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2,025,992 | Rosette and lower pitchers are ovate in the basal third to quarter of the pitcher cup, becoming approximately cylindrical above and infundibular towards the pitcher mouth. They are relatively small, growing to only 12 cm in height by 3 cm in width. A pair of wings (≤4 mm wide) typically runs down the ventral surface of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4853457 | 2,024,826 |
93,648 | In 1972, Paul Berg created the first recombinant DNA molecules by combining DNA from the monkey virus SV40 with that of the lambda virus. In 1973 Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen created the first transgenic organism by inserting antibiotic resistance genes into the plasmid of an "Escherichia coli" bacterium. A year lat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12383 | 93,607 |
2,144,944 | In 2013 he was awarded a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship administered by the Royal Society of New Zealand for a project entitled: "Antarctic Ice Sheet-Southern Ocean interactions during greenhouse worlds of the past 23 million years – and consequences for New Zealand climate". In 2016 and 2019 he was awarded Royal Soci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69498152 | 2,143,713 |
1,168,967 | In the Women and Gender Equity Knowledge Network's Final Report to the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health in 2007, health systems in many countries were noted to have been unable to deliver adequately on gender equity in health. One explanation for this issue is that many healthcare systems tend to neglect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38846583 | 1,168,349 |
902,676 | Over time, reaction wheels may build up enough stored momentum to exceed the maximum speed of the wheel, called saturation, which will need to be canceled. Designers therefore supplement reaction wheel systems with other attitude control mechanisms. In the presence of a magnetic field (as in low Earth orbit), a spacecr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89484 | 902,200 |
1,666,573 | In 1953, Rosenbluth derived the Metropolis algorithm, based on generating a Markov chain which sampled fluid configurations according to the Boltzmann distribution. This algorithm was first presented in the paper "Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines", coauthored with his wife Arianna Rosenbluth (w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3742070 | 1,665,634 |
1,181,985 | The mechanism of coagulation has been the subject of continual review. It is generally accepted that coagulation is brought about primarily by the reduction of the net surface charge to a point where the colloidal particles, previously stabilized by electrostatic repulsion, can approach closely enough for van der Waals... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2820509 | 1,181,360 |
2,073,494 | In early experiments, the flux of neutrinos was estimated by measuring the number of pions produced after the target and monitoring the muons produced at the end of the tunnel. After the discovery of neutrino oscillation, the need for high precision beams fostered the construction of sophisticated monitoring systems. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69384997 | 2,072,302 |
775,174 | In a 2012 interview with Pakistani newspaper "Dawn", Dr. Hussain A. Gezari, the WHO's special envoy on global polio eradication and primary healthcare, gave his views on obstacles to eradication. He said that the biggest hurdle preventing Pakistan from becoming polio-free was holding district health officials properly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9901652 | 774,758 |
2,141,438 | Kathryn Marklein from the Ohio State University explored the prevalence of OA between two Roman period (2nd – 3rd c. CE) skeletal assemblages retrieved from mass graves in Oymaağaç, Vezirköprü, Turkey. It was previously indicated through the analyses of non-metric traits that several individuals from one of the mass gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66680118 | 2,140,208 |
1,139,848 | CLC was first studied as a way to produce from fossil fuels, using two interconnected fluidized beds. Later it was proposed as a system for increasing power station efficiency. The gain in efficiency is possible due to the enhanced reversibility of the two redox reactions; in traditional single stage combustion, the re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13676918 | 1,139,254 |
42,911 | In 1998, a merger between Northrop Grumman and competitor Lockheed Martin was considered but abandoned after resistance from the Department of Defense and Department of Justice. That same year, it acquired Inter-National Research Institute Inc. In 1999, the company acquired Teledyne Ryan, developer of surveillance syst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216886 | 42,895 |
401,330 | Following this tragedy and under new pressures, Mishin developed a drinking problem. The Soviets were beaten in sending the first crewed flight around the Moon in 1968 by Apollo 8, but Mishin pressed ahead with development of the flawed super heavy N1, in the hope that the Americans would have a setback, leaving enough... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=723059 | 401,131 |
1,856,447 | Figure 4c is an example of a continuous, narrow-band waveform from the emitter. The cross-correlation function shows an important factor when choosing the receiver geometry. There is a peak at time = 5 plus every increment of the waveform period. To get one solution for the measured time difference, the largest space b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3516652 | 1,855,379 |
1,978,513 | Until about 2010, computers were far from energy proportional for two primary reasons. A critical issue is high static power, which means that the computer consumes significant energy even when it is idle. High static power is common in servers owing to their architectural, circuit, and manufacturing optimizations that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45199965 | 1,977,375 |
1,806,970 | Protein synthesis inhibitors are a class of antibiotics, which prevent the production of new proteins by inhibiting the cell's gene expression ("Protein synthesis inhibitors", PSI). They generally operate at the ribosomal level through various mechanisms that prevent the ribosome from completing translation (Vazquez, 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37957946 | 1,805,951 |
250,247 | The game was developed by Team Little Devils, a group of staff members within Capcom Production Studio 4. Some of the major gameplay elements were partially inspired by a bug found in "". During a test-play, Kamiya discovered that enemies could be kept in the air by slashing them repeatedly, which led to the inclusion ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9134651 | 250,115 |
1,299,875 | Brown-Séquard was quite a controversial and eccentric figure, and is also known for self-reporting, at age 72, "rejuvenated sexual prowess after subcutaneous injection of extracts of monkey testis". Thousands of men tried the therapy. The endocrinologist Robert B. Greenblatt wrote that this therapy could not have possi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1311821 | 1,299,161 |
1,660,225 | The Meteor-3 series was launched 7 times between 1984 and 1994 after a difficult and protracted development program that began in 1972. All the satellites were launched on Tsyklon-3 rockets. These satellites provide weather information including data on clouds, ice and snow cover, atmospheric radiation and humidity. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1615115 | 1,659,292 |
1,589,318 | During a conversion at Turku Repair Yard in Naantali, Finland, "Kontio" was modified for oil spill response duties. Her large heeling tanks and one fuel tank were converted to storage tanks for recovered oil with a combined capacity of 2,033 cubic meters. Furthermore, she was fitted with cranes to handle the recovery e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28011820 | 1,588,424 |
1,309,195 | When considering cadavers and carcasses, putrefaction is the proliferation of microorganisms within the body following death and also encompasses the breakdown of tissues brought upon by the growth of bacteria. The first signs of putrefaction are usually the discolorations of the body which can vary between shades of g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29346940 | 1,308,479 |
1,804,591 | After graduating in medicine from Paris Descartes University now called Université Paris Cité and completing his surgical training and Fellowships from Guy's Hospital in London, the Mayo Clinic and the University of Minnesota in the States, the Soviet Union and University College London, he became appointed to St Mary'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21240635 | 1,803,576 |
362,666 | The fourth X-37B mission, OTV-4, was codenamed AFSPC-5 and designated as USA-261 in orbit. It was the second flight of the second X-37B vehicle. The X-37B launched on an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral SLC-41 on 20 May 2015 at 15:05 UTC. Objectives included a test of Aerojet Rocketdyne's XR-5A Hall-effect thruster i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=991257 | 362,476 |
22,197 | Caffeine in plants acts as a natural pesticide: it can paralyze and kill predator insects feeding on the plant. High caffeine levels are found in coffee seedlings when they are developing foliage and lack mechanical protection. In addition, high caffeine levels are found in the surrounding soil of coffee seedlings, whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6868 | 22,188 |
1,886,155 | Alameda Science and Technology Institute is located on the campus of the College of Alameda in Alameda's West End neighborhood. First opened in 2004, ASTI is a collaboration between Alameda Unified School District (AUSD) and the College of Alameda. ASTI was planned and conceived as a small high school providing a rigor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16449928 | 1,885,073 |
1,859,174 | Small mismatches between the total demand and total load are typical and initially are taken care of by the kinetic energy of the rotating machinery (mostly synchronous generators): when there is too much supply, the devices absorb the excess, and frequency goes above the scheduled rate, conversely, too much demand cau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70850869 | 1,858,106 |
130,068 | The only task left for the crew at this point was to perform the trans-Earth injection (TEI), which was scheduled for hours after the end of the television transmission. The TEI was the most critical burn of the flight, as any failure of the SPS to ignite would strand the crew in lunar orbit, with little hope of escape... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=663 | 130,016 |
1,364,455 | The USMLE Step 2CS exam consists of a series of patient encounters in which the examinee must see standardized patients (SPs), take a history, do a physical examination, determine differential diagnoses, and then write a patient note based on their determinations. The topics covered are common outpatient or Emergency R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1660985 | 1,363,699 |
341,513 | The "Advanced SIMD" extension (aka "Neon" or "MPE" Media Processing Engine) is a combined 64- and 128-bit SIMD instruction set that provides standardised acceleration for media and signal processing applications. Neon is included in all Cortex-A8 devices, but is optional in Cortex-A9 devices. Neon can execute MP3 audio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60558 | 341,332 |
1,004,169 | The fungus has a wide distribution in North America, and is particularly common in the Pacific Northwest; its range extends north to Alaska and east to North Carolina. In the Puget Sound area of the U.S. state of Washington, it is found in association with Douglas-fir, fir, and hemlock. Along the Oregon Coast it has be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13609521 | 1,003,651 |
1,010,842 | PUP participated in a successful attempt to set a world record for most organ donation pledges in 2014, a project spearheaded by the Department of Health. It broke the record for most organ donation pledges in one hour. 3,548 people signed up in the span of 30 minutes, beating India's 2,755 pledged organ donors. PUP pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19391805 | 1,010,321 |
1,815,474 | Mukherjee’s main research areas are physical, chemical and isotope hydrogeology, including numerical flow modeling, computation, contaminant transport, water policy applications. He is globally known for his studies on geological and human-sourced groundwater pollution (e.g. arsenic, fluoride, sanitation-borne and emer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65430866 | 1,814,440 |
746,644 | One disadvantage of piezoelectric sensors is that they cannot be used for truly static measurements. A static force results in a fixed amount of charge on the piezoelectric material. In conventional readout electronics, imperfect insulating materials and reduction in internal sensor resistance causes a constant loss of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3446227 | 746,249 |
919,181 | Lowering photorespiration may not result in increased growth rates for plants. Photorespiration may be necessary for the assimilation of nitrate from soil. Thus, a lowering in photorespiration by genetic engineering or because of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (due to fossil fuel burning) may not benefit plants ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=492043 | 918,696 |
646,995 | In a 2006 research paper, computer specialist David A. Wheeler suggested that the Common Criteria process discriminates against free and open-source software (FOSS)-centric organizations and development models. Common Criteria assurance requirements tend to be inspired by the traditional waterfall software development ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57625 | 646,655 |
771,891 | By late 1942 reports were coming in about the ineffectiveness of the MK 101 against newer versions of the Soviet T-34 tanks. One obvious solution would be to use the larger BK 3,7 ("Bordkanone" 3,7), recently adapted from the ground-based 3.7 cm Flak 18. These guns had already been converted into underwing pod-mounted ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=180821 | 771,477 |
1,978,048 | Full-page advertisements with the slogan "Simply...Awesome!" ran in Keyboard Magazine during the mid-1980s. The AX80 also appears in the price lists at the end of both editions of Mark Vail's "Vintage Synthesizers". The second edition contains a footnote: "If you can get around the interfaces on the Akai AX-series synt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18291338 | 1,976,910 |
493,610 | In ecology, carbon and nitrogen isotope ratios are widely used to determine the broad diets of many free-ranging animals. They have been used to determine the broad diets of seabirds, and to identify the geographical areas where individuals spend the breeding and non-breeding season in seabirds and passerines. Numerous... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40588530 | 493,355 |
526,090 | Negotiations and persuasion are social conflicts that can be understood in terms of CLT. When negotiating or trying to persuade someone, there are often major, high-level, considerations and minor, low-level, considerations. Major issues are aspects such as values, ideology, and overall beliefs. The major issues are of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27797792 | 525,817 |
1,216,110 | While the puzzles in early hunts were either linear (after solving one puzzle, a new puzzle would be revealed) or released en masse, since 1998 the puzzles have been released in rounds. Successive rounds can be released at predetermined times, based upon completing a requisite number of puzzles in a previous round, or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=476003 | 1,215,458 |
1,076,246 | Vegetation production models require accurate ground observations, in this context from eddy covariant flux measurement. Eddy covariance is used to measure the net primary production, and gross primary productions of plant populations. Advancements in technology have allowed for minor fluctuations resulting in a scale ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3547877 | 1,075,691 |
204,621 | Considering the increase in junk food and its toxicity, FDA required in 1973 that cancer-causing compounds must not be present in meat at concentrations that would cause a cancer risk greater than 1 in a million over a lifetime. The US Environmental Protection Agency provides extensive information about ecological and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=219072 | 204,516 |
127,977 | Julia 1.5 released in August 2020 added record and replay debugging support, for Mozilla's rr tool. The release changed the behavior in the REPL (soft scope) to the one used in Jupyter, but fully compatible with non-REPL code. Most of the thread API was marked as stable, and with this release "arbitrary immutable objec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38455554 | 127,925 |
1,278,705 | The calcium cycle links ionic and non ionic calcium together in both marine and terrestrial environments and is essential for the functioning of all living organisms. In animals, calcium enables neurons to transmit signals by opening voltage gated channels that allow neurotransmitters to reach the next cell, bone forma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58446217 | 1,278,012 |
140,046 | The diagram depicts the internal mechanism of a residual-current device (RCD). The device is designed to be wired in-line in an appliance power cord. It is rated to carry a maximal current of 13A and is designed to trip on a leakage current of 30mA. This is an active RCD; that is, it latches electrically and therefore ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=530715 | 139,989 |
250,374 | Overt displays of aggression between males over mates suggests that extended pairing may have evolved to guard females from sperm competition. Fighting between competing males has been observed in the species "D. veiliei" and "D. covilleae". During these encounters, the approach of a challenger causes the existing mate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=341989 | 250,242 |
286,707 | Even in its early years, the Free Academy showed tolerance for diversity, especially in comparison to its urban neighbor, Columbia College, which was exclusive to the sons of wealthy families. The Free Academy had a framework of tolerance that extended beyond the admission of students from every social stratum. In 1854... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954388 | 286,552 |
1,092,071 | As with any approximate model, the Poisson–Boltzmann equation is an approximation rather than an exact representation. Several assumptions were made to approximate the potential of the diffuse layer. The finite size of the ions was considered negligible and ions were treated as individual point charges, where ions were... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6161274 | 1,091,511 |
406,085 | TRAPPIST-1 was discovered in 2000, during a survey of Two Micron All-Sky Survey data for the identification of close-by ultra-cool dwarf stars. Its planetary system was discovered by a team led by Michaël Gillon, a Belgian astronomer of the University of Liege, in 2016, during observations made from the La Silla Observ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50402274 | 405,885 |
489,394 | KVINFO was founded by the librarian and writer Nynne Koch and its history goes back to 1965. Nynne Koch was employed at the Royal Library in Copenhagen in a position without influence on book selection. She was interested in women's studies and began personally to collect printed catalog cards of books in the Royal Lib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9527250 | 489,141 |
1,600,117 | The basic issue of the book is a philosophical analysis of the concept of number, which is the most basic concept on which the entire edifice of arithmetic and mathematics can be founded. In order to proceed with this analysis, Husserl, following Brentano and Stumpf, uses the tools of psychology to look for the "origin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6704759 | 1,599,216 |
1,656,208 | Radiation therapy kills cancer cells in two ways depending on the effective energy of the radiative source. The amount of energy deposited as the particles traverse a section of tissue is referred to as the linear energy transfer (LET). X-rays produce low LET radiation, and protons and neutrons produce high LET radiati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9676138 | 1,655,275 |
471,179 | Currently, the ESA is planning to launch the Jupiter Icy Moon Explorer (JUICE) mission in 2022, which includes the Russian Ganymede Lander making a soft landing on Ganymede around 2033. In addition, NASA offered the ESA the opportunity to design a lander or impactor to fly alongside NASA's proposed orbiter in the Europ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=184638 | 470,943 |
1,008,808 | In the first stage of diagnosis the doctor will take a history of symptoms and perform a basic neurological exam, including an eye exam and tests of vision, balance, coordination, and mental status. The doctor will then require a CT scan and MRI of the patient's brain. During a CT scan, X-rays of the patient's brain ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1024087 | 1,008,287 |
448,124 | The voicing alternation found in plural formation is losing ground in the modern language. Of the alternations listed below many speakers retain only the pattern, which is supported by the orthography. This voicing of is a relic of Old English, at a time when the unvoiced consonants between voiced vowels were 'colored'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19531070 | 447,907 |
928,675 | In contrast to traditional methods of drug discovery (known as forward pharmacology), which rely on trial-and-error testing of chemical substances on cultured cells or animals, and matching the apparent effects to treatments, rational drug design (also called reverse pharmacology) begins with a hypothesis that modulati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=579414 | 928,184 |
1,499,464 | Head direction cells were discovered by James B. Ranck, Jr., in the rat dorsal presubiculum, a structure that lies near the hippocampus on the dorsocaudal brain surface. Ranck reported his discovery in a Society for Neuroscience abstract in 1984. Jeffrey Taube, a postdoctoral fellow working in Ranck's laboratory, made ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2898964 | 1,498,619 |
654,241 | The sole method of reproduction in "Chlorella" is asexual and azosporic. The content of the cell divides into 2,4 (B), 8(C) sometimes daughter protoplasts. Each daughter protoplast rounds off to form a non-motile spore. These autospores (spores having the same distinctive shape as the parent cell) are liberated by the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6505 | 653,897 |
724,895 | Prior to 1960, crude extracts of PHA were known to coat the surface of red blood cells, make them heavier, and thereby improve the separation of the white cell buffy coat. Peter Nowell, an immunologist and pathologist at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, was using PHA for this purpose in 1960 when he disc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244027 | 724,514 |
1,652,439 | IP is classified as a relaxant type of prostenoid receptor based on its ability, upon activation, to relax certain pre-contracted smooth muscle preparations and smooth muscle-containing tissues such as those of pulmonary arteries and veins. When bound to PGI or other of its agonists, IP stimulates one or more of three ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14522621 | 1,651,507 |
557,267 | Oliphant secured the services of fellow Australian physicist Harrie Massey, who had been working for the Admiralty on magnetic mines, along with James Stayers and Stanley Duke, who had worked with him on the cavity magnetron. This initial group set out for Berkeley in a B-24 Liberator bomber in November 1943. Oliphant ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315710 | 556,978 |
1,760,050 | The Reggiane Re.2003 was a development from the Reggiane Re.2002 fighter bomber that first flew on 29 June 1941. It was designed to replace the outdated IMAM Ro.37 used at the time. Unlike the Reggaine Re.2002, it had room for a second crewman who sat behind the pilot. It was equipped with onboard camera equipment. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24214467 | 1,759,057 |
196,694 | By the 19th century the first signs of information science emerged as separate and distinct from other sciences and social sciences but in conjunction with communication and computation. In 1801, Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a punched card system to control operations of the cloth weaving loom in France. It was the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=149354 | 196,594 |
1,305,096 | For example, because it is not practical to locate the principal planes of such small lenses, measurements are often made with respect to the lens or substrate surface. Where a lens is used to couple light into an optical fibre the focused wavefront may exhibit spherical aberration and light from different regions of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15497488 | 1,304,380 |
1,316,118 | At the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, he joined the French Army. At the age of 29 he became Chair of Military Diseases and Epidemics at the École de Val-de-Grâce. At the end of his tenure in 1878 he worked in Algeria, where he made his major achievements. He discovered that the protozoan parasite "Plasmod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240181 | 1,315,393 |
2,169,022 | Researches have used dispersion stabilization to promote unusual main group bonding. Dispersion forces have been shown to stabilize a cyclic silylated plumbylene dimer, which shows different Pb-Pb bonding than in the parent parent diplumbene (PbH). The crystal structure of the silylated plumbylene dimer has different g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69395571 | 2,167,785 |
2,033,524 | Ted leaves a broad and impactful legacy that expands beyond his research in chemical engineering and materials science. His decades of leadership as both department head and dean at the University of Minnesota led Professor Frank S. Bates to call him "our model of excellence." Ted's research style of combined theory, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57100503 | 2,032,351 |
906,971 | It is difficult to say exactly how many children or adults worldwide have ADHD because different countries have used different ways of diagnosing it, while some do not diagnose it at all. In the UK, diagnosis is based on quite a narrow set of symptoms, and about 0.5–1% of children are thought to have attention or hyper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4081458 | 906,493 |
47,926 | Imaging lidar can also be performed using arrays of high speed detectors and modulation sensitive detector arrays typically built on single chips using complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) and hybrid CMOS/Charge-coupled device (CCD) fabrication techniques. In these devices each pixel performs some local proce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41958 | 47,906 |
1,290,840 | Technology management at a policy or organisational level, viewed through the lens of complexity, involves the management of an inherently complex system. Systems that are "complex" have distinct properties that arise from these relationships, such as nonlinearity, emergence, spontaneous order, adaptation, and feedback... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10241777 | 1,290,130 |
1,223,207 | Wright's research work involved studying the effects of various drugs on tumors. In 1951 with the help of her team she was the first to identify methotrexate, one of the foundational chemotherapy drugs, as an effective tool against cancerous tumors. Wright's early work brought chemotherapy out of the realm of an untest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15862301 | 1,222,547 |
832,675 | Technical advances included water cooling and 16 valves, allowing additional power, and a frame that used the engine as a stressed member for improved handling and reduced weight, as a result of testing that showed that the standard downtubes carried virtually no weight and could be eliminated. Its top speed gave it th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1316719 | 832,226 |
891,512 | According to Cosmides and Tooby, this experimental evidence supports the hypothesis that a Wason task proves to be easier if the rule to be tested is one of social exchange ("in order to receive benefit X you need to fulfill condition Y") and the subject is asked to police the rule, but is more difficult otherwise. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=823236 | 891,043 |
1,057,237 | The "Law on Higher Education" (2002) stipulates that educational establishments in Ukraine including those owned privately must be licensed before they can offer tertiary level educational programs. To be granted a license a HEI must meet the required standards set by the Ministry of Education and Science for higher ed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23063986 | 1,056,688 |
370,089 | In February 2002 the Carnegie Mellon Software Engineering Institute (CM-SEI) Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT-CC) issued an Advisory on SNMPv1, after the Oulu University Secure Programming Group conducted a thorough analysis of SNMP message handling. Most SNMP implementations, regardless of wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41710 | 369,895 |
1,531,640 | Compared to the half of most students, nearly three-quarters of the state's African American and Latino students who took the 10th-grade WASL failed at least one of the subjects needed to graduate. Two-thirds of Native Americans were not on track to earning a diploma, and 70 percent of students living in poverty, mostl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1735417 | 1,530,774 |
667,270 | Had it flown as scheduled, MOL would have been the world's first space station. Some believed that MOL should have launched astronauts before the optics were ready. Abrahamson later concurred that his and other MOL astronauts' advice to fly the first mission fully operational was a mistake. He learned while serving as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=615373 | 666,922 |
1,436,535 | Climatic geomorphologists have devised various schemes that divide Earth's surface into various morphoclimatic zones; that is, zones where landforms are associated to present or past climates. However, only some processes and landforms can be associated with particular climates, meaning that they are "zonal;" processes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54278600 | 1,435,726 |
399,499 | In the U.S. in 1973, the United States Environmental Protection Agency issued regulations to reduce the lead content of leaded gasoline over a series of annual phases, which therefore came to be known as the "lead phasedown" program. EPA's rules were issued under section 211 of the Clean Air Act, as amended 1970. The E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=116035 | 399,301 |
373,132 | The collision began in the Upper Cretaceous period about 70 million years ago, when the north-moving Indo-Australian Plate, moving at about per year, collided with the Eurasian Plate. About 50 million years ago, this fast-moving Indo-Australian plate had completely closed the Tethys Ocean, the existence of which has be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=523282 | 372,937 |
271,385 | Pāṇini's grammar is the world's first formal system, developed well before the 19th century innovations of Gottlob Frege and the subsequent development of mathematical logic. In designing his grammar, Pāṇini used the method of "auxiliary symbols", in which new affixes are designated to mark syntactic categories and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5604422 | 271,237 |
147,458 | In Argentina, there are public and private medical schools. By law entrance into public institutions is open and tuition-free to all who have a high school diploma, and universities are expressly forbidden from restricting access with difficult entrance exams. Point in case, in 2016 the National University of La Plata ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=465584 | 147,400 |
2,159,978 | The TDT has been extended in context of quantitative traits and nuclear or extended pedigree families. The generalized test allows to use any family type of families in testing. QTDT has also be been extended to haplotype-based association mapping. Haplotypes refer to combinations of marker alleles which are located cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34132734 | 2,158,746 |
848,365 | RenderMan has been used to create digital visual effects for Hollywood blockbuster movies such as "Beauty and the Beast", "Aladdin", "The Lion King", "", "Toy Story", "Jurassic Park", "Avatar", "Titanic", the "Star Wars" prequels, and "The Lord of the Rings". RenderMan has received four Academy Scientific and Technical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1442043 | 847,915 |
1,148,143 | Recently however this metaphor has been subject of quantitative formulation using complex systems concepts such as criticality, meaning that a healthy ecosystem is in some sort of balance between adaptability (randomness) and robustness (order) . Nevertheless the universality of criticality is still under examination a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40159918 | 1,147,538 |
130,027 | On August 9, 1968, Low discussed the idea with Gilruth, Flight Director Chris Kraft, and the Director of Flight Crew Operations, Donald Slayton. They then flew to the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) in Huntsville, Alabama, where they met with KSC Director Kurt Debus, Apollo Program Director Samuel C. Phillips, Rocc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=663 | 129,975 |
71,336 | In 2014, Joseph Romm, the author of "The Hype About Hydrogen" (2005), said that FCVs still had not overcome the high fueling cost, lack of fuel-delivery infrastructure, and pollution caused by producing hydrogen. "It would take several miracles to overcome all of those problems simultaneously in the coming decades." He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11729 | 71,309 |
314,970 | The smaller lobus, Weeyo, bears a large depression feature named 'Sky' (previously dubbed 'Maryland' after the home state of the "New Horizons" team). Assuming Sky has a circular shape, its diameter is , with a depth of . Sky is likely an impact crater that was formed by an object across. Two notably bright streaks of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44163394 | 314,801 |
1,616,211 | The foundations of the compensation effect are still not fully understood though many theories have been brought forward. Compensation of Arrhenius processes in solid-state materials and devices can be explained quite generally from the statistical physics of aggregating fundamental excitations from the thermal bath to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14708063 | 1,615,302 |
603,109 | A 2019 "Science" review assessed that chytridiomycosis was a factor in the decline of at least 501 amphibian species during the past 50 years, of which 90 species were confirmed or presumed to have gone extinct in the wild and another 124 had declined in numbers by more than 90%. The review characterized the overall to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2221852 | 602,800 |
1,132,646 | Organic compounds seem to be common, for example, on asteroids, meteorites, comets and the icy bodies orbiting the Sun, so detecting no trace of any organic compound on the surface of Mars came as a surprise. The GC-MS was definitely working, because the controls were effective and it was able to detect traces of chlor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1072959 | 1,132,054 |
299,885 | Traditionally, values other than (not active) and (active) were invalid and the bootstrap program would display an error message upon encountering them. However, the Plug and Play BIOS Specification and BIOS Boot Specification (BBS) allowed other devices to become bootable as well since 1994. Consequently, with the int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24782330 | 299,724 |
738,020 | In 1912, at the request of the DVP (Deutscher Verein für Psychiatrie; German Association for Psychiatry), of which he was the head from 1906 to 1920, he began plans to establish a centre for research. Following a large donation from the Jewish German-American banker James Loeb, who had at one time been a patient, and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10002 | 737,629 |
489,137 | Later in his life, Nathan Rosen turned his attentions to teaching and the establishment of new universities. After briefly working for two years in the Soviet Union at the University of Kiev starting in 1936, he returned to the United States, where he taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1941 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=711870 | 488,884 |
805,837 | Supraspinal vasomotor neurons send projections to the intermediolateral cell column, which is composed of sympathetic preganglionic neurons (SPN) through the T1-L2 segments. The supraspinal neurons act on the SPN and its tonic firing, modulating its action on the peripheral sympathetic chain ganglia and the adrenal med... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5281756 | 805,408 |
143,188 | Any astatine present at the formation of the Earth has long since disappeared; the four naturally occurring isotopes (astatine-215, -217, -218 and -219) are instead continuously produced as a result of the decay of radioactive thorium and uranium ores, and trace quantities of neptunium-237. The landmass of North and So... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=901 | 143,130 |
1,254,782 | Over the past twenty-five years the Gray group has been measuring the kinetics of long-range ET reactions in metalloproteins labeled with inorganic redox reagents. Early research by his lab members showed that details of the internal structures of the proteins dominate the ET rates. Current research is aimed at underst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12307690 | 1,254,101 |
1,394,590 | In Ireland snow began to fall in the east of the country on Tuesday 27 February. Snow continued in the east on Wednesday the 28th, with well over reported in many areas. Schools closed on Wednesday the 28th in affected areas. Panic buying of food was seen as Storm Emma approached. Emma made landfall on the south coast ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55159883 | 1,393,819 |
1,262,577 | USA Gymnastics backed Biles, also expressing that the skill did not receive the rating it merited; during domestic events over the summer, USAG assigned the skill a provisional I rating. The FIG explained that the reason for the lower than expected rating is due to safety concerns due to the "added risk in landing of d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61999936 | 1,261,889 |
1,720,840 | Selenography is the study of the surface and physical features of the Moon (also known as geography of the Moon, or selenodesy). Like geography and areography, selenography is a subdiscipline within the field of planetary science. Historically, the principal concern of selenographists was the mapping and naming of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8955468 | 1,719,870 |
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