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1,256,284 | The problem lies with squaring utilitarianism with egoism. Sidgwick believes that the basic principles of egoism (“Pursue your own greatest happiness”) and utilitarianism (“Promote the general happiness”) are both self-evident. Like many previous moralists, he argues that self-interest and morality coincide in the grea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25688571 | 1,255,600 |
1,178,541 | The 2020 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=66183360 | 1,177,917 |
1,298,580 | Firing was with coal, at just one end through a conventional locomotive single firedoor, and a single manual fireman. Owing to the single-ended firing and the predominantly longitudinal gasflow, compared to the Yarrow's normal through-bank gasflow, there was a pronounced temperature difference between the front and bac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25268306 | 1,297,867 |
1,171,137 | Because bicalutamide blocks the , like all antiandrogens, it can interfere with the androgen-mediated sexual differentiation of the genitalia (and brain) during prenatal development. In pregnant rats given bicalutamide at a dosage of 10 mg/kg/day (resulting in circulating drug levels approximately equivalent to two-thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55839628 | 1,170,518 |
1,316,127 | Laveran's report was published in 1881 in the "Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société médicale des hôpitaux de Paris", and in English in "The Lancet." He wrote:On the 20th October last, while examining by microscope the blood of a patient suffering from malarial fever I observed in the midst of the red blood corpuscles th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=240181 | 1,315,402 |
2,036,751 | In general, δZn values of various rocks and minerals do not appear to significantly vary. The δZn value of bulk silicate Earth (BSE) is +0.28 + 0.05‰. Fractionation of Zn isotopes by igneous processes is generally insignificant, and δZn values of basalt fall within the range of +0.2 to +0.3‰, encompassing the value for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63576316 | 2,035,576 |
1,168,389 | In 2020, Dagdeviren and her team created a tailored, electronic textile conformable suit (E-TeCS) to perform large-scale, multi-modal physiological (temperature, heart rate, and respiration) sensing "in vivo". The rapid advancement of electronic devices and fabrication technologies has further promoted the field of wea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61422095 | 1,167,771 |
1,350,108 | In 1874, Sophia Jex-Blake helped establish the London School of Medicine for Women but also continued campaigning and studying. The Medical Act (39 and 40 Vict, Ch. 41) soon followed, which was an act to repeal the previous statute while also permitting medical authorities to license all qualified applicants whatever t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1268891 | 1,349,362 |
946,168 | In 2004, Nilesh Dalvi and others noted that linear classifiers used in spam filters could be defeated by simple "evasion attacks" as spammers inserted "good words" into their spam emails. (Around 2007, some spammers added random noise to fuzz words within "image spam" in order to defeat OCR-based filters.) In 2006, Mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45049676 | 945,665 |
1,561,463 | At the NIH Clinical Center, clinical research participants—more than 480,000 since the hospital opened in 1953—are active partners in medical discovery. This partnership has resulted in a long list of medical milestones, including the development of chemotherapy; the first use of an immunotoxin to treat a malignancy; i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34438892 | 1,560,577 |
2,121,976 | Pitts enrolled as a chemistry student at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1939. He left during World War II, joining a group of young scientists who conducted classified chemical warfare field tests. Their work led to the development of more effective gas mask for Allied forces during the war. He returne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43334442 | 2,120,757 |
1,227,467 | Generally, such fibers are constructed by the same methods as other optical fibers: first, one constructs a "preform" on the scale of centimeters in size, and then heats the preform and draws it down to a much smaller diameter (often nearly as small as a human hair), shrinking the preform cross section but (usually) ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1004971 | 1,226,806 |
1,148,870 | Although evolutionary explanations may not affect the necessity for treatment, they can be directive or supportive of treatment, or make current treatment strategies more effective. Proposed benefits of taking an evolutionary perspective on mental disorders have largely come from integrating evolutionary explanations i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42449890 | 1,148,263 |
1,784,261 | During the mid-1970s, Ohshima lived near Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. His main occupation at this time was teaching physical education as a member of the faculty at Caltech. Ohshima has written two books on karate - "Shotokan Karate of America: The first twenty years" (1977) and "Notes on training" (1998) - and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5945344 | 1,783,257 |
140,907 | The two X-47Bs were initially planned to have a three-year test program with 50 tests at Edwards AFB and NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, culminating in sea trials in 2013. However, they performed so consistently that preliminary tests ended after 16 flights. The Navy decided to have them demonstrate carrier launches and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4908033 | 140,850 |
1,515,158 | Clinical trials are known to be one of the most valuable sources of data in evidence-based medicine. For a pharmaceutical, device, or procedure to be approved for regular use in the U.S., it must be rigorously tested in clinical trials, and demonstrate sufficient efficacy. Unfortunately clinical trials are also extreme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26450590 | 1,514,307 |
520,906 | In 1891, James Huff Stout, a Wisconsin State Senator and Menomonie resident, founded a manual training school, the first of several educational enterprises he launched in Menomonie. The Manual Training movement was an educational philosophy that influenced modern vocational education. In the United States, this philoso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=496737 | 520,635 |
1,057,278 | Mavalvala is often viewed as a role model for aspiring female scientists with roots in the Indian subcontinent. As a young child Mavalvala was frequently involved in handy work, and was not bound to stereotypical gender roles in subcontinent culture, due to the manner in which her sister and she were raised. Mavalvala ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42329340 | 1,056,729 |
1,548,666 | In November 2007 The Paul L. Foster School of Medicine celebrated a ribbon cutting for the second of the three buildings that will compose the medical school. This building was the Medical Education Building (MEB) of the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. According to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26709705 | 1,547,785 |
506,244 | A preliminary diagnosis can usually be made based on flock history, clinical signs and post-mortem (necropsy) examinations. However, definitive diagnosis can only be achieved by the specific detection and/or isolation and characterization of IBDV. Immunofluorescence or immunohistochemistry tests, based on anti-IBDV lab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2201837 | 505,981 |
183,075 | Even before the Hanford Site started up the B Reactor, the first of its three reactors, on September 15, 1944, Wheeler had been concerned that some nuclear fission products might turn out to be nuclear poisons, the accumulation of which would impede the ongoing nuclear chain reaction by absorbing many of the thermal ne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=327127 | 182,979 |
35,980 | On 30 June 1994, a fatal crash occurred during certification of the Pratt & Whitney engine when an A330 crashed near Toulouse. Both pilots and the five passengers died. The flight was designed to test autopilot response during a one-engine-off worst-case scenario with the centre of gravity near its aft limit. Shortly a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=164939 | 35,968 |
1,673,995 | In part to resolve this and related questions about the dangers of industrial accidents and popular fears of runaway events equivalent to Chernobyl and Bhopal disasters, and the more remote issue of ecophagy, grey goo and green goo (various potential disasters arising from runaway replicators, which could be built usin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=312671 | 1,673,053 |
1,417,735 | Over "E. goliath's" distribution range, especially in southeastern Australia, large bushfires are extremely frequent. Bushfires in this region causes considerable habitat loss, killing individual insects and potentially leading to ecosystem conversion. The increasing frequency and intensity of bushfires due to climate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17226628 | 1,416,936 |
1,010,741 | The game was released to very positive reviews and commercial success, selling more than 600,000 units on the PC DOS platform, not counting the later ports—for the Amiga platforms and the PlayStation—and re-releases. Half of the game's net sales were in the United States, a rarity for a European title at the time. Goll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=668164 | 1,010,220 |
681,363 | Black-figure vases were produced in Boeotia from the 6th to the 4th century BC. As late as the early 6th century BC many Boeotian painters were using the orientalizing outline technique. Afterward they oriented themselves closely on Attic production. Distinctions and attributions to one of the two regions are sometimes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1076046 | 681,007 |
1,873,338 | Born in Timaru, New Zealand, the son of a bootmaker, McKenzie was educated at various schools, the last being Palmerston North Boys' High School, before joining the New Zealand Post Office, where he worked from 1949 to 1956. He continued his studies part-time at Victoria University College, Wellington (BA 1954; DipJour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68646803 | 1,872,261 |
1,767,528 | In 2014 a polarization-insensitive metamaterial prototype was demonstrated to absorb energy over a broad band (a super-octave) of infrared wavelengths. The material displayed greater than 98% measured average absorptivity that it maintained over a wide ±45° field-of-view for mid-infrared wavelengths between 1.77 and 4.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24706093 | 1,766,534 |
1,435,894 | Beaked whales, "Ziphius cavirostris" and "Mesoplodon densirostris" have been observed in natural circumstances to hunt in deep water by echolocation – "Z. cavirostris" to depths up to 1885 metres for durations up to 58 minutes. These deep foraging dives were in each case followed by a series of much shallower dives wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63196482 | 1,435,087 |
1,990,422 | Mount Laguna Observatory (MLO) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by San Diego State University (SDSU). The telescope was operated in partnership with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) until 2000. MLO is located approximately east of downtown San Diego, California (USA) on the eastern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2866330 | 1,989,279 |
1,326,443 | GATA2 binds to a specific nucleic acid sequence viz., (T/A(GATA)A/G), on the promoter and enhancer sites of its target genes and in doing so either stimulates or suppresses the expression of these target genes. However, there are thousands of sites in human DNA with this nucleotide sequence but for unknown reasons GATA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14156407 | 1,325,716 |
2,043,389 | There are many ways to try and manage "Drechslera" leaf spot. The most favorable would be to find a resistant plant variety. Other ways include collecting fallen leaves in order to reduce inoculum from plant debris, as well as pruning to increase air circulation for the grasses (a reduction in moisture is unfavorable t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62560428 | 2,042,209 |
58,039 | Enzymes can be either activated or inhibited by other molecules. For example, the end product(s) of a metabolic pathway are often inhibitors for one of the first enzymes of the pathway (usually the first irreversible step, called committed step), thus regulating the amount of end product made by the pathways. Such a re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9257 | 58,014 |
2,032,768 | Sims’ research and scientific expeditions have been featured in: "National Geographic" "Magazine" (October 2004; April 2011); "GEO Magazine" (October 2012; 2017); "National Geographic Explorer Kids" (October 2011); "Oceanus" (Fall, 2006); "Popular Mechanics" (October 2006); "New Scientist" (July 2008; December 2008); C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53174400 | 2,031,596 |
520,978 | Officer Training School (OTS) (formerly known as Basic Officer Training (BOT) and later, Total Force Officer Training (TFOT)) is the more traditional 8-week pre-commissioning program. Previously a 13-week program later reduced to 10 weeks, the renamed TFOT track transitioned to a 9-week program in 2014 and the legacy s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1430584 | 520,707 |
1,983,753 | Among all currently recognized eurypterid clades, the Pterygotioidea is the most diverse, containing over 50 species in 10 genera. With the number of recognized eurypterid species being around 250, pterygotioids account for more than a fifth of all known eurypterid species. Though the group only existed for around 70 m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29607672 | 1,982,614 |
382,911 | Cobalt-60 (Co) is a synthetic radioactive isotope of cobalt with a half-life of 5.2713 years. It is produced artificially in nuclear reactors. Deliberate industrial production depends on neutron activation of bulk samples of the monoisotopic and mononuclidic cobalt isotope . Measurable quantities are also produced as a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2938855 | 382,716 |
982,484 | The adult stage of a caddisfly may only survive for a few weeks; many species do not feed as adults and die soon after breeding, but some species are known to feed on nectar. The winged insects are nocturnal and provide food for night-flying birds, bats, small mammals, amphibians and arthropods. The larval stage lasts ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1529533 | 981,972 |
171,749 | At the start of the second generation, all games were developed and produced in-house. Four former Atari programmers, having left from conflicts in management style after Atari was purchased by Warner Communications in 1976, established Activision in 1979 to develop their own VCS games, which included "Kaboom!" and "Pi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3442219 | 171,658 |
534,936 | The original motivation for the development of national accounts and the systematic measurement of employment was the need for accurate measures of aggregate economic activity. This was made more pressing by the Great Depression and as a basis for Keynesian macroeconomic stabilisation policy and wartime economic planni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1378125 | 534,657 |
346,581 | Morbidity can be major (myocardial infarction, pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, kidney failure/chronic kidney disease, postoperative cognitive dysfunction and allergy) or minor (minor nausea, vomiting, readmission). There is usually overlap in the contributing factors that lead to morbidity and mortality between the heal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56561 | 346,400 |
1,223,054 | BGAN Link, launched in March 2012, is for fixed locations that require 5 to 30 Gigabytes of data transferred per month. In late 2013, Inmarsat introduced Unlimited BGAN Link "GEO" plans for specific countries/regions, including Central and South America, Australia, and lower Africa. Service fees with BGAN Link are far ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2015018 | 1,222,394 |
495,699 | During July 1938, the RAN Director of Engineering, Rear Admiral Percival McNeil, was instructed to develop plans for a local defence vessel, with a displacement of approximately 500 tons, a speed of at least , and a range of . McNeil completed his drawings in February 1939; his proposal called for a 680-ton vessel, wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=464266 | 495,443 |
54,510 | News reports at the time pointed out that "anyone possessing a short wave receiver can hear the new Russian earth satellite as it hurtles over this area of the globe." Directions, provided by the American Radio Relay League, were to "Tune in 20 megacycles sharply, by the time signals, given on that frequency. Then tune... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28484 | 54,487 |
626,418 | In May 1992, a $CAN650 million contract was awarded to Halifax Shipyards of Halifax, Nova Scotia to construct twelve ships of the class. The vessels would be tasked with coastal patrol, minesweeping, law enforcement, pollution surveillance and search and rescue duties. Steel cutting for the first ship begin in December... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1186543 | 626,085 |
231,300 | Molecules of carbohydrates and fats consist of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen atoms. Carbohydrates range from simple monosaccharides (glucose, fructose, galactose) to complex polysaccharides (starch). Fats are triglycerides, made of assorted fatty acid monomers bound to a glycerol backbone. Some fatty acids, but not all,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93827 | 231,181 |
1,489,617 | Kundu has published one book, "Epigenetics: Development and Disease", and a number of articles in peer-reviewed journals and Google Scholar, an online article repository, has listed 215 of them. Several of his research findings have been put to commercial use by various companies and he holds several patents for his wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52066021 | 1,488,778 |
434,842 | Using a vacuum thermocouple attached to the Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson Observatory, in 1924 the American astronomers Seth Barnes Nicholson and Edison Pettit were able to measure the thermal energy being radiated by the surface of Mars. They determined that the temperature ranged from at the pole up to at the midp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25998318 | 434,628 |
1,085,898 | Brown refined his invention over the years and eventually came up with designs consisting of metal plates or disks charged with 25,000 to 200,000 volts that would produce a propulsive force, which he continued to claim was an anti-gravity force. Brown demonstrated a working apparatus to an audience of scientists and mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188656 | 1,085,340 |
494,865 | Kubert's first work for DC Comics, where he would spend much of his career and produce some of his most notable art, was penciling and inking the 50-page "Seven Soldiers of Victory" superhero-team story in "Leading Comics" #8 (Fall 1943), published by a DC predecessor company, All-American Publications. Throughout the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=855226 | 494,609 |
1,044,965 | Because cognate words play an important role in mutual intelligibility between languages, these figure prominently in such analyses. The higher the percentage of cognate (as opposed to non-cognate) words in the two languages with respect to one another, the lower is their linguistic distance. Also, the greater the degr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31219980 | 1,044,421 |
361,471 | The Su-33 carries guided missiles such as the R-73 (four) and R-27E (six) on twelve hardpoints, supplemented by the 150-round 30 mm GSh-30-1. It can carry an assortment of unguided rockets, bombs and cluster bombs for secondary air-to-ground missions. The aircraft can be used in both night and day operations at sea. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=552810 | 361,281 |
2,184,538 | Malcolm Longair was appointed to the joint position in 1980, and continued the trends started by Bruck and Reddish of making the Royal Observatory Edinburgh a centre of astronomical technology and sky survey work. Under Longair's leadership the ROE created a radical new facility, the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67188634 | 2,183,290 |
1,061,958 | Campbell was struggling to set up a practical demonstration over a real telephone route with the budget he had been allocated. After considering that his artificial line simulators used lumped components rather than the distributed quantities found in a real line, he wondered if he could not insert the inductance with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41326 | 1,061,404 |
265,003 | Operational costs of running a BRT system are generally lower than light rail, though the exact comparison varies, and labor costs depend heavily on wages, which vary between countries. For the same level of ridership and demand, higher labor costs in the developed world relative to developing countries will tend to en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=333625 | 264,860 |
1,215,678 | The final was held following a light rainstorm that affected the women's javelin throw. The track was still wet and conditions cooler. Still the stadium was electric to see lightning, the star Usain Bolt in what was expected to be his last individual race in the Olympics. Bolt was in lane 6, playing to the camera and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45151190 | 1,215,026 |
332,238 | Autophagy has roles in various cellular functions. One particular example is in yeasts, where the nutrient starvation induces a high level of autophagy. This allows unneeded proteins to be degraded and the amino acids recycled for the synthesis of proteins that are essential for survival. In higher eukaryotes, autophag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=624361 | 332,061 |
340,763 | The original version of the currently most popular model, the "Nice model", reproduces many characteristics of the Kuiper belt such as the "cold" and "hot" populations, resonant objects, and a scattered disc, but it still fails to account for some of the characteristics of their distributions. The model predicts a high... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16796 | 340,582 |
1,881,638 | Knoblich studied Biochemistry at the University of Tübingen and Molecular Biology at University College London. In 1989 he transferred to the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, where he completed his doctoral thesis in 1994 on the role of Cyclin proteins in controlling cell cycle progression du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61293154 | 1,880,557 |
47,798 | Measurements of the distance have elicited much controversy. Results prior to the launch of the "Hipparcos" satellite generally found that the Pleiades were about 135 parsecs (pc) away from Earth. Data from "Hipparcos" yielded a surprising result, namely a distance of only 118 pc by measuring the parallax of stars in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56568 | 47,778 |
1,088,694 | The Nimrod, built in the United Kingdom by Ferranti for the 1951 Festival of Britain, was an early computer custom-built to play Nim, inspired by the earlier Nimatron. The twelve-by-nine-by-five-foot (3.7-by-2.7-by-1.5-meter) computer, designed by John Makepeace Bennett and built by engineer Raymond Stuart-Williams, al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5842363 | 1,088,135 |
1,988,012 | Chapman returned to the UK in 1985 and was a Lecturer and then Senior Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh from 1985 to 1995, and Professor of Biological Chemistry from 1996. In 2000, he became Head of the University's School of Chemistry, and in August 2006, was appointed as Vice-Principal of Planning, Resources an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24458551 | 1,986,870 |
1,519,285 | Starting with the 1980s BEC has become a subject of current interest in high-energy physics and at present meetings entirely dedicated to this subject take place. One reason for this interest is the fact that BEC are up to now the only method for the determination of sizes and lifetimes of sources of elementary particl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22914634 | 1,518,427 |
18,532 | Initial damage to the endothelium results in an inflammatory response. Monocytes enter the artery wall from the bloodstream, with platelets adhering to the area of insult. This may be promoted by redox signaling induction of factors such as VCAM-1, which recruit circulating monocytes, and M-CSF, which is selectively re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=85385 | 18,526 |
722,366 | Several minutes to days later, once the heat dissipates enough, the steam condenses, and the pressure in the cavity falls below the level needed to support the overburden, the rock above the void falls into the cavity. Depending on various factors, including the yield and characteristics of the burial, this collapse ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7459891 | 721,986 |
18,472 | Georgia moved quickly following the Rose Revolution in 2003 to seek closer ties with NATO (although the previous administration had also indicated that they desired NATO membership a year before the revolution took place). Georgia's northern neighbor, Russia, opposed the closer ties, including those expressed at the 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17046267 | 18,466 |
135,249 | From 1958 to 1963, Pei and Ray Affleck developed a key downtown block of Montreal in a phased process that involved one of Pei's most admired structures in the Commonwealth, the cruciform tower known as the Royal Bank Plaza (Place Ville Marie). According to "The Canadian Encyclopedia" "its grand plaza and lower office ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15155 | 135,194 |
1,262,343 | In 2012, the Cabinet of Quebec proposed to raise university tuition fee from $2168 to $3793 between 2012 and 2018. Because of the proposal of tuition fee hike, Quebec's students organized a series of widespread strikes, involving half of Quebec's student population by April 2012. A third of Quebec students continued to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17662107 | 1,261,656 |
1,794,183 | However, the opposite effect is visible in cases of asparaginase resistant cancers. In these resistant cancers, the effect of blood asparagine depletion through L-asparaginase instead leads to significant asparagine synthetase overexpression to compensate, effectively nullifying the effect of the chemotherapy drug. For... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11473111 | 1,793,174 |
2,195,481 | The ISCI energy group is interested in the development of renewable energies in Chile and the electricity sector as a whole. Researchers of the Energy group make both theoretical and applied contributions. In the area of theory contributions is worth to mention a methodology to perform the network constrained economic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56866126 | 2,194,231 |
1,535,446 | The journal was started informally in 1971 by Walter Kaufman-Buehler, Alice Peters and Klaus Peters. "Intelligencer" was chosen by Kaufman-Buehler as a word that would appear slightly old-fashioned. An exploration of mathematically themed stamps, written by Robin Wilson, became one of its earliest columns. In 1978, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3011900 | 1,534,578 |
1,811,950 | Marchis was born in France. He is currently a Principal Investigator at the SETI Institute. He received his Ph.D. in 2000 from university of Toulouse, France in planetary science. Although his thesis was performed while living in several places: Mexico, France, Great-Britain; the main part of his studies were made whil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8055221 | 1,810,917 |
67,556 | In the past 200 years, the standards and requirements for new refrigerants have changed. These standards that govern the selection of next-generation refrigerants include a requirement for low global warming potential (GWP), in addition to all the previous requirements for safety, practicality, material compatibility, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68316 | 67,530 |
1,823,042 | Energy security measures center on reducing dependence on any one source of imported energy or supplier, exploiting renewable energy resources, and reducing demand by energy conservation. Finland is highly dependent on energy import from Russia: 71% of total energy in 2007: Hard coal 92%, raw oil 75% and natural gas 10... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32854563 | 1,822,004 |
262,018 | Aside from storage, the main role of the central vacuole is to maintain turgor pressure against the cell wall. Proteins found in the tonoplast (aquaporins) control the flow of water into and out of the vacuole through active transport, pumping potassium (K) ions into and out of the vacuolar interior. Due to osmosis, wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32347 | 261,879 |
984,091 | On May 17, 2005, Sony Computer Entertainment confirmed some specifications of the Cell processor that would be shipping in the then-forthcoming PlayStation 3 console. This Cell configuration has one PPE on the core, with eight physical SPEs in silicon. In the PlayStation 3, one SPE is locked-out during the test process... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=803950 | 983,577 |
872,555 | In 2012, former prime minister Naoto Kan was interviewed about the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and has said that at one point Japan faced a situation where there was a chance that people might not be able to live in the capital zone including Tokyo and would have to evacuate. He says he is haunted by the specter of an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4131940 | 872,095 |
962,201 | The challenge for the viability of PEM fuel cells today still remains in their cost and stability. The high cost can in large part be attributed to the use of the precious metal of platinum in the catalyst layer of PEM cells. The electrocatalyst currently accounts for nearly half of the fuel cell stack cost. Although t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1049596 | 961,692 |
95,493 | The important relationship between ecology and genetic inheritance predates modern techniques for molecular analysis. Molecular ecological research became more feasible with the development of rapid and accessible genetic technologies, such as the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The rise of molecular technologies and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9630 | 95,452 |
1,388,412 | Creating operational alignment involves translating an organization's "Superordinate Goals" and overall strategy into the more immediate objectives of a team or department. In addition to reviewing systems and processes, leaders also need to develop the skills, competencies and motivation of people in the organization.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31161982 | 1,387,644 |
355,981 | The first scientific studies identifying neurons that responded in ways that suggested they encode for conditioned stimuli came from work by Mahlon deLong and by R.T. Richardson. They showed that nucleus basalis neurons, which release acetylcholine broadly throughout the cerebral cortex, are activated shortly after a c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=128027 | 355,798 |
1,050,500 | Communication distances of 800–2,200 km (500–1,400 miles) can occur using a single E cloud. This variability in distance depends on a number of factors, including cloud height and density. The maximum usable frequency (MUF) also varies widely, but most commonly falls in the 25–150 MHz range, which includes the FM broad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=229460 | 1,049,954 |
2,133,469 | As of October 2021, the FAIRmat consortium (FAIR Data Infrastructure for Condensed-Matter Physics and the Chemical Physics of Solids), funded by the German government, has been set up. Here, the original NOMAD concepts are advanced to the areas of materials synthesis and experimental research, and a corresponding metad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69144441 | 2,132,244 |
1,270,320 | Resilin is currently the most efficient elastic protein known (Elvin et al., 2005). The elastic efficiency of the resilin isolated from locust tendon has been reported to be 97% (only 3% of stored energy is lost as heat). It does not have any regular structure but its randomly coiled chains are crosslinked by di- and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2896282 | 1,269,629 |
1,020,937 | PLS neoplastic cells contain various gene and chromosome abnormalities: the "TP53" gene is deleted or mutated in 17–60% of cases; the "RB1" gene is deleted in 60% of cases; and the "Neurofibromin 1" gene is lost by inactivating mutations in 8% of cases or in rarer cases by a deletion around its location in band 11.2 on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1386912 | 1,020,408 |
1,446,252 | Human resources is fundamentally an industry based around making predictions. Human resource specialists must predict which people would make quality candidates for a job, which marketing strategies would get those people to apply, which applicants would make the best employees, what kinds of compensation would get the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66026469 | 1,445,436 |
1,068,784 | Both Steinbeck and Ricketts had achieved some measure of security and recognition in their professions by 1939: Steinbeck had capitalized on his first successful novel, "Tortilla Flat", with the publication of "The Grapes of Wrath", and Ricketts had published "Between Pacific Tides", which became the definitive handboo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5553778 | 1,068,230 |
1,641,576 | Lee's research focuses on mathematical programming, information technology, game theory, networks, machine learning and computational algorithms for risk assessment, decision making, predictive analytics and knowledge discovery, and systems and performance optimization. She has made major contributions in advances to b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62380803 | 1,640,649 |
1,623,526 | Cyclopropanones- three-membered ring ketones- are also hydrated to a significant extent. Since three-membered rings are very strained (bond angles forced to be 60˚), sp hybridization is more favorable than sp hybridization. For the sp hybridized hydrate the bonds have to be distorted by about 49˚, while for the sp hybr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1731024 | 1,622,610 |
395,152 | Tajiks constitute 80% of Tajikistan's population and the language dominates in most parts of the country. Some Tajiks in Gorno-Badakhshan in southeastern Tajikistan, where the Pamir languages are the native languages of most residents, are bilingual. Tajiks are the dominant ethnic group in Northern Afghanistan as well ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=341857 | 394,957 |
1,337,451 | From this information, different genetic engineering and recombinant DNA techniques are being developed to generate specific bacteria for bioremediation. Some constructs expressed in microbial species are phytochelatins, polyhistidines and other polypeptides by fusion-binding domains to outer-membrane-anchored proteins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50590211 | 1,336,720 |
1,476,662 | Indirect calorimetry calculates heat that living organisms produce by measuring either their production of carbon dioxide and nitrogen waste (frequently ammonia in aquatic organisms, or urea in terrestrial ones), or from their consumption of oxygen. Indirect calorimetry estimates the type and rate of substrate utilizat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46487800 | 1,475,830 |
359,134 | The low foot to lower leg ratio in "Deinonychus" is due partly to an unusually short metatarsus (upper foot bones). The ratio is actually larger in smaller individuals than in larger ones. Ostrom suggested that the short metatarsus may be related to the function of the sickle claw, and used the fact that it appears to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=236856 | 358,947 |
1,488,274 | The above discussion pertains to the ground state structure. Of course, finite temperatures lead to excitations of the spin configuration. Here two extreme points of view can be contrasted: in the Stoner picture of magnetism (also called itinerant magnetism), the electronic states are delocalized, and their mean-field ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14909006 | 1,487,435 |
1,871,946 | In numerous industries such as agrochemicals and pharmaceuticals, halogenated chemicals abound. Aryl halides are also important intermediates in the syntheses of other compounds due to their versatility in reactions such as nucleophilic aromatic substitution and coupling reactions. Traditionally, in chemical synthesis,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38395139 | 1,870,869 |
536,227 | The Ancient Egyptians had a symbolic notation which was the numeration by Hieroglyphics. The Egyptian mathematics had a symbol for one, ten, one hundred, one thousand, ten thousand, one hundred thousand, and one million. Smaller digits were placed on the left of the number, as they are in Hindu–Arabic numerals. Later, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6134187 | 535,948 |
1,962,715 | He has been a member of program committees for the symposium on the "Scientific Basis for Nuclear Waste Management" held in ten different countries over the past 40 years. He is co-editor of and a contributing author of "Radioactive Waste Forms for the Future" (North-Holland Physics, Amsterdam, 1988) and Uncertainty Un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48770600 | 1,961,587 |
1,321,978 | The age groups are: A:25–29 (years old), B:30–34, C:35–39, D:40–44; E:45–49; F:50–54, G:55–59; H:60–64, I:65–69, J:70–74; K:75–79; L:80–84, M:85–89, N:90–94, P:95–99, Q:100–104, R:105–109 and so on at 5-year increments as necessary. In 2014 Jaring Timmermann from Canada, at the age of 105, did set a world record as the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9228099 | 1,321,252 |
1,331,774 | The pressure of the breathing gas supply to a surface supplied diver is set at the gas panel, and does not automatically compensate for small depth changes the way most open circuit scuba first stages operate. To compensate for small variations due to moving around the workplace and variations in posture, the surface s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53769108 | 1,331,045 |
976,360 | Alberti did not concern himself with the practicalities of building, and very few of his major works were brought to completion. As a designer and a student of Vitruvius and of ancient Roman remains, he grasped the nature of column and lintel architecture, from the visual rather than structural viewpoint, and correctly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18031 | 975,849 |
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