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1,640,758 | The method consists of mowing and chopping the plants during flowering to ensure maximum glucosinolate content and speed up decomposition. The ground needs to be irrigated to field capacity, after which the chopped material is incorporated into the top layer and covered with impermeable film to prevent the gas from esc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69730264 | 1,639,831 |
1,279,807 | As is the case for microtechnology and nanotechnology in general, the history of microswimmer applications arguably starts with Richard Feynman’s famous lecture "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom". In the visionary speech, among other topics, Feynman addressed the idea of microscopic surgeons, saying: "...it would b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69133408 | 1,279,112 |
6,075 | The measured abundances all agree at least roughly with those predicted from a single value of the baryon-to-photon ratio. The agreement is excellent for deuterium, close but formally discrepant for He, and off by a factor of two for Li (this anomaly is known as the cosmological lithium problem); in the latter two case... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4116 | 6,072 |
228,687 | In a 2006 judicial review, "R (on the application of Axon) v Secretary of State for Health", the High Court affirmed "Gillick" in allowing for medical confidentiality for teenagers seeking an abortion. The court rejected a claim that not granting parents a "right to know" whether their child had sought an abortion, bir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1910792 | 228,570 |
2,032,561 | The materials for treatment – crushed and roasted ore, or tailings, as the case may be – are put into the hopper of a revolving barrel. This latter is made of iron, lined with wood and lead, and sufficiently strong to bear a pressure of 100 lb. to the square inch, its capacity being about 30 cwt of ore. The charge fall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38088194 | 2,031,391 |
1,687,162 | As increasing evidence of the benefits of physical activity has become apparent, research on the mental benefits of physical activity has been examined. While it was originally believed that physical activity only slightly benefits mood and mental state, overtime positive mental effects from physical activity became mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4786873 | 1,686,216 |
1,126,154 | The ceremonial laying of the foundation stone of the Moscow Industrial School took place on May 23, 1898, and a decree issued by The State Council issued a decree that would imply opening the classes on July 1 of the same year. First, all the classes were held at the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20001197 | 1,125,577 |
60,738 | The music of the Romantic era, from roughly the first decade of the 19th century to the early 20th century, was characterized by increased attention to an extended melodic line, as well as expressive and emotional elements, paralleling romanticism in other art forms. Musical forms began to break from the Classical era ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6668778 | 60,713 |
1,142,782 | Defending champion, Keshorn Walcott started the final with a respectable 83.45 m. The second thrower was Johannes Vetter who topped it with an 85.32 m. The eighth thrower in the round was reigning World Champion Julius Yego, who tossed it , landing on his hands to avoid a face plant on the runway. He moved into the gol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45151333 | 1,142,187 |
40,255 | The definition of a prion-like domain arises from the study of fungal prions. In yeast, prionogenic proteins have a portable prion domain that is both necessary and sufficient for self-templating and protein aggregation. This has been shown by attaching the prion domain to a reporter protein, which then aggregates like... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23048 | 40,240 |
1,550,517 | After a world-record breaking victory in the 400 m individual medley two days earlier, Hungary's Katinka Hosszú touched out the U.S. swimmer Kathleen Baker at the home stretch to capture the sprint backstroke crown, and her second gold medal at these Games. Approaching the 50-metre lap, Baker pulled herself ahead of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45186831 | 1,549,636 |
1,638,452 | This grass usually grows in coastal habitat, especially on dunes. It can be an important part of dune ecology. The grass usually grows on the foredune and on embryo dunes, less often on the backdune. It is one of the first plants to establish in the process of ecological succession in the early stages of the developmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39432791 | 1,637,527 |
44,614 | Geothermal power is cost effective, reliable, sustainable, and environmentally friendly, but has historically been limited to areas near tectonic plate boundaries. Recent technological advances have expanded the range and size of viable resources, especially for applications such as home heating, opening a potential fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25784 | 44,597 |
40,823 | Ahead of the spar, the thick-skinned leading edge of the wing formed a strong and rigid, D-shaped box, which took most of the wing loads. At the time the wing was designed, this D-shaped leading edge was intended to house steam condensers for the evaporative cooling system intended for the PV-XII. Constant problems wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26027181 | 40,808 |
673,575 | The basic underlying problem behind EIFS litigation was that EIFS was marketed as a cost-effective replacement for stucco. Stucco is expensive to install because it must be carefully applied by skilled craftsmen. General contractors switched to EIFS because they were supposed to be easy to install with unskilled or sem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3308982 | 673,223 |
1,871,552 | Data mining uses statistical methods to search for patterns in existing data. This method generally returns many patterns, of which some are spurious and some are significant, but all of the patterns the program finds must be evaluated individually. Currently, some research is focused on incorporating existing data min... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10221795 | 1,870,475 |
873,621 | Silver staining is used when more sensitive method for detection is needed, as classical Coomassie Brilliant Blue staining can usually detect a 50 ng protein band, Silver staining increases the sensitivity typically 10-100 fold more. This is based on the chemistry of photographic development. The proteins are fixed to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=102352 | 873,159 |
905,597 | The methods for scientists and researchers wanting to study genomic diversity and all possible associated phenotypes were very slow, expensive, and inefficient. Prior to this new revolution, researchers would have to do single-gene manipulations and tweak the genome one little section at a time, observe the phenotype, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34930586 | 905,121 |
116,541 | He was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1906, "in recognition of the great merits of his theoretical and experimental investigations on the conduction of electricity by gases." He was knighted in 1908 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1912. In 1914, he gave the Romanes Lecture in Oxford on "The atomic theory". In 1918, he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70085 | 116,496 |
1,440,899 | The presence of well-developed gastralia was one of its most unusual features among theriodonts, as were the hypapophyses of the tail region. In addition, the broad and somewhat shortened foot with unusual intermetatarsal contacts, which restricted the mobility of its individual digits, indicated transformation of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16984249 | 1,440,089 |
1,080,550 | Theoretical work simultaneously also showed that ancient MACHOs are not likely to account for the large amounts of dark matter now thought to be present in the universe. The Big Bang as it is currently understood could not have produced enough baryons and still be consistent with the observed elemental abundances, incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=199940 | 1,079,994 |
1,740,805 | As the short-term regulation of ATP production becomes very weak after the exhaustion of glycogen, the medium-term regulation becomes enabled, but with a progressively weaker authority at higher purine nucleotide energy charge levels, which causes some differences in symptoms compared to McArdle's. In McArdle's, the hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=159670 | 1,739,824 |
1,379,130 | The dissolution of ionic crystals in aqueous environments is fundamentally important to the characterization of a host of naturally occurring and synthetic systems. The high spatial resolution and three-dimensional mobility provided by the UME allows one to probe the dissolution kinetics on specific faces of single ion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33179399 | 1,378,368 |
1,936,789 | In normal functioning, MUC-4 is known to play anti-adhesive roles in the body, such as in lubricating the reproductive lining. It is also found in the respiratory tract - particularly in the trachea and lung - and the digestive tract - in the esophagus and colon - as well as in the visual and auditory systems. In these... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14146099 | 1,935,681 |
1,859,689 | Unlike the majority of academic journals it is produced free of charge for readers and authors using voluntary academic labour, and its website is hosted at the University of Arizona library. There is no journal budget and editorial work is voluntary. The "Journal of Political Ecology" is abstracted and indexed in Scop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35551170 | 1,858,621 |
1,289,741 | Lukin was born in Moscow, Russia. He studied physics and mathematics at MIPT which he graduated in 1993. Following the graduation, he joined Texas A&M University where he wrote a research paper titled "Quantum Coherence and Interference in Optics and Laser Spectroscopy" which he used for his Ph.D. thesis. Between this ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43031170 | 1,289,032 |
1,478,621 | The N class feature a frame and body locally designed, but with imported Electro-Motive Division technology in the prime mover, generator and control unit, along with locally produced components such as the bogie frames by Bradken. The class was the first in the world to use the EMD D43 traction motor, similar to but s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11867198 | 1,477,788 |
1,616,282 | The first and foremost strategy for controlling "T. basicola" at the first sign of disease should be cultural control including- "maintaining a soil pH below 5.6, removing and destroying all diseased plants, using soil-less media, sterilizing equipment, keeping work areas clean, and controlling fungus gnats and shore f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11063377 | 1,615,372 |
1,171,131 | Similarly to in men, bicalutamide has been associated with minimal or no sexual dysfunction in women. A phase III clinical study of 50 mg/day bicalutamide in conjunction with a combined oral contraceptive in women with severe hirsutism due to polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) carefully assessed the side effect of decrea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55839628 | 1,170,512 |
924,770 | During February 2009, India's defence ministry approved HAL's proposal to enter the design phase on an indigenous design that could potentially meet the requirements of the competition, as well to explore partnership arrangements. HAL promptly performed preliminary design studies on a prospective 3-tonne light helicopt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17808298 | 924,284 |
651,705 | The growth takes place in ultra-high vacuum (UHV). Precursors for the target materials are placed into evaporation cells, usually as powder (for example selenium), or as a rod (for example molybdenum). Some elements, such as selenium and tellurium, both of which are chalcogens, can be used in pure solid form as precurs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42732027 | 651,363 |
405,430 | Sample-based effect sizes are distinguished from test statistics used in hypothesis testing, in that they estimate the strength (magnitude) of, for example, an apparent relationship, rather than assigning a significance level reflecting whether the magnitude of the relationship observed could be due to chance. The effe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=437276 | 405,230 |
916,195 | In 1938, Griffith returned to the sporting world to serve as a sport psychologist consultant for the Chicago Cubs. Hired by Philip Wrigley for $1,500, Griffith examined a range of factors such as: ability, personality, leadership, skill learning, and social psychological factors related to performance. Griffith made ri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25688228 | 915,713 |
1,496,409 | The relevance of observations from fission yeast mating-type regions and centromeres to mammals is not clear, as some evidence suggests that heterochromatin maintenance in mammalian cells is independent of the components of the RNAi pathway. It is known, however, that plants and animals have analogous mechanism for sma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9432643 | 1,495,566 |
1,051,574 | It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water—with which it react... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2059470 | 1,051,028 |
201,608 | It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that's the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water—with which it react... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1430901 | 201,505 |
843,623 | Beginning at age 16 in the Preparatory Department, Morgan attended the State College of Kentucky (now the University of Kentucky). He focused on science; he particularly enjoyed natural history, and worked with the U.S. Geological Survey in his summers. He graduated as valedictorian in 1886 with a Bachelor of Science d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31522 | 843,173 |
2,112,854 | The three-finger protein family is thought to have expanded through gene duplication in the snake lineage. 3FTx toxins are considered restricted to the Caenophidia, the taxon containing all venomous snakes; however at least one homolog has been identified in the Burmese python, a closely related subgroup. Traditionally... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53882691 | 2,111,639 |
556,154 | The Parliament building's Perpendicular style reflects the predominance of the later forms of English Gothic in the early Victorian period, but this later gave way to a preference for plain Early English or French Gothic, and above all to a style derived from the architecture of medieval Italy and the Low Countries. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1194886 | 555,865 |
1,108,329 | The inverse of the operator formula_90 i.e., in formula_91 (which requires a specification of the boundary conditions at infinity in a lossless system), has the same symmetry as formula_35 and is essentially a Green's function convolution. So, another perspective on Lorentz reciprocity is that it reflects the fact that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2421650 | 1,107,765 |
618,015 | The German concepts which translate literally "adjustment to lower" and "screw to lower" are known from the works of Hans-Peter Martin and Harald Schumann, the authors of "The Global Trap" (1997). Martin and Schumann see the process to worsened living standards as screw-shaped. Mordecai Ezekiel's "The Cobweb Theorem" (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1476440 | 617,701 |
667,049 | Bulgaria shut down its facilities for environmental reasons in 1992; terrains were recultivated but recently, there has been certain interest in resuming activities. Industrial mining first started in 1938 and was resumed after 1944 by a joint Soviet–Bulgarian mining company, reorganized in 1956 into the Redki Metali (... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35956234 | 666,701 |
1,333,317 | The realization of the adverse effects from environmental pollution were made public from several disasters that occurred globally. In 1965, it was recognized that extensive mercury pollution by the Chisso chemical factory in Minamata, Japan due to improper handling of industrial wastes resulted in significant effects ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36650542 | 1,332,588 |
1,988,106 | The addition compound with 2,2′-bipyridine is much more stable. A melting point of 212 °C with a melting enthalpy of 110 J/g is recorded. The DSC measurement shows at 265 °C a sharp exothermic reaction with an enthalpy of −2400 J/g. Similar results are found for the addition compound with 1,10-phenanthroline. As the he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31525477 | 1,986,964 |
451,508 | One obvious potential market was adult GH deficiency. By the mid-1990s, several GH companies had sponsored or publicized research into the quality of life of adults with severe GH deficiency. Most were people having been treated with GH in childhood for severe deficiency. Although the injections are painless, many of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=622411 | 451,289 |
793,551 | Development of mature Kupffer cells is regulated by numerous growth factors, with macrophage colony-stimulating factor (CSF1) playing a key role. Cytokines involved in type 2 inflammation, such as IL-4, may also stimulate Kupffer cell proliferation. A time frame of 14 to 21 days for complete replenishment of Kupffer ce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1004484 | 793,126 |
229,222 | Angina in the setting of AS occurs due to left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) that is caused by the constant production of increased pressure required to overcome the pressure gradient caused by the AS. While the muscular layer of the left ventricle thickens, the arteries that supply the muscle do not get significantly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=194278 | 229,105 |
1,636,121 | In 1861 Perkins temporarily left OWU when the American Civil War began. He intended to enlist in the Union Army, but was deemed physically unfit for service. (At 6’4” tall and 97 pounds, his students referred to him as “the human skeleton.”) Perkins then returned to his family hog farm and worked to help feed the troop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1261840 | 1,635,196 |
1,864,825 | England played well in their next two series, defeating South Africa 1–0 on the 1964–1965 tour, the last they made before South Africa's isolation. England won at Durban, thanks to centuries from Barrington and Parks, and drew the other four. John Edrich scored 310* at Headingley against New Zealand in 1965, hitting a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10829204 | 1,863,753 |
819,007 | "Golden Sun" contains both random monster encounters, featuring randomly selected enemies, and compulsory boss battles that advance the story. During combat, the camera shifts to a pseudo-3D view, and spins and zooms during the battle depending on the attacks and items used. In each battle, players must defeat the enem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=440119 | 818,567 |
276,527 | Meitner and Frisch had correctly interpreted Hahn's results to mean that the nucleus of uranium had split roughly in half. The first two reactions that the Berlin group had observed were light elements created by the breakup of uranium nuclei; the third, the 23-minute one, was a decay into the real element 93. On retur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18070 | 276,377 |
833,583 | Meitner and Frisch had correctly interpreted Hahn's results to mean that the nucleus of uranium had split roughly in half. The first two reactions that the Berlin group had observed were light elements created by the breakup of uranium nuclei; the third, the 23-minute one, was a decay into the real element 93. On retur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64011351 | 833,134 |
441,211 | A non-negligible formula_66 comes with the price that one samples from formula_83 instead of the true posterior formula_6. With a sufficiently small tolerance, and a sensible distance measure, the resulting distribution formula_83 should often approximate the actual target distribution formula_6 reasonably well. On the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11864519 | 440,996 |
1,258,239 | Trace quantities of PFCs have been detected worldwide, in organisms from polar bears in the Arctic to the global human population. Both PFOS and PFOA have been detected in breast milk and the blood of newborns. A 2013 review showed widely varying amounts of PFOS and PFOA in different soils and groundwater, with no clea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39367145 | 1,257,552 |
1,231,420 | The three characteristic viscosity parameters formula_453 are usually established by optimizing the viscosity formula against measured viscosity data for pure fluids (i.e. single component fluids). Data for these parameters can then be stored in databases together with data for other chemical and physical material prop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56541610 | 1,230,758 |
2,085,580 | Cooperative education began with Dean Herman Schneider in 1906, and it remains a core component of the undergraduate and graduate programs in SAID. Alternating semesters of academics and professional experience provide a unique opportunity to link theory and practice in architecture and design. Operating within a 700-f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37761066 | 2,084,379 |
318,072 | FISA had introduced new fuel economy rules aimed at reducing speeds, ruling that cars powered by turbocharged engines would only have 220 liters of fuel per race, with re-fueling now banned (the tank had to be 220L, but teams were free to try and squeeze more in if they could, which some tried with methods such as free... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1140073 | 317,902 |
374,635 | Chagas disease is managed using antiparasitic drugs to eliminate "T. cruzi" from the body, and symptomatic treatment to address the effects of the infection. As of 2018, benznidazole and nifurtimox were the antiparasitic drugs of choice for treating Chagas disease, though benznidazole is the only drug available in most... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7012 | 374,440 |
1,732,289 | Aside from these projects, he worked on a range of smaller projects including a study of the spatial and social topography of ancient Olynthos, the analysis of legacy data, for the National Roads Authority (Ireland), and the DART Project (Detection of Archaeological Residues using remote sensing Techniques). Work on th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27381902 | 1,731,313 |
630,126 | The first was an Adcock antenna, an arrangement of four masts that allowed the direction of a signal to be detected through phase differences. Using pairs of these antennas positioned at right angles, one could make a simultaneous measurement of the lightning's direction on two axes. Displaying the fleeting signals was... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37206 | 629,788 |
1,201,027 | Interleukin 3 (IL-3) is a protein that in humans is encoded by the "IL3" gene localized on chromosome 5q31.1. Sometimes also called colony-stimulating factor, multi-CSF, mast cell growth factor, MULTI-CSF, MCGF; MGC79398, MGC79399: the protein contains 152 amino acids and its molecular weight is 17 kDa. IL-3 is produce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2045390 | 1,200,386 |
1,068,332 | Dynamic modeling methods are frequently adopted in macroeconomic research to simulate economic fluctuations and test for the effects of policy changes. The DSGE one class of dynamic models relying heavily on computational techniques and solutions. DSGE models utilize micro-founded economic principles to capture charact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1420447 | 1,067,778 |
90,814 | The state of the art in sensory intelligence for robots will have to progress through several orders of magnitude if we want the robots working in our homes to go beyond vacuum-cleaning the floors. If robots are to work effectively in homes and other non-industrial environments, the way they are instructed to perform t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20903754 | 90,774 |
305,961 | Projects continued to examine the flying wing during the postwar era. The work on the Northrop N-1M led to the YB-35 long-range bomber, with pre-production machines flying in 1946. This was superseded the next year by conversion of the type to jet power as the YB-49 of 1947. The design did not offer a great advantage i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191711 | 305,797 |
1,282,509 | A concept rooted in considerations of the actual machinery of human reasoning, bounded rationality is one that may inform significant advances in cognitive bias mitigation. Originally conceived of by Herbert A. Simon in the 1960s and leading to the concept of satisficing as opposed to optimizing, this idea found experi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35099585 | 1,281,813 |
1,247,810 | "Vancleavea" was first discovered in 1962 from the Petrified Forest Member of the Petrified Forest National Park and initially described by Long and Murry in 1995. At that time the only described specimen was the holotype, PEFO 2427. The genus is named after Phillip Van Cleave, who discovered the first known remains of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25282954 | 1,247,134 |
270,112 | Although knowing the true extent of systemic absorption (referred to as absolute bioavailability) is clearly useful, in practice it is not determined as frequently as one may think. The reason for this is that its assessment requires an "intravenous reference"; that is, a route of administration that guarantees all of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=769021 | 269,965 |
1,053,443 | The strategic aspect of voting is already noticed in 1876 by Charles Dodgson, also known as Lewis Carroll, a pioneer in social choice theory. His quote (about a particular voting system) was made famous by Duncan Black:This principle of voting makes an election more of a game of skill than a real test of the wishes of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=288224 | 1,052,897 |
98,339 | Another large construction task was the "Vger" set, referred to by the production staff as "the Coliseum" or "the microwave wok". The set was designed and fabricated in four and a half weeks, and was filmable from all angles; parts of the set were designed to pull away for better camera access at the center. During pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277006 | 98,297 |
215,832 | Rush believed, as did so many physicians of the time, that bleeding and active purging with mercury(I) chloride (calomel) were the preferable medical treatments for insanity, a fact evidenced by his statement that, "It is sometimes difficult to prevail upon patients in this state of madness, or even to compel them, to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=260899 | 215,724 |
1,398,227 | Louis Pasteur's interest in fermentation began when he noticed some remarkable properties of amyl alcohol—a by-product of lactic acid and alcohol fermentation—during his biochemical studies. In particular, Pasteur noted its ability to “rotate the plane of polarized light”, and its “unsymmetric arrangement of atoms." Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59616 | 1,397,454 |
1,138,959 | "The New York Times" said of Nirenberg's discovery that "the science of biology has reached a new frontier," leading to "a revolution far greater in its potential significance than the atomic or hydrogen bomb." Most of the scientific community saw these experiments as highly important and beneficial. However, there wer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=611104 | 1,138,366 |
244,857 | When biologists interested in evolution theory first started examining social behaviour, some apparently unanswerable questions arose, such as how the birth of sterile castes, like in bees, could be explained through an evolving mechanism that emphasizes the reproductive success of as many individuals as possible, or w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9425 | 244,730 |
148,789 | Space-time as a "container" over which physics takes place has no objective physical meaning and instead the gravitational interaction is represented as just one of the fields forming the world. This is known as the relationalist interpretation of space-time. In LQG this aspect of general relativity is taken seriously ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=152664 | 148,728 |
1,402,040 | Lawes had Henry King conduct studies on the application of bone dust to turnip fields between 1836 and 1838. In 1840 he hired Dobson, a chemist. He had experiments conducted with bone ash treated with sulphuric acid and various other mixtures. It is thought that the experiments were at least to some extent influenced b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=165688 | 1,401,253 |
1,187,828 | Increasing environmental concentrations and changing distributions of PBDEs in sediments of the Clyde River Estuary in Scotland, UK have been assessed. Analysis of six sediment cores each of 1 m depth from Glasgow city to Greenock revealed that total concentrations increased toward the river bed surface (0–10 cm). Amou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=801852 | 1,187,197 |
343,745 | As shown by flow cytometry and electron microscopy, the most sensitive sign of activation, when exposed to platelets using ADP, are morphological changes. Mitochondrial hyperpolarization is a key event in initiating changes in morphology. Intraplatelet calcium concentration increases, stimulating the interplay between ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=196121 | 343,564 |
1,686,885 | Promoter regions of certain genes are C-rich. It is found in more than 40% of all human genes, especially in oncogenes, skeletal system development regions and areas of DNA processes, which strengthens the suggestion that i-motifs function as gene transcription regulators. The promoter region of a transcription factor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57285481 | 1,685,939 |
815,767 | Alfred finally gave in to Edward's wishes and paid for university classes. Cope attended the University of Pennsylvania in the 1861 and/or 1862 academic years, studying comparative anatomy under Joseph Leidy, one of the most influential anatomists and paleontologists at the time. Cope asked his father to pay for a tuto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=415000 | 815,333 |
539,674 | Another foreseeable barrier plasmonic circuits will have to overcome is heat; heat in a plasmonic circuit may or may not exceed the heat generated by complex electronic circuits. It has recently been proposed to reduce heating in plasmonic networks by designing them to support trapped optical vortices, which circulate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44522280 | 539,394 |
1,362,558 | The removal of electronic noise gives PCDs two advantages over EIDs. First, higher signal-to-noise and contrast-to-noise ratios are expected from using PCDs compared to EIDs. This can either be used to increase the image quality at the same X-ray exposure level, or to lower the patient X-ray dose whilst maintaining the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55862624 | 1,361,805 |
2,143,897 | No special diet is required for subjects with PD, yet a well balanced diet is beneficial due to the effects of increased energy and improved effectiveness of drugs. Additional, in research it has been shown that nutritionally healthy, balanced meals enable the most effective use of symptom reducing drugs. In order to c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36561543 | 2,142,666 |
1,174,713 | The Netra is a lightweight UAV, constructed of carbon fiber composites, that uses quadcopters to provide lift and control giving a VTOL capability. It has no moving parts other than the rotors, motors and transmissions, and hence it requires very low maintenance. The use of carbon-fibre has resulted in a light weight o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36609578 | 1,174,091 |
195,483 | The current distribution along a real antenna element is only approximately given by the usual assumption of a classical standing wave, requiring a solution of Hallen's integral equation taking into account the other conductors. Such a complete exact analysis, considering all of the interactions mentioned, is rather ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=296081 | 195,383 |
971,386 | In the biomedical sciences, PVDF is used in immunoblotting as an artificial membrane (usually with 0.22 or 0.45-micrometre pore sizes), on which proteins are transferred using electricity (see western blotting). PVDF is resistant to solvents and, therefore, these membranes can be easily stripped and reused to look at o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=371942 | 970,876 |
1,687,764 | The Black in AI Academic Program is a resource for Black junior researchers applying to graduate schools, navigating graduate school, and transitioning into the postgraduate employment market. They provide online education sessions, offer scholarships to cover application fees, pair participants with peer and senior me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66422158 | 1,686,818 |
1,958,869 | Equitation science is defined as "the application of scientific methods to assess objectively the welfare of horses undergoing training." It promotes an evidence-based understanding of horse-rider interactions. The goal is to apply valid, quantitative scientific methods to identify what training techniques are ineffect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18620792 | 1,957,742 |
2,034,276 | Probabilistic models are based on the Monte Carlo method where distributions of data from various sources are randomly sampled from to calculate percentile statistics. Such probabilistic techniques typically utilise product or consumption survey data from a sample population combined with distributions of substances th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41345437 | 2,033,103 |
16,259 | The basic version of the aircraft was produced at Factory 31, at Tbilisi, in the Soviet Republic of Georgia. Between 1978 and 1989, 582 single-seat Su-25s were produced in Georgia, not including aircraft produced under the Su-25K export program. This variant of the aircraft represents the backbone of the Russian Air Fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=366696 | 16,254 |
206,770 | Control of industries, which was a subject in the concurrent list in the 1935 act, was transferred to the Union List. The Union government in 1952 introduced the freight equalization policy that damaged many Indian states, including West Bengal, Bihar (including present-day Jharkhand), Madhya Pradesh (including present... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26274381 | 206,663 |
1,784,364 | Goldberg studied at Moscow State University with the great neuropsychologist Alexander Luria and moved to the United States in 1974. He is currently a Clinical Professor of Neurology at New York University School of Medicine, Diplomate of The American Board of Professional Psychology in Clinical Neuropsychology, and Co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8334668 | 1,783,360 |
1,476,657 | This number is known as the Corsi Span, and average is about 5-6 for normal human subjects. An fMRI study involving subjects undergoing this test revealed that while the sequence length increases, general brain activity remains the same. So while humans may show encoding difficulty, this is not related to overall brain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34914812 | 1,475,825 |
730,672 | Scilab is a high-level, numerically oriented programming language. The language provides an interpreted programming environment, with matrices as the main data type. By using matrix-based computation, dynamic typing, and automatic memory management, many numerical problems may be expressed in a reduced number of code l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=153563 | 730,287 |
908,531 | Three of those chains have a long-lived isotope (or nuclide) near the top; this long-lived isotope is a bottleneck in the process through which the chain flows very slowly, and keeps the chain below them "alive" with flow. The three long-lived nuclides are uranium-238 (half-life=4.5 billion years), uranium-235 (half-li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=197774 | 908,052 |
119,389 | In videogames, the Sony PlayStation 2 and 3, the Microsoft Xbox line of consoles, and offerings from Nintendo such as the GameCube maintained a large following, as did the Windows PC. Marquee CGI-heavy titles like the series of Grand Theft Auto, Assassin's Creed, Final Fantasy, BioShock, Kingdom Hearts, Mirror's Edge a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18567210 | 119,340 |
446,313 | PSK31 or "Phase Shift Keying, 31 Baud", also BPSK31 and QPSK31, is a popular computer-sound card-generated radioteletype mode, used primarily by amateur radio operators to conduct real-time keyboard-to-keyboard chat, most often using frequencies in the high frequency amateur radio bands (near-shortwave). PSK31 is disti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=278017 | 446,097 |
1,664,227 | The College of Dentistry is located on First Avenue between East 24th and 26th Streets, about 6 blocks south of the NYU School of Medicine. The College's facilities include the "Schwartz Hall of Dental Sciences," the "K. B. Weissman Clinical Science Building", the new 13 floor interdisciplinary building at 433 First Av... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1209793 | 1,663,290 |
1,419,627 | On 3 July 2004, Li took gold in the women's singles at the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Pro Tour US Open in Chicago. Subsequently, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she defeated the second-seeded China player Wang Nan but eventually finished in fourth place. In 2005, she was second in the ITTF Pro ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1754380 | 1,418,828 |
731,979 | The US Army Corps of Engineers, Engineer Research Development Center, led by the Construction Engineering Research Laboratory (ERDC-CERL), in Champaign, IL USA, began research in deployable construction 3D-printer technology starting in September 2015. The pilot project, Automated Construction for Expeditionary Structu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38673321 | 731,592 |
1,909,367 | Chen's publications include over 360 peer-reviewed journal publications and approximately 80 non-journal publications (books, monographs, review articles, and conference proceedings). These coincide with his diversified research interests, which include bulk and confined water, cement hydration kinetics, colloids, crit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33550173 | 1,908,269 |
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