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1,536,807 | Strengths: Combines the strengths of PET and optical Imaging, fluorescence. PET allows for anatomical imaging for location of labelled cells in entire animals or humans because the radiolabel, F, is within the animal or human for nearly unlimited depth of penetration. F has a half-life of 110 min and limits the radioac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26065582 | 1,535,939 |
190,570 | During his 1927 Arctic trip with A. Y. Jackson, Banting realized that crew or passengers on board the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) paddle wheeler SS "Distributor" were responsible for spreading the influenza virus down the Slave River and Mackenzie River, a virus that had over the summer and autumn spread territory-wide,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75076 | 190,471 |
1,682,002 | Ghose serves on various advisory councils and panels, and has served as a consultant to academia, industry and government on the importance of equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in science. She is an affiliate of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and served as the Institute's first Equity Diversity and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57201769 | 1,681,059 |
1,058,928 | XDR-TB was first widely publicised following the report of an outbreak in South Africa in 2006. 53 patients in a rural hospital in Tugela Ferry were found to have XDR-TB of whom 52 died. The median survival from sputum specimen collection to death was only 16 days and that the majority of patients had never previously ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11320943 | 1,058,379 |
403,034 | In 1884, Thomson led a master class on "Molecular Dynamics and the Wave Theory of Light" at Johns Hopkins University. Kelvin referred to the acoustic wave equation describing sound as waves of pressure in air and attempted to describe also an electromagnetic wave equation, presuming a luminiferous aether susceptible to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33302 | 402,834 |
1,875,964 | As the earlier "Erprobungsstelle Rechlin" central military aviation test facility of the defunct Third Reich was well inside East German borders after 1945, following the foundation of the modern German Armed Forces ("Bundeswehr") in November 1955, the need for a new institution to test military aircraft became apparen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39120645 | 1,874,887 |
540,860 | At the head of the Cheekye River are several fractures and linear scarps that face up-slope. These features, referred to as the Cheekye linears, occur in pyroclastic rocks and interbedded andesitic and dacitic flows on the slopes of Brohm and Alice ridges. They may have formed as a result of sliding of this volcanic se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=659719 | 540,580 |
494,755 | Cathode strip chambers (CSC) are used in the endcap disks where the magnetic field is uneven and particle rates are high. CSCs consist of arrays of positively charged “anode” wires crossed with negatively charged copper “cathode” strips within a gas volume. When muons pass through, they knock electrons off the gas atom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=245966 | 494,499 |
1,236,222 | Polyphenyl ether technology can also provide superior fire safety and fatigue life, depending on the specific bearing design. In this application, PPEs have the advantage of providing lubrication both as a liquid at low temperatures and as a vapor at temperatures above . Due to the low volatility and excellent high-tem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12269011 | 1,235,558 |
1,168,964 | Gender inequalities in health for those living in poverty continue into adulthood. In research that excluded women's health disadvantages (childbirth, pregnancy, susceptibility to HIV, etc.) it was found that there was not a significant gender difference in diagnosis and treatment of chronic conditions. In fact, women... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38846583 | 1,168,346 |
1,198,687 | cfDNA allows a rapid, easy, non-invasive and repetitive method of sampling. A combination of these biological features and technical feasibility of sampling, position cfDNA as a potential biomarker of enormous utility for example for autoimmune rheumatic diseases and tumors. It offers also a potential biomarker with it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49665885 | 1,198,046 |
67,195 | Diesel sought out firms and factories that would build his engine. With the help of Moritz Schröter and , he succeeded in convincing both Krupp in Essen and the Maschinenfabrik Augsburg. Contracts were signed in April 1893, and in early summer 1893, Diesel's first prototype engine was built in Augsburg. On 10 August 18... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8540 | 67,170 |
1,888,861 | Jacoby reported for duty as Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence on the staff of Commander Carrier Group Eight home ported in Norfolk, Virginia, and made a deployment to the Mediterranean aboard and from December 1986 to June 1987. Upon the staff's return to Norfolk, he reported to Commander, Second Fleet as Assistan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24098384 | 1,887,778 |
2,129,185 | The former elm trees leading from the front entrance in Mosman Street dated from the old gaol. The archaeological potential of the gaol is unclear at this time, although it is suggested by Elphick (1989, p. 23) that 450,000 bricks were recycled. Drummond specified that the bricks were not to be visible, he did not want... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57539511 | 2,127,962 |
952,210 | Australia's participation in the planned invasion of Japan would have involved elements of all three services fighting as part of Commonwealth forces. It was planned to form a new 10th Division from existing AIF personnel which would form part of the Commonwealth Corps with British, Canadian and New Zealand units. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4578255 | 951,705 |
214,584 | In humans the ipRGCs contribute to non-image-forming functions like circadian rhythms, behavior and pupillary light reflex. Peak spectral sensitivity of the receptor is between 460 and 482 nm. However, they may also contribute to a rudimentary visual pathway enabling conscious sight and brightness detection. Classic ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=401150 | 214,476 |
1,360,199 | In the twenty-first century, communication is increasingly based on computer networking. Encryption is just one aspect of protecting sensitive information on such systems, and far from the most challenging aspect. NSA's role will increasingly be to provide guidance to commercial firms designing systems for government u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1042273 | 1,359,447 |
36,379 | A letter published in "Communications of the ACM" describes the concept of generating a synthetic patient population and proposes a variation of Turing test to assess the difference between synthetic and real patients. The letter states: "In the EHR context, though a human physician can readily distinguish between synt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21391751 | 36,367 |
1,474,217 | In general, dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is introduced into the ocean environment from bacterial lysis, the leakage or exudation of fixed carbon from phytoplankton (e.g., mucilaginous exopolymer from diatoms), sudden cell senescence, sloppy feeding by zooplankton, the excretion of waste products by aquatic animals, o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8255432 | 1,473,386 |
545,429 | Ribonuclease H enzymes cleave the phosphodiester bonds of RNA in a double-stranded RNA:DNA hybrid, leaving a 3' hydroxyl and a 5' phosphate group on either end of the cut site with a two-metal-ion catalysis mechanism, in which two divalent cations, such as Mg2+ and Mn2+, directly participate in the catalytic function. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=505422 | 545,143 |
4,918 | The F-14's wing sweep can be varied between 20° and 68° in flight, and can be automatically controlled by the Central Air Data Computer, which maintains wing sweep at the optimum lift-to-drag ratio as the Mach number varies; pilots can manually override the system if desired. When parked, the wings can be "overswept" t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11719 | 4,916 |
954,176 | Electrochemiluminescence (ECL) is nowadays a leading technique in biosensors. Since the excited species are produced with an electrochemical stimulus rather than with a light excitation source, ECL displays improved signal-to-noise ratio compared to photoluminescence, with minimized effects due to light scattering and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=480700 | 953,671 |
1,029,037 | There was one more non-championship race to contend, the World Championship Victory Race at Brands Hatch, England, three weeks after the United States Grand Prix. The race lasted for less than half of its intended distance following a number of accidents. On lap 2, Henri Pescarolo and Reine Wisell collided at the Druid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1140090 | 1,028,503 |
2,188,885 | "Pythium volutum" causes a disease of turf grass. More specifically, "Pythium volutum" is a pathogen that affects creeping bentgrass. Creeping bentgrass is a turf type that is used in many putting greens on golf courses. The majority of incidents of infection have occurred in the southeastern US. This regional distribu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11128466 | 2,187,636 |
313,500 | The fMRI concept builds on the earlier MRI scanning technology and the discovery of properties of oxygen-rich blood. MRI brain scans use a strong, permanent, static magnetic field to align nuclei in the brain region being studied. Another magnetic field, the gradient field, is then applied to spatially locate different... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=226722 | 313,331 |
1,600,370 | There were other potential conflicts and difficulties for the consortium. In early 1992, SGI had announced its intention to acquire MIPS Computer Systems, leading vendors such as Control Data ("the largest OEM customer of both MIPS and SGI") to consider switching to other architectures over concerns about this pending ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=924635 | 1,599,469 |
32,125 | On July 16, 1945, von Neumann and numerous other Manhattan Project personnel were eyewitnesses to the first test of an atomic bomb detonation, which was code-named Trinity. The event was conducted as a test of the implosion method device, at the bombing range near Alamogordo Army Airfield, southeast of Socorro, New Mex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15942 | 32,113 |
831,533 | When the Zetec-SE first arrived in 1995, it included many firsts, such as a plastic inlet manifold, a "ladder" style main bearing and crankcase assembly, and big-end bearing caps which are forged in one piece and subsequently split. It also incorporates powder metal connecting rods, which were quite exotic and notable ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1462769 | 831,084 |
1,226,025 | On November 14, 1980, the first successful test of the bomb-powered x-ray laser was conducted. The use of a bomb was initially supported over that of the reactor driven laser because it delivered a more intense beam. Livermore’s research was almost entirely devoted to missile defense using x-ray lasers. The idea was to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3770363 | 1,225,365 |
142,538 | Certain fast breeder reactor designs may be more susceptible to meltdown than other reactor types, due to their larger quantity of fissile material and the higher neutron flux inside the reactor core. Other reactor designs, such as Integral Fast Reactor model EBR II, had been explicitly engineered to be meltdown-immune... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162498 | 142,480 |
683,649 | The method unwraps the mesh of an object using a vertex shader, first calculating the lighting based on the original vertex coordinates. The vertices are then remapped using the UV texture coordinates as the screen position of the vertex, suitable transformed from the [0, 1] range of texture coordinates to the [-1, 1] ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1672020 | 683,293 |
306,589 | The Puma was originally developed as an all-new design during the mid-1960s in response to a French Army requirement for a medium-sized all-weather helicopter. On 15 April 1965, the first prototype Puma made its maiden flight; the first production helicopter flew during September 1968. Deliveries to the French Army com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=493615 | 306,425 |
314,644 | The principle of confocal imaging was patented in 1957 by Marvin Minsky and aims to overcome some limitations of traditional wide-field fluorescence microscopes. In a conventional (i.e., wide-field) fluorescence microscope, the entire specimen is flooded evenly in light from a light source. All parts of the sample can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1186904 | 314,475 |
2,157,728 | George Parker Bidder was born on 21 May 1863 in London, to barrister George Parker Bidder Jr. (1836–1896) and Anna McClean (1839–1910). His paternal grandfather was George Parker Bidder, an engineer and calculating prodigy, and his maternal grandfather was John Robinson McClean, a civil engineer and member of the Liber... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46336141 | 2,156,496 |
1,030,552 | First, the symptoms must be observed before the patient is 18 months of age. Second, there must be frequent episodes of hemiplegia, involving either side of the body. Third, other paroxysmal disorders including tonic attacks, dystonia, nystagmus, strabismus, dyspnoea, and other uncontrollable disorders are noticed to o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38898732 | 1,030,017 |
1,926,571 | The Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies(SIIT) is administered under "The Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies Act, 2000". It is governed by a board composed of senators, Saskatchewan Tribal Council appointees, and a Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations executive member. Recently, SIIT's key goal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17662656 | 1,925,467 |
2,015,562 | The program's executable object code and data would be stored in TXT records. Calls to other subroutines, functions or COMMON blocks are resolved through RLD records, which modify the address as stored in a TXT record to determine the complete address of the subroutine or function. Optionally, a language can provide sy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40095816 | 2,014,402 |
522,859 | There are certain quirks of cognitive control, such as ironic rebound, in which attempts to keep a particular thought out of consciousness result in that thought becoming increasingly prevalent. In social psychology experiments conducted by Daniel M. Wegner, Ralph Erber and R.E. Bowman, male and female subjects were in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48315631 | 522,587 |
707,043 | On a phase diagram a solid solution is represented by an area, often labeled with the structure type, which covers the compositional and temperature/pressure ranges. Where the end members are not isostructural there are likely to be two solid solution ranges with different structures dictated by the parents. In this ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2221187 | 706,674 |
2,006,248 | Established on 11 February 1940 as the Vladivostok Infantry School, the Far Eastern Higher Combined Arms Command School is one of the oldest military educational establishments in Russia. Opening shortly before the Axis invasion of the Soviet Union, it went on to train infantry company and platoon commanders during the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62944733 | 2,005,099 |
369,995 | With a modest income secured, Holst was able to marry Isobel; the ceremony was at Fulham Register Office on 22 June 1901. Their marriage lasted until his death; there was one child, Imogen, born in 1907. On 24 April 1902 Dan Godfrey and the Bournemouth Municipal Orchestra premiered Holst's symphony "The Cotswolds" (Op.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49241 | 369,801 |
1,422,258 | Brown later focused his statistics research on developing signal processing algorithms and statistical methods for neuronal data analysis. He developed a state-space point process (SSPP) paradigm to study how neural systems maintain dynamic representations of information. For the analysis of neural spiking activity and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13891813 | 1,421,457 |
1,403,829 | The ability to experimentally control and prepare increasingly complex quantum systems brings with it a growing need to turn large and noisy data sets into meaningful information. This is a problem that has already been studied extensively in the classical setting, and consequently, many existing machine learning techn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61373032 | 1,403,039 |
1,810,473 | The infamous paint-covered boulders that are found throughout the campus, affectionately known as "the Rocks," have become an integral part of campus culture. This is reflected in the University Registrar's phone numbers sometimes ending with the four digits -7625 (ROCK). The original rock has moved about the campus th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51387853 | 1,809,450 |
1,145,575 | The virtue of a practical realisation based upon this definition is that unlike the Kibble balance and other scale-based methods, all of which require the careful characterisation of gravity in the laboratory, this method delineates the magnitude of the kilogram directly in the very terms that define the nature of mass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61149311 | 1,144,974 |
312,883 | The next step was to acquire a journal to spread their ideas. This was the weekly "Reader", which they bought, revamped and redirected. Huxley had already become part-owner of the "Natural History Review" bolstered by the support of Lubbock, Rolleston, Busk and Carpenter (X-clubbers and satellites). The journal was swi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30038 | 312,715 |
1,371,218 | they compare their checksums and only transfer blocks whose checksums differ. But one problem with this scheme is that a single insertion at the beginning of the file will cause every checksum to change if fixed-sized (e.g. 4 KB) blocks are used. So the idea is to select blocks not based on a specific offset but rather... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9209488 | 1,370,461 |
1,230,235 | The MLRP is used to represent a data-generating process that enjoys a straightforward relationship between the magnitude of some observed variable and the distribution it draws from. If formula_4 satisfies the MLRP with respect to formula_5, the higher the observed value formula_2, the more likely it was drawn from dis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7615996 | 1,229,573 |
343,641 | Piaget noted that reality is a dynamic system of continuous change. Reality is defined in reference to the two conditions that define dynamic systems. Specifically, he argued that reality involves transformations and states. "Transformations" refer to all manners of changes that a thing or person can undergo. "States" ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1058599 | 343,460 |
1,724,762 | Common weed-removal processes like undercutting and controlled burning provides little opportunity for species survival, and often leads to comparable populations and richness to conventionally managed landscapes when performed in excess. Another common process is the addition of biotopes in the form of hedgerows and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18307453 | 1,723,792 |
2,148,470 | Architectural and environmental psychology developed within the German-speaking world in the 1970s. In 1972, W.F.E. Preiser stated: “What is of special interest to environmental psychologists are the rules by which person-environment relationships are determined and adjustments to changing environmental conditions are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39119819 | 2,147,239 |
2,076,163 | It was for some years unclear if the function of Spot 42 was mediated through the 109 nucleotide RNA itself or if the function was mediated through the 14 amino acids long peptide which is hypothetically encoded from within the sRNA sequence. This was based on the observation that Spot42 contains structural features si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11422263 | 2,074,966 |
2,081,689 | Cupula is a gelatinous sack covering over hair like neuromast protruding from the skin. Cupula formed over neuromast is another feature that developed over time that provides a better response to the flow field. Cupular fibrils extend from the hair-like neuromast. Cupula helps attenuate low-frequency signals by virtue ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62170643 | 2,080,489 |
2,025,787 | As the development of the antenna system appeared to be progressing well, in 1950 it was decided to add another feed horn while decreasing the beam width to 2.5 degrees. This gave a total vertical coverage of 27.5 degrees in eleven beams. However, by this time other problems appeared. A major one was that the planned S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56407327 | 2,024,621 |
122,000 | In 1958, Roger Bacon created high-performance carbon fibers at the Union Carbide Parma Technical Center located outside of Cleveland, Ohio. Those fibers were manufactured by heating strands of rayon until they carbonized. This process proved to be inefficient, as the resulting fibers contained only about 20% carbon. In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160277 | 121,951 |
789,567 | Tyndall became financially well-off from sales of his popular books and fees from his lectures (but there is no evidence that he owned commercial patents). For many years he got non-trivial payments for being a part-time scientific advisor to a couple of quasi-governmental agencies and partly donated the payments to ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=256310 | 789,142 |
961,453 | Lazare Riviére first described infective endocarditis affecting the aortic valve in 1616. In 1806, Jean-Nicolas Corvisart coined the term "vegetation" to describe collections of debris found on a mitral valve affected by infective endocarditis. The British physician Joseph Hodgson was the first to describe the embolic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=560154 | 960,944 |
1,812,505 | Systems geology emphasizes the nature of geology as a system – that is, as a set of interacting parts that function as a whole. The systems approach involves study of the linkages or interfaces between the component objects and processes at all levels of detail in order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38507261 | 1,811,472 |
1,490,712 | Watson received a PhD in gas phase chemical kinetics (atmospheric chemistry) from Queen Mary College, University of London in 1973. He has received awards for his contributions to science, including the NAS Award for Scientific Reviewing from the National Academy of Sciences in 1992, the American Association for the Ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61142 | 1,489,873 |
444,753 | WuXi Biologics and its Chinese partner Gloria Pharmaceuticals (Now Gloria Biosciences) announced (date needed) that an exclusive license to the anti-PD-1 antibody GLS-010 has been granted to Arcus Biosciences, a US-based biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of innovative cancer immunotherapies... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61516243 | 444,538 |
105,196 | Scala is statically typed, while both Groovy and Clojure are dynamically typed. This makes the type system more complex and difficult to understand but allows almost all type errors to be caught at compile-time and can result in significantly faster execution. By contrast, dynamic typing requires more testing to ensure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3254510 | 105,151 |
1,032,964 | In late October, an area of low pressure persisted in the western Caribbean Sea for several days. Around 00:00 UTC on October 26, a tropical depression developed about northeast of Colón, Panama. Approximately 12 hours later, the depression intensified into Tropical Storm Hattie. Moving towards the north and north-nort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=760589 | 1,032,428 |
706,051 | Generally, their model demonstrated the truth in Mark Granovetter's observation that it is "the strength of weak ties" that holds together a social network. Although the specific model has since been generalized by Jon Kleinberg, it remains a canonical case study in the field of complex networks. In network theory, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=636799 | 705,682 |
1,111,925 | The earliest revision of the VIC-II was used in machines made during 1982 and early 1983; it had a ceramic shell for thermal reasons and generated 64 NTSC color clocks per line. These chips also did not output separated chroma and luminance signals. All later revisions had a lower cost plastic shell and 63 color clocks... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=440680 | 1,111,359 |
36,920 | Further evidence of the threat that lead posed to humans was discovered in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Mechanisms of harm were better understood, lead blindness was documented, and the element was phased out of public use in the United States and Europe. The United Kingdom introduced mandatory factory inspe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17747 | 36,908 |
1,589,769 | The Iterative Self-Organizing Data Analysis Technique (ISODATA) algorithm used for Multispectral pattern recognition was developed by Geoffrey H. Ball and David J. Hall, working in the Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA. They published their findings in a technical report entitled: ISODATA, a novel method of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25257017 | 1,588,875 |
279,676 | On January 12, 1920, a front-page story in "The New York Times", "Believes Rocket Can Reach Moon", reported a Smithsonian press release about a "multiple-charge, high-efficiency rocket." The chief application envisaged was "the possibility of sending recording apparatus to moderate and extreme altitudes within the Eart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=210597 | 279,526 |
2,127,730 | Upon completion of the aforementioned courses, potential Aircraft Structures (ACS) Technicians will attend a 65-week-long course at CFSATE located at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Borden, Ontario. This course covers everything they will need to perform their job once they are assigned to a Unit. The course is designed to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37915627 | 2,126,509 |
1,348,885 | The application should enable secure forms to be generated that accept laboratory data input via PCs and/or laptops / palmtops, and should be directly linked to electronic devices such as laboratory balances, pH meters, etc. Networked or wireless communications should be accommodated for by the package which will allow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1616185 | 1,348,143 |
2,084,025 | On 29 September RX of 41st Siege Bty moved forward to a position near Ovillers, followed by LX on 1 October. After digging in, the battery registered new targets in support of the continuing Battle of the Ancre Heights, still using the OP in Mesnil. Over the following days it bombarded hostile batteries, the Schwaben R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69464934 | 2,082,825 |
1,849,790 | Vanderbilt University began testing its exoskeleton with paraplegics and medical experts at a rehabilitation center in Atlanta, Georgia, in 2010. In October 2012, Parker Hannifin signed an exclusive licensing agreement with Vanderbilt University for the right to develop and manufacture a commercial version of the exosk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37783653 | 1,848,732 |
2,066,459 | Along with Patricia Spittal and Kukpi Wayne Christian (Splatsin Secwepemc Nation), Schechter has served as principal investigator of the Cedar Project, funded by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. The Cedar Project began in 2003 and involves 800 Indigenous participants between the ages of 14 and 30 who use non... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42476597 | 2,065,268 |
35,245 | Diagnosing DLB can be challenging because of the wide range of symptoms with differing levels of severity in each individual. DLB is often misdiagnosed or, in its early stages, confused with Alzheimer's disease. The majority of individuals with Lewy body dementias receive an inaccurate initial diagnosis—such as Alzheim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=227167 | 35,233 |
1,072,659 | Human Resource Machine is a visual programming-based puzzle video game developed by Tomorrow Corporation. The game was released for Microsoft Windows, OS X and Wii U in October 2015, being additionally released for Linux in March 2016, for iOS in June 2016, for Android in December 2016 and for the Nintendo Switch in Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46933362 | 1,072,105 |
625,501 | There are few federal cybersecurity regulations and the ones that exist focus on specific industries. The three main cybersecurity regulations are the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the 1999 Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and the 2002 Homeland Security Act, which included the Federal Informa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3421940 | 625,168 |
1,989,846 | The company Indian Rare Earths Limited (IREL) has developed a process to extract uranium from the Western and Eastern coastal dune sands of India. After pre-processing with high-intensity magnetic separators and fine grinding, the mineral sands (known as monazite), are digested with caustic soda at about and water. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4354619 | 1,988,704 |
1,462,451 | The notion of formula_36-normalized derivatives is essential here, since it allows the ridge and valley detector algorithms to be calibrated properly. By requiring that for a one-dimensional Gaussian ridge embedded in two (or three dimensions) the detection scale should be equal to the width of the ridge structure when... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6185898 | 1,461,628 |
591 | In the 2022 NBA All-Star Game held on February 20, Curry's Team LeBron defeated Team Durant 163–160. Curry scored 50 points (just 2 points shy of the All-Star Game record set by Anthony Davis in 2017); he also set the record for most three-pointers made in an All-Star quarter (6), half (8), and game (16), and was named... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5608488 | 591 |
147,397 | The cause of narcosis is related to the increased solubility of gases in body tissues, as a result of the elevated pressures at depth (Henry's law). Modern theories have suggested that inert gases dissolving in the lipid bilayer of cell membranes cause narcosis. More recently, researchers have been looking at neurotran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21937 | 147,339 |
2,052,178 | This Chern connection arises from a choice of Hermitian metric formula_86 on formula_84, with corresponding connection formula_88 and curvature form formula_47. Ambient on the spacetime there is also a B-field or Kalb–Ramond field formula_90 (not to be confused with the B in B-model), which is the string theoretic equi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63929722 | 2,050,997 |
1,579,487 | Frog (Xenopus), as well as other amphibian, gastrulation serves as an excellent example of the role of convergent extension in embryogenesis. During gastrulation in frogs, the driving force of convergent extension is the morphogenic activity of the presumptive dorsal mesodermal cells; this activity is driven by the mes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10959358 | 1,578,597 |
793,332 | While both varieties of neuromasts utilize this method of transduction, the specialized organization of superficial and canal neuromasts allow them different mechanoreceptive capacities. Located at the surface of an animal's skin, superficial organs are exposed more directly to the external environment. Though these or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=534435 | 792,907 |
135,239 | Less than a month later, Pei suspended his work at Harvard to join the National Defense Research Committee, which coordinated scientific research into U.S. weapons technology during World War II. Pei's background in architecture was seen as a considerable asset; one member of the committee told him: "If you know how to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15155 | 135,184 |
1,599,563 | The above described effects of the adenylate cyclase toxin, mainly the cAMP overproduction, have a profound effect on target cells. Although phagocytic immune cells migrate to the site of infection in the lungs, they are not able to mount an effective response. Not only the phagocytic uptake of bacteria is blocked, but... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5810998 | 1,598,663 |
1,961,907 | The spectrum of fundamental absorption of direct-gap semiconductors such as gallium arsenide (GaAs) and cadmium sulfide (CdS) is continuous and corresponds to band-to-band transitions. It begins with transitions at the center of the Brillouin zone, formula_1. In a perfect crystal, this spectrum is preceded by a hydroge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47827692 | 1,960,779 |
1,850,116 | In epigenetics, proline isomerization is the effect that "cis-trans" isomerization of the amino acid proline has on the regulation of gene expression. Similar to aspartic acid, the amino acid proline has the rare property of being able to occupy both "cis" and "trans" isomers of its prolyl peptide bonds with ease. Pept... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57410053 | 1,849,058 |
639,964 | Estrone sulfate was first isolated from the urine of pregnant mares in the late 1930s by researchers in the Department of Biochemistry at University of Toronto. Premarin was first introduced in 1941 by Wyeth Ayerst as a treatment for hot flashes and other symptoms of menopause; at that time, Wyeth Ayerst only had to pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47602576 | 639,625 |
2,189,417 | Beta-adrenergic agonists, or β-agonists, are non-hormonal growth promotants that help animals put on muscle instead of fat. The more scientifically accepted name for agents of this class is a repartitioning agent, not a growth promotor. Ractopamine (brand names include Optaflexx and Paylean) and zilpaterol (brand name ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50533059 | 2,188,168 |
1,657,232 | Vehicles using engines equipped with Digifant fuel injection typically operated both efficiently and smoothly when new but suffered from a number of issues as the car aged, even by a few months. Digifant sensors & other components, especially the ECU itself, were remarkably sensitive to poor electrical grounding. Witho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9947492 | 1,656,299 |
1,323,422 | Directed evolution of an enzyme is a repetitive process of creating random genetic mutations, screening for a target phenotype, and selecting the most robust variant(s) for further modification. The ability of humankind to use directed evolution to optimize enzymes for biotechnological purposes is largely limited by th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54022162 | 1,322,696 |
547,238 | Unlike the pushrod systems used by DaimlerChrysler's Multi-Displacement System and General Motors' Active Fuel Management, Honda's VCM uses overhead cams. A solenoid unlocks the cam followers on one bank from their respective rockers, so the cam follower floats freely while the valve springs keep the valves closed. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1359252 | 546,951 |
701,506 | The foraging behavior of the European starling, "Sturnus vulgaris", provides an example of how marginal value theorem is used to model optimal foraging. Starlings leave their nests and travel to food patches in search for larval leatherjackets to bring back to their young. The starlings must determine the optimal numbe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3237391 | 701,141 |
1,546,095 | SpaceX planned to fly the Dragon spacecraft in a free-flying configuration, known as DragonLab. Its subsystems include propulsion, power, thermal and environmental control (ECLSS), avionics, communications, thermal protection, flight software, guidance and navigation systems, and entry, descent, landing, and recovery g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52066624 | 1,545,221 |
1,744,450 | LAK cells, along with the administration of IL-2 have been experimentally used to treat cancer in mice and humans, but there is very high toxicity with this treatment - Severe fluid retention was the major side effect of therapy, although all side effects resolved after interleukin-2 administration was stopped. LAK cel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9900287 | 1,743,466 |
1,477,611 | Carther States counter-attacks some weeks later, and the Quinn Tribe group is reunited. During the battle they steal London Tree's CARM (Cargo And Repair Module), a small spacecraft—a relic of the original settlers. The CARM is still functional due to careful management and its robust design; its solar panels provide e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=528116 | 1,476,779 |
1,480,306 | Stebbins was active in conservation issues in California during his later life. He established a California Native Plant Society branch in Sacramento in the early 1960s. Through the society, he created an active field trip program to increase interest in the native flora of California and to document rare plants. Stebb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1591079 | 1,479,472 |
4,256 | To reduce optical visibility during daylight flights, the B-2 is painted in an anti-reflective paint. The undersides are dark because it flies at high altitudes (), and at that altitude a dark grey painting blends well into the sky. It is speculated to have an upward-facing light sensor which alerts the pilot to increa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4396 | 4,254 |
2,145,485 | The Department of Psychological and Behavioural Science is a department in the London School of Economics and Political Science, founded in 1964. Until 2009, it was located within the Department of Sociology since it is a centre for the study of the human mind and behaviour in a societal context. More specifically, wor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12325425 | 2,144,254 |
856,303 | Boelcke drilled his pilots in his tactics as they flew. They learned to pair as leader and wingman, spaced 60 meters abreast to allow room for a U-turn without collision. They flew formation, massing their power for attacks. While attacking they split into pairs, although the "Dicta Boelcke" advised single assaults on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=193002 | 855,848 |
1,066,774 | Marwala has served globally and nationally on policymaking bodies. Most recently, he was the Deputy Chair of South Africa’s Presidential Commission on the Fourth Industrial Revolution (with the President of South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa serving as Chair). This committee developed the country’s fourth industrial revoluti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7406885 | 1,066,220 |
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