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1,620,582 | Despite its advantages, Q-FISH is quite labor-intensive and is generally not suitable for high throughput analysis. The technique depends on well-prepared metaphase cells and it is vital that the equipment and samples are adjusted/normalized correctly in order for the quantification to be accurate. Also, while only a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26429271 | 1,619,667 |
920,607 | Davis returned to California in early 1965, arriving in the Bay Area during the transformation of the Free Speech Movement into the Vietnam Day Committee. His only subsistence for the next six months was money earned by selling literature sent to him by the SDS national office. The demand for radical literature by stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1187936 | 920,121 |
1,250,909 | MODY 2 is a form of maturity-onset diabetes of the young. It is due to any of several mutations in the "GCK" gene on human chromosome 7 for glucokinase. Glucokinase serves as the glucose sensor for the pancreatic beta cell. Normal glucokinase triggers insulin secretion as the glucose exceeds about 90 mg/dl (5 mM). Thes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22575029 | 1,250,233 |
403,074 | The Hall of North American Forests is a one-story hall on the museum's first floor in between the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall and the Warburg Hall of New York State Environments. It contains ten dioramas depicting a range of forest types from across North America as well as several displays on forest conservation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=399990 | 402,874 |
742,364 | The basic concept of SARH is that since almost all detection and tracking systems consist of a radar system, duplicating this hardware on the missile itself is redundant. The weight of a transmitter reduces the range of any flying object, so passive systems have greater reach. In addition, the resolution of a radar is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=419620 | 741,972 |
557,268 | A meeting with Major General Leslie Groves, the director of the Manhattan Project, at Berkeley in September 1944, convinced Oliphant that the Americans intended to monopolise nuclear weapons after the war, restricting British research and production to Canada, and not permitting nuclear weapons technology to be shared ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315710 | 556,979 |
852,536 | FDPs, and a specific FDP, the D-dimer, can be measured using antibody-antigen technology. This is more specific than the TCT, and confirms that fibrinolysis has occurred. It is therefore used to indicate deep-vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, DIC and efficacy of treatment in acute myocardial infarction. Alternativel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241010 | 852,082 |
81,445 | MythBusters refuse to test some myths. Paranormal concepts, such as aliens or ghosts, are not addressed because they cannot be tested by scientific methods, although one exception, pyramid power, prompted Adam to comment, "No more 'oogie-boogie' myths, please" and state at a tour show in Indianapolis in 2012 that it wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=627304 | 81,412 |
805,615 | A 2006 study that had access to an extensive range of records found that the predictions were flawed. "In particular, there was no official short-term prediction, although such a prediction was made by individual scientists." Also: "it was the foreshocks alone that triggered the final decisions of warning and evacuatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231137 | 805,186 |
922,710 | Since the number of patients awaiting a heart transplant is continuously increasing over time, and the number of patients on the waiting list surpasses the organ availability, artificial organs used as replacement therapy for terminal heart failure would help alleviate this difficulty. Artificial hearts are usually use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=307065 | 922,224 |
681,385 | The next step in research was scientific cataloging of the major vase collections in museums. In 1854 Otto Jahn published the vases in the Munich State Collection of Antiquities. Previously, catalogs of the Vatican museums (1842) and the British Museum (1851) had been published. The description of the vase collection i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1076046 | 681,029 |
1,252,309 | According to the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) Non-Invasive Staging Guidelines for Lung Cancer (2007), the pooled sensitivity and specificity of CT scanning for identifying mediastinal lymph node metastasis are 51% and 85%, respectively and for PET scanning 74% (95% CI, 69 to 79%) and 85% (95% CI, 82 to 8... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15477610 | 1,251,631 |
2,134,932 | Electromagnetic radio frequency (RF) convergence is a signal-processing paradigm that is utilized when several RF systems have to share a finite amount of resources among each other. RF convergence indicates the ideal operating point for the entire network of RF systems sharing resources such that the systems can effic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58084624 | 2,133,706 |
1,327,836 | In order for a biological organism to evolve by natural selection, there must be a certain minimum probability that new, heritable variants are beneficial. Random mutations, unless they occur in DNA sequences with no function, are expected to be mostly detrimental. Beneficial mutations are always rare, but if they are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=812109 | 1,327,108 |
823,130 | One of the earliest cases where forensic stylistics was used to detect plagiarism was the case of Helen Keller's short story "The Frost King", in which the deaf-blind American author was accused of plagiarism in 1892. An investigation revealed that "The Frost King" had been plagiarized from Margaret Canby's "Frost Fair... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=602412 | 822,689 |
1,253,634 | The other mechanism through which the federal government has lent its support to the humane treatment of animals is not strictly speaking legislative in nature, but in many respects it is one of the most powerful instruments available to the federal government for setting national standards. The federal government's po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14668445 | 1,252,954 |
317,101 | The financial crisis led economics scholar Richard Posner to back away from the hypothesis. Posner accused some of his Chicago School colleagues of being "asleep at the switch", saying that "the movement to deregulate the financial industry went too far by exaggerating the resilience—the self healing powers—of laissez-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=164602 | 316,932 |
928,598 | For low-risk stress fractures, rest is the best management option. The amount of recovery time varies greatly depending upon the location and severity of the fracture, and the body's healing response. Complete rest and a stirrup leg brace or walking boot are usually used for a period of four to eight weeks, although pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1173689 | 928,110 |
2,023,631 | By the end of 1927, well within a year of introduction of the A1 telephone, William H. Scharringhausen of the Bell Telephone Laboratories streamlined the design and filed a patent application on November 29, 1927. He integrated the short tubular neck into the continuous contours of the base. The circular footprint of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72276050 | 2,022,467 |
512,530 | At the drivers' meeting held on Friday, drivers agreed to adopt a careful approach at the first chicane following a series of crashes at the first corner in recent events. They would not be imposed a ten-second penalty if they did not gain a position or an advantage after concerns were raised about it. The Saturday pra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1123405 | 512,264 |
1,579,519 | An artificial chemistry is a chemical-like system that usually consists of objects, called molecules, that interact according to rules resembling chemical reaction rules. Artificial chemistries are created and studied in order to understand fundamental properties of chemical systems, including prebiotic evolution, as w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1000441 | 1,578,629 |
335,165 | An organization called the Coalition for Sustainable Rail (CSR) is developing an environmentally friendly coal substitute made from torrefied biomass. In early 2019, they performed a series of tests using Everett Railroad to evaluate the performance of the biofuel, with positive results. The biofuel was found to burn s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196788 | 334,987 |
2,036,452 | Using etching techniques such as focused ion beam milling, micro- or nano-sized pillars can be formed in magnetic materials. However, repeated bending of crystal pillars can cause defect formation and fatigue damage. This damage comes from the nucleation of cracks on the pillars surface, even in the elastic regime, due... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54193704 | 2,035,278 |
689,774 | Limber tail normally occurs shortly (within 24 hours) after swimming in water that is too cold or, on rare occasions, too warm. The actual cause is unknown but it may be caused by the narrowing of the space through which the spinal cord passes, typically due to degenerative change to the inter vertebral disk spaces. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24091496 | 689,411 |
204,832 | In 1957, the Air Force and the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission contracted with the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory to study the feasibility of applying heat from nuclear reactors to ramjet engines. This research became known as "Project Pluto". This program was to provide engines for an unmanned cruise missile, called SLAM... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1681089 | 204,726 |
492,982 | Finally, archaeogenetics has been used to study the occupation of Australia and New Guinea. The Indigenous people of Australia and New Guinea are phenotypically very similar, but mtDNA has shown that this is due to convergence from living in similar conditions. Non-coding regions of mt-DNA have shown “no similarities” ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=328736 | 492,727 |
956,022 | About 3,000 automobile companies have existed in the United States. In the early 1900s, the U.S. saw the rise of the Big Three automakers; Ford, GM, and Chrysler. The industry became centered around Detroit, in Michigan, and adjacent states (and nearby Ontario, Canada). Historian John Rae summarizes the explanations pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23576520 | 955,517 |
781,046 | Members of an ancient genus of the "Leishmania" parasite, "Paleoleishmania", have been detected in fossilized sand flies dating back to the early Cretaceous period. The first written reference to the conspicuous symptoms of cutaneous leishmaniasis surfaced in the Paleotropics within oriental texts dating back to the 7t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50468 | 780,628 |
1,395,404 | The academy also offers a series of Certified Short Courses (Seminare) for active members of the German and international armed forces as well as the German Army Reserve on military field-grade officer-level. This is for all line officers in the rank from major until colonel. One course is exclusive for general and fla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23002711 | 1,394,633 |
394,777 | Following the 1993 FERET face-recognition vendor test the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) offices in West Virginia and New Mexico were the first DMV offices to use automated facial recognition systems as a way to prevent and detect people obtaining multiple driving licenses under different names. Driver's licenses i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=602401 | 394,582 |
2,090,595 | The first description of "Pseudolarix wehrii" was by Roland W. Brown (1936). He made a brief description with figure of a cone scale he classed as "Picea", which was collected by him during 1934 field work in Republic. Brown noted, at the time, the marked similarity between the Klondike Mountain Formation fossil and mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66382935 | 2,089,392 |
417,580 | CombiMatrix Corp. () was a clinical diagnostic laboratory specializing in pre-implantation genetic screening, miscarriage analysis, prenatal and pediatric diagnostics, offering DNA-based testing for the detection of genetic abnormalities beyond what can be identified through traditional methodologies. As a full-scale c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1666393 | 417,376 |
1,753,855 | Special quality tubes were sometimes identified by placing the numerical part of the designation between the heater rating and the tube type. The special quality could be anything, from rugged designs for military and industrial use, through devices with exceptionally low noise and microphony, to designs primarily opti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3982900 | 1,752,865 |
2,040,414 | Since the 1990s he has focused on the biosynthesis of carotenoids and other isoprenoids in higher plants, particularly tomato. This research led to tomato lines with elevated and altered carotenoids. His laboratory was the first to produce a GM tomato with elevated levels of β–carotene (provitamin A). His work on the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48552911 | 2,039,235 |
31,853 | When an inductive circuit is opened, the current through the inductance collapses quickly, creating a large voltage across the open circuit of the switch or relay. If the inductance is large enough, the energy may generate a spark, causing the contact points to oxidize, deteriorate, or sometimes weld together, or destr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4932111 | 31,842 |
426,570 | Joan was an inquisitive child, and she exhibited an interest in understanding the natural world from an early age. However, her mother and grandmother both dissuaded her from pursuing science, since they believed that women's brains were not physically capable of understanding complex scientific concepts in the way tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7269844 | 426,361 |
302,262 | In 2005, Sony BMG published CDs with copy protection and digital rights management software called Extended Copy Protection, created by software company First 4 Internet. The software included a music player but silently installed a rootkit which limited the user's ability to access the CD. Software engineer Mark Russi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=223942 | 302,101 |
724,096 | In this regard, it is crucial to understand the role of walls and other "constraints", and the distinction between "independent" processes and "coupling". Contrary to the clear implications of many reference sources, the previous analysis is not restricted to homogeneous, isotropic bulk systems which can deliver only "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5936 | 723,716 |
1,653,185 | The composer described the first movement as a "novella." It begins with an unaccompanied pizzicato figure in the viola which recalls the opening of Alban Berg's Violin Concerto, followed by an austere piano line, which leads into a more animated middle section. The movement closes with a remembrance of the opening bar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37512906 | 1,652,253 |
2,008,714 | Without a doubt, the "#MeToo" movement has brought a huge impact in the U.S. It truly opened the eyes of the Americans to how severe and common sexual harassment, abuse, as well as injustice towards women are. They finally realized that this kind of injustice or harassment can happen to any woman, even their mothers, d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38824009 | 2,007,562 |
2,084,912 | Layers can be hardened by the action of groundwater. Martian ground water probably moved hundreds of kilometers, and in the process it dissolved many minerals from the rock it passed through. When ground water surfaces in low areas containing sediments, water evaporates in the thin atmosphere and leaves behind minerals... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47384317 | 2,083,711 |
1,947,780 | Franzini-Armstrong's primary interest in science has been the disposition of membranes and macromolecular complexes that are responsible for excitation-contraction (e-c) coupling in cardiac and skeletal muscles. She engaged in four main phases of structural work in terms of her career. Her first phase focused on calci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33409378 | 1,946,667 |
1,483,800 | The original carbon isotope reference material was a Belemnite fossil from the PeeDee Formation in South Carolina, known as the Pee Dee Belemnite (PDB). This PDB standard was rapidly consumed and subsequently researchers used replacement standards such as PDB II and PDB III. The carbon isotope reference frame was later... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52796143 | 1,482,964 |
388,559 | Compression arthralgia is a deep aching pain in the joints caused by exposure to high ambient pressure at a relatively high rate of compression, experienced by underwater divers. The pain may occur in the knees, shoulders, fingers, back, hips, neck or ribs, and may be sudden and intense in onset and may be accompanied ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=489941 | 388,364 |
632,591 | Lab-on-a-chip technology may soon become an important part of efforts to improve global health, particularly through the development of point-of-care testing devices. In countries with few healthcare resources, infectious diseases that would be treatable in a developed nation are often deadly. In some cases, poor healt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1041078 | 632,253 |
615,205 | Like other members of its family, the angelshark is a nocturnal ambush predator that buries itself in sediment and waits for passing prey, mostly benthic bony fishes, but also skates and invertebrates. An aplacental viviparous species, females bear litters of seven to 25 pups every other year. The angelshark normally p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7367893 | 614,891 |
920,728 | Since the animals survived, the king allowed flights with humans. Again in collaboration with Réveillon, Étienne built a balloon for the purpose of making flights with humans. It was about 23 m (75 feet) tall and about 15 m (50 feet) in diameter. Réveillon supplied rich decorative touches of gold figures on a deep blue... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51621 | 920,242 |
2,003,302 | Phosphorus in its most thermodynamically stable black form, is a lustrous and comparatively unreactive solid with a density of 2.69 g/cm, and is soft (MH 2.0) and has a flaky comportment. It sublimes at 620 °C. Black phosphorus has an orthorhombic crystalline structure (CN 3). It is a semiconductor with a band gap of 0... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68175797 | 2,002,154 |
2,117,787 | The EMF was convened in 1976 over concerns that the insights that large-scale energy models could provide policymakers were being overshadowed by the "plethora of detailed quantitative results" being disseminated and discussed. As a result, the EMF sought to bring energy modelers together to provide a proper context fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15160793 | 2,116,569 |
1,187,099 | In the summer of 2006, the USDA detected trace amounts of LibertyLink variety 601 in rice shipments ready for export. LL601 was not approved for food purposes. Bayer applied for deregulation of LL601 in late July and the USDA granted deregulation status in November 2006. The contamination led to a dramatic dip in rice ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25177044 | 1,186,468 |
745,335 | The HUDF image was taken in a section of the sky with a low density of bright stars in the near-field, allowing much better viewing of dimmer, more distant objects. Located southwest of Orion in the southern-hemisphere constellation Fornax, the rectangular image is 2.4 arcminutes to an edge, or 3.4 arcminutes diagonall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=527661 | 744,941 |
104,008 | Agriculture is a key sector which contributed to 14.43% of GDP. Currently, there are around 30% of the land area used for agriculture and employed about 49 million people (41% of the total workforce). Primary agriculture commodities include rice, cassava (tapioca), peanuts, natural rubber, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, copr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14647 | 103,963 |
1,842,863 | The 2006 series is remembered as a significant turning point in the history of international rules football. The physicality and occasional violence in the second test marred the entire contest between the two nations and resulted in the Gaelic Athletic Association (GAA) abandoning the planned 2007 series and only agre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7676490 | 1,841,810 |
1,421,639 | In the Adagio in triple time, the violin plays the cantabile melodic line in dotted rhythms in its lower and middle registers as if an alto solo. At first declamatory in the "forte" passages, the "piano" responses are expressive but subdued. Bach's knowledge of the expressive qualities of the violin is shown in the ope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47685517 | 1,420,838 |
270,760 | Frequency scaling was the dominant reason for improvements in computer performance from the mid-1980s until 2004. The runtime of a program is equal to the number of instructions multiplied by the average time per instruction. Maintaining everything else constant, increasing the clock frequency decreases the average tim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=145162 | 270,613 |
624,023 | From the 16th to the 19th century, the formidable Mughal empire covered much of India. In 1739, the Persian emperor Nader Shah invaded India, defeated the Mughal Emperor Muhammad Shah, and occupied most of Balochistan and the Indus plain. After Nadir Shah's death, the kingdom of Afghanistan was established in 1747 by o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3923951 | 623,690 |
1,341,872 | The skull specifically has not been described in detail, but the preserved morphology (external anatomy) is very similar to that of "Gargoyleosaurus" from the same formation. It had a narrow snout and almost triangular shaped skull in dorsal (top) view with two, large horns pointing backward from the back of the head o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4347315 | 1,341,138 |
2,178,104 | In many cases Boulton's machinery was replacing heavy manual labour. He promoted (and patented) the use of cotton rope to drive machinery such as throwing wheels replacing the hand cranking by a potters assistant (and as an alternative to overhead line-shafting). The rope drive ran continuously, but the potter could co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70544814 | 2,176,859 |
991,091 | Gravimetric analysis, if methods are followed carefully, provides for exceedingly precise analysis. In fact, gravimetric analysis was used to determine the atomic masses of many elements in the periodic table to six figure accuracy. Gravimetry provides very little room for instrumental error and does not require a seri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=659899 | 990,574 |
2,149,727 | Laser-based angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy is a form of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy that uses a laser as the light source. Photoemission spectroscopy is a powerful and sensitive experimental technique to study surface physics. It is based on the photoelectric effect originally observed by Heinr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19870711 | 2,148,496 |
1,094,745 | The exterior ornamentation is highly variable within the genus "Scenedesmus". Staehelin "et al." characterized two species in detail: "S. pannonicus" and "S. longus". "S. pannonicus" assembles a tight-fitting "warty" layer compared to the loose "reticulate" layer found on "S. longus". A shared feature between the two i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12103953 | 1,094,185 |
1,047,012 | V2V is under threat from cable television and other tech firms that want to take away a big chunk of the radio spectrum currently reserved for it and use those frequencies for high-speed internet service. In the USA, V2V's current share of the radio spectrum was set aside by the government in 1999, but has gone unused.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3261305 | 1,046,467 |
1,870,804 | Males and females indigo blue. Forewing; with a broad, oblique, slightly curved, sinuous-edged, pale blue band, turning to white on the anterior half; the distance measured on the costa of the outer edge of thin band greater than half the length of the wing from the base; its inner margin bordered by short, obliquely-p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9402080 | 1,869,727 |
282,757 | As soon as he could walk, Braille's time was spent playing in his father's workshop. At the age of three, the child was playing with some of the tools, trying to make holes in a piece of leather with an awl. Squinting closely at the surface, he pressed down hard to drive the point in, and the awl glanced across the tou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61410 | 282,604 |
447,358 | Ohio State employed an effective vertical passing game in the first half and a relentless ball control offense in the second half, coupled with a defense that improved in both efficiency and stamina as the game progressed, to beat 2nd-ranked Texas 24–7 in Darrell K Royal–Texas Memorial Stadium, Austin. Quarterback Troy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6332534 | 447,141 |
1,889,957 | Mosaic coevolution is a theory in which geographic location and community ecology shape differing coevolution between strongly interacting species in multiple populations. These populations may be separated by space and/or time. Depending on the ecological conditions, the interspecific interactions may be mutualistic o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52846747 | 1,888,874 |
1,200,737 | Frameworks have been developed that attempt to address and integrate these complex issues, such as the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment framework which links drivers, ecosystem services, and human welfare However, obtaining the environmental data that is necessary to use such frameworks is difficult, especially in count... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65970498 | 1,200,096 |
174,915 | The destruction of Hamburg was not to be repeated during the rest of 1943 and 1944. During that winter, Berlin was attacked a large number of times, with heavy losses being sustained by Bomber Command. A further force also joined the fray, with the Fifteenth Air Force and No. 205 Group RAF beginning to fly from Italy. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=202102 | 174,824 |
1,461,700 | Zhang was born in Shanghai, China in 1963. He was accepted by Fudan University in 1978 at the age of 15, and went abroad in 1980 to study at the Free University of Berlin in West Berlin, where he received his B.S. degree in 1983. He then pursued his graduate studies at Stony Brook University (then referred to as State ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34073210 | 1,460,878 |
2,094,409 | In May 1813 he was admitted M.D. of St. Andrews University, and on 21 June 1813 he was elected professor of anatomy and surgery in the university of Dublin, and physician to Sir Patrick Dun's hospital. These offices he resigned in 1837, after he had raised the medical school to a much better position than it had ever b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35366311 | 2,093,201 |
1,779,598 | Ron Grabe, Brian Duffy and Janice Voss participated in the Neutral Body Position study. Flight surgeons had noted on previous flights that the body's basic posture changes while in microgravity. This postural change, sometimes called the "zero-g crouch", is in addition to the to lengthening of the spine during space mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=504277 | 1,778,595 |
29,464 | Food B is absorbed by two processes. The first is a vitamin B-specific intestinal mechanism using intrinsic factor through which 1–2 micrograms can be absorbed every few hours, by which most food consumption of the vitamin is absorbed. The second is a passive diffusion process. The human physiology of active vitamin B ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14538619 | 29,454 |
759,395 | "Rudbeckia hirta" is an upright annual (sometimes biennial or perennial) growing tall by wide. It has alternate, mostly basal leaves 10–18 cm long, covered by coarse hair, with stout branching stems and daisy-like, composite flower heads appearing in late summer and early autumn. In the species, the flowers are up to i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=839463 | 758,989 |
1,745,644 | The University of Illinois Department of Computer Science is the academic department encompassing the discipline of computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. According to U.S. News & World Report, both its undergraduate and graduate programs rank in the top five among American universities. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39192504 | 1,744,660 |
1,922,262 | The McDermott group in participation with other labs worked to find new treatment possibilities for Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), an aggressive cancer with a poor prognosis. They accomplished this by designing a CRISPR genome wide screening tool to locate areas in the genome that would be more susceptible to treatment ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8842207 | 1,921,159 |
1,965,738 | The first attempts to model ENSO were made by Bjerknes in 1969, who understood that ENSO is the result of an ocean-atmosphere interaction. In 1975 an important step in ENSO comprehension was made by Wyrtki, who improved the Bjerknes model realising that the warm water build-up in the western Pacific is due to a strengt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70352727 | 1,964,609 |
283,737 | A recently completed "Spirit" reproduction, intended for airworthiness is owned by the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome (ORA), fulfilling a lifelong dream of its primary founder, Cole Palen (1925–1993). The reproduction project had been started by Cole before his own death and has mostly been subsequently built by former ORA pi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=358988 | 283,584 |
80,986 | Bisphosphonates are useful in decreasing the risk of future fractures in those who have already sustained a fracture due to osteoporosis. This benefit is present when taken for three to four years. They do not appear to change the overall risk of death. Tentative evidence does not support the use of bisphosphonates as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22461 | 80,953 |
666,690 | The rhythmic effects inherent in the push-pull action are very well suited to the lively rhythms of dance music, and traditional dance music in particular. (On multi-row fourth-apart instruments, players can to some extent counter the natural push-pull effect with a row-crossing playing style that "smooths out" the mus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2280969 | 666,342 |
691,549 | The scientific knowledge of ethylene as a factor in plant physiology started in the late 19th century. In 1896, Russian botanist Dimitry Neljubow studied the response pea to illuminating gas to which they showed movement. He discovered ethylene as the active component in the light source that stimulated pea behaviour. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63943822 | 691,186 |
209,820 | "Lorica segmentata" was a type of body armour primarily used in the early Roman Empire, but the Latin name was first used in the 16th century (the ancient form is unknown). The armour itself consisted of broad ferrous strips ('girth hoops') fastened to internal leather straps. The strips were arranged horizontally on t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4959495 | 209,713 |
1,393,901 | After 18 months he was posted as Medical Officer to an infantry unit, the 1st battalion Sherwood Foresters. He spent much of his time in shell holes, patching up the many wounded. His courage under fire and devotion to duty were recognised by the award of a Military Cross after the Battle of the Somme, and of the Disti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322276 | 1,393,130 |
746,229 | The observatory was commissioned in 1675 by King Charles II, with the foundation stone being laid on 10 August. The old hilltop site of Greenwich Castle was chosen by Sir Christopher Wren, a former Savilian Professor of Astronomy; as Greenwich Park was a royal estate, no new land needed to be bought. At that time the k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43989 | 745,834 |
943,376 | "Tennis for Two" was first shown on October 18, 1958. The game was rendered as a horizontal line, representing the tennis court, and a short vertical line in the center, representing the tennis net. The first player would press the button on their controller to send the ball, a point of light, over the net, and it woul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=921415 | 942,874 |
194,701 | "Full tower cases" are typically or more in height and intended to stand on the floor. They can have anywhere from six to ten externally accessible drive bays. The full tower case was originally developed to house file servers which would typically be tasked with serving data from expensive CD-ROM databases that held m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1136417 | 194,601 |
238,430 | In April 2004, Michael Grade returned to the BBC, this time as the Chairman of the Board of Governors, although this position does not involve any commissioning or editorial responsibilities. Although he had previously disliked the show and imposed an eighteen-month hiatus on it during the Sixth Doctor era, he eventual... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18012738 | 238,310 |
1,770,912 | Geosteering only practically became possible with the advent of deep reading 2 MHz resistivity LWD tools from the major LWD vendors (BakerHughes Reservoir Navigation Tool, SperrySun and Schlumberger) and other tools in the early 1990s, and the forward modeling software from a number of vendors capable of predicting res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6198995 | 1,769,915 |
181,352 | "Lactobacillus acidophilus" is an immobile rod-shaped (bacillus), gram-positive organism that ranges in size from 2-10 μm in size. Being, gram positive, "L. acidophilus" has one phospholipid bilayer membrane with a large cell wall consisting of peptidoglycan exterior to the membrane. The cell wall of "L. acidophilus" i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=965861 | 181,258 |
1,866,226 | The species has been classified as extinct (and as of mid-2017, remains listed as such, pending an update by the IUCN), due to huge declines probably related to the disease chytridiomycosis, climate change and habitat loss. The species was not recorded between 1989 and 2016, despite some searching in historical localit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6849893 | 1,865,152 |
2,009,737 | The FormulaSPEED car is built on a chassis manufactured by Fast Forward Racing Components and constructed out of 4130 Chrome Moly Alloy steel tubing. The firewall, undertray, and side panels are bonded and riveted aluminum. Fiberglass is used for the bodywork, with 4-layer Kevlar for side protection and composite struc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26430197 | 2,008,585 |
1,933,276 | Tectonic activity began uplifting new mountains in the Neogene, bringing folding and driving erosion into intermontane basins as well as rift valleys and plains. Reddish conglomerate, sandstone, siltstone, marl and claystone with small amount of travertine, gypsum and limestone from this age are dated to the Miocene an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58909565 | 1,932,168 |
292,373 | Peirce's reputation rests largely on academic papers published in American scientific and scholarly journals such as "Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences", the "Journal of Speculative Philosophy", "The Monist", "Popular Science Monthly", the "American Journal of Mathematics", "Memoirs of the Nation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6117 | 292,215 |
1,903,509 | Metals are a necessary and important trace element that most organisms need to function properly. They are often used as coenzymes or interact with biological enzymes to form complexes inside organisms. However, if the metals in question are in too high of concentrations it can be fatal. Different parameters such as pH... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42730404 | 1,902,415 |
1,821,440 | Before the adoption of these methodologies, the entire system was designed before starting to develop the code. The same principle was applied to the database schema as well where it was considered to be derived out of the software requirements which were in turn developed by collaboration between the customer, end-use... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51531494 | 1,820,402 |
1,115,771 | In recent centuries, although humans had been prolific in collecting exotic flora from all corners of the globe to fill their gardens, it wasn’t until the early 20th century that the widespread and organized collection of plant genetic resources for agricultural use began in earnest. Russian geneticist Nikolai Vavilov,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56956663 | 1,115,202 |
1,901,101 | The Plus-minus was developed for shallow seismic surveys where a thin, low velocity weathering layer covers the more solid basement. The thickness of the weathering layer is, among others, important for static corrections in reflection seismic processing or for engineering purposes. An important advantage of the method... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13460400 | 1,900,012 |
350,667 | "σ" among the remaining elements of the set, and so forth. More precisely, each "d" gives the number of "remaining" elements strictly less than the term "σ". Since those remaining elements are bound to turn up as some later term "σ", the digit "d" counts the "inversions" ("i","j") involving "i" as smaller index (the nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44027 | 350,484 |
470,121 | Auguste Comte found the problem of induction rather irrelevant since enumerative induction is grounded on the empiricism available, while science's point is not metaphysical truth. Comte found human knowledge had evolved from theological to metaphysical to scientific—the ultimate stage—rejecting both theology and metap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1845675 | 469,885 |
1,745,216 | Over two weeks after the dissipation of Hilda, a new tropical disturbance formed southwest of Guatemala on October 22. It tracked steadily westward, becoming a tropical depression around 18:00 UTC on October 23 and Tropical Storm Ignacio at 12:00 UTC the next day. A curve toward the northwest brought the cyclone over p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2748579 | 1,744,232 |
2,081,963 | Even though spatial mapping of Omics data had been described as an initial goal of the VEP, it wasn't until 1999 that four VEP collaborators, Michael Doyle, George Michaels, Maurice Pescitelli and Betsey Williams worked together to create a system for what they called "spatial genomics." Today, this technology is known... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70238111 | 2,080,763 |
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