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1,234,307 | Under resting conditions, the tightly coiled conformation of parkin renders it inactive, as access to the catalytic RING2 residue is sterically blocked by RING0, while the E2 binding domain on RING1 is occluded by Ubl and REP. Activating stimuli disrupt these interdomain interactions and induce parkin to collapse along... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=931508 | 1,233,644 |
356,833 | DAO is typically expressed in epithelial cells at the tip of the villus of the small intestine mucosa. Reduced DAO activity is associated with gastrointestinal disorders and widespread food intolerances. This is due to an increase in histamine absorption through enterocytes, which increases histamine concentration in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=395877 | 356,647 |
1,440,042 | Energy savings that can be achieved with ATES are strongly depending on the geology of a site. Mainly, ATES requires the presence of a suitable aquifer that is able to accept and yield water. Therefore, thick (>10 m) sandy aquifers are selected. Natural groundwater flow may transport (part of) the stored energy outside... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45228255 | 1,439,232 |
740,650 | In more mathematical or scientific terms, it signifies the level of performance that uses the least amount of inputs to achieve the highest amount of output. It often specifically comprises the capability of a specific application of effort to produce a specific outcome with a minimum amount or quantity of waste, expen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=268344 | 740,258 |
1,366,720 | Educators that choose to use the CSCL environment must be aware of 508 compliance and its legal implications. "In the U.S., the criteria for designing Web pages accessibly are provided by two major sets: the W3C's Web Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and the design standards issued under U.S. federal law, Section 508 of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4548948 | 1,365,964 |
1,155,057 | Treatment is with neonatal surgical repair, with the objective of restoring a normal pattern of blood flow. The surgery is open heart, and the patient will be placed on cardiopulmonary bypass to allow the surgeon to work on a still heart. The heart is opened and the ventricular septal defect is closed with a patch. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2445854 | 1,154,447 |
595,290 | In molecular biology and genetics, transcriptional regulation is the means by which a cell regulates the conversion of DNA to RNA (transcription), thereby orchestrating gene activity. A single gene can be regulated in a range of ways, from altering the number of copies of RNA that are transcribed, to the temporal contr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=398124 | 594,985 |
187,542 | The green pine needles give the twisted branches a bottle-brush appearance. The needles of the tree surround the branch to an extent of about one foot near the tip of the limb. The name bristlecone pine refers to the dark purple female cones that bear incurved prickles on their surface. The dark color of these cones he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=215931 | 187,445 |
1,544,005 | The PfEMP1 molecule is deposited at the RBC membrane at the knobs. These knobs are easily identified as conspicuous bumps on the infected RBCs from the early trophozoite stage onward. The malarial parasite cannot induce its virulence on RBCs without knobs. As many as 10,000 knobs are distributed throughout the surface ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53450372 | 1,543,132 |
139,335 | A capacitive touchscreen panel consists of an insulator, such as glass, coated with a transparent conductor, such as indium tin oxide (ITO). As the human body is also an electrical conductor, touching the surface of the screen results in a distortion of the screen's electrostatic field, measurable as a change in capaci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=667206 | 139,278 |
99,299 | The Snapdragon QSD8250 was released in December 2007. It included the first 1 GHz processor for mobile phones. Qualcomm introduced its "Krait" microarchitecture in the second generation of Snapdragon SoCs in 2011, allowing each processor core to adjust its speed based on the device's needs. At the 2013 Consumer Electro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18181159 | 99,256 |
1,152,062 | The Communication Awards of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine awarded a $20,000 prize for excellence in communicating science to the general public to Michael Rosenfeld, David Dugan, and Neil Shubin in Film/Radio/TV on October 14, 2015, for "Your Inner Fish". The awards are given to individu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17131081 | 1,151,453 |
1,641,015 | The Major Intrinsic Protein (MIP) of the human lens of the eye (Aqp0), after which the MIP family was named, represents about 60% of the protein in the lens cell. In the native form, it is an aquaporin (AQP), but during lens development, it becomes proteolytically truncated. The channel, which normally houses 6-9 water... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14665788 | 1,640,088 |
423,562 | Mutualism in microbial ecology is a relationship between microbial species and humans that allow for both sides to benefit. One such example would be syntrophy, also known as cross-feeding, of which "'Methanobacterium omelianskii" ' is a classical example. This consortium is formed by an ethanol fermenting organism and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1057083 | 423,355 |
749,169 | These are some of the reasons why amalgam has remained a superior restorative material over resin-base composites. The New England Children's Amalgam Trial (NECAT), a randomized controlled trial, yielded results "consistent with previous reports suggesting that the longevity of amalgam is higher than that of resin-base... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12415416 | 748,771 |
1,507,506 | Crania can be used to classify ancestry and sex to aid in forensic contexts such as crime scenes and mass fatalities. In 2010, Ross and colleagues were provided federal funds by the U.S. Department of Justice to compile data for population specific classification criteria using geometric morphometrics. Their aim was to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45580833 | 1,506,660 |
896,932 | Prior to entering the Strait, in July 1578, Drake sent Wynter ashore where he learned from indigenous people that they ate the astringent bark Winter's bark. Captain Wynter ordered the collection of great amounts of bark – hence the scientific name. Drake renamed the "Pelican" as the "Golden Hind" on 20 August 1578 to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64312042 | 896,460 |
63,194 | In early 1955, after pressure by the American Rocket Society, the National Science Foundation, and the International Geophysical Year, the Army and Navy were working on Project Orbiter with two competing programs. The army used the Jupiter C rocket, while the civilian–Navy program used the Vanguard rocket to launch a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27683 | 63,169 |
443,880 | The Abraham–Lorentz force is the result of the most fundamental calculation of the effect of self-generated fields. It arises from the observation that accelerating charges emit radiation. The Abraham–Lorentz force is the average force that an accelerating charged particle feels in the recoil from the emission of radia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3209246 | 443,665 |
182,241 | In 1751, the Swedish mineralogist Axel Fredrik Cronstedt discovered a heavy mineral from the mine at Bastnäs, later named cerite. Thirty years later, the fifteen-year-old Wilhelm Hisinger, from the family owning the mine, sent a sample of it to Carl Scheele, who did not find any new elements within. In 1803, after Hisi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17744 | 182,145 |
1,554,411 | An early study indicated that 7SK in cells is associated with a number of proteins and probing of the secondary structure suggested a model for base pairing between different regions of the RNA. A breakthrough in the function of the 7SK snRNP came with the finding that the positive transcription elongation factor P-TEF... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11420649 | 1,553,530 |
146,576 | An alternative design that has remained popular since the early 20th century is the dovetail rail, which is a straight metal flange with an inverted trapezoid cross-section (similar to the dovetail joint used in woodworking). When mounting a telescopic sight, dovetail-interfaced scope rings can be slid onto the rail at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1052795 | 146,518 |
1,963,421 | Early in her career, with John Kirtley from IBM, their research demonstrated that one of the predictions of a popular theory for high-temperature superconductivity was inaccurate by a factor of 10. In 2011 her research group placed two non-magnetic materials (complex oxides) together and discovered an unexpected result... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38358381 | 1,962,293 |
1,778,416 | This requires the compiler for the programming language to be part of the runtime system. In consequence, source code can be read in at any time, from the terminal, from a file, or possibly from a data-structure constructed by the running program, and translated into a machine code block or function (which may replace ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=663498 | 1,777,414 |
841,830 | Lysosomes are membrane-bound organelles that typically contain a broad spectrum of enzymes capable of hydrolytic deconstruction of polysaccharides, proteins, nucleic acids, lipids, phosphoric acyl esters, and sulfates. This process requires compartmentalization and segregation of enzymes and substrates via a single int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2538686 | 841,380 |
1,019,543 | Green roofs can be categorized as intensive, semi-intensive, or extensive, depending on the depth of planting medium and the amount of maintenance they need. Extensive green roofs traditionally support of vegetation while intensive roofs support of vegetation. Traditional roof gardens, which require a reasonable depth ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=192025 | 1,019,016 |
1,647,358 | The effects of the Princeton WordNet project extend far past English, though most research in the field revolves around the English language. Creating a semantic lexicon for other languages has proved to be very useful for Natural Language Processing applications. One of the main focuses of research in semantic lexicon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3663597 | 1,646,427 |
521,620 | In therizinosaurids, the shoulder girdle was robustly specialized than in other maniraptorans and less bird-like. The scapula (shoulder blade) was very straight and flattened at the upper end being fused to the coracoid bone, forming the scapulocoracoid. Near the region of the scapulocoracoid suture, on the coracoid, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3812410 | 521,349 |
385,356 | The study of glaciovolcanism is still a relatively new field. Early accounts described the unusual flat-topped steep-sided volcanoes (called tuyas) in Iceland that were suggested to have formed from eruptions below ice. The first English-language paper on the subject was published in 1947 by William Henry Mathews, desc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8921015 | 385,161 |
1,429,225 | The report states that there was a "culture of respect and fear" in the unit so that even when questions were raised, people did not have the opportunity or the courage to speak out. The Inquiry came to the conclusion that Neary had a "heightened sense of danger" and that his fear of losing a patient approached "phobic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4733424 | 1,428,421 |
1,073,943 | Mu's winning time of 1:55.21 was number 11 on the world all-time list and the fourth fastest of this century (and the sixth fastest since the world record was set in 1983). It also broke the 4-year-old United States record. Hodgkinson broke the 26-year old British National Record of double Olympic champion and compatri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60376616 | 1,073,389 |
1,428,304 | Many navies in the world operate a variety of Close In Weapons Systems (CIWS). These systems are designed to engage high speed, low altitude targets at close range. One particular target for the CIWS is incoming anti-ship missiles. A CIWS with its rapid fire and radar control could hopefully defeat incoming missiles. C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5751493 | 1,427,500 |
1,203,843 | The oldest surviving traces of construction in Norway dates back to about 9000 BC, in mountainous regions near Store Myrvatn in contemporary Rogaland, where excavations have found portable dwellings most likely kept by nomadic reindeer hunters. Traces of similar albeit younger tents have also been found other places al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3552855 | 1,203,198 |
1,395,221 | Photoactive pigments such as TiO and ZnO have been used on glass, ceramic, and steel substrates for self-cleaning and antimicrobial purposes. For photocatalytic bactericidal activity in water treatment applications, granular substrate materials have been used in the form of sands supporting mixed anatase/rutile TiO coa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32006269 | 1,394,450 |
1,562,902 | In 1927, Clapp published the rules for collegiate wrestling, and the next year, the first NCAA Wrestling Team Championship took place on March 30 to March 31 on the campus of Iowa State College. 40 wrestlers from 16 colleges participated, and it was among the first national championships sponsored by the NCAA, the seco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13129334 | 1,562,015 |
53,659 | Proxima Centauri's chromosphere is active, and its spectrum displays a strong emission line of singly ionized magnesium at a wavelength of 280 nm. About 88% of the surface of Proxima Centauri may be active, a percentage that is much higher than that of the Sun even at the peak of the solar cycle. Even during quiescent ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81887 | 53,639 |
945,066 | Oceanic and atmospheric currents transfer particles, debris, and organisms all across the globe. While the transport of organisms, such as phytoplankton, are essential for the preservation of ecosystems, oil and other pollutants are also mixed in the current flow and can carry pollution far from its origin. Eddy format... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4318651 | 944,564 |
69,019 | Solar chemical processes use solar energy to drive chemical reactions. These processes offset energy that would otherwise come from a fossil fuel source and can also convert solar energy into storable and transportable fuels. Solar induced chemical reactions can be divided into thermochemical or photochemical. A variet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27743 | 68,992 |
378,160 | Although phylogenetic trees produced on the basis of sequenced genes or genomic data in different species can provide evolutionary insight, these analyses have important limitations. Most importantly, the trees that they generate are not necessarily correct – they do not necessarily accurately represent the evolutionar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=149326 | 377,965 |
795,584 | There are indications that eddies contribute to the preservation and survival of fish larvae transported by the Kuroshio. Plankton biomass fluctuates yearly and is typically highest in the eddy area of the Kuroshio's edge. Warm-core rings are not known for having high productivity. However, there is evidence of equal d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=952514 | 795,159 |
1,976,076 | Stanford is a leading university in the green movement and the school is striving to achieve a LEED Platinum certification for their new graduate school of business, the Knight Management Center. The goal for this building is to open in the winter of 2011. The center will have eight buildings around three quadrangles w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25102062 | 1,974,939 |
1,233,013 | Some plant and animal species use cardenolides as defense mechanisms, notably the milkweed butterflies. Species such as the monarch, queen, and plain tiger ingest the cardenolides contained in the milkweeds ("Asclepias") that they mostly feed on and sequester as larvae for defense as adults. The cardenolide content in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10167579 | 1,232,350 |
1,359,459 | Among his projects were the Prince Consort's Library in Aldershot, the Royal Albert Hall and parts of the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Royal Museum in Edinburgh, and the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. He was also responsible for planning the 1862 International Exhibition in London. Working on the I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3125065 | 1,358,708 |
231,954 | Brazil is home to several species of stingless bees belonging to Meliponini, with more than 300 species already identified and probably more yet to be discovered. They vary greatly in shape, size, and habits, and 20 to 30 of these species have good potential as honey producers. Although they are still quite unknown by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2557067 | 231,835 |
702,506 | Defining all subsets of the sample space as events works well when there are only finitely many outcomes, but gives rise to problems when the sample space is infinite. For many standard probability distributions, such as the normal distribution, the sample space is the set of real numbers or some subset of the real num... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22961 | 702,138 |
806,201 | Warner concluded the season with the decathlon the 2019 World Championships in Doha. Midway though the event, defending champion Kevin Mayer of France withdrew as a result of injury, briefly making Warner the perceived favourite for the gold medal. However, Warner performed below his normal standard in some events, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36293824 | 805,772 |
1,274,905 | In 2009 Percival uncovered a fatal flaw in AWS' use of cryptographic signatures used to authenticate EC2, SimpleDB, SQS, and S3 REST APIs. The same year, while working to add passphrase protection to Tarsnap keys, he became dissatisfied with existing key derivation functions. Drawing on his experience in distributed co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53367454 | 1,274,213 |
582,582 | Remineralisation refers to the breakdown or transformation of organic matter (those molecules derived from a biological source) into its simplest inorganic forms. These transformations form a crucial link within ecosystems as they are responsible for liberating the energy stored in organic molecules and recycling matte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240228 | 582,284 |
61,079 | In closed environments, the concentration of carbon monoxide can rise to lethal levels. On average, 170 people in the United States die every year from carbon monoxide produced by non-automotive consumer products. These products include malfunctioning fuel-burning appliances such as furnaces, ranges, water heaters, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6136 | 61,054 |
1,868,199 | Aspects of the book also elaborate on themes explored in Kojima's games, such as genes, memes and scenes; all three ideas were explored in the "Metal Gear Solid" games. Barsanti noted that "The Creative Gene" extensively focuses on the idea of memes, with Kojima's discussions on the media he enjoys conveying how inform... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72324805 | 1,867,123 |
1,910,107 | Statcheck is an R package designed to detect statistical errors in peer-reviewed psychology articles by searching papers for statistical results, redoing the calculations described in each paper, and comparing the two values to see if they match. It takes advantage of the fact that psychological research papers tend to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58815586 | 1,909,009 |
1,396,487 | The AUDIT was designed to be used internationally, and was derived from a WHO collaborative study drawing patients from six countries, representing different regions of the world and different political and economic systems. More than 300 studies have been undertaken to examine its usefulness and validity in various se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5689023 | 1,395,716 |
613,130 | In distributed computing, the reference may contain more than an address or identifier; it may also include an embedded specification of the network protocols used to locate and access the referenced object, the way information is encoded or serialized. Thus, for example, a WSDL description of a remote web service can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=229292 | 612,819 |
1,436,881 | The Mathematical Institute is the mathematics department at the University of Oxford in England. It is one of the nine departments of the university's Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences Division. The institute includes both pure and applied mathematics (Statistics is a separate department) and is one of the large... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7905850 | 1,436,072 |
2,117,829 | Theory of mind appears to be lacking in children with autism spectrum disorders, and this deficit is thought to be a major contributor to frequent impairments in some areas of social understanding in people with autism. The fact that a developmental delay in (or absence of) theory of mind can impair social functioning—... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3286366 | 2,116,611 |
557,430 | In September 2005 Flannery said, "There are hot rocks in South Australia that potentially have enough embedded energy in them to run Australia's economy for the best part of a century". For the Cooper Basin, he proposed the establishment of a fully sustainable city where, "hundreds of thousands of people would live", u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1903368 | 557,141 |
2,115,877 | This species' head is wider than long; the skin on the dorsum is highly wrinkled with transverse corrugated folds - three discontinuous longitudinal folds, one dorsolaterally and two laterally; the webbing on toes is medium (three-quarters of the length); two yellowish bands occur on the dorsolateral area, prominent fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20023673 | 2,114,660 |
1,224,557 | The problem was first observed by John Reynolds in 1975. Reynolds discussed two forms of Data Abstraction: User-defined Types, which are now known as Abstract Data Types (ADTs) (not to be confused with Algebraic Data Types), and Procedural Data Structures, which are now understood as a primitive form of Objects with on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22935957 | 1,223,897 |
1,014,364 | Some environmental groups have expressed concerns about the operation of Indian Point, including radiation pollution and endangerment of wildlife, but whether Indian Point has ever posed a significant danger to wildlife or the public remains controversial. Though anti-nuclear group Riverkeeper notes "Radioactive leakag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1632712 | 1,013,843 |
1,620,320 | From 1929 to the late 1960s, large alternating current power systems were modelled and studied on AC network analyzers (also called alternating current network calculators or AC calculating boards) or transient network analyzers. These special-purpose analog computers were an outgrowth of the DC calculating boards used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38433617 | 1,619,405 |
746,546 | The first of her class to be completed, "King George V" was commissioned at her shipyard and sailed for Rosyth in Scotland on 16 October 1940; there she took on board her ammunition and began her sea trials. By the end of the year she had joined the Home Fleet at Scapa Flow. She crossed the Atlantic early in 1941 to ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=485616 | 746,151 |
1,769,952 | Plasma consists of a mixture of electrons, ions, radicals, neutrals and photons. Some of these species are in local thermodynamic equilibrium, while others are not. Even for simple gases like argon this mixture can be complex. For plasmas of organic monomers, the complexity can rapidly increase as some components of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30747793 | 1,768,957 |
1,445,714 | On 11 December 1962, the U.S. Department of Defense issued Directive 4000.20 “Designating, Redesignating, and Naming Military Rockets and Guided Missiles” which called for a joint designation system for rockets and missiles which was to be used by all armed forces services. The directive was implemented via Air Force R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10820517 | 1,444,898 |
538,600 | The battering ram appears to be one of the best Assyrian contributions to siege warfare. They consisted of a tank-like wooden frame on four wheels. There was a small tower on top for archers to provide covering fire as the engine moved forward. When it had reached its destination, its primary weapon, a large spear, was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12683127 | 538,321 |
364,429 | The game's single-player elements received critical acclaim. Alec Meer of Rock, Paper, Shotgun favorably compared "Doom" to the 2014 game "", also published by Bethesda, but added that "Doom"s quality surpassed that of "Wolfenstein" due to its fast pace and solid gunplay. Peter Brown of GameSpot praised single-player b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12915762 | 364,239 |
862,953 | Kildall briefly returned to UW and finished his doctorate in computer science in 1972, then resumed teaching at NPS. He published a paper that introduced the theory of data-flow analysis used today in optimizing compilers (sometimes known as Kildall's method), and he continued to experiment with microcomputers and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12740 | 862,493 |
952,444 | There are a wide range of types of package plants, often serving small communities or industrial plants that may use hybrid treatment processes often involving the use of aerobic sludge to treat the incoming sewage. In such plants the primary settlement stage of treatment may be omitted. In these plants, a biotic floc ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1411188 | 951,939 |
2,172,340 | An example of a more structured grid for high performance computing is DEISA, a supercomputer project organized by the European Community which uses computers in seven European countries. Although different parts of a program executing within DEISA may be running on computers located in different countries under differ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32438368 | 2,171,099 |
327,810 | Natural theology was not a unified doctrine, and while some such as Louis Agassiz were strongly opposed to the ideas in the book, others sought a reconciliation in which evolution was seen as purposeful. In the Church of England, some liberal clergymen interpreted natural selection as an instrument of God's design, wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29932 | 327,636 |
2,091,085 | One of the most commonly known consequences of the large elk population throughout Yellowstone National Park is the significant decline in the recruitment of aspen (Populus tremuloides). Wolves were reintroduced to the park seventeen years ago. The decrease in elk that the wolves brought should allow the aspen to recup... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38496315 | 2,089,882 |
779,596 | In 2000 Dickinson opened a new science building, Tome Hall, a state-of-the-art interdisciplinary facility to host astronomy, computer science, math, and physics. Tome houses Dickinson's innovative "Workshop Physics" program and was the first stage of a new science complex. Opened in 2008, the LEED Gold certified Rector... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=164636 | 779,179 |
850,651 | Caesium chloride is widely used medicine structure in isopycnic centrifugation for separating various types of DNA. It is a reagent in analytical chemistry, where it is used to identify ions by the color and morphology of the precipitate. When enriched in radioisotopes, such as CsCl or CsCl, caesium chloride is used in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2067447 | 850,198 |
1,149,258 | Subretinal implants sit on the outer surface of the retina, between the photoreceptor layer and the retinal pigment epithelium, directly stimulating retinal cells and relying on the normal processing of the inner and middle retinal layers. Adhering a subretinal implant in place is relatively simple, as the implant is m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3242434 | 1,148,651 |
213,481 | On 26 August 2020, along with a DF-26B, a DF-21D was launched into an area of the South China Sea between Hainan and the Paracel Islands, one day after China said that an American U-2 spy plane entered a no-fly zone without its permission during a Chinese live-fire naval drill in Bohai Sea off its north coast and came ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9066481 | 213,373 |
1,867,904 | Ribosomes, the organelles that catalyze protein synthesis, consist of a small 40S subunit and a large 60S subunit. Together these subunits are composed of 4 RNA species and approximately 80 structurally distinct proteins. This gene encodes a ribosomal protein that is a component of the 40S subunit, where it forms part ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14761364 | 1,866,828 |
1,953,684 | Ganem graduated in 1968 from Phillips Academy Andover and in 1972 from Harvard College. After two years of medical school, he took an 18-month leave of absence to work on SV40 DNA replication with George Fareed. In 1977 Ganem graduated with an M.D. from Harvard Medical School. At Peter Bent Brigham Hospital (now Brigha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65191108 | 1,952,563 |
5,607 | Early in March, Darwin moved to London to be near this work, joining Lyell's social circle of scientists and experts such as Charles Babbage, who described God as a programmer of laws. Darwin stayed with his freethinking brother Erasmus, part of this Whig circle and a close friend of the writer Harriet Martineau, who p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8145410 | 5,604 |
2,113,371 | Adams later became three times president of the RCSI and the Dublin Pathological Society, and, in 1862, both Surgeon in Ordinary to the Queen in Ireland, and Regius Professor of Surgery at the University of Dublin. His work focussed on cardiac, respiratory, vascular and joint diseases, and emphasised postmortem examina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5602986 | 2,112,156 |
1,790,804 | Agricultural sustainability in Northern Nigeria requires flexibility in both ecological management as well as economic activity. The population densities of the rural area in this region climbed from 243 to 348 people per square kilometer between 1962 and 1991, but the land area under permanent cultivation remained app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26203387 | 1,789,798 |
567,866 | The possibility of precisely manipulating visual percepts in time and space has made vision a preferred modality in the quest for the NCC. Psychologists have perfected a number of techniques – masking, binocular rivalry, continuous flash suppression, motion induced blindness, change blindness, inattentional blindness –... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18345264 | 567,576 |
247,429 | The Le Chatelier–Braun principle analyzes the qualitative behaviour of a thermodynamic system when a designated one of its externally controlled state variables, say formula_1 changes by an amount formula_2 the 'driving change', causing a change formula_3 the 'response of prime interest', in its conjugate state variabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37427 | 247,301 |
617,090 | The BioMEMS and Renal Nanotechnology Laboratories at the Cleveland Clinic's Lerner Research Institute have focused on advancing membrane technology to develop an implantable or wearable therapy for end-stage kidney disease (ESKD). Current dialysis cartridges are too large and require superphysiologic pressures for bloo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2400647 | 616,776 |
1,297,437 | Abelisauroidea is a superfamily which contains the family Noasauridae and Abelisauridae. Noasauridae was a very diverse group, with the two most complete members, Masiakasaurus and Limusaurus, showing unusual features very different from each other. Masiakasaurus had an unusually downturned jaw, with long and sharply p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3539740 | 1,296,726 |
24,030 | By the late 19th century scientists realized that air could be liquefied and its components isolated by compressing and cooling it. Using a cascade method, Swiss chemist and physicist Raoul Pierre Pictet evaporated liquid sulfur dioxide in order to liquefy carbon dioxide, which in turn was evaporated to cool oxygen gas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22303 | 24,021 |
341,828 | Synthetic organic chemistry is an applied science as it borders engineering, the "design, analysis, and/or construction of works for practical purposes". Organic synthesis of a novel compound is a problem-solving task, where a synthesis is designed for a target molecule by selecting optimal reactions from optimal start... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22208 | 341,647 |
535,918 | The "FF-1" was Grumman’s first complete aircraft design for the US Navy. The Navy had asked Grumman if their retractable landing gear made for the O2U-1 Scout planes could be retrofitted to the Navy's Boeing F4B-1 fighters; instead Grumman proposed a new fighter design. The prototype "XFF-1" (serial number A8878) was b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2273151 | 535,639 |
715,139 | The term "borehole imaging" refers to those logging and data-processing methods that are used to produce centimeter-scale images of the borehole wall and the rocks that make it up. The context is, therefore, that of open hole, but some of the tools are closely related to their cased-hole equivalents. Borehole imaging h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1111473 | 714,765 |
1,596,646 | The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource (formerly Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Laboratory), a division of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, is operated by Stanford University for the Department of Energy. SSRL is a National User Facility which provides synchrotron radiation, a name given to electromagnetic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2690303 | 1,595,747 |
279,236 | The next major advance in understanding reversals came when techniques for radiometric dating were improved in the 1950s. Allan Cox and Richard Doell, at the United States Geological Survey, wanted to know whether reversals occurred at regular intervals, and invited the geochronologist Brent Dalrymple to join their gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2203131 | 279,086 |
1,554,604 | The men's individual road race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia, was held on Wednesday, 27 September 2000 (the second day of competition of the games) with a race distance of 239.4 km. The estimated global TV audience was 600 million. They were specifically held in Sydney's Eastern Suburbs. There were 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11007942 | 1,553,723 |
495,919 | The use of hypothermia following cardiac arrest shows increased likelihood of survival. It is the re-warming period that, if not controlled properly, can have detrimental effects. Hyperthermia during the re-warming period shows unfavorable neurologic outcomes. For each degree the body is warmed above 37 °C, there is an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6891706 | 495,663 |
324,035 | These recommendations are also widely supported by the American Cancer Society. The guidelines have been evaluated and individuals who have higher guideline adherence scores substantially reduce cancer risk as well as help control a multitude of chronic health problems. Regular physical activity is a factor that helps ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=432986 | 323,863 |
13,126 | In March 2011, Japanese officials announced that "radioactive iodine-131 exceeding safety limits for infants had been detected at 18 water-purification plants in Tokyo and five other prefectures". On 21 March, the first restrictions were placed on the distribution and consumption of contaminated items. , the Japanese g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31162817 | 13,121 |
2,117,234 | Water resources management in Belize is carried out by the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) in most cases. One of the primary challenges the country is facing with regard to water resources management, however, is the lack of coordinated and comprehensive policies and institutions. Furthermore, there are various are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26610000 | 2,116,016 |
966,388 | The Tory II-A design process was completed by early 1960. During the summer and early fall of that year, the core was assembled at Livermore inside a special fixture in a shielded containment building It reached criticality on 7 October 1960 with the control vanes rotated 90° from the full shutdown position. A test was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57684 | 965,878 |
1,321,577 | ELF's usefulness stems from the observation that it allows electron localization to be analyzed in a chemically intuitive way. For example, the shell structure of heavy atoms is obvious when plotting ELF against the radial distance from the nucleus; the ELF for radon has six clear maxima, whereas the electronic density... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19147875 | 1,320,851 |
905,077 | Various patterns of behavior enable certain ectotherms to regulate body temperature to a useful extent. To warm up, reptiles and many insects find sunny places and adopt positions that maximise their exposure; at harmfully high temperatures they seek shade or cooler water. In cold weather, honey bees huddle together to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378783 | 904,601 |
296,447 | Details of the fabrication and resulting microstructure of the glass membrane of the pH electrode are maintained as trade secrets by the manufacturers. However, certain aspects of design are published. Glass is a solid electrolyte, for which alkali-metal ions can carry current. The pH-sensitive glass membrane is genera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=154242 | 296,287 |
939,778 | Legionella is a parasite of protozoans such as amoeba, and thus requires conditions suitable for both organisms. The bacterium forms a biofilm which is resistant to chemical and antimicrobial treatments, including chlorine. Remediation for Legionella outbreaks in commercial buildings vary, but often include very hot wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=219736 | 939,277 |
1,047,201 | SINQ was one of the first facilities to use specially developed optical guide systems to transport slow neutrons. Metal-coated glass conduits guide neutrons over longer distances (a few tens of metres) by means of total reflection, analogous to the light guidance in glass fibres, with a low loss of intensity. The effic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1053016 | 1,046,656 |
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