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1,126,981 | CLSI provides direct assistance in Sub-Saharan Africa to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. With grants from the US-based PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) program administered by a cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institute o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=15985889 | 1,126,404 |
540,896 | The American Physical Society was founded on May 20, 1899, when thirty-six physicists gathered at Columbia University for that purpose. They proclaimed the mission of the new Society to be "to advance and diffuse the knowledge of physics", and in one way or another the APS has been at that task ever since. In the early... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=222368 | 540,616 |
999,411 | The team from the University of Mainz planned in 2008 to study the electrodeposition of hassium atoms using the new TASCA facility at GSI. Their aim was to use the reaction Ra(Ca,4n)Hs. Scientists at GSI were hoping to use TASCA to study the synthesis and properties of the hassium(II) compound hassocene, Hs(CH), using ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13764 | 998,893 |
1,451,346 | The observatory location was chosen for its location on the high-altitude Big Bear Lake in the San Bernardino Mountains. The combination of high altitude and the daytime stabilizing influence of the lake were found to be ideal of solar observation.The observatory was built The location at Big Bear Lake is optimal due t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3199692 | 1,450,529 |
2,126,210 | The concept of selling a kit based on a magazine article had been around since the early days of radio. Daniel Meyer perfected the process. In 1967, "Popular Electronics" had six articles by Dan Meyer and four by Don Lancaster. Seven of that year's cover stories featured kits sold by SWTPC. In the years 1966 to 1971, S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3279767 | 2,124,989 |
195,763 | UCR's undergraduate College of Letters and Science opened in 1954. The Regents of the University of California declared UCR a general campus of the system in 1959, and graduate students were admitted in 1961. To accommodate an enrollment of 21,000 students by 2015, more than $730 million has been invested in new constr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=230311 | 195,663 |
858,787 | The "r"-process contrasts with the "s"-process, the other predominant mechanism for the production of heavy elements, which is nucleosynthesis by means of "slow" captures of neutrons. In general, isotopes involved in the "s"-process have half-lives long enough to enable their study in laboratory experiments, but this i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=352905 | 858,329 |
993,394 | In 2002, Mya Breitbart, Forest Rohwer, and colleagues used environmental shotgun sequencing (see below) to show that 200 liters of seawater contains over 5000 different viruses. Subsequent studies showed that there are more than a thousand viral species in human stool and possibly a million different viruses per kilogr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1408929 | 992,877 |
2,074,202 | Both Davidson and Thomson saw the training of medical students as an extension of their missionary work, and their plans were advanced when Queen Ranavalona II became monarch of Madagascar in 1868. According to Thomson, Davidson helped to encourage the Queen and thousands of her people to convert to Christianity. She g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=65131998 | 2,073,009 |
1,345,208 | German siege artillery had three types of projectiles: armour-piercing, high-explosive, and intermediate. The armour-piercing shell was designed to smash through concrete and metal armour, but was largely ineffective against reinforced concrete. High-explosive shells were fitted with two charges and could be set to hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19189421 | 1,344,470 |
232,500 | Redstone provided an accuracy of at its maximum range, which, when combined with its large warhead, allowed it to attack hard targets like protected airbases, bridges, command and control sites, as well as other strategic targets like railway marshaling yards and pre-attack concentration areas. This was in keeping with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=710471 | 232,381 |
155,545 | Arts programs are located to the east of Anderson Arena and Jerome Library in the east-central area. The Fine Arts Center is home to the School of Art and houses classrooms, a studio, workshop spaces, art galleries, a glassblowing studio and faculty offices. BGSU is one of only a few schools that offer degrees in glass... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275181 | 155,475 |
658,692 | Dichroic reflectors known as cold mirrors are commonly used behind a light source to reflect visible light forward while allowing the invisible infrared light to pass out of the rear of the fixture. Such an arrangement allows intense illumination with less heating of the illuminated object. Many quartz-halogen lamps ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1517769 | 658,347 |
1,216,692 | Dasgupta had a long-standing collaboration with the late Karl-Goran Maler, with whom he developed the concept of 'inclusive wealth' as a measure of human well-being and helped to establish (with a grant from the McArthur Foundation, channelled through the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Stockholm) the South A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2075439 | 1,216,040 |
904,153 | As early as 1956 Allegro held controversial views regarding the content of the scrolls, stating in a letter to de Vaux, "It's a pity that you and your friends cannot conceive of anything written about Christianity without trying to grind some ecclesiastical or non-ecclesiastical axe." The bulk of his work on the Dead S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1809873 | 903,677 |
1,758,852 | Moore "et al" conducted a study in 2014 in which a group of Atlantic Salmon populations which were previously analyzed with traditional population genetic analyses (microsatellites, SNP-array genotyping, BayeScan (which uses the Dirichlet-multinomial distribution)) to place them into defined conservational units. This ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16174222 | 1,757,859 |
2,107,011 | The HNC and PY integral equations provide the pair distribution functions of the particles in a classical fluid, even for very high coupling strengths. The coupling strength is measured by the ratio of the potential energy to the kinetic energy. In a classical fluid, the kinetic energy is proportional to the temperatur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3696813 | 2,105,798 |
256,282 | "Viola" is a large genus, that has traditionally been treated in sections. One of these was that of Gingins (1823), based on stigma morphology, with five sections ("Nomimium", "Dischidium", "Chamaemelanium", "Melanium", "Leptidium"). The extensive taxonomic studies of Wilhelm Becker, culminating in his 1925 conspectus,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=157841 | 256,148 |
1,208,101 | The advantage of this test is that it creates a discretely measurable, continuous variable (length of time) that can be used for statistical purposes to quantify the effects of different drugs, conditions, and procedures. This test does not use subjective judgments of ability, and inter-rater reliability will be virtua... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25135332 | 1,207,455 |
717,569 | On October 28, 2015, Lindgren ventured outside of the ISS with Scott Kelly for his first spacewalk, the two spacewalkers completed several tasks including changing an insulating unit on one of the station's Main Bus Switching Units (MBSU), carried out some maintenance on one of Canadarm-2's Latching End Effector's and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=23437049 | 717,192 |
652,902 | Combinatorial game theory is a branch of mathematics and theoretical computer science that typically studies sequential games with perfect information. Study has been largely confined to two-player games that have a "position" that the players take turns changing in defined ways or "moves" to achieve a defined winning ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292231 | 652,559 |
2,212,568 | Piwi-interacting RNA (piRNA) and endogenous short interfering RNA (esiRNA) are small RNA fragments that partner with cleaving proteins to act as guides to a retrotransposon. piRNA and PIWI protein complexes are a common defense mechanism against retrotransposons in the germline—sperm or egg cells—cells that are extreme... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49968817 | 2,211,308 |
993,058 | The book is a critique of the contemporary university and how Bloom sees it as failing its students. In it, Bloom criticizes the modern movements in philosophy and the humanities. Philosophy professors involved in ordinary language analysis or logical positivism disregard important "humanizing" ethical and political is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=84444 | 992,541 |
20,278 | Classical statistical mechanics requires the existence of (but does not define its value). Eventually, following upon Planck's discovery, it was speculated that physical action could not take on an arbitrary value, but instead was restricted to integer multiples of a very small quantity, the "[elementary] quantum of ac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19594213 | 20,269 |
211,159 | Another factor that impacts total CPU time needed by a simulation is the size of the integration timestep. This is the time length between evaluations of the potential. The timestep must be chosen small enough to avoid discretization errors (i.e., smaller than the period related to fastest vibrational frequency in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=198608 | 211,052 |
653,044 | Foote's paper was abbreviated and published in the "American Journal of Science and Arts" and the "Philosophical Magazine". The "Philosophical Magazine" had rejected publication of her first paper in favor of reprinting Elisha's 1856 work. The article about Foote's findings published in "The New-York Daily Times" on Au... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49280323 | 652,701 |
1,070,718 | Studies on overlapping genes suggest that their evolution can be summarized in two possible models. In one model, the two proteins encoded by their respective overlapping genes evolve under similar selection pressures. The proteins and the overlap region are highly conserved when strong selection against amino acid cha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35960023 | 1,070,164 |
1,926,137 | Hilleman Laboratories has initiated a two-pronged strategy to develop low-cost combination vaccine for treatment of invasive meningococcal disease. It uses a newer method that makes the use of synthetic organic chemistry to create short oligosaccharides. These oligosaccharides mimic the carbohydrate epitopes present in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=50942773 | 1,925,033 |
2,162,104 | Third, the System Dynamics method, unlike other modeling approaches, shows reciprocal feedback relationships between variables instead of simple one-way causality. Most statistical models are based on one- way causal relationship between a set of independent variables and a dependent variable. For example, component fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6031226 | 2,160,869 |
701,648 | Paravirtualization requires the guest operating system to be explicitly ported for the para-API – a conventional OS distribution that is not paravirtualization-aware cannot be run on top of a paravirtualizing VMM. However, even in cases where the operating system cannot be modified, components may be available that ena... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1441546 | 701,283 |
784,873 | Advantages of robot-assisted cochlear implantation include improved accuracy, resulting in fewer mistakes during electrode insertion and better hearing outcomes for patients. The surgeon uses image-guided surgical planning to program the robot based on the patient's individual anatomy. This helps the implant team to pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2629669 | 784,453 |
1,751,482 | While the Mac OS memory model, with all its inherent problems, remained this way right through to Mac OS 9, due to severe application compatibility constraints, the increasing availability of cheap RAM meant that by and large most users could upgrade their way out of a corner. The memory was not used efficiently, but i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=299617 | 1,750,496 |
52,433 | In distributed generation systems, the risk of a cyber attack is real, according to "Daily Energy Insider". An attack could cause a loss of power in a large area for a long period of time, and such an attack could have just as severe consequences as a natural disaster. The District of Columbia is considering creating a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7398 | 52,413 |
678,413 | After the Charleston Church shooting, FBI Director James Comey apologized for "lapses in the FBI’s background-check system", saying that "An error on our part is connected to this guy’s purchase of a gun". Dylann Roof's arrest and admission that he was in possession of Suboxone without a prescription a month prior to h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2738211 | 678,059 |
841,252 | For performance issues such as engine failure(s), a TAL abort would have been declared between roughly T+2:30 (two minutes 30 seconds after liftoff) and about T+5:00 (five minutes after liftoff), after which the abort mode changed to Abort Once Around (AOA) followed by Abort To Orbit (ATO). However in the event of a ti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3910120 | 840,802 |
1,669,308 | Numerous explanations have come forth to account for the lack of women engineering majors in college. Historically, women have both majored and remained in college engineering programs at lower rates than men. One of the reasons used to explain this trend has been a supposed overemphasis on the traditional "male breadw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11214607 | 1,668,368 |
399,619 | The 100 mm tank gun is also capable of firing the 9M117M1 "Arkan" anti-tank guided missile (ATGM) which is a further development of the 9M117 Bastion (NATO reporting name: AT-10 Stabber). With a weight of 21.5 kg, this ATGM has a penetration value of 750–800 mm of RHA behind explosive reactive armor (ERA). The turret h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=42534466 | 399,421 |
670,221 | When summing a PTAT and a CTAT current, only the linear terms of current are compensated, while the higher-order terms are limiting the temperature drift (TD) of the bandgap reference at around 20ppm/°C, over a temperature range of 100°C. For this reason, in 2001, Malcovati designed a circuit topology that can compensa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=516067 | 669,870 |
300,535 | X-rays (electromagnetic radiation) are projected through the body to produce an image of its internal structures. The radiation is more attenuated (absorbed) by the denser tissues of the body (i.e. bone) than the softer tissues (i.e. muscles, organs, etc) creating a picture composed of shades of grey ranging from white... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4196437 | 300,374 |
957,598 | Structural steel and reinforced concrete are not always chosen solely because they are the most ideal material for the structure. Companies rely on the ability to turn a profit for any construction project, as do the designers. The price of raw materials (steel, cement, coarse aggregate, fine aggregate, lumber for form... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3730357 | 957,092 |
1,802,246 | Although known for his impact within neuroscience, Paxinos has a history of campaigning for the environment. For more than 10 years (1989 - 2000), Paxinos was the leading proponent of light rail for the city of Sydney. His motivation had been to reduce atmospheric pollution from automobile use. He stood as candidate fo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45362873 | 1,801,233 |
1,666,231 | Bioleaching is a mining technique in which metals are extracted from their insoluble ores through the use of living organisms by biological oxidation. This technique has progressed steadily in the past 20 years by taking advantage of bacteria such as "A. thiooxidans." Biomining operations have enabled the solubilizatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40864864 | 1,665,292 |
1,082,061 | A typical arthropod exoskeleton is a multi-layered structure with four functional regions: epicuticle, procuticle, epidermis and basement membrane. Of these, the epicuticle is a multi-layered external barrier that, especially in terrestrial arthropods, acts as a barrier against desiccation. The strength of the exoskele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18457721 | 1,081,505 |
1,041,278 | In children and youth with pediatric acquired brain injury the cognitive and emotional difficulties that stem from their injury can negatively impact their level of participation in home, school and other social situations, participation in structured events has been found to be especially hindered under these circumst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2601911 | 1,040,735 |
1,247,118 | From the invention of insurance in the 14th century, insurance rates were based on estimates (often intuitive) of the frequencies of the events insured against, which involves an implicit use of a statistical syllogism. John Venn pointed out in 1876 that this leads to a reference class problem of deciding in what class... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=735143 | 1,246,443 |
1,603,591 | Cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase deficiency (PORD) is a rare disease and inborn error of metabolism caused by deficiency of cytochrome P450 oxidoreductase (POR). POR is a 2-flavin protein that is responsible for the transfer of electrons from NADPH to all 50 microsomal cytochrome P450 (CYP450) enzymes. This includes the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58344698 | 1,602,690 |
1,504,872 | The initial product required samples to be mounted on infrared-transparent prisms, with the infrared light being directed from below in the manner of Dazzi "et al". For best operation, this illumination scheme required thin samples, with optimal thickness of less than 1 μm, prepared on the surface of the prism. In 2013... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=44893854 | 1,504,026 |
512,279 | Falloppio published only one major work during his lifetime, the "Observationes anatomicae", which first came out in 1561. Here he presented his numerous new anatomical findings, correcting and expanding on the works of Galen and Vesalius. Some of his findings referred to the head and the brain. He added much to what w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=233592 | 512,013 |
417,193 | However, many-digit numbers that do not have factors in the small primes can require days or months to factor with the trial division. In such cases other methods are used such as the quadratic sieve and the general number field sieve (GNFS). Because these methods also have superpolynomial time growth a practical limit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=557660 | 416,990 |
1,950,406 | Biparental extranuclear inheritance occurs in the yeast "Saccharomyces cerevisiae", for example. Two haploid cells of opposite mating types fuse together, both of which contribute mitochondria to the diploid offspring. This is contrary to the majority of eukaryotic mitochondrial inheritance, which is largely inherited ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67251604 | 1,949,285 |
787,881 | These equations are initialized from the analysis data and rates of change are determined. These rates of change predict the state of the atmosphere a short time into the future; the time increment for this prediction is called a "time step". This future atmospheric state is then used as the starting point for another ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1505381 | 787,457 |
679,251 | The "Helgoland"-class ships first entered direct combat at 19:20 on the first day of the battle. "Ostfriesland", "Helgoland", and "Thüringen" began firing on , which, along with the other s of the 5th Battle squadron, had been pursuing the German battlecruiser force. With the exception of "Ostfriesland", the firing onl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10127309 | 678,897 |
1,304,842 | Austempering offers many manufacturing and performance advantages over conventional material/process combinations. It may be applied to numerous materials, and each combination has its own advantages, which are listed below. One of the advantages that is common to all austempered materials is a lower rate of distortion... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=17173535 | 1,304,126 |
1,363,370 | Most high-throughput, next generation sequencing platforms produce shorter read lengths compared to Sanger sequencing. These new platforms are able to generate large quantities of data in short periods of time, but until methods were developed for de novo assembly of large genomes from short read sequences, Sanger sequ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=40323377 | 1,362,617 |
1,069,121 | Though it is undisputed that diverse foods can be combined to make up for their respective limiting amino acids, a general consensus has emerged among nutrition scientists and writers contrary to the original vegetarian nutrition dogmas of the 1970s. Though historically, protein combining was promoted as a method of co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7092020 | 1,068,567 |
253,517 | Bioaccumulation and biomagnification of PFASs in marine species throughout the food web, particularly frequently consumed fish and shellfish, can have important impacts on human populations. PFASs have been frequently documented in both fish and shellfish that are commonly consumed by human populations. This poses heal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20471890 | 253,384 |
1,017,918 | High-power triodes generally use a filament which serves as the cathode (a directly heated cathode) because the emission coating on indirectly heated cathodes is destroyed by the higher ion bombardment in power tubes. A thoriated tungsten filament is most often used, in which thorium in the tungsten forms a monolayer o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31036 | 1,017,394 |
577,867 | The Il-40 first flew on 7 March 1953, and flight tests revealed no serious shortcomings in the air. The operational CG was too far aft, but this was only a minor problem when landing, taking off and taxiing, especially when coupled with the rather short wheelbase. The biggest problem proved to be the guns and their eff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12073882 | 577,571 |
235,089 | Two millennia ago, the ancient Romans made use of large aqueducts to transport water from higher elevations by building the aqueducts in graduated segments that allowed gravity to push the water along until it reached its destination. Hundreds of these were built throughout Europe and elsewhere, and along with flour mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=51111 | 234,970 |
625,540 | Datar has worked as an accountant and planner in industry and as a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, Stanford University, and Harvard University. His research interests are in the areas of cost management, measurement of productivity, governance, new product development, innovation, time-based competition, incen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=54030152 | 625,207 |
1,795,567 | The oligomerization of Hsp27 is a dynamic process: There is a balance between stable dimers and oligomers (up to 800 kDa) consisting of 16 to 32 subunits and a high exchange rate of subunits. The oligomerization depends on the physiology of the cells, the phosphorylation status of Hsp27 and the exposure to stress. Stre... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5961325 | 1,794,558 |
1,712,720 | The LDT was designed by Alan Dodson and uses a Ritchey–Chrétien design. The 6700-pound primary mirror measures in diameter yet only about in thickness. This finely figured, thin meniscus mirror, held in shape by a 156-element active optics system, regularly delivers sub-arcsecond seeing. The mirror was ground and polis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5716191 | 1,711,755 |
90,994 | In an attempt to curtail life-threatening epileptic seizures, 27-year-old Henry Gustav Molaison underwent bilateral removal of almost all of his hippocampus in 1953. Over the course of fifty years he participated in thousands of tests and research projects that provided specific information on exactly what he had lost.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=200405 | 90,954 |
382,500 | In the early 1990s Babak Taheri, at University of California, Davis demonstrated the first single and also multichannel dry active electrode arrays using micro-machining. The single channel dry EEG electrode construction and results were published in 1994. The arrayed electrode was also demonstrated to perform well com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=623686 | 382,305 |
17,713 | In 1991, SAI was awarded a contract as the prime contractor to modernize all RSAF F-5E/Fs (including the 7 ex-Jordanian F-5Es); Elbit Systems was the sub-contractor responsible for systems integration. Upgrades include a new X band multi-mode radar (the Italian "FIAR Grifo-F", with Beyond-visual-range missile and Look-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11142 | 17,707 |
1,193,554 | In April 2021, following critical news coverage, the Penn Museum and the University of Pennsylvania apologized to the Africa "family" and the community in general for allowing human remains from the 1985 MOVE bombing to be used in research and training. In 1986, an official from the Philadelphia City Medical Examiner's... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=417136 | 1,192,917 |
1,131,658 | Adults of the Dolichopodidae live largely in grassy places and shrubbery. The flies occur in a wide range of habitats, near water or in meadows, woodland edges and in gardens. Some groups are confined to wet places including sands on the banks of water bodies; examples include genera such as "Porphyrops", "Tachytrechus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6054389 | 1,131,067 |
1,974,987 | The Dagshai Formation has been dated back to the Oligocene-Miocene Epoch where it consists of primarily fine grained material of alluvial origins. The Dagshai is distinctive by its red color consisting of mostly red mudstone, siltstone and grey sandstone. It is the oldest continental deposits and overlies the Subathu f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=45252068 | 1,973,850 |
1,357,141 | Racemic drugs are not drug combinations in the accepted sense of two or more co-formulated therapeutic agents, but combinations of isomeric substances whose pharmacological activity may reside predominantly in one specific enantiomeric form. In case of stereoselectivity in action only one of the components in the racem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=67686153 | 1,356,391 |
1,689,565 | The next summer, Rossi returned to Mount Evans where he performed experiments near Echo Lake at an elevation . With the use of anti coincidence techniques, the apparatus made it possible to measure the mean free path before decay of two groups of mesotrons with different average momentum. The results, published with Da... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=520727 | 1,688,619 |
1,382,992 | Variations on the high mass model have always been popular, since the primary star is to all appearances a large supergiant star. Spectroscopically it is early F or late A with luminosity class Ia or Iab. Distance estimates consistently lead to luminosities expected for a bright supergiant, although there is a huge var... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2101873 | 1,382,226 |
1,620,382 | SMC1A also plays a role in spindle pole formation. In fact, in association with SMC3, it is recruited to mitotic spindle poles through interaction with RAE1. The dysregulation of "SMC1A" (both down- and up-regulation) causes aberrant multi-polar spindles, suggesting that cohesin would function to hold microtubules at t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=12035645 | 1,619,467 |
252,800 | In service, the Me 163 turned out to be difficult to use against enemy aircraft. Its tremendous speed and climb rate meant a target was reached and passed in a matter of seconds. Although the Me 163 was a stable gun platform, it required excellent marksmanship to bring down an enemy bomber. The "Komet" was equipped wit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20486 | 252,667 |
1,153,676 | George Edwin Mueller (; July 16, 1918 – October 12, 2015), was an American electrical engineer who was an associate administrator at NASA who headed the Office of Manned Space Flight from September 1963 until December 1969. Hailed as one of NASA's "most brilliant and fearless managers", he was instrumental in introduci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8617105 | 1,153,066 |
519,185 | The "Borodino"s were the most numerous class of battleships ever built by Russia. Although they were intended to be near duplicates of "Tsesarevich", as soon as the contracts were signed, it became clear that they would be quite different from the French-built ship. The basic problem facing the navy was that the "Borod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2621431 | 518,916 |
800,845 | Recent advances in genomics technologies gave rise to many important methods that are of extremely high genomic resolution and as a result, an increasing number of copy number variations in the genome have been reported. Initially these advances involved using bacterial artificial chromosome (BAC) array with around 1 m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3248511 | 800,418 |
1,691,542 | The comprehensive accounting framework has several advantages. Tracking all the monetary flows taking place in an economy and the way they accumulate, allows for a consistent integration of the real and the financial side of the economy (for a detailed discussion see Godley and Lavoie, 2007). Furthermore, as balance sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43334696 | 1,690,591 |
1,996,400 | Gibson was interested in the structures of the ambient optic array that are invariant, or structures that remain static regardless of the actions of the observer. For example, Gibson noted that the upper hemisphere of the array (the sky) tends to be much less structured and brighter than the lower hemisphere (the clutt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=41129520 | 1,995,257 |
1,847,740 | In 1951, the DoD assigned the U.S. Navy with the responsibility for Joint Service EOD Research and Development (R&D). Initially accomplished at the Naval EOD School, in 1953 a separate organization, the Naval EOD Technical Center, was established to accomplish the R&D tasks. A Joint Service Directive governed the progr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=8821993 | 1,846,683 |
728,063 | Some people thought that the large Neanderthal noses were an adaptation to the cold, but primate and arctic animal studies have shown sinus size reduction in areas of extreme cold rather than enlargement in accordance with Allen's rule. Todd C. Rae summarizes explanations about Neanderthal anatomy as trying to find exp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28066528 | 727,679 |
822,610 | There are two sorts of light receptors in a bird's eye, rods and cones. Rods, which contain the visual pigment rhodopsin are better for night vision because they are sensitive to small quantities of light. Cones detect specific colours (or wavelengths) of light, so they are more important to colour-orientated animals s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18416476 | 822,169 |
315,721 | After the drogue chute has stabilized the SRB in a tail-first attitude, the frustum is separated from the forward skirt by a pyrotechnic charge triggered by the low-altitude baroswitch at a nominal altitude of about 243 seconds after SRB separation. The frustum is then pulled away from the SRB by the drogue chute. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=548862 | 315,552 |
1,658,217 | "T. asiatica" causes intestinal taenisis in humans and cysticercosis in pigs. There is a suspicion that it may also cause cysticercosis in human. Like other taenids, humans are the definitive hosts, but in contrast, pigs, wild boars, as well as cattle can serve as intermediate hosts. Moreover, SCID mice and Mongolian g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=26890853 | 1,657,284 |
803,377 | India's first mission to Mars, the Mars Orbiter Mission, or "Mangalyaan", reached the planet on 24 September 2014 completing its 300-day journey. While ISRO has been researching for a Mars mission for many years, the project was only approved by the government in August 2012. ISRO took over a year to work on the spacec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4487597 | 802,948 |
4,459 | In addition to his duties as a spokesman, he also served on the board of directors of several companies. The first company board Armstrong joined was Gates Learjet, chairing their technical committee. He flew their new and experimental jets and even set a climb and altitude record for business jets. Armstrong became a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21247 | 4,457 |
104,194 | PET is both a medical and research tool used in pre-clinical and clinical settings. It is used heavily in the imaging of tumors and the search for metastases within the field of clinical oncology, and for the clinical diagnosis of certain diffuse brain diseases such as those causing various types of dementias. PET is a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24032 | 104,149 |
788,887 | The Insulin Receptor is a type of tyrosine kinase receptor, in which the binding of an agonistic ligand triggers autophosphorylation of the tyrosine residues, with each subunit phosphorylating its partner. The addition of the phosphate groups generates a binding site for the insulin receptor substrate (IRS-1), which is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=604224 | 788,463 |
515,709 | The plant is a pool-type LMFBR, in which the reactor, coolant pumps, intermediate heat exchangers and associated piping are all located in a common liquid sodium pool. This is essentially the same general design as EBR-II, which entered service in 1963. The design of this plant was started in 1983 and was completely re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35696479 | 515,440 |
1,109,504 | The diabetic, pancreatic, and neuroprotection implications of GLP1R are also thought to be potential therapies for treating the diabetes and energy metabolism abnormalities associated with Huntington's disease affecting the brain and periphery. Exendin-4, an FDA-approved antidiabetic glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) rec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9745239 | 1,108,939 |
163,541 | The principles of gas metal arc welding began to be understood in the early 19th century, after Humphry Davy discovered the short pulsed electric arcs in 1800. Vasily Petrov independently produced the continuous electric arc in 1802 (followed by Davy after 1808). It was not until the 1880s that the technology became de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33731132 | 163,456 |
404,679 | As of June 2008, Eve Time Codes (or ETCs) are available exclusively in 60-day increments. Before then, they were also offered in 30-, 50-, 90-, 100- and 120-day increments. Discontinued cards remain valid. Players using ETCs are treated like normal subscribers in every way. Eve Time Codes are available through CCP's on... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=403307 | 404,479 |
2,007,284 | Plastic degradation in marine bacteria describes when certain pelagic bacteria break down polymers and use them as a primary source of carbon for energy. Polymers such as polyethylene(PE), polypropylene (PP), and polyethylene terephthalate (PET) are incredibly useful for their durability and relatively low cost of prod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70433138 | 2,006,133 |
1,858,561 | On 1 September 1894 a new passenger service was instigated on the Charlestown line; it continued until 1 November 1926. Four southbound and three northbound services are shown in the 1895 Bradshaw, supplemented by one Mondays only return working and four Saturdays-only trips. Journey time from Dunfermline Lower was 10 ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48597904 | 1,857,493 |
1,396,871 | The missing baryon problem was proclaimed to be solved in 2017 when two groups of scientists who were working independently found evidence for the location of missing baryons in intergalactic matter. The missing baryons had been postulated to exist as hot strands between galaxy pairs (WHIM). Since the strands are diffu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55518323 | 1,396,099 |
339,638 | Two (or more) inductors in proximity that have coupled magnetic flux (mutual inductance) form a transformer, which is a fundamental component of every electric utility power grid. The efficiency of a transformer may decrease as the frequency increases due to eddy currents in the core material and skin effect on the win... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14896 | 339,458 |
773,232 | High power optical amplifiers are used in long distance systems. They use internal pump lasers with power levels up to a few watts, which is a major hazard. However, these power levels are contained within the amplifier module. Any system employing typical optical connectors (i.e. not expanded beam) cannot typically ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1101848 | 772,816 |
1,088,639 | The house is designed as a Mediterranean Revival style house with Italian and Spanish motif. The entrance has an ornate semi-circular wrought iron door leading into a large foyer. The front entry hall opens into a large living room and a smaller parlor. A formal staircase rises to an open landing and to a study. The se... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=496761 | 1,088,080 |
2,246,108 | The museum is located in the Durango Light and Power Company building, built in 1892. The plant was a very early alternating current power plant, the power we use today, meaning the town of Durango had AC powered street lights before many large cities in the East. In honor of its past, the museum focuses on energy-rela... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31207807 | 2,244,836 |
323,275 | In Pakistan, at undergraduate level the thesis is usually called final year project, as it is completed in the senior year of the degree, the name project usually implies that the work carried out is less extensive than a thesis and bears lesser credit hours too. The undergraduate level project is presented through an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=300215 | 323,103 |
1,994,186 | The effect of mating on female fitness may vary depending upon the kind of benefit that the females receive from males through of their choices. Direct benefits include nutritional resources to be used by females, donation of foods to mates, males offering prey to the female, seen in scorpion flies and dance flies. Sev... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39317632 | 1,993,043 |
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