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1,870,782 | In 1979 Professor Bob Audley became Head of Department. His interests lay in human experimental psychology, both in basic processes such as decision making, and in applications like medical diagnosis. In the same year the Ergonomics Unit, responsible for the organisation of the University Intercollegiate MSc in Ergonom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47910237 | 1,869,705 |
582,128 | In 2009, Saks was selected as a MacArthur Foundation fellow, receiving a $500,000 "genius grant". She used the money to establish the Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics, which highlights one important mental health issue per academic year and is a collaborative effort between seven USC departments... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16226468 | 581,830 |
1,280,590 | Contact with the plant, even the inadvertent, gentle brushing of exposed skin in passing, results in intense pain, including a burning, stinging, itching rash lasting for hours, with the fine hairs breaking off in the skin secreting caustic irritants. The spines providing a vehicle for the plants secretions to make it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28419873 | 1,279,895 |
427,065 | From the 1960s through the 1970s, methods have been developed to extract electrical energy directly from a hot gas (a plasma) in motion within a channel fitted with electromagnets (producing a transverse magnetic field), and electrodes (connected to load resistors). Charge carriers (free electrons and ions) incoming wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43139769 | 426,856 |
733,832 | Researchers have investigated the usefulness of self-affirmation in alleviating stereotype threat. One study found that women who affirmed a personal value prior to experiencing stereotype threat performed as well on a math test as men and as women who did not experience stereotype threat. A subsequent study found that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36487460 | 733,445 |
1,840,734 | One of the benefits of face validation is that it can effectively be used during a real-time virtual simulation where the interaction between the user and the simulation is of priority. It is effective during these type of simulations because these types of models require input/interaction from the user. The best way t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37837121 | 1,839,682 |
1,199,061 | The rare-isotope beams produced in the ISAC-II facility are transported in the low-energy beam transport (LEBT) electrostatic beam line and sent via a switch-yard to either the low-energy experimental area or to a series of room-temperature accelerating structures in the ISAC-I medium-energy experimental area. For high... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=683374 | 1,198,420 |
2,049,081 | The heart-leaved pincushion is only known from one population in the Kogelberg Mountains of the southwestern Western Cape province of South Africa, about halfway between Rooi Els and Kogel Bay near a former manganese mine, on the steep, lower, west-facing slopes of the Rooi Els Berg, between 15 and 75 m (50–250 ft) alt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57534792 | 2,047,900 |
1,933,372 | Surface SHG is useful for monitoring the growth of monolayers on a surface. As particles adsorb, the SHG signal is altered. Two common applications in surface science are the adsorption of small gas molecules onto a surface and the adsorption of dissolved dye molecules in a liquid to a surface. Bourguignon et al. showe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13752102 | 1,932,264 |
2,079,249 | Following receptor activation by the ligand, several steps can sequentially ensue. For example, the 3D shape changes to the intracellular domain may render it recognizable to catalytic proteins (enzymes) that are located inside the cell and have physical access to it. These enzymes may then induce chemical changes to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38262758 | 2,078,050 |
1,835,596 | The geology of West Sussex in southeast England comprises a succession of sedimentary rocks of Cretaceous age overlain in the south by sediments of Palaeogene age. The sequence of strata from both periods consists of a variety of sandstones, mudstones, siltstones and limestones. These sediments were deposited within th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44262372 | 1,834,547 |
2,080,095 | Historically, aromatic plants have been used for their pleasing fragrances, culinary applications, and therapeutic potential. Because bornyl diphosphate synthase is crucial in forming aromatic monoterpenoids within plants, this enzyme is of key industrial relevance. Specifically, while most studies focus on BPPS from "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14213050 | 2,078,895 |
943,028 | During bad weather Somerville occupied herself with reading the books in her father's library, including Shakespeare, as well as with "domestic duties." Such duties "occupied a great part of my time; besides, I had to shew my sampler, working the alphabet from A to Z, as well as the ten numbers, on canvas". Her aunt Ja... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=600171 | 942,526 |
1,063,515 | LRS units (LRSU) are infantry company-size elements that are assets within a battlefield surveillance brigade's Reconnaissance & Surveillance Squadron (R&S Squadron) designated as US Army Cavalry but are functionally Airborne infantry units. The LRSU is structured as an LRS Company comprising three LRS detachments, a c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1280658 | 1,062,961 |
1,054,970 | In a 1965 paper now classic, Gilbert Harman explains enumerative induction as a masked effect of what C S Pierce had termed "abduction", that is, i"nference to the best explanation", or IBE. Philosophers of science who espouse scientific realism have usually maintained that IBE is how scientists develop, about the puta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6727771 | 1,054,423 |
139,808 | After reentry, a small, drogue parachute (H) was deployed at for stabilizing the spacecraft's descent. The main parachute (I) was deployed at starting with a narrow opening that opened fully in a few seconds to lessen the strain on the lines. Just before hitting the water, the landing bag inflated from behind the heat ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19812 | 139,751 |
698,759 | In November 2015, the United States sanctioned FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov for being part of a group "providing support to the government of Syria, including for facilitating Syrian government oil purchases from ISIL". United States Department of the Treasury accused Ilyumzhinov for materially assisting and actin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51473085 | 698,395 |
885,413 | Navigation without retrofitting of the workspace is called Natural Features or Natural Targeting Navigation. One method uses one or more range-finding sensors, such as a laser range-finder, as well as gyroscopes or inertial measurement units with Monte-Carlo/Markov localization techniques to understand where it is as i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3733220 | 884,949 |
831,201 | Schlieren photography is used to visualise the flows of the media, which are themselves transparent (hence, their movement cannot be seen directly), but form refractive index gradients, which become visible in schlieren images either as shades of grey or even in colour. Refractive index gradients can be caused either b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=234653 | 830,752 |
356,296 | The authors note that these scenarios are "illustrative examples" and that "results are strongly influenced by the assumptions made." The authors assumed that residues were left un-collected on the forest floor, where they decay and therefore produce emissions. If these residues instead are collected and used for bioen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7906908 | 356,112 |
1,363,153 | Research on decompression continues. Data is not generally available on the specifics, however Divers Alert Network (DAN) has an ongoing citizen science based programme run by DAN (Europe) which gathers data from volunteer recreational divers for analysis by DAN research staff and other researchers. This research is fu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38814223 | 1,362,400 |
1,000,213 | It gained popularity after Ernst Grünfeld introduced it into international play at Vienna 1922, where, in his first game with the defense, he defeated future world champion Alexander Alekhine. Grünfeld usually employed a very classical style. The defence was later adopted by a number of prominent players, including Vas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=353956 | 999,695 |
942,405 | Subthalamotomy is a type of brain surgery in which the subthalamic nucleus is destroyed in attempt to help alleviate movement disorders often associated with Parkinson’s disease (PD). This surgery has been most widely researched at Cuba’s International Center for Neurological Restoration located in Havana. This center ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1874888 | 941,903 |
99,171 | Kaku has publicly stated his concerns over matters including people denying the anthropogenic cause of global warming, nuclear armament, nuclear power, and what he believes to be the general misuse of science. He was critical of the Cassini–Huygens space probe because of the of plutonium contained in the craft for use ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348746 | 99,128 |
534,309 | As chiropractic grew, there were two distinct groups that emerged in the profession; Straights and Mixers. The Straights emphasized a vitalistic philosophy and used spinal manipulation as their sole method of treatment. They had the belief that all disease originated from the spine. Mixers utilized spinal manipulation,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7544201 | 534,030 |
2,177,273 | The fundamental structure of a riboswitch consists of two structural elements which remain highly conserved in most of these types of RNAs. These two elements are the aptamer and the expression platform. The main role of the aptamer is to sense the presence of a specific ligand whereas the expression platform is more i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19114905 | 2,176,029 |
2,151,478 | The UWRL was established in 1959 with funding from the Utah State Legislature, the National Science Foundation, and the National Institutes of Health, and the building at the present location on the Logan River was completed in 1980. The current facility holds over 102,000 sq. ft. of office and laboratory space, which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26338795 | 2,150,247 |
88,615 | Homeostasis is brought about by a natural resistance to change when already in the optimal conditions, and equilibrium is maintained by many regulatory mechanisms: it is thought to be the central motivation for all organic action. All homeostatic control mechanisms have at least three interdependent components for the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13980 | 88,579 |
572,648 | This seemingly simple task ultimately proved more difficult than expected, and the follow-up meeting had to be delayed six months. When it met in April 1966 in Kootwijk, van Wijngaarden's draft remained incomplete and Wirth and Hoare presented a version using more traditional descriptions. It was generally agreed that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=692880 | 572,355 |
1,195,000 | In 1998, the Icelandic Parliament passed the Act on Health Sector Database. This act allowed for the creation of a national biobank in that country. In 1999, the United States National Bioethics Advisory Commission issued a report containing policy recommendations about handling human biological specimens. In 2005, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13512486 | 1,194,360 |
1,069,219 | Bipolar transistors offer high speed, high gain, and low output impedance with relatively high power consumption per device, which are excellent properties for high-frequency analog amplifiers including low noise radio frequency (RF) amplifiers that only use a few active devices, while CMOS technology offers high input... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=512528 | 1,068,665 |
2,179,893 | This condition was discovered in 1991 by "Hahn et al.", when they described two Chinese-Canadian siblings of the opposite sex. The male had difficulties releasing his grip, childhood-onset neuromyotonia and muscle stiffness, progressive motor neuropathy, finger cramping while and after writing, involuntary twitches of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70865086 | 2,178,648 |
777,878 | Between 1974 and 1982, 42 ganzfeld experiments were performed by parapsychologists. In 1982, Charles Honorton presented a paper at the annual convention of the Parapsychological Association that presented his summary of the results of the ganzfeld experiments up to that date. Honorton concluded that the results represe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89774 | 777,461 |
1,169,952 | Scholars, such as Herbert Walberg and Geneva Haertel, trace the beginning of Educational neuroscience to the era between 1800 and 1850 when the scientific study of sense organs began to make advancements. It was during this time that Galen's dictum, which held that the mind was located in the brain, gained acceptance. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25935238 | 1,169,333 |
541,630 | CAD/CAM has also found great merit with regards to reducing the shrinkage which occurs when ceramics are heated during sintering – a process required to give the ceramic restoration adequate strength so it can be used successfully within the mouth. It is difficult to account for this phenomenon in a dental laboratory u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9031857 | 541,350 |
906,606 | Recent developments in modern board game design can be traced to the 1980s in Germany, and have led to the increased popularity of "German-style board games" (also known as "Eurogames" or "designer games"). The design emphasis of these board games is to give players meaningful choices. This is manifested by eliminating... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42434747 | 906,130 |
1,718,514 | Its discovery was announced at the 2003 annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and in 2005, a phylogenetic analysis including it was presented in an abstract for the "Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology". The same year the specimen was donated to the Big Horn Basin Foundation which in 2016 joined the W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12204154 | 1,717,544 |
449,168 | The Zurich lab focus areas are future chip technologies; nanotechnology; data storage; quantum computing, brain-inspired computing; security and privacy; risk and compliance; business optimization and transformation; server systems. The Zurich laboratory is involved in many joint projects with universities throughout E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=551666 | 448,950 |
814,337 | Generally, localization microscopy is performed with fluorophores. Suitable fluorophores (e.g. for STORM) reside in a non-fluorescent dark state for most of the time and are activated stochastically, typically with an excitation laser of low intensity. A readout laser stimulates fluorescence and bleaches or photoswitch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26694015 | 813,904 |
147,298 | Krauss mostly works in theoretical physics and has published research on a variety of topics within that field. In 1995 he proposed that the energy-density of the universe was dominated by the energy of empty space. In 1998 this prediction was confirmed by two observational collaborations and in 2011 the Nobel Prize wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=876263 | 147,240 |
427,473 | Earlier work had used visual search, but because these tasks involve an active scan of the environment to identify the target stimulus, this experimental design made it difficult to separate the effects of distraction from the effects of the search process. In the flanker paradigm, the position of the target is always ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14456808 | 427,263 |
685,254 | The Frequent Traveller Programme (FTP) allows eligible travellers to enjoy convenient immigration clearance via the eIACS automated clearance facilities. APEC Business Travel Card (ABTC) holders or visitors who have visited at least 2 times within the last 24 months, from certain eligible countries, are able to apply. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56517759 | 684,897 |
906,343 | The skeleton is fairly unspecialized in entelodonts. They retain typical artiodactyl skeletal traits such as a double-pulley ankle joint and paraxonic ("even toed") feet with weight split evenly between the two middle toes. They had four toes in total, with the middle two forming small, pointed cloven hooves, while the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1609557 | 905,867 |
32,599 | The US Navy later developed the AIM-54 Phoenix long-range missile (LRM) for the fleet air defense mission. It was a large , Mach 5 missile designed to counter cruise missiles and the bombers that launched them. Originally intended for the straight-wing Douglas F6D Missileer and then the navalized General Dynamics–Grumm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3147 | 32,587 |
881,008 | Due to its anatomy, the pinna largely eliminates a small segment of the frequency spectrum; this band is called the "". The pinna works differently for low and high frequency sounds. For low frequencies, it behaves similarly to a reflector dish, directing sounds toward the ear canal. For high frequencies, however, its ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=856321 | 880,544 |
1,864,602 | During this period he published in the Philosophical Transactions several important memoirs, which earned for him the Copley Medal in 1814 and ensured his election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815. Of special importance in the history of attractions is the first of these earlier memoirs (Phil. Trans., 1809), in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=497531 | 1,863,530 |
165,537 | In 2004, another student print named "A Modest Proposal" ("AMP") was formed. In contrast to "The Mercury", which is almost all news articles, "AMP" is a magazine and features mostly editorial content. "AMP" is published once a month, eight times a year. Any student, faculty, or staff of UTD can contribute to the paper.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=537010 | 165,452 |
1,636,734 | Walter E. Lammerts formed the organization in the 1950s after becoming concerned that the American Scientific Affiliation was falling under the influence of theistic evolution. It was originally named the Creation Research Advisory Committee in February 1963, and headed by Walter E. Lammerts and Wiliam J. Tinkle with a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1260546 | 1,635,809 |
1,763,050 | The ceramic surface is extremely abrasion resistant compared to traditional metal implant materials such as cobalt chromium. It also has a lower coefficient of friction against ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE), the typical counterface material used in total joint replacements. These two factors likely ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3270504 | 1,762,057 |
1,294,223 | Its premise is that the Internet is primarily used as an information distribution network, which is not a good match for IP, and that the future Internet's "thin waist" should be based on named data rather than numerically addressed hosts. The underlying principle is that a communication network should allow a user to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11092014 | 1,293,512 |
382,647 | Copland wrote "El Salón México" between 1932 and 1936, which met with a popular acclaim that contrasted the relative obscurity of most of his previous works. Inspiration for this work came from Copland's vivid recollection of visiting the "Salon Mexico" dancehall where he witnessed a more intimate view of Mexico's nigh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51298 | 382,452 |
1,351,945 | On 26 January, "Scotia" set sail for Antarctic waters. The crew had to manoeuvre round heavy pack ice on 3 February, north of the South Orkney Islands. Next day, "Scotia" was able to move southward again and land a small party on Saddle Island, South Orkney Islands, where a large number of botanical and geological spec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4286037 | 1,351,199 |
1,880,469 | IKBKAP (inhibitor of kappa light polypeptide gene enhancer in B-cells, kinase complex-associated protein) is a human gene encoding the IKAP protein, which is ubiquitously expressed at varying levels in all tissue types, including brain cells. The IKAP protein is thought to participate as a sub-unit in the assembly of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3621072 | 1,879,388 |
123,305 | Lysine has also been implicated to play a key role in other biological processes including; structural proteins of connective tissues, calcium homeostasis, and fatty acid metabolism. Lysine has been shown to be involved in the crosslinking between the three helical polypeptides in collagen, resulting in its stability a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63544 | 123,254 |
256,287 | "Viola" species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including the giant leopard moth, large yellow underwing, lesser broad-bordered yellow underwing, high brown fritillary, small pearl-bordered fritillary, pearl-bordered fritillary, regal fritillary, cardinal, and Setaceous Hebrew charact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157841 | 256,153 |
2,056,166 | The first six chapters provide information about the general make-up of a plant and then focus on the different plant structures like roots, stems, buds and leaves. The following chapters (7-12) discuss transpiration, photosynthesis, respiration, and other cellular processes along with the structures involved. Chapters... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69721151 | 2,054,982 |
1,217,023 | In today’s world individuals are living longer. According to the United Nations World Populations Prospect (2020), the average life expectancy is 78.93 years which is a 0.16% increase since 2018. With the elderly population becoming more popular, there is a crucial need for gerontological nursing research. The older pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8857878 | 1,216,370 |
666,876 | Metrolink, the Southern California commuter rail system involved in the 2008 Chatsworth train collision that provided the impetus for the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008, was the first passenger rail system to fully implement positive train control. In October 2010, Metrolink awarded a $120 million contract to PTG ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11562996 | 666,528 |
983,524 | When Dean Amos died in 1941, the new quarters were still unfinished. The Alumnae Association created the Thyrsa W. Amos Fund to plaster the walls and to furnish Room 1217 in her name. Room 1217 was never finished, but after World War II the other rooms on the twelfth floor were completed including room 1201, now known ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=768929 | 983,010 |
1,262,408 | Co-transport proteins of mammalian cell membranes had eluded efforts of purification with classical biochemical methods until the late 1980s. These proteins had proven difficult to isolate because they contain hydrophilic and hydrophobic sequences and exist in membranes only in very low abundance (<0.2% of membrane pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12827583 | 1,261,721 |
971,250 | In 1952, the Technicolor Corporation contracted with SRI to develop a near-instantaneous, electro-optical alternative to the manual process of timing during film copying. In 1959, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented the Scientific and Engineering Award jointly to SRI and Technicolor for their work... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=481262 | 970,740 |
693,650 | Through the 1870s Wharton began to buy into Bethlehem Iron Company which produced pig iron and steel rails, gradually investing more of his own time and energy, but without involvement in the day-to-day operations. He became the largest shareholder with a position on the board of managers, and eventually purchased a co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=383305 | 693,287 |
864,779 | For example, a suspension bridge engineer has to choose how thick each strut, cable, and pier must be. These elements are interdependent, but it is not easy to visualize the impact of changing any specific element. Simulation of such complicated structures is often extremely computationally expensive to run, possibly t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2492629 | 864,319 |
700,268 | and has a number of significant improvements. The LNet Multi-Rail (LMR) feature allows bonding multiple network interfaces (InfiniBand, Omni-Path, and/or Ethernet) on a client and server to increase aggregate I/O bandwidth. Individual files can use composite file layouts that are constructed of multiple components, whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1778965 | 699,903 |
487,365 | On February 27, 1991, Widlar died of a heart attack at the age of 53, in Puerto Vallarta. David Liddle said in 2009 that "the untimely early death of ... Robert Widlar is a whole story in itself". Early reports incorrectly said that Widlar died while jogging on a beach. Later sources corrected the mistake: he was runni... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3483624 | 487,115 |
780,218 | The twenty-first century has seen a tremendous increase in publications on the topic of interoception, and to a recognition of its multifaceted nature . This has led to the emergence of different ideas about interoception. One contemporary definition widens the concept to encompass "the skin and all that is underneath ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54842715 | 779,801 |
1,522,226 | The alternation of the semidemiquaver melismas with the semiquaver triplet passages along with the passages of coupled semiquaver figures are also typical of Bach's Leipzig style. Likewise the dancelike Allegro in a lively time signature follows the pattern of his Leipzig works, an acquiescence to the "galant" style so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14358947 | 1,521,365 |
1,387,396 | Though AFA was discovered in the course of antibiotic research, there is very little data available on the drug's antimicrobial activity. In 1988 the biologist G.C. Crumplin wrote, "[AFA] is less active against bacteria than are many other 4-quinolones, but studies in our laboratory on selected mammalian cell lines hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22614622 | 1,386,629 |
1,280,987 | It is of critical importance that research into children's earwitness memory is also conducted in order to secure justice for child victims and witnesses. Compared to adult earwitness memory, the area of child earwitness memory has been largely neglected. In one of few studies comparing adult and child earwitnesses, Öh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33106906 | 1,280,292 |
932,460 | The quorum sensing process in honey bees is similar to the method used by "Temnothorax" ants in several ways. A small portion of the workers leave the swarm to search out new nest sites, and each worker assesses the quality of the cavity it finds. The worker then returns to the swarm and recruits other workers to her c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=161995 | 931,968 |
269,024 | "With sufficient certainty the approach can indeed be seen as well-founded – that nothing takes place in our consciousness that does not have its physical basis in certain physiological processes.". Wundt believed that physiological psychology had the following task: "firstly, to investigate those life processes that a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34128 | 268,878 |
2,021,329 | When entering college, many students are leaving their homes and managing their own finances for the very first time in their lives. Depending on where they go to school, there may be limited access to affordable and nutritious food, such as in food deserts, making students particularly vulnerable to food insecurity. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66067516 | 2,020,166 |
1,088,822 | Flight day 3 began for the astronauts at 15:18 UTC. Following the rendezvous pitch maneuver, docking to the International Space Station occurred at 22:12 UTC. The hatch between the International Space Station and "Discovery" was opened at 23:54 UTC. The joint ISS/Shuttle crew then worked to undertake some further detai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1564041 | 1,088,263 |
212,317 | In the second approach, terahertz images are developed based on the time delay of the received pulse. In this approach, thicker parts of the objects are well recognized as the thicker parts cause more time delay of the pulse. Energy of the laser spots are distributed by a Gaussian function. The geometry and behavior of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=362348 | 212,209 |
2,039,942 | In 1951, Westheimer went to the US, first as a graduate student at Ohio State University (PhD, Physics-Physiological Optics) with Glenn A. Fry, influenced by Paul Fitts, and then in various professorial ranks in optometry schools of the University of Houston, Ohio State and University of California, Berkeley, interrupt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35925290 | 2,038,763 |
922,683 | A 2011 study by El-Ayoubi et al. investigated "3D-plotting technique to produce (biocompatible and biodegradable) poly-L-Lactide macroporous scaffolds with two different pore sizes" via solid free-form fabrication (SSF) with computer-aided-design (CAD), to explore therapeutic articular cartilage replacement as an "alte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=307065 | 922,197 |
932,935 | The Mauryan period saw a change in the economic structure of the society. The use of iron resulted in surplus production, and the economy changed from being a simple rural economy to a pattern of economy in which urban centres became important. It has been generally argued that the use of Northern Black Polished Ware p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40513032 | 932,443 |
1,228,310 | MacArthur ordered a limited rearmament of Japan the week after the war broke out in June 1950, calling for a national police reserve of 75,000 men, which would be organized separately from the 125,000 police force that already existed. The Coast Guard grew from 10,000 to 18,000. The argument that these were police forc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54108025 | 1,227,648 |
169,118 | A new novel treatment option is the farnesoid X receptor is responsible for regulating bile acid homeostasis. An agonist of this nuclear hormone receptor is seen as a possible treatment as it can downregulate bile acid synthesis and reabsorption. Further the farnesoid X receptor is partly responsible for lipid and gluc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2632843 | 169,028 |
1,070,089 | Rehabilitation is important. A significant percentage of these sprains also involve medial and/or lateral ankle ligament injury and slow recovery and continuing symptoms are common. However, limiting external rotation to protect healing ligaments is a primary concern and can usually be achieved by short leg casts, walk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16099959 | 1,069,535 |
1,658,393 | Large deposits of hematite hosted in Carboniferous Limestone, were exploited by a series of mines on the northwestern margin of the Lake District. The Cleator Moor to Egremont area was particularly important, with Bigrigg, just north of Egremont, being the earliest for which there are written records, showing that this... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57271349 | 1,657,460 |
2,148,528 | Excess moisture in concrete is defined by that amount of moisture emitting from the concrete subfloor that exceeds the amount allowed by the flooring manufacturer. This condition occurs when the flooring is installed before the water in the concrete mix that is not needed for hydration (strengthening) has had adequate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30472700 | 2,147,297 |
1,174,905 | Caffeine has been shown to have an impairing effect on females (but not males) in a word-list test of short-term memory. One prevailing theory which aims to explain this sex difference identifies estrogen levels in the body as an important factor relating to caffeine's effect on memory performance As a result, the fema... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21312294 | 1,174,283 |
1,150,914 | Herbert Kroemer (; born August 25, 1928) is a German-American physicist who, along with Zhores Alferov, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for "developing semiconductor heterostructures used in high-speed- and opto-electronics". Kroemer is professor emeritus of electrical and computer engineering at the Univer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314964 | 1,150,307 |
373,741 | Towards the end of the 1970s, the regional airliner venture had become the largest industrial venture in Sweden and was recognised as being too large for Saab to conduct alone. Accordingly, in January 1980, it was announced that Saab had entered into a partnership arrangement with US manufacturer Fairchild Aircraft to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=469211 | 373,546 |
1,263,634 | The problem of planning a freight delivery system may be modeled by a network in which the vertices represent cities and the (undirected) edges represent potential freight delivery routes between pairs of cities. Each route can achieve a certain profit, but can only be used if freight depots are constructed at both its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20815865 | 1,262,946 |
1,192,329 | In July 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced the development of the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird strategic reconnaissance aircraft. This new and advanced aircraft would give SAC a reconnaissance capability that far exceeded any then available in terms of speed, altitude, and increased area coverage. In December 1964... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8294433 | 1,191,693 |
743,224 | Electrical pulses are also used to intracellularly deliver siRNA into cells. The cell membrane is made of phospholipids which makes it susceptible to an electric field. When quick but powerful electrical pulses are initiated the lipid molecules reorient themselves, while undergoing thermal phase transitions because of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584617 | 742,830 |
2,031,852 | The Center of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition (CEDAR) is a research laboratory at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York. The center was established with funding from the United States Postal Service and National Institute of Justice. CEDAR was formalized by the United States Postal Se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29467953 | 2,030,682 |
1,788,896 | Possible biological contributors to dynapenia include the nervous system’s deteriorating control of voluntary skeletal muscle activation and a decreased number of functioning motor units. The nervous system's lowered ability to stimulate a full muscle contraction subsequently leads to loss of muscle strength and power.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56210258 | 1,787,890 |
192,582 | The immune responses of antibodies that are trying to fight off the foreign virus actually increase transmission and make the infection worse. Levels of protein D7 are more prevalent in salivary glands of dengue-infected mosquitoes compared to those uninfected ones. D7 is found in mosquito saliva and was thought to ass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=927267 | 192,483 |
1,433,039 | One would want the errors on the stability constants to be roughly commensurate with experimental error. For example, with pH titration data, if pH is measured to 2 decimal places, the errors of should not be much larger than 0.01. In exploratory work where the nature of the species present is not known in advance, sev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11052041 | 1,432,235 |
1,695,083 | From recent studies, KIF1A variants are shown to exhibit defects such as reduced microtubule (MT) binding, reduced velocity and processivity, and increased non-motile rigor MT binding, all of which could contribute to the signs and symptoms seen in KAND patients. With a current natural history study in play and an esta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31656267 | 1,694,132 |
509,315 | F-gases are used in a number of applications intended for climate change mitigation, that can generate further positive feedback for atmospheric heating. For example, refrigeration and air conditioning systems are increasingly utilized by humans within a warming environment. Likewise, expansions of electrical infrastru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38225949 | 509,051 |
377,112 | In Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, a tremendous firestorm developed within 20 minutes after detonation and destroyed many more buildings and homes, built out of predominantly 'flimsy' wooden materials. A firestorm has gale-force winds blowing in towards the center of the fire from all points of the compass. It is not pecul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244601 | 376,917 |
2,212,225 | Davenport–Schinzel sequences are named after Harold Davenport and Andrzej Schinzel, who applied them to certain problems in the theory of differential equations. They are finite sequences of symbols from a given alphabet, constrained by forbidding pairs of symbols from appearing in alternation more than a given number ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63449981 | 2,210,965 |
423,266 | CUNY Graduate Center describes itself as "research-intensive," and is classified by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education to be an R1 or have "highest research activity." The CUNY Graduate Center's primary library, named after Mina Rees, is located on campus; however, its students also have bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396465 | 423,059 |
1,130,398 | The presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower saw the end of the Korean War and the beginning of American involvement in Vietnam as the Cold War escalated between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Communist Control Act of 1954 banned Communist organizations in the United States as antithetical to American government... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62091020 | 1,129,820 |
144,692 | The next attempt was made in 1864. British chemist John Newlands presented a classification of the 62 known elements. Newlands noticed recurring trends in physical properties of the elements at recurring intervals of multiples of eight in order of mass number; based on this observation, he produced a classification of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=619795 | 144,634 |
755,321 | Ed Roberts had designed and manufactured programmable calculators and was familiar with the microprocessors available in 1974. He thought the Intel 4004 and Intel 8008 were not powerful enough (in fact several microcomputers based on Intel chips were already on the market: the Canadian company Microsystems Internationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=144949 | 754,918 |
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