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266,728 | Widely recognized procedures for conducting LCAs are included in the 14000 series of environmental management standards of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), in particular, in ISO 14040 and ISO 14044. ISO 14040 provides the 'principles and framework' of the Standard, while ISO 14044 provides an o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=604896 | 266,584 |
543,772 | In the academic year 2014/2015 the teaching curriculum for the postgraduate courses was expanded thanks to the merger with the Istituto di Scienze Umane di Firenze (SUM) (the Institute of Human Sciences of Florence, SUM), now named Department of Political and Social Sciences of the Normale. In 2018 the Normale was fede... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1217460 | 543,491 |
2,063,904 | Video astronomy "(aka - Camera Assisted Astronomy, aka electronically-assisted astronomy or "EAA")" is a branch of astronomy for near real-time observing of relatively faint astronomical objects using very sensitive CCD or CMOS cameras. Unlike lucky imaging, video astronomy does not discard unwanted frames, and image c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1844297 | 2,062,713 |
252,591 | Compared to natural vegetation, cropland soils are depleted in soil organic carbon (SOC). When a soil is converted from natural land or semi natural land, such as forests, woodlands, grasslands, steppes and savannas, the SOC content in the soil reduces by about 30–40%. This loss is due to the removal of plant material ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4535852 | 252,458 |
371,723 | The real Earth–ionosphere waveguide is not a perfect electromagnetic resonant cavity. Losses due to finite ionosphere electrical conductivity lower the propagation speed of electromagnetic signals in the cavity, resulting in a resonance frequency that is lower than would be expected in an ideal case, and the observed p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=266145 | 371,528 |
10,443 | The Maya political landscape was highly complex and Maya elites engaged in political intrigue to gain economic and social advantage over neighbours. In the Late Classic, some cities established a long period of dominance over other large cities, such as the dominance of Caracol over Naranjo for half a century. In other... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18449273 | 10,438 |
158,839 | The submarines of the class have seen service in a wide range of locations, most notably firing Tomahawk land-attack cruise missiles in anger at targets during conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya. Three of the "Trafalgar"-class boats have been involved in such operations. In 2001 "Trafalgar" took part in Operation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69916 | 158,757 |
1,234,440 | This specific work of an educational psychologist takes place in different contexts: micro-, meso- and macro-systems. Microsystems refer to family contexts, where atmosphere, hidden curriculum, and expectations and behaviors of all family members determine, to a large extent, the educational development of each student... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5325141 | 1,233,777 |
1,475,083 | In October 2008, the UH System Board of Regents adopted a resolution authorizing UHV to seek enabling state legislation to add freshmen and sophomores. In the 81st Texas legislative session, Texas State Representative Geanie Morrison of Victoria introduced House Bill 1056, which would allow UHV to expand, and Texas Sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2032411 | 1,474,251 |
1,463,462 | Limiting tobacco consumption with the use of campaigns that portray cigarette smoking as unacceptable and harmful have been enacted; though, advocating for the use of e-cigarettes jeopardizes this because of the possibility of escalating nicotine addiction. It is not clear whether e-cigarette use will decrease or incre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61711836 | 1,462,639 |
273,551 | Female black-footed ferrets have smaller home ranges than males. Home ranges of males may sometimes include the home ranges of several females. Adult females usually occupy the same territory every year. A female that was tracked from December to March occupied . Her territory was overlapped by a resident male that occ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234031 | 273,403 |
2,000,511 | Sometimes when police come across a crime, they are left with a single eye witness which begs the question of whether they can rely on the child for a reliable testimony. Dr. Steven Ceci is a child development expert at Cornell University and talks about how the memory of children and adults are different based on thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18500711 | 1,999,366 |
16,716 | Bupropion and its metabolites are inhibitors of CYP2D6, with hydroxybupropion responsible for most of the inhibition. Additionally, bupropion and its metabolites may decrease expression of CYP2D6 in the liver. The end effect is a significant slowing of the clearance of other drugs metabolized by this enzyme. For instan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378579 | 16,711 |
585,627 | The unified view of the battlespace provided by the Dowding system turned the tables in favour of the defence. By rapidly sending accurate, timely information to the fighters, their ability to find and attack the enemy was dramatically increased, and the time required to do so decreased. The fighters took off, flew dir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29382758 | 585,327 |
290,216 | A suitport is a theoretical alternative to an airlock, designed for use in hazardous environments and in human spaceflight, especially planetary surface exploration. In a suitport system, a rear-entry space suit is attached and sealed against the outside of a spacecraft, such that an astronaut can enter and seal up the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39375 | 290,059 |
536,288 | A step towards the Standard Model was Sheldon Glashow's discovery, in 1960, of a way to combine the electromagnetic and weak interactions. In 1967, Steven Weinberg and Abdus Salam incorporated the Higgs mechanism into Glashow's electroweak theory, giving it its modern form. The Higgs mechanism is believed to give rise ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6134187 | 536,009 |
1,173,728 | Small interfering RNA (siRNA) are synthetic antisense oligonucleotides to the mRNA of the gene of interest that works to silence the expression of a particular gene by its complementary binding. siRNAs, such as LY2181308, bound to the respective mRNA results in disruption of translation of that particular gene and thus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8310787 | 1,173,106 |
1,761,153 | Asimov began work on the book on 2 October, and found that he had no trouble with it at all, writing anywhere from 6,000 to 10,000 words a day without any sense of strain. By 27 January 1958, Asimov was able to deliver the first half of the completed manuscript to Basic Books, but at a meeting a month later, Svirsky su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7004633 | 1,760,160 |
1,744,066 | All courses are taught at the Advanced Placement or Honors level. ASMS offers Advanced Placement courses in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science A, Environmental Science, Physics B, Physics C, Studio Art, English Literature and United States History. More than 40% of ASMS instructors hold terminal degrees, all have ear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=633666 | 1,743,082 |
391,791 | In an interview a month after the match, former world champion Anatoly Karpov said he felt Nepomniachtchi had played really well in the first half of the match, and had real winning chances in games 1, 2, and 5. Karpov felt Nepomniachtchi had been somewhat unlucky to lose his advantage in game 1 in the middlegame, whil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59165583 | 391,596 |
551 | Curry is the son of Sonya and Dell Curry. He was born in Akron, Ohio, at Summa Akron City Hospital, while his father was a member of the Cleveland Cavaliers. He grew up in Charlotte, North Carolina, where his father spent most of his NBA career with the Charlotte Hornets. Dell often took Curry and his younger brother S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5608488 | 551 |
116,393 | British idealism as taught by philosophers such as F. H. Bradley (1846–1924) and T. H. Green (1836–1882), dominated English philosophy in the late 19th century. Since its beginning, a basic goal of analytic philosophy has been conceptual clarity, in the name of which Moore and Russell rejected Hegelianism for being obs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=159211 | 116,348 |
654,887 | The men's high jump event at the 2020 Summer Olympics took place between 30 July and 1 August 2021 at the Olympic Stadium. 33 athletes from 24 nations competed; the total possible number depended on how many nations would use universality places to enter athletes in addition to the 32 qualifying through mark or ranking... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60376769 | 654,543 |
250,252 | In 2006, Kamiya worked as the director for "Ōkami". "Ōkami" resulted from the combined ideas of Clover Studio. The game was originally built around "depict[ing] a lot of nature", but had no central concept or theme, according to Kamiya, who served as the game's director. Kamiya eventually created a minute-long demonstr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9134651 | 250,120 |
1,714,268 | From about 8,000 graduates in the 40-year history of this school, more than 400 have obtained PhD degrees and 600 have obtained Magister of Science degrees. These numbers are to be taken with precautions since this is the number of only those who reported their PhD to MG authorities. It is widely believed that much gre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8358106 | 1,713,302 |
843,094 | Kenner Toys produced an X-wing toy as a complement to its action figure line in 1978; this model was made from formed plastic and had a battery-operated light and buzzer in the forward fuselage. The "s-foils" were activated by depressing the molded astromech droid. In 1982, a "battle-damaged" version was released using... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50801 | 842,644 |
1,665,493 | To make this more explicit, consider the polynomial evaluation formula_21. This is a homomorphism and its kernel is formula_22. If formula_1 is algebraic, this ideal contains non-zero polynomials, but as formula_24 is a euclidean domain, it contains a unique polynomial formula_25 with minimal degree and leading coeffic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186291 | 1,664,556 |
405,875 | The computer underground is supported by regular real-world gatherings called hacker conventions or "hacker cons". These events include SummerCon (Summer), DEF CON, HoHoCon (Christmas), ShmooCon (February), BlackHat, Chaos Communication Congress, AthCon, Hacker Halted, and HOPE. Local Hackfest groups organize and compe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2471540 | 405,675 |
2,130,330 | The passive optical network (PON) uses tree-like network topology. Due to the topology of PON, the transmission modes for downstream (that is, from optical line termination, (OLT) to optical network unit (ONU)) and upstream (that is, from ONU to OLT) are different. For the downstream transmission, the OLT broadcasts op... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13624220 | 2,129,106 |
1,497,228 | Although the atomic weight had taken on the concept of a constant of nature like the speed of light, the lack of agreement on accepted values created difficulties in trade. Quantities measured by chemical analysis were not being translated into weights in the same way by all parties and standardization became an urgent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39042932 | 1,496,385 |
267,767 | The issue of modality-specificity has led to considerable debate among experts in this field. Cacace and McFarland have argued that APD should be defined as a "modality-specific" perceptual dysfunction that is not due to peripheral hearing loss. They criticise more inclusive conceptualizations of APD as lacking diagnos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12328438 | 267,623 |
414,489 | In most cases, however, a PhD candidate will step down to the level of a Master of Philosophy at British universities. The main difference between an MRes and an MPhil is that MRes sometimes (but not always) has taught components (although the main focus is still on research) and therefore might require a first year ta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3954275 | 414,286 |
1,908,444 | The "Kaigun Holland" #6 was launched at Kobe on 28 September 1905 and was completed six months later at Kure as the first submarine built in Japan. It sank during a training dive in Hiroshima Bay on 15 April 1910. Although the water was only 58 feet deep, there were no provisions for the crew to escape while submerged.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38000176 | 1,907,347 |
1,293,296 | The earliest pieces of this type were probably simple tied designs on cotton cloth handspun and woven locally (rather like those still produced in Mali), but in the early decades of the 20th century new access to large quantities of imported shirting material via the spread of European textile merchants in Abeokuta and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10928027 | 1,292,585 |
1,118,574 | Prototypes using 32 nm technology first emerged in the mid-2000s, following the development of pitch double patterning by Gurtej Singh Sandhu at Micron Technology, which led to the development of NAND flash memory below 40nm. In 2004, IBM demonstrated a 0.143 μm SRAM cell with a poly gate pitch of 135 nm, produced usin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3847486 | 1,118,001 |
1,568,949 | Sensorimotor deficits and neurochemical changes were observed in rats that were exposed to low doses of 56Fe-ions. Doses that are below 1 Gy reduce performance, as tested by the wire suspension test. Behavioral changes were observed as early as 3 days after radiation exposure and lasted up to 8 months. Biochemical stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39761773 | 1,568,062 |
1,247,993 | However, this formal similarity notwithstanding, possessing a complex-antiderivative is a much more restrictive condition than its real counterpart. While it is possible for a discontinuous real function to have an anti-derivative, anti-derivatives can fail to exist even for "holomorphic" functions of a complex variabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6038197 | 1,247,317 |
199,981 | Newton's principles (but not his mathematical treatments) proved controversial with Continental philosophers, who found his lack of metaphysical explanation for movement and gravitation philosophically unacceptable. Beginning around 1700, a bitter rift opened between the Continental and British philosophical traditions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13758 | 199,878 |
1,363,115 | Deterministic decompression models are a rule based approach to calculating decompression. These models work from the idea that "excessive" supersaturation in various tissues is "unsafe" (resulting in decompression sickness). The models usually contain multiple depth and tissue dependent rules based on mathematical mod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38814223 | 1,362,362 |
153,405 | Human vestigial structures also include leftover embryological remnants that once served a function during development, such as the belly button, and analogous structures between biological sexes. For example, men are also born with two nipples, which are not known to serve a function compared to women. In regards to g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12082283 | 153,335 |
1,988,898 | This was the 20th appearance of the event, which is one of 12 athletics events to have been held at every Summer Olympics. The returning finalists from the 1980 Games were fifth-place finisher Roland Dalhäuser of Switzerland and ninth-place finisher Mark Naylor of Great Britain. Two-time bronze medalist (1972 and 1976)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14891126 | 1,987,756 |
1,071,296 | The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal is a 1991 book by academic and popular science author Jared Diamond, in which the author explores concepts relating to the animal origins of human behavior. The book follows a series of articles published by Diamond, a physiologist, examining the eviden... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2521255 | 1,070,742 |
92,367 | In the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Israel used unarmed U.S. Ryan Firebee target drones to spur Egypt into firing its entire arsenal of anti-aircraft missiles. This mission was accomplished with no injuries to Israeli pilots, who soon exploited the depleted Egyptian defences. In the late 1970s and 80s, Israel developed the Sco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337755 | 92,326 |
1,565,522 | 6PGL hydrolysis of 6-phosphogluconolactone to 6-phosphogluconic acid has been proposed to proceed via proton transfer to the O5 ring oxygen atom, similar to xylose isomerase and ribose-5-phosphate isomerase. The reaction initiates via attack of a hydroxide ion at the C5 ester. A tetrahedral intermediate forms and elimi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10530028 | 1,564,635 |
1,651,148 | The largest known recorded E-type chondrite fall happened in the town of Abee, in Alberta in 1952. The stone fell in a farmer's wheat field, creating an impact pit 0.7 m in diameter and 1.5 m deep. Based on estimates of its velocity and inclination, it is thought to have arrived on a relatively low-speed, low-inclinati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21177166 | 1,650,216 |
1,671,241 | There is mounting evidence that giving patients real-time, unfettered access to their own medical records increases their understanding of their health and improves their ability to take care of themselves. Study results indicate that full record access enables patients to become more actively involved in the quality o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23453327 | 1,670,301 |
1,777,944 | In nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, the highly abundant C isotope does not produce any signal whereas the comparably rare C isotope is easily detected. As a result, carbon isotopomers of a compound can be studied by carbon-13 NMR to learn about the different carbon atoms in the structure. Each individual struct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2421084 | 1,776,942 |
1,792,066 | One may view other theorems in the same light. For example, the fundamental theorem of Galois theory asserts that there is a one-to-one correspondence between extensions of a field and subgroups of the field's Galois group. The Taniyama–Shimura conjecture for elliptic curves (now proven) establishes a one-to-one corres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186023 | 1,791,059 |
254,587 | Self-determination theory offers an explanatory framework to predict healthy eating and other dietary behavior. Research on SDT in the domain of eating regulation is still in its early stages and most of these studies were conducted in high income settings. In support of SDT, A recent study in an urban township populat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2679667 | 254,454 |
1,421,574 | The Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL, "et al.", 2009; 2010) has carried out two reviews of AR4. These reviews are generally supportive of AR4's conclusions. PBL (2010) make some recommendations to improve the IPCC process. A literature assessment by the US National Research Council (US NRC, 2010) conclu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4243210 | 1,420,773 |
1,480,619 | High education and scientific work have their roots in the distant past. This is particularly true of the maritime, the social and the natural sciences. For example, Beno Kotruljević, of Dubrovnik, wrote four books in 1458 "About Commerce and a Perfect merchant", published in Venice in 1573, which was the first work of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5120066 | 1,479,785 |
232,525 | Afterwards, there was only one more failure in the Jupiter program, AM-23 on 15 September 1959, which developed a leak in a nitrogen bottle that led to depressurization of the RP-1 tank and almost immediate loss of control at liftoff. The missile wobbled from side to side and the RP-1 tank began to break apart starting... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=710471 | 232,406 |
1,512,867 | Although both solid states can exist at room temperatures, the transition requires specific heating and cooling process known as the thermal actuation method. To achieve the amorphous state the solid is heated up beyond the melting temperature with a high current pulse in a short amount of time and rapidly quenched or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5217802 | 1,512,016 |
306,224 | In this cyberpunk iteration of a possible future, computer technology has advanced to the point that many members of the public possess cyberbrains, technology that allows them to interface their biological brain with various networks. The level of cyberization varies from simple minimal interfaces to almost complete r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3271673 | 306,060 |
705,444 | The mechanism proposed by Ciurli and Mangani is one of the more recent and currently accepted views of the mechanism of urease and is based primarily on the different roles of the two nickel ions in the active site. One of which binds and activates urea, the other nickel ion binds and activates the nucleophilic water m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=169123 | 705,075 |
1,778,866 | In 2017, the China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Saudi Geological Survey, where the two countries collaborated to identify prospective uranium deposits. Concluded by the end of 2019, the work by geologists identified that were capable of producing 90,000 tonnes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37735424 | 1,777,864 |
1,946,693 | As a member state of the European Union (EU), Denmark is under commitments from its directives, which set targets for the amount of renewable energy within the national profiles, including biofuels. Following EU legislation, for example, its renewable energy use should reach 100% by 2020. However, Denmark has been high... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51089813 | 1,945,580 |
227,014 | Later in 2020, the supposed specimen MOR 492 was redescribed by John Wilson and colleagues, who reinterpreted its anatomy in a way that contrasted McDonald and Horner who referred it to "Styracosaurus ovatus". While Wilson "et al." agreed that the close relationship between "S. albertensis" and "S. ovatus" meant that t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1792150 | 226,898 |
548,068 | With the growth of hospitals with PICUs in the 1980s, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) and the pediatric section of the Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) set forth guidelines in 1993 for PICUs. Since the establishment of those guidelines, both the number of PICUs and number of PICU beds has been steadily... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21002520 | 547,781 |
686,310 | Once the set of candidate models has been chosen, the statistical analysis allows us to select the best of these models. What is meant by "best" is controversial. A good model selection technique will balance goodness of fit with simplicity . More complex models will be better able to adapt their shape to fit the data ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3664073 | 685,953 |
1,319,937 | By the early 1950s it was known from metabolic labeling studies using radioactive phosphate that phosphate groups attached to phosphoproteins inside cells can sometimes undergo rapid exchange of new phosphate for old. In order to perform experiments that would allow isolation and characterization of the enzymes involve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5785538 | 1,319,211 |
1,665,615 | At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held starting in July in Birmingham, England, Murdoch won a bronze medal in the 200 metre breaststroke on the first day of swimming competition with a time of 2:10.41. His achievement followed an eleven week retirement from swimming, that started in December 2021 and during which time he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43387915 | 1,664,678 |
1,569,820 | The EU has played a large role in increasing the use of biofuels in member states; however, it has also aimed, to some extent, to mitigate the potential negative impacts of biofuel production. Legislative procedures in Europe currently involve a proposal made by the European Commission, followed by a process of up to 3... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20596324 | 1,568,932 |
1,174,790 | The first version of the language was released in 1976 using graphical syntax (SDL-76). This was revised in 1980 with some rudimentary semantics (SDL-80). The semantics were refined in 1984 (SDL-84), the textual form was introduced for machine processing and data was introduced. In 1988, SDL-88 was released with a form... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2246590 | 1,174,168 |
1,191,715 | The PRR's original 1915 electrification made use of four substations, at Arsenal Bridge, West Philadelphia, Bryn Mawr, and Paoli. The Arsenal Bridge substation stepped-up 13.2 kV, 25 Hz power supplied from PECO's Schuylkill power station on Christian Street to 44 kV for distribution. The remaining three substations red... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20193516 | 1,191,080 |
1,288,244 | Toxicology refers to the science of the chemical and physical properties of toxic substances. Samples from a body are analyzed for drugs or other toxic substances. The concentrations are measured and the substance's contribution to a death can be determined. This is done by comparing concentrations to lethal limits. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48816196 | 1,287,535 |
348,963 | Any useful hypothesis will enable predictions by reasoning (including deductive reasoning). It might predict the outcome of an experiment in a laboratory setting or the observation of a phenomenon in nature. The prediction may also invoke statistics and only talk about probabilities. Karl Popper, following others, has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21073209 | 348,781 |
591,105 | Observations from the "Voyager" space probes have shown that the Titanean atmosphere is denser than Earth's, with a surface pressure about 1.48 times that of Earth's. Titan's atmosphere is about 1.19 times as massive as Earth's overall, or about 7.3 times more massive on a per surface area basis. It supports opaque haz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13577327 | 590,803 |
1,372,057 | After the U.S. entry into the Second World War the nitrogen mustards were candidate chemical warfare agents and research on them was initiated by the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD). The OSRD let contracts to study them to two universities—Yale University and the University of Chicago. Inspired per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1763411 | 1,371,300 |
581,936 | In 1943, Soviet astronomer Otto Schmidt proposed that the Sun, in its present form, passed through a dense interstellar cloud and emerged enveloped in a cloud of dust and gas, from which the planets eventually formed. This solved the angular momentum problem by assuming that the Sun's slow rotation was peculiar to it a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17052696 | 581,638 |
1,949,233 | Williams met astronomer, Albert George Wilson at the Rand Corporation in 1966. Wilson invited him to conduct research at the McDonnell-Douglas Corporation Advanced Research Laboratories (DARL) in Huntington Beach, California, USA. After graduate studies, he joined Dr. Wilson in September 1967 and continued his research... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25441114 | 1,948,112 |
1,970,522 | Recent advance in LFV made it possible for metering flow velocity of media which has very low electroconductivity, particularly by varying parameters as well as using some state-of-art force measurement devices enable to measure flow velocity of electrolyte solutions with conductivity that is 10 times smaller than that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35408416 | 1,969,388 |
247,822 | The focus of Merck's current pharmaceutical R&D is on oncology, neurology and immunology. In oncology, its first marketed product is "Erbitux" (cetuximab), for which it has marketing rights worldwide, apart from North America. (Cetuximab was discovered by Imclone Systems, and is marketed in North America by Bristol-Mye... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=482924 | 247,694 |
1,250,987 | SwiftRiver was a free and Open-source platform that helped people make sense of a lot of information in a short amount of time. It was born out of the need to understand and act upon a wave of massive amounts of crisis data that tends to overwhelm in the first 24 hours of a disaster. There had been a great deal of inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18775928 | 1,250,309 |
1,756,458 | He entered the University of Edinburgh in 1825, and soon afterwards began to contribute papers to the "Edinburgh Philosophical Journal" anonymously under the signature "Δ". At the age of nineteen he became a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and in 1832 he was elected to the Royal Society of London. At this tim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=255670 | 1,755,467 |
2,113,327 | SNPs in the CGAP-GAI are either found as a result of resequencing genes of interest in different individuals or looking through existing human EST databases and making comparisons. It examines transcripts from healthy individuals, individuals with disease, tumour tissue and cell lines from a large set of individuals; t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43745781 | 2,112,112 |
315,638 | The IETF is organized into a large number of working groups and birds of a feather informal discussion groups, each dealing with a specific topic. The IETF operates in a bottom-up task creation mode, largely driven by these working groups. Each working group has an appointed chairperson (or sometimes several co-chairs)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15285 | 315,469 |
65,424 | In his 2003 book "Our Final Hour", British Astronomer Royal Martin Rees argues that advanced science and technology bring as much risk of disaster as opportunity for progress. However, Rees does not advocate a halt to scientific activity. Instead, he calls for tighter security and perhaps an end to traditional scientif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30299 | 65,399 |
2,151,162 | Scott's primary research focus is on the ionosphere, particularly perturbations from below by atmospheric phenomenon. Scott was the first scientist to demonstrate lightning effects on the 'sporadic E' layer; transient, localized patches of relatively high electron density in the mid-ionosphere, which significantly affe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62230124 | 2,149,931 |
964,246 | Embodied cognitive perspectives can inform and impact motor skill research in the fields of sport and sport psychology. Studies have shown that the embodiment thesis comes into action through many ways in sport such as sport-related action-specific perception, understanding, prediction, judgement, training, and languag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33034640 | 963,737 |
1,812,377 | Traced from the early 1990s, the Sequential Intercept Model was first established in Summit County through the collaboration of Munetz, Griffin and Steadman due to the trend of increasing number of criminals with mental health problems appeared. Summit County developed partnerships with the National GAINS centre to lau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60770694 | 1,811,344 |
594,410 | It was approved based on the results of the OLYMPUS (NCT02793128) multicenter trial involving 71 subjects with low-grade UTUC. These subjects had never undergone treatment (treatment-naïve) or had recurrent low-grade non-invasive UTUC with at least one measurable papillary tumor (a tumor shaped like a small mushroom wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2952398 | 594,105 |
69,651 | In philosophy of science, evidence is understood as that which "confirms" or "disconfirms" scientific hypotheses and arbitrates between competing theories. Measurements of Mercury's "anomalous" orbit, for example, constitute evidence that plays the role of "neutral arbiter" between Newton's and Einstein's theory of gra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=307139 | 69,624 |
1,364,958 | From 1972 to 1976, Remek studied at the Gagarin Air Force Academy. Upon his return to Czechoslovakia in 1976, he was promoted to captain and appointed deputy commander of his fighter regiment, after which Remek went back to Russia to train for the Soviet-led space program. Following his return from space in March 1978,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=626707 | 1,364,202 |
1,785,790 | The Capitals opened the 2010/11 season with a grand final replay against the Bulleen Boomers at the Veneto Club in Bulleen, winning 79–71. Unfortunately Suzy Batkovic injured her knee in the victory, sitting her out for the following 4 weeks. To cover for the injured centre the Capitals were able to entice Tracey Beatt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4121869 | 1,784,786 |
1,588,199 | As the grazing angle is a function inversely proportional to photon energy, the higher-energy X-rays require smaller (less than 2°) grazing angles to be focused. This implies longer focal lengths as the photon energy increases, thus making X-ray telescopes difficult to build if focusing of photons with energies higher ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35804887 | 1,587,305 |
25,439 | Assembly language is still taught in most computer science and electronic engineering programs. Although few programmers today regularly work with assembly language as a tool, the underlying concepts remain important. Such fundamental topics as binary arithmetic, memory allocation, stack processing, character set encod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1368 | 25,430 |
915,174 | In February 2015, after the University of Tulsa suspended a student under its zero tolerance policy for harassment for allegedly threatening and defamatory Facebook postings by his fiancée against other faculty and a female student, administrators attempted to discourage the campus newspaper from publishing confidentia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32043 | 914,693 |
89,009 | During the 2000s, Germany headed an initiative to lease An-124s for NATO strategic airlift requirements. Two aircraft were leased from SALIS GmbH as a stopgap until the Airbus A400M became available. Under NATO SALIS programme NAMSA is chartering six An-124-100 transport aircraft. According to the contract An-124-100s ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=435406 | 88,973 |
278,421 | Pol γ (gamma), Pol θ (theta), and Pol ν (nu) are Family A polymerases. Pol γ, encoded by the POLG gene, was long thought to be the only mitochondrial polymerase. However, recent research shows that at least Pol β (beta), a Family X polymerase, is also present in mitochondria. Any mutation that leads to limited or non-f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=235926 | 278,271 |
1,746,263 | Graduates of the Imperial Japanese Naval Academy would first serve as midshipmen for a year before being commissioned as ensigns. Newly-commissioned ensigns were selected for pilot training based on the results of an aptitude test (適性検査 "Tekisei kensa") that typically lasted three weeks and took place at Kasumigaura Ai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66826349 | 1,745,277 |
2,006,924 | The Freel Farm Mound is located on the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Reservation. The site is currently inundated by Melton Hill Lake. At the time of excavation the mound was located on the William Freel farm 2 miles southeast of Scarboro, Tennessee. The site was located 1200 feet from the western side of the C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37865221 | 2,005,773 |
451,536 | Tantalum is a chemical element with the symbol Ta and atomic number 73. Previously known as "tantalium", the name comes from "Tantalus", a character from Greek mythology. Tantalum is a rare, hard, blue-gray, lustrous transition metal that is highly corrosion resistant. It is part of the refractory metals group, which a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181556 | 451,317 |
331,358 | Retinoic acids tretinoin ("all-trans"-retinoic acid) and isotretinoin (13-"cis"-retinoic acid) are prescription topical medications used to treat moderate to severe cystic acne and acne not responsive to other treatments. These are usually applied as a skin cream to the face after cleansing to remove make-up and skin o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54114 | 331,181 |
1,892,938 | This gene encodes a nuclear protein with a JmjC domain. JmjC domain-containing proteins belong to the alpha-ketoglutarate-dependent hydroxylase superfamily. They are predicted to function as protein hydroxylases or histone demethylases. This protein was first identified as a putative phosphatidylserine receptor involve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14801046 | 1,891,855 |
2,173,462 | In the study conducted by Majoris et al., it was shown that before spawning, the bodies of both male and female "E. colini" turn dark grey/black. Researchers also concluded that "E. colini" spawned within 3–44 days of being introduced to the study tanks, which was faster than "Elacatinus lori". "E. colini" spawned in r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56645598 | 2,172,220 |
1,559,487 | This short introduction may help to reflect on the various and sometimes opposing view-points concerning the 'origin' of prosthetic valve endocarditis. As in most recent scientific reports, some descriptions of tissue valve endocarditis suffer from the same lack of clarity and standardization in the presentation of fac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26851461 | 1,558,601 |
1,502,934 | ASN-209 uses twin-boom pusher layout, rear installed engine disposition with high-set wings and a stabilizer linking the twin fins. Excellent overall aerodynamic design and EMC design enable the system to install many different kinds of airborne equipment, such as Electronic countermeasures (ECM), communication relay a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42232716 | 1,502,088 |
955,002 | The Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet Omar Khayyám (1050–1123), attempted to prove the fifth postulate from another explicitly given postulate (based on the fourth of the five "principles due to the Philosopher" (Aristotle), namely, "Two convergent straight lines intersect and it is impossible fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33731493 | 954,497 |
1,905,750 | Price started work on his own turbojet design in 1938. To improve fuel efficiency, he used a combination of low-compression axial compressor stages feeding a high-compression reciprocating compressor. In 1941 he was hired by Lockheed to evaluate the General Electric superchargers being fit to the experimental XP-49, a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52846883 | 1,904,654 |
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