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964,072 | In light of the army's need for additional armoured vehicles in the Afghan and Iraqi theatres, the Ministry of Defence announced in August 2006 that an extra 70 vehicles would be upgraded by BAE Systems in addition to the 54 already ordered as part of their "force protection initiative". The improvements take the form ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1465498 | 963,563 |
1,854,476 | In addition to continuing descriptive studies of the effects of infection by defense mutualist endophytes, there has been a sharp increase in the number of studies which delve further into the ecology of plant-fungus associations and especially their multi-trophic impacts. The processes by which endophytic fungi alter ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31533830 | 1,853,410 |
64,392 | A change from one state to another, for example an increase of both temperature and volume, may be conducted in several stages, for example by externally supplied electrical work on a resistor in the body, and adiabatic expansion allowing the body to do work on the surroundings. It needs to be shown that the time order... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=166404 | 64,367 |
1,447,620 | SELCO Solar Light Pvt. Ltd. is a for-profit social enterprise based in Bangalore, India. SELCO has played an instrumental role in improving living standards of poor households in rural India especially in the state of Karnataka through solar energy based interventions and low smoke cook stoves. In recognition of the se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11893310 | 1,446,804 |
157,423 | High-volume (more than 180 mL per kilogram per day) enteral feeds of fortified or non-fortified human breast milk or formula may improve weight gain while the pre-term infant is hospitalized, however, there is insufficient evidence to determine if this approach improves growth of the neonate and other clinical outcomes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=429542 | 157,351 |
281,524 | British surgeon John Wood was originally next in line and was elected to the chair. Wood was hostile to Lister obtaining the chair. On 8 March 1877, in a private letter to an associate, Lister contrasted their differing teaching methods and stated in no uncertain terms his opinion of Fergusson, "The mere fact of Fergus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16535 | 281,371 |
380 | Nuclear stability will likely prove a decisive factor constraining the number of possible elements. It depends on the balance between the electric repulsion between protons and the strong force binding protons and neutrons together. Protons and neutrons are arranged in shells, just like electrons, and so a closed shell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23053 | 380 |
952,170 | After the fall of Singapore the Australian Government and many Australians feared that Japan would invade the Australian mainland. Australia was ill-prepared to counter such an attack as the RAAF lacked modern aircraft and the RAN was too small and unbalanced to counter the Imperial Japanese Navy. Additionally, the Arm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4578255 | 951,665 |
1,905,952 | The number needed to treat in the study was 57 to postpone one death and 19 to prevent one cardiovascular "event" (in those taking the drug simvastatin for 5 years). There was no mortality benefit in women with a statistical "p-value" that did not reach significance (0.08) while the Kaplan-Meier mortality curves, for m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=544258 | 1,904,856 |
718,823 | Weaknesses in the cryptographic security of the algorithm were known and publicly criticised well before the algorithm became part of a formal standard endorsed by the ANSI, ISO, and formerly by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). One of the weaknesses publicly identified was the potential of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14259066 | 718,443 |
646,491 | The majority of elasmobranchs are viviparous and show a wide range of strategies to provide their offspring with nourishment and respiratory requirements. Some sharks simply retain their young in the dilated posterior segment of the oviduct. In its simplest form, the uterus does not provide any additional nutrients to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44046994 | 646,151 |
1,732,180 | Although there is some evidence that points to the possible appearance of guns in Andalusia as early as the 1330s, Thomas T. Allsen says that "in the Latin West the first uncontestable evidence of firearms is from 1326, surprisingly somewhat earlier than in the lands that lie between China ... and western Europe. This ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61793153 | 1,731,204 |
1,324,365 | This model is not the same as the Stoner Model of itinerant ferromagnetism. In the Stoner model, a high density of states at the Fermi level makes the nonmagnetic state unstable. In SP calculations of covalent ferromagnets using DFT-LSDA functionals, the exchange-correlation integral takes the place of the Stoner param... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=875676 | 1,323,639 |
1,416,764 | Historically the phylogenetic relationships among the Strombidae have been mainly accessed on two occasions, using two methods. In a 2005 monograph, Simone proposed a cladogram (a tree of descent) based on an extensive morphoanatomical analysis of representatives of the Aporrhaidae, Strombidae, Xenophoridae, and Struth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1619595 | 1,415,966 |
401,724 | In order to create sensor-based maps, most remote sensing systems expect to extrapolate sensor data in relation to a reference point including distances between known points on the ground. This depends on the type of sensor used. For example, in conventional photographs, distances are accurate in the center of the imag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=228148 | 401,525 |
1,520 | At the bill's second reading in the House of Commons on 29 November 2013, Conservative MP Christopher Chope objected to the bill, delaying its passage. The bill was due to return to the House of Commons on 28 February 2014, but before the bill could be debated in the House of Commons, the government elected to proceed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1208 | 1,520 |
1,298,213 | An engineered protein biosensor has been developed that can detect changes in "O"-GlcNAc levels using Förster resonance energy transfer. This sensor consists of four components linked together in the following order: cyan fluorescent protein (CFP), an "O"-GlcNAc binding domain (based on GafD, a lectin sensitive for ter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44457563 | 1,297,500 |
484,407 | Behavioral control is an important application of cognitive inhibition in behavioral psychology, as is emotional control. Depression is an example of cognitive inhibition failure in emotion control. Correctly functioning cognitive inhibition would result in reduced selective attention to negative stimuli and retention ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38433123 | 484,158 |
725,078 | Line-collimation instruments restrict the beam only in one dimension (rather than two as for point collimation) so that the beam cross-section is a long but narrow line. The illuminated sample volume is much larger compared to point-collimation and the scattered intensity at the same flux density is proportionally larg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12235089 | 724,697 |
1,734,435 | The varied rock types of the Corallian are superseded by the Kimmeridge clay, a bed of dark clays and shales up to 500 m thick. These deposits occurred in a deep marine environment, 38° north, 140 to 145 Mya. Deposited in an oxygen-deficient environment, the Kimmeridge beds make up the major part of the Purbeck Monocli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1121663 | 1,733,458 |
1,134,221 | Historically, terminology related to the uptake of treatment by the patient was referred to as compliance, implying a more passive role on the part of the patient, and a more clearly delineated hierarchy between the doctor and patient. However, modern models of ethical treatment call of more equality between patient an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6017083 | 1,133,628 |
1,489,613 | Tapas Kumar Kundu (born 1962) is an Indian molecular biologist, academician and at present the Director of Central Drug Research Institute, a prestigious research institute of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research at Lucknow. He is the head of the Transcription and Disease Laboratory of Jawaharlal Nehru Centre ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52066021 | 1,488,774 |
2,089,333 | The essential element of this automatic system is a lever arm attached to a mass in the centre-fuselage, which is connected with the pitch controls. The moment generated by the mass is arranged to reach an equilibrium condition with the pitch control forces at each flight condition, with the flaps moving to a high lift... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27509400 | 2,088,130 |
335,060 | Locomotives with total adhesion, where all of the wheels are coupled together, generally lack stability at speed. To counter this, locomotives often fit unpowered carrying wheels mounted on two-wheeled trucks or four-wheeled bogies centred by springs/inverted rockers/geared rollers that help to guide the locomotive thr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196788 | 334,882 |
776,778 | Attempts have been made to model the developmental process of language acquisition in children from a computational angle, leading to both statistical grammars and connectionist models. Work in this realm has also been proposed as a method to explain the evolution of language through history. Using models, it has been ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5561 | 776,362 |
1,047,951 | In 1937 he left factory work to pursue origami full-time. During the next 20 years, he lived in total poverty, earning his living by door-to-door selling of tsukudani (a Japanese preserved condiment that is usually made of seaweed). During World War II, Akira Yoshizawa served in the army medical corps in Hong Kong. He ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1614498 | 1,047,406 |
536,728 | Injuries were to play a big role in the finals of this event. World leader Tajay Gayle showed up with his left knee taped, struggled down the runway to foul his first two attempts, finally getting a legal but non-qualifying jump on his third attempt. Maykel Massó took the lead as last jumper of the first round with an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60376759 | 536,449 |
430,896 | In his 1647 essay, Marcus Zuerius van Boxhorn proposed the existence of a primitive common language he called "Scythian". He included in its descendants Dutch, German, Latin, Greek, and Persian, and his posthumously published "Originum Gallicarum liber" of 1654 added Slavic, Celtic and Baltic. The 1647 essay discusses,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=931796 | 430,684 |
601,433 | Research in this field is used to support global and local environmental, energy and security programs. The Geographic Information Science and Technology group of Oak Ridge National Laboratory is supported by various government departments and agencies including the United States Department of Energy. It is currently t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1404353 | 601,124 |
1,749,652 | The major diversification amongst the Angiosperms (flowering plants) can be dated to the end of the Early Cretaceous period which stretched from 146 to 100 million years ago (mya). The development of a phylogenetic approach to taxonomy, starting with Charles Bessey's "The phylogenetic taxonomy of flowering plants" (191... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42056883 | 1,748,666 |
2,004,163 | Johnson moved to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) field laboratory in the Panama Canal Zone, studying hemorrhagic fever agents. His time at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) subsequently the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, led to field work in Africa and Korea, where he established the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53241083 | 2,003,014 |
661,123 | IPP itself is structurally closely related to HMB-PP and ubiquitously present in all living cells (including human cells), yet its potency "in vitro" is reduced 10,000-fold; whether IPP represents a physiological 'danger' signal of stressed or transformed cells is still unclear. Of pharmacological interest and with bio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14689127 | 660,778 |
1,164,314 | After a brief sojourn in Germany, Bopp travelled to London where he made the acquaintance of Sir Charles Wilkins and Henry Thomas Colebrooke. He also became friends with Wilhelm von Humboldt, the Prussian ambassador at the Court of St. James's, to whom he taught Sanskrit. He brought out, in the "Annals of Oriental Lite... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11699 | 1,163,697 |
2,169,834 | After the war Gurdon pursued a career as a journalist and author, publishing his first novel "Over and Above" in 1919, republished in 2018. He then translated Georg Paul Neumann's "Die Deutschen Luftstreitkräfte im Weltkriege", an official history, which was published in English as "The German Air Force in the Great Wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20005298 | 2,168,596 |
1,213,240 | When the pandemic struck in 1918, the ships of the Royal Australian Navy were dispersed throughout the world. The speed at which the flu spread, coupled with the cramped mess decks and poorly ventilated living spaces on early 20th century warships, created a favourable environment for the disease. The pandemic swept th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5606945 | 1,212,588 |
1,436,359 | Asynchronous systems – much like object-oriented software – are typically constructed out of modular 'hardware objects', each with well-defined communication interfaces. These modules may operate at variable speeds, whether due to data-dependent processing, dynamic voltage scaling, or process variation. The modules can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3801097 | 1,435,550 |
1,683,559 | In 2013, plans were announced to build the program a new Morgantown venue. Ground was broken for the new ballpark at University Town Centre, an off-campus shopping and entertainment complex in nearby Granville, on October 17, 2013. The ballpark will be a fan friendly design with 2,500 fixed seats with additional hillsi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32403047 | 1,682,616 |
1,071,816 | In the early 21st century, new developments in computing have brought minimalism to the forefront. In what has been termed the post-PC era it is no longer necessary to buy a high-end personal computer merely to perform common computing tasks. Mobile computing devices, such as smartphones, tablet computers, netbooks and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2375218 | 1,071,262 |
2,000,924 | Following its journeyman years in Europe, the quartet in the 1912–1913 season embarked on what would be a constant round of activity in Canada and the United States, keeping to an intense schedule during annual coast-to-coast tours. During an early 1919 tour of western Canada starting in Victoria, British Columbia, in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36062330 | 1,999,779 |
2,246,683 | By the end of the regular season Providence was considered a 'bubble team' for the NCAA Tournament and would need a very good performance in the Hockey East Tournament to improve their standing if they couldn't get an automatic bid. The first impediment for the team was Hockey East using a power index to decide confere... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67323467 | 2,245,411 |
1,927,857 | At the start of the twentieth century, the Taoist priest Wang Yuanlu appointed himself caretaker of the Mogao Caves, which by this time were ancient temples. His accidental discovery of the hidden Library Cave, which contained the Dunhuang manuscripts, attracted the attention of many Western archaeologists and explorer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52430123 | 1,926,753 |
62,814 | The M60 was deployed to West Germany to counter the threat presented from the T-54s and T-55s of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact as well as to South Korea but was never sent to South Vietnam mainly due to unfavorable terrain and the general lack of significant numbers of North Vietnamese armor. In May 1961 Army Chief-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=470028 | 62,789 |
363,988 | In 1999, powered flight tests of the missile began. These were successful, and production of the JASSM began in December 2001. The weapon began operational testing and evaluation in 2002. Late that year, two missiles failed tests and the project was delayed for three months before completing development in April 2003. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3377314 | 363,798 |
166,976 | The British, under pressure from the French in the Napoleonic Wars, became increasingly reluctant to allow Denmark to trade overseas as they believed First French Consul & General Bonaparte could benefit economically from Danish commerce. In 1801, they decided send a fleet to attack a Danish fleet, in the Battle of Cop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201834 | 166,889 |
645,627 | Trombe walls are often designed to serve as a load-bearing function as well as to collect and store the sun's energy and to help enclose the building's interior spaces. The requirements of a Trombe Wall are glazing areas faced toward the equator for maximum winter solar gain and a thermal mass, located 4 inches or more... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61867 | 645,287 |
2,132,777 | Quarterfinal 2: 11.20 a.m. At the start, Sweden led with an energetic stroke of 36, while the Danes rowed a longer but very effective stroke, which they used to perfection. The forward half of the stroke was one of extraordinary length, with a fine finish and excellent carriage of the hands. The way the crew rowed like... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9022892 | 2,131,552 |
1,240,083 | Sputnik Planitia appears to be composed of ices more volatile, softer and more dense than the water-ice bedrock of Pluto, including nitrogen, carbon monoxide and solid methane. A polygonal convection cell structure is visible over much of the planitia. No craters have been found, indicating that its surface must be les... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2389848 | 1,239,415 |
1,723,438 | The tadpoles' heads are pointed with lateral eyes, and they appear dorsolaterally flattened when viewed from above. Their bodies are dark in color (almost jet black), and are flecked with blue. Their bellies are marked with lateral whitish blotches, and the intestinal coil is not transparent through the skin. A lateral... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5162288 | 1,722,468 |
2,025,836 | In order for bacterial pathogens to cause disease, they must obtain nutrients inside their vertebrate hosts. The primary nutrients that are limiting to the growth of bacteria inside vertebrates are metals, because vertebrates have developed numerous metal chelation systems that serve as a host defense against microbial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64778062 | 2,024,670 |
854,473 | A combination of radiochemistry and radiation chemistry is used to study nuclear reactions such as fission and fusion. Some early evidence for nuclear fission was the formation of a short-lived radioisotope of barium which was isolated from neutron irradiated uranium (Ba, with a half-life of 83 minutes and Ba, with a h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=242001 | 854,018 |
745,379 | Savery's engine solved a problem that had only recently become a serious one; raising water out of the mines in southern England as they reached greater depths. Savery's engine was somewhat less efficient than Newcomen's, but this was compensated for by the fact that the separate pump used by the Newcomen engine was in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17423952 | 744,985 |
1,954,516 | A subset of called augmented reality-assisted urologic surgery (ARAUS) specifically aids with urological surgery. This intraoperative training tool was first described and utilized by Tariq S. Hakky, Ryan M. Dickey, and Larry I. Lipshultz within the Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine, and Daniel R.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45395430 | 1,953,394 |
683,906 | Recent studies demonstrate that caspase-1-mediated pyroptosis drives CD4 T-cell depletion and inflammation by HIV, two signature events that propel HIV disease progression to AIDS. Although pyroptosis contributes to the host's ability to rapidly limit and clear infection by removing intracellular replication niches and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8948754 | 683,550 |
1,065,768 | visited occasionally by Neolithic groups rather than being permanently occupied. The presence of human remains in the banks and ditches of the enclosures has been seen as an attempt by the builders to connect their ancestors with the land and thus begin to anchor themselves to specific areas. Longitudinal sections exca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=645962 | 1,065,214 |
1,978,825 | The Center was first planned in early 2009 in joint discussions between MIT and UMass, with UMass President Jack M. Wilson being a key proponent of the project, and its eventual founding chair. Boston University, Northeastern, and Harvard joined the planning process soon thereafter. Holyoke was selected as the location... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34167017 | 1,977,687 |
816,314 | Frequency-domain processing imposes some limitations as well, causing a factor of 12 or 36 × worse temporal resolution than Layer II. This causes quantization artifacts, due to transient sounds like percussive events and other high-frequency events that spread over a larger window. This results in audible smearing and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20056 | 815,878 |
23,554 | The Asian Studies major, South Asia Program, Southeast Asia Program and China and Asia-Pacific Studies (CAPS) major provide opportunities for students and researchers in Asia. Cornell has an agreement with Peking University allowing students in the CAPS major to spend a semester in Beijing. Similarly, the College of En... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7954422 | 23,545 |
1,412,779 | The "contingent-capture" model emphasizes the idea that a person's current intentions and/or goals affect the speed and efficiency of pre-attentive processing. The brain directs an individual's attention towards stimuli with features that fit in with their goals. Consequently, these stimuli will be processed faster at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31329046 | 1,411,984 |
1,466,841 | The stimulants are the first line of treatment for ADHD, with proven efficacy, but they do fail in up to 20% of cases, even in patients without tic disorders. Current prescribed stimulant medications include: methylphenidate (brand names Ritalin, Metadate, Concerta), dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine), and mixed amphetamine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5071079 | 1,466,018 |
549,431 | The ABI onboard GOES-16 represents a significant improvement over the imager onboard previous GOES satellites. The sixteen spectral bands on the ABI, as opposed to the five on the previous GOES generation, represents a two-fold increase in spectral information. In addition, the ABI features up to four times greater spa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35927196 | 549,143 |
23,103 | As the source of available carbon in the carbon cycle, atmospheric CO is the primary carbon source for life on Earth. Its concentration in Earth's pre-industrial atmosphere since late in the Precambrian has been regulated by organisms and geological phenomena. Plants, algae and cyanobacteria use energy from sunlight to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5906 | 23,094 |
36,697 | Common adverse drug reactions (≥1% of those treated with the drug) associated with systemic metronidazole therapy include: nausea, diarrhea, weight loss, abdominal pain, vomiting, headache, dizziness, and metallic taste in the mouth. Intravenous administration is commonly associated with thrombophlebitis. Infrequent ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315139 | 36,685 |
235,074 | Natural gas (and similar gaseous fuels) are lightly pressurized into liquids known as Natural Gas Liquids (NGLs). Small NGL processing facilities can be located in oil fields so the butane and propane liquid under light pressure of , can be shipped by rail, truck or pipeline. Propane can be used as a fuel in oil fields... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51111 | 234,955 |
1,882,859 | Most parliamentarians do not have a scientific or technological background but science and technology issues are increasingly integral to public policy. Parliamentarians are bombarded daily with lobbying, public enquiries and media stories about science and technology. These cover diverse areas such as medical advances... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4208984 | 1,881,778 |
1,291,962 | On August 26, 1942, on his 76th sortie with the Tainan Group, Sasai led eight Zeros escorting Betty bombers to Henderson Field, a main focus of months of fighting in the Guadalcanal campaign, as it enabled U.S. land-based airpower to hinder the Japanese attempts at resupplying its soldiers. At that time, Sasai's score ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6303326 | 1,291,252 |
1,395,340 | Though treatment of paraphilias and hypersexuality with selective antagonists is a seemingly sound strategy, this may not be true in practice. Surprisingly, little or no sexual dysfunction, including loss of sex drive and decreased sexual activity, has been observed in clinical studies of monotherapy. The explanation f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55839585 | 1,394,569 |
165,142 | The foundation's 2013 goal was to design and build a privately financed asteroid-finding space telescope, Sentinel, hoping in 2013 to launch it in 2017–2018. The Sentinel's infrared telescope, once parked in an orbit similar to that of Venus, is designed to help identify threatening asteroids by cataloging 90% of those... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1667490 | 165,057 |
1,177,252 | In most contracts of carriage the carrier has greater bargaining power than the shipper, and in the 19th century English judges developed rules to protect the weaker parties. Beginning with the Hague Rules, the various conventions set out to codify and develop such common law principles by providing an international se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53470829 | 1,176,629 |
173,996 | The flagship campus in Diliman offers the largest number of degree programs, and other campuses are known to lead and specialize in specific programs. The university has 57 degree-granting units throughout the system, which may be a college, School or Institute that offers an undergraduate or a graduate program. In the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=190490 | 173,905 |
886,813 | Consequences of urban facilitation vary from species to species. Positive effects of urban facilitation can occur when increased gene flow enables better adaptation and introduces beneficial alleles, and would ideally increase biodiversity. This has implications for conservation: for example, urban facilitation benefit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=327061 | 886,349 |
183,474 | The company's Magni5 electric motor produces continuously , peak at 2,500 rpm at 95% efficiency with a 53 kg (117 lb) dry mass, a 5 kW/kg power density, competing with the , Siemens SP260D for the Extra 330LE. By September 2018, a electric motor with a propeller had been tested on a Cessna iron bird. The Caravan was ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6358896 | 183,377 |
354,790 | The single s-orbitals (formula_6) are shaped like spheres. For it is roughly a solid ball (densest at center and fades outward exponentially), but for , each single s-orbital is made of spherically symmetric surfaces which are nested shells (i.e., the "wave-structure" is radial, following a sinusoidal radial component ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1206 | 354,607 |
1,131,303 | A Cepheid light curve is typically asymmetric with a rapid rise to maximum light followed by a slower fall to minimum (e.g. Delta Cephei). This is due to the phase difference between the radius and temperature variations and is considered characteristic of a fundamental mode pulsator, the most common type of type I Cep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29828324 | 1,130,714 |
330,182 | Like all penguin species, emperor penguins have streamlined bodies to minimize drag while swimming, and wings that are more like stiff, flat flippers. The tongue is equipped with rear-facing barbs to prevent prey from escaping when caught. Males and females are similar in size and colouration. The adult has deep black ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=223204 | 330,007 |
587,401 | Lappin et al. argue that the minimalist program is a radical departure from earlier Chomskyan linguistic practice that is not motivated by any new empirical discoveries, but rather by a general appeal to "perfection", which is both empirically unmotivated and so vague as to be unfalsifiable. They compare the adoption o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=585571 | 587,100 |
741,394 | "Helicoprion" specimens preserving more than tooth whorls are very rare. The best-preserved specimen of "Helicoprion" is IMNH 37899 (also known as "Idaho 4"), referred to "Helicoprion davisii". It was found in Idaho in 1950 and was originally described in 1966 by Svend Erik Bendix-Almgreen. A 2013 redescription by Tapa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1856394 | 741,002 |
2,084,795 | In 1893 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. His membership application citation read ""Professor of Chemistry, University College, Bristol. Well known as a scientific chemist. Author of numerous papers on Organic and Inorganic Chemistry, and on the border-land of Physics and Chemistry. Among these are: - 'Alk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40182470 | 2,083,594 |
1,642,899 | VPD is a result of constant efforts in a direction to overcome the limitations of conventional testing procedures. VPD allows a designer to take important design decisions at early stages based on test results, giving control over cost. ‘Virtual product development’ is a strategy for coordinating technology, processes ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21578440 | 1,641,972 |
2,005,927 | Euclid is an imperative programming language for writing verifiable programs. It was designed by Butler Lampson and associates at the Xerox PARC lab in the mid-1970s. The implementation was led by Ric Holt at the University of Toronto and James Cordy was the principal programmer for the first implementation of the comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=827385 | 2,004,778 |
1,911,821 | The SUV has emerged as a clinically useful, albeit controversial, semi-quantitative tool in PET analysis. Standardizing imaging protocols and measuring the SUV at the same time post-injection of the radiotracer, is necessary to obtain a correct SUV because imaging before the uptake plateau introduces unpredictable erro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63771247 | 1,910,722 |
400,164 | "Intrepid" joined the Fast Carrier Task Force, then Task Force 58 (TF 58), for the next operation in the island-hopping campaign across the Central Pacific: the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign. On 16 January 1944, "Intrepid", her sister ship , and the light carrier left Pearl Harbor to conduct a raid on islands i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=245903 | 399,965 |
769,837 | smFRET is a group of methods using various microscopic techniques to measure a pair of donor and acceptor fluorophores that are excited and detected at the single molecule level. In contrast to "ensemble FRET" or "bulk FRET" which provides the FRET signal of a high number of molecules, single-molecule FRET is able to r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1079466 | 769,423 |
559,722 | Public lecture courses offered some scientists who were unaffiliated with official organizations a forum to transmit scientific knowledge, at times even their own ideas, and the opportunity to carve out a reputation and, in some instances, a living. The public, on the other hand, gained both knowledge and entertainment... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17912788 | 559,433 |
681,941 | 29 October 2015: "Healy" received the Coast Guard Unit Commendation award for exceptionally meritorious service from 24 June to 29 October 2015, during their Arctic West Summer 2015 deployment. "Healy" traveled over , took over 25,000 water and ice samples from 72 science stations, and became the first unaccompanied U.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=274594 | 681,585 |
1,530,248 | Terence McKenna discovered and began studying shamanism through the study of Tibetan folk religion while he a student of Tussman Experimental College. He traveled to Nepal and Tibet led by his interest in Tibetan painting and hallucinogenic shamanism. In 1972, McKenna returned to U.C. Berkeley to finish his studies and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68146713 | 1,529,383 |
1,521,363 | A similar system of manipulation of pest populations was achieved in a population of "Drosophila melanogaster" by using a knock-down/rescue system. The genetic construct in this system employs a dsRNAi knockdown of a C-reactive protein, RpL14, as well as a rescue element (a complete copy of the wild type RpL14 gene). I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1920371 | 1,520,502 |
429,221 | T-type calcium channels represent an alternative approach to Parkinson's disease treatment as their primary influence is not concerning the central dopaminergic system. For example, they offer great potential in reducing side effects of dopamine replacement therapy, such as levodopa-induced dyskinesia. The co-administr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9773346 | 429,011 |
289,623 | But cities were still concerned about the transport of radioactive waste on highways and railroads that may have passed through heavily populated areas. Dr. Robert Halstead, a transportation adviser to the state of Nevada since 1988, said of transportation of the high-level waste, "They would heavily affect cities like... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=140807 | 289,466 |
406,037 | In the past, grounded appliances have been designed with internal isolation to a degree that allowed the simple disconnection of ground by cheater plugs without apparent problem (a dangerous practice, since the safety of the resulting floating equipment relies on the insulation in its power transformer). Modern applian... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41215 | 405,837 |
1,842,413 | At the age of 18, Augustyn came to the United States to continue her musical education at The Juilliard School. She studied with Dorothy DeLay (teacher to several renowned soloists such as Itzhak Perlman, Gil Shaham, and Midori Goto), Naoko Tanaka and Cho-Liang Lin. After receiving her Bachelors and master's degrees, s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43669803 | 1,841,360 |
1,727,784 | Drosera burmanni, the tropical sundew, is a small, compact species in the carnivorous plant genus "Drosera". Its natural geographical range includes the tropical and subtropical regions of Asia , Australia, India, Japan,southeast Asia,Oceania , Africa and China 's Guangxi , Guangdong , Yunnan , Fujian , Taiwan. It norm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9996618 | 1,726,810 |
1,125,573 | Like traditional apprenticeships, in which the apprentice learns a trade such as tailoring or woodworking by working under a master teacher, cognitive apprenticeships allow masters to model behaviors in a real-world context with cognitive modeling. After listening to the master explain exactly what they are doing and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2012209 | 1,124,998 |
977,260 | Missouri State University sponsors 17 NCAA Division I intercollegiate athletic teams in men's and women's basketball, golf, soccer, swimming and diving; men's baseball and football; and women's beach volleyball, cross country, softball, tennis, track, and volleyball. MSU teams are nicknamed the Bears, and team colors a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=187859 | 976,749 |
947,145 | Daimler and Maybach continued to work together. They built a four-cylinder engine with Maybach' spray nozzle carburetor. It was in the first organized automobile race, the "Paris to Rouen" and defeated all the entries from DMG. Frederick Simms, German-born long-time friend of Gottlieb Daimler insisted that Daimler be b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=185490 | 946,642 |
1,086,530 | Higher duties were imposed on imports from countries outside the British Empire. Nevertheless, new cars registered during 1917 show rather more than 90% of New Zealand's cars originated in North America During the First World War the tariff on car bodies was reduced to 10% but the same rate was also imposed on the prev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34570831 | 1,085,972 |
1,429,864 | A major complication that is raised in memory research is its fallible nature in humans. Having the ability to recall memories does not necessarily mean they are accurate. Our ability to store and process what is going on around us relies on memory being a constructive, fallible process. The technologies explained abov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26685721 | 1,429,060 |
1,539,362 | To conform to national economy and social development and to take the advantage of talents, HrbUST has set up 45 research institutes guided by the strategy of emphasizing subject development, teaching and research. From 1996 to now, the university has undertaken over 1,951 state and provincial projects with 900 researc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10154004 | 1,538,489 |
1,902,642 | The integumentary system functions in osmoregulation by acting as a barrier between the extracellular compartment and the environment to regulate water gain and loss, as well as solute flux. The permeability of the integument to water and solutes varies from animal to animal. The excretory system is responsible for reg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64766277 | 1,901,551 |
1,207,277 | Paraneoplastic disorders are a combination of non-inherited conditions that are activated by an individual's autoimmune response to a malignant tumour. These disorders prevail when T-cells (also known as white blood cells) begin to harm familiar cells in the central nervous system rather than the cancerous cells, resul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58596972 | 1,206,631 |
414,295 | Chemical biologists work to improve proteomics through the development of enrichment strategies, chemical affinity tags, and new probes. Samples for proteomics often contain many peptide sequences and the sequence of interest may be highly represented or of low abundance, which creates a barrier for their detection. Ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1686272 | 414,092 |
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