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493,355 | Faculty members at CDU conduct ongoing NIH and DoD-funded research on conditions such as hypertension, diabetes, cancer, tobacco use and HIV/AIDs. The university's Department of Research and Health Affairs was initially established as the Office of Research in 1973 to organize the assignment of research activities at t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1741698 | 493,100 |
1,371,786 | The eigenstate thermalization hypothesis (or ETH) is a set of ideas which purports to explain when and why an isolated quantum mechanical system can be accurately described using equilibrium statistical mechanics. In particular, it is devoted to understanding how systems which are initially prepared in far-from-equilib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39937659 | 1,371,029 |
751,068 | Speech difficulties can result from hypotonia. Low-tone children learn to speak later than their peers, even if they appear to understand a large vocabulary, or can obey simple commands. Difficulties with muscles in the mouth and jaw can inhibit proper pronunciation, and discourage experimentation with word combination... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=980745 | 750,670 |
844,268 | Until 1852, Geological Survey primarily remained focused on exploration for coal, mainly for powering steam transport, oil reserves, and ore deposits, when Sir Thomas Oldham, father of Richard Dixon Oldham, broadened the ambit of the scope of functioning of the Geological Survey of India by advancing the argument with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2153900 | 843,818 |
1,420,349 | Regaliceratops (meaning "Royal horned face") is a monospecific genus of chasmosaurine ceratopsid dinosaur from Alberta, Canada that lived during the Late Cretaceous (middle Maastrichtian stage, 68.5 to 67.5 Ma) in what is now the St. Mary River Formation. The type and only species, Regaliceratops peterhewsi, is known o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46892006 | 1,419,550 |
1,726,494 | Souther's studies in 1992 highlighted the importance and size of the region, and proposed that numerous subglacial eruptions emplaced lava in a sub-ice or ice-contact environment. More recent studies have worked on Souther's contributions with more detailed studies which are funded by colleges and universities. Since c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19294556 | 1,725,523 |
2,091,752 | This technique is far more complex than traditional AFM. Unlike AFM, SJEM needs to consider the type of polymer, the thickness of polymer used to coat the sample and the frequency to drive the device. This additional processing often can degrade or compromise the integrity of the sample. For micro/nano devices, wire-bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29427548 | 2,090,547 |
1,137,054 | His early works were on the theoretical analysis of collisions in gases, notably the collision with spin flip of an electron against a hydrogen atom, which would stimulate subsequent works by André Blandin and Jun Kondo about similar effects between conduction electrons, as well as magnetic properties in metals. This s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=396697 | 1,136,461 |
932,105 | The second problem has been more controversial. The early ethologists assumed that communication occurred for the good of the species as a whole, but this would require a process of group selection which is believed to be mathematically impossible in the evolution of sexually reproducing animals. Altruism towards an un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=464447 | 931,613 |
1,696,967 | The archipelago was first subjected to minor human settlement in the 17th century, in the form of temporary whaling, fishing and hunting settlements (such as Smeerenburg). The first permanent settlements arose in the late 19th century, with the advent of tourism and large-scale coal mining. Despite the environmental li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44368816 | 1,696,014 |
1,264,959 | The viral eukaryogenesis hypothesis points to the cell cycle of eukaryotes, particularly sex and meiosis, as evidence. Little is known about the origins of DNA or reproduction in prokaryotic or eukaryotic cells. It is thus possible that viruses were involved in the creation of Earth's first cells. The eukaryotic nucleu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4009213 | 1,264,271 |
2,130,599 | Molecular dynamics simulations in tandem with data reporting from scientific literature shows that typical CNT fluxes range from about 70 to 270 LMH. Therefore, a theoretical water flux of 10-15 LMH/bar can be reached on vertically aligned CNTs, a fivefold increase over traditional brackish water reverse osmosis plants... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46812080 | 2,129,375 |
1,754,903 | CMRE contributes new technologies enabling access to unmanned systems that have the ability to sense, comprehend, predict, communicate, plan, make decisions and take appropriate actions to achieve mission goals. This provides operators with new technologies across the spectrum of expeditionary kinetic and non-kinetic c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68024965 | 1,753,913 |
1,359,134 | After three years and nearly 600 hours between the two aircraft, the XV-1 contract was canceled in 1957. Ultimately, it was determined that the XV-1's convertiplane configuration was too complex for the small advantages gained over conventional helicopters. The piston engine could not produce enough power to optimize t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14774602 | 1,358,383 |
1,703,358 | Hills found no evidence of discontinuity in the incidence of decompression symptoms for exposure/depth variations, which he interpreted as suggesting that either a single critical tissue or a continuous range of tissues are involved, and that correlation was not improved by assuming an infinite range of half times in a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50490900 | 1,702,402 |
553,862 | Several versions of the TLS protocol exist. SSL 2.0 is a deprecated protocol version with significant weaknesses. SSL 3.0 (1996) and TLS 1.0 (1999) are successors with two weaknesses in CBC-padding that were explained in 2001 by Serge Vaudenay. TLS 1.1 (2006) fixed only one of the problems, by switching to random initi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29070755 | 553,573 |
1,879,740 | R100943 inhibited HIV-1 and was considerably effective against a number of key NNRTI-resistant mutants like G190A mutation, which caused high-level resistance to loviride (α-APA) and nevirapine. G190A mutation was thought to cause resistance by occupying a part of the binding pocket that would otherwise be filled by th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24664397 | 1,878,659 |
2,115,922 | Goldberg-Shprintzen syndrome shows autosomal recessive inheritance patterns. The subjects studied for this disease included families which were highly consanguineous or inbred. Mutations of the KIAA1279 gene were determined as a possible driving mutation causing the syndrome, and researchers found that the coding error... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33315061 | 2,114,705 |
880,668 | The buildup of biofouling on marine vessels poses a significant problem. In some instances, the hull structure and propulsion systems can be damaged. The accumulation of biofoulers on hulls can increase both the hydrodynamic volume of a vessel and the hydrodynamic friction, leading to increased drag of up to 60%. The d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1413411 | 880,204 |
1,994,328 | When the ETP was being developed, the BuAer agreed that the Aviation RMS just getting underway in Annapolis, Maryland, would be moved to a more secure and larger facility. Ward Island, a small, uninhabited island a short distance from the newly opened Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, was selected. In a crash effort, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36494078 | 1,993,185 |
443,262 | John O'Keefe, (born November 18, 1939) is an American-British neuroscientist, psychologist and a professor at the Sainsbury Wellcome Centre for Neural Circuits and Behaviour and the Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology at University College London. He discovered place cells in the hippocampus, and that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41164989 | 443,047 |
1,807,841 | This plant is notable for combining the best characters of both parent species, not least the size of its pitchers, which rival those of "N. rajah" in volume (≤35 cm high, ≤20 cm wide). The other hybrids involving "N. rajah" do not exhibit such impressive proportions. The pitchers of "N. × alisaputrana" can be distingu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3789158 | 1,806,822 |
1,441,071 | His work on minimal surfaces, partial differential equations and calculus of variations earned him huge and lasting fame in the mathematical community, and was awarded many honours for his contributions, including the Caccioppoli Prize in 1960, the National Prize of Accademia dei Lincei from the President of the Italia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1752401 | 1,440,261 |
1,700,891 | In synthesizing core shell nanoparticles, scientists have studied and found several wet chemical methods, such as chemical precipitation, sol-gel, microemulsion and inverse micelle formation. Those methods have been used to grow core shell chalcogenide nanoparticles with an emphasis on better control of size, shape, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33177861 | 1,699,937 |
1,389,304 | Facilities engineers are not required to have at least a bachelor's degree but most of them do for experience and it is not unusual to see many facilities engineers with master's degrees in the given fields. They must have that degree in either structural engineering, mechanical engineering, or manufacturing engineerin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=551409 | 1,388,533 |
698,336 | Christakis uses quantitative methods (e.g., experiments, mathematical models, and statistical analyses). His work focuses on network science and biosocial science, and it has also involved sociology, economics, demography, evolutionary biology, evolutionary psychology, behavior genetics, and epidemiology. He is an auth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21566523 | 697,972 |
400,373 | Laser diodes are often directly modulated, that is the light output is controlled by a current applied directly to the device. For very high data rates or very long distance links, a laser source may be operated continuous wave, and the light modulated by an external device, an optical modulator, such as an electro-abs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7309377 | 400,174 |
7,111 | In 2011, the National Science Foundation granted $11 million to modify an A-10 for weather research for CIRPAS at the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and in collaboration with scientists from the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology (SDSM&T), replacing SDSM&T's retired North American T-28 Trojan. The A-10's armor i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12502446 | 7,108 |
1,070,196 | Class IB reductases are not inhibited by dATP because they lack approximately 50 N-terminal amino acids required for the allosteric activity site. Additionally, it is important that the activity of ribonucleotide reductase be under transcriptional and post-transcriptional control because the synthesis of damage-free DN... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=861258 | 1,069,642 |
29,528 | Entrepreneurial opportunities were common for the alchemists of Renaissance Europe. Alchemists were contracted by the elite for practical purposes related to mining, medical services, and the production of chemicals, medicines, metals, and gemstones. Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor, in the late 16th century, famously rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=573 | 29,518 |
290,140 | Constructivism is a category of learning theory in which emphasis is placed on the agency and prior "knowing" and experience of the learner, and often on the social and cultural determinants of the learning process. Educational psychologists distinguish individual (or psychological) constructivism, identified with Piag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10332 | 289,983 |
1,106,752 | NK cells can also directly target the transplanted tissue. It depends on the balance of activating and inhibitory NK cell receptors and on their ligands expressed by the graft. Receptors of KIR (Killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptor) family bind concrete MHC class I molecules. If the graft has these ligands on its s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1689405 | 1,106,188 |
346,778 | In 1784, John Michell proposed that gravity can be strong enough in the vicinity of massive compact objects that even light cannot escape. At that time, the Newtonian theory of gravitation and the so-called corpuscular theory of light were dominant. In these theories, if the escape velocity of the gravitational influen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29320146 | 346,597 |
1,053,881 | The short tusks found in all known heterodontosaurids strongly resemble tusks found in modern musk deer, peccaries and pigs. In many of these animals (as well as the longer-tusked walrus and Asian elephants), this is a sexually dimorphic trait, with tusks only found in males. The type specimen of "Abrictosaurus" lacks ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5872429 | 1,053,334 |
1,266,498 | Prior to the decades of the nineteen seventies and eighties, developing and expanding the agricultural infrastructure of the Russian countryside was given a lower priority vis-a-vis industry. Schools, hospitals, roads and other structures serving the community remained underdeveloped compared with the amount of effort ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34407497 | 1,265,810 |
980,255 | Upon taking office, President Obama declared Constellation to be "over budget, behind schedule, and lacking in innovation." A review concluded that it would cost on the order of $150 billion for Constellation to reach its objective if adhering to the original schedule. Another review in 2009, ordered by President Obama... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=454300 | 979,743 |
1,537,184 | Bers spent World War II teaching mathematics as a research associate at Brown University, where he was joined by Loewner. After the war, Bers found an assistant professorship at Syracuse University (1945–1951), before moving to New York University (1951–1964) and then Columbia University (1964–1982), where he became th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9335972 | 1,536,313 |
81,833 | The theme of symmetry in geometry is nearly as old as the science of geometry itself. Symmetric shapes such as the circle, regular polygons and platonic solids held deep significance for many ancient philosophers and were investigated in detail before the time of Euclid. Symmetric patterns occur in nature and were arti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18973446 | 81,800 |
1,138,999 | The mountain-building and rifting events left areas of high relief above the low basin of the Midcontinent rift. Over the next 1,100 million years, the uplands were worn down and the rift filled with sediments, forming rock ranging in thickness from several hundred meters near Lake Superior to thousands of meters furth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7093351 | 1,138,406 |
1,261,074 | Any form of communications mode can be used for meteor-scatter communications. Single sideband audio transmission has been popular among amateur radio operators in North America attempting to establish contact with other stations during meteor showers without planning a schedule in advance with the other station. The u... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2995826 | 1,260,387 |
1,689,360 | From 2003 to 2016, the MPAR formed the core of the National Weather Radar Testbed (NWRT), used as a proof-of-concept test to validate the meteorological potential of phased array radars. The MPAR provided much faster volume scans, comprehensive wind profiling, and more complete insights to supercellular structure, whil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55354518 | 1,688,414 |
311,507 | In addition to Chinese culture's emphasis on family as the basic unit of a community intertwined and forming a greater social construct, Islamic traditional medicine also places importance on the values of family and the well-being of a community. Many Islamic communities uphold paternalism as an acceptable part of med... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=237248 | 311,339 |
346,099 | Prior to mercantilism, the most important economic work done in Europe was by the medieval scholastic theorists. The goal of these thinkers was to find an economic system compatible with Christian doctrines of piety and justice. They focused mainly on microeconomics and on local exchanges between individuals. Mercantil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19708 | 345,918 |
1,672,588 | Between 1976 and 1993 a teacher at Marist College, Brother Kosta Chute, sexually molested at least 39 students. The school investigated the first complaints concerning Chute's conduct internally, and permitted him to continue teaching. He was not removed from teaching duties until late 1993 when parents of one of his s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6865489 | 1,671,646 |
469,001 | The two universities always had close relations and co-operation was common in the fields of economics, computer science, biotechnology, and medical technology. Therefore, merging the universities had been suggested multiple times. The Tampere3 merger process began in 2014 when vuorineuvos Stig Gustavson invited the hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6966317 | 468,765 |
1,455,148 | Requirements traceability in particular, is defined as "the ability to describe and follow the life of a requirement in both a forwards and backwards direction (i.e., from its origins, through its development and specification, to its subsequent deployment and use, and through periods of ongoing refinement and iteratio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11189218 | 1,454,328 |
363,212 | Squamates are a monophyletic sister group to the rhynchocephalians, members of the order Rhynchocephalia. The only surviving member of the Rhynchocephalia is the tuatara. Squamata and Rhynchocephalia form the subclass Lepidosauria, which is the sister group to the Archosauria, the clade that contains crocodiles and bir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=305742 | 363,022 |
1,784,540 | The corporation is bound by a tripartite agreement between the University of Hawaii at Manoa, in the United States, the National Research Council (NRC) in Canada and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) in France. CFHT also has partnerships with the National Astronomical Observatory of China (NAOC), ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1245414 | 1,783,536 |
2,134,769 | Topsøe took Magisterkonferens in chemistry in 1866 and doctorate for a chemical-crystallographical work of selenium-sour salts. He worked as assistant at the Natural History Museum 1863–1867 and at the chemistry laboratory of University of Copenhagen 1867–1873. In 1872, he received a gold medal of Royal Danish Academy ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49582595 | 2,133,544 |
941,220 | The far-UV (ultraviolet) CD spectrum of proteins can reveal important characteristics of their secondary structure. CD spectra can be readily used to estimate the fraction of a molecule that is in the alpha-helix conformation, the beta-sheet conformation, the beta-turn conformation, or some other (e.g. random coil) con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=92193 | 940,718 |
1,354,533 | During his three-year stay, Thunberg perfected his Dutch and studied the culture of the Khoikhoi, (known to the Dutch as "Hottentotten"), the native people of western South Africa. The Khoikhoi were the first non-European culture he encountered. Their customs and traditions elicited both his disgust and admiration. For... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=455823 | 1,353,785 |
2,221,402 | The first move to begin an historical center within the specialty of family medicine came in 1987, when Claudene Clinton, then Director of the Division of Research and Information Services for the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), suggested the need for the establishment of a repository within the AAFP to h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20096287 | 2,220,140 |
79,976 | A 2012 review found that a number of adverse events were reported after acupuncture in the UK's National Health Service (NHS), 95% of which were not severe, though miscategorization and under-reporting may alter the total figures. From January 2009 to December 2011, 468 safety incidents were recognized within the NHS o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1537 | 79,943 |
2,053,797 | In 2007, AFIS started a petition against the moratorium of genetically modified maize in France. It published numerous articles on GMOs. It also lobbied in the Senate during the discussion of the law on GMOs in 2008. In March 2008, this position of the association led a member of AFIS' Scientific Council, Marcel-Franci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46292731 | 2,052,614 |
830,807 | Spastic hypertonia involves uncontrollable muscle spasms, stiffening or straightening out of muscles, shock-like contractions of all or part of a group of muscles, and abnormal muscle tone. It is seen in disorders such as cerebral palsy, stroke, and spinal cord injury. Rigidity is a severe state of hypertonia where mus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3277044 | 830,359 |
263,114 | From 1947 to 1996 for ranges (including separate cooktops and ovens) and 1953 to 1996 for clothes dryers, US National Electrical Code allowed the supply neutral wire to be used as the equipment enclosure connection to ground if the circuit originated in the main service panel. This was permitted for plug-in equipment a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2251965 | 262,975 |
1,829,465 | Multifocal plane microscopy (MUM) or multiplane microscopy or multifocus microscopy is a form of light microscopy that allows the tracking of the 3D dynamics in live cells at high temporal and spatial resolution by simultaneously imaging different focal planes within the specimen. In this methodology, the light collect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36454601 | 1,828,424 |
1,025,486 | The development of standard, genetically uniform organisms that could produce repeatable experimental results was essential for the development of molecular genetics. After early work with "Drosophila" and maize, the adoption of simpler model systems like the bread mold "Neurospora crassa" made it possible to connect g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322460 | 1,024,953 |
1,473,475 | Four women (professor Kathleen Treseder, another professor, an assistant dean, and one graduate student), alleged that Ayala had sexually harassed them, prompting an investigation led by Erik Pelowitz at UC Irvine's Office of Equal Opportunity and Diversity. The university investigators concluded that Ayala violated th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2282082 | 1,472,644 |
1,320,269 | Kane came in contact with members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during a Philadelphia conference in May 1846. Kane offered them his advice and help in their conflicts with the US government and in their efforts to emigrate to western territories. Jesse C. Little, presiding LDS elder in the East, wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4809391 | 1,319,543 |
557,846 | A main disadvantage of conventional CGH is its inability to detect structural chromosomal aberrations without copy number changes, such as mosaicism, balanced chromosomal translocations, and inversions. CGH can also only detect gains and losses relative to the ploidy level. In addition, chromosomal regions with short r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=983601 | 557,557 |
1,729,206 | Another popular class of examples of quintic three-folds, studied in many contexts, is the Dwork family. One popular study of such a family is from Candelas, De La Ossa, Green, and Parkes, when they discovered mirror symmetry. This is given by the family formula_25where formula_26 is a single parameter not equal to a 5... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23562429 | 1,728,232 |
153,115 | Patients receiving I-131 radioiodine treatment may be warned not to have sexual intercourse for one month (or shorter, depending on dose given), and women told not to become pregnant for six months afterwards. "This is because a theoretical risk to a developing fetus exists, even though the amount of radioactivity reta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1884846 | 153,045 |
981,308 | In the 1800s it was beginning to be recognized that rehabilitation after an injury was important. Orthopedics began to become a separate field from general surgery. A famous British Surgeon, Hugh Owen Thomas, created specialty splints that were cheap and best for injuries that were being rehabilitated. By 1883, mechani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=711783 | 980,796 |
824,586 | For the thermoelectric effect, now, consider the case of uniform voltage (uniform chemical potential) with a temperature gradient. In this case, at the hotter side of the material there is more variation in the energies of the charge carriers, compared to the colder side. This means that high energy levels have a highe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=791863 | 824,143 |
1,968,168 | It has been demonstrated that TBA can inhibit the thrombin-induced platelet aggregation and clot-bound thrombin activity. The IC50 of TBA for the inhibition of platelet aggregation (0.5 U/mL thrombin) is around 70 to 80 nmol/L, which is much lower than that of hirudin (~1.7 umol/L). Also, compared with heparin, TBA is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42635554 | 1,967,038 |
1,825,064 | Joseph Gavin Collier (born 1942) is a British retired clinical pharmacologist and emeritus professor of medicines policy at St George's Hospital and Medical School in London, whose early research included establishing the effect of aspirin on human prostaglandins and looking at the role of nitric oxide and angiotensin ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54423925 | 1,824,026 |
362,946 | Once objects are bound by gravity, they no longer recede from each other. Thus, the Andromeda galaxy, which is bound to the Milky Way galaxy, is actually falling "towards" us and is not expanding away. Within the Local Group, the gravitational interactions have changed the inertial patterns of objects such that there i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5985207 | 362,756 |
764,031 | The first steps towards industrialization began in the 1830s and in the following decades the construction of big industrial enterprises took place. During the 2nd half of the 19th and early 20th century there was an upsurge of industry in Croatia, strengthened by the construction of railways and the electric-power pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5578 | 763,621 |
2,100,226 | Aware of taxonomic gaps in this last effort arising from incompleteness in the then Catalogue of Life, in 2006 Rees commenced a new taxonomic data compilation entitled the "Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera" (IRMNG) which attempted to list all published genera of the world and assign them either a marine,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65680891 | 2,099,017 |
2,056,654 | The paleoethnobotany of the Mapuche focuses on archaeological evidence supporting plant use by past and present Mapuche populations collected from multiple sites in southern Chile and the Patagonia region of Argentina. Paleoethnobotany is the study of fossil and material remains from plants, mostly seeds and residues t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64551196 | 2,055,470 |
1,577,572 | The competition was initiated by Jerzy Żurawlew, who began seeking funds for a piano competition in 1925, influenced by Aleksander Michałowski. Żurawlew recalled later: "I met with utter incomprehension, indifference and even aversion. The opinion among musicians was unanimous: Chopin is so great that he can defend him... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68376136 | 1,576,683 |
968,341 | Many criticisms of the Shannon–Weaver model focus on its simplicity by pointing out that it leaves out vital aspects of communication. In this regard, it has been characterized as "inappropriate for analyzing social processes" and as a "misleading misrepresentation of the nature of human communication". A common object... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4340898 | 967,831 |
812,703 | This campus is located in the Grade II* listed 18th century former stable block, the Devonshire Dome. In 1854, the 6th Duke of Devonshire donated the land, part of his stables and some of the funds for conversion to a hospital and gardens for charity patients seeking treatment at the baths in Buxton. His architect, Hen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=703643 | 812,270 |
1,419,311 | The reaction is most successful when "R" is aliphatic and saturated. The reaction is performed in aprotic solvents with a high boiling point, such as benzene and toluene in an oxygen free atmosphere of nitrogen (as even traces of oxygen interfere with the reaction path and reduce the yield). The use of protic solvents ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1884272 | 1,418,512 |
1,896,179 | Once the C-H bond of methane is activated by bonding to a transition metal complex, the net functionalization of the alkyl metal complex into another hydrocarbon containing a functional group is actually much harder to achieve. In general, alkanes of various lengths have typically been functionalized by a number of mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49072305 | 1,895,095 |
821,669 | In the aftermath of the accident, the investigations focused on the amounts of radioactivity released by the accident. American Nuclear Society explained using the official radioactivity emission figures that "the average radiation dose to people living within ten miles of the plant was eight millirem, and no more than... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23167546 | 821,228 |
1,332,716 | With all these, the advancement of anisotropy was still slow and in the first 30 years (1920-1950) of exploration seismology only a few papers were written on the subject. More work was done by several scientists such as Helbig (1956) who observed while doing seismic work on Devonian schists that velocities along the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3838003 | 1,331,987 |
1,608,184 | The taxonomy of the species is uncertain, with authors recognizing several varieties which are sometimes treated as separate species. One variety, var. "davisii" (sometimes called "Echinocereus davisii"), Davis' green pitaya, is federally listed as an endangered species. This taxon is very small, reaching no more than ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31197425 | 1,607,279 |
1,595,922 | Reflexive monism maintains that, in its evolution from some primal undifferentiated state, the universe differentiates into distinguishable physical entities, at least some of which have the potential for conscious experience, such as human beings. While remaining embedded within and dependent on the surrounding univer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8542991 | 1,595,023 |
590,173 | While a right to repair almost always favors the consumer, from an environmental point of view reuse in the automotive industry can not in all cases be favored over old ones: continuous regulation in Europe and the US has caused average emissions of cars during usage to drop significantly. While the production of a car... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68312817 | 589,871 |
576,926 | By the Late Devonian, forests of large, primitive plants existed: lycophytes, sphenophytes, ferns, and progymnosperms had evolved. Most of these plants have true roots and leaves, and many were quite tall. The tree-like "Archaeopteris", ancestral to the gymnosperms, and the giant cladoxylopsid trees had true wood. Thes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15537603 | 576,630 |
1,342,329 | The idea of having internet in one's car would only be a dream if this concept was brought up during the last century. However, now most updated vehicles contain this feature for the convenience of the users. Though convenient, this poses yet another threat to the user's privacy. Internet of connected vehicles (IoV) ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60504486 | 1,341,595 |
1,587,070 | "Pseudomonas syringae pv. Aesculi" is a bacterium that causes bleeding canker of horse chestnut. The pathogen overwinters in the soil and can survive in the soil for about a year. It is spread by water, rain, and tools that were used on the infected tree. It causes lesions on the bark of the tree that can be near the b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25742830 | 1,586,176 |
1,308,434 | "A. africanum" measured around in body length and weighed up to , making it larger than most living bears; however, mass estimates vary, with further studies presenting a lower mass estimate of . Along with other large bears such as the cave bear, short-faced bears "Arctodus" and "Arctotherium", and an extinct subspeci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5615609 | 1,307,718 |
2,113,622 | The figure above shows the spin forbidden O b-band at ~ 14500 cm (688 nm) measured in ambient air at atmospheric pressure using a xenon arc lamp compared against a calculated HITRAN spectrum. The cavity was formed by two dielectric high reflectivity mirrors (R>0.996 at 662 nm) separated by 89 cm. The characteristic dou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38328632 | 2,112,407 |
316,161 | Legal metrology "concerns activities which result from statutory requirements and concern measurement, units of measurement, measuring instruments and methods of measurement and which are performed by competent bodies". Such statutory requirements may arise from the need for protection of health, public safety, the env... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65637 | 315,992 |
1,616,176 | The institute is named for two globally influential economists: Gary S. Becker (1930–2014) and his mentor, Milton Friedman (1912-2006), both winners of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. While they pursued different scholarly paths, Becker and Friedman shared a fundamental belief that economics, grounded in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32185469 | 1,615,267 |
1,941,617 | A bipartisan bill described as an "agro-terrorism bill" was signed by the President and passed in both houses 2017, the result of concerns raised after the 2015 outbreak of avian influenza that had a devastating effect on poultry in Iowa. The response to that emergency had revealed cracks in the federal government’s ab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34406098 | 1,940,506 |
398,523 | Concentrations of VOCs in indoor air may be 2 to 5 times greater than in outdoor air, sometimes far greater. During certain activities, indoor levels of VOCs may reach 1,000 times that of the outside air. Studies have shown that emissions of individual VOC species are not that high in an indoor environment, but the tot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1014518 | 398,327 |
946,041 | As well as acoustic communications and navigation, sensors have been developed to measure ocean parameters such as temperature, salinity, oxygen levels and other properties including nitrate levels, levels of trace chemicals and environmental DNA. The industry trend has been towards smaller, more accurate and more affo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3552729 | 945,538 |
44,348 | In addition to affecting cytokine production, there is evidence that treatment with SSRIs has effects on the proliferation and viability of immune system cells involved in both innate and adaptive immunity. Evidence shows that SSRIs can inhibit proliferation in T-cells, which are important cells for adaptive immunity a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26383679 | 44,331 |
1,056,545 | Two patients with colon cancer, which had spread to the liver, have been treated by Zonta and his co-workers at the University of Pavia in Italy. The first was treated in 2001 and the second in mid-2003. The patients received an i.v. infusion of BPA, followed by removal of the liver (hepatectomy), which was irradiated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32637211 | 1,055,997 |
859,975 | On August 12, 2020, at NYU Langone Health in New York, New York, Eduardo D. Rodriguez led a team of over 140 personnel in successfully transplanting the face and bilateral hands of a brain dead donor onto 22-year-old Joe DiMeo, who sustained disfiguring burns after a car accident in 2018. The procedure lasted approxima... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1000053 | 859,517 |
980,947 | Kriging predicts the value of a function at a given point by computing a weighted average of the known values of the function in the neighborhood of the point. The method is closely related to regression analysis. Both theories derive a best linear unbiased estimator based on assumptions on covariances, make use of Gau... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=477026 | 980,435 |
1,618,296 | In early 1949 McKenzie started writing to Albert Einstein. Her first letter to him wished him a speedy recovery from recent illness. Two of her letters are held in the Einstein archives in Jerusalem. It is clear from the second letter that he wrote back to her at least once. Some accounts claim that McKenzie correspond... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31220954 | 1,617,383 |
1,992,653 | The use of stem cells for treatment has become a growing interest in the scientific community. Distinguishing between an ESC and its intermediate progenitor is nearly impossible, so research is now being done broadly on EPCs. One study showed that brief exposure to sevoflurane promoted growth and proliferation of EPCs.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4718706 | 1,991,510 |
1,405,580 | Oceanic volcanism is another topic that commonly incorporates the use of compatibility. Since the 1960s, the structure of Earth's mantle started being studied by geochemists. The oceanic crust, which is rich in basalts from volcanic activity, show distinct components that provides information about the evolution of the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5571005 | 1,404,790 |
1,966,373 | Asquith announced the committee's appointment in a statement to the House of Commons on 5 May 1909, in which he stated:"With a view to securing that the highest scientific talent shall he brought to hear on the problems which will have to be solved in the course of the work of the two departments, the National Physical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24366988 | 1,965,244 |
701,161 | Peugeot switched to Formula One for , using a similar 3.5L V10 engine as found in the 905. This was easily developed to be used by McLaren in 1994. However, poor reliability led to the relationship ending at the end of 1994 after 8 podiums, zero victories and 17 DNF's and thus McLaren elected to switch to works Ilmor-b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18795212 | 700,796 |
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