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2,152,853 | In June 2021, Hayman was named as one of 26 international experts selected from a group of 700 applicants to be part of the One Health High Level Expert Panel (OHHLEP), an international collaboration established following a meeting at the Paris Peace Forum in November 2020. This panel acknowledged that COVID-19 had sho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70083782 | 2,151,622 |
2,110,397 | Vehicle teleoperation has been around for many years. Early adaptations of vehicle teleoperations were robotic vehicles that were controlled continuously by human operators. Many of these systems were operated with line-of-sight RF communications and are now regarded as toys for children. Recent developments in the are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33882236 | 2,109,183 |
2,230,988 | After the closure of the Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre in 2006, it became integrated with the University of Melbourne's Library and changed its name to the eScholarship Research Centre (ESRC), with a much better financial allocation offer. Shortly after the establishment of ESRC, the Global Financia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11681272 | 2,229,722 |
60,364 | Dassault participated in a competition to replace the Brazilian Air Force's aging Mirage IIIEBR/DBRs with a Brazilian-specific version of the Mirage 2000-9 that would have been developed in collaboration with Embraer designated Mirage 2000BR. However, due to Brazilian fiscal problems, the competition dragged on for yea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=381535 | 60,339 |
202,013 | While working with Marie to extract pure substances from ores, an undertaking that really required industrial resources but that they achieved in relatively primitive conditions, Pierre himself concentrated on the physical study (including luminous and chemical effects) of the new radiations. Through the action of magn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1416046 | 201,910 |
1,370,847 | An assertion held at the time was that there was greater variability among men while women were less variable. Hollingworth referred to this variability hypothesis as "armchair dogma" which she characterized as the "literature of opinion". This differs, she maintained, from the "literature of fact" which has been caref... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14276414 | 1,370,091 |
104,247 | Limitations to the widespread use of PET arise from the high costs of cyclotrons needed to produce the short-lived radionuclides for PET scanning and the need for specially adapted on-site chemical synthesis apparatus to produce the radiopharmaceuticals after radioisotope preparation. Organic radiotracer molecules that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24032 | 104,202 |
4,098 | Tourists have been visiting Antarctica since 1957. Tourism is subject to the provisions of the Antarctic Treaty and Environmental Protocol; the self-regulatory body for the industry is the International Association of Antarctica Tour Operators. Tourists arrive by small or medium ship at specific scenic locations with a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18959138 | 4,096 |
926,977 | John Law (pronounced in French in the traditional approximation of "Laws", the colloquial Scottish form of the name; 21 April 1671 – 21 March 1729) was a Scottish economist who distinguished money, a means of exchange, from national wealth dependent on trade. He served as Controller General of Finances under the Duke o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152384 | 926,490 |
1,188,679 | The branch and bound algorithm is a general method used to increase the efficiency of searches for near-optimal solutions of NP-hard problems first applied to phylogenetics in the early 1980s. Branch and bound is particularly well suited to phylogenetic tree construction because it inherently requires dividing a proble... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3986130 | 1,188,047 |
1,990,032 | Photolithography involves exposing a light source to a photoresist-coated silicon wafer; a mask with the desired pattern is place between the light source and the wafer, thereby selectively allowing light to filter through and create the pattern on the photoresist. Further development of the wafer brings out the patter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11088829 | 1,988,889 |
74,074 | There are several potential physiologic mechanisms for hypoxemia, but in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) mismatching is most common, with or without alveolar hypoventilation, as indicated by arterial carbon dioxide concentration. Hypoxemia caused by V/Q mismatchin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13292 | 74,047 |
1,146,004 | The overall interlinked light-use design/operate philosophy was formalised in 1907 when, under chairman George Ernest Paget and Traffic Inspector John Follows, the Midland introduced a new traffic management system whereby every locomotive type was assigned a single standardised workload (in contrast to the system used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564296 | 1,145,402 |
169,349 | In October 1984, while preparing a major expansion of its US dealer network, Acorn claimed sales of 85 per cent of the computers in British schools, and delivery of 40,000 machines per month. That December, Acorn stated its intention to become the market leader in US educational computing. "The New York Times" consider... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18950885 | 169,259 |
23,525 | In addition to the tech campus and medical center, Cornell maintains local offices in New York City for some of its service programs. The Cornell Urban Scholars Program encourages students to pursue public service careers, arranging assignments with organizations working with New York City's poorest children, families,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 | 23,516 |
173,417 | Following World War II, the Soviet Union prioritized developing a long-range strategic bomber capable of delivering atomic weapons. Their first aircraft was the Tupolev Tu-4, a reverse-engineered version of the American B-29 Superfortress. The Tu-4 was only ever a stop-gap solution, as unlike the American strategic bom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=820638 | 173,326 |
1,287,608 | The ancestor of Rhizophoraceae experienced two whole genome duplication events. The first duplication event corresponds to the triplication shared among angiosperms. The second duplication event was dated to ~74.6 MYA. Around 65 MYA, the planet underwent the Cretaceous–Tertiary mass extinction. Then around 56.4 MYA, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=350922 | 1,286,907 |
1,700,836 | Preventive conservation, also known as collections care or risk management, encompasses all actions taken to prolong the life of an object." and is an important element of museum policy. Members of the museum profession are entrusted to create and maintain a protective environment for the collections in their care. A g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31121305 | 1,699,882 |
2,091,606 | In June 2006 Kalyuzhaya et al. published a paper (“Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization-Flow Cytometry-Cell Sorting-Based Method for Separation and Enrichment of Type I and Type II Methanotroph Populations”) detailing more precise methods for separating organisms of interests within a natural sample. Their experiment foc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11765546 | 2,090,401 |
183,741 | Corpuscularianism is similar to atomism, except that where atoms were supposed to be indivisible, corpuscles could in principle be divided. In this manner, for example, it was theorized that mercury could penetrate into metals and modify their inner structure, a step on the way towards transmutative production of gold.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5756554 | 183,644 |
1,823,835 | His second book, "Modern Nationalism" (Fontana 1994) applies this cultural approach to the analysis of contemporary politics, notably, the relationship of nationalism to the collapse of communism, the religious revival and contentions in multicultural polities. More recently, his "Nations as Zones of Conflict" (Sage 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24468757 | 1,822,797 |
627,115 | To fill AAWS-H, Vought developed a slightly larger extended-range version of HVM known as Kinetic Energy Missile (KEM), while their partner, Texas Instruments, provided a new FLIR targeting system that they were already working on as a TOW upgrade. Several vehicles were studied to mount the system, including the front-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1426046 | 626,782 |
788,895 | All cells must finish DNA replication before they can proceed for cell division. Media conditions that support fast growth in bacteria also couples with shorter inter-initiation time in them, i.e. the doubling time in fast growing cells is less as compared to the slow growth. In other words, it is possible that in fast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9896434 | 788,471 |
654,400 | Only about 100 life cycles have been resolved and it is suspected that there may be some exclusively terrestrial. The mechanism of infection occurs through valve spores that have many forms, but their main morphology is the same: one or two sporoplasts, which are the real infectious agent, surrounded by a layer of atte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314911 | 654,056 |
88,590 | In a 2011 response to the more modern papers on the hypothesis, Russell Seitz published a comment in "Nature" challenging Alan Robock's claim that there has been no real scientific debate about the "nuclear winter" concept. In 1986 Seitz also contends that many others are reluctant to speak out for fear of being stigma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22171 | 88,555 |
1,428,008 | VANTAs allow the development of novel sensors and/or sensor chips without the need for direct manipulation of individual nanotubes. The aligned nanotube structure further provides a large well-defined surface area and the capacity for modifying the carbon nanotube surface with various transduction materials to effectiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51417988 | 1,427,204 |
395,106 | The tail was bi-lobed, with the lower lobe being supported by the caudal vertebral column, which was "kinked" ventrally to follow the contours of the ventral lobe. Basal species had a rather asymmetric or "heterocercal" tail fin. The asymmetry differed from that of sharks in that the lower lobe was largest, instead of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314101 | 394,911 |
1,325,634 | In common with Explorer 6, Pioneer 5 used the earliest known digital telemetry system used on spacecraft, codenamed "Telebit", which was a tenfold (or 10 dB) improvement in channel efficiency on previous generation "Microlock" analog systems in use since Explorer 1 and the biggest single improvement in signal encoding ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=376851 | 1,324,907 |
1,362,224 | The differential for this class of composites is that they are biodegradable and pollute the environment less which is a concern for many scientists and engineers to minimize the environmental impact of the production of a composite. They are a renewable source, cheap, and in certain cases completely recyclable. One ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7521019 | 1,361,471 |
1,986,972 | The Santa Cruz cypress ("Hesperocyparis abramsiana"; formerly classified as "Cupressus abramsiana") has a geographic range limited to a small section in the Monterey Bay region of California where subsea canyon topography reliably produces summer fog, owing to cold water upwelling. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51421017 | 1,985,830 |
1,187,134 | Quantum Effect Devices (QED), a separate company started by former MIPS employees, designed the "R4600" "Orion", the "R4700" "Orion", the "R4650" and the "R5000". Where the R4000 had pushed clock frequency and sacrificed cache capacity, the QED designs emphasized large caches which could be accessed in just two cycles ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53839062 | 1,186,503 |
1,998,143 | In the wake of the damage wrought by the 1994 Northridge earthquake, the SAC/FEMA project was launched to resolve the issue of poor performance of steel moment-resisting frames due to the fracturing beam-column connections. Within the creative environment of research cooperation, the idea of subjecting a structure to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31594536 | 1,997,000 |
693,649 | Wharton traveled widely and became involved in many industrial enterprises such as mines, factories and railroads. He started several enterprises on the South New Jersey property, including a menhaden fish factory that produced oil and fertilizer, a modern forestry planting operation, and cranberry and sugar beet farms... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=383305 | 693,286 |
542,494 | None of these strategies currently provide a method of protection that would be known to be sufficient while conforming to likely limitations on the mass of the payload at present (around $10,000/kg) launch prices. Scientists such as University of Chicago professor emeritus Eugene Parker are not optimistic it can be so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14415787 | 542,214 |
1,553,397 | The physics of the earth's atmosphere includes dramatic events like lightning and the effects of volcanic eruptions, with discontinuities of motion such as noted by Helmholtz (1868). Turbulence is prominent in atmospheric convection. Other discontinuities include the formation of raindrops, hailstones, and snowflakes. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24622609 | 1,552,516 |
469,585 | This technology dates back to ancient times as early as Greek and Roman Republics. Back then, shin guards were viewed as purely protective measures for warriors in battle and were made of bronze or other hard, sturdy materials. The earliest known physical proof of the technology appeared when archaeologist Sir William ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8222194 | 469,349 |
1,156,312 | Biophysical chemists employ various techniques used in physical chemistry to probe the structure of biological systems. These techniques include spectroscopic methods such as nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and other techniques like X-ray diffraction and cryo-electron microscopy. An example of research in biophysical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24568072 | 1,155,702 |
435,230 | Beatrice Benne and Pamela Mang emphasize the importance of the distinction between working with a place rather than working on a place within the regenerative design process. They use an analogy of a gardener to re-define the role of a designer in the building process. "A gardener does not 'make' a garden. Instead, a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14967273 | 435,016 |
1,315,572 | SCC can be used for casting heavily reinforced sections, places where there can be no access to vibrators for compaction and in complex shapes of formwork which may otherwise be impossible to cast, giving a far superior surface than conventional concrete. The relatively high cost of material used in such concrete conti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13387024 | 1,314,847 |
174,177 | Central to AlphaFold is a distance map predictor implemented as a very deep residual neural networks with 220 residual blocks processing a representation of dimensionality 64×64×128 – corresponding to input features calculated from two 64 amino acid fragments. Each residual block has three layers including a 3×3 dilate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59766171 | 174,086 |
733,715 | Currently, infants undergo either the staged reconstructive surgery (Norwood or Sano procedure within a few days of birth, Glenn or "Hemi-Fontan procedure" at 3 to 6 months of age, and the Fontan procedure at 1 1/2 to 5 years of age) or cardiac transplantation. Current expectations are that 70% of those with HLHS may r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1797918 | 733,328 |
1,627,818 | Late in 1927 Sikorsky formed a brief partnership with Consolidated Aircraft to produce the second S-37. Initially designated the S-37-2 and registered X3698 or NX3698 this aircraft had slightly better performance than the first version and was designed as a bomber for the United States Army Air Corps. Later called the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47221838 | 1,626,900 |
1,167,988 | Acquired inactivating mutations in the activation domain of GATA1 are the apparent cause of the transient myeloproliferative disorder that occurs in individuals with Down syndrome. These mutations are frameshifts in exon 2 that result in the failure to make GATA1 protein, continued formation of GATA1-S, and therefore a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4694833 | 1,167,370 |
2,011,243 | (1) Epidemiology Unit, responsible for investigation of epidemic outbreaks, particularity in the areas of HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted diseases, malaria and acute viral outbreaks. The unit provides statistical an epidemiology support to the entire institute. (2) Immunisable Diseases Unit, carries out surveillance and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2046185 | 2,010,090 |
1,184,737 | A recent effort towards advancement in nanosensor technology has employed molecular imprinting, which is a technique used to synthesize polymer matrices that act as a receptor in molecular recognition. Analogous to the enzyme-substrate lock and key model, molecular imprinting uses template molecules with functional mon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=603278 | 1,184,109 |
1,826,415 | Adam Leventhal (born 1979 in the United States) is an American software engineer, and one of the three authors of DTrace, a dynamic tracing facility in Solaris 10 (Sun Microsystems' latest OS) which allows users to observe, debug and tune system behavior in real time. Available to the public since November 2003, DTrace... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15157719 | 1,825,376 |
622,486 | With a high concentration of troops in the New York City area, administration started to become burdensome. In 1921, Franklin Delano Roosevelt was persuaded to head a foundation overseeing the New York borough councils. Dr. George J. Fisher, a YMCA administrator, was recruited as the Deputy Chief Scout Executive. The U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6125637 | 622,154 |
1,383,396 | In 1985 he did a one-year fellowship in Sweden with Lars Leksell, who had invented a device to deliver targeted radiation at brain tumors, called the Gamma Knife. He was astonished and inspired but saw an opportunity to improve it. The Gamma Knife relied on a physical cage to coordinate the location of the subject's he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7650765 | 1,382,629 |
677,469 | Book II of the "Experimenta Nova" is an extended philosophical essay in which von Guericke puts forward a view of the nature of space similar to that later espoused by Newton. He is explicitly critical of the plenist views of Aristotle and of their adoption by his younger contemporary Descartes. A particular and repeat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49828 | 677,116 |
879,297 | Lentiviruses are a subclass of Retroviruses. They are sometimes used as vectors for gene therapy thanks to their ability to integrate into the genome of non-dividing cells, which is the unique feature of Lentiviruses as other Retroviruses can infect only dividing cells. The viral genome in the form of RNA is reverse-tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5398413 | 878,834 |
1,032,957 | The storm curved north-northeastward on September 19, while offshore North Carolina. Esther began to weaken while approaching New England and fell to Category 2 intensity early on September 21. The storm turned eastward on the following day and gradually weakened to a tropical storm. It then executed a large cyclonic l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=760589 | 1,032,421 |
250,571 | 1866 saw the founding of the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain and two years later the world's first aeronautical exhibition was held at the Crystal Palace, London, where John Stringfellow was awarded a £100 prize for the steam engine with the best power-to-weight ratio. In 1848, Stringfellow achieved the first pow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177680 | 250,438 |
157,755 | According to the Savanna-based theory, hominines came down from the tree’s branches and adapted to life on the savanna by walking erect on two feet. The theory suggests that early hominids were forced to adapt to bipedal locomotion on the open savanna after they left the trees. One of the proposed mechanisms was the kn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4210 | 157,683 |
26,932 | The institute's curricular interest is organized into the principal themes of development, security, and governance—with further focuses on globalization, economic uncertainty, security threats, environmental degradation, and poverty. Six Brown undergraduate concentrations are hosted by the Watson Institute: Developmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4157 | 26,922 |
914,019 | Ac is applied in medicine to produce in a reusable generator or can be used alone as an agent for radiation therapy, in particular targeted alpha therapy (TAT). This isotope has a half-life of 10 days, making it much more suitable for radiation therapy than Bi (half-life 46 minutes). Additionally, Ac decays to nontoxic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=899 | 913,540 |
1,196,226 | "Elaphrosaurus" was first described by Janensch as a coelurosaurian. At the time, Coelurosauria was a wastebasket taxon for small theropods. Then, "Elaphrosaurus" was placed in the family Ornithomimidae by Franz Nopcsa in 1928 because of its light frame and the fact that its humerus is straight and slender, with a low ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3540085 | 1,195,586 |
1,939,780 | The University Library of today traces its roots back to the purchase of a chest of documents by the first Rector Marsilius von Inghen in 1388, which was stored in the Heiliggeistkirche, then the University Cathedral. Additional foundations of the library were laid through donations from bishops, chancellors, and early... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17973922 | 1,938,670 |
126,836 | Despite being an invaluable tool in structural biology, protein crystallography carries some inherent problems in its methodology that hinder data interpretation. The crystal lattice, which is formed during the crystallization process, contains numerous units of the purified protein, which are densely and symmetrically... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34151 | 126,784 |
617,462 | England added just 25 more runs for their last two wickets at the start of Day 2, Hilfenhaus trapping Anderson LBW for 0 in the second over of the day (ending his 54 innings sequence without a duck), before dismissing Broad for 37. Shane Watson and Simon Katich took Australia to 66/0 before rain forced lunch to be take... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8708994 | 617,148 |
144,101 | During the war, advanced research for the government was managed at the site by the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory. In 1943, construction of the "Clinton Laboratories" was completed, later renamed to "Oak Ridge National Laboratory". The site was chosen for the X-10 Graphite Reactor, used to produce pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38147 | 144,043 |
917,990 | The bioelectric recognition assay (BERA) is a novel method for determination of various chemical and biological molecules by measuring changes in the membrane potential of cells immobilized in a gel matrix. Apart from the increased stability of the electrode-cell interface, immobilization preserves the viability and ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=156940 | 917,507 |
907,182 | In 1937, Dorothy Crowfoot married Thomas Lionel Hodgkin, an historian's son, who was then teaching an adult-education class in mining and industrial communities in the north of England after he resigned from the Colonial Office. He was an intermittent member of the Communist Party and later wrote several major works on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=105825 | 906,704 |
454,375 | Significant challenges for Mars habitats are maintaining an artificial environment and shielding from intense solar radiation. Humans require a pressurized environment at all times and protection from the toxic Martian atmosphere. Connecting habitats is useful, as moving between separate structures requires a pressure ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42302371 | 454,153 |
267,401 | Nottingham is a research-led institution, and two academics connected with the university were awarded Nobel Prizes in 2003. Clive Granger was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics. Much of the work on Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) was carried out at Nottingham, work for which Sir Peter Mansfield received the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25086027 | 267,257 |
908,951 | After Fouchier offered an article describing this work to the leading academic journal "Science", the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) recommended against publication of the full details of the study, and the one submitted to Nature by Yoshihiro Kawaoka of the University of Wisconsin describin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1019908 | 908,472 |
1,909,452 | Throughout 1950 to 1970, there was a very sharp decline in the species population. The population was stable until a drought in 1999 which made it near-extinct. The remaining individuals were taken and bred in captivity. In 2006, these fish were re-introduced to 12 rehabilitated sites in its previous range. Since then,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12183401 | 1,908,354 |
835,773 | The first thought experiment Dennett uses to demonstrate that qualia lacks the listed necessary properties for it to exist involves inverted qualia. The inverted qualia case concerns two people who could have different qualia and yet have all the same external physical behavior. But now the qualia supporter might then ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=350945 | 835,324 |
1,298,308 | Another approach is to use an electron beam to melt welding wire onto a surface to build up a part. This is similar to the common 3D printing process of fused deposition modeling, but with metal, rather than plastics. With this process, an electron-beam gun provides the energy source used for melting metallic feedstock... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9318647 | 1,297,595 |
165,853 | Surface EMG is used in a number of settings; for example, in the physiotherapy clinic, muscle activation is monitored using surface EMG and patients have an auditory or visual stimulus to help them know when they are activating the muscle (biofeedback). A review of the literature on surface EMG published in 2008, concl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=997173 | 165,768 |
1,806,562 | Until 1975, no Canadian museum had its own collection of Burgess Shale fossils. With the work of the GSC and its associates, the shale was rising to prominence, and in 1975 the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) obtained permission from the National Parks authority, Parks Canada, to collect fossils from talus material in order... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23963520 | 1,805,544 |
585,932 | A review of the Constellation program in 2009 by the new Augustine Commission prompted by the new Obama administration had found that five years in, the service module development program was already running four years behind its 2020 lunar target and was woefully underfunded. The only element worth continuing was the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38310558 | 585,632 |
518,786 | "Branchiostoma lanceolatum" has an elongated body, flattened laterally and pointed at both ends. A stiffening rod of tightly packed cells, the notochord, extends the whole length of the body. Unlike vertebrates, the notochord persists in the adult, in form of simple dorsal neural tube slightly thickened in the anterior... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33759227 | 518,517 |
843,872 | George McDonald Church (born August 28, 1954) is an American geneticist, molecular engineer, chemist, and a serial entrepreneur who is widely regarded as the "Founding Father of Genomics", and a pioneer in personal genomics and synthetic biology. He is the Robert Winthrop Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3813728 | 843,422 |
1,553,941 | Bohr argued that it was the uranium-235 isotope that was responsible for fission. Dunning realised that if this was the case, then an atomic bomb would be possible. His thoughts turned to devising a process for uranium enrichment, and by 1940 he was investigating gaseous diffusion, which he felt appeared to be more eff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=880346 | 1,553,060 |
679,030 | From the early 20th century until after World War II, the utility roadster constituted most adult bicycles sold in the United Kingdom and in many parts of the British Empire. In Britain, the roadster declined noticeably in popularity during the early 1970s, as a boom in recreational cycling caused manufacturers to conc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=910509 | 678,676 |
2,171,825 | Vaa3D was created in 2007 to tackle the large-scale brain mapping project at Janelia Farm of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The initial goal was to quickly visualize any of the tens of thousands of large 3D laser scanning microscopy image stacks of fruit fly brains, each with a few gigabytes in volume. Low level ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43981985 | 2,170,586 |
1,877,562 | By 1939, in the last dire years of the Depression, Neibaur was destitute. He received a small pension from his Medal of Honor, and was a clerk for Works Progress Administration (WPA). He was unable to feed and care for his family on his low income. US Senator William Borah of Idaho attempted to pass a law in the US Con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9712163 | 1,876,484 |
992,848 | In June 1972, Bushnell and Dabney quit Nutting Associates after Bushnell was unable to convince Nutting to give him a 33 percent stake in the company, and moved to incorporate Syzygy Engineering; they instead named it Atari due to another company with a similar name. Bushnell later stated that he was encouraged by the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292879 | 992,331 |
729 | Hawking began his university education at University College, Oxford, in October 1959 at the age of 17. For the first eighteen months, he was bored and lonelyhe found the academic work "ridiculously easy". His physics tutor, Robert Berman, later said, "It was only necessary for him to know that something could be done,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19376148 | 729 |
1,009,745 | In Act II, Andreas has completed his masterpiece and has become a famous illuminator, and returns to pay his respects to the late Brother Piero, whom he saw as a friend and mentor, bringing his apprentice Caspar whom he treats as a surrogate son. He struggles with depression, having pursued his passion but finding the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70997952 | 1,009,224 |
886,683 | On 16 June 1873, the university was founded in the centre of Christchurch as Canterbury College, the first constituent college of the University of New Zealand and was funded by the then Canterbury Provincial Council. It became the second institution in New Zealand providing tertiary-level education (following the Univ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32242 | 886,219 |
1,808,800 | From about 1895 Lee attended Karl Pearson's statistics lectures at University College London and became interested in his application of statistical methods to evolutionary biology. Under his direction she studied for an advanced degree. Her research topic was an investigation of variation in cranial capacity in humans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39502937 | 1,807,779 |
2,081,981 | While FUS has many potential advantages for intracranial drug delivery, there are several limitations. Heterogeneity in the acoustic properties of the skull leads to distortion and attenuation of the ultrasound. Intracranial structures such as gray and white matter and dense vasculature also vary between patients, so e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70657482 | 2,080,781 |
327,741 | The book was widely translated in Darwin's lifetime, but problems arose with translating concepts and metaphors, and some translations were biased by the translator's own agenda. Darwin distributed presentation copies in France and Germany, hoping that suitable applicants would come forward, as translators were expecte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29932 | 327,567 |
1,484,487 | Despite Charles Darwin's completion of his theory of biological evolution in the 19th century, the modern logical framework for evolutionary theories of ageing wouldn't emerge until almost a century later. Though August Weismann did propose his theory of programmed death, it was met with criticism and never gained main... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60885357 | 1,483,650 |
2,144,704 | Robert Murray McKay is a paleoceanographer who specialises in sedimentology, stratigraphy and palaeoclimatology, specifically gathering geological evidence to study how marine-based portions of the Antarctic ice sheet behave in response to abrupt climate and oceanic change. He has been involved in examination of marine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69498152 | 2,143,473 |
156,843 | During this part of the approach, the processor would normally be almost 85% loaded. The extra 6,400 cycle steals per second added the equivalent of 13% load, leaving just enough time for all scheduled tasks to run to completion. Five minutes into the descent, Buzz Aldrin gave the computer the command "1668", which ins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188887 | 156,771 |
985,028 | Not all nuclear technology went into developing reactors, however. While designing a scanner for reactor fuel elements in 1957, Argonne physicist William Nelson Beck put his own arm inside the scanner and obtained one of the first ultrasound images of the human body. Remote manipulators designed to handle radioactive m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160773 | 984,514 |
1,633,460 | Electrochemotherapy is a type of chemotherapy that allows delivery of non-permeant drugs to the cell interior. It is based on the local application of short and intense electric pulses that transiently permeabilize the cell membrane, thus allowing transport of molecules otherwise not permitted by the membrane. Applicat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15081764 | 1,632,537 |
922,713 | Biomimetics is a field that aims to produce materials and systems that replicate those present in nature. In the context of tissue engineering, this is a common approach used by engineers to create materials for these applications that are comparable to native tissues in terms of their structure, properties, and biocom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=307065 | 922,227 |
60,712 | It was in 18th-century England that the term 'classical' "first came to stand for a particular canon of works in performance." London had developed a prominent public concert music scene, unprecedented and unmatched by other European cities. The royal court had gradually lost its monopoly on music, in large part from i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6668778 | 60,687 |
859,914 | Although based on simple principles, Newcomen's engine was rather complex and showed signs of incremental development, problems being empirically addressed as they arose. It consisted of a boiler A, usually a haystack boiler, situated directly below the cylinder. This produced large quantities of very low pressure stea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=165062 | 859,456 |
224,667 | Peptides based hydrogels possess exceptional biocompatibility and biodegradability qualities, giving rise to their wide use of applications, particularly in biomedicine; as such, their physical properties can be fine-tuned in order to maximise their use. Methods to do this are: modulation of the amino acid sequence, pH... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=844290 | 224,553 |
1,510,313 | Toxicants may also cause endocrine disruption through interacting with the estrogen receptor. This mechanism has been well-studied with PCBs. These chemicals have been used as coolants and lubricants in transformers and other electrical equipment due to their insulating properties. A purely anthropogenic substance, PCB... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39515585 | 1,509,463 |
1,507,498 | Semilandmarks, also called sliding landmarks, are used when the location of a landmark along a curvature might not be identifiable or repeatable. Semilandmarks were created in order to take landmark based geometric morphometrics to the next step by capturing the shape of difficult areas such as smooth curves and surfac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45580833 | 1,506,652 |
882,717 | Strepsiptera were once believed to be the sister group to the beetle families Meloidae and Ripiphoridae, which have similar parasitic development and forewing reduction. Early molecular research suggested their inclusion as a sister group to the flies, in a clade called Halteria, which have one pair of the wings modifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45598 | 882,253 |
457,876 | In 1953, the United States Air Force became interested in the L-1249A project. Two R7V-1 aircraft were again taken off the production lines in 1955 and converted to L-1249A standards. These aircraft, designated YC-121F, were identical to the R7V-2s in service with the Navy. The YC-121F was able to carry a crew of four ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33350772 | 457,653 |
1,979,419 | The first molecular phylogenetic studies involving the Verrucariaceae, published between 2001 and 2006, were used to show the higher-level relationships in the Eurotiomycetes. This research showed that Verrucariales has a sister relationship to the Chaetothyriales, an order of non-lichenised fungi. In 2007 and 2009 pub... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21348884 | 1,978,281 |
1,466,300 | Physiology "is the scientific study of functions and mechanisms in a living system". More in-depth studies of physiology is between human and exercise physiology. Human Physiology is more anatomical structures, exercise physiology is physical exercise conditions and treatments. Kinesiology "identifies stress in our mus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1742971 | 1,465,477 |
388,704 | Much of the innovation within NMR spectroscopy has been within the field of protein NMR spectroscopy, an important technique in structural biology. A common goal of these investigations is to obtain high resolution 3-dimensional structures of the protein, similar to what can be achieved by X-ray crystallography. In con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1908527 | 388,509 |
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