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873,500 | Non-coding DNA regions, especially TFBSs, are rather more conserved and not necessarily evolutionarily related, and may have converged from non-common ancestors. Thus, the assumptions used to align protein sequences and DNA coding regions are inherently different from those that hold for TFBS sequences. Although it is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4066308 | 873,039 |
565,724 | Fisher was selected as an astronaut candidate with NASA Astronaut Group 8, the first group of NASA astronauts to include women, in January 1978. She became the Astronaut Office representative for the development and testing of the Remote Manipulator System (RMS) and the testing of payload bay door contingency spacewalk... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1397856 | 565,434 |
1,473,545 | Thus "k"-space information is somewhat redundant then, and an image can be reconstructed using only one half of the "k"-space, either in the PE (Phase Encode) direction saving scan time (such a technique is known as "half Fourier" or "half scan") or in the FE (Frequency Encode) direction, allowing for lower sampling fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11384913 | 1,472,714 |
1,775,778 | Bruck syndrome is characterized as the combination of arthrogryposis multiplex congenita and osteogenesis imperfecta. Both diseases are uncommon, but concurrence is extremely rare which makes Bruck syndrome very difficult to research. Bruck syndrome is thought to be an atypical variant of osteogenesis imperfecta most r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42309316 | 1,774,781 |
1,779,119 | After hearing of the success, Watt called the team and asked if they would be available for testing in September, when a combined fleet of Royal Navy ships and RAF Coastal Command aircraft would be carrying out military exercises in the Channel. On the afternoon of 3 September the aircraft successfully detected the bat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43239543 | 1,778,117 |
1,478,838 | Packaging – One of the first widespread uses for VCIs was VCI paper which was used to wrap parts for transportation and/or storage. The technology then evolved with the development of VCI film, where the inhibitor was incorporated into Polyethylene film. (8). This offered the advantage that parts could be stored in th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38529942 | 1,478,005 |
1,504,476 | In June 2007 a "light licensing" scheme was introduced in 3650–3700 MHz band. Licensees pay a small fee for a nationwide, non-exclusive license. They then pay an additional nominal fee for each high powered base station that they deploy. Neither the client devices (which may be fixed or mobile), nor their operators req... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4321187 | 1,503,630 |
799,739 | Finally there is often a need to correct for the apparent movement of the stars. On the timescale of human civilisation the stars have largely maintained the same position relative to each other. Each night they appear to rotate around the celestial poles due to the Earth's rotation about its axis. However, the Earth s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2864 | 799,313 |
188,897 | Conceptually, the Eltonian niche introduces the idea of a species' "response" "to" and "effect on" the environment. Unlike other niche concepts, it emphasizes that a species not only grows in and responds to an environment based on available resources, predators, and climatic conditions, but also changes the availabili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67244 | 188,800 |
1,946,135 | David John McComas (born May 22, 1958) is an American space plasma physicist, Vice President for Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, and Professor of Astrophysical Sciences and leads the Space Physics at Princeton Group at Princeton University. He had been Assistant Vice President for Space Science and Engineering at ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43835413 | 1,945,023 |
103,092 | "Polygon" described "Fallout" as "one of the most influential games of its time." After leaving Interplay in 1998, Cain, Boyarsky, and Anderson formed Troika Games and created "" (2001). Cain considered "Fallout" a "stepping stone" to the creation of "Arcanum". Years later, working for Obsidian Entertainment, Cain and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4508917 | 103,047 |
1,726,937 | In the years 1970 attempts were made to simulate car crash events with non-linear spring-mass systems after calibration, which require as input the results of physical destructive laboratory tests, needed to determine the mechanical crushing behavior of each spring component of the modeled system. "First principle" sim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4148868 | 1,725,966 |
1,537,902 | Despite its financially troubled beginning, St. John not only survived, but grew to become the largest hospital in Tulsa. St. John Medical Center, located in an 11-story midtown center, employs nearly 700 doctors. It continues to operate until the present. A major expansion in 1957 included two more wings, a parking ga... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38573779 | 1,537,030 |
100,099 | For rheumatoid arthritis, one systematic review found consistent but modest, evidence for the effect of marine n−3 PUFAs on symptoms such as "joint swelling and pain, duration of morning stiffness, global assessments of pain and disease activity" as well as the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. The American... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22594 | 100,054 |
1,789,374 | Existing internal familial disputes within rulers of the Aztec Triple Alliance were exploited by the Spanish conquistadors upon their arrival in 1519. Rulers such as Ixtlilxóchitl II of Texcoco allied with the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés, but by the early 1520s had come to realize "that his alliance with the Cas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44427987 | 1,788,368 |
149,380 | Along with analytical calculations, there have been many first principle studies to find the characteristics of the perovskite material numerically. These include but are not limited to bandgap, effective mass, and defect levels for different perovskite materials. Also there have some efforts to cast light on the devic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43845714 | 149,319 |
46,865 | Physiotherapy promotes physical activity. In RA, physical activity like exercise in the appropriate dosage (frequency, intensity, time, type, volume, progression) and physical activity promotion is effective in improving cardiovascular fitness, muscle strength, and maintaining a long term active lifestyle. In the short... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25875 | 46,847 |
71,196 | The United States tested sulfur mustards and other chemical agents including nitrogen mustards and lewisite on up to 60,000 servicemen during and after WWII. The experiments were classified secret and as with Agent Orange, claims for medical care and compensation were routinely denied, even after the WWII-era tests wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46126 | 71,169 |
1,535,676 | After her postdoctoral studies in California, Anikeeva returned to Cambridge, Massachusetts as an AMAX Career Development Assistant Professor at MIT in 2011. The Anikeeva laboratory, which is also referred to as Bioelectronics@MIT, engineers tools to study and control the nervous system. Her laboratory has two main res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65809631 | 1,534,808 |
57,813 | Others point out that deep learning should be looked at as a step towards realizing strong AI, not as an all-encompassing solution. Despite the power of deep learning methods, they still lack much of the functionality needed for realizing this goal entirely. Research psychologist Gary Marcus noted:"Realistically, deep ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32472154 | 57,789 |
789,208 | Evaluation measures for an information retrieval (IR) system assess how well an index, search engine or database returns results from a collection of resources that satisfy a user's query. They are therefore fundamental to the success of information systems and digital platforms. The success of an IR system may be judg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50716473 | 788,784 |
721,022 | Jesse Beams from the University of Virginia filed some of the earliest active magnetic bearing patents during World War II. The patents dealt with ultracentrifuges intended for the enrichment of isotopes of elements needed for the Manhattan Project. However, magnetic bearings did not mature until advances in solid-stat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=598867 | 720,642 |
1,889,630 | West studied pharmacy, probably via an apprenticeship; his training involved plant identification and the use of the microscope. He was registered as a pharmacist on 16 November 1870. In 1872, he moved from Leeds to Bradford and established his pharmacy business at 15 Horton Lane. The "Bradford Weekly Telegraph" said t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25778405 | 1,888,547 |
1,739,314 | Over the years, the hypercycle theory has experienced many reformulations and methodological approaches. Among them, the most notable are applications of partial differential equations, cellular automata, and stochastic formulations of Eigen's problem. Despite many advantages that the concept of hypercycles presents, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29491519 | 1,738,337 |
175,363 | The body is remarkably good at hiding the symptoms and as a result people with RCC often have advanced disease by the time it is discovered. The initial symptoms of RCC often include blood in the urine (occurring in 40% of affected persons at the time they first seek medical attention), flank pain (40%), a mass in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=414178 | 175,271 |
1,192,002 | The limits of Colonia Raurica can no longer be determined with absolute accuracy. However, the approximate boundaries can be established by examining the extent of Augst in the Early Middle Ages. This would seem to indicate the colony extended from Basel toward the mouth of the Aare, then up the Aare to the mouth of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1211610 | 1,191,367 |
1,435,024 | A 2014 review and analysis conducted by the La Universidad del Zulia located in Maracaibo, Venezuela and funded by the Venezuelan government's Technological, Humanistic, and Scientific Development Council concluded that the preponderance of the available evidence indicates that glucosamine, specifically the sulfate for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42814669 | 1,434,218 |
1,348,970 | "Paramylodon" is abundant in numbers primarily because of the finds from Rancho La Brea in California. The material recovered there from several dozen individuals served as the basis of numerous investigations, on which the following descriptive information is largely based on. This genus was a medium-sized representat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16886646 | 1,348,227 |
1,366,671 | "Metastaseis" was inspired by the combination of an Einsteinian view of time and Xenakis' memory of the sounds of warfare, and structured on mathematical ideas by Le Corbusier. Music usually consists of a set of sounds ordered in time; music played backwards is hardly recognizable. Messiaen's similar observations led t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2865499 | 1,365,915 |
512,698 | The term hydrail is believed to date back to 22 August 2003, from an invited presentation at the US Department of Transportation's Volpe Transportations Systems Center in Cambridge, MA. There, Stan Thompson, a former futurist and strategic planner at US telecoms company AT&T gave a presentation entitled the Mooresville... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18511733 | 512,432 |
292,449 | Peirce held that, in practical affairs, slow and stumbling ratiocination is often dangerously inferior to instinct and traditional sentiment, and that the scientific method is best suited to theoretical research, which in turn should not be trammeled by the other methods and practical ends; reason's "first rule" is tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6117 | 292,291 |
590,644 | It was divided into two distinct universities — of jurisprudence (teaching civil and canon law courses) and of arts (teaching medicine, philosophy and liberal arts courses). A rector was elected every year, normally a student who was over twenty years old. The institution offered bachelor, licentiate and doctoral degre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=666346 | 590,342 |
1,030,840 | The 1962 Tri-Service aircraft designation system is still in use today, though, since 1974, it has been presented and maintained alongside the 1963 Tri-Service rocket and guided missile designation system. DoD Directive 4120.15, first issued in 1971 and most recently updated in 2020 (4120.15E incorporating Change 02 "D... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75079 | 1,030,305 |
1,047,243 | In December 1837, the Hanoverian government dismissed Weber, one of the Göttingen Seven, from his post at the university for political reasons. Weber then travelled for a time, visiting England, among other countries, and became professor of physics in Leipzig from 1843 to 1849, when he was reinstated at Göttingen. One... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191803 | 1,046,698 |
2,151,581 | He assumed his first office-bearing position as Pro Vice Chancellor (Research) at the University of Western Australia in 1994 and held the position until 2002. That year, Barber was appointed Executive Director, Science Planning at the CSIRO. In 2006, he was appointed Group Executive, Information, Manufacturing and Min... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50219785 | 2,150,350 |
1,654,372 | In October 1866 Mond married his cousin Frida Löwenthal (1847–1923) in her native town of Cologne. They soon moved to England and had two sons, Robert and Alfred. In 1880 he took British nationality. While he was establishing his business the family lived at Winnington and in 1884 they moved to London. From the early 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=850924 | 1,653,440 |
1,420,493 | Boysen and Estcourt tackled the upper part of the Ice Ridge above Camp IV which was very narrow with cornices to the left but solid rock on the right. At one point Boysen's progress was blocked except for a tunnel which he could clamber through, without his rucksack, as if potholing. The tunnel led not further up the r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60134235 | 1,419,693 |
494,767 | The most common synthesis used to produce a high molecular weight form of the polymer is ring-opening polymerization of "glycolide", the cyclic diester of glycolic acid. Glycolide can be prepared by heating under reduced pressure low MW PGA, collecting the diester by means of distillation. Ring-opening polymerization o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1405072 | 494,511 |
371,133 | Free radicals, molecules with unpaired electrons, play a large role in most reactions of alkanes, such as cracking and reformation where long-chain alkanes are converted into shorter-chain alkanes and straight-chain alkanes into branched-chain isomers. Moreover, redox reactions of alkanes involving free radical interme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=639 | 370,939 |
290,454 | "Deinosuchus" fossils have been described from 10 U.S. states, including Texas, Montana, and many along the East Coast. Fossils have also been found in northern Mexico. It lived on both sides of the Western Interior Seaway, and was an opportunistic apex predator in the coastal regions of eastern North America. "Deinosu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1319795 | 290,296 |
65,797 | A brain is an organ that serves as the center of the nervous system in all vertebrate and most invertebrate animals. It is located in the head, usually close to the sensory organs for senses such as vision. It is the most complex organ in a vertebrate's body. In a human, the cerebral cortex contains approximately 14–16... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3717 | 65,772 |
1,130,503 | In the theoretical scheme where the usage of resonators is essential, the SASER radiation passes through the resonator walls, which are perpendicular to the direction of propagation of the pump wave. According to an example of an electrically pumped SASER, the active medium is confined between two planes, which are def... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7206727 | 1,129,925 |
934,674 | Although groups are self-defining in how they express the differences between self and other, colonization, domination, and violence within developing societies cannot be ignored. In a society, often dominant groups brutally oppress minority ethnicities from their classification systems. Music can be used as a tool to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80077 | 934,180 |
33,122 | The art of the Scythians proper originated between 650 and 600 BC for the needs of the aristocracy of the Royal Scythians at the time when they ruled over large swathes of West Asia, with the objects of the Ziwiye hoard being the first example of this art. Later examples of this West Asian-influenced art from the 6th c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55092 | 33,110 |
55,081 | Glial cells (named from the Greek for "glue") are non-neuronal cells that provide support and nutrition, maintain homeostasis, form myelin, and participate in signal transmission in the nervous system. In the human brain, it is estimated that the total number of glia roughly equals the number of neurons, although the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21944 | 55,058 |
209,663 | Peking Man also features a sagittal keel running across the midline, highest when it intersects the coronal suture halfway across, and recedes around the obelion (near the base of the parietal bones at the level of the parietal foramina). All skulls feature an equally developed keel (proportionally), including subadult... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=253340 | 209,556 |
591,691 | Vaccinia virus (VACV) is arguably the most successful live biotherapeutic agent because of its critical role in the eradication of smallpox, one of the most deadly diseases in human history. Long before the smallpox eradication campaign was launched, VACV was exploited as a therapeutic agent for the treatment of cancer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1723667 | 591,389 |
1,590,609 | Initially in the US, and since early 2010, it has been routinely possible to replace over 50% of petrochemical-based polyols with NOPs for use in slab foams sold into the mass market, furniture and bedding industries. The commercialised technology also eliminates or greatly reduces the odor problem, mentioned above, no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13513277 | 1,589,715 |
62,818 | During the early 1960s there was some debate regarding the future of main tank weaponry, largely focusing on conventional kinetic energy rounds versus missiles. In the early 1960s it was generally accepted that the maximum effective range of the M68 gun was between 1800 and 2000 meters. The XM-13 missile system had pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=470028 | 62,793 |
965,214 | Division between the largely Western European FISU and Eastern European UIE eventually began to dissipate among broadened participation at the 1957 World University Games. This event was not directly organised by either group, instead being organised by Jean Petitjean in France (which remained neutral to the split), bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1377362 | 964,705 |
1,372,697 | The Mello family had a very strong tradition of discussions around the dinner table and this experience was very important to young Mello. He learned to argue, to listen, and to admit it when he was wrong about something. At a time when young Mello was not performing so well in school, these daily discussions helped to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7252285 | 1,371,940 |
1,485,305 | The Hebrew Bible was presumably originally written in a more defective orthography than found in any of the texts known today. Of the extant textual witnesses of the Hebrew Bible, the Masoretic text is generally the most conservative in its use of "matres lectionis", with the Samaritan Pentateuch and its forebearers be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32065312 | 1,484,468 |
934,569 | Even Merriam's once progressive notion of a balanced approach came into question as time passed. Specifically, the idea that ethnomusicology is or can be "at all" factual. In a 1994 book, "May it Fill Your Soul: Experiencing Bulgarian Music", Timothy Rice uses enlightenment philosophy to substantiate his opinion that f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80077 | 934,077 |
240,138 | The initial concept behind CalArts' interdisciplinary approach came from Richard Wagner's idea of "Gesamtkunstwerk" ("total artwork"), of which Walt Disney himself was fond and explored in a variety of forms, beginning with his own studio, then later in the incorporation of CalArts. He began with the film "Fantasia" (1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=165084 | 240,018 |
2,159,641 | Hydraulic signals are primarily detected as decreases in water potential, usually caused by increases in solute concentration or drought. This decrease in water potential is systemic and transferred throughout the plant vascular network via the xylem. Water follows down the water potential gradient from parenchyma cell... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64187174 | 2,158,409 |
2,113,534 | In 1963, the single photon absorption Assay (SPA) invented by Cameron and Sorenson was the first quantitative analysis method applied to the diagnosis of osteoporosis. This method uses the principle that the absorption of radioactive substances by bone tissue is proportional to the bone mineral content. Iodine or Ameri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60859870 | 2,112,319 |
868,878 | To prevent low bone density it is recommended to have sufficient calcium and vitamin D. Sufficient calcium is defined as 1,000 mg per day, increasing to 1,200 mg for women above 50 and men above 70. Sufficient vitamin D is defined as 600 IUs per day for adults 19 to 70, increasing to 800 IUs per day for those over 71. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5791186 | 868,418 |
1,708,109 | One study found that glucose reabsorption exhibited low splay and another also found that the titration curves for glycine showed a large amount of splay whereas those for lysine showed none and the kinetics of carrier-mediated glucose transport possibly explains the level of splay in renal titration curves. As splay c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25006830 | 1,707,151 |
658,040 | The Doric capital is the simplest of the five Classical orders: it consists of the abacus above an ovolo molding, with an astragal collar set below. It was developed in the lands occupied by the Dorians, one of the two principal divisions of the Greek race. It became the preferred style of the Greek mainland and the we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=355024 | 657,696 |
841,379 | RF signal generators produce continuous wave radio frequency signals of defined, adjustable, amplitude and frequency. Many models offer various types of analog modulation, either as standard equipment or as an optional capability to the base unit. This could include AM, FM, ΦM (phase modulation) and pulse modulation. A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41927 | 840,929 |
1,376,353 | The department runs the Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics (PACM), an interdisciplinary and interdepartmental program for scholars interested in the application of mathematics to other fields. The PACM faculty consists of 15 core members, in addition to an executive committee, 34 graduate students, and 30... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58434209 | 1,375,591 |
855,295 | Preferably, newly diagnosed celiacs seek the help of a dietician to receive support for identifying hidden sources of gluten, planning balanced meals, reading labels, food shopping, dining out, and dining during travel. Knowledge of hidden sources of gluten is important for people with celiac disease as they need to be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12034989 | 854,840 |
2,066,549 | The College of Engineering and Computing, commonly known as CEC, formerly the Graduate School of Computer and Information Sciences, at Nova Southeastern University provides educational programs to prepare students for leadership roles in technology. The college is located on the main campus in Fort Lauderdale, Florida ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9260129 | 2,065,358 |
1,208,596 | In the United States, cancer is the second most common cause of death among children between the ages of 1 and 14 years, exceeded only by unintentional injuriessuch as injuries sustained in a car wreck. More than 16 out of every 100,000 children and teens in the U.S. were diagnosed with cancer, and nearly 3 of every 10... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37938321 | 1,207,950 |
548,726 | Bivalirudin lacks many of the limitations seen with indirect thrombin inhibitors, such as heparin. A short, synthetic peptide, it is a potent and highly specific inhibitor of thrombin that inhibits both circulating and clot-bound thrombin, while also inhibiting thrombin-mediated platelet activation and aggregation. Biv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5787206 | 548,438 |
1,338,362 | With urbanization and industrialization discouraging the participation in rural landscapes and communities, the United Nations has sought ways to restore culture sustainability with these spaces through touristic potential. In 1990, UNESCO emphasized the creation of GeoParks to instill geotourism and restore historical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5285068 | 1,337,629 |
1,080,753 | However, when a significant destruction of the vegetation takes place (of natural origin such as an avalanche or human origin), the disturbance undergone by the ecosystem is too important. In this latter case, erosion is responsible for the destruction of the upper horizons of the ground, and is at the origin of a phen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57885 | 1,080,197 |
1,298,182 | This policy approach prioritizes efficiently teaching all available science to those who can use it, rather than investing in new science. In particular, the goal is not to "lose" any existing knowledge, and to find new practical ways to apply the available knowledge. The classic success stories of this method occurred... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=317282 | 1,297,470 |
166,916 | An intussusception is often suspected based on history and physical exam, including observation of Dance's sign. A digital rectal examination is particularly helpful in children, as part of the intussusceptum may be felt by the finger. A definite diagnosis often requires confirmation by diagnostic imaging modalities. U... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1562567 | 166,829 |
1,646,158 | Jayawardhana was born and raised in Sri Lanka. He was educated at the St. John's College, Nugegoda and Royal College Colombo and pursued his higher education in the United States. He received his BS degree from Yale in 1994 and his PhD from Harvard in 2000. He was a Miller Research Fellow at UC Berkeley for two years a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5613637 | 1,645,229 |
1,612,671 | A constructive search algorithm is a branch-and-bound method, such as Igor Faradjev's algorithm, and an additional solution to memory problems. Branch-and-bound methods are matrix generation algorithms. In contrast to previous methods, these methods build all the connectivity matrices without building intermediate stru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66452088 | 1,611,766 |
941,883 | Herschel made numerous important contributions to photography. He made improvements in photographic processes, particularly in inventing the cyanotype process, which became known as blueprints, and variations, such as the chrysotype. In 1839, he made a photograph on glass, which still exists, and experimented with some... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43592 | 941,381 |
1,754,349 | The self-taught mathematician's essay was one of the greatest advances that were made in the mathematical theory of electricity up to his time. ""His researches"," as Sir William Thomson has observed, ""have led to the elementary proposition which must constitute the legitimate foundation of every perfect mathematical ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30056893 | 1,753,359 |
707,993 | Elhanan Helpman and Paul Krugman asserted that the theory behind comparative advantage does not predict the relationships in the gravity model. Using the gravity model, countries with similar levels of income have been shown to trade more. Helpman and Krugman see this as evidence that these countries are trading in dif... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3458326 | 707,624 |
1,581,242 | He held a Fellowship of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 from 1966 to 1968 and was a Fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge from 1967 to 1980. He has held visiting professorships at the California Institute of Technology (1972), the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (1978), the Center for Astrophysics |... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1520686 | 1,580,352 |
905,552 | At the national championships in St. Louis, Nichols and the Sooners competed against Utah, Florida, Washington, California, and Kentucky in Semifinal II. Oklahoma qualified to the Super Six by winning the meet with a score of 198.050. Nichols became all-around national champion by posting a 39.8125, which tied the cham... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43476073 | 905,076 |
730,935 | On 3 April 2017, the North American National Hockey League (NHL) announced that its players would not be made available for selection for the national teams in the 2018 Winter Olympics, marking the first time since 1998 that NHL players would be prohibited from participating in the Olympic men's ice hockey tournament. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45672809 | 730,550 |
941,020 | In 1878, a royal commission was appointed to review the state of higher education in the country. It recommended the establishment of a federal system of four university colleges, established in Auckland and Wellington, in addition to the integration of the University of Otago and Canterbury College. The colonial gover... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32776 | 940,518 |
17,499 | To the west of the central campus is the downtown business district of Berkeley; to the northwest is the neighborhood of North Berkeley, including the so-called Gourmet Ghetto, a commercial district known for high quality dining due to the presence of such world-renowned restaurants as Chez Panisse. Immediately to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31922 | 17,494 |
1,733,684 | By using 21-22 nt sRNAs derived from a variety of sources, non-canonical RdDM can flexibly induce "de novo" DNA methylation and silencing at many different types of loci. One of the primary sources of 21-22 nt sRNAs is Pol II transcripts. Some of these transcripts, particularly those produced from TEs, viruses, or cert... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65534120 | 1,732,707 |
434,350 | On the morning of December 1, 1984, the test aircraft took off from Edwards Air Force Base, California, made a left-hand departure and climbed to an altitude of . The aircraft was remotely flown by NASA research pilot Fitzhugh Fulton from the NASA Dryden Remotely Controlled Vehicle Facility. All fuel tanks were filled ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1783192 | 434,136 |
1,702,741 | In 1960, the Graduate School was created, and its first director was Herbert Appel (1960-1964), offering the PhD study lines for chemical, electrical and mechanical engineering. In 1963 the university became the first higher-education institution in Latin America to confer a doctorate in engineering, in cooperation wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=309277 | 1,701,785 |
1,821,467 | Newer methodologies taking into account data relational structure, forecast traffic density in time relying on linked data from multiple spatial positions at different moments in time, event future already predicted data. Studies using data relational structures have mainly used STARIMA models (space-time ARIMA), Kalma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48514357 | 1,820,429 |
1,210,129 | Due to the unusual nature of the tooth whorls and the historic lack of cranial material, many hypotheses for how the whorls functioned have been proposed. Early hypotheses suggested that they were indeed teeth or were defensive spines located on the fins. Wayne M. Itano proposed that the whorls were arranged vertically... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10540945 | 1,209,482 |
108,997 | On March 27, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) modified their regulations, requiring automobile manufacturers to produce 58,000 plug-in hybrids during 2012 through 2014. This requirement is an asked-for alternative to an earlier mandate to produce 25,000 pure zero-emissions vehicles, reducing that requirement t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1611987 | 108,952 |
883,682 | In a 2019 study, a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) was constructed with the ability to identify individual chess pieces the same way other CNNs can identify facial features. It was then fed eye-tracking input data from 30 chess players of various skill levels. With this data, the CNN used gaze estimation to determin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1543423 | 883,218 |
116,595 | In high school, future pediatricians are required to take basic science classes such as biology, chemistry, physics, algebra, geometry, and calculus. It is also advisable to learn a foreign language (preferably Spanish in the United States) and be involved in high school organizations and extracurricular activities. Af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23593 | 116,550 |
840,752 | A bloodstain can present itself differently depending on the situation and the material on which it appears, and bloodstains may be hard to examine on porous surfaces such as fabric, and may be distorted. Bloodstain pattern analysts consider the angle of impact to determine its origin and the amount of force behind it;... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2782331 | 840,302 |
1,469,937 | Fossil pollen of "Elaeagnacites" is described from the late Cretaceous (Santonian) of China and pollen similar to that of Elaeagnaceae is widespread in the Paleocene. There are pollen evidence of "Elaeagnus" from the upper Eocene Florissant Formation, Colorado, McGinitie's Wardell Ranch Flora locality in Colorado of mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=194288 | 1,469,112 |
1,048,597 | Gynaephora groenlandica, the Arctic woolly bear moth, is an erebid moth native to the High Arctic in the Canadian archipelago, Greenland and Wrangel Island in Russia. It is known for its slow rate of development, as its full caterpillar life cycle may extend up to 7 years, with moulting occurring each spring. This spec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24791914 | 1,048,052 |
1,095,454 | To compete in this market, Roberts needed more capital. He took MITS public in November 1973 with a stock offering of 500,000 shares at $1 each. The 1973 oil crisis caused a stock market downturn and MITS was only able to sell 250,000 shares. This allowed MITS to pay off the existing debt, but did not allow for any exp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=643230 | 1,094,894 |
847,811 | A common output from automatic inspection systems is pass/fail decisions. These decisions may in turn trigger mechanisms that reject failed items or sound an alarm. Other common outputs include object position and orientation information for robot guidance systems. Additionally, output types include numerical measureme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=172088 | 847,361 |
2,240,816 | In 1857 Evans took part in founding the Geologists' Association of London, of which he was for many years one of the most active members, and in 1867 he was elected a fellow of the Geological Society. He was fortunate in being able to take advantage of the operations in connection with the main drainage works in the so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32762764 | 2,239,545 |
1,785,771 | Thankfully the Capitals had already coaxed veteran centre Jenny Whittle out of retirement and had also picked up 18-year-old New Zealand point guard Angela Marino from the local Adelaide competition. Whittle last played in the WNBL for Bulleen in 1999/00 and had just retired after playing professionally in Spain and Fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4121869 | 1,784,767 |
887,355 | He was unable to communicate beyond a half-mile until 1895, when he discovered that the range of transmission could be increased greatly by replacing one side of the Hertzian dipole antenna in his transmitter and receiver with a connection to Earth and the other side with a long wire antenna suspended high above the gr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1105907 | 886,890 |
229,954 | Following this, Willow Garage achieved one of its longest held goals: giving away 10 PR2 robots to worthy academic institutions. This had long been a goal of the founders, as they felt that the PR2 could kick-start robotics research around the world. They ended up awarding eleven PR2s to different institutions, includi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19768790 | 229,837 |
701,114 | Interestingly, many of the first Australian settler restoration projects were initiated by volunteers, often in the form of community groups. Many of these volunteers appreciated and utilised science resources, such as botanical and ecological knowledge. Local and state government agencies participated, and also indust... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1790574 | 700,749 |
1,661,973 | Powdery mildew can be found in all wheat growing areas of the United States but usually will be most severe in the east and southeast. It is more common in areas with a humid or semi-arid environment where wheat is grown. Powdery mildew has become a more important disease in some areas because of increased application ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5347314 | 1,661,038 |
1,811,612 | He was a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, a 2007 Fellow of the American Physical Society, a 2012 Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and 2015 Fellow of the IEEE. He is listed as one of the top 20 authors of the decade 2000–2009 in Quantum Computing by Thomson Reuters' Sciencewatch. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18860499 | 1,810,579 |
1,298,240 | AMPK and OGT are known to modify each other, i.e., AMPK phosphorylates OGT and OGT "O"-GlcNAcylates AMPK. AMPK activation by AICA ribonucleotide is associated with nuclear localization of OGT in differentiated C2C12 mouse skeletal muscle myotubes, resulting in increased nuclear "O"-GlcNAc. This effect was not observed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44457563 | 1,297,527 |
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