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1,265,197 | The whitebark pine ecosystem in these high elevations plays many essential roles, providing support to plant and animal life. They provide food for grizzly bears and squirrels, as well as shelter and breeding grounds for elk and deer; protects watersheds by sending water to parched foothills and plains; serves as a res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26515241 | 1,264,509 |
1,862,679 | David James Paterson MAE Hon FRSNZ is a New Zealand-born British physiologist and academic. He is a Fellow of Merton College, Oxford at the University of Oxford. He is also the Head of the Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics at Oxford, and immediate Past President of The Physiological Society of the United K... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63203745 | 1,861,610 |
1,572,039 | While still working as an assistant gardener, in spring 1816 Lenné received a commission from the Prussian Chancellor Karl August von Hardenberg to renovate the grounds around his country house at Klein-Glienicke. This work on Glienicke Palace, which would later become Prince Carl of Prussia's residence, laid the groun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4269726 | 1,571,151 |
775,891 | The papillomavirus genome is divided into an early region (E), encoding six open reading frames (ORF) (E1, E2, E4, E5, E6, and E7) that are expressed immediately after initial infection of a host cell, and a late region (L) encoding a major capsid protein L1 and a minor capsid protein L2. All viral ORFs are encoded on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=606000 | 775,475 |
736,371 | Another approach to improving oral immunotherapy is to change the immune environment to prevent T2 cells from responding to the allergens during treatment. For example, drugs that inhibit IgE-mediated signaling pathways can be used in addition to OIT to reduce immune response. In 1 trial, the monoclonal antibody omaliz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1611653 | 735,983 |
1,053,161 | Cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome (CCAS), also called Schmahmann's syndrome is a condition that follows from lesions (damage) to the cerebellum of the brain. It refers to a constellation of deficits in the cognitive domains of executive function, spatial cognition, language, and affect resulting from damage to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34176994 | 1,052,615 |
570,532 | Elio de Angelis scored two wins during a career that spanned eight seasons. He made his debut in 1979 with Shadow before a six-year stint with Lotus. He achieved his best result in 1984 when four podium finishes helped him to third in the title race. He looked to be going better the following year, leading the champion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37543516 | 570,242 |
502,087 | Digital tomosynthesis combines digital image capture and processing with simple tube/detector motion as used in conventional computed tomography (CT). However, though there are some similarities to CT, it is a separate technique. In modern (helical) CT, the source/detector makes at least a complete 180-degree rotation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15354886 | 501,829 |
1,727,013 | A detailed molecular analysis of the structure of holocentric chromosomes is currently available only for the nematode "Caenorhabditis elegans", whereas the presence of true holokinetic nature has also been confirmed in other taxa by the evidence that experimentally induced chromosome fragments continue to attach to th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56955328 | 1,726,042 |
787,318 | The other main area of application for selective assembly is in contexts where total interchangeability is in fact achieved, but the "fit and finish" of the final products can be enhanced by minimizing the dimensional mismatch between mating parts. Consider another application similar to the one above with the 12 mm pi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=908518 | 786,895 |
2,181,449 | Since nearly all of STEP’s work is microeconomic, other ways to parse STEP’s portfolio are by industrial sector and by microeconomic policy. On the first dimension, STEP has focused intensively on semiconductors, software, computing (and its component technologies), and biotechnology and given considerable attention al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12911652 | 2,180,202 |
915,733 | The first earth tracks were created by humans carrying goods and often followed trails. Tracks would be naturally created at points of high traffic density. As animals were domesticated, horses, oxen and donkeys became an element in track-creation. With the growth of trade, tracks were often flattened or widened to acc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1203727 | 915,252 |
428,522 | On December 10, 2007, one of the A160T prototypes crashed during a flight test at Boeing Advanced Systems' test facility in Victorville. A Boeing investigation determined the incident was caused when sensor data stopped being updated to the flight computer: with the feedback loop for the control system effectively cut,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4348514 | 428,312 |
611,061 | Researchers have investigated the relationship between posttraumatic amnesia (PTA) resulting from traumatic brain injury (TBI) and the development of symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and acute stress disorder (ASD). 282 outpatients, who were an average of 53 days post-TBI in their recovery, were divided... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15767764 | 610,750 |
124,535 | The main use of ogham by adherents of Neo-druidism and other forms of Neopaganism is for the purpose of divination. Divination with ogham symbols is possibly mentioned in "Tochmarc Étaíne", a tale in the Irish Mythological Cycle, wherein the druid Dalan takes four wands of yew, and writes ogham letters upon them. Then ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=797150 | 124,484 |
318,017 | Econometric theory uses statistical theory and mathematical statistics to evaluate and develop econometric methods. Econometricians try to find estimators that have desirable statistical properties including unbiasedness, efficiency, and consistency. An estimator is unbiased if its expected value is the true value of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10390 | 317,847 |
1,184,407 | With the help of lithography techniques, it is possible to fabricate sub-micrometer size magnetic islands whose geometric arrangement reproduces the frustration found in naturally occurring spin ice materials. Recently R. F. Wang et al. reported the discovery of an artificial geometrically frustrated magnet composed of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1483799 | 1,183,780 |
784,212 | Meningitis is the inflammation of the pia and arachnoid mater. This is often due to bacteria that have entered the subarachnoid space, but can also be caused by viruses, fungi, as well as non-infectious causes such as certain drugs. It is believed that bacterial meningitis is caused by bacteria that enter the central n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=455234 | 783,792 |
1,691,505 | Popper coined the term "critical rationalism" to describe his philosophy. He distinguished between verification and falsifiability and said that a theory should be considered scientific if, and only if, it is falsifiable. Popper sought to explain the apparent progress of scientific knowledge in "All Life is Problem Sol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=744139 | 1,690,554 |
118,567 | Given the equivalence of mass and energy expressed by Albert Einstein's , any point in space that contains energy can be thought of as having mass to create particles. Virtual particles spontaneously flash into existence at every point in space due to the energy of quantum fluctuations caused by the uncertainty princip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84400 | 118,521 |
1,977,462 | Under head coach Bill Finn, and featuring early stars like three-time All-American Aleta Mills, Jacqui Phillips, Samatha Louras and goalie Becky Trudel, the Minutemen finished second in the East Region and received an autobid to the third-ever ACHA National Tournament, in Muskegon, Michigan. UMass performed well at nat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54095645 | 1,976,324 |
1,816,997 | Constant Dutoit and Paul-Louis Mercanton carried out experiments on the Trient Glacier in 1900, in response to a problem posed by the Swiss Society of Natural Sciences in 1899 for their annual Prix Schläfli, a scientific prize. The problem was to determine the internal speed of flow of a glacier by drilling holes in it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56017314 | 1,815,963 |
1,963,164 | In 1879, the RCPI introduced membership in the college, as a step between licentiateship and fellowship, in response to an increasing number of medical practitioners in Ireland. Ten years later, the RCPI and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland established the Irish Conjoint Board. The latter awarded joint licentia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70592262 | 1,962,036 |
2,050,829 | May received a Bachelor of Science in molecular biology from the University of Washington in 1973, a master's degree in fisheries from the University of Washington in 1975 under Fred M. Utter, and a PhD in Genetics from The Pennsylvania State University in 1980 under the late Dr. James E. Wright, Jr. In 1981, he starte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43257821 | 2,049,648 |
69,083 | In the early 1970s, the linguist David McAlpin produced a detailed proposal of a genetic relationship between Dravidian and the extinct Elamite language of ancient Elam (present-day southwestern Iran). The Elamo-Dravidian hypothesis was supported in the late 1980s by the archaeologist Colin Renfrew and the geneticist L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7922 | 69,056 |
472,252 | The cluster representing the live oak data falls on the extreme edge of the general pattern of tree shapes. The height proportion exhibits a maximum of 17.23% of the shape value and a minimum of 6.55%, the girth (minimum of 19 feet in the data set) exhibits a maximum of 58.25% and a minimum of 40.25%, and Average Crown... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40858186 | 472,016 |
998,467 | is one of just six German submarines captured by the Allies during World War II, and, since its arrival in 1954, the only one on display in the Western Hemisphere, as well as the only one in the United States. The U-boat was newly restored beginning in 2004 after 50 years of being displayed outdoors, and was then moved... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50346 | 997,949 |
1,982,895 | In 2003, Chris de Freitas, then of Auckland University, challenged the scientific consensus that global warming caused by human activity was abruptly changing Earth's climate. Lowe, along with other National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) scientists David Wratt and Brett Mullan all of whom had worke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65653530 | 1,981,756 |
2,156,713 | Also of note in Barker’s portfolio of compositions is her composition for flute and piano titled "Na Trì Peathraichean (The Three Sisters…of Glencoe)" which “impressionistically evoke(s) the landscape and atmosphere of three neighbouring mountain ridges in the Scottish Highlands”. Originally commissioned and recorded b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56197596 | 2,155,482 |
36,498 | In July 1960, NASA Deputy Administrator Hugh L. Dryden announced the Apollo program to industry representatives at a series of Space Task Group conferences. Preliminary specifications were laid out for a spacecraft with a "mission module" cabin separate from the "command module" (piloting and reentry cabin), and a "pro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1461 | 36,486 |
2,205,621 | Glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) are naturally derived polysaccharides with distinct sequences of disaccharides. GAGs bind to cytokines and regulate cell recruitment, inflammation, and tissue remodeling by delivering cytokines to the extracellular matrix. Binding studies suggest GAGs have a natural affinity for cytokines, and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70621516 | 2,204,364 |
2,682 | In 1924, Oppenheimer was informed that he had been accepted into Christ's College, Cambridge. He wrote to Ernest Rutherford requesting permission to work at the Cavendish Laboratory. Bridgman provided Oppenheimer with a recommendation, which conceded that Oppenheimer's clumsiness in the laboratory made it apparent his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39034 | 2,682 |
231,033 | Despite being discredited as an effective teaching methodology in 1970, audio-lingualism continues to be used today although it is typically not used as the foundation of a course but rather has been relegated to use in individual lessons. As it continues to be used, it also continues to be criticized. As Jeremy Harmer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4714724 | 230,914 |
1,220,490 | Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease (CMT) is the most common form of hereditary neuropathy and can be further subdivided into two types: Type 1: demyelinating, and Type 2: axonal. Measurement of chronaxie and rheobase for these diseased nerves has concluded that electrophysiologically, a patient with demyelinating (Type I) CMT... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5231858 | 1,219,835 |
1,947,460 | Susan Lynn Williams (June 21, 1951 – April 24, 2018) was an American marine biologist and Distinguished Professor of Evolution and Ecology at the University of California, Davis, where she directed the Bodega Marine Laboratory from 2000-2010. She researched marine coastal ecosystems (in particular seagrass, seaweed, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57254441 | 1,946,347 |
1,054,927 | In 1666, Isaac Newton fled London from the plague. Isolated, he applied rigorous experimentation and mathematics, including development of calculus, and reduced both terrestrial motion and celestial motion—that is, both physics and astronomy—to one theory stating Newton's laws of motion, several corollary principles, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6727771 | 1,054,380 |
801,622 | In some areas, upwelling is a seasonal event leading to periodic bursts of productivity similar to spring blooms in coastal waters. Wind-induced upwelling is generated by temperature differences between the warm, light air above the land and the cooler denser air over the sea. In temperate latitudes, the temperature co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=105659 | 801,194 |
618,519 | After the Revolution of 1789, the royal engineering schools were closed. , Gaspard Monge and Lazare Carnot, the founding fathers of the School, were charged with organizing a new “École centrale des travaux publics”(Central School of Public Works) which was officially created on 7 Vendémiaire, Year III (September 28, 1... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=317443 | 618,205 |
260,163 | Some home owners in the United Kingdom are unable to sell their homes if there is any evidence of knotweed on the property. The species is expensive to remove. According to the UK government, the cost of controlling knotweed had hit £1.25 billion in 2014. It cost £70 million to eradicate knotweed from 10 acres of the L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37774 | 260,029 |
1,625,377 | George Cheyne (1672-1743) was a Newtonian physician and Behmenist, deeply immersed in mysticism. Born in 1672 in Methlick, near Aberdeen in Scotland, he was baptized in Mains of Kelly, Methlick, Aberdeenshire, on 24 February 1673. He died in Bath on April 12, 1743. The books he published during his life show his wide i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2937089 | 1,624,461 |
737,835 | With William Riedel as chief scientist, initial test drillings into the sea floor occurred off Guadalupe Island, Mexico in March and April 1961. The event was documented by the famous author John Steinbeck for an article in Life Magazine. The location was determined based on world-wide seismic refraction studies by Geo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3278857 | 737,445 |
696,383 | An early type of vessel designed for the purpose of shore bombardment was the bomb vessel, which came into use during the 17th century. The burning of Falmouth by the Royal Navy was among the grievances of the United States Declaration of Independence. These were small ships whose main armament was one or two large mor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=511891 | 696,019 |
914,097 | A fundamental problem in distributed computing and multi-agent systems is to achieve overall system reliability in the presence of a number of faulty processes. This often requires coordinating processes to reach consensus, or agree on some data value that is needed during computation. Example applications of consensus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5406474 | 913,618 |
1,925,705 | Although infection of avian reovirus is spread worldwide, it is rarely the sole cause of a disease. For chickens, the most common manifestation of the disease is joint/limb lameness. Confirming infection of avian reovirus can be detected through an ELISA test by using and observing the expression of σC and σB proteins.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32762262 | 1,924,601 |
1,186,623 | The engineering of the aircraft to travel at higher speeds and handle compressibility effects was one of the challenges of the day, but with his small design team of one hundred members at Hawker, Camm managed to solve these problems and make the Typhoon an effective combat weapon even at these speeds. As operational r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=321646 | 1,185,994 |
784,206 | Pia mater allows for the formation of perivascular spaces that help serve as the brain’s lymphatic system. Blood vessels that penetrate the brain first pass across the surface and then go inwards toward the brain. This direction of flow leads to a layer of the pia mater being carried inwards and loosely adhering to the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=455234 | 783,786 |
1,604,033 | Named after U.S. Senator Paul D. Coverdell, this $30-million facility totals , giving enough room for 25 research teams or roughly 275 scientists, staff and graduate students. The center was designed mainly to maximize energy efficiency. Laboratory intensive groups at the Coverdell Center include the Center for Tropica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59604425 | 1,603,132 |
1,003,009 | The windows of the photomultipliers act as wavelength filters; this may be irrelevant if the cutoff wavelengths are outside of the application range or outside of the photocathode sensitivity range, but special care has to be taken for uncommon wavelengths. Borosilicate glass is commonly used for near-infrared to about... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=177215 | 1,002,491 |
158,260 | The right fourth metatarsal ATD6-124 has a length x width lesion on the medial (toward the midline of the bone) side consistent with a march fracture. This condition is most often encountered by soldiers, long distance runners, and potentially flatfooted people whose foot bones failed under repeated, high intensity act... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1195815 | 158,179 |
2,026,202 | DIC is also useful for characterizing the thermal properties of polymers. Polymers are often used in electronic assemblies as potting compounds, conformal coatings, adhesives, molding compounds, dielectrics, and underfills. Because the stiffness of such materials can vary widely, accurately determining their thermal ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55524455 | 2,025,036 |
2,052,197 | Bioproducts engineers harness the molecular building blocks of renewable resources to design, develop and manufacture environmentally friendly industrial and consumer products. From biofuels, renewable energy, and bioplastics to paper products and "green" building materials such as bio-based composites, Bioproducts eng... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34808927 | 2,051,016 |
1,489,634 | In 1871, as there was no high school in Otto, Comstock attended the Chamberlain Institute and Female College, one of two seminaries under the direction of the Methodist Church in Randolph, New York. It was here where Comstock first met the acquaintance of Martha Van Rensselaer, "...never dreaming how closely she would ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1269293 | 1,488,795 |
1,716,852 | Depression, one of the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric disorders, is being diagnosed in increasing numbers in various segments of the population worldwide. Depression in the United States alone affects 17.6 million Americans each year or 1 in 6 people. Depressed patients are at increased risk of type 2 diabetes, ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27982883 | 1,715,883 |
2,064,609 | This publication and the portal were launched at the same time the biomedical research community was becoming aware of problems in the reproducibility of much of the scientific literature. According to an economic impact study, $28 billion per year is spent on irreproducible biomedical research in the US alone. The mos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50947151 | 2,063,418 |
1,269,706 | The Saddle Mountain Faults ("East" and "West", and not to be confused with a different Saddle Mountains Fault in Adams county, eastern Washington), are a set of northeast trending reverse faults on the south-east flank of the Olympic Mountains near Lake Cushman first described in 1973 and 1975. Vertical movement on the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27651043 | 1,269,015 |
1,102,052 | The palatoquadrate and Meckel’s cartilage were somewhat lightly-built and hosted a series of transverse tooth rows sitting within scalloped grooves. Fossils reconstruct a terminal mouth (opening at the front of the head), similar to "Chlamydoselachus" (the modern frilled shark) but unlike other modern sharks. The joint... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=969150 | 1,101,491 |
1,913,939 | Elsa Reichmanis (born 9 December 1953 in Melbourne, Australia) is an American chemist, who was the 2003 president of the American Chemical Society. She was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1995 for the discovery, development, and engineering leadership of new families of lithographic materials... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47779205 | 1,912,840 |
417,151 | It has been written that “Oort was probably the first astronomer to realize the importance” of radio astronomy. “In the days before radio telescopes,” one source notes, “Oort was one of the few scientists to realise the potential significance of using radio waves to search the heavens. His theoretical research suggeste... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=413430 | 416,948 |
1,110,309 | In the 1950s, she was promoted to become a music studio manager. Following a trip to the RTF studios in Paris, she began to campaign for the BBC to provide electronic music facilities for composing sounds and music, using electronic music and musique concrète techniques, for use in its programming. In 1957 she was comm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=181401 | 1,109,744 |
1,025,948 | Cladistic approaches are rare in nautiloid systematics. Many nautiloid orders (not to mention the group as a whole) are not monophyletic clades, but rather paraphyletic grades. This means that they include some descendant taxa while excluding others. For example, the paraphyletic order Orthocerida includes numerous ort... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=861683 | 1,025,414 |
1,551,568 | RIC provided a statistically significant benefit in five randomized clinical trials comprising 480 patients. The first report was in an observational study of patients in the United States, and the first randomized clinical trial to show a benefit in patients at extremely high risk of injury (those with Stage 3 or 4 ki... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49230038 | 1,550,687 |
1,401,667 | When a melt undergoes cooling along the liquid line of descent, the results are limited to the production of a homogeneous solid body of intrusive rock, with uniform mineralogy and composition, or a partially differentiated cumulate mass with layers, compositional zones and so on. This behaviour is fairly predictable a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3864143 | 1,400,880 |
1,032,740 | Phillips was born in August 1955 to Greek immigrant parents and raised in North Haven, Connecticut. In 1976, while attending Princeton University as a junior undergraduate, he designed a nuclear weapon using publicly available books and papers. In February 1977, several months after the story first went public, Phillip... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2134763 | 1,032,204 |
165,916 | Chondrus crispus—commonly called Irish moss or carrageen moss (Irish "carraigín", "little rock")—is a species of red algae which grows abundantly along the rocky parts of the Atlantic coast of Europe and North America. In its fresh condition this protist is soft and cartilaginous, varying in color from a greenish-yello... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44428 | 165,831 |
916,950 | The energy of particles of non-ionizing radiation is low, and instead of producing charged ions when passing through matter, non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation has only sufficient energy to change the rotational, vibrational or electronic valence configurations of molecules and atoms. This produces thermal effects.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30872182 | 916,467 |
2,030,670 | The biggest test for the Eagles was awaiting them in the regional final. #2 overall seed Miami, who had spent much of the year ranked #1, was a tournament favorite and lived up to their billing early in the game. The RedHawks opened the scoring just 90 seconds into the game but were held in check by BC's defense for th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29184178 | 2,029,502 |
906,123 | With researchers from both UNB campuses, the CRI develops the aquatic science needed to understand, protect and sustain water resources. Since 2013, the CRI and its partners have been working with NB Power to research the potential environmental impacts of the future options being considered for the Mactaquac Generatin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32094 | 905,647 |
390,882 | The Pythagoreans engaged with geometry as a liberal philosophy which served to establish principles and allowed theorems to be explored abstractly and mentally. Pythagorean philosophers believed that there was a close relationship between numbers and geometrical forms. Early-Pythagorean philosophers proved simple geome... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=291170 | 390,687 |
930,361 | Presented under the auspices of "Online World Chess", the 2002 EuroTel Knockout Tournament was a 32-player single-elimination tournament hosted in Prague from 27 April to 5 May 2002. 14 of the world's top 15 players were in attendance, including the reigning world champion Vladimir Kramnik and the world's No. 1-ranked ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20176027 | 929,870 |
1,852,028 | Finally freed of the pack ice on July 28, the expedition sailed across Melville Bay, amid persistent ice bergs. As August began, food supplies were supplemented by hunting the returning auks and the occasional polar bear. On August 10, a wind change forced both ships to tie in and ride out dangerous pressure heaves as ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26501694 | 1,850,967 |
1,684,009 | In 1979, influenced by Seilacher among others, the paleontologist Stephen J. Gould and the population geneticist Richard Lewontin wrote what Wagner called "the most influential structuralist manifesto", "The Spandrels of San Marco and the Panglossian Paradigm". They pointed out that biological features (like architectu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6914308 | 1,683,065 |
1,989,986 | The Improved Performance Research Integration Tool (IMPRINT) is a discrete-event simulation and human performance modeling software tool developed by the Army Research Laboratory and Micro Analysis and Design (acquired by Alion Science and Technology). It is developed using the .NET Framework. IMPRINT allows users to c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51636312 | 1,988,844 |
1,692,855 | The MAP75 consists of an all-welded body with a fully enclosed troop compartment built on a modified Mercedes-Benz 7.5 ton Series LA1113/42 truck chassis ('Rodef 45'). Adapted from the Crocodile Armoured Personnel Carrier, the open-topped hull or 'capsule' is faceted at the sides, which were designed to deflect small-a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26112263 | 1,691,904 |
1,877,507 | Sclerochronology is the study of periodic physical and chemical features in the hard tissues of animals that grow by accretion, including invertebrates and coralline red algae, and the temporal context in which they formed. It is particularly useful in the study of marine paleoclimatology. The term was coined in 1974 f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8012695 | 1,876,429 |
1,987,622 | Perhaps the most controversial aspect of BCSR (and organic farming in general) relates to the practitioners' beliefs that a correctly balanced soil will yield more nutritious produce. Though some studies have shown a decrease in mineral content of fruit and vegetables over the last half century this is in dispute and t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29769528 | 1,986,480 |
2,031,783 | The first results of the NA2 phase of the experiment showed that charm production was mediated by the photon-gluon fusion process. The collaboration then went on to show that the scattering rate in iron and deuterium were different. This showed that the quark sub-structure of nucleons bound in nuclei is different from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1778030 | 2,030,613 |
1,910,364 | In contrast, the linker domain is composed of α helices supplied by the two catalytic domains: each domain contributes five helices from their N termini and one from a helix that spans both the catalytic domain and the linker domain. At the center of the linker domain resides an 8 by 35 Å hydrophobic tunnel with two ph... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5575745 | 1,909,266 |
1,679,912 | An organogel is a class of gel composed of a liquid organic phase within a three-dimensional, cross-linked network. Organogel networks can form in two ways. The first is classic gel network formation via polymerization. This mechanism converts a precursor solution of monomers with various reactive sites into polymeric ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38183925 | 1,678,969 |
940,284 | Severe weather prevented the recovery of "Alvin" throughout late 1968, but it was photographed at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean in June 1969 by a sled towed by USS "Mizar". "Alvin" was found to be upright and appeared intact except for damage to the stern. It was decided to attempt recovery; although no object of "A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=142223 | 939,783 |
509,721 | The quality distinction between and may have been lost in Attic in the late 4th century BCE, when pre-consonantic pseudo-diphthong started to be confused with and pre-vocalic diphthong with . C. 150 AD, Attic inscriptions started confusing and , indicating the appearance of a or (depending on when the loss of vowel len... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7549774 | 509,457 |
1,022,933 | Since the series-wound DC motor develops its highest torque at low speed, it is often used in traction applications such as electric locomotives, and trams. Another application is starter motors for petrol and small diesel engines. Series motors must never be used in applications where the drive can fail (such as belt ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10004115 | 1,022,403 |
1,998,477 | Outside of classes, the university also offers a number of extracurricular activities, including a student choir and a range of casual sport programs. Since 2006, one of the most significant student groups at the WHZ has been the Formula Student Team. The student team constructs a single seat, technically sophisticated... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50062746 | 1,997,334 |
1,333,951 | The late-Precambrian age Malmesbury Group is the oldest rock formation in the area, consisting of alternating layers of dark grey fine-grained greywacke, sandstone and slate, seen along the rocky Sea Point and Bloubergstrand shorelines, and from the Strand to Gordon's Bay. These sediments were originally deposited on a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25244459 | 1,333,222 |
603,253 | "Constellation" sailed under Captain Thomas Truxtun from Saint Kitts on 30 January 1800, and encountered the French frigate "La Vengeance", of the "La Résistance" class (design by Pierre Degay, with 30 x 24-pounder guns and 20 x 12-pounder guns) during the night on 1 February 1800. "La Vengeance" was outweighed by "Con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=322055 | 602,943 |
681,459 | Jupiter's internal magnetic field is generated by electrical currents in the planet's outer core, which is composed of liquid metallic hydrogen. Volcanic eruptions on Jupiter's moon Io eject large amounts of sulfur dioxide gas into space, forming a large torus around the planet. Jupiter's magnetic field forces the toru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8482163 | 681,103 |
580,018 | It is also technically possible to use photovoltaic technology, (specifically thermophotovoltaic (TPV) technology) to provide motive power for a car. Fuel is used to heat an emitter. The infrared radiation generated is converted to electricity by a low band gap PV cell (e.g. GaSb). A prototype TPV hybrid car was even b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1496902 | 579,721 |
139,600 | After World War II, uranium-based nuclear reactors were built to produce electricity. These were similar to the reactor designs that produced material for nuclear weapons. During that period, the government of the United States also built an experimental prototype molten salt reactor using U-233 fuel, the fissile mater... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36389653 | 139,543 |
2,218,037 | The theoretical justification for National Socialism is unofficially considered the work of Alfred Rosenberg (who published the book “The Nature, Basic Principles and Goals of the NSDAP” back in 1922) - “The Myth of the Twentieth Century” (1930). Among many positions, Rosenberg served as head of the Central Research In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=72058504 | 2,216,775 |
1,753,533 | Inorganic mercury released into the atmosphere is converted to methylmercury by the action of microbes that live in aquatic systems including lakes, rivers, wetlands, sediments, soils and the open ocean. The methylmercury is absorbed by plankton and small fish. As these organisms are consumed by larger species up the f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31080818 | 1,752,543 |
115,219 | Marine alternators used in yachts are similar to automotive alternators, with appropriate adaptations to the salt-water environment. Marine alternators are designed to be explosion proof (ignition protected) so that brush sparking will not ignite explosive gas mixtures in an engine room environment. They may be 12 or 2... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=223352 | 115,174 |
652,861 | In industrialized countries, Medical imaging contributes almost as much radiation dose to the public as natural background radiation. Collective dose to Americans from medical imaging grew by a factor of six from 1990 to 2006, mostly due to growing use of 3D scans that impart much more dose per procedure than tradition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35993194 | 652,518 |
1,796,947 | Cerezyme is a freeze-dried medicine containing imiglucerase, manufactured by Genzyme Corporation. It is given intravenously after reconstitution as a treatment for Type 1 and Type 3 Gaucher's disease. It is available in formulations containing 200 or 400 units per vial. The specific activity of highly purified human en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4156419 | 1,795,938 |
492,055 | Beyond spectral type M5, the classical αω dynamo can no longer operate as the internal structure of dwarf stars changes significantly: they become fully convective. As a distributed (or α) dynamo may become relevant, both the magnetic flux on the surface and the topology of the magnetic fields in the corona should syst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44062 | 491,801 |
122,737 | The advent of bloodflow-based neuroimaging techniques such as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) has more recently permitted the demonstration that neural activity in a number of sensory regions, including color-, motion-, and face-responsive regions of visual cortex, is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3704475 | 122,688 |
984,675 | The fossil-bearing deposits of the Burgess Shale correlate to the Stephen Formation, a collection of slightly calcareous dark mudstones, about old. The beds were deposited at the base of a cliff about 160 m tall, below the depth agitated by waves during storms. This vertical cliff was composed of the calcareous reefs o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3422 | 984,161 |
825,445 | The initial pre-production engine was the 253, which not only met but greatly exceeded the design targets. The complete engine assembly from fan to flywheel and all auxiliaries weighed in at 460 lb, around 12% less than the design target, while net output for the higher compression (9.0:1) version fitted with a 2-barre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20323291 | 825,002 |
20,337 | There are many causes of chest pain, which can originate from the heart, lungs, gastrointestinal tract, aorta, and other muscles, bones and nerves surrounding the chest. In addition to myocardial infarction, other causes include angina, insufficient blood supply (ischemia) to the heart muscles without evidence of cell ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20556798 | 20,328 |
408,317 | The processes and product or products are usually tested during and after manufacture by dedicated instruments and on-site quality control laboratories to ensure safe operation and to assure that the product will meet required specifications. More organizations within the industry are implementing chemical compliance s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58721 | 408,116 |
575,112 | The P-18 uses a single antenna accomplishing both transmission and reception. The antenna is composed of sixteen Yagi antennas mounted in sets of eight with one set above the other. The radar antenna is mounted on the truck used to transport it improving mobility and the radar also features a mechanism which allows the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20877529 | 574,818 |
624,896 | HI is closely related to the HA assay, but includes anti-viral antibodies as “inhibitors” to interfere with the virus-RBC interaction. The goal is to characterize the concentration of antibodies in the antiserum or other samples containing antibodies. The HI assay is generally performed by creating a dilution series of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1284618 | 624,563 |
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