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1,831,470 | From 1974, Chen worked for 19 years at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) and Princeton University, there his interest was directed to the study of fusion plasmas. He, in collaboration with Edward A. Frieman, formulated and derived the first nonlinear gyrokinetic equation, the Frieman-Chen equation named in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22871362 | 1,830,423 |
50,427 | The term "Old Aramaic" is used to describe the varieties of the language from its first known use, until the point roughly marked by the rise of the Sasanian Empire (224 AD), dominating the influential, eastern dialect region. As such, the term covers over thirteen centuries of the development of Aramaic. This vast tim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2303 | 50,407 |
233,199 | From September 1958, substantial engineering and design changes were implemented; however, SAC had lost interest in the escort fighter concept. To accompany the B-70 all the way to its target and back, the F-108 in its initial concept would have, at best, marginal range. On 30 December 1958, YF-108A preproduction aircr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=840363 | 233,080 |
2,164,487 | Families of Structurally Similar Proteins or FSSP is a database of structurally superimposed proteins generated using the "Distance-matrix ALIgnment" (DALI) algorithm.The database currently contains an extended structural family for each of 330 representative protein chains. Each data set contains structural alignments... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3658772 | 2,163,251 |
1,998,714 | The participants, all at high risk of death from CHD and death in general, were selected from 94 clinical centers in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden from 1988 to 1989, and were aged between 35 and 70 years, with the average age being 59. Of the 4,444 people enrolled in the study, 3,617 were men and 827 wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241817 | 1,997,570 |
929,945 | As an entrepreneur and business executive, Kapany specialized in the processes of innovation and the management of technology and technology transfer. In 1960, he founded Optics Technology Inc. and was chairman of the board, President, and Director of Research for twelve years. In 1967 the company went public with nume... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9019982 | 929,454 |
1,919,799 | On July 17 of the year 1987 the government of Polish People's Republic decided to reevaluate the Naval College to become first Polish Naval Academy (pol. Akademia Marynarki Wojennej, abbr. AMW). This way the name of the institution has gotten relevant with its internal structure. At the end of the 90's its military dep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46546157 | 1,918,699 |
1,745,915 | "A Word of Science" was released by Warp Records on 16 September 1991, with packaging designed by The Designer's Republic. Despite not entering the UK Albums Chart, the album was nonetheless deemed successful, and received critical acclaim for its fusion of funk, soul and hip hop. It nonetheless puzzled listeners expec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13410729 | 1,744,930 |
736,561 | To dissipate atmospheric charge buildup, one side of the electrical distribution system is connected to the earth at many points throughout the distribution system, as often as on every support pole. The one earth-connected wire is commonly referred to as the "protective earth", and provides path for the charge potenti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2222635 | 736,173 |
1,226,428 | The instantaneous wave-free ratio can also be calculated on a beat-to-beat basis. If performed during the slow withdrawal of a pressure wire (referred to as 'pullback') under resting conditions, it is possible to plot the change of iFR or trans-stenotic gradient over the wave-free period throughout the vessel. This can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40636807 | 1,225,768 |
1,702,497 | The second debate has been over the ability to make universal claims about all cultures. Although Boas argued that anthropologists had yet to collect enough solid evidence from a diverse sample of societies to make any valid general or universal claims about culture, by the 1940s some felt ready. Whereas Kroeber and Be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41831802 | 1,701,542 |
514,463 | Original priority was given to an air-to-ground version. Confidence in the initial results was so high that the USAAF had ordered 3,500 rockets before any had been actually fitted to an aircraft and it was hoped to have them operational in time for Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa, in October 1942. The suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34417699 | 514,197 |
963,416 | In the fields of computer and video games and pixel art, the technique has become popular because of the ease with which 2D sprite- and tile-based graphics can be made to represent 3D gaming environments. Because parallelly projected objects do not change in size as they move about an area, there is no need for the com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23070656 | 962,907 |
1,039,619 | Selecting a different test usually identifies a different list of significant genes since each test operates under a specific set of assumptions, and places a different emphasis on certain features in the data. Many tests begin with the assumption of a normal distribution in the data, because that seems like a sensible... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4007073 | 1,039,078 |
95,725 | In 1923–1924, Fermi spent a semester studying under Max Born at the University of Göttingen, where he met Werner Heisenberg and Pascual Jordan. Fermi then studied in Leiden with Paul Ehrenfest from September to December 1924 on a fellowship from the Rockefeller Foundation obtained through the intercession of the mathem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10264 | 95,684 |
1,697,792 | Like many archaea, "H. volcanii" cells have no cell wall and therefore are dependent on other mechanisms, such as their S-layer and cytoskeletal proteins, for structure. An individual "H. volcanii" archaeon can vary from 1-3 micrometers in diameter. They are pleomorphic, generally transitioning from motile, elongated r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41223401 | 1,696,838 |
1,200,561 | In October 1980, Saudi Arabia signed a contract for two replenishment oilers as part of the Sawari I programme. The "Boraida" class have a full load displacement of , are long, have a beam of , and a draught of . They use two SEMT Pielstick 14 PC2.5 V 500 diesel engines driving two shafts. They have a top speed of and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1454215 | 1,199,920 |
1,716,375 | "The Map that Changed the World" was published in 2001 by Harper Collins, while Winchester retains the copyright. The first edition is illustrated by Soun Vannithone. It includes an extensive index, glossary of geological terms, recommended reading and (lengthy) acknowledgements, as well as many stippled images (of con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3773873 | 1,715,406 |
1,138,314 | In 1992, another classification, Extent V, characterized by Hazim J. Safi, MD, identified aneurysmal disease extending from the sixth intercostal space to above the renal arteries. Safi's group used experimental animal models for a prospective study on the use distal aortic perfusion, cerebrospinal fluid drainage, mode... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42306009 | 1,137,721 |
1,244,139 | Following spore attachment and germination on the host surface, the emerging germ tube perceives physical cues such as surface hardness and hydrophobicity, as well as chemical signals including wax monomers that trigger appressorium formation. Appressorium formation begins when the tip of the germ tube ceases polar gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2638550 | 1,243,466 |
1,313,585 | Big Brothers/Big Sisters is a positive youth development program targeted in the community domain that demonstrates substantial behavioural outcomes for youth. This program sought to promote positive identity and competence by creating a strong bond with a healthy adult. These healthy adults, or mentors, committed a mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7913402 | 1,312,865 |
1,830,910 | Coming out of Louisiana in 2005, Johnson redshirted his first season with Minnesota, joining the Golden Gophers for the 2006–07 season. After playing sparingly as a freshman, Johnson sprung up the depth charts as a sophomore and averaged 7.1 points in 22.6 minutes per game. As a junior in 2008–09, he averaged 9.8 point... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21726296 | 1,829,864 |
1,331,025 | The analysts are to form hypotheses but should also be prepared to reexamine them repeatedly in light of new information instead of searching for evidence buttressing their favored theory. They must remember that the enemy may be deliberately deceiving them with information that seems plausible to the enemy. Donald Bac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14549316 | 1,330,296 |
720,605 | Taylor remained first-choice alongside Coloccini, starting all games when fit. On 19 September 2009, he scored the first and only goal of the season in a 3–1 win over Plymouth Argyle. He missed four games in October due to an hamstring injury sustained during training, but was back in the starting eleven for the first ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1404167 | 720,225 |
1,815,898 | In 1962, Steve Shirley founded software company Freelance Programmers with a capital of £6, (later FI, then Xansa, since acquired by Steria and now part of the Sopra Steria Group). Having experienced sexism in her workplace, "being fondled, being pushed against the wall", she wanted to create job opportunities for wome... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64174224 | 1,814,864 |
1,420,450 | In 1962, Steve Shirley founded software company Freelance Programmers with a capital of £6, (later FI, then Xansa, since acquired by Steria and now part of the Sopra Steria Group). Having experienced sexism in her workplace, "being fondled, being pushed against the wall", she wanted to create job opportunities for wome... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32567501 | 1,419,650 |
2,136,140 | In the late 1850s, the Michigan Legislature received petitions from various interests to further investigate the state's salt resources, leading to the establishment of a second geological survey on February 15, 1859. Dr. Alexander Winchell of the University of Michigan was named State Geologist on March 9. Winchell sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37784095 | 2,134,912 |
2,234,187 | In humans, the immunoglobulin superfamily member 6 (IGSF6) gene with alias DORA encodes CD8 protein IGSF6 (24 kDA) with orthologs in mammals, birds, reptiles, and bony fishes. IGSF6 is located on the complement strand of chromosome 16 (16p12.2) spanning 13059 base pairs and is located entirely within an intron of the g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71414981 | 2,232,918 |
1,513,292 | The alae appears to be a neural receptor responsive to just a handful of molecules particular to each species of nematode. Up to half a dozen types of receptors may be present at any one time on the alae and each type would be very numerous. The target molecules in the environment that stimulate each type of receptor m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15919878 | 1,512,441 |
1,217,916 | Transcranial Doppler (TCD) and transcranial color Doppler (TCCD) are types of Doppler ultrasonography that measure the velocity of blood flow through the brain's blood vessels by measuring the echoes of ultrasound waves moving transcranially (through the cranium). These modes of medical imaging conduct a spectral analy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3147406 | 1,217,263 |
663,916 | The SLF has been the site of high performance automobile testing and speed record attempts. In 2010, NASCAR teams used the facility for vehicle testing. In 2012, Performance Power's Johnny Bohmer drove his Ford GT modified test car at the SLF, setting the "Guinness World Records" mark for 'Fastest standing mile – car' ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3711690 | 663,570 |
399,831 | Consumers could be categorized based on their attitudes regarding genetically modified foods. The ‘attitudinal’ sector of US consumers could be explained in part by cognitive characteristics that are not always observable. Individual characteristics and values, for example, can play a role in shaping consumer acceptanc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216102 | 399,632 |
1,957,242 | In an open letter of December 2014 that he led, 75 leading scientists urged environmentalists to set aside their preconceptions about nuclear power. They express their support for an article titled "Key role for nuclear energy in global biodiversity conservation.", written by Brook, stating that it provided "strong evi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25340711 | 1,956,118 |
1,374,802 | The 7×7 reconstruction is modeled according to a dimer-adatom-stacking fault (DAS) model constructed by many research groups over a period of 25 years. Extending through the five top layers of the surface, the unit cell of the reconstruction contains 12 adatoms as well as two triangular subunits, nine dimers and a deep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6729896 | 1,374,043 |
1,566,213 | Spicer and Bowman argue that the ‘tertiary’ level ethical problems that dominate so much of the debate about healthcare ethics, such as genetics, cloning, organ donation and research, are experienced entirely differently in primary care. Moreover, what might be argued to be core moral principles, such as autonomy and j... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34196819 | 1,565,326 |
116,487 | Between 1752 and 1754, a number of blackened, unreadable papyrus scrolls were serendipitously recovered from the Villa of the Papyri by workmen. These scrolls became known as the Herculaneum papyri or scrolls, the majority of which are today stored at the National Library, Naples. Although badly carbonized, a number of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21476679 | 116,442 |
251,826 | Wallace's public advocacy of spiritualism and his repeated defence of spiritualist mediums against allegations of fraud in the 1870s damaged his scientific reputation. In 1875 he published the evidence he believed proved his position in "On Miracles and Modern Spiritualism". His attitude permanently strained his relati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1494 | 251,693 |
2,214,744 | Yang returned to China in October 1959 and taught at her alma mater. In 1962, she went to the Soviet Union again and joined the Computing Center of Dubner Institute of Nuclear Physics. In December 1969, she participated in the development of China's first integrated circuit computer DJS11 and was responsible for the de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68018813 | 2,213,484 |
578,472 | A high bandwidth-delay product is an important problem case in the design of protocols such as Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) in respect of TCP tuning, because the protocol can only achieve optimum throughput if a sender sends a sufficiently large quantity of data before being required to stop and wait until a con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3586063 | 578,176 |
12,776 | Besides the increase in manoeuvrability, another feature that distinguished the Su-27M from the original design was the new weapons-control system. The centrepiece of this system was the multi-function N011 Bars (literally "Leopard") phased-array radar with pulse-Doppler tracking that allowed it to detect targets below... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314292 | 12,771 |
172,772 | One of the first areas addressed by modern bioethicists was that of human experimentation. The National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research was initially established in 1974 to identify the basic ethical principles that should underlie the conduct of biomedical and beha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191941 | 172,681 |
713,226 | In September 2008, the DØ collaboration reported detection of the , a "double strange" Omega baryon with the measured mass significantly higher than the quark model prediction. In May 2009 the CDF collaboration made public their results on search for based on analysis of data sample roughly four times larger than the o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=125024 | 712,854 |
1,411,832 | Stephen A. Mrozwoski has extended the conclusions drawn from the archaeological analysis of elite homes and pleasure gardens into the analysis of the developing middle and working class landscapes and ideologies among industrial communities, noting "in the urban context economies of scale realized through spatial pract... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=670499 | 1,411,037 |
971,988 | It was reported that on March 30, 2007, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security proposed "to have the key to sign the DNS root zone solidly in the hands of the US government." However no U.S. Government officials were present in the meeting room and the comment that sparked the article was made by another party. DHS l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337389 | 971,478 |
1,840,983 | Douzhanopterus is an extinct genus of monofenestratan pterosaur from the Late Jurassic of Liaoning, China. It contains a single species, D. zhengi, named by Wang "et al." in 2017. In many respects, it represents a transitional form between basal pterosaurs and the more specialized pterodactyloids; for instance, its tai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53258961 | 1,839,931 |
483,402 | The following table is derived from table 5.1a of the release 11 of 3GPP TS 25.306 and shows maximum data rates of different device classes and by what combination of features they are achieved. The per-cell per-stream data rate is limited by the "Maximum number of bits of an HS-DSCH transport block received within an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11728415 | 483,155 |
794,747 | Since prehistoric times hunter-gatherers might have influenced forests, for instance in Europe by Mesolithic people bringing favored plants like hazel with them. Forest gardens are probably the world's oldest form of land use and most resilient agroecosystem. They originated in prehistoric times along jungle-clad river... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155496 | 794,322 |
1,359,672 | Gene gun delivery/Biolistics has been an attractive method for gene delivery due to its non-viral properties, and in addition to viral transduction, is one of the most common methods. This allows for less adverse immune responses and a smaller chance of viral infection compared to viral-based transfer methods. Rather t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29071957 | 1,358,921 |
2,060,185 | The men's horizontal bar competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. The qualification and final rounds took place on September 18, 20 and 24th at the Olympic Gymnastics Hall. There were 89 competitors from 23 nations, with nations competing in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23989844 | 2,058,999 |
941,862 | A robot then transfers the aluminium blanks into the tandem press lines where the sheets are stamped into the various panels of the cars. The Schuler SMG hydraulic stamping press line is the largest in North America and the 6th largest in the world. The presses use up to 11,000 ton-force to form the body panels; the up... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29705538 | 941,360 |
732,969 | African green monkeys (also called vervets, genus Chlorocebus) in African populations are heavily infected with SIVagm, while the virus is absent in the founder isolate vervet populations in the Caribbean. The prevalence of SIV infection in African populations ranges 78-90% in adult females and 36-57% in adult males, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=391980 | 732,582 |
1,042,646 | From the very beginning the Department of Agriculture and in turn the Agricultural Research Service has been focused on improving not only the farming industry but also the quality of food and the health of Americans. In 1985, technology to produce lactose-free milk, yogurt, and ice cream was developed through the Agri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=251892 | 1,042,103 |
2,060,978 | Gluck attended Harvard University as an undergraduate pursuing majors in both Psychology and Computer Science. During these years, Gluck worked under the supervision of William Kaye Estes on connectionist models of basic levels in category hierarchies. After graduating from Harvard University, Gluck pursued a Ph.D. deg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32107929 | 2,059,791 |
870,475 | BBC BASIC on the Archimedes was considered as a vehicle for cross-platform game development by David Braben and other developers before the Archimedes was released, Braben being the author of the three-dimensional Lander game supplied with the machine. Since the BBC Micro had been used as a development host for the Com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63145 | 870,015 |
744,086 | In May 1996, SGI sold the Superservers business to Sun. Sun then turned the UltraSPARC-based "Starfire" project then under development into the extremely successful Sun Enterprise 10000 range of servers. SGI used several Cray technologies in its attempt to move from the graphics workstation market into supercomputing. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217315 | 743,692 |
312,125 | The 16-inch HARP gun in Barbados held the largest gun record globally, with a barrel length of 119 ft (36 m) and weighing 200 tons. It consisted of two 16-inch U.S. Navy gun barrels welded together and smooth-bored to 16.4-inch diameter. It was capable of firing at a muzzle velocity of 2,164 m/s (7,100 ft/s) with a max... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292089 | 311,957 |
1,501,754 | As alternatives to operational solutions, Griffith examined three correction techniques (i.e., "statistical solutions") in removing boundary-induced bias from inference. They are (1) based on generalized least squares theory, (2) using dummy variables and a regression structure (as a way of creating a buffer zone), and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27288010 | 1,500,908 |
835,999 | At a meeting held on Friday afternoon, September 22, 1848, Redfield presided, and Matthew Fontaine Maury gave a full scientific report on his "Wind and Current Charts". Maury stated that hundreds of ship navigators were now sending abstract logs of their voyages to the United States Naval Observatory. He added, "Never ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=243062 | 835,550 |
1,421,845 | The final phase of the space program's contradiction took place during the 1998 Russian financial crisis. Much of the budgeted money never arrived at the companies. The space industry continued to shed work force, and soon only 100,000 people remained. Wages were also cut: for example at the leading rocket engine produ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23829925 | 1,421,044 |
157,388 | Self-care methods to reduce the risk of preterm birth include proper nutrition, avoiding stress, seeking appropriate medical care, avoiding infections, and the control of preterm birth risk factors (e.g. working long hours while standing on feet, carbon monoxide exposure, domestic abuse, and other factors). Reducing ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=429542 | 157,316 |
745,968 | With the accumulation of large sets of astronomical data, teams like the Harvard Computers rose in prominence which lead to many female astronomers, previously relegated as assistants to male astronomers, gaining recognition in the field. The United States Naval Observatory (USNO) and other astronomy research instituti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14021 | 745,573 |
772,866 | In gemology, the gemstone refractometer is one of the fundamental pieces of equipment used in a gemological laboratory. Gemstones are transparent minerals and can therefore be examined using optical methods. Refractive index is a material constant, dependent on the chemical composition of a substance. The refractometer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4088449 | 772,450 |
1,458,050 | Phytase is produced by bacteria found in the gut of ruminant animals (cattle, sheep) making it possible for them to use the phytic acid found in grains as a source of phosphorus. Non-ruminants (monogastric animals) like human beings, dogs, pigs, birds, etc. do not produce phytase. Research in the field of animal nutrit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3443240 | 1,457,230 |
1,413,367 | A more precise way to measure resistance is to place an object within an artificial, uniform stream of air where the velocity is known. The first person to experiment in this fashion was Francis Herbert Wenham, who in doing so constructed the first wind tunnel in 1871. Wenham was also a member of the first professional... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40119871 | 1,412,571 |
829,549 | Many factors may disrupt the equilibrium of a giant molecular cloud, triggering a collapse and initiating the burst of star formation that can result in an open cluster. These include shock waves from a nearby supernova, collisions with other clouds, or gravitational interactions. Even without external triggers, region... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22669 | 829,103 |
173,933 | Perhaps the most notable example of this is Paul Erdős, one of the most prolific and successful mathematicians in human history. He took amphetamine and methylphenidate occasionally throughout his early career. He began taking them daily at age 58, when a doctor prescribed them to him to allay the depression associated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40542151 | 173,842 |
1,257,982 | The first ever WFFC was held in Luxembourg in 1981 and won by team Netherlands, that winning team also produced the first ever individual world champion who was Cor Wittkamp. Three years later in 1984, the 4th WFFC held in Spain was won by first class cricketer and footballer Tony Pawson of England, Although his team E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40951581 | 1,257,296 |
498,424 | Happer disagrees with the scientific consensus on climate change, stating that "Some small fraction of the 1 °C warming during the past two centuries must have been due to increasing CO, which is indeed a greenhouse gas", but argues that "most of the warming has probably been due to natural causes." Michael Oppenheimer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23405347 | 498,167 |
455,443 | The BamHI enzyme is capable of making a large number of contacts with DNA. Water-mediated hydrogen bonding, as well as both main-chain and side-chain interactions aid in binding of the BamHI recognition sequence. In the major groove, the majority of enzyme/DNA contacts take place at the amino terminus of the parallel-4... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10388309 | 455,221 |
1,754,532 | Wyatt grew up in Ithaca, New York where he attended Ithaca High School, graduating in 1986. He had been playing role-playing games since the late 1970s, beginning with the first "Basic D&D" set: "I remember pretending to be a wizard in my backyard before I picked up the basic set... I used the monster statistics in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2502973 | 1,753,542 |
235,436 | From 1909 to 1929, the university held a ban against fraternities and sororities, since Henry Marshall Tory, the first president of the university, ordered all secret societies, including Upsilon Upsilon and Pi Sigma Phi, to be disbanded. The drive to remove the ban begun in 1927, when students had formed the Athenian ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242057 | 235,317 |
1,832,761 | "Nepenthes leonardoi" is known to flower both in the rosette stage and as a vining plant. The species has a racemose inflorescence. Male inflorescences can reach a height of 50 cm, of which the rachis constitutes up to 30 cm. Female inflorescences are similar in size, typically growing to 45 cm in length. Generally bot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29995662 | 1,831,713 |
2,167,831 | He was a research fellow of Jesus College from 1908 to 1912 and University Reader in Botany from 1910 to 1930. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1921. His particular fields of interest were phyllotaxy, the development and arrangement of parts of the flower and one-celled sea plants. Church was chiefly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18545682 | 2,166,594 |
781,121 | In mammalian CA II, the active site consists of the following: a hard Lewis acid Zn metal atom coordinated to His -94, -96, and -119 residues 109˚ apart from one another and a hydroxide ion (pKa=6.8; 120° in T configuration, a hydrophobic pocket adjacent to Zinc-bound hydroxide consisting of by Val-143 at its base and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45079602 | 780,703 |
628,961 | CTPA is less desirable in pregnancy due to the amount of ionizing radiation required, which may damage the breasts, which are particularly sensitive during pregnancy, and because of concerns of the effects of iodine on the fetus' thyroid gland. V/Q scans can offer lower radiation doses, and may be adapted to further re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10968317 | 628,625 |
836,545 | Prior to the pandemic, Daszak and EcoHealth Alliance were the only U.S.-based organization researching coronavirus evolution and transmission in China, where they partnered with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, among others. On 1 April 2020, following the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, the USA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63717682 | 836,096 |
1,105,646 | "Penicillium digitatum" can also grow on a variety of laboratory media. On Czapek Yeast Extract Agar medium at 25 °C, white colonies grow in a plane, attaining a velvety to deeply floccose texture with colony sizes that are 33–35 mm in diameter. On this medium, olive conidia are produced. The reverse of the plate can b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47826409 | 1,105,083 |
883,425 | In 2021, NPS refurbished a county wastewater treatment plant into an all-domain defense technology lab, The Sea Land Air Military Research (SLAMR) lab. Situated just across the street from NPS’s main campus, the SLAMR facility houses a series of open-air water treatment tanks that were recently renovated and now serve ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=827618 | 882,961 |
1,986,810 | In 1977 the Junior League, National Council of Jewish Women and the Technology club started to plan the opening of this institution. In 1979, the goals were set to develop a center where scientific and technological information would be presented to involve the general public, students and the technical community aroun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4818462 | 1,985,668 |
889,859 | NetBSD provides various features in the security area. The Kernel Authorization framework (or Kauth) is a subsystem managing all authorization requests inside the kernel, and used as system-wide security policy. It allows external modules to plug-in the authorization process. NetBSD also incorporates exploit mitigation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28901365 | 889,390 |
1,294,092 | While carbon and nitrogen are used primarily to investigate the diets of ancient humans, oxygen isotopes offer insight into body water at different stages in a consumer's life. δO values are used to understand drinking behaviors, animal husbandry, and track mobility. 97 burials from the ancient Maya citadel of Tikal we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1923764 | 1,293,381 |
1,251,016 | Ushahidi created USAelectionmonitor.com to monitor the USA 2016 Presidential Election. After the election Ushahidi set up Documenthate.org to monitor the spike in hate crimes against minorities in the USA post election. Ushahidi partnered with journalist and activist Shaun King and non-profit journalism group Propublic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18775928 | 1,250,338 |
555,237 | Stern left LASP to found Research Systems Inc. (RSI) in 1977. The first RSI product was IDL for the PDP-11. In this release, the graphics supported by IDL were primarily Tektronix terminals and raster graphics displays. RSI sold its first IDL licenses to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and Ball Aerospace & Technolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=512587 | 554,948 |
851,514 | The electric machine was subsequently improved by Francis Hauksbee, his student Litzendorf, and by Prof. Georg Matthias Bose, about 1750. Litzendorf, researching for Christian August Hausen, substituted a glass ball for the sulphur ball of Guericke. Bose was the first to employ the "prime conductor" in such machines, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5951576 | 851,061 |
1,795,703 | The mission is to search for ice deposits under the surface of Mars, precursor for human missions there. By identifying locations where water ice may exist within 5-10 meters of the surface and thus could be accessed by crewed expeditions. The mission plans to scan specific locations on the Martian surface below elevat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64768088 | 1,794,694 |
1,945,555 | Wintemute is one of a few public health experts researching gun violence in the United States—he has said that there are only a dozen researchers in the United States who study this subject, including him. He has funded this research in part through more than $1 million of his own money. In 1987, he published a study o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45233811 | 1,944,443 |
1,114,189 | BP Solar begun constructing a new solar photovoltaic cell manufacturing plant at its European headquarters in Tres Cantos, Madrid. For phase one of the Madrid expansion, BP Solar aimed to expand its annual cell capacity from 55 MW to around 300 MW. Construction of this facility was underway, with the first manufacturin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10293321 | 1,113,621 |
377,896 | Nonhemorrhagic adverse events are less common than hemorrhagic adverse events but should still be monitored closely. Nonhemorrhagic adverse events of warfarin include skin necrosis, limb gangrene, and purple toe syndrome. Skin necrosis and limb gangrene are most commonly observed on the third to eighth day of therapy. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=178212 | 377,701 |
1,167,692 | Kotlikoff attempted to run for President of the United States in the 2012 election, and sought the nominations of the advocacy group Americans Elect and the Reform Party of the United States before ending his campaign in May 2012 when Americans Elect ceased operations. Kotlikoff ran for president in 2016 as an independ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6032622 | 1,167,074 |
1,451,083 | Crystal structure prediction (CSP) is a computational approach to generate energetically feasible crystal structures (with corresponding space group and positional parameters) from a given molecular structure. The CSP exercise is considered most challenging as "experimental" crystal structures are very often kinetic st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5340351 | 1,450,266 |
2,131,477 | Debra Auguste is an American chemical engineer and professor at Northeastern University in the Department of Chemical Engineering. Auguste is dedicated to developing treatments for triple negative breast cancer, one of the most aggressive and fatal cancers that disproportionately affects African American women. Her lab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64384126 | 2,130,252 |
311,209 | On 7 April 2009, a Manhattan district attorney charged a financier with the suspected misuse of Manhattan banks employed to transfer money between China and Iran by way of Europe and the United States. The materials in question can be used for weapons as well as civilian purposes, but some of the material can potential... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=721807 | 311,041 |
545,469 | During the Second World War Cockcroft became Assistant Director of Scientific Research in the Ministry of Supply, working on radar. He was also a member of the committee formed to handle issues arising from the Frisch–Peierls memorandum, which calculated that an atomic bomb could be technically feasible, and of the MAU... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=352564 | 545,183 |
1,475,126 | A reference architecture was established for this outpost, based on a location on the rim of the Shackleton crater, located in the immense South Pole-Aitken basin, near the Moon's south pole. At a presentation, on 4 December 2006, Doug Cooke, Deputy Associate Administrator, NASA Exploration Systems Mission Directorate,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8319448 | 1,474,294 |
259,846 | The power of dimensional analysis really becomes apparent when it is applied to situations, unlike those given above, that are more complicated, the set of variables involved are not apparent, and the underlying equations hopelessly complex. Consider, for example, a small pebble sitting on the bed of a river. If the ri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8267 | 259,712 |
1,807,920 | In the 1970s, research at the station incorporated new scientific disciplines and techniques such as molecular biology and genetics. Environmental protection along with agriculture in arid and semiarid regions became new focus areas. New crops were developed, including turfgrass varieties with tolerance to soil salinit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12600727 | 1,806,900 |
231,377 | Nutrition directly influences progress towards meeting the Millennium Goals of eradicating hunger and poverty through health and education. Therefore, nutrition interventions take a multi-faceted approach to improve the nutrition status of various populations. Policy and programming must target both individual behavior... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=93827 | 231,258 |
1,583,062 | A revised edition of Hunter's book appeared the year after the Scopes Trial. This edition no longer used the word "evolution", and removed most references to recognizably evolutionary concepts. A figure illustrating fossils of the precursors of horses in geological context and much of the associated text was eliminated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2873458 | 1,582,172 |
768,204 | DWDM systems have to maintain more stable wavelength or frequency than those needed for CWDM because of the closer spacing of the wavelengths. Precision temperature control of laser transmitter is required in DWDM systems to prevent "drift" off a very narrow frequency window of the order of a few GHz. In addition, sinc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80464 | 767,792 |
578,734 | Studies have shown that Brodmann area 25, also known as subgenual cingulate, is metabolically overactive in treatment-resistant depression. This region is extremely rich in serotonin transporters and is considered as a governor for a vast network involving areas like hypothalamus and brain stem, which influences change... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19477293 | 578,438 |
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