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1,430,823 | In one study, researchers sought physiological correlates of lucid dreaming. They showed that the unusual combination of hallucinatory dream activity and wake-like reflective awareness and agentive control experienced in lucid dreams is paralleled by significant changes in electrophysiology. Participants were recorded ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29807596 | 1,430,019 |
1,815,896 | Although women who had gained engineering opportunities in both industry and the forces during World War Two were forced out of those positions in an almost identical situation to that following World War One, there were enough women sufficiently established in senior roles in government research establishments, such a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64174224 | 1,814,862 |
90,014 | Originally intended as an introduction for the uninitiated, Kepler sought to model his "Epitome" after that of his master Michael Maestlin, who published a well-regarded book explaining the basics of geocentric astronomy to non-experts. Kepler completed the first of three volumes, consisting of Books I–III, by 1615 in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15736 | 89,974 |
940,893 | There are various ways to make the electricity system more flexible. In many places, wind and solar production are complementary on a daily and a season scale: There is more wind during the night and in winter, when solar energy production is low. Linking different geographical regions through long-distance transmissio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=551731 | 940,392 |
702,010 | Poor atom economy is common in fine chemicals or pharmaceuticals synthesis, and especially in research, where the aim to readily and reliably produce a wide range of complex compounds leads to the use of versatile and dependable, but poorly atom-economical reactions. For example, synthesis of an alcohol is readily acco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1736031 | 701,645 |
936,228 | Several hypotheses have been proposed about the biogeography of the spinosaurids. Since "Suchomimus" was more closely related to "Baryonyx" (from Europe) than to "Spinosaurus"—although that genus also lived in Africa—the distribution of spinosaurids cannot be explained as vicariance resulting from continental rifting. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1317491 | 935,733 |
2,090,089 | On completing his studies he returned to England, but on account of his health he subsequently removed to Genoa, where he obtained an extensive medical practice, and in 1774 was appointed professor of chemistry in the university. Previous to this the study of chemistry in the university of Genoa had been much neglected... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32495571 | 2,088,886 |
1,357,930 | Principles of Article IX provided the basis for the Committee of Space Research (COSPAR) Planetary Protection Policy guidelines, which are generally well-regarded among scientific experts. Such guidelines, however, are non-binding and often described as "soft-law," as they lack legal mandate. The Planetary Protection P... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67129473 | 1,357,180 |
279,562 | Earth sciences can include the study of geology, the lithosphere, and the large-scale structure of Earth's interior, as well as the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere. Typically, Earth scientists use tools from geology, chronology, physics, chemistry, geography, biology, and mathematics to build a quantitative unde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20653168 | 279,412 |
459,371 | The financial risks providers accept in capitation are traditional insurance risks. Provider revenues are fixed, and each enrolled patient makes a claim against the full resources of the provider. In exchange for the fixed payment, physicians essentially become the enrolled clients' insurers, who resolve their patients... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23804755 | 459,146 |
430,324 | At the other end of the spectrum, there are advanced tools which enable the creation of very complex adaptions based on any number of complex conditions. These conditions may relate to what the learner is currently doing, prior decisions, behavioral tracking, interactive and external activities to name a few. These hig... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26592643 | 430,112 |
737,757 | Without the presence of dissolved NaOH or KOH, responsible for the high pH (~13.5) of the concrete pore water, the amorphous silica of the reactive aggregates would not be dissolved and the reaction would not evolve. Moreover, the soluble sodium or potassium silicate is very hygroscopic and swells when it absorbs water... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12484448 | 737,367 |
1,400,719 | During test runs, the locomotives displayed excellent acceleration and an ability to maintain schedules better than conventional steam engines, although they also had serious reliability problems and relatively high maintenance costs. On one occasion, the two locomotives failed while hauling a train from Colorado to Om... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46760811 | 1,399,932 |
267,869 | Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN in 1989, applying the concept of hyperlinking that had by then existed for some decades. He developed the first web server, the first web browser, and a document formatting protocol, called Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). After publishing the markup la... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4192777 | 267,725 |
1,130,857 | In the later years of his career, Tolman became increasingly interested in the application of thermodynamics to relativistic systems and cosmology. An important monograph he published in 1934 titled "Relativity, Thermodynamics, and Cosmology" demonstrated how black body radiation in an expanding universe cools but rema... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1323972 | 1,130,268 |
1,644,252 | All solids in their ideal state are single crystals with the atoms arranged on a periodic lattice. In condensed matter physics, the properties of such solids are explained on the basis of their electronic structure. This requires the solution of a complicated many-electron problem, but the density functional theory of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18200701 | 1,643,325 |
206,355 | On March 23, 2009, President Obama nominated Brainard to serve as Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs. Reuters News Service reported on December 23, 2009, that the Senate Finance Committee had approved Brainard to become the "Treasury Department's top global diplomat, a job that would give her a k... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17102152 | 206,249 |
86,997 | Despite awareness that the traditional taxonomic concept of "Protozoa" did not meet contemporary taxonomic standards, some authors have continued to use the name, while applying it to differing scopes of organisms. In a series of classifications by Thomas Cavalier-Smith and collaborators since 1981, the taxon Protozoa ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19179023 | 86,962 |
457,195 | Without victories at sea in the Pacific theater, the Allies could not have mounted amphibious assaults on or maintained land forces on Guadalcanal, New Guinea, Saipan, The Philippines, Iwo Jima, or Okinawa. Allied operations in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters were interconnected because they frequently competed for s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65453048 | 456,972 |
1,041,411 | Orbital platforms collect and transmit data from different parts of the electromagnetic spectrum, which in conjunction with larger scale aerial or ground-based sensing and analysis, provides researchers with enough information to monitor trends such as El Niño and other natural long and short term phenomena. Other uses... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=801420 | 1,040,868 |
2,237,329 | After an off-week, Michigan Tech traveled to Alaska–Anchorage for games on November 18 and 19. Junior defenseman Carl Nielsen stayed home to recover from a concussion sustained in the team's previous game, and with three freshmen defensemen in the lineup, Pearson stressed defensive zone coverage in practice sessions be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34618144 | 2,236,058 |
307,942 | LSD historian Jay Stevens, author of the 1987 book "Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream", has said that in the early days of its recreational use, LSD users (who were at that time mostly academics and medical professionals) fell into two broadly delineated groups. The first group, which was essentially conserva... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1119225 | 307,777 |
1,955,500 | The NDUFA1 gene is located on the long q arm of the X chromosome at position 24 and it spans 5,176 base pairs. The NDUFA1 gene produces an 8.1 kDa protein composed of 70 amino acids. NDUFA1 is a subunit of the enzyme NADH dehydrogenase (ubiquinone), the largest of the respiratory complexes. The structure is L-shaped wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14880589 | 1,954,378 |
173,128 | In addition to routine community use, rapid tests have also been utilised as part of humanitarian efforts during the pandemic. Following the flooding in Jakarta in Indonesia on 2 December 2020, rapid tests were made available in flood shelters. Furthermore, following the closure of national borders in Europe following ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67708405 | 173,037 |
1,173,706 | In this part of the experiment, Tamm "et al." transfected 293 cells with survivin and lysed them to obtain cell lysate. The lysates were incubated with different caspase forms and survivin was immunopercipitated with anti-survivin antibody. The idea behind this is that, if survivin binds physically with the caspase it ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8310787 | 1,173,085 |
67,961 | On 12 April 1951, 44 MiG-15s took on a USAF formation of 48 B-29 Superfortresses escorted by 18 F-86 Sabres, 54 F-84 Thunderjets and 24 F-80 Shooting Stars heading towards the bridge linking North Korea and Red China over the Yalu River in Uiju. The experienced Soviet fliers shot down or damaged beyond repair 10 B-29As... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=182690 | 67,935 |
466,680 | These plants are currently distributed in various botanical institutions around the world. Two of the larger trunks that Wylie collected in the 1907 expedition are still to be seen in the Durban Botanic Gardens. A sucker from one of the Durban Botanic Gardens plants was sent to Kirstenbosch near Cape Town, South Africa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7977402 | 466,447 |
1,221,544 | In bacteria, the problem of DNA damage is most pronounced during periods of stress, particularly oxidative stress, that occur during crowding or starvation conditions. Under such conditions there is often only a single chromosome present. The finding that some bacteria induce competence under such stress conditions, su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3630347 | 1,220,886 |
408,230 | Beriberi is a recurrent nutritional disease in detention houses, even in this century. In 1999, an outbreak of beriberi occurred in a detention center in Taiwan. High rates of illness and death in overcrowded Haitian jails in 2007 were traced to the traditional practice of washing rice before cooking. In the Ivory Coas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5759935 | 408,029 |
2,046,152 | Swann is an Associate Professor of Atmospheric Science and Ecology at the University of Washington. She uses climate models to simulate the way that plants influence earth's climate. She has made a number of discoveries about how changes in the biosphere may influence our climate. For example, she predicts that the add... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59003619 | 2,044,971 |
1,539,947 | One of Gordon's most important contributions to the collaborative research he carried out on labor economics and macroeconomic trends was his historical and institutional understanding of the process of economic growth and development. His approach sought to explain successive booms and crises in a capitalist economy i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26644045 | 1,539,074 |
950,945 | Almost immediately after the U.S. Constitution's ratification in 1788, a major public debate arose over whether to establish a national bank for the United States. Upon George Washington's inauguration as the first President of the United States in 1789, his Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton, proposed creat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=146270 | 950,441 |
544,510 | Whether using earth tubes with or without antimicrobial material, it is extremely important that the underground cooling tubes have an excellent condensation drain and be installed at a 2-3 degree grade to ensure the constant removal of condensed water from the tubes. When implementing in a house without a basement on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4813788 | 544,228 |
1,724,791 | The firm or flexible models might require a period of adjustment. Depending on the severity of the arch collapse and the body's previous conditioning in response to that collapse, sudden readjustment can seem painful. Many attribute the feeling to walking on a walnut. It is recommended new users build up to wearing fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52047806 | 1,723,821 |
1,567,320 | In more recent history, Vietnamese (both domestic scientists and Overseas Vietnamese) inventors and scientists have produced several great discoveries. Đàm Thanh Sơn, a theoretical physicist, Eugene H. Trinh, and Bui Tuong Phong, the creator of the Phong reflection model, are three examples of Vietnamese Americans havi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56111640 | 1,566,433 |
1,560,024 | The American tradition of excellence continued in the distance backstroke, as Ryan Murphy made a historic milestone to claim the country's sixth straight title, and strike a backstroke double for the first time since Aaron Peirsol did so in 2004. He held off a stiff competition from Australia's reigning world champion ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45186785 | 1,559,138 |
1,283,179 | Efforts have also been made to treat refractory coeliac disease in order to prevent EATL. Treatment with corticosteroids, particularly budesonide gives temporary improvement in symptoms and histological responses in 30-40% of patients but few have attained a good overall response. The addition of azathioprine, cyclospo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17353772 | 1,282,481 |
2,154,186 | Upon his graduation from Yale, Harris took his first job as a chemist at the Cheney Brothers Mill. Two years later, he joined a new textile chemistry research group at the National Bureau of Standards. Harris was later appointed director of the group, which would ultimately produce roughly two-hundred scientific papers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11541864 | 2,152,955 |
43,808 | PCA was invented in 1901 by Karl Pearson, as an analogue of the principal axis theorem in mechanics; it was later independently developed and named by Harold Hotelling in the 1930s. Depending on the field of application, it is also named the discrete Karhunen–Loève transform (KLT) in signal processing, the Hotelling tr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=76340 | 43,791 |
409,846 | In 1928, von Ardenne had come into his inheritance with full control as to how it could be spent, and he established his private research laboratory the "Forschungslaboratorium für Elektronenphysik", in Berlin-Lichterfelde, to conduct his own research on radio and television technology and electron microscopy. He finan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1397318 | 409,644 |
2,027,052 | If the final state involves only two particles (e.g. in the Rutherford experiment on elastic scattering) then only one particle needs to be detected. However, for processes leading to three collision products, like e.g. single ionization of the target atom, then two particles need to be momentum-analyzed (for one of th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55541007 | 2,025,885 |
667,541 | The onset is gradual and uniform. The pathological findings of subacute combined degeneration consist of patchy losses of myelin in the dorsal and lateral columns. Patients present with weakness of the legs, arms, and trunk, and tingling and numbness that progressively worsens. Vision changes and change of mental state... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8921507 | 667,193 |
1,366,652 | The second group of younger Early Paleoproterozoic igneous intrusive rocks is quite different in style, age, and significance. These igneous intrusive rocks consist of granitic and pegmatitic dike swarms, i.e. the Cottonwood, Cremation, Sapphire, and Garnet pegmatite complexes, that cut the Granite Gorge Metamorphic Su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40439460 | 1,365,896 |
548,466 | The use of radiolabeled ligands to determine the tissue distributions of receptors is termed either "in vivo" or "in vitro" receptor autoradiography if the ligand is administered into the circulation (with subsequent tissue removal and sectioning) or applied to the tissue sections, respectively. Once the receptor densi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=617003 | 548,178 |
1,346,719 | Another view states that BPST-like instantons play an important role in the vacuum structure of QCD. These instantons were discovered in 1975 by Alexander Belavin, Alexander Markovich Polyakov, Albert S. Schwarz and Yu. S. Tyupkin as topologically stable solutions to the Yang-Mills field equations. They represent tunne... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1967137 | 1,345,978 |
345,105 | The various Microsoft, Lotus, and Corel office suites and related products are programmable with Visual Basic in one form or another, including LotusScript, which is very similar to VBA 6. The Host Explorer terminal emulator uses WWB as a macro language; or more recently the programme and the suite in which it is conta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4015 | 344,924 |
1,244,884 | Neurotransmitters are initially stored and synthesized in vesicles at the synapse of a neuron. When an action potential occurs in a cell, the electrical signal reaches the presynaptic terminal and the depolarization causes calcium channels to open, releasing calcium to travel down its electrochemical gradient. This inf... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23965432 | 1,244,211 |
521,968 | Related to the above, there is considerable media speculation of the use of quantum radar as a potential anti-stealth technology. Stealth aircraft are designed to reflect signals away from the radar, typically by using rounded surfaces and avoiding anything that might form a partial corner reflector. This so reduces th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10113122 | 521,696 |
815,769 | Despite his torpor, Edward proceeded with his tour of Europe, and met with some of the most highly esteemed scientists of the world during his travels through France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Austria, Italy, and Eastern Europe, most likely with introductory letters from Leidy and Spencer Baird. In the winter of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=415000 | 815,335 |
599,951 | After the Second World War, the Soviet Union launched an ambitious marine transportation development program with the intention of turning the ice-covered Northern Sea Route into a navigable shipping route which could be then used to extract natural resources from the Arctic. This included replacing the obsolete steam-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47268788 | 599,645 |
910,673 | Soy protein is generally regarded as being concentrated in protein bodies, which are estimated to contain at least 60–70% of the total soybean protein. Upon germination of the soybean, the protein will be digested, and the released amino acids will be transported to locations of seedling growth. Soybeans contain a smal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7619431 | 910,194 |
2,110,078 | Adaptive collaborative control is the decision-making approach used in hybrid models consisting of finite-state machines with functional models as subcomponents to simulate behavior of systems formed through the partnerships of multiple agents for the execution of tasks and the development of work products. The term “c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33882236 | 2,108,864 |
1,888,439 | Alistair Brownlee kept his perfect Grand Final record as he claimed his second ITU World Championship and 11th World Series race win. Thirty athletes headed out of the swim together and despite numerous attempts to breakaway on the bike headed in to the run section together. A chase pack led by McCormack cut the gap to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29804819 | 1,887,356 |
1,104,650 | Septoplasty is a surgical procedure that straightens the septal nasal cartilage within the center of the nose. With a crooked septum, it is more difficult for an individual to breathe and the risk for getting a sinus infection increases. Also called a deviated septum, a crooked nose will block one or both sides of the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7123299 | 1,104,087 |
2,137,090 | Topic 2: studies related to “nanosciences”, broadly speaking. They are approached from the point of view of fundamental properties, and cover the situation when the size of an object becomes comparable to certain characteristic scales (coherence length, mean free path, etc.). Among the research fields there are the the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41951673 | 2,135,861 |
1,580,489 | Cox was named as the Chair of the Department of Engineering Education at Ohio State University in 2015. She is the first African-American woman to be a Full Professor in the College of Engineering at Ohio State University. She serves as Principal Investigator of a $1.4 million National Science Foundation grant for her ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57469915 | 1,579,599 |
51,784 | AR can augment the effectiveness of navigation devices. Information can be displayed on an automobile's windshield indicating destination directions and meter, weather, terrain, road conditions and traffic information as well as alerts to potential hazards in their path. Since 2012, a Swiss-based company WayRay has bee... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=85631 | 51,764 |
926,660 | Theodore von Kármán was born into a Jewish family in Budapest, Austria-Hungary, as Kármán Tódor, the son of Helen (Kohn, ) and Mór Kármán. One of his ancestors was Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel. He studied engineering at the city's Royal Joseph Technical University, known today as Budapest University of Technology and E... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=194063 | 926,174 |
1,375,614 | Due to its invasive nature, the contraindications of PUBS, reasons to not undergo the procedure, must be taken into account in order to ensure the safety of the fetus and the mother. During the first 18 weeks of pregnancy, the umbilical vein from which the blood sample is taken is not very stable, which could lead to e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13421323 | 1,374,853 |
162,109 | Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–1859) designed the first major railway, the Great Western, built originally in the 1830s to cover the 100 miles from London to Bristol. Even more important was the highly controversial George Hudson. He became Britain's "railway king" by merging numerous short lines. Since there was no gov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33643110 | 162,024 |
1,148,995 | Methylation of histones has been tied to life span regulation in many organisms, specifically H3K4me3, an activating mark, and H4K27me3, a repressing mark. In "C. elegans", the loss of any of the three Trithorax proteins that catalyze the trimethylation of H3K4 such as, WDR-5 and the methyltransferases SET-2 and ASH-2,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33948767 | 1,148,388 |
742,265 | Meanwhile, the debate over the encoding scheme itself was also ongoing. As the new standard was to be international, this was even more contentious as several regional digital standards had emerged in the 1960s and 70s and merging them was not going to be easy. To further confuse issues, in 1984 the Bell System was bro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15231 | 741,873 |
1,024,398 | The Raytheon MIM-23 HAWK is an American medium range surface-to-air missile. As a backronym, some consider "HAWK" to stand for "Homing All the Way Killer" or "Home And Weekend Killer". The HAWK was initially designed to destroy aircraft and was later adapted to destroy other missiles in flight. The missile entered serv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23200607 | 1,023,865 |
2,170,263 | Park started her teaching career at the University of Minnesota as Assistant Professor and later became Associate Professor in the university. From 1998 to 2005, she was a professor in the department of computer science and engineering at the University of Minnesota. Park was a program director at the National Science ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47778090 | 2,169,025 |
921,065 | In 1937, the first P.82 prototype, "K8310", was rolled out. Furnished with a 1,030 hp (768 kW) Rolls-Royce Merlin I and initially lacking its turret, the aircraft bore a great resemblance to the contemporary Hawker Hurricane, although it was at least heavier. On 11 August 1937, "K8310", which had recently received the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=523502 | 920,579 |
1,204,432 | By 1990, enrollment was declining and the academic program at Baltimore City College had once again become subpar compared to its historically high standards. The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools, the organization that had accredited the school for years, began raising questions about the institution's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=713949 | 1,203,787 |
1,655,548 | Most of Misner's research falls into the area of general relativity, which describes the gravitational interactions of very massive bodies. He has contributed to the early understanding of cosmology where he was one of the first to point out the horizon problem, the role of topology in general relativity, quantum gravi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8948787 | 1,654,615 |
857,582 | Interval training can improve many aspects of human physiology. In athletes, it can enhance lactate threshold and increase VO max. Lactate threshold has been shown to be a significant factor in determining performance for long distance running events. An increase in an athlete's VO max allows them to intake more oxygen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3457511 | 857,127 |
1,240,076 | Since Sharpe's original formulation of the model, additional research and development has added to RBSA. A widely accepted addition has been the use of a centered window for historical periods. For example, a 36-month window calculating the exposures for January 2002 would reference data 18 months before and 18 months ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37958919 | 1,239,408 |
1,014,504 | To hide patterns in encrypted data while avoiding the re-issuing of a new key after each block cipher invocation, a method is needed to randomize the input data. In 1980, the NIST published a national standard document designated Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) PUB 81, which specified four so-called bloc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=105971 | 1,013,983 |
94,434 | A study of the elderly who were benzodiazepine dependent found withdrawal could be carried out with few complications and could lead to improvements in sleep and cognitive abilities. At 52 weeks after successful withdrawal, a 22% improvement in cognitive status was found, as well as improved social functioning. Those w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11683572 | 94,393 |
1,455,877 | Also known as pyknolepsy, childhood absence epilepsy (CAE) represents up to 10% of all childhood epilepsies. It first manifests in childhood between the ages of 2 and 12 as brief periods of unconsciousness (absence). It can ben found equally in both males and females. Mutations in the calcium channel α subunit encoding... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7112753 | 1,455,057 |
495,958 | Popularly known as "taramandal", the planetarium was inaugurated on 2 July 1963 by the then Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru. It has an electronics laboratory for design and fabrication of science equipment. It has an astronomy gallery that maintains a huge collection of fine paintings and celestial models of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31993362 | 495,702 |
1,635,117 | Relman joined the faculty at Stanford University in 1994 and has remained there since. His development of broad range small subunit rRNA gene amplification methods for revealing novel microbial pathogens led to the identification of several important previously-uncharacterized human pathogens, including the agents of b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51413344 | 1,634,194 |
1,031,777 | The remaining 50% of the 30Mb of sequence were composed of thirty, 500kb regions selected according to a stratified random-sampling strategy based on gene density and level of non-exonic conservation. The decision to use these particular criteria was made in order to ensure a good sampling of genomic regions varying wi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2140955 | 1,031,241 |
158,491 | One of the largest deployment programs in the world to-date is the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Smart Grid Program funded by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. This program required matching funding from individual utilities. A total of over $9 billion in Public/Private funds were invested as part of this pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13201685 | 158,410 |
1,340,847 | Information on the new EKS system is scarce but it appears that it was designed by Energia Corp in 1999-2000 and was selected against a proposal from Oko manufacturer NPO Lavochkin. The Russian Ministry of Defence awarded the contract to Energia in 2007 with an expected delivery date of 2008, for a test launch in 2009.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35614652 | 1,340,114 |
167,580 | The Fermi–Pasta–Ulam–Tsingou problem is credited not only as "the birth of experimental mathematics", but also as inspiration for the vast field of Nonlinear Science. In his Lilienfeld Prize lecture, David K. Campbell noted this relationship and described how FPUT gave rise to ideas in chaos, solitons, and dynamical sy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41531 | 167,493 |
505,709 | In 1991, the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center was established on a campus in Lebanon, New Hampshire. The three-year project, completed at the cost of $228 million, served as a replacement for the Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, which was partially demolished in the early 1990s. A new curriculum was introduced in 19... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=981603 | 505,446 |
1,686,744 | Electrochemical performance of polymer electrodes is affected by polymer size, morphology, and degree of crystallinity. In a polypyrrole (PPy)/Sodium ion hybrid battery, a 2018 study demonstrated that the polymer anode with a fluffy structure consisting of chains of submicron particles performed with a much higher capa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8661899 | 1,685,798 |
1,964,448 | The main problem with the BaYMV, or any cereal virus for that matter, is that it is an important cash crop for a number of different uses. Some examples include animal feed, beer and alcohol production, and a number of other essential items. This valuable resource has suffered tremendous losses due to the barley yellow... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12264278 | 1,963,320 |
679,281 | He was born in 1806 in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, near Fredericksburg; his parents were Richard Maury and Diane Minor Maury. The family moved to Franklin, Tennessee, when he was five. He wanted to emulate the naval career of his older brother, Flag Lieutenant John Minor Maury, who, however, caught yellow fever afte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=362089 | 678,927 |
901,539 | According to a 2006 "Wall Street Journal" report, "After distinguished service in war zones in recent years, unmanned planes are hitting turbulence as they battle to join airliners and weekend pilots in America's civilian skies. Drones face regulatory, safety and technological hurdles – even though demand for them is b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3524423 | 901,063 |
618,254 | In 2007 it was reported that businessman Ron Walker, director of the company Australian Nuclear Energy had considered Portland as a possible location for a future nuclear power station. Glenelg Mayor Gilbert Wilson said that he thought it was unlikely that such a project would receive community support. He added that h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17603876 | 617,940 |
112,895 | According to James Kulik, who studies the effectiveness of computers used for instruction, students usually learn more in less time when receiving computer-based instruction, and they like classes more and develop more positive attitudes toward computers in computer-based classes. Students can independently solve probl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1944675 | 112,850 |
1,227,226 | Kenneth H. Perlin is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at New York University, founding director of the Media Research Lab at NYU, director of the Future Reality Lab at NYU, and the Director of the Games for Learning Institute. He holds a BA. degree in Theoretical Mathematics from Harvard University (7/... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1551962 | 1,226,565 |
1,254,215 | NCRA has set up a unique facility for radio astronomical research using the metrewavelengths range of the radio spectrum, known as the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT), it is located at a site about 80 km north of Pune. GMRT consists of 30 fully steerable gigantic parabolic dishes of 45m diameter each spread over... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1691194 | 1,253,535 |
1,265,953 | The Chou–Fasman method is an empirical technique for the prediction of secondary structures in proteins, originally developed in the 1970s by Peter Y. Chou and Gerald D. Fasman. The method is based on analyses of the relative frequencies of each amino acid in alpha helices, beta sheets, and turns based on known protein... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8714796 | 1,265,265 |
446,089 | There are few black women philosophers, which includes women of African and Caribbean ancestry, African-Americans and other individuals from the African diaspora. According to philosopher Sally Haslanger, the "numbers of philosophers of color, especially women of color, is even more appalling"; in a 2003 study, there "... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5694046 | 445,873 |
2,159,634 | The government launched the Mundu Novu project in 2009 to modernize education. The project is introducing the concept of interactive education into teaching and mainstreaming informatics into curricula at different levels. Some 150 000 computers are being distributed to public schools. By early 2015, the Mundu Novu edu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54253306 | 2,158,402 |
279,002 | Aggregated proteins are associated with prion-related illnesses such as Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease), amyloid-related illnesses such as Alzheimer's disease and familial amyloid cardiomyopathy or polyneuropathy, as well as intracellular aggregation diseases such as Huntin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52085 | 278,852 |
616,760 | Battles of the Middle Ages were often smaller than those involving the Roman and Grecian armies of Antiquity. Armies (much like the states of the period) were more decentralized. There was little systematic organisation of supplies and equipment. Leaders were often incompetent; their positions of authority often based ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2909541 | 616,446 |
469,500 | Despite the abundance of evidence for the initiation/termination model, recent evidence using transgenic mice expressing calcium indicators in either the direct or indirect pathway demonstrated that both pathways are active at action initiation, but neither are active during inactivity, a finding which has been replica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5690382 | 469,264 |
330,812 | Eggman is described as a certifiable genius with an IQ of 300. His fondness for machines has also made him a renowned authority on robotics. Ultimately, his goal is to conquer the world and create his ultimate "utopia", the Eggman Empire (alternatively known as the Robotnik Empire, Eggmanland, Robotnikland, or Robotrop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16350481 | 330,637 |
944,286 | A few women took additional tests. Jerrie Cobb, Rhea Hurrle, and Wally Funk went to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma for Phase II testing, consisting of an isolation tank test and psychological evaluations. Because of other family and job commitments, not all of the women were able to take these tests. Once Cobb had passed the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4054350 | 943,784 |
994,753 | A study now suggests induced expression of CD32a upon activation of human CD4+ T cells, similar to CD16a. CD32a expression on CD4+ T cells was also suggested by three independent studies from HIV-1 researchers. The expression of CD16a and CD32a in a subset of activated CD4+ T cells is now confirmed. FcRs on the cell su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3147145 | 994,236 |
1,796,546 | Chemogenetics and usage of DREADDs have allowed researchers to advance in biomedical research areas including many neurodegenerative and psychiatric conditions. Chemogenetics have been used in these fields to induce specific and reversible brain lesions and therefore, study specific activities of neuron population. Alt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41969333 | 1,795,537 |
564,109 | The first published report of XeF was in October 1962 by Chernick, et al. However, though published later, XeF was probably first created by Rudolf Hoppe at the University of Münster, Germany, in early 1962, by reacting fluorine and xenon gas mixtures in an electrical discharge. Shortly after these reports, Weeks, Cher... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4733324 | 563,819 |
414,337 | The NASA-led GEMS mission was scheduled to launch for November 2014. The spacecraft would use an X-Ray telescope to measure the polarization of x-rays coming from black holes and neutron stars. It would research into remnants of supernovae, stars that have exploded. Few experiments have been conducted in X-Ray polariza... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25285928 | 414,134 |
188,320 | A spectrometer () is a scientific instrument used to separate and measure spectral components of a physical phenomenon. Spectrometer is a broad term often used to describe instruments that measure a continuous variable of a phenomenon where the spectral components are somehow mixed. In visible light a spectrometer can ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45311025 | 188,223 |
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