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204,100 | Southampton was originally awarded Bronze ("provision is of satisfactory quality") in the 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework, a government assessment of the quality of undergraduate teaching in universities and other higher education providers in England. The Bronze award was appealed by the university, however it was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=98078 | 203,995 |
1,237,670 | In 1992, Air Force Systems Command was merged with Air Force Logistics Command, becoming Air Force Materiel Command, resulting in the Space Systems Division becoming the Space and Missile Systems Center. With the completion of the GPS constellation in space acquisitions shifted to replacing aging spacecraft. In 1994, S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66185637 | 1,237,005 |
1,113,832 | Thomas Jefferson grew sea kale at Monticello between 1820 to 1825. It was served at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton, when Prince Regent George IV of the United Kingdom (1762–1830) used it as a seaside retreat. By the Victorian Era sea kale had become "in very general use" as a vegetable in Britain, according to the popu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=460137 | 1,113,266 |
174,409 | The famous win against José Raúl Capablanca at St. Petersburg in 1914, which Lasker needed in order to retain any chance of catching up with Capablanca, is sometimes offered as evidence of his "psychological" approach. Reuben Fine describes Lasker's choice of opening, the Exchange Variation of the Ruy Lopez, as "innocu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=244649 | 174,318 |
511,776 | In matters of administrative government, he had attained the rank of Ambassador and President of the Ministry of Personnel at the capital of Kaifeng, and was known also as an expert in administration and finance. After serving in the Ministry of Personnel, he became a Minister of Justice in 1086. He was appointed as a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1861611 | 511,510 |
1,552,106 | One- and two-dimensional forms of nucleic acids (e.g., single strands, linear duplexes, and plasmids) (Fig. 1) are important biological machinery for the storage and transmission of genetic information. The specificity of DNA interactions through Watson-Crick base pairing provides the foundation for these functions. Sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36131613 | 1,551,225 |
1,888,875 | In 2017, it contains review articles on 1,500 genes, 700 papers on leukemias, 220 on solid tumors, and 110 on hereditary disease with a cancer-prone condition and 110 "Deep Insights" on related subjects, 40,000 internal links and 730,000 external links. This represents 45,000 "web pages" (i.e. about 200,000 printed pag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31399348 | 1,887,792 |
1,647,873 | During the 1940s and 1950s the group provided an evangelical forum for discussing the alleged merits and drawbacks of the theory of evolution, and for evaluating the works of prominent creationists such as George McCready Price (1870–1963) and Harry Rimmer (1890–1952). The influence of an inner circle affiliated with W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13892572 | 1,646,941 |
1,931,827 | After the in-flight disintegration of Stratos III, an investigation was begun to determine the cause of the vehicles demise. The team behind the investigation consisted of members of the Stratos III team as well as the newly formed Stratos IV team. The main sources of information were the telemetry streamed back from t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43223025 | 1,930,719 |
2,195,491 | ETDL also conducted research on electrothermal-chemical gun technology starting in the mid-1980s to increase the power and muzzle energy of tanks and other artillery systems. Starting in 1989, ETDL made many major improvements to the M1 Abrams tank by significantly enhancing its power capabilities and mobility with all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70093163 | 2,194,241 |
227,210 | Most scale insects are herbivores, feeding on phloem sap drawn directly from the plant's vascular system, but a few species feed on fungal mats and fungi, such as some species in the genus "Newsteadia" in the family Ortheziidae. Plant sap provides a liquid diet which is rich in sugar and non-essential amino acids. In o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=673275 | 227,094 |
1,917,764 | As the end of the first funding cycle for ESMF neared, its collaborators wrote a project plan that described how ESMF could transition to an organization with multi-agency sponsorship for its next funding cycle. Major new five-year grants came from NASA, through the Modeling Analysis and Prediction (MAP) program for cl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2599187 | 1,916,664 |
1,363,889 | Cardiac diverticulum or ventricular diverticulum is defined as a congenital malformation of the fibrous or muscular part of the heart which is only visible during chest x-rays or during an echocardiogram reading. This should not be confused with ventricular diverticulum, as the latter is a sub type derived from the lat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24126870 | 1,363,133 |
447,284 | Ants have been observed sending out scouts to patrol for food items, and coming back for other workers if the food found is too large to bring to the nest by the finder alone; for example, a dead caterpillar that is too heavy. This again would involve displacement by communicating outside of the here and now. Recruitme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30946399 | 447,067 |
552,403 | LORAN-C was fairly complex to use, requiring a room of equipment to pull out the different signals. However, with the introduction of integrated circuits, this was quickly reduced further and further. By the late 1970s, LORAN-C units were the size of a stereo amplifier and were commonly found on almost all commercial s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=153095 | 552,114 |
1,317,028 | However, university libraries were unconvinced that the decrease in prices was occurring. A report on work carried out by the University of Nottingham since 2006 to introduce and manage an institutional open access fund has been published by Stephen Pinfield in "Learned Publishing". In this article, the author comments... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6971733 | 1,316,303 |
224,844 | Owing to the danger from aerial bombardment, the Chadwicks sent their twins to Canada as part of a government evacuation scheme. Chadwick was reluctant to move Tube Alloys there, believing that the United Kingdom was a better location for the isotope separation plant. The enormous scope of the effort became more appare... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=174316 | 224,729 |
1,550,215 | The earliest record of collecting Irish seaweed is evidenced by 12th century poems by monks, according to Michael Guiry. In a 2001 market analysis of Irish seaweed aquaculture, the estimated combined annual national seaweed harvest of "M. stellatus" and "C. crispus" was less than 100 tonnes. "M. stellatus" is harveste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6749073 | 1,549,334 |
939,770 | Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are emitted as gases from certain solids or liquids. VOCs include a variety of chemicals, some of which may have short- and long-term adverse health effects. Concentrations of many VOCs are consistently higher indoors (up to ten times higher) than outdoors. VOCs are emitted by a wide a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=219736 | 939,269 |
1,406,853 | MVB was derived from the P215 bus developed by Brown Boveri Cie, Switzerland (now ABB), incorporating the publisher/subscriber principle from early field busses (DATRAS). Back in 1984, IEC TC 57 defined the requirement specifications for busses to be used in electrical substation in collaboration with IEC SC65C. MVB pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33050661 | 1,406,063 |
266,243 | Children with OSA also show a higher risk for nocturnal enuresis and it is hypothesized to be caused by an excessive production of urine, impaired performance of the bladder and urethra or an inability to suppress the nocturnal bladder contraction, due to a failure to arouse. The risk for nocturnal enuresis increases w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1976353 | 266,099 |
2,179,342 | Adult neurogenesis is the process in which new neurons are born and subsequently integrate into functional brain circuits after birth and into adulthood. Avian species including songbirds are among vertebrate species that demonstrate particularly robust adult neurogenesis throughout their telencephalon, in contrast wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71895680 | 2,178,097 |
1,502,843 | Questions could arise as to why the technique of encapsulation of cells is even required when therapeutic products could just be injected at the site. An important reason for this is that the encapsulated cells would provide a source of sustained continuous release of therapeutic products for longer durations at the si... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29578326 | 1,501,997 |
1,226,500 | Ice valves operate by transporting heat away from a single portion of a flow channel, causing the fluid to solidify and stop flow through that region. Thermoelectric (TE) units are used to transport heat away from the plug. Because of the limited temperature difference that TE units can provide, multiple are often chai... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19081158 | 1,225,840 |
618,327 | Other mutations are less common, although appear to target certain protein domains more so than others. For example, the sterol reductase motifs are common sites of mutation. Overall, there is an estimated carrier frequency (for any DHCR7 mutation causing SLOS) of 3-4% in Caucasian populations (it is less frequent amon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1907985 | 618,013 |
2,108,728 | With the advent of narrow linewidth fiber lasers, the problems connected to laser locking can be significantly reduced. Fiber lasers with free-running linewidths as narrow as 1 kHz (measured over a fraction of a second), thus two to three orders of magnitude below those of ECDLs, are available today. Evidently, this fe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16885242 | 2,107,514 |
396,584 | Early cars using the FWD layout include the 1925 Alvis, 1929 Cord L-29, 1931 DKW F1, the 1948 Citroën 2CV, 1949 Saab 92, the 1957 Trabant P50, and the 1959 Mini. In the 1980s, the traction and packaging advantages of this layout caused many compact and mid-sized vehicle makers to adopt it in the US. Most European and J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=816346 | 396,388 |
279,102 | As intended, it would have functioned as a stealth helicopter, incorporating a number of different techniques and technologies in order to reduce its radar cross-section (RCS) along with other areas of visibility and detectability. The exterior surfaces of the RAH-66 were faceted and covered with both radar-absorbent m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396698 | 278,952 |
54,111 | Many extensions of the standard model contain magnetic monopoles, and in some models of grand unification, these monopoles catalyze proton decay, a process known as the Callan–Rubakov effect. This process would be an efficient mass–energy conversion at ordinary temperatures, but it requires making monopoles and anti-mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=422481 | 54,091 |
1,788,603 | Early conceptualizations of neural synchrony, mostly from the Hasson Lab at Princeton University, were motivated by models of stimulus-to-brain coupling. In these models, aspects of the physical environment emit mechanical, chemical, and electromagnetic signals, which the brain receives and translates into electrical i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69270951 | 1,787,597 |
1,323,748 | This management science as applied to the surgical suite is gaining more attention because of increasing market pressures on hospitals from competitors (e.g., other surgical suites including office based surgery) and from payers seeking lower prices. The surgical suite is often considered a profitable hospital unit. As... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13748138 | 1,323,022 |
674,423 | The rotor is stabilized in all of its six degrees of freedom. One degree is governed by the electric motor. Minimally, this degree must be stabilized electronically (or by a diamagnetic material, which is too unstable to be used in a precision pump bearing). Another way (ignoring losses in magnetic cores at high freque... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30494 | 674,070 |
618,489 | This research program looks into optical, infrared, X ray, and radio wavelengths to study the problems concerned to galactic and extragalactic cosmic phenomena. The studies include the fields of star formation, evolution of intermediate mass stars, photometric and polarimetric studies of active galaxies and BL Lac obje... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3569670 | 618,175 |
1,001,101 | The core of the TMC is serviced by three large arterial roads. Main and Fannin streets run southwest to northeast, while Holcombe Boulevard runs west to east. The Texas Medical Center is one of the few employment centers in Houston which is not directly serviced by a freeway; the nearest freeway is Texas State Highway ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=316296 | 1,000,583 |
410,966 | During ICI, air is expelled from a needleless syringe which is then filled with semen which has been allowed to liquify. A specially-designed syringe, wider and with a more rounded end, may be used for this purpose. Any further enclosed air is removed by gently pressing the plunger forward. The woman lies on her back a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=213070 | 410,764 |
2,001,187 | The commander was Major Kosta Miletić, and it comprised an Aircraft Squadron which counted 12 military aircraft, the Balloon Company, the Pigeon post and the Airbase. A year later, during the siege of the town of Shkodra, Serbian Air Force had their baptism of fire. The first planes used in the Serbian Air Force were t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48791069 | 2,000,042 |
1,284,617 | The AEPS Hall thruster system was originally developed since 2015 by NASA Glenn Research Center and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to be used on the now canceled Asteroid Redirect Mission. Work on the thruster did not stop following the mission cancellation in April 2017 because there is demand of such thrusters for a r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58011682 | 1,283,918 |
43,423 | Airbus targeted over 100 orders of A220 in 2018 and 3,000 over 20 years, half of the 100- to 150-seat market, and needed a supply chain cost reduction over 10%. Airbus then sought to reduce costs from all suppliers, including Bombardier, wing builder Short Brothers and engine manufacturer Pratt & Whitney. It has report... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1567474 | 43,407 |
875,491 | The word 'typology' was proposed by Georg von der Gabelentz in his "Sprachwissenschaft" (1891). Louis Hjelmslev proposed typology as a large-scale empirical-analytical endeavour of comparing grammatical features to uncover the essence of language. Such a project begins from the 1961 conference on language universals at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48854 | 875,029 |
132,646 | Kafka Streams (or Streams API) is a stream-processing library written in Java. It was added in the Kafka 0.10.0.0 release. The library allows for the development of stateful stream-processing applications that are scalable, elastic, and fully fault-tolerant. The main API is a stream-processing domain-specific language ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41321945 | 132,593 |
1,658,850 | Tritheledontidae, the tritheledontids or ictidosaurs, is an extinct family of small to medium-sized (about 10 to 20 cm long) cynodonts. They were highly mammal-like, specialized cynodonts, although they still retained a few reptile-like anatomical traits. Tritheledontids were mainly carnivorous or insectivorous, though... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5201618 | 1,657,917 |
1,456,367 | Various classic texts cite different arrangements to the pairings of organs, some omitting the second organ from the pulse entirely while others show organ systems reflecting the acupuncture channels (five phase pulse associations), and another the physical organ arrangement used in Chinese herbal medicine diagnosis (L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2648666 | 1,455,547 |
1,767,227 | In 2002, Lynne Brindley, Chief Executive Officer of the British Library, put forward the International Dunhuang Project as a good example of the sort of complex, collaborative, and international digitisation projects that the British Library was increasingly engaged in. She explained that none of the individual institu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30512746 | 1,766,233 |
1,567,006 | The fundamental strong interaction does exhibit such behaviour, the most important example being the stability experimentally observed for the helium-3 isotope, which can be described as a 3-body quantum cluster entity of two protons and one neutron [PNP] in stable superposition. Direct evidence of a 3-body force in he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1962679 | 1,566,119 |
79,495 | In North America, coccinellids usually begin to appear indoors in the autumn when they leave their summer feeding sites in fields, forests, and yards and search out places to spend the winter. Typically, when temperatures warm to the mid-60s °F (around 18 °C) in the late afternoon, following a period of cooler weather,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18973752 | 79,462 |
1,286,308 | The fourth IPY (2007–2008) was sponsored by the International Council for Science (ICSU) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR), an interdisciplinary body of ICSU assumed responsibility for coordinating all IPY-related Antarctic research, and the Internati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=78204 | 1,285,607 |
1,003,183 | Conventional CS reconstruction uses sparse signals (usually sampled at a rate less than the Nyquist sampling rate) for reconstruction through constrained formula_82 minimization. One of the earliest applications of such an approach was in reflection seismology which used sparse reflected signals from band-limited data ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11403316 | 1,002,665 |
1,141,575 | Finline has been used at frequencies up to and experimentally tested to at least . At these frequencies it has a considerable advantage over microstrip for its low loss and it can be manufactured with similar low-cost printed circuit techniques. It is also free of radiation since it is completely enclosed in the rectan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39288501 | 1,140,981 |
1,665,341 | Due to its asymptomatic nature, PRCC is often undetectable, and the majority of cases are incidentally diagnosed during the radiological workup of unrelated diseases. Its clinical manifestations are similar to those of clear cell RCC, which are the classical triad of renal cell carcinoma (hematuria, flank pain and palp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63591324 | 1,664,404 |
1,953,204 | The GDD is in principle an adaptation of techniques for particle detection used in nuclear physics and astronomy. The adaptation involves the parameters required for the formation of images in the conditions of an electron microscope and in the presence of gas inside the specimen chamber. The signals emanating from the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22712749 | 1,952,083 |
1,360,309 | Some historians of mathematics have argued that the sine table given in Āryabhaṭiya was an adaptation of earlier such tables constructed by mathematicians and astronomers of ancient Greece. David Pingree, one of America's foremost historians of the exact sciences in antiquity, was an exponent of such a view. Assuming t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26459760 | 1,359,557 |
1,454,535 | The input screens range from 15–57 cm, with the 23 cm, 33 cm and 40 cm being among the most common. Within each image intensifier, the actual field size can be changed using the voltages applied to the internal electron optics to achieve magnification and reduced viewing size. For example, the 23 cm commonly used in ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2482050 | 1,453,715 |
1,764,998 | By 2001 it had become evident that the SSTO Option 3 would be too difficult in practice (at least given the funding that Congress was willing to allocate) and the X-33, X-34 and VentureStar were cancelled in that year. Option 1, substantially upgrading the Shuttle system, had also been abandoned. The Study had shown co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49131707 | 1,764,005 |
1,308,610 | The pterygomandibular space is the area where local anesthetic solution is deposited during an inferior alveolar nerve block, a common procedure used to anesthetize the distribution of the inferior alveolar nerve. Rarely, pathogenic micro-organisms from the mouth may be seeded into the pterygomandibular space during th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39051192 | 1,307,894 |
1,994,768 | The LAT protein encoded by the gene of the same name, plays a key role in the diversification of T cell signaling pathways following activation of the T-cell antigen receptor (TCR) signal transduction pathway, which is first catalyzed by TCR binding to MHC class II. LAT is a transmembrane protein localizes to lipid raf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11290845 | 1,993,625 |
1,102,420 | The DRS undertook terrestrial broadcasting for large cities and direct broadcasting to SITE television sets for remote villages. However, it did not provide for small towns where the TV set density was higher than in the villages while not as much as in a city. The concept of a low-power limited rebroadcast (LRB) TV tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8248653 | 1,101,859 |
1,146,791 | When the right-hand side of the equation is a positive real number, the solution corresponds to an epispiral. When the argument "θ" – "θ" equals ±90°×"k", the cosine goes to zero and the radius goes to infinity. Thus, when "k" is less than one, the range of allowed angles becomes small and the force is repulsive (red c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12191272 | 1,146,187 |
661,947 | A software patents law in Thailand has been controversial debates among the economists and national developers’ overtime since there were two significant developments in the international patent law; (1) the European Union's attempt to harmonize national patent laws by the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=76266 | 661,602 |
1,341,380 | The DC-3 was a two-stage vehicle with a large booster and smaller shuttle/orbiter of overall similar design. Both were similar to "jumbo jets" in layout in general terms, with their large cylindrical fuselage containing fuel tanks instead of passengers or cargo. The bottom of the fuselage was flattened for re-entry aer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18952422 | 1,340,647 |
1,007,027 | To avoid the CH system, the "Luftwaffe" adopted other tactics. One was to approach the coastline at very low altitude. This had been anticipated and was countered to some degree with a series of shorter-range stations built right on the coast, known as "Chain Home Low" ("CHL"). These systems had been intended for naval... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27693223 | 1,006,508 |
1,627,991 | When GLUD1 is highly saturated with the active site ligands (substrates), an inhibitory abortive complex forms in the active site: NAD(P)H.Glu in the oxidative deamination reaction at high pH, and NAD(P).2-oxoglutarate in the reductive amination reaction at low pH. GLUD1 assumes its basal state configuration in the abs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3281150 | 1,627,073 |
260,012 | It is often said that the Schottky diode is a "majority carrier" semiconductor device. This means that if the semiconductor body is a doped n-type, only the n-type carriers (mobile electrons) play a significant role in the normal operation of the device. The majority carriers are quickly injected into the conduction ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=227130 | 259,878 |
1,152,547 | Meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products labeled "organic" have must come from animals who are " without antibiotics, added growth hormones, mammalian or avian byproducts, or other prohibited feed ingredients." Farms, processors, and distributors must be inspected by the USDA before they are allowed to use the "organic"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9512354 | 1,151,937 |
152,833 | The was introduced in 1961 as a dealer-installed Super Duty option. Unlike previous enlargements of Pontiac V8s, it did not replace the 389. The first of the "big journal" Pontiac V8s, it had a bore and stroke of and came with dual four-barrel carburetors. It featured main journals (which the legendary Smokey Yunick re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=880258 | 152,765 |
1,537,936 | Constraint dynamics applied to the TBDE requires a particular form of mathematical consistency: the two Dirac operators must commute with each other. This is plausible if one views the two equations as two compatible constraints on the wave function. (See the discussion below on constraint dynamics.) If the two operato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36054202 | 1,537,064 |
1,661,664 | Thermogalvanic cells are a kind of heat engine. Ultimately the driving force behind them is the transport of entropy from the high temperature source to the low temperature sink. Therefore, these cells work thanks to a thermal gradient established between different parts of the cell. Because the rate and enthalpy of ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48204219 | 1,660,729 |
786,626 | This method consists of precisely measuring a star's position in the sky, and observing how that position changes over time. Originally, this was done visually, with hand-written records. By the end of the 19th century, this method used photographic plates, greatly improving the accuracy of the measurements as well as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7290120 | 786,203 |
784,004 | Carbon fiber composite is a popular non-metallic material commonly used for bicycle frames. Although expensive, it is light-weight, corrosion-resistant and strong, and can be formed into almost any shape desired. The result is a frame that can be fine-tuned for specific strength where it is needed (to withstand pedalin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=195134 | 783,585 |
474,822 | After the political changes of 9 September 1944 and the emergence of the People's Republic of Bulgaria, radical alterations were made in the university system of the country. At that time in 1944–1945, 13,627 students attended the university, taught by 182 professors and readers and 286 assistants. Communist professors... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3516963 | 474,586 |
1,732,474 | Experimental and computational technologies are being optimized to allow researchers to sequence single cells. For instance, amplification of DNA extracted from a single cell is one of the experimental challenges. To maximize the accuracy and quality of SCS, a uniform DNA amplification is needed. It was demonstrated th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40693593 | 1,731,498 |
1,600,650 | Together with space weather observation capabilities on the Earth-orbiting GOES-U satellite, SWFO-L1 constitutes the space segment of NOAA's Space Weather Follow On (SWFO) program. The aim of the SWFO program is to ensure the robust continuity of space-based measurement of the critical space weather environment. All of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62073057 | 1,599,749 |
254,137 | Bush appeared on the cover of "Time" magazine on April 3, 1944. He toured the Western Front in October 1944, and spoke to ordnance officers, but no senior commander would meet with him. He was able to meet with Samuel Goudsmit and other members of the Alsos Mission, who assured him that there was no danger from the Ger... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32767 | 254,004 |
99,441 | Several suspected causal factors in our environment have been studied so far. One hypothesis is that indoor air pollution may cause eye and airway irritation. Eye irritation depends somewhat on destabilization of the outer-eye tear film, i.e. the formation of dry spots on the cornea, resulting in ocular discomfort. Occ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1070221 | 99,398 |
633,454 | Oceanic anoxic events or anoxic events (anoxia conditions) describe periods wherein large expanses of Earth's oceans were depleted of dissolved oxygen (O), creating toxic, euxinic (anoxic and sulfidic) waters. Although anoxic events have not happened for millions of years, the geologic record shows that they happened m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1632974 | 633,116 |
242,540 | In July 2016, the Ministry of Defence announced that the Gazelle would remain in service until 2025 taking the Gazelle past its 50th anniversary in UK military service and making it the oldest helicopter in active UK inventory. The Gazelle is operated by 29 (BATUS) Flight AAC in Canada supporting the Suffield training ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=356188 | 242,413 |
730,258 | The experience of the M3 in the North African Campaign was completely different. The gun was not powerful enough to deal with late production German "Panzer" III and IV tanks. After the nearly disastrous Battle of Kasserine Pass in February 1943, reports from some of the involved units mentioned 37 mm projectiles "boun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4079815 | 729,873 |
1,926,703 | Mutations in this gene have been associated with the inborn error of metabolism combined D-2- and L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria, which was the first reported case of a pathogenic mutation of the SLC25A1 gene. Patients with D-2/L-2-hydroxyglutaric aciduria display neonatal onset metabolic encephalopathy, infantile epilep... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16855377 | 1,925,599 |
1,504,002 | In 1990 he was accepted as a Chancellor's Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and completed a bachelor's degree in Physics. Subsequently, he attended the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he received a doctorate in physics in May 2001. From 1998 to 2002, he worked at the Santa Fe Institute, in the Ev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6307285 | 1,503,156 |
143,927 | The reactor was assembled in November 1942, by a team that included Fermi, Leo Szilard (who had previously formulated an idea for non-fission chain reaction), Leona Woods, Herbert L. Anderson, Walter Zinn, Martin D. Whitaker, and George Weil. The reactor used natural uranium. This required a very large amount of materi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1118396 | 143,869 |
1,941,377 | In addition, innate immunity to IRP peptide is involved in coeliac disease, dermatitis herpetiformis and possibly juvenile diabetes. IRP targets monocytes and increases the production of IL-15 by an HLA-DQ "independent" pathway, a subsequent study showed that both this region and the "33mer" could create the same respo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18016634 | 1,940,266 |
493,566 | ALDH2, which has a lower K for acetaldehydes than ALDH1 and acts predominantly in the mitochondrial matrix, is the main enzyme in acetaldehyde metabolism and has three genotypes. A single point mutation (G → A) at exon 12 of the ALDH2 gene causes a replacement of glutamine with lysine at residue 487, resulting in the A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=449708 | 493,311 |
849,846 | Spider venoms are a complex collection of toxic agents. Unique to the widows is latrotoxin. The venom acts on nerves causing the massive release of the neurotransmitters acetylcholine, norepinephrine, and GABA. The release of these neurotransmitters leads to pain, cramps, sweating and fast pulse. Latrotoxin acts on pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6164872 | 849,394 |
493,805 | Ecological understanding and geographic identification of climate refugia that remained significant strongholds for plant and animal survival during the extremes of past cooling and warming episodes largely pertain to the Quaternary glaciation cycles during the past several million years, especially in the Northern Hem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2175118 | 493,550 |
866,374 | Female frogs and toads usually spawn gelatinous egg masses containing thousands of eggs in water. Different species lay eggs in distinctive and identifiable ways. For example, the American toad lays long strings of eggs. The eggs are highly vulnerable to predation, so frogs have evolved many techniques to ensure the su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19653966 | 865,914 |
1,551,380 | To conclude, the non-smooth approach changes the underlying mathematical structure if required and leads to a proper description of mechanical systems with unilateral contacts and friction. As a consequence of the changing mathematical structure, impacts can occur, and the time evolutions of the positions and the veloc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15878779 | 1,550,499 |
64,986 | Use of ondansetron has been associated with prolongation of the QT interval, which can lead to a potentially fatal heart rhythm known as "torsades de pointes". Although this may happen in any person with any formulation, the risk is most salient with the injectable (intravenous) form of the drug and increases with dose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1145676 | 64,961 |
383,321 | Guncotton containing more than 13% nitrogen (sometimes called insoluble nitrocellulose) was prepared by prolonged exposure to hot, concentrated acids for limited use as a blasting explosive or for warheads of underwater weapons such as naval mines and torpedoes. Safe and sustained production of guncotton began at the W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58246 | 383,126 |
846,027 | The epidermis (from the Greek "ἐπιδερμίς", meaning "over-skin") is a single layer of cells that covers the leaves, flowers, roots and stems of plants. It forms a boundary between the plant and the external environment. The epidermis serves several functions: it protects against water loss, regulates gas exchange, secre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2959657 | 845,577 |
367,106 | Known instances of nuclear reactions, aside from producing energy, also produce nucleons and particles on readily observable ballistic trajectories. In support of their claim that nuclear reactions took place in their electrolytic cells, Fleischmann and Pons reported a neutron flux of 4,000 neutrons per second, as well... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7463 | 366,914 |
1,058,173 | As a result of the interaction with a crystalline sample, the electron exit wave right below the sample "φ(x,u)" as a function of the spatial coordinate x is a superposition of a plane wave and a multitude of diffracted beams with different in plane spatial frequencies u (spatial frequencies correspond to scattering an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4527733 | 1,057,624 |
864,050 | Image editors are specialized for the manipulation of digital images, mainly by means of free-hand drawing/painting and signal processing operations. They typically use a direct-painting paradigm, where the user controls virtual pens, brushes, and other free-hand artistic instruments to apply paint to a virtual canvas.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35248 | 863,590 |
180,559 | In addition to preventing mistakes as they are made, other intangible benefits may exist. For example, the courtesy of rejecting phone calls or other distractions while working together, taking fewer breaks at agreed-upon intervals, or shared breaks to return phone calls (but returning to work quickly since someone is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400 | 180,465 |
1,172,601 | Several manufacturers produce compact cameras that are inherently water-resistant to about 10 to 15 msw, and underwater housings rated to around 40 to 50 msw, which are small enough to fit into a large pocket, have a fairly large zoom range, and a large preview screen. Automatic focusing allows divers with imperfect vi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63557168 | 1,171,982 |
180,741 | Researchers including Kathryn Klar and Terry Jones have proposed a theory of contact between Hawaiians and the Chumash people of Southern California between 400 and 800 CE. The sewn-plank canoes crafted by the Chumash and neighboring Tongva are unique among the indigenous peoples of North America, but similar in design... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=158687 | 180,647 |
92,891 | Antibodies used in research are some of the most powerful, yet most problematic reagents with a tremendous number of factors that must be controlled in any experiment including cross reactivity, or the antibody recognizing multiple epitopes and affinity, which can vary widely depending on experimental conditions such a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2362 | 92,850 |
723,918 | Following the declaration of war, 6 April 1917, USS "Maumee" was assigned duty refueling at sea the destroyers being sent to Britain. Stationed about 300 miles south of Greenland, "Maumee" was ready for the second group of six U.S. ships to be sent as they closed on her on 28 May 1917. Following this first deployment, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2589484 | 723,538 |
660,061 | Kapitsa foresaw that within a traditional educational institution, the new school would encounter bureaucratic obstacles, but even though Kapitsa's original plan to create the new school as an independent organization did not come to fruition exactly as envisioned, its most important principles survived intact. The new... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=829515 | 659,716 |
1,277,074 | As a practical device there is an additional requirement, that the reaction conditions last long enough to burn a reasonable amount of the fuel. In the original Thomson and Blackman design, it was the job of the microwave injection to drive the electrons to maintain the current and produce pinches that lasted on the or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3083485 | 1,276,381 |
752,568 | The first fossils referred to a spinosaurid were discovered in 1912 at the Bahariya Formation in Egypt. Consisting of vertebrae, skull fragments, and teeth, these remains became the holotype specimen of the new genus and species "Spinosaurus aegyptiacus" in 1915, when they were described by German paleontologist Ernst ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2899822 | 752,166 |
903,824 | There are several simple actions that individuals can take to prevent or reduce tendinitis. Though commonly used, some of these actions have limited or no scientific evidence to support them, namely pre-exercise stretching. Strengthening calf muscles, avoiding over-training, and selecting more appropriate footwear are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1002659 | 903,348 |
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