these was the use of a laser to directly measure the temperature of the bulk electrons using Thomson scattering. This technique was well known and respected in the fusion community; A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31439 | 111,236 |
864,922 | Past solar activity may be recorded by various proxies, including carbon-14 and beryllium-10. These indicate lower solar activity during the Maunder Minimum. The scale of changes resulting in the production of carbon-14 in one cycle is small (about one percent of medium abundance) and can be taken into account when rad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37053 | 864,462 |
293,989 | Some specializations may cut across these domains: "Environmental ergonomics" is concerned with human interaction with the environment as characterized by climate, temperature, pressure, vibration, light. The emerging field of human factors in highway safety uses human factor principles to understand the actions and ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36479878 | 293,830 |
738,787 | The global membrane bioreactor market is expected to grow in the near future, because of various driving forces, for instance, the scarcity of water worldwide, which makes wastewater reclamation invariably necessary. This will be further aggravated by climate change. The growing environmental concerns over industrial w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16743975 | 738,396 |
490,770 | In X-ray imaging, the acquired projection images generally suffer from fixed-pattern noise, which is one of the limiting factors of image quality. It may stem from beam inhomogeneity, gain variations of the detector response due to inhomogeneities in the photon conversion yield, losses in charge transport, charge trapp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1983473 | 490,516 |
320,587 | On July 19, 2009, exactly 15 years after the SL9 impacts, a new black spot about the size of the Pacific Ocean appeared in Jupiter's southern hemisphere. Thermal infrared measurements showed the impact site was warm and spectroscopic analysis detected the production of excess hot ammonia and silica-rich dust in the upp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6794 | 320,415 |
1,048,965 | Schmidt himself worked out a second, more elegant, scheme for producing the complex figure needed for the correcting plate. A thin glass disk with a perfectly polished accurate flat surface on both sides was placed on a heavy rigid metal pan. The top surface of the pan around the edge of the glass disk was ground at a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=969720 | 1,048,420 |
265,709 | For many years, various scientists have suggested that some Martian surfaces look like periglacial regions on Earth. By analogy with these terrestrial features, it has been argued for many years that these may be regions of permafrost. This would suggest that frozen water lies right beneath the surface. A common featur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21857752 | 265,565 |
1,332,889 | Control and prevention of zoonotic diseases depends on appropriate global surveillance at various levels, including identification of novel pathogens, public health surveillance (including serological surveys), and analysis of the risks of transmission. The complexity of zoonotic events around the world predicates a mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4354646 | 1,332,160 |
240,535 | Symptoms suggestive of lateral epicondylitis are present in about 1% of the adult population, and is most common between ages 40 and 60. The prevalence varies somewhat between studies, likely as a result of varied diagnostic criteria and limited reliability between different observers. The data regarding symptoms of la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=960460 | 240,415 |
2,119,339 | The costs of implementing such systems need to be balanced against the benefits, including the possibility that outlays on other projects might be more cost effective. Thus, the role of regulators primarily involves providing technical input into the development of EE policies initiated by other agencies or via legisla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27746978 | 2,118,120 |
2,116,570 | Dummer's survey was part of a general effort on his part and that of a handful of colleagues on the Navy Board to get to grips with the management of the massive business under their charge. Dummer's draughts constitute an extraordinary feat of surveyorship. In the volume, each royal dockyard is treated separately and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24510735 | 2,115,353 |
1,053,604 | When Robert Chambers anonymously published his own theory of universal evolutionism as his "development hypothesis" in the book "Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation" published in October 1844 to immediate popular success, Sedgwick's many friends urged him to respond. Like other eminent scientists he initially i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7575129 | 1,053,058 |
1,568,944 | Recent studies indicate that adult rat neural precursor cells from the hippocampus show an acute, dose-dependent apoptotic response that was accompanied by an increase in ROS. Low-LET protons are also used in clinical proton beam radiation therapy, at an RBE of 1.1 relative to megavoltage X rays at a high dose. NCRP Re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39761773 | 1,568,057 |
1,791,197 | In November 2008, ICCAT ignored the advice of their scientists that quotas for Atlantic bluefin tuna should not exceed 15,000 tonnes per year – which had been determined as the maximum sustainable yield – and instead set quotas at 22,000 tonnes. An independent review of ICCAT, commissioned by the organisation themselve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1943983 | 1,790,190 |
1,156,979 | Soon after satellites were first used for observing the atmosphere, microwave radiometers became part of their instrumentation. In 1962 the Mariner-2 mission was launched by NASA in to investigate the surface of Venus including a radiometer for water vapor and temperature observations. In following years a wide variety... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=224328 | 1,156,367 |
1,331,972 | The gut microbiome plays a huge role in human health, and having a healthy bacterial community is essential to living a healthy life. Bacteria aid in digestion of nutrients that a human's gastrointestinal tract could not process on its own. Putrefying bacteria in the gut play a key role in fermenting or decomposing pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9880182 | 1,331,243 |
395,846 | David has said that NSTA Executive Director Gerry Wheeler promised in a telephone conversation to explore alternatives with NSTA's board for advertising the film but she had not yet received an alternative offer at the time of NSTA's public claim. She also said that she rejected their subsequent offers because they wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4097799 | 395,651 |
1,800,426 | Graduates of both programs are eligible to apply for residency and postgraduate training programs at university teaching hospitals in various countries, including the United States (Illinois, Alabama, Arizona, Michigan, Utah, Vermont, New York, Georgia, New Jersey, Florida, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, West Virginia, Ohi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17972473 | 1,799,417 |
1,753,386 | The main launch Platform ([[Imam Khomeini Space Launch Terminal]]) is located at the east of the complex on a specially enclosed octagonal area measuring 900 x 660 m and covering an area of 51.4 ha, representing the largest single element of the new space center. The units are accessed by a road from the northwest, whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57001017 | 1,752,396 |
701,119 | In 1936 mining assayer Albert Morris and his restoration colleagues initiated the Broken Hill regeneration area project. This project involved the natural regeneration of indigenous flora on a severely wind eroded site of hundreds of hectares, located in arid western New South Wales. Morris was responding to the widesp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1790574 | 700,754 |
652,712 | Francium has chemical symbol Fr and atomic number 87. It was formerly known as eka-caesium and actinium K. It is one of the two least electronegative elements, the other being caesium. Francium is a highly radioactive metal that decays into astatine, radium, and radon. As an alkali metal, it has one valence electron. F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=199081 | 652,370 |
62,684 | The leading edge of circadian biology research is translation of basic body clock mechanisms into clinical tools, and this is especially relevant to the treatment of cardiovascular disease. This is leading to the development of an entirely new field of medicine, termed Circadian Medicine. Pioneering research reveals th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56565 | 62,659 |
1,557,166 | Each yearly competition consists of four contests. All students at each school may compete but the team score is the sum of the best 3 or 5 top scores. Each contest consists of two parts: a written section (called "shorts") and a programming section. Written topics tested include "what does this program do?", digital e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=491379 | 1,556,281 |
888,901 | Spike protein mutations raise concern because they may affect infectivity or transmissibility, or facilitate immune escape. The mutation D614G has arisen independently in multiple viral lineages and become dominant among sequenced genomes; it may have advantages in infectivity and transmissibility possibly due to incre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68424998 | 888,433 |
1,455,801 | The ADI is considered a safe intake level for a healthy adult of normal weight who consumes an average daily amount of the substance in question. Increased safety factors for infants have been discussed, but are not needed, because elimination of chemicals is in fact often more rapid in children and as children general... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=936557 | 1,454,981 |
752,870 | Because of its slow rotation of 79 days (equal to its revolution and the longest in the Saturnian system), Iapetus would have had the warmest daytime surface temperature and coldest nighttime temperature in the Saturnian system even before the development of the color contrast; near the equator, heat absorption by the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=103051 | 752,468 |
1,033,635 | Provincial medical entrance exams included the MDCAT conducted by the University of Health Sciences, Lahore in Punjab and Balochistan before the NMDCAT. It was implemented in 1998 as the Medical College Admission Test (MCAT) on the initiative of the then chief minister of Punjab Mian Muhammad Shahbaz Sharif to counter ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41135576 | 1,033,098 |
1,773,795 | During STS-120, a problem was detected in the starboard Solar Alpha Rotary Joint (SARJ). This joint, together with a similar device on the port side of the station's truss structure, rotates the large solar arrays to keep them facing the Sun. Excessive vibration and high-current spikes in the array drive motor were not... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22885005 | 1,772,798 |
400,083 | Transit time was further dramatically reduced with the opening of the Gotthard Road Tunnel and the finalization of the northern part of A2 motorway through the "Urner Reusstal" (in close proximity to the railway), with many additional tunnels (then leading from Basel to the Gotthard Road Tunnel), in 1980. With the comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=692624 | 399,884 |
1,561,839 | Research programs under way in various parts of the world (e.g. United States and Australia) are aimed at providing an alternate approach in forest management where conservation objectives are a high priority. Methods of ecological thinning being developed on silvicultural techniques for local forest types. Ecological ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6365732 | 1,560,952 |
1,886,600 | In the early 1990s, Ben-Jacob's group discovered two pattern-forming bacteria species—the "Paenibacillus dendritiformis" and the "Paenibacillus vortex" (see also "Paenibacillus"). Combining microbiological experiments with physical principles of self-organization and advanced modeling, Ben-Jacob advanced the recognitio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33064706 | 1,885,518 |
53,802 | In the United States, with no endemic malaria, the prevalence of sickle cell anaemia among people of African ancestry is lower (about 0.25%) than among people in West Africa (about 4.0%) and is falling. Without endemic malaria, the sickle cell mutation is purely disadvantageous and tends to decline in the affected popu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21010263 | 53,782 |
1,404,859 | Like other members of its genus, "A. versicolor" displays moderate xerophillic characteristics, meaning that it can grow in conditions with low water activity (down to a of 0.75–0.81 in the optimal temperature range). "A. versicolor" is also considered to be osmophilic as it is able to survive in solutions that are up ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40821726 | 1,404,069 |
295,392 | Initially copying wooden construction traditions with a frame over which the hull was fastened, Isambard Kingdom Brunel's of 1843 was the first radical new design, being built entirely of wrought iron. Despite her success, and the great savings in cost and space provided by the iron hull, compared to a copper-sheathed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187377 | 295,232 |
1,779,118 | Meanwhile, Hibberd had successfully built a new push–pull amplifier using two of the same tubes but working in the 1.25-meter band, an upper-VHF band (around 220 MHz); below 1.25 m the sensitivity dropped off sharply. Gerald Touch, originally from the Clarendon Laboratory, converted the EMI receiver to this wavelength ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43239543 | 1,778,116 |
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