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374,866 | The potential across the cell membrane that exactly opposes net diffusion of a particular ion through the membrane is called the Nernst potential for that ion. As seen above, the magnitude of the Nernst potential is determined by the ratio of the concentrations of that specific ion on the two sides of the membrane. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75873 | 374,671 |
1,470,626 | Although many specimens are known, some elements of "Lesothosaurus’" postcranial anatomy are poorly known, especially in the axial skeleton which is incomplete in all specimens. The cervical (neck) vertebrae were only 9 in number, but no full cervical series are known. The cervical series of the syntype NHMUK PV R11004... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=610601 | 1,469,800 |
901,043 | Boll was born in Erbach im Odenwald, Hessen. Boll started playing at age 4, and was coached at the time by his father. In 1987, he became a member of TSV Höchst. At age 8, he was discovered by Helmut Hampel, a Hessian trainer who promoted him. In 1990, he started to train at the training centre Pfungstadt and four year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2944618 | 900,567 |
1,406,218 | During aging of the stabilized δ alloy, gallium segregates from the lattice, forming regions of PuGa (ζ'-phase) within α phase, with the corresponding dimensional and density change and buildup of internal strains. The decay of plutonium however produces energetic particles (alpha particles and uranium-235 nuclei) that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25923914 | 1,405,428 |
739,928 | Brasnjevic et al. summarized the evidence showing that single-strand breaks accumulate with age in the brain (though accumulation differed in different regions of the brain) and that single-strand breaks are the most frequent steady-state DNA damages in the brain. As discussed above, these accumulated single-strand bre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37626088 | 739,536 |
740,033 | "Coprinellus micaceus" has a cosmopolitan distribution, and has been collected in northern Africa, South Africa, Europe (including Turkey), North America (as far north as Alaska), the Hawaiian islands, South America, India, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. Phylogenetic analysis of rDNA sequences from specimens collec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22449893 | 739,641 |
557,274 | In September 1951, Oliphant applied for a visa to travel to the United States for a nuclear physics conference in Chicago. The visa was not refused, nor was Oliphant accused of subversive activities, but neither was it issued. This was the height of the Red Scare. The American McCarran Act restricted travel to the Unit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315710 | 556,985 |
1,778,328 | During the early Late Woodland period (350–750 CE), maize agriculture is rare. A 2010 analysis of a local stalagmite revealed that Native Americans were burning forests to clear land as early as 100 BCE. Maize agriculture became more commonplace during the Middle Woodland 400 BCE–400 CE, which also saw a flowering of E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17254851 | 1,777,326 |
745,361 | The earliest known rudimentary steam engine and reaction steam turbine, the aeolipile, is described by a mathematician and engineer named Heron of Alexandria in 1st century Roman Egypt, as recorded in his manuscript "Spiritalia seu Pneumatica". The same device was also mentioned by Vitruvius in "De Architectura" about ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17423952 | 744,967 |
597 | Curry scores a lot from underneath the rim all the way to near half-court. Using an unorthodox jump shot, he releases the ball from his hands in under half a second by releasing it on the way up, adding extra arc to his shot and making it difficult to block. The shooting proficiency earned him the nickname "Baby-Faced ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5608488 | 597 |
1,204,269 | Beginning in 2006, several researchers, including Kellner and Campos (who named "Tupandactylus"), had found that the three species traditionally assigned to the genus "Tapejara" ("T. wellnhofferi", "T. imperator", and "T. navigans") are in fact distinct both in anatomy and in their relationships to other tapejarid pter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14478805 | 1,203,624 |
589,767 | The high-end optical systems mounted on the heads can also be used to capture details of the non-standard type components and save them to a database for future use. In addition to this, advanced software is available for monitoring the production and interconnect database — of the production floor to that of supply ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2383713 | 589,465 |
736,032 | The fifth launch, "Shenzhou 5", was the first to carry a human (Yang Liwei) and occurred at 01:00:00 UTC on 15 October 2003. At 587 seconds after taking-off, the spaceship separated from the rocket and entered an elliptical orbit with inclination of 42.4°, the perigee height of 199.14 km and the apogee height of 347.8 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14014329 | 735,645 |
544,552 | Little is known of the behavior and biology of sparassodonts outside of general locomotor and dietary habits. Argot (2004) proposed that "Thylacosmilus atrox" may have exhibited protracted parental care after weaning of the offspring, given that saber teeth in general have been suggested to require long juvenile period... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2552745 | 544,270 |
738,633 | To get around all of these issues, the second approach suggested is the use of space-based telescopes which can observe a much larger region of the sky around Earth. Although they still cannot point directly towards the Sun, they do not have the problem of blue sky to overcome and so can detect asteroids much closer in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58017976 | 738,242 |
448,153 | While health effects from extremely low frequency (ELF) electric and magnetic fields (0 to 300 Hz) generated by power lines, and radio/microwave frequencies (RF) (10 MHz - 300 GHz) emitted by radio antennas and wireless networks have been well studied, the intermediate range (IR) (300 Hz to 10 MHz) has been studied far... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3108062 | 447,936 |
1,935,827 | After the squadron was relieved from assignment in Alaska and returned to the Continental United States it deployed to the Mediterranean Theater of Operations across the South Atlantic Transport Route to North Africa in early 1944. It performed aerial surveys and mapping over Sicily; Italy and along the North African C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13376497 | 1,934,719 |
103,359 | The campus radio station, KUOM "Radio K", broadcasts an eclectic variety of independent music during the day on 770 kHz AM. Its 5,000-watt signal has a range of , but shuts down at dusk because of Federal Communications Commission regulations. In 2003, the station added a low-power (8-watt) signal on 106.5 MHz FM overn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=416813 | 103,314 |
52,892 | In 2009, experts attended a conference hosted by the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) to discuss whether computers and robots might be able to acquire any autonomy, and how much these abilities might pose a threat or hazard. They noted that some robots have acquired various forms of sem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25781 | 52,872 |
801,664 | The PAPI is a light array positioned beside the runway. It normally consists of four equi-spaced light units color-coded to provide a visual indication of an aircraft's position relative to the designated glideslope for the runway. An abbreviated system (APAPI) consisting of two light units can be used for some categor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1075203 | 801,236 |
745,373 | In 1663, Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester published a book of 100 inventions which described a method for raising water between floors employing a similar principle to that of a coffee percolator. His system was the first to separate the boiler (a heated cannon barrel) from the pumping action. Water was admit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17423952 | 744,979 |
1,209,096 | Kantorowicz was born in Posen (then part of Prussia) to a wealthy, assimilated German-Jewish family, and as a young man was groomed to take over his family's prosperous liquor distillery business. He served as an officer in the German Army for four years in World War I. After the war, he matriculated at the University ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2368634 | 1,208,449 |
1,265,931 | On September 24, 1929, then-Lieutenant (later General) James H. "Jimmy" Doolittle, U.S. Army, demonstrated the first "blind" flight, performed exclusively by reference to instruments and without outside visibility, and proved that instrument flying was feasible. Doolittle used newly developed gyroscopic instruments—att... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23697364 | 1,265,243 |
976,135 | The VLA is a multi-purpose instrument designed to allow investigations of many astronomical objects, including radio galaxies, quasars, pulsars, supernova remnants, gamma-ray bursts, radio-emitting stars, the sun and planets, astrophysical masers, black holes, and the hydrogen gas that constitutes a large portion of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=227969 | 975,624 |
816,148 | Stations were arranged so their fan-shaped broadcast patterns slightly overlapped to cover gaps between the stations. However, it was found that the timers sending the broadcasts could drift and the broadcasts from one station would begin to be seen at others, a problem known as "running rabbits". To avoid this, power ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=382754 | 815,712 |
418,346 | Among protists and prokaryotes, a plethora of supposedly asexual organisms exists. More and more are being shown to exchange genetic information through a variety of mechanisms. In contrast, the genomes of mitochondria and chloroplasts do not recombine and would undergo Muller's ratchet were they not as small as they a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=356200 | 418,141 |
699,933 | If the match is not ended by a fall, technical fall, default, or disqualification, the referee then prepares both wrestlers to begin the second period. After the first period ends, one wrestler will have the choice of starting position in the second period. In dual meets, this is determined by the colored disk toss tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1893219 | 699,569 |
1,393,361 | Unicellular protists comprise a vast, diverse group of organisms that covers virtually all environments and habitats, displaying a menagerie of shapes and forms. Hundreds of species of the ciliate genus "Paramecium" or flagellated "Euglena" are found in marine, brackish, and freshwater reservoirs; the green algae "Chla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67845153 | 1,392,590 |
555,926 | MacDonald et al. (1993 and 1996) have analyzed remote-sensing images from space that reveal the presence of oil slicks across the north-central Gulf of Mexico. Results confirmed extensive natural oil seepage in the Gulf of Mexico, especially in water depths greater than 1,000 m (3,281 ft). A total of 58 additional pote... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=400223 | 555,637 |
745,052 | The 25-pounder first entered service with Greek forces in North Africa during WWII. Three (numbered I, II and III) field artillery regiments of 24 pieces each were raised as part of the Greek infantry brigades raised by the Greek government in exile. Their only significant actions were at El Alamein in 1942 and Rimini ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1066409 | 744,658 |
92,639 | Genetic susceptibility is suggested by increased incidence among children of Japanese descent around the world, and also among close and extended family members of affected people. Genetic factors are also thought to influence development of coronary artery aneurysms and response to treatment. The exact genetic contrib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1038491 | 92,598 |
2,061,480 | For Joseph's life in Trefeca before he moved to London, aged 21, the authority, apart from the church records and some reminiscences in his letters home from London, is the sometimes unreliable work of Theophilus Jones's "History", which found little to say of him, as the quotation above shows. But we are told that he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30866164 | 2,060,293 |
2,015,495 | Histone acetylation, deacetylation, as well as the inhibition of histone deacetylation mechanisms also play large roles in the proliferation and self-renewal of post-natal neural stem cells. DNA, which encodes genes within the genome, including those involved in adult neurogenesis, is packaged into chromatin. Chromatin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41111089 | 2,014,335 |
158,413 | In the 20th century, local grids grew over time and were eventually interconnected for economic and reliability reasons. By the 1960s, the electric grids of developed countries had become very large, mature, and highly interconnected, with thousands of 'central' generation power stations delivering power to major load ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13201685 | 158,332 |
411,341 | The first well-known public presentation of markup languages in computer text processing was made by William W. Tunnicliffe at a conference in 1967, although he preferred to call it "generic coding." It can be seen as a response to the emergence of programs such as RUNOFF that each used their own control notations, oft... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18910 | 411,139 |
383,652 | The campus was formerly the summer home of Morton Freeman Plant, a 19th-century railroad, steamship, and hotel magnate. Branford House was his mansion overlooking Long Island Sound, reportedly worth $3 million when it was completed in 1904. Also located on the property was a caretaker's house (the current police statio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=239846 | 383,457 |
1,411,836 | Landscape Archaeology has been useful in the analysis of cultural identities that developed among social and racial groups. It has been argued that the existence and continued use of yard spaces among Black Americans (along with other African-derived practices observed in the Americas) is proof of a distinct, new world... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=670499 | 1,411,041 |
1,923,093 | At least two deaths have been attributed to this earthquake: an 88-year-old woman crushed under a collapsing wall at Tocopilla, and a 54-year-old woman whose exact cause of death remains unknown. There were also reports of widespread power outages in the region, including the cities of Antofagasta, Calama and Arica. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14245944 | 1,921,990 |
1,763,780 | India launched its first Lunar probe, Chandraayan-1, on 22 October, with the spacecraft entering selenocentric orbit on 8 November. On 16 November, the Moon Impact Probe was released, and crashed into the Lunar surface. Although no other spacecraft were launched beyond geocentric orbit in 2008, several significant even... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9384401 | 1,762,787 |
394,365 | However, these assumptions are inappropriate for some types of response variables. For example, in cases where the response variable is expected to be always positive and varying over a wide range, constant input changes lead to geometrically (i.e. exponentially) varying, rather than constantly varying, output changes.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=747122 | 394,170 |
1,415,316 | On 4 October 1972 representatives of the Soviet Union, United States, and ten other countries from the Eastern and Western blocs met at The Royal Society in London to sign the charter establishing IIASA. It was the culmination of six years’ effort driven forward by both the US President Lyndon Johnson and the USSR Prem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1826969 | 1,414,519 |
64,923 | As the case progressed, on November 19, 2013, the plaintiffs moved for a preliminary injunction enjoining the state from applying its marriage recognition ban against them. On March 10, 2014, plaintiff couple Kellie Miller and Vanessa DeVillez withdrew from the case. On March 14, Judge Aleta Arthur Trauger granted a pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44399484 | 64,898 |
1,008,575 | In January 1942, Barry, then-head coach of the three major sports at USC, enlisted in the Navy as a lieutenant commander and was appointed athletic director for the Navy's western V-5 physical training school in St. Marys, Georgia. Assistant coach Julie Bescos assumed head-coaching responsibilities in Barry's absence, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4396310 | 1,008,054 |
2,142 | Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author (described in his time as a "natural philosopher"), widely recognised as one of the greatest mathematicians and physicists and among the most influential scientists of all time. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14627 | 2,142 |
243,382 | Before virtual memory could be implemented in mainstream operating systems, many problems had to be addressed. Dynamic address translation required expensive and difficult-to-build specialized hardware; initial implementations slowed down access to memory slightly. There were worries that new system-wide algorithms uti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32354 | 243,255 |
1,195,781 | Lockyer was born in Rugby, Warwickshire. His early introduction to science was through his father, who was a pioneer of the electric telegraph. After a conventional schooling supplemented by travel in Switzerland and France, he worked for some years as a civil servant in the British War Office. He settled in Wimbledon,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=250344 | 1,195,141 |
2,159,694 | Proline-rich extensin-like receptor kinases 4 (PERK4) is a gene expressed in the roots and flowers in Arabidopsis thaliana that localizes in the plasma membrane and plays a role in ABA signaling. Using protein motif analysis, a membrane localization signal, a transmembrane domain, and an intracellular kinase domain wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64187174 | 2,158,462 |
191,990 | Much of existing criticism argues that AGI is unlikely in the short term. Leading AI researcher Rodney Brooks writes, "I think it is a mistake to be worrying about us developing malevolent AI anytime in the next few hundred years. I think the worry stems from a fundamental error in not distinguishing the difference bet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46583121 | 191,891 |
469,469 | As a consequence of the harsh business climate, many Western fine chemical companies or divisions created during the "irrational exuberance" at the end of the 20th century already have exited from the sector. Others will follow suit or will be acquired by private equity firms. Survival strategies include implementation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3694845 | 469,233 |
1,708,869 | The controller also decodes the sequence data from its highly compressed format into a usable 13.5 MHz data stream, and distributes timing information to the rest of the system. Timing control is useful, since it can eliminate the need for external synchronising. This equipment's output can be varied from over 6µs earl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5324261 | 1,707,911 |
659,610 | A girder may be made of concrete or steel. Many shorter bridges, especially in rural areas where they may be exposed to water overtopping and corrosion, utilize concrete box girder. The term "girder" is typically used to refer to a steel beam. In a beam or girder bridge, the beams themselves are the primary support for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5049124 | 659,265 |
1,047,785 | Wollaston's attempt to demonstrate the presence of glucose in the blood serum of diabetics was unsuccessful due to the limited means of detection available to him. His 1811 paper "On the non-existence of sugar in the blood of persons labouring under diabetes mellitus" concluded that sugar must travel via lymphatic chan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157164 | 1,047,240 |
797,103 | The nuclear membrane contains a lipid bilayer that encompasses the contents of the nucleus. The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) is a synthesis and transport organelle that branches into the cytoplasm in plant and animal cells. The Golgi apparatus is a series of multiple compartments where molecules are packaged for delivery... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9927 | 796,678 |
1,297,759 | At this time, Briggs obtained a copy of "Mirifici Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio", in which Napier introduced the idea of logarithms. It has also been suggested that he knew of the method outlined in "Fundamentum Astronomiae" published by the Swiss clockmaker Jost Bürgi, through John Dee. Napier's formulation was awk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=210399 | 1,297,047 |
85,684 | On his return to England from Russia, Bentham had commissioned drawings from an architect, Willey Reveley. In 1791, he published the material he had written as a book, although he continued to refine his proposals for many years to come. He had by now decided that he wanted to see the prison built: when finished, it wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46038 | 85,650 |
1,186,129 | The first commercial application of photoionization detection was in 1973 as a hand-held instrument for the purpose of detecting leaks of VOCs, specifically vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), at a chemical manufacturing facility. The photoionization detector was applied to gas chromatography (GC) three years later, in 1976.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4897776 | 1,185,500 |
1,942,514 | Cutaneous stimulation of the superficial radial nerve (located on the thumb side of the forearm) will evoke a cutaneous reflex in arm muscles during rhythmic arm movements in a manner similar to that observed with leg muscles during locomotion. In addition to its role in reflex responses to the arm itself, it will modu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42628920 | 1,941,403 |
1,579,505 | Consider also biotic, abiotic and landscape variability in the value of nursery habitats. This may be an important consideration when looking at which sites to manage and protect. Biotic factors include: structural complexity, food availability, larval settlement cues, competition, and predation. Abiotic: temperature, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3124882 | 1,578,615 |
489,040 | On March 17, Michigan defeated (#21 AP Poll/#19 Coaches Poll) Houston 64–63 in the second round, following a game-winning buzzer beater three-point shot by Poole as time expired. Abdur-Rahkman and Wagner led the scoring with 12 points each. There were 17 lead changes and 12 ties during the game, while neither team ever... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53688572 | 488,787 |
1,466,904 | De Candolle originated the idea of "Nature's war", which influenced Charles Darwin and the principle of natural selection. de Candolle recognized that multiple species may develop similar characteristics that did not appear in a common evolutionary ancestor; a phenomenon now known as convergent evolution. During his wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=404399 | 1,466,081 |
988,641 | The upper mass gap is predicted by comprehensive models of late-stage stellar evolution. It is expected that with increasing mass, supermassive stars reach a stage where a pair-instability supernova occurs, during which pair production, the production of free electrons and positrons in the collision between atomic nucl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=510340 | 988,125 |
1,920,268 | The search for a high value export product also resulted in Spaniards introducing cane sugar cultivation and the importation of African slaves as the main labor force. African slaves were forcibly brought in the early the 1500s and sugar plantations were established on the island of Hispaniola (now divided between Hait... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65056762 | 1,919,165 |
1,396,033 | The number of PhD diplomas awarded by US universities has risen nearly every year since 1957, according to data compiled by the US National Science Foundation. In 1957, US universities awarded 8,611 PhD diplomas; 20,403 in 1967; 31,716 in 1977; 32,365 in 1987; 42,538 in 1997; and 48,133 in 2007. Over this same period, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45082736 | 1,395,262 |
180,372 | In July 2008, the French President announced a second EPR would be built in France due to high oil and gas prices. Penly was chosen as the site in 2009, with construction planned to start in 2012. However, in 2011, following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, EDF postponed public consultations. In February 2013, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1636371 | 180,278 |
339,799 | The battle was followed by a war for British political opinion. Within four days of the battle, the Massachusetts Provincial Congress had collected scores of sworn testimonies from militiamen and from British prisoners. When word leaked out a week after the battle that Gage was sending his official description of event... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4321886 | 339,619 |
1,567,942 | Bioenvironmental Engineers (BEEs) within the United States Air Force (USAF) blend the understanding of fundamental engineering principles with a broad preventive medicine mission to identify, evaluate and recommend controls for hazards that could harm USAF Airmen, employees, and their families. The information from the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13390384 | 1,567,055 |
2,048,388 | Under Dodge’s leadership and with the efforts of numerous students, guests and artistic partners, the BC-CCM came to national prominence. At that time the USA was leading the world in the field of computer music, and so this made the BC-CCM one of the world’s most highly regarded centers. During these years, the BC-CCM... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28207659 | 2,047,207 |
1,058,696 | Two-component systems are rare in eukaryotes. They appear in yeasts, filamentous fungi, and slime molds, and are relatively common in plants, but have been described as "conspicuously absent" from animals. Two-component systems in eukaryotes likely originate from lateral gene transfer, often from endosymbiotic organell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14647099 | 1,058,147 |
1,312,199 | Errors made by mathematicians occur because of (1) their reliance on general abstract ideas and (2) their belief that an object exists as such without being an idea in a spectator's mind. In arithmetic, those things which pass for abstract truths and theorems concerning numbers are, in reality, concerned with particula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1697555 | 1,311,480 |
623,880 | Lebesgue's first paper was published in 1898 and was titled "Sur l'approximation des fonctions". It dealt with Weierstrass's theorem on approximation to continuous functions by polynomials. Between March 1899 and April 1901 Lebesgue published six notes in "Comptes Rendus." The first of these, unrelated to his developme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49514 | 623,548 |
91,809 | In November 1945, Shepard arrived at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi in Texas, where he commenced basic flight training on January 7, 1946. He was an average student, and for a time faced being "bilged" (dropped) from flight training and reassigned to the surface navy. To make up for this, he took private lessons at a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63727 | 91,769 |
323,348 | The aircraft seats up to 39 passengers, but may be outfitted by the customers into any configuration. Tyrolean Jet Service Nfg. 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 Em... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=164932 | 323,176 |
108,067 | An early astrolabe was invented in the Hellenistic civilization by Apollonius of Perga between 220 and 150 BC, often attributed to Hipparchus. The astrolabe was a marriage of the planisphere and dioptra, effectively an analog calculator capable of working out several different kinds of problems in astronomy. Theon of A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=73664 | 108,022 |
1,209,196 | Phoenix grew up in Colorado, USA, with two parents who are FBI agents. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Smith College and a master's degree in geography from California State University, Los Angeles, with a thesis titled "Lava Flow Morphologies and Structural Features Along the Axis of the South Rift... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68782828 | 1,208,549 |
1,742,135 | The purchase of new AN/APG-73 radars was announced on 17 August 1998. The Commonwealth Government accepted a United States Foreign Military Sales case in October 1999, and then the prototype modification commenced on 21 August 2001. The first production modified aircraft was completed in August 2002 and the last aircra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5331491 | 1,741,151 |
382,267 | Common side effects include bone marrow suppression, nausea, and diarrhea. The bone marrow suppression may result in death. To reduce the risk of side effects treatment duration should be as short as possible. People with liver or kidney problems may need lower doses. In young children a condition known as gray baby sy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6346 | 382,072 |
1,020,882 | The LDL receptor gene is located on the short arm of chromosome 19 (19p13.1-13.3). It comprises 18 exons and spans 45 kb, and the protein gene product contains 839 amino acids in mature form. A single abnormal copy (heterozygote) of FH causes cardiovascular disease by the age of 50 in about 40% of cases. Having two abn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6834535 | 1,020,353 |
1,006,334 | A herd of about 650 of these animals lives in, and can be seen at, the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge near Lawton, Oklahoma. The herd was started in 1907 with stock from the New York Zoological Park, now known as the Bronx Zoo and located in the Bronx Park. Fifteen animals were shipped to Oklahoma, where bison had a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3737931 | 1,005,815 |
1,053,486 | "PenTile Matrix" (a neologism from penta-, meaning "five" in Greek and tile) describes the geometric layout of the prototypical subpixel arrangement developed in the early 1990s. The layout consists of a quincunx comprising two red subpixels, two green subpixels, and one central blue subpixel in each unit cell. It was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26410620 | 1,052,940 |
1,265,049 | Though "E. solidaginis" has been reported to form galls on seven different species of goldenrod, only three appear to be common targets: "Solidago canadensis", "S. gigantea" and "S. altissima". Once the larvae hatch, typically between 5 and 8 days after the egg is laid, the larva eats its way to the base of the goldenr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53789160 | 1,264,361 |
225,838 | While DNA is most important for information storage, a large fraction of the cell's activities are carried out by proteins. Tools can send proteins to specific regions of the cell and to link different proteins together. The interaction strength between protein partners should be tunable between a lifetime of seconds (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=841429 | 225,722 |
1,137,240 | Up until the 1960s, the residence halls were based on academic class, with three or four halls for freshmen, three for sophomores, and others for juniors and seniors. This system was meant to develop strong class spirit, but many students started advocating for stay-halls, where students could remain in the same hall f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15873547 | 1,136,647 |
117,903 | For surgical cases, the odds of cure vary depending on the tumor location and whether the tumor can be completely, or only partially, removed. Distal cholangiocarcinomas (those arising from the common bile duct) are generally treated surgically with a Whipple procedure; long-term survival rates range from 15 to 25%, al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=968777 | 117,858 |
1,759,047 | For a polynomial-time list-decoding algorithm to exist, we need the combinatorial guarantee that any Hamming ball of radius formula_30 around a received word formula_31 (where formula_32 is the fraction of errors in terms of the block length formula_4) has a small number of codewords. This is because the list size itse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12044399 | 1,758,054 |
266,029 | Scientific analysis of the rocks brought back to Earth confirmed that the Cayley Formation was not volcanic in nature. There was less certainty regarding the Descartes Formation, as it was not clear which if any of the rocks came from there. There was no evidence that showed that Stone Mountain was volcanic. One reason... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1970 | 265,885 |
953,892 | The old asylum building had often been suggested as a site for the new university, and after it was due to be finished being used as a hospital for the wounded, Astley Clarke was keen to urge the citizens and local authorities to buy it. Fortunately, Clarke quickly learned the building had already been bought by Thomas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=354047 | 953,387 |
1,878,786 | Wright's first monograph, "The Nehemiah Memoir and Its Earliest Readers" (2005), builds on an approach from Kratz, arguing that while Nehemiah's first-person account goes back to an early account written by Nehemiah himself (or a commissioned scribe), later generations greatly expanded it (above all, with the reform ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45425015 | 1,877,706 |
1,940,946 | Russia snatched the high victory thanks to the wins on the first three boards, where Sergey Karjakin, Evgeny Tomashevsky and Ian Nepomniachtchi beat David Navara, Viktor Láznička and Zbyněk Hráček, respectively; on the lowest board, Vlastimil Babula drew with Alexander Grischuk. Navara went with a novelty right out of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51472590 | 1,939,835 |
606,218 | In 1980 the massive project of connecting the eastern and western railway networks around Oslo was completed with the opening of the Oslo Tunnel and Oslo Central Station. In 1996 NSB was split into the Norwegian Railway Inspectorate, Norwegian National Rail Administration and an operating company NSB BA. Since then, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=290620 | 605,908 |
556,338 | The scholarship enabled Kalecki to travel with his wife to Sweden, where followers of Knut Wicksell were trying to formalize a theory similar to Kalecki's. In Sweden in 1936 he learnt of the publication of Keynes's "General Theory". Kalecki was working on a comprehensive elaboration of the economic ideas he had previou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2205338 | 556,049 |
697,655 | Basic field stripping of the T1 rifle was simple: with the rifle unloaded and the mechanism held open, pressing on a stud on the underside of the crank would lock the breech return spring. The breech block head could then be guided up and out through inclined guide ways in the receiver and the crank then could be freed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4845231 | 697,291 |
870,479 | Apart from a port of the GNU C++ compiler, itself requiring at least 4 MB of RAM to run, the only significant competition to Acorn's C and C++ products were the Easy C and Easy C++ products from Beebug, with the former being announced in late 1993 as a Risc Developments product costing £49 plus VAT. Priced significantl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 870,019 |
1,054,033 | Naturally occurring methane is not utilized as a chemical feedstock, despite its abundance and low cost. Current technology makes prodigious use of methane by steam reforming to produce syngas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen. This syngas is then used in Fischer-Tropsch reactions to make longer carbon chain p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6180254 | 1,053,486 |
438,407 | There has always been a strong influence from mathematical logic on the field of artificial intelligence (AI). From the beginning of the field it was realized that technology to automate logical inferences could have great potential to solve problems and draw conclusions from facts. Ron Brachman has described first-ord... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1151991 | 438,193 |
119,871 | Leonard T. Skeggs and his colleagues (including Norman Shumway) discovered ACE in plasma in 1956. It was also noted that those who worked in banana plantations in South-western Brazil collapsed after being bitten by a pit viper, leading to a search for a blood pressure lowering component in its venom. Brazilian scienti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2767 | 119,822 |
1,099,577 | From a legal point of view, green bonds are not really different from traditional bonds. The promises made to investors are not always included in the contract, and not often in a binding way. Issuers of green bonds usually follow standards and principles set by private-led organisations such as the International Capit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65789694 | 1,099,017 |
1,105,894 | Experimental evidence indicates that our galaxy is made of matter; however, scientists believe there are about 100–200 billion galaxies in the observable Universe and some versions of the Big Bang theory of the origin of the Universe require equal amounts of matter and antimatter. Theories that explain this apparent as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2541207 | 1,105,331 |
357,963 | In 2014, the US Food and Drug Administration sponsored a conference held at the National Institutes of Health Bethesda Campus to discuss reproducibility in bioinformatics. Over the next three years, a consortium of stakeholders met regularly to discuss what would become BioCompute paradigm. These stakeholders included ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4214 | 357,777 |
1,977,878 | Roman army tactics worked as follows: the general first picked his ground. The Roman military now understood fairly well the importance of taking the initiative and picking its own ground, with some infamous exceptions. If the terrain was not right, the army remained within its fortified camp (which was virtually unass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3581844 | 1,976,740 |
73,284 | The Radar System Improvement Program (RSIP) was a joint US/NATO development program. RSIP enhances the operational capability of the E-3 radars' electronic countermeasures, and improves the system's reliability, maintainability, and availability. Essentially, this program replaced the older transistor-transistor logic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10384 | 73,257 |
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