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436,225 | Professor Herbert L. Beckwith was named architect of the project and he proposed a pair of towers on a riverside plot between Memorial Drive and the Kresge Court. Construction required the relocation of a Catholic nursing order, busy parking lot, and existing student housing. Building was broken into two phases: the We... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8071866 | 436,011 |
1,188,062 | Mars Cube One is the first spacecraft built to the CubeSat form to operate beyond Earth orbit for a deep space mission. CubeSats are made of small components that are desirable for multiple reasons, including low cost of construction, quick development, simple systems, and ease of deployment to low Earth orbit. They ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46677595 | 1,187,431 |
104,878 | At a conference in 2000, Watson suggested a link between skin color and sex drive, hypothesizing that dark-skinned people have stronger libidos. His lecture argued that extracts of melanin—which gives skin its color—had been found to boost subjects' sex drive. "That's why you have Latin lovers", he said, according to p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16289 | 104,833 |
908,849 | James Randi often wrote on the issue of fraud by psychics and faith healers. Unqualified medical practice and alternative medicine can result in serious injury and death. Skeptical activist Tim Farley, who aims to create catalogue of harmful pseudoscientific practices and cases of damage caused by them, estimates docum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=204511 | 908,370 |
527,658 | However, orthohydrogen is thermodynamically unstable at low temperatures and spontaneously converts into parahydrogen. This process lacks any natural de-excitation radiation mode, so it is slow in the absence of a catalyst which can facilitate interconversion of the singlet and triplet spin states. At room temperature,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=997715 | 527,385 |
732,898 | In 2005, Germany took the lead from Japan. With the introduction of the Renewable Energy Act in 2000, feed-in tariffs were adopted as a policy mechanism. This policy established that renewables have priority on the grid, and that a fixed price must be paid for the produced electricity over a 20-year period, providing a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21150165 | 732,511 |
1,795,187 | By Late Cambrian, the shoreline had once again crept eastward, resulting in clearer water that was probably 100 to 200 feet (30 to 60 m) deep. The 100-foot-thick (30 m) Gallatin Limestone was formed. It consists of blue-gray limestone that is mottled with irregular rusty or yellow patches. Interrupting the limestone ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=768815 | 1,794,178 |
1,772,652 | Virtual profiles are created automatically, for both reflow or wave solder machines. An initial recipe setup is required for modeling purposes, but once completed, profiling can be made virtual. As the system is automatic, profiles can be generated periodically or continuously for each and every assembly. SPC charts al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22590756 | 1,771,655 |
399,326 | While WHO manages and publishes the base version of the ICD, several member states have modified it to better suit their needs. In the base classification, the code set allows for more than 14,000 different codes and permits the tracking of many new diagnoses compared to the preceding ICD-9. Through the use of optional... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13745451 | 399,128 |
444,104 | Ni(HITP) is an organic, crystalline, structurally tunable electrical conductor with a high surface area. HITP is an organic chemical (2,3,6,7,10,11-hexaaminotriphenylene). It shares graphene's hexagonal honeycomb structure. Multiple layers naturally form perfectly aligned stacks, with identical 2-nm openings at the cen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43589512 | 443,889 |
1,402,393 | The Mount Read Volcanics are a 250 km long belt that is 10 to 20 km wide attached to the western edge of the Tyennan Block or eastern side of the Dundas Element. The volcanics consist of underwater eruptions interbedded with sediment. A range of lava from basic through intermediate to acid are present along with intrus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18521539 | 1,401,606 |
2,015,508 | It has been thought that HDAC inhibitors (HDACi's) could partially reverse the low acetylation levels seen in patients with HD. Preclinical studies have been performed using various HDACi’s [such as suberoxylanilide hydroxamic acid (SAHA), Trichostatin A (TSA), phenylbutyrate, and sodium butyrate (NaB)] that target HDA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41111089 | 2,014,348 |
1,348,080 | Planktivory can play an important role in the growth, abundance, and community composition of planktonic species via top-down trophic control. For example, competitive superiority of large zooplankton over smaller species in lake systems leads to large-body dominance in the absence of planktivorous fish as a result of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36726184 | 1,347,339 |
85,073 | The potential for long-term oral toxicity is also low. In an NTP continuous breeding study, no effects on fertility were observed in male or female mice that received propylene glycol in drinking water at doses up to 10100 mg/kg bw/day. No effects on fertility were seen in either the first or second generation of treat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=228900 | 85,039 |
861,562 | "Archerfish" began an extended fourth and final phase of Operation "Sea Scan" when she left Pearl Harbor on 17 June and headed for the eastern Pacific. She made port calls during July at Seattle and Olympia, Washington, and returned to Pearl Harbor on 19 August for a three-week upkeep and drydocking before undertaking ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1002122 | 861,103 |
1,572,819 | Characterization of animal genetic resources is a prerequisite for its management. Advances in molecular genetics have provided us with tools to better understand livestock origin and diversity. There are many technologies capable of determining genetic profiles, including whole genome sequencing, shotgun sequencing, R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51678199 | 1,571,931 |
1,953,665 | Mutations in the "NDUFS2" gene are associated with Mitochondrial Complex I Deficiency, which is autosomal recessive. This deficiency is the most common enzymatic defect of the oxidative phosphorylation disorders. Mitochondrial complex I deficiency shows extreme genetic heterogeneity and can be caused by mutation in nuc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14874674 | 1,952,544 |
1,877,894 | Mutations in the "NDUFS1" gene are associated with Mitochondrial Complex I Deficiency, which is autosomal recessive. This deficiency is the most common enzymatic defect of the oxidative phosphorylation disorders. Mitochondrial complex I deficiency shows extreme genetic heterogeneity and can be caused by mutation in nuc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14880630 | 1,876,816 |
2,115,575 | Mutations in the NDUFS3 gene are associated with Mitochondrial Complex I Deficiency, which is autosomal recessive. This deficiency is the most common enzymatic defect of the oxidative phosphorylation disorders. Mitochondrial complex I deficiency shows extreme genetic heterogeneity and can be caused by mutation in nucle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14818199 | 2,114,358 |
1,573,818 | As for bacterial motility, the bacteria with high-speed motility sometimes avoid grazing better than their nonmotile or slower strains especially the smallest, fastest bacteria. Moreover, a cell's movement strategy may be altered by predation. The bacteria move by run-and-reverse strategy, which help them to beat a has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35547268 | 1,572,929 |
1,904,859 | Although "A. euteiches" can potentially infect hosts at any point in the growing season, infection usually begins during seedling emergence. The primary source of inoculum is oospores, which can be found either in the soil or in infected plant debris from previously infected host plants. Oospores germinate as a respons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11063278 | 1,903,764 |
1,937,514 | The evolution of "Homo sapiens" since the divergence from the primate common ancestor has shown a marked expansion in the size and complexity of the brain, especially in the cerebral cortex. In comparison to primates, the human cerebral cortex has an embiggened surface area but differs only slightly in thickness. Many ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24219329 | 1,936,406 |
759,379 | Studies in humans show comparable results. Dermal penetration through human skin has been shown to be very rapid. NMP is rapidly biotransformed by hydroxylation to 5-hydroxy-N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone, which is further oxidized to N-methylsuccinimide; this intermediate is further hydroxylated to 2-hydroxy-N-methylsuccinimi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3339289 | 758,973 |
784,943 | Since its inception in 1890, the institution's campus on the North Shore of Long Island has also been a center of biology education. Current CSHL educational programs serve professional scientists, doctoral students in biology, teachers of biology in the K-12 system, and students from the elementary grades through high... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=441300 | 784,523 |
139,606 | Summarizing some of the potential benefits, Martin offers his general opinion: "Thorium could provide a clean and effectively limitless source of power while allaying all public concern—weapons proliferation, radioactive pollution, toxic waste, and fuel that is both costly and complicated to process." Moir and Teller e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36389653 | 139,549 |
1,538,595 | Landrum Brewer Shettles (November 21, 1909 – February 6, 2003) was an American Obstetrician/Gynecologist and a pioneer in the field of in vitro fertilization. Shettles was born Pontotoc County, Mississippi about a mile and a half west of Friendship Community, just East of John's Creek. His father's name was Brazil Manl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42175033 | 1,537,722 |
2,118,865 | The conferences are devoted to the fundamental and technological issues relevant to the realization of a new generation of optoelectronic devices based on advanced low-dimensional and photonic structures, such as low threshold polariton lasers, new optical switches, single photon emitters, photonic band-gap structures,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23850329 | 2,117,647 |
640,485 | A requirement of 1,200 was decided, later increased to 4,400, and some sample Renault tanks, plans, and various parts were sent to the US for study. The design was to be carried out by the Ordnance Department, under the job title "Six-ton Special Tractor," and orders for the vehicles placed with private manufacturers. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23084208 | 640,146 |
1,267,021 | The Scott Polar Research Institute houses the world's most comprehensive polar library and archives. The institute's Thomas H. Manning Archive contains an unparalleled collection of manuscript material relating to research in and exploration of the polar regions, For scientists and scholars, the library offers a collec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2201810 | 1,266,331 |
858,236 | Once the receptive area of the neurite is depolarized, it will depolarize the first node of Ranvier; however, as it is a rapidly adapting fibre, this does not carry on indefinitely, and the signal propagation ceases. This is a graded response, meaning that the greater the deformation, the greater the generator potentia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1315212 | 857,778 |
1,168,728 | The Sylvester–Gallai theorem has been proved in many different ways. Gallai's 1944 proof switches back and forth between Euclidean and projective geometry, in order to transform the points into an equivalent configuration in which an ordinary line can be found as a line of slope closest to zero; for details, see . The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1052632 | 1,168,110 |
1,789,735 | Jensen Hughes (previously stylized as JENSEN HUGHES) is a professional engineering and consulting services company headquartered in Baltimore that provides services, software, and consulting in fire protection engineering, forensic engineering, and security. The company has approximately 90 offices globally in part due... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66134024 | 1,788,729 |
1,084,074 | Suppose there is a procedure that evaluates F(x), and the code requests the result of F(6) and then later, F(6) again. This second evaluation is almost certainly unnecessary: the result could have instead been saved and referred to later, assuming that F is a pure function. This simple optimization is foiled the moment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4912446 | 1,083,517 |
269,711 | Relations between Antony and Caesar's legal heir, Octavian, also started to break down: Octavian was successful in attracting some of Caesar's veterans from Antony's camp, undercutting Antony's military support. Antony also sought later in the year to isolate Cicero politically, as the eloquent ex-consul was prestigiou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67435 | 269,564 |
648,169 | Monolithic 3D ICs are built in layers on a single semiconductor wafer, which is then diced into 3D ICs. There is only one substrate, hence no need for aligning, thinning, bonding, or through-silicon vias. Process temperature limitations are addressed by partitioning the transistor fabrication into two phases. A high te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15367982 | 647,828 |
1,189,787 | The final, which was advertised in Berlin as ""Das Duell"" between Gay and Bolt, proved to be historic. By the 20-metre mark, Bolt had already taken a slight lead of 0.01 seconds, and he continued to pull away from the rest of the pack until the finish. He finished in a world record-breaking time of 9.58 seconds, beati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22068401 | 1,189,155 |
1,340,515 | Topical glucocorticoids act as agonists for the cytoplasmic glucocorticoid receptor. After binding to the receptor, the complex is then transported into the nucleus. Within the nucleus, the complex binds to the glucocorticoid response elements in the promoter region of target genes. This results in the regulation of ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67088445 | 1,339,782 |
418,605 | He was instrumental in recruiting illustrious musicians such as Efrem Zimbalist, Fritz Reiner, Marcella Sembrich, Isabella Vengerova, Moriz Rosenthal, Wilhelm Backhaus, Benno Moiseiwitsch, Abram Chasins, David Saperton, Wanda Landowska, and Leopold Auer to the Curtis faculty. Hofmann's pupils included Abbey Simon, Abra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=440258 | 418,400 |
1,180,764 | In 1931, Kubelka (with Franz Munk) published "An article on the optics of paint", the contents of which has come to be known as the Kubelka-Munk theory. They used absorption and remission (or back-scatter) constants, noting (as translated by Stephen H. Westin) that "an infinitesimal layer of the coating absorbs and sca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5827181 | 1,180,140 |
367,781 | Sexual dysfunction in people with diabetes is often a result of physical factors such as nerve damage and poor circulation, and psychological factors such as stress and/or depression caused by the demands of the disease. The most common sexual issues in males with diabetes are problems with erections and ejaculation: "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2812725 | 367,588 |
82,797 | With a better theoretical understanding of absolute zero, scientists were eager to reach this temperature in the lab. By 1845, Michael Faraday had managed to liquefy most gases then known to exist, and reached a new record for lowest temperatures by reaching . Faraday believed that certain gases, such as oxygen, nitrog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1418 | 82,763 |
1,630,656 | Proteoglycans are another class of molecules that display this duality, under certain chemical conditions these molecules can emerge as inhibitors or promoters. Recent studies have shown that proteoglycans can play an integral role in the metastasis of cancer. Another molecule that falls within this class of molecules ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13794001 | 1,629,735 |
1,543,700 | The Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) formed the Human Performance Modeling Technical Group in 2004. Although a recent discipline, human factors practitioners have been constructing and applying models of human performance since World War II. Notable early examples of human performance models include Paul Fit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47152350 | 1,542,827 |
158,268 | Only a few charcoal particles have been collected from TD6, which probably originated from a fire well outside the cave. There is no evidence of any fire use or burnt bones (cooking) in the occupation sequences of the Gran Dolina. In other parts of the world, reliable evidence of fire usage does not surface in the arch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1195815 | 158,187 |
1,115,696 | Initially, whether these organisms were fungi or protozoa was unclear . This uncertainty was resolved in 1967 when electron microscopic studies showed that they were protozoa, related to "Toxoplasma" and "Eimeria". The lifecycle remained unknown until 1970, when bradyzoites from sarcocysts in bird muscles were inoculat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5204061 | 1,115,127 |
28,401 | This evidence that the Antikythera mechanism was not unique adds support to the idea that there was an ancient Greek tradition of complex mechanical technology that was later, at least in part, transmitted to the Byzantine and Islamic worlds, where mechanical devices which were complex, albeit simpler than the Antikyth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89732 | 28,391 |
1,997,492 | For aneurysms of the thoracic aorta, thoracic endovascular aortic repair (TEVAR) has become a valid alternative to open repair. This method may even be applied to pathologies of the aortic arch and the distal descending aorta. A common complication of EVAR are endoleaks. These may be missed by 2D angiographic evaluatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33398362 | 1,996,349 |
1,879,713 | Mutations of the SPR gene may cause sepiapterin reductase deficiency, a rare disease. The clinical phenotype can include progressive psychomotor retardation, altered tone, seizures, choreoathetosis, temperature instability, hypersalivation, microcephaly, and irritability. Patients with sepiapterin reductase deficiency ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13901617 | 1,878,632 |
504,029 | Perhaps the best known Islamic scholar who wrote about economics was Ibn Khaldun of Tunisia (1332–1406), who is considered a forerunner of modern economists. Ibn Khaldun wrote on economic and political theory in the introduction, or "Muqaddimah" ("Prolegomena"), of his "History of the World" ("Kitab al-Ibar"). In the b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7757234 | 503,770 |
2,118,266 | Closely related to the issue of representing uncertainty in artificial intelligence, researchers at the Workshop on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence developed and discussed graphical models that could represent large joint probability distributions. Neapolitan formulated these efforts into a coherent field in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56208924 | 2,117,048 |
1,513,314 | Named in honor of immunization advocates former Governor of Arkansas Dale Bumpers and his wife Betty Flanagan Bumpers, the Vaccine Research Center opened its doors as Building 40 on the NIH campus in 2000. The founding investigators leading the new center came from a range of scientific disciplines including virology, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20964906 | 1,512,463 |
382,199 | On 11 July 2003, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a regulation requiring manufacturers to list trans fat on the Nutrition Facts panel of foods and some dietary supplements. The new labeling rule became mandatory across the board on 1 January 2006, even for companies that petitioned for extensions. However,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65161632 | 382,004 |
1,356,997 | On 11 July 2003, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a regulation requiring manufacturers to list trans fat on the Nutrition Facts panel of foods and some dietary supplements. The new labeling rule became mandatory across the board on 1 January 2006, even for companies that petitioned for extensions. However,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=263487 | 1,356,247 |
221,008 | In fact, for a plate of circular shape, resting in the centre (or the border, or at least in a set of points with central symmetry), the nodal vibration modes all have central symmetry, so the observation of Jenny is entirely consistent with well known mathematical properties. From the physical-mathematical standpoint,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=411512 | 220,899 |
69,583 | The objects emitted large amounts of radiation of many frequencies, but no source could be located optically, or in some cases only a faint and point-like object somewhat like a distant star. The spectral lines of these objects, which identify the chemical elements of which the object is composed, were also extremely s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25239 | 69,556 |
347,957 | However, even this fundamental philosophy has been disputed; for example, Stevan Harnad of Princeton concluded his 1990 paper on the Symbol Grounding Hypothesis by stating: The expectation has often been voiced that "top-down" (symbolic) approaches to modeling cognition will somehow meet "bottom-up" (sensory) approache... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=586357 | 347,775 |
2,202,123 | They met long-time rival North Dakota at the Xcel Energy Center and the two battled through a defensive struggle. Both teams were only able to score a single goal in regulation thanks to their respective power plays. With 60 minutes not enough to settle the score, the two prepared for overtime. While the match was set ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71953202 | 2,200,869 |
465,503 | On the other hand, some researchers hypothesize that the enrichment of network motifs is non-adaptive. In other words, gene regulatory networks can evolve to a similar structure without the specific selection on the proposed input-output behavior. Support for this hypothesis often comes from computational simulations. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=356382 | 465,273 |
1,226,904 | Most propulsion systems in LNG carriers use the BOG and liquid fuels. In a steam plant, the BOG is used to fire the boilers and produce steam. The steam drives the turbines and propels the ship. The advantage to this type is that when the LNG cargo tank pressure is elevated the excessive BOG is burned simultaneously wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42203516 | 1,226,243 |
2,058,364 | In the first half of the 20th century, Nazi Germany was distinguished by scientific achievements, where thousands of researchers worked to develop new military technology. One of the projects included the studies of nuclear reactions and the development of the weapons of mass destruction. In 1945, after the Capitulatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63959994 | 2,057,179 |
879,194 | As disulfide bonds can be reversibly reduced and re-oxidized, the redox state of these bonds has evolved into a signaling element. In chloroplasts, for example, the enzymatic reduction of disulfide bonds has been linked to the control of numerous metabolic pathways as well as gene expression. The reductive signaling ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65948 | 878,731 |
808,466 | The Continental Army consisted of troops from all 13 colonies. When the American Revolutionary War began at the Battles of Lexington and Concord in April 1775, the revolutionaries in the Thirteen Colonies did not have an army. Previously, each colony of British America had relied upon the militia, made up of part-time ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21001269 | 808,036 |
1,190,666 | As part of the process to renew glyphosate's license under EU regulations, a 2013 systematic review by the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (Bfr) of epidemiological studies of workers exposed to glyphosate formulations found no significant risk, stating that "the available data are contradictory and far fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58130360 | 1,190,032 |
1,798,829 | In 2018, CBS International Business School took over the office of the hochschulgründernetz cologne e. V.(hgnc), which is represented by Prof. Dr. Ulrich Anders as Managing Director and Flora Carlhoff as Project Manager. The hgnc offers a wide range of consulting and information services for prospective founders from t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26880251 | 1,797,820 |
812,034 | As in humans, the distribution of trabeculae in bird species is uneven and is dependent on load conditions. The bird with the highest density of trabeculae is the kiwi, a flightless bird. There is also uneven distribution of trabeculae within similar species such as the great spotted woodpecker or grey-headed woodpecke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=977221 | 811,601 |
341,292 | In 2001, the paleontologist Robert J. Gay identified the remains of at least three new "Dilophosaurus" specimens (this number is based on the presence of three pubic bone fragments and two differentially sized femora) in the collections of the Museum of Northern Arizona. The specimens were found in 1978 in the Rock Hea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=444541 | 341,111 |
1,342,153 | In 1980/1986, psychologists Donald Norman and Tim Shallice proposed a framework of attentional control of executive functioning. The model uses thought and action schemas which are a series of learned thought and action sequences, like scripts, that specify behaviours during situations. Schemas are activated from perce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34820690 | 1,341,419 |
1,564,123 | Non-synonymous is the variant in exons that change the amino acid sequence encoded by the gene, including single base changes and non frameshift indels. It has been extremely investigated the function of non-synonymous variants on protein and many algorithms have been developed to predict the deleteriousness and pathog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44260712 | 1,563,236 |
509,355 | Plenty of radioactive ruthenium-103, ruthenium-106, and stable ruthenium are formed by the fission process. The ruthenium in PUREX raffinate can become oxidized to form volatile ruthenium tetroxide which forms a purple vapour above the surface of the aqueous liquor. The ruthenium tetroxide is very similar to osmium tet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4364523 | 509,091 |
705,654 | The personal story behind the discovery was featured in "Nature". The age estimator was developed using 8,000 samples from 82 Illumina DNA methylation array datasets, encompassing 51 healthy tissues and cell types. The major innovation of Horvath's epigenetic clock lies in its wide applicability: the same set of 353 Cp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40854066 | 705,285 |
1,958,823 | The Old Campus of Georgia Tech is significant for more than just the design of the buildings of which it is comprised. As is evident in the placement of the buildings, little thought was actually given to the future expansion of the then young technological school. Instead, the site planning was carried out in such a m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8555844 | 1,957,696 |
77 | Research from security company Trend Micro lists premium service abuse as the most common type of Android malware, where text messages are sent from infected phones to premium-rate telephone numbers without the consent or even knowledge of the user. Other malware displays unwanted and intrusive advertisements on the de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12610483 | 77 |
2,207,339 | Mull humus has a more rapid and complete decomposition. Due to the presence of soil organisms and high biological activity, the disappearance of plant litter is fast, and there are no distinct layers because thick organic horizons do not accumulate. Conversely, the Ah horizon is well developed, resulting from the assem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70585737 | 2,206,081 |
359,564 | The strongest clues to the function of the cerebellum have come from examining the consequences of damage to it. Animals and humans with cerebellar dysfunction show, above all, problems with motor control, on the same side of the body as the damaged part of the cerebellum. They continue to be able to generate motor act... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50397 | 359,377 |
1,953,416 | Additionally, in the cardiovascular field, a genome-wide analysis of common variants demonstrated a substantial overlap in the genetic risk of ischemic stroke and coronary artery disease, such as the link between RASD1 and other loci such as RAI1 and PEMT. A multi-locus genetic risk score study based on a combination o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14777557 | 1,952,295 |
1,109,999 | The first electrified railways used series-wound DC motors, first at 600 V and then 1,500 V. Areas with 3 kV DC catenaries (primarily in Eastern Europe) used two 1,500 V DC motors in series. But even at 3 kV, the current needed to power a heavy train (particularly in rural and mountainous areas) can be excessive. Altho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1784383 | 1,109,434 |
954,152 | Antibodies have a high binding constant in excess of 10^8 L/mol, which stands for a nearly irreversible association once the antigen-antibody couple has formed. For certain analyte molecules like glucose affinity binding proteins exist that bind their ligand with a high specificity like an antibody, but with a much sma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=480700 | 953,647 |
682,773 | In 1974 and 1976, Luria presented successively his two-volume research study titled "The Neuropsychology of Memory". The first volume was titled "Memory Dysfunctions Caused by Local Brain Damage" and the second "Memory Dysfunctions Caused by Damage to Deep Cerebral Structures". Luria's book written in the 1960s titled ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=389738 | 682,417 |
468,527 | Spiral wound modules are the most commonly used style of module and are 'standardized' design, available in a range of standard diameters (2.5", 4" and 8") to fit standard pressure vessel that can hold several modules in series connected by O-rings. The module uses flat sheets wrapped around a central tube. The membran... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8702779 | 468,291 |
252,788 | In early 1941, production of a prototype series, known as the "Me 163", began. Secrecy was such that the RLM's "GL/C" airframe number, "8-163", was actually that of the earlier Messerschmitt Bf 163. Three Bf 163-prototypes (V1 to V3) had been built, and it was thought that foreign intelligence services would conclude a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20486 | 252,655 |
399,495 | In the late 1920s, Robert A. Kehoe of the University of Cincinnati was the Ethyl Corporation's chief medical consultant and one of the lead industry's staunchest advocates, who would not be discredited until decades later by Dr. Clair Patterson's work on human lead burdens (see below) and other studies. In 1928, Dr. Ke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=116035 | 399,297 |
1,079,078 | The Yellowstone country was first "officially" explored by David E. Folsom, Henry D. Washburn, and Ferdinand Hayden in 1869–71. A myth evolved that near the end of the Washburn expedition, discussion around the campfire led several of the members to suggest that the area be set aside for public use and not allow it to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19187901 | 1,078,523 |
116,852 | After 1915, when Albert Einstein published the theory of gravity (general relativity), the search for a unified field theory combining gravity with electromagnetism began with a renewed interest. In Einstein's day, the strong and the weak forces had not yet been discovered, yet he found the potential existence of two o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30436 | 116,807 |
1,822,525 | Geological mapping of Cambodia was first carried out by the French service, Service Geologique de l'Indochine based in Hanoi in the years between World War I and World War II. Various mineral prospects were explored at that time and again in the 1950s and 1960s with the assistance after independence of France, China in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58050305 | 1,821,487 |
636,383 | While financial backing was issued by NATO's Mutual Weapons Development Program to support development of the Pegasus engine, the British government were not forthcoming with funding. While HSA chose to go ahead with the P.1127 as a private venture, the Air Staff disagreed heavily over what requirements should be set o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3934063 | 636,044 |
2,177,888 | Ayano et al. modified PNIPAAm with cationic N,N-dimethylaminopropylacrylamide (DMAPAAm) and hydrophobic BMA and grafted it onto silica beads to form IDB. They used pH changes to adjust the LCST. The effect of pH on the LCST is as follows, from a plateau value between pH 4.5 and pH 6.0, the LCST decreased up to pH 9 and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37850414 | 2,176,643 |
34,376 | According to serial endosymbiotic theory (championed by Lynn Margulis), a union between a motile anaerobic bacterium (like "Spirochaeta") and a thermoacidophilic crenarchaeon (like "Thermoplasma" which is sulfidogenic in nature) gave rise to the present day eukaryotes. This union established a motile organism capable o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24536543 | 34,364 |
325,620 | Lymphatics ultimately drain into the bloodstream, so the plague bacteria may enter the blood and travel to almost any part of the body. In septicemic plague, bacterial endotoxins cause disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), causing tiny clots throughout the body and possibly ischemic necrosis (tissue death due t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4746 | 325,447 |
1,635,632 | Sim’s vision has always been to include ecological values and philosophies to the built environment. He introduced new academic intervention programs through elementary schools in Berkeley, California One of the programs motto was “trash can do it” this method of recycling materials would encourage students to utilize ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1023004 | 1,634,709 |
21,224 | AWS services are delivered to customers via a network of AWS server farms located throughout the world. Fees are based on a combination of usage (known as a "Pay-as-you-go" model), hardware, operating system, software, or networking features chosen by the subscriber required availability, redundancy, security, and serv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1691376 | 21,215 |
104,553 | Hall effect devices produce a very low signal level and thus require amplification. While suitable for laboratory instruments, the vacuum tube amplifiers available in the first half of the 20th century were too expensive, power consuming, and unreliable for everyday applications. It was only with the development of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14307 | 104,508 |
144,704 | By 1890, Mendeleev's periodic table had been universally recognized as a piece of basic chemical knowledge. Apart from his own correct predictions, a number of aspects may have contributed to this, such as the correct accommodation of many elements whose atomic weights were thought to have wrong values but were later c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=619795 | 144,646 |
702,219 | In 2002, the sprite-based "Ragnarok Online", produced by Korean company Gravity Corp, was released. Though unknown to many Western players, the game took Asia by storm as "Lineage" had done. The publisher has claimed in excess of 25 million subscribers of the game, although this number is based upon a quantity of regis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408675 | 701,851 |
307,403 | An older series of maps, the 15-minute series, was once used to map the contiguous 48 states at a scale of 1:62,500 for maps covering the continental United States, but was discontinued during the last quarter of the twentieth century. Each map was bounded by two parallels and two meridians spaced 15 minutes apart—the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23814944 | 307,239 |
1,263,705 | The Mirage III was chosen over the Lockheed F-104G primarily for reasons of the American fighters being unsuitable for RAAF purposes in areas of aircraft handling, engine reliability, ferry range as well as being too expensive, too few and requiring higher quality airfields not yet constructed by Australia. The Mirage,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63754631 | 1,263,017 |
1,591,004 | Ionizing radiation produces fast moving particles which have the ability to damage DNA, and produce highly reactive free radicals known as reactive oxygen species (ROS). The production of ROS in cells radiated by LDIR (Low-Dose Ionizing Radiation) occur in two ways, by the radiolysis of water molecules or the promotion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56379488 | 1,590,110 |
1,768,543 | An industry consultation event in January 2012 kicked off the development of a British SUE standard. The first technical draft was reviewed by the committee in December 2012 and it was released for public/general industry review in March 2013. PAS 128 applies to the detection, verification and location of active, aband... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41259155 | 1,767,549 |
2,020,872 | Design and development of the CFCS addressed a number of issues in cerebral palsy including a general lack of knowledge regarding the communication abilities of individuals with CP. The 5 CFCS levels are used instead of the more vague labels of "mild, moderate, severe, profound" difficulties. The system is designed to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17736801 | 2,019,709 |
1,896,143 | Light scattering measurements can be applied to synthetic polymers, proteins, pharmaceuticals and particles such as liposomes, micelles, and encapsulated proteins. Measurements can be made in one of two modes which are un-fractionated (batch mode) or in continuous flow mode (with SEC, HPLC or any other flow fractionati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16977319 | 1,895,059 |
324,870 | Benford's law has been used as evidence of fraud in the 2009 Iranian elections. An analysis by Mebane found that the second digits in vote counts for President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the winner of the election, tended to differ significantly from the expectations of Benford's law, and that the ballot boxes with very few ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36782 | 324,697 |
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