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1,048,078 | In the early 1990s, West German federal railway Deutsche Bundesbahn (DB) sought to replace its ageing electric locomotive fleet with a single type. In the previous decade, DB introduced its first universal locomotives with three-phase asynchronous induction motors and two bogies with two powered axles each, the DB Clas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3710414 | 1,047,533 |
544,771 | Graphical modeling tools aim to improve these aspects of design. These tools provide a very generic and unified graphical modeling environment, and they reduce the complexity of model designs by breaking them into hierarchies of individual design blocks. Designers can thus achieve multiple levels of model fidelity by s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13337318 | 544,488 |
585,641 | The groups soon had their own filter rooms. The introduction of ground-controlled interception radars (GCI) in the winter of 1940–41 allowed further devolution of command because sector controllers could directly detect and control the aircraft in their area. Working with IFF, now widely used, the GCI display eliminate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29382758 | 585,341 |
1,049,982 | On Dec 20, 2018, the California Northstate University Medical Center was announced. It was expected to open in 2022, in Elk Grove, with 250 beds and a level 2 trauma center in the ER. This $750 million project is expected to generate 24,000 jobs and $4.04 billion over the next 10 years. The plan was rejected by the Elk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47963618 | 1,049,436 |
340,693 | The current consensus is that non-avian theropods didn't exhibit a group wide growth rate, but instead had varied rates depending on their size. However, all non-avian theropods had faster growth rates than extant reptiles, even when modern reptiles are scaled up to the large size of some non-avian theropods. As body m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=300664 | 340,512 |
1,160,120 | Fischer's scientific work was mostly concerned with the investigation of the pigments in blood, bile, and also chlorophyll in leaves, as well as with the chemistry of pyrrole from which these pigments are derived. Of special importance was his synthesis of bilirubin and haemin. He received many honors for this work, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1233606 | 1,159,505 |
222,913 | The easiest and most widely studied method to improve perovskite solar cells is passivation. These defects usually lead to deep energy level defects in solar cells due to the presence of hanging bonds on the surface of perovskite films. Usually, small molecules or polymers are doped to interact with the hanging bonds a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=175622 | 222,804 |
2,048,889 | At the beginning of scientific activity he studied (under the guidance of AE Arbuzov) the method of tapping coniferous trees, the composition of the gum and the products of its processing - turpentine and rosin. The work was of great practical importance, and allowed a new approach to the issue of the technical use of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46681878 | 2,047,708 |
1,311,190 | The game's first trailer was released alongside the game's full announcement, showcasing Columbia, the propaganda around the city, and Elizabeth and her powers. A second trailer for the game premiered at the 2011 Spike Video Game Awards held in December of that year; in it, new scenes from the game are played during th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38977195 | 1,310,471 |
1,860,764 | The Integral Urban House offered many classes to the public on various topics related to ecological housing, such as solar energy systems, food stock raising, and beekeeping. It also provided training programs, seminars on environmental education, and consultation for others who were looking to make similar modificatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25986184 | 1,859,696 |
1,843,623 | The challenge faced when developing vaccines is the complexity and variation of these proteins. In merozoites of the same genus and species, the sequences encoding proteins such as MSP-1 vary depending on the region they are found. For example, the Combination B vaccine utilizes antigens of MSP-1 and MSP-2 but has limi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2203098 | 1,842,569 |
157,673 | Imagine this figure built from struts of given length and tendons (connecting neighboring vertices) of given length "s", with formula_2. The relation tells us there are two possible values for "d": one realized by pushing the struts together, the other by pulling them apart. In the particular case formula_3 the two ext... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=92981 | 157,601 |
1,282,752 | The ECHA decision adding PFBS and its salts to the REACH Regulation Candidate List of Substances of Very High Concern states:“The combined intrinsic properties justifying the inclusion as a substance for which there is scientific evidence of probable serious effects to human health and the environment which give rise t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21127861 | 1,282,056 |
19,278 | Octopuses have a relatively short lifespan; some species live for as little as six months. The Giant Pacific octopus, one of the two largest species of octopus, may live for as much as five years. Octopus lifespan is limited by reproduction. For most octopuses the last stage of their life is called senescence. It is th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22780 | 19,270 |
349,035 | In 1884, Takaki Kanehiro, a surgeon general in the Imperial Japanese Navy, rejected the previous germ theory for beriberi and suggested instead that the disease was due to insufficiencies in the diet. Switching diets on a navy ship, he discovered that replacing a diet of white rice only with one also containing barley,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30500 | 348,853 |
872,453 | With demonstrations of entanglement published, the question of whether or not the D-Wave machine can demonstrate quantum speedup over all classical computers remains unanswered. A study published in Science in June 2014, described as "likely the most thorough and precise study that has been done on the performance of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5219389 | 871,993 |
521,783 | In March 2014, it was announced that FE was working with New York City authorities to bring a motor race to the area. Agag told CNN in May 2016 that he was "very optimistic" about the possibility of hosting an event in the city: "I've just come from New York looking at different venues, different possibilities. It's fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45532368 | 521,511 |
2,127,637 | Pulsatile insulin release from the entire pancreas requires that secretion is synchronized between 1 million islets within a 25 cm long organ. Much like the cardiac pacemaker, the pancreas is connected to cranial nerve 10, and others, but the oscillations are accomplished by intrapancreatic neurons and do not require n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15445074 | 2,126,416 |
1,427,412 | The JABS was conceived as a compromise between the M104 Wolverine that was deemed too expensive to operate and the aging M60 Patton-based M60 AVLB which could not adequately support the Abrams and Bradley vehicles. The vehicle provides the Army Mobility Augmentation Companies supporting Armored Brigade Combat Teams wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59565578 | 1,426,609 |
1,125,205 | Dental-related diseases are largely preventable. Public health dentistry is practiced generally through government sponsored programs, which are for the most part directed toward public-school children in the belief that their education in oral hygiene is the best way to reach the general public. The pattern for such p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14449632 | 1,124,630 |
1,631,656 | In Robinson's view, Marx saw this theory as an equilibrium, a balance between the demand of society and the social labour time of a product which drove the market's prices (23).But there are two difficulties with this; first, how can equal work be assessed? (XIX). If two workers labour the same number of hours and prod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37785478 | 1,630,734 |
11,420 | Some analysts have argued that nuclear weapons have made the world relatively safer, with peace through deterrence and through the stability–instability paradox, including in south Asia. Kenneth Waltz has argued that nuclear weapons have helped keep an uneasy peace, and further nuclear weapon proliferation might even h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21785 | 11,415 |
673,086 | Until the 1970s, aviation had been a traditionally male occupation in the United States. Commerce Department regulations virtually required pilots to have flown in the military to acquire sufficient flight hours, and until the 1970s, the U.S. Air Force and Navy barred women from flying and they were routinely denied wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47210395 | 672,734 |
412,854 | Another important use of the 6500 family was in video games. The first to make use of the processor design was the Atari VCS, later renamed the Atari 2600. The VCS used a 6502 variant named the 6507, which had fewer pins, so it could address only 8 KB of memory. Millions of the Atari consoles would be sold, each with a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20297 | 412,652 |
1,911,744 | The buds ("knop") were harvested by locals for use in "jamu", Javanese herbalism, a situation first reported in the book by Zuhud "et al". in 1998. The bud was sliced and dried before use. In the 1980s traders paid a price of 1500 rupiah per kilogram of a dried bud in the villages, as opposed to 400 rupiah for 1kg of r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20683449 | 1,910,645 |
692,153 | The many smaller unions across the globe have struggled both financially and in playing terms to compete with the major nations since the start of the open era. In England whilst some teams flourished in the professional era others such as Richmond, Wakefield, Orrell, Waterloo and London Scottish found the going much h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=867176 | 691,790 |
1,934,832 | When Dundee Town Council received the bequest they were in something of a quandary. There was no precedent for any bequest of this nature, and their first thought was to offer the money to the University College, Dundee, in the hope that they would be able to fulfil its terms. They, in turn, sought expert opinion from,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9898493 | 1,933,724 |
1,968,756 | Up until the end of the 18th century Classical British scholarship was theologically based, using the Bible as a basic source for world history and chronology. Early work in the developing science of geology sought "theories of the Earth" combining mechanical physical laws in the natural philosophy of René Descartes wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24068342 | 1,967,623 |
1,532,783 | These moths have stage-structured development life cycles, and a traditional hypothesis suggests that these cycles should be most synchronized across the population in the spring due to the preceding effects of cold winter months, and as the summer progresses, the life stages become more randomly assorted. This is ofte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43070114 | 1,531,915 |
2,094,139 | Natural gas distributors are currently using the company's extraction monitors to quantify levels of water vapor and carbon dioxide in their natural gas pipelines. The application calls for a rugged device, which can withstand the harsh environments in these pipes with low parts-per-million sensitivity. Today, many sup... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6159101 | 2,092,931 |
493,240 | Unlike construction cranes where the work speed was determined by the relatively slow progress of the masons, harbour cranes usually featured double treadwheels to speed up loading. The two treadwheels whose diameter is estimated to be 4 m or larger were attached to each side of the axle and rotated together. Their cap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24864939 | 492,985 |
2,140,049 | Proteins of the Betaine/Carnitine/Choline Transporter (BCCT) family are found in Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria and archaea. The BCCT family is a member a large group of secondary transporters, the APC superfamily. Their common functional feature is that they all transport molecules with a quaternary ammonium... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27492898 | 2,138,819 |
216,127 | As the first operational military jet in late 1944 to ever feature one, the winner of the German "Volksjäger" "people's fighter" home defense jet fighter design competition; the lightweight Heinkel He 162A "Spatz", featured a new type of ejection seat, this time fired by an explosive cartridge. In this system, the seat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=388794 | 216,019 |
1,165,446 | NaSICON-phosphate Na3V2(PO4)3 compounds are considered promising cathodes with a theoretical specific energy of 400 W h kg^-1. Vanadium-based compounds exhibit satisfactory high energy densities that are comparable to those of lithium-ion batteries as they operate through multi-electron redox reactions (V3+/V4+ and V4+... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43140842 | 1,164,829 |
1,799,734 | On a visit to Coggeshall, Essex, where his paternal grandmother lived, his aunt introduced him to the local doctor, and suggested that he might become a medical apprentice. Rather unwillingly he agreed, and spent the next three years apprenticed to Dr Thomas Simpson. Gowers' parents both came from congregationalist bac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1053857 | 1,798,725 |
1,823,748 | "Pardosa agrestis" exhibits non-sexual cannibalism. This process serves to strengthen the fitness of larger spiders when other nutrients are not in reach, and plays a role in population regulation. The factors that influence the possibility of cannibalistic activity is the size difference between predator and prey, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65627229 | 1,822,710 |
820,561 | From July to October 1944, "Atago" was flagship of Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita's First Mobile Striking Force, which comprised the major remaining surface force of the Imperial Japanese Navy. The force consisted of five battleships, ten heavy cruisers, two light cruisers, and 19 destroyers, and was based at Lingga Roads n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4088811 | 820,120 |
2,001,646 | The Education Reform Act 1988 made technology mandatory, however the Conservative government were unable to afford the cost of funding schools to teach the subject. A first attempt at developing specialist schools to solve this issue, the City Technology College (CTC) programme between 1988 and 1993, had produced only ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7393577 | 2,000,499 |
693,442 | In the "Book of Optics" (1011–22 AD), Ibn al-Haytham argued that vision occurs in the brain, and that personal experience has an effect on what people see and how they see, and that vision and perception are subjective. Arguing against Ptolemy's refraction theory for why people perceive the Sun and Moon larger at the h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28779877 | 693,079 |
117,661 | The first reported type of network firewall is called a packet filter, which inspect packets transferred between computers. The firewall maintains an access control list which dictates what packets will be looked at and what action should be applied, if any, with the default action set to silent discard. Three basic ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26173989 | 117,616 |
1,764,709 | The arrival of humans on the island 1,500 to 2,000 years ago has taken a significant toll, not only on the size of lemur populations, but also on their diversity. Due to habitat destruction and hunting, at least 17 species and 8 genera have gone extinct and many others have become threatened. Historically, lemurs range... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31316984 | 1,763,716 |
800,990 | While the scientist-practitioner model “stood intransigent and impervious through the 1950s and 60s”, the APA attempted to respond to pressure for more and better clinical training by forming the Committee on the Scientific and Professional Aims of Psychology in 1963. The Committee concluded that the scientist-practiti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=482388 | 800,562 |
2,209,485 | In 2009, the G.I.R.O.S. has published a monograph on the Italian hardy orchids. The book was produced by the experts group, which includes the major Italian specialists in this fascinating group of plants. It is the first monograph on the Italian orchids updated to the latest molecular and taxonomy research. Specific i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45026480 | 2,208,225 |
1,283,993 | Burt was an active surveyor in Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa and other states. He was the leader of many survey teams in Michigan, when the state was just a wilderness. His surveys revealed the rich mineral deposits of iron and copper in the state's peninsulas and the state of Michigan became a distinguished mining territo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2399453 | 1,283,294 |
361,941 | In an acidic aqueous solution, thorium occurs as the tetrapositive aqua ion , which has tricapped trigonal prismatic molecular geometry: at pH < 3, the solutions of thorium salts are dominated by this cation. The ion is the largest of the tetrapositive actinide ions, and depending on the coordination number can have a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30044 | 361,751 |
1,293,778 | The interest in autotransfusion dwindled during World War II, when there was a large pool of donors. After the war, blood testing, typing, and crossmatching techniques were improved making blood banks the answer to the increased demand for blood. In the 1960s, interest in autotransfusion revived. With the advances in a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14235668 | 1,293,067 |
1,368,802 | Semiconductor companies such as Microchip take the ARM cores, which use a consistent set of instructions and register naming, and add peripheral circuits such as ADCs (analog to digital converters), clock management, and serial communications such as USART, SPI, I2C, CAN, LIN, USB, Ethernet, and LCD, Camera or Touch co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3991850 | 1,368,046 |
515,729 | Dura-Europos was a small garrison and trading city on the river Euphrates, and usually on the frontier between the Eastern Roman Empire and the Parthian and finally the Sassanid Empires of Persia. It changed hands at various points but was Roman from 165 AD. Before the final Persian destruction of the town in 256-257 A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=723899 | 515,460 |
624,803 | Thomas Edison State University moved into downtown Trenton in September 1979, at a time when other institutions were leaving cities. The 7-year-old university, which had spent three years at the Forrestal Center outside of Princeton, needed room for growth. At the same time, the state was looking for an appropriate ten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=295279 | 624,470 |
1,434,790 | Most subsequent work in the first decade of the 21st century has tended to increase support for the impression that the labrum is indeed appendiculate in origin. Evidence of varied origin and nature, though not qualitatively uniform in all Arthropoda, shows a trend in favour of such interpretations. For example, there ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30277104 | 1,433,984 |
1,478,277 | Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) is a two-dimensional chromatography technique that combines the separation technique of gas chromatography with the identification technique of mass spectrometry. GC-MS is the single most important analytical tool for the analysis of volatile and semi-volatile organic compou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17828319 | 1,477,444 |
834,959 | Triatomic oxygen (ozone, O) is a very reactive allotrope of oxygen that is a pale blue gas at standard temperature and pressure. Liquid and solid O have a deeper blue color than ordinary O, and they are unstable and explosive. In its gas phase, ozone is destructive to materials like rubber and fabric and is damaging to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14553266 | 834,510 |
1,335,370 | The Advanced Tether Experiment (ATEx), was a follow on to the TiPS experiment, designed and built by the Naval Center for Space Technology. ATEx flew as part of the STEX (Space Technology Experiment) mission. ATEx had two end masses connected by a polyethylene tether that was intended to deploy to a length of , and was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31386739 | 1,334,640 |
1,892,462 | At the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery Reilly specialises in inherited neuropathies. She was made consultant neurologist in 1998 and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 2002. She began to study neuromuscular disease, in particular Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease. In 2004, she found that Vitamin ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59751869 | 1,891,379 |
122,523 | The disorder is caused by a disruption to the genetic processes that form the brain early in pregnancy, though the cause is not identified in most cases. Many genetic syndromes can result in microcephaly, including chromosomal and single-gene conditions, though almost always in combination with other symptoms. Mutation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=232051 | 122,474 |
69,478 | The main difference from most other computing devices is that PLCs are intended-for and therefore tolerant-of more severe conditions (such as dust, moisture, heat, cold), while offering extensive input/output (I/O) to connect the PLC to sensors and actuators. PLC input can include simple digital elements such as limit ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24992 | 69,451 |
1,653,388 | The "Magdalen" papyrus was purchased in Luxor, Egypt in 1901 by Reverend Charles Bousfield Huleatt (1863–1908), who identified the Greek fragments as portions of the "Gospel of Matthew" (Chapter 26:23 and 31) and presented them to Magdalen College, Oxford, where they are catalogued as "P. Magdalen Greek 17" (Gregory-Al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=991400 | 1,652,456 |
1,327,891 | Three of the six s have been scrapped. "TK-202" was deactivated in 1997, and laid up from July 1999 at the Sevmash shipyard in Severodvinsk. With funding from the Nunn–Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program, the defueling of her reactors started in June 2002 at the Zvezdochka shipyard. Scrapping was completed in 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34000838 | 1,327,163 |
553,471 | In chordates, segmentation is coordinated by the clock and wavefront model. The "clock" refers to the periodic oscillation of specific genes, such as Her1, a hairy/Enhancer of split- gene. Expression starts at the posterior end of the embryo and moves towards the anterior. The wavefront is where the somites mature, def... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=583073 | 553,182 |
207,873 | An open bite malocclusion is when the upper teeth don't overlap the lower teeth. When this malocclusion occurs at the front teeth it is known as anterior open bite. An open bite is difficult to treat due to multifactorial causes, with relapse being a major concern. This is particularly so for an anterior open bite. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2156884 | 207,766 |
1,791,709 | In 2009 the Defence Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Munitions and Search School (DEMSS) was formed, bringing together the School of Ammunition, the Defence Explosive Ordnance Disposal School and the National Search Centre, initially as DEMSS (North), at Kineton, and DEMSS (South), at Chattenden, Kent. DEMSS was renamed DE... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7148145 | 1,790,702 |
734,938 | Leishman stain generally shows the brilliant violet color of the nucleus and the neutrophil granules for which differential count becomes convenient and makes the quality of staining better than the stains that are simple methylene blue and Eosin based which do not produce enough contrast between the cytoplasm and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3548023 | 734,551 |
1,773,961 | Consequently, during the next two decades studies of neonatal hypothermia in Europe and the USA were sporadic and often unsuccessful. An interest in cooling for brain protection was beginning to emerge, but contemporary neuroscience provided few useful concepts to guide this research and little progress was made. Altho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24488474 | 1,772,964 |
358,425 | In addition to the mass factor, its relative proximity to the inner solar system allows Jupiter to influence the distribution of minor bodies there. For a long time it was believed that these characteristics led the gas giant to expel from the system or to attract most of the wandering objects in its vicinity and, cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63794 | 358,239 |
69,114 | The Minuteman entered service in 1962 as a deterrence weapon that could hit Soviet cities with a second strike and countervalue counterattack if the U.S. was attacked. However, the development of the United States Navy (USN) UGM-27 Polaris, which addressed the same role, allowed the Air Force to modify the Minuteman, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49365 | 69,087 |
1,680,119 | Wortmannin, a steroid metabolite of the fungi "Penicillium funiculosum", "Talaromyces wortmannii", is a non-specific, covalent inhibitor of phosphoinositide 3-kinases (PI3Ks). It has an "in vitro" inhibitory concentration ("IC") of around 5 nM, making it a more potent inhibitor than LY294002, another commonly used PI3K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1607079 | 1,679,176 |
1,705,037 | Cancer cells almost universally possess upregulated telomere maintenance mechanisms which allows for their limitless replicative potential. The MRN complex's biological role in telomere maintenance has prompted research linking MRN to cancer cell immortality. In human HNSCC cell lines, disruption of the Nbs1 gene (whic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17269927 | 1,704,081 |
1,402,584 | DESI received a go-ahead to start R&D for the project in December 2012 with the assignment of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory as the managing laboratory. Dr. Michael Levi, a senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory was appointed by the laboratory to be DESI's project director who served i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49411310 | 1,401,797 |
1,240,923 | Because of their great diversity and specific ecological requirements, algae, particularly diatoms, make excellent indicators of water quality. Moreover, diatoms are readily preserved in sediments, which make them useful organisms for studying paleolimnology (the long-term trends of streams and lakes). The Phycology Se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=621575 | 1,240,252 |
1,777,833 | The procedure shows short-term success with some evidence of long-term success. When successful, this procedure results in significantly improved diabetic control and a reduction in hypoglycemic episodes, indicating the implanted insulin-producing beta cells of the islets successfully produce and secrete insulin at the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16821436 | 1,776,831 |
1,173,512 | The eurypterid genus "Glyptoscorpius" was named by British geologist Ben Peach, who also named the species "G. perornatus" (treated as the type species of "Glyptoscorpius" by later researchers although it had not originally been designated as such) in 1882. The genus was based on "G. perornatus" and the fragmentary spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3377404 | 1,172,893 |
1,409,085 | Cardiac myocytes contract through a cross-bridge cycle between the myofilaments, actin and myosin. Chemical energy in the form of ATP is converted into mechanical energy which allows myosin to strongly bind to actin and produce a power stroke resulting in sarcomere shortening/contraction. Omecamtiv mecarbil specificall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31273493 | 1,408,293 |
1,484,449 | The disease is autosomal recessive, and can therefore skip generations. Mutations in either amnionless (AMN) or cubilin can be the culprit. Due to its autosomal recessive pattern of inheritance, affected individuals (persons possessing a homozygous recessive genotype) need to undergo genetic counseling to identify the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29570356 | 1,483,612 |
395,056 | In the early twentieth century, ichthyosaur research was dominated by the German paleontologist Friedrich von Huene, who wrote an extensive series of articles, taking advantage of an easy access to the many specimens found in his country. The amount of anatomical data was hereby vastly increased. Von Huene also travell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314101 | 394,861 |
1,896,264 | Tayfield's record for the best bowling return by a South African in a Test match, set in the Third Test, lasted only three weeks. In England's second innings, he took nine for 113 with the final wicket a catch by his brother, Arthur, who was fielding as a substitute. South Africa had started well, with a second wicket ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9288282 | 1,895,180 |
1,727,349 | The finiteness of formula_3 therefore implies that the curve has limiting points "a", "b" at its two ends with |"a" – "b"| ≤ formula_3, so this distance, as well as diameter of the curve, tends to 0. These two limit points must lie on ∂"U", because "f" is a homeomorphism between "D" and "U" and thus a sequence convergi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2256844 | 1,726,375 |
1,417,500 | Due to its exclusive position between the atmosphere and the hydrosphere and by spanning about 70% of the Earth's surface, the sea-surface microlayer (sea-SML) is regarded as a fundamental component in air–sea exchange processes and in biogeochemical cycling. Although having a minor thickness of <1000 µm, the elusive S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12264442 | 1,416,701 |
847,289 | In this "Final Crisis" tie-in, Brainiac 5 is driven to the breaking point after being banished by Colu, and by Earth's continued xenophobia. He considers leaving the Legion, but is convinced to remain as a way to prove all his naysayers wrong. When Superboy-Prime attacks Takron-Galtos and frees the Legion of Super-Vill... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=713540 | 846,839 |
1,300,282 | Critics of neuroethology might consider it a branch of neuroscience concerned with 'animal trivia'. Though neuroethological subjects tend not to be traditional neurobiological model systems (i.e. "Drosophila", "C. elegans", or "Danio rerio"), neuroethological approaches emphasizing comparative methods have uncovered ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=645120 | 1,299,568 |
38,338 | During the 1990s, the college saw a major academic overhaul under President James O. Freedman and a controversial (and ultimately unsuccessful) 1999 initiative to encourage the school's single-sex Greek houses to go coed. The first decade of the 21st century saw the commencement of the $1.5 billion Campaign for the Dar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8418 | 38,324 |
82,390 | Johnson and York were both keen on space projects, but when NASA was established later in 1958 all space projects and most of ARPA's funding were transferred to it. Johnson resigned and ARPA was repurposed to do "high-risk", "high-gain", "far out" basic research, a posture that was enthusiastically embraced by the nati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8957 | 82,356 |
174,727 | Nonetheless, "Britain was a very wealthy country, formidable in arms, ruthless in pursuit of its interests and sitting at the heart of a global production system from its empire." After becoming Prime Minister in 1940, Winston Churchill engaged industry, scientists and engineers to advise and support the government and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202102 | 174,636 |
1,174,140 | The best methods of prevention of orthopneumovirus infection are covering cough and sneezing to prevent transmission of possible pathogens. Isolating animals and humans that have a pneumovirus is the best way to prevent the virus from spreading. Molecular studies have been on the rise due to continuing materials and in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51345308 | 1,173,518 |
444,511 | Anthrax toxin protein components must assemble into holotoxin complexes to function. In order for LF and EF to function inside a target cell, they must localize to the cell and enter its cytoplasm. Through a series of steps, PA can translocate EF and LF into the cell (Fig. 2). This process starts when the 83-kDa form o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6278176 | 444,296 |
17,404 | Methylphenidate may also be prescribed for off-label use in treatment-resistant cases of bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder. It can also improve depression in several groups including stroke, cancer, and HIV-positive patients. There is weak evidence in favor of methylphenidate's effectiveness for depression... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=205878 | 17,399 |
1,629,991 | The University of Economics in Katowice was founded in December 1936 (by the Decree of the Minister of Religious Affairs and Public Education of the Republic of Poland of 1936) as a private School of Social and Economic Sciences. On January 11, 1937 the institution opened its doors to students and began teaching at the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2667396 | 1,629,072 |
660,375 | The University of Maryland Eastern Shore has been known by a series of names reflective of its location, evolving role, and mission over a period spanning three centuries. It opened September 13, 1886 under the auspices of the Delaware Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Benjamin and Portia Bird welcomed nine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=500084 | 660,030 |
110,060 | Only a few cases have been reported in the United States, and outbreaks in countries outside the Indo-Pacific area are rare. In Haiti, tetrodotoxin is thought to have been used in voodoo preparations, in so-called zombie poisons, where subsequent careful analysis has repeatedly called early studies into question on tec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=238839 | 110,015 |
2,159,750 | In 2009 Orlov placed blame for the murder of “Memorial” employee Natalya Estemirova, which took place in July 2009, on the head of the President of the Chechen Republic, Ramzan Kadyrov. In response to this, Kadyrov filed suit against Orlov and HRC “Memorial” in order to protect his honor, dignity, business reputation, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34543015 | 2,158,518 |
1,859,588 | The juxtaposition of apparent evolutionary affinities to carnivorous dinosaurs with the possession of toothless beaks has led to controversy among paleontologists trying to reconstruct the diet of ornithomimosaurs. Osborn hypothesized in 1917 that ornithomimosaurs may have eaten plants, social insects, or aquatic inver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46674214 | 1,858,520 |
563,198 | The vertices should correspond to what we want to rank. Potentially, we could do something similar to the supervised methods and create a vertex for each unigram, bigram, trigram, etc. However, to keep the graph small, the authors decide to rank individual unigrams in a first step, and then include a second step that m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=637199 | 562,909 |
563,787 | Local population densities may be as high as 2,000 individuals per , making them dominant organisms in some areas. Xenophyophores have been found to be "ecosystem engineers", providing habitat and serving as traps for organic particles, increasing diversity in the surrounding area. Research has shown that areas dominat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=476320 | 563,497 |
1,348,077 | In freshwater lake systems, planktivory can be an important forcer of trophic cascades which can ultimately affect phytoplankton production. Fishes, in these systems, can promote phytoplankton productivity by preying on the zooplankton that control phytoplankton abundances. This is an example of top-down trophic contro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36726184 | 1,347,336 |
1,652,306 | Dry lines, squall lines, and sea breezes are examples of phenomena observed by mesonets. Due to the space and time scales associated with mesoscale phenomena and microclimates, weather stations comprising a mesonet are spaced closer together and report more frequently than synoptic scale observing networks, such as the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10919869 | 1,651,374 |
716,310 | Broadly speaking, the goal of forest conservation has historically not been met when, in contrast with land use changes; driven by demand for food, fuel and profit. It is necessary to recognize and advocate for better forest governance more strongly given the importance of forest in meeting basic human needs in the fut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4473245 | 715,933 |
1,513,321 | The method was developed for structure determination of proteins from nanocrystals that are typically not suitable for X-ray diffraction because of their size. Crystals that are one billionth the size needed for X-ray crystallography can yield high quality data. The samples are frozen hydrated as for all other CryoEM m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59013378 | 1,512,470 |
106,500 | In the 21st century, ESA started new programmes in order to create its own crew vehicles, most notable among its various projects and proposals is Hopper, whose prototype by EADS, called Phoenix, has already been tested. While projects such as Hopper are neither concrete nor to be realised within the next decade, other... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10363 | 106,455 |
167,286 | Land cover mapping is one of the major applications of Earth observation satellite sensors, using remote sensing and geospatial data, to identify the materials and objects which are located on the surface of target areas. Generally, the classes of target materials include roads, buildings, rivers, lakes, and vegetation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22212276 | 167,199 |
1,235,546 | In the Elite Eight, Izzo faced Duke Coach Mike Krzyzewski for the 13th time. Izzo had only beaten "Coach K" one time with a record of 1–11 against him coming in to this game. Cassius Winston tallied a double-double with 20 points and 10 assists while Xavier Tillman added 19 points and nine rebounds. However, MSU, who l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56903804 | 1,234,883 |
674,801 | The at Soho included common land that Boulton enclosed, later decrying what he saw as the "idle beggarly" condition of the people who had used it. By 1765 his Soho Manufactory had been erected. The warehouse, or "principal building", had a Palladian front and 19 bays for loading and unloading, and had quarters for cler... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=250764 | 674,448 |
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