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293,921 | In science, reductionism implies that certain topics of study are based on areas that study smaller spatial scales or organizational units. While it is commonly accepted that the foundations of chemistry are based in physics, and molecular biology is based on chemistry, similar statements become controversial when one ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49198 | 293,762 |
1,883,912 | Vijay Kumar focused his research on the assembly, cloning and expression of genes and on the role played by steroid hormone receptors as well as oncogenic viruses in producing cancer cells. He has done pioneering research on Hepatitis B virus and his studies widened the understanding of the trans-activating domain of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53545803 | 1,882,831 |
69,816 | Serotonin is a neurotransmitter involved in multiple complex biological processes including aggression, pain, sleep, appetite, anxiety, depression, migraine, and vomiting. In humans the effects of excess serotonin were first noted in 1960 in patients receiving a MAOI and tryptophan. The syndrome is caused by increased ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29500 | 69,789 |
729,140 | A private pilot licence (PPL) or, in the United States, a private pilot certificate, is a type of pilot licence that allows the holder to act as pilot in command of an aircraft privately (not for remuneration). The licence requirements are determined by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO), but implemen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=755279 | 728,756 |
651,531 | Independent of thermal injury, a 2009 study funded by National Institute of Health, conducted by U.S. Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratories Theoretical Division and Center for Nonlinear Studies and Harvard University Medical School found that terahertz range radiation creates changes in DNA breathing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16959357 | 651,189 |
685,585 | In 1922, 274 Coast Artillery companies were authorized, 188 of which were active. During that year 44 companies were inactivated, but 14 new companies were created for the Philippine Scouts, and a 15th in 1923. The Philippine Scouts, units of mostly Filipino enlisted men and mostly U.S. officers, manned many of the coa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13422946 | 685,228 |
1,004,691 | where g is the gravity constant of Earth. This also enables the volume of storage required for the fuel to be calculated if the density of the fuel is known, which is almost always the case when designing the rocket stage. The volume is yielded when dividing the mass of the propellant by its density. Asides from the fu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=402018 | 1,004,173 |
1,921,330 | The protein encoded by this gene has amino acid sequence similarity to Csk tyrosine kinase and has the structural features of the CSK subfamily: SRC homology SH2 and SH3 domains, a catalytic domain, a unique N terminus, lack of myristylation signals, lack of a negative regulatory phosphorylation site, and lack of an au... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14756376 | 1,920,227 |
1,873,820 | In 2014, Cox received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation to lead a team based at NCSA to develop museum shows and science documentaries with visualizations of big data, working with research teams around the world. The project includes an interdisciplinary, creative team of producers, technologis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1386871 | 1,872,743 |
545,480 | Cockcroft was elected a Fellow of St. John's College on 5 November 1928. He and Walton began operating their accelerator in March 1932, bombarding lithium and beryllium with high-energy protons. They expected to see gamma rays, which French scientists had reported, but none were found. In February 1932, James Chadwick ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=352564 | 545,194 |
124,358 | The development of the R-36 missile complex for use with the 8К69 (termed Fractional Orbital Bombardment System in the West, NATO reporting name SS-9 Mod 3) began on April 16, 1962. Such a missile provided some advantages over a conventional ICBM. The range is limited only by the parameters of the orbit that the re-ent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1068559 | 124,307 |
1,121,117 | Monthly average temperatures, rainfall and snowfall for four communities are shown in the attached graphs. St. John's represents the east coast, Gander the interior of the island, Corner Brook the west coast of the island and Wabush the interior of Labrador. The detailed information and information for 73 communities i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8090265 | 1,120,543 |
666,621 | Among the first sites to undergo archaeological excavation were Stonehenge and other megalithic monuments in England. The first known excavations made at Stonehenge were conducted by William Harvey and Gilbert North in the early 17th century. Both Inigo Jones and the Duke of Buckingham also dug there shortly afterwards... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=951940 | 666,273 |
1,776,905 | Aside from fulfilling its teaching and research roles, the Medical University is the founding body of four health care institutes, including two clinical hospitals: the University Clinical Centre – the MUG Hospital and the Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine. Their significance for the health care system is sho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2613731 | 1,775,906 |
2,026,138 | Social Epistemology: A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal. It was established in 1987 and is published by Routledge in collaboration with the Society for Social Studies of Science and the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology. It provides a foru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29381027 | 2,024,972 |
4,453 | At Cincinnati, Armstrong was University Professor of Aerospace Engineering. He took a heavy teaching load, taught core classes, and created two graduate-level classes: aircraft design and experimental flight mechanics. He was considered a good teacher, and a tough grader. His research activities during this time did no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21247 | 4,451 |
411,312 | India's national ID program called Aadhaar is the largest biometric database in the world. It is a biometrics-based digital identity assigned for a person's lifetime, verifiable online instantly in the public domain, at any time, from anywhere, in a paperless way. It is designed to enable government agencies to deliver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=290622 | 411,110 |
1,501,267 | The [4,4] group has 15 small index subgroups. This table shows them all, with a yellow fundamental domain for pure reflective groups, and alternating white and blue domains which are paired up to make rotational domains. Cyan, red, and green mirror lines correspond to the same colored nodes in the Coxeter diagram. Subg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32088502 | 1,500,421 |
445,912 | Alderson was born in Cleveland, Ohio but was raised in southern California as a toddler where his Romanian-immigrant father ran a custom sheet-metal and sign shop. He graduated from high school at the age of 15 and went on to intermittently study at Reed College, Caltech, Columbia and UC Berkeley. He frequently interru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1523137 | 445,696 |
1,984,768 | Wicklund grew up in rural Wisconsin. After graduating high school, she worked low-wage part-time jobs and earned community college credits while receiving welfare and food stamps. When she became pregnant, she had an abortion in 1976, three years after the procedure became legal: Wicklund says that the poor treatment s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31853775 | 1,983,629 |
331,706 | Low atomic number also makes beryllium relatively transparent to energetic particles. Therefore, it is used to build the beam pipe around the collision region in particle physics setups, such as all four main detector experiments at the Large Hadron Collider (ALICE, ATLAS, CMS, LHCb), the Tevatron and at SLAC. The low ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3378 | 331,529 |
61,554 | During the development of radio, many scientists and inventors contributed to radio technology and electronics. The mathematical work of James Clerk Maxwell during the 1850s had shown the relationship of different forms of electromagnetic radiation including the possibility of invisible airborne waves (later called "ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9531 | 61,529 |
1,590,331 | Matthias had worked with Groves on their previous project, the construction of the Pentagon. Groves intended for Matthias to become his deputy, but on the advice of the chief engineer of the Manhattan District, Colonel James C. Marshall, Matthias became the Hanford Site area engineer. Gilbert Church became the field pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72002318 | 1,589,437 |
783,284 | In qualification for Turkey to make it to the 2019 FIBA World Cup, the national team posted an (8-4) record during European Qualifiers to make it to their fifth consecutive World Cup finals appearance. Entering the 2019 FIBA World Cup, Turkey was placed into Group E where they defeated Japan in their first match 86-67.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3147234 | 782,865 |
687,245 | Shen Zhou died in the late winter of 1051 (or early 1052), when his son Shen Kuo was 21 years old. Shen Kuo grieved for his father, and following Confucian ethics, remained inactive in a state of mourning for three years until 1054 (or early 1055). As of 1054, Shen began serving in minor local governmental posts. Howev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1102000 | 686,888 |
1,898,577 | The analysis of sequence data obtained by NGS relies on the same computational approaches used for modern DNA, with some peculiarities. A widely used tool to align reads from aDNA against reference genomes is the PALEOMIX package, which can quantify DNA damage levels through mapDamage2 and perform phylogenomic and meta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62084336 | 1,897,493 |
83,921 | The need to break German codes in World War II led to advances in cryptography and theoretical computer science, with the first programmable digital electronic computer being developed at England's Bletchley Park with the guidance of Alan Turing and his seminal work, On Computable Numbers. The Cold War meant that crypt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8492 | 83,887 |
9,243 | It has ground maneuvering cameras for taxiing and a tailskid to rotate, while the proposed MTOW -300X would have needed a semi-levered main gear. Its overwing fuselage section 44 was strengthened, with its skin thickness going from the -200's , and received a new evacuation door pair. Its operating empty weight with Ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89260 | 9,239 |
190,432 | Construction workers endured long hours, cold temperatures, and brutal conditions. Difficult terrain, particularly in Atigun Pass, Keystone Canyon, and near the Sagavanirktok River forced workers to come up with solutions for unforeseen problems. Faulty welds and accusations of poor quality control caused a Congression... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=197732 | 190,335 |
280,466 | Archimedes developed this method further, while also inventing heuristic methods which resemble modern day concepts somewhat in his "The Quadrature of the Parabola", "The Method", and "On the Sphere and Cylinder". It should not be thought that infinitesimals were put on a rigorous footing during this time, however. Onl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=746117 | 280,314 |
583,551 | This may indicate that for many real-time applications the service quality of existing on-chip interconnect infrastructure is sufficient, and dedicated hardware logic would be necessary to achieve microsecond precision, a degree that is rarely needed in practice for end users (sound or video jitter need only tenth of m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3842768 | 583,252 |
514,090 | Politics played a role in the crew's selection. Various factions each supported their own representatives for the flight. Sergei Korolev wanted his engineers to become cosmonauts, believing that spacecraft designers should fly in their own vehicles. The Soviet Air Force agreed to a crew composed of a military pilot, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=195218 | 513,824 |
586,730 | Wiedemann–Steiner syndrome (WSS) is a rare genetic disorder that causes developmental delay, unusual facial features, short stature, and reduction in muscle tone (hypotonia). The syndrome was originally described in 1989 by Hans-Rudolf Wiedemann. The genetic basis for the syndrome was identified by Dr. Wendy D. Jones i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44585169 | 586,430 |
23,307 | Large galaxy redshift surveys may be used to make a three-dimensional map of the galaxy distribution. These maps are slightly distorted because distances are estimated from observed redshifts; the redshift contains a contribution from the galaxy's so-called peculiar velocity in addition to the dominant Hubble expansion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8651 | 23,298 |
1,287,050 | According to Chinese state media, the development of the Zhaotou class began around December 2012, before the formation of the China Coast Guard under the State Oceanic Administration. The chief engineer of Jiangnan Shipyard, Hu Keyi, stated that the company was contracted to build two 10,000-ton maritime patrol vessel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66916697 | 1,286,349 |
1,225,639 | In the United States, the passage of the Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1947 marked the first comprehensive legislation for the control of water pollution and was followed by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act in 1956. In 1962, public and governmental interests were renewed, in large part due to the public... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1029060 | 1,224,979 |
479,853 | At a reverse voltage lower than −1.5 V at room temperature, the cathode aluminum foil begins to build up an oxide layer corresponding to the applied voltage. This is aligned with generating hydrogen gas with increasing pressure. At the same time the oxide layer on the anode foil begins dissolution of the oxide, which w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44717055 | 479,612 |
1,715,701 | In April 2016, a committee at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) recommended marketing approval for its use in children with adenosine deaminase deficiency, for whom no matched HSC donor is available, on the basis of a clinical trial that produced a 100% survival rate; the median follow-up time was 7 years after the t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50035369 | 1,714,734 |
1,789,095 | The formal foundation for current Urmia University was laid in 1965 when the "Agricultural College of Rezaeiye" was established. Shabani was appointed as the first consular of the newly established college. In 1969, Jafar Rassi was appointed as chancellor to continue the expansion of the University. In 1970, the Irania... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3529631 | 1,788,089 |
1,185,333 | After Plato's death, Aristotle left the Academy and traveled widely before returning to Athens to found a school adjacent to the Lyceum. As one of the most prolific natural philosophers of Antiquity, Aristotle wrote and lecture on many topics of scientific interest, including biology, meteorology, psychology, logic, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1694427 | 1,184,704 |
990,459 | The Kerr geometry is often used as a model of a rotating black hole but if the solution is held to be valid only outside some compact region (subject to certain restrictions), in principle, it should be able to be used as an exterior solution to model the gravitational field around a rotating massive object other than ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=456715 | 989,942 |
1,775,170 | During this same period, the classical laser-based approach to ICF suffered a series of significant setbacks. Much of the predicted performance of these designs was based on computer simulations using programs like LASNEX. Early simulations suggested that some fusion gain could be expected even at relatively low beam e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67203348 | 1,774,173 |
1,158,670 | Another sample extraction method used in industrial sources and utility sources with low emission rates, is commonly referred to as a "dry extractive", "hot dry" extractive, or "direct" CEMS. The sample is not diluted, but is carried along a heated sample line at high temperature into a sample conditioning unit. The sa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18860788 | 1,158,056 |
1,311,605 | The feat of making the first transatlantic flight was somewhat eclipsed shortly afterwards by the first "nonstop" transatlantic flight by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown in a Vickers Vimy biplane, when they flew from Newfoundland to Ireland nonstop on 14–15 June 1919, in 16 hours and 27 minutes. Consequently, Alco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=393143 | 1,310,886 |
222,042 | In 1996, NASA funded Richard Stoner's research to develop a natural liquid biocontrol, known then as organic disease control (ODC), to prevent plant diseases and increase yields without the use of pesticides for closed-loop hydroponic systems. By 1997, Stoner's biocontrol experiments were conducted by NASA. BioServe S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1044136 | 221,933 |
159,997 | In humans, functional MRI studies have reported finding areas homologous to the monkey mirror neuron system in the inferior frontal cortex, close to Broca's area, one of the hypothesized language regions of the brain. This has led to suggestions that human language evolved from a gesture performance/understanding syste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1168317 | 159,912 |
82,522 | "Folic acid fortification" is a process where synthetic folic acid is added to wheat flour or other foods with the intention of promoting public health through increasing blood folate levels in the populace. It is used as it is more stable during processing and storage. After the discovery of the link between insuffici... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54117 | 82,488 |
480,679 | In November 2018 a group of Chinese scientists published research in the journal "Molecular Therapy" detailing their use of CRISPR/Cas9 technology to correct a single mistaken amino acid successfully in 16 out of 18 attempts in a human embryo. The unusual level of precision was achieved by the use of a base editor (BE)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53827714 | 480,435 |
1,188,713 | The basic assumption underlying the mathematical model of cladistics is a situation where species split neatly in bifurcating fashion. While such an assumption may hold on a larger scale (bar horizontal gene transfer, see above), speciation is often much less orderly. Research since the cladistic method was introduced ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3986130 | 1,188,081 |
47,208 | The first Ryzen 7 (1700, 1700X, and 1800X) processors debuted in early March 2017 and were generally well received by hardware reviewers. Ryzen was the first brand new architecture from AMD in five years, and without very much initial fine-tuning or optimization, it ran generally well for reviewers. Initial Ryzen chips... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52580774 | 47,189 |
683,101 | Wainwright's "Pictorial Guides" have been in continuous publication since they were written and have sold more than two million copies. Although a number of more up-to-date guides are on the market, his books remain among the most popular for their depth, detail and unique style. His division of the Lake District into ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172652 | 682,745 |
2,139,245 | Irving Langmuir accurately described the geometric structure of a monolayer film on water in 1917, work for which he would be later awarded the Nobel prize in chemistry. The evaporation suppressing properties of these materials were first reported by Rideal in the 1920s In the 1940s Langmuir and Schaefer quantified the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37389962 | 2,138,015 |
791,534 | Early sonobuoys had limited range, limited battery life and were overwhelmed by the noise of the ocean. They first appeared during World War II, in which they first were used in July 1942 by RAF Coastal Command under the code name 'High Tea', the first squadron to use them operationally being No. 210 Squadron RAF, oper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1173640 | 791,109 |
1,541,149 | "Principles of Electronics" presents a broad spectrum of topics, such as atomic structure, Kirchhoff's laws, energy, power, introductory circuit analysis techniques, Thevenin's theorem, the maximum power transfer theorem, electric circuit analysis, magnetism, resonance, control relays, relay logic, semiconductor diodes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10781044 | 1,540,276 |
1,390,265 | As the Australian-built Beaufort was to be fitted with Pratt & Whitney R-1830 engines instead of the Bristol Taurus originally installed, the aircraft required several design changes, this partially accounting for the delay between the initial order and the first flight of the first aircraft in August 1941 (a Bristol-b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13273044 | 1,389,494 |
730,591 | Resorbable ceramics are similar to bioactive ceramics in their interaction with the body, but the main difference lies in the extent to which the dissolution occurs. Resorbable ceramics are intended to gradually dissolve entirely, all the while new tissue grows in its stead. The architecture of these materials has beco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=251061 | 730,206 |
157,511 | Until 2008 there were "inadequately known and misunderstood type species belonging to the Cyclostome Bryozoan family Oncousoeciidae." Modern research and experiments have been done using low-vacuum scanning electron microscopy of uncoated type material to critically examine and perhaps revise the taxonomy of three gene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3416 | 157,439 |
458,338 | Since the series' inception, gameplay in the majority of mainline "Final Fantasy" titles has followed certain conventions of the role-playing genre. Players take control of a party of characters, commanding anywhere between three and eight during battles. Players must face a variety of enemies who continually try to da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50576117 | 458,114 |
1,656,537 | After the conclusion of the Social War, certain of Rome's eastern provinces became under threat of invasion and it was necessary to raise an army to counter the threat. The choice before the Senate was to put either Consul Marius or Consul Sulla in command of an army. There was already a fierce rivalry between the two,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7968922 | 1,655,604 |
1,888,975 | The journal was created with the purpose of collecting all the latest developments in the numerous subsidiary fields of aerospace engineering - including dynamics, structures, flight mechanics, materials, vibrations, aeroelasticity, acoustics, propulsion, avionics, wind engineering, and hydrodynamics - and condensing t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50078253 | 1,887,892 |
2,028,195 | Genetic studies have shown that there is good dispersal across the range of this species, however high levels of inbreeding were detected between some populations in the central wheatbelt region of WA, indicating that habitat fragmentation and salinity may be restricting gene flow. A comprehensive study of populations ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12391300 | 2,027,028 |
10,760 | With computer security, there comes a need for professionals, or people who have educational experience in the different fields of this profession to help protect networks, databases, and computer systems from internal and external threats that could potentially cause harm. With technology getting more sophisticated, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36674345 | 10,755 |
2,052,508 | "Pry" won the Electronic Literature Organization's award for best creative work, the New Media Writing Prize, and was listed as one of Apple's 25 best apps of 2015. Pry has been profoundly influential in the fields of Electronic literature and digital narrative. Writing for "The Cambridge Companion to Twenty-First Cent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67491438 | 2,051,327 |
1,052,604 | Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (1999) is a book by Charles Petzold that seeks to teach how personal computers work at a hardware and software level. In the preface to the 2000 softcover edition, Petzold wrote that his goal was for readers to understand how computers work at a concrete level... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12215865 | 1,052,058 |
503,586 | In the early 2000s, co-stimulatory domains such as CD28 or 4-1BB were added to first generation CAR's CD3ζ intracellular domain. Termed second generation CARs, these constructs showed greater persistence and improved tumor clearance in pre-clinical models. Clinical trials in the early 2010s using second generation CARs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1624240 | 503,328 |
1,434,212 | He traveled extensively throughout Europe, furthering his knowledge of plants. Clusius was among the first to study the flora of Austria, under the auspices of Maximilian II. He was the first botanist to climb the Ötscher and the Schneeberg in Lower Austria, which was also the first documented ascent of the latter. His... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=691873 | 1,433,408 |
1,482,132 | Steroid-induced osteoporosis is osteoporosis arising from the use of glucocorticoids (a class of steroid hormones) analogous to Cushing's syndrome but involving mainly the axial skeleton. The synthetic glucocorticoid prescription drug prednisone is a main candidate after prolonged intake. Bisphosphonates are beneficial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13399361 | 1,481,297 |
856,168 | From 1974 through the mid-1980s the United States government worked with industry to advance the technology and enable large commercial wind turbines. A series of NASA wind turbines were developed under a program to create a utility-scale wind turbine industry in the U.S., with funding from the National Science Foundat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10717709 | 855,713 |
195,788 | Total library collections at UCR comprise more than 2 million volumes, 14,017 electronic journals, 23,000 serial subscriptions, and 1.7 million microformats. Two large, four-story libraries house most of the physical collections. The Rivera library was constructed in 1954 and named after Tomás Rivera in 1985. It seats ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230311 | 195,688 |
1,658,740 | In 2008, S Heim et al. was one of the first studies not to just compare dyslexics with a non dyslexic control, but to go further and compare the different cognitive sub groups with a non dyslexic control group. Different theories conceptualise dyslexia as either a phonological, attentional, auditory, magnocellular, or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23029636 | 1,657,807 |
1,526,250 | During plant evolution the WRKY family has dramatically expanded, which is proposed to be a result of through duplication. Some species including Arabidopsis thaliana, rice (Oryza sativa), and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) have WRKY groups which dramatically expanded and diversified in recent evolutionary history. Howe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45214668 | 1,525,387 |
1,735,879 | In 1871 the university and the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, led by Nicholas Wood, established the College of Physical Sciences in Newcastle upon Tyne. £20,000 was raised by public subscription, and the university made an annual grant of £1,000, covering the salaries of professors in ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26517318 | 1,734,902 |
1,627,778 | A recently published retrospective study by a team from Beijing Chao-Yang Hospital in Beijing, China, supported three of the risk factors listed for RA-ILD and identified an additional risk factor. In that study of 550 RA patients, logistic regression analysis of data collected on the 237 (43%) with ILD revealed that a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29640729 | 1,626,860 |
1,419,159 | In 1950–1951, James Rainwater and Aage Bohr had developed models of the atomic nucleus which began to take into account the behaviour of the individual nucleons. These models, which moved beyond the simpler liquid drop treatment of the nucleus as having effectively no internal structure, were the first models which cou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396657 | 1,418,360 |
2,116,193 | The idea that translation and translocation occur simultaneously except in some yeasts was confirmed via microsomes. Microsomes are small vesicles of rough endoplasmic reticulum's membranes formed after disruption of the organelle via homogenation. Homogenation is physical disruption of cells. Microsomes form after hom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21151506 | 2,114,976 |
2,112,219 | Collins was born and grew up in New Jersey, the son of Lester Collins and Anna Mary Albertson. He majored in English at Princeton University, but transferred to Harvard where he majored in architecture, graduating in 1938. He then studied landscape architecture at Harvard, traveling in 1940 to East Asia with John Ormsb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66876087 | 2,111,004 |
2,054,680 | The SRTM Water Body Data (SWBD) is a geographical dataset (2003) encoding high-resolution worldwide coastline outlines in a vector format, published by NASA and designed for use in geographic information systems and mapping applications. It was created by BAE Systems ADR for the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23993297 | 2,053,497 |
941,428 | Collective housing projects that were built included Ivan Nikolaev's Communal House of the Textile Institute (Ordzhonikidze St, Moscow, 1929–1931), and Ginzburg's Moscow Gosstrakh flats and, most famously, his Narkomfin Building. Flats were built in a Constructivist idiom in Kharkiv, Moscow and Leningrad and in smaller... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6795854 | 940,926 |
1,726,575 | Symptoms of sugarcane mosaic virus include intense mottling throughout the laminar region of the plant, characterized by discoloration of the plants leaves, and growth stunting. In maize, the infection occurs first in the youngest leaves with symptoms such as irregular, light or dark green mosaic coloring developing al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12458190 | 1,725,604 |
745,914 | Astronomy in the Indian subcontinent dates back to the period of Indus Valley Civilisation during 3rd millennium BCE, when it was used to create calendars. As the Indus Valley civilization did not leave behind written documents, the oldest extant Indian astronomical text is the Vedanga Jyotisha, dating from the Vedic p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14021 | 745,520 |
1,910,230 | George Field (1777?–1854), was an English chemist. He was born in or about 1777 at Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, of a family long settled in that town, and was educated at St. Peter's school there. When about eighteen years of age he came to London to seek a profession. He thought he saw an opening in the careful applica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31130886 | 1,909,132 |
745,811 | There continues to be a very practical problem with diagnosis of prion diseases, including BSE and CJD. They have an incubation period of months to decades during which there are no symptoms, even though the pathway of converting the normal brain PrP protein into the toxic, disease-related PrP form has started. At pres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=235248 | 745,417 |
941,586 | The need for the system was promptly demonstrated when Supreme Commander Kaiser Wilhelm II proposed to concentrate against Russia, not France. Chief of the General Staff Helmuth von Moltke the Younger and Generalquartiermeister, Hermann von Stein convinced him that this was unthinkable because the thousands of orders c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=438600 | 941,084 |
861,689 | LISA will be able to detect the gravitational waves from the merger of a pair of (super)massive black holes with a chirp mass between 10 and 10 solar masses all the way back to their earliest formation at redshift around "z" ≈ 15. The most conservative population models expect at least a few such events to happen each ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=364369 | 861,230 |
476,529 | Alphavirus is a genus of RNA viruses, the sole genus in the "Togaviridae" family. Alphaviruses belong to group IV of the Baltimore classification of viruses, with a positive-sense, single-stranded RNA genome. There are 32 alphaviruses, which infect various vertebrates such as humans, rodents, fish, birds, and larger ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2734429 | 476,289 |
1,649,510 | Forel realized from experiments that neurons were the basic elements of the nervous system. He found that the neuromuscular junction communicated by mere contact and did not require the anastomosis of fibres. This came to be called the "Contact Theory of Forel". The word "neuron" was coined by Wilhelm von Waldeyer who ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=583572 | 1,648,578 |
674,881 | In 1961, with the Mini gaining popularity, Issigonis was promoted to Technical Director of BMC. He continued to be responsible for his original "XC" projects. "XC/9002" became "ADO16" and was launched as the Morris 1100 with the Hydrolastic interconnected suspension system in August 1962. "XC/9001" became "ADO17" and w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230661 | 674,528 |
1,502,871 | This technology has not received approval for clinical trial because of the high immunogenicity of cells loaded in the capsules. They secrete cytokines and produce a severe inflammatory reaction at the implantation site around the capsules, in turn leading to a decrease in viability of the encapsulated cells. One promi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29578326 | 1,502,025 |
1,186,859 | Stafa argues that the high rate of survival must also be attributed to a more complicated combination of factors. She cites the failure of the German occupational authorities to acquire detailed lists of Jews living in Albania-proper, the inaction of the Italian occupational authorities, as well as individual altruism,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39141908 | 1,186,230 |
1,431,206 | In Eulerian simulations, time and space are divided into a discrete grid and the continuous differential equations of motion (such as the Navier–Stokes equation) are discretized into finite-difference equations. The discrete equations are in general more diffusive than the original differential equations, so that the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2785898 | 1,430,402 |
2,164,612 | Boletus amyloideus is a rare species of bolete fungus in the family Boletaceae. It was described as new to science in 1975 by mycologist Harry D. Thiers, from collections made in California. It fruit bodies have a convex to somewhat flattened reddish-brown cap measuring in diameter. The pore surface on the cap undersid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47710914 | 2,163,375 |
632,730 | Structured cabling design and installation is governed by a set of standards that specify wiring data centers, offices, and apartment buildings for data or voice communications using various kinds of cable, most commonly category 5e (Cat 5e), category 6 (Cat 6), and fiber optic cabling and modular connectors. These sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1604592 | 632,392 |
117,477 | Students interested in studying outside of a particular major can apply to enroll in the bachelor's degree with Individual Concentration (BDIC) program. This is a unique program which allows students to design their own area of study. A BDIC concentration must be interdisciplinary, drawing from at least three fields or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=248437 | 117,432 |
633,108 | While disruption of identity is not a common goal for neurotechnologies, some techniques can create unwanted shifts that range in severity. For instance, deep brain stimulation is commonly used as treatment for Parkinson's disease but can have side effects that touch on the concept of identity, such as loss of voice mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=987320 | 632,770 |
1,306,976 | Clement accepted an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Florida in Gainesville, Florida, where he ran for coach Mike Holloway's Florida Gators track and field team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition in 2004 and 2005. At the end of his freshman year in 2004, he won the NCAA outdo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1601327 | 1,306,260 |
1,877,488 | Fur farming and the manufacture of fake fur both stress the environment. Fur farms use natural fur to create commercial fur products, and fake fur is obtained from other resources. Fur farms implement sustainable, efficient operating practices to mature minks, raccoons and foxes, using animal waste as additional fuel t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59850920 | 1,876,410 |
1,754,975 | Wearable technology incorporating multi-axis accelerometry or inertial motion units (IMU) are common place in a broad range of health and fitness tracking applications. Various commercially available wearable and bar mounted accelerometer devices have been validated to measure and track velocity in real time across a r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68101123 | 1,753,985 |
858,437 | The Brazilian Navy had divided into two distinct factions, based on the size of the main battery. The outgoing naval minister favoured an increase over the 12-inch guns mounted on board the "Minas Geraes" class, while his incoming counterpart, Admiral Marques Leão, favoured keeping the smaller but faster-firing gun. Wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=872892 | 857,979 |
1,220,391 | However, the defense industry would soon experience problems arise from its own rapid development. As the country was under a military dictatorship at the time, policies and decision makings related to the defense industry was highly centralized under President Park and his technocrats in the Blue House, especially O W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66301957 | 1,219,737 |
1,933,416 | The research institute is a branch of Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) one of the largest technological universities in India, having 186 colleges affiliated to it with undergraduate (UG) courses in 28 disciplines and postgraduate (PG) programs in 71 disciplines. The intake at UG level is nearly 67,100 stude... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24773795 | 1,932,308 |
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