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1,686,748 | Though superior in this sense to small organic molecules, polymers still exhibit solubility in electrolytes, and battery stability is threatened by dissolved active material that can travel between electrodes, leading to decreased cyclability and self-discharge, which indicates weaker mechanical capacity. This issue ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8661899 | 1,685,802 |
1,381,511 | In the latter decades of the 20th century the emphasis changed to make the collections more interesting to the lay public and more easily interpreted by them. In 1989 a grant from the Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust resulted in a permanent exhibition entitled "500 Years of Surgery in Scotland", which made use of a wid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10048401 | 1,380,748 |
2,121,891 | Within seconds, as Teodosić began complaining to the referee over the call, an agitated Fotsis came over and interrupted Teodosić's attempt at talking to the ref by getting in Teodosić's face with a raised hand and a pointed finger, seemingly lecturing and/or threatening him over what had just occurred. Due to a consid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28456614 | 2,120,672 |
596,308 | In "Wings of Liberty", Narud and the Moebius Foundation backed Tychus Findlay's contact with James Raynor as a way to get around an imperial decree from Arcturus Mengsk that made it illegal to traffic in alien goods. Narud would later appear by proxy as the Moebius Foundation's representative during a mission briefing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12123161 | 596,003 |
1,699,690 | Construction of the engine would be regarded as typical for the 1950s, although this engine was developed in the late 1940s and its lineal derivatives, the Triumph straight-four and straight-six engines, would remain in production into the 1970s. In some aspects it was advanced for its day, particularly in its use of c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26829899 | 1,698,736 |
980,520 | Some early programmers combined instructions and data in words as a way to save memory, when it was expensive: The Manchester Mark 1 had space in its 40-bit words to store little bits of data – its processor ignored a small section in the middle of a word – and that was often exploited as extra data storage. Self-repli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=568018 | 980,008 |
1,077,873 | Her work on the manufacture of white lead and lead oxide, as a special investigator for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, is considered a "landmark study". Relying primarily on "shoe leather epidemiology" (her process of making personal visits to factories, conducting interviews with workers, and compiling details o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1532239 | 1,077,318 |
1,735,042 | RTAs are often used by sound engineers and by acousticians installing audio systems in all kinds of listening spaces: Venues, home theatres, cars etc. The parameters that can be measured are the spectral aspects of sound reproduction caused by effects like resonances and constructive and destructive interference, but n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10376906 | 1,734,065 |
1,133,897 | In general, the inland rainforest patches are restricted to areas with extraordinarily humid climate. For most of the year, pacific storm systems and maritime air masses moved into the interior by the prevailing westerlies create a zone of high precipitation when intersecting with the longitudinally oriented mountain r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62477716 | 1,133,304 |
810,242 | A collaborative system is designed to support multiple users modifying different sections of the plan at once; for example, updating the areas they personally are responsible for such that those estimates get integrated into the overall plan. Web-based tools, including extranets, generally fall into this category, but ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=206011 | 809,810 |
827,270 | Extensively used by Britain, before and in the early days of ironclads, the only protected place was below the waterline, sometimes under an armoured deck, so to fit below short decks, the tubes were not led back above the furnace but continued straight from it with keeping the combustion chamber in between the two. He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1164754 | 826,826 |
1,976,660 | The school offers courses leading to either an associate’s degree or the Guaranteed Transfer Program, under which students are guaranteed admission to a four-year University of Wisconsin System college of their choice if they meet the academic requirements. UW-Marathon County also has a collaborative program with UW-St... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4102139 | 1,975,522 |
1,706,221 | Bayer is the son of attorney Leo G. Bayer and dramatist Eleanor Rosenfeld Bayer, later known as the screenwriter Eleanor Perry. He describes his family background as "secular Jewish" and identifies as such. During the 1940s his parents wrote and published four mysteries using the pen name "Oliver Weld Bayer." They also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27925311 | 1,705,263 |
588,919 | Despite a fall in popularity among machine shops, cast iron remains the most popular material for master surfaces (different use from a surface plates) among laboratory metrologists, machine builders, gauge makers, and other high-accuracy industries that have a requirement for gauging flatness. Cast iron that has been ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1647100 | 588,617 |
1,851,526 | As in all "Geastrum" fungi, the internal spore-producing gleba is enclosed in the peridium, a protective structure composed of four layers of tissue: an inner endoperidium, and outer exoperidium that may further be divided into an external mycelial, a tough and membranous middle fibrillose layer, and an internal fleshy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28846678 | 1,850,465 |
864,720 | Arnold applied directed evolution to the optimization of enzymes (although not the first person to do so, see e.g. Barry Hall). In her seminal work, published in 1993, she used the method to engineer a version of subtilisin E that was active in the organic solvent DMF, a highly unnatural environment. She carried out th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19812169 | 864,260 |
1,450,365 | Gene oscillation in presomitic cells is largely, but not completely, cell-autonomous. When Notch signaling is disrupted in zebrafish, neighboring cells no longer oscillate synchronously, indicating that Notch signaling is important for keeping neighboring populations of cells synchronous. In addition, some cellular int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1077498 | 1,449,548 |
1,537,772 | Gene oscillation in presomitic cells is largely, but not completely, cell autonomous. When Notch signaling is disrupted in zebrafish, neighboring cells no longer oscillate synchronously, indicating that Notch signaling is important for keeping neighboring populations of cells synchronous. In addition, some cellular int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38050571 | 1,536,900 |
1,949,347 | In MISS the operating microscope rather than magnifying glasses should be used by the surgeon. Instead of one large opening of the conjunctiva as is done in conventional strabismus surgery, several small cuts are placed where the main surgical steps, usually suturing, have to be performed. Openings are placed as far aw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60600990 | 1,948,226 |
459,581 | In March 2013 Reporters Without Borders issued a "Special report on Internet surveillance" that examines the use of technology that monitors online activity and intercepts electronic communication in order to arrest journalists, citizen-journalists, and dissidents. The report includes a list of "State Enemies of the In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=91256 | 459,356 |
809,722 | Study of the exact nature of the performance problems turned up a number of interesting facts. One was that the IPC itself was not the problem: there was some overhead associated with the memory mapping needed to support it, but this added only a small amount of time to making a call. The rest, 80% of the time being sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21028 | 809,291 |
589,641 | Safety meetings are typically held before and during shutdowns. Other safety measures include providing adequate ventilation to hot areas or areas where oxygen may become depleted or toxic gases may be present and checking vessels and other enclosed areas for adequate levels of oxygen and ensure absence of toxic or exp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1642843 | 589,339 |
1,578,332 | One of the most unexpected results of the project was the discovery of multiple novel light-sensitive ion-channels used extensively for optogenetic control of neurons discovered through sequencing and physiological characterization of opsins from over 100 species of alga species by the project. The characterization of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26412304 | 1,577,442 |
152,438 | Panthera spelaea, also known as the Eurasian cave lion, European cave lion or steppe lion, is an extinct "Panthera" species that most likely evolved in Europe after the third Cromerian interglacial stage, less than 600,000 years ago. Phylogenetic analysis of fossil bone samples revealed that it was highly distinct and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1219865 | 152,370 |
1,304,435 | The books, articles and websites mentioned above are by no means a complete list of good neuroethics information sources. For example, readings and websites that focus on specific aspects of neuroethics, such as brain imaging or enhancement, are not included. Nor are more recent sources, such as Walter Glannon's book "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=703002 | 1,303,719 |
258,485 | There are a plethora of methods and techniques that are employed when practicing ecological farming, all having their own unique benefits and implementations that lead to more sustainable agriculture. Crop genetic diversity is one method that is used to reduce the risks associated with monoculture crops, which can be s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216143 | 258,351 |
305,860 | "A. afarensis" does not appear to have had a preferred environment, and inhabited a wide range of habitats such as open grasslands or woodlands, shrublands, and lake- or riverside forests. Likewise, the animal assemblage varied widely from site to site. The Pliocene of East Africa was warm and wet compared to the prece... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=443293 | 305,697 |
1,590,848 | The men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1992 Summer Olympics took place on 28 July at the Piscines Bernat Picornell in Barcelona, Spain. There were 75 competitors from 52 nations. Nations had been limited to two swimmers each since the 1984 Games. The event was won by Alexander Popov of the Unified Team. Gustavo Bor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5331945 | 1,589,954 |
1,045,062 | Multiple jugals are known from "Europasaurus", which are more similar in morphology to basal sauropodomorphs than other macronarians. It forms part of the border of the orbit, infratemporal fenestra and the bottom edge of the skull, but does not reach the antorbital fenestra. The posterior process of the jugal are very... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5468113 | 1,044,517 |
856,305 | On 22 September, rainy weather had aggravated Boelcke's asthma to the point he could not fly. He refused to go to hospital, but devolved command on "Oberleutnant" Gunther Viehweger. That night, transferred from Bertincourt to Lagnicourt because British artillery was beginning to shell its airfield. The next day, in a l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=193002 | 855,850 |
1,191,638 | The biosynthesis of trabectedin in "Candidatus" Endoecteinascidia frumentensis starts with a fatty acid loading onto the acyl-ligase domain of the EtuA3 module. A cysteine and glycine are then loaded as canonical NRPS amino acids. A tyrosine residue is modified by the enzymes EtuH, EtuM1, and EtuM2 to add a hydroxyl at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8213823 | 1,191,003 |
1,198,567 | Some British reporters were thus misled into depicting the Argentineans as hapless teenage conscripts who caved in after the first shots were fired, but Royal Marine Warrant Officer 2 John Cartledge, who served with L Company during the battle, corrected them, saying the Argentines were good soldiers who had fought pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=526383 | 1,197,926 |
2,156,236 | After his DPhil, Dixon was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Cambridge before starting his own research group at Royal Holloway College at the University of London. He served as Director of the Plant Biology Division at the Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation in Ardmore, Oklahoma from 1998 to 2013. For over 30... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57752921 | 2,155,005 |
246,697 | Each model in automata theory plays important roles in several applied areas. Finite automata are used in text processing, compilers, and hardware design. Context-free grammar (CFGs) are used in programming languages and artificial intelligence. Originally, CFGs were used in the study of human languages. Cellular autom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=103356 | 246,569 |
467,975 | Components that were developed especially for the MSRE included flanges for lines carrying molten salt, freeze valves (an air-cooled section where salt could be frozen and thawed), flexible control rods to operate in thimbles at , and the fuel sampler-enricher. Centrifugal pumps were developed similar to those used suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5710651 | 467,740 |
1,213,168 | Even with the advances made in vaccine technology and treatment options during previous Ebola outbreaks, effective control of the North Kivu Epidemic continued to rely on traditional public health efforts including the timely identification and isolation of cases, control measures in hospital settings, identification a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58011203 | 1,212,516 |
249,214 | Critics of familial DNA database searches argue that the technique is an invasion of an individual's 4th Amendment rights. Privacy advocates are petitioning for DNA database restrictions, arguing that the only fair way to search for possible DNA matches to relatives of offenders or arrestees would be to have a populati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44290 | 249,084 |
1,065,319 | In 1460 the papal legate Basilios Bessarion came to Vienna on a diplomatic mission. Being a humanist scholar with a great interest in the mathematical sciences, Bessarion sought out Peuerbach's company. George of Trebizond who was Bessarion's philosophical rival had recently produced a new Latin translation of Ptolemy'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25929 | 1,064,765 |
313,977 | Each AIS transceiver consists of one VHF transmitter, two VHF TDMA receivers, one VHF Digital Selective Calling (DSC) receiver, and links to shipboard display and sensor systems via standard marine electronic communications (such as NMEA 0183, also known as IEC 61162). Timing is vital to the proper synchronization and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1825702 | 313,808 |
1,155,674 | Moving lights are much more difficult to program than their conventional cousins because they have more attributes per fixture that must be controlled. A simple conventional lighting fixture uses only one channel of control per unit: intensity. Everything else that the light must do is pre-set by human hands (colour, p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3801925 | 1,155,064 |
377,745 | It is possible to allow peripherals to communicate with memory in the same fashion, attaching adaptors in the form of expansion cards directly to the system bus. This is commonly accomplished through some sort of standardized electrical connector, several of these forming the expansion bus or local bus. However, as the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6631 | 377,550 |
956,017 | Originally purchased by wealthy individuals, by 1916 cars began selling at $875. Soon, the market widened with the mechanical betterment of the cars, the reduction in prices, as well as the introduction of installment sales and payment plans. During the period from 1917 to 1926, the annual rate of increase in sales was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23576520 | 955,512 |
648,291 | All horseshoe bats have large, leaf-like protuberances on their noses, which are called nose-leafs. The nose-leafs are important in species identification, and are composed of several parts. The front of the nose-leaf resembles and is called a horseshoe, earning them the common name of "horseshoe bats". The horseshoe i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=531505 | 647,950 |
1,711,016 | Birds are one of the only major taxa where monogamy is the dominant mating system. Prior to the advent of genetic techniques, it was assumed that the majority of monogamous birds remained faithful to their partners. However, it is now known that extra-pair copulations (EPCs), extra-pair fertilizations (EPFs), and extra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30722380 | 1,710,053 |
1,722,451 | Genomic analysis of cultivated coconut ("Cocos nucifera") has shed light on the movements of Austronesian peoples. By examining 10 microsatelite loci, researchers found that there are 2 genetically distinct subpopulations of coconut – one originating in the Indian Ocean, the other in the Pacific Ocean. However, there i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33890453 | 1,721,481 |
1,322,316 | Processability theory (PT) is a cognitive approach to second language acquisition that seeks to explain developmental schedules as well as learner variation. It is based on Levelt’s (1989) approach to language generation and is formally operationalized using Lexical-Functional Grammar (Bresnan 2001). PT’s core assumpti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17640957 | 1,321,590 |
15,308 | Between April 2013 and December 2013, South African contractors held prime responsibility for maintenance work on the Gripen fleet as support contracts with Saab had expired; this arrangement led to fears that extended operations may not be possible due to a lack of proper maintenance. In December 2013, Armscor awarded... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=87577 | 15,303 |
98,903 | Midazolam is a short-acting benzodiazepine in adults with an elimination half-life of 1.5–2.5 hours. In the elderly, as well as young children and adolescents, the elimination half-life is longer. Midazolam is metabolised into an active metabolite alpha1-hydroxymidazolam. Age-related deficits, renal and liver status af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=646748 | 98,860 |
1,335,084 | Linda Ye and the rest of the MIT team continued working with the kagome metal, looking into more properties on and other iron-tin alloys. According to an article published by the team on October 25, 2019 in "Nature Communications," the lattice was shown to exhibit spin-orbit coupling de Haas van Alphen oscillations and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56892858 | 1,334,354 |
771,603 | In professional races, team coordination is often performed by radio communication between the riders and the team director, who travels in a team car behind the race and monitors the overall situation. The influence of radios on race tactics is a topic of discussion amongst the cycling community, with some arguing tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1755460 | 771,189 |
2,239,022 | NFCIS was created during the 1980s. The NFCIS was a necessary program introduced by the IAEA since nuclear fuel had been discovered and many countries were starting to produce and stock this material. There was no way to return to a life without them. This database could help the International Atomic Energy Agency main... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6728636 | 2,237,751 |
162,073 | The introduction of steam power fuelled primarily by coal, wider utilisation of water wheels and powered machinery (mainly in textile manufacturing) underpinned the dramatic increases in production capacity. The development of all-metal machine tools in the first two decades of the 19th century facilitated the manufact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 161,988 |
1,301,308 | This is made more difficult because the MOS Technology 6507 in the 2600 is a pin-reduced version of the 6502 with no support for hardware interrupts. Generally the analog side of the display system generates an interrupt when it finishes drawing a raster line and is getting ready for the next one. The interrupt trigger... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=719274 | 1,300,594 |
645,225 | Unhydrogenated a-Si has a very high defect density which leads to undesirable semiconductor properties such as poor photoconductivity and prevents doping which is critical to engineering semiconductor properties. By introducing hydrogen during the fabrication of amorphous silicon, photoconductivity is significantly imp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50037064 | 644,885 |
656,481 | After an exhaustive site selection process that included reviews of other coastal locations including Eglin Air Force Base in Florida plus islands in both the Caribbean and the Pacific, NASA announced formation of the Mississippi Test Facility (now known as Stennis Space Center) on Oct. 25, 1961, for testing engines fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=690479 | 656,137 |
1,945,616 | After months of waiting for clinical supplies, Aitken took the lead in Andrology with Roger Short and David Mortimer's encouragement, despite the fact that the discipline was still in its infancy around the 1950s. With this transition in research styles, he could gain direct access without relying on his clinical colle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56888479 | 1,944,504 |
607,355 | The rest of Marx's third manuscript explicates his conception of the total, all-sided, unalienated man. Marx believes the supersession of private property will be a total liberation of all human faculties: seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching, thinking, observing, feeling, desiring, acting and loving will all b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40980053 | 607,045 |
1,294,081 | Stable isotope biogeochemistry is a powerful tool that utilizes variations in isotopic signatures and relates them to biogeochemical processes. The science is based on the preferential fractionation of lighter or heavier isotopes, which results in enriched and depleted isotopic signatures compared to a standard value. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1923764 | 1,293,370 |
1,913,669 | Since 2016, Warinner has led a research team in the archaeogenetics department at Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany. Warinner's research focuses on ancestral human microbiomes. Recent projects include "Dairying and Dietary Adaptive Evolution in Prehistory", "Evolution and Ecology of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57741327 | 1,912,570 |
1,345,965 | The latter stages of the revolution was fuelled by the 1789 publication of Lavoisier's "Traité Élémentaire de Chimie" (Elements of Chemistry). Beginning with this publication and others to follow, Lavoisier synthesised the work of others and coined the term "oxygen". Antoine Lavoisier represented the chemical revolutio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3543408 | 1,345,224 |
1,218,538 | NTRO's system was designed with the help of Paladion, an international private company and NETRA was designed by a team of 40 scientists from CAIR. The committee selected CAIR's NETRA as it had multiple issues with NTRO's system. It had serious security reservations about involvement of an international private company... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36745104 | 1,217,884 |
519,953 | The scientific revolution also gained legitimacy during this period. Early modern attempts to grapple with the philosophy of infinity focused on and discussed three fundamental disagreements about the infinite—differences that had their origins in the academic philosophical tradition. Philosophers such as Leibniz and S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=803178 | 519,684 |
1,705,829 | The 2018 announcement of the college's creation included a new building to provide enough room on campus for 65 faculty members, plus graduate students and staff (most of which would be funded by the college). The new headquarters was designated as Building 45, reflecting the campus-wide number system and the chosen lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64268836 | 1,704,871 |
1,016,404 | Zinc fingers were first identified in a study of transcription in the African clawed frog, "Xenopus laevis" in the laboratory of Aaron Klug. A study of the transcription of a particular RNA sequence revealed that the binding strength of a small transcription factor (transcription factor IIIA; TFIIIA) was due to the pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234129 | 1,015,881 |
310,524 | Colossus was the world's first electronic digital programmable computer. It used a large number of valves (vacuum tubes). It had paper-tape input and was capable of being configured to perform a variety of boolean logical operations on its data, but it was not Turing-complete. Data input to Colossus was by photoelectri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13636 | 310,356 |
1,888,743 | Sphaeralcea angustifolia is a species of flowering plant in the mallow family known by the common names copper globemallow and narrow-leaved globemallow. It is native to the southwestern United States as well as northern and central Mexico, where it grows in desert and plateau habitat. It produces many erect stems, app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28359115 | 1,887,660 |
312,889 | The typical day would start with Huxley lecturing at 9am, followed by a program of laboratory work supervised by his demonstrators. Huxley's demonstrators were picked men—all became leaders of biology in Britain in later life, spreading Huxley's ideas as well as their own. Michael Foster became Professor of Physiology ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30038 | 312,721 |
997,563 | In plasmas and electrolytes, the Debye length formula_1 (also called Debye radius), is a measure of a charge carrier's net electrostatic effect in a solution and how far its electrostatic effect persists. With each Debye length the charges are increasingly electrically screened and the electric potential decreases in m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1158235 | 997,045 |
752,834 | Posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES), also known as reversible posterior leukoencephalopathy syndrome (RPLS), is a rare condition in which parts of the brain are affected by swelling, usually as a result of an underlying cause. Someone with PRES may experience headache, changes in vision, and seizures, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8103196 | 752,432 |
1,458,585 | Currently, the diagnosis of mental disorders is based on clinical observation—identifying symptoms that tend to cluster together, determining when the symptoms appear, and determining whether the symptoms resolve, recur, or become chronic. However, the way that mental disorders are defined in the present diagnostic sys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39376922 | 1,457,765 |
1,316,681 | On January 1, 2017 Joint Commission regulations went into effect detailing that hospitals should have an AMS team consisting of infection preventionist(s), pharmacist(s), and a practitioner to write protocols and develop projects focused on the appropriate use of antibiotics. Effective January 1, 2020, the Joint Commis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45624709 | 1,315,956 |
811,090 | Born in Riga, then part of the Russian Empire, the Jewish Yiddish-speaking Nimzowitsch came from a wealthy family, where he learned chess from his father Shaya Abramovich Nimzowitsch (1860, Pinsk – 1918), who was a timber merchant. By 1897, the family lived in Dvinsk. Mother's name: Esphir Nohumovna Nimzowitsch (born R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2812 | 810,658 |
1,773,678 | Musk xylene is an analogue of the explosive trinitrotoluene (TNT), so it is unsurprising that its safety characteristics have been studied in some detail. Indeed, the nitro musks were first discovered in an attempt to produce new high explosives. It has also been used – albeit in very small amounts – in mass-market con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22176717 | 1,772,681 |
288,545 | Long-term effects of biochar on carbon sequestration has been examined using soil from arable fields in Belgium with charcoal-enriched black spots dating from before 1870 from charcoal production mound kilns. Topsoils from these 'black spots' had a higher organic C concentration [3.6 ± 0.9% organic carbon (OC)] than ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7041469 | 288,388 |
1,521,253 | The science of correlated magnetics was created in 2008 by Larry W. Fullerton in his laboratory at Cedar Ridge in North Alabama. Correlated Magnetics Research (CMR) was formed to pursue research and development of the Coded Magnets technology and to license the technology to business entities across industry. More than... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24793327 | 1,520,392 |
1,516,396 | The species distribution along environmental gradients has been studied intensively due to large databases of species presence data (e.g. GBIF). The abiotic factors that environmental gradients consist of can have a direct ramifications on organismal survival. Generally, organismal distribution is tied to those abiotic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=644152 | 1,515,544 |
1,705,031 | In eukaryotes, the MRN complex (through cooperation of its subunits) has been identified as a crucial player in many stages of the repair process of double-strand DNA breaks: initial detection of a lesion, halting of the cell cycle to allow for repair, selection of a specific repair pathway (i.e., via homologous recomb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17269927 | 1,704,075 |
735,700 | The two products of the PLC catalyzed reaction, DAG and IP, are important second messengers that control diverse cellular processes and are substrates for synthesis of other important signaling molecules. When PIP is cleaved, DAG remains bound to the membrane, and IP is released as a soluble structure into the cytosol.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14731479 | 735,313 |
599,089 | Companies developing commercial dPCR systems have integrated technologies like automated partitioning of samples, digital counting of nucleic acid targets, and increasing droplet count that can help the process be more efficient. In recent years, scientists have developed and commercialized dPCR-based diagnostics for s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11314351 | 598,783 |
4,339 | Dinosaurs diverged from their archosaur ancestors during the Middle to Late Triassic epochs, roughly 20 million years after the devastating Permian–Triassic extinction event wiped out an estimated 96% of all marine species and 70% of terrestrial vertebrate species approximately 252 million years ago. Radiometric dating... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8311 | 4,337 |
956,270 | In 1904, Arthur Dukinfield Darbishire published a paper on an experiment attempting to test Mendelian inheritance between Japanese waltzing and albino mice. When Haldane came across the paper, he noticed that Darbishire had overlooked the possibility of genetic linkage in the experiment. Having sought advice from Regin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62417 | 955,765 |
1,342,264 | In "The New York Review of Books", Martin Gardner praised "The First Three Minutes" as "science writing at its best." In "The New Yorker", Jeremy Bernstein wrote that "Weinberg builds such a convincing case...that one comes away from his book feeling not only that the idea of an original cosmic explosion is not crazy b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30048629 | 1,341,530 |
1,278,240 | Normal ataxin 1 is intimately involved in a number of signaling pathways, in protein ubiquitination, RNA metabolism, in transcription regulation, protein transformation, and protein stabilization. Among other interactions, it forms a transcription complex with Retinoid-related Orphan nuclear-receptor transcription fact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54421246 | 1,277,547 |
2,062,053 | Canada's initial achievements in space science came as a result of military initiatives. Because the effectiveness of radio communications and the huge air defence radar chains across Canada's north was affected by the electrical properties of the ionosphere, studies of those properties were undertaken in the fifties. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,863 |
1,882,548 | More controversially, Baxter pressed the case for Australia to have the capacity to produce nuclear weapons. In 1958, he proposed creating a facility at Mount Isa to breed weapons-grade plutonium. His proposals found a sympathetic ear in Prime Minister John Gorton, who approved plans to build a CANDU reactor at Jervis ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18243283 | 1,881,467 |
11,499 | In a commentary from the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), concerns were raised over the US stock of Javelin missiles. According to CSIS, the US has used close to one-third of its Javelin missiles; 7,000 have been supplied thus far, with the United States buying Javelins at the rate of about 1,000 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315575 | 11,494 |
525,396 | The Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Tirupati, established in 2015, offers B. Tech., M. Tech., M.S. and Ph.D. programmes. The department is actively involved in research in the areas of signal processing, machine learning, medical imaging, nanoelectronics, device modelling, semiconductor devices, digital des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47131292 | 525,123 |
1,847,821 | In 2001, his work investigating the molecular pathways that underpin light-induced retinal photoreceptor apoptosis continued with a paper published in Cell Death & Differentiation showing that AP-1 mediated retinal photoreceptor apoptosis was independent of N-terminal phosphorylation of one of its components, c-Jun. La... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47505455 | 1,846,763 |
2,241,646 | Two radiating planar arrays assembled back-to-back and mounted on top of the fuselage in an active antenna array unit (AAAU) will provide 240° coverage like Erieye. The AAAU is configured to compactly house 10 × 2 antenna array panels, 160 transmit receive 10 × 2 antenna array panels, 160 transmit receive multi-modules... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17583272 | 2,240,375 |
46,527 | "Surveying" is the process by which a surveyor measures certain dimensions that occur on or near the surface of the Earth. Surveying equipment such as levels and theodolites are used for accurate measurement of angular deviation, horizontal, vertical and slope distances. With computerisation, electronic distance measur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5762 | 46,509 |
790,770 | Methane clathrate, also called methane hydrate, is a form of water ice that contains a large amount of methane within its crystal structure. Extremely large deposits of methane clathrate have been found under sediments on the sea and ocean floors of Earth. The sudden release of large amounts of natural gas from methane... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26198824 | 790,345 |
761,536 | In 2004, Jacob Bekenstein formulated TeVeS, the first complete relativistic hypothesis using MONDian behaviour. TeVeS is constructed from a local Lagrangian (and hence respects conservation laws), and employs a unit vector field, a dynamical and non-dynamical scalar field, a free function and a non-Einsteinian metric i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21591425 | 761,129 |
548,792 | A notable exception to this trend are the inshore diamond diving operations on the west coast of South Africa, where hookah is still the standard equipment for diamondiferous gravel extraction in the hostile conditions of the surf zone, where the water temperature is usually around 8 to 10 °C, visibility is usually low... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=488213 | 548,504 |
851,737 | The Bell X-2 had a prolonged development period due to the advances needed in aerodynamic design, control systems, materials that retained adequate mechanical properties at high temperature, and other technologies that had to be developed. Not only did the X-2 push the envelope of manned flight to speeds, altitudes and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=351123 | 851,284 |
804,493 | The produced radionuclides have varying half-lives, and therefore vary in radioactivity. For instance, strontium-89 and strontium-90 are produced in similar quantities in fission, and each nucleus decays by beta emission. But Sr has a 30-year half-life, and Sr a 50.5-day half-life. Thus in the 50.5 days it takes half t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=701333 | 804,064 |
1,359,792 | In order to positively identify attack traffic, the system must be taught to recognize normal system activity. The two phases of a majority of anomaly detection systems consist of the training phase (where a profile of normal behaviors is built) and testing phase (where current traffic is compared with the profile crea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1199510 | 1,359,041 |
1,770,621 | Naveen Garg has secured the instituted by Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany in 2001. The award is given to scientists and scholars from abroad, internationally renowned in their field, who are expected to produce cutting-edge achievements having a seminal influence on their discipline beyond their immediate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52396374 | 1,769,624 |
10,059 | Electromagnetic isotope separation was developed by Lawrence at the University of California Radiation Laboratory. This method employed devices known as calutrons, a hybrid of the standard laboratory mass spectrometer and the cyclotron magnet. The name was derived from the words "California", "university" and "cyclotro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19603 | 10,055 |
2,079,233 | The creation of an integrated system model removes the barriers posed by the silos or stovepipes inherent in the departmentalization of most companies. Integration enables lean uses of information for the creation of actionable knowledge. CALM strives to create such a lean management approach to running the company thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20341886 | 2,078,034 |
1,159,095 | In the 1990s feminist scholars such as Mary Leach and Megan Boler began examining the application of Deleuzean thought to feminist pedagogy, particularly in the teaching of history and literature. Other critical pedagogy theorists soon engaged with the concept. Roy Kaustuv described the rhizoid structure of curriculum,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46824825 | 1,158,481 |
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