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843,058 | In 1840, the First Opium War forced China to open its door and look at the outside world, which also led to an influx of western mathematical studies at a rate unrivaled in the previous centuries. In 1852, the Chinese mathematician Li Shanlan and the British missionary Alexander Wylie co-translated the later nine volum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1524543 | 842,608 |
1,943,086 | PMM variability is not constant. Both the mean climate state—in particular the strength of the ocean surface heat flux variations caused by wind changes and the latitude of the ITCZ—and the storminess in the extratropics influence its variability. The ITCZ limits the extent of the PMM to the south, and fluctuations in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65926624 | 1,941,975 |
2,247,798 | Aponogeton ranunculiflorus, the Sehlabathebe water lily, is a tiny and endangered species of aquatic plant, that belongs to the pondweed family Aponogetonaceae. It is protected in the Sehlabathebe National Park in the mountains of Lesotho, where it is very localized, and nearby in the uKhahlamba / Drakensberg Park of K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45593695 | 2,246,526 |
68,831 | In 2019, McGill announced the construction of a new campus for its Faculty of Medicine in Gatineau, Quebec, which will allow students from the Outaouais region to complete their undergraduate medical education locally and in French. Medical students began using the new facility in August 2020. The new facility is locat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954643 | 68,804 |
231,336 | The intestines contain a large population of gut flora. In humans, the four dominant phyla are Bacillota, Bacteroidota, Actinomycetota, and Pseudomonadota. They are essential to digestion and are also affected by food that is consumed. Bacteria are essential for metabolizing food substrates and thereby increasing energ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93827 | 231,217 |
1,721,098 | Dr Chris Smith launched "The Naked Scientists" in 2001, rebranding the programme from a previous incarnation created in 2000 called "ScienceWorld". Initially on commercial local radio, the show moved to the BBC's eastern region local radio network in 2003 where it was aired on Sundays on all 8 stations across the regio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3299247 | 1,720,128 |
1,550,768 | These two sources may balance each other or amplify each other depending on the direction of the T error. There are two major reasons why this method is widely employed. First the pedigree based rates are inappropriate for estimates for very long periods of time. Second, while the archaeology anchored rates represent t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25372452 | 1,549,887 |
1,197,319 | Daisyworld, a computer simulation, is a hypothetical world orbiting a star whose radiant energy is slowly increasing or decreasing. It is meant to mimic important elements of the Earth-Sun system, and was introduced by James Lovelock and Andrew Watson in a paper published in 1983 to illustrate the plausibility of the G... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216410 | 1,196,678 |
498,005 | Smith was born in the village of Churchill, Oxfordshire, the son of John Smith (1735–1777), the village blacksmith, and his wife Ann ("née" Smith; 1745–1807). His father died when he was eight years old, and he and his siblings were raised by his uncle, a farmer also named William Smith. Largely self-educated, Smith wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93553 | 497,748 |
2,091,925 | "Magnetobacterium bavaricum" is a large rod shaped gram negative microorganism that ranges from 8um-10um in length and 1.5um-2um in width. These microorganisms are motile by a single polar flagella and orient themselves by use of magnetotaxis. "M. bavaricum" were found to contain upwards of 1,000 magnetosomes per cell ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69338321 | 2,090,720 |
1,529,942 | The oldest rocks in the Falklands are gneiss and granite in the Cape Meredith complex, which radiometric studies place at around 1100 million years old. These types of rocks are visible in cliffs at the south end of West Falkland. The Cape Meredith complex corresponds to the crystalline rocks that made up the interior ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2893647 | 1,529,078 |
1,047,214 | Patents have, for example, been granted for detectors used in high-performance X-ray cameras developed for the Swiss Synchrotron Light Source SLS, which can be used to investigate materials at the atomic level. These provided the basis for founding the company DECTRIS, the largest spin-off to date to emerge from PSI. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1053016 | 1,046,669 |
959,546 | Prior to the 20th century, polio infections were rarely seen in infants before 6 months of age, and most cases occurred in children 6 months to 4 years of age. Young children who contract polio generally develop only mild symptoms, but as a result they become permanently immune to the disease. In developed countries du... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11110672 | 959,038 |
329,269 | Vertical-alignment displays are a form of LCDs in which the liquid crystals naturally align vertically to the glass substrates. When no voltage is applied, the liquid crystals remain perpendicular to the substrate, creating a black display between crossed polarizers. When voltage is applied, the liquid crystals shift t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17932 | 329,094 |
1,207,221 | After being produced, the stability and distribution of the different transcripts is regulated (post-transcriptional regulation) by means of RNA binding protein (RBP) that control the various steps and rates controlling events such as alternative splicing, nuclear degradation (exosome), processing, nuclear export (thre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16908428 | 1,206,575 |
2,101,556 | In 1387(2008), the center succeeded in obtaining the principled consent for the license of the Faculty of Medical Sciences as an independent educational, research and therapeutic unit and managed to admit 90 students through the university entrance examination for all three fields of study including the bachelor of lab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64706761 | 2,100,344 |
575,249 | Many of the geometrical representations associated with neo-Riemannian theory are unified into a more general framework by the continuous voice-leading spaces explored by Clifton Callender, Ian Quinn, and Dmitri Tymoczko. This work originates in 2004, when Callender described a continuous space in which points represen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23211888 | 574,955 |
540,205 | The hydrothermal springs of Dallol discharge anoxic, hyper-acidic (pH <0), hyper-saline (almost 10 times more saline than seawater), high temperature (> ) brines that contain more than 26 g/L of iron. The main gases emitted from the springs and fumaroles are carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, nitrogen, sulfur dioxide; a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59340793 | 539,925 |
2,072,911 | The Vertebrate Genome Annotation (VEGA) database was first made public in 2004 by the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute. It was designed to view manual annotations of human, mouse and zebrafish genomic sequences, and it is the central cache for genome sequencing centers to deposit their annotation of human chromosomes. M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17742682 | 2,071,720 |
1,214,841 | Lipid soluble compounds that can cross the cell lipid bilayer and bind cytoplasmic steroid hormone receptors can translocate to the nucleus and act as estrogen agonists. Diethylstilbestrol (DES), a synthetic estrogen, is one such endocrine disruptor and acts as an estrogen agonist. Diethylstilbestrol was used from 1938... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22277265 | 1,214,189 |
310,105 | Without very thick insulation, which is generally cost prohibitive, most conductors running more than minimal distances (greater than approximately 50 feet) will experience lightning-induced transients at some time during use. Because the transient is usually initiated at some point between the two ends of the conducto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=414738 | 309,938 |
19,418 | In 2021, the European Commission, after commissioning two impact assessment studies and a technology analysis study, proposed the implementation of a standardization for iterations of USB-C of phone charger products which may increase device-interoperability and compatibility, convergence and convenience for consumers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41512342 | 19,410 |
2,134,947 | The YF-102 is a Chinese liquid rocket engine burning LOX and kerosene in an expander bleed cycle cycle. It is manufactured by the AALPT based on the experience of previous kerolox engines, and using 3D printing technology and is capable of multiple restarts. It still does not have a launch vehicle, but in its presentat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70719258 | 2,133,721 |
2,242,481 | The MP5SD is produced exclusively by H&K in several versions: the MP5SD1 and MP5SD4 (both have a receiver end cap instead of a buttstock), MP5SD2 and MP5SD5 (equipped with a fixed synthetic buttstock) and the MP5SD3 and MP5SD6 (fitted with a collapsible metal stock). The MP5SD1, MP5SD2 and MP5SD3 use a standard 'SEF' t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14297 | 2,241,210 |
685,874 | Other management options at this initial stage include the use of botulinum toxin, which is injected into the ipsilateral medial rectus (botulinum toxin therapy of strabismus). The use of BT serves a number of purposes. Firstly, it helps to prevent the contracture of the medial rectus which might result from its acting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3532714 | 685,517 |
1,872,001 | Matthew Putman is an American scientist, educator, musician and film & stage producer. He is best known for his work in nanotechnology, the science of working in dimensions smaller than 100 nanometers. Putman currently serves as the CEO of Nanotronics Imaging, an advanced machines and intelligence company that has rede... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42397277 | 1,870,924 |
1,701,429 | The idea of a new purpose-built College had been expressed in the late 1880s. By the 1890s, the demand for more space through increased student numbers, and competition from other institutions such as Evening Continuation Schools and early Polytechnics, created a need for greater accommodation, and a desire for facilit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14165953 | 1,700,474 |
1,922,513 | Canopy temperature depression is highly suitable for selecting physiologically superior lines in warm, low relative humidity environments where high evaporative demand leads to leaf cooling of up to 10 °C below ambient temperatures. This permits differences among genotypes to be detected relatively easily using infrare... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34172227 | 1,921,410 |
913,512 | The organic quenchers can decompose to smaller molecules (ethyl alcohol and ethyl acetate) or polymerize into solid deposits (typical for methane). Degradation products of organic molecules may or may not have quenching properties. Larger molecules degrade to more quenching products than small ones; tubes quenched with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82245 | 913,033 |
1,766,275 | The Doushantuo Formation (formerly transcribed as Toushantuo or Toushantou, from ) is a geological formation in western Hubei, eastern Guizhou, southern Shaanxi, central Jiangxi, and other localities in China. It is known for the fossil Lagerstätten in Zigui in Hubei, Xiuning in Anhui, and Weng'an in Guizhou, as one of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=372516 | 1,765,281 |
213,666 | Land plants evolved from a group of green algae, perhaps as early as 850 mya, but algae-like plants might have evolved as early as 1 billion years ago. The closest living relatives of land plants are the charophytes, specifically Charales; assuming that the habit of the Charales has changed little since the divergence ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11008314 | 213,558 |
1,639,180 | MEMS and nanotechnology development for the Aerospace & Defense industry is on-going at SVTC Technologies. Advanced military and space systems utilize MEMS technology in the areas of infrared imaging devices, optical and electrical switching, displays, munitions, inertial navigation, laser communications, sensors, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31855679 | 1,638,255 |
1,412,336 | A method of realisation that did not require transformers was provided in 1949 by Hungarian-American mathematician Raoul Bott (1923–2005) and American physicist Richard Duffin (1909–1996). The Bott and Duffin method provides an expansion by repeated application of Richards' theorem, a 1947 result due to American physic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59441761 | 1,411,541 |
481,908 | During the 20th century, it became the standard to build mathematical theories on axiomatic set theory. The creation of axiomatically-founded generalized theories, such as general topology, served among other things to single out the common structural core for various specific cases or regions and then set up an abstra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10989 | 481,664 |
965,071 | Khrushchev was personally troubled by the power of nuclear weapons and would later recount that he believed the weapons could never be used. In the mid-1950s, Khrushchev took a keen interest in defense policy and sought to inaugurate an era of détente with the West. Initial efforts to reach accords, such as on disarmam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30592 | 964,562 |
1,204,486 | Maintain shore-based, ship-based, portable communications equipment, and portable Mechatronic equipment, including all associated cabling, computer, multiplexing, motor, switching, cryptographic, recording, cooling water and dry air systems; analyze equipment operation and align, troubleshoot using digital multimeters,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31153640 | 1,203,841 |
687,901 | Nordhaus graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover and subsequently received his BA and MA from Yale in 1963 and 1973, respectively, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He also holds a Certificate from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques (1962) and a PhD from MIT (1967). He was a Visiting Fellow of Clare Hall, Camb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4023913 | 687,543 |
1,949,149 | Cells of one type may release the 5("S")-HETE that they make to nearby cells of a second type which then oxidize the 5("S")-HETE to 5-oxo-ETE. This transcellular production typically involves the limited variety of cell types that express active 5-lipoxygenase, lack HEDH activity because of their high levels of NADPH c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47891463 | 1,948,031 |
1,867,139 | The men's pole vault was one of four men's jumping events on the athletics program at the 1968 Summer Olympics. The competition had two rounds, qualifying and a final, which were held on 14 and 16 October respectively at the Estadio Olímpico Universitario in Mexico City. Twenty-three athletes from 15 nations competed. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40470689 | 1,866,063 |
1,111,949 | It is difficult to clinically exclude sepsis in newborns less than 90 days old that have fever (defined as a temperature > 38 °C (100.4 °F). Except in the case of obvious acute viral bronchiolitis, the current practice in newborns less than 30 days old is to perform a complete workup including complete blood count with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25662965 | 1,111,383 |
2,134,035 | Ammonium and methane are known to be relatively difficult to activate with reactions catalyzed by enzymes that make use of high-potential oxygen radicals, which are unavailable to anaerobic life, leading to the assumption that both compounds were effectively inactive in low oxygen environments. Throughout the 1970s and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37522056 | 2,132,810 |
1,026,345 | Hoyle went to Fowler's lab at Caltech and said that there had to be a resonance of 7.68 MeV in the carbon-12 nucleus. (There had been reports of an excited state at about 7.5 MeV.) Fred Hoyle's audacity in doing this is remarkable, and initially the nuclear physicists in the lab were skeptical. Finally, a junior physic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93188 | 1,025,811 |
1,355,899 | If one plots the frequency rank of words contained in a moderately sized corpus of text data versus the number of occurrences or actual frequencies, one obtains a power-law distribution, with exponent close to one (but see Powers, 1998 and Gelbukh & Sidorov, 2001). Zipf's law implicitly assumes a fixed vocabulary size,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=390113 | 1,355,151 |
656,131 | The first appearance of WNV in the Western Hemisphere was in 1999 with encephalitis reported in humans, dogs, cats, and horses, and the subsequent spread in the United States may be an important milestone in the evolving history of this virus. The American outbreak began in College Point, Queens in New York City and wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37796 | 655,787 |
1,752,528 | It is a medium-sized deciduous tree growing to 20–30 m tall with a broad, rounded crown. The leaves are opposite, palmately lobed with 5-7 lobes, 6–15 cm across. The leaf stems bleed a milky latex when broken. The flowers are in corymbs of 15-30 together, yellow-green with five petals 3–4 mm long; flowering occurs in e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3935099 | 1,751,540 |
936,932 | Hyperreal paintings and sculptures further create a tangible solidity and physical presence through subtle lighting and shading effects. Shapes, forms and areas closest to the forefront of the image visually appear beyond the frontal plane of the canvas; and in the case of sculptures, details have more clarity than in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5776590 | 936,436 |
400,016 | The most common interventions used for those with oropharyngeal dysphagia by speech language pathologists are texture modification of foods, thickening fluids and positioning changes during swallowing. The effectiveness of modifying food and fluid in preventing aspiration pneumonia has been questioned and these can be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196920 | 399,817 |
612,823 | In a September 1904 lecture in St. Louis named , Poincaré drew some consequences from Lorentz's theory and defined (in modification of Galileo's Relativity Principle and Lorentz's Theorem of Corresponding States) the following principle: ""The Principle of Relativity, according to which the laws of physical phenomena m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1790788 | 612,512 |
1,743,708 | This is a free public institution with a number of features that make it unique. It was created in 1955 and it was formalized in the agreement signed between the National Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA) and the National University of Cuyo (UNCuyo). Its objectives are reflected in the Resolution of the Rectorate 0445 of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2596736 | 1,742,724 |
922,124 | While these weather–layer models can successfully explain the existence of a dozen narrow jets, they have serious problems. A glaring failure of the model is the prograde (super-rotating) equatorial jet: with some rare exceptions shallow models produce a strong retrograde (subrotating) jet, contrary to observations. In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30873277 | 921,638 |
1,011,315 | Experimental verification of gravitational redshift using terrestrial sources took several decades, because it is difficult to find clocks (to measure time dilation) or sources of electromagnetic radiation (to measure redshift) with a frequency that is known well enough that the effect can be accurately measured. It wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1784313 | 1,010,794 |
1,754,482 | As Zallinger had previously done work for Life magazine, they commissioned another work of art from him, The Age of Mammals. The drawing for The Age of Mammals was published in October 1953, but there were insufficient funds to begin work on the mural until the 1960s. In 1961, Zallinger began work on the 60-feet (18.3 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8990816 | 1,753,492 |
260,148 | It is a frequent colonizer of temperate riparian ecosystems, roadsides, and waste places. It forms thick, dense colonies that completely crowd out any other herbaceous species and is now considered one of the worst invasive exotics in parts of the eastern United States. The success of the species has been partially att... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37774 | 260,014 |
451,970 | Granular activated carbon filtering utilizes a form of activated carbon with a high surface area, and adsorbs many compounds, including many toxic compounds. Water passing through activated carbon is commonly used in concert with hand pumped filters to address organic contamination, taste, or objectionable odors. Activ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5301306 | 451,751 |
1,283,982 | Burt's solar compass innovation had good accuracy in all situations because it relied on the sun's rays only and not affected by any mineral deposits. It was so accurate and reliable that it replaced the normal magnetic compass used by surveyors. Burt became prominent and famous, not only in Michigan, but nationwide. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2399453 | 1,283,283 |
1,861,254 | The health care system has undergone significant changes throughout the past several decades. From an essentially fully public system based on the Social Security Act 1938, reforms have introduced market and health insurance elements primarily since the 1980s, creating a mixed public-private system for delivering healt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35325765 | 1,860,185 |
976,578 | At the time of the Nazi invasion in 1940, Joliot-Curie managed to smuggle his working documents and materials to England with Hans von Halban, Moshe Feldenkrais and Lew Kowarski. During the French occupation he took an active part in the French Resistance. In June 1941 he took part in the founding of the National Front... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=324005 | 976,067 |
334,155 | After having developed Chain Home—the first ground-based early-warning radar detection system—in the 1930s, the British developed a radar set that could be carried on an aircraft for what they termed "Air Controlled Interception". The intention was to cover the North West approaches where German long range Focke-Wulf F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=236466 | 333,977 |
1,285,076 | After major publicity regarding the differences in facilities provided to participants in the 2021 Division I men's and women's basketball tournaments, the NCAA commissioned the law firm Kaplan Hecker & Fink to conduct a broad-based review of gender equity issues surrounding all of its championship events. The first ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39860075 | 1,284,377 |
1,888,040 | Cancer is a group of fatal diseases that involves abnormal cell growth that can invade or spread to other parts of the body. They are usually caused by the accumulation of mutations in genes that regulate cell growth and differentiation. Majority of cancer, about 90-95%, are due to genetic mutations from environmental ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16106907 | 1,886,957 |
2,148,911 | Regularization perspectives on support-vector machines interpret SVM as a special case of Tikhonov regularization, specifically Tikhonov regularization with the hinge loss for a loss function. This provides a theoretical framework with which to analyze SVM algorithms and compare them to other algorithms with the same g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35857112 | 2,147,680 |
1,123,884 | Multiple brain areas are required for the protoself to function. Namely, the hypothalamus, which controls the general homeostasis of the organism, the brain stem, whose nuclei map body signals, and the insular cortex, whose function is linked to emotion. These brain areas work together to keep up with the constant proc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=491622 | 1,123,310 |
992,795 | The cameras are mounted 1.5 meters high on the Pancam Mast Assembly. The PMA is deployed via the Mast Deployment Drive (MDD). The Azimuth Drive, mounted directly above the MDD, turns the assembly horizontally a whole revolution with signals transmitted through a rolling tape configuration. The camera drive points the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=252908 | 992,278 |
190,247 | Design of the Ki-84 commenced in early 1942 to meet an Imperial Japanese Army Air Service requirement for a replacement to Nakajima's own, earlier Ki-43 fighter, then just entering service. The specification recognized the need to combine the maneuverability of the Ki-43 with performance to match the best western fight... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1091403 | 190,150 |
2,111,205 | The museum's origins date back to the 1880s, with the university's earliest teaching collection. After entomologist Edward Oliver Essig joined the faculty in 1914, he began to expand its collections. The research collection, starting with 10,000-15,000 specimens, was formalized in 1939 as part of the California Insect ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44113882 | 2,109,990 |
1,751,243 | Helen Battles Sawyer Hogg (August 1, 1905 – January 28, 1993) was an American-Canadian astronomer who pioneered research into globular clusters and variable stars. She was the first female president of several astronomical organizations and a notable woman of science in a time when many universities would not award sci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=320235 | 1,750,257 |
1,743,291 | On 15 June 1754, he erected a forty metres high, free-standing pole in Přímětice, on which he mounted his "weather-machine", consisting of several tin boxes and more than 400 metal spikes. A well-established theory in that time was that more pointed spikes would conduct electricity better. The pole was secured by heavy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155525 | 1,742,307 |
599,042 | Using the 5 GHz band gives 802.11a a significant advantage, since the 2.4 GHz band is heavily used to the point of being crowded. Degradation caused by such conflicts can cause frequent dropped connections and degradation of service. However, this high carrier frequency also brings a slight disadvantage: The effective ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13420072 | 598,736 |
1,045,437 | Found in tropical, subtropical and temperate waters of the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans, marine hatchetfishes range in size from "Polyipnus danae" at to the c.-long giant hatchetfish ("Argyropelecus gigas"). They are small deep-sea fishes which have evolved a peculiar body shape and like their relatives have bio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444283 | 1,044,892 |
646,819 | Trypanosomiasis could, in future be prevented by genetically altering the tsetse fly. As the tsetse fly is the main vector of transmission, making the fly immune to the disease by altering its genome could be the main component in an effort to eradicate the disease. New technologies such as CRISPR allowing cheaper and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=644499 | 646,479 |
79,024 | Noradrenergic neurons (i.e., neurons whose primary neurotransmitter is norepinephrine) are comparatively few in number, and their cell bodies are confined to a few relatively small brain areas, but they send projections to many other brain areas and exert powerful effects on their targets. These noradrenergic cell grou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9903342 | 78,991 |
119,118 | Callisto's surface has an albedo of about 20%. Its surface composition is thought to be broadly similar to its composition as a whole. Near-infrared spectroscopy has revealed the presence of water ice absorption bands at wavelengths of 1.04, 1.25, 1.5, 2.0 and 3.0 micrometers. Water ice seems to be ubiquitous on the su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43126 | 119,070 |
474,379 | In addition to Mascart's experiments which demonstrated an insensitivity to earth's motion and complaints about the partial aether-dragging hypothesis, another major problem arose with the Michelson–Morley experiment (1887). Mascart's claims that optical experiments of refraction and reflection would be insensitive to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11664784 | 474,143 |
550,455 | It has been suggested that the evolution of the tetrapod limb from fins in lobe-finned fishes is related to expression of the HOXD13 gene or the loss of the proteins actinodin 1 and actinodin 2, which are involved in fish fin development. Robot simulations suggest that the necessary nervous circuitry for walking evolve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38046595 | 550,167 |
1,513,075 | In July 2015, Genentech announced it was moving crenezumab into a phase III study, known as CREAD, to evaluate the effects of crenezumab in patients with prodromal-to-mild Alzheimer's Disease. This study aims to enroll 750 individuals between the ages of 50 and 85 at 233 international sites. The primary outcome measure... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33023931 | 1,512,224 |
251,848 | Pulse oximetry is particularly convenient for noninvasive continuous measurement of blood oxygen saturation. In contrast, blood gas levels must otherwise be determined in a laboratory on a drawn blood sample. Pulse oximetry is useful in any setting where a patient's oxygenation is unstable, including intensive care, op... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=784642 | 251,715 |
428,911 | Harrison Ford and Double Feature films optioned the rights to produce a film inspired by Anand's book and the Crowley family. In April 2009, CBS Films began filming this major motion picture about the Crowley family's quest to save their children's lives. The film, titled "Extraordinary Measures" was released nationwid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16774914 | 428,701 |
171,608 | In 2011, samples of amber were discovered to contain preserved feathers from 75 to 80 million years ago during the Cretaceous era, with evidence that they were from both dinosaurs and birds. Initial analysis suggests that some of the feathers were used for insulation, and not flight. More complex feathers were revealed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1214539 | 171,517 |
512,346 | The first raid against Japan took place on 24 November 1944. The target was the Nakajima Aircraft Company's Musashi engine plant just outside Tokyo. 111 B-29s took off, Seventeen of them had to abort due to the usual spate of engine failures. The remainder approached the target at altitudes of 27–32,000 feet. For the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2513120 | 512,080 |
1,801,787 | In the last week of June 1956, a new maximum-minimum airspeed indicator was installed in a Boeing B-47 Stratojet to undergo operational suitability testing. "The new instrument, resembling the standard type indicator, differs in that it will determine the stall speed of an aircraft at any specific time. It will also co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,778 |
10,473 | Maya cities were not formally planned, and were subject to irregular expansion, with the haphazard addition of palaces, temples and other buildings. Most Maya cities tended to grow outwards from the core, and upwards as new structures were superimposed upon preceding architecture. Maya cities usually had a ceremonial a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18449273 | 10,468 |
421,888 | In December 2018, MakerBot introduced the METHOD 3D Printer as a bridge between desktop accessibility features and industrial 3D printing technologies. This new 3D Printer incorporated 15 Stratasys patents (MakerBot's parent company) and 15 new patents from MakerBot. The new 3D Printer has a Circulated Heated Chamber (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24497031 | 421,682 |
1,907,658 | Mating season starts in mid-May till the end of June. Like most Ensifera species, the male sagebrush cricket attracts females by singing. Singing greatly influence the success of finding a mate and a males mating success is reduced when they are not able to sing Mating occurs at night and males start singing around dus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55555888 | 1,906,562 |
1,427,992 | In plasma enhanced CVD (PECVD) processes, DC electric fields, radio-frequency electric fields, or microwaves produce plasmas to primarily lower the synthesis temperature of CNTs. At the same time, an electric field (DC or AC) is also produced over the substrate surface to direct CNT growth propagation. The DC-PECVD pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51417988 | 1,427,188 |
816,696 | Also known as the metric mile, this is a premier middle-distance race, covering three and three-quarter laps around a standard Olympic-sized track. In recent years, races over this distance have become more of a prolonged sprint, with each lap averaging 55 seconds for the world record performance by Hicham El Guerrouj ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89280 | 816,260 |
582,713 | At the time of the American entry into World War II resulting from Japanese attacks in December 1941, the Philippines was an American colony and its military was armed by the US. The colonial army's heavy field artillery unit, the 301st FA Regiment which fought in Bataan, was equipped with GPFs and two 155 mm howitzers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13089000 | 582,414 |
1,046,808 | David Wilkinson gives a thorough history of the hypothesis in his paper titled, "The disturbing history of the intermediate disturbance". In this paper, he explains that the idea of disturbance relating to species richness can be traced back to the 1940s in Eggeling 1947, Watt 1947, and Tansley 1949. Though studies sup... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1999038 | 1,046,263 |
665,142 | The next six launches were all of the "Vostok 1K" design, equipped with life-support facilities, and planned to be recovered after orbit. The first spacecraft launched on July 28, 1960 carried two space dogs named Chayka and Lisichka. An explosion destroyed the spacecraft shortly after launch, killing both dogs, and th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=393892 | 664,795 |
921,706 | In biochemistry, a Ramachandran plot (also known as a Rama plot, a Ramachandran diagram or a [φ,ψ] plot), originally developed in 1963 by G. N. Ramachandran, C. Ramakrishnan, and V. Sasisekharan, is a way to visualize energetically allowed regions for backbone dihedral angles ψ against φ of amino acid residues in prote... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=964378 | 921,220 |
940,751 | The construction method of dikes has changed over the centuries. Popular in the Middle Ages were "wierdijken", earth dikes with a protective layer of seaweed. An earth embankment was cut vertically on the sea-facing side. Seaweed was then stacked against this edge, held into place with poles. Compression and rotting pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4865141 | 940,250 |
2,109,435 | Hahn has spent his career in academic research and education. He initially developed fluorescent biosensors, molecules that report on control mechanisms within living cells. He and his colleagues pioneered early biosensor designs, including the use of fluorescence resonance energy transfer and environment-sensing dyes.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67980339 | 2,108,221 |
963,452 | The battalion participated in the 2003 invasion of Iraq at the start of the Iraq War. On 26 March 2003, B company supported Navy SEALs from DEVGRU in the Objective Beaver mission. On 1 April 2003, 290 Rangers from 2/75th and 1/75th took part in the successful rescue of PFC Jessica Lynch. 2nd Battalion was also the firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3044555 | 962,943 |
780,172 | "Pax Mongolica" followed the wake of conquests by the Mongol Empire beginning with Genghis Khan in the early 13th century. In the process of conquering the various tribes in the region, Genghis Khan revolutionised the way Mongolian tribal society was structured. After each new victory, more and more people were incorpo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=726880 | 779,755 |
444,909 | Characteristics indicative of the 3-dimensional structure of proteins can be probed with mass spectrometry in various ways. By using chemical crosslinking to couple parts of the protein that are close in space, but far apart in sequence, information about the overall structure can be inferred. By following the exchange... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13250438 | 444,694 |
329,500 | On February 19, Hall showed the telegram to Edward Bell, the secretary of the American Embassy in Britain. Bell was at first incredulous and thought that it was a forgery. Once Bell was convinced the message was genuine, he became enraged. On February 20, Hall informally sent a copy to US Ambassador Walter Hines Page. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=228275 | 329,325 |
1,711,958 | The National Qualification Event for the 2007 challenge occurred between October 26 and 31, 2007. 35 teams were selected to participate in this semifinal round. The qualifying rounds included 3 areas: A, B, and C. Area A was a test of the robots' ability to merge. A 2-way loop of human traffic (provided by professional... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14101678 | 1,710,993 |
1,910,140 | While smaller dimensions mean better performance for transistors thanks to the decrease of intrinsic transistor gate delay, the situation is quite the opposite for interconnects. Smaller cross-section areas of interconnect would only lead to performance degradation such as increased interconnect resistance and power co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51056408 | 1,909,042 |
870,388 | Other commentators in response to the B+ suggested that Acorn pursue the second processor strategy more aggressively, leveraging the existing user base of the BBC Micro while those users were still using the machine. In 1986, Acorn introduced the BBC Master series, starting with the Master 128 which re-emphasised secon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 869,928 |
2,101,342 | The primary payload aboard NROL-36 was a classified NRO payload, so no spacecraft or orbit information was provided. However, there were 11 CubeSats on board the rocket as secondary payloads. The launch vehicle delivered the CubeSats into a 480x780 km orbit with an inclination of 65 degrees. The CubeSats were carried i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34484004 | 2,100,131 |
917,837 | Irradiation is a capital-intensive technology requiring a substantial initial investment, ranging from $1 million to $5 million. In the case of large research or contract irradiation facilities, major capital costs include a radiation source, hardware (irradiator, totes and conveyors, control systems, and other auxilia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15374 | 917,354 |
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