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27,676 | By 1990, ARPANET's goals had been fulfilled and new networking technologies exceeded the original scope and the project came to a close. New network service providers including PSINet, Alternet, CERFNet, ANS CO+RE, and many others were offering network access to commercial customers. NSFNET was no longer the de facto b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13692 | 27,666 |
697,685 | Geopolymerization is the process of combining many small molecules known as oligomers into a covalently bonded network. The geo-chemical syntheses are carried out through oligomers (dimer, trimer, tetramer, pentamer) which provide the actual unit structures of the three-dimensional macromolecular edifice. In 2000, T.W.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11932146 | 697,321 |
1,891,976 | While graduates of vocational schools/colleges will receive graduation certificates, there is not a full system to issue them diploma which both Semmonshi and kōdo-Semmonshi are given as academic degree. In May 1963 when they selected national team to attend the 12th WorldSkills Competition in Ireland (), the first Nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51717997 | 1,890,893 |
1,785,523 | AuNPs have the ability to inhibit angiogenesis by directly coordinating to heparin binding growth factors. They inhibit phosphorylation of proteins responsible for angiogenesis in a dose dependent matter. At concentrations 335-670 nM, almost complete inhibition of phosphorylation was observed. As a consequence of angio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46188763 | 1,784,519 |
744,765 | The Great Barrier Reef along the coast of Australia experienced bleaching events in 1980, 1982, 1992, 1994, 1998, 2002, 2006, 2016 and 2017. Some locations suffered severe damage, with up to 90% mortality. The most widespread and intense events occurred in the summers of 1998 and 2002, with 42% and 54%, respectively, o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399912 | 744,371 |
796,616 | De-emphasized in the United States after World War II, insurgency conflicts such as the Vietnam War, low intensity conflict, and urban warfare tend to encourage more attention to combatives. While the United States Marine Corps replaced its LINE combat system with Marine Corps Martial Arts Program in 2002, The United S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1952465 | 796,191 |
2,022,486 | Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (IDC) is one of the common types of breast cancer which accounts for 8 out of 10 of all invasive breast cancers. "According to the American Cancer Society," more than 180,000 women in the United States find out that they have breast cancers each year, and most are diagnosed with this specific ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14657447 | 2,021,322 |
664,208 | A Le Fort fracture of the skull is a classic transfacial fracture of the midface, involving the maxillary bone and surrounding structures in either a horizontal, pyramidal or transverse direction. The hallmark of Lefort fractures is traumatic "pterygomaxillary separation", which signifies fractures between the pterygoi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11548868 | 663,861 |
290,656 | While Abraham Lincoln first called VMI "The West Point of the South" because of its role during the American Civil War, the nickname has remained because VMI has produced more Army generals than any ROTC program in the United States. Despite the nickname, VMI differs from the federal military service academies in many ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=345295 | 290,498 |
1,881,179 | Salingaros builds upon Christopher Alexander’s work, including "Notes on the Synthesis of Form", "A Pattern Language", and "The Nature of Order". Salingaros has collaborated with Alexander for many years, and was one of the editors of "The Nature of Order". He proposes mathematical laws of scaling, argues for an essent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11195188 | 1,880,098 |
11,504 | The brothers gained the mechanical skills essential to their success by working for years in their Dayton, Ohio-based shop with printing presses, bicycles, motors, and other machinery. Their work with bicycles, in particular, influenced their belief that an unstable vehicle such as a flying machine could be controlled ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58410 | 11,499 |
1,005,086 | While it is a prescription or over-the-counter drug in 22 countries, chondroitin is regulated in the U.S. as a dietary supplement by the Food and Drug Administration. In Europe, chondroitin sulfate formulations are approved as drugs with evidenced efficacy and safety demonstrated by clinical trials in people with osteo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=504825 | 1,004,568 |
145,370 | The selection of working fluid has a significant impact on the performance of the refrigeration cycles and as such it plays a key role when it comes to designing or simply choosing an ideal machine for a certain task. One of the most widespread refrigerants is "Freon". Freon is a trade name for a family of haloalkane r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4702515 | 145,312 |
1,463,520 | This raises the question of what such a large, short-armed animal was doing with complex wings and feathers so similar to those used for flight in other animals. One possibility is that "Zhenyuanlong" is secondarily flightless, having a shared ancestry with smaller, potentially volant dromaeosaurids like "Microraptor" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47254284 | 1,462,697 |
451,319 | The Institute is involved in R&D studies related to environmental biotechnology and subsequent application of biotechnology based solutions for environmental problems and sustainable development. The Institute is pursuing multidisciplinary R&D in fundamental and applied areas of environmental biotechnology by exploitin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16085921 | 451,100 |
429,494 | In "Psychology and Industrial Efficiency" (1913) Münsterberg addressed many different topics that are very important to the current field of industrial psychology. His objective was "to sketch the outlines of a new science which is to intermediate between the modern laboratory psychology and the problems of economics: ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=917279 | 429,284 |
776,847 | Located at 1600 South State Street, the Media Production Center (MPC) was completed in 2010 and was the college's first new-construction building in its history. Designed by Studio Gang Architects, the 35,500-square-foot facility serves students in the Cinema Art + Science, Interactive Arts & Media, and Television prog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1914203 | 776,431 |
1,370,373 | Hermann von Helmholtz was the first psychologist to inquire whether the velocity of a nerve impulse could be a speed that is measurable. He devised an experimental set-up for measuring psychological processes with a very precise and critical time-scale. The birth of mental chronometry is attributed to an experiment by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21312318 | 1,369,617 |
908,765 | When the ellipsoid/tensor is represented by a matrix, we can apply a useful technique from standard matrix mathematics and linear algebra—that is to "diagonalize" the matrix. This has two important meanings in imaging. The idea is that there are two equivalent ellipsoids—of identical shape but with different size and o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2574377 | 908,286 |
1,054,363 | Most neonatal deaths (roughly 75%) after resuscitation occur within the first week, but the vast majority occur within 24 hours. This statistic is based on a mean Apgar score of 5.9, which is considered intermediate. More data is needed to understand outcomes for more severe patients. Outcomes after resuscitation for n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46537830 | 1,053,816 |
290,603 | The vampire squid was discovered during the Valdivia Expedition (1898–1899), led by Carl Chun. Chun was a zoologist who was inspired by the Challenger Expedition, and wanted to verify that life does indeed exist below 300 fathoms (550 meters). Chun later classified the vampire squid into its family, Vampyroteuthidae. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=420944 | 290,445 |
144,045 | In an attempt to narrow the Digital Divide, on September 26, 2018, the United States Senate Foreign Relations Committee passed legislation to help provide access to the internet in developing countries via the H.R.600 Digital Global Access Policy Act. The legislation itself was based on Senator Ed Markey's Digital Age ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5169750 | 143,987 |
1,686,834 | The Yixian and Jiufotang Formations are considered "Lagerstätte", meaning that they have exceptionally good conditions for fossil preservation. The fossils are numerous, but also very well preserved – often including articulated skeletons, soft tissues, colour patterns, stomach contents, and twigs with leaves and flowe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15344704 | 1,685,888 |
1,865,098 | The concept of K-anonymity was first introduced in relational data privacy to guarantee the usefulness of the data and the privacy of users, when data holders want to release their data. K-anonymity usually refers to the requirement that the information of the user should be indistinguishable from a minimum of formula_... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60583225 | 1,864,026 |
1,169,413 | In February 2007 seven detectors showed signs of degradation, with one IR channel almost completely degraded, and one other showing advanced signs of degradation. The problems seemed to disappear when higher temperatures were used to take pictures with the camera. As of March, the degradation appeared to have stabilize... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4432667 | 1,168,795 |
1,152,198 | Gottman and Levenson's primary research for this model, published in the 1990s, centered around utilizing a variety of measures, in combination, to study the conflict interactions amongst married couples. Gottman and Levenson physiological information garnered by polygraphs, EKGs, and pulse monitoring and behavioral in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59859338 | 1,151,589 |
104,188 | In the early tetrapods, these two structures respectively became the scapula and a bone referred to as the procoracoid (commonly called simply the "coracoid", but not homologous with the mammalian structure of that name). In amphibians and reptiles (birds included), these two bones are distinct, but together form a sin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211386 | 104,143 |
995,550 | During Andrew Jackson's administration, South Carolina objected to U.S. government's "tariff of abominations" collected as federal duties in Charleston Harbor. The Nullification Crisis ensued. Justification for the nullifiers was found in the U.S. Senate speeches and writings of John C. Calhoun. He defended slavery aga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=497752 | 995,033 |
1,662,824 | In computing, the BIOS parameter block, often shortened to BPB, is a data structure in the volume boot record (VBR) describing the physical layout of a data storage volume. On partitioned devices, such as hard disks, the BPB describes the volume partition, whereas, on unpartitioned devices, such as floppy disks, it des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1092500 | 1,661,889 |
557,877 | The "standard plenoptic camera" is a mathematical model used by researchers to compare designs. By definition it has microlenses placed one focal length away from the image plane of a sensor. In 2004, a team at Stanford University Computer Graphics Laboratory used a 16-megapixel camera to demonstrate that pictures can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3191803 | 557,588 |
1,651,515 | Without further qualifications, Open Notebook Science implies that the research is being reported on an ongoing basis without unreasonable delay or filter. This enables others to understand exactly how research actually happens within a field or a specific research group. Such information could be of value to collabora... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19607864 | 1,650,583 |
469,204 | The men's 100 meters at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea saw world champion Ben Johnson of Canada defeat defending Olympic champion Carl Lewis of the United States in a world record time of 9.79, breaking his own record of 9.83 that he had set at the 1987 World Championships in Rome. Two days later, Johns... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8098196 | 468,968 |
75,410 | The performance of a photovoltaic (PV) module depends on the environmental conditions, mainly on the global incident irradiance G in the plane of the module. However, the temperature T of the p–n junction also influences the main electrical parameters: the short circuit current ISC, the open circuit voltage VOC and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3507365 | 75,382 |
116,062 | The performance of a photovoltaic (PV) module depends on the environmental conditions, mainly on the global incident irradiance G in the plane of the module. However, the temperature T of the p–n junction also influences the main electrical parameters: the short circuit current ISC, the open circuit voltage VOC and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=652531 | 116,017 |
1,254,299 | electric propulsion was introduced in mid-2014 to allow self-launching. About two dozen have been sold (and some were retrofitted to earlier sold models). Takeoff roll distance is and rate of climb when fully charged is . It can run at full power for 11 minutes on one charge. The electrical motor uses 10.5 kW at 3800 r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32867838 | 1,253,618 |
55,843 | Ultrasound can image and measure the cross sectional diameter of the median nerve, which has some correlation with idiopathic median neuropathy at the carpal tunnel (IMNCT). The role of ultrasound in diagnosis--just as for electrodiagnostic testing--is a matter of debate. EDX cannot fully exclude the diagnosis of CTS d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56462 | 55,819 |
894,358 | Because of their oceanic habitat, studies of their life cycle have primarily been based on captive animals and their eggs have never been seen in the wild. Although nautilus have been kept at public aquariums since the 1950s, the chambered nautilus was first bred in captivity at the Waikiki Aquarium in 1995 (a couple o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=685959 | 893,888 |
1,581,276 | The geology of South Sudan is founded on Precambrian igneous and metamorphic rocks, that cover 40 percent of the country's surface and underlie other rock units. The region was affected by the Pan-African orogeny in the Neoproterozoic and extensional tectonics in the Mesozoic that deposited very thick oil-bearing sedim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57698757 | 1,580,386 |
1,587,906 | As tidal forcing increases, the control of river flow on the pattern of circulation in the estuary becomes less dominating. Turbulent mixing induced by the current creates a moderately stratified condition. Turbulent eddies mix the water column, creating a mass transfer of freshwater and seawater in both directions acr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25379309 | 1,587,012 |
1,105,025 | The Allen Institute for Cell Science was modeled on the Allen Institute for Brain Science and was launched to capture a global view of human cells, developing gene-edited, fluorescently tagged human induced pluripotent stem cells that form the backbone of an openly available library of digital microscopy images and com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50008267 | 1,104,462 |
1,036,701 | BRST quantization is a differential geometric approach to performing consistent, anomaly-free perturbative calculations in a non-abelian gauge theory. The analytical form of the BRST "transformation" and its relevance to renormalization and anomaly cancellation were described by Carlo Maria Becchi, Alain Rouet, and Ray... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6769980 | 1,036,161 |
36,584 | The Apollo program has been described as the greatest technological achievement in human history. Apollo stimulated many areas of technology, leading to over 1,800 spinoff products as of 2015, including advances in the development of cordless power tools, fireproof materials, heart monitors, solar panels, digital imagi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1461 | 36,572 |
1,301,575 | Soon after he was born, his parents bought a house in Upper Norwood, south London. When he was 18 months old, WWII broke out and he was evacuated to Englefield Green, a small village in Surrey on the edge of the great park of Windsor Castle, where he stayed for the duration of the war. After the end of the war, he retu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=659002 | 1,300,861 |
1,184,932 | Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution in "On the Origin of Species" (1859). His theory dictates that adaptations are traits that arise from the selective pressures a species faces in its environment. Adaptations must benefit either an organism's chance of survival or reproduction to be considered adaptive, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2232181 | 1,184,304 |
1,917,486 | National pundits talked a lot about the Wolfpack in their early preseason discussions of the top teams in the country. NC State returned its top four leading scorers from the 2011-12 season in C. J. Leslie (14.7 ppg), Lorenzo Brown (12.7 ppg), Scott Wood (12.4 ppg) and Richard Howell (10.8 ppg). In addition, NC State l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37122773 | 1,916,386 |
27,193 | Gene expression is the molecular process by which a genotype gives rise to a phenotype, i.e., observable trait. The genetic information stored in DNA represents the genotype, whereas the phenotype results from the synthesis of proteins that control an organism's structure and development, or that act as enzymes catalyz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9127632 | 27,183 |
305,856 | Australopithecines, in general, seem to have had a high incidence rate of vertebral pathologies, possibly because their vertebrae were better adapted to withstand suspension loads in climbing than compressive loads while walking upright. Lucy presents marked thoracic kyphosis (hunchback) and was diagnosed with Scheuerm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=443293 | 305,693 |
724,319 | The United States Food and Drug Administration publishes a Data Standards Catalog that lists the data standards and terminologies that FDA supports for use in regulatory submissions to better enable the evaluation of safety, effectiveness, and quality of FDA-regulated products. In addition, the FDA has the statutory an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1076929 | 723,939 |
1,191,586 | Tropospheric propagated signals travel in the part of the atmosphere adjacent to the surface and extending to some 7.5 km. Such signals are thus directly affected by weather conditions extending over hundreds of kilometres. During very settled, warm anticyclonic weather (i.e., high pressure), usually weak signals from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22416553 | 1,190,952 |
1,393,456 | The atmosphere is an example of a non-equilibrium system. Atmospheric thermodynamics describes the effect of buoyant forces that cause the rise of less dense (warmer) air, the descent of more dense air, and the transformation of water from liquid to vapor (evaporation) and its condensation. Those dynamics are modified ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5321016 | 1,392,685 |
2,039,034 | The budget for the Business Education Complex was $60 million. At a press conference in early November 2009, Louisiana’s Governor, Bobby Jindal, announced the state would commit $30 million in capital outlay funds for the new Business Education Complex. Michael V. Martin, Chancellor at Louisiana State University and A&... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33718795 | 2,037,856 |
133,760 | In 664 BC, the Kushites were expelled from Egypt by iron-wielding Assyrians. Later, the administrative capital was moved from Napata to Meröe, developing a new Nubian culture. Initially, Meroites were highly Egyptianized, but they subsequently began to take on distinctive features. Nubia became a center of iron-making ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14099 | 133,707 |
1,024,095 | A number of facial and musculoskeletal anomalies are common to all aneuploidies of the sex chromosomes, including X chromosome polysomy such as tetrasomy X. Epicanthic folds (additional skin folds in the corners of the eyes) and hypertelorism (wide-spaced eyes) are frequent facial features. Multiple reports have descri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67170050 | 1,023,562 |
56,190 | where "G" is the gravitational constant and is the present value of the Hubble constant. The value for "H", due to the European Space Agency's Planck Telescope, is "H" = 67.15 kilometres per second per megaparsec. This gives a critical density of (commonly quoted as about 5 hydrogen atoms per cubic metre). This density... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=251399 | 56,166 |
2,210,217 | The following morning, the weather conditions proved a little more amenable to the male runners, with humidity dropping to 85% and the temperature falling to 28 degrees Celsius (82° Fahrenheit). John Kibowen led off the Kenyan team as front runner and was narrowly edged out by Ethiopia's Million Wolde in the first stag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61585520 | 2,208,957 |
2,053,416 | Michael Berg said in a review in the Mathematical Association of America, "I must admit that, as its nutshell predecessor, "Einstein Gravity in a Nutshell" is very appealing to me, and I am certainly won over by Zee’s chatty but on-the-money style". Luboš Motl said about the book on his blog "The Reference Frame": "Ant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55450123 | 2,052,234 |
685,595 | The Japanese invaded the Philippines shortly after Pearl Harbor, bringing the Harbor Defenses of Manila and Subic Bays into the war along with the other U.S. and Filipino forces in the archipelago. The Japanese initially landed in northern Luzon, far from the defenses of Manila Bay. Although the Coast Artillery did the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13422946 | 685,238 |
578,363 | Producer associations and cooperatives reinforce small-scale agricultural producers’ livelihoods by allowing the pooling of resources to achieve scale, facilitating access to productive resources, and enhancing marketing power. Coordination with other actors is also key to managing market risks. Mutual benefits can be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20548520 | 578,067 |
909,582 | The peaks surrounding Squaw Valley were used for the alpine skiing events. The ladies' downhill and men's slalom and giant slalom were on KT-22 mountain, while the ladies' slalom and giant slalom were contested on Little Papoose Peak. Squaw Peak was the site of the men's downhill competition. Prior to the Games, concer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=163231 | 909,103 |
439,949 | The final decades of his professional career, Pannekoek mostly spend on researching the astrophysics of stellar atmospheres. In his theoretical research, Pannekoek explored ways to expand upon Meghnad Saha's ionization formula to better understand the physical conditions in the outer layer of stars. One of his main con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=312856 | 439,735 |
101,765 | According to Collings, Card's protagonists are "lonely and manipulative Messiah-figures" who make sacrifices that can be interpreted as a declaration of principles. Family and community problems arise when individuals are not fully accepted or when communities do not work with others in larger units. Often one group tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6097209 | 101,720 |
1,909,770 | OGI's most popular degree in 2001 was management in science and technology. At the doctorate level, the most popular degree was in computer science and engineering. The least popular degrees were in biochemistry/ molecular biology and MS&E. Non-degree programs offered by OGI included Saturday Academy, an Applied Mathem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48411848 | 1,908,672 |
762,217 | The fourth and current "phase", the "digital" era, has seen the most rapid, dramatic and far-reaching series of changes in the history of audio recording. In a period of fewer than 20 years, all previous recording technologies were rapidly superseded by digital sound encoding, and the Japanese electronics corporation S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4556078 | 761,809 |
1,268,265 | The UNIDROIT Principles were first released in 1994, with enlarged editions published in 2004, 2010, and most recently in 2016 (including issues related to long-term contracts). Established with an international mind-set, they address many issues on which national legislators do not concentrate, such as foreign-currenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28849722 | 1,267,575 |
688,063 | During much of this period, Japan was connected to the Asian continent by land bridges due to lower sea levels. Skeletal characteristics point to many similarities with other aboriginal people of the Asian continent. Dental structures are distinct but generally closer to the Sundadont than to the Sinodont group, which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1268506 | 687,705 |
1,493,308 | Optical sensors require selective interaction with analytes and two components are required: a probe material, and a chromo- or fluorophore. Cross-reactive optical and fluorescence arrays require strategic consideration of molecular interactions between probes and analytes. Much like electrical chemical sensor arrays, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66888952 | 1,492,468 |
915,370 | In the 1950s, Leonard Jimmie Savage, an American statistician, derived a framework for comprehending expected utility. At that point, it was considered the first and most thorough foundation to understanding the concept. Savage's framework involved proving that expected utility could be used to make an optimal choice a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=736803 | 914,889 |
2,121,447 | He is best known as the leading author of the HTK toolkit, a software package for using hidden Markov models to model time series, mainly used for speech recognition. Its first version was originally developed by Young at the Machine Intelligence Laboratory of the Cambridge University Engineering Department (CUED) in 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53983852 | 2,120,228 |
399,351 | Photolithography is the most common method for semiconductor fabrication of integrated circuits ("ICs" or "chips"), such as solid-state memories and microprocessors. It can create extremely small patterns, down to a few tens of nanometers in size. It provides precise control of the shape and size of the objects it crea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23748 | 399,153 |
1,887,139 | GPGPUs are able to perform an operation on multiple independent data concurrently with their vector or SIMD functional units. A modern GPGPU can spawn thousands of concurrent threads and process all threads in a batch manner. With this nature, GPGPUs can be employed as DSP accelerators easily while many DSP problems ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48422258 | 1,886,057 |
348,604 | In an anonymous footnote to his 1766 translation of Charles Bonnet's "Contemplation de la Nature", the astronomer Johann Daniel Titius of Wittenberg noted an apparent pattern in the layout of the planets, now known as the Titius-Bode Law. If one began a numerical sequence at 0, then included 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, etc., dou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47264 | 348,422 |
945,327 | The subunit composition of the AMPAR is also important for the way this receptor is modulated. If an AMPAR lacks GluA2 subunits, then it is susceptible to being blocked in a voltage-dependent manner by a class of molecules called polyamines. Thus, when the neuron is at a depolarized membrane potential, polyamines will ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=374335 | 944,825 |
1,908,939 | Tissue engineering is a biomedical engineering discipline that combines biology, chemistry, and engineering to design neotissue (newly formed tissue) on a scaffold. Tissues scaffolds are functionally identical to the extracellular matrix found, acting as a site upon which regenerative cellular components adsorb to enco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41989305 | 1,907,841 |
1,348,025 | Compton felt that having teams at Columbia, Princeton, the University of Chicago and the University of California created too much duplication and not enough collaboration, and he resolved to concentrate the work in one location. Nobody wanted to move, and everybody argued in favor of their own location. In January 194... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1951235 | 1,347,284 |
1,979,358 | As part of REOLYSIN's registration pathway, Oncolytics, in partnership with CCTG, is conducting a phase 2 clinical trial in metastatic breast cancer patients receiving standard weekly paclitaxel therapy. In March 2017, the company announced positive overall survival data from the open-label, randomized study where, in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28902690 | 1,978,220 |
654,749 | The Stockholm School of Economics was founded in 1909 on private initiative as a response to rapid industrialization and a growing need for well educated businessmen and company managers and has maintained close ties with the business community ever since. The foundation followed a substantial donation in 1903 by Knut ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27156 | 654,405 |
705,778 | In 2001 the university took in its first medical students in its newly formed School of Medicine. An undergraduate veterinary degree was added to the university for the first time in 2006 and in 2009 the Bachelor of Dental Surgery commenced. Today the university offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in science,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75751 | 705,409 |
1,263,888 | As it is the case for most analytical instruments, also in PTR-MS there has always been a quest for sensitivity improvement and for lowering the detection limit. However, until 2012 these improvements were limited to optimizations of the conventional setup, i.e. ion source, DC drift tube, transfer lens system, mass spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18730256 | 1,263,200 |
1,990,043 | The selection of the scaffold material is perhaps the most important decision to be made. It must be biocompatible and biodegradable; in addition, it must be able to incorporate any physical, chemical, or biological cues desired, which in the case of some chemical cues means that it must have a site available for chemi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11088829 | 1,988,900 |
283,683 | Colonies on the Moon, Mars, asteroids, or the metal rich planet Mercury, could extract local materials. The Moon is deficient in volatiles such as argon, helium and compounds of carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen. The LCROSS impacter was targeted at the Cabeus crater which was chosen as having a high concentration of water ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29248 | 283,530 |
1,022,754 | In order to mitigate global warming, seaweed farming is both possible and plausible. Seaweeds remove carbon through the process of photosynthesis, taking in excess and producing . About 0.7 million tonnes of carbon are removed from the sea each year by commercially harvested seaweeds. Even though seaweed biomass is sma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27135340 | 1,022,224 |
1,990,089 | Cell adhesion molecules (CAMs) and neurotrophic factors embedded together into biocompatible matrices is a relatively new concept being investigated. CAMs of the immunoglobulin superfamily (IgSF), which includes L1/NgCAM and neurofascin, are particularly promising, because they are expressed in the developing nervous s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11088829 | 1,988,946 |
377,179 | Four possible geologic traverses had been planned, the variable being where the LM might set down. Conrad had landed it between two of these potential landing points, and during the first EVA and the rest break that followed, scientists in Houston combined two of the traverses into one that Conrad and Bean could follow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1967 | 376,984 |
2,179,687 | The Belgian Physical Society was founded on 16 February 1929 at the University Foundation, following an initiative of the national committee of physics. Its first president was the spectroscopist A. de Hemptinne, and the first vice-president was Th. De Donder, who contributed i.e., to the field of general relativity. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53212013 | 2,178,442 |
1,151,216 | The software industry in Karnataka state in India has become one of the main pillars of the state's economy. Karnataka stands first among all the states of India in terms of revenue generated from software exports, accounting for 41.6% of all software exports from the country during the financial year of 2018–19. Karna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11787974 | 1,150,609 |
1,995,837 | A limitation of BOLD fMRI is its spatial resolution, as flow increase in somewhat large arteries or veins feed or drain large neuronal territories. By inserting “diffusion” gradient pulses in the MRI sequence (corresponding to low b-values), one may crush the contribution of the largest vessels (with high D* values ass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34808530 | 1,994,694 |
622,463 | In actuality, Boyce stopped in London en route to a safari in British East Africa. It is true that an unknown Scout helped him and refused a tip. But this Scout only helped him cross a street to a hotel, did not take him to the Scout headquarters, and Boyce never met Baden-Powell. Upon Boyce's request, the unknown Scou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6125637 | 622,131 |
1,722,563 | when "ab" ≠ 0 to his results on local zeta-functions. Geometrically the sum is taken along a 'hyperbola' "XY" = "ab" and we consider this as defining an algebraic curve over the finite field with elements. This curve has a ramified Artin–Schreier covering , and Weil showed that the local zeta-function of has a factoriz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2993504 | 1,721,593 |
2,106,839 | As the audience is seated, the planetarium dome is suffused with cool blue light, with a suggestion of clouds. The presenter walks to the center of the theater and flourishes a glowing ball, representing a star, about the size of a grapefruit, which he/she alternately lights and dims to accent a description of how vari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11535706 | 2,105,626 |
1,368,138 | Although modern interest in dialogic pedagogy seems to emerge only in the 1960s, it was a very old and probably widespread educational practice. In more recent times, Mikhail Bakhtin introduced the idea of dialogism, as opposed to "monologism", to literature. Paulo Freire's work, "Pedagogy of the Oppressed" introduced ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16921071 | 1,367,382 |
1,387,490 | The coleoptile acts as a hollow organ with stiff walls, surrounding the young plantlet and the primary source of the gravitropic response. It is ephemeral, resulting in rapid senesence after the shoot emerges. This process resembles the creation of aerenchyma in roots and other parts of the plant. The coleoptile will e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=671636 | 1,386,723 |
1,711,613 | Several sites on the Nelson River, with potential of millions of horsepower, had been identified as early as 1911, but transmission of power to population centres in the south was beyond the state of the art of electric power transmission at that time. Between 1955 and 1960, studies were carried out to determine what r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6262246 | 1,710,650 |
8,936 | Yale has produced numerous award-winning authors and influential writers, like Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Sinclair Lewis and Pulitzer Prize winners Stephen Vincent Benét, Thornton Wilder, Doug Wright, and David McCullough. Academy Award winning actors, actresses, and directors include Jodie Foster, Paul Newman,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34273 | 8,932 |
2,172,272 | After obtaining ball possession with 1:58 left, the Wildcats went into a four corners offense and held the ball until the closing seconds of the half, a tactic that was legal because a shot clock was not instituted in college basketball until the 1985–86 season. Georgetown was playing a 1–3–1 zone defense, allowing the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48665895 | 2,171,031 |
1,056,987 | While the numerals in texts and inscriptions used a named place-value notation, a more efficient notation might have been employed in calculations, possibly from the 1st century CE. Computations were carried out on clay tablets covered with a thin layer of sand, giving rise to the term "dhuli-karana" ('sand-work') for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3382754 | 1,056,438 |
939,593 | Newer fire-and-forget type missiles like the Raytheon AIM-120 AMRAAM and the R-77 "(NATO designation AA-12 'Adder')" instead use an inertial navigation system (INS) combined with initial target information from the launching aircraft and updates from a one or two-way data link in order to launch beyond visual range, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1287337 | 939,092 |
1,345,211 | The German defeat at the First Battle of the Marne prevented the siege guns at Maubeuge from being sent against Paris, so they were sent back into Belgium to Antwerp. The Belgian Army, which had retreated to the city on 20 August following the fall of Liège, had made attacks on the German flank on 24–25 August and 9 Se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19189421 | 1,344,473 |
820,234 | Since the neutrino flux incoming to earth decreases with increasing energy, the size of neutrino detectors must increase too. Though building a kilometer-sized cube detector underground covered by thousands of photomultiplier would be prohibitively expensive, detection volumes of this magnitude can be achieved by insta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3952417 | 819,793 |
2,126,988 | Epermeniidae or the fringe-tufted moths is a family of insects in the lepidopteran order with about 14 genera. Previously they have been divided in two subfamilies Epermeniinae and Ochromolopinae (e.g. Common, 1990: 321) but this is no longer maintained since the last group is probably hierarchically nested within the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7205305 | 2,125,767 |
2,034,753 | The stable ocean hypothesis (SOH) is one of several hypotheses within larval fish ecology that attempt to explain recruitment variability (Figure 1; Table 1). The SOH is the notion that favorable and somewhat stable physical and biological ocean conditions, such as the flow of currents and food availability, are import... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31661941 | 2,033,580 |
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