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657,889 | Krebs became a naturalised British citizen in 1939. He was elected Fellow of Trinity College, Oxford, 1954–1967. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1947. In 1953 he received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his "discovery of the citric acid cycle." (He shared the Nobel Prize with Fritz Lipmann.) For th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=169025 | 657,545 |
1,651,050 | In 2006, in a NATO report given by R. T. Kessel and R. D. Hollet at the NATO Undersea Research Center, it was stated that sonar gives by far the lowest cost per square meter of underwater coverage of all other means of surveillance (radar, video, visual). This is because sound waves have a low attenuation and long prop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18312919 | 1,650,118 |
200,058 | In the early 1720s, Harrison was commissioned to make a new turret clock at Brocklesby Park, North Lincolnshire. The clock still works, and like his previous clocks has a wooden movement of oak and lignum vitae. Unlike his early clocks, it incorporates some original features to improve timekeeping, for example the gras... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16440 | 199,955 |
1,873,699 | Designed by Ten Eyck Landscape Architects as a "green gateway" to the research facility set within the desert the landscape of the Biodesign Institute uses harvested stormwater and condensate to function as a riparian area. The 4-acre site aims "to create an environment that is about healing and sustaining life". TELA ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1863839 | 1,872,622 |
910,839 | The difference in co-ordinates between datums is commonly referred to as "datum shift". The datum shift between two particular datums can vary from one place to another within one country or region, and can be anything from zero to hundreds of meters (or several kilometers for some remote islands). The North Pole, Sout... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=995417 | 910,360 |
1,710,308 | Any type of pump that can deliver the required pressure difference and flow volume can be used. Most often used is the dynamic-compression centrifugal type compressor, which is familiar to most as being used in vacuum cleaners and turbochargers, but multistaged axial-flow compressor types, similar to those used in most... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4100725 | 1,709,348 |
552,971 | The D2600 mandible was also described in 2002 by Gabunia, Vekua and Lordkipanidze, together with French archaeologists and palaeoanthropologists Henry and Marie-Antionette de Lumley.' The mandible differed in its large size, morphological features and teeth proportions not only from the previously discovered jaw at Dma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60072585 | 552,682 |
436,182 | After MIT's move to Cambridge in 1916, the original Rogers and Walker buildings were eventually torn down in 1939 to make way for the New England Mutual Life Insurance Company building. Their sibling structure, the Natural History Society building, has survived to the present day by hosting a succession of retail store... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8071866 | 435,968 |
1,201,536 | The verb "stirring" has a meaning distinct from "mixing". The former stands for a more large scale phenomenon, such as eddy diffusion, while the latter is sometimes used for more microscopic processes, such as molecular diffusion. They are often used interchangeably, including some scientific literature. "Mixing" is of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7747984 | 1,200,895 |
2,017,353 | The Drosophila CNS is composed of two brain hemispheres and the ventral ganglion. Each hemisphere is composed of a laterally located Optic lobe (OL) and a medially located, generic Cerebrum (CB). At the end of embryonic development neuroblasts become quiescent, but re-enter their cell cycles during later specific larva... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22560705 | 2,016,191 |
1,701,599 | Early tephra horizons were identified with the Saksunarvatn tephra (Icelandic origin, cal. ka BP), forming a horizon in the late Pre-Boreal of Northern Europe, the Vedde ash (also Icelandic in origin, c. 12.0 cal. ka BP) and the Laacher See tephra (in the Eifel volcanic field, c. 12.9 cal. ka BP). Major volcanoes which... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3350024 | 1,700,644 |
222,991 | An important distinction among inferences is between deductive and ampliative inferences, also referred to as monotonic and non-monotonic inferences. According to Alfred Tarski, deductive inference has three central features: (1) it is formal, i.e. it depends only on the form of the premises and the conclusion; (2) it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21368888 | 222,882 |
2,057,017 | While the Regulator must consider risks to human health and safety and the environment relating to dealings with GMOs, other agencies have responsibility for regulating GMOs or genetically modified (GM) products as part of a broader or different mandate. During development of the gene technology legislation, it was det... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1127847 | 2,055,833 |
1,058,668 | In May 1996, UW–Parkside was granted professional accreditation of its School of Business by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). In the Fall of that year, International Business Machines (IBM) donated an AS/400 computer worth $353,000 to UW–Parkside as part of a program to increase the nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=496736 | 1,058,119 |
1,722,011 | The Everglades are unique; no other wetland system in the world is nourished primarily from the atmosphere. Before the first attempt at draining the Everglades in 1882, the entire watershed extended from Orlando to Florida Bay comprising the Kissimmee–Lake Okeechobee–Everglades (KLOE) watershed. Kissimmee River outlets... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17273354 | 1,721,041 |
1,438,406 | When World War II broke out in 1939, the staff and students of GCI became immediately and vigorously involved in the war effort. The school raised about between $1000 and $1400 by means of various activities, including proceeds from bake sales, plays, concerts, and cash donations from pupils, all of which was donated t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7492318 | 1,437,596 |
1,070,741 | The purpose of the 8087 was to speed up computations for floating-point arithmetic, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square root. It also computed transcendental functions such as exponential, logarithmic or trigonometric calculations, and besides floating-point it could also operate on larg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=924726 | 1,070,187 |
154,703 | Albert Bandura defines perceived self-efficacy as “people's beliefs about their capabilities to produce designated levels of performance that exercise influence over events that affect their lives.” Self-efficacy is just one of six constructs that SCT is based on; the other five include reciprocal determinism, behavior... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7715915 | 154,633 |
2,228,844 | Halleophyton is a genus of extinct vascular plants of the Early Devonian (Pragian, around ). Fossils were first found in the Posongchong Formation of eastern Yunnan, China. The plant had leafy aerial stems. The leaf bases completely covered the stems forming rhomboidal to hexagonal patterns, except where spore-forming ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31408709 | 2,227,580 |
1,627,698 | Besides improving gene annotations, proteogenomic studies can also provide valuable information about the presence of programmed frameshifts, N-terminal methionine excision, signal peptides, proteolysis and other post-translational modifications. Proteogenomics has potential applications in medicine, especially to onco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28722065 | 1,626,780 |
265,711 | Certain regions of Mars display scalloped-shaped depressions. The depressions are suspected to be the remains of a degrading ice-rich mantle deposit. Scallops are caused by ice sublimating from frozen soil. The landforms of scalloped topography can be formed by the subsurface loss of water ice by sublimation under curr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21857752 | 265,567 |
1,029,822 | The most common species, "S. maltophilia" is very versatile and can be beneficial for plant growth and health, can be used in agriculture, biocontrol, bioremediation and phytoremediation strategies as well as the production of biomolecules of economic value. On the other hand, some of "S. maltophilia" strains are patho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9657995 | 1,029,288 |
85,959 | Maxwell's time at King's was probably the most productive of his career. He was awarded the Royal Society's Rumford Medal in 1860 for his work on colour and was later elected to the Society in 1861. This period of his life would see him display the world's first light-fast colour photograph, further develop his ideas o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28989696 | 85,925 |
431,997 | On 27 March, during a low-altitude test flight, BI-1, piloted by Bakhchivandzhi, entered a 45-degree dive and crashed into the ground, killing Bakhchivandzhi. The accident put a halt to flight tests, and a lengthy investigation began. Eventually, after wind tunnel testing, it was determined that BI-1 lost control due t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6641433 | 431,785 |
866,423 | Membership of a guild was highly restricted and access was difficult for newcomers. A master was expected to serve an apprenticeship in his region, and show proof of citizenship, which could be obtained through birth in the city or by purchase. Apprenticeship lasted four to five years, ending with the production of a "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=799881 | 865,963 |
2,158,398 | Following λ-red operon activity induction, a linear, double-stranded cassette encoding a selectable marker, such as antibiotic resistance, is transformed into the cells in place of the target gene and incorporated into the DNA behind a specific inducible promoter. This allows for growth selection of the recombinant cel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49539168 | 2,157,166 |
917,507 | The University of Hyderabad's Study in India Programme (SIP) for foreign students began as a small experimental summer initiative where students from the University of Pittsburgh took nine credits over nine weeks in the summer of 1998. Since then, SIP has grown in leaps and bounds and has gone from hosting eight studen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3489887 | 917,024 |
54,333 | In the last days of the conflict, Me 262s from JG 7 and other units were committed in ground assault missions, in an attempt to support German troops fighting Red Army forces. Just south of Berlin, halfway between Spremberg and the German capital, the Wehrmacht's 9th Army (with elements from the 12 Army and 4th Panzer ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20488 | 54,313 |
758,152 | Bates College has been the site of landmark experiments and academic movements. In chemistry, the college has played an important role in shaping ideas about inorganic chemistry and is considered the birthplace of inorganic photochemistry as its early manifestations was started at the college by 1943 alumnus George Ham... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=319763 | 757,746 |
1,812,392 | On one hand, research on the sharing of basic information related to community-based treatment alternatives is necessary. To ensure effective operations of diversion programs, it is important to share information about individuals who received mental health treatments in one of the intercepts of the SIM. However, the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60770694 | 1,811,359 |
338,118 | Due to the significant interest in the bifacial technology, a recent study has investigated the performance and optimization of bifacial solar modules worldwide. The results indicate that, across the globe, ground-mounted bifacial modules can only offer ~10% gain in annual electricity yields compared to the monofacial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2352910 | 337,938 |
969,942 | The US has been studying the Moon for decades, but in 2019 it started to implement the Commercial Lunar Payload Services to support the crewed Artemis program, both aimed at scouting and exploiting lunar resources to facilitate a long-term crewed base on the Moon, and depending on the lessons learned, then move on to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61340431 | 969,432 |
455,442 | BamHI undergoes a series of unconventional conformational changes upon DNA recognition. This allows the DNA to maintain its normal B-DNA conformation without distorting to facilitate enzyme binding. BamHI is a symmetric dimer. DNA is bound in a large cleft that is formed between dimers; the enzyme binds in a "crossover... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10388309 | 455,220 |
726,376 | In effect, the "device" was essentially a complete blowback pistol minus a receiver-grip using the short "barrel" of the device to fit into the longer chamber of the M1903 rifle. The mechanism was fed by a long 40-round magazine sticking perpendicularly out of the rifle at a 45-degree angle to the top right, and could ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=774811 | 725,995 |
1,795,753 | The fibrinolysis system is responsible for removing blood clots. Hyperfibrinolysis describes a situation with markedly enhanced fibrinolytic activity, resulting in increased, sometimes catastrophic bleeding. Hyperfibrinolysis can be caused by acquired or congenital reasons. Among the congenital conditions for hyperfibr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22809608 | 1,794,744 |
564,520 | During early 2019, Hitachi held a series of discussions with the Scottish Government on the development of a variant of the Class 385, a battery electric multiple unit (BEMU) that would be capable of running on unelectrified sections of line along a route. The installation of batteries was reportedly described as being... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48450453 | 564,230 |
2,020,207 | He is considered to have founded and systematically developed the area of philosophy of biology as it is understood in contemporary philosophy. Hull proposed an elaborate discussion of science as an evolutionary process in his 1988 book, which also offered a historical account of the "taxonomy wars" of the 1960s and 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3047135 | 2,019,044 |
1,255,534 | Among the artifacts that can most readily be dated by astronomical techniques are depictions of the positions of the celestial bodies at a particular time. Since the motions of the celestial bodies are all at different periods, it takes many centuries for all the planets plus the Sun and the Moon, to reach the same pos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14884292 | 1,254,851 |
2,034,964 | Despite a strong 22–12–4 record and 15–9–3 in conference play, one point short of the regular season title, the Eagles did not fare well in the postseason. Following a semifinal loss to Boston University in the Hockey East tournament, the Eagles fell to Union College in the first round of NCAA Tournament. However, a fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36958668 | 2,033,791 |
832,605 | Norman made the transition from cognitive science to cognitive engineering by entering the field as a consultant and writer. His article "The truth about Unix: "The user interface is horrid"" in "Datamation" (1981) catapulted him to a position of prominence in the computer world. Soon after, his career took off outside... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=185177 | 832,156 |
2,030,238 | An organoberyllium consists of a beryllium atom with an organic group attached. Be has a +2 oxidation state, is one of smallest elements, and is understudied in the periodic table. There are very few reported case of Be(I) and Be(0) oxidation states. It has a higher charge density than any group 2 element. Organoberyll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72209765 | 2,029,070 |
1,303,221 | Transversal filters are not usually associated with passive implementations but the concept can be found in a Wiener and Lee patent from 1935 which describes a filter consisting of a cascade of all-pass sections. The outputs of the various sections are summed in the proportions needed to result in the required frequenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23431648 | 1,302,505 |
190,421 | In 1902, the United States Department of Agriculture set aside of Southeast Alaska as the Tongass National Forest. Tlingit natives who lived in the area protested that the land was theirs and had been unfairly taken. In 1935, Congress passed a law allowing the Tlingits to sue for recompense, and the resulting case drag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=197732 | 190,324 |
2,221,928 | Shane Bowes, who was one of the favorites to take out the title after breaking the 4 and 6 lap records at Riverview earlier in the month (after having done the same the previous night at North Arm in Adelaide), was unable to ride in the meeting due to lodging his nomination form one day too late. Organizers considered ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44431857 | 2,220,666 |
157,543 | The great majority of bryozoans are sessile. Typically, sessile bryozoans live on hard substrates including rocks, sand or shells. Encrusting forms are much the commonest of these in shallow seas, but erect forms become more common as the depth increases. An example of incrustation on pebbles and cobbles is found in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3416 | 157,471 |
1,393,284 | The sample Taylor diagram shown in Figure 1 provides a summary of the relative skill with which several global climate models simulate the spatial pattern of annual mean precipitation. Eight models, each represented by a different letter on the diagram, are compared, and the distance between each model and the point la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50932781 | 1,392,513 |
661,381 | Galen wrote a short essay called "The Best Doctor Is Also A Philosopher", where he writes that a physician needs to be knowledgeable about not just the physical, but additionally logical and ethical philosophy. He writes that a physician "must be skilled at reasoning about the problems presented to him, must understand... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9543979 | 661,036 |
1,634,514 | The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research was a department of the British Government responsible for the organisation, development, and encouragement of scientific and industrial research. At the outbreak of the First World War "Britain found ... it was dangerously dependent on enemy industries". At the requ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43495852 | 1,633,591 |
1,406,521 | An end-to-end optical beam smoke detector is a system that has a separate light transmitter and receiver. They are used in applications where there is little available room to install a wide area detector – as the receiver is on a separate element each individual unit is quite small. The small size of the detector is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36412493 | 1,405,731 |
577,277 | Forest soils constitute a large pool of carbon. Anthropogenic activities such as deforestation cause releases of carbon from this pool, which may significantly increase the concentration of greenhouse gas (GHG) in the atmosphere. Under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), countries must e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13367589 | 576,981 |
1,657,237 | For a short time in 2012, the name Academic Spring, inspired by the Arab Spring, was used to indicate movements by academics, researchers, and scholars opposing the restrictive copyright and circulation of traditional academic journals and promoting free access online instead. The barriers to free access for recent sci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34899581 | 1,656,304 |
1,033,173 | Tornadoes are rated after they have passed and have been examined, not whilst in progress. In rating the intensity of a tornado, both direct measurements and inferences from empirical observations of the effects of a tornado are used. Few anemometers are struck by a tornado, and even fewer survive, so there are very fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2333474 | 1,032,637 |
722,722 | In his theory, John Maynard Keynes supported economic policy makers by his argument emphasizing their capability of macroeconomic fine tuning. For Keynes, consumption expenditures are linked to disposable income by a parameter called the marginal propensity to consume (the amount per dollar consumers are willing to spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4244346 | 722,342 |
1,366,211 | An acoustic metamaterial, sonic crystal, or phononic crystal, is a material designed to control, direct, and manipulate sound waves or phonons in gases, liquids, and solids (crystal lattices). Sound wave control is accomplished through manipulating parameters such as the bulk modulus "β", density "ρ", and chirality. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24476128 | 1,365,455 |
1,389,623 | Until it was re-described and moved to its own genus "Duriavenator" in 2008, the higher level classification of the species was unclear, due to the fragmentary nature of its fossils and lack of detailed study. Researchers were unable to classify it more specifically within Tetanurae, a diverse group of theropods which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20255603 | 1,388,852 |
761,377 | The Italian "Corpo Aeronautico Militare" established air superiority over the Austro-Hungarian Imperial and Royal Aviation Troops at the Battle of Vittorio Veneto in late October 1918. The Allies operated roughly 600 aircraft (93 Anglo-French, including four RAF squadrons) to gain complete air superiority in this final... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=537478 | 760,970 |
799,171 | Removable partial dentures are known to be an effective interim method for maintaining functional and aesthetic demands in a growing patient, where definitive fixed restorations are not suitable yet. Removable dentures act as a space maintainer and also prevent the migration of adjacent or opposing teeth, thereby prese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1434429 | 798,746 |
1,184,391 | In condensed matter physics, the term geometrical frustration (or in short: frustration) refers to a phenomenon where atoms tend to stick to non-trivial positions or where, on a regular crystal lattice, conflicting inter-atomic forces (each one favoring rather simple, but different structures) lead to quite complex str... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1483799 | 1,183,764 |
575,579 | Iran received an unknown number of 76mm gun-armed Shermans (those fitted with the HVSS-type suspension system) from the USA (one of its most important allies during the Cold War until 1979) during the 1950s and at least some were used in combat starting from 1980, when it saw military action against much-more modern Ir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5305861 | 575,285 |
1,079,858 | "Reunion" shows McKay deflated when the newly promoted Colonel Samantha Carter is announced as the new leader of Atlantis after Dr. Weir's condition worsened. McKay tells Carter of his relationship with Katie Brown and that he hopes that the old attraction between them will not get in the way of them working together. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1657669 | 1,079,303 |
1,086,262 | The first major-scale use of balloons in the military occurred during the Civil War with the Union Army Balloon Corps established and organized by Prof. Thaddeus S. C. Lowe. Originally, the balloons were inflated with coal gas from municipal services and then walked out to the battlefield, an arduous and inefficient op... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4435820 | 1,085,704 |
1,817,079 | In December 1967, drilling began at Byrd Station in Antarctica; as at Camp Century, the hole was begun with the CRREL thermal drill, but as soon as the casing was set, at 88 m, the electromechanical drill took over. The hole was extended to 227 m in the 1967–1968 drilling season. The team returned to the ice in October... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56017314 | 1,816,045 |
1,498,633 | In August 2021, a federal court blocked a planned oil and gas development project that would have constructed five drill sites and pipelines on public lands on Alaska's North Slope, stating that the project approval was based on a flawed environmental protection analysis. The federal judge said the environmental report... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41093891 | 1,497,789 |
59,714 | Besides specific loci, several important genetic regulatory factors contribute to the development of pre-eclampsia. Micro RNAs, or miRNAs, are noncoding mRNAs that down-regulate posttranscriptional gene expression through RNA-induced silencing complexes. In the placenta, miRNAs are crucial for regulating cell growth, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=414967 | 59,689 |
448,089 | Traditionally, the TUG test is being scored by the total time measured by a stopwatch. However, using wearable technology such as inertial measurement units (IMUs) can provide a more objective assessment of this test. Furthermore, these wearables can extract several mobility parameters from different phases of TUG, suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34763745 | 447,872 |
435,378 | Tesla coils were also used as dramatic props in early mystery and science fiction motion pictures, starting in the silent era. The crackling, writhing sparks emanating from the electrode of a giant Tesla coil became Hollywood's iconic symbol of the "mad scientist's" lab, recognized throughout the world. This was probab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56714254 | 435,164 |
479,829 | Already in his patent application of 1886, Pollak wrote that the capacitance of the capacitor increased if the surface of the anode foil was roughened. A number of methods have since been developed for roughening the anode surface, mechanical methods like sand blasting or scratching, and chemical etching with acids and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44717055 | 479,588 |
2,040,508 | Located in Columbia County, Oregon, OMIC R&D focuses on applied research and advanced manufacturing for industrial companies. It works with manufacturers, metals manufacturing suppliers, and higher education partners. University and company researchers work with undergraduate and graduate student assistants on problem ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52127502 | 2,039,328 |
710,494 | There is an online ID card available in Germany. The user can identify himself securely on the internet, at vending machines or several citizen terminals. Thereby business and authority matters can be easily worked out electronically to save time, cost and money. In the framework of a competition called "Schaufenster S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1649105 | 710,123 |
422,748 | Strictly speaking, a 2-input NAND or NOR function is sufficient to form any arbitrary Boolean function set. But in modern ASIC design, standard-cell methodology is practiced with a sizable library (or libraries) of cells. The library usually contains multiple implementations of the same logic function, differing in are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1936117 | 422,542 |
1,114,568 | In the late 1960s, similar ideas reappeared, beginning with John Ostrom's work on "Deinonychus" and bird evolution. His student, Bob Bakker, popularized the changing thought in a series of papers beginning with "The superiority of dinosaurs" in 1968. In these publications, he argued strenuously that dinosaurs were warm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6040372 | 1,114,000 |
654,220 | 1991 – Mamaia, Romania – (August) – The tournament had to be put together in hasty fashion when the planned hosts (the Chilean Chess Federation) dropped out at the last minute. Despite this setback, the proceedings went without any serious hitch and the players appreciated the excellent conditions and sound organising ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=294931 | 653,876 |
2,121,260 | Four bioactive, chlorinated depsidones have been isolated from strains of this species obtained from seaweed collected off the coasts of China and Thailand. These compounds exhibited potent inhibitory effects against methicillin-resistant "Staphylococcus aureus" (MRSA), brine shrimp larvae (test for compound cytotoxici... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47862318 | 2,120,041 |
1,611,942 | One of the biggest problems faced by the TAIU teams was Allied troops, who commonly stripped enemy aircraft for "souvenirs". Efforts were made to minimize indiscriminate souvenir hunting and troops were encouraged to turn in all captured items and report enemy aircraft wrecks. Most of these efforts were in vain, and it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21716716 | 1,611,037 |
2,107,402 | In 2013, ProbabilityManagement.org was incorporated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that supports this approach through education, tools, and open standards. Executive Director Sam Savage is the author of "The Flaw of Averages: Why we Underestimate Risk in the Face of Uncertainty" and is an adjunct professor at Stanford Unive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53264857 | 2,106,189 |
1,214,767 | In 1924 she became a student at UCB while working as a maid for a rich Boulder family. Her mentor, Karl Munzinger, guided her in her challenge of the then-prevalent psychological theory of behaviourism. She wrote her thesis paper on trial-and-error learning in rats. He invited her to write her own case history. After r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=425441 | 1,214,115 |
1,792,981 | Despite its rarity, "N. clipeata" is officially listed on CITES Appendix II and was until recently considered Data Deficient by the IUCN. There is now thought to be little hope for the long-term survival of this species in the wild and the "Nepenthes clipeata" Survival Project (NcSP) has been set up by the Internationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4676595 | 1,791,972 |
413,866 | Oysters, mussels, clams, scallops and other bivalve species are grown with food materials that occur naturally in their culture environment in the sea and lagoons. One-third of the world's farmed food fish harvested in 2010 was achieved without the use of feed, through the production of bivalves and filter-feeding carp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202240 | 413,663 |
55,108 | However, experimental studies of electrophysiology, beginning in the early 20th century and reaching high productivity by the 1940s, showed that the nervous system contains many mechanisms for maintaining cell excitability and generating patterns of activity intrinsically, without requiring an external stimulus. Neuron... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21944 | 55,085 |
410,775 | The implication is that premise and conclusion stand over against one another without any obvious, much less necessary, connection. A jump is made from thought to reality. Kant here objects that being or existence is not a mere attribute that may be added onto a subject, thereby increasing its qualitative content. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=347543 | 410,573 |
1,834,115 | This study was launched jointly with a parallel, expert-focused project conducted by Sliced Bread Design, LLC. In their study, "Experts vs. Online Consumers: A Comparative Credibility Study of Health and Finance Web Sites", fifteen health and finance experts were asked to assess the credibility of the same industry-spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5847044 | 1,833,066 |
66,306 | Traditional chemotherapeutic agents are cytotoxic by means of interfering with cell division (mitosis) but cancer cells vary widely in their susceptibility to these agents. To a large extent, chemotherapy can be thought of as a way to damage or stress cells, which may then lead to cell death if apoptosis is initiated. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7172 | 66,281 |
630,389 | Others argue that genetic information is indeed distinct from other health-related information but not to the extent of requiring legal/regulatory protections, similar to other sensitive health-related data such as HIV status. Additionally, Evans et al. argue that the EHR has sufficient privacy standards to hold other ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1004486 | 630,051 |
2,203,213 | The database is a tool designed to organize functional elements into categories in human gene regions and to output their sequences needed for genotyping experiments as well as provide a set of SNPs that lie within each region. The database defines functional elements into ten types: promoter regions, CpG islands,5' un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30894898 | 2,201,959 |
254,210 | In 1978, scientists at BMI-TNO, the research unit of Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research at the University of Amsterdam, invented and patented a series of additional key elements that make the volume clamp work in clinical practice. These methods include the use of modulated infrared light in the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242110 | 254,077 |
1,591,248 | When fit, Miller opened the Test bowling with Lindwall, and the pair bowled in short and fiery bursts with the new ball. The English cricket authorities had agreed to make a new ball available every 55 overs. The pre-existing rule stipulated that a replacement ball would be available every 200 runs, which usually took ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18325173 | 1,590,353 |
118,984 | The concept of publicly funded agricultural and technical educational institutions first rose to national attention through the efforts of Jonathan Baldwin Turner in the late 1840s. The first land-grant bill was introduced in Congress by Representative Justin Smith Morrill of Vermont in 1857. The bill passed in 1859, b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=359710 | 118,936 |
1,062,046 | One of the possible ways to measure the content of single cells is nano-DESI (nanospray desorption electrospray ionization). Unlike desorption electrospray ionization, which is a desorption technique, nano-DESI is a liquid extraction technique that enables the sampling of small surfaces, therefore suitable for single-c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38991948 | 1,061,492 |
1,589,063 | EAI got its start by producing computer animations to help illustrate crime scenes and other technical courtroom testimony for lawyers and expert witnesses, eventually branching out in to visualization applications in medicine, product design, and a wide range of other applications. In 1994, EAI launched VisLab, an ani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2834844 | 1,588,169 |
376,558 | Different imaging methods therefore attempt to modify the electron waves exiting the sample in a way that provides information about the sample, or the beam itself. From the previous equation, it can be deduced that the observed image depends not only on the amplitude of beam, but also on the phase of the electrons, al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=214513 | 376,363 |
1,161,849 | Psychologist George Kelly, who developed personal construct theory in the 1950s, noted his complaint against traditional diagnosis in his book "The Psychology of Personal Constructs" (1955): "Much of the reform proposed by the psychology of personal constructs is directed towards the tendency for psychologists to impos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21856285 | 1,161,233 |
1,315,275 | Another example of predictive power is the prediction of Einstein's theory of general relativity that the path of light would bend in the presence of a strong gravitational field. This was experimentally verified by an expedition to Sobral in Brazil and the Atlantic island of Príncipe to measure star positions during t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1983931 | 1,314,554 |
1,657,388 | The parts of the bones directed outward from the body trunk were flattened. The pelvis had long, tapering pubic branches (pubic rami) that possibly met in a cartilaginous symphysis. The ventral fins also contained the major bones of the hind legs, femur, tibia, and fibula. Ankle bones (tarsal bones) and toes cannot yet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5694552 | 1,656,455 |
1,951,264 | The HIRAX array will survey most of the southern sky to map out BAO, and its large field of view and large survey area will additionally make it a very powerful tool for detecting radio transient events. In particular, HIRAX will be extremely efficient at detecting Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) and Pulsars. FRBs are short (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58765822 | 1,950,143 |
578,824 | The Supernova Cosmology Project concluded that these distant supernovae were receding more quickly than would be expected due to the Hubble expansion alone, and, by inference, the expansion of the universe must have been accelerated over the billions of years since the supernovae occurred. The High-z Team also came to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1440742 | 578,527 |
1,245,733 | After the change of plan, the test would have used the C204 capsule from Demo-1, however, C204 was destroyed in an explosion during a static fire testing on 20 April 2019. Capsule C205, originally planned for Demo-2, replaced C204 in the In-Flight Abort Test; C206 was subsequently used for Demo-2. B1046, the first of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63053023 | 1,245,058 |
67,009 | A 2020 meta-analysis of 180 scientific studies found that there is "no evidence of the kind of decoupling needed for ecological sustainability" and that "in the absence of robust evidence, the goal of decoupling rests partly on faith". The possibilities for decoupling and thus the feasibility of green growth have been ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18413531 | 66,984 |
256,607 | The illumination and decoration was normally planned at the inception of the work, and space reserved for it. However, the text was usually written before illumination began. In the Early Medieval period the text and illumination were often done by the same people, normally monks, but by the High Middle Ages the roles ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=92310 | 256,473 |
566,923 | Druckmann felt that Joel's character arc was complete after the first game. Joel's death was a core part of the game's narrative structure from early in development; Druckmann considered it one of the most difficult to write, rehearse, and shoot. Though it initially caused some internal resistance, the team felt compel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64504979 | 566,633 |
921,827 | Metaplasia () is the transformation of one differentiated cell type to another differentiated cell type. The change from one type of cell to another may be part of a normal maturation process, or caused by some sort of abnormal stimulus. In simplistic terms, it is as if the original cells are not robust enough to withs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1548293 | 921,341 |
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