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1,343,192 | Species concepts are the subject of debate in the field of molecular ecology. Since the beginning of taxonomy, scientists have wanted to standardize and perfect the way species are defined. There are many species concepts that dictate how ecologists determine a good species. The most commonly used concept is the biolog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1720640 | 1,342,456 |
1,006,097 | In the figure below, human germ cells are able to differentiate into the specific organs and tissues they become later on in life. Germ cells are able to migrate to their final locations to rearrange themselves and some organs are made of two germ layers; one for the outside, the other for the inside. The endoderm cell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22469 | 1,005,578 |
2,073,206 | To accomplish this goal a group of scientists (Lara Kallander, Donna Huryn, Ellie Cantor, Rebecca Ruck, Margaret Faul and Mary Watson) founded the non-profit Empowering Women in Organic Chemistry (EWOC) Conferences in 2019. The volunteer-run EWOC conferences allow women leaders to present their scientific research and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63929468 | 2,072,015 |
1,102,410 | As part of its Applications Technology Satellites program in the 1960s, NASA sought to field test the direct broadcast of television programs to terrestrial receivers via satellite and shortlisted India, Brazil and the People's Republic of China as potential sites to stage the test. The country which would receive thes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8248653 | 1,101,849 |
1,704,672 | Under certain conditions for some electrochemical cells, especially if they use an aqueous electrolyte, hydrogen ions can be converted into hydrogen atoms and H molecules. In the extreme case, bubbles of hydrogen gas might appear at one of the electrodes. If such a layer of hydrogen or even H gas bubbles appear on the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11543712 | 1,703,716 |
204,472 | In 2019, Georg Pichler of "Der Standard", and other news sources, quoted Edward Snowden saying on Twitter, "If I were configuring a smartphone today, I'd use Daniel Micay's GrapheneOS as the base operating system." In discussing why services should not force users to install proprietary apps, Lennart Mühlenmeier of net... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61269744 | 204,367 |
1,269,555 | Due to their processing capabilities and flexibility, CNN processors have been used and prototyped for novel field applications such as flame analysis for monitoring combustion at a waste incinerator, mine-detection using infrared imagery, calorimeter cluster peak for high energy physics, anomaly detection in potential... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2506529 | 1,268,864 |
927,380 | Numerous human pathogenic viruses in circulation are encased in lipid bilayers, and they infect their target cells by causing the viral envelope and cell membrane to fuse. Although there are effective vaccines against some of these viruses, there is no preventative or curative medicine for the majority of them. In most... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4450311 | 926,893 |
1,787,975 | Wiersma and Irmis (2018) found "Akainacephalus" to be within a southern Laramidian clade containing "Nodocephalosaurus" that is nested within Asian taxa rather than other Laramidian taxa and suggested that this clade was a separate biogeographic dispersal event from Asia independent from the main radiation of Laramidia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57941007 | 1,786,969 |
387,845 | Accidental sampling (sometimes known as grab, convenience or opportunity sampling) is a type of nonprobability sampling which involves the sample being drawn from that part of the population which is close to hand. That is, a population is selected because it is readily available and convenient. It may be through meeti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=160361 | 387,650 |
1,533,386 | After the return of peace, Washington selected him as his family physician. At this period he lost four out of his six children by scarlatina, which prevailed in a violent form. In consequence of the illness of Mrs. Bard, he withdrew from business for a year, devoting himself to her. In 1784, he returned to the city. H... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20560519 | 1,532,518 |
1,022,070 | Both genes and hormones affect the formation of human brains before birth, as well as the behavior of adult individuals. Several genes that code for differences between male and female brains have been identified. In the human brain, a difference between sexes was observed in the transcription of the PCDH11X/Y gene pai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3315213 | 1,021,541 |
878,853 | Owing to too many components in catalytic reforming process feedstock, untraceable reactions and the high temperature range, the design and simulation of catalytic reformer reactors is accompanied by complexities. The lumping technique is used extensively for reducing complexities so that the lumps and reaction pathway... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1816156 | 878,390 |
1,348,795 | This formula provides good fits of data collected in the Barro Colorado tropical forest from 1990 to 2000. From the best fit one can estimate formula_71 ~ 3500 years with a broad uncertainty due to the relative short time interval of the sample. This parameter can be interpreted as the relaxation time of the system, i.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=635546 | 1,348,053 |
1,519,148 | Additional experiments examined how well the FMARS crewmembers could work with an “Earth-based” remote science team. In one example, the remote science team used aerial images to select ten regions of scientific interest for the FMARS crew to explore and analyze. This experiment helped researchers determine more effici... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41370720 | 1,518,290 |
1,081,244 | The feeding habits of ornithomimids have been controversial. In 2001 Norell "et al." reported a specimen of "Gallimimus" (IGM 100/1133) and one of "Ornithomimus" (RTMP 95.110.1). These two fossil skulls had soft tissue preservation, and both had keratinous beaks with vertical grooves extending ventrally from the bony u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4261532 | 1,080,688 |
870,733 | In the late 1980s, Arthur Ashkin and Joseph M. Dziedzic demonstrated the first application of the technology to the biological sciences, using it to trap an individual tobacco mosaic virus and "Escherichia coli" bacterium. Throughout the 1990s and afterwards, researchers like Carlos Bustamante, James Spudich, and Steve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=299901 | 870,273 |
174,479 | On 16 August 1984, the first model of the type, known as the "ATR 42–200", conducted its maiden flight from Toulouse Airport, France. During September 1985, both the French Directorate General for Civil Aviation (DGCA) and the Italian Italian Civil Aviation Authority awarded type certification for the type, clearing it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=250004 | 174,388 |
1,489,516 | In humans, BCATs are homodimers composed of two domains, a small subunit (residues 1-170) and a large subunit (residues 182-365). These subunits are connected by a short, looping connecting region (residues 171-181). Both subunits consist of four alpha-helices and a beta-pleated sheet. Structural studies of human branc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11393958 | 1,488,677 |
512,366 | On 27 June 1950, the United Nations Security Council voted to assist the South Koreans in resisting the invasion of their nation by North Korea. President Harry S. Truman authorized General Douglas MacArthur (commander of the US occupying forces in Japan) to commit units to the battle. MacArthur ordered General George ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2513120 | 512,100 |
1,712,059 | His tasks included finding experts to examine and report on his collections from the voyage. Darwin proposed to edit these reports, writing his own forewords and notes, and used his contacts to lobby for government sponsorship of publication of these findings as a large book. When a Treasury grant of £1,000 was allocat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21185695 | 1,711,094 |
170,316 | A steel battery box contains the cells connected in series to gain the desired voltage (1.2 V per cell nominal). Cells are usually made of a light and durable polyamide (nylon), with multiple nickel-cadmium plates welded together for each electrode inside. A separator or liner made of silicone rubber acts as an insulat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186614 | 170,226 |
409,054 | The Tu-4 first flew on 19 May 1947 and was flown by test pilot Nikolai Rybko. Serial production started immediately, and the type entered large-scale service in 1949. Entry into service of the Tu-4 threw the USAF into a panic since the Tu-4 possessed sufficient range to attack Chicago or Los Angeles on a one-way missio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=562289 | 408,853 |
1,079,622 | informality limited the usefulness of the architecture description. A more rigorous way for describing SAs was required. Quoting Allen and Garlan (1997), "while these [box-and-line] descriptions may provide useful documentation, the current level of informality limits their usefulness. Since it is generally imprecise w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1799268 | 1,079,067 |
1,500,789 | In line with its mission, NRGI supports civil society organizations, government institutions, private sector enterprises, and the media with technical advice, advocacy, applied research, policy analysis, and capacity development with regard to natural resource governance. Key tools developed in that context include for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56617071 | 1,499,943 |
1,760,728 | The Classification Results (CLR) File Format has been developed to exchange the results of manual gating and algorithmic classification approaches in a standard way in order to be able to report and process the classification. CLR is based in the commonly supported CSV file format with columns corresponding to differen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41282920 | 1,759,735 |
759,697 | In 2003, the government of Canada created a four-year project called the Forest 2020 Plantation Development and Assessment Initiative, which involved planting 6000 ha of fast-growing forests on non-forested lands countrywide. These plantations were used to analyze how afforestation can help to increase carbon sequestra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1968338 | 759,291 |
1,989,729 | Teller was heading the Robotics, Vision, and Sensor Networks group at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, conducting robotics and artificial intelligence research on developing robots with situational awareness. His work involved, in particular, creating various assistive technology robots ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18365452 | 1,988,587 |
936,918 | At one time brushless DC electric motors used reed switches to sense the rotor's position relative to the field poles. This allowed switching transistors to act as a commutator, but without the contact problems, wear and electrical noise of a traditional DC commutator. The motor design could also be "inverted", placing... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=317969 | 936,422 |
1,250,043 | NGC 1097 is also a Seyfert galaxy. Deep photographs revealed four narrow optical jets that appear to emanate from the nucleus. These have been interpreted as manifestations of the (currently weak) active nucleus. Subsequent analysis of the brightest jet's radio-to-X-ray spectral energy distribution were able to rule ou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3719646 | 1,249,367 |
1,542,476 | Murray achieved a 1st class honours degree in chemistry followed by PhD from the University of Birmingham. From 1960 to 1964 he was a researcher at J. Murray Luck's laboratory at Stanford University and from 1964 to 1967 he was a researcher at Fred Sanger's laboratory at Cambridge University. In 1967, he was appointed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9088666 | 1,541,603 |
1,637,541 | Formerly the Morioka Agricultural High School, the Historical Museum for Agricultural Education is located within the Iwate University Campus. Constructed in 1912 and completed in December of the same year, the Historical Museum for Agricultural Education is one of the few buildings still surviving as a central facilit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15695684 | 1,636,616 |
619,812 | Biogeochemical cycling of elements is an essential component of lithotrophs within microbial environments. For example, in the carbon cycle, there are certain bacteria classified as photolithoautotrophs that generate organic carbon from atmospheric carbon dioxide. Certain chemolithoautotrophic bacteria can also produce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3525665 | 619,497 |
1,820,742 | America's first successful flight was in 1903, but amazingly, five years would pass before the first fatal aviation accident. Since then, safety has been an important concern. In 1926, the Civil Aeronautics Act marshaled the talents of the medical profession to certify that all aviators are physically fit to fly. In Au... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33498707 | 1,819,705 |
438,510 | To augment the oldest wings, NASA has launched two pairs and is set to launch one more pair of large-scale versions of the Roll Out Solar Array aboard three SpaceX Dragon 2 cargo launches from early June 2021 to early June 2023, SpaceX CRS-22, CRS-26 and CRS-28. These arrays are intended to be deployed along the centra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7044083 | 438,296 |
1,714,137 | Lavoisier was the first to conclude by experiment that the Law of Conservation of Mass applied to chemical change. His hypothesis was that the mass of the reactants would be the same as the mass of the products in a chemical reaction. He experimented on vinous fermentation, determining the amounts of hydrogen, oxygen, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36920393 | 1,713,171 |
95,096 | Anchoring the traditional campus gateway at the eastern end of the Oval is the 1989 Wexner Center for the Arts. Designed by architects Peter Eisenman of New York and Richard Trott of Columbus, the center was funded in large part by Ohio State alumnus Leslie Wexner's gift of $25 million in the 1980s. The center was foun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22217 | 95,055 |
1,985,893 | Beet leafhoppers are polyphagous generalists which means that they are able to feed on various different types of host (biology) plants. The fact that these insects migrate during the spring and summer time to cultivated fields also means that they show a lot of variation in their host plant choices by season: feeding ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11207780 | 1,984,752 |
374,055 | Drones are the colony's male bees. Since they do not have ovipositors, they do not have stingers. Drone honey bees do not forage for nectar or pollen. The primary purpose of a drone is to fertilize a new queen. Many drones mate with a given queen in flight; each dies immediately after mating, since the process of insem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18214141 | 373,860 |
236,335 | The usage of the term in sports arose during the 1961 baseball season in which Roger Maris of the New York Yankees was threatening to break Babe Ruth's 34-year-old single-season home run record. Ruth had amassed 60 home runs in a season with only 154 games, but Maris was playing the first season in the American League'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59152 | 236,216 |
1,775,497 | A study by van Hateren and Ruderman in 1998 used ICA to analyze video-sequences and compared how a computer analyzed the independent components of the image to data for visual processing obtained from a cat in DeAngelis et al. 1993. The researchers described the independent components obtained from a video sequence as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5198024 | 1,774,500 |
2,143,214 | In 2008 a peer-reviewed study of 26 websites included in the VSN list by April 2007 noted "the transparency of financing, the lack of links to the pharmaceutical industry, the transparency of site management and responsibility and the proven scientific quality and constant updating of contents" of its assessed resource... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65137159 | 2,141,983 |
647,949 | Polymers are high molecular mass compounds formed by polymerization of monomers. The simple reactive molecule from which the repeating structural units of a polymer are derived is called a monomer. A polymer can be described in many ways: its degree of polymerisation, molar mass distribution, tacticity, copolymer distr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=656965 | 647,609 |
138,577 | (using) the Earth itself as the medium for conducting the currents, thus dispensing with wires and all other artificial conductors ... a machine which, to explain its operation in plain language, resembled a pump in its action, drawing electricity from the Earth and driving it back into the same at an enormous rate, th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196508 | 138,521 |
203,813 | A similar study asked jurors and college students to choose sentences on four severe criminal cases in which prison was a possible but not an inevitable sentencing outcome. Respondents answering questions about court performance on a public opinion formulated a picture of what the courts do and then evaluated the appro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=403396 | 203,708 |
1,615,368 | Signal film from all of the three recording sources was developed at a ground processing facility. At that point, the optical appearance of the SAR data on the film in no way resembled an image of the terrain illuminated by the radar. Instead, it appeared visually nearly like noise, except that it was striated lengthwi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27644336 | 1,614,462 |
2,144,777 | FA-DLBCL most commonly develops within immunologically sequestered sites such as body cavities (e.g. pseudocysts) and foreign bodies (e.g. artificial heart valves) where fibrin, a breakdown product of the blood clotting factor, fibrinogen, has deposited. It is almost always discovered as an incidental finding in specim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63408853 | 2,143,546 |
1,041,763 | Elevated serum GPI levels have been used as a prognostic biomarker for colorectal, breast, lung, kidney, gastrointestinal, and other cancers. As AMF, GPI is attributed with regulating cell migration during invasion and metastasis. One study showed that the external layers of breast tumor spheroids (BTS) secrete GPI, wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1936865 | 1,041,220 |
1,695,232 | In 2012 Scherr invented a new term, integrated landscape management, to describe her ideas for developing entire regions, not at just a farm or plot level. Integrated landscape management is a way of managing sustainable landscapes by bringing together multiple stakeholders with different land use objectives. The integ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10325700 | 1,694,281 |
318,731 | Some controversy exists with regard to credit for development of the Metropolis algorithm. Metropolis, who was familiar with the computational aspects of the method, had coined the term "Monte Carlo" in an earlier article with Stanisław Ulam, and led the group in the Theoretical Division that designed and built the MAN... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56107 | 318,560 |
834,070 | On 24 June 2021, Champlain Towers South, a 12-story condominium building in Surfside, Florida partially collapsed, causing dozens of injuries and 98 deaths. The collapse was captured on video. One person was rescued from the rubble, and about 35 people were rescued on 24 June from the uncollapsed portion of the buildin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36337411 | 833,621 |
1,970,729 | The management of grassland frequently reaches into the socioeconomic sphere, in China and elsewhere, touching on matters of regional planning and the sedentarization of nomadic people and pastoralists. The sedentarization of nomadic herders ("dingju youmumin") should not be confused with the term 'ecological resettlem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54261346 | 1,969,595 |
1,332,405 | A star is considered to be at zero age (protostellar) when it is assumed to have a homogeneous composition and to be just beginning to derive most of its luminosity from nuclear reactions (so neglecting the period of contraction from a cloud of gas and dust). To obtain the SSM, a one solar mass () stellar model at zero... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5894781 | 1,331,676 |
351,105 | A statistic called "ρ" that is linearly related to "U" and widely used in studies of categorization (discrimination learning involving concepts), and elsewhere, is calculated by dividing "U" by its maximum value for the given sample sizes, which is simply . "ρ" is thus a non-parametric measure of the overlap between tw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=433164 | 350,922 |
947,159 | The most promising and widespread non-invasive thermometric techniques in a biotech context are based on the analysis of magnetic resonance images, computerized tomography images and echotomography. These techniques allow monitoring temperature within tissues without introducing a sensing element. In the field of react... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2343811 | 946,656 |
495,713 | Because of the dual, conflicting roles of local defence vessel and ocean-going escort, "Bathurst"s based in Australia were under two different controllers for the first part of the Pacific War; operationally under the US Navy's Naval Commander South West Pacific Area Forces (COMSOUWESTPAC), and administratively under t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=464266 | 495,457 |
981,870 | In February 2009, the Research Council of Norway assigned The Faculty of Architecture and Fine Art at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology to host the Research Centre on Zero Emission Buildings (ZEB), which is one of eight new national Centres for Environment-friendly Energy Research (FME). The main objec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4211531 | 981,358 |
708,100 | One study that demonstrates this effect was conducted in 1984 by Smith and Rothkopf. In this experiment, subjects were sorted into three groups to test retention and learning. "Each group was taught the same 8 hour statistics class, but one group was taught the class in one day, the next over the course of four days in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21312297 | 707,731 |
910,498 | The mathematization of economics began in earnest in the 19th century. Most of the economic analysis of the time was what would later be called classical economics. Subjects were discussed and dispensed with through algebraic means, but calculus was not used. More importantly, until Johann Heinrich von Thünen's "The Is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18967255 | 910,019 |
481,853 | In 1986, Mordechai Vanunu, a former technician at Dimona, fled to the United Kingdom and revealed to the media some evidence of Israel's nuclear program and explained the purposes of each building, also revealing a top-secret underground facility directly below the installation. The Mossad, Israel's secret service, sen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5168261 | 481,609 |
1,789,856 | The selfless contributions of people like Dr. Curtis Hanson, who proposed this program and subsequently served 24 years as the Orthopaedic Residency Program chief, created a rich heritage for the medical community in Kalamazoo. Given the success of the ortho residency and a shared desire to strengthen graduate medical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40473374 | 1,788,850 |
532,635 | Structured Analysis and Design Technique (SADT) is a software engineering methodology for describing systems as a hierarchy of functions, a diagrammatic notation for constructing a sketch for a software application. It offers building blocks to represent entities and activities, and a variety of arrows to relate boxes.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19433066 | 532,356 |
1,043,529 | The van Genuchten parameters (formula_7 and formula_9) can be determined through field or laboratory testing. One of the methods is the instantaneous profile method, where water content formula_13 (or effective saturation formula_14) are determined for a series of suction pressure measurements formula_15. Due to the no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3423123 | 1,042,985 |
1,854,437 | This differs from other forms of indirect defense in that the fungi live within the plant cells and directly alter their physiology. In contrast, other biotic defenses such as predators or parasites of the herbivores consuming a plant are normally attracted by volatile organic compounds (known as semiochemicals) releas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31533830 | 1,853,371 |
108,308 | There are several mechanisms which may explain the relationship between obesity and decreased vitamin B status. Vitamin B is a major dietary methyl donor, involved in the one-carbon cycle of metabolism and a recent genome-wide association (GWA) analysis showed that increased DNA methylation is associated with increased... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12742560 | 108,263 |
372,699 | Although ∆-THC functions similarly to Δ-THC in many ways, it appears to be only two-thirds as psychoactive. This may be because it binds differently to CB1, the cannabinoid receptor that regulates much of THC’s mind-altering effect. ∆-THC may cause increased heart rate, reddening of the eyes, dizziness, dryness of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65807046 | 372,504 |
1,687,862 | On 9 July, "Novara" led a force which included "87 F" and two "Kaiman"-class torpedo boats in another night raid on the Otranto Barrage which resulted in the sinking of two drifters. The following day, "75 T" exchanged fire with four enemy warships. On 31 July, the Italian submarine stranded on rocks in the Bay of Fium... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46387997 | 1,686,916 |
1,815,597 | Assistive devices are any machines or equipment used to level the playing field in a mixed-ability competition, or to allow someone the opportunity to participate that could not do so without its benefit. Good examples of assistive devices are swimming pool lifts that lower non-ambulatory swimmers into a pool, and stan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3718054 | 1,814,563 |
909,760 | On 27 February 1933 the Reichstag fire occurred and Diels was the main interrogator of the principal accused, Marinus van der Lubbe. He told Hitler he thought that the fire was set by this single man. However, Hitler was convinced it was the Communists. Diels attracted the attention of political rivals, including SS ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=200742 | 909,281 |
723,253 | Wilson, in 2003, assigned "Rajasaurus" to the subfamily Carnotaurinae, being more closely related to abelisaurids like "Majungasaurus" and the South American "Carnotaurus" than to African abelisaurids–as Africa, he believed, had separated from Gondwana first, and South America, India, and Madagascar were connected via ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1407252 | 722,873 |
660,295 | Mann has been organizing committee chair for the National Academy of Sciences 'Frontiers of Science' and has served as a committee member or advisor for other National Academy of Sciences panels. He served as editor for the "Journal of Climate" and has been a member of numerous international and U.S. scientific advisor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=345811 | 659,950 |
1,853,413 | Galena is the official state mineral of Missouri and lead mining began in the 1720s in Madison County, spearheaded by French miners. The state is the leading extractor of lead in the U.S., both from galena and sphalerite. The minerals are sourced from Mississippi Valley Type deposits, deposited through hydrothermal act... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58628104 | 1,852,351 |
964,170 | In 2002, a collection of positive characterizations summarizing what the embodiment thesis entails for cognition were offered. Margaret Wilson argues that the general outlook of embodied cognition "displays an interesting co-variation of multiple observations and houses a number of different claims: (1) cognition is si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33034640 | 963,661 |
7,636 | Social science is the study of human behavior and functioning of societies. It has many disciplines that include, but are not limited to anthropology, economics, history, human geography, political science, psychology, and sociology. In the social sciences, there are many competing theoretical perspectives, many of whi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26700 | 7,633 |
760,060 | During the 2002 Moscow theater hostage crisis, Russian special forces used an unidentified gas (thought to be 3-methylfentanyl or another fentanyl variant dissolved in halothane gas) in an attempt to induce sleep in both hostages and terrorists. Many of the hostages and terrorists (including all of the suicide bombers)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146808 | 759,654 |
218,208 | Finally, on 1 March 1922, the University College, Johannesburg, was granted full university status after being incorporated as the University of the Witwatersrand. The Johannesburg municipality donated a site in Milner Park, north-west of Braamfontein, to the new institution as its campus and construction began the sam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=320467 | 218,100 |
1,112,359 | Most fern species (with a few exceptions, namely the Salvineales) are homosporous and lack sex chromosomes. Lacking genetic information coding for separate sexes, every fern spore has the capacity to become a male, female, or hermaphroditic gametophyte depending on the environment. In many fern species, including "Cera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11204265 | 1,111,793 |
861,827 | In Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Indonesia, there is a diagnostic treatment for latent tuberculosis in children below 5 years of age. The IGRA approach (Interferon Gamma Release Assay) is used in these countries. IGRA testing and diagnosis are whole blood cell tests where fresh blood samples are mixed with antigens and con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1330683 | 861,368 |
666,754 | Plants possess the ability to sense gravity in several ways, one of which is through statoliths. Statoliths are dense amyloplasts, organelles that synthesize and store starch involved in the perception of gravity by the plant (gravitropism), that collect in specialized cells called statocytes. Statocytes are located in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1460958 | 666,406 |
197,327 | A wide variety of different sectors uses products containing 2,4-D to kill weeds and unwanted vegetation. In agriculture, it was the first herbicide found to be capable of selectively killing weeds but not crops. It has been used since 1945 to control broad-leafed weeds in pastures, orchards, and cereal crops such as c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33084611 | 197,226 |
924,408 | AIP has an autosomal dominant pattern of inheritance. The dominance pattern is a result of partial deficiencies from the heme biosynthesis enzymes, hydroxymethylbilane synthase (HMBS; EC 2.5.1.61). Due to the rarity of this disease it is difficult to estimate the prevalence of AIP and the inclusion criteria differs ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2788395 | 923,922 |
149,642 | In the 1950s, Calder concentrated more on producing monumental sculptures (his "agrandissements" period), and public commissions increasingly came his way in the 1960s. Notable examples are ".125" (1957) for JFK Airport in New York, "Spirale" (1958) for UNESCO in Paris, and "Trois disques", commissioned for Expo 67 in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213216 | 149,574 |
1,931,036 | The outbreak of World War II interrupted the activities of War College only for several months. Order of the Supreme Commander of 11 November 1940, resumed its activities initially in London (United Kingdom) and later in Scotland. To the War College in Exile were appointed officers – in ranks of lieutenants and captain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1948704 | 1,929,928 |
944,957 | In 1974, the factory team ran Howden Ganley until he left, having signed with Maki as their number-one driver. Then March ran Hans-Joachim Stuck in a Jägermeister-sponsored car and Vittorio Brambilla in a Beta Tools-sponsored car. Both drivers were exuberant and occasionally quick, but proved expensive in terms of acci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1347020 | 944,455 |
1,671,930 | The history of testing, inspection and certification services spans back several centuries. In the late 19th century, following the advent of the industrial revolution and the considerable risks involved with high-pressure steam boilers, specialized institutions emerged across Europe which carried out periodical inspec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56319253 | 1,670,989 |
1,331,374 | The "English School" derived from work by Cliff Jones on the aspects of VDM not specifically related to language definition and compiler design (Jones 1980, 1990). It stresses modelling persistent state through the use of data types constructed from a rich collection of base types. Functionality is typically described ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=140583 | 1,330,645 |
410,780 | The physico-theological proof of God's existence is supposed to be based on "a posteriori" sensed experience of nature and not on mere " a priori" abstract concepts. It observes that the objects in the world have been intentionally arranged with great wisdom. The fitness of this arrangement could never have occurred ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=347543 | 410,578 |
1,502,903 | Urban climatology came about as a methodology for studying the results of industrialization and urbanization. Constructing cities changes the physical environment and alters energy, moisture, and motion regimes near the surface. Most of these alterations can be traced to causal factors such as air pollution; anthropoge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2803548 | 1,502,057 |
1,049,092 | The following table is modelled on Ebrey's "Estate and Family Management in the Later Han as Seen in the Monthly Instructions for the Four Classes of People" (1974). Ebrey writes: "... the same item was often bought and sold at different times of the year. The rationale for this is very clearly financial: items were bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21423531 | 1,048,547 |
726,391 | The cytoplasmic sleeve is a fluid-filled space enclosed by the plasmalemma and is a continuous extension of the cytosol. Trafficking of molecules and ions through plasmodesmata occurs through this space. Smaller molecules (e.g. sugars and amino acids) and ions can easily pass through plasmodesmata by diffusion without ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1814677 | 726,010 |
1,925,708 | Avian reovirus can be transmitted both vertically and horizontally. Egg transmission has been observed after experimental infection, however the rate of transmission is very low. Congenitally infected chicks are assumed to act as a nucleus of infection for the rest of the hatch due to their high probability of becoming... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32762262 | 1,924,604 |
962,465 | Isaac Newton's formulation of a gravitational force law requires that each particle with mass respond instantaneously to every other particle with mass irrespective of the distance between them. In modern terms, Newtonian gravitation is described by the Poisson equation, according to which, when the mass distribution o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13478488 | 961,956 |
1,984,523 | Armstrong pursued further studies under Hermann Kolbe at Leipzig, earning a PhD in 1869 for work on "acids of sulfur." He returned to London and worked under Augustus Matthiessen in the medical school of St Bartholomew's Hospital, in charge of chemistry classes for students taking the London degree. A permanent appoint... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4603732 | 1,983,384 |
453,275 | A more straightforward but technically advanced definition using class field theory, constructs automorphic forms and their correspondent functions as embeddings of Galois groups to their underlying global field extensions. In this formulation, automorphic forms are certain finite invariants, mapping from the idele cla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=782146 | 453,054 |
1,062,913 | Life aboard the space station is distinct from terrestrial life in some very interesting ways. Astronauts commonly "float" objects to one another; for example they will give a clipboard an initial nudge and it will coast to its receiver across the room. In fact, an astronaut can become so accustomed to this habit that ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23516569 | 1,062,359 |
1,492,969 | A superintelligent AI with access to the Internet could hack into other computer systems and copy itself like a computer virus. Less obviously, even if the AI only had access to its own computer operating system, it could attempt to send coded messages to a human sympathizer via its hardware, for instance by manipulati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31641770 | 1,492,130 |
1,070,388 | Cauliflower mosaic virus possesses a number of mechanisms that allow it to counteract host plant cell defenses. While the pregenomic 35S RNA is responsible for genome replication by reverse transcriptase, it also contains a non-coding 600 base pair leader sequence that serves as an important mRNA for the production of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=551284 | 1,069,834 |
1,521,589 | The very first generation computational phantoms were developed to address the need to better assess organ doses from internally deposited radioactive materials in workers and patients. Until the late 1950s, the ICRP still used very simple models. In these calculations, each organ of the body was assumed to be represen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31787413 | 1,520,728 |
371,037 | Automatic digital modulation recognition in intelligent communication systems is one of the most important issues in software-defined radio and cognitive radio. According to incremental expanse of intelligent receivers, automatic modulation recognition becomes a challenging topic in telecommunication systems and comput... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20637 | 370,843 |
112,924 | Summative assessments are more common in classrooms and are usually set up to be more easily graded, as they take the form of tests or projects with specific grading schemes. One huge benefit of tech-based testing is the option to give students immediate feedback on their answers. When students get these responses, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1944675 | 112,879 |
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