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1,179,245 | When the ultimate goal of plasma processing is a purified plasma component for injection or transfusion, the plasma component must be highly pure. The first practical large-scale method of blood plasma fractionation was developed by Edwin J. Cohn during World War II. It is known as the Cohn process (or Cohn method). Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20620479 | 1,178,621 |
1,097,226 | The weight throw is an indoor track and field event, predominately in the US. The technique implemented to throw the weight is similar to that of the hammer throw in outdoor competition. In international competition, the men's weight is a 35 lb ball (25 for high school) with a D-ring or triangle handle attached directl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1962706 | 1,096,666 |
1,523,564 | UConn found itself in unusual territory – down by double digits in the first quarter. The Longhorns opened up with an 8–2 run to start the game, and expanded the lead to 10 points with the score 22–12. The Huskies responded, but were still down by three points at the end of the first quarter, the first time they had no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54727394 | 1,522,703 |
1,187,914 | There are many similarities in Big Five trait expression across cultures. For example, differences between men and women in Big Five traits, although small compared to variation within gender, do seem to exist consistently across a number of cultures. In general, women tend to score higher on neuroticism and agreeablen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34997829 | 1,187,283 |
147,185 | The zebrafish and zebrafish larva is a suitable model organism for drug discovery and development. As a vertebrate with 70% genetic homology with humans, it can be predictive of human health and disease, while its small size and fast development facilitates experiments on a larger and quicker scale than with more tradi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5009 | 147,127 |
1,399,134 | Absorption filters dissipate the energy in unwanted frequencies internally as heat. This is in contrast to a conventional filter design where the unwanted frequencies are reflected back from the input port of the filter. Such filters are used where it is undesirable for power to be sent back towards the source. This is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25000433 | 1,398,359 |
1,079,710 | Keys' book "Eat Well and Stay Well" popularized the idea that reducing the amount of saturated fat in the diet would reduce cholesterol levels and the risks of serious diseases due to atheroma. Keys was followed during the rest of the 20th century by an accumulation of work that repeatedly demonstrated associations bet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6176410 | 1,079,155 |
448,257 | To counter the effects of microgravity on the musculoskeletal system, aerobic exercise is recommended. This often takes the form of in-flight cycling. A more effective regimen includes resistive exercises or the use of a penguin suit (contains sewn-in elastic bands to maintain a stretch load on antigravity muscles), ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=516838 | 448,040 |
1,094,750 | "Scenedesmus" is known to have high biomass productivity among green algae, and has been actively researched for its use for bio-diesel production. Its heterotrophic production of biomass and lipid in optimized conditions is reported to have higher efficiency than its autotrophic production. Optimization of biomass pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12103953 | 1,094,190 |
1,965,201 | Since 1966, IUPAB has hosted a Congress every three years: Boston MIT in 1969, Moscow in 1972, Copenhagen in 1975, Kyoto in 1978, Mexico City in 1981, Bristol in 1984, Jerusalem in 1987, Vancouver in 1990, Budapest in 1993, Amsterdam in 1996, New Delhi in 1999, Buenos Aires in 2002, Montpellier in 2005, Long Beach, Cal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69229465 | 1,964,072 |
445,149 | By 9 February, the Japanese had seized the fortifications that overlooked the rest of the harbor. They used the position to bombard the crippled "Dingyuan" with field artillery, further damaging the vessel. With their position in the harbor no longer tenable and most of the vessels damaged—"Zhenyuan" had also been badl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2438589 | 444,934 |
138,570 | Wardenclyffe Tower (1901–1917), also known as the Tesla Tower, was an early experimental wireless transmission station designed and built by Nikola Tesla on Long Island in 1901–1902, located in the village of Shoreham, New York. Tesla intended to transmit messages, telephony and even facsimile images across the Atlanti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196508 | 138,514 |
845,308 | The A-19 was primarily used for indirect fire against enemy personnel, fortifications and key objects in the near rear. It was also equipped with armour-piercing shells for direct fire against armoured targets. Although not an ideal anti-tank gun because of its large size, slow traverse and relatively slow rate of fire... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2890107 | 844,858 |
60,515 | It is common for women who undergo caesarean section to have reduced or absent bowel movements for hours to days. During this time, women may experience abdominal cramps, nausea and vomiting. This usually resolves without treatment. Poorly controlled pain following non-emergent caesarean section occurs in between 13% t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46924 | 60,490 |
406,163 | One of the aspects of Anglo-Saxon paganism that we know most about is their burial customs, which we have discovered from archaeological excavations at various sites, including Sutton Hoo, Spong Hill, Prittlewell, Snape and Walkington Wold, and we today know of the existence of around 1200 Anglo-Saxon pagan cemeteries.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2624098 | 405,963 |
9,009 | While the Space Shuttle program was still suspended after the loss of "Columbia", President George W. Bush announced the Vision for Space Exploration including the retirement of the Space Shuttle after completing the International Space Station. The plan was enacted into law by the NASA Authorization Act of 2005 and di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18426568 | 9,005 |
2,060,429 | In June 1923, Alexander Meiklejohn had been asked to step down as president of Amherst College. He was recruited specifically to revitalize the college a decade earlier with the views on education for which he was known. Meiklejohn announced curriculum reform with a singular focus on "understanding human life as to be ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41013618 | 2,059,242 |
1,247,018 | Since its natural habitat is rocky, mountainous country, it is ideal for a rock garden, for dry, sloping ground, or for edging garden beds, provided the drainage is excellent. It is also ideally suited for troughs and the edges of large pots, perhaps containing a shrub. Although perennial, some gardeners grow is as par... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10265669 | 1,246,343 |
1,144,501 | The Detroit area also contains prominent skycrapers designed in the Modern, Postmodern, and Contemporary Modern architectural styles. With the notable exception of the 1001 Woodward (1965) building, Detroit's skyscrapers show less influence by the Chicago school of architecture and are more eastern in character. Minoru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8692117 | 1,143,900 |
1,053,214 | In 1937, the "Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft" (NG) ("Emergency Association of German Science") was renamed the "Deutsche Gemeinschaft zur Erhaltung und Förderung der Forschung" ("German Foundation for the Preservation and Promotion of Research"), for short known as the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft" (DFG... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=950069 | 1,052,668 |
928,020 | One way of identifying soil contamination is through using already well-established plants as bioindicators of soil health. Using well-studied plants is important because there has already been substantial bodies of work to test them in various conditions, so responses can be verified with certainty. Such plants are al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=450257 | 927,532 |
114,112 | In 2018, NASA initiated the Revolutionary Aerospace Systems Concepts Academic Linkage (RASC-AL) competition for universities to develop concepts and capabilities for the Gateway. The competitors were asked to employ original engineering and analysis in one of four areas; "Gateway Uncrewed Utilization and Operations", "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53648310 | 114,067 |
165,147 | On April 24, 2012, a plan was announced by billionaire entrepreneurs to mine asteroids for their resources. The company was called Planetary Resources and its founders include aerospace entrepreneurs Eric Anderson and Peter Diamandis. Advisers included film director and explorer James Cameron and investors included Goo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1667490 | 165,062 |
1,380,321 | All "Nepenthes" are passive carnivores with no moving parts, unlike their distant cousins the Venus flytrap. "Nepenthes rafflesiana" kills by luring its prey into its pitchers, whose peristomes secrete a sweet-tasting nectar. Once the insect is inside, it quickly finds the walls of the pitcher too slippery to scale and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3788564 | 1,379,559 |
2,118,805 | Coherent or incoherent generated phonon entice the nuclear spins in nuclear acoustic resonance processes, and as a result is compared with the direct spin-lattice relaxation mechanism. Due to this, spins are de-excited from interactions with resonant thermal phonon at low frequencies, which is often denoted to be insig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60785404 | 2,117,587 |
147,465 | Physicians who want to join a specialization program must undergo a new selection examination considered as competitive as that required to join a medical school. The specialization programs are divided into two categories: direct access and prerequisite. The specialties with direct access are those in which the doctor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=465584 | 147,407 |
1,190,172 | Another example, sonic hedgehog signaling pathway, is one of the key regulators of embryonic development and is present in all bilaterians. Different parts of the embryo have different concentrations of hedgehog signaling proteins, which give cells information to make the embryo develop properly and correctly into a he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1872854 | 1,189,540 |
1,944,974 | The water table in North Dakota ranges between 15 and 50 feet deep, or 100 feet in upland areas. Fully wet areas are recognized in drill cores by unoxidized dark material. The lignite and sandstone of the Fort Union Group in the west is the top groundwater unit and a common source of water for farms and ranches. The we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58674947 | 1,943,862 |
455,181 | Pressure hulls have a circular cross section as any other shape would be substantially weaker. The construction of a pressure hull requires a high degree of precision. This is true irrespective of its size. Even a one-inch (25 mm) deviation from cross-sectional roundness results in over 30 percent decrease of hydrostat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4655583 | 454,959 |
653,059 | In May 2018, a symposium on Foote's work, "Science Knows No Gender: In Search of Eunice Foote Who 162 Years Ago Discovered the Principal Cause of Global Warming" was held at the University of California, Santa Barbara. The main presenter at the symposium, the first conference specifically organized to honor Foote, was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49280323 | 652,716 |
497,658 | Recent FCC orders have provided size and elevation guidelines to help more clearly define small cell equipment. They are "small" compared to a mobile macrocell, partly because they have a shorter range and partly because they typically handle fewer concurrent calls or sessions. As wireless carriers seek to 'densify' ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33593212 | 497,401 |
876,916 | The Super Lightweight Tank (SLWT) was first flown in 1998 on STS-91 and was used for all subsequent missions with two exceptions (STS-99 and STS-107). The SLWT had basically the same design as the LWT except that it used an aluminium-lithium alloy (Al 2195) for a large part of the tank structure. This alloy provided a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=679937 | 876,454 |
1,042,177 | The first big city to aggressively promote the use of Norplant was Baltimore. Baltimore targeted teenagers because the birthrate was three times higher than other states. In Baltimore, about ten percent of girls between ages 15 and 17 gave birth during 1990. Young mothers would often drop out of school and struggle to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=770854 | 1,041,634 |
1,991,721 | On April 26, the Ohio Department of Health reported that a nine-year-old boy attending Elyria City Schools in Elyria, Lorain County, had been diagnosed with a mild case of the new strain of swine influenza and that his immediate family was undergoing testing. After the confirmed case in Ohio and eight in New York occur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23392449 | 1,990,578 |
404,502 | Alexander Grothendieck's work during what is described as the "Golden Age" period at the IHÉS established several unifying themes in algebraic geometry, number theory, topology, category theory, and complex analysis. His first (pre-IHÉS) discovery in algebraic geometry was the Grothendieck–Hirzebruch–Riemann–Roch theor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2042 | 404,302 |
1,862,120 | Institute of Statistical Research and Training, popularly known as ISRT, was established in 1964 by a statute of the University of Dhaka. The institute offers 4 years Bachelor of Science (BS) (Honors) and 1-year MS degree in applied statistics. ISRT also offers PhD and M Phil degrees. ISRT organizes training programs i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23292483 | 1,861,051 |
1,158,227 | In machine learning, the kernel embedding of distributions (also called the kernel mean or mean map) comprises a class of nonparametric methods in which a probability distribution is represented as an element of a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS). A generalization of the individual data-point feature mapping don... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41370976 | 1,157,613 |
1,094,795 | In January 1982, the ESA issued its authorisation for the development and construction of the Ariane 4; the development programme had the stated objective of increasing the usable payload by 90%. The Ariane 4 would be a considerably larger and more flexible launcher that the earlier members of its family, being intende... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=80781 | 1,094,235 |
863,822 | Lyell entered Exeter College, Oxford, in 1816, and attended William Buckland's geological lectures. He graduated with a BA Hons. second class degree in classics, in December 1819, and gained his M.A. 1821. After graduation he took up law as a profession, entering Lincoln's Inn in 1820. He completed a circuit through ru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7472 | 863,362 |
352,640 | Some results have been established on the theoretical performance of halting problem heuristics, in particular the fraction of programs of a given size that may be correctly classified by a recursive algorithm. These results do not give precise numbers because the fractions are uncomputable and also highly dependent on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21391870 | 352,457 |
1,491,699 | RMCProfile is a significantly developed version of the original RMC code written by McGreevy and Pusztai. It is written in Fortran 95 with some Fortran 2003 features. It has maintained the ability to model liquids and amorphous materials using the pair distribution function, total scattering and EXAFS data, but also in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7747652 | 1,490,860 |
236,832 | The treatment of cervical cancer varies worldwide, largely due to access to surgeons skilled in radical pelvic surgery, and the emergence of fertility-sparing therapy in developed nations. Less advanced stages of cervical cancer typically have treatment options that allow fertility to be maintained, if the patient desi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53338 | 236,713 |
1,150,043 | Following his Ph.D., Rothman did postdoctoral research with Harvey Lodish at Massachusetts Institute of Technology working on glycosylation of membrane proteins. He moved to the Department of Biochemistry at Stanford University in 1978. He was at Princeton University, from 1988 to 1991, before coming to New York to fou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1568873 | 1,149,436 |
397,473 | A spherical fullerene of "n" carbon atoms has "n" pi-bonding electrons, free to delocalize. These should try to delocalize over the whole molecule. The quantum mechanics of such an arrangement should be like only one shell of the well-known quantum mechanical structure of a single atom, with a stable filled shell for "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10628 | 397,277 |
1,469,599 | In 1836, when Robert Parker Parrott was an ordnance officer in the US Army, he resigned to take a job with the West Point Foundry in Cold Spring, New York. A few years before the American Civil War, gun manufacturers wrestled with problem of rifling cannons. Bronze was too soft of a metal for rifling, while cast iron w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61851706 | 1,468,775 |
375,587 | The fuselage comprises three sections — the nose, centre, and tail — which are manufactured separately in their own jigs and joined late on in the production process. It has been designed to be pressurised at a maximum differential of 9.3 lb/sq in. Various cutouts are present across the fuselage to accommodate various ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=937178 | 375,392 |
1,427,008 | Balaram's main area of research has been the investigation of the structure, conformation, and biological activity of designed and natural peptides. To do this, he has extensively used techniques such as Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy, Infrared spectroscopy, and Circular Dichroism, along with X-ray crystallogr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3595543 | 1,426,205 |
166,557 | UEA alumni in the sciences include the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureate and former President of the Royal Society Sir Paul Nurse (PhD, 1973); the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine winning co-discoverer of Hepatitis C and of the Hepatitis D genome Sir Michael Houghton (Biological Sciences, 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=197027 | 166,471 |
10,108 | A 1945 "Life" article estimated that before the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings "probably no more than a few dozen men in the entire country knew the full meaning of the Manhattan Project, and perhaps only a thousand others even were aware that work on atoms was involved." The magazine wrote that the more than 100,000 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19603 | 10,104 |
1,458,498 | Outside of the ANSI Common Lisp standard, there is a widely implemented extension to CLOS called the Metaobject Protocol (MOP). The MOP defines a standard interface to the underpinnings of the CLOS implementation, treating classes, slot-descriptions, generic-functions and methods themselves as instances of metaclasses,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191414 | 1,457,678 |
1,260,663 | Most entries (78) are concerned with a single, named individual, while the remaining minority of entries (12) have more complex context. Of these latter, eight (10, 19, 39, 46, 53-56) are each concerned with groups of named personalities, who typically have a clear relationship of some kind to justify their association... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46842976 | 1,259,976 |
1,742,913 | Others basing their studies of reproductive ecology on Darwin's evolutionary approach included Friedrich Hildebrand and Severin Axell in Europe, Asa Gray and Charles Robertson in North America. In Italy, Federigo Delpino adopted the theory of descent but like Sprengel had a teleological approach and explained the mecha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21436165 | 1,741,929 |
93,927 | Recent scientific studies have shown the feasibility of partial body shielding as a viable protection strategy against externally penetrating gamma radiation. The concept is based in providing sufficient attenuation to only the most radio-sensitive organs and tissues in efforts to defer the onset of acute radiation syn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36880 | 93,886 |
2,235,451 | Under the direction of coach Ralph Jones, the 1917–18 season for the Illinois Fighting Illini men's basketball team, was unusual because World War I was happening in Europe. Co-captain George Halas, for example, left the team in January 1918 to help out with the war effort. In only the second season of having 10 member... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31612513 | 2,234,181 |
1,535,549 | The evolution and growth of Internet and wireless technologies offer possibilities for new types of products and services, as well as opportunities for hackers and criminal organizations to exploit weaknesses and perpetrate cyber crime. Network optimization and security solutions therefore need to address the exponenti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23944828 | 1,534,681 |
295,247 | Although Maxwell McCombs already had some interest in the field, he was exposed to Cohen's work while serving as a faculty member at UCLA, and it was Cohen's work that heavily influenced him, and later Donald Shaw. The concept of agenda setting was launched by McCombs and Shaw during the 1968 presidential election in C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=473279 | 295,087 |
134,203 | Another application of materials science is the study of ceramics and glasses, typically the most brittle materials with industrial relevance. Many ceramics and glasses exhibit covalent or ionic-covalent bonding with SiO (silica) as a fundamental building block. Ceramics - not to be confused with raw, unfired clay - ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19622 | 134,148 |
1,033,412 | French military operations elsewhere in Indochina had been restricted by order of the French Minister of War Jean-Baptiste Campenon to the confines of the Red River Delta, however on January 3, 1885 Jules Louis Lewal succeeded Campenon as Minister of War. This permitted General Louis Brière de l'Isle to organize the Lạ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8868718 | 1,032,876 |
317,046 | Protection of a 3-dimension zone requires many microphones and speakers, making it more expensive. Noise reduction is more easily achieved with a single listener remaining stationary but if there are multiple listeners or if the single listener turns their head or moves throughout the space then the noise reduction cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=362025 | 316,877 |
363,993 | In 2014, Poland requested US Congressional approval for the purchase of the AGM-158 JASSM to extend the deep penetration strike capabilities of their F-16 Block 52+ fighters. Congress approved the sale in early October, and negotiations concluded in early November 2014. Poland signed a $250 million contract to upgrade ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3377314 | 363,803 |
1,525,141 | Senior guard Alex Thomas nailed a three-point field goal at the buzzer to cap a 12–0 closing run and lift visiting Northern State to a 53–50 victory over Butler in an exhibition game at Hinkle Fieldhouse on Wednesday, Nov. 2. The game was Butler's first test against outside competition. The Wolves battled back from a 5... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29627686 | 1,524,280 |
2,166,009 | Among the best known professors of that period were Johann Michael Sailer in moral philosophy and pastoral theology, Patriz Benedikt Zimmer in dogmatic theology, and Weber in philosophy and mathematics. A last regulation of the prince-bishop, dated 1799, contained rules regarding attendance at church, discipline, and m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16924388 | 2,164,772 |
1,562,201 | In addition to the task force, a crowd-sourced feedback process was essential to the revision. The broader public health field was engaged at multiple stages of the revision process, including initial feedback and for vetting the draft framework, and in a variety of settings, including live crowdsourcing events, in-per... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38509307 | 1,561,314 |
1,991,860 | As mentioned before, there are no external indications of properdin deficiency, and as such, properdin deficiency can only be reliably detected by lab tests. The typical tests for complement deficiencies, such as the measurement of C3 and C4, do not detect low levels of the absence of properdin. These pathways are typi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8103859 | 1,990,717 |
1,567,480 | The Plant DNA C-values Database (https://cvalues.science.kew.org/) is a comprehensive catalogue of C-value (nuclear DNA content, or in diploids, genome size) data for land plants and algae. The database was created by Prof. Michael D. Bennett and Dr. Ilia J. Leitch of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK. The database wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2615986 | 1,566,593 |
866,410 | Netherlandish painting ends in the narrowest sense with the death of Gerard David in 1523. A number of mid- and late-16th-century artists maintained many of the conventions, and they are frequently but not always associated with the school. The style of these painters is often dramatically at odds with that of the firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=799881 | 865,950 |
1,001,606 | From an acoustic point of view, phonetics had a serious problem with the idea that the effective length of vocal tract changed vowels. Indeed, when the length of the vocal tract changes, all the acoustic resonators formed by mouth cavities are scaled, and so are their resonance frequencies. Therefore, it was unclear ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11024 | 1,001,088 |
494,250 | Shiraz University has the second-biggest campus in Iran. The Eram Hill lands mostly owned by Shirazi tycoons Mohammad Namazi and Zabihollah Ghorban dedicated to university and was initially designed by American architect Minoru Yamasaki, who also designed the World Trade Center. Later in 1968 during the further constru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1398287 | 493,995 |
1,928,104 | The introduction of stimuli which were hard to verbalize, and unlikely to be held in long-term memory, revolutionized the study of VSTM in the early 1970s. The basic experimental technique used required observers to indicate whether two matrices, or figures, separated by a short temporal interval, were the same. The fi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=732493 | 1,927,000 |
1,193,270 | The groundwork is currently being paved for the next generation of pharmacological treatments, which will improve quality of life with increasing efficiency. For example, contrary to previous thought, it is now known that the adult brain does to some extent grow new neurons—the study of which, in addition to neurotroph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2917198 | 1,192,634 |
1,597,948 | Genotype-phenotype correlations, and linkage and association analyses in humans can effectively identify modifier genes with statistical support, but do not establish functional or causative effects of modifier genes. While genetic backgrounds cannot be experimentally manipulated in human populations, transgenic expres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50619245 | 1,597,049 |
40,749 | Frequently, pool stages within a wider tournament are conducted on a round-robin basis. Examples with single round-robin scheduling include the FIFA World Cup, UEFA European Football Championship, and UEFA Cup (2004–2009) in football, Super Rugby (rugby union) in the Southern Hemisphere during its past iterations as Su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=939742 | 40,734 |
1,126,384 | The Argus II is specifically designed to treat people with retinitis pigmentosa. The device was approved with data from a single-arm clinical trial that enrolled thirty people with severe retinitis pigmentosa; the longest follow-up on a trial subject was 38.3 months. People in the trial received the implant in only one... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38555995 | 1,125,807 |
1,359,992 | In 1966 the team released the second edition of the "Atlas," double the size of the first. It contained about 1000 sequences, and this time was coined as an information explosion. The National Biomedical Research Foundation (NBRF) was on the cutting edge of utilizing computers for medicine and biology at this time. Day... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=366847 | 1,359,240 |
27,177 | If oxygen were not present, pyruvate would not be metabolized by cellular respiration but undergoes a process of fermentation. The pyruvate is not transported into the mitochondrion but remains in the cytoplasm, where it is converted to waste products that may be removed from the cell. This serves the purpose of oxidiz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9127632 | 27,167 |
184,049 | I am happy to be able to inform you that we have now in the United States a negro, the son of a black man born in Africa, and of a black woman born in the United States, who is a very respectable mathematician. I procured him to be employed under one of our chief directors in laying out the new federal city on the Pato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70578 | 183,952 |
534,436 | In 2019, Gartner placed RapidMiner in the leader quadrant of its Magic Quadrant for Data Science & Machine Learning Platforms for the sixth year in a row. The report noted that RapidMiner provides deep and broad modeling capabilities for automated end-to-end model development. In the 2018 annual software poll, KDnugget... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5100865 | 534,157 |
1,535,409 | In November 1980 the magazine was expanded to an 11 x 8 inch glossy page format with full-length articles and color pictures targeted at a college-educated reader. The new version was largely the creation of its then editor Scott DeGarmo. It was issued bi-monthly with circulation of about 500,000 copies. At first it te... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4241078 | 1,534,541 |
1,554,752 | In Spring, 1965 a major discovery of Devonian fossils occurred in Cuyahoga County. A collaboration between the state Highway Department, Ohio Bureau of Public Roads and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History led by the Smithsonian's David Dunkle uncovered as many as 50,000 fish fossils from a construction site. By the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799200 | 1,553,871 |
1,538,807 | At the Battle of Brandywine on 11 September 1777, Scott's and William Woodford's Virginia brigades were part of Adam Stephen's division. That morning, Sir William Howe marched one wing of his army to reach a position in the rear of the American right flank. George Washington immediately ordered the divisions of Stephen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3679077 | 1,537,934 |
1,807,895 | The Southern California "citrus belt" developed rapidly in the 1870s after experimental navel orange plantings were conducted in Riverside, using cuttings introduced from Bahia, Brazil. Within two decades commercial orange groves stretched eastward from Pasadena to Redlands beneath the foothills of the San Gabriel and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12600727 | 1,806,875 |
1,897,265 | The protease modulatory web represents opportunities to identify novel biomarkers for disease and targets for drug design. Proteolytic processed N-termini have been proposed as potential biomarkers as disease specific proteolysis has been well studied in pathologies such as inflammation and cancer. Contributions to deg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49520826 | 1,896,181 |
1,409,398 | In the setting of ZMPSTE24 deficiency, the final step of lamin processing does not occur, resulting in an accumulation of farnesyl-prelamin A. In Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome, a 50-amino acid deletion in prelamin A (amino acids 607–656) removes the site for the second endoproteolytic cleavage. Consequently, no ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9907064 | 1,408,606 |
511,272 | Hergé first devised the idea of sending Tintin on a mission to the Moon while he was working on "Prisoners of the Sun" (1949). His decision to move into the field of science fiction might have been influenced by his friendly rivalry with his colleague Edgar P. Jacobs, who had recently had success with his own science f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=547990 | 511,006 |
776,783 | Theoretical approaches to the structure of languages have also been developed. These works allow computational linguistics to have a framework within which to work out hypotheses that will further the understanding of the language in a myriad of ways. One of the original theoretical theses on the internalization of gra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5561 | 776,367 |
1,477,010 | Because a considerable amount of time could sometimes elapse between exposing the photographic plates of an astronomical survey and actually spotting a small Solar System object on them (witness the story of Phoebe's discovery), or even between the actual discovery and the delivery of the message (from some far-flung o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=567527 | 1,476,178 |
2,111 | The story frequently cited as Lee and Kirby's finest achievement is the three-part "Galactus Trilogy" that began in "Fantastic Four" #48 (March 1966), chronicling the arrival of Galactus, a cosmic giant who wanted to devour the planet, and his herald, the Silver Surfer. "Fantastic Four" #48 was chosen as #24 in the 100... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18598186 | 2,111 |
1,712,312 | In Europe military art was primarily concerned with time of combat, understanding the best way an occupied position can enhance defensive potential of a small field army largely consisting of relatively low mobility troops, by often using high ground, terrain choke points or field entrenchments. Due to relative lack of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19100297 | 1,711,347 |
379,907 | Peltier elements are commonly used in consumer products. For example, they are used in camping, portable coolers, cooling electronic components, mattress pad sleeping systems and small instruments. They can also be used to extract water from the air in dehumidifiers. A camping/car type electric cooler can typically red... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=310597 | 379,712 |
183,093 | In 1979, Wheeler spoke to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), asking it to expel parapsychology, which had been admitted ten years earlier at the request of Margaret Mead. He called it a pseudoscience, saying he did not oppose earnest research into the questions, but he thought the "air of l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=327127 | 182,997 |
14,894 | There have been concerns surrounding the promotion of 5G, questioning whether the technology is overhyped. There are questions on whether 5G will truly change the customer experience, ability for 5G's mmWave signal to provide significant coverage, overstating what 5G can achieve or misattributing continuous technologic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23475353 | 14,889 |
5,508 | The ancient Egyptians used donkeys and oxen as beasts of burden, and they were responsible for plowing the fields and trampling seed into the soil. The slaughter of a fattened ox was also a central part of an offering ritual. Horses were introduced by the Hyksos in the Second Intermediate Period. Camels, although known... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=874 | 5,505 |
444,397 | While there are said to be universally recognized facial expressions, Yueqin Huang and his colleagues performed research that looked at how a culture may apply different labels to certain expressions of emotions. Huang et al. (2001) in particular compared Chinese versus American perceptions of facial emotion expression... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11507939 | 444,182 |
877,903 | The ideas of the grid (including those from distributed computing, object-oriented programming, and Web services) were brought together by Ian Foster and Steve Tuecke of the University of Chicago, and Carl Kesselman of the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute. The trio, who led the effort ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49373 | 877,441 |
112,046 | Another contrary view has been recently proposed by Arun Bala in his dialogical history of the birth of modern science. Bala proposes that the changes involved in the Scientific Revolution—the mathematical realist turn, the mechanical philosophy, the atomism, the central role assigned to the Sun in Copernican heliocent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29544 | 112,001 |
1,509,026 | The booster would be equipped with an RD-191 rocket engine burning kerosene and liquid oxygen to provide approximately 200 tons of thrust. In addition, it would be equipped with a folding wing stored parallel to the fuselage of the vehicle during the booster stage of the flight. After separation from the Angara launche... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26387082 | 1,508,177 |
76,837 | During its lengthy service life, the BAR underwent continuous development, receiving many improvements and modifications. The first major attempt at improving the M1918 resulted in the M1922 machine rifle, adopted by the United States Cavalry in 1922 as a troop-level light machine gun. The weapon used a new heavy profi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378838 | 76,808 |
1,799,896 | One of the objectives of testing missile and rocket systems is to determine the actual "in-flight" performance of the vehicles themselves. One of the prime requirements for establishing the performance of vehicles in flight is to obtain accurate data which will reveal the position in space and the attitude of the vehic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30734646 | 1,798,887 |
980,204 | On February 4, 2005, on their 50th flight, the two X-45As took off into a patrol pattern and were then alerted to the presence of a target. The X-45As then autonomously determined which vehicle held the optimum position, weapons (notional), and fuel load to properly attack the target. After making that decision, one of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=563679 | 979,692 |
1,831,369 | The men's individual all-around competition was one of eight events for male competitors in artistic gymnastics at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The qualification and final rounds took place on July 29 and 31 at the Palau dels Esports de Barcelona. There were 93 competitors from 25 nations. Each nation could e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24062892 | 1,830,322 |
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