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74,954 | A fast Fourier transform (FFT) is an algorithm that computes the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) of a sequence, or its inverse (IDFT). Fourier analysis converts a signal from its original domain (often time or space) to a representation in the frequency domain and vice versa. The DFT is obtained by decomposing a seque... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11512 | 74,927 |
1,437,766 | When looking at data related to individual molecules, one usually can construct propagators, and jumping time probability density functions, of the first order, the second order and so on, whereas from bulk experiments, one usually obtains the decay of a correlation function. From the information contained in these uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2781940 | 1,436,957 |
931,595 | The zircons from the Western Australian Jack Hills returned an age of 4.404 billion years, interpreted to be the age of crystallization. These zircons also show another feature; their oxygen isotopic composition has been interpreted to indicate that more than 4.4 billion years ago there was already water on the surface... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4087668 | 931,103 |
1,131,229 | Before SHG was used for imaging, the first demonstration of SHG was performed in 1961 by P. A. Franken, G. Weinreich, C. W. Peters, and A. E. Hill at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor using a quartz sample. In 1968, SHG from interfaces was discovered by Bloembergen and has since been used as a tool for characterizi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12641022 | 1,130,640 |
2,045,657 | In the early 1960s the HMDC, originally known as the Government Data Center, was established as part of a national movement for all universities to collect, consolidate, and share social science research data. This movement eventually became known as the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICP... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40346741 | 2,044,476 |
298,580 | In the early 18th century, the disease was seen as similar to smallpox, due to its analogous symptoms. The personal physician of the pope, Giovanni Maria Lancisi, recommended the destruction of all infected and exposed animals. This policy was not very popular and was used only sparingly in the first part of the centur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=501921 | 298,420 |
88,604 | In the book "Feeding Everyone No Matter What", under the worst-case scenario predictions of nuclear winter, the authors present various unconventional food possibilities. These include natural-gas-digesting bacteria, the most well known being Methylococcus capsulatus, that is presently used as a feed in fish farming; b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22171 | 88,568 |
701,888 | Current remediation methods may vary, but expensive treatment costs persist. The cost efficiency of treatments can be increased through the use of models that are able to accurately predict ecosystem responses to various inputs; thus enabling restoration groups to determine the overall most effective treatment combinat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1685995 | 701,523 |
1,905,635 | Several other advantages are associated with the use of non-linear absorption, i.e. high spatial resolution, enhanced penetration depth, improved background discrimination and reduced photodamage to living specimens. In addition, the fact that TPA transitions obey different selection rules than OPA (even-parity vs. odd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41383199 | 1,904,540 |
1,306,037 | The initial suspicion was that the fiberglass fairing placed on top of the capsule to sit in place of the absent LES had broken loose and punctured the Atlas's LOX tank. NASA's Owen Maynard, who was involved in Mercury systems engineering, led the recovery of the MA-1 capsule from the sea floor (in which he performed a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=728340 | 1,305,321 |
1,564,443 | In 2008, she became an associate professor, then a SNU Distinguished Fellow in 2010, and a full professor in 2013. Located in Seoul National University, she began working with the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) in 2012 as the founding director of the Center for RNA Research. her lab focuses on RNA-mediated gene regu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33971823 | 1,563,556 |
111,969 | The Scientific Revolution was enabled by advances in book production. Before the advent of the printing press, introduced in Europe in the 1440s by Johannes Gutenberg, there was no mass market on the continent for scientific treatises, as there had been for religious books. Printing decisively changed the way scientifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29544 | 111,924 |
1,682,090 | Stadler was invited by a Hungarian count, Georg Festitics, to help organize a school of music in Keszthely near the Plattensee. The result, Stadler's 50-page "Musick Plan" of 1800, represents a thoughtful and organized side of Stadler one might not have suspected to exist (the original is preserved in the National Hung... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=219080 | 1,681,147 |
2,142,411 | Another former president of the American Economic Association, Georgescu-Roegen, also began to dissent from orthodox economics for reasons not dissimilar to Boulding. In his classic work, The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, Georgescu-Roegen issued a call for the end of the circular flow diagrams used in mainstrea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=872384 | 2,141,180 |
2,081,485 | In 1960, the library was moved to the former St. Joseph's Chapel, where it remained until the Folsom Library was built. In 1963, Amos Eaton hall was to be remodeled to house RPI’s department of mathematics. Dr. Richard G. Folsom speculated that the first phase in renovating it was initially expected to cost approximate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7798741 | 2,080,285 |
116,087 | Two new promising thin film technologies are copper zinc tin sulfide (CuZnSnS or CZTS), zinc phosphide (ZnP) and single-walled carbon nano-tubes (SWCNT). These thin films are currently only produced in the lab but may be commercialized in the future. The manufacturing of CZTS and (ZnP) processes are expected to be simi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=652531 | 116,042 |
258,501 | Certification systems are important to the agriculture community and to consumers as these standards determine the sustainability of produce. Numerous sustainability standards and certification systems exist, including organic certification, Rainforest Alliance, Fair Trade, UTZ Certified, GlobalGAP, Bird Friendly, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216143 | 258,367 |
739,239 | QSTEM analysis can be achieved using commonplace software and programming languages, such as MatLab or Python, with the help of toolboxes and plug-ins that serve to expedite the process. This is analysis that can be performed virtually anywhere. Consequently, the largest roadblock is acquiring a high-resolution, aberra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1823144 | 738,847 |
1,654,405 | As of 2007, there is almost universal agreement in the astrophysics community that the long-duration bursts are associated with the deaths of massive stars in a specific kind of supernova-like event commonly referred to as a collapsar or hypernova. Very massive stars are able to fuse material in their centers all the w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13640867 | 1,653,473 |
1,934,981 | The conservation-restoration of panel paintings involves preventive and treatment measures taken by paintings conservators to slow deterioration, preserve, and repair damage. Panel paintings consist of a wood support, a ground (linen or parchment sized with glues, resin, and gesso), and an image layer (encaustic, tempe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53622622 | 1,933,873 |
1,499,073 | Members of the genus "Thermococcus" are typically irregularly shaped coccoid species, ranging in size from 0.6 to 2.0 μm in diameter. Some species of "Thermococcus" are immobile, and some species have motility, using flagella as their main mode of movement. These flagella typically exist at a specific pole of the organ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12816678 | 1,498,229 |
1,772,864 | Thalamocortical dysrhythmia (TCD) is a proposed explanation for certain cognitive disorders. It occurs upon the disruption of normal gamma-band electrical activity between the cortex and thalamic neurons during awakened, conscious states. This disorder is associated with diseases and conditions such as neuropathic pain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14824490 | 1,771,867 |
1,965,858 | On 6 April 1917 the United States declared war on the "Imperial German Government" and the Coast Guard was placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Navy for the duration of the war by executive order signed by President Woodrow Wilson. Duties for "Unalga" did not change under Navy control initially and she left for he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42183952 | 1,964,729 |
502,165 | The Direct Fusion Drive (DFD) is a conceptual fusion-powered spacecraft engine, named for its ability to produce thrust from fusion without going through an intermediary electricity-generating step. The DFD uses a novel magnetic confinement and heating system, fueled with a mixture of helium-3 () and deuterium (D or ),... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57934418 | 501,907 |
1,769,415 | Since the 1950s, the capital construction industry has been plagued by excessive growth and compartmentalization. There were frequent cost overruns and construction delays, and resources were overtaxed. Project directors often failed to predict accurately the need for such elements as transportation, raw materials, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14189344 | 1,768,421 |
1,342,597 | At Imperial College London, Crisanti has established the technologies to eliminate the human malaria vector Anopheles gambiae. Crisanti's work exploits the biological properties of a class of selfish genetic elements (homing endonuclease) to develop a gene transfer technology. Using such technology, Crisanti has develo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45492721 | 1,341,863 |
781,919 | Allostery is a direct and efficient means for regulation of biological macromolecule function, produced by the binding of a ligand at an allosteric site topographically distinct from the orthosteric site. Due to the often high receptor selectivity and lower target-based toxicity, allosteric regulation is also expected ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=106256 | 781,500 |
411,131 | In physics, the term "theory" is generally used for a mathematical framework—derived from a small set of basic postulates (usually symmetries—like equality of locations in space or in time, or identity of electrons, etc.)—that is capable of producing experimental predictions for a given category of physical systems. A ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=198507 | 410,929 |
1,632,258 | APOLLO is based on measuring the time-of-flight of a short-pulse laser reflected from a distant target—in this case the retroreflector arrays on the Moon. Each burst of light lasts 100 picoseconds (ps). One millimeter in range corresponds to only 6.7 ps of round-trip travel time. However, the retroreflectors on the Moo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=848057 | 1,631,336 |
948,698 | In the initial stages of the Internet (ARPANET), addressing of hosts on the network was achieved by static translation tables that mapped hostnames to IP addresses. The tables were maintained manually in form of the host file. The Domain Name System brought a method of distributing the same address information automati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80150 | 948,194 |
1,730,840 | To date, roughly 350 mutations in "MYBPC3" have been identified, and in large part, the mutations result in protein truncation, shifts in reading frames, and premature termination codons. Genetic studies have revealed significant overlap between genotypes and phenotypes as "MYBPC3" mutations can lead to various forms o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14726020 | 1,729,865 |
1,340,048 | The MAHLE Stirling engine develops 25 kW for use in renewable power generation applications. The engine was designed for use with a solar mirror dish configuration to collect and focus the Sun's heat on to the engine's heat exchanger to provide power. The engine employs four cylinders which are arranged in a square (U4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26026024 | 1,339,315 |
224,819 | Having devised a means of measuring gamma radiation, Chadwick proceeded to measure the absorption of gamma rays by various gases and liquids. This time the resulting paper was published under his name alone. He was awarded his Master of Science (MSc) degree in 1912, and was appointed a Beyer Fellow. The following year ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174316 | 224,704 |
1,294,680 | Saaty has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering (2005), and the "Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales" (Spanish Royal Academy of Sciences, 1971). In 1973, he received the Lester R. Ford Award from the Mathematical Association of America for expository excellence in his paper "Thirteen Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=528429 | 1,293,969 |
847,629 | Supermarine Spitfire variants powered by early model Rolls-Royce Merlin engines mostly utilised single-speed, single-stage superchargers. The British Supermarine Spitfire was the only Allied fighter aircraft of the Second World War to fight in front line service from the beginnings of the conflict, in September 1939, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16070159 | 847,179 |
1,224,959 | Researchers have conducted two NASA-funded international studies of psychological and interpersonal issues during on-orbit missions to the Mir and the International Space Station. Both crew members and mission control personnel were studied. The Mir sample involved 13 astronauts and cosmonauts and 58 American and Russi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40399131 | 1,224,299 |
117,144 | Citing a need to avoid confusion, distinguish itself from the University of Pennsylvania, and return to its roots by identifying itself with the city, the Western University of Pennsylvania, by act of the state legislature, was renamed the University of Pittsburgh in the summer of 1908. During this time, the university... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239870 | 117,099 |
1,087,612 | One of the reasons for interest in "this particular" rather elaborate urn model (i.e. with duplication and then replacement of each ball drawn) is that it provides an example in which the count (initially "x" black and "y" white) of balls in the urn is "not" concealed, which is able to approximate the correct updating ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28955783 | 1,087,053 |
45,163 | General relativity has emerged as a highly successful model of gravitation and cosmology, which has so far passed many unambiguous observational and experimental tests. However, there are strong indications that the theory is incomplete. The problem of quantum gravity and the question of the reality of spacetime singul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12024 | 45,146 |
1,011,092 | The passacaglia proved an enduring form throughout the twentieth century and beyond. In mid-century, one writer stated that "despite the inevitable lag in the performance of new music, there are more twentieth-century passacaglias in the active repertory of performers than baroque works in this form". Three composers e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=185258 | 1,010,571 |
1,234,544 | The LIDAR system consisted of a 180 mJ, 1064 nm wavelength Nd-YAG (Yttrium-Aluminum-Garnet) laser transmitter which transmitted pulses to the lunar surface. The laser produced a pulse with a width less than 10 ns. At 1064 nm wavelength, the pulse had an energy of 171 mJ with a divergence less than 500 microrad. At 532 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82872 | 1,233,881 |
535,132 | Prior to federation each self-governing colony had operated its own naval force. These navies were small and lacked blue water capabilities, forcing the separate colonies to subsidise the cost of a British naval squadron in their waters for decades. The colonies maintained control over their respective navies until 1 M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323516 | 534,853 |
593,634 | The Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) provides a certification for CRAs, specific to the job function performed. The ACRP offers the designation of Certified Clinical Research Associate (CCRA®). In order to become accredited as a CCRA®, the Clinical Research Associate must pass a CCRA® examination i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2449402 | 593,330 |
2,178,277 | Apoptosis is an essential process for the development of multicellular organisms. Its role is to remove excess cells during development (e.g. sculpting the digits of vertebrates), as well as being responsible for detaching damaged, potentially dangerous, cells. Because of its extreme importance, this pathway has been s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65720315 | 2,177,032 |
426,126 | A unique feature of the MCASOM curriculum are the selectives, which have been shown to increase medical student academic productivity and the desire to conduct future research. There are twenty-eight undesignated weeks between blocks spread out during the first two years. Twelve of these weeks can be used as vacation o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56382717 | 425,918 |
774,455 | Stalinists and their followers challenge this view - they claim that socialism was established in the Soviet Union after Joseph Stalin came to power in the late 1920s and instituted the system of five-year plans in 1928. The 1936 Constitution of the Soviet Union, known as the Fundamental Law of Victorious Socialism, em... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43069513 | 774,039 |
399,352 | The root words "photo", "litho", and "graphy" all have Greek origins, with the meanings 'light', 'stone' and 'writing' respectively. As suggested by the name compounded from them, "photolithography" is a printing method (originally based on the use of limestone printing plates) in which light plays an essential role. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23748 | 399,154 |
119,056 | As an alternative, longer-range designs with extended loiter times were considered. These "area defense interceptors" or "area defense fighters" were in general larger designs intended to stay on lengthy patrol and protect a much larger area from attack, depending on greater detection capabilities, both in the aircraft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=142759 | 119,008 |
1,729,300 | According to Thomas and Davenport (1985), early reports of spoilage in mayonnaise and salad dressing due to "Z. bailii" date back to the beginning of the 20th century. More detailed investigations in the 1940s and 1950s confirmed that "Z. bailii" was the main spoiler in cucumber pickles, sundry pickled vegetable mixes,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4374802 | 1,728,326 |
1,238,234 | But there is never any evidence or assertion by Briselli or contention by Barber that Briselli found the third movement too difficult to play. As to the upcoming premiere performance, in place of the Barber, Briselli substituted Dvořák's Violin Concerto. Barber's letter of December 14 to Fels identifies his intention w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3828005 | 1,237,568 |
1,610,380 | As time went on, figs were spread from their indigenous region of Western Asia, and their comfortable home in the Mediterranean, throughout many other places around the world (of course, despite their increasing ability to grow in many different regions, the Mediterranean still remains the ideal location for the raisin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53472620 | 1,609,475 |
680,537 | Some historians, such as Roland Chrisjohn, director of Native Studies at St. Thomas University, have argued that some European colonists, having discovered that indigenous populations were not immune to certain diseases, deliberately spread diseases to gain military advantages and subjugate local peoples. In his book "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5090455 | 680,182 |
1,612,963 | Malicious actors who may benefit from physical access to information assets include computer crackers, corporate spies, and fraudsters. The value of information assets is self-evident in the case of, say, stolen laptops or servers that can be sold-on for cash, but the information content is often far more valuable, for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7089085 | 1,612,058 |
604,271 | This arrangement lasted only until the War Department implemented the executive order on May 24 by issuing General Order No. 51 to coordinate the two independent agencies, with an eventual goal of creating a "Director of Air Service". (The term "Air Service" had been in use in France since June 13, 1917, to describe th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=662917 | 603,961 |
1,266,844 | A lack of standards for making concrete blocks resulted in a negative perception of concrete for construction. An editorial by Charles C. Brown in the September 1904 issue of "Municipal Engineering" discussed the idea of forming an organization to bring order and standard practices to the industry. In 1905 the National... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15440560 | 1,266,155 |
1,545,739 | Analysts would deliberate and report on significant activity changes, their importance and the implications and provide warning messages that would indicate an upcoming crisis. According to Gentry and Gordon, the US has used the colour green, yellow and red to convey crisis as part of their waning messages. This method... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47355403 | 1,544,865 |
419,612 | The proclamation of the independence of Ukraine in 1991 brought about radical changes in every sphere of university life. Professor, Doctor Ivan Vakarchuk, a renowned scholar in the field of theoretical physics, had been rector of the university from 1990 to 2013. Meeting the requirements arising in recent years new fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2271241 | 419,407 |
742,349 | Previous considerations represent typical problems characterizing terrestrial radio links using microwaves for the so-called backbone networks: hop lengths of a few tens of kilometers (typically 10 to 60 km) were largely used until the 1990s. Frequency bands below 10 GHz, and above all, the information to be transmitte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5540651 | 741,957 |
1,578,780 | Intrabeam, (Carl Zeiss AG, Germany) received FDA and CE approval in 1999 and is a miniature mobile X-ray source which emits low-energy X-ray radiation (max. 50 kV) in isotropic distribution. Due to the higher ionization density caused by soft X-ray radiation in the tissue, the relative biological effectiveness (RBE) of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11146999 | 1,577,890 |
1,003,893 | It remains a difficult medical challenge to prevent the sudden cardiac death of athletes, typically defined as natural, unexpected death from cardiac arrest within one hour of the onset of collapse symptoms, excluding additional time on mechanical life support. (Wider definitions of sudden death are also in use, but no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37416497 | 1,003,375 |
1,184,611 | According to historians, the small number of scientific personnel undoubtedly influenced the results and outcomes of the expedition. Bulkeley emphasized a big contrast with the that was conducted only four years before and was sponsored with private funds. The Kotzebue's crew included four scientists for whom an extend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40880361 | 1,183,983 |
1,495,120 | In order to survive, plants must be able to respond to many biotic and abiotic stresses, including pathogen attack, piercing/sucking insects, herbivory, and mechanical wounding. These stresses activate specialized signal transduction pathways, which are specific to the stressor and the amount of tissue damage inflicted... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11213172 | 1,494,279 |
1,690,105 | The diagnosis of DPB requires analysis of the lungs and bronchiolar tissues, which can require a lung biopsy, or the more preferred high resolution computed tomography (HRCT) scan of the lungs. The diagnostic criteria include severe inflammation in all layers of the respiratory bronchioles and lung tissue lesions that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17337043 | 1,689,159 |
69,914 | News spread quickly of the new discovery, which was correctly seen as an entirely novel physical effect with great scientific—and potentially practical—possibilities. Meitner's and Frisch's interpretation of the discovery of Hahn and Strassmann crossed the Atlantic Ocean with Niels Bohr, who was to lecture at Princeton... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22054 | 69,887 |
838,566 | The first description of a person with FSHD in medical literature appears in an autopsy report by Jean Cruveilhier in 1852. In 1868, Duchenne published his seminal work on Duchenne muscular dystrophy, and as part of its differential was a description of FSHD. First in 1874, then with a more commonly cited publication i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2570824 | 838,117 |
1,487,409 | The IOC/UNESCO is composed of its Member States (147 in 2014), an Assembly, an Executive Council and a Secretariat. The Secretariat is based in Paris, France. Additionally the IOC has a number of Subsidiary Bodies: three regional sub-commissions (IOCARIBE, IOCAFRICA, and WESTPAC), and programme and project offices in A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=478797 | 1,486,571 |
876,023 | The extensive degree of human use of the Planet's resources, mostly via land use, results in various levels of impact on "actual NPP" (NPP). Although in some regions, such as the Nile valley, irrigation has resulted in a considerable increase in primary production, in most of the Planet there is a notable trend of "NPP... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=208303 | 875,561 |
375,793 | In December 2010, "The Economist" reported that the demand for nuclear power was softening in America. In recent years, utilities have shown an interest in about 30 new reactors, but the number with any serious prospect of being built as of the end of 2010 was about a dozen, as some companies had withdrawn their applic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4131402 | 375,598 |
1,368,571 | Kaplan has expressed that this theme continued into the aesthetics of the game, commenting, "when it comes to the setting and art style and tone of the universe, a lot of games like to approach the future in either a very dystopian way, or a post-apocalyptic way," and adding, "we wanted to make something bright and wel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55762533 | 1,367,815 |
97,481 | Some drugs can cause a neutralizing immune response, meaning that the immune system produces neutralizing antibodies that counteract the action of the drugs, particularly if the drugs are administered repeatedly, or in larger doses. This limits the effectiveness of drugs based on larger peptides and proteins (which are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14958 | 97,440 |
377,421 | The threat to humans in developed countries is rising as a result of social trends: the increase in organic farming, which uses manure and sewage sludge rather than artificial fertilizers, spreads parasites both directly and via the droppings of seagulls which feed on manure and sludge; the increasing popularity of raw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24151 | 377,226 |
1,813,932 | In the early 20th century, as the Bahá'í Faith was expanding in the United States, the Bahá'í community viewed the issue of race according to another Bahá'í principle – the oneness of humanity – which had been expressed earlier but was further substantiated by 1912 during `Abdu'l-Bahá's talks to American audiences. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2353883 | 1,812,898 |
1,625,732 | In 1910, Samuel Black resigned, and was replaced by Edward L. Hardy, who had previously served as the principal of San Diego High School. He increased the faculty size from 19 to 27 in 1912 to meet the demands of increased enrollment. The annual salary for the president increased to $4,000 (from $3,400) in 1915 and sal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20079555 | 1,624,814 |
2,167,602 | In the R1 Iliffe and his colleagues introduced a protection scheme for all data objects. The manipulation of references to memory (termed "codewords") was restricted to privileged code, preventing some types of program error. Codewords referenced vectors of data items, sequences of instructions or other codewords . Sto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60155126 | 2,166,365 |
406,978 | For expression profiling, or high-throughput analysis of many genes within a sample, quantitative PCR may be performed for hundreds of genes simultaneously in the case of low-density arrays. A second approach is the hybridization microarray. A single array or "chip" may contain probes to determine transcript levels for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=159266 | 406,777 |
115,983 | Gasdermin D (GSDMD) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the GSDMD gene and is a known target of the inflammasome and acts as an effector molecule of programmed cell death known as pyroptosis. This protein determines cell lysis to prevent pathogen replication and results in the release of the inflammatory cytokine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=411673 | 115,938 |
1,044,761 | SRM has been used to identify the proteins encoded by wild-type and mutant genes (mutant proteins) and quantify their absolute copy numbers in tumors and biological fluids, thus answering the basic questions about the absolute copy number of proteins in a single cell, which will be essential in digital modelling of mam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21953783 | 1,044,217 |
2,089,148 | The technological and economical developments of a last few decades have brought a revolutionary change in the way chemical processes and production facilities are designed and operated. Conventional process systems are now discarded whereas modern and next generation plants; however, tend to adopt state of the art cle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21187052 | 2,087,945 |
798,598 | In 1994, the death of Disney President and Chief Operating Officer Frank Wells, and the departure of studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg to co-found DreamWorks, left Michael Eisner in full control of the company. At the turn of the century, films such as "Dinosaur" (Disney's first CG animated feature), "", "Treasure Pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=141959 | 798,173 |
1,250,200 | In the US, startup Aging2.0 launched in 2015 and has since organized 170 meet-up events, opened volunteer chapters in 30 countries and signed up 30 companies for its own accelerator program. Amongst these, SingFit “makes it easy for everyone to become a music therapist”, WalkJoy is a wearable sensor that measures a per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6079418 | 1,249,524 |
1,880,146 | In 1791, the French Academy of Sciences chose to define the metre as one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to the North or South Pole. This replaced the earlier definition based on the period of a pendulum, because the force of Earth's gravity varies slightly over the surface of the Earth, which affects th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64715804 | 1,879,065 |
444,116 | Two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials are ultrathin nanomaterials with a high degree of anisotropy and chemical functionality. 2D nanomaterials are highly diverse in terms of their mechanical, chemical, and optical properties, as well as in size, shape, biocompatibility, and degradability. These diverse properties make 2D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43589512 | 443,901 |
399,627 | Like its predecessor, the BMD-4 is capable of parachuting from aircraft with the entire crew and passengers inside the vehicle which allows target engagement after landing to be instant. An Il-76 is able to transport two of these vehicles at a time in comparison to three BMD-1s and BMD-2s. Its engine is the 2V-06-2; th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42534466 | 399,429 |
1,672,154 | In 1932, Rudolph Schindler (1888–1968) of Germany introduced the first semi-flexible gastroscope. This device had numerous lenses positioned throughout the tube and a miniature light bulb at the distal tip. The tube of this device was 75 centimeters long and 11 millimeters in diameter, and the distal portion was capabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28862297 | 1,671,212 |
1,275,697 | The initial aim of the École des mines de Paris, namely to train high-level mining engineers, evolved with time to adapt to the technological and structural transformations undergone by society. Mines ParisTech has now become one of the most prestigious French engineering schools with a broad variety of subjects. Its s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=658839 | 1,275,004 |
1,542,799 | In 1999 he was appointed as Anglo American plc professor of mineral and process engineering at the University of Leeds where he was responsible for developing a new Institute of Particle Science and Engineering, a core development in re-development of chemical engineering at the University within the recently formed Sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26669874 | 1,541,926 |
752,060 | In 1961, Congress held hearings and passed a $1.7 billion 1962 NASA appropriations bill which included $60 million for the new crewed spaceflight laboratory. A set of requirements for the new site was drawn up and released to the Congress and general public. These included: access to water transport by large barges, a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177571 | 751,658 |
1,774,255 | The first true champion of the mechanic arts at Penn State was John Fraser, appointed as a professor of mathematics in 1865 and as president of the university in 1866 after Allen's resignation. Fraser's time in the Union army served him well at Penn State, becoming the school's first lecturer in military tactics, and m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31430357 | 1,773,258 |
622,756 | The development of effective treatments for many proteopathies has been challenging. Because the proteopathies often involve different proteins arising from different sources, treatment strategies must be customized to each disorder; however, general therapeutic approaches include maintaining the function of affected o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10348140 | 622,424 |
5,974 | In the early years of operation, the analog computers would not always keep up with rapidly changing flight environmental inputs. If internal pressures became too great and the spike was incorrectly positioned, the shock wave would suddenly blow out the front of the inlet, called an "inlet unstart". During unstarts, af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55245 | 5,971 |
934,913 | Cyclodextrins are prepared by enzymatic treatment of starch. Commonly cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase (CGTase) is employed along with α-amylase. First starch is liquified either by heat treatment or using α-amylase, then CGTase is added for the enzymatic conversion. CGTases produce mixtures of cyclodextrins, thus the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1252800 | 934,419 |
591,692 | Vesicular stomatitis virus (VSV) is a rhabdovirus, consisting of 5 genes encoded by a negative sense, single-stranded RNA genome. In nature, VSV infects insects as well as livestock, where it causes a relatively localized and non-fatal illness. The low pathogenicity of this virus is due in large part to its sensitivity... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1723667 | 591,390 |
1,855,231 | Spongiform degeneration of mouse brains caused by altering PI3P to PI(3,5)P2 conversion is associated with human Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by accumulation of Lc3II, p62, and LAMP2 proteins, which also contributes to inclusion body disease. Manipulation of this signaling lipid i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10829640 | 1,854,165 |
620,651 | In the Carpathian mountains, they tend to favor almost exclusively beech-dominated forests, normally at elevations of above sea level. Forest characteristics of these beech-dominated woods showed that during forest management showed they need at least of woods to persist, with parts of the forests needing to be at leas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=815909 | 620,335 |
965,055 | Much of the stimulus for the treaty was increasing public unease about radioactive fallout as a result of above-ground or underwater nuclear testing, particularly given the increasing power of nuclear devices, as well as concern about the general environmental damage caused by testing. In 1952–53, the US and Soviet Uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30592 | 964,546 |
822,629 | The visual ability of birds of prey is legendary, and the keenness of their eyesight is due to a variety of factors. Raptors have large eyes for their size, 1.4 times greater than the average for birds of the same weight, and the eye is tube-shaped to produce a larger retinal image. The resolving power of an eye depend... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18416476 | 822,188 |
409,842 | On 4 June 1942, a conference regarding the project, initiated by Albert Speer as head of the "Reich Ministry for Armament and Ammunition" (RMBM: " Reichsministerium für Bewaffnung und Munition"; after late 1943 the Reich Ministry for Armament and War Production), decided on its continuation merely for the aim of energy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1397318 | 409,640 |
847,664 | Accordingly, a standard Mk I "K9834" (the 48th production Spitfire) was taken off the production line and modified for the attempt on the World Speed Record. All military equipment was removed and the hinged gun panels, radio door and flare chute opening were replaced with removable panels. A special "sprint" version o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16070159 | 847,214 |
851,909 | In writing instruction, support is typically presented in verbal form (discourse). The writing tutor engages the learner's attention, calibrates the task, motivates the student, identifies relevant task features, controls for frustration, and demonstrates as needed (Rodgers, 2004). Through joint activities, the teacher... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=263104 | 851,455 |
807,326 | Deepfake is a form of media in which one existing image or video is replaced or altered by someone else. Altering may include acting out fake content, false advertisement, hoaxes, and financial fraud. The technology of deepfakes may also use machine learning or artificial intelligence. Deepfakes propose an ethical dile... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=699052 | 806,896 |
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