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86,780 | ASU faculty have included former CNN host Aaron Brown, Academic Claude Olney, meta-analysis developer Gene V. Glass, feminist and author Gloria Feldt, physicist Paul Davies, and Pulitzer Prize winner and "The Ants" coauthor Bert Hölldobler. David Kilcullen, a counterinsurgency theorist, is a professor of practice. Dona... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1859 | 86,745 |
904,162 | Airport GSE comprises a diverse range of vehicles and equipment necessary to service aircraft during passenger and cargo loading and unloading, maintenance, and other ground-based operations. The wide range of activities associated with aircraft ground operations lead to an equally wide-ranging fleet of GSE. For exampl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7802776 | 903,686 |
1,834,754 | British participants were involved in a number of controversies regarding the reallocation of medals during the Games. Shelly Woods was initially awarded the silver medal in the women's 5000 m T54, but a rerun was ordered by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) after the Australian, US and Swiss teams protested... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17953175 | 1,833,705 |
525,341 | To avoid this problem the new design banked memory and two sets of registers (the B- and T-registers) were replaced with a 16 KWord block of the very fastest memory possible called a "Local Memory," not a cache, attaching the four "background processors" to it with separate high-speed pipes. This Local Memory was fed d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1231405 | 525,069 |
928,660 | In 1924, Webern arranged Franz Liszt's "Arbeiterchor" ("Workers' Chorus", c. 1847–1848) for bass solo, mixed chorus, and large orchestra; it was premièred for the first time in any form on 13 and 14 March 1925, with Webern conducting the first full-length concert of the Austrian Association of Workers Choir. A review i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65676 | 928,171 |
12,637 | Detailed requirements for the award of a PhD degree vary throughout the world and even from school to school. It is usually required for the student to hold an Honours degree or a Master's Degree with high academic standing, in order to be considered for a PhD program. In the US, Canada, India, and Denmark, for example... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21031297 | 12,632 |
1,841,373 | Citron is a 183 kDa protein that contains a C6H2 zinc finger, a PH domain, and a long coiled-coil forming region including 4 leucine zippers and a rho / rac binding site. It was discovered as a rho/rac effector in 1995, interacting only with the GTP bound forms of rho and rac 1. Displaying a distinctive protein organiz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14800676 | 1,840,321 |
243,274 | There was a strong belief in demons in Mesopotamia, and private individuals, like the temple priests, also participated in incantations (šiptu) to ward them off. Although there was no collective term for these beings either in Sumerian or Akkadian, they were merely described as harmful or dangerous beings or forces, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=79183 | 243,147 |
926,517 | Eger V. Murphree and Herbert Loper at the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) were more cautious. The Atlas missile program was proceeding well, and if successful would have sufficient range to hit targets in most of the Soviet Union. At the same time, nuclear warheads were becoming smaller, lighter and more powerful. The c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=712716 | 926,031 |
1,426,115 | While programs may vary, most curricula are designed to provide professionals with the knowledge, skills and abilities to lead and manage effectively. Lecture and laboratory sessions require the application of critical thinking to problem solving within notional and actual situations. Students normally engage in the st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6870770 | 1,425,313 |
1,954,380 | The work on the design was started in 1938, but was delayed by the fact that the intended powerplant, the modern Klimov M-105 engine, was still under development. In early 1939 work commenced on the first prototype, but proceeded at a very slow pace. The construction team was led by A.A. Lebedinski and A.A. Manucharov.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39924292 | 1,953,258 |
57,626 | During World War II, Belgium was occupied by Nazi Germany and the FN factory was used by the Wehrmacht to build the pistols for their military, under the designation "9mm Pistole 640(b)". FN Herstal continued to build guns for the Allied forces by moving their production line to a John Inglis and Company plant in Canad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=95218 | 57,602 |
803,070 | Calciphylaxis, also known as calcific uremic arteriolopathy (CUA) or “Grey Scale”, is a rare syndrome characterized by painful skin lesions. The pathogenesis of calciphylaxis is unclear but believed to involve calcification of the small blood vessels located within the fatty tissue and deeper layers of the skin, blood ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5411455 | 802,641 |
1,612,277 | The United States Air Force Stability and Control DATCOM is a collection, correlation, codification, and recording of best knowledge, opinion, and judgment in the area of aerodynamic stability and control prediction methods. It presents substantiated techniques for use (1) early in the design or concept study phase, (2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16818862 | 1,611,372 |
761,820 | Linking context to reward is important for reward seeking. In 2011, a group of researchers documented a CA3-VTA connection that uses the lateral septum as an intermediary. They used a pseudo-rabies virus (PRV) as a transsynaptic tracer, and injected it into the VTA. They found that unilateral injection into the VTA res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=716908 | 761,412 |
1,060,197 | Yalow's first job after teaching and taking classes at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana graduate school was as an assistant electrical engineer at Federal Telecommunications Laboratory. She again found herself to be the only woman employee. In 1946, she returned to Hunter College to teach physics and cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=727467 | 1,059,646 |
1,615,596 | The Central Western Carpathians, sometimes referred as the Slovakocarpathian system, are a zone bounded by the Pieniny Klippen Belt from the North and the Meliata Belt from the South. The Pieniny Klippen Belt is a relatively thin but important dividing line separating the Outer Western Carpathians from the internal zon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23861663 | 1,614,689 |
1,638,918 | Popeye is a chess problem-solving software accommodating many fairy chess rules and able to investigate set play and tries. It can be used with several operating systems and can be connected to several existing graphical interfaces since it comes with freely available source code, cf. . Since its origin, Popeye was des... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6330250 | 1,637,993 |
79,784 | multirole fighter with stealth capabilities exceeding both the Dassault Rafale and Eurofighter Typhoon but less than those of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II. The Weapon Systems Concept Development and Application Research Center of Konkuk University advised that the KF-X should be superior to the F-16 Fighting F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8624941 | 79,751 |
1,768,446 | The parieto-frontal integration theory (P-FIT) considers intelligence to relate to how well different brain regions integrate to form intelligent behaviors. The theory proposes that large scale brain networks connect brain regions, including regions within frontal, parietal, temporal, and cingulate cortices, underlie t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46424669 | 1,767,452 |
1,580,198 | An entitlement management solution makes it possible to activate and provision cloud, on-premises, and embedded software applications from a single platform. Having the ability to manage homegrown or third-party licensing systems from one, centralized interface is conducive to an operationally efficient back office. Wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51665202 | 1,579,308 |
986,254 | General Motors at one time manufactured a bus powered by a gas turbine, but due to rise of crude oil prices in the 1970s this concept was abandoned. Rover, Chrysler, and Toyota also built prototypes of turbine powered cars, Chrysler building a short prototype series of them for real-world evaluation. Driving comfort wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7248770 | 985,739 |
1,200,629 | Some animals, notably insects such as the honey bee, are sensitive to the polarisation of light. Honey bees can use polarized light on overcast days to estimate the position of the sun in the sky, relative to the compass direction they intend to travel. Karl von Frisch's work established that bees can accurately identi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34903260 | 1,199,988 |
1,758,045 | Like all other orchids it is best to water in the mornings to avoid fungal rot due to overnight dampness. Feeding as per other orchids and similar light conditions: in humid and hot regions (sub tropical) feed fortnightly during growing season (Summer) with a certified orchid fertiliser following directions on packet, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=217615 | 1,757,052 |
1,046,181 | In 2014 she gave a TEDx talk at CERN, "How to Love Uncertainty in Climate Science." After fights between climate scientists and sceptics on Twitter in 2014, Edwards was part of a dinner party discussing how they could calm the debate. The dinner included David Rose and Richard A. Betts, and Edwards was the only woman. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57426192 | 1,045,636 |
1,484,036 | The label is mainly remembered for its children's music releases during the 1950s on a subsidiary label, Little Golden Records, which released singles rather than albums. As originally issued from 1948 to 1962, 78 r.p.m. Little Golden Records were six inches (15 cm) in diameter and made of bright yellow plastic (orange... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34731849 | 1,483,199 |
1,823,930 | There is a large electric current in the plasma inside this machine; it is responsible for creating the necessary magnetic fields to make the reversed field pinch configuration. It also heats the plasma very quickly — the same way wires inside your toaster get hot. Your toaster probably uses about 10 ampere of current,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2203151 | 1,822,892 |
1,494,826 | Noted ecologist and evolutionary biologist David Lack said retrospectively that he had already begun to mull around with the ideas of limiting similarity as early as the 1940s, but it wasn't until the end of the 1950s that the theory began to be built up and articulated. G. Evelyn Hutchinson's famous "Homage to Santa R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22589893 | 1,493,985 |
887,359 | The average power output of these transmitters was low, because due to its low capacitance the antenna was a highly damped oscillator (in modern terminology, it had very low Q factor). During each spark the energy stored in the antenna was quickly radiated away as radio waves, so the oscillations decayed to zero quickl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1105907 | 886,894 |
2,207,855 | Antennae black, slender, and thickest at the extremities. Head, neck, and thorax yellowish brown, with a black longitudinal stripe running along the middle. Four palpi, two of which are short; the other two long, slender, and knobbed at the extremities. Thorax nearly covered with grey hairs. Abdomen yellowish brown in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44552047 | 2,206,597 |
1,333,998 | Late twentieth century technology allowed the production of alkyd emulsions. The technology continues to evolve including production of DTM (Direct To Metal) finishes. The biggest issue has been getting VOC content below 250g/L. Poor corrosion resistance has also been an issue. Alkyd emulsion technology uses a reactive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63417066 | 1,333,268 |
1,196,646 | A new twist on this technology uses ice as a condensing medium for the refrigerant. In this case, regular refrigerant is pumped to coils where it is used. Rather than needing a compressor to convert it back into a liquid, however, the low temperature of ice is used to chill the refrigerant back into a liquid. This type... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30938449 | 1,196,006 |
823,140 | Evidence from forensic linguistics has more power to eliminate someone as a suspect than to prove him or her guilty. Linguistic expertise has been employed in criminal cases to defend an individual suspected of a crime and during government investigations. Forensic linguists have given expert evidence in a wide variety... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=602412 | 822,698 |
114,453 | The Euclidean algorithm has many theoretical and practical applications. It is used for reducing fractions to their simplest form and for performing division in modular arithmetic. Computations using this algorithm form part of the cryptographic protocols that are used to secure internet communications, and in methods ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10377 | 114,408 |
926,055 | No classification scheme for banded iron formations has gained complete acceptance. In 1954, Harold Lloyd James advocated a classification based on four lithological facies (oxide, carbonate, silicate, and sulfide) assumed to represent different depths of deposition, but this speculative model did not hold up. In 1980,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55406 | 925,569 |
1,113,519 | In the Dirk Pitt series of adventure novels by Clive Cussler that debuted in 1973 with "The Mediterranean Caper" novel, NUMA is a government organization. The fictional NUMA is devoted to oceanic exploration and investigation, and is the agency employing the main characters in the series of books. Its headquarters is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=431211 | 1,112,953 |
246,575 | Proponents of behaviorism argued that language may be learned through a form of operant conditioning. In B. F. Skinner's "Verbal Behavior" (1957), he suggested that the successful use of a sign, such as a word or lexical unit, given a certain stimulus, reinforces its "momentary" or contextual probability. Since operant... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18614 | 246,448 |
250,731 | In 1967, Farnsworth and his family moved back to Utah to continue his fusion research at Brigham Young University, which presented him with an honorary doctorate. The university also offered him office space and an underground concrete bunker for the project. Realizing ITT would dismantle its fusion lab, Farnsworth inv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42890 | 250,598 |
1,415,453 | Weissenberger was promoted to "Hauptmann" on 1 June 1944. On 3 June he arrived in Herzogenaurach to take over command of I. "Gruppe" (1st Group) of JG 5. The former "Gruppenkommandeur" "Major" Horst Carganico had been killed in a flying accident on 27 May 1944. Three days after Weissenberger took command, the Allied in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10301408 | 1,414,656 |
472,138 | As of october 2020, the draft bill was still lying with the prime minister Narendra Modi, awaiting his and cabinet's approval. India has no defense university even those such university in India was first proposed in 1967, while Pakistan already has two defense universities. As of September 2019, there was no evidence ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39049366 | 471,902 |
442,967 | The mammalian SWI/SNF (mSWI/SNF) complex functions as a tumor suppressor in many human malignant cancers. Early studies identified that SWI/SNF subunits were frequently absent in cancer cell lines. SWI/SNF was first identified in 1998 as a tumor suppressor in rhabdoid tumors, a rare pediatric malignant cancer. Other in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4387046 | 442,752 |
27,865 | In an ideal gas, and in other theoretically understood bodies, the Kelvin temperature is defined to be proportional to the average kinetic energy of non-interactively moving microscopic particles, which can be measured by suitable techniques. The proportionality constant is a simple multiple of the Boltzmann constant. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20647050 | 27,855 |
851,560 | These books were departures from the beaten path. As Jenkin states in the preface to his work the science of the schools was so dissimilar from that of the practical electrician that it was quite impossible to give students sufficient, or even approximately sufficient, textbooks. A student he said might have mastered d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5951576 | 851,107 |
1,217,905 | The 1980s saw several new technologies that promised to change the way creatinine testing was done. Enzymatic and ion-exchange methods provided better accuracy but had other drawbacks. Enzymatic methods reduced some interferences but other new ones were discovered. High-performance liquid chromatography, HPLC, was more... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37425225 | 1,217,252 |
1,516,752 | Pehr Löfling (Tolvfors Bruk, Gävle, Sweden, January 31, 1729 – San Antonio del Caroni (Guayana, Venezuela), February 22, 1756). Swedish botanist who studied at the University of Uppsala where he attended courses taught by Carl Linnaeus. When the Spanish ambassador at Stockholm asked Linnaeus to select a botanist for se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,900 |
2,010,051 | They are also used in biosynthesis because they are an extraordinary archive of enzymes like mono and dioxygenases, oxidases, dehydrogenases and others. Furthermore, as they are adapted to grow in hydrocarbon-rich environments, they often synthesize characteristic compounds like polymeric storage substances of industri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69363429 | 2,008,899 |
549,423 | More concrete development of GOES-16 began with the initial designs of an Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI), which started in June 1999 under the direction of Tim Schmitt of the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS). At its inception, ten spectral bands were considered for inclusion in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35927196 | 549,135 |
966,042 | Elective oocyte cryopreservation, also known as social egg freezing, is non-essential egg freezing for the purpose of preserving fertility for delayed child-bearing when natural conception becomes more problematic. The frequency of this procedure has steadily increased since October 2012 when the American Society for R... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10990255 | 965,533 |
778,957 | The metric system was originally conceived as a system of measurement that was derivable from unchanging phenomena, but practical limitations necessitated the use of artifacts – the prototype of the metre and prototype of the kilogram – when the metric system was introduced in France in 1799. Although it was designed f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30291341 | 778,540 |
1,535,340 | This species is an endangered freshwater fish and is found on the red list of the IUCN, where it is rated as critically endangered. Its area of distribution has drastically diminished, and it is now considered to be the European fish genus with the most restricted range. The last remaining population in the Vâlsan Rive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3357431 | 1,534,472 |
1,697,587 | A notable researcher is Mathias Fink of École Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles de la Ville de Paris. His team has done numerous experiments with ultrasonic TRMs. An interesting experiment involved a single source transducer, a 96-element TRM, and 2000 thin steel rods located between the source and the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2965318 | 1,696,633 |
1,276,702 | Haque worked in government and private health service in Bangladesh starting from April 1982 until 2021. He practices absolutely restricted Colorectal Surgery since 1997. In last 18 years he has consulted nearly 9,50,000 (Nine lac fifty thousand) new patients and operated 5,35,000 (Five lac thirty five thousand) patien... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44716847 | 1,276,009 |
805,345 | Many scientifically important problems can be represented and empirically studied using networks. For example, biological and social patterns, the World Wide Web, metabolic networks, food webs, neural networks and pathological networks are real world problems that can be mathematically represented and topologically stu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18396728 | 804,916 |
1,421,034 | Sixteen irradiation positions in the permanent reflector are called the small vertical experiment facilities (VXF). Each of these facilities has a permanent aluminum liner with an inside diameter of 1.584 in. (4.02 cm). The facilities are located concentric with the core on two circles of radii 15.43 in. (39.2 cm) and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3070210 | 1,420,234 |
125,616 | N-Acetylcysteine has shown promise in combination with other therapies. Animal studies indicate the amatoxins deplete hepatic glutathione; N-acetylcysteine serves as a glutathione precursor and may therefore prevent reduced glutathione levels and subsequent liver damage. None of the antidotes used have undergone prospe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=184774 | 125,564 |
975,919 | "Development begins when the first egg cover splits and new membrane, secreted by the embryo, forms a transparent spherical capsule" (Sturtevant). The larvae form and then swim for about five to seven days. After swimming, they settle, and begin the first molt. This occurs about 20 days after the formation of the egg c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=372920 | 975,408 |
511,649 | The basin of a river is the expanse of country bounded by a watershed (called a "divide" in North America) over which rainfall flows down towards the river traversing the lowest part of the valley, whereas the rain falling on the far slope of the watershed flows away to another river draining an adjacent basin. River b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3966984 | 511,383 |
1,489,652 | Protein kinase C (PKC) is a family of serine- and threonine-specific protein kinases that can be activated by calcium and the second messenger diacylglycerol. PKC family members phosphorylate a wide variety of protein targets and are known to be involved in diverse cellular signaling pathways. PKC family members also s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10742573 | 1,488,813 |
1,220,077 | Philip L. Wagner, a geographer reviewing the book in "Annals of the Association of American Geographers", argued that the book proposes a "fundamental thesis" for explaining the size, structure, and spatial arrangements of animal populations, all aspects of geography, and noted that Wilson and MacArthur's 1967 "Theory ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1149054 | 1,219,423 |
456,665 | Without regular fire intervals in slash pine forests, the ecosystem can change over time. For example, in the northern range for slash pine, forests can convert from mesic flatwoods to denser mixed-hardwood canopies with trees such as oaks, hickory, and southern magnolia. In South Florida, the pine rocklands can conver... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=509871 | 456,442 |
1,965,541 | Machamer earned his BA from Columbia University in 1964, his BA (1966) and MA (1971) from Trinity College, Cambridge University, and his PhD in philosophy from the University of Chicago in 1972. His dissertation, "Points about Observation in Science", was supervised by Manley Thompson and Dudley Shapere. Machamer taugh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42711255 | 1,964,412 |
409,511 | The championship stayed in Italy, visiting Imola next, where Minì won pole for race one. He kept the lead all throughout a disrupted race: first, the race was stopped for Sami Meguetounif, who crashed heavy and had to be taken to hospital. On the restart, Beganovic claimed second place from Mari Boya, while leader Minì... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69112243 | 409,309 |
1,450,042 | Maps are generated pseudo-randomly to create a range of walls and cover, as well as starting positions for the soldiers. On each turn, the players are given an unlimited amount of time to lay out commands for each soldier to specific waypoints that will be performed during the resolution of the round, a period of about... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31918654 | 1,449,226 |
14,027 | The automotive industry began in the 1860s with hundreds of manufacturers that pioneered the horseless carriage. For many decades, the United States led the world in total automobile production. In 1929, before the Great Depression, the world had 32,028,500 automobiles in use, and the U.S. automobile industry produced ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=163778 | 14,022 |
478,950 | Since the immune response and repair functions in the body are so complicated it is not adequate to describe the biocompatibility of a single material in relation to a single cell type or tissue. Sometimes one hears of biocompatibility testing that is a large battery of in vitro test that is used in accordance with ISO... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1665878 | 478,710 |
1,726,961 | The team's first official home field was an open public square in Manhattan located at Bluemont Avenue and 8th Street, which it began using in the 1898 season, called Athletic Field. Construction of Bluemont Elementary School on that plot of land forced Kansas State to move its athletics on campus beginning in 1911. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16828963 | 1,725,990 |
10,071 | The Naval Research Laboratory continued the research under Philip Abelson's direction, but there was little contact with the Manhattan Project until April 1944, when Captain William S. Parsons, the naval officer in charge of ordnance development at Los Alamos, brought Oppenheimer news of encouraging progress in the Nav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19603 | 10,067 |
224,821 | Rutherford gave Chadwick a part-time teaching position at Manchester, allowing him to continue research. He looked at the nuclear charge of platinum, silver, and copper, and experimentally found that this was the same as the atomic number within an error of less than 1.5 per cent. In April 1919, Rutherford became direc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174316 | 224,706 |
188,914 | An early study on ecological niches conducted by Joseph H. Connell analyzed the environmental factors that limit the range of a barnacle ("Chthamalus stellatus") on Scotland's Isle of Cumbrae. In his experiments, Connell described the dominant features of "C. stellatus" niches and provided explanation for their distrib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67244 | 188,817 |
716,059 | EMR during the micro-plastic deformation and crack propagation from several metals and alloys and transient magnetic field generation during necking in ferromagnetic metals were reported by Misra (1973–75), which have been confirmed and explored by several researchers. Tudik and Valuev (1980) were able to measure the E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60875 | 715,684 |
153,599 | Non-pharmacologic preanaesthetic interventions include playing cognitive behavioral therapy, music therapy, aromatherapy, hypnosis massage, pre-operative preparation video, and guided imagery relaxation therapy, etc. These techniques are particularly useful for children and patients with intellectual disabilities. Mini... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=398561 | 153,529 |
1,367,209 | The remarkably preserved plumage is one of many features that sets the Berlin specimen apart from all other "Archaeopteryx" fossils to date. Clear feather impressions are visible on both wings, the tail, the lower legs, and the base of the neck. The feathers are likely to be preserved as molds and casts, rather than as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34483273 | 1,366,453 |
265,153 | Just as the ontological argument has been popular, a number of criticisms and objections have also been mounted. Its first critic was Gaunilo of Marmoutiers, a contemporary of Anselm's. Gaunilo, suggesting that the ontological argument could be used to prove the existence of anything, uses the analogy of a perfect isla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25980060 | 265,010 |
1,894,924 | An interesting fact is that the original wiki software was created in 1995, but it took at least another six years for large wiki-based collaborative projects to appear. Why did it take so long? One explanation is that the original wiki software lacked a selection operation and hence couldn't effectively support conten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5751182 | 1,893,840 |
430,062 | A 2006 Space Shuttle experiment found that "Salmonella typhimurium", a bacterium that can cause food poisoning, became more virulent when cultivated in space. On April 29, 2013, scientists in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, funded by NASA, reported that, during spaceflight on the International Space Station, microbes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5607447 | 429,850 |
553,446 | As the director of Fermilab, Lederman was a prominent supporter of the Superconducting Super Collider project, which was endorsed around 1983, and was a major proponent and advocate throughout its lifetime. Also at Fermilab, he oversaw the construction of the Tevatron, for decades the world's highest-energy particle co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17970 | 553,157 |
8,541 | In the event of pilot disorientation, the Flight Control System allows for rapid and automatic recovery by the simple press of a button. On selection of this cockpit control the FCS takes full control of the engines and flying controls, and automatically stabilises the aircraft in a wings level, gentle climbing attitud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167667 | 8,538 |
363,532 | Statins are effective in decreasing mortality in people with pre-existing cardiovascular disease. Pre-existing disease can have many manifestations. Defining illnesses include a prior heart attack, stroke, stable or unstable angina, aortic aneurysm, or other arterial ischemic disease, in the presence of atherosclerosis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=178197 | 363,342 |
1,774,983 | Pharmaceutical applications include selective drug delivery and control drug release systems, which make use of MIPs’ stable conformations, fast equilibrium release, and resistance to enzymatic and chemical stress. Intelligent drug release, the release of a therapeutic agent as a result of a specific stimuli, has also ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1938226 | 1,773,986 |
1,410,951 | In order to understand how blood is delivered to cranial tissues, it is important to understand the vascular anatomy of the space itself. Large cerebral arteries in the brain split into smaller arterioles, also known as pial arteries. These consist of endothelial cells and smooth muscle cells, and as these pial arterie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=971305 | 1,410,159 |
2,102,125 | The 2019 Women's U25 Wheelchair Basketball World Championship was held at the Suphanburi Indoor Stadium in Thailand, from 23 to 27 May 2019. It was the third wheelchair basketball world championship for women in the under-25 age category. Eight nations competed: Australia, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Thailand, South... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60855676 | 2,100,913 |
1,536,737 | The roots of MOSH go back to 1941 when the Jacksonville Children's Museum was chartered. The first permanent home was a Victorian mansion in Riverside. Construction began on the current location downtown in 1965, and the facility opened in 1969. The Jacksonville Children's Museum became the Jacksonville Museum of Arts ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14571763 | 1,535,869 |
694,934 | In May 2012, Průša released a major redesign, focused on ease of construction and use, and no longer structured around the simplest available common hardware as previous RepRap printers were. The Prusa i3 design replaced the threaded-rod, triangular Z axis frame construction with a rigid, single-piece water jet cut alu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50921584 | 694,571 |
326,597 | Nevertheless Ferdinand Rudolph Hassler's use of the metre in coastal survey contributed to the introduction of the Metric Act of 1866 allowing the use of the metre in the United States, and also played an important role in the choice of the metre as international scientific unit of length and the proposal by the Europe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18947 | 326,423 |
1,036,359 | Schrieffer was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1970 and the United States National Academy of Sciences in 1971. In 1972, he, along with Bardeen and Cooper, won the 1972 Nobel Prize in Physics for developing the BCS theory. Schrieffer was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1975. In ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396615 | 1,035,819 |
456,055 | Since the burning rate of smokeless powder varies directly with the pressure, the initial pressure buildup,(i.e. "the shot-start pressure"), has a significant effect on the final velocity, especially in large cartridges with very fast powders and relatively light weight projectiles. In small caliber firearms, the frict... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=833572 | 455,832 |
1,933,220 | Hannon is known for his contributions to small RNA biology, cancer biology, and mammalian genomics. He has a history in discovery of oncogenes, beginning with work that led to the identification of CDK inhibitors and their links to cancer. More recently, his work has focused on small RNA biology, which led to an unders... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57723648 | 1,932,112 |
156,520 | As part of the SETI Institute's search for extraterrestrial intelligence, the Allen Telescope Array had listened for radio emissions from the Kepler-186 system for about a month as of 17 April 2014. No signals attributable to extraterrestrial technology were found in that interval; however, to be detectable, such trans... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42518279 | 156,448 |
242,849 | In terms of treatment, a number of medications are being studied. Resiquimod is a TLR 7/8 agonist that works similarly to imiquimod, but is 10 to 100 times more potent; when used to treat AK lesions, complete response rates have range from 40 to 74%. Afamelanotide is a drug that induces the production of melanin by mel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1300874 | 242,722 |
491,662 | A common aspect of computer games that model some type of conflict is the explosion. Early computer games used the simple expedient of repeating the same explosion in each circumstance. However, in the real world an explosion can vary depending on the terrain, altitude of the explosion, and the type of solid bodies bei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2509524 | 491,408 |
916,623 | When revolutionary France declared war on Great Britain in 1793, the United States sought to remain neutral, but the Jay Treaty, which was favorable to Great Britain, angered the French government, which viewed it as a violation of the 1778 Treaty of Alliance. French privateers began to seize U.S. vessels, which led to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=161323 | 916,140 |
2,141,799 | There was formerly a large chemical distribution facility run by AMCO Chemical at 1414 3rd Street, just one block south of the West Oakland BART station. From the 1960s until 1989, bulk chemicals were off-loaded from a rail spur onsite and stored in drums and storage tanks before being transferred to smaller containers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39977923 | 2,140,568 |
454,698 | During the Korean War formally the air forces did not meet, as the Soviet Union was not a combatant in the conflict. In August 1945 the USSR declared war on Japan and commenced their offensive campaigns against the Japanese Army. Moving into Japanese occupied Korea, the Soviets gained a foothold in that region, ultimat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26864158 | 454,476 |
653,197 | For penetrating substances significantly harder than jacketed lead, the lead core is supplemented with or replaced with a harder material, such as hardened steel. Military armor-piercing small arms ammunition is made from a copper-jacketed steel core; the steel resists deformation better than the usual soft lead core l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=186150 | 652,854 |
600,953 | Although the theory of central pattern generation calls for basic rhythmicity and patterning to be centrally generated, CPGs can respond to sensory feedback to alter the patterning in behaviorally appropriate ways. Alteration of the pattern is difficult because feedback received during only one phase may require change... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2645238 | 600,647 |
760,947 | The P-51H used the new V-1650-9 engine, a version of the Merlin that included Simmons automatic supercharger boost control with water injection, allowing War Emergency Power as high as 2,218 hp (1,500 kW). Differences between the P-51D included lengthening the fuselage and increasing the height of the tailfin, which re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18854620 | 760,541 |
1,582,965 | In "The Metabolism of Cities", Wolman highlighted three major "metabolic" problems that plagued major cities in the United States and offered his insight on the reality of those problems and possible solutions. He defined the metabolic requirements of a city as all materials and commodities needed to sustain its popula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11872672 | 1,582,075 |
1,854,592 | The economical structure in Lebanon depends on a focused model on banking and financial systems and sectors. The need for rebuilding the country post the civil war depended on over-borrowing from international bodies. This is done for an exchange rate from the donors increasing a public debt that the country can't face... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65430747 | 1,853,526 |
575,338 | Small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) – the patient is either given a challenge dose of glucose, also known as dextrose (75–100 grams), or lactulose (10 grams). A baseline breath sample is collected, and then additional samples are collected at 15 minute or 20 minute intervals for 2 hours. Positive diagnosis for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3973933 | 575,044 |
162,245 | The FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 rose to their highest levels in a year on 9 September 2009 with the FTSE 100 breaking through 5,000 and the FTSE 250 breaking through 9,000. On 8 September the National Institute of Economic and Social Research believed that the economy had grown by 0.2% in the three months to August, but was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,160 |
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