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1,261,861 | Siddiqui is credited with pioneering the isolation of unique chemical compounds from the Neem ("Azadirachta indica"), Rauvolfia, and various other flora. As the founder director of H.E.J. Research Institute of Chemistry, he revolutionised research of the pharmacology of various domestic plants found in South Asia to ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6857524 | 1,261,174 |
226,911 | Up to the age of 14, Mach was educated at home by his parents. He then entered a Gymnasium in Kroměříž (), where he studied for three years. In 1855 he became a student at the University of Vienna. There he studied physics and for one semester medical physiology, receiving his doctorate in physics in 1860 under Andreas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55285 | 226,795 |
743,307 | For modeling of scattering in cases where the Rayleigh and Mie models do not apply such as larger, irregularly shaped particles, there are many numerical methods that can be used. The most common are finite-element methods which solve Maxwell's equations to find the distribution of the scattered electromagnetic field. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=164483 | 742,913 |
354,116 | The Fifth Army had only reached the Gustav Line on 15 January, having taken six weeks of heavy fighting to advance the last seven miles (11 km) through the Bernhardt Line positions, during which time they had sustained 16,000 casualties. They hardly had time to prepare the new assault, let alone take the rest and reorg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33088 | 353,933 |
1,718,697 | EbA involves the conservation, sustainable management and restoration of ecosystems, such as forests, grasslands, wetlands, mangroves or coral reefs to reduce the harmful impacts of climate hazards including shifting patterns or levels of rainfall, changes in maximum and minimum temperatures, stronger storms, and incre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60945092 | 1,717,727 |
260,774 | Martin Hollis and Edward J. Nell's 1975 book offers both a philosophical critique of neo-classical economics and an innovation in the field of economic methodology. Further, they outlined an alternative vision to neo-classicism based on a rationalist theory of knowledge. Within neo-classicism, the authors addressed con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25400 | 260,639 |
1,152,077 | Substituting a balancer chromosome for the wild-type homolog of the chromosome carrying the recessive mutation prevents the establishment of wild-type organisms in various ways. First, a balancer carries its own independent recessive lethal mutation, which makes the organism non-viable if two copies of balancer are inh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8485040 | 1,151,468 |
1,784,393 | Consistent with its role as a pioneering transcription factor, FOXA2 is expressed in early development and essential for the development and homeostasis of various cell types and tissues. In mice, Foxa2 expression emerges in the primitive streak and node at embryonic day (E) 6.5, and in the mesoderm and definitive endo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29131243 | 1,783,389 |
1,807,890 | The anion exchanger family (TC# 2.A.31, also named bicarbonate transporter family) is a member of the large APC superfamily of secondary carriers. Members of the AE family are generally responsible for the transport of anions across cellular barriers, although their functions may vary. All of them exchange bicarbonate.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49241310 | 1,806,870 |
846,735 | Over and over again, DNA strands will bend and attach to the solid support. DNA polymerase will synthesize a new strand to create a double stranded segment, and that will be denatured so that all of the DNA strands in one area are from a single source (clonal amplification). Clonal amplification is important for qualit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35342049 | 846,285 |
2,183,982 | Emuellidae are a small family of trilobites, a group of extinct marine arthropods, that lived during the late Lower Cambrian (late Botomian) of the East Gondwana supercontinent, in what are today South-Australia and Antarctica. Emuellidae can be recognized among trilobites in having a set of unique features. The headsh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2515693 | 2,182,734 |
55,885 | Whether it be movie stars, athletes, musicians, or CEOs of multibillion-dollar corporations who dropped out of school, popular media often tells the story of the determined individual who pursues their dreams and beats the odds. There is much less focus on the many people that may be similarly skilled and determined bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1745325 | 55,861 |
261,584 | "Queen Bess," as she was known, was a highly popular draw for the next five years. Invited to important events and often interviewed by newspapers, she was admired by both blacks and whites. She primarily flew Curtiss JN-4 Jenny biplanes and other aircraft that had been army surplus aircraft left over from the war. She... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=273081 | 261,445 |
1,925,829 | Professor Szathmáry was awarded the New Europe Prize in 1996 by a group of institutes for advanced study. He used the prize to establish the NEST (New Europe School for Theoretical Biology) foundation, whose task is to help young Hungarian theoretical biologists. The Juhász-Nagy junior fellowship that he endowed in 199... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=608385 | 1,924,725 |
274,464 | In 2015, a test campaign was conducted to determine RS-25 engine performance with a new engine controller unit, under lower liquid-oxygen temperatures, with greater inlet pressure due to the taller SLS core-stage liquid-oxygen tank and higher vehicle acceleration; and with more nozzle heating due to the four-engine con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=680000 | 274,316 |
871,678 | The International Space Station programme is tied together by a complex set of legal, political and financial agreements between the fifteen nations involved in the project, governing ownership of the various components, rights to crewing and utilisation, and responsibilities for crew rotation and resupply of the Inter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19844906 | 871,218 |
241,450 | In the mid-1980s, a designer would choose an ASIC manufacturer and implement their design using the design tools available from the manufacturer. While third-party design tools were available, there was not an effective link from the third-party design tools to the layout and actual semiconductor process performance ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=147845 | 241,324 |
1,361,274 | He has worked on the innate immune system, which lies at the heart of inflammation. He has uncovered new molecules and biochemical processes that are triggered by sensors of infection and tissue injury, including the toll-like receptors and inflammasomes, and the signals they drive that stimulate inflammation, notably ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50619911 | 1,360,521 |
762,731 | By contrast, in the United States, futures studies as a discipline emerged from the successful application of the tools and perspectives of systems analysis, especially with regard to quartermastering the war effort. The Society for General Systems Research, founded in 1955, sought to understand cybernetics and the pra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1508301 | 762,323 |
227,956 | Constant-velocity joints are protected by a rubber boot, a "CV gaiter", usually filled with molybdenum disulfide grease. The six spheres are bounded by an anti-fall gate that prevents the spheres from falling when the shaftings are perfectly aligned. Cracks and splits in the boot will allow contaminants in, which would... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=934672 | 227,839 |
100,311 | The first commercial development of the ESEM in the late 1980s allowed samples to be observed in low-pressure gaseous environments (e.g. 1–50 Torr or 0.1–6.7 kPa) and high relative humidity (up to 100%). This was made possible by the development of a secondary-electron detector capable of operating in the presence of w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28034 | 100,266 |
1,124,100 | From 1919 Spemann was Professor of Zoology at the University of Freiburg-im-Breisgau, where he continued his line of enquiry until in 1937 he was relieved of his post to be replaced by one of his first students, Otto Mangold. In 1928 he was the first to perform somatic cell nuclear transfer using amphibian embryos – on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=316141 | 1,123,526 |
1,484,942 | To meet the marketplace demands on cost, size, and power consumption of monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), research continues in the development of mainstream digital bulk-CMOS processes for such purposes. The continuous scaling of feature sizes in current IC technologies has enabled microwave and mm-wav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5630800 | 1,484,105 |
450,052 | Temperature programmed desorption (TPD) is one of the most widely used surface analysis techniques available for materials research science. It has several applications such as knowing the desorption rates and binding energies of chemical compounds and elements, evaluation of active sites on catalyst surfaces and the u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1510738 | 449,833 |
1,313,689 | The initial discovery of this technique used "Drosophila melanogaster" DNA segments as the genetic material of choice, which was placed into a plasmid of "E. Coli". The purpose, as described in the 1975 publication by Michael Grunstein and David S. Hogness, references the prior inability of isolating a specific desired... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55750470 | 1,312,969 |
629,109 | Its massive ribcage was made up of overlapping ribs and the animal possessed a stronger skeletal structure, a largely fishlike spine, and forelimbs apparently powerful enough to pull the body from the water. These anatomical modifications may have evolved to handle the lack of buoyancy experienced on land. The hindlimb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=313925 | 628,771 |
1,937,129 | The history of the university is inextricably connected with the history of Ternopil. Since the 1960s the city has developed due to the construction of a significant number of industrial plants, including the Ternopil harvester plant, the VATRA Corporation, later – the plants “The Saturn” and “The Orion”. These plants ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28181548 | 1,936,021 |
635,295 | During the presidency of Sister Alice O’Rourke, Edgewood faced numerous challenges, including the declining enrollment of traditional-age college students and cost increases. To alleviate the financial burden, the college initiated a significant fund-raising program in the late 1970s to celebrate the campus centennial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1756590 | 634,956 |
1,590,024 | This devastating and long-tracked event first began before noon CST in eastern Missouri, where significant hail was reported, then crossed the Mississippi River into Illinois near Pleasant Hill. These two towns were probably hit by two separate, weak tornadoes which formed from the same thunderstorm, but intense tornad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27482751 | 1,589,130 |
2,210,073 | Peter Fratzl has headed the Department of Biomaterials at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces since 2003 and is one of the pioneers in the field of biological and biomimetic materials. His studies of natural materials such as wood, bones, mussel shells, glass sponges, protein fibers, and insect shells h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72039117 | 2,208,813 |
1,882,453 | With most modern aircraft using "glass cockpit" displays it has become easier to create highly realistic panels. The displays on these panels can be driven by multi-head graphics cards, or networked PCs running dedicated software that can read from the simulator spreading the processing load. Interfaces for switches, k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=788545 | 1,881,372 |
1,527,134 | The Array of Low Energy X-ray Imaging Sensors (ALEXIS) featured curved mirrors whose multilayer coatings reflect and focus low-energy X-rays or extreme ultraviolet light the way optical telescopes focus visible light. The launch of ALEXIS was provided by the United States Air Force Space Test Program on a Pegasus Boost... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25100839 | 1,526,270 |
342,903 | A peripheral intake port gives the highest mean effective pressure; however, side intake porting produces a more steady idle, because it helps to prevent blow-back of burned gases into the intake ducts which cause "misfirings", caused by alternating cycles where the mixture ignites and fails to ignite. Peripheral porti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33303 | 342,722 |
81,580 | After the United States entered World War II, the family moved to Washington, D.C., where Collins attended St. Albans School and graduated in 1948. His mother wanted him to enter the diplomatic service, but he decided to follow his father, two uncles, brother, and cousin into the armed services. He received an appointm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=97666 | 81,547 |
1,334,851 | Chronic stress has been shown to reduce the arbor complexity and total dendritic length of apical dendrite trees of CA3 pyramidal neurons in the hippocampus as well. Chronic stress-induced changes in behavior have usually been attributed to changes in the hippocampus which is a primary neural target of glucocorticoids ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2472971 | 1,334,121 |
969,245 | Human xenotransplantation offers a potential treatment for end-stage organ failure, a significant health problem in parts of the industrialized world. It also raises many novel medical, legal and ethical issues. A continuing concern is that many animals, such as pigs, have a shorter lifespan than humans, meaning that t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=779111 | 968,735 |
1,115,895 | Ecological cleanness of manufactured products, in contrast to composites on thermosetting resins base, as well as practically unlimited possibilities of recycling (processing) after the resource depletion appear to be forcible arguments in favor of reinforced thermoplastics. For these reasons the industrial output and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6461531 | 1,115,326 |
1,915,486 | As part of former Governor Zell Miller's pledge to bring a post-secondary institution within 40 miles of every Georgian, the 1995 legislative session appropriated 5.5 million dollars to build a state-of-the-art facility to be located on 25 acres along the Zell Miller Mountain Parkway just outside the town of Blairsvill... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19149437 | 1,914,387 |
1,598,577 | Sixty-four places were available for the event with each National Olympic Committee (NOC) represented by a maximum of three archers. Thirty-three of these places were open for the eleven nations qualifying for the Olympic women's team event, the 2015 World Archery Championships' women's team recurve event held in Copen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45521589 | 1,597,677 |
1,324,428 | In a retrospective study of 176 patients with localized UPS undergoing curative-intent treated with surgical resection or resection plus adjuvant treatment, disease-free survival rates at 120 months for patients with tumors in an extremity (leg or arm), heat/neck area, thorax, and abdomen/pelvis were about 70, 60, 50, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5868922 | 1,323,701 |
2,185,712 | Yuan studied chemistry at National Taiwan University, completing a bachelor's degree in 1966, followed by a master's degree in 1968. He then obtained a doctorate in chemical physics at the University of Chicago in 1973. Yuan began teaching at Drexel University in 1978, as an assistant professor. He was promoted to asso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65164594 | 2,184,464 |
1,345,128 | The earliest forms, like "Placodus", which lived in the early to middle Triassic, resembled barrel-bodied lizards superficially similar to the marine iguana of today, but larger. In contrast to the marine iguana, which feeds on algae, the placodonts ate molluscs and so their teeth were flat and tough to crush shells. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2889934 | 1,344,390 |
1,937,482 | In 1999, Cirelli & Tononi first reported the association of genome-wide brain gene expression profiling (using microarrays) with a behavioural phenotype in mice. Since then, global brain gene expression data, derived from microarrays, has been aligned to various behavioural quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and reported i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24219329 | 1,936,374 |
1,564,424 | Holt credited Grünbaum with providing the most powerful and subtle philosophical evaluation of psychoanalysis and "the most substantial indictment of Freud as a scientist that we have yet seen." However, he believed that Grünbaum exaggerated "the dearth of supportive evidence for Freud's theories" as well as the proble... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34449875 | 1,563,537 |
1,081,668 | Two relatively recent eruptions from the Taupō Volcano are perhaps the best known. Its Oruanui eruption was the world's largest known eruption in the past 70,000 years, with a Volcanic Explosivity Index (VEI) of 8. It occurred around 26,500 years ago and deposited approximately 1,200 km³ of material. Tephra from the er... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15265796 | 1,081,112 |
2,051,998 | During first 30 years of its existence the club served as a platform to integrate science undergraduates as well as recent graduates and allowed them to present their original research. Although the society invited senior university members and distinguished academics to speak during so-called "special meetings", its m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22879458 | 2,050,817 |
1,387,190 | To remove these European objections, dosimeters became smaller and started to include a data store where the Time History of the noise, usually in the form of Short Equivalent Sound Level (Leq) was stored. This data could be transferred to a personal computer and the exact pattern of the noise exposure minute by minute... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13093027 | 1,386,423 |
371,252 | The existence of two distinct units with the same name was confusing, and the difference (about in relative terms) was large enough to affect high-precision measurements. Moreover, it was discovered that the isotopes of oxygen had different natural abundances in water and in air. For these and other reasons, in 1961 th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42445 | 371,058 |
864,072 | An example of this effect is the use of nuclear fuels with thorium. Th-232 is a fertile material that can undergo a neutron capture reaction and two beta minus decays, resulting in the production of fissile U-233. Its radioactive decay will strongly influence the long-term activity curve of the SNF around a million yea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4094572 | 863,612 |
515,583 | Heliotropic flowers track the Sun's motion across the sky from east to west. Daisies or Bellis perennis close their petals at night but open in the morning light and then follow the sun as the day progresses. During the night, the flowers may assume a random orientation, while at dawn they turn again toward the east wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1213674 | 515,317 |
1,676,726 | The principle use of a ground-penetrating radar device in regards to forensic geology is to find buried bodies. This instrument has been most useful in resolving missing person cases. As well improving the recovery of the body by giving a general area to which the body is buried this also decreases excavation time. Stu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8988211 | 1,675,784 |
1,483,090 | After Carrère's death in 1911, Hastings went on to design the Arlington National Cemetery Tomb of the Unknowns and the Henry Clay Frick House on Fifth Avenue, as well as residences for such distinguished names as Guggenheim, duPont, Harriman, even a 'poultry cottage' for William K. Vanderbilt. He also designed the Fort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2310276 | 1,482,254 |
1,900,028 | As of the end of the 2015–16 season, the Eagles had a 550–563 record, with a 265–318 record in the Mid-American Conference, which they have played in since 1981. Suzy Merchant has the best record as coach, going 147–91 in nine years before stepping down as coach due to pregnancy four games into the 2006–07 season. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34523955 | 1,898,942 |
1,029,617 | Engines were typically delivered from BMW complete in their cowling, ready to be bolted to the front of the aircraft or nacelle, since 1942 as "Motoranlage (M)" and 1944/1945 as "Triebwerksanlage (T)". The Motoranlage was the original form of the interchangeable "Kraftei", or "power-egg", unitized powerplant installati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=183150 | 1,029,083 |
615,797 | Fausto-Sterling’s sexual continuum argument has not gained the same prominence in the biological sciences as it has in gender studies. French anthropologist Priscille Touraille called Fausto-Sterling an isolated case which has failed to create a consensus or controversy among biologists. Physician and psychologist Leon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=159526 | 615,483 |
478,163 | By the end of the 1950s, it was clear that boats would soon be superseded by amphibious tractors (LVTs) and air assault helicopters for landing combat assault troops. These could not be supported by attack transports in the numbers required, and new categories of amphibious ships began to replace APAs throughout the 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5468825 | 477,923 |
1,056,423 | In practice, the quantity is more frequently used. The 2004 best estimate of , at , in the scheme is , which is an average over measurements made in different processes, at different detectors. Atomic parity violation experiments yield values for at smaller values of , below 0.01 GeV/"c", but with much lower precision.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1959487 | 1,055,875 |
437,015 | During the 1990s, Plait worked with the COBE satellite and later was part of the Hubble Space Telescope team at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, working largely on the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph. In 1995, he published observations of a ring of circumstellar material around SN 1987A, which led to further stud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=907683 | 436,801 |
2,142,563 | Model System Categories (MSCs) were defined and ranged from relatively small-scale demonstrations to very large-scale operational SPS systems. In broad terms, each MSC represented an idea of what scale, technology, missions, etc. might be achievable in a particular future timeframe. The technology investment plan uses ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6773732 | 2,141,332 |
1,679,027 | Nuptial flights begin around May and peak in the summer months. Flights are triggered after heavy rains have raised the humidity of the air to 80-90% and temperatures around 80+°F are present half an hour after sunset. The female alates mate in the air once then ground themselves to search for a location to establish a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45266913 | 1,678,084 |
1,660,455 | In July 2012, NASA announced that astronomers at the University of Central Florida, using the Spitzer Space Telescope, strongly believed they had observed a second planet. This candidate planet was given the preliminary designation UCF-1.01, after the University of Central Florida. It was measured to have a radius of a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1212472 | 1,659,521 |
1,667,173 | Scott David Tingle (born July 19, 1965) is a NASA astronaut. He was selected in June 2009 as a member of the NASA Astronaut Group 20, qualifying in 2011. Serving as a flight engineer as part of Expedition 54 and 55, Tingle launched into space on board Soyuz MS-07 in December 2017, and returned in June 2018. Tingle is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23437158 | 1,666,234 |
905,366 | Perthes disease is self-limiting, but if the head of femur is left deformed, long-term problems can occur. Treatment is aimed at minimizing damage while the disease runs its course, not at 'curing' the disease. It is recommended not to use steroids or alcohol as these reduce oxygen in the blood which is needed in the j... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=295047 | 904,890 |
1,113,955 | He was a friend of the noted linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky, and communicated with the Jewish American writer Elie Wiesel through a letter, in which he criticized Israel's involvement in the Guatemalan genocide and satirically Wiesel's silence on any issue concerning Israel's alleged terrorist activities ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=256313 | 1,113,389 |
1,513,173 | Training patients in communication skills can increase patient participation and allow them to receive more information in visits without increasing the duration of visits, though there is little evidence than such training improves outcomes. It is unclear what the best form of communication skills training to increase... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23453324 | 1,512,322 |
1,371,059 | Cerebral organoids also possess functional cerebral cortical neurons. These neurons must form on the radially organized cortical plate. The marker TBR1 is present in the preplate, the precursor to the cortical plate, and is present, along with MAP2, a neuronal marker, in 30-day-old cerebral organoids. These markers are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40466325 | 1,370,302 |
1,101,615 | Alexander Miles was born in Pickaway County, Ohio, in 1838, the son of Michael and Mary Miles. He was African-American. Miles may have resided in the nearby town of Chillicothe, Ohio, but subsequently moved to Waukesha, Wisconsin, where he earned a living as a barber. After a move to Winona, Minnesota, he met and marri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19964588 | 1,101,054 |
2,046,228 | One criticism of reviewer Christian Freigang is that all of the works in this volume assume that mathematical considerations were paramount in the design of these buildings; they do not take into account the use needs of the buildings, or engineering issues such as the designer's experience with different types of ston... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70848548 | 2,045,047 |
1,866,419 | Ralaniten acetate (developmental code name EPI-506) is a first-in-class antiandrogen that targets the "N"-terminal domain (NTD) of the androgen receptor (AR) developed by ESSA Pharmaceuticals and was under investigation for the treatment of prostate cancer. This mechanism of action is believed to allow the drug to bloc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49581858 | 1,865,345 |
1,592,530 | More recently, a polymer photovoltaic device from C-modified SWCNTs and P3HT has been fabricated. Microwave irradiating a mixture of aqueous SWCNT solution and C solution in toluene was the first step in making these polymer-SWCNT composites. Conjugated polymer P3HT was then added resulting in a power conversion effici... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17279558 | 1,591,633 |
80,633 | Early mortars, such as the Pumhart von Steyr, were large and heavy and could not be easily transported. Simply made, these weapons were no more than iron bowls reminiscent of the kitchen and apothecary mortars whence they drew their name. An early transportable mortar was invented by Baron Menno van Coehoorn in 1701. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=324499 | 80,600 |
435,302 | Prognosis can vary heavily based on the severity of the neurological dysfunction. If treatment is initiated early in disease the neurologic sequelae may be reversed and further deterioration can be prevented. Long-term outlook is reasonably good for most people when diagnosed and treated early. A case study presented a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68451 | 435,088 |
99,265 | A potentiometer (colloquially, "pot") is a three-terminal resistor with a continuously adjustable tapping point controlled by rotation of a shaft or knob or by a linear slider. The name "potentiometer" comes from its function as an adjustable voltage divider to provide a variable potential at the terminal connected to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25754 | 99,222 |
2,054,434 | The eighties were marked by a profound diversification in the training courses offered: opening of a "Mastère" degree and an Advanced Studies degree (DEA) in automatic control and mechanics, specialisations in aircraft maintenance and helicopter techniques. ENSICA became the top-listed school for students with pass mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5680091 | 2,053,251 |
2,141,717 | Edward (Ted) Ford was born in Bethanga, Victoria, on 15 April 1902, the son of Edward John Knight Ford and his wife Mary Doxford, née Armstrong. His first job after leaving Clunes Higher Elementary School was as a telegraph boy at the Postmaster-General's Department (PMG), which he joined in April 1917, later working i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33648311 | 2,140,486 |
939,834 | Islands are not the only geographic locations that have endemic species. South America has been studied extensively with its areas of endemism representing assemblages of allopatrically distributed species groups. "Charis" butterflies are a primary example, confined to specific regions corresponding to phylogenies of o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=334986 | 939,333 |
562,773 | Zubrin holds a B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Rochester (1974); he was a science teacher for 7 years before becoming an engineer. He earned a M.S. in Nuclear Engineering (1984), a M.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics (1986), and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering (1992) — all from the University of Washington. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25894 | 562,484 |
1,130,336 | The first Board of Fortifications was established in 1885 to upgrade American coastal defenses. Other foreign policy at the time primarily regarded access to waters and fishing rights, particularly off the coast of Canada and in the Bering Strait. Legally, the United States rendered itself accountable to certain civil ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62091020 | 1,129,758 |
1,472,818 | Mawson's hopes of finding a suitable coastline to the west of Cape Adare were soon dashed. The coast remained hidden behind impenetrable ice, and the land reported by Wilkes in 1840 appeared to be non-existent. As the ship sailed further west, Mawson decided to reduce his land bases from three to two, by consolidating ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3433767 | 1,471,989 |
1,501,840 | The use of artificial gravity to counteract simulated microgravity (e.g. bed rest) on Earth has been shown to have conflicting results for the maintenance of bone, muscle, and cardiovascular systems. Short arm centrifuges can be used to generate loading conditions greater than gravity that could help prevent the skelet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50506253 | 1,500,994 |
1,607,447 | The study of DFSs began with a search for structured methods to avoid decoherence in the subject of quantum information processing (QIP). The methods involved attempts to identify particular states which have the potential of being unchanged by certain decohering processes (i.e. certain interactions with the environmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20145865 | 1,606,542 |
41,713 | Williams took a step up for the season, keeping their driver line-up of Patrese and Mansell. Mansell dominated the first round in South Africa, qualifying in pole position and winning the race by 24 seconds from his teammate, Patrese. Nigel Mansell won the next four rounds for Williams, at Mexico City, Interlagos, Cata... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34104 | 41,698 |
449,365 | It has been observed that inclusion of more taxa tends to lower overall support values (bootstrap percentages or decay indices, see below). The cause of this is clear: as additional taxa are added to a tree, they subdivide the branches to which they attach, and thus dilute the information that supports that branch. Whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1130020 | 449,147 |
1,271,210 | Early isolation methods relied on formation of the nitrate salt and then precipitation of the insoluble sulfate form. Accounts of these efforts date back to 1878, but the first true purification of veratridine is the one carried out in 1953 by Kupchan et al. This, and later purification procedures, begin with veratrine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4480224 | 1,270,519 |
1,779,221 | Due to the wide pattern of the transmission antenna, some of the signal always hit the ground, reflecting some of it back at the aircraft to cause a ground return. This was so powerful that it was received on all of the antennas, even the upper vertical receiver which would otherwise be hidden from signals below it. As... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43239543 | 1,778,219 |
1,832,718 | As the first president of the National Institute of Aging, Robert Butler, MD, made his first mission to enhance the education and training of health professionals in the field of aging. Recognizing the dearth of training opportunities for geriatric clinicians and researchers, the Adult Development and Aging Division, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43193946 | 1,831,670 |
1,558,755 | "Fig. 3: Five-dimensional imaging of mouse brain perfusion in vivo. (a) Layout of the experimental set-up. (b) Maximal-intensity projections along the axial direction following single-wavelength illumination before (upper) and after injection of two concentrations of contrast agent (10nmol in the middle and 50 nmol low... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37749401 | 1,557,870 |
1,197 | In the summer of 1889, Tesla traveled to the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris and learned of Heinrich Hertz's 1886–1888 experiments that proved the existence of electromagnetic radiation, including radio waves. Tesla found this new discovery "refreshing" and decided to explore it more fully. In repeating and then e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21473 | 1,197 |
1,421,893 | The Advanced Composition Explorer (ACE) was proposed in 1986 as part of the Explorer Concept Study Program. ACE is designed to make coordinated measurements of the elemental and isotopic composition of accelerated nuclei from H (Hydrogen) to Zn (Zinc) spanning six decades in energy per nucleon, from solar wind to galac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1009525 | 1,421,092 |
274,386 | The NITs along with the IITs receive comparatively higher grants than other engineering colleges in India. Average NIT funding increased to 100 crores ($15.4 million) by 2011. On average, each NIT also receives 20-25 crore ($3-3.8 million) under World Bank funded Technical Education Quality Improvement Program (TEQIP I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=667820 | 274,238 |
833,014 | In 1749, David Hartley published "Observations on Man", which focused on frame (neurology), duty (moral psychology) and expectations (spirituality) and how these integrated within one another. This text was also the first to use the English term psychology. In 1752, the Society of Friends created an asylum in Philadelp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=374304 | 832,565 |
203,928 | On February 13, 2007, a New Mexico State Court found Sandia Corporation liable for $4.7 million in damages for the firing of a former network security analyst, Shawn Carpenter, who had reported to his supervisors that hundreds of military installations and defense contractors' networks were compromised and sensitive in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=155558 | 203,823 |
538,052 | Even after the Vulcan development phase was over, the four surviving 707s, in individual bright blue, red, orange and silver (natural metal) colour schemes, continued in use as research aircraft. After the compound sweep investigation and a period with the Royal Aircraft Establishment (R.A.E) carrying out handling tria... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=979965 | 537,773 |
765,880 | This explains why, typically, languages that natively support closures also use garbage collection. The alternatives are manual memory management of non-local variables (explicitly allocating on the heap and freeing when done), or, if using stack allocation, for the language to accept that certain use cases will lead t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62319 | 765,470 |
1,495,626 | As the industrial use of carbon by humans is a very new dynamic on a geologic scale, it is important to be able to track sources and sinks of carbon in the atmosphere. One way of doing so is by observing the proportion of stable carbon isotopes present in the atmosphere. The two main carbon isotopes are C and C. Plants... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35997283 | 1,494,784 |
1,253,854 | Japan then succeeded in attracting a Western ally to its cause. Japan and Britain, both of whom wanted to keep Russia out of Manchuria, signed the Treaty of Alliance in 1902, which was in effect until in 1921 when the two signed the Four Power Treaty on Insular Possessions, which took effect in 1923. The British recogn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2998679 | 1,253,174 |
360,889 | Most modern air defence systems are fairly mobile. Even the larger systems tend to be mounted on trailers and are designed to be fairly quickly broken down or set up. In the past, this was not always the case. Early missile systems were cumbersome and required much infrastructure; many could not be moved at all. With t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146640 | 360,700 |
1,406,503 | On November 26, 2008, the NMFS issued a final rule, effective December 26, 2008, which designated 2,959 square miles (7,664 sq km) as critical habitat for Elkhorn coral. The habitat described is composed of four different areas, which include the coasts surrounding Florida, Puerto Rico, the St. John and St. Thomas area... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11326705 | 1,405,713 |
582,280 | It is evident now that low-dimensional dynamics, to a large extent initiated by Milnor's work, is a fundamental part of general dynamical systems theory. Milnor cast his eye on dynamical systems theory in the mid-1970s. By that time the Smale program in dynamics had been completed. Milnor's approach was to start over f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61632 | 581,982 |
1,676,005 | H2A.Z regulates transcription, DNA repair, suppression of antisense RNA, and RNA Polymerase II recruitment. Notable features of H2A.Z include a sequence motif ‘DEELD,’ a one amino acid insertion in L1-loop, and a one amino acid deletion in the docking domain relative to canonical H2A. Variant H2A.Z.2 was suggested to b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52866970 | 1,675,063 |
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