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1,687,832 | In 2021, a group of prominent permafrost researchers like Merritt Turetsky had presented their collective estimate of permafrost emissions, including the abrupt thaw processes, as part of an effort to advocate for a 50% reduction in anthropogenic emissions by 2030 as a necessary milestone to help reach net zero by 2050... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27167234 | 1,686,886 |
1,296,477 | The Paul Ehrlich Institute has recorded 31 cerebral venous sinus thromboses (CVST) and nine deaths out of 2.7 million vaccinated in Germany with the AZD1222. On 2 April 2021, the UK's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency reported 22 cases of CVST and a further eight cases of clotting problems both associ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67257205 | 1,295,766 |
977,764 | The University of Auckland began as a constituent college of the University of New Zealand, founded on 23 May 1883 as "Auckland University College". Stewardship of the university during its establishment period was the responsibility of John Chapman Andrew (Vice Chancellor of the University of New Zealand 1885–1903). H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277456 | 977,253 |
1,264,828 | The initial netlist will usually undergo a number of transformations such as optimization, addition of Design For Test (DFT) structures, etc., before it is used as the basis for the placement of the logic elements into a physical layout. Contemporary physical design software will occasionally also make significant modi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1046024 | 1,264,140 |
2,063,518 | The stage was now set for the cloning of the coactivators. The first authentic, common nuclear receptor coactivator was steroid receptor coactivator 1, or SRC-1 (NCOA1), first cloned in Bert O’Malley's laboratory. SRC-1 and two related proteins, GRIP-1 (NCOA2), cloned first by Michael Stallcup, and ACTR/p/CIP (NCOA3), ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19190868 | 2,062,327 |
2,038,397 | Over the years, Science Week Ireland has grown from a small pilot initiative to a large promotional and event engine to its current identity as a recognised vehicle for regional activity supported by a national promotional campaign. In 1995, a National Science week was organised by the Royal Dublin Society and a number... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10869139 | 2,037,221 |
1,264,592 | The class 4 office is the Toll Center (TC), Toll Point (TP), or Intermediate Point (IP). A call going between two end offices not directly connected, or whose direct trunks are busy, is routed through the toll center. The toll center is also used to connect to the long-distance network for calls where added costs are i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26656098 | 1,263,904 |
1,507,201 | In 2014 alone, new faculty grants and contracts awarded totaled nearly $20 million from the National Institutes of Health and other funding agencies. The school enrolls, on average, 88 doctoral candidates per year. Additionally, 20 foreign trained dentists are added to each class at the beginning of the third year. Acc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2742291 | 1,506,355 |
919,312 | The virus swept across the Middle East, Africa, and the Southern Hemisphere in the middle months of the year, causing widespread outbreaks. By the end of September, nearly the entire inhabited world had been infected or at least seeded with the virus. Around this time, extensive epidemics developed in the Northern Hemi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2888063 | 918,827 |
865,782 | Many point-of-care test systems are realized as easy-to-use membrane-based test strips, often enclosed by a plastic test cassette. This concept often is realized in test systems for detecting pathogens, the most common being COVID-19 rapid tests. Very recently such test systems for rheumatology diagnostics have been de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8713563 | 865,322 |
1,483,997 | Unlike water samples, soil and sediment samples are not homogeneous. As a result, it is difficult to obtain representative samples from such matrices. Toxic substances are likely to bind to particulate matter, and the extent to which toxic materials bind depends on the composition of the particles. For example, smaller... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42928420 | 1,483,160 |
873,567 | As part of an investigation by Heinrich Klüver in the 1930s into the area affected by mescaline, Klüver arranged to have the temporal lobes of a number of rhesus monkeys bilaterally removed by Paul Bucy, a neurosurgeon. Klüver did not find the expected impact in response to mescaline, but did observe a series of change... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4259210 | 873,105 |
2,201,504 | The North Norfolk Coast SSSI contains a variety of habitats including foreshore, shingle, salt marshes, reed bed and pasture, and is important primarily for the breeding populations of nationally and internationally scarce bird species, and also the large numbers of wildfowl it supports in winter. More than three-quart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33883422 | 2,200,251 |
350,971 | Cognitive psychology studies the psychological processes responsible for deductive reasoning. It is concerned, among other things, with how good people are at drawing valid deductive inferences. This includes the study of the factors affecting their performance, their tendency to commit fallacies, and the underlying bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61093 | 350,788 |
533,268 | After the initial report of apparent superluminal velocities of neutrinos, most physicists in the field were quietly skeptical of the results, but prepared to adopt a wait-and-see approach. Experimental experts were aware of the complexity and difficulty of the measurement, so an extra unrecognized measurement error wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33338392 | 532,989 |
107,650 | The "Fletcher" class (named for Admiral Frank F. Fletcher, Medal of Honor recipient) was the largest destroyer class ordered. It was also one of the most successful and popular with their crews. Compared to earlier classes built for the United States Navy, the "Fletcher"s carried a significant increase in lethal firepo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=614642 | 107,605 |
223,015 | A more common form of viciousness arises from the implausibility of the infinite regress in question. This category often applies to theories about human actions, states or capacities. This argument is weaker than the argument from impossibility since it allows that the regress in question is possible. It only denies t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3004668 | 222,906 |
486,394 | In September 1943, the British government asked Guttmann to establish the National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital in Buckinghamshire. The initiative came from the Royal Air Force to make sure the treatment and rehabilitation of pilots with spine injuries, "who often crashed on approach with their b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=913950 | 486,145 |
474,247 | The Bombay Sappers expanded greatly during the 'Great War' to meet a large number of Indian engineer troops required by the Empire. The Bombay Sappers fought against the Germans and the Turks in Europe, Palestine, Mesopotamia, Aden, Persia, East Africa and also in Afghanistan, Baluchistan and the North West Frontier Pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14760163 | 474,011 |
1,178,593 | Sydney Brenner started working on the genetics of the nematode "C. elegans" in 1965. This group expanded, especially with many foreign visitors who today form the core of "C. elegans" research. Sulston determined the cell lineage of this small worm and John Graham White the entire wiring diagram of its nervous system. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5092142 | 1,177,969 |
1,065,418 | NIO researchers have undertaken a number of projects in service of the industry in India. One of the first projects taken up by NIO on acquiring its research vessel RV Gaveshani was demarcation of a pipeline for carrying oil from India's first offshore oil field at Bombay High. This project was undertaken at the reques... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1669118 | 1,064,864 |
406,429 | Once calculated manually based mainly upon changes in barometric pressure, current weather conditions, and sky condition or cloud cover, weather forecasting now relies on computer-based models that take many atmospheric factors into account. Human input is still required to pick the best possible forecast model to base... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=73231 | 406,228 |
1,552,270 | During his tenure of this chair he published two volumes of "A Course of Mathematics"-the first, entitled "Elements of Geometry, Geometrical Analysis and Plane Trigonometry", in 1809, and the second, "Geometry of Curve Lines", in 1813; the third volume, on "Descriptive Geometry and the Theory of Solids" was never compl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1138167 | 1,551,389 |
1,683,308 | The smaller land area and population sizes of islands compared to continents create greater vulnerability to the impacts of introduced species (Russel et al). Introduced species negatively impact ecosystems through altered predator-prey interactions that can cause harm or even local extinction to native species populat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24755469 | 1,682,365 |
173,674 | In the early 1990s, the An-70 was unsuccessfully considered as a platform to meet the European Staff Requirement (ESR) for the Future Large Aircraft (FLA) programme; the programme envisaged the development of a transport aircraft that is midway in size and capability between the Lockheed Martin C-130J and the McDonnell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=908224 | 173,583 |
1,625,768 | When President Day retired in July 1996, SDSU's incoming freshman had a 38% success rate in graduating from the university within six years. Day was replaced by the university's seventh president, Stephen Weber. Just one month later, on August 15, in what is known as the "San Diego State University shooting," a 36-year... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20079555 | 1,624,850 |
996,036 | The term “partnership intermediary” means an agency of a state or local government—or a nonprofit entity owned, chartered, funded, or operated by or on behalf of a state or local government—that assists, counsels, advises, evaluates, or otherwise cooperates with small business firms; institutions of higher education de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315952 | 995,519 |
1,538,702 | As PhD student of Ludwig Prandtl in 1920, he later worked as a researcher at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Flow Research (now the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization). He succeeded in putting himself in Prandtl's favour and thus advanced to the position of department head. In spite of his close t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10912739 | 1,537,829 |
415,650 | The Space Systems Division also began development on the Defense Meteorological Support Program (DMSP). The DMSP Block 1 satellites were launched on a Scout X-2 rocket in 1962, however the other four launch attempts failed. Further DMSP Block I launches were conducted on the Thor-Agena and Thor-Burner boosters. The Tho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10179560 | 415,447 |
976,443 | Hughes bolted early for a clear false start, with all runners except Jacobs sprinting from the blocks after him, and was disqualified. The second start was clean: Su could not repeat his great semi-final start, with Kerley having the fastest reaction time and leading the race until about the 70 m mark, where he was pas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60376584 | 975,932 |
152,533 | Non-final legs of a multi-leg move also have the option to end on an occupied square without disturbing its contents. To indicate this the modifier p is used, and thus has a slightly different meaning than on final legs; the traditional meaning can then be seen as shorthand for paf. To make the a notation more versatil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=250667 | 152,465 |
36,457 | Three RS-25 engines, also known as the Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME), were mounted on the orbiter's aft fuselage in a triangular pattern. The engine nozzles could gimbal ±10.5° in pitch, and ±8.5° in yaw during ascent to change the direction of their thrust to steer the Shuttle. The titanium alloy reusable engines ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28189 | 36,445 |
985,645 | This type of linac was limited by the voltage sources that were available at the time, and it was not until after World War II that Luis Alvarez was able to use newly developed high frequency oscillators to design the first resonant cavity drift tube linac. An Alvarez linac differs from the Wideroe type in that the RF ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=273524 | 985,130 |
805,515 | Earthquake energy is dispersed in waves from the hypocentre, causing ground movement omnidirectionally but typically modelled horizontally (in two directions) and vertically. PGA records the acceleration (rate of change of speed) of these movements, while peak ground velocity is the greatest speed (rate of movement) re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=798527 | 805,086 |
632,750 | Cryogens present several safety hazards and storage vessels are designed to reduce the associated risk. Firstly, no dewar can provide perfect thermal insulation and the cryogenic liquid slowly boils away, which yields an enormous quantity of gas. For example, the expansion ratio of cryogenic argon from the boiling poin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27053099 | 632,412 |
248,610 | The Field Museum hired a specialized moving company with experience in transporting delicate items to move the bones to Chicago. The truck arrived at the museum in October 1997. Two new research laboratories funded by McDonald's were created and staffed by Field Museum preparators whose job was to slowly and carefully ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10633984 | 248,482 |
157,415 | Breast milk or formula alone may not be sufficient to meet the nutritional needs of some preterm infants. Fortification of breast milk or formula by adding extra nutrients is an approach often taken for feeding preterm infants, with the goal of meeting the high nutritional demand. High quality randomized controlled tri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=429542 | 157,343 |
181,891 | Several significant administrative achievements were made during the Hōjō regency. In 1225 the third regent Hōjō Yasutoki established the Council of State, providing opportunities for other military lords to exercise judicial and legislative authority within the Kamakura regime. The Hōjō regent presided over the counci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201198 | 181,795 |
80,590 | Other research has cast doubt on a link between the Toba Caldera Complex and a genetic bottleneck. For example, ancient stone tools in southern India were found above and below a thick layer of ash from the Youngest Toba eruption and were very similar across these layers, suggesting that the dust clouds from the erupti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186406 | 80,557 |
1,503,167 | To be able to exert torques on the microbeads at least two magnets are necessary, but many other configurations have been realized, reaching from only one magnet that only pulls the magnetic microbeads to a system of six electromagnets that allows fully controlling the 3-dimensional position and rotation via a digital ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9368062 | 1,502,321 |
1,722,455 | Remote sensing of trace gases has several challenges. Most techniques rely on observing infrared light reflected off Earth's surface. Because these instruments use spectroscopy, at each sounding footprint a spectrum is recorded—this means there is a significantly (about 1000×) more data to transfer than what would be r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53163128 | 1,721,485 |
815,788 | The coffin was loaded on a hearse and carried to a gathering at Fairfield; much of the gathering was spent in silence. After the coffin was removed, the assembled began talking. Frazer recalled that each person remembered Cope differently, and "Few men succeeded so well in concealing from anyone ... all the sides of hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=415000 | 815,354 |
216,728 | Some historians of science have argued that the National Science Foundation Act of 1950 was an unsatisfactory compromise between too many clashing visions of the purpose and scope of the federal government. The NSF was certainly not "the" primary government agency for the funding of basic science, as its supporters had... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157427 | 216,620 |
934,633 | Today, the society for ethnomusicology is actively dedicating itself to increasing the presence and stature of gender/sexuality/LGBTQ/feminist scholarship within our respective music societies through forums like The Gender and Sexualities Taskforce within the society for ethnomusicology. The society for ethnomusicolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80077 | 934,139 |
1,744,179 | On Saturday, 24 May 1958 the NRU suffered a major accident. A damaged uranium fuel rod caught fire and was torn in two as it was being removed from the core. The fire was extinguished, but a sizeable quantity of radioactive combustion products had contaminated the interior of the reactor building and, to a lesser degre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2802690 | 1,743,195 |
1,192,401 | Siemens had been trained as a mechanical engineer, and his most important work at this early stage was non-electrical; the greatest achievement of his life, the regenerative furnace. Though in 1847 he published a paper in Liebig's "Annalen der Chemie" on the 'Mercaptan of Selenium,' his mind was busy with the new ideas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=100515 | 1,191,765 |
1,661,074 | Similar to having light bones, birds also have large respiratory systems with large air spaces that reduce body weight and allow more efficient oxygen exchange required for the high metabolic demands of flight. Birds also have specialized structures called air sacs closely associated with their lungs that store air whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26865891 | 1,660,140 |
517,546 | Northrop Grumman used its aircraft, spacecraft, and autonomous systems experience to work with its team consisting of Scaled Composites to lead fabrication and assembly, and Virgin Galactic to head commercial spaceplane operations and transition; Virgin Galactic and Scaled Composites both worked on the SpaceShip Two, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40514015 | 517,277 |
1,888,675 | Initially, the X3.60 group was targeting a summer 1982 date for the first technical review copy, which would be sent to the ANSI X3 committee in the fall. During this period the proposed standard would be sent out, and comments from the public would be accepted. The final draft would be sent back to X3 in 1983 for rati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70767363 | 1,887,592 |
2,139,943 | Among universities specifically with degree-granting hospitality programs, MSU was ranked ninth (or seventh among such universities in the United States), in terms of weighted-publication-count (2002-2006) in English-language research journals specific to the hospitality industry. The School’s faculty was ranked number... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7353786 | 2,138,713 |
908,938 | H5N1 has mutated into a variety of strains with differing pathogenic profiles, some pathogenic to one species but not others, some pathogenic to multiple species. Each specific known genetic variation is traceable to a virus isolate of a specific case of infection. Through antigenic drift, H5N1 has mutated into dozens ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1019908 | 908,459 |
5,644 | Enquiries about insect pollination led in 1861 to novel studies of wild orchids, showing adaptation of their flowers to attract specific moths to each species and ensure cross fertilisation. In 1862 "Fertilisation of Orchids" gave his first detailed demonstration of the power of natural selection to explain complex eco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8145410 | 5,641 |
1,739,054 | While the above example illustrates well the relatively simple concepts behind correlation attacks, it perhaps simplifies the explanation of precisely how the brute forcing of individual LFSRs proceeds. We make the statement that incorrectly guessed keys will generate LFSR output that agrees with the generator output r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19798753 | 1,738,077 |
1,963,396 | Established in 1959 as a section of the International Union of Physiological Sciences, IUPHAR became an independent organization in 1966 and is a member of the International Council for Science (ICSU). The first World Congress of Pharmacology was held in Stockholm, Sweden in 1961 and subsequently held every three years... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6494001 | 1,962,268 |
495,181 | During the 1970s, more pachycephalosaur genera were described from Asian fossils, which provided more information about the group. In 1974, Maryańska and Osmólska concluded that pachycephalosaurs are distinct enough to warrant their own suborder within Ornithischia, Pachycephalosauria. In 1978, the Chinese palaeontolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2274197 | 494,925 |
173,678 | In January 2002, preparations started on mass production as the Russian government affirmed that the aircraft was in the country's nine-year military budget; by now, Ukraine had already placed an order for five aircraft. Despite the affirmation that the country was committed to the project, there were other indications... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=908224 | 173,587 |
520,658 | However, due to process and material variations, an array of memory cells has a distribution of switching fields with a deviation σ. Therefore, to program all the bits in a large array with the same current, the applied field needs to be larger than the mean "selected" switching field by greater than 6σ. In addition,th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315008 | 520,387 |
890,046 | The Young Hegelians drew on Hegel's idea that the purpose and promise of history was the total negation of everything conducive to restricting freedom and reason; and they proceeded to mount radical critiques, first of religion and then of the Prussian political system. The Young Hegelians who were unpopular because of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=176051 | 889,577 |
303,528 | Researchers in Paris in March 2022 reported in a preprint not yet peer-reviewed that trained dogs were very effective for rapidly detecting the presence of SARS-Cov2 in people, whether displaying symptoms or not. The dogs were presented with sweat samples to smell from 335 people, of whom 78 with symptoms and 31 withou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63204759 | 303,366 |
433,625 | In the classic Mac OS, there was no operating system support for application level timers (the lower level Time Manager was available, but it executed timer callbacks at interrupt time, during which calls could not be safely made to most Toolbox routines). Timers were usually left to application developers to implement... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56891 | 433,411 |
1,345,891 | An opportunity arose in 1984 to evaluate the use of Boulton & Watt drawings made two hundred years earlier when Dr Richardson was asked to help the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, New South Wales Australia who were planning to restore and erect a Boulton and Watt engine. In the course of restoration, the engine ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=717941 | 1,345,150 |
610,888 | Preferential attachment made its first appearance in 1923 in the celebrated urn model of the Hungarian mathematician György Pólya in 1923. The master equation method, which yields a more transparent derivation, was applied to the problem by Herbert A. Simon in 1955 in the course of studies of the sizes of cities and ot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8286726 | 610,577 |
1,487,683 | One of the primary goals of the Simons Observatory are polarization maps of the sky with an order of magnitude better sensitivity than the Planck satellite. These will enable better measurement of cosmological parameters and will also enable a wide range of other science. Examples include gravitational lensing of the m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51204810 | 1,486,845 |
1,130,196 | China quickly advanced its pharmaceutical-related regulations around the time of its December 2001 entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO). China has strengthened patent protection: In conformity with the WTO/TRIPS agreement, the patent protection structure adopted by China approaches that of Japan, Europe, and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2913045 | 1,129,618 |
1,737,145 | The AAOD Museum of Natural History will be located 2 km from the Museum's Reception Centre, and positioned overlooking the plains below the Jump-Up. The buildings' concept statistics allow for a floor space of 6,000 square meters of which 1,800 square metres will be exhibition floor space. The remainder of the building... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42516906 | 1,736,168 |
108,394 | In an electricity system without grid energy storage, generation from stored fuels (coal, biomass, natural gas, nuclear) must go up and down in reaction to the rise and fall of solar electricity (see load following power plant). While hydroelectric and natural gas plants can quickly respond to changes in load, coal, bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13690575 | 108,349 |
1,697,148 | When programming in C or Java, bitwise disjunction is denoted <samp>"x"|"y"</samp>, conjunction <samp>"x"&"y"</samp>, and negation <samp>~"x"</samp>. A program can therefore represent for example the operation in these languages as <samp>"x"&("y"|"z")</samp>, having previously set <samp>"x" = 0xaa</samp>, <samp>"y" = 0... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6318542 | 1,696,194 |
1,756,516 | The 2022 College Football All-America Team includes those players of American college football who have been honored by various selector organizations as the best players at their respective positions. The selector organizations award the "All-America" honor annually following the conclusion of the fall college footbal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72438952 | 1,755,525 |
1,978,168 | Research in robotic materials ranges from the device-level and manufacturing to the distributed algorithms that equip robotic materials with intelligence. As such it intersects the fields of composite materials, sensor networks, distributed algorithms, and due to the scale of the involved computation, swarm intelligenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48508780 | 1,977,030 |
1,132,693 | The most common allelic variant of the human CR1 gene (CR1*1) is composed of 38 exons spanning 133kb encoding a protein of 2,039 amino acids with a predicted molecular weight of 220 kDa. Large insertions and deletions have given rise to four structurally variant genes and some alleles may extend up to 160 kb and 9 addi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1149539 | 1,132,101 |
477,495 | Furthermore, famotidine showed high GSK-3β binding affinity and inhibitory activity due to interactions that stabilize the complex, namely hydrogen bonding of guanidine group in famotidine with the sulfahydryl moiety in CYS-199; and electrostatic interactions between the same guanidine group with the carboxyl group in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1113574 | 477,255 |
518,241 | Modern historians of science such as J.L. Heilbron, Alistair Cameron Crombie, David Lindberg, Edward Grant, Thomas Goldstein, and Ted Davis have reviewed the popular notion that medieval Christianity was a negative influence in the development of civilization and science. In their views, not only did the monks save and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42657576 | 517,972 |
1,434,203 | Nanoclusters, or quantum dots of TiS have distinctive electronic and chemical properties due to quantum confinement and very large surface to volume ratios. Nanoclusters can be synthesized using micelle. The nanoclusters are prepared from a solution of TiCl in tridodecylmethyl ammonium iodide (TDAI), which served as th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33178115 | 1,433,399 |
2,018,292 | Bradley described the book as a well-written account of the process of science. She commented that more work needed to be done to replicate Hamer's research and identify the relevant gene, but credited Hamer with being "cautious in extrapolating his findings to larger issues" and acknowledging the limitations of the re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55800745 | 2,017,129 |
66,682 | The only computer to seriously challenge the Cray-1's performance in the 1970s was the ILLIAC IV. This machine was the first realized example of a true massively parallel computer, in which many processors worked together to solve different parts of a single larger problem. In contrast with the vector systems, which we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37153 | 66,657 |
343,565 | The discipline of surgery was put on a sound, scientific footing during the Age of Enlightenment in Europe. An important figure in this regard was the Scottish surgical scientist, John Hunter, generally regarded as the father of modern scientific surgery. He brought an empirical and experimental approach to the science... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45599 | 343,384 |
1,589,000 | A wireless network consists of nodes (each of which is a transmitter, receiver or both, depending on the system) that produce, relay or consume data within the network. For example, base stations and users in a cellular phone network or sensor nodes in a sensor network. Before developing stochastic geometry wireless mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40521609 | 1,588,106 |
1,049,993 | Up until September 2016 humpback whales had been on the endangered species list since 1970 due to the massive whaling that occurred. The population has recovered due to enforced restrictions on whaling and the promotion of ecotourism. Whale watching companies can profit from taking tourists out to sea so they may obser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52243894 | 1,049,447 |
936,447 | Islamic society paid careful attention to medicine, following a "hadith" enjoining the preservation of good health. Its physicians inherited knowledge and traditional medical beliefs from the civilisations of classical Greece, Rome, Syria, Persia and India. These included the writings of Hippocrates such as on the theo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=267542 | 935,952 |
1,441,297 | The open-cycle gas-core rocket has many unique design attributes that make it a serious challenger to other proposed propulsion for interplanetary missions. Due to the necessity of having a transparent wall inside the reactor for a closed cycle concept, the benefit of moving to a gas core from a solid core are nearly n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30856603 | 1,440,487 |
1,762,110 | In an archaeological study conducted at Old Kiyyangan Village in Ifugao, archaeologists analyzed charred organic residue from two earthenware sherds were analyzed in order to evaluate when rice agriculture, as well as cooking rice, occurred in the Philippines. The results of the examination were that the earthenware sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61950114 | 1,761,117 |
1,801,967 | Following Saddam Hussein's August 1990 invasion of Kuwait, 24 F-15s of the 58th Fighter Squadron, 33d Fighter Wing, under the command of Colonel Rick Parsons, departed Eglin for King Faisal Air Base, Saudi Arabia as part of the build up of coalition forces in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. In the early morn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,955 |
448,658 | The main reason to mask data is to protect information that is classified as personally identifiable information, or mission critical data. However, the data must remain usable for the purposes of undertaking valid test cycles. It must also look real and appear consistent. It is more common to have masking applied to d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18218754 | 448,440 |
442,839 | Within the first approach the alleged stress–energy tensor must arise in the standard way from a "reasonable" matter distribution or non-gravitational field. In practice, this notion is pretty clear, especially if we restrict the admissible non-gravitational fields to the only one known in 1916, the electromagnetic fie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1686520 | 442,624 |
1,704,382 | The MiHAs bound to a MHC presented on a cell surface may be recognized as a self peptide or not recognized by either CD8+ or CD4+ T cells. The lack of recognition of a T cell to this self antigen is the reason why allogeneic stem cell transplantation for an HLA matched gene or a developing fetus’s MiHAs during pregnanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10170801 | 1,703,426 |
740,821 | In February 2006, publication of volume 4 began. Again, there were six issues in the "one-shot" format. However, rather than follow "What if" tradition of using a divergence from a specific plot point, Volume 4 more closely resembled the DC Comics equivalent, "Elseworlds", which presents stories that are continuities b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=479132 | 740,429 |
771,231 | In the general case, seafloor spreading starts as a rift in a continental land mass, similar to the Red Sea-East Africa Rift System today. The process starts by heating at the base of the continental crust which causes it to become more plastic and less dense. Because less dense objects rise in relation to denser objec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145698 | 770,817 |
1,638,689 | Human genetic variation is responsible for the phenotypic differences between individuals in the human population. There are different types of genetic variation and it is studied extensively in order to better understand its significance. These studies lead to discoveries associating genetic variants to certain phenot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50518079 | 1,637,764 |
1,801,753 | The 34th Bombardment Squadron (Light, Night Intruder), reactivated 10 May 1952 at Pusan, Korea, in the midst of the Korean War, equipped with the B-26 Invader, remained in Korea until 10 October 1954, when it moved to Miho, Japan. On 1 April 1955, it moved to Eglin AFB, administratively assigned to Hurlburt Field, stil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,744 |
1,450,281 | Isotope labeling experiments are optimal for gathering experimental data necessary for MFA. Because fluxes determine the isotopic labeling patterns of intracellular metabolites, measuring these patterns allows for inference of fluxes. The first step in the workflow of isotope labeling experiments is cell culture on lab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10756580 | 1,449,464 |
1,340,388 | The similarity in the catalytic domains of C5-cytosine methyltransferases and N6 and N4-adenine methyltransferases provided great interest in understanding the basis for functional similarities and dissimilarities. The methyltransferases or methylases are classified into three groups (Groups α, β, and γ) based on the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6691212 | 1,339,655 |
268,538 | Owing to their long evolutionary history, the Ascomycota have evolved the capacity to break down almost every organic substance. Unlike most organisms, they are able to use their own enzymes to digest plant biopolymers such as cellulose or lignin. Collagen, an abundant structural protein in animals, and keratin—a prote... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48981 | 268,394 |
2,125,423 | Despite their mediocre finish, Minnesota managed to hold onto home ice for the first round of the WCHA tournament and played host to Colorado College. The Gopher defense stepped up in the first game and gave Minnesota a 4-goal margin of victory that allowed the team to cruise to a 10–5 series win after taking the secon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61244131 | 2,124,202 |
280,032 | ZFS also includes a mechanism for dataset and pool-level snapshots and replication, including snapshot cloning which is described by the FreeBSD documentation as one of its "most powerful features", having features that "even other file systems with snapshot functionality lack". Very large numbers of snapshots can be t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57282698 | 279,881 |
567,496 | Carrot "Daucus carota" was the first and most understood species with regard to developmental pathways and molecular mechanisms. Time-lapse tracking by Toonen et al. (1994) showed that morphology of competent cells can vary based on shape and cytoplasm density. Five types of cells were identified from embryonic suspens... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31570900 | 567,206 |
2,016,786 | Connotea was aimed primarily at scientists (though the user community included other academic disciplines), and while users could bookmark any webpage they chose, it incorporated special functionality for certain academic resources. Connotea recognised a number of scientific websites and automatically collected metadat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1839919 | 2,015,624 |
804,662 | This mainly pertains to the lunate sulcas, which Dart had described as having human-like placement, Upon further examination however, Falk determined that these patterns were much more similar to that of an ape's similar sized brain. This however was of great debate as the sulcas was not incredibly visible on the endoc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1767352 | 804,233 |
558,955 | His father was the Canadian-American philosopher Roy Wood Sellars, a leading American philosophical naturalist in the first half of the twentieth-century. Wilfrid was educated at the University of Michigan (BA, 1933), the University at Buffalo, and Oriel College, Oxford (1934–1937), where he was a Rhodes Scholar, obtai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=340898 | 558,666 |
2,344 | A proud and practising Muslim, daily namaz and fasting during Ramadan were integral to Kalam's life. His father, the imam of a mosque in his hometown of Rameswaram, had strictly instilled these Islamic customs in his children. His father had also impressed upon the young Kalam the value of interfaith respect and dialog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62682 | 2,344 |
896,496 | Once inside the cell, the RNA uncoats and the (+) strand RNA genome is replicated through a double-stranded RNA intermediate that is formed using viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase. Translation by host-cell ribosomes is not initiated by a 5' G cap as usual, but rather is initiated by an internal ribosome entry site. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=460071 | 896,025 |
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