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1,501,060 | Whales emerged about 52 million years ago in the Tethys Ocean (between present-day India and Asia). It was a warm, fertile shallow sea very much like the one which covered southeastern United States 40 million years ago when whales ("Georgiacetus" & "Carolinacetus") were already present in America. There are two school... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19293825 | 1,500,214 |
1,336,964 | Between November 2015 and October 2018, the Wellcome Trust supported a project to develop the IUPHAR Guide to IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY (GtoImmuPdb), based on the GtoPdb schema. The GtoImmuPdb is an open-access resource that brings an immunological perspective to the high-quality, expert-curated pharmacological data found in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38937162 | 1,336,233 |
649,154 | One group of researchers (Iturria-Medina et al., 2008) has constructed connectome data sets using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) followed by the derivation of average connection probabilities between 70–90 cortical and basal brain gray matter areas. All networks were found to have small-world attributes and "broad-scal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15978180 | 648,813 |
961,771 | In addition to being very sensitive to small changes in their environment, each microglial cell also physically surveys its domain on a regular basis. This action is carried out in the ameboid and resting states. While moving through its set region, if the microglial cell finds any foreign material, damaged cells, apop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1552187 | 961,262 |
454,085 | The European Monsoon (more commonly known as the Return of the Westerlies) is the result of a resurgence of westerly winds from the Atlantic, where they become loaded with wind and rain. These westerly winds are a common phenomenon during the European winter, but they ease as spring approaches in late March and through... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25678212 | 453,864 |
382,197 | Rejecting an outright ban, the Health Secretary Andrew Lansley launched on 15 March 2012 a voluntary pledge to remove artificial trans fats by the end of the year. Asda, Pizza Hut, Burger King, Tesco, Unilever and United Biscuits are some of 73 businesses who have agreed to do so. Lansley and his special Adviser Bill M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65161632 | 382,002 |
1,356,996 | Rejecting an outright ban, the Health Secretary Andrew Lansley launched on 15 March 2012 a voluntary pledge to remove artificial trans fats by the end of the year. Asda, Pizza Hut, Burger King, Tesco, Unilever and United Biscuits are some of 73 businesses who have agreed to do so. Lansley and his special Adviser Bill M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=263487 | 1,356,246 |
1,618,929 | In 1877, the Faculty moved into the University of Toronto campus, and new levels of pharmaceutical education was offered as a PhD degree at the University of Toronto was being arranged. As the demands for more pharmacists increased, the demands of professional education in this particular field increased as well. As a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24378969 | 1,618,014 |
2,158,790 | By 1938, the growing university needed a student union building, and Futrall began charging a $2 per year "student union" fee. The result was Memorial Hall, one of three buildings funded by the Public Works Administration. The Home Economics Building and Classroom Building (part of what is now Ozark Hall) were also add... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23302106 | 2,157,558 |
1,654,518 | At least some of the species of the family Synbranchidae, that is, "O. infernale", are sexually dimorphic. Adult males grow a head hump, and males are larger than females. These fishes lay about 40 spherical eggs per clutch. The eggs measure between 0.05 and 0.06 in (1.2–1.5 mm) in diameter and have a pair of long fila... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=325954 | 1,653,586 |
1,491,373 | During the Carolingian period there evolved two different yet overlapping contexts in which the penitentials were used. The first of these was the pastoral context of confession between priest and parishioner. The second was an administrative and/or academic context, in which books of penitential law typically served b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30861806 | 1,490,534 |
1,925,718 | It is classed as a near threatened species on the IUCN Red List and it is believed that its population is decreasing; the species is listed under Appendix II of CITES. Figures of its population are unknown, but is likely to be threatened by the global reduction of coral reefs, the increase of temperature causing coral ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43113091 | 1,924,614 |
1,558,220 | Progress M-26 separated from the complex on March 15 and made a destructive reentry into the Earth's atmosphere to clear the Kvant docking port for the new Soyuz. Soyuz TM-21 docked by automatic control at the Kvant docking port on the first try at 7:45 UTC on March 16. The new arrivals were greeted by the Mir 17 crew ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=851176 | 1,557,335 |
1,052,756 | Nakajima missed the Bahrain round due to a conflicting Super GT commitment in its season-closing race at Twin Ring Motegi, and Conway took over his role in the No. 7 car. Buemi and Davidson qualified the No. 8 TS040 in second, with Wurz and Conway obtaining a fourth-place starting position for the No. 7 car. The No. 8 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41475424 | 1,052,210 |
347,513 | In 1784, Lyman Hall, a Yale University graduate and one of three medical doctors to sign the Declaration of Independence, as Governor of Georgia persuaded the Georgia legislature to grant 40,000 acres (160 km) as an endowment for the purposes of founding a "college or seminary of learning." Besides Hall, credit for fou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378232 | 347,332 |
1,203,218 | Direct ammonia fuel cells are researched for this exact reason and new studies presented a new integrated solar-based ammonia synthesis and fuel cell. The solar base follows from excess solar power that is used to synthesize ammonia. This is done by using an ammonia electrolytic cell (AEC) in combination with a proton ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34504569 | 1,202,574 |
1,830,231 | Liberal Party Senator Sean Edwards has indicated strong support for the inquiry, proposing that nuclear industrial development could potentially attract tens of billions of dollars in foreign investment to South Australia. He suggested that the storage of spent nuclear fuel and its processing via fast breeder reactors ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46689693 | 1,829,185 |
1,333,695 | In early 1984, the Space Station Task Force described a Berthing Mechanism that would attenuate the loads incurred when two modules were maneuvered into contact with each other, followed by latching. Contact conditions were identified as important, but were not quantified at that time. The same is true for the diameter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7362461 | 1,332,966 |
352,484 | "Curiosity" landed in Quad 51 (nicknamed Yellowknife) of Aeolis Palus in the crater Gale. The landing site coordinates are: . The location was named Bradbury Landing on August 22, 2012, in honor of science fiction author Ray Bradbury. Gale, an estimated 3.5 to 3.8 billion-year-old impact crater, is hypothesized to have... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36645032 | 352,301 |
86,765 | Arizona State University's Division I athletic teams are called the Sun Devils, which is also the nickname used to refer to students and alumni of the university. They compete in the Pac-12 Conference in 20 varsity sports. Historically, the university has highly performed in men's, women's, and mixed archery; men's, wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1859 | 86,730 |
1,509,753 | Melamine formaldehyde resins (MF) are a class of impregnation resins for wood modification that are made by reacting melamine with formaldehyde in a condensation of these two monomers. Melamine formaldehyde resins are unique because they have heat and fire-resistant properties that would add extra improvement to wood s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32227937 | 1,508,903 |
1,987,084 | Several synthesis methods exist to produce LAGP in the form of bulk pellets or thin films, depending on the required performances and final applications. The synthesis path significantly affects the microstructure of the LAGP material, which plays a key role in determining its overall conductive properties. Indeed, a c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67944684 | 1,985,942 |
1,813,084 | While the Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery existed for the better part of a century before 1933, in that year it became a freestanding department for the first time, headed initially by Joseph C. Beck, M.D., then in 1934 by Francis Lederer, M.D., who led the Department for 33 years. Dr. Beck had been ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17648590 | 1,812,050 |
2,000,666 | The Omaha System is a standardized health care terminology consisting of an assessment component (Problem Classification Scheme), a care plan/services component (Intervention Scheme), and an evaluation component (Problem Rating Scale for Outcomes). Approximately 22,000 health care practitioners, educators, and research... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26181678 | 1,999,521 |
827,149 | Eric Jeffrey Topol (born 26 June 1954) is an American cardiologist, scientist, and author. He is the founder and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, a professor of Molecular Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute, and a senior consultant at the Division of Cardiovascular Diseases at Scripps Cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16635437 | 826,705 |
2,000,481 | The fossil owl bones are of Gargano are found in "terra rossa" (red earth) paleokarst infills. As the global climate moved towards the start of the last ice age period, it was not too dissimilar from today, albeit a bit warmer and more humid. Conditions must have been more extreme in the Mediterranean basin though, as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13611067 | 1,999,336 |
557,383 | Because of their relevance to generation of pacemaker activity and modulation of spontaneous frequency, f-channels are natural targets of drugs aimed to pharmacologically control heart rate. Several agents called "heart rate reducing agents" act by specifically inhibiting f-channel function. Ivabradine is the most spec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7350990 | 557,094 |
949,531 | In 1988 the second version was released. This version gained more acceptance among vendors. The image transmission was specified as over a dedicated 2 pair cable (EIA-485). The first demonstration of ACR/NEMA V2.0 interconnectivity technology was held at Georgetown University, May 21–23, 1990. Six companies participate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63864 | 949,027 |
1,698,691 | More recently, the debate has been reopened by Jeffrey Schaffer, who suggests that the role of glaciers and other erosion processes has been dramatically overstated. Schaffer states that Yosemite Valley above 5600 feet (1700 m), for example, has changed relatively little in the past 30 million years. Other than being s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=334330 | 1,697,737 |
779,390 | Rarely seen was the IBM 2321 Data Cell, a mechanically complex device that contained multiple magnetic strips to hold data; strips could be randomly accessed, placed upon a cylinder-shaped drum for read/write operations; then returned to an internal storage cartridge. The IBM Data Cell [noodle picker] was among several... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29294 | 778,973 |
315,737 | In order to provide the necessary performance to launch polar-orbiting shuttles from the SLC-6 launch pad at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, SRBs using "filament-wound cases" (FWC) were designed to be more lightweight than the steel cases used on Kennedy Space Center-launched SRBs. Unlike the regular SRBs, whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=548862 | 315,568 |
786,570 | Grazing eclipsing binary systems are systems in which one object will just barely graze the limb of the other. In these cases, the maximum transit depth of the light curve will not be proportional to the ratio of the squares of the radii of the two stars, but will instead depend solely on the small fraction of the prim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7290120 | 786,147 |
1,269,586 | Solovay's result shows that it is not necessary to assume that all infinite-dimensional vector spaces admit discontinuous linear maps, and there are schools of analysis which adopt a more constructivist viewpoint. For example, H. G. Garnir, in searching for so-called "dream spaces" (topological vector spaces on which e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3531066 | 1,268,895 |
2,135,912 | The Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies is a research organization created in 1978 by a cooperative agreement between the University of Oklahoma (OU) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). CIMMS promotes collaborative research between NOAA and OU scientists on problems of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2108241 | 2,134,685 |
1,361,160 | In his writings, Meehl advocated for the creation of a field called "taxometrics" to test for categorical groupings across diverse scientific disciplines. Based on this approach, latent "taxons" would be conceptualized as causal factors leading to true differences in kind within a population. Taxons could include many ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3125942 | 1,360,407 |
2,154,617 | In 1985, Julie A. Robinson graduated from Highland High school in Pocatello, Idaho, and was selected as one of two Idaho representatives to the Presidential Scholars Program and as an Idaho delegate to the National Youth Science Camp. She did not think that she was going to be able to attend college due to financial di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63015022 | 2,153,386 |
1,139,828 | Single-layered branching occurs as nearby mechanical influences, such as airway smooth muscle cells, cause epithelial sheets buckle. Stratified epithelial cannot respond to stimulus in the same way due to the absence of internal space (i.e. lumen) that allows tissue sheet flexibility. Instead, it appears stratified epi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15429707 | 1,139,234 |
1,060,468 | Dr. Daniel David "Dan" Durda (b. October 26, 1965, Detroit, Michigan), is a B612 Board Member and "a principal scientist in the Department of Space Studies of the Southwest Research Institute's (SwRI) Boulder Colorado. He has more than 20 years experience researching the collisional and dynamical evolution of main-belt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=333633 | 1,059,917 |
1,504,869 | At the University of East Anglia in the UK, as part of an EPSRC-funded project led by M. Reading and S. Meech, Hill and his co-workers followed the earlier work of Reading "et al". and Hammiche "et al". and measured thermal expansion using an optical configuration that illuminated the sample from above in contrast to D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44893854 | 1,504,023 |
637,834 | Also known as jumble winding, with this type of winding structure only poor fill factors can be achieved. The random wire placement leads to a wider distribution of resulting wire length on the coil body and consequently a wider range of electric coil resistances. Despite its disadvantages, it is common in mass product... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51118813 | 637,495 |
1,267,359 | Nuclear D-D fusion driven by pyroelectric crystals was proposed by Naranjo and Putterman in 2002. It was also discussed by Brownridge and Shafroth in 2004. The possibility of using pyroelectric crystals in a neutron production device (by D-D fusion) was proposed in a conference paper by Geuther and Danon in 2004 and la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1820902 | 1,266,669 |
675,098 | The Meroitic period began ca. 300 BCE and ended ca. 350 CE. Most attestations of the Meroitic language, via native inscriptions, hail from this period, though some attestations pre- and post-date this period. The Kushite territory stretched from the area of the First Cataract of the Nile to the Khartoum area of Sudan. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=582819 | 674,745 |
391,443 | Thom Yorke lead singer of Radiohead (English and Fine Arts), Nina Allan, author of speculative fiction and winner of the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire for Best Foreign Novel in 2014 (Russian literature), Steve Backshall, BAFTA award-winning television presenter, Samantha Baines, actress and comedian (BA(Hons) Drama), Stev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33719893 | 391,248 |
1,602,852 | The basic concept of an ICL was proposed by Rui Q. Yang in 1994. The key insight he had was that the incorporation of a type-II heterostructure similar to those used in interband resonant tunneling diodes would facilitate the possibility of cascade lasers that use interband transitions for photon generation. Further im... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37769853 | 1,601,951 |
1,477,691 | Another example related to aging is the Free Radical theory. Free Radical Theory suggests that the free radicals, which are being produced by aerobic respiration, are causing oxidative stress to be put on the body. This oxidative stress will result in aging and lead to death. Oxygen centered radicals are very reactive ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17204799 | 1,476,859 |
667,314 | Like the harpsichord, the virginals has its origins in the psaltery to which a keyboard was applied, probably in the 15th century. The first mention of the word is in Paulus Paulirinus of Prague's (1413–1471) of around 1460 where he writes: "The virginal is an instrument in the shape of a clavichord, having metal strin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=518958 | 666,966 |
1,984,864 | "Wired"'s "2010 GeekDad Holiday Gift Guide" stated: "Try Archenemy, a MtG variant that pits the all the players against one, the title villain who has access to larger-sized cards called schemes. [...] Each scheme features funny wording, mimicking a stereotypical villain’s posturing and monologuing. Your Puny Minds Can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27710709 | 1,983,725 |
1,137,710 | Automated image based screening permits the identification of small compounds altering cellular phenotypes and is of interest for the discovery of new pharmaceuticals and new cell biological tools for modifying cell function. The selection of molecules based on a cellular phenotype does not require a prior knowledge of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5824073 | 1,137,117 |
1,396,808 | Škoda designed it for export and Turkey ordered a batch, but only received two before the Germans occupied Czechoslovakia in March 1939. It was a stablemate of the Škoda 21 cm Kanone 39 and used virtually the same mounting and transport arrangements. It used an interrupted screw breech with a de Bange obturator to prov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18388413 | 1,396,036 |
2,103,120 | Hadley became one of the leading architects of his day, responsible for Wesley College at the University of Sydney; Willoughby Town Hall and several large warehouse developments in the centre of Sydney that are recognised as architecturally significant. In 1914 he was appointed Lecturer-in-Charge of the Department of A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57714944 | 2,101,908 |
1,894,215 | This group is helping define an upcoming satellite, Surface Water and Ocean Topography. Rivers are fundamentally two-dimensional in their structure and function. This is evident in the Amazon River, where the floodplain width is measured in kilometres. Sensitive to climatic changes, arctic lakes pose another hydrologic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1098722 | 1,893,131 |
1,547,913 | Born in Wiltshire, England in 1944, Robin Baker grew up in the small village of Manningford Bruce in the Vale of Pewsey. Educated at Marlborough Royal Free Grammar School, where thirty years earlier the author William Golding had also been educated, he gained his Bachelor of Science degree in Zoology from the Universit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31130837 | 1,547,035 |
743,805 | In 2003, the Chinese academy of Sciences approved the construction of mainland China's first biosafety level 4 (BSL-4) laboratory at the WIV. In 2014, the WIV's National Bio-safety Laboratory was built at a cost of 300 million yuan (US$44 million), in collaboration and with assistance from the French government's CIRI ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62933148 | 743,411 |
1,877,318 | To consistently fulfil these objectives, the School has adjusted its educational provision to the Bologne Process, its two Departments offering first and second level Degrees (Graduation and Master); it set up a Research Centre which is developing projects in partnership with a similar Centre in University of Algarve; ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36559128 | 1,876,240 |
2,186,969 | Given these gaps in scientific research and knowledge, the military- and Veteran-specific issues involved, and the importance of a uniform approach to this critical set of problems, the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs jointly issued a request for proposals to fund a 5-year, $62.175 million ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42630360 | 2,185,721 |
1,261,386 | Tumor samples stained using H&E stain and examined under the microscope revealed that CNC is a well-differentiated tumor with benign histological features. The tumor is composed of “uniform, small-to-medium-sized cells with rounded nuclei, finely stippled chromatin and inconspicuous nucleoli, along with scant cytoplasm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35002185 | 1,260,699 |
1,558,788 | Stochastic resonance was first discovered in a study of the periodic recurrence of Earth's ice ages. The theory developed out of an effort to understand how the earth's climate oscillates periodically between two relatively stable global temperature states, one "normal" and the other an "ice age" state. The conventiona... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25479078 | 1,557,903 |
30,637 | In 1833, the stroboscopic disc (better known as the phénakisticope) introduced the principle of modern animation with sequential images that were shown one by one in quick succession to form an optical illusion of motion pictures. Series of sequential images had occasionally been made over thousands of years, but the s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=593 | 30,627 |
1,368,310 | "Roughly 35 per cent of all "in situ" production in the Alberta oil sands uses a technique called high pressure cyclic steam stimulation (HPCSS), which cycles between two phases: first, steam is injected into an underground oil sands deposit to fracture and heat the formation to soften the bitumen just like CSS does, e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4680415 | 1,367,554 |
2,078,986 | The men's ISSF 50 meter pistol was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1984 Summer Olympics programme. The competition was held on July 29, 1984, at the shooting ranges in Los Angeles. 56 shooters from 38 nations competed. Nations had been limited to two shooters each since the 1952 Games. The e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49077152 | 2,077,787 |
1,332,938 | Mariner 6 and Mariner 7 (Mariner Mars 69A and Mariner Mars 69B) were two unmanned NASA robotic spacecraft that completed the first dual mission to Mars in 1969 as part of NASA's wider Mariner program. Mariner 6 was launched from Launch Complex 36B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Mariner 7 from Launch Complex 36... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38782 | 1,332,209 |
179,448 | Chronic stressors may not be as intense as acute stressors such as natural disaster or a major accident, but persist over longer periods of time, tend to have a more negative effect on health because they are sustained and thus require the body's physiological response to occur daily. This depletes the body's energy mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146072 | 179,355 |
1,060,157 | PICS is a powerful analysis tool that resolves correlations on the nanometer length and millisecond timescale. Adapted from methods of spatio-temporal image correlation spectroscopy, it exploits the high positional accuracy of single-particle tracking. While conventional tracking methods break down if multiple particle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2589751 | 1,059,606 |
19,670 | Both the caps and the stems contain the psychoactive compounds, although the caps consistently contain more. The spores of these mushrooms do not contain psilocybin or psilocin. The total potency varies greatly between species and even between specimens of a species collected or grown from the same strain. Because most... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38468 | 19,662 |
886,829 | In the 19th century, many observers stated that Venus had a period of rotation of roughly 24 hours. Italian astronomer Giovanni Schiaparelli was the first to predict a significantly slower rotation, proposing that Venus was tidally locked with the Sun (as he had also proposed for Mercury). While not actually true for e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3057806 | 886,365 |
212,518 | formula_67 represents the speed of reproduction rate at the beginning of the spreading when all populations are assumed susceptible, e.g. if formula_68 and formula_69 meaning one infectious person on average infects 0.4 susceptible people per day and recovers in 1/0.2=5 days. Thus when this person recovered, there are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=958031 | 212,410 |
1,973,868 | Adaptive expertise is a broad construct that encompasses a range of cognitive, motivational, and personality-related components, as well as habits of mind and dispositions. Generally, problem-solvers demonstrate adaptive expertise when they are able to efficiently solve previously encountered tasks and generate new pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7845950 | 1,972,733 |
520,136 | Despite some memory degradation, authors of the above described study were able to take advantage of redundancy in the way keys are stored after they have been expanded for efficient use, such as in key scheduling. The authors recommend that computers be powered down, rather than be left in a “sleep” state, when not in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1230415 | 519,865 |
781,127 | A zinc prosthetic group in the enzyme is coordinated in three positions by histidine side-chains. The fourth coordination position is occupied by water. A fourth histidine is close to the water ligand, facilitating formation of Zn-OH center, which binds CO to give a zinc bicarbonate. The construct is an example of gene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45079602 | 780,709 |
1,842,579 | In the Southern Ocean, flavobacteria dominate bacterial activity, particularly flavobacteria in the genus "Polaribacter". Typically, these bacteria are prevalent in sea ice; however, during seasonal melting in the summer, they dominate coastal waters as sea ice retreats. In the Southern Ocean, when phytoplankton blooms... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54711583 | 1,841,526 |
768,462 | A low-code development platform (LCDP) provides a development environment used to create application software through a graphical user interface. A low-coded platform may produce entirely operational applications, or require additional coding for specific situations. Low-code development platforms can reduce the amount... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52977719 | 768,050 |
2,150,511 | Once a given test has been completed, the pump is moved to another interval and the test is repeated to collect another set of data. The same procedure is then applied to the intervals at other wells. Afterward, the data sets from all tests are processed by a mathematical model to estimate the spatial distribution of h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14348526 | 2,149,280 |
1,377,228 | A substellar companion was discovered in 1994 by Caltech astronomers Kulkarni, Tadashi Nakajima, Keith Matthews, and Rebecca Oppenheimer, and Johns Hopkins scientists Sam Durrance and David Golimowski. It was confirmed in 1995 as Gliese 229B, one of the first two instances of clear evidence for a brown dwarf, along wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1334075 | 1,376,466 |
523,168 | Assisted Technology released CUPL (Compiler for Universal Programmable Logic) in September 1983. The software was always referred to as CUPL and never the expanded acronym. It was the first commercial design tool that supported multiple PLD families. The initial release was for the IBM PC and MS-DOS, but it was written... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=578693 | 522,896 |
8,160 | American psychology gained status upon the U.S.'s entry into World War I. A standing committee headed by Robert Yerkes administered mental tests ("Army Alpha" and "Army Beta") to almost 1.8 million soldiers. Subsequently, the Rockefeller family, via the Social Science Research Council, began to provide funding for beha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22921 | 8,157 |
1,689,281 | It is aimed at beginning graduate students and researchers. To this end, most of the materials in Part I is geared towards an introductory course on the subject while Part II covers a wide range of advanced topics for a second term or further study. The essential mathematical methods for the formulation of general rela... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9023795 | 1,688,335 |
1,322,122 | In the late 19th century, his brother and he were highly successful in harvesting timber from formerly isolated areas of Pennsylvania and New York. They built railroad spurs to provide access to the properties and local sawmills, using the railroads to transport lumber to market. In the early 20th century, they used th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47714712 | 1,321,396 |
1,642,122 | As an extension to the global sparsity constraint, recent pieces in the literature have revisited the model to reach a more profound understanding of its uniqueness and stability conditions. Interestingly, by imposing a local sparsity prior in formula_6, meaning that its independent patches can be interpreted as sparse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59448183 | 1,641,195 |
2,027,520 | The data stored in SABIO-RK in a comprehensive manner is mainly extracted manually from literature. This includes reactions, their participants (substrates, products), modifiers (inhibitors, activators, cofactors), catalyst details (e.g. EC enzyme classification, protein complex composition, wild type / mutant informat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34275662 | 2,026,353 |
1,490,841 | In 1998, Feldman et al. showed that water ice might be present in permanently shadowed craters at the poles of the Moon. They detected the presence of hydrogen in the upper half-meter (1.5 feet) of the lunar surface, which was most likely evidence of water ice. This discovery was debated in the scientific community as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68986154 | 1,490,002 |
204,838 | In February 2018, Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that Russia had developed a new, nuclear-powered cruise missile with nuclear warhead that can evade air and missile defenses and hit any point on the globe. According to the statements its first flight test occurred in 2017. It was claimed to feature "a small-s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1681089 | 204,732 |
1,387,850 | In May 2009, Lyndsey Layton from the Washington Post accused manufacturers of food and beverage containers and some of their biggest customers of the public relations and lobbying strategy to block government BPA bans. She noted that, "Despite more than 100 published studies by government scientists and university labo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57552333 | 1,387,083 |
756,045 | Some populations are more vulnerable to pesticide poisoning. In the United States, farmworkers can be exposed via direct spray, drift, spills, direct contact with treated crops or soil, or defective or missing protective equipment. Migrant workers may be at an especially high risk of chronic exposure as over the course... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12523440 | 755,642 |
1,721,113 | In Dean Allen, Pi Gamma Mu had a creative visionary and in Dean Hamilton a highly respected leader who was also described as "an authority on fraternal organizations and a leader in fraternal circles." By November 1924, the founding members led by Dean Allen and Dean Hamilton had drafted a constitution for the society ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8594300 | 1,720,143 |
691,506 | While clearly the needs of biocontainment and biosafety measures vary across government, academic and private industry laboratories, biological agents pose similar risks independent of their locale. Laws relating to biosafety are not easily accessible and there are few federal regulations that are readily available for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45259 | 691,143 |
1,126,911 | Svante Pääbo was born 1955 in Stockholm, Sweden. He completed his doctoral studies at Uppsala University in 1986, served as a postdoctoral associate at the University of Zürich and University of California, Berkeley in the United States, and joined the faculty at the University of Munich in Germany in 1990. He establis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71603888 | 1,126,334 |
1,168,015 | Though not implied in the name, but implied by the structure these channels can also be activated by voltage. The different modes of activation in these channels are thought to be independent of one another. This feature of the channel allows them to participate in many different physiologic functions. The physiologica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6959376 | 1,167,397 |
291,191 | Essentially, there is no functional difference in how tornadoes are rated. The old ratings and new ratings are smoothly connected with a linear formula. The only differences are adjusted wind speeds, measurements of which were not used in previous ratings, and refined damage descriptions; this is to standardize ratings... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3724479 | 291,033 |
1,279,930 | The emerging discipline of geology also brought natural history and natural philosophy closer together; Georges Cuvier and others made great strides in comparative anatomy and paleontology in the late 1790s and early 19th century. In a series of lectures and papers that made detailed comparisons between living mammals ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=250535 | 1,279,235 |
1,698,176 | Akers was the valedictorian of his 29-member 1969 senior class from Eminence, Missouri. He worked summers as a park ranger in the 80,000 acre federal wilderness that borders Eminence. He graduated from the University of Missouri-Rolla (now the Missouri University of Science and Technology) with B.S. and M.S. degrees in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=455221 | 1,697,222 |
2,158,292 | The objective of the trial was to identify whether, in patients with a systolic blood pressure (SBP) of 130 mm Hg or higher and an increased cardiovascular risk, but without diabetes, treating to a systolic blood pressure target of less than 120 mm Hg is superior to a target of 140 mm Hg. The primary outcome being meas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49371740 | 2,157,060 |
2,091,549 | Monovalent type A influenza vaccines are generally indicated during the pandemic or the flu for everyone without contraindications. According to the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) under the Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), people aged above 10 are recommended to take one dose of H1N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70317718 | 2,090,344 |
1,716,406 | Bassoon protein and pLG72, are the current known proteins to physically interact and modulate human DAAO. plG72 is the product of the primate-specific G72 gene, and higher levels of both were observed in schizophrenia patients. Interaction of plG72 with hDAAO was observed to cause a time-dependent inactivation with the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6430965 | 1,715,437 |
1,957,823 | One area that has driven research on NDE of plastic welds is the use of High-density polyethylene (HDPE) in nuclear power plants. Metal piping has traditionally been used for cooling water piping; however, HDPE offers significant advantages due to its significantly longer service life and its strength to weight ratio. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60061507 | 1,956,699 |
400,088 | Although the technical maximum speed is through the GBT, the maximal authorized speed has been reduced to for ecological and economical reasons, while the operating speed of passenger trains is restricted to in order to accommodate the freight traffic, with the possibility to accelerate up to 230 km/h in case of delay.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=692624 | 399,889 |
1,302,101 | Warren Sturgis McCulloch was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1898. His brother was a chemical engineer and Warren was originally planning to join the Christian ministry. As a teenager he was associated with the theologians Henry Sloane Coffin, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Herman Karl Wilhelm Kumm and Julian F. Hecker. He was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44508 | 1,301,387 |
446,908 | It has also been suggested that tenure may have the effect of diminishing political and academic freedom among those seeking it – that they must appear to conform to the political or academic views of the field or the institution where they seek tenure. For example, in "The Trouble with Physics", the theoretical physic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314951 | 446,692 |
1,940,838 | The McGovern Institute was founded at MIT by Patrick Joseph McGovern and Lore Harp McGovern with a dual mission of conducting basic research on the mind and brain and applying that knowledge to help the many people suffering from brain disorders. Prior to joining the McGovern Institute in 2004, Robert Desimone was the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25192046 | 1,939,727 |
572,965 | PTSD affects memory recall and accuracy. The more the traumatic event is brought to conscious awareness and recalled, the less accurate the memory. PTSD affects the verbal memory of the traumatic event, but does not affect the memory in general. One of the ways traumatic stress affects individuals is that the traumatic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31110904 | 572,671 |
1,330,938 | In June 2020, Charlie Hall, for "Polygon", commented that the new companion type of card introduced in this set was essentially nerfed "just a few weeks after they were released [...] in an attempt to restore more balance to the game. Unlike the vast majority of cards in "Magic", companions are played from a subset of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67823950 | 1,330,209 |
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