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1,678,252 | Originally developed by Teasdale and Jennett (1974), the Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) (see Table C-1) is a scoring scale for eye opening, motor, and verbal responses that can be administered to athletes on the field to objectively measure their level of consciousness. A score is assigned to each response type for a combine... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15764203 | 1,677,309 |
1,642,666 | The stated goal of NCATS is to promote research in both existing and new areas of medicine and science, in order to promote public health and to overcome high failure rates in clinical trials. To accomplish this, NCATS supports 31 programs and initiatives that relate to translational research and improving the speed of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30597561 | 1,641,739 |
155,887 | The next year he returned to Harvard, while still continuing his philosophical studies. Back at Harvard, Wiener became influenced by Edward Vermilye Huntington, whose mathematical interests ranged from axiomatic foundations to engineering problems. Harvard awarded Wiener a PhD in June 1913, when he was only 19 years ol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63185 | 155,816 |
829,832 | In the Bode plot of a transimpedance amplifier with no compensation, the flat curve with the peak, labeled I-to-V gain, is the frequency response of the transimpedance amplifier. The peaking of the gain curve is typical of uncompensated or poorly compensated transimpedance amplifiers. The curve labeled "A" is the open-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30862800 | 829,386 |
1,768,273 | The first volume's illustrations were mostly by Sydenham Edwards. A dispute with the editors saw his departure to start the rival "The Botanical Register". The credit for the first plate () goes to James Sowerby, as did a dozen of Edwards contributions. The first thirty volumes used copper engraving to provide the plat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4656217 | 1,767,279 |
5,591 | After leaving Sedgwick in Wales, Darwin spent a few days with student friends at Barmouth. He returned home on 29 August to find a letter from Henslow proposing him as a suitable (if unfinished) naturalist for a self-funded supernumerary place on with captain Robert FitzRoy, a position for a gentleman rather than "a me... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8145410 | 5,588 |
1,211,578 | No truly smooth surfaces really exist, and surface imperfections are visible under a microscope. As a result, when two bodies are pressed together, contact is only performed in a finite number of points, separated by relatively large gaps, as can be shown in Fig. 2. Since the actual contact area is reduced, another res... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6592812 | 1,210,926 |
23,206 | In the early 1980s, teams like Renault, Ferrari and Brabham were using 1.5-litre turbocharged engines in favour of the 3.0-litre naturally aspirated engines that had been standard since 1966. Having seen in 1982 the need for a turbo engine of their own, Dennis had convinced Williams backer Techniques d'Avant Garde (TAG... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20994 | 23,197 |
282,251 | Officially, the U.S. congratulated the Soviet Union on its accomplishments. Writing for "The New York Times" shortly after the flight, however, journalist Arthur Krock described mixed feelings in the United States due to fears of the spaceflight's potential military implications for the Cold War, and the "Detroit Free ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32363 | 282,098 |
1,511,985 | Pakistan is directly influenced by the ongoing oblique convergence between the Indian Plate and Eurasian Plate. Along the northern margin of the India-Eurasia convergent boundary is the Main Himalayan Thrust which accommodates north-south continental collision. Thrust faulting in the Hindu Kush and Himalaya region is t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68912315 | 1,511,135 |
908,732 | Diffusion-weighted images are very useful to diagnose vascular strokes in the brain. It is also used more and more in the staging of non-small-cell lung cancer, where it is a serious candidate to replace positron emission tomography as the 'gold standard' for this type of disease. Diffusion tensor imaging is being deve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2574377 | 908,253 |
454,091 | Late summer and fall extratropical cyclones bring a majority of the precipitation which falls across western, southern, and southeast Alaska annually. During the fall, winter, and spring, Pacific storm systems bring most of Hawaii and the western United States much of their precipitation. Nor'easters moving up the East... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25678212 | 453,870 |
444,522 | The formation of the β-barrel pore is facilitated with a drop in pH. To form the barrel when the pH drops, PA63 domain 2 must undergo the greatest conformation change. Upon examination of the structure of domain 2 (Fig. 7), one can see that this domain contains a Greek-key motif (the gold portion in Fig. 7). A general ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6278176 | 444,307 |
2,119,121 | Some members of the board, including Levent Akın, Firdevs Aktaş and Ayşegül Füsun Eyüboğlu, had contributed to the preparation of the "Influenza Pandemic - National Preparation Plan" in 2009, which was again updated in 2019 and released for giving information to the general public, institutions and organizations across... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63484113 | 2,117,902 |
2,008,708 | Intersectional feminism focuses on the dynamics that were often ignored by past movements and theories, challenging the prejudiced ideas about feminism and proposing a positive environment for women, men, and others, consequently dismantling the rigidity of a gender binary society for the benefit of all people. As inte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38824009 | 2,007,556 |
2,002,982 | "Magnes" contained the first response by a Jesuit to the arguments of some heliocentrists who held that magnetism proved the Copernican model of the universe. Kircher was aware that he was the first scholar to mount a critical assault on the heliocentric theory that the Church had condemned as heretical. He did not agr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64193429 | 2,001,834 |
1,751,318 | This was the first time Russia had not been the top-ranked team before the start of a Chess Olympiad since their first entry in 1992 following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, conceding the top spot to the United States who are defending the title won at the previous Olympiad. United States are playing with the sam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58563619 | 1,750,332 |
693,602 | The graveyard spiral is characterized by the pilot mistakenly believing he or she is in wings-level flight when the aircraft is in fact engaged in a banking turn, and notices the altimeter indicating an ongoing drop in altitude. The sensory disorientation of returning from a prolonged banking turn to wings-level flight... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3526639 | 693,239 |
1,705,655 | In November 2018, it was announced that Defymed would partner with the Israel-based Kadimastem, a bio-pharmaceutical company developing stem-cell based regenerative therapies, to receive a two-year grant worth approximately $1.47 million for the development of a bio-artificial pancreas that would treat type 1 diabetes.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6313537 | 1,704,697 |
1,657,939 | With the introduction of the da Vinci Surgical System, the advent of robotic surgery using a laparoscopic approach has significantly changed the way prostate cancer surgery and prostatectomy procedures in general are performed as compared to the traditional 'open' methodology. Much of Tewari's research projects serve t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18733675 | 1,657,006 |
1,533,047 | Aminooxyacetic acid inhibits aspartate aminotransferase, another PLP-dependent enzyme, which is an essential part of the malate-aspartate shuttle. The inhibition of the malate-aspartate shuttle prevents the reoxidation of cytosolic NADH by the mitochondria in nerve terminals. Also in the nerve terminals, aminooxyacetic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31818700 | 1,532,179 |
1,687,319 | "Exophiala dermatitidis" forms slow growing, brown or black colonies. As is common amongst black yeasts, "E. dermatitidis" is an anamorphic fungus with multiple conidial forms. This morphological plasticity has complicated taxonomic determination based solely on physical appearance. Young colonies are described as waxy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36804974 | 1,686,373 |
423,187 | Borophenes exhibit in-plane elasticity and ideal strength. It can be stronger than graphene, and more flexible, in some configurations. Boron nanotubes are also stiffer than graphene, with a higher 2D Young's modulus than any other known carbon and noncarbon nanostructures. Borophenes undergo novel structural phase tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41855006 | 422,980 |
953,606 | On 22 December 1966, Anders was assigned to the third Apollo mission, which was to be commanded by Frank Borman, with command module pilot (CMP) Michael Collins; Neil Armstrong, Jim Lovell and Buzz Aldrin were assigned as their backup crew the following year. Collins was replaced by Lovell in July 1968, after suffering... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=82925 | 953,101 |
1,302,362 | Another example of this kind is the so-called "localized induction approximation" (LIA) for three-dimensional vortex filament motion, which gained favor in the mid-1960s through the work of Arms, Hama, Betchov and others, but turns out to date from the early years of the 20th century in the work of Da Rios, a gifted st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2206712 | 1,301,648 |
2,114,502 | Low-resolution X-ray crystallographic analyses published in 1995, disclosed the new αββα fold that would become the hallmark of the MBL superfamily, along with a single Zn(II) ion bound to a three-histidine motif, resembling the active site typical of carbonic anhydrases. Thus, BcII and ZBLs in general were thought to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20854281 | 2,113,287 |
1,966,166 | In addition to exploring the microbiolites of the lake, the PLRP is also an analogue testbed, a place to test out operations and procedures to better understand how to explore using humans on other worlds, while maximizing the amount of science that can be done under difficult conditions. While the lake is not a close ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31489971 | 1,965,037 |
1,561,197 | Awaiting the arrival of a scanner, in the autumn of 1940 the AMRE had ordered the delivery of an aircraft with some sort of radio-transparent nose. The Indestructo Glass company proposed using thick Perspex, while the AMRE team preferred a composite material of polystyrene fabric and Egyptian cotton bound with phenol f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43764346 | 1,560,311 |
2,061,127 | It is thought that the difference in the "fru" gene causes the bulk of the distinction in sexual differentiation in neural circuits. Although the sensory and motor circuits are nearly identical in both sexes, the "fru" gene fine tunes these according to the needs of either sex. There is learning taking place when a mal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20617241 | 2,059,940 |
84,294 | Nalanda was established during the Gupta Empire era, and was supported by numerous Indian and Javanese patrons – both Buddhists and non-Buddhists. Over some 750 years, its faculty included some of the most revered scholars of Mahayana Buddhism. Nalanda "mahavihara" taught six major Buddhist schools and philosophies suc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=200282 | 84,260 |
816,094 | Around the same time, a series of stories suggested another radio weapon was being developed in Germany. The stories varied, with one common thread being a death ray, and another that used the signals to interfere with an engine's ignition system to cause the engine to stall. One commonly repeated story involved an Eng... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=382754 | 815,658 |
78,720 | Phase 1 of the CCIP added new Modular Mission Computers, color cockpit display kits and advanced IFF systems to domestically based Block 50/52 aircraft, and introduced the new Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod (ATP). The ability of the F-16CJ/DJ to employ GPS-guided weapons was extended to the rest of the Block 50/52 fleet... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18895385 | 78,687 |
281,180 | Name, image, and likeness reform — In October 2020, the NAIA passed legislation that allows student-athletes at its member institutions to be compensated for the use of their name, image, and likeness (NIL). According to an NAIA press release, student-athletes can now "receive compensation for promoting any commercial ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=393991 | 281,028 |
588,953 | Occurrences of mistakes in calculating budgets results in large variance differences and finding the errors can be time-consuming (thus expensive). Furthermore, financial analysts responsible for calculation variances are increasing overhead costs of a company. If the financial analysts are not performing well, it will... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20647618 | 588,651 |
86,272 | Contemporary French philosophers Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze asserted that the institution of psychoanalysis has become a center of power, and that its confessional techniques resemble those included and utilized within the Christian religion. French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan criticized the emphasis of some Am... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23585 | 86,238 |
1,508,017 | In studies of base rate neglect, the problems given to participants often use base rates of disease prevalence. In these experiments, physicians and non-physicians are similarly susceptible to base rate neglect, or errors in calculating conditional probability. Here is an example from an empirical survey problem given ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57091071 | 1,507,169 |
493,129 | Because of the various theological movements which have influenced Anglicanism throughout history, there is no one sacramental theory accepted by all Anglicans. Early Anglican theologians, such as Thomas Cranmer and Richard Hooker, held to a sacramental theology similar to John Calvin. Cranmer's belief was substantiall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4994857 | 492,874 |
881,231 | Lunar soil is composed of various types of particles including rock fragments, mono-mineralic fragments, and various kinds of glasses including agglutinate particles, volcanic and impact spherules. The agglutinates form at the lunar surface by micrometeorite impacts that cause small-scale melting which fuses adjacent m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7682366 | 880,767 |
490,278 | In 2016, improved computer modeling revealed that the breakup of glaciers could lead to a steep rise in sea levels much more quickly than previously projected. "We're in danger of handing young people a situation that's out of their control," according to James E. Hansen, the leader of a number of climate scientists wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=987608 | 490,024 |
1,188,119 | After the collection of the first data set, the polarity of the unknown is reversed (formula_93), the bias is readjusted to select a step that minimizes formula_71, and a second set of data is acquired. Two more reversals generate third and fourth data sets. Best estimates for formula_95, and formula_96 are obtained fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47967448 | 1,187,487 |
635,715 | It also included the Beagle desktop search tool, similar to Spotlight in Mac OS X v10.4. The Xgl+Compiz support enables a variety of advanced graphical effects in the user interface, such as "application tiling" (similar to Exposé). Other features include making it easier for Linux beginners to connect digital cameras ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2694626 | 635,376 |
212,347 | One model for the formation of this category of supernova is a close binary star system. The progenitor binary system consists of main sequence stars, with the primary possessing more mass than the secondary. Being greater in mass, the primary is the first of the pair to evolve onto the asymptotic giant branch, where t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3728323 | 212,239 |
1,079,831 | Its wood is considered hardy, as it is resistant to decay and warping in a variety of temperatures and moisture levels. The most common use of white cedar wood is lumber, for which stands usually require 70 years of growth from germination to harvest. The lumber may be used in house construction, though scarcity of Atl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=442596 | 1,079,276 |
264,814 | In intensive subsistence agriculture, the farmer cultivates a small plot of land using simple tools and more labour. Climate with large number of days with sunshine and fertile soils, permits growing of more than one crop annually on the same plot. Farmers use their small land holdings to produce enough for their local... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=323964 | 264,671 |
112,955 | All the alkali metals are highly reactive and are never found in elemental forms in nature. Because of this, they are usually stored in mineral oil or kerosene (paraffin oil). They react aggressively with the halogens to form the alkali metal halides, which are white ionic crystalline compounds that are all soluble in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=666 | 112,910 |
2,150,728 | Farajajé credits his high school education for exposing him to queerness in a positive light. He states in an interview with LGBTQ Religious Archives Network that he did not have a background of hearing anti-LGBTQ preachings when he started his path of becoming a religious scholar. He states that his mindset on queerne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69366200 | 2,149,497 |
1,647,634 | Customers use collection agents or ATMs to make payments at the district offices of the Pamir Energy network. The company had installed meters to improve the reading of the usage and control supply level and can also terminate supply for defaulting customers. With advancements in the level of technology in Eastern Taji... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11291216 | 1,646,702 |
1,257,619 | Like most PRR steam locomotives, the M1 and M1a featured the square-shouldered Belpaire firebox. The square-topped section continued ahead of the firebox proper, revealing the presence of a combustion chamber - an extended firebox, giving more room for complete combustion of burning gases. The standard M1/M1a boiler us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1211238 | 1,256,933 |
1,698,719 | It was during the second half of the 17th century that, in Roy Webber's words, "the game took a real grip" especially in the south-eastern counties. The nobility withdrew to their country estates during the Commonwealth and were involved in village cricket as a pastime which, after the Commonwealth expired in 1660, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30187735 | 1,697,765 |
611,076 | Over the past three decades, UPEI has experienced significant growth with many new buildings integrated into the campus, including Central Utility Building (1973), Duffy Science Centre (1967), Blanchard Hall (1973), Bernardine Hall (1968), Robertson Library (1975), Atlantic Veterinary College (1986), Chi-Wan Young Spor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32096 | 610,765 |
1,648,666 | The Nevadan orogeny occurred along the western margin of North America during the Middle Jurassic to Early Cretaceous time which is approximately from 155 Ma to 145 Ma. Throughout the duration of this orogeny there were at least two different kinds of orogenic processes occurring. During the early stages of orogenesis ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2105734 | 1,647,734 |
1,357,257 | IBM and other mainframe providers conducted this kind of business in the following two decades, often referred to as time-sharing, offering computing power and database storage to banks and other large organizations from their worldwide data centers. To facilitate this business model, mainframe operating systems evolve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1985147 | 1,356,507 |
1,933,937 | In the Cambrian, at the start of the Paleozoic in parallel with the rapid proliferation of multi-cellular life, terrestrial erosion continued in the region. The area was flooded during a large scale marine transgression in the Late Cambrian through the Ordovician, as limestone, sandstone and shale deposited. The Sioux ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57844838 | 1,932,829 |
2,222,462 | Masamu (a word meaning "mathematics" in the Bantu languages of South Africa) is the name of a program of collaboration between researchers and advanced students in the US and southern Africa. It is organized jointly by SAMSA and Auburn University and is supported by the National Science Foundation. The Masamu program w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58099135 | 2,221,200 |
638,727 | The F650GS had several advanced technology features for its time, with computer-controlled fuel injection, catalytic converter, a Nikasil-lined cylinder, optional ABS and an airbox designed to exploit the airflow pattern of the bike when in motion. Combined with the bike's high compression ratio and twin spark plugs (f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21274229 | 638,388 |
695,923 | Hal Anger developed the first gamma camera in 1957. His original design, frequently called the Anger camera, is still widely used today. The Anger camera uses sets of vacuum tube photomultipliers (PMT). Generally each tube has an exposed face of about in diameter and the tubes are arranged in hexagon configurations, be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=862494 | 695,559 |
1,406,852 | There is no inauguration, the addresses are statically allocated. The number of addressable devices depends on the configuration of the vehicle bus – there may be up to 4095 simple sensors/actuators (Class I) and up to 255 programmable stations (Class 2, with configuration slots). The physical level is using transmissi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33050661 | 1,406,062 |
2,147,338 | Bartonella rochalimae is a recently discovered strain of Gram-negative bacteria in the genus "Bartonella", isolated by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Massachusetts General Hospital, and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The bacterium is a close relative of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11654321 | 2,146,107 |
642,834 | In web development and marketing, A/B testing or split testing is an experimental approach to web design (especially user experience design), which aims to identify changes to web pages that increase or maximize an outcome of interest (e.g., click-through rate for a banner advertisement). As the name implies, two versi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32288 | 642,495 |
1,822,023 | Genomes are linear and segmented. The genome codes for 10 to 12 proteins. Classification of cypoviruses is based on the electrophoretic migration profiles of their genome segments. The overall folds of cypovirus proteins are similar to those of other reoviruses, but they have insertional domains and unique structures t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4513047 | 1,820,985 |
121,200 | In 1887, the British Army was searching for a revolver to replace the largely unsatisfactory .476 Enfield Mk I & Mk II revolvers, the Enfield having only replaced the solid frame Adams .450 revolver which was a late 1860s conversion of the cap and ball Beaumont–Adams revolver in 1880. Webley & Scott, who were already v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=627020 | 121,151 |
1,787,293 | Following the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Low came up with the idea that twin-engined Army bombers could be launched from an aircraft carrier, after observing several at a naval airfield in Norfolk, Virginia, where the runway was painted with the outline of a carrier deck for landing practice. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60423125 | 1,786,288 |
2,161,364 | Although originally intending to return to her position at the University of Warsaw, that became impracticable because of her two new children and the lack of adequate childcare in Warsaw at that time. After a visiting assistant professorship at the University of California, Riverside, she became an assistant professor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69496794 | 2,160,130 |
1,992,090 | The Government of Canada launched the Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarships (Vanier CGS) program in 2008. The program is designed to attract and retain world-class doctoral students by offering them a significant financial award to assist them during their studies at Canadian universities. Vanier scholars demonstrate lea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28921058 | 1,990,947 |
219,150 | ANP is synthesized as an inactive preprohormone, encoded by the human NPPA gene located on the short arm of chromosome 1. The NPPA gene is expressed primarily in atrial myocytes and consists of 2 introns and three exons, with translation of this gene yielding a high molecular mass 151 amino acid polypeptide known as pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=475143 | 219,041 |
659,923 | Several signaling pathways (TGF-β, FGF, EGF, HGF, Wnt/beta-catenin and Notch) and hypoxia may induce EMT. In particular, Ras-MAPK has been shown to activate Snail and Slug. Slug triggers the steps of desmosomal disruption, cell spreading, and partial separation at cell–cell borders, which comprise the first and necessa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2930542 | 659,578 |
221,157 | The first truly successful container shipping company dates to April 26, 1956, when American trucking entrepreneur McLean put 58 "trailer vans" later called containers, aboard a refitted tanker ship, the , and sailed them from Newark, New Jersey to Houston, Texas. Independently of the events in Canada, McLean had the i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50387 | 221,048 |
1,798,885 | Oncosis and apoptosis are distinct processes of cellular death. Oncosis is characterized by cellular swelling caused by a failure in ion transporter function. Apoptosis, or programmed cell death involves a series of cell shrinking processes, beginning with cell size reduction and pyknosis, followed by cell budding and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28325705 | 1,797,876 |
693,547 | When launching interplanetary probes from the surface of Earth, carrying all energy needed for the long-duration mission, payload quantities are necessarily extremely limited, due to the basis mass limitations described theoretically by the rocket equation. One alternative to transport more mass on interplanetary traje... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15111 | 693,184 |
88,206 | Now a full colonel in 1962, after completion of a year's studies and final thesis on STOL aircraft at the Air War College, Yeager became the first commandant of the USAF Aerospace Research Pilot School, which produced astronauts for NASA and the USAF, after its redesignation from the USAF Flight Test Pilot School. (Yea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6185 | 88,171 |
1,190,670 | On 10 August 2018, Dewayne "Lee" Johnson, who has non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, was awarded $289 million in damages in the case "Johnson v. Monsanto Co." (later cut to $78 million on appeal then reduced to $21 million after another appeal)) after a jury in San Francisco found that Monsanto had failed to adequately warn consu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58130360 | 1,190,036 |
238,944 | Childhood gender nonconformity is a strong predictor of adult sexual orientation that has been consistently replicated in research, and is thought to be strong evidence of a biological difference between heterosexual and non-heterosexuals. A review authored by J. Michael Bailey states: "childhood gender nonconformity c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51614 | 238,824 |
825,604 | In 2009, the four contributors to the 4004 were inducted as Fellows of the Computer History Museum. Ted Hoff, head of Application Research Department, formulated the architectural proposal and the instruction set with assistance from Stan Mazor and working in conjunction with Busicom's Masatoshi Shima. However none of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=378171 | 825,161 |
90,897 | By the early 1950s, the Dunlop Maxaret anti-skid system was in widespread aviation use in the UK, with aircraft such as the Avro Vulcan and Handley Page Victor, Vickers Viscount, Vickers Valiant, English Electric Lightning, de Havilland Comet 2c, de Havilland Sea Vixen, and later aircraft, such as the Vickers VC10, Haw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59587 | 90,857 |
1,468,123 | The Beckett skimmer has some similarities to the downdraft skimmer but introduced a foam nozzle to produce the flow of air bubbles. The name Beckett comes from the patented foam nozzle developed and sold by the Beckett Corporation (United States), although similar foam nozzle designs are sold by other companies outside... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1158875 | 1,467,299 |
694,423 | In their synthesis of the antiviral drug oseltamivir, also known as Tamiflu, Ishikawa et al. used the Curtius rearrangement in one of the key steps in converting the acyl azide to the amide group in the target molecule. In this case, the isocyanate formed by the rearrangement is attacked by a carboxylic acid to form th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2644660 | 694,060 |
1,506,492 | The war prevented Peter Holtz and his group in Rostock from being recognized side by side with von Euler as discoverers of the second catecholamine transmitter noradrenaline. Their approach was different. They sought for catecholamines in human urine and found a blood pressure-increasing material "Urosympathin" that th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38791208 | 1,505,646 |
1,770,192 | A research project of the NSIDC is the Exchange For Local Observations and Knowledge of the Arctic or ELOKA. It is a collaborative international effort that was launched during the 2007–2009 International Polar Year. ELOKA facilitates the collection, preservation, exchange, and use of local observations and knowledge o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=901329 | 1,769,197 |
2,073,797 | New management shed the unprofitable low-end business to refocus on the mid- range, more technologically complex segment of the market. These changes were made in time to capture some explosive growth. Historically, the PCB market had grown about 6% a year, but from 1995-2000 it grew at 10%. By 2000, the company's sale... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21287147 | 2,072,605 |
816,244 | The chroma is also subsampled to , meaning it is reduced to half resolution vertically and half resolution horizontally, i.e., to just one quarter the number of samples used for the luma component of the video. This use of higher resolution for some color components is similar in concept to the Bayer pattern filter tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20056 | 815,808 |
991,270 | Serial video transmission technologies are widely used in the automobile for linking cameras, displays, and control devices. The uncompressed video data has some advantages for certain applications. Serial communication protocols now allow the transfer of data rates in the range of 3 to 4 Gbit/s and thus the control of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=153998 | 990,753 |
559,824 | Chromium (IV)-doped YAG (Cr:YAG) provides a large absorption cross section in the 0.9-1.2 micrometer spectral region, which makes it an attractive choice as a passive Q-switch for Nd-doped lasers. The resulting devices are solid-state, compact and low-cost. Cr:YAG has high damage threshold, good thermal conductivity, g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1731136 | 559,535 |
446,093 | There are many possible causes for why women are underrepresented in philosophy. As mentioned above, female philosophers have faced discrimination and sexual harassment in the workplace. Other hypotheses have risen as the problem of underrepresentation becomes more apparent. A. E. Kings points to a particular "myth of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5694046 | 445,877 |
39,888 | In most circumstances, atmospheric pressure is closely approximated by the hydrostatic pressure caused by the weight of air above the measurement point. As elevation increases, there is less overlying atmospheric mass, so atmospheric pressure decreases with increasing elevation. Because the atmosphere is thin relative ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47484 | 39,873 |
1,497,789 | Upon oral ingestion, EMP is rapidly and completely dephosphorylated by phosphatases into estramustine during the first pass in the gastrointestinal tract. Estramustine is also partially but considerably oxidized into estromustine by 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases during the first pass. As such, EMP reaches the circu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4498159 | 1,496,946 |
1,349,511 | While at CU-Boulder, Nemeth was well known for her undergraduate systems administration activity, in which students over the years had the opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge and skills in Unix system administration. Together with Steve Wozniak, Nemeth established the Woz scholarship program at CU-Boulder which f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30462630 | 1,348,765 |
589,365 | The steepness, or gradient, of a cline reflects the extent of the differentiation in the character across a geographic range. For example, a steep cline could indicate large variation in the colour of plumage between adjacent bird populations. It has been previously outlined that such steep clines may be the result of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6781871 | 589,063 |
733,809 | Rossiter also used "hierarchical segregation" as an explanation for the low number of women in STEM fields. She describes "hierarchical segregation" as a decrease in the number of women as one "moves up the ladder of power and prestige." This is related to the leaky STEM pipeline concept. The metaphor of the leaky pipe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36487460 | 733,422 |
1,117,631 | The excess of data is stored in multiple data structures that permit quick access to said data by certain algorithms that compute the popularity score of pages on the web based on how many links point to a certain web page, which is how people can access any number of resources concerned with diagnosing psychosis. Anot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6422823 | 1,117,058 |
1,457,352 | Over time, it has been reported that many of the same drugs and eye drops used to treat particular eye diseases do, in fact, result in systemic side effects that could possibly be minimized or limited due to a slower, more sustained release of the drug. The systemic side effects of glaucoma medications such as latanopr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56103909 | 1,456,532 |
594,922 | Many researchers have used mesocosm experiments to test how the adaptive radiation of stickleback ecotypes and stickleback-parasite interactions can impact ecological processes. In these experiments, researchers simulate the natural environments of sticklebacks in enclosed tanks, including natural plant and invertebrat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=489642 | 594,617 |
642,747 | Before the safety bicycle, bicycles did not have chains and the pedals were typically attached directly to the drive-wheel, thus limiting top speed by the diameter of the wheel and resulting in designs with front wheels as large as possible. Various linkage mechanisms were invented to raise the effective gear ratio, bu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=276592 | 642,408 |
1,338,474 | This was the nineteenth time the event was held, having appeared at every Olympics since the first in 1896. Four finalists from 1980 returned: defending gold medal winner Hasely Crawford of Trinidad and Tobago, silver medalist Don Quarrie of Jamaica, seventh-place finisher Klaus-Dieter Kurrat of East Germany, and eight... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14093540 | 1,337,741 |
884,777 | On June 23, 2009, "The New York Times" reported that U.S. federal agriculture officials believed that, "contrary to the popular assumption that the new swine flu pandemic arose on factory farms in Mexico", now believe it "most likely emerged in pigs in Asia, but then traveled to North America in a human". They emphasiz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22817589 | 884,313 |
1,196,497 | The majority of modern transmitting equipment is designed to operate with a resistive load fed via coaxial cable of a particular characteristic impedance, often 50 ohms. To connect the power stage of the transmitter to this coaxial cable transmission line a matching network is required. For solid state transmitters thi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3548161 | 1,195,857 |
671,326 | Research focused on interbacterial signaling using "Burkholderia" has shown that contact-dependent growth inhibition plays a significant role in mediating cell to cell communication specifically in "B. thailandensis". In this interaction, cells release protein toxins to the surrounding environment, and only those with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1283668 | 670,974 |
82,675 | A Government Accountability Office report in April 2014 found that several U.S. 7th Fleet officials thought the LCS was more useful in the Persian Gulf, but not suitable in the Pacific theater as they lacked the speed, range, and electronic warfare capabilities. The first two vessels from each maker were found to be ov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=460005 | 82,641 |
1,097,191 | The earliest graptolites appeared in the fossil record during the Cambrian, and were generally sessile animals, with a colony attached to the sea floor. Several early-diverging families were encrusting organisms, with the colony developing horizontally along a substrate. Extant "Rhabdopleura" fall into this category, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62177 | 1,096,631 |
1,649,338 | Recently, there has been more research into developing enzymatic nanomotors and micropumps. At low Reynold's numbers, single molecule enzymes could act as autonomous nanomotors. Ayusman Sen and Samudra Sengupta demonstrated how self-powered micropumps can enhance particle transportation. This proof-of-concept system de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1390297 | 1,648,406 |
217,294 | According to recent estimates, about 5 to 10% of disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) lost are due to environmental causes in Europe. By far the most important factor is fine particulate matter pollution in urban air. Similarly, environmental exposures have been estimated to contribute to 4.9 million (8.7%) deaths an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=314696 | 217,186 |
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