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308,252 | In the fall of 1937, the Czechoslovak Armed Forces launched a contest for a new medium tank; Škoda, ČKD and Tatra competed. Škoda Praga submitted the existing joint production export model mentioned above. ČKD also entered a prototype separate from the above, the interesting V-8-H (later called the ST vz. 39), which pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=332282 | 308,087 |
234,488 | Although the market for commercial games—and software in general—was small, due to the cost of computers limiting their spread to research institutions and large corporations, several were still created by programmers and distributed by the computer manufacturers. A number of games could be found in an April 1962 IBM p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19992532 | 234,369 |
275,677 | In July 2014, the United States Army Natick Soldier Research, Development and Engineering Center (NSRDEC) selected the PD-100 Black Hornet after looking at commercially available small-scale UAVs as part of the Cargo Pocket Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (CP-ISR) program. It concluded that further refin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38422126 | 275,527 |
15,330 | On 24 October 2015, Sweden announced its Gripen C/D bid for Croatia's fighter replacement requirement, following a request for information from the Croatian Ministry of Defence in June for between 8 and 12 new-build aircraft to replace Croatia's fleet of MiG-21bis aircraft. The LTDP would run from 2015 to 2024 and was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=87577 | 15,325 |
747,605 | There is a wide range of electric shower heads, with various designs and types of heating controls. The heating element of an electric shower is immersed in the water stream, using an often replaceable nichrome resistive heating element which is often not sheathed and electrically isolated, in which case isolation is p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=521801 | 747,209 |
881,511 | Christian distinguished ‘Inner Eurasia’, which was pastoral with a few hunter-gatherers in the far north, from ‘Outer Eurasia’, a crescent of agrarian civilizations from Europe through India to China. High civilization is based on agriculture where tax-paying peasants support landed aristocrats, kings, cities, literacy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3819214 | 881,047 |
1,989,493 | MUMmer is a bioinformatics software system for sequence alignment. It is based on the suffix tree data structure and is one of the fastest and most efficient systems available for this task, enabling it to be applied to very long sequences. It has been widely used for comparing different genomes to one another. In rece... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13454849 | 1,988,351 |
66,448 | The effect of botulinum toxin type-A on reducing and eliminating forehead wrinkles was first described and published by Richard Clark, MD, a plastic surgeon from Sacramento, California. In 1987 Clark was challenged with eliminating the disfigurement caused by only the right side of the forehead muscles functioning afte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40172 | 66,423 |
1,333,925 | The game has multiple user support (useful for schools), LAN multiplayer mode, on-screen tutorials and a training mode - over 50 bundled lessons ranging from simple number typing up through all four basic arithmetic operations with negative numbers and "missing number" questions (e.g. "3 x ? = 12"). Being an open sourc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14432816 | 1,333,196 |
1,747,078 | According to Dussault et al and Benavent et al, a metaheuristics multi-objective simulating annealing algorithm (MOSA) can solve the different contraints imposed on the WRPP. The WRPP is an important Arc Routing Problem which generalizes many of the single-vehicles Arc Routing problems. In real applications of math, a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14040362 | 1,746,092 |
1,052,355 | Ptolemy's work the "Almagest" had wide and long-lasting acceptance and influence for over a millennium. He gave a geometrical lunar theory that improved on that of Hipparchus by providing for a second inequality of the Moon's motion, using a device that made the apparent apogee oscillate a little – "prosneusis" of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2450817 | 1,051,809 |
643,647 | "Paramecium caudatum" is 170–330 micrometres long (usually 200–300 micrometres). The cell body is spindle-shaped, rounded at the front, tapering at the posterior to a blunt point. Early microscopists likened its shape to that of a slipper, and commonly referred to it as the "slipper animalcule." The pellicle is uniform... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10965031 | 643,307 |
1,549,283 | The Lockheed Martin / Boeing Tier 3- Darkstar was a stealth capable design that resembled a big pumpkin seed with a long straight wing at the rear. It was designed to send real-time still images produced by either SAR or EO sensors, though it did not have the capacity to carry both sensors at the same time. Data was to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3525455 | 1,548,402 |
1,528,153 | CTS's antecedents lie with academics such as Noam Chomsky and Edward S. Herman, who published critical works relating to the state and terrorism from the late 1970s. One of the first major works that gave impetus to a CTS discourse was Joseba Zulaika and William Douglass's seminal work, "Terror and Taboo: The Follies, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19455353 | 1,527,289 |
1,855,374 | In order to maintain the highest standard of research, the IMBA has installed a process of review and feedback led by an external Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) of internationally recognised scientists. The Board meets yearly and, together with group leaders, discusses the quality, significance, and focus of research ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23968430 | 1,854,308 |
236,413 | The current student activity center, the A. Ray Olpin University Union, is a common gathering place for university-wide events such as Crimson Nights, roughly monthly student activity nights; PlazaFest, a fair for campus groups at the start of the school year; and the Grand Kerfuffle, a concert at the end of the school... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32097 | 236,294 |
775,056 | In 2017 Gregory M. Erickson and colleagues determined the incubation periods of "P. andrewsi" and "Hypacrosaurus" by using lines of arrested growth (LAGS; lines of growth) of the teeth in embryonic specimens ("Protoceratops" egg clutch MPC-D 100/1021). The results suggests a mean embryonic tooth replacement period of 3... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1064031 | 774,640 |
1,484,019 | Glutamate is the most abundant excitatory neurotransmitter in vertebrate nervous systems. Evidence for the involvement of glutamate in schizophrenia includes analogous symptoms which are produced by glutamate NMDA receptor antagonists such as phencyclidine (PCP) and ketamine. PCP is a non-competitive NMDA receptor anta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34492113 | 1,483,182 |
313,830 | In LS AAS the high resolution that is required for the measurement of atomic absorption is provided by the narrow line emission of the radiation source, and the monochromator simply has to resolve the analytical line from other radiation emitted by the lamp. This can usually be accomplished with a band pass between 0.2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2637 | 313,661 |
913,520 | Even with chemical quenching, for a short time after a discharge pulse there is a period during which the tube is rendered insensitive and is thus temporarily unable to detect the arrival of any new ionizing particle (the so-called "dead time"; typically 50–100 microseconds). This causes a loss of counts at sufficientl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82245 | 913,041 |
1,704,484 | Anousheh Ansari on September 18, 2006, a 40 year old woman, was the first female private space explorer. She was launched off from Kazakhstan in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft She migrated from Iran to America when she was about 17, in 1984. In 1993, her husband, Hamid Ansari and brother in law, Amir Ansari worked together... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42249546 | 1,703,528 |
1,339,273 | It was eventually realized that TDB was not well defined because it was not accompanied by a general relativistic metric and because the exact relationship between TDB and TDT had not been specified. (It was also later criticized as being not physically possible in exact accordance with its original definition: among o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=345066 | 1,338,540 |
404,616 | Ships in "Eve Online" are organized into classes, from tiny frigates only a few dozen meters in length to gigantic capital ships up to 17 kilometers long (as large as whole cities). Ships fill different roles and vary in size, speed, hull strength, and firepower; smaller ships are generally faster and capable of disabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=403307 | 404,416 |
283,495 | From the gene's point of view, evolutionary success ultimately depends on leaving behind the maximum number of copies of itself in the population. Until 1964, it was generally believed that genes only achieved this by causing the individual to leave the maximum number of viable offspring. However, in 1964 W. D. Hamilto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9703 | 283,342 |
1,636,519 | Most previous chemotherapy drugs for cancer were (relatively) nonselective in their activity. Although their exact mechanisms of action were varied and complex, they generally worked by damaging cells undergoing mitosis, which is usually more common in malignant tumors than in most normal tissues. Targeted agents are d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26670758 | 1,635,594 |
2,025,796 | A sample was purchased from CSF and fit to a Handley Page Hastings known as "Catherine" in 1954. In tests it was found to produce a solid signal on the Type 80 display even when it was under the radar horizon. At long range, an Avro Lincoln had to be away from the jammer before it cleared the effect and became visible,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56407327 | 2,024,630 |
2,034,190 | In Canada, a similar nationwide effort called Service Canada has similar goals, and has run into similar problems: "The big complaints are that departments fight over their turf and are organized to serve the bureaucracy, not Canadians. They don’t share data, information, common infrastructure, technology or integrate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2028016 | 2,033,017 |
1,671,235 | One of the first instances where the term "shared decision-making" was employed was in a report on ethics in medicine by Robert Veatch in 1972. It was used again in 1982 in the "President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research." This work built on the increasin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23453327 | 1,670,295 |
1,227,007 | Genomic surveillance refers to monitoring pathogens and analyzing their genetic similarities and differences, which may enable (early) alerts and tailoring interventions, countermeasures and recommendations for the public, like vaccines.<ref name="10.1016/S1473-3099(20)30939-7"></ref> In terms of pandemic prevention, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63478457 | 1,226,346 |
655,939 | "White Blood Cells" was rushed onto the shelves by Sympathy, although the record label wasn't prepared to handle the hype that would surround the record. "White Blood Cells" was released to nearly universal acclaim. On Metacritic, the album received a weighted mean score of 86/100, which translates to "universal acclai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65750909 | 655,595 |
1,620,546 | During the initial years, axion detection was the primary goal of CAST. Although the CAST experiment did not yet observe axions directly, it has constraint the search parameters. Mass and the coupling constant of an axion are primary aspects of its detectability. Over almost 20 years of the operation period, CAST has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1217124 | 1,619,631 |
1,384,612 | "T. onustus" females are able to change their entire body color as a means of mimicking the color of flowers where they reside and capture prey. Possible colors include pink, shiny yellow, and white, sometimes with a bright medial stripe. Female color changes usually take several days in order to adjust to flower backg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27586421 | 1,383,845 |
2,003,339 | The word "Audiometrist" is derived from the word Audiometry, as distinct from Audiology. However, the title audiometrist is often used interchangeably with the role of audiologists, thereby making a precise definition of the word more difficult. Audiologists can therefore refer to themselves as audiometrists, although ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2771970 | 2,002,191 |
1,866,926 | Each computing element incorporates a two-dimensional memory array for storing LUTs, a small controller for sequencing evaluation of sub-functions and a set of temporary registers to hold the intermediate outputs from individual partitions. A fast, local routing framework inside each computing block generates the addre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26559592 | 1,865,851 |
521,608 | Varietal resistance is important. Fungicides are commonly used. Chemical control with triazole fungicides may be useful for control of infections up to ear emergence but is difficult to justify economically in attacks after this stage. Control often is not as common as prevention through the development of genetically-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4941377 | 521,337 |
1,668,800 | In 1917 the priority for Low's control system changed; the new imperative being to counter the submarine threat. Low was transferred into the Royal Navy along with Lieutenant Ernest Windsor Bowen to adapt the AT system to control the DCBs but Low still commanded the RFC works at Feltham where the work was carried out. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5778070 | 1,667,860 |
1,288,149 | Lubert Stryer (born March 2, 1938, in Tianjin, China) is the Emeritus Mrs. George A. Winzer Professor of Cell Biology, at Stanford University School of Medicine. His research over more than four decades has been centered on the interplay of light and life. In 2007 he received the National Medal of Science from Presiden... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6216995 | 1,287,448 |
54,923 | On 26 April 1986, the Chernobyl disaster occurred at reactor No. 4, caused by a catastrophic power increase resulting in core explosions and open-air fires. This caused large quantities of radioactive materials and airborne isotopes to disperse in the atmosphere and surrounding land. The disaster is regarded as the wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1238999 | 54,900 |
523,781 | During encapsulation, bonding wires can be severed, shorted, or touch the chip die, usually at the edge. Dies can crack due to mechanical overstress or thermal shock; defects introduced during processing, like scribing, can develop into fractures. Lead frames may contain excessive material or burrs, causing shorts. Ion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26626178 | 523,509 |
1,088,628 | The main on-campus sports facility is Kolf Sports Center, which contains facilities for basketball, indoor track, volleyball, gymnastics, and wrestling. Other events held there include commencement ceremonies, concerts, and regional conventions. Albee Hall and Pool host swimming and diving events. Titan Stadium (the fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=496761 | 1,088,069 |
2,100,928 | "Limnonectes nguyenorum" is a relatively small-sized species within the "Limnonectes kuhlii" group: in the type series consisting of two adult males and two adult females, the males measure about and the females in snout–vent length. Males have fang-like odontoid processes on the lower jaw. The overall appearance is sl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52840469 | 2,099,718 |
1,399,945 | "Quest" provides an environment where astronauts can "camp out" before a spacewalk in a reduced-nitrogen atmosphere to purge nitrogen from their bloodstream and avoid decompression sickness in the low-pressure () pure-oxygen atmosphere of the spacesuit. In April 2006, Expedition 12 Commander Bill McArthur and Expeditio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=926429 | 1,399,160 |
1,286,288 | Section 5 contains information on the "Demonstration Missions", specifically the "Mouse Mission to Inner Space" (MOMIS) and the Human equivalent, "HUMIS". The idea was to develop preliminary versions of some aspects of a Mars cave habitat such as using argon breathing mixtures and other new life support systems on mous... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1539570 | 1,285,587 |
1,320,846 | A special focus is often laid on the forecast regarding and therapy of genetically based autoimmune diseases, which include all diseases caused by an extreme reaction of the immune system against the body's own tissue. By mistake, the immune system recognizes the body's own tissue as a foreign object which is to be fou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9997271 | 1,320,120 |
684,152 | The quality of Type 94 Nambu pistols decreased towards the end of World War II as the Japanese faced bombing raids from Allied forces and material shortages increased. This drastic change in quality from late March 1945, onwards with all quality standards appearing to disappear towards the end of June 1945. As bakelite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1898395 | 683,795 |
1,171,330 | Although not all causes of SGBS have been identified, one cause of SGBS type I is a mutation of the glypican-3 gene (GPC3) on the X chromosome locus q26.1. This particular gene is widely expressed, especially in tissues derived from the mesoderm during fetal development. The function of this gene is to produce a protei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4166656 | 1,170,711 |
481,018 | In the EU the ITS Directive 2010/40/EU was adopted in 2010. It aims to assure that ITS applications are interoperable and can operate across national borders, it defines priority areas for secondary legislation, which cover V2X and requires technologies to be mature. In 2014 the European Commission's industry stakehold... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6206730 | 480,774 |
2,149,330 | As a result, the eutaxiology is often used in religious arguments, particularly concerning the existence of God, though it is used in both sides of the argument. In complement with teleology, it can be argued that the basic principles of physics and chemistry are designed in a way that supports organic life. On the oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26923940 | 2,148,099 |
1,536,094 | The modular nature of the chemistry allows the tuning of both the mechanical properties and bioactivities of the resulting self-assembled fibers and gels. Bioactive sequences can be used to bind growth factors to localize and present them at high densities to cells, or to directly mimic the function of endogenous biomo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28333458 | 1,535,226 |
1,803,608 | QTT addresses the measurement problem in quantum mechanics by providing a detailed description of what happens during the so-called "collapse of the wave function". It reconciles the concept of a quantum jump with the smooth evolution described by the Schrödinger equation. The theory suggests that "quantum jumps" are n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65266370 | 1,802,594 |
1,159,221 | Vaccines should include repertoires of B cell and T cell epitopes to evoke an ample immune response. The broad response should minimize selection of escape mutants that may be present as minority components in mutant spectra, as repeatedly documented experimentally. With the current types of available vaccines, those t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6962692 | 1,158,606 |
1,397,191 | In the colloquial sense of disorder or confusion, however, chaos certainly occurs in social systems. It often is the basis for singularities, where cause-and-effect relationships are ill-defined at best. Many examples of singularities in social systems arise from the work of Maxwell and Poincaré. Maxwell remarked that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52535241 | 1,396,418 |
962,469 | At the end of the 19th century, many tried to combine Newton's force law with the established laws of electrodynamics, like those of Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Carl Friedrich Gauss, Bernhard Riemann and James Clerk Maxwell. Those theories are not invalidated by Laplace's critique, because although they are based on finite p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13478488 | 961,960 |
1,675,972 | For the remainder of the 20th century, the taxon was scarcely mentioned. While they were still considered valid species, the relationship with the supposed "cheneosaurs" "Cheneosaurus" and "Procheneosaurus" was accepted; after this it was rarely assigned past the Lambeosaurinae. A humerus from a pit near Hashima Island... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4655723 | 1,675,030 |
923,813 | Houde demonstrated that the Lithornithiformes, a group of flying birds that were common in the Cenozoic of the northern hemisphere, were also paleognaths. He argues that the lithornithiform bird "Paleotis", known from fossils in Denmark (northern hemisphere), shared unique anatomical features of the skull that make it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3583632 | 923,327 |
125,240 | During a meltdown, the temperature of the fuel rods increases and they can deform, in the case of zircaloy cladding, above . If the reactor pressure is low, the pressure inside the fuel rods ruptures the control rod cladding. High-pressure conditions push the cladding onto the fuel pellets, promoting formation of urani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26266872 | 125,188 |
178,222 | Genetic defects or toxins can misdirect the embryonic forebrain-dividing process. One highly teratogenic alkaloid toxin that can cause cyclopia is cyclopamine or 2-deoxyjervine, found in the plant "Veratrum californicum" (also known as corn lily or false hellebore). Grazing animals are most likely to ingest this plant ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=445761 | 178,129 |
1,155,754 | From its earliest beginnings, the concept of a Data Grid to support the scientific community was thought of as a specialized extension of the “grid” which itself was first envisioned as a way to link super computers into meta-computers. However, that was short lived and the grid evolved into meaning the ability to conn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35951900 | 1,155,144 |
1,145,593 | In 2010, the MBL established the Eugene Bell Center for Regenerative Biology and Tissue Engineering, where researchers study the ability of marine and other animals to spontaneously regenerate damaged or aging body parts. An understanding of tissue and organ regeneration in lower animals holds promise for translation t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=391313 | 1,144,992 |
665,667 | In 1995 the older F-4s were retired and six more RF-4Cs were obtained. The new RF-4Cs had newer avionics, including Have Quick digital UHF/VHF radios, Itek AN/ARL-46 RWR, and Tracor AN/ALE-40 dispensers. The upgrades included provisions for up to four AIM-9L Sidewinder missiles, for self-defence and to provide a second... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13567676 | 665,320 |
1,236,054 | Prior to the resurgence of the resource sector, economic conditions had been relatively subdued, with constant-price household income per capita roughly the same in 1960–61 as in 1948–49. However, the mining boom caused income per capita to more than double by 1973–74. Importantly, while iron ore was (and remains) a si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7220542 | 1,235,390 |
1,684,010 | Extreme structuralists like Gerd B. Müller and Stuart A. Newman, inheriting the viewpoint of D'Arcy Thompson, have proposed that physical laws of structure, not genetics, govern major diversifications such as the Cambrian explosion, followed later by co-opted genetic mechanisms. They argued further that there was a "pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6914308 | 1,683,066 |
2,073,269 | The Institute on Biotechnology and the Human Future was established early in 2004 at Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology. Working at the intersection of a variety of disciplines, the IBHF has become as a leader in the study of biotechnology and its implications for the human future. The IBHF h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7476080 | 2,072,078 |
1,737,442 | D major. The autograph has alla breve "Allegro" while the first edition (published during Schubert's lifetime and thus probably a revision) gives common-time "Allegro vivace -" this is uncharacteristically quick for a Schubert "allegro," a marking he often qualified with "moderato." The first movement is unrelentingly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13325172 | 1,736,465 |
104,233 | are now the preferred method of reconstruction. These algorithms compute an estimate of the likely distribution of annihilation events that led to the measured data, based on statistical principles. The advantage is a better noise profile and resistance to the streak artifacts common with FBP, but the disadvantage is h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24032 | 104,188 |
351,743 | The Ottoman Empire bought the Mauser Model 1903. The Mauser 1903 was a modified version Gewehr 98. The Lange Visier sight was replaced by a tangent leaf sight, the nose cap was simplified, the rifle could be fitted with older Ottoman M1890 bayonets. The weapon had curved arm on its bolt stop to block the cartridge clip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2023424 | 351,560 |
1,643,621 | Although the receptors for systemins and HypSys remain poorly understood, we have a better understanding of the signal transduction that occurs once the peptide had bound to its receptor. Jasmonic acid is an essential, albeit late component, in the systemin and wound-signalling pathways. In tomato, the signal is transd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5326585 | 1,642,694 |
659,793 | Stroboscopic conditions ensure that the visibility of a rotating wheel is broken into a series of brief episodes in which its motion is either absent (in the case of movie cameras) or minimal (in the case of stroboscopes), interrupted by longer episodes of invisibility. It is customary to call the former episodes "fram... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1880976 | 659,448 |
1,720,625 | Hereditary inclusion body myopathy (IBM) constitutes a unique group of neuromuscular disorders characterized by adult-onset slowly progressive distal and proximal weakness, and a typical muscle pathology including rimmed vacuoles and filamentous inclusions. Autosomal dominant (IMB3; OMIM 605637 ) and autosomal recessiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2662397 | 1,719,655 |
214,936 | Since Ward & Brownlee's assertion that "there is irrefutable evidence that oxygen is a necessary ingredient for animal life", anaerobic metazoa have been found that indeed do metabolise without oxygen. "Spinoloricus cinziae", for example, a species discovered in the hypersaline anoxic L'Atalante basin at the bottom of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=827792 | 214,828 |
1,620,203 | In canines the FGF4 retrogene insertion on chromosome 18 is involved in the short leg phenotype. This is still a member of the FGF4 gene family. Fibroblast Growth Factor 4 is a protein coding gene, meaning it's a structural protein molecule. The biological role that FGF4-18 plays is important in embryological developme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14776330 | 1,619,288 |
651,695 | Interest in the use of TMD monolayers such as MoS WS, and WSe for the use in flexible electronics due to a change from an indirect band gap in 3D to a direct band gap in 2D emphasizes the importance of the mechanical properties of these materials. Unlike in bulk samples it is much more difficult to uniformly deform 2D ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42732027 | 651,353 |
1,003,722 | Although Tanis and Chicxulub were connected by the remaining Interior Seaway, the massive water waves from the impact area were probably "not" responsible for the deposits at Tanis. Any water-borne waves would have arrived between later, long after the microtektites had already fallen back to earth, and far too late to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60404595 | 1,003,204 |
147,116 | HMGA proteins (HMGA1a, HMGA1b and HMGA2) are implicated in cancer, and expression of these proteins is regulated by microRNAs. HMGA expression is almost undetectable in differentiated adult tissues, but is elevated in many cancers. HMGA proteins are polypeptides of ~100 amino acid residues characterized by a modular se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=156964 | 147,058 |
695,569 | (HIT) is "the application of information processing involving both computer hardware and software that deals with the storage, retrieval, sharing, and use of health care information, health data, and knowledge for communication and decision making". Technology is a broad concept that deals with a species' usage and kno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19565233 | 695,205 |
450,256 | Given the recent increase in evidence and support of trait leadership theory (Ng et al., 2008), scholars have suggested a variety of strategies for human resource departments within organizations. Companies should use personality traits as selection tools for identifying emerging leaders (Ng et al., 2008). These compan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33488970 | 450,037 |
956,055 | General Motors began responding first to the high gas prices by downsizing most of their models by 1977, and lowering their performance. In 1979, the second oil price spike occurred, precipitated by political events in Iran, resulting in the 1979 energy crisis. By 1980, the economy slid into turmoil, with high inflatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23576520 | 955,550 |
1,510,312 | Certain toxicants act as endocrine disruptors by interacting with the androgen receptor. DDE is one example of a chemical that acts via this mechanism. DDE is a metabolite of DDT that is widespread in the environment. Although production of DDT has been banned in the Western world, this chemical is extremely persistent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39515585 | 1,509,462 |
1,202,863 | Hubel and Wiesel received the Nobel Prize for two major contributions: firstly, their work on the development of the visual system, which involved a description of ocular dominance columns in the 1960s and 1970s; and secondly, their work establishing a foundation for visual neurophysiology, describing how signals from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=832632 | 1,202,220 |
1,372,609 | The American Anthropological Association (AAA) website describes anthropology as a focus on "the study of humans, past and present. To understand the full sweep and complexity of cultures across all of human history, anthropology draws and builds upon knowledge from the social and biological sciences as well as the hum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=631934 | 1,371,852 |
1,741,301 | Ranke, whose father was the psychiatrist Karl Ranke (1861–1951), graduated after completing his study of medicine at the Universities of Munich and Freiburg. In Freiburg Ranke received a medical doctorate under Ludwig Aschoff with a dissertation entitled "On the change of the elastic resistance of the aortic intima and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52569772 | 1,740,319 |
963,421 | The projection commonly used in video games deviates slightly from "true" isometric due to the limitations of raster graphics. Lines in the and directions would not follow a neat pixel pattern if drawn in the required 30° to the horizontal. While modern computers can eliminate this problem using anti-aliasing, earlier ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23070656 | 962,912 |
1,402,442 | This extension created a number of sedimentary basins: Bass, Durroon, Gippsland, Otway and Sorell Basins. They each contain several kilometres of sediment from the late Mesozoic to Cenozoic time periods. Bass Basin, between King Island, and north from the Tamar River, has up to 12 km of sediment, actually starting from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18521539 | 1,401,655 |
1,546,852 | VP1 is the major structural component of the polyomavirus icosahedral capsid, which has T=7 symmetry and a diameter of 40-45 nm. The capsid contains three proteins; VP1 is the primary component and forms a 360-unit outer capsid layer composed of 72 pentamers. The other two components, VP2 and VP3, have high sequence si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40846841 | 1,545,975 |
284,547 | In 1993, Roy Mash stated that "Arguments favoring the existence of extraterrestrial intelligence nearly always contain an overt appeal to big numbers, often combined with a covert reliance on generalization from a single instance" and concluded that "the dispute between believers and skeptics is seen to boil down to a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28153 | 284,393 |
958,122 | The human body subjects most, but not all, compounds to various chemical processes (i.e. metabolism) to make them suitable for elimination. This involves chemical transformations to (a) reduce fat solubility and (b) to change biological activity. Although almost all tissues in the body have some ability to metabolize c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=463501 | 957,616 |
1,724,012 | Direct and primary evidence of Leishmaniasis' existence is extremely minimal as the disease was not known to the Northeast and therefore was not identified and labeled until 1895 in Bahia. But, even though there was a lack of name-calling evidence, there are still reports of a disease that matches the descriptions of L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21898160 | 1,723,042 |
413,280 | According to his "The New York Times" obituary published on April 3, 1872, Morse received respectively the decoration of the Atiq Nishan-i-Iftikhar (English: Order of Glory) [first medal on wearer's right depicted in photo of Morse with medals], set in diamonds, from Sultan Abdülmecid of Turkey (c.1847), a "golden snuf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27007 | 413,078 |
1,942,975 | Two other important uses for the relative rate test are to determine if and how generation time and metabolic processes affect mutational rate. Firstly is generation time. Sarich and Wilson first used the relative rate test to show that there was no evidence of a generation effect on lineage mutation rates for albumin ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40553716 | 1,941,864 |
444,392 | The Dutch psychologist Geert Hofstede revolutionized the field doing worldwide research on values for IBM in the 1970s. Hofstede's cultural dimensions theory is not only the springboard for one of the most active research traditions in cross-cultural psychology, but is also cited extensively in the management literatur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11507939 | 444,177 |
1,119,273 | Critical quality attributes (CQA) are chemical, physical, biological and microbiological attributes that can be defined, measured, and continually monitored to ensure final product outputs remain within acceptable quality limits. CQA are an essential aspect of a manufacturing control strategy and should be identified i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44224167 | 1,118,700 |
680,006 | Dedicated research facilities include the Focas Research Institute with extensive spectroscopy, microscopy and holography facilities. It also houses "CREST"; an international centre supported by Enterprise Ireland for paint and surface coating development. Antennae research is associated with the multi-institution "CTV... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=480644 | 679,652 |
1,586,250 | Linus Pauling, Class of 1922, became Oregon State's first Nobel Laureate alumnus in 1954 when he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work elucidating the nature of the atomic bonds. In 1962, he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his campaign against nuclear weapons testing. He joined Marie Curie as the onl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14444040 | 1,585,359 |
277,666 | Later studies indicate that the top cruise velocity that can theoretically be achieved are a few percent of the speed of light (0.08–0.1c). An atomic (fission) Orion can achieve perhaps 9%–11% of the speed of light. A nuclear pulse drive starship powered by fusion-antimatter catalyzed nuclear pulse propulsion units wou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322533 | 277,516 |
1,727,587 | The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, passed in 1983, was created to protect seasonal migrant farm workers in the areas of transportation, housing, adequate payment, and safety protections. The law also made it mandatory for all employers using contract labor to register with the US Department of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48101601 | 1,726,613 |
1,107,436 | "Begriffsschrift" is usually translated as "concept writing" or "concept notation"; the full title of the book identifies it as "a formula language, modeled on that of arithmetic, for pure thought." Frege's motivation for developing his formal approach to logic resembled Leibniz's motivation for his "calculus ratiocina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=900125 | 1,106,872 |
377,168 | The Electrical, Environmental and Consumables Manager (EECOM) in Mission Control, John Aaron, remembered the telemetry failure pattern from an earlier test when a power loss caused a malfunction in the CSM signal conditioning electronics (SCE), which converted raw signals from instrumentation to data that could be disp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1967 | 376,973 |
232,844 | In December, 2012, William Cheswick wrote an article published in ACM magazine that included the mathematical possibilities of how easy or difficult it would be to break passwords that are constructed using the commonly recommended, and sometimes followed, standards of today. In his article, William showed that a stand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4459886 | 232,725 |
1,633,004 | It was not until 1947 that the first Canadian province introduced near universal health coverage. Saskatchewan long had a shortage of doctors, leading to the creation of municipal doctor programs in the early twentieth century in which a town would subsidize a doctor to practice there. Soon after, groups of communities... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10620033 | 1,632,082 |
996,183 | Thulium is principally extracted from monazite ores (~0.007% thulium) found in river sands, through ion exchange. Newer ion-exchange and solvent-extraction techniques have led to easier separation of the rare earths, which has yielded much lower costs for thulium production. The principal sources today are the ion adso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30047 | 995,665 |
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