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1,420,794 | The River Continuum Concept is based on the idea that a watercourse is an open ecosystem that is in constant interaction with the bank, and moving from source to mouth, constantly changing. Basis for this change in the overall system is due to the gradual change of physical environmental conditions such as the width, d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20622433 | 1,419,994 |
2,230,366 | OST provides science support and services to California state agencies and entities by coordinating expert advice, providing scientific review, advice, and feedback, and acting as a liaison and bridging institution between experts, producers of science, and decision-makers. OST's key partner in its science-support func... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33530433 | 2,229,101 |
301,457 | In March 2020, the national rail network comprised of track over a route of and 7,325 stations. India's national rail network is the fourth-largest in the world (after those of the United States, Russia, and China). 36.83% of routes are double or multi-tracked. As of April 2022, or 80% of the broad-gauge routes have be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167609 | 301,296 |
1,637,790 | IPTp consists in the administration of a single curative dose of an efficacious anti-malarial drug at least twice during pregnancy – regardless whether or not the woman is infected. The drug is administered under supervision during antenatal care (ANC) visits. Sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine is the drug currently recommended... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23497821 | 1,636,865 |
782,739 | Moller did well enough during her first year, coming in near the top of her class, that her father agreed to allow her to continue her education. She commuted from home on the streetcar, and in the evenings helped her mother with the household and her siblings with their homework. She majored in English, also studying ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39481 | 782,320 |
1,411,925 | By 1970, the project was under a perceived economic threat from America's offer to fly satellites for foreign powers on a reimbursable basis. That agreement had been signed between ESRO and NASA on 30 December 1966 and by 1970 it was becoming clear that the advantage in having a national launch vehicle was insufficient... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82373 | 1,411,130 |
2,006,000 | In 2017, Lewis was appointed to the Margo L. Goldsmith Chair in Women’s Studies in Religion at Claremont Graduate University, where she directs the program in Women and Gender Studies in Religion. She served as department chair from 2018 to 2020. Her numerous, other, shorter published studies cover various topics, incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67504257 | 2,004,851 |
951,142 | As first postulated by Harvey Cushing, raised intracranial pressure is the primary cause of the Cushing reflex. Furthermore, continued moderate increases in cranial pressure allows for the Cushing reflex to occur. In contrast, rapid and dramatic pressure rises do not allow for the mechanism of the reflex to sufficientl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1149178 | 950,638 |
1,252,778 | The writer Simon Mawer, in his book "Gregor Mendel: planting the seeds of genetics" (2006), gives us an interesting and detailed account of Nägeli's correspondence with Mendel. Mawer underlines that, at the time Nägeli was writing to the friar from Moravia, Nägeli "must have been preparing his great work entitled "A me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275126 | 1,252,099 |
1,886,841 | Inspired by Nachtigall's bionics research, the joint idea initially arose of reproducing the surface structures that were typical in living natural systems and evolutionarily optimised for the respective "functionalities" in plants and animals within the framework of the interdisciplinary research topic of "Biologicall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66774578 | 1,885,759 |
419,995 | In 1901 Giorgi published a proposal for building a coherent set of units based on four base units – the metre, kilogram, second and one electrical unit (ampere, volt or ohm). In 1921 the convention was extended to permit the promotion of standards relating to any physical quantity which greatly increased the scope of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20666 | 419,790 |
1,308,600 | Caudovirales is an order of viruses known as the tailed bacteriophages ("cauda" is Latin for "tail"). Under the Baltimore classification scheme, the "Caudovirales" are group I viruses as they have double stranded DNA (dsDNA) genomes, which can be anywhere from 18,000 base pairs to 500,000 base pairs in length. The viru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2063117 | 1,307,884 |
1,750,463 | Based on crystallography data of homologous NADP-dependent malic enzymes of mammalian origin, a 3D model for C pathway NADP-ME in plants has been developed, identifying the key residues involved in substrate-binding or catalysis. Dinucleotide binding involves two glycine-rich GXGXXG motifs, a hydrophobic groove involvi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13901085 | 1,749,477 |
2,057,744 | Although some genera of plants hybridize and introgress more easily than others, in certain scenarios, external factors may contribute to an increased rate of hybridization. The phenomenon known as Hybridization of the Habitat echoes this idea, explaining that disturbances in a natural habitat can lead to species which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67353527 | 2,056,559 |
1,077,080 | The impact of the Indo-Greeks on Indian thought and religion is unknown, although many influences have been suggested. Initially Greek settlers followed a pantheon of gods and goddesses assimilating with other deities. For example, Eucratides I depicted coinage with Zeus/Indra riding Airavata. Buddhism was spread to Gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13786015 | 1,076,525 |
2,036,076 | In 1984, Becker began working at Lehigh University. He was head of the physics and engineering physics department, as well as associate director of the center for environmental systems at Stevens Institute of Technology. In 2001, he received the Thomas Alva Edison Patent Award from the Research and Development Council ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48105075 | 2,034,902 |
137,483 | The pill was approved by the FDA in the early 1960s; its use spread rapidly in the late part of that decade, generating an enormous social impact. "Time" magazine placed the pill on its cover in April, 1967. In the first place, it was more effective than most previous reversible methods of birth control, giving women u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22623 | 137,427 |
2,193,808 | The Argonne–Northwestern Solar Energy Research Center (ANSER Center) is a joint research program between the Argonne National Laboratory and Northwestern University. Michael R. Wasielewski, Professor of Chemistry at Northwestern founded the ANSER center in 2007 and is its current director. The center's goal is to devel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20951850 | 2,192,558 |
1,589,147 | Making his international chess tournament debut at Ostend in 1906, where he won the brilliancy prize for his game against Amos Burn, Znosko-Borovsky's playing career was frequently interrupted by other events in his life. Between 1909 and 1912 he was a prominent critic of the Modernist "Apollo" magazine, befriended man... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=885211 | 1,588,253 |
646,933 | The institute's newspaper was filled at the time with articles regarding tuberculosis, some of which were written by Albert Calmette, who extended his research to a socio-professional category which was extremely affected by it, that is the miners in whom this disease is often anticipated or accompanied by silicosis an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=866902 | 646,593 |
1,763,921 | The first published description of the species was written by botanist Lucien M. Underwood in 1899, based on a specimen found the previous year in the woods of Mount Desert, Maine. Although he called the new species a "Cantharellus", he noted that "the plant is a remarkable one and from its habit might well form a dist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23519967 | 1,762,928 |
1,595,985 | PowerHouse was introduced in 1982 and bundled together in a single product Quiz and Quick/QDesign, both of which had been previously available separately, with a new batch processor QTP. In 1983, Quasar changed its name to "Cognos Corporation" and began porting their application development tools to other platforms, no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4313670 | 1,595,086 |
166,674 | PrEP approaches with agents besides Truvada are being investigated. On December 20, 2021, the FDA approved cabotegravir (Apretude), which was the first injectable drug for PrEP that's taken every two months. There has been some evidence that other regimens, like ones based on the antiretroviral agent Maraviroc, could p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5295343 | 166,588 |
1,605,534 | Possible future directions for EMICs are likely to be in assessment of uncertainties and as a vanguard for incorporation of new earth systems. By virtue of speed they also lend themselves to the creation of ensembles with which to constrain parameters and assess earth systems. EMICs have also recently led in the field ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58797946 | 1,604,630 |
1,052,463 | Shepard predicted that the two tones would constitute a bistable figure, the auditory equivalent of the Necker cube, that could be heard ascending or descending, but never both at the same time. Diana Deutsch later found that perception of which tone was higher depended on the absolute frequencies involved: an individu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=296175 | 1,051,917 |
1,904,301 | The first documented regulations of the NMC were issued for the 5th NMC in 1991. (See image.) They were applied unaltered in 1992 and apparently with at most minor changes in the following years. According to these regulations students in a 'gymnasium' (10th–12th school year in the educational systems of the Nordic cou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7916467 | 1,903,207 |
620,034 | The first dry storage installation in the US was licensed by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) in 1986 at the Surry Nuclear Power Plant in Virginia. Spent fuel is currently stored in dry cask systems at a growing number of power plant sites, and at an interim facility located at the Idaho National Laboratory near... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=363445 | 619,719 |
184,312 | Amundsen made his Antarctic base, which he named "Framheim", in the Bay of Whales on the Great Ice Barrier. After months of preparation, depot-laying and a false start that ended in near-disaster, he and his party set out for the pole in October 1911. In the course of their journey they discovered the Axel Heiberg Glac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15021680 | 184,215 |
293,353 | The first charged lepton, the electron, was theorized in the mid-19th century by several scientists and was discovered in 1897 by J. J. Thomson. The next lepton to be observed was the muon, discovered by Carl D. Anderson in 1936, which was classified as a meson at the time. After investigation, it was realized that the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60828 | 293,195 |
278,282 | The two scientists used the rubidium chloride to estimate that the atomic weight of the new element was 85.36 (the currently accepted value is 85.47). They tried to generate elemental rubidium by electrolysis of molten rubidium chloride, but instead of a metal, they obtained a blue homogeneous substance, which "neither... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25599 | 278,132 |
1,601,685 | The Indian Centre for Space Physics (ICSP) is an Indian non-profit research organisation dedicated to carrying out advanced research in astronomy, astrophysics and space science. It is a sister institute of the University of Calcutta and the University of Gour Banga. It is located in the southern part of the city of Ko... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19369324 | 1,600,784 |
465,898 | The gene gun method is also referred to as "biolistics" (ballistics using biological components). This technique is used for in vivo (within a living organism) transformation and has been especially useful in monocot species like corn and rice. This approach literally shoots genes into plant cells and plant cell chloro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22346936 | 465,665 |
2,025,501 | His research is noted for developing the first quantitative assay for MBCK, which was the standard for diagnosing heart attacks in patients for more than three decades. Most of his research career was devoted to genetics and molecular biology of cardiovascular disorders which led him to several important discoveries, i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56386150 | 2,024,335 |
6,477 | The GNU Project was started by activist and programmer Richard Stallman with the goal of creating a complete free software replacement to the proprietary UNIX operating system. While the project was highly successful in duplicating the functionality of various parts of UNIX, development of the GNU Hurd kernel proved to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22194 | 6,474 |
1,010,323 | The greatest benefit of PET scanning is that different compounds can show blood flow and oxygen and glucose metabolism in the tissues of the working brain. These measurements reflect the amount of brain activity in the various regions of the brain and allow to learn more about how the brain works. PET scans were superi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3557219 | 1,009,802 |
510,240 | According to the VSEPR theory of molecular bonding, the preferred geometry of a molecule is that in which both bonding and non-bonding electrons are as far apart as possible. In molecules, it is quite common for these angles to be somewhat compressed or expanded compared to their optimal value. This strain is referred ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1680145 | 509,975 |
1,691,215 | Most of the early work in heterophily was done in the 1960s by Everett Rogers in his book "Diffusion Of Innovations". According to Rogers, "Heterophily, the mirror opposite of homophily, is defined as the degree to which pairs of individuals who interact are different in certain attributes". This is in contrast to homo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20860611 | 1,690,265 |
291,208 | Perceived as a spokesman for black "industrial" education, Washington developed a network of wealthy American philanthropists who donated to the school, such as Andrew Carnegie (funding a library building), Collis P. Huntington, John D. Rockefeller, Henry Huttleston Rogers, George Eastman, and Elizabeth Milbank Anderso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=293288 | 291,050 |
1,502,416 | The diagnosis of Wilson-Mikity syndrome can be made through two distinct symptoms: analogous characteristics of respiratory distress syndrome and presence of diffuse and streaky infiltrates with small cystic changes, seen through a chest X-ray. Early screening allows for the identification of a collapsed lung, cystic c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12054603 | 1,501,570 |
581,920 | Due to the high power density of radioisotopes and the need for reliability above all else in many applications of betavoltaics, comparatively low efficiencies are acceptable. Current technology allows for single digit percentages of energy conversion efficiency from beta particle input to electricity output, but resea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1903649 | 581,622 |
1,083,563 | Multiple semiconductor dies and discrete components can be assembled on a ceramic substrate and interconnected with wire bonds. The substrate bears leads for connection to an external circuit, and the whole is covered with a welded or frit cover. Such devices are used when requirements exceed the performance (heat diss... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23889797 | 1,083,006 |
7,682 | In February 2010, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) for Afghanistan indicated in a press release that two rockets fired from a HIMARS were believed to have fallen 300 metres short of their intended target, killing 12 civilians during Operation Moshtarak. ISAF suspended the use of the HIMARS until a ful... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=147011 | 7,679 |
1,371,846 | This manufacturing process also worked with newly manufactured nitrocellulose. Manufacturing time was reduced from approximately two weeks for extruded propellants to 40 hours for ball propellants. Rate of burning is controlled by deterrent coatings eliminating precision forming and cutting machines required for surfac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39814811 | 1,371,089 |
546,227 | Prior to World War II the Australian Army Nursing Service (AANS) was the only female branch of the Army. A reserve formation that had served overseas during World War I, the AANS was mobilised following the outbreak of war in 1939 and its Matron in Chief, Grace Wilson, served on the staff of the Director-General of Med... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22738876 | 545,941 |
1,162,254 | Because of a singular devotion to victory through strategic bombing, the USAAF placed extraordinary emphasis on reconnaissance. As an example, the need to destroy German petroleum, oil and lubricants facilities required careful monitoring to decide not only what to hit, but when and how much – and then when to hit them... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38534810 | 1,161,637 |
1,047,819 | Even after the main "firsts" had been achieved—first solo circumnavigation, first non-stop—other sailors set out to make their mark on history. In 1965, at the age of just 16, Robin Lee Graham set out from southern California to sail around the world in his sailboat "Dove", and in 1970 he successfully completed the you... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3607388 | 1,047,274 |
1,332,746 | In the situation of complex geology, e.g. faulting, folding, fracturing, salt bodies, and unconformities, pre-stack migration (PreSM) is used due to better resolution under such complex geology. In PreSM, all traces are migrated before being moved to zero-offset. As a result, much more information is used, which result... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3838003 | 1,332,017 |
1,076,921 | Brominated haloalkanes were first used during World War II in fire extinguishers for aircraft and tanks. BCF was introduced as an effective gaseous fire suppression agent in the mid-1960s for use around highly valuable materials in places such as museums, mainframe rooms, and telecommunication switching centers. BCFs w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288456 | 1,076,366 |
711,031 | Operation in a single-engine aircraft is as follows: Oil is pumped through the propeller shaft to push on a piston that drives the mechanism to change pitch. The flow of oil and the pitch are controlled by a governor, consisting of a speeder spring, flyweights, and a pilot valve. The tension of the spring is set by the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3755199 | 710,660 |
778,951 | Ethylene glycol involved in aircraft de-icing and anti-icing operations is released onto land and eventually to waterways. A report prepared for the World Health Organization in 2000 stated that laboratory tests exposing aquatic organisms to stream water receiving runoff from airports have shown toxic effects and death... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18936112 | 778,534 |
689,436 | Regression beta coefficient estimates from the Liang Zeger GEE are consistent, unbiased, asymptotically normal even when the working correlation is misspecified, under mild regularity conditions. GEE is higher in efficiency than generalized linear iterative model GLIM (software) in the presence of high autocorrelation.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16794199 | 689,074 |
2,210,117 | Despite the full-time work in the shipyards, as a teenager Bell would spend his spare time studying in the Belfast Museum. It was during this time that he developed an interest in geology, and began to collect specimens of minerals and fossils at the weekends. Bell discovered the skull of the fossil "Ichthyosaurus comm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47009213 | 2,208,857 |
1,288,946 | If neural pathways can be stimulated with entertainment there is a higher chance that it will be more easily accessible. This illustrates why music is so powerful and can be used in such a myriad of different therapies. Music that is enjoyable to a person illicit an interesting response that we are all aware of. Listen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25136770 | 1,288,237 |
1,538,179 | PLASMA's use of lexical scope was similar to the lambda calculus. Sussman and Steele decided to try to model Actors in the lambda calculus. They called their modeling system Schemer, eventually changing it to Scheme to fit the six-character limit on the ITS file system on their DEC PDP-10. They soon concluded Actors we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24701763 | 1,537,306 |
2,094,341 | Three Ocean Optics HR2000 spectrometers were customized as part of the ChemCam unit of the NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover, "Curiosity", which was launched November 26, 2011. The spectrometers were configured to measure different wavelengths of light, in the ranges of 240-336 nm, 380-470 nm, and 470-850 nm. The Lase... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59603638 | 2,093,133 |
358,863 | Dwarfing is an important agronomic quality for wheat; dwarf plants produce thick stems. The cultivars Borlaug worked with had tall, thin stalks. Taller wheat grasses better compete for sunlight, but tend to collapse under the weight of the extra grain—a trait called lodging—from the rapid growth spurts induced by nitro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275564 | 358,677 |
154,107 | Fixed artillery refers to guns or howitzers on mounts that were either anchored in one spot (though capable of being moved for purposes of traverse and elevation), or on carriages intended to be moved only for the purposes of aiming, and not for tactical repositioning. Historical versions often closely resembled naval ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=351615 | 154,037 |
1,204,689 | The concepts of plant perception, communication, and intelligence have parallels in other biological organisms for which such phenomena appear foreign to or incompatible with traditional understandings of biology, or have otherwise proven difficult to study or interpret. Similar mechanisms exist in bacterial cells, cho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8651984 | 1,204,044 |
750,559 | During the War of the Pacific in 1879, the Peruvian government commissioned and built a submarine, the "Toro Submarino" design by the Peruvian engineer and built in Paita, Peru. It is considered the first operational submarine or submersible in Latin America. With 48 feet long (15 meters) and manually operate by a crew... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4551386 | 750,161 |
1,777,824 | Insulitis is an inflammation of the islets of Langerhans, a collection of endocrine tissue located in the pancreas that helps regulate glucose levels, and is classified by specific targeting of immune cell (T and B lymphocytes, macrophages and dendritic cells) infiltration in the islets of Langerhans. This immune cell ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16821436 | 1,776,822 |
1,763,305 | In Lake Tahoe, the DCM is unique, as the depth of the region is much lower than normal, present at around 90-110 metres below the surface. Typically, DCM's are found closely below the thermocline, which is present at around 30-40 metres. Lake Tahoe represents a chlorophyll gradient similar to that of oligotrophic areas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18166513 | 1,762,312 |
2,073,749 | PCC had traditionally operated in the mid-range segment, providing boards to New England-based minicomputer companies. Sarmanian bought state-of-the-art equipment to keep pace with the industry, but he always did it as a follower. At the beginning of the 1980s, Sarmanian saw that volumes in the low-end were beginning t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21287147 | 2,072,557 |
492,646 | In addition, all applicants had to be able to pass a class I flight physical examination, which required 20–20 uncorrected vision. The height requirement was firm, an artifact of the size of the Apollo spacecraft. The criteria were much the same as those for NASA Astronaut Group 3 in 1963, except that the age requireme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3144431 | 492,391 |
151,516 | These earlier Greek ideas of numbers were later upended by the discovery of the irrationality of the square root of two. Hippasus, a disciple of Pythagoras, showed that the diagonal of a unit square was incommensurable with its (unit-length) edge: in other words he proved there was no existing (rational) number that ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46439 | 151,448 |
715,277 | Prussia was able to leverage the Protestant Church as a partner and ally in the setup of its educational system. Prussian ministers, particularly Karl Abraham Freiherr von Zedlitz, sought to introduce a more centralized, uniform system administered by the state during the 18th century. The implementation of the Prussia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4206694 | 714,903 |
1,163,866 | APSD is a more efficient power management method than legacy 802.11 Power Save Polling, leading to lower power consumption, as it reduces both the signaling traffic that would otherwise be needed for delivery of buffered frames to power-saving devices by an AP and the collision rate among power-save polls, typically tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244315 | 1,163,249 |
1,523,162 | Martin majored in English and American Language and Literature at Harvard University, earning her B.A. cum laude in 1979. She spent two years volunteering with the Peace Corps in Zaire before resuming her post-graduate education. Martin returned to the United States and obtained her MD/PhD degree from Yale University i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50335597 | 1,522,301 |
47,040 | All modern reactors are designed so that an uncontrolled increase of the reactor power is prevented by natural feedback mechanisms, a concept known as negative void coefficient of reactivity. If the temperature or the amount of steam in the reactor increases, the fission rate inherently decreases. The chain reaction ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22153 | 47,022 |
461,200 | The momentum equation for open-channel flow may be found by starting from the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations :formula_20where formula_21 is the pressure, formula_22 is the kinematic viscosity, formula_23 is the Laplace operator, and formula_24 is the gravitational potential. By invoking the high Reynolds number... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2235244 | 460,974 |
37,739 | Every planet began its existence in an entirely fluid state; in early formation, the denser, heavier materials sank to the centre, leaving the lighter materials near the surface. Each therefore has a differentiated interior consisting of a dense planetary core surrounded by a mantle that either is or was a fluid. The t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22915 | 37,726 |
1,575,629 | Myrinet physically consists of two fibre optic cables, upstream and downstream, connected to the host computers with a single connector. Machines are connected via low-overhead routers and switches, as opposed to connecting one machine directly to another. Myrinet includes a number of fault-tolerance features, mostly b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20016 | 1,574,740 |
1,856,920 | The main light-sensing mechanism for plants is the phytochrome system with pigments located throughout the plant to detect changes in red and far-red light. The phytochromes' detection of light quality is what helps trigger changes in biomass partitioning. Plants grown in low light conditions have been shown to allocat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39892795 | 1,855,852 |
1,475,993 | Skiing as a sport for people with disabilities traces its origins back to the Second World War, which produced large numbers of wounded soldiers. In Germany, Franz Wendel, an amputee who had lost a leg, successfully attached a pair of crutches to short skis. Sepp "Peppi" Zwicknagel, an Austrian veteran who had lost bot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4368276 | 1,475,161 |
1,825,781 | The chemical libraries in larger pharmaceutical companies are a critical part of the discovery process. These chemicals are stored in environmentally controlled conditions in small or large containers, often labeled with codes that pass back into a database. Each chemical in the storage bank must be monitored for shelf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9387033 | 1,824,743 |
219,181 | Individuals who present with pusher syndrome or lateropulsion, as defined by Davies, vary in their degree and severity of this condition and therefore appropriate measures need to be implemented in order to evaluate the level of "pushing". There has been a shift towards early diagnosis and evaluation of functional stat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13528 | 219,072 |
1,313,944 | The ease with which properties can be controlled and fine-tuned by the linkage of different side groups to polyphosphazene chains has prompted major efforts to address biomedical materials challenges using these polymers. Different polymers have been studied as macromolecular drug carriers, as membranes for the control... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5967919 | 1,313,224 |
2,013,941 | Avery returned to Johns Hopkins for her internship and residency, and then moved to Boston in 1957 for a research fellowship in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. At Harvard, Dr. Avery made a major discovery while comparing the lungs of infants who had died of RDS to those of healthy animals. "It's all because they ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8596148 | 2,012,782 |
463,600 | Amaker led the 2010-11 team to a share of the 2010–11 Ivy League men's basketball season championship, which was school's first men's basketball Ivy League Championship since the league was formed during the 1956–57 season. Harvard finished the season a perfect 14–0 at home, which surpassed the prior season's school re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27887974 | 463,370 |
598,582 | In the so-called Efficient Neural Architecture Search (ENAS), a controller discovers architectures by learning to search for an optimal subgraph within a large graph. The controller is trained with policy gradient to select a subgraph that maximizes the validation set's expected reward. The model corresponding to the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56643213 | 598,277 |
452,943 | Ichthyovenator is a genus of spinosaurid dinosaur that lived in what is now Laos, sometime between 125 and 113 million years ago, during the Aptian stage of the Early Cretaceous period. It is known from fossils collected from the Grès supérieurs Formation of the Savannakhet Basin, the first of which were found in 2010,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35587737 | 452,724 |
50,989 | In 1928, building on Wolfgang Pauli's work, Paul Dirac produced a model of the electron – the Dirac equation, consistent with relativity theory, by applying relativistic and symmetry considerations to the hamiltonian formulation of the quantum mechanics of the electro-magnetic field. In order to resolve some problems w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9476 | 50,969 |
518,252 | Oxford University historian and theologian John Hedley Brooke wrote that "when natural philosophers referred to "laws" of nature, they were not glibly choosing that metaphor. Laws were the result of legislation by an intelligent deity. Thus the philosopher René Descartes (1596–1650) insisted that he was discovering the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42657576 | 517,983 |
427,277 | The Keynesian consumption function was based on two major hypotheses. Firstly, the marginal propensity to consume lies between 0 and 1. Secondly, the average propensity to consume falls as income rises. Early empirical studies were consistent with these hypotheses. However, after World War II it was observed that savin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=221299 | 427,067 |
180,126 | In the late 1990s, a push to provide an alternative to the standard serialization protocols started: XML, an SGML subset, was used to produce a human-readable text-based encoding. Such an encoding can be useful for persistent objects that may be read and understood by humans, or communicated to other systems regardless... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28555 | 180,032 |
264,262 | Despite this head start in the field, development of the F-111 was protracted; flight testing of the F-111A model only ended in 1973. During 1968, cracks were discovered in the F-111's wing attach points, the issue also has been attributed with the loss of an F-111 in the following year. Accordingly, the attach points ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=349470 | 264,119 |
393,867 | The potential of modern financial economics theory to complement existing actuarial science was recognized by actuaries in the mid-twentieth century. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, there was a distinct effort for actuaries to combine financial theory and stochastic methods into their established models. Ideas from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=189373 | 393,672 |
1,203,193 | The RPI Engineers men's ice hockey typically plays between 35 and 42 regular season games per season in the ECAC Hockey Conference. They also usually play one exhibition game against a Canadian college hockey team from Ontario, Nova Scotia, or Quebec. During the season, RPI will play 22 conference games against the oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28745424 | 1,202,549 |
825,792 | Chemokine receptors are G protein-coupled receptors containing 7 transmembrane domains that are found on the surface of leukocytes. Approximately 19 different chemokine receptors have been characterized to date, which are divided into four families depending on the type of chemokine they bind; CXCR that bind CXC chemok... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1031816 | 825,349 |
581,544 | This species uses stick tools in the wild by finding small twigs and probing them into holes in logs to extract insects and larvae. New Caledonian crows are also able to manufacture tools by breaking twigs off bushes and trimming them to produce functional stick tools. Tool manufacture is rare in comparison to simple t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=214765 | 581,246 |
1,657,797 | Cyanobacteria are a large group of photosynthetic bacterioplankton, often growing as cells or in filamentous colonies. These organisms are the dominant group of bacterioplankton using oxygenic photosynthesis in aquatic ecosystems. Cyanobacteria, along with photosynthetic eukaryotes, are responsible for approximately ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21392927 | 1,656,864 |
1,238,202 | A Hofmann voltameter is an apparatus for electrolysing water, invented by August Wilhelm von Hofmann (1818–1892) in 1866. It consists of three joined upright cylinders, usually glass. The inner cylinder is open at the top to allow addition of water which contains a low concentration of a compound such as sulfuric acid ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3006512 | 1,237,536 |
1,300,516 | Exercise is also an important therapeutic treatment for patients who have cardiovascular diseases. A systematic review of 63 studies found that exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation improved cardiovascular function. These studies consisted of various forms of aerobic exercise at a range of intensities (from 50 to 95% V... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63967146 | 1,299,802 |
1,891,188 | Pilsbry soon proved capable of prodigious efforts, and his scientific output was remarkable. During the next five years he produced hundreds of detailed pages of the "Manual of Conchology", preparing many of the plates himself, and founded "The Nautilus", an influential journal of malacology which has survived into the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8137996 | 1,890,105 |
2,158,697 | The homestead of William McIlroy, a local farmer and merchant, had been selected as a location for the university and purchased at cost of $12,000 by the Fayetteville lobbying committee prior to the final decision of the board. At the time, the grounds consisted of a total of , just over a third of it cultivated, a six... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23302106 | 2,157,465 |
326,900 | The A330 MRTT cabin can be modified to carry up to 380 passengers in a single-class configuration, allowing a complete range of configurations from maximised troop transport to complex customisation suitable for VIP and guest missions. Available configurations include 300 passengers in a single class and 266 passengers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=616482 | 326,726 |
345,387 | A general opinion quickly formed that the GM's 128-instrument sound set was not large enough. Roland's General Standard, or GS, system included additional sounds, drumkits and effects, provided a "bank select" command that could be used to access them, and used MIDI Non-Registered Parameter Numbers (NRPNs) to access it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19996 | 345,206 |
828,417 | Random microsatellite primers can be developed by cloning random segments of DNA from the focal species. These random segments are inserted into a plasmid or bacteriophage vector, which is in turn implanted into "Escherichia coli" bacteria. Colonies are then developed, and screened with fluorescently–labelled oligonucl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44259 | 827,971 |
1,818,036 | In September 1966 a study was conducted concerning the effects of cognition on humor comprehension during the learning years of a child. The experimenters concluded that there was a positive relation between the mirth response and the degree of comprehension. Mirth is defined as any expression that reflects amusement, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41122131 | 1,817,001 |
1,060,538 | HATs can be grouped into several different families based on sequence homology as well as shared structural features and functional roles. The Gcn5-related "N"-acetyltransferase (GNAT) family includes Gcn5, PCAF, Hat1, Elp3, Hpa2, Hpa3, ATF-2, and Nut1. These HATs are generally characterized by the presence of a bromod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=553612 | 1,059,987 |
1,183,391 | Marine cloud brightening activities would be furthered governed by the international law of sea, and particularly by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS). Parties to the UNCLOS are obligated to "protect and preserve the marine environment," including by preventing, reducing, and controlling poll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20939923 | 1,182,765 |
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