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1,177,750 | On September 9, 2014, the University of Toronto announced a new museum and academic complex. It was to include the Jewish Museum of Canada, a Faculty of Music performance hall, research centres and History department academic space. In its early stages of planning and approvals the project lacked complete funding at th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3464536 | 1,177,127 |
1,673,330 | The School of Medicine neighborhood occupies 54 acres on the southern portion of the main campus. It is bordered by Gilman Drive and Revelle College to the west, Gilman Drive and University Center to the north, Villa La Jolla Drive and the San Diego VA Medical Center to the east, and La Jolla Village Drive to the south... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5582686 | 1,672,388 |
865,955 | Due to collaborations with the Ministry of Economic Development, the university invited ministers of economics and politicians to teach classes and give lectures. In the 1990s, the average age of lecturers was 33 years old, by 2011 the number increased to 43 years old. Most of the young scholars came from the Russian A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10443874 | 865,495 |
339,271 | Häkkinen remained at McLaren for 1998, partnered by Coulthard. Häkkinen was confident going about the challenge for the World Championship into the season, citing the involvement of technical director Adrian Newey. The season started off with controversy in Australia when teammate Coulthard let Häkkinen past to win the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63073 | 339,091 |
834,067 | On 19 April 1995, the nine-story concrete framed Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma was struck by a truck bomb causing partial collapse, resulting in the deaths of 168 people. The bomb, though large, caused a significantly disproportionate collapse of the structure. The bomb blew all the glass off the front ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36337411 | 833,618 |
2,076,462 | Dragan has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. He started school in Belgrade. In 1992, having finished his third grade of secondary school, he continued his studies in the United States of America as a part of the student exchange program. He graduated in computer science and electrical engineering from Texa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=71535883 | 2,075,263 |
492,652 | The selection of the nineteen was publicly announced on April 4, 1966. Seventeen of the nineteen faced the media for the first time at a press conference at the MSC News Center; Givens was still involved in USAF work, and Carr was recovering from a case of measles. On May 9, they commenced fifteen months of formal astr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3144431 | 492,397 |
569,580 | Neves and other Brazilian anthropologists theorized that Luzia's Paleo-Indian predecessors lived in South East Asia for tens of thousands of years after migrating from Africa and began arriving in the New World as early as 15,000 years ago. The oldest confirmed date for an archaeosite in the Americas is 18,500 and 14,5... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14819129 | 569,290 |
494,956 | The model of rational decision-making has also proven to be very useful to several decision making processes in industries outside the public sphere. Nonetheless, many criticisms of the model arise due to claim of the model being impractical and lying on unrealistic assumptions. For instance, it is a difficult model to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8151064 | 494,700 |
1,238,041 | The innate immune system relies on germline encoded pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) to recognize distinct pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs). Upon recognition of a PAMP, PRRs generate signal cascades leading to transcription of genes associated with the immune response. Because all pathogens utilize nu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47190749 | 1,237,376 |
2,116,421 | In 1959 Feindel re-joined the Montreal Neurological Institute where he founded the William Cone Laboratory for Neurosurgical Research and became the first William Cone Professor of Neurosurgery and then Director of the MNI from 1972 to 1984. During this tenure he led a clinical neuroscience team to acquire the first CA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1863277 | 2,115,204 |
1,568,075 | By 1 December 1945, in accordance with a directive dated 10 June 1945, the corps became the 9th Guards Tank Division. The division was stationed at Neustrelitz, and around the same time the 2nd Guards Tank Army became a mechanized army. In 1957, the army became a tank army again. On 11 January 1965, the division was re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52826823 | 1,567,188 |
804,611 | Solar geoengineering effects would be temporary, and thus long-term climate restoration would rely on long-term deployment until sufficient carbon dioxide is removed. If solar geoengineering masked significant warming, stopped abruptly, and was not resumed within a year or so, the climate would rapidly warm. Global tem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20694764 | 804,182 |
1,774,087 | Traditional sources of Athletic Association income, primarily ticket sales, had declined as a result of both the Yellow Jackets' poor record and the relatively recent establishment of professional football in Atlanta, namely the Atlanta Falcons. Bobby Dodd, then athletic director, had warned for years that Georgia Tech... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8753550 | 1,773,090 |
2,008,058 | Traditional sources of Athletic Association income, primarily ticket sales, had declined as a result of both the Yellow Jackets' poor record and the relatively recent establishment of professional football in Atlanta, namely the Atlanta Falcons. Bobby Dodd, then athletic director, had warned for years that Georgia Tech... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26697426 | 2,006,906 |
767,876 | Self-efficacy was added to the four components of the HBM (i.e., perceived susceptibility, severity, benefits, and barriers) in 1988. Self-efficacy refers to an individual's perception of his or her competence to successfully perform a behavior. Self-efficacy was added to the HBM in an attempt to better explain individ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12372971 | 767,464 |
1,659,916 | Though not all freeze-avoidant insects produce polyols, all hibernating insects produce thermal hysteresis factors (THFs). For example, the haemolymph of the mealworm beetle "Tenebrio molitor" contains a family of such proteins. A seasonal photoperiodic timing mechanism is responsible for increasing the antifreeze prot... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11043051 | 1,658,983 |
1,844,467 | The analogous research on the industry side consisted in ethnographic projects in organizations to uncover social forms of learning inside the workplace and to enhance what benefits they could bring to the corporation. These enhancements could relate to the spatial and institutional aspects of work: Several large proje... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25504703 | 1,843,413 |
799,714 | In contrast Clive Ruggles has argued that there are problems with the selection of data in Thom's surveys. Others have noted that the accuracy of horizon astronomy is limited by variations in refraction near the horizon. A deeper criticism of Green archaeoastronomy is that while it can answer "whether" there was likely... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2864 | 799,288 |
2,180,047 | Steele users came fields such as aeronautics and astronautics, agriculture, biology, chemistry, computer and information technology, earth and atmospheric sciences, mathematics, pharmacology, statistics, and electrical, materials and mechanical engineering. The cluster was used to design new drugs and materials, to mod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17293880 | 2,178,802 |
93,988 | Most producers of passenger cars opted for gasoline cars in the first decade of the 20th century, but electric trucks were an established niche well into the 1920s. A number of developments contributed to a decline in the popularity of electric cars. Improved road infrastructure required a greater range than that offer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=279350 | 93,947 |
290,968 | TTL was invented in 1961 by James L. Buie of TRW, which declared it, "particularly suited to the newly developing integrated circuit design technology." The original name for TTL was "transistor-coupled transistor logic" (TCTL). The first commercial integrated-circuit TTL devices were manufactured by Sylvania in 1963, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47769 | 290,810 |
186,015 | Race horses are especially prone to injuries of the tendon and ligaments. Conventional therapies are very unsuccessful in returning the horse to full functioning potential. Natural healing, guided by the conventional treatments, leads to the formation of fibrous scar tissue that reduces flexibility and full joint movem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3853380 | 185,918 |
1,709,834 | With 1:13 left in the game, Kansas State's Adrian Hilburn scored a 30-yard touchdown to pull KSU within two points of a tie. Following the score, Hilburn made a military hand salute toward the crowd and was penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct. Because of the 15-yard penalty, Kansas State had to attempt a two-point co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25257964 | 1,708,875 |
2,195,602 | The nearest pool is at Peninsula Park and the nearest indoor pool is at Matt Dishman Community center 4 miles away. Portland Parks & Recreation is concerned the closure means "that they cannot meet the demand for service".The City has long-term plans to build a pool at Charles Jordan Community Center, but expected comp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68768007 | 2,194,351 |
730,340 | Other naturalists were critical of Diluvialism: the Church of Scotland pastor John Fleming published opposing arguments in a series of articles from 1823 onwards. He was critical of the assumption that fossils resembling modern tropical species had been swept north "by some violent means", which he regarded as absurd c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=543667 | 729,955 |
24,335 | The second edition of the game introduced army lists, putting constraints on the composition of a player's army. At least 75% of an army's strength (by point value) had to be of units from the same faction. This way, the battles that the players would play would fit the factional rivalries described in the setting. An ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=89633 | 24,326 |
1,077,709 | Reversed phase liquid chromatography (RPLC) is the most important chromatographic method for measuring solute hydrophobicity. The non polar stationary phase mimics biological membranes. Peptide usage has many advantages because partition is not extended by the terminal charges in RPLC. Also, secondary structures format... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22323371 | 1,077,154 |
790,441 | Tension myositis syndrome (TMS), also known as tension myoneural syndrome or mindbody syndrome, is a name given by John E. Sarno to a condition of psychogenic musculoskeletal and nerve symptoms, most notably back pain. Sarno described TMS in four books, and stated that the condition may be involved in other pain disord... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=422079 | 790,016 |
1,786,248 | The Preliminary Views and first Exposure Draft called for eliminating the FAS 13 test which classifies leases as operating leases or capital leases, and treating all leases similarly to current capital leases. All leases would be accounted for as assets and liabilities on the balance sheet – on the asset side as "right... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4202234 | 1,785,243 |
1,090,839 | Like previous missions, the astronauts took many photos of Earth from the station, over 700 in total, which have been made freely available. These "Crew Earth Observations", are intended to record dynamic events on the Earth's surface such as storms, fires, or volcanoes. For example, a photo of 1 January 2001 shows Mou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=881135 | 1,090,279 |
1,075,609 | Chyr worked on the game on his own for the first three years, circa 2015, at which point he brought on additional staff to help build out the game with a stronger focus on finishing the game. He had become concerned at this time by industry fears of a possible "indiepocalpse" due to possible oversaturation of indie gam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57093107 | 1,075,055 |
392,889 | Before Bill James popularized sabermetrics, Davey Johnson used an IBM System/360 at team owner Jerold Hoffberger's brewery to write a FORTRAN baseball computer simulation while playing for the Baltimore Orioles in the early 1970s. He used his results in an unsuccessful attempt to promote to his manager Earl Weaver the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28692 | 392,694 |
102,613 | Probability and gambling have been ideas since long before the invention of poker. The development of probability theory in the late 1400s was attributed to gambling; when playing a game with high stakes, players wanted to know what the chance of winning would be. In 1494, Fra Luca Paccioli released his work which was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=75705 | 102,568 |
1,257,455 | The National Academy of Sciences advisory panel instead recommended methods that provide valid type I error rates under explicitly stated assumptions taking missing data status into account, and the use of multiple imputation methods based on all the data available in the model. It recommended more widespread use of Bo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17410813 | 1,256,769 |
1,605,177 | The position of the working people worsened during the war years. The working day increased to 12 hours, women and children worked on an equal basis with men, but they were paid half as much. The organization of production was unsatisfactory: the factories received orders that they could not fulfill due to the lack of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66141214 | 1,604,274 |
1,605,849 | In differential display, first all the RNA in each sample is reverse transcribed using a set of 3′ "anchored primers" (having a short sequence of deoxy-thymidine nucleotides at the end) to create a cDNA library for each sample, followed by PCR amplification using arbitrary 3′ primers for cDNA strand amplification toget... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16565278 | 1,604,945 |
1,027,993 | The principal function of an ATS is to provide a central location and database for a company's recruitment efforts. ATSs are built to better assist management of resumes and applicant information. Data is either collected from internal applications via the ATS front-end, located on the company website or is extracted f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1762176 | 1,027,459 |
2,121,722 | The IMCB publicly condemned Union Carbide and reiterated the company's full liability not only for responsibility in causing the deadly gas leak, but also for the confounding role of its behaviour with respect to pre-accident preventive and exposure mitigating efforts, and the timely and effective application of the ap... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9253629 | 2,120,503 |
1,239,172 | It is believed that a major driving force in the origin of aerobic fermentation was its simultaneous origin with modern fruit (~125 mya). These fruits provided an abundance of simple sugar food source for microbial communities, including both yeast and bacteria. Bacteria, at that time, were able to produce biomass at a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49482835 | 1,238,505 |
207,066 | Cultural priming is a technique employed in the field of cross-cultural psychology and social psychology to understand how people interpret events and other concepts, like cultural frame switching and self-concept. For example, Hung and his associate display participants a different set of culture related images, like ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21312306 | 206,959 |
1,462,282 | Later in the 1990s, Creative Micro Designs produced several powerful floppy disk drives for the Commodore 64. These included the FD-Series serial bus compatible 3.5″ floppy drives (FD-2000, FD-4000), which were capable of emulating Commodore's 1581 3.5″ drive as well as implementing a native mode partitioning which all... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3405797 | 1,461,460 |
144,605 | The overwhelming majority of deceased-donor organs in the United States are allocated by federal contract to the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network, held since it was created by the Organ Transplant Act of 1984 by the United Network for Organ Sharing, or UNOS. (UNOS does not handle donor cornea tissue; corne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=167166 | 144,547 |
1,719,295 | Michael Majerus's 1998 book "" is an adaptation of Kettlewell's "The Evolution of Melanism", which discussed criticisms of Kettlewell's original experimental methods. When the biologist Jerry Coyne reviewed this book in "Nature", he stated that the most serious problem was that only two peppered moths had been found on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3890535 | 1,718,325 |
142,895 | In 2013, several commercial health insurance plans in the United States, including Anthem, Health Net, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska and of Rhode Island, covered TMS for the treatment of depression for the first time. In contrast, UnitedHealthcare issued a medical policy for TMS in 2013 that stated there is in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=98093 | 142,837 |
783,486 | Diophantus of Alexandria (; born probably sometime between AD 200 and 214; died around the age of 84, probably sometime between AD 284 and 298) was an Alexandrian mathematician, who was the author of a series of books called "Arithmetica", many of which are now lost. His texts deal with solving algebraic equations. Dio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9110 | 783,067 |
1,725,794 | The coding of temporal information in the auditory nerve can be disrupted by two main mechanisms: reduced synchrony and loss of synapses and/or auditory nerve fibers. The impact of disrupted temporal coding on human auditory perception has been explored using physiologically inspired signal-processing tools. The reduct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56439577 | 1,724,823 |
323,371 | Increasing the ratio of bisphenol A to epichlorohydrin during manufacture produces higher molecular weight linear polyethers with glycidyl end groups, which are semi-solid to hard crystalline materials at room temperature depending on the molecular weight achieved. This route of synthesis is known as the "taffy" proces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=211724 | 323,199 |
1,781,915 | The final anatomical location of the thymic gland is reached at 6 weeks in the fetus. TECs originate from non-hematopoietic cells that are characterized by negative expression of CD45 and positive expression of EpCAM. Then TECs are divided into two phenotypically and functionally different groups that have distinct loc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58322575 | 1,780,911 |
1,411,175 | Mendenhall invented the portable Mendenhall Gravimeter in 1890 while he was superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and at that time it provided the most accurate relative measurements of the local gravitational field of the Earth. The gravimeters were used at over 340 survey stations across the US and ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=847438 | 1,410,382 |
223,503 | Neural spike train data can be modeled as a point-process. A temporal point process is a stochastic time-series of binary events that occurs in continuous time. It can only take on two values at each point in time, indicating whether or not an event has actually occurred. This type of binary-valued representation of in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1648224 | 223,389 |
1,210,863 | FTT has also been applied in the domains of consumer behavior and economics. For example, since the theory posits that people rely primarily on gist representations in making decisions, and that culture and experience can affect consumers' gist representations, factors such as cultural similarity and personal relevance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27864034 | 1,210,215 |
1,106,261 | Up to two-thirds of RCVS cases are associated with an underlying condition or exposure, particularly vasoactive or recreational drug use, complications of pregnancy (eclampsia and pre-eclampsia), and the adjustment period following childbirth called "puerperium". Vasoactive drug use is found in about 50% of cases. Impl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28624879 | 1,105,698 |
1,962,159 | Lactarius fallax, commonly known as the velvety milk cap, is a species of fungus in the family Russulaceae. Found in both spruce and mixed conifer forests, it is a fairly common species in the Pacific Northwest region of North America, with a northerly range extending to Alaska. Its fruit bodies are medium-sized, with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28013963 | 1,961,031 |
1,178,765 | When the Vision was announced in January 2004, the U.S. Congress and the scientific community gave it a mix of positive and negative reviews. For example, Rep. Dave Weldon (R-Fla.) said, "I think this is the best thing that has happened to the space program in decades." Though physicist and outspoken crewed spaceflight... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=667597 | 1,178,141 |
2,151,226 | In cancer, the genome becomes very unstable, resulting in specific regions that may be deleted (if they contain a tumor suppressor) or amplified (if they contain an oncogene). Amplifications and deletions have also been observed in the normal human population and are referred to as Copy Number Polymorphisms (CNPs). Jon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4762114 | 2,149,995 |
2,137,166 | In 1870, he was chosen president of the newly founded Stevens Institute of Technology, and under his direction the faculty was selected and the course of instruction formed. His management of the institute made it one of the leading technological schools of the country. He gave it the benefit not only of his great lear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30741679 | 2,135,937 |
947,825 | SN15 introduced improved avionics software, an updated aft skirt propellant architecture, and a new Raptor design and configuration. A Starlink antenna on the side of the vehicle was another new feature. SN15 underwent an ambient temperature pressure test (9 April), A cryogenic proof test (12 April), and a header tank ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55382641 | 947,322 |
1,871,467 | Following work on harvester ants in 1995, doctors John Lighton and David Berrigan proposed the chthonic hypothesis. It was observed that many insects that demonstrate discontinuous gas exchange cycles are exposed to hypoxia (low O levels) and hypercapnia (high CO levels) by spending at least part of their life cycle in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19849232 | 1,870,390 |
1,974,578 | Seasonal differences in rainfall also affect metabolic rates. The increase in precipitation promotes the entry of organic matter and nutrients in lakes, which can stimulate ER rates and stimulate or inhibit GPP rates, depending on the balance between increased nutrients and lower light availability. On the other hand, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59168336 | 1,973,441 |
563,399 | Absence of radial pulse is reported in 6 to 20% of the supracondylar fracture cases. This is because brachial artery is frequently injured in Gartland Type II and Type III fractures, especially when the distal fragment is displaced postero-laterally (proximal fragment displaced antero-medially). Open/closed reduction w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20771604 | 563,110 |
1,286,942 | The most basic possible comparison between protein structures makes no attempt to align the input structures and requires a precalculated alignment as input to determine which of the residues in the sequence are intended to be considered in the RMSD calculation. Structural superposition is commonly used to compare mult... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=474908 | 1,286,241 |
1,149,597 | The University of Cambridge believes that their course's generalisation, rather than specialisation, gives their students an advantage. First, it allows students to experience subjects at university level before specialising. Second, many modern sciences exist at the boundaries of traditional disciplines, for example, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=999990 | 1,148,990 |
111,233 | Instead, these machines demonstrated new problems that limited their performance. Solving these would require a much larger and more expensive machine, beyond the abilities of any one country. After an initial agreement between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev in November 1985, the International Thermonuclear Experi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31439 | 111,188 |
410,845 | Final negotiations for part of what is now the Vale were only completed in March 1947. By then, properties which would have their names used for halls of residences such as Wyddrington and Maple Bank were under discussion and more land was obtained from the Calthorpe estate in 1948 and 1949 providing the setting for th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209935 | 410,643 |
683,978 | Born in Chicago, Hamming attended University of Chicago, University of Nebraska and the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he wrote his doctoral thesis in mathematics under the supervision of Waldemar Trjitzinsky (1901–1973). In April 1945 he joined the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory, whe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99326 | 683,622 |
351,000 | The Eocene Epoch ranged from 56 million years to 33.9 million years ago. In the Early-Eocene, species living in dense forest were unable to evolve into larger forms, as in the Paleocene. All known mammals were under 10 kilograms. Among them were early primates, whales and horses along with many other early forms of mam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5816 | 350,817 |
30,619 | On June 13, 2021, Hubble's payload computer halted due to a suspected issue with a memory module. An attempt to restart the computer on June 14 failed. Further attempts to switch to one of three other backup memory modules on board the spacecraft failed on June 18. On June 23 and 24, NASA engineers switched Hubble to a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40203 | 30,609 |
318,489 | The sex determination system in "C. elegans" is a topic that has been of interest to scientists for years. Since they are used as a model organism, any information discovered about the way their sex determination system might have evolved could further the same evolutionary biology research in other organisms. After al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57546 | 318,318 |
1,129,589 | The extreme intensities expected to be available on the upcoming multi-petawatt laser systems will allow all-optical, laser–electron collision schemes. In an all-optical configuration, the electron beam is generated from the laser interaction with a gas jet in the so-called laser wakefield acceleration regime. The elec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42801222 | 1,129,011 |
2,223,261 | The finals of the 1982 NCAA Division I softball tournament were held from May 27 through May 30. 16 Division I college softball teams met in the NCAA tournament's first round at campus sites. After having played their way through the regular season and first round (and for Oklahoma State, a conference tournament, an AI... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42862868 | 2,221,999 |
233,239 | It is possible to construct simple fields without any prior knowledge of physics using only mathematics from multivariable calculus, potential theory and partial differential equations (PDEs). For example, scalar PDEs might consider quantities such as amplitude, density and pressure fields for the wave equation and flu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26998617 | 233,120 |
1,763,024 | In most cases, magnetic stimulation is transformed into either force (magneto-mechanical genetics) or heat (magneto-thermal genetics), which depends on the applied magnetic field. Therefore, cells are usually genetically modified to express ion channels that are either mechanically or thermally gated. As such, magnetog... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47814884 | 1,762,031 |
843,553 | "Clearly a new paradigm had emerged ... Importantly, imaginative support in terms of infrastructure and idea dissemination proved as valuable as the concepts, tools, and chips. The "electronic book" and the "foundry" were both prescient and necessary, providing momentum and proof-points." James F. "Jim" Gibbons, former... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=747715 | 843,103 |
1,258,508 | Physiotherapy (also known as physical therapy) programs are designed to encourage the patient to build a strength base for improved gait and volitional movement, together with stretching programs to limit contractures. Physiotherapists can teach parents how to position and handle their child for activities of daily liv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=27399297 | 1,257,821 |
1,382,751 | The disease usually occurs early in the growth season, when temperature ranges between ; but it may occur to a maximum of . High humidity and rainfall are favorable conditions for increasing the infection on both leaf blade and leaf sheath, even on spikes when in epidemic form. Symptoms are stunted and weakened plants,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23635018 | 1,381,986 |
1,311,980 | In late 2011, Texas Senator Kirk Watson created a list of ten health-care centered goals he hoped to achieve within ten years for his Central Texas district. Number one on that list was to build a medical school. In May 2012, the Board of Regents allocated $25 million of annual funding to a UT Austin medical school, pl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46610630 | 1,311,261 |
1,921,447 | FSM, founded in 2011, is an organization which aims "to emphasise the importance of having health care in Australia based upon evidence, scientifically sound research and established scientific knowledge." It has grown to become a major critic of unscientific health practices and fraudulent health claims. It has advise... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46603974 | 1,920,344 |
1,975,306 | The GCIB beam is then used to treat a surface — typically the treated substrate is mechanically scanned in the beam to allow uniform irradiation of the surface. Argon is a commonly used gas in GCIB treatments because it is chemically inert and inexpensive. Argon forms clusters readily, the atoms in the cluster are boun... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7920461 | 1,974,169 |
1,838,346 | An extensive medical work-up is required primarily before prognosis to understand the anatomy of patients and to decide appropriate treatment. Imaging modalities such as echocardiography, conventional X-ray, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasonography, barium enema, computed tomography (CT) scan, and voiding cyst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60325046 | 1,837,297 |
845,406 | The Group 23 Astronaut Candidates were originally planned to arrive at the Johnson Space Center in Houston for training in the summer of 2021, and when their approximately two-year-long training program is complete, they become available for future missions to the International Space Station in low Earth orbit aboard N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63113442 | 844,956 |
2,115,090 | In this method, the environment around a single crystal or a polycrystalline plate is filled with vapor heated to between 1600°C and 2100°C-- changes to this environment can affect the gas phase stoichiometry. The source-to-crystal distance is kept between 0.02-0.03mm (very low). Parameters that can affect crystal grow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39933282 | 2,113,875 |
1,087,880 | Typically, precursor powders are packed into a silver tube, which is then extruded down in diameter. These are then repacked as multiple tubes in a silver tube and again extruded down in diameter, then drawn down further in size and rolled into a flat tape. The last step ensures grain alignment. The tapes are then reac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3470789 | 1,087,321 |
1,935,528 | The foundations of the movement which created mechanics' institutes were in lectures given by George Birkbeck (1776–1841). His fourth annual lecture attracted a crowd of 500, and became an annual occurrence after his departure for London in 1804, leading to the eventual formation on 16 October 1821 of the first mechani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62711451 | 1,934,420 |
1,494,207 | He hastily began writing a letter addressed to his mother in which he wrote that he hoped he would be acquitted, but knew it wouldn't happen. Although this attempt at earning sympathy from the public was unsuccessful, prior to his conviction, his invented story of how Mabel was murdered was considered credible before h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60132292 | 1,493,366 |
1,568,170 | Other studies have tried to understand the ACE phenomenon by examining the modulation of motor resonance during language comprehension. In one study participants were asked to read sentences containing a frame of between one and three words. The participants had to rotate a knob, in one direction for half of the experi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35182952 | 1,567,283 |
702,541 | The 332nd is deployed to Ramitelli, Italy to provide escort for Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bombers, which are experiencing heavy losses. During this deployment, Lee and Billy Roberts (Cuba Gooding Jr.) sink a destroyer. They also rescue a straggling B-17 which is being attacked by two German fighters while retur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7661570 | 702,173 |
272,686 | Descriptions of conspicuous lesions similar to cutaneous leishmaniasis appear on tablets from King Ashurbanipal from the seventh century BCE, some of which may have derived from even earlier texts from 1500 to 2500 BCE. Persian physicians, including Avicenna in the 10th century CE, gave detailed descriptions of what wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=198491 | 272,538 |
1,358,983 | Most of these kinds of contact herbicides are cell membrane disruptors that are either "PPO inhibitors" or "Photosystem I inhibitors." Plant cells have chloroplasts, which contain the protoporphyrinogen oxidase (PPO) enzyme complex. PPO inhibitors poison that enzyme, causing a build up of Protoporphyrin IX (Proto). Nor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39562449 | 1,358,232 |
1,787,475 | The most well-known and earliest German experimental station, or "Landwirtschaftliche" "Versuchsstationen", established was the Mockern Experiment Station, located near the city of Leipzig. Created on September 28, 1850, the Mockern project was spearheaded by three Saxon men: Julius Adolph Stöckhardt, a professor of ag... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2645852 | 1,786,470 |
2,048,092 | Green was born in London in 1937 but grew up in Sheffield. He was a member of the Yorkshire and Humber branch of the Institution of Civil Engineers and later became a fellow of that body and of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Green became director of operational services for Sheffield City Council. In this role he wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58133798 | 2,046,911 |
1,109,750 | The search for selective and potent α7 nAChR agonists has produced a series of compounds that have good potential as drug candidates. One such search produced SEN12333/WAY-317538 among other compounds that have desirable pharmacokinetic profiles and are selective of α7 nAChRs over α1, α3 and α4β2 nAChRs. Structure acti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12860292 | 1,109,185 |
99,359 | The First Punic War had ended in a Roman victory in 241BC after 23 years and enormous losses on both sides. After the war Carthage expanded its holdings in Iberia where in 219BC a Carthaginian army under Hannibal besieged, captured and sacked the pro-Roman city of Saguntum. In early 218BC Rome declared war on Carthage,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28563 | 99,316 |
1,624,697 | MedDraw is a computer-based drawing-task diagnosis and rehabilitation system project between the University of Kent, UK and the University of Rouen, France, coordinated by Dr. Richard Guest and started in 2003. The project aims to develop a robust, state-of-the art, yet easy to use clinical system producing objective d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24578359 | 1,623,781 |
558,956 | Sellars is well known as a critic of foundationalist epistemology—the "Myth of the Given" as he called it. However, his philosophical works are more generally directed toward the ultimate goal of reconciling intuitive ways of describing the world (both those of common sense and traditional philosophy) with a thoroughly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=340898 | 558,667 |
1,110,236 | Scuba equipment is not commonly used in civilian commercial diving, but is often employed by scientific, media and military divers, sometimes as specialized equipment such as rebreathers, which are closed circuit scuba equipment that recycles exhaled breathing gas instead of releasing it into the water. The recycling o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=506443 | 1,109,671 |
1,743,004 | In 2017 Alphabet Energy, with a $2-million grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC), has been partnering with Berkeley Lab "to create a cost-effective thermoelectric waste heat recovery system to reduce both energy use in the industrial sector and electricity-related carbon emissions." The goal is a prototype ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38402309 | 1,742,020 |
1,472,481 | Jones was born in Gisborne, New Zealand, on 31 December 1952. He was brought up in Cambridge, New Zealand, where he attended St Peter's School. He subsequently transferred to Auckland Grammar School after winning the Gillies Scholarship, and graduated in 1969 from Auckland Grammar. He went on to complete his undergradu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1227628 | 1,471,652 |
652,440 | While the proposal for "Phoenix" was being written, the "Mars Odyssey" orbiter used its gamma-ray spectrometer and found the distinctive signature of hydrogen on some areas of the Martian surface, and the only plausible source of hydrogen on Mars would be water in the form of ice, frozen below the surface. The mission ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=453566 | 652,098 |
239,301 | The interior also contained a pegboard chess board connected to a pantograph-style series of levers that controlled the model's left arm. The metal pointer on the pantograph moved over the interior chessboard, and would simultaneously move the arm of the Turk over the chessboard on the cabinet. The range of motion allo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=418820 | 239,181 |
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