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1,359,078 | "Rickettsia typhi" is a causative agent of murine typhus (endemic typhus) in humans and is distributed worldwide. It is an acute, febrile illness that is mainly transmitted by the fleas of rodents, commonly associated with cities and ports where urban rats ("Rattus rattus" and "Rattus norvegicus") are abundant. Humans ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20321247 | 1,358,327 |
405,346 | "" is the official expansion pack for "StarCraft", developed by Blizzard Entertainment and Saffire. Released for Windows and Mac OS in the United States on December 18, 1998, the expansion directly continues the events of "StarCraft". The expansion's story continues only days after the conclusion of the original game. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14271726 | 405,146 |
430,272 | The components of the FBE formulation are weighed and pre-blended in high speed mixers. The mix is then transferred to a high-shear extruder. FBE extruders incorporate a single or dual screw setup, rotating within a fixed clamshell barrel. A temperature range from 50 °C to 100 °C is used within the extruder barrel. Thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3181969 | 430,060 |
1,785,954 | Applications of his theories and mathematical models have had a profound effect in the field. Peppas and his students originated the novel muco- and bioadhesive systems that interact molecularly with the mucus and tissue and have been able to prolong bioavailability of proteins and peptides in the blood. As a result of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20887787 | 1,784,950 |
766,234 | With adult specimens estimated up to ) and with a weight estimated up to , "Microraptor" was among the smallest-known non-avian dinosaurs. Holtz estimated it at . An estimate by Benson "et al." in 2012 was that "Microraptor" had a maximum length of . Aside from their extremely small size, "Microraptor" were among the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1025693 | 765,824 |
1,505,918 | The BioGRID was originally published and released as simply the General Repository for Interaction Datasets but was later renamed to the BioGRID in order to more concisely describe the project, and help distinguish it from several GRID Computing projects with a similar name. Originally separated into organism specific ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4400671 | 1,505,072 |
27,409 | Following the reconstruction of circuit facilities, the race was resumed in 1949 with renewed interest from major automobile manufacturers. 1949 was also Ferrari's first victory, the 166MM of Luigi Chinetti and Peter Mitchell-Thomson. After the formation of the World Sportscar Championship in 1953, of which Le Mans was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1401596 | 27,399 |
807,357 | In cases such as the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami or the 2011 Arab Spring movements, citizen journalists were seen to have been significant sources of facts and information in relation to the events. These were re-broadcast by news outlets, and more importantly, re-circulated by and to other internet users. As Jay David B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=699052 | 806,927 |
1,442,984 | Another Florentine civic showpiece of sculpture was the Orsanmichele, a building the guilds owned together, and used for various purposes. The interior had been given a large tabernacle by Orcagna, probably as a votive offering for the end of the Black Death in the 1360s. The ground floor had originally been open, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70696882 | 1,442,171 |
884,059 | The disease causing PrPSc is proteinase K resistant and insoluble. Attempts to purify it from the brains of infected animals invariably yield heterogeneous mixtures and aggregated states that are not amenable to characterization by NMR spectroscopy or X-ray crystallography. However, it is a general consensus that PrPSc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=413102 | 883,595 |
2,172,550 | Improving the resolution and enhancing the instrumentation with user-friendly hardware and software will make AFM/NSOM coupled with IR/Raman a useful characterization tool in many areas including biomedical, materials and life sciences. For example, this technique was used in detecting the spin-cast thin film of poly(d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31760032 | 2,171,309 |
60,335 | In 1980, the Indian Air Force (IAF) learned of a successful approach by Pakistan to the US that year to purchase F-16A/B fighters, delivery of which was to commence in 1982. By late 1980, the IAF had quickly convinced the Indian government to purchase an equally potent aircraft, as its MiG-21s and MiG-23s were inferior... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=381535 | 60,310 |
990,099 | The Phantom's service as a frontline fighter would be short-lived. Its limited range and light armament – notably, its inability to carry bombs – made it best suited for duty as a point-defence interceptor aircraft. However, its speed and rate of climb were only slightly better than existing propeller-powered fighters ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11761 | 989,582 |
1,504,109 | The late, eminent Canadian theoretician Bruce Trigger suggested archaeologists continue to rigorously evaluate each history based on "evidence of greater or lesser completeness and accuracy and on more or less sound reasoning" (1997: ix). Advocating a continued use of careful, objective assessment of such qualities can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21924068 | 1,503,263 |
1,056,520 | A wide variety of boron delivery agents have been synthesized. The first, which has mainly been used in Japan, is a polyhedral borane anion, sodium borocaptate or BSH (), and the second is a dihydroxyboryl derivative of phenylalanine, called boronophenylalanine or BPA. The latter has been used in many clinical trials. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32637211 | 1,055,972 |
372,420 | In 1928, British RAF College Cranwell cadet Frank Whittle formally submitted his ideas for a turbojet to his superiors. In October 1929 he developed his ideas further. On 16 January 1930 in England, Whittle submitted his first patent (granted in 1932). The patent showed a two-stage axial compressor feeding a single-sid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181823 | 372,225 |
88,864 | A carbine is a firearm similar to a rifle in form and intended usage, but generally shorter or smaller than the typical "full-size" hunting or battle rifle of a similar time period, and sometimes using a smaller or less-powerful cartridge. Carbines were and are typically used by members of the military in roles that ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11966 | 88,828 |
1,354,125 | The WZ-1224, designed throughout the late 1970s, is a Chinese attempt to design a western-style main battle tank. In the 1970s, China had the opportunity to send military officials to visit KraussMaffei, the main producer of the Leopard 2. Chinese officers seems interested to the Leopard 2, especially its mobility, but... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43410769 | 1,353,378 |
258,196 | In a high energy injury to the midfoot, such as a fall from a height or a motor vehicle accident, the diagnosis of a Lisfranc injury should, in theory at least, pose less of a challenge. There will be deformity of the midfoot and X-ray abnormalities should be obvious. Further, the nature of the injury will create heigh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2299386 | 258,062 |
482,338 | Microorganisms are at the heart of Arctic and Antarctic food webs. These polar environments contain a diverse range of bacterial, archaeal, and eukaryotic microbial communities that, along with viruses, are important components of the polar ecosystems. They are found in a range of habitats, including subglacial lakes a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60927729 | 482,094 |
1,913,665 | Born Mary Letitia Somerville Fisher, she was the daughter of historian H. A. L. Fisher and Lettice Fisher, the founder of the National Council for the Unmarried Mother and her Child. She was educated at Oxford High School. She obtained her first degree (in Classics) from Somerville College, Oxford, and then studied abr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3071706 | 1,912,566 |
1,159,780 | In 2014, Matt Dixon wrote of Tao's Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3: "The level of precision on display was beyond impressive, and the closing minutes of the third and final movement revealed an energy that was simply exhilarating. Tao's ... approach to the music itself was dynamic, unusually expressive, and engaging, wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33615494 | 1,159,165 |
2,092,443 | Chapter Five, The Engine of Evolution, looks at examples natural selection, which Darwin (along with Alfred Russell Wallace, working independently) proposed as the mechanism for evolution. Coyne rebuts the claim that "evolution says everything happens by chance." Natural selection is non-random, as it selects the trait... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34245540 | 2,091,238 |
149,583 | It is believed to stem from a production process monitoring used during World War II because traditional "end of the pipe" testing on artillery shells' firing mechanisms could not be performed, and a large percentage of the artillery shells made at the time were either duds or misfiring. HACCP itself was conceived in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=316849 | 149,515 |
196,206 | During a spelunking expedition, Palmer and his students, along with his girlfriend, lawyer Jean Loring, find themselves trapped in a cave. In desperation, Palmer secretly uses the lens he has carried with him to shrink himself to be able to climb through a small opening in the fallen rocks sealing the cave, knowing he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4971776 | 196,106 |
2,008,278 | After his retirement as department head Inglis served as Vice-Provost of King's College from 1943 to 1947. He received a knighthood in the 1945 King's Birthday Honours, and in 1946 was appointed as chair of the committee charged with advising the Minister of War Transport on railway modernisation. Inglis continued to d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16975609 | 2,007,126 |
358,895 | Besides increasing the worldwide food supply, early in his career Borlaug stated that taking steps to decrease the rate of population growth will also be necessary to prevent food shortages. In his Nobel Lecture of 1970, Borlaug stated, "Most people still fail to comprehend the magnitude and menace of the 'Population M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275564 | 358,709 |
1,122,565 | In four books written from 1921 to 1934, Soddy carried on a "campaign for a radical restructuring of global monetary relationships", offering a perspective on economics rooted in physics – the laws of thermodynamics, in particular – and was "roundly dismissed as a crank". While most of his proposals – "to abandon the g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11778 | 1,121,991 |
1,651,498 | Unlike ground-based magnetometers that can be oriented by the user to determine the direction of magnetic field, in space the user is linked by telecommunications to a satellite traveling at 25,000 km per hour. The magnetometers used need to give an accurate reading quickly to be able to deduce magnetic fields. Several... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18402950 | 1,650,566 |
417,582 | In the mid-1990s, a PhD from Caltech invented a method of analyzing and immobilizing genetic material on the surface of a modified semiconductor wafer. The CombiMatrix microarray ("CombiMatrix" refers to combinatorial chemistry on a matrix array) was born and received US patents in the late '90s. Located in Mukilteo, W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1666393 | 417,378 |
1,764,310 | Armagh Planetarium was established by the seventh director of Armagh Observatory, Dr. Eric Mervyn Lindsay, who, after twenty-five years of effort, secured funding from local councils and the Ministry of Commerce of Northern Ireland in 1965. In the same year Patrick Moore was appointed as Director of the Planetarium to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3321817 | 1,763,317 |
1,640,737 | Chapter 19, “The Stability of Technology,” is a short chapter which seeks to finish off Part 2 by dealing with the question of “instabilities that have been discovered in technology” (144). Basically, given his critique, perhaps it would be better if technology were to disappear, or at least lose some influence. Howeve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29772724 | 1,639,810 |
2,143,200 | In developed countries, more than 90% of young people use the internet regularly, running the potential for misinformation related to vaccination reaching a large proportion of society. This has also been challenging in low and middle income countries. In 1999, concern from public health officials regarding the dissemi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65137159 | 2,141,969 |
1,001,625 | Ethidium bromide is commonly used to detect nucleic acids in molecular biology laboratories. In the case of DNA this is usually double-stranded DNA from PCRs, restriction digests, etc. Single-stranded RNA can also be detected, since it usually folds back onto itself and thus provides local base pairing for the dye to i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=363891 | 1,001,107 |
671,004 | On 1 November 1918, the transfer being still unknown to Italy, two men of the Italian Regia Marina, Raffaele Paolucci and Raffaele Rossetti, rode a primitive manned torpedo (nicknamed "Mignatta" or "leech") into the naval base at Pola. Using limpet mines, they attacked "Jugoslavija" and the freighter "Wien". Traveling ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1089216 | 670,652 |
1,116,821 | Though late Campanian dinosaurs on Laramidia were larger than most large modern animals (which require large species ranges due to heightened dietary needs), Sampson and colleagues found that they appeared to have had relatively small species ranges, which is more perplexing due to the high species-diversity of Laramid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28916285 | 1,116,248 |
1,618,060 | US forces entered the war in Afghanistan in 2001. Although there was fierce fighting such as the Battle of Tora Bora and Operation Anaconda, the IED threat remained generally low until later in the war. Afghanistan is a rural country with rough terrain, most of the roads are unimproved and due to the abundance of river... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43377068 | 1,617,147 |
1,629,992 | On September 1, 1939, the School was closed due to the war and occupation. Its activity was resumed in February 1945, when teaching at both Faculties was reactivated. Moreover, the educational offer, in particular in the area of economics, was expanded thanks to the establishment of the Central School of Accounting and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2667396 | 1,629,073 |
714,872 | The "Rivet Chip" and "Rivet Slice" aircraft have been used by NASA in support of various research programs. NASA first provided funding to modify and operate RB-57F 63-13501 to support the Earth Resources Satellite Program, with modifications taking place at Fort Worth between 26 September 1968 and 14 July 1969 as Proj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33576652 | 714,499 |
1,977,458 | When "F. novicida" and "F. tularensis" are grown, they appear to be morphologically very similar. They are both Gram-negative bacilli. Many tests have been done to try to distinguish if "F. novicida" and "F. tularensis" should be considered separate species. One of these tests involved growth on cysteine-glucose-blood ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40853981 | 1,976,320 |
1,111,302 | The history of concern about the potential for gene doping follows the history of gene therapy, the medical use of genes to treat diseases, which was first clinically tested in the 1990s. Interest by the athletic community was especially spurred by the creation in a university lab of a "mighty mouse", created by admini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65683733 | 1,110,736 |
1,947,137 | Multiple Sclerosis is a neurological disease characterized by the immune system attacking and destroying the myelin sheaths that coat nerve fibers. Destruction of these sheaths leads to the slowing or loss of electrical transmission of messages across nerve cells and as a result, patients experience weakness, pain, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70058191 | 1,946,024 |
1,343,606 | IoT or the internet of things proves to be a potential resource for the future of wildlife tracking and research. This technology can range from Low Power Wide Area LWPA sensor networks attached to wildlife by safe adhesive to Cameras connected to the internet using machine learning to determine what images are interes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6643829 | 1,342,870 |
1,550,028 | Varespladib is an inhibitor of the IIa, V, and X isoforms of secretory phospholipase A2 (sPLA2). The molecule acts as an anti-inflammatory agent by disrupting the first step of the arachidonic acid pathway of inflammation. From 2006 to 2012, varespladib was under active investigation by Anthera Pharmaceuticals as a pot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32790202 | 1,549,147 |
118,683 | In 1951 Callen and Welton proved the quantum fluctuation-dissipation theorem (FDT) which was originally formulated in classical form by Nyquist (1928) as an explanation for observed Johnson noise in electric circuits. Fluctuation-dissipation theorem showed that when something dissipates energy, in an effectively irreve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84400 | 118,636 |
339,764 | Using detailed information provided by Loyalist spies, the grenadier companies searched the small town for military supplies. When they arrived at Ephraim Jones's tavern, by the jail on the South Bridge road, they found the door barred shut, and Jones refused them entry. According to reports provided by local Loyalists... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4321886 | 339,584 |
585,851 | Similar options have been proposed to help rehabilitate the Chesapeake Bay where the principal problem is lack of filter-feeding organisms such as oysters responsible for keeping the water clean. Historically the Bay's oyster population was in the tens of billions, and they circulated the entire Bay volume in a matter ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3997177 | 585,551 |
781,193 | Most age categories of "Albertosaurus" are represented in the fossil record. Using bone histology, the age of an individual animal at the time of death can often be determined, allowing growth rates to be estimated and compared with other species. The youngest known "Albertosaurus" is a two-year-old discovered in the D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1367 | 780,775 |
415,815 | Two factions argued over the types of ships to be ordered. One favored a navy centered on a small number of large warships, while the other preferred a larger navy of smaller warships. The latter originally prevailed with a bill authorizing the construction of three small battleships, three armored cruisers, six destro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29900534 | 415,612 |
1,631,745 | sEH has a restricted substrate selectivity, and has not been shown to hydrolyze any toxic or mutagenic xenobiotics. Conversely, the sEH plays a major role in the in vivo metabolism of endogenous lipid epoxides, such as the EETs and squalene oxide, a key intermediate in the synthesis of cholesterol. EETs are lipid signa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34520195 | 1,630,823 |
192,659 | The purpose of a chronometer is to measure accurately the time of a known fixed location. This is particularly important for navigation. As the Earth rotates at a regular predictable rate, the time difference between the chronometer and the ship's local time can be used to calculate the longitude of the ship relative t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10553773 | 192,560 |
360,610 | Research in developmental psychology suggests that an infant's ability to imitate others lies at the origins of both theory of mind and other social-cognitive achievements like perspective-taking and empathy. According to Meltzoff, the infant's innate understanding that others are "like me" allows it to recognize the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=488083 | 360,422 |
709,733 | Michigan has had many successes as a program including a record-setting number of championships, total championship tournament appearances, and consecutive tournament appearances. In 2010, Michigan hosted a Guinness verified world record crowd in excess of 113,000 in an event known as The Big Chill. Players from the pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22165661 | 709,362 |
1,084,453 | The unusual features of therizinosaurs have led to several interpretations of their feeding behavior; there is no direct evidence of their diet, such as stomach contents and feeding traces. In 1970, Anatoly K. Rozhdestvensky suggested "Therizinosaurus"—the only member of the group known at the time—used its large claws... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=636977 | 1,083,896 |
460,401 | The "s"-process was seen to be needed from the relative abundances of isotopes of heavy elements and from a newly published table of abundances by Hans Suess and Harold Urey in 1956. Among other things, these data showed abundance peaks for strontium, barium, and lead, which, according to quantum mechanics and the nucl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=352908 | 460,175 |
1,804,789 | Modern coring augers have changed little in decades: an ice coring auger patented in the US in 1932 closely resembles coring augers in use eighty years later. The US military's Frost Effects Laboratory (FEL) developed an ice mechanics testing kit that included a coring auger in the late 1940s; the Snow, Ice and Permafr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55125362 | 1,803,774 |
305,211 | In the UK, cabinet minister Herbert Morrison famously argued that, "Socialism is what the Labour government does", and Anthony Crosland argued that capitalism had been ended. However many socialists within the social democracy, at rank and file level as well as in a minority in the leadership such as Aneurin Bevan, fea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47246185 | 305,049 |
2,114,017 | Equally important to the refinements in laboratory methods was the realization by archaeologists that they needed to pay close attention to the kinds of samples they submitted for dating. This was especially the case for wood charcoal, perhaps the most commonly dated material from Polynesian sites. In the early years o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50026325 | 2,112,802 |
913,412 | Analogously to how natural light-gated ion channels such as channelrhodopsin-2 allows optical control of ion flux, which is especially useful in neuroscience, natural light-controlled signal transduction proteins also allow optical control of biochemical pathways, including both second-messenger generation and protein-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14958673 | 912,933 |
103,688 | Lutheran scholar Jeremiah Ohl writes:Zwingli and others for the sake of saving the Word rejected all plastic art; Luther, with an equal concern for the Word, but far more conservative, would have all the arts to be the servants of the Gospel. "I am not of the opinion" said [Luther], "that through the Gospel all the art... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15085 | 103,643 |
274,129 | In DIC, the processes of coagulation and fibrinolysis are dysregulated, and the result is widespread clotting with resultant bleeding. Regardless of the triggering event of DIC, once initiated, the pathophysiology of DIC is similar in all conditions. One critical mediator of DIC is the release of a transmembrane glycop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=238124 | 273,981 |
96,743 | The primary coil's resonant frequency is tuned to that of the secondary, by using low-power oscillations, then increasing the power (and retuning if necessary) until the system operates properly at maximum power. While tuning, a small projection (called a "breakout bump") is often added to the top terminal in order to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39113 | 96,702 |
693,345 | During World War II, Pascual Jordan first suggested that since the positive energy of a star's mass and the negative energy of its gravitational field together may have zero total energy, conservation of energy would not prevent a star being created by a quantum transition of the vacuum. George Gamow recounted putting ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26499561 | 692,982 |
1,414,135 | In September 1948, at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), President Truman, with Condon sitting nearby on the dais, denounced Rep. Thomas and HUAC on the grounds that vital scientific research "may be made impossible by the creation of an atmosphere in which no man feel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1907745 | 1,413,339 |
533,148 | Conversely, critics have drawn attention to the fact that "teaching and learning are interrupted because faculty, in an effort to control plagiarism and protect notions of intellectual capital, are forced to engage with the students as detectives rather than as teachers, advisors, or mentors. The focus on controlling p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26690992 | 532,869 |
1,745,842 | Poisoning, both intentional and unintentional, is also a threat. The usual targets of carrion-poisoning are species such as coyotes, red fox and gray wolves, which are considered pests that threaten livestock. However, golden eagles are occasionally targeted as well for the same reasons. The main cause of mortality for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50585577 | 1,744,858 |
443,452 | processing activities carried out in a particular cognitive function (such as language), in a manner analogous to computer flowcharts that depict the processes and decisions carried out by a computer program. Box-and-arrow models differ widely in the number of unseen psychological processes they describe and thus in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=355240 | 443,237 |
865,813 | The first buildings were finished in 1933 and housed the Departments of Chemistry, Physics and Anatomy. These departments later moved to newer buildings at the campus and the original building complex now house Department of Psychology and Department of Political Science. The construction of the first stage was funded ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=401280 | 865,353 |
121,199 | Webley & Scott (P. Webley & Son before merger with W & C Scott in 1897) produced a range of revolvers from the mid 19th to late 20th centuries. As early as 1853 P. Webley and J. Webley began production of their first patented single action cap and ball revolvers. Later under the trade name of P. Webley and Son, manufac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=627020 | 121,150 |
1,810,259 | These inner ear regeneration studies were published on 4 December 2019 and only involved non-human cells. This therapy is cutting edge and is likely decades away from clinical application. While preclinical and clinical successes in adeno-associated virus-mediated gene therapies in humans have attributed to the popular... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65609198 | 1,809,237 |
1,070,724 | The existence of overlapping genes was first identified in the virus ΦX174, whose genome was the first DNA genome ever sequenced by Frederick Sanger in 1977. Previous analysis of ΦX174, a small single-stranded DNA bacteriophage that infected the bacteria Escherichia coli, suggested that the proteins produced during inf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35960023 | 1,070,170 |
1,679,130 | The Medium-Energy Neutral Atom (MENA) imager on IMAGE is one of three instruments designed to make observations of the Earth's magnetospheric environment using neutral atom imaging. MENA is a slit-type imager designed to detect energetic neutral hydrogen and oxygen atoms with energies ranging from 1 to 30 keV. The inst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1090498 | 1,678,187 |
173,418 | The M-4 was made mostly of aircraft aluminum alloys with some steel and magnesium components. It had wings swept at 35-degrees and powered initially by four Mikulin AM-3A engines with a maximum thrust of 85.8 kN (8,750 kgp; 19,290 lbf), but later upgraded to RD-3M-500 turbojets with a maximum thrust of 93.2 kN (9,500 k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=820638 | 173,327 |
255,783 | A more recent discovery appears to demonstrate the scope of the destruction from the impact alone, however. In a March 2019 article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, an international team of twelve scientists revealed the contents of the Tanis fossil site discovered near Bowman, North Dakota, that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8688 | 255,649 |
142,795 | Sulfonamide drugs were the first broadly effective antibacterials to be used systemically, and paved the way for the antibiotic revolution in medicine. The first sulfonamide, trade-named Prontosil, was a prodrug. Experiments with Prontosil began in 1932 in the laboratories of Bayer AG, at that time a component of the h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=499685 | 142,737 |
1,880,498 | As a child, he suffered from repeated respiratory infections. Although he was accepted for entry to Trinity College, Cambridge, ill health postponed his start, and he went instead to the University College of the South West, now the University of Exeter, in 1942. He graduated two years later with a first class honours ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21436253 | 1,879,417 |
892,846 | Drug delivery refers to technology used to present a drug to a pre-determined region of the body for drug emission and absorption. Principles relating to route of administration, metabolism, site of specific targeting, and toxicity are most important within this field. Drugs administered orally (through mouth) are usua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542686 | 892,376 |
1,984,777 | In October 1991, protesters from the Lambs of Christ, shouting "Susan kills babies!" surrounded Wicklund's home and camped outside for weeks. Her daughter Sonja had to go to school in a police car. The protesters blockaded Wicklund's driveway with cement barrels to try to stop her from going to work; she sneaked throug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31853775 | 1,983,638 |
408,580 | Many niche disciplines of environmental science have emerged over the years, although climatology is one of the most known topics. Since the 2000s, environmental scientists have focused on modeling the effects of climate change and encouraging global cooperation to minimize potential damages. In 2002, the Society for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64919 | 408,379 |
1,535,687 | During the last three to four decades, especially, psychology has expanded worldwide and assumed a global presence. Stevens and Gielen (2007) and some others have estimated that there are over one million psychologists. This estimate is based on local definitions of what it means to be a professional psychologist: in m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12691183 | 1,534,819 |
1,663,332 | SOX was envisioned to use a powerful (≈150 kCi) and innovative antineutrino generator made of Ce-144/Pr-144 and possibly a later Cr-51 neutrino generator, which would require a much shorter data-taking campaign. These generators would be located at short distance (8.5 m) from the Borexino detector -under it, in fact: i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22137484 | 1,662,397 |
1,470,618 | Fossils referrable to "Lesothosaurus" may have been known from as early as 1959, when a right dentary (lower jawbone) fragment bearing three teeth was collected by French geologist Jean Fabre from the Red Beds of the Upper Elliot Formation near Mapheteng in Lesotho, Southern Africa, dating to the Early Jurassic (199(?)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=610601 | 1,469,793 |
2,162,844 | One of the most popular uses of radiofluorination is its application in PET scans. Positron emission tomography (PET) is a widely used imaging technique in the field of nuclear medicine. With applications in research and in diagnosis, a PET scan can be used to image tumors, diagnose brain disease, and monitor brain or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41585022 | 2,161,609 |
653,231 | In an attempt to avoid destroying normal ideas of cause and effect, some theoreticians suggested that information about whether there was or was not a second beam-splitter installed could somehow be transmitted from the end point of the experimental device back to the photon as it was just entering that experimental de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3474980 | 652,888 |
731,872 | Theoretical ancestors to predictive coding date back as early as 1860 with Helmholtz's concept of unconscious inference. Unconscious inference refers to the idea that the human brain fills in visual information to make sense of a scene. For example, if something is relatively smaller than another object in the visual f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53953041 | 731,485 |
467,758 | The ICER can be used as a decision rule in resource allocation. If a decision-maker is able to establish a willingness-to-pay value for the outcome of interest, it is possible to adopt this value as a threshold. If for a given intervention the ICER is above this threshold it will be deemed too expensive and thus should... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=265132 | 467,523 |
668,829 | Components of PPE include gloves, gowns, bonnets, shoe covers, face shields, CPR masks, goggles, surgical masks, and respirators. How many components are used and how the components are used is often determined by regulations or the infection control protocol of the facility in question, which in turn are derived from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3331179 | 668,480 |
823,197 | Although habituation has been regarded as a learning process by some as early as 1887, its learning status remained controversial up until the 1920s - 1930s. While conceding that reflexes may "relax" or otherwise decrease with repeated stimulation, the "invariance doctrine" stipulated that reflexes should not remain co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=599837 | 822,755 |
1,689,111 | Knowledge of the environmental factors at play on early Earth is required to investigate the prebiotic atmosphere. Much of what we know about the prebiotic environment comes from zircons - crystals of zirconium silicate (ZrSiO). Zircons are useful because they record the physical and chemical processes occurring on the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70910834 | 1,688,165 |
1,172,599 | Underwater cameras are usually popular models encased in a watertight pressure housing, though there have been a few notable exceptions, such as the Nikonos and Sea & Sea ranges, in which the camera body was the pressure housing. Controls are generally operated by movable links penetrating the watertight case, each req... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63557168 | 1,171,980 |
1,159,337 | A small RAF team that eventually numbered ten men was assigned to liaise with HER, under the command of Wing Commander John Rowlands. He was answerable to a committee at the Air Ministry, codenamed "Herod". They considered how atomic bombing missions would be flown, and prepared training courses and manuals on how the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52573493 | 1,158,722 |
1,926,812 | Tom's research interests were many and varied, ranging from colour vision in apes and birds to artificial vision systems for CCTV cameras to visual search in complex scenes, including for camouflage detection. He was particularly interested in the spatial and spectral properties of natural scenes in relation to the pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45218368 | 1,925,708 |
1,906,064 | Having completed his studies, he was almost immediately appointed lecturer at the Institute of History of Art. Work on his doctoral thesis was interrupted by his arrest on 22 October 1950. Transported immediately to Warsaw in connection with the staged "British Embassy" Show trial and after lengthy interrogations, he w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28810330 | 1,904,968 |
2,140,673 | ALEXIS weighed 100 pounds, used 45 watts, and produced 10 kilobits/second of data. Position and time of arrival were recorded for each detected photon. ALEXIS was always in a survey-monitor mode, with no individual source pointings. It was suited for simultaneous observations with ground-based observers who prefer to o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1528806 | 2,139,443 |
1,538,958 | Norton-Griffiths ensured that tunnelling companies numbers 170 to 177 were ready for deployment in mid-February 1915. In the spring of that year, there was constant underground fighting in the Ypres Salient at Hooge, Hill 60, Railway Wood, Sanctuary Wood, St Eloi and The Bluff which required the deployment of new draft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46673504 | 1,538,085 |
2,116,954 | Norton-Griffiths ensured that tunnelling companies numbers 170 to 177 were ready for deployment in mid-February 1915. In the spring of that year, there was constant underground fighting in the Ypres Salient at Hooge, Hill 60, Railway Wood, Sanctuary Wood, St Eloi and The Bluff which required the deployment of new draft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46673318 | 2,115,736 |
732,875 | The first structural model of the oxygen-evolving complex was solved using X-ray crystallography from frozen protein crystals with a resolution of 3.8Å in 2001. Over the next years the resolution of the model was gradually increased to 2.9Å. While obtaining these structures was in itself a great feat, they did not show... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1126110 | 732,488 |
115,193 | The late 1870s saw the introduction of first large scale electrical systems with central generation stations to power Arc lamps, used to light whole streets, factory yards, or the interior of large warehouses. Some, such as Yablochkov arc lamps introduced in 1878, ran better on alternating current, and the development ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=223352 | 115,148 |
281,265 | USAAF project MX-798 was awarded to Hughes Aircraft in 1946 for an infrared tracking missile. The design used a simple reticle seeker and an active system to control roll during flight. This was replaced the next year by MX-904, calling for a supersonic version. At this stage the concept was for a defensive weapon fire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1396771 | 281,112 |
720,441 | The "Mir" space station and "Zvezda" had the same design problem of launching with all the hardware permanently installed. Russian (and Soviet) space doctrine has always been to fix the hardware onboard instead of simply replacing them like the US Orbital Segment (USOS) does with the 41.3 inch (105 cm) wide Internation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=694514 | 720,061 |
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