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474,304 | Ngwenyama and Lee show that cultural and social background influence media choice by individuals in ways that are incompatible with predictions based on media richness theory; their paper received the Paper of the Year Award in the journal MIS Quarterly. Ngwenyama and Lee are not alone in their critiques regarding the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2185671 | 474,068 |
1,658,997 | Lipkin has earned the reputation of a "master virus hunter" due to his speed and innovative methods of identifying new viruses, and has been lauded by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director Dr. Anthony S. Fauci. As director of the Center for Infection and Immunity at the Mailman School of Public... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20485252 | 1,658,064 |
1,285,692 | Malawi was increasingly dependent on imported maize in deficit years, but ADMARC had started selling domestic reserves in 2000, the year after a good harvest, but continued in 2001: some maize was exported at low prices. Failure to prevent food shortages is shown by estimated deaths from hunger and related diseases', f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14543243 | 1,284,991 |
1,969,564 | The Bishop completed St. Mary's Cathedral in 1845, and eliminated the diocese's $5,000 debt from his own resources and the contributions of members of his family. The founder of Catholic education in Chicago, he established University of Saint Mary of the Lake and Saint Xavier University, as well as the first parochial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=728079 | 1,968,430 |
1,172,495 | The Morrison Formation records an environment and time dominated by gigantic sauropod dinosaurs such as "Camarasaurus", "Barosaurus", "Diplodocus", "Apatosaurus" and "Brachiosaurus". Dinosaurs that lived alongside "Stokesosaurus" included the herbivorous ornithischians "Camptosaurus", "Dryosaurus", "Stegosaurus" and "O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3579152 | 1,171,876 |
1,326,732 | Auditory verbal agnosia (AVA), also known as pure word deafness, is the inability to comprehend speech. Individuals with this disorder lose the ability to understand language, repeat words, and write from dictation. Some patients with AVA describe hearing spoken language as meaningless noise, often as though the person... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3237319 | 1,326,005 |
1,127,298 | Abbott Laboratories (now, via spinoff, Abbvie) was one of the earliest users of the Advanced Photon Source (APS), a national synchrotron-radiation light source at Argonne National Laboratory. One of the early research projects undertaken at the APS focused on proteins from the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Using ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30981826 | 1,126,721 |
575,318 | Robert L. Forward, Hughes Research Laboratories, Malibu, described the theoretical generation of dipole gravitational fields by accelerating a super-dense fluid through pipes wound around a torus. The proposed mechanism relies on the use of a superconducting fluid such as supercooled mercury, being quickly rotated with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19256144 | 575,024 |
885,011 | Brain implants electrically stimulate, block or record (or both record and stimulate simultaneously) signals from single neurons or groups of neurons (biological neural networks) in the brain. The blocking technique is called intra-abdominal vagal blocking. This can only be done where the functional associations of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1894504 | 884,547 |
338,312 | Riggs, in his preliminary 1903 description of the not yet fully prepared holotype specimen, considered "Brachiosaurus" to be an obvious member of the Sauropoda. To determine the validity of the genus, he compared it to the previously named genera "Camarasaurus", "Apatosaurus", "Atlantosaurus", and "Amphicoelias", whose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20598015 | 338,132 |
534,067 | Blowdown turbines became relatively common features in the late- and post-war era, especially for engines designed for long overwater flights. Turbo-compounding was used on several airplane engines after World War II, including the Napier Nomad and the Wright R-3350. The exhaust restriction imparted by the three blowdo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11083753 | 533,788 |
1,502,743 | The fossilized cycad beds were discovered in 1892 by F. H. Cole of Hot Springs, South Dakota, in the 120-million-year-old Dakota Sandstone Formation, near Minnekahta. Cole sent photographs of the fossils to Professor Henry Newton, a geologist at the Smithsonian Institution. Professor Thomas MacBride of the University o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9233550 | 1,501,897 |
1,426,611 | The first attempt at deciphering their meaning was made by Bernardino Baldi in the beginning of the 17th century, and he was followed by Adriaan van Schrieck who believed he had got possession of the oldest monument of the Low German language, and interpreted accordingly. Olivieri recognized the name of Eugubium in one... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241533 | 1,425,808 |
80,257 | At the beginning of the 2015–16 season, Donnarumma was promoted to the senior team by manager Siniša Mihajlović, initially as the third-choice goalkeeper behind Diego López and Christian Abbiati. During Milan's pre-season tour of China, he made his debut in an International Champions Cup match against Real Madrid on 30... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48358672 | 80,224 |
311,364 | An important part of steelmaking is the formation of slag, which floats on the surface of the molten steel. Slag usually consists of metal oxides, and acts as a destination for oxidised impurities, as a thermal blanket (stopping excessive heat loss) and helping to reduce erosion of the refractory lining. For a furnace ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1425422 | 311,196 |
1,552,001 | "Phyllocladus aspeniifolius" is a large, conical conifer in the family Podocarpaceae. The trunk is erect with horizontal branches. True leaves appear at the seedling stage and are fine and needle-like. Mature leaves are reduced to minute, brown scales. The function of the leaf is taken over by cladodes that look like g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3272272 | 1,551,120 |
1,052,548 | The technology was initially seen as extremely difficult to achieve, with doubts expressed about its feasibility in 2013. The regions being written must be heated in a tiny area - small enough that diffraction prevents the use of normal laser focused heating - and requires a heating, writing and cooling cycle of less t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2882199 | 1,052,002 |
920,285 | Since the 1920s, construction kits compatible with Meccano were manufactured in the Soviet Union. They did not have a uniform colour scheme, parts could be in any color. Usually the strips and girders were not painted, and the plates could be either unpainted or painted in red, yellow, and blue. In the 1970s, plastic p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=147874 | 919,799 |
1,933,436 | Molecular mechanisms underlying the resistance against anthelmintics are being investigated. In general, drug resistance can develop in four different ways: 1) the drug does not bind to the target due to target changes, 2) changes in the xenobiotic metabolism that remove the drug or prevent activation, 3) changes in dr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49924759 | 1,932,328 |
572,863 | The Belgian secondary education grants the pupils more choice as they enter a higher cycle. The first cycle provides a broad general basis, with only a few options to choose from (such as Latin, additional mathematics and technology). This should enable students to orient themselves in the most suitable way towards the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2675092 | 572,569 |
782,620 | The zoo is located within the Vandalur Reserve Forest area. The zoo's ecosystem consists of dry deciduous and dry evergreen scrub forest vegetation of the Eastern Ghats, a degraded forest consisting of mostly thorny bushes, receiving an average annual rainfall of and an average annual temperature of . The terrain is a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30870670 | 782,201 |
271,400 | Over the past decade, the outcomes of laparoscopic appendectomies have compared favorably to those for open appendectomies because of decreased pain, fewer postoperative complications, shorter hospitalization, earlier mobilization, earlier return to work, and better cosmesis; however, despite these advantages, efforts ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158240 | 271,252 |
191,981 | The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF), a Washington, D.C. think-tank, awarded its 2015 Annual Luddite Award to "alarmists touting an artificial intelligence apocalypse"; its president, Robert D. Atkinson, complained that Musk, Hawking and AI experts say AI is the largest existential threat to huma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46583121 | 191,882 |
1,220,664 | A landmark development came from Camillo Golgi who invented a silver staining technique in 1873 which he called "la reazione nera" (black reaction), but more popularly known as Golgi stain or Golgi method, in his honour. Using this technique nerve cells with their highly branched dendrites and axon could be clearly vis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3198778 | 1,220,009 |
357,904 | The primary goal of bioinformatics is to increase the understanding of biological processes. What sets it apart from other approaches, however, is its focus on developing and applying computationally intensive techniques to achieve this goal. Examples include: pattern recognition, data mining, machine learning algorith... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4214 | 357,718 |
1,503,868 | Mars has always been an interesting topic across scientific disciplines. The possibility of life existing on another planet has intrigued many throughout history and identifying features like faults could mean that there are more forces at work than previously thought. Using images captured by the Viking, Mars Express,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8728255 | 1,503,022 |
2,024,015 | While OMZs can occur naturally, they can be exacerbated by human impacts like climate change and land-based pollution from agriculture and sewage. The prediction of current climate models is substantial warming and loss of oxygen throughout the majority of the upper ocean. Global warming increases ocean temperatures, e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58708458 | 2,022,851 |
1,105,640 | In order to contribute to the learning, cultivation and research of students and faculty members through the collection, accumulation and distribution of information, the Central Library was established on March 15, 1973. It was opened together with the opening of the prefecture elementary and junior college. At the ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=874675 | 1,105,077 |
1,630,562 | The Statnamic weight packs usually consist of steel or concrete rings placed over the Statnamic silencer. As the device does not rely on gravity to apply loads as in static or drop weight testing it can be used vertically, horizontally and inclined to test raked piles. The ability to test horizontally has led to the me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21486695 | 1,629,641 |
1,232,627 | The early studies Full-Heusler compound CuMnAl has the following properties. Its magnetism varies considerably with heat treatment and composition. It has a room-temperature saturation induction of around 8,000 gauss, which exceeds that of the element nickel (around 6100 gauss) but is smaller than that of iron (around ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2655717 | 1,231,965 |
1,517,580 | Paleoneurobiology is the study of brain evolution by analysis of brain endocasts to determine endocranial traits and volumes. Considered a subdivision of neuroscience, paleoneurobiology combines techniques from other fields of study including paleontology and archaeology. It reveals specific insight concerning human ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27043983 | 1,516,728 |
1,342,458 | The technique of CA was improved by Robert Smock, a professor at Cornell University. He visited Cambridge in the late 1930s to observe the work of Kidd and West. Smock in his research was trying to figure out how to extend the shelf life of different fruits such as apples and pears. When he returned to New York he adap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1569523 | 1,341,724 |
618,615 | The 509th transferred four of its 14 training "Silverplate" B-29s to the 216th AAF Base Unit in February 1945. In April the third modification increment of "Silverplate"s, which would be their combat aircraft, began coming off the Martin-Omaha assembly line. These "fly-away" aircraft were equipped with fuel-injected en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4567536 | 618,301 |
1,189,563 | In the early 1970s, Michael Eisner, who joined ABC in 1966, became the network's program development manager. He helped bring about ideas for many series including "Happy Days" (which originated as a segment on the anthology series "Love, American Style") and several soap operas. Eisner's main credit at ABC was for dev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64765894 | 1,188,931 |
1,345,425 | The Ilizarov technique is a form of noninvasive treatment that can sometimes be used to reshape and correct deformities and misaligned limb bones. It uses the process of external fixation through the scaffolding of pins or wires into the bone in an attempt to transform enchondromata into normal bone tissue. This method... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6898610 | 1,344,685 |
865,197 | The Royal College Nairobi was renamed "University College, Nairobi" on 20 May 1964. On the attainment of "University College" status, the institution prepared students for bachelor's degrees awarded by the University of London, while also continuing to offer college diploma programmes. The University College Nairobi pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2775921 | 864,737 |
1,880,757 | Ahlfors noted that this result can be applied to uniformly bounded holomorphic univalent functions "f"("z") on the unit disk "D". Let Ω = "f"("D"). As Carathéodory had proved using his theory of prime ends, "f" extends continuously to the unit circle if and only if ∂Ω is locally connected, i.e. admits a covering by fin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34148348 | 1,879,676 |
992,400 | As language development neared an end, X3J1/TC10 realized that there were a number of problems with a document written in English text. Discussion of a single item might appear in multiple places which might or might not agree. It was difficult to determine if there were omissions as well as inconsistencies. Consequent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23708 | 991,883 |
639,970 | This drug has been the subject of litigation; more than 13,000 people have sued Wyeth between 2002 and 2009. Wyeth and Pharmacia & Upjohn prevailed in the vast majority of hormone therapy cases previously set for trial through a combination of rulings by judges, verdicts by juries, and dismissals by plaintiffs themselv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47602576 | 639,631 |
69,664 | James Arthur Lovell Jr. was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 25, 1928, the only child of James Lovell Sr., a Toronto, Ontario, Canada-born coal furnace salesman who died in a car accident in 1933 and Blanche Masek, who was of Czech descent. For the first two years after the death of his father, Lovell and his mother l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=344336 | 69,637 |
1,741,042 | The advent of next-generation sequencing enabled scientists to use molecular methods to identify the period of development that has the most conserved gene expression patterns among different species. In 2010, two studies found molecular evidence that supports the hourglass model. Kalinka "et al". sequenced the transcr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52448763 | 1,740,060 |
816,192 | Active transport is the movement of a substance across a membrane against its concentration gradient. This is usually to accumulate high concentrations of molecules that a cell needs, such as glucose or amino acids. If the process uses chemical energy, such as adenosine triphosphate (ATP), it is called primary active t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=529981 | 815,756 |
457,055 | As plant and insect life diversified so also did the spider's use of silk. Spiders with spinnerets at the end of the abdomen (Mygalomorphae and Araneomorphae) appeared more than 250 million years ago, presumably promoting the development of more elaborate sheet and maze webs for prey capture both on ground and foliage,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6214456 | 456,832 |
395,918 | The Sturmgewehr 44 features an inexpensive, easy-to-make, stamped steel design and a 30-round detachable box magazine. "This weapon was the prototype of all successful automatic rifles. Characteristically (and unlike previous rifles and the M-14) it had a straight stock with the barrel under the gas cylinder to reduce ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2471637 | 395,723 |
361,667 | Most of the complexity of the clock lies in this adjustment process. The adjustment tries to correct for unwanted side-effects, such as frequencies from other electron transitions, temperature changes, and the spreading in frequencies caused by the vibration of molecules including Doppler broadening. One way of doing t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25453985 | 361,477 |
1,580,707 | In the British Isles, (Paleogene) denudation is linked with magmatic underplating. It has been shown that the wavelength and amplitude of denudation can be determined by the density and distribution of the underplating in a given area. Modeling of data brought on by studies of the British Isles shows that a large amoun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33480448 | 1,579,817 |
2,130,390 | Water shortages have become an increasingly pressing concern recently and with recent predictions of a high probability of the current drought turning into a megadrought occurring in the western United States, technologies involving water treatment and processing need to improve. Carbon nanotubes (CNT) have been the su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46812080 | 2,129,166 |
301,249 | Edward Higgins White II was born on November 14, 1930, in San Antonio, Texas, the son of Edward Higgins White Sr. (1901–1978), a West Point graduate (Class of 1924) who later rose to become major general in the United States Air Force (USAF), and Mary Rosina White (; 1900–1983). He had a younger brother, James Blair Wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36594 | 301,088 |
702,458 | Molecular diagnostics are used to identify infectious diseases such as chlamydia, influenza virus and tuberculosis; or specific strains such as H1N1 virus or SARS-CoV-2. Genetic identification can be swift; for example a loop-mediated isothermal amplification test diagnoses the malaria parasite and is rugged enough for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40439442 | 702,090 |
899,268 | Most people are familiar with the digital animations produced to present meteorological data during weather reports on television, though few can distinguish between those models of reality and the satellite photos that are also shown on such programs. TV also offers scientific visualizations when it shows computer dra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=660850 | 898,793 |
1,763,357 | The various methods of measuring soil thermal properties have been utilized to assist in diverse fields such as; the expansion and contraction of construction materials especially in freezing soils, longevity and efficiency of gas pipes or electrical cables buried in the ground, energy conservation schemes, in agricult... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5460644 | 1,762,364 |
1,999,444 | A pioneer in the use of remote sensing in Maya research is NASA archaeologist Tom Sever, who has applied remote sensing to research in Maya site discovery as well as mapping causeways ("sacbeob") and roads. Sever has stressed the enormous use of remote sensing in uncovering settlement patterns, population densities, so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19429088 | 1,998,300 |
1,099,048 | The tank is comparable in design to the M41 series of American tanks, which already proved itself reasonably capable of holding its own against the threat of Type 59 and T-55A tanks during the Vietnam War, but has an improved electrical system. The hull had an all-welded steel construction that incorporates a high-stre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39957801 | 1,098,488 |
1,392,512 | Ward and Brownlee are also co-authors of the book "The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of the World", which discusses the Earth's future and eventual demise as it is ultimately destroyed by a warming and expanding Sun. In this book, Ward and Brownlee depict E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3166055 | 1,391,741 |
1,550,648 | Having finished his work, the engineer departed by taxi for a local hotel for the night. After the engineer had departed, the Nantes Fire Department as well as a police officer from the Sûreté du Québec's Lac-Mégantic detachment responded to a 9-1-1 call from a citizen at 23:50, who reported a fire on the first locomot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47815144 | 1,549,767 |
1,124,119 | Gerty died in 1957 and Carl married Anne Fitzgerald-Jones (1909-2006) in 1960. He stayed on at Washington University until 1966, when he retired as chair of the biochemistry department. He was appointed visiting professor of Biological Chemistry at Harvard University while maintaining a laboratory space at the Massachu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=252440 | 1,123,545 |
1,455,468 | When Spalding University, originally called Nazareth College, opened in 1920, its sole building was the 1871 structure known as the Tompkins-Buchanan-Rankin House. This Italianate building was designed and built by architect Henry Whitestone for the family of Joseph T. Tompkins, a wealthy dry-goods merchant and importe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2307824 | 1,454,648 |
673,092 | In 1980, Lynn Rippelmeyer of the U.S. became the first woman to fly a Boeing 747 and four years later became the first woman to serve as captain on the craft. That same year, Olive Ann Beech was awarded the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy from the U.S. National Aeronautic Association, for aircraft manufacturing. In 198... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47210395 | 672,740 |
1,718,225 | In the 1820s the mill owners Edward and James Dakeyne of Darley Dale, Derbyshire, designed and had constructed a hydraulic engine (a water engine) known as "The Romping Lion", based on the same principles. to make use of the high-pressure water available near their mill. Little is known of their engine other than from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14598720 | 1,717,255 |
1,816,959 | In the PCR tube that the reaction takes place in, numerous unstable protein radicals come in contact with each other through simple diffusion and react both intra- and intermolecularly to achieve a more stable state. The monomeric protein radicals are able to achieve a lower energy state through forming a covalent bond... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54312894 | 1,815,925 |
375,976 | The ego balances demands of the id, the superego, and of reality to maintain a healthy state of consciousness, where there is only minimal intrapsychic conflict. It thus reacts to protect the individual from stressors and from anxiety by distorting internal or external reality to a lesser or greater extent. This preven... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145880 | 375,781 |
766,730 | One avenue is to introduce RuBisCO variants with naturally high specificity values such as the ones from the red alga "Galdieria partita" into plants. This may improve the photosynthetic efficiency of crop plants, although possible negative impacts have yet to be studied. Advances in this area include the replacement o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=318370 | 766,319 |
1,552,121 | The economic impact of SNA technology is substantial and rapidly growing. Three companies have been founded that are based on SNA technology – Nanosphere in 2000, AuraSense in 2009, and AuraSense Therapeutics (now Exicure, Inc.) in 2011. These companies have employed hundreds of people and commercialized over 10 produc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36131613 | 1,551,240 |
15,070 | In 1996, the DoD ordered another 80 aircraft for a total of 120. In 1997, McDonnell Douglas merged with domestic competitor Boeing. In April 1999, Boeing offered to cut the C-17's unit price if the USAF bought 60 more; in August 2002, the order was increased to 180 aircraft. In 2007, 190 C-17s were on order for the USA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6731 | 15,065 |
187,324 | In all developed countries with up-to-date modern healthcare the primary treatment for mastoiditis is administration of intravenous antibiotics. Initially, broad-spectrum antibiotics are given, such as ceftriaxone. As culture results become available, treatment can be switched to more specific antibiotics directed at t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2105390 | 187,227 |
1,313,802 | The existence of expensive violins is dependent on small differences in their physical behaviour in comparison with cheaper ones. Their construction, and especially the arching of the belly and the backplate, has a profound effect on the overall sound quality of the instrument, and its many different resonant frequenci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7625922 | 1,313,082 |
455,954 | In response to the start of the Cold War in the early 1950s their target changed from surface ships to Soviet submarines. In January 1948 the primary operational function of the British submarine fleet was announced to be interception of Soviet submarines slipping out of their bases in Northern Russia, potentially to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186250 | 455,731 |
297,601 | Exclusionary diets are diets with certain groups or specific types of food avoided, either due to health considerations or by choice. Many do not eat food from animal sources to varying degrees (e.g. flexitarianism, pescetarianism, vegetarianism, veganism) for health reasons, issues surrounding morality, or to reduce t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=639924 | 297,441 |
392,258 | Mullis was born in Lenoir, North Carolina, near the Blue Ridge Mountains, on December 28, 1944 to Cecil Banks Mullis and Bernice Barker Mullis. His family had a background in farming in this rural area. As a child, Mullis said, he was interested in observing organisms in the countryside. He and his cousins would often ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17095 | 392,063 |
2,016,651 | Traditional node-link methods for visualizing networks deteriorate in terms of legibility when dealing with large networks, due to the proliferation of edge crossings amassing as what are disparagingly termed 'hairballs'. BioFabric is one of a number of alternative approaches designed explicitly to tackle this scalabil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45320628 | 2,015,489 |
743,609 | The space-based portion will not need to support itself against gravity (other than relatively weak tidal stresses). It needs no protection from terrestrial wind or weather, but will have to cope with space hazards such as micrometeors and solar flares. Two basic methods of conversion have been studied: photovoltaic (P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6757017 | 743,215 |
142,921 | During development trials between 1993 and 1994 all flight sequences, altitudes and ranges, were validated. This was also the period during which the launch sequence of Aster 30 was validated. In May 1996, trials of the Aster 15 active electromagnetic final guidance system against live targets began. All six attempts w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=480243 | 142,863 |
2,192,845 | "Acropora papillare" is uncommon and found over a large area; Australia, Japan, three regions of Indonesia, the Indo-Pacific, the East China Sea, and Southeast Asia. Native to Australia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, the Cocos Islands, and the Philippines. he population of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46967692 | 2,191,595 |
1,899,856 | The Gravity Science experiment and instrument set aboard the "Juno" Jupiter orbiter is designed to monitor Jupiter's gravity. It maps Jupiter's gravitational field, which will allow the interior of Jupiter to be better understood. It uses special hardware on "Juno", and also on Earth, including the high-gain K-band and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52785856 | 1,898,770 |
45,653 | Linguistic analysis is a sub-discipline of applied linguistics used by many governments to verify the claimed nationality of people seeking asylum who do not hold the necessary documentation to prove their claim. This often takes the form of an interview by personnel in an immigration department. Depending on the count... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22760983 | 45,635 |
407,198 | This problem of explaining introspective first-person aspects of mental states and consciousness in general in terms of third-person quantitative neuroscience is called the explanatory gap. There are several different views of the nature of this gap among contemporary philosophers of mind. David Chalmers and the early ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6880483 | 406,997 |
85,233 | Sometime prior to 1638, Galileo turned his attention to the phenomenon of objects in free fall, attempting to characterize these motions. Galileo was not the first to investigate Earth's gravitational field, nor was he the first to accurately describe its fundamental characteristics. However, Galileo's reliance on scie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19048 | 85,199 |
1,448,023 | Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex is a 2008 book by Mary Roach. It follows the winding history of science and its exploration of human sexuality, going back as far as Aristotle and finally ending with recent discoveries about the origination and anatomy of the female orgasm. Throughout, Mary Roach provides ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23874531 | 1,447,207 |
1,109,838 | Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) are a class of devices integrating electrical and mechanical functionality on the nanoscale. NEMS form the next logical miniaturization step from so-called microelectromechanical systems, or MEMS devices. NEMS typically integrate transistor-like nanoelectronics with mechanical actua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=908385 | 1,109,273 |
611,145 | Contractile cells demonstrate a much more stable resting phase than conductive cells at approximately −80 mV for cells in the atria and −90 mV for cells in the ventricles. Despite this initial difference, the other components of their action potentials are virtually identical. In both cases, when stimulated by an actio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26862016 | 610,834 |
1,630,457 | SAC (Single Assignment C) is a strict purely functional programming language whose design is focused on the needs of numerical applications. Emphasis is laid on efficient support for array processing via data parallelism. Efficiency concerns are essentially twofold. On the one hand, efficiency in program development is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2179985 | 1,629,537 |
131,156 | The type of optical fiber used in unrepeated and very long cables is often PCSF (pure silica core) due to its low loss of 0.172 dB per kilometer when carrying a 1550 nm wavelength laser light. The large chromatic dispersion of PCSF means that its use requires transmission and receiving equipment designed with this in m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45206 | 131,104 |
943,052 | Her fourth book, "Molecular and Microscopic Science," took 10 years to write. Published in 1869, she soon had doubts about devoting herself to popularising science, instead of concentrating on mathematics alone. Of the book she said: "In writing this book I made a great mistake, and repent it - Mathematics are the natu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600171 | 942,550 |
2,066,154 | V. V. Bychkov graduated from the Radio Engineering Faculty of Moscow Power Engineering Institute (1965) and attended a post-graduate study at the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University in the Department of Aesthetics. In 1972, V. V. Bychkov completed PhD, becoming the candidate of Philosophical Sciences with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70487591 | 2,064,963 |
869,214 | The root cause of FAP is understood to be a genetic mutation—a change in the body's tumour suppressor genes that prevent development of tumours. The change allows numerous cells of the intestinal wall to develop into potentially cancerous polyps when they would usually reach the end of their life; inevitably one or mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1106793 | 868,754 |
135,525 | Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) do not occur homogeneously across the human genome. In fact, there is enormous diversity in SNP frequency between genes, reflecting different selective pressures on each gene as well as different mutation and recombination rates across the genome. However, studies on SNPs are bias... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42888 | 135,470 |
940,468 | By itself, hemoglobin has sigmoid-like kinetics. In selectively binding to deoxyhemoglobin, 2,3-BPG stabilizes the T state conformation, making it harder for oxygen to bind hemoglobin and more likely to be released to adjacent tissues. 2,3-BPG is part of a feedback loop that can help prevent tissue hypoxia in condition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5145060 | 939,967 |
1,896,428 | Part I: "Tolkien as Lexicographer" describes Tolkien's work as an Assistant Editor on the dictionary. He would sort through the raw materials—slips of paper containing examples of the use of words from documents covering many centuries—and disentangle the development of different shades of meaning over time. He would t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70835960 | 1,895,344 |
1,250,115 | Wadsleyite is found to be stable in the upper part of the Transition Zone of the Earth's mantle between in depth. Because of oxygen atoms not bound to silicon in the SiO groups of wadsleyite, it leaves some oxygen atoms insufficiently bonded. Thus, these oxygens are hydrated easily, allowing for high concentrations of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8949274 | 1,249,439 |
271,486 | Paul Douglas explained that his first formulation of the Cobb–Douglas production function was developed in 1927; when seeking a functional form to relate estimates he had calculated for workers and capital, he spoke with mathematician and colleague Charles Cobb, who suggested a function of the form , previously used by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=350668 | 271,338 |
323,736 | Another legal issue that the US Congress is debating concerns changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The issue in question is calls between Americans and foreigners. The National Security Agency (NSA) is not authorized to tap Americans' conversations without a warrant—but the Internet, and specifically V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75028 | 323,564 |
1,536,482 | The 1972 Olympics saw great changes for dressage. First, the individual medals were only awarded based on the results of the ride-off, with the Grand Prix serving as a qualifying round for the ride-off, whereas before the scores from the Grand Prix and ride-off were added together to determine the winner. The judging a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2382860 | 1,535,614 |
1,827,952 | In 2019, the center introduced the Nuclear Energy Grand Challenge, a prize competition that asked university students to develop business proposals for mitigating the cost, duration, and risks of power plant construction and maintenance. In February 2020, the EIC introduced two new entities: OPEN100 and Last Energy. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69177254 | 1,826,913 |
862,982 | There are five types of the syndrome, labelled types I through V, which are distinguished by their genetic cause. Type 1, Type 2, Type 3, Type 4 and Type 5 are caused by mutations in "TGFBR1", "TGFBR2", "SMAD3", "TGFB2", and "TGFB3" respectively. These five genes encoding transforming growth factors play a role in cell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6364015 | 862,522 |
445,594 | During the rush to install the Chain Home (CH) radar systems prior to the Battle of Britain, CH stations were located as far forward as possible, along the shoreline, in order to provide maximum warning time. This meant that the inland areas over the British Isles did not have radar coverage, relying instead on the new... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1453216 | 445,378 |
1,184,467 | The bioreactors used for 3D cell cultures are small plastic cylindrical chambers that are specifically engineered for the purpose of growing cells in three dimensions. The bioreactor uses bioactive synthetic materials such as polyethylene terephthalate membranes to surround the spheroid cells in an environment that mai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39905795 | 1,183,840 |
231,906 | In addition, Ampère used his access to the latest books to begin teaching himself advanced mathematics at age 12. In later life Ampère claimed that he knew as much about mathematics and science when he was eighteen as ever he knew, but as a polymath, his reading embraced history, travels, poetry, philosophy, and the na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1363 | 231,787 |
1,395,081 | His research uncovered fundamental properties of synapses, the junctions across which nerve cells signal to each other and to other types of cells. By the 1950s, he was studying the biochemistry and action of acetylcholine, a signalling molecule found in synapses linking motor neurons to muscles, used to stimulate cont... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=215426 | 1,394,310 |
1,244,215 | Ternary compounds are one option to vary the band gap of semiconductors almost continuously over a wide energy range. This method is highly dependent on the materials as well as the growth techniques. In particular, materials with very different lattice constants or different crystal phases (wurtzite or zincblende in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47785331 | 1,243,542 |
3,149 | JWST is not intended to be serviced in space. A crewed mission to repair or upgrade the observatory, as was done for Hubble, would not currently be possible, and according to NASA Associate Administrator Thomas Zurbuchen, despite best efforts, an uncrewed remote mission was found to be beyond current technology at the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=434221 | 3,149 |
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