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2,036,256 | The Vandals successfully defended their title in the Far West Classic at Portland in late December, and had a record in mid-January, and appeared capable of a third consecutive conference title. Four road defeats in conference and the home loss to Montana resulted in a tie for third place in the regular season with the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56631545 | 2,035,082 |
900,414 | The first organized meetings of ecological economists occurred in the 1980s. These began in 1982, at the instigation of Lois Banner, with a meeting held in Sweden (including Robert Costanza, Herman Daly, Charles Hall, Bruce Hannon, H.T. Odum, and David Pimentel). Most were ecosystem ecologists or mainstream environment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177694 | 899,939 |
2,012,689 | The 2011–12 Georgetown Hoyas men's basketball team represented Georgetown University in the 2011–2012 NCAA Division I basketball season. They were led by John Thompson III and played their home games at the Verizon Center. They are a member of the Big East Conference. Prior to the season, the Hoyas made a goodwill trip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33673923 | 2,011,536 |
842,322 | It was thought that evidence of the earliest true crank handle was found in a Han era glazed-earthenware tomb model of an agricultural winnowing fan dated no later than 200 AD, but since then a series of similar pottery models with crank operated winnowing fans were unearthed, with one of them dating back to the Wester... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384237 | 841,872 |
84,974 | The toxic effect of phenol on the central nervous system, discussed below, causes sudden collapse and loss of consciousness in both humans and animals; a state of cramping precedes these symptoms because of the motor activity controlled by the central nervous system. Injections of phenol were used as a means of individ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24085 | 84,940 |
1,703,343 | Marsh worked to build Team Elite under SwimMAC Carolina since 2007. Prior to founding Team Elite he was the men's and women's swimming coach at Auburn University. After becoming head coach of Auburn in 1990, Marsh led the men's team to seven NCAA national championships (1997, 1999, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007) and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4006619 | 1,702,387 |
1,369,925 | Dalén was born in Stenstorp, a small village in Falköping Municipality, Västra Götaland County. He managed the family farm, which he expanded to include a market garden, a seed merchants and a dairy. In 1892 he invented a milk-fat tester to check milk quality of the milk delivered and went to Stockholm to show his new ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=92418 | 1,369,169 |
345,583 | Although they lack neurons, a form of proprioception has also been described in some plants (angiosperms). Terrestrial plants control the orientation of their primary growth through the sensing of several vectorial stimuli such as the light gradient or the gravitational acceleration. This control has been called tropis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21290714 | 345,402 |
843,254 | His textbook, "Systematic Programming: An Introduction", was considered a good source for students who wanted to do more than just coding. The cover flap of the sixth edition (1973) stated the book "... is tailored to the needs of people who view a course on systematic construction of algorithms as part of their basic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21642 | 842,804 |
180,778 | Henry was the grandfather of William Sinclair, 1st Earl of Caithness, the builder of Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh, Scotland. The authors Robert Lomas and Christopher Knight believe some carvings in the chapel were intended to represent ears of New World corn or maize, a crop unknown in Europe at the time of the chapel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158687 | 180,684 |
1,034,360 | "P. impacatus," recovered from deposits of Ludlow age at Kielkond in Saaremaa, Estonia, is represented by a holotype specimen consisting of a fragmentary free ramus of a chelicera that preserves some diagnostic and well-preserved details (specimen number 7059/7 housed in the Museum of Comparative Zoology). Alongside th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1581540 | 1,033,823 |
1,736,677 | EP-deficient mice as well as mice selectively deleted of EP expression in the brain's median preoptic nucleus fail to develop fever in response to endotoxins (i.e. bacteria-derived lipopolysaccharide) or the host-derived regulator of body temperature, IL-1β. The ability of endotoxins and IL-1β but not that of PGE to tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14522546 | 1,735,700 |
1,265,367 | Axial Seamount's summit is marked by an unusual rectangular caldera, in area, ~3° in slope, and breached on the southeast side. The area is offset by the two rift zones and defined on three sides by boundary faults up to deep. The caldera is roughly deeper at the north side then it is in the south. Flows within the cal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12730246 | 1,264,679 |
858,435 | Rising international demand for coffee and rubber in the early 20th century brought Brazil an influx of revenue. Simultaneously, the Baron of Rio Branco spearheaded a drive by prominent Brazilians to force the leading world nations to recognize Brazil as an international power. The National Congress of Brazil inaugurat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=872892 | 857,977 |
1,361,125 | , known as KEK, is a Japanese organization whose purpose is to operate the largest particle physics laboratory in Japan, situated in Tsukuba, Ibaraki prefecture. It was established in 1997. The term "KEK" is also used to refer to the laboratory itself, which employs approximately 695 employees. KEK's main function is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1155466 | 1,360,372 |
827,151 | As a researcher, Topol has published over 1,200 peer-reviewed articles, with more than 310,000 citations, h-index 235, elected to the National Academy of Medicine, and is one of the top 10 most cited researchers in medicine. His principal scientific focus has been on the genomic and digital tools, with the use of artif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16635437 | 826,707 |
1,048,328 | Graph theory has been used in the network analysis of linear, passive networks almost from the moment that Kirchhoff's laws were formulated. Gustav Kirchhoff himself, in 1847, used graphs as an abstract representation of a network in his loop analysis of resistive circuits. This approach was later generalised to RLC ci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19103773 | 1,047,783 |
2,145,594 | Ambystoma rivulare is a species of mole salamander in the family Ambystomatidae. Typically gains a lot of population distribution in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt around central Mexico City. Found in various small or medium-sized ponds and lakes that have large and wide range of food options, all within a distance of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12357513 | 2,144,363 |
1,444,912 | Tiling arrays differ from traditional microarrays in the nature of the probes. Instead of probing for sequences of known or predicted genes that may be dispersed throughout the genome, tiling arrays probe intensively for sequences which are known to exist in a contiguous region. This is useful for characterizing region... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16019737 | 1,444,096 |
7,089 | Since the A-10 flies low to the ground and at subsonic speed, aircraft camouflage is important to make the aircraft more difficult to see. Many different types of paint schemes have been tried. These have included a "peanut scheme" of sand, yellow and field drab; black and white colors for winter operations and a tan, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12502446 | 7,086 |
2,125,579 | Gadonanotubes are similar to gadofullerenes in structure and functionality, but they are significantly cheaper and easier to prepare, and have superior magnetic properties. For 20–100 MHz frequencies, their relaxation rate is 3–6 times that of gadofullerenes and about 40 times that of Magnevist, a common commercial MRI... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39971084 | 2,124,358 |
1,518,741 | First, the target is captured by a spiral scan that slowly scans the space by swinging the beam at an angle of 6 degrees, and then a conical scan that quickly measures and distances by narrowing the beam swing angle to 0.5 degrees. Track the target by scanning. The speed of the tracking target is obtained by the gyrosc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70102529 | 1,517,883 |
1,721,346 | James Thomson is known for his work on the improvement of water wheels, water pumps and turbines. Also his innovations in the analysis of regelation, i.e., the effect of pressure on the freezing point of water, and his studies in glaciology including glacier motion, where he extended the work of James David Forbes. He ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5730303 | 1,720,376 |
334,555 | According to Chinese medical literature, mumps was recorded as far back as 640 B.C. The Greek physician Hippocrates documented an outbreak on the island of Thasos in approximately 410 B.C. and provided a fuller description of the disease in the first book of "Epidemics" in the Corpus Hippocraticum. In modern times, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59171 | 334,377 |
1,518,071 | In Diabetes mellitus type 2 (T2DM), a small molecule activator of Hsp72 named BGP-15 has been shown to improve insulin sensitivity and inflammation in an insulin-resistant mouse model, increase mitochondrial volume, and improve metabolic homeostasis in a rat model of T2DM. BGP-15 has now proceeded to Phase 2b clinical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14024984 | 1,517,213 |
1,811 | The solar wind, a stream of charged particles flowing outwards from the Sun, creates a bubble-like region of interplanetary medium in the interstellar medium known as the heliosphere. The heliopause is the point at which pressure from the solar wind is equal to the opposing pressure of the interstellar medium; it exten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26903 | 1,811 |
763,493 | Although the primary cilium was discovered in 1898, it was largely ignored for a century and considered a vestigial organelle without important function. Recent findings regarding its physiological roles in chemosensation, signal transduction, and cell growth control, have revealed its importance in cell function. Its ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43118 | 763,084 |
1,663,786 | An early modern computational neuro-anatomist was David Van Essen performing some of the early physical unfoldings of the human brain based on printing of a human cortex and cutting. Jean Talairach's publication of Talairach coordinates is an important milestone at the morphome scale demonstrating the fundamental basis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48520204 | 1,662,849 |
1,450,492 | The medium of instruction is English. The academic program for students include didactic lectures, small group teaching, practical, project work, demonstration of procedures and bedside clinics inclusive of history taking, physical examination and complete workup of cases. Clinical rotations include postings in all the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22312238 | 1,449,675 |
934,136 | By 1979, with the establishment of the Foundation for Ancient Research and Mormon Studies (FARMS) as a California non-profit research institution, an effort led by Robert F. Smith began to take full account of Larson's work and to publish a Critical Text of the Book of Mormon. Thus was born the FARMS Critical Text Proj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155023 | 933,644 |
632,049 | Sutherland invented Sketchpad in 1962 while at MIT. Claude Shannon signed on to supervise Sutherland's computer drawing thesis. Among others on his thesis committee were Marvin Minsky and Steven Coons. Sketchpad was an innovative program that influenced alternative forms of interaction with computers. Sketchpad could a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=78122 | 631,711 |
1,554,328 | Immunosenescence occurs over time where the immune system undergoes changes that may impact both the innate and adaptive immune systems. These alterations may lead to increased immunoreactivity to intrinsic and extrinsic stimuli that can cause the body to become more sensitive and reactive. This may result in the form ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25703608 | 1,553,447 |
187,656 | The high frequency band is very popular with amateur radio operators, who can take advantage of direct, long-distance (often inter-continental) communications and the "thrill factor" resulting from making contacts in variable conditions. International shortwave broadcasting utilizes this set of frequencies, as well as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=178937 | 187,559 |
1,127,348 | The most optimum storage media that are available have been shown to be pH balanced cell preserving solutions. The best known and most extensively tested is called Hank’s Balanced Salt Solution (HBSS). It has all of the metabolites such as Ca, phosphate ions, K+ and glucose that are necessary to maintain normal cell me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32039834 | 1,126,771 |
891,279 | Mathematical modeling and experiment have both shown that periodically arrayed conducting elements (non-magnetic by nature) respond predominantly to the magnetic component of incident electromagnetic fields. The result is an effective medium and negative μ over a band of frequencies. The permeability was verified to be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23870096 | 890,810 |
1,166,001 | Ethologists and others writing in the 1960s and 1970s questioned the types of behaviour used as indications of attachment, and offered alternative approaches. For example, crying on separation from a familiar person was suggested as an index of attachment. Observational studies of young children in natural settings als... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18756845 | 1,165,384 |
1,501,844 | The CEVIS provides both aerobic and cardiovascular training using recumbent cycling activities. The workload placed on the subject can be tuned very accurately. The astronauts can create target goals of speed, workload and heart rate. It is a modified version of the Inertial Vibration Isolation and Stabilization (IVIS)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50506253 | 1,500,998 |
1,417,973 | Applications of a eudiometer include the analysis of gases and the determination of volume differences in chemical reactions. The eudiometer is filled with water, inverted so that its open end is facing the ground (while holding the open end so that no water escapes), and then submersed in a basin of water. A chemical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1515736 | 1,417,174 |
922,016 | On April 2, 2004, a new Campus Center next to Wheatley Hall was opened. Construction for the facility began on July 20, 2001, and was completed during the tenure of Chancellor Jo Ann M. Gora. It became the new entrance for the campus and was the first building constructed since the Clark Athletic Center was completed i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99867 | 921,530 |
2,232,410 | It is important to be able to separately detect the transfer of Xe to red blood cells (RBCs) because the pathway xenon follows to reach RBCs is the same as that of oxygen. Recently, spectra of Xe in the dissolved phase were acquired in subjects with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and showed greatly reduced Xe transfer t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72408552 | 2,231,143 |
834,073 | On 17 July 1981, two suspended walkways through the lobby of the Hyatt Regency in Kansas City, Missouri, collapsed, killing 114 and injuring more than 200 people at a tea dance. The collapse was due to a late change in design, altering the method in which the rods supporting the walkways were connected to them, and ina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36337411 | 833,624 |
1,688,130 | In 2011, Wikileaks revealed that the U.S. government has tried to stop the creation and production of rockets in Brazil, demanding that Brazilian partners, such as Ukraine, not transfer their technology in this area to the country. The restriction was registered in a telegram sent by the U.S.' Department of State to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3844321 | 1,687,184 |
2,221,134 | "Aspergillus fumigatus" is a pathogenic filamentous fungus and is responsible for more infections worldwide than any other mould. Studies of the small non-coding RNA transcriptome of this fungus under a variety of different conditions and the subsequent generation of cDNA libraries from size selected small RNA species,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24029696 | 2,219,872 |
818,208 | Dinosaur and trace fossils are found particularly in the Morrison Basin, which stretches from New Mexico to Alberta and Saskatchewan and was formed when the precursors to the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains started pushing up to the west. Eroded material from their east-facing drainage basins was carried by streams ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1005316 | 817,769 |
1,326,705 | The second part expands on enumerative combinatorics, or the systematic numeration of objects. It was in this part that two of the most important of the twelvefold ways—the permutations and combinations that would form the basis of the subject—were fleshed out, though they had been introduced earlier for the purposes o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17554277 | 1,325,978 |
1,692,264 | Abstract Meaning Representations have originally been introduced by Langkilde and Knight (1998) as a derivation from the Penman Sentence Plan Language, they are thus continuing a long tradition in Natural Language Generation and this has been their original domain of application. AMRs have re-gained attention since Ban... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53238020 | 1,691,313 |
392,325 | Hickam began employment with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at Marshall Space Flight Center in 1981 as an aerospace engineer. His specialties included training astronauts in regard to science payloads and extra-vehicular activities (EVA). Additionally, Hickam assisted at the Neutral Buoyancy Simulato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=870393 | 392,130 |
1,210,055 | miRNA can be extracted using a number of commercially available kits, such as the Solid Phase QIAmp DNA mini kit. Ideally, like the QIAmp kit, the extraction method used is able to extract DNA and miRNA simultaneously, minimizing the amount of reactions and the amount of sample used. miRNAs can be quantified using quan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28000588 | 1,209,408 |
1,704,967 | When the First Provincial Congress convened on August 25, 1774, Howe served as a member of that body representing Brunswick County. The First Provincial Congress quickly passed a bill banning the exportation of all pitch, tobacco, tar, and other trade goods to England and banned the importation of British tea into Nort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=691304 | 1,704,011 |
522,702 | In Helsinki, Finland, the sightings of a glowing ball were reported by newspapers "Ilta-Sanomat" on 20 September and "Kansan Uutiset" the next day. The ball was observed by many residents, including taxi drivers, police functionaries and Helsinki Airport personnel. An unidentified object was also observed near Turku by... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36918866 | 522,430 |
2,032,129 | The centre was founded to facilitate research between associated institutions and academics, and the UK's industrial structural ceramics community, with a stated goal to provide a "critical mass of UK expertise in the fundamental understanding of structural ceramics that is highly relevant to key areas of the economy i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47643062 | 2,030,959 |
282,727 | The gyrfalcon was originally thought to be a bird of tundra and mountains only; however, in June 2011, it was revealed to spend considerable periods during the winter on sea ice far from land. It feeds only on birds and mammals, the latter of which it takes more regularly than many other "Falco" species. Like other hie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27394479 | 282,574 |
418,969 | In June 2013, Tianhe-2 topped the TOP500 list of fastest supercomputers in the world and was still listed as the fastest machine in the November 2015 list. The computer beat out second-place finisher Titan by nearly a 2-to-1 margin. Titan, which is housed at the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37504895 | 418,764 |
1,440,974 | In 1959—roughly a decade after vinyl LPs first became widely available to consumers—the Library of Congress published "Preservation of Sound Recordings" (A.G. Pickett and M.M. Lemcoe), the first and most extensive investigation of the deterioration of grooved discs and magnetic tape. Funded by a grant from the Rockefel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10993007 | 1,440,164 |
1,410,009 | At the same time that Beckman was approached about infrared spectrometry, he was contacted by Paul Rosenberg. Rosenberg worked at MIT's Radiation Laboratory. The lab was part of a secret network of research institutions in both the United States and Britain that were working to develop radar, "radio detecting and rangi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315197 | 1,409,217 |
1,593,005 | The center was founded in November 2011 as a collaboration among eleven academic institutions to advance genome research, based on leadership from Tom Maniatis and financial support of $2.5 million from each institution as well as from visionary private philanthropists. In November 2012, the center recruited Robert B. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52344551 | 1,592,108 |
1,646,059 | This period of British-US engineering development has been the subject of analysis by economic historians. S B Saul, writing in 1960, determined that British engineering and its methods were advanced in spheres such as the manufacture of textile machinery but less so in that of light machine tools and the machinery of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30046818 | 1,645,130 |
2,059,141 | Charles Perfetti focuses on recognizing specific components of reading which are generalized across cultures. In doing so he compares the word recognition processes of Chinese and writing. Perfetti's studies which are concerned with learning across writing systems, involve neuroimaging such as fMRI and ERP. In his rese... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42616278 | 2,057,956 |
1,278,898 | In 1900, due to attack by "M. robiniae", the value of "Robinia pseudoacacia" was reported to be practically destroyed in nearly all parts of the United States beyond the mountain forests which are its home. Were it not for these beetles and their larval tunnels promoting fungal infections, it could be one of the most v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20766584 | 1,278,204 |
100,678 | The development of fiber-reinforced plastic for commercial use was extensively researched in the 1930s. It was of particular interest to the aviation industry. A means of mass production of glass strands was accidentally discovered in 1932 when a researcher at Owens-Illinois directed a jet of compressed air at a stream... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174431 | 100,633 |
64,270 | Some scholars trace the origins of natural science as far back as pre-literate human societies, where understanding the natural world was necessary for survival. People observed and built up knowledge about the behavior of animals and the usefulness of plants as food and medicine, which was passed down from generation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38890 | 64,245 |
1,162,115 | Federal law places restrictions on funding and use of hES cells through amendments to the budget bill. In 2001, George W. Bush implemented a policy limiting the number of stem cell lines that could be used for research. There were some state laws concerning stem cells that were passed in the mid-2000s. New Jersey's 200... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22400875 | 1,161,498 |
8,991 | Based on studies to grow the Mercury spacecraft capabilities to long-duration flights, developing space rendezvous techniques, and precision Earth landing, Project Gemini was started as a two-man program in 1961 to overcome the Soviets' lead and to support the planned Apollo crewed lunar landing program, adding extrave... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426568 | 8,987 |
1,108,200 | Historically, laminectomies have been the primary way to treat lumbar spinal stenosis. A laminectomy is a more invasive method with the aim to decrease the total amount of pain and numbness associated with lumbar spinal stenosis. It is a surgery that eliminates the entire lamina to allow the nerves around this region t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14315840 | 1,107,636 |
1,473,917 | Addison’s disease is an autoimmune disorder that affects the adrenal cortex such that it is unable to efficiently secrete hormones. The immune system specifically targets the cells of the adrenal cortex and destroys them, but Addison’s disease can also be caused by a severe infection such as tuberculosis. Some symptoms... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4561837 | 1,473,086 |
1,875,938 | A massively parallel high-performance computing (HPC) system is particularly sensitive to operating system overhead. Traditional multi-purpose operating systems are designed to support a wide range of usage models and requirements. To support the range of needs, a large number of system processes are provided and are o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25529780 | 1,874,861 |
1,300,149 | The research work has been stranded since 2014, when the new administration of RECOPE decided to not continue with the initiative arguing doubts about the legal authority of RECOPE to invest in clean energy. In March 2015, the CEO of Ad Astra Rocket Company and former Costa Rican-American astronaut, Dr. Franklin Chang ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48105272 | 1,299,435 |
1,531,291 | The track listing for "Heart Theory" goes through the seven stages of grief in order, as follows: shock ("Hits Me"), denial ("How Good" and "I Don't Love You"), anger ("Want Me Back", "Get Over You", and "Wrong Girl"), bargaining ("Body Language of a Breakup"), depression ("Good on You"), testing ("The Other Side" and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64394275 | 1,530,425 |
252,231 | In its modern inception, high-throughput genome sequencing involves fragmenting the genome into small single-stranded pieces, followed by amplification of the fragments by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Adopting the Sanger method, each DNA fragment is irreversibly terminated with the incorporation of a fluorescently ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1708335 | 252,098 |
1,274,447 | Price, Reed, and Papin, from the Palsson lab, use a method of singular value decomposition (SVD) of extreme pathways in order to understand regulation of a human red blood cell metabolism. Extreme pathways are convex basis vectors that consist of steady state functions of a metabolic network. For any particular metabol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3408308 | 1,273,755 |
20,028 | Goodall's research at Gombe Stream is best known to the scientific community for challenging two long-standing beliefs of the day: that only humans could construct and use tools, and that chimpanzees were vegetarians. While observing one chimpanzee feeding at a termite mound, she watched him repeatedly place stalks of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45397 | 20,020 |
1,041,242 | Philosophers of biology have also examined the notion of “teleology.” Some have argued that scientists have had no need for a notion of cosmic teleology that can explain and predict evolution, since one was provided by Darwin. But teleological explanations relating to purpose or function have remained useful in biology... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1551073 | 1,040,699 |
1,350,042 | The British cyclists, for example doubled their medal target on 19 August when Victoria Pendleton won Britain's 12th cycling medal, a gold in the women's sprint. A further two medals were already guaranteed at this stage in the men's individual sprint, where gold and silver were soon won by Chris Hoy and Jason Kenny re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14879786 | 1,349,296 |
1,001,853 | Though Gibbs's research on physical optics is less well known today than his other work, it made a significant contribution to classical electromagnetism by applying Maxwell's equations to the theory of optical processes such as birefringence, dispersion, and optical activity. In that work, Gibbs showed that those proc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37332 | 1,001,335 |
2,177,519 | 'Klemmer' is a tall, fast growing tree, with a straight cylindrical stem and ascending branches, initially forming a narrow, conical or pyramidal head which later broadens, and producing numerous root-suckers and some epicormic shoots. The bark, smooth in young trees, is later fissured. The leaves are ovate, up to 7.5 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8561639 | 2,176,275 |
199,260 | Full acclimatization requires days or even weeks. Gradually, the body compensates for the respiratory alkalosis by renal excretion of bicarbonate, allowing adequate respiration to provide oxygen without risking alkalosis. It takes about four days at any given altitude and can be enhanced by drugs such as acetazolamide.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9091093 | 199,157 |
1,204,998 | The NenuFAR telescope is co-located at the Nançay radio telescope. It is an extension of the Nançay LOFAR station (FR606), adding 96 low frequency tiles, each consisting of a "mini-array" of 19 crossed-dipole antennas, distributed in a circle with a diameter of approximately 400 m. The tiles are a hexagonal cluster wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1524766 | 1,204,353 |
669,311 | The cosmic background hard radiation will ionize the rocket's hull over time and poses a health threat. Also, gas plasma interactions may cause space charge. The major interaction of concern is differential charging of various parts of a spacecraft, leading to high electric fields and arcing between spacecraft componen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37854 | 668,961 |
776,194 | Recently, antibodies have been used to stain particular proteins, lipids and carbohydrates. Called immunohistochemistry, this technique has greatly increased the ability to specifically identify categories of cells under a microscope. Other advanced techniques include in situ hybridization to identify specific DNA or R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=714434 | 775,778 |
311,480 | Confidentiality is mandated in the United States by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 known as HIPAA, specifically the Privacy Rule, and various state laws, some more rigorous than HIPAA. However, numerous exceptions to the rules have been carved out over the years. For example, many state... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=237248 | 311,312 |
1,525,764 | Approximately 16 km resolution with 70 vertical levels. Covers the entire globe and 168 hours in the future twice a day, the shortest outlook of the synoptic scale models currently in use (most others run out at least 10 days; furthermore, the Unified Model forecasts are only available out 72 hours for non-paying users... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18615870 | 1,524,902 |
1,197,475 | During the early 1970s, Tim Rand demonstrated dichotic perception at Haskins Laboratories. In his study, the first stimuli: formant (F1), was presented to one ear while the second and third stimuli:(F2) and (F3) formants, were presented to the opposite ear. F2 and F3 varied in low and high intensity. Ultimately, in com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32036278 | 1,196,834 |
634,025 | Some authorities restrict the definition of vernal pools to exclude seasonal wetlands that have defined inlet and outlet channels. The justification is that such seasonal wetlands tend to be qualitatively different from isolated vernal pools; this is because they are fed by larger drainage basins so that firstly, inflo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1337327 | 633,687 |
356,029 | The first teacher training course was held in India with 30 participants in 1967 and 200 participants in 1970. A four-month teacher training course was also held in the United States that year. The first part was four weeks long and was offered in both Poland, Maine and Humboldt, California with the final three months ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28677895 | 355,846 |
1,850,348 | Beginning in 1961, the North Atlantic Organised Track System (NAT-OTS) was created, wherein specific routes were defined daily in order for pilots to safely and efficiently fly across the North Atlantic between Europe and America. The first officially published tracks appeared in 1965, and later on similar track system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48855440 | 1,849,290 |
251,465 | Photosynthesis occurs in two stages in a cell. In the first stage, light-dependent reactions capture the energy of light and use it to make the energy-storage molecule ATP and the moderate-energy hydrogen carrier NADPH. The Calvin cycle uses these compounds to convert carbon dioxide and water into organic compounds tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1104705 | 251,332 |
1,695,659 | These artificial atoms are often used to explore the phenomena of quantum coherence. This allows for the study of squeezed light which is known for creating more precise measurements. It is difficult to explore the resonance fluorescence of squeezed light in a typical two-level atom as all modes of the electromagnetic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11230975 | 1,694,707 |
119,011 | Ishii was arrested by United States authorities during the Occupation of Japan at the end of World War II and, along with other leaders, was supposed to be thoroughly interrogated by Soviet authorities. Instead, Ishii and his team managed to negotiate and receive immunity in 1946 from Japanese war-crimes prosecution be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1789793 | 118,963 |
646,742 | In analog systems, each horizontal line is transmitted as a high-frequency analog signal. Each picture element (pixel) is therefore converted to an analog electrical value (voltage), and changes in values between pixels therefore become changes in voltage. The transmission standards require that the sampling be done in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1977279 | 646,402 |
1,643,832 | As of 2022, the university incorporates 7 institutes (the Institute of Computer Systems and Information Security, the Institute of Construction and Transport Infrastructure, the Institute of Economics, Management and Business, the Institute of Food and Processing Industry, the Institute of Fundamental Sciences, the Ins... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3274174 | 1,642,905 |
1,191,786 | Pnictogens (nitrogen's periodic table column) show very similar trends in reactivity and acidity of the highest fluorides (pentafluorides) and most common ones (trifluorides), with the said property increasing down the group: NF is stable against hydrolysis, PF hydrolyzes very slowly in moist air, while AsF completely ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39292926 | 1,191,151 |
2,192,528 | Williams Ice Stream is an ice stream about fifteen miles (24 km) long flowing into Venable Ice Shelf just east of Fletcher Peninsula. Named by Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names (US-ACAN) after Richard S. Williams, Jr., senior research geologist, United States Geological Survey (USGS), Woods Hole, Massachusetts, aut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11458660 | 2,191,278 |
62,089 | In 1935, Watson-Watt was asked to judge recent reports of a German radio-based death ray and turned the request over to Wilkins. Wilkins returned a set of calculations demonstrating the system was basically impossible. When Watson-Watt then asked what such a system might do, Wilkins recalled the earlier report about ai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25676 | 62,064 |
1,995,870 | The Aerial Reconfigurable Embedded System (ARES) was a concept for an unmanned VTOL flight module that can transport various payloads. The concept started as the TX (Transformer) in 2009 for a terrain-independent transportation system centered on a ground vehicle that could be configured into a VTOL air vehicle and car... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27108158 | 1,994,727 |
1,622,640 | Interventional oncology (abbreviated IO) is a subspecialty field of interventional radiology that deals with the diagnosis and treatment of cancer and cancer-related problems using targeted minimally invasive procedures performed under image guidance. Interventional oncology has developed to a separate pillar of modern... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46627280 | 1,621,724 |
1,564,898 | In materials science, Ostwald's rule or Ostwald's step rule, conceived by Wilhelm Ostwald, describes the formation of polymorphs. The rule states that usually the less stable polymorph crystallizes first. Unstable polymorphs more closely resemble the state in solution, and thus are kinetically advantaged. From hot wate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13330831 | 1,564,011 |
1,777,042 | Recertification is established through continuing education. A minimum of 100 approved continuing education (CE) credits must be submitted no later than one month prior to the expiration of the certification and a minimum of 75 of CECs must be completed no later than 3 months prior to the expiration. At least 16 clinic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6286678 | 1,776,043 |
15,476 | Attempts to identify and use best intervention practices for students with autism also pose a challenge due to over dependence on popular or well-known interventions and curricula. Some evidence suggests that although these interventions work for some students, there remains a lack of specificity for which type of stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29113700 | 15,471 |
2,110,811 | The adult females usually lay their relatively large eggs individually, several centimeters deep in the ground using the ovipositor. The eggs, between 6 and 12 mm long and 4.5 to 7 mm wide, are considered to be the heaviest insect eggs. Their shape is typically egg-shaped with either a blunt or a pointed lower pole. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67792625 | 2,109,597 |
379,775 | In 1812, Russian engineer Pavel Shilling exploded an underwater mine using an electrical circuit. In 1842 Samuel Colt used an electric detonator to destroy a moving vessel to demonstrate an underwater mine of his own design to the United States Navy and President John Tyler. However, opposition from former president Jo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22102 | 379,580 |
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