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1,773,142 | Numerous cohort studies have shown associations between disorders of mineral metabolism and fractures, cardiovascular disease, and mortality. These observational studies have broadened the focus of CKD-related mineral and bone disorders (MBDs) to include cardiovascular disease (which is the leading cause of death in pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49333453 | 1,772,145 |
2,038,285 | Following re-transfer of the departments of Law and Education, as well as the re-establishment of the Arts faculty, a new collection began to support these faculties as well as other centers and institutions that began emerging in the Colombo Campus of the University of Ceylon from 1952 to 1972, thereafter the Universi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27514336 | 2,037,109 |
1,110,489 | Domagk's responsibility at IG Farben was to test the new compounds, chemical dyes, for antimicrobial activities. Werner Schulemann, Friedrich Mietzsch, Hans Mauss and Joseph Klarer were largely responsible for providing a continuous supply of chemicals to be screened. Since the end of the 19th century, azo dyes, develo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=474958 | 1,109,924 |
1,636,313 | Dynamic Demand is the name of a semi-passive technology to support demand response by adjusting the load demand on an electrical power grid. It is also the name of an independent not-for-profit organization in the UK supported by a charitable grant from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, dedicated to promoting this techno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5069898 | 1,635,388 |
1,142,147 | Figure 2 again looks at TCAD capabilities but this time more in the context of design flow information and how this relates to the physical layers and modeling of the electronic design automation (EDA) world. Here the simulation levels of process and device modeling are considered as integral capabilities (within TCAD)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5232898 | 1,141,553 |
1,503,715 | NASA's Magellan spacecraft mission discovered that Venus has a geologically young surface with a relatively uniform age of 500±200 Ma (million years). The age of Venus was revealed by the observation of over 900 impact craters on the surface of the planet. These impact craters are nearly uniformly distributed over the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42070435 | 1,502,869 |
98,689 | Since the adoption and strengthening of the Montreal Protocol has led to reductions in the emissions of CFCs, atmospheric concentrations of the most-significant compounds have been declining. These substances are being gradually removed from the atmosphere; since peaking in 1994, the Effective Equivalent Chlorine (EECl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44183 | 98,646 |
418,287 | There are many different ways to measure the relationships of nodes when analyzing a network. In many cases, the measure used to find nodes that share similarity within a network is specific to the application it is being used. One of the types of measures that biologists utilize is Correlation which specifically cente... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22072718 | 418,082 |
1,610,843 | In 1948 Hicks married fellow engineer Rodney Duane Chipp, who held two director-level engineering positions before starting a consulting firm. In 1960 the couple were selected by the National Society of Professional Engineers for a month-long research and speaking tour of South America, which focused on international c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2821381 | 1,609,938 |
1,646,918 | The simplest Fresnel zone plate antenna is the circular half-wave zone plate invented in the nineteenth century. The basic idea is to divide a plane aperture into circular zones with respect to a chosen focal point on the basis that all radiation from each zone arrives at the focal point in phase within ±π/2 range. If ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31712770 | 1,645,987 |
101,305 | The standard no longer specifies that the organization shall issue and maintain documented procedures, but ISO 9001:2015 requires the organization to document any other procedures required for its effective operation. The standard also requires the organization to issue and communicate a documented quality policy, a qu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=147042 | 101,260 |
524,189 | QT prolongation is a measure of delayed ventricular repolarisation, which means the heart muscle takes longer than normal to recharge between beats. It is an electrical disturbance which can be seen on an electrocardiogram (ECG). Excessive QT prolongation can trigger tachycardias such as torsades de pointes (TdP). QT p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40084415 | 523,917 |
318,175 | Dental chipping and wearing indicates the habitual consumption of small hard objects, such as dirt and dust, and cup-shaped wearing on the back teeth may have stemmed from gritty particles. These could have originated from unwashed roots and tubers. Alternatively, aridity could have stirred up particulates onto food it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47774240 | 318,005 |
1,229,363 | Gingival cyst of adult is a rare condition. The incidence is less than 0.5%. It is formed from the rests of dental lamina. It is found in the soft tissues on the buccal and labial portions of the jaw. It usually occurs on the facial gingiva as a single small flesh colored swelling, sometimes with a bluish hue due to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53718186 | 1,228,701 |
1,015,181 | The first claimed experimental confirmation was by Robert G. Chambers in 1960, in an electron interferometer with a magnetic field produced by a thin iron whisker, and other early work is summarized in Olariu and Popèscu (1984). However, subsequent authors questioned the validity of several of these early results becau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277664 | 1,014,660 |
1,425,385 | Creusa introduces herself to Ion as the daughter of Erectheus. Ion is impressed, as he is familiar with the old stories about her family. Ion's casual mention of Long Rocks startles Creusa but she reveals nothing of her past. She tells him that she has married a foreigner, Xuthus, who won her as a prize for helping the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3346862 | 1,424,583 |
1,794,114 | From the twelfth century, burghs, towns that were granted certain legal privileges from the Crown, developed, particularly on the east coast with distinctive urban building patterns. They were typically surrounded by a palisade, and many had a castle. They usually had a market place, with a widened high street or junct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36309414 | 1,793,105 |
317,964 | Typically, the therapist tries to find a psychological or biological cause of the HSDD. If the HSDD is organically caused, the clinician may try to treat it. If the clinician believes it is rooted in a psychological problem, he or she may recommend therapy. If not, treatment generally focuses more on relationship and c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=411811 | 317,794 |
178,344 | The strategic teaching aims for 2025 are digital internationalization of study offerings and teaching, increasing the number of English-language bachelor's degree modules, increasing the number of incoming international exchange students (in particular bachelors programs), increase outgoing student mobility through the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89061 | 178,251 |
230,760 | Tsiolkovsky wrote a book called "The Will of the Universe: The Unknown Intelligence" in 1928 in which he propounded a philosophy of panpsychism. He believed humans would eventually colonize the Milky Way galaxy. His thought preceded the Space Age by several decades, and some of what he foresaw in his imagination has co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17087 | 230,642 |
1,433,100 | presented their so-called C* scheme at the Eurocrypt conference. Although C* has been broken by , the general principle of Matsumoto and Imai has inspired a generation of improved proposals. In later work, the "Hidden Monomial Cryptosystems" was developed by . It is based on a ground and an extension field. "Hidden Fie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16256805 | 1,432,296 |
1,255,970 | From 1,200 BC to the advent of Islam in Eastern Arabia, through three distinctive Iron Ages (Iron Age 1, 1200–1000 BC; Iron Age II, 1000–600 BC and Iron Age III 600–300 BC) and the Hellenistic Mleiha period (300 BC onward), the area was variously occupied by Archaemenid and other forces and saw the construction of fort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59092881 | 1,255,286 |
332,114 | The AGM-88 can detect, attack and destroy a radar antenna or transmitter with minimal aircrew input. The proportional guidance system that homes in on enemy radar emissions has a fixed antenna and seeker head in the missile's nose. A smokeless, solid-propellant, booster-sustainer rocket motor propels the missile at spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3149 | 331,937 |
1,116,178 | MZLs represent 5–17% of all Non-Hodgkin lymphomas with the extranodal, splenic, and nodal forms accounting for 50–70%, ~20%, and ~10% of all MZLs. The three MZL subtypes occur more often in older people (age 65–68 years) and are indolent diseases that may, in people without symptoms, be initially treated by a watchful ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21339698 | 1,115,609 |
425,507 | Keeping students motivated and interested are two important factors underlying content-based instruction. Motivation and interest are crucial in supporting student success with challenging, informative activities that support success and which help the student learn complex skills (Grabe & Stoller, 1997). When students... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11111776 | 425,299 |
23,199 | Bruce McLaren made the team's Grand Prix debut at the 1966 Monaco race (of the current Formula One teams only Ferrari is older). His race ended after nine laps due to a terminal oil leak. The car was the M2B designed by Robin Herd, but the programme was hampered by a poor choice of engines: a 3.0-litre version of Ford'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20994 | 23,190 |
1,993,066 | DLK is predominantly associated with Lasik, as the creation of a flap creates a potential space for cells to accumulate. Individuals with atopic conditions with pre-existing allergic conjunctivitis, or ocular rosacea, are more prone to developing the condition after surgery. Some authors have reported that moderate to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30629147 | 1,991,923 |
456,699 | Although there had been several earlier records of very small chlorophyll-"b"-containing cyanobacteria in the ocean, "Prochlorococcus" was discovered in 1986 by Sallie W. (Penny) Chisholm of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Robert J. Olson of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and other collaborators i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=693305 | 456,476 |
1,344,608 | USTB total area 557,858 m² is located in Haidian District, Beijing, facing Fourth Ring Road, where most key institutions of higher learning are gathered. The USTB Gymnasium for 2008 Summer Olympics is located on the east part of the campus. It is one of the four competition gymnasiums in Beijing's universities, which p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=919309 | 1,343,870 |
474,052 | Girls Who Code (also known as GWC) is an international nonprofit organization that aims to support and increase the number of women in computer science. The organization works toward closing the gender employment difference in computing. They host a seven-week Summer Immersion Program, a two-week specialized Campus Pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45403481 | 473,816 |
424,280 | Canadian mycologist Buller in 1924 described the gills of "P. stipticus" in North America as luminescent, and noted that the fungus glows most strongly at the time of spore maturation. Bioluminescence has not been observed in European specimens, in Pacific North American collections, nor in strains collected from New Z... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25648059 | 424,073 |
327,334 | The original name for DCS was "caisson disease". This term was introduced in the 19th century, when caissons under pressure were used to keep water from flooding large engineering excavations below the water table, such as bridge supports and tunnels. Workers spending time in high ambient pressure conditions are at ris... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61048 | 327,160 |
1,262,466 | During the rest of March 2014 the ALHAT hardware was inserted again permitting a successful tethered test of the assembly on March 27, 2014. Tether Test 34 flight trajectory was similar to TT33 and TT29 with two hovers and a translation during a ascent. Free Flight 10 (FF10) took place on April 2, 2014, with the ALHAT ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31513219 | 1,261,779 |
1,595,953 | Karl Brunner was born in Zurich on 16 February 1916. He studied economics at the University of Zurich and the London School of Economics, and earned a doctorate at the University of Zurich in 1943. He left Switzerland in 1949 to take up a position as a visiting fellow at the Cowles Commission, University of Chicago. Af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10181653 | 1,595,054 |
460,275 | One other consideration is the very large amount of bandwidth required to feed imagery to a volumetric display. For example, a standard 24 bits per pixel, 1024×768 resolution, flat/2D display requires about 135 MB/s to be sent to the display hardware to sustain 60 frames per second, whereas a 24 bits per voxel, 1024×76... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1167787 | 460,049 |
2,132,576 | The first professors are graduates of the higher veterinary schools in Berlin, Vienna, Lyon and Torino. International contests for heads of three major departments were announced. Thus, Assoc. Prof. Heinrich Bitner from Berlin was appointed for head of the Department of Anatomy, Histology and Embryology, Prof. Johannes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33398321 | 2,131,351 |
36,759 | BJJ revolves around the concept, taken from traditional Japanese jūjutsu, that a smaller, weaker person can successfully defend themselves against a bigger, stronger, heavier opponent by using leverage and weight distribution, taking the fight to the ground and using a number of holds and submissions to defeat them. BJ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=207083 | 36,747 |
873,364 | 2007 study based on DNA of living beetles and maps of likely beetle evolution indicated that beetles may have originated during the Lower Permian, up to . In 2009, a fossil beetle was described from the Pennsylvanian of Mazon Creek, Illinois, pushing the origin of the beetles to an earlier date, . Fossils from this tim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3969819 | 872,904 |
1,987,723 | Chaitan Khosla Ph.D is the Wells H. Rauser and Harold M. Petiprin Professor of Chemical Engineering and Chemistry at Stanford University. He earned his B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay in 1985 and his Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology in 1990 with Jay Bailey work... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38297203 | 1,986,581 |
1,741,679 | The adult parasite infects the small intestine of fowl, from where it obtains nutrition from the digested food of the host. The tapeworm is responsible for stunted growth of young chicken, emaciation of adult and decreased egg production of hen. In general the tapeworm does not cause gross pathological damages on well-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26467383 | 1,740,695 |
1,347,113 | The M.5K/MG usually used the Parabellum MG14 machine gun for the synchronized armament, which could prove to be a troublesome arrangement, and the five M.5K/MGs built by the Fokker factory in Schwerin/Gorries retained the "shoulder-wing" position of the M.5k for the monoplane wing. Parschau's E.1/15 later had its wing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1189231 | 1,346,372 |
1,918,358 | European Radiology Experimental, the youngest of the ESR journal family, is an open access scientific medical journal that focuses on modern multidisciplinary research involving radiology in the experimental setting and basic science. The journal publishes articles on a wide range of topics including new modalities/tec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13550007 | 1,917,258 |
1,407,132 | From a scientific perspective, as the Broad Institute's David Altschuler told the MIT Tech Review in 2004, "This is a business in which critical mass is important, and they have achieved critical mass." But the business was also about money. Being an innovation enterprise pioneering new markets, the company had spent m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1494572 | 1,406,342 |
1,387,557 | It was well known in both mathematics and engineering that the optimal response would exhibit an equiripple behavior and that the number of ripples could be counted using the Chebyshev approximation. Several attempts to produce a design program for the optimal Chebyshev FIR filter were undertaken in the period between ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4882496 | 1,386,790 |
1,570,530 | Concrete layered extrusion 3D printing involves a numerically controlled nozzle that precisely extrudes a cementitious paste layer by layer. Layers are generally between 5 mm and a few centimeters in thickness. The extrusion nozzle may be accompanied by an automatic troweling tool that flattens the 3D-printed layers an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69632903 | 1,569,642 |
686,561 | The XP-54 was unique in numerous ways. The pressurized cockpit required a complex entry system: the pilot's seat acted as an elevator for cockpit access from the ground. The pilot lowered the seat electrically, sat in it, and raised it into the cockpit. Bail-out procedure was complicated by the pressurization system, n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2266198 | 686,204 |
1,188,239 | Louis gave Stephen a number of presents, including an estate of land (most likely at Vendeuvre-sur-Barse) granted to the Roman church. They also renewed the pact between the popes and the kings of the Franks, confirming the privileges of the Roman church, and the continued existence of the recently emerged Papal States... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24334 | 1,187,607 |
1,921,075 | Different organs of plants serve different functions. Leaves generally intercept light and fix carbon, roots take up water and nutrients, and stems and petioles display the leaves in a favourable position and transport various compounds within the plant. Depending on environmental conditions, plants may change their in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61082237 | 1,919,972 |
1,081,595 | During the New Zealand Wars of 1846–1886, settler militia and Māori allies in a variety of clothing styles served alongside the regulars of the British Imperial forces who wore their red and blue undress uniforms until plain dark blue field uniforms were adopted after 1860. Militia and volunteer uniforms consisted of “... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38620032 | 1,081,039 |
2,041,199 | There is no treatment for plants once infected with cacao necrosis virus. Destruction of infected and contact cacao trees is an effective cultural control method. This does not prevent new spread although spread is greatly reduced due to the limited dispersal of the nematode vector and subsequent monocyclic cycle of di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48211634 | 2,040,019 |
2,130,077 | Lukits was born Nicolae Teodorescu in Timișoara, Transylvania, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. His father, Theodore Lukits, Sr., was a butcher, and his mother was a homemaker. He came to the United States at age two when his family immigrated in 1899, and he grew up in St. Louis, Missouri. Lukits be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12370321 | 2,128,853 |
571,246 | Evolution in bacteria was previously viewed as a result of mutation or genetic drift. Today, genetic exchange, or gene transfer is viewed as a major driving force in the evolution of prokaryotes. This driving force has been widely studied in organisms like E. coli. Bacteria reproduces asexually, where daughter cells ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53147574 | 570,955 |
1,098,758 | Recently, a study provided evidence of an association between raised levels of HMGB1 and attention to detail and systemizing in unmedicated children with high-functioning Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), suggesting that inflammatory processes mediated by HMGB1 may play a role in the disruption of neurobiological mechani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14062118 | 1,098,198 |
1,325,957 | The incomes from the revenue stamp created a surplus in the university finances, which were poorly administrated. Excessive amounts of the budget were directed to the establishment of research institutes and centers, creation of new professorial chairs, and the construction of several buildings, the establishment of a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14257781 | 1,325,230 |
1,755,251 | Prior to World War I, the Imperial Japanese Army was largely equipped with Krupp cannons from Germany. After the Versailles Treaty, the Japanese Army switched to the French Schneider company, and developed the Type 90 75 mm field gun loosely based on the Schneider et Cie Canon de 85 mle 1927. However, the Schneider des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18656734 | 1,754,261 |
1,517,975 | In operational numerical weather prediction, forecast models are used to predict future states of the atmosphere, based on how the climate system evolves with time from an initial state. The initial state provided as input to the forecast must consist of data values for a range of "prognostic" meteorological fields – t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25144285 | 1,517,117 |
917,053 | During 2009–2011, 12 "C.auris" isolates were obtained from patients at two hospitals in Delhi, India. The same genotype was found in distinct settings: intensive care, surgical, medical, oncologic, neonatal, and pediatric wards, which were mutually exclusive with respect to health care personnel. Most had persistent ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51020596 | 916,570 |
918,727 | In recent research, superhydrophobicity has been reported by allowing alkylketene dimer (AKD) to solidify into a nanostructured fractal surface. Many papers have since presented fabrication methods for producing superhydrophobic surfaces including particle deposition, sol-gel techniques, plasma treatments, vapor deposi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14136 | 918,244 |
159,431 | The colorpoint pattern is most commonly associated with Siamese cats, but may also appear in any domesticated cat. A colorpointed cat has dark colors on the face, ears, feet, and tail, with a lighter version of the same color on the rest of the body, and possibly some white. The exact name of the colorpoint pattern dep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=583254 | 159,346 |
530,142 | The Wilamette and Northwood cores contain a 20-stage instruction pipeline. This is a significant increase in the number of stages compared to the Pentium III, which had only 10 stages in its pipeline. The Prescott core increased the length of the pipeline to 31 stages. A drawback of longer pipelines is the increase in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=643866 | 529,868 |
201,875 | The simplest possible nihonium compound is the monohydride, NhH. The bonding is provided by the 7p electron of nihonium and the 1s electron of hydrogen. The SO interaction causes the binding energy of nihonium monohydride to be reduced by about 1 eV and the nihonium–hydrogen bond length to decrease as the bonding 7p or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=77474 | 201,772 |
583,004 | Both Arab and Indian scholars made discoveries before the 17th century that are now considered a part of calculus. According to Katz, they were yet to "combine many differing ideas under the two unifying themes of the derivative and the integral, show the connection between the two, and turn calculus into the great pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3099132 | 582,705 |
1,197,863 | The poor accuracy of the simple blade-element theory is very well shown in a report by Durand and Lesley, in which they have computed the performance of a large number of model propellers (80) and compared the computed values with the actual performances obtained from tests on the model propellers themselves. In the wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=495598 | 1,197,222 |
418,771 | The HMIS Color Bar is similar to the fire diamond, created by the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA). Before 2002 the fire diamond and the color bar both had sections colored blue, red, white, and yellow. After April 2002, with the release of HMIS III, yellow in the color bar (which stood for reactivity) was r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4552476 | 418,566 |
104,951 | The track was originally called "The Amazing Pudding", though Geesin's original score referred to it as "Untitled Epic". A refined and improved version (with Geesin's written parts) was played at Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music on 27 June. Its name was changed after the band were due to play an "in concert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=271068 | 104,906 |
2,198,069 | The third part of the book concerns the degrees of freedom that arise when the pattern of adjacencies is not fully triangulated (it is a planar graph, but not a maximal planar graph). In this case, different extensions of this pattern to larger maximal planar graphs will lead to different packings, which can be mapped ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63576976 | 2,196,818 |
1,289,961 | These cancers are sometimes termed 8p11 myeloproliferative syndromes based on the chromosomal location of the "FGFR1" gene. Translocations involving "ZMYM2", "CNTRL", and FGFR1OP2 are the most common forms of these 8p11 syndromes. In general, patients with any of these diseases have an average age of 44 and present wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11485159 | 1,289,251 |
2,050,894 | The Cobb Institute of Archaeology was established in June 1971 by Mississippi State University alumnus Cully A. Cobb and his wife, Lois Dowdle Cobb. An initial donation of just over $1 million in stock of the Ruralist Press for endowment support was made in 1971, and an additional $500,000 was donated in order to fund ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60757808 | 2,049,713 |
585,515 | Twaron is a "p"-phenylene terephthalamide (P"p"PTA), the simplest form of the AABB para polyaramide. P"p"PTA is a product of "p"-phenylene diamine (PPD) and terephthaloyl dichloride (TDC). To dissolve the aromatic polymer Twaron used a co-solvent of N-methyl pyrrolidone (NMP) and an ionic component (calcium chloride Ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=456837 | 585,215 |
834,411 | These are rotors spun at constant speed, mounted on gimbals to provide attitude control. Although a CMG provides control about the two axes orthogonal to the gyro spin axis, triaxial control still requires two units. A CMG is a bit more expensive in terms of cost and mass, because gimbals and their drive motors must be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30575830 | 833,962 |
1,259,539 | The altered proteins that result from ATP7A mutations impair the absorption of copper from food, fail to supply copper to certain enzymes, or get stuck in the cell membrane, unable to shuttle back and forth from the Golgi. As a result of the disrupted activity of the ATP7A protein, copper is poorly distributed to cells... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3574303 | 1,258,852 |
1,033,139 | Technosignature or technomarker is any measurable property or effect that provides scientific evidence of past or present technology. Technosignatures are analogous to biosignatures, which signal the presence of life, whether intelligent or not. Some authors prefer to exclude radio transmissions from the definition, bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39919360 | 1,032,603 |
1,924,290 | The men's discus throw event at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entry list of 29 competitors from 20 nations, with two qualifying groups before the final (12) took place on Saturday October 1, 1988. The maximum number of athletes per nation had been set at 3 since the 1930 Olympic Congress. The ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14523589 | 1,923,187 |
831,843 | Computers were generally large, costly systems owned by large institutions before the introduction of the microprocessor in the early 1970s — corporations, universities, government agencies, and the like. Users were experienced specialists who did not usually interact with the machine itself, but instead prepared tasks... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=264051 | 831,394 |
636,402 | IEI was established in 1920 in Madras with Sir Thomas R. J. Ward as the founding president. It was formally inaugurated in 1921 by Lord Chessboard, the then-Viceroy of British India. In 1935. IEI obtained the Royal Charter of Incorporation from King George V 'to promote and advance the science, practice, and business o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=717742 | 636,063 |
1,048,815 | Karl Ernst von Baer was born into the Baltic German noble Baer family in the Piep Manor , Jerwen County, Governorate of Estonia (in present-day Lääne-Viru County, Estonia), as a knight by birthright. His patrilineal ancestors were of Westphalian origin and originated in Osnabrück. He spent his early childhood at Lasila... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17304 | 1,048,270 |
90,537 | The College of the Environment (COE), created in 2009, integrates the following components: 1) a curricular component, including the newly established environmental studies major, the environmental studies certificate, and a senior capstone project; 2) a Think Tank of Wesleyan faculty, scholars of prominence, and under... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=241865 | 90,497 |
1,283,843 | While the analysis of educational data is not itself a new practice, recent advances in educational technology, including the increase in computing power and the ability to log fine-grained data about students' use of a computer-based learning environment, have led to an increased interest in developing techniques for ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29915619 | 1,283,144 |
1,083,193 | Liesegang ring patterns are considered to be secondary (diagenetic) sedimentary structures, though they are also found in permeable igneous and metamorphic rocks that have been chemically weathered. Chemical weathering of rocks that leads to the formation of Liesegang rings typically involves the diffusion of oxygen in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29926794 | 1,082,636 |
1,221,551 | The first eight ships to be completed were sent to western France in pairs after they finished working up from late 1942 through the beginning of 1944. They were tasked to escort convoys, blockade runners and submarines through the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay. The ships also laid minefields. Not long after th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58527641 | 1,220,893 |
639,408 | The gliadins are intrinsically disordered proteins meaning that they have continuously altering shapes making it difficult to study them. The performed image analysis and computer simulations of the proteins show that the average shape of the gliadins follows an elliptical shape. More specifically does the protein like... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1942067 | 639,069 |
2,157,399 | Although there has been a steady decline in natural product discovery efforts in the pharmaceutical industry over the last three decades, natural product chemical scaffolds have continued to yield important human antimicrobial agents, immunomodulators, and antitumor agents, as well as plant crop protectants. Natural pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39235503 | 2,156,168 |
1,017,623 | Gap Junctions have been observed in various animal organs and tissues where cells contact each other. From the 1950s to 1970s they were detected in crayfish nerves, rat pancreas, liver, adrenal cortex, epididymis, duodenum, muscle, Daphnia hepatic caecum, Hydra muscle, monkey retina, rabbit cornea, fish blastoderm, fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=337153 | 1,017,099 |
1,203,827 | Because of the importance of the "CSF1R" gene in myeloid cell survival, maturation, and function, loss-of-function in both inherited copies of the "CSF1R" gene causes postnatal mortality. Heterozygous mutations in the "CSF1R" gene prevent downstream CSF1R signaling and cause an autosomal dominant neurodegenerative dise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14722972 | 1,203,182 |
592,075 | Penile plethysmography (PPG) or phallometry is measurement of blood flow to the penis, typically used as a proxy for measurement of sexual arousal. The most commonly reported methods of conducting penile plethysmography involve the measurement of the circumference of the penis with a mercury-in-rubber or electromechani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=410384 | 591,773 |
1,724,116 | Joseph II's Germanization decree triggered a chain reaction of national movements throughout the empire. Hungarians appealed for unification of Hungary and Transylvania and Magyarization of minority peoples. Threatened by both Germanization and Magyarization, the Romanians and other minority nations experienced a cultu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4745801 | 1,723,146 |
139,248 | Senior leaders at several large automakers, including Nissan and General Motors, have stated that the Roadster was a catalyst which demonstrated that there is pent-up consumer demand for more efficient vehicles. In an August 2009 edition of The New Yorker, GM vice-chairman Bob Lutz was quoted as saying, ""All the geniu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=951197 | 139,191 |
1,940,310 | Exposure to weightlessness causes changes to the signals from the receptors to touch, pressure, and gravity, i.e., all information necessary for postural stability. Adaptive modifications in the central processing of sensory information take place to produce motor responses that are appropriate for the new gravitationa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34095626 | 1,939,200 |
559,266 | Advanced Mobile Phone System (AMPS) was an analog mobile phone system standard originally developed by Bell Labs and later modified in a cooperative effort between Bell Labs and Motorola. It was officially introduced in the Americas on October 13, 1983, and was deployed in many other countries too, including Israel in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2815 | 558,977 |
1,972,976 | AOJS continues its work, which includes, planning major events which attract numerous participants, responding to individual inquiries on issues of practical halacha related to science and medicine and publishing articles and essays related to science and medicine, allowing them to successfully reach the Jewish communi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19906483 | 1,971,841 |
1,194,736 | Computer cryptography uses integers for keys. In some cases keys are randomly generated using a "random number generator (RNG)" or "pseudorandom number generator (PRNG)". A PRNG is a computer algorithm that produces data that appears random under analysis. PRNGs that use system entropy to seed data generally produce be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=929645 | 1,194,096 |
652,614 | These devices are often used in computer power supplies, largely due to the PC 97 standard (which recommends a sealed PC that the user never has to open), and in aerospace/nuclear applications where replacement is difficult. Another application for such devices is protecting audio loudspeakers, particularly tweeters, f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=982095 | 652,272 |
1,181,238 | As mentioned above the histone tails have been shown to directly interact with the DNA of the nucleosome. Each histone in the octamer has an N-terminal tail that protrudes from the histone core. The tails play roles both in inter and intra nucleosomal interactions that ultimately influence gene access. Histones are pos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=553741 | 1,180,614 |
420,349 | Georg Christoph Lichtenberg was born in Ober-Ramstadt near Darmstadt, Landgraviate of Hesse-Darmstadt, the youngest of 17 children. His father, Johann Conrad Lichtenberg, was a pastor ascending through the ranks of the church hierarchy, who eventually became superintendent for Darmstadt. Unusually for a clergyman in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=476400 | 420,144 |
813,077 | Many of the documented analgesic effects of cannabinoids are based on the interaction of these compounds with CB receptors on spinal cord interneurons in the superficial levels of the dorsal horn, known for its role in nociceptive processing. In particular, the CB is heavily expressed in layers 1 and 2 of the spinal co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14438348 | 812,644 |
1,780,836 | The first game to use this system was "Colossal Adventure" in early 1982, a faithful conversion of "Adventure" by Will Crowther and Don Woods, but with 70 extra locations to the end game to fulfill Level 9's preexisting claim in advertisements of "over 200" locations; a remarkable achievement given that Gordon Letwin's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=886383 | 1,779,832 |
375,301 | At the Last Glacial Maximum, continuous permafrost covered a much greater area than it does today, covering all of ice-free Europe south to about Szeged (southeastern Hungary) and the Sea of Azov (then dry land) and East Asia south to present-day Changchun and Abashiri. In North America, only an extremely narrow belt o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157774 | 375,106 |
153,335 | The second task was "wheel setting", which worked out the start positions of the wheels for a particular message and could only be attempted once the cam patterns were known. It was this task for which Colossus was initially designed. To discover the start position of the "chi" wheels for a message, Colossus compared t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6229 | 153,265 |
1,579,353 | A number of computer operating systems employ security features to help prevent malicious software from gaining sufficient privileges to compromise the computer system. Operating systems lacking such features, such as DOS, Windows implementations prior to Windows NT (and its descendants), CP/M-80, and all Mac operating... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10027043 | 1,578,463 |
1,044,402 | Magnetic resonance spectroscopy is an analytical technique that can be used to complement the more common magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in the characterization of tissue. Both techniques typically acquire signal from hydrogen protons (other endogenous nuclei such as those of Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorus are also... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14357725 | 1,043,858 |
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