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2,112,365 | II Matrix element code generation: Various methods are used to automatically produce the matrix element expression in a computer language (Fortran, C/C++). They use values (i.e. for the masses) or expressions (i.e. for the couplings) produced by step I or model specific libraries constructed "by hands" (usually heavily... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17157367 | 2,111,150 |
479,778 | Midbrain dopaminergic neurons play a critical role in multiple brain functions, and abnormal signaling through dopaminergic pathways has been implicated in several major neurologic and psychiatric disorders. One well studied target for the actions of dopamine is DARPP32. In the densely dopamine- and glutamate-innervate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14760882 | 479,537 |
2,243,962 | The construction of this project started in August 2016, and commercial operations began in the second half of 2018. The power generated will be evacuated via the 33kV Mbale–Bulambuli–Siti Medium Voltage Power Line, that measures in length. That power line is expected to be developed after Siti II has been commissioned... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54909583 | 2,242,691 |
683,092 | Wainwright followed the "Pictorial Guides" in 1968 with the "Pennine Way Companion", applying the same detailed approach to Britain's first long-distance footpath. This was for many years a leading guide to the Pennine Way, rivalling the official guide book by Tom Stephenson. Wainwright's book consists of a continuous ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172652 | 682,736 |
754,614 | In 1977 Edmund Phelps (1933–) (who was awarded the 2006 Nobel Economics Prize) and John B. Taylor (1946–) published a paper proving that staggered setting of wages and prices gives monetary policy a role in stabilizing economic fluctuations if the wages/prices are sticky, even when all workers and firms have rational e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7881361 | 754,211 |
1,865,445 | Park et al. created an orthogonal receptor-ligand interface between PYR1 and mandipropamid. PYR1 normally binds to abscisic acid which together then bind and inactivate to PP2C as a drought stress response, which stops PP2C from deactivating SnRK2. This causes a cascade that leads to the activation of the slow anion ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48121588 | 1,864,372 |
83,647 | In 2004, Lucent Technologies awarded two women the prestigious Bell Labs Fellow Award. Magaly Spector, a director in INS/Network Systems Group, was awarded for "sustained and exceptional scientific and technological contributions in solid-state physics, III-V material for semiconductor lasers, Gallium Arsenide integrat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3712 | 83,613 |
1,156,270 | The Radioplane Company was an American aviation company that produced drone aircraft primarily for use as gunnery targets. During World War II, they produced over 9,400 of their Radioplane OQ-3 model, a propeller-powered monoplane, making it the most-used target aircraft in the US. In the post-World War II era they int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44934777 | 1,155,660 |
229,604 | Concerns over the safety of consumption of genetically modified plant materials that contain Cry proteins have been addressed in extensive dietary risk assessment studies. As a toxic mechanism, "cry" proteins bind to specific receptors on the membranes of mid-gut (epithelial) cells of the targeted pests, resulting in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4184 | 229,487 |
1,308,864 | The Tubby Smith-era officially began on November 18 with an 88 to 49 victory over Morehead State at Rupp Arena. Allen Edwards added 15 points, Wayne Turner had 12 points and Heshimu Evans had 10 points. Four days later Kentucky traveled to island of Maui to compete in the annual Maui Invitational Tournament, Kentucky d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22622406 | 1,308,148 |
338,981 | Holograms are commonly used for security, as they are replicated from a master hologram that requires expensive, specialized and technologically advanced equipment, and are thus difficult to forge. They are used widely in many currencies, such as the Brazilian 20, 50, and 100-reais notes; British 5, 10, and 20-pound no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66338 | 338,801 |
1,517,496 | Research has been conducted on in vivo biodistribution and highly efficient tumor targeting of carbon nanotubes in mice for cancer therapy. Investigations are being done on the biodistribution of radio-labelled SWNTs in mice by in vivo positron emission tomography (PET), ex vivo biodistribution and Raman spectroscopy. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22444556 | 1,516,644 |
707,001 | Series 2 saw the start of "Brainiac Snooker", in which World Snooker professional Quinten Hann would pot the last six balls on a table into pockets connected to fuses which would cause a caravan rigged with a different explosive to explode. This series also included several shorter segments, such as "Pub Science with D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=525162 | 706,632 |
983,038 | While 16S hypervariable region analysis is a powerful tool for bacterial taxonomic studies, it struggles to differentiate between closely related species. In the families "Enterobacteriaceae", "Clostridiaceae", and "Peptostreptococcaceae", species can share up to 99% sequence similarity across the full 16S gene. As a r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14075787 | 982,525 |
2,032,875 | It is generally assumed that the herbicide glyphosate is harmless to animals, including bees and other insects, because its action targets the enzyme 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase (EPSPS), which is found only in plants and microorganisms. However, when making this assumption the effects of glyphosate on a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71545304 | 2,031,703 |
1,633,645 | 1900 marked the so-called "rediscovery of Mendel": Hugo de Vries, Carl Correns, and Erich von Tschermak independently arrived at Mendel's laws (which were not actually present in Mendel's work). Soon after, cytologists (cell biologists) proposed that chromosomes were the hereditary material. Between 1910 and 1915, Thom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30410498 | 1,632,722 |
1,025,479 | 1900 marked the so-called "rediscovery of Mendel": Hugo de Vries, Carl Correns, and Erich von Tschermak independently arrived at Mendel's laws (which were not actually present in Mendel's work). Soon after, cytologists (cell biologists) proposed that chromosomes were the hereditary material. Between 1910 and 1915, Thom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322460 | 1,024,946 |
550,283 | Daniel Palanker and his group at Stanford University developed a photovoltaic retinal prosthesis in 2012, that includes a subretinal photodiode array and an infrared image projection system mounted on video goggles. Images captured by video camera are processed in a pocket PC and displayed on video goggles using pulsed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17198736 | 549,995 |
1,790,929 | The session of the associate members of the IPEFS on February 2, 1962 would prove to be of vital importance. Here it would be agreed to ask the government for the elevation of its academic entity, the Institute of Philosophical and Social Studies (IEFS), as a private university according to the current university law. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18651334 | 1,789,922 |
1,902,781 | Evolution of predator and prey has played a role in encouraging the development and shaping of body armor. This armor gave prey species the ability to avoid harm more efficiently. The spine like processes found on the osteoderms suggest a defensive function. Because of their solid structure, they allowed the organisms ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51692420 | 1,901,690 |
950,224 | Acceleration presents gifted children with academic material from established curricula that is commensurate with their ability and preparedness, and for this reason is a low-cost option from the perspective of the school. This may result in a small number of children taking classes targeted at older children. For the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=422315 | 949,720 |
1,820,238 | is a smooth projective algebraic complex variety. Moreover, it admits a Kähler–Einstein metric, and, more importantly, comes equipped with a holomorphic contact structure, corresponding to the horizontal spaces of the Riemannian connection on "H". These facts were used by LeBrun and Salamon to prove that, up to isometr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2640559 | 1,819,201 |
1,798,416 | von Euler-Chelpin was born on 15 February 1873 at Augsburg, Germany to Rigas Georg Sebastian von Euler-Chelpin and Gabriele von Euler-Chelpin (née Furtner). His father was a captain in the Royal Bavarian Regiment, who was soon transferred to Munich. During his childhood, he spent most of his time with his grandmother a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780487 | 1,797,407 |
1,184,073 | Atomic spectroscopy is the study of the electromagnetic radiation absorbed and emitted by atoms. Since unique elements have characteristic (signature) spectra, atomic spectroscopy, specifically the electromagnetic spectrum or mass spectrum, is applied for determination of elemental compositions. It can be divided by at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=437861 | 1,183,446 |
155,753 | According to Aristotle, he died at the age of sixty (), even though other writers have him living up to the age of one hundred and nine. Likewise, there are myths concerning his death: a tradition, which is traced to Heraclides Ponticus, represented him as having been removed from the Earth; whereas others had him peri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9553 | 155,682 |
1,688,339 | One notable company that deserves special mention is Archer-Daniels-Midland Company (ADM) which has already invested heavily into building approximately 100 corn-ethanol production plants, known as bio-refineries, and churns out about one-fifth of the country's ethanol supply. This occurred due to seasonal overcapacity... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5676885 | 1,687,393 |
1,651,379 | Engineering controls are physical changes to the workplace that isolate workers from hazards by containing them in an enclosure, or removing contaminated air from the workplace through ventilation and filtering. They are used when hazardous substances and processes cannot be eliminated or replaced with less hazardous s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53376859 | 1,650,447 |
617,723 | By 1978, the South Texas Project was two years behind schedule and had substantial cost overruns. A new management team had been put in place by HL&P in late 1978 to deal with the cost overruns, schedule delays and other challenges. However, events at Three Mile Island in March 1979 had a substantial impact on the nucl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1806506 | 617,409 |
608,072 | According to Stuart Shields, liberalization of the ECE economies took place notably through various changes which were supported by the EBRD, for instance, set in different different steps. Firstly, measures of competition and financial discipline were put in place in the beginning. As part of the second wave of refor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1489819 | 607,761 |
460,719 | While sales data give an overview of levels of use, products are often licensed for use in many species and therefore it is not possible to determine levels of use in different species without more specific usage data from each sector. In 2011, British Poultry Council members, representing 90% of the UK poultry meat in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40364158 | 460,493 |
592,131 | When used for ethanol production, miscanthus plantations with a yield of 15 tonnes per hectare per year generate only 0.40 W/m. Corn fields generate 0.26 W/m (yield 10 t/ha). In Brazil sugarcane fields typically generate 0.41 W/m. Winter wheat (USA) generates 0.08 W/m and German wheat generates 0.30 W/m. When grown for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8202316 | 591,829 |
131,520 | The CFM56 first ran in 1974. By April 1979, the joint venture had not received a single order in five years and was two weeks away from being dissolved. The program was saved when Delta Air Lines, United Airlines, and Flying Tigers chose the CFM56 to re-engine their DC-8s and shortly thereafter it was chosen to re-engi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=437326 | 131,468 |
995,741 | In many U.S. states, K-12 educators must adhere to rigid standards or frameworks of what content is to be taught to which age groups. This often leads teachers to rush to "cover" the material, without truly "teaching" it. In addition, the "process" of science, including such elements as the scientific method and critic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181889 | 995,224 |
1,840,410 | The Small Molecule Pathway Database (SMPDB) is a comprehensive, high-quality, freely accessible, online database containing more than 600 small molecule (i.e. metabolic) pathways found in humans. SMPDB is designed specifically to support pathway elucidation and pathway discovery in metabolomics, transcriptomics, proteo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34344325 | 1,839,358 |
1,743,640 | In the mid- to late 1980s, researchers have increasingly focused on genetic studies with the advancing sequencing technologies. The GenBank database was established in 1982 for the collection, management, storage, and distribution of DNA sequence data due to the increasing availability of DNA sequences. With the increa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69312633 | 1,742,656 |
1,363,674 | Some studies also suggest that "Tyrannosaurus" preferred different prey at different stages of its life. In K. T. Bates and P. L. Falkingham's 2012 study, they found that there was a great disparity between the bite force of adult and juvenile "Tyrannosaurus". According to the study, "Tyrannosaurus" only gained their p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42194964 | 1,362,919 |
1,391,145 | Architecture created digitally might not involve the use of actual materials (brick, stone, glass, steel, wood). It relies on "sets of numbers stored in electromagnetic format" used to create representations and simulations that correspond to material performance and to map out built artifacts. Digital architecture doe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23934117 | 1,390,374 |
943,814 | Dorylus, also known as driver ants, safari ants, or siafu, is a large genus of army ants found primarily in central and east Africa, although the range also extends to southern Africa and tropical Asia. The term siafu is a loanword from Swahili, and is one of numerous similar words from regional Bantu languages used by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1991724 | 943,312 |
1,198,451 | The vessels with HEV characteristics appear in human tissue in association with long-standing chronic inflammation. In rheumatoid arthritis, it has been observed that the level of sulfate incorporation as well as the 'plumpness' (or 'tallness') of the endothelium in areas of lymphocytic infiltration in the synovial mem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7026804 | 1,197,810 |
1,661,747 | The university's instructor team of certified specialists, led by Daniil Martynov, has experience in the preparation and execution of special operations. Some of the instructors are veterans of the famous counter-terrorism task force group «Alpha» of the Russian Federal Security Service, many of them with state awards ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55985939 | 1,660,812 |
36,302 | Subsequent to its carving the "Pietà" sustained much damage. Four fingers on Mary's left hand, broken during a move, were restored in 1736 by Giuseppe Lirioni, and scholars are divided as to whether the restorer took liberties to make the gesture more "rhetorical". The most substantial damage occurred on 21 May 1972 (P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=73522 | 36,290 |
1,142,685 | K. H. Rhee was born on 20 March 1938 in Seoul, Korea. His martial arts training began when he was around 7 or 8 years of age, learning judo from his father. He later learned karate from one of his schoolteachers. When Rhee served in the South Korean military forces, he came into contact with H. H. Choi and learned taek... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21635654 | 1,142,090 |
1,485,973 | "Trichoderma" species are useful in industry because of their high capacity to secrete large amounts of protein and metabolites. It has been suggested that "Trichoderma longibrachiatum" could be used as a biocontrol agent for its parasitic and lethal effects on the cysts of the nematode "Heterodera avenae". Because "T.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46963356 | 1,485,135 |
655,935 | The cover art of "White Blood Cells" depicts the duo getting both attacked and enamored by a clan of people wielding TV and video cameras. The images poke fun at the music industry and promotion surrounding it. "When does music become a business and why do we have to be suckered into it? Why do we have to buy a cell ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65750909 | 655,591 |
1,341,368 | The upside of this design approach was that changes in the weight and balance could be addressed simply by moving the wing or re-shaping it, a common solution that had been used for decades in aircraft design—including the original Douglas DC-3 whose wings were swept rearward for just this reason. The downside was that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18952422 | 1,340,635 |
1,710,865 | As the younger son in the family, he had the options of starting his own farm or being adopted into a family without a male heir (a Japanese custom); he disliked both options. In July 1900, shortly before he turned 15, he left home to seek his fortune in Tokyo, where he enrolled as a trainee telegrapher under a governm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1690360 | 1,709,905 |
390,731 | The North Carolina State University Centennial Biomedical Campus is located west of the NCSU Memorial Tower. North Carolina State University College of Veterinary Medicine, NC State's professional college and North Carolina's only veterinary medicine program, serves as the anchor of the Biomedical Campus. The campus co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72544 | 390,536 |
983,760 | The temperature at the landing site was and pressure of , implying a methane abundance of 5 ± 1% and methane relative humidity of 50% near the surface. Therefore, ground fogs caused by methane in the neighborhood of the landing site are unlikely. Thermometers indicated that heat left "Huygens" so quickly that the groun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=185083 | 983,246 |
664,552 | "Battle Network" takes place during the 21st century in a world where society and everyday life is driven by the internet. Users are able to interact with and virtually explore nearly any electronic device using highly advanced, online avatars called "NetNavis". The game follows a young boy named Lan Hikari and his Net... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2175391 | 664,205 |
1,243,514 | If there is a single criticism to be made of Gardner ... it is that he accepts too comfortably the conventional wisdom, or accepted social reality, of current twentieth-century science and middle-class American Christianity. Somehow it is evident (to me at least) that he is implicitly making a pact with the reader to e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1878393 | 1,242,841 |
236,421 | Notable science and engineering alumni include Jim Blinn; Mark W. Fuller, CEO of WET Design; Andrea Russell, Vice President of the International Society of Electrochemistry; Jim Clark, founder of Silicon Graphics, Netscape Communications Corporation, myCFO, and Healtheon; Gretchen W. McClain, former NASA Deputy Associa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32097 | 236,302 |
1,338,734 | After NGSCB's unveiling, Microsoft drew frequent comparisons to Big Brother, an oppressive dictator of a totalitarian state in George Orwell's dystopian novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four". The Electronic Privacy Information Center legislative counsel, Chris Hoofnagle, described Microsoft's characterization of the NGSCB as "O... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59524 | 1,338,001 |
313,551 | The increase in fMRI signal in response to a stimulus is additive. This means that the amplitude of the hemodynamic response (HR) increases when multiple stimuli are presented in rapid succession. When each block is alternated with a rest condition in which the HR has enough time to return to baseline, a maximum amount... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=226722 | 313,382 |
228,916 | The Stefan–Boltzmann constant (also Stefan's constant), a physical constant denoted by the Greek letter "σ" (sigma), is the constant of proportionality in the Stefan–Boltzmann law: "the total intensity radiated over all wavelengths increases as the temperature increases", of a black body which is proportional to the fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53068 | 228,799 |
813,587 | Personas are useful in the sense that they create a common shared understanding of the user group that the design process is built around. Also, they help to prioritize the design considerations by providing a context of what the user needs and what functions are simply nice to add and have. They can also provide a hum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=504357 | 813,154 |
1,280,727 | The SWE archives contain a series of letters from the Elsie Eaves Papers (bequeathed to the Society), which document the origins of the Society in the early 20th century. In 1919, a group of women at the University of Colorado helped establish a small community of women with an engineering or science background, called... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2377830 | 1,280,032 |
750,038 | In 2008 and 2009, personnel shortages reduced the number of submarines able to be deployed to three; the maintenance cycles of "Sheean", "Rankin", and "Dechaineux", and problems with "Collins" and "Waller" further reducing this to one, "Farncomb", in mid-2009. "Farncomb" was docked for repair after a generator malfunct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=810758 | 749,640 |
1,070,899 | The CSH is capable of providing definitive care for many cases. Current medical doctrine does not encourage wounded soldiers, if they are not expected to quickly return to operational status, to stay in the combat zone. This is a pragmatic decision as the resources are usually available to bring them home quickly. Mili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=796157 | 1,070,345 |
1,497,423 | In their First Report, the Commission proposed ASTRI to perform four key functions, namely (i) conduct midstream R&D on generic and pre-competitive technologies, (ii) house university graduates aspiring to obtain industrial research training, (iii) become a focal point for attracting overseas R&D talent, and (iv) suppl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24207795 | 1,496,580 |
1,594,522 | Datta has been associated with several central and state government and government-aided autonomous bodies in various positions. He chaired the "Recruitment Assessment Board" of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) from 2003 to 2006 and has held the chair of the Integrated Long Term Programme (ILTP)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48434015 | 1,593,625 |
538,094 | Underwater archaeology is often complementary to archaeological research on terrestrial sites because the two are often linked by many and various elements including geographic, social, political, economic and other considerations. As a result, a study of an archaeological landscape can involve a multidisciplinary appr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51795 | 537,815 |
755,073 | They were to give him a diplomatic letter, in hope of preventing any hostilities. As they neared the town under a flag of truce, a French machine gunner fired point-blank, killing Colonel Craw. Major Hamilton was then taken to Colonel Petit, who had no conclusive reply. While sympathetic to the Allied cause and relucta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=376965 | 754,670 |
1,130,897 | BACE1 is an aspartic acid protease important in the formation of myelin sheaths in peripheral nerve cells: in mice the expression of BACE1 is high in the postnatal stages, when myelination occurs. The transmembrane protein contains two active site aspartate residues in its extracellular protein domain and may function ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4623078 | 1,130,308 |
1,353,854 | Photoacoustic spectroscopy is the measurement of the effect of absorbed electromagnetic energy (particularly of light) on matter by means of acoustic detection. The discovery of the photoacoustic effect dates to 1880 when Alexander Graham Bell showed that thin discs emitted sound when exposed to a beam of sunlight that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1787013 | 1,353,107 |
1,814,228 | In the tetrapod and higher clades from the lower-middle Famennian there are several defining changes on the basis of anatomy of "Ichthyostega", "Tulerpeton", and "Acanthostega". In the cranium, there is a stapes derived from the hyomandibular of fishes; a single bilateral pair of nasal bones, and a fenestra ovalis in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46324244 | 1,813,194 |
659,562 | The Tempe campus is the original campus, and Old Main, the first building constructed on campus in 1894, still stands today. The university used to be named the Arizona Territorial Normal School and was initially used to train public school teachers. In 1925 the college was renamed the Tempe State Teachers College and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23695699 | 659,217 |
1,641,354 | Like other Union regiments, the 16th Maine carried an American flag and a regimental flag, known collectively as "the colors." "For a few last moments our little regiment defended angrily its hopeless challenge, but it was useless to fight longer," Abner Small of the 16th Maine wrote after the battle. "We looked at our... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14678196 | 1,640,427 |
2,166,273 | Walker worked as a trader for Hatton & Cookson of Liverpool. In 1851, he moved from Sussex to Gabon, and was based in Gabon for 23 years. He was a significant contributor of African artifacts to British museums, in particular, his collection of African shields. He was involved with General Pitt-Rivers, after whom the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46769666 | 2,165,036 |
355,569 | Varying the duty cycle of a pulse waveform in a synthesis instrument creates useful timbral variations. Some synthesizers have a duty-cycle trimmer for their square-wave outputs, and that trimmer can be set by ear; the 50% point (true square wave) was distinctive, because even-numbered harmonics essentially disappear a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=81242 | 355,386 |
1,793,155 | The KRSU was established in 1992. Kyrgyz-Russian Slavic University was founded in 1993 in accordance with the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance between the Kyrgyz Republic and the Russian Federation, which was signed on June 10, 1992, in Moscow. By February 1994, the school's regulations were ensh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59142419 | 1,792,146 |
1,673,994 | The goal of one line of mechanoassembly research focuses on overcoming these problems by calibration, and selection of appropriate synthesis reactions. Some suggest attempting to develop a specialized, very small (roughly 1,000 nanometers on a side) machine tool that can build copies of itself using mechanochemical mea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=312671 | 1,673,052 |
99,872 | The engine specification was frozen in 2007 to keep development costs down. The engines which were used in the 2006 Japanese Grand Prix were used for the 2007 and 2008 seasons and they were limited to 19,000 rpm. In 2009 the limit was reduced to 18,000 rpm with each driver allowed to use a maximum of 8 engines over the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11034903 | 99,827 |
615,559 | The final stage of the selection process were interviews by the selection panel, which were conducted at the Manned Spacecraft Center (MSC) in Houston between September 2 and 7. Collins felt that the interview was easier the second time around. The panellists were no longer strangers, the questions they asked were no l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2296945 | 615,245 |
738,018 | In 1884, he became senior physician in the Prussian provincial town of Leubus, Silesia Province, and the following year he was appointed director of the Treatment and Nursing Institute in Dresden. On 1 July 1886, at the age of 30, Kraepelin was named Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Dorpat (today the Univer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10002 | 737,627 |
244,314 | Due to the fact that PFOA is able to readily pass through the placental barrier, exposure is of particular concern during in utero development. Numerous studies have analyzed the impacts of PFOA on fetal development of reproductive organs. One study that followed a Danish pregnancy cohort suggests that in utero exposur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=824692 | 244,187 |
765,450 | The Ferrel cell is weak, because it has neither a strong source of heat nor a strong sink, so the airflow and temperatures within it are variable. For this reason, the mid-latitudes are sometimes known as the "zone of mixing." The Hadley and polar cells are truly closed loops, the Ferrel cell is not, and the telling po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=433085 | 765,040 |
326,596 | On the subject of the theoretical definition of the metre, it had been inaccessible and misleading at the time of Delambre and Mechain arc measurement, as the geoid is a ball, which on the whole can be assimilated to an oblate spheroid, but which in detail differs from it so as to prohibit any generalization and any ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18947 | 326,422 |
461,197 | The behavior of open-channel flow is governed by the effects of viscosity and gravity relative to the inertial forces of the flow. Surface tension has a minor contribution, but does not play a significant enough role in most circumstances to be a governing factor. Due to the presence of a free surface, gravity is gener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2235244 | 460,971 |
976,608 | In robotics, inverse kinematics makes use of the kinematics equations to determine the joint parameters that provide a desired configuration (position and rotation) for each of the robot's end-effectors. Determining the movement of a robot so that its end-effectors move from an initial configuration to a desired config... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=502323 | 976,097 |
1,524,909 | Early experiments showed that wrought iron was superior to cast iron, and wrought iron was subsequently adopted for naval use. British efforts at perfecting iron armour were headed by a government Special Committee on Iron, formed in 1861 by War Secretary Lord Herbert for the continued research into naval armour. Among... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5542687 | 1,524,048 |
1,604,772 | The functional significance of respirasomes is not entirely clear but more recent research is beginning to shed some light on their purpose. It has been hypothesized that the organization of respiratory enzymes into supercomplexes reduces oxidative damage and increases metabolism efficiency. Schäfer et al. (2006) demon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41632849 | 1,603,871 |
537,628 | In 1975, upon the establishment of the Metropolitan Manila Commission, Pasig and Mandaluyong was transferred to the territorial jurisdiction of the Metro Manila. The Province of Rizal could not continue supporting financially the Colleges. Several alternatives were proposed to save the RTC. One was to transfer the mana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10029427 | 537,349 |
1,438,642 | The reactors shut down as designed after the earthquake. However, the tsunami disabled four of the six sets of switchgear and all but three of the diesel backup generators which operated the emergency cooling systems and pumps. Pumps were designed to circulate hot fluid from the reactor to be cooled in the wetwell, but... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31039221 | 1,437,832 |
636,395 | By October 1963, according to Wood, the situation had become critical and some officials were beginning to examine alternative options, such as conventional fighter aircraft in the form of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. By November 1963, the RAF reportedly still found the P.1154 to be a suitable platform, while ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3934063 | 636,056 |
1,652,714 | Estrogens have been found to be equivalent in effectiveness to androgen deprivation therapy via surgical or medical castration and nonsteroidal antiandrogens. In addition, they prevent hot flashes, preserve bone density, preserve some sexual interest, have quality-of-life advantages, and are far less costly than conven... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23886057 | 1,651,782 |
335,160 | The small town of Wolsztyn, Poland, approximately from the historic city of Poznan, is the last place in the world where one can ride a regularly scheduled passenger train pulled by steam power. The locomotive shed at Wolsztyn is the last of its kind in the world. There are several working locomotives that haul daily c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196788 | 334,982 |
1,434,798 | A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the SAOCOM 1B satellite for CONAE, Argentina's space agency, on 30 August 2020. SAOCOM 1B is the second of two SAOCOM 1-series Earth observation satellites designed to provide radar imagery to help emergency responders and monitor the environment, including the collection of soil moist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12990673 | 1,433,992 |
171,353 | Laser diodes find wide use in telecommunication as easily modulated and easily coupled light sources for fiber optics communication. They are used in various measuring instruments, such as rangefinders. Another common use is in barcode readers. Visible lasers, typically red but later also green, are common as laser poi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=142258 | 171,263 |
1,059,270 | From his Nobel autobiography: "By that time, I had elected to study biology and medicine, instead of going into the family business, as my father would have wanted. I did not realize, however, that admission to Medical School was a formidable undertaking for someone with my ethnic and foreign background in the United S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1432150 | 1,058,720 |
541,769 | Research and development continued through the 1980s and 1990s without significant industry interest. Improvements in cell efficiency were soon recognized as essential to making the technology economical. However the improvements to Si-based cell technologies used by both concentrators and flat PV failed to favor the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28250168 | 541,489 |
367,612 | When sufficiently stressed or threatened, this species engages in a characteristic threat display that includes vibrating its tail and throwing its head back with its mouth open to display the startlingly white interior, often making a loud hiss while the neck and front part of the body are pulled into an S-shaped posi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=382344 | 367,419 |
1,701,201 | The resolution of most compressed sensing based source localization techniques is limited by the fineness of the direction grid that covers the location parameter space. In the sparse signal recovery model, the sparsity of the truth signal formula_58 is dependent on the distance between the adjacent element in the over... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56343589 | 1,700,247 |
171,617 | It is not known with certainty at what point in archosaur phylogeny the earliest simple "protofeathers" arose, or whether they arose once or independently multiple times. Filamentous structures are clearly present in pterosaurs, and long, hollow quills have been reported in specimens of the ornithischian dinosaurs "Psi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1214539 | 171,526 |
450,533 | A second perspective on allostasis is that it is included in the story of how the brain was created. Barret argues that during evolution organisms' internal systems became much more advanced; continuing to just have several groups of cells would have poorly managed these new systems that these bodies were acquiring. A ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4948308 | 450,314 |
1,459,342 | Based on current data, prevention advice for MCC is similar to other skin cancers, such as avoiding sunburns and unnecessary sun exposure together with use of sun lotion. This may prevent mutations in the virus that increase risk for MCC among those already infected with MCV. Persons with immunosuppression (e.g., AIDS ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16814276 | 1,458,521 |
331,573 | While "Hearts of Iron IV" does feature some scripted events, the game features a "national focus" system that makes fixed events less necessary than in previous installments in the series. Each country in the game has a "focus tree" with various "national focuses" that grant certain effects or trigger events. For examp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41721218 | 331,396 |
1,645,454 | For the waveguide systems, the atom-light coupling and the squeezing effect can be enhanced using the evanescent field near to the waveguides, and the type of atom-light interaction can be controlled by choosing a proper polarization state of the guided input light, the internal state subspace of the atoms and the geom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56072400 | 1,644,526 |
636,430 | Crookes developed the Crookes tube, investigating cathode rays. He published numerous papers on spectroscopy and conducted research on a variety of minor subjects. In his investigations of the conduction of electricity in low pressure gases, he discovered that as the pressure was lowered, the negative electrode (cathod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27648 | 636,091 |
264,257 | During the late 1940s, British engineer L. E. Baynes started studying the variable sweep wing. He devised a method of varying the tail geometry as well in order to stabilise the centre of lift; no sliding mechanism was necessary, instead, the wing wake interacted with the variable tail to effect the necessary trim chan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349470 | 264,114 |
1,546,141 | "Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae" was found to be the causative agent for up to 20% of all bacterial pneumonia cases in swine. The main disease associated with this bacterium is porcine pleuropneumonia, a highly contagious respiratory disease, affecting primarily young pigs (usually less than 6 months). All of the symp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39248107 | 1,545,267 |
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