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1,892,361 | The main scientific effort of Rasmussen has since 2001 has been to explore, understand and construct a transition from nonliving to living materials. Bridging this gap requires an interdisciplinary scientific effort, which is why he has assembled, sponsored and lead research teams in the US, across Europe and in Denmar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8853302 | 1,891,278 |
162,193 | From a European perspective, however, Britain was not keeping pace. Between 1950 and 1970, it was overtaken by most of the countries of the European Common Market in terms of the number of telephones, refrigerators, television sets, cars, and washing machines per 100 of the population. Education provision expanded, but... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,108 |
1,519,837 | Various preclinical drug trials using other HDAC inhibitors have also been performed, with most drugs targeting HDAC classes I and II and a select few targeting classes IV and III. The HDACi drug, d-cycloserine, was found to reduce fear in 129S1/SvImJ mice, which are mice that show poor extinction acquisition and recov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57388876 | 1,518,979 |
1,361,462 | Parsimony is the principle in which one chooses the simplest scientific explanation that fits the evidence. In terms of building phylogenetic trees, the best hypothesis is the one that requires the fewest evolutionary changes. Using parsimony to reconstruct ancestral character states on a phylogenetic tree is a method ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40977477 | 1,360,709 |
207,272 | In 2011, Guidant, a subsidiary of Boston Scientific, was criminally convicted of a failure to report defibrillator safety problems to the FDA. The company was forced to pay more than $296 million in criminal fines and had to submit to the supervision of the U.S. Probation Office for three years. Even though Guidant kne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1313984 | 207,165 |
1,380,717 | Public awareness of science (PAwS) is everything relating to the awareness, attitudes, behaviors, opinions, and activities that comprise the relations between the general public or lay society as a whole to scientific knowledge and organization. This concept is also known as public understanding of science (PUS), or mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1893089 | 1,379,954 |
497,024 | In forming the stellar structure equations (exploiting the assumed spherical symmetry), one considers the matter density formula_1, temperature formula_2, total pressure (matter plus radiation) formula_3, luminosity formula_4, and energy generation rate per unit mass formula_5 in a spherical shell of a thickness formul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1039124 | 496,767 |
1,918,636 | Paleontologist Ralph Molnar has observed that genuine injuries and illnesses in theropod remains can be distinguished from scavenging traces because pathological bones should show signs of healing, while damage to a carcass after death would not. He also notes that the location of a potential pathology on the body can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32671279 | 1,917,536 |
1,505,280 | Myokinetic control represents an alternative to standard myoelectric control. It aims at measuring muscle deformation during contraction instead of muscle electrical activity. A novel approach recently emerged in 2017 which is based on sensing the magnetic field of permanent magnets directly implanted into residual mus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50393660 | 1,504,434 |
308,824 | There have been explosions of ADs in the US (Jay, Maine Pixelle Specialty Solutions’ Androscoggin Mill; Pensacola (Cantonment) 22 January 2017 (Kamyr digester explosion); EPDM failure March 2013 Aumsville, Oregon; February 6, 1987, Pennsylvania two workers at a wastewater treatment plant were re-draining a sewage diges... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1545608 | 308,659 |
1,195,926 | Frederic Bartlett originally tested his idea of the reconstructive nature of recall by presenting a group of participants with foreign folk tales (his most famous being "War of the Ghosts") with which they had no previous experience. After presenting the story, he tested their ability to recall and summarize the storie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34658270 | 1,195,286 |
291,500 | The IIA property might not be satisfied in human decision-making of realistic complexity because the "scalar" preference ranking is effectively derived from the weighting—not usually explicit—of a "vector" of attributes (one book dealing with the Arrow theorem invites the reader to consider the related problem of creat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89425 | 291,342 |
51,037 | Roughly one million years after the big bang, the first generation of stars began to form. Within a star, stellar nucleosynthesis results in the production of positrons from the fusion of atomic nuclei. These antimatter particles immediately annihilate with electrons, releasing gamma rays. The net result is a steady re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9476 | 51,017 |
1,441,431 | During his time at Microsoft and Definition Six, Hecker wrote an influential programming column for "Game Developer Magazine". Two series of articles from this column still serve today as standard references on their respective subjects. The first series was the first complete synthesis of perspectively-correct texture... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9933008 | 1,440,621 |
2,151,708 | In his research, Hauri analyzed isotopes of different elements and uses modeling and seismic imaging techniques to understand the processes occurring inside the rocky planets and how these processes contributed to planetary evolution. One of these processes is volcanism. He studied how melting magma and eruptions impac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55692817 | 2,150,477 |
131,958 | The central theory of spectroscopy is that light is made of different wavelengths and that each wavelength corresponds to a different frequency. The importance of spectroscopy is centered around the fact that every different element in the periodic table has a unique light spectrum described by the frequencies of light... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27752 | 131,906 |
1,853,348 | Gene content comparison and phylogenetic analyses show that nudiviruses share 20 core genes with baculoviruses and form a monophyletic sister group with them. Fossil calibration estimate this association arose 100 million years ago(Mya), while the last common ancestor of BVs, nudiviruses, and baculoviruses existed appr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21532675 | 1,852,286 |
1,046,747 | The New-Style NES is a compact cost-reduced redesigned version of the Famicom/NES released by Nintendo in 1993. In Japan, it is officially called the though it retains the "Family Computer" branding to maintain consistency with the original Famicom. Unveiled in North America via press release on October 11 and released... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68630525 | 1,046,202 |
243,202 | More sophisticated quantum field theories, in particular those that involve a non-abelian gauge group, break the gauge symmetry within the techniques of perturbation theory by introducing additional fields (the Faddeev–Popov ghosts) and counterterms motivated by anomaly cancellation, in an approach known as BRST quanti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23912155 | 243,075 |
2,032,783 | To treat the whole body of ore from a mine, dry crushing is strongly recommended. To accomplish this in the most efficient manner, a stone breaker which will reduce to about ¼ inch cubes is necessary. For subsequent crushing Kroms rolls have, up to the present time, proved most satisfactory. They will crush with consid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38088194 | 2,031,611 |
2,055,946 | Protter earned a M.Sc. in mathematics at University of Michigan (1937) and a Ph.D. at Brown University on a thesis entitled ""Generalized Spherical Harmonics"" advised by Lipman Bers (1946). During the World War II era, he studied the aeroelasticity and flutter of military air planes at the Vought aircraft company in S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18876634 | 2,054,763 |
336,946 | The event in gymnastics performed on the floor is called floor exercise. The English abbreviation for the event in gymnastics scoring is FX. In the past, the floor exercise event was executed on the bare floor or mats such as wrestling mats. The floor event now occurs on a carpeted 12m × 12m square, usually consisting ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12551 | 336,767 |
573,072 | From the 11th century onwards, a series of powerful Berber dynasties arose. Under the Almoravid dynasty and the Almohad dynasty dominated the Maghreb, much of present-day Spain and Portugal, and the western Mediterranean region. In the 13th and 14th centuries the Merinids held power in Morocco and strove to replicate t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36628857 | 572,778 |
251,842 | The cartridge case design was finalized based on discussions with Tony Rumore at Tromix suggesting a lengthened .50 AE case would work well in the magazines as well as be the largest diameter case to be able to feed through the barrel extension. The initial prototype brass still bore the .50 AE head stamp and this has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11119859 | 251,709 |
1,239,246 | Because of the excitement over the new treatment, literature about the therapeutic effects of x-rays often exaggerated the propensity to cure different diseases. Reports of the fact that in some cases treatment worsened some of the patients' conditions were ignored in favor of hopeful optimism. Henry G. Piffard referre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32469842 | 1,238,579 |
1,559,181 | Teaching people about the benefits of conservation, including easy ways to help conserve, is an effective way to inform about and promote more environmentally friendly behavior. Additionally, research has shown that making sure people understand more about the boundaries of land they can help preserve actually improves... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14768005 | 1,558,295 |
488,042 | Pacioli explicitly states in the "Summa" that he contributed no original mathematical content to the work, but he also does not specifically attribute any of the material to other sources. Subsequent scholarship has found that much of the work's coverage of geometry is taken almost exactly from Piero della Francesca’s ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45351614 | 487,792 |
1,715,189 | Peter Medawar was a zoologist turned clinician, who specialized in burn trauma. A plane crash near his home changed the path of his career, turning his work with burns from mere academia to a full on quest to save lives. Medawar and a Scottish surgeon, Tom Gibson, were tasked with working the Burns Unit of the Glasgow ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18877437 | 1,714,222 |
52,344 | A project named obyekt 430 gave birth to three prototypes which were tested in Kubinka in 1958. Those vehicles had characteristics that were going to influence and radically alter the design of tanks on this side of the Iron Curtain. For the first time, an extremely compact opposed-piston engine was used: the 4TD, desi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196228 | 52,324 |
650,432 | Physical objects that people imagine rotating in everyday life have many properties, such as textures, shapes, and colors. A study at the University of California Santa Barbara was conducted to specifically test the extent to which visual information, such as color, is represented during mental rotation. This study use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4155247 | 650,091 |
675,421 | The Incubation Centre accepts applications for incubation multiple times a year. The applicants submit a 10-page business plan which is evaluated by the Project Evaluation Team, composed of eminent personalities from Industry, academia, government and investment community. Shortlisted applicants are called for a presen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19478554 | 675,068 |
1,296,647 | For the detection of longer wavelength photons, however, the detection efficiency of standard SNSPDs decreases significantly. Recent efforts to improve the detection efficiency at near-infrared and mid-infrared wavelengths include studies of narrower (20 nm and 30 nm wide) NbN nanowires as well as extensive studies of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32594594 | 1,295,936 |
215,724 | In college and high school football, an overtime procedure (the "Kansas plan") ensures that each team has equal opportunity to score. In college, both teams are granted possession of the ball at their opponents' 25 yard-line in succession; the procedure repeats for next possession if needed; all possessions thereafter ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1391951 | 215,616 |
861,804 | In 2006 an outbreak of XDR-TB South Africa was first reported as a cluster of 53 patients in a rural hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, with all but one dying. The mean survival from sputum specimen collection to death was only 16 days and that the majority of patients had never previously received treatment for tuberculosis. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1330683 | 861,345 |
599,802 | Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) are of stromal origin and may differentiate into a variety of tissues. MSCs have been isolated from placenta, adipose tissue, lung, bone marrow and blood, Wharton's jelly from the umbilical cord, and teeth (perivascular niche of dental pulp and periodontal ligament). MSCs are attractive fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2777285 | 599,496 |
1,166,554 | Dungeness B is an advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) power station consisting of two 520MWe reactors, which began operation in 1983 and 1985. They were the first in a series of AGR reactors to be constructed across the UK. In March 2009, unexpected problems discovered during a maintenance shutdown on unit B21 resulted i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=645131 | 1,165,937 |
758,661 | Each state used federal funding from the Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Acts of 1862 and 1890 to set up "land grant colleges" "to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanical arts" ("without excluding other sciences and classical studies").. The 1890 act required states that had segrega... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9083795 | 758,255 |
294,149 | Until the 1980s, it was thought that the humans who arrived in East Asia abandoned the hand-axe technology of their ancestors and adopted chopper tools instead. An apparent division between Acheulean and non-Acheulean tool industries was identified by Hallam L. Movius, who drew the Movius Line across northern India to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=445261 | 293,990 |
1,645,246 | One of the most distinct differences in TERRA expression exists between cancer cells, which exhibit significantly increased TERRA levels, and normal somatic tissues. This observation suggests that high levels of TERRA expression must evolutionarily benefit cancer progression in some way, possibly in their ability to pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41059434 | 1,644,318 |
1,208,550 | There appeared to be a tendency for models of computer by the same manufacturer to display a similar variance in displayed pressure, which the researchers interpreted as suggesting that the offset could be a deliberate design criterion, but could also be an artifact of using similar components and software by the manuf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=302027 | 1,207,904 |
1,888,083 | One use of this is in Linear predictive coding which can be used as a method of reducing the amount of data needed to approximately encode a series. Suppose it is desired to store or transmit a series of values representing voice. The value at each sampling point could be transmitted (if 256 values are possible then 8 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1597924 | 1,887,000 |
1,053,110 | Although the method described above provides useful objective information concerning the performance of a VAD, it is only an approximate measure of the subjective effect. For example, the effects of speech signal clipping can at times be hidden by the presence of background noise, depending on the model chosen for the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1635643 | 1,052,564 |
706,698 | Archery may be easier to learn and have a faster rate of fire, yet perhaps this system's greatest advantage over the spear-thrower is that ammunition is easier to make and transport. Since the dart must store almost all of the system's elastic energy, more care, planning, and weight of elastic material must be invested... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1523748 | 706,329 |
1,188,690 | All substitution models assign a set of weights to each possible change of state represented in the sequence. The most common model types are implicitly reversible because they assign the same weight to, for example, a G>C nucleotide mutation as to a C>G mutation. The simplest possible model, the Jukes-Cantor model, as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3986130 | 1,188,058 |
1,885,530 | Their lifecycle starts with the emergence of winged reproductives from a temporary hole in an established nest. A nuptial flight takes place, and after they have returned to the ground, they shed their wings and search for a suitable place to found their colony. This is usually a piece of rotting wood buried in moist s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42088777 | 1,884,449 |
1,168,168 | This gene encodes a protein that is a transmembrane receptor for growth hormone. Binding of growth hormone to the receptor leads to reorientation of a pre-assembled receptor dimer dimerization (the receptor may however also exist as monomers on the cell surface ) and the activation of an intra- and intercellular signal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8429751 | 1,167,550 |
179,728 | In 1924, he moved to the main centre of Soviet physics at the time: the Physics Department of Leningrad State University, where he dedicated himself to the study of theoretical physics, graduating in 1927. Landau subsequently enrolled for post-graduate studies at the Leningrad Physico-Technical Institute where he event... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80322 | 179,635 |
792,669 | The rhizosphere has been referred to as an "information super highway" because of the proximity of data points, which include roots, and organisms in the soil, and the methods for transferring data using exudates and communities. This description has been used to explain the complex interactions that plants, their fung... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2915538 | 792,244 |
771,436 | After this initial ecclesiastical overhaul, the rest of Justin's reign was relatively quiet and peaceful. In 525, perhaps at the insistence of Justinian, Justin repealed a law which effectively forbade court officials from marrying people of low class. This allowed Justinian to marry Theodora, who was of low social sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25005863 | 771,022 |
2,007,575 | Because "Myotis alcathoe" remains poorly known, it is assessed as "Data Deficient" on the IUCN Red List. However, it may be endangered because of its narrow ecological preferences. Reservoir construction may threaten the species' habitat in some places; two Greek sites where it has been recorded have already been destr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30201177 | 2,006,424 |
1,266,876 | Cathepsin D is a protein that in humans is encoded by the "CTSD" gene. This gene encodes a lysosomal aspartyl protease composed of a protein dimer of disulfide-linked heavy and light chains, both produced from a single protein precursor. Cathepsin D is an aspartic endo-protease that is ubiquitously distributed in lysos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14722632 | 1,266,186 |
1,478,209 | NAEP's heavy use of statistical hypothesis testing has drawn some criticism related to interpretation of results. For example, the Nation's Report Card reported "Males Outperform Females at all Three Grades in 2005" as a result of science test scores of 100,000 students in each grade. Hyde and Linn criticized this clai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2573338 | 1,477,376 |
1,786,526 | Synertek's original production factories had been cobbled together with used equipment, and quickly ran out of capacity for ever-growing orders. The board of directors was unwilling to fund the construction of a new factory that could handle the demand. This led to a 1979 deal with Honeywell, who agreed to buy the comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5133170 | 1,785,521 |
694,878 | Another topic that has seen a thorough development is the theory of uniform distribution mod 1. Take a sequence "a", "a", ... of real numbers and consider their "fractional parts". That is, more abstractly, look at the sequence in formula_38, which is a circle. For any interval "I" on the circle we look at the proporti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=251558 | 694,515 |
2,154,458 | Exosomes are cell-derived vesicles that are present in many and perhaps all biological fluids, including blood, urine, and cultured medium of cell cultures. The reported diameter of exosomes is between 30 and 100 nm, which is larger than LDL, but much smaller than for example, red blood cells. Exosomes are either relea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24536860 | 2,153,227 |
743,514 | Thus the matter would rest until 1952 when Maurice Karnaugh (1924– ) would adapt and expand a method proposed by Edward W. Veitch; this work would rely on the truth table method precisely defined in Emil Post's 1921 PhD thesis "Introduction to a general theory of elementary propositions" and the application of proposit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2427526 | 743,120 |
72,098 | The emergence of nanotechnology as a field in the 1980s occurred through convergence of Drexler's theoretical and public work, which developed and popularized a conceptual framework for nanotechnology, and high-visibility experimental advances that drew additional wide-scale attention to the prospects of atomic control... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21488 | 72,071 |
523,591 | Major uses of type II restriction enzymes include gene analysis and cloning. They have proven to be ideal modeling systems for the study of protein-nucleic acid interactions, structure-function relationships, and the mechanism of evolution. They make good assays for the study of genetic mutations by their ability to sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7564872 | 523,319 |
1,963,419 | Kathryn Ann Moler (born 1966) is an American physicist, and current Dean of Research at Stanford University. She received her BSc (1988) and Ph.D. (1995) from Stanford University. After working as a visiting scientist at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in 1995, she held a postdoctoral position at Princeton University f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38358381 | 1,962,291 |
1,907,053 | There are currently many different avenues through which indirect searches for dark matter may be carried out. In general, indirect detection searches focus on either gamma-rays, cosmic-rays, or neutrinos. The are many instruments that have been used in efforts to detect dark matter annihilation products, including H.E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70605254 | 1,905,957 |
621,247 | Additionally, uncompetitive inhibition works alongside TP53 to help repress the activity of cancer cells and prevent tumorigenesis in certain forms of the illness, as it inhibits G6PD (glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase, an enzyme primarily involved in certain metabolic pathways). One of the side roles G6PD is responsib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3942111 | 620,915 |
951,696 | At least morphologically, "G. gardneri" and the Southern Hemisphere species are the only known post-Jurassic taxa that can be unequivocally recognised. The remainder may have been ecotypes or subspecies. The implications would be that "G. biloba" had occurred over an extremely wide range, had remarkable genetic flexibi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16579999 | 951,191 |
571,787 | Between October 1942 and November 1943, Groves paid monthly visits to the Radiation Laboratory in Berkeley. Reports indicated that compared to the alternatives of a gaseous diffusion plant or a plutonium-producing nuclear reactor, an electromagnetic plant would take longer and require more scarce materials to build, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1210990 | 571,496 |
696,664 | The transistor (or other device) is used as one half of a voltage divider to establish the regulated output voltage. The output voltage is compared to a reference voltage to produce a control signal to the transistor which will drive its gate or base. With negative feedback and good choice of compensation, the output v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=223361 | 696,300 |
859,952 | On 15 May 2013, at the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Institute of Oncology branch in Gliwice, Poland, an entire face was transplanted onto a male patient, Grzegorz (aged 33) after he lost the front of his head in a machine accident at work. The surgery took 27 hours and was directed by Professor Adam Maciejewski. There had no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1000053 | 859,494 |
147,202 | Muscular dystrophies (MD) are a heterogeneous group of genetic disorders that cause muscle weakness, abnormal contractions and muscle wasting, often leading to premature death. Zebrafish is widely used as model organism to study muscular dystrophies. For example, the "sapje" ("sap") mutant is the zebrafish orthologue o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5009 | 147,144 |
369,462 | In 1997, observations from Earth were made of Triton's limb as it passed in front of stars. These observations indicated the presence of a denser atmosphere than was deduced from "Voyager 2" data. Other observations have shown an increase in temperature by 5% from 1989 to 1998. These observations indicated Triton was a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44371 | 369,269 |
771,350 | That has led to a controversy over when and how i-mutation appeared on these vowels. Some (for example, Herbert Penzl) have suggested that the vowels must have been modified without being indicated for lack of proper symbols and/or because the difference was still partly allophonic. Others (such as Joseph Voyles) have ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31973 | 770,936 |
1,365,654 | On this view—sometimes referred to as cognitive evaluation theory—the post-behavioral significance people assign to the reward determines subsequent motivation. Deci and Ryan argue that rewards can be seen to have two components: one that "controls" people's behavior and thus infringes on their autonomy, and a differen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4117368 | 1,364,898 |
1,633,625 | A subdivision of zoology which was at one time in favour is simply into morphology and physiology, the study of form and structure on the one hand, and the study of the activities and functions of the forms and structures of the other. But a logical division like this is not necessarily conducive to the ascertainment a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30410498 | 1,632,702 |
287,675 | Titin is a large abundant protein of striated muscle. Titin's primary functions are to stabilize the thick filament, center it between the thin filaments, prevent overstretching of the sarcomere, and to recoil the sarcomere like a spring after it is stretched. An N-terminal Z-disc region and a C-terminal M-line region ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1668482 | 287,519 |
793,364 | The vertices are the subset of the pixels of the image, chosen as being of interest or as likely to be part of depicted objects. Edges connect adjacent pixels, with adjacency defined either orthogonally according to the Von Neumann neighborhood, or both orthogonally and diagonally according to the Moore neighborhood. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=246223 | 792,939 |
1,389,077 | The process of cycling nutrients in the sea starts with biological pumping, when nutrients are extracted from surface waters by phytoplankton to become part of their organic makeup. Phytoplankton are either eaten by other organisms, or eventually die and drift down as marine snow. There they decay and return to the dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53377604 | 1,388,307 |
501,800 | Currently marketed β-lactamase inhibitors are not sold as individual drugs. Instead they are co-formulated with a β-lactam antibiotic with a similar serum half-life. This is done not only for dosing convenience, but also to minimize resistance development that might occur as a result of varying exposure to one or the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12815929 | 501,542 |
827,210 | The "Drosophila" hedgehog ("hh") gene was identified as one of several genes important for creating the differences between the anterior and posterior parts of individual body segments. The fly "hh" gene was independently cloned in 1992 by the labs of Jym Mohler, Philip Beachy, Thomas B. Kornberg and Saigo Kaoru. Some ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5150349 | 826,766 |
1,381,273 | The diverse structure of the N-terminus confers specificity to annexin intracellular signaling. In all annexins the N-terminus is thought to sit inside the concave side of the annexin core and folds separately from the rest of the protein. The structure of this region can be divided into two broad categories, short and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2206555 | 1,380,510 |
195,795 | UCR hosts over 500 registered student organizations, including the Associated Students of the University of California, Riverside (ASUCR), which represents undergraduates on administrative and policy issues. ASUCR is guided by a Senate composed of 16 elected senators, who represent the three undergraduate colleges in p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230311 | 195,695 |
1,384,521 | With World War I switching into a trench warfare phase late in 1914, a need for a highly mobile artillery system to be used against enemy machine gun emplacements and other strongpoints became apparent. In 1915 colonel M. F. Rosenberg, a member of the Artillery Committee, developed such a weapon. The gun was compact en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10662933 | 1,383,754 |
1,327,928 | MacGillivray and colleagues have demonstrated that a supramolecular approach to covalent synthesis in the organized, solvent-free environment of the solid state can provide a solution to the problem of organizing two polyenes for an intramolecular reaction to give a ladderane. Specifically, by taking an approach to con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12923043 | 1,327,200 |
52,136 | The philosopher Kenneth Craik had noted the ability of thought to predict events. He stressed the survival value of natural selection for this ability. A key component of attachment theory is the attachment behaviour system where certain behaviours have a predictable outcome (i.e. proximity) and serve as self-preservat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=884589 | 52,116 |
784,996 | As temnospondyls continued to flourish and diversify in the Late Permian (260.4 - 251.0 Mya), a major group called Stereospondyli became more dependent on life in the water. The vertebrae became weak, the limbs small, and the skull large and flat, with the eyes facing upwards. During the Triassic period, these animals ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2925388 | 784,575 |
1,836,564 | A usually efficient way to produce free atoms of an element in the ground state is to atomize the elements by ion sputtering or thermal vaporization of the element from a laser matrix under vacuum conditions or at environments with pressures significantly less than normal atmospheric pressure. The resulting plume of se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53622964 | 1,835,515 |
1,694,641 | The volcano formed 23 million years ago during tectonic subduction of the oceanic Juan de Fuca Plate beneath the continental North American Plate, a process often associated with volcanic eruptions near the plate boundaries. Subsequent complex geophysical mechanisms caused a segment of the Juan de Fuca Plate to fuse to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32853614 | 1,693,690 |
1,842,834 | TUSPM was opened in September 1963 as the Pennsylvania College of Podiatric Medicine (PCPM). Temple had operated a "School of Chiropody" from 1943 to 1960 and after it closed several former members of the faculty obtained a charter from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to open a new podiatric medical school. PCPM exist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13627401 | 1,841,781 |
1,726,442 | Both phylogenetic and character data are available for the radiation of finches inhabiting the Galapagos Islands. These data allow testing of hypotheses concerning the timing and ordering of character state changes through time via ancestral state reconstruction. During the dry season, the diets of the 13 species of Ga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6383817 | 1,725,471 |
1,194,191 | In early November 2021, the University of Auckland's Te Pūnaha Matatini's Disinformation Project released a working paper examining COVID-19 misinformation and disinformation since the Delta outbreak began on 17 August 2021. The paper found that far right online communities in New Zealand and abroad were using various ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67067814 | 1,193,551 |
798,786 | In 1935–1936, Pauline and Hallowell Davis recorded the first known ERPs on awake humans and their findings were published a few years later, in 1939. Due to World War II not much research was conducted in the 1940s, but research focusing on sensory issues picked back up again in the 1950s. In 1964, research by Grey Wal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=614230 | 798,361 |
2,104,096 | Actinomycetes are Gram-positive bacteria that resemble fungi in structure with a complex branched network of cells called a mycelium. Isolates of "Streptomyces lavendulae" from different soils around the world vary morphologically and physiologically, with some strains producing straight aerial mycelium, while other is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48626085 | 2,102,883 |
2,003,308 | Antimony is a silver-white solid with a blue tint and a brilliant lustre. It is stable in air and moisture at room temperature. Antimony has a density of 6.697 g/cm, and is moderately hard (MH 3.0; about the same as copper). It has a rhombohedral crystalline structure (CN 3). Antimony melts at 630.63 °C and boils at 16... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68175797 | 2,002,160 |
930,071 | According to Division 16 (Division of School Psychology) of the American Psychological Association (APA), school psychologists operate according to a scientific framework. They work to promote effectiveness and efficiency in the field. School psychologists conduct psychological assessments, provide brief interventions,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=326313 | 929,580 |
70,966 | There are specialized bicycle tools for use both in the shop and at the roadside. Many cyclists carry tool kits. These may include a tire patch kit (which, in turn, may contain any combination of a hand pump or CO pump, tire levers, spare tubes, self-adhesive patches, or tube-patching material, an adhesive, a piece of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3973 | 70,939 |
837,365 | As no career was open to him at his own university, he decided to go to the Bar, and took up residence in London; but he much preferred teaching mathematics to reading law. About this time the movement for founding London University (now University College London) took shape. The two ancient universities of Oxford and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18949289 | 836,916 |
1,255,769 | "The bill's biggest winner was probably the nuclear industry, which received billions of dollars in subsidies and tax breaks covering almost every facet of operations. There were subsidies for research into new reactor designs, "fusion energy," small-particle accelerators and reprocessing nuclear waste, which would rev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31284652 | 1,255,085 |
382,238 | IGF levels have been found lower in those with metabolic syndrome. Circulating serum levels of IGF-1 are increased with vertex balding, although this study did not look at mRNA expression at the follicle itself. Locally, IGF is mitogenic at the dermal papillae and promotes elongation of hair follicles. The major site o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5165199 | 382,043 |
1,062,704 | In the mid-2010s NCSIST partnered with AIDC and the Republic of China Air Force (ROCAF) to create an advanced jet trainer based on the F-CK-1. AIDC is the prime contractor on the project with NCSIST taking a supporting role. Originally designated the XT-5 Blue Magpie but ruled out as the T-5 Brave Eagle the aircraft is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1866595 | 1,062,150 |
411,383 | Sir Robert Moray sent Huygens John Graunt's life table in 1662, and in time Huygens and his brother Lodewijk dabbled on life expectancy. Huygens eventually created the first graph of a continuous distribution function under the assumption of a uniform death rate, and used it to solve problems in joint annuities. In the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42127 | 411,181 |
1,722,800 | Various experimental approaches can be used for the determination of the optical gain of semiconductor structures. For example, the optical stripe-length method is widely applied. This method uses a strong laser source for optical excitation of the sample under investigation. The laser beam is focused to a stripe (e.g.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39454434 | 1,721,830 |
2,025,938 | A study by the Niskanen Center, a think tank based out of Washington, D.C., has found that the U.S. federal government's administrative processes within Medicare and other programs make the doctor shortage worse. "Medicare's residency funding was designed around the naïve assumption that private insurers would contribu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71941912 | 2,024,772 |
31,964 | Initial crewed spaceflights in the early 1960s placed a single person in low Earth orbit during the Soviet Vostok and U.S. Mercury programs. A two-flight extension of the Vostok program known as Voskhod effectively used Vostok capsules with their ejection seats removed to achieve Soviet space firsts of multiple person ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1558077 | 31,953 |
1,888,079 | This was the 17th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. Two finalists from 1968 returned: gold medalist Willie Davenport of the United States and sixth-place finisher Bo Forssander of Sweden. Davenport's countryman Rod Milburn was the "heavy favorite" e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33320845 | 1,886,996 |
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