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2,009,481 | The FHI-aims software package is an all-electron, full-potential electronic structure code utilizing numeric atom-centered basis functions for its electronic structure calculations. The localized basis set enables the accurate treatment of all electrons on the same footing in periodic and non-periodic systems without r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59872034 | 2,008,329 |
1,108,350 | The details for calculating RMR are given by Edumine and provide a series of tables for RMR determination while the latest charts for the same purpose are given in the references and further reading. In particular, the charts enclosed here for the RMR parameters intact rock strength and the combined parameters RQD and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31172510 | 1,107,786 |
1,946,951 | Due to the stressed relationship between Israel and its neighbors, Israel has always attempted to acquire intelligence from various sources. During the late 60s it was thought that the IDF received satellite imagery from the US; however the resolution was degraded, the coverage was limited, and it was not in real-time.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41133206 | 1,945,838 |
1,674,410 | The 2012–13 North Carolina Tar Heels men's basketball team represented the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team's head coach was Roy Williams, who is in his 10th season as UNC's head men's basketball coach. They played their home games at the Dean ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35293769 | 1,673,468 |
1,582,589 | Stone's studies have been directed toward heat transfer and mass transfer problems involving convection, diffusion and surface reactions. He has made contributions to a wide range of problems involving effects of surface tension, buoyancy, fluid rotation, and surfactants. He has also studied problems concerning the flo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5060984 | 1,581,699 |
48,154 | A random-access memory is the most regular type of integrated circuit; the highest density devices are thus memories; but even a microprocessor will have memory on the chip. (See the regular array structure at the bottom of the first image.) Although the structures are intricate – with widths which have been shrinking ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15150 | 48,134 |
1,584,449 | The preliminary GISP field work started in 1971 at Dye 3 (), where a 372 meter deep, 10.2 cm diameter core was recovered. After this, annual field expeditions were carried out to drill intermediate depth cores at various locations on the ice sheet. The first was a 398 m core at Milcent and another was a 405 m core at t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1770478 | 1,583,559 |
726,552 | Sulphur dioxide (SO) absorbs strongly in the ultraviolet wavelengths and has low background concentrations in the atmosphere. These characteristics make sulphur dioxide a good target for volcanic gas monitoring. It can be detected by satellite-based instruments, which allow for global monitoring, and by ground-based in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3060924 | 726,170 |
1,178,350 | Relying upon high-powered terrestrial radars (of up to one megawatt), radar astronomy is able to provide extremely accurate astrometric information on the structure, composition and movement of Solar System objects. This aids in forming long-term predictions of asteroid-Earth impacts, as illustrated by the object 99942... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=264337 | 1,177,726 |
616,780 | The Korean War was the first major conflict following World War II. New devices, including smaller radios and the helicopter were also introduced. Parachute drops, which tended to scatter a large number of men over the battlefield, were replaced by airmobile operations using helicopters to deliver men in a precise mann... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2909541 | 616,466 |
394,887 | Some shortcomings that make Xeon processors unsuitable for most consumer-grade desktop PCs include lower clock rates at the same price point (since servers run more tasks in parallel than desktops, core counts are more important than clock rates), usually an absence of an integrated graphics processing unit (GPU), and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=269920 | 394,692 |
1,769,453 | Despite the military's contribution to the industrial sector, in 1987 Chinese industry lagged far behind that of the industrialized nations. Much of industrial technology was severely outdated; severe energy shortages, transportation bottlenecks, and bureaucratic interference also hindered modernization. Although outpu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14189344 | 1,768,459 |
846,230 | Mati Aharoni, Offensive Security's co-founder, started the business around 2006 with his wife Iris. Offensive Security LLC was formed in 2008. The company was structured as Offensive Security Services, LLC in 2012 in North Carolina. In September 2019 the company received its first venture capital investment, from Spect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47936656 | 845,780 |
1,531,135 | Open science infrastructure represents a higher level of commitment on data sharing. They rely on significant and recurrent investments to ensure that data is effectively maintained and documented and "add value to data through metadata, provenance, classification, standards for data structures, and migration". Further... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31915311 | 1,530,269 |
1,994,397 | Klein has advanced the field of computer simulation and modelling of molecular systems over a broad front. His early works focused on developing pragmatic intermolecular force fields to be used in computer simulation Monte Carlo and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of molecular systems, such as water and aqueous sol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21633901 | 1,993,254 |
1,683,977 | In his 1954 Nature review, Rolf Hagedorn notes that readers should be familiar with the book differential, integral calculus, and linear algebra, saying "is not written for the layman interested in the history of science, and certainly does not belong to the category of popular science books." He praises the book for j... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65293114 | 1,683,033 |
1,784,482 | In 1975, Axel Fugl-Meyer noted that it is difficult to quantify the efficacy of different rehabilitation strategies because of the lack of a numerical scoring system. He and his colleagues developed an assessment scale to overcome this problem. The construction of this scale was based on the then existing knowledge abo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51885666 | 1,783,478 |
522,708 | The object, surrounded by a translucent coat, was initially spotted at about 4:00 am in the northeastern part of the sky below Ursa Major at an azimuth of about 40°. The initial brightness of the object was "apparently comparable to that of Venus". The object moved ascendantly towards Ursa Major. The course angle as de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36918866 | 522,436 |
1,490,078 | The mission's objective is to conduct astrophysical observations from the surface of the Moon, whose lack of atmosphere eliminates much of the need for costly adaptive optics technology. Also, since the Moon's days (about fourteen Earth days) have a dark sky, it allows for nonstop astronomical observations. Disadvantag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56885735 | 1,489,239 |
1,248,707 | The American term anti-trust arose not because the U.S. statutes had anything to do with ordinary trust law, but because the large American corporations used trusts to conceal the nature of their business arrangements. Big trusts became synonymous with big monopolies, the perceived threat to democracy and the free mark... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12870157 | 1,248,031 |
30,563 | The nomination in April 2005 of a new NASA Administrator, Michael D. Griffin, changed the situation, as Griffin stated he would consider a crewed servicing mission. Soon after his appointment Griffin authorized Goddard to proceed with preparations for a crewed Hubble maintenance flight, saying he would make the final d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40203 | 30,553 |
348,376 | The Holyrood campus, just off the Royal Mile, used to be the site for "Moray House Institute for Education" until it merged with the university on 1 August 1998. The university has since extended this campus. The buildings include redeveloped and extended Sports Science, Physical Education and Leisure Management facili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23592200 | 348,194 |
1,091,008 | In the 1930s, the holotype of "Nyasasaurus" was collected in Parrington's locality B36 from the Lifua Member of the Manda Formation, Ruhuhu Basin near Lake Nyasa in southern Tanzania by Francis Rex Parrington. Other fossils from the same locality included those of cynodonts, dicynodonts, and rhynchosaurs. Most, includi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5045322 | 1,090,448 |
624,699 | UPLB hosts a number of international research institutes, including the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture, the ASEAN Center for Biodiversity, the International Rice Research Institute, the World Fish Center, the World Agroforestry Center, and the Asia Rice Foundation. The AP... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=719152 | 624,366 |
306,919 | There was much confusion between the meanings of these terms throughout the late nineteenth to mid-twentieth centuries. Whereas the term "fluorescence" tended to refer to luminescence that ceased immediately (by human-eye standards) when removed from excitation, "phosphorescence" referred to virtually any substance tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=309252 | 306,755 |
2,163,938 | In 2001, he started to work on a concept that IBM’s 1986 Nobel laureate Gerd Binnig had originated, namely, to use atomic force microscopy to not only image surfaces, but to also manipulate the surface of soft materials, such as polymers, and write information in the form of nanometer-scale indentations. This concept i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49141283 | 2,162,702 |
1,753,761 | In a Performance-based approach, the focus of all decisions, is on the required performance-in-use and on the evaluations and testing of building asset. Performance Based Building (PBB) is focused on performance required in use for the business processes and the needs of the users, and then on the evaluations and verif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25153936 | 1,752,771 |
220,845 | The purpose of the study was twofold: first, to produce a definitive treatise on the physical and psychological effects of prolonged, famine-like semi-starvation on healthy men, as well as subsequent effectiveness of dietary rehabilitation from this condition and, second, to use the scientific results produced to guide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10830607 | 220,736 |
1,321,642 | After annihilation any remaining dislocations can align themselves into ordered arrays where their individual contribution to the stored energy is reduced by the overlapping of their strain fields. The simplest case is that of an array of edge dislocations of identical Burger's vector. This idealized case can be produc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4334961 | 1,320,916 |
1,599,311 | "Heavy alcohol use" was defined as "usually" having 5/4 drinks or more on the days that the person drinks in the past 30 days (American) or 2–3 months (Canadian). Among past year drinkers, 41% and 35% of American and Canadian students, respectively, reported participated in this behavior. Among the total sample, it was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31196751 | 1,598,411 |
1,577,942 | The Ca.113's capabilities were demonstrated by Mario De Bernardi's win of the aerobatic trophy at the 1931 Cleveland Air Races with engine Walter Castor and its use in setting a number of aerial records, most importantly a world altitude record of 14,433 m (47,352 ft) set by Renato Donati on 11 April 1934 using a modif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14528481 | 1,577,053 |
516,415 | The Facilities logistics element is composed of a variety of planning activities, all of which are directed toward ensuring that all required permanent or semi-permanent operating and support facilities (for instance, training, field and depot maintenance, storage, operational, and testing) are available concurrently w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2379782 | 516,146 |
1,739,594 | Due to the ability of Ang to protect motoneurons (MNs), causal links between Ang mutations and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) are likely. The angiogenic factors associated with Ang may protect the central nervous system and MNs directly. Experiments with wild type Ang found that it slows MN degeneration in mice th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3512034 | 1,738,614 |
1,562,245 | The Barstow Community College district was established in September 1959 by the citizens of the upper High Desert region of Southern California. Evening classes began the next year at Barstow High School, followed by the first day of classes in fall 1962 at Barstow First Methodist Church. The campus was constructed in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14145459 | 1,561,358 |
1,983,993 | Recent computational analysis of the effects of a signaling protein's concentration on the presence of an ultrasensitive response has come to complementary conclusions about the influence of a signaling protein's concentration on the conversion of a graded response to an ultrasensitive one. Rather than focus on the gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33785040 | 1,982,854 |
370,842 | EU Directive 2012/19/EU regulates WEEE and lays down measures to safeguard the ecosystem and human health by inhibiting or shortening the impact of the generation and management of waste of WEEE. (2012/19/EU, (1)) The Directive takes a specific approach to the product design of EEE. It states in Article 4 that Member S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3887690 | 370,648 |
255,711 | During the next few weeks, the team created a computer program which could evaluate the RCS of possible designs. The RCS-prediction software was called "ECHO 1". As tests with the program proceeded, it became apparent that edge calculations by the program were incorrect due to diffraction. To overcome this, Overholser ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1253187 | 255,577 |
410,354 | Cell proliferation is the major function in the immune system. Often it is required to analyse the proliferative nature of the cells in order to make some conclusions. One such assay to determine the cell proliferation is the tracking dye carboxyfluorescein diacetate succinimidyl ester (CFSE). It helps to monitor proli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=501216 | 410,152 |
609,217 | Pneumatization is extensive in the skulls and vertebrae of the more advanced members. Oviraptorosauria have thick, U-shaped furculae and a large sternal plates that are wider (together) than they are long, unlike in birds and dromaeosaurs. The arms are around half the length of the legs and over half the length of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1575376 | 608,906 |
1,914,614 | In the second edition of his "Classical Mechanics", published in 1980, Herbert Goldstein wrote that this was a comprehensive, albeit outdated, treatment of analytical mechanics with discussions of topics and side notes rarely found elsewhere, such as the examination of central forces are soluble in terms of elliptic fu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65496619 | 1,913,515 |
1,352,433 | In July 2005, two of Taleyarkhan's students at Purdue University published evidence confirming the previous result. They used the same acoustic chamber, the same deuterated acetone fluid and a similar bubble nucleation system. In this report, no neutron-sonoluminescence coincidence was attempted. An article in "Nature"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42739 | 1,351,687 |
1,940,271 | Dionne began as an assistant professor at Stanford in March, 2010. In 2016, she was promoted to Associate Professor, and became an affiliate faculty of the Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute, Bio-X, and the Precourt Institute for Energy. In 2019, she joined the Department of Radiology as a courtesy faculty. In 2019-2021, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62684129 | 1,939,161 |
1,112,452 | The August 2007 collapse of the Interstate 35W Mississippi River bridge in Minneapolis brought renewed attention to the issue of truck weights and their relation to bridge stress. In November 2008, the National Transportation Safety Board determined there had been several reasons for the bridge's collapse, including (b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15581883 | 1,111,886 |
1,238,898 | In an article for IGN, Pete Hines challenged the statements, providing an alternate rationale for the content packages' absence. Firstly, he stated, the expansions were removed to avoid giving a PS3 player an early advantage over other consoles' players. Secondly, he said, the game designers were unfamiliar with the Pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12164267 | 1,238,231 |
363,544 | Other possible adverse effects include neuropathy, pancreatic and liver dysfunction, and sexual dysfunction. The rate at which such events occur has been widely debated, in part because the risk/benefit ratio of statins in low-risk populations is highly dependent on the rate of adverse events. A Cochrane meta-analysis ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=178197 | 363,354 |
277,176 | Among non-perturbative approaches to QCD, the most well established is lattice QCD. This approach uses a discrete set of spacetime points (called the lattice) to reduce the analytically intractable path integrals of the continuum theory to a very difficult numerical computation that is then carried out on supercomputer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25264 | 277,026 |
1,651,935 | Green pitcherplants are listed as Endangered on the United States Endangered Species Act and there is an Action Plan for their recovery. The Recovery Plan focuses on the effective protection of existing populations, as the most important threat to the future of the green pitcher plant is over-collection. Collection is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5532393 | 1,651,003 |
1,353,217 | Portable devices are also available for numerous spectral ranges covering UV to NIR and offer many different package styles and sizes. Hand held systems with integrated displays typically have built in optics, and an onboard computer with pre-programmed software. Mini spectrometers are also able to be used hand held, o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1326120 | 1,352,470 |
20,847 | Electronics deals with electrical circuits that involve active electrical components such as vacuum tubes, transistors, diodes, optoelectronics, sensors and integrated circuits, and associated passive interconnection technologies. The nonlinear behaviour of active components and their ability to control electron flows ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9550 | 20,838 |
294,646 | Nudibranch molluscs are the most commonly cited examples of aposematism in marine ecosystems, but the evidence for this has been contested, mostly because (1) there are few examples of mimicry among species, (2) many species are nocturnal or cryptic, and (3) bright colours at the red end of the colour spectrum are rapi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2507104 | 294,486 |
275,569 | In 1978, two NCI researchers published a report showing taxol was mildly effective in leukaemic mice. In November 1978, taxol was shown to be effective in xenograft studies. Meanwhile, taxol began to be well known in the cell biology, as well as the cancer community, with a publication in early 1979 by Susan B. Horwitz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36796 | 275,419 |
1,308,761 | Most commonly, plant transformation is carried out using "Agrobacterium tumefaciens". The protein of interest is often expressed under the control of the cauliflower mosaic virus 35S promoter (CaMV35S), a powerful constitutive promoter for driving expression in plants. Localization signals may be attached to the protei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1749134 | 1,308,045 |
13,722 | Variations appeared in "Mother Goose" and continue to be taught at schools. The unhelpfulness of such involved mnemonics has been parodied as "Thirty days hath September/ But all the rest I can't remember" but it has also been called "probably the only sixteenth-century poem most ordinary citizens know by heart". A com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23306251 | 13,717 |
1,559,508 | One report on a large series of patients followed for six years, presented at a symposium in 1985, gave clear and complete information regarding the relationship between valve calcification and the age of the patients at the time of valve implantation. The authors showed that in the groups of patients aged between 10 a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26851461 | 1,558,622 |
29,521 | Nicolas Flamel is a well-known alchemist, but a good example of pseudepigraphy, the practice of giving your works the name of someone else, usually more famous. Although the historical Flamel existed, the writings and legends assigned to him only appeared in 1612. Flamel was not a religious scholar as were many of his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573 | 29,511 |
594 | Curry's first experience with the United States national team came at the 2007 FIBA Under-19 World Championship, where he helped Team USA capture the silver medal. In 2010, he was selected to the senior squad, playing limited minutes at the 2010 FIBA World Championship (known later as FIBA Basketball World Cup) as the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5608488 | 594 |
592,801 | During the beginning of the Triassic Period, the earth consisted of a giant landmass known as Pangea, which covered about a quarter of earth's surface. Towards the end of the period, continental drift occurred which separated Pangea. At this time, polar ice was not present because of the large differences between the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3029097 | 592,497 |
1,944,102 | The 2020–21 Western Kentucky Hilltoppers men's basketball team represented Western Kentucky University during the 2020–21 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Hilltoppers were led by head coach Rick Stansbury in his fifth season and played their home games at E. A. Diddle Arena in Bowling Green, Kentucky as sev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66102989 | 1,942,990 |
1,649,566 | The 2017 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=55993183 | 1,648,634 |
1,870,391 | Transcription factor AP-2 gamma is involved in early development, specifically morphogenesis - the formation of shape. AP2-gamma can regulate gene transcription by interacting with viral and cellular enhancing components and binding to the sequence 5'-GCCNNNGGC-3’. AP2-gamma activates genes that are important for place... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18442793 | 1,869,314 |
327,508 | A high land value tax would discourage speculators from holding valuable natural opportunities (like urban real estate) unused or only partially used. Henry George claimed this would have many benefits, including the reduction or elimination of tax burdens from poorer neighborhoods and agricultural districts; the elimi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=368329 | 327,334 |
805,599 | The most studied earthquake faults (such as the Nankai megathrust, the Wasatch fault, and the San Andreas fault) appear to have distinct segments. The "characteristic earthquake" model postulates that earthquakes are generally constrained within these segments. As the lengths and other properties of the segments are fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231137 | 805,170 |
31,271 | The main benefits that companies will gain from implementing postmodern ERP strategy are speed and flexibility when reacting to unexpected changes in business processes or on the organizational level. With the majority of applications having a relatively loose connection, it is fairly easy to replace or upgrade them wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9310 | 31,261 |
100,312 | ESEM is especially useful for non-metallic and biological materials because coating with carbon or gold is unnecessary. Uncoated plastics and elastomers can be routinely examined, as can uncoated biological samples. This is useful because coating can be difficult to reverse, may conceal small features on the surface of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28034 | 100,267 |
996,432 | In April 1960, Texas Instruments announced multivibrator #502 as the world's first integrated circuit available on the market. The company assured that contrary to the competitors they actually sell their product, at a price of US$450 per unit or US$300 for quantities larger than 100 units. However, the sales began onl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37259051 | 995,914 |
122,552 | In July 2016, MBDA further proposed a new variant of Brimstone 2 for the AH-64E Apache. It would specifically be for non-armoured targets in land and sea domains, but will not compromise Brimstone's anti-armour capability. It will have a launch aircraft cockpit-selectable trajectory, which will allow line-of-sight enga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=780295 | 122,503 |
1,974,684 | The Drexel University Sacramento campus was located on the Capitol Mall, next to the Tower Bridge over the Sacramento River, in downtown Sacramento, California. It was opened in 2008 as the Drexel University Sacramento Center for Graduate Studies, and renamed Drexel University Sacramento in 2012. In June 2011 the first... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6937315 | 1,973,547 |
794,770 | Since 2014, Gisela Mir and Mark Biffen have been developing a small-scale edible forest garden ( in Catalan) in Cardedeu, a village near Barcelona, Catalunya. During their previous years of Permaculture training they were introduced to various edible forest garden projects in Wales and other parts of the UK. It is inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155496 | 794,345 |
1,952,333 | Gauss was succeeded by Wilhelm Weber and Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, who served as provisional directors (though neither was an astronomer), and Dirichlet was replaced, upon his death, by Gauss's former assistant, Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Klinkerfues. In 1868, the research institution was divided into theoretical an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27078541 | 1,951,212 |
1,769,385 | By the early 1970s, major generator production centers in Harbin, Shanghai, Beijing, and Deyang, had built both hydro and thermal generators as large as 300 megawatts. There also were numerous small and medium-sized plants producing generators in the 3.2 to 80-megawatt range. As of 1986, China manufactured condenser-ty... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14189344 | 1,768,391 |
1,876,843 | The idea to create a site of astronomical research at Skinakas was conceived in the summer of 1984. Soon after the construction of a road to the mountain peak commenced. The University of Crete, the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH, former Research Center of Crete) and the Max-Planck-Institut für ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54382576 | 1,875,765 |
568,022 | Within this specific study, 22% of physician mothers and 24% of physician daughters identified themselves as being an ethnic minority. These women reported experiencing instances of exclusion from career opportunities as a result of their race and gender. According to this article, females tend to have lessened confide... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14457458 | 567,732 |
309,632 | At the end of World War II, the US submarine force found itself in an awkward position. The 111 remaining "Balao"-class submarines, designed to fight an enemy that no longer existed, were obsolete despite the fact they were only one to three years old. The German Type XXI U-boat, with a large battery capacity, streamli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444621 | 309,467 |
1,847,325 | This gene belongs to the splicing factor SR family of genes . U2AF1 is a subunit of the U2 Auxiliary Factor complex alongside a larger subunit, U2AF2. U2AF1 is a non-snRNP protein required for the binding of U2 snRNP to the pre-mRNA branch site. This gene encodes a small (~35 kDa) subunit which plays a critical role in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14754479 | 1,846,268 |
1,199,761 | During the Late Triassic dinosaurs played only a minor role in terrestrial life; a fact that would change by the Early Jurassic. "Staurikosaurus" coexisted with large rauisuchian archosaurs like "Rauisuchus", which were the top carnivores in their ecosystem "Staurikosaurus"s paleocommunity included medium- to large-siz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1091923 | 1,199,120 |
1,138,971 | Brown joined Cheltenham Town after being signed by management team John Ward and Keith Downing, who had been on the coaching staff at Molineux. He made his senior debut on 7 January 2006, in a 2–2 draw with Chester City at Whaddon Road in the Third Round of the FA Cup. He made his debut in League Two three days later i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12777959 | 1,138,378 |
1,427,112 | For example, in FreeBSD, in order to access the configuration of Adaptec RAID controllers, users are required to enable Linux compatibility layer, and use the Linux tooling from Adaptec, potentially compromising the stability, reliability and security of their setup, especially when taking the long term view in mind. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=475505 | 1,426,309 |
1,259,225 | The UCLA student body in those years gained a radical reputation. In 1934, Provost Ernest Moore declared UCLA "the worst hotbed of communism in the U.S", and suspended five members of the ASUCLA student government for allegedly "using their offices to assist the revolutionary activities of the National Student League, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12226819 | 1,258,538 |
1,882,958 | In 1746, following the death of Colin Maclaurin, the chair as Professor of Mathematics became vacant at Edinburgh University and just over one year later Stewart left the ministry to become Professor of Mathematics. Publication of his best known work, "Some General Theorems of Considerable use in the Higher Parts of Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=409327 | 1,881,877 |
1,576,382 | For state X, there are six values, two of which are outliers. That of Flannery is an old, imprecise theoretical estimate. That of Tellinghuisen et al. is the first experimental determination made in 1976. Seven years later the same team corrected this value and closed the gap on the most recent estimates. The remaining... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36182278 | 1,575,493 |
2,153,599 | Beers’ discoveries include: (1) The identification of the first metal-poor stars with measured abundances of Uranium, enabling the determination of a radioactive decay age limit on the Universe, (2) a class of stars known as carbon-enhanced metal-poor (CEMP) stars, a subset of which are thought to reflect the nucleosyn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53835714 | 2,152,368 |
307,909 | From the late 1940s through the mid-1970s, extensive research and testing was conducted on LSD. During a 15-year period beginning in 1950, research on LSD and other hallucinogens generated over 1,000 scientific papers, several dozen books, and six international conferences. Overall, LSD was prescribed as treatment to o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1119225 | 307,744 |
851,917 | If, in managing the talk, teachers apply 'constructive power' (Saxena, 2009) and exploit students' responses as occasions for joint exploration, rather than simply evaluating them, then the classroom talk becomes dialogic (Nystrand, 1997). The pedagogic orientation of this talk becomes 'participation orientation', in c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=263104 | 851,463 |
1,204,458 | "The Collegian" has been the school student newspaper of record at Baltimore City College since it was first published as a bi-weekly newspaper in 1929. There have been other similar publications, such as "The Oriole", the student magazine which started printing in 1912, however "The Collegian" is oldest, continuous st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=713949 | 1,203,813 |
1,618,166 | The PLC-δ subfamily consists of three family members, δ1, 2, and 3. PLC-δ1 (85kDa) is the most well understood of the three. The enzyme is activated by high calcium levels generated by other PLC family members, and therefore functions as a calcium amplifier within the cell. Binding of its substrate PIP to the N-termina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3233543 | 1,617,253 |
1,817,335 | Like other GDGTs, crenarchaeol is a membrane lipid with distinct hydrophobic and hydrophilic regions. The long, nonpolar hydrocarbon chains are hydrophobic while the ether-linked glycerol head groups are polar and hydrophilic. In most organisms, the cell membrane consists of a lipid bilayer in which phospholipids arran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60421480 | 1,816,300 |
234,045 | The OpenBSD IPsec stack came later on and also was widely copied. In a letter which OpenBSD lead developer Theo de Raadt received on 11 Dec 2010 from Gregory Perry, it is alleged that Jason Wright and others, working for the FBI, inserted "a number of backdoors and side channel key leaking mechanisms" into the OpenBSD ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43342 | 233,926 |
216,194 | Illinois Tech continued to expand after the merger. As one of the first American universities to host a Navy V-12 program during World War II the school saw a large increase in students and expanded the Armour campus beyond its original . Two years before the merger, German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe joined the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=73299 | 216,086 |
210,921 | The deepest recorded oceanic trench measured to date is the Mariana Trench, near the Philippines, in the Pacific Ocean at . At such depths, water pressure is extreme and there is no sunlight, but some life still exists. A white flatfish, a shrimp and a jellyfish were seen by the American crew of the bathyscaphe "Triest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20021 | 210,814 |
1,515,102 | The Avery Coonley School (ACS), commonly called Avery Coonley, is an independent, coeducational day school serving academically gifted students in preschool through eighth grade (approximately ages 3 to 14), and is located in Downers Grove, DuPage County, Illinois. The school was founded in 1906 to promote the progress... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8052357 | 1,514,251 |
2,003,909 | To encourage close and constant interactions through sharing research with relevant industry enterprises, MCUT established the Industry-University Collaboration Center and the Innovation and Incubation Center. MCUT's contributions can be seen in both the quality and quantity of research produced. For the 2010–2011 peri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41454204 | 2,002,760 |
784,364 | Outside-out patching gives the experimenter the opportunity to examine the properties of an ion channel when it is isolated from the cell and exposed successively to different solutions on the extracellular surface of the membrane. The experimenter can perfuse the same patch with a variety of solutions in a relatively ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=634052 | 783,944 |
761,960 | When sperm reach the archegonia, fertilisation occurs, leading to the production of a diploid sporophyte. After fertilisation, the immature sporophyte within the archegonium develops three distinct regions: (1) a foot, which both anchors the sporophyte in place and receives nutrients from its "mother" plant, (2) a sphe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=367897 | 761,552 |
751,608 | Since 2003, Global Footprint Network has calculated the ecological footprint from UN data sources for the world as a whole and for over 200 nations (known as the National Footprint Accounts). The total footprint number of Earths needed to sustain the world's population at that level of consumption are also calculated. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=301500 | 751,210 |
1,169,365 | Lashley's most influential research centered around the cortical basis of learning and discrimination. He researched this by looking at the measurement of behavior before and after specific, carefully quantified, induced brain damage in rats. Lashley trained rats to perform specific tasks (seeking a food reward), then ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=538267 | 1,168,747 |
93,291 | Pain and agitation can worsen cerebral edema, acutely increase intracranial pressure (ICP), and should be controlled. Careful use of pain medication such as morphine or fentanyl can be used for analgesia. For those persons with decreased levels of consciousness, sedation is necessary for endotracheal intubation and mai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378518 | 93,250 |
1,808,726 | Beerling's investigations into vegetation interactions with past environments extend to those guided by the fossil remains of ancient polar forests. Through a creative combination of experiments simulating high CO₂ ancient polar environments, and modelling of forest biogeochemistry, his group's analyses helped define o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43094065 | 1,807,705 |
1,991,743 | On April 29, it was confirmed by Harris County that a 17-year-old girl from Fort Bend County attending Episcopal High School in Bellaire had contracted and recovered from the A/H1N1 swine flu. In compliance with the directives of the Harris County Public Health and Environmental Services Department, the school has been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23392449 | 1,990,600 |
1,498,582 | In all individuals suspected of having the symptomatic or silent disease, the diagnosis of TMD requires demonstrating the presence, in the platelet precursor cells of blood, bone marrow, or liver, of "GATA1" mutations that are projected to cause the gene to make GATA1-S but not GATAA1 transcription factors. Since these... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68511227 | 1,497,738 |
2,110,289 | Throughout the development of the learning modules and multimedia tools, Visionlearning has emphasized an importance on teaching science as a process, rather than “a simple set of facts and terms to be memorized.” This comes from an organizational ideology that understanding how scientific knowledge evolves better prep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27140072 | 2,109,075 |
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