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722,136 | Analyses of Enantiornithes bone histology have been conducted to determine the growth rates of these animals. A 2006 study of "Concornis" bones showed a growth pattern different from modern birds; although growth was rapid for a few weeks after hatching, probably until fledging, this small species did not reach adult s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1118730 | 721,756 |
1,504,854 | Terminals are one of the things that may perform echoing for a connection. Others include modems, some form of intervening communications processor, or even the host system itself. For several common computer operating systems, it is the host system itself that performs the echoing, if appropriate (which it isn't for, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17306295 | 1,504,008 |
597,555 | Because dioxins can persist in the environment for more than 100 years, the majority of PCDD pollution today is not the result of recent emissions, but the cumulative result of synthetic processes undertaken since the beginning of the 20th century, including organochloride-related manufacturing, incineration of chlorin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51357 | 597,250 |
826,981 | In a study titled "Natural selection for least action" published in the "Proceedings of the Royal Society A.", Ville Kaila and Arto Annila of the University of Helsinki describe how the process of natural selection responsible for such local increase in order may be mathematically derived directly from the expression o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7815174 | 826,537 |
1,510,434 | When the company later decided to offer their software for sale externally, it quickly gained a customer base that lauded the developers for the software's exceptionally fast rendering engine and high image quality. Because it was capable of film-quality output on commodity hardware, ElectricImage was popular in the mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=191932 | 1,509,584 |
363,214 | A study in 2018 found that "Megachirella", an extinct genus of lepidosaurs that lived about 240 million years ago during the Middle Triassic, was a stem-squamate, making it the oldest known squamate. The phylogenetic analysis was conducted by performing high-resolution microfocus X-ray computed tomography (micro-CT) sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=305742 | 363,024 |
1,319,213 | Cobb was also one of the founders of the University of Georgia School of Law, and served on the first Georgia code commission of 1858 and drafted what became the private, penal, and civil law portions of the Georgia Code of 1861, which was the first successfully enacted attempt at a comprehensive codification of the co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5463290 | 1,318,487 |
111,486 | The M-346 is designed for the main role of lead-in fighter trainer, in which aircraft's performance and capabilities are used to deliver pilot training for the latest generation of combat fighter aircraft. Powered by a pair of Honeywell F124 turbofan dry engines, designed to reduce acquisition and operating costs, it i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=948485 | 111,441 |
1,755,445 | Over the course of the 19th century, land surveying in America transformed from a prestigious, status-driven endeavor derived from the authority of a royal government and administration that had been inherited from the Colonial-Era, to the more practical, and standardized modern field of public service as it is general... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41624490 | 1,754,455 |
1,077,875 | Hamilton's best-known research included her studies on carbon monoxide poisoning among American steelworkers, mercury poisoning of hatters, and "a debilitating hand condition developed by workers using jackhammers." At the request of the U.S. Department of Labor, she also investigated industries involved in developing ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1532239 | 1,077,320 |
763,015 | One of the lander's main tasks was to support the rover by imaging its operations and sending data from the rover to Earth. The lander had rechargeable batteries and over of solar cells on its petals. The lander contained a stereoscopic camera with spatial filters on an expandable pole called Imager for Mars Pathfinder... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36694809 | 762,607 |
782,550 | The main college site, situated on the outskirts of the village of Girton, about northwest of the university town, comprises of land. In a typical Victorian red brick design, most was built by architect Alfred Waterhouse between 1872 and 1887. It provides extensive sports facilities, an indoor swimming pool, an award-w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=457564 | 782,131 |
340,603 | Legislatures, being importuned by businesses expecting to profit from operating a PKI, or by the technological avant-garde advocating new solutions to old problems, have enacted statutes and/or regulations in many jurisdictions authorizing, endorsing, encouraging, or permitting digital signatures and providing for (or ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=59644 | 340,422 |
1,670,919 | Capacity model implies that television viewers will construct their understanding of the narrative content by accessing prior knowledge and draw inferences on the new material based on previous exposure. Theory and empirical research has supported the notion that people are using working memory to process information n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31567468 | 1,669,979 |
1,304,488 | The field of numerical relativity emerged from the desire to construct and study more general solutions to the field equations by approximately solving the Einstein equations numerically. A necessary precursor to such attempts was a decomposition of spacetime back into separated space and time. This was first published... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1797708 | 1,303,772 |
1,483,405 | Using a combination of biochemical and cell-based approaches, it has demonstrated that BMP-2 could interact in biochemical assays with the single-chain HJV species, and also could bind to cell-associated HJV. Two mouse HJV amino acid substitution mutants, D165E and G313V (corresponding to human D172E and G320V), also c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7056464 | 1,482,569 |
1,742,120 | No. 75 Squadron deployed to Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in February 2003 as part of the Australian contribution to the invasion of Iraq (Operation Falconer). The squadron was equipped only with recently serviced F/A-18s, and its 14 aircraft were drawn from No. 81 Wing's three frontline squadrons. The other squadrons als... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5331491 | 1,741,136 |
1,026,975 | The first technique, involving an optocoupler, has been used to obtain tight voltage and current regulation, whereas the second approach has been developed for cost-sensitive applications where the output does not need to be as tightly controlled, but many components including the optocoupler can be eliminated from the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4676793 | 1,026,441 |
1,210,199 | Although there is no cure for NM, it is possible, and common for many people live healthy active lives even with moderate to severe cases.<ref name="Diseases-Inherited/Endocrine Myopathies"></ref> Research continues to seek ways to ameliorate debilitating symptoms and lengthen the life-span in quality ways for those af... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1900228 | 1,209,552 |
358,492 | Although the working draft was announced in June 2000, it was not until February 2001 that Celera and the HGP scientists published details of their drafts. Special issues of "Nature" (which published the publicly funded project's scientific paper) described the methods used to produce the draft sequence and offered ana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5219699 | 358,306 |
532,884 | While praise for the opening ceremony was widespread amongst the world's media, the Singaporean newspaper "The Straits Times" described some western media reactions as "cynical" and "hostile". "The Globe and Mail" had a column with title "The iron hand behind the magic show", some questioned the "heavy military theme".... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19390268 | 532,605 |
95,344 | Onshore wind is an inexpensive source of electric power, cheaper than coal plants and new gas plants. According to BusinessGreen, wind turbines reached grid parity (the point at which the cost of wind power matches traditional sources) in some areas of Europe in the mid-2000s, and in the US around the same time. Fallin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=277289 | 95,303 |
1,946,436 | Nanotube membranes are either a single, open-ended nanotube(CNT) or a film composed of an array of nanotubes that are oriented perpendicularly to the surface of an impermeable film matrix like the cells of a honeycomb. 'Impermeable' is essential here to distinguish nanotube membrane with traditional, well known porous ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13137733 | 1,945,323 |
333,550 | In 2012 the coarse-grained architectural approach was taken a step further by combining the logic blocks and interconnects of traditional FPGAs with embedded microprocessors and related peripherals to form a complete "system on a programmable chip". This work mirrors the architecture created by Ron Perloff and Hanan Po... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10969 | 333,372 |
1,294,158 | While neural activity in the retina is not necessary for the development of retinotopy, it seems to be a critical component for the refinement and stabilization of connectivity. Dark reared animals (no external visual cues) develop a normal retinal map in the tectum with no marked changes in receptive field size or lam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2676126 | 1,293,447 |
59,071 | In 1811, iodine was discovered by French chemist Bernard Courtois, who was born to a manufacturer of saltpetre (an essential component of gunpowder). At the time of the Napoleonic Wars, saltpetre was in great demand in France. Saltpetre produced from French nitre beds required sodium carbonate, which could be isolated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14750 | 59,046 |
1,625,014 | Rainwater harvesting(RMH) is the process of collecting and storing rainwater rather than letting it run off. Rainwater harvesting (RWH) systems are increasingly becoming an integral part of the sustainable rainwater management "toolkit" and are widely used in homes, home-scale projects, schools and hospitals for a vari... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=69500966 | 1,624,098 |
2,066,783 | This gene encodes a member of the cytochrome P450 superfamily of enzymes. The cytochrome P450 proteins are monooxygenases which catalyze many reactions involved in drug metabolism and synthesis of cholesterol, steroids and other lipids. This protein localizes to the endoplasmic reticulum and catalyzes the last steps of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57624216 | 2,065,592 |
103,530 | People with intracerebral bleeding have symptoms that correspond to the functions controlled by the area of the brain that is damaged by the bleed. These localizing signs and symptoms can include hemiplegia (or weakness localized to one side of the body) and paresthesia (loss of sensation) including hemisensory loss (i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2959528 | 103,485 |
2,028,920 | In early 1958 Curtis was forced to rest more and John Blowers (1921–2009) was employed as his assistant, although Curtis still did most of the editing, producing it from his bedside. Blowers, who was orchid grower for the Honourable Nellie Ionides at Buxted Park, East Sussex, became editor after Curtis’s death and his ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41720603 | 2,027,752 |
245,126 | The Bryophyta s.l. are a proposed taxonomic division containing three groups of non-vascular land plants (embryophytes): the liverworts, hornworts and mosses. Bryophyta s.s. consists of the mosses only. They are characteristically limited in size and prefer moist habitats although they can survive in drier environments... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=312249 | 244,999 |
116,837 | General relativity and quantum mechanics have been repeatedly validated in their separate fields of relevance. Since the usual domains of applicability of general relativity and quantum mechanics are so different, most situations require that only one of the two theories be used. The two theories are considered incompa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30436 | 116,792 |
1,530,865 | The mission of the Forest Products Laboratory is to identify and conduct innovative wood and fiber utilization research that contributes to conservation and productivity of the forest resource, thereby sustaining forests, the economy, and quality of life. The FPL is organized into seven primary Research Work Units. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3294778 | 1,529,999 |
367,479 | In 1933, H. H. James and A. S. Coolidge carried out a calculation on the dihydrogen molecule that, unlike all previous calculation which used functions only of the distance of the electron from the atomic nucleus, used functions which also explicitly added the distance between the two electrons. With up to 13 adjustabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5993 | 367,286 |
9,716 | Despite their failure to score any hits, the American torpedo attacks achieved three important results. First, they kept the Japanese carriers off balance and unable to prepare and launch their own counterstrike. Second, the poor control of the Japanese combat air patrol (CAP) meant they were out of position for subseq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60112 | 9,712 |
1,743,108 | The Kinghorn Cancer Centre, a 100 million joint venture between Garvan and St Vincent's Hospital, was opened on 28 August 2012 by Prime Minister Julia Gillard. The centre is named after the Kinghorn Foundation, one of the centre's main benefactors. The Kinghorn Centre for Clinical Genomics (KCCG) was also established i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10727258 | 1,742,124 |
1,098,973 | Cannons were less useful for the besieging army. In the Siege of Suzhou of 1366, the Ming army fielded 2,400 large and small cannons in addition to 480 trebuchets, but neither were able to breach the city walls despite "the noise of the guns and the paos went day and night and didn't stop." Chinese city walls tend to b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=56557517 | 1,098,413 |
317,499 | Albert's knowledge of natural science was considerable and for the age remarkably accurate. His industry in every department was great: not only did he produce commentaries and paraphrases of the entire Aristotelian corpus, including his scientific works, but Albert also added to and improved upon them. His books on to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1573 | 317,329 |
1,955,739 | m6A-CLIP (crosslinking immunoprecipitation) and miCLIP (m6A individual-nucleotide-resolution crosslinking and immunoprecipitation) are UV-based sequencing techniques. These two methods activate crosslinking at 254 nm, fragments RNA molecules before immunoprecipitation with antibody, and do not depend on the incorporati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53236762 | 1,954,617 |
1,980,811 | Another indication that Cambodia is taking a more co-ordinated approach to science and technology policy and its integration into the country's wider development plans is Phase III of the government's "Rectangular Development Strategy for Growth, Employment, Equity and Efficiency: Phase III", which became operational i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55098194 | 1,979,673 |
251,537 | For all that, "PM" notations are not widely used today: probably the foremost reason for this is that practicing mathematicians tend to assume that the background Foundation is a form of the system of Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory. Nonetheless, the scholarly, historical, and philosophical interest in "PM" is great and on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24133 | 251,404 |
1,386,307 | The collection is especially strong in regional taxa. Malacology has one of the largest collections of terrestrial and freshwater mollusks from the southeastern US. Overall marine mollusks comprise 38% of cataloged holdings; freshwater species make up 18% and terrestrial taxa 44%. Gastropods comprise 83%, bivalves 16%,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1143787 | 1,385,540 |
1,120,044 | In many modern CPUs, the protection of the memory that hosts the TCB is achieved by adding in a specialized piece of hardware called the memory management unit (MMU), which is programmable by the operating system to allow and deny a running program's access to specific ranges of the system memory. Of course, the operat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41826 | 1,119,471 |
361,378 | Though the series remained a modest hit through the Gillis/Perlin run, it was cancelled to make room in Marvel's production schedule for the New Universe line. Perlin recounted that Potts tried to soften the blow by telling him and Gillis the news while treating them to lunch at an Indian restaurant. The final issue wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=708371 | 361,188 |
846,176 | The impact was a substantial news event reported and discussed online, in print, and on television. There was a genuine suspense because experts held widely differing opinions over the result of the impact. Various experts debated whether the Impactor would go straight through the comet and out the other side, would cr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=583263 | 845,726 |
2,143,972 | The method being discussed here assumes that the mass distribution of the underground objects of interest is already known and hence the problem of estimating their location boils down to parametric localisation. Since the mass distribution of objects of interest is already known, say underground objects with center of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48497658 | 2,142,741 |
711,389 | In the first 20 years, the college's population increased from 30 faculty serving 367 full-time and 200 part-time students in the first year, to 259 full-time and 124 part-time employees serving 3,047 full-time and 2,205 part-time students. As enrolment rose, Cariboo College built more than a dozen new facilities and a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1024505 | 711,017 |
180,406 | As a lateral-support system, the flying buttress was developed during late antiquity and later flourished during the Gothic period (12th–16th c.) of architecture. Ancient examples of the flying buttress can be found on the Basilica of San Vitale in Ravenna and on the Rotunda of Galerius in Thessaloniki. The architectur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=430379 | 180,312 |
805,959 | World War II marked the first full-scale war where mechanization played a significant role. Most nations did not begin the war equipped for this. Even the vaunted German Panzer forces relied heavily on non-motorised support and flank units in large operations. While Germany recognized and demonstrated the value of conc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=326225 | 805,530 |
819,191 | The frequently quoted warning against holding one's breath on scuba is a gross oversimplification of the actual hazard. The purpose of the admonition is to ensure that inexperienced divers do not accidentally hold their breath while surfacing, as the expansion of gas in the lungs could over-expand the lung air spaces a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28502 | 818,751 |
1,335,973 | The pharmacology of bicalutamide, a nonsteroidal antiandrogen (NSAA), has been well-characterized. In terms of pharmacodynamics, bicalutamide acts as a selective antagonist of the androgen receptor (AR), the biological target of androgens like testosterone and dihydrotestosterone (DHT). It has no capacity to activate t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55868079 | 1,335,243 |
455,384 | In comparison, hydraulic spreader-cutters are quieter, faster, stronger, and more versatile: they can cut, open, and even lift a vehicle. Hurst Performance began to export parts to a European company, Zumro ResQtec, to avoid import duty. Zumro ResQtec was interested in developing these tools for use in auto racing, wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=243578 | 455,162 |
1,080,051 | In an article in the "Daily Telegraph" (2006), Ruth Lea, Director of the Centre for Policy Studies, questions the scientific consensus on climate change on which the Stern Review is based. She says that "authorities on climate science say that the climate system is far too complex for modest reductions in one of the th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7694290 | 1,079,496 |
69,669 | Later that year, Lovell, Conrad, and Schirra were among 110 military test pilots selected as potential astronaut candidates for Project Mercury. Schirra went on to become one of the Mercury Seven, but Lovell was not selected because of a temporarily high bilirubin count. In 1960, electronics test was merged with armame... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=344336 | 69,642 |
447,157 | However, control of diameter, chirality, density and placement remains insufficient for commercial production. Less demanding devices of tens to thousands of SWNTs are more immediately practical. The use of CNT arrays/transistor increases output current and compensates for defects and chirality differences, improving d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7452926 | 446,940 |
1,167,867 | Graphite furnace atomic absorption spectroscopy (GFAAS) (also known as Electrothermal Atomic absorption spectroscopy (ETAAS)) is a type of spectrometry that uses a graphite-coated furnace to vaporize the sample. Briefly, the technique is based on the fact that free atoms will absorb light at frequencies or wavelengths ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2501388 | 1,167,249 |
1,114,849 | Classical pinch-analysis primarily calculates the energy costs for the heating and cooling utility. At the pinch point, where the hot and cold streams are the most constrained, large heat exchangers are required to transfer heat between the hot and cold streams. Large heat exchangers entail high investment costs. In or... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8642593 | 1,114,281 |
975,755 | Zero-shot learning (ZSL) is a problem setup in machine learning, where at test time, a learner observes samples from classes which were not observed during training, and needs to predict the class that they belong to. Zero-shot methods generally work by associating observed and non-observed classes through some form of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=62617596 | 975,244 |
538,223 | The T/16 instruction set changed several features from the HP 3000 design. The T/16 supported paged virtual memory from the beginning. The HP 3000 series did not add paging until the PA-RISC generation, 10 years later (although MPE V it had a form of paging via the APL firmware, in 1978). Tandem added support for 32-bi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201353 | 537,944 |
625,749 | During May 2017, HAL issued requests for information (ROIs) in regards to elements of the Indian Multi-Role Helicopter (IMRH); the requests involved the turboshaft engines, along with assistance in the development of a blade-folding mechanism and external reviews of the rotorcraft’s landing gear and transmission. The l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18093306 | 625,416 |
1,587,463 | Suppose that Freiling's axiom fails. Then fix some formula_27 to verify this fact. Define an order relation on formula_28 by formula_29 iff formula_30. This relation is total and every point has formula_16 many predecessors. Define now a strictly increasing chain formula_32 as follows: at each stage choose formula_33. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=162267 | 1,586,569 |
255,652 | Helping the environment was one of the focus in developing technology in the Philippines. One of the more known laws to be passed by her administration was the R.A. 9367 or the "Biofuels" act. This act promotes the development and usage of biofuels throughout the country. This potentially enables a cheaper alternative ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9629399 | 255,518 |
1,956,047 | Professor Tsang studies metabolic signaling in retinal diseases, as well as gene therapy and stem cell therapy to treat such diseases. In 2010, Tsang led an international research team that used embryonic stem cells of mice to replace diseased retinal cells in mice with retinitis pigmentosa to restore sight. In 2012, T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=47893736 | 1,954,925 |
1,827,985 | When Holden introduced his oil-burning equipment, Nos. 712 and 759 to 767 inclusive were fitted with it, and their tenders acquired on top two cylindrical tanks, arranged longitudinally, to accommodate the oil fuel; No. 760 received the name Petrolea in honour of this change. Nos. 762 to 767 and 1030 to 1039 also had t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6055736 | 1,826,946 |
1,519 | On 26 July 2012, a bill was introduced in the House of Lords to grant a statutory pardon to Turing for offences under section 11 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885, of which he was convicted on 31 March 1952. Late in the year in a letter to "The Daily Telegraph", the physicist Stephen Hawking and 10 other signatori... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1208 | 1,519 |
1,377,774 | The Imaging Atom-Probe (IAP) was introduced in 1974 by J. A. Panitz. It incorporated the features of the 10-cm Atom-Probe yet “... departs completely from [previous] atom probe philosophy. Rather than attempt to determine the identity of a surface species producing a preselected ion-image spot, we wish to determine the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3211 | 1,377,012 |
633,314 | The PDP-1 sold in basic form for (equivalent to in ). BBN's system was quickly followed by orders from Lawrence Livermore and Atomic Energy of Canada (AECL), and eventually 53 PDP-1s were delivered until production ended in 1969. All of these machines were still being actively used in 1970, and several were eventually ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23965 | 632,976 |
84,325 | Dharmasvamin also provides an eyewitness account of an attack on the derelict Mahavihara by the Muslim soldiers stationed at nearby Odantapura (now Bihar Sharif) which had been turned into a military headquarters. Only the Tibetan and his nonagenarian instructor stayed behind and hid themselves while the rest of the mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=200282 | 84,291 |
627,569 | One key difference between lipid rafts and the plasma membranes from which they are derived is lipid composition. Research has shown that lipid rafts contain 3 to 5-fold the amount of cholesterol found in the surrounding bilayer. Also, lipid rafts are enriched in sphingolipids such as sphingomyelin, which is typically ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=958752 | 627,235 |
192,882 | In 1896 Svante Arrhenius used Langley's observations of increased infrared absorption where Moon rays pass through the atmosphere at a low angle, encountering more carbon dioxide (), to estimate an atmospheric cooling effect from a future decrease of . He realized that the cooler atmosphere would hold less water vapor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23423379 | 192,782 |
934,721 | "Rosa rugosa" is naturalized in many parts of Europe, and it is considered an invasive species in some habitats, particularly in seashores of Northern Europe. It was first introduced into England from Japan in 1796, and then in Germany in 1845. This was the first presence of the flower within the European continent. In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=305719 | 934,227 |
1,795,929 | Like other positive sense single-stranded RNA viruses, Chronic bee paralysis virus replicates in the cytoplasm of honeybee cells. The first large (+) RNA fragment in the CBPV genome likely encodes for an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, which makes many copies of viral RNA. After many copies of the genome have been produc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46848057 | 1,794,920 |
921,990 | From March 5 to March 20 in 1970, a group of thirty students occupied the chancellor's office after a popular "radical" female professor in the Sociology Department was denied tenure, and denounced the university as "corrupt, racist, sexist and servile to an exploitative class of capitalist oppressors." Following Presi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=99867 | 921,504 |
629,607 | Corneal abrasions are also a common and recurrent feature in people with specific types of corneal dystrophy, such as lattice corneal dystrophy. Lattice dystrophy gets its name from an accumulation of amyloid deposits, or abnormal protein fibers, throughout the middle and anterior stroma. During an eye examination, the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2532740 | 629,269 |
941,133 | Intraosseous infusion (IO) is used in pediatric populations during anesthesia when other intravenous access, central venous catherization or venous cutdown, are difficult to use or cannot be used. When individuals are severely ill and are in need of "rapid, efficient, and safe delivery of drugs", IO is used. When inser... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1617684 | 940,631 |
7,193 | The ISS programme evolved from the Space Station "Freedom", a 1984 American proposal to construct a permanently crewed Earth-orbiting station, and the contemporaneous Soviet/Russian "Mir-2" proposal from 1976 with similar aims. The ISS is the ninth space station to be inhabited by crews, following the Soviet and later ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15043 | 7,190 |
1,841,483 | Young was born in Nyack, New York, and raised throughout Rockland County. Her initial music education was self-taught; she began violin at age 12. In 2003 she graduated from Clarkstown High School North and then moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to study engineering and music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technolo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=46638699 | 1,840,431 |
1,393,171 | Wertico's 2004 CD, "StereoNucleosis", was released to extremely positive reviews. The "Chicago Tribune" wrote: "A brilliant release – Wertico shows a thrilling disregard for stylistic boundaries. "StereoNucleosis" is one of the most intelligent, creative and alluring percussion recordings of the past decade. Wertico re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24625 | 1,392,400 |
485,172 | What makes the system useful is the possibility of introducing waves of very high charge separation that propagate through the plasma similar to the traveling-wave concept in the conventional accelerator. The accelerator thereby phase-locks a particle bunch on a wave and this loaded space-charge wave accelerates them t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1948002 | 484,923 |
1,932,428 | Princeton sociologists Thomas Espenshade and Alexandria Walton Radford published a book-length study of admissions that found that an upper-middle-class white applicant was three times as likely to be admitted to an American college as a lower-class white with similar qualification. "New York Times" columnist Ross Dout... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=61029894 | 1,931,320 |
451,208 | Except for very low resolution graphic modes, early home and personal computers rarely implemented an "all-pixels-addressable" design - that is, the ability to change a single pixel to any of the available colors independently. Their limitations came from employing separate "color attribute" or "color RAM" areas, leadi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3563310 | 450,989 |
543,896 | 2001 Mars Odyssey is a robotic spacecraft orbiting the planet Mars. The project was developed by NASA, and contracted out to Lockheed Martin, with an expected cost for the entire mission of US$297 million. Its mission is to use spectrometers and a thermal imager to detect evidence of past or present water and ice, as w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18959 | 543,615 |
474,784 | His legacy at the American Museum has proved more enduring. Biographer Ronald Rainger has described Osborn as "a first-rate science administrator and a third-rate scientist." Indeed, Osborn's greatest contributions to science ultimately lay in his efforts to popularize it through visual means. At his urging, staff memb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=437891 | 474,548 |
1,825,539 | The Sciencenter's traveling exhibition program took on a national flavor in 1996 with the receipt of a major grant from the National Science Foundation. The Sciencenter was one of five founding members of a national exhibition collaborative for small museums called TEAMS (Traveling Exhibitions At Museums of Science), w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17460553 | 1,824,501 |
1,586,599 | The immune system is a complex system of the human body and understanding it is one of the most challenging topics in biology. Immunology research is important for understanding the mechanisms underlying the defense of human body and to develop drugs for immunological diseases and maintain health. Recent findings in ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3112875 | 1,585,705 |
1,326,783 | STS-45 carried the first Atmospheric Laboratory for Applications and Science (ATLAS-1) experiments, placed on Spacelab pallets mounted in the orbiter's payload bay. The non-deployable payload, equipped with 12 instruments from the United States, France, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands and Japan, conducte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=499462 | 1,326,056 |
484,852 | There was frequent interchange between Swiss and German Protestants early in the Reformation, and Bucer's Strasbourg had some Reformed characteristics, but Germany remained firmly Lutheran and anti-Calvinist through 1560. Following the death of Lutheran Wittenberg reformer Philipp Melanchthon in 1560, Frederick III, El... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10572690 | 484,603 |
677,646 | However, some research suggests that important differences arise in measuring group polarization in laboratory versus field experiments. A study conducted by Taylor & MacDonald (2002) featured a realistic setting of a computer-mediated discussion, but group polarization did not occur at the level expected. The study's ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=511676 | 677,292 |
2,078,585 | The Mediterranean Institute of Fundamental Physics, commonly known as MIFP, is a private independent non-governmental institution created in order to unite scientists in different countries around the world working in all fields of physics. MIFP is a non-profit organization whose main goal is to provide efficient and f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35722587 | 2,077,386 |
1,980,598 | In 1941, just before America's entry into the Second World War, Field was asked to be the "Anthropologist to the President" by president Roosevelt and to be a member of the Special Intelligence Unit of the White House to direct a top-secret "M" ("M" for migration) project. The President believed that refugee migration ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2544305 | 1,979,460 |
2,243,495 | MiRNAs function in several areas of biological processes, including differentiation, proliferation and apoptosis. They have also been found to play important roles in the development of cancers. Some of these non-coding RNAs, including miRNA-205, have been linked, recently, to the over or under expression of several ge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42683705 | 2,242,224 |
973,151 | The Modified NIH Stroke Scale (mNIHSS) is a shortened, validated version of the mNIHSS. It has been shown to be equally, if not more, accurate than the longer, older NIHSS. It removes questions 1A, 4, and 7. This makes the mNIHSS shorter and easier to use. The mNIHSS predicts patients at high risk of hemorrhage if give... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21715447 | 972,641 |
552,972 | Lordkipanidze and colleagues described Skull 4 and its mandible in 2006, noting that it was similar to the fossils discovered previously and stating that with the possible exception of the D2600 mandible, all of the Dmanisi fossils were assignable to a single species. They agreed that the Dmanisi hominins were ancestra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60072585 | 552,683 |
1,799,737 | Gowers produced the majority of his major works, including the two-volume "Manual of Diseases of the Nervous System", in the years between 1870 and 1890. The book is still used today by medical professionals as a primary reference for this disease. A master of diagnosis, his clinical teaching at Queen Square earned him... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1053857 | 1,798,728 |
1,873,385 | Shimizu Takaji was born in 1897 and came from humble origins, his family descending from a line of village headmen and minor officials. In the aftermath of the abolishment of the samurai caste, Shimizu's father would manage a small general store while Shimizu, after graduating from elementary school, took employment in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8705842 | 1,872,308 |
1,353,162 | It is apparent from the above process that the matrix stiffness method is easier to comprehend and to implement for automatic computation. It is also easier to extend for advanced applications such as non-linear analysis, stability, vibrations, etc. For these reasons, the matrix stiffness method is the method of choice... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2820493 | 1,352,415 |
288,159 | This type of scanner is sometimes called a slide or transparency scanner and it works by passing a narrowly focused beam of light through the film and reading the intensity and color of the light that emerges. "Usually, uncut film strips of up to six frames, or four mounted slides, are inserted in a carrier, which is m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=317625 | 288,003 |
1,481,269 | The Eastern Pakistan Flying Club was established in 1948. By 1960, British Overseas Airways Corporation and Pan American Airways had started operating flights out of Dhaka, PIA had started operating Boeing 707 and Vickers VC10 jet services, and new airports had been established out of former Royal Air Force stations at... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11505811 | 1,480,435 |
1,497,325 | Mark Joseph Daly is Director of the Finnish Institute for Molecular Medicine (FIMM) at the University of Helsinki, a Professor of Genetics at Harvard Medical School, Chief of the Analytic and Translational Genetic Unit at Massachusetts General Hospital, and a member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. In the ear... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54604380 | 1,496,482 |
1,784,983 | Let "G" be a compact group and let "F:" Π("G") → Vect be the forgetful functor from finite-dimensional complex representations of "G" to complex finite-dimensional vector spaces. One puts a topology on the natural transformations "τ:" "F" → "F" by setting it to be the coarsest topology possible such that each of the pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2588624 | 1,783,979 |
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