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412,561 | The other major Lend-Lease recipient of the M3, the Soviet Union, was even more dissatisfied with the tank, considering it undergunned, underarmored, likely to catch fire, and too sensitive to fuel quality. The narrow tracks were highly unsuited to operation in winter conditions, as they resulted in high ground pressur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25658417 | 412,359 |
734,024 | Originally characterized in 1957 by French biochemist Jacques Decourt, LOCAH differs from classic CAH in that it does not cause atypical neonatal genital morphology, is not life-threatening and presents after birth. Unlike classic CAH, LOCAH generally cannot be reliably detected with neonatal screening. Many individual... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62636620 | 733,637 |
577,862 | The avionics of the D-JET comprise a Garmin G1000 glass cockpit, the large multi-function display of which taking center-place on the cockpit dashboard, akin to aircraft such as the Citation Mustang. For de-icing purposes, Diamond opted for pneumatic boots on the wing's leading edges, bleed air for heating the inlets a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8087203 | 577,566 |
1,486,639 | Riparian-zone restoration is the ecological restoration of riparian-zone habitats of streams, rivers, springs, lakes, floodplains, and other hydrologic ecologies. A riparian zone or riparian area is the interface between land and a river or stream. "Riparian" is also the proper nomenclature for one of the fifteen terre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26956225 | 1,485,801 |
1,770,303 | FOXO4 is a member of the forkhead family transcription factors O subclass, which is characterized by a winged helix domain used for DNA binding. There are 4 members of the FOXO family, including FOXO1, FOXO3, and FOXO6. Their activity is modified by many post translational activities, such as phosphorylation, ubiquitin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14755313 | 1,769,308 |
971,557 | In the conjugated chromophores, the electrons jump between energy levels that are extended pi orbitals, created by electron clouds like those in aromatic systems. Common examples include retinal (used in the eye to detect light), various food colorings, fabric dyes (azo compounds), pH indicators, lycopene, β-carotene, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2193362 | 971,047 |
436,858 | Bioluminescent bacteria are most abundant in marine environments during spring blooms when there are high nutrient concentrations. These light-emitting organisms are found mainly in coastal waters near the outflow of rivers, such as the northern Adriatic Sea, Gulf of Trieste, northwestern part of the Caspian Sea, coast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43183712 | 436,644 |
2,022,544 | aOFM (Figure 4) allows continuous on-line monitoring of metabolic processes in the subcutaneous adipose tissue, e.g. glucose and lactate, as well as larger analytes such as insulin (5.9 kDa). The role of polypeptides for metabolic signaling (leptin, cytokine IL-6, TNFα) has also been studied with aOFM. aOFM allows the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=66518057 | 2,021,380 |
1,648,056 | MOA was originally invented and defined by Manfred Hettmer in 1982. He also developed the system from a theoretical model into a practical device after reaching a basic level of own funding by his entrepreneurship in the IT-branche. In the first logical step in 1998 he began coding a computer simulation and built a moc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7916851 | 1,647,124 |
1,639,556 | Late in 1877, Marsh's scientific rival Edward Drinker Cope heard that fossils had been discovered at Como Bluff. He quickly dispatched his own fossil hunters into the area. Reed described his struggles to keep Cope's men away from his own hunting grounds in regular correspondence with Marsh. William Carlin quit working... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37799139 | 1,638,630 |
1,934,083 | The National Estuarine Research Reserve System's Coastal Training Program (CTP) was formally initiated in 2001 to provide up-to-date scientific information and skill-building opportunities to the people who are responsible for making decisions affecting coastal lands and waters of the United States. Through this progra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=456966 | 1,932,975 |
1,271,342 | A recent review by McDowell reveals that Herrnstein's original equation fails to accurately describe concurrent-schedule data under a substantial range of conditions. Three deviations from matching have been observed: undermatching, overmatching, and bias. Undermatching means that the response proportions are less extr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5499512 | 1,270,651 |
790,893 | Academic freedom and free speech rights are not coextensive, although this widely accepted view has been recently challenged by an "institutionalist" perspective on the First Amendment. Academic freedom involves more than speech rights; for example, it includes the right to determine what is taught in the classroom. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=614484 | 790,468 |
235,772 | In the US, the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA) of 2007 authorized the Department of Energy (DOE) to establish the Bright Tomorrow Lighting Prize competition, known as the "L Prize", the first government-sponsored technology competition designed to challenge industry to develop replacements for 60 W incandes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9910525 | 235,653 |
1,794,984 | SPS-kinase reversibly phosphorylates a serine residue and subsequently deactivates SPS, In spinach and maize, the site of phosphorylation regulation has been identified as Ser158 and Ser162 respectively. While it is currently unclear if this seryl residue homolog in other plant SPSes is phosphorylated to suppress SPS a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14663461 | 1,793,975 |
1,401,831 | Historically, penetrating keratoplasty, or full thickness corneal transplantation, was the treatment of choice for irreversible endothelial failure. More recently, new corneal transplant techniques have been developed to enable more selective replacement of the diseased corneal endothelium. This approach, termed endoke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=915644 | 1,401,044 |
2,241,638 | The approach at SEMC is based on the de novo, rational design of new technologies from the ground up through a process involving conceptual design, computational study, and experimental discovery. One of the major emphases within SEMC is the development of new single-site catalysts for the activation and eventual ruptu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36155313 | 2,240,367 |
601,054 | The plant was built between 1973 and 1984, completed with a General Electric type 5 boiling water reactor using Mark II containment. Its location on Long Island Sound – near the mouth of the small stream that forms the border between Brookhaven and Riverhead towns – was largely rural at the time (although within 60 mil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2046186 | 600,746 |
972,619 | Frequencies used are in the range of 24 to 500 kHz, with transmitter power levels up to hundreds of watts. These signals may be impressed on one conductor, on two conductors or on all three conductors of a high-voltage AC transmission line. Several PLC channels may be coupled onto one HV line. Filtering devices are app... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=238420 | 972,109 |
517,245 | In modern coordinated signal systems, it is possible for drivers to travel long distances without encountering a red light. This coordination is done easily only on one-way streets with fairly constant levels of traffic. Two-way streets are often arranged to correspond with rush hours to speed the heavier volume direct... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21844439 | 516,976 |
828,165 | Proper function of all of these transporters is necessary for normal ion reabsorption along the thick ascending limb, and loss of any component can result in functional inactivation of the system as a whole and lead to the presentation of Bartter syndrome. Loss of function of this reabsorption system results in decreas... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4050210 | 827,721 |
2,031,936 | The men's artistic individual all-around competition at the 1956 Summer Olympics was held at the West Melbourne Stadium from 3 to 7 December. It was the twelfth appearance of the event. There were 63 competitors from 18 nations, with each nation entering up to 6 gymnasts. The event was won by Viktor Chukarin of the Sov... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61382902 | 2,030,766 |
275,363 | On 27 February 1947, P-82B, named "Betty Jo" and flown by Colonel Robert E. Thacker, made history when it flew nonstop from Hawaii to New York without refueling, a distance of in 14 hr 32 min. It averaged . This flight tested the P-82's range. The aircraft carried a full internal fuel tank of , augmented by four tanks ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=671473 | 275,215 |
453,096 | "Polypterus senegalus" is an elongated fish, usually grey or beige in color, though it sometimes has shades of white, pink or blue on some of its rhomboid-shaped, multilayer scales. Most of the fish is covered in very subtle patterns with occasional darker blotches or dots. At the nose, the face is smooth and rounded, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1540753 | 452,875 |
1,837,588 | Slumping is a process that can occur to any context in the archaeological record and not just fills. Slumping represents how a context's deposition morphology may deform from its original position by natural settling action. This is readily apparent with fills which have a tendency to settle radically over time. This s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7681807 | 1,836,539 |
999,374 | Later in 1984, a research team led by Peter Armbruster and Gottfried Münzenberg at Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI; "Institute for Heavy Ion Research") in Darmstadt, Hesse, West Germany, attempted to create element108. The team bombarded a lead target with accelerated iron nuclei. GSI's experiment to create ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13764 | 998,856 |
1,455,104 | Monoamine transporters (MATs) are protein structures that function as integral plasma-membrane transporters to regulate concentrations of extracellular monoamine neurotransmitters. Three major classes of MATs (SERT, DAT, NET) are responsible for the reuptake of their associated amine neurotransmitters (serotonin, dopam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=463961 | 1,454,284 |
1,649,520 | The 196 residue OSM is the predominant form isolated form a variety of cell lines and corresponds to a glycoprotein of 28 KDa, although the larger 227 residue pro-OSM can be isolated from over transfected cells. Pro-OSM, although an order of magnitude less efficacious in growth inhibition assays, displays similar bindi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4693065 | 1,648,588 |
1,242,260 | CPA avoids both of these problems by spreading out the laser pulse in time. It does this by reflecting a relatively multi-chromatic (as compared to most lasers) pulse off a series of two diffraction gratings, which splits them spatially into different frequencies, essentially the same thing a simple prism does with vis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2700382 | 1,241,588 |
1,905,560 | Fleetwood joined Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1984. He was named a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in the Radiation Technology and Assurance Department in 1990. In 1997 he received R&D 100 and "IndustryWeek" magazine awards for co-invention of a new type of computer memory chip b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41774898 | 1,904,465 |
1,876,446 | As aerial photographic cameras developed and got cheaper in the 1960s and ‘70s all forest services began purchasing their own 70 mm medium format camera equipment and modifying small civilian aircraft to undertake regular surveys collecting information on things like vegetation, logging areas, new road works and bushfi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57882206 | 1,875,368 |
814,326 | SMI can be combined with other super resolution technologies, for instance with 3D LIMON or LSI-TIRF as a total internal reflection interferometer with laterally structured illumination (this last instrument and technique is essentially a phase-shifted photon tunneling microscope, which employs a total internal reflect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26694015 | 813,893 |
1,727,633 | Originally, from June 2007, all homes (and other buildings) in the UK would have to undergo Energy Performance Certification (also commonly known as an EPC Certificate) before they are sold or let, in order to meet the requirements of the European Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (Directive 2002/91/EC). The sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5188309 | 1,726,659 |
973,661 | High-tech architecture focuses on creating adaptable buildings through choice of materials, internal structural elements, and programmatic design. It seeks to avoid links to the past, and as such eschews building materials commonly used in older styles of architecture. Common elements include hanging or overhanging flo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4460840 | 973,151 |
103,541 | The risk of death from an intraparenchymal bleed in traumatic brain injury is especially high when the injury occurs in the brain stem. Intraparenchymal bleeds within the medulla oblongata are almost always fatal, because they cause damage to cranial nerve X, the vagus nerve, which plays an important role in blood circ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2959528 | 103,496 |
104,095 | A desktop computer (often abbreviated desktop) is a personal computer designed for regular use at a single location on or near a desk due to its size and power requirements. The most common configuration has a case that houses the power supply, motherboard (a printed circuit board with a microprocessor as the central p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52742 | 104,050 |
1,162,082 | Tetranitromethane can be used as a component of highly explosive liquid explosives as an oxidizing agent. It forms highly explosive mixtures with all flammable substances. When experimenting with this substance, paper filters should not be used for filtration. Even small impurities make tetranitromethane an explosive t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8474608 | 1,161,465 |
1,763,152 | The "Dictionary of Scientific Biography" is a scholarly English-language reference work consisting of biographies of scientists from antiquity to modern times, but excluding scientists who were alive when the "Dictionary" was first published. It includes scientists who worked in the areas of mathematics, physics, chemi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8425211 | 1,762,159 |
763,323 | Initially established as Las Cruces College, NM State was designated a land-grant college in 1898 and subsequently renamed New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts; it received its present name in 1960. NMSU had approximately 21,700 students enrolled as of Fall 2021 and a faculty-to-student ratio of roughly ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=510353 | 762,914 |
128,024 | To expand Buran capabilities, pressurised modules similar to ESA's Spacelab were designed based on the 37K design. These modules had to be both compartments to conduct experiments and logistics volume, could be mounted either in the payload bay and connected to the crew cabin via tunnel or be temporarily docked to Mir'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5816780 | 127,972 |
318,306 | The ACV 1.1 is to carry 10–13 Marines, have a swim capability similar to the AAV and have equal or greater mobility to the M1 Abrams tank. Although tracks are traditionally considered better for all-terrain mobility, the Marines believe wheeled vehicle technology has advanced enough to enhance survivability and mobilit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32993753 | 318,135 |
1,234,780 | In collaboration with Jean Weigle, Meselson then applied the density gradient method to studies of genetic recombination in the bacteriophage Lambda. The question was whether such recombination involved breakage of the recombining DNA molecules or cooperative synthesis of new molecules. The question could be answered b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1631384 | 1,234,117 |
828,170 | Medically supervised sodium, chloride and potassium supplementation is necessary, and spironolactone can be also used to reduce potassium loss. Free and unqualified access to water is necessary to prevent dehydration, as patients maintain an appropriate thirst response. In severe cases where supplementation alone canno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4050210 | 827,726 |
1,047,498 | Altogether, eleven densely populated districts comprising 8.3 million people were affected, but the regencies of Bantul, Sleman, Gunung Kidul, Kulon Progo, Klaten, and the city of Yogyakarta were especially hard hit. More than 5,700 people were killed in the early morning shock, with tens of thousands injured, and hund... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5309730 | 1,046,953 |
1,048,675 | Born to Thanu Iyer and Lakshmi on 10 March 1957 in Thiruvananthapuram (then Trivandrum), Padmanabhan attended school there. He earned his B.Sc. (1977) and M.Sc. (1979) in Physics from the University College Thiruvananthapuram, part of Kerala University. He published his first research paper (on general relativity) when... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7390988 | 1,048,130 |
1,698,715 | As early as the 17th century, there is evidence that sporting types among the well-to-do relished strong competition and welcomed the opportunity to play against the best performers, who tended to be working class and in time became the first professionals. Although the gentry were happy to play with and against the wo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30187735 | 1,697,761 |
1,817,390 | Wind Prospect is a cancelled wind generation project, developed by BNE Energy, with an expected capacity of 3.2 MW utilizing 2 GE 1.6 MW wind turbines in Prospect, Connecticut. The site is high on a ridge adjacent to and overlooking the New Naugatuck Reservoir. The predicted wind speeds and physical characteristics of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41696916 | 1,816,355 |
1,911,327 | Hodge was author or co-author of over 550 research papers and talks at professional meetings, as well as 28 books. Most of the papers are concerned with the extragalactic universe, especially nearby galaxies, their distances and their histories. Work on the Magellanic Clouds, carried out at observatories in South Afric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5884371 | 1,910,228 |
1,596,283 | Pearson's love of dance music led him to begin DJing whilst still working in his home studio. His first 12" single "Motorcade" was released by small, Birmingham based label Bostin' Records under the artist name "Villa America", the cover of the record was vivid claret and blue which Ewan says had nothing to do with loc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7073958 | 1,595,384 |
1,764,409 | Subdivision rules were applied by Cannon, Floyd and Parry (2000) to the study of large-scale growth patterns of biological organisms. Cannon, Floyd and Parry produced a mathematical growth model which demonstrated that some systems determined by simple finite subdivision rules can results in objects (in their example, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36799559 | 1,763,416 |
1,283,474 | Fungi are important crop pathogens, as they reproduce rapidly, affect a wide range of crops around the world, cause some 85% of plant diseases, and can create serious economic losses. The range of types of fungi involved is also wide, including Ascomycetes such as "Fusarium" causing wilt, Basidiomycetes such as "Ustila... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51103519 | 1,282,776 |
939,223 | Conservation biologists have started to collaborate with leading global economists to determine how to measure the wealth and services of nature and to make these values apparent in global market transactions. This system of accounting is called "natural capital" and would, for example, register the value of an ecosyst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=216216 | 938,722 |
266,013 | For the rest of the two crafts' passes over the near side of the Moon, Mattingly prepared to shift "Casper" to a higher, near-circular orbit, while Young and Duke prepared "Orion" for the descent to the lunar surface. At this point, during tests of the CSM's steerable rocket engine in preparation for the burn to modify... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1970 | 265,869 |
207,998 | The role of systems engineering in the early development of instructional design was demonstrated during World War II when a considerable amount of training materials for the military were developed based on the principles of instruction, learning, and human behavior. Tests for assessing a learner's abilities were used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=91820 | 207,891 |
2,001,703 | The first measurements with "Curiosity" Tunable Laser Spectrometer (TLS) in 2012 indicated that there was no methane —or less than 5 ppb— at the landing site, later calculated to a baseline of 0.3 to 0.7 ppbv. In 2013, NASA scientists again reported no detection of methane beyond a baseline. But in 2014, NASA reported ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61051630 | 2,000,556 |
1,191,292 | Injunctions both preliminary and permanent could and were often issued in cases involving gas works. For example, the ill reputation of gas-works became so well known that in "City of Cleveland vs. Citizens' Gas Light Co.", 20 N. J. Eq. 201, a court went so far as to enjoin a "future" gas-works not yet even built – pre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16593931 | 1,190,658 |
1,834,632 | The cell structure of "M. foxii" is fairly well preserved in the large stump. Samples taken from the specimen show notably large rays up to 110 cells in height. The ray height for "M. milleri" is up to 80 cells and "M. glyptostroboides" has a ray of up to only 20 cells. As "M. occidentalis" is only known from compressi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33793611 | 1,833,583 |
275,364 | The Twin Mustang was developed at the end of the prop-driven fighter era and at the dawn of the jet age. Its designed role as a long-range fighter escort was eliminated by the end of World War II. With the rapid draw-down of the armed forces after the war, the newly established United States Air Force had little money ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=671473 | 275,216 |
1,306,668 | The application process includes an examination, an interview, and a supervisor assessment. Applicants must also complete the US Army's Command and General Staff School or an equivalent intermediate-level education course offered by another uniformed service. The student body of SAMS comprises mostly US Army field grad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47720 | 1,305,952 |
1,230,457 | In efforts to provide a shared framework for algorithm and application development in DTNs, RFC 4838 and RFC 5050 were published in 2007 to define a common abstraction to software running on disrupted networks. Commonly known as the Bundle Protocol, this protocol defines a series of contiguous data blocks as a bundle—w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2710684 | 1,229,795 |
868,465 | During World War II, projectiles used highly alloyed steels containing nickel-chromium-molybdenum, although in Germany, this had to be changed to a silicon-manganese-chromium-based alloy when those grades became scarce. The latter alloy, although able to be hardened to the same level, was more brittle and had a tendenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=79266 | 868,005 |
1,824,862 | Kroening was born in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. He attended Marie-Therese-Gymnasium, Erlangen, Bavaria from 1986 to 1990 and Rotenbühl Gymnasium, Saarbrücken, Saarland from 1990 to 1995. Kroening's early work in those highschool years includes implementations of data transfer protocols and a bulletin board s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54414085 | 1,823,824 |
790,678 | DLR and NASA jointly operate the flying infrared telescope SOFIA (Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy). A Boeing 747SP with a modified fuselage enabling it to carry a reflecting telescope developed in Germany is used as an airborne research platform. The aircraft is operated by the Dryden Flight Research C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=647619 | 790,253 |
1,711,371 | Toxicological studies (in six laboratories) reported on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Australian Story program Feb 2010 found that the surface scum (foam) collected from a river supplying water to a Tasmanian town kills water fleas, mollusc larvae and human cell lines, and it was reported on the same progra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18175169 | 1,710,408 |
585,004 | In 2016, the Italian company REM TEC built a 0.5 MWp agrivoltaic power plant in Jinzhai County, Anhui Province. Chinese companies have developed several GWs of solar power plants combining agriculture and solar energy production, either photovoltaic greenhouses or open-field installations. For example, Panda Green Ener... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48680511 | 584,704 |
357,740 | Before Darwin, biologists commonly believed in saltationism, the possibility of large evolutionary jumps, including immediate speciation. For example, in 1822 Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire argued that species could be formed by sudden transformations, or what would later be called macromutation. Darwin opposed saltati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19702 | 357,554 |
1,386,702 | The unit was redesigned the 533d Strategic Missile Squadron and organized at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas on 1 August 1962 as a part of the 381st Strategic Missile Wing. The squadron began training in preparation for LGM-25C Titan II, and the 381st Wing put its first Titans on alert in July 1963. It operated nine T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25928697 | 1,385,935 |
1,203,539 | The way microrobots move around is a function of their purpose and necessary size. At submicron sizes, the physical world demands rather bizarre ways of getting around. The Reynolds number for airborne robots is less than unity; the viscous forces dominate the inertial forces, so “flying” could use the viscosity of air... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=184570 | 1,202,895 |
1,405,503 | A lipopeptide is a molecule consisting of a lipid connected to a peptide. They are able to self-assemble into different structures. Many bacteria produced these molecules as a part of their metabolism, especially those of the genus "Bacillus", "Pseudomonas" and "Streptomyces". Certain lipopeptides are used as antibioti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15499714 | 1,404,713 |
784,963 | John F. Cairns was appointed as the Director of the merged Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in 1963 and found that in the absence of continued financial support from the Carnegie Institution of Washington, the newly created institution was in desperate need of funds to support its programs and update facilities. Cairns st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=441300 | 784,543 |
1,147,125 | The mid-Pliocene warm period is considered a potential analog of future climate. The intensity of the sunlight reaching the earth, the global geography, and carbon dioxide concentrations were similar to present. Furthermore, many mid-Pliocene species are extant helping paleotemperature proxies calibration. Model simula... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25797277 | 1,146,520 |
1,214,639 | A large quantity of theological reflection emerged in the early centuries of the Christian church—in a wide variety of genres, in a variety of contexts, and in several languages—much of it the product of attempts to discuss how Christian faith should be lived in cultures very different from the one in which it was born... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9523738 | 1,213,987 |
1,355,976 | Throughout the 1950s, Blumberg traveled the world taking human blood samples, to study the genetic variations in human beings, focusing on the question of why some people contract a disease in a given environment, while others do not. In 1964, while studying "yellow jaundice" (hepatitis), he discovered a surface antige... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=518686 | 1,355,228 |
224,294 | The total precipitation on Antarctica, averaged over the entire continent, is about per year (Vaughan et al., "J. Clim.", 1999). The actual rates vary widely, from high values over the Peninsula (15 to 25 inches a year) to very low values (as little as in the high interior (Bromwich, "Reviews of Geophysics", 1988). Are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=179863 | 224,180 |
95,032 | The first production version, designated P3V-1, was launched on 15 April 1961. Initial squadron deliveries to Patrol Squadron Eight (VP-8) and Patrol Squadron Forty-Four (VP-44) at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, began in August 1962. On 18 September 1962, the U.S. military transitioned to a unified designa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162863 | 94,991 |
391,590 | Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals are synthesized from solutions, much like traditional chemical processes. The main difference is the product neither precipitates as a bulk solid nor remains dissolved. Heating the solution at high temperature, the precursors decompose forming monomers which then nucleate and genera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=511547 | 391,395 |
743,024 | In 2000, John Pendry was the first to identify a practical way to make a left-handed metamaterial, a material in which the right-hand rule is not followed. Such a material allows an electromagnetic wave to convey energy (have a group velocity) against its phase velocity. Pendry's idea was that metallic wires aligned al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=906878 | 742,630 |
1,173,426 | Sergei Zimov is a co-founder and the director of the Northeast Science Station,<ref name="terrychapin.org/station.html">F. Stuart ‘Terry’ Chapin III: "Northeast Science Station. Cherskii, Russia." terrychapin.org, 12 November 2006. Retrieved 2 November 2016.</ref> one of the world's three largest Arctic stations. Locat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22484674 | 1,172,807 |
736,713 | Received signal strength indication (RSSI) is a measurement of the power level received by sensor. Because radio waves propagate according to the inverse-square law, distance can be approximated (typically to within 1.5 meters in ideal conditions and 2 to 4 meters in standard conditions) based on the relationship betwe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13431137 | 736,325 |
1,844,246 | Ecological factors, such as predation, also impact the cost of reproduction. Predation disproportionately affects breeding organisms because of multiple factors. These include increased exposure to predators due to mate searching, predators being attracted to conspicuous mating displays, and decreased mobility during c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59916033 | 1,843,192 |
842,660 | In early August 2005, the company announced it would acquire "Apogen Technologies, Inc.", pending regulatory approval; according to QinetiQ's website, the purchase came at a cost of $288.0m (£162.7m). In September 2005, the company acquired a 90% share of "Verhaert Design and Development NV" (VDD), a Belgian space syst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=663905 | 842,210 |
1,304,439 | In addition to the important issues of safety and incidental findings, mentioned above, some arise from the unprecedented and rapidly developing ability to correlate brain activation with psychological states and traits. One of the most widely discussed new applications of imaging is based on correlations between brain... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=703002 | 1,303,723 |
1,314,957 | Evans and his collaborators showed that they could introduce a new gene into cultured embryonic stem cells and then use such genetically transformed cells to make chimeric embryos. In some chimeric embryos, the genetically altered stem cells produced gametes, thus allowing transmission of the artificially induced mutat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1721040 | 1,314,236 |
154,090 | The IAF was impressed by the Gnat's performance in the two wars but the aircraft had many technical problems including hydraulics, a temperamental pair of Aden 30 mm cannons which often failed in-flight, significant 'bent thrust' on take-off, leading to many aborted take-offs and an unreliable control system. To addres... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=495874 | 154,020 |
688,520 | Finding that a recombinant organism contains the inserted genes is not usually sufficient to ensure that they will be appropriately expressed in the intended tissues. Further testing using PCR, Southern hybridization, and DNA sequencing is conducted to confirm that an organism contains the new gene. These tests can als... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=37319629 | 688,162 |
1,698,763 | Naturally occurring within the soil are microbial populations that utilize hydrocarbons as a source of energy and carbon. Upwards to twenty percent of microbial soil populations have the ability to metabolize hydrocarbons. These populations can through either accelerated or natural monitored attenuation be utilized to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=52966974 | 1,697,809 |
540,428 | Activin and inhibin are two closely related protein complexes that have almost directly opposite biological effects. Identified in 1986, activin enhances FSH biosynthesis and secretion, and participates in the regulation of the menstrual cycle. Many other functions have been found to be exerted by activin, including ro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22470207 | 540,148 |
684,078 | The Minnesota Golden Gophers men's ice hockey team is the college ice hockey team at the Twin Cities campus of the University of Minnesota. They are members of the Big Ten Conference and compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I ice hockey. The Golden Gophers have won five NCAA national cham... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7865612 | 683,721 |
1,385,022 | After his return from the United States, Riazuddin was inducted into the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) as member (technical). In 1974, he began to take research with the TPG, and began one of the pioneering member of the TPG. In 1973, Raziddin Siddiqui formed the Mathematical Physics Group (MPG) which closel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22233947 | 1,384,255 |
1,649,319 | The first orbiting, unmanned satellite to be repaired in space, SMM was notable in that its useful life compared with similar spacecraft was significantly increased by the direct intervention of a manned space mission. During STS-41-C in April 1984, the Space Shuttle "Challenger" rendezvoused with the SMM, astronauts J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1301109 | 1,648,387 |
2,143,172 | CALHM1 was identified by a tissue-specific gene expression profiling approach that screened for genes located on susceptibility loci for late-onset Alzheimer's disease (AD) and that are preferentially expressed in the hippocampus, a brain region affected early in AD. CALHM1 is a plasma membrane calcium-permeable ion ch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39299121 | 2,141,941 |
22,215 | In 1819, the German chemist Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge isolated relatively pure caffeine for the first time; he called it ""Kaffebase"" (i.e., a base that exists in coffee). According to Runge, he did this at the behest of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In 1821, caffeine was isolated both by the French chemist Pierre Jean ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6868 | 22,206 |
173,080 | On some occasions, DNA damage is not repaired or is repaired by an error-prone mechanism that results in a change from the original sequence. When this occurs, mutations may propagate into the genomes of the cell's progeny. Should such an event occur in a germ line cell that will eventually produce a gamete, the mutati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=854294 | 172,989 |
469,110 | The first HH object was observed in the late 19th century by Sherburne Wesley Burnham, when he observed the star T Tauri with the refracting telescope at Lick Observatory and noted a small patch of nebulosity nearby. It was thought to be an emission nebula, later becoming known as Burnham's Nebula, and was not recogniz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1123615 | 468,874 |
832,125 | The enzymatic reaction consists of two chemical steps, galactosylation and degalactosylation. Galactosylation is the first chemical step in the reaction where Glu461 donates a proton to a glycosidic oxygen, resulting in galactose covalently bonding with Glu537. In the second step, degalactosylation, the covalent bond i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67168 | 831,676 |
2,165,774 | An early instance that had a major influence on shaping how the military responds was the 1794 Whiskey Rebellion. It set the stage for establishing the fundamental principles codified in the United States' current laws. Because of the excise tax on whiskey, the taxpayers revolted against the federal government. Violenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22553820 | 2,164,537 |
676,666 | Under the name Project Diana, the Evans staff took up the possibility of bouncing radar signals off the moon. Calculations showed that standard pulsed radar like the stock SCR-271 would not do the job; higher average power, much wider transmitter pulses, and very narrow receiver bandwidth would be required. They realiz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10315 | 676,313 |
1,898,600 | Modern direct Xa inhibitors are L-shaped molecules whose ends fit perfectly in the S1 and S4 pockets. The long side of the L-shape has to conform to a highly-specific tunnel within the targets active site. To accomplish that, this part of the molecules is designed to have little formal interactions with FXa in that reg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51714214 | 1,897,516 |
193,590 | Duquesne was the first university in Pennsylvania to receive the EPA's Energy Star Combined Heat and Power Award for its natural gas turbine located on campus. Duquesne also uses an innovative ice cooling system that cools buildings and reduces peak energy demand. Duquesne's new Power Center facility has also achieved ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=582163 | 193,490 |
1,936,815 | The Eagles entered the 2021–22 season following a strong 2020–21 effort. With a 17–6–1 record, going 16–4–1 in conference play, the Eagles finished first in Hockey East for a second straight year and returned to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2016. Despite clinching the top seed in the conference, no regu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=68486296 | 1,935,707 |
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