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1,514,722 | It has long been claimed that schizophrenia patients exhibit a particular peculiar body odor, and it has been postulated the odor may be caused by underlying metabolic abnormalities associated with the condition, among other factors. Initial studies identified the causal component as TMHA, however, subsequent studies f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29278635 | 1,513,871 |
1,303,242 | Specification F.18/40, for a specialist night fighter, with nose- and turret-mounted guns, led to Gloster submitting a design based on the F.9/37, fitted with Rolls-Royce Merlin engines, a dorsal four-gun turret and Airborne Interception (AI) radar. This received support from the Air Staff who saw it as superior to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9519578 | 1,302,526 |
464,062 | Facebook's UAV-based Aquila system expects to use laser communication technology to provide Internet communication among UAVs, and also between UAVs and ground stations that in turn will connect to rural areas. The Aquila UAV is a carbon fiber, solar-powered flying wing design about the size of a passenger jet. Aquila'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19281445 | 463,832 |
70,676 | The category "dwarf planet" arose from a conflict between dynamical and geophysical ideas of what a useful conception of a planet would be. In terms of the dynamics of the Solar System, the major distinction is between bodies that gravitationally dominate their neighbourhood (Mercury through Neptune) and those which do... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6395779 | 70,649 |
1,668,954 | LDL is not the only ligand for T-cadherin. High-molecular weight (HMW) complexes of adiponectin were suggested to be a specific ligand for T-cadherin. Adiponectin (adipocyte complement-related protein of 30 kDa) is a cytokine produced by adipose tissue and its deficiency is associated with metabolic syndrome, obesity, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12384164 | 1,668,014 |
96,382 | Vector spaces stem from affine geometry, via the introduction of coordinates in the plane or three-dimensional space. Around 1636, French mathematicians René Descartes and Pierre de Fermat founded analytic geometry by identifying solutions to an equation of two variables with points on a plane curve. To achieve geometr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32370 | 96,341 |
1,733,450 | The C/80 was fairly conventional for its time and most nations had similar guns such as its Russian cousin the 42-line fortress and siege gun Pattern of 1877 or its French rival the Canon de 120 mm modèle 1878. Like many of its contemporaries, the C/80 had a tall and narrow box trail carriage built from bolted iron pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58717728 | 1,732,473 |
212,528 | Several assumptions were made in the formulation of these equations: First, an individual in the population must be considered as having an equal probability as every other individual of contracting the disease with a rate of formula_123 and an equal fraction formula_124 of people that an individual makes contact with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=958031 | 212,420 |
1,673,863 | A simple and cheap method to join aluminium is using mechanical fasteners (i.e. bolts and nuts). Normally a hole is drilled into the base material and a fastener is placed inside. This type of joiner requires some type of overlapping material for a joint to be made. Aluminium rivets or bolts and nuts can be used; howev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57020348 | 1,672,921 |
2,091,488 | Specific characteristics of "M. flagellatus" such as its high coefficient of conversion of oxidizers (methanol) to its own biomass allows for practical applications such as inexpensive industrial productions of commercially needed compounds. These compounds can range from heterologous proteins and amino-acids to vitami... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11765546 | 2,090,284 |
961,575 | Athlete's heart most often does not have any physical symptoms, although an indicator would be a consistently low resting heart rate. Athletes with AHS often do not realize they have the condition unless they undergo specific medical tests, because athlete's heart is a normal, physiological adaptation of the body to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7610506 | 961,066 |
1,305,183 | Cognitive neuropsychology is a branch of cognitive psychology that aims to understand how the structure and function of the brain relates to specific psychological processes. Cognitive psychology is the science that looks at how mental processes are responsible for our cognitive abilities to store and produce new memor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=389579 | 1,304,467 |
1,273,921 | Whenever muscles and joints are moved this also exerts mechanical strain on related fascia. The general assumption in sports science had therefore been that muscle strength exercises as well as cardiovascular training would be sufficient for an optimal training of the associate fibrous connective tissues. However, rece... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47390498 | 1,273,229 |
195,537 | During the fall admissions filing period, the CSU designates academic programs where more applications are received than can be accommodated by the campus, and designates them as "impacted". At Cal Poly Pomona, impacted academic programs include: Animal Health Science, Animal Science, Aerospace Engineering, Chemical an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=489505 | 195,437 |
472,926 | does not depend on the variable formula_1. Of course, this quantity describes the total energy whose conservation is due to the time translation invariance of the equation of motion. By studying the composition of symmetry transformations, e.g. of geometric objects, one reaches the conclusion that they form a group and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54016907 | 472,690 |
1,824,813 | Mercury contamination in California waterways poses a threat to both the environment and human health. This naturally occurring heavy metal may be released into the environment from natural geological sources, but most commonly occurs from anthropogenic mining operations. This metal poses a threat not only for its effe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49463141 | 1,823,775 |
1,672,202 | When larvae of "Lucilia" feed parasitically they cause the disease facultative myiasis (facultative = opportunistic or optional). When this occurs on sheep it is often known as blow-fly strike. This causes severe distress to the host and may be fatal due to toxemia from ammonia excreted by masses of infesting larvae. F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53631421 | 1,671,260 |
933,393 | Albers was born into a Roman Catholic family of craftsmen in Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany in 1888. His father, Lorenzo Albers, was variously a housepainter, carpenter, and handyman. His mother came from a family of blacksmiths. His childhood included practical training in engraving glass, plumbing, and wiring, giving J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=335390 | 932,901 |
309,221 | The South Korean "Son Won-Il" U214-class submarine (Hangul: 손원일급 잠수함, Hanja: 孫元一級潛水艦) is equipped with a SPHINX-D Radar System supplied by Thales Defence Deutschland GmbH. It uses an additional pulse transmitter in the top of the mast. The combination of high power pulse radar and a very low power LPI transmitter is ve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1882125 | 309,056 |
818,122 | Procainamide works as an anti-arrhythmic agent and is used to treat cardiac arrhythmia. It induces rapid block of the batrachotoxin (BTX)-activated sodium channels of the heart muscle and acts as antagonist to long-gating closures. The block is voltage-dependent and can occur from both sides; either from the intracellu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1157843 | 817,684 |
1,360,658 | Following his PhD, Winter completed postdoctoral research at the Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge. He continued to specialise in protein and nucleic acid sequencing and became a Group Leader at the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in 1981. He became interested in the idea that all antibodies have the sam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1843684 | 1,359,906 |
1,057,121 | In these conditions, the aircraft (if not equipped for IMC flight and flown by a pilot experienced in IMC flight) is likely to enter a graveyard spiral and eventually break up by exceeding the wing load limit. In this situation, the cause of the disintegration of the aircraft is not atmospheric turbulence but is the in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51560627 | 1,056,572 |
1,139,603 | From 1976 to 1978 Bejan was a Miller research fellow in at the University of California Berkeley working with Chang-Lin Tien. In 1978 he moved to Colorado and joined the faculty of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Colorado in Boulder. In 1982 Bejan published his first book, "Entropy Generat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1658929 | 1,139,010 |
1,788,391 | In terms of enzyme functional regulation, GSH itself acts as a feedback inhibitor of GCL activity. Under normal physiologic substrate concentrations, the GCLC monomer alone may synthesize gamma-glutamylcysteine; however, the normal physiologic levels of GSH (estimated at around 5 mM) far exceeds the GSH K for GCLC, sug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14285917 | 1,787,385 |
75,260 | Cutaneous radiation syndrome (CRS) refers to the skin symptoms of radiation exposure. Within a few hours after irradiation, a transient and inconsistent redness (associated with itching) can occur. Then, a latent phase may occur and last from a few days up to several weeks, when intense reddening, blistering, and ulcer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=151196 | 75,232 |
1,207,119 | Another method uses HSQC spectra. Typically HSQC spectra are recorded at a series of timepoints while the hydrogen is exchanging with the deuterium. Since the HSQC experiment is specific for hydrogen, the signal will decay exponentially as the hydrogen exchanges. It is then possible to fit an exponential function to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4952672 | 1,206,473 |
746,774 | Originally designed for industrial use, N95 respirators became a healthcare standard subsequent to virus-blocking technology invented by University of Tennessee professor Peter Tsai, and patented in 1995. The novel material consists of both positive and negative charges, which are able to attract particles (such as dus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63164437 | 746,379 |
296,119 | In a more recent model of glass transition, the glass transition temperature corresponds to the temperature at which the largest openings between the vibrating elements in the liquid matrix become smaller than the smallest cross-sections of the elements or parts of them when the temperature is decreasing. As a result o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22122416 | 295,959 |
200,917 | Once every four years, UNCSA produces an all-school musical – a Broadway-style production involving all five arts schools of the conservatory. All students have the opportunity to audition. Past all-school musicals have included "Brigadoon", "Oklahoma!", "Kiss Me, Kate," "Canterbury Tales", and "Guys and Dolls" with th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=524243 | 200,814 |
183,273 | For example, GFP can be used as a reporter for environmental toxicity levels. This protein has been shown to be an effective way to measure the toxicity levels of various chemicals including ethanol, "p"-formaldehyde, phenol, triclosan, and paraben. GFP is great as a reporter protein because it has no effect on the hos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=143533 | 183,176 |
66,290 | Markov chains are used in finance and economics to model a variety of different phenomena, including the distribution of income, the size distribution of firms, asset prices and market crashes. D. G. Champernowne built a Markov chain model of the distribution of income in 1953. Herbert A. Simon and co-author Charles Bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60876 | 66,265 |
586,239 | "in situ" hybridization was developed in the late 60's and saw major developments in the 80's (smFISH) and 10's (RNAscope, seqFISH, MERFISH and osmFISH) with the most recent additions being seqFISH+ and DNA microscopy. Microdisecction techniques were first developed in the late 90's (Laser Capture Microdissection) and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57313623 | 585,939 |
256,028 | Beginning in early 1990 McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics revealed delays and projected cost increases. Due to complications with the composite materials, aircraft weight had increased to 30% over design specification. This was unwelcome for an airplane that needed to operate efficiently and effectively from an ai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=574228 | 255,894 |
498,930 | Transit-time measurement underlies most radio navigation systems for boats and aircraft, for example, radar and the nearly obsolete Long Range Aid to Navigation LORAN-C. For example, in one radar system, pulses of electromagnetic radiation are sent out by the vehicle (interrogating pulses) and trigger a response from a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33904406 | 498,673 |
992,859 | Suitable gamma-ray sources consist of a radioactive parent that decays to the desired isotope. For example, the source for Fe consists of Co, which decays by electron capture to an excited state of Fe, which in turn decays to a ground state via a series of gamma-ray emissions that include the one exhibiting the Mössbau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6048617 | 992,342 |
1,033,143 | A study suggests that if ETs exist, they may have established communications network(s) and may already have probes in the solar system whose communication may be detectable. Studies by John Gertz suggest flyby (scout) probes might intermittently surveil nascent solar systems and permanent probes would communicate with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39919360 | 1,032,607 |
1,009,644 | The fortunes of Cal men's basketball would never be the same after Newell. The next quarter-century would mostly be a dreary one for the program, despite having players such as Butch Hays (1981–1984) and Kevin Johnson (1983–1987) who would both set school records for assists. From 1960 to 1985, the Bears tallied only t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18155282 | 1,009,123 |
1,554,748 | Later, in 1940, the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology collaborated with National Geographic on an expedition into the badlands of South Dakota. They uncovered tons of fossils from at least 175 different species of Oligocene life. The fossils were taken to the South Dakota School of Mines in Rapid City. Among ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799200 | 1,553,867 |
1,858,408 | Isaac Coles married twice. In 1771 he married Elizabeth Lightfoot, the daughter of one-term burgess William Lightfoot of Charles City County. Before her death a decade later, she bore three children, but only one survived to adulthood --Isaac Coles Jr.(1777-1814) -- who (briefly) inherited his father's lands in Halifax... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1015135 | 1,857,340 |
440,413 | For example, in hot weather they may overheat and suffer from temperature stress. They have no specific adaptations to overcome this, but, if there is enough water in the soil to allow this, they can increase their rate of transpiration by opening their stomata, thus meaning some heat is removed by the evaporating wate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1469790 | 440,199 |
414,746 | Lander operations were to begin five minutes after touchdown, first unfolding the stowed solar arrays, followed by orienting the medium-gain, direct-to-Earth antenna to allow for the first communication with the Deep Space Network. At 20:39 UTC, a 45-minute transmission was to be broadcast to Earth, transmitting the ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=390970 | 414,543 |
1,696,759 | The Peninsula Medical School was established on 1 August 2000, preceding the dental school by six years, following a successful bid to the Government, as part of a national expansion of medical student numbers in the UK. The bid was creatively led by Professor Sir John Tooke, who was then working in a joint appointment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8255339 | 1,695,806 |
1,431,441 | To favor the pulsed mode over continuous-wave, the cavity could be made unstable for continuous-wave operation, but more often a low stability is a by-product of a cavity design putting emphasis on aperture effects. Older designs used a hard aperture, that simply cuts off, while modern designs use a soft aperture, that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=628463 | 1,430,637 |
328,819 | In 2013, the then-40-year-old amateur hypnotist Timothy Porter attempted to sexually abuse his female weight-loss client. She reported awaking from a trance and finding him behind her with his pants down, telling her to touch herself. He was subsequently called to court and included on the sex offender list. In 2015, G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14417 | 328,645 |
449,357 | It is also possible to apply differential weighting to individual characters. This is usually done relative to a "cost" of 1. Thus, some characters might be seen as more likely to reflect the true evolutionary relationships among taxa, and thus they might be weighted at a value 2 or more; changes in these characters wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1130020 | 449,139 |
1,015,885 | In 1933, at the joint plenum of the Central Committee and the Central Control Commission of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Stalin said in his report that according to the results of the first five-year plan, consumer goods produced less than needed, but the policy of moving industrialisation to the backgro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11818766 | 1,015,362 |
1,848,232 | Guillermo Sapiro (born 1966) is an Israeli-Uruguayan computer scientist, electrical engineer and professor who has made notable contributions to image processing. He worked at The University of Minnesota for 15 years before becoming a professor at Duke University. He has also worked at Hewlett Packard Labs (HP Laborato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45221944 | 1,847,174 |
615,641 | It is helpful to consider the same problem as it appears in the construction of scales of measurement in the natural sciences. In the case of temperature there are two "degrees of freedom" for its measurement - the choice of unit and the zero. Different temperature scales map its intensity in different ways. In the cel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1448833 | 615,327 |
1,278,268 | Because of the numerous interactions ataxin-1 has with other proteins, techniques for reducing toxicity of the mutant ataxin-1 protein often change the expression of related proteins. For example, ataxin-1-like has many common domains with ataxin-1 and overexpression of ataxin-1-like compete with ataxin-1 and prevent i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54421246 | 1,277,575 |
389,735 | On 7 February 2021, the vaccine rollout in South Africa was suspended. Researchers from the University of the Witwatersrand released interim, non-peer-reviewed data that suggested the AstraZeneca vaccine provided minimal protection against mild or moderate disease infection among young people. The BBC reported on 8 Feb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64586749 | 389,540 |
1,033,772 | The exam is offered every year in May. Students are not expected to memorize any formulas; rather, a list of common statistical formulas related to descriptive statistics, probability, and inferential statistics is provided. Moreover, tables for the normal, Student's t and chi-squared distributions are given as well. S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4973089 | 1,033,235 |
895,126 | In 2009, the Australian Government's announced that a new class of twelve submarines would be built. The selected design was to be built at the ASC Pty Ltd shipyard in South Australia, but, if a company other than ASC was selected to build the submarines, they would be granted access to the government-owned facility. E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15174021 | 894,656 |
115,777 | During World War II, prisoner of war camps gave prisoners specially-treated paper that would reveal invisible ink. An article in the 24 June 1948 issue of "Paper Trade Journal" by the Technical Director of the United States Government Printing Office had Morris S. Kantrowitz describe in general terms the development of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28733 | 115,732 |
911,972 | Disadvantages of the Haldex Traction system include: the vehicle has inherent front-wheel drive handling characteristics (as when engine braking, load is only applied on the front wheels, and due to the reactive nature of the Haldex system and slight lag time in the redistribution of engine power), and the Haldex LSC u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=757747 | 911,493 |
431,627 | In order to sufficiently monitor unforeseen events, Ribeiro et al. explains that it is not enough to display these parameters, but to also capture voltage waveform data at all times. This is impracticable due to the large amount of data involved, causing what is known the “bottle effect”. For instance, at a sampling ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1679935 | 431,415 |
1,585,796 | The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) supports basic research that increases understanding of biological processes and lays the foundation for advances in disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. NIGMS-funded scientists investigate how living systems work at a range of levels, from molecules a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211655 | 1,584,905 |
1,512,637 | Customs should have both base offices at the warehouse and around the gates. The office at the warehouse is mainly for detecting harmful agriculture and smuggling (drugs, dirty money). Office at gates is mainly for the reason of detecting mis-picked cargo or radiation containers. At gates, there should be radiation-det... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52343411 | 1,511,786 |
2,116,336 | “"Utricularia resupinata" B.D. Greene ex Bigelow” identifies the species’ scientific name with the first person to discover this flowering plant—a Massachusetts lawyer named Benjamin Daniel Greene (1793–1862), whose finding was reported in what became the standard botanical resource for that time period, with the follo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12594368 | 2,115,119 |
2,138,595 | The BCPE was incorporated as an independent, nonprofit organization in July 1990. The development of ergonomics certification, however, dates back to the mid-1980s when committees of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES), the International Ergonomics Association (IEA), the United States Department of Defense ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51684149 | 2,137,365 |
1,690,809 | As a natural side-effect of the size of the fuel elements and their resulting explosions, ICF designs use a very large reaction chamber many meters across. This lowers the neutron flux on any particular part of the chamber wall through the inverse-square law. Additionally, there are no magnets or other complex systems ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46293573 | 1,689,862 |
1,074,079 | Bilateral cingulotomy has also been used in the treatment of chronic refractory pain. A systematic review of 11 studies encompassing 224 patients found that anterior cingulotomy led to significant pain relief in greater than 60% of patients post-operatively as well as at one year following the procedure. Of the include... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46214 | 1,073,525 |
1,932,138 | Research and development programs explored as an engineering think tank over the decades have involved many areas of science, including applied physics, high energy physics, upper atmosphere research (aeronomy), nuclear physics, nuclear attack survival, numerical and computer simulations, electron microscopes and micro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10477911 | 1,931,030 |
1,026,473 | When an inductive circuit is opened, the current through the inductance collapses quickly, creating a large voltage across the open circuit of the switch or relay. If the inductance is large enough, the energy will generate an electric spark, causing the contact points to oxidize, deteriorate, or sometimes weld togethe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21152701 | 1,025,939 |
1,020,496 | In 1977, recombinant DNA technology enabled biologists to start to explore the genetic control of development. The growth of evolutionary developmental biology from 1978, when Edward B. Lewis discovered homeotic genes, showed that many so-called toolkit genes act to regulate development, influencing the expression of o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=97536 | 1,019,969 |
1,722,052 | People have lived in the Everglades region for thousands of years. Within the past 100 years however, they have changed the natural landscape dramatically. Settlement of urban areas in South Florida was facilitated by large drainage projects intended to create more land. The drainage was often implemented without a ful... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17273354 | 1,721,082 |
1,683,133 | Not all theories about the selection of movement are mutually exclusive. Necessarily, they all involve reduction or elimination of redundant DOFs. Optimal feedback control is related to UCM theory in the sense that the optimal control law may not act along certain dimensions (the UCM) of lesser importance to the nervou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33820872 | 1,682,190 |
5,808 | While Socrates was involved in public political and cultural debates, it is hard to define his exact political philosophy. In Plato's "Gorgias," he tells Callicles: "I believe that I'm one of a few Athenians—so as not to say I'm the only one, but the only one among our contemporaries—to take up the true political craft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25664190 | 5,805 |
792,888 | In Doppler cooling, initially, the frequency of light is tuned slightly below an electronic transition in the atom. Because the light is detuned to the "red" (i.e., at lower frequency) of the transition, the atoms will absorb more photons if they move towards the light source, due to the Doppler effect. Thus if one app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172586 | 792,463 |
589,286 | Connectors are used in cold-formed steel construction to attach members (i.e. studs, joists) to each other or to the primary structure for the purpose of load transfer and support. Since an assembly is only as strong as its weakest component, it is important to engineer each connection so that it meets specified perfor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18865371 | 588,984 |
934,591 | John Blacking was another ethnomusicologist who sought to create an ethnomusicological parallel to linguistic models of analysis. In his work on Venda music, he writes, "The problem of musical description is not unlike that in linguistic analysis: a particular grammar should account for the processes by which all exist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80077 | 934,098 |
1,244,271 | Cyan-highlighted genes are in the microhomology-mediated end joining (MMEJ) pathway and are up-regulated in cancer. MMEJ is an additional error-prone "inaccurate" repair pathway for double-strand breaks. In MMEJ repair of a double-strand break, an homology of 5-25 complementary base pairs between both paired strands is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35746225 | 1,243,598 |
1,699,955 | DARPA released a concept video on 8 October 2014 showing how the GXV could improve situational awareness. Armored vehicles have lower situational awareness than other types of vehicles, so the agency's solution is to have wide-angle cockpits like a jet fighter. The concept would provide the driver with a closed cockpit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43809043 | 1,699,001 |
1,911,435 | Bense spent the next five years focusing on business endeavors related to her family's north Florida farm. In 1977, she began teaching anthropology and archaeology classes at UWF and taught an archaeology field school at Kings Point site, St. Andrews Bay, Florida. This was the first field school taught by UWF. Next, Be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18043511 | 1,910,336 |
383,354 | According to the French-German state research Institute of Saint-Louis (ISL), MGCS is to result in a future land warfare system which may include unmanned, including autonomous ground and aerial vehicles, and manned assets in the light, medium or heavy weight class as well as associated weaponry. As such, the aim of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59111284 | 383,159 |
1,628,527 | The design of the piping can also affect the cost of the system. A pipe structure without sharp corners or dead-heads can help maintain pressure and an efficient passage for compressed air. Designers have to think about the type of material that will be used in the hydraulic system. Aluminum, for example, has a lower w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25098165 | 1,627,608 |
1,076,146 | "Burkholderia mallei" is responsible for causing glanders disease, which historically mostly affected animals, such as horses, mules, and donkeys, and rarely humans. Horses are considered the natural host for "B. mallei" infection and are highly susceptible to it. "B. mallei" infects and gains access to the cell of its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3524301 | 1,075,591 |
134,605 | In March 2019, Chadwick was announced as one of the entrants for the inaugural season of the W Series, and followed this by participating in the opening three races of the 2019 F3 Asian Championship. Chadwick was also announced as an official junior driver for Aston Martin Racing, extending an existing unofficial relat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46279364 | 134,550 |
398,755 | According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), aquaculture "is understood to mean the farming of aquatic organisms including fish, molluscs, crustaceans and aquatic plants. Farming implies some form of intervention in the rearing process to enhance production, such as regular stocking, feeding, protection fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1634 | 398,559 |
1,435,914 | The lungs of baleen whales are built to collapse under pressure. enabling some, like the fin whale, to dive to a depth of . The whale lungs are very efficient at extracting oxygen from the air, usually 80%, whereas humans only extract 20% of oxygen from inhaled air. Lung volume is relatively low compared to terrestrial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63196482 | 1,435,107 |
2,195,473 | PAT1 mRNA is expressed in the GI tract between the stomach and descending colon, but is generally absent in the esophagus, caecum, and rectum. This allows for different treatments that affect the affinity of the carrier protein for its substrates, giving the potential to treat various amino-acid related diseases. HPAT1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66046471 | 2,194,223 |
1,247,244 | The ETSU campus experienced relatively little in terms of student protest during the late 1960s and early 1970s, although the dress of students changed radically as the previous strict dress codes fell by the wayside in favor of miniskirts, ragged jeans, and shorts. Controlled substances such as marijuana and LSD were ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49751816 | 1,246,569 |
750,548 | Between 1690 and 1692, the French physicist Denis Papin designed and built two submarines. The first design (1690) was a strong and heavy metallic square box, equipped with an efficient pump that pumped air into the hull to raise the inner pressure. When the air pressure reached the required level, holes were opened to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4551386 | 750,150 |
811,348 | Some versions of Unix use a relatively expensive implementation of the "crypt" library function for hashing an 8-character password into an 11-character string. On older hardware, this computation took a deliberately and measurably long time: as much as two or three seconds in some cases. The "login" program in early v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=481813 | 810,916 |
688,528 | CRISPR/Cas9 is efficient at gene disruption. The creation of HIV-resistant babies by Chinese researcher He Jiankui is perhaps the most famous example of gene disruption using this method. It is far less effective at gene correction. Methods of base editing are under development in which a “nuclease-dead” Cas 9 endonucl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37319629 | 688,170 |
759,204 | Evidence for the LHB derives from rock samples of Moon craters brought back by the Apollo astronauts. Isotopic dating showed that the rocks were last molten during impact events in a rather narrow interval of time, suggesting that a large proportion of craters were formed during this period. Several hypotheses attempt ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30864636 | 758,798 |
402,766 | At the end of the Civil War, the Bolsheviks controlled Russian cities, but 80% of the Russian population were peasants. Although almost all the fighting had occurred outside urban areas, urban populations decreased substantially. The war disrupted transportation (especially railroads), and basic public services. Infect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40229586 | 402,566 |
1,435,862 | Before diving, pinnipeds typically exhale to empty their lungs of half the air and then close their nostrils and throat cartilages to protect the trachea. Their unique lungs have airways that are highly reinforced with cartilaginous rings and smooth muscle, and alveoli that completely deflate during deeper dives. While... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63196482 | 1,435,055 |
80,050 | Before diving, pinnipeds typically exhale to empty their lungs of half the air and then close their nostrils and throat cartilages to protect the trachea. Their unique lungs have airways that are highly reinforced with cartilaginous rings and smooth muscle, and alveoli that completely deflate during deeper dives. While... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60261 | 80,017 |
1,386,505 | With more than 900 journal articles and books, Struve was one of the most distinguished and prolific astronomers of the mid-20th century. He served as director of Yerkes, McDonald, Leuschner and National Radio Astronomy Observatories and is credited with raising worldwide prestige and building schools of talented scien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584584 | 1,385,738 |
61,391 | Every May since 1987, the University of Chicago has held the University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt, in which large teams of students compete to obtain notoriously esoteric items from a list. Since 1963, the Festival of the Arts (FOTA) takes over campus for 7–10 days of exhibitions and interactive artistic endeavors. Eve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32127 | 61,366 |
2,222,047 | In 2005, Artemieva was appointed an associate professor at the University of Copenhagen. Her career has focused on understanding the continental lithosphere. Her research combines laboratory measurements with thermal models and seismic measurements. She developed a model that describes the thermal and compositional str... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72176087 | 2,220,785 |
132,733 | Su was appointed president and CEO of AMD in October 2014, after joining the company in 2012 and holding roles such as senior vice president of AMD's global business units and chief operating officer. She currently serves on the boards of Cisco Systems, Global Semiconductor Alliance and the U.S. Semiconductor Industry ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44063188 | 132,680 |
1,445,879 | At its core, ecosystem-based management is about acknowledging interdependency connections, including the linkages between marine ecosystems and human societies, economies and institutional systems, as well as those among various species within an ecosystem and among ocean places that are linked by the movement of spec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19236636 | 1,445,063 |
292,260 | Anodizing is also used to prevent galling of threaded components and to make dielectric films for electrolytic capacitors. Anodic films are most commonly applied to protect aluminium alloys, although processes also exist for titanium, zinc, magnesium, niobium, zirconium, hafnium, and tantalum. Iron or carbon steel meta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=831650 | 292,102 |
2,241,513 | SEMC is working on fundamentally new chemistry that will enable development of next-generation technologies that more efficiently convert raw materials into materials and energy. Hydrocarbons (e.g. natural gas), nitrogen, oxygen, and water are utilized as the core components for the majority of the world's energy and m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36155313 | 2,240,242 |
1,347,461 | where formula_4 is the surface tension of the fluid interface, formula_5 is the gravitational acceleration and formula_6 is the mass density difference of the fluids. The capillary length is sometimes denoted formula_7 in relation to the mathematical notation for curvature. The term capillary constant is somewhat misle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12092048 | 1,346,720 |
1,511,369 | July 19, 1914 – September 14, 1944. John Kenneth Macalister (code name: Valentin, alias: Jean Charles Mauinier) was born July 19, 1914, in Guelph, Ontario. Son of Alexander and Celestine MacAlister; husband of Jeannine (née Lucas) MacAlister, of Paris, France. He spoke French and English. After graduating at the top of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1435458 | 1,510,519 |
1,708,179 | LPD powered by the Prysm "digital workplace platform" software, is used as a giant touchscreen display, a digital signage and in customer experience centers. The first LPD retail installation went on display at American Eagle Outfitters in New York in late 2010. Other LPD deployments include a 120 feet long by 10 feet ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38660691 | 1,707,221 |
1,718,788 | As for Washington, the Washington Student Achievement Council has determined that Portland Bible College qualifies for religious exempt status from the Degree-Granting Institutions Act. The Council makes no evaluation of the administration, faculty, business practices, financial condition or quality of the offerings by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20069599 | 1,717,818 |
2,170,591 | The Winslow Chemical Laboratory was a laboratory of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute campus in Troy, New York, United States, which finished construction in 1866. It is named in honor of the 5th President of RPI, John F. Winslow, who donated half of the construction cost. The building is brick with stone trimmings ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21949347 | 2,169,353 |
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