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1,984,361 | Main physical signs include a fatty liver, a weakened and enlarged heart (cardiomyopathy), inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis), reduced thyroid activity (hypothyroidism), type 2 diabetes, abnormal levels of creatine kinase in blood, and increased weakness of proximal muscles due to fatty replacement of skeletal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20673108 | 1,983,222 |
884,754 | To provide oxidation resistance for reuse capability, the outer layers of the RCC were coated with silicon carbide. The silicon-carbide coating protected the carbon-carbon from oxidation. The RCC was highly resistant to fatigue loading that was experienced during ascent and entry. It was stronger than the tiles and was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2230989 | 884,290 |
1,107,135 | Interdependence theory was first introduced by Harold Kelley and John Thibaut in 1959 in their book, "The Social Psychology of Groups". This book drew inspiration from social exchange theory and game theory, and provided key definitions and concepts instrumental to the development of the interdependence framework. In t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33931444 | 1,106,571 |
1,435,014 | In a follow-up study in 2008, 572 patients from the GAIT trial continued their supplementation for 2 years. After 2 years of supplementation with glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate, alone or in combination, there was no benefit in slowing the loss of cartilage, in terms of joint space width, when compared to a placebo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42814669 | 1,434,208 |
1,459,016 | Cervical (neck) vertebrae are notably tall and their sides are excavated by large ventral depressions, which generates a keel on their lower edge. Many laminae (bony buttresses) are developed on the centrum (main spool-shaped portion of the vertebra). Most of these connect the diapophysis (upper rib facet) to the parap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7313981 | 1,458,195 |
1,044,343 | Catastrophism is the hypothesis, argued by the French anatomist and paleontologist Georges Cuvier in his 1812 "Recherches sur les ossements fossiles de quadrupèdes", that the various extinctions and the patterns of faunal succession seen in the fossil record were caused by large-scale natural catastrophes such as volca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53955838 | 1,043,799 |
804,816 | Furthermore, incorporating sustainability can begin before the construction process begins. Purchasing items from sustainable local businesses, analyzing the longevity of a product, taking part in recycling by purchasing recycled materials, and more should be taken into consideration. Supporting local, sustainable busi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28730644 | 804,387 |
998,953 | The RD-33MK "Morskaya Osa" (Russian: Морская Оса: "Sea Wasp") is the latest model developed in 2001. It is intended to power the MiG-29K and MiG-29KUB shipborne fighters, however it has also been adopted for the MiG-35. The RD-33MK develops 7% higher thrust, is digitally controlled FADEC and smokeless unlike earlier RD... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4166892 | 998,435 |
883,123 | The great majority of contemporary spectrometers use a mixture of commercially available and bespoke components which users integrate according to their particular needs. Instruments can be broadly categorised according to their general operating principles. Although rotational transitions can be found across a very br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=531239 | 882,659 |
402,354 | At carbon, the ratio of mass (in daltons) to mass number is defined as 1, and after carbon it becomes less than one until a minimum is reached at iron-56 (with only slightly higher values for iron-58 and nickel-62), then increases to positive values in the heavy isotopes, with increasing atomic number. This corresponds... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19604151 | 402,155 |
898,598 | So stood the situation for nearly 30 years. Then, in 1964, John Stewart Bell made the groundbreaking discovery that Einstein's local realist world view made experimentally verifiable predictions that would be in conflict with those of quantum mechanics. Bell's discovery shifted the Einstein–Bohr debate from philosophy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57264039 | 898,123 |
966,601 | The geology of Olduvai was known. In 1913, Reck had extricated a skeleton from Bed II in the gorge wall. He argued that it must have the date of the bed, which was believed to be 600,000 years, in the mid-Pleistocene. Early dates for human evolution were not widely accepted by the general public at the time. Reck becam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17965 | 966,091 |
40,675 | By November 25 (10 weeks after his injury), Gage was strong enough to return to his parents' home in Lebanon, New Hampshire, traveling there in a "close carriage" (an enclosed conveyance of the kind used for transporting the insane). Though "quite feeble and thin ... weak and childish" on arriving, by late December he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=386986 | 40,660 |
1,521,918 | The use of fibers in the mix has several advantages like in the case of conventional concrete. The higher cement content and faster hydration rate requirements of printed concrete make it susceptible to shrinkage cracking and thermal stresses. The use of fibers (structural or non-structural) can counter these significa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67944537 | 1,521,057 |
1,427,197 | In Eukaryotic systems, the role of the NDK is to synthesize nucleoside triphosphates other than ATP. The ATP gamma phosphate is transferred to the NDP beta phosphate via a ping-pong mechanism, using a phosphorylated active-site intermediate, and synthesize products such as UTP. NDK possesses nucleoside-diphosphate kina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2281317 | 1,426,394 |
1,956,912 | In butterfliess, the sex of the offspring is not determined as in the most common case among animals, including humans, but by the make-up of the egg. In these cases, the female sex is heterogametic, the male is homogametic. In such cases, one does not speak of X and Y chromosomes, but of Z and W chromosomes. Males hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66848607 | 1,955,788 |
1,974,923 | Many mixotrophic and some heterotrophic dinoflagellates are known to cause red tides or harmful blooms that result in large-scale mortality of fish and shellfish. Studies on red tides have been conducted to determine the mechanism of outbreak and the persistence of red tides caused by mixotrophic dinoflagellates such a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53396979 | 1,973,786 |
607,704 | The Master of Sciences of Pharmacy (MPharm) is the standard master's degree program in Pharmacy. It is the oldest honorable Diploma (Degree) authorized from the European Faculties of Pharmacy as it takes five years to complete. It is based on a credit system higher than the normal Bachelor of Pharmacy degree (B.Pharm o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5551141 | 607,393 |
136,179 | These security-related shortcomings have seen the usage of the Telnet protocol drop rapidly, especially on the public Internet, in favor of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol, first released in 1995. SSH has practically replaced Telnet, and the older protocol is used these days only in rare cases to access decades-old leg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31062 | 136,124 |
919,509 | Two studies have used linkage analysis to estimate the age of the CCR5 Δ32 deletion, assuming that the amount of recombination and mutation observed on genomic regions surrounding the CCR5 Δ32 deletion would be proportional to the age of the deletion. Using a sample of 4000 individuals from 38 ethnic populations, Steph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1604312 | 919,023 |
216,696 | Commonly, this debate is characterized by the conflict between New Deal Senator Harley M. Kilgore and OSRD head Vannevar Bush. Narratives about the National Science Foundation prior to the 1970s typically concentrated on Vannevar Bush and his 1945 publication Science—The Endless Frontier. In this report, Vannevar Bush,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157427 | 216,588 |
1,721,310 | While patent laws are written to apply to all inventions, whether mechanical, pharmaceutical, or electronic, the interpretations of patent law made by government patent granting agencies (the United States Patent and Trademark Office, for example) and courts, can be very subject-matter specific with significant impact ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10338164 | 1,720,340 |
141,336 | The pelvic surface of the sacrum is concave from the top, and curved slightly from side to side. Its middle part is crossed by four transverse ridges, which correspond to the original planes of separation between the five sacral vertebrae. The body of the first segment is large and has the form of a lumbar vertebra; th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=232244 | 141,278 |
1,567,861 | Plasma lamps are a family of light sources that generate light by exciting a plasma inside a closed transparent burner or bulb using radio frequency (RF) power. Typically, such lamps use a noble gas or a mixture of these gases and additional materials such as metal halides, sodium, mercury, or sulfur. A waveguide is us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1454085 | 1,566,974 |
419,060 | Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are a heterogenous population of cells of myelogenous origin with the potential to repress T cell responses. They regulate wound repair and inflammation and are rapidly expanded in cancer, correlating with that signs of inflammation are seen in most if not all tumor sites. Tumor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38925137 | 418,855 |
1,998,262 | Although Bradman claimed that the exchange had been amicable, others disputed this. Teammate Barnes later claimed that Miller had retorted by suggesting that Bradman—a very occasional slower bowler—bowl himself. Barnes said that the captain "was as wild as a battery-stung brumby" and warned his unwilling bowler that th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21051201 | 1,997,119 |
980,675 | The SCL's first definitive efforts in radio-based target detection started in 1934 when the Chief of the Army Signal Corps, after seeing a microwave demonstration by RCA, suggested that radio-echo techniques be investigated. The SCL called this technique radio position-finding (RPF). Based on the previous investigation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1280053 | 980,163 |
1,027,606 | All known "Daspletosaurus" fossils have been found in formations dating to the middle to late Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous Period, between 77 and 74 million years ago. Since the middle of the Cretaceous, North America had been divided in half by the Western Interior Seaway, with much of Montana and Alberta be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=195485 | 1,027,072 |
468,447 | During this stage, persons demonstrate a respect for individuality and interpersonal ties. According to Loevinger, "To proceed beyond the Conscientious Stage, a person must become more tolerant of himself and of others ... out of the recognition of individual differences and of complexities of circumstances". The indiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2929771 | 468,212 |
494,388 | On June 7, 2018, NASA announced a cyclical seasonal variation in atmospheric methane, as well as the presence of kerogen and other complex organic compounds. The organic compounds were from mudstone rocks aged approximately 3.5 billion years old, sampled from two distinct sites in a dry lake in the Pahrump Hills of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36665815 | 494,133 |
80,377 | Environmental sustainability has long been a major focus of the university's Board of Regents and Presidents. In February 2006, the UW joined a partnership with Seattle City Light as part of their Green Up Program, ensuring that all of Seattle campus' electricity is supplied by and purchased from renewable sources. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31776 | 80,344 |
1,060,840 | Both the two above teams and drivers raced again in 2016, with evolutions of the vehicles, and were joined by a prototype '4-motor EV' from Acura based on the 2016 NSX production car, with heavy modifications to all-electric drive. The Acura, driven by Tetsuya Yamano, achieved a remarkable time for its first outing, fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46901507 | 1,060,288 |
1,710,222 | Christopher Langdell was born in the town of New Boston, New Hampshire, of English and Scots-Irish ancestry. He studied at Phillips Exeter Academy in 1845–48, at Harvard College in 1848–50 and at Harvard Law School in 1851–54. As a student, he served as one of the Harvard Law School's first librarians. From 1854 to 187... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=976425 | 1,709,262 |
2,130,205 | to non-normative HIS developing processes. These are two poor results. The first one is that HIS were developed free, the software had no standards, the developed platform therefore varied. The second problem is that the HIS develop companies were in different levels, and many of them didn't specialize in HIS develop, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20049505 | 2,128,981 |
1,057,800 | There are a number of known causes of myopathy, and it is only once these have been ruled out that a clinician will assign an idiopathic inflammatory myopathy (IIM) syndrome to a case. The usual criteria for a diagnosis of PM are weakness in muscles of the head, neck, trunk, upper arms or upper legs; raised blood serum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19758168 | 1,057,251 |
386,535 | There are mainly three stages during the manufacturing process of EV batteries: materials manufacturing, cell manufacturing and integration, as shown in Manufacturing process of EV batteries graph in grey, green and orange color respectively. This shown process does not include manufacturing of cell hardware, i.e. casi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15452708 | 386,340 |
1,890,464 | William Egginton is the author of "How the World Became a Stage" (2003), "Perversity and Ethics" (2006), "A Wrinkle in History" (2007), "The Philosopher's Desire" (2007), "The Theater of Truth" (2010), "In Defense of Religious Moderation" (2011), and "The Man Who Invented Fiction: How Cervantes Ushered In the Modern Wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49243276 | 1,889,381 |
1,012,024 | The concept of precision agriculture first emerged in the United States in the early 1980s. In 1985, researchers at the University of Minnesota varied lime inputs in crop fields. It was also at this time that the practice of grid sampling appeared (applying a fixed grid of one sample per hectare). Towards the end of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=144068 | 1,011,503 |
2,029,925 | A significant problem was making a display that could be seen in the cockpit. As the Lightning would be spending most of its time flying above the clouds, it had to be visible even in direct sunlight. To produce bright enough symbols on a cathode ray tube (CRT) required an extremely powerful electron gun. The team sele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66645096 | 2,028,757 |
1,606,537 | GCDH is a tetramer with tetrahedral symmetry, which allows it to be seen as a dimer of dimers. Its structure is very similar to other ACDs but the overall polypeptide fold of the GCDH is made up of three domains: an alpha-helical bundle amino-terminal domain, a beta-sheet domain in the middle, and another alpha-helical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9754681 | 1,605,633 |
912,775 | Humans contract infective cysticerci by eating raw or undercooked meat. Once reaching the jejunum, the inverted scolex becomes evaginated to the exterior under stimuli from the digestive enzymes of the host. Using the scolex, it attaches to the intestinal wall. The larva mature into adults about 5 to 12 weeks later. Ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1694575 | 912,296 |
285,783 | Since all modern ctenophores except the beroids have cydippid-like larvae, it has widely been assumed that their last common ancestor also resembled cydippids, having an egg-shaped body and a pair of retractable tentacles. Richard Harbison's purely morphological analysis in 1985 concluded that the cydippids are not mon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62251 | 285,629 |
1,727,012 | Despite these differences, holocentric chromosomes present intrinsic benefits since chromosomal mutations, such as fissions and fusions, are potentially neutral in holocentric chromosomes with respect to monocentric ones. However, the hypothesis of holocentrism as an anticlastogenic adaptation needs more systematic tes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56955328 | 1,726,041 |
1,227,660 | With recent advances in massive parallel sequencing (MPS), or next-generation sequencing (NGS), forensic microbiology has become an increasingly promising area of research. “Initial applications in circumstances of biocrime, bioterrorism and epidemiology are now accompanied by the prospect of using microorganisms (i) a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4985778 | 1,226,998 |
1,424,510 | In 1916, Young enrolled at Howard University in Washington, D.C. to study music. She wrote in the yearbook: "Not failure, but low aim is a crime." She did not take her first science course until 1921. Though her grades were poor at the beginning of her college career, some of her teachers saw promise in her. One of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9646169 | 1,423,708 |
1,321,326 | Some fossil bearing sediments in Weymouth are 540 million year old, formed in the Cambrian and lie atop an eroded Avalonian granite surface. The discovery of Paradoxides harlani trilobite fossils in the Braintree slate also date to this period and help to confirm eastern Massachusetts' coastal Gondwana-Avalonia origins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29811208 | 1,320,600 |
1,761,623 | Technological change was fast-paced in the years following the introduction of the Standard Class. The transition to fibreglass construction made the existing rules increasingly awkward. The stronger composite structures allowed higher wing loadings, and competitors resorted to fixed ballast to exploit this competitive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3077618 | 1,760,630 |
1,851,584 | Among challenges to clinical translation of gene therapy are possible immune responses to the viral vectors and transgenes and the possibility of insertional mutagenesis, which can be detrimental to patient safety. Scaling up from the volume needed for animal trials to that needed for effective human transfection is an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41050914 | 1,850,523 |
1,516,901 | As with Mount Washington, the upper reaches of Mount Monroe lie above tree-line in a sub-arctic tundra climate zone, characterized by highly variable and often very severe weather, especially from late fall through early spring. One distinguishing feature of the mountain is the largely flat Monroe Lawn south of the sum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2835542 | 1,516,049 |
1,401,393 | Acoustic emission (AE) is the phenomenon of radiation of acoustic (elastic) waves in solids that occurs when a material undergoes irreversible changes in its internal structure, for example as a result of crack formation or plastic deformation due to aging, temperature gradients or external mechanical forces. In partic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2574174 | 1,400,606 |
1,790,194 | As suggested by a letter to Born, for Einstein the corroboration of energy and momentum conservation was probably even more important than his photon hypothesis: "Bohr's opinion of radiation interests me very much. But I don't want to let myself be driven to a renunciation of strict causality before there has been a mu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16711283 | 1,789,188 |
1,730,341 | On 5 June, the Dragon capsule arrived at the Port of Los Angeles and was transported by truck to McGregor, Texas. There its toxic maneuvering propellent was removed and on 13 June its cargo was transferred into NASA's possession. The cargo was then transported to the Johnson Space Center in Houston for further processi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29902768 | 1,729,366 |
195,037 | In August 2018, scientists announced new observations regarding the rapid transformation of fluid deuterium from an insulating to a metallic form below 2000 K. Remarkable agreement is found between the experimental data and the predictions based on Quantum Monte Carlo simulations, which is expected to be the most accur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145197 | 194,937 |
1,361,595 | For each formula_47 on region formula_48 regions formula_49 from the other image with the corresponding i-th measurement formula_50 nearest to formula_51 are found and a vote is cast suggesting correspondence of A and each of formula_52. Votes are summed over all measurements, and using probability analysis, 'good meas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14669901 | 1,360,842 |
2,019,921 | Deen completed a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics and Physics at the University of Guyana in 1978, winning both the Chancellor's Medal as well as the Dr. Irving Adler's Prize for being the best mathematics student. After working for two years at the University of Guyana, he won the prestigious Fulbright scholarship (under t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16111728 | 2,018,758 |
71,043 | Pseudoephedrine may be quantified in blood, plasma, or urine to monitor any possible performance-enhancing use by athletes, confirm a diagnosis of poisoning, or to assist in a medicolegal death investigation. Many commercial immunoassay screening tests directed at the amphetamines cross-react appreciably with pseudoeph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67436 | 71,016 |
700,935 | In 2001, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved rhBMP-7 (a.k.a. OP-1; Stryker Biotech) for a humanitarian device exemption as an alternative to autograft in long bone nonunions. In 2004, the humanitarian device exemption was extended as an alternative to autograft for posterolateral fusion. In 2002, rhBMP-2 (I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1876572 | 700,570 |
853,163 | Since Newton, scientists have extensively attempted to model the world. In particular, when a mathematical model is available (for instance, Newton's gravitational law or Coulomb's equation for electrostatics), we can foresee, given some parameters that describe a physical system (such as a distribution of mass or a di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=203956 | 852,709 |
1,778,336 | Armstrong culture (Woodland, 1–500 CE) practiced cremation and built small mounds central to the Big Sandy Valley. They are thought to be a variant of Hopewell, a Middle Woodland influenced from an earlier culture who peacefully mingled with the Adena mix, or an intrusive Hopewell-like trade culture or a vanguard of Ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17254851 | 1,777,334 |
72,437 | Doubt about the possibility of a mechanistic explanation of thought drove René Descartes, and most other philosophers along with him, to dualism: the belief that the mind is to some degree independent of the brain. There has always, however, been a strong argument in the opposite direction. There is clear empirical evi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=490620 | 72,410 |
1,524,943 | One example of such a feared political-cutoff came after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Germany halted construction of the Iranian Bushehr reactor, the United States cut off the supply of highly enriched fuel for the Tehran Research Reactor, and Iran never received uranium from France which it asserted it was entitled to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3103801 | 1,524,082 |
949,732 | During the harsh winters of the Last Glacial Maximum plant foods would have not been available, and meat would not be the favoured food but fat and grease would be, as is prized by some high-latitude dwelling peoples in modern times. Game meat would have been devoid of fat, but the limbs and crania contain fat deposits... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5141410 | 949,228 |
1,038,355 | Firstly from Late Permian to Late Triassic the Aragonese Branch sediments were deposited. These started with early layers of quartz rich sandstone derived from sedimentary and metasedimentary rocks. This first layer was 0.1 km thick. Later the deposits were derived from plutonic rocks and were feldspar rich and cemente... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13701070 | 1,037,814 |
1,721,128 | Outstanding chapters of the society are eligible to receive the "Roll of Distinction"," Roll of Merit" and the "Joseph B. James chapter Incentive" awards on a purely competitive basis. The Roll of Distinction is given to chapters based on their activity and effectiveness on their respective campuses as well as efficien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8594300 | 1,720,158 |
1,405,149 | The Boston Diagnostic Aphasia Examination is a neuropsychological battery used to evaluate adults suspected of having aphasia, and is currently in its third edition. It was created by Harold Goodglass and Edith Kaplan. The exam evaluates language skills based on perceptual modalities (auditory, visual, and gestural), p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9447014 | 1,404,359 |
1,111,939 | Another approach that's been investigated recently is dosing on a molecular level, either through conventional delivery systems, nanoparticle delivery, light-triggered delivery, or other less known/used methods. By combining these drugs with a system that detects the concentration of drug particles in the blood, proper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10449471 | 1,111,373 |
1,147,640 | OMSI operates the largest science museum outreach program in the country. The museum offers presentations in schools, summer science camp programs for individuals, and outdoor school programs for school groups on the Oregon Coast at Camp Gray and in the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument at Hancock Field Station. O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=306082 | 1,147,035 |
2,019,386 | Colman's research interests are in structural biology, especially of human B-cell lymphoma 2 (BCL-2). Colman determined the three-dimensional structure of the influenza virus neuraminidase and, in one of the earliest cases of structure-based drug design, discovered zanamivir, the first-in-class neuraminidase inhibitor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44099634 | 2,018,223 |
1,333,819 | "Chaetomium globosum" can be commonly found contaminating damp buildings throughout North America and Europe. Approximately 10-30% of North American homes contain moisture induced molds. This poses a health concern due to the allergic nature of these fungi. Both the "C. globosum" hyphae and the spores contain antigens ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44134704 | 1,333,090 |
324,509 | These concerns have intensified due to the actions of China, the predominant supplier. Specifically, China has announced regulations on exports and a crackdown on smuggling. On September 1, 2009, China announced plans to reduce its export quota to 35,000 tons per year in 2010–2015 to conserve scarce resources and prote... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145440 | 324,336 |
1,756,331 | In 2007, Riek et al. showed that the channel opening that results from titrating the ion channel from pH 7 to pH 4, corresponds to conformational changes in two regions: transition to the ion-exchanging state of the selectivity filter, and the opening of the arrangement of TM2 at the C-terminus. This model explains the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36080526 | 1,755,340 |
1,151,368 | Going into the 1992 Summer Paralympics, the International Coordinating Committee and the Technical Committee of the IPC push for a move towards a functional classification system. This came to a head at the November 1989 meeting of the Barcelona Olympics Organising Committee ("Comite Organitzador Olimpic Barcelona" - C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36583541 | 1,150,761 |
1,274,593 | In 1983, pioneers of glutathione research, Mary E. Anderson and Alton Meister, were the first to report on the ability of GGC to augment cellular GSH levels in a rat model [3]. Intact GGC, which was synthesised in their own laboratory, was shown to be taken up by cells, bypassing the rate-limiting step of the GCL enzym... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17334634 | 1,273,901 |
531,027 | O"-linked glycosylation is the attachment of a sugar molecule to the oxygen atom of serine (Ser) or threonine (Thr) residues in a protein. O"-glycosylation is a post-translational modification that occurs after the protein has been synthesised. In eukaryotes, it occurs in the endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29587726 | 530,753 |
1,550,421 | This fungus reproduces by means of 2-celled, pear-shaped conidia, in which the cells are of unequal size with the smaller cell nearer to the attachment point on the conidiophore. During germination, the germ tube typically erupts from the smaller cell. In environments rich with nematodes, the spores range from 22-32 by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52254368 | 1,549,540 |
1,079,523 | In the early 1990s there were an astonishing number and variety of hockey sticks on offer compared with what had been available ten years earlier. By 1992, hockey stick reinforcement was a big issue and composites had been accepted into an (extended) FIH experimental trial period (there was a great deal of concern abou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7099893 | 1,078,968 |
2,151,763 | Alan Belmont Cobham (4 November 192728 June 2011) was an American mathematician and computer scientist known for (with Jack Edmonds) inventing the notion of polynomial time and the complexity class P, for Cobham's thesis stating that the problems that have practically-usable computer solutions are characterized by havi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68162815 | 2,150,532 |
1,023,845 | Characterized by extinctions, invasions, hybridizations and reductions in the abundance of species, marine biodiversity is currently in global decline. "Over the past decades, there has been an exponential increase in human activates in and near oceans, resulting in negative consequences to our marine environment." Mad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64523160 | 1,023,312 |
1,757,285 | At the molecular level, many biological phenomena, such as catalytic activity of an enzyme, occur within the range of nano- to millisecond timescales. All atom simulation techniques, such as molecular dynamics simulations, rarely reach microsecond trajectory length, depending on the size of the system and accessible co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11210523 | 1,756,294 |
754,471 | When Steve Jobs left Apple and started NeXT, he pitched Adobe on the idea of using PS as the display system for his new workstation computers. The result was Display PostScript, or DPS. DPS added basic functionality to improve performance by changing many string lookups into 32 bit integers, adding support for direct o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24080 | 754,068 |
1,869,606 | However, she still felt the pull from space and science. As a day job, Shields worked at Caltech on the helpdesk operator for the Spitzer Space Telescope. Conversations on this job led her to audition and ultimately co-host for a TV Show called Wired Science, run by PBS and Wired Magazine. After exploring future career... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50899559 | 1,868,529 |
1,517,590 | More recently, computed tomography has played a large role in reconstructing endocasts. The procedure is non-invasive and has the advantage of being able to analyze a fossil in record time with little risk of damaging the fossil under review. CT imaging is achieved through the application of x-rays to produce tomograph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27043983 | 1,516,738 |
1,243,082 | The protein encoded by this gene, CXCL5 is a small cytokine belonging to the CXC chemokine family that is also known as epithelial-derived neutrophil-activating peptide 78 (ENA-78). It is produced following stimulation of cells with the inflammatory cytokines interleukin-1 or tumor necrosis factor-alpha. Expression of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8815878 | 1,242,409 |
2,044,584 | Berger is a graduate of the Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Science (MSc 1973, RNDr 1979, PhD 1984). He worked as a scientist and professor at the Institute for Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University Hospital in Hradec Králové, University of Pardubice, Masaryk University in Brno. He is a (co)author of 16 books,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20194100 | 2,043,403 |
999,463 | The major unsolved problem with Type II supernovae is that it is not understood how the burst of neutrinos transfers its energy to the rest of the star producing the shock wave which causes the star to explode. From the above discussion, only one percent of the energy needs to be transferred to produce an explosion, bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11009033 | 998,945 |
782,878 | The piece was written in Clarens, a Swiss resort on the shores of Lake Geneva, where Tchaikovsky had gone to recover from the depression brought on by his disastrous marriage to Antonina Miliukova. He was working on his Piano Sonata in G major but finding it heavy going. Presently he was joined there by his composition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=308581 | 782,459 |
847,273 | Five years after the end of the "Magic Wars", things had radically changed for the heroes, most notably the disbanding of the Legion and an ongoing war with the Khund Empire, which had resulted in Earth's government (Earthgov) signing a deal with the Dominators. When "Legion of Super-Heroes" vol. 4 began, Brainiac 5 wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=713540 | 846,823 |
139,452 | Hubble also worked as a civilian for U.S. Army at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland during World War II as the Chief of the External Ballistics Branch of the Ballistics Research Laboratory during which he directed a large volume of research in exterior ballistics which increased the effective firepower of bombs and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10489 | 139,395 |
426,687 | Benford tends to write hard science fiction which incorporates the research he is doing as a practical scientist. He has worked on collaborations with authors William Rotsler, David Brin and Gordon Eklund. His time-travel novel "Timescape" (1980) won both the Nebula Award and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award. The sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38527 | 426,478 |
914,024 | According to Campbell and Robson (1968), the human contrast sensitivity function shows a typical band-pass filter shape peaking at around 4 cycles per degree, with sensitivity dropping off either side of the peak. That finding has led many to claim that the human visual system is most sensitive in detecting contrast di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5611461 | 913,545 |
948,699 | The explosive growth and proliferation of the Internet into homes brought a growing shortage of available IP addresses. DHCP became an important tool for ISPs as well to manage their address spaces for connecting home and small-business end-users with a single IP address each by implementing network address translation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80150 | 948,195 |
1,405,857 | Paleopathology, also spelled palaeopathology, is the study of ancient diseases and injuries in organisms through the examination of fossils, mummified tissue, skeletal remains, and analysis of coprolites. Specific sources in the study of ancient human diseases may include early documents, illustrations from early books... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2212957 | 1,405,067 |
544,115 | One of the goals of current research in string theory is to develop models in which the strings represent particles observed in high energy physics experiments. For such a model to be consistent with observations, its spacetime must be four-dimensional at the relevant distance scales, so one must look for ways to restr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=644671 | 543,833 |
192,287 | In a naturally aspirated engine, air for combustion (Diesel cycle in a Diesel engine or specific types of Otto cycle in petrol engines, namely petrol direct injection) or an air/fuel mixture (traditional Otto cycle petrol engines), is drawn into the engine's cylinders by atmospheric pressure acting against a partial va... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=515977 | 192,188 |
1,130,011 | An alternative hypothesis is that learners in this type of task may be using a "propose-but-verify" mechanism rather than a statistical learning mechanism. Medina et al. and Trueswell et al. argue that, because Yu and Smith only tracked knowledge at the end of the training, rather than tracking knowledge on a trial-by-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38523090 | 1,129,433 |
959,560 | In 1935 Maurice Brodie, a research assistant at New York University and William Hallock Park of the New York City Department of Health, attempted to produce a polio vaccine, procured from virus in ground up monkey spinal cords, and killed by formaldehyde. Brodie first tested the vaccine on himself and several of his as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11110672 | 959,052 |
180,257 | The prototype of the U-2, powered by a 74 kW (99 hp) Shvetsov M-11 air-cooled five-cylinder radial engine, first flew on 7 January 1928 piloted by M.M. Gromov. Aircraft from the preproduction series were tested at the end of 1928 and serial production started in 1929 in Factory number 23 in Leningrad. Its name was chan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1351230 | 180,163 |
718,837 | The alleged NSA backdoor would allow the attacker to determine the internal state of the random number generator from looking at the output from a single round (32 bytes); all future output of the random number generator can then easily be calculated, until the CSPRNG is reseeded with an external source of randomness. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14259066 | 718,457 |
773,158 | Android was created by the Open Handset Alliance, which is led by Google. The early feedback on developing applications for the Android platform was mixed. Issues cited include bugs, lack of documentation, inadequate QA infrastructure, and no public issue-tracking system. (Google announced an issue tracker on January 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31759854 | 772,742 |
212,368 | Under the framework of valence bond theory, resonance is an extension of the idea that the bonding in a chemical species can be described by a Lewis structure. For many chemical species, a single Lewis structure, consisting of atoms obeying the octet rule, possibly bearing formal charges, and connected by bonds of posi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=271046 | 212,260 |
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