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1,320,346 | Ndubuisi Ekekwe (born July 1975) is a Nigerian business person. He is the founder of First Atlantic Semiconductors & Microelectronics – West Africa's leading embedded systems company. His working experience includes Analog Devices Corp where he co-designed a generation accelerometer for the iPhone and created the compa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57577477 | 1,319,620 |
1,532,877 | When the minimal ribozyme-substrate complex is allowed to fold under conditions of low ionic strength, the two domains stack one atop the other, forming an inactive, extended structure that resembles a hairpin. In order for catalysis to occur, the two domains lie parallel to one another in a fold that resembles a paper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11243863 | 1,532,009 |
157,343 | Modal interpretations of quantum mechanics were first conceived of in 1972 by Bas van Fraassen, in his paper "A formal approach to the philosophy of science". Van Fraassen introduced a distinction between a "dynamical" state, which describes what might be true about a system and which always evolves according to the Sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54738 | 157,271 |
1,529,090 | The overall nutritional quality index was a nutritional rating system developed at the Yale-Griffin Prevention Research Center in 2008. A proprietary algorithm assigned foods a score between 1 and 100 intended to reflect the overall nutritional value a portion of the given food provided. The system was marketed commerc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32458568 | 1,528,226 |
1,044,720 | Essentially, a MWD operator measures the trajectory of the hole as it is drilled (for example, data updates arrive and are processed every few seconds or faster). This information is then used to drill in a pre-planned direction into the formation which contains the oil, gas, water or condensate. Additional measurement... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3528182 | 1,044,176 |
748,705 | The objective of "SimCity" is to build and design a city without specific goals to achieve. The player can mark land as being zoned as commercial, industrial, or residential, add buildings, change the tax rate, build a power grid, build transportation systems and take any other actions to enhance the city. Once able to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28760 | 748,307 |
1,991,897 | There is no indication in the relevant passages of the "Iliad" that Homer considered Mount Gargaron inhabited. This is partly confirmed by the fact that the earliest archaeological remains found at the site (fortification walls around the acropolis and the foundations of a temple) date no later than the 6th century BCE... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4441310 | 1,990,754 |
1,100,073 | In 2012, a large, comprehensive genome-wide linkage study of male sexual orientation was conducted by several independent groups of researchers. The study population included 409 independent pairs of gay brothers from 384 families, who were analyzed with over 300,000 single-nucleotide polymorphism markers. The study co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6341158 | 1,099,513 |
531,076 | In a majority of provinces and territories, utilities are vertically integrated Crown corporations operating as regulated monopolies. This is by and large the case in New Brunswick, Quebec, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, British Columbia and Nunavut. A second model involves a Crown corporation as a large generator or in trans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2082992 | 530,802 |
1,892,383 | A Tg-rasH2 mouse is an innovative transgenic mouse, developed in Central Institute for Experimental Animals (CIEA), carrying the three copies of human prototype c-Ha-ras oncogenes with endogenous promoter and enhancer in tandem. Under Alternative Carcinogenicity Testing (ACT) project conducted by International Life Sci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16143273 | 1,891,300 |
226,005 | Deep sea hydrothermal vents located on serpentinite close to the axis of mid-ocean ridges generally resemble black smokers located on basalt, but emit complex hydrocarbon molecules. The Rainbow field of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge is an example of such hydrothermal vents. Serpentinization alone cannot provide the heat suppl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1439761 | 225,889 |
146,490 | These bacteria commonly inhabit the skin and nose where they are innocuous, but may enter the body through cuts or abrasions which may be nearly invisible. Once inside the body, the bacteria may spread to a number of body systems and organs, including the heart, where the toxins produced by the bacteria may cause cardi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15690011 | 146,432 |
1,835,727 | F09 noted that storm with stronger outer winds tracked more to the northwest than storms with weak winds. They hypothesize that this can be explained with an atmosphere in hydrostatic balance. Assuming an atmosphere that is in hydrostatic balance, the average column virtual temperature contributes the most to the surfa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26617950 | 1,834,678 |
940,112 | Quite at the opposite end of the spectrum, in terms of the complexity of the key system developed by Boehm, was the Giorgi flute, an advanced form of the ancient holed flute. Patented in 1897, the Giorgi flute was designed without any mechanical keys, though the patent allows for the addition of keys as options. Giorgi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1350006 | 939,611 |
1,975,515 | Similarly, USPs are crucial for the survival of Salmonella, the causative agent in Salmonellosis. In developing countries, food poisoning of this kind is a potentially life-threatening condition. The USPs have influence in growth arrest, stress responses and virulence. UspA is induced by metabolic, oxidative and temper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46233587 | 1,974,378 |
384,934 | Development of new elite crop varieties including oil seeds and pulses. Using radiation-induced mutagenesis, hybridization, and tissue culture techniques 49 crop varieties have been developed, released and Gazette-notified for commercial cultivation. Development of molecular markers, transgenics, biosensors, fertilizer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2122657 | 384,739 |
815,412 | For this reason, for pure or high ethanol blends to be attractive for users, its price must be lower than gasoline to offset the lower fuel economy. As a rule of thumb, Brazilian consumers are frequently advised by the local media to use more alcohol than gasoline in their mix only when ethanol prices are 30% lower or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8340209 | 814,978 |
382,533 | The idea of combining/integrating brain signals from multiple individuals was introduced at Humanity+ @Caltech, in December 2010, by a Caltech researcher at JPL, Adrian Stoica; Stoica referred to the concept as multi-brain aggregation. A provisional patent application was filed on January 19, 2011, with the non-provisi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=623686 | 382,338 |
1,345,720 | In 2012, David Ernst, a faculty member in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota, founded Open Textbook Library (OTL) to help other faculty members locate and adopt open textbooks. Ernst launched traveling workshops that presented the concept of OER to faculty members and invited ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17327644 | 1,344,979 |
1,545,253 | The balloon components will be landed and potentially reused. According to López Urdiales, the Bloostar rocket launch vehicle ""has been designed to be reusable, technically, but not as part of the business plan. The engines burn methane and oxygen for many reasons, but one is that it creates less soot and leaves the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47192755 | 1,544,379 |
2,061,425 | The program was led by Howard F. Fehr, a professor at Columbia University Teachers College who was internationally known and had published numerous mathematics textbooks and hundreds of articles about mathematics teaching. In 1961 he had been the principal author of the 246-page report "New Thinking in School Mathemati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40556829 | 2,060,238 |
814,964 | In his last Olympic outing, Ezekiel Kemboi failed to defend his Olympic steeplechase title, which went to his Kenyan teammate Conseslus Kipruto in an Olympic record time. Kemboi's initial bronze medal would have made him the first person to win three Olympic steeplechase medals, but a single step into the infield later... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36721624 | 814,530 |
1,931,479 | Lemaitre obtained a PhD in genetics from the Université Pierre-et-Marie-Curie in 1992, defending a thesis on the regulation of P element transposition in Drosophila. He then pursued work as research associate in the laboratory of Jules Hoffmann, where he identified Toll-like receptors as essential mediators of innate i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65469636 | 1,930,371 |
1,867,849 | "Morchella sextelata" may be either saprobic or mycorrhizal at different times in its life cycle. Its fruit bodies grow in partially burned conifer forests, particularly those dominated by Douglas fir ("Pseudotsuga menziesii") and ponderosa pine ("Pinus ponderosa"). They tend to appear in great numbers the year immedia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35467600 | 1,866,773 |
1,083,723 | Before cement and other construction materials could be moved on site, an access road had to be constructed. This proved difficult as the steep Malta Valley rises over along a stretch and at times has 13 percent gradients. To complete the road, six tunnels were excavated. In 1973, as superstructure construction progres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30210863 | 1,083,166 |
724,165 | This insight is all the more remarkable because it preceded the discovery of the structure of the DNA molecule by Watson and Crick and how it is separately translated and replicated in the cell—though it followed the Avery–MacLeod–McCarty experiment which identified DNA as the molecular carrier of genetic information i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8597086 | 723,785 |
283,282 | To provide the kind of information and support people need to invest money, time and effort in energy conservation, it is important to understand and link to people's topical concerns. For instance, some retailers argue that bright lighting stimulates purchasing. However, health studies have demonstrated that headache,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=478933 | 283,129 |
495,410 | With the onset of hostilities, Admiral John Jellicoe, the commander of the Grand Fleet, requested that the 6th Squadron ships be sent to strengthen the main British fleet in accordance with pre-war plans. The five "Duncan"s were used to reinforce the cruisers on the Northern Patrol, maintaining the distant blockade of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=435189 | 495,154 |
41,657 | To a small extent, hemoglobin A slowly combines with glucose at the terminal valine (an alpha aminoacid) of each β chain. The resulting molecule is often referred to as Hb A, a glycated hemoglobin. The binding of glucose to amino acids in the hemoglobin takes place spontaneously (without the help of an enzyme) in many ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13483 | 41,642 |
1,778,126 | The starting materials can sometimes be cooled before the reaction to such an extent that the reaction heat is absorbed without further cooling of the mixture. In the case of gaseous or low-boiling starting materials, work under overpressure is necessary. Due to the large number of possible raw materials, a large numbe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6340012 | 1,777,124 |
301,969 | The inscription goes on to describe Cyrus returning to their original sanctuaries the statues of the gods that Nabonidus had brought to the city before the Persian invasion. This restored the normal cultic order to the satisfaction of the priesthood. It alludes to temples being restored and deported groups being return... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2749252 | 301,808 |
1,066,316 | After sitting out the 1973 Isle of Man TT which most of the top racers boycotted due to safety concerns, Saarinen arrived at the Nations Grand Prix leading both the 250cc and 500cc championships. The Monza Circuit, first opened in 1922, was fast and lined with steel barriers which left no room for error for motorcycle ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2960742 | 1,065,762 |
666,070 | a method of chromatography, except in the broadest, simplest sense. It is an extractive technique, a solid-liquid extractive technique—taking advantage of large differences in the Keq, or equilibrium constant, of mixture components between the solid phase and the mobile phase resulting, for a well-designed and executed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2527405 | 665,722 |
1,906,260 | The MSS Building was built in 1969, as part of the UMIST campus. Constructed from reinforced concrete and designed by architects Cruikshank and Seward, it has fifteen stories and an overall height of , making it the tallest building on the former UMIST campus. Unlike many examples of Brutalist architecture on universit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12140952 | 1,905,164 |
1,943,322 | Kautz entered the Case Institute of Technology in 1974, then a year later, transferred to Cornell University and got his B.A. in Englishand in mathematics in 1978 there. He wrote plays during a one-year fellowship creative writing program at Johns Hopkins University and got an M.A. by the Writing Seminars in 1980. As a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45046258 | 1,942,211 |
1,042,116 | In 1920 Frank Vogelzang filed a patent for a convertiplane, but the design was never constructed. Between 1937 and 1939 the British designer L.E. Baynes developed a proposal for his Heliplane, a tiltrotor convertiplane having two tilting wingtip-mounted nacelles containing the engines, proprotor mounting and main under... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6107380 | 1,041,573 |
697,747 | On 18 November 2013 the EU Commission published their report which concluded that "the participation of the small-sized countries in the EEA is not judged to be a viable option at present due to the political and institutional reasons", but that Association Agreements were a more feasible mechanism to integrate the mic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10011555 | 697,383 |
2,007,813 | Pimentel was born on May 24, 1925, in Fresno, California and moved with his family to a farm in North Middleboro, Massachusetts. Before finishing high school, he volunteered for the Army Air Force and was trained as a pilot. He received his B.S. degree from UMASS Amherst in 1948. He received his PhD in entomology from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62724632 | 2,006,662 |
2,124,150 | "Chrysosporium keratinophilum" colonies grow rapidly at 25 °C approximately 60–100 mm in 21 days. Colonies can be flat or folded, dry, powdery, or velvety with a white- or cream-coloured center The colony surface is dotted with droplets of clear or brown exuded liquid. The hyphae are septate and the conidia are hyaline... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41179389 | 2,122,930 |
954,814 | The characteristic behavior of a Drude metal in the time or frequency domain, i.e. exponential relaxation with time constant or the frequency dependence for stated above, is called Drude response. In a conventional, simple, real metal (e.g. sodium, silver, or gold at room temperature) such behavior is not found experim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542575 | 954,309 |
1,357,443 | According to a theory published in 2014, "Methanosarcina" may have been largely responsible for the largest extinction event in the Earth's history, the Permian–Triassic extinction event. The theory suggests that acquisition of a new metabolic pathway via gene transfer followed by exponential reproduction allowed the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5220460 | 1,356,693 |
757,297 | In theory, the Centronics port could transfer data as rapidly as 75,000 characters per second. This was far faster than the printer, which averaged about 160 characters per second, meaning the port spent much of its time idle. The performance was defined by how rapidly the host could respond to the printer's BUSY signa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=100616 | 756,893 |
2,142,737 | The term means that available data are divided (stratified) into subgroups, according to a criterion statistically shown to affect SD distribution. The predictive method then aims to produce SD prediction for specified subgroups, having SD with appreciably reduced variability. Examples for stratification criteria are m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67412446 | 2,141,506 |
267,236 | Moreover, Boyle incorporated his scientific interests into his theology, believing that natural philosophy could provide powerful evidence for the existence of God. In works such as "Disquisition about the Final Causes of Natural Things" (1688), for instance, he criticised contemporary philosophers – such as René Desca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50237 | 267,092 |
1,601,117 | Teeth are another example of the abiotic environmental factors involved in oral ecology. Bacteria settle on the tooth surface as a solid substrate on which to grow. Compared to floating in saliva, bacteria on teeth gain environmental stability in that they will experience a consistent environment of temperature, relati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20630639 | 1,600,216 |
1,215,147 | Charles Martin Hall (December 6, 1863 – December 27, 1914) was an American inventor, businessman, and chemist. He is best known for his invention in 1886 of an inexpensive method for producing aluminum, which became the first metal to attain widespread use since the prehistoric discovery of iron. He was one of the foun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=585527 | 1,214,495 |
185,085 | Within months, manufacturers decided to bring out models that provided limited area metering, such as Nikon's Photomic Tn finder, which concentrated 60% of the CdS cells sensitivity on the inner circle of the focusing screen and 30% on the surrounding area. Canon used spot metering in the unusual Canon Pellix camera, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29648 | 184,988 |
1,349,451 | The United States National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), the National Institute of Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Science Foundation (NSF) provided the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine with funds to undertake a careful analysis and study of the need to introduce computational techniques to br... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3062721 | 1,348,705 |
581,443 | Wartime conscription in Britain was introduced in 1917. At the age of 34, Eddington was eligible to be drafted into the military, but his exemption from this was obtained by his university on the grounds of national interest. This exemption was later appealed by the War Ministry, and at a series of hearings in June and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60880859 | 581,145 |
858,353 | As of July 2009, Microsoft added C# and CLI to the list of specifications that the Microsoft Community Promise applies to, so anyone can safely implement specified editions of the standards without fearing a patent lawsuit from Microsoft. To implement the CLI standard requires conformance to one of the supported and de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7237 | 857,895 |
47,094 | Nevertheless, there is ongoing research and debate over costs of new nuclear, especially in regions where i.a. seasonal energy storage is difficult to provide and which aim to phase out fossil fuels in favor of low carbon power faster than the global average. Some find that financial transition costs for a 100% renewab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22153 | 47,076 |
83,463 | Scholarship on Mithras begins with Franz Cumont, who published a two volume collection of source texts and images of monuments in French in 1894–1900, "Textes et monuments figurés relatifs aux mystères de Mithra" [French: "Texts and Illustrated Monuments Relating to the Mysteries of Mithra"]. An English translation of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20826 | 83,429 |
416,492 | The better manufacturing technology in the 8580 used in the later revisions of Commodore 64C and the Commodore 128 DCR caused the bias to almost entirely disappear, causing the digitized sound samples to become very quiet. Fortunately, the volume level could be mostly restored with either a hardware modification (biasi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202115 | 416,289 |
2,194,896 | As a postdoc, Schlessinger worked at the Pasteur Institute, where he was supervised by Jacques Monod. In August 1962, Schlessinger with his wife and infant daughter, arrived in St. Louis, where he was to spend 35 years as a professor at Washington University in St. Louis. There he was the director of the Human Genome C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71865083 | 2,193,646 |
1,888,977 | Like many peer-reviewed journals, the majority of "Progress in Aerospace Sciences"' readership comes online. In shifting from print to digital publication, the journal has adapted several content innovations, including interactive graphs and MATLAB plots, to engage readers. While the content and overall mission of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50078253 | 1,887,894 |
595,416 | The treatment for mycobacterial cervical lymphadenitis consisted primarily of small incisions to remove the surrounding soft tissue and/or the abnormal mass. Until the 18th century, many doctors thought the only way to cure the disease was to be touched by a member of a royal family. In both France and England, the kin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349711 | 595,111 |
1,581,054 | In Sema3A signaling cascade, CRMP plays a role as intracellular messenger mediating repulsive signal. Sema3A initiates clustering of the receptor neuropilin 1 and plexin A1. While some of the other class of semaphorins directly bind to plexin receptors, Sema3A does not bind to plexin directly. Instead, it interacts wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23947350 | 1,580,164 |
709,488 | DRAM capacitors are yet another application of ALD. An individual DRAM cell can store a single bit of data and consists of a single MOS transistor and a capacitor. Major efforts are being put into reducing the size of the capacitor which will effectively allow for greater memory density. In order to change the capacito... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3607910 | 709,117 |
1,709,472 | Any cannon could be served by as few as six gunners, but to achieve high rates of fire more men were required. One source asserted that the Canon de 8 Gribeauval was served by 13 gunners and drawn by four horses. Another authority counted 13 men in the 8-pounder gun crews, including eight specialists. A trained 8-pound... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20279068 | 1,708,513 |
1,028,309 | The number densities formula_1 and formula_2 are set by the physical state of the gas in which the spectral line occurs, including the local spectral radiance (or, in some presentations, the local spectral radiant energy density). When that state is either one of strict thermodynamic equilibrium, or one of so-called "l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2209688 | 1,027,775 |
1,585,087 | In contrast, general topologists, led by John L. Kelley in 1955, usually did not assume T, so they studied the separation axioms in the greatest generality from the beginning. They used the more complicated definitions for T, so that they would always have a nice property relating T to T. Then, for the simpler definiti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1481097 | 1,584,196 |
1,568,134 | A wide range of biologically diverse populations in natural ecosystems and in / near agricultural ecosystems maintain essential ecological functions that are critical for the production of food. Such populations contribute positively to, for example, nutrient cycling, decomposition of organic matter, crusted or degrade... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5111481 | 1,567,247 |
105,050 | Plants and plant cells have been genetically engineered for production of biopharmaceuticals in bioreactors, a process known as pharming. Work has been done with duckweed "Lemna minor", the algae "Chlamydomonas reinhardtii" and the moss "Physcomitrella patens". Biopharmaceuticals produced include cytokines, hormones, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12339 | 105,005 |
49,855 | In October, 2009, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) initiated an investigation of brain perfusion CT (PCT) scans, based on radiation burns caused by incorrect settings at one particular facility for this particular type of CT scan. Over 256 patients were exposed to radiations for over 18-month period. Over 40% ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50982 | 49,835 |
1,570,367 | Monilophytes are generally studied far less than other groups of plants and a full genome sequence is not yet available, however due to the development of "C-Fern" research into fern biology has been more prevalent and "C. richardii" has been used as a model organism to study vascular plant cell walls, alternation of g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25805284 | 1,569,479 |
1,592,659 | Changwon National University has signed an MOU with universities and agencies throughout Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania and Africa to develop global leaders through diverse international programs such as student exchange and research exchange. As of 2020, the university signed MOUs with 190 universities in around... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1302426 | 1,591,762 |
1,252,904 | The Huygenses contrived some ingenious arrangements for aiming these "aerial telescopes" at an object visible in the night sky. The telescope could be aimed at bright objects such as planets by looking for their image cast on a white pasteboard ring or oiled translucent paper screen and then centering them in the eyepi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22707091 | 1,252,225 |
2,069,356 | A succession of other appointments followed: senior scientific officer at Christie Hospital, Manchester (1953–55), head of the Biochemistry Department at the Animal Virus Research Institute, Pirbright (now the Institute for Animal Health) (1955–83) (deputy director (1980–83)) and head of the Virology Department at Well... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30642745 | 2,068,165 |
779,404 | Shakura and Sunyaev (1973) proposed turbulence in the gas as the source of an increased viscosity. Assuming subsonic turbulence and the disk height as an upper limit for the size of the eddies, the disk viscosity can be estimated as formula_6 where formula_7 is the sound speed, formula_8 is the scale height of the disk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48400112 | 778,987 |
2,061,487 | Even though equal weighting of photons, intrinsic to photon-counting detectors, improves dose efficiency compared to energy-integrating detectors, a higher weighting of low-energy photons is generally optimal because x-ray contrast drops with increasing photon energy when the photo-electric effect dominates and away fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66026557 | 2,060,300 |
117,500 | The W.E.B. Du Bois Library is one of two library buildings on campus and the tallest academic research library in the world, standing at 26 stories above ground and 286 feet (90.32 m) tall. Before its construction in the late 1960s, Goodell Hall was the University library, which was built after the library had outgrown... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=248437 | 117,455 |
551,990 | Quadruplexes are present in locations other than at the telomere. Analysis of human, chimpanzee, mouse and rat genomes showed enormous number of potential G-quadruplex (pG4)-forming sequences in non-telomeric regions. A large number of the non-telomeric G-quadruplexes were found within gene promoters, and were conserve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4238684 | 551,702 |
28,155 | The first report of bacterial infection underlying meningitis was by the Austrian bacteriologist Anton Weichselbaum, who in 1887 described the "meningococcus". Mortality from meningitis was very high (over 90%) in early reports. In 1906, antiserum was produced in horses; this was developed further by the American scien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21009963 | 28,145 |
1,416,774 | In 1952, two sets of critical experiments with heavy water solutions of enriched uranium as uranyl fluoride were carried out at Los Alamos to support an idea of Edward Teller about weapon design. By the time the experiments were completed, Teller had lost interest, however the results were then applied to improve the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2781821 | 1,415,976 |
810,129 | The author of "On Ancient Medicine" launches immediately into a critique of opponents who posit a single "cause in all cases" of disease, "having laid down as a hypothesis for their account hot or cold or wet or dry or anything else they want". The method put forward in this treatise "could certainly be characterized a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=570856 | 809,698 |
928,889 | In an observation originally made in a study of their hybrid progeny, a subspecies-level division has been characterized in this mainland-Asian species. Wang, "et al.", found that domesticated mandarins fell into two genetic clusters that linked to different branches of the tree of wild mandarins, had different deduced... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44603802 | 928,398 |
1,346,727 | The early years of operation had four grades. They were compared to an intensive high school education which included all courses: Ray's Higher Arithmetic, two years of Algebra, plane geometry, trigonometry, physics, botany, physiology, psychology, astronomy, physical geography, chemistry, geology, mineralogy, zoology,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3067366 | 1,345,986 |
2,008,047 | In 1946, Boyd returned to Georgia Tech's physics department and its Engineering Experiment Station, where he worked as Assistant Project Director under Frank Lawrence (and, after Lawrence's departure, as Project Director) on an Army Air Corps-sponsored project studying microwave propagation. As part of the project, he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26697426 | 2,006,895 |
524,977 | The gene for mCherry is 711bp long, and the protein is made up of 236 residues with a mass of 26.722 kDa. The crystal structure of mCherry was determined in 2006. It contains 3 alpha helices and 13 beta sheets which make up the beta barrel. The chromophore in mCherry is made up of three amino acids, methionine, tyrosin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35058918 | 524,705 |
639,231 | Pieces that demanded simultaneous execution of versions of the same music, i.e., contrapunctal canons, were written by several composers of the Franco-Flemish school in the late 15th and early 16th century, such as Josquin des Prez, Johannes Ockeghem or Pierre de la Rue. Ockeghem's "Missa prolationum" is famous for sys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2008475 | 638,892 |
1,019,861 | The main disadvantage of the side-lever engine was that it was large and heavy. For inland waterway and coastal service, lighter and more efficient designs soon replaced it. It remained the dominant engine type for oceangoing service through much of the first half of the 19th century however, due to its relatively low ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22359454 | 1,019,334 |
1,251,023 | Angela Kabari came out publicly on 20 July as the victim in a Medium post detailing a 6-month ordeal and called for the resignation of the entire Ushahidi board that consisted of David Kobia, Erik Hersman, Juliana Rotich and Jenny Stefanotti at the time. She identified Daudi Were, Ushahidi's Executive Director, as the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18775928 | 1,250,345 |
1,694,841 | In the German tradition of delegation, sometimes known as "Auftagstaktik" (mission command), leaders were trained to take the initiative, within the commander's intent, to accomplish the mission. The German system worked better than the French emphasis on obedience, following "doctrine" and eschewing novelty. "Auftrags... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51751618 | 1,693,890 |
14,153 | Feynman devoted the latter half of his 1988 book "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" to his experience on the Rogers Commission, straying from his usual convention of brief, light-hearted anecdotes to deliver an extended and sober narrative. Feynman's account reveals a disconnect between NASA's engineers and ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25523 | 14,148 |
1,824,754 | Given the many hazards present during career firefighting, firefighters are at a greater risk for occupational cardiovascular disease. CVD is the leading most cause of death in firefighters, and accounts for 45% of on-duty deaths. About 90% of CVD in firefighters is attributed to coronary heart disease. Other researche... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50263599 | 1,823,716 |
1,770,686 | According to a recent review conducted by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) on behalf of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) approximately 60 countries have set specific limits for aflatoxin M. The European Union countries generally apply a maximum level of 0.05 μg/kg mil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58171446 | 1,769,689 |
1,188,342 | The World Leaders Forum at Judson University brings recognized world leaders to the Judson University campus each year "to give students a chance to hear an inspiring message, take an active interest in the framework of leadership, understand how leaders develop, and even ask questions and seek advice from someone who ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1939701 | 1,187,710 |
1,911,584 | The thermodynamic potential of a fuel cell limits the amount of power that an individual cell can deliver. Therefore, in order to obtain more power, fuel cells must be connected in series or parallel (depending on whether greater current or voltage is desired). For large scale building and automobile power applications... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29102401 | 1,910,485 |
330,334 | In early 1942, the Ju 87s gave the Heer yet more valuable support. On 29 December 1941, the Soviet 44th Army landed on the Kerch Peninsula. The Luftwaffe was only able to dispatch meager reinforcements of four bomber groups ("Kampfgruppen") and two dive bomber groups belonging to StG 77. With air superiority, the Ju 87... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16590 | 330,159 |
1,980,888 | Irradiation is the use of ionising gamma rays emitted by cobalt-60 and caesium-137, or, high-energy electrons and X-rays to inactivate microbial pathogens, particularly in the food industry. Bacteria such as "Deinococcus radiodurans" are particularly resistant to radiation, but are not pathogenic. Active microbes, such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35490713 | 1,979,750 |
137 | In 2013, FairSearch, a lobbying organization supported by Microsoft, Oracle and others, filed a complaint regarding Android with the European Commission, alleging that its free-of-charge distribution model constituted anti-competitive predatory pricing. The Free Software Foundation Europe, whose donors include Google, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12610483 | 137 |
1,169,000 | In comparison to their male peers, females are underrepresented in science and technology fields. Between the 1960s and 1980s, the number of women obtaining science and engineering degrees steadily increased in American universities, however reached an unexpected plateau from the 1980s. A 2013 UK study explored that th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62155116 | 1,168,382 |
167,643 | Niki Lauda, coming out of retirement for a hefty sum in , pipped his teammate Alain Prost to the title in by a mere half-point, the closest ever finish in Formula One history. That half-point in itself was controversial in that it came at the rain-shortened Grand Prix of Monaco, which resulted in half points, Prost won... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=640098 | 167,556 |
359,523 | Dirac published over 60 papers in those last twelve years of his life, including a short book on general relativity. His last paper (1984), entitled "The inadequacies of quantum field theory," contains his final judgment on quantum field theory: "These rules of renormalisation give surprisingly, excessively good agreem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24742 | 359,336 |
27,414 | Following the demise of the World Sportscar Championship, Le Mans saw a resurgence of production-based grand tourer cars. Thanks to a loophole in the rules, Porsche succeeded in convincing the ACO that a Dauer 962 Le Mans supercar was a production car, allowing Porsche to race their Porsche 962 for one final time, domi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1401596 | 27,404 |
1,437,222 | Instead of in the liquid phase, the dehydrochlorination may also be carried out in the gas phase on a zinc chloride impregnated catalyst in a fluidized bed reactor at 350-500 °C. The seemingly simple reaction yields only 70 to 80% of impure end product due to a variety of side reactions. For example, in the chlorinatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57466302 | 1,436,413 |
352,725 | Although Verdi's operas brought him a popular following, not all contemporary critics approved of his work. The English critic Henry Chorley allowed in 1846 that "he is the only modern man...having a style—for better or worse", but found all his output unacceptable. "[His] faults [are] grave ones, calculated to destroy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12958 | 352,542 |
1,072,571 | G-CORE is a research language designed by a group of academic and industrial researchers and language designers which draws on features of Cypher, PGQL and SPARQL. The project was conducted under the auspices of the Linked Data Benchmark Council (LDBC), starting with the formation of a Graph Query Language task force i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61985190 | 1,072,017 |
1,232,353 | UHTC research was largely abandoned after the pioneering mid-century Manlabs work due to the completion of the Space Shuttle missions and the elimination of the Air force spaceplane development. Three decades later, however, research interest was rekindled by a string of 1990s era NASA programs aimed at developing a fu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38050893 | 1,231,691 |
1,576,690 | Folta has been active in the public discussion of politically controversial topics such as evolution, climate change, vaccines, and agricultural biotechnology since 2002. He views a disconnect between science and the public's understanding, and believes a priority should be given to increase public awareness and "give ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47731689 | 1,575,801 |
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