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306,643 | Originally the project began as a surface to air missile seeker developed by Texas Instruments. When TI executive Glenn E. Penisten attempted to sell the new technology to the Air Force they inquired if it could instead be used as a ground attack system to overcome problems they were having with accuracy of bombing in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23772279 | 306,479 |
863,551 | A student who had been enrolled more than the years of his course was a "veteran". In the past, when University enrollment was a matter of social class, some students would accumulate quite a number of enrollments. The individual who had the most was Dux Veteranorum, a notable figure in the student scene at the univers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=715164 | 863,091 |
1,599,103 | The Systemic Autoimmunity Branch focuses on unraveling the fundamental mechanisms that lead to the development and perpetuation of systemic autoimmune disorders, particularly systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and their associated organ damage. By identifying the mechanisms of tissue dama... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=539902 | 1,598,203 |
1,727,256 | Following a tubal ligation, there are usually two remaining fallopian tube segments - the proximal (close) tubal segment that emerges from the uterus and the distal (far) tubal segment that ends with the fimbria next to the ovary. After opening the blocked ends of the remaining tubal segments, a variety of microsurgica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10714351 | 1,726,282 |
767,880 | The HBM has been used to develop effective interventions to change health-related behaviors by targeting various aspects of the model's key constructs. Interventions based on the HBM may aim to increase perceived susceptibility to and perceived seriousness of a health condition by providing education about prevalence a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12372971 | 767,468 |
1,887,470 | Freeform surface or complex surfaces are widely manufactured nowadays. The industries which most often manufactures free-form surfaces are basically aerospace, automotive, die mold industries, bio medical and power sector for turbine blades manufacturing. Generally 3 or 5 axis CNC milling machine is used for this purpo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45689616 | 1,886,388 |
890,658 | At the end of the 1890s Fauré's publisher, Julien Hamelle, suggested that the composer should rescore the Requiem for performance in concert halls. The intimate sound of the earlier versions was effective in liturgical performances, but for the large concert venues, and large choral societies of the time, a larger orch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1441721 | 890,189 |
301,884 | When Nazi Germany investigated the production of an atomic bomb, a range of options was identified. Although historical records provide limited detail on the German decision to pursue the heavy water approach, it became clear after the war that they had explored that option. Although ultimately unsuccessful, the approa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=879501 | 301,723 |
1,913,783 | "P. salmonis" initially infects hosts orally or by breaching the skin or gills, especially when the host is already injured. Transmission may also occur when infected prey are consumed. Under natural conditions, the incubation period is around 2 weeks. Both horizontal and vertical transmission of "P. salmonis" has been... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40421553 | 1,912,684 |
405,712 | In 1977 the upgraded M110A1 entered service, featuring a longer M201 series barrel which gave an increased range. The M110A2 is the latest version with a double muzzle brake, in contrast to the earlier A1 version which had a plain muzzle. The 2nd Battalion 18th Field Artillery (U.S. Army) which deactivated in 1994 at F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38030 | 405,512 |
1,478,216 | During the Cold War, the United States, in an effort to achieve and maintain an advantage in the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union, invested large amounts of money and technical resources into nuclear weapons design, testing, and maintenance. Many of the weapons designed required high upkeep costs, justified prim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4741467 | 1,477,383 |
884,095 | Folding@home can use the parallel computing abilities of modern multi-core processors. The ability to use several CPU cores simultaneously allows completing the full simulation far faster. Working together, these CPU cores complete single work units proportionately faster than the standard uniprocessor client. This met... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=413102 | 883,631 |
1,082,934 | Keller left USC after his sophomore season, when he went professional, forfeiting his final two years of collegiate sports eligibility. Afterwards, he trained until 2007 at Club Wolverine, run at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor under Jon Urbanchek and later Bob Bowman. Urbanchek was the coach of the three Olymp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3295190 | 1,082,377 |
546,553 | Mutations that cause Werner syndrome only occur at the regions of the gene that encode for protein and not at non-coding regions. These mutations can have a range of effects. They may decrease the stability of the transcribed messenger RNA (mRNA), which increases the rate at which they are degraded. With fewer mRNA, fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38057969 | 546,267 |
1,652,442 | IP activation stimulates the dilation of arteries and veins in various animal models as well as in humans. It increases the blood flow through, for example, the pulmonary, coronary, retinal and choroid circulation. Inhaled PGI causes a modest fall in diastolic and small fall in systolic blood pressure in humans. This a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14522621 | 1,651,510 |
204,762 | The SALT I talks began in 1969, and led to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty in 1972, which ultimately limited the U.S. and U.S.S.R. to one defensive missile site each, with no more than 100 missiles per site. This included both ABM interceptor missiles as well as launchers. Originally, the agreement made by the Nixon ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1099196 | 204,656 |
1,788,747 | Symptoms are usually more obvious on young, rapidly growing leaves and are variable depending on the host genotype, virus strain, plant age at the moment of infection and the environment. Leaves are the tissue where the viral infection is localized and where the infection starts. Macroscopic symptoms can range from app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12458135 | 1,787,741 |
191,263 | Paul Douglas, economist and Democratic senator from Illinois for 18 years, was uncomfortable with the environment he found at the university. He stated that, "…I was disconcerted to find that the economic and political conservatives had acquired almost complete dominance over my department and taught that market decisi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=417454 | 191,164 |
1,528,272 | The CHOP regimen consists of Cyclophosphamide, Doxorubicin, Oncovin, and Prednisone (CHOP). They all exploit different pathways common in cancer cells. Cyclophosphamide slows or stops cell growth. It targets cells that are rapidly dividing, which include cancer cells that are self-sufficient in growth signals and insen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21763101 | 1,527,408 |
776,913 | The late Devonian crash in biodiversity was more drastic than the familiar extinction event that closed the Cretaceous. A recent survey (McGhee 1996) estimates that 22% of all the 'families' of marine animals (largely invertebrates) were eliminated. The family is a great unit, and to lose so many signifies a deep loss ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1350609 | 776,497 |
737,493 | Upon his return to Copenhagen in 1950, Bohr began working with Ben Roy Mottelson to compare the theoretical work with experimental data. In three papers, that were published in 1952 and 1953, Bohr and Mottelson demonstrated close agreement between theory and experiment; for example, showing that the energy levels of ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2201 | 737,104 |
1,834,949 | During the trials, researchers study the effectiveness of new designs for space suits, robots, rovers, surface networking and communications, exploration information systems and computing, habitats, and other equipment, and gain experience in the use of new technologies designed to make planetary exploration safer, eas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10503693 | 1,833,900 |
922,802 | Many theoretical stellar models show that most high-mass population III stars rapidly exhausted their fuel and likely exploded in extremely energetic pair-instability supernovae. Those explosions would have thoroughly dispersed their material, ejecting metals into the interstellar medium (ISM), to be incorporated into ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=223315 | 922,316 |
198,328 | Boehringer Ingelheim is involved in publicly funded collaborative research projects with other industrial and academic partners. One example in the area of non-clinical safety assessment is the InnoMed PredTox. The company is expanding its activities in joint research projects within the framework of the Innovative Med... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3157978 | 198,226 |
267,169 | Willem Kolff was the first to construct a working dialyzer in 1943. The first successfully treated patient was a 67-year-old woman in uremic coma who regained consciousness after 11 hours of hemodialysis with Kolff's dialyzer in 1945. At the time of its creation, Kolff's goal was to provide life support during recovery... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=590920 | 267,025 |
312,108 | Project HARP originated as the brainchild of Gerald Bull, a renowned but controversial ballistic engineer specializing in high-velocity guns and gun propulsion systems. In the mid-1950s, Bull was working on Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) and Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) research at the Canadian Armaments and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292089 | 311,940 |
690,765 | After three pre-season tests, one in Jerez and two in Barcelona, the RB8 arrived at the opening round of the 2012 Formula One season and its first race - the . Webber and Vettel qualified the car on the third row of the grid, setting the fifth and sixth fastest times respectively. During the race their pace improved in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33899691 | 690,402 |
1,825,313 | John and Peggy had three sons; engineer Jamie, craftsman builder Stephen, and entrepreneur Benjamin. In 1999, Stephen was diagnosed with the terminal neurodegenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at the age of just 29. Together the family, led by Jamie, founded the ALS Therapy Development Institute to t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59627929 | 1,824,275 |
352,922 | The main research and academic facilities are divided almost evenly between the twin cities of Urbana and Champaign, which form part of the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area. Four main quads compose the center of the university and are arranged from north to south. The Beckman Quadrangle and the John Bardeen Quadrangl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=384695 | 352,739 |
1,392,180 | To exist in such conditions, halophytes tend to be subject to the uptake of high levels of salt into their cells, and this is often required to maintain an osmotic potential lower than that of the soil to ensure water uptake. High salt concentrations within the cell can be damaging to sensitive organelles such as the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40245 | 1,391,409 |
23,467 | Experimental research on consciousness presents special difficulties, due to the lack of a universally accepted operational definition. In the majority of experiments that are specifically about consciousness, the subjects are human, and the criterion used is verbal report: in other words, subjects are asked to describ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5664 | 23,458 |
1,019,039 | Although entry techniques are similar, modern military fighter aircraft often tend to require yet another variation on spin recovery techniques. While power is still typically reduced to idle thrust and pitch control neutralized, opposite rudder is almost never used. Adverse yaw created by the rolling surfaces (aileron... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=341083 | 1,018,512 |
1,335,662 | In conventional CT machines, an X-ray tube and detector are physically rotated behind a circular shroud (see the image above right). An alternative, short lived design, known as electron beam tomography (EBT), used electromagnetic deflection of an electron beam within a very large conical X-ray tube and a stationary ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53857907 | 1,334,932 |
521,461 | When Wythe's wife Elizabeth died on August 18, 1787, Wythe returned some slaves whom her father had bequeathed to Elizabeth to her remaining relatives. Wythe filed manumission papers for his long-time housemaid and cook Lydia Broadnax on August 20, 1787, two days after Elizabeth's death. Four years later, Lydia accompa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=261191 | 521,190 |
266,262 | To define the severity of the condition, the Apnea-Hypopnea Index (AHI) or the Respiratory Disturbance Index (RDI) are used. While the AHI measures the mean number of apneas and hypopneas per hour of sleep, the RDI adds to this measure the respiratory effort-related arousals (RERAs). The OSA syndrome is thus diagnosed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1976353 | 266,118 |
94,264 | In 2016 reforms were proposed that would see the colleges become member institutions and be allowed to legally become universities in their own right. A bill to amend the university's statutes was introduced into the House of Lords in late 2016. The bill was held up by procedural matters in the House of Commons, with M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60919 | 94,223 |
1,772,000 | Results published in the journal "Science" after the mission ended reported that chloride, bicarbonate, magnesium, sodium potassium, calcium, and possibly sulfate were detected in the samples. Perchlorate (ClO), a strong oxidizer, was confirmed to be in the soil. The chemical when mixed with water can greatly lower fre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32939362 | 1,771,003 |
1,194,443 | Research on stress and drug-primed reinstatement has implications for the treatment of addiction research in humans. Reinstatement studies on stress and drug primes provide evidence for their role in relapse behavior in humans. In addition to conditioned placed preference, animal testing using self-administration proce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20876681 | 1,193,803 |
1,878,056 | In the second half of the 19th century, the industrial revolution reached Russia, including Estonia. The abolition of Tallinn's fortress zone in 1857 and the opening of the Baltic railway in 1870 gave Tallinn’s trade and industry the opportunity for strong development. Because of this, there was a need to reform the cu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66858079 | 1,876,978 |
1,445,441 | The birth of the National Security Space Enterprise was the Corona photo intelligence gathering satellite program. Recently declassified, this program convinced the Air Force a dedicated unit was needed to provide satellite tracking. In April 1959, the 6594th Test Wing was activated with temporary headquarters in Palo ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8950603 | 1,444,625 |
1,835,686 | Rango and Hobbs (2005) obtained in situ measurements of tropical convective systems. They found that the liquid water content was below adiabatic values. This was true even in newly formed updrafts, suggesting that collision-coalescence and/or entrainment mixing are efficient methods for the removal of liquid water. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26617950 | 1,834,637 |
299,794 | The wheels were designed and manufactured by General Motors Defense Research Laboratories in Santa Barbara, California. Ferenc Pavlics was given special recognition by NASA for developing the "resilient wheel". They consisted of a spun aluminum hub and a diameter, wide tire made of zinc-coated woven diameter steel stra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18238 | 299,633 |
1,764,152 | While Truro Cathedral is considered his UK masterpiece there are many who consider St John's Cathedral in Brisbane, Australia, his finest work. St John's was initially designed by Pearson and then by his son Frank following his father's death in 1897. The cathedral was constructed between 1906 and 2009 and is a study i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=348837 | 1,763,159 |
1,782,390 | The normalized compression distance has been used to fully automatically reconstruct language and phylogenetic trees. It can also be used for new applications of general clustering and classification of natural data in arbitrary domains, for clustering of heterogeneous data, and for anomaly detection across domains. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37506123 | 1,781,386 |
1,342,326 | Facial recognition has become more and more popular in the current stages of society. The most up to date smartphones, for example, utilize facial recognition to unlock the users phone as well as authorize the payment with their credit card. Though this is convenient for the users as it is quick and efficient, there ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60504486 | 1,341,592 |
131,509 | Diagnosis of DiGeorge syndrome can be difficult due to the number of potential symptoms and the variation in phenotypes between individuals. It is suspected in patients with one or more signs of the deletion. In these cases a diagnosis of 22q11.2DS is confirmed by observation of a deletion of part of the long arm (q) o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72131494 | 131,457 |
1,871,211 | Efforts to save fuel have also led to efforts to reduce the weight of vehicles through the increased use of composite material. Aircraft manufacturers have been especially notable in this regard and produced new large but relatively light aircraft such as the Boeing B-787 Dreamliner with this new material. Orders for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29991137 | 1,870,134 |
671,224 | For the next five years in the United States, Pupin worked as a manual laborer (most notably at the biscuit factory on Cortlandt Street in Manhattan) while he learned English, Greek and Latin. He also gave private lectures. After three years of various courses, in the autumn of 1879 he successfully finished his tests a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=215430 | 670,872 |
480,833 | Computer Go is the field of artificial intelligence (AI) dedicated to creating a computer program that plays the traditional board game Go. The field is sharply divided into two eras. Before 2015, the programs of the era were weak. The best efforts of the 1980s and 1990s produced only AIs that could be defeated by begi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=227021 | 480,589 |
1,915,505 | Winful was born in London, England, to Margaret Ferguson Graves, a teacher, and Herbert Francis, an engineer. Winful grew up in Cape Coast, Ghana, where he attended Catholic Jubilee School and St Augustine's College. In 1975 he earned a BS in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64577300 | 1,914,406 |
2,062,159 | The importance of transferring scientific discovery to the business sector has continued to grow in recent years, and a number of 2007 medical "Centres of Excellence for Commercialization and Research (CECR)", with significant corporate funding, have been established to facilitate this task. MaRS (MaRS Discovery Distri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18401364 | 2,060,969 |
1,216,793 | An astronomical system positing that the Earth, Moon, Sun, and planets revolve around an unseen "Central Fire" was developed in the fifth century BC and has been attributed to the Pythagorean philosopher Philolaus. The system has been called "the first coherent system in which celestial bodies move in circles", anticip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40880925 | 1,216,141 |
478,359 | Light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) is a fluorescence microscopy technique with an intermediate-to-high optical resolution, but good optical sectioning capabilities and high speed. In contrast to epifluorescence microscopy only a thin slice (usually a few hundred nanometers to a few micrometers) of the sample is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37430358 | 478,119 |
2,129,327 | At the heart of the Harvard Project is the systematic, comparative study of social and economic development on American Indian reservations. The study made several findings of what approaches lead to improved socio-economic conditions in American Indian nations. The study found that when Native nations make their own d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20996152 | 2,128,103 |
159,980 | In 2008, Ilan Dinstein et al. argued that the original analyses were unconvincing because they were based on qualitative descriptions of individual cell properties, and did not take into account the small number of strongly mirror-selective neurons in motor areas. Other scientists have argued that the measurements of n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1168317 | 159,895 |
125,260 | The mass was found to be homogeneous, primarily composed of molten fuel and cladding. The elemental constitution was about 70 wt.% uranium, 13.75 wt.% zirconium, 13 wt.% oxygen, with the balance being stainless steel and Inconel incorporated into the melt; the loose debris showed somewhat lower content of uranium (abou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26266872 | 125,208 |
112,964 | Caesium-137, with a half-life of 30.17 years, is one of the two principal medium-lived fission products, along with strontium-90, which are responsible for most of the radioactivity of spent nuclear fuel after several years of cooling, up to several hundred years after use. It constitutes most of the radioactivity stil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=666 | 112,919 |
25,398 | Transforming assembly language into machine code is the job of an assembler, and the reverse can at least partially be achieved by a disassembler. Unlike high-level languages, there is a one-to-one correspondence between many simple assembly statements and machine language instructions. However, in some cases, an assem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1368 | 25,389 |
171,359 | Laser diodes are used for their ability to generate ultra-short pulses of light by the technique known as "mode-locking." Areas of use include clock distribution for high-performance integrated circuits, high-peak-power sources for laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy sensing, arbitrary waveform generation for radio-fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=142258 | 171,269 |
1,531,193 | A supposition used during the discussion about buyers’ behaviors means that consumers actions display a mechanical operation which operates to prevent imbalances due to an unexpected stimulus input caused. However, because the apparent propensity to search for new expending experiences, the hypothesis which refers to b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60475502 | 1,530,327 |
1,636,006 | Born in Kensington, Connecticut, Cowles attended Oberlin College in Ohio. He studied at the University of Chicago with the plant taxonomist John M. Coulter and the geologist Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin as main teachers. He obtained his PhD in 1898 for his study of vegetation succession on the Lake Michigan sand dunes. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1053158 | 1,635,081 |
1,374,278 | Pyocyanin (PCN) is one of the many toxic compounds produced and secreted by the Gram negative bacterium "Pseudomonas aeruginosa". Pyocyanin is a blue secondary metabolite, turning red below pH 4.9, with the ability to oxidise and reduce other molecules and therefore kill microbes competing against "P. aeruginosa" as we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20117898 | 1,373,520 |
215,685 | The Association for Applied Psychophysiology and Biofeedback (AAPB) is a non-profit scientific and professional society for biofeedback and neurofeedback. The International Society for Neurofeedback and Research (ISNR) is a non-profit scientific and professional society for neurofeedback. The Biofeedback Foundation of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292906 | 215,577 |
1,008,308 | A ray proceeding from an object point O (fig. 5) can be defined by the coordinates (ξ, η). Of this point O in an object plane I, at right angles to the axis, and two other coordinates (x, y), the point in which the ray intersects the entrance pupil, i.e. the plane II. Similarly the corresponding image ray may be define... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2704 | 1,007,788 |
747,350 | In terms of PIE tense/aspect forms, the PIE imperfect was lost or merged with the PIE thematic aorist, and the PIE perfect was lost other than in the stem of the irregular verb "to know" (from PIE ). The aorist was retained, preserving the PIE thematic and sigmatic aorist types (the former is generally termed the "root... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38539820 | 746,954 |
722,905 | Poliakoff is a global leader in the field of green chemistry with a specific interest in the applications of supercritical fluids. These highly compressed gases possess properties of gases and liquids that permit interesting chemical reactions without the need for organic solvents, which endanger both health and the en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8917187 | 722,525 |
818,152 | The Bell–LaPadula model focuses on data confidentiality and controlled access to classified information, in contrast to the Biba Integrity Model which describes rules for the protection of data integrity. In this formal model, the entities in an information system are divided into subjects and objects. The notion of a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=423866 | 817,714 |
1,780,158 | The writings left by Digges' colleague William Bourne contain further detail on the experiments with lenses and mirrors conducted by Leonard Digges and his son. It is these details which led some researchers, most notably Colin Ronan, to claim that Leonard Digges invented a functioning telescope sometime between 1540 a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1385342 | 1,779,155 |
1,357,769 | As with "Genesis I", it was launched aboard an ISC Kosmotras Dnepr rocket from Dombarovsky Air Base near Yasny, Orenburg Oblast, Russia. It successfully reached orbit after separation from the rocket at 15:16 UTC. Due to the mechanics of its orbit, first contact with the craft was established once it passed over SpaceQ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9414438 | 1,357,019 |
365,323 | A formal joint Call for Proposals on video compression technology was issued in January 2010 by VCEG and MPEG, and proposals were evaluated at the first meeting of the MPEG & VCEG Joint Collaborative Team on Video Coding (JCT-VC), which took place in April 2010. A total of 27 full proposals were submitted. Evaluations ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22163753 | 365,132 |
1,835,430 | The observatory's principle telescope was a 40-inch (1.0 meter) Cassegrain reflector by Astro Mechanics Inc. The telescope itself cost about $244,000, most of that money coming from a National Science Foundation grant. The dome was 40-foot in diameter and connected to a main building that housed an apartment for astron... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46520284 | 1,834,381 |
1,136,806 | In "C. elegans", a series of asymmetric cell divisions in the early embryo are critical in setting up the anterior/posterior, dorsal/ventral, and left/right axes of the body plan. After fertilization, events are already occurring in the zygote to allow for the first asymmetric cell division. This first division produce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7115286 | 1,136,213 |
1,975,679 | The philosophy behind the iFeel_IM! (intelligent system for Feeling enhancement powered by affect sensitive Instant Messenger) is “I feel [therefore] I am!”. In the iFeel_IM! system, great importance is placed on the automatic sensing of emotions conveyed through textual messages in 3D virtual world Second Life (artifi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28495100 | 1,974,542 |
2,108,391 | The possibility of a college-level FIRST competition has been discussed for many years. At the 2010 FIRST Championship in Atlanta, Georgia, a group of college students and faculty were invited to a discussion in which FIRST Founders Dean Kamen and Woodie Flowers and Editor-in-chief of Wired Magazine Chris Anderson prop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31474536 | 2,107,177 |
756,628 | The Class A4 is a class of streamlined 4-6-2 steam locomotive designed by Nigel Gresley for the London and North Eastern Railway in 1935. Their streamlined design gave them high-speed capability as well as making them instantly recognisable, and one of the class, 4468 "Mallard", holds the world record as the fastest st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174685 | 756,225 |
1,690,822 | Targets for NIF are extremely expensive. Each one consists of a small open-ended metal cylinder with transparent double-pane windows sealing each end. In order to efficiently convert the driver laser's light to the x-rays that drive the compression, the cylinder has to be coated in gold or other heavy metals. Inside, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46293573 | 1,689,875 |
643,562 | A principal idealization behind the formulation of the "Introduction" is the network's division into two "autonomous" blocks (that is, with their own individually determined transfer functions), a simple example of what often is called "circuit partitioning", which refers in this instance to the division into a forward... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181384 | 643,222 |
1,134,399 | In rodent models, AQP4 appears plays a role in both the development and resolution of the cerebral edema that occurs following an injury like TBI or stroke and around brain tumors. In comparison with wild-type mice, double knockout mice exhibited different diseases course post brain injury. It indicated reduced intracr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5601464 | 1,133,806 |
1,644,308 | However, on the north ridge conditions were not good with soft snow lying deep so, with more snowfall on 18 May, Smythe retreated to Camp III at the foot of the Col. Ruttledge then decided to withdraw to camp I because the conditions up to the Col had now become too dangerous. News arrived that the monsoon had reached ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45716294 | 1,643,381 |
762,554 | During the 1970s and 1980s, universities in the US, UK, and Europe began drawing these various components together in new, interdisciplinary programs. For example, in the 1970s, Cornell University developed a new program that united science studies and policy-oriented scholars with historians and philosophers of scienc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=411590 | 762,146 |
1,642,463 | In 1962, Fehrer and Raab reported experiments where participants were required to press a single key as quickly as possible upon presentation of a visual target stimulus. The visibility of the target was strongly reduced by so-called metacontrast masking (see below). The authors found that the response times were indep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30601657 | 1,641,536 |
149,529 | Bardeen was honored on a March 6, 2008, United States postage stamp as part of the "American Scientists" series designed by artist Victor Stabin. The $0.41 stamp was unveiled in a ceremony at the University of Illinois. His citation reads: "Theoretical physicist John Bardeen (1908–1991) shared the Nobel Prize in Physic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15737 | 149,461 |
2,053,624 | In addition, the increasing costs and difficulties involved in evaluating the projected benefits from IT investments are requiring health care administrators to learn more about IT and how it affects business processes. The health care Chief Information Officer (CIO) must be able to build enterprise wide systems that w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18637552 | 2,052,441 |
1,491,158 | While the disease manifests early in life in most cases, diagnosis of the disease is often quite delayed. The symptoms that affected patients present vary, but the most common presenting symptoms are gastrointestinal issues such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, and diarrhea, and neurologic or ocular symptoms such a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8926781 | 1,490,319 |
367,742 | The primary camouflage scheme utilized by the Hellenic Air Force is the "Aegean Ghost" () scheme. This is modified slightly for each aircraft type but is standard for all combat and transport aircraft in the inventory. Some training, search-and-rescue, and firefighting aircraft are colored partially or completely in hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=363254 | 367,549 |
1,090,965 | In what she coins "Poor Architecture", one divorced from the pretentiousness often associated with cultured intellectuals, Bo Bardi sought to design a museum that embodied a simple form of monumental architecture. Formed from pre-stressed concrete without embellishment, the building is formed from raw and efficient sol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=650199 | 1,090,405 |
1,068,124 | The first proof of the theorem was given by Carlo Severini in 1910: he used the result as a tool in his research on series of orthogonal functions. His work remained apparently unnoticed outside Italy, probably due to the fact that it is written in Italian, appeared in a scientific journal with limited diffusion and wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1767634 | 1,067,570 |
515,398 | In Italy one of the leading centers for research in hybrid propellants rockets is CISAS (Center of Studies and Activities for Space) "G. Colombo", University of Padua. The activities cover all stages of the development: from theoretical analysis of the combustion process to numerical simulation using CFD codes, and the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37831 | 515,132 |
75,843 | Medical genetics seeks to understand how genetic variation relates to human health and disease. When searching for an unknown gene that may be involved in a disease, researchers commonly use genetic linkage and genetic pedigree charts to find the location on the genome associated with the disease. At the population lev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12266 | 75,814 |
164,010 | Also in the 1960s, three new colleges were established that were modeled after British universities Oxford and Cambridge, integrating faculty and students into distinct living and learning communities: Raymond College (1962) was introduced as an accelerated, interdisciplinary liberal arts program in which students coul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=700442 | 163,925 |
279,006 | Fluorescence spectroscopy can be used to characterize the equilibrium unfolding of proteins by measuring the variation in the intensity of fluorescence emission or in the wavelength of maximal emission as functions of a denaturant value. The denaturant can be a chemical molecule (urea, guanidinium hydrochloride), tempe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52085 | 278,856 |
875,102 | By 1939, with the USSR on a war footing, the Soviet leadership is reported to have believed that the ""imperialistic and fascistic countries"" had actively undertaken BW preparations and that the use of such weapons, in case of emergency, was a foregone conclusion. Stalin in response ordered an acceleration of BW prepa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11564525 | 874,640 |
895,230 | Another reason for high levels of exposure in young children are due to aging consumer products age, small particles of material become dust particles in the air and land on surfaces around the home, including the floor. Young children crawling and playing on the floor frequently bring their hands to their mouths, inge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=801863 | 894,760 |
77,466 | In the same year, a bill was introduced in the California Legislature calling for the establishment of a publicly funded "California Institute of Technology", with an initial budget of a million dollars, ten times the budget of Throop at the time. The board of trustees offered to turn Throop over to the state, but the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5786 | 77,437 |
1,663,378 | Mays set about persuading British engineering businesses of the merits of being associated with the project. His main thrust was that it was a matter of British prestige for the country to finally build a World-beating Grand Prix car. With the country still awash with post-war patriotism more than three hundred compani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15177130 | 1,662,443 |
1,837,607 | Development in the United States of the wartime technology was accelerated by the 1946 Operation Crossroads atomic tests. The testing program called for drone aircraft to be flown through the atomic clouds after the explosion with monitoring and air sampling equipment. The requirement was for the drone aircraft to be t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32229182 | 1,836,558 |
1,906,059 | Andrew Ciechanowiecki was born in Warsaw in 1924, the only child of Jerzy Stanisław Ciechanowiecki, a Polish diplomat, and Matilda,"Tilly", née Countess Osiecimska-Hutten-Czapska, a prominent figure in the élite social circles of pre-war Warsaw. On his father's side, he came from an impoverished Masovian noble and sena... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28810330 | 1,904,963 |
1,870,708 | Finite state machines (FSMs) are widely used to implement control logic in various applications such as microprocessors, digital transmission, digital filters and digital signal processing. Even for designs containing a good number of datapath elements, the controller occupies a sizeable portion. As the devices are mos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46491850 | 1,869,631 |
957,961 | A 1989 survey found that virtually all literature promoting creation science presented the design argument, with John D. Morris saying "any living thing gives such strong evidence for design by an intelligent designer that only a willful ignorance of the data (II Peter 3:5) could lead one to assign such intricacy to ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30731 | 957,455 |
973,582 | For a long time the Egyptians' strategically-advantageous locale allowed them to remain free from enemy attacks. Egypt was considered to be peaceful in the ancient world. They never considered training an army for the sake of invasion or defense of their own province. During the 15th Dynasty, a tribe known to be the Hy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23468036 | 973,072 |
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