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275,500 | The pollen grains are dispersed by the wind to the female, ovulate cone that is made up of many overlapping scales (sporophylls, and thus megasporophylls), each protecting two ovules, each of which consists of a megasporangium (the nucellus) wrapped in two layers of tissue, the integument and the cupule, that were deri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233609 | 275,351 |
12,388 | The "T-10S-3" was modified and officially designated the "P-42", setting a number of world records for time-to-height, beating those set in 1975 by a similarly modified F-15 called "The Streak Eagle". The "P-42" "Streak Flanker" was stripped of all armament, radar and operational equipment. The fin tips, tail-boom and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65580 | 12,383 |
47,421 | Francisco Mojica at the University of Alicante in Spain studied repeats observed in the archaeal organisms of "Haloferax" and "Haloarcula" species and their function. Mojica's supervisor surmised at the time that the clustered repeats had a role in correctly segregating replicated DNA into daughter cells during cell di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2146034 | 47,402 |
504,327 | γ Heavy chain disease (also termed Franklin disease or Franklin's disease) presents in three patterns: a) aggressive lymphoma (57% to 66% of cases) associated with constitutional symptoms and in 50% of cases with enlargement of lymph nodes, spleen, and/or liver; b) localized lymphoma (~25% of cases) with lymphoma limit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17475959 | 504,065 |
1,201,946 | Federal officials also ruled out nuclear devices due to environmental and political risks, as doing so would be a violation of Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty that the United States has signed. Admiral Thad Allen stated, "since we don't know the condition of that well bore or the casings, I would be cautious abou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28039038 | 1,201,304 |
995,543 | The sharp Anti-Federalist critique of the Constitution did not abate after it became operational, and by the time the First Congress convened in March 1789, there existed widespread sentiment in both the House and Senate in favor of making alterations. That September, Congress adopted twelve amendments and sent to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=497752 | 995,026 |
1,802,327 | Edwards attended Sydney Grammar School, which did not offer music at the time. At 15 years of age, Edwards was granted permission to enter the New South Wales Conservatorium of Music to study piano, oboe, harmony, counterpoint and theory during lunch hours and weekends. In 1963, after being awarded a Commonwealth Schol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4963057 | 1,801,314 |
1,416,672 | Approached by the university about making a donation toward preserving the Wistar and Horner Museum, Gen. Wistar determined to fund a new building for it himself. His vision soon expanded beyond housing the collection to create the Wistar Institute, to sponsor and publish new medical research and "any other work for th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2592297 | 1,415,874 |
1,922,511 | CTD has shown clear association with yield in warm environments shows it association with heat stress tolerance. CTD shows high genetic correlation with yield and high values of proportion of direct response to selection (Reynolds et al., 1998) indicating that the trait is heritable and therefore amenable to early gene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34172227 | 1,921,408 |
1,487,460 | The Stamps Scholarship is a merit-based undergraduate scholarship that was established in 2006 by E. Roe Stamps and his late wife Penny, with the purpose of enabling extraordinary educational experiences for extraordinary students. Through partnerships with institutions across the nation (and into the U.K.), Scholars r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62193046 | 1,486,622 |
231,114 | Heavier equipment was brought up by well organized supply trains. Wagons and carts carried, amongst other things, large stockpiles of arrows. The main logistical factor limiting their advance was finding enough food and water for their animals. This would lead to serious difficulties during some of the Mongol campaigns... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1909414 | 230,995 |
1,836,073 | Hendy was invited to present modelling at a press conference with Jacinda Ardern and Ashley Bloomfield on 23 September 2021 and he suggested that even with a high proportion of New Zealand's population vaccinated, up to 7000 deaths a year could be recorded. Ardern cautioned that the modelling was only one of the tools ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69981304 | 1,835,024 |
532,923 | Liquid-handling robots can be used to set up and automate large number of crystallization experiments simultaneously. What would otherwise be slow and potentially error-prone process carried out by a human can be accomplished efficiently and accurately with an automated system. Robotic crystallization systems use the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27502485 | 532,644 |
1,078,123 | In 2007 he was inducted as a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. In 2011 he was appointed Director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 2013, he became a member of the National Academy of Engineering and was appointed the CEO of EdX. In March 2016, he was awarded the Harol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14583673 | 1,077,568 |
836,556 | Aristotle (384–322 BC) studied at Plato's Academy in Athens, remaining there for about 20 years. Like Plato, he sought universals in his philosophy, but unlike Plato he backed up his views with detailed and systematic observation, notably of the natural history of the island of Lesbos, where he spent about two years, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48691513 | 836,107 |
1,631,191 | The squadron moved to San Pancrazio Airfield, Italy in November 1943, where it became part of Fifteenth Air Force and would remain until April 1945. It primarily flew long range strategic bombardment missions to targets in Italy, France, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, and the Balkans to bomb factories, mars... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21059091 | 1,630,269 |
1,846,589 | The original TLM method as described above has the drawback, that the current does not just flow within the area given by formula_11 times formula_17. This means that the current density distribution also spreads to the vertical sides of the metallic pads in the figure in the TLM section, a phenomenon that is not consi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1744973 | 1,845,534 |
13,621 | Modern physics began in the early 20th century with the work of Max Planck in quantum theory and Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Both of these theories came about due to inaccuracies in classical mechanics in certain situations. Classical mechanics predicted that the speed of light depends on the motion of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22939 | 13,616 |
1,468,267 | Hypoglycemia, or low blood glucose, causes cardiovascular physiological effects as a result of the sympathoadrenal system. These physiological changes include an increased heart rate, increased heart contractility, and decreased peripheral arterial resistance. Together, the effects increase peripheral blood pressure, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35799849 | 1,467,443 |
353,521 | Plant physiology encompasses all the internal chemical and physical activities of plants associated with life. Chemicals obtained from the air, soil and water form the basis of all plant metabolism. The energy of sunlight, captured by oxygenic photosynthesis and released by cellular respiration, is the basis of almost ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4183 | 353,338 |
1,242,081 | Lebowitz was born in Taceva, then in Czechoslovakia, now Ukraine, in 1930 into a Jewish family. During World War II he was deported with his family to Auschwitz, where his father, his mother, and his younger sister were killed in 1944. After being liberated from the camp, he moved to United States by boat, and he studi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7331693 | 1,241,409 |
627,715 | Compressive strength tests are conducted by certified technicians using an instrumented, hydraulic ram which has been annually calibrated with instruments traceable to the Cement and Concrete Reference Laboratory (CCRL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in the U.S., or regional equivalents in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25234160 | 627,380 |
1,611,248 | A team must be cooperative for the success of early intervention. Members of the early intervention team can include education and medical professionals, therapists (speech, occupational, physical, psychological), specialists (vision, hearing/deafness, family dynamics, and kinesthetic), the audiologist, a social worker... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53966954 | 1,610,343 |
134,206 | Applications range from structural elements such as steel-reinforced concrete, to the thermal insulating tiles, which play a key and integral role in NASA's Space Shuttle thermal protection system, which is used to protect the surface of the shuttle from the heat of re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. One example is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19622 | 134,151 |
1,425,602 | Consider now, for concreteness, the full Hamiltonian formula_37 with an unperturbed part formula_3 made of independent blocks formula_39. In physics, and in the original motivation for the SW transformation, it is desired that each block corresponds to a distinct energy scale. In particular, all degenerate energy level... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37696533 | 1,424,800 |
1,966,879 | Metabolite Set Enrichment Analysis (MSEA) is a method designed to help metabolomics researchers identify and interpret patterns of metabolite concentration changes in a biologically meaningful way. It is conceptually similar to another widely used tool developed for transcriptomics called Gene Set Enrichment Analysis o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42438471 | 1,965,749 |
703,886 | In single-center series, primary CAD has been found to account for 13–15% of the cases of AIHA. In a population-based clinical study of primary CAD in Norway, the prevalence was found to be 16 per million in habitants and the incidence rate 1 per million inhabitants per year. Little is known about possible geographic v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4517757 | 703,518 |
191,993 | Another line of criticism posits that intelligence is only one component of a much broader ability to achieve goals: for example, author Magnus Vinding argues that “advanced goal-achieving abilities, including abilities to build new tools, require many tools, and our cognitive abilities are just a subset of these tools... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46583121 | 191,894 |
623,966 | Several other universities and research institutions are either present or being established in the vicinity, including AIIMS Bhubaneswar, NISER, IIIT, XIMB, one of the Indian government's proposed National Universities of international calibre, and the Institute of Physics. NISER's campus is 2 km away from the IIT. Ot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19941911 | 623,634 |
27,123 | The aircraft seats up to 39 passengers, but may be outfitted by the customers into any configuration. Tyrolean Jet Services Mfg. GmbH & CO KG, MJET and Reliance Industries are among its users. The A319CJ competes with other ultralarge-cabin corporate jets such as the Boeing 737-700-based Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) and E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=164933 | 27,113 |
1,124,262 | A phase I/II clinical trial enrolled 12 patients with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) to test the safety and effectiveness of administering ZFN-modified autologous helper T cells. Through targeted deletions, the custom ZFN disables the C-C chemokine receptor 5 ("CCR5") gene, which encodes a co-receptor that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56710049 | 1,123,688 |
2,071,411 | It was only in March 1972 that the East German rowing association took on organising the championships that were held from 10 to 13 August 1972 and that saw entries from 20 nations. The first sixteen nations that put their nominations forward were the Soviet Union, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Austria, Sweden, Poland, D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56193947 | 2,070,220 |
1,782,343 | "Drosera regia" is often described as being a difficult species to cultivate, though modern reports on its cultivation have indicated which conditions have led to success for some. For optimal growth, "D. regia" appears to require good soil drainage and sufficient light levels, and prefers cooler temperatures. Cool nig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2361104 | 1,781,339 |
1,538,727 | When formula_44 is some slow wave which can be both negative and positive, the system is capable of producing parabolic bursts. Consider the simple example formula_61, where formula_62 is relatively small. Then for formula_63, formula_44 is strictly positive and formula_7 makes multiple passes through the angle formula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34038330 | 1,537,854 |
1,911,587 | In April 2019 the college consolidated facilities for faculty, staff, and students, moving into leased space in uCity Square, a complex of buildings in University City. State of the art offices and classrooms dedicated to the College of Computing & Informatics occupied two floors of the building at 3675 Market Street. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6939126 | 1,910,488 |
228,090 | Here, the formula_24 is the wedge product and formula_25 is the square root of the determinant formula_26 of the metric tensor formula_27 on formula_22. For flat spacetime (e.g., Minkowski spacetime), the unit volume is one, i.e. formula_29 and so it is commonly omitted, when discussing field theory in flat spacetime. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40752010 | 227,973 |
800,227 | Indirect Fire Protection Capability Increment 2-Intercept (IFPC Inc 2-I) is a mobile ground based multi-role weapons system built around the Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System with an AN/MPQ-64 Sentinel acting as the prime sensor and truck mounted MML systems as shooters. The acronym IFPC is prono... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58984672 | 799,801 |
491,949 | Transclusion works better when transcluded sections of text are self-contained, so that the meaning and validity of the text is independent of context. For example, formulations like "as explained in the previous section" are problematic, because the transcluded section may appear in a different context, causing confus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13499 | 491,695 |
1,119,980 | An active repeater is a powered piece of equipment essentially comprising a receiving antenna, a receiver, a transmitter and a transmitting antenna. If the ends of the NLOS link are at positions A and C, the repeater is located at position B where links A-B and B-C are in fact LOS. The active repeater may simply amplif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2175469 | 1,119,407 |
1,306,681 | The "Asian Flu" was a category 2 flu pandemic outbreak of influenzavirus A that originated in Singapore in early 1957 lasting until 1958. The first cases were reported in Singapore in February 1957. In February 1957, a new influenza A (H2N2) virus emerged in East Asia, triggering a pandemic (“Asian Flu”). This H2N2 vir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2957254 | 1,305,965 |
402,528 | In 2013, the International Academy of Astronautics published a technological feasibility assessment which concluded that the critical capability improvement needed was the tether material, which was projected to achieve the necessary specific strength within 20 years. The four-year long study looked into many facets of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29192 | 402,329 |
1,618,224 | Lesions aren't the only way to discover the role of a structure in species-typical behavior; scientists also use stimulation. In a 1957 experiment, physiologist Walter Hess used an electrode to stimulate a certain part of a resting cat's brainstem; immediately after the stimulation, the cat stood up and arched its back... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17394950 | 1,617,311 |
901,188 | Nematocysts are very efficient weapons. A single nematocyst has been shown to suffice in paralyzing a small arthropod ("Drosophila" larva). The most deadly cnidocytes (to humans, at least) are found on the body of a box jellyfish. One member of this family, the sea wasp, "Chironex fleckeri", is "claimed to be the most ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51567 | 900,712 |
1,681,537 | One may plot fuel cost per year as a function of traffic flow (in net tonnes/year in one direction) for various assumptions (of ruling grades, locomotive model, single or double track, and fuel/power prices), resulting· in a large number of such plotted curves. For early 1970s energy prices of 1.3 kopecks/kwh and 70 ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36017606 | 1,680,594 |
750,276 | A two-week treatment of normal mice with soluble activin type IIB receptor, a molecule that is normally attached to cells and binds to myostatin, leads to a significantly increased muscle mass (up to 60%). It is thought that binding of myostatin to the soluble activin receptor prevents it from interacting with the cell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=748038 | 749,878 |
390,084 | When the bandlimit is too high (or there is no bandlimit), the reconstruction exhibits imperfections known as aliasing. Modern statements of the theorem are sometimes careful to explicitly state that formula_4 must contain no sinusoidal component at exactly frequency formula_5 or that formula_6 must be strictly less th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37864 | 389,889 |
1,420,229 | The alloy has the highest magnetostriction of any alloy, up to 0.002 m/m at saturation; it expands and contracts in a magnetic field. Terfenol-D has a large magnetostriction force, high energy density, low sound velocity, and a low Young's modulus. At its most pure form, it also has low ductility and a low fracture res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1545150 | 1,419,430 |
1,527,716 | Paleontology in Tennessee refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of Tennessee. During the early part of the Paleozoic era, Tennessee was covered by a warm, shallow sea. This sea was home to brachiopods, bryozoans, cephalopods, corals, and trilobites. Tennessee is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37798944 | 1,526,852 |
953,604 | Anders now applied to the USAF Aerospace Research Pilots School (ARPS) for test pilot training. But on 5 June 1963, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announced that it would be recruiting ten to fifteen new astronauts for Project Gemini and Project Apollo, and Anders decided to apply for that too... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82925 | 953,099 |
53,722 | The U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) counted 1,365,500 software developers holding jobs in the U.S. in 2018. Due to its relative newness as a field of study, formal education in software engineering is often taught as part of a computer science curriculum, and many software engineers hold computer science degrees... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27010 | 53,702 |
133,697 | The United States developed an anti-crop capability during the Cold War that used plant diseases (bioherbicides, or mycoherbicides) for destroying enemy agriculture. Biological weapons also target fisheries as well as water-based vegetation. It was believed that the destruction of enemy agriculture on a strategic scale... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4361 | 133,644 |
1,433,063 | Applying this technology to Drosophila genome, Arnold et al. found 96% of the non-repetitive genome with at least 10-fold coverage. Authors discovered that most identified enhancers (55.6%) were placed within introns, particularly in the first intron and intergenic regions. 4.5% of enhancers were located at transcripti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38678086 | 1,432,259 |
252,886 | Under the tenure systems adopted by many universities and colleges in the United States and Canada, some faculty positions have tenure and some do not. Typical systems (such as the widely adopted "1940 Statement of Principles on Academic Freedom and Tenure" of the American Association of University Professors) allow on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3153225 | 252,753 |
962,579 | In 1880, the Scottish surgeon William Macewen (1848–1924) reported on his use of orotracheal intubation as an alternative to tracheotomy to allow a patient with glottic edema to breathe, as well as in the setting of general anesthesia with chloroform. All previous observations of the glottis and larynx (including those... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28755089 | 962,070 |
2,176,701 | For obvious reasons, any problem with the backbone of a vertebrate is often considered a potential disability which can limit a person's ability to manoeuvre their way around their surroundings, cause a lot of pain and be responsible for mental distress. This has been researched upon by Lichun Lu and Xifeng Liu, scient... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49821898 | 2,175,457 |
1,510,860 | The above paragraph contains a common misunderstanding of the Thurstonian resolution of Gridgeman's paradox. Although it is true that different decision rules (cognitive strategies) are used in making a choice among three alternatives, the mere fact of knowing an attribute in advance does not explain the paradox, nor a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33802950 | 1,510,010 |
19,759 | Differential item functioning (DIF), sometimes referred to as measurement bias, is a phenomenon when participants from different groups (e.g. gender, race, disability) with the same latent abilities give different answers to specific questions on the same IQ test. DIF analysis measures such specific items on a test alo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14892 | 19,751 |
1,349,645 | Intensity modulation of SLEDs can be easily achieved through direct modulation of the bias current. SLED modules do not include terminating resistors inside because, operating at relatively high currents, excessive cooling would be required to compensate for the heat dissipation of the resistor. In order to achieve the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27022640 | 1,348,899 |
1,245,332 | "Indopithecus giganteus" was originally named as a species of the European ape "Dryopithecus", "D. giganteus", by Guy Ellcock Pilgrim in 1915, based on a large lower third molar, holotype GSI-D175. However, George Edward Lewis in 1937 decided that Pilgrim's taxon was not congeneric with "Dryopithecus" and instead refer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11511512 | 1,244,658 |
722,428 | In a pure xenon lamp, the majority of the light is generated within a tiny, pinpoint-sized cloud of plasma situated where the electron stream leaves the face of the cathode. The light generation volume is cone-shaped, and the luminous intensity falls off exponentially moving from cathode to anode. Electrons passing thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1798343 | 722,048 |
1,541,565 | Letrozole has a standard daily dose of 2,5 mg and the drug has around 99,9% oral bioavailability. That means that the drug is absorbed fast and entirely. Intake of food does not affect the extent of absorption, but it has a small reducing effect on the rate of absorption. It takes 2–6 weeks of treatment to reach 90-95%... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61933704 | 1,540,692 |
246,576 | Skinner's behaviorist idea was strongly attacked by Noam Chomsky in a review article in 1959, calling it "largely mythology" and a "serious delusion." Arguments against Skinner's idea of language acquisition through operant conditioning include the fact that children often ignore language corrections from adults. Inste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18614 | 246,449 |
387,105 | Deming made a significant contribution to Japan's reputation for innovative, high-quality products, and for its economic power. He is regarded as having had more impact on Japanese manufacturing and business than any other individual not of Japanese heritage. Despite being honored in Japan in 1951 with the establishmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70534 | 386,910 |
600,769 | Al-Zarrar's primary armament is a 125 mm smoothbore tank gun with an autofrettaged, chrome-plated gun barrel. It is a Chinese non-licensed clone of 2A46 capable of firing APFSDS, HEAT-FS and HE-FS rounds as well as anti-tank guided missiles and a Pakistani DU (depleted uranium) round, the 125 mm Naiza. Naiza is capable... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30863572 | 600,463 |
633,473 | Reduced oxygen levels are expected to lead to increased seawater concentrations of redox-sensitive metals. The reductive dissolution of iron–manganese oxyhydroxides in seafloor sediments under low-oxygen conditions would release those metals and associated trace metals. Sulfate reduction in such sediments could release... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1632974 | 633,135 |
457,036 | This term refers to the apparent preference of positively charged nitrogen substituents for the equatorial conformation beyond what normal steric interactions would predict in rings containing an electronegative atom, such as oxygen. Substituents containing carbons with partial positive charges are not seen to exhibit ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3901787 | 456,813 |
500,264 | One of the most significant designs of the seventies for the 35mm SLR camera industry was the introduction of the Olympus OM-1 in 1973. After experiencing success with their small Olympus Pen half-frame cameras, particularly with their half-frame SLR-based Olympus Pen-F, Pen-Ft and Pen-FV cameras, Olympus set out with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3193137 | 500,007 |
702,570 | In 2016 it was suggested that in Britain's open energy market the financial justification for pumped hydro-electric storage (PHES) was hard to quantify. Arbitrage allows PHES operators to charge high prices for energy supplied at short notice when demand is high but studies suggest that revenue from sales alone, even a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=439014 | 702,202 |
555,151 | Many measurements of degrees of longitudes along central parallels in Europe were projected and partly carried out as early as the first half of the 19th century; these, however, only became of importance after the introduction of the electric telegraph, through which calculations of astronomical longitudes obtained a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233663 | 554,862 |
913,902 | A more complicated way of making a forecast, the analog technique requires remembering a previous weather event which is expected to be mimicked by an upcoming event. What makes it a difficult technique to use is that there is rarely a perfect analog for an event in the future. Some call this type of forecasting patter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=142440 | 913,423 |
1,317,091 | The ERO's reports, articles, charts, and pedigrees were considered scientific facts in their day, but have since been discredited. In 1944 its records were transferred to the Charles Fremont Dight Institute for the Promotion of Human Genetics at the University of Minnesota. When the Dight Institute closed in 1991, the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1088625 | 1,316,366 |
1,381,008 | The first consideration pertains to issues of sample size, specifically with regard to the reference and focal groups. Prior to any analyses, information about the number of people in each group is typically known such as the number of males/females or members of ethnic/racial groups. However, the issue more closely re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9268401 | 1,380,245 |
1,025,681 | The earliest puzzle containing a complete set of pentominoes appeared in Henry Dudeney's book, The Canterbury Puzzles, published in 1907. The earliest tilings of rectangles with a complete set of pentominoes appeared in the Problemist Fairy Chess Supplement in 1935, and further tiling problems were explored in the PRCS... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23712 | 1,025,147 |
1,002,366 | During mine clearing operations in Operation Desert Shield, the M1 MCRS was found to be cumbersome, heavy and hard to transport. In addition, since they were originally designed for the firmer soil conditions of Europe, its rollers were unsuitable for the softer soil of the desert. Instead of rolling, they often merely... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=559429 | 1,001,848 |
366,375 | The first Whittle-engined aircraft, "DG205/G", flew on 12 June 1943 (later crashing during takeoff on 27 April 1944) and was followed by "DG202/G" on 24 July. "DG202/G" was later used for deck handling tests aboard aircraft carrier . "DG203/G" made its first flight on 9 November 1943, later becoming a ground instructio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42702 | 366,183 |
1,127,223 | In his 1896 APA paper, cited to be the first instance of his use and explanation of the term "Clinical Psychology," Witmer outlined four main goals for his new discipline. Firstly, it was to focus on the investigation of mental and intellectual disability using statistical and clinical methods. Secondly, clinical psych... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4419426 | 1,126,646 |
56,668 | In response to these findings, WADA announced that RUSADA should be regarded as non-compliant with respect to the World Anti-Doping Code, and recommended that Russia be banned from competing in the 2016 Summer Olympics. The IOC rejected the recommendation, stating that the IOC and each sport's international federation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=961522 | 56,644 |
1,086,636 | In the early 1990s, import regulations were relaxed and an influx of Japanese second hand vehicles occurred. These had a two-fold effect. Second hand car prices collapsed and the New Zealand public were faced with a huge range of Japan-only, low mileage motor vehicles, many of which were unheard of in neighbouring Aust... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34570831 | 1,086,078 |
25,321 | More money is arriving both for personnel and equipment; Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin stated in June 2008 that monetary allowances for servicemen in permanent-readiness units will be raised significantly. In May 2007, it was announced that enlisted pay would rise to 65,000 roubles (US$2,750) per month, and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1094752 | 25,312 |
1,234,779 | In 1957, Meselson and Franklin Stahl (as part of the phage group) showed that DNA replicates semi-conservatively. In order to test hypotheses for how DNA replicates, Meselson and Stahl, together with Jerome Vinograd, invented a method that separates macromolecules according to their buoyant density. The method, equilib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1631384 | 1,234,116 |
440,089 | The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, directed DOE to assess the feasibility of using intermediate ethanol blends in the existing vehicle fleet. The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) evaluated the potential impacts on legacy vehicles and other engines. In a preliminary report released in October 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5029525 | 439,875 |
1,819,947 | In 2010, around 130 000 binary interactions in the interactome were described in the most popular databases, but many were verified with only one source. With the rapid development of high throughput methods, datasets still suffer from high rates of false positives and low coverage of the interactome. Tyagi et al. desc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45663583 | 1,818,911 |
366,407 | Initial deliveries of the F.8 to the RAF were in August 1949, with the first squadron receiving its fighters in late 1950. Like the F.4, there were strong export sales of the F.8. Belgium ordered 240 aircraft, the majority assembled in The Netherlands by Fokker. The Netherlands had 160 F.8s, equipping seven squadrons u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42702 | 366,215 |
213,058 | Molecular models of meiotic recombination have evolved over the years as relevant evidence accumulated. A major incentive for developing a fundamental understanding of the mechanism of meiotic recombination is that such understanding is crucial for solving the problem of the adaptive function of sex, a major unresolved... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158005 | 212,950 |
154,555 | Primarily designed to house the Cooper Union's School of Engineering and School of Art, the new building's first eight above-ground floors are populated by classrooms, small engineering laboratories, study lounges, art studio space, and faculty offices. The ninth, top floor is dedicated completely to School of Art stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275339 | 154,485 |
90,849 | Within a decade after the invention of the Domain Name System (DNS), it became apparent that the old classful network scheme was not scalable. This led to the development of subnetting and CIDR. The formerly meaningful class distinctions based on the top 3 address bits were removed, and the new system was described as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38404 | 90,809 |
1,959,611 | O'Keefe was born in Lynn, Massachusetts, on October 13, 1916. He was the oldest of four children of Edward Scott O'Keefe and Ruth Evans. O'Keefe spent his last two years of high school at Exeter Academy. He then went to Harvard, following in the footsteps of his father and grandfathers on both sides as well as all four... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2476045 | 1,958,484 |
1,087,520 | The rhapsody, known as "fu" in Chinese, was a new literary genre. The poet and official Sima Xiangru (179–117 BCE) wrote several rhapsodies, yet his largest and most influential was the "Rhapsody on the Son of Heaven on a Leisurely Hunt" (Tianzi Youlie Fu 天子遊獵賦) written in debate form. Sima's rhapsodies incorporated li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21786810 | 1,086,961 |
199,318 | One way to effectively deal with the inherent multi-physics and the control systems development that is involved when including intelligent systems, is to adopt the V-Model approach to systems development, as has been widely used in the automotive industry for twenty years or more. In this V-approach, system-level requ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=351882 | 199,215 |
91,785 | Because it was never a goal for the ARPANET to support IMPs from vendors other than BBN, the IMP-to-IMP protocol and message format were not standardized. However, the IMPs did nonetheless communicate amongst themselves to perform link-state routing, to do reliable forwarding of messages, and to provide remote monitori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=253111 | 91,745 |
1,034,348 | Two further species that remain assigned to the genus to this day would be described from England during the 19th century; "P. ludensis" of Pridoli (Late Silurian) age and "P. arcuatus" of Ludlow (Late Silurian) age, along with a North American species, "P. cobbi", from the Pridoli of the United States and Canada. "P. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1581540 | 1,033,811 |
339,215 | From a strategic point of view, the Athenians had some disadvantages at Marathon. In order to face the Persians in battle, the Athenians had to summon all available hoplites; even then they were still probably outnumbered at least 2 to 1. Furthermore, raising such a large army had denuded Athens of defenders, and thus ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4806 | 339,035 |
2,051,874 | Her research includes identifying specific phage combinations that can be used to destroy "Clostridioides difficile" Infections (CDI) while maintaining a healthy gut. CDI causes almost two fifths of diarrhoea associated with antibiotics in the Western world, and one in ten of patients die due to a lack of effective tre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62364049 | 2,050,693 |
1,056,912 | AGRP has been demonstrated to be an inverse agonist of melanocortin receptors, specifically MC3-R and MC4-R. The melanocortin receptors, MC3-R and MC4-R, are directly linked to metabolism and body weight control. These receptors are activated by the peptide hormone α-MSH (melanocyte-stimulating hormone) and antagonized... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2177013 | 1,056,363 |
1,929,696 | The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the superfamily of ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters. ABC proteins transport various molecules across extra- and intra-cellular membranes. ABC genes are divided into seven distinct subfamilies (ABC1, MDR/TAP, MRP, ALD, OABP, GCN20, White). This protein is a member o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14602557 | 1,928,589 |
729,813 | Having presented the pieces of his theory in roughly the order of discovery, Fresnel needed to rearrange the material so as to emphasize the mechanical foundations; and he still needed a rigorous treatment of Biot's dihedral law. He attended to these matters in his "second memoir" on double refraction, published in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1141 | 729,429 |
1,012,274 | It is native to northern Africa, Europe, and Asia, but has spread throughout the world. The plant is relatively important in the diet of some species of birds such as European thrushes, which feed on its fruits, being immune to its poisons, and scatter the seeds abroad. It grows in all types of terrain with a preferenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=493389 | 1,011,753 |
935,459 | In the late 1980s and early 1990s, EVM emerged as a project management methodology to be understood and used by managers and executives, not just EVM specialists. In 1989, EVM leadership was elevated to the Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, thus making EVM an element of program management and procurement. In 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9728 | 934,965 |
221,887 | The Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO), an international organization headquartered in Vienna, Austria, was created to build the verification framework, including establishment and provisional operation of the network of monitoring stations, the creation of an internationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7851 | 221,778 |
391,180 | Shape memory polymer (SMP) actuators are the most similar to our muscles, providing a response to a range of stimuli such as light, electrical, magnetic, heat, pH, and moisture changes. They have some deficiencies including fatigue and high response time that have been improved through the introduction of smart materia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=293079 | 390,985 |
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