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1,386,435 | Mucosal associated invariant T cells (MAIT cells) make up a subset of T cells in the immune system that display innate, effector-like qualities. In humans, MAIT cells are found in the blood, liver, lungs, and mucosa, defending against microbial activity and infection. The MHC class I-like protein, MR1, is responsible f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38751964 | 1,385,668 |
1,305,504 | Tarski's axiomatization is shorter than its rivals, in a sense Tarski and Givant (1999) make explicit. It is more concise than Pieri's because Pieri had only two primitive notions while Tarski introduced three: point, betweenness, and congruence. Such economy of primitive and defined notions means that Tarski's system ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2181360 | 1,304,788 |
1,824,763 | Princess Elisabeth Antarctica was established by Belgium as a project to promote polar sciences, as well as to demonstrate the possibility of building a Zero emission station. Research is conducted by an international team of scientists, studying climatology, glaciology and microbiology. It went into service on Februar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42735080 | 1,823,725 |
550,575 | Schoch is best known for his fringe argument that the Great Sphinx of Giza is much older than conventionally thought and that some kind of catastrophe was responsible for wiping out evidence of a significantly older, unknown civilization. In 1991, Schoch redated the monument to 10,000–5,000 BC, based on water erosion m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2637385 | 550,287 |
67,756 | Within the framework of the United Nations, the principle of nuclear non-proliferation was addressed in negotiations as early as 1957. The NPT process was launched by Frank Aiken, Irish Minister for External Affairs, in 1958. The NPT gained significant momentum in the early 1960s. The structure of a treaty to uphold nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22107 | 67,730 |
1,201,009 | Sir James Whyte Black (14 June 1924 – 22 March 2010) was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist. Together with Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings, he shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 for pioneering strategies for rational drug-design, which, in his case, lead to the development of propranolol and cim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337415 | 1,200,368 |
483,340 | Having lost the western part of the country, significant problems arose transport, specifically rail transport. Transport by rail was most important for the military and throughout the war it took the brunt of military traffic. In addition, the most extensive railway network was in the occupied western part of the coun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60830799 | 483,093 |
904,752 | After "Realization", Sharma considered quitting climbing and went on Buddhist pilgrimages. However, a trip to Mallorca, Spain to meet Miquel Riera, a pioneer of deep-water soloing, led him to "fall in love with climbing all over again". Sharma largely abandoned competitions, to focus on "King Lines", a term he adopted ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=868200 | 904,276 |
502,230 | Group 6 elements can form reactive pentacarbonyls that can react with argon. These were actually argon compounds discovered in 1975, and were known before the discovery of HArF, but are usually overlooked. Tungsten normally forms a hexacarbonyl, but when subject to ultraviolet radiation it breaks into a reactive pentac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51721949 | 501,972 |
1,275,741 | Competition from the District and UKTC, together with economies of scale as the network grew, steadily drove down prices. In 1851, the ETC charged ten shillings (50p) for a twenty-word inland telegram over . This fell to four shillings (20p) in 1855, but was still expensive for a typical Victorian worker to use. A weav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60245762 | 1,275,048 |
1,297,581 | Helix transformations to implement recursive filters via convolution are used in various areas of signal processing. Although frequency domain Fourier analysis is effective when systems are stationary, with constant coefficients and periodically-sampled data, it becomes more difficult in unstable systems. The helix tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48491553 | 1,296,869 |
1,085,052 | In 2016, Alexander Galkin, the Russia's Southern Military District commander, said Su-25s had flown more than 1,600 sorties and dropped around 6,000 bombs since the beginning of Russia's intervention in September 2015. In September 2017, the Russian Ministry of Defence released a video showing two Su-25s helping to res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56842965 | 1,084,494 |
822,477 | Horizontal bandsaws hold the workpiece stationary while the blade swings down through the cut. This configuration is used to cut long materials such as pipe or bar stock to length. Thus it is an important part of the facilities in most machine shops. The horizontal design is not useful for cutting curves or complicated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=827069 | 822,036 |
163,570 | Further developments in welding steel with GMAW led to a variation known as short-circuit transfer (SCT) or short-arc GMAW, in which the current is lower than for the globular method. As a result of the lower current, the heat input for the short-arc variation is considerably reduced, making it possible to weld thinner... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33731132 | 163,485 |
640,230 | The ruff is a long-necked, pot-bellied bird. This species shows marked sexual dimorphism; the male is much larger than the female (the reeve), and has a breeding plumage that includes brightly coloured head tufts, bare orange facial skin, extensive black on the breast, and the large collar of ornamental feathers that i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=350073 | 639,891 |
841,366 | Receiving most attention in recent years has been the well-preserved, Roman period copy of the statue in Pentelic marble, purchased in 1986 by the Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA). This copy is 1.98 m high and dates to the first century BC or first century AD. It is the best-preserved surviving copy of the Doryphoros... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1463369 | 840,916 |
2,128,430 | Additionally, the project published the discovery a nearby young brown dwarf with a warm class-II type circumstellar disk, WISEA J120037.79−784508.3 (W1200−7845), located in the ε Chamaeleontis association. Found 102 parsecs (~333 lightyears) from our sun, this puts it within the solar neighborhood, making it ideal for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43934042 | 2,127,207 |
122,573 | Genetic engineering, recombinant DNA technology, genetic modification/manipulation (GM) and gene splicing are terms that apply to the direct manipulation of an organism's genes. Unlike traditional breeding, an indirect method of genetic manipulation, genetic engineering utilizes modern tools such as molecular cloning a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4827 | 122,524 |
1,230,435 | Traditional testing methodologies (often employed in the Waterfall model of software development) usually involve a two-team, two-phase process in which the development team builds the product to as near perfection as possible. The software product is delivered late in the software development life cycle at which point... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10319588 | 1,229,773 |
893,600 | Although the crystal structure changed surprisingly little after binding to cilengitide, the current hypothesis is that integrin function involves changes in shape to move the ligand-binding site into a more accessible position, away from the cell surface, and this shape change also triggers intracellular signaling. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15302 | 893,130 |
1,624,429 | In July 1992, Kitaev attacked his last victim in the village of Tvortsy. Because the 40-year-old woman was menstruating, she offered to instead give her assailant a blowjob, to which he agreed. While performing oral sex on him, the woman bit Kitaev's penis, incapacitating him and managing to escape. She went to the pol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66857982 | 1,623,513 |
386,299 | The stoichiometric number formula_18 represents the degree to which a chemical species participates in a reaction. The convention is to assign negative numbers to "reactants" (which are consumed) and positive ones to "products", consistent with the convention that increasing the extent of reaction will correspond to sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28650 | 386,104 |
783,430 | The search for a fossil showing transitional traits between apes and humans, however, was fruitless until the young Dutch geologist Eugène Dubois found a skullcap, a molar and a femur on the banks of Solo River, Java in 1891. The find combined a low, ape-like skull roof with a brain estimated at around 1000 cc, midway ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=331755 | 783,011 |
1,978,052 | Organocerium compounds are chemical compounds that contain one or more chemical bond between carbon and cerium. Organocerium chemistry is the corresponding science exploring properties, structure and reactivity of these compounds. In general, organocerium compounds are not isolable, and are rather studied in solution v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31494514 | 1,976,914 |
1,152,094 | At the University of Strasbourg, although he considered studying philosophy, he ended up taking courses in physical, chemical and natural sciences, attending the lectures of Guy Ourisson, and realizing that he wanted to pursue a research career in organic chemistry. He joined Ourisson's lab, working his way to the Ph.D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1312121 | 1,151,485 |
310,708 | In October 2018, Bombardier sued Mitsubishi in Seattle, alleging that its ex-employees stole trade secrets to help for US certification. By then, the four MRJ90 prototypes had clocked 2,400 hours, targeting certification in late 2019 or early 2020 and first delivery in mid-2020, while the smaller MRJ70 should be introd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11998628 | 310,540 |
564,515 | The trains were built to operate services on newly electrified lines in the Central Belt on a mixture of both suburban and inter-urban routes. Having been ordered by Abellio ScotRail during April 2015, the first trainsets entered service during late July 2018. Their introduction was somewhat delayed due to the need for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48450453 | 564,225 |
1,909,355 | During the COVID-19 pandemic, Marshall provided advice to the state's Health Minister Stephen Wade and Chief Public Health Officer Nicola Spurrier and was cited as one of Australia's leading vaccination experts. Commencing in September 2020, Marshall was co-investigator at the University of Sydney in a Phase I Human Tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69876236 | 1,908,257 |
928,686 | Current methods for structure-based drug design can be divided roughly into three main categories. The first method is identification of new ligands for a given receptor by searching large databases of 3D structures of small molecules to find those fitting the binding pocket of the receptor using fast approximate docki... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=579414 | 928,195 |
898,226 | Out of the hundreds of known "Psittacosaurus" specimens, only one has been described to possess any sort of pathology. The specimen in question, consisting of a complete adult skeleton and tentatively assigned to "P. mongoliensis", was found in the lower beds of the Yixian Formation. There is no sign of a bone fracture... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2274247 | 897,752 |
297,278 | Californium-252 has a number of specialized uses as a strong neutron emitter; it produces 139 million neutrons per microgram per minute. This property makes it useful as a startup neutron source for some nuclear reactors and as a portable (non-reactor based) neutron source for neutron activation analysis to detect trac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5676 | 297,118 |
1,190,066 | Lewin explicitly stated that either the person or the environment may be more important in particular situations:"Every psychological event depends upon the state of the person and at the same time on the environment, although their relative importance is different in different cases."Thus, Lewin believed he succeeded ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10995827 | 1,189,434 |
1,046,749 | The New Famicom is similar in appearance to the New-Style NES, though the former lacks the "bump" on the latter's cartridge slot to accommodate the shorter Famicom cartridges as well as the RAM Adapter for the Famicom Disk System. It was bundled with two "dog bone" controllers; while this allowed for easy replacement o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68630525 | 1,046,204 |
471,231 | The Trishul missile project was commissioned in 1983 as a part of Integrated Guided Missile Development Programme. The primary objective was to produce short range surface to air missile with a reaction time below 6 seconds. In 1985, Trishul made its first unguided flight from Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1248899 | 470,995 |
577,714 | Naïve CD4+T cells differentiate into Treg or various helper T cell subsets (Th1, Th2, Th17 or Tfh). In the gut-associated lymphoid tissue, the process of differentiation occurs via presentation of antigens derived from gut microbiota by antigen presenting cells such as dendritic cells or M cells in Peyer´s patches. Typ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2999783 | 577,418 |
1,697,361 | In 2007, the first new construction project for the school in over 30 years was announced after a $15 million donation from the Belo Foundation: the Belo Center for New Media augmented teaching and research space for the college with a new building on the north side of Dean Keeton Street. Construction began in May 2010... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11346671 | 1,696,407 |
279,959 | Starting in 1961, General Electric started one of their most important research and development efforts, the GE1 technology demonstrator (originally designated the X101). The GE1 was a basic gas generator (compressor, combustor and turbine) onto which a variety of components such as fans, afterburners or other thrust v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=633389 | 279,809 |
1,174,797 | Other examples are the fitting of a wrought iron tyre around the rim of a wooden cart wheel by a wheelwright, or of a steel tyre to the wheel of a railway engine or rolling stock. In both cases the tyre will be heated and expands to slightly greater than the wheel's diameter, and is fitted around it. After cooling, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6569417 | 1,174,175 |
633,955 | Consider a toroidal mass with two degrees of rotation (both major axis and minor-axis spin, both turning inside out and revolving). This represents a "special case" in which gravitomagnetic effects generate a chiral corkscrew-like gravitational field around the object. The reaction forces to dragging at the inner and o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24794048 | 633,617 |
1,270,090 | The first design with wide clinical adoption was the Charité disc replacement, designed by East German scientists: two-time Olympic champion in women's artistic gymnastics Karin Büttner-Janz and Kurt Schellnack, a doctor, engineer, and professor—both of whom were affiliated with the Charité Center for Musculoskeletal S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14316180 | 1,269,399 |
1,937,803 | The 1992–93 Florida State Seminoles men's basketball team represented Florida State University as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference during the 1992–93 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Led by head coach Pat Kennedy, and future NBA players Sam Cassell, Doug Edwards, Bob Sura, and Charlie Ward, the Seminole... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60871800 | 1,936,695 |
1,183,609 | "Shringasaurus" is known from a single bone bed of fossils in the upper Denwa Formation, India. The formation is part of the Satpura Gondwana Basin, located in the Hoshangabad district in the state of Madhya Pradesh. The precise age of the Denwa Formation is not known, but vertebrate biostratigraphy has been used to na... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54977531 | 1,182,983 |
43,875 | In 1949, Shevky and Williams introduced the theory of factorial ecology, which dominated studies of residential differentiation from the 1950s to the 1970s. Neighbourhoods in a city were recognizable or could be distinguished from one another by various characteristics which could be reduced to three by factor analysis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=76340 | 43,858 |
2,049,527 | The SLC25A31 gene is important for the coding of the most abundant mitochondrial protein Ancp which represents 10% of the proteins of the inner membrane of bovine heart mitochondria. Ancp is encoded by four different genes: SLC25A4 (also known as ANC1 or ANT1), SLC25A5 (ANC3 or ANT2), SLC25A6 (ANC2 or ANT3) and SLC25A3... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16858498 | 2,048,346 |
1,890,104 | The SLC25A5 gene is important for the coding of the most abundant mitochondrial protein Ancp which represents 10% of the proteins of the inner membrane of bovine heart mitochondria. Ancp is encoded by four different genes: SLC25A4 (also known as ANC1 or ANT1), SLC25A5 (ANC3 or ANT2), SLC25A6 (ANC2 or ANT3) and SLC25A31... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40566060 | 1,889,021 |
1,555,649 | Uranium nitride has been considered as a potential fuel for nuclear reactors. It is said to be safer, stronger, denser, more thermally conductive and having a higher temperature tolerance. Challenges to implementation of the fuel include a complex conversion route from enriched UF, the need to prevent oxidation during ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10141860 | 1,554,766 |
606,957 | With positron annihilation it is also possible to determine the Fermi surface as the annihilation process conserves the momentum of the initial particle. Since a positron in a solid will thermalize prior to annihilation, the annihilation radiation carries the information about the electron momentum. The corresponding e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=986096 | 606,647 |
1,282,858 | Besides tie-ins to his TV series, Buckman authored several books of medical humour, such as "Out of Practice" (1978), "Jogging from Memory: or letters to Sigmund Freud" (1980), and "The Buckman Treatment; or a doctor's tour in North America" (1989). Later, as Robert Buckman, he contributed as author or co-author to a s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4481107 | 1,282,162 |
874,591 | A nucleic acid test (NAT) is a technique used to detect a particular nucleic acid sequence and thus usually to detect and identify a particular species or subspecies of organism, often a virus or bacterium that acts as a pathogen in blood, tissue, urine, etc. NATs differ from other tests in that they detect genetic mat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15037251 | 874,129 |
225,757 | Direct imitations and local derivations of Oriental, Syro-Palestinian and Cypriot figurines are found in Late Bronze Age Sardinia, with a local production of figurines from the 11th to 10th century BC. The cremation graves (mainly 8th-7th centuries BC, but continuing until the beginning of the 4th century) from the nec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=885375 | 225,641 |
1,193,275 | Precisely how these currents are controlled has become much clearer with the advances in receptor structure and G-protein coupled processes. Many receptors are found to be pentameric clusters of five transmembrane proteins (not necessarily the same) or "receptor subunits", each a chain of many amino acids. Transmitters... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2917198 | 1,192,639 |
1,118,268 | Most of the components for OSCAR 10 were "off the shelf". Jan King led the project. Solar cells were bought in batches of 10 or 20 from Radio Shack, and tested for efficiency by group members. The most efficient cells were kept for the project; the rest were returned to RadioShack. Once ready, OSCAR 10 was mounted aboa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34278960 | 1,117,695 |
169,144 | Block cores are typically tapered so that their top surface (as laid) has a greater surface on which to spread a mortar bed and for easier handling. Most CMUs have two cores, but three- and four-core units are also produced. A core also allows for the insertion of steel reinforcement to span courses in order to increas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1103580 | 169,054 |
390,916 | In the early 6th century the Roman philosopher Boethius popularized Pythagorean and Platonic conceptions of the universe and expounded the supreme importance of numerical ratios. The 7th century Bishop Isidore of Seville expressed his preference for the Pythagorean vision of a universe governed by the mystical properti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=291170 | 390,721 |
1,704,971 | Howe, as senior officer chosen over the more junior William Woodford of Virginia, engaged in contentious negotiations over access to supplies with the captains of British ships anchored off Norfolk, which were by that time overcrowded with Loyalist refugees. The situation deteriorated, and Norfolk was burned on January... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=691304 | 1,704,015 |
187,089 | Virtually all sexually reproducing organisms are made up of somatic cells that are diploid or greater, but ploidy level may vary widely between different organisms, between different tissues within the same organism, and at different stages in an organism's life cycle. Half of all known plant genera contain polyploid s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23219 | 186,992 |
6,918 | On 7 August 2014, U.S. defense officials announced they had been authorized to launch bombing missions upon Islamic State (IS) forces in northern Iraq. The decision to take direct action was made to protect U.S. personnel in the city of Irbil and to ensure the safety of transport aircraft making airdrops to Yazidi civi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=845012 | 6,915 |
759,229 | A hypothesis proposed by Matija Ćuk posits that the last few basin-forming impacts were the result of the collisional disruption of a large Mars-crossing asteroid. This Vesta-sized asteroid was a remnant of a population which initially was much larger than the current main asteroid belt. Most of the pre-Imbrium impacts... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30864636 | 758,823 |
1,012,869 | In 1999, Zewail became the first Egyptian to receive a science Nobel Prize when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Zewail gave his Nobel Lecture on "Femtochemistry: Atomic-Scale Dynamics of the Chemical Bond Using Ultrafast Lasers". In 1999, he received Egypt's highest state honor, the Grand Collar of the Nil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=113617 | 1,012,348 |
365,182 | The patient may be examined with pupillary dilation and education given prior to the procedure. Before the surgery, the patient's corneas are examined with a pachymeter to determine their thickness, and with a topographer, or corneal topography machine, to measure their surface contour. Using low-power lasers, a topogr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=417929 | 364,991 |
1,468,678 | Depth filtration is also widely used for the clarification of cell culture clarification. The cell culture systems can contain yeast, bacterial and other contaminant cells and hence, an efficient clarification stage is vital to separate the cells and other colloidal matter to produce a particle free cell system [9]. Mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18041820 | 1,467,854 |
707,207 | The theory of quantum electrodynamics predicts that the QED vacuum should exhibit a slight nonlinearity so that in the presence of a very strong electric field, the permitivity is increased by a tiny amount with respect to ε. Subject to ongoing experimental efforts is the effect that a strong electric field would modif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=701188 | 706,838 |
1,494,424 | "Sylvilagus palustris hefneri" was federally recognized as an endangered species on June 21, 1990. The urbanized Florida Keys have left the rabbits with a very small home range, making them more vulnerable to threats such as pollution, vehicular road kill, and predation by stray cats. Forys and Humphrey (1999) predicte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21497684 | 1,493,583 |
2,133,803 | Nanowell array formats are used to express individual proteins in small volume reaction vessels or nanowells (Figure 4). This format is sometimes preferred because it avoids the need to immobilize the target protein which might result in the potential loss of protein activity. The miniaturization of the array also cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16276793 | 2,132,578 |
1,196,512 | Protection features must also prevent the human operator and the public from encountering the high voltages and power which exist inside the transmitter. Tube transmitters typically use DC voltages between 600 and 30,000 volts, which are deadly if contacted. Radio frequency power above about 10 watts can cause burning ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3548161 | 1,195,872 |
126,854 | The crystal is mounted for measurements so that it may be held in the X-ray beam and rotated. There are several methods of mounting. In the past, crystals were loaded into glass capillaries with the crystallization solution (the mother liquor). Nowadays, crystals of small molecules are typically attached with oil or gl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34151 | 126,802 |
537,238 | Seafloor weather is linked both to solar luminosity and carbon dioxide concentration. However, it presented a challenge to modelers who have tried to relate the rate of outgassing and subduction to the related rates of seafloor change. Proper, uncomplicated proxy data is difficult to attain for such questions. For exam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21051206 | 536,959 |
1,473,801 | In the second session, where it was difficult for teams to alter their car's race set-ups because of strong crosswinds, Hamilton set the day's fastest lap at 1 minute, 39.085 seconds on super-soft compound tyres; Rosberg was three-thousands of a second slower in second and had the fastest time until Hamilton's lap. Bot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38847467 | 1,472,970 |
1,412,844 | Lichten left Transcendental in 1948, and, in September 1952, Guerrieri sold his interests in the company to William E. Cobey Jr., a Kellett Aircraft Corporation vibrations expert who continued the development of the Model 1-G. With some funding provided by a 1952 Army/Air Force contract for flight data reports and anal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40588236 | 1,412,049 |
92,297 | Motorola's success with the 68000 led to the MC68010, which added virtual memory support. The MC68020, introduced in 1984 added full 32-bit data and address buses. The 68020 became hugely popular in the Unix supermicrocomputer market, and many small companies (e.g., Altos, Charles River Data Systems, Cromemco) produced... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19553 | 92,256 |
34,387 | Nye was born November 27, 1955, in Washington, D.C., to Jacqueline Jenkins (1921–2000), who was a codebreaker during World War II, and Edwin Darby "Ned" Nye (1917–1997), who also served in World War II and worked as a contractor building an airstrip on Wake Island. Ned was captured and spent four years in a Japanese pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10276064 | 34,375 |
1,369,663 | FBA finds applications in bioprocess engineering to systematically identify modifications to the metabolic networks of microbes used in fermentation processes that improve product yields of industrially important chemicals such as ethanol and succinic acid. It has also been used for the identification of putative drug ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4101904 | 1,368,907 |
414,783 | Platinum is a moderately hard metal (MH 3.5) of low mechanical strength, with a close-packed face-centred cubic structure (BCN 12). Compared to other metals in this category, it has an unusually high melting point (2042 K v 1338 for gold). Platinum is more ductile than gold, silver or copper, thus being the most ductil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42657422 | 414,580 |
2,199,840 | This gene is one of seven beta-1,4-galactosyltransferase (beta4GalT) genes. They encode type II membrane-bound glycoproteins that appear to have exclusive specificity for the donor substrate UDP-galactose; all transfer galactose in a beta1,4 linkage to similar acceptor sugars: GlcNAc, Glc, and Xyl. Each beta4GalT has a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16858967 | 2,198,588 |
1,096,736 | The economic viability of biomass is dependent on regulated tariffs, due to high costs of infrastructure and ingredients for ongoing operations. Biomass does offer a ready disposal mechanism by burning municipal, agricultural, and industrial organic waste products. First-generation biomass technologies can be economica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10418624 | 1,096,176 |
2,023,581 | The vast majority of forensic entomological casework consists of establishing a very concrete timeline of the events involved in the crime scene. The new set of data provided by forensic entomological casework undoubtedly provides a solid case for either the defense or the prosecution. But as seen in a new series of ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16182527 | 2,022,417 |
342,756 | In the earlier part of the twentieth century, Slipher, Wirtz and others made the first measurements of the redshifts and blueshifts of galaxies beyond the Milky Way. They initially interpreted these redshifts and blueshifts as being due to random motions, but later Lemaître (1927) and Hubble (1929), using previous data... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26262 | 342,575 |
2,145,456 | Richards used her own domestic processes to perform experiments and improve efficiency. The gas meter in the house was placed in the kitchen, where she could observe consumption with different cooking methods. All manner of home gadgetry was subjected to testing, either by Richards or by students who boarded with the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17530525 | 2,144,225 |
642,906 | Composite Metal Foam has been tested in a puncture test. Puncture tests were conducted on S-S CMF-CSP with different thicknesses of stainless steel face sheets and CMF core. The bonding of the S-S CMF core and face sheets was done via adhesive bonding and diffusion bonding. Various thicknesses of the CMF core and face ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2324595 | 642,567 |
1,349,800 | A variety of stimuli, including serum, growth factors, tumor promoters, cytokines, and UV radiation induce their expression. The c-fos mRNA and protein is generally among the first to be expressed and hence referred to as an immediate early gene. It is rapidly and transiently induced, within 15 minutes of stimulation. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7122398 | 1,349,054 |
1,170,037 | In the early 1980s it was noted that a series of imidazole-5-acetic acid derivatives diminished blood pressure responses to Ang II in rats. Two compounds, S-8307 and S-8308, were later found to be highly specific and promising non-peptide Ang II receptor antagonists but using molecular modeling it was seen that their s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20206762 | 1,169,418 |
2,168,587 | The idea of an interdisciplinary laboratory in the solid state and materials sciences had already proved extremely successful in industrial laboratory settings (such as the Bell Laboratories and others) leading, for example, to the development of the transistor and the laser. The establishment of such laboratories in a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30862721 | 2,167,350 |
760,215 | First studies of the interaction of plasmas with hypersonic flows around vehicles date back to the late 1950s, with the concept of a new kind of thermal protection system for space capsules during high-speed reentry. As low-pressure air is naturally ionized at such very high velocities and altitude, it was thought to u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182734 | 759,809 |
149,701 | A Phase IV trial is also known as a postmarketing surveillance trial or drug monitoring trial to assure long-term safety and effectiveness of the drug, vaccine, device or diagnostic test. Phase IV trials involve the safety surveillance (pharmacovigilance) and ongoing technical support of a drug after it receives regula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34382035 | 149,633 |
833,571 | Hahn and Meitner were joined by Fritz Strassmann. Strassmann had received his doctorate in analytical chemistry from the Technical University of Hannover in 1929, and had come to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry to study under Hahn, believing that this would improve his employment prospects. He enjoyed the wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64011351 | 833,122 |
546,175 | The first steps of RNA-seq also include similar image processing; however, conversion of images to sequence data is typically handled automatically by the instrument software. The Illumina sequencing-by-synthesis method results in an array of clusters distributed over the surface of a flow cell. The flow cell is imaged... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54112223 | 545,889 |
316,376 | The leading theorist of air power was Italian general Giulio Douhet, who believed that future wars would be won or lost in the air. The air force would carry the offensive, and the role of the ground forces would be defensive only. Douhet's doctrine of strategic bombing meant striking at the enemy's heartland—his citie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=91515 | 316,207 |
581,342 | Marston Mat was extensively used during World War II by Army engineers and Seabees ("CBs"; Construction Battalions) to build runways and other readily usable surfaces over all kinds of terrain. An early in-theater use of PSP was in constructing a runway on Greenland's 'Bluie West One' (BW-1), an Allied Ferry Command an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5057915 | 581,044 |
985,219 | "Attitudes" towards a message can affect motivation. Drawing from cognitive dissonance theory, when people are presented with new information (a message) that conflicts with existing beliefs, ideas, or values, they will be motivated to eliminate the dissonance, in order to remain at peace with their own thoughts. For i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2176826 | 984,705 |
767,892 | Self efficacy is another important factor both in the health belief model and in behavior change in general. When people believe that they actually have the power to prevent the given risk, then they are more likely to take the appropriate measures to do so. When individuals believe that they cannot change their behavi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12372971 | 767,480 |
1,661,923 | In 1943 the squadrons of the 1st Fighter Group began to apply distinctive colors to their tailbooms, wingtips and propeller tips for rapid unit identification. This was in addition to the fuselage letter codes assigned to the group by the Eighth Air Force which it continued to use when reassigned to the Twelfth Air For... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4381244 | 1,660,988 |
1,642,477 | The theory of direct parameter specification (Fig. 4) was proposed by Odmar Neumann at the University of Bielefeld, Germany, to explain the Fehrer-Raab effect as well as the results of early response priming studies. The theory assumes that at the outset of a response priming experiment, participants acquire rules of s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30601657 | 1,641,550 |
2,213,845 | Gould is deeply committed to the advancement of the mining industry in South Australia and has worked to that end through leadership positions on several government advisory boards and committees. He chairs the South Australian Minerals & Petroleum Expert Group (SAMPEG) and the CSIRO Mineral Resources Sector Advisory C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43827393 | 2,212,585 |
96,732 | Most Tesla coil designs have a smooth spherical- or toroidal-shaped metal electrode on the high-voltage terminal. The electrode serves as one plate of a capacitor, with the Earth as the other plate, forming the tuned circuit with the secondary winding. Although the "toroid" increases the secondary capacitance, which te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39113 | 96,691 |
262,789 | The genus was named in 1825 by English geologist Gideon Mantell but discovered by William Harding Bensted, based on fossil specimens found in England and was given the species name "I. anglicus." "Iguanodon" was the second type of dinosaur formally named based on fossil specimens, after "Megalosaurus". Together with "M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=228798 | 262,650 |
140,648 | To reflect the various views and approaches to risk management of zoonotic diseases, an inclusive and diverse approach will produce more considered and nuanced outcomes. In trying to drive down the occurrences of FMD, capitalist approaches involve calculating probabilities of risk in an anticipatory manner and this rar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21438755 | 140,591 |
372,548 | Other risk assessment groups are based in or are part of governmental organizations. The World Health Organization (WHO) includes a division called the Global Alert and Response (GAR) which monitors and responds to global epidemic crisis. GAR helps member states with training and coordination of response to epidemics. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21221594 | 372,353 |
909,001 | AsdA (antisense RNA of dnaA) is a "cis-"encoded antisense RNA of "dnaA" described in "S. enterica" serovar Typhi. It was discovered by deep sequencing and its transcription was confirmed by Northern blot and RACE analysis. AsdA is estimated to be about 540 nucleotides long, and represents the complementary strand to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=457601 | 908,522 |
207,622 | In 2016–17, 332,727 US students studied abroad for credit. Most took place in Europe, with 40 percent of students studying in five countries: the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, France, and Germany. The US is the most popular country in the world for attracting students from other countries, according to UNESCO, with 16%... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3189597 | 207,515 |
2,042,556 | The Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (APECS) is a worldwide association of early career scientists (undergraduate and graduate students, postdocs, and early career faculty) interested in the polar regions and the cryosphere generally. Its mission is to raise the profile of polar scientists by providing a co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10426660 | 2,041,376 |
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