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1,932,403 | Panspermia suggests that life can be distributed throughout outer space via comets, asteroids, and meteoroids. Panspermia assumes that life can survive the harsh space environment, which features vacuum conditions, intense radiation, extreme temperatures, and a dearth of available nutrients. Many microorganisms are abl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41116218 | 1,931,295 |
561,690 | High-temperature PEMFCs operate between 100 °C and 200 °C, potentially offering benefits in electrode kinetics and heat management, and better tolerance to fuel impurities, particularly CO in reformate. These improvements potentially could lead to higher overall system efficiencies. However, these gains have yet to be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2328120 | 561,401 |
90,885 | In its initial iOS version, AutoCAD WS supported drawing of lines, circles, and other shapes; creation of text and comment boxes; and management of color, layer, and measurements — in both landscape and portrait modes. Version 1.3, released August 17, 2011, added support for unit typing, layer visibility, area measurem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2753 | 90,845 |
967,137 | Compared to carrier-wave telecommunications, natural audio contains a variety of frequencies. It is advantageous to separate frequency bands prior to beamforming because different frequencies have different optimal beamform filters (and hence can be treated as separate problems, in parallel, and then recombined afterwa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1326932 | 966,627 |
923,461 | At the time of its announcement, Alpha was heralded as an architecture for the next 25 years. While this was not to be, Alpha has nevertheless had a reasonably long life. The first version, the "Alpha 21064" (otherwise named the "EV4") was introduced in November 1992 running at up to 192 MHz; a slight shrink of the die... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8971 | 922,975 |
459,758 | The main drawback of electrodialysis is the current density limit, the process must be operated at a lower current density than the maximum allowed. The fact is that at certain voltage applied the diffusion of ions through the membrane are not linear leading to water dissociation, which would reduce the efficiency of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=496264 | 459,533 |
797,261 | Entomophagy is scientifically described as widespread among non-human primates and common among many human communities. The scientific term describing the practice of eating insects by humans is "anthropo-entomophagy". The eggs, larvae, pupae, and adults of certain insects have been eaten by humans from prehistoric tim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69493286 | 796,836 |
2,084,366 | Sergey Vladimirovich Polyakov (Russian: Сергей Владимирович Поляков, born May 3, 1951 in Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a Russian-American scientist performing research for USPolyResearch. He is best known for his R&D in space technology and chemical engineering including the theoretical and experimental stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16628416 | 2,083,166 |
1,041,031 | All speaker drivers have a means of electrically inducing back-and-forth motion. Typically there is a tightly wound coil of insulated wire (known as a voice coil) attached to the neck of the driver's cone. In a ribbon speaker the voice coil may be printed or bonded onto a sheet of very thin paper, aluminum, fiberglass ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19889559 | 1,040,488 |
22,467 | The ammonia molecule has a trigonal pyramidal shape as predicted by the valence shell electron pair repulsion theory (VSEPR theory) with an experimentally determined bond angle of 106.7°. The central nitrogen atom has five outer electrons with an additional electron from each hydrogen atom. This gives a total of eight ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1365 | 22,458 |
2,135,129 | In 1973, finding the railroad station inadequate and the Spitz Planetarium nearing the end of its useful life, SWOMSI's Board of Directors approached the Lane County Commissioners to ask for space in the newly created Alton Baker Park. Following a break from OMSI, SWOMSI became the Willamette Science and Technology Cen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25390310 | 2,133,902 |
645,621 | The well-known example of the Trombe wall system is first used in the Trombe house in Odeillo, France in 1967. The black painted wall is constructed of approximately 2 feet thick concrete with an air space and a double glazing on its exterior side. The house is primarily heated by radiation and convection from the inne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61867 | 645,281 |
2,155,610 | After the Ogallala had lain exposed for some time since the Neogene, developing a thick caliche petrocalcic horizon under the surface, deposition of sand and gravel by wind and east-flowing streams resumed to lesser extent during the early Pre-Illinoian glaciation cycles of the Pleistocene. As the weathering and erosio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43255748 | 2,154,379 |
177,621 | The use of round rear and front sighting elements for aiming at round targets, like used in ISSF match shooting, takes advantage of the natural ability of the eye and brain to easily align concentric circles. Even for the maximum precision, there should still be a significant area of white visible around the bullseye a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1041421 | 177,529 |
1,727,680 | Active surveillance is a management option for localized prostate cancer that can be offered to appropriate patients who would also be candidates for aggressive local therapies (surgery and radiotherapy), with the intent to intervene if the disease progresses. Active surveillance should not be confused with watchful wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31548306 | 1,726,706 |
904,272 | Immunosuppressed individuals are susceptible to invasive "A. fumigatus" infection, which most commonly manifests as invasive pulmonary aspergillosis. Inhaled conidia that evade host immune destruction are the progenitors of invasive disease. These conidia emerge from dormancy and make a morphological switch to hyphae b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1391326 | 903,796 |
790,535 | An innovative financing arrangement pioneered in Berkeley, California, and Palm Springs, lends money to a homeowner for a solar system, to be repaid via an additional tax assessment on the property for 20 years. This allows installation of the solar system at "relatively little up-front cost to the property owner." Now... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15497918 | 790,110 |
392,835 | Alexander Koblents began tutoring him in 1949, after which Tal's game rapidly improved, and by 1951 he had qualified for the Latvian Championship. In the 1952 Latvian Championship, Tal finished ahead of his trainer. Tal won his first Latvian title in 1953, and was awarded the title of Candidate Master. He became a Sovi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=183145 | 392,640 |
1,570,087 | The continuation of the verse and completion of the sentence, (by all generations) is given to the chorus, expressing the fullness of the praise. Hogwood compares the "crowd effect" to Bach's the crowds in Bach's Passions. The movement is a fugue which follows the stretto principle from the start and throughout. Beginn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43938318 | 1,569,199 |
1,712,846 | Steward Observatory owes its existence to the efforts of American astronomer and dendrochronologist Andrew Ellicott Douglass. In 1906, Douglass accepted a position as Assistant Professor of Physics and Geography at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Arizona. Almost immediately upon his arrival in Tucson, Douglass est... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=462871 | 1,711,881 |
882,868 | A related observation is that the representations of the Lorentz group include a pair of inequivalent two-dimensional complex spinor representations formula_34 and formula_35 whose tensor product formula_36 is the adjoint representation. One may identify this last bit with four-dimensional Minkowski space itself (as op... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230487 | 882,404 |
1,561,227 | The transponder problem had been growing before the introduction of AIS. IFF worked on the basis of a small receiver/transmitter set that listened for pulses from a radar and produced a low-power pulse broadcast on the same frequency but slightly delayed. The signal returned to the radar-equipped aircraft along with th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43764346 | 1,560,341 |
803,247 | Indications for intubation include airway obstruction, inability to protect the airway, and respiratory failure. Examples of these indications include penetrating neck trauma, expanding neck hematoma, and being unconscious. In general, the method of intubation used is rapid sequence intubation followed by ventilation, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=788093 | 802,818 |
928,435 | While initially driven majorly by automotive consumers protection agencies and the automotive after sales service industry, the discussion of establishing a right to repair not only for vehicles but for any kind of electronic product gained traction as consumer electronics such as smartphones and computers became unive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56788383 | 927,947 |
982,331 | Another popular aldehyde for fixation is glutaraldehyde. It operates similarly to formaldehyde, causing the deformation of proteins' α-helices. However glutaraldehyde is a larger molecule than formaldehyde, and so permeates membranes more slowly. Consequently, glutaraldehyde fixation on thicker tissue samples can be di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8156507 | 981,819 |
1,718,973 | Denning began her academic career at Purdue University as assistant professor from 1975 to 1981. While associate professor at Purdue (1981-1983), she wrote her first book, "Cryptography and Data Security" in 1982. She joined SRI International as computer scientist from 1983 to 1987, working on the first intrusion detec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1613907 | 1,718,003 |
540,839 | In some cases, simply changing the way the material is processed can influence the microstructure. An example is the titanium alloy TiAl6V4. Its microstructure and mechanical properties are enhanced using SLM (selective laser melting) which is a 3D printing technique using powder and melting the particles together usin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2189901 | 540,559 |
801,387 | Another version of the fMRI multivariate pattern analysis experiment was conducted using an abstract decision problem, in an attempt to rule out the possibility of the prediction capabilities being product of capturing a built-up motor urge. Each frame contained a central letter like before, but also a central number, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26565579 | 800,959 |
1,693,990 | A nuclear microreactor is a plug-and-play type of nuclear reactor which can be easily assembled and transported by road, rail or air. Microreactors are 100 to 1,000 times smaller than conventional nuclear reactors, and when compared with small modular reactors (SMRs), their capacity is between 1 to 20 megawatts whereas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65898168 | 1,693,039 |
148,588 | When the 8th Air Force re-opened its bombing campaign in early 1944 with the Big Week offensive, the bombers returned to the skies with the long-range P-51 Mustang in escort. Unencumbered with the heavy weapons needed to down a bomber, the Mustangs (and longer-ranged versions of other aircraft) were able to fend off th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=153227 | 148,527 |
695,922 | The crystal scintillates in response to incident gamma radiation. When a gamma photon leaves the patient (who has been injected with a radioactive pharmaceutical), it knocks an electron loose from an iodine atom in the crystal, and a faint flash of light is produced when the dislocated electron again finds a minimal en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=862494 | 695,558 |
1,646,813 | With living in sparsely covered habitat and making bare spots in the land the rats create trails. They use these trails to get around easily from food source to food source. These trails lessen some of the dangers of foraging, as they make for a clear path for fast getaways leading straight to their burrow. Even though... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12520991 | 1,645,883 |
362,888 | The son of Aglaos, Eratosthenes was born in 276 BC in Cyrene. Now part of modern-day Libya, Cyrene had been founded by Greeks centuries earlier and became the capital of Pentapolis (North Africa), a country of five cities: Cyrene, Arsinoe, Berenice, Ptolemias, and Apollonia. Alexander the Great conquered Cyrene in 332 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46117 | 362,698 |
16,822 | Radio technology and the ability to construct a radio telescope are presumed to be a natural advance for technological species, theoretically creating effects that might be detected over interstellar distances. The careful searching for non-natural radio emissions from space may lead to the detection of alien civilizat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11579 | 16,817 |
507,535 | In the early 1960s, Alferov organized an effort at Ioffe Institute to develop semiconductor heterostructures. Semiconductor heterojunctions transistors enabled higher frequency use than their homojunction predecessors, and this capability plays a key role in modern mobile phone and satellite communications. Alferov and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42212 | 507,271 |
1,674,835 | Expansion microscopy (ExM) is a sample preparation tool for biological samples that allows investigators to identify small structures by expanding them using a polymer system. The premise is to introduce a polymer network into cellular or tissue samples, and then physically expand that polymer network using chemical re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48309708 | 1,673,893 |
459,623 | Medical images, particularly CT angiography, can be used to generate 3D reconstructions of patient specific anatomy. When combined with CFD/FEA, hemodynamics can be estimated in patient specific simulations, giving the clinician greater predictive tools for surgical planning and outcome evaluation to best promote throm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33891456 | 459,398 |
1,781,654 | This renewed interest in nuclear power as a climate change mitigation tool has led to efforts aimed at speeding up construction time and reducing costs of power plants. In 2020, the Department of Energy awarded $80 million each to TerraPower and X-energy as part of its Advanced Reactor Demonstration Program. Both compa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21980418 | 1,780,650 |
1,803,880 | As part of exchange theory, bilateral trading models consider sellers and buyers. These models use game-theoretic models of bargaining in networks to help predict the behavior of agents depending on the type of network. The outcome of transactions can be determined by, for instance, the number of sellers a buyer is con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46885960 | 1,802,866 |
680,291 | The orbits of spacecraft in low Earth orbit (LEO) decay to lower and lower altitudes due to the resistance from the friction between the spacecraft's surface ("i.e. ", drag) and the outer layer of the Earth's atmosphere (or the thermosphere and exosphere). Eventually, a LEO spacecraft falls out of orbit and towards the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=113496 | 679,937 |
139,436 | Now the only surviving member of the 12th expedition, the biologist takes time to analyze plant and animal samples she has gathered and discovers that some have human cells. She also reads her husband's journal and finds that his all-male team of eight was designated "11G," suggesting multiple "11th expeditions." Her h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42008766 | 139,379 |
1,913,486 | Rosen entered the U.S. Army during World War II and was assigned to the Surgeon General’s Office as an epidemiologist. He was transferred to London where his knowledge of German was used in intelligence work. He returned to the New York City Department of Health after the war but left in 1950 to become medical director... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40230749 | 1,912,387 |
263,399 | A study by Haber et al. (2013) noted that while previous studies of the Levant, which had focused mainly on diaspora Jewish populations, showed that the "Jews form a distinctive cluster in the Middle East", these studies did not make clear "whether the factors driving this structure would also involve other groups in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26118437 | 263,256 |
1,748,478 | One key technique for achieving high sensitivity in the FUV is minimizing the number of optics. This is done because FUV reflection and transmission efficiencies are typically quite low compared to what is common at visible wavelengths. In accomplishing this, the COS FUV channel uses a single (selectable) optic to diff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8447200 | 1,747,492 |
93,823 | Besides the galactic tide, the main trigger for sending comets into the inner Solar System is thought to be interaction between the Sun's Oort cloud and the gravitational fields of nearby stars or giant molecular clouds. The orbit of the Sun through the plane of the Milky Way sometimes brings it in relatively close pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22385 | 93,782 |
353,899 | Today extensive automation is practiced in practically every type of manufacturing and assembly process. Some of the larger processes include electrical power generation, oil refining, chemicals, steel mills, plastics, cement plants, fertilizer plants, pulp and paper mills, automobile and truck assembly, aircraft produ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=173354 | 353,716 |
999,137 | In December 2019 the results of a joint study by Chicago's Field Museum and the University of Michigan into changes in the morphology of birds were published in "Ecology Letters". The study uses bodies of birds which died as a result of colliding with buildings in Chicago, Illinois, since 1978. The sample is made up of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4577602 | 998,619 |
347,644 | The University of Georgia played an instrumental role in Atlanta's bid for the 1996 Summer Olympics. The University of Georgia conducted a majority of the preliminary studies for the economic impact of bringing the Olympic games to Atlanta, and hosted many Olympic events. In 1987, Atlanta attorney and former football p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378232 | 347,463 |
729,768 | An "emission" theory of light was one that regarded the propagation of light as the transport of some kind of matter. While the corpuscular theory was obviously an emission theory, the converse did not follow: in principle, one could be an emissionist without being a corpuscularist. This was convenient because, beyond ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1141 | 729,384 |
1,962,665 | Parallel metaheuristic is a class of techniques that are capable of reducing both the numerical effort and the run time of a metaheuristic. To this end, concepts and technologies from the field of parallelism in computer science are used to enhance and even completely modify the behavior of existing metaheuristics. Jus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15654888 | 1,961,537 |
1,316,594 | Parke-Davis/Warner Lambert submitted the diabetes drug Rezulin for FDA review on July 31, 1996. The medical officer assigned to the review, Dr. John L. Gueriguian, cited Rezulin's potential to harm the liver and the heart, and he questioned its viability in lowering blood sugar for patients with adult-onset diabetes, r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=597793 | 1,315,869 |
233,212 | In the late 1920s, the new rules of quantum mechanics were first applied to the electromagnetic field. In 1927, Paul Dirac used quantum fields to successfully explain how the decay of an atom to a lower quantum state led to the spontaneous emission of a photon, the quantum of the electromagnetic field. This was soon fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26998617 | 233,093 |
769,199 | The pyroxenes (commonly abbreviated to "Px") are a group of important rock-forming inosilicate minerals found in many igneous and metamorphic rocks. Pyroxenes have the general formula , where X represents calcium (Ca), sodium (Na), iron (Fe II) or magnesium (Mg) and more rarely zinc, manganese or lithium, and Y represe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=111194 | 768,787 |
130,480 | Although the study of animal life is ancient, its scientific incarnation is relatively modern. This mirrors the transition from natural history to biology at the start of the 19th century. Since Hunter and Cuvier, comparative anatomical study has been associated with morphography, shaping the modern areas of zoological... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34413 | 130,428 |
1,678,927 | From 1926 to 1932, Casagrande worked as a research assistant with the US Bureau of Public Roads, assigned to MIT, where he assisted Terzaghi in his numerous research projects directed towards improving apparatus and techniques for soil testing. When Terzaghi took up a professorship at Vienna in 1929 after a short stint... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12952852 | 1,677,984 |
663,443 | Different 2A peptides have different efficiencies of self-cleaving, T2A and P2A being the most and F2A the least efficient. Therefore, up to 50% of F2A-linked proteins can remain in the cell as a fusion protein, which might cause some unpredictable outcomes, including a gain of function. One study reported that 2A site... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59580309 | 663,098 |
1,636,335 | Dynamic demand devices have the potential to save considerable amounts of energy by the services they provide. But before dynamic demand control can be widely incorporated regulation must be put in place to mandate installation on at least new appliances or an effective market mechanism must be created to reward instal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5069898 | 1,635,410 |
517,610 | While the RD-120 engine used for the Energia core stage was developed quickly and with little difficulty, the RD-170 proved harder to work out. Glushko instead decided to use an engine with four combustion chambers fed from a single propellant feed line. The RD-170 powered strap-on boosters designed for Energia became ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=957500 | 517,341 |
402,209 | The Eocene is not only known for containing the warmest period during the Cenozoic; it also marked the decline into an icehouse climate and the rapid expansion of the Antarctic ice sheet. The transition from a warming climate into a cooling climate began at around 49 million years ago. Isotopes of carbon and oxygen ind... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9419 | 402,010 |
635,024 | South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the Nation at 20:00 SAST. Ramaphosa highlighted a few key points in his address. Firstly he explained the arrival of the new Omicron Variant and stated that over the next 2 weeks, South African scientists will be working on understand and testing the effectiveness of va... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69377194 | 634,685 |
243,164 | Work on the production of the Goshawk was divided between the two primary partner companies. BAE Systems (BAe's successor following its merger with Marconi Electronic Systems during 1999) was responsible for manufacturing the fuselage aft of the cockpit, along with the air inlets, and the vertical stabilizer of the T-4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=425509 | 243,037 |
820,263 | The Hounsfield scale is used to measure radiodensity and, in reference to CT scans, can provide an accurate absolute density for the type of tissue depicted. The radiodensity, measured in Hounsfield Units (HU, also known as CT number) is inaccurate in CBCT scans because different areas in the scan appear with different... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31286836 | 819,822 |
2,047,492 | Indolyl-3-acryloylglycine, also known as trans-indolyl-3-acryloylglycine, or IAG for short, is a compound consisting of an indole group attached to an acrylic acid moiety, which is in turn attached to a glycine molecule. This compound has been shown to isomerize when exposed to light. It is likely a metabolic intermedi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40759252 | 2,046,311 |
916,883 | Since the V-2 rocket flight was undertaken in secrecy, it was not public knowledge for many years afterward. Further, the German launches, as well as the subsequent sounding rocket tests performed in both the United States and the Soviet Union during the late 1940s and early 1950s, were not considered significant enoug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=630814 | 916,400 |
234,896 | When Israel was founded in 1948, the majority Israeli Labor Party leadership, which governed for three decades after independence, accepted the partition of Mandatory Palestine into independent Jewish and Arab states as a pragmatic solution to the political and demographic issues of the territory, with the description ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33610767 | 234,777 |
27,623 | The Merit Network was formed in 1966 as the Michigan Educational Research Information Triad to explore computer networking between three of Michigan's public universities as a means to help the state's educational and economic development. With initial support from the State of Michigan and the National Science Foundat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13692 | 27,613 |
1,967,108 | That season, Buntin surpassed John Tidwell and established the Michigan career scoring record with 1725 and a 21.8 average, but Russell would end his career the following year with superior numbers. Russell eclipsed his own single-season point total record of 670 with a total of 694 ( a number he would surpass the foll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22777261 | 1,965,978 |
1,275,200 | The first edition was very well received. A biography of Max Born said: "it presents a systematic treatment based on electromagnetic theory for all optical phenomena that can be described in terms of a continuous distribution of matter". Its timing was very opportune. The arrival of the laser shortly after its publicat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65937478 | 1,274,508 |
1,971,268 | "Mariner 10" incorporated a Venus flyby followed by an orbiter round Mercury, and required the network of 64 m antennas and special DSN enhancements including use of a developmental supercooled maser at DSS 43, installation of an S/X-band dichroic reflector plate and feed cones at DSS 14 and enhanced data transmission ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33260265 | 1,970,134 |
538,834 | In 2013, Upstate Medical University, in partnership with SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF), Syracuse University, Cornell University, the University of Rochester and SUNY Buffalo received a $2 million federal grant to acquire an 800 MHz Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectrometer. The acquisitio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9249400 | 538,555 |
564,278 | Birkar is an Kurd, born in 1978 in Marivan County, Kurdistan province, Imperial Iran, on a subsistence farm, and raised during the Iran-Iraq War. He had five siblings, and learned a lot of mathematics from his brothers during the first years of school. Following his graduation from high school, Birkar studied mathemati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36465461 | 563,988 |
1,314,193 | Vavilovian mimicry can be classified as reproductive, aggressive (parasitic) and, in the case of secondary crops, mutualistic. It is a form of "disjunct" mimicry with the model agreeable to the dupe. In disjunct mimicry complexes, three different species are involved as model, mimic and dupe—the weed, mimicking a prote... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4390795 | 1,313,472 |
7,323 | The four Main Bus Switching Units (MBSUs, located in the S0 truss), control the routing of power from the four solar array wings to the rest of the ISS. Each MBSU has two power channels that feed 160V DC from the arrays to two DC-to-DC power converters (DDCUs) that supply the 124V power used in the station. In late 201... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15043 | 7,320 |
418,226 | SpaceWire's modulation and data formats generally follow the data strobe encoding - differential ended signaling (DS-DE) part of the IEEE Std 1355-1995. SpaceWire utilizes asynchronous communication and allows speeds between 2 Mbit/s and 200 Mbit/s, with initial signalling rate of 10Mbit/s. DS-DE is well-favored becaus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1982312 | 418,021 |
497,318 | He was combative as a young man. According to Mark van Atten, this pugnacity reflected his combination of independence, brilliant, high moral standards and extreme sensitivity to issues of justice. He was involved in a very public and eventually demeaning controversy in the later 1920s with Hilbert over editorial polic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172896 | 497,061 |
1,008,795 | Complications can occur following a hemothorax, and are more likely to occur if the blood has not been adequately drained from the pleural cavity. Blood that remains within the pleural space can become infected, and is known as an empyema. It occurs in 3–4% of traumatic cases, and 27-33% of retained hemothoraces. It is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2166658 | 1,008,274 |
1,941,147 | These themes were selected as being important knowledge and professional domains that medical graduates will need in the 21st century. Doctors require competency in basic medical sciences such as anatomy and physiology as well as defined clinical skills. This includes communicating with patients and their relatives, be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12802797 | 1,940,036 |
1,401,209 | The protein encoded by this gene is a member of the Toll-like receptor (TLR) family, which plays a fundamental role in pathogen recognition and activation of innate immunity. TLRs are highly conserved from "Drosophila" to humans and share structural and functional similarities. They recognize pathogen-associated molecu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8143100 | 1,400,422 |
1,147,226 | In December 2014, a measles outbreak began at Disneyland in Southern California. At least 173 people have become infected with measles in 21 states, as of May 2015. Health officials say 39 cases have been traced to direct exposure at the park, with 117 infections linked by primary or secondary exposure. Among the 110 C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45300883 | 1,146,621 |
786,296 | Fusion reactions producing superheavy elements can be divided into "hot" and "cold" fusion, depending on the excitation energy of the compound nucleus produced. In hot fusion reactions, very light, high-energy projectiles are accelerated toward very heavy targets (actinides), giving rise to compound nuclei at high exci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50007204 | 785,873 |
2,232,998 | The pungent shrub typically grows to a height of with hairy to glabrous branchlets. Like most species of "Acacia" it has phyllodes rather than true leaves. The ascending to erect, rigid and grey-green phyllodes are usually straight and threadlike with a hexagonal cross-section when young. The glabrous phyllodes have a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50674929 | 2,231,731 |
446,069 | In the early 1990s, the Canadian Philosophical Association claimed that there is gender imbalance and gender bias in the academic field of philosophy. In June 2013, a US sociology professor stated that "out of all recent citations in four prestigious philosophy journals, female authors comprise just 3.6 percent of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5694046 | 445,853 |
1,018,381 | Abiraterone acetate is used in combination with prednisone, a corticosteroid, as a treatment for mCRPC (previously called hormone-resistant or hormone-refractory prostate cancer). This is a form of prostate cancer that is not responding to first-line androgen deprivation therapy or treatment with androgen receptor anta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12198134 | 1,017,854 |
1,694,414 | BERP IV uses: a new aerofoil, revised blade tip shape, and increased blade twist. After 29 hours of testing it has been found to, "improve rotor flight-envelope performance, reduce power needs in hover and forward flight, ... decrease airframe and engine vibration for a range of take-off weights." Additionally "Rotor h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14958834 | 1,693,463 |
499,012 | CP4. Five construction teams competed for this segment. This section was estimated to cost $400–500 million. In January 2016 the apparent best value bid of $347.5 million (about $50 to $150 less than the estimated cost) was received from California Rail Builders (a consortium led by Ferrovial Agroman US Corp, an Americ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47675007 | 498,755 |
1,603,562 | The first movement begins with a bell motif that gives the symphony its nickname, "but it immediately falls into the Technicolor, Armenian-flavored style familiar from Khachaturian's ballet Spartacus," James Reel writes. "A mournful section develops, carried mainly by the strings, and is repeatedly thrown into contrast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49015485 | 1,602,661 |
495,611 | Nuclear DNA is known as the molecule of life and contains the genetic instructions for the development of all living organisms. It is found in almost every cell in the human body, with exceptions such as red blood cells. Everyone has a unique genetic blueprint, even identical twins. Forensic departments such as the Bur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1590640 | 495,355 |
1,671,406 | In the absence of light, cGMP binds to CNG channels in photoreceptors. This binding causes the channels to open, which allows sodium (Na) and calcium (Ca) ions to flow into the cell causing the outer segment of the photoreceptor to depolarize. This depolarizing flow of ions is known as the dark current. When the retina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1349300 | 1,670,466 |
606,217 | During World War II there was a massive construction by the German Forces as part of creating Festung Norwegen, including large sections of the Nordland Line and the completion of the Sørland Line. After the war the main effort was to complete the Nordland Line (which reached Bodø in 1962) and the decision to electrify... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=290620 | 605,907 |
578,036 | Film composers use pedal points to add tension to thrillers and horror films. In the Hitchcock thriller film "North by Northwest", Bernard Herrmann "uses the pedal point and ostinato as techniques to achieve tension", resulting in a dissonant, dramatic effect. In one scene, "The Phone Booth", Herrmann "uses the timpani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=533453 | 577,740 |
510,517 | Tanner crabs are considered a short-tailed or "true" crab. They are decapods with pincer claws on their frontmost pair of legs. They can live over a decade with most adults reaching by the time they reach adulthood, usually after about five years. Females will incubate fertilized eggs for a full year before hatching du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11870034 | 510,252 |
711,388 | In 1978, Cariboo College was officially designated as a college with corporate status under the British Columbia Colleges and Provincial Institutes Act, gaining its own board independent of the school boards that had previously governed it. The Act also created the Open Learning Institute (OLI), which would later becom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1024505 | 711,016 |
2,096,911 | Conventional drug delivery is limited by the inability to control dosing, target specific sites, and achieve targeted permeability. Traditional methods of delivering therapeutics to the body experience challenges in achieving and maintaining maximum therapeutic effect while avoiding the effects of drug toxicity. Many d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70660722 | 2,095,703 |
2,192,041 | Kinetic control is obtained when there is not enough time for atoms on the surface to diffuse to an energetically more favorable state. Conditions that favor kinetic control are low temperatures (to ensure thermal energy is smaller than activation energy of the thermodynamic reaction) and high monomer concentration (in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69821827 | 2,190,791 |
1,895,895 | Although the Announcement of Opportunity called for a Venus lander, the VOX scientific team is proposing an orbiter with a payload capable of achieving the required objectives. The VOX proposing team explains: "At the time of the Decadal Survey the ability to map mineralogy from orbit and present-day radar techniques t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55417046 | 1,894,811 |
893,996 | Hutton gave the example that where dogs survived through "swiftness of foot and quickness of sight... the most defective in respect of those necessary qualities, would be the most subject to perish, and that those who employed them in greatest perfection... would be those who would remain, to preserve themselves, and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15965 | 893,526 |
876,248 | Swelling and pain usually result in limited movement of the affected joints, for example a knee held bent causing a limp, or being unable to make a full fist. Limited movement may reduce a child's ability to fully participate in activities and undertake usual tasks such as those used for self-care. In some JIA subtypes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=619071 | 875,786 |
59,278 | A hyperloop is a proposed high-speed transportion system for both public and goods transport. The idea was picked up by Elon Musk to describe a modern project based on the vactrain concept (first appearance in 1799). Hyperloop systems comprise three essential elements: tubes, pods, and terminals. The tube is a large, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36971117 | 59,253 |
447,790 | Chemical physicists commonly probe the structure and dynamics of ions, free radicals, polymers, clusters, and molecules. Areas of study include the quantum mechanical behavior of chemical reactions, the process of solvation, inter- and intra-molecular energy flow, and single entities such as quantum dots. Experimental ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=733929 | 447,573 |
983,807 | Easton's firm, inherited by his son James (1796–1871), grew during the nineteenth century to become one of the more important engineering manufacturers in England, with a large works at Erith, Kent. They specialised in water supply and sewerage systems worldwide, as well as land drainage projects. Eastons had a good bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14340 | 983,293 |
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