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797,201 | The problem noted by Crede falls under a general problem called the "poison-medicine" problem; comparing a medicine (m) to a poison (p) would not establish if the medicine works in promoting longevity (y) if a baseline (neutral—i.e., placebo) condition is not included because if y(m) > y(p) this difference could arise ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55568418 | 796,776 |
328,298 | Operationally, RAF Bomber Command and the SAC cooperated in the Single Integrated Operational Plan to ensure coverage of all major Soviet targets from 1958; 108 of the RAF's V-bombers were assigned targets under the plan by the end of 1959. From 1962 onwards, two jets in every RAF bomber base were armed with nuclear we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44070 | 328,124 |
1,965,248 | According to the Hales–Jewett theorem, in tic-tac-toe-like games involving forming lines on a grid or higher-dimensional lattice, grids that are small relative to their dimension cannot lead to a drawn game: once the whole grid is partitioned between the two players, one of them will necessarily have a line. One of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63139308 | 1,964,119 |
1,116,179 | EMZLs are a form of MZL in which malignant marginal zone B-cells initially infiltrate MALT tissues of the stomach (50-70% of all EMZL) or, less frequently, the esophagus, small intestine, large intestine, rectum, conjunctiva of the eye, nasal passages, pharynx, lung bronchi, vulva, vagina, skin, breast, thymus gland, m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21339698 | 1,115,610 |
927,186 | Protactinium-233 is formed upon neutron capture by Th. It further either decays to uranium-233 or captures another neutron and converts into the non-fissile uranium-234. Pa has a relatively long half-life of 27 days and high cross section for neutron capture (the so-called "neutron poison"). Thus, instead of rapidly de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23322 | 926,699 |
42,543 | Because of their quality and craftsmanship, as well as their gangster-era and WWII connections, Thompsons are sought as collector's items. There were fewer than 40 pre-production prototypes. The Colt Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company in Hartford, Connecticut was contracted by the Auto-Ordnance Corporation to manuf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=95006 | 42,528 |
1,177,025 | The model power system is managed by a single operator with full knowledge of the economic and technical characteristics of the generation units, the loads at each node, and the heavily simplified transmission network. Demand is deemed fully inelastic. The system is subject to intra-period and inter-period unit commitm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38803848 | 1,176,402 |
1,408,978 | The translation machinery works relatively slowly compared to the enzyme systems that catalyze DNA replication. Proteins in bacteria are synthesized at a rate of only 18 amino acid residues per second, whereas bacterial replisomes synthesize DNA at a rate of 1000 nucleotides per second. This difference in rate reflects... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3264380 | 1,408,187 |
18,833 | It has been speculated that further advances in physics could lead to even faster computers. For instance, it has been shown that a non-local hidden variable quantum computer based on Bohmian Mechanics could implement a search of an -item database in at most formula_40 steps, a slight speedup over Grover's algorithm, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25220 | 18,825 |
617,149 | Though all of the above-mentioned XSEs act to reduce xol-1 expression, experimentally reducing expression levels of these individual XSEs has been shown to have a minimal effect on sex determination and successful dosage compensation. This could be in part because these genes encode different proteins that act cooperat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1502597 | 616,835 |
2,117,030 | SD-OCT and SS-OCT are both methods of Fourier domain OCT (FD-OCT), which has significantly faster image acquisition speed compared to time domain OCT. In general, OCT measures the echo time delay and intensity of reflected and backscattered light. A broad-bandwidth laser or superluminescent diode low-coherence light so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63650316 | 2,115,812 |
1,464,293 | In December 1952, he joined IBM's Watson laboratory, where he worked continuously until his retirement in 1993. He is currently IBM Fellow Emeritus at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, New York. During his career Garwin divided his time between applied research, basic science, and consulting to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5189415 | 1,463,470 |
1,133,373 | Many experiments have been done in an attempt to find whether source-monitoring errors are more prevalent in a particular age group; they are most prevalent in elderly individuals and young children. It has been proposed that source-monitoring errors are common in young children because they have difficulties with diff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11184033 | 1,132,780 |
390,365 | In 1923, Sikorsky formed the Sikorsky Manufacturing Company in Roosevelt, New York. He was helped by several former Russian military officers. Among Sikorsky's chief supporters was composer Sergei Rachmaninoff, who introduced himself by writing a check for US$5,000 (approximately $61,000 in 2007). Although his prototyp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=199513 | 390,170 |
32,353 | GSAT-7A will also be used by the Army's Aviation Corps for its helicopters and unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations. In 2013, ISRO launched GSAT-7 for the exclusive use of the Navy to monitor the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) with the satellite's 'footprint' and real-time input capabilities to Indian warships, submarin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1019722 | 32,341 |
29,130 | A fundamental simplifying assumption of Unix was its focus on newline-delimited text for nearly all file formats. There were no "binary" editors in the original version of Unix – the entire system was configured using textual shell command scripts. The common denominator in the I/O system was the byte – unlike "record-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21347364 | 29,120 |
473,421 | In January 2015, WesternU began collaborating with colleagues in Scotland affiliated with the UK National Health Service, assisting in the development of a standardized platform for diabetes care called the Scottish Care Information Diabetes Collaboration. In October 2015, WesternU opened a Virtual Reality Learning Cen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4107816 | 473,185 |
1,305,837 | Although Silphium was most popular, there were many other plants and herbs used. The seeds of Queen Anne's Lace (a wild carrot) were cut up or chewed to release ingredients that inhibited fetal and ovarian growth. These seeds are still commonly used in India. Another plant used was pennyroyal, an abortifacient. Althoug... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20517149 | 1,305,121 |
275,376 | With the appearance of the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 over North Korea in late 1950, the B-29, as well as all of the propeller-driven bombers in the USAF inventory, were rendered obsolete as strategic offensive weapons. The straight-winged F-84Gs were ineffective against the MiG, and it took the swept-wing North American ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=671473 | 275,228 |
1,249,374 | Most other atmospheric inputs come from man-made or anthropogenic sources the most significant of which are the oxides of sulphur produced by burning sulphur rich fuels such as coal and oil which give rise to acid rain. The chemistry of sulphur oxides is complex both in the atmosphere and in river systems. However the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22166495 | 1,248,698 |
491,733 | Brain ischemia/reperfusion injury is mediated via complex I impairment. Recently it was found that oxygen deprivation leads to conditions in which mitochondrial complex I lose its natural cofactor, flavin mononucleotide (FMN) and become inactive. When oxygen is present the enzyme catalyzes a physiological reaction of N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=96910 | 491,479 |
1,192,774 | The ARRL (American Radio Relay League) has specified that repeaters on the 33 centimeter band use a split of -12 MHz with inputs between 906 and 909 MHz and outputs between 918 and 921 MHz. However, the majority of amateur 33 centimeter band amateur repeaters use a split of -25 MHz with inputs between 902 and 903 MHz a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1068013 | 1,192,138 |
738,876 | Since the late 2000s, Angrist has conducted extensive research on charter schools in the U.S. with Pathak, Abdulkadiroglu, Susan Dynarski, Thomas Kane, and Christopher Walters. For instance, studying the KIPP Lynn Academy, they estimate that KIPP Lynn attendance increased students' math scores by 0.35 SD and their Engl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14441269 | 738,485 |
677,086 | The title alludes to "The Descent of Man" (1871), Charles Darwin's second book on evolution. Over the series' 13 episodes, Jacob Bronowski travels around the world in order to trace the development of human society through its understanding of science. It was commissioned specifically to complement Kenneth Clark's "Civ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230250 | 676,733 |
286,193 | This cryptographic system relies on the properties of supersingular elliptic curves and supersingular isogeny graphs to create a Diffie-Hellman replacement with forward secrecy. This cryptographic system uses the well studied mathematics of supersingular elliptic curves to create a Diffie-Hellman like key exchange that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26605226 | 286,039 |
1,607,191 | In 2012, Temple University assistant professor of communications Xu Kaibin, later a professor of journalism at Wuhan University, published a criticism of Liu's academic career on the nationalist news site "Guancha". Xu accused Liu of having few peer-reviewed publications and of being less academically accomplished than... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68067894 | 1,606,286 |
2,086,086 | Orientation distribution function (ODF) characterizes the angular profile of the diffusion probability density function of water molecules and can be reconstructed from High Angular Resolution Diffusion Imaging (HARDI). The ODF is a probability density function defined on a unit sphere, formula_35. In the field of info... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49342572 | 2,084,884 |
830,872 | This represented the most significant threat to the century-old political order that had kept the Greek world in relative stability, and in particular represented a major threat to the smaller Greek kingdoms which had remained independent. As Macedonia and the Seleucid Empire were the problem, and Egypt the cause of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=838382 | 830,424 |
1,592,054 | Use of museum collections as a resource for research aimed at understanding ethnographic and culture historical questions in the lives of particular communities has long been the core motivation for collecting by anthropology museums. Such work has been central throughout the history of the field, but new developments ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28070283 | 1,591,158 |
1,796,542 | G-protein coupled receptors' usage and chemogenetics are nowadays the targets for many of the pharmaceutical companies to cure and alleviate symptoms of diseases that involve all tissues of the body. More specifically, DREADDs have been used to explore treatment options for various neurodegenerative and psychological c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41969333 | 1,795,533 |
10,706 | According to the Army, the M4 only suffered 296 stoppages and said that the high number reported could be attributed to discrepancies in the scoring process. The Army testing command stated that, if the number of stoppages caused by a broken part met some threshold, they would be eliminated from the final report pendin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=321957 | 10,701 |
567,875 | A feature that distinguishes humans from most animals is that we are not born with an extensive repertoire of behavioral programs that would enable us to survive on our own ("physiological prematurity"). To compensate for this, we have an unmatched ability to learn, i.e., to consciously acquire such programs by imitati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18345264 | 567,585 |
205,958 | A feature that distinguishes humans from most animals is that we are not born with an extensive repertoire of behavioral programs that would enable us to survive on our own ("physiological prematurity"). To compensate for this, we have an unmatched ability to learn, i.e., to consciously acquire such programs by imitati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13001588 | 205,852 |
917,658 | Another notable maker to offer the V16 configuration was Detroit Diesel corporation, especially in their 71, 92 and 149 series 2-stroke diesel engines, with output ranging from around 650 to over 2400 bhp (485-1790 kW) at speeds over 2000 rpm in the smaller ranges. Once again these engines were based on common parts (t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=199965 | 917,175 |
25,430 | Assembly languages eliminate much of the error-prone, tedious, and time-consuming first-generation programming needed with the earliest computers, freeing programmers from tedium such as remembering numeric codes and calculating addresses. They were once widely used for all sorts of programming. However, by the late 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1368 | 25,421 |
1,153,945 | Presented directly as above, the meaning and naturality of the "tame" condition is rather obscure. The situation is clarified if one re-considers the basic examples given above, in which the relevant "exponentially decreasing" sequences in Banach spaces arise from restriction of a Fourier transform. Recall that smoothn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2286045 | 1,153,335 |
376,938 | "Vibrating Element Transducers": This type of instrument requires a vibrating element to be placed in contact with the fluid of interest. The resonant frequency of the element is measured and is related to the density of the fluid by a characterization that is dependent upon the design of the element. In modern laborat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37379 | 376,743 |
974,501 | Human "Yersinia" infections most commonly result from the bite of an infected flea or occasionally an infected mammal, but like most bacterial systemic diseases, the disease may be transmitted through an opening in the skin or by inhaling infectious droplets of moisture from sneezes or coughs. In both cases septicemic ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=431178 | 973,990 |
1,579,630 | A breakthrough October 2004 paper by Omer Reingold showed that USTCON is in fact in L. Since USTCON is SL-complete, this implies that SL = L, essentially eliminating the usefulness of consideration of SL as a separate class. A few weeks later, graduate student Vladimir Trifonov showed that USTCON could be solved determ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1174919 | 1,578,740 |
1,660,108 | In September 2018, Zcoin introduced the Dandelion protocol that hides the origin IP address of a sender without using a The Onion Router (Tor) or Virtual Private Network (VPN). In November 2018, Zcoin conducted the world's first large-scale party elections in Thailand Democrat Party using InterPlanetary File System (IP... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39562938 | 1,659,175 |
441,080 | AIRE is composed of a multidomain structure that is able to bind to chromatin and act as a regulator of gene transcription. The specific makeup of AIRE includes a caspase activation and recruitment domain (CARD), nuclear localization signal (NLS), SAND domain, and two plant-homeodomain (PHD) fingers. The SAND domain is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7908811 | 440,865 |
146,333 | During the 1970s, the international nuclear sales market was extremely competitive, with many national nuclear companies being supported by their governments' foreign embassies. In addition, the pace of construction in the United States had meant that cost overruns and delayed completion was generally over, and subsequ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7475 | 146,275 |
1,592,527 | Combining the physical and chemical characteristics of conjugated polymers with the high conductivity along the tube axis of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) provides a great deal of incentive to disperse CNTs into the photoactive layer in order to obtain more efficient OPV devices. The interpenetrating bulk donor–acceptor hete... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17279558 | 1,591,630 |
892,333 | Transcranial direct current stimulation is a relatively simple technique requiring only a few parts. These include two electrodes and a battery-powered device that delivers constant current. Control software can also be used in experiments that require multiple sessions with differing stimulation types so that neither ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5004685 | 891,864 |
1,371,114 | research fellow at Caltech. The instrument makes use of the chemical process known as the Edman degradation, devised by Pehr Edman. Edman and Begg's 1967 design involves placing a protein or peptide sample into a spinning cup in a temperature controlled chamber. Reagents are added to cleave the protein one amino acid a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216048 | 1,370,357 |
592,129 | To calculate land use requirements for different kinds of energy production, it is essential to know the relevant surface power production densities (e.g. power production per square metre). The average surface power production densities for modern biofuels, wind, hydro and solar power production are , , and , respecti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8202316 | 591,827 |
716,877 | Bill Mensch left MOS even before the Commodore takeover, and moved home to Arizona. After a short stint consulting for a local company called ICE, he set up the Western Design Center (WDC) in 1978. As a licensee of the 6502 line, their first products were bug-fixed, power-efficient CMOS versions of the 6502 (the 65C02,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20703 | 716,500 |
1,009,561 | Initially a proverbial 98-pound weakling, bullied at school and unable to impress the girl of his dreams, Mary James, the Al Pratt was trained to fighting condition by ex-boxer Joe Morgan (the same man who trained Pratt's fellow mystery men, Wildcat and the Guardian). Pratt soon became a founding member of the Justice ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4978976 | 1,009,040 |
1,454,578 | In this vein, in recent years 'results based pilot programs' have been introduced across the EU under Pillar Two of the Common Agriculture Policy. Results-based agri-environmental programs are defined by the European Commission as "schemes where farmers and land managers are paid for delivering an environmental result ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216147 | 1,453,758 |
661,440 | Scientific instruments vary greatly in size, shape, purpose, complication and complexity. They include relatively simple laboratory equipment like scales, rulers, chronometers, thermometers, etc. Other simple tools developed in the late 20th century or early 21st century are the Foldscope (an optical microscope), the S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=274810 | 661,095 |
1,340,127 | The college is Situated on 98 acres of Land. There are 52 classrooms and 22 labs. Facilities include a Language Lab, Visual Communication Studio, two libraries, 302 computers with LAN connectivity, ICT Lab, E-learning centre, seminar halls, guest rooms, four boys' hostels, a girls' hostel, an auditorium with capacity f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3479148 | 1,339,394 |
1,812,932 | Among the innovations that Ms. Dennis introduced on passenger trains were seats that could partially recline; stain-resistant upholstery in passenger cars; larger dressing rooms for women, supplied with free paper towels, liquid soap and drinking cups; ceiling lights that could be dimmed at night; individual window ven... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12651935 | 1,811,898 |
758,176 | Bates College's oldest operating newspaper is "The Bates Student", created in 1873. It is one of the oldest continuously published college weeklies in the United States, and the oldest co-ed college weekly in the country. Alumni of the student media programs at Bates have won the Pulitzer Prize, and have their later wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=319763 | 757,770 |
112,231 | In 2012, it was reported that some lichen and cyanobacteria survived and showed remarkable adaptation capacity for photosynthesis after 34 days in simulated Martian conditions in the Mars Simulation Laboratory (MSL) maintained by the German Aerospace Center (DLR). Some scientists think that cyanobacteria could play a r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1744360 | 112,186 |
510,470 | PMDS has various causes related to AMH or receptor abnormalities. For example, AMH has failed to synthesize, failed to release or was secreted at the wrong time. Normally, both the Müllerian and Wolffian ducts are present during the 7th week of gestation. At approximately the end of the 7th and the beginning of the 8th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=983793 | 510,205 |
366,376 | On 12 January 1944, the first Meteor F.1, serial "EE210/G", took to the air from Moreton Valence in Gloucestershire. It was essentially identical to the F9/40 prototypes except for the addition of four nose-mounted 20 mm (.79 in) Hispano Mk V cannon and some changes to the canopy to improve all-round visibility. Due to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42702 | 366,184 |
837,232 | "Bacteroides" species are normally mutualistic, making up the most substantial portion of the mammalian gastrointestinal microbiota, where they play a fundamental role in processing of complex molecules to simpler ones in the host intestine. As many as 10–10 cells per gram of human feces have been reported. They can us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4350782 | 836,783 |
1,464,793 | An assay for γH2AX generally reflects the presence of double-strand breaks in DNA, though the assay may indicate other minor phenomena as well. On the one hand, overwhelming evidence supports a strong, quantitative correlation between γH2AX foci formation and DNA double-strand break induction following ionizing radiati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10474625 | 1,463,970 |
665,498 | When originally published, Lorenz's work was not received well by Maxwell. Maxwell had eliminated the Coulomb electrostatic force from his derivation of the electromagnetic wave equation since he was working in what would nowadays be termed the Coulomb gauge. The Lorenz gauge hence contradicted Maxwell's original deriv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1718317 | 665,151 |
2,231,608 | Computational modeling of ischemic stroke has been used to understand the biological events during an ischemic stroke, and to identify potential drug targets. These models typically utilize compartment models with ordinary differential equations and partial differential equations. Models of spreading depressions and io... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59384627 | 2,230,341 |
1,438,894 | Manne Siegbahn began his studies of X-ray spectroscopy in 1914. Initially he used the same type of spectrometer as Henry Moseley had done for finding the relationship between the wavelength of some elements and their place at the periodic system. Shortly thereafter he developed improved experimental apparatus which all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573846 | 1,438,084 |
851,555 | In his investigations of the peculiar manner in which iron filings arrange themselves on a cardboard or glass in proximity to the poles of a magnet, Faraday conceived the idea of magnetic "lines of force" extending from pole to pole of the magnet and along which the filings tend to place themselves. On the discovery be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5951576 | 851,102 |
1,356,346 | The funeral of President of Poland Lech Kaczyński and his wife, who died on 10 April 2010 in a plane crash in Smolensk, Russia, took place on 18 April. Due to the disruptions in travel, several national leaders cancelled their plans to attend, including Barack Obama, Stephen Harper, Angela Merkel, and Nicolas Sarkozy. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26985385 | 1,355,596 |
828,066 | Smoot has been at the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory since 1970. He is Chair of the Endowment Fund "Physics of the Universe" of Paris Center for Cosmological Physics. Apart from being elected a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7267936 | 827,622 |
1,638,874 | Dr. Skovronsky established Avid Radiopharmaceuticals in July 2005 with the goal of finding a dye that could be injected into the body, would cross the blood–brain barrier and attach itself to amyloid protein deposits in the brain. The firm raised $500,000 from BioAdvance, the Biotechnology Greenhouse of Southeastern Pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27824553 | 1,637,949 |
1,802,011 | The Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) announced that a test of a U.S. Navy Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile was conducted on 17 January 2007, from , an underway in the Gulf of Mexico sea ranges off the coast of the Florida panhandle. Seconds after launch from the ship's vertical launch system, the Tomahawk missile tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33714574 | 1,800,999 |
974,975 | A device at the muzzle end of the barrel measures the exact speed of each round as it is fired, and automatically sets the fuse to detonate the round as it approaches a pre-set distance from the target. Each round disperses 152 small tungsten projectiles weighing each to form a lethal cone-shaped cloud to strike the in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22204651 | 974,464 |
788,830 | It is used as an aid in ophthalmic surgery acting as aqueous and vitreous humor, e.g. in cataract extraction (intra- and extracapsular), intraocular lens implantation, corneal transplant, glaucoma filtration, and retina attachment surgery and in the treatment of dry eyes. In surgical procedures in the anterior segment ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21875627 | 788,406 |
1,029,031 | For only the third time, the Austrian Grand Prix was a championship round. The race was held at the Österreichring in the rural Styrian mountains near Graz. Jackie Stewart had a large lead in the driver's championship - 51 points compared to second-placed Jacky Ickx's 19 points and Ronnie Peterson's 16 points. If Ickx ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1140090 | 1,028,497 |
380,266 | Galton states that the measurements of human characteristics are useful for two reasons. First, he states that measuring physical characteristics is useful in order to ensure, on a more domestic level, that children are developing properly. A useful example he gives for the practicality of these domestic measurements i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49072 | 380,071 |
924,718 | "Ex situ" conservation, while helpful in humankind's efforts to sustain and protect our environment, is rarely enough to save a species from extinction. It is to be used as a last resort, or as a supplement to "in situ" conservation because it cannot recreate the habitat as a whole: the entire genetic variation of a sp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186345 | 924,232 |
908,541 | The 4n + 1 chain of Np is commonly called the "neptunium series" or "neptunium cascade". In this series, only two of the isotopes involved are found naturally in significant quantities, namely the final two: bismuth-209 and thallium-205. Some of the other isotopes have been detected in nature, originating from trace qu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=197774 | 908,062 |
1,211,878 | The 123' patrol boats were intended to serve as a bridging strategy until replacements for the 110' Island Class cutters could be designed and procured. They were created by lengthening eight existing 110' cutters to accommodate additional mission capabilities. The converted 123's were deemed unsafe for use in the proj... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30861125 | 1,211,226 |
1,552,035 | The reason for the long delay in discovering Mark III is somewhat surprising given that a magnetron from H2S fell into German hands almost immediately after it was first used in February 1943. Sources disagree on the reason; the magnetron was either unknown to the German Navy, or they did not believe it could be used a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60172896 | 1,551,154 |
1,960,578 | While this assumption ensures that the sum of the weights of the resonance structures describing the molecule is one, it creates difficulties in computing a. The Pauling-Wheland formalism also assumes that cross-terms from density matrix multiplication may be neglected. This facilitates the averaging of chemical proper... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69201841 | 1,959,451 |
1,680,536 | As such, its potential applications are widespread, and thus it is regularly used as a primary camera on feature films, second unit work on features, on music videos, commercials, special effects work and motion control, among other usage. Before the introduction of the Arricam System, the 535 was one of the most popul... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15041660 | 1,679,593 |
1,377,393 | In October 2019, The Wireless Broadband Alliance (WBA) published the first industry whitepaper on WiFi Sensing. Led by Cognitive Systems Corp., Intel, and Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), the paper was the result of a year-long collaboration between Wi-Fi technology developers and service providers. An ana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66979123 | 1,376,631 |
2,163,854 | Critics argue that the CMRR project is a violation, or has the potential to be a violation, of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty between the US, China, Russia, Britain and France. Critics also argue that the new facility is unnecessary for maintaining the nuclear stockpile and may be seen as a threatening developmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28951534 | 2,162,618 |
1,741,590 | The hydrogen isotope composition of leaf waxes can be summarized as the δD of rain water, with three main fractionation steps- evaporation from soil water, transpiration from leaf water, and lipid biosynthesis, which can be combined and measured as the net fractionation, or ε. With the application of ever-improving mea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50525886 | 1,740,607 |
41,026 | The third mode is parapatric speciation. This is similar to peripatric speciation in that a small population enters a new habitat, but differs in that there is no physical separation between these two populations. Instead, speciation results from the evolution of mechanisms that reduce gene flow between the two populat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9236 | 41,011 |
570,090 | Krzanich began working as a process engineer at Intel's chip factory in New Mexico in 1982. He became manager of a fabrication plant in Chandler, Arizona, in 1996, and later supervised assembly and testing facilities. He held management roles within Intel's manufacturing division, managed a plant in Massachusetts, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39281395 | 569,800 |
352,210 | Anning struggled financially for much of her life. As a woman, she was not eligible to join the Geological Society of London and she did not always receive full credit for her scientific contributions. However, her friend, geologist Henry De la Beche, who painted "Duria Antiquior", the first widely circulated pictorial... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38334 | 352,027 |
508,743 | The principle Structure and Infill remains relevant until now, both for housing schemes and urban planning. For housing schemes the following images were influential: the perspective drawing of the project "Fort l'Empereur" in Algiers by Le Corbusier (1934), the isometric drawing of the housing scheme "Diagoon" in Delf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18411985 | 508,479 |
229,713 | The world wide Web and HTTP are based on a number of request methods or 'verbs', including POST and GET as well as PUT, DELETE, and several others. Web browsers normally use only GET and POST, but RESTful online apps make use of many of the others. POST's place in the range of HTTP methods is to send a representation o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22041455 | 229,596 |
275,764 | The thesis of de Broglie involved the hypothesis that a standing wave guided the electrons in the Bohr model of the atom. The thesis had an unusual analysis that higher energy photons obey the Wien Law and are particle-like while lower energy photons obey the Rayleigh–Jeans law and are wave-like. Particle physics tends... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=229104 | 275,614 |
3,451 | William Joseph Hammer, a consulting electrical engineer, started working for Edison and began his duties as a laboratory assistant in December 1879. He assisted in experiments on the telephone, phonograph, electric railway, iron ore separator, electric lighting, and other developing inventions. However, Hammer worked p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29778 | 3,451 |
1,247,007 | The redband trout are generally similar in appearance to the coastal rainbow trout ("O. m. irideus") but have larger, more rounded spots, parr marks that tend to remain into adulthood, are more orange-red around the lateral line and have very distinct white tips on the anal, dorsal and pectoral fins. They will exceed a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4383664 | 1,246,332 |
1,537,551 | The annual Structures for Inclusion conference showcases public interest design projects from around the world. The first conference, which was held in 2000, was called “Design for the 98% Without Architects." Speaking at the conference, Rural Studio co-founder Samuel Mockbee challenged attendees to serve a greater seg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36071642 | 1,536,679 |
630,421 | PGD is a form of genetic diagnosis performed prior to implantation. This implies that the patient's oocytes should be fertilized "in vitro" and the embryos kept in culture until the diagnosis is established. It is also necessary to perform a biopsy on these embryos in order to obtain material on which to perform the di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=562180 | 630,083 |
133,334 | In political science during the 20th century, the study of ideology, behaviouralism and international relations led to a multitude of 'pol-sci' subdisciplines including rational choice theory, voting theory, game theory (also used in economics), psephology, political geography/geopolitics, political anthropology/politi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,281 |
671,563 | Wittenberg offers more than 70 majors and special programs. Eight pre-professional programs are offered to students, 70 percent of whom eventually pursue graduate studies. The institution's science facilities are housed in the Barbara Deer Kuss Science Center. Krieg Hall is the home of the music department. Wittenberg'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=102123 | 671,211 |
482,224 | The IBM 3380 Direct Access Storage Device was introduced in June 1980. It uses film head technology and has a unit capacity of 2.52 gigabytes (two hard disk assemblies each with two independent actuators each accessing 630 MB within one chassis) with a data transfer rate of 3 megabytes per second. Average access time w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=861211 | 481,980 |
1,146,530 | In 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell (1821–1910), an immigrant from England, graduated from Geneva Medical College in New York at the head of her class and thus became the first female doctor in America. In 1857, she and her sister Emily, and their colleague Marie Zakrzewska, founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Childre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38600542 | 1,145,926 |
719,544 | The first identified jawbone, Peninj 1, was discovered Lake Natron just north of Olduvai Gorge in 1964. Especially from 1966 to 1975, several more specimens revealing facial elements were reported from the Shungura Formation, Ethiopia; Koobi Fora and Chesowanja, Kenya; and Omo and Konso, Ethiopia. Among the notable spe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2165275 | 719,164 |
1,229,310 | GE's transparent Yttralox was followed by GTE's lanthana-doped yttria with similar level of additive. Both of these materials required extended firing times at temperatures above 2000 °C. LaO – doped YO is of interest for infrared (IR) applications because it is one of the longest wavelength transmitting oxides. It is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=905803 | 1,228,648 |
1,644,340 | Zachary Adam claims that tidal processes that occurred during a time when the Moon was much closer may have concentrated grains of uranium and other radioactive elements at the high-water mark on primordial beaches, where they may have been responsible for generating life's building blocks. According to computer models... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70660540 | 1,643,413 |
97,487 | An evasion strategy used by several pathogens to avoid the innate immune system is to hide within the cells of their host (also called intracellular pathogenesis). Here, a pathogen spends most of its life-cycle inside host cells, where it is shielded from direct contact with immune cells, antibodies and complement. Som... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14958 | 97,446 |
521,798 | With the field closed up, di Grassi and Jérôme d'Ambrosio opted to make the mandatory switch to their second cars on the 18th lap. The change enabled the duo to gain positions when other drivers made their stops; it required them to conserve electrical energy towards the end of the race's. Di Grassi and d'Ambrosio move... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45532368 | 521,526 |
1,508,367 | The hypothesis differs from many alternative views within the endosymbiotic theory framework, which suggest that the first eukaryotic cells evolved a nucleus but lacked mitochondria, the latter arising as a eukaryote engulfed a primitive bacterium that eventually became the mitochondrion. The hypothesis attaches evolut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=593115 | 1,507,519 |
2,015,492 | Studies done by De Pietri Tonelli and Kawase-Koga have shown conditional knockout of Dicer, an enzyme largely used for miRNA synthesis, in mouse neocortex resulted in reduced cortical size, increased neuronal apoptosis, and deficient cortisol layering. Neuroepithelial cells and neuroprogenitor cells were not affected u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41111089 | 2,014,332 |
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