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408,582 | The 21st century is marked by significant technological advancements. New technology in environmental science has transformed how researchers gather information about various topics in the field. Research in engines, fuel efficiency, and decreasing emissions from vehicles since the times of the Industrial Revolution ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64919 | 408,381 |
2,126,292 | Although the applications of pharmacometabolomics to personalized medicine are largely only being realized now, the study of an individual's metabolism has been used to treat disease since the Middle Ages. Early physicians employed a primitive form of metabolomic analysis by smelling, tasting and looking at urine to di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34939027 | 2,125,071 |
2,056,045 | SPI can be applied to other, perhaps more common, benthic disturbance investigations as well (). To illustrate, consider a benthic ecological impact study for a hypothetical shellfish mariculture facility. There are an enormous variety of study approaches. Existing information and the available resources inevitably con... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14917968 | 2,054,862 |
1,589,303 | As a young professor at UC Davis, Deamer continued to work with electron microscopy, revealing for the first time particles related to functional ATPase enzymes within the membranes of sarcoplasmic reticulum. After spending sabbaticals in England at the University of Bristol in 1971 and with Alec Bangham in 1975, Deame... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=48840722 | 1,588,409 |
766,744 | Starting in the early 1930s, single-beam sounders were used to make bathymetry maps. Today, multibeam echosounders (MBES) are typically used, which use hundreds of very narrow adjacent beams (typically 256) arranged in a fan-like swath of typically 90 to 170 degrees across. The tightly packed array of narrow individual... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=965387 | 766,333 |
246,713 | Beginning with the start of Samuel H. Smith’s term as President in 1985, marked a large period of growth for WSU. In 1989, WSU gained branch campuses in Spokane, the Tri-Cities, and Vancouver with established extension offices and research centers in all regions of the state, with facilities in Prosser and Wenatchee. S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=228600 | 246,585 |
77,553 | Richard Feynman was among the most well-known physicists associated with Caltech, having published the "Feynman Lectures on Physics", an undergraduate physics text, and popular science texts such as "Six Easy Pieces" for the general audience. The promotion of physics made him a public figure of science, although his No... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5786 | 77,524 |
761,012 | Another revolutionary development of the 20th century was quantum theory, which emerged from the seminal contributions of Max Planck (1856–1947) (on black-body radiation) and Einstein's work on the photoelectric effect. In 1912, a mathematician Henri Poincare published "Sur la théorie des quanta". He introduced the fir... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=173416 | 760,606 |
675,146 | With the raft of safety improvements as a result of Peterson's fatal crash being implemented during the late 70s and early 80s Formula One overall became much safer despite the deaths of Patrick Depailler in 1980 and Gilles Villeneuve & Riccardo Paletti in 1982. The huge amounts of downforce created by ground effect be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20796228 | 674,793 |
1,268,003 | Gilman attended local elementary school in White Plains. Hoping for better education, in 1955 his parents sent him to The Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, where he completed grades 10 to 12. The school was known for its sports activity, and he described it as "a strict, monastic, and frankly unpleasant environmen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1414381 | 1,267,313 |
758,594 | Webster's "Speller" was the pedagogical blueprint for American textbooks; it was so arranged that it could be easily taught to students, and it progressed by age. Webster believed students learned most readily when complex problems were broken into its component parts. Each pupil could master one part before moving to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9083795 | 758,188 |
1,136,477 | From the early 15th century to the early 17th century the Age of Discovery had, through Spanish and Portuguese seafarers, opened up southern Africa, the Americas (New World), Asia and Oceania to European eyes: Bartholomew Dias had sailed around the Cape of southern Africa in search of a trade route to India; Christophe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=31642145 | 1,135,884 |
2,056,055 | Keegan et al. (2001) described the relationships among workers and authorities evaluating long-established, though often expensive and slow, methodologies with more recent technological developments as sometimes discordant. Gray et al. (1999b) lamented that there is a strong institutional tendency for sediment ecologis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14917968 | 2,054,871 |
2,088,142 | Vera Stein Ehrlich was born on 4 October 1897 in Zagreb to Adolf and Ida Ehrlich. She grew up in Zagreb with her younger sister Ina Jun-Broda (1899-1983) who later become notable writer and translator. She studied pedagogy and psychology in Berlin and Vienna. At the age of 19, she began publishing works on psychologica... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=55924732 | 2,086,940 |
1,679,124 | The IMAGE satellite instrument complement includes three Far Ultraviolet (FUV) instruments. In the wavelength region 120-190 nm, a downward-viewing auroral imager is only minimally contaminated by sunlight, scattered from clouds and ground, and radiance of the aurora observed in a nadir viewing geometry can be observed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1090498 | 1,678,181 |
2,008,638 | He was born in Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan and graduated from Tohoku Imperial University in 1925. After entering the Ministry of Communications as an engineer, he proposed the idea of "Long Distance Non-Loaded Cable Carrier Communication System" in 1932. In 1933, he was sent to Germany by the Government for one year, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=34826953 | 2,007,486 |
2,022,924 | Interatomic potentials were developed for amino acids as early as in the late 1960s, for example, serving the CHARMM program. The fraction of covered chemical space was small considering the size of the periodic table, and compatible interatomic potentials for inorganic compounds remained largely unavailable. Different... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64170778 | 2,021,760 |
937,856 | Extensive testing of the M22 occurred in 1943 and 1944, and was conducted by both the Ordnance Department and the British Armoured Fighting Vehicle (AFV) Gunnery School at Lulworth Ranges. These tests uncovered a number of faults and problems with the Locust. The AFV School noted that the process of loading the M22 int... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=335693 | 937,356 |
1,244,413 | There are scholars who cite that the subject of automatic indexing attracted attention as early as the 1950s, particularly with the demand for faster and more comprehensive access to scientific and engineering literature. This attention in indexing began with text processing between 1957 and 1959 by H.P. Lunh through a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28204669 | 1,243,740 |
1,020,482 | Theodosius Dobzhansky, an immigrant from the Soviet Union to the United States, who had been a postdoctoral worker in Morgan's fruit fly lab, was one of the first to apply genetics to natural populations. He worked mostly with "Drosophila pseudoobscura". He says pointedly: "Russia has a variety of climates from the Arc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=97536 | 1,019,955 |
1,517,315 | Electrochemical Random-Access Memory (ECRAM) is a type of non-volatile memory (NVM) with multiple levels per cell (MLC) designed for deep learning analog acceleration. An ECRAM cell is a three-terminal device composed of a conductive channel, an insulating electrolyte, an ionic reservoir, and metal contacts. The resist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64305316 | 1,516,463 |
408,579 | Much of the interest in environmental science throughout the 1970s and the 1980s was characterized by major disasters and social movements. In 1978, hundreds of people were relocated from Love Canal, New York after carcinogenic pollutants were found to be buried underground near residential areas. The next year, in 197... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64919 | 408,378 |
1,501,022 | In 2000, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) advanced the Digital Earth to enhance decision-makers' access to information for then Secretary-General Kofi Annan and the United Nations Security Council. UNEP promoted use of web-based geospatial technologies with the ability to access the world's environmental... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=7297180 | 1,500,176 |
738,875 | Another strand of Angrist's research in the economics of education concerns the impact of various inputs and rules on learning. For instance, in further work with Lavy, Angrist exploited Maimonides' Rule, which limits class size to 40 students, in order to study the impact of class size on scholastic achievement in Isr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14441269 | 738,484 |
429,497 | This second newer system started in Boston and is essentially a form of career guidance for children. A member of the community would call a meeting of all the neighborhood boys who were to leave elementary school at the end of the year and discuss with them whether they had any reasonable plans for the future. It was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=917279 | 429,287 |
1,762,264 | During World War I, Hoagland tried to substitute the lack of imports of potassium-based fertilizers from the German Empire to the United States with plant extracts from brown algae, inspired by the ability of giant kelp to absorb elements from seawater selectively and to accumulate potassium and iodide many times in ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=43993091 | 1,761,271 |
349,378 | Eero Saarinen (1910–1961) was the son of Eliel Saarinen, the most famous Finnish architect of the Art Nouveau period, who emigrated to the United States in 1923, when Eero was thirteen. He studied art and sculpture at the academy where his father taught, and then at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière Academy in Paris ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=315927 | 349,195 |
1,131,992 | Despite the above developments, devoted BSE detectors in the ESEM have played an important role, since the BSE remain a most useful detection mode yielding information not possible to obtain with SE. The conventional BSE detection means have been adapted to operate in the gaseous conditions of the ESEM. The BSE having ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9778156 | 1,131,400 |
1,569,568 | Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) refers to a variety of conditions typically identified by challenges with social skills, communication, speech, and repetitive sensory-motor behaviors. The 11th International Classification of Diseases (ICD-11), released in January 2021, characterizes ASD by the associated deficits in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35773166 | 1,568,680 |
1,869,558 | The LICA experiment was designed to measure 0.5--5 MeV/nucleon solar and magnetospheric ions (He through Ni) arriving from the zenith in twelve energy bands. The mass of an ion was determined with simultaneous measurements of its time of flight (ToF) across a path length of approximately and its residual kinetic energy... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10669005 | 1,868,482 |
1,370,696 | The Burnets moved to Terang in 1909, when Frank was posted to be the bank manager there, having declined a post in London. Burnet was interested in the wildlife around the nearby Lake Terang; he joined the Scouts in 1910 and enjoyed all outdoor activities. While living in Terang, he began to collect beetles and study b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=417493 | 1,369,940 |
1,657,745 | Alpher was the son of a Russian Empire Jewish immigrant, Samuel Alpher (born Alfirevich), from Vitebsk, Russian Empire. His mother, Rose Maleson, died of stomach cancer in 1938, and his father later remarried. Alpher graduated at age 15 from Theodore Roosevelt High School in Washington, D.C., and held the ranks of Majo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1273628 | 1,656,812 |
422,091 | Blackett became friends with Kingsley Martin, later editor of the "New Statesman", while an undergraduate and became committed to the left. Politically he identified himself as a socialist, and often campaigned on behalf of the Labour Party. In the late 1940s, Blackett became known for his radical political opinions, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=326834 | 421,885 |
739,238 | Electron microscopy has accelerated research in materials science by quantifying properties and features from nanometer-resolution imaging with STEM, which is crucial in observing and confirming factors, such as thin film deposition, crystal growth, surface structure formation, and dislocation movement. Until recently,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1823144 | 738,846 |
596,820 | General Dynamics first realized the capability gap being experienced by U.S. forces in Afghanistan around 2010. In many cases, troops were on low ground and being engaged by PKM machine gun fire from the high ground, forcing them to return fire from where they were instead of being able to seek a better position. The M... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35841962 | 596,515 |
498,528 | A great disappointment, his repulse for the mastership of Balliol, also in 1854, appears to have roused him into the completion of his book on "The Epistles of St Paul". This work, described by one of his friends as "a miracle of boldness", is full of originality and suggestiveness, but its publication awakened against... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=231263 | 498,271 |
1,376,731 | Zeeman's style of leadership was informal, but inspirational, and he rapidly took Warwick to international recognition for the quality of its mathematical research. The first six appointments he made were all in topology, enabling the department to immediately become internationally competitive, followed by six in alge... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=871415 | 1,375,969 |
1,006,665 | Definitive prototypes of the Ka-25 incorporated mission equipment and corrosion protection for the structure. The rotor system introduced aluminium alloy blades pressurised with nitrogen for crack detection, lubricated hinges, hydraulic powered controls, alcohol de-icing and automatic blade folding. Power was supplied ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16932 | 1,006,146 |
1,581,711 | Denton recognised also a crucial biological fact that no biologically relatively inactive cation had evolved in Metazoan organisms to play a role analogous to that which increase of bicarbonate plays on the anion side of the pattern during vomiting and excess Cl- loss. In this latter case no large urinary Na excretion ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=6869432 | 1,580,821 |
133,328 | In the early 20th century, the study of heredity became a major investigation after the rediscovery in 1900 of the laws of inheritance developed by Mendel. The 20th century also saw the integration of physics and chemistry, with chemical properties explained as the result of the electronic structure of the atom. Linus ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14400 | 133,275 |
1,209,438 | The 1100/80 introduced a high-speed cache memory - the SIU or Storage Interface Unit. The SIU contained either 8K, or (optionally) 16K 36-bit words of buffer memory, and was logically and physically positioned between the CAU(s)/IOU(s) and the (larger, slower) Main Memory units. The first version of the 1100/80 system ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=201462 | 1,208,791 |
1,795,777 | Cissé was born in Niamey, Niger. As a child he assumed that he would work in his father's law firm. He became interested in science through Hollywood films. In Niamey there were few opportunities to practise science as his school did not have a laboratory. He was keen to move to America to study, and completed high sch... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=60545408 | 1,794,768 |
1,706,376 | Some 10 years later, during which time computing power and readily accessible data storage had continued to advance, Microsoft announced the planned development of its "Planetary Computer", an "approach to computing that is planetary in scale and allows us to query every aspect of environmental and nature-based solutio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=64208794 | 1,705,418 |
215,690 | Claude Bernard proposed in 1865 that the body strives to maintain a steady state in the internal environment (milieu intérieur), introducing the concept of homeostasis. In 1885, J.R. Tarchanoff showed that voluntary control of heart rate could be fairly direct (cortical-autonomic) and did not depend on "cheating" by al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=292906 | 215,582 |
440,651 | Every engineering discipline is engaged in sustainable design, employing numerous initiatives, especially life cycle analysis (LCA), pollution prevention, Design for the Environment (DfE), Design for Disassembly (DfD), and Design for Recycling (DfR). These are replacing or at least changing pollution control paradigms.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18624923 | 440,436 |
804,601 | The 1965 landmark report "Restoring the Quality of Our Environment" by U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's Science Advisory Committee warned of the harmful effects of carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel and mentioned "deliberately bringing about countervailing climatic changes," including "raising the albedo, or r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20694764 | 804,172 |
1,528,168 | A CTS critique of OTS revolves around many OTS scholars' links to institutions of power. CTS questions these links to hegemonic actors and structures from the global North that can be seen to be furthering the agendas of certain states, because OTS is a discipline that is primarily concerned with looking at acts of ter... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=19455353 | 1,527,304 |
1,399,270 | Exterior ballistics research at BRL focused on the outward design of Army missiles and the aerodynamic phenomena that influence their flight. In addition to known forces such as drag and lift, BRL researchers were tasked with analyzing potential factors that could influence a projectile's behavior such as the effects o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30865936 | 1,398,495 |
1,649,505 | Born in villa "La Gracieuse", Morges, Switzerland, to Victor Forel a pious Swiss Calvinist and Pauline Morin, a French Huguenot he was brought up under a protective household. At the age of seven he began to take an interest in insects. He went to school at Morges and Lausanne before joining the medical school at Zuric... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=583572 | 1,648,573 |
1,221,988 | Researchers reported finding "Armillaria gallica" in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the early 1990s, during an unrelated research project to study the possible biological effects of extremely low frequency radio stations, which were being investigated as a means to communicate with submerged submarines. In one part... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=22450244 | 1,221,329 |
1,543,895 | A variety of proposals have been made to implement nanocircuitry in different forms. These include Nanowires, Single-Electron Transistors, Quantum dot cellular automata, and Nanoscale Crossbar Latches. However, likely nearer-term approaches will involve incorporation of nanomaterials to improve MOSFETs (metal-oxide-sem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10214429 | 1,543,022 |
500,645 | Cushing Hall was built in 1933 thanks to a donation from John F. Cushing, president of the Great Lakes Dredge and Dock Company. Cushing graduated in 1906 with an engineering degree, but had almost dropped out due to financial reasons. President Andrew Morrissey forgave his tuition and in recognition for his kindness, C... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49273941 | 500,388 |
391,200 | When the Second World War did break out, it was swiftly realised that the power of contemporary aircraft allowed armour plate to be fitted to protect the pilot and other vulnerable areas. This innovation proved highly effective against rifle-calibre machine gun rounds, which tended to ricochet off harmlessly. Similarly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=275006 | 391,005 |
1,076,422 | Due to continued growth of the student population of the BCPS and especially in the growing demand for higher secondary education at high schools like at BPI and BCC and the girls schools, the technical school relocated in 1913 to Calvert Street and North Avenue. The former 1860s converted mansion of the Maryland Schoo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=913572 | 1,075,867 |
772,477 | Some MOF materials may resemble enzymes when they combine isolated polynuclear sites, dynamic host–guest responses, and hydrophobic cavity environment which are characteristics of an enzyme. Some well-known examples of cooperative catalysis involving two metal ions in biological systems include: the diiron sites in met... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=9821563 | 772,062 |
702,157 | "", released for the MSX in 1987 and for the Mega Drive as "Super Hydlide" in 1989, adopted the morality meter of its predecessor, expanded on its time option with the introduction of an in-game clock setting day-night cycles and a need to sleep and eat, and made other improvements such as cut scenes for the opening an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408675 | 701,792 |
2,064,301 | Ghodssi received his Bachelor's (1990), Master's (1992), and Doctoral (1996) degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He then performed his post-doctorate work at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1997-1999, joining the faculty at the University of Maryland in 2000. Betwe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53721687 | 2,063,110 |
1,364,461 | Beginning in 2004, the USMLE program undertook a comprehensive review of the USMLE, referred to as the Comprehensive Review of USMLE (CRU). The review was overseen by the committee to Evaluate the USMLE Program (CEUP), which was composed of students, residents, clinicians, and members of the licensing, graduate, and un... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1660985 | 1,363,705 |
1,813,923 | The Universal House of Justice, current head of the religion, through its Bahá'í International Community, released a statement in 1995, "The Prosperity of Humankind" which says in part: For the vast majority of the world’s population, the idea that human nature has a spiritual dimension—indeed that its fundamental iden... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2353883 | 1,812,889 |
1,516,812 | Miguel Pérez Carreño (Valencia, 1904– Caracas, 1966) was a physician, researcher, scientist, university professor and writer. He graduated with a bachelor's degree from the Central University of Venezuela with his thesis called "Calor animal" (Animal heat). In 1920 he re-entered the university to study medicine and bef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,960 |
198,301 | Living Breakwaters is a $67 million strategy that aims to help a waterfront neighborhood called Tottenville, on the southwestern part of New York City, survive rising sea levels and storm surges caused by climate change. The strategy connects aquatic landscape architecture, science education, waste collection and coast... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1018652 | 198,199 |
666,805 | After the war he led in the formation of the International Union of Crystallography and was elected its first president. He reorganised the Cavendish into units to reflect his conviction that "the ideal research unit is one of six to twelve scientists and a few assistants, helped by one or more first-class instrument m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=303544 | 666,457 |
1,773,503 | The upper photo on the right is a 50 times magnification of the combined photomasks used to fabricate the Hughes H4040, the linear silicon photodiode array used in the Thematic Mapper to image the visible bands. Each of the 16 photodiodes is 100 microns square and their separation is 100 microns. There are two rows bec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=11064666 | 1,772,506 |
190,523 | "Haruna" was laid down at Kobe by Kawasaki on 16 March 1912, launched 14 December 1913, and formally commissioned 19 April 1915. After a short patrolling duty off Sasebo, "Haruna" suffered a breech explosion during gunnery drills on 12 September 1920; seven crewmen were killed and the No. 1 turret badly damaged. After ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3636947 | 190,424 |
81,748 | When referring to laptop displays or independent displays and projectors intended primarily for use with computers, WXGA is also used to describe a resolution of pixels, with an aspect ratio of . This was once particularly popular for laptop screens, usually with a diagonal screen size of between 12 and 15 inches, as i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=28385304 | 81,715 |
996,076 | There are also advanced professional ballistic models like PRODAS available. These are based on six degrees of freedom (6 DoF) calculations. 6 DoF modeling accounts for x, y, and z position in space along with the projectiles pitch, yaw, and roll rates. 6 DoF modeling needs such elaborate data input, knowledge of the e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=584911 | 995,558 |
1,516,797 | Gabriel A. Rincon-Mora (born in Caracas in 1972) is a Venezuelan-American electrical engineer, scientist, professor, inventor, and author who was elevated to the grade of Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2011 and to the grade of Fellow by the Institution of Engineering and Techn... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29302481 | 1,515,945 |
2,138,015 | The extension of the World Wide Web architecture into the product is important to understand, as all decisions for manufacturing of spare parts, scheduling for flights, and other factory OEM and airline operator functions, are driven primarily by what happens to the product in the field (rate of wear and impending fail... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=16620919 | 2,136,785 |
144,032 | Schools are continuously updating their curricula to keep up with accelerating technological developments. This often includes computers in the classroom, the use of educational software to teach curricula, and course materials being made available to students online. Students are often taught literacy skills such as h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5169750 | 143,974 |
148,034 | In 1887, Heinrich Rudolf Hertz discovered but could not explain the photoelectric effect, which was later explained in 1905 by Albert Einstein (Nobel Prize in Physics 1921). Two years after Einstein's publication, in 1907, P.D. Innes experimented with a Röntgen tube, Helmholtz coils, a magnetic field hemisphere (an ele... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=70847 | 147,975 |
1,642,576 | Following his PhD, Huxley continued research on the structure and function of muscle. Since Cambridge did not have electron microscopy, which began to be used for biological studies at the time, he went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a postdoctoral fellow on a Commonwealth Fellowship in late summer of 1952... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=3383286 | 1,641,649 |
1,253,837 | Beginning with the Meiji Restoration of 1868, which established a new, centralized regime, Japan set out to "gather wisdom from all over the world" and embarked on an ambitious program of military, social, political, and economic reforms that transformed it within a generation into a modern nation-state and major world... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2998679 | 1,253,157 |
1,273,498 | In 1936 Beadle left the California Institute of Technology to become Assistant Professor of Genetics at Harvard University. A year later he was appointed Professor of Biology (Genetics) at Stanford University and there he remained for nine years, working for most of this period in collaboration with Tatum. This work of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=767277 | 1,272,806 |
676,587 | The Confederacy was beset by growing problems as its territory steadily shrank, its people grew impoverished, and hopes of victory changed from reliance on Confederate military prowess to dreams of foreign intervention, to finally a desperate hope that the Yankees would grow so weary of war they would sue for peace. Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=752072 | 676,234 |
1,740,901 | The revolutionary aspect of the aircraft is meant to be its time on station cost, planned to be only 20 percent the cost per hour compared to current aerial surveillance aircraft like the Predator, MQ-9 Reaper, and MC-12W Liberty through efficient aerodynamics and propulsion, lightweight airframe, reliable systems, aut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=49014171 | 1,739,920 |
557,994 | Neuromechanics is the coupling of neurobiology, biomechanics, sensation and perception, and robotics (Edwards 2010). Researchers are using advanced techniques and models to study the mechanical properties of neural tissues and their effects on the tissues' ability to withstand and generate force and movements as well a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2567511 | 557,705 |
336,670 | That trend started to turn around in the late 1990s as corporations found new uses for their existing mainframes and as the price of data networking collapsed in most parts of the world, encouraging trends toward more centralized computing. The growth of e-business also dramatically increased the number of back-end tra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20266 | 336,491 |
1,668,798 | When war broke out, Low joined the military and received officer training. After a few months he was promoted to captain and seconded to the Royal Flying Corps, the precursor of the RAF. His brief was to use his civilian research on Televista to remotely control the RFC drone weapons proposed by the Royal Aircraft Fact... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=5778070 | 1,667,858 |
1,532,282 | Although current treatments can be administered in a controlled hospital setting, many hospitals are ill-suited for a situation involving mass casualties among civilians. Inexpensive positive-pressure devices that can be used easily in a mass casualty situation, and drugs to prevent inflammation and pulmonary edema are... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36597555 | 1,531,415 |
1,679,966 | Use of magnetic resonance neurography is increasing in neurology and neurosurgery as the implications of its value in diagnosing various causes of sciatica becomes more widespread. There are 1.5 million lumbar MRI scans performed in the US each year for sciatica, leading to surgery for a herniated disk in about 300,000... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=18296474 | 1,679,023 |
1,227,021 | In the context of the 2019–2020 coronavirus pandemic Neal Baer writes that the "public, scientists, lawmakers, and others" "need to have thoughtful conversations about gene editing now". Ensuring the biosafety level of laboratories may also be an important component of pandemic prevention. This issue may have gotten ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=63478457 | 1,226,360 |
601,859 | On 1 February 2016, after many delays over whether the UCLASS would specialize in strike or ISR roles, it was reported that a significant portion of the UCLASS effort would be directed to produce a Super Hornet–sized carrier-based aerial tanker as the Carrier-Based Aerial-Refueling System (CBARS), with "a little ISR" a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=39092723 | 601,550 |
702,182 | In 1994, "Final Fantasy VI" moved away from the medieval setting of its predecessors, instead being set in a steampunk environment. The game received considerable acclaim, and is seen as one of the greatest RPGs of all time, for improvements such as its broadened thematic scope, plotlines, characters, multiple-choice s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408675 | 701,815 |
400,751 | In reserve, "Belfast"s future was uncertain: post-war defence cuts made manpower-intensive cruisers excessively costly to operate, and it was not until March 1955 that the decision was taken to modernise "Belfast". Work began on 6 January 1956. Although described as only an extended refit, the cost of £5.5 million was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=209815 | 400,552 |
626,868 | In one case study, stimulation of thalamus using deep brain stimulation (DBS) led to some behavioral improvements. The patient was a 38-year-old male who had remained in minimally conscious state following a severe traumatic brain injury. He had been unresponsive to consistent command following or communication ability... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2213172 | 626,535 |
523,762 | Under the 'New Math' initiative, created after the successful launch of the Soviet satellite "Sputnik" in 1957, conceptual abstraction gained a central role in mathematics education. It was part of an international movement influenced by the Nicholas Bourbaki school in France, attempting to bring the mathematics taught... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24836125 | 523,490 |
275,429 | The United States Army Armament Research, Development and Engineering Center (ARDEC) began development of a 40 mm smart airburst fuze (proximity fuze) in 2011 to improve the ability of grenade launchers like the M203 and M320 to engage targets in defilade. Called "small arms grenade munitions" (SAGMs), they double the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1941603 | 275,280 |
780,732 | Cases of GAS are still present today, but were also evident before World War I. This was shown by a training camp located in Texas, where a harmful strain of pneumonia complicating measles was caused by a strain of Streptococcus. Existence of streptococci strains was additionally found in World War II. An epidemic of s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=58638 | 780,314 |
1,703,847 | The ILLIAC IV was one of the first attempts at a massively parallel computer. Key to the design as conceived by Daniel Slotnick, the director of the project, was fairly high parallelism with up to 256 processors, used to allow the machine to work on large data sets in what would later be known as array processing. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1393934 | 1,702,891 |
1,910,777 | Many high school students will experience some form of head injury during their experiences in amateur sports and the majority of these can be classified as concussions. Even by the beginning of high school, 53% of athletes will have already suffered a concussion. Less than 50% of them report it in order to stay in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=33849637 | 1,909,679 |
2,032,488 | According to Blough & Zepp, superoxide is one of the hardest reactive oxygen species to quantify because it is present in low concentrations: 2×10 M in the open ocean and up to 2×10M in coastal areas. The main sources of biological superoxide in the ocean come from the reduction of oxygen at the cell surface and metabo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=38173326 | 2,031,318 |
1,743,599 | The real drivers of this movement were the generals of the Autonomous Kwantung Army. They applied pressure to have the oldest diplomat in Japan, Prince Saionji, nominated to the Inukai. In the wake of the electoral triumph a wave of political assassinations plagued the nation, aimed largely at ministers still in the ca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=2005857 | 1,742,615 |
623,382 | In 1985, inventor Harry Wainwright created the first fully animated sweatshirt. The shirt consisted of fiber optics, leads, and a microprocessor to control individual frames of animation. The result was a full-color cartoon displayed on the surface of the shirt. in 1995, Wainwright went on to invent the first machine e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=14206086 | 623,050 |
2,134,432 | Conducted in the 1990s and sponsored by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, the Albuquerque Studies were a series of human volunteer studies that aimed to establish new limits on the acceptable level of exposure to impulse noise produced by heavy weapons. The studies took place at Kirkland Air Force Ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=57869905 | 2,133,207 |
1,874,852 | Psychological studies of bipolar disorder have examined the development of a wide range of both the core symptoms of psychomotor activation and related clusterings of depression/anxiety, increased hedonic tone, irritability/aggression and sometimes psychosis. The existing evidence has been described as patchy in terms ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30639411 | 1,873,775 |
203,332 | Rockefeller faculty have made contributions to breakthroughs in biomedical sciences. Michael W. Young was one of several scientists who located genes that regulate the sleep–wake cycle in 1984. In 1994, Jeffrey M. Friedman’s laboratory discovered leptin, a gene that influences appetite and weight. Charles David Allis h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=605466 | 203,228 |
687,241 | Alongside his colleague Wei Pu, Shen planned to map the orbital paths of the Moon and the planets in an intensive five-year project involving daily observations, yet this was thwarted by political opponents at court. To aid his work in astronomy, Shen Kuo made improved designs of the armillary sphere, gnomon, sighting ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=1102000 | 686,884 |
702,181 | In 1993, Square's "Secret of Mana", the second in the "Mana" series, further advanced the action RPG subgenre with its introduction of cooperative multiplayer into the genre. The game was created by a team previously responsible for the first three "Final Fantasy" titles: Nasir Gebelli, Koichi Ishii, and Hiromichi Tana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=32408675 | 701,814 |
1,270,628 | As winter approaches, the cells will approach the last stage of their life cycle. The orange cells mature into red cysts, the form in which it will remain for the remainder and longest portion of its life cycle. Cells at this stage are most resistant to harsh environmental conditions. Inorganic and organic materials su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=4338212 | 1,269,937 |
631,604 | A small company in New Hampshire, R.H. Research, owned by Robert Howard researched printing from 1982 -1983 and decided the single-nozzle inkjet was a possible fit and he then contacted an inventor at Exxon who named Al Hock as a good choice for this project. Al Hock invited Tom Peer and Dave Lutz to join him in New Ha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=53292993 | 631,266 |
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