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478,810 | Hybridization is the process of establishing a non-covalent, sequence-specific interaction between two or more complementary strands of nucleic acids into a single complex, which in the case of two strands is referred to as a duplex. Oligonucleotides, DNA, or RNA will bind to their complement under normal conditions, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9299409 | 478,570 |
1,239,699 | Since the sixties concern over the state of environment has grown the world over. There has been substantive decline in environment quality due to increasing pollution, loss of vegetal cover and biological diversity, excessive concentration of harmful chemicals in the ambient atmosphere and in food chains, growing risk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55784744 | 1,239,031 |
849,527 | UPMC has provided care to many celebrities, including Pennsylvania two-term governor and 1992 Presidential candidate Robert P. Casey for cancer, 10,000 Maniacs guitarist and founder Robert Buck for liver disease, sportscaster Bob Prince, publisher William Block, MCI CEO William G. McGowan, transplant recipient Stormie ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2156973 | 849,075 |
2,039,256 | George A. "Pop" Doersch. was the 359th Fighter Group's second highest ranking ace with 10.5 victories in aerial combat (according to USAAF and Imperial Air Museum records) and other sources. Major Doersch flew 78 missions between April 1943 (many in his personal P-51B named "Mis Pop") and July 1944, when returned to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14504524 | 2,038,077 |
210,091 | "F. hepatica's" tegument protects it from the enzymes of the host's digestive system, whilst still allowing water to pass through. Free-swimming larvae have cilia and the cercariae have a muscular tail to help them swim through the aquatic environment and also allow them to reach the plants on which they form a cyst. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1349358 | 209,984 |
175,762 | In 1951, NACA Engineer Richard Whitcomb determined the area rule that explained transonic flow over an aircraft. The first uses of this theory were on the Convair F-102 project and the F11F Tiger. The F-102 was meant to be a supersonic interceptor, but it was unable to exceed the speed of sound, despite the best effort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=192347 | 175,670 |
1,529,178 | Looking Glass Self is a sociological term that was introduced by a man named Charles Horton Cooley. This term makes a connection between the reactions of a group and the reactions of an individual. Cooley is saying that a person's opinion of oneself is determined by the opinions of those around them. The group around t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13799904 | 1,528,314 |
1,793,237 | In 1987 China had scientific-exchange relations with 106 countries — usually in the form of agreements between the China Association of Science and Technology and a foreign equivalent. Incomplete statistics indicated that by 1986 Chinese scientists had completed over 500 joint projects with scientists in the United Sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14246598 | 1,792,228 |
1,599,928 | Diffuse idiopathic pulmonary neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia (DIPNECH) is a diffuse parenchymal lung disease which often presents with symptoms of cough and shortness of breath. The pathological definition published by the World Health Organization is “a generalized proliferation of scattered single cells, small nodule... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49528059 | 1,599,027 |
1,576,893 | In 1991, budget cuts at Iowa State and the Music Department was not able to fund a replacement for the carillon position following the retirement of Professor Richard von Grabow. As a result, the bells remained silent until September 19, when Kenn McCloud, morning disk jockey and operations manager for KCCQ-FM in Ames,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12045569 | 1,576,004 |
799,329 | Any equation of physical law can be expressed in a form in which all dimensional quantities are normalized against like-dimensioned quantities (called "nondimensionalization"), resulting in only dimensionless quantities remaining. In fact, physicists can "choose" their units so that the physical constants "c", "G", "ħ"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1267762 | 798,904 |
29,939 | In 1971, Pierre Ramond added fermions to the model, which led him to formulate a two-dimensional supersymmetry to cancel the wrong-sign states. John Schwarz and André Neveu added another sector to the fermi theory a short time later. In the fermion theories, the critical dimension was 10. Stanley Mandelstam formulated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28305 | 29,929 |
1,730,838 | Interactions of cMyBP-C with its binding partners vary with its posttranslational modification status. At least three extensively characterized phosphorylation sites (Ser273, 282 and 302; numbering refers to the mouse sequence) are localized in the M motif of cMyBP-C and are targeted by protein kinases in a hierarchica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14726020 | 1,729,863 |
1,949,289 | Aaron M. Ellison is an ecologist, photographer, sculptor, and writer. He retired in July 2021 after 20 years as the senior research fellow in ecology at Harvard University and as a Senior Ecologist at the Harvard Forest. He also served as deputy director of the Harvard Forest from 2018 to 2021. Until 2018, he also was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44113517 | 1,948,168 |
927,162 | The following table is derived from table 5.1a of the release 11 of 3GPP TS 25.306 and shows maximum data rates of different device classes and by what combination of features they are achieved. The per-cell, per-stream data rate is limited by the "maximum number of bits of an HS-DSCH transport block received within an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8354756 | 926,675 |
1,245,798 | SRP RNA was first detected in avian and murine oncogenic RNA (ocorna) virus particles. Subsequently, SRP RNA was found to be a stable component of uninfected HeLa cells where it associated with membrane and polysome fractions. In 1980, cell biologists purified from canine pancreas an 11S "signal recognition protein" (f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12365585 | 1,245,123 |
1,679,061 | Following the Japanese Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster, according to Black & Veatch’s annual utility survey that took place after the disaster, of the 700 executives from the US electric utility industry that were surveyed, nuclear safety was the top concern. There are likely to be increased requirements for on-site... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10638591 | 1,678,118 |
1,790,564 | The interactions of light and matter with spacetime, as predicted by general relativity, can be studied using the new type of artificial optical materials that feature extraordinary abilities to bend light (which is actually electromagnetic radiation). This research creates a link between the newly emerging field of ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27470863 | 1,789,558 |
606,337 | BuEng had designed a new lead-acid battery to resist battle damage, known as the "Sargo" battery because it was first installed on and was based on a suggestion by her commissioning commanding officer, Lieutenant E. E. Yeomans. Instead of a single hard rubber case, it had two concentric hard rubber cases with a layer o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=639634 | 606,027 |
161,436 | Recent investigations have established that both moyamoya disease and arteriovenous fistulas (AVFs) of the lining of the brain, the dura, are associated with dural angiogenesis. These factors may represent a mechanism for ischemia contributing to the formation of dural AVFs. At least one case of simultaneous unilateral... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1502970 | 161,351 |
819,843 | The λ/4 coupled-line design is good for coaxial and stripline implementations but does not work so well in the now popular microstrip format, although designs do exist. The reason for this is that microstrip is not a homogeneous medium – there are two different mediums above and below the transmission strip. This leads... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5498670 | 819,402 |
1,906,809 | The energy release component (ERC) is a number related to the available energy (BTU) per unit area (square foot) within the flaming front at the head of a fire. Daily variations in ERC are due to changes in moisture content of the various fuels present, both live and dead. Since this number represents the potential "he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20213164 | 1,905,713 |
251,674 | Rifling may not begin immediately forward of the chamber. There may be an unrifled throat ahead of the chamber so a cartridge may be chambered without pushing the bullet into the rifling. This reduces the force required to load a cartridge into the chamber, and prevents leaving a bullet stuck in the rifling when an unf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=94139 | 251,541 |
969,088 | While the status of "Edmontosaurus" as a saurolophine has not been challenged, its exact placement within the clade is uncertain. Early phylogenies, such as that presented in R. S. Lull and Nelda Wright's influential 1942 monograph, had "Edmontosaurus" and various species of "Anatosaurus" (most of which would be later ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1585380 | 968,578 |
147,815 | Initially, officials were unable to contact the Wolong National Nature Reserve, home to around 280 giant pandas. However, the Foreign Ministry later said that a group of 31 British tourists visiting the Wolong Panda Reserve in the quake-hit area returned safe and uninjured to Chengdu. Nonetheless, the well-being of an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17901805 | 147,756 |
2,195,453 | Type I NKT cells are also called ‘invariant NKT cells’ or ‘iNKT cells’, they express an invariant TCRα chain and a limited, but not invariant, range of TCRβ chains. Type I NKT cells are less frequent in humans than in mice (1–3% of T cells in most mouse tissues, 50% in mouse liver and bone marrow, and approximately 0.1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69824413 | 2,194,203 |
748,732 | "SimCity" inspired a new genre of video games. "Software toys" that were open-ended with no set objective were developed trying to duplicate "SimCity"<nowiki>'</nowiki>s success. The most successful was most definitely Wright's own "The Sims", which went on to be the best selling computer game of all time. The ideas pi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28760 | 748,334 |
1,371,925 | The religious spectrum of the United States military is comparable to that of the general population. In comparison with the nearest available age group, a demographic of 20- to 39-year-olds that make up eighty percent of the military, there are slight variations. Mainline Protestants, Catholics, Jews, Muslims, and Bud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18431120 | 1,371,168 |
1,208,375 | "Bajadasaurus" sported bifurcated (two-pronged), extremely elongated extending from the neck. Similarly elongated spines are known from the closely related and more completely known "Amargasaurus". Several possible functions have been proposed for these spines in "Amargasaurus"; the 2019 description of "Bajadasaurus" s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59855096 | 1,207,729 |
2,243,425 | The Focused Dispatch Experiment was one of the first instances of live-virtual-constructive (LVC) simulation. Conducted at Fort Knox and the Western Kentucky Training Area via satellite linkage, its primary purpose was to examine how digital connections might enhance an armored formation's fire support, intelligence, l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27919032 | 2,242,154 |
30,976 | The use of tools has been interpreted as a sign of intelligence, and it has been theorized that tool use may have stimulated certain aspects of human evolution, especially the continued expansion of the human brain. Paleontology has yet to explain the expansion of this organ over millions of years despite being extreme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10326 | 30,966 |
1,119,733 | Although the interference patterns used in ptychography can only be measured in intensity, the mathematical constraints provided by the translational invariance of the two functions (illumination and object), together with the known shifts between them, means that the phase of the wavefield can be recovered by an inver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19397346 | 1,119,160 |
1,988,602 | Structurally, the SLEs resemble the semiconductor Bloch equations (SBEs) if the formula_41 are compared with the microscopic polarization within the SBEs. As the main difference, formula_41 also has a photon index formula_1, its dynamics is driven spontaneously, and it is directly coupled to three-particle correlations... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39352906 | 1,987,460 |
437,176 | The conventional Faraday cup is applied for measurements of ion (or electron) flows from plasma boundaries and comprises a metallic cylindrical receiver-cup – 1 (Fig. 1) closed with, and insulated from, a washer-type metallic electron-suppressor lid – 2 provided with the round axial through enter-hollow of an aperture ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1777422 | 436,962 |
1,446,598 | Even though the processes just described are studied with experiments or with Computational Fluid Dynamics, it is instructive to explain them with a simpler analysis. In this analysis, the interaction of the flame with the flow environment is modeled as a perfectly-mixed chemical reactor. With this model, the governing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56073390 | 1,445,782 |
2,105,787 | As a strict chemoheterotroph, ""Ca." A. boonei" requires a continuous supply of peptides to carry out its cellular processes. Culture-based studies have shown the archaeon to only grow on trypticase peptone, casein, and yeast extract. Growth on these complex organics has revealed the production of small organic acids s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52466711 | 2,104,574 |
1,056,470 | Nanoscale metal catalysts are important ingredients for fixed- and fluidized-bed CVD synthesis of CNTs. They allow increasing the growth efficiency of CNTs and may give control over their structure and chirality. During synthesis, catalysts can convert carbon precursors into tubular carbon structures but can also form ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51069037 | 1,055,922 |
2,196,148 | The main question of Theme I research is how patterns in biodiversity can be explained from underlying processes: speciation and extinction, dispersal and the (dis)appearance of geographical barriers, reproductive isolation and hybridisation of taxa. Modern reconstructions of the history of life on earth rely heavily o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10343711 | 2,194,897 |
354,680 | He signed a Red Bull contract extension for the season before the , having agreed with the team to sign one-year contracts late in his career for ability and quality assessment. Webber's mental state worsened because he was ready to retire after a title win to stop all negativity related to his racing career. His RB7 c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=564161 | 354,497 |
1,346,559 | Grb2 is widely expressed and is essential for multiple cellular functions. Inhibition of Grb2 function impairs developmental processes in various organisms and blocks transformation and proliferation of various cell types. It is thus not surprising that targeted gene disruption of Grb2 in mice is lethal at an early emb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5912204 | 1,345,818 |
1,498,300 | Initially it was intended to publish only one volume on lagomorphs and rodents. But due to the large number of described rodents Lynx Edicions organized a survey from summer to autumn 2015 in which a majority of customers decided in favor of two volumes. The sixth volume is devoted to the lagomorphs and 25 families of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19886002 | 1,497,456 |
1,851,323 | "Cotoneaster cambricus" is critically endangered, with only six plants known in the wild, which are not regenerating naturally. This number has been supplemented in recent years by an additional 11 cultivated plants, grown from cuttings and seeds. Reintroduction has so far only had limited success; the 11 additional ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12873647 | 1,850,262 |
758,173 | This coastal center owned by Bates College, provides various academic programs, lectures, extracurricular activities, and research endeavors for students. 80 acres of wetlands, and woodlands with a fresh water pond, are available to numerous science departments and programs at Bates. There are two buildings on the land... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=319763 | 757,767 |
670,060 | Small PA systems for venues such as bars and clubs are now available with features that were formerly only available on professional-level equipment, such as digital reverb effects, graphic equalizers, and, in some models, feedback prevention circuits which electronically sense and prevent audio feedback when it become... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=764380 | 669,710 |
780,723 | Public health policies internationally reflect differing views of how the close contacts of people affected by severe Group A streptococcal infections should be treated. Health Canada and the US CDC recommend close contacts see their doctor for full evaluation and may require antibiotics; current UK Health Protection A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58638 | 780,305 |
2,171,656 | The men's épée was one of ten fencing events on the fencing at the 1996 Summer Olympics programme. It was the twenty-second appearance of the event. The competition was held on 20 July 1996. 45 fencers from 21 nations competed, a sharply reduced number from prior Games which generally had 60 to 80 fencers. Each nation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34602352 | 2,170,417 |
1,504,870 | Reading "et al". have explored the use of a broadband QCL combined with thermal expansion measurements. Above, the inability of thermal broadband sources to achieve high spatial resolution is discussed (see history). In this case the frequency of modulation is limited by the mirror speed of the interferometer which, in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44893854 | 1,504,024 |
1,254,291 | Parkinson died in the summer of 1650, and was buried at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, on 6 August. He is commemorated in the Central American genus of leguminous trees "Parkinsonia". "Paradisi in Sole" also inspired the children's writer Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841–1885) to write the story "Mary's Meadow", which was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2574257 | 1,253,610 |
1,277,274 | Energy distance and E-statistic were considered as N-distances and N-statistic in Zinger A.A., Kakosyan A.V., Klebanov L.B. Characterization of distributions by means of mean values of some statistics in connection with some probability metrics, Stability Problems for Stochastic Models. Moscow, VNIISI, 1989,47-55. (in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30316300 | 1,276,581 |
2,010,512 | The value of the above determination of the physically meaningful calculation is that it avoids the consideration of basis sets that are larger than that of Calculation "N" and are heretofore over-complete for the description of the ground state of the material. In the current literature, the only calculations that hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63401284 | 2,009,359 |
388,604 | The difference in density of the breathing gas causes a non-linear shift of low-pitch vocal resonance, due to resonance shifts in the vocal cavities, giving a nasal effect, and a linear shift of vocal resonances which is a function of the velocity of sound in the gas, known as the Donald Duck effect. Another effect of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=489941 | 388,409 |
2,119,757 | The men's shot put event was part of the track and field athletics programme at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. Twenty athletes from 14 nations competed. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The competition was held on 21 July at Helsinki Olympic St... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29267375 | 2,118,538 |
7,935 | The Space Force had mixed reception within policy think tanks. The Center for Strategic and International Studies supported the creation of the new service, arguing that it was needed to consolidate national security space responsibilities, which in 2016 was spread out across 60 different organizations. They also argue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54465810 | 7,932 |
1,758,821 | The final Atlas E test from CCAS was Missile 40E on February 13, 1962. With OSTF-1 back in operation, Missile 66E launched on March 1. Shortly after liftoff, a thrust section fire started in the vicinity of the fuel fill/drain valve. It continued until approximately T+50 seconds and then disappeared, but apparently res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20877313 | 1,757,828 |
2,240,530 | Texas A&M baseball has compiled an all-time record of 2550-1427-42 (.634 winning percentage) through the 2014 season. The Aggies have won 20 conference championships (15 in the Southwest Conference, four in the Big 12, and one in the SEC). Texas A&M has made 33 NCAA tournament appearances, advancing to the College Worl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18455992 | 2,239,259 |
766,115 | The British Army entered World War II with infantry weapons based on the .303 British round, including the Lee-Enfield bolt-action rifle, Vickers machine gun and the Bren gun. The .303 had been developed near the end of the 19th century, and had several problems when used in modern designs, notably, the rimmed cartridg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1528752 | 765,705 |
844,565 | In 2006 the CDC recommended adults receive pertussis vaccination along with the tetanus and diphtheria toxoid booster. In 2011 they began recommended boosters during each pregnancy. The UK commenced routine vaccination of pregnant women in 2012. The program initially aimed to vaccinate women between 28 and 32 weeks (bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21053304 | 844,115 |
1,321,758 | Ambartsumian developed an early interest in mathematics and was able to multiply by the age of 4. His interest in astronomy began with reading a Russian translation of a book by Ormsby M. Mitchel at 11. According to himself, he became an astronomer at the age of 12. Between 1917 and 1924 he studied at Tiflis gymnasiums... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=621989 | 1,321,032 |
250,561 | Balloon jumping replaced tower jumping, also demonstrating with typically fatal results that man-power and flapping wings were useless in achieving flight. At the same time scientific study of heavier-than-air flight began in earnest. In 1801, the French officer managed a 300-metre glide by starting from the top of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177680 | 250,428 |
1,230,157 | Fuster was elected editor-in-chief at the "Journal of the American College of Cardiology" in 2014. Former positions include President of the American Heart Association, past president of the World Heart Federation, member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences where he serves as Chair of the C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17184414 | 1,229,495 |
306,255 | The art history of the Hellenic era is generally subdivided into four periods: the Protogeometric (1100–900 BC), the Geometric (900–700 BC), the Archaic (700–500 BC) and the Classical (500–323 BC) with sculpture being further divided into Severe Classical, High Classical and Late Classical. The first signs of the parti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52684 | 306,091 |
1,241,072 | The Teclu Burner was invented in 1882 as opposed to the Bunsen Burner invented in 1855. The respective developers Nicolae Teclu, a Romanian chemist, and Robert Bunsen, a German chemist, also differed in their educational backgrounds as Teclu specialised in engineering, architecture, and chemistry while Bunsen primarily... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30868647 | 1,240,401 |
1,392,898 | Having already used electrical point stimulation to identify the optic tectum as the region responsible for the prey-catching behaviors, Ewert and colleagues located and recorded from individual prey-selective neurons of the optic tectum in freely moving toads. These T5.2 neurons would increase in discharge frequency p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25522368 | 1,392,127 |
603,049 | Shouldice LibraryThe Kenneth J. Shouldice Library facility houses offices for Social Sciences, Business, English and Communications, and two lecture halls. The main level includes the main circulation desk and audio visual, and the Testing Center. It also offers a student computer lab, interactive TV rooms and the Shou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1330190 | 602,740 |
466,897 | In adulthood, the sleep architecture has been showing that the sleep latency and the time spent in NREM stages 1 and 2 may increase with aging, while the time spent in REM and SWS sleep seem to decrease. These changes have been frequently associated with brain atrophy, cognitive impairment and neurodegenerative disorde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36563803 | 466,664 |
815,748 | During the early stages of the Second World War, Sweden was concerned that its neutrality and its independence could be threatened by one of the belligerent powers, and so enacted a series of emergency measures to increase its military's preparedness and deterrence value against potential aggressors. Between 1939 and 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3412432 | 815,314 |
1,987,865 | Since the industrial revolution 30% of the anthropogenic CO has been absorbed by the oceans, resulting in ocean acidification, which is a threat to calcifying alga. As a result, there has been profound interest in these calcifying algae, boosted by their major role in the global carbon cycle. Globally, coccolithophores... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67766374 | 1,986,723 |
382,645 | Visits to Europe in 1926 and 1927 brought him into contact with the most recent developments there, including Webern's Five Pieces for Orchestra, which greatly impressed him. In August 1927, while staying in Königstein, Copland wrote "Poet's Song", a setting of a text by E. E. Cummings and his first composition using S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51298 | 382,450 |
1,389,521 | The successes, and frank analysis of the limitations, of this AM and Eurisko approach to AI, and the concluding plea for the massive (multi-thousand-person-year, decades-long) R&D effort would be required to break that bottleneck to AI, led to attention in 1982 from Admiral Bob Inman and the then-forming MCC research c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99991 | 1,388,750 |
1,362,640 | Statistical methods are the quantitative tools most used by psychologists. Pearson introduced the correlation coefficient and the chi-squared test. The 1900–1920 period saw the t-test (Student, 1908), the ANOVA (Fisher, 1925) and a non-parametric correlation coefficient (Spearman, 1904). A large number of tests were de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3067624 | 1,361,887 |
1,605,807 | Another standard is the use of 1950 as "present", in the sense that a calculation that shows that a sample's likely age is 500 years "before present" means that it is likely to have come from about the year 1450. This convention is necessary in order to keep published radiocarbon results comparable to each other; witho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43185787 | 1,604,903 |
370,056 | The top eleven teams from the previous tournament qualified automatically. They were joined by the five winners of regional qualification tournaments. In August 2021, the International Cricket Council (ICC) announced that the Americas, Asia, and EAP regional qualifiers had all been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51765484 | 369,862 |
763,941 | Between 1980 and 2000, weather radar networks became the norm in North America, Europe, Japan and other developed countries. Conventional radars were replaced by Doppler radars, which in addition to position and intensity could track the relative velocity of the particles in the air. In the United States, the construct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=675776 | 763,531 |
756,922 | The ability to produce such a high-frequency vocalization by such a large animal is unusual. As explained above, this is because larger body mass positively correlates with longer vocal folds and thus lower frequency emission. Larger body size also corresponds with a decreased ability to emit high frequency vocalizatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=749435 | 756,519 |
1,346,355 | In addition to varied topographies and in spite of an extremely cold climate, the polar aquatic regions are teeming with microbial life. Even in sub-glacial regions, cellular life has adapted to these extreme environments where perhaps there are traces of early microbes on Earth. As grazing by macrofauna is limited in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63465390 | 1,345,614 |
2,184,536 | After this training phase in France, the Brazilian Navy engineers returned to Brazil with the responsibility of passing on the knowledge acquired and to begin with the realization of the submarine project, relying, however, on the technical assistance of the company that trained them, this being one of the clauses of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72168935 | 2,183,288 |
928,926 | NPC can be treated by surgery, by chemotherapy, or by radiotherapy. There are different forms of radiation therapy, including 3D conformal radiation therapy, intensity-modulated radiation therapy, particle beam therapy and brachytherapy, which are commonly used in the treatments of cancers of the head and neck. The exp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8263081 | 928,435 |
127,018 | Under Richard C. Atkinson's leadership as chancellor from 1980 to 1995, the university strengthened its ties with the city of San Diego by encouraging technology transfer with developing companies, transforming San Diego into a world leader in technology-based industries. He oversaw a rapid expansion of the School of E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31927 | 126,966 |
91,245 | The next task is to form a site plan and then use it to help decide the method of excavation. Features dug into the natural subsoil are normally excavated in portions to produce a visible archaeological section for recording. A feature, for example a pit or a ditch, consists of two parts: the cut and the fill. The cut ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18951655 | 91,205 |
2,154,875 | Olson's interests also span the field of education, where she is researching the role that telepresence robots play in reducing the social and educational barrier chronically ill or disabled children face when they are kept from school and classmates for extended periods of time. To this end, Olson is currently working... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57023696 | 2,153,644 |
171,990 | Gamma encoding of images is used to optimize the usage of bits when encoding an image, or bandwidth used to transport an image, by taking advantage of the non-linear manner in which humans perceive light and color. The human perception of brightness (lightness), under common illumination conditions (neither pitch black... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68466 | 171,899 |
552,963 | Excavations continued at the site, though hominin remains proved to be rare. In 1997, the right third metatarsal bone of a hominin was discovered in the same layer as the jaw. Further discoveries were made in May 1999. Because of long-lasting periods of rainfall, the site was damaged. Archaeologist and expedition membe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60072585 | 552,674 |
359,627 | The amount of deference that should be given to "The Federalist Papers" in constitutional interpretation has always been somewhat controversial. As early as 1819, Chief Justice John Marshall noted in the famous case "McCulloch v. Maryland", that "the opinions expressed by the authors of that work have been justly suppo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46833 | 359,440 |
1,739,453 | PTUs, increasingly standardized through the 1960s, formed a government-funded USSR-wide system for school graduates who didn't intend to receive a university degree. Instead, they were both educated generally and trained for non-academic occupations. There were PTUs specializing in almost all such professions, but the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=810750 | 1,738,474 |
1,687,865 | On 14–15 May 1917, several 250t-class boats were part of the support forces for a major raid on the Otranto Barrage. When the raiding force departed, torpedo boats and aircraft secured the approaches to the Austro-Hungarian naval base at the Bocche. Once the raiding force had departed for the barrage, "Sankt Georg", a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46387997 | 1,686,919 |
694,464 | One attempted change made to literacy instruction has been the offering of choice in classroom gender populations. In Hamilton, Ontario, Cecil B. Stirling Elementary/Junior School offered students in grades 7 and 8, and their parents, a choice between enrolling in a boys-only, girls-only or co-ed literacy course. Singl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16973246 | 694,101 |
1,591,311 | Following various earlier changes of ownership, Meyn was acquired by Altor Funds (Altor) in 2005. Under its new ownership, the company grew to become the world market leader in this sector, with a turnover of more than 200 million euros. They expanded their business to more than 90 countries and built factories in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60281819 | 1,590,416 |
1,452,786 | The National Solar Energy Center was founded in 1987 by the Ministry of National Infrastructures, and is part of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. In 2007, David Faiman, the center's director, announced that the center had entered into a project with Zenith Solar to create a home solar energy system that uses a 10-sq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20856116 | 1,451,969 |
1,035,372 | Computation tree logic (CTL) is a branching-time logic, meaning that its model of time is a tree-like structure in which the future is not determined; there are different paths in the future, any one of which might be an actual path that is realized. It is used in formal verification of software or hardware artifacts, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=840894 | 1,034,832 |
318,379 | The British Geological Survey reported the amount and distribution of PAH compounds including parent and alkylated forms in urban soils at 76 locations in Greater London. The study showed that parent (16 PAH) content ranged from 4 to 67 mg/kg (dry soil weight) and an average PAH concentration of 18 mg/kg (dry soil weig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=653006 | 318,208 |
1,937,499 | Zebrafish development relies on gene networks that are highly conserved among all vertebrates. Additionally, with an extremely well annotated set of 12,000 genes and 1,000 early development mutants that are actually visible in the optically clear zebrafish embryos and larvae, zebrafish offer a sophisticated system for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24219329 | 1,936,391 |
1,220,417 | The submarine program is also divided into three phases: the KSS-I, KSS-II, and KSS-III. The first two classes of submarines were made with assistance from German naval firm Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft. The KSS-I (Jang Bogo-class) is a licensed produced variant of the Germany's Type 209 submarine. The KSS-II (Type 214... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66301957 | 1,219,763 |
557,825 | Dedicated CGH software is commercially available for the image processing step, and is required to subtract background noise, remove and segment materials not of chromosomal origin, normalize the fluorescence ratio, carry out interactive karyotyping and chromosome scaling to standard length. A "relative copy number kar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=983601 | 557,536 |
1,661,752 | In April 2016, the team composed of the Russian National Guard Troops "Flying Squad" members, who were trained at a special program developed by the university's instructors with the support from the Russian Geographic Society, held unique military tactical training in the Arctic. Under the guidance from the instructor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55985939 | 1,660,817 |
826,761 | Critics regard the procedure as a paradigmatic example of data dredging, intense computation often being an inadequate substitute for subject area expertise. Additionally, the results of stepwise regression are often used incorrectly without adjusting them for the occurrence of model selection. Especially the practice ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4877759 | 826,317 |
847,649 | Early in the Spitfire's operational life a major problem became apparent; at altitudes above about 15,000 ft (4,572 m), any condensation could freeze in the guns. Because of this the system of gun heating first fitted to "K5054" was introduced on the 61st production Mk I. At the outset of World War II, the flash-hiders... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16070159 | 847,199 |
265,405 | A type of electric propulsion, spacecraft such as "Dawn" use an ion engine. In an ion engine, electric power is used to create charged particles of the propellant, usually the gas xenon, and accelerate them to extremely high velocities. The exhaust velocity of conventional rockets is limited to about 5 km/s by the chem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14843 | 265,262 |
377,480 | The original intention for Gemini was to land on solid ground instead of at sea, using a Rogallo wing rather than a parachute, with the crew seated upright controlling the forward motion of the craft. To facilitate this, the airfoil did not attach just to the nose of the craft, but to an additional attachment point for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=882736 | 377,285 |
1,494,820 | There is a long tradition of geography at Cambridge stretching back to the first University Lecturer in Geography appointed in 1888. Teaching was initially for a special examination leading to a diploma in geography. The Geographical Tripos - the examination for a B.A. degree - was established in 1919. In 1931 the firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9599165 | 1,493,979 |
1,586,970 | On July 29, 1999, Continuus Software announced a public offering listing its stock on the NASDAQ Stock Market. In October 2000, the Swedish software company Telelogic, agreed to purchase Continuus Software in a deal worth $42 million. Under Telelogic, Continuus was renamed Synergy. It had also recently acquired QSS and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19047417 | 1,586,076 |
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