doc_id int32 18 2.25M | text stringlengths 245 2.96k | source stringlengths 38 44 | __index_level_0__ int64 18 2.25M |
|---|---|---|---|
771,257 | ESCs divide very frequently due to a shortened G1 phase in their cell cycle. Rapid cell division allows the cells to quickly grow in number, but not size, which is important for early embryo development. In ESCs, cyclin A and cyclin E proteins involved in the G1/S transition are always expressed at high levels. Cyclin-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1029022 | 770,843 |
1,326,086 | The unlinked "galR" gene encodes the repressor for this system. A tetrameric GalR repressor binds to 2 operators, one located at +55 and one located at -60 relative to the PG1 start site. Looping of the DNA blocks the access of RNA polymerase to promoters and/or inhibits formation of the open complex. This looping requ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15697340 | 1,325,359 |
110,550 | BAE Systems announced the BAe 146M programme in 2009, designed to provide ex-civilian BAe 146-200 and -300 aircraft to military operators, available either in passenger or freighter configurations. Upgrades and alterations made to the type include new glass cockpit avionics, additional fuel tanks, increased steep appro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=363213 | 110,505 |
411,091 | The formal scientific definition of theory is quite different from the everyday meaning of the word. It refers to a comprehensive explanation of some aspect of nature that is supported by a vast body of evidence. Many scientific theories are so well established that no new evidence is likely to alter them substantially... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=198507 | 410,889 |
195,245 | "Manual torch brazing" is a procedure where the heat is applied using a gas flame placed on or near the joint being brazed. The torch can either be hand held or held in a fixed position depending on whether the operation is completely manual or has some level of automation. Manual brazing is most commonly used on small... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=331936 | 195,145 |
919,359 | Another concern is whether countries which do not manufacture vaccines themselves, including those where a pandemic strain is likely to originate, will be able to purchase vaccine to protect their population. Cost considerations aside, they fear that the countries with vaccine-manufacturing capability will reserve prod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2888063 | 918,874 |
674,802 | Among the products Boulton sought to make in his new facility were sterling silver plate for those able to afford it, and Sheffield plate, silver-plated copper, for those less well off. Boulton and his father had long made small silver items, but there is no record of large items in either silver or Sheffield plate bei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=250764 | 674,449 |
303,691 | It was assumed in early economic theories, reflecting the context – i.e., the secondary sector of the economy was producing much more than the tertiary sector was able to produce at the time in most countries – to be a fungible resource, homogeneous, and easily interchangeable, and it was referred to simply as workforc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45804 | 303,529 |
969,404 | Direct health effects of volcanic ash on humans are usually short-term and mild for persons in normal health, though prolonged exposure potentially poses some risk of silicosis in unprotected workers. Of greater concern is the impact of volcanic ash on the infrastructure critical to supporting modern societies, particu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47863556 | 968,894 |
770,706 | A single game often requires multiple pitchers, including the starting pitcher and relief pitcher(s). Pitchers are substituted for one another like any other player (see above), and the rules do not limit the number of pitchers that can be used in a game; the only limiting factor is the size of the squad, naturally. In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=895961 | 770,292 |
1,131,509 | Kaku discusses the draining of oil on the planet by pointing to the Hubbert curve, and the rising problem of immigrants who wish to live the American dream of wasteful energy consumption. He predicts that hydrogen and solar energy will be the future, noting how Henry Ford and Thomas Edison bet on whether oil or electri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31865376 | 1,130,919 |
323,980 | PGC1-α (PPARGC1A), a transcriptional coactivator of nuclear receptors important to the regulation of a number of mitochondrial genes involved in oxidative metabolism, directly interacts with MEF2 to synergistically activate selective slow twitch (ST) muscle genes and also serves as a target for calcineurin signaling. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=380541 | 323,808 |
2,199,163 | Total RNA is purified from the specimen of interest. Poly A messenger RNA is then purified from total RNA and subsequently translated into cDNA using a reverse transcription reaction. The cDNA produced from the mRNA is labeled using primers homologous to the spliced leader sequences of the organism. In a nine step PCR ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16018002 | 2,197,911 |
1,071,768 | There is a slow to moderate rate of disease progression but the patient may have periods of rapid progression ("bursts of destruction"). Chronic periodontitis can be associated with local predisposing factors (e.g. tooth-related or iatrogenic factors). The disease may be modified by and be associated with systemic dise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25299326 | 1,071,214 |
1,122,612 | Early vector formats, such as POLYVRT, the ARC/INFO Coverage, and the Esri shapefile support a basic set of geometric primitives: points, polylines, and polygons, only in two dimensional space and the latter two with only straight line interpolation. TIN data structures for representing terrain surfaces as triangle mes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=212098 | 1,122,038 |
1,993,226 | The BG cryptosystem is semantically secure based on the assumed intractability of integer factorization; specifically, factoring a composite value formula_1 where formula_2 are large primes. BG has multiple advantages over earlier probabilistic encryption schemes such as the Goldwasser–Micali cryptosystem. First, its s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3098878 | 1,992,083 |
1,777,633 | The Dnipro University of Technology (), abbreviated in Ukrainian as NTU DP () is located in Dnipro, the third most populous city in Ukraine. It was founded in 1899 as the "Yekaterinoslav Higher Mining School". The task of the university then was to "provide the mining industry with highly qualified specialists", a goal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24438846 | 1,776,631 |
190,619 | Development of i386 technology began in 1982 under the internal name of P3. The tape-out of the 80386 development was finalized on July 1985. The 80386 was introduced as pre-production samples for software development workstations in October 1985. Manufacturing of the chips in significant quantities commenced in June 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15070 | 190,520 |
40,793 | The Type 224 was a big disappointment to Mitchell and his design team, who immediately embarked on a series of "cleaned-up" designs, using their experience with the Schneider Trophy seaplanes as a starting point. This led to the Type 300, with retractable undercarriage and a wingspan reduced by . This design was submit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26027181 | 40,778 |
2,044,974 | Harold Shapero completed the Symphony for Classical Orchestra in B-flat major on March 10, 1947, in Newton Centre, Massachusetts. It is written for an orchestra consisting of piccolo, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets in B-flat, 2 bassoons, contrabassoon, 2 horns in F, 2 trumpets in C, 2 tenor trombones and one bass (sile... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28218636 | 2,043,793 |
141,474 | Tyson spoke about the "love-hate relationship" viewers had with the original series' Spaceship of the Imagination, but confirmed during production that they were developing "vehicles of storytelling". Tyson affirmed that defining elements of the original series, such as the Spaceship of the Imagination and the Cosmic C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35777337 | 141,416 |
1,296,120 | To accommodate this activity, growth cones are believed to pool mRNAs that code for receptors and intracellular signaling proteins involved in cytoskeleton remodeling. In Xenopus retinotectal projection systems, the expression of these proteins has been shown to be influenced by guidance cues and the subsequent activat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2065100 | 1,295,409 |
1,906,685 | Proximal enteritis usually is managed medically. This includes nasogastric intubation every 1–2 hours to relieve gastric pressure secondary to reflux, which often produces to 2–10 L, as well as aggressive fluid support to maintain hydration and correct electrolyte imbalances. Maintaining hydration in these patients can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43280017 | 1,905,589 |
1,106,559 | With the landing of "Discovery" after the STS-131 mission, "Leonardo" was transferred back to the Space Station Processing Facility at Kennedy Space Center. "Leonardo" began receiving modifications and reconfigurations immediately to convert it for permanent attachment to the space station and to facilitate on-orbit ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5829815 | 1,105,995 |
2,167,799 | Shea graduated from Portsmouth High School (New Hampshire) in 1954 and was the top student in her high school math and physics classes. In college, she monitored cosmic rays in New Hampshire and was one of three women who entered the College of Technology at the University of New Hampshire. On the first day of an engin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68477170 | 2,166,562 |
1,344,630 | This essentially involves creating floating buildings inspired by the buoyancy of icebergs and the shapes of various organisms. In particular, its internal structure will be based on the shape of beehives and micropal-radiolares in order to house different residential and office spaces. Its proposed design allows for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10582830 | 1,343,892 |
1,448,290 | In 2015, new exact explanation for the original Bohm's experiment is reported, in which the cross-field diffusion measured at Bohm's experiment and Simon's experiment were explained by the combination of the ion gyro-center shift and the short circuit effect. The ion gyro-center shift occurs when an ion collides with a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2231692 | 1,447,474 |
62,527 | IEEE 802.11ay is a standard that is being developed, also called EDMG: Enhanced Directional MultiGigabit PHY. It is an amendment that defines a new physical layer for 802.11 networks to operate in the 60 GHz millimeter wave spectrum. It will be an extension of the existing 11ad, aimed to extend the throughput, range, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14739 | 62,502 |
1,271,430 | Exam for doctoral program is subject and/or department specific. For doctoral studies, normally the PI has sufficient funding to support the student, but in its absence a fellowship via the National Eligibility Test conducted by the University Grants Commission or such student support schemes makes the applicant's case... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7679702 | 1,270,739 |
64,456 | Gyarmati shows that his definition of "the heat flow vector" is strictly speaking a definition of flow of internal energy, not specifically of heat, and so it turns out that his use here of the word heat is contrary to the strict thermodynamic definition of heat, though it is more or less compatible with historical cus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166404 | 64,431 |
4,434 | To give the astronauts practice piloting the LM on its descent, NASA commissioned Bell Aircraft to build two Lunar Landing Research Vehicles (LLRV), later augmented with three Lunar Landing Training Vehicles (LLTV). Nicknamed the "Flying Bedsteads", they simulated the Moon's one-sixth gravity using a turbofan engine to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21247 | 4,432 |
1,447,461 | Pumpable ice technologies can be recommended for cleaning (lightening) sediments in waste waters. In this case, a method including freezing and further melting with subsequent separation of the liquid and solid phases is used. This method leads to a variation in the physical-chemical structure of sediments and is reali... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25087021 | 1,446,645 |
832,976 | Echocardiography is a safe and non-invasive method that can be used to assess the structural and functional disease of the heart. Amyloidosis presents with ventricle and valvular thickening, biatrial enlargement, restrictive filling pattern, with normal to mildly reduced systolic function and decreased diastolic fillin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8090452 | 832,527 |
1,701,967 | The role of the ASIC is to sense reduced levels of extracellular pH and result in a response or signal from the neuron. The ligand that binds to the activation site has long been thought to be exclusively protons; however, recent studies have shown that ASIC4 and ASIC1 can be activated at normal pH levels, indicating o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25327696 | 1,701,012 |
585,509 | In May 2014, 5th Marine Regiment was named the Headquarters Element of a Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force (SP-MAGTF). The SP-MAGTF will act as CENTCOM's crisis response unit with Colonel Jason Bohm commanding it. It will also prove CENTCOM's ability to support theater security cooperation events such as exe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2936492 | 585,209 |
895,644 | The original VU meter is a passive electromechanical device, namely a 200 µA DC d'Arsonval movement ammeter fed from a full-wave copper-oxide rectifier mounted within the meter case. The mass of the needle causes a relatively slow response, which in effect integrates or smooths the signal, with a rise time of 300 ms. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1100733 | 895,173 |
1,110,781 | The Van de Graaff generator is a simple mechanical device. Small Van de Graaff generators are built by hobbyists and scientific apparatus companies and are used to demonstrate the effects of high DC potentials. Even small hobby machines produce impressive sparks several centimeters long. The largest air-insulated Van d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158426 | 1,110,215 |
1,049,081 | Nineteen stone inscriptions survive commemorating the building of new roads and bridges by the Eastern Han government. Archaeological excavations at Chang'an show that wooden bridges were built over the defensive moat and led to the gatehouses. Roadways also needed periodic repairs; in 63 AD the route leading from the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21423531 | 1,048,536 |
118,108 | In 1918 Baby Dodds, playing on riverboats with Louis Armstrong on the Mississippi, modified the military marching setup, experimenting with playing the drum rims instead of woodblocks, hitting cymbals with sticks (1919) (which was not yet common), and adding a side cymbal above the bass drum (what became known as the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9079 | 118,063 |
86,119 | The epigenetic alteration of methylation after a new memory is established creates a different pool of nuclear mRNAs. As reviewed by Bernstein, the epigenetically determined new mix of nuclear mRNAs are often packaged into neuronal granules, or messenger RNP, consisting of mRNA, small and large ribosomal subunits, tran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49033 | 86,085 |
616,955 | For example, whilst the location of a fixed point on some curved line may be given by a set of numbers whose values depend on how the curve is parametrized, the length (appropriately defined) of the curve between "two" such fixed points will be independent of the particular choice of parametrization (in this case: the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453198 | 616,641 |
241,088 | The character's role in the animated adaptations has also been praised. According to AnimeNation "the viewer wants to know what happened to make Guts appear as he does in the first episode". Carlo Ross of THEM Anime Reviews stated that, despite initial mixed feelings about the handling of dark characters, Guts comes ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69458202 | 240,968 |
1,123,723 | Florida is tied with North Dakota as having the fewest earthquakes of any US state. Because Florida is not located near any tectonic plate boundaries, earthquakes are very rare, but not totally unknown. In January 1879, a shock occurred near St. Augustine. There were reports of heavy shaking that knocked plaster from w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31383416 | 1,123,149 |
1,366,697 | Though the focus in CSCL is on individuals collaborating with their peers, teachers still have a vital role in facilitating learning. Most obviously, the instructor must introduce the CSCL activity in a thoughtful way that contributes to an overarching design plan for the course. The design should clearly define the le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4548948 | 1,365,941 |
1,678,645 | The structure of LLOV virions has not yet been described. Like all other filoviruses, LLOV virions are expected to be filamentous particles that may appear in the shape of a shepherd's crook or in the shape of a "U" or a "6", and they may be coiled, toroid, or branched. Their diameter is expected to be 80 nm in width, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33017626 | 1,677,702 |
29,930 | A seemingly unrelated construction is the -function of number theory. This object belongs to a special class of functions called modular functions, whose graphs form a certain kind of repeating pattern. Although this function appears in a branch of mathematics that seems very different from the theory of finite groups,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28305 | 29,920 |
390,875 | The "akousmatikoi" believed that humans had to act in appropriate ways. The "Akousmata" (translated as "oral saying") was the collection of all the sayings of Pythagoras as divine dogma. The tradition of the "akousmatikoi" resisted any reinterpretation or philosophical evolution of Pythagoras' teachings. Individuals wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=291170 | 390,680 |
195,806 | In 1954, UCR's founding class adopted the name "Highlanders", reflecting the campus' high altitude. After the student body passed a referendum to move to Division I competition in 1998, the bear mascot, formerly called "Scotty", was professionally redesigned to look more ferocious. The new mascot featured a half-blue f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230311 | 195,706 |
11,823 | Inside the darkened spacecraft, the temperature dropped as low as . Lovell considered having the crew don their spacesuits, but decided this would be too hot. Instead, Lovell and Haise wore their lunar EVA boots and Swigert put on an extra coverall. All three astronauts were cold, especially Swigert, who had got his fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1770 | 11,818 |
1,338,466 | Some AC/DC equipment was designed to be switchable to be able to operate off either 110 V AC (possibly with a voltage doubler) or 220–240 V AC or DC. Television receivers were produced which could run off 240 V AC or DC. The voltage was not high enough to power some circuits, so energy was recovered during the flyback ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19064311 | 1,337,733 |
1,181,530 | The production of Synthia is an effort in synthetic biology at the J. Craig Venter Institute by a team of approximately 20 scientists headed by Nobel laureate Hamilton Smith and including DNA researcher Craig Venter and microbiologist Clyde A. Hutchison III. The overall goal is to reduce a living organism to its essent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13590511 | 1,180,906 |
1,862,322 | It is possible to estimate the amount of saturation that a sequence might have undergone by estimating the substitution rate of a genetic sequence and how much time has passed since divergence. Divergence rates are estimated from a variety of sources including ancestral DNA, fossil records and biographical events. This... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62012917 | 1,861,253 |
439,275 | The decarboxylation of oxalosuccinate (below center) is a key step in the formation of alpha-ketoglutarate. In this reaction, the lone pair on the adjacent Tyrosine hydroxyl abstracts the proton off the carboxyl group. This carboxyl group is also referred to as the beta subunit in the isocitrate molecule. The deprotona... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1232957 | 439,061 |
62,093 | In April 1940, "Popular Science" showed an example of a radar unit using the Watson-Watt patent in an article on air defence. Also, in late 1941 "Popular Mechanics" had an article in which a U.S. scientist speculated about the British early warning system on the English east coast and came close to what it was and how ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25676 | 62,068 |
1,469,834 | The paradox of the plankton was originally described in 1961 by G. Evelyn Hutchinson, who proposed that the paradox could be resolved by factors such as vertical gradients of light or turbulence, symbiosis or commensalism, differential predation, or constantly changing environmental conditions. This was supported by la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11396416 | 1,469,009 |
997,536 | Classification capabilities of spiking networks trained according to unsupervised learning methods have been tested on the common benchmark datasets, such as, Iris, Wisconsin Breast Cancer or Statlog Landsat dataset. Various approaches to information encoding and network design have been used. For example, a 2-layer fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10159567 | 997,018 |
225,607 | For the past decade, the chemical and physical properties of fullerenes have been a hot topic in the field of research and development, and are likely to continue to be for a long time. In April 2003, fullerenes were under study for potential medicinal use: binding specific antibiotics to the structure of resistant bac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=868108 | 225,491 |
196,603 | Fabry–Pérot thin-film etalons are used in narrow bandpass filters capable of selecting a single spectral line for imaging; for example, the H-alpha line or the Ca-K line of the Sun or stars. Fig. 10 shows an Extreme ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (EIT) image of the Sun at 195 Ångströms (19.5 nm), corresponding to a spec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166689 | 196,503 |
621,800 | Another settlement was Lerna in the Argolid region, which was perhaps the most important and wealthiest of Early Helladic sites. The settlement has a monumental building known as the House of the Tiles, a "corridor house", notable for several architectural features that were advanced for its time, such as its roof bein... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1748869 | 621,468 |
459,971 | Note that formula_2 and formula_1 are in units of radians in this computation. This iteration is repeated until desired accuracy is obtained (e.g. when formula_77 < desired accuracy). For most elliptical orbits an initial value of formula_78 is sufficient. For orbits with formula_79, an initial value of formula_80 shou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32172638 | 459,745 |
428,899 | In 2001, Novazyme was acquired by Genzyme Corporation, then the world's third largest biotechnology company. Crowley, who became senior vice president, was in charge of Genzyme's global Pompe program, the largest R&D effort in the company's history, from September 2001 until December 2002. In January 2003, Megan and Pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16774914 | 428,689 |
232,186 | Based on his order's reasoning and claiming that the Red Army was also operating with extreme brutality, Hoth additionally ordered the 17th Army's soldiers to kill all suspected partisans. He advised subordinate officers to cultivate the growing hatred for Soviet troops among the common German soldiers. Hoth also order... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261665 | 232,067 |
2,044,424 | Lifemapper is building a species diversity map of the world. It is similar to the SETI@Home client, in that it uses a volunteer computing client running primarily on home user's computers to correlate georeferenced biological samples with environmental models of the Earth. It is an experimental GIS, or Geographic Infor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337010 | 2,043,243 |
953,735 | Anomaly detection finds application in many domains including cyber security, medicine, machine vision, statistics, neuroscience, law enforcement and financial fraud to name only a few. Anomalies were initially searched for clear rejection or omission from the data to aid statistical analysis, for example to compute th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8190902 | 953,230 |
349,349 | The Art Deco architectural style (called "Style Moderne" in France), was modern, but it was not modernist; it had many features of modernism, including the use of reinforced concrete, glass, steel, chrome, and it rejected traditional historical models, such as the Beaux-Arts style and Neo-classicism; but, unlike the mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315927 | 349,166 |
117,030 | The term molecular sieve refers to a particular property of these materials, i.e., the ability to selectively sort molecules based primarily on a size exclusion process. This is due to a very regular pore structure of molecular dimensions. The maximum size of the molecular or ionic species that can enter the pores of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=92389 | 116,985 |
2,170,621 | Before the MMS was the standardized space ship system, they began studying how to make a cost effective method of Space exploration. To achieve lower cost space travel, NASA's approached the idea with a production line mentality, to have inherited parts in as many aspects of the rocket as possible to allow fast product... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54053902 | 2,169,383 |
556,472 | By this time, it was becoming obvious that the XP-67 was hampered by a serious lack of power. The engines were only delivering 1,060 hp (790 kW), well short of their promised 1,350 hp (1,007 kW) rating. Company founder Jim McDonnell, frustrated by engine procurement delays and the XI-1430's subpar output, began to camp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2186955 | 556,183 |
1,569,261 | Buckeye rot of tomato is caused by three species pathogen "Phytophthora": "P. nicotianae var. parasitica", "P. capsici", and "P. drechsleri". It is a fungus that thrives in warm, wet conditions and lives in the soil. It is characterized by a bull’s eye pattern of dark brown rotting on the tomato fruit, and affects frui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44567553 | 1,568,374 |
375,794 | In August 2012, Exelon stated that economic and market conditions, especially low natural gas prices, made the "construction of new merchant nuclear power plants in competitive markets uneconomical now and for the foreseeable future". In early 2013, UBS noted that some smaller reactors operating in deregulated markets ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4131402 | 375,599 |
1,204,457 | The first yearbooks contained sketches of faculty and seniors, and included recollections, anecdotes, stories, and quotes significant to the student body. Underclassmen were included for the first time with individual portraits in the growing student body in 1948. In 2007, "The Green Bag" released its first full-color ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=713949 | 1,203,812 |
1,807,219 | Neuroscience at UCL has long been a major cross-disciplinary endeavour. Indeed, JZ Young, Professor of Anatomy, 1945–74, discovered and was the first to investigate the squid giant axon. Young's work on squid giant axons was utilized by Andrew Huxley and Alan Hodgkin who in 1963 received the Nobel Prize for their work ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16816355 | 1,806,200 |
231,511 | Liquid–liquid extraction (LLE), also known as solvent extraction and partitioning, is a method to separate compounds or metal complexes, based on their relative solubilities in two different immiscible liquids, usually water (polar) and an organic solvent (non-polar). There is a net transfer of one or more species from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2393984 | 231,392 |
1,767,458 | In early carnivals Queensland only made rare appearances. It broke its 20-game carnival losing streak in 1933 when it defeated the Australian Capital Territory. This was followed up by another win against the ACT in 1947 and 1950. Queensland achieved a breakthrough when it defeated New South Wales for the first time in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3362955 | 1,766,464 |
706,503 | The best treatment is to avoid the provoking allergen, as chronic exposure can cause permanent damage and acute disease is often self-limiting. The identification of the provoking antigen and its location must be ascertained by conducting an exposure assessment. Home cleaning is one method of antigen avoidance. If avoi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2303500 | 706,134 |
1,441,450 | One difference between the classes was the secondary weaponry. While both had lightweight torpedo launchers, the rest was different. The "Charles F. Adams" class had an ASROC launcher, dedicated to anti-submarine warfare tasks, to help counter the growing number of Soviet submarines. The "Impavido"s did not have such s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8582682 | 1,440,640 |
1,318,428 | When a previously stable population undergoes inbreeding, if nothing else changes, natural selection should consist mainly of purging. The joint consequences of inbreeding and purging on fitness vary depending on many factors: the previous history of the population, the rate of increase of inbreeding, the harshness of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40041053 | 1,317,703 |
748,231 | TTM has generally found a greater popularity regarding research on physical activity, due to the increasing problems associated with unhealthy diets and sedentary living, e.g. obesity, cardiovascular problems. A 2011 Cochrane Systematic Review found that there is little evidence to suggest that using the transtheoretic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1906107 | 747,833 |
1,871,681 | While conducting fieldwork in Lebanon for his doctoral dissertation, Hudson taught history at the American Community School in Beirut from 1962-1963. Also while completing his doctoral degree, he served as an instructor at Swarthmore College, from 1963-1964. Upon completing his studies at Yale University, Hudson became... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39756315 | 1,870,604 |
1,730,000 | A lift kit is an aftermarket product package with the parts needed to lift a specific model of vehicle, typically with instructions and customer support. Some kits may have only critical or difficult to obtain parts, needing generic or off the shelf hardware and parts to complete the lift. Some lifts need only a few pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3066723 | 1,729,025 |
280,167 | Kamen has won numerous awards. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1997 for inventing and commercializing biomedical devices and fluid measurement and control systems, and for popularizing engineering among young people. In 1999 he was awarded the 5th Annual Heinz Award in Technology, the Economy a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9133 | 280,016 |
564,631 | In general, resistance to one drug within a class means resistance to all drugs within that class, but a notable exception is rifabutin: Rifampicin-resistance does not always mean rifabutin-resistance, and the laboratory should be asked to test for it. It is possible to use only one drug within each drug class. If it i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11321017 | 564,341 |
370,518 | Among the challenges posed by extreme conditions on Mars that "Ingenuity" engineers and programmers worked to overcome, inertial navigation ranked first. "Ingenuity" needs to show the ability to accurately follow the track it has already "mapped" on previously collected NAV frame sets and land at the takeoff point. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56300556 | 370,324 |
1,171,792 | Polyvinyl siloxane (PVS), also called poly-vinyl siloxane, vinyl polysiloxane (VPS), or vinylpolysiloxane, is an addition-reaction silicone elastomer (an addition silicone). It is a viscous liquid that cures (solidifies) quickly into a rubber-like solid, taking the shape of whatever surface it was lying against while c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10038696 | 1,171,173 |
1,513,976 | In comparison to tundra, boreal forest has a longer and warmer growing season and supports larger species diversity, an increase in canopy height, vegetation density, and biomass. Boreal conditions can be found across northern North America and Eurasia. The boreal forests in the interior of the continents grow on top o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11180149 | 1,513,125 |
1,146,777 | Newton's theorem of revolving orbits was his first attempt to understand apsidal precession quantitatively. According to this theorem, the addition of a particular type of central force—the inverse-cube force—can produce a rotating orbit; the angular speed is multiplied by a factor "k", whereas the radial motion is lef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12191272 | 1,146,173 |
1,738,200 | Moreover, significant expenses are incurred while the concept of employee participation is introduced into a firm, and productivity may be lost during the process of familiarising staff with its protocols. An increase in such expenses, often considerable in magnitude, can severely and negatively affect a business's pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24613993 | 1,737,223 |
2,120,095 | Regulation of CCR expression is thought to occur primarily at the transcriptional level. In "Arabidopsis thaliana", several of the required transcription factors for CCR expression have actually been identified, including MYB58 and MYB63, both of which are implicated generally in secondary cell wall formation. It has b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14132613 | 2,118,876 |
616,013 | By the end of 2014, over 5,000 Nao robots were in use with educational and research institutions in 70 countries. In 2015, Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group began trialling Nao robots for customer service use in its Japanese bank branches. In July 2015, Nao robots were shown to demonstrate a basic form of self-awareness i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17248078 | 615,699 |
1,233,109 | Pewee 1 was started up three times: for check out on 15 November 1968, for a short duration test on 21 November, and for a full power endurance test on 4 December. The full power test had two holds during which the reactor was run at 503 MW (1.2 MW per fuel element). The average exit gas temperature was , the highest e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23821416 | 1,232,446 |
948,791 | T lymphocytes regulate the growth and differentiation of T cells and certain B cells through the release of secreted protein factors. These factors, which include interleukin 2 (IL2), are secreted by lectin- or antigen-stimulated T cells, and have various physiological effects. IL2 is a lymphokine that induces the prol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=575454 | 948,287 |
706,704 | Feathered spears, often called darts or javelins, were used in medieval and Renaissance Europe, both as ceremonial objects and as weapons. It is possible no examples have survived, presumably due to their fragility or the deterioration of their fletching making them indistinguishable from spears, but they appear in mul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1523748 | 706,335 |
1,810,714 | CiLV-C has short, membrane-bound bacilliform particles, 120 to 130 nm long and 50 to 55 wide; it is found in the endoplasmic reticulum in the cytoplasm of infected cells, and large electron dense viroplasm is observed in the cytoplasm. CiLV-C has a bipartite, positive-sense, single stranded, RNA ((+)ssRNA) genome. Both... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44771144 | 1,809,691 |
1,163,420 | Operando instruments "(in situ cells)" must ideally allow for spectroscopic measurement under optimal reaction conditions. Most industrial catalysis reactions require excessive pressure and temperature conditions which subsequently degrades the quality of the spectra by lowering the resolution of signals. Currently man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36929631 | 1,162,803 |
214,547 | Assume that the secret formula_4 can be represented as an element formula_23 of a finite field formula_24 (where formula_25 is larger than the number of shares being generated). Randomly choose formula_12 elements, formula_27, from formula_24 and construct the polynomial formula_29. Compute any formula_30 points out on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10948177 | 214,439 |
1,205,005 | One of the most important applications of LOFAR will be to carry out large-sky surveys. Such surveys are well suited to the characteristics of LOFAR and have been designated as one of the key projects that have driven LOFAR since its inception. Such deep LOFAR surveys of the accessible sky at several frequencies will p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1524766 | 1,204,360 |
363,816 | The Los Angeles Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) built a full-scale replica of the 1903 "Wright Flyer" between 1979 and 1993 using plans from the original "Wright Flyer" published by the Smithsonian Institution in 1950. Constructed in advance of the 100th anniversary of the Wrigh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1045608 | 363,626 |
336,536 | By 25 April 2017, six trailers carrying the THAAD radar, interceptor launchers, communications, and support equipment entered the Seongju site. On 30 April 2017, it was reported that South Korea would bear the cost of the land and facilities for THAAD, while the US will pay for operating it. On 2 May 2017, Moon Sang-gy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1034696 | 336,357 |
459,725 | "Divalent" (or "bivalent") single-chain variable fragments (di-scFvs, bi-scFvs) can be engineered by linking two scFvs. This can be done by producing a single peptide chain with two V and two V regions, yielding "tandem scFvs". Another possibility is the creation of scFvs with linker peptides that are too short for the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1624274 | 459,500 |
856,460 | The semiarid climate of Wyoming still manages to support about a dozen small glaciers within Grand Teton National Park, which all show evidence of retreat over the past 50 years. Schoolroom Glacier is located slightly southwest of Grand Teton is one of the more easily reached glaciers in the park and it is expected to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4804597 | 856,005 |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.