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2,133,947 | The absence of birefringence was initially interpreted by Brace as a refutation of length contraction. However, it was shown by Lorentz (1904) and Joseph Larmor (1904) that when the contraction hypothesis is maintained and the complete Lorentz transformation is employed ("i.e." including the time transformation), then ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30481665 | 2,132,722 |
438,814 | In October 2015, Wartburg made headlines for the dean of faculty's recommendation to reduce the college's faculty because of declining enrollment and the lack of "institutional need". In an article appearing in "Inside Higher Ed", it was reported that declining enrollment and a large budget gap contributed to the recom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=757117 | 438,600 |
983,273 | By the end of the eighteenth century, variolation had gained widespread global respect and was thought to be one of the greatest medical successes of its time. It had become the subject of serious medical study, leading physicians like John Haygarth from Chester, England, to explore its application on a larger scale. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34062507 | 982,759 |
233,102 | A catastrophic failure occurs from not successfully limiting a very large surge from an event like a lightning strike, where the energy involved is many orders of magnitude greater than the varistor can handle. Follow-through current resulting from a strike may melt, burn, or even vaporize the varistor. This thermal ru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=142257 | 232,983 |
665,425 | In older patients, CCS most often occurs after acute hyperextension injury in an individual with long-standing cervical spondylosis. A slow, chronic cause in this age group is when the cord gets caught and squeezed between a posterior intervertebral disc herniation against the anterior cord and/or with posterior pressu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10398699 | 665,078 |
192,871 | From the mid-17th century, naturalists attempted to reconcile mechanical philosophy with theology, initially within a biblical timescale. By the late 18th century, there was increasing acceptance of prehistoric epochs. Geologists found evidence of a succession of geological ages with climate changes. There were various... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23423379 | 192,771 |
1,776,531 | "Amiga Power"'s review went as far as criticising other magazines for reviewing an incomplete game and by extension, misleading their readership."Other reviews which you may have read in other magazines - usually glowing, we might add - which appeared up to six or seven months ago were based on fairly early demo versio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2534545 | 1,775,532 |
1,843,811 | In switching-mode power supplies (SMPS), noise present in the control loop circuitry of the supply causes dislocation in up-slope and down-slope timing of the saw-tooth ripple waveform. As a consequence, the ripple waveform exhibits jitter and noise carried on the ripple also jitters. When this type of supply bias is u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58960240 | 1,842,757 |
1,866,855 | At the University of North Dakota (UND) Bachelor of Science in Aeronautics program, simulators are used for both operator certification and research purposes. For operator certification, UND uses Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) simulators specific to a particular vehicle (e.g., ScanEagle, MQ-8, etc.). Actual qual... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43374421 | 1,865,780 |
576,012 | In canonical transformation theory, there is the Hamilton–Jacobi method, in which solutions to Hamilton's equations are sought by first finding a complete solution of the associated Hamilton–Jacobi equation. In classical terminology, this is described as determining a transformation to a canonical set of coordinates co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2573213 | 575,718 |
1,032,705 | The transverse Doppler effect and consequently time dilation was directly observed for the first time in the Ives–Stilwell experiment (1938). In modern Ives-Stilwell experiments in heavy ion storage rings using saturated spectroscopy, the maximum measured deviation of time dilation from the relativistic prediction has ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1608886 | 1,032,169 |
1,477,474 | Treatment for periapical granuloma is initially treated with a nonsurgical procedure. Endodontic treatments of teeth with periapical lesions (lesions that occurred as a result of dental pulp inflammation) have a success rate up to 85 percent. Other forms of nonsurgical treatments used for periapical lesions are: a root... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59666991 | 1,476,642 |
1,785,287 | Some of the oldest methods of telecommunications implicitly use many of the ideas that would later be quantified in information theory. Modern telegraphy, starting in the 1830s, used Morse code, in which more common letters (like "E", which is expressed as one "dot") are transmitted more quickly than less common letter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5642452 | 1,784,283 |
69,662 | A graduate of the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, in the class of 1952, Lovell flew F2H Banshee night fighters. This included a Western Pacific deployment aboard the aircraft carrier . In January 1958, he entered a six-month test pilot training course at the Naval Air Test Center at Naval Air Statio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=344336 | 69,635 |
1,032,950 | In early September, a tropical wave was noted in the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ). On September 2, the disturbance was analyzed to have attained tropical storm strength, after nearby ship reports indicated strong winds associated with anomalously low barometric pressures. Moving steadily northwestward, favorab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=760589 | 1,032,414 |
883,683 | People with severe motor impairment can use eye tracking for interacting with computers as it is faster than single switch scanning techniques and intuitive to operate. Motor impairment caused by Cerebral Palsy or Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis often affects speech, and users with Severe Speech and Motor Impairment (SSM... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1543423 | 883,219 |
2,065,143 | Between 2008 and 2014, the three EEA donors invested €1.8 billion in 150 programmes that had been defined jointly with 16 beneficiary countries in central and southern Europe. In relation to climate change, for instance, one of the programme's priority themes, a joint project enabled Portugal to draw on the Icelandic e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53878552 | 2,063,952 |
1,543,766 | Nuclear fusion takes place inside the stars, and we can really see this light redshifted: this is the main source of the cosmic ultraviolet- and visual background. However, a significant amount of this starlight is not observed directly. Dust in the host galaxies can absorb it and re-emit it in the infrared, contributi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14935930 | 1,542,893 |
2,025,311 | The "Romundina" specimens were found near a stream in an unnamed formation of carbonate rocks on the western side Prince of Wales Island in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Other species found in this formation include additional Arthrodiraes, "Althaspis", "Dinaspidella", "Pinnaspis", "Traquairaspis", Gastropods, Cepha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45082741 | 2,024,145 |
38,847 | Development of the Model S began prior to 2007, under the codename "WhiteStar". The Model S was officially announced on June 30, 2008, and a prototype vehicle was unveiled in March 2009. The Model S debuted on June 22, 2012. A revised, dual-motor, all-wheel-drive version, known as the 60D, debuted on October 9, 2014. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18215937 | 38,833 |
1,901,114 | Phylogenetic analysis shows that microbial arsenic metabolism probably extends back to the anoxic primordial Earth. As(+5) produced by anoxygenic photosynthesis might have created niches for primordial Earth's first As(+5)-respiring prokaryotes. In microbial biofilms growing on the rock surfaces of anoxic brine pools f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40620874 | 1,900,025 |
1,701,976 | ASIC1a channels specifically open in response to pH 5.0-6.9 and contribute to the pathology of ischemic brain injury because their activation causes a small increase in Capermeability and an inward flow of Ca. ASIC1a channels additionally facilitate the activation of voltage-gated Ca2+ channels and NMDA receptor channe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25327696 | 1,701,021 |
1,540,519 | In 1993, scientists discovered that mutations in the gene ("SOD1") that produces the Cu-Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) enzyme were associated with around 20% of familial ALS and 5% of sporadic ALS. This enzyme is a powerful antioxidant that protects the body from damage caused by superoxide, a toxic free radical genera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55679936 | 1,539,646 |
20,664 | Byzantine Neoplatonic philosopher and mathematician Proclus, writing in the fifth century AD, states two arithmetic rules, "one of them attributed to Plato, the other to Pythagoras", for generating special Pythagorean triples. The rule attributed to Pythagoras () starts from an odd number and produces a triple with leg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26513034 | 20,655 |
476,588 | Note: This table measures "undernourishment", as defined by the FAO, and represents the number of people consuming (on average for years 2010 to 2012) less than the minimum amount of food energy (measured in kilocalories per capita per day) necessary for the average person to stay in good health while performing light ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35042000 | 476,348 |
837,742 | In his work, Copernicus "used conventional, hypothetical devices like epicycles...as all astronomers had done since antiquity. ...hypothetical constructs solely designed to 'save the phenomena' and aid computation". Ptolemy's theory contained a hypothesis about the epicycle of Venus that was viewed as absurd if seen as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1028515 | 837,293 |
303,308 | The U.S. began stockpile reductions in the 1980s with the removal of outdated munitions and destroying its entire stock of 3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate (BZ or Agent 15) at the beginning of 1988. In June 1990 the Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Disposal System began destruction of chemical agents stored on the Johnston Atoll... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50073 | 303,146 |
1,773,948 | At present data relate only to full term infants, and all human studies of hypothermia treatment have so far been restricted to infants >36 weeks out of an expected 40 weeks gestation. There are both more potential side effects on the developing premature with lung disease, and there is more evident protection by hypot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24488474 | 1,772,951 |
902,324 | The adult female worm resides within the adult male worm's gynaecophoric canal, which is a modification of the ventral surface of the male, forming a groove. The paired worms move against the flow of blood to their final niche in the mesenteric circulation, where they begin egg production (>32 days). The "S. mansoni" p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2188496 | 901,848 |
805,890 | Autonomous technologies would be able to perform beyond predetermined actions. They would analyze all possible states and events happening around them and come up with a safe response. In addition, such technologies can reduce launch cost and ground involvement. Performance would increase as well. Autonomy would be abl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55351756 | 805,461 |
665,920 | Students at Central Tennessee College (CTC) approached the college president about setting up a medical school in 1875. The president, John Braden, approached Samuel Meharry to discuss the proposal. In 1875, Meharry, together with four of his brothers, donated a total of $15,000 to assist with establishing a medical de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217227 | 665,572 |
478,033 | The usual sense in which this term is (loosely) used, is in reference to a particular attack, brute force key search — especially in explanations for newcomers to the field. Indeed, with this attack (always assuming keys to have been randomly chosen), there is a continuum of resistance depending on the length of the ke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2223940 | 477,793 |
1,029,292 | There are certain implementation difficulties in passing functions as arguments or returning them as results, especially in the presence of non-local variables introduced in nested and anonymous functions. Historically, these were termed the funarg problems, the name coming from "function argument". In early imperative... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1163024 | 1,028,758 |
593,949 | Schaaffhausen published his findings in 1858 in the "Archives of Anatomy, Physiology and Scientific Medicine". A year later Fuhlrott published a "Treatise on Human remains from a rock grotto of the Düssel valley" in the team sheet of the "Natural History Society of the Prussian Rhineland and Westphalen". In this essay ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7971487 | 593,644 |
2,056,941 | Waterman was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and raised in Baltimore, Maryland. Waterman received her Bachelor of Arts in Biochemistry in 1989 from Mount Holyoke College. She received her M.S. in Exercise Science from the University of Massachusetts Amherst prior to obtaining her Ph.D. in Cell Biology from the Univers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53979054 | 2,055,757 |
781,244 | The various serial digital interface standards all use (one or more) coaxial cables with BNC connectors, with a nominal impedance of 75 ohms. This is the same type of cable used in analog video setups, which potentially makes for easier upgrades (though higher quality cables may be necessary for long runs at the higher... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=418775 | 780,826 |
852,170 | The focused ion beam has become a powerful tool for site-specific 3D imaging of sub-micron features in a sample. In this FIB tomography technique, the sample is sequentially milled using an ion beam perpendicular to the specimen while imaging the newly exposed surface using an electron beam. This so-called, slice and v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2980233 | 851,716 |
567,725 | Dronedarone, sold under the brand name Multaq, is a medication by Sanofi-Aventis, mainly for the indication of cardiac arrhythmias. It was approved by the FDA on July 2, 2009. It was recommended as an alternative to amiodarone for the treatment of atrial fibrillation and atrial flutter in people whose hearts have eithe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7778362 | 567,435 |
1,760,283 | GAP43, the consensus choice for its designation, is a nervous system-specific protein that is attached to the membrane via a dual palmitoylation sequence on cysteines 3 and 4, though it can exist in the non-bound form in the cytoplasm. This dual sequence enables the association of phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7330758 | 1,759,290 |
1,059,610 | Mechano/sono-ATRP uses mechanical forces, typically ultrasonic agitation, as an external stimulus to induce the (re)generation of activators in ATRP. Esser-Kahn, et al. demonstrated the first example of mechanoATRP using the piezoelectricity of barium titanate to reduce Cu(II) species. Matyjaszewski, et al. later impro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2918518 | 1,059,059 |
1,341,606 | It is also possible to synthesize a target DNA strand for a DNA construct. Short strands of DNA known as oligonucleotides can be developed using column-based synthesis, in which bases are added one at a time to a strand of DNA attached to a solid phase. Each base has a protecting group to prevent linkage that is not re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1436317 | 1,340,873 |
1,302,071 | The U.S. Army Research Laboratory has been supporting research on silicene since 2014. The stated goals for research efforts were to analyze atomic scale materials, such as silicene, for properties and functionalities beyond existing materials, like graphene. In 2015, Deji Akinwande, led researchers at the University o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31324594 | 1,301,357 |
4,233 | The escalating cost of the B-2 program and evidence of flaws in the aircraft's ability to elude detection by radar were among factors that drove opposition to continue the program. At the peak production period specified in 1989, the schedule called for spending US$7 billion to $8 billion per year in 1989 dollars, some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4396 | 4,231 |
1,786,749 | Ship caissons are slow to operate and so, during the Victorian period, the more efficient 'sliding caisson' (also 'floating-' or 'rolling caisson') was developed. This is a permanent fixture within the dock, like a hinged dock gate, and moves upon a fixed track. The sides of the caisson are vertical, making a narrow re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45151900 | 1,785,744 |
372,978 | The ping utility was written by Mike Muuss in December 1983 during his employment at the Ballistic Research Laboratory, now the US Army Research Laboratory. A remark by David Mills on using ICMP echo packets for IP network diagnosis and measurements prompted Muuss to create the utility to troubleshoot network problems.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24265 | 372,783 |
1,184,056 | Due to observational inaccuracies, inaccuracies in the frame of reference stars, bias in the weighting of major observatories over smaller ones, and largely unknown non-gravitational forces on the asteroid, mainly the Yarkovsky effect, its position at the predicted time of encounter is uncertain in three dimensions. Ty... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14000306 | 1,183,429 |
2,052,116 | The 2018–19 Furman Paladins men's basketball team represented Furman University during the 2018–19 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Paladins, led by second-year head coach Bob Richey, played their home games at Timmons Arena in Greenville, South Carolina as members of the Southern Conference. They finished ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58815132 | 2,050,935 |
1,190,505 | In 1945 the Soviets captured several key A-4 (V-2) rocket production facilities, and also gained the services of some German scientists and engineers related to the project. Under the supervision of the Special technical Commission (OTK) established by the Soviet Union to oversee rocketry operations in Germany, A-4s we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=654995 | 1,189,871 |
862,176 | Human errors include repeated attempts at intubation during which the short-acting anesthetic may wear off but the paralysing drug has not, oesophageal intubation, inadequate drug dose, drug given by the wrong route or wrong drug given, drugs given in the wrong sequence, inadequate monitoring, patient abandonment, disc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=667636 | 861,716 |
805,608 | Rouet-Leduc et al. (2019) reported having successfully trained a regression random forest on acoustic time series data capable of identifying a signal emitted from fault zones that forecasts fault failure. Rouet-Leduc et al. (2019) suggested that the identified signal, previously assumed to be statistical noise, reflec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231137 | 805,179 |
802,513 | Another revival began in the 1980s. One cause was the discovery in 1982 by Celso Costa of a surface that disproved the conjecture that the plane, the catenoid, and the helicoid are the only complete embedded minimal surfaces in R of finite topological type. This not only stimulated new work on using the old parametric ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276734 | 802,084 |
1,430,597 | It has been documented to feed on over 500 different species of host plants, including a large number of fruit, vegetable, and ornamental crops including "Brassica oleracea" (broccoli, 'Marathon'). The insect damages the plant in several ways. The major damage is caused by the adult ovipositing in the plant tissue. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13168629 | 1,429,793 |
904,216 | The concept is claimed to have been first described by Robert Dodds in a letter he wrote in 1949 although he did not use the term "time-sharing". Later John Backus also described the concept, but did not use the term, in the 1954 summer session at MIT. Bob Bemer used the term "time-sharing" in his 1957 article "How to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30958 | 903,740 |
2,179,330 | Palaeoimmunology or paleo-immunology (""paleo""=ancient, ""immuno""=referring to immunology) is the analysis using histochemical techniques to look at the matrix proteins in historic and pre-historic materials. Modern immunological assays are used to detect the presence of specific antigens in the sample material. Spec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36936388 | 2,178,085 |
1,197,780 | According to skeptics, the phrase "holistic science" is often misused by pseudosciences. In the book "Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology" it's noted that "Proponents of pseudoscientific claims, especially in organic medicine, and mental health, often resort to the "mantra of holism" to explain away negati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1303219 | 1,197,139 |
983,261 | Similar methods were seen through the Middle East and Africa. Two similar methods were described in Sudan during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Both had been long established and stemmed from Arabic practices. "Tishteree el Jidderi" ('buying the smallpox') was a practice seen within the women of Se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34062507 | 982,747 |
1,137,276 | After World War II, Notre Dame saw a large increase in its student population, partially due to the influx of veterans under the new G.I. Bill. A record 4,400 students attended in 1946. To accommodate the increased population, president John J Cavanaugh initiated the construction of Farley Hall. The hall, which cost $7... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15873547 | 1,136,683 |
974,804 | The enzyme 5-lipoxygenase (5-LO or ALOX5) converts arachidonic acid into 5-hydroperoxyeicosatetraenoic acid (5-HPETE), which may be released and rapidly reduced to 5-hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acid (5-HETE) by ubiquitous cellular glutathione-dependent peroxidases. Alternately, ALOX5 uses its LTA synthase activity to act c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=631312 | 974,293 |
177,915 | Simon received many top-level honors in life, including becoming a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1959; election as a Member of the National Academy of Sciences in 1967; APA Award for Distinguished Scientific Contributions to Psychology (1969); ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14205 | 177,822 |
1,972,384 | Ballistic deflection transistors (BDTs) are electronic devices, developed since 2006, for high-speed integrated circuits, which is a set of circuits bounded on semiconductor material. They use electromagnetic forces instead of a logic gate, a device used to perform solely on specified inputs, to switch the forces of el... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1216282 | 1,971,250 |
669,867 | Sequences from the same gene and the same species are merged into the same database entry. Differences between sequences are identified, and their cause documented (for example alternative splicing, natural variation, incorrect initiation sites, incorrect exon boundaries, frameshifts, unidentified conflicts). A range o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1664428 | 669,517 |
249,937 | In Australia, green hydrogen has cost twice as much as conventional hydrogen and blue hydrogen, but a 2020 Australian National University report estimated that Australia could be producing it for much cheaper, even currently, and it could equal the price of conventional and blue hydrogen (at about per kilogram) by 2030... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62943310 | 249,805 |
1,482,962 | Attempts to reintroduce Boreal Toads to both previously occupied and new locations has had mixed results. In Colorado, almost all attempts at repatriation or translocation of mature individuals or eggs have failed. These studies have failed to result in a diverse age structure of mature adults, especially lacking in se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4979833 | 1,482,126 |
1,140,064 | More than 50 years ago, MSI was introduced using secondary ion mass spectrometry (SIMS) to study semiconductor surfaces by Castaing and Slodzian. However, it was the pioneering work of Richard Caprioli and colleagues in the late 1990s, demonstrating how matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization (MALDI) could be appli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13535375 | 1,139,470 |
592,124 | In general, yield expectations are lower for marginal land than for arable land in the same geographical area. Marginal land is land with issues that limits growth, for instance low water and nutrient storage capacity, high salinity, toxic elements, poor texture, shallow soil depth, poor drainage, low fertility, or ste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8202316 | 591,822 |
182,052 | Selectivity became more important as spark transmitters were replaced by continuous wave transmitters which transmitted on a narrow band of frequencies, and broadcasting led to a proliferation of closely spaced radio stations crowding the radio spectrum. Resonant transformers continued to be used as the bandpass filter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=491851 | 181,956 |
1,446,349 | Although a crystal structure of catechol oxidase has been solved, questions concerning the exact mechanism of the reaction remain. One mechanism proposed by Eicken et al. is based on the crystal structure of catechol oxidase purified from "Ipomoea batatas". The catalytic cycle begins with the catechol oxidase in its na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4616398 | 1,445,533 |
320,805 | Mainstream economist and financial adviser Barton Biggs is a proponent of preparedness. In his 2008 book "Wealth, War and Wisdom", Biggs has a gloomy outlook for the economic future, and suggests that investors take survivalist measures. In the book, Biggs recommends that his readers should "assume the possibility of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=188426 | 320,633 |
1,937,945 | The Athens campus of the 1960s saw recognition of the consequences of hegemony, a simultaneous commitment to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution, and developments for gender equality, environmentalism, and equal education for African Americans. In 1963, the university's first Bl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38411419 | 1,936,836 |
261,688 | Some high-energy cosmic rays entering Earth's atmosphere collide hard enough with molecular atmospheric constituents that they occasionally cause nuclear spallation reactions. Fission products include radionuclides such as C and Be that settle on the Earth's surface. Their concentration can be measured in tree trunks o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=206555 | 261,549 |
2,051,651 | During his studies at Cornell University from 1986 until 1991, Lectka focused on the design, synthesis, and study of stable carbocations with three-center, two-electron [C-H-C] bonds; and discussed the chemical shift of central hydrogen by the progressively smaller bond angles. He also studied alkane protonolysis leadi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65983160 | 2,050,470 |
616,836 | The casualties caused by machine gun fire led to the widespread deployment of light machine guns such as the Lewis Gun within minor infantry units. Trench warfare also led to the rapid development of new designs of grenades, rifle grenades and light mortars—all of which represented a rapid increase in the firepower ava... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2909541 | 616,522 |
795,589 | Phytoplankton are responsible for the aforementioned high rates of primary productivity within the current. Warm sea surface temperatures and low turbidity in the region lead to clearer waters which allows for deeper penetration of sunlight and an extension of the epipelagic zone. These particular characteristics, alon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=952514 | 795,164 |
567,819 | In navigation, odometry is the use of data from the movement of actuators to estimate change in position over time through devices such as rotary encoders to measure wheel rotations. While useful for many wheeled or tracked vehicles, traditional odometry techniques cannot be applied to mobile robots with non-standard l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18315951 | 567,529 |
11,821 | The LM's stock of canisters, meant to accommodate two astronauts for 45 hours on the Moon, was not enough to support three astronauts for the return journey to Earth. The CM had enough canisters, but they were of a different shape and size to the LM's, hence unable to be used in the LM's equipment. Engineers on the gro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1770 | 11,816 |
80,545 | On October 25, 2021, Blue Origin announced that together with Sierra Space it would build a "Mixed-use space business park" in LEO called Orbital Reef, to "open multiple new markets in space, [and] provide anyone with the opportunity to establish their own address on orbit." It "will offer research, industrial, interna... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=887418 | 80,512 |
1,023,613 | Liebig reaffirmed the importance of De Saussures' findings, and used them to critique humus theories, while regretting the limitations of De Saussure's experimental techniques. Using more precise methods of measurement as a basis for estimation, he pointed out contradictions such as the inability of existing soil humus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16024 | 1,023,080 |
1,013,462 | This blobbogram is from an iconic medical review; it shows clinical trials of the use of corticosteroids to hasten lung development in pregnancies where a baby is likely to be born prematurely. Long "after" there was enough evidence to show that this treatment saved babies' lives, the evidence was not widely known and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11394359 | 1,012,941 |
1,764,129 | Darwin was fascinated by their behaviour, from enjoying "the pleasure of eating" (based on their eagerness for certain foods) to their sexual passions, "strong enough to overcome... their dread of light", even to their social feelings ("crawling over each other's bodies"). Their foraging was especially intriguing: they... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21460789 | 1,763,136 |
1,111,045 | "Zarya" has two solar arrays measuring and six nickel-cadmium batteries that can provide an average of of power – the solar arrays have been however partially retracted so the P1/S1 radiators of the Integrated Truss Structure could deploy. They are still generating some power, but not the average of power, they once pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=729333 | 1,110,479 |
2,103,713 | The DDZ runs numerous clinical studies. The multicenter German Diabetes Study (GDS), which is carried out together with the partners and associated partners of the DZD eV, examines the metabolic changes of currently 1,500 people with diabetes mellitus within the first year after diagnosis and observes the course of com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63262308 | 2,102,501 |
1,391,774 | In March 1871, a disgruntled Cox organized a breakaway nucleus of reforming Republicans in Cincinnati, when 100 Republicans signed a pact, separating themselves from the regular Republican Party, calling themselves Liberal Republicans. Schurz, now considered a Liberal Republican ringleader, advocated full amnesty for f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=700175 | 1,391,003 |
824,134 | While skate skiing, the skier provides propulsion on a firm snow surface by pushing alternating skis away from one another at an angle, in a manner similar to ice skating. Skis are waxed with a glide wax over their entire length, making them faster than classic skis. Freestyle events take place on smooth, wide, special... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44298710 | 823,691 |
2,108,816 | The zoologist Martin Stevens and colleagues, in 2006, write that "almost all early discussions of camouflage were of the background-matching type", citing Wallace, Poulton, and Beddard, "until the pioneering work of Thayer (1909) and Cott (1940)", which added disruptive coloration. Cott however both makes use of Beddar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38398925 | 2,107,602 |
1,153,084 | The generally accepted methods of making CNT films involves the use of surfactants, such as Triton X-100 and sodium lauryl sulfate, which improves their dispersibility in aqueous solution. These suspensions can then be membrane filtered under positive or negative pressure to yield uniform films. The van der Waals force... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3657723 | 1,152,474 |
1,776,900 | The high level of research work and the highest qualifications of the university's academic teaching staff are reflected in individual distinctions, among many – the Polish equivalence of Nobel Prizes – the prize awarded by the Foundation for Polish Science to professors: Roman Kaliszan in 2003, Janusz Limon in 2004, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2613731 | 1,775,901 |
1,956,109 | Owen Witte (born May 17, 1949) is an American physician-scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a distinguished professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics in the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, founding director of the UCLA Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Med... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50280260 | 1,954,987 |
1,775,191 | The ability to control the beam electrically offers significant operational advantages. Small scale beam steering, or "wobbling", is useful during the pulse to smooth out the energy. On a longer time frame, the continual motion of the device due to sagging and seismic events has to be accounted for over the long travel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67203348 | 1,774,194 |
295,971 | Many "organophosphates" are potent nerve agents, functioning by inhibiting the action of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in nerve cells. They are one of the most common causes of poisoning worldwide, and are frequently intentionally used in suicides in agricultural areas. Organophosphate pesticides can be absorbed by all r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=959629 | 295,811 |
1,096,653 | Jiahu yielded some of the oldest Chinese pottery yet found in Neolithic China. Patrick McGovern, of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, led a team of scientists who applied biomarker chemical analysis to pottery jars from Jiahu. They found signature molecules proving alcohol was fermented from rice, honey, grapes, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1060260 | 1,096,093 |
394,503 | UC was founded on 21 June 1888, by the Santiago archbishop, to offer training in traditional professions (law) and in technological and practical fields such as business, accounting, chemistry, and electricity. Its first chancellor was Monsignor Joaquín Larraín Gandarillas, and at the very beginning, the university onl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2463359 | 394,308 |
413,037 | An emphasis on minute details of words and spellings, already used among the Pharisees as basis for argumentation, reached its height with the example of Rabbi Akiva (died 135 CE). The idea of a perfect text sanctified in its consonantal base quickly spread throughout the Jewish communities via supportive statements in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66537 | 412,835 |
1,190,170 | The cellular response in signal transduction cascades involves alteration of the expression of effector genes or activation/inhibition of targeted proteins. Regulation of protein activity mainly involves phosphorylation/dephosphorylation events, leading to its activation or inhibition. It is the case for the vast major... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1872854 | 1,189,538 |
1,814,788 | "Player preferences among new and old violins" is a scholarly paper published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences"" "in January 2012. It describes a double-blind study in which researcher Claudia Fritz of the Pierre and Marie Curie University and violinmaker Joseph Curtin asked judges and participan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34269687 | 1,813,754 |
1,751,466 | The memory management system had weaknesses; the system heap was not protected from errant applications, as would have been possible if the system architecture had supported memory protection, and this was frequently the cause of system problems and crashes. In addition, the handle-based approach also opened up a sourc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=299617 | 1,750,480 |
457,233 | The earliest records of baculoviruses can be found in the literature from as early as the 16th century in reports of "wilting disease" infecting silkworm larvae. Starting in the 1940s, the viruses were used and studied widely as biopesticides in crop fields. Since the 1990s, they have been employed to produce complex e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2084531 | 457,010 |
614,564 | The presentation of information about attributes can also reduce the cognitive effort associated with processing and reduce errors. This can generally be accomplished by increasing evaluability and comparability of attributes. One example is to convert commonly used metrics into those that consumers can be assumed to c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20502327 | 614,250 |
833,539 | The University of Hamburg is made up of over 180 properties scattered throughout the city. The Main Building stands on the Moorweide opposite Hamburg Dammtor station, not far from the main campus at Von-Melle-Park. The State and University Library Hamburg, the Audimax (Auditorium), the Hamburg University Archive and se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1753136 | 833,090 |
1,770,279 | As evolution can produce highly optimised processes and networks, it has many applications in computer science. Here, simulations of evolution using evolutionary algorithms and artificial life started with the work of Nils Aall Barricelli in the 1960s, and was extended by Alex Fraser, who published a series of papers o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30744522 | 1,769,284 |
583,051 | Hugh Cott's 1940 book "Adaptive Coloration in Animals" introduced ideas such as "maximum disruptive contrast". This uses streaks of boldly contrasting colour, which paradoxically make animals or military vehicles less visible by breaking up their outlines. He explains that in ideal conditions, background colour matchin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37438477 | 582,752 |
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