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1,372,871 | The alteration of ion components in the cell and the breakdown of cellular components in the presence of ROS result in the death of affected cells, as well as the formation of local lesions. Reactive oxygen species also trigger the deposition of lignin and callose, as well as the cross-linking of pre-formed hydroxyprol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8894652 | 1,372,114 |
1,866,234 | With the context of both the previous World Championships which were the first with a women's segment to the competition as well as the interceding Olympic Games, the outcome and composition of the women's all-around podium at these championships was significant. Reportedly, cheating occurred at the first 1934 women's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25108905 | 1,865,160 |
1,975,480 | Often referred to as a bearing heater, the mains frequency unit employs standard transformer principles for its operation. An internal winding is wound around a laminated core similar to a standard mains transformer. The core is then passed through the work-piece and when the primary coil is energised, a magnetic flux ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19864556 | 1,974,343 |
1,436,301 | The principal use of lanthanum hexaboride is in hot cathodes, either as a single crystal or as a coating deposited by physical vapor deposition. Hexaborides, such as lanthanum hexaboride (LaB) and cerium hexaboride (CeB), have low work functions, around 2.5 eV. They are also somewhat resistant to cathode poisoning. Cer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5227127 | 1,435,493 |
105,048 | The majority of GM crops have been modified to be resistant to selected herbicides, usually a glyphosate or glufosinate based one. Genetically modified crops engineered to resist herbicides are now more available than conventionally bred resistant varieties; in the USA 93% of soybeans and most of the GM maize grown is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12339 | 105,003 |
231,129 | By the mid 13th century, gunpowder weapons had become central to the Song war effort. In 1257 the Song official Li Zengbo was dispatched to inspect frontier city arsenals. Li considered an ideal city arsenal to include several hundred thousand iron bombshells, and also its own production facility to produce at least a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1909414 | 231,010 |
383,846 | By the mid 13th century, gunpowder weapons had become central to the Song war effort. In 1257 the Song official Li Zengbo was dispatched to inspect frontier city arsenals. Li considered an ideal city arsenal to include several hundred thousand iron bombshells, and also its own production facility to produce at least a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12063194 | 383,651 |
1,617,568 | The competition generally followed the 2000 format, though with a significant change: the number of finalists was reduced from 36 to 24, with the maximum per nation cut from 3 to 2. The competition continued to use a preliminary (qualifying) round and a final round, with scores cleared between rounds (no carryover). Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11492504 | 1,616,655 |
1,960,851 | The Desert Laboratory is a historic biological research facility at 1675 West Anklam Road in Tucson, Arizona. It was founded by the Carnegie Institution in 1903 to study how plants survive and thrive in the heat and aridity of deserts, and was the first such privately funded effort in the nation. Beginning in 1906, num... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13497428 | 1,959,724 |
139,768 | Project Mercury was the first human spaceflight program of the United States, running from 1958 through 1963. An early highlight of the Space Race, its goal was to put a man into Earth orbit and return him safely, ideally before the Soviet Union. Taken over from the US Air Force by the newly created civilian space agen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19812 | 139,711 |
864,877 | A proposal of work (New Proposal) is approved at the Subcommittee level and then at the Technical Committee level (SC 29 and JTC 1, respectively, in the case of MPEG). When the scope of new work is sufficiently clarified, MPEG usually makes open "calls for proposals". The first document that is produced for audio and v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20055 | 864,417 |
557,191 | "Clostridioides difficile" is transmitted from person or animal to person by the fecal-oral route, shed in faeces. The organism forms heat-resistant spores that are not killed by alcohol-based hand cleansers or routine surface cleaning, thus, these spores survive in clinical environments for long periods. Any surface, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43695865 | 556,902 |
1,706,919 | On March 7, 2018, Jessell was removed from his post at Columbia University following what a Columbia statement described as "an investigation that revealed serious violations of university policies and values governing the behavior of faculty members in an academic environment". The university did not give details of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17655421 | 1,705,961 |
547,216 | On 21 May the four mountaineers left their sleeping bags around 6:30a.m. and were ready to go around 8 am. During preparation a rucksack with food fell down the mountain. Morshead, who had to fight the cold, was able to regain this rucksack but he was so exhausted from this action that he could not go higher. The climb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20852640 | 546,929 |
2,073,532 | John Goodridge is a track and field and cross country coach from Long Island, New York. He received his undergraduate degree at Long Island University in 1972, and his graduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1975. His coaching career began as the Michigan State women's cross country head coach, where he took... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26683038 | 2,072,340 |
2,020,759 | The genome of an organism may consist of hundreds to tens of thousands of genes, which encode for hundreds of thousands of different protein sequences. Due to the relatively low cost of genome sequencing, determining gene and protein sequences is fast and inexpensive. Thousands of species have been sequenced so far, ye... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34567821 | 2,019,596 |
377,379 | In November 2011, the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, and Qualcomm announced a trial of 13 wireless charging points and 50 EVs in the Shoreditch area of London's Tech City, due to be rolled out in early 2012. In October 2014, the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah added an electric bus to its mass transit fleet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6349042 | 377,184 |
819,379 | where positive "m" values refer to the R-branch and negative values refer to the P-branch. The term ω gives the position of the (missing) Q-branch, the term formula_33 implies an progression of equally spaced lines in the P- and R- branches, but the third term, formula_34shows that the separation between adjacent lines... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=486436 | 818,938 |
55,895 | The rockets travelled at supersonic speed, impacted without audible warning, and proved unstoppable, as no effective defense existed. Teams from the Allied forces—the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union—raced to seize key Nazi manufacturing facilities, procure the Nazis' missile technology, and capt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32786 | 55,871 |
571,734 | In 2017, it was discovered that pasteurizing (70 °C 30min) the bacteria increased the beneficial effects of the bacteria by a mechanism likely associated with the presence of a protein present on the outer membrane of "Akkermansia muciniphila" and called Amuc_1100. Then in 2019, the same team of Belgian researchers fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40421442 | 571,443 |
1,162,067 | For telescopes combined with an imaging camera connected to a computer, it is possible to achieve very accurate polar alignment (within 0.1 minute of arc). An initial rough alignment is first performed using the polar scope. An image can then be captured and a star database is used to identify the exact field of view w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10201642 | 1,161,450 |
933,309 | Genetic counseling is recommended in women whose personal or family health history suggests a greater than average likelihood of a mutation. The purpose of genetic counseling is to educate the person about the likelihood of a positive result, the risks and benefits of being tested, the limitations of the tests, the pra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26799151 | 932,817 |
1,640,955 | The idea of the Ceratosauria would regain some support more than thirty years later when Gilmore argued in its favor in 1920. Nevertheless, the validity of Ceratosauria was disputed throughout much of the by researchers like Romer, Lapparent, Lavocat, Colbert, and Charig. However, in 1986, more than a century after Mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46674478 | 1,640,028 |
95,197 | Popper coined the term "critical rationalism" to describe his philosophy. Popper rejected the empiricist view (following from Kant) that basic statements are infallible; rather, according to Popper, they are descriptions in relation to a theoretical framework. Concerning the method of science, the term "critical ration... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16623 | 95,156 |
313,119 | While ITBS pain can be acute, the iliotibial band can be rested, iced, compressed and elevated (RICE) to reduce pain and inflammation, followed by stretching. Utilization of corticosteroid injections and the use of anti-inflammatory medication on the painful area are possible treatments for ITB syndrome. Corticosteroid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67886 | 312,951 |
1,116,217 | The clearest evidence for the diagnosis of SMZL is obtained by examination of patients' spleens obtained by splenectomy. These spleens characteristically show lymphoid infiltrates in the white pulp and, to a lesser and more variable extent, the red pulp. These infiltrates consist of small lymphocytes, marginal zone B-c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21339698 | 1,115,645 |
1,040,101 | Exchange interactions occur when the substance is not magnetically dilute and there are interactions between individual magnetic centres. One of the simplest systems to exhibit the result of exchange interactions is crystalline copper(II) acetate, Cu(OAc)(HO). As the formula indicates, it contains two copper(II) ions. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30897833 | 1,039,560 |
728,753 | In the case of the Leopard 1A3 and later variants, the outer layer of spaced armour was hardened steel and the space was filled by elastomer, thus the effectiveness of the shattering effect of the outer layer against APFSDS was outstanding, and the protection against early HEAT warheads was increased, too. The "BDD" ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3111805 | 728,369 |
1,679,039 | Bomb damage during the Second World War and subsequent rebuilding gave archaeologists the opportunity to meaningfully examine inhabited cities for the first time. Bombed sites provided windows onto the development of European cities whose pasts had been buried beneath working buildings. Urban archaeology necessitated a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58628442 | 1,678,096 |
1,842,756 | Like the other above-noted EWB/ISF groups, EWB Canada initially did not join the EWB International network, which was started by EWB-USA and includes a separate group in the province of Quebec, Ingénieurs sans frontières Québec. The Canadian organization said that while it did attend some of EWB-I's meetings and occasi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=547897 | 1,841,703 |
1,502,801 | Artsimovich was born on 25 February 1909 in Moscow in Russian Empire. His family had Polish nobility roots; nonetheless, he was described as Russian by his autobiographer in 1985. His grandfather, a professor, was exiled to Siberia after the Polish uprising against Tsarist Russia in 1863 and married a Russian woman, la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1030266 | 1,501,955 |
284,404 | Firstly, if one is to decrease testosterone in feminizing gender transition, it is likely that sexual desire and arousal would be inhibited; alternatively, if high doses of estrogen negatively impact sexual desire, which has been found in some research with cisgender women, it is hypothesized that combining androgens w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14673089 | 284,250 |
650,357 | There is little evidence on which to base a hypothesis about the origin of the scleractinians; plenty is known about modern species but very little about fossil specimens, which first appeared in the record in the Middle Triassic (). It was not until 25 million years later that they became important reef builders, thei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=904556 | 650,016 |
1,993,590 | Dyslexia is a multifaceted disorder of learning primarily manifested by difficulties in reading, spelling, and phonological processing. In people with dyslexia, the brain processes certain signals in a specific way making it a very specific learning difficulty. Dr. Goswami's research is concerned with focusing on dysle... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43527201 | 1,992,447 |
1,394,458 | Looking at beriberi and the problem of polished rice, Christiaan Eijkman and Gerrit Grijns were trying to find the cause of polyneuritis (influenced by Louis Pasteur. Eijkman thought bacteria caused beriberi), but McCollum's approach differed in that he was seeking the reason for failure in growth. McCollum and Davis's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6000868 | 1,393,687 |
1,743,769 | The Falcon is packaged with 3 applications; a tutorial, a game called Newton's Monkey Business, and the Feelin It Sports Pack. The tutorial allows users to feel a virtual sphere that can have a variety of textures applied to it. For instance, choosing an ice texture presents a hard, slippery surface to interact with, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15055014 | 1,742,785 |
205,924 | Philosophers who consider subjective experience the essence of consciousness also generally believe, as a correlate, that the existence and nature of animal consciousness can never rigorously be known. The American philosopher Thomas Nagel spelled out this point of view in an influential essay titled "What Is it Like t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13001588 | 205,818 |
656,296 | Furthermore, these studies unanimously demonstrate that the stimulation of NPYergic activity via the administration of certain NPY agonists increases food intake compared to baseline data in rats. The effects of NPYergic activity on food intake is also demonstrated by the blockade of certain NPY receptors (Y1 and Y5 re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=984731 | 655,952 |
893,815 | By January 1989 the Commission obtained legal opinions from two Queen's Counsel. Although they did not agree, the commission preferred the opinion that it was "ultra vires" for councils to engage in interest rate swaps (ie. that they had no lawful power to do so). Moreover, interest rates had increased from 8% to 15%. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=236849 | 893,345 |
139,285 | The United States Department of Energy has identified a need to find substitutes for rare-earth metals in permanent magnet technology and has funded such research. The Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy has sponsored a Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program, to develop alternative materi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=365092 | 139,228 |
254,736 | SolidWorks Corporation was founded in December 1993 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate Jon Hirschtick. Hirschtick used $1 million he had made while a member of the MIT Blackjack Team to set up the company. Initially based in Waltham, Massachusetts, United States, Hirschtick recruited a team of engineers ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=828062 | 254,603 |
143,965 | By the 1970s there was increased public concern about the levels of radioactivity at the site, which was used for recreation by local residents. Surveys conducted in the 1980s found strontium-90 in the soil at Plot M, trace amounts of tritium in nearby wells, and plutonium, technetium, caesium, and uranium in the area.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1118396 | 143,907 |
292,042 | Merit Network, an independent nonprofit organization governed by Michigan's public universities, was formed in 1966 as the Michigan Educational Research Information Triad to explore computer networking between three of Michigan's public universities as a means to help the state's educational and economic development. W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43339 | 291,884 |
64,948 | Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a dissenting opinion, which was joined by Justice Scalia. Thomas rejected the principle of substantive due process, which he claimed "invites judges to do exactly what the majority has done here—roa[m] at large in the constitutional field guided only by their personal views as to the funda... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44399484 | 64,923 |
150,773 | According to the European Commission Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks (SCENIHR) in 2008, CFLs may pose an added health risk due to the ultraviolet and blue light emitted. This radiation could aggravate symptoms in people who already suffer skin conditions that make them exceptionally s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1201545 | 150,705 |
1,020,110 | On 1 August 1938, four months prior to "Graf Zeppelin"s launch date, the "Luftwaffe" formed its first carrier-based air unit, designated "Trägergruppe I/186", on Rugia Island near Burg. It was composed of three squadrons ("Staffeln") and was intended to serve aboard both carriers when completed. By October shipyard con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12734316 | 1,019,583 |
496,481 | Late in 2009 a review of the legal situation by Eric Johnson, a lawyer, was published in the "Tennessee Law Review". In this paper, Johnson stated that "Given such a state, it is not clear that any particle-physics testimony should be allowed in the courtroom", in reference to the dual problems that (a) the scientific ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18079182 | 496,225 |
1,599,530 | The Mark 5 entered service in 1906 and remained the primary battleship gun for all American battleships commissioned before 1912, at which point it was replaced by the 12"/50 caliber Mark 7. All told, the Mark 5 would arm 14 battleships of five different classes, making it the most-utilized main gun in American battles... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21496320 | 1,598,630 |
981,049 | Dikes range in composition from basaltic to rhyolitic, but most are basaltic. The texture is typically slightly coarser than basalt erupted at the surface, forming a rock type called diabase. The grain size varies systematically across the dike, with the coarsest grains normally at the center of the dike. Dikes formed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=975686 | 980,537 |
1,068,099 | To this end, the President's Commission on Implementation of United States Space Exploration Policy was formed by President Bush on January 27, 2004. Its final report was submitted on June 4, 2004. This led to the NASA Exploration Systems Architecture Study in mid-2005, which developed technical plans for carrying out ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30731968 | 1,067,545 |
200,450 | The procedure is invasive and expensive, and requires long-term expert care. Benefits for severe Tourette's are not conclusive, considering less robust effects of this surgery seen in the Netherlands. Tourette's is more common in pediatric populations, tending to remit in adulthood, so in general this would not be a re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=370268 | 200,347 |
1,132,476 | Perhaps the most important restriction on the ETC framework for quark mass generation is that ETC interactions are likely to induce flavor-changing neutral current processes such as , , and formula_20 interactions that induce formula_21 and formula_22 mixing. The reason is that the algebra of the ETC currents involved ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=296036 | 1,131,884 |
1,060,987 | Garry Kasparov vs. Deep Blue, game 3, May 1997 1.d3 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.c4 Nf6 4.a3 d6 5.Nc3 Be7 6.g3 0-0 7.Bg2 Be6 8.0-0 Qd7 9.Ng5 Bf5 10.e4 Bg4 11.f3 Bh5 12.Nh3 Nd4 13.Nf2 h6 14.Be3 c5 15.b4 b6 16.Rb1 Kh8 17.Rb2 a6 18.bxc5 bxc5 19.Bh3 Qc7 20.Bg4 Bg6 21.f4 exf4 22.gxf4 Qa5 23.Bd2 Qxa3 24.Ra2 Qb3 25.f5 Qxd1 26.Bxd1 Bh7 27.N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1631377 | 1,060,435 |
1,050,902 | Patients with tumors that are not amenable to surgery are treated with radiation therapy. However caution is employed since a majority of recurrent tumors with transformations to the malignant sarcoma phenotype have been in patients receiving radiotherapy for their primary benign lesion. Pharmacotherapy for GCTOB, incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3121384 | 1,050,356 |
541,878 | A test of seven vehicle inlets and eleven connectors was held at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in September 2020. The prototype hardware represented designs from seven different manufacturers, and six additional manufacturers participated virtually. Criteria evaluated included fit/compatibility, er... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66342041 | 541,598 |
1,140,180 | Synthetic oligonucleotides are used in various molecular biology applications, e.g., polymerase chain reaction (PCR), molecular beacons, microarrays, mutagenesis, RNAi, antisense and gene synthesis. Published bioinformatics algorithms can predict biophysical properties of oligonucleotides from their sequence and estima... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19045151 | 1,139,586 |
566,652 | The Byzantine economy was among the most robust economies in the Mediterranean for many centuries. Constantinople was a prime hub in a trading network that at various times extended across nearly all of Eurasia and North Africa. Some scholars argue that, up until the arrival of the Arabs in the 7th century, the Eastern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11418423 | 566,362 |
1,181,227 | In Title III of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA), it states that it is a “federal crime to engage in wiretapping or electronic eavesdropping; to possess wiretapping or electronic eavesdropping equipment; to use to disclose information obtained through illegal wiretapping or electronic eavesdropping, or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54692968 | 1,180,603 |
2,137,646 | The method of deployment of the third and fourth ships of Type 625C, respectively named as Science (Kexue, 科学) 1 and Practice (Shiian, 实践) 3, reverted to the way it was done for earlier Type 625A/B series in that these ships are manned by a mixed crew of civilian and naval crew because these ships are jointly owned by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42882995 | 2,136,416 |
1,851,603 | A potential obstacle to clinical translation of gene therapy is that viral vector-mediated manipulation of the genetic make-up of neurons is irreversible. An alternative approach is to use tools for on-demand suppression of neuronal and circuit excitability. The first such approach was to use optogenetics. Several labo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41050914 | 1,850,542 |
126,457 | A modern F1 clutch is a multi-plate carbon design with a diameter of less than , weighing less than and handling around . race season, all teams are using "seamless-shift" transmissions, which allow almost instantaneous changing of gears with minimum loss of drive. Shift times for modern Formula One cars are in the reg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=645083 | 126,405 |
1,047,032 | Swales Aerospace, now part of Orbital ATK which is now part of Northrop Grumman, Beltsville, Maryland, manufactured all five probes for this mission. Each was built-up and tested at the Beltsville facility, before being delivered to University of California, Berkeley for instrument integration. Swales was responsible f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5201544 | 1,046,487 |
828,131 | D-Wave operated as an offshoot from UBC, while maintaining ties with the Department of Physics and Astronomy. It funded academic research in quantum computing, thus building a collaborative network of research scientists. The company collaborated with several universities and institutions, including UBC, IPHT Jena, Uni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9448373 | 827,687 |
742,726 | Peroxisomes interact with mitochondria in several metabolic pathways, including β-oxidation of fatty acids and the metabolism of reactive oxygen species. Both organelles are in close contact with the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and share several proteins, including organelle fission factors. Peroxisomes also interact wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24062 | 742,332 |
1,562,985 | The telescope is mounted equatorially, loosely following the design of the 4m Kitt Peak National Observatory telescope. The mount was manufactured in Muroran, Japan by Mitsubishi Electric. It was shipped to Australia in early 1973 before being assembled at Siding Spring Mountain in April of that year. The telescope dri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=643257 | 1,562,098 |
1,738,945 | Beginning with returning capsules or lifting bodies under the CRS-2 contract, NASA reports major hardware (failed or expended hardware for diagnostic assessment, refurbishment, repair, or no longer needed) returning from the International Space Station. The SpaceX CRS-22 mission ends on 10 July 2021, this is a two-day ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63327993 | 1,737,968 |
534,188 | The year the United States entered World War I was marked by near disaster for the Allies on all the European fronts. A French offensive in April, with which the British cooperated, was a failure, and was followed by widespread mutinies in the French armies. The British maintained strong pressure on their front through... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6191450 | 533,909 |
1,860,754 | In addition to this method of composting, the Integral Urban House used a "Clivus Multrum" waterless toilet in the main floor bathroom with a separate composting tank located on the ground floor below. This tank was fed from both the toilet and from another chute in the nearby kitchen. Materials were gathered in the fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25986184 | 1,859,686 |
434,691 | During World War II, he was working at Los Alamos National Laboratory and headed the lab's electronics group in the later years of the war, where his team developed electronics for the first atomic bomb. His team created the bomb's ignition mechanism as well as measuring instruments for the device. Higinbotham also cre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292758 | 434,477 |
955,064 | Much of the musical repertoire written for harpsichord and organ from the period circa 1400–1800 can be played on the clavichord; however, it does not have enough (unamplified) volume to participate in chamber music, with the possible exception of providing accompaniment to a soft baroque flute, recorder, or single sin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7531 | 954,559 |
717,649 | The Emergency Rocket Communications System (ERCS) was designed to provide a reliable and survivable emergency communications method for the United States National Command Authority, using a UHF repeater placed atop a Blue Scout rocket or Minuteman II intercontinental ballistic missile. ERCS was deactivated as a communi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24555020 | 717,272 |
9,275 | The sixth hull loss occurred on August 3, 2016, when a 777-300 crashed while landing and caught fire at Dubai Airport at the end of its flight as Emirates Flight 521. The preliminary investigation indicated that the aircraft was attempting a landing during active wind shear conditions. The pilots initiated a go-around ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89260 | 9,271 |
85,484 | It was at some point during this early development that the British became aware of the US developments. Having approved Swingfire to some degree based on the possibility of foreign sales, the emergence of a possible US competitor was a concern. Meetings between Solly Zuckerman and John H. Rubel led to the July 1961 Ru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=338060 | 85,450 |
785,885 | Motion capture, or "Mocap", records the movement of external objects or people, and has applications for medicine, sports, robotics, and the military, as well as for animation in film, TV and games. The earliest example would be in 1878, with the pioneering photographic work of Eadweard Muybridge on human and animal lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30797574 | 785,462 |
1,294,882 | Willerslev lead the team that published in 2011 a large-scale genetic study on the population dynamics of six Late Pleistocene megafaunal species across the northern hemisphere: woolly mammoth, woolly rhinoceros, horse, reindeer, muskox, and reindeer, coupling their genetic data with climate nice modelling and the arch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19136941 | 1,294,171 |
135,263 | Another city which turned to Pei for urban renewal during this time was Providence, Rhode Island. In the late 1960s, Providence hired Pei to redesign Cathedral Square, a once-bustling civic center which had become neglected and empty, as part of an ambitious larger plan to redesign downtown. Pei's new plaza, modeled af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15155 | 135,208 |
1,563,777 | When more sulfur containing amino acids, methionine and cystine, are consumed than the body can use for growth and repair, they are broken down yielding sulfate, or sulfuric acid among other products. Animal foods such as meat, dairy, and eggs are high in protein and "dietary animal protein intake is highly correlated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41121277 | 1,562,890 |
1,202,541 | Weighted correlation network analysis, also known as weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA), is a widely used data mining method especially for studying biological networks based on pairwise correlations between variables. While it can be applied to most high-dimensional data sets, it has been most widely... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41224221 | 1,201,898 |
1,106,183 | Node-based compositing represents an entire composite as a directed acyclic graph, linking media objects and effects in a procedural map, intuitively laying out the progression from source input to final output, and is in fact the way all compositing applications internally handle composites. This type of compositing i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8858 | 1,105,620 |
1,498,255 | NovSU continues the political and educational mission of the Novgorod Prince Yaroslav-the-Wise and sees its destination in both the development of Russian education and science as well as in the interest of the individual, society and state, in glorification of Novgorod lands by learning and unity. Its objectives are t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23082045 | 1,497,411 |
453,971 | Generative design involves rule definition and result analysis which are integrated with the design process. By defining parameters and rules, the generative approach is able to provide optimized solution for both structural stability and aesthetics. Possible design algorithms include cellular automata, shape grammar, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25215836 | 453,750 |
1,101,689 | In the early part of the 20th century, most engineering schools had a department of metallurgy and perhaps of ceramics as well. Much effort was expended on consideration of the austenite - martensite - cementite phases found in the iron - carbon phase diagram that underlies steel production. The fundamental understandi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1688179 | 1,101,128 |
614,184 | As part of the effort to tightly control costs, Formula BMW follows the lead set by most junior single seater formulae by strictly limiting testing. During the season, teams and drivers are primarily limited to a small number of official test days, the cost of which is reimbursed by the series organisers. The teams are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5774335 | 613,872 |
587,307 | While the function of the salience network is not exactly known, it has been implicated in the detection and integration of emotional and sensory stimuli, as well as in modulating the switch between the internally directed cognition of the default mode network and the externally directed cognition of the central execut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55278992 | 587,007 |
369,637 | The role of colostrum for newborn animals is to provide nutrition, and essential protection against infection while the immune and digestive systems are developing and maturing. Bovine colostrum provides macro- and micro-nutrients, as well as growth factors, cytokines, nucleosides, oligosaccharides, natural antimicrobi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=525722 | 369,444 |
1,790,049 | During the First World War, Lewis worked at the Military Heart Hospital in Hampstead and was appointed to the first full-time clinical research post in Britain, at the Medical Research Committee (later Medical Research Council). He directed a study of the condition known as "soldier's heart" and, having established it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17159142 | 1,789,043 |
1,317,865 | Kistiakowsky was initially reluctant to come, "partly because", he later explained, "I didn't think the bomb would be ready in time and I was interested in helping to win the war". At Los Alamos, he began reorganizing the implosion effort. He introduced techniques such as photography and X-rays to study the behavior of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1074761 | 1,317,140 |
1,065,800 | In its unmodified form, chitin is translucent, pliable, resilient and tough. In arthropods and other organisms however, it generally is a component of a complex matrix of materials. It practically always is associated with protein molecules that often are in a more or less sclerotised state, stiffened or hardened by cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29497074 | 1,065,246 |
1,315,838 | FAB is a relatively low fragmentation (soft) ionization technique and produces primarily intact protonated molecules denoted as [M + H] and deprotonated molecules such as [M - H]. Radical cations can also be observed in a FAB spectrum in rare cases. FAB was designed as an improved version of SIMS that allowed for the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2484592 | 1,315,113 |
808,519 | The United States entered World War II after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. On the European front, U.S. Army troops formed a significant portion of the forces that captured North Africa and Sicily and later fought in Italy. On D-Day, 6 June 1944, and in the subsequent liberation of Europe and def... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21001269 | 808,089 |
1,554,222 | The concept of depleted and enriched uranium emerged nearly 150 years after the discovery of uranium by Martin Klaproth in 1789. In 1938, two German physicists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann had made the discovery of the fission of the atomic nucleus of the U isotope, which was theoretically substantiated by Lise Meitn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66412064 | 1,553,341 |
419,803 | A quasiperiodic crystal, or, in short, quasicrystal, is a structure that is ordered but not periodic. A quasicrystalline pattern can continuously fill all available space, but it lacks translational symmetry. "Aperiodic mosaics, such as those found in the medieval Islamic mosaics of the Alhambra palace in Spain and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3674396 | 419,598 |
2,177,577 | While there are no definitive data showing that long-duration space flight is associated with cardiac arrhythmias, there are observational data that have been documented over many years that are suggestive of cardiac electrical changes during long flights. For example, during Skylab, all 9 American crewmembers exhibite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39685359 | 2,176,332 |
5,951 | During aerial reconnaissance missions, the SR-71 operated at high speeds and altitudes (Mach 3.2 and ), allowing it to outrace or entirely avoid threats. If a surface-to-air missile launch was detected, the standard evasive action was simply to accelerate and outpace the missile. On average, each SR-71 could fly once p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55245 | 5,948 |
883,782 | The combination of pastoralism and lactase persistence genes would have allowed individuals the advantage of niche construction, meaning they would have had less competition for resources by deriving a secondary food source, milk. Milk as a nutrition source may have been more advantageous than meat, as its rate of rene... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2644987 | 883,318 |
290,872 | Revolutionary Iran was taken by surprise by the Iraqi invasion that began the Iran–Iraq War of 1980–1988. During this conflict, there were several conflicts against the United States. From 1987, the United States Central Command sought to stop Iranian mine-laying vessels from blocking the international sea lanes throug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14305018 | 290,714 |
548,148 | SAWs play a key role in the field of quantum acoustics (QA) where, in contrast to quantum optics (QO) which studies the interaction between matter and light, the interaction between quantum systems (phonons, (quasi-)particles and artificial qubits) and acoustic waves is analysed. The propagation speed of the respective... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=459844 | 547,861 |
1,034,277 | Trees now believed to have been infected with this pathogen were reported dying in large numbers in Poland in 1992, and by the mid 1990s it was also found in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. However, it wasn't until 2006 that the fungus's asexual stage, "Chalara fraxinea", was first described by scientists, and 2010 befo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37448400 | 1,033,740 |
1,234,966 | In addition, as time progresses, it is possible for a site to undergo multiple modifications. For instance, a codon may switch from AAA→AAC→AAT→AAA. There is no way of detecting multiple substitutions at a single site, thus the estimate of the number of substitutions is always an underestimate. In addition, in the exam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5457540 | 1,234,303 |
1,277,745 | A diver training standard is a document issued by a certification, registration, regulation or quality assurance agency, that describes the prerequisites for participation, the aim of the training programme, the specific competences that a candidate must demonstrate to be assessed as competent, and the minimum required... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63793321 | 1,277,052 |
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