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224,832 | Wolfgang Pauli proposed another kind of particle on 4 December 1930 in order to explain the continuous spectrum of beta radiation that Chadwick had reported in 1914. Since not all of the energy of beta radiation could be accounted for, the law of conservation of energy appeared to be violated, but Pauli argued that thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174316 | 224,717 |
1,432,523 | It may not be in the interest of many large companies to help mitigate climate change sufficiently instead of striving to generate near-maximum profit in the contemporary socioeconomic system, a globalized competitive consumption-demanding environment, and use all legal means to delay climate change action if such is b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26267837 | 1,431,719 |
1,975,120 | Since longitudinal data, including eosinophil counts obtained over a 20- to 30-year periods in some family members, show remarkable stability in the absolute eosinophil count with no evidence of disease attributable to eosinophil-related tissue injury, therapy to lower eosinophil counts such as corticosteroids, tyrosin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53983813 | 1,973,983 |
848,205 | In 2018, building construction and operations accounted for 39% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The construction industry has seen marked advances in building performance and energy efficiency over recent decades, but there continues to be a large need for additional improvement in order to decarbonize this sector.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8941842 | 847,755 |
891,847 | The First World War brought a catastrophic collapse of fee income for the men's colleges and Cambridge and Oxford both sought state financial help for the first time. This was the context in which the women tried once more to secure inclusion, this time asking not only for the titles of degrees but also for the privile... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=498109 | 891,378 |
1,572,948 | EVH uses small incisions and specialized minimally invasive instruments to internally view, cut and seal side branches and remove the healthy blood vessel with minimal trauma to the vessel or surrounding tissues. In clinical studies, EVH has shown important benefits, including a reduced risk of infection and wound comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26267102 | 1,572,060 |
648,489 | Cation-exchange capacity arises from various negative charges on soil particle surfaces, especially those of clay minerals and soil organic matter. Phyllosilicate clays consist of layered sheets of aluminium and silicon oxides. The replacement of aluminium or silicon atoms by other elements with lower charge (e.g. Al r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2845591 | 648,148 |
768,263 | Following differential centrifugation, virus suspensions often remain contaminated with debris that has the same sedimentation coefficient and are not removed by the procedure. In these cases a modification of centrifugation, called buoyant density centrifugation, is used. In this method the viruses recovered from diff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32772 | 767,851 |
124,512 | A third theory put forward by the noted ogham scholar R. A. S. Macalister was influential at one time, but finds little favour with scholars today. Macalister believed that ogham was first invented in Cisalpine Gaul around 600 BC by Gaulish druids as a secret system of hand signals, and was inspired by a form of the Gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=797150 | 124,461 |
72,964 | The systematic cataloguing of all of Leibniz's "Nachlass" began in 1901. It was hampered by two world wars and then by decades of German division into two states with the Cold War's "iron curtain" in between, separating scholars, and also scattering portions of his literary estates. The ambitious project has had to dea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12281 | 72,937 |
992,938 | In the late 20th century and early 21st, the scientific communities found that the communicative value of journal articles was still much less than it could be if best practices were developed, promoted, and enforced. Thus reporting guidelines (guidelines for how best to report information) arose. The general theme has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=555466 | 992,421 |
1,710,791 | After winning a bronze in Athens four years earlier, Michael Phelps blasted a new world record of 1:42.96 to claim his third straight gold, ninth career, and eleventh overall medal at the Olympics. South Korea's Park Tae-Hwan added a silver to his collection, following an unprecedented triumph in the 400 m freestyle tw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18624643 | 1,709,831 |
646,462 | Bupropion is a commonly prescribed antidepressant that acts as a norepinephrine–dopamine reuptake inhibitor (NDRI). It prevents the reuptake of NA and DA (weakly) by blocking the corresponding transporters, leading to increased noradrenergic and dopaminergic neurotransmission. This drug does not cause sexual dysfunctio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10534087 | 646,122 |
404,510 | In 1983, stimulated by correspondence with Ronald Brown and Tim Porter at Bangor University, Grothendieck wrote a 600-page manuscript entitled "Pursuing Stacks". It began with a letter addressed to Daniel Quillen. This letter and successive parts were distributed from Bangor (see External links below). Within these, in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2042 | 404,310 |
1,264,600 | The dialing codes used by trunk operators to connect calls were originally assigned and established to ensure speed with pulse dialing equipment. With the advent of subscriber dialed calls, numbering patterns were reassigned to provide for mnemonic methods of improving customer performance. Subscriber trunk dialling (S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26656098 | 1,263,912 |
785,471 | Elsewhere he refers to "my theories of historical determinism", defining the latter: "By a deterministic relationship among cultural phenomena, I mean merely that similar variables under similar conditions tend to give rise to similar consequences." The use of "tends to" implies some degree of freedom to happen or not ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1676362 | 785,050 |
1,073,563 | In nanoindentation small loads and tip sizes are used, so the indentation area may only be a few square micrometres or even nanometres. This presents problems in determining the hardness, as the contact area is not easily found. Atomic force microscopy or scanning electron microscopy techniques may be utilized to image... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4023692 | 1,073,009 |
413,120 | In its most basic form, panpsychism holds that all physical entities have minds (though its proponents in fact take more qualified positions), while neutral monism, in at least some variations, holds that entities are composed of a substance with mental and physical aspects—and is thus sometimes described as a type of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=634216 | 412,918 |
981,433 | On Tuesday 21 April 2009, a French judge ruled concerning the Paris exhibition of "Our Body: The Universe Within", that exhibiting dead bodies for profit was a "violation of the respect owed to them". "Under the law, the proper place for corpses is in the cemetery", said Judge Louis-Marie Raingeard. Raingeard ordered t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=151107 | 980,921 |
2,148,087 | The NDUFA2 gene is located on the long (q) arm of chromosome 5 at position 31.2 and it spans 2,422 base pairs. The NDUFA2 gene produces an 11 kDa protein composed of 99 amino acids. NDUFA2 is a subunit of the enzyme NADH dehydrogenase (ubiquinone), the largest of the respiratory complexes. The structure is L-shaped wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15215689 | 2,146,856 |
1,172,760 | Neurorobots are often used to study motor feedback and control systems, and have proved their merit in developing controllers for robots. Locomotion is modeled by a number of neurologically inspired theories on the action of motor systems. Locomotion control has been mimicked using models or central pattern generators,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12994741 | 1,172,141 |
972,106 | LabVIEW includes a compiler that produces native code for the CPU platform. The graphical code is converted into Dataflow Intermediate Representation, and then translated into chunks of executable machine code by a compiler based on LLVM. Run-time engine calls these chunks, allowing better performance. The LabVIEW synt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=544733 | 971,596 |
542,269 | This period came to an end when the Nazi Party won power in Germany in an election on 2 March 1933. The following month it enacted the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service, which provided for the retirement or dismissal of all Jewish civil servants, along with political opponents of the government.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=381797 | 541,989 |
344,184 | In the U.S. and Canada, one must first attain the degree of M.D. or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine, followed by practice as a psychiatric resident for another four years (five years in Canada). This extended period involves comprehensive training in psychiatric diagnosis, psychopharmacology, medical care issues, and ps... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25004 | 344,003 |
2,060,881 | Initially surveys were done by measuring points on the ground and staking out areas, this was quickly followed in the late 1800s by the triangulation method. The New Zealand Institute of Surveyors was established in 1888 after an earlier attempt in 1881. The government then divided the country into 28 'Meridional Circu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59869493 | 2,059,694 |
1,106,585 | On 5 November 2010, "Discovery"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s launch attempt, a hydrogen leak was detected at the Ground Umbilical Carrier Plate (GUCP) during the fueling process. The plate was an attachment point between the external tank and a 17-inch pipe that carried gaseous hydrogen safely away from the tank to the flare sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5829815 | 1,106,021 |
1,581,552 | From the type of fault displacement and the magnitude of the event it was clear that the tsunami was not caused by any displacement of the seabed associated with the earthquake. The shaking triggered collapse of part of the barrier reef at Suva into the Suva Canyon. The current reef edge shows the effects of repeated s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31249873 | 1,580,662 |
13,133 | On 26 October 2012, TEPCO admitted that it could not stop radioactive material entering the ocean, although emission rates had stabilized. Undetected leaks could not be ruled out, because the reactor basements remained flooded. The company was building a 2,400-foot-long steel and concrete wall between the site and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31162817 | 13,128 |
289,425 | (1) The predictive adaptation hypothesis: this hypothesis is in direct contrast with the diathesis stress model, which posits that the accumulation of stressors across a lifespan can enhance the development of psychopathology once a threshold is crossed. Predictive adaptation asserts that early life experience induces ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191003 | 289,268 |
1,727,132 | Wright translated into English "De Havenvinding" (1599) by the Flemish mathematician and engineer Simon Stevin, which appeared in the same year as "The Haven-Finding Art, or the Way to Find any Haven or Place at Sea, by the Latitude and Variation". He also wrote the preface to physician and scientist William Gilbert's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17214829 | 1,726,158 |
1,954,704 | There are several varieties of this species, and it is somewhat variable in appearance. It produces triangular stems reaching heights between and , and generally does not form clumps as some other sedges do. It grows from a dense rhizome network which produces a mat of fine roots thick enough to form sod, and includes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21056382 | 1,953,582 |
662,569 | The harmonic mean "p"-value (HMP) procedure provides a multilevel test that improves on the power of Bonferroni correction by assessing the significance of "groups" of hypotheses while controlling the strong-sense family-wise error rate. The significance of any subset formula_31 of the formula_32 tests is assessed by c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4621448 | 662,224 |
1,087,703 | Adverse weather conditions, restrictions placed on laser transmissions by the U.S. Space Defense Operations Center (SPADOC) and a pointing error caused by the scan platform acceleration on the spacecraft being slower than expected (which prevented laser detection on all frames with less than 400 ms exposure times) all ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13077 | 1,087,144 |
1,651,423 | Between 2014 and 2018, his lab demonstrated several major advances in imaging, projection, and sensing technology on silicon photonic platforms. In 2014, they showed the first silicon nanophotonic optical phased array transmitter capable of dynamic and real-time image projection, therefore serving as a lensless project... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29657134 | 1,650,491 |
917,961 | In 1956, seeking a way to use helicopters for ground-attack in the Algerian War, the French Air Force and French Army Aviation ("Aviation Légère de l'Armée de Terre") experimented with arming the Sikorsky S-55, then being superseded in service by the more capable Piasecki H-21 and Sikorsky H-34 helicopters. Some French... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1596180 | 917,478 |
877,468 | The "Pakicetus" skeleton reveals several details regarding the creature's unique senses and provides a newfound ancestral link between terrestrial and aquatic animals. As previously mentioned, the "Pakicetus"' upward-facing eye placement was a significant indication of its habitat. Even more so, however, was its audito... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3957491 | 877,006 |
67,945 | When the Korean War broke out on 25 June 1950, the North Korean People's Air Force (KPAF) was equipped with World War II-vintage Soviet propeller-driven fighters, including 93 Il-10s and 79 Yak-9Ps, and "40–50 assorted transport/liaison/trainer aircraft". Propeller-driven, single-engine fighters were also numerically d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182690 | 67,919 |
465,084 | Benedictine University moved to Lisle, Illinois, in the far western suburbs of Chicago and DuPage County, in 1901. After the dedication of Benedictine Hall, new buildings were added throughout the early 1900s. Although it had admitted women from time to time, the college became fully coeducational in 1968. In 1971, it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2006647 | 464,854 |
70,124 | The first professional astronomer to support the concept of an infinite Universe was the Englishman Thomas Digges in 1576. But the scale of the Universe remained unknown until the first successful measurement of the distance to a nearby star in 1838 by the German astronomer Friedrich Bessel. He showed that the star sys... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177602 | 70,097 |
903,963 | In 2008, Edward Vajda of Western Washington University presented evidence for a genealogical relation between the Yeneisian languages of Siberia and the Na–Dené languages of North America. At the time of publication (2010), Vajda's proposals had been favorably reviewed by several specialists of Na-Dené and Yeniseian la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=513132 | 903,487 |
1,528,445 | Thorium tetraiodide (ThI, yellow, m.p. 556 °C) is prepared by direct reaction of the elements in a sealed silica ampule. Water and oxygen must not be present, or else ThOI and ThO can contaminate the product. It has a different crystal structure from the other tetrahalides, being monoclinic. The lower iodides ThI (blac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51135829 | 1,527,581 |
107,827 | By 1942, when the Germans were fielding large numbers of long-barreled 5 cm Pak 38 and 7.5 cm Pak 40 anti-tank guns, the KV's armour was no longer impenetrable, requiring the installation of additional appliqué armour. The KV-1's side (favorable approach: 30° at 300–500 m distance), top, and turret armor could also be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188701 | 107,782 |
1,046,961 | Some common tests that measure visual health include visual acuity tests, refraction tests, visual field tests and colour vision tests. Visual acuity tests are the most common tests and they measure the ability to bring details into focus at different distances. Usually this test is conducted by having participants rea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=569650 | 1,046,416 |
540,139 | Opposition to the machine caused Hargreaves to leave for Nottingham, where the cotton hosiery industry benefited from the increased provision of suitable yarn. In Nottingham Hargreaves made jennies for a man named Shipley, and on 12 June 1770, he was granted a patent, which provided the basis for legal action (later wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=149989 | 539,859 |
1,599,094 | The Dermatology Branch investigates fundamental and clinical aspects of neoplastic and inflammatory skin disease as well as normal skin function, while also providing all dermatology patient care at the NIH Clinical Center. The Branch includes research focused on clinical and translational research in rare disease popu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=539902 | 1,598,194 |
606,420 | There is more than one form of the cristobalite framework. At high temperatures, the structure is called β-cristobalite. It is in the cubic crystal system, space group Fdm (No. 227, Pearson symbol "cF104"). It has the diamond structure but with linked tetrahedra of silicon and oxygen where the carbon atoms are in diamo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=550450 | 606,110 |
1,979,947 | The next week the team faced its long-time rival Massachusetts–Lowell and swept the weekend. The Minutemen were able to win at the Tsongas Center for the first time in over a decade while Lindberg was named as the Hockey East defensive player of the week. Lindberg's 0.50 goals against average since returning left littl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67443386 | 1,978,809 |
626,071 | The heaviest element known at the end of the 19th century was uranium, with an atomic mass of approximately 240 (now known to be 238) amu. Accordingly, it was placed in the last row of the periodic table; this fueled speculation about the possible existence of elements heavier than uranium and why "A" = 240 seemed to b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2231059 | 625,738 |
1,681,124 | In the 1920s, West Campus was envisioned as fully Gothic in style, connected to Frederick Law Olmsted's plan of a grand terrace overlooking Lake Cayuga. Rhode Island architect F. Ellis Jackson, class of 1900, expanded this plan to include a memorial to the 264 Cornellians who had died in the First World War. The World ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5324709 | 1,680,181 |
246,580 | A major debate in understanding language acquisition is how these capacities are picked up by infants from the linguistic input. Input in the linguistic context is defined as "All words, contexts, and other forms of language to which a learner is exposed, relative to acquired proficiency in first or second languages". ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18614 | 246,453 |
2,113,309 | Interns have the opportunity to regularly attend core faculty talks specifically for entire SIMR class (rather than a specific institute within SIMR), thesis defenses, lab meetings, and symposia, as well as lunches with other interns and social events on Stanford's campus. Several notable faculty, such as Nobel laureat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40432762 | 2,112,094 |
1,779,303 | The User-Academia-Industry partnership can be formulated based on the user requirement, academic inputs and the industry interface. It will enable more focused approach and a well defined interactive framework. Given the appropriate impetus, the UDA framework can address multiple challenges being faced by the developin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60878831 | 1,778,301 |
1,673,180 | The school has an active tradition of student involvement in academic and extracurricular life. Many students take part in student interest groups, which organize events around environmental issues of interest to them. These groups range in interest from Conservation Finance and International Development, to the Built ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5502920 | 1,672,238 |
79,477 | Elemental bromine is toxic and causes chemical burns on human flesh. Inhaling bromine gas results in similar irritation of the respiratory tract, causing coughing, choking, shortness of breath, and death if inhaled in large enough amounts. Chronic exposure may lead to frequent bronchial infections and a general deterio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3756 | 79,444 |
87,425 | The visible radiation emitted by white dwarfs varies over a wide color range, from the whitish-blue color of an O, B or A-type main sequence star to the yellow-orange of a late K or early M-type star. White dwarf effective surface temperatures extend from over 150,000 K to barely under 4,000 K. In accordance with the S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33501 | 87,390 |
556,902 | A cell is created by consolidating the processes required to create a specific output, such as a part or a set of instructions. These cells allow for the reduction of extraneous steps in the process of creating the specific output, and facilitate quick identification of problems and encourage communication of employees... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9515578 | 556,613 |
641,888 | Usually occurs after age 50, but deterioration in hearing has been found to start very early, from about the age of 18 years. The ISO standard 7029 shows expected threshold changes due purely to age for carefully screened populations (i.e. excluding those with ear disease, noise exposure etc.), based on a meta-analysis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1602257 | 641,549 |
1,730,930 | The Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering is the largest professional school, the second largest college, and one of the top three research units at the University of Florida. The college was founded in 1910, and in 2015 was named in honor of Herbert Wertheim – a serial inventor, philanthropist and UF Distinguished A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11786409 | 1,729,954 |
1,807,806 | Auto DR looks at energy use as a dynamic variable in balancing supply and demand. Implementation of the Honeywell pilot project gave SGCC the latest technologies and perspective on how to realize the benefits of demand response. China is the World's largest Transmission and Distribution market with capital expenditures... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35227098 | 1,806,787 |
294,250 | In 1987, Max Atchisson sold the rights of the AA-12 to Jerry Baber of Military Police Systems, Inc., Piney Flats, Tennessee. MPS in turn developed the successor simply known as Auto Assault-12, which was redesigned over a period of 18 years with 188 changes and improvements to the original blueprint, modifications incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4581435 | 294,091 |
237,065 | Non-agglutinative synthetic languages are fusional languages; morphologically, they combine affixes by "squeezing" them together, drastically changing them in the process, and joining several meanings in a single affix. For example, in the Spanish word "comí" ("I ate"), the suffix -"í" carries the meanings of first per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23662174 | 236,946 |
702,610 | If the protein of interest is not secreted by the organism into the surrounding solution, the first step of each purification process is the disruption of the cells containing the protein. Depending on how fragile the protein is and how stable the cells are, one could, for instance, use one of the following methods: i)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=542744 | 702,242 |
1,200,714 | However, the influence of humans has often contributed to kelp forest degradation. Of particular concern are the effects of overfishing nearshore ecosystems, which can release herbivores from their normal population regulation and result in the overgrazing of kelp and other algae. This can rapidly result in transitions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65970498 | 1,200,073 |
1,982,562 | ALDOC is one of the three aldolase isozymes (A, B, and C), encoded by three different genes. The amino acid sequence of ALDOC is highly similar to those of the other isozymes, sharing a 68% identity with ALDOB and 78% identity with ALDOA. In particular, the residues Asp33, Arg42, Lys107, Lys146, Glu187, Ser271, Arg303,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14877182 | 1,981,423 |
391,441 | In UK domestic politics and government, alumni include Sajid Javid, former Chancellor of the Exchequer and Home Secretary of the United Kingdom (Economics and politics), James Brokenshire, Minister for Security and former Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, Jeremy Wright QC, former Secreta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33719893 | 391,246 |
13,239 | The McDonnell design was therefore reworked into an all-weather fighter-bomber with 11 external hardpoints for weapons and on 18 October 1954, the company received a letter of intent for two YAH-1 prototypes. Then on 26 May 1955, four Navy officers arrived at the McDonnell offices and, within an hour, presented the com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11759 | 13,234 |
2,009,318 | In 2006 the members of an American Inn of Court in Tampa honored Professor Jacob by naming their Inn the "Bruce R. Jacob Criminal Appellate American Inn of Court." In 2016 the name became "Bruce R. Jacob - Chris W. Altenbernd Criminal Appellate Inn of Court." He was a member of The Constitution Project's "Blue Ribbon P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1283438 | 2,008,166 |
923,027 | At his commencement address to Caltech students, journalist Robert Krulwich delivered a speech entitled "Tell me a story". Krulwich says that scientists are actually given many opportunities to explain something interesting about science or their work, and that they must seize such opportunities. He says scientists mus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13432082 | 922,541 |
1,425,627 | The world championships have been biennial since 1991, so were originally scheduled for 2021, but delayed a year due to Covid 19. Winger, now 36, announced she would be retiring after this season making this year's World Championships her last major international event in her career. Winger is very familiar with Haywar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27858254 | 1,424,825 |
2,007,559 | Von Helversen and Heller argued that none of the old names now considered synonyms of "M. mystacinus" could apply to "M. alcathoe", because these names all have their type localities in western or central Europe. However, the more recent discovery of "M. alcathoe" further to the west renders it possible that an older n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30201177 | 2,006,408 |
1,237,352 | Throughout the whole year 2014 the Gdańsk University of Technology celebrated 110 years of its existence. The official inauguration of the jubilee year was in January 2014. The ceremony was held during the public session of the Senate on the occasion of academic promotions. Exactly on the 110th anniversary of the first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=785196 | 1,236,688 |
951,348 | In a scholarly article published in October 2009, NASA scientists reported having reproduced uracil from pyrimidine by exposing it to ultraviolet light under space-like conditions. This suggests that one possible natural original source for uracil in the RNA world could have been panspermia. More recently, in March 201... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39354 | 950,844 |
1,192,192 | Calculating Natality for Animals has become an important part of the research for preservation of species. Studies have been conducted to determine whether a species may be going extinct because of climate or availability of resources. Measuring the natality of a species during extreme conditions such as drastic climat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32088733 | 1,191,556 |
4,938 | In 1995, F-14s from VF-14 and VF-41 participated in Operation Deliberate Force as well as Operation Allied Force in 1999, and in 1998, VF-32 and VF-213 participated in Operation Desert Fox. On 15 February 2001, the Joint Direct Attack Munition or JDAM was added to the Tomcat's arsenal. On 7 October 2001, F-14s would le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11719 | 4,936 |
91,077 | The Command Module "America" is currently on display at Space Center Houston at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. The ascent stage of Lunar Module "Challenger" impacted the Moon on December 15, 1972, at 06:50:20.8 UTC (1:50 a.m. EST), at . The descent stage remains on the Moon at the landing site, .... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1971 | 91,037 |
28,063 | From the very beginning of Sassanid rule in 224, an orthodox Pars-oriented Zoroastrian tradition would play an important part in influencing and lending legitimization to the state until its collapse in the mid-7th century. After Ardashir I had deposed the last Parthian King, Artabanus V, he sought the aid of Tansar, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5876413 | 28,053 |
1,544,142 | His research interests include microfinance, property rights, occupational choice, collective action, and the economics of NGOs and non-profits. He did his schooling in Patha Bhavan, Kolkata and went on to do his undergraduate studies at Presidency College, Kolkata. He has a M.A. in economics from the Delhi School of E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23191904 | 1,543,269 |
328,461 | Object-oriented analysis (OOA) is the process of analyzing a task (also known as a problem domain), to develop a conceptual model that can then be used to complete the task. A typical OOA model would describe computer software that could be used to satisfy a set of customer-defined requirements. During the analysis pha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573528 | 328,287 |
409,517 | After the summer break, racing returned at Spielberg with Aron on pole for race one. Heavy rain disrupted the race start and caused a stoppage. On the restart, many drivers, including the lead group, soon pitted for dry tires. This left Barrichello in the lead, before getting passed by returnee Pierre-Louis Chovet, whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69112243 | 409,315 |
2,242,048 | The first modified fuselage platform was handed over to DRDO by Embraer in February 2011. Ground and flight tests of the aircraft were to be followed by installation of radar and other equipment. The first fully modified EMB-145i Aircraft with the antenna and its electronic payload made its maiden flight on 6 December ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17583272 | 2,240,777 |
529,389 | LTD in the hippocampus and cerebellum have been the best characterized, but there are other brain areas in which mechanisms of LTD are understood. LTD has also been found to occur in different types of neurons that release various neurotransmitters, however, the most common neurotransmitter involved in LTD is L-glutama... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=487921 | 529,115 |
2,058,743 | A population of single celled organisms like bacteria typically vary slightly in their DNA sequence due to mutations acquired during reproduction. Within a single human, individual cells typically have identical genomes, though there are interesting exceptions, such as B-cells, which have variation in their DNA enablin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44419868 | 2,057,558 |
2,170,381 | The pectoral fin disc of the deepsea skate has a moderately triangular anterior margin, a broadly rounded posterior margin, and rounded tips. The disc is slightly wider than it is long. One to five nuchal thorns are placed on the dorsal midline behind the eyes, separated from a continuous row of 21-32 median tail thorn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12598556 | 2,169,143 |
915,086 | Together, the PLS partners provide joint medical, engineering, and mathematical expertise to develop and validate the Perinatal Life Support system using breakthrough simulation technologies. The interdisciplinary consortium will push the development of these technologies forward and combine them to establish the first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1473331 | 914,605 |
1,366,081 | Earlier 20th century electronic instruments such as the Telharmonium or the theremin were manually operated. The RCA combined diverse electronic sound generation with a music sequencer, which proved a huge attraction to composers of the day, who were growing weary of creating electronic works by splicing together indiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=483881 | 1,365,325 |
2,081,688 | In 1922 he became president of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and in his presidential address he proposed that Europe should have a long distance telephone system equivalent to that of AT&T in the USA, who ran a service between New York and San Francisco. As a result of his address, the French took the initiat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47110089 | 2,080,488 |
484,581 | The Randle cycle is a biochemical mechanism involving the competition between glucose and fatty acids for their oxidation and uptake in muscle and adipose tissue. The cycle controls fuel selection and adapts the substrate supply and demand in normal tissues. This cycle adds a nutrient-mediated fine tuning on top of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11739239 | 484,332 |
1,332,514 | Geophysical survey is used to create maps of subsurface archaeological features. Features are the non-portable part of the archaeological record, whether standing structures or traces of human activities left in the soil. Geophysical instruments can detect buried features when their physical properties contrast measura... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275496 | 1,331,785 |
905,502 | Northern red oak seedlings have been known to have a high mortality rate in northeast regions prone to spring freeze, particularly in Massachusetts. Acorns produced by oaks in this region are typically smaller in size as an adaptation to frost produced in high latitudes; however, the resulting smaller seedlings have pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66687 | 905,026 |
589,306 | A pack of over fifty at 5,000 metres dwindled to about twenty by the half way mark as other notable runners fell off the back, with many dropping out. Going in to the 25,000 meter mark, Kipchoge upped the pace. The pack became a string of runners trying to chase, led by the Kenyans and Rupp. At 28,000 metres Kipchoge a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60376751 | 589,004 |
340,145 | Interpreting causation as a deterministic relation means that if "A" causes "B", then "A" must "always" be followed by "B". In this sense, war does not cause deaths, nor does smoking cause cancer or emphysema. As a result, many turn to a notion of probabilistic causation. Informally, "A" ("The person is a smoker") prob... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37196 | 339,964 |
1,872,620 | REMS scans on femur and spine last 40 and 80 seconds, respectively, allowing the acquisition of several thousands of ultrasound signals related to the skeletal site under examination. The patented algorithm (see for more details) automatically processes these signals on the basis of their spectral features; each signal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65996113 | 1,871,543 |
131,776 | Discussing Christianity, Beauvoir argues that, with the exception of the German tradition, it and its clergy have served to subordinate women. She also describes prostitution and the changes in dynamics brought about by courtly love that occurred about the twelfth century. Beauvoir describes, from the early fifteenth c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=680053 | 131,724 |
2,015,025 | Berkelium(III) and berkelium(IV) hydroxides are both stable in 1 M sodium hydroxide solutions. Berkelium(III) phosphate (BkPO) has been prepared as a solid, which shows strong fluorescence under argon laser (514.5 nm line) excitation. Berkelium hydrides are produced by reacting metal with hydrogen gas at temperatures a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31422050 | 2,013,866 |
1,950,671 | The men's 400 metres hurdles competition at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia took place on November 23–24 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. There were 28 competitors from 18 nations. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The event was won by Glenn Da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36702208 | 1,949,550 |
374,925 | One slide rule remaining in daily use around the world is the E6B. This is a circular slide rule first created in the 1930s for aircraft pilots to help with dead reckoning. With the aid of scales printed on the frame it also helps with such miscellaneous tasks as converting time, distance, speed, and temperature values... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28743 | 374,730 |
1,654,307 | In December 2000, the company was referred to Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR). By this time, The company had been running at loss for many years. It was finally declared as a sick unit in year 2002. The Government of India planned to sell Muzaffarpur plant of the Company in 2002 to the private ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15243528 | 1,653,375 |
766,738 | With the mass convergent evolution of the C-fixation pathway in a diversity of plant lineages, ancestral C-type RuBisCO evolved to have faster turnover of in exchange for lower specificity as a result of the greater localization of from the mesophyll cells into the bundle sheath cells. This was achieved through enhance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=318370 | 766,327 |
1,503,271 | The set-up is mounted in a vacuum chamber to provide a several-meter path free of atoms; a good vacuum (at the level of 10 Torr or ) is required. The magneto-optical trap (MOT) is used to collect cold atoms, usually excited He or Ne, approaching the point-like source of atoms. The excitation of atoms is not essential f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4319349 | 1,502,425 |
90,174 | In 2003, Martin Fowler published "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture", which presented MVC as a pattern where an "input controller" receives a request, sends the appropriate messages to a model object, takes a response from the model object, and passes the response to the appropriate view for display. This... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288233 | 90,134 |
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